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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-06-17
Republicans Attend
State Convention

Three outstanding characteristics
of the Republican state convention
held in Seattle Friday and Saturday
of last week, were the harmony
which prevailed throughout the
sessions, the leadership of the
younger men in the party, and the
large number of women in attend
ance. in the opinion of F. A. Eng
fish, Fred Gilhuly and r. S. Refer
son of White Bluffs, who were in
at the convention.
delegates were present from
every county and locality in the
state" the local group said, "and
carried on the business of the con-
vention with determination and
harmony which has seldom been
seen in political gatherings. The
resolutions adopted followed very
closely the program of the Young.
Republicans club, and the leaders
in the convention were mostly
young men,
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-06-17
Eight Books Added
To Library's Shelves

Six books have been donated to
the White Bluffs public library by
the local unit of the American Le-
gion Auxiliary They are:
Last Flight" by Amelia Earhart;
1.-The Prodigal Parents" Sinclair
Lewis; "The Yearling," Rawlings;
Free Land" Lane; "The A B G
Murders" Christie; "The Citadel"
Cronin.
Two more books, Aunt Jane of
Kentucky by Eliza Calvert Hall,
and Mystery Flowers by Grace
Livingstone Hill, have been donated
by the Woman's club, making to-
tai of so new books recently added
to the library, says Miss Florence
Montgomery, librarian.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-06-17
Locals Meet Hover On
Hartford Field Sunday
League Standings

The White Bluffs Hanford base
ball team will play their first game
of the second half of the league
schedule here Sunday against the
Finley Hover aggregation. The con-
test will be played on the Hanford
diamond, starting at 2 o'clock.
Although the locals trounced the
Finley Hover club by a 1872 score
in their first-half meeting, they
are expecting a closer battle Sum
day, as the down-river aggregation
has been strengthened by the adj
dition of several players from the
Pasco-Kennewick Eagles club of
the Valley league and should pro-
vide some close competition.
In the opening Tri-County league
games last Sunday, Prosser trounced
the luckless Richland aggregation,
IA to /, while Benton City rallied
in the last inning to nose out Con-
nell, 1919, and Mckee defeated
Filaley-Hover, 8 to 8.
Other games this week-e end will
include Council VS.. Richlalld and
Mckee VS.. Prosser, with Benton
City drawing the bye.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-06-17
Woman's Club Members
Attend State Meet

"Alone our work is of little worth
Together a better place this
earth" Such is the theme of CO.
operation which is to be stressed
at the state convention Of FEEDER
ated Women's Clubs which opened
at Walla Walla this Thursday.
Members of the local Woman's
club who are attending the first
days session are Mrs. r. S. Refer
son, Mrs. j. l.. Brown, Mrs. Fred
Gilhuly, Mrs W. j. Jenkins, Mrs.
Harry Keller.
Mrs. Roy Beene, Mrs. j. B. Tro-
n1an}auser Mrs. w. H. Keal, Mrs.
F. M. Wheeler and Mrs. j. I. Miller
also left Thursday morning and
will remain for two days of the
session, returning home Friday eve
ming.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-06-17
LUTHERAN BIBLE SCHOOL
NOW BEING CONDUCTED

The Lutheran church's annual
summer school began this week
with Rev. L. G. Krug teaching the
youngsters Bible history and doc
trine. Attendance early this week
was curtailed by the cherry harvest
but is increasing daily.
Sessions are held daily, Monday
through Thursday, from nine until
eleven in The morning, and will
continue for another three weeks.
Children who have no church home
are welcome to attend.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-06-17
Dakotans To Picnic
At Prosser June 26

The Yakima Valley Dakota Picnic
Association will hold it's annual
picnic at Prosser Sunday, June 26
The program, which will include
music by the Prosser band and an
address of welcome by Congress-
man Knute Hill, will start at one
o'clock. There will also be base
ball game between North and South
Dakota teams.
ALI former Dakotans are invited
to attend and have a good time.
Free coffee will be served.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-06-17
PIANO PUPILS WILL
GIVE RECITAL SUNDAY

Piano pupils of Mrs. Alex Parke
will present a recital Sunday after
noon at three o'clock at the Parke
home. Everyone interested is COR
daily invited to attend. Students
who will take part in the recital
are Mary Louise Schicka, Dolores
Moody, Betty Beyers, Yvonne Pom
sat, Mildred Brown, Sue Angli1,
Kathryn Brown, Anthony Chase
and Dock Arnold
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-06-17
SUMMER SCHOOL ENDS
AT CATHOLIC CHURCH

Sylvia and Helen Walker, Erwin
Supple, Katherine and Dolores Bor-
den and Louis Rousseau comprised
the class receiving instruction from
Father Bosch at ST. Mary's church
last week. Pvonne Ponsat assisted
with the work with the younger
children, who attended daily from
nine until 2:3O throughout the
week.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-06-17
Valley Gets Light
Rain Thursday

While a steady northwest wind
Flew clouds from the southeast
Wednesday night brought a short
lightning storm and trace of pre-
-:pitation to the Priest Rapids val
ley, followed Thursday morning by
four hundrec1ths Of an inch of rain
fall.
The rain, which, was followed by
cool wind and continued cloudy
skies, did practically no damage to
the cherries in this vicinity,
The cooler weather of the past
week has caused the Columbia to
drop off steadily from the seasons
crest reached on June Z and 8, the
river reading at the Coyote pump
ing plant today being $3.50 feet,
which is one and eight-tenths feet
below the high mark.
With the drop in the river, power
production at the Priest Rapids
plant is increasing steadily, lilo
kilowatts being generated there to-
day. During the peak stage of the
river, prouction had dropped to
about 800 kiloWatts
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-06-17
SEATTLE MAN BUYS
NOVEL; RANCH

B. P. Duren of Seattle, who pur-
chased the NOVEL; ranch several
months ago, was in White Bluffs
Monday to examine his property
and get acquainted with the valley.
The K. A. House family will con-
tinue making their home there.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-06-17
EASTERN STARS HAVE
ANNUAL PICNIC SUNDAY

The annual Eastern Star picnic
will be held Sunday, June 10, at
Pioneer Park in Hanford All Ma
sons, Rainbow Girls, DeMolays and
their families are welcome.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-06-17
>l9o8Progra'''
Is Recalled
By Changers
Fire Hazards Near Han
ford Hall Removed By
Fire Brigade Tuesday.

L llS LII SNAV AVSSAo'y'
Fire is no longer so great lnell-
ace to the Hartford Grange hall,
since on Tuesday evening Of this
week the Changers turned out in
force, armed with shovels, hose, wet
sacks and other fire fighting equip
ment. After the regular meeting,
the fire brigade, led by George
McConrlachie hourishing a wet mop
ON stick, burned off a wide strip
of the cheat grass on three sides
Of the hall.
Later, a program Of music, sklts,
readings and a discussion Of the
value of Grange Ritualism and
Fraternity was enjoyed by all.
One feature Of the lecture hour
was the reading of a souvenir pro-
gram of "First Natal Day Cele-
bration at Hanford", July q, 1908.
The reading of a poem, written
by Mrs. John F. Conkle in 1908
recalled to the pioneers present
their hopes and ambitions of thir-
ty years ago. The poem follows:
Round our Hartford home grows
miles and miles of sagebrush,
In the distance hcwls the coyote,
loud and clear
And our thoughts revert to friends
we left behind us
To brave the hardahips of the
desert drear.
But, with water in the irrigation
bitches
Well work and strive to make
the desert bloom
We soon shall see the orchards and
the gardens
We're glad we came to Hartford
while there's room.
Oh the moon shines bright tonight
out in the sagebrush
From the fields there comes the
breath of dust and sand
And the gentle breezes rock us in
our slumbers
Come ana GET. a Dract OF HIl-
gated land.
Many pleasures may we have 1t
we are cheerful
For the future will repay an
hundred fold
We will gather apples, grapes and
pltlf1ls and peaches
And take life easy while we're
growing old.
There is sunshine in the great
Columbia valley
We have good health, which is
mans greatest boon
Here the finest people Of the earth
will rally
We're glad we came to Hanford
while there's room.
A social hour and light refresh
lne1lts concluded the evening.
The next meeting, on June %,
should be of particular interest to
all members, as number of Gran
gers are attending the meeting of
the Washington State Grange now
being held in Spokane, and their
reports will be given at that TIM
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-06-17

Precipitation amounted to a. trace
on the 18th and 04 of an inch on
the 18th.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-06-17
The Weather

Maximum and minimum temper
atures of the. week, recorded by
Observer Paul Piper at the Han
ford weather station.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-06-17

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Evening star., 1938-05-05
Liner La Fayette Destroyed
By Fire IN LIE Havre Dryd0ck
Py the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
LIE HAVRE, France, May 5.-Min-
lister Of Merchant Marine Louis de
Chappedelaine ordered an immediate
inquiry into fire which today ruined
the 9-year-old French liner La Fay
cite In drydock here.
One version of the origin OF the
blaze was that blow torch being used
by an engineer in the hold ignited
tanks of oil.
"a report from London said it
was understood the 25,178-ton
liner was covered by insurance
totaling between 100000 and Gl,-
000. 0.000-$4 100000 to $5.OOO,0O0)
The Champlain will be laid up, the
marine minister announced. The
strike prevented the ship from sailing.
but passengers slept aboard with port
holes shut by officers to prevent any
intrusion.
Fire Shoulders in Hull.
The fire smoldered in the hull of
the La Fayette this evening, OCCASION
ally blazing from huge gaps in the
superstructure, where twisted steel
beams stuck out like branches of a
tree. Water was let into the drydock
to keep the wreck from listing.
Meanwhile, seamen's strike which
had prevented the Champlain from
sailing for New York spread to two
other ships operated by the French
Evening star., 1938-05-05
Staying SUSPECT
SEIZED IN ILLINOIS
Man Identified as Same One
Wanted in JaiIbreak at
ToWSOn in 1882.

A man picked up by police in Jones'
boro, ILL.,, as suspicious person has
been identified by the Federal Bureau
of Investigation as Calvin Tyson,
wanted In connection with a fatal
Jail break at Towson, Nd. in 1882.
The sheriff at Jonesboro sent to the
F.. B. l. fingerprints Of prisoner CIV
ing the name James Robert Wilson,
with . notation that Wilson" resem-
bled a photograph Of Tyson which the
sheriff said he had received from the
F. B. I.
Wilson's" f1ngerprints when classi-
fed led a fngerprint examiner to q
file marked by a little red tab-a
warning that the subject was want
ed" The prints of Wilson were found
to be identical with those Of Tyson,
and authorities at Towson, Jonesboro,
Ill.,, and Sunbury, Pa, were notified
| yesterday.
Records showed that Tyson was
charged with the murder of William
Hunter, aged turnkey Of the Towson
Jail.
County Detective D. K. Zimmerman
Of Northumberland. Pa, said At Sun
bury today that extradition proceed
ings have been started to have Tyson
removed to Towson. Tyson and
Charles O'Neill were being sought for
larceny in Northumberland County in
1882, according to the Associated
Press, when they were arrested In
Towson and placed in Jail there. The
pair escaped and the turnkey wa
found beaten to death. ONeill wa.
captured and sent to the Eastern
Penitentiary.
Tyson has been listed in F. B. I
files as fugitive since that time
All wanted" men are tagged with
red tabs In the F. B. I. fingerprint
files, and when such men are identi-
fled local authorities are advised. The
Identification service is entirely volun-
tary.
Evening star., 1938-05-05
MRS BASSETT IS SILENT.

Declines to Confirm Reports She
Wants No Vengeance.
Mrs. Frank P Bassett, mother Of
James Eugene Bassett, who vanished
Evening star., 1938-05-05
LAUNDRY SCALE
] PLACED IN EFFECT
Board Stands by Its Ruling
( on Basic Rate for
{ Woman Employees.

: Without a change in its original
findings, the Minimum Wage Board
mas ordered into effect the basic wage
tcales adopted last month for women
employees of laundries and dry cleaning
plants in the District There are
A,5O0 or more women in the affected
Industry.
: The ruling, which will become man.
hatory July 5, requires that no less
Than Sl450 a week be paid to plant
workers for a work-Week of from 16
to A hours. Those who work more
than "A hours week are to be paid
IS cents an hour for the extra hours.
Because of peak periods of work in
fhe industries, however. the board has
permitted employers to average the
hours of work Of any two consecutive
weeks, subject to the District law linn
4ting the hours of work for women to
b maximum of 48 per week.
The wage scale was debated by
Spokesmen for workers and employees
at final public hearing held yester-
day by the board, but it decided later
that there was no need for any change
IN the order. 1t held that no facts
were presented which were not consid-
ered by the board in its decisions lead
3ng to the wage order.
Women employed for less than 16
hours a week are to be paid po less
than 40 cents an hour and store clerks
have been given basic wage of SIT
for a work-week of from 40 to 48
hours. Clerks working less than 40
hours a week are to be paid at least
40 cents an hour.
Meanwhile. male members of the
Wage Board were looking forward
with some apprehension to the part
they must play in the hearings begin
ming May II on the labor problems
In beauty parlor work.
Arthur L. Schoenthal, labor repre-
sentative on the board and q member
of the Stone Masons' Union, will get
his first taste of the work to come at
q meeting he called for tomorrow Of
woman employees Of beauty parlors.
Three Of the nine women to be NOM
mated at his meeting will be elected by
the board to serve as counselors at
the beauty parlor hearings.
The other male board member,
Claude H. Woodward, who has back
ground Of banking and commerce, will
have the opportunity of nominating
three representatives to the conference
as spokesmen for employers. Three
others will be listed by Mrs William
81, r.
the general public.
Mr. Schoenthars meeting will be at
10 am. at the District Building.
Evening star., 1938-05-05

Line, the 43,450-ton liner Ne de
France and the 13,39I-ton Colombo
All the seamen refused to work and
left the ships.
De Chappedelaine had said he
would take disciplinary measures
against the Champlain strikers.
Strike Over Uniform Design.
Of1icers said this morning that the
crew had forced indefinite postpone
ment of the sailing in q deadlock in
negotiations over demands for i'm
proved working conditions, including
the design Of their uniforms.
The passage was Cancelled, leaving
1000 passengers to seek other trans
port.
The double setback struck the line
suddenly during the night, with mem
bers OF the Champlain crew refusing
to take their posts because they dis
liked the shade of blue of their jackets
and wanted stars on the sleeves.
Evening star., 1938-05-05
GIRL MOTHER GOES
BACK TO CAROLINA
Rita Lowell Turned Over to
Greensboro, N. c., Officers
on Desertion Charge.

Rita Lowell, 10, whose disappear.
ance from her home in New York
with her infant son started a police
search through several States two
weeks ago. was turned over to North
Carolina authorities in Police Court
today for her return to Greensboro
on a warrant charging her with de-
serting her baby there.
The girl mother voluntarily agreed
to accompany 1t. c. B. Strickland
back to North Carolina, where she
left her 8-week-old son with a truck
driver fortnight ago.
The truck driver, Watson Tuttle,
was arrested and held on a charge
of receiving an abandoned baby. The
girl had hitch-hiked with the truck
driver from Norfolk to Greensboro.
She left the child there while she
came on to Washington in an effort
to persuade cavalryman at Fort
Myer to marry her. She claimed he
was the father of the child.
The soldier objected to the mar
riage and denied he was the father
The child is now in the care of welfare
agents at Greensboro.
Evening star., 1938-05-05
Ex.Chief Moran
Is on His Way
TOHOUy,UOOd

Bass choir singer since his early
boyhood, former Chief William H.
Moran of the Secret Service has add
ed another song to his repertoire:
California, Here I Come" Chief
Moran is on his way to Hollywood.
In the course of 54 active years with
the United States Secret Service-pro-
tecting the lives Of Presidents and run
ming down noted counterfeiters-Chief
Moran learned thing or two; but he
would never talk, nor write about his
adventures. Some of the greatest edi-
tors in the Nation tried to get the for
mer head of the'Secret Service to write
q series of articles, even his memoirs
Always, he refused.
Now THE Chief" as the boys at
the Treasury Department affection
ately call him, is headed for the West
Coast to tell producers Of motion pic
lures what's wrong with the depletion
of Secret Service men. He will act, it
is said, "in> an advisory capacity" for
the Warner brothers.
Chief Moran, retired on December
81, 1886, and fellow sleuths from the
far corners of the Nation came to do
him honor. They staged party at
the Willard Hotel that, to this day,
is the talk of the service-and that
was the first time anybody ever saw
Chief Moran cry.
Today the old chief went down to
the Treasury Department, driving the
car "his boys" gave him as farewell
present at that annual banquet, and
told them all he was going to Holly
wood -"
"Just so you don't 60 Hollywood,
everything will be all right. Chief.
said his old friend and former secre-
tary, Walter S. Bowen, chief clerk
IN the Secret Service division Of the
Treasury.
Evening star., 1938-05-05
Bassett
Continued Prom First Page.)

telegram to his sister in Bremerton,
Wash. and then was slugged on the
head with the hammer after Mrs.
Smith left the room.
Il heard his body fall, and went
back into the room. He was gurgling.
I stepped out again and Earl gave him
one more blow, and it was all over
He never allowed his victims to
suffer"
Then, Mrs. Smith said, Mr.. Bas-
setts body was removed to the bath
tub, where Mayer dismembered 1t with
a meat saw and butcher knife.
THE poor boy worked 50 hard" she
said. ITO keep up his strength I made
him an eggnog."
The dismembered body was put into
q galvanized iron tub and hidden for
the night in Mayors bedroom.
That was one night" Mrs. Smith
joked in a letter, "if DR.. Clark (owner
Of the home) had called would have
had to admit there were indiscretions
going on in the bedroom"
Hidden Separately.
She said all the body except the
head and hands were put into four
sacks and hidden separately under
bushes in the woods north of Seattle.
The head and hands. she said, were
thrown into a woodchuck hole in 4
different locality.
She displayed pride in outwitting
law enforcement officers, whom she
termed smart alecs."
They made perfect fools of them
selves she wrote. mo wonder Earl
and sat back in the old county jail
in Seattle and laughed"
Confronted in his cell yesterday with
one of his mothers letters, Mayer
, showed no emotion. He said coldly,
She's goofy"
In Seattle, Attorney Ewing D. Colvin,
who was prosecutor when Mayer won
a retrial in 1929 in the Bassett case,
said both Mayer and his mother made
substantially the same confessions
when submitted to the "lie detector"
and truth serum" tests. He said the
confessions could not be used because
the court, after hearing Mayer charge
he was subjected to third degree" by
the tests, banned use of the devices.
Mr.. Schermer and Ernest ]. Yoris,
chief Of Seattle detectives, talked for
three hours inside the State prison
with Mrs. Smith yesterday. Mr..
Scherner arranged to bring them to-
gether today to show them the evi-
dence and get true picture of what
happened"
MI. Bassett was World War aviator
with rank of lieutenant.
After the war he was business man.
ager and tennis coach at the Tome In
stitute, boys school at Port Deposit,
Md. He took a civil service examina-
ton and was en- route to Manila to
take a secretarial job when he van
ished.
Mr.. Bassett's disappearance was
blamed for the death Of his father.
Frank, in 1882. Mrs. Elizabeth Ilgner
of Detroit. cousin of young Bassett.
said last night, IT ever a father died
OF a broken heart, James father did"
MRS BASsETT IS SILENT.
Evening star., 1938-05-05

10 years ago while on his way to the
Philippines. lives at 620 Florida ave-
nue. NE.
Mrs. Bassett refused today to dis
cuss the report from Walla Walla,
Wash, that Mrs. Mary Eleanor Smith
had confessed at the Washington State
Penitentiary that her son, Earl De
Casio Mayer, killed Mr.. Bassett In q
Seattle house while she stood by.
Mrs. Bassett would not admit Star
reporter to her home, nor would she
confirm published reports that she
had no vengeance in her heart now
ard did not want to see Mrs. Smith
or her son executed, but would be con-
tent If they remained in the peni-
tentiary.
The Bassetts formerly lived in An
napolis, Md. An Associated Press
dispatch recalled that the missing
young mans father. the late Dr. Frank
P. Bassett, formerly Maryland State
librarian and secretary of the An
napolis Chamber of Commerce, had
offered q 1880 reward for news OF
his sons fate. But he was never
called on to pay the reward.
James Bassett, an Army aviator dur
ing the World War. left his home in
Annapolis in 1928 to become secretary
to the commandant Of the Cavite Navy
Yard. in Manila. His family never
heard from him.
Dr.. and Mrs. Bassett went to the
West Coast to aid in the fruitless
search for their son. They identified
his automobile, for the theft of which
Mrs. Smith and her son were con-
victed.
Dr. Bassett's death in 1892 was
fastened in his anguish over the dis
appearance of his SON. Mrs. BaSsett
moved to Washington soon afterward.
Evening star., 1938-05-05

Beautiful plonts in q bright
red color. the popuIar Hino-
desiri voriety. This pIont will
thrive either indoors or out
side. Will moke q beautiful
addition to your garden.
Evening star., 1938-05-05
AVIATOR FINDS DOG

DES MONIES, Iowa, May 5 P.-
"Butch," springer spaniel owned by
Flying Instructor Robert Siman, took
off for parts unknown after being
struck by Car.
After a futile search by car, Siman
took off in plane. He spotted
Butch" in a ravine west OF town,
landed in a nearby field, picked up the
injured dog and few back to the
airport.
The flyer took the animal to a vet
erinarian, who eased Siman's state of
mind by announcing Butch" suffered
only minor injuries.
Evening star., 1938-05-05
E. B. Northrup Renamed.

CHEVY CHASE, Md. May S (spe-
ciaD Edward B. Northrup has been
reappointed town superintendent OF
section 2, Chevy Chase, Md, it wa
announced today by A. w. Defenderfer,
chairman of the Citizens Committee
OF section g. Mr.. Defenderfer viii
succeed himself as chairman of the
committee for the ensuing two-year
period.
Evening star., 1938-05-05
18th Baby Arrives.

ALLENTON, Wis, May 5 LP.-The
brows Of Mr. and Mrs. John Hug
wrinkled In concentration today as
they sought a name for their newly
arrived son. the eighteenth child
born to them in "a years. The young
est has eight brothers and nine
sisters.