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The Washington times., 1937-02-06
Crowds Frightens the Star

"reta Garbo naturally md, appalled, and frightened at
meeting strange people She just freezes up 1t not a
fcial GOODNESS, but part of her very being
For instance if she given the wealth of the world
doubt very much whether she could go through the hury
buy and excitement which Robert Taylor and Jean Harlow
encountered in three days here last week.
"Bob Taylor actually liked and Jean Harlow loves to
people Miss Garbo, the other hand is frai phys
cay she srnks from crowds and the very thought of facing
a battery of nterviewers literally her to death
81" would be folly deny that this stunning of the usual
publicity which bring the greatest attention has not
worked all right in the of Greta GarbO. 1t just
happens that way for there has been attempt to guide
her professional activities along hermit lines
Recently of the national magazines offered Greta
Garbo young fortune for the story of her life She could
have written at her convenience, exacted any publication
rights that she cared would not think of such
thing her firm to the pleadings. There
never has been authorized Grea Garbo interview
"Only last year Miss Garbo rejected $4,000 for 15-
minute appearance the radio They told her the broad
could from the privacy of her home with
only the necessary technical experts present She waved
aside the offer.
The Washington times., 1937-02-06
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the monthly picture magazine Look explains the secret of e
"mysery" 1t is-her studios publicity department. She is
not hermit aloof emperamenta and publicity shy On the
contrary she is of the most normal women in HOLLYWOOD
But her publicity men, always alert for the angle with
which pubcize player early decided to present hel
as hermit She did she told And screengoers have
been properly mysed and their curiosity has aided the
"glamor girI in maintaining her cinematc appeal.
It struck that Tub Thumper Kiesng who in Wash
ngton this week. would have something to reply to this
and he did. Here's the answer:
81 have been assistant publicity manager of the M-G-M
studio for eight years and have Grea Garbo just nine
times
Nothing could possibly stray farther from the truth thar
this generally accepted belief that Miss Garbo shy reserved
and spotlight hater because her employers feel this public
relation productive of national attention than the
NAL SeeB-a -you-can-get' attitude.
The Washington times., 1937-02-06
SerUed Her Apprenticeship

81 told that a beginner Garbo was the unwilling
slave of the press department. She consented to pose for
pictures and okayed publicity handouts but always with the
reservation that day she hoped she would reach
place in pictures where the art Of the would be
the only Garbo voice.
"Niss Garbo reached that point when she signed with
MGM and the studio has religousy respected her wishes
"To that the press department inspired and
couraged this attitude is merely giving credence to rumor
and legend that just aren't Miss Garbo is that way
because it is the natural expression of great artist with
the most delicate of sensibilities.''
The Washington times., 1937-02-06
Whether GarEDO AIOOfneSS Is Pose Starts q BO
KiesIing Denies Actress
Follows Whims of Her
Press Agents
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

OF in anger, but in a desire to spread wide the
truth, does Barrett G. Kiesling, assistant
publicity manager of the Metro -Goldwyn-
Mayer studio, vigorously refute the story
that Greta Garbo's aloofness and so-called
mystery" donned at the behest of her
press agents.
First hear the charge:
The story of Garbo's career, presented in
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-29
Storm Hits
Valley Tuesday;
Slight Damage
Temperatures Drop For
Few Days; Forecast Re-
turn of Hot Weather

Cooler weather swept into the
E.riest Rapids valley Tuesday might
III the wake Of one Of the most in
tense electrical storms seen here in
n number of years. Heavy down.
rtours of rain during the night ac-
e:ompanied the storm and a steady
wind the next day brought tenn
geratures down more than 10 de-
gNees from the maximum the day
before
The storm, which was general
throughout eastern Washington,
broke over, this valley about eight
o'clock Tuesday night, long flashes
Of lightning frightening the sky for
some time before the first down
pour started.
At about O'clock Wednesday
morning an even more intense
storm hit this region, the rain fall
ing in sheets while the lightning
cut off power service at a number
of points in the valley.
Considerable damage was done by
the storm in other sections of the
state, a 60-Inile gale at Dayton
damaging crops, while a number of
forest $ fires were started by the
lightning in north central WASH
lngton.
With forecasts calling for rising
temperatures, the storm provided
but a short hull in the current heat
wave, which threatens to place this
month among the hottest Julys on
record Twenty-Five days of the
month have seen temperatures
above 80 and eight above 100 de-
grees, the mean maximum to date
t,eing $50. This is the highest since
1928 when fourteen days of over
100 degrees raised the mean maxi
mum to 99.45.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-29
GRASSHOPPERS
THREATEN CROPS

Grasshoppers promise this sum-
mer to be serious menace against
such crops as fall lettuce, according
to County Agent Waldo w. Skuse,
who states that in accordance with
plans worked out two years ago
with federal and state entomolo-
gists and the Pasco Growers As
ISOLATION, poisoned bran mash mixed
according to the government for
mula, is available at the plant of
the Pasco Growers Association in
Pasco at price of three cents a
pound-just the price of the ma
terials- both members and Mons
members of the association.
Mr. Sklse states that the best
results are obtained if this poisoned
bran mash is put out early in the
morning. AS soon as it becomes dry
the grassflOppers will not feed on
it. 1t is to be broadcast by hand at
the rate of fifteen pounds to the
acre, which is SO Slight an amount
that it can scarcely be found on
dry ground after it has been thrown
out.
Grasshoppers begin feeding at
about SIXTY degrees temperature and
quit feeding when taest Temp rature
gets to eighty degrees, 1t takes two
or three days for poisoned grass
hopperS to die. Bait should be
broadcast over the area of the field
to be protected and only around
the margins of bordering fields of
such crops as alfalfa, ETC.. for it
does no good to put poison back
into the alfalfa field. 1t may be
necessary to repeat at weekly inter-
walls for few times, depending up
on the number of grasshoppers and
how rapidly they move in upon the
crops.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-29
Dance To Precede
River Regatta

Increasing the scope Of entertain
nlent of the annual White Bluffs
Regatta, members of the CONNER
cial Club Tuesday might voted ito
give dance the evening before the
races.
A number of the drivers appear
ing in the races are excited to ar
rive the day before, and they will
be guests of honor at the dance,
which is being arranged by the adj
vertisiflg committee of the club.
Committees to handle the work
of the regatta were appointed at
Tuesday evenings meeting by K
A. House, president of the group
They consist of.
Boat committee: Fred Gilhuly
chairman; K. A. House, Harry Nc
Cotter and George Chase; finance
w. j. Kincaid, chairman; G. O.
Bunnell, r. S. Reierson, w. H. Keal
e. j. O'Larey' and Harry Smith;
eats: Jess Brown and Arno Krug
advertising: George Chase, chair
man; K. A. House, f. A. English
and Wilfnot Morford: reception,
Edmund Anderson; parking, Roy
Beene, chairman; Paul Schicka, j.
E. Leander, James Miller, Ralph
Montgomery and Dudley Wilkin-
son.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-29
STATE-OWNED LAND
TO BE SOLD TUESDAY

State-owned timber, land and
tide lands with a minimum ap-
praised value of $334,S48 40 will be
offered at public auction in Is
counties August 3. Albert @. Martin,
Commissioner of Public Lands, an
nounced this week. Seventy-two
individual applications were received
for the sale.
Included in the sale is timber ON
state forest board lands valued at
$3,0O250. The sale appraisals in
clude timber worth 1921, 1895, land
valued at $29,23725, and tide lands
appraised at $20,775.
Land valued at 5000 in Benton
county will be sold to the highest
bidder on that day.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-29
MRS. VAN BUREN,,
PIONEER, DIES

Mrs, Emma Josephine VanBuren
30, who Had resided here for the
past ~ years, passed away at the
hospital in Kennewick Sunday,
July Is. Funeral services were held
from Shaw and Sons chapel in
Yakima "Wednesday morning, burial
being in the Tahoma cemetery
there. Pa1lbearers included Edward
Po1lsat and S. v. Tanning of White
Bluffs, and four members of the
church to which she had belonged
in Yakima.
( MIR. and Mrs. Va1lBuren came to
White Bluffs in 1910, developing a
ranch south of town. A number of
years later they sold tileit. property
and moved to Yakima, but later
returned here to the same ranch.
Both Mr.. and Mrs Van Buren,
had been taken to the hospital
about the middle OF July, Mr.. Van
Buren, convalescing sufficiently to
leave there a few days after his
wife's death to stay with his daugh-
ter at HaIrah.
Mrs. VanBuren is survived by her
husband, George VanBuren, two
sons, A. F. VanBuren of White
Bluffs and F. NJ. VaaBuren of
Granger, and a daughter, Mrs. Ste
phen Mosebar of Harrah.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-29
PEACH PICKING
STARTS I'm VALLEY

With the hot weather of the past
few weeks having retarded the rip
ening and sizing of fruit, the ship
ping of early peaches started slow
ly this week with the picking of
small lots of Rocflesters and Golden
.TtibieeS.
Growers were offered IS cents a
box for the first few lots of Roch-
esters, with the last of the Triumph
shipments bringing the same price
First peaches reaching the Seattle
market were reported selling at
from $1.34 to $1.5O a box there.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-29
CLUB AGENTS MUST
SHOW LICENSE

A warming to beware of persons
representing themselves as insur-
ance agents offering automobile in
surance through various motor clubs
at low rates, was issued this week
by William A. Sullivan, state insur-
aace commissioner.
These people are not licensed by
the insurance department, says Sui
ivan, nor are the companies they
represent authorized insurance car
riers. They prey particularly on the
rural districts, selling what is prr-
ported to be automobile insurance,
but when the contract arrives, if
it ever does, it is merely an auto
mobile service contract Offering
towing, bail bond and incidental
services.
Sullivan requests all prospective
insurance buyers to request the SOL
icitor to produce dis license from
the insurance department.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-29
t. Sigurdson
Bitten By Rather

Bitten on the finger by a rattle
snake Sunday morning, Thomas
Sigurdsofl of Vernita was rushed to
st. Elizabeth's hospital in Yakima
where he was given medical treat
Ynelt this week.
He was bitten by the snake while
irIigating in his orchard, the rep
tiles faligs sinking into his finger
as he reached down to pull a clunlp
Of grass out of a ditch.
Although the snake was small
one, having as yet no rattle, the
bite was very poisonous, Sigurd
sons hand and arm being badly
swollen by the time he reached the
hospital, with the venom spread
ing into his chest Two injections of
anti-snake bite serum were neces-
sary to check the spread of the
poison
He was taken to the hospital by
Earle Knaub after first aid had
been administered at his home.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-29
First Aid Station
Established Here

Establishment of an American
Red Gross first aid station in White
Bluffs was effected Wednesday eve
ming when Mr.. Packard, Red Gross
representative from Yakima, in>
stalled complete first aid equipment
in the White Bluffs Motor Com
pany's building and issued certdfi-
Gates to ten local men who had
passed the standard Red Gross
course.
The equipment consists of a
stretcher, splirlts, and first aid kit
with ali necessary supplies for aid
in all types of accidents The sup
plies will be kept at the Motor COM
pany, sign on the front of the
building marking it as Red Gross
station.
Those who passed the Red Cross
course, and who now have certifi-
Gates giving them authority to act
in case of accidents, are:
Edmund Anderson, E. A. SchiI-
ling, w. ]. Jenkins, Ralph Mont
gomery, Harry McCotter, D. S. Will
kinson, <. A. House, Arno Krug,
Fred Glhuly and. George Gilhslly
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-29
co 1NVICTED OF
RECKLESS DRIVING

Convicted on a charge of reckless
tiriving, Adam Mastel Of White
Bluffs was sentenced to 80 days in
Jail or a fine OF 500, and his drivers
slicense revoked for a period of six
months in the justice court of c..
IT. Slave1ls at Hanford Saturday.
The sentence was suspended on
good behavior.
The charge, to which Mastel
plead guilty, was brought by the
state as a result of the accident
June Is when Mrs. Byron Grewell
was seriously injured In collision
between her car and the car driven
by Mastel.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-29
HANFORD TO VOTE
ON BOND ISSUE

Voters Of the Hanford school dis
triet will go to the polls Saturday,
August Ia, to decide whether the
board of directors shall issue bonds
totaltng $4,000 to raise part of the
amount necessary to construct the
proposed new schoolhouse.
Grants by the state and the PWA
have provided $31 400 towards the
construction cost, leaving $16,180
which the Hanford district must
supply for the $4,000 project. All
of this amount but $1,000 is avail
able
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-29
FRIENDS GIVE
FAREWELL PARTY

On Thursday evening, July %,
nearly every resident of the Ups
River and Cold Greek communities
gathered at the hospitable home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Earle Knaub to tender
an informal farewell party to Mrs.
O. w. Brown, who is leaving soon
to join her husband at Walla Wal
la.
The spacious rooms were filled
and the crowd of young folks and
children overlooked onto the lawn
to play games in the moonlight.
Music by Mrs. Glenn Slower and
her sister Mary Hoard and by the
McGees was enjoyed, and those in
clined INDUCED in bridge and pin
oclle
Following refreshments, a, beau
tiful lamp was presented to the
guest Of honor with these few
words by Mrs. Thomas Sigurdson:
"To Mrs. Brown, alias Fallon,
alias Mrs. Brownie: Since you came
to reside on our river bank it has
become the habit of your neighbors
and their families, in times of sick
ness, injury or emergency, to call
you up, run down, or have you
fetched. In our doctorless state it
has been very nice comfortable
feeling to know you were there and
would cheerfully do all you could
for us. We appreciate it more than
we can tell. We also appreciate your
willingness always to do your share
in our community and club activ-
tiles. In token of our appreciation
we ask you to accept this lamp.
May it long shine with a happy
light of remembrance in your new
home"
The lamp was presented to Mrs.
Brown, ON behalf of the commun-
ity, by Mrs. Sigmdson, Mrs Earle
Knaub, Mrs. Glenn Wright and
Mrs. L. N. Fry.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-29
Proposed Park
Inspected By
Supervisor
Improvement of Grove
Near Grange Hall Gets
Favorable Attention

Inspecting the proposed park site
near the Grange hall at Old Town,
Frank Fox, supervisor of the Coo
camp at the Gingko Forest, VAN
tage, today declared the site to he
very suitable for a recreation CEN
ter
The project was originated by the
Junior WOmen'S club, which saw
the need for reclai1ning the natural
beauty of the grove near the river
to provide a picnic grounds and
outing spot.
Seeking suggestions as to how
the work might best be done, Mrs.
I. B. Burns contacted MIR. Fox, who
informed the state park department.
of the program. Following their in
structio1ls, Mr.. Fox went over tine
ground today to determine if it
might be made into a public pro-
ject.
His findings, he said, were very
favorable, and he will turn in his
report to the board If the project
is accepted, a suh-camp of the CCC
will be established here during the
winter and body OF about Is men
put to work improving and land
scaping the area
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-29
TO ANNOUNCE WINNER

The name of the winner in
the recent BRAID Scot" con-
test, which appeared in the
Spokesman several months ago,
will be given in next weeks
issue, it was announced this
week by Rev. John Pate.
The announcement has been
delayed due to the large num-
Der of entrants in the contest.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-29
LICENSE DEADLINE NEAR

Saturday, July 81, is the dead
line for automobile drivers to
renew their drivers licenses
without taking the new COM
prehensive physical and oral ex-
animation.
Beginning August /, all driv-
ers must submit TO this exam
ination before they can be H.
censed
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-29
The Weather

Maximum and minimum temper
atureS recorded by observer Moffitt
at the Hanford weather station:
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-29

E. A. Schilling and G. A. Hin
derer went to ProsSer Wednesday
to take part in the dairy tour of
western Benton county and eastern
Yakima county.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-07-29

MIR. and Mrs. A. L. Penn and
daughters Ruby and Marguerite left
Tuesday evening by train on a
three weeks trip to Wisconsin and
others places in the east.
Evening star., 1937-05-28
CAMP SOON READY
AT BALD EAGLE HILL
Opening for tuberculosis Children
Expected to Be About
July l.

The new Bald Eagle Hill camp for
tuberculous children, which IS being
built with w. P. A. funds just beyond
Anacostia, will be turned over to the
District tuberculosis Association in
the near future, Mrs. Ernest R. Grant,
managing director of the organiza-
ton, announced at meeting OF the
Board of Directors yesterday.
Mrs. Grant expects the camp to be
finished about the middle of next
month. and she said the association
will start using it about July l. 1t
Is being built at cost of $4,000 on
land rented from the Government
for 81 a year. Details of the trans
fer and of the camp opening still are
being studied, Mrs. Grant said.
The board adopted a resolution,
with approval Of DR.. George Rutland,
District health officer, who attended
the meeting, asking that the stats of
city hospitals be given x-ray exami-
nations as a safeguard against the
possible spread of tuberculosis.
Joseph McGroary, director Of the
OSoOCldelOll VIC, 1Cs
counted educational work now organ
lied for recovering patients at the
tuberculosis Hospital with the CO.
operation Of w. P. A. teaching force
He also told Of the success of the
service in finding the right kind of
jobs for many discharged patients
80 they could return to normal living
without danger of relapse
Evening star., 1937-05-28

BY the Associated Press.
WOODBURY.. Tenn. May 28.-John
w. Davis. 65-year-old farmer accused
of murder after the death OF his
wife, Jodie, "a, will be given a pre-
liminary hearing in Magistrates Court
tomorrow.
A coroner's jury reported the wom-
an died in their cabin home Tuesday
as the result of an illegal operation.
Davis expressed belief his wife died
Of food poisoning He denied per-
forming the operation.
Sheriff j. T. Smith said Davis told
Of his wife helping to pull plow on
their small farm. The couple was
too poor" to keep farm animals,
Smith explained.
The sheriff said that when Mrs.
Davis died the theory was advanced
she succumbed because Of exertion in
ploWing, but this was abandoned after
an autopsy.
Chief Deputy James Jones said the
Davis family had been working off
and on for some time in preparing
their garden.
The woman and her two children
by former marriage, he reported
pulled plow with a hickory stick
while Davis held the handles.
you know, women do lot Of hard
work in that kind of community. The
family was very poor Women help
to clear ground and very often you
see them splitting wood and hoeing,"
Jones explained.
Davis said he offered to change
places with the others, but that they
said they had rather pull the plow
than hold the handles. The wife Just
worked in the garden at odd times
She wasn't hitched to the plow."
Evening star., 1937-05-28
PRESS UNITS PLAN
MORE RIGID RULES
Distribution of Confidential
MiSinf0rmation Leads to
Groups Action.

Washington newspapermen today
were in the process of setting their
own house in order as result OF re-
cent instances of distribution Of con
f1dential' misinformation supposedly
obtained through exercise of the privi-
leges of the Capital corps of corre-
spondents.
Most positive action taken thus far
was that announced yesterday by the
White House Correspondents Associa-
ton regarding conditions of member
ship and admission to presidential
conferences as accredited correspond
ents.
Hitting directly at those who sell
confidential letters" some Of which
are circulated by persons already en-
rolled in the association, the Execu-
tive Committee of the organization
voted to add the following paragraph
to the membership application blank:
II am not engaged for profit, dl-
rectly or indirectly, in the dissemina-
ton of confidential information"
Rules on Admission.
In similar tone, the following para
graph was added to regulations gov
erning admission to the White House
conferences:
Persons representing news agencies
Of any description engaged in the dis
semination of so-called confidential
information for profit direct or in
direct, shall not be entitled to men,
bership in the White House Core
Spondents' Association"
With the new restrictions effective
July l of this year, officials Of the as
sociation said they would ask upon
that date for the surrender of cards
held by any members known to be en-
gagged in the "tipster" practices.
With all cards expiring at the end OF
the year, it is expected that the tighter
application requirement will exclude
such persons In the future.
Acting for the same reason, the
Board of Governors Of the National
Press Club this week summoned one Of
their members for hearing on charges
that he had maliciously circulated
false information about fellow men,
Der, the fellow member in this in
stance being President Roosevelt.
Case Under Advisement.
The case was held under advisement
after the hearing. probably until an.
other meeting of the board, which may
be held next week.
Rigid requirements that members
must be duly employed by legitimate
agencies for publication or distribution
of news are applied to applicants fol
membership in the press galleries ol
Congress.
The blow-off in the action against
"tipsters" resulted from circulation o1
a confidential letter to the effec'
that President Roosevelt's health wa!
breaking.