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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-02-20
Ladies To Give Benefit
Tea Friday, March 9Th

Committees representing the var
ious Ladies' Aids of this city met
at Mrs. T. w. Payne's home last
week to discuss plans for a silver
tea to be sponsored by these organ
izations. This Silver Tea will be
given on Friday afternoon, March
9Th, in the M. E. church parlors
and is for the benefit of the Pasco
hospital. - -..... ..
Mesdames Payne and Ayers were
appointed as general chairmen to
confer with the several churches,
and the following working commit
tees were appointed:
Refreshments, Mesdames Arnold
and Listor; Decorations, Mrs. Frank
Green; publicity, Mrs. H. F.. Ham,
mer.
This coming social event promises
to be an unique affair in that It
will afford the various aid menu
bers of the different churches to
become better acquainted, at the
same time that they are helping
such a worthy cause along. Further
announcements will be found in next
weeks paper.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-02-20
ELIZABETH NELSON

Elizabeth Nelson died February
18th at the home of her sons at
Richland at the age of % years.
She was born May rs at Boden,
Sweden. She came to America in
1882 and was married to Nels j. Mel
son, February 6, 1885 at st. Paul,
Nebraska, and who preceded her in
death about, five years ago. Mrs.
Nelson with her husband and two
sons came to Richland to make their
home about nine years ago. She is
survived by her two sons, Alverth
and Felix of Richland; two sisters
and one brother in Nebraska and
one brother in Wyoming. *
Funeral services were held from
the Mueller Funeral Home Tuesday
afternoon with the Rev. H. F. Ham
mer officiating. Interment was made
in the local cemetery beside her
husband.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-02-20
EVENTUALITIES

Friday, February FL -.
Needle Club with Mrs. E. R.
Carnahan
Hopitu Camp Fire Girls at the
= city hall
Chekola club with Mrs. Glen Fell
ton
st. Nicholaus Guild at rectory at
7:30
Saturday, February o.
Liberty theatre, "Cappy Kicks Re-
turns" and Thunder Noun
tain"
Sunday, February 90
Churches, see notices
Liberty, same as Saturday
Monday, February "a
Shewa Camp Fire Girls enter
tanning Hopitl girls at Mrs. Ur-
Uol1 xAOC1hCAS, Pill.
Horticulture club, Mrs. Durbin
Unity class at city hall, 8 pm.
Business Girls dessert luncheon,
H. E. Huntingtons, 7:45
Boy Scout Troop 26, M. E. church;
Troop 81, Christian church; %
at Highland clubhouse; 7:30.
Oddfellows at hall
City B. B. League-Meth VS.. High;
L. G. VS.. MAJ.
Pre-school executive board meet
ing, Mrs. Sorenson, 8 pm.
Golf Club at j. H. Siegfried Of
flee, 8 pm.
Tuesday, February Is
Kiwanis luncheon, Genes
p. e. O. Chapter, Mrs. CT. Powell
Kankakee club, Mrs. H. Beste
Bluebirds at $3.50
Hashatuaya Camp Fire Girls, city
hall, 2 pm. +. ~. ..-s-.-
Schubert club, w. ]. SINNERS at
s pm. ~.
Rebekahs entertaining Pasco and
Oddfellows at hall.
Wednesday, February &c
Kennewick Bridge club, Mrs. c.
Shoemaker, l o'clock.
Les Amies club, Mrs. H. Paulson
Thursday, February 81
Chamber Of Commerce, Plowmans
Thursday Bridge club, Mrs. A.
II. Wegner.
ESc0lentes with Mrs. j. Russell
Pink and Green club, Mrs. Lape
Highland grange at o'clock.
Masonic and Eastern Star party
at 8 o'clock.
Friday, February 28-
Fourth Friday club, Mrs. E. A.
Miller
Current Events club with Mrs. G.
F. Winkenwerder
Scottish Rites at Hall
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-02-20
Pembroke Marsh Toothaker

Pembroke Marsh Toothaker was
born October %, 1902 at New Vine
yard, Maine. He moved to Seattle
in 1904 and the same spring moved
to the Yakima valley. In 1906 his
folks moved to Hover where they
have resided ever since.
He is survived by his father and
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Tooth
aker, brother Elwood and eight sis
tiers; Mrs. Marion Powell of WASH
ougal; Mrs. Eula Carman of Med
ford, Oregon; Mrs. zilda Mcdonnell
of Manette; Mrs. Ruth Stevenson
of San Jose, California; Mrs. Lydia
Swanson of Seattle and Helen and
Norma at home.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-02-20
JOSEPH KAISER

Joseph Gaiser of White Bluffs
died February Is, at the Pasco hos
pital at the age Of 70 years.
He was born February 6, 1858 at
Hermon, Missouri. Funeral serv-
ices were held at White Bluffs on
Monday afternoon.
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spent the weekend at Walla Wal
Ia, where they attended conven-
ton of the young people of the
Christian church.
Mrs. G. G. PEBBLES Of East Chest
nut street, Walla Walla, was honor
ed on her seventy-sixth birthday
with handkerchief shower.
Miss Lynette Heberlein spent
most Of last week with Miss Fay
Rupp as the roads were impossible
to Horse Heaven on account Of the
snow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Holdstock
have leased the AL Zarndt place
and have taken possession.
Mr.. Lewalyn lost valuable COW
last week.
Mrs. Fred Campbell, who has
been seriously i'll at Pasco, is rap
idly recuperating and expects to be
able to return home soon.
Miss Irma Hauptman and Inez
Lee spent Tuesday with Miss jose
phone Smith.
Jack Swayze is out of school be-
cause of illness.
Murray Kennett spent several
Mrs. Mouda, who has been work.
ing at Kahlotus, returned last week
and is at the home Of her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Hunt In town.
The Fourth Friday club will meet
Friday. February 18th with Mrs. E.
A. Miller in town.
Mrs. Jerry Blair and Russell
spent Sunday at the William Blair
home in the hills.
Locust Grove grange will bring
the travelling gayel to Valley grange
Friday, February q. All Valley
grange ladies are asked to bring
one dozen sandwiches and a cake.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-02-20

Mud singing at election time was
prevalent inn Pompeii before its de-
struction in the second century, BIC.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-02-20
JOHN GAGE

John Gage of White Bluffs died
Tuesday evening at the Cottman
house at the age of "a. He was born
January u, 1852 at Buffalo, New
York. Funeral arrangements are
awaiting word from his nephew, j.
w. Huff of Buffalo. Interment will
probably be in the White Bluffs
cemetery beside his wife, who pre-
coded him in death several years
ago. He is servived by an adopted
daughter in California and j. w.
Huff, a nephew.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-02-20

Mrs. J. G. Dennis, who has spent
the last two months visiting in Cal
ifornia, returned to her home Sat
urday.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1936-02-20
YOUNG FOLKS
ATTENDWALLA
WALLA MEET
EAST KENNEWICK

Mr.. and Mrs. Wendell Reymore,
Miss Viola and Kenneth Durham
spent the weekend at Walla Wal
Ia, where they attended q conven-
ton of the young people of the
Christian church.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-16
CANCEL CONTRACT
OF STEEL COMPANY
Secretary Ickes Takes
Award from Pittsburgh
Concern Over Labor

Washington, June 16.-(AP)- Score
tary Ickes today cancelled a $4O,O86
contract with the Jones and Laughlin
Steel Company, Of Pittsburgh, because
he said, it had been found guilty by
the National Labor Relation Board of
unfair labor practices"
Jones and Laughlin, with three 9th
er companies, had submitted identical
bids for sheet and steel thing in con-
structing the Imperial Dam on the
All-American canal in California
Ickes said the award was cancell-
ed because the Labor Relations
Board had notified him of it's decision
that the company had conducted a
campaign of "systematic terror" a.
gainst organization efforts of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers of North
America.
Labor board suit to enforce an or
der against the company was denied
by the Federal Court of Appeals at
New Orleans.
Interior Department officials assert
ed, however, that Ickes' decision to
cancel the contract was reached be-
fore the court decision and that he
was simply Utilizing his discretion in
deciding among identical bidders.
II am glad to take advantage of a
case of IDENTICAL bidding" Ickes said,
Ito throw additional weight behind
the governments efforts to obtain and
enforce fair treatment of labor"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-16
MINISTER AND LADY
ESCORT AREBEATEN
Prominent Memphis Young
Woman Reports Expert
ence to Police

Memphis, Tenn, June 10 (AP)
"A prominent young Memphis wo-
man charged today that she and a
Presbyterian minister were flogged
last night near Earle, Ark, where
they had gone to investigate a ru-
mored Staying in a cotton strike
Miss Willie Sue Blagden, 23-year-
old member of a well-known Mem
phis family, told officers here early
today that she and Rev. Claude Will
liams, of Little Rock, were beaten
by band of men when they refused
to reveal the name of the man they
had gone to Earle to interview.
Miss Blagden said she was struck
four times across the back and thighs
with a heavy leather strap studded
was dashed II times.
After the flogging, she asserted,
she was put on train for Memphis
and she did not know what had be-
come of the clergyman, identified by
her as member of the Religion and
Labor Foundation. She expressed
fear that he might be badly hurt.
Miss Blagden explained that she
and Rev. Mr.. Williams had gone to
the Arkansas town in an effort to
determine if Frank Weems Negro
tenant farmer, had been fatally
beaten in an alteration growing out
of the eastern Arkansas cotton strike
Sheriff Howard Curtin, of Critten-
den county, promised an investiga
ton of the affair early today.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-16
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
I'm The Sir Walter Hotter,
nv i G. baskerville

Raleigh, June 16-Theres a reason
more potent than grape nuts back OF
the decision by DR.. Ralph w. Nc
Donald and his managers to stress the
LIQUOR issue in the second primary
campaign instead of the sales tax, &C
cOrdng to those who have been keep
ing their ears to the ground. Not
only are the Mcdonald forces expect
ing to garner in the wringing wet vote
over the State as a result of the posi-
ton which Mcdonald is expected to
take in favor of the legal sale of Ii
quor in any counties which may want
it, but they are also counting on some
very substantial campaign cOntribu-
tons from the big distilling interests
outside the State which want to see
the entire State thrown open for the
sale of liquor. Reports have been
current for several days that several
large campaign contributions have
already been made to DR.. McDonalds
second primary campaign Golfers by
some OF the large whisky manufac-
turers. Still another report is that
some of DR.. McDonald's workers are
making a definite effort to interest
still other liquor manufacturers in
the Mcdonald campaign.
DiSquieting to HOey
All of which is proving rather dis
quieting to campaign managers and
strategists for Clyde r. Hoey, espe-
cially if it is really true that the big
liquor interests are actually Kicking
in" with substantial campaign contri-
buttons for Dr. Mcdonald, as current
reports indicate. 1t was more or less
expected by the Hoey forcer that Dr.
Mcdonald would go wet" as soon as
Sandy Graham, the only "wet" can
didate in the first campaign, was ELI
minated. They figured that since the
greater part of the bone dry" vote
was already for Hoey that Mcdonald
and his advisors would decide to go
after the Graham 'wet" vote in the
second primary even if DR.. McDon-
aid had stood shoulder to shoulder
with Hoey on the liquor question dur
ing the first campaign. For in the
first campaign DR.. McDonald's only
utterance with regard to liquor was
that he believed the question should
be submitted to a Statewide referen-
dunn exactly the same position as
taken by Hoey.
Money Would Talk
But it was Mt expected by the Hoey
managers that DR.. Mcdonald or his
managers either could or would at
tempt to replenish their campaign
funds with liquor money. Consequent
ly the reports that John Barleycorn
has become one of the silent, but DO
tent hackers of the Mcdonald cause
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-16
Exchanges
Control To
Be Tighter
Roosevelt Signs Bill
Affecting Graf n,
Cotton and Other
Trade Systems

Washington, June 16. = (AP)-
Grain, cotton an dother commodity
futures exchanges were brought I'M
der more rigid government regula-
ton today as President Roosevelt
signed the Jones-Smith commodity
exchange bill.
The act is aimed particularly at
curbing speculation in grain, cotton,
rice and feeds, potatoes and butter
and eggs through the placing of trad
ing limits on contract markets 1t
outlaws trading in indemnities and So
called wash sales.
"A complement to the stock ex-
change control law, it will be admin
istered by the Grain Futures Admin
istration Commodity Exchange Com
mission. All exchanges will lbe licens-
ed and floor brokers and commission
merchants required to register.
The act would not interfere with
legitimate hedging operations in
products actually bought or sold.
Regulations will take eeffect with
in 80 days.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-16
4 LabOrers
Lose Lives
In Cave-ln
Road Bank n e ar
Oteen Collapses,
Trapping Six, But
Two Are Rescued

AsheviIle, June 16.-(AP)-- Four
highway construction laborers were
killed today when a road bank caved
in on them near Oteen hospital.
All the victims were employees of
Blythe Brothers, a Charlotte con-
struction firm engaged in relocating
the Asheville-Oteen highway.
Six of the laborers were caught I'M
der the slide. Two, however, escaped
within a few minutes and were not
seriously hurt.
Fellow workers began rescue work
Immediately after the earth slide, but
it required nearly 80 minutes to reach
the four men buried deeply.
Three of the men were dead when
uncovered. The other was placed in
an ambulance and started for Oteen
hospital. He died just as the gates
were reacher. County officials be-
gan an investigation Immediately
after the tragedy.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-16
Mcdonald Expects Votes
And Money By Going Wet
Out-of-State Distlers Rep orted Contributing His
Campaign; And Money Will Really Talk; to Stress
Organization Rather Than Speech-Making

have not served to sooth the nerves
of Hoey headquarters here. One OF
the things upon which the Hoey
forces had been counting heavily, it is
agreed, was the belief that Melon
aid had virtually exhausted his cam
paign funds and the hope ~etting
any more from merchant. d the
sale of his baby bonds" J if Nc
Donald has found a brand new
source of campaign lucre among the
whisky distillers, he may become an
even more formidable opponent for
Hoey in the second primary cam
paign than in the first, many observ-
ers agree.
That the Mcdonald leaders are jub-
liant over the prospective change
in campaign tactics and the para
mounting of liquor over the sales tax
is plainly indicated by many of the
Continued on Page Three.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-16
Two Items, Florida Ship
Canal and Public Works
Fund Stand In
Its Way
HOUSE MAY YIELD
ON THE WORKS FUND
Two Of Items Must Be Voted
on in House; Senate Re-
fuses to Yield on Its
Amendment for Survey of
Canal Project; Deficiency
Bill Carries Relief

Washington. June 10 (AP)- Con-
gressional conferees virtually reached
am agreement today ON the $3.50 OOO,-
400 deficiency bill, carrying next
years relief fund--except for two
items which must be voted on by the
House
Chairman Adams, Democrat, Colo
RADIO of the Senate conferees, fore
casted a final agreement would be
reached tomorrow except for two
items on which the House tied the
hands Of its conferees-the Florida
ship canal and the $500 0O0,0 900 for a
public works fund.
Adams said that the other provis-
ions of the relief section would be left
about as they were in the bill passed
Tor the Scndte-with the SLABS, 00O,O 900
relief fund appropriated direct to
President Roosevelt.
Adams said mostly one or two
minor items were still in dispute and
that they would be settled tomorrow.
He said the Senate refused to yield
on its amendment calling for survey
on the ship canal reappropriating
$500 600 900 for public works.
Senate conferees believed the House
managers would recommend that the
House yield on the public works funds
but did not know what the procedure
would be on the ship canal item
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-16

sI5le for it to have been shining dur
ing the month, and it was clear over
the State in general % days of the
month.
The temperature mean was 687 de-
grees, or 1.9 degrees above normal
with the highest being IS degrees, rec
orded at Kinston on the 10Th, and
Monroe on the 26th.
drought was intensified by more
sunshine than any previous period,
the summary said. "The abrupt
change from wet to a dry period
with much sunshine, hardened the
topseil, especially clay or clay mix
ture, and brought about an exceeding
ly unfavorable season for starting
that is planting, termination and
growth of cotton, tobacco corn, pea
nuts and other crops"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-16
Rainfall For Nav
Lowest On Record
In North Carolina

Raleigh, June 16.-(AP)- North
Carolina last month had the least
rainfall and the most sunshine it has
had in any May since records have
been kept.
The summary for the States May
weather was released today by Lee A.
benson, in charge of the Weather Blu
reau here.
The rainfall for the State averaged
only 90 of an inch, lowest in the rec
ords for SO years, and 3.21 below the
May normal.
Bryson City and McHenry's Bridge,
near Statesville, reported no rainfall
at all in May, and only .01 of an inch
fell at Charlotte, Concord, Albemarle
and Mt. Gilead.
The sun was visible in Charlotte
for 90 percent of the time it was pos
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-16
Numerous POLITICAL Friends
of Huey Long in Louis
lana Escaped Prose-
cution
ATTORNEY GENERAL
CUMMINGS SCORED
Immediate Release from
Federal Prison Demanded
for One Who Was Con-
victed; Jurors Charge
Those Under Investigation
Tried To Settle Up

New Orleans, La, June 10 (AP)
Nine members of the grand jury
friends Of the late Senator Huey p
Long for income tax frauds, today
scored the Urted States attorney
general for abandoning prosecution of
the cases.
Homer Cummings, the jurors de-
manded Immediate release from the
Atlanta penitentiary Of former
State Representative Joseph Fisher,
one of the two men tried before
were dropped.
They said there was a gross and
unwarranted official discrimination
against Fisher, who is scheduled to
complete a sentence of a year and
half on July 9. Abraham Shus-
han, former president of New Orleans
Levee Board, the other man brought
to trial, was acquitted.
Fisher was tried before the death
of Senator Long at the time Long
was waging a vigorous fight against
the administration of President
Roosevelt. Shushan was tried after
Longs death.
The statement was announced here
by Arthur c. Walters, who served as
forman of the grand jury which re-
turned the income tax indictments
The jurors in their letter said that
during the Investigations, which led
TO the indictment, it was reported
that those under investigation, were
CONTINUED on Page F'ive)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-16
CHERRY REGARDED
AS NEXT SPEAKER
CASTOR Legislator Likely to
Receive Honor in Next
Assembly
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Rv i G. RASk ERVTTT

Raleigh, June Is. The renomina-
ton of r. Gregg Cherry, of Gastonia,
Castor county, as a member of the
1887 General Assembly, is regarded by
most observers here as Indicating he
will be elected speaker Of the House
of the 1887 General Assembly. During
the 1886 session, when Cherry was
chairman of the House Finance Com
mittee, he was generally regarded as
a prospective candidate for the speak
ership in 1887. Cherry has represented
Castor county continuously in the
House since 1881 and has been one of
it's outstanding leaders. He is regard
ed as being one of the ablest contend
ers in rough and tumble debate who
has ever served in any General AS
sembly, and as rough and ready a
fighter in the legislature as he was
during the war in France Cherry is
a former State commander of the
American Legion.
Other contenders for the speaker
ship who were renominated for the
House in the recent primary are Vic
Continued on Page Three.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-16
Conferees Continue in Dead
lock on Methods of Rails
ing Money Presi-
dent Requested
MIDDLE GROUND ON
REVENUE is SOUGHT
Dozen or More Proposals
Examined With View To
Finding Money Sources;
No Semblance of Agree
ment Reached After Sena-
tors Go Into Problem

Washington, June 16.-AP) - The
Senate tax bill conferees today pro-
duced a new compromise plan for set
Ting the key troubles over corporation
taxes, but it met with no immediate
favor among the House conferees
Chairman Doughton, Democrat, North
Carolina, of the House group seeking
to reconcile differences with the SEN
ate, said the senators had Submitted
a counter proposal No details were
given out.
The House conferees said they
wanted to study it before giving any
information as to whether they might
be inclined to accept it.
Doughton said the conferees prob
ably would meet tonight in an over
time attempt to negotiate some sort
of compromise to break the deadlock,
which has gripped them a week and
a half and which threatens to put
adjournment of Congress past the
opening of the Democratic Convention
Senate forces later said that the
new proposal would place a Is per
cent tax on corporation income, a
graduated tax on undistributed cor
porate earnings and allow $4,000 ex-
emption from the latter.
Washington, June 16.-(AP)- A
deadlocked tax conference today gave
rise to talk on Capitol Hill that Presi-
dent Roosevelt might again discuss
the controversial measure with con-
ferees in order to hasten the adjourn
ment gavel
Indicative of the dnSire to wind I'm
the 74th Congress before the start Of
the Democratic National Convention
next week was the action of House
leaders in keeping the chamber in
session until after 1890 o'clock last
Continued on Page Five.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-16
Democrats
To Answer
Opposition
Replies Planned to
Be Made to Repub-
lican Pl a t f or m,
Plank by Plank
BY LESLIE EICHEI.
Central Press Staff Writer

THE DEMOCRATS are preparing
to answer the Republican platform
Immediately. There will be no wait
ing-the campaign is declared On at
once.
1t is believed that the answers will
follow this line of thought
america is in peril (Says the G.
O. P. platformD
1t is Twill be the answer). From
plutccraCy-from vested interests.
"The welfare of American men and
women and the future of our youth
is ut stake"
1t is. Fascism endangers it. Pluto
Cracy endangers 1.-THE plutocracy of
concentrated wealth, dominating the
Republican party and all its words
Liberty. .... is threatened by the
government ITSELF
What liberty? The liberty to oper-
ate sweatshops, to concentrate wealth,
farmers and small shopkeepers?
For three long year sthe New Deal
administration has dishonored Amer
lean traditions. =" Name them Is
aid to the weak-as we'll as large
busineSS-a "diShOnOr" to American
traditions?
FURTHER RESPONSES
Down the platform the Democrats
will go, trying to turn every denun-
citation into a ringing clarion call to
the people in their behalf
"The powers of Congress have been
usurped by the president" Name the
occasions Congress passed the sol
diers' bonus and innumerable other
measures in opposition to the Presi-
dent. Congress has tried to force adj
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-16
HAMILTON SOLELY
PUT LAND0N OVER
He Sold" Kansan to Re-
pubIicans and Plans to
"Sell" Him to Nation
BY CHARLES =. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer

Cleveland. June 16.-With the NOM
nation Of Gov ALI M. Landon of Kan
sa for the presidency on the G. ..
P ticket John D. M. Hamilton vir-
ually took charge of the Republican
party
Hamilton it was who originally
thought Of Landon for the presiden-
tal race. IT wasn't Landon's idea at
the outset. Hamilton put it into his
head Then he proceeded to manage
the governors pro-convention cam
paign. personally directed all Lam
donesque activities in Cleveland and
now he assumes the craftsmanship OF
the Republican National Committee.
As | heard one of the Cleveland de
legates express it, HE was a child
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