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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20

Manufacturers meanwhile
speeded up delivery of auto
mobiles and awaited outcome
of the conference of industry
leaders and General Hugh S.
Johnson in New York. The
industry said it never would
recognize the A. F. of l..
Many other strikes we're in
progress or threatened. In San
Francisco. a strike of dock workers
was called for Friday over the
closed shop issue.
In Pittsburgh. heart Of the steel
industry. observers foressw one Of
the most determined battles in his
tory between capital and labor over
collective bargaining rights under
the NRA
At Detroit. about $50 workers Of
the Bower Rolling Bearing Com
pany struck, virtually tying up pro-
duction.
In the Cleveland area, employees
of the largest clothing manufactures
voted to be represented by labor
union as opposed to company
union and thousands of workers in
plants allied with the auto industry
we're ready to strike unless their
unions are recognized.
In New York state, series of
CWA strikes was in progress and
in New England, negotiations we're
unsuccessful for settlement of
shoe strike involving 6 000
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20
SEEK SILVER HOARDERS
Senator Arthur Robinson Offers
Resolution Asking Names.

WASHINGTON. March 2O-The
senate today adopted a resolution
calling on the secretary Of treasury
to furnish a list of names of all
known hoarders of silver.
The resolution was offered by
Senator Arthur R. Robinson rep.
Ind. 1t stated that information
was desired because Of charges that
silver had been boarded in anticipa-
ton of legislation that would en-
nance its value.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20
MARTIN INSULT MUST
FACE u. S. CHARGES
Chicago Utility Magnate to Be
Turned Over by Canada.

Chicago Utility Magnate to Be
Turned Over by Canada.
By United Press
TORONTO, Ontario, March 90
The warrant of committal and eX-
tradition order which will send Mar
tin j. insult, former Chicago utility
magnate, back to the United States
for trial, today needed only the for
NAL signature of Sir William Mu-
lock, chief justice of Ontario.
insult was charged formally with
the theft of three specific sums Of
money, totaling more than half a
million dollars.
The order will be signed today. 1t
then will be sent to Ottawa, where
c. H. Cahan, secretary of state, will
issue the warrant of surrender. fol-
lowing which insult will be returned
TO Chicago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20
PRESIDENTS YOUNGEST
SON MAKING PROGRESS
John ROoseveIt's Condition Said
Good After Operation.

BIZ Enitcd Press
WASHINGTON. March 20-The
condition of John Roosevelt, young
est son Of President and Mrs
Roosevelt, was reported as salts
factory" today at the naval hospital.
He underwent an operation for ap-
pendicitis yesterday. In bulletin
issued by the hospital it was said
his temperature was normal and
that he was making rapid grogress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20
QUEEN MOTHER EMMA
OF NETHERLANDS DEAD
Widow of William III Succumbs of
Bronchitis.
BV United Press

81 HWCd FTfSs
THE HAGUE. Holland, March 20.
Queen Mother Emma, IS. mother
of Queen Wilhelmina and widow of
King William III, died at 7:45 a. m.
today of bronchitis.
Queen Emma had been gravely i'll
for days, and physicians had given
up hope because of her age. During
her illness her daughter, Queen
Wilhelmina, and granddaughter,
Princess Juliana, had been at her
bedside. with Prince frederick Of
Waldeck and Pyrmont, her brother.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20
Approves Grain Exchange Code

hW INFtfH FTFAN
WASHINGTON, March 20. -
President Roosevelt has approved
the grain exchange code and it will
become effective March 81, Agricul-
ture Secretary Henry A. Wallace
announced today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20
SHOOTS WIFE, CHILD,
ENDS HIS OWN LIFE
New Jersey Man, IS, Kills Mate, II,
and Girl, 3.
By United Press

By United Press
SALEM. N. j.. March 20.-George
Beaston. Is, killed his wife, Mabel,
Il, and his daughter. Ellen. 3. to-
day and then committed suicide,
police were informed.
BeaSton killed his wife and child
by shooting, the police report said.
Mrs. Beaston's mother lives III the
other side of the two-family house
in which the shooting occurred.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20
OFFICER FACES CHARGES

Policeman Accused of Accepting
Money and Pool Tickets.
Charges that policeman William
Gillespie accepted money. baseball
pool tickets and cigarets from pool
operators while on duty we're
brought before the safety board to-
day.
Charges also we're made that Gil
lespie ordered food and beer for
which he refused to pay.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20
Roosevelt May Act

~ = HifeO FTfSS
WASHINGTON. March 90
President Roosevelt stood by today
ready TO act if necessary to avert an
automobile strike that might prove
the major industrial disorder of his
administration and threaten his en-
tire recovery program.
He also eyed with apprehension a
dispute of equally serious implica-
lions which was developing between
railroad labor and management
The automobile crisis had reached
the zero hour and mis- chief atten-
ton was devoted 70 it. A strike has
been ordered in the industry by the
American Federation of Labor for
tomorrow if settlement is not
reached by then.
President Is Ready
Despite the shortness Of time,
hope still ran strong that an actual
outbreak could be prevented, at
least temporarily.
Through recovery administrator
Hugh s. Johnson, who was in New
York trying to cOncillate auto rep
resentatives through the National
Automobile Association of Com
merce and labor as represented by
the A. F. Of L., the President had
available play-by-play report Of
the situat ton.
Should all other means fail the
President was believed ready to ex-
ert the strongest personal inf1u-
ence to avert major labor crisis
and its accompanying arrangement
of the fast-reviving auto industry
and the potential danger to the en-
tire recovery program.
The President conferred with At
torney-General Homer S. Cum
mings and Secretary of Commerce
Daniel Roper. Both conferences
were thought to concern the auto
mobile situation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-20
City Altman With Byrd
Is Missing in AntarcticG

dog sled team was ready to take
off. Byrd believed the plane to be
within eight to fifteen miles Of
camp.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-25
Improper Claims Will
Call Down Heavy Fines

Guy r. Helvering, Commissioner Of
Internal Revenue, has issued nation
wide warning to all persons not to
make improper claims for exemption
of processing taxes on wheat, corn,
hogs, or other commodities subject to
the tax under the Agricultural Adj
justment Act. The penalty, upon con-
viction, for preparing or assisting In
the preparation Of false or fraudu-
lent return, affidavit, claim or docu-
ment, in connection with any matter
arising under this Act, Is subject to
fine of not more than $4,000 or
imprisonment of not more than five
years, or both.
Merchants who purchase from pro-
ducers articles. processed from COM
modities subject to the processing tax
are requested to cooperate with the
government insofar as it is incumbent
upon them to file with the office of
the Collector of Internal Revenue
monthly, the weights of articles so
purchased as we'll as the names and
addresses of producers in cases where
the tax is being evaded. Otherwise,
they will be subject to prosecution for
conspiring with the producer to evade
the processing tax.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-25
Mothers of Band Boys
Entertain With Banquet

The banquet honoring the boys of
the band Saturday night was grand
success. The boys, the parents and the
invited guests all joined in expressing
that sentiment. There were ninety peo-
pie seated at the long tables in Lib
erty hall. The weight band boys
i, sat at one table, the POSTMASTER and
outside guests sat at another, and the
parents were at still another. The hall
and tables had been decorated by the
boys mothers, who had planned and
carried out the scheme and who served
a delicious dinner.
Five charter members of the first
White Bluffs band, Joseph Mykol Roy
Gibbins, John Holecek Paul Schicka,
and Edward Ponsat, were present. Jo-
seph Grell, the other of the six char
ter members still living in the valley
was unable to be present.
Other guests we're Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
Allard Mrs. E. N. Loveland, Mrs. Eliza
beth Searles and Mr.. and Mrs. F. A
English. Edmund Anderson was the
very lively POSTMASTER of the evening
He, Mr.. Allard, and the late Mr. Love-
land are referred to as the grand
fathers" of the band, since they put
up the money to get the first band
started.
At 1920, at the conclusion of the
banquet, the Band orchestra played fol
a few dances and was then relieved
by H. c. Broughton, Mrs. Broughton
and George Barta, who played while
some of the banqueteers danced and
others of them played cards.
A poem, written by Mrs. Loveland In
tribute to the occasion, is printed or
another page of this issue OF the
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-25
Sales Are Increased 1870
In Northwest During 1888

Proof that the automobile industry
is swapping out of the depression with
gusto was offered recently by H. Il
Wilcox, Seattle branch manager of the
Ford Motor Co. He informs dealers
that 1888 Ford sales records had far
outdone those of 1882.
Seattle branch Ford dealers, inclld-
ing those of Washington and Oregon
sold over 81 per cent more cars and
truck units in 1888 than in the pre-
vious year.
"These figures" declared Wilcox, ARE
indicative of how Ford sales have in
creased throughout the country, and
attribute this increase to the publlc's
new optimistic attitude coupled with
the governments program of re-em-
ployment which is putting SO many
thousands of men back to work"
Besides being enthusiastic about the
national outlook for the coming year
Mr.. Wilcox is also cheered over pros
poets for the new Ford va in 1884
81 anticipate IS per cent increase in
sales this year over last" he states
land so far January figures bear Out
my contention"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-25
Kennewick Salesman Is
Badly Hurt In Collision

Harry Love, Well-knoWn grocery
salesman, was severely injured last
Friday evening in an accident on the
highway between Othello and Cunning
ham. Mr.. Love is in Pasco hospital.
A county gravel truck which had
been left standing in the road was the
cause of the accident. A heavy rain
obscured Mr.. Loves vision so that he
did not see the obstacle until he was
upon it and was unable to swerve suf-
ficiently to avoid the collision. The
entire side of his car was ripped away
by the impact. The serious injuries
sustained by Mr. Love were complicated
by the fact that he lay in the rain
for several hours before being picked
up by passing motorist. He is re-
ported to be improving now, however,
with all danger of pneumonia past.
His home is in Kennewick.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-25
Child Welfare Expert
From Pullman To Speak

The Hanford Improvement Club,
through the efforts of Mrs. Mary Davis,
extension worker for Benton county,
Is able to bring to the valley Mrs. Will
liams of the economics department OF
the State College of Washington, an
nounces Mrs. N. P. Anglin, president
of the club Mrs. Williams will adj
dress a meeting Thursday afternoon,
February l, in the Hanford high school
auditorium at two o'clock. This is the
meeting originally planned for We'd
nesday, February IA.
Mrs. Williams comes very highly rec
commended in her knowledge Of child
welfare and will speak on the subject
"The Relation Between the Parent and
Child"
Everyone interested in child welfare.
especially parents, is invited and urged
to attend and enjoy this rare privilege
Mrs Williams has asked that the
fathers be especially invited to come
1t is also asked that all children be
left at home.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-25
Clarence Proffitt Held Up
BY Thief in Wenatchee

Visiting here from White Bluffs,
Clarence Profit reported to police that
he was held up and robbed Of $38 in
the shadow of the public library build
ing at 1920 last night" says the Wen
atchee Daily World of Tuesday, JAN
uary %.
The report states that Proffitt could
give police no description of the man
EXCEPT that he wore long dark over
doat and grey cap. He said that as
he passed the library someone jumped
from the shadows, stuck something in
his back and went through his pockets
Proffitt worked on the Hanford ranch
at White Bluffs for the past five OF
six months, leaving for Wenatchee
about two weeks ago.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-25
School Days Again
For Local Farmers
SMALL ATTENDANCE AT MEET

Growers of the Priest Rapids valley
met at Liberty Hall In White Bluffs
Monday for the annual horticultural
school, conducted by County Agent
E. G. Durdle.
A paper on Cooling Moth Control
and the Residue Problem, prepared by
DR.. E. F. Overholser, head of the horti-
cultural department at W.S.C., was
read by Mr.. Vincent.
H. P. Singleton, superintendent of
the Prosser branch experiment station,
discussed orchard cover crops, their
relative values and the best methods
of growing them.
Due to the fact that Mr.. Lane was
available for only two meetings, it was
impossible for him to come to this
school. He had been scheduled to give
an address on the wire worm and its
control.
At the afternoon session r. M. Tur-
ner discussed the economic outlook In
general and the probable effect it has
on tree fruit prospects for the coming
year. Mr.. Turner attributed the bet
ter apple prices of this season to the
administrations foreign trade policy
and to the devaluation of the dollar.
The subject of soils and soil fertility
was discussed by Mr.. Durdle, who
stressed the vital Importance of proper
tree spacing in the apple orchards.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-25
Chance To Dance
At Birthday Ball
TWO oRcHEsrRAs WILL PLAY

A dance, In honor of the Presidents
birthday, will be held next Tuesday
evening, January 80, at the Hanford
high school gym. On the same even
ing, throughout the country, more
than 5000 Birthday Balls will be held.
j. w. Fenley has been appointed as
local chairman by the national COM
mittee which is planning these affairs
He announces that plans for the dance
are now completed, and that those who
attend are assured of good time.
Music for dancing will be furnished by
the White Bluffs Bands orchestra and
KalkWarf's orchestra. Mr.. Fenley is as
sisted in the preparations for the affair
by F. A. English, E. r. Griner, r. w.
MacDonell and G.. R. Chase.
Refreshments will be served during
the evening by students of the Han
ford high school. The high school gym
nasium is being donated for the dance.
The purpose Of this party for the
President on his Sind birthday is a
simple and humane one. 1t is to es-
tablish through the direct help of the
citizens of the country an endowment
fund for the Warm Springs Founda-
ton, created in 1926 by President
Roosevelt, so that this Foundation may
carry on it's national crusade against
infantile paralysis and devote unset
fishly it's full energy and thought to
the coordination of the fight against
a disease which physically handicaps,
every year, thousands of American
children.
The money taken in at the dance
Tuesday night will be paid in to this
Foundation, to aid in this work.
"This is worthwhile cause" Mr.
Fenley says, land the committee is
sure that residents of this valley will
do their part in aiding a fight against
infantile paralysis. We wish to invite
everyone to come, from White Bluffs
Hanford, Cold Creek, Allard- Vernita
and Priest Rapids. We are sure they
will have a good time. In fact, We
believe this will be one Of the best
dances ever held in the valley"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-25
eva Pay Roll
Reduced Half
In Rural Areas
ORDER TO DOUBLE NUMBER rs
CANCELLED; SIX FROM
HERE OUT

Within several days after regulations
had been changed in order that en-
ployment of CWA workers in rural
communities could be virtually doubled,
an order was received by Benton coun-
ty officials of the administration to
reduce hours and wages of all en-
ployees by half, and to put no addi-
tional men to work.
The number of men empoyed In this
valley is nearly the same as before the
changes were made, 81 now being en-
ployed on the Benton City-Horn road
project. Workmen employed on the
improvement works of the Priest Rap
ids irrigation district were shifted to
the Horn project, as were men on
other projects in the county which
have been completed. Construction
work on this project is going ahead
rapidly. Employees are now working
three ive-hour days per week, and
two Shifts are being used.
Benton county, which formerly had
quota of 800 men at work on CWA
and CWS projects, has now been al
lotted 300 men, a reduction Of go.
One tenth, or six, Of those that were
laid off, were from this district.
According to reports from Washing
ton, DC, the cutting of the weekly
CWA payrolls was caused by short
age of funds 1t was estimated that at
the present rate, there would be suf-
ficient funds to continue work until
about Feb. IL, unless Congress votes
additional funds for the program.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-25
Question Of Who Pays
Tax Is Clearly Stated

John G. Bowen, Collector Of Internal
Revenue, this week issued statement
In an effort to clarity any misunder-
standing which may exist with refer
ence to the processing tax on hogs.
Some confusion has resulted from a
lack Of understanding as to who the
professor Is who is liable for the tax.
Every individual, firm or corporation,
Mr.. Bowen explains, who slaughters
hogs, is a professor. The word pro
cessor", as used in the Agricultural
Administration Act pertaining to hogs,
means the slaughterer. Every individ-
ual, firm or corporation Strengthening
hogs, which hogs, or the products
thereof, are for resale, is subject to
the processing tax.
The only exemption from this tax is
in cases where the actual producer or
farmer who raises the hogs and
slaughters them, or has them slaugh-
tered for him for his own personal
consumption, and that of his imme-
date family or employees, or where
the meat is delivered to charitable
institution
Where farmer kills hog and sells
part of the carcass that part which
is sold is subject to the tax.
Much confusion can be avoided If
those in need of information first COM
municate with the Internal Revenue
Office where the proper information is
always available, and where every as
sistance is willingly rendered the tax
payers 1t is my intention in the very
near future to send group Of deputies
into the various communities of the
state which are most affected by this
tax, in order that the public may avail
itself of the services of men who are
trained for this purpose" said Mr..
Bowen.
In the meantime, however, Mr.. Bow
en- pointed out, farmers and others
engaged in Strengthening hogs should
secure ample copies Of PIT Form a,
which is the monthly hog processing
tax return, which must be filed in du-
plicate during the month following
that in which the processing took
place. The rate of tax, which was SO
cents per hundred pounds live weight
during November, Increased to $10O
per hundred weight during December,
and remains at that level during jan
uary The February rate will be $1.5O
and for March and thereafter, 1925
per hundred weight live weight.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-25
Agricultural Adjustment
Act Starts Functioning

Following promptly in the footsteps
Of the special legislative session, which
enacted an emergency measure to con-
form with the national farm recovery
program, state dairymen and producers
conferred with State Director of Agri-
culture Walter j. Robinson this week
to effect arrangements to set mini
mum price for milk production in the
Seattle area. s,..a 80. ...s..4 10 .5a,-e.s,
A permanent milk marketing agree
ment is sought by the producers and
distributors throughout the state, Rob-
inson said. DR.. Robert Prior, Supervisor
of Dairy and Livestock in the De-
partment of Agriculture, conferred
with the group to perfect early ar
rangements to carry out the plan at
once.
The new Washington agricultural
adjustment act, just passed, not only
applies to the dairy industry, but to
all other agricultural production, in
Guiding such farm commodities as veg
etables, nursery stock, products of the
soil such as bulbs as we'll as field corn,
Applying dAoO W C1AC POuACAy AASAAoVAy
and raising of beef and hogs or other
livestock
The State Director Of Agriculture is
empowered to p romulgate rules and
regulations to control the sale and dis
tribution of farm products. The regu-
1ation, control and supervision of all
phases of production and marketing,
including storage and transportation
of farm commodities is also provided
in Washington's new agricultural adj
justment act. 1t even goes farther and
empowers the Director to make mar
keting agreements such as the one pro-
posed by dairy interests this week; to
license manufacturers and distributors
and to enforce the rules and regula-
tions thought advisable to put into
effect.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-25
First Jury Term In Two
Years Costs Only $1036

With the jury finding for the defend
ant in the civil case resulting from the
death of Lillian Strive following an
automobile accident near Kennewick,
Benton countys first superior court
jury term in two years ended Monday
evening, says the Yakima Herald.
The term, which opened January 3D.
cost the taxpayers only $1036.50, which
court attendants said was the lowest
in recent years. One civil action was
settled out of court and one defend
ant pleaded guilty in criminal ac-
ton. Jurors received $482.40 in wagon
and mileage. Witness fees amounted to
$544.10. l