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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-02
GUESTS FLED, BUT NO FIRE

Salem, Mass, Nov 2-(UP)-Nearly 100 guests, lightly clad fled from Hotel Hawthorne, but there no fire patron, rising early had opened the fire alarm closet door instead of the stairway exit door, autoat ically sounding an alarm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-02
HEAVYWEIGHT 'LEGCER FINED

Providence R. l., Nov 2--(UP)-His large avoir- dupois" prevented H. Edward Bamford (weght 320) from obtaining gainfu occupation, his lawyer planed in court Nevertheless the heavyweight defend ant was fined $150 for bootlegging
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-02
CHURCH CLOSED AFTER v YEARS

Worcester Mass, Nov 2-(UP)-Memorial Congre- gatona church. founded v years ago. has closed it's doors steadily declining membership the cause. Only A parishioners heard the last sermon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-02
GIRLS PUT HOMEMAKINC THIRD

Wellesley, Mass, Nov 2-(UP)-Homemaking is the third choice of Wellesley college freshmen as career Teaching received the most votes, with journal ism second, in recent referendum.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-02
RAINIER VISITORS BREAK RECORD

Olympia, Wash Nov 2-- (UP)--Despte depression Mount Rainier visiting broke all records this year. total of 293662 persons registered this year 10 cent increase over 1880.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-02
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Nov (UP)-The treasury net balance October 30 was $293,S32,641.61.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-02
Fair Tonight and Also On
 Tuesday

Complete Weather Report rage 3
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-08-20

Rev. and Mrs. FOSSIL were the
guests at the Art GLASGOW home
Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Anderson
Of Yakima were weekend guests
of Mrs. Gertrude Gray. Mrs. An
derson and Mrs. Gray were neigh
bors and friends in Nebraska sew
eral years ago.
Mrs. Jefferson Phillips and
baby of Seattle, who formerly
lived here was calling on High
land friends one day the past
week.
Miss Gladys Retzlaff of Port
land spent the past week with
Mrs. o. X. Jones.
In honor of Larry Jones' birth
day, his mother took Willard, Pa
tricia and Bill Helm and Francis
Dunning for days picnic on the
island up the river.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-08-20
GIVE BENEFIT DANCE

Highlanders want to contribute
something to the fair this fall
and have concluded to stage BEN
eft dance next Saturday night.
Arrangements have been made to
have the tickets sales carry votes
for the Queen contest and the The
Trees dance will be omitted that
night in order to assure a good
crowd at the Highlands. The
dances will be continued at the
pavilion the following Saturday.
Bill Schmitt's Canadians will furn-
ish the motive power for the dance
and promise some new features
during the evenings entertainment
Net proceeds Of the dance will be
donated to the Fair committee.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-08-20

such other times as the hearing
may be continued to, the Council
will sit as board Of equaliza-
ton for the purpose Of consider
ing such roll and objections made
thereto or any part thereof. and
will correct, revise, raise, lower.
change or modify said roll or any
part thereof or will set aside such
roll and order the assessment to
made de novo as shall appear lust
and equitable and proceed to
confirm the same by ordinance.
All persons who desire to object
to said roll may make such obiec-
lions in writing and file the same
with the City Clerk at or prior
to the time fixed for hearing
Dated this 18th day of August,
1881.
wINIFRED CAMPBELL.
o:zV-z7 H.. City Clerk.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-08-20

the City Hall in Kenn.,
the time and place fiSss swlct /
such other times as tSs and I
may be continued 70. tbs 9csaft
t Mlil SIT as a board Of an ~oGsS
tlon for the purpose Of Of saoalia
ing such roll and Objectio 0Uualda
thereto :,I or any part there's, n'S
Will correct, revise, raise NJ
change or modify said roll I lowe
part thereof or will set ssid y y
roll and order the assessm os 'Da
made mac de nOyo as shall ap p,aeai
and equitable and nr rpear IN
confirm the same BY orS G.sso
l.. All persons who desire - q.
to said roll may make spc : OSis
lions in writing and file u y. obs
with the City Clerk AZ ~, ~ sac
to the time fixed for !. pr
1881. Ny OF Augus
S:2O-27 IcA!tMPBEIl
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-08-20
EAST KENNEWICK
Now Elders Are to
Entertain Grange

Regular meeting of the Valley
Grange Friday August 81. The
older folks will put on the pro-
gram in contest against the one
put on by the young folks two
weeks ago.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-08-20

/ Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Trimble en-
tertained Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Reed, Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Walt
ers, Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Withers
and Miss Lucille Withers at six
o'clock dinner Tuesday evening.
Cards followed with Mrs. Reed
winning first prize, Mr.. Withers,
second and Miss Lucille Withers,
the guest prize.
Mrs. Vern Combelic and baby
son came home Monday from the
Pasco hospital.
Rev. Nelson, wife and son of
Richland and Mr.. and Mrs. John
Smith and children were Sunday
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Dale Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dudley Talent
and family of Lind, spent Sunday
with the M. G. Helm family.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Genung Of
Los Angeles arrived Sunday for
a short visit at the w. G. Curtis
home Mrs. Genung and Mrs
Curtis were schoolmates 81 years
ago.
N. L. Foraker and Mrs. F. j.
Rasmussen called on Mrs. Vern
Combelic at the Pasco hospital on
Thursday
Mr.. and Mrs. Case and Mr.. and
Mrs. Floyd Lane of Pasco joined
Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce Mclean, j. "A.
Mclean and Mrs. Bertha Simsen
and daughters had a picnic at the
Art Simsen home on Sunday.
William Fash WAS visitor at,
the Grin Smith home Sunday
Mrs. j.. W Gydck, a sister Of
the late Mrs. urch, arrived Sunday
from Cordoua, Alaska, for short
visit at the Urch home. She. was
prevented from arriving sooner.
as she had to wait for the regu--
lar boat sailing.
Curtis. Jim and Elton Samsel
received the sad news last week
of the death of their father which
occurred at Stockton, Mo.
Elton Samsel and children have
been ON the sick list the past
week.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-08-20

Mrs. Lulu Johnson of White
Bluffs was a several days visitor
in the community the first of the
week. On Monday Mrs. May
Rhodes entertained her and Mrs.
Mrs. Homer johnson at dinner.
Bobbie Perkins was an over
night guest of his grandmother
in Kennewick Tuesday night.
Several children, as well as a
few of the older folk, are taking
advantage of the swimming in
structions given by the Red Cross
on the Pasco beach.
Mrs. Mierhofer, Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Preston of Vancouver, Wn.,
visited with Mr.. and Mrs. M. A
Davis last week enroute to Vel
lowstone Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. M. Baldwin
were dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. F. A. Smith last Sunday.
H. Huber, Mr.. and Mrs. j. F.
Buchanan and family of Walla
Walla visited Sunday with the
Beegle family.
Mrs. C. McKelvy, who has been
quite sick for several days, is inn
proving.
Mrs. Essie Howard left last
week for Portland, after visiting
her children for some time.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-08-20
GOLFERS PLAN IS
HOLES TO QUALIFY

CONTINUED from Page L.
will start at TAO to be followed
by Bus Paden, Harry Linn, Warde
johnson and Charlie Powell.
'sPenny" Ward, Clarence Yed-
lea, Harold Robertson and Odes
Sloan viii make up the last four
some, teeing off at 1850.
Non appearance IT the time
specified will lose contestants a
chance to qualify, according to the
tournament committee and the
full 36 holes must be played that
day in order to get to go to Walla
Walla.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-08-20
NOTICE OF HEARING UPON
ASSESSMENT ROLL

Notice is hereby given, that the
assessment roll for Local Inn
proxement District. No. % has.
been. filed in the office of the City
Clerk, and that the City Council
has fixed the 18th day of Septem-
ber,, 1881, at the hour of 8 o'clock
pm. at the Council. Chamber In
the City Hall In Kennewick as
the time and place fixed and at
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-08-20
BEARS TRIM KOLTS IN
RAGGED BALL GAME

The championship ball game
last Sunday between the Walla
Walla Bears and the Kennewick
Kolts decided nothing. Both
teams were dissatisfied with the
8-5 score, with both feeling that
they were the winners, tho Walla
Walla got the big end of it in a
ragged exhibition.
An effort to get another game
and play it on neutral ground
failed to work out. So Kennewick
will go to Walla Walla Sunday,
and really settle the matter, ac-
cording to Manager Frank Trim
BILE.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-08-20
DRESS
UP FOR SHOW
AT PLAYFIELD
CONTINUED from Page ~

Continued from Page 1.)
ton and Allen WEIGH, second.
First class girls - 1st, Rather
inc Page, Margaret Reed in a
court costume and Vivian Higley
as a bride with veil and train.
Second class girls - Virginia
Smith, Mary Lou WEIGH and Dor
othy Harper.
Third class girls-Norma Jean
Strickle, Gertrude Keene and Bet
ty Thomasen as a hobo of the
road.
Broad jump-1st class boys;1s
prize, Bud Walters, Fred Gest and
Roger Jones. Second class boys;
Jim Reed, Gavin Jones and Cor
don Hi1le. First class girls; Ottie
Tyler, Irene Henke, Helen Ken
nisen and Marvel Chambers tied
for third place. Second class girls;
Pearl Dague, Mary Lou Welch and
Betty Watts. Third class girls,
Betty Thomson, Dorothy Ann
Reed and Arlene Anon. The third
class girls are under school age
and it was marvellous to watch the
interest and attention given by
these little tots and good sports
manship shown.
High jump-1st class boys; Bud
Walters and Roger Jones, Fred
Gest, Ed TiIlery. Second class
boys; Gavin Jones, Bruce Kenyon
and Gordon Hille. Third class
boys; Doyle Higley, Arthur Evett
and Hugh Hodge First class
girls; Ottie Tyler, Irene HenISey
and Virginia Carpenter. Second
class girls; Pearl Dague, Mary
Lou WeIch and Maxine Enger.
Third cIasx girls; jeanne Kelso,,
Margaret KeIso and Mildred Hig-
ley.
The highest points for the sea-
son were WOE by Fred Gest in
first class boys, Garvin Jones, in
second class and Arthur Evett in.
third class. First class girls, Irene
Henke; second class, Eunice
Campbell and BETTY Thomason;
Third class girls.
At the close of the contest the
children were formed In 4 line
and ice, cream was served to them.
The playfield is sponsored by the
KIwanis each year and tins year
or president Herbert Hoover sent
q message to playfieid attendants
and each child was given copy
to take home
Miss Elsa Brogunier wishes to
thank Messrs- Mueller, Hodge,
Fyfe, E. c.. Smith, G.. A. Carpen-
ter and Miss Esther Moulton and
Kennewiek Printing company, who
helped to make the annual picnic
u success. This Is usually given
at the close of the playfield, but
on account of the swimming in
struction for the next two weeks,
it was held earlier.
|
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-08-20
HOVER
Mrs. Shubert Wins
Sewing Machine

v. l.. fuckers special Monday
attraction was the sale of Sing
er sewing machine starting at s12
and decreasing a dollar each
five minutes, drew a large crowd
out. Mrs. o. Shubert won the ma
chine for a bid of five dollars.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Murawski
and children were Sunday dinner
guests at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Kennett in East Kenne-.
wick
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-08-20

Herbert Taylor arrived Wednes-
day evening to spend a two, weeks
vacation with his father, D. L.
Taylor and brother; Harold. Fer
bert is a former student of the
Kennewick schools and is now en-
ployed with a typewriter COM
pany in Seattle.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-08-20

weeks ago.
/ The Progressive woman's club
will meet Friday, August %, at
the home of Mrs. E. A. Miller in
the Garden Tracts.
| Mrs. D. J. Bennett had very
pleasant surprise last Thursday.
, when her cousin, George Macon
Der of Modesto, California, whom
she had not seen for thirty years
arrived and spent the night at
the Bennete home.
Mark Saunders of Spokane Wis
tied his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Saunders last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Saunders visited
in Pasco Tuesday.
The Lee Lampson family spent
Sunday IN Prosser to help Mrs.
Lampsonss mother celebrate her
birthday.
Fay Rupp and Virginia Reeder
went to Connell Saturday, where
they are spending the week with
their grandparents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Elliott
left Friday for their home at Salt
Lake City, Utah.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Murawski
and family were dinner guests on
Sunday at the j., S. Kenneth home
Miss Edith Serier was guest
last week of Miss Mary Kennett.
Carl Elliott took a Iay-off
from the Elliott dairy Friday and
went to Baker, Oregon, where
Mrs. Elliott and baby have been
visiting. They returned home the
first of the week.
Miss Inez Elliott came home.
last week after weeks visit with
relatives in Sunnyside.
Everett Clifford is spending the.
week at the H.. C. Puderbaugh
hume
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Wheeler have
gone to California, where they ex-
pect to spend the winter.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-08-20

Herman Boskuil of Cedar Grove
Wisconsin, accompanied by John
Green of Milwaukee, were guests
at the John Ferguson home the
first of the week. Mr.. Boskuil is
"a cousin of Mrs. Ferguson and
they were on their way to Los
Angeles.
Miss Lillian Smith of Havre,
Montana arrived Wednesday for a
short visit at the Dale Smith
home.
C. C. Doering and family spent
Sunday of last week in Zillah.
P. A. Combelic and family
spent Tuesday in Yakima.
Mrs. Marguerite Mann and Mrs.
j. v. Lydich left Tuesday for a
short visit in Standpoint, Idaho.
The Albert Morgan family spent
Sunday with her brother In Pros
ser.
MIR. and Mrs. Ben Hawkins and
son drove to Pendleton Saturday
to visit his sister. They spent
Sunday at Emigrant. Springs In
the Blue mountains.
Ronald, Donald and Robert
Bishop have been on the sick list
the past week.
The Busy Bee All sewing club
met Wednesday, morning at the
club home. The next meeting will
be Saturday, September 5.
The NJ. G. Clark family were
guests at the home of Mrs. Frank
Rouse. Mrs. Rouse left for Spo-
kane to enter the hospital fol
treatment.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-08-20
HEDGES
The Finley School
Adds New Library

A room, which will be used as
a library, is being built from the
girls cloak room, the door open
ing into the study. Mr.. Aubury
has charge of the work and at
very little expense the work is
being done. A number of new
books have been ordered and it
is hoped we will have a good IL
brary in time to come.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-08-20
NOTICE OF HEARING UPON
f. ASSESSMENT ROLL

Notice is hereby given, that the
assessment roll for Local I'm
provement District No. "a has
been filed in the office of the City
Clerk, and that the City Council
has fixed the 18th day of Septem-
Der, 1881, at the hour of 8 O'Clock
pm. at the Council Chamber in
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-08-20
HIGHLANDS
Tongue and Thinble
Club is Entertained

The Tongue and Thimble club
composed mostly of Highland
members met with Mrs. Joe Ma
dig on Tuesday with twelve
members and one guest present.
The next meeting will be held at
the home of Mrs. Peter Erickson
on September g..
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-27
UNIONS ORGANIZE
LABOR COLLEGE

Allentown, REORGANIZATION of a
labor college, long felt to be a need
of labor in this city, has been COM
pleted. The first meeting was held
on May 10 in the labor temple on
North Sixth street.
The plans for the new college were
formulated by the Central Trades and
Labor Council of Allentown and vi
cinity, with the cooperation of the
Rev Willis d. Mathis For several
months committee of five members
of the Central Trades and Labor Coun-
ell has been meeting to consider plans
and program.
The courses to be offered in the
first semester include Problems of La
bor," Public Speaking" and parlia-
mentary law.
The classes are open to non-union
as well as union workers The plan is
to have second semester of the
school soon after January 1, 1882,
Each semester will cover period of
six weeks. For example, the first
semester opened on Tuesday, Novem-
Der 10 and will close on Tuesday, De-
cember Is.
Information concerning the school
may be secured from any of the off
GERS of the Central Trades and Labor
Council and of Mr.. A. Pammer, ,secre-
tary of the Labor College committee,
1924 Meadow street, Allentown.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-27
Dividing Up Of Business
Proposed in Steel Plan

Suggested Cartel Organization of Structural Steel Con-
Germs Provides for Assigning Each Company Ratio
of Total Sales with Penalties Fixed for Going Over
Quotas.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-27

of eliminating the weak ones," and
force the usual combination of con-
Germs and junking of obsolescent
equipments that has marked the last
ten years in every principal line of
industry.
Can Plan Get By?"
But the real question is: Can the
plan-provided it is attempted
by the attorney general and the su-
preme court? At any rate, if Of
fered to congress in the coming ses-
sion, it will be juicy bone to fight
over, and might be taken up as an
experiment in the hope that it would
stimulate the process of lending the
depression"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-27
U.S.. WORKERS
In Russia Can't Send Money
Home
By JOHN P. FREY

Dy OOIlN /
Secretary Treasurer, Metal Trades
Department, American Federation
of Labor.
Washington, D. c. (ILNS)-
Through official sources in Washing
ton trade union officials are informed
that number of American workmen
who have gone to Russia this year,
have become involved in a most Sc
rious situation through their terms
of employment.
Their labor contract, entered into
with soviet representatives in New
York city, provided that they should
be paid in rubles, the theoretical
value of which is approximately so
cents. The number of rubles they
were to be paid seemed to assure
them considerably higher wage than
they would receive for similar work
in the United States. But upon ar
irving in Russia they discovered that
the cost of all of the necessities of
life were so much higher in Russia
that their apparently high wage was
insufficient to supply them with many
of the necessities.
Far more serious than this was the
desperate situation of the dependents
they had left in the United States,
for they found it impossible to for
ward any remittances to their homes;
one reason being the soviet law which
rigidly prohibits the import or ex-
port of rubles. Even if rubles could
be smuggled or bootlegged across the
border they would only have boot
leg value, which, according to author
itative information, amounts to about
5 cents per ruble in the territories
Immediately bordering upon Russia.
From the same official source
Washington information has been Sc
cured to the effect that the American
engineers working in Russia have
been protected in their labor contracts
by provision calling for the payment
of certain amount of their salary in
American dollars.
Any workman entering into a con-
tract to work for the soviets in Rus
sia, whose contract does not provide
for payment in American dollars, is
placing himself in serious jeopardy.
If he is single man, he alone suffers
the injury; but if there are those left
behind who depend upon him, then a
calamity has occurred.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-27
Trade Recovery Held
Dependent on Cut in Hours
Only Major Readjustment in Working Periods Can
Remedy Unemployment, Labor Says, Scoring Wall
Street Excuses.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-There
| must be shortening of the work day
and work-week to the time needed to
do the nations work, or unemploy-
ment cannot be eliminated.
If there is only 35 hours work per
week for all workers, then hours must
be shortened to 35.
The penalty for failure to shorten
hours was a million more unemployed
from 1920 to 1929.
Those are the declarations of the
| American Federation of Labor in it's
current Survey of Business, just re-
| leased.
Major Adjustment Imperative
Business is facing major adjust
ment," says the survey. 1t proceeds
to declare that if the nation remedies
| unemployment it will mean perma-
nent shorter work-days and work
| weeks, universal adoption of either
the six-hour day or the five-day
| week."
The survey destroys the fable that
drop in cost of living has made up for
| wage cuts. 1t delivers the most slash
ing blows at Wall street excuses yet
| uttered by the federation. In 1881
the survey points out, there was work
enough for only a 35-hour week and
that should have been the universally
adopted week
The enormous time and money loss
due to unemployment is presented.
Work Hours Must be Cut
'The movement for shorter work
hours is underway" says the sur
vey, "but it needs the drive of reali-
zation that this adjustment is funda-
mental to business progress. A recent
survey of methods used by different
firms to prevent unemployment show
ed that 1872 firms had shortened the
work-day or work-week by February
1881; the department of labor reports
673 establishments operating perma-
nently on the five-day week basis in
1931;more recently survey of repre-
sentative firms by Industrial Stand
ards Corporation showed Al per cent
favoring a shorter work week, SO per
cent believing work hours per day
should be shortened. The Kellogg
Company went on the six-hour day in
December, 1880, employing 20 pei
cent more workers; the Dupont Pow
der plants established it in October
1881, making possible the employ
ment of over 1000 additional work
ers. General Electric, E. R. Squibbs
& Sons, the New Jersey Telephone
Company are among the important
firms who have guaranteed work to
their employees. The spread of this
movement can make Fundamental
adjustment, increase confidence, anC
pave the way for business advance or
sound basis"
What unemployment has meant te
business, in lost buying, is put into q
staggering total.
Staggering Loss in Income
"Wage earners' yearly income,
says the survey, sis now s11,000,
100000 (based on government fig.
lures below the 1929 level. This does
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-27
BONUS SYSTEM
REDUCES WAGES
By EDW. w. KAISER

General President of the Stove Noun
ters' international Union of North
America.
In some industries many schemes
are resorted to for the purpose of
securing increased production at re-
duced cost. Among the number is the
bonus system, with an efficiency man
employed to make the workers be-
lieve they are being rewarded for in
creased production when, in fact, the
rate is reduced as the production is
increased
A piece rate of, say, one cent, is
established for a certain piece of
work, until one hundred pieces are
produced; then after one hundred
pieces are produced all other produc-
tion is on the so-called bonus basis,
with the worker receiving SO per cent
less than the price that was estab-
lished for the first one hundred
pieces.
This scheme results in increased
production per day being secured and
brings down the cost per piece. With
the increased production only three
days per week operation of the plant
is necessary, which is another reduc-
ton in the earnings of the worker
How this affects the purchasing
power of the worker can be readily
seen.