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The Washington times., 1929-12-16
Mystery Girls Dad
DiscIOses Her Pact;
Saws She Wed at II

FRESNO, Calf, Dec. l6.-FoT
more than 30 years the life Of
Rev. George w. Brewster has
been a constant striving toward
two goals. One the ministering
to First Christian Church congre-
cations he served: the other .
proper rearing and educating Of
his daughter, Antionette, an only
child.
The futility Of his efforts to
guide Wayward daughter be
came evident this week In Wash
|ington, D. c.. when authorities
there identified 22-year-old
mystery girl" as Brewster's
daughter.
Today Brewster told the story
Of his vain effort to prevent her
straying from the narrow path to
which he has aided thousands Of
others to confirm themselves.
Fifteen years ago, while Brew
ster was pastor Of O small church
In q Northern California town, he
and the first Mrs. Brewster were
divorced and their daughter was
for the next several years In Gus
tody Of her mother.
When Antoinette reached the
age Of 10, reports began coming
of her waywardneeS. He paid lit
tie heed to friends who told him
the girl was incorrigible. But 8
short time after she was appre-
hended on serious charge and
for some time was confined In q
State reforrnatory for girls at
Ventura. Released from there she
was later taken In custody and
sent to an asylum. Tt was thought
she was insane but examining
physicians said she was not, and
she was again at liberty.
Brewster said:
Objected TO Marriage
"About five years ago, when
my daughter was IL, she sud
denly informed me she was
going TO give up her school
work and marry Clarence Rug
les, Of Berkeley.
II objected, declaring that
her marriage would be without
my consent until she had fin.
ished her schooling. A brief
reply came informing me the
marriage had taken place and
the couple left for the East.
Il have not heard from her
since.
The Washington times., 1929-12-16
i6 FOLIO DREYFuS
BY JAMES L. KLGALLEN

BY JAMES u. klLNIALAEN
NEW YORK, Dec. 16 a.N.S.).-.
One Of Americas widely publ
cied InurdNr mySterie s-the
strangling Of Dot King, Broad
way butterfly may be re-opened
by hte New York police as a re-
suit Of information coming to
light in washington, .. G. in con-
nection with the investigation in
to the accidental death Of Mrs.
Aurelia Fisher Dreyfus.
Mrs. DreyfuS, herself, met a
tragic end under circumstances
almost as battling as befell her
friend, Dot King, whom she had
known In New York years ago.
Mrs. DreyfuS's unconscious body
was picked up on the concrete
boat landing Of the exclusive
Potomac boat club in washington
early on th emorning of October
20 last. A jazz orchestra was
grooming the strains Of Home
Sweet Home" She had either
faleln or had ben thrown from a
balcony.
KmOwn As Mystery Girl
Mrs. DreyfuS had been queS.
toned In the Dot King case al
most seven years ago. Her name.
however, had not been made pub
lie because OF the undesirable
publicity. She was known only
as the mysterious blonde" ia
the Dot King death riddle.
This new evidence is so com
pelling that Police Commissioner
Grover WhRlen and District At
torney Joab H. Banton were ex.
pected to reopen the Dot King
case.
Mrs Dreyfus companion on the
night she met her death injuries,
was Edmund McBrien, New York
broker. The Washington police
questioned him and pronounced
the case cidental death"
Strangely enough, McBrian, the
police of New York City recalled
today, was one Of the principal
witnesses in the. Dot King In.
vestigation Of almost seven years
ago.
Dot king strangied
Dot King was. strangIed in her
luxurious apartment at 44 West
Fifty-seventh ST., about 3 o'clock
On the morning Of March 16.
1928. A dazzling beauty, she had
several very wealthy friends, IN
cluding q Philadelphia million
aire, and also g secret lover, Al
bert e. Guimares. q agigoI0. He
specialized as dancing company
for unattached women.
Guimares Was vigorously drilled
BY the police. he denied he knew
anything Of the murder Of Miss
King. He said he had returned
to the hotel Che was stopping ct
the same hotel as the slain Crib ,
about 4 II, m. after having dined
with several men friends, includ-
ing McBrien. or "McBryan" as
the police here recorded the
name, and that he teIephoned
Dots room. GuimareS said he
got no answer, so he put In a
call VITA the noLel operator TO
be awakened at 8 a. N. and went
to sleep, the police fixed the time
0f the strangling at 3 a. m.
McBrien Supported Alibi
McBrien supported GuimareS'
alibi. He assured the police that
Guimares was telling the truth
when he said they had dined to-
gethre and that he GuimareS
returned to the hotel at 2 a. m,
remained overnight and had
breakfast next morning with Nc.
Brien and the mysterious
blonde"
Capt. Arthur Carey, head Of
the homicide bureau, told re
porterS McBrien was reluctant to
disclose the identity Of his girl
companion because she was mar.
xied and would be ruined socially.
The mysterious blonde" sub
stantiated McBrien's story htat
0uimares had breakfast with
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MYSTERY Still
. SHROUDS GIRL
-Tin4sn staff Photo
(continued From Page y

(ContInued From Rage ~
the daughter Of the Rev. George
w. Brewster, Of Selma, Calf.
Additional confirmation Of the
identity was given yesterday by
receipt 70 q telegram from her
mother, Mrs. Mable A. Brewster,
in which the mother sent the girl
her love and asked to be informed
Of her condition.
Since her brief rally yesterday,
no new light has been Shed On
the case. Capt. William Stott, OF
the Third precinct. did not ques-
ton the girl beyond asking her
name, as it was not thought Id
visable to put too severe strain
on her nervous condition by fur
ther questioning.
The Washington times., 1929-12-16
Crowd Laughs as Mice
Escape From Home
In Fire Hose

SHICKSTETrsNY, Pa, Dec. 16.
There are so few fires here that
mice built their nests in q reel
Of hose.
At . fire here q crowd was
amused by is or 20 mice scamp
ering away as the firemen un-
reeled the hose.
The Washington times., 1929-12-16
Party Guest Sought
m Teacher'S Death

ROCKFORD, H.. Dec. 16 I'm
81. - Authoritative information
placed in the hands Of police au-
thorities by close friends Of the
murdered Cordelia GUNNER
sheimer. language teacher. may
result in the arrest Of q Jealous
lover within a short time.
Statements by these friends re-
Vealed that the slain woman
gave q party only few hours
before her death.
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BANK STATEMENTS

washington Clearing House.
$4,000, ,561.24.
New York Clearing House ex-
change, $766, 900. 900.
New York Clearing House bal
ance. $191. .O00. 900.
Treasury balance, $53. Ill. $3.50. 20.
Customs receipts, $18.941,061.6 IS
The Washington times., 1929-12-16
MEET AT CHERRYDALE

CHERRYDALE, Dec. 16.-The
Parent Teacher Association Of the
Cherrydale School will meet to-
night in the schoolhouse at 8
o'clock. Miss Isabel Latimer. Of
the weekday. school Of religious
education, win speak.
The Washington times., 1929-12-16
CHAMBER MEETS

CLARENDON, Dec. 16.-The
Arlington District Council of Citi-
zens Association meets at 8 p. m,
tonight in the rooms Of the Ar.
lingtbn County Chamber Of Com
merce, Rees Building, Clarendon
The Washington times., 1929-12-16
HELD FOR MIND TEST

FouIt1 precinct police last
night removed Charles Hardison.
29. from his home in the 300
block Maryland Ave. s.. WI. to
Gallinger Hospital for treatment
for self poisoning They reported
that the poison was taken with
suicidal intent.
The Washington times., 1929-12-16
THIEVES TAKE CHANGE.

Gaining entrance to q gas sta
ton in the first block H st. N.
W.. by breaking the lock In the
front door, thieves early today
stole a Quantity Of change from
the caAh register. David D.
Walker hreported the theft to
police.
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little drink. Well SIR, can't just
explain what did happen next.
Don't it beat all how quick every
thing can change when a man be-
gins to do things he hadn't ought
to around an apple tree. remem-
Der sitting on the ground at the
foot of the tree with this innocent
looking pail between my knees
when down the row came q poor
frightened Jack rabbit with two
coyotes chasing it. The rabbit
ran right up to me and put ms
nose in the pail and after about
two swallows of this mysterious
LIQUID he sure lost his inferlorlty
complex. He turned around and
whipped the two coyotes and then
came for me. / don't know for
sure whether it was what had
drunk or what he had taken, but
some thing sure changed his ap-
pearance mighty quick. He looked
as big and ferocious as q cougar
with great over hanging teeth like
a saber-tooth tiger, pink fuzzy
skin, big cleaning eyes and long
sinuous tail with red light on the
end of it.
Needless to say I started to run
and he after me in hot pursuit.
Down through the orchard, knock
ing the fruit right and left. over
the fences, across the sage brush
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to the last paragraph, else nap
piness would have no meaning.
A worthwhile life is full Of val
lev and peaks. When you hit the
high spots and the low spots, the
reporter gets out his pencil. When
you roll along smoothly on the
plain nobody cares. Nobody need
care.
We are not here going into the
argument that springs up every
time one mentions the content OF
the misrepresentation an editor
give the people what they want
make them want what he gives
them? 1t is enough to say that no.
body is going to be hurt by clean
newspaper. no matter If certain
class of people continue to clamor
for their smut.
It's when we jolt out OF the rut
that news is made. just at present,
most of us seem to he travelling
on roads of the $4,000 jolts to the
mile" type, and the newspaper
simply reflects the condition OF
the highway.
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and smack into the ditch and on
and on until we arrived at the
highway.
Along comes Mr.. Truck and hits
me smack and knocks me about a
mile up the road and another hit
me on the other side and knocked
me back and forth, pound-pound-
You remember that time we had
that little celebration in Prosser
and you complained that there
were seven little red devils inside
your head, building a steel
bridge? Well, that's just how
felt, only / wasn't always getting
hit on the head.
Finally one car bit faster thar
the rest picked me up and landed
me right up on top of the power
line.
couldn't hang on but couldn't
fall off and back and forth / went
again, slam-bang into one pole
then to the other one. Back anc
forth for what seemed ages. In
fact l lost all passage of time.
thought | was doomed to go on fo,
ever, or at least until the rivers
all dried up and the power ceased
to flow over the wires. Then along
comes a big giant bird! Oh, q
great big bird. / won't try to des.
cribe him to you because if YOU
have never seen one-mere words
wouldn't mean anything and il
you have, it don't need any des.
cribing.
Well, he took me in his claws
and started flying away with me
Far, far away above the town
above the trees and the river, away
from home and friends and every
thing a man holds dear. sobered
up bit at the thoughts of being
carried away too far, so / slowly
and painfully climbed up his
great leg until 1 could grasp the
feathers of one wing and pull il
down SO as to make him fly in 6
circle. After while he tired Of
his sport and / let go and drop
ped myself in the river. When
came to, the boys were pouring
water in my face and wanted t.
know what had happened. The.
think to this day that fell off o.
my ladder.
So you see why it wasn't prac
ticable to poison the codling moth.
with cider.
LESLIE SMITE
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tropolis, Sunnyside, anent alleged
inclination to "out LA Los Ang-
eles."
I'm a indicative cuss, Ralph,
and this gives me a chance to even
few scores. Several times in the
past I've had to stand some pam
ing from up the valley, but its a
long lane that has no detour signs
so it's my turn now.
For some time I've had reason
TO smell a ghost. He has been a
very Elusive spectre. a Willo'-
the-Wisp, fitting ephemerally over
our fair valley always just out of
reach. At last I've nailed him down
hes real, Ralph, real, genuine,
material. He is "Soil Depletion"
EARNED out" has always had a
terrible significance for me. /
shudder at the prospect of an al
most deserted valley. Nothing left
but the slashings as is the case of
many former prosperous mill towns
mere shadows of their glory.
Don't faint, Boy. He hasn't got
those clammy hands on Kennewick
as yet. It's Sunnyside he is stalk
ing. I've got the proof. Little won
der she wants to cop our fields
for sheet anchor to wind'ard.
I've rather extensive acquaint-
ance both in and out of the valley.
Recently / talked with a man who
has lived in Sunnyside for some
years. He was looking for a new
location. / merely listened, putting
in an adroit question now and then
and won my point. My friend told
me that farms up there did not
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produce as they used 10. th.. =
alfalfa didn't produce as Il Ala 'e
the good old days; he showed =. y !
pantomime how the crops 0rer. !
a meagre twelve Of fifteen iDo,s
and then burst into bloom. ~
stated dogmatically that the -. -
was Harmed out" I believe ~. sOa
he was a farmer Of the old scboa,
one of those biological or ohnS''
logical or NEUROLOGICAL guy. ~, ~
farm largely with the aid !, " ~
moon and Poor Richards Alm,a ~
His type doesn't usually find ', ..
Niger in the wood pile, but usu. ny
blame their poor crops Outo l,as
and changing seasons. A
Oh, well-it's just too bad =.
suspected it. l had heard s =.
the upper valley was HAVING ,o,. a'
trouble with its creditors and ~.
mortgage foreclosures were No..
swamping the courts. Ny inform
ant didn't draw any lines and css.
the info" rather confidentiallv T,
don't wish to violate his confidsn,.
SO won't tell you direct. IN I'M,
suggest "a "nut-cracker' and Won
may solve it if it suits your fancy
1t won't be my fault IL Won A.
Here it is: Square %, multiply d.
result by 10 and again by 3. From
the final product extract the scuar.
root. The result l verify beIiev.
will be equal to all the simiIis,
heart aches in the lower valley.
Yours for the Kennewick On
Fields,
GEORGE E. SELucK
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All CLUB RESULTS

IF anyone doubts the value of
All club work, he should have
been present at the Achievement
banquet last Saturday. Remember
ing the boys and girls of a gem
Grafton ago, the contrast with the
modern farm boy and girl is aston
ishing. The awkwardness, painful
shyness and general foolish ap-
pearance that led to the vaude-
Vile Characterization of the "rube"
have disappeared, giving place to
quiet self-confidence. neat and mo-
dern clothing, and a general air
of competent modernity.
The 135 club members that gath
cred at the banquet showed strong
" the results of a conscious we'll
directed effort to bring up the
standards, not only of farm and
home products, but of farm people.
The growth of the soil is inn
portant, but it is far overshadowed
by the Importance of the growth
of him who tills the soil. 1t is in
its function of character-building
that the Al clubs do their best
work.
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APPLES AND APPLE SAUCE

APPLES AND APPLE SAUCE
OCTOBER 81 to November 2 is
~ National Apple Week, in con-
trast to the other 81 weeks OF the
year, which are devoted to apple
sauce. All balderdash aside, this
week is of particular interest to
Washington, since we produce one
third of the commercial apple crop
of the United States. Apples from
the Yakima valley are in great de-
mand throughout the country. Peo-
pie have learned that Washington
apples are good apples, backed by
a group of growers who put only
the best on the market.
National Apple Week is a good
advertisement, calling the atten.
ton of the public to the most YER
satile and healthy fruit grown
Whether an apple day actually
keeps the doctor away is question
we will leave to the medical pro-
fession to decide. Certainly it is
one fruit you can eat three times
day, between meals and before
going to bed with no i'll effects
providing the apples are not green
And then, apples are the source OF
applesauce, that lubricant which
makes the world go around.
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up FEATURES APPLES
ON THEIR DINERS

nrr;nc Nationar Apple. Week,
October 81 to November 6, the Pa
o;f;c Northwest apple will have
tbe place of honor on the menus
If Union Pacific System dining
cars. Apple pies, apple cobblers,
baked apples, apples in every del
ectable form conceivable will be
aplayed up" in the 125 dining
cars in service on the railroads
10000 miles of line. The Union
Pacific's employees, approximate
ly $4,000 in number have been
urged to observe apple week.
AS one of the Pacific North
VESTS leading products and on its
merits as delicious and health
building fruit, the apple deserves
to be boosted. National Apple week
has the backing of countless indi-
viduals and scores Of organizations
besides the International Apple
Shippers Association. Remember
the dates, Thursday, October 81
to Wednesday, November 6.
Many merchants thruout the en-
tire United States are calling at
tention to National Apple week by
attractive window displays. Among
the transportation companies the
Union Pacific has put apple dis
plays in the windows of its ticket
Offices in all of the larger cities
and towns.
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NEWS AND TROUBLE

NEWSPAPERS are crlticizeu oe
~ cause q large percentage OF
their news deals with the seamy
side of the garment of life, show
ing up all the clumsy knots and
patches. The front page stories
in all the daily papers this sum-
mer have dealt almost entirely
with accidents, murders, robberies,
political and martial quarrels. The
serene accounts of the amicatle
Med Hoover conference and
the Edison jubilee were exceptions
rather than the rule.
An observer of the modern press
is forced to admit that most news
is based on trouble, though it
seems that even a hasty glance at
the history of the world would
show that an absense of trouble
would be big news. Nevertheless,
trouble means conflict, and con-
fhct is not only a principal OF
growth but the surest attention
getter known to humanity.
This is not an apology for the
muck that cutters up the columns
of most of our newspapers. 1t is
simply an attempted explanation
of why newspaper cannot write
continuously or largely of serene
affairs, and be a newspaper. II
would be merely a handbill with
the words, October 81, and ALPS
we'll" You can write "and they
lived happily ever after" at the enc
of the story, but be sure that there
has been a rousing good fight w
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We're still humping along. When
are the business men of Kenne-
wick going to get together and de-
mand some street improvements
from the city council?
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Kennewick has an excellent OPP
portunity to make Los Angeles
look small-time. The southern city
city has lots of hot air, but we
have natural gas.
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We once knew a man who threat
ened to commit suicide. His ac-
quaintances looked so pleased at
the news that he saved his LIE
lust out of spite.
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Feminine gaspipe thugs are not
confined to Oakland. Many wo-
man has put man out of running
with her gassing around and pip
ing up.
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Out In the Sticks,
October %, 1929
Dear Ralph:
Perusing some back numbers of
the Courier Reporter / note some
grabbing by our sister near-me-
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If you find an old Ford half
way up your front steps and the
garbage cans parked up in a tree,
you'll know that Halloween has
been here.
& & &
EDITORS note: This couldn't be
much VERSE"
There was an old witch
With hickory switch
Who tried to scare our jim;
But Jimmy, he wiggled
And finally giggled
That such as her couldn't scare
him!
BY Fustian Traddlesnop, age
s. 1-8 years.
& & &
The Silken Sock
or
When Knighthood was in Flour
hv
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When KnighthoOd was in Flour
by
Desmond Derring
Peeping over the lofty bastion,
Hodrath Beamish, youngest son Of
Sir Godfrey Beamish, Earl OF
Whereford, espied the cleaning
cavalcade of Lady Detachable So
zurohlman winding its leisurely
way across the plain beneath the
castle walls. Tomorrow was to be
his wedding day, and Hodrath
eagerly awaited the coming Of
Lady Detachable, who would be his
bride. He had never seen her be-
fore, and his only idea of her he
had cleaned from her photograph
in patent coat-of-mail testimon-
ial in the Knights Gazette.
AS the leading horses approach
d the drawbridge, he Skinned down
the escutcheon to welcome the
guest. The lady was heavily yelled,
so he merely bowed low to her as
her eunuch handed to him the we'd
ding gift she had brought. He ran
to his room with the package and
tore it open hastily. In a teakwood
box, on purple satin cloth, lay q
cleaning silken sock. He gazed at
it in deep curiosity, and suddenly
whistled in his surprise. At the
first clear note, the sock leaped
out Of the box and began to caper
around on the floor as if human
foot animated its sheer silkenness
Hodrath stopped whistling to
stare in establishment, and as he
did SO, there came an ominous
rumble from the depths of the cas-
tie!
Ito be continued)
& & &
He-I've been places and seen
things.
.Him-That's nothing. I've been
things and seen places.
& & &
Native-What be you a-fishin'
for?
Pessimist--Salmon
Native-But they amt no sal
mon hereabouts.
Pessimist-- There aren't any
darn fish here at all, 30 may as
well fish for salmon as any other
blinking thing!
& & &
He calls it . poem because it
rhymes.
OF all the dirty deals!
He might as well call his inv .
Rolls Royce
Because it runs on wheels!
The Washington times., 1929-08-06
LISTEN WORLD!
SuOeM!
By Elsie Robinson

TIVE been doing a lot of sweating
lately. Clearing 20 acres OF wild
mountain land I've bought-rl1n
ming lines-putting in roads
proving - blazing trails-butlding
hridges-piping water from the
spring to the mess hall. And, as
mentioned before, sweating plenty.
Yes. 1 realize that sweat isn't
q subject for pretty conversation.
That's why I'm using 1t. We have
too much pretty living. There's
an unnatural Thickness about our
programs just as there Is about
our hides.
A human hide was never created
to be q skin, you love to touch. 1t
was. created to be a good sewerage
system. Its millions of sweating
pores carry off the waste of the
body, keep the blood cool and
clean. Sweat is the great
sweetener. A sweating human skin
is one of the finest and most
fundamental phenomena on earth.
BUT JUST TRY AND GET ONE
IN OUR CULTURAL CIVIC CEN.
TIERS.
We have blacklisted sweat.
! We have plastered our hides with
powders, perfumes and deodorizes
and we go around smelling like
animated sachets. We have also
blacklisted sweat-provol1ing activis,
ties. We rarely climb, push, drag,
scramble. shove, yank, jump, dig
or bounce. We move through
our offices and ready.made homes
like bunch of languid inch.
worms. And this, am convinced.
does something to our minds as
well as our bodies.