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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-12
CHARGES WIFE
BURIED BABY
ALIVE
Woman viii Be Tried for At
tempted Murder-Guarded
in Hospital
BY international News Service.

TOMS RIVER, N. j., Sept. 12.-
Mrs. Bella Saunders, who, accord.
ing to the story told Prosecutor
w. H.. Jaynes, of Ocean county, by
her husband, attempted to kill her
newly-born baby by burying it alive
In the woods near her home, will
be tried for attempted murder as
soon as she is able to leave the
Paul Kimball Hospital in Lakewood.
officials here said today.
In the meantime, Sheriff Joseph
L. Holman's office has sent Off
GERS to the Saunders home in the
bleak and desolate country on the
edge of Barnegat Bay to search for
the bodies of three other infants
the husband thinks his wife. also
buried alive, according to the story
told officials.
A special deputy sheriff has been
detailed to guard the woman In the
hospital although she has not yet
formally been arrested.
Eugene J. Saunders, the husband.
told Prosecutor Jayne. that he was
suspicious of his wife before on
three previous occasions when she
was expected to give birth to a
child she disappeared mysteriously.
This time, he said, he watched her
closely and after the birth of her
child, unattended she wrapped it in
bundle, went to the woods and
left it covered up with branches
and leaves.
The baby, which was taken to
the hospital with the mother, is
expected to live.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-12
COOLIDGE BIDS
PUBLIC HEED.
FIRE PERILS
President Sets Aside October
9 as Prevention Day-cites
Losses in v. S.

President Coolidge today issued a
proclamation designating Thursday,
October 8 as National Fire Pre-
vention Day.
This will mark the. fifty-first an
niversary of the great Chicago fire.
Appealing directly to public off
Gals, civic organizations and news
papers, President Coolidge urged
that the day be observed with
impressive activities in our schools.
homes and essential establishments"
THE preservation Of Thousands
of lives and valuable prop .rty il
a task worthy of our constant en-
deavors and wholesome co-opera-
tion," the President said.
Although gratifying efforts are
being made to lengthen the lives of
our citizens and to conserve our
store Of national re.
sources, the nations annual loss
in life and property due to fire
continues to surpass that Of any
other. country"
at is reported that fifteen thou
sand American lives and property
valued at $500 900 900 were lost in
fires during 1923. The problem OF
combating this stupendous waste
is OF national Importance.
IF 1t is to be diminished a spe.
cial effort must be made to edu.
cate the public mind and con-
science to the necessity Of improv-
ing building construction, increas.
ing protective equipment and fos.
tering a spirit Of national careful.
ness"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-12
THOUSAND b. S. TRACTORS
ARE SHIPPED TO RUSSIA

NEW YORK. Sept. 12.-One thou.
sand tractors and other agricultural
implements aggregating over 5000
tons and valued at about a million
dollars have been ordered by the
Soviet Government for distribution
in those parts of Russia where the
consequences of the recurring
droughts are aggravated by prim-
tive methods of tilling the soil.
This is one of the largest ship
ments. of American tractors des-
tined for Russia.
The purchase was effected through
the Anrtorg Trading Corporation,
the sole agent in this country Of
the Russian State Import and Ex-
port Bureau.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-12
U. S. INHABITED $4,000
YEARS AGO, SAYS SAVANT

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. 49,
Fossil forms recently unearthed in
this, country indicate the United
States was inhabited $4,000 years
ago, Doctor George B. Gordon, of
the University of Pennsylvania MI
scum, claims.
Recent discoveries In the section
OF the Middle West running from
st. Louis northward to the Great
Lakes, show that people in ancient
times had started several cities.
These cities were laid out somewhat
like those of the present day, ex-
cept that there was virtually half
q mile between houses. OF course,
the houses have crumbled, but the
excavators found traces that such
cities existed" Doctor Gordon said.
An animal that bears a marked
resemblance to the horse of the
present day was also common in
that period, NE believed. This ami.
NAL. however, had unusually long,
thick hair.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-12
HAWKER's REMARKS ON
UTAH NOT APPRECIATED

OGDEN, Utah. Sept. TT
might as well be sitting in a
graveyard as to try to sell any.
thing in this hick town." yelled
Harry Wilson, a street salesman
of Salt Lake City, here when he
was unable to make any sales
after a long spiel. Several other
uncomplimen.aIy terms accom-.
panied the statement which did not
make a hit with several Ogden
ladies near.
An Ogden policeman didn't like
1t, either.
And an Ogden Judge didn't like it,
either.
Hence Wilson is enjoying sixty
days in jail instead of the grave
yard in lieu of see fine he was
unable to pay.
make for war, and because their
tolerance and humanity mean peacs
with all the world"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-12
DEFENSE DAY, IS
DEFINED BY
WOMEN
Progressiyes Say Safety OF
Nation Calls for New
Deal In Politics

Genuine defense, both against ag-
gression from without and the foes
within, can be obtained only by a
new deal in politics, declares a De-
Tense Day statement issued today
by the executive committee of the
Women's Division Of the La Fol-
lette-Wheeler Progressive campaign.
The committee members are Mrs.
Mabel c. Costigan, chairman; Mrs.
Glenn E. Plumb, Mrs. Basil M.
Manly, Miss Ethel M. Smith, Miss
Isabelle Kendig, Mrs. Gertrude
Bischoff, Mrs. ellison Gardner, Mrs.
Sally Burch, and Mrs. George Odell.
. Among the one hundred members
of the Women's National Committee
campaigning for La Toilette are
Miss Jane Adams, Chicago; Mrs.
Frances c. Axtell, Washington; D.
c.; Miss Alice Stone Blackwell,
Massachusetts; Mrs. Harriet Stanton
Blatch, New York; Mrs. Alfred
Brandeis, Kentucky; Miss Hennie
Buell., Michigan; Miss Fannie Cohn
and Miss Mary e. Drier, New York;
Miss IONA Gale, Wisconsin; Mrs.
Elizabeth r. Hapgood, Miss Helen
Keller, Mrs. Florence Kelley and
Mrs. Mary Knoblauch, New York;
Mrs. Elizabeth Kent, California;
Miss Caroline F. Lexow, New Jer-
sey; Mrs. Fremont Older. California;
Mrs. Bertha Hale White, Illinois;
Miss Ellen Scripps and Miss Elsie
Robinson, California.
Text Of Statement.
The statement follows:
Defense Day, to most citizens,
carries the implication Of provision
II protection from enemies from
without, those foreign nations,
whichever they may be, that would
jespoil US.
ITO the progressive women Of
America. the home guard of the
nation, Defense Day conveys a more
practical need-that Of protection
rom attacks from within.
"The women Of the nation know
that the most insidious foes are the
traitors in ones own household.
The foreign enemy is the obvious
one. He can be guarded against,
but the traitors at home who sap
the integrity and the effectiveness
of the institutions upon which the
very life of the nation itself de-
ponds. are the foes against whom
the women of America seek defense.
I'VE are at peace with all the
world. The patriotism that is
needed today in America is thar pa
triotism which will face the shot
and shell of ridicule, libel. and mis-
representation; patriotism that will
face political death, IL need be, to
defend the nation against The Falls,
the Daughertys, and the Forbeses,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-12


Leadership Needed.
I'VE need leadership that is not
afraid to tackle corruption In high
places, that will overcome indif.
ference and root out inefficiency-
inspiring leadership of an uncom.
mon sort.
Our first line of defense lies in
our own institutions. Unless thew
are founded on the highest prin.
ciples all else fails.
But the women Of America see
beyond the domestic need of the
moment. They, see also that the
strongest defense against war is
the creation OF a Government which
can insure peace.
Speaking before the American
Chemical Society now in session in
Ithaca, N. r, Doctor Leo Hendrix
Backland, president OF the society,
predicted a future war from which
there Will be no refuge from death
and torture. and he blamed the last
war on the ignorance Of the mill.
tarists and politicians.
The same politicians who were
In power before the last war are
asking to be returned in power ia
America today.
In Europe, nations are Turning
out old-time diplomacy and policies
ana creating new and liberal govarr.
ments. They are the hope Of the
world for peace.
Women In America are turning
to the progressive movement under
the leadership Of La Toilette and
wheeler because they see in It the
hope OF a new deal. They know
1t means divorce from the control
or Government Of the great oil in.
terests and iron and steel manu-
facturers and the munition makers
whose profits in foreign ventures
are the continual menace to the
peace Of the nation.
Women know that progressive
governments run to arbitration AMI
Cancellation and not to war as a
means OF settling international dis
putes.
They know that La Toilette and
Wheeler rate humanity above prop
erty.
Their records show them against
the imperialism that leads to op-
preston and war in favor Of that
tolerance in human and govern
mental relations that makes tor
peace.
THE election of La Toilette and
Wheeler appeals to the women of
the country because they will clean
out the traitors at home, because
they will break the hold on govern
ment by those special interests that
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-12
Spain Is Facing Civil
War With Army
Divided

LONDON, Sept. 12.--Spain is
face to- face with civil war to-
day as result of continued re-
verses on the Moroccan battle
front, according to dispatches
received by the Daily Tele-
graph. a
The Daily Telegraph corre-
spondent declares the latest ap-
peal to the nation from Gem
eral Primo Rivera to stand by
the directory was occasioned by
a division in the ranks of the
army.
The older generals demand a
continuation of the Moroccan
war to bitter finish, while
regimental officers and enlisted
men are demanding withdrawal
from Africa, adding:
(which ever way the direc-
tory decides, it is bound to re-
suit in civil war all over SPAIN"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-12
.An-American Team
Announced
Tomorrow

Skillet Finn, conductor Of
The Washington Times con-
test to select an all-American
baseball team, will announce
the results Of the contest in
this paper tomorrow.
Babe Ruth's all-Americarl
team, the standard by which
all applicants are judged, will
be published then exclusively
in this newspaper.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-06-26

Miss Florida Chime had q very
Peasant surprise last Wednesday
wnen the members of the Young Peo-
pies Bible class same to bid her God
Peed on leaving for Portland. Mrs.
homer Franks gave her a lovely box
Oh stationery. Luncheon was served
ana very pleasant evening spent,
we all extend our best wishes To
Florida in her new home.
Mrs. George Schnell left Sunday
Tor Spokane to take care of her sis
Ter who met with a severe accident
IN an automobile wreck.
Mrs. Cunningham had a telegram
last week to come at once to her son
IN Los Angeles, California as he was
seriously ill. -
The Grange will hold its regular
meeting in the assembly room Friday
June 9th. Burbank friends have ac-
cepted an invitation to that meeting
and it is hoped that there will be q
good attendance. Ladies please bring
cake. Ice cream will be served.
The Ladies Aid met at the home
OF Mrs. w. Cochran Wednesday with
a good attendance. After the business
meeting a very delicious luncheon
was served by the ladies in waiting.
We regret very much to hear Of
the illness of Imogene Rorick. She
had pneumnoia following the Flu in
April and is still confined to her bed.
Mrs. d. Bennett is slowly recover
ing from her illness but still confined
to the house. We hope she will soon
be quite well. 49,. .....
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-06-26

tween the peoples signed contract
with the committee and the commit
tees contract with the Chautauqua
association, is that the latter is a Leg
ally enforceable instrument and the
former is not, or at least no effort
Will be made to legally enforce it.
Morally the one is just as obligatory
as the other. .a
Members Of the Business Girls
club, who are conducting the ticket
sale, report that not more than fifty
per cent of those who signed the
pledges are taking the tickets. Some
Of these people, doubtless would be
highly offended were it insinuated
that their word was not as good as
their bond, yet they lightly break,
their word and repudiate their sign
ed pledge.
We fully appreciate the fact that
they are hard-up. The fact that this
year, they might be hard-up was the
very reason they were asked last year
to give their written promise to buy
tickets. The fact that folks as in
dividuals and communities as whole
do get hard-up is the thing which
renders Chautauqua guarantee nee
essary. Members Of the local COM
mittee are hard-up but that fact does
not render their signed pledge a
scrap of paper to be torn up and
repudiated at will. They are hard
up but if enough tickets are not sold
to meet the guarantee they will have
to dig up. And if they do have to
dig up to meet. deficit because of
the failure of the larger number of
people to keep their promise it will
be a rotten shame and will probably
be the end Of Chautauqua in Kenne-
wick. And it should be the end. A
few men should not be made the goat
for community that breaks its word.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-06-26

public utterances he has emphasized
his plain talk with expressions OF
mild profanity, which most politicians
would reserve for private converse.
ton only, has led some partizan cri.
tics to write him down as a sort OF
rough-neck.
While Dawes is dynamic, and force
full to the extreme, there is an in
tensely human side to his character
In memory of his son, Rufus, Gene.
raj Dawes erected and operates the
Rufus F. Dawes Hotel for Destitute
Men, in Chicago. There is also no.
tel of like character in Boston. II
might be mentioned that clean, com
Portable beds in these places can be
obtained for and 10 cents and ex-
cellent meals are served at the cost
of z cents each, and no man who is
con his uppers" is ever permitted to
feel that he is the recipient of char
ity. A similar institution was found
ed by Dawes for women. fa
With Coolidge in the White House
and Dawes as vice-president, the peo-
pie of the United States can go to
bed at night with the feeling that
these two men will see that none OF
their money is wasted and that taxes
will be brought to as low a point as
it is humanity possible to bring them.
Even many democrats are forced to
admit that it is a good, honest, sens
IDLE, business-lilde team that the re-
publicans have put up to be voted for
in November. .-.s5.. Isl
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-06-26
ABOUT PLEDGES

WHEN IS a pledge not a pledge I?
w This question is furnishing rath-
!. interesting study to members of
,he Kennewick Chautauqua commit
tee.
From the standpoint of right, and
,.iruess, and as moral obligation
,,embers Of the committee regard the
,iaued pledges for the purchase of
,eason tickets just as binding as the
.ommittee's signed pledge to the
Chautauqua association. Evidently
.ome Of those who signed up for sea-
,on tickets last year do not so regard
their pledge.
Being q Chautauqua committeeman
q no fun and no honor. It means
ycrk and worry and responsibility.
Members of the committee know this
and last year they put the question
,uuarely up to the people in attend
ance the last evening. They said to
The people: IF you want Chautauqua
rext year and are willing to put your
name to a pledge that next year you
v1l buy season tickets, We are will
mg to become your sponsors with Ell
lison-W White. Pledge blanks were
upon the peoples signed guarantee a
passed around. Many signed them and
few men became guarantors to Eli
son-White. The only difference be-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-06-26
BURN THE WEEDS
before the summer is over

LECTURE the SUMMER Is oser tAe
- city would be money ahead to
Systematically burn the dried weeds
on all vacant lots in the corporate
limits. The weed fire on Second
street Saturday is only the forerun-
ner, of other runs trait will have to
be made by the fire department.
The cost of calling the fire depart
ment out once will pay for burning
a lot of weeds under the direction OF
the street department. Not only will
it be cheaper to burn the weeds now
but failure to do so means inviting
a disastrous fire. Not only this but
if for no other reason the vacant
places should be cleared up to i'm
prove the appearance of the town.
Look around and see if you do not
agree that the place has rather a
gone-to-seed appearance. Let's clean
nm
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-06-26
NO MORE FENCE POST POLITICS

NO MORE FENCE POST POLITICS
THE editor Of the Courier-Reporter
long ago convinced himself that if
placarding the roadsides with ones
photograph is an essential part of
a successful campaign, he would new
er be elected to any office. To have
his likeness blazoned from every tel
ephone and light pole, tree and stump
and shack along the routes of high
way travel, may be good advertising
for the candidate but it is a form of
advertising that has never appealed
to this editor. tsf
The state highway department
doesn't believe it is good advertising
either.
Early in the year the state highway
committee began general cleanup
movement of all advertising, even
road signs, along the highways in
the states own system. 1t was an
nounced as a definite policy that no
further advertising on the states
right of way would be permitted.
This order. it is officially explain
ed. applies to political candidates
placards, as we'll as to all other sorts
of advertising.
Highway maintenance crews are or
dared to tear down all advertising
matter and they probably will strip
away any campaign cards nailed to
trees or fence posts.
On most state highways automo-
bile traffic moves at the rate OF about
% miles an hour and travellers can
not read the campaign placards any
wav. And they look bad, too.
While the edict applies only to
state highways as the state depart
ment has no jurisdiction over the
county roads, the county commission
ers should follow the states example
and abolish the advertising signs
from the rights of way Of county
roads. ~.
This goes for Chautauqua too. on-
-, +b;s wear the editor of this paper
s.s boon a member of the local Chau-
tauqua advertising committee. Every ;
,e.r Chautauqua sends along COLI
lection of roadside signs and every
rsar the editor has dutifully disfig-
nod the countryside with them. Last
wear wear he took solemn vow that ne
Nd tackled up his last Chautauqua
sion He's going to keep that vow.
Chautauqua makes strong claim as
an institution of uplift and upbuiid-
ing and it can strengthen that claim
nv discarding practice which is be-
inc discontinued by the largest ana
most successful advertisers, denounc-
ed by most civic and community-ouild-
ING organizations and which has been
outlawed by the state. s-e
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-06-26
CALL FOR IRRIGATION
DISTRICT BOND

/ hereby call for payment on July
LIST, 1924, at the office of the County
Treasurer, Prosser, Washington, Bond
No. 119, Grandview Irrigation Dis
trict Local Improvement District No
/.
Interest on the above named Bond
will cease July 18th, 1924, If not pre-
viously paid.
Dated at rosser, Washington this
10Th day of June. 1924.
Ivan Macy, Treasurer, Benton
County, Washington. 6:26
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HEDGES NOTES
= = = = . *% - = =

Mrs. George Schnell went to Spo-
kane last week to take care Of her
sister who. was injured in an auto
mobile accident.
C. O. Larson who has been employ
ed in the u. P. office here on bridge
work for past two years, left Sunday
night for Cedar City, Utah where he
will take up his work with the same
company.
The usual meeting of Grange will
be in the assembly room on Friday
evening when our Burbank friends
have accepted an invitation to be
present that evening.
Mrs. Ackridge was q visitor at
the Carl Williams home Sunday.
Mr.. McAlvaine came home from
Yakima last week where he had been
visiting with his daughter Mrs. Nc
Alister.
Mrs. C. E. Cox went to Cosmopolis
last week and will make an extended
visit with her sisters and brother,
Mrs. Rhodes who had been visiting
at the Cox home went as far as Ia
coma with her en- route to Seattle,
where she is attending summer
school.
Mrs. s. Purdy returned home last
week from Kansas where she had
been visiting her mother. Mrs. Purdy
stopped for the week end with her
son and his wife at Pendleten.
Mrs. Volland and Mrs. Perkins were
visitors at Mrs. Altrogge's Thurs
day.
While out on horseback last week
Mr.. Rorick's horse stumbled and
threw him, making a deep cut in the
leg below the knee and causing other
bruises.
Miss Imogene Rorick is still in bed,
the result of flu and pneumonia. Inn
ogent has been in bed since May 2.
Mr.. ard Mrs. Livingstone visited
Miss Irene Sellick at her chicken
ranch Sunday.
Mrs. Carl Williams mother Mrs.
Zolber and party who had been to
Yakima for the week to attend the
convention, visited here Sunday on
their way back to Craigmont, Idaho.
Asa Purdy and Earl Baldwin were
home for the week end from Winona.
The Ladies Aid met at the home Of
Mrs. w. L. Cochran Wednesday. Az
ter the business meeting, cake and
ice cream were served by the ladies
in waiting.
Owing to the Rev. Geiszler having
an operation at F,,sco last week, Rev.
Calender of Kennewick took charge
of the morning service Sunday. The
address was much appreciated by the
congregation as was also solo sung
by Miss Helen Hickman.
Quite number went to the Wood
man picnic at Kennewick Sunday,
from this community and report an
excellent time.
Mrs. C.. E. Cox left Friday night
for Cosmopolis to visit with her sis
ter. Mrs. Cox was accompanied by
Mrs. Rhodes as far as Tacoma.
Mrs. Rhodes was visiting with Mrs.
Cox last week and went to Seattle to
summer school.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-06-26
DAWES is HUMAN

GENERAL Charles G. Dawes, re-
" nublican vice presidential nomi-
nee, hits hard. thinks soundly' SPEAKS
n,o;nlv. but he is by no means hard
,sa;,ad The fact that in some OF his
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1924-06-26
HOW THEY Rat

Here's the way members of Ken
newick's baseball team line up in the
batting averages: ~ "g#
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