The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 13

1 SECTION TWO CLASSIFIED SECTION TWO INLAND EMPIRE end The Pally Onmn Belt Nm WASHINGTON Merry-Go-Round New Surplus Tax Law Is Causing Headaches Parley Causes Split Among Liberal Group SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 19, VALLEY HEAT WAVE BROKEN BY STORM CIVIL SERVICE MT TOPIC DF MASS MEETING onxiiM TEMPERATURE SLUMPST0101 EDITORIAL Yucaipa Peach Growers Should Be Compensated for Tree Loss Proposal to destroy 15,000 peach trees in Yucaipa valley to eradicate a newly discovered plant disease has stunned fruit growers of that region. The order for the destruction, issued by the state department of agriculture, carries no plan of compensation to the growers many of whom would lose their lifetime savings. Presumably the same order will be issued in Beaumont, Banning, Hemet, San Jacinto, Moreno, Wineville and one place in San Diego county where the disease, known as peach mosaic, has been discovered. The disease is not transmissible through the fruit. The government precedent for compensation exists.

Large sums have been paid hog and cattle producers for destruction of animals with the "foot and mouth" disease in California and elsewhere. The state quarantine act provides for destruction of trees. The growers ask the pointed question as to whether they do not have protection in the Federal constitutional guarantee against the seizure of private property for public use without due compensation. There is no protest against the destruction of the trees. The protest is against the destruction without compensation.

The Yucaipa News presents the plight of the growers in part as follows The department of agriculture paid the Fontana Farms $155,000 for not raising hogs; the state department of agriculture proposes to destroy peach orchards in the Yucaipa Valley without a penny of compensation for the growers whose life-time savings are represented by the orchards. The proposal is an outrage to all sense of fairness and justice. This is not a protest against pest and disease control; it is a protest against destruction of property without compensation. These growers in the Yucaipa valley are not criminals to be punished by a fine, though one might have received that impres 1936 OF DISTRICT Thousands of Pension Adherents Will Meet in Colton to Job Nationwide Program Thousands of Townsenditei from all parts of the nineteenth congressional district win convene in Colton today as part of a nationwide observance of the closing program of the national convention In Cleveland. Mass meetings will be held simul taneously throughout the nation to hear the closing program, which will be broadcast over a national radio network.

The meeting will be held In the Colton municipal park and will be an all-day affair, with the principal program beginning at 1 p.m. A basket luncheon will be held at noon. LICHTENFELS TO TALK Paul Lichtenfels, manager of the national Townsend speakers' bu reau, will give the principal ad dress at the rally. George H. Wixom of San Bernardino will also speak.

Because of this special feature, a special invitation is extended to, young people to attend the meeting, said Mrs. Zetta Wright, district manager. The Colton Townsend club No. 1, of which H. T.

Crllly is president, will be hosts at the rally and J. W. Bruce of the Colton club is chairman of the luncheon committee. The Rev. S.

L. Wingert is chairman of the entertainment committee. Extra Precautions Prevent Sunstroke Because of extra precautions be ing taken by WPA, no project worker in San Bernardino county has been overcome by the heat Only four in Imperial county have been affected, none seriously, Direc tor Ralph B. Smith reported. Many of the construction projects begin operations at 7 a.

m. and finish at 1:30 to avoid the hot afternoon stretch, the director explained. Workers have been lectured by safety men as what to eat and drink to avoid feeling the heat unduly. Any reasonable change In hours on projects will be accepted by the administrative staff, the director added, as long as the workers get in their time. New Record Is Seen For Job Placements With 639 placements to date this month, Acting Manager Roy C.

Donnally of the state employment service, 352 Court street, predicts his all-time employment record of 1,000 persons in June will be DIEIITES PARLEr TODAY By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON, July 18. The treasury is not shouting it from the house tops, but the corporation surplus tax law recently passed by Congress already is causing a lot of headaches. Every new tax measure invariably produces a flood of controversial cases and appeals. With the United States board of -tax appeals already staggering under a load of 9,000 pending actions, the prospect of what will happen when the complicated new law begins to function is giving internal revenue officials the jitters.

One of the main preoccupations of Internal Revenue Commissioner Guy T. Helvering has been to reduce the number of cases taken to the appeals board. As a result of heroic efforts he has succeeded, during his three years in office, in settling cases pending before the board. This is an all-time record. But alas! While Helvering was cleaning up one docket others were accumulating.

A total of 13,813 new cases piled up while the 21,457 were being settled. Of these, approximately 9,000 still await disposal. Government experts once recommended that tax appealers be required to post heavy bonds. The cost of filing a suit is now only $10. By increasing this 10 times, it was argued, a large number of appeal actions would be discouraged.

This was dropped for fear it would discriminate against small firms. But the fact remains that many appeal suits are filed merely to delay payment, the Bar Morris Ernst, prominent New York attorney, was putting on a skit at the annual dinner of the New York Bar association, and pretended to enact a telephone conversation by John W. Davis, former Democratic candidate for President and famous attorney for Liberty league interests. "No, I'm sorry, but I can't taka your case," said "Mr. Davis" according to Ernst's take-off.

"No, I can't do anything about it. You'd better see Liebowitz at the Civil Liberties union, he might do something for you. Oh well, that's different. Why didn't you tell me you had robbed a bank? I thought you had only robbed a grocery store. Come right over." Supreme Court Justice Stone was among those present, and eemed to appreciate the skit most.

Disagreement Some of the Senate Progressives are grousing behind the scenes about the national conference of liberals recently announced by Senator Bob La Fol-lotte. Young Bob's motive in calling the meeting was to decide on a position in the presidential race. At a private meeting of Congressional liberals called to discuss this. Senator George Norris pointed out that La Follette's proposed conference would not be a large one and the reactionary opposition would make capital of this lack. He said the conference was not necessary.

It was also pointed out that neither Senators Borah nor Hiram Johnson could be counted on to be present, and this too would discount the Importance of the meeting. However, Young Bob insisted that it was good strategy to stage a conference; that even a small gathering would give weight to their individual declarations for Roosevelt. He offered to assume personal responsibility for issuing the call, and on that basis did so. White House Garden The White House gardens are in their prime right now, par- ticularly the private lawn, hidden from the public gaze by a mile of privet hedge. There Mrs.

Roosevelt strolls on a late afternoon, down the sloping lawn toward the Washington monument to look at the 50 foot circular fountain, rimmed with cannas and lantanas. The tennis court nearby is fulfilling the prediction which Herbert Hoover made regarding the streets of the United States. Grass has been growing on -it ever since Anna Roosevelt married John Boettiger and left the White House. In the little grassy esplanade rimmed with rounded shouldcr- hedges back of the Presi dent's office, is the rose garden two rows of yellow, pink and red roses. Yellow is Mrs.

Roosevelt's favorite color. But the "Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt" rose, a yellow-apricot variety developed at the Agricultural Department greenhouses is not present. Apparently Secretary Wallace never thought to send it to the lady for whom It waa named.

Note Another omission in the White House garden is the mint bed. This was the pride and Smith Made Teacher of Aeronautics Lieut. George M. Smith, former aeronautic! instructor at the Valley junior college, has taken posi tion in Illinois scnooi. Lieut.

George M. former aeronautics Instructor at the San Bernardino Valley junior college, now is head of the aeronautics de partment of the O. F. Schoeck schools, of Alton, HI. Lieutenant Smith and a repre sentative of the Pacific Aero-Marine of San Francisco, will give instruc tion in phases of aviation to all students enrolling in the school's aviation department.

Smith per sonally will grade all papers in the course. Lieutenant Smith, a graduate of the United States naval academy and the University of California, is a former special instructor in aero nautics for the army at Wright field, Dayton, Ohio. Two barnstorming Democrats, who recently returned from a nation-wide airplane jaunt to boost the candidacy of President Roosevelt, will be welcomed home today at an air meet at the Shandin Hills field. The official welcome for the pair, Komer Dyal and J. Albert DeRuit- er, will be sponsored by the Young Democrats of San Bernardino.

It starts at 10 a.m. and will continue all day, and the public is invited without charge. The program will open with a mass flight of airplanes over the city. At 2 p.m. Dick Gray will demonstrate his proficiency in manipulating a wartime plane.

Va rious stunts will be presented by a series of fliers, including Les Mer-genthal, DeRuiter, G. F. Cook, Jack Coy, Komer Dyal, Noel Sharp and Sidney Bateman. At 5 p.m. Tex Rankin, nationally famous flier, is due to arrive from (Continued on Page Twenty-Three) send forces will lead such a movement and possibly absorb these other organizations.

It is not my opinion, however, that the Townsend convention, here assembled, will endorse a third party candidate for President. The Townsend delegates seem to be of one mind and that is to concentrate on the election of members of Congress, but it is also true that an endorsement by Dr. Town-send of the third party candidate, even at the last moment, would be as effective as if that endorsement had come from the convention floor. Declaring himself to be through with politics forever, Gomer Smith, in bringing his address to a close, pledged everlasting allegiance to the Townsend plan and a life-long friendship for Dr. Townsend.

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WE TRADE AND HOW I AIR MEET TO BE HELD TODAY ML SERVICE 0 ED Abandonment Effective Monday Of Car Service; Busses To Be Substituted The Pacific Electric tomorrow will abandon interurban street car lines in favor of motor busses, which will be placed in operation Monday morning. Regular railway service will be abandoned between San Bernardino and Redlands, Riverside, and the Patton-Highland area. The busses will be operated by the Motor Transit a subsidiary of the Pacific Electric. The state railway commission recently gave permissjon for the abandonment of the lines. NEW SCHEDULES TOLD The railway line to Redlands will be maintained as far as the Red-lands Heights packing house, but only freight wili be hauled over it.

Inside the city tracks will be removed, including those on the Smiley Heights line. One Pacific Electric car will continue to operate between San Bernardino and Riverside, a baggage car, which will also carry passengers. New additional schedules providing a faster service has been ar ranged for the convenience of pa trons. With inauguration of the bus service to Riverside, the present Mt. Vernon avenue route usld by busses to Colton will be abandoned, said C.

H. Jones, agent for the railway and Motor Transit lines. Instead the busses will operate south on street and into Colton via Urbita Springs and Colton avenue. Street car service will be maintained on the Mt. Vernon avenue line between San Bernardino and Colton.

HARLEM SPRINGS LINE Street car service will be discontinued to Harlem Springs and the Patton-Highland area. Following are the new schedules: Leaving San Bernardino for Red- (Continued on Page Twenty-Three) Accident Toll Shows Decline A steady decline in accidents on the Metropolitan water district aqueduct, as a result of continued safety law enforcement and education of workmen, was revealed yesterday in the monthly report of General Manager F. E. Weymouth. The report showed that on the aqueduct as a whole, the lost-time accident frequency rate has decreased 67 per ceit below the record of the first year of aqueduct construction, beginning July 1, 1933.

Accident frequency on the Metropolitan project during the third fiscal year of construction is 20 per cent below the average frequency for other heavy construction in California comparable to that on the Colorado river aqueduct. This safety record has followed the rigid enforcement of safety rules and regulations and a system of instructions made effective by General Manager Weymouth. In addition, by means of safety clubs, awards for camps having good safety records, first aid and mine rescue training, and entertainments, workmen on the big job have been encouraged to take a personal interest in safety. Needy Lads Get Mountain Outing Two hundred underprivileged boys played under the pines of Big Bear valley yesterday as guests of the Los Angeles crime prevention bureau. They were the first of 1,500 youngsters who will be provided with a six-day mountain vacation by the bureau this summer.

County Gets Bulk of WPA Disbursements Practically two-thirds of the $3,155,102 disbursed by the WPA for labor and materials in the tri- counties district since Jan. 1 has been distributed in San Bernardino county, a six-month financial re port of the relief organization shows. During the half-year period, $2,004,142 has been spent in this county, $957,467 in Riverside and $193,490 in Imperial counties. Prior to January, nearly $400,000 was spent in the district. Heaviest monthly expenditures were in March when $379,222 was distributed in this county, $177,658 in Riverside county and $39,702 in Imperial.

Lightest month was April, the disbursements increasing in May and continuing to rise dur ing June, when San Bernardino received $335,056, Riverside $136,627, and Imperial $23,157. Unsettled Conditions, Storms In Mountains, Predicted by Weather Boreas Today Heavy clouds continued depositing a light sprinkle over the San Bernardino valley at intervals yesterday, holding the temperature down to 101 degrees and giving a heat-weary population respite from four days in which temperatures of 110 degrees or more were recorded. Today's forecast for the South land is for unsettled conditions, with local thunderstorms over and near the mountains today aud tomorrow. Continued warm weather and a gentle west and northwest wind off the coast, were predicted. HOURLY TEMPERATURES Light rain which feU during the morning and afternoon stopped yesterday's rise of the mercury at 101 degrees at 10:15 a.

m. It has risen steadily to that point from 68 degrees at 5 a. m. yesterday. During the afternoon continued light showers, not heavy enough to register, pushed the temperature farther down, and at 6 p.

m. 85 degrees was registered, according to Clyde Sill, weather observer. Beginning with the record high minimum of 68 at 5 a. m. vester- day, it rose to 74 degrees at 6, 81 at 7, 87 at 8, 93 at 9, 99 at 10, and 101 at 10:15.

The moraine's lisrht snrinkln came at 10:20, and by 11 a. m. the temperature was down to 89 degrees. It then dropped to 88 at (Continued on Page Twenty-one) Successor Named To City Officer To replace Dr. Frank L.

DeWolfe who Is reslETlinEf. William "Rercr has been temporarily appointed by Mayor C. T. Johnson and th itv council as city food inspector. Mr.

Berg will take over the Inspector's auues Monaay. Dr. DeWolfe, who has been In the city health service since 1924, recently submitted his resignation, to become effective upon obtaining a successor. Until the San Bernardino civil service commission can draft a civil service examination for the office, Mr. Berg will serve.

The appointee has been a city employe for me past seven years, being In chrage until recently of th etiv sewer plant. City Officials to Attend League Meet Invitations have been received by members of the Citrus Belt League of Municipalities to attend a meeting of the Orange county league at the Seal Beach city hall next Thursday at 6:30 p. m. President Dan Huckins of the Citrus Belt league has urged members, including San Bernardino city officials, to attend. He adds that the session will not effect the Citrus Belt league meeting the, following day at Elsinore.

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G. Milbrath of the department of agriculture as he told of his plans for entering upon their premises and destroying their trees, on last Friday night. It would be difficult to imagine a more cold-blooded presentation of a brutal plan of destruction than he gave. He was reluctant to talk of compensation; the department has no money for that purpose, and that should be the end of the matter so far as he was concerned. We hope and believe that Mr.

Milbrath was wrong in that conclusion. The growers are not criminals; they aren't responsible for peach mosaic in their orchards. If there is any responsibility it lies squarely at the door of the department of agriculture and its quarantine officials. It is admitted that the disease must have been imported in nursery stock and the quarantine officials would better serve the state by preventing sellipg of diseased trees by nurserymen than by grubbing out bearing orchards. Or the state plant pathologists might be said to have taken their time when it required three years to identify this disease in this district.

Why so much hurry now? There is no doubt that the quarantine law gives he officials of the department of agriculture the privilege of entering a grower's farm and destroying his property, under certain conditions. But the constitution provides that property may not be taken without just compensation. It shouldn't be necessary, but it appears that it is necessary, for us to appeal from the law to the constitution for protection and justice. In order to prevent this outrage against all sense of fairness, provision must be made to compensate growers for their losses before any program of destruction is permitted or contemplated. The people of San Bernardino county will take a very wholesome interest in the demand that justice be done the ranch owners of Yucaipa.

They are our neighbors; they have our moral support they are entitled to every assistance in formulating the demand that there be governmental compensation for the destruction of their property. County Employes, City Workers Of Valley, Plan Discussion Of Proposed Amendment Whether San Bernardino county employes, and employes of cities throughout the county will support the proposed civil service amend ment to appear on the ballot will be decided at a mass meeting to be held in San Bernardino Thurs day Four speakers of state-wide prominence will explain the measure which would place all city and county employes under civil serv ice. The meeting will be held at the San Bernardino American Legion clubhouse at p.m., said Norman P. Henderson, secretary of the San Bernardino County Em ployes' association. PROVISIONS TOLD The association is sponsoring the meeting, which will be open to all county employes who would be af fected by the civil service, and env ployes of the cities of Chino, On tario, Upland, Fontana, Colton, Rialto and Needles.

San Bernar dino city employes already are working under civil service. The civil service regulations would apply to all public employes, with the exception of elective offi cers, but would not require those who have served more than one year to take the civil service ex amination. SPEAKERS LISTED The speakers will be L. W. Hust- ed, president of the California Fed eration of Civil Service associa tions and of the Long Beach city assessor's office; G.

M. Ballard of the. Long Beash civil service commission; R. G. Flamm, assistant city engineer of San Francisco, chairman of the federation's cam' paign committee, and O'Connor, San Francisco attorney and author of the proposed county and city civil service constitutional amendment.

O. O. Boyd, president of the coun ty employes' association, will preside at the meeting. Employment Service Activities Lauded For "exceptional service" in ob taining 65 men to patrol a forest fire line July 4, the state employ ment service, San Bernardino office, under the management of Roy C. Donnally, was commended at a meeting of the service's advisory board.

C. E. Heaton, chairman of the board, said that although the em ployment office was officially closed on the national holiday, Manager Donnally and his staff were able to obtain the men four hours after the forest service had asked for aid. Since the emergency, the man ager has set up special machinery for obtaining men quickly. It was also brought out at the meeting, Chairman Heaton explain ed, that there is an increase in the number of employers using the state employment service to obtain help.

Personal contacts with em ployers have brought about the in crease, according to the chairman. Civil Service to Hold Examinations Applicants are wanted by the United States civil service commission for examinations for senior and junior stenographers and senior and junior typists to fill vacancies in California, Arizona and Nevada. Application blanks and information regarding the examinations may be obtained from the civil service department in the San Bernardino postoffice. Men qualified as stenographers are especially urged to enter the examination. Male stenographer eligibles have not in the past been obtained in sufficient numbers to meet the needs of the service.

Trees Trimmed to Cut Traffic Peril Moving to reduce traffic hazards in San Bernardino, the city street department is finishing a tree- trimming campaign at certain' intersections and to clear obstruc tions around stop signs. The campaign was instigated by Officers Douglas Mecham and H. Moore of the city traffio division, who made a report of the blind intersections and obscured stop signs, To promote safety at several in tersections, the city council has ordered 28 new stop signs, also at the suggestion of the two traffic of-fiottrft Fr. Coughlin Acclaimed By Townsend's Delegates TIIS TALKS AT PARK RITES liEDFIEK SIT, HE HELD By W. R.

COGSWELL CLEVELAND, July 16 (By Mail) Fifteen thousand delegates to the national Townsend convention wildly cheered Father Charles E. Coughlin at the conclusion of his verbal attack on the administration in Washington. I am more sure than ever of a Union between the forces of Dr. Francis E. Townsend and Father Coughlin after an address by Gomer Smith of Oklahoma, defeated candi date for the United States Senate.

Smith assailed the Rev. Gerald Smith of Baton Rouge, criticized Dr. Townsend and pledged allegi ance to President Roosevelt. Gomer Smith left a sour taste In the mouths of hundreds of dele gates, who went wild when Dr. Townsend, asking for the privilege of the floor, said: "We very deeply regret that Gomer has taken his defeat so seriously." I know that Dr.

Townsend is favorable to a united effort to unseat the administration that Gomer Smith upholds and to do so he will devise a plan whereby the Town- SWIM HARLEM SPRINGS East Base Line Phone Highland 94 SPECIAL DINNER THE FINEST IN TOWN Soup to Dessert Roast Young Turkey jC MACK AND PUTHOFF th Bate lint Pharmacy 8. W. Comet But Una and I Stmit With the Rev. William A. Thomas, rector of St.

John's Episcopal church, delivering the sermon, the third service of the summer union series will be held in Pioneer park tonight. The series began July 5 and will continue until Sept. 6, inclusive. The Rev Mr. Thomas has chosen "Even the Prophet Had Doubts" as the topic for his message to night, the sermon to be preceded by congregational singing and special music by soloists of St.

John's church. Miss Dixie Lee Easterday will sing Gounod's Divine Re deemer," and the offertory duet will be "Night Hymn at Sea" by Thorn-as A. Goring, sung by Miss Easter day and Edward Curtin. Mrs. Harold Barnes, organist at St John's, will play the piano accompaniments.

The Rev. T. J. Shrode, assistant pastor of the First Methodist church, will preside, and the Rev. Lowell A.

Young of the First Con gregational church is song leader. Services are held at the north entrance of the Municipal Audi Fred Hart, 43-year-old San Bernardino resident, was held in the Riverside county jail yesterday, charged with shooting and wounding Mrs. E. D. Martin, 35, bride of a week, in Indio.

The shooting, said Deputy Sheriff Ben de Crevecoeur, apparently occurred because Hart was jealous over Mrs. Martin's recent marriage. The woman was believed near death from a bullet wound in her back at the Coachella Valley hospital. A bullet entered the woman's back and passed through her chest. Hart is being held on an assault and battery charge, pending the outcome of her fight for life.

Needy Residents Get Fresh Vegetables Fresh vegetables including beets, carrots, cabbages, turnips and squash will be distributed by the surplus commodity division to needy county residents next week. According to District Supervisor H. B. Crosby, disbursement will be made at Redlands on Monday, Col ton on Tuesday, Ontario on Wednesday, Victorville and Barstow on Thursday and Fontana next Friday, and in San Bernardino through the week at Court and streets, on Pag Twenty-Three). torium and begin at.