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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-08-25
OVER HUNDRED
SINGERS FROM
PROSSER HERE
Big Chorus TO be Feature on
Fair Program; Postmaster
Tells Chamber Of PrOsser
Celebration

Postmaster Walt Summers OF
Prosser brought Mrs. Mary Long
down from the county seat today
to be present at the regular Cham
Der Of Commerce luncheon at the
Plowman Cafe. Mrs. Long is di-
rector of the big chorus which win
be the main feature on the pro-
gram at Prosser's States Day cell
ebration on Labor Day.
She is directing chorus Of over
a hundred voices and the feature
promises to be the outstanding
event of the kind in the state, Mrs.
Long explained to the club menu
bers about the event, and then an
nounced that the entire chorus had
voted to come to Kennewick on the
second evening Of our fair to re-
peat the performance.
Mr.. Summers went into detail
concerning the program at their
celebration which starts at day-
break and lasts until the 'last
pair of shoes is worn out with the
dancing in the evening"
Mrs. Long promises to bring
about $50 Prosser, Grandview and
Sunnyside people, members and as
sistants in her feature, down to
our show. She went to the fair
grounds and made plans for the
staging and lighting with President
C. c. Williams and Superintendent
Il. A. Tweedt.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-08-25
ASK TO HAVE
Ms. HIGHWAY
RUN THROUGH
Committee Prepares to Push
Request to Good Roads As
ISOLATION for the North
Bank Completion

The continuation of the North
Bank Highway and the adoption
of North-South route across the
state are the two principal fea-
lures being stressed by the road
committee of the local chamber of
commerce. Directors of the state
Good Roads association have re-
quested AL communities which af-
filiate with the association to pre-
sent their most pressing road mat
tiers at the annual meeting of the
association which is to be held the
latter part Of next month in Spo-
kane.
This organization has in years
past been a powerful influence in
securing road legislation in the
state. This year the plans sub
mitted by the various communities
will be considered and from the
mass will be worked out plan to
submit to the legislature at the
next session.
III. S. Hughes, county commits
sioner and chairman of the local
road committee has had a mar
(! prepared showing the proposed
route of the North Bank road ex-
tension to Kennewick and the
connections from this point Il
Vantage on the west side of the
river, pointing out the portions OF
the road already constructed, run
ming thru Richland, and the two
up-river towns.
Along with the map will be pre-
pared the arguments which favor
the proposed extensions, suffic-
lent, Mr.. Hughes believes, to have
this sections wants included in
the states proposed new construc-
ton.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-08-25
DEALER SAYS
PEAR DEAL is
LOOKING FINE
Good Crop Locally, Off to
Bad Start on Prices, is in
Packing Sheds; Toms 10
Roll; New Prune Pack

Jay Perry, Of Combelic e. Perry,
said today that the d'Anjou pear
crop is likely to prove a bright
spot in the late fruit deal for the
Kennewick and Richland growers.
1t is expected that go cars Of the
d'Anjou variety will roll from the
warehouses here. Packing activi-
ties are already under way and 80
persons are employed by Combelic
& Perry at the pack, while the Big
Y is handling the remainder Of
the crop.
Eighty cars of Bartletts have al
ready been harvested and have
been placed in cold storage here,
awaiting rise in price.
According to Combelic g. Perry,
their house has already sent out
six cars Of tomatoes to Texas,
where a price range Of from S13
to $50 ton is being received. The
tomato shipments are being sent
out only on market demand.
The prune harvest in the Kenne-
wick region has come to a close
with total shipment Of 80 car
loads. A new departure in the
| prune pack was tried here this
season by the Y, which proved
very successful from a marketing
appearance and shipping stand
point. The fruit was packed in half
bushel wicker baskets that made
an attractive ack, with a neat fac
ing arrangement. The usual suit
case and flat pack was also used.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-08-25
PLAN ANOTHER
GOOD WILL"
CELEBRATION
Merchants Pleased with Re-
Spouse to Movie Invitation
New Event to be Even
Greater Effort

Another "Good Will Day" loom
ed for the Kennewick district to-
night when a number of the bust
ness men met to lay plans for a
ney fete to take place in about a
month.
At present it is planned that
concerns participating in the event
issue script money, on dollar for
dollar cash purchase basis, to GUS
toners over a months period. This
money will in turn be used by the
holders to purchase merchandise
put up at auction, about a month
after the first dates Of issue. The
day is to be called the Kennewick
Good Will Auction Day.
A report given at the meeting
showed that the last ssGood WIZ
day was thorough success, and
an official check Of theatre tick
cts showed that 2640 persons wit
messed the movie at which Kenne-
wick was host.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-08-25
BENTON HAS
S124,OOO TAX
COIN COMING
Suit for the Unpaid Taxes
Against Railroads Ordered
Paid; Will Lift Money
Stringency in County

The $1,O0O,OOO tax suit against
the three railroads operating in
Eastern Washington will soon be
settled in the cpirion of the at
torneys for the counties interested
i'll the suit, a meeting Of whom was
held last Saturday. According to
the computations now being made,
which include the years up to and
including 1881, the railroads will
be compelled to pay to Benton
county back taxes amounting to
$124,O35. This is also according
to the figures recently submitted
to this paper by 'T.",nty Treas
i'rer Harry Forsyth.
According to his figures, how
ever, under the new ruling handed
down by Judge j. Stanley Webster
Benton county would have to re-
fund to the railroads some $50, 900
in tax overpayments. BY includ-
ing the last three years in the
computation, years in which the
railroads have paid less than pre-
viously, the railroads will have to
skick thru with additional pay
ments.
With the payments made, the
financial stringency which has hit
the operation of the county bust
ness the past two years, especial
~ in the eastern part Of the coun-
ty, will be greatly eased. This is
especially true of the local school
district, which has to its credit
somewhere in the neighborhood of
$50, 900. This amount is tied up in
unpaid taxes, the levies for which
have already been made and as
sessed. More than half of the
amount is due the district from
the railroad money.
While the cases will soon be set
tied, it is expected, the litigants
will be given three months in
which to make appeal. In which
event the matter will again be tied
up. It is thought, however, that
both parties will agree to the pro-
visions which have been handed
down.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-08-25
BEST COW TO
WIN 20 BUCKS
Butterfat Contest Again
to be Feature Of Fair;
Other Prizes

The very substantial prize of $40
is being given this year for the
dairy cow producing the greatest
amount of buttterfat in one days
time by the Kennewick Fair As
ISOLATION through the courtesy of
the Twin City Creamery, the Yak
ina Dairymens Association and
Swift & Co. A second prize of 81
and third prize of So will also be
given.
The contest will be conducted as
it was last year, the cows being
tested on the farm, check being
made of the milking the evening
before and then the milking for
the one day. This is q good oppor-
tunity not only to win a good SUBJ
stantial premium but to find out
what the best COW in the herd may
be doing.
Because Of other work which
must be handled by the superin-
tendent of this work right at Fair
time it is quite essential that in
terested parties in this contest mo-
ify the secretary of the Fair not
later than August 81 of their in
tention to enter the contest. We
trust that those interested will be
prompt in making their notifica-
ton so that the contest may be
lined up and save considerable
travel on the part of the superin-
tendent. First and second place
cows, according to the contest,
must be exhibited at the Fair I'M
less there is a very definite reason
for not being able to do so.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-08-25
PRAIRIE FIRE
BLACKENS BIG
AREA IN HILLS
Is Sections of Pasture in the
Horse Heavens Burn; Fifty
Men Battle to Kill Flames
on Wide Front

Ranchers of the Horse Heaven
reported this morning that the
prairie fire that has been raging
there since yesterday noon, has
been brought under control after
1t had left Is sections of land a
black char. The fire, of undeter-
mined origin, was first noticed
about noon yesterday and spread
50 rapidly that call was sent to
Kennewick for help to combat and
furrow the flames.
A carload of yellow-shirted DEM
ocrats responded to the call and
dashed madly out into the Horse
Heaven hills with intentions of
helping the ranchers keep the fire
from spreading to wheat fields and
Iarm buildings. The sad part of
the Good Samaritans' story is that
they got onto the wrong road and
got stuck in the dust and sand,
axle deep. After hours of grinding
and scratching around they almost
decided to call upon the ranchers
70 aud them, when the car made a
gallant effort and extracted itself.
Close to fifty men from here re-
sponded to the distress call and
old not succeed in surrounding the
flames until early this morning.
rat Owens, rancher living in the
oistrlct, said that in one spot the
nle started seven miles from the
river and had burned to it's banks
IN short time.
Although no wheat was damag-
60, stock and sheep men have suf-
Tered heavy loss due to the vast
amount of pasture lands burned
over.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-08-25
SUPER SPECIAL

= The local base ball team,
= champions of the valley for
= the second successive year,
= will play a special game next
= Sunday at the Pasco field
= with the Walla Walla Bears.
2 This team is q grade or so
= higher in class than the To-
= Gals, who feel chesty enough
= since defeating the semi-pro
= team from Spokane last week,
= to figure on winning. mas
= much as the players have done
& their stuff during the summer
= with no remuneration, the
= net proceeds from the game
twill be divided among the
= players. It'll be a real good
= game, and everyone is invited.
. = = = . = = = = . . = = =
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-08-25
Peaches

Probably the biggest peaches in
the world are on display in the
Gascoigne & Fyfe window. Prob
ably no town in the world has so
many peaches as Kennewick and
probably there is no better Judge
of peaches exists, as we have been
observing them as they pass for
years and years. The ones in the
window, however, are of the j. H
Hale variety and 13 of them fill
a standard box. The biggest one
weighed over IL pounds. The
crate bears a placard stating they
were grown by II. p. Cranmer, a
good democrat, during a republi-
can administration.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-08-25
Want Toms

Ripe tomatoes are to be pur-
chased from the Kennewick- Rich
land growers at price Of $1,000
a ton at the Walla Walla can
merry, according to information
given out by George ID. Peters,
secretary of the local chamber OF
commerce today. According to
Mr.. Peters information the can
nery's offer is So cash on deliver
and 50 the first Of the year.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-08-25

Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Soth and
sons Dick and Bob are expected
to arrive Friday evening from Spo-
kane to spend the week end with
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Green on the
Highlands. Mrs. Soth and Mrs.
Green are sisters. Mary Green will
accompany them to Kennewick, af-
ter spending several weeks at the
Soth home in Spokane.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-08-25

Mr.. and Mrs. M. w. Mattecheck
and daughters, Miss Harriet and
Mrs. Ursula HILBERT arrived Sat
urday from McMinnville, Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. Mattecheck and
daughter, Miss Harriet, are guests
this week of Mr.. and Mrs. B. B.
Plowman and Mrs. Hilbert visit
ed with Mr.. and Mrs. John Ferg-
uson on the Highlands. They were
former Kennewick residents.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-08-25
Postponed

Due to the fact that the prin-
cipal speakers were unable to be
present Friday night Of this week
the republican rally which had been
planned by the Benton County Re-
publican club, has been postponed
until some time next week.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-08-25

Mr.. and Mrs. Webb Staley of
Iaklma visited Saturday with Mr..
apc Mrs. Cyrus Hoadley, while on
saer way to Walla Walla, where
mr. Staley took the train for Eu-
81 gene to visit with Mr.. and Mrs.
SKINNER at whose home new baby
sriVed recently. Mrs. Skinner will
Se remembered as Miss Marian
SSsaiey, a former Kennewick resi-
dent.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-08-25

Friday evening five Of the Bus
mess and Professional Women met
at the high school kitchen and can
ned fifty-six quarts Of tomatoes
under the direction OF Assistant
Agent Mary E. Davis. They are
to be used for community relief
this winter, the tomatoes and cans
being donated and the girls donat-
ed their work.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-08-25

; Charles L. Powell, prosecuting
attorney is a business visitor in
Olympia this week. He expects to
go to Bellingham a nd Vancouv-
er, BIC. before returning to Ken
newick.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-08-25

Rev. Arnold Carl Westphal and
Mrs. Westphal Of Salem, Oregon
left for their home Monday sitter
spending ten days with Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Hulet. Mrs. Westphal
and Mrs. Hulet are sisters. Rev.
Westphal took charge Of the Bap-
fist church services both Sundays
he was in Kennewick.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-08-25

All residents Of KennewiclE,
Pasco and vicinity who have play
ed band instruments are request
ed to turn out for the first-and
only-practice for the big en-
gagement for the fair. The first
rehearsal will be held Tuesday,
September 6, at the city hall at
Pasco. Rex Fisk, local band mas
ter, viii direct. Everybody who
can play a band instrument is urg-
ed to turn out for the occasion.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-08-25

DR.. and Mrs. D. S. Brogunier are
planning to leave for Vancouver
the first Of September. Mr.. and
Mrs. L. E. johnson will occupy
the Brogunier house during the
winter.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-08-25

Mrs. Caroline Kitten of Ken
Inewick Hotel was q business visit
or in Spokane and Lewiston, Ida.
Friday.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-08-25

The Courier-Reporter received a
request this week from Mrs. j. J.
Tomlinson Of Ellensburg, asking
for help in locating her son, Jas
per Tomlinson, age 10. Any one
knowing his whereabouts tell him
his mother is worrying about him.
Mrs. Tomlinson failed to send US
q description.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-08-25

Mrs. Ben Brill and her sister,
Miss Gwendlyn Walton of Yakima
visited at the j. E. Mulkey home
on Third Avenue Sunday, while on
their way to visit in Cheney.
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announced to the world the
arrival of a new son to the
LindberghS. An event that
makes the whole world forget
its racial, political and reli-
gious differences in wishing
the parents their deserved
happiness.
And while the kiddies we're agog
over the arrival of Colonel Lind
bergh, Jr, right on the back
page of this paper there was a
headline about school opening
up September 9Th. Always some
thing to take the joy out of life.
Credit this one to Mondays
Times: In Latin-America the
unsuccessful Presidential can
didate makes two races. First
he runs for Office and then he
runs for the border.
Tune in the Rose Tire Buddies
tonight at GAS P. NJ, WKBF.
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Otto Harbach

all right on the Alley of Funny
Tempos. He's the author, you
know, of "Margie," that more than
ten-year-old tune that sold two
and-a-half million copies.
But Con really didn't want to
pen this hymn. 1t was only be-
cause the night owl, Benny Davis,
came into his Office as he was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17

Inspiration of Moment May Mean Fortune for Writer

about to start for a football game
and asked him to write some
music for a song he had con-
ceived.
Con and Mr.. Robinson slid on to
the piano bench and pecked out in
three minutes a skeleton version
of what became 'Margie'
But he wasn't sure whether it
was more than a dud. so he took
it to Virginia, manicurist in the
Strand barber shop on Forty
seventh street, who has heard
more good tunes and bad tunes
hummed to her than any other
miss in the world.
A INFLOW, Virginia, the mani
"A curist, vowed that "Margie"
was sensational, probably a ter
rife hit, as she always says of all
new tunes that are hummed to
her. And Mr.. Conrad published
it and began an eccentric manner
of plugging it.
This was at the time of the
Harding campaign. Thus in every
parade he would hoist a piano
into a truck and drive down the
line of march, singing "Har- ding,
I'm Always Thinking of You, Har-
ding to the tune of "Margie."
Well, the oftener the police
heaved him out the more his song
was talked about, and the more
his song was talked about the
greater his sales became-till
finally he made a fortune on this
freak of circumstances.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17
Avoid Ugly Fat
New Health Way

You need not suf-
fer the embarrass-
ment, discomfort and
health menace of fat.
Stop the accumula-
ton of sluggish body
wastes that impair
proper functioning
of other body pro-
cesses. Give diet and
exercise a chance TO
aid you. Take French
Lick S ats every
morning. Thousands
who do this are de-
lighted with results.
French Lick Salts
is a blend of the same
health-giving mineral
salts found in the re-
nowned spring waters
at famous French
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17
TRACE INSURANCE DEAL
IN TRIAL OF EGAN
Public Defender Had W0man's Pol
icies Made Payable to Him.

BIZ tHitcd Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. II. -
Frank j. Egan, deposed public de-
fender, took the initiative in hav-
ing the life of Mrs. Jessie Scott
Hughes insured, and then had the
policies made payable to himself,
witnesses testified Tuesday at the
trial of Egan and Albert Tinnin for
the alleged murder of Mrs. Hughes.
I. M. Golden, prosecutor, waded
through the maze of Egan's person
al financial difficulties during the
day calling witness after witness
to show the well-paid defender of
the poor was deep in debt.
Tinnin, who completed a sentence
for attempted murder only two
months before Mrs. Hughes was
killed, sat in the prisoners dock a
virtually forgotten man.
Not a word of testimony con-
cerned the dapper youth who is &C
cused of dragging Mrs. Hughes I'M
conscious body in the path of a
heavy automobile, and signalling for
Verne Doran, burglar, to crush
her to death.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17
FORMER JUDGE
is THREATENED
Phone. Calls MenaCing
WhaIIOn Are Investigated.

Threats on the lives of Thomas
Whallon, former city judge, and
Mrs. Wnallon, 3O15 North Meridian
street. Apartment 2O2, were being
investigated today Dy police.
Mrs. Whalon reported that late
Tuesday she received a phone call
from an unknown man inquiring if
Whallon were home.
IF he is, I'm going to kill him, "
Mrs. Whallon said she was told.
Later, second unknown man
called, declaring himself to be a
nephew of the first man, whom. he
said, is crazy" Mrs. Whallon was
told to get out Of town" for a few
days" she said. Whallon told po-
lice he knew of no reason for the
threats.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17

This the fifth Of series Of articles
on Tin Pan Alley. mythical street of
melody, on which the nations songs are
written.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17
BY JACK FOSTER
Times STAFF Writer


Copyright 1882 bv the New York World
Telegram Corporation
n WONDER as I reach this stage
L Of our conversations whether
I am the one who ought to chat
for so much as paragraph about
Otto Harbach.
He is a domestic spirit who
loves the life that circulates
within his old colonial home in
Mamaroneck, while a wire ass
columnist knows little more than
the hectic vibrations that throb
along Radio Row till the clubs
have closed and the doorman has
brought in the mat.
And yet there are these facts
any one can speak Of about this
ruddy-faced author of mo, No,
Nanette," THE Wild Rose" THE
Desert Song Wild Flower" and
so many others.
A former college professor and
advertising copy writer, he fash
Toned as Otto Hauerbach his first
book twenty-five years ago. 1t
was Three Twins and he re-
ceived 500 fat for it. whereas if
he had received royalties he would
have been started on his way to
fortune
Anyhow, he soon participated in
that great success, Madame
Sherry" with it's immortal Every
Little Movement" melody, and
after that his name has been
smothered rare in hits.
Victor Her5ort-they are telling
an anecdote 9tout him last night
as the coffee cups filled with Gig
aret butts. 1t was at an annual
birthday pa Y given for Max
Dreyfuss in his Bronxville home
at the time when Herbert's
Orange &c ems" just had been
prodrccd ard proved to be
wretched failure.
A .CurG song writer spied Her
bcrt pc ng rather sheepishly
Tires tie curtains into the
III. 10 swung on to the piano
S. ,ol and for fifteen minutes
pa. a new waltz that somehow
caused all chatter to be hushed.
AS he quit, he turned to Victor
here.
"4,.9a,c LESS of what happens to
Orange 81 sens he said meek
ly to MIR. Herbert, this waltz will
i've forever"
THIS waltz was "A Kiss in the
IL Dark" This young song
writer was Con Conrad. I men
toned young Mr.. Conrad in con-
nection with his unsuccessful
Pretty Puppies" tune while
ago, but MIR. Conrad is too divert
ing a fellow to dismiss with a
single failure.
Take, for instance, that mad
request made by MasSa Alfalfa
Jolson few years ago.
MasSa Jolson, it seems. wanted
a new southern hymn as badly as
all get out. sub. So he wired Mr..
Conrad and Buddy De Sylvia to
join him as rapidly as a. train
can rattle into st. Louis.
They brought with them Don't
Cry, Suwanee," quickie. A
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17

quickie is a tune that even itself
is embarrassed by the celebrity of
its birth. After Conrad played it
for him, Jolson efTervesced:
That's great! But what we
need is another April Showers"
That YVES always the way with
Jolscn; he never really expected
anything exceptional from fell
low.
And" he said on second
thought, I've notion that if we
could take sight bars from
'Ades5e L .delis' we would have a
sensation.
Well, Morning Will Come"
came to life then and there and
AL Jolson took it with him to
Toronto. When the Canadians
heard this renovation of "Adeste
Fidelis" Come All Ye Faithful"
they rose in their seats, cheered
and demanded one encore after
another.
Well, even to Broadway came
the Giant JolSon's got a hit,
jolsoE'S got a hit" whats That
you say, Jols-n's got hit?" And
the general lanager Of Harms
paid the fab Gus advance of $10,-
900 for perm ssion to publish,
VXTELL, he published it, in
w deed But the song didn't.
sell any more copies than Pretty
Puppies" However, the firm earned
back it's advance by having the
song recorded - this up-to- date
ver~ CT Of Come All Ye Faith
full l h back of Yes, We
Have = 1as.."
Yet. = d, C~nrad's quite a kid