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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-04-29
The Garden Murder Case
Mrs. Garden gasped.

NhASs 1dAoC1l SdSPC0s
"The district attorney? The HON
icide bureau?" she repeated dis
tractedly. ooh, no! Why must
you do that? Surely, any one car
see that the poor boy took his owr
life"
Vance shook his head slowly.
II regret madam" he said, s'that
this is not a case of suicide
It's murder!"
Following Vance's unexpected an.
nouncement there was sudden 81
lence. Everyone moved reluctantly
toward the door to the passage.
way. Only Garden remained behind
SIS there telephone up here?"
Vance asked.
eyes, certainly" replied Garden.
There's one in the study"
Garden brushed past us with
nervous energy, as If glad Of the
opportunity for action. He threw
open the door at the end of the
passageway and stood aside for us
to enter the study.
"Over there" he said, pointing
to the desk at the far end of the
room, on which stood hand tele-
phone. "That's an open line. No
connection with the one we use for
the ponies, though it's an extension
of the phone in the den." He stepped
swiftly behind the desk and threw
black key on the switch box that
was attached to the side of the desk.
"By leaving the key in this position,
you are disconnected from the ex-
tension downstairs, so that you have
complete privacy"
"Oh, quite" Vance nodded with a
faint smile. II use the same sys-
tenn in my own apartment. Thanks
awfully for your thoughtfulness {.
And now please join the others
downstairs and try to keep things
balanced for a little while-there's
a good fellow"
Garden took his dismissal with
good grace and went toward the
door.
ooh, by the way, Garden" Vance
called after him, "I'll want little
chat with you in private, before
long"
Garden turned, a troubled look on
his face.
II suppose you'll be wanting me
to rattle all the family skeletons for
you? But that's all right. When
you're ready for me you've only to
press that buzzer on the book
shelves there, just behind the desk"
He indicated white push-button
set flush in the center of small
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-04-29

Washing Table Silver-Much OF
the work of polishing table silver
can be saved if the silver is
placed in hot soapsuds immedi-
ately after being used and dried
with a soft clean cloth.
Melting Chocolate Chocolate is
easy to burn, and for that reason
should never be melted directly
over fire. Melt it in the oven
or over a pan of hot water.
To Remove Threads ~ When
basting sewing material, try plac-
ing the knots of the thread on
the right side. They will be easier
to pull out when the garment is
finished.
Hanging Pictures-Is your pic
ture hanging on a nail which
keeps breaking the plaster and so
falling out? Before you put the
nail in next time, fill the hole with
glue, the plaster will not crurnble.
Stuffed Orange Salad = Allow
one orange for each person to be
served. Cut through the skin
three-quarters of the way down in
inch strips, being careful not to
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-04-29
Uncle Phil ~
Says: ~
Prof+Iess Meanness

TIOiIIICSS NI00HuSSS
There is meanness that profits
not the man who possesses it
That of stubbornly withholding
praise where it is deserved. One
could understand withholding
money.
When in doubt, etiquette is an
excellent guide.
Don't ask your friend to dc
something for you he doesn't want
to. Your friendship will cool.
Sometimes pessimist is man
who backed an optimist.
A Success Secret
If you know intimately a sue
cessful man, you know one that
will not tell you everything.
There will yet be Society for
the Encouragement of Courtesy
Among Automobiles.
Being bored accounts for a lot
of improvement in this world.
Man hasn't done much with fish,
for all his inventiveness. He has
eliminated no bones; yet he got
the seeds out of oranges.
A Menace to All
Worshipful men will worship a
woman, but unworshipful men
won't worship anybody.
Be chary about accepting an in
vitati0n to make visit unless
your host sets the date.
We're satisfied with any bathtub
that has a handle to get out by.
Love is blind and sometimes it's
worse. Love gets by with too little
criticism.
Evening star., 1937-05-30
ALLIGATOR HUNTING
SPORT IN CAROLINA
Saurians Make Choice Meat,
Women Find-Exterminatiou
Is Foreseen,
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
EHRHARDT, S. c.. May 2e.-When
the fish don't bite, Bamberg County
sportsmen 80 alligator hunting.
A great sport, with plenty of thrills,
the saurlans also make choice meat,
which one housewife here calls bet
ter than chicken"
Hunting alli9ators began in this sec
ton when I. D. Copeland, who leads
the hunts, said, a monster ran a party
OF night swimmers out of Lear Pond,
lake near here.
Colored hunterS-Who now make
their living by killing the reptiles and
selling their hides-were called and
after a few nights had the pool
cleared. A l0-footer, weighing more
than 200 pounds. was one OF the many
gators killed in the pond
The war on this species of the croc-
odlle family also was given some i'm
petus recently when a huge gator
attacked Ralph Hughes after he had
struck its head with a pole.
Some people believe that alligators
will be exterminated in this section il
the hunts continue. Protective meas
ures have been taken in Florida, but
in South Carolina there is no law
pertaining to the sport.
The hunters do their searching in
boat, one man padding while the
other shines spot light across the
water. The light both attracts and
blinds the gator. Still holding the
light In his eyes the hunters paddle
close enough to shoot him.
Evening star., 1937-05-30
INNkEEPER KILLED
AS BUS HITS AUTO
Karl Lesney, Fair Hill, Va, Max
ing Turn Into Lane at
Early Morning Hour.

Karl Lesney, so, proprietor OF the
Fair Hill Inn, was killed early this
morning in front of his establishment
at Fair Hill, Va. near Falls Church,
when his automobile was struck by a
Virginia stage coach bus.
Falls Church police said LeSney
was making left turn into the lane
leading to his inn when the accident
occurred. He was dead when he was
brought to Georgetown Hospital in
an automobile driven by Richard c.
Moncure Of Falls Church There wero
no passengers on the bus and its driver
was not hurt, police said.
Two victims of hit-and-run drivers
were brought to Casualty Hospital
early this morning seriously injured.
John G. Linthicum. 43, Of 37l5 Thir-
tieth street northeast, suffered a prob
able skull fracture when he was
struck on Bladensburg road north
east in Cottage City. Md. Stanley
Deale. 80, OF Marlboro, Md, suffered
= possible skull fracture when he was
struck on the highway near his home.
Evening star., 1937-05-30
FAMILIARITY.

JAPANESE customs are distinctly not
American customs, as probablyany-
body who has studied geography book
knows. And Rev. J. K. Morris. rector
Of the Episcopal mission at Kyoto, now
visiting in Washington, knows we'll
that they are not
Rev. Morris, it seems, was married
just before he left the United States
to go to his mission in Japan. Being a
honeymooner. he was xtra-solicitous
toward his wife, helping her across
streets, up steps and things like that.
Normal here, but it shocked the Japa-
nese no end, for the japanese never
think of touching their wives in public.
Over there the spouse must tag five
feet behind her husband and he COM
pletely ignores her.
One of his japanese fellow clerics
stood DR.. Morris American solicitude
for Mrs. Norris as long as he could,
then spoke to the bishop
Bishop" he said. Il wish you would
speak to Mr.. Norris, he is too familiar
with his wife"
Evening star., 1937-05-30
WAGNER ACT CHANGE
FORECAST BY BAKER
Responsibilities Will Be Imposed
on Both Sides Soon,
He Saws.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May "a prediction
by Newton D. Baker, wartime Secre-
tary OF War, that before long the
Wagner labor relations act will be
amended to impose upon both sides
responsibilities for their actions as
we'll as their words" was before leaders
Of the strike-torn steel industry yes
terday.
Baker made the forecast in dis
cussing the experimental act" at the
concluding session OF the American
Iron and Steel Institute, which elected
as its president, Tom NJ Girdler,
president Of the Republic Iron &
Steel Corp, one of the three 'inde-
pendents" now involved in the greatest
steel strikes in l9 years.
IT anybody had proposed to
Thomas Jefferson that anybody ought
to be permitted to speak on one side
of a political question I think he
would have regarded that is q device
Of monocrats," said Baker in his ad-
dress at last nights banquet attended
by 1000.
And yet the Wagner labor relations
act comes pretty near requiring that
one side in a great and vital discussion
shall remain silent while the other
does the discussing"
Evening star., 1937-05-30

to the measure is given by the Amer
ican Retail Federation in an inter-
pretation to the effect that the law
may be applicable to intrastate re-
tailers through existence OF q pro-
vision empowering the Labor Stand
ards Board to order dscontinuance
OF any substandard practices by es-
tablishments in competition with in
terstate enterprises.
Shreveport Rate Case.
This provision, depending for its
validity on the Shreveport rate case
decision upholding authority OF a
Federal agency to establish rates OF
an intrastate carrier because it was
in competition with an interstate one
was included in the present bill against
counsel OF the Labor Department,
whose preliminary draft OF the legisla-
ton WAS one OF the principal skele-
tons on which the measure finally
was drawn.
And in spite OF its inclusion, both
Black and Connery already have
DSSA AAOtSu W VIC SAcCG LllAL IL Is
not the intent to apply the legislation
to such purely intrastate operations
as department store retailing.
Labor's commitment to the yes and
no. strategy was made definite yes
terday rs far ax the American Fed
GRAFTON OF Labor is concerned when
the Executive Council OF that body
placed itself on record as urging q
provision to the effect that the mini
mum wage and maximum hour stand
ards be set through the process OF
collective bargaining rather than by
determination OF Government
agency
Traditionally opposed to Govern
ment fixing OF wages and hours, the
federation virtually is forced to op-
pose the present form OF the lesis-
iation, but at the same time to indorse
its broad purposes
The attitude OF the Committee fol-
Industrial Organization, labor's alter
ego. has not been indicated as vet
although John L. Lewis and Sydney
Hillman, c. I. O. leaders, conferred
with President Roosevelt prior to in.
PRODUCTION OF the bill and have placed
themselves on record in favor Of thu
shorter work week as . means o,
spreading employment.
Evening star., 1937-05-30
GERMAN PRELATE MAKES PLEA.
Faith Urged IN Request for st. Boni-
faces Day Observance,

BERLIN. May 20 (P.-Germany's
ranking Catholic prelate, in the face
Of Nazi threats OF Z more drastic
campaign against the church, today
exhorted all German Catholics to
stand firm In the faith.
Count Konrad von Preysing, Bishop
OF Berlin. issued an appeal to all Of
his religion to prepare for special de-
votions to celebrate st. Boniface's
day Sunday. June 6.
The bishop, however, made no direct
mention Of the threats OF widespread
expulsions and other drastic action
against the church made last night
by DR.. Paul Joseph Goebbek, min
Lister Of propaganda. in . denuncia-
tory speech broadcast to the German
nation.
Other Catholic leaders likewise re-
ceived the storm Of Goebbek' de-
nunciations in silence. However, In
both Catholic and Nal camps there
WIS keen scrutiny Of the propagand
minister's fiery phrases in search of
cfues to the governments next step
IN its movement against the Catholic
Church.
Evening star., 1937-05-30

slaughtered dead casualties in
Ihee latter noble willingly their
defense OF those eternal values which make life worth living
1oday grateful Nation them unsning homage and as
their hlnnng ranks the cheers and will all be theirs
yet IN higher fully mmoize the dead unless
we also mobilize the living appalling, needless death
which gives the lie anctiy for
they sacced The America fought made
Let u.s. today imagination marshal another parade and
Win our minds eye visualize that dead and disabled
women and Children broken bleeding bodies have
hesy shattered scattered highways No thinning
In this long line Of swelling and shocking
proportions with the added ghay toll deadly week end
Stop America and let these dead enough Of them in Is
years dead and permanently disabled that they could walk again
ana IN before highway that
ase Of silent eloqunce would hold a for So days
and nights
Such moratorium motion might spent curbng
headong heedesne problem OF driving
slower with driving with increasing
liquor three
Cs Of consistent. conscientious cooperation.
As this phantom dreadful tread Of
suffering and Americans everywhere make solemn
against dregad life to wait for the
law to overake meet half way with
our cheerful Observance only according to the rules OF the
but according OF the oado be good players
not only behind the bat. behind the well.
Slow down America ana safety dead shall
have died In vahn-
Evening star., 1937-05-30

| G|VEN3OSTUDENTS
Art Presentations Are Made
5y Director of Local
Gallery.

More than 30 art students were pre-.
sented with merit awards for their
achievements during the past year at
exercises yesterday at the Corcoran
School OF Art. The presentations
were made by c. Powell Minnigerode,
director OF the Corcoran Gallery
OF Art.
In the painting class, first prize.
$3.50, was divided equally between Miss
Grace Barker. Miss Mary Thoenen and
William Thompson. Honorable mem
ton was given Miss Marguerite Bur-
CESS, Miss Bess Silver, Miss Alva Sib.
ley, Miss Suzanne Mullett and Mrs.
Ruth G. Nimmer
First prize Of SIS in the life draw.
Ing class went to Miss Wilford
Woehler. Honorable mention was
given Dan Mitchem, Jack Berkman
and Robert Miller.
Antique Drawing Glass.
Miss Jean Burns and Miss Betty
Hovey-King shared first prize of $50
In the antique drawing class. Mrs.
w. E. Davis and Miss Leslie Cells
received honorable mention.
Peter de Anna was given first prize
OF SIS and Olive Bohannon and Hol-
brook Muller won honorable mention
in the composition class.
First prize OF $50 in the still life
painting class was divided between
Robert Sevens and Gustave Trois, with
honorable mention going to Mrs.
Teresa Lanigan and Gladys Kerr. Miss
Marguerite Riley was given honorable
mention in the landscape class.
First prize Of $50 in the sculpture
class went to Mrs. Dorothy Jones. Sec.
ond prize, a scholarship, was given
Anson William Munson, while honor.
aole mention was accorded Miss Muriel
Austin and Miss MyTta Williams.
Modelling Award.
In the Saturday morning drawing
class for high school students. Miss
Edna Rowen won first prize. while in
the modelling class for high school
students, Miss Ruth Salmon won first
prize and George Hawthorne hon.
oraole mention. Scholarships were
awarded Miss Edna Bowen of Western
and Miss jeanette johnson and Nick
Mallus Of Central.
Ihe jury Of awards in the painting
and drawing competition comprised
Richard Lahey. Eugen Weisz. Mrs,
Mathilde M. Leisenring and Kenneth
Stubs, all faculty members at the
school, and Will Hutchins and Nicolai
Clkovsky. artists. The sculptors' ere.
atlons were judged by William Marks
Simpson and Henri Brenner.
All awards were accompanied bv
certificates, and, with the exception OF
the first prize in the sculpture class.
donated by Mrs Corcoran Thorn. were
given by the school.
The work OF the students will be on
exhibition until next Sunday,
Evening star., 1937-05-30
'LAFOLLETTE ASKS
INCOME TAXB00ST
Wisconsin Senator Will Try
to Write General Increase
Into Anti-Evasion Bill.
By the Associated Press,

~ tAAS HoooSAaIeu 6Ae16.
Senator La Toilette, Progressive, Of
Wisconsin informed his colleagues yes
terday that he would try to write 4
general income tax increase into the
administrations suggested anti-tax
evasion legislation.
A close friend Of the President and
ardent supporter of his general legis-
lative program, the Winsconsin Pro-
gressive has his ideas on taxes, and
never lets an opportunity pass to i'm
press them upon the Senate.
Roughly, La Follette's tax program,
one that he has been urging for years,
contemplates a general increase from
the lowest to the highest brackets and
the inclusion in the income tax paying
group OF thousands Of low-salaried
citizens who now are exempt.
Would Cut Exemptions.
He would bring this about by re-
ducing personal exemptions, by In
creasing the normal tax rate and by
raising the surtaxes paid by those
whose incomes run into the taller
figures.
Exemptions at present are 81 900 for
an unmarried person, 50 500 for a hus-
band and wife, and $40O for each de-
pendent, when there are children in
the family below l8. The normal tax
rate is 4 per cent.
Since all revenue-raising legislation
must originate in the House, under the
Constitution, the members of the SEN
ate have an opportunity to swing into
the subject OF taxes only when q tax
bill has been passed At the other end
Of the Capitol
Message Due Tuesday.
While the projected administration
bill would be aimed only at removing
the antiquities and other faults OF the
present law. by which sharp witted
citizens avoid the payment Of taxes, 1t
would open the entire tax question in
the Senate.
A similar bill. dealing principally
with administration Of the tax laws,
was brought in two years ago. La
Toilette then endeavored to have his
tax ideas written into it, but was de-
feated.
At the White House, 1t was said
today that the President will send a
message to Congress on Tuesday COW
ering the subject of tax-evasion legis-
lation.
Evening star., 1937-05-30
GoEBBELs' TALK UNANSWERED
Cardinal Mundelein Merely Asks

Cardinal Mundelein Merely Asks
Prayers for Germany.
CHICAGO. May 70 (R.-Very Rev.
Msgr. George Casey, secretary to
George Cardinal Mundelein Of Chi
cago, said today, The cardinal will
not dignity the speech OF Propaganda
Minister Joseph Goebbels by any COM
ment or reply"
Goebbels in . speech from Berlin
last night replied to Cardinal Munde-
lein's address recently in which he re-
ferred to Chancellor Hitler as an
Austrian paperhanger, and a poor one
at that"
His eminence will ask for prayer
to alleviate the conditions Of the
suffering church In Germany" Msgr.
Casey added. HE merely asked for
prayers in the speech Of last Tues
day"
Evening star., 1937-05-30
FARMER CHARGED
IN DEATH Of WIFE
Davis Held in ST, 500 Bail for
Grand Jury in "PIoW Horse"
Mates Fatality.
By the Associated Press.

o3 IHc ASBOClete0 SIeSy.
WOODBURY., Tenn. May 29.-John
w. Davis, poverty-st mountain
farmer, was bound over today fol-
grand jury action on a charge that
he was responsible for the abortive
death Of his wife, who helped to pull
their plow.
But Of course" remarked Magis-
trate Doran r. williams at the close
Of the preliminary hearing, tits not
first-degree murder"
Bond was fixed at 1900.
Davis expressed deep love for hi,
wife and denied he was responsible
for the illegal operation.
Unable to raise bond, Davis went
back to jail tonight.
Held on Two Charges.
Magistrate Williams bound the de-
fendant over on two charges-one o!
murder and the other Of performing
an illegal operation. No degree OF
homicide was given in the murder
warrant
Octa Mears, q young woman, testi-
fled that while on her deathbed Mrs
Davis said "she didn't have anybody
to blame but herself"
Davis testified his wife did not
want another child, but that he did
The 65-year-old defendant denied
also that he was hard taskmaster'
when he used his wife Jodie, "a, and
his two stepchildren in front of q
plow because their horse had died
Testifying at his preliminary hear
ing on q murder charge, Davis said:
This amt the first time We made a
crop this way" and added his wife
had been a-doin' that-the same
thing before their marriage.
Prosecution witnesses testified the
farmer had attributed his wifes i'll
ness at one time to eating a fly, at
another to green huckleberry pie and
again to poisoning" from preserved
food.
Walter L. McCrary, representing the
State, asked how he reconciled those
statements. Davis said that in each
instance II told them just what she
had said"
Mrs. Davis testified Davis l4-year-
old stepson, Charley Hensley, prepared
supper consisting of fish. corn bread
coffee and milk and the family retired.
Before he went to sleep. however, the
boy said his mother called him land
me and my littlest sister sat up with
her until daylight"
"Hollered All Might"
Ma suffered pretty bad all night.
he continued She hollered all
night"
Despite the fact that her cries we're
pretty loud all night" the witness
testified his stepfather slept undis-
turbed in another bed in the same
room.
Charley said that was on Friday
night OF last week On Saturday and
Sunday. the boy continued, Davis did
what he could to relieve his wife IS
suffering and called doctor. She
died Tuesday morning.
Jess Wallace. father Of the dead
woman. said Davis could have OBJ
tanned team Of mules "by swapping
work" with neighbors III he'd wanted
to-"
DR.. J. F. Adams testified wounds
found on Mrs. Davis body could not
have been self-inflicted.
Evening star., 1937-05-30
DANIELS SEES ERA
OF PATERNALISM
Doctrine of Laissez Faire Held
Strapped in U. S.-Public Veal
Held Paramount.
By the Associated Press.


WILMINGTON, N. c., Nav %
Joeephus Daniels of Raleigh, United
States Ambassador to Mexico, said to-
day the doctrine Of 'laissez faire' is
on the scrap heap" and people prop
erly look to the Government to touch
life at every point necessary for the
public veal"
Speaking at exercises dedicating the
new $250,0o0 post ONCE here, Daniels
asserted. there is 4 duty laid upon
public administration to find a way
for education. employment. regulation
OF working conditions. safeguarding
public health, providing pensions for
the aged and such other reforms IS
will abolish the poorhouse and the
slums, and insure fair distribution Of
the profits of labor and capital"
The new post office was termed bv
the Ambassador perpetual monu-
ment. evidencing the lasting value of
the New Deal, which came to bless our
country with the election Of Franklin
D. Roosevelt"
Public buildings must be bigger to-
day to accommodate these greater
tasks committed to the Government"
he added.
Evening star., 1937-05-30
RECORD IN MARRIAGES

CHICAGO, May 20 R.-Marriage
licenses hit q new high mark Of $3.50
for May, the Cook County clerks
once announced today. surprising the
%.72e issued In May, 1924.
IN the absence Of an onicial check,
the 4o4 licenses today were believed
the largest aggregate TOR 4 single day.
The record single month for mar
riase licenses was April, 1917. Then,
6.l03 were Issued to sveethearts, some
to be parted by the World War.
Evening star., 1937-05-30

to his side. II it doesn't the siphon
tolloUs the glass.
The management does not uant
its employees to torcibly eject the
man any more than it wishes to
summon doun the ldU unless it's
really necessary.
The other day the customer,
after dropping glass, then a
s'phon. picked up light chair and
balanced it as il he contemplated
tossing it into the array OF glasses
behind the bar.
1T would make quite q crash"
remarked the jittery head Uditer,
but perhaps it pould simplify
things after oll."