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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-01-01
School Faculty Leaves
For Holiday Vacations

WHITE BLUFFS school fac
| ulty left Wednesday noon on their
Christmas vacation for various
points. Superintendent Angelo Ma
houses with his wife and family in
Seattle, Miss Dorothy Hutchinson to
visit her parents in Seattle; Eldon
d. Westerguard to Idaho Falls; Grin
w. Cowels to ISsaquah; Douglass
Langert to Tacoma and Miss Angela
Reisnauer will visit her parents at
Uniontown.
Mrs. Melton Bailey of Miles City,
Montana, daughter of Mrs. Roy Van
Cleave, arrived in White Bluffs on
Tuesday and will be the guest of the
Van Cleave family for the next two
| weeks.
Miss Betty Richmond of Ellens-
burg and Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Barge
and family of Yakima were Christ
mas guests at the Richmond home,
| Vernita
Thomas Siguardson Of Pasco spent
the Christmas vacation with his
parents, MIR. and Mrs. Thomas Sig
uardson at Vernita.
The five students, all graduates of
the White Bluffs high school now at
tending washington State College at
Pullman, Evelyn Roberts, Dale Nc
Gee, Don Shelton, Burton Codding
and Dean Hall, are spending their
Christmas vacation with their re-
spective parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. j. OLarey re-
turned Sunday from Sisters, Ore
gon after spending the Christmas
holidays with Mr.. and Mrs. G. Hitch
cock and family. MIR. and Mrs. Dean
Taylor and Nicholas Stavely of
Sumner were also guests of the
Hitchcock family.
Phil Clark, local manager Of the
p. P. & l.. company drove to Topper
iSh Saturday to bring home Mrs
Clark and their two daughters, Max
inc and Joetta, where they had been
visiting with Mrs. Clarkis parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Parke visited
with MIR. ParkeS'' cousin, Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Parke in Yakima dur
ing the Christmas holidays.
Miss Lucille Battig and her bro
ther Robert, visited at the Edward
Ponsat home and Virgil Kern on
Christmas, returning to Seattle Fri
day.
MIR. and Mrs. Joseph Wagner ot
Oakanogan and Ruben Wagner of
Yakima were Christmas guests of
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Wagner last week.
MIR. and Mrs. G. j. Barnett and
family of Richland called at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. II. G. Horton
for a few hours Christmas day.
James Kelly and Ted Goodner
were Christmas guests at the Shaun
Kelly home, returning to Seattle
Friday. Both boys are employed at
the Boeing plant.
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gravelled road from the OmSted adj
dition to the hill.
On New Years Day Miss Jessie
Folsom and Lynn d. Shanafelt will
carry out one of their good resolu-
tons of the past and well begin
their life together as man and wife.
The last issue in 1911 of The
Courier carried a list of the high
lights of activity in Kennewick dur
ng the calendar year. We have Sc
looted a few of those for reprinting,
as follows:
January, 1911
January 13-14tThe first annual
poultry show was held by the Col
lmbia Valley Poultry Breeders As
ISOLATION, was a success in every way.
January 10-The directors Of the
Bank of Kennewick met and H. A.
Howe was elected president; C. B.
Alexander, cashier, and H. G..
Tweedt, S. M. Lockerby and Ingwall
Smith, directors.
February, 1911
February 1.-THE Highlanders OPP
ened their new clubhouse with a
dance.
February State art exhibit
held by the Ladies Literary Club in
the Commercial Club Hall.
February 18-The school house
bond issue won at the election
Votes 1888 -207.
March, 1911
March 7-Sewer bonds were voted
easily at the election.
March 8-The Masons and Stars Of
Kennewick and Pasco joined in the
opening of the new hall in the Reed
building.
March GA reception was ten
dered the 0. w. r. & N. officials at
the Commercial Club.
April, 1911
April 2-The district conventions
of the K of P's and M.W.A. were
held in the city and the streets were
decorated for the occasion.
April 1.-The day when Teddy"
came to Kennewick and thousands
Of people gave him a warm welcome.
May, 1911
May 9-The membership cam
paign for the Commercial Club
closed after adding forty new names.
May Commencement night for
the class of 1911.
May 19-Kennewick placed the
first crate of Northwestern grown
strawberries on the market.
June, 1911
June lone thousand crates of
strawberries were shipped out of
Kennewick to the city markets.
June -Kennewick's post office
was made second class.
June 4-F'our more trains were
placed on the o. w. r. & N. sched-
ule, giving Kennewick twenty-five
passenger trains daily.
June 5-$50,OO0 are the figures
given by the r. r. for the approx
mate receipts of the valley during
the asparagus and berry season.
July, 1911
July 18-The council passed the
local improvement ordinance.
July Reconstruction was COM
on the new high school.
July &C. B. Stewart of Lewis
ton, Idaho purchased the mercan-
tile stock Of H. M. Ashbaugh.
July 25-A. H. Richards resigned |
as mayor and II. A. Bier was elected
to fill his place.
August 1911
August 1.-The ward limits of the |
city were defined.
August 8-The council condemned |
various board side walks and pass
ed resolutions for the building of |
six miles Of concrete walks which !
will cost in the neighborhood of $685.
BOO.
August 3O-One thousand tons OF |
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LEWIS-HESS

Announcement has been made OF
the marriage Of Miss Dale Lewis,
daughter of MIR. and Mrs. Nelson
Lewis Of the South Highlands to MIR.
Carl Hess, son Of Mrs. Willis Rath-
bun, the former Mrs. Hess OF Rich
land, at Occur d,Alene, Idaho on
December q. After a wedding trip
to Lewiston, Moscow and other Ida
no points, the young couple will
make their home In Kennewick.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Davis,
daughter YVonne and son Marion,
spent Christmas with relatives on
the coast.
The Les Armies pinochle club has
been postponed until January 18th
to meet with Mrs. Adeline Mclean
as hostess at the home Of her mo-
ther, Mrs. Bertha Simsen.
MIR. and Mrs. Ed Larsen OF We
natchee and MIR. and Mrs. s. r.
Woodruff were Xmas day guests of
AIR. and Mrs. Guy Morrison and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. briggs and daughter,
Betty of Neppel were dinner guests
at the Guy Morrison home Saturday.
Bob Taylor and Miss Betty Hg-
ley were callers last Tuesday evening
of Mr.. and Mrs. Torrance Taylor at
the w. s. Green home.
Bob Taylor Of Hermiston spent
Christmas with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. ID. z. Taylor.
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Happy New Year to One and All! @~9 Weston AutS Supply

erlts, MIR. and Mrs M. G. Clark. Miss
Clark is freshman at w. S. C.
R. r. Mcintosh and family of
R1chland We're Christmas guests at
the Clarence Yedica home.
Evening star., 1942-07-15
Real George Washington
Aids Saboieur Prosecution

George Washington-a real, live
George. Washington-is aiding the
Government in its prosecution Of
the eight Nazi saboteurs, the Office
Of War Information disclosed today.
He is a 34-year-old lawyer on
leave from the faculty of the Cornell
University law school and the near
est living collateral descendant of
the Nations first President.
Mr.. Washington is direct
descendant of Gen. Washington s
brother, Col. Samuel Washington.
In a round about way he is also
linked to Abraham Lincoln. for his
grandmother, Jane Todd Washing
ton, was cousin of Mary Todd
Lincoln.
owl revealed the genealogical
| information in mimeographed
statement which said Gen. Wash
ington appointed this country's first
military commission to try the
British spy, Maj. John Andre.
Evening star., 1942-07-15
Ickes Tells French
Liberation Will Come
Sooner Than Expected
Traitors Already Fear
Vengeance, He Tells
BostiIIe Day Gathering
b. the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 15.-A defeated
France was told last night by Secre-
tary of the Interior Ickes that lib
Grafton from Germany would come
sooner than the Nazis expected.
THE eternal spirit of France
mocks the efforts of the Nazi assas-
sins and the Fascit ruff1ans," Secre-
tary Ickes declared in speech at a
Bastille Day mass meeting sponsored
by France Forever. Frances Cal
vary will come to an end-and
sooner than the assassins think"
Words written by Thomas Jeffer-
son are as true today as they were
127 years ago, Secretary Ickes as
serted, quoting them as follows:
TT is impossible that France
should rest under her present op-
pressions and humiliations. She will
rise in that gigantic strength which
cannot be annihilated, and will fat
ten her fields with the blood of her
enemies"
"Straining at Chains"
Secretary Ickes declared that how
ever long and bitter was the road
ahead "the United Nations will re-
store freedom to France and to all
the other lands that are under the
lash of the Axis"
The Interior Secretary. who is
also petroleum co-ordinator, said
that already France was "straming
her muscles" intent on breaking her
chains and springing at the Mon
ster of Munich
And Hitler's French puppets and
stooges, traitors all, have good cause
to fear the vengeance OF outraged
French patriots on the day OF VIC
tory" he said. For the day OF
liberation will also be day OF just
retribution."
Secretary Ickes recalled that he
had addressed similar meeting a
wear ago when experts" assured
the country that war by air could
not be brought to American shores
separated from Europe by 5000
miles"
Raps Newspaper Axis"
Subsequently, he said, the swarm
ing little "Aryans" of Japan reached
across 5000 miles of water and
struck with typical Nippo-Fascist
viciousness.
"A national hero, some bitter and
grasping politicians, an array OIL
rich and selfish men, chain OF
powerful and unscrupulous news
papers, led by the New York-Chi-
ago-Washington newspaper Axis,
might fill the air with their shrin
denunciations of the democratic
leaders of America" he said.
But they failed miserably, all
Of these conscious or unconscious
tools of Hitler. Americans, with
few exceptions, were true to the
traditions of liberty and justice that
had come down to them from both
the American and the French revo-
luton"
Evening star., 1942-07-15

Commission died yesterday at his
home here.
Mr.. Mccain, who was born N
Minneapolis, was chairman oi ,..e
Trunk Line Association, governing
competitive freight and railroad
problems, from 1907 to 1922. and
was a member of the associations
Official classification Committee
from 1922 until 1884, when he re-
tired. He vas the author of trans
portation texts and articles on rail-
road and freight matters.
He is survived by two sons. Cur
tice S. and H. Berrien Mccain,
both Of East Orange.
Evening star., 1942-07-15
Axis Progress Is Rapid
In Russia, Nozis Claim

BERLIN CFrom German Broad
casts. July IS CPl.--Axls forces are
making rapid progress along their
whole line of attack on the Russian
front, the German high command
said today.
Mechanized forces were said to
have penetrated the Red Army S
lines and cut off Russian commu-
nications to the east.
The Russian rear guard has been
thrown back, being partly dispersed
and partly destroyed, communique
said.
German bombers set intense fires
IN raid on Rostov last night, it
added
Strong Russian attacks at Voro-
nezh were acknowledged, but they
were declared TO have been re-
Evening star., 1942-07-15
Dofoe Says Quins
Should Have Been
SextupIets
Iy the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press,
HUNTINGTON, w. Va, July Is
Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe told the Wom-
ems Auxiliary of the West Virginia
Medical Association yesterday that
according to all the laws of genetics
the Dionne Quintuplets should have
been seXtuplets.
The Quintuplets have among their
number two matched pairs, he said,
adding that there should have been
a sixth baby to match the fifth.
DR.. Dafoe, first physician to the
Quintuplets, jokingly warned ANY
woman present who may hope to
become the mother of quintuplets
that this meant "a daily output of
1875 diapers"
DR.. Dafoe said the careers in pros
pect for the children, now 8, are
uncertain. TT is possible they may
become nuns, and again it is pos
sible they may seek careers on the
stage"
Evening star., 1942-07-15
owl Decides 10 0pen
American Information
Office in London
MucLeish Will Go
To Britain to Make
Study, Report to Davis

The American Government has
decided to open an information of
f1ce in London and is sending Arch
ibald MacLeish, associate directo,
of the Office of War Information, to
England to study the Offices re-
quirements, Robert Sherwood, head
of the Overseas Branch of the owl
disclosed today.
1t is expected that the Office prob
ably will be a source of information
for questioning Englishmen rather
than vigorous information spread
er like the British Information
Service in the United States.
Mr.. MacLeish is taking with him
James P. Warburg, a member OF the
planning board of the overseas
branch, and Murray Brophy, who is
in charge of communications facili-
ties for the overseas branch.
Mr.. MacLeiSl1, who is taking time
off from his post as librarian of
Congress to make the journey, will
report on his findings to Elmer
Davis, owl chief; then Mr.. Davis
will plan the London establishment.
The American Information Bu-
reau in London will be constructed
around the staff of confidential in
formation gatherers sent abroad
during the last year by Mr.. Sher-
wood to supply him with reports
useful for short-wave propaganda
programs beamed to foreign coun-
tries.
The present American public in
formational resources IN London are
associated with the Embassy, which
is not equipped for task OF public
relations. The establishment OF
United States European theater
command in England under
1t. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower makes
more urgent than ever an outlet for
American information In England.
Evening star., 1942-07-15
Contracts
Continued From First Page.)

more than 100000 on naval con-
tracts alone since 1895.
3. John j. Orr, graduate of the
Naval Academy and former en-
ploye of the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration, had received more
than $4,000 since January. 1941,
Called as the first witnesses were
A. P. Shirley of Mount Vernon, Va,
and F. B. Olcott and F. C. Nichols,
both of Washington.
Mr.. Shirley retired Army ma jor,
who described himself as an engi-
reer with experience in selling tools
all over the world" said that his
company represented 46 manufac-
turers and that his business had
grown "like SNOWFALL" He started
representing manufacturers in 1929
after coming to Washington, he
said, "for a chat
And you found it profitable
field as soon as Congress began to
increase the activities of the de-
partments?" inquired Chairman
Vinson
Yes, sir" replied Mr. Shirley.
Former Navy Employees.
Mr.. Olcott and Mr.. Nichols, both
former civilian employees of the Navy
the former at $4,000 year and
the latter at 0o0-joined the firm
in the mid-30s.
so" said Mr.. Vinson at one point.
your firm has fine approach to
both the Army and Navy; you as a
former major and the other two as
former Navy employees in responsible
positions,
But Mr.. Shirley denied en-
phatically that he had picked Mr..
Olcott and Mr.. Nichols as his asso-
ciates because of their contact with
ranking naval officials and manu-
/ facturers dealing with the depart
ment, and declared that he had
chosen them because of their
engineering ability
In his initial outline, Mr. Hinkel,
while discussing the Shirley -Olcott-
Nichols firm, declared that sit is
matter for the committee to deter
mine as to whether or not the COM
pensation they received is in propor-
ton to the services rendered The
matter of refunds or kickbacks of
part of the commission received
from certain clients will also be
brought out"
In outlining Mr. Wards activities,
Mr.. Hinkel said that Mr.. Ward in
addition to his engineering services,
entertained extensively various pro-
curement offlcials."
Evening star., 1942-07-15
Missing Persons

Those hdUtng information
concerning persons reported
missing should communicate
NTH the Public Relations Squad
OF the Police Department, Na-
tiopal 1000.
Mildred HyIand, %, 5 feet inches,
Ill pounds, green eyes and black
hair, wearing a white and green
checked dress, white and blue SAN
Gals and blue socks missing from
4I6 Tenth street SW since Sunday.
Thaddeus T. Green, colored, 8,
4 feet 7 inches, 10 pounds, brown
skin, wearing a blue shirt, brown
corduroy pants, black and white
tennis shoes: missing from 1922
Twenty-second street NV. since
Monday.
Donald Cole, colored, II. S feet 8
inches, 145 pounds, medium skin,
wearing blue shirt. black tie, blue
trousers, brown shoes: missing from
% Florida avenue NE. since yester-
day
Bertha Henderson, colored. "a, S
feet inches, 1875 pounds, dark skin.
wearing blue and white checkered
dress and carrying blue leather
purse; missing from 1744 Eighth
street NV. since Monday.
Evening star., 1942-07-15
A. P. Wirephott


firm for the first four months OF this
year.
The Donelly official, Alex Sobo-
doski. said Spiegelberg spent his en-
tire time there in work on the Ford
bomber plant machinery and was
in between Ford and us and had full
access to all drawings and every
thing else"
Born in Berlin.
The prisoner, born in Berlin while
his father was in the United States
consular service, and therefore an
American citizen, was found in pos
session of 18 plans. diagrams, draw
ings or blueprints of essential bomb
er parts when seized in Hampstead,
N. Y, drinking place on the tip Of
an Army corporal who overheard
him talking about them, Mr.. Fox
worth said.
The FBI said Spiegelberg was a
fisherman, miner and sailor In
Alaska from 1929 to 1885.
He enlisted in the Coast Guard
in 1928, Mr.. Foxworth said, but was
ousted the same year when the Gov
ernment found out he had been con-
victed of passing $95 bogus check
Evening star., 1942-07-15

in Los Angeles the previous year,
although he had sworn he had no
criminal record.
The FBI said Spiegelberg married
a Sophie Winston in Washington
on June %.
(No record could be found in
Washington of any marriage
license issued either to Spiegel-
berg or Sophie Winston)
Second Arrest Revealed.
The arrest of another American
citizen on a charge of acting as a
secret agent for the Vichy French
government without registering with
the State Department was an
nounced yesterday by United States
Attorney Matthias Correa.
He was Jean Leonard Musa, S.
year-old native of Switzerland, who
was naturalized in this country. Mr.
Correa said Musa was employed by
French Ambassador CASTOR Henry
Haye from September, 1910, and was
paid until April, 1912. out of funds
of the French government on deposit
here in the services of information
account
Evening star., 1942-07-15
Spy Suspect Seized
with Bomber Plans
Held in $4,000 Bail
Former Coust Guurdsmun,
Born in Germany, Arrested
In Long Island Bar
E. the Associated Press.

E, the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 15.-A German
born former American coast guards
man with fancy name and a loose
tongue was held in $4,000 bail to-
day on espionage charges.
Assistant FBI Director P. E. Fox
worth said the accused spy, Wash
ington Glendale Spiegelberg. 35, had
on his person plans of the B-24 type
bomber when arrested in a Long
Island bar Sunday.
In Detroit, where he was known as
plain Alex Spiegelberg. partner IN
the Donelly Engineering Corp. said
last night that the spy suspect had
full access to all drawings" of the
four-engine bomber, manufactured
by Ford, during his employment as
a process engineer with the Donelly
Evening star., 1942-07-15
Little Congress PIons
Debate on IsoIutionists

The Little Congress" composed
of secretaries of members of Con-
gress, will debate at 8 o'clock to-
night at the Old House Office Build
ing on the subject. CAN Pre-war
100 per cent Isolationists Should Be
Defeated in the Coming Elections. p"
On July 81. the Little Congress"
will send eight of its members to
New York to appear on the radio
quiz program, Battle of the Sexes" "
The program may be heard locally
over WRC at 8 pm.
Evening star., 1942-07-15
pulsed in fierce fighting in which 38

pulsed in fierce fighting in which 38
Soviet tanks were destroyed.
North and northwest of Orel the
Russians continued to attack, but
the German army and air force
were credited with successful de-
fense, which the high command said
has thus far cost the Russians 446
tanks.
Orel is directly north OF the Kursk-
Kharkov line whence the present
German drive to the east began,
and successful Russian counter
attack there might outflank the Nazi
forces which have thrust on east
ward.
Evening star., 1942-07-15
Russiiu
Continued From First Page

Donets River has reached Vo-
roshilovgrad, ITO miles southeast
of Kharkov and 100 miles north
of Rostov, the Reuters dispatch
declared.
(The Berlin radio said Red
Army forces communicating
west of Voronezh against the
Nazi left wing had been sur
roundedD
Withdrawal Acknowledged.
The Soviet Information Bureau
noted particularly violent fighting
yesterday south of Boguchar.
A fresh withdrawal was acknowl-
edged in one sector of the zone
south of Boguchar in the face OF a
threatened encirclement.
Vast tank battles developed.
Some German armored divisions al
ready have lost a third of their
tanks in the drive toward the Volga
and the Caspian Sea and 104 OF
the track-treaded fighting machines
were wrecked by the Russians in a
day, part Of them by ramming,
the Tass news agency said.
"a Rome broadcast heard in
London said the Russians, al
ready boasting squadrons of So
ton rolling fortresses, had intro
duced a Baton tank equipped
with fame-thrower)
In addition to more than $4,000
casualties in 10 days in the
voronezh area, the Germans were
declared by Soviet communique
to have suffered the loss of such
materiel as 241 anti-tank and field
guns, 157 tanks, lis trucks and 22O
munitions carts.
Operations of the Red Air Force
Monday were declared to have &C
counted for GA German tangs, l6s
trucks, 5 guns, an ammunition
dump, a fuel depot and 2 railway
trains.
Nazis Driven From Town.
A dispatch from the Volkhov River
front southeast of Leningrad said a
Russian surprise attack there drove
the Germans from a fortified village
they had held since last autumn.
Red Star, said Russian bombers,
attacking an enemy port" not
otherwise identified, sank a tanker
and transport vessel, destroyed a
warehouse and started large fires.
Spasnodrc action was indicated
on the Kalinin front, northwest o.
Moscow. Red Army troops broke
into the outskirts of populated
place" in a counterattack after the
repulse of tankled German
thrust, the Soviet Information Bu'
reau said.
Ieningrad front fighters were re-
ported to have destroyed numerou
Nazi guns and an ammunition dunn
and killed more than 400 German
in three days of fighting.
Red artillerymen disabled thre'
tanks and wiped out some 300 Ger
mans in another area, a com
munique said.
Evening star., 1942-07-15
E, the Associated Press.

e, the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 15.--Ten per-
sons were injured last night when,
in an unscheduled finale to a rodeo
at the Polo Grounds. heavy stunt
car skidded into grandstand box
after being driven through a brick
wall.
Most seriously hurt was DR.. Jose
Angel Escalante, 57-year -old visit
Evening star., 1942-07-15
Alvin H. Resch Dead

SYCAMORE, Ill, July Is P).-
Alvin H. Resch, go, publisher of the
Sycamore Republican for IS years,
died at his home here last night
He was the father of F. A. Resch Of
New York, executive editor of the
Associated Press neWsphoto service.
Evening star., 1942-07-15

Department records, is travelling In
the United States as guest of
the Government. He entered this
country at Miami on April % for
a three month stay.
Evening star., 1942-07-15
Women Pay for Dance

-Four hundred soldiers were guests
at q dance at the Town Hall in
Watford, England, at which women
paid 10 cents for the privilege Of
partnering them.
Evening star., 1942-07-15
c. Curtice Mccain, IS,
First ICC Auditor, Dies

p, the Associated Press.
EAST ORANGE, N. j.. July Is
C. Curtice Mccain, IS, retired trans
portation expert, who was the first
auditor. of the Interstate Commerce
Evening star., 1942-07-15
Visiting Peruvian Congressman
Hurt When Stunt Car Hits Box

ing Peruvian congressman. who suf-
fered fractures of both legs and
the nose and head injury.
Driver John lucky Kelly, 80,
escaped serious injury, but was
treated for scratches and bruises.
OF the eight others injured, three
were hospitalized
Evening star., 1942-07-15

DR.. Escalante, according to State