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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-05-13
Horse Heaven En-
tertained Pomona
Made for State Ses-
sion of Grange at Waiia Walfa
Second Week I'm June.

Walla the second week In june
Brother Sway2e was authorized to
purchase banners and pennants to
be used ON cars during the parade.
Each Grange is to let Brother
SWayze know how many they will
need and he will have them at the
Grange Supply in Ketalewick for
distribution. Arrangements were
also made for sending Vale degree
team and Locust Grove tableau
team to the meeting, where they
will put on the second degree.
Because the State Grange session
falls on a date very near the next
regular meeting the next Pomona s1f A.
will be held at Rattles1lake at ? 80
P NJ, june 18th.
The Home Economics chairman a.
gain made her appeal to the Home
Economics chai1arle1l OF ttie Subord-
mates to make their reports to her
so she cam make her final report to
the State Chairman before the
State Session. Several have not
sent in the report. Please do this
at once.
Benton County lis asked to prepare
a short, srAappy number for the
lecture program during the State
Grange. Let Sister Morgan know
as soon as possible what type of en-
tertainment you will be able to pre-
pare and the time it will take and
she will let you know on which day
it will be needed The number
must not be over-long mon require
heavy stage setting, as the time al
lowed for presentation is very short.
Suggestions are: Vocal numbers,
tap dances, short saits, reading OF
musical numbers.
Resolutions:
THAT every piece of legislation
proposed in the future first receive
the approval of a majority Of the
Pomona Oranges of our state; also
.the approval of our State Grange
before it can be registered as spon-
sored by the Grange. DisapprOyed
by the committee because resolution
does not remedy the condition conn
planned Of. Report accepted by the
Grange.
THAT we endorse the Hodde Ed
ucatiorlal Bill and hereby pledge
otr cooperation in every way to
bring about ats enactment into Law
and request the matter be given due
consideration at tlle next session Of
THE State Grange. The committee
recommends study and careful con-
sideration by the State Grange Edu-
cational committee. Recommends
ton accepted.
THAT we insist that our Senat-
ors vote against the Pettengill Bill
and use all their influence in per-
suading other Senators to oppose it.
Approved and report sustained
THAT we endorse the plan for
the distribution of Bonneville pow
er, which pools the enhile capital
COSCo dllS1 llGtDlllOC1AxaNlCO vi Ol1C 'ULo-
tribution system, making the cost
of electric energy about the same at
all substations within transmission
distance Of Bonneville. Approved
and report adopted.
OPPOSING the reorganization of
the Federal Government, as recon-
mended by the BroWnloW Commit
tee, and approving the stand of the
National Grange on this issue. A
recommendation to endorse this
resolution was accepted.
The committee appointed to con-
slider the agricultural resolution pre-
sented ait the Last meeting reported
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-05-13

Mrs. c.. I. Wright was taken to
Yakima, Monday, and is to undergo
an operation for the removal of a
goiter.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-05-13
The Weather

Maximum and minimum temper
atures recorded by observer Moffitt
at the Hanford weather station:
The Washington times., 1937-01-20
MICHIGAN
TROOPER
SLAIN
observation-disclosures
After Finding Body
Shackled to Post

MONROE, Mich, Jan. 20 0.N.S.)
One Of the greatest manhunts in
the history of Michigan was
Launched today when Michigan
state trooper Richard Hammond
was found shot to death with his
houy shackled to mail post with
his own handouts.
Object of the hunt, according
to state police radio alarms being
broadcast throughout the tri-state
area of Michigan, Ohio and Indi-
ana, was Alcida Benoit, a parole
convict.
With the finding of Hammond's
body. more than 100 other State
troopers, scores of deputy sher-
ifs from four counties, and posses
of farmers and townsfolk took up
the hunt.
Police Car Dumped
The search centered in the
farm region near Lulu, Mich,
after the blood-spattered police
scout car which Hammond had
been driving was found a mile
west of that town.
An. airplane also was pressed
into the hunt. Detroit's flying
policeman, William Veach, took
off from the Wayne county air
port, accompanied by a State
trooper and was flying low over
the scene of the search.
Kidnapping Suspect
Trooper Hammond, % years
old, dropped from sight last night
while he was taking Benoit to
Monroe, where Benoit was to have
been viewed as possible suspect
in the robbery and kidnapping of
a Detroit auto salesman earlier
in the evening.
Early this morning, fellow
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1937-01-20
HOPES RISE
FOR AUTO
PEACE
Days Conferences in
New York and D. c.
Stir-Optimism
By PAUL BENTON

DETROIT, Jan. 20 qNS).
Hopes for settlement of the auto
mobile workers strike rose here
today. Conferences between lead
ing personalities of General Mo
tors in New York and others be-
tween highest union officials and
Department of Labor executss yes
in washington, heightened this
hope.
A sudden call from Alfred. p !.
Sloan, jr., president of General
Motors sent william s. Knudsen,
executive vice president and strike
field general, and his aides scurry-
ing secretly to New York last
night.
Union Heads to d. C.
Equally cryptic messages from
Washington caused Homer S. Mar
tin, United Automobile Workers
president, and John Brophy, or
ganizer for the Committee for In
dustrial Organization, to make
plane reservations for washington
this morning.
Important developments are ex-
pected from both conferences.
The summons sent Brophy and
Martin came after long confer
Continued on Page 2, Col. 1.l
The Washington times., 1937-01-20
POPE SINKING;
PAIN INTENSE

VATICAN CITY, Jan. 20
GN.SO.-Pope Plus, suffering tex
cruciating pain" managed to sleep
only two hours in intermittent
maps during the night.
Steadily losing ground for
nearly a week now, the Pontiff
was reported today to be still
weaker.
So grave is his condition, with
diabetes added to the arteries
cleroSiS which has brought re-
turn of severe pains to the Pom
tiff's legs, that DR.. Amanti Milani,
who had been with the Pope until
after midnight, returned again at
6 a. m.
The Washington times., 1937-01-20

The weather, at that, was not
so much worse than incoming
Presidents usually have en-
countered early. in March.
Taft's only Inauguration was
featured by the worst blizzard
in the history of Washington, a
storm that cut all communica-
tions for several days; Wilson's
second inaugural was so icy
that the cavalry went down in
a heap on Pennsylvania Ave
nue. Harding and Coolidge and,
Hoover took the oath with the
rain splitting in their faces, and
so, as a matter of fact, did Mr..
Roosevelt four years ago when
he took over the reins of Gov
ernment under the blacklist eco
nomic clouds that ever hOvered
over the Nation.
So, bad as the weather was to
day-the forecast said rain. snow
Continued on Page 13, Col. II
The Washington times., 1937-01-20
CROWDS BEGIN
TO LINE AVENUE
FOR PARADE

Despite drizzle of rain, crowds started
assembling early today along Pennsylvania
Avenue and the route Of the inaugural
parade, and officials estimated that at least
25O,OOO persons will be on hand when the
parade moves off. Another great crowd
gathered near historic st. Johns Church this
morning, where the President attended
service before going to the Capitol to take
the oath of office where fifty thousand per
sons wer to witness the ceremonies.
The Washington times., 1937-01-20
BY GEORGE r. HOLMES
international News Service

Rain soaked but still gay, the National
Capital prepared to inaugurate Franklin D.
Roosevelt for his second term as President TO-
day amid pageantry and display such as can
only follow a great popular political victory.
Flags hung Imply from their standards, the coors
the miles Of bunting running together from four days
of ncessant downpour but in the hotels and in special
trains that housed thousands of vsitors-Democradc
vistors-there gaiety that defied the weather.
1t the first winter inaugural in American history Here
tofore Presidents have been and Congresses
the fourth of March This year thanks to the Twentieth
Amendment to the Constitution faherd by the of Con-
Senator George Norris the Sevenyffth Congress- al
ready met and organized greeted the change of admnra
tions whichin this case was no change at all.
The Washington times., 1937-01-20
Rain Fall
For DaY:
No Snow

With the temperature stand
ing at SO degrees, one above
the freezing point, at 8 o'clock
this morning, the Weather
Bureau said there was little
chance of snow or sleet today,
but that there would probably
be a steady rain throughout
the day.
Despite the adverse weather,
there have been no changes
in the inaugural plans and
the program will be carried
out as scheduled.
The Washington times., 1937-01-20
Bukharin Is 0usted
As TrotskY PIotter

LONDON, Jan. 20 G.N.sO.
Charged with plotting the over
throw of the Stain regime with
Leon Trotsky, exiled former Boil
shevist leader, Nickolai Bukharin
was dismissed as editor of the Mos
COW newspaper Izvestia, the Daily
Express said today in a dispatch
from Warsaw. The article says
Bukharin was questioned for eight
hours by the secret police con-
cerning the alleged plot. Trotsky
is now in Mexico,
The Washington times., 1937-01-20

Paging Mr.. Doe, paging Mr..
Doe"
An indication of the crowds. IN
local hotel lobbies is the number
of page boy calls. At one hotel
there were 400 paging calls sent
out in two hours.
"Queenie," the dOCile donkey
that Postmaster General James
A. Farley won in an election
The Washington times., 1937-01-20
and Mary
Sad; George V
Dead a Year

LONDON, Jan. 20 uN.SD. 1.
Britain's sadness today on the
first anniversary of the death cf
King George v was heightened by
the fact that Queen Mother Mary
will have around her at Sandring-
ham House all her children except
the Duke of Windsor.
The Duke of Kent was the last
to arrive at Sandringham. AL
ready there were King George VI,
the Duke of Gloucester. the
Princess Royal and Queen Mary's
grandchildren.
The Washington times., 1937-01-20
Inauguration
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bet, presented quite a problem
to MayfIOWer Hotel officials.
After all the fanfare that at
tended the public presentation
of the animal to Postmaster Far
ley in the MayflOwer Hotel lobby
yesterday. there still remained
the question of what to do with
the donkey.
0sgOOd Roberts, press reIa-
Continued on Page 4, Col. II
Evening star., 1937-09-04
MAYOR WOUNDED
BY GEORGIA MOB
Mt. Vernon Official Sought
to Protect Aged Co..
ored Man.
b the Associated Press.

DUBLIN, Ga, September 4.-John
w. Underwood, youthful mayor Of
Mount Vernon, Ga, lay seriously
wounded today because he tried to
intervene between an aroused posse
and an aged colored man suspected
Of harboring 4 fugitive in an attack
case.
The colored man, 75-year- -old Will
Kirby. was killed and Underwood and
a posseman were struck by stray bull
lets when gunfire disrupted the
mayors efforts Ito calm things
down yesterday at Kirby's farm
home near Mount Vernon.
Versions OF the shooting differed.
Special Deputy Sheriff Eustis Brady
said Kirby had argued but had not
fired a gun. Others said the colored
man fired 4 weapon
Underwood was shot in the arm
and back, and Ralph Grinstead,
posseman, was wounded in the arm.
Today an unofacial posse of sew
eral hundred Montgomery County
residents continued searching a dense
swamp north OF Mount Vernon for
the fugitive named in 4 State war
rant as Buddy Sharpe.
County Prosecutor L. c. Under
wood. father Of the 25-year-old
mayor. said his son was wounded
while trying to calm things down"
Prosecutor Underwood said men
had been roaming the country 'in
an ugly mood since 4 white farm
woman was attacked in her home
Saturday night.
Wed been afraid Of a lynching
ever since" he said
Evening star., 1937-09-04
M0B|L|zAT|0NSEEN
FOR DEMOCRACY
Wi||iamstown Speaker Says
Denominations Tend to
Unite on Aims.
By the Associated Press

W1LL1AMsfOwN. Mass, September
4.-Dr. Everett r. Clinchy. director of
the Institute Of Human Relations. said
today the institute revealed a DISPOSE
ton on the part of an increasing num-
Der Of religious people to mobilize the
various faiths and denominations Ito
elaborate the democratic way of life "
The institute closed its weeks ses-
sion last night after hearing Gov. Her.
bert H. Lehman of New York, william
E. Dodd, United States Ambassador to
Germany. and DR.. George B. Gallup,
director OF the Institute Of Public
Opinion
DR.. Clinchy said the institutes 8
theme. with its practical implications
for what goes on in the home school
and the church or synagogue. deserves
longer attention, but We have opened
up rich veins which should be worked
more fully"
Asserting informed public opinion
Was the greatest bulwark of good gov
ernment," Lehman warned that we,
40 SiIi1Sis, CCI ~HAL
we consider rs public opinion is really
the opinion of the public else
we may accept as public opinion that
which is only propaganda Of well-or-
gained pressure groups"
Ambassador Dodd declared cooper
alton OF the United States with other
democratic countries is the only means
OF saving self-government."
He said that III the democracy for
which our ancestors fought from l776
to 1888, then fought for again in
lsl7-lB, is to be served, our political
leaders must apply the principles
abroad for which Wilson and his gen.
Grafton contended 50 ably in 1917 and
1915"
DR.. Gallup predicted the Democratic
party would emerge from elections
next year with a substantial ma
jority"-if President Roosevelt retains
his popularity.
He said the Institute Of Public Opin-
ion discovered that over \ third of
the people who voted for the President
last Fall are against his plan" to re-
organize the Supreme Court, and yet
virtually all of these same persons are
enthusiastically for Roosevelt today"
Evening star., 1937-09-04
MISS ELLA R. BATES
BURIED IN BAY STATE

Miss Ella r. Bates. II, who died
Tuesday OF q heart attack in the
Clermont Hotel. CHAIRMAN. Pa, was
buried Thursday In West Weymouth,
Mas, according to word received here
by friends.
Miss Bates, who lived here in the
Concord Apartments. was well known
in this city in music and art circles
and had been 4 Washington resident
since childhood. She had been spend
ing the Summer in CHAIRMAN.
Until recent years Miss Bates had
conducted q studio where she taught
piano music She had done many
paintings both in oil and water colors.
She was = member Of the Mount
Pleasant Congregational Church. Misa
Bates was = native Of West Wey-
mouth.
A brother. Harry r. Bates, Atlanta,
Ca, survives.
Evening star., 1937-09-04
U. S. SHIPS 'ON ALERT
FOR MYSTERY SUB
Navy Official Says They Don't Ex'
pect to Be Involved, but Will
Fire Back.
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
Navy Department officials said today
the American European squadron is
"on the alert" during the new Span
ish crisis resulting from the sinking
of neutral shipping by an unidentified
submarine
Stressing that the United States
lis disinterested neutral" and does
not expect to be involved, a Navy
spokesman said, however, that the
commanders Of the three warships in
the squadron understood they may
fire in self-defense II their craft
should be attacked, as was a British
destroyer.
The American ships are under or
ders to remain In French or other
neutral ports, except when on spe-
cific missions to Spain to rescue refu-
gees or carry out other missions. The
flagship Raleigh. a cruiser, and the
destroyer Hatfield were reported yes
terday in the harbor of Will, Franche,
France, and the destroyer Kane at
Bordeaux
The Navy spokesman sale the rule
OF self-defenSe' needed no stressinp
to commanders in foreign waters. He
recalled the Kane used its anti-Air-
craft guns during an attack by 4
.,lane last year.
Evening star., 1937-09-04

An aviator, he was graduated from the
Naval Academy in the class of 1929
Matron OF honor at the wedding will
be Miss Hills sister-in-law, Mrs. Ar
thur Hill. Her brother, Lieut.. Arthur
Hill, U. S. NJ, will give her in mar
riage. Charles Warfield OF Baltimore,
another classmate OF Capt. Dyer, will
be best man.
Miss Hill was educated in Wash
ington and studied at the Corcoran
Gallery OF Art, where her charcoal
sketches were considered excellent.
She made her debut in 1929.
Capt. Dyer is on duty at the Naval
Postgraduate School at Annapolis,
where the couple will make their home
after returning from a wedding trip
to Nassau, Bahamas.
The wedding which will be attended
by only members of the two families
and close friends. is TO be performed
in the garden Of Mrs. Barnett's estate.
Evening star., 1937-09-04

Instead. it embarrassed Ezekiel by
removing him from his post in the
Farm Management Division of the
Agriculture Department and making
him assistant chief economist of the
Federal Farm Board, the DUTY of
which was to buy surpluses in the
name Of the Government to raise
farm prices.
Ezekiel is a Virginian His Portu-
guese-Jewish ancestors came to the
Colony Of Virginia by way of the
Netherlands in 1920, and he was born
In Richmond, May 10, 1899. He was
named for his grandfather, Rabbi
Mordecai Joseph Brill His chief
childhood and adolescent interests
were statistics and farming, and 50
they remain today.
Evening star., 1937-09-04
READS ONLY HOPE
LIES IN GOVERNOR
Maryland Slayer Loses
Chance to Escape Ga|Iows
Through Courts.
By the Associated Press,

ny tne Associated Press.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, September
4.-William Brown Read, 25-year- -old
Marylander, lost his chance In the
courts yesterday to escape the gallows
for the torch Staying Of w Earle DOLL
man, Charleston salesman.
The Supreme Court refused to grant
a review and only Gov. Holt can now
delay the execution scheduled for
Tuesday in the State Prison at
Moundsville. Holt had granted 4 90
day stay to permit the appeal.
E. G. Pierson of Clay and Frank
Fisher Of Sutton, attorneys for Read,
had indicated they would seek a COM
mutation If the appeal failed but the
pardon attorneys once said no petit
tion had yet been filed.
Read, accused of slayings in Mary
land and West Virginia and OF
series OF robberies in West Virginia.
Virginia and Maryland, was sentenced
from Braxton County, where Dollman
was slain.
The 34-year-old salesman. with his
head beaten by a pistol butt and his
body charred beyond recognition. was
found in his flaming automobile near
Gassaway Thanksgiving day morn
ing. He had been en- route home for
the holiday.
Reads two compa Mons on the tri-
state crime tour, Lawrence Gingell and
War Joseph Kirby, said Dollman had
offered to help get their gasoline for
their stalled car and later was killed.
In his petition to the appellate
court, Read claimed he had not re-
ceived fair trial in Sutton last April,
that he was in Richmond when DOLL
man was slain and that the jury was
prejudiced.
Read, Gingell and Kirby also ar.
accused in Maryland of Staying FL
wood Matthews, Silver Spring farmer.
After the trials at Sutton, Maryland
did not press its charges.
Kirby and Gingell received 1s-year
terms in the Dollman case but are
serving life for robbery and abduc-
tion in Charleston.
Evening star., 1937-09-04
KIDNAPPED WIFE
STAGCERS HOME
Gamblers Spouse Near Co..
lapse, but Unharmed-ls
Too Nervous to Explain.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ELKHORN, Wis, September A.
Mrs. Olive Borcia, missing since
Thursday night and reported to Of
ficers as kidnapped. returned today
to the Summer home OF her mother
She was near collapse but unharmed
Mrs James Goudie. mother of the
20-year wife OF a Chicago hand
book operator, said Mrs. Borcia was
driven in an automobile to within
two blocks of the Goudie cottage
and pushed from the machine She
staggered into her mothers home
at 8:15 Am.
Mrs Goudie told interviewers her
daughter was in such a nervous con-
dition she could not Immediately
give a clear account Of what had hap
pened
A few words at a time, Mrs. Goudie
said, Mrs. Borcia told Of having been
blindfolded most Of the time since
two young men forced her into their
car on \ lonely road skirting Lake
Geneva late Thursday night She
could not say if she spent the inter-
vening time in car or \ hideout
Mrs. Goudie said she did not know
whether 4 ransom had been paid to
obtain Mrs. Borcia's release.
John Borcia, husband OF the at
tractive young woman, told officers the
men took his wife with them after
robbing him Of $50. They promised to
free her II he could raise $1,000
Borcia was not here when his wife
returned. He had gone to Chicago
last night. An unconfirmed report
said he had raised the money, but it
could not be learned whether he paid
anything to the abductors.
Sheriff Joe Dorr. informed of the
release. went At once to the Goudie
home to question Mrs. Borcia further.
Evening star., 1937-09-04
MOTHER OF IL PROUD
SHE KILLED HUSBAND
II Only Wish I Had Done It Years
Ago" She Declares AZ She Takes
Up Farm Burdens.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PRAIRIE DU CHEN, Wis, septem-
Der Mrs. Edward Heisz, 80, stoically
took up the burden Of running q back
woods farm and caring for her Il
children today pending disposition OF
= charge that she slew her husband
''Yes. shot my man; only wished
I had done 1t years ago"
That, said Sheriff Oliver White,
was her admission after her husband,
also 80, was found slain in bed. The
gaunt toil-worn farm wife was charged
with third-degree manslaughter.
Judge Sherman Smalley declined to
accept her plea of guilty. He appointed
counsel to defend her and released her
on 81, 1000 bond signed by an aunt.
Il did it and l don't care what
happens to me-" she said as she waived
preliminary hearing yesterday. "All
I want u for the children to have 4
good home and 60 to Sunday school
every week"
Sheriff White said Heisx kept II
dogs which always were fed, although
his 6-month-old baby had no clothes
to wear and the family subsisted on
bread, potatoes and eggs. Heisz was
awaiting trial on 4 charge Of whipping
his wife.
Evening star., 1937-09-04

BY BLAIR BOLLES.
w YHILE the battle RACES be-
~ tween the White House and
wv the Capitol on whether the
American farmer Is TO be
saved again by another crop-control
program. Mordecai Joseph Brill Ezekiel
stays we'll out Of the line OF fire.
But in history of the Roosevelt
agricultural policy Ezekiel would be q
central figure. Regimentation OF pro-
duction is an old doctrine with him,
and from his capacious brain came
the idea which In the end spelled
ruin for the first agricultural ADJUST
ment act-paying farmers for not
producing.
Ezekiers title is economic adviser to
the Secretary of Agriculture. As a
valued economist in the New Deal OF
1887 he possesses certain singular
ness, for, unlike the New Deal in 1898
and 1884, the latter-day Roosevelt
administration relies almost wholly on
lawyers to act as technicians in turn
ing vaguely outlined proposals into
definite programs.
Position on Agriculture
Was Written in 1893.
In an economic-statistica brochure
published by the shy EEekiel IN the
flush days of 1929 we can find A KEY
to his present -the-scenes in
sistence that agricultural production
must be centrally regulated IN the
coming crop year.
That eight-year- tract, entitled
"A Statistical Examination OF the
Problem of Handling Annual Sur
pluses of Non-Perishable Farm Prod
ucts, was written chiefly to show gov
ernmental purchase of surpluses could
not raise farm prices
AS an answer to the problem of
surpluses the work suggested their
destruction The Hoover administra-
ton failed to act on the suggestion.