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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-06-15

This town is what the people liv-
ing here have made It, nothing
more, nothing less. It will be in the
future, next year and the next year
what the people now living here
make it. # each one goes about his
own business and gives no thought
or effort toward improving the
town 1t win not progress or advance.
OF itself it cannot. We talk much
about our town better town, but
as we have no plan or make no def
mite efforts toward making It bet
ter town, it Is not going to improve
very fast. In other words our town
will be what we plan to make It. All
that 1t IS necessary to do Is to Sc
lect an objective, one definite thing
to do and then get behind It and
stay behind 1t until it is accomplish
ed. Every town that has made pro-
gress has done it in just this way,
and this formula will bring progress
to any town that sincerely applies It.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-06-15
s WHEELBASES

il2s Commercial units
122s"One-Tonner"
134 Regular and Cab-over-eneins
ISL Regular and Cab-over-ensios
lols Cab-over-engine
1917 School Bm Chassis E
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-06-15
DAIRY MONTH

During the last week or so, you've
probably seen good many signs in
stores urging you to use more milk
and dairy products. Also, you've
probably seen newspaper advertise
ments and heard radio programs
give you the same advice.
There's a good reason for that.
This month of June is National
Dairy Month. Led by the chain
stores. distributors Of America are
outdoing themselves in an effort to
encourage the consumer to buy
more dairy products, and at rea-
sonable prices.
The chain stores started this drive
at the request Of the dairy farmers
Of the country. Milk production is
at its peak. Normal demand IS not
large enough to absorb it. As q re-
suit, unless consumer demand is
materially increased, there will be
serious SURPRISES. This would re-
suit in forced-sale prices, often be-
low cost Of production, which in
turn would mean a reduction in
farm income-and q cut in farm
purchasing power which would adj
versely affect all industry, and ur-
ban as well as rural population.
The food chains are emphasizing
the value Of dairy products, and the
excellent bargains that the con-
sumner can obtain. And chain |
stores which do not deal In foods |
are likewise cooperating. Many such |
stores operate soda fountains.
luncheonettes and restaurants, and
hey are stressing the worth Of milk
n window and BAREBACK ADVERTISING.
And even those chains which do not
handle milk in any form, such as
he hardware, clothing and shoe
'roups, are giving space to publ
'izing dairy products.
From the consumers point Of
dew, this month-long milk drive
erves q good purpose. Dairy pro-
lucts are offered at prices which
i've the buyer good value for his
money, and at the same time as
ure q fair return to the producer.
md. as health experts often point
ut. increased milk consumption,
mong adults as well as children,
the key to higher national
ealth standard. All in all, Nation.
Dairy Month, now in observance.
an event deserving everybody,s
i'd and participation. 4
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-06-15

Other than day by day unsuc-
cessful hunt for job, the most dis
appointing thing in the world IS to
raise crop and not be able to get
production costs from it. In q
country like ours, where almost
anything can be raised, and almost
everything is, it seems like the
growers ought to be able to receive
at least their cost Of production.
However, In spite Of the fact that
everyone agrees that a controlled
marketing would be Of immense
help. little has been done along this
line. We are glad to see that the
spud growers are finally getting to-
gether and are taking steps to COR
rect the marketing evils which have
so long beset them.
It has been suggested that some
sort OF marketing agency be set
up for the district, composed of
those who are not compelled to
make profit from the handling Of
the products, place where it Is not
necessary to make q showing with q
profit from handling the crops. In
other words, an agency whose sole
purpose is to secure for the grow
ers the very last cent possible from
their crops. It's possible to have
an agency and probably it wouldn't
be difficult to find some way Of
running it. However, the demand
must come from the growers them
selves. They must agree not to undo
what benefits might accrue from
such a plan.
All the agencies for handling the
tanners produce in this section have
had faults. If it wasn't pure and
simple skin game, it was q get rich
quick project on the part Of some
smart slicker who figured ON a
quick cleanup, or perhaps on making
MS on the washing, packing or the
end of the deal. The very
few efforts at, cooperative market
ing which have had measure Of
success have gone haywire for one
reason or another, all Of which are
familiar to local growers.
Profiting by the mistakes Of prev
Ious years, it seems reasonable to
suppose that an agency solely for
the purpose of marketing our crops,
non-profit project, could be Of
immense value to this community.
Why don't somebody do something
about it? .#=-@
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-06-15

Thousands of men have made
outstanding successes of their bus
inesses through the power of adj
vertiSing. There is no record Of any
success made in the mercantile
field by any other means. The
time has gone by when any man
can rent room and put in stock
of merchandise and do profitable
volume of business without adver-
Using. The reason is that the buy
ing public has become advertising
conscious and does its shopping in
the advertising columns instead of
with market basket as grandfath-
er and grandmother used to do. Any
merchant can increase his volume
of business by means Of advertising
if his advertising is well gotten up,
and is backed by good merchandise
and modern, intelligent, and ag-
gressive merchandising. It is the
only formula for success in the
merchandising world of today.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-06-15

profits tax, the excess profits tax,
and the capital stock tax, q change
IN the law to permit business to
carry over net losses for several
years; reduction Of the surtax in
high brackets; change in the cor
porate income tax, to make it q
flat Is percent on incomes over $685.
600; reduction in the tax on small
corporations.
This program obviously doesn't
solve the tax problem by q long
shot, but it is definitely an appease-
ment policy. If it is enacted it
should give business a ray of hope.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-06-15
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Floyd Higley says there is some
thing else in this world besides
Evening star., 1939-10-27
D. T.. Heads Order
Tickets Cancelled by
Warnings Pub|icized
Differ From Maj. Brown
On Interpretation
Of Earlier Decree

Overriding the protests OF Police
Supt Ernest w. Brown, the Com
missioners today issued instructions
that in all cases in which a traffic
violation notice is Fixed or other
wise adjusted or Cancelled, the names
of the motorist and the sponsor for
the adjustment shall be made a
matter of public record-including
those cases in which warnings" are
substituted for the ticket.
The action was taken today at
the semi-weekly board meeting after
the Commissioners had consulted
informally for several days with
both Maj Brown and Corporation
Counsel Elwood H. Seal.
Maj. Brown last Monday published
a list of Is cases in which traffic
tickets were Cancelled" but he did
not make public the names involved
in 72 other cases, in which warnings
were issued. He contended he was
carrying out the Commissioners
order on the ground that the cases
in which warnings were issued did
not mean, under his Interpretation
that ticket had been Cancelled.
Mr.. Seal disagreed with Maj
Brown and his position was upheld
by the board. The Commissioners
directed their secretary. G.. M
Thornett, to send memorandum tc
Maj. Brown explaining that cases OF
warnings must be included.
The Commissioners said they did
not intend to apply the order to
cases in which police officers, in
stead of giving traffic violation
notices, issue courtesy warnings, as
is done in the case of out-of- town
cars harmlessly but illegally parked
However, they said this was not to
be confused with instances in which
violation notices actually were
issued and warnings later substi-
tuted. They held such practices
constituted cancellation
Mr.. Seal had advised the Commits
sioners that the disposition of any
traffic violation notice by means OF
issuance of a warning was in fact
cancellation and that any other
Interpretation would be equivalent
to an evasion" of the order.
The list of ticket fixees and ticket
fixers, together with the reasons
stated, is being made available to
the press once week, on Mondays
Evening star., 1939-10-27
Sailors Amid Wreckoge Help
Sink Second Ship UnwittingIy

IT put the Ledbury's stern toward
the submarine" said Capt. Rice, and
ordered an SOS dispatched.
"Thereupon the submarine COM
menced shelling the Ledbury heavily.
l instantly ordered the crew to
abandon ship and ran to the cabin
to secure the ships papers.
"While was doing so, shell burst
on the deck underneath, wrecking
the cabin. The Ledbury began to
sink, and myself and my whole crew,
plus the men from the Menin Ridge,
got safely into two ifeboats just as
she sank, at 10 am, stern first.
"The submarine then approached
the lifeboats and her commander
shouted in good English:
Its Winston Churchill (irst lord
of the British admiralty and the
money grabbers of London who want
war who are to blame; we don't
want war;"
Capt. Rice said the Crown City ap-
peared three hours later and brought
the two boatloads of men here.
I'VE are all indebted to Capt. w. E.
Carley OF the Crown City and his
whole crew for their multiple cour-
tesies," Capt. Rice said.
Evening star., 1939-10-27
British-Joponese Tolks
On Tientsin May Resume
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, Oct. 27.-British Ambas-
sador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie con-
ferred today with Vice Foreign Min
lister Masayuki Tani on renewal OF
the Japanese-B British conference on
the Tientsin dispute.
Domei, Japanese news agency,
said they discussed the possibility
of reopening the conference in the
form of negotiations between Sir
Robert and Japan's foreign minister,
Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura.
The conference began last sum-
mer between British and japanese
delegations in an effort to settle
issues which grew out of the jap
anese blockade of the British and
French concessions in Tentsin. Me-
gotiations were disrupted in August
when Britain rejected Japan's de-
mands that economic questions be
included In the discussionS.
Evening star., 1939-10-27
Nozi Troops Mass
Near Netherlands Border

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 27 (P.-Con-
centrations of German troops
sighted along the southern half of
the Netherlands German frontier
caused nervousness today in villages
along the border.
The German troops were plainly
visible from the hills which line
the frontier from Gennep to Vaals
This was said to be the first time
there had been any noticeable
troop movements opposite the Meth
erlands Province of Limburg, al
though a week ago observers noted
new Notifications were under con-
struction in the Siegfried Line op-
posite Vaals at the southern tip of
the Netherlands.
The Taal Hills behind Vaals over
look Aachen, which is a key point
in the Siegfried Line. The southern
half of Limburg province lies be-
tween Germany and Belgium and
Vaals is the point from which parts
of three countries-Germany, Bel
gium and the Netherlands-can be
seen.
For several hours eye witnesses in
the Netherlands near Venlo, Gen.
nep, Sittard and Vaals said they saw
many military cars filled with SOL
diers and troops on the march in
the fortified and rolling country
across the frontier.
These troops disappeared sud-
denly and observers assumed they
had entered deep Notifications
which line the low hills of the Ger
man western wall across from Linz
burg.
Normal communications to Ger
many were subject to long delays
and it was impossible to get tele-
phone call through to Aachen, a
point where previous reports have
said there were large German troop
concentrations.
There were few Netherlands SOL
diers either along the frontier itself
or in extreme southern Limburg,
although the border roads are
heavily mined and barricaded.
Evening star., 1939-10-27
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
GIBRALTAR, Oct. 27.-Five men
clinging to the wreckage of British
ship were the unintentional decoys
that a German submarine used in
sinking her second victim at the
same spot, Capt. Norman Rice OF
the freighter Ledbury declared to-
day.
Capt. Rice, his entire crew of Is
men and the five earlier castaWays
were landed here by the American
freighter Crown City.
The skipper said that about 80
miles west of Cape Spartel, African
promcntory on the Strait of Gibral-
tar, the Ledbury came upon the five
men amid the wreckage of Tuesday
morning.
Instructing his radio operator to
stand by, he cautiously circled in a
calm sea and finally managed to
cast line to one of the men. The
others were picked up in a lifeboat.
All proved to be seamen from the
Menin Ridge, sunk a little while be-
fore by q submarine.
Suddenly the U-boat reappeared
and fred . shot which missed the
Ledbury.
Evening star., 1939-10-27
The War Situation

The United States steamer City
of Flint is being sailed from the
Russian port of Murmansk to the
German port of Hamburg by a
prize crew from the German
pocket battleship Deutschland,
official advices received in Berlin
declared. The freighter was re-
ported somewhere along the Nor
Wegian coast. A prize court is
planned to sit at Hamburg on the
fate of the ship and her cargo.
page AID
In Moscow United States Am
bassador Laurence A. Steinhardt
was granted an interview by the
Soviet foreign Office after a long
delay during which repeated re-
quests for an appointment had
failed to bring results. Mr.. Stein
hardt saw Vice Commissar of
Foreign Affairs Vladimir Potem-
kin, but the result of the inter-
view was not Immediately an
nounced. page AID
In Washington resident
Roosevelt declared that he
lacked sufficient information to
comment on the seizure of the
City of Flint. Previously reports
from Moscow that the City of
Flint had been permitted to sail
from Murmansk under the
American flag raised hopes that
the United States had won VIC
tory in the tense diplomatic
struggle. page AID
Evening star., 1939-10-27

Pope Plus XII issued the first
encyclical of his reign toddy, con-
demning governments which "as-
sumo that absolute autonomy
which belongs exclusively to the
Supreme Maker" and Offering
consolation to dismembered Po-
land. The Pontiff also pleaded
for settlements at the end of the
present European war which
would avoid the errors of past
treaties. page AID
On the western front German
forces have moved tanks and
rapid-fire artillery into attacking
positions on the Siegfried Line,
it was reported in Paris. Ger
mans were in "jump-off" spots all
along the northern sector of the
front, it was said. The French
said they expected the German
attack when rift appeared in
the cold and flood conditions
which prevail on some parts of
the front. page A-1D
Inhabitants of the Danish
island of Seiero. which lies in the
Kattegat between Denmark and
Sweden, reported that they saw a
naval battle involving planes and
warships today, but the ministry
OF marine at Copenhagen denied
that there was any such action
in the area. Swedish news 1e-
ports said the activity of German
warships in Baltic waters had
increased in the last few days.
page AID
Evening star., 1939-10-27
n. |. R. B. Reaffirms
Policy on Run-off
Election Of Employees
leiserson, However,
StrenuousIy Opposes
Majority Opinion
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
Over the objection of Member
William NJ Leiserson, the Labor
Board reaffirmed today its policy as
to runoff elections among en-
ployes.
Chairman j. Warren Madden and
Edwin S. Smith. in a majority
opinion, declared that the device OF
a run-off election was the most
satisfactory solution in cases where
neither of two competing unions
received majority because of the
small number of votes cast.
In the two cases ruled on today
the board directed elections on
whether or not employees wanted to
be represented by the union which
had received the most votes.
Decision Declared Arbitrary.
Mr.. Leiserson, who contended this
decision was arbitrary" and
stretching the discretion of the
board beyond proper bounds
argued that petitions should be dis
missed in such cases without preju-
dice to the right of either union to
file new petition when it could
show a majority.
He held that the runoff election
forced those who were opposed to
one organization to vote against all
collective bargaining and that the
board should not establish a proce-
dure of runoff elections without ex-
pressed authority from Congress.
Whether elections should be con-
Quoted on the basis of simple ma
jorities, second choices or other
forms of preferential voting, he said
"are political questions upon which
the people of the country have
strong differences of opinion" He
added that he thought the board
should refrain from adopting any
of the systems of second-choice vot-
ing to create an artificial majority
where the first choice result in nc
majority
Danger of Minority Stressed.
On the other hand, the board ma
jority pointed out that its policy OF
permitting ballot space for votes
against any labor organization fire.
quently resulted in none receiving
a majority. AS a consequence, the
board stated, small minority OF
employees would deprive the greater
majority of all opportunity for col
lective bargaining if no further elec-
tion were held.
The board directed a run-off elec-
ton within 80 days among employees
(See LABOR BOARD, Page A-14)
Evening star., 1939-10-27
Nazis Move Tanks
And Guns Into Line
AT 'Jump-off' Spots
French Believe Germans
Will Delay Attack
Until Weather Abutes
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, Oct. 27.-The Germans
have moved tanks and rapid fire
artillery into attacking positions on
the Siegfried line, French military
observers reported today.
French patrol reports indicated
that the Germans facing the Magi-
not Notifications were in 'jumpoff"
spots all along the northern flank,
but an intense cold snap proved an
ally of the French, who said they
were all set for a German offensive.
The Council of Ministers, meet
ing with President Albert Lebrun
in Elysee Palace, approved ratifica-
ton of the French-British- Turkish
mutual assistance accord signed
October 10 in Ankara.
Premier Daladier gave the min
listers a long review of the war and
the diplomatic situation
Two DEGREES submitted by Agri-
cultural Minister Henri Queuille
were signed, providing for the pur-
chase and storage by the govern
ment Of agricultural surpluses.
The cold and flooded regions in
some parts of the front caused
French observers to doubt that a
German drive would be immediate,
but they said they expected it as
rift in the weather appeared.
Reconnoitering units skirmished
in snow. sleet and icy rain along
the 10O-mile northern flank last
night, getting some artillery support
as they wallowed in the ice-crusted
mud.
The French morning communique
said that during the night there was
local activity of reconnaissance
units"
Believe Push Is Imminent.
The sudden rigid control of Ger
man communications with Belgium
and the Netherlands also led the
French to suspect that big Ger
man push was imminent.
The French have estimated that
Germany now has 100000 men
either in front line or supporting
positions.
French reports also said huge
numbers of Nazi bombers and fight
ing planes were being brought up
to airdromes just behind the Sieg-
fried line. but the French were de-
pending on the weather to keep
them grounded, at least temporarily.
Evening star., 1939-10-27
Nobel Prize Winner
Awaits HitIer's O. K.

BY the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 27.-Dr. Ger
hart Domagk of Wupperthal, Ger
many, awarded the Nobel Prize for
physiological medicine for 1889,
withheld acceptance today pending
possible authorization by the Ger
man government.
The award to DR.. Domagk was for
his discoveries on the effect of pion-
tosil on streptococcic infections. He
is A years old and director of the
I. G. Farben Research Laboratories
The 1888 award, also announced
last night, went to Prof. Corneille
Heymans of the University OF
Ghent, Belgium, for his work on the
influence of the aortic regions in
respiration.
Evening star., 1939-10-27
Pope Assai|s
Rampant Power
Of States
Poles ConsoIed in
First EncycIicoI
Of Reign
(Tert OF official summary OF the
Pope's encyclical on page A-5)

BY the Associated Press.
CASTEL GANDOLFO. Oct. 81
Pope Plus XII today condemned
governments which assume that
absolute autonomy which belongs
exclusively to the Supreme Maker"
and offered consolation to dismem-
bered Poland.
In the first encyclical of his reign
the Pontiff. after recounting the
failure OF his efforts for peace, also
pleaded for settlements at the end
of the present European war which
would avoid the errors of past
treaties which failed to bring last
ing peace.
He blamed denial of "the au-
thority of God and the sway of His
law" for the rise of governments
which make the state "the last end
of life"
Continuing his attack on claims of
unlimited authority by the state, the
Pope said such practice was mot
simply an error harmful to the in
ternal life of nations, to their pros
perity, to a larger well-ordered in
crease of their well-being, but like
wise Injuries relations between peo-
pies
It's effects, he added, were to
'break the unity of supranational
society. rob the law of nations of
foundation and vigor and lead to
a violation of others rights and i'm
pede agreement and peaceful inter-
course"
The war, he said, would fail to i'm
pose decisive change in conditions
unless followed by treaties of peace
animated by justice and by equity
toward all
He warned there is danger lest
settlements be born in such condi-
tons as sacrifices and sufferings."
At the same time, he said, respect
for treaties was indispensable to
peace.
"As we write these lines" the Pope
said, the terrible news comes to us
that the dread tempest of war is al
ready raging in spite of all our ef-
forts to avert it."
He said new errors" added to the
"doctrinal alterations of the past
have pushed these ito extremes
which lead inevitably to a drift
toward chaos"
"Once the authority of God and
the sway of His law are denied in
this way" Pope Plus declared in his
letter of more than 1000 words to
all Catholic bishops, civil authority
as an inevitable result tends to at
tribute to itself that absolute au-
tonomy which belongs exclusively to
the Supreme Maker.
TT puts itself in the place of the
Almighty and elevateS the state or
group into the last end of life, the
supreme criterion of moral and juri-
dical order, and therefore forbids
every appeal to the principles of
natural reason and Christian con-
science"
Fortunately, false principles do
not always exercise their full inf1u-
ence, especially when the age-old
Christian traditions on which peo-
piles have been nurtured remain still
deeply, even if unconsciously, rooted
in their hearts," the Pope declared.
This was interpreted as refer
ence to such devoutly Catholic peo-
piles as the Poles.
Poland, the Pontiff said, 1has the
right to generous brotherly SYM
(See POPE, Page A-5.)