anaheim-gazette 1951-08-16

Anaheim Gazette THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1951 ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA Published afternoons, Monday through Friday, at 250 East Center, Anaheim, California. Phone Anaheim 2208. Entered as second-class matter at the Anaheim, California, Postoffice on June 3, 1889, under the Act of March 3, 1879. The Gazette is a member of the Associated Press, the National Editorial Association, and California Newspaper Publishers Association. All rights herein are reserved. Subscriptions: 50c per month by carrier or 15 per year by carrier or mail. 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. KUCHEL Publisher MAX BESLER Assistant Publisher LEONARD KREIDT City Editor HOWARD HALL News Editor STANLEY JONES Sports Editor NEIL STANLEY Advertising Manager Q. E. MELLEN Assistant Advertising Manager RALPH ROULAND Classified Advertising Manager DON YOUNG Circulation Manager Diamonds to doughnuts... You can make your wife happy with a convertible diamond necklace. This helpful hint for a happy home is only one among many in today's parcel of news from the business world. For instance, if your wife gestures while she talks, you can make her happy with a watch that needs only wrist movement to keep it wound. Or a watch with a built-in slide-rule calculator will help her at the meat market. These helpful items, and many like them, can be found at the American National Retail Jewelers association's trade show in New York this week. The exhibit of the watchmakers of Switzerland features the trick watches. Individual personality." A rather expensive personality, maybe, but don't you want your wife to express herself? That is, if she has any trouble doing it. If you have your wife trained by now not to expect too much from you in the way of Jewelry, there are other ways to give her a touch of happiness. More shoulder pads, for instance. A more "widespread acceptance of shoulderpads by the women of America" is the aim of a new organization announced today. It is sponsored by the Women's Apparel Shoulderpad association and a local of the International Ladies Garment Workers union and is called "the public relations committee." The association wants to cs- make her happy with a watch that needs only wrist movement to keep it wound. Or a watch with a built-in slide-rule calculator will help her at the meat market. These helpful items, and many like them, can be found at the American National Retail Jewelers association's trade show in New York this week. The exhibit of the watchmakers of Switzerland features the trick watches. The Jewelry Industry council sponsors the convertible diamond necklace. Don't get the wrong idea about that convertible. It doesn't mean you are to convert the diamonds into cash at Uncle Benny's. It means your wife with a twist of the wrist—thereby automatically winding her watch—can convert the diamond necklace into detachable pieces. These become earclips, brooches, a simpler necklace, or even a bracelet. There are diamonds in each of these converted pieces, and the whole thing comes to a pretty penney. But in times of domestic stress diamonds can be a husband's best friend. Besides, the council says a convertible diamond necklace will let your wife "express her own indi IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO From the Files of Anaheim Gazette By MRS. HENRY KUCHEL 75 Years Ago Mr. James Huntington of the Highland Nursery, Orange, has had printed at the Gazette office, his catalogue of choice trees for 1876. Mr. Huntington may be relied upon to fill all orders conscientiously. He has a fine stock of trees, banana and pine-apple bulbs, etc. Send for a catalogue. Charles Saylor has been appointed Notary Public to reside at Wilmington, vice P. H. Downing, term expired. Henry O. Blicknell has also been appointed a Notary Public, to reside at Los Angeles, vice Joseph Huber, term expired. Ah Man was fined forty dollars Bruno Bennerschmidt is home from Newhall where he is interested in mines and oil property. Miss Hettie Weisel entertained her friends at a social gathering on Thursday evening. Arthur Lewis and family have returned from a two weeks outing at Catalina. Mr. Max Jacobson of Santa Ana, was the guest of Mrs. Konig on Monday. Miss Julia Nemetz has taken a position at Federman's dry goods store. PENGILLY, Minn. important to the merchant but they are also worth what is happening to American girls. Is a new cloth curtain over the main room they adore? This query is raised from Lieut. Tom Hamling from "near that little alley" in Korea. He is reporting that the French Christian Dior, create "new look," has again that women's skirts lower. (Editor's note: WDior design circus hates legs?) (Boyle's note: Look gue with me. We all let's let Hamrick say there.) (Editor's note: Ok still say if 50,000,000 can't be wrong—well be.) (Boyle's note: How them—slender like a p or curvy like a fat ra) (Editor's note: Oh, them. I'm a man of Give it back to Hamrick he say?) Well, Hamrick's from ton, S.C., where "legs much more—beautiful light over magnolas." He "Speaking for a lot ting around in a lot o like to say Christian Dior as far off base as an a canary cage." He may not realize Dior sets his way with Charles Saylor has been appointed Notary Public to reside at Wilmington, vice P. H. Downing, term expired. Henry O. Blcknell has also been appointed a Notary Public, to reside at Los Angeles, vice Joseph Huber, term expired. Ah Man was fined forty dollars or forty days in the county jail at his recent trial. He had probably held a serious consultation with Charley Look and was not very strongly impressed with the beauties of jail life, so he pringled up the coin, trade dollars at par. Episcopal Sunday School on Sunady morning promptly at 10 o'clock, morning service by Rev. G. M. Hubbard, missionary in charge at 11 o'clock. The sermon will be prefatory to a series on the evidences of Christianity, subject "The Existence of God." All are invited to attend. The school trustees had a very quiet session yesterday. But one person applied for reduction of assessment, and he did not get it. A man named Parker, formerly an employee of the L. A. & I. R. R. committed suicide in Los Angeles on Wednesday. 50 Years Ago Grape growers and wine makers of Southern California met at Pasadena some days ago to fix the price of grapes. H. J. Woolacott offered $25 a ton for all grapes in sight. Growers at once stepped up and signed for between 2500 and 3000 tons. Arthur Lewis and family have returned from a two weeks outing at Catalina. Mr. Max Jacobson of Santa Ana, was the guest of Mrs. Konig on Monday. Miss Julia Nemetz has taken a position at Féderman's dry goods store. Charley Federman is taking in the sights at Coronado. Uncle Jake Everharty had one of the Lopez boys employed at topping beets in his field at Benedict, some days ago. As Lopez was about to pick up a beet, which had just been plowed up, he was startled to hear the rattle of a rattlesnake coiled at the side of the beet. He stepped back out of harm's way, and dispatched the varmint. It sported six rattles. These serpents are comparatively rare in the beet fields, but Lopez companions were careful about picking up beets for the remainder of the day. Senor Juan de la Gurra was in town on Friday from Yorba. 25 Years Ago Announcement is made of the marriage of Harry I. Horn of this city to Miss Eloise Searle of Omaha, Nebr. The wedding took place at the home of the bride's parents in Omaha on Friday, Aug. 6. Mr. Horn has for some years been prominent in business circles here and has also been active in civic work. After a honey-moon trip, the young couple will be at home in this city. The imposing front entrance to the Orange County Fair on the state highway Anaheim and Santa Ana completed. The large building the dates of the fair 6 to 11 inclusive was across the highway near trance to the fair several miles. Lisette Oelkers has a superior court to probate of the late Henry Oelkera a $9750 estate, including Anaheim real estate. B petitifoners and George O Anaheim, the will name legatees, all living in Ge THE SEEING EYE THOSE EARLY DAY COMMIES WHO JUST DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE JOINING WORLD DEVELOPMENTS HURRIS Hal Boyle PENGILLY, Minn. (P)—Peace is important to the men in Korea. But they are also worried about what is happening to the legs of American girls. Is a new cloth curtain descending over the main stems back home they adore? This query is raised in a letter from Lieut. Tom Hamrick, writing from "near that li' old parallel" in Korea. He is fretting over reports that the French designer Christian Dior, creator of the "new look," has again decreed that women's skirts should go lower. (Editor's note: Why doesn't Dior design circus tents if he hates legs?) (Boyle's note: Look, don't argue with me. We all agree. But let's let Hamrick say it. He's over there.) (Editor's note: Okay. But I still say if 50,000,600 Frenchmen can't be wrong—well, one can be.) (Boyle's note: How do you like them—slender like a pipe-cleaner or curvy like a fat rainbow?) (Editor's note: Oh, I just like them. I'm a man of principle, Give it back to Hamrick. What's he say?) Well, Hamrick's from Charleston, S.C., where "legs are more—much more—beautiful than moonlight over magnolias." He says: "Speaking for a lot of guys sitting around in a lot of holes, I'd like to say Christian Dior is about as far off base as an alligator in a canary cage." "He may not realize it, but if Dietrich gets his way with women" Anaheim Gazetteer by JOHN S. NEUBAUER Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.—Gen. 28:16. CALIFORNIANA — A royal Spanish Decree established the Capital of California at Monterey on Aug. 16, 1775. Felipe de Neve was named governor. FALLBROOK, Calif., Aug. 16—How far can a benevolent federal government go in usurping the rights of individuals? A congressional investigation, touched off by a federal suit against 16,000 persons owning property in the Santa Margarita river basin, is now in progress. The suit is aimed at establish- two legs, two elbows. All menants are crazy about elbows.) (Editor's note: How about their brains?) (Boyle's note: He's talking about women.) (Editor's note: Excuse me. The third race just came in. I was thinking of horses.) Anyway, Lieut. Hamrick says the guys in Korea are so steamed up they will catalogue Dior along with the "arch-rogues of all time if his 'cover them calves' edict comes to pass." "Back there in the 'old country' (as you know GI's refer to federal rights to both surface and subsurface water in the Santa Margarita river). The government contends that if the farmers continue to use water, the Navy will be forced to abandon Camp Pendleton Marine base. A congressional committee headed by chairman Clair Engle, Democrat of Redlands, said the hearing was aimed at two points: whether the government asserted its rights by reason of sovereignty "that puts it in a different category than any individual." Rep. John P. Saylor, Pennsylvania Republican, said: "I wonder when the government will move into the coal mines of Pennsylvania, into the oil fields of the South or into all the ore fields in the country?" BACKGROUND—The Fallbrook incident is being given wide interest as it is compared again and again as to the states' battle for tidelands and resistance to other federal government attempts to encroach on state authority and time-honored rights of the individual citizen. These are evidences of a trend that have developed in recent years where the issue of "paramount power" of the federal government has arisen. They held that these incidents represent an effort by the federal government "to establish a new principle of law that would destroy the constitutional right to hold private property." LOCAL ANGLE—If the federal government can claim the rights to the subsurface water in the normally dry Santa Margarita river as well as title to the tidelands, property owners of Anaheim and Orange county will be pany is nothing more name in a bank boo. But here's the reel the man who jugged accounts is Chiang Kai-shek general, C. J. Chou. General Chou is also all military purchases nese Nationalists." In of the $307 million Formosa, General Chou root the spending o earmarked as military. The story of the juj account goes back to when the United States surplus equipment to the Philippines to the Nationalists. The p Chiang Kal-Suck pay, was $596,629.07 this was later scaled $444,706.53. The contract call ment to be made in "concurrently with that Accordingly the most posited in the Bank Oct. 1, 1947. Yet G kept haggling over m and delaying the p three years. On November 16, I face of Foreign Liquor a sharp letter to Gen negotiator in the Phil David Hsiung, demand request that action amount of $444,706.53 as possible, since this been outstanding since This finally force Chou to kick through overdue payment. Bu bible fact is that Chou debt, not from his car nese funds from A money. Chou cabled procurement office in March 23, 1949, or $444,706.53 payment in the balance of America other words, Chou from the American tax pay the American tax neat trick if you can with it. This left the money originally appropriated for the surplus equip in the Bank of China October 18, 1949. Gen signed five checks with this money. The made out in th Give it back to Hamrick. What's he say? Well, Hamrick's from Charleston, S.C., where "legs are more—much more—beautiful than moonlight over magnolias." He says: "Speaking for a lot of guys sitting around in a lot of holes, I'd like to say Christian Dior is about as far off base as an alligator in a canary cage. "He may not realize it, but if Dior gets his way with women's fashions he's going to be as popular as Kim Il Sung (the North Korean dictator) when the lads come tearing off that ship at Frisco with their eyes banjoing like Eddie Cantor's. After Korea they want to see only two things. Grandma used to say it was vulgar to call them legs. "Demanding that women should lower their skirts and cover up two of their four finest possessions is—let me scream like Patrick Henry—nothing short of treason." Editor's note: Excuse me for interrupting. But where does he get that figure four?) (Boyle's note: It's simple—the Orange County Fair grounds on the state highway between Anaheim and Santa Ana has been completed. The large banners giving the dates of the fair-as Sept. 6 to 11 inclusive was stretched across the highway near the entrance to the fair several days ago. Lisette Oelkers has petitioned superior court to probate the will of the late Henry Oelkers who left a $9750 estate, including $7000 in Anaheim real estate. Besides the petitioners and George Oelkers of Anaheim, the will names 18 other legatees, all living in Germany. (Editor's note: Excuse me. The third race just came in. I was thinking of horses.) Anyway, Lieut. Hamrick says the guys in Korea are so steamed up they will catalogue Dior along with the "arch-rogues of all time if his 'cover them calves' edict comes to pass. "Back there in the 'old country' (as you know GI's refer to the home of the installment plan) this gent must have become overexposed to midday's snazy underpinning. If he could arrange to come to Korea, he would not only change his mind but come damned close to losing it altogether. "Over here the women do things in perfect reverse of America's most dreamed-about sex. They cover their legs but let the feminine areas north of the navel get all the sunshine and fresh air they can absorb. "The ladies wear something in the way of baggy pants which reminds you very much of the old golf knickers daddy used to wear. Over here womanhood plods along dusty roads in rubber shoes which give her all the sex appeal of a dead horse. "For months the rest of the guys and I have been dreaming day and night about that fifth freedom—the one which entitles you to stand on street corners and watch women's legs go by. "Viva la legs!" Don't worry, lieutenant, the legs you look for here are still visible. Dior isn't covering them up so much as an old rusty bugle. That is calling a lot of girls to defense factory overalls again. But they don't wear them after work. LOCAL ANGLE—If the federal government can claim the rights to the subsurface water in the normally dry Santa Margarita river as well as title to the tidelands, property owners of Anaheim and Orange county will be under the thumb of Washington. By the same token, the federal government can claim title to subterranean water in San Diego county, it will be able to do so in Orange county. The rich Valencia orange empire of Northern Orange county is primarily irrigated by the waters of the Santa Ana river. It is pumped and distributed by the Anaheim Union Water company. The federal government could, if a precedent were established at Fallbrook, claim the waters of the Santa Ana river and limit its use. OIL RIGHTS—Then if the federal government could claim the subsurface water, it could also claim the mineral rights and all the oil that is being produced in Northern Orange county. It is an endless chain reaction. The stories that are being carried on the newswires from Fallbrook, the little town nestling in the brown San Diego hills, is of vital importance to every property owner as it not only represents a move by federal authorities to encroach on states rights, but also on the rights of the individual. POSTSCRIPT—Why is it that This left the money originally appropriated for the surplims equity in the Bank of China October 18, 1849, Ger signed five checks with this money. The cla made out in the amounts—$110,000; $90,000; $80,000 and All the checks were the same day, and were able to the Canton pany. This made a total $926.02, which the Company deposited in al City Bank of New credit of the fictitious Company. Strictly speaking this element of Chinese funds. However, the American who actually put up 706.53. Most Americans are old anyone who wants the communists—as that aid doesn't end pockets of corrupt laws. NOTE—In another Chinese Nationalists who three middlemen in an buy 2,956,170 gallons gasoline yet the Nation a procurement office that could have made purchase much cheap from the producer. The angle is that one of men was a hole-in-the-many who swear they hold, preserve and Constitution do even manly possible to des (Ed. Note—During Drew Pearson's absence in Europe, his staff will contribute an occasional column from Washington.) WASHINGTON — Even as Congress is considering another $307 million for Chiang Kai-Shek, this column has uncovered shocking documentary evidence about what has happened to the last $125 million he received from the American taxpayers. The indisputable fact is that huge sums have disappeared into private bank accounts, and additional, unnecessary fees have been skimmed off by a series of middlemen. For example, this column has traced $444,708.53 right out of the taxpayers' pockets into the private account of a fictitious company. This money was supposed to pay for war surplus equipment, but was mysteriously transferred to the Lee Sun Company's account in the National City Bank of New York. However, careful investigation indicates that the Lee Sun Company is nothing more than a name in a bank book. But here's the real shocker—the man who jugged these bank accounts is Chiang Kai-Shek's top general, C. J. Chou. 'This same General Chou is also an charge of all military purchases for the Chinese Nationalists.' In other words, of the $307 million proposed for Formosa, General Chou would direct the spending of $217 million earmarked as military aid. OBLONG VIEWS FROM AN EGG-SHAPED HEAD BY VALDO HUNTER SOME SIXTY MILLION years ago (if we are to believe the geologists) there began to form in the bowels of the earth beneath the site on which later was built the colony of Anaheim a great sac of black, viscous stuff which men call "oil." Through the cons, and the ages, and the centuries, and the generations, and the decades, and the years, it lay there dormant and unrestured, and every one apparently, was happy with that state of affairs. But now, because the magical properties in that inert substance can (through man's ingenuity) be released to propel diesel locomotives and battleships and airplanes, and goose a hot-rod up to 110 miles per hour, nourish the sinews of industry, raise the standard of living, develop the muscles of the nation's war machine and grease the palms of men, that placid pool of petroleum under Anaheim is being prodded into violent eruption. Hang around town awhile and you will see a duplication of the internationally explosive Iranian oil dispute reproduced on a microscopic scale right here at home. And, despite what you will read or bear regarding the matter, the dispute here on the local scene and the greater one boiling in the Near East will be motivated by 'the same force. It is something in human nature which could probably best be summed up in the words: "I got mine . . . how'd you make out?" Republican Tom Dewey on a junket through the Orient, riding from point to point in U.S. military aircraft. Tom Dewey, if he wants to tour the Orient, should pay his own freight and leave off hitch-hiking on U.S. military aircraft. This is a very personal matter with me, for as a taxpayer I helped buy that aircraft, and supply it with gasoline. I don't want to have any extra baggage stowed away aboard it. While on the subject of special planes for exalted personages, it may be recalled that soon after Mr. Dewey's whipping at the polls in 1948 word got out that a luxuriously appointed airplane had been readied for his exclusive use immediately upon his pre-supposed entry to the White House. But to get back to our own dear Harry. Little would be gained by depressing him of his toys. Even without a sailing vessel he would be at sea most of the time, and regardless of the assistance of aviation he is up in the air a good part of the time. The Republicans had best desist But here's the real shocker—the man who jugged these bank accounts is Chiang Kai-Shek's top general, C. J. Chou. This same General Chou is also in charge of all military purchases for the Chinese Nationalists. In other words, of the $307 million proposed for Formosa, General Chou would direct the spending of $217 million earmarked as military aid. The story of the jugged bank accounts goes back to July, 1946, when the United States sold surplus equipment located on the Philippines to the Chinese Nationalists. The price, which Chiang Kai-Shek promised to pay, was $506,629.07. However, this was later scaled down to $444,706.53. The contract called for payment to be made in U.S. dollars "concurrently with the delivery." Accordingly the money was deposited in the Bank of China on Oct. 1, 1947. Yet General Chou kept haggling over minor details, and delaying the payment for three years. On November 16, 1948, the Office of Foreign Liquidation fired a sharp letter to General Chou's negotiator in the Philippines, Maj. David Hsiung, demanding: "We request that action be taken to reimburse this office in the amount of $444,706.53 as quickly as possible, since this amount has been outstanding since 1946." This finally forced General Chou to kick through the long overdue payment. But the incredible fact is that Chou paid the debt, not from his carmarked Chinese funds from American aid money. Chou cabled the Chinese procurement office in Washington on March 23, 1949, ordering the $444,706.53 payment made out of the balance of American aid. In other words, Chou took money from the American taxpayers to pay the American taxpayers—a neat trick if you can get away with it. This left the money that was originally appropriated to pay for the surplus equipment, still in the Bank of China. On October 18, 1949, General Chou signed five checks withdrawing this money. The checks were made out in the following CERTAIN REPUBLICAN big wheels in Washington now come up with a plan to take the President's airplane away from him, as an "economy" measure. They also state that the President's yacht, the Williamsburg, should be junked, arguing that he should do away with these luxuries and set an example of frugality for the ordinary taxpayers to follow. Somewhere in the news last week I also noticed an item about TRUE ENOUGH WOULD ALL CIRCUMPULAR PRODUCES WHEN A BEAR IS KILLED A SPEECH OF APOLLOYY IS MADE TO THE DEAD BEARS... NEW PRINTING IN GERMANY BEARS CALL APPLIED TO NOTICE IS hereby given that the undersigned, Administratrix of the Estate of the above named decedent, will sell at private sale, subject to confirmation by said Superior Court, on or after Wednesday, September 8, 1951, at the hour of ten o'clock A.M., at the law offices of Wm. P. Webb, at 107 Bank of America Building in the City of Philadelphia on orange State of California, all the right title, interest, and estate of the said Charles W. Letbetter, at the time of his death, and all the right title and interest that the said estate has by operation of law or otherwise acquired other than or in addition to that of the said Charles W. Letbetter, at the time of his death, in order to certain real property particularly as follows to wit: All that certain real property in the County of Orange, State of California, described as: Parcel I: That portion of Lot 3 Block 15, Yorba Linda Tract, as per Map recorded in Book 5 pages This left the money that was originally appropriated to pay for the surplls equipment, still in the Bank of China. On October 18, 1849, General Cau signed five checks withdrawing this money. The checks were made out in the following amounts—$110,000; $100,000; $90,000; $80,000 and $76,926.02. All the checks were presented the same day, and were made payable to the Canton Trust Company. This made a total of $456,-926.02, which the Canton Trust Company deposited in the National City Bank of New York to the credit of the fictitious Lee Sun Company. Strictly speaking this is embezzlement of Chinese government funds. However, the money came from the American taxpayers, who actually put up the $444,-706.53. Most Americans are willing to aid anyone who wants to fight the communists—as long as that all doesn't end up in the pockets of corrupt leaders. NOTE—In another case, the Chinese Nationalists went through three middlemen in an attempt to buy 2,956,170 gallons of aviation gasoline yet the Nationalists have a procurement office in Washington that could have made the same purchase much cheaper directly from the producer. The amazing angle is that one of the middlemen was a hole-in-the-wall Chicago grocery store in San Francisco's Chinatown, called the South China Enterprise, Inc. This store is worth only a few hundred dollars, yet stood to make a cost $100,000 profit on the deal. It looked suspiciously as if the grocery store may have been a front for someone else. The Gila monster is a notorious poison lizard of the sandy deserts of southwest U.S. LONELY HEARTS CLUB PROMOTER RECEIVES FIVE TO 10 YEARS LOS ANGELES (P)—George H. Ashley, 52, promoter of a "lonely hearts" club, must serve five to 10 years in prison for grand theft. Ashley was convicted yesterday of swindling Mrs. Maud Neal of Mt. Airy, N.C., of $18,080, and Mrs. Mattie Russ of Long Beach, Calif., of $7200. In denying Ashley's request for probation, the court noted that the probation court called him "unprincipled" and "a menace to society." Terms and conditions of sale: Cash in lawful money of the United States of America, or upon credit, or for part cash and part credit as said Administratrix may deem for the advantage, benefit and best interest of said estate. At least ten per cent of the purchase price in cash to be paid on date of sale, and the balance whether cash or upon credit, must be paid on confirmation of sale by the Court. Dated August 13, 1951. MILDRED L. FERGUS. Administratrix of the Estate of Charles W. Letbetter, deceased. WM. P. WEBB. Attorney for Administratrix.