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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-05-18
vALEDICToRIAN

Wilma Biegel, valedictorian of the
graduating class of 1914, has COM
pleted her IL years of school in
Kennewick. She has taken part
in the following school activities:
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-05-18
New Grade School Gets
Ok and Appropriation
l6-Room Building
and Auxiliaries
Are Provided
Start in month; could
be ready by opening
time in fall

The following telegram was re-
ceived this afternoon from Con-
gresham Hal Holmes:
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-05
Town Observes
Debt Freedom

CHICAGO, Nov. 4. (UP) -Practi-
cally every one of the 4000-odd
residents of Oglesby, Illinois, rec
emily staged an old-fashioned cele-
bration in honor of the community S
escape from municipal debt.
Packing picnic baskets, towns
people assembled at a nearby ma
ture area" and participated in
"Oglesby Is Paid For Day cere-
monies marking retirement of the
last of the communities remaining
bonds 1t was the first time Oglesby
was free of debt since it bonded
itself 40 years ago for $3.50 in
general obligation bonds.
Since 1880 Oglesby has paid off
more than 100000 in indebted
ness and spent for capital improve
ments 100000 from current reye-
nues and $4,000 in gas tax re-
ceipts from the state. The town
also has set aside 100000 in war
bonds and cash for postwar i'm
provementS.
The toymakers attorney, George
ed indebtedness was in 1881 when
general obligation bonds and S35,-
coo for special paving assessments
and the city's share Of public ben
efits. In addition to this $97 900
kdebt which required Is years to
fiquidate, the city had to pay off
$4,000 in tax anticipation warrants.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-05
FBi Seeks Pair
On Debaucfling
Of Air Officer

NEW YORK. Nov. T. (UP)-Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation agents
are extending their search for two
of three thread manufacturers &C
cuseC by the government OF corrupt
ing an army fighter pilot to protect
their relatives in uniform from COM
bat hazards of war.
Major Walter V. Radovich, "a, the
flier, was under detention at Nit
chel Field. Jerome Usdan, 80, one
of the thread executives, was held
in $4,000 bail and FBI agents want
ed Samuel Bayer, 81, anc his broth
er Elias, 48.
The relatives which the three ac-
cused men allegedly sought to shield
from wars dangers were Private
Martin Bayer, %, and his cousin,
Private Morris CMelvin) Usdan, 81.
Private Bayer is the son of Samuel
Bayer and Private Usdan is the
brother of Jerome and the nephew
of the Bayer brothers. The two
sole iers also were under detention
at Mitchell Field.
HOW PLAN WORKED
According to Radovich, USGan and
the Bayer brothers entertained him
in a New York night club and
lis accomplishments as a pilot in
an air Commando unit in the China
Burma India theater RadoVich had
knocked down four japanese planes
and had been decorated for his featS
as fighter pilot.
The thread manufacturers intro
duced Radovich to celebrities, the
flier said, bought him three tailor
uniforms, provided several gifts for
his wife and finally paid him all
but $50 of promised $1,000 to use
his influence in shielding PrivateS
Usdan and Bayer.
RELATES STORY
RaGovich. in his story relayed by
army officials in the Glib theater
to Mitchell Field colonel ano thence
to the FBI. said that he was de-
tailed in 1943 to organize an air
Commando unit for service in the
Asiatic area. He said he ordered
Frivates Usdan and Bayer out of a
group alerted for transfer overseas
and assigned them to the medical
service of his own unit
Later, Radovich said, the two
soldiers were transferred out of his
mecical service and later slated for
combat cuty which he circumvented
by ordering them back to his unit
until the danger passed.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-05
Railway Board
Requests
Budget Boosts

SACRAMENTO, Nov. d. CUP)-
1he California railroad commission
ThlrSday submitted to the depart
ment of finance a request to spend
S2,893 ,533 in the next two years, an
increase of $747,875 over its current
budget which officials said would be
necessary because of prospective eX-
pansion of private utility operations.
Commission m m ber Richard
Sachse said that he was informed
that the war production board is
planning shortly to remove restric-
tions on telephone installations and
that power companies are planning
large-scale eXpansion of rural facili-
ties next year
Commissioners disagreed, how
ever, over the necessity for the
budget increase.
Sachse, appointed by former
governor Culbert Olson, declared
that the increase, amounting to
about third of the total the COM
mission will spend this biennium,
was asked because regular work of
the commission had been delayed
by war-connected wolk undertaken.
He said during a finance depart
ment budget hearing that war work
amounted to 80 to 40 per cent of the
commissions work
Member Ira Rowell, appointed by
Governor Earl Warren, contended
that the commission was unable to
fill all petitions for which it now
has funds and termed the requested
increase enormous, greater than
ever before asked by the commits
SION
RoWell said, however, he believed
additional staff was needed for GER
tain commission operations and
specified bus inspection as one.
The commission is spending 81
1855 during the two years ending
next June 80, and officially is ask
ing for $2,893,533 during the follow
ing two years.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-05
New Commander
Takes Over
At Camp Dunlap

Lieutenant Colonel Earle S. Davis
has been installed as Camp Dun
laps new commanding officer. He
succeeds Colonel j. D. Mackem. Col
onel Davis first entered military
service at the U. S. Naval Academy
where he took preliminary flight
training. His travels have covered
a vice area, including Tientsin and
Shanghai. China. He was promoted
to Captain June, 1886 aboard the
U.S.S. Louisville with a marine de-
tachment and in February l, 1943
he was sent to Kodiak, Alaska
where he was stationed at the
naval operating base.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-05
Three Marines
AT E, T.. Post
Given Honor
(By Private James s. Nuttcr,
u. s. Marine CNrnSl


Three marine radio-air eunners
and pilot at the Ell Centre Marine
Corps Air Station have received
medals and Communications for
courageous and meritoriouS achieve
mentS.
Colonel r. M. Haynes, command
ing officer of an air group at the
station, made the presentations at
impressive ceremonies in their
honor. -Four companies of leather
necks from the Group Headquarters
Squadron and from the Bombardier
and Gunnery school participated.
Second Lieutenant Billy l.. Will
liams, 81, of Cleburne, Texas, who
now resides at Ell Centre, received
a commendation from the secretary
of the navy for courageous and
outstanding service in finding and
rescuing q marine fighter pilot who
parachuted from his plane and was
lost four days on an Arizona desert.
AIR MEDAL
A citation for the air medal went
to Staff Sergeant William s. Enger,
"a of Minot, North Dakota, for
"meritoriouS achievement as a
radio-air gunner.
He flew 48 combat missions, many
through intense anti-aircraft fire
and strong fighter opposition. BY
his accurate Scrafing, he was in
strumental in destroying an impor-
tant enemy gun position at Rabaul,
New Britain. He also saved the life
of his pilot after an emergency
water landing.
Staff Sergeant Clarence T. Davis,
90 of Amherst, Texas, who now
resides at Imperial, received a COM
mendation from Admiral w. Nimltz,
commander-in-chi of the Pacific
fleet, for skill and courage as
radio-air gunner. He participated
in a strike in which two enemy
cruisers were sunk and two others
damaged On another raid he shot
down a Zero.
WOUNDED DECORATIONS
Staff Sergeant Harvey r. Wood
burn, q, of Pine Grove, West Vlr-
ginia, received the Purple Heart
medal and ribbon for a wound he
received while flying as a turret
gunner in a raid against Rabaul
last March.
The newly decorated marines took
their places with the reviewing Of
ficers, while the battalion of leath-
ernecks, armed with rifles and pay
onets, paraded past in company
mass formation.
Major Michael Lombardo, COM
manding officer of headquarters
squadron and battalion commander,
was in charge of the parade.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-05

SACRAMENTO, Nov 4. UP)-
Effective enforcement of cattle
branding laws is holding down rus
tling" in California in spite CT ra-
tioning anc the temptation of high
meat prices, DR. c. Z. DuckWorth,
assistant director of agriculture said
Saturday.
Duckworth added that an aver
age of one conviction monthly of
persons charged with felonious cat
tie thefts and killings has been
maintained in 1914 and that the
record is comparable to l943, but
that the rate of misdemeanor con-
victions is one-third of last years
However, he said if the meat
consuming public would entirely
avoid purchasing inspected cuts,
the agriculture departments efforts
to protect stockmen and the fed
eral governments efforts to stamp
out all traces of a black market
would be aiced.
DuckWorth said the department
employs 135 inspectors and five
supervising inspectors, and that
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-05
Nelson Delegated
By Roosevelt TO
Form China WPB

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 up
Former War Production Chairman
Donald M. Nelson will return to
China at President Roosevelt'S re-
quest TO help reorganize the Chinese
war effort and to set up Chinese
war production board" the White
House has announced.
Nelson was requested by General
issimo Chang Kai-shek, the White
House said in a statement Issued
shortly after Nelson conferred with
Mr.. Roosevelt.
Nelson will take with him, as a
deputy, Howard Coonley, WPB ex-
ecutive and chairman of the Wal
worth Co., valve manufacturers.
Also accompanying the former
WPB chief will be Eugene M. STALL
ings, an alcohol production expert,
and a mission of five steel experts
headed by Herbert w. Graham,
chief metallurgist of Jones and
Laughlin Steel Corporation.
AS the Presidents personal repre-
sentative, Nelson will continue to
work with Chang ION measures
aimed at strengthening the Chinese
war effort and notably in organiz-
ing a war production board to in
crease the output of China's war in
dustries,' the announcement said.
The White House said the Presi-
dent asked Nelson to set "the earli-
est possible date foy his return to
China" Nelson said he was going
back" but declined to say when or to
90 into detail on his talk with the
President
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-05
CRIPPLED TOYMAKER
TO GET REPRIEVE

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 4. CUP)-
Crippled Toymaker David Semple,
convicted of violating a city zon-
ing ordinance by operating a tiny
toyshop in his Venice garage, is in
line for reprieve after the city
council voted to give the zoning
administrator discretion in applica-
ton of the law.
The unanimous vote came after
Councilman Harold Hardy said
Semple, an invalid for % years, had
taken himself ard his family of
nine off state and county relief and
made them self-supporting by
manufacturing jigsaw puzzles.
The toyma kers attorney, George
Stahlman, announced he would ask
for a new trial when Cemple ap-
pears November 16 for probation.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-05

At Fort Benning, Georgia, Leman
r. Powell of Ell Centre was COM
missioned a second lieutenant in
the army upon completion of the
officer candidate course at the in
fantry school He was indicted into
the army March 10, 1943 and serv-
&C with the seventy fifth infantry
division -Four months ago when
he entered the officer candidate
school he held the rank of staff
sergeant. He is a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Powell of Green City,
Missouri.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-05
SETTER Stops GRIEVING

FORT WAYNE, Ind, Nov. 4.
CUP)-The golden-b brown Irish set
ter of Paul Helms refused to part
with the bodies of her nine still
torn puppies and started to grieve
her own life away until Helms
brought hcme a 2-monpths-old
cocker which the setter doesn't leave
out of her sight for one minute. The
pup gladly tags along wherever its
mother is.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-05
CottIe RustIinq
Is Slowed Down

houses, cold storage lock-
ers and other handlers of meat
products report when animals or
meat are offered to them under
suspicious circumstances.
I'VE have not been able to find
any evidence of an increase in So
called cattle rustling," Duckworth
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-05
ID GAS BOOKS SLATED

Renewal of basic motorcycle ID"
gasoline books has been set for No
vember II. Applications are being
accepted now by the War Price and
Ration Board, El Centre, Mrs. Mar
garet Foster, chief clerk, said Friday
Evening star., 1944-01-04

without the benefit or concurrence
of other authorities by the simple
process of actions which will con-
front us with fait accompli,' he
declared. This contains no impli-
cation of extra legal steps but only
Iof adroit exercise of existing au-
thority."
Senator Brewster proposed that
the United States, in cooperation
with Great Britain, Russia and
China, assume the responsibility of
developing and guaranteeing "a real
! freedom of the air in which peace
loving people everywhere may travel
freely by adequate air lines at rea-
sonable rates" He further suggested
that our national postwar aviation
policy should take into account that
monopoly in international air trans
port was the accepted medium OF
the past two decades.
In contrast to Senator Brewster's
stand, r. S. Damon, vice president
and general manager of American
Airlines, urged that aviation be al
lowed to continue to grow. 1T must
be given the open door of oppor-
tunity," he declared. 1T must have
the virility of competition"
Regulatory Body Asked.
Seventeen out of 10 United States
lines are asking that decisions on
an international basis be made by
an appropriate regulatory body
among applicants who have salts
factorily demonstrated to such a
body that they are ready, willing
and able to serve. Each of us
Evening star., 1944-01-04

can force a general election to de-
eide the issue. Usually the threat of
an election or the threat of an
custer is sufficient to sober the i'm
petuous and limit to the minimum
the number of actual changes in
administration over period of time.
The system has the advantage
also of permitting a people to de-
eide when they want an election,
whereas in America we must have an
election every four years at a fixed
time and elect some one for the
whole of four years. irrespective of
the fact that the crisis which might
make many voters want to retain
the incumbent administration in
power might be over a few months
later. There's nothing fundamen-
tally wrong in keeping an admin
stration in power that reflects the
wishes of the people, but the thing
that is wrong is being unable to
get rid of an eletced official right
away when he no longer reflects
those wishes.s
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Evening star., 1944-01-04

feels that We can all do q better
job under the stimulus Of competi-
ton than can be done under the
questionable blessing of single OPP
eration, whether 1t is called by the
high-sounding biblical name OF
chosen instrument or the common
garden variety of monopoly"
Declaring that the sooner we do
mesticate the airplane the better,
William A. M. Burden, special avia-
ton assistant to the Secretary of
Commerce, told the forum that If
the principle of free air passage is
accepted by the leading nations, our
aircraft will be able to use all air.
ports in the countries subscribing
to such an agreement without fur
ther special pacts.
He pointed out that even con-
|servative economists are now con-
vinced that international airlines
on heavy traffic routes will require
practically no subsidy, unless more
companies attempt to operate on
each route than the traffic war
rants. "It means for the first time
that the industry will be able to
operate as an ordinary business and
not as Government ward" he said
Land Asks Supplementary Lines.
Rear Admiral Emory s. Land
chairman of the Maritime Commits
sion, declaring that more surface
vessels will be needed after the war
despite growth of air transport, ad-
vocated that steamship lines operate
Complementary and supplementary
airplane lines and that the commits
Evening star., 1944-01-04
kazis Dust Rothenberger,
Political Crime Expert
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-The Brit
ish radio said today that a German
broadcast had announced the re-
moval from Office of Kurt Ferdi-
nand Rothenberger, undersecretary
of the German Ministry of Justice
and an expert on political crime
The BIC broadcast, recorded by
United States Government moni-
tors, said Rothenberger was sue
ceeded by a Nazi who held politica
control in Zhitomir before the Rus
sian offensive naturally closed his
office" No reason was given for
Rothenberger's custer.
Rothenberger, named undersecre-
tary in September, 1912, co-operated
with DR.. Otto Georg Thierack, JUS
tice Minister, in a purge of len
lent" German judges. He became
a spokesman for the ministry in
enunciating PHILOSOPHY" of the
law that demanded, among other
things, the death sentence for petty
thieves, because they were deemed
politically useless to the Nazi state.
Evening star., 1944-01-04
Brewster Hits Delay
In Formation Of u. ).
Postwar Air Policy

Senator Brewster. Republican, oi
Maine warned last night that delay
in determination of postwar avia-
ton policy for this country is re-
sulting in steady deterioration
in the position of the United States
in this most critical field"
He spoke as a member of a panel
discussing postwar air transport ir
the United Nations Forum lecture
series at Constitution Hall. Some
1900 persons attended the lecture
Pointing out that an Interdepart-
mental Committee on Postwar Avia-
ton Policy survey completed six
months ago has never seen the
light of day." Senator Brewster de-
clared that Il shall violate its
secrecy sufficiently to say that
heartily concur with it's declaration
that delay in determination of a
policy results in steady deteriora-
ton in the position of the United
States in this most critical field"
Takes Fling at Berle.
Some suggest that the Machia
vellian Mr.. Berle assistant Secre
tary of State Adolph Berle) is for.
mulating our policy in this fielc
Evening star., 1944-01-04

the President himself-for the latter
Is unquestionably convinced that the
Democratic party, by all the rules
and precedents of party politics,
would be foolish to deprive itself
of the services of man at the top
of the ticket who had demonstrated
three times that he could sweep into
Office on his coat-tails, so to speak
Senators, Representatives, Cover
nors and even conStableS.
No practical politician from the
Bowery to the Golden Gate would
suggest that there is any other vote
getter within the Democratic party
today who begins to compare with
Mr.. Roosevelt. And the men who
go as delegates to a national con-
vention are practical politicians
chosen or hand-picked as a rule by
reason of their relationship to the
party organizations.
But while the practical politicians
may see Mr. Roosevelt as the nomi-
about Mr. Roosevelt himself? Does
he intend to be a candidate for a
fourth term? Does he want to be
a candidate? Or should he be a
candidate?
Such questions need not be asked
of Mr.. Roosevelt direct. They can
be readily answered by reading his
letter to the convention of 1910,
when he accepted third-term NOM
ination. Whatever he said then as
applied to the war crisis of that
year-for total war had broken out
in May, 1910, with the invasion of
Holland and Belgium and, by June,
France was knocked out of the war
applies Just as much to 1914.
1t will be recalled that Mr.. Roose-
velt struggled with his conscience
then and came to the conclusion
that continuity in government was
imperative. Once he made that de-
cision and baked the third-term
precedent, he left the issue to the
American people to decide. If they
favored the two term custom, it was
up to them to say so. Certainly
nobody could quarrel with the right
of political party to make a nomi.
nation and test the issue before the
people in constitutional manner.
AS Mr.. Roosevelt doubtless reasons
1T, the American people are the ones
to decide whether there ,shoulc
be fourth term or even a fifth
term. It's their Government and
their right to choose their leaders
which is at stake. incidentally, Mr.
Roosevelt doesn't see any dictator
ship or any other danger in the
prolonged tenure because he has at
times called to the attention of
those who have talked with him
the very interesting experience of
Canada, which is right next door to
us. Canada has had the services of
Mackenzie King as Premier for
about 81 years with an interruption
Of only a total of relatively few
months on two occasions in that
whole period, and nobody thinks of
Canada as anything but democ-
racy.
The catch in it, of course, is that
Canada has the parliamentary sys-
TEN, which contains more democ-
racy than our system. At any time
overnight, If desired-a Premier can
be ousted by majority vote of the
Parliament, and if the Premier
thinks the majority is wrong, he
Evening star., 1944-01-04

Ihere are several hundred national
| organizations which maintain their
headauarters in Washington. Here the
Information Bureau finds the answers
to many Of the QUESTIONS that news
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@. How can aviators distinguish
their own from enemy tanks from
the AIRS. I. G.
A. Tanks are distinguished by
varicolored smoke puffs, brilliant
enough to be visible two miles aloft.
These smoke puffs last for three
minutes.
@. What is the total seating
capacity of the railroads.&c. E. N.
A. In 194l the class I steam rail-
roads had 1882 passenger cars in
operation, including Pullmans Their
aggregate seating capacity was l.
662, All.
@. Are any of the former Cars
honored by the Russians of today?-
D. D. M.
A. Peter the Great, 18th century
Gar, a great empire builder, is re-
garded as a hero of Russian history
@. Who were Fritz Kreisler's
teachers?-M. E. B.
A. Kreisler studied under Auer
and Helmesberger in Vienna and
Massart and Delibes in Paris. He
made his American debut in New
York on November 10, 1888, and fol-
lowed it with tour with the pianist
Moritz Rosenthal.
@. Why is a cat said to have nine
liveS?-E. L. H.
A. An ancient Egyptian SUPPOSE
ton is the basis for this belief.
The cat-headed goddess Pasht was
said to have nine lives. She was
called the mother cat of the witches
and was believed by the Egyptians to
possess the number of lives now
attributed to the modern cat.
@. Which is the highest State
capitol?-E. N. T.
A. The capitol of Louisiana at
Baton Rouge, with tower rising
433 feet, is the highest State capitol
building.
@. Who discovered iodine?-A.V.
A. 1t was discovered in 1911 by
Courtois, a French nitre manufac-
turer. He was boiling the ash from
seaweed in copper kettles. Upon the
addition of unusually strong sui
phuric acid to the residue in his
pots he saw violet fumes arising
from them. 1t was named from a
Greek word meaning violet color.
@. Is Mrs. Winston Churchill of
Scottish desecnt?-G. E. N
A. Yes. Mrs Churchill is the
granddaughter of the seventh Earl
of Airlie.
@. What famous men are con-
nected, with Lichfield, England?-
r. I. G.
A. Lichfield was the birthplace of
DR.. Samuel Johnson. He and Addi-
son attended the grammar school
there, as did also David Garrick
the actor.
@. Did Cyrano de Bergerac really
eXiSt?-M. G. r.
A. Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac,
French romance writer and
dramatist, was born in Paris on
March 6, 1920. At the age of 10
he entered a corps of the guards
and began the series of exploits that
were to make him a hero of romance.
Cyrano's ingenious mixture of
science and romance furnished a
model for many writer's, such as
Swift and Poe. He died in Paris in
September, 1865. M. Edmond Ros-
tand's romantic play "Cyrano de
Bergerac" Q890 revived interest in
him.