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The Kennewick courier-reporter and the White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1938-1939, 1938-09-01
TO Search for New
Tax Possibilities

.
Senator Harrison's committee viii
search through all Of the various
tax possibilities In the next three or
four months. It win have to do
that. The house committee on ways
and means, which considers tax leg
islation in the house, will not have
the courage to go as far In adding
to the tax burden. It never has had
that much courage for the reason
that its members come up for cleo
ton every two years-and, again,
taxes are unpopular things for pol
itician. Thus, we will have to look
to the Harrison committee II prog
ress is made in bringing the ma
tons tax receipts into some rela-
ton with its spending.
The addition Of new taxes Is q
serious matter, yet it appears that
new taxes cannot be avoided. We
have had our play time, our fun.
We have danced; now, the fiddler
must be paid. When new taxes are
added, the buying power OF every
person paying the tax Is reduced by
that amount. But through five
wears money has been spent by the
government in ways that put to
shame the famed drunken sailor
ashore for the first time in q year.
Waste. wreckage, nit-wit plans and
program+an have cost billions OF
dollars.
AS everyone knows when new
taxes are added greater percent
age of the country's voting nnaDl-
tants are included.
So, maybe the veteran senator
Harrison has a two-fold purpose IN
mind, and it takes courage for MN
to have either one of the two ideas
because he is in politics. Maybe ne
sees the necessity for substantial
curtailment of federal spending ano
realizes at the same time that the
| life of a politician who opposes
spending is a hard, road. But II
the average citizen is touched py
some new taxes he will not be hall
as anxious to support the candl-
date who promises pork, projects
and patronage anything that sends
money back into the home district
IL would just hazard q guess tna'
the amiable and very clever sen
ator Harrison is going about the iat-
ter Job in the only way that 1t car
be accomplished.
! I give him praise and wish MN
I success, for preservation OF ou
government is Of considerably more
moment than few political lives.
Evening star., 1938-10-02

dreary loft building Mr.. Fay called
it the gashouse headquarters" and
likes the term. 1t looks it.
The stairs sway and waver and on
the top floor the erstwhile home Of a
dance hall.
The Office OF the canaidate himself
is something less than pretentious
but that of the campaign manager,
Maj. William J. Walsh, is quite plainly
incOmmodious-a little room about
the size Of shower bath. in which
the majors erect and purposeful mill
tary fsure looks oddly and perilously
confined.
OF design now happily in disuse,
the building itself huddles in the
CRIME Of the lower East Side, and in
smell Of sour antiquity all its own.
1t is on level with the old Third
avenue el and all day is thunderous
intermittently with the cries of the
party workers and the roar OF the
trains.
Evening star., 1938-10-02
CONWAY TEARlE, go,
EX-FILM STAR, DIES
Heart Ailment Fatal to Actor
Whose Day of Glory Ended
With Silent Pictures.
ey the Associated Press.

ey the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. Conway
Tearle, so. stage and screen actor, died
Of heart ailment in a hopsital to-
night. He had been i'll two weeks.
After appearances on London and
New York stages, Mr.. Tearle entered
motion pictures in 1914 and achieved
stardom The talkies were unkind to
him, however and although he tried
comebacks periodically, he never re-
gained his former high place.
He was born in New York on May
II, 1873. and was educated in England
and at West Point He first appeared
on the stage in 1892
His silent pictures included THE
Common Law" Bella Donna" and
Stella Maris,' Dancing Mothers, "
THE Lost Zeppelin" Gold Diggers
of Broadway" Vanity Fair" and the
recent Romeo and Juliet"
His widow. Adele Rowland, former
musical comedy star, survives. Pre-
viously he was married to the late
Josephine Park and Mrs. Menges
Corwin-Hill.
Evening star., 1938-10-02

Amt he doing anything but getting
fat?'"
Mr.. Fay, an active politician ever
since he came back from the war-but
obviously one by birth through all of
his 80 years-learned law in a night
school and has lived all his life in the
18th congressional district, an area Of
paradox which contains some OF the
most naughty Park avenue penthouses
and some of the most drearily miser-
able East Side slums
II know thousands Of people in my
district by their first Names" he said
proudly. MY wife was born in the
district, in the same house her mother
was born in and the same house
where her grandmother came from
Ireland to live as a bride"
| Her name-my wifes name-is
Kelly. And between the Fays and the
Kellys in that district you can see
that Jimmy Fay's got a pretty good
political head start every time"
Wife Waits 10 Enter.
| AS he spoke OF her, his wife, slight
and pretty woman, was standing in
the hospital corridor outside, waiting
her turn to come into his room.
Waiting. too. was the doorkeeper, a
resolute and red-faced fellow Irish
man. With \ growing lack OF pa
tience he had been struggling with
delegations who, their faces solemn
and their manner grave for no reason
at all except sensitivity to the hos
pltal atmosphere, had been tip-toeing
IN and out all day.
Many Of them were bringing papers
and problems from the Fay headquar-
ters across town-an ancient and
Evening star., 1938-10-02
Studied At Princeton.

Studied At Princeton.
Vanderbilt studied at Princeton Uni
versity, then went to work as a clerk
in New York bank. He now devotes
his time to managing various bank
ing and business corporations in which
Evening star., 1938-10-02
Husband
Continued From First Page.)

told him it took him two weeks to
make the decision and to prepare the
garden hose from two 75-foot lengths
wrapped with tape to prevent leaks.
My wife had been in terrible agony
for long time" Inspector King
quoted the husband as saying.
She had been unable to take food
for three days. 1t was worse than
death. could stand it no longer. No
man could"
For three weeks, he added, his wife
had pleaded with me to put her out
of her misery"
He started to make preparations
Monday, District Attorney Edward
Neary quoted him further, but tempo
rarily abandoned his plans when his
son Harry, 36, advised against it.
His wife's pleas. Mr. Neary said
caused him to resume his preparations.
Before taking the final steps, Mr..
Neary said, he sent his wife's nurse
Cordelia Higbee, and the family maid,
Cora Mosher, out for a walk. When
he finally stretched the hose into his
wife's room, the district attorney
quoted him as saying, he told his wife:
Go to sleep, darling. You'll be all
right now"
Knelt in Prayer.
Then, Mr. Neary said johnson told
him, he went downstairs and knelt in
prayer, turned on the gas, and prayed
again. Then he went upstairs and
stood by his wife's door.
An hour later, when the nurse re-
turned. she found the house locked.
She called the family physician, DR..
Archibald Wood of Far Rockaway
When the doctor knocked on the door
the haggard-faced husband let him in
At glance DR.. Wood saw efforts to
revive Mrs. johnson would be futile.
District Attorney Neary said the
case would be presented to the grand
jury October IL.
Pending grand jury action, johnson
was taken to the prison ward OF
Meadowbrook Hospital Afflicted with
heart ailment, he was near exhaus-
ton and said he hadn't been to bed
in fve days.
The district attorney said the case
would not be taken before the grand
jury until the county toxicologist had
made blood analysis.
IT'S possible he said, "she may
have died from cancer"
Evening star., 1938-10-02
Wilgus Is Located.

BOSTON, Oct. (P)-A spokes-
man for the family Of Col William
J. Wilgus, u, said today the noted
Vermont engineer had been erro-
neously reported as missing. The
spokesman said Mr.. Wilgus left his
home in Ascutney, VT. on q busi-
ness trip to Boston and delayed
message for his wife accounted for
the false report.
Evening star., 1938-10-02
BRIDGE LEAP AVERTED
Woman Is Taken to Gallinger for
Observation.

Mrs Billie Franck, 10, OF 618 Missis-
sippi avenue, Silver Spring, Nd, was
taken by police to Gallinger Hospital
for mental observation early today
after they had been notified by q
pedestrian he believed she was about
to jump from Key Bridge.
The man, Robert Mawson Of 1905 M
street NV, told police he saw Mrs
Franck standing on the bridge and
engaged her in conversation, believing
she was about to leap into the river
while sending a secohd passerby for
Policeman o. P. Fuss Of the seventh
precinct.
Evening star., 1938-10-02

he holds interests and supervising his
spacious farm at Portsmouth.
During the quiet moments Of the
campaign young Bill expects to sneak
away to a "hideaway" on the Saxon
net River. where he has no servants,
to cook the dinner for his wife and
three daughters. Or he may be seen
at a horse show, for like his father
show horses are one OF his hobbies.
Gov. Quinn probably will be out on
the West Warwick Country Club golf
links, while his four children cheer
him from the lawn Of the family home,
which adjoins the course.
Evening star., 1938-10-02
Rhode Island Cubernat0rial
Campaign Will Be Colorful
Quinn and Vanderbilt
Expected to Conduct
Hard Fight.

This is the first of t,Uo articles in
q surrey to ascertain Representa-
the T. Alan Goldsborough's chances
OF being reelected in the first
Maryland district in spite OF re-
sentiment because he inpited Presi-
dent Roosevelt to "inDdde" the
State during the recent purge"
OF Senator Tydings.
Evening star., 1938-10-02
PIT. A. to Meet Wednesday

The Robert E. Lee School PARENT
Teacher Association of Arlington. Va.
will meet in the school Wednesday at
8 pm. A reception for the teachers
Is to be given after the meeting
Prof. Fletcher Kemp county super.
!ntendent o sehools. viii speak,
Evening star., 1938-10-02

Venezuela has established q chain
Of restaurants where food is sold cheap.
Muttlerkopf is the name Of a noun
tain in the Bavarian Alps.
Evening star., 1938-01-15
SOVIET PAYMENTS
TO ITALY STOPPED
Ships Detained in Italian
Ports, Russia Claims
in Explanation.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Jan. 15.-Russia today
suspended commercial payments to
Italy, holding that the Italian navy
had refused to pay for Soviet oil and
that Soviet ships were detained in
Italian ports.
The government announced pay
ments to the Soviet Union by Italian
firms also had been suspended.
The Soviet trade delegation to Italy
as well as trading organizations in
Russia were instructed to suspend pay
ments to Italian firms, including bills
held by third persons.
The money IN dispute will be de-
posted in a special account of the
State Bank of Russia.
The official Communist party news
paper Pravda explained that the Ital-
ian navy ministry refused to pay for
fuel and oil supplied to it in Septem-
ber
Pravda declared also that Soviet
ships were detained in Italian ports in
violation of a special agreement ire
garding state property"
Whether this meant a refusal to
deliver ships Italy now is building for
the Soviet navy was not stated Italy
is one of the few countries with a IA
vorable trade balance with Russia.
Evening star., 1938-01-15
Summary Of Today's Star

Page. Page
Amusements B-14 Society AS
Comics B-l2-l3 Sports --A.16-17
Editorials ---A-S Woman's Pg. Al
Finance --A-14 Real estate
Lost & Found B-6 Pages b. Ia B-6
Obituary -A-13 Church news
Radio ----A-9 Pages A-l0-1l-12
FOREIGN.
Soviets suspend commercial payments
to Italy. Page Al
Socialists check Bonnet attempt to
form cabinet Page Al
Japan decides to complete conquest
Of China. Page Al
wilkins cruises near Pole in search
for Russians. Page A-13
NATIONAL.
Magill indorses tax proposals as hear
ings are begun. Page Al
Stanley Reed is nominated to Supreme
Court bench. Page Al
Norris would oust holding companies
through taxation. Page Al
House foes OF Item veto" carry fight
to Senate. Page Az
bombing linked TO reform group in
vestigation. Page AS
G. O. P. Senators to oppose limiting
anti-lynching debate. Page AS
Mrs. Roosevelt to address education
meeting. Page Ais
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Hazen wants Warning taken to At
lanta Prison with Beard. Page Al
Three missing bandit suspects nabbed
in Baltimore. Page Ala
Change in selecting school boards in
Virginia sought. Page Ais
HaAen urges l0-year sentence for
armed robbers. lPase Ais
Evening star., 1938-01-15
SALE OF 2 GAS FIRMS
IN SUBURBS ASKED
Disposition Proposed to Washing
ton Gas Light Co. Under
Holding Companv Act.

Sale of the Alexandria and Hyatts-
Vile gas companies to the Washington
Gas Light Co. was proposed today by
the Washington g. Suburban Co.'S
the common-law trust which controls
all three operating concerns-in q
statement filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
This was suggested as the first step
in the proposed disposition by the trust
of its control over the local operating
concerns and the substitution Of an
"integrated" gas utilities system here
under the meaning Of the death sem
tence" clause of the Holding Company
Act.
The proposal involved issuance by
the Washington Gas Light Co. of 8,100
shares of $3.50 cumulative convertible
preferred stock without par value to
the trust.
Previously the District Public Util-
ities Commission rejected two propo-
sails for the purchase Of the suburban
concerns by the Washington Gas Light
Co. on the grounds that the proposed
price was too high.
Evening star., 1938-01-15
FIREMAN HURT
IN $4,000 BLAZE
Fire in Top Floor of Stewart
Building Routs Lawyers
and u. S. Workers.
(Picture on Page Alb

More than so lawyers and Federal
employees were routed from the Stewart
Building this morning by three
alarm blaze which swept the top floor
OF the siX-story Office structure at
SIXTH and D streets NV. snd caused
damage estimated at between $4,000
and $4,000. Capt. George Meeks of
No. 2 Engine Co. was injured.
Spectators jammed the sidewalks
while clerks, lawyers and their as
sistants dashed down the steps with
armloads of records which they feared
were imperiled. The blaze was
brought under control about II am.
after II fire engines, 4 ladder
trucks and a water tower were rushed
to the scene.
Confined to Top Floor.
The flames were confined almost
wholly to the upper floor, which is used
for storage and for living quarters for
the janitor. John Booker, colored. The
janitors wife discovered smoke issuing
from a storage room next to her quar-
ters at 1926 am. and ran to the next
floor for help.
About 30 employees of the Soil Con-
servation Service were at work in their
Offices on the fifth floor. They turned
in the first alarm while some of the
men fought the flames with hand ex-
tinguishers.
Capt. Meeks was struck on the head
by the porcelain drainboard Of a sink
(See FIRE, Page A-13)
Evening star., 1938-01-15
RETURN OF 3 MORE
WITH SAM BEARD
SOUGHT BY HAZEN
Commissioner to Try to
Have Warning and 2 Aides
Sent Back to Atlanta.
cUMMIiGs ORDERS
GAMING KING TRANSFER
Lorton Held Not Safe Enough and
TOO Comfortable" a Place
for Such Rats"

BACKGROUND
Long pomertul in Washington
gambling, Sam Beard and II
henchmen mere sentenced to Jail
IN April. 1886. as the result OF their
arrest in a do,rnto'Un bookn,dking
establishment. The CONNECTIONS
confirmed by Court Of Appeals and
reversal refused by Supreme
Court, mhich reriemed mire-tap-
ping evidence. Beard mds sent to
Atlanta and the others to LOrt0n
Retormotory. After SERVING year.
10 OF the aides" Mere poroled,
since they had no past records
Last meek Boards transfer to Lor-
ton created a storm OF protest.
Three more Washington men, we'll
known in the gambling racket. now
serving sentences at Lorton Reforma-
tory. will follow Sam Beard. erstwhile
gambling king. back to the Atlanta
Federal Penitentiary if Commissioner
Melvin c. Hazen can arrange it.
Closely following an announcement
that Attorney General Cummings had
ordered Beard transferred from Lor-
ton to the Atlanta prison. presumably
to prevent him from reaching through
the bars and regaining control of the
Capitals gambling kingdom. Commits
sloner Hazen revealed today he will
press for the return to the Georgia
penltentlary OF Charles tRagsD War
ring, Joseph S. Barnes and Sam Mont
gomery.
Before they were Jailed. police re-
called, these three men also were ac-
tive in gambling. being chiefly inter-
ested in the operation of the num-
bers" game here. The chance that
they. too. might seek to re-establish
themselves was seen AS the possible
reason for their transfer being sought.
Too Comfortable for Rats"
AT Eext Tuesdays board meeting
of the Commissioners" Mr.. Hazen said,
Il am going to recommend that they
be sent back to Atlanta where they
belong. When We get walls built
around Lorton. then it will be a safe
enough place for such rats. At pres
ent, Lorton is too comfortable a place
for them. In Atlanta they will be
made to do more work and have less
freedom
The Commissioner said he had asked
Ray Z. Huff. superintendent Of Dis
trict penal institutions, for a report
on the three he will seek to have
transferred. He said he understood
they were brought back along with
Beard because their conduct in the
Atlanta prison had been good.
The Washington Criminal Justice
Association which, through its head.
Dr. James A. Nolan. led the fight
to have Beard returned. has not indi-
Gated it would make any recommenda-
tions in the cases Of Warning, Barnes
and Montgomery.
Beard to Go Soon.
Warning and his two aides were
sentenced from 18 months to years
following their conviction in the shoot
ing in July. 1896. Of Joseph E. O'Brien,
%. Three other members of the
same gang. also convicted in the
shooting, are serving time" in
Leavenworth Penitentiary. They are
John Sweeney. Clarence Ware and
George F. Tear.
Although Mr.. Huff could not be
reached for comment. it was under
stood Boards transfer will be effected
within the next few days.
Tho orSt ~
(See BEARD, Page A-13)
Evening star., 1938-01-15
TWO DEAD, VESSEL
WEATHERS STORM
Greek Steamer Which Sailed From
Charleston January 6 Had Been
Leaking, sos Said.
- the Associs ted Press

- the Associs ted Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-The crippled
Greek steamer Aspasia was proceeding
toward England early today after
weathering mid-Atlantic storm
which washed two of its crew over
board.
The British motorship Rangitiki.
Radiomarine reported, was attending
the Aspasia by wireless after the latter
radioed at s:38 am. tE. S. T):
Weather much better. Owing con-
dition of the Tetela let her proceed
destination. Attend only by wireless. -
The Teela, 130 miles north of the
Aspasia, earlier had started toward
the Aspasia but asked the Rangitiki
to take over and give necessary assist
ance. The Tetela's captain explained
he had perishable cargo.
Radiomarine intercepted the As
pasia's distress call at l:25 am. 1t
said:
Water leaking through bunkers in
engine room. Bridge washed away
with chief officer and one sailor"
The Aspasia sailed from Charleston
D, c.. for Garston. England, January g.
Evening star., 1938-01-15
SOCIALISTS CHECK
BONNET MINISTRY
Premier Designate Pushes
Efforts for Ministry,
However.
BACKGROUND

Peoples Front government
formed in spring OF 1886 brought
Leon Blum to French premiership,
Thich he held until last June,
yielding to Camille Chautemps.
Life OF coalition cabinet ended by
conflict ouer monetary policies cou-
pied NTH oro,ring labor unrest
amid lag OF 'rages behind price in
credses. Lett factions demand er-
change control to support franc:
Conservatives are opposed to it.
By the Associated Press.
PARIS. Jan. Undetermined So
cialist opposition today thwarted ef-
forts Of Georges Bonnet, Radical
Socialist premier-desgnate to reform
Frances shattered Peoples Front into
government under his leadership.
Leon Blum. leader Of the Socialists
and head of the original Peoples
Front government, fatty told NJ. Bon
net his party could not support a
cabinet formed to carry out NJ
Bonnet's conservative solution for the
grave labor and economic troubles
that forced Premier Camille Chau-
temps to resign early yesterday
M. Bonnet, nevertheless, continued
his efforts to whip enough parlia-
mentary support into line to tell Presi-
dent Albert Lebrun he had succeeded
in forming a new government.
Sees DaIadier, Brunei, Paul Boncour.
The 48-year-old fnancier- diplomat
sandwiched talk with Edouard Da-
ladier, retiring Radical-Socialist de-
tense minister, between conferences
with Rene Brunei, financial under
secretary. and former Premier Joseph
Paul Boncour, leader of the new So
cialist and Republican Union party.
In the corridors of the Chamber
Of Deputies it was said frankly any
cabinet combination M. Bonnet might
form would be opposed by Commu-
nists as well as Socialists and perhaps
half the Radical-SocialistS. The three
parties make up the Peoples Front.
Since M. Bonnet's success under
such circumstances was considered i'm
possible Albert Sarraut, Senate
leader of the Democratic party. who
was considered the next choice, started
unofficial consultations.
Socialists Demand Premiership.
The Socialist delegates in the Cham
Der Of Deputies adopted a resolution
demanding the premiership be given
to a Socialist. It insisted any new
government be based on the Peoples
Front.
M. Blum met with the Socialist
group in the Chamber at noon and
informed them Of his refusal to CO.
operate with M. Bonnet.
After a midafternoon conference
with President Lebr,m at the Elysee
Palace M. Bonnet said only he had "in-
formed the President of the very sat-
isfactory tenor of my conversations
during the morning"
Before the meeting with M. Lebrun,
M. Bonnet had said that most leaders
he consulted urged him to continue
his efforts to form a cabinet.
The problem M. Bonnet was unable
to solve was the same that yesterday
forced out Radical Socialist Premier
Chautemps-a dissnection by Com
munists and Socialists from the
third, more conservative, Radical So
cialist party which with them made
up the Peoples 11ont coalition.