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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-12-07
Quick War Relief
Given by Red Cross
ShipWrecked American Citizens,
Wounded Poles, Refugees,
Repatriates Aided

Misunderstanding American Red
Cross moved quickly at the onset OF
hostilities in Europe to organize relief
for war sufferers and give aid to Ameri'
can citizens stranded in danger zones
or rescued from sea-warfare catas
trophe.
Red Cross officials pointed out that
following contact of German-Polish
forces on September 1. the organiza'
ton made available medical relief for
civilians and armies of Poland; pro-
yided aid for Americans repatriat1ng
: from Europe as they landed in the
United States ports; granted medical
and maintenance assistance to Amer1'
can survivors of the Athena" first
sea casualty of the war; gave financial
aid to the American Hospital in Paris.
France; and developed a comprehen-
sive communications system to allay
the fears of distraught relatives.
Norman H. Davis, chairman, cabled
the International Red Cross Committee
in Geneva on September l asking what
relief would be needed from the Ameri
can Red Cross. In first step in con-
solidating Red Cross relief forces
throughout the nation, 300 Red Cross
chapters were authorized to begin pro.
ducing refugee garments and to ac-
cept contributions for war relief.
A quick response from the Polish
Red Cross to Chairman Davis cable to
the International Committee resulted
in an American Red Cross appropria
ton of $4,000 for the purchase Of As
items of medicines, and for army
blankets and quantity of large hos.
pital tents capable Of housing so
stretcher cases each.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-12-07
REMINDS ANGLERS OF LIMITS

Reviewing the special winter steel
head regulations, the state giame de-
partment reminds fishermen that in
addition to the daily and possession
limit Of three steelheads, there is a
limit Of six fish per week. For pur-
poses Of this regulation week com
mences Sunday morning and ends
Saturday night. All steelheads must
be 1 6inches in length OF larger.
The special steelhead season open
ed December l and will run through
next February 20 on II specifically
named streams flowing into the Puget
Sound and the Pacific ocean. Conn
mencing January l there will be q
three months season in the following
counties:
Columbia. Douglas, Ferry Franklin,
/ Garfield, Okanogan, Pend Oreille,
Skamania, Spokane, Stevens, Walla
Walla,, Whitman, Wahkiakum, Yaki-
liz, anu tHoso pdlts VI hoWIS GIN
Pacific counties drained by the Colum-
bia river.
For localized exceptions to genera
season regulations, anglers are adj
vised to consult the game depart
ment's official pamphlet available tt
all hunting and fishing license ven
! doris.
Steelhead bag limits are not to be
confused with the regular daily and
possession limit Of 20 fish OR 10
pounds Of game fish and one fish
which continues on the 50-odd lakes
and streams open to year-round fish
ing.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-12-07

with foreign relations with the Presi'
dent, whom the Constitution charges
with that responsibility.
They could not 60 very hard N
their arraignment of Congress, OF
course, when such outstanding mem
bers Of the Republican party as Sena'
tor Taft and Representative Wads'
worth spoke for and voted for the
repeal of the measure that helped
merely the dictator powers of Europe
and handicapped the democracies now
battling against them.
The Menace Of Prosperity
According to the official dispenser
of Republican propaganda, the adj
journment of the special session was
apparently the result Of New Desl
strategy.
"It's (the New Deal's) leaders
are gambling everything on the con
tinuation of war in Europe" says he
He goes on to suggest that perhaps
the upward progress of industry IL
this country may not continue. Thell
wishful thought in this direction Il
indicated by such sentences as these;
'The first result, undoubtedly, woule
be severe jar to this country's econ
omic system. Then it would b'
impossible to justify huge nationa
defense spending program"
From there the propaganda goo
on to prophesy that "each country
(meaning the belligerents) has hug
stocks of war material. Except fe1
airplanes, there is little the warning
countries need at this time.' He fur
Their suggests that the eash-and carry
legislation may work to depress for
eign trade, particularly in agricultur
al products, and that the embattlet
nations will do their buying of othe1
than airplanes and munitions in Can
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-12-07
ada, Australia, and elsewhere.

ada, Australia, and elsewhere.
In other words. the argument APP
pears to be that if our business ad-
vance continues, with the resulting
prosperity to our producers and a
diminution of our unemployment, the
New Deal is going to win in the 1910
elections. So it may be logically gath
cred that the Republican strategy bu'
reau would welcome another depres
sion, on the theory that it would
give them hope at least of carrying
the country next November.
To put it bluntly, they would
rather have depression and Re
publican president than prosperity
with o Democrat in the White House
They do not even indicate, let alone
specify, what kind Of a Republican
they would like to see in the White
House-whether one of the Herbert
Hoover complexion or a Vandenberg
willing to be either liberal or con
notwithstanding to which per
suation the forthcoming campaign de
mands, or Dewey-like candidate who
apparently has no views in either di
lcction,, or even some comparatively
unknown figure, such as Governor
| Landon was in 1886.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-12-07
WSC STUDENTS COME
FROM FAR PLACES

Thirty-six states, 6 territories and
foreign countries, and every county
in Washington are represented among
the record establishing total Of 4014
students in attendance this semester
at the State College Of Washington.
Canada ranks first among foreign
countries and territories, sending 80
students to Washington State despite
the complications resulting from the
war. Alaska is second with "a, while
Hawaii sends 8 students. Five stu
dents come from the Philippines. The
Canal Zone contributes and Hol.
land l.
The State of Washington has S4oS
at Pullman, as against 527 students
from the 35 other states represented.
California Us second with 1919, while
Oregon is third with So. Montana with
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-12-07
IS and Representatives

rs and Representatives
tsected what turned out to
e e delay in the administration e
program were hailed as high
cd, patgiotic, infinitely wise
full public servants who had say
ountry. Now that the special
n as enacted the embargo re-
and gone home, Congress again
ONES pusillanimous body-almost
rubber stamp chamber of the
@ etages of the COP assaults. The
principal group at this particular
time appears to be that Congress did
not remain in session and take up
again the controversy over domestic
issues which were tacitly laid aside
because Of the situation begotten by
he European war. The simple fact
that the special session was called for
Hecific purpose Of correcting the
f the old neutrality act as
cd by the outfit that now &C
tuses the Congress of recreancy be-
cause it has left the authority to DIAL
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-12-07
.ri.seo EVERY Tnursday Morning
he Interest of Couleo City and
me Neixhb0ring Vicinity.

Jay be recalled that some months
en- Congress was turning down
j. "a gures as the repeal of the
,ne Republican publicists
zen with awe and admira-
'ority of the national
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-12-07
COULEE CITY DISPATCH
I. W. {BLs) HIIsoaE, Editor

entered at the postoffice at Coules
City. Wash, as second-class matter.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1939-12-07

THREE ROOM MODERN HOUSE
and furniture at Electric City. House
built for moving. $335.00 cash. This
is real bargain-Box $50, Electric
City, Wash. adv.
Evening star., 1939-02-26

shorter lives have made so pro-
found an impression on history.
Meanwhile every year new light is
being thrown on her brief career
and the latest comes from the arch
Biological exploration of the scene
of the most exciting event in her
life-her kidnapping by the English
which resulted in her marriage-it
is hard to imagine it a romance
with the sanctimonious Rolfe.
The Smithsonian Institution now
is carrying on excavations on the
site of the big Indian town of Pata-
womeke, on the Virginia bank of
the Potomac River in Stafford
County, about 10 miles from the
present county seat and on almost
the exact site of the long-vanished
colonial town of Marlboro. The site
has been identified from a map
made by Capt. John Smith who
first visited the Indian sediment in
1903. The place is notable not only
for its associations with John Smith
and Pocahontas, but also as the
point of origin of the deplorable
American gangster practice of kid
naping.
Smith found a town with a popu-
lation of about 1000. He described
it as the capital Of a Kingdom u
familiar instance of the complete
inability Of the European to think
in terms other than those of Euro
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oysters when the queer phenom-
enon started which, had it not been
nipped in the bud, might have had
very momentous consequences in
the history of the world. The race
began to produce extreme mutants.
One of these-maybe he had known
Pocahontas when she was a very
small child-was potentially the
most intelligent man the human
race ever has produced. At least
he had the biggest normal brain
known to anthropologists. Another
was Powatan himself-the first
American gangster who out-Ca-
poned Capone 300 years before Ca
pone himself was born. And still
another was this girl Pocahontas.
Her original portrait, painted when
she visited England in 1916, was for
many years at the home of Burton
Harrison, former governor general
of the Philippines, at Aleas, Scot
land. It was obtained by Mr.. Harri-
son from an.English family in Nor
folk in whose possession it had been
for close to 300 years. They were
neighbors of the Rolfe family. There
had been good deal of intermar-
riage.
Light on Career.
Pocahontas was q years old when
the portrait was painted. She died
the next year, Just as she had
started to return to America. Few
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Reproduction of Portrait at Smithsonian
Shows Primevally Feminine
POcahontas of 2l

however, have been able to outline
its stockade by the imprints of the
post holes
Kidnapping Story.
The story of Pocahontas' kidnap-
ing is told in a compilation of the
works and travels of Smith:
But to conclude our peace thus
is happened. Captaine Argall, hav-
ing entered into a great acquaint-
ance with Japazaws, an old friend
of Captaine Smiths, and so to all
our nation ever since we discov-
cred the countrie; heard by him
there was Pocahontas whom Cap
tame Smiths Relations intituteth
the Numparall of Virginia, and
though she had been many times
preserver of him and the whole COL
onie, yet till this accident shee was
never seen at James -ToWne since
his departure.
Being at Patawomeke, as 1t
seems, thinking her selfe unknowne,
was easily by her friend Iapazaws
persuaded to goe abroad with him
and his wife to see the ship; for
Captaine Argall had promised him
a Copper Kettle to bring her but
to him, promising no way to hurt
her, but keepe her till they could
conclude a peace with her father.
The salvage for this Copper Kettle
would have done anything, it seemed
by the relation For though shee
had scene and beene in many ships,
yet hee caused his wife to fame how
desirous shee was to see one, that
he offered to beat her for her i'm
portunitie till she wept. But at
last he told her. if Pocahontas would
goe with her he was content; and
thus they betraied the poor inno-
cent Pohahontas aboard, where
they were all kindly feasted in the
| cabin.
"Iapazaws treading oft on the
captaine's foot, to remember he had
done his part; the captaine when he
saw his time persuaded Poca-
hontas to the gun roome; fainting
to have some conference with Iapa-
Jaws, which was onely that she
should not perceive hee was any way
guiltie of her captivity; so sending
for her againe he told her before
her friends she must goe with
him, and compound peace betwixt
her cozntrie and us; whereat the
old Iapazaws and his wife began tC
howl and erie as fast as Pocahontas
that upon the captaine's fair per-
swations, by degrees pacifying her
selfe; and Iapazaws and his wife
with the kettle and other TOTES. went
merrily on shore, and shee to James
ToWne."
Evening star., 1939-02-26

"Bloodfield," section situated
on the border lines of the south
west and southeast parts of South
Washington. was in it's day one of
the most dangerous spots in the
city, and much blood was shed
there. which accounts for its name.
1t included several alleys in its area,
and it apparently endeavored to
live up to its reputation.
Another section with a similar
reputation was "Hell's Bottom"
This "high-sounding" locality had
its center about Eleventh and R
streets, and it was nearby that
policeman lost his life many years
ago while trying to capture felon
in dark room The criminal shot
first and the officer died few min
utes later, but before he passed
Evening star., 1939-02-26
The old Naval Observatory
on Camp Hill at the foot OF
TWenty-tourth street.

enue Building a number of rows OF
piles, some Is or more feet below
the surface OF the ground, were un-
covered about midway of the block
between Constitution and Pennsyl-
vania avenues. They had been
there so long that they had been
forgotten, and at the time they were
unearthed their presence proved
quite curiosity. 1t is evident they
were the supports for a wharf or
series of wharves, built here possibly
as early as 1900, at the head of
basin. AS the water was shallow at
this point the boatmen did not enter
until high tide and then tied their
boats or scoWs as near the wharf as
possible.
The Washington City Canal was
begun in 1909 and declared COM
pleted in the autumn of 1915. An
account of the exercises incident to
its completion, written at the time,
tells us that a barge was provided
for the directors and other officials
of the company and for members
of the City Council and prominent
citizens as we'll The Marine Band
followed in another vessel to en-
liven the occssion, and we are told
it took one-half hour to make the
2-mile trip from the starting point
at Twelfth and B streets northwest
to the Eastern Branch. However,
from this time on something was
always being done to the canal.
The basin between Tenth and
Twelfth streets was filled up in
1850, and the old piles which sup
ported the wharf at this place were
never seen from this date until 1928.
Disreputable Area.
Following the Civil War, from
Tenth to Fifteenth streets and from
Ohio avenue to D street NV, be-
came Washington's most disreputa-
BILE section, which was Only wiped
out a few decades ago by an act OF
Evening star., 1939-02-26

Congress. In the early days, how
ever, many OF the most refined citi-
zens dwelt in this neighborhood and
only moved elsewhere when forced
to do so to escape revolving condi-
tlons.
Seventy-hve years ago, and in
some cases even more recently, there
were in Washington more than 400
alleys and courts with definite
names, besides many the names Of
which were unknown except to those
living in the particular section and
by the police. Naturally, there were
some nice people who lived in these
alleys and courts, but in many in
stances the reverse was the case,
and here were frequently found
those who did not hesitate to break
the law.
Evening star., 1939-02-26

away he got his man. the coroner
had two cases to pass on.
"Foggy Bottom" Recalled.
"Foggy Bottom" had its good spots
as we'll as its bad ones. This area
extended, in a general way, from
Seventeenth street to Rock Creek
and from S street south to the
river. At an early date there were
some very nice residences built in
this part of the city, known as
Hamburg or Funkstown at the time
the Capital was laid out, and later,
also, as part of the first ward, for
voting purposes. when the people
of Washington had some say as to
just how they should be taxed.
But the lower part of this area,
particularly, did not develop very
fast. and, as the land was cheap, it
attracted a class of people who
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SCOTCH CASTLE HAS FAMOUS PORTRAIT POCAHONTAS
Virginia's Indian Princess Found Kindred
Souls Long Ago in Highlands
Where She Died

So she probably is terribly spoiled
and snooty by this time.
A sort of free masonry of frus-
tration has arisen among the lovers
of this mystically haunting face.
Unanimously elected as perpetual
grand master is the man who was
both the luckiest and unluckiest
of her suitors, the worlds most
completely forgotten man. her first
husband. The lodge is seriously con-
sidering collecting subscriptions to
erect a monument to his memory
on the Potomac River somewhere
near Fredericksburg, Va. At the
same time the boys are planning
to gang up on the ghost of her
second or third husband, a sancti-
monious Englishman named John
Rolfe.
For the lady of the picture, of
course, is the Princess Pocahontas
best loved child of King PoWatan
the First of Virginia. She was, it
may be noted in passing. really a
princess, the only American Indian
girl who ever lived with any claim
whatsoever to that title. Her father
had been crowned king in accord
ance with the appropriate English
ritual for such occasions and was
just as good king as James the
First. They had to catch him and
hold him in order to crown him.
and the savage old man never be-
haved as a monarch should-but
that is another story.
Recent Arrivals.
Old Powatan had loved this
strange, wild, lovely daughter
little wanton" as he fondly called
her, or "poca hontas" in Virginia
Algonquin. When she was a small
child he had sensed, just as Capt
John Smith and the English por-
trait painter sensed, that she was
| different, mysteriously seductive
strangely unworldly. Something
biologically inexplicable and mo-
mentous was happening to the Vir-
| ginia Indians in the generations
of Powatan and Pocahontas. BY
and large, they had come from q
poor lot compared to Indians ir
general-shiftless, lazy, stolid, not
very intelligent. They had beer
relatively recent immigrants tt
Virginia from the Far North where
their blood probably had beer
mixed with that of the most in.
telligent branch of the human race
the Eskimos, and they still spoke
a language which would have beer
understood around the shores o.
Hudsons Bay.
They had settled down stoliGiy
] in Virginia to raise corn and cal
Evening star., 1939-02-26
By Thomas K. Henry.

On a wall of a Scotch castle was
a portrait of a strange and lovely
lady.
Mysteriously glamourous is the
face. The haunting eyes are win
dows into misty depths of unhappy,
far-off things. They are lit with
the death flares of tuberculosis. The
girl was dying when her picture
was painted. One can imagine a
mystic violinist playing in the
depths of spirit mist behind those
eyes threnody of dead loves and
great sorrows and yearnings no man
can understand. There are strains
of the Northland in that music, of
the Northern lights where the dead
are dancing. of the fir forests buried
in snow. There are softer strains
of the warm haze over the Blue
Ridge Mountains in summer and
of Judas trees in bloom on Virginia
hillsides in April.
It is the face Of one who was
unconventional and primevally fem
inine, and with an intuition of the
mysteries of life that made her
contemptuous of all mems proprie-
ties, of child of the woods and
the north winds. Many have fallen
in love with that picture, as the
unknown artist must have fallen
in love with the mysterious princess
he was painting.
In exile is the lady, there in
Scotland. And yet, if her spirit
haunts her picture, perhaps it is
not an unwelcome exile. For in
the Scotch highlands there were
kindred souls long ago with the
same wild joyousness of living, the
same sense of the uncanny, the
same sad verve of living.
Copy at Smithsonian.
There is reproduction Of the
picture at the Smithsonian Institu-
ton. Many are the hearts thai
have been made captive by the
dead girls eyes, just as they cap
tivated many while she was living
Sad to say, she has had at least
two husbands already. she has beer
dead for more than 300 years, ane
in the long interval she has at
tanned social status in this wickee
world that places her forever be-
yond the dreams of her plebeiar
worshippers. She has actually be-
come the maternal ancestor of 6
few Presidents, some very bad pic
lures of her have been printed or
postage stamps, and chapters of tn,
Daughters of the American Revo'
luton have been named after her
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pean political institutions. The
English expected to find kingdoms
and found them every few miles,
despite the fact that there was never
anything remotely resembling
Europena state from the Rio Grande
River to the Arctic Ocean nor has
there ever been, at the time of the
Jamestown colony or since, any in
dividual with any civil authority
whatsoever over anybody School
children who read in their history
books about the doings of Chief So
andSo-Philip. Tecumseh, Pontiac,
Powatan and the rest-may be as
sured that it is all pure nonsense.
Perhaps a slight exception should
be. made for the case with which
we are here concerned, an eXcep-
ton which proves the rule. Poca-
hontas' father was remarkable
man. Without any authority what
soever for doing so and in defiance
of all the traditions of his race,
he had proceeded to terrorize and
collect tribute from a number of
neighboring towns as a price for not
Draining their inhabitants while
they slept. Patawomeke was one of
these towns.
Strained Relations.
After John Smith departed from
Jamestown relations between Pow
hatan and the English soon became
strained. Both the colonists and
her father recognized that Poca-
hontas was a valuable hostage. She
was hidden away at Patawomeke
In 1872, through the treachery OF
an Indian, she was kidnapped by
Capt. Samuel Argall and taken to
Jamestown, where she was held cap
tive while negotiations were con-
Quoted with her father for the re-
turn of certain English prisoners
During her captivity she met John
Rolfe, who, as he said sancti-
moniously later, married "the de-
praved creature" in order to save
her soul. This temporarily restored
good feelings between the Indian:
and whites.
The site of Patawomeke, on 6
neck of land between Aqua anc
Potomac Greeks, long has beer
known to archeologists as the site
of large Indian settlement. A
comparison with Smiths maps nov
leaves no doubt of its identity.
The place presumably ran true
to the pattern of Virginia Indiar
towns, stockaded and consisting o.
flimsily constructed log huts COW
cred with bark. All remains of 1t!
buildings have long since disap'
! peared. Smithsonian archeologists
Evening star., 1939-02-26

built small homes and many shacks.
Like "Swampoodle," "Cowtown,"
Holy Hill" and other old sections of
the District and city of fond memory,
here was always to be found spe-
cies OF goats that fed on tin cans
and worn-out tin utensils. The 20
ologist classifies certain animals ac-
cording to the nature of the food
they live on, as herbivorous, carni-
vorous or insectivorous, but into just
what classification the scientist
would put the can-eating group the
writer is willing to acknowledge he
does not know. though he avows
there we're such animals in his
boyhood days-or at least there ap-
peared to be.
An early writer on Washington