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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-04-01
Priest Rapids
Work To End
In Two Weeks
Project To Remain Open
Until April 30; Other
Improvements Slated.

The Priest Rapids power plant
will be placed in operation within
two weeks, it was estimated today
as the work of deepening the pow
er canal neared the final stages.
April 10 has been set as the ten
tative date for the completion of
the excavation. Drilling of the rock
will be completed sometime Satur~
day Or Monday, and about a weeks
work will then remain in blasting
and excavating the channel,
There is a possibility that the wa
ter can not be turned into the canal
until later that week, as the men
will not be working on the 18th
and 18th.
The WPA has extended the time
limit on the Priest Rapids project
until April 80, and other improve
ments will be undertaken at the
plant after the work in the canal
is finished.
The district received, one ship
ment of poles from the coast this
week and others are expected in
the near future. These will be used
in Stumbling the pole line between
Priest Rapids and the pumping
plant.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-04-01
Local Baseball
Team Enters
New League
Richland, Finley Hover,
Benton City, Prosser
And Mckee Join.

A new baseball league will swing
into action April "a with White
Bluffs Hartford, Richland, Finley
Hover, Benton City, Prosser and
Mckee playing a ten-game sched-
ule which ends June Is Organiza-
ton of the league was effected at
a meeting in Yakima Tuesday
night and was made possible by
the realignnent of t he Valley
league, in which White Bluffs
Hanford, Prosser and Benton City
have formerly played.
The new set-up is expected to
revive baseball interest here and in
the lower valley towns, as it is a
compact, we'll balanced organiza-
ton which should furnish keen
competition.
Only four of the teams White
Bluffs -Hanford, Mckee, Prosser and
Benton City were represented at
the organization meeting, and the
set-up was not completed until
Wednesday night when Richland
and F7inley-HoNer accepted the bids
for entry at a meeting in Benton
City.
The Valley league, organized
Monday night, will be comprised of
seven teams, Goldendale, Sunny
side, Wapato Nippons, Wapato In
dams, Toppenish Cascade Lumber
OF Yakima, and Ellensbut'g.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-04-01
M.antoux Skin Tests
Given Valley Students

Mine reactions to the Mantoux
Skin tests given valley school chill
dren Tuesday by DR.. S. L. Cox OF
Seattle and Miss Alice Brakel,
colg1ty nurse have been reported.
Five of the neactors were high
school students, two were White
Bluffs grade pupils and two Han
fort grade pupils. The percentage
OF children reacting to the test,
given to determine susceptibility to
tuberculosis, was: high school, S
pef cent; Ha1lford grade school,
3 per cent; White Bluffs grade
school, 11s per cent.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-04-01
Band Plans Carnival
For Friday, April 8

Much interest is being shown by
the band boys and girls in the ar
rangements of a Carnival and Band
Concert that will be given by them
on Friday, April 8, at the COM
munity hall The object of the car
nival is to raise money to pay off
the balance of their debt and to
finance their future trips.
There will be keen competition
between the boys and the girls ir
raising the most money, as both
will have booths and concessions
and will run them Independently
of the other. They are planning to
have a jitney dance along with the
carnival.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-04-01
Second Survey Party
To Move Here

A second survey party of the U.
S. Reclamation Bureau will make
it's future headquarters here, it was
learned this week when word was
received from Gordon Fletcher.
chief Of the party that official APP
prevail of the moving of the party
from Ephrata to White Bluffs had
been issued.
The party, which consists of five
men, is employed in Typographical
work. They will arrive here about
April 10.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-04-01
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, 1938-04-01
COUNTY HEALTH COUNCIL
MEETS AT HANFORD FRIDAY

The Benton County Health Cou1l-
Gil will meet Friday, April l, at the
new community hall in Hanford
at 800 pm. An interesting pro-
gram has been arranged, and any,
one interested is invited to attend.
Representatives of all communities
in the county will be present.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-04-01
Hanford Library Board
Officers Are Elected

The Hanford library board held
its first meeting since the election
on Tuesday. Mrs. Lucy Smith was
named librarian to succeed Mrs.
Leona Burford, who will begin her
duties as postmistress April /.
Mrs. Frank Clark was elected
chairman of the board and Mrs
Burford was named secretary
treasurer.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-04-01
GRANGE VARIETY SHOW

Members of the White Bluffs
Grange are busy with preparations
for their Variety Show, which will
be given Saturday night, April 16
at the Grange hall. They promise
an evening of spendid entertain
ment, and urge everyone to save
that date.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-04-01

A brief hail storm on the 28th
resulted in a trace of precipitation.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-04-01

This the oldest apple the Northwest brought
from London 1896 being inspected by Mayor John Higgins Mrs
Fay Peabody of Vancouver Planted liz
founded by the Hdons Bay Co, the still fruit
the gandaddy Of Wangtons mighty apple industry picture
leased through COOPERATION Washington Commission
Washington Nr1Ybober Publishers
newspaper sustaining member
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-04-01

The Rod and Gum club will hold
it's regular meeting next Monday
evening, April 4.
Evening star., 1938-09-19
BALTIC SOCIETY MEETS
Mrs. Ruth s. Beckmann Reports
on Post War Red Crnss Wnrk

on Postwar Red Cross Work.
The Baltic Society Of Washington
was given a detailed account OF the
work done for the Red Cross in Latvia,
Estonia and Lithuania after the World
War last night by Mrs. Ruth S. Beck
mann at the International Students
Home.
Washingtonians Of Finnish or other
Baltic nationality make up the MEM
bership Of the Baltic Club.
Evening star., 1938-09-19
WARPREPARAT|0N
ENDS IN FRANCE
Country Resolved to Stay
Out of War-London
Accord Backed.
By the Associated Press.

~ tiIc nSboCINtco ETeoS
PARIS. Sept. 19.-The French gov
ernment today ratified the Anglo
French plan to dismember her Czecho-
slovak ally in response to Adolf Hit
lers demands.
The cabinet in a Commute ses-
sion unanimously approved the re-
suit Of Premier Edouard Daladier's
deliberations with Prime Minister
Chamberlain in London yesterday, as
suring the British leader Of full
French consent when next he meets
the German chancellor.
The eyes Of the Paris government
then turned toward Prague. Whether
President Eduard Benes of Czechoslo-
vakia would agree to sacrifice his
country on the altar Of European
peace or whether he would fight re-
mained a question. But in any event
1t appeared France was resolved to
stay out Of war.
1t became known that the govern
ment had issued orders to cease the
nations military preparations, which
in recent weeks had placed an esti-
mated 100000 under arms.
Fresh Strike Outbreak.
The decision taken by the cabinet,
IN which the expected opposition OF
two or three ministers failed to ma
terilize, coincided with a fresh out
break Of strikes in France.
In the Paris region 100000 build
ing trades workers walked out in
wage disputes with contractors, and
the movement spread to nearby de-
partments.
Five thousand miners struck near
Valenciennes rather than work the
extra hours recently ordered by the
government in the interests OF ma
tional defense
The French Minister to Prague was
expected to convey Frances decision
at once to President Benes.
And Immediately after the cab
met meeting Foreign Minister Georges
Bonnet received the Czechoslovak Min
lister to Paris. Stephan Osusky, to
tell him Of the course France had
chosen.
Communique Issued.
A communique said the ministers
had unanimously approved the decla-
rations and the attitude Of the Premier
as well as the solution proposed in
agreement with the British govern
ment."
The communique, following cabinet
meeting which some ministers de-
scribed as very moving" also said the
Premier and Foreign Minister Bon
net told Of negotiations which they
pursued at London and conditions
in which the agreement was reached
with the government of Great Britain. !"
Dissatisfaction over the reported
terms Of the peace plan was expressed
by some members Of the Chamber Of
Deputies conversing in the lobbies.
They called the plan a complete
shameful capitulation" before Hitler.
Others, however, greeted with re-
lief any measures that might avert
war.
Key to Future in Prague.
All writers in Frances morning
papers, whether for or against the
Evening star., 1938-09-19

plan, agreed that the key to the fs,-
ture lay with Prague, which warned
again yesterday that Czechoslovakia
would fight rather than submit to
Germany's demands.
What France would do In the event
C1echoslovakia decided to offer armed
opposition to the threatened German
annexation Of the sudeten territory no
commentator would say.
Writers who favored the plan de-
clared 1t was = real compromise by
which Czechoslovakia would be given
guaranteed neutrality and be made
stronger and more closely knit as 4
result Of an Operation which cuts of
the unhealthy area"
Nationals who saw nothing in the
plan except outright capitulation to
Germany declared that not only had
Germany's territorial demands been
granted but that she had been allowed
to dictate to three independent states.
forcing France and Czechosloyakia
and Soviet Russia and Czechosloyakia
to break their alliances.
Evening star., 1938-09-19
LAUNCHES
10Th CONVENTION
Withdrawals Leave Field for
Commanders Post to
Red Batter.
ny the Associated Press.


LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19.-As war
lords Of Europe shuffled their armies
about on a chessboard of strife the
American Legion met here today in
its goth annual convention, a pageant
Of peace.
And to further the peaceful pur-
suit Of the former service men, all
candidates for national commander,
save Stephen F. Chadwick, today
withdrew from competition, leaving
the field for that important ofice
Mr.. Chadwick's by acclamation.
1t was the first election by acclama-
ton since Frank N. Belgrano. jr., OF
San Francisco was voted into Office
in 1885
Mr.. Chadwick. Seattle. Wash, at
torney and chairman Of the National
Americanism Commission for the last
three years. is known throughout the
Legion as the most forceful speaker
in the ranks Of the ex-service men
and to him is credited much of the
anti-Communist sentiment rampant
in the Legion today. Mr.. Chadwick
served in Russia with the Siberian
expeditionary forces.
The candidates who withdrew To
leave the commanders red hat for
the Washington States candidate were
Ray J. Kelly. corporation counsel fol-
the City Of Detroit; Lynn Stambaugh
OF Fargo, N. Oak. and Milo J. War
ner Of Toledo, Ohio
Chicago. the only city to qualify
by reason of presenting a certified
check to cover expenses, will be the
meeting place in 1899, with Boston
held a certainty in 1910.
In the Drum and Bugle Corps con-
test IS musical units Wed for su-
premacy.
Today witnessed the official OPEN
ing OF the convention. Senator David
I. Walsh. chairman OF the Naval A.
fairs Committee, was the principal
speaker.
The feminine section of the Legion
the Auxiliary, went into action TODAY
with more delegates and visiting auxil-
iarians than ever before in its history
While there still was competition for
national president, it was considered
certain that Mrs. A. H. Hoffman of
Des Moines, Iowa, would be the next
leader.
As the veterans went into serious
discussion of the problems they con-
sidered important. the visiting non
delegate Legionnaires continued their
fun-making. Cannon crashed, bugles
and drums blared and disturbed the
peace Of the countryside, and the local
citizenry invaded the apothecaries for
migraine treatment.
Tonight will see the real noise-mak-
ing, however. for the 40 and 8, play
ground Of the Legion, goes into action
with its annual parade.
Cannonading, such as the Western
Front never witnessed, will violate the
peace Of the city, and the boys in the
blue smocks will take over.
To the casual observer it appears
that hilarity is the watchword, but
for the delegates and alternates it is
mostly work. They are in session from
the opening gun until the national
commander is elected on the final day.
Evening star., 1938-09-19
British-French
Plan Ouerjoys
HenIein Aides
By the Associated Press,

SELB. Germany. Sept 19.-Sudeten
Leader Konrad Henlein's headquarters
was overjoyed today over the reports
from London that England and France
had agreed to hand over the Sudeten
areas Of Czechoslovakia to Germany
without q plebiscite. These reports
reached the Sudetens from q Prague
radio station.
I'm that case" said Sudeten
spokesman. smiling. "our Free Corps
will be the first to occupy Sudetenland
as Czech troops and gendarmes with
draw"
The first Sudeten mass meeting on
German soil to explain Sudeten
opinion and arouse compatriots in
Czechoslovakia will be held at Dresden
tonight.
Deputies Rudolph Sander, DR.. Will
helm Sebekovsky, Sudetens, and Joseph
Paul Goebbels. the Nazi propaganda
minister, are to speak. Henlein him.
self may appear.
The Henleinists established them
selves here after fleeing Eyer, Czecho-
slovakia. Recruiting for the Sudeten
Free Corps border attackers was closed
today. party headquarters said, with
four columns of 10000 men each, fully
equipped with every kind of modern
war material"
The first column is said to be op-
Grating from Bradshaw to PaSSau the
second from Passau to Hof, the third
from Hof to Goerlitz, and the fourth
from Goerlitz to Ratibor-encircling
Czechoslovakia.
Headquarters said over 100000 ap-
plications for admission were received
Evening star., 1938-09-19
TALMADGE TO KEEP
FIGHT INSIDE PARTY
Ex-Governor, Beaten by George
in Senate Race, Contests Vote
in Seven Counties.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press
ATLANTA. Sept. 19.-Former Gov.
Eugene Talmadge asserted last night
his contest to upset the renomina-
ton of Senator Walter F. George
would be confined to the Democratic
party and added, I'm no bolter."
Il qualified under the rules of the
Democratic party" M. Talmadge said
IN an interview, "and I'm making
this fight in the Democratic party
The former Governor, who. on the
basis OF unofficial returns, ran second
to Mr.. George in the Senate race,
said he had filed election contests
Saturday in seven counties.
I'VE plan contests in Is or 30 more
counties" he asserted.
Mr.. Talmadge said he was receiving
many telephone messages and tele-
grams from persons who desired to
aid him in his fight.
Samuel D. Hewlett, Mr.. Talmadpe's
counsel, explained tomorrow is the
deadline for filing grounds for con-
test with the various county Demo-
cratic committees.
Evening star., 1938-09-19
DIR. Ditmars Admits
Eating Zoo Frogs
On Tropics Trip
Dy the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 10. DR..
Raymond Ditmars, the celebrated
curator of reptilia at the Bronx
Zoo, returned from the tropics
yesterday slyly looking like
man who had eaten a leptodacty-
lus fallax in astronomical &C.
stacy-and confessing geological
malfeasance.
When customs men wanted to
know what happened to the IL
golden-hued frogs Mr.. Ditmars'
expedition took aboard ship from
the Island Of Trinidad, the scien-
tist admitted that one frog got a
olslocated neck or something and
was prepared for dinner.
Mr.. Ditmars tussled with his
conscience and finally decided,
well, six frogs would be enough
Tor the ZOO, so five more went
1nto the pot. A day or so later
ne got to thinking about one
thing and another, especially the
delicacy Of frogs legs, and you
can guess what happened to the
last Of the leptodactylus fallaxes.
Evening star., 1938-09-19
WINDSOR UNDISTURBED
BY EUROPEAN TROUBLES
Follows Daily Routine of Golf
and Swimming-Expected
in Paris Soon,

By the Associated Press.
CANNES, France. Sept l9.-The
Duke of Windsor has taken no public
cognizance Of the European crisis.
For weeks the Dukes daily routine
has been golf and swimming. His eve
nings are spent quietly with the Duch-
ess at their Cap d'Antibes chateau.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman H. Rogers,
American friends OF the Duke and
Duchess, have been their frequent
companions.
The Windsors are expected to 60 to
Paris soon to stay until Christmas,
when they will return to the Riviera
for the winter season.
Evening star., 1938-09-19
REBELS DRIVE ON EBRO
FAILS, SAY LOYALISTS
Barcelona Claims Trenches Taken
by Insurgents Were Quickly
Recaptured.

es the Associated Press.
HENDAYE, France, Sept. 19.-Span-
ish government dispatches reported
today that nth insurgent effort to
crash through the Ebro front had
been repulsed.
Bulletins from Barcelona admitted
truth Of an insurgent claim that a
line OF government trenches had been
captured, but said the trenches later
were retaken.
Action In the new offensive was
heaviest on the northern half of the
front between Fayon and Corbera
The drive was launched early yester-
day morning with a heavy lombard
ment by insurgent artillery and war
planes.
Evening star., 1938-09-19
BECK REPORTED SAFE
Rumors German Chief of Staff
Was Ousted Are Belied.

BERLIN, Sept. 10 tP).-Foreign mill
tary attaches returning from East
Prussian maneuvers of the German
Army said yesterday they attended a
reception given in their honor Friday
night at Koenigsberg by Gen. Ludwig
Beck.
They said the invitations designated
Gen. Beck as chief of the general staff.
thereby setting at rest rumors that he
no longer retained his pivotal place In
the German defense force.
Evening star., 1938-09-19
SPAIN DENOUNCES
LEAGUE TO FACE
Foreign Minister Assai|s
Mistakes of Britain
and France.
BY the Associated Press.

Dy the Associated Press.
GENEVA. Sept. 19.-White- haired
Julio Alvarez Del Vayo. foreign min
lister Of government Spain, delivered
today the most scathing attack on
the futility Of the League Of Nations
and the mistakes" of Britain and
France ever heard at Geneva.
The heavy-set minister, leaning
across the rostrum of the great league
assembly hall, accused Britain and
France of responsibility for the Czecho-
slovak crisis. His voice was sharp
with sarcasm.
ut is not the aggressors but their
accomplices on whom the greatest
responsibility falls" he cried.
Parades Ghost Nations
One by one Alvarez Del Vayo paraded
the leagues ghost nations before the
delegates of so league members who
heard him in complete silence.
THE Chinese people have been
abandoned to their fate" he said.
"A disappearance (Austria) will not
even be recorded in the list of inter-
national crimes"
He said he should at least be al
lowed to "look at the vacant row of
seats" reserved for delegates from
German-annexed Austria. Caught by
his passion, almost all other delegates
turned to look.
1T was to be expected that the
magnificent effects Of the introduc-
ton Of the so-called realist policy in
International affairs. with its con-
tempt for peace and law, should re-
suit in fresh attempts at aggression
against Czechoslovakia," he declared,
"Aggressors, after all, follow the law
Of their destiny.
Registrar of Defeats.
1T is nations who have proclaimed
their respect for the sovereignty OF
states but who. always in the name OF
peace, have neglected their duty and
have turned the League Of Nations
into a mere registration ONCE Tor
recording defeats suffered in the ac-
complishment of its mission who are
responsible for the present SITUATION
Bitingly, he asked for what the
great western democracies" are wait
ing before they take action within
the framework of the League"
is it until half Of the European ma
tions represented here have become
paralyzed for the task of peace by dis
illusion and panic or until thsy have
ceased to exist as independent states?"
he demanded.
The present, he said, when the
peace of the world is endangered by
events whose magnitude and conse-
uuences weigh upon the whole assem-
bly," is no time to tamper with the
collective security that the League
provides.
Drive on Neutrality Pact.
The Spanish government simultane-
ously launched campaign today to
end the non-intervention agreement
which Great Britain hoped to keep
alive as . precedent for possible use
II Czecheslovakia and Germany should
60 to war.
Julio Alvarez del Vayo. Spanish
foreign minister, found Soviet Russia's
foreign commissar. Maxim Litvinoff,
eager and other League Of Nations
delegates willing to agree that attempts
to get foreign troops out of Spain were
futile.
The British, however, refused to
support any move on the on-interven-
ton question at present. Their spokes-
man indicated their decision would be
determined by developments in the
Czechoslovak crisis.
Evening star., 1938-09-19
JAPANESE ADVANCE
NORTH OF YANGTZE
Report Capture Of Village As
Miles East Of Strategic
Peiping. .Hankow. Line.
~ the Associated Press.

: ~ the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, Sept. 19-Japanese
columns, pushing overland north of
the Yangtze River toward Hankow,
reported new gains today.
One force, aiming at the Peiping-
Hankow railway, down which it hopes
to advance to the provisional capital,
reported 1t had captured the village
of Suntieth, about Is miles west of
Hwangchwan and IS miles east OF the
railroad.
Observers predicted the Chinese
would make stand for a major bat
tie somewhere east OF Sinyang, on the
Peiping Hankow line 100 miles north
of Hankow
Another Japanese column, moving
southward from Shangcheng, to the
southeast of Hwangchwan, reported it
was near the village Of Shawo, approxi-
mately 100 miles northeast of Han
kow.
Evening star., 1938-09-19
Protests Hospital Bombing.

HONG KONG, Sept. 10 CP.-Addi-
son E. Southard, American Consul
General, protested today to the Jap
anese consulate against bombing Of
the Baptist Hospital at Wuchow Sun
day.
Meager reports indicated the Bap-
tist girls school in the hospital COM
pound also was damaged and 40 Chi
nese were injured.
Evening star., 1938-09-19
Amarillo so Years Old,

Amarillo, Tex, with an estimated
$4,000 population and founded as a
COW town in the plains country, cele-
brates its 50th anniversary this year.
The Washington times., 1938-12-01
Rottenberg Wins Orator Contest
Who Gums Mexico Address Gets First Prize
Who Gums

First prize in the Davis Speaking
Contest, held at George Washing
ton University last night, went to
Simon Rottenberg, who spoke on
who Owns Mexico"
Scott Kirkpatrick, speaking on
Personal Integrity" was adjudged
second best, and Phoebe Jane
Beall, speaking on the topic "Is
Medical Economics Abreast of
Medical Science?" was adjudged
third best speaker.
The Davis prizes, oldest awards
Of the university, are for SIS. $40,
and SIS, and are presented to the
winners on class night in June.
The competition is limited to
seniors.
Last nights competition was pre-
sided over by Prof. Gilbert Hall, Of
THE law school faculty, and judges