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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-17
EMPLOYMENT FOR 5000
MEN SECURED BY LEGION

Two announcements from Frank
Mclaughlin, Washington state chief
of the American Legions employment
drive, were outstanding this week. They
were:
/. That 5000 men, idle three weeks
ago, have been given work and wages
in the state outside Seattle since the
campaign started.
2. That Seattle will adopt the ia
nous block system for employ
ment of many now out of work.
AS the bulk of unemployment in the
state exists in Seattle, it is generally
recognized that success of the Legion
effort hinges on the Queen City drive.
Legion leaders point out that material
unemployment relief in Seattle will
Immediately and directly affect every
community in the state in q beneficial
way
Under the man-ablock plan, with
which 5000 men have been put to
work in Buffalo, N. Y, residents of
each block will be asked to pledge pay
ment of so much weekly to man who
will do odd jobs in that block. In
Buffalo the block per week wage was
set at SIS.
In declaring that the campaign, de-
spite it's noteworthy accomplishments
to date, has barely gotten under way
in this state, Mclaughlin points to the
fact that but 40 out of 140 Legion
posts in Washington SO far have re-
ported progress.
"What has been done has been well
done and is appreciated" the drive
commander declares, but our state
wide objective is still on the horizon
and we must push on vigorously"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-17
White Bluffs
Girl Winner in
Song Contest
WHITE BLUFFS BAND ALSO MAKES
HIT AT POMONA GRANGE
MEETING
BY w. j. Jenkins
Grange Correspondent

The regular monthly Pomona was
held at Kennewick Valley Saturday
afternoon and evening, March IL.
During the business session an ex-
cellent plan was suggested for giving
the grangers in the different commun-
tiles an opportunity to get better ac-
quainted. This was to take their knit
ting go in body and spend social
evening with their neighbors. We can
expect to see some of the grangers
from down the valley over to see us
in the near future and we will be glad
to return the visit.
Mr.. Durdle, county agent, then asked
permission to introduce E. B. Buchan-
an, who spoke on the Underlying
Causes of the Financial Depression
and suggested many ways of improv-
ing our present condition. The Grange,
he said, fills place in country life
which makes itself felt. There seems
to be no scarcity of farm products.
yet we are poor. There is mental
depression in the midst of plenty. This
should not be. Farmers should choose
ready an overproduction. High finance
says to leave the depression alone and
| it will come out of it itself. A balky
horse can go ahead only when he
thinks he can. This depression is not
only calamity but national dis
| grace.
What is wrong when in land of
11it
are about 100000 people idle. Many
would rather starve than ask for
bread We lose our self respect when
forced to accept charity. The only
people who are harder hit than the
farmers are the laborers who can't
get work. We should be discontinued
until we find something or some one
to lift up. The thing we believe is what
we act on. Mr. Buchanan concluded
by saying. IF my talk has been the
means of causing you to think more
deeply for yourselves and our country
then it will not have been in vain"
The White Bluffs Band of 81 pieces
opened the evening program by play
ing america" AL Probach came over
from Pasco especially to play in the
band. Several selections were played.
the band being the attraction for
about 40 minutes and at the conclu-
sion their efforts were heartily ap-
| plauded by every one present. Other
musical numbers that followed were a
piano solo by John James Keal;
saxophone solo by Walter Mykol ac-
companied by Miss Duvall; a few sell
ections by the saxophone section of
the band; and a selection by sextet,
trained by Mrs. SwaZe and made up
of Ruth Swaze,, Nina Puterbaugh and
Dorothy Ellison, violins, and Neil
Lampson and Lorin Tweedt, saxo-
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-17
Italian Traueloglle and
Music Feature Club Meet

The March meeting of the Woman's
Club was we'll attended, % members
and visitors being present to accom-
pany Mrs. Taylor in her travelogue
through Italy and to enjoy the special
music that had been promised.
To illustrate her talk, Mrs. Taylor
had prepared large map of Italy
plainly marked as to cities, rivers
mountains and boundaries. Every Am
erican who visits Italy, she declared
should enter through the port OF
Genoa, the alma mater of the Amer
icas, here it having been that the boy
Columbus grew into manhood anc
looked across the sea with longing; anc
through and about Genoa, called by
the Italians Genoa La Superba," she
row streets that wander around the
bases of the huge stone houses that
Chamber up the steep hillsides; into the
cavernous arcade in which they lose
themselves along the shore front. Here
they walked with the brilliant, dressy
Genoese crowd through the colonnaded
streets, admiring the beautiful displays
of leather work. gold and silver work
old furniture and jewelry work of all
kinds; listening to the hawkers cry
their wares of eggs, azaleas, apple trees
in pots, cauliflowers, toothbrushes, gar
lie and foxskins, and innumerable
other articles of infinite variety They
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-17
Pioneer Woman
Dies In Yakima

This community was shocked Mon
day to hear of the passing Of Mrs.
May Whitney who died about noon
that day in st. Elizabeth's hospital
in Yakima.
Mrs. Whitney had been i'll for some
little time but the seriousness of her
condition was not recognized. About
three weeks ago she was taken to va
kima by Mr.. Whitney to seek medical
advice and since then, up until few
days before her death, had remained
visitor at the Day home in Yakima
in order to be near her doctor. When
her condition became acute she was
taken to the hospital, where she died
day or two later.
The funeral took place Thursday
afternoon in Yakima, from the Shaw
& Sons chapel, and burial was in Ter
race Heights Memorial Park in va
kima The services at the chapel were
conducted by Rev. H. A. Moves of Han
ford and were attended by about fifty
White Bluffs people, old friends of the
deceased.
MRS. Whitney was go years of age.
She had lived 80 years in Washington,
26 of them in White Bluffs. She was
member of the Grange and the Pres
byterian church. The family includes
the widower, Charles A. Whitney; three
sisters, Mrs. Joseph L. Lovelace Of
Santa Rosa, California Mrs. Georgia
Series of Hanford, California, and a
sister in Berkeley, California; and a
brother, Julius Aiken of San Fran
CISCO
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-17
AGED MAN PASSES AWAY
AT HOME OF DAUGHTER

r. j. Curtis, aged father of Mrs.
Henry Chairman, died at the CLAM
man home at White Bluffs early this,
Thursday, morning. Mr.. Curtis had
made his home with Mr.. and Mrs.
Chairman since the fall of 1914. Since
1929 he had been a widower Mrs. Cur
tbs having passed on in May Of that
year.
Although having been retired from
active life for many years, Mr. Curtis
always retained his interest in national
and world affairs and was an extensive
reader. In spite of his years his health,
except for an occasional weakness
since Mrs. Curtis death, has always
been exceptionally good. His end came
peacefully.
Royal Joseph Curtis was born at
Canton, Illinois, July %, 1887, and was
81 years old at the time of his death.
He was married to Achsah Rhodes
at Toulon, Illinois, February Ia, 1861.
Ten years later he moved with his
family from Illinois to Penora, Iowa,
where they lived until coming west.
Mr.. Curtis was a charter member of
the Presbyterian church at Panora at
the time it was founded and retained
his membership there until the time
of his death.
He is survived by two sons, r. M.
Curtis of Brooklyn, N. Y, and F.. w.
Curtis of Richland, Washington; two
daughters. Mrs. Lucy Willis and Mrs.
Julia Chairman, both Of White Bluffs;
ten grandchildren and fourteen great
grandchildren. The death of his eldest
son, Willis H. Curtis, in California in
1924, was the first to occur in the di-
rect family line in nearly 40 years.
The funeral will be held Friday at
2:30 p. M, from the Presbyterian
church. The church services will be
conducted by Rev. H. A. Moves and the
services at the cemetery will be con-
Quoted by the Masonic Lodge.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-17
MAY ELIMINATE TAX ON
IRRIGATION POWER

Protests by growers in this valley
and possibly from other districts
against proposed excise tax on cleo
trio power used in irrigation pumping
are apparently getting results.
When news reached here few weeks
ago that Congress was considering a
general sales tax measure to relieve
the deficit in the national treasury, a
night letter signed by the White Bluffs
Commercial Club, White Bluffs Grange
Priest Rapids Irrigation District, Priest
Rapids Ice g. Cold Storage Company
and others, protesting against the APP
plication of the tax on electricity fol-
pumping water in irrigated districts
was sent to Congressman John w
Summers. Since that time several in
dividual growers have written Mr.
Summers and others of the congress
sional delegation from this state on
the same question.
Tuesday most of the daily papers
carried an Associated Press dispatch
that said the House ways and means
committee having the sales tax bill
in charge were considering the elm
nation of the proposed tax on three
items, one of which was on electricity
used for pumping irrigation water.
No protest is being made here on
the proposed tax on electricity when it
is used for lighting or commercial
purposes but because of the large
quantity required for irrigation pump
ing, growers feel that tax on it
would impose an unjust burden.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-17

DR.. E. F. Newton, Mrs. Newton and
Mary Elizabeth, and Mrs. Stanley
Gray, drove down to Portland Satur-
day and the party visited friends there
over the weekend, returning Monday.
They were accompanied home by Mrs
Oliver Williamson, of San Pedro, Calf,
who will be a guest at the Newton
home in Hanford for an indefinite
time. Mr.. Williamson, who is BROTH
er of Mrs. Newton, is absent as chief
engineer of the yacht "Adriana" while
it's owner, Harvey Bissell, of Bissell
carpet sweeper fame, is on cruise of
the South Seas.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-17
Farmers Face Changing
Marketing Conditions
By County Agent E. c. Durdle

American agriculture, during 1882,
and probably for several years to come,
will face the most highly competitive
market in the history of the industry"
This is the declaration of Ralph H.
Taylor, secretary of the agricultural
legislative committee.
'"That view," says Mr.. Taylor, "is
not defeatism, nor does it suppose
a passive acceptance of declining bust
ness. 1t is the view of both national
and California farm leaders, who con-
slider complete honesty in looking at
the facts as the first step toward meet
ing a radically changing market.
Facing the situation candidly, there
is every prospect that the fundamental
and often ruthless law of the survival
of the fittest will dominate as never
before. Yet the same conditions, in
general, will apply to business and ALL
other industries.
Better producers, bedrock produc-
ton costs, elimination of Improbable
acres and uprofitable livestock, agrees
sive and efficient marketing-such are
the weapons with which to meet such
conditions. And California, already far
advanced in each of these respects,
must go still further"
The above article clipped from the
Northwest Produce News of last week,
in our opinion, sums up very pointedly
the situation which American farming
is having to face. American agricul-
ture went through pepriod of rapid
expansion during the world war, and
ever since has had to follow plan of
retrenchment, since foreign markets
have been falling off. Today with tar
| iff barriers against importation of out
side products and largely aiming at
America has made the farm situation
one of production of surplus for the
markets which are available and this
in turn has brought demoralizing
prices.
Particularly in this country does this
situation affect all classes of people
Our business conditions are almost en-
tirely dependent upon the farming
population and it is essential that all
interested study the real situation as
far as agriculture is concerned and
lend hand toward as rapid correction
of the difficulty as possible.
William FerWerda is finding much
interest in a study of the codling moth
which he is conducting at the Troman-
hauser ranch. The moths, in the worm
1 u II
bark on the apple trees where they
have been alternating during the Win
ter. They have been placed in glass
| jars and submitted to various stages
of temperature in the house. Several
of the worms have developed into
moths and are about ready to begin
laying eggs, Mr.. Ferwerda says.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-17

A letter received Tuesday by Mrs.
o. G. Young from relatives in Ten
nessee said that the beautiful weather
enjoyed there all winter had come to
am end with visitation of sleet and
snow. Peach buds were frozen and
early spring gardens had been de-
stroyed in the wave of cold weather.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-17

Russell Miller drove over to Yakima
Wednesday to bring home Mrs. Miller,
who for the previous two weeks had
been receiving medical treatment in
the Yakima Nursing Home.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-17
lum Minimum

Five hundredths of an inch of rain
fell on the 10th, .03 on the 18th, 02 on
the 18th and 81 Of an inch on the 18th,
making total precipitation for the
week of 81 inches, and bringing the
total for the first half of March to
AS of an inch.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-17

Members of the Priest Rapids Valley
Golf Club are planning to have field
day Sunday, when they will all meet
on the course and spend the day i'm
proving the green's and fairways.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-03-17

The annual outdoor spring cleanup
has been going on in town all week
and already the town has begun TO
take on more tidy appearance.
The committee appointed by the
Commercial Club to look after the
pruning of the shade trees on the av-
enue, was around the fore part OF
the week securing pledges from the
different business houses to contribute
one day for this work. They believe
they have enough pledges to insure
the pruning of all the shade trees in
town.
Saturday night has been set as the
dead-line for the cleanup and it is
thought that by that time most of
the work will be done. Fine coopera-
ton on the part of the residents of
the town is reported by the committee.
Some of the ranchers in the COM
munity have caught the cleanup fever
and have been tidying up their places.
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Crops In South
Hurt By Cold Wave

Damage ranging from 20 to 90 per
cent of the vegetable and fruit crops
in the southern and southeastern states
as result of the cold wave that Wis
tied that section last week, is reported
in the Pacific toast Packer, published
III Kansas City and with nationwide
circulation among growers, buyers,
dealers and shippers.
The states affected included Texas,
Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kentucky Ten
nessee, Georgia, Alabama, North and
South Carolina, Louisiana, Florida,
Missouri and Illinois.
The vegetable damage ranged from
tomatoes to asparagus and early po-
tatoes, while damage only to soft fruits,
particularly peaches and strawberries,
was reported. Most of the districts
where apples are grown said that these
buds were not far enough advanced
to be injured.
The cold wave was accompanied by
rain, snow and sleet and temperatures
ranged from to 10 degrees above zero.
The Washington times., 1932-11-28
REPAIR
FUNDSCUT

With the assertion that more
than rs per cent of schoolhouse
damage is absolutely avoidable,"
the public school business office
today appealed to the Washington
public to aid in protecting school
property.
Jere J. Crane, first assistant SUI
perintendent of schools in charge
of business affairs, declared that
with the proposed reduction in the
District appropriation. it will be
essential to reduce the money
spent on schoolhouse repair work.
In the past, the appropriation
for school repair and maintenance
has been little less than $500,000.
It is the desire of school officials,
Mr.. Crane pointed out, to reduce
this expenditure in the coming
fiscal year.
During the past year, Mr.. Crane
said, more than $4,000 has been
expended for replacing broken
windows. More than $4,000 Of
this could be saved, he said. by
greater care of school buildings.
The Washington times., 1932-11-28
NEW AUTO TAGS
ATTRACTFEW .

Due to the hard times. or
something, there was no rush for
automobile tags when the 1888
vintage went on sale today at the
Traffic Bureau Building, John
Marshall Place and PENNSYLVANIA
Avenue Northwest.
Less than 600 persons had
called for their tags up to noon,
and only a handful was waiting
at 9 a. m. when the office opened
for the days business.
Edgar W. Bootman, of the
First block of w st N. w., how
ever, was the first of the early
risers and was regarded with the
first tag issued-E-102.
Traffic Director William A. Van
Duzer blamed the lack of interest
in the opening days sales on the
hard times and the fact. that pay
day for Government workers and
the many other WaShingtonians
does not come until Thursday.
Mr.. Van Duzer said that 14O, 900
tag applications are being mailed
out. He expects to receive re-
turns from 10000 of these. The
other 10000, he believes. will not
be heard from, the owners having
moved or disposed of their ma
chimes,
The Washington times., 1932-11-28
SEEK JANITO Or
IN HOUSEF| IRE +.

A police detail today is guard
ing the ruins of the Alzarado
Apartments, in the first block of
Rhode Island avenue northwest,
where a fiVe-alarm fire early yes
terday did $4,000 damage, while
search is still. under way for the
janitor, william Mckinley Scott,
colored.
Scott was missed after the fire,
and firemen combing the wrecked
building found no traces of a
body.
\ Get Shelter in Cold.
More than a dozen families,
many of whom lost all their be,
longings, yesterday and last night
sought such shelter as they could
find, following the blaze which
drove them from their homes in
the bitter cold Of early morning.
The fire started at 4:30 a. m.
yesterday in the furnace room.
The cause is still undetermined.
Nobody Injured
Although the interior of the
ANarado was "recked, two score
men, women and children escaped
without injury because the walls
stood, and they were able to go
down fire escapes on the outside.
Occupants were awakened by
a taxicab driver who saw smoke
pouring from the roof. Firemen
believe, however, that there was
delay in turning in the alarm.
Damage to the apartment is
estimated at $4,000, and loss to
tenants at $4,000.
The Washington times., 1932-11-28
CLEARINGHOUSE
MAY S|FT OUT
JOB HUNTERS
"Deserving Democrats" Pour
In Upon Leaders After
Slice of Patronage u

Already job hunters who want
places in the Roosevelt admins
tration are so numerous and so
persistent in their claims that GER
tain leaders of the Democracy OF
the District of Columbia today
were seriously considering the ap-
pointment of an employment
committee, or something like it, to
advise the Democratic leaders
here.
II appointed-and a secret
meeting to bring it about is I'M
der discussion-Such an organiza-
ton Of volunteers would act as
a sort of clearing house" in the
handling of applications of de-
serving and nondeserving Dem
ocratS.
It was learned that the tele-
phones of a half dozen or more
Democratic leaders here are jan
Cling almost constantly and most
frequently a job hunter is at the
other end of the line.
The Washington times., 1932-11-28
TO Split
HUNGER TREK
ON ENTRY
Three Converging Columns
May Be Forced to Come
As individuals

Further obstacles which may be
thrown in the path of the hunger
marcherS on their trek to the
Capitol were revealed today as
police officials continued with
plans to handle the groups now
en- route to Washington.
Major Ernest w. Brown, super
intendent of police, said if the
marchers enter the city in col.
umns they may be ordered to
break ranks and enter the city as
individuals. Police hold that
movement in groups would con-
stitute parading, for which a per-
NIT is necessary.
A second obstacle may be en-
countered in the effort to march
to the Capitol to present a list OF
demands to Congress-the prime
reason of the trek. Should appll-
cation for a permit to stage such
march be made, Major Brown
said, the applicants must first
prove they have permission from
Capitol authorities to enter the
Capitol Grounds.
Stricter Regulations
Police recently adopted a new
application form for persons wish
ing to stage a parade. The old
custom was to make application
for permit in the form Of let
ter. The new forms call for full
details, including the purpose Of
the parade, the number partici-
pating and the group sponsoring
it.
The third obstacle, and prob
ably the greatest to the marchers
will be the necessity for them to
show they are able to provide for
themselves during their stay in
Washington. The leaders, it was
indicated. may be called upon to
show that they have sufficient
food or funds to take care of all.
Should they prove to be not self
supporting they will be given an
opportunity to leave the city and,
failing that, will be dealt with as
vagrants.
Come From Three Points
The marchers plan to advance
into Washington from three
directions. One group will enter
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The Washington times., 1932-11-28
Sermons From Stone Walls

Let minister of the gospel turn bandit let him be caught
and imprisoned for e he will still retain impulse to
Sunday the moral homiy issued at St. Quenton
recently by Herbert Emerson Wilson is notable example
eff crime to cease he says, the judicial system
would be disrupted and thousands of people thrown out of
work"
It isn't often criminal has much solcitude for the
prosperity of the judge "Think says Mr. Wilson, of the
judges the lawyers the uries and the police insurance
companies prison employees and the others who would lose
If there was crime.''
In dollars and cents-a good argument these dayshe
figures that for every dollar made in crime ten is made
by those who detect convict and guard criminals About
fourth of the national income, should judge. It
pity to stop it right away.
The argument is sound and should be carried further
sckened the doctors would sarve and the
and the pharmacists; it up to be ill., If
all freproofed the insurance companies would go under
had better burn. And did not die the under
takers and the caske manufacturers would reproach
let us enthusiastically commit suicide
Mr. Wilson be that all of these likely to
happen as the sudden end of crime.
The Washington times., 1932-11-28
MAI. G|LLET 7 TE
GRANTS AID

The appointment of Major D.
H. Gillette, now engineer for the
office of Public Buildings and
Parks, as assistant director of
that office to replace Capt. E. N.
Chisolm, jr., was indicated today
when newspapermen were referred
to Major Gillette for information
concerning the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission.
Although Lieut.. Col. U. S.
Grant Sd, director of the build
ings and parks office, has con-
sistently declined to verify Major
Gillette's appointment as his SEN
ior assistant, office regulations
assign to the senior assistant ad-
ditional duties as civil engineer
for the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission.
Major Gillette's action in tax
ing over the latter assignment is
believed indicative, then, that his
promotion in the Office of Public
Buildings and Parks is certain.
Captain Chisholm will report for
new tour duty of duty December
Is at Fort HumphrieS.