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The Washington times., 1933-12-14
Civic Group Refuses
Action on Charges
Against Watson

The secretary was directed to
confer with Representative Vir'
ginia E. JenckeS, in connection
with charges preferred against
George S. Watson, chief of the
D. C. Fire Department, by Paul
E. Jameson, attorney for the Fire
Fighters Association.
Mrs. Jenckes will be informed,
should the charges be true, action
should be taken by both commit.
tees on the District of Columbia
in Congress, it was recon-
mended.
A representative of the Boy
Scouts will be invited to attend
the next meeting of the associa.
ton to assist in forming a Boy
Scout troop for the neighborhood.
Clothing Requested
Citizens voted cooperation with
the Parent-Teachers Association
in their Christmas program, and
requested residents of the Ben
ming section to forward to the
secretary all cast-off clothing for
distribution to the poor.
District Commissioners will be
requested to make an appropria-
ton to widen Benning viaduct
to conform to the Improvements
of Benning Road now under con-
struction.
The Public Works Administra-
ton will be notified that Foot,
Grant, Hayes and Blaine Streets
and Gault Place, as we'll as ad-
jacent alleys. need repairs.
An invitation was accepted to
visit BuzZard Point generating
station of the Potomac Electric
Light and Power Company, which
will be made by the members
December 10.
Lieut.. Lloyd E. Kelly, of the
Seventh precinct, made a brief
address in which he urged the
members to cooperate with his
department.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
CITIZEN GROUP
GIVES PLAY

"The Nut" one-act play given
by members of the Sligo Park
Hills Citizens Association at
their meeting last night, was re-
ported such success that re-
quets have been made that they
repeat the performance later.
At the business session, the
pure food and drug act was dis
cussed and book "100,000000
Guinea Pigs" dealing with pure
foods and drugs commonly used,
reviewed by Mrs. Robert Pilgram.
After the meeting, reception
was given by MI. and Mrs. Ver-
non Brewster at their home in
Sligo Park Hills,
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
Benning Citizens Seek
Clothes for Needy

In order to give all residents
an opportunity to express them
selves as to how liquor should
be handled, the Benning Citizens
Association at its meeting last
night voted to request the Board
of District Commissioners to place
ballot boxes at various points
within their territory.
President Frank James was di-
rected to confer with Captain
Sidney Marks, commander of the
Eleventh precinct, regarding what
was claimed unwarranted arrest
of boys of the neighborhood by
officers of his command. 1t was
stated boy was arrested for no
apparent reason, taken to the
station house and his parents
compelled to pay SIS collateral.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
Antique Furniture
Taken From House
SARAH PAGE

Antique furniture from the
Hammond -Harwood house in Ann
apolis. Md, one of the most per-
feet examples of Colonial archi-
lecture in America, has been re-
moved by its owner, Francis P.
Garvan, of Washington.
The furniture was valued at
thousands of dollars. and many
pieces are reputed to be suitable
for museum preservation. It is
understood the pieces will be dis
tributed to other institutions and
persons.
The house is the property Of St.
Johns College and had been used
as museum. DR.. Douglas Huntly
Gordon said yesterday he did not
know why Mr.. Garvan had re-
moved the furniture.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
HGgerstOlUn Gives
CWA Jobs to 1,l4O

HAGERSTOWN. Md, Dec. Ia.
Directors of the local Civil Works
board announced that lao men
are now at work on projects in
Hagerstown and the county and
that with the approval of the
State administration of several
additional projects here the
county's full quota of 1888 men
will be at work by the end of
the week.
The board has begun to draw
from the national unemployment
Offices list of men and about a
hundred men have been obtained
in this way.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
BQtcheLder to Talk =
On Far East Tonic

The Ever-Changing East" will
be the subject of a lecture to.
morrow evening at BIS o'clock
by Charles C. Batchelder, to MEM
bers of the National Geographic
Society at Constitution Hall.
For many years an official Of
the United States Government in
the Far East, Batchelder is a
keen student of Oriental eco.
nomics, politics and history. The
address will be illustrated with
still and motion pictures.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
County Jobs office
To Report on Work

Activity of the Hyattsville Of
flee of the National Reemploy-
ment Service for the past month
will be made known by Manager
T. j. Camfield Monday night at
a meeting of the job bureau COM
mittee in the Police Court build
ing.
The office has been registering
an average of 100 persons a day
for work on CWA projects in
Prince Georges county.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14

The minute you feel cold coming on
use Mistol Drops quick! Colds in a,
very fewdays may run into pneumonia:
1t is gospel truth to say that common.
colds fill the hospitals.
Colds are a germ infection. Stop
them right where they start-before
they have chance to grow and spread:
That's what MiStol Drops do for you!
Many cold treatments are too strong
and harsh for the delicate nose and
throat membranes. Mistol Drops are
pleasant, healing, soothing, and harm
less. Get bottle today at your
druggists. Dodge colds this winterI
Stops COLDS BEFORE THEY START
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
EXPENSES OF VIRGINIA COUNTIES TREBLE IN SEVENTEEN YEARS
HELD.
IN BANK THEFT

Two men, believed to be mem
bers of a group of four who robbed
the West River Bank at Gales.
vile, Md, last week, were ar.
rested in College Park last night
by Chief Deputy Sheriff Tom Gar.
rison and Sergt. Ralph Brown, Of
Hyattsville.
They gave their names as An.
drew C. Ross, "a, and Pete Good.
81.
They were turned over to
Sheriff R. G. Proutt, of Anne
Arundel county at midnight last
night. He quizzed them today.
The men were traced through
fingerprints, it was said.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
RUSHE To KEEP
FIRE POST

Noble F. Rushe has been named
fire chief of Hyattsville, Md, for
the tenth consecutive time.
Rushe was unanimously elected
to office by the firemen, while
Ernest Davis was given the post
Of assistant chief.
Other officers are Harry Will
coxen, captain: John Cooksey,
lieutenant; c. E. Trott, fire mar
shall; Earle S. Dorrelle, secretary;
John j. Fainter, treasurer, and
George Wilcoxen, superintendent
of machinery.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
PO[|CE CYCLES
D|TCHED BY ICE

Three Maryland State policemen
were forced to take a bus and
street car to reach Hyattsville to
appear in court there yesterday
after their motorcycles were
ditched on icy pavements.
One Of the patrolmen, c. R.
Parker, said that the Washington
Boulevard was so slippery that
he had to abandon his motorcycle.
as did two companions.
The police hailed bus. but the
ice-crusted highway forced the
operator to stop near Beltsville. To
reach court in time to testify in
cases made by them, the police
men we're forced to catch a Wash
ington-bound street car.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
COllIn1bias Upset
H1qerStOIUn Quint

The Columbia Firefighters de-
feated the Moose quint of Hagers-
town, 1925, in a spirited game
last night. Bussey Brenner was
the star of the winners. The
Times Herald courtmen won the
preliminary from the Western
Flashes. $500.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14

American Uni
versity P ar k
Citizens Associ-
alton decided
last night to
take no action
on a letter re-
Gently trans
mitted to all
civic organiza-
tions by Repre-
sentative Vir-
G i n i a E.
Jenckes, men,
ber of the
House District
Committee.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
BY JOHN E. TAYLOR

In II years, between 1918 and
1890. the cost of the 100 Virginia
county governments more than
trebled.
During the same period the
States population increased only
360,239
In 1918 the 100 county govern
ments were costing a little more
than $8,000,000 annually. During
the fiscal year ended June 80,
1890, those same counties cost the
taxpayers $29, 100000.
All this time the State has been
pouring money into the counties
to aid them in maintaining schools
and highways. While farmers
have been moving off the farms
and thus decreasing the taxable
resources of the counties, the
cities have been growing larger
and it is the city man who is pay
ing much of the cost Of maintain
ing what even the politicians ad-
init is an archaic and undemo'
cratic form of government.
System Condemned
One of the most damning IN,
dictments of Virginia county gov
ernments was drawn by the Vlr-
einia Commission on County Gov
eminent and presented to the
general assembly in December,
1881.
This commission followed by
four years the New York Bureau
of Municipal Research, which also
lashed the county governments.
Both recommended changes IN
the form of government to either
the county manager or executive
types and the consolidation OF the
small and poor counties.
The general assembly read the
recommendations, knew that con-
solidation Of county governments
would sweep away a lot OF lat
Jobs, and confined their activities
to passing law that permits a
county, upon a majority vote OF
its voters, to switch to either OF
the suggested forms. There is no
compulsion to change to the new
type of government.
Taxpayers Waking Up
Nothing has been done by the
legislature toward consolidating
the counties, but throughout the
State the taxpayers, particularly
in the cities, are demanding that
the waste and inefficiency" in
evitable under the present govern
ment be eliminated.
Both of the reports have been
quoted in this series and the
State body's report will be quoted
again to show what its members
think of their own county govern
ments:
"There is no means for CO.
Ordinating the work of these
various offices and agencies
(of the county, so as to pro-
duce a unified administrative
organization, to eliminate over
tapping of functions and agents,
and to effect proper economy in
the operation Of county govern
ment.
"Such an organization is in
both theory and fact inefficient,
wasteful, and irresponsible"
Despite the following state
ment. nothing has been done to
relieve the situation:
MANY of the officers and
agencies of the counties are
useless. and some are a positive
handicap. Among these are the
justices of the peace as trial Of
fiCers. the ConStableS. the cOrO-
ners, the Overseers of the poor.
county almshOuses, and the in
heritance tax commissioner.
Some of these officers have out
lived their usefulness and the
duties of others can better and
more economically be performed
by other existing officers.
with this picture of county
government before one, little is
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The Washington times., 1933-12-14
CAR0LINIANs TO DANCE

Members of the North Carolina
Society of Washington will hold
their annual Christmas party on
Monday night in the west ball
room of the Shoreham Hotel.
There will be a tree, cards and
dancing.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
ASPlNWALL SPEAKS

Clarence A. Aspinwall spoke on
the significance of the National
Symphony Orchestra at the
luncheon meeting of the Wash
ington Rotary Club at the Willard
Hotel today. Vice President
Chester D. Swope presided at the
meeting.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
TAXPAYERS HIT
BY HEAVY
COSTS
Elimination OF "Fat Jobs"
by Consultations Holds
Up Merger Action

The Seventh of a series of ar.
ticleS on county doUernn1ent in
Virginia, suggesting the econ
on1y and efttcier ." to be gained
By conSolic cting the oorern.
mental functions OF a number
of the 100 counties in the State.
The Washington times., 1933-12-14
BY A. ]. DRISCOLL
Citizens Associations Editor

Feeling that the question of
charges against Fire Chief George
S. Watson is one for the District
Commissioners to act on. the
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D. ]. BENNETT

Dan J. Bennett, rs, passed away
at the Linn hospital Monday morn
ing following an eleven weeks ill
ness. He was born at Hamburg,
Livingstone county, Michigan, on
March 8, 1857. He was married to
Miss Ina A DeFreeze at Bancroft,
Michigan, February %, 1882. Ito
this union four children were born,
Carl E and Earl w. and Mrs. A.
M. Dutton of Kennewick and Mrs.
Edgar Carter of Pullman. They
came to the state of Washington in
1903 and settled on a homestead in
Douglass county, where they lived
until February 1915, when they
moved to the Kennewick valley.
He is survived by his wife, four
children, two grandsons and three
sister and brother.
Funeral services were held from
the Mueller chapel Wednesday
morning with Rev. w. L. Hanson
of the Nazarene church in charge.
Burial was made in the River
View Heights cemetery.
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OBITUARY

j. C. Buchanan was born in
Jackson county, North Carolina,
April 25, 1870.
He was converted when just a
boy and united with the Old Sa-
vannah Baptist church in jackson
county, N. c., and was later or
dained deacon, which position he
has held in the several churches to
which he has belonged. The First
Baptist Church of Kennewick
sometime ago recognized his ordi-
nation and elected him to the dea-
conate for life.
He was recognized both in the
local church and the denomination
as q conservative and dependable
leader. For the past five or six
years he was q member of the
East Washington and North Idaho
Baptist convention.
For many years he was the if
ficient teacher Of the adult Bible
class in the local church. he was
also member Of the Masonic or
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guest at the E. j. Brand home
last week, left Saturday for her
home in Portland.
Mrs. E. j. Brand and Lyle spent
Sunday and Monday in Zillah Wis
ting Mrs. Brands parents.
Burchell Taylor left Sunday on
q vacation trip near Gle Elum. He
accompanied Mr.. and Mrs. j. A.
Moran and Miss Elsie Moran of
Pasco.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Mauch mo-
tored to Toppenish Saturday to
visit with relatives. They returned
Sunday night and brought Joe and
Harry back with them. The boys
had been visiting their grandpar-
ents for three weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. d. Browning of
Pasco were Sunday afternoon
callers at the Henry Paulson home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elton Samsel NOV
ed last week to the H. e. Mckay
place. They have been living on
the Samphere tract. The Mckay
house was recently vacated by Mr..
and Mrs. Jim Samsel.
Miss Velma Mechanism was a
guest Of Miss Mary Green over the
weekend.
Mrs. O. K. Jones returned Mon
day from Portland after visiting
with relatives there for several
weeks. She brought Larry with
her. He had been visiting for a
longer time.
Miss Ruth Jesberger plans to
leave Saturday for Boise for q
short visit with her sisters, Miss
Doris Jesberger and Mrs. M. H.
Christy.
Word has been received Of the
birth Of daughter on Wednesday,
July 26 to Mr.. and Mrs. M. n.
Christy of Boise, Idaho. The baby
has been named lauren Harriet.
Mrs. Christy will be remembered
as Eleanor Jesberger.
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Preston Is Low Bidder
On School Bus Route
EAST KENNEWICK

j. w. Preston was the low bid
der on the school route which M.
Schuster has run for several years.
Mr.. Preston has purchased new
Ford truck and will have bus
body built.
D. j. Bennett, an old-time resi-
dent of this community passed
away Sunday night at the Linn
hospital.
En- T. Cushman of Eatonville
was dinner guest at the j. S.
Kenneth home Sunday.
Misses Elsie, Margaret and
Louise Shaffner Of Finley and
Miss Eva Gezelius, who has been
. house guest of Miss Mary Ken
nett, were entertained at dinner
Monday.
Miss Elsie Gezelius of Northport
left Tuesday for her home after a
weeks visit with Miss Mary Ken
nett.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee M. Lampson
and Theo were Prosser visitors on
Wednesday,.
Byron and Frank Lampson left
Saturday for the PalQuse country,
where they expect to haul wheat.
Harold PEBBLES Of Walla Walla
is visiting his grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. E. o. Sandberg.
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Commodore Perry Staley

Commodore Perry Staley, 81,
passed away at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. o. T. Staley in the
Garden Tracts Wednesday morning
following a five months illness.
He was born February IL, 1S49 at
MAYHEM, Missouri. In 1870 he mi
grated to Texas and in 1873 help
ed to trail cattle from Texas to
Montana. He returned to Missouri
and married Miss Luella Tye, on
November II, 1880. To this union
two children were born, Mrs. Sta
ley of Kennewick and A. P. Staley
Of Libby, Montana, who survived
him, also four grandchildren. Mrs.
Staley passed away "a years ago.
The Staley family moved from
Missouri to Beaverhead county,
Montana in 1900 and came to Ken
newick in 1907. Following the
death of his wife, Mr.. Staley lived
in Montana and Oregon until 1919
when he returned to Kennewick
and has since made his home with
Mr.. and Mrs. o. T. Staley in the
Garden Tracts.
Funeral services will be held at
10 o'clock Friday morning from
the Mueller chapel in charge of
the Odd Fellows, of which order
he has been a member for more
than thirty years, having received
the 3O-year jewel a number of
years ago. Rev. Hubert c. Vincent
will assist in the services. Mr..
Staley has been member of the
Methodist Episcopal church South
for many years Burial was made in
River View Heights cemetery by
the side of his wife.
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Recent Locust Grove
Bride Given Shower
LOCUST GROVE

Mrs. Merrill and Mrs. Fred Sim
melink and Shirley attended a
brides shower at the Elmo Human
residence in Pasco, honoring Mrs.
Donald Dickinson.
The F. NJ. Simmelink family and
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Dennis were
Sunday dinner guests at the Lar
kin home.
Lynn Beightol returned to his
home Wednesday after spending
a month at Soap Lake.
Mrs. Sidney Nelson returned
from the Pasco hospital Thursday
and is recovering from her recent
illness at the Kincaid home.
Robert Stone of Weston, Oregon
is working at the A. A. Edwards
ranch.
Ruth Mueller, Grace Dickinson
and Mrs. Kessler Campbell were
guests at the M. Simmelink home
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. L. Park and
family of Yakima were overnight
guests at the Edwards home Sat
urday.
Mrs. Verda Stafford visited at
the Roy Stafford home in town on
Friday.
J. C. Pratt is spending a few
days at the r. K. Stafford home.
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DAILY BIBLE SCHOOL

Daily vacation Bible school at
the Church of the Nazarene opens
Monday, August 18th at 8 am.
Glass periods, to IL, days a
week for two weeks. Miss Myrtle
Loyals of Spokane has been Sc
cured as supervisor. Miss Loyals
has taught for years in our schools
and is well qualified to supervise
the school, having had extensive
experience in DIV. B. S. work.
All children of the community
are cordially invited to enroll in
the school. No tuition fees.
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HUNT TOHEAD
CONSOLIDATED
FIJI. SCHOOLS
Touchet Man to be Superin-
tendent; Other Teachers
Selected; No Extra Levy is
Required This Year

F. F. Hunt of Touchet will be
the superintendent of the CONSOLE
dated Hover Finley accredited
high school in the Hover building,
II. S. Hughes, chairman of school
board, states. Mr.. Hunt comes well
recommended as he was suparin-
tendent of the Touchet school be-
fore going to Idaho six or seven
years ago, where he has oeen in
the school work since. w. w. Wal
lin will continue as high school
principal; Owen Kinamon, who has
been teacher in the Finley high
school for several years, will be one
of the teachers in the consolidated
school and Miss Albertine Pahrin-
ski, q teacher in the Lewis and
Clark high school, will complete
the corps. R. G. Ashby will con-
tinue as janitor of the building in
which capacity he has served for
many years.
In the Finley building G. D.
Eastman Oh OpOhduS, WHO SOAuSs
with years of experience. Mr.
Hughes states, will be grade school
principal. Miss Alice Mae Smith
will have the fifth and sixth
grades and the new teacher fol
the building will be Verna Cart
ledge of Prosser. She will teach
the first and second grade. Miss
Anna Barron, who has taught in
the Hover school last term, will
teach some grades in the Hover
building. Roy Glassiner will be
janitor of the Finley building.
Mr.. Hughes states the board has
not decided on the course of study
until Mr.. Hunt arrives and they
have another meeting. He states
the board expects to get by on a
ten-mill levy and no special levy,
and maintain a fully accredited
high school with go or 20 pupils
in attendance.
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Hembree-Taylor

ucmO4cSs a. 1OI
Miss Helen Hembree and Law
renee Taylor were married in Sc
attic July 6 at the Episcopal par
sonage. Mrs. Taylor is the eldest
daughter Of Mrs. Elizabeth Hem
bree of Kennewick and the groom
is the son of Mrs. Elsie Taylor Of
the Highlands. At present Taylor
is employed in packing house in
Yakima and Mrs. Taylor will join
>hie there Saturday. In October LIST
the will move to Seattle where
Mr.. Taylor has a position as man
ager of a theatre.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce Mclean en-
tertained the following Sunday at
dinner: Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Nc
Lean, Mr.. and Mrs. w. Gravens-
lund and family, Mrs. Bertha Sim
sen and Calvin, honoring Miss
Louise Simsen on her birthday.
Mrs. Minnie Owens reports that
her wheat in Horse Heavens is
yielding about twenty bushels to
the acre and this is considered q
good yield.
P. A. Combelic is expected home
Sunday to spend the weekend
with his family. He has been in Sc
attic the past month.
Miss Thelma Wernar, who was d
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der, having united when twenty
one years of age. He has success
lively held all of the offices in that
lodge, having attained to the po-
sition of Worshipful Master be-
fore coming to Kennewick fifteen
years ago. For many years he was
Worthy Patron of the Eastern
Star.
He was married to Miss Guss-
ele Rogers on December "a, 1896.
He was the father of seven
children, three boys, Fred, Burke
and John jr., and four girls, Mrs.
w. F. Byrd, Mrs. Frank vawter,
Mrs. Thomas Estes and Miss
Christine Buchanan.
In addition to his interest in the
church and lodge he was an active
member of the grange for II
years. In every sense, a public
spirited man, encouraging and CO.
operating with every worthwhile
movement. He took great interest
in political affairs and was found
always to be the supporter of the
person who had fitness for office
rather than the party.
About three years ago he be-
came ill, though he was not con-
fined to his bed until about a week
ago. He knew that the end was
not far off and often said that he
was prepared to go whenever the
Lord should call.
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He practically made all arrange
ments for the conduct of his fun
eral, requesting Rev. H. R. Ceder-
berg to preach the sermon and DR..
Frederick w. Carstens to assist in
the services. Even the hymns to be
sung, the singers and the pail
bearers were all of his personal
selection.
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COUNTY GETS
S.P.&S. OFFER
@ MAX BILLS
CONTINUED from Page H.

1892, according to Prosecuting At
torney Charles L. Powell.
Other counties involved in the
litigation in which the company
charged it was overassessed were
Clarke, Skamania, Klickitat, Ben
ton, Franklin, Whitman, Adams,
Lincoln and Spokane.
The county books list the sum
of s172, 900 in unpaid taxes against
the railroad since 1925.
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Th9rsdsZ, August !.

Mr.. Buchanan pass.a
Higher Service last M Moo ~
ming, July 81, at lo.o7 0q q q.
to mourn his going his .s e l'a's
seven children, two Or. ,oanpalia
his brother Theodore r y q 1lltie
three brothers and two !. satin,
North Carolina, numeroo o''''a
near relatives and a host y o'As
and acquaintance u inaa