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Evening star., 1932-01-01

to airmail contractors followed re-
cent conference between Postmaster
General Brown and representatives Of
the air transport lines. The slash
was made to prevent a deficit in the
amount allotted by Congress for the
purpose.
The largest air transport companies
today made effective heavy reductions
in passenger rates, affecting scores of
cities. Coast-to-coast rates over sew
eral routes are down to sl60, while the
rate between the Capital and Los An
geles reached a new low of $152, travel
time being reduced simultaneously to
"a hours.
The new rate between this city and
Los Angeles represents cut Of 500
from the former rate.
New Travel Rates.
The new rates are on @ general level
Of cents per Air mile over the large
national systems, with further re-
duction of 10 per cent on most round
trip rates.
Pay slashes have been made by many
Of the transport lines during the past
few weeks. Those on the Ludington
Line between Washington and New
York were effected by putting pilots
on a mileage basis rather than on a
fixed salary
In computing the new rates, the pilots
are given credit for the time they have
flown for the line, in addition to their
monthly flying time. A minimum rate
Of 5000 a month for pilots has been set.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
LOWER AIR RATES
AND PAY EFFECTIVE
Transport Lines Launch Pro-
gram of Increased Speed
and Economy.

American civil aeronautics today
launched on drastic program OF
economy, increased speed, lower pas
senger fare rates, longer working hours
for all serviceable aircraft, 24-hour
transcontinental mail and passenger
service and reduced air express rates.
The Capital is among the scores oil
cities in all sections affected by the
changes.
The most general reductions Of pas
senger rates ever made, amounting to
as much as 20 per cent, became et1ec-
tive today on the largest systems.
At the same time contract airmall
lines were forced to accept cut OF
5000, 00G in payments by the Post once
Department for carrying the airmalls.
Reductions Of salaries on the Lud1ngton
Line, following similar reductions on
many others, marked the beginning OF
new financial period for the air lines.
Speed Chief Feature.
Speed is to be a principal plank
in the new aviation program, the new
24-hour transcontinental service being
the chief evidence of this The new SChe-
dulles, which affect travel between
Washington and the West Coast, cut
seven hours from the 1881 schedules.
Delivery Of number of fast all-metal
monoplanes is being awaited as a
means of reducing travel time between
here and New York.
The Post Office Department pay cut
Evening star., 1932-01-01
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. January 1.-William j.
Callahan arises to remark that he prob
ably is the world champion playgoer
In 13 years, he estimated today he
has seen $500 plays and has been in
the theater, seeing snatches of shows
121 $50 times.
OF the 60 theaters on New York's
Rialto, an average Of 80 is playing all
the time Callahan drops in on each
of the 80 once a day, making 18O
visits to theaters in Six-day week
Multiply 1870 by So weeks in the year
ana then by the 13 years Callahan has
been doing this sort Of thing, and the
answer is 121, $50.
He hasn't missed first night" dur
ing the entire period and there have
been approximately 1900 of them.
Spy for Publishers.
Callahan is the spy" the "ears and
eyes" of the publishing firm which sup
plies Broadway theaterS with their pro-
grams. His shopping the hot tips
he picks up and his uncanny sense of
how lCng a play will last have saved
his firm thousands Of dollars.
1t works this way:
Enough programs to last the ABC
Theater all of next week are printed
late this week. If the show is to close
Wednesday night only half the guam
tity would be needed, but producers
sometimes are strangely secretive about
when they are going to drop the cur
tain for good.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
BOMB WIRED TO CAR HORN
is FATAL TO CONTRACTOR
Internal Machine Attached to. Au-
tomobile Kills Driver-Two
Questioned.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, January 1.-Kenneth E.
Churchill, 80, died late yesterday from
injuries received in the explosion OF a
bomb which had been placed in his
automobile so it was discharged when
Churchill sounded the horn OF the ma
chine.
The explosion occurred Wednesday
morning while Churchill, a building
contractor. was driving along the city
streets. He received a fractured hip,
leg and arm, and his car was wrecked.
Police attempted to connect the plot
with discovery two weeks ago Of an
unexploded bomb under the hood OF an
automobile owned by w. A. Carte, an
electrical engineer.
Miss Isabel Hersey, to whom both
Churchill and Carte had been attentive,
and Carte were. questioned by police.
The men were not acquainted with each
other and Carte recently became en-
gagged to another girl.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
121,e8O VISITS TO TF1EATERS
IN l3 YEARS CLAIMED RECORD
Spy" for Program Publishers Averages
18O Snatches of Plays Each Week,
Making $500 Full Productions

That is where Callahan enters He
has assistant spies porters, scrub
women and doormen-who tell him all
the theater gossip. Then he checks
up on it, and If he finds the show
really Is going to close Wednesday, the
quantity of the programs is cut in
half.
Callahan knows his theater. He can
spot a flop" about as quickly as any
one, and often he warns his employers
to go light" on programs for this or
that show, because it looks bad"
Must Watch Cast.
Changes in the cast form another
problem. Whenever a substitution is
made, the program must be revised
Immediately. That means junking all
that have been printed in advance.
Again Callahan'S tipsters help him by
passing on back-stage gossip
May Blank is rehearsing for Sally
Does part" they tell him and the vigil
liant Mr.. Callahan investigates
The plays often get rather jumbled
in the mind Of the perambulating
Evening star., 1932-01-01
MISSISSIPPI DELTA
FLOODS INCREASE
Residents Wage Desperate
Battle to Save LeveeS
From Rising Waters.
ny the Associated Press.

ny the Associated Press.
GLENDORA, Miss, January In
habitants Of the delta country today
worked desperately to strengthen bat
tered and water logged levees against
an increasing flood menace that greeted
them with the New Year.
THE Tallahatchie, Yazoo and other
rivers, streams and bayous which crlss-
cross the fiat lands Of Northwest Mis-
sissippi were rising steadily after rains
which came Just as the first high
waters started to recede.
Water washed over the levee tops in
several places along the Tallahatchie
Valley and new and dangerous breaks
IN the levee systems appeared immi-
nent. Thousands Of acres were in
undated and tenants and stock were
hurried to hill rises.
Boats Asked by Town.
The Yazoo Mississippi Delta Levee
Board was called upon to send all avail
able boats to Glendora to care for
local residents as danger of break
in the levee in the east section grew
hourly. Boats patrolled the flood area
to aid marooned refugees and convicts
were pressed into service to AID III
guarding the levees.
Batesville reported the levee system
at Asa, stone and Mimms on the
upper Tallahstchie might not last
through the day as the river rose
steadily. Webb. in the Bayou Cassidy
region, was overrun with refugees who
poured in last night and today and
camped on the public square.
The river stopped over the levee at
Swan Lake, and while rivermen be-
lieved the bank would hold, the over
flow placed much Of the countryside
under water. Towns farther down the
river looked only to breaks above them
to save their own levees from destruc-
ton as the floods rose.
Battle to Save School.
Sumner, south of here, worked to
save its school house and levees against
the swiftly rising waters. Phillip hoped
its dykes would hold in the face of an
anticipated 1-foot rise that would in
undate a portion Of the town.
Northeastern Louisiana also had its
troubles. The principal danger CEN
tered on the Ouachita at Monroe. The
river was at Alb, or 1.3 feet above
food level last night, and rising
steadily. Families in West Monroe had
to leave their homes and the backwater
flooded lowlands up the smaller Boeuf
River.
The flood from the Ouchita also
swelled the Black River of Louisiana,
into which it flows, in the Natchez area.
The Mississippi was reported rising
slowly above Memphis. 1t rose four
tenths Of foot overnight at New Or
leans to a stage of 1912 feet. Flood
stage there Is II feet.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
Murray Gives Plan
To Win Convention
By Precinct Action
''PeopIe,'' Says ''Alfalfa
BILL Can Control Se-
lection of Candidate.
BY the Associated Press.


OKLAHOMA CITY, January l.
Gov. William H. alfalfa Bill Murray,
whose slouch hat has been tossed by
friends into the Democratic presidential
ring, outlined plan yesterday for win
ming the national convention"
While he did not directly announce
his candidacy for the presidential nom
ination. he reiterated he would not &C
cept the nomination for the vice presi-
dency.
The people" he said in signed
statement in his weekly newspaper, the
Blue Valley Farmer. can nominate the
party's choice for President by lifting
their voices In precinct caucuses and
pressing on to win" the national con-
.ent!on.
Charging that opponents were at
tempting to show he differed from the
Democratic party on reform proposals.
the Governor declared:
LAS a matter of truth, this is a con-
test between Bill Murray and the people
who believe in reform, on one side, and
Hoover with his satellites who produced
25-cent wheat and scent cotton, on the
other"
Murray appealed for support In the
State Democratic convention February
IN 4
Evening star., 1932-01-01

the range of the Metropolitan force.
Practice will start on Monday or Weo@
nesdsy.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
WOUNDED FUGITIVE
ON WAY TO BAL LTIM0RE
G. P. Meredith, Shot in Georgia
Hold-up, Taken From Macon
Hospital by Maryland officers.

BY the Associated Press.
MACON, Ga. January George P.
Meredith, escaped convict from the
Maryland House Of Correction, who was
shot in a hold-up attempt here several
weeks ago, was taken from the Bibb
County Jail on stretcher yesterday to
be returned to Baltimore.
He faces a sentence Of 20 years in
Maryland for robbery and charges
against him were not pressed.
Meredith was wounded by r. A. Nc
Cord, Macon and Atlanta fnancier. who
snatched Meredith's gun out Of his
hand and turned It on him after he
had boarded McCord's automobile in
downtown Macon.
Two Maryland prison guards, James
A. Rosa and Arthur M Mills, accom-
panied the wounded bandit North.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
THREE PRIESTS JAILED
UNDER MEXICAN CURB
Violation of New Law Limiting
Clerics to One in $4,000
Charged to Trio.
BY the Associated Press.

BY ITlt NbbUJIHItN FItob'
MEXICO CITY, January Three
Catholic priests were arrested yesterday
on charges Of violating the new religious
law, which requires the registration Of
clerics and limits them TO one for every
10000 inhabitants Of the federal dis
trict.
The arrests were somewhat Of a sur
prise, as it had been expected the law
would not become effective for two or
three days.
Enrique Romero Courtada, secretary
general Of the department Of the fed
eral district, announced the priests had
been sent to the penitentiary.
Effective Immediately no priest, un-
less he satisfies the mandate of the law
will be permitted to exercise any func-
ton in connection with his ministry, '
the secretary general said.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
CALLS SECRETARY ADAMS
"WHIFFET" IN RUM CASE
Philadelphia Safety Director Pro
notes Policeman Ousted
From Navy Reserves.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. January 1.-Secre-
tary of the Navy Adams was called a
misguided and egotistical whiffet" last
night by Director Of Public Safety
Schofeld in elevating a policeman who
had been discharged from the Naval
Reserves for wearing naval uniform
in obtaining liquor arrests.
Charles P. Lang, the officer, took his
oath as sergeant shortly before mid
night He was dropped from the Naval
Reserves several weeks ago.
Lang was elevated to show him good
police work is rewarded" Schofield said
He was made martyr in the Navy
by a misguided and egotistic whiffet
who has no high regard for the Con-
sttutiOn."
Secretary Adams ordered Lang dropped
from the RescrI cs. The order pre-
ciDitated many verbal attacks on the
Navy by Schofeld.
Evening star., 1932-01-01
Oil Biologists Wizardry Praised

TULSA, Okla, January CF).-Dr. r.
A. DAILY of Harvard University, new
president of the Geological Society of
America, paid high tribute yesterday to
petroleum seologists and what he termed
their "NSzardry" and extraordinary
Evening star., 1932-01-01
EDITOR FULFILLS GOAL
OF SO YEARS ON JOB
Edward P. Duffy of Baltimore Sun
Started First Newspaper
Published at Sea.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated FreSs.
BALTIMORE, January Edward P.
Duffy, known by seafaring men every
where as "the Admiral" today COM
pleted so years as a member of the edi-
torial staff of the Baltimore Sun, most
of which was served as marine editor.
Admiral Duffy, who will be II years
old next month, is credited with being
one OF the oldest active reporters In the
country and father Of The first news
paper published at sea. 1t was issued
with London type while he was mem
Der of the crew of the Trenton.
His newspaper service was preceded
by a long career at sea. He said today
he had no intention Of resigning now
that he has reached the goal he set
years ago-50 years as a reporter.
Evening star., 1932-01-01

"spy." He sees a snatch Of the third
act tonight Tomorrow it may be five
minutes of the first act.
But I always try to get in for the
big dramatic moment" he said THE
rest doesn't mean anything"
He never sees all CT a show unless
it is a hit, for at the rate II five
minutes night, it takes nearly month
to get all of 1t.
Mr.. Callahan's idea of q nice quiet
day off is to pay his way into movie
and forget Broadway for a couple of
hours
Evening star., 1932-01-01

Park Police Plan Gun Practice.
Pistol practice will be undertaken
next week by the United States park
Evening star., 1932-01-01

Hundreds and hundreds fine Topcoa including
the BANKER
the stocks to select from size
to how tall short large small be TAKE
ADVANTAGE OF THESE GREAT REDUCTIONS. =
Evening star., 1932-01-01
DENNY TO DIRECT FILM
Comedians Temporary Change An
nounced at Culver City.

CULVER CITY, Calf, January up.
S-Reginald Denny, for years a screen
comedian, is going to quit acting, at
least temporarily, and try his hand at
directing, it was announced yesterday at
Metro-G oldwyn- Mayer Studios, where
he Is under contract.
Denny is to direct What Happened
20 Jenes," which will star Willi9 m
Haynes, Jimmy Durante and Charlotte
Greenwood.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-21
SCHOOL KIDS
TO COME FOR
ANNUAL TILT
Five Hundred or More Ex-
pected for Field Day to Be
Held in Park; Free Coffee
and Ice Cream

Kids from all parts of the coun-
ty will gather here next week Sat-
urday to participate in the local
schools annual field day exercises.
For several years Superintendent
Hodge has made a practice of in
viting other schools of the county
to send representatives here early
in the spring to participate in the
field and track contests and also
in the scholastic contests.
Last year more than five hum
dred children were here, many of
them coming with their parents
and teachers and if the weather is
nice, still larger gathering is ex-
pected this year. A good program
of events has been arranged and
the school band will furnish music
all during the day.
The Chamber of Commerce has
agreed to furnish hot coffee to
those bringing their lunches, and
the Camp Fire girls will see to
serving it as well as the ice cream
which has been donated by the
Twin City Creamery for the oc-
casion.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-21

Fruit growers Of the Kennewick
section Wednesday and Thursday
passed what was said to be the
crisis of the frost situation f or
1892. According to one Of the
largest growers, the full moon oc-
CURED at S:27 am. Thursday, and
is said to be the most dangerous
frost points.
Many orchardmen have had their
smudge pots ready for weeks and
last night had crews Of men in
readiness in case Of frost, which
fortunately did not occur.
If the frost holds off for few
days yet, indications point to one
of the finest fruit crops ever pro-
duced here.
According ito official thermo-
meter readings, the lowest tenn
perature reached Thursday morn
ing was SO degrees.
Reports from sections adjacent
to Kennewick stated that some or
chard men had suffered frost
losses, the temperature dropping
to 90 at Prosser.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-21
GIRLS BRANDED
AS INITIATION
REQUIREMENT
Arms Painted, Visits to Gem
terry are Stunts for Candi-
dates into Local Secret So
ciety in School

Residents of Kennewick who
have noticed a number of the girls
of the Junior class of Kennewick
high school about town with the
words Phi Delta scrawled across
their arms in black letters are won.
dering what it is all about.
According to the Junior girls,
they were initiated into the Senior
Phi Delta club Monday evening
and the branding was part Of the
process of becoming a member.
1t was reported that in addi-
tion to the regular routine of
smearing the lower class members
with iodine, merurochrome, mo-
lasses and clipping the finger nails
in wierd fashions and then taking
them for ride to the cemetery
and making them walk home, the
words Phi Delta were scrawled
across their arms with a solution
alleged to be silver nitrate.
While no serious results will oc-
cur from the initiation prank, the
discolorations may not wear off in
time to allow the young ladies to
blossom out in their short sleeved
dresses for the numerous social
functions will occur at this season
Of the school year.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-21
Prosser Golfers to
Play Match Sunday

Prosser golfers will come here
Sunday to play a three-way tourn-
ament with the Kennewick and
Pasco clubs. Fourteen Kennewick
men will be matched with an equal
number from Prosser and Pasco.
The first foursome will tee off at
$50, eighteen holes to be played.
Last Sunday q couple dozen real
fans behaved the weather and went
to Lind where part of game was
played with q combined Lind and
Ritzville team. Owing to the cold
rain, but part of the gang COM
pleted the play, the visitors being
defeated on the cards which were
turned in by about the same mar
gins that they won on the home
course.
The following Sunday the four
team play which has been fea-
ture for the past few years win
have its opening game on the Ken
newick course. Sixteen man teams
from each of the four towns, Walla
Walla, Waitsburg, Pasco and Ken
newick will play the first of the
four intercity tournaments. Teams
from both towns will be selected
by their ladder standings.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-21
Prospective Settlers
Wants to Trade Out


Publicity being sent out by the
local Chamber of Commerce is be-
ginning to complicate things at
least so far as the secretary is con-
cerned. Many replies are being re-
ceived and few sales have al
ready been made as a result of the
effort. The fame of the district
has been spread to all points, how
ever, in the Pacific Northwest at
least.
But the complicated part is this:
OF the many replies that have been
received, quite a large number who
seek to establish homes in this Sec
tion have property where they now
live which has to be disposed of.
They are anxious to trade. As Mr..
Peters is not running a real estate
office, he has nothing to suggest
along that line. However, if local
residents care to take on some of
this sort of gambling, they will be
given the opportunityssif they will
get in touch with Mr.. Peters and
supply him with detailed informa-
ton as to what they have to trade.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-21
WATER SUPPLY
FOR CITY TO BE
INVESTIGATED
Council Favors Wells and
Deems Rate on Fire Hy-
drants Excessive; Discuss
Municipal Plant

Despite repeated assurances that
the city water contains no harm
full bacteria, so numerous have
been complaints regarding the wa
ter here, the city council has de-
cided to see what could be done
about the matter. Tuesday night
when the subject was preached, it
was suggested that the supply be
changed from the river to wells. It
was pointed out that the Kenne-
wick intake was located in the di-
rect route of the water from the
Yakima river, in which is dumped
most of the sewage from the up
per valley towns. Whether or not
the water contained bacteria, it
was prudent to investigate a
change in the source of supply.
1t was suggested that wells be
sunk to such depth that pure wa
ter could be assured without the
necessity of doping it with chlor-
inc or whatnot. Possibility Of the
city installing its own system was
also informally discussed and in
formation was requested regard
ing the status of the city's con-
tract with the p. P. & L. Co., es-
pecially as concerning the rental
charges for the fire hydrants. The
city is now paying, it is under
stood, So per month per hydrant.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-21

Dorothy Allison, Euarda vinson,
Lorene Belair, Marion Gleason,
Irene Heberlein, Mary and Alta
Puderbaugh, Dorothy Duffy, Olive
Brue, Marguerite Carpenter, Esth-
er Crofford, Sam Cosslet, Roy Sill
Imam, Dewitt Mcguire, Robert
Campbell, Henry Scott, Herbert
Neil, Robert Rupp, Burchell Tay-,
lor, Guy Shepard, Charles Peter
and Dick Galloway are the % mem
bers of the Kennewick Glee club
and orchestra, who will go to Wal
la Walla Friday, April % for the
First Annual Southern Inland En-
pire high school music ensemble,
to be held at the Wa-Hi auditorium
that evening. They will be ac-
companied by the music supervis-
or, Mis- Coral Goodrich. Twelve
high schools are taking part and
Kennewick is the only one from
this end Of the district sending
both vocal and instrumental partic-
ipants.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-21
Mrs. Hopkinson's Senior
Pupils in Recital

Mrs. T. B. Hopkinson will hold
her Sixteenth Annual Recital for
her senior piano and violin pupils
in the Congregational church on
Saturday evening, April % at 8
O'Clock. Those from Kennewick and
Richland on the program are Mar
ion Gleason, Lorene Belair, Alene
Williams, Geraldine Dam, Wilma,
Irene and Norbert Luelloff, MEDIA
and Francile Fletcher, Alice AL
trogge, Luella Rathbun, Dorthy
Allison and Elsie Gleason. The
pupils coming over from Pasco
are Tom Perry, Thelma Richmond,
Geraldine Roakey, Mary Skill, Will
ma Lloyd, Elaine HALEY, Ruth
Wheeler, Margaret Nance, Lucille
Poe, Charlotte Penfield, Eileen
Edwards and Dorothy HALEY. Ad-
mission is free to this recital and
the parents and friends of these
students are cordially invited to
attend.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-04-21
Women to Play for
Golf Prizes Sunday

A prize tournament will be held
Sunday, April "a, at 8 o'clock at
the Kennewick golf course for the
women golfers. Two field cap
tains, Mrs. j. X. Bockius of Ken
newick and Mrs. Harry Mccall of
Pasco, will be in charge. Prizes
will be donated by the Pasco Cloth
ing Company of Pasco and Beste
Hardware of Kennewick.
Score cards for ladder play must
be turned in by Friday evening,
and those entering must have their
dues paid before participating.