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The Parker post., 1916-05-20
REDFIEED LOOKS FOR
NO DEPRESSION IN u 6

WASHINGTON, May 16. There
will be no industrial depression in the
United States at the end of the
European war, in the opinion of Secre-
tary OF Commerce Redfield, who wrote
William P. Malburn, assistant secre-
tary of the treasury, that the coun-
try's so-called war business does not
exceed probably per cent of it's total
industrial and ,comercial activity. The
letter was in reply to a suggestion by
Mr.. Malburn that the American people
are in danger of overlooking prepared
ness for peace.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
Fifteen COUNTIES IN CAL.
AFFECTED BY RECENT FROST

SACRAMENTO, May 16.-Exactly
fifteen counties were affected by the
recent unprecedented frost, according
to statement issued by the state com
mission of horticulture. Grapes and
berries suffered the most extensive
damage. The total damage was placed
at $5,00O,OOO.
The counties are Alamade, Butte,
Contra Costa, Monterey, Napa, Ne
vada, Placer, Sacramento, San Benito
San Joaquin, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz,
Sonoma, Sutter and Tehama.
The vegetable loss does not extend
outside of three counties, while the
fruit loss was general in the affected
districts.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
SOUTH AMERICA COUNTRIES
APPROVE U.S.-hEX. POLICY
SIX NATIONS ADVISE PRESIDENT
OF MORAL SUPPORT
Countries That United in Recognizing
Carranza Are Now Convinced of
His FaiIure-Acquit United
States of Designs.

WASHINGTON, May 16-The Am
erican government has received un
official assurances from Argentine
Brazil, Chile, Bolivia Uruguay and
Guatemala that they will interpose nc
objections if the United States finds
it necessary to intervene in Mexico
Although the president is determined
to avoid such step, if it is possible
to do so, the assurances of moral sup.
port received from these governments
are regarded as powerful lever in
the diplomatic negotiations with Car
rama, inasmuch as all six of these
powers joined with the United States
last fall lin deciding to recognize the
CarranZa government after a vain ap
peal to the two factions in Mexico to
get together.
Although the source of the informa
tion cannot be disclosed, it may be
stated authoritatively that not only
have these six Latin-American powers
signified their willingness to keep
hands off, but their influential assur-
ances have gone so far as to indicate
their willingness to back up the United
States with all the moral support they
could muster.
Throughout the tortuous progress OF
Mexican developments one, of the sc.
rious factors which the administration
has had to face has been the attitude
Of some of the Latin-American repub
lies. Suspicious always of the inten.
tions of the United States, Latin-Am-
erica has looked askance at anything
like the use of the mailed fist on the
part of this country toward any of the
Latin republics.
These same six powers during the
Pan-American-Mexica conference last
fall made it plain in assurances to
General Carranza that they would not
subscribe to any step by the United
States looking to armed Intervention
in Mexico.
According to the information which
has been brought to the president
there has recently been a decided
change of heart on the part of the
countries in question @
Convinced now that the United
States has no ulterior purposes with
respect to Mexico, high officials OF
these countries, the president has been
advised, appreciate the fact that he
has strained the limits of patience in
dealing with the situation, and that
the American public has stood fol-
more from the Mexican outlaws than
the public Of any other nation would
have.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
MORE OF FARMING
IN SCHOOL READERS

SACRAMENTO, May 16.-Schoo
readers in California are to have a
little more about babbling brooks and
waving grain fields in them after this
The farmers of California decided
that there was little too much of the
urban and too little of the bucolic
stuff in the readers, and so they served
notice on the state board of education
to effect a change.
The board notified the state printing
Office that it is to add fifty pages to
the next issue of the readers, which
shall deal exclusively with country
topics. This new reader will be print
ed and ready for distribution next
year.
The compilation of the new material
will be under the direction of Dr. Mar
garet Schallenberger-Mc cNaught, state
commissioner of elementary schools
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
$1,25o,ooo,00 TO BE
VOTED FOR U. S. EXPENSES

WASHINGTON, May 16-The first
session of the Sixty-fourth congress
will appropriate for the next fiscal
year $1,250,O00, ,000-a record. Here
are the estimates:
Sundry civil bill, $23O,OOO,OOO; post
office, $325,OOO,OOO; navy, 100000, 900;
army, $18O,O00,0O0; Notifications, $43.-
100000; legislative and executive, $685.
100000; rivers and harbors, $40,OO0,-
90; Indians, $12,OOO,OOO; agriculture,
$24,000,000; District of Columbia, $12,-
100000; pensions, $165, 100000; three
deficiency bills already passed, $685.
100000.
Appropriations for the Mississippi
flood district, Alaska, nitrate plants,
the shipping bill and other minor
things make up the balance. The ap-
preparations last year amounted to a
little over $1,000,0O0,0OO.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
BIG GAIN is SHOWN
BY RESERVE BANKS

WASHINGTON, May 16.-Net gains
of 100000 in gold, $3,5O0,0OO in earn.
ing assets, and $7,9OO,0GO in net bank
deposits of the Federal reserve banks
are shown in the boards weekly state
ment of the condition of the reserve
banks. Earning assets of the banks
stand at 300 per cent of the paid-in
capital, as compared with 1S9 per cent
three months ago. The New York,
Philadelphia and Minneapolis banks
reported the latest net gains in de-
posits. The amount of discounted
bills on hand was approximately $2O,-
100000, decrease of 80 per cent since
the beginning of the year, but accept
ances on hand have more than doubled
during this period.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
Canal DefenseIess. Says Beach

NEW YORK, May within an
hours time battle cruiser firing
from either side of the isthmus, could
destroy the Panama canal"
This dismal declaration was voiced
here by Rex Beach, the author, who
has just arrived in New York from
Panama
Conditions at the canal; so far as
protective measures are concerned, are
shameful" continued Beach. "It is in,
correct to speak of the canals de-
lenses. AS matter of fact, it is de-
fenseless. - -.
Fired upon at either end by heavy
guns, it could be made useless in no
time. 1t also could be quickly de-
stroyed by explosives dropped from an
aeroplane. No provision has been
made for defending the canal from
aerial attack"
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
California RECEIVES SMALL
APPORT|ONMENT FOR ROADS
CALIFORNIA GETS ONLY $155,75o
.:FROM GOOD ROADS BILL
Measure Passed by United States Con
gress Gives $s5, 100000 for Good
Roads of which $10,O00,O00
Goes to National Parks.

SACRAMENTO, May 16.-An inves-
tigation, somewhat limited, into the
relationship between California and
the recent appropriation by the United
States Senate of $S5,000000 for
"roads" in this country leads the in
vestigator out into the forest reserves
and national parks ia.
California wants more highways
The state wants these highways in
pretty definite places. The state has
bought and paid for and is planning
to buy and pay for very large mum.
Der of good roads, but it is more than
willing to secure little Federal aid.
What are the California national
parks going to get, and where do the
forest reserves come in
OF the $S5,00O,OOO provided for by
the Senate, $1O,OOO,OO0 is set aside to
be used in the highway development
of national parks. AS it happens,
there is also another bill before Con.
gress which provides for the enlarge
ment of these national parks.
Sequoia National Park of California
lies directly west of the Mt. Whitney
region.
Supposing that the bill providing for
it's enlargement is passed, then it's
boundaries will extend outward and
downward in such way as to include
the Mt. Whitney region and forty miles
of the $50 miles of contemplated road
to the summit of the mountain. This
forty miles now lies within the forest
reserve.
In other words, if the Sequoia is en-
larged the Mt. Whitney project will
come in for a chunk of that $4,000.
900 provided by the Senate for national
parks.
And what becomes of the $4,000, ,O0C
also appropriated? California gets
3.ll5 per cent, the proportionment be-
ing based one-third on the area of the
state, one-third on population and one
third on the length of the rural deliv.
cry and star routes.
In round figures, California will get
in 1917, $155,750, or about enough to
build fifteen miles of paved highway
But in order to get this sum, the state
must put up beside-it, dollar for dollar
an equal amount of cold cash. That
is, the Federal government agrees to
furnish no more than SO per cent ot
the cost of a road, and all road plans
must be approved by the Secretary of
Agriculture
At this time it is impossible to pre-
dict, or to find anyone who will pre-.
dict, what the General Grant and Yo
semitic National Parks are going to
get out of the $1O00O,0OO.
A national park without a road
through it, or into it, is about as use
full as the Pacific Ocean without ships
The same holds true for a forest re-
serve, considering the way forest fires
have of bobbfng. up in inaccessible
places and timber has of growing un
profitably if not marketed.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
NEW LIGHT is READY N''..'.@.'
TO "SHOW UP" ENEMY

NEW YORK, May 116-The. most
powerful searchlight in the world was
tested at the Brooklyn navy yard. The
lens has diameter Of five feet.
A watcher in building mile away
reported that the light caused an elec-
trio lamp in his room to cast shadow
on the wall. The light was played on
both towers of the Manhattan bridge
and on the Woolworth building. Per
SONS near the Y. M. C. A. building
two miles from the navy yard said
every stone was brilliantly lighted.
The lights effective range is esti
mated at ten miles. Several may be
ordered for use in the Notifications
around New York
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
FRUIT FAIR PLANNED
FOR IMPERIAL COUNTY

Ell CENTRO, May 16. = Imperial
county will have a fruit fair about
June l, as result of a meeting OF
fruit growers here. The fruit growing
industry is steadily being developed
in the valley, and it is proposed to
show the public what has been done
in this line. Cantaloupes, peaches
plums and apricots will be ripe June
1, and the showing of fruits at the fair
is expected to be surprising to many
Cash prizes are to be offered for the
best displays.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
RATES THROUGH CANAL
MUCH LOWER THAN RAIL

WASHINGTON, May 16.-That in
most cases water rates through the
Panama canal were SO to 67 per cent
lower than rail rates from coast to
coast was the finding of the interstate
commerce commission in a report to
the senate following investigation of
connections between rail and water
carriers and effect upon transcontinen-
tai freight rates through Panama canal
competition.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
ONE-SIXTH OF MILITIA
MEN UNFIT FOR SERVICE

: SAN ANTONIO, Tex, May TO-
PHYSICAL unfitness has disqualified one
sixth of the militiamen called out for
border duty, it was divulged. This is
not unusual, physicians said, as the
militia physical requirements are of a
laWer standard than that of the regu-
lar army.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
WAR ORDER FOR 1000
CARS CANNED MILK

PORTLAND, May 16.-Orders have
been received in this country and are
now in the hands of manufacturers for
100000 cases or 1000 carloads of
canned milk to be shipped to Europe,
according to the statements of pro-
ducers here today. AS a result of the
demand, most of the canning compa-
nies today advanced the price Is cents
per case.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
Tax Collections Show Gain

LOS ANGELES, May 16-The coun-
ty tax collections to date show a gain
of more than $1,000,0O0 over last year,
according to Capt. H. G. Alfonso, chief
deputy tax collector.
There are still large number Of
checks to be entered upon the books
1t is expected that complete figures on
the tax returns will be obtainable by
Tuesday. The books to date show a.
total of $11, ,474, ,418.50. yu i
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
War Will Exhaust All Europe

LONDON, May 15-That the war in
Europe will end with all the combat
ants, victors and vanquished, finan-
cially exhausted, was the statement of
Lord Rosebery, Rosebery predicted
that following the war the men of
Europe will be race of super-men,
imbued with hatred of war. If Prus-
sia wins, he predicted, "it will enclose
Europe in coffin, with Prussian SEN
tinel to guard it,
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
Orders New Fire Fiuhters

SACRAMENTO, May 16.-GOing on
the theory that an increased tourist
traffic to the state will mean a relative
increase in forest fires, State Forester
G. M. Homans has ordered a system
attic control in all parts of the state
He sent in requisition to the state
board of control for two automobiles
and accompanying fire equipment. q
Homans says the tourist travel will
be greater this year, because the Faro
pean war has cut off travel to the con
tinent, and the splendid new California
highway system, costing $18,000,000,
is now practically completed in the
better known portions of the state
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
Claim 5000 Officers Lost

BERLIN, May 15.-The Italians have
lost 5000 officers since the beginning
of the war, according to private sta
tistics compiled in Germany This in.
cludes killed, wounded or missing, OF
these officers, five were generals, 62
colonels, 102 majors, and 544 captains
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
Coast Crops pamaned

PORTLAND, Ore, May 16-Killing
frosts have caused heavy damage to
fruits, gardens and alfalfa in widely
separated districts of Oregon.
NORTH YAKIMA, Wash, Nav 16.-
Several fruit sections adjacent to this
city which suffered frost injury Sun
day were hit again yesterday, when
the temperature dropped to 80 in the
city and to % in some low places in
the orchard district.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
Potash from Banana

WASHINGTON, May 16.-American
Consul Byington, at Leeds, Eng, in a
dispatch to the department of com
merce, announces the discovery by a
scientist there that large quantities OF
potash can be obtained from dried ba.
mana stalks, heretofore considered val
ueless. The discovery was made by
E. E. Lawson, of Leeds. An analysis
by DR.. A: J.. Hanley, of the Leeds uni.
versity, confirmed the statement that
1919 per cent of the dried stalks was
potash.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
Blue Hog Is Developed

BOSTON, May 16.-To devote all
his time to raising hogs and the breed
ing of red, white and blue pigs, George
c. Griffith, a friend of August Belmont
and a Harvard graduate, has entirely
given up the practice of law in Bos.
ton. A blue hog is his latest success
full experiment. August Belmont
named the breed the sapphire swine
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
LESS THAN 225,OoO HORSES
IN U. S. FIT FOR ARMY USE

WASHINGTON, May 16.-Statistics
compiled in connection with proposed
legislation to improve the breed of
light horses discloses that less than
225,0G0 of the 24,000,0O0 horses in the
United tSates would be suitable for
military use.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
$85, 100000 BILL FOR ROADS
INU. S. PASSES SENATE

WASHINGTON, May 16.-The sen
ate passed the good roads bill appro
priating $S5,O0O,O00 for road improve
ment and construction. Of this amount
$75,000,000 will be used to aid in state
highway construction in the next five
years.
The remaining $10,0OO,00O will be
spent in the construction of federal
highways in national parks and for
ests.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
Rain Damages Crops

MARYSVILLE, May 16.-The rain
which visited the Sacramento valley
did, thousands of dollars of damage,
according to cherry and berry ranch
ers. The heavy storm will rot thou
sands of tons of berries, they said. 1t
was also feared the early hay would
be spoiled.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
100000 Germans Killed

LONDON, May 15.-More than 7OO,-
900 Germans have been killed to date,
and 1,7S3,310 wounded, the press bu-
reau declared in an announcement
based on German official lists. The to-
tai number of German prisoners and
missing is 334,892. These figures do
not include naval and colonial losses.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
ONLY FEW DAYS MEAT
SUPPLY LEFT IN BERLIN

LONDON, May 5.-A Copenhagen
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
company says that the police of Ber
lin searched the shops and dwellings
of the butchers for hidden stocks OF
meat.
The result showed that the supply
of meat in Berlin is sufficient for only
a few days. For this reason the food
question overshadows all Others
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
ARIZONA GUARD is
SWORN INTO SERVICE

DOUGLAS, Ariz., May 16.-With one
company at full war strength of $50
men, but the rest far below that limit,
ten companies of the Arizona National
Guard went into camp here. There
are in camp 623 troops, including 4S
commissioned officers. The militia
men were sworn into the federal vol
unteer service.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
TO TAKE $4,455, 900
ORE FROM MINES

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 15.-Ore
of all kinds to be taken from the mines
of the Fairbanks district during 1916
will be worth approximately $4,445,-
900, according to the estimate of R. c..
Wood, president of the First National
bank. Woods estimate values the 1916
mineral output as nearly $1,000,000
more than the 1915 yield, when ore
valued at $3,65O,OOO was mined.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
Aero Timber Ordered

NORTH BEND, Ore, May 16.-The
North Bend Lumber company re-
ceived orders from Glenn Martin, of
Los Angeles, for all the aeroplane,
spruce timber the mills can produce.
The price is $40 per 1000 feet About
10 per cent of the spruce timber re-
ceived at the mill is fit for aeroplane
manufacture.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
Risk on Sweden ENTERING War

LONDON, May 15.-Risk on the
participation of Sweden in the war
was again offered by underwriters
Twenty per cent was quoted to cover
the payment of total loss should she
enter the war within the next six
months. For the same risk in respect
to Norway, five per cent was quoted.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
MATCH WITH DOUBLE END
TO CUT DOWN TAXES

: LONDON, May 15.-Sydney E. Fol
lett, of Edmonton, near London, has
just invented device whereby, in the
interests Of the strict, economy now
being practiced, matches shall have a
head on each end, so as to save the
householders' pocket, owing to the in
creased taxes imposed on matches.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
Cost of Living Rises S Per Cent

WASHINGTON, May 16.-That the
average family's expense for foods is
five per cent higher now than year
age was the announcement of the de-
partment of labor 1t was shown that
while there was a five per cent in
crease in February over February,
1915, there was a nine per cent in
crease in food costs compared with
prices of February five years ago.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
CONDENSATION OF
Current EVENTS
CLEANED FROM NUMEROUS SECTIONS
OF BOTH HENSpHEREs
Dispatches PiGtWhg Developments From the Out
side World Stripped Of Unnecessary
Details and Presented in Brief
President Restores Land

WASHINGTON, May 6..President
Wilson has restored to entry $4,000
acres in west-central Wyoming and
14S,676 acres in the Salinas valley oil
reserve in California.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
100000 SOLDIERS OF FRANCE
GIVEN BRAVERY MEDALS

PARIS, May 15.-Nearly 100000 dec
orations have been distributed since
the beginning of the war. These in
clude 1900 crosses of the Legion of
Honor, $4,000 military medals, and
mere than 100000 war crosses.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
Jute Used in Trenches

SAN FRANCISCO, May 16.-Forty
million bags have been used by the
French and British armies in building
trenches, according to G. S. Colby, of
Calcutta, India, jute manufacturer.
He declared the British authorities
had used 25 per cent of the Indian jute
output for trench work.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
WEEKS NEWS FROM
NE|CHbOR|NC CITIES
Brief outline OF CURRENT EVENTS
ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE
condensed Resume Of ihe Weeks Happenings
Covering Events Of Interest from Nearby
PaeeS---WIH Allow Rapid SCANNING
Plant Striped Bass

LOS ANGELES, May 16.-Striped
bass are to be planted in the fresh wa
ter fed bays of Southern California,
according to plans under way by the
fish and game commission.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
Submarine Base for San Dieqo

SAN FRANCISCO, May 16.-Two
submarine and torpedo 'fiotilla bases
for the Pacific coastal Astoria, Co.
lumbia river, and San Diego-will be
recommended to congress by Secre-
tary of the Navy Daniels, according to
F. G. Harley, of the Astoria, Oregon,
Chamber of Commerce.. who is on his
way back from Washington, where he
urged the claims of Astoria for con-
sideration in the naval program of pre-
paredness. Harley had three confer
ences with Secretary Daniels.
The Parker post., 1916-05-20
Primary Returns Complete

LOS ANGELES, May 16--Oficial re-
turns for Los Angeles county in the
presidential primary election were an
nounced by the board of supervisors.
The final figures on the candidates
heading and closing each ticket were
as follows: -
Democratic-James D. Phelan, 14,9
S96; William j. Curtis, 14443. y
ogressive-Ralph w. Bull, 3,155;;
Thomas A. Ogden, isis s,
United Republicans-Robert NJ Bull;
la, 25,246; D. c. Collier, 22,942. >
Straight Republican-Walter Bord-
we'll, 36,333; Charles C. Chapman, 34,9:
$50. rs
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-07-04

has been displaying in the windows of
the Bookshop. 1t is a group of mem
bers of the Ocala Rifles taken in 1889,
just before the company went to New
York, to attend the Washington in
auguration centennial. Thirty-three
members of the company went, and
attracted much favorable attention by
their fine appearance. With their
epaulets and gold lace, each member,
even tho he was only private, looked
like a major general. The company,
during the great parade, was halted
for awhile at the corner of Wall and
Nassau streets, and while there re-
ceived an informal visit and high
compliment from u. S. Senator For
aker of Ohio. On the trip, the COM
pany stopped at Savannah, and re-
ceived a most hearty welcome; the
only dangerous incident of the jour
ney, however, happening in that city
where the Rifles barely survived a
broadside of the famous artillery
punch, which since first invented has
laid many hero low. Those shown
in the picture were Messrs. Geo. A
Nash, then captain Of the company
Chalmers Raysor, D. S. Woodrow
Sam Birdsey, George MacKay and W
w. Condor.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-07-04


Judge VIM, E. Gober, republican
candidate for Congress in this district,
opens the campaign with speech at
Worthington Springs today. The Star
will guarantee that the judge will
made good speech. While the as
bestos cat which the Judge is suppos-
ed to be chasing, has inflicted many
scratches on itself in the primary, its
legs, so far as the congressional cam
paign are concerned, are yet unim-
paired, and we do not see that the
tallow dog which the judge is using
for steed has any better chance of
catching the incombustible feline than
it had six months ago.