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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-09-03
PLANS
BIG STATES DAY
Enlarged Probram Ready
for Labor Day Celebra-
ton at Park

Prosser's 9th annual States Day
celebration will be held in their
beautiful park on Labor Day. dis
tinctly Prosser celebration,
their States Day has steadily
grown in popularity until now it
has become one Of the outstand-
ing affairs Of the valley.
In country made up of people
from other states, the Prosserites
conceived the idea of registering
residents from each so that their
new neighbors might become bet
ter acquainted with them. Too, old
friends were reunited, to the mu-
tual pleasure of all.
In addition to the registration
features, the idea has expanded
until now many other entertain
ment features are provided. Mon
day a speaking program will
feature u. S. Senator w. L. Jones
and Congressman John w. Sum-
mers. The program starts at 10 in
the morning, followed by bas-
ket lunch at noon, when free cof-
fee, cream and sugar will be sup
piled. In the afternoon the speak
ing program will be held and a
ball game and other sports.
There will be big chorus to
sing national folk songs. This was
an outstanding feature last year
and promises to be equally good
this year. In the evening there
will be fireworks display-"big-
Der and better than ever" Also
a big street dance.
Prosser invites the whole coun-
try to come to their park next
Monday, "Where old friends
meet"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-09-03
Highlanders Plan to
Carry on Activities

So as to not set up any counter
attractions to detract from the ac-
tivities preceding the Kennewick
Fair, the Highlands clubhouse
will remain "dark" all this week
and next, according to Frank
White, who has had the manage
ment of the club house. Residents
Of the Highlands who met at the
club house last week to consider
ways and means of continuing
the community welfare work had
an interesting session. Several
new projects were started and
some of the old ones were re-
vived. Highlanders are planning
to take every advantage possible
thru the rehabilitation plans now
being carried out by the govern
ment.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-09-03
POSTAGE RATES co UP

Effective September / the Post
office department announces an
increase in postage rates to Can
ada, Great Britain, Northern Ire
land and the Irish Free State. The
letter rate to Canada will be three
cents an ounce and the post card
rate will be two cents. The letter
rate to Great Britain and the two
Irelands will be five cents for the
first ounce and three cents for
each additional ounce. Post card
rates will be three cents. The air
mail rate to Canada postage in
cluded) is set at six cents for the
first ounce and ten cents for each
additional ounce.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-09-03

"The state has exhausted its
fund for the payment of bounties
on predatory animals" said Coun-
ty Auditor E. o. Keene the first
of the week.
"Well, that won't amount to so
much, will it? Surely the county
itself can afford to pay what lit
tie it costs to get rid of the coy
otes, can't it?"
"How many bounties do you
suppose this county pays in the
course of a year-huh?"
"Oh, fifteen or twenty, per
haps."
"Sez you'll"
"Well, how many did you pay
last year,"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-09-03
STORES CLOSE ON
LABOR DAY

= In accordance with the us
= ual custom local business
2 houses will remain closed all
2 day next Monday, thus giving
2 a double holiday to all store
= workers. Many attractions
= are being planned for that
. day, the one expected to draw
= heaviest being Prosser States
= Day, their annual get acquaint-
2 ed party. No local entertain
= ment has been arranged for
= that date, being too close to
= the community fair dates.
E 2 + = E Z r + = = = I Z
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-09-03
DeMOlay Boys Fed on
Kennewick Watermelon


Fourteen boys, members of the
Spokane DeMolays order, are in
Kennewick this afternoon on their
way to their annual convention at
Walla Wafla. They were accom-
panied by J. H. Clancy, sponsor.
A special show was planned for
their entertainment at the Liber-
ty theatre, but the projection ma
chine took this afternoon to go
haywire, SO the boys went to the
park where a kittyball game is in
progress. A huge pile of water
melons is waiting them there.
They will be taken back to their
special car later in the afternoon.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-09-03

H. C. Noel of Seattle and Mrs.
Pearl Galloway were married at
Pasco Saturday morning, August
20. They will make their home at
the Galloway apartments Tor the
present. Mrs. Noel has been res
ident of Kennewick and the val
ley for a number of years and
Mr.. Noel has visited here a num-
Der Of times. He is interested in
ooil and gas operations in the
Northwest.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-09-03

Mrs. Williams, Mr.. and Mrs.
Miller and Miss Block of Spokane,
DR.. Gilbert c. Grier Of New York
City, and Mrs. Nelson Brunn Of
Pasco were luncheon and over
night guests at the home of DR..
and Mrs. G. Brunn Thursday. DR..
Grier is internationally known as
lecturer on scientific subjects.
He gave two lectures in the M.
E. Church in Pasco under the
auspicies of the Radiant Light
Truth C enter of that city. DR..
Grier is founder of the Church of
Truth in Spokane.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-09-03

Sam Weiggands is going to
have house warming( as tho it
was needed this weather) for his
new chicken apartments. The big
new building will be used next
Monday night for the purpose and
everyone is invited to come to the
party. Sam says there will be
plenty of room, plenty of music
and hard boiled eggs-or some
thing as couvenirs.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-09-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Koontz
and mall daughter and Mr.. and
Mrs. Emil Birkholz and two
children left Friday for their
home in Chicago after making a
two-month tour Of the Northwest
and to southern California. They
were accompanied on the southern
trip by Miss Shirley Mulkey, the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. E.
Mulkey.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-09-03

Mr.. and Mrs. M. w. Cochran and
daughter, Lorene, of Astoria, Wis
tied with friends in Kennewick on
Wednesday. They arrived Friday
and are guests of Mr.. Cochran's
parents at Finley. They are for
mer residents of Kennewick, and
he is salesmanager for the p. P.
e. l.. company at Astoria.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-09-03

H. L. Blake returned Sunday
from q two weeks vacation
spent at Castle Rock, Aberdeen
and Seattle and also attended
the American Legion Convention
at Bellingham and received the
silver cup for Robert Ely post.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-09-03
MOTH CATCH

Following is the codling moth
catch in IL traps from August Fl
to September 1, inclusive: 1919,
1874, 1889, 2314, 1885, 646, 293,
469, 800, 1872, 800, 262.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-09-03

Bernice Van Dyke left Monday
night for a two weeks vacation to
be spent at her home in st.
Maries, Idaho.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
RED CROSS ASKS LAMPS
Hall to Be Illumined for Prepar-
ing Drought Aid Clothes.

The District of Columbia Chapter of
the American Red Cross yesterday called
for the donation or loan of six floor
lamps to illuminate the hall where
volunteer workers labor nightly prepar-
ing clothes for the drought sufferers.
The chapter house is at 1880 E street,
the telephone number National $500,
branch 244.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
TODAY'S ADJUSTMENTS.

National-'The Lonely Way" at
800 pm.
Belasco-"Better Times" at 2:3O and
$50 pm.
Gayety-"Lets Co." at ais and
Sis pm.
CoIumbia-Greta Carlo in "InSpira-
ton" at 1920 am, 1920, 3:25, 5:25,
TAO and GAS pm.
Palace-"Parlor, Bedroom and Bath"
at IL, 2:12, 4:50, 1882 and 9:52 pm.
Fox-"Don't Bet on Women" at
1853 am, 2:28, 4:58, sos and 1925
pm.
R-K-O Keith'S-"Cimarron" (third
week., at 10:07 am, 1922, 2:37, 4:52.
7:07 and 1922 pm.
Earle-"My Past" at 11:4o am, 2:2o,
Ass, 1852 and 1920 pm.
Rialto-"Dracula" (second week., at
11:47 am, 1:46, S:45, 5:45, 7:45 and
9:45 pm.
Strand-"Birth," ut IL, 2, 4. s. Q and
10 pm.
Illicit" at II am,
12:47, 2:34, 4:21, sos, 1855 and 9:42
pm.
TivoH-"Little Caesar" at 9:So, 4:l5,
Q, 7:5O and 0:40 pm.
Central-"The Boudoir Diplomat"
from IL am. TO IL pm.
AmbaSsadOr-"The Bachelor Father"
ct 8, 1850 and $40 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
FOES OF THOMPSON
FEAR THIRD TICKET
Plead With Independent Can
didate for Mayor to
Leave Race.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 26.-Opponents
Of Big Bill" Thompson's election as
Worlds Fair mayor of Chicago were
pleading today for q united Tight
against the mayor.
Their pleas took the form of opposi-
ton to the Independent candidacy Of
Coroner Herman Bundesen, a Demo-
crat, announced yesterday. BundeSen'S
name was entered by the Peoples Nom
partisan ticket, as an opponent of
Thompson and Anton j. Cermak, chair
man Of the Cook County Board, who
was nominated by the Democrats Tues
day when big Bill" defeated Judge
John H. Lyle, "gangster Nemesis" and
others in the Republican primary.
Among those disappearing Of Bundle
sens candidacy was Col. Robert Isham
Randolph, president of the Association
OF Commerce and leading figure in its
efforts to keep down crime in Chicago.
Col Randolph sent a letter to the cor
oner. in which he said:
Without regard to your availability
or capability for the office of mayor of
Chicago, permit me to state that be-
lieve that YOUR candidacy will have the
sole effect of dividing the opposition
and insuring the election OF William
Hale Thompson"
without mentioning BundeSen'S
name, Charles e. Merriam, South Side
leader. who supported Alderman Ar
thur F. Albert in the Republican pri-
mary, issued statement, in which he
said:
ut is to be hoped that an independ-
ent candidate will not be brought in, as
he can only confuse the issue and make
possible what the overwhelming ma
jority of the people of Chicago clearly
do not want-namely, the reelection of
Thompson"
Meanwhile, Mayor Thompson and
Cermak were being swamped with con-
gratulations over their victories last
Tuesday, and Coroner Bundesen. who
was once a member of Thompson's cabi-
net, said he was getting into the race
at the urging of items of thousands OF
Chicagoans." AS coroner he has at
tracted attention with independent In
vestigations Of gangland murders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-11
SINGER KILLS SELF
AFTER WIFE QUITS
William GustafSon of Metropoli.
tan Opera Co. Ends Life as
:, She Prepares to Go.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 1l.-William
Gustafson, 6-fcot Metropolitan Opera
basso, shot himself to death in his
apartment last night
The police said that following quar-
rel with her husband, after he re-
.eived a telephone call Mrs. Mary
Wells Gustafson threatened to take the
children to the home Of her mother in
Boston and he vowed he would kill him.
self AS she phoned for Pullman reSer-
vations, she heard q shot and found
him lying on the floor with q wound
in the temple. He was dead when a
doctor arrived.
Gustafson, AZ, created the role of
MaccuS in 1.-THE Kings Henchman"
and. had acted the viking in Rimsky-
Korsakoff's "Sadko." Some of his other
roles were the ma -domo in the
Metropolitan's first offering of Boo
caccio," Fafner in "Siegfried," King
Henry in "Lohengrin," and the land
grave in "Tannhauser" He sang In
four languages.
He was born in Arlington, Mass, and
made his first professional appearance
in Boston in 1915. He was a second
lieutenant of Infantry during the
World War. Among his clubs were the
Players and the Dutch Treat.
Mrs. Gustafson is q pianist. They
had two children, Elizabeth, Z, and
William, s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-11
PROBE OF WALKER
REGIME DEMANDED
Citizens Seek Sweeping In
vestigation Aimed at Re-
movaI of Mayor.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March II. - Mayor
Walker was under bombardment today
by citizens demanding that his oficial
acts be investigated.
Already magistrates courts and the
county district attorney are under ofii-
cial scrutiny The mayor appoints
magistrates. The district attorney is
elected.
In a letter drafted for submittance
to the Legislature, the Society for the
Prevention of Crime asks that Samuel
Seabury, already conducting two in
quiries for Gov. Roosevelt, be empow-
cred to inaugurate q sweeping investi-
cation Of the municipality, aiming at
the removal of Mayor Walker, who is
on the way to California on a vacation.
Nom Feasance Charge Hinted.
While Samuel Marcus, counsel for the
society, refused to divulge the charges.
newspapers understood they accused the
mayor of non-feasance in ONCE without
rejecting on his personal integrity.
A citizens committee of 900 to sup
port such o cause as proposed by the
anti-crime society is being formed by
the Citizens Union. headed by William
Jay Schieffelin. Its objects would be
to crystalline public opinion. to aid the
spotlighting Of Official corruption and to
inspire confidence In timorous citizens
who might furnish evidence.
The New York City Congregational
GtafIrrh AEEnNio tim
congregations, has adopted a resolu-
ton urging Gov. Roosevelt to take
further steps TO correct evils at City
Hall. The association asked the Great
er New York Federation OF Churches
to marshal religious sentiment I'm .
demand for honesty throughout all de-
partments of the city government"
Grain to Fight Charges.
AS commissioner designated by the
Governor, Seabury Is about to start in
yestigating charges that Thomas C. T.
Grain, district attorney of New York
County. has been guilty of misfeasance.
mo friend of mine will even sug-
gest to me that should resign" Grain
has said. Il intend to fight these
charges to the end"
As a referee Of the Appellate Division
OF the State Supreme Court, Seabury
has been investigating magistrates
courts and has developed evidence Of
grating and framing of women. Magis-
trate II. Stanley Renaud and Patrol
man Andrew j. Mclaughlin will face
further questioning this week.
Various policemen are having depart
mental trials as a result of revelations
in the magistrates inquiry. The mys-
terry Of the Staying Of Vivian Gordon,
Broadway and vice graft informant,
continues unsolyed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-11
PANTAGES DENIES
NEW GIRL CHARGE
Now in Mexico With Wife, He
Says Enemies" Trying
to Balk Appeal.
~ the Assnciatsd prass.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO, March i1-A whirlpool
of charges growing out of the investi-
cation of "love bazaar" in which
schoolgirls allegedly were procured at
high prices for men of wealth, today
engulfed Alexander Pantages. theater
magnate, who still is fighting q con-
viction of having attacked Eunice Prin-
gle, young dancer, in August, 1929.
jesse H. Shreve, prominent San Diego
business man: John P. Mills, Los Ange-
les and San Diego real estate million
aire; William Jobelmann, former pub
licity agent, and Olive Clark Day were
named with Pantages in a complaint
issued By District Attorney Thomas
Whelan
The complaint and another, charging
Shreye, Mills. Jobelmann and the worl-
an with four counts involving a girl
was the outgrowth of an investigation
Of the activities here of an alleged
girl mart" recently exposed in Los
Angeles with the arrest OF Mills, Jobel-
mann and Mrs. Day.
Shreye Surrenders.
Whelan charged Jobelmann and MRS
Day, alleged operators Of the girl
mart" brought Helen Livingston, IT.
here from Los Angeles october 80 last
with, the assistance of Mills and that
Shreve paid the girl for acting as Pan
tages' companion at a hotel. The sec
ond complaint charged that Lydia Nitto.
i6 another purported market girl, .
similarly was brought here by Mills
Shreve. Jobelmann and the woman.
Shreve surrendered and posted S25, 900
bond in Justice Court. He denied all
the allegations and said he would like
to see the girls named"
Pantages, who was in Aqua Caliente
Mexico, with Mrs. PsntageS when the
charges were filed, said over the tele-
phone that he was innocent.
The charges are just dirt dug up by
Continued on Page 2, Column 10
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-11
WESTERN COMPANY
GETS DAM AWARD
$4s,890,995 Bid on Boulder
Canyon Job AcGepted-Must
Be Finished by 1888.
az the Assoclated prans

By the Associated Press
Secretary Wilbur today accepted the
$4s. sso,ss bid of the six Companies,
Inc. of San Francisco for building the
Hoover Dam, power house and appurte-
nant works at the Boulder Canyon
project.
Recognition of the company's offer as
the low bid was tentamount to award
ing the contract and cleared the way
for starting construction on one of the
greatest peace-time engineering feats
ever attempted.
Estimated cost of the dam, power
system and appurtenances. such as the
intake towers, spillways and diversion
tunnels, totals $10s, oOo, 900, but approx
imately half of this will be supplied by
the Government in materials.
$1,000, zoo Bond Required.
The company will be notified imme-
diately that its bid was accepted and
instructed to start work when ready.
The contract will be delayed several
days, as it must be accepted by the COM
pany, surety bond Of $1,000, 900 posted
and approved by Secretary Wilbur
The specifications require that work
be started within 80 days after the
builder is given notice to proceed, and
the dam must be completed within six
and one-half years, with penalty Of
$4,000 daily for each day longer.
F. T. Grove, chief of construction
operations for the Six Companies, Inc,
a former construction engineer for the
Reclamation Bureau, and his company
have notified the department work could
be started within few days.
Congress- Leaders Present.
Senator johnson and Representative
Swing of California, co-authors Of the
bill under which the $l65, 100000 prof.
(Contin1ted an PAGE Column 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-11
Stuart to Aid Rail Study.

NEW YORK. March IL (R.-Fran-
els Lee Stuart, formerly chief engineer
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, will
head committee to assemble data on
engineering possibilities in Russia, the
American Society Of Civil Engineers
announces.
With Mr.. Stuart, who is president OF
the society, will be associated leading
sentative to Russia, but information
will be obtained from engineers and
experts conversant with the possibili-
ties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-11
HARVARD PUBLICATION TO FIGHT
NEW CHAPEL AS WAR MEMORIAL
Student Editors Declare Building Would Stand ga
Tribute to the Poverty of Religion" Campus
Ry ths Associated Press.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, March IL
Because it would stand as "a tribute to
the poverty Of religion at Harvard" the
Crimson, undergraduate daily, Is to
circulate a petition opposing the cree
ton Of $1,0O0,0 900 World War
memorial chapel in the Harvard yard.
The Crimson, which yesterday pub
lished q report that work would be
started this Summer on the chapel
said 1t had learned authoritatively that
$SO5. 1898 already had been contributed,
mostly by alumni, and that room would
be made for the edifice by tearing down
Appleton Chapel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-11
POPULATION GROWING
Decrease in Death Rate in England
Cited as Cause.

LONDON, March II (P).-Figures OF
the English registrar general published
today reveal the population of England
and Wales as increasing faster than
ever.
Last year had the lowest death rate
on record in the two countries and the
increase In population by excess of
births over deaths was 194,033. 1t was
the decrease in the death rate rather
than an increase in the birth rate which
made for increase In population, the
birth rate being the same as in 1929,
1853 per thousand, which was the lowest
ever recorded.
The death rate was ia or two below
1929, and 2 below 1923 and 1926, which
represented the previous lowest figures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-11
GRAND JURY GETS
CASE OF DULANEY
Slayer of Man Found With
His Wife Appears After
Inquest Verdict.

The wheels of justice moved swiftly
today in the case of Hurtha Ira Du-
lsney, 81 years old, who was taken be-
fore the grand jury this afternoon,
shortly after a coroner's jury had or
dered him held for that body's action
on q charge Of numbering William l..
HUFF, IS, when he found the man visit
ing his wife in their apartment, at 1917
H street northeast, Monday night.
The coroner's jury, after viewing the
bullet-pierced body Of the 25-year-old
virginian at the Morgue and listening
to q tragic story Of broken home and
husbands shattered illusions. made
its decision and surprised spectators,
who had thought that in view Of the
wife's written confession Of unfaithful-
ness the coroner's jury would free Du-
laney under an unwritten code of "justi-
fable homicide"
Love Letters Barred.
Although neither Dulaney nor his
27-year-old wife Mary testified at the
inquest there was read to the jury a
statement signed by Mrs. Dulaney in
which she sought to assume the blame
for the tragedy.
The wife's statement, however, was
modified In the last paragraph by q
remark that while her husband had
thought he had had affairs with sew
eral women"
A distinct sensation at the inquiry
was the introduction of half dozen al
legged love letters written by Mrs. DU-
laney to HUH during brief period pre-
ceding his death. The letters, which
were not read aloud by the jury, were
found in a bureau drawer at HUFF S
home, in Hume Springs, Va, after Fred
Schwartzman, friend of the deceased,
had told police of mysterious" re-
mark which HUH had made to him
about letter.
HUFF Wanted Expose.
Schwartzman was put on the stand
and testified that on the morning OF
the tragedy HUFF had told him that If
anything happens to meP he wanted
Schwartzman to expose to the world"
\ letter in q bureau drawer at his
home. No letter signed by HUFF was
found in the drawer, but the bundle
of miSsives from Mrs. Dulaney were
found in box in the same location.
The last letter received by Huff was
dated March 0, the day of the shoot
ing, and was signed, Mary CHuff). )"
Mrs. Dulaney was called to the stand
and advised by Assistant District Attor-
ney James j. Wilson that she need not
testify unless she cared to, under Dis
trict laws affording wives immunity
from testifying against their husbands.
She was dressed in a fashionable brown
coat over green lowered dress, with
brown hat to match.
Twisting a handkerchief In her nm
gers, Mrs. Dulaney stated:
IT don't know whether to testify or
not. Which do you think is best?"
Mr.. Wilson and James j. OShea,
counsel for Dulaney, advised her the
question was one for her to decide her.
self, and Mr.. Wilson finally suggested
that she ask Coroner j. Ramsay hewitt,
presiding, for advice.
Hun Visit Described.
The coroner hesitated and a member
Of the jury solved the dilemma by an
nouncing that the jury did not need
her testimony.
In the statement signed by Mrs.
Dulaney, the young wife, mother of
four young children. admitted she had
been intimate" with Huff on several
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 80
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-11
OIL STATE LEADERS
PLAN TO CONFER HERE
Gov. MuTay's Cousin Sets March
% as Date for Farley of
Governors.
nv the Associated Press.

ny the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, March II. -
Cicero Murray, chairman of a contact
group representing several oil States, an
nounced today a national conference
viii be held within two weeks. prob
ably In Washington.
Murray, cousin Of Gov. w. H. Muir
ray and the Governors personal rep
resentatiye ut the Oil Relief Confer
ence Monday at Texarkana, Ark, set
March rs as . tentative date for the
meeting. -
Governors or their representatives OF
California, Texas, Kansas, Louisiana,
Arkansas, wyoming and New Mexico
.yiIl be asked to attend.