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Evening star., 1937-02-11
.$19,9(4,0OO GIVEN
. FOR FLOOD RELIEF
$268,155 Donated From
D. C.-Nevada LegisIa-
ture Votes $1,000.

The Nations contribution to the
Red Cross to aid food relief work
mounted to $19,904,00O today. with
District donations set at $268,l55. OF
this sum, $50, ,62028 has been collected
through The Star, $19c.77 yesterday.
A contribution of $4,000 to the fund
has been voted by the Nevada Legis-
lature, according to telegram re-
ceived by Admiral Cary T. Grayson,
chairman of the Red Cross. Ambassa-
dor Troyanovsky, Soviet plenipoten-
tiary here, this morning donated 5000
to the District chapter. Another gift
Of $3.50 came from Ambassador Suvich
Of Italy.
A major problem confronting Red
Cross relief forces in the flood area
Is to provide temporary housing for
returning refugees in cities and towns
flooded by high waters.
School authorities were requesting
evacuation Of school buildings where
refugees were housed, in order that
school might be resumed, and many
cooperating industries which had
Evening star., 1937-02-11
H. 0. |. c. IN TROUBLE
WITH COLLECTIONS
Only $4o2,52o,2 ,2s2 Collected Of
$529, ,605,397 Installments
Due Last Fall.

By the Associated Press.
The Home Owners Loan Corp,
which its director, John H. Fahey. de-
scribes as the largest home loan agency
in the world, is having trouble making
collections.
Out of S529,6O5,397 in instruments,
due last November /, the corporation
collected only s4o2 $50, 1882, or approx
imately 76 per cent, one official said
today.
Fahey advanced several reasons for
the corporations difficulties to a House
Appropriations Subcommittee recently.
Those with whom we have the
greatest difficulties" he said. ARE
those who have the small loans ($400
and up). They get nto more trouble
because Of the limited family in
come"
Collection difficulties, Fahey added,
"are affected by every change In the
economic situation in any area"
Collections from 600 borrowers
stopped at Racine, Wis, Fahey re-
called, when the Case plant was shut
down. AS a result of the recent mari
time strike. collections on the Pacific
Coast dropped between 100000 and
100000 in two months.
Evening star., 1937-02-11
HEARINGS TO OPEN
ON MELLON GIFT
Bill Authorizing Acceptance
of Donation introduced
by ConnaIIy.
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.


Hearings probably will be held late
next week by the Senate Public lid
ings and Grounds Committee on the
bill authorizing the Government to
accept Andrew w. Melons offer to
give the Nation his valuable art COL
lection and a 100000 -allery to
house it in Washington.
The value of he art collection it
self has been vari Isly estimated at
from $4,000, 900 to $100,000,000. Mel
Ions offer and the plans for carry. ;
1t out were contained in correspond
ence between the -ormer Secretary
of the Treasury and President Roose-
welt two months ago.
Congressional approval is necessary,
however, to pave the way for es :
lishment of the proposed national
gallery of art, and Chairman Con-
nally of the Senate Publ .ldings
and Grounds Committee late yester-
day introduced the proposed enabling
act.
Area Is Designated.
The bill designated the area from
Seventh to Fourth streets between
Constitution avenue and North Mall
drive as the gallery site, with direc-
ton to the District Commissioners to
close Sixth street. The National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion, however, is instructed to prepare
recommendations for widening and
adjusting Third, Seventh, Ninth or
other streets in the vicinity to carry
the traffic that otherwise would use
Sixth street.
The measure also would reserve
the adjoining area bounde by Fourth
and Third streets between Pennsyl-
vania avenue and North Mall drive
Tor future additions to the art gallery.
The A. w. Mellon Educational and
Charitable Trust would be authorized
to build the CALLER for the Smith
sonian Institution. The gallery would
be administered y board of trus-
tees composed Of the Chief Justice
of the United States. the Secretary of
State, Secretary of The Treasury and
secretary OF the Smithsonian Institu-
ton, together with e general trus-
tees from outside the Government.
The general trustees first appointed
would be chosen by the regents of
the Smithsonian, subject to approval
Of the donor. The first five would be
appointed for terms of two, , six
eight and ten years, respectively, and
thereafter for ten years each. Va
cancies would be filled by the remain
Ing trustees.
Board to Name Director.
The board would have power to
appoint a director, assistant director
secretary and chief curator of the
gallery, to be paid from trust funds
available to the board. The bill con-
tains the following further provision
I'm order that the collection shall
always be maintained at a high
standard and in order to prevent the
introduction therein of inferior works
OF art, no works of art shall be ex-
hibited in the national gallery of art
unless they are of similar high stand
ard OF quality to those in the collec-
ton acquired from the donor"
The existing bureau in the Smith
sonian known as the National Gallery
OF Art would in future be known as
the National Collection of Fine Arts.
The board of trustees would be en-
powered to accept gifts and bequests
Tor the benefit of the gallery.
Representatives Of Mellon are ex-
pected to be present when the Senate
committee takes up the measure.
Evening star., 1937-02-11
TO DISCUSS PAY

Representatives Jenckes of Indiana,
Zimmerman Of Missouri and Dorsey
Of Pennsylvania will discuss "A $500
Minimum Wage for All Federal and
District Employees" at 7:30 pm. to-
morrow at mass meeting at Garnet
Patterson Junior High School, Tenth
and U streets, under auspices OF the
United Government Employees, Inc.
Other speakers will pay a birthday
anniversary tribute to Lincoln.
Evening star., 1937-02-11

and Immediately assigned it to w. z.
Hutton and Co., brokerage house.
Both were witnesses at the COM
mission hearing on charges that the
Hutton company manipulated Atlas
Tack stock.
Greene, president Of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Securities Co. OF
Chicago, said he had every assur-
ance" from Adair that the stock would
be held before he consented to the
sale.
II exacted that promise before en-
tering into the commitment with
Adair," Greene said, because I felt
I might be placing myself In the
position of O technical issuer.
II firmly believed 1t was for in
vestment purposes to build up the
Evening star., 1937-02-11

corporation, and that w. E. Hutton
g. Co., whom heard of only the day
the deal was closed and who almost
Immediately acquired the block, was
simply banking the deal"
Greene testified he first became in
terested In the Atlas in March, 1884.
and thereafter bought the 1881
shares from the Philnin Corp. which
then had control of the Tack con-
cern.
It was q year later that he met
Adair In Chicago through an otflcial
Of the Orange Crush Co., he said.
Adair offered SO share. Greene
testified. while he held out for $40.
A compromise was reached at ss.75
on November II, 1885, and the deal
was closed the following day.
Evening star., 1937-02-11
Official Menus Prepared.

Ofncial menus prepared in Ger
many's food conservation drive espe-
cially recommend potatoes, rabbits.
mutton, fish, sugar, jam and artificial
honey.
Evening star., 1937-02-11
Whistle Taken From Lung,

ATLANTA. February II OP-Sur-
geons successfully removed a small
metallic whistle from the right lung
Of 10-year-old Kenneth Smith of st.
Simons Island, Ga. yesterday.
Hospital attaches said after tie
bronchoscopic operation the boy Us
doing we'll"
Evening star., 1937-02-11
Dog Saves Puppy
From River While
Woman Looks on
Hy tie Associated Press.

By tie Associated Press.
TROY, N. Y, February IL
The story OF a puppys rescue
from drowning by an older and
apparently much wiser dog was
told today by Mrs. Albert A.
Powers.
She said the puppy. romping
on the Hudson River behind her
home broke through thin ice.
A larger dog, she said, warily
circled to the nearst patch CT
firm ice, crouched and crept
close to the hole. Then he ex-
tended his paws until the puppy
clambered across them and both
dashed back to shore.
Evening star., 1937-02-11
Gen. Malone to Speak.

Maj. Gen. Paul B. Malone, U. 8. A.,
retired, will address Strayer College
day students tomorrow at 8 am. in the
Masonic Temple Auditorium, Thir-
teenth street and New York avenue.
Evening session students and alumni
also are invited.
Evening star., 1937-02-11
STOCK DEAL FACTS
TOLD AT HEARING
Seller Had every Assur-
ance" Buyer Would Keep
Shares, He Says.
Hy the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
Arthur Greene Of Chicago told the
Securities Commission yesterday he
sold 1881 shares Of Atlas Tack Corp.
stock with assurance the purchaser
would hold them.
The purchaser was Herbert j. Adair,
now president of the Tack company,
who testified Tuesday he obtained an
option on the shares from Greene
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-07-08
Assessed Values
in County are
Reduced Over '36

The 1897 assessed valuation OF
Benton county real and personal
property, exclusive of that owned
by utilities. is s4,534, 900. Ben Knox,
assessor-treasurer, announced Tues
day.
This is s2ll,980 less than last
year. The decrease was accounted
for by the fact that automobiles
were not assessed, Knox said. They
will be assessed at the time licenses
are paid, he said. .-... ID.
Real property assessed valuation
is $3,722,1 $50, compared with s3,874.-
76O last year. The total for person.
al property is sSll,s4o, compared
with $871,31 .-...-
The assessed valuation of utility
and corporation property, fixed by
the state tax commission, last year
was $4,3O6, $50 and county officials
predicted there would be little
change. FL
Figures reported for property in
Benton county owns were: Prosser,
$636,740; Kennewick $768, $50; and
Richland, $4,000. Road district to-
tails were: No. 1, $946,890; No. 2, ST.
OBI ,430; and No. 3, 81, 055, $40.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-07-08
|Sperry to Build
Wheat Warehouse
at Vista Siding

Rumors which have been going
around for the past three years con-
corning a Sperry Flour company
warehouse being built in this vicin-
ity has at last come to be a reality,
according to Frank Raymond, dis
trict agent of the Sperry Flour COM
pany at Pasco.
Work was started this week on
the construction of this warehouse
which will be located at Vista where
the old fruit warehouses used to be-
This will be a wooden structure, $50
x150, with a corrugated iron roof.
There will be fifteen men doing
the actual construction work, all
of whom are carpenters and work.
men employed by the company.
Mr.. Raymond states that the
warehouse will be of advantage to
the farmers due to the fact that
there will be no delay in receiving
their returns. AS soon as the wheat
comes in it will be shipped out to
the various mills at Spokane, Ia
coma, Portland or Velejo, Califor-
mia. The local wheat will no doubt
be shipped to Spokane or Tacoma.
The office for this warehouse is To-
Gated in Pasco and H. r. Raymond
is the building supervisor. The COM
pany plans to have the building
completed and ready for storage
use for this harvest season.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-07-08
Pre- School Kids
Found to be in
Good Condition

The summer roundup just con-
cluded by the local PIT. A. of child
rem Of pre-school age, was highly
successful. according to a report
made by the county nurse, Miss
Brakel.
The group in charge Of the affair
handled SO children in the clinic
during the three days. OF this num-
Der eight were found to need no cor
rection of any kinda remarkable
condition, Miss Brakel states.
OF the group 43 needed throat at
tention before starting to school in
the fall, one needed eye correction
four orthopedlc and IL posture cor
rection. Two children needed heart
treatments while 80 needed their
teeth loked after. Thirty Of the
children had good teeth and four
had had previous dental work done
This year the clinical examina-
lions were conducted in the doctors
office which eliminated much of the
nervousness and confusion usually
resulting from child clinics.
Doctors participating in the ex-
animation were Drs. Stone, Wegner,
Capell and Spaulding. The COM
mittee, under the Craftsmanship of
Mrs. Manuel Hille, consisted of Mes
danes Stone, Skinner, Silliman, Lis
ton, Oliver and Sonderman.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-07-08

Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Florine will
leave the last Of this week for Spo-
kane, where they will make their
home. Mr.. Florine retired from the
Union Pacific last week after spend
ing 80 years In the service. He had
previously worked for 81 years for
another railroad. The Florines own
their own home in the Falls City
and are looking forward to long
vacation.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-07-08
Richland Float
Wins Sweepstakes
Prize i'm Parade

Richland won the sweepstakes
prize for its float in the parade on
Monday. It was a well-deserved
award, for the float was well plan
ned and well worked out and con-
tanned a real punch which caught
the popular fancy.
Across the top was a banner which
read "Richland, the Backbone OF
Kennewick." The statement made
a big hit all along the line in spite
Of the antics of the principal char
acter in the float-a hula dancer
who evidently was trying to squirm
out Of it, or something.
The parade had more than forty
floats in line, as well as five bands
and numerous other features. It is
generally conceded to have been
the best parade the district has ever
put on. Arrangements were in
charge of Mrs. II. A. Linn and How.
ard Beste, who devoted much time
in its preparation.
The Rainbow Order for Girls took
first prize among the organization
floats, with a prettily decorated
truck featuring the colors of the
rainbow, and a group of the young
ladies trying to look very sophisti-
Gated in their formals.
Among the business floats, the
Church Grape Juice Co. took first
and Belair's bakery second.
The M. e. G. Sweete Shoppe took
first in the unique class with Bob
Simmelink second. Paul Richmond
won first place as the best dressed
cowboy and Bernice Taylor as the
best dressed COW girl.
The two negro clowns took first
money in that division.
The White Bluffs band, q we'll
trained organization was one of the
high lights Of the parade, and the
Pasco Drum g. Bugle Corps made
a hit all along the line of march
The Kennewick school band, while
ununiformed, nevertheless. played
good music, and the two hill billy
bands enlivened the march.
The parade went to Pasco after
its march thru Kennewick's decor
ated streets.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-07-08
Friday, July 9, Is
Open House for
|PrOSser Station

The Seventeenth Annual Field
Day at the Irrigation Branch Elk
pertinent station near Prosser on
Friday, July 8, will afford visitors
an opportunity Of securing first
hand information on q large num-
Der Of problems incident to irriga-
ton farming. Field trips will start
about 9 am. and will continue thru
| out the entire day.
Projects at the station are car
ried on in cooperation with the re-
spective departments Of the Agrt-
cultural Experiment station OF the
State College of Washington. The
following agencies Of the United
States Department Of Agriculture
are also cooperating in work at the
station: Division of Western 1rrt-
CATION Agriculture; Wireworm Field
Laboratory, Walla Walla, Frozen
Pack Laboratory, Seattle, and the
Fruit and Vegetable By-Products
Laboratory, Pullman. Representa-
tives of these agencies will assist
the station staff In explaining the
investigational program.
Some of the things OF interest,"
that can be seen or about which
experimental date has previously
been secured at the station are as
follows:
Varieties of truck crops, varieties
of small fruits, varieties OF tree
fruits, fertilizers for truck crops
fertilizers for apples and pears, Ter
tilizers for potatoes, irrigation OF ap-
pie trees, orchard cover crops, crop
rotations, reclamation OF alkah SOILS
crops for alkali soils, wireworm con
troll, sugar beet varieties, al1ai1a
varieties ~ winter hardness, SWEEP
clover varieties.
> (Continued on Page 3D.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-07-08
Parachute Drop
Proves Thrilling to
Watching Crowds

one OF the biggest attractions OF
the Fourth OF July celebration was
the parachute jump by Bernie Neu-
man. II was one OF the best drops
ever seen by many people, and IL
was unique in one respect at least.
The drop was made from a height
of 5000 feet, the chute opened nicely
and the drop was unusually slow.
About half. way down in the drop,
the parachute actually started TO
rise, with Neuman sitting prettyl
This is a most unusual occGrrance,
experienced people say and would
not happen once in ten thousand
times. a..
The drop was made west OF town
and the landing was east OF town.
Bernie came down in fine shape,
and luckily for him there was no
ground wind, for he landed on one
side of a barbed wire fence and the
silken umbrella on the other. A
gust Of wind at the moment would
have caused a serious accident UNI
doubtedly.
1t was Bernie's first parachute
drop, in spite of his three years SER
vice in the aviation section of the
army. However, the leap was in
true professional style--a nice clean
getaway and long, slow drop.
Asked concerning his experience,
some interesting facts developed.
Frightened Well, the moment just
before letting 60 and the next couple
OF seconds were thrilling, to say the
least. But the ride down was really
pleasant, absolute silence, and vir-
tually no feeling Of movement, eth
err downward or Of oscillation. AS
matter of fact, during the oscil-
lation, the experience was that he
was stationary. while the parachute
was making wide arcs above him.
Another odd feature, he said. was
that the parachute apparently OPEN
ed below him--beyond his feet. This
was because he was falling head
first-the parachute really opened
above him.
AS he neared the ground, he said,
he began to wonder II the drift
would carry him into the river.
spectators began to be worried a
bit about that, too.)
Inasmuch as he was compelled 70
carry an auxiliary chute too. h
smaller one. he planned to cut
loose from the big one and try TO
drop faster In the smaller one IL
the danger Of falling into the river
became serious. However, the wind
shifted enough before he landed
to keep him on dry land and he did
not need to use the other pack.
This was Mr.. Neuman's first drop.
Another time, he wouldn't mind IL
at all. he says. In fact, he thinks he
might really enjoy IL.
He's welcome.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-07-08
ROdeO Pleases
Large Crowds at
Celebration
1t was a fine show.

It was a fine show.
This seems to be the universal
verdict Of the thousands OF people
who attended the three-day celepra-
ton here over the holidays.
The weather was fine, the crowds
were large and well behaved and
there were no accidents to mar the
occasion. A
The celebration was staged by
the Kennewick Rodeo Association, q
corporation made up of local bust
nessmen, and the rodeo perform
ance was handled by Rosco Rich
mond, local specialist. It is esti-
mated that the attendance was In
the neighborhood OF -FOUR thousand.
inside the gates with another group
half that size who did not attend
the arena.
Hoitt Moss, Of Southwick, Idaho,
captured the championship belt for
receiving the highest number of
points In two major events during
the three days. He entered the bull
dogging and calf roping. having
been thrown the first day In bronc
riding.
Tony vey took first In the calf
roping. with Joe Pedro second and
Moss third.
In the bucking finals on Monday
afternoon, the five final horses
proved to be real buckers, three OF
the riders being eliminated in that
event by the horses winning the
contests.
G. G. Coe took first In that event,
up land DOWN. on Alcatraz. Buck
Tiffin managed to stay aboard
Corkscrew in the finals and placed
second.
Pat Fisk, Paul Huffman and Herb
Owens were the other finalists who
were thrown or disqualified. The
horse that Herb drew, Toll Gate
was the buckinest horse in the show,
and Herb was glad when the whistle
blew. He put up a ride that was
some thing to see in any mans show
Many spectators thought that Lyle
Simmelink would surely place in the
finals, but the Judges marked him
down for something or other which
the crowd failed to see. He put up
a beautiful ride, however, all three
days of the show and seemingly de-
served to carry away some Of the
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-07-08
PascO to Dedicate
River Bathing Beach

The Pasco bathing beach will be
officially dedicated next Saturday
afternoon. A program of water
sports and races, fancy diving and
life saving will be given, after which
the dedication ceremonies will take
place. The Kiwanis club has as
sumed the sponsorship of the beach
and the ceremonies will be under
the clubs auspices. Prizes put up
by the Pasco merchants will be
given winners in the several events
The public is invited.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-07-08
Mother of Five
Escapes Serving
2O-Year Sentence

Admitting they were guilty on
five counts of forgery, Mr.. and Mrs
r. e. Jones were sentenced to 20
years in the state penitentiary by
Judge Timothy A. Paul Of walla
Walla, in Benton county superior
court Tuesday, says story in yes
terday's Yakima Herald.
The judge suspended the sentences
imposed upon Mrs. Jones, after her
counsel, Geo. o. Beardsley, inform
ed the court that this was the first
time she ever was in trouble and her
extreme love for her husband
caused her to participate in the al
legged forgeries.
Mother Of Five
Her Immediately dressed hus-
band was sentenced first and when
the judge mentioned the peniten-
tiary, Mrs. Jones began crying and
collapsed as the sentence was pro-
nounced. She was not fully revived
when the Judge sentenced her and
then suspended the sentence. She is
the mother of five children, includ-
ing twins two months old.
Jones served'time in prison in Ma
braska on a similar offense, G. L.
Holcomb. prosecuting attorney, told
the court. Mr.. and Mrs. Jones were
accused of forging and passing the
worthless checks in Yakima, Benton
and Franklin counties. They were
arrested In Colorado recently and
returned to Benton county.
Jones was taken to the peniten-
tiary and Mrs. Jones went with rel
atives to Spokane.
Don Towne, %, pleaded not guilty
to robbery when he was arraigned
before Judge Paul The state
charged Towne, Frank Lents, Lloyd
Coffee and John Campbell beat and
robbed John Doe Nelson near Ken
newick. Lentz pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to not more than 20
years in the penitentiary. Camp
bell and Coffee have not been ar
raigned.