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NEW STRATEGY
IS EXPLAINED
BY MEMBER
Prosecution Is Delayed
While Pension Fund
DwindIes, Is Plan
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one Of the most diligent workers
for old age pension legislation.
The doctor said he turned on
the author of the pension bill be-
cause he "broke faith" in an
agreement with Townsend by an
nouncing for President as favor
lite son candidate in California.
Lays Delay to Townsend
Townsend charged McGroarty
sought to capture the California
Democratic delegation to the ma
tional Presidential convention and
hand it over to the Democratic
party.
McGroarty, under questioning
by Chairman C. Jasper Bell CD
of Missouri, accused Townsend
Of seeking to delay action on
the McGroarty bill, although he
brought a congressional action
committee" to Washington, an
nouncing to his followers that
the committee was needed to
push the bill through Congress.
This deception. McGroarty said.
was allegedly practiced by DR..
Townsend after he raised over
$4,000 from his followers to pay
the expenses of the lobby COM
mittee.
Townsend, McGroarty charged,
impeded action in order Ito keep
revenue coming in"
Nettled by criticism heaped on
their heads because of outward IN
difference toward his refusal to
testify in the investigation of old
age pension schemes, committee
members today privately did some
explaining.
Working Stratagem
It seems that the committee has
withheld asking the House to cite
Townsend for contempt as part
of a strategem aimed at further
hamstringing the pension moVe-
ment.
When Robert E. Clements, re-
signed Townsend cofounder, teSti-
fled before the committee recently,
he said the movement then had a
cash balance of $4,000 Last week
DR.. Townsend admitted this has
Shrunk to 100000.
The committee contends it's dis
closures Of Squandering of contri-
buttons Of the old folks, financing
of congressional campaigns for
Townsend officials, and large cash
earnings taken by Townsend and
Clements have resulted in serious
curtailment of the flow of revenue
into Townsend Golfers.
May Starve Them Out
It hopes, through ignoring the
Townsend walkout, to starve the
movement to death. A committee
member said:
"If DR.. Townsend is arrested
1t will give his organizers a
basis for claiming he is a martyr
and playing upon the sympathy
Of the old folks to raise a huge
defense fund.
Townsend is clearly in con-
tempt and che House will cite
him, but there's no particular
rush about it.
8V GSAC0O Will
veStigatiOn, introduce further
damaging evidence to show this
movement up as a racket, and
let DR.. Townsend stew in his
own fat"
House action on a contempt
citation was assured by Speaker
Byrns and Majority Leader Bank
head.
The investigating committee
was to meet today to decide its
course of whether to re-
quest trial of Townsend before
the bar of the House or in the
Federal District Court.
Byrns insists on a court trial to
avoid delay of congressional ad-
jotrnment. House trial would
also put members on the spot by
making them go on record in vot.
ing either guilty" or mot guilty"
against Townsend.
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land Sunday from Gibraltar
aboard the Orient liner Oxford.
CAIRO, May 26 O.N.S).-While
Emperor Halle Selassie of Ethiopia
sailed Sedately up the Mediter.
ranean today en- route to London
from Palestine, his crown, sword
and jewels had a weird adventure
at SueZ.
Customs authorities there seized
the richly jeweled crown and
other accoutrementS. Exactly
how they reached Suez is a story
which may never be fully told.
A man arrived there last night,
however. with a parcel under his
arm. First reports received here
said he insisted the parcel con.
tanned only clothing. However,
Suez police demanded he open the
package.
When he complied, it was sadi,
the bullying eyes of the police were
dazzled by flashing jewels, a
golden crown and a sword studded
with gems. First reports described
these glittering articles as "spoils
of the war"
But later advices stated the
crown, sword and jewels had been
legally declared by the man who
carried them under his arm-an
Italian, who said they were the
personal property of Marshal
Pietro Badoglio, viceroy of ETH
opia. Contents of the parcel will
now be forwarded to Italy, it was
said,
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Fear 7 Miners Drowned

LONDON, May 26 G.N.SD.
Seven miners were feared drowned
today when sudden torrent of
water flooded the Loveston Col
liery in West Wales.
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tee. All arrangements have been
made for the speakers and the pro-
gram, according to word from Walt
Sommers of Prosser, who has charge
of that end of the work. The band
from White Bluffs will furnish part
of the evenings entertainment.
For the stay-at-homes, a couple
of hours of radio programs will be
on the air that evening, honoring
the birthday of Abraham Lincoln.
Starting at five o'clock, P. C. time,
Hon. L. J.. Dickinson will broadcast
from Greensboro, N. G. At the same
hour Hamilton Fish will speak from
Nashville, Tenn. At $50 Frank
Knox, will take the air from Bos-
ton. At six o'clock, Gov. Ait Landon
will speak from New York, EX-preSi-
dent Hoover will speak from z to
1880 and Arthur H. Vandenberg of
Michigan from 7:30 to 8.
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@. A. r. T.
(By Committee)
Youth for Work Age for Leisure

Our opponents these days, both
through the press and over the
radio, are raising their voices in
genuine alarm over the ever grow
ing strength of the Townsend Plan
movement, and are now even i'm
ploring congress to find some meas
ure to curb it's rapid growth. One of
the many mistaken ideas of our op-
ponents is the something for moth
ing" argument which they are con-
tinually trying to advance against
the Townsend plan.
The something" that is now in
the hands of six percent of our pop
ulation is 80 percent of the wealth
of the nation. And wouldn't it ap-
pear that this six percent are the
very ones who have through all
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these years acquired the Some
thing for nothing?" The "a percent
of our population, whose heritage
has been Systematically appropriate
ed and acquired through system
of financial control, inaugurated
and maintained by this small min
ority with the full sanction of our
government, are, thefore, justified
at this time to require an account
ing.
The acquisition of this vast wealth
by the six percent would have been
impossible had there been a more
equitable system of distribution of
the wealth created by the "a per-
cent Because the people were drug
ged into ignorance as to what was
being done to them, for lol these
many years, is no reason at all why
they should continue in their SOM
Violence. 1t has been only within
the last year that they have awaken
ed sufficiently to call for new
deal; and it is their firm intention
to enforce the reckoning that is
due to them, not by the force of
arms, but through the ballot box,
inaugurating a new system of tax
alton which will in every fact be the
essence of justice and equity for
every citizen.
The application of the two per-
cent transaction tax will hit every
individual in the nation in the exact
proportion to the volume of his
transactions, be it $1,000 or $1,000,-
000 There will be no escape from
the payment of this tax and no po-
litical intrigue will be able to divert
the funds derived therefrom from
the purpose for which they will be
levied and collected. God hasten
the day when these tremendous
moral forces, now awake, no long
err dying dormant, will prove strong
enough to make this reckoning eff
fective.
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was read along with the g.,
and treasurer's report. Tho s ssaiys
ent committees reported N'iler'
chairman Of the membersh,, The
mittee reported a gain Of !, OOn.
members since January 8, M T. ne, new
lson OF Yakima delivered a va WI
teresting talk on the Townsend -, M
and its growth reporting an ,ro, pan
OF 10000 new members in the pa's
congressional District since nss !
1885. Also an increase OF o.
clubs was made in the samo u
trict. Every member get a mers.',
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Dale Smith, in letter to the Sec
rotary states, You can have no idea
of how the movement is gaining in
the Middle West and South-when
I speak here before an audience, 1
find them very much interested and
they question you closely. We now
have go clubs in Kansas City and are
adding from one to three new clubs
each week"
The Townsend Club No. / met
last Tuesday evening with the usual
opening exercises with large en-
thusiastic audience. Bulletin No. 20
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Harold Krohling and Lois Mich
CLAUS were married Tuesday, JAN
uary % by Reverend Nelson at his
home. Mr.. and Mrs. John Kroh-
ling. brother and sister-in-law OF
the groom were the witnesses. The
young people will make their home
in this community.
Mrs. Mcintosh entertained group
of ladies at bridge luncheon at her
home Saturday afternoon. Prize
winners were Mrs. Vic Nelson high
and Mrs. Watson low.
Sunday evening Mr.. and Mrs.
Dighton, Mr.. and Mrs. Jones, Mr..
and Mrs. Muncey, Mr.. and Mrs.
Relton, Mr.. and Mrs. VanFossen
and Mrs. Pauhlman attended the
no-hostess dinner at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs Sam Mcmahon in
PaSco.
Mrs. F. B. Lewis gave surprise
birthday party for her guest, Mrs.
Caldwell at her home Saturday aft
ernoon. Guests at the party were
Mrs. T. j. Chalcraft, Mr.. and Mrs.
Randolph and Mrs. G. H. Yedica
and Mrs. Urban Koelker from Ken
newick.
Mrs. Vic Pauhlman from Tacoma,
who has been visiting for the past
week with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. B. Clements, returned to
her home Thursday.
Margaret Kinney is i'll this week.
Dick Whitset and Sam Mcmahon
from Pasco visited friends in Rich
land Sunday morning.
Members of the official board of
the Methodist church met at the
parsonage Monday night for a reg
ular business meeting. -.
A baby boy was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. j. w. Pollock at the home of
Mrs. Pollock's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Carlton on January %.
Mr.. Harold Sharkey of the FEEDER
al Land Bank of Spokane visited at
the Snively home Friday night.
Mr.. and Mrs Cheyne and family
and Mrs. and Mrs. Albert Hackney
were Sunday dinner guests at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. G. R. Long
home.
Hazel Nelson and Vivian Fra
zier from Yakima spent the week.
end at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Vic Nelson
Mrs. E. L. Paroz from Potlatch,
Idaho arrived Sunday to visit for a
while at the Pete Hanson home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Steve Citron and
family were Sunday dinner guests
at the Ralph Long home.
A. W. Hu1tgren, who has been in
the Pasco hospital for some time,
returned to his home Saturday
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Paroz and
Mr.. and Mrs. John Gizaid from
Hanford were dinner guests at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Pete Hanson
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Severt johnson Wis
tied at the Bob Page home in Ken
newick Sunday.
Fred Berto from Tacoma spent
the weekend at the Allison home.
Methodist Ladies Aid met at the
home of Mrs. Skeen for an all-day
pot-luck lunch meeting Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs VIM RAIDER spent
Sunday afternoon at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Gehris.
Mrs. Ed Lum from Neppel came
Saturday evening to spend a week
visiting at the home of her parents,
MIR. and Mrs. Draper.
Francis Weatheral and Cecil
Combs went to Spokane Monday
morning and returned Tuesday.
Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety met at the home of Mrs. Nell
lie Allen Tuesday afternoon
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Lewis of
Kennewick spent the weekend at
the home of Mrs. Lewis mother,
Mrs Ida Belle Hess. -.-s..
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REPUBLICANS
TO HAVE BAND

It is expected that about forty
people from this end of the coun-
ty will attend the Lincoln Day BAN
quet to be given in Prosser next
Wednesday evening, according to
a report made this afternoon by C.
L. Powell, chairman of the Benton
County Republican Central commit
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HIGHLANDS TO
PLAY NACHES
CHAMPS TUES.
HIGHLANDS

Tuesday night, February IL, the
Kennewick Highland grange will
play Naches grange, the Yakima
county grange championship basket
ball team at the local high school at
7::30.
The Highland team has not lost
a game in the grange league and is
tied first for place in the city
league.
The Naches team has a clean rec
ord for the year. Matching both
teams together should make a fast,
close game.
The Highlands grange team beat
Locust Grove Tuesday night with a
score of 1922.
Eunice Foraker is making an eX-
tended visit at Tacoma and Ho-
GUAM.
Delma Williams .spen tthe week.
end visiting Lulu Lampson.
The Highlands Women's club is
giving another card party at the
clubhouse Friday, Feb. IA at two
o'clock. The committee in charge
are Mesdames Knight, Watkins,
Lampson, Dehnoff, Malley and
Paulson. H. s....-.sts .,..sss. ..s.s.s.z
The Highland Improvement club
will hold their regular meeting Fri
day, February at 8 o'clock at the
club house.
The Highland Homemakers Al
club met Saturday with Opal Wat
kins.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Boies and
frankie were Tuesday dinner guests
at the Frank Lampson home.
The Highland Women's club will
meet Friday afternoon, February Z,
at the clubhouse.
Mrs. McNall, Duane and Loa and
Miss Gerlie Glispey visited at Spo-
kane last weekend d. p
Relatives here have received the
announcement of the marriage of
Mrs. Minnie Callahan and Wilbur
Liver at Fort Benton, Montana on
January 81, 1886. Mrs. Liver is the
daughter of Mrs. M. G. Foraker
and made her home here several
years but left here about eight
years ago and has. since been liv-
ing at Great Falls, Mont.
Mr.. and Mrs. Liver will make
their home on their ranch, near
Big Sandy, Montana.
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Harriet Gehris of Spokane and
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Keller of KEEL
logg, Idaho visited at the home of
the ladies' parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Gehris, over the weekend.
Tuesday evening the town team
defeated the Pasco town team At
% on the Richland floor.
Mr.. and Mrs Edwin Peddicord
and daughter were KenneWick visit
ors Tuesday.
: Maurice Compton of Seattle spent
the weekend in town visiting rela-
tives and friends.
Mr.. Freeman made business trip
to Spokane Wednesday.
Altar Society met at the home of
Mrs. Ray Rose Wednesday after
noon.
Mrs. Everett McGhan and Mrs. j.
D. Miller called on Mrs. Hess Tues
day afternoon.
Tuesday night the Woman's Club
had the fourth of their card parties
at the club rooms. Five tables of 500
were in play. Mrs. Vic Nelson and
Mr.. Snow won high prize and Mrs.
T. R. Collins and Earl Jones won
low.
Social Hour Club met at the home
of Mrs. Copeland Wednesday after
noon The ladies complimented Mrs.
Ethel Lewis with a miscellaneous
shower. a.s T.,
Ernest Kron purchased a new
Ford Va pickup last week.
Pearl Richards went to Kenne-
wick Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Mclaughlin of
Walla Walla came Friday evening to
spent a few days visiting their par
ents and friends.
Caleb Peddicord of Coulee juno
ton came Friday to work for Ray
Rose. ~:ac1~ ISL &c. 81
Mr.. Fletcher made a business trip
to Spokane Saturday morning, re-
turning Monday.
Mrs. o. A. Fechter and Mrs. John
Kloeber of Yakima spent a few days
visiting at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Snively, returning to their
homes wednesday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Jacobs and
family from Finley visited Bill
ingtons Sunday.
Vale grange held a regular meet
ing at the hall Saturday night.
MIR. and Mrs. Baird and Mr. and
Mrs. F. B. White were Thursday
evening dinner guests at the Harlan
Muncey home.
p M Hale, who is staying at
the SniVely ranch in the Rattle
snake hills has been suffering with
a bad toothache.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Ryder and
son from the gas wells visited at the
Vic Nelson home Saturday and
Monday
Annabelle Capehart is reported to
have pneumonia this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Dillon of zil-
lah, who have just recently been
married, visited at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Dillon Sunday.
Cochran and Ryman company of
Kennewick installed an oil burner in
the Snively home this week
Members of the benefit dinner
committee met at the home of Mrs.
Earl Jones to discuss further plans
for the dinner to be given tomorrow
night at the grange hail..
George Harrington, who had been
confined to the Veterans hospital in
Wal1a Wallaf or the past month,
returned to his home this week.
H. w. Withers left Monday for
Tacoma, where he entered the N. P.
hospital for two or three weeks
Treatments. z
Mrs. E. Kleinknecht was honor
guest last THURSDAY at the home
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H. W. Withers left Monday for
Tacoma, where he entered the N. P.
hospital for two or three weeks
Treatments. z
Mrs. E. Kleinknecht was honor
guest last Thursday at the home
of her mother, Mrs. Curtis. Eighteen
ladies were present.
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Richland News Items

vicinity invited to give their dsct
in the neghbor-
hood of the happenings in the community.
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D. C.: Racqueters
Open Season

University Club, recently ANAL
gamated with the Racquet Club,
will open its squash racquet sea-
son this afternoon at the Univer-
sity Club, formerly the Racquet
Club, with an eight-man team
match against Maryland Club, of
Baltimore, starting at 4 p. m.
The University Club team will
have James M. Gibson, Napier
parlato, Lieut.. Comdr. w.
Ketchum, William Goodwin, DR..
81. G. Moulton, Eugene O'Dunn.
Theodore L. Block and Jack
Victor.
On December 10 the locals will
invade Baltimore for a match
with Baltimore A. C. and on Jan
uary 9, Penn A. C. of Philadel-
phia will be entertained here.
Matches are being arranged with
Merton Cricket Club of Philadel.
phia, Wilmington Country Club OF
Wilmington, Del, and The Tennis
and Racquet Club of New York.
The Junior and Senior Handi-
cap Club tournaments will open
on January 4.
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whom the G-P had proved con-
slant headache, follows:
"NO student shall represent
his university or college in any
athletic contest who receives
from others than those upon
whom he is naturally dependent
for financial aid money, by gift,
or loan, or the equivalent of
money, such as board, lodging,
ETC., unless the source and char
acter of these gifts or payments
shall be approved by the faculty
committee on the ground that
they have not accrued to him
because of his ability as an
athlete"
Resignation Stands
Whether adoption of the "Vir-
ginia plan" would cause recon-
sideration of yesterdays resigna-
ton by the University Of Virginia
from the conference was not re-
vealed.
An even more liberal plan of
dealing with the problem Of assist
ance to athletes, authored by w.
H. Harth, director of athletics at
the University Of South Carolina,
was voted down, with only Glenn
son, Citadel, Furman and South
Carolina crying AYE"
Follows Insurgents
Hart's plan would have sent
the conference trailing after it's
insurgent brethren, the South
eastern Conference, which split
from the conference and adopted
a plan also identical with that of
the South Carolina director. His
plan involved awarding aid to
athletes not exceeding their legiti-
mate college expenses.
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Cleveland Gets
Western Golf

CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-The 1887
Western open golf tournament
will be played over Cleveland's
Canterbury Country Club course
at date to be selected, the West
ern Golf Association decided in
meeting here last night, The
Western amateur tournament
was awarded to the Los Angeles
Country Club August 81, Septen-
ber 6, and the Western junior
tournament will be held in August
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Tourney
In P|ay-off

CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-W elk er
Cochran of San Francisco pulled
the iron man act yesterday and
as result the tournament for the
world three-cushion billiard cham"
pionship ended in a three-way tie,
necessitating play-off matches to-
day.
Cochran defeated Johnny Lay
ton of Sedalia, Mo-, so to 80, in
40 innings, and last night beat
Kinrey MatSuyama of Japan, so
to 26, in 80 innings, to wind up in
a tie with the japanese and Tiff
Denton of Kansas City. They each
finished with a record Of six vic
torres and three defeats, and will
play round robin today to de-
termine the championship.
Willie Hoppe of New York, the
retiring titleholder: Jay Bozeman
of Detroit, and Layton finished
tied for fourth place with five VIC
tories and four defeats each.
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of the principals themselves, was
that contracts were to be signed
this afternoon, naming the time
as June 3-ostensibly in New
York.
Ostensibly, too, the boxing COM
mission left the door ajar for a
Braddock-Louis fight in February
with it's insistence that either
Braddock or Schmeling, or both,
could engage meanwhile in any
fight outside New York, provided
the arrangements called for less
than the championship distance
Of is rounds.
But everything points to the
likelihood that the Atlantic City
proposition is cold. Having been
gratuitously bowed into the Allan
tic City idea by the local commits
sion, Mike Jacobs, one of its CO
promoters, was curiously indiffer-
ent to it this morning. Why?
Because 1 have reason to be-
lieve that a new lineup has been
formed against Madison Square
Garden and that this is the pro
posed result:
l. Braddock versus Schmeling
here in June.
2. The winner to go against
Joe Louis in a second title meet
ing in September.
Jacobs and Madison Square
Garden are co-promoters on the
first fight. Jacobs and Herman
Taylor of Philadelphia, are CO.
promoters of the proposed At
fantic City fight. But if there is
no Atlantic City fight, then the
way is cleared for a September
fight and this time Mike Jacobs
will promote for Mike Jacobs.
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Maryland
American University

tAway from home.
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BronCos Risk
Grid Record

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12-Can
the bucking broncos of the little
University of Santa Clara be las
seed?
Some 10000 persons were ex-
pected to trek to Kezar Stadium
today to watch the tricky horned
frogs of Texas Christian Univer-
sity attempt the rope stunt" that
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tAway from home.
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The Virginia plan" adopted
in the conferences winter meeting
here shortly after the much
maligned Graham plan was tossed
in the ashcan by irate athletic
and administrative officials to
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Braddock, Schmeling
Bout Near Settlement
By DAVIS J. WALSH

NEW YORK. Dec 12-Having all gotten together nicely
and reached what is commonly called genteman agreement
gdy in keeping with the fine traditions of the cra-mean
absolutely knitting except in the bacthe respective
of Max Schmeng and James Braddock sched
uled to complete today for the next fight nvov
ing the heavyweight championship of the world.
The general understanding after hours of general munder
standing date and sometimes even the identity of