anaheim-gazette 1951-05-15

4 Anaheim Gazette TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1931 ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA Published afternoons, Monday through Friday, at 259 East Center, Anaheim, California. Phone Anaheim 2208. Entered as second-class matter at the Anaheim, California, Postoffice on June 5, 1889, under the Act of March 5, 1878. The Gazette is a member of the Associated Press, the National Editorial Association, and California Newspaper Publishers Association. All rights herein are reserved. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS—The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news printed in this newspaper as well as all A.P. news dispatches. THEODORE B. KUGHEL Publisher MAX BESLER Assistant Publisher LEONARD KREIDT Assistant Editor NEIL STANLEY Advertising Manager G. E. MELLEN Advertising Manager MARY ROULAND Assistant Advertising Manager RALPH ROULAND Classified Advertising Manager LUCY HUBBARD Circulation Manager The next witness... The lanky, lantern-jawed soldier who stepped into the Senate spotlight today looks like he wouldn't say boo to a goose. He would, though, if he thought it was necessary. Gen. Omar Nelson Bradley is a mild-mannered man. As any number of people have pointed out, he looks like a school teacher. His forehead is wide, his voice is unemphatic, he even wears tortoise-shell glasses. He doesn't smoke. He's never been known (this is a general we're talking about, mind you) to cuss out a subordinate. But the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees will find that the Milquetoast manner is deceptive president. We render our advice to him on a military point of view. If we are going to be of use to the president, we feel our advice should be confidential. We would be destroying our usefulness if it was public." Bradley is chairman of the Joint Chiefs. The Senators can be expected to pry loose a good deal of his advice before they get through. Here's a little biography: Bradley is 58, married, a grandfather, a church-goer. For years he was a professor—teaching war to other soldiers. Then came World War Two. He got an overseas assignment, wrote his wife: "only temporary, but I love you." But the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees will find that the Milquetoast manner is deceptive when they quix plain Omar Bradley about the firing of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Bradley knows what he knows and says what he thinks, if the occasion seems to call for it. This one does. Two other five-star generals have taken the witness stand before Bradley: MacArthur himself, military-hero, vivid of personality, storm center of a boiling controversy; and Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall, impressive in manner, a figure of military prestige. Now comes Bradley, the schoolmaster's son, the "GI's General," the man who went through the greatest war in history without so much as owning a Sam Browne belt or a dress cap. Bradley has small liking for the spotlight. He has little stomach for appearances before Senators. He said as much in a recent speech at Chapel Hill, N.C.: "The Joint Chiefs of Staff by law are military advisers to the IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO From the Files of Anaheim Gazette By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 75 Years Ago Serious complaints are made by the vineyardists against the hoodlums who made a practice of bathing in the zamjas. If a few of the miscreants are caught and complaints made against them, it may have a tendency to break up the nuisance. Born—In Anaheim, May 9, 1876, to the wife of D. J. Sorenson, a son. dependence, Prof. T. A. Saxon; chapains, Rev. S. S. Packard and A. W. Edelman. Several loads of large orange trees passed through town yesterday. An orange tree can, if proper care is used, be transplanted almost any month in the year. Hay of the new crop of 1876 is now beginning to come into market quite freely. A number of wagon loads were brought into Serious complaints are made by the vineyardists against the hoodlums who made a practice of bathing in the zamjas. If a few of the miscreants are caught and complaints made against them, it may have a tendency to break up the nuisance. Born—In Anaheim, May 9, 1876, to the wife of D. J. Sorenson, a son. W. H. Spurgeon has filed his bond as postmaster of Santa Ana, in the sum of $10,000, with A. W. Birch, A. T. Bates, J. H. Fruit, Dr. E. F. Greenleaf and N. O. Stafford as bondsmen. The Episcopal mission met yesterday afternoon. Mr. J. H. Pierce was elected treasurer of the Mission, vice, Mr. G. H. Kellogg, resigned. The committee on plans for the new church reported and presented various designs out of which one furnished by Mr. Des Granges was chosen. A building committee was appointed consisting of Messrs. W. R. Olden, G. H. Kellogg, W. G. Poller and J. B. Pierce. The advertisement calling for bids is published this morning. The building will cost about $3000 and will have a capacity to seat 150 persons. A real old-fashioned mining outfit passed through town yesterday, reminding us forcibly of the days that were but are not. At a meeting of the Fourth of July committee the following officers of the day were chosen: president, Phineas Banning; orator, J. G. Eastman; poet, J. J. Ayres; historians, J. J. Warner, Judge Hayes and Dr. J. P Widney; reader of Declaration of In- Several loads of large orange trees passed through town yesterday. An orange tree can, if proper care is used, be transplanted almost any month in the year. Hay of the new crop of 1876 is now beginning to come into market quite freely. A number of wagon loads were brought into town yesterday. The raffle of the beautiful slippers will take place at the Anaheim hotel tonight at eight o'clock. An anti-Chinese club has been formed in Los Angeles. 50 Years Ago John Rimpau has been in town during the week from Yuma on a short visit to relatives. William Peckstein was in town yesterday from Buena Park. He reports the beet crop looking well, but this is the first season in a number of years in which he has not embarked in the business. After planting beets each year during the past three dry years, he decided not to try it this year, and the rains came in such volume as to insure the best crop in the history of the industry. Peckstein is out of luck in the beet business. Sydmer Ross was in town on Monday morning. Leon Hatfield, the six year old son of Joseph Hatfield, was quite seriously burned in the face by igniting a small quantity of powder with which he was playing in his father's place of business on WASHINGTON—General Hoyt Vandenberg, the nation's No. 1 airman, has sounded a private warning during talks inside the Pentagon building that the worst threat to American cities is not from Europe but Siberia. This is a flat contradiction of General MacArthur's contention that Russia cannot wage war against the United States from Siberia. "We have heard quite often that the defense of western Europe is the defense of the United States," Vandenberg warned. "Now that is true in some phases, but it surely isn't true of air power, because from bases in Siberia, the Russians can cover with present Soviet bombers a much greater area than can be covered today from Western Europe." Undersignature of Air John McCone, speaking to the same private group, frankly admitted that it would be impossible to prevent enemy airplanes from hitting American cities. "Our air defense system, even when completed," he said, "will be far from perfect. If an enemy attack is launched against this country, many bombers will be shot down, but a great many will get through." General Vandenberg, comparing Russian and American air strength, gave an off-the-cuff estimate that the United States is 100-to-20 better at strategic "Our air defense system, even when completed," he said, "will be far from perfect. If an enemy attack is launched against this country, many bombers will be shot down, but a great many will get through." General Vandenberg, comparing Russian and American air strength, gave an off-the-cuff estimate that the United States is 100-to-20 better at strategic bombing. "The Russians are building up a fleet of long-range bombers," he reported. "The TU-4, which is the mainstay of their strategic air power, is at present in quite considerable quantities." Russian Pilots Are Good "They are working on their instrument flying. They are working on their night flying. They are working on their bombing." he continued. "Today, I would say as far as relative efficiency between their strategical knowledge and effort and competency with ours, it is about a ratio of 20 to 100. However, I think that is no cause for us to be complacent, because they certainly are working, and they certainly have available to them most of the data on which ours is based." Commenting on Russian pilots, Vandenberg added: "Individually, they are fine fliers. Temperamentally, they are good airmen. Technically, the Russian air force of today has the benefit of a great many of the German scientists who were captured by the Russians and who are now working for them... However, the training of our airmen in their gunnery and their night flying and their blind flying and their ability to bomb through overcasts, as far as we know—and we are reasonably sure—is technically much more competent than the Russians." Both Vandenberg and McCone warned that the Air Force must build up to 95 groups, that this Tuesday. He made no outcry and was found behind the counter crying by a man who at that time entered the building. He was sent home where his injuries were attended to. goal will not be reached until July, 1952, and that it will take still another year to bring the equipment up to date. "I think that is no cause for us to be complacent, because they certainly are working, and they certainly have available to them most of the data on which ours is based." Commenting on Russian pilots, Vandenberg added: "Individually, they are fine fliers. Temperamentally, they are good airmen. Technically, the Russian air force of today has the benefit of a great many of the German scientists who were captured by the Russians and who are now working for them... However, the training of our airmen in their gunnery and their night flying and their blind flying and their ability to bomb through overcasts, as far as we know—and we are reasonably sure—is technically much more competent than the Russians." Both Vandenberg and McCone warned that the Air Force must build up to 95 groups, that this Tuesday. He made no outcry and was found behind the counter crying by a man who at that time entered the building. He was sent home where his injuries were attended to. County Comment By GEORGE E. HART The League of Cities has its water code amendment before the state legislature, providing that cities which lay off pumping the local water supply to import Colorado river water, will not sacrifice their pumping rights. Sounds fair enough. But the man who probably knows more about water supply, water management, and water rights affecting Orange county, than anyone else in the county, says that the best way to settle this question of pumping right is not by legislation but by a friendly lawsuit that would produce a stipulated court judgment on the very water concerned. Paul Bailey is an engineer, not a lawyer. But he is a hydraulic engineer of state and national reputation, with extraordnary broad experience in every side of water management, including litigation of water rights. Long experience has ripened native wisdom in his case, until Mr. Bailey, today is an expert in the field of negotiation and fair compromise. He has had a lot to do with cases like this. When he says that a stipulated court judgment is the best way to assure all parties in the basin reasonable and practical access to the basin water supply whenever they require it, everyone within hearing should listen with at least one ear. And when he declares that, in his opinion, litigation under the guardian for the rights was followed too, by Irvine case, resulting in lated court judgment on county rights on the river. Thus, friendly courts have a good history locating water rights, andley's thesis in the pion should command respention. He made one profession when he warmed all the hullabaloo aboing water rights; they may find that they lied rights—but no water. We think that was a found statement, because it right here in this coral weeks ago. You see how it works thinkers. "LETTER" PREDICTS END OF WORLD PENANG (F)—Is there world near? That says a main topic of co among villagers in but tricts of Penang and Wellesley these days. The talking say that the soon disappear for three nights and after that seen rising in the west. This, say rumor-mong sign that the world's end All of this kind of talk from a letter reportedly ed in far-off Mecca here. So superstitious-mage folks are spread "news." Tuesday: He made no outcry, and was found behind the counter crying by a man who at that time entered the building. He was sent home where his injuries were attended to. F. J. Speidel of Buena Park was on town Saturday on business. 25 Years Ago County Clerk Backs closed the registration books Tuesday so far as the $1,200,000 Newport Harbor bond election is concerned. Under the law voters must register 30 days before the date of election if they wish to vote. The exact total number of registrations or the harbor election will not be known for several days. Bacics expects it may reach 38,000. The Spanish fiesta given by the Ebell ladies on Monday afternoon and evening at the beautiful ranch home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Swam was successful from both monetary and artistic standpoint. Some two hundred guests were present. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Ward were in town on Saturday from Montana, stopping over on their trip to Compton and Wilmington, meet with friends. At Compton they visited with their son Charles and family and at Wilmington with their son Edward and family. Mr. Ward has come up from Mazatlan, Mexico where he has lived for 28 years and he and Mrs. Ward will reside in Fontana where they own an extensive orange and grapefruit orchard. WASHINGTON Pipeline President Truman has privately asked General Bradley to serve another two-year term as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His terms expires Aug. 16 . . Italy has asked permission to send a contingent of soldiers to Korea to fight alongside the United Nations—even though not a member of the U.N. . . While certain Senators clamor to divert American arms from Korea to Chiang Kai-Shek's armies on Formosa, General Ridgway still hasn't enough arms to spare for the South Korean home guard. The South Korean home guard has converted most of their villages into medieval forts, but they have nothing but bare fists to defend themselves from guerrilla attacks. WANTED: EXPERIENCED SECRETARIES LUBBOCK, Tex. (UP)—Experience is more important than college training to the secretary seeking a job. But most important are dependability, efficiency and courtesy. Those were the results of a poll conducted by the department of economics of Texas Technological College of Lubbock. Pollsters talked to business men in the fields of law, insurance, oil and real estate. Thirty per cent of those contacted preferred secretaries with business school training; 25 per cent wanted some college training; 23.3 per cent a college degree, and 21.7 per cent a high school education. A large majority—73.3 per cent—asked for secretaries with previous experience. Eleven per cent said they preferred secretaries with no experience. He has had a lot to do with cases like this. Wilen he says that a stipulated court judgment is the best way to assure all parties in the basin reasonable and practical access to the basin water supply whenever they require it, everyone within hearing should listen with at least one ear. And when he declares that, in his opinion, litigation under the proposed state code amendment would wipe out the results of all past water litigation and bring forth an entirely new doctrine of water rights, of a sort no one can foresee, it would be well to open both ears wide. Because Mr. Bailey is consultant for the Orange County Water district, which has expressed preference for local agreement on rights rather than legislation, the city people may not be inclined to listen. They may think that his opinion merely followed district policy, whereas the fact is that the district viewpoint has been built, naturally enough, on Mr. Bailey's viewpoint, as well as that of its legal consultant, A. W. Kutan, the veteran water lawyer. Mr. Bailey has been closely identified with Santa Ana basin affairs since 1929. He has the record to support his position, a record which he materially helped to shape. Some important safeguards to Orange county water rights on the Santa Ana river and in the local basin are largely to his credit. He negotiated a friendly court judgment settling a pumping dispute between the Irvine ranch and Laguna Beach interests on one side, and an organization of basin water users on the other. This worked out well, and led to organization of the Orange County Water district to act as OBLONG VIEWS FROM AN EGG-SHAPED HEAD By WALDO HUNTER SCMEWHERE ON THE list of minor social reforms which this column has in mind for eventual fruition is a plan for dramatic revision of the English language as it is written today. The most stupid tifting about our language is the spelling. First thing to do to clean up the spelling is to abolish the silent and use-less letters such as the "ph" in telephone, and the "k" in knowledge. While we're at it, we'll even chop the "e" off the end of knowledge. The "w" serves no useful purpose in the word, so away with it. Under my system, "knowledge" would be written "noledg," with an appropriate mark over the "o" to give it the correct sound. As for "telephone," all we have to do is extirpate the diphthong, and it becomes "telefone." THE RE ARE HUNDREDS of others which should be written phonetically, a word right there that should be written "fonetikli." Examples: paragraf, fotograf, frute trane, kontradikshun, and so on down the line. The Chicago Daily Tribune, a newspaper which thinks it controls the entire midwest, has crusaded for years to simplify spelling along these same lines. The Tribune shows its inconsistency, however, by using the word "photograf," when it should be spelled "fotograf," if the system is to be followed thru thoroly. The Tribune claims it can get the language revolutionized, but then it claimed it could get Alf Landon elected President, too. I EXPECT THAT this radical idea will be looked upon askance by educators, and it will be received (reserved) in high quarters of the dictionary publishing industry with something less than clapping of hands and happy shouts of boyish laughter ("lafter," that is). This is also written with sober realization that anyone openly advocating such an abrupt departure from the status quo is likely to be branded a dangerous radical. I might even be invited to pack up and leave for Rusha if I don't like things here. But it takes curage to be a pioneer in enny feeld. guardian for the rights of all. It was followed, too, by the famous Irvine case, resulting in a stipulated court judgment settling tri-county rights on the Santa Ana river. Thus, friendly court judgments have a good history locally in settling water rights, and Mr. Bailey's thesis in the present case should command respectful attention. He made one profound statement, when he warned that in all the hullabaloo about protecting water rights, the big users may find that they have water rights—but no water. We think that was a very profound statement, because we said it right here in this column several weeks ago. You see how it works with us thinkers. "LETTER" PREDICTS END OF WORLD PENANG (F)—Is the end of the world near? That seems to be a main topic of conversation among villagers in butlying districts of Penang and Province Wellesley these days. Those doing the talking say that the sun will soon disappear for three days and nights and after that it will be seen rising in the west. This, say rumor-mongers, is a sign that the world's end is near. All of this kind of talk originated from a letter reportedly discovered in far-off Mecca, and sent here. So superstitious-minded village folks are spreading the "news." I EXPECT THAT this radical idea will be looked upon askance by educators, and it will be received (reserved) in high quarters of the dictionary publishing industry with something less than clapping of hands and happy shouts of boyish laughter ("lafter," that is). This is also written with sober realization that anyone openly advocating such an abrupt deparchure from the status quo is likely to be branded a dangerous radical. I might even be invited to pack up and leave for Rusha if I don't like things here. But it takes curage to be a pioneer in enny feeld. Take Robert Fulton, for instance. They sed he was nuts when he talked about inventing a steembote. -Colony QuipsBy the Gazette Farm Editor HERE WE ARE right on the verge of again being right in the midst of shipping the finest summer fruit to eager eastern eaters who pay and are willing (at least they shell out the money) to pay real good prices for our valencia oranges. Why the grower gets so little is a good long story. The point here is that at the retail level the price structure on California oranges does not follow the fluctuations of the Exchange's auction offerings. Why? The big buyers in the east know how much our government control (prorate) will let us ship a week in advance. So they get together and decide what they will pay. And, if you don't think they know more about the California valencia deal in one minute than the whole kaboodle of top "hired help" in the Kremlin then you had better see a psychiatrist. Just because the Exchange, by using growers money, has sold you on the idea that they are infallible does not make it the Gospel truth—honest. So-o-o here is our point: if you would make a special effort to call on your packing house manager, who really is a nice guy if you convince him you mean business, and tell him flatly you do NOT think $10 a ton, at the packing house, is a "fair" price for your valencias. That even if the "big brass" in the Kremlin thinks the $40 figure is "about what" you make sure that your packing house manager knows you, his grower, can't make ends meet at that kind of a price. It only means about 75 cents net on your trees. Just tell him quietly that if the Exchange wants to keep your good will then you, too, as a grower will have to get a "raise" for your fruit. If you are going to expect to take 1935 prices for your fruit then you only want to pay your salesmen 1935 salaries. Ask your manager, if you are Exchange, to carry that word up to Mr. Wilcox and the rest of the brass, Paul being in Europe, and have your manager say that you know it can be done. What can be done? The Exchange is still large enough to quote a minimum price per box for Valencias this year and MAKE IT STICK. What do you think of that? THE EXCHANGE is organized under the same act as California Date Mutual and the purpose of Date Mutual is to put a floor price under the date industry. THE EXCHANGE is organized under the same act as California Date Mutual and the purpose of Date Mutual is to put a floor price under the date industry. If the Exchange can't or won't do this then it is time the top spots were put into the hands of men who would work for the good of every California grower during their time on the job and forget that "Provident plan" for long enough to put the valencia industry back on its feet. The California citrus industry has been strangled by incompetence for years. It has been dominated by cupidity and worse. Its key men have had a great contempt for the farmers who employed them. Think of effrontery of a packing house manager who told one of his grower-employers that he would not pick this grower's fruit. That actually happened. This same character also told, in a letter, how badly the frozen concentrate would treat the Florida grower: We don't know what his tune is today—but the Florida grower is getting a minimum of $2.35 a box for fruit that will go into frozen concentrate which reflects, as Wilcox would say, about two and a half cents a pound, net on the tree, to the Florida grower. Not bad for an average? Most of the good fruit is already contracted for at higher figures. And the Exchange is talking about paying you about a cent and a half for fruit that goes to the EOP. Lot us have some honest talk from these great paragons of virtue. Citrus Report The California Fruit Growers Exchange reported today all auction markets California oranges were higher medium to large sizes Sun-kist navels. REPRESENTATIVE PRICES BY SIZE: SUNKIST (First Grade): Size 100 126 150 176 200 220 252 288 344 5.18 5.70 6.03 7.29 7.66 7.44 5.02 4.70 4.18 CHOICE (Second Grade): Size 100 126 150 176 200 220 252 288 344 4.67 5.21 5.70 6.26 6.47 5.93 LOS ANGELES, May-15—The Federal State Market News service reported today oranges, lemons and grapefruit steady, prices unchanged.