The Signal from Santa Clarita, California • 2

NEWHALL SIGNAL Roanoke I SLANb California Agriculture California News of the Week National Topics 'Interpreted by William Bruckart (By WNU Service) Charmlan London, widow of the famous author, will soon throw open as a dude ranch the Valley of the Moon ranch In Sonoma county, made famous In several best sellers. The move was caused by financial stress and a desire for others to see at first hand the valley Jack London knew and loved so well- (By WNU Service) Each year birds save crops valued at $800,000,000 from insects, according to data compiled by Dr-. Alfred Cook-man, lecturer and Agriculturist Gophers, he said, do $10,000,000 damage in California annually and that If It was not for owls the damage would be greater. Rats are so numerous ln this country It keeps 150,000 farmers busy feeding them, he said. Washington.

The Republicans are giving some Indications that they In- tend to fight for elec-Qaeer Quirk tionof theirpartlsans in Politics ln tne next congress on the ground that the emergency Is over and Presi dent Roosevelt and his administration are continuing on a spending spree About 150,000 California high school and college graduates who have never been able to land jobs are among the unemployed in this state, Vierling Kersey, state superintendent of public instruction, announced as he voiced a plea to find work for the youths. Just to afford deserving Democrats with pie from the government counter. Formation of a new farmers' cooperative? organization was revealed recently In Santa Rosa when articles of Incorporation were filed by the Sonoma County Cherry Growers association. purposes were designated as marketing, Belling, preserving, harvesting, drying, processing, canning and storage of cherries. The tipoff as to the direction from ft rg-y.

v- which the attack will come arose the other day without attracting a great deal of attention. It came from Representative Snell of New York, the Republican leader In the house, who opposed one of the newer brain-trust creations because he declared, unequivocally, "the emergency Is over." Proposals recommending that all facts of the effects of alcohol and narcotics be included in the curriculum of the California Congress of Parents and Teachers were made in Sacramento during their recent convention. They asked that the Instruction be "devoid of emotion and Modern Transportation on Roanoke Island. After Mr. Sneli had.

made the state weather and lack of supplies, forced the party to sail away before the clue ment, I Inquired of a number of per- sons, astute in politics, what they thought of this anomaly. Here is a leader of the opposition party declar could be investigated. Prepared by National Gewaphlc Society. I Washlnrton, D. WNU Service.

MODERN engineers have thrust Virginia Dare trail down the Islands off the North Carolina coast and built the Wright Memorial brWge across Currituck What had been the colonists' fate? The blazed sign was all 'that was Ending weeks of waiting for action from Washington on the new licensing agreements, leaders of the southern California milk Industry are now In open revolt against the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, according to Earl Sturm, writing in a milk Industry trade magazine. He revealed that the Southern California Milk Distributors' association adopted a resolution to the effect that May 1, they would no longer pay the producers the agreed price of 51 cents a pound for butter; fat and take surplus deductions would pay 46 cents and take no 'deductions. Producers would receive approximately the same, it was said. ing that the emergency Is over, and If ever found of the Lost Colonies except hasty marks of departure, burned chests, rusty iron Implements, house that condition exists, the leader of the opposition, by Inference at least, has admitted that credit for the Job must sound, bringing the islands Into touch Jeddu KrishnamurtI, Hindu philosopher, returned to his home In Ojai, Ventura county, recently, and Intends to remain until his annual lecture series is ended in June. KrishnamurtI, a pupil of Dr.

Annie Besant, gathers his listeners In the hills of the Ojal valley, builds a huge campfire, and communes with them beneath the evening sky. with the modern world, yet the visitor be given the Roosevelt administration. hold effects, and books. Even In that wilderness colonists of Shakespeare's day could not exist without books. I find as well that the Democrats can still finds In Roanoke island the speech and customs common, In the days of Sir Walter Raleigh whose fol-.

Whatever the fate of the colonists. lowers established there the first English settlement In America. From the skipper of the small mall either they or their early successors left their Elizabethan English dialect, manners, customs, and features In this American byway. boat that plies between the islands As the little mail boat bobs along Steps are to be taken Immediately to preserve permanently the Marshall cabin at Colomavin northern California, which, although within the bounds of a state park, has been vandalized and has decayed to a point of near ruin. toward Roanoke Island, the traveler's one may supplement his limited knowledge of this region supplied by obsolete descriptions and by copies of the original letters and maps left by Sir Walter Raleigh's adventurers.

He learns that Roanoke Island perfectly thoughts turn from the story of Vir ginia Dare and the first colonigts to another historic drama of the Banks. In 1812, Just across the channel from exemplifies the adage that byways of Roanoke Island, on the ocean sand Isolation pocket the choicest realities of life. Here Is a genuine, Inbred dignity, expressive of a mild-mannered. spits of Nags Head, the pilot boat Patriot, carrying Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of Aaron Burr and wife of Governor Alston of South Carolina, ended Its last voyage. After the tragic California bankers attending the California Bankers' association 43rd annual convention to be held at Del Monte the 23rd and 25th will be addressed by two Washington officials, according to preliminary plans outlined.

J. F. O'Connor, comptroller of currency, and Albert S. Goss, federal land bank commissioner, are scheduled to be on the program. collapse of her father's career and the loss of her little son, the only hope of the Burr family, Mrs.

Alston was In the depths of despair. She set sail from Georgetown. -S to Join her lonely father, and disappeared Ralph H. Taylor, secretary of the agricultural legislative commission, says Communists have organized In all parts of California and are bent on causing strikes in all fresh fruit sections of the state. These strikes would come, according to the Communists plans at such a time when the fruit was ripe for harvest and when delay would mean they would be lost.

He said the Asspciated Farmers of California have been formed to fight the Communists efforts to call strikes by curing any conditions that may not be right The Communists, however, are only interested ln stirring up strife and do not care whether wages are fair or not, he says. Los Angeles county's till was enriched by $12,254 recently 'following the auction of Its string of 26 thoroughbred Belgian draft horses in a colorful sale at the Union Stockyards. The highest price was paid by a Colorado man for Masterpiece, a roan stallion. The amount was $937. Buyers from various parts of California, Oregon, Nevada and Colorado purchased the animals and the harness and show equipment In which the stock had appeared at many fairs.

Recently Gypsy, a mare owned by Alvin Farrell of the Flying ranch, gave birth to twin colta. They died. The mare was inconsolable so Farrell skinned one of the colts, draped it over a newly born calf and gave the mare a new Interest ln life. -Farrell said he once gave a cow whose calf had died a quartet of lambs which she raised. Signs placed on the highways entering Elk Grove give Indications of organization of a secret anti-Filipino group.

The signs read: "Filipinos Beware. Don't Let The Sun Set on You In Elk Grove." A skull and cross bones were painted on the back of each. The law will take no action, officers said. Life on the Island. A bit of life on Roanoke Is revealed by a recent visitor, a woman doctor.

An old midwife and nurse, the wid ow of a life service man, was to care Operation of Mission Beach as a resort by the San Diego city playgrounds department for a period of six months has been agreed upon by a council majority of that city. Under the agreement, the amusement park is turned over by the Spreckels companies to the state park department and under lease between the state and San Diego the park is to be operated by the city. Democratic are more than likely going to continue to elect Democrats, but the "political accidents" that elected many others of the vast majority in the house are going to send many home because they come from overwhelmingly Republican communities. The Republican leaders are asserting they will pick up eighty or ninety seats from the Democrats next; November. There can be no doubt that they will gain some, hut eighty or ninety is a high figure In anybody's language.

It seems- to me that Representative Mark Wilcox of Florida has won a rather signal honor First Termer' in his first term as Wins Honor niemher of the house of representatives by obtaining passage of the legislation that has come to. be. known, as the municipal bankruptcy bill. It Is something like twenty years since a "freshman" member of the house of representatives has sponsored a piece of legislation of national scope that was passed and become a law. plenty of new members have Introduced bills, nationwide In their effect but as far as my research has disclosed, none has been successful ln the last twenty years, Mr.

Wilcox won membership In the bouse by defeating Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of the famed William Jennings Bryan, for the Democratic nomination In his district where the nomination Is tantamount to an election. So he was given a baptism of fire before he ever reached the house itself. Whether It was the political prestige won by licking an outstanding Democratic woman, or for other reasons, the fact remains that Mr. Wilcox finally forced through a piece of legislation that constitutes something entirely new In our national structure of laws.

The measure, as I said, Is national In scope and It probably will Effect the financial status of some 2,500 communities which the bill calls taxing districts. This list of taxing districts includes municipalities, counties, boroughs, villages, parishes, townships, and Incorporated taxing districts such as schools, drainage. Irrigation, levee, sewer, paving, sanitary, port, or any other districts-In which improvements have been made ln bonds and sold to pay for them. In order to take advantage of the provisions of the law, the taxing district must declare Itself to be insolvent and nhable to pay the interest or principal of the debt The officials of the taxing district may petition a federal court for the right to arrange Its debt on a new basis, but the coprt must be shown that at least three-fourths ln number and amount of hold-ers of the bonds are willing to agree to the terms of a compromise. If they do agree, then the court may issue a decree that will compel the remaining bondholders to accept the settlement What happens, of course.

Is that the taxing district will be able to replace the defaulted bonds with a fresh series, probably at a lower Interest rate. The taxing district gets out of the predicament of what amounts to bankruptcy, and the bondholders get new securities which are marketable and have something like their face value because the Interest will be, paid. This privilege Is extended for only two years, but it Is the general' understanding that the communities concerned will be able to accomplish settlements with their" creditors' iflucb sooner than that, and It Is obviously hoped also that improved financial conditions throughout the nation will make the Job of rearranging the debts easier than It was a few years ago. The bill did not get through congress without a fight It had plenty of opposition from members who contended it was a step toward repudiation of debts, a thing always to be abhorred. There was argument also that by granting permission for the municipalities and taxing districts to force such compromise as will result, the congress was making, such securities less attractive to Investors.

One'of the obvious results of having the spotlight turned onto an Individual or a fact or an W-Kidding sue Is plenty of com-the NRA ment People talk about it Sometimes, however, the talk develops Jibes and jests and ofttlmes they are not pleasant for the ardent advocates of a proposition to swallow. For instance, until recently discussion of NRA had been confined to serious argument very often of a heated character. Iyfltely, however. Jokes and puns about NRA have been emerging with greater frequency and there are now- a considerable number of them. The latest, and one of the best that-1 have heard, runs as follows: N.

R. A. me down to sleep, pray Theft Lord, my -codes to keep 'lit I. should buftt jjefore I wake, A. F.

of L. my plant will take. I heard already that the American Federation of Labor considers the reference to it in the doggerel to be closely akin to unfair practice, or whatever It Is organized labor says about those who are not Its supporters. General Johnson's reactions are not yet a matter of record, although I know he has -seen the thing. 2) by Western NewsoaDer Union.

hospitable folk. The Islanders are proud of their physique, speech, manners, and customs historic survivals of old English Devon. The ubiquitous automobile did not reach Roanoke island until -less than a decade ago. For land transportation there were up to that time only two-wheeled carts and sand ponies and occasional oxcarts. Even the little sand ponies' tradition went back to castaway vessels, to the Portuguese and to Sir Walter Raleigh's voyagers.

On Raleigh's attempts at colonization hinged momentous results In the New world. The "Lost Colonies," though they began and ended Sir Walter's ventures upon the North Carolina Sea Islands, were the first English-speaking settlements in America. Discovered In 1584. In 15S4 the adventurer obtained a patent from Queen Elizabeth, whose favors his genius readily commanded, and dispatched to the New world the first of his expeditions. The little hand, under Aruadas and Barlowe, sailed through an Inlet on July 4, 1584, to discover Roanoke Island a spot so favored in climate and setting and so rich in fruits, game, and bird life that it seemed to them a veritable paradise.

Back to England they sailed to describe It, taking with them two friendly Indian chiefs; and also tobacco, sassafras, maize, pumpkins, squash, grapes, and other fruits. Their story created excitement, and In the following year Raleigh sent out Sir Richard Grenvllle with a second colony, numbering 108 souls, determined to make a permanent home on Roanoke island and establish plantations. They landed on August 17, 15S5, and built a log fortification, to which they gave the name "The New Fort In Virginia," afso spoken of as "Fort Raleigh." However, they could not live at peace with the Indians, and the entire colony sailed back With Sir Francis Drake in 1580, Just two weeks before the arrival of reinforcements. Finding the fort deserted, the new group also returned to England, but left IS men on the island. A third expedition, sent out by Raleigh In 1587, found the fort demolished and no'traoe of the 15 men Three policemen have been dismissed in San Rafael for neglect of duty In the recent escape of two convicts from, San Quentin and Mayor Nock of that city announced he will seek endorsement by the California League of Municipalities of a proposal to remove the prison to Angel Island.

for her temporarily In her ancient cottage by the sound, where she lived alone. Her name was "Mis' Bashl the "Mis'" an island designation far mistress, and "Bashl," she said, "a Bible name after Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah but they call me Bashl." Surnames on the Island do not denote the Individual, for the families In -a hamlet are usually all members of one or two clans. "I'll wipe the dusties off your cornbread Is waltln', and your cake all dressed up In coconut" Mis' Bashl stirred about the spa-clous old brick fireplace, with Its crane and flredogs, and brought from the coals an old four-legged skillet In which she had baked a delicious Lying on the hearth was a mammoth bushy-tailed, long-haired cat one of the numerous beautiful descendants of an island Maltese and a brown, bushy-tailed Norwegian cat that had been the sole survivor of a wreck. In a worn slab-wood rocker In which the old woman had rocked her six children the doctor rested after dinner and listened to her tale of a remarkable life history. What she learned entitles Mis' Bashl to a place In the annals' of medical history.

The old nurse belonged to hardly admit the correctness of the statement without admitting at the same time that there should be an end Immediately to the countless emergency agencies that the Roosevelt administration has set up. It seems to me, therefore, that we are witnessing one of the most ridiculous situations that has ever occurred in politics where peculiar things are the rule. Succinctly, It amounts to this: each side actually Is contending that the other Is right Of course, it should be said, much water will flow under the bridge before the votes are counted In November; Indeed, many changes will have come before the congressional campaigns In the various states get stirred up to a white heat but unless the course of battle now Indicated Is altered, I predict the campaigners will have to do some fancy high rope walking. It surely appears that getting one's own legs tangled up In those arguments Is about the easiest thing in sight Curious possibilities are offered by the situation. For example, are the Democrats going to go out on the hustings and say to their mass meetings in effect that "we have not succeeded; we must keep the AAA and the NRA" and others? And, at the same time, are we going to hear from Republican spellbinders that "the Democrats have licked the depression and they must now put an end to their orgy of spending and running up bills which the taxpayers must Neither side, of course, will say It In those words.

But, If the argument goes ahead as It has started, that will have to be the substance of their tale to the voters. Therewillhave to be some very careful, as well as very quick, thinking before the campaign's end. One pollticial observer here suggested that this may turn out to jl most confusing campaign because -of the anomaly that Is now presented by Mr. Snell's declaration. There Is considerable discussion here as to how far-reaching the effect -S may be if the Re-Just publicans stress.

Speculation wItn sufficient vigor. the contention that the Democrats are trying to hold on to the extra Jobs and that they are continuing to spend taxpayers' money for repayment of political debts. There is always something sinister about that kind of thing. Whether the charge Is right or wrong, many voters get suspicious when campaigners persist in talking about raids on the federal treasury. They always think of it In terms of theft of money from the local bank or stores and not In the terms of political maneuvering, although I confess I can see little difference.

It always has happened that the political party In power has controlled the flow of public moneys into the spots where the funds will do the most good, politically, and when either side kicks about that. It seems to me It Is exactly like one mule calling another, "longear." I won't even suggest that I can guess what the ultimate effect of these strange arguments is going to be. Anyone who tries to predict the result at this time Is Jnst being silly. The best Judgment I can get la that the results In the various congressional districts are going to vary. The difference likely will be dependent entirely upon how many mistakes plain bohehead statements the various can-, didates make lq their attempts to follow arguments and analyses laid down for them, by the national political My belief Is that there will le plenty Pf them and there ought to a considerable amount Recommendation that application of the state prorate regulations on deciduous fruit shipments be applied only to rolling, unsold cars, excluding bona fide f.o.b.

sales and all exports other than those to Canada and Cuba, are high lights of a plan for administration of the California deciduous marketing agreement submitted to the executive committee by a committee named by the San Joaquin Valley Grower-Shipper Association: Delinquent taxpayers win be relieved of accumulated penalties for unpaid taxes for the last four years, the penalty being limited to a flat 7 per cent In Porterville. The city council of that community has under consideration an ordinance to that effect and are planning to pass it. To supply "the demand for information on growing and handling garlic, the production of which is being tested out now in many new localities of the state, the University of California has just published an agricultural extension booklet on the subject. Business In California closed the first quarter of this year on a considerably higher level of activity than a year ago, and the activity for March also showed improvement over both January and February, according to a review of conditions announced by the research department of the state chamber of commerce. the Island's renmant Her blood, her sterling character, and her beautiful broad dialect were heritages of the old Devonshire castaway.

She was comely and agile, her visage one of strength and thought Of only five weeks she had never learned to read, but had been taught to work Indoors and out arid to spin. At "out" (old) she married and at twenty-one "out," Insurance racketeers who hare made a practice of selling worthless sickness and accident insurance policies by the hundreds to Los Angeles county residents have become the target for the Los Angeles district attorney. Names of victims have been obtained and prosecution Is threatened. except the bones of one slain by the savages. The gruesome discovery was a shock to the homeseekers, and they In a far life service station hamlet, she undertook her first obstetrical "Doctor, I knew riothln' of It but Mehaley read me a doctor honk, and willingly followed the advice of their leader.

John White, to forestall future hostility by making friends of the In the moon was cnmln' to full, go the dians. The plan succeeded admirably. Indications that the proposed raisin marketing agreement Is in its final stages of preparation and will be ready for operation by the latter part of the month, was received in Fresno, from the Agricultural Adjustment Administration officials ln Washington. The sugar bill signed last week by President will have no material affect on the beet sugar industry In California, local authorities say. The act makes sugar a basic commodity under the agriculture adjustment act It also Imposes -a processing tax, not to exceed the reduction ln sugar duty, an estimated one-half cent per pound and this figure is Immediately met by a processing tax of the same amount which will maintain the present price of sugar to the consumer.

Acreage planted in California this year is virtually the same as last, when 111,903 acres produced 1,629,006 tons of beets and 270,936 tons of sugar. Any difference in production this year will represent crop conditions and not excess planting. Manteo, one of the friendly chiefs, was baby would be thrifty. One bnrn In the dark of the moon Is not" Mis' Bashi't Nursing. even baptized and given a title of no bility as Lord of Roanoke the first A continuous firebreak stretching 800 miles from Redding, Shasta county, to the Sequoia national park.

Tulare county, will be rushed to completion thjs year by federal-state relief and industrial recovery units. It will vary from 150 to 200 feet in width. Thousands of California Jobless will be put to work on the project, working out of camps. On little plantation. In pine English peerage In America.

Virginia Dare'e Birth. woods by the sound, though widowed On August 18, 1587, five days after the baptism of the Indian, was born John White's granddaughter, Virginia later, she cared for a psychiatric mother, raised her own brood and her mother's and her brother's children, cared for cows, pigs, and gardens. Then for 45 years she nilulstercii to Dare, the first English native of America. She was baptized, on the all the sick of the region, a IochI doctor coming only at rare IntervHls. following Sunday.

Thus was Eliza. California's county governments spent J26.491.283.14 caring for her indigents, outside of the almhouses, last year, according to figures announced by State Controller Riley. Her sand pony Napoleon carried bethan civilization anchored here.vby a baby, a mother, and. the. America bier in- a two-wheeled enrt through family.

and suntJ-nnd water, frvgale or Around little Virginia f)a re re snnshlne. to her patients. -Often- afoot mained more thnn a hundred mti, shwungwith her Viking stride' flown women and Mllren. They wereTeff bearhe or th'ivVhjrhr- th' Wanda: Xhe -of surprise when the votes- are An ordinance placing a license fee on all forms of outdoor advertising has been adopted by the city council. It toes' not affect, however, signs upon the premises, or real estate signs on property for sale or rent was smart, exact: ann Know'ng.

For the first time ln many years, the first shipment of aprlcoU left Kern county before May 1, a'truckload of the fruit having been shipped April 21) to Southern California markets frcm the orchards or Mrs. R. H. Clev-enger, William Fullbright. II.

R. Hunt and E. T. Rose. alone for- three years, Then, who had gone back to Eng'lShd after establishing the colony, returned she.

signed by anil she' was known as a "couthy" (capable) warn to find that they had disappeared. an. Her dignity of bearing and cour The only promising clue White tesy were exquisite. Thus she fell round was the sign "CRO" blazed on a tree. Since these letters were part counted.

-1 It Is quite apparent to the Democratic leaders, and they say so. that a number of house seats, now held by Democrats, will be turned over to the Republicans-next fall. There are seats occupied by Democrats who have no reason on earth to be In the house except by virtue of the tremendous landslide that placed Mr. Roosevelt In the Whte House. Districts normally Into the role that nature cast for her.

Months later the doctor realized how the personality of this Island of a code agreed upon by the colonists three years before, the rescue party Only the Governor and the supreme court stand between eight men waiting In the shadow of the noose at Fol-eom. ALI are convicted killers sentenced from Los Angeles, Siskiyou. Santa Clara, Contra Costa, Alameda, and Sacramento counties. woman, linked with a touch of A loan of $1,609,000 has been authorized by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for reclamation district 1000 In California. The district comprises 65,000 acres north of Sacramento.

hoped that their friends had gone to Croatan, home of the friendly Manteo, science, prevented morbid results from household conditions. She estab who had promised sanctuary In emer lished her -own art of medicine nd lency; but the captain, pleading bad 1 It worked..