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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-05-09
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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-05-09
Notice Of School District Bond
EclAnAiAn

N0SlCe Oh SCnOOA OhSStnCt DVhA
Election
Notice is hereby given that q
special election will be held in the
city hall in the City of Kennewick
in School District No. IL Of Benton
County, State of Washington on the
oath day of May, 1910, for the pur-
pose of determining whether or not
the directors of said school district
shall borrow money and issue serial
numbered bonds in the amount OF
Twenty-Thousand Dollars ($20,OOO.-
O0) for the purpose OF providlng
funds for the purchase of six schoo!
buses, each having a capacity OF
fifty-eignt passengers.
Said bonds, if issued, shall bear
rate OF interest not to exceed SIX
per centum per annum payable semi
annually; shall mature and become
payable semi-annually in their
numerical order, lowest numbers
first, beginning the second year att
err date of issue and in SUCH
amounts las nearly as practicable)
as will, together with interest on
the outstanding bonds be met by
equal annual tax levieS for the pay
ment of said bonds and interest.
The said bonds shall run over a
period of ten years, said period OF
time being las near as practicable)
equivalent to the life of the buses
to be acquired by the use OF said
bonds; provided that said school
district reserves the right to pay or
redeem said bonds, or any OF them,
at any time after two years from
the date thereof.
The election will be by ballot
which ballot will contain the prop
osition to be voted upon as fellows:
Shall the district issue Twenty
Thousand Dollars ($20,000.00) in
bonds for the purchase OF six school
buses each having a capacity of
fifty-eight passengers.
Said bonds, if issued, shall bear a
rate of interest not to exceed six
per cent per annum, payable semi
annually; shall mature and become
payable serially in their numerical
order, lowest numbers first, begin
ming the second year after the date
of issue, and in such amounts las
near as practicableD as viii, to-
gether with interest on the out
standing bonds, be met by equal an
nual tax levies for the payment of
said bonds and interest.
Said bonds shall run over period
of ten years, said period Of time
being las near as practicable)
equivalent to the life of the school
buses to be acquired by the use of
said bonds, provided that said school
district reserves the right to pay
or redeem said bonds, or any of
them, at any time after two years
from the date thereof.
Those IN favor of the issuance of
bonds as above explained will vote
BONDS, YES, those opposed,
BONDS, NO.
The polls will be open from ! o.
clock pm. to 8 o'clock pm.
BY the Board of Directors.
Dated this 9th Gay of May, 1910.
MARGARET REYMORE
School District Clerk.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-05-09

During a pageant a.
Marques for President carn. s'
Portugal a motor float reD,.s.i
the cotton industry bun ,''p
flames and the pageant vs'
while the local fire bripads A. !. = :
uiShed the blaze. es
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-05-09
Motor Sign 30 Years Old

MARICOPA, CALF Of the
country's oldest signs giving direc-
tons to motorists still stands and is
enforced by Police Chief James Co.
sens. The sign reads: "Maricopa
City Limits, Close Muff,er." 1t was
erected 80 years ago.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-05-09

A trade agreement favorable to
Kennewick would be for this ma
ton to do all the selling and the
other nations to do all the buying.
Much water has run under the
bridge since the fad for pole-sitting
took a tumble.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-05-09

During the recent concert in Bonn
bay, India, two policemen paraded
in front Of the building carrying
placards reading: symphony con-
cert in progress; please drive
quietly"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-05-09
Good Neighb0r Policy

FELTON,, Calf. residents regard the
good neighbor policy as being just
as applicable domestically as inter-
nationally. When a family was
burned out of house and home, 20
men got together and built a new
one in SO hours. Meals were served
on the spot till the house was COM
pleted.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-05-09

SPEC1ALS-uSed Tires. y,
$500; 3 450x2l, $3.50; , %SI
8-ply, $500; 2 55Oxl7, sim "" y
many other sizes at low nr'...
easy terms. Kennewick Aut" I y '
pany. W
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-05-09

A Kennewick man says the only
reason we aren't mixed up in II is
because we haven't found a suit
able slogan to stir us to arms.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-05-09

Mile. Lucienne Boyer, creator of
''Parlez Moi GLAMOUR" the song
popular with the troops in Paris,
has just been married in Paris to
M. Jacques Pills.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-05-09

Shortage of coal has caused the
discontinuance of IA railway trains
week out of Valdivia, Chile, and
protests have been made to the
government.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-05-09

A Kennewick voter wona..
any Of the political cand dSl',sa
planning on carrying umbrspss !
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-05-09

Fifty-six-year-old Maurice Boil
lupt of Bailleul, France, who has
ten sons and a son-in-law serving
in the French Army, has now join
ed as a volunteer.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-05-09
Canyon Yields Ancient Relics

Canyon Yields ancient keilcs
New unrecorded ruins of prehis-
toric Indians constantly are being
reported in the Southwest. During
the summer of 1887 more than 50
were discovered on the north rim
of the Grand Canyon and &c on the
south rim.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-05-09

Nothing unusual about this
spring for we heard chap in Ken
newick predict that the peach crop
was ruined.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-05-09

With 1889 students crowding
the present buildings, Havana Uni
versity has requested the Govern
ment of Cuba to construct anoth-
er university
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-05-09

Efforts to induce the people Of
Denmark to eat more than 10000
tons of fish a year have met with
little success.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
RUMANlAPREPARES
FOR CRUCIAL MEET
Berlin Is Expected To Pre-
sent Demands In Strong
Language This Week

Rumanian government braced itself
today for a crucial conference with
German negetiators over failure to
supply the Reich with the quota. of
oil promised under a recent trade
agreement.
With the arrival this week Of DR..
Karl Clodius, Germany's ace trade
n%egotiator, Berlin is expected to pre-
sent it's demands in the strongest
language.
Germany opposes not only the re-
cent ban o nthe export of aviation
gasoline and Lubricants but also a
boost in the export tax from IL to
Is per cent.
Diplomatic observers here frankly
believe that a showdown in the oil
situation, Rumania's greatest worry
is attempting to maintain a precari.
u neutrality, is dangerously near.
With the Danube blocked by ice,
Rumania can blame transportation
difficulties for her failure to deliver
oil to Germany as promised, but
there is general agreement that the
first spring thaws may crack the
situation wide open.
Thus far the Rumanian oil fields
have offered Germany the only rea-
sonably large foreign supply she has
been able to tap, although she is
making efforts to insure a steady
flow from the Russian wells along
the Caspian.
At least SO per cent of Rumania's
oil production is controlled by Brit.
ish and French companies, and an.
other 32 per cent is under mixed
control which, while not purely AL.
lied, nevertheless is in the orbit of
the western powers economy. Ger
many controls less than one per cent
of the total output.
When Rumania sought to have
most of her oil sold abroad for for
Continued on Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
METHODISTS HOLD
CLINTON MEETING
Great Need OF Return To
Religion Is Stressed By
Several Lay Leaders

CLINTON, Feb. 25.-"The great
need for the return to religion in
the world of today" was the theme
of a meeting of the Clinton area of
the Wilmington District League Of
Stewards in the Clinton Methodist
church this afternoon.
w. A.. McGirt, Wilmington, pre-
sided over the meeting. Reports of
the president of the area were pre-
scented by C. E. Quinn, associate lay
leader.
The crisis of the world today and
the direct need for a return to God
in carrying out the church pro-
gram were stressed in the talks
made by prominent Methodist lay.
men and ministers at the meeting.
DR.. w. K. Greene, OF Duke uni
versity, in speaking on 1.-THE Su-
Task of the Church." urged
tha. the church be made more ef-
fective in its work.
The Clinton area comprises Clin-
ton, Faison, Kenansville, Garland,
fConfin,1o1 mn paUa Throp\
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
First Canadian Trained
Aviat0rs Reach England
Nazis Say 1876 Allied,
Neutral Vessels Sunk

BERLIN, Feb. 25.-tR-Ihe
German high command asserted
today that 1856 allied and neutral
ships. t0taling 1,81O,315 tons and
carrying contraband for Britain,
had been sunk in the five months
of war ended Feb. 20.
Ship losses suffered by Britain
herself during the intensive Ger
man air raids up and down
England's east coast we're not i'll
cluded in the high command
communicates figure, according
to DNB, official German news
agency.
IAN Associated Press survey
Saturday gave the known toll
since the beginning of the war
for all nations, including naval
vessels. as 496 ships aggregating
1,439,807 tons.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
TWO OTHERS INJURED
Misses Stanton, OF McColl;
Collier And Elrod, OF
Chadbourn, Killed
COLLIDE AT CROSSING
Police Chief Sought To
Warn Cars Occupants
OF Approaching Train

ROWLAND, Feb. rs. - Three
young women, two Chadbourn high
school students and their teacher,
were killed and two other girls
were critically injured here late
this afternoon when the automo-
bile in which they were riding
was struck by a southbound At
lantic Coast Line passenger train
at a doubletrack crossing on Row.
lands Main street.
The dead are:
Miss Lila Moore Stanton, %, Of
McColl, S. c., teacher of home &c
onomics in the Chadbourn school.
Miss Jane Collier, IA.
Miss Gladys Elrod, 16. !
Two Girls Injured
The injured girls, Miss Betty Ell
liot, IA, and Miss Sarah Hughes,
II, Of Chadbourn, were taken to
the Baker sanitorium in Lumber
ton suffering from conclusions OF
the brain and severe decorations.
Although their conditions were de-
scribed @as critical, physicians said
that they had a fair" chance to
live.
Miss Stanton, who was driving
the car at the time, and the two
girls were killed instantly, observ-
ers said.
The collision occurred about 4
O'Clock as the young women were
returning to Chadbourn from a
visit to Miss Stanton's home in
McColl.
Chief Of Police J.. B. Bullock,
who witnessed the accident, said
that he saw the car coming down
the street and shouted to the oc-
cupants of the approaching train.
"TOO Late"
"But it was too late" he said.
II don't think they eve saw the
approaching train.'
Chief Bullock said that the car
was on the tracks and that the
trail. struck the car about the
"a wheel, throwing it aside and
hurting the occupants in several
directions. Two of the bodies were
CONTINUED on Page Four, Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
ITALIAN OFFICIALS
WELCOME WELLES
F.. D. RS Emissary Arrives
In Rome On His Tour
OF European Capitals

ROME, Feb. 25.-(R-Undersec.
rotary of State Sumner Welles was
welcomed with non-committal court
esq by the Italian government to-
night as his private railway coach
rolled into the flower-decked Rome
station, first half on his fact-find-
ing tour of European capitals as
President Roosevelt's emissary.
A spontaneous burst Of applause
broke from the crowd at the sta
ton when Welles appeared, but
nothing in the polite salutation of
the italian dignitaries who greeted
him indicated whether they shared
the public's undisguised hope that
his coming meant the beginning
of a serious new peace effort.
Welles, himself, who had disem-
barked from the Italian liner Rex
at Naples earlier in the day, was
dignified and reserved, and adj
vised questioners not to expect any
statement from him during his
trip, which will take him to Ber-
lin, Paris and London.
Myron C. Taylor, President
Roosevelt's personal emissary to
the Vatican, who disembarked al
Naples with Welles and arrived in
Rome an hour later by automobile,
also was communicative.
Waiting or the platform in
Rome's carpeted central station to
greet Nelles were Filippo Anfuso,
chief private secretary to Foreign
Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano;
Andrea Celesia Di Vegliasco, chief
ceremonial official of the foreign
ministry, and Guido Rocco, chief
of the foreign office department
for North American affairs.
A member of Count Ciano's staff
accompanied Welles on the train
from Naples.
Members Of the United States en-
bassy staff in Rome also turned out
to greet the undersecretary of state.
The Italian officials gave Welles the
fascist salute as they welcomed him
and inquired politely as to his cross
They expressed regret when they
heard the voyage had been rough
and that Welles had been troubled
for four or five days with a sinus
ailment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
The European
War Situation
INV The Associated Press

(by lie ASSOCIdCcu 1881
THE HAGUE. - Netherlands
patrol plane and German war;
plane exchange fire over
Dutch territory before German
fIees; another Nazi plane driv.
en- ross frontier by anti-alr-
craft fire.
COPENHAGEN. - Fore e n
ministers of Norway, Sweden
and Denmark reaffirm Scandi-
navian neutrality; hope for
peace.
HELSINKI.-Russian attacks
OH Karelian Isthmus repealed,
Films report; February Often
sive brings Russians within few
miles of Viipuri but Red army
dead estimated at 100000.
MOSCOW.-Russian army re.
ports capture of 20 Finnish de-
fensive Notifications, repulse OF
Finnish counter-attacks.
PARIS. - French report re.
pulse of German attack be
wteen Vosges mountains and
the Rhine.
BERLIN. - Germany claims
1876 Allied and neutral ships
sunk in five months of war.
LONDON.-First squadron OF
Canadian trained airmen ar
rives in England.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
PERSHINC OPPOSED
ARMISTICE in 1918
Publication Oh Lansing Pa
pers Showed He Wanted
Complete Victory

WASHINGTON, Feb. Is Up -
General John j. Pershing opposed
the 1913 armisticeAw with Germany
and wanted the Allies to push on to
complete victory" and "uncondi-
tional surrender of the Germans.
This was disclosed today when the
State department published the
second volume Of the papers of
Robert Lansing, secretary of state
during the World war. The volume
also reveals that a year earlier
Lansing had expressed to President
Wilson a distrust of peace proposals
by Pope Benedict XIV, because he
suspected that the pope had become
the unwilling agent Of Germany"
Pershing's attitude toward the
armistice is set forth in a letter from
Colonel Edward M. House to Presi.
dent Wilson enclosing recommends.
tons made by the American general
to the Allied supreme war council on
October 80, 1918, when overtures al
ready were being received from the
central powers for IN armistice.
The commander-in-chief of the
American forces contended that:
the Allies were gradually increasing
in strength through American as
sistance and the Germans were
weakening; morale was high on the
Allied side, low on the other; the
Germans might use an m.stice to
revivify their army, and the Allies
might lose the chance to secure
permanent world peace.
Houses letter contains sarcastic
comments on Pershing's initiative
from David Lloyd George, Georges
Clemenceau, and himself.
Pershing estimated that the allies
on the western front had an advan.
tage of 81 per cent over Germany
in men and IS per cent in guns. He
commented that "Germany's. mor.~lo
is undoubtedly low" but cautioned
the Allied leaders that "as the ap.
parent humility of German leaders
in talking of peace may be feigned,
the Allies should distrust their sin.
certify and their motives.
"The appeal for an armistice is
undoubtedly to enable the with.
draWal from a critical situation to
one more advantageous" he said.
The American general said that a
cessation of hostilities short Ct
capitulation would postpone, if not
Continued on Page Three)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
GROUP Will STUDY
FARM FUNDS ISSUE
Economy Drive Slated To
Collide With Move To
Boost Appropriations

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.- Up -
The congressional economy drive
will collide head-on this week with
a movement to boost agricultural
appropriations to provide for farm
parity" payments and crop ex-
port subsidies.
The farm payments question will
come up when a senate arpropria-
lions subcommittee, with Secretary
Wallace as the first witness, be-
gins hearings on the $722, 001,-
084 farm bill which the house
slashed s66, 92S,oS4 below President
Roosevelt's budget requests.
Although the President made no
formal request for funds for pari-
ty payments, aides of Wallace said
that the agriculture secretary
would urge the committee to add
upwards of 5000, OOo, 900 to the bill
for sue: payments.
They said Wallace also was pre-
pared to ask that a budget item of
$72, 900, 900 for disposal of surplus
farm products in domestic and for
CONTINUED ON Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
NUMBER SECRET
Canadian Fields Are Ex-
pected To Graduate 300,-
900 Airmen Annually
By EDWIN STOUT

LONDON, Feb. 25.-R The
first squadron of Canadian trained
airmen arrived in England today
to join their experienced Allied
comrades in ~harassing German sky
trails with flare, bombing and
scouting flights.
Although their exact number and
port of arrival were a military Sc
cret, it was estimated that there
were several hundred former COW
boys, trappers, Canadian mounties,
farmers and business men in the
group Of fledgling warbirds, recruit
ed throughout the dominion's hin.
terlands and in 146 of it's cities and
towns.
Big Training Program
It was the first Royal Canadian
air force squadron ever to arrive
from overseas as a complete unit,
fact that called attention to the
British commonwealth plan for
making the dominion prairies a
vast empire air school. When oper.
ating at full tilt, Canadian airfields
are expected to graduate annually
between $4,000 and 10000 war-ready
pilots, gunners and observers.
The squadron's arrival conceded
with an air ministry report Of a
new reconnaissance flight over Hell
goland blight, where British flyers
were reported to have bombed Ger.
warships last Tuesday night
and Wednesday morning.
Last nights survey flights, &C
cording to the announcement, also
included reconnaissance over north
west Germany general. All units
Continued on Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
STRIKE NOT
EFFECTIVE HERE
Shipping Continues As L.
300 Longshoremen Fail
To Join Walkout

Wilmington's shipping continued
as usual yesterday as the city's
estimated 1900 l~ongshoremen failed
to join the strike called by the
longshoremen's union in eight
southeastern ports.
Labor and shipping officials
alike said last night that they do
not anticipate a strike and that
they didn't believe the walk-out in
other cities would "affect is here
at ALL"
Longshoremen in Wilmington had
not entered into the strike, called
by the union when wage boosts
for workers in coastwise shipping
were not met, late last night and
plans we're made by labor Off
Gals here to avert it if possible.
A member of the Central Labor
union said last night that the ex-
ecutive committee will meet to-
CONTINUED on Page Three)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
TWO
STUDENTS DIE
IN COLLISION
Income Of Kentucky
Tobacco Producers
Shows Big Increase

LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 3d.
@-TObacc0 growers who sold
their hurley in kentucky the
past sales season pocketed ap.
proXimately A 1000, 900 more than
they did in 1885. 80, despite the
price was nearly two cents a
pound lower.
An unofficial computation by
a tobacco company for the
Courier journal tonight placed
the 1939.40 business at the II
Kentucky markets at 295,3S3,2S
pounds for a hundredWeight av-
erage of $17.83. Total receipts
were estimated at $52, 664, $685..
The 1889 figures were: 248,-
A4S.777 pounds, $4S, 463 ,2239.54 re-
ceipts and $19.51 average. The
latter level was $.168 lower than
the 1888 average.
The 1882 40 auctions in Ken
lucky ended last Friday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
British Censorship, Seizure
Of Mail Has Aroused
Much Criticism
Effective MARCH IS
Pan American Announces
Eastbound Planes Will
Omit Refueling Stops
Ry DEVON FRANCIS

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-P-Eu
..n..bonnd American clipper planes
,f-er March Is will skip Bermuda
u,.re British censorship an q
s.;7,,re of United States airmaiI
has aroused a storm Of criticism.
The Pan American Always an
rouncerf-t today that eastbound
cioper. would omit the Bermuda
refueling stops, begun last October
Of the request of the colony's trade
Development board, came only three
DAYS after publication of a news
story that a consignment of United
States mail was seized in Bermuda
Jan. IS by British Marines.
SoIons Asked Move
Several members of congress
urged after the story's publication
that American transport planes
bound for Europe should pass up
the Islands,
Without mentioning the contro-
versy over censorship, the com.
pany's announcement stated SIM
ply that direct flights from the
United States to Horta, The Azores,
vou'l now be possible because a
better weather reporting service
was available.
The news story said Capt. Charles
4. Lorber was forced to surrender
$500 pounds Of mail, half the clip
pers mail load, at bayonet point.
Pan American began making
stops at Bermuda en- route to the
Azores last October, as an "advis-
able move in view of the war re-
slrlctlon on weather reports.
The twice a week shuttle service
Oh the company to the island will
not be affected by the change.
Inc transatlantic clippers will
return to their original route direct
Vross the Atlantic to Horta, The
Continued on Page Three)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
DUTCH AND NAZI
WARPLANES FIGHT
Another German Craft Re-
ported Driven Back By
Anti-Aircraft Fire

THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Feb.
25.-LR-A battle between a Meth.
erlands patrol plane and a Gel
warplane high over Dutch territory
was reported today by a govern
ment press bulletin, which said
that another Nazi craft had been
driven back across the frontier by
anti-aircraft fire.
The aerial combat, in which the
German plane exchanged machine.
gun fire with the Netherlands pa
troll, took place over the province
of Noord Brabant with the German
craft fleeing into Belgium, the bull.
letin said, adding that a strong
protest would be made to Berlin.
A German bullet struck the
Continued on Page Three)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-26
SCANDINAVIAN NATIONS EXPRESS HOPES
FOR PEACEFUL CLOSE OF FINN-RED WAR

COPENHAGEN, Feb. 25.-R
The foreign ministers of, Nor
way, Sweden and Denmark to-
night expressed hopes for a
peaceful solution of the Finnish
Russian conflict which would
preserve "the full independence
of Finland" and decided their
own countries would continue
their policy of neutrality IN
EurOpe's wars.
A communique issued after
the foreign ministers had con-
ferred here on mutual prob
lens said they had "ascer-
tanned their unanimity in re-
spect of the policy Of neutral