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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-07-31
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Carl Coalson has gone to Yakima
for short time.
The wind last week did some dam
age to several stackers in this vicin-
ity.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jeffries will move to
the Cecil Richards house at Finley
soon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Bush returned
from Bend, Oregon where they have
been visiting.
Orville Zindel went to Horse Heav-
en- Monday where he will work for
Thomas and Son.
Vernon McCarty who has been har-
vesting in Horse Heaven came home
the middle of the week.
Quite a number of the Three Riv-
ers Growers in this vicinity are dig
ging some fine potatoes this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Palmer Tucker have
purchased the Mrs. Kephart place,
near Charles Robinson's and have
moved in.
Earl Smith who has been at his
mothers home for two months is
improving and we hope will soon be
able to be up and around.
A party of young people had a
picnic and weinie roast on Clark Is
land last Sunday evening and report
fine time despite the wind.
Cecil Richards and family and Will
Reed and family went above Walla
Walla Saturday evening and returned
Monday morning reporting a fine
time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
MISSOURI BANK
 LOOTED OF $35,O GOO
Robbers Force Officials Against Wall And Then Scoop Up Cash

WELLSTON, Mo-, Sept. 19.-Five armed and masked men entered the Wellston Trust company in the St. Louis suburb shortly before the open ing hour today, lined up the six off cials and employees against the wall, leisurely scooped up the cash and cur rency in the cages and vault, amount ing to between $35,000 and $4O,OOO, and escaped.
 As they prepared to flee, the robbers, punctuating their commands with curses, marched bank attaches into a cellar beneath the bank. The bank em- ployes upon liberating themselves, spread an alarm, which was answered by county deputy sheriffs and the St. Louis police.
 H. A. Mckee. treasurer, said the robbers rushed into the bank just as he and his assistant, Leroy Lane, had opened the bank vault and were dis tributing the cash to the tellers' cages. 1'be robbers wore handkerchiefs over the lower part of their faces and all carried revolvers, except one, who ap- peared to have a sawedoff shotgun.
 Lining the bank employees against the wall where three of the robbers kept them covered. two others entered the tellers' cages and scooped up $15,OOO in currency which they dropped into a large canvas sack. The remainder was taken from the vault and safe, which Mckee was forced to open.
 The State Bank of Wellston was robbed of $22,63S by six men on March 16, 1923. Recently seven banks in Illinois. communities adjacent to East St. Louis, have been held up and robbed of about S200.00O.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
MITCHELL HEADS ANNISTON PLANT
  Succeeds HOtchkiss As President Of Steel Corporation

Col. R. A. Mitchell, vice president of the Alabama Power company, has been elected president of the Anniston Elec. tric Steel corporation, to succeed W. $, Hotchkiss, according to information in Birmingham Friday. Other changes in clude Jim Huger as resident acting man. ager and James McLatchie as secre- tary.
 It is stated that Colonel Mitchell will not remove from Birmingham but will direct the executive department from this city. Colonel Mitchell has been as- sociated with the Alabama Power com ,pany for long number of years. He was at one time resident of Gadsden where he was manager of the Dwight mills and president at one time of a prominent Gadsden bank. He has charge of many policy matters for the Alabama Power company and is con. sidered one of the ablest men with that company.
 The Anniston Electric Steel corpora ton is one of the largest and oldest steel plants in the Anniston- Gadsden district. It was at one time manufac- turing cars but that work was discon- tinued some time ago.
 The platn reached its highest pro. ductive period during the war when it supplied the allies with war materials which brought about a period of unex. pected prosperity. The Alabama Power company is said to hold mortgage on the property and it is assumed that Colonel Mitchells appointment as presi- dent is traceable to that interest. How ever, it is understood the company will not become a subsidiary of the Alabama Power company. -a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
MOTHER IDENTIFIES
 MURDERED YOUTH
Kentucky Authorities Still
 Search For Youths Slayer

HICKMAN, Ky, Sept. 19.-The body of a youth found by timber cut ters near here yesterday has been iden- tified by Sam Vaught and his wife as their son, E. NJ. Vaught, 17, who left his home about three weeks ago after telling his mother he was going away to work.
 The decomposed body was buried but later exhumed when MT. and Mrs. Naught expressed a desire to ascertain whether the dead youth was their son. Mrs. Vaught was positive in her identi- fication, which was made by the hair and the tattered clothing which he wore.
 An examination of the body dis closed that the youth had been shot. There was one bullet hole in the head and another in his right leg. Wagon tracks which turned at the point where the body was found, indicated, authori- ties said, that the youth was murdered and his body hauled to the woods. A reward of $500 has been offered for the arrest of the youths slayers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
TOWNS WATCHMAN
 HELD FOR THEFT
Georg:l l Community Shocked At
 Betrayal Of Trust

E4ATONTON, Ga, Sept. 19.-H. Law Byars, besides being a trusted member of the Baptist church and a ragllc' attendant at a recent local re- ligious revival, was night watchman of the town of Eatonton, and indeed the i8zt person who would be suspected when trifling robberies occurred in Whitmens drug store. Now Byars is Tn Ja,l charged with burgalry.
 It all came about when the proprie- tors 1f the store continued to miss small amounts of money and several articles from the store. Determined to aa rch the thief whose mysterious plunGerings puzzled them, they set tran. An announcement that the key n me drug store had been lost was a part of the scheme calculated to lure the plunderer back and into the hands Of pe watching owners.
 Thursday night the proprietors hid in the store and waited for something to happen. It did; in the wee small hos of the morning, lock clicked and 4 shadowy form slipped through the front door. The watchers fired at the intruder but missed and started after hlS fhyng form. Under a street light he was captured The light revealed tt fes lures of Byars, the man the town trusted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
AUTO ACCIDENTS
 CLAIM ONE LIFE
 AND NJUREFOUR
Negro Child Is Killed Three Whites And One
 Negro Hurt

Three white persons were injured, negro baby was killed and another ne- gro child was hurt Friday night in au- tomobile accidents.
 A car containing E. R. Gilbreath and Oliver McGee of 127 Greenwood ave nue. Inglenook, and Miss Nevillon Yielding, 611 South Twenty-second street, hurdled a bluff on the Lewis burg road when the driver was blinded by the lights of a car coming in the opposite direction. The occupants sus- tained minor cuts and bruises, but no serious injuries. The party was taken to the Hillman hospital and discharged after slight medical attention.
 The negro child, Erenah Carter, two years old, was killed at the corner of Forty-second street and Second avenue, north. Accompanied by Esther Lee Smith, eight, the Carter child was crossing the street when both children were hit by a car operated by J. H: Morrow, 5307 Third avenue. The Car ter baby died almost instantly. Nor row stopped and took the Smith girl to the Hillman hospital, where she was dicharged after an examination.
 The children are said to live at For tieth street and Fourth avenue, north.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
ATTACKS MILAN
Published Sought Immunity Fro m
 Walsh Wheeler Saws


 Walsh, Wheeler Says.
 CINCINNATI. Ohio, Sept. 19.-Sen- ator Burton K. Wheeler lifted the GOV CTS off some hitherto concealed scandal brews in a sensational address here Friday night during which he made startling charges against Edward B. Mclean, publisher, former Attorney General Daugherty. and various persons who figured in the oil and department of justice investigations.
 Wheeler. running for vice-president on an independent national ticket with Senator Robert M. La Toilette of Wis consin, charged that;
 l. Mclean, through his attorney begged Senator Walsh to grant him i'm munity during the Teapot Dome inves- tigation in return for complete air ing of all the facts by him.
 2. Mrs. George Remus, wife of the convicted millionaire bootlegger, has produced cancelled checks totalling million dollars that proves the truth of her husbands testimony on the stand and that he had paid graft to the late Jess Smith and others for protection.
 Shaking his fist and shouting, Sena- tor Wheeler electrified his audience with this declaration:
 Perhaps it would interest his fel- low townsmen to know that as the net closed in on some of the others involved in the governmental scandal which was shoe eking the whole country last win tere Edward B. Mclean, through his attorney, asked Senator Walsh, who was conducting the Teapot Dome in Quiry, if Edward B. Mclean could ob- tain immunity for himself by telling all he knew concerning the others"
 :'The immunity proposal was re. fused and Mclean subsequently, took the stand and denied any knowledge of circumstances surrounding the oil or other transactions" the senator said.
 In his discussion of his charges based on the testimony of George Remus before an investigating committee that he had paid out a million dollars in graft for protection in his bootlegging enterprise, Senator Wheeler declared that Mrs. Remus had produced can celled checks to prove the tstimony othr witnesses and himself in Washington. After he was sent to prison, Remus issued statement repudiating his tes- timony.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
RAIN FLOODS NEW
 CHURCH EASEMENT
Adverse Circumstances Have
 Attended Building Of Edifice

The basement of the new Gate City Baptist church was rendered unten- able Friday because of the heavy rain which fell almost immediately after the completion of a new storm flooring.
 This is the last of a series of ad- verse coincidences, which has followed the construction of the new edifice. When the members of the church de- cided to construct their building by the "pay unit" plan, three Birmingham philanthropists promised to help finance the construction work in case of ne cessity. Since that time all three have died.
 So far the building has progressed until the basement is completed and the first floor put down. The remaind- CT of the building will cost approxi- mately $7,O00, the pastor, Rev. G. C.. Eubanks, stated Friday, adding that he was unable to see where the mem bers would raise the necessary funds, but expressing confidence in the com pletion of the building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
H. M. DAUCHERTY CALLS WHEELER
 COMMON LIAR
Terms Methods Circus Like To Swell Door
 Receipts

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept 19.- United States Senator Burton K Wheeler of Motana, running mate of was termed a common liar" by liar ry M.. Daugherty, former attorney gen eral, in a statement given out here to- day, after a political address made here last night by Wheeler.
 Wheeler, in his address inveighed against the Ohio crowd" specifically mentioning persons and incidents.
 Speaking of the Senate investigation Daugherty's statement said:
 Hike most of his procured witnesses, Wheeler is just a common liar"
 Would Have All Hear Him
 "It would be fortunate if every voter could chear him." Daugherty continued. "All of them would know to what ex- tremes the reds and radicals will go because of their opposition to the in junction which kept the railfoads run ming and prevented the people of this country from starving and freezing"
 The statement said: Wheeler. has come and gone and Columbus still stands. He heralded his entrance into the state by camouflage statement about an imaginary suit to be insti- tuted against him. Either he was talk ing counsel with fears inspired by a guilty conscience, or circus-like he was advertising himself to increase the door receipts.
 The Common Sort
 "So far las know no one has any desire to mix with Wheeler, even in a lawsuit. The stench he has raised in his rotten inquisition with false asser- tions and hired witnesses, is too malo- dorous to invite company. Like most of his procured witnesses, Wheeler is just a common liar. > ''It would be fortunate if every voter could hear him. All then would know to what extremes the reds and radicals will 70 because of their opposition to the injunction which kept the railroads running and prevented the people of tbis country from starving and freez- ing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
DAWES DEFENDS IRRIGATION CHECK
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 deavored to look at the whole agricul- tural question in the same way as our expert committee at first viewed the complex and desperate situation of European industry, which was due to ability of politicians in the allied countries and Germany in the past to adjust conflicting demands. They had kept Europen in industrial chaos for five years as the politicians are now keeping the agricultural problem in chaos here.
 MT. Dawes reiterated some of the statements made in his Lincoln ad- dress, declaring there was a great dis parity in the earnings of the agricul- ttral and industrial populations of the country, that agricultural distress was general, that the agricultural and in dustrial clements of the country are inter-dependent, that the recent advance in agricultural prices was only a nat ural result of the law of supply and de- mand, that the cause of farm troubles were fundamental, that there was over production in many lines of agricul- tural products, and that the theory of cooperative marketing and distribu- tion is unquestionably sound, but in the operation of the principle involved many :srious difficulties have been en- cnuntesad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
COVERING CHECKS
 COTTON DECLINES
Prices Rally 100 To 13O From
 Weeks Lowest

NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-The selling movement which started in the cotton market immedia: :ely after the publica- tion of the governments report on cotton conditions and prospects as of September l, continued until the price of December contracts, touche 21. 17c in the market here Tuesday of this week. Covering became active enough to check the decine at this figur and there were rallies of 100 to 130 points from the lowest, with December deliver ies selling above 22.30c during today's trading.
 The recovery has been attributed largely to the strengthened technical position of the market and a feeling that it, had become oversold on the decline from recent high levels. Aside from that, however, a little more trade buying was reported as prices broke below that 21h cent level for Decem- Der deliveries and toward the end of this week there were indications of increasing nervousness in some quar- ters over the probable effects of con- tinued wet weather in the south. The latter was regarded as accounting partly for the relatively firm ruling of October during today's trading, as there were. reports from the south that shippers were finding it a little more difficult to fill their September com mitments, owing to delays in picking and the movement.
 There also were reports of a tendency toward a firmer basis for high grades owing to damage to the grade of open cotton by the rains, but there seemed to be conflict of opinion as to whether the September rainfall would reduce the size of the crop in bales or prompt sufficient development of late cot ton to offset any probable loss. The private mid-month crop reports pub lished up to the close of business on Friday suggested that there had been comparatively little change in yield indications. The eight private condi- ton figures issued ranged from 57 to 5S.6 and the indicated crop figures based on the official estimate of the acreages from 12,SO0,OO0 to 1926, 900 bales. The average of the condition re- ports was 57.5 and of the crop indica- tions about 100000 bales.
 The governments report scheduled for publication on Tuesday will show the condition ssof September 16 com pairing with a condition of 59.3 on Sep tember, and a crop indication on that date of 12,7S7.O00 bales.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
WORLD PLIERS
 REACH DALLAS
Escorting Plane Wrecked Shortly After Start
 From Muskogee.

DALLAS, Tex, Sept. 19.-Buffeted by head winds and occasional fur ries of rain during their entire 22o- mile trip from Muskogee, Okla, the American und-the-world fliers have completed the southward hop in their flight to the Pacific coast.
 Tb4 tAree planes settled upon Love field at f 20 Friday afternoon, end ing the flight which got under way at Muskogee at 12 PC. The flight across southern Oklahoma and into Texas was marred by an accident to an escortins plane. Lieutenant McHenerey. army flier from San Antonio. wrecked his plane in forced landing when his engine went dead shortly after the Muskogee take-off The plane was de- stroyed, but the airman escaped in jury.
 The aviators were guests of the city Friday night at banquet and theater party. The flight is expected to be re- sumed early Saturday, when the fliers will head for El Paso, 625 miles due west of Dallas.
 Local weather forecasts indicated good flying weather for the across Texas jump-the longest yet attempted since the fliers reappeared on the north American continent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
BRITISH APPROVE
 SOVIET WRANGEL
Armed Transport Plants
 Red Flag Upon Island
fBy Associated Press.)

MOSCOW, Sept. 19.-Soviet off cials express satisfaction over the suc- cess of the expedition of the armed transport Krasny Oktiabr (Red Octo- ber), in planting the red flag on wrangel island, off northern Siberia. taking formal possession in behalf Of the Soviet republic.
 They believe this action will settle the status of the island, which has been in dispute for more than half a century, rejecting the suggestion that final adjudication should be referred to the League of Nations with the dec laration that both historically and eth Nically the island belongs to Russia. They regard it as an important base for a wireless station and depot of sup plies in the event of war
 It now develops that Great Britain recognized Russia's right to the island in, the recent negotiations in London. The dispatch of the armed transport, bearing a company of infantry, immed- lately followed this agreement. Al though the Soviets have never had the opportunity of surveying and apprals- ing the resources of the island, the gov ernment Is prepared to lease it to Amer jeans or others for development, pro- vided Russia is given an adequate par ticipation in the revenues.
 A good part of Wrangel island is barren, but other portions produce ex- cellent fish and furs. It also has a certain potential value in the event of the laying of an inter-contitental railway between America and Asia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
TUGS SENT TO AID
 STRANDED VESSEL
Schooner Aground Off Norfolk
 With Ten Men Aboard

NORFOLK, Va, Sept. 19.-Rescue tugs were sent from here today to the assistance of the four-masted schooner Jacob W. Hook, stranded near Wolf Trap light with a crew of ten men aboard. The vessel, bound from Balti- more for Cuba with 9O7 tons of coal, was reported to have about six feet of water in her hold and to be leaking badly. She was fast on the bottom, however, and the crew was not thought to be in immediate danger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
ODD FELLOWS END
 CENTENNIAL MEET
Installation Is Final Ceremony
 At Jacksonville

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. 19.- Installation of the newly elected officers of the Independent Order of Odd Eel lows and the International Association of Rebekah assemblies, closed the .one hundredth annual session of the Soy ereign Grand lodge of the Odd Fellows order here today. The International Association of Rebekah assemblies meet Ing in conjunction with the Odd Fellows, also closed. Many of the visiting Odd Fellows already have departed for their homes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
Alabama Called Hauen
 For Rich Tax Dodgers

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Sept. 19.-Res- olutions dealing with recommends tions as to possible reductions of taxes and recommending abolishing dupli- cation of taxes by state and federal government were to be put before delegates of the National Tax asso- citation, the convention of which will be closed here this evening.
 Inheritance tax again furnished the principal subject of discussion in last nights meeting, while the speakers in the afternoon meeting dealt chief ly with proposed means to reduce the present tax burden. William Bailey, chairman of the board of equaization of Utah and president of the association, spoke on investiga-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20

tion of the expenditures by state and federal government, while Thomas W. Page, vice president of the organiza- tion, warned against the "ever-iu- creasing popularity of bond issues which he termed ''mortgaging the fu- ture of taxpayers and their children"
 Florida and Alabama were describ- ed as the haven of tax dodging mil lionaires" by Marks Graves, chair man of the New York state tax com mission. Due to the lack of inherit ance tax laws in these two states, he said, it was possible for the. personal property of moneyed men to escape taxation. He urged abolition of the federation inheritance tax.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
RAILROAD TO GO
 ON AUCTION BLOCK
$17,935,7O To Be Lowest Price For Denver & Rio Grande West

DENVER, Colo, Sept. 19.-Judge J. Foster Symes of the United States district court, today fixed $17 1885, TOO as the lowest price at which the Den yer and Rio Grande Western railroad will be sold
 The road must be disposed of at aSe- tion within not less than 38 days 0f more than 75 days from today under the courts order. Six and one-half million dollars of the amount must be in cash, the court ordered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
MAY SELL. STOCK
 OF GUANO CONCERN
w. D. Malone, Of DOthan, Seeks
 To Take Over Company

NEWARK, N. J., Sept. 19.-Judge Runyon in the United States district court here today directed creditors of the Virginia Carolina Chemical com pany to show cause, September %, why POO shares of stock of the Dothan Guano company of Dothan, Ala, should not be sold for $20,000.
 The order was obtained by counsel for the receivers, Arthur T. Vanderbilt of Newark, and Charles G. Wilson, president of the chemical company.
 It is said in the petition that w. D. Malone of Dothan, desires to purchase the stock. of the Alabama company now held by the chemical concern.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
RUTHENBERG SEEKS TO VOID CONVICTION
Was Found Guilty Under Michi-
 gan Anti.SyndicaIism Act

LANSING, Mich, Sept. 19.-Charles E. RuthenBerg, under conviction on a charge of violating the Michigan anti syndicalism act, today filed brief with the state supreme court, asking that his conviction be set aside.
 Ruthenberg, with 16 others, was ar rested when federal and local officers raided a convention of the communist party near Bridgeman, Berrien county, in August, 1922. Sixty others, alleged to have participated in the meeting, but who were not apprehended in the raid, were indicted with Ruthenberg and his companions. The list includes Will. liam z Foster, Rose Pastor Stokes, Ben Gitlow and others.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
ELECTRICITY KILLS
 FOUR FLORIDA MEN
Two Victims Of Live Wires And
 Two Of Lightning

TAMPA, Fla, Sept. 19.-Electricity took toll of four lives in South Florida during the last 24 hours. Herbert Pen nington, Tampa, was burned to death when he came in contact with a live wire while working on a switch in a local power station. Two negroes em- ployed at nursery near Barrow, south east of here, were killed by lightning. Dick Cundff, 26-year-old lineman, was instantly killed near Hains City when he came in contact with a heavily.