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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-18
Why No Road
Down Columbia?
JUST PAssABLE TRAIL NOW

E. R. (Tom) Griner, for 10 years
member Of the firm of Sullivan ana
Griner, Cashmere apple growers ana
shippers, was in Wenatchee yesterday.
For the past IL years he has been IN
the Yakima valley where he Is con-
nected with the American Fruit Grow
ers, and where he also owns and oper-
ates an apple orchard.
"The most needed piece of highway
construction in the state of Washing
ton today is good road down tne
west side of the Columbia river below
the Vantage bridge" Griner asserted,
saying he couldn't see why it's need had
not been recognized long ago by eng1n-
GERS.
"There is only about four miles OF
heavy construction needed, the rest OF
it being very easy to build. In fact,
there is a passable road through there
now. This would cut off from SO to 6O
miles between Wenatchee and the main
part of the Yakima valley, and would
provide an all-year route into Portland
and other coast points.
"These two valleys, Wenatchee and
Yakima, are really only a few miles
apart, yet we are separated by a
mountain range that makes traffic
difficult, and prevents us from visit
ing back and forth, and trading with
each other as freely as we should. !
-Wenatchee Daily World.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-18
Presidents Birthday Ball
Planned for january 80

Plans are now being completed for
the Birthday Ball for the President,
to be held in this valley Tuesday eve
ming, January 30, in the Hanford high
school gymnasium.
j. w. Fenley was recently appointed
local director by the national commit
tee in charge Of this series Of balls,
one of which will be given in nearly
every community in the nation
Proceeds of the dance will be used
to raise an endowment for the Georgia
Warm Springs Foundation, created in
1926 by President Roosevelt. This
Foundation is carrying on a national
crusade aginst infantile paralysis and
devotes it's full energy and thought to
the coordination of the fight against
scourge which physically handicaps,
every year, thousands of American
children.
It is expected that music for the
ball will be furnished by the White
Bluffs Bands orchestra.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-18
Plans Underway for
p. g. 9. Organizations

The organization OF production credit
associations throughout Washington,
Montana, Oregon and Idaho Is pro-
ceeding rapidly, according to John A.
Schoonover, president of the Produc-
ton Credit Corporation Of Spokane.
Organization meetings have be- n
planned to cover Systematically all the
northwest district by February l, 1t
was brought out.
The corporation has arranged for a
meeting to be held in Yakima, at the
chamber of commerce rooms, Friday,
January 10, at 10 am. This meeting
will be held to discuss the formation
of a production credit association for
Benton, Kittitas, Yakima and eastern
Klickitat counties.
This corporation has been given the
responsibility of organizing production
credit associations and to make pro-
duction loans to farmers. It is intended
that these associations are to be set
up on a permanent basis and will take
over the functions of the various gov
ernmental agencies which heretofore
have made short-term loans to farmers.
The first charter to be granted the
twelfth district was received from the
Washington, D. G. headquarters last
week and in turn was delivered to the
Montana Livestock Production Credit
Association.
Production credit association meet
ings have been held in three states to
handle the larger type of livestock
loans, as the first step. During the
week ending January 6, organization
meetings in the interest Of forming
production credit associations to handle
the smaller type of production anc
livestock loans were held, at the fol-
lowing places: Medford and klamath
Falls, Oregon; Caldwell and Twin
Falls, Idaho; and Great Falls, Mon
tana. The week ending January 10
similar organization meetings were
held in Spokane and Colfax, Washing
ton; Lewiston, Idaho; Eugene, Oregon
Bozeman and Billings, Montana.
The Corporation is planning to SCI
up a limited number of production
credit associations SO that each may
have an adequate volume of business
and income, Mr.. Schoonover pointed
out. Tentative plans call for about 81
associations in all. Later, however, as
business develops these associations
may be divided and the number in
creased.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-18
Horticultural School To Be
Held Here Next Monday

A splendid program has been ar
ranged for the annual horticultural
school, to be held in White Bluffs
Monday, January %, at Liberty hall.
The program is:
$50 am. Cooling Moth Control
and the Residue Problem" DR.. E. F.
Overholser, head of horticulture de-
partment, W.S.C.
1920 am: Orchard Cover Crop and
How to Get It." H. P. Singleton, super
intendent, Irrigation Branch Expert
ment Station, Prosser.
Ills am: "The Wire Worm and Its
Control" M. G. Lane, wire worm con-
troll experiment station, Walla Walla.
LIS pm: "Tree Fruit Outlook and
General Economics" r. M. Turner.
2:15 pm: "Soils and Soil Fertility, "
E. G. Durdle, Benton County Agent
These schools have always been well
attended in the past, as they are helc
at time when there is no pressing
farm work, and there is always great
deal of information for growers who
wish to improve their crop production
County Agent Durdle urges every
grower to make a note Of the program
and to attend the meeting. The COM
plete schedule of horticultural schools
for Benton county is:
White Bluffs, Liberty Hall, Jan. %
Richland, Grange hall, Jan. %.
Kennewick, Highland club house, Jan
"a.
Prosser, Community club rooms, Jan. q
Benton City, Community hall, Jan. q
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-18
Employment Is
Available For
Addition Men
NEW C.W.A. REGULATIONS TO
GIVE WORK TO TWENTY
MORE NEEDY

Employment for an additional twenty
or more men in this valley has been
made possible through an amendment
to the Civil Works Administration reg
ulations, according to word received
here by D. S. Wilkinson, member OF
the Benton county welfare board.
The amendment to the regulations
permits the state board to place per-
sons in rural areas on basis that
provides each worker with an average
of IS hours of work a week. Present
regulations are that each worker is en-
ployed on basis of 80 hours per week.
This ruling applies only to commun-
tiles with a populations of less than
$500, located in open country. The
number of men now employed in COM
munities of this type in the state is
between $4,000 and 10000. The amend
ment does not apply, however, to fore
men or skilled labor.
Under this provision, another six
men will be added to the force work.
ing on the properties of the Priest
Rapids irrigation district, and about
fifteen men will be added to the group
from this valley now working on the
Benton City Horn road project. There
are at present about thirty-six men
from this valley working on these two
projects.
1.-THE increase in CWA personnel
which will result from the new ruling
will not swell the payroll volume in
dollars however" G. F. Ernst, state
Civil Works Administrator, states. en-
stead of employing $4,000 men on a
80 hour week basis in this state, we
will be able to employ 10000 men on
a Is hour week basis, the wage scales
to remain the same. Those now en-
ployed in the rural areas adected by
the amendment will have their work.
ing hours cut in half, also their weekly
wages.
It is estimated that total of $4,000
men are now employed under the CWA
and CWS programs in the rural and
city areas of Washington. The in
creased quota for rural areas will bring
the total up to approximately 10000
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-18
It's Almost Lilac Time
At The Hemker Home

When j. Hemker started to trim his
lilac bushes this week he thought
something must have been wrong with
the calendar It gave the date as the
middle of January. But the bursting
lilac buds proclaimed the latter part
of March. Mr.. Hemker found that the
white bushes, some of them twenty
feet high, were more advanced than
those bearing darker flowers, but on
all of them leaves were beginning to
unfurl. At this rate, pusywillows should
have come and gone and buttercups
been a thing of the past
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-18
MERCHANTS ARE ASKED TO
CONTINUE UNDER NRA RULES

The President has asked the bust
ness public to continue to April 3Oth
it's Blue Eagle agreement with him
regarding improved wages and hours
of labor says Shirl H. Blalock, MIRA
district compliance director for this
area
The President, however, in fairness
to those who might choose not to con-
tinue has declared that they are free
to do SO, and that they may turn IN
their Blue Eagle and quit, Mr.. Bla-
lock explains, provided such action is
taken Immediately.
It is assumed, he pointed out, that
relief from unbearable hardship oc-
casioned by the Presidents agreement
may be applied for now as during the
original term of the agreement
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-18
Valley Pears Sell
For $3.50 In Egypt
SERVED TO EGYPTIAN KING

Destination of box Of Priest Rapids
valley pears was recounted in letter
received by Miss Mary Cox of Han
ford. Last fall, while working at the
Hartford Horticultural Exchange ware
house, Miss Cox put in box of pears
a slip, on which was written note,
asking that the person who received
the pears let her know how much he
paid for them, and giving her name
and address.
Recently she received word from the
chef of a steamship Alexandria that
the pears had been purchased for
thirty shillings, and that they had
been served at banquet at which the
king of Egypt was present. The letter,
written in French, was dated December
16, and had a Jerusalem postmark.
At the current rate of exchange the
cost of the pears would be $72O.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-18
Local Booster Committee
Plans New Organization

Members of the booster committee,
appointed several months ago at a
community meeting, decided at their
recent meeting to send questionnaires
to residents Of this community, prior
to the formation of an organization
This organization will have as it's pur-
pose the betterment of the community
as whole.
In sending out these questionnaires,
the committee wishes to ascertain the
views of residents here in regards to
the type of organization desired and
the possible program of such an or
ganization. The committee hopes that
these missionaries be returned as
soon as possible, so that more definite
plans may be made.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-18
G.. H. Pearl Will Head
Adjustment Committee

The county farm debt adjustment
committee for Benton county, recently
appointed by Governor Martin, held
an organization meeting in Prosser Fri
day afternoon.
The following officers were elected:
Chairman, Guy H. Pearl; vice-chair-
man, @. c. Williams, and secretary, f.
G. Durdle. A. E. Scott of Benton City,
H. G. Fyfe of Kennewick, D. S. Will
kinson of White Bluffs and E. r..
Wells of Prosser, complete the person.
mel of the committee. The function OF
such committees already appointed In
several counties of the state is set forth
in the Governors letter of appoint
ment, printed in the Spokesman sew
eral weeks ago.
In commenting on the proposed work
of the committee, Mr.. Pear states that
obviously if the local committee is to
accomplish it's purpose, debtors and
creditors who desire to submit their
problems to the committee should rec
ognize that Cancellation is the keynote
and that the recommendation Of the
committee is for the guidance of both
parties in their efforts to reach a
friendly and mutually satisfactory
settlement of their problems.
The committee decided that when
an agreement between a debtor and
creditor has been reached through the
suggestions and recommendations OF
the county committee, final contract
should be drawn up between the two
interested parties. At this point the
services of lawyer, either as a mem
Der of the committee or as an adviser
will be found almost indispensable be-
cause the contract should be in Legal
form, says the committee.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-18
1912 Play To Be Revived
At Hartford On Saturday

The first play ever presented IN the
Priest Rapids valley, "A Scene at a
Railway Station" will be re-enacted
Saturday evening, January 20, by the
Hanford Grange.
This play was given by the Ladies
Aid of the Christian church early IN
the year 1912. Two of the original cast,
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Clark, will take part
in the plays revival. Characters IN
the play will be: Carpetbagger, Mrs.
Joe Clark; Dutchman, Joe Clark; Irish
man, A. L. Brockway; station agent
B. G. Root; young couple, Miss Lillian
Harm and Raymond Clark.
The play will be presented at the
Hanford Grange hall, and will be fol-
lowed by other items of entertainment
Admission will be five and ten cents
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-18
Response to Red Cross
Appeal Very Generous


So generous was the response of
Hanford and White Bluffs to the Red
Cross's appeal for aid that a larger
truck than planned had to be used
to transport the load of food, clothing,
quilts and blankets to Yakima last
Saturday. The Red Cross was assisted
in this project by the American LIE
gion, Legion Auxiliary, and the wo-
mems clubs of White Bluffs and Han
ford. BY Friday evening the Legion
hall was so crowded with food and
clothing of all kinds that Ora Lud-
dington's truck was found to be too
small for the load, so the truck Of
fered by Walter Elliott was used in
it's place.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-18
Profit On Hogs just One
Year Since World War

Benton county farmers received a
fair exchange value or better for their
hogs in only one Of the fourteen years
since the world war, that year being
1925-1926 according to a review of
conditions received from the State Col
lege extension service by E. G. Dur
die, county agent. This fact helps ex-
plain the tremendous shrinkage In
farm buying power and indicates why
measures such as the corn-hog pro-
gram are necessary, it was pointed out.
Hog prices have recently been the
lowest in more than SO years, the
general trend having been downward
since the war. Gross income from hogs
in 1882 was only about one-third of
that in 1929. In terms Of commodities
farmers buy the value Of hogs during
1882 was only about one-half of their
value three years earlier and only two
fifths of their value in the pre-War
period, 1910-1914.
Figures for the first ten months of
the 1882 1888 marketing year, closing
October Is, show that the fair ex-
change value or parity price of hogs
was $743 a hundredweight, while the
weighted average farm price received
was 1921, or $414 a hundredWeight
less than parity. The price ranged from
SO cents short of fair exchange value
in l926-1927 to 1924 short in 1881
1892. The only year the price exceed
ed the fair exchange value was IN
1925-1926 when the advantage was As
cents In their favor.
The price of hogs, like that Of corn,
has been pulled down by lack OF de-
mand. Demand has fallen off slowly
but steadily because of the loss OF for
eign pork markets, reduced consumer
income, and other causes. The result
ing surplus has placed the hog indus
try in a precarious position. If farmers
do not adjust their production to the
changed demand, the ruthless dispar-
ity between farm prices and the prices
of things they buy inevitably will con-
tinue, even though prices do rise tt
some extent from other causes, 1t wal
pointed out.
The corn-hog plan offers the hot
grower the only opportunity to secure
fair exchange value for his product
A farmer does not have to raise corr
. to secure the full benefits Of the ho
plan.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-18
Sixth District Near Top
In Legion Membership

The Sixth District of the American
Legion now ranks second in the mem
bership rolls of the state organization,
says E. F. Newton, commander. out
of a quota of As, John Lindblad post
has membership of &c. or sc per cent.
If the present campaign is successful,
it is believed that this chapter will lead
the state by the end of the month.
Two thousand forty eight new MEM
bers have been added to the posts
throughout Washington during the last
twelve months.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-18
Dairy Producers Will
Be Offered Program

A broad program Of dairy produc-
ton adjustment will shortly be offered
to dairymen Of Washington and the
nation, according to a telegram re-
ceived by F. e. Balmer, director OF the
agricultural extension service at the
state college, from @. w. Warburton,
head of the federal extension service.
The new plan will probably be pre-
sented to dairymen through county
agricultural agents of the extension
service as soon as detailed instructions
are received.
"The production control program will
supplement the new policy of the ag-
ricultural adjustment administration
regarding marketing agreements in
placing emphasis upon producer
prices" declared Director Balmer. CAL
though in normal times the value of
dairy products produced in the state
ranges from $25, 600, 900 to 100000, 900
annually, dairymen have been COM
PEELED to sell their products at less
than cost of production in recent years.
1.-THE primary purpose of the adjust
ment plan will be to provide good
prices to dairy farmers by achieving
proper balance between production
and consumer demand. If this balance
is attained through production control
and is not upset by unreasonable re-
sale prices charged by distributors in
milk sheds, dairymen will get fair
share of returns to the industry.
"The new policy of Secretary WAL
lace holds that powers of government
under the agricultural adjustment act
should be used to lift farm prices and
not distributors prices" pointed out
Mr.. Balmer. zone of the important
current issues in the dairy industry is
whether fair share of returns should
go to the dairy farmer or whether a
major share of profits taken from pro-
ducers and consumers should go to a
few companies distributing milk. The
new program intends to give both a
fair share of the profits
| Complete details of the production
control plan will be announced as soon
as they are released by the agricultural
adjustment administration.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-18

Word was received here recently OF
the death of C. Young of Prosser on
Tuesday. Mr.. Young was the father of
G. H. Young, manager of the Stand
ard Oil company's office at Hanford
until last spring. Funeral services will
be held Friday in Prosser.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-18
THE WEATHER

Temperatures during the past week,
as recorded at the government Wea-
ther station in Hanford, were:
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-18

Total precipitation for the week was
IL hundredths of an inch.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-08
SENDS ROSES
TO WIFE AND
SLAYS HER

SAN FRANCISCO, June 8. W.H-
Michael Lasacio directed from a
hospital bed today that the florist
be paid for the roses he sent his
wife before he killed her.
Police believed Lasacio was insane
when he allegedly stabbed his 35-
year-old wife, fired several shots at
his mother-in-law and plunged a
knife into his own body. He will re-
cover.
The box containing the roses lay
unopened on the table of the home
of Mrs. Howard Mallen when Lasa-
clio went there to see his wife. She
had Just returned from hospital
where she had undergone major
operation.
Mrs. Mallen left her daughter and
the husband together and went into
the kitchen to brew some coffee.
She heard ,cries and turned to see
Lasacio approaching with gun in
his hand. Screaming, she fled to
the street with Lasacio pursuing her.
He fired four shots, police said.
Then he turned back into the
house. Two more shots were heard.
Police found Mrs. Lasacio dead,
lying across the bed with a knife
wound in her throat. Lasacio lay un-
conscious nearby. Near him were a
knife with a five inch blade and an
automatic pistol.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-08
AGREEMENT ON
SHIPMENT TO
ALASKA AREA

SEATTLE, June s. {U.P)-Alaska
shippers and striking longshoremen
have reached an agreement and on
ly formal signing of papers re-
manned today to relieve the block
ada of commerce to the territory.
Joseph P. Ryan, president of the
International Longshoremen's asso-
citation, and Mayor Charles l..
Smith, said nothing possibly could
stop a settlement of the Alaska
strike now.
Both were optimistic that the
agreement will be a forerunner of
settlement of the strike on other
shippers in the northwest.
Recognition of the union and un-
ion hiring halls were main points
of the agreement, Ryan said. He
added that the status of the 10
non-striking employees of the Alas
ka Steamship Co., had not yet been
determined but "they will receive
consideration. - The union pre-
viously baked at the company IS
insistence that they have the same
privileges as returning strikers
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-08
FATE OF DILLINGER UNKNOWN
AS CHIEF LIEUTENANT SLAIN

%. who said she married Carroll a
little more than q week ago revealed
no further clue to Dillinger's fate
since he, Carroll, the girl and others
of the gang shot their way out of an
ambush March % near Spider Lake,
Wis.
Although faced with return to
Madison, Wis, for harboring men,
bers of the gang, she refused to talk.
Her composure was ruffled only
momentarily by revelation that an
other woman had telephoned police
from st. Paul that she is Carrolls
legal wife. Police said the woman
asked that they hold the outlaws
car and S700 cash for her.
Its lie," said the girl vehe-
mently.
Despite the hint Dillinger may
have died of wounds received at
Spider Lake, federal agents and po-
lice spread network of men along
highways east of Waterloo.
The mistake of leaving several IL
cense plates and two guns on the
rear seat of his automobile led to
Carroll's death. A garage mechanic
working on the car became suspi-
cious and called police.
A few minutes later detectives P.
w. Walker and Emil Steffen saw
him and his girl companion emerge
from beer tavern. Walker stepped
to CAROLS side.
I'm an officer" he said.
"The hell you are," answered Car
roll. He grabbed at gun holstered
under his armpit. Walker knocked
him flat with his fist. Carroll leap
ed to his feet. AS the outlaw FLED,
the officers fired.
Carroll was wanted for the slay-
ing of w. Carter Baum, federal
agent, in the Spider Lake ambush;
the killing of H. c. Perron, San An
tonic detective; and bank robberies
in Minnesota, Iowa, and South Da-
kota in which loot totaled more than
$4,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-08

WATERLOO, Iowa, June 8. (U.P)--
"Hick town" policemen chalked up
another victory today over the hard
boiled John Dillinger gang.
The Indiana desperado's ace ma
chine gunner was in a morgue here
and rumors were that Dillinger
himself is dead. These were sub
stantiated apparently by death
bed statement of Tommy Carroll,
the gangs most feared killer.
Carroll died last night, few
hours after two city detectives
knocked a gun from his hand and
shot him as he fled from arrest.
Leaning over hospital cot, Fed
eral Agent o. H. Dewey asked him
where did you bury John?'
Carroll rolled his head to look
the agent defiantly in the eye.
81 hid him." he mumbled.
Then Carroll died.
Dewey was not certain whether
Carroll meant that Dillinger Is alive
in hiding or buried, dead
Questioning of Jean Crompton,