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Evening star., 1934-01-18
LIGHT RATE CUT
OFFERED BY PEPCO
S317,918 Saving on Power
Bills Would Be Half of Earn
ings Above 7 Per Cent.

officials of the Potomac Electric
Power Co., at a hearing before the
Public Utilities Commission today
offered new schedule of rates for 1894
designed to reduce electric power bills
by s378,9l8 as compared with 1888.
The amount of the reduction repre-
sents one-half of the company's excess
earnings above 7 per cent last year.
During that year it had net earnings
Of 5000 ,999 on rate base of s61, ,759,-
44823, equivalent to a return of s2S
per cent. Under the sliding scale now
in effect one-half of excess earnings is
returned in the way of reduced bills
when the earnings do not exceed 81
per cent.
None Of the reductions offered by the
company affect the primary rate, which
Is in most cases SO cents per klowatt
hour. They refer to secondary rates
and are summarized as follows:
Schedule A for urban residential
lighting:
CThe rate of SO cents per kilowatt
hour for the first so hours remains un.
changed.
Next so kilowatt hours, 3.6 cents per
kilowatt hour Next so kilowatt hours,
2.9 cents. Over $50 kilowatt hours, Z
cents.
Next so kilowatt hours. 33 cents pei
kilowatt hour. Next so kilowatt hours
cents. Over $50 kilowatt hours. l.:
cents.
The minimum bill for Maryland Gus.
toners in this schedule is reduced from
81 to rs cents month
Suburban schedule as:
First so kilowatt hours remain un.
changed at SO cents and next so re-
main unchanged at 3.6 cents
1888.
Next so kilowatt hours, 90 cents pe,
kilowatt hour. Over. $50 kilowatt hours
cents.
Next 100 kilowatt hours. 2 cents pel
kilowatt hour. Over 200 kilowatt hours
is cents.
Proposed Rural Schedule.
Rural schedule A. R.-The first 81
klloWatt hours remain unchanged al
7.9 cents per kilowatt hour, and thu
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1934-01-18
INSURANCE KEYNOTE
OF WYNEKOOP TRIAL
Agent Testifes Doctor Arranged
for Policy on Daughter-in-
Laws Life.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. January 1s-More insur-
arlce agents were paraded to the stand
today by the State in its effort to prove
DR.. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop murdered
her daughter-in-law Rheta and that
the chief motive for the crime was in
surance on the girls life.
The 62-year-old doctor appeared in
better physical condition than yester-
day. She declared she had q good
nights sleep and that a severe head
ache had left.
Continuing the line of attack begun
yesterday, the State called Miss Esther
A. English an agent for the CONNER
cial Life Insurance Co. Miss English
testified that on October 80, 1893, three
weeks before Rheta was found slain on
an operating table In the basement Of
fee Of her mother n-law's home, the
witness had gone to the Wynekoop
home.
"I asked for Rheta and talked to her
briefly. Then DR.. Wynekoop told me
she would discuss the matter with me,
Rheta left the room. ! asked DR..
Wynekoop the questions and filled In
the blanks myself. Then DR.. Wyne-
koop left the room and returned with
Rheta's signature"
Evening star., 1934-01-18
AWAIT SUMMONED
IN BANKING PROBE
Acting Controller of Currency
Under Hoover Creates Stir
at Inquiry.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
F. G. Await, acting controller Of the
currency during the latter part OF the
Hoover administration, was called to-
day to testify in the Senate Banking
Committees investigation of the Detroit
bank collapse.
The summoning OF Await had not
been announced and his appearance
in the committee room when the hear
ing was resumed this morning created
stir.
Ferdinand Pecora, committee counsel,
said he called Await because he was
acting controller shortly before the
Michigan bank holiday, but would not
say whether he would question him
about the controllers order to national
bank examiners to extend "leniency"
to banks.
Pecora resumed questioning Of Charles
s. Mott of Flint, a former president
of the General Motors Corporation and
a director and member Of the Executive
Committee Of the Guardian Detroit
Union Group, Inc
Mott testified yesterday to his sale
of 10000 shares of stock Of the group
to Harry s. Covington, another director
of the group.
Evening star., 1934-01-18
K|DNAPERSDEMAND
$4,000 RANSOM
Edward G. Bremen, Banker
and Son of Brewer, Taken
at St. Paul.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. PAUL. January 18-Kidnapers
demanding 100000 ransom yesterday
abducted Edward c. Bremen, son of
Adolph Bremen, wealthy st. Paul
brewer and prominent Democrat Of
Minnesota, the police said today.
The 37-year-old president of the
Commercial State Bank was picked up
by several men between BIS and 10
am. Wednesday upon his return from
Chicago. The police and members of
the Bremen family refused to discuss
the case
Abduction OF Bremen. whose father
owns a controlling interest in the
Jacob Schmidt Brewing Co., followed by
seven months the kidnapping Of William
Hamm, jr., millionaire president of the
Theodore Hamm Brewing Co, who paid
100000 for his freedom last June.
Otto Bremen, chairman Of the board
and Minnesota manager Of the Home
Owners Loan Corporation, Is an uncle
Of the missing man, who was seized
after taking his 8-year-old daughter,
Betty, to the Summit grade school.
Bremen presumably started for the
bank after leaving his daughter. He
did not reach there. the kidnapers ap-
parently stopping his automobile and
taking both him and the car.
The next heard of him was an anony-
nous telephone call to Walter w. Magee,
wealthy contractor, from a man speak
ing in low voice. Magee was told the
Bremen car could be found in the High
land Park district of St Paul and there
was q note on the back doorstep OF
Magee's home.
Magee attempted to prolong the
conversation, so the call might be
traced, but the unidentified person sud-
denly hung up.
At home, Magee found typewriter
note addressed to Charles Magee'
| and signed in ink with a shaky hand.
| for contracting the kidnapers, but the
contents were not made public.
Bremer's automobile later was found
| about a mile from where the abductors
told Magee to look.
The younger Bremen is graduate OF
George Washington University, holding
bachelor Of laws and q masters degree
He was married 10 years ago. The
couple has one child. Besides hi
father, there are another son and three
sisters In the Adolph Bremen family.
The ransom demanded for Bremen
release matched that asked in tn
Urschel abduction in Oklahoma. Th
kidnapping following the recent acquitta
of Roger Touhy and three co-defend
ants Of kidnapping Hamm. They nov
are on trial in Chicago, charged witt
kidnapping John Factor.
st. Paul has been the scene OF fou
other abductions in the last two ant
q half years, kidnapings having mulcte'
their victims of $128. 400 Of the $50,
900 ransom demanded
OF about 20 suspects in the fou
cases, have been convicted: Othe
victims here were Leon Gleckman
finance company head; Morris Rutman
dress shop owner, and Haskell Bonn
youthful son of a refrigerator manu-
| facturer.
Received Degrees Here.
Edward G. Bremen was law stu
dent at Catholic University here from
1915 to 1918. and holds the bachelor
| of laws degree from that institution
He also studied at George Washington
University in 1919, and was awarded
his master of laws degree there. Mr.
Bremen is 36 years old.
Evening star., 1934-01-18
Gold In All Forms
POurs IL, as Result
Of Federal DriUe
Treasury Deadline on Pay.
ment Extended In.
definitely.

Gold Of all kinds, from tiny one.
dollar gold pieces to gold certificates
for large sums, poured into the Treas
ury Department yesterday and this
morning as a result of the Government
campaign to draw out boarded gold
With the deadline for receipt Of
gold and gold certificates scheduled for
last midnight-it later was extended
indefinitely-a large number of Wash
ingtonians rushed to the banks and to
the Treasury yesterday to turn over
their precious metal before it was too
late
Rough estimates placed the receipts
from both individuals and banks at the
Treasury yesterday at about 100000.
This was divided into about two-thirds
of gold coin and one-third paper money.
Only few of the coins in the smallest
denomination, the one-dollar piece, were
received. There were more $40 gold
pieces than any other size, but none
of the denominations were missing in
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Evening star., 1934-01-18
UNIFORM PAY SCALE
TO APPLY IN FUTURE
Executive Order Affecting Emer-
gencies Amended for Other Es-
tablishments to Be Created.

The uniform salary scale already set
up for emergency agencies by executive
order is to apply to any other establish
ments that may be created, thereby
bringing the employees pay In line with
those Of the classified grades and sub
5ecting them to the pay cut.
This provision, embodied In an
amendment to the original order, be-
came known today through q decision
by Controller General McCarl.
The case through which tbs order
became known today was presented by
the Department of Agriculture, which
asked the controller general If the Is
Der cent pay cut should be levied
against home economics workers paid
from c. w. A. funds.
Evening star., 1934-01-18
MEND|ETA IS MADE
CUBAN PRESIDENT
All Groups Unite Behind
Revolutionary Leader as
Peace Hopes Grow.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
HAVANA, January 18.-Carlos Men
dieta, 6o-year-old physician, statesman
and revolutionary, today was made
President Of Cuba-the fifth President
In as many months.
Mendieta entered an office which had
been vacant overnight, since Carlos
Hevia, who had held Office 40 hours,
suddenly resigned.
The presidency was given to Mendieta
by acclamation of group of leaders Of
Cuban political life who gathered in
the palace.
The inaugural oath was given by the
Supreme Court.
Mendieta accepted the presidency
after night-long resistance against
the pleading of friends who wished him
to become chief executive at once.
Sterling Refuses Place.
Previous to his acceptance. Manuel
Marquee Sterling, secretary Of state
under Hevia, refused his constitutional
right to become President himself, pre-
ferring that Mendieta should take Office
without delay.
Mendieta, in his first statement,
said:
Through the Associated Press, I
send the American people my govern
ment'S and my own most cordial and
affective greeting, hoping that Cuba
may base herself on an order Of rea-
son and justice"
jefferson Caffery, President Roose-
velts personal representative in Cuba,
issued the following statement today
as Mendieta accepted the presidency:
"As the representative OF the Presi-
dent of the United States in this island,
I am of course deeply interested in
Cuba's welfare and therefore deeply
interested in any satisfactory solution
to her political problems.
Confident of Harmony.
"I have confidence in the patriotism
Of the republics leaders and confidence
that their principal interests will be
the service of their compatriotS and
that their efforts will be directed espe-
cially toward bettering the lot of her
people on the plantations, in the fac
tories and in their homes"
Meanwhile, a surprise strike early
today tied up Havana's power, water,
light, gas and transportation systems.
Guiteras Arrest Ordered.
Col. Fugencio Batista, commander
of the army. evidently Inspecting that
Former Secretary of War Antonio
Guiteras was at the bottom Of the tie
up, Immediately ordered his arrest.
While union leaders were not i'm
mediately available, it was believed that
today's movement was that originally
called for late yesterday, and directed
against what some described as
"Batista's military dictatorship"
The colonel and DR.. Guiteras split
over political differences after the latter
had Unanswered" Hevia into the
presidency.
Public employees reported for work,
however, and the railroads were run
ming on schedule. Yesterday, these
groups were included in the body re-
ported to have planned a general strike
The strike was signalized shortly be-
fore daybreak by the disruption Of cleo
trio service when every light in the
city suddenly went out.
This development came despite the
fact that the American-owned Cuban
Electric Co, the only power plant In
n
Evening star., 1934-01-18
POSTMASTER BURNED
WITH 8 OF FAMILY
Bodies Are Found in Ruins Of 10.
Room Residence at Lad.
donia, Mo.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LADDONIA, Mo-, January l8.-S. L.
Garner, 40, postmaster and chairman of
the Audrain County Democratic Com
mittee; his wife and two children, Anne,
s, and John, IL, were burned to death
in their home here early today.
The bodies of the four were found In
the ruins Of their 10-room house here
after it had burned to the ground in a
fire of undetermined origin.
Neighbors saw light in the house
at 4 am. and upon investigating found
the interior ablaze. They broke win
dows on the lower floor, but were un-
able to enter the structure.
Evening star., 1934-01-18
Finder of Diamond
To Invest First in
Hat and FrOck Coat
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED FIeSs.
JOHANNESBURG, Union Of
South Africa, January ia
726-carat diamond, discovered re-
Gently at Elandsfontein, has been
sold to Sir Ernest Oppenheimer
for nearly s70.000 approximately
S350,000), it was learned today.
The discoverer, Jacobus Jonk-
her, plans to return to farming
on a large scale-but first he
will buy a silk hat and a frock
coat, he said
A native boy. Johannes. who
participated in the discovery, will
be installed on the farm with his
family and with liberty to do
what he pleases.
Evening star., 1934-01-18
TEACHER DIES IN FIRE

Harbor Grace, N. F., Hotel Is
Razed in Confiagration.
HARBOR GRACE, Newfoundland,
January 18 P.-The Empire Hotel and
several adjoining buildings were de-
stroyed in a fire early today, which
cost the life Of Ida Parsons. a school
teacher, trapped In the hotel.
Evening star., 1934-01-18
Gets Foreign Office Post.

LONDON, January 18 R.-Appoint-
ment Of Earl Stanhope, undersecretary
Of war, as undersecretary for foreign
affairs, in succession to Capt. Anthony
Eden, was officially announced today
Evening star., 1934-01-18
Classified Advertising.
A Directory of the Wants
of the People.

n OlICCSVHy VI VIC "oAsS
of the People.
Classified advertising in the
Washington newspapers Sum
day, January IA, 1884;
The Sunday Star >. .2O,325
I'd Sunday newspaper $40
Sd Sunday newspaper 7.771
Volume of classified adyer-
tising comes to a newspaper
only because of its power to
produce results.
Evening star., 1934-01-18

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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-06-07
Turkey Growers Council
to be Held Here June 18th

The annual meeting of the Turkey
Growers Council for the White
Bluffs, Hartford, Richland, Benton
City, and Kennewick districts is to be
held Wednesday, June ID, at $3.50 a.
m. at the county extension office in
Kennewick.
The meeting has been called by
Henry Piert, president. This council
consists of turkey growers who are
members of the Washington Cooper
ative Egg and Poultry Association
and their turkeys are marketed thru
this organization. On the afternoon of
the same day at 2 o'clock at the COM
munity club rooms in Prosser will be
held the meeting of the council men,
bers in the Prosser district. Mr.. Piert
will also be present lat this meeting
as well as others on up the valley.
Present also at these meetings will
be H. j. Beernik, Seattle, and Ray
Darling, Yakima. assistant general
manager and district manager, re-
spectively of the Washington Cooper
alive Egg and Poultry Association.
These men will report on general
marketing conditions and the work OF
the management of the association.
ANY of the association members are
welcome to attend these meetings.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-06-07
OF
CANNERY SET
FOR JUNE 2O-25
Plant to be Rearranged for the
Handling of Beans; Part of
Pack Already Sold; Tomatoes
to Follow Beans

Citizens of the town had been ac-
customed to the tootle of the new
cannery whistle have been missing it
this past week since the shutdown on
the grass pack. DIR. Kinney, manager
for the Santa Cruz Packing Co., and
Bill Gunder, cost accountant, are
still here, and arec losing up the ac-
counts and experimenting the ship
ping of the canned products.
Cannery officials are negotiating
for the re-opening of the plant to take
care of the beans which are expected
to b ready for processing about the
goth or 18th Of tn month. Enough
tonnage has been signed up to keep
the plant operating at capacity until
the advent Of the tomatoes it is thot.
Some additional equipment will be
required for the bean pack and re-
arrangement Of some of the present
equipment will be needd. Will wait.
ing for the crop to grow these changes
will be made. Some twenty thousand
cases of beans have already been
spoken for on the original Brownell
set-up, and it is not expected that any
difficulty. will be experienced in dis
posing Of all that can be processed
here.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-06-07
MOULTON TO BE
KEYNOTER FOR
STATEG.O.P. MEN
County Delegation to Turn Out
Strong at Convention at Yak
ina Saturday; White Bluffs
Band to Parade

A score or more of Kennewick peo-
pie are planning to go to Yakima on
Saturday to attend the republican
state convention. An equal number
from Prosser and scattered numbers
from other parts of the country also
plan to be present.
M. M. Moulton, who delivered the
keynote address at the Yakima coun-
ty convention, has been selected as
keynoter for the state gathering and
the local townsfolk are planning to
call attention to the fact that he is
from Benon county. The White Bluffs
band has been engaged to lead the
county delegation, which is planning
to parade the streets and carry BAN
ners-an' ever-thin'.
Mr.. Moulton's previous address was
acclaimed by Yakima men as one Of
the sanest and most practical politi-
cal speeches ever heard in the state.
His suggestions as to what should be
adopted by the republican party and
worked into planks in the platform
found high favor among the more
progressive of the delegates. His adj
dress Saturday is expected to make
even more of hit among the state
representatives who will assemble to
outline the party's policies for the
coming campaign this fall.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-06-07
IRK
ALDERMAN WHO
WANTS POLICE
City, Lacking Funds, Compelled
to Work Short Handed; Lii
quor Money Seen as Aid to
Keeping Library Operating

Councilman Ed Watts doesn't like
strikes.
He doesn't like pickets and he GER
tainly does not like the idea Of all
the city's police being called away
from town duty to guard farm from
possible strike violence.
He thinks there should be one or
more armed police on duty at all
times, advancing the argument at the
meeting of the city council Tuesday
night that daylight robberies are be-
coming more and more numerous.
"Why lone robber could hold up the
bank here and get halfway to Passiac,
N. j. before cop could be notified"
he said.
YEAH" came back the reply from
Mayor Alfred Anon, "and he'd likely
get just as far if we had three armed
men on duty"
During the recent strike threat a
picket stopped Mr.. Watts out at the
edge of town and his attention was
called to the fact that all our police
officers were on duty out there. He'd
begun to wonder bit about how
things were going along the street.
At any rate the discussion developed
the fact that no matter how badly the
town needed additional men on the
force, it would be necessary to con-
tinue "as is" for the reason that there
was no money available to pay addi-
tional help. It's one of those things.
The possibility of the city receiv-
ing some money from the liquor IL
censes was given little discussion at
the meeting Tuesday. City Attorney
Holcomb thought that there would
be some funds received shortly from
this source and indicated that this
money could be used for the library
-or any other purposes it was re-
ceived.
The recent windstorm called to
mind the annual problem of street
litter. The possibility of installing re-
ceptacles along the street for receiv-
ing refuse was talked of. Control of
the scattered papers which are blown
into the streets with every breeze was
the problem which may be worked out
in the near future.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-06-07
COLLECTIONS OF
TAXES HEAVY
DURING MONTH
Payment by Railroads Will Per-
NIT Call of Many County and
District Warrants; County is
in Good Financial Condition

Tax collections during the month of
May amounted to $154,770, Deputy
Treasurer Louis P. Kelley announced
today. This amount was swelled by
the payment of the half payments
made by the railroads.
The amount includes all types of
taxes and will enable the county to
make one of its largest warrant calls
in more than a year, he said. The
call, which will be made June 20, will
put several more districts on a cash
basis, Mr.. Kelley said.
Railroad companies are heavy tax
payers in Benton county and the sums
they paid were: Northern Pacific,
$31 1926; Spokane, Portland & Seattle.
$3O,556; Union Pacific, $12,347 and
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul, $37,-
O55. The sums are only one-half the
amount levied against them.
Collections in the month of May are
larger than in the same month last
year, Kelley asserted, although the
total received last year were larger.
Receipts in May, 1888 were 1897 900
but included were returns from the
sale of several bond issues authorized
to refinance irrigation districts.
Disbursements last May amounted
to $58, $50, while in the same month in
1882 they amounted to 100000. The
county, Kelley said, was in good f.
nancial condition.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-06-07
TO
PROTEST HIGH
EXPENDITURES
League Seeks Elimination of the
County Police System and Big
Reduction in State and County
Government Costs

An organized attack against excess
slve government expenditures and
high taxes will be launched in the
next session of the Legislature, An
drew Brown said in the ,Prosser Com
mercial club meeting Tuesday noon
when he reported on the meeting of
the Washington Taxpayers league in
Seattle.
All classes of persons were in at
tendance in the session, he said, and
the thing they were most interested
in was the reduction of taxes. The in
itiatives that will come before the
voters next fall were assailed, Brown
said, as they call for increased gov
eminent expenditures.
Sheriff's Office Hit
Resolutions passed by the conven-
ton, Brown said, called for the trans
fer of sheriff duties to the state po-
lice and elimination of sheriff Of
ices, and amendment to the state con-
stitution for selecting commissioners
to serve without pay and hiring a
manager to conduct county business,
adjustment of road district levies.
Repeal of local improvement dis
trict laws so a community will not be
responsible for bonds of a certain dis
trict in the community was urged as
was passage of a measure prohibiting
elective office holders from hiring
relatives as deputies.
Other Suggestions
Other resolutions, he continued, fa-
vored elimination Of the law that al
lows a person to hold an elective po-
sition only two terms, affirmed con-
fidence in the 40-mill limit law, and
recommended appointment of commit
tees to work with school districts to
lower the cost of operating schools.
Another would prohibit legislators
from holding administrative positions
with pay, he said.
A committee probably will be APP
pointed to put the recommendations
before the legislature and represent
the league during the session.-Her-
aid.