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Evening star., 1935-03-14
Hit-Run Victim Was Returning
To Wife after z Years. absence

Identified last night after lying un-
conscious in Emergency Hospital since
early Sunday, the victim of a hit-and-
run driver, Frank P. Stehlin, A, was
returning home to his wife after his
mysterious disappearance seven years
ago. it became known today.
Stehlin, who was found lying un-
conscious in the street in the 400
block Of Maryland avenue southwest,
and identified through local newspa-
per pictures, left home suddenly in
November. 1927, his 61-year-old wife,
Mrs. Emma c. Stehlin, 495 N street
southwest, said today. There had
been no marital rift at the time, she
said.
1.-THE next I heard from him was
this past January" Mrs. Stehlin said.
He wrote asking If I was still his
wife, and I answered in the afiirnIa-
tive by mail. Then another letter,
saying he might come home, leame in
Evening star., 1935-03-14
FOUR PLEAD GUILTY
TO SHORT WEIGHTS
Merchants Cases Continued for
Sentences. to Be Recommended
by Welliver.

-Four merchants entered pleas of
guilty when arraigned before Judge
Ralph Given in Police Court today
to charges of short weights in the
sale of meats. All of the cases were
continued for sentence
There were three charges against
Harry Clayman. 1400 block P street.
the average shortage being a quarter
of q pound. In the case of Harry
Eager, 1900 block Seventh street. OFF,
cials of the Office of Weights and
Measures said they made two separate
purchases and that in one the short
age was nearly three-quarters of a
pound and in the other, quarter of
pound.
Abraham Marcowitz, 900 block
Fourth street southwest, was charged
with three shortages. Two were ap-
proximately a half pound each and
the other about three-quarters Of q
pound.
The largest single shortage charged
was against Irwin j. Levinson, 1900
block U street. In one of four cases
against him, authorities said, there
was a shortage of almost pound on
a four pound chicken. Other shortages
in his case, they said. ranged from
q quarter to three-quarters of pound.
All of the cases are being handled
in Police Court by Assistant Corpora
ton Counsel Edward M. Welhver, by
whom sentences will be recommended.
Evening star., 1935-03-14
40 TAKEN IN RAID
ON GAMING PLACE
Vice Squad Uses Axes and
SIedges to Batter
Down Doors.

Forty persons were taken into Gus
tody as the police vice squad raided
what the police described as one OF
the Capitals oldest and best patron
lied race-horse gambling establish
ments in the heart of the downtown
financial district during the late rush
hour yesterday.
While hundreds of Government en-
ployes and Office workers let their
dinners wait to watch the raiders
Lieut.. George NJ Little and his squad
used axes and sledges to batter their
way through an intricate series OF
doors on the fourth floor of the Mary
land Building. 14l0 H street. and
completely bottled up" the patrons
of the den.
Escape Is Barred.
The quick entry of the squad, made
despite a confusing arrangement OF
mirrors at the entrance to the place
prevented the escape of any one by
way of knotted rope that was kept
coiled near q window for apparent
use in such an emergency.
After herding the players" into
six patrol wagons, police returned tt
the gambling house and removed foul
telephones, two short-wave radio sets
several loud speakers. quantity oi
racing sheets and other gambling
equipment A number of racing slip.
were torn up and thrown out win.
dow while the raid was in progress
police said.
Four Men Charged.
At headquarters, four of the mer
were charged with setting UP gaming
tables They identified themselves a!
Garry F. Quinn, 80, of the 1900 blocl
of Georgia avenue; Robert A. Murray
43. OF the 1000 block of Fourteenth
street; Clarence A. Langley of tht
5700 block of Ninth street and Ed
ward T. Parson, "a. of the TOO blocl
of Twelfth street. The others ar.
rested were booked as witnesses anc
released.
The place had been twice before
raided, police records showed.
Evening star., 1935-03-14

February. That was the last I reard
from him until my daughter. Naomi
Crowley, recognized his picture yes
terday and I identified him at the
hospital"
Mrs. Stehlin said her husbands s
mother and father and a daughter by
his first marriage are living in St.
Louis. She has four children ranging
in age from 81 to 38 by former mar
riage.
Hospital doctors, according to Mrs.
Stehlin, said his chance for recovery
was very slight. He received q frac-
ture of the left leg, double fracture Of
the right arm, possible skull fracture
and lacerated scalp.
Police had little evidence to go on,
1t was said today, but through a
broken automobile headlight lens
found near the victim established he
was struck by an automobile. A search
was being made for the automobile,
police said.
Evening star., 1935-03-14
SIX ARE INDICTED
AS A RESULT Of
2GAMBL|NG RAIDS
27 Others Named by Grand
Jury and Five Cleared
of Charges.
BEACH, FITZGERALD
LOTTERY DEFENDANTS
Frazier, Brinkley, Amorosi and
Lewis to Answer for Alleged
Gaming in Southeast.

Six men we're indicted on gambling
charges by the District grand jury to-
day as result of two raids made last
month by the police vice squad. The
Jury returned 81 other indictments
and ignored charges in five cases.
John Herman Beach and John
Fitzgerald were charged with operat-
ing lottery in the 100 block of
Eighth street southeast. Police who
arrested them February 81 said they
seized a large quantity of numbers
books and betting slips.
Southeast Defendants.
In the other case an indictment was
returned against James Beverly Fra
zier. Eugene Frazier Brinkley, John
Amorosi and Joseph Lewis. They were
arrested February 81 in connection
With the operation of an alleged gam
ing establishment in the 500 block of
Eighth street southeast
Others indicted. with the charges
against them. are:
Clarence Williams, James Scott.
Edward Willis and Raymond M. Jones,
joyriding; William Theodore Gilstrap,
joyriding and grand larceny; Edward
l.. Norman, William Rice. lie Roy
Catterton and Benjamin E. Nettles,
grand larceny; Mckinley Brooks, Ray
mond Brown, John Williams, Rudolph
Hutchinson and John E. Hughes, jr.,
HOUSEKEEPING and larceny; Yancy G.
Dean and Sonny Parker, housebreak-
ing; Gwen M. Liberty and Frank v.
Webb, robbery; bessie Heath. receiv-
ing stolen property; Francisco Soils,
I. Platzel. Isabelle Macaltao. Elpidio
Dixon and Ella McDaniels. assault
with a dangerous weapon; James H.
Allen. Fred U. Williams, Wellington
Tolliver, William Henry Anderson.
William Theodore Gilstrap and
Beatrice Edwards, violating liquor tax
ing act of 1884; William Theodore
Gilstrap, smoke screen: Florence M.
Brown. violating section 73, title 18,
United States Penal Code; John r.
Cation and Thomas D. Williams, carnal
knowledge, and Myrtle Arnold, abor-
ton.
Five Charges Ignored.
The following were cleared of the
charges indicated:
FEMME Harris, joyriding; NJ E.
Chaplin. grand larceny; Thelton
Tolson, assault with a dangerous
weapon; James Winston. violating
liquor taxing act, and Beatrice Harris,
violating section 73, title l8, United
States Penal Code.
Evening star., 1935-03-14
One Hotel Houses
T,cOH.G. Wells, but
Not Quite Calmly
Writer and Utilities Ex.
pert Cause Confusion
to DiIigent Press.

The visiting British author and his
torian, H. G. Wells, and the visiting
Massachusetts, public utilities expert.
H. G. Wells, are both registered at
the Mayfower Hotel, a circumstance
which has given rise to some con-
fusion.
At least one reporter and camera
man yesterday followed the wrong
Mr.. Wells from Government depart
ment to Government department and.
finally, back to the hotel, anxious to
interview him on world affairs.
The Mr.. Wells from Haverhill,
Mass. did not wish to qualify as an
expert on the subject. Meanwhile
the British author went his way un-
interviewed. He regards them as
something of an ordeal anyhow
Hotel telephone operators now in
quire, Which Mr.. H. G. Wells,
please?"
Evening star., 1935-03-14
SUICIDE PROSCRIBES
TEARS FOR HIS END
Names Three Jazz Tunes as Those
to Be Played at Funeral
Service.

Samuel r. Orr. o. truck driver for
a local department store, who killed
himself yesterday at his home, 1915
Lamont street, wanted no tears shed
over his departure. Instead, in let
ter addressed ITO ALL" he called for
jazz:
Sing these two songs love so well, "
he wrote:
"'Stay as Sweet as You Are and
Love in Bloom And, too, I'd like to
hear, The Object of My Affection
LAS I sit here and take stock of
myself" Orr wrote in another letter,
addressed to Myself, Il find useless
sort Of a creature, weak-willed, self
centered." He deplored the errors of
his way, his failure to correct them,
and the trouble he caused others
Orr left a wife and two children. ;,
Evening star., 1935-03-14

department. No additional legislation
is needed at this time, said Mr.. Settle.
The agreement, he explained. seemed
to be as far as they could go under
the present laws.
The new superintendent will meet
with the commission, which will map
out policy for him to follow. Any
suggestions he might have for i'm
provement Of recreation here, to give
the residents of the District better
facilities. will be submitted to the
commission for approval. There was
disposition yesterday to go the
limit in unifying recreation here"
said Mr.. Settle.
Evening star., 1935-03-14
Tax Office Open Late.

ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE,
Va, March IA (SpeciaD The ONCE
of the commissioner of revenue OF
Arlington County will be open to .
o'clock tonight and tomorrow night for
the purpose of assisting taxpayers
with preparation of their Federal and
State income tax returns.
Evening star., 1935-03-14
Young Democrats to Meet.

sUITLAND, Md, March IA (Spe-
ciaD D.-The Young Democratic Club
Of Southern Maryland will meet at
the Suitland Community Hall tomor,
row at $50 pm.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1935-07-04
First of Democratic
Institutes Held Here

The first of a series of Institutes
of Government convened in Ken
newick Saturday morning at the
Congregational church, the purpose
of which was to acquaint members
of the Women's Democratic Study
clubs with the new plan, adopted at
the annual Federation Meeting at
Tacoma in May, of working as a
unit Of the National Committee and
in cooperation with the state COM
mittee. It is proposed TO hold SIM
liar institute in each congressional
district in the state.
Mrs. Irna Snead of Lind pre-
sided at the opening meeting and
presented George Starr Of Seattle,
national committeeman, who greet
ed the forty delegates present from
the Fourth Congressional District.
The young Democrats were repre-
sented by Paul Pugh of Prosser.
Mrs. Elsie Gardner Picking Of
Toppenish, who is national COM
mitteewoman and acting chair
woman Of the Washington confer
ence of Democratic Women, spoke
on national, state, district and
county organization, leading an
open forum of discussion.
A picnic luncheon was spread In
the parlors of the church. At the
afternoon session the Reporter Plan
was ably demonstrated by Mrs. j.
Z. Raleigh and others, followed by
discussion. Mrs. Irrlaa Snead Was
general chairman, Mrs. p. M. Ma
honey, county vice chairwoman, as
sisting.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1935-07-04
HIGHLANDERS
AUTHORIZE
FEDERAL LOAN
Seek u. S. Grant of 45o in
Rehabilitation of Domestic
Water System; Need More
Than $4,000

Highlands residents have decided
to make determined effort to Sc
cure federal grant to aid them In
the rebuilding of their domestic
water system. A meeting of the
Highlands Improvement club was
held was held last Friday evening
to put the proposition before the
members and the above action was
determined upon. Directors were
authorized to proceed with their
plans and make formal application
for the grant. A meeting with the
department officials has been ar
ranged for next week in Yakima.
A large portion of the Highlands
system has been in the ground for
more than quarter of a century
and the untreated wood stave pipes
have sprung many a leak. So much
water Is leaking out in fact, that the
pumps have been added to to per-
NIT a scanty supply to all patrons.
The growing number of new users,
too, is taxing the capacity Of the
present lines and the matter must
be handled in the very near fu-
ture.
Directors estimate that the re-
placement of the mains will cost
something like SIS, 900 for materials
and about $4,000 for labor. Of this
amount 1t Is planned to ask 45To
under the federal grant plan and
handle the work as a relief measure.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1935-07-04
HiehIiehts on the Election

Largest enrolment in history in local schools with
steadily increasing number School facilities taxed
to capacity. Additional rooms imperative this fall.
Building housing lower grades considered unsafe
for school purposes anticipated and fire hazard
Adequate facilities be afforded in present high
school building for grades from one to six.
Modern trends in education favor adoption of the
Junior high school plan, which also provides additional
revenues from the state to the district.
New building would provide facilities for Junior
high schoogrades seven eight and nine, also senior
high school, grades ten eleven and twelve. Both Junior
and senior classes to use the same facilities.
Plans include central heating plant for both build
ings providing for cheaper and better operations
New building would prevent housing classes in
scattered locations about town with poor lighting and
heating, lack of control and discipline.
Opportunity under federal grant of securing build
ing 55c the dollar with long time bond issue
and interest accumulations
Would cost-on basis of 100000 building
actual patrons of the district only $4,000 Corpora
tions and business firms pay about equal amount.
with federal funds the remainder.
Would provide approximately $4,000 In labor
during construction period. (This amount is
than the total relief money spent in entire county two
years ago.
Election to be held at city hall Saturday of this
week from until s. All registered voters in school
district entitled to vote Transportation will be furn-
ished where desired. Phone 1451 Al Saturday, if
missed.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1935-07-04
Business Girls Hosts
to Minnesota Group

Miss Lena Mains, president of the
local Business and Professional Wo-
mems club, states that good rep
resentatlon of the local club plans
TO attend the National convention,
which is to be held in Seattle, July
IA to 20. The local club is assigned
as hosts to the state of Minnesota
and the delegates of its % clubs.
The Misses Florence Ring, Bertha
Frlcke and Mains, Mrs. L. H. Ray
mond and Mrs. j. E. Mulkey plan
TO attend the convention as dele
gates and alternates. A number OF
the other members plan to attend
part OF the sessions and the Mag
nl11clent Pacific" banquet which is
expected to be one of the largest
events Of the session.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1935-07-04
sEE BETTER
YCHANCE TO
GET NEW p. @.
Kennewick Is One of Four
Towns in District Asking
for New Federal Buildings;
Inspection Ordered

r,forts to obtain q new post Of
N.e building for Kennewick nave
nrodrced more hope this week, since
enswers have been received from
the washington delegation. Follow
inr the announcement several weeks
400 that the government was con-
sidering erecting several hundred
new federal buildings thruout the
country. the chamber of commerce
las been conducting a campaign In
behalf of Kennewick.
Organizations and individuals
have been urged to write the SEN
aihrs and congressman urging the
needs and advantages here. Ken
neTick's application for the new
building has been on file for two
or three years and the needs OF the
office have been fully set forth.
letters from Congressman Knute
HiIl to locsl people are as follows:
.This will acknowledge receipt
Of YOUR letter in regard to the pro-
posec new building for post Office
purposes at Kennewick. There are
four towns in the Fourth Distric.
thai are anxious to secure federal
buildings: Kennewick, Charleston,
Sunnyside and Toppenish.
81 have presented the needs OF
these four towns to the post office
department. They have ordered an
inspection made in each case and
will make their decision on the basis
Of the needs shown in the inspect
or's report. Probably only one
town in the district will secure a
post office this year."
In competition with the four
towns mentioned, the local boosters
are confident of being able to point
out q greater necessity here than
In either of the other towns men-
toned. Further activity will be con-
t1lued In the effort to secure the
appropriation from the present all
lotmentS.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1935-07-04
TO THE FAIR

The r. E. Reed family is leaving
this week end for a couple weeks
vacation in California, where they
will visit the fair at San Diego. Side
trips to Crater Lake, the Oregon
Caves, the Redwood Forest, Mexico
etc. will be included. In addition to
giving the editor vacation one OBJ
ject of the trip is to prove to the
kids that Oregon isn't really pink
(like it shows on the maps at
school) nor is California yellow
They also want to see that stone
bridge, carved to represent hewr
wood so realistically that the wood
peckers bust their bills pecking at it
In the meantime, it is hoped that
readers will pay up their subscrip-
tions, bring in a flock of ads and
help the force out with news items
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1935-07-04

Mrs. Hinkley is slowly recovering
from tn car accident of Severa.
weeks ago. Ines Lee is helping al
the Hinkley home.
Mr.. F. L. Barbee was home from
Pullman over the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Olson are
driving new Studebaker.
Bee Paulson left Tuesday for Sc
attic and Chehalis where she will
visit with friends and relatives for
a month.
Mrs. Harry McDuffie arrived at
the Bill Paulson home Saturday aft
er few months stay at the Edge
cliff sanitarium in Spokane. Mr.
and Mrs. McDuffie are planning to
move to Pasco shortly after the
Fourth.
Dorothy Glasow spent Saturday
night with Mildred Borgan.
Amy Paulson returned to Yakima
and Seattle Monday after few
weeks visit with her folks.
Junior Borgan and Johnny
Mauncey have returned from Ben
ton City.
Howard Lee went to Prosser Sum
day and visited with friends and
returned Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fitzpatrick Of Pasco
visited Mrs. McDuffie Monday eve
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs Joe Browning and
Miriam of Pasco visited at the II.
N. Paulson home Sunday evening.
Marjorie Mills arrived Saturday
afternoon from Spokane for a visit
with her folks.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1935-07-04
Enlistments for Army
Are Being Sought

DR.. P. O. Stone plans to leave
Sunday for the summer camp of the
officers reserve corps. He has just
received a letter from Ray Lewis,
field artillery recruiting officer at
Spokane, that this district has been
allowed 800 additional men and an
earnest effort is to be made to Sc
cure the enlistments from the adj
jacent area. The army Is being
expanded 10000 this year, accord
ing to the communication.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1935-07-04
GUEST FROM
INDIA AT THE
CANTWE ELLIS
HOVER

Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Cantwell
and children Kenneth and Norma
Jean from India visited his brother,
Keith and Mr.. and Mrs. Eslie Walk
er the past week. Mr.. Cantwell has
ben In India as a missionary for
the past six years.
E. E. Meeker from White Bluffs
was an overnight guest at the G.
L. Evans home Wednesday night
Word has been received that Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Cochran are the
parents of q son born June %. He
has been named Dclbert.
Mr.. end Mrs. Harry Heddington
and Mr.. and Mrs Owen cinnamon
Of Finley visited at the @. L. Thomas
home Wednesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Larry Diminick
have purchased a new Chevrolet
sedan.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Dahlin and
family from Hood River, Oregon
visited at the G. j. Dahlin home this
week.
Miss Pearl Evans spent last week
visiting at Spokane and the Coulee
Dam.
Warren Kenneth from Kennewick
visited in Hover Thursday.
Helen and Norma Toothaker left
Thursday for Seattle, where they
will be bridesmaids at the wedding
of their sister, Edith, who is to be
married to Melvin Ryan on July 8.
Helen and Mary Ellen Murawsh
are leaving the Fourth for Shana-
gan Lake, B. C.. to visit their aunt
for week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Osborn from
Post Falls, Idaho are visiting at the
Hamilton home this week.
Evans visited at the B. B. Stewart
home Saturday afternoon.
Margaret Mccoy, who spent the
past month visiting in Colfax, came
home Tuesday.
Mrs. Ivan Evans visited at the
C. L. Evans home this week.
Carl Slaybaugh from Yellepit
spent Sunday at his home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy James have
moved into the house vacated by
the Wallins.
The county is having new
bridge built across the irrigation
canal at the Toothaker crossing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hedington
of Finley, Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Dah-
lin and Emma Dahlin were callers
at the C.. l.. Evans home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Mills and
family spent Sunday at the Bill
Gibson home in Pasco.
Miss Ida Barron, who has been
visiting at the Larry Dimmick home
the past week, returned to Spokane
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Ludlow of
Kennewick visited at the Charles
Mills home Sunday afternoon.
Bobby Graves of Kennewick spent
the weekend with Lynn Mills.
A number of children from here
attended the picnic Friday evening
given at the close of the daily vaca-
ton Bible school classes.
Dorothy Ross and Mr. Harrington
of Pasco visited at the Al Ross home
Tuesday.
Quite number of the Hover peo-
pie gathered with the Finley peo-
pie Thursday evening at the par
sonage to bid farewell to Rev. Ben
nett and family who are moving to
Thornton.
The Hover people have been In
vited to attend church at Finley on
Sunday morning. Rev. Handbook
will conduct the services.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Montague Wis
tied at the Dorr home Sunday.
The Sunrise sewing club met at
the Mcintyre home Tuesday eve
ming. Iris Hughes is the leader.