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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-12-10

(From Paul Lights so What" Column
st. Paul Pioneer Press)
ARTIST AND WOMAN
I've never met Marian Anderson,
gifted colored contralto who sang
at Northrop auditorium last week.
But I've heard her sing and 1 cata-
logued her as just about the worlds
finest voice.
1 wondered what kind of a wom-
an she is. She gave four concerts
not long ago at the great Palace of
Fine Arts in Mexico City. After
wards she was feted by Dolores Del
Rio, Diego Rivera, Nelson Rookie
Teller, the ambassadors of various
countries. Has this international
adulation spoiled the simplicity and
wholesome dignity for which she's
been famous?
put this question to the Dis
patch's smart Frances Boardman.
COSMOPOLITAN
Here is Frances answer:
"After hearing her sing on many
occasions, after each of which /
have written as much admiring
comment as time and space would
allow, I have finally met Marian
Anderson personally. It was at a
dinner given last Saturday night at
the home of Rev. Benjamin N.
Moore and Mrs. Moore, who live
at 566 Central avenue, and since
there were only seven of US at the
table, it was everyone's privilege
to share in the conversation.
Marian Anderson is, of course,
a widely travelled woman, and a
true cosmopolitan in her intellectual
outlook, which is as keen as it is I'M
pretentious. AS for her musical
triumphs, they are a matter of his
tory so public as to need no recital
here. But there is some point in
making a reference to them, for
meeting prima donnas is something
of routine occurrence in the
course of a job like mine, and I
think am speaking as something
of connoisseur when I say that
this girl is one of the very few
who don't discuss themselves.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-12-10
Paul Light and
Frances BOardman
Appraise Marian

(From Paul Lights $50 What Column.
st. Paul Pioneer Press)
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-12-10

NEW PATTERN
e. it is obvious that a new race
relations pattern is being established.
It is obvious also that the Negro prob
lem, which was at one time confined
almost solely to the South, has rapid
ly become a national problem by the
redistribution of the black people to
the Urban centers of the Middle West,
East and Pacific Coast.-Horace Cay
ton.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-12-10

Urged to be present,
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-12-10

WHITTIER AMERICA?
Although most Americans, includ-
ing many individual members Of racial
and religious minority groups, have
never heard of the F. E. P. c., sophis-
ticated trade unionists, church men are
aware that the fight to keep, strength
en-, and make permanent the F. E.
P. C. is the battlefront which will de-
termine whether postwar America will
be a democracy in anything except
name.-Wfna<rea- RauShenbush.
Evening star., 1943-04-15
Brig. kisch, Chief Engineer
Of 9Th Army, Dies in Action

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, April 15.-Brig
Frederick H. Kisch, IS, chief engi-
neer of the British 9th Army, has
been killed in action in Tunisia. the
Palcor News Agency reported last
night, quoting London advices.
Brig Kisch had played an i'm
portant role in the North African
campaign, having been responsible
for the Notifications at Ell Alamein
and having administered the engi-
neering program which enabled
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery to
make his swift advance to Tripoli, y
the Jewish agency said.
He was a resident of Haifa, Pales-
tine, having gone there in 1923 as
a member of the Zionist executive
and contributed greatly to the up
building of the Jewish national
home, it added. He was a British
delegate to the Versailles Peace
Conference in 1918.
Evening star., 1943-04-15
Lower 13' Defense
Seeks 10 Prove Slayer
OF Bride Was White
Porter Says Pvt. Wilson
So Described Man He
Saw Fleeing From Car

BY the Associated Press.
ALBANY, Oregs April 15.-Testi.
mony intended to show that the
slayer. of Mrs. Martha Virginia
James was a white man rather than
a Negro was obtained by the defense
today in the trial of Robert E. Lee
Folkes, colored dining car cook
charged with the crime.
Mrs. James, bride of a naval Off
Ger, was killed as she lay in the
lower 13 berth of Pullman on a
speeding southbound train last
January %.
Under ss-eXamination by De-
fense Counsel Leroy LomaX, H. M
Hughes, colored porter, said that
shortly after the killing, Marine
Pvt. Harold Wilson. the first man
to reach the fatally slashed Mrs
James as she tumbled from her
berth. insisted that it was a white
man he saw running down the aisle
of the car
Wilson Was Present.
Hughes said group gathered in
the dining car few minutes after
Mrs. James death to have coffee
Pvt. Wilson was present, he said.
Did Wilson describe the man he
Evening star., 1943-04-15

saw running down the aisle?" Lomax
said
"Yes, he did" Hughes replied
But later he said he was white
man"
Fine" Mr.. Lomax shouted. What
did he say?"
He said he was a white man
He said he could tell he was white
man when he turned around to look
back as he was under the light in
the elbow of the car"
To emphasize the point, Mr.. Lo.
max shouted:
He said he was a white man"
Yes" the porter replied.
Saw Man Fleeing
Pvt. Wilson, occupant of upper 13
just above Mrs. James berth, had
Evening star., 1943-04-15
Cost Of Medical Care
Defended by Fike
In Rotary Talk
Hospitals Lose Millions
And Few Doctors Get
Rich, Club Is Told

Replying to criticism about the
high cost of medical care" 0. K
Fike, director of Doctors Hospital
yesterday told the Rotary Club at
the Willard Hotel that the 4,43e
general non hospitals
in the country are losing $4 100000
monthly, or an average of $150,00C
day.
Mr.. Fike said the cost of equip
ping one operating room in hos.
pital was $8,763.
Hospitals, he claimed, were the
only institutions in the country re-
quiring on an average of about II
employees per customer" while some
hospitals went up to two employees
per patient.
Compares Expenditures.
Mr.. Fike said that very few per-
sons laid aside a budget for medical
care. The annual doctors bill for
the Nation, he said, was about ST.
090000000. Contrasted with this. he
said, the American people spent in
one year, S3,794 900 900 for liquor;
S2,779, 100000 for new passenger au-
tomobiles (before the war;, and ST.
9O0,000,000 on candy, soft drinks and
ice cream. The people spent about
as much for tobacco as for medical
care by 10000 doctors, he said.
Doctors incomes. he said, were
lower than the average American
realized Figures from an official
Committee on the Cost of Medical
Care, - said, showed that IS per
cent of doctors get about $500 a
year: 25 per cent, $4,000: As per cent
$4,000; II per cent about $4,000 and
only 3 per cent come into the $4,000
and up class.
Cites Service Examinations.
Pointing out that no great for
tunes are made by doctors, the
speaker praised the physicians of the
Nation, who, he said, gave free eX-
aminations to 100000 men for in
duction into the military services at
about the same time the Govern
ment was indicting and convicting
them for violation of the Sherman
Antitrust Act.
One Washington doctor, he said
had made $4,000 laboratory eXami-
nations without cost to the men or
the Government and without a
word of thanks from anyone in au-
thority.
Richard Hynson explained the
Rotary Club program for selling
War bonds.
Evening star., 1943-04-15

testified he saw man fleeing toward
the rear of the car just before
Mrs. James fell to the floor. He de-
scribed him as either a dark white
man or a light-colored Negro"
In later cross examination of
Hughes who had been called to the
stand by the prosecution, Mr.. Lomax
directed his questioning in an effort
to bring out that Folkes was in the
dining car galley, baking mullins
at the time of the Staying.
Hughes said he went to the rear
OF the train, seeking Mrs. James
assailant six or seven minutes after
the tragedy was discovered. He saw
Folkes in the galley, stoking the
stove.
Between IS and 20 minutes after
Evening star., 1943-04-15
Sculptor Offers 10 Repair
Capitol Bust Of CooIidqe

The chip off the left ear of the
marble bust of Calvin Coolidge, to
which Representative Curley of
Massachusetts, called the attention
OF David Lynn, architect of the
Capitol, is to be repaired promptly
without cost to the Government by
Bryant Baker, sculptor
Mr.. Baker volunteered his services
as labor of love because Moses A.
Wainer Dykaar, who made the bust
of the former President, is dead.
Mr.. Bakers first work to be placed
in the Capitol was the bust of Chief
Justice Edward D. White in the old
Evening star., 1943-04-15
Brussels Collaboration
With Axis Killed in Attack
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. April 15.-The Berlin
radio said Paul Colin, editor of the
Brussels Nouvelle Journal and
president of the Belgian Journalists
Association, died today from bullet
wounds received in an attack last
night.
The broadcast said nine persons
we're arrested.
Colin. former editor of the Belgian
weekly Cassandre. was arrested and
sent to France for Safekeeping when
the Germans invaded Belgium.
He was released by Vichy and re-
turned to Belgium to establish his
collaborationist newspaper and head
the Nazi-sponsored Journalists asso-
sCCiatiOn.
Evening star., 1943-04-15
Pigeons Dozed by Smoke
Are Given to Firemen

By the Associated Press. -
KANSAS CITY-Bels changed
and f1remen dashed to the Frank L
Williams residence.
They extinguished a $700 blaze
then found so pigeons in the attic
dazed by smoke.
Mr.. and Mrs. Williams gave all
so to the f1remen-for dinner.
Evening star., 1943-04-15
Only Seven Oil Vessels
Reach Fire in Year
By the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
DUBLIN, April 15.-Sean Lemass,
Minister of Supplies, told the Dali
yesterday that only seven ships
loaded with petroleum products
reached Fires ports in the year
ended April l, and he predicted as
port problem soon would assume the
proportions of crisis.
He said plans must be made for
the imminent day when the only
transport would be by vehicles
horsedrawn or equipped with gas
producer units.
Evening star., 1943-04-15

the tragedy, he said, he saw another
porter eating a muffin that Folkes
had just knocked out of a pan. He
added that he formerly was cook,
and knew that it took 10 or Is
minutes to bake the mullins.
Evening star., 1943-04-15

Supreme Court room. He also has
made busts and statues of other
prominent Americans.
Mr.. Baker was born in England in
1881 His father also was a sculptor.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-11
Offer Help to Farmers
On Income Tax Returns

Benton county farmers and home
makers will receive help in solving
current income tax worries and how
best to keep farm and home records
at meeting scheduled for 2 p. m.
next Wednesday, Feb. II, at the
Triple A assembly room in Kenne-
wick, according to announcement
of Waldo w. Skuse, county extension
agent. f. ~ ~
Arthur j. eagle, assistant econo-
mist of the extension service will
present the proper keeping of the
farm record books and the filling
out of income tax returns. At the
same time Miss Esther Pond, extern
sion specialist in home management
will meet with Dorothy Reaugh,
home demonstration agent, and
lnomemakers on the keeping of home
records books, and this group will
meet in separate group on the
same floor. +... = Z
MIR. Skuse states that all farm
men and women who can attend
this meeting will find it well worth
their while, both from the stand
point of record keeping and income
tax returns.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-11
Geo. Bafus, Hover, Now
Wears Captains Bars 81,

+ & p .z5ER
Capt. George Il. Bafus, Of Los
Angeles, Calf, and engineering Of
ficer of service group at Pendle-
ton Field, has received notification
from the War Department OF his
advancement from the rank of first
lieutenant ito captain, effective Jan.
26. He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George L. sBafus of Hover Wash. =
Commissioned a second lieuten-
ant in the officers reserve corps in
1882 following graduation. from the
University of California, Capt. Ba-
fus was called to active duty in the
air forces in March, 1912. He has
been stationed at Hamilton Field
Calf, and attended the aircraft
maintenance and engineering course
at McClelland Field, Sacramento air
depot. He was advanced to first
lieutenant in June, 1912, and now
is in charge of maintenance and re-
pair of aircraft assigned to his
group ,... -.
At the time he was ordered to
active duty he was the southern
California representative Of phar-
maceutical manufacturer. Capt
Bafus also owned and operated his
own airplane.
Mrs. Bafus has accompanied her
husband to Pendleton.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-11
Toll of Cancer in u. S.
Is Steadily Increasing

WASHINGTON.- of can.
Ger in the United States have al.
most doubled over the past 40 years.
the census bureau reports.
Cancer is one of the few diseases
the mortality record of which has
grown steadily worse in that period,
the bureau records disclosed.
In the 40 years of the bureaus
records of, death registrations, can
Ger deaths have totaled 3,115, 932-
almost equal to the population of
Chicago. Since the registration
area did not include the entire cour'-
try until 1888, the number of deaths
from cancer in the period was even
greater than shown by the records.
The bureau estimated that if can
Ger fatalities were localized each
year, a city the size of Des Moines,
New Haven or Fort Worth would be
wiped out. i
The death rate per 100, 900 popula-
ton in, 1900 was "a, while in 1910, it
was 12O.3-almost double. The
death rate per 100, 900 increases with
age from 4.8 under years old to
$685. for the 65-74 group and 1884
for the group IS years and over.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-11
School News

The third grade pupils have writ
ten letters to various city CONNER
cial clubs in southern Texas asking
for material on cotton growing in
GLIDING seed to plant in the school
room. .-. ..--
Miss Esther Combs assisted in
the school cafeteria Monday.
The teachers and pupils are en-
joying the lovely apples which the
school has received.
Irma Galbreath has returned to
school
Sylvia Citron was i'll Monday.
Carol Larsen and Erma Shipley
were in Kennewick Monday to see
a dentist.
The fourth grade will have a
Valentine box and party Friday.
Those on the entertainment COM
mittee are Alberta Larsen, David
Barnett, and Gerald Hostetter. Fruit
and jello with whipped cream and
cake will be served. @~ = 50 :
The third grade is also having a
room party. ~ u i
First graders are entertaining
their smaller brothers and sisters
at their Valentine party.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-11
Farmers Granted Wire
For Power Extension !.

. It is now possible to secure cleo
trical extensions for operating Ger
tain farm equipment such as water
pumps for livestock, milking ma
chimes, milk coolers, incubators,
breeders or feed grinders, provided
the consumer has livestock on hand
which, together with his estimated
production of livestock for market,
is equivalent to not less than ten
"animal units" determined in sac-
cordance with the farm war units.
The applicant is also required TO
agree to increase his food produc-
ton for 1913. 80. r -. i
Both public utilities and cooper
alive electrical service organiza-
lions are eligible to provide these
extensions. All applications for
-certification for electric line ex-
tensions must be approved by the
local County War board. =. -
The maximum amount of copper
wire allowed for each consumer re-
gardless of the distance involved is
80 pounds for secondary lines which,
if converted into feet, is equal to
$50 feet of No. 8 wire. -
= The proper forms for filling out
applications for electrical extern
sions will soon be made available
to the local County War Board Of
flee and the electrical service com
panies. i ~. 49,
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-11


Mrs. Ellsworth O'Hair was week
end visitor of Mr.. and Mrs. Brock
O'Hair in Kennewick, where she
helped care for Mrs OHair who
was i'll. 20. -'.E7. -
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Benson were
dinner visitors Thursday evening OF
Mr.. and Mrs. George Cloud in Ken
newick. .
Mrs. Henry Piert and Mrs. Albert
Piert and children were visitors
Sunday at the Virgil Masters and
j. r. Gowing homes.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kuh and son,
Harry, of Toppenish; Ray Kuh Of
the Pasco air station, Mrs. E. Scrus-
ter and son of Portland; Mr.. and
F. M. Reik visited with Mr.. and
Mrs. A. j. Thompson Sunday.
Mrs. Dan Kuh and children and Mr..
and Mrs. Sam Kuh were dinner
guests Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe
KUN and family. The John Kuh's
left Monday for their home.
Later lunch was served by Mrs.
Bob Perkins, Mrs. Fred Brodbeck,
Mrs. Fred Falque and Mrs. E. o.
McAlister. At the next meeting
there will be a pot-luck supper at
$50.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Whitman and
children of Walla Walla state game
farm visited Sunday with Mr.. and
Hichenbach and Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest johnson.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-11
Air Conditioner
Helptto' Miners
Controls Temperature and
Humidity; Has Other
Advantages. -, -

PITTSBURGH-Men who dig for
coal hundreds of feet beneath the
surface of the ground are benefiting
from the same air-cleansing princi-
pie that keeps the office of their
president cool and dry.
Conditioned air for the miner was
inaugurated recently at the Beech
Bottom coal mine of the Windsor
Power House Coal company on the
Ohio river above Wheeling, w. Va,
and the 500 men there who turn out
"a million tons of coal year to pro.
vide power for war production
plants in West Virginia and Ohio.
already profess to feel better"
Installed primarily as a safety
measure to reduce roof falls by
maintaining constant temperature
and humidity, the air-conditioning
also has provided sorely needed
improvement in the working condi.
tons of miners.
Solve Water Supply.
Air conditioning in mines is not
new. according to the United States
bureau of mines, which is keeping
close check on the efficacy of the
project, and encouraging expert.
ments have been made in Illinois
and Indiana mines in recent years.
However, a novel twist, which
means the solution of the water sup.
ply problem encountered by many
mines, has appeared in connection
with the new air-cooling program.
Engineers say that rock falls,
which trouble all mines. are caused
by expansion and contraction of the
rock, due to fiuctuation in the tenn.
peratures and humidity, and varia.
tions between the inside and outside
temperatures, creating beads of con
densed moisture on the rock in the
summer and leaving the rock dry in
the winter. Rock falls-from a
pound to a ton-invariably accom-.
pany summer drippings.
.5 Other mines have used chilled wa.
ter to bring the intake air down to
the desired temperature and give il
the. proper moisture content.
~ Has Many Advantages.
Before releasing the exhaust air
from the mine, however, the Wind.
sor plant, which has limited sup.
ply of spring water, passes the cold
air through the water that has been
warmed in the original process,
thereby cooling it for another air.
chilling job. *
The installation of air-conditioning
provides control of a constant tenn.
perature and humidity. and since il
has been in use, the inner surfaces
Of the mine have been dry. r
Officials have pointed out that con.
troll of roof-falls results in several
beneficial factors; the elimination OF
the mental hazard that slows up the
miner, the maintenance of produc.
ton at an even pace without inter.
ruption caused by injuries to miners,
and through improved atmospheric
conditions. the company is enabled
to make larger recovery of coal
from its property, thus conserving
an important natural resource.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-11
War Blooms Market for
Anqora Bunny in Montana

MALTA, MONT. - The Angora
rabbit is one animal that has at last
realized the much-quoted expression
Of being worth its weight in .gold.r
Wartime demand for angora wool
to line mittens, helmets and socks
for high-altitude Aiers and for 9TH
er war needs has sent the price OF
the rabbit wool sky-rocketing to $5.35
a pound for the No. ] grade.
A female angora rabbit, breeders
say, viii produce about SIS worth OF
wool and will give birth to an av-
erage of q youngsters year who
will do likewise. " Z: II
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-11
Name Liberty Ships IS
After Historic Figures

3 PORTLAND, ORE.-Nine names
of state and national, figures in his
tory have been approved by the
Maritime commission for identifica-
tons of Liberty ships being built in
Oregon. The figures included are
William H. Seward. secretary Of
state; Gideon Welles. secretary Of
he navy; Edwin M. Stanton, secre.
1 airy Of war. and Jonathan Harring-
on, last survivor of the original
Minute Men. -, 80
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-11
Former Finley Teacher
In Service in Utah +

Finley Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman
Stone spent Sunday and Monday
with Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Benson.
Stone has been promoted to LIST
lieutenant and has been stationed
at Geiger Field, but is transferred
to Ogden Utah. They left Tuesday
morning for that place.
A. A. Schffner was i'll at his
home Monday. Mrs Frank Gerber
was a visitor Monday at the Schaff-
ner home.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-11

llShL NOlludy LOE RI. LOuRlaS ift,,
Shirley Harrison Of Kenns,,,
was an overnight guest ofNsoa.
Shields Sunday. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Gree,
Saturday evening callers az ths !,
j. Brand home. A.,
Mrs. Ed Ray is staying M a
Nels Burkhart home in HorSe ~.
en- for a few days. Iw w
Harvey Ray was taken an A.
Pasco hospital last SATURDAY. ,ss
pneumonia. At this time ne 4 nas
better.
Mrs. Clarence Sonderman A..
Fred Giles and Mrs. Al Moran ~.
all-day quilterS at the home Of NJ
Elsie Walters Of Kennewick
j. E. Jones returned Tuesday f,,.
five-weekS visit ON the coo,,
The Highland sewing club vr
meet with Mrs. Earl Reymore ~,
Tuesday, Jan. l6.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-02-11
Pinochle Club Plays
Tuesday Afternoon

Finley-Mrs. Elizabeth Stoken was
hostess to the Finley Pinochle club
Tuesday at a / O'Clock luncheon,
after which three tables Of pinochle
were played. High score was given
Mrs. II. Jacobs, second to Mrs. WAL
lace Preston, and Mrs. Harry Benson
received low. Next meeting will be
with Mrs. Fred Brodbeck.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. r. Ayers spent
Thursday and Friday in Yakima
where they heard E. Stanley Jones
several times
Mr.. and Mrs. J. r. Ayers attended
fellowship dinner and official
board meeting at the Methodist
church in Kennewick Sunday night
MIR. and Mrs. Ray Marsh of Ken
newick visited Thursday with Mr..
and Mrs. Ben Schwartzkopf.
Edwin SCHNEIDER Of Payette, Ida
no, came Saturday to spend a few
days with his two small sons, who
stay with Mr. and Mrs. Carl Schmel-
yer and family.