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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-06-11

of the capital prizes, Raymond Wei
ter, was also declared winner Of the
second $40 cash prize. Douglas
Jones of West Highlands was win
ner of the first $40 cash prize.
Monford Fyfe and Buster Anon
of Kennewick and Doug Jones Of
the Highlands won the other prize
bicycles.
Judges Labor Long
Elsewhere in today's Courier Re-
porter is complete list of each
candidates votes and the final
standing of each of the candidates
The sealed ballot box was placed
in The Courier Reporter window On
Thursday and was available to the
candidates at any time up to the
closing minute of the campaign. 1t
remained there until o'clock Sat
urday night, when the campaign was
declared officially closed by the
judges and members Of the advisory
board broke the seals and made the
final count.
The judges commenced their
work shortly after o'clock and fin
ished only after several hours Of
strenuous work. They found dozens
Of new and hundreds Of renewal
subscriptions in the envelopes. Every
receipt, check, money order, bill and
coin was carefully checked and the
results tabulated infinitely.
It was truly a wonderful race. The
individual number of votes ran up
to the hundreds of thousands. The
total Of all votes being over four
million. It was getting on toward
IL midnight when the diligent
judges finally made up the grand
totals and announced results. The
utmost accuracy was observed by
the judges in tallying each candi-
dates votes; to say that it was q
difficult and most tedious task is
putting it mildly. Had the men Sc
lected not been acquainted with the
handling of figures, the job might
have taken all night.
To those very competent judges
who worked so faithfully and care
fully Saturday night, The Cour-
ier-Reporter wishes to express it's
sincere thanks. The management
is indeed grateful to them for their
work.
Two Districts
Candidates represented two dis
tricts of which one was only those
living in Kennewick and the other
those living in the territory outside
the city limits Of Kennewick.
In this way each part of the ter
ritory served by The Courier Re-
porter could have a local candi-
date.
One Of the capital prize bicycles
was set aside for the high candi-
date in each district regardless OF
their standing with the other cand-
idates in the other districts. This
explains why a candidate living in
District 2 receives Capital prize
bicycle for being high of all others
in that district, even though the
District 2 winner had less votes
than candidates in the other dis
trictS.
The other three bicycles were
awarded to the three next highest
candidates regardless Of place o1
residence.
Each and every candidate who
turned in one or more subscriptions
in the campaign Excepting the five
who received the five bicycles) was
paid a cash commission of twenty
percent Zone filthy of all money he
had turned in for subscrip.
tions during the campaign. All the
commission checks were mailed anc
all bicycles were delivered immed.
lately after the close of the cam.
paign.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-06-11

clared the campaign over and re-
moved the sealed ballot box from
the Courier Reporter window to
start the final count.
Raymond Welter was winner Of
the District l capital prize Motor
bike and Kenneth Bogue won the
District capital prize Motorbike.
In addition to being winner of one
of the capital prizes, Raymond Wei
ter, was also declared winner of the
second $40 cash prize. Douglas
Jones of West Highlands was win
ner of the first $40 cash prize.
Monford Fyfe and Buster Anon
of Kennewick and Doug Jones Of
the Highlands won the other prize
bicycles.
The Washington times., 1936-12-05
PUBLIC BACKS
KING EDWARD

LONDON, Dec. 5 GN.S)
Popular demonstrations for King
Edward in his disagreement with
Premier Baldwin over marriage to
Mrs. Wallis Simpson continued
unabated today.
One Jealous supporter Of the
King invaded the sacrosanct pre-.
cincts of Downing Street in the
guise of sandwich man and rid.
ing a bicycle. The front of his
placard read: 1--WE want Edward
VIII, not Baldwin" while on the
rear was inscribed: The King
must not abdicate."
Police shooed the man into
Whitehall, where he slowly rode
up and down in view of thousands
of pedestrians. Boobies" kept all
demonstrators on the move.
With no announcement made
after today'S brief cabinet session
and the House Of Commons not in
session, the public fed avidly on a
host of contradictory and uncon.
firmable rumors.
The latest was that King Ed.
ward had withdrawn his request
for a special marriage act to per.
NIT a morganatic union between
himself and Mrs. Simpson.
Others had him ready to join
her in exile in France: one de.
clared abdication papers already
have been drafted.
The Washington times., 1936-12-05
Love Problems Tragic
In Lives of KinSS

council Of state-a procedure that
is being suggested in the case Of
King Edward. But later on, when
Richard concluded a peace
treaty with France involving his
marriage to the child Princess
Isabella of France, and Glou-
ceSter objected, the Kings uncle
was Smothered to death in a
Calais prison for his pains.
1t is an old twist of fate that
James II, the last King of Eng
land who was forced off his throne,
was exiled largely through efforts
of the Duke of Marlborough. Now
Winston Churchill. a descendant
of the Duke Of Marlborough. is
among parliamentary leaders
raising his voice loudest in de-
tense of King Edward.
Politics, and not love, resulted
in the downfall of Alfonso OF
Spain-but his two eldest sons,
the Count of Cavadonga and the
Infante Jaime, successfully re-
nounced all their rights OF possible
succession to the unsteady throne
of that revolt-torn country when
they married commonerS.
War Changes Cited
The debacle after the World
War swept away many monarchies,
bringing death to Nicholas OF
Russia and exile to Wilhelm of
Germany, but the tendency today
is toward restorations in some
countries.
George II of Greece got his job
back only last year. Mr.. Henry
P'u vi, the former 'boy king" OF
China, now reigns as the puppet
Emperor Kang Teh over Man
chukuo. Enthronement of the
Archduke Otto of Hapsburg on
the Austrian throne, once held by
Franz Josef, looms in the not dis
tant future.
Napoleon's st. Helena and Louis
XVI's guillotine are we'll known to
hiStory-aS are the fate OF two
American emperorS-Dom Pedro
Of Brazil, who abdicated and was
eXiled, and the tragic Macmillan
Of Mexico, who was shot.
The Washington times., 1936-12-05
ATTACK WAGES
ON WPA JOB

Ringing their case on alleged
violation of Works Progress Admin
istration prevailing wage provi-
Sions, a half dozen employees of
the Attorney Generals survey Of
release procedure" WPA project,
today laid former protest of work
ing conditions at the Department
of Justice before Allen Forsberg,
WPA's adviser on labor relations.
According to Orville Miller,
spokesman for the group, the en-
ployes on the project are being
paid as little as $50 for 40 hours
of work per month. Pointing out
that the minimum Government
wage for the type of work in which
they are engaged is $1,440, Miller
said the project wage rate is a
''flagrant violation" of the WPA
permit that not less than prevail
ing wages be paid on such employ
ment.
Other allegations Of the group
were that a marked Semitic pref
erence" is rife at the Justice De-
partment, and that the workers on
the project are subjected to lex
cessive supervision" and are denied
assignment slips which Miller de-
clared are necessary for Identified
ton purposes.
Labor Adviser Forsberg promised
that the Works Progress Admins
tration would request an investiga-
ton into the charges and added
that findings would be available by
next Thursday.
The Washington times., 1936-12-05
AID
SEEN FOR KING

BOSTON, Dec. 5 G.N.S).-1f
King Edward wins. holding his
throne and marrying Mrs. Wallis
Simpson, he will continue to defy
the government, Hugh Walpole,
noted British writer and friend
Of the monarch, predicted today.
Winston Churchill, former chan
cellor of the exchequer, may be a
key man in the situation, Walpole
indicated. He recalled that Church
ill has been fighting Prime Min
lister Stanley Baldwin for months,
and might take the Kings part
in setting up new government
should the prime minister carry
out his threat to resign with the
present cabinet.
The Washington times., 1936-12-05
By CHARLES A. SMITH

LONDON, Dec. 5 G.N.S0 .-Ro-
nance, revolution, or bit of both
these are the things that cost
mems thrones, historians found to-
day as they searched through
pages of the past from the time
of Marc Anthony's alliance with
Cleopatra for parallels to the
present British constitutional
emergency over royal marriage
plans.
Charles I was a king who lost
his head over a throne; Carol of
Rumania is a modern example of
a king who lost his head and then
his throne-but in the latter case
the denouement found Carol back
on his throne, and the lovely
titan Nine. Magma Lupescu still
in high regal favor.
Gaby Deslys, as intriguing a fig
ure as ever danced before the
Partisan footlights, danced a
throne right out from under
Manuel of Portugal, who dropped
his k1ngly duties TO become a
Stage-Door Johnny. Result-he
reigned for less than two years,
although it did take a revolution
in 1910 finally to shake him loose
from his scepter.
The King OF Siam
Little King Prajhadipok of Siam
abdicated principally because he
was fed up with arguing with his
counsellors. Alexander Of Yugo
slavia was shot. Their successors
Amanda of Siam and Peter OF
Yugoslavia, each II, are under
stood to be in no danger of los
ing their thrones for marital rea
sons.
But in an almost perfect anal
ogy to the case of King Edward
and Mrs. Wallis Simpson, mar
riage with a seven-year-old girl
did figure in the controversy be
tween Richard II of England anC
his ministers.
Richards uncle. Thomas oi
Gloucester, in 1886, made the
King bow to a parliamentary
The Washington times., 1936-12-05
EADES
REPORTERS

CANNES, France. Dec. S G.N.S0
Mrs. Wallis Simpson, hurrying to
the Riviera in search of peace and
quiet while King Edward decides
their future, side-tracked and dou-
ble-tWisted along a devious route
today as she sought to evade pur-
SuerS.
Ill indications were that she was
heading for the Villa Lou Wei here
to be the guest Of her American
friends, Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
Livingston Rogers, of New York.
Nevertheless, there were rumors
at Cannes, none of them confirmed,
that she intended to board the
yacht Sister Anne, owner by the
Hon. Mrs. Reginald Fellowes, an
other close friend. The Sister
Anne is now off Monte Carlo.
The destination of Mrs. Simp.
sons hurried dash down the pic
turesque Rhone Valley remained
a mystery to most French report
ers, scores of whom pursued her in
powerful cars.
The rumors spread when Mrs
Simpsons luggage, which hao
been taken to the Riviera villa of
Mr.. and Mrs. Rogers this morning
Later was removed to a local
storage warehouse for indefinite
storage"
It was reported unofficially here
that Mrs. Simpson lunched al
Grenoble on the direct road tc
Monte Carlo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rogers unlaeched
bulldogs in the garden Of the villa
Lou Wei today to discourage tres
passers. The step was taken when
an army of reporters and camera
men swooped down on the villa
as Mrs. Simpson neared Cannes
bv automobile.
The Washington times., 1936-12-05
Wduy Recalled
AS Assistant At
Girls School
International News Service

The glamorous Wallis Simpson,
whose romance with King Edward
is rocking the chancelleries of Eu-
rope, not so long ago held a posi-
ton as assistant in a fashionable
girls school.
AS further evidence of ''Wally's"
power to charm is the fact that
she was beloved by every one IN
the School-girls and teachers
alike.
Middleburg, Va. r is a highly
exclusive Sch- .nown as Fox
croft" specializes in country
If simplicity and has a waiting
list like half a dozen pages in a
telephone directory.
At "Foxcroft" girls learn to ride
cross country. It's part of the
curriculum. Nearly all of them
keep their own hunters. and ride
to hounds. And "Wally," slender,
svelte, booted and spurred, rode
along with them. Miss Charlotte
Nolan, who conducts "Foxcroft," "
says that "Wally" is a splendid
person.
So, if King Edward succeeds in
impressing his will on the nobility,
gentry and clergy" he will marry
a lady who can ride to the hounds
with the best of them.
The Washington times., 1936-12-05
LONDON PRESS
IN SUPPORT
OF EDWARD
Rothermere Charges
Attempt to 'SmuggIe
King Off Throne

LONDON, Dec. 5 Q.N.S0.-A
concerted attempt to "smuggle"
King Edward off the throne Of
England is being made. Lord
Rothermere, one of Britain's great
est newspaper publishers, charged
in a signed statement in his after
noon newspaper, the Evening News,
today.
Prominently displayed on the
first page and carrying the pub
lisher's signature, the statement
said:
"YOu cannot smuggIe the
greatest living Englishman off
the throne of England during q
weekend. A concerted effort is
being made to do this.
81 have just returned from a
trip around the world.
wherever went and to
whOmSOever I spoke people of
all natiOnalitieS gave expression
to unstinted praise and admira-
ton of our King.
Thine must be given for sOlu-
tiOn Of this matter. The present
haste Is indecent and is giving
rise to unpleasant rumOrs af-
fecting high political and other
perSOnageS.
WILL, OE PEOPLE
mo government which, on
this matter Of supreme i'm
pOrtance, runs counter to the
wishes of the pepOIe Of England
can survive"
While the popular British press
is almost unanimously behind the
King in his conflict with Prime
Minister Baldwin over his mar
riage plans, the statement OF
Lord Rothermere was the strong
est journalistic expression on the
crisis yet voiced.
It was assumed Rothermere was
trying to tell his readers as well
as the government that the people
of the dominions, as we'll as those
of England, will support the King
in his conflict if afforded a suit
able opportunity.
Lord Rotheremer's publications
weld great influence with the
British middle classes.
His chief journalistic competi.
tor, Lord Beaverbrook, publisher
of the London Daily Express and
the Evening Standard. also is
giving editorial support to the
King.
POST is BITTER
Bitter words were used by the
Tory Morning Post, rockribbed
conservative sheet. Said the Post:
MRS. Simpson, aided by the
divorce court, has already had
two husbands and is now in the
process of divOrcing the second.
"Such experience calculated
to command popular favor, but
a deeper objection remains.
Mrs. Simpson, although she has
obtained a decree nisi, is still
a legally married woman, and
will remain such for the best
part of the next six months.
There must be something re-
pugnant to good feeling in an
attempt to arrange the remar-
riape Of a woman who is still
a wife"
The Washington times., 1936-12-05
GUARD FOIL 5
JAIL BREAK

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Dec. 5-An
attempted Jail break by four COL
ored prisoners here Thursday
night was foiled when Night
Watchman Ollie Simpson broke
away from the men who were at
tempting to grab his keys and
drew a revolver on them, it was
revealed today. No official report
of the incident has yet been made
to police headquarters.
According to Mr.. Simpsons
story, he was locking up all pris'
oners who were out of their cells
when he came upon four of them
in the shower room VINO attacked
him. Mr.. Simpson said that he
believes the men thought he would
be unarmed, as they promptly
withdrew when they saw he had
a revolver.
The Washington times., 1936-12-05
New Guardian Named
For Wealthy Parrot

BOSTON. December 5. - The
worlds wealthiest bird has been
given a new guardian in Probate
Court. Described as lone Mexican
yellow-headed green parrot" the
bird was left a trust fund Of
$4,000 by it's owner, Fred D. Allen.
of Brookline, who died in 1928.
When the Union Trust Com
pany, merged with the State
Street Trust Company, it was nee
essary to transfer guardianship to
the latter company.
The Washington times., 1936-12-05
King Faces -Four
Alternatives
In Crisis

LONDON, Dec. 5 G.N.S).-With
compromise now out of the ques-
tion. King Edward today faced
four alternatives in his conStitu-
tional wrestle with his ministers:
1. Reject the advice of Premier
Baldwin to abandon his marriage
plans, which would mean reSigna-
ton of the government, then try
10 name some new government
that would abide by the royal
wishes.
2. Marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson
and confront Parliament with the
"fait accompli."
3. Abdicate.
4. Give up his marriage project.
The Washington times., 1936-12-05
$4,000 SwindIe Case
Solved ; 4 Men Held

TRENTON, N. J., Dec. 5 CI.N.S).
Federal agents yesterday revealed
that Frederick C. Tuttle, vice pres
ident and treasurer of Peters Cart
ridge Company, of Cincinnati Ohio,
had been swindled out of $4,000,
in Charleston, S. c., last May, and
announced they had arrested the
last of four men accused of hav-
ing participated in the swindle.
The fourth man, arrested IN
Tenafly, N. j., last night, was listed
as Charles E. Robinson, 81, Federal
agents said, and also said that at
the time he was posing as "Sir
Mark Jenkinson." Proceedings will
be instituted to take him to South
Carolina for trial.
The Washington times., 1936-12-05
SILENCE URGED
BY PR|MATE

LONDON. Dec. 5 G.N.S).-The
bishop of Canterbury'S
earnest hope" that the clergy will
keep silent on the subject Of the
Kings marriage but pray for
Edwards guidance. was expressed
today in the following message
from the Church Of England
primate:
cat this moment Of deep
anxiety and bewilderment in
the public mind, venture to
express two earnest hopes:
First, that during this critical
weekend, and especially on Sun
day, those who have a duty to
speak to the people from the
pulpit or otherwise will refrain
from speaking directly on the
matters which have arisen
affecting the King himself and
his subjects.
"WOrdS spoken with imperfect
knowledge Of an extremely diff.
cult and delicate situation can
give no helpful guidance and
may only mislead or confuse
public thought and feeling.
Silence is fitting until ultimate
decisions are made known.
Secondly, I hope and, indeed,
take it for granted, that on
Sunday prayers will be offered
in all our churches, as surely
as they must be continually
offered in the hearts of all Chris
tian people, that God may, in
these mOmentOus hours, rule
over the decisions of the King
and of his government for the
lasting good of the realm and
empire"
The Washington times., 1936-12-05
Cab HoIdup Fails,
AssaiIant FIees

John A. Pignatello. 33, I'll G
St. S. E., a cab driver, Informed
police today that a colored man
attempted to hold him up last
night in the 1900 block of N st.
N. w. The assailant, armed with
pistol, was frightened off, Pig
natello said. Third precinct po-
lice later arrested suspect whom
they were holding for inveStiga-
ton.
The Washington times., 1936-12-05
F|ANCEE URGES
HE Think OF
EMPIRE
Monarch Quoted as
Saying He Intends
To Fight First
Copyright. 1898, by international
News Service)

, LONDON, Dec. 5 U.N.S0.-M
Wallis Simpson has asked King
Edward to abandon his plans to
marry her.
She has asked him to sacrifice
their hope for welded life in the
interests of himself and his en-
pire.
King Edward has refused, saying
he intended to fight first.
In q dramatic scene which &C.
CURED shortly before Mrs. Simp-
son went to France, an intimate
woman friend of both principals
disclosed today, King Edward
showed kingly courage and de-
termination to battle for the beau
tiful American woman he so des-
perately loves.
Pleaded With King
Edward, the friend related, went
to Mrs. Simpson with the informa-
tion that Premier Baldwin refused
to accede to the Kings request to
4 introduce legislation providing a
new succession act, and that the
imperial dominions would support
Baldwin'S refusal to do so.
Distraught over the terrific oppo-
sition Of church and state, and
the implied demands in opposition
quarters that Edward must abdi-
cate If he marries her, Mrs. Simp-
son poignantly pleaded with the
King to give up the idea.
She told him they must not be
so selfish as to let their love en-
danger his position as King En-
peror or to imperil the future Of
the British Empire.
Calls Baldwin "Obstinate"
There was no reason why their
marriage should endanger his
position as King, Edward replied,
and the empire would be protected
by his proposed act Of succession,
by which their possible children
would not be in line for the
throne.
KING Edward called Baldwin
obstinate" but conceded that the
: premier was being pressed by the
"old guard"
# the situation were presented
to them in a fair light, Edward
added, he believed the dominions
would not object.
Promises to "Stick"
Mrs. Simpson nevertheless re-
peated her fear that the Kings
position would be imperilled, and
reiterated her belief that they
should abandon the idea of mar
riage.
Again Edward replied that he
intended to fight first.
He asked her to promise not to
do anything rash-such as leaving
him or going away "for good"
Mrs. Simpson replied that she
would stick to him as long as he
felt he needed her and loved her,
no matter what happened, whether
the marriage was possible or not.
The Washington times., 1936-12-05
u. 5. OFFICIALS
KEEN0N KINGS
ROMANCE
Can't Talk for Public,
But Privately Back
Simpson for Queen
BY EARL GOODWIN

Although you can't get high
Government official to say so pub
licly, most of them are one hum
dred per cent for the King in this
crisis with the Prime Minister and
the Cabinet of England.
Yes, sir. The higher officials
Of the New Deal are just as much
b hind the Simpson-forQueen
movement as they were behind
the Roosevelt-for-President move.
ment, but they haven't had the
word from the Head Man yet, so
they can't let it be known that
each one individually backs Ed"
ward VIII in his ambition to be
married to Mrs. Simpson and re-
main King of England.
Moore Sympathetic
In fact, the only official who
has come close to saying any
thing about the case was the
very man who shouldn't say q
word about it-Acting Secretary
of State Walton Moore, who was
asked something about the case
and who looked very, very much
as if he wanted to shout Three
cheers for the King and Mrs.
Simpson" but who refrained
with all the restraint Of an Act
ing Secretary of State who wants
to act just like an Acting Secre"
tary of State should act.
But, privately, these New Deal
officials have a whole lot to say
about why the King should marry
Mrs. Simpson or anybody else
that he wants to marry, provided
it is OK. with the lady. They look
on any interference with private
rights as outrageous, etc., etc.
They are rugged individualists, all
Of them, in this matter.
The matter is not very hard to
fathom. The King Edward-Simp-
son affair is brought home to them
in a sense by the way the conServa-
tive English press is now trying to
back the King up against the wall
and lambast him into giving Mrs.
Simpson the air.
Have Been Raped
Most of these New Dealers have
been raped over the knuckles by
large section Of the American
conservative press and they have
a sort of fellow feeling for the
King who, for the first time, is
getting a bad press in sections OF
the tight little British Isles.
So they take their side with tho
King against the London Times
and other thunderous English con-
servative organs. The New Dealers
look on Prime Minister Baldwin
as a reactionary of the Mark
Hanna type, and that helps with
their antipathy to him and their
friendship for the King.
In fact, American New Dealers
look on Edward VIII as a sort OF
hands-across-the-Sea edition of their
own New Deal President. He has
been a precedent smasher; he has
publicized bad social and eco
nomic conditions and asked why
should such things be in the
British Isles.
Brought Down Wrath
BY so doing he has brought
down on his head the wrath of
English conservatives, while the
cheers of the multitudes rang in
their ears. The common mass of
folks like King who wants to
know just why the landlord
hasn't fixed the plumbing, and all
that.
The New Dealers have strong
idea that their President and the
English King are somewhat in the
same class, with the same kind Of
folks for them and the same kind
against them.
And lastly-these Government
officials are for the King and Mrs.
Simpson-for the plain reason
that Mrs. Simpson is an American
girl.