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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-04-14

Senior Class to
Present PLAY
Friday Night
PLANS BEING MADE TO ENTER
TAIN LARGE CROWD AT
ANNUAL AFFAIR

The Senior Glass has been working
on their class play and are now ready
to announce that it will be presented
on Friday evening, April Is, in the
High School auditorium.
This year they have chosen a royal
ty play entitled Sunshine Lane
a new sparkling threeact comedy,
which has much to do about Betty
Hilton, the Sunshine Girl of Sunshine
Lane" who later proves she can be a
tornado when aroused. Other char
acters are: Stephen Warning, a power
in the state whom no man has ever
thought of opposing; Charlie Conley,
his assistant, who interests Betty con-
siderably; Warnings sister, the Great
Aunt Edith; Warnings daughter, Dor
othy, a sophisticated young modern;
Elfred Witherstone, dense young
Englishman and friend of the War;
rings; Mandy, the colored cook; Helen
and Mrs. Burroughs; Tommy Baxter
and Nat Morton, a village ne'er-do-
we'll.
Those taking the above parts are
Hazel Montgomery, Irene Grisham, Lii
liam Larsen, Gertrude Upton, Aletha
Hemker, Dorothea Shinn, Charles Sco-
vel, William Hall, Raymond Walker,
Albert Barnes, and from Vernita and
Cold Creek, Evelyn Richmond and Ell
ton Meeker
Tickets will be on sale at the door
at 7:30, prices being 35 cents for adults,
Is cents for high school students, and
Is cents for grade school students. The
play will begin promptly at $780,
The Seniors are looking forward to
a big house, as this is their farewell
appearance, and the proceeds from this
play will be used to finance their grad
uation exercises.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-04-14
Benton Highway
} Oiling Scheduled

The Benton County commissioners
have decided to resurface and reoil the
county road from the end of the pave
ment west of Kennewick to Richland,
a distance of about three miles. This
stretch was at one time part Of the
state highway but was abandoned
as state road when the more direct
route almost due west from the pave
ment to Kiona, was finished year or
more ago. 1t has pitted badly during
the last few months and some perman-
ent improvement was necessary. The
resurfacing and re-oiling may be I'M
dertaken at about the same time the
road north of Richland to Fruitvale,
which has just been rebuilt and is now
being resurfaced is Oiled When these
two improvements are made, it will
make stretch of newly oiled highway
eight miles long, three miles south and
five miles north of Richland.
Improvement by widening and resur-
facing the Kennewick road seven miles
south from Hanford is progressing
slowly and at the present rate it will
be some little time yet before the job
is finished. Travel over this road is
difficult while it is under construction
The county is at this time advertis-
ing for bids for the rebuilding and re-
surfacing of three and half miles of
this road, beginning at the south emo
of the present improvement. If sat
isfactory bid is received it will mean
that ten and a half miles of the four
teen miles between Hanford and the
Horn will be built this summer.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-04-14
County Republicans
Elect State Delegates

Nine delegates and nine alternates
to the state Republican convention
were elected at the Benton County
Central Committee meeting in Ken
newick last Saturday
The delegates elected are George O.
Beardsley, j. G. Foisy, James Shepherd
j. L. Ya11tis, John Dam, r. E. Reed,
G.. H. Shanafelt, H. S. Hughes and
F. A. English.
The alternates are c. A. Crawford,
@. L. Powell, A. D. Patterson, Oscar
Hansen, Andrew Brown, B. F. Nc
Gregor, Otto Jaeger, A. w. Wall and
w. A. Koontz.
Recommendations for appointment
on the important committees at the
state convention were George o. Beard
sley, platform; H. S. Hughes, rules and
order of business; and F. A. English,
credentials.
The delegates will go to the state
convention uninstructed so far as can
didates or issues are concerned, but
individually it is believed to be Hoover
delegation.
Among the visitors were two mem
bers of the w. G. T. u, who said
they had never attended a political
convention and wanted to see how it
was DONE"
A communication from the Fedora
ton of Woman's Clubs of the state,
recommending among other things the
participation of the United States in
the World Court and that no change
in the Eighteenth Amendment be at
tempted except by methods provided
in the national constitution, was read.
The letter said the federation repre-
sented about 10000 women in the state.
No action was taken by the meeting
on the recommendations in the COM
munication.
The state Republican convention is
to be held in Seattle, Saturday, May T.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-04-14
White Bluffs Boy
Brings Home Bride

Mr.. and Mrs Charles English re-
turned to their home in Seattle We'd
nesday evening after having spent a
day or two of their honeymoon here
at the home of Charles parents, Mr..
and Mrs. F. A. English.
The bride before her marriage at
Vancouver, Washington, Monday, was
Miss Lillian Berg of Seattle. She has
visited in White Bluffs a number of
times in the last year.
Charles has practically grown up in
White Bluffs, having come here with
his parents whep he was about ID
years old. He is a graduate of the
White Bluffs high school and has at
tended w. S. c. at Pullman, and the
University OF Washington at Seattle
At present he has position with the
Standard Oil company in Seattle.
Both of these young folks have a
host of warm friends in White Bluffs,
all of whom wish them happy we'd
ded life.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-04-14
Mrs. Laricheliere Yakima
Dentention Home Matron

Mrs. F. D. Laricheliere, member of
one Of the pioneer families of White
Bluffs, has been appointed matron of
the Yakima county detention home,
according to the following news item in
the Yakima Herald:
Appointment of Mrs. F. Laricheliere
of GrandvieW as matron of the county
detention home has been announced by
the county officials. She will take the
place of Mrs. Roy Dempster, who is
leaving for Bellingham to make her
future home.
Mrs. Laricheliere was matron at the
home several years ago and her SER
vices were considered highly satisfact-
DRY. The matron's position carries a
salary of $55 month"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-04-14

Sherman Alcorn, who has been a
guest for the past week at the F.. E..
Strycker home, expects to leave the
at Dayton, Ohio. Mr.. Alcorn has just
been mustered out of the U. S. Army
after having served two years and four
months. He was in the Tenth Signal
Service Company which is attached
to the 31st Infantry. Alcorn was sta
toned at Shanghai, China, during the
recent unpleasantness between the
Chinese and Japanese and witnessed d
number of battles.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-04-14
Notice to Legionnaires

All ex-service men are invited to at
tend the special meeting of John Lind
blad Post No. II, American Legion, to
be held Monday evening, April 1o, 7
p. M, at the Legion Hall This is to
commemorate the American Legion
reaching the millionth member mark.
The evening will be spent in listening
to the National Commanders address
over a nation wide broadcast, and To-
cal entertainment.
EDWIN f.. NEWTON, Commander
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-04-14
Body of Man Found in
River at Priest Rapids

The body Of an unidentified man
found floating in the Columbia river
at Priest Rapids Saturday was buried
in the county cemetery at Ellensburg
Sunday. There were no marks of pos
tive identification other than a laun-
dry mark u. H. H." 1t was believed
the body had been in the river several
months. The man was middle aged and
well dressed.-Wenatche Daily World.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-04-14
Woman's Club Notes

The Spanish program announced for
the April study meeting of the Wo-
mans Club, held in the assembly room
of the Lutheran church yesterday af-
ternoon, was greeted by a fair sized
audience of interested listeners, a more
than usual number of visitors being
present. In the absence of the presi
gdenty Mfss@sF'. A. English, the meeting
was conducted by Mrs Fred Gilhuly
vice-president.
Under the direction of Mrs. r. S.
Reierson, the program was opened
with paper by Mrs. j M. Shinn,
whose subject was "Castles of Spain"
Mrs. Shinns descriptions of the ia
nous Alhambra, the fortress palace,
or alcazar, of the Moorish kings at
Granada, built in the thirteenth CEN
fury, and the Royal Palace, the home
of the Spanish ruling family, in Ma
drid, were especially good and she
Illustrated her talk by the use of pic
lures from the Geographic magazine.
Mrs. Reierson's talk, entitled "Ha-
ciendas and Mantillas," which followed,
was one of general discussion of the
Spanish people and their customs, and
helped to justify the belief of last
years program committee that travel
subjects would provide an unusually
delightful year if handled in an inter
esting manner and at it's conclusion
Spain seemed neither a strange nor
foreign country.
Naturally, the customs most differ
ent from those of America reused
most curiosity, included in which were
the Sunday bull fights and three
times-a-month lotteries. Mrs. Reierson
told in detail of the religious cere-
monies which formerly have been so
great part of Spanish holiday fes-
Invites; when all who take part dress
in the Spanish national costume al
though ordinary dress in Spain fol-
lows the dictates of Paris fashions as
in our own country.
The warm climate in many parts of
Spain makes imperative the midday
siesta, when all shops are closed and
locked and the entire population rests
for several hours making up the lost
time by keeping late hours at night
when the weather is more pleasantly
cool.
There is not much Investigation,
in one sense, in the industries Of
Spain, Mrs. Reierson said each district
specializing in one particular product.
All box making is done in Galicia; all
cigarette papers are manufactured in
Valencia; Malaga is strictly a grape
raising district, and SO on. In speak
ing of the wine industry, it was stated
that although much wine is made in
Spain, drunkenness is unknown
charming touch was lent the pro-
gram by the dancing of Miss Evelyn
Barge and Miss Kitty Hall, who were
dressed in costume, Mrs. Reierson
playing an arrangement of La Paloma
for them.
Hostesses for the afternoon were
Mrs. Parke and Mrs O'Larey.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-04-14
TO TALK ON MOTH CONTROL

How to secure a maximum control
of codling moth with fewer lead sprays
will be discussed by Harry E. White,
horticulturist, at meeting in the high
school auditorium at White Bluffs
Wednesday evening, April 20, accord
ing to an announcement in the display
ad of the White Bluffs Warehouse in
the Spokesman this week.
This is a subject in which all grow
ers are interested and it is quite likely
the meeting will be well attended.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-04-14

George Barta has purchased from
j. P. Weber the latters four and one
half acre orchard about mile south
east of White Bluffs. Mr. Barta has
taken charge of the property and will
irrigate it and harvest the crop. Later
he plans to build house and move
onto the place.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-04-14

Although he continued to work dur
ing the time, Sam Allard, operator in
charge of the pumping plant at Coyote
Rapids, has been a sufferer the past
week or more from quinsy. The abcess
broke Wednesday morning and since
that time his health has been improv-
ing.
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WEATHER FOR THE WEEK

The following temperatures for the
week were taken from the readings OF
the government thermometer at Han
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HIGH SPEED GIRL

Sometimes she felt she hated
Laurel for her easy circum-
stances.
But Laurel was a good kid.
In so far as she could care for
any female creature, Imogene
quite Liked Laurel.
She's hated to see Roger TAX
ing notice of her, however.
For Imogen looked to Roger
as her own special property.
And maybe one day-if the old
man didn't prove too unyield-
ing-she might be Mrs. Roger
SartoriS."
Meantime, there were rich
Sugars" like Timmy.
And this new man she had
annexed tonight one Sam
uel Schumph.
Gracious! it's after 7. Tim
M II, be waiting. -" She had
pushed Freddie, Laurel and her
new acquaintance into a taxi
cab.
Soon they were speeding up
Park Avenue. They alighted at
a skyscraper and shot up to
the r"of.
1t was a warm evening, and
Timmy's roof-garden looked
very attractive. Like an oasis
high above busy New York.
Champagne on ice was wait
ing for them. And Timmy him
self in a cool-looking Palm
Beach suit.
He kissed Imogen with a
show of 1clight at seeing her:
And how'S my Tim?" she
whispered to him, soto voce.
The answer was lagreeably ar
dent Imogren felt a kind Of balm
steal into her soul.
If only Tim1ny or some of the
well-to-do would propose to her!
If only she could find some
quiet haven out Of the turmoil"
Maybe He Would
Who knows maybe to-
night he would if she
didn't drink too much? Not
that his commitments" meant
anything, as next morning he'd
usually forgotten everything he'd
said
He had a breach of promise
suit on hand but his law
yers were crafty. The girl that
roped HIM in must be unusually
smart
The champagne circulated
freely. There was the clink of
ice and a gay, heart-warming
popping of CorkS,
you do EVERYTHING so
well, dear Tim!" cooed Imogene,
leading her host behind a little
grove of orange trees that were
set out near the edge of the
swimming pool in tubs.
He slipped an arm about her,
kissed her. She put her left
arm round his shoulders. with
the other holding up her glass.
ITO your happiness, Timmy!
(Co"tinued on 2nd Comic Pass)
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our faults, patting ourselves on
the back for our virtues. And
quite suddenly we are NOT so
SURE. There is the stranger
looking back at us.
Whether we are good or bad.
selfish or generous, candid or
jealous, great or small, we
honestly are up against a re-
gular Chinese wall to say:
"Then;" think we, 'it is the
thing am to the other fellow,
a portrait that 1 am fated
never to see, that is the real
i. oh wad some power the
giftie gle me, to see myself as
itherS see mel"
But that is not you either.
You, woman or man, are a
thousand women and men in
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the mornin' papers? I read
'em on the way home last night.
I was a little woozy. I'll admit;
but the chief made some
mighty broad Statements-dras-
tic cleanup in the department.
and all that"
"Yes, yes, I know; but I
thought 1 could bank on you.
I've got a little job for you"
Ed looked Soberly at his
brother.
You know you can lay your
life on me, Jim. Spill it,"
That's better" And he placed
both hands on his brothers
shoulders and looked earnestly
into his eyes. Nov, I'm going
to build up a case against Bel
monte that no habeas corpus
writs or fixed judges can tear
down. Being on the Vice De-
tail, you get around more than
I do. Well, keep your ears and
eyes open and give me the
slightest tip you get-that's
ALL"
II start tomorrow morning
right after the lineup. Now,
lemme wash my funny pan"
A Grappa Joint
Dirty-face Joe's hole-in-the-
wall was grappa joint. To
the riff-raff of the river-front
underworld he served his hell
ish liquor, raw alcohol dis
titled from new grape wine
served it to a motley horde
panhandlers, stevedores, river
rats, dope showers, pickpockets
and pallor-faced gigolos who
made their living by, from and
with women. The floor was
covered with sour sawdust, the
place foul-smelling, and the
tables, used in lieu of a bar
were pitted from the bites of
the snag-toothed liquor and
emberS of smouldering salt
water StogieS.
Dirty-face Joe carried his
bottle on his hip, served his
customers in water glasses and
had the reputation of having
killed his man with a butcher
Continued on 2nd Comic Page
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Interesting Bridge Hands

Y nor z attempted to bid. BIS
shortneSS in Spades and his
general strength obliged him to
bid Three Diamonds, which A
shifted to Three Hearts.
Ordinarily, B would have
overcalled with Three No
Trumps, but that opening two
bid caused him to more care
fully consider the situation. B
knew that a two-suiter usually
plays better at the suit the
more strongly supported by
partner than it will at no
trump. Had the opening bid
been One Spade, B certainly
would have bid Three No
Trumps. Afterwards A stated
that he would not have ven
tured to overcall Three No
Trumps with either his poor
five-card Spades or his good
four-card Hearts. Being wholly
unable to support Spades, B
finally decided to assist his
partners second make, and
ended contracting with Four
Hearts.
As Y did not want to lose his
two tricks IN Spades because
dummy was short of that suit
and could trump, Y's opening
lead was his top Heart, which
trick was won by AS Queen.
Preferring to lead Spades from
dummy, the declarer led his
top Club, winning the trick in
dummy, and returning Spade.
Y won the trick with his Ace
, and led back with his last
Heart, which A won with his
King.
The declarer led his gooi
Spade, followed by low Spade.
Dummy trumped and 2 over.
trumped. winning the second
trick for his side. Although z
did not at the moment know
it, the game was over. Moth
ing that could be led could
make the slightest difference n
the final score. One Spade
trick could be won by Y, and
that was all. z tried leading
his top Club. B won the trick.
A low Diamond was led back
and won with AS King. The
lead of the Ace of Hearts
picked up rs last trump. A
Spade trick was given to Y,
and A won the remaining
tricks.
Had the hand been played at
Spades, there must have been
lost three Trump tricks and
one Heart trick, allowing A
only three odd. Game could
not have been made at No
Trumps against perfect de-
fense. The only game-going
make was Four Hearts, and B
had SurmiSed this. If he had
been dealt another high stop
in Diamonds his best declara-
ton would have been Three No
Trumps.
Copyright 1892, King Features
syndicate. 1nc.)
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Advice to the
LoveIorn
Her Parties Don't go"


DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
Mother is awfully nice about
letting me have parties, but
they are never a success. The
boys just hang around the wall
and the girls flock in dismal
corners. We have very good
ears, but apart from that, the
parties are a failure. What
would you suggest?
1 wish you'd told me a little
more about these parties you
claim are so dull. If there is
room in your house or apart
ment, roll the rugs back and
start dancing. A few good
dance records will turn the
trick. If there isn't room to
dance, start some game like
Questions and Answers" An
other scheme is to get some
inexpensive favorS. These can
be made, or bought at the IS
and TO-" Duplicate favors are
drawn and the girl and man
getting the same favor are part
ners, for a while. They talk
together, and there is another
drawing of favors, and another
couple are partners. Cards or
slips of paper will do instead of
favors. This will be found to
break up that melancholy fate
of a party-boyS hanging around
the wall and girls flocking in
corners. Almost all women'S
magazines have suggestions for
parties, or you can get books
with suggestions from the near
est public library.
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Can we? That's a question.
And If we cOuld-realIy-wOuld
it be good for us and our happi-
ness? There's another queS-
tiOn. Most Of us feel that we
know that person who looks
back at us from the siIvery,
mysterious mirror. 1 think
see that / am blOnde-that my
face is wider than / like
that my eyes are green instead
of the cOffee-brOwn that I should
have mad from my mother
land that would have-might
have-made me q real knock
Out.") But this is only my
physical appearance, and even,
alas, with that I may be COM
pletely wrong and in the dark.
As to my SOul-the fugitive
shape that / try to see but
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CHAPTER %

Imogen Communicated her
little party up to Timmy Tew-
sons.
Imogen was in great good
form. She had made a date
with the man whose wife was
in the lunatic asylum
Not only that, but she had so
far forgotten herself as to in
Vite him up to Timmy's!
Which, in q soberer mood she
would have known was tactical
mistake, because it didn't do to
mix ones admirers" any more
than to mix ones beverages!
The fat man had agreed to
come. He seemed rather daz-
zled at the prospect.
Rolling in money!" Cleo, the
proprietreSs of the speak-easy,
had whispered to Imogen.
That was just the type of
Sugar" for which Imogen was
looking.
She was inordinately greedy
for good times, clothes, jewels,
and orchids
And Imogen was poor . .
which, as she said, was the hell
of it!
To root" for money but
she was past the stage of being
SqueamiSh as to her method of
dollar-extraction.
And as Timmy was usually
tight himself from this time in
the evening, on until the small
hours of the morning, maybe he
wouldn't connect the presence
of the newcomer with herself.
Yet he could be extremely dis
agreeable, could Timmy, both in
and out Of his cups!
And JEALOUS!
To keek her social "beaux"
from finding out her exact rela-
ton with the others, was a mat
ter requiring great finesse.
Like Laurel OakeS, she had
been growing weary of every.
thing, lately.
And, of her innumerable bills.
she was badly in need of CASH!
She had been "easy," far too
often. When one was fed-up on
life. one drank and when
one drank, one forgot ones
clever tactics and made an idiot
of oneself!
But she'd pull herself together
now, and make hay while the
sun shone. This rich man with
the wife conveniently tucked
away in the asylum seemed
strongly attracted to her.
A Good Kid
Not that men STAYED that
way. If they had-thought
Imogen grimly and regretfully
but now she'd be a million
airess.
Well, anyhow, maybe life
would be tanner than even then.
She had never been able to
visualize living without money
difficulties.
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just for one revealing moment
looks back at me from the tiny
window in my eye-that person
that is really I, I despair Of
ever knowing!
To be q stranger always to
oneself! The most honest, the
most self-hunting person is
likely always to be in that
ludicrOuS, tragic, relationship
with himself. We 60 along for
years, pulling our husband-and-
wife, our Child-and our parent,
completely. They are cOcky
over seeing through" us, at
the very moment when we may
be the grandeSt mystery. We
so along myStifying them
but pretty much understanding
ourselves, dealing hardly with