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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-09-26
WORLD" SAYS OIL
PROSPECTS GOOD
Wenatchee Newspaper Sees in Col
umbia Valley Chance For
Wealthy Development

The Wenatchee World has taken
+ q squint at the gas and oil situ-
alton in the Kennewick fields and
decided that it was worth editorial
comment. 1t also makes some in
teresting predictions about the Col
uinbia valley as a mineral basin.
Following is the article:
Gas and Oil
A Wichita, Kansas gas concern
has come into the lower part of
the Yakima valley and is now at
work laying pipes to conduct the
gas from the wells in Rattlesnake
the lower Yakima valley. The
possibilities of gas in this section
are interesting. Seven wells have
already been bored and all show
a good pressure Of natural gas.
In connection with the natural
gas there are of course possibili-
ties in the way of finding oil
in this section of the country.
There is steady slope from the
Rocky mountains westward to
the Columbia river and there are
no intervening uplifts to interfere
so if there is oil anywhere west
of the Rocky mountains it ought
to be found along the Columbia
valley. There are oil seepages in
the Okanogan valley. At one place
gas is coming out from the Col
umbia river.
Gas has been found on Quincy
Flat. 1t is also coming out Of wells
that have been dug in the canyon
back Of Wenatchee. There are evil
dences of. oil seepages at certain
points along the Columbia. In the
basement dug for the Cascadian
hotel, a dark oil was found UNDER
meath great rock where there
were ne cracks.
The piping Of natural gas in
Benton county to the different
towns along the lower part Of the
Yakima valley is Of more than
passing interest. It may lead the
way to future development of con-
sequence.-Wenatchee World.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-09-26
Delicious, Worm-Free,
Bringing High Prices

Delicious apples are being load
ed out this week. Compared with
the Jonathan crop, worms in the
Delicious variety are giving small
trouble. The yield this year is fair,
and bring top prices. Fancy is
selling for what extra fancy brot
last year, from So to $2.10. The
Three Rivers shippers expected
to have three carloads out by We'd
nesday night.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-09-26
Air Mail Time Changed

Effective September 10, the air
mail schedule was changed so that
the morning planes leave at 4:16
a. m, arriving at Spokane at 5:46
a. m, Portland at 6:15 am, Ta-
coma at 7:35 a. m. and Seattle at
1850 am. On the return trips the
planes arrive at 500 pm. An en-
ira plane arrives from Portland
each morning at 500 am.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-09-26

replacing the beginning courses
commercial arithmetic and pen
'Ala0lp and spelling, the newly
Ausurated junior business train
!S Course at the high school is
'fmg out well, according to
1ien c. Hodge, superintendent.
ihe function of this new sub
Is to introduce beginning stu
as to simple business routine,
Iaoiogy and the more out
Jung aspects that enter into
.uess management. It operates
: mding course, helping the
aent to discover at the first
sosr he has any liking or apti-
9 Ior that type of work.
nus is a pioneer course. It was
20 Some extent in California
year, and is now being tried
IN Seattle. The Kennewick
- a school is the first one east
as mountains to add it to its
.,eoia. The course is taught
V through practice. Each stu
a placed in the position Of the
aser OF a small business. He
n. 20 fill out orders, make out
Keep accounts, write and an
business correspondence, and
.u.sn. In this way he becomes
r with office routine, and
y !
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-09-26
TALKIEs OCTOBER 10
Fine Promises High Class Pictures
With Voice Apparatus

The arrival of the talkies in
Kennewick has been postponed un-
til October 13, but that opening
date has been assured by Lester
Fine, manager of the Liberty thea
ter. Western Electric apparatus will
be installed, making it possible to
show the finest type of voice pic
lures at this house, Fine said.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-09-26
FVO INJURED
| WHEN PLANE
| FALLS, BURNS
h,llett Sustains Splintered
Shine, Christensen Bruised;
Escape Considered Miracu-
Inns: To Get New Plane

/ Kennewick's airplane fell to the
,ound from a height of three
nndred feet last Friday evening
4 was totally destroyed by the
t,e which followed. In the ship at
4 4 time Of it's drop were w. E..
HLlett and Harold Christensen.
|poth escaped with their lives and
neither will be permanently injur-
n.
| Young Christensen was in the
Elots seat and was being instruct
N by Hallett, who occupied the
|hout cockpit with its dual con-
|u,ls. Christensen had made a
|Hsht and was returning to the
kdsN Too steep a bank on the turn
|uused the ship to side slip and
.fore Hallett could grab the con-
81 .
uls the ship started to spin.
Striking on one wing as the ship
rs beginning to respond, it nosed
ver and crashed. 1t Immediately
hught fire, but both passengers
6anaged to crawl out of the
reckage before the fire got to
e cockpits.
Hallett says he was over to the
= Of the front cockpit when he
= the ship start to slip, and be-
II he could get back into posi-
y to handle the controls, the
!Ep had fallen too close to the
band to permit him to right it,
b said another twenty-five feet
vuld have enabled him to avoid
v crash.
Except for cuts about the face,
smg Christensen, who was about
esdy to solo in his course, escap-
With no injuries beyond a sew
i shaking up. Hallett, however,
not fare so well. He is in the
linn hospital recovering from a
kwh Of cracked ribs, a splinter
nrtebrae, a badly cut eye and
ises from his feet to his neck.
1Fiators who are familiar with
aAr accidents state that they
in extremely fortunate young
Esn, for few have lived to relate
Ad experiences from a 300-foot
aa
Hallett is busy with plans to
I've another ship here to complete
Hs training of the class under
Instructions. Six of his students
ave made their solo flights and
rs anxious to complete their time
squired to obtain a pilots license
Ae rest Of the class is planning to
antinue the course.
The plane was covered by insur-
nee and George Hallett brought
8 adjuster down from Spokane
a cabin monoplane Tuesday to
nke settlement on the loss.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-09-26
TRENCH SILO
INSTALLED ON
LOCAL FARM
Lampson, Osborne Build New
Type of Feed Storage; Is
First of Kind in State; Cost
One-Half of Others

A trench silo, the first to be
built in the state, is being put in
this week by Lee M. Lampson and
]. v. Osborne on a piece Of land
on the Finley road. This silo has
been a success in North Dakota,
Arizona and California, where it
has been tried out.
II is built on the same principle
as d potato cellar, two-thifds Of it
being below the level of the
ground. Lampson is concretipg
both sides and bottom, though this
is not customary. The silo is 10
feet high, 10 feet wide, and 66 feet
long. The ensilage is fed out by
backing a wagon down the 30
foot runway that leads to the floor
level.
Most silos hold from 40 to go
tons. This one when completed will
have a capacity Of 106 tons The
outstanding advantage OF the
trench silo is its economy. 1t costs
less than half as much per ton
capacity as the ordinary circular,
above-ground silo. Lampson plans
to cover the top with straw which
has been run through the ensiIage
cutter.
Two cars Of sheep and probably
one car Of cattle will be shipped
in for winter feeding from this
silo. This type Of storage has prov
ed successful in North Dakota, and
Lampson is confident that it will
be equally so here.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-09-26
Radio Man Surprised

Sam Spittle received two sur
prises Wednesday afternoon. He
got Portland with his homemade
radio sending set, and his message
was caught by q friend, who ac-
cidently picked it up, and answer
ed 'Is that you, Sam?" He evi-
IDENTIFY recognized Spittle's style
of sending.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-09-26
woman's Club A Donor

The Woman's club was uninten-
tionally omitted from the list of
park benefit donors published re-
Gently. This club made their dona-
ton in May, and were the group
to give benches for the park.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-09-26
Scouts to Hold Court
of Honor Monday Night

A court of honor, the first of
this year, will be held for Boy
Scouts Monday, at 7:30 p. m. at
the Methodist church. Quite large
number of scouts are expected to
come before the court to be ex-
amined for merit badges.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-09-26
Party for Miss Ring

Miss Frances McManamoE en-
tertained with a bridge party on
Wednesday evening in honor Of
Miss Florence Ring. Honors went
to Miss Garbula Thompson and
Miss Dorothy Scott.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-09-26
Service at 8 O'clock

Church services at st. Joseph's
will be held at 8 o'clock Sunday
morning, September 20, the fifth
Sunday Of the month. Services at
White Bluffs will be at IL o'clock.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-09-26
Sand Blow is Seeded

Under the direction of the city,
the sand-blow situated between the
city park proper and the high
school is being seeded in. The road
adjoining is being graveled also.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-09-26
Waltonians to Meet

WditUliIdIis 10 Meet
ne Izaak Walton League will
vet Friday night at 8 p. m. in
Y city hall. All members are
ased to be present.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-09-26

Edgar 1or ms pu1V ne
The had 70 D
the
directions
mas
to indicate the
location of ftheonp 2
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1929-09-26

Horticulture Club Meets
The Horticulture club met Mon
day with Mrs. L. ]. Aldrich. Plans
were made for the years work.
The daily worker., 1929-05-08
Build Soviet Foreign
Trade in 5-Year Plan;
Grain Export to Grow

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., (By MaiD.
The five year plan of development
of foreign trade provides for ex-
ports amounting to seven million
roubles and imports to 6,200,O00,000
roubles for the whole period. The
export for 1928 is expected to
exceed the 1929 exports by 1916
per cent, while the imports are to
increase by 80 per cent. Accord
ing to the plan there is to be
favorable balance during the five
years of 800 million roubles, the ten
dency being towards a constant in
crease of the balance in favor Of the
U. S. S. R.
The plan anticipates considerable
development of the grain export
which will not, however, reach TIE
full pre-war volume even at the end
of the five year period. The prin-
cipal places in the exports are as
signed to lumber and oil.
The import plan provides for an
increase of the importation of ma
chinery and a slight decrease of the
importation of raw materials.
According to the five wear plan
upwards of a million roublcS ale to
be invested in the construction of
plants working for exports, such as
elevators, dairies, etc
The daily worker., 1929-05-08
HOOVER BLUFFS
ON arms NEE 7
Statement Falsifies the
Actual Facts
(Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
Gibson and the American delegation.
In relation to the American "equiv-
alent values" formula the Japanese
ambassador already indicated that
his delegation might have a counter
proposal when the question is again
discussed in the fall.
The British made their reserva-
tions to accepting the American pro-
posals by stating that the formula
cannot be considered as a proposal,
but only as a method of procedure,
and that they will withhold decision
until they get an actual proposal
from Washington.
In addition, there is the fact of
the denunciation of the actions of
the conference made by both Ger
many and the U.S.S.R. 1t is of
course entirely untrue that the
Americans ever made any proposals
to change the word "limit" to "re-
duce." Only in Gibson's opening
speech did ne use this term. This
use he later repudiated with his
vote against the Litvinov motion to
substitute "reduce" for the word
"limit" on the agenda.
The daily worker., 1929-05-08
Soviet Woolen Trust
Improves Production

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., (By MaiD
According to the Commercial
and Industrial Gazette" the Soviet
Wool Trust has succeeded in obtain
ing fine wool from coarse sheep. The
new method devised by the Wool
Trust yields as much as rs per cent
of fine wool from the wool of the
ordinary sheep.
Heretofore 80 per cent of merino
wool has been imported, in addition
to which Soviet Russia has for the
last three years imported three mil
lion roubles worth of breeding sheep.
There are about 120 million
coarse sheep in the U. S. S. R. and
if the success of the laboratory eX-
periments will be repeated on
larger scale, the prospects for the
development of the woolen industry
will immensely increase.
The daily worker., 1929-05-08
Mew Sh0b Committees Ezectimg
Delegates to Unity Contention

Preparations for the Trade
Union Unity Convention in the var
ious districts" is the title of a large
section of the latest issue of Labor
Unity, the official organ of the
Trade Union Educational League.
The convention is now only three
weeks away 1t will be held in
Cleveland, June IL. To it will come
representatives of the militant min
ers, needle trades, textile, shoe
workers, food workers and other
new unions, of locals in the old
unions, and lef5 wing groups, where
the workers are fighting both the
exploiting employers and the treach-
erous union bureaucrats.
Foster on Objectives.
The third of series of articles on
the conventions aims and organiza-
tion written by William z. Foster,
national secretary of the 7. U. E. L.,
appears in this issue. Its conclu-
sion states:
"The expanded and reorganized
7. U. E. L. emerging from the
Cleveland convention, will be a real
section of the Red International of
Labor Unions. 1t will be a fight
ing labor movement, waging war
on all the = misleaders of labor
whether they appear under such
open capitalistic guise as Green
and Woll, or attempt to hide them
selves under radical sounding
phrases as the socialist party and
the so-called Music group. Every
effort must be put forth to make
the T. U. E. L. convention a real
mobilization of all the best fighting
elements in the whole American
working class"
There will be fourth article next
week by Foster.
Actual results are reported from
many cities. In the Chicago district
organization work is going on in the
Northwestern railroad shops; IT'S
workers Joined the T. U. E. L. at a
mass meeting in the stockyards,
and shop committees are established
in Swifts and in Armours meat
packing plants. Mass meetings in
the Crane Harvester plant resulted
in a shop committee. The Western
Electric shop committee is fed
Grated body from all departments.
Leads Wayne Strike.
In Detroit district, where the T.
U. E. L. and the Auto Workers
Union lead strike of 500 workers
at the Graham Page plant, Wayne,
food workers and rubber workers
are also organizing, and at least SO
delegates will go to the Cleveland
convention.
Pittsburgh, besides being the CEN
ter of the National Miners Union,
which has endorsed the convention.
will get representation from the un-
organized miners in West Virginia
to go. Mill committees are organ
lied in. the McKeesport Tin Plate
plant, the Ambridge Seamless Tube
Company factories, the Cannons-
burg Standard Tin Plate, and the
Westinghouse plants. T. U. E. L..
The daily worker., 1929-05-08

tailors, hod carriers, food workers
will be represented.
A delegation of seven is being ar
ranged for from Bethlehem steel
and textile plants. Fifty new mem
bers have Joined one shop commit
tee in Philadelphia.
Chester Represented.
In Chester and Wilmington, dele
cations representing shop commit
tees in the Ford plant, the Sun Ship
yard and Baldwin Locomotive work
ers will go to Cleveland. Shop com
mittees have been working for two
months in the Irving Textile Mill
and the Viscose Company. Chester
and Wilmington will send nine dele
gates to Cleveland.
In New York there is much ac-
tivity. Labor Unity prints state
ment from the local T. U. E. L.:
"The Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union, the Shoe Workers
Union, the Hotel, Restaurant and
Cafeteria Workers Union and the
Grocery Clerks Union are arrang-
ing for shop delegate conferences
to elect delegates to Cleveland and
to the New York Conference, which
will be held on May Is and 49,"
Textile Strikes.
Labor Unity's main article is on
the May Day celebrations. 1t covers
all the news of the week, running
q special column: "Sidelights on the
Southern Textile Strikes" and con-
tinues publication of international
in Strike Strategy"
The book review this week is by
Gertrude Mueller on Labor and
Silk" by Grace Hutchins, volume
full of facts about this angle of the
textile struggle.
With original pictures of the Gas
tonia strike, movie reviews and edi-
torials, Labor Unity is very read
able paper, and as the special source
of information on the Unity Con-
vention called by the T. U. E. L.,
must be circulated by all class con-
scious workers.
The daily worker., 1929-05-08
MONDAY, DATE
SET BY BOSSES,
is DISRECARDED
EmployersPreferProfit
to Safety of Workers

HAVRE. France, May Defy
ing the ultimatum of the employers
and the local government here that
the 1000 dockworkers who came out
on strike last week must go back to
work or they would be permanently
fired from their jobs and driven
from the vicinity, with a blacklist
against them, the strikers continued
today to stop all movement of
freight.
Yesterday was the deadline set
en- the contemptuous ultimatum ad-
dressed to the strikers by the bosses,
and posted under police protection
about the working class part of
town, The strikers treated the at
tempt at intimidation with the same
or more contempt, and not man
appeared yesterday or today to work
cargo on the docks of this, one of
the largest ports in France.
The strikers are out against the
dangerous and difficult conditions
maintained on the Havre wharves.
The stevedore bosses and stevedor-
ing employers have found it more
profitable to overwork and kill their
employees than to make the condi-
tions better and provide real facili-
ties for moving freight. The work
ers have called halt to their policy.
If the present situation continues
the strike will spread to other ports.
The daily worker., 1929-05-08
REBEL PAYROLL
FOUND ON ATECA
Clerical Group Was
Escaping With Loot

Among the papers found yester-
day in possession of Salvador Ateca
one of four men arrested here Sat
urday while preparing to leave with
S750,000 in cash and securities, was
an undated payroll for the army CT
General Escobar, one of the Mex.
can "putchists," who tried to seize
power for the Catholic church by
purely military methods and with
out popular mass support.
The Mexican government consul
general here announced that the
Bank of Mexico will prefer charges
against Ateca and his companions
and demand the return Of the funds
which they claim were seized ty
General Escobar from some of its
branch banks.
Gambler and Other Things.
Friends of Ateca trying to explain
the sources of this money in sub
sanitation of the claims that it is
his own, said he amassed a fortune
of $3,OOOOOO in Mexico in a few
years. He held gambling and slot
machine concessions fol two years
during the administration of Gen
eral Marcelo Caraveo as governor Of
Chihuahua and also during the re-
gime of Caraveo as military com
mander. In addition to his gambling
interests they said that Ateca was
the principal automobile dealer in
Chihuahua. He also reaped big
profits from silver mines owned by
General Caraveo and himself. These
mines they said have now been
seized by the Mexican government.
Agent For Someone.
This story sounds extremely un-
convincing since Ateca has been in
Mexico only few years.
Mixed up with Ateca are w. H.
Fryer, a former assistant United
States attorney at Ell Paso and Rus
sell B. Matthews, assistant U. S.
director of immigration at Ell Paso.
1t is charged that these two men
were aiding the Mexicans to escape.
The daily worker., 1929-05-08
Increase Production
Of Peat in u. S. S. r.

MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., (By MaiD.
During 1928 total of rs million
tons of peat was produced in the
U.S.S.R. This is As times as much
as was produced in 1914.
The methods employed in the pro-
duction of peat have greatly prog
ressed since pre-war days. Thus in
1928, 62 per cent of the entire pea.
output was produced by the means
of elevators, 14.4 per cent by hy-
draulic methods, 10 per cent by
baggers, while the share of cut peat
amounted to PIT per cent.
The five-year plan provides for
the doubling of the peat output.
The daily worker., 1929-05-08
Hughes Son Solicitor
General of U.s.; Father
Aids I.R.T. Fare Steal

WASHINGTON, May 7. = Ap-
pointment of Charles Evans Hughes.
Jr., to be solicitor general Of the
United States was announced at the
White House. Hughes, son of the
former secretary of state, is a law
partner in his fathers firm.
Hughes will fill the post left va
cant when Attorney General William
D. Mitchell was named to the cab
met.
His more famous father is now
the chief attorney for the Inter
borough Rapid Transit Co., of New
York, and is fighting hard to raise
subway and elevated fares to seven
cents.
Equal Pay for Equal Work,
The daily worker., 1929-05-08
bolivia FIRES
ON 0NPARAGUAYANS
U. S. Imperialism Out
for Oil Fields

ASUNCION, Paraguay, May =
British-American antagonisms in
Paraguay were again reflected in
the firing of a Bolivian military
patrol upon small Paraguayan
troop detachment operating in the
of the Vanguardia
fortress. The conflict has it's origin
in the struggle of the two imperial
list powers for the newly discovered
oil fields in Chaco. The Bolivians
who are almost entirely under the
domination of the Americans are
the aggressiveness of Wall
Street in Latin America and taking
the offensive against Paraguay
which is flirting with the British.
The daily worker., 1929-05-08
The Routine of Prison Life; Jim Thompson
Finds the Boss Unpopular Everywhere; the
Prisoners Cheer When the "Wild Cat'
Shows An Escape

HayOod after telling of his leading the strikes of the
Western Federation of Miners the IWW and many
dents of the class struggle during the quarter of century he
Nth in labor relates hoW
great Red raids the country during the ord and ho1c
he placed Chicago ediom along h hundred
other LW relates the history that
and hoW the he sentenced to 90
federal pentenuy taken LeavenUorh In the last
he told arrUnq being dressed IN NoV
yen1in0
The daily worker., 1929-05-08

The cells small. In the in which Los
sieff and were confined for nearly a year I could
stand with my shoulder against wall and with
outstretched could touch the other wall with the
tips of my fingers. 1t was about 10 feet long
slept the upper bunk.
At o'clock at night taps sounded by
buger and the lights turned out In the morn
ing we were aroused at $50 with the bugler's notes
of revee. At noon hour we were lined up in long
ready to go into the dining room when
surprised with the music of a brass band. We
The daily worker., 1929-05-08
STONE-MASONS STRIKE.

AUCKLAND, N. T., (By MaiD -
Stone-masons working for Hanford
and Mills struck when a worker who
rebelled against the speed-up was
fired. Recently man-killing stone
dressing machines were introduced.
The daily worker., 1929-05-08
JOIN PROTEST STRIKE

LEIPZIG, Germany, May T.
Workers here will join the protest
strike against Berlin police brutal
ity tomorrow. Police in Duisburg
entered the Red Front Fighters
hall and stole the banners and rec
ords. The Communist paper Tri-
bune in Magdeburg was suppressed
for three weeks.