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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-22
heu.can I.aborers
Here This Month

About 80 Mexican nationals are
to arrive here about the 30th of
this month, according to Walter
Click, county agent. These work
ers are arriving sooner than they
will be needed, but it is necessary
to accept them now rather than
take chance on lstg arrivals,
Mr.. Click explained. 81
These workers are brought to
the various farm-labor areas by
the War Food Administration.
They will be placed by the Ben
ton-Franklin county farm-labor
association. Farmers will pay the
prevailing wages. They must be
employed for at least IS percent
of the season. If not SO employed
by farmers, the association must
stand good for the difference.
There will be no prisoner Of
war camps in this area, the closest
being located in Yakima.
"The labor program looks good
in this district" MIR. Click states.
Gall sources Of labor are ready
for any emergency. Under this
comes the use of state prisoners
at Walla Walla land Mcneil
Island"
State prisoners can only be used
within a radius of 25 miles Of the
prison. However, in case Of labor
shortages in other areas, prisoners
will be used within the Is mile
limit, he explained, and such
workers as they displace will be
transferred where they are need
ed. This plan was used success
fully last year. Farmers reported
that prisoners made excellent
workers, apparently approaching
the opportunity to get out in the
open air.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-22
Junior WOmen's Club
Sponsors USO Supper

The buffet supper Sunday eve
ming, March Is, at the USO, was
sponsored by the Junior Women's
Club. Serving on the committee
were Mrs. Glen Schiller, chair
man; Mrs. j. M. st. John, Lor-
raine Larson, Frances Matherson,
Mrs. Lyle, Miss Schmidt and Mrs.
Karl Grim. The table decorations
carried out the st. Patrick's Day
motif. Silver service and silver
candleabras were used. The sup
per was in honor of the WACS
and all service personnel who had
birthdays during the month of
March. A large birthday cake
was made for the occasion.
The evening program consisted
of a reading by Miss Lorraine
Larson, assistant director of city
recreation, and two piano duos by
Ralph Burrier and Bill King of
the Pasco N. A. S. Mr.. Augustavo
led the community singing which
followed.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-22
Injured in Cycle
Mishap on River Road

L. r. Davis who lives at the
Richland Y, was badly bruised
and shaken up when he lost con-
troll of the motorcycle he was rid
ing Tuesday night on the River
Road half mile below the Y.
The machine turned over on top
of him. The Mueller ambulance
answered the call, taking him to
the Richland hospital.
Police Chief Matchell Kershaw
went to the scene of the acct
dent as no men of the sheriff.
force were Immediately available.
No cars were involved.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-22
Councilmen Act
To Acquire New
Siren for City

With a full agenda, our council.
men worked until late Tues.
day night, and adjourned to a
special meeting to be arranged to
complete their business. Many
of the problems discussed requir-
ed considerable detail that con-
sumed much of the time.
Acting unanimously, they APP
proved a motion to purchase for
the city of Kennewick new and
improved fire siren. 1t was point
ed out that the present siren can
not be heard within buildings,
even close to the present siren
tower. This creates a dangerous
situation when a call comes be-
cause many of the firemen can
not hear the siren and delay is
a result. This might cause much
greater fire loss in many cases.
1t was testified that such had al
ready been the case.
The new siren may not neces-
Sarily be louder but is of such a
scientific design that the sound
will have much greater carrying
qualities.
One councilman reported that
he could often hear the Pasco
siren and fail to hear our own.
The present siren has served
the city for 80 years, being in
cfollod boro in 1o16 Fire chief
Herb Malchow has secured the
necessary prioritieS and details of
installation will be discussed at
a later date.
Assistant Prosecutor James
Leavy, who is handling the con-
domination of right of way for
sidewalks on Avenue c, discussed
the status of the proceedings. The
council will make a further study
of this situation.
Proposal of a sewer to serve the
Layton addition was discussed.
Since this area is at a lower level
than nearby trunk sewers it was
believed that pump will be re-
quired. Engineers preparing the
sewer on Avenue B will be asked
to make a survey of this area.
Ordinance AIS was given first
reading. This ordinance deals
with the regulation of traffic sig
mails and stop signs. It is required
for the operation of the signal,
newly installed on the highway
at Washington street.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-22
Louise Glines
Weds D. Ashby

Cadet Nurse Louise Glines and
Duane Ashby, Sic, We're united
in marriage Saturday night in the
chapel of Our Lady Of Lourdes
hospital in Pasco. Rev. Father
Smith read the double ring cere-
mony. #.
Mrs. Ashby is the daughter of
II. A. Glines of Kennewick. She
made her home at Finley-Hover
and was graduated from the River
View high school with the class
Of 1912. $40. w.
The groom is widely known in
Kenneick. He is the SON Of G. B.
Ashby Of Colville, a former Hover
resident. Duane was employed for
some time at Belair's bakery prior
to his entry into the Navy. Prior
to that he had spent his early
years with his mother in France,
coming here at the outbreak Of
the European war.
The bride wore biege tan suit
with brown accessories. She car
ried a prayer book and simple
orchid.
Maxine Glines sac Of the WA
YES was her sisters bridesmaid.
MIR. Ashby was attended by his
father.
A reception was held in the
nurses home for relatives and the
close friends following the cere-
mony.
Following a short honeymoon,
the bride will return to her duties
at the hospital from which she
will graduate in May. The groom
will return to his base for reas-
signment after two years in the
South Pacific.
Out Of town guests for the we'd
ding We're c. B. Ashby Of Colville,
father of the groom, Maxine
Glines sac, who is stationed at
Astoria, Mrs. j. Friedlund Of Spo-
kane and Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Moe
of Harrington and Mr.. and Mrs.
Shorty Erickson Of Finley.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-22
Acel Ann Purdy Cited
For Bond Achievement

Acel Ann Purdy was
recently awarded a prize by the
Kiwanis club for outstanding
achievement in the past war bond
campaign, and has received word
of further recognition. She has
been advised by Sam Hayes, not
ed radio commentator, that the
judges on the Breakfast News
program have selected her for ci-
tation for outstanding work on the
home battlefront.
The citation will be broadcast
on Monday, March 26, 7:45 am.
on the Breakfast News program.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-22
SCHUBERT CLUB PROGRAM

SVk1O06H1 O6O0 <1t0S4tz&AN1
The Schubert Club is present
ing it's Easter concert this Sunday
evening for the USO in Pasco.
Members of the organization are
asked to meet at the Methodist
church at 7:30 where transporta-
ton will be arranged. -e.s
Next week the same concert is
to be given in Kennewick and will
be open to the public. A ecep-
ton to follow is being arranged
by Mrs. John Ferguson, and
friends of the group are being
asked to attend.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-22

The Tulip Blue Birds met Mon,
day, March 10 with Paula Horsley
as president. Plans were made
for an Easter party on March rs
and an outdoor supper on April g.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-22

Walter O. johnson EM2/c is
renewing old friendships in Ken
newick and Pasco. Home on a 30
day furlough, he is looking fit,
with heavy tan from Is months
in the South Pacific. His ribbons
carry two invasion stars. Walter
is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ole
johnson, now living in Pasco. He
entered the navy in July, 1912.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-22
STORY OF THE WEEK:

Two Red army 1nfantrymen,
pausing in foxhole on the east
ern front, were discussing their
respective home districts.
The trouble with you White
Hussians," observed the Ukrain-
that your names are too
.ong. In the Ukraine we have
little short names like Dneprope-
trovsk. In White Russian you have
pig long names like Meeeeeeeeee-
eeeeeeeesk!"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-22
Initiated in Sorority

Initiated in Sorority
Pat Sonnenberg was initiated
into the Alpha XII Delta sorority
Friday, March 16 at which time
her Spanish teacher, an alumna
of the Alpha XII Delta, presented
her with crested ring.
Her scholastic average being 3.3
entities her to- all senior privi-
leges. Pat is a freshman Of the
University of Washington.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-22
pRE-EAsTER PROGRAM

Pilgrim Holiness church an
nounces Pre-Easter campaign
starting Sunday. Sunday school
and morning services will feature
Easter programs with special
music. '
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-22

Gilbert Mouncey, aerial gunner
with the 9th Air Force, visited
here last week while on a fur
Tough. Gilbert, whose home is in
Seattle, is a nephew of Lawrence
Moeller. He is now stationed in
Nebraska.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-22

We are a little surprised to find
that readers of this high class
journal have not seen fit to dub 1t
with a nickname in lieu of the
lengthy and cumbersome Cour-
ier-Reporter. We find that we
cannot Just arbitrarily drop one
of the names when speaking of
the paper without discriminating
the other. The way 1t
sta.lds it is a distinguished sound
ing name. It is out of the usual
rut of Times, News, Star, etc. But
neither does it have the distinction
of an unusual abbreviation like
the Pr.
Suppose in future years other
ill-advised members in poor stand
ing in the Fourth Estate should
have the temerity to start opposi-
ton newspapers. Suppose again
that after they had run their
short careers they became alb
sorbed by the Courier-Reporter.
Eventually we might have some
thing like this, set in extra-con-
densed across the top of page one:
The Kennewick Courier-Reporter-
Journal Herald Clarion Batter
Weeper-etc.
Therefore we are offering to the
individual who can originate a
sufficiently dignified nickname
that will be universally accepted
by the thousands of our readers,
an appropriate prize. This will
consist of an unusual action photo,
suitable for framing, of a black
tom cat mauling rare Nubian
rodent down in Paul Richmond's
coal bin.
All of which brings us to. this
weeks yarn.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-22
Lyle Pierce Wins
Bronze Star Medal

Gordon Lyle Pierce, son of Mr..
and Mrs. w. L. Pierce of the West
Highlands has been awarded the
Bronze Star Medal.
Private Pierce volunteered to
accompany a combat patrol on
daylight operation into enemy ter
ritory in Germany known to be
strongly defended. Upon success
fully completing its mission, the
patrol returned under intense
enemy fire during which Private
Pierce was wounded.
The medal was awarded for
outstanding courage, skill and dis
regard for personal safety. Lyle
is in the U. S. cavalry. He was
also awarded the Purple Heart.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan Hardy re-,
ceived word this week that their
son, Private Richard Hardy had
been seriously wounded in action
in Germany. VI
Word has been received here
that Charles Smith was wounded
recently in action in Germany.
He is now convalesciEg in a hos
pital in England. Charles is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. H. Smith and
is a private in the infantry. He
graduated from Kennewick high
school last spring. He was home
for Christmas, going overseas in
January.
Corporal Eldor Kempf of the
Marine Signal Corps, 4th Div, is
now on the fighting front of Two
Jima, according to the latest word
received here by his father, Al
bert Kempf. Eldor says he'll be
glad to get off the island because
of a strong sulphor odor that con-
stantly permeates the air.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nose Lee of the
Highlands have received letter
from their son Howard, Shipfitter
1/c, telling them he is doing fine
while convalescing from a bullet
wound received in action in the
South Pacafic. Howard is being
cared for on a hospital ship. He
has been in the Navy five years.
Duane r. Larson, of Beach ST.,
Kennewick, has been promoted to
the grade of sergeant, according
to an announcement recently
made at the 18th Air Force heavy
bomber base in Italy. --... w.. ~. :.
An armorer gunner on a B-24
Liberator bomber, Sgt. Larson is
member of a veteran group COM
manded by Col. T. w. Steed, of
Etowah, Tenn. The group has
flown more than 200 combat mis-
sions against strategic targets in
southern Europe and the Balkans.
Sgt. Larson entered the service
June z, 1914. Prior to coming ov-
erseas, he won his gunner's wings
at an army Air Force flexible
gunnery training field. :
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-22

Marine Private Dorothy D.
Theis, a former clerk with Ken
newick schools, will leave for six
weeks basic training at the Wom-
ems Reserve school, Camp Le-
jeune, N. c., March 81.
Her training will include in
struction in Marine Corps history
and courtesies, naval law, map
reading, military drill, and other
pertinent subjects valuable to her
future life in the corps. When her
training is completed she will re-
lease a combat Marine for duty in
the Pacific.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. "A. Larson of
5th and Beach streets have been
informed that their son Duane r.
Larson had been promoted from
corporal to sergeant. Duane is a
gunner on a B-24 based in Italy.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-22
The Sidewalk
REPORTER
HONESTY PREVAILS
BY the
KENNEWICK COURIER

Ii++,e Donna Hancock did her
LIZ deed for at least one day this
g., uoIt She came into our office
, m tuesday to hand us an open
iat. envelope in which was a sign
eJ check She explained that she
had found it on the street - an to
t ta% she sought to give it to
lnusahodvn The envelope bore
ssn marks of footprints of elder
a . wiser pedestrians, and the ink
anu an the check had started to run
from the shower. We addressed a
new envelope and sent it on. No
d i the recipient will find his
o o method of thanking his small
benefactor.
u,;ck is also thanking an honest
CITIZEN this week. She had the
-SJortune to lose her purse con-
.ine money and valuable pa
no. II was returned to her in
a word of warning: While it is
nrohable that the majority OF our
citizens are of the same honest
caIibre as the two mentioned, 1t
Is possible there may be some few
exceptions. We suggest that no
one intentionally lose their valu-
ables just for the fun OF it.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-22

Jim Leavy, as chairman, an
nounces the opening of the cloth
inc drive. He says he was getting
the thing off to a good start by
making a couple calls himself. At
one place he asked a harried
householder: "What do you do
with your old clothes?"
To which the man replied: Il
brush them and hang them care
fully over the back of a chair.
Then in the morning when I get
up I put them on again"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-22

A local citizen reports that he
spent very pleasant time one
night last week visiting with Ken
newick friends while standing IN
line at a Pasco theatre.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-03-22

Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan Hardy re-
ceived word this week that their
son, Private Richard Hardy had
been seriously wounded in action
in Germany. ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-11
japan in the Air

The latest air assault on Japan
the heaviest and most spectacular to
date-is highly significant for many
reasons. 1t shows, as never before,
how far advanced are our Army and
Navy in operational coordination. 1t
demonstrates once again what car
rier-based craft can do against hos
tile shores. And 1t indicates. above
all, an astonishing weakness in
Japanese homeland defenses.
AS reported by Admiral Nimitz,
this multiple attack involved the
joint operation of $50 or more Super
Fortresses from the Marianas. hun
dreds of other raiders from Two
Jima and Okinawa. and about 1000
craft from the carriers commanded
by Admiral Mccain in Admiral Hal
sey's mighty Third Fleet. All told,
probably 1000 planes, striking from
bases separated by vast distances,
thus took part in what was really
a single blow calculated to scar and
blacken Japan virtually from end to
end That they could do this so well,
in accord with common plan in
volving the most careful timing, is
a stirring commentary on the ca
pacity of our Army and Navy air
7 arms to cooperate with truly dew
astating effect.
The defiant and almost contemp-
tuous manner in which the Third
Fleet operated during the attack
seems especially noteworthy. There
was time. earlier in the war, when
it was fashionable in certain circles
to belittle carriers as waste of
money, on the ground that it would
be suicidal for them to move in
against shore-based planes on an
enemy mainland. This theory has
long since been discredited by events
in the Pacific. notably by the Fifth
Fleets three-day strike against
Tokyo last February. and now-con-
clusively-by the Third Fleets latest
action in the same waters. During
the course of this action. the names
of no fewer than 26 of the ships
taking part were made public by
Admiral Nimitz. an unprecedented
gesture underscoring the Nays
self-confidence and challenging the
.JaDaneSe tn try Tn do something
about it.
But the japanese did practically
nothing, Hours after the first of our
planes took OF to hammer at Tokyo's
scores of airf1elds not a single
enemy interceptor rose from the
ground, not single bomber came
out to attack our fleet formations,
and at last reports not one Of Hiro-
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hito's surface vessels or submarines
put in an appearance. The defense
Of the imperial capital, in short,
consisted Of little more than weak
and inconsequential antiaircraft
fire, and the Super Fortresses and
other Army bombers encountered
much the same kind of opposition
elsewhere over the home islands.
Perhaps Japan is resorting to
some subtle new strategy to husband
its strength against invasion, but
there seems greater reason to be-
lieve that the magnitude and COM
plexity of our assault threw 1t of
balance and that the aerial attri-
ton 1t has suffered so far-Such as
the 1000 planes lost around Oki-
nawa-has gravely weakened It,.
Never has a major nation appeared
to be so hopelessly outclassed in
the air.
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Patent Office Returns

The announcement that the
Patent ONCE is returning its exiled
employees to Washington will be
welcomed as a first step in correct
ing panicky mistake made in the
excited period Immediately following
Pearl Harbor.
It was first planned in those hectic
days of December, 1941, to move the
Patent Office-lock, stock and barrel
to New York. The employees were
notified to be ready to move. Then
somebody discovered that this
operation was not as simple as it
seemed. With the Office would
have to be moved some 1000 tons
of patents, 23,500 items of furniture
and equipment, 1000 tons of patent
storage cases, 10000 tons of other
storage equipment and, incidentally,
a maximum of perhaps 10000 people,
including the families of patent
attorneys who probably would have
been compelled to follow the office.
When the absurdity of this plan
became apparent, an alternative
was accepted. Several branches of
the office, including 900 employees,
were moved to Richmond. While
the usefulness of this as war meas
ure was highly dubious, it was at
least less descriptive than the original
plan, and, once carried out, 1t could
have been continued until the end
of the war. However, 1t now has
been decided that this is the time to
begin bringing the Patent Office
back to the Capital.
There may be good reason for
this and 1t need hardly be said that
Washington viii welcome the return
of these involuntary wanderers. But
it is not at all surprising that some
of the latter are not anxious to come
back at this time. Washington is
more crowded than when they left,
and these returning residents, IL
they have to search for housing
accommodations. know they will be
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Peace FeeIers

Inc only peIIIuSSlDle COIlCluSlOIl 10
be drawn from Acting Secretary of
State Crews comments on Japa-
nese peace feelers is that this Gov
eminent will not yield an inch In
Its insistence on the unconditional
surrender of Japan And if we are
willing to pay the price-which may
not be as heavy as some seem to
think-we unquestionably have the
military power to impose our will
in this respect on the enemy.
Mr.. Grew makes a distinction, and
be is entirely right in doing SO,
between peace offer and peace
feelers. A peace offer would entail
a formal proffer of surrender from
the Japanese government or some
one authorized to act for it, and
this undoubtedly would receive i'm
mediate consideration. Peace feelers,
on the other hand, are unofficial
and might be made in bad faith.
This Government may not be as
stonily Indifferent to them as one
would infer from Mr.. Crews Ian
guage, but it is certainly right, and
it will be supported by public opin-
ion, in refusing to entertain them
as affording the slightest basis for
discussion of compromise peace.
When the japanese surrender, as
sooner or later they must, they are
going to surrender on our terms.
And they might as well understand
now as later that those terms will
strip them of every vestige of
military power, actual and potential.
Japan brought this war upon her
self through an act of calculated
treachery. And if the character of
the fighting has proved anything,
1t has proved that we can never trust
the Japanese. Our only hope of
security in the future lies in re-
ducing them to a minor power,
stripped absolutely of the means of
waging war. And, although Mr..
Grew seems to be somewhat appre-
hensive lest the American people
succumb to the lure of a compromise
peace, there can be no doubt that
sentiment in this country is and will
continue to be Overwhelmingly in
support OF this position.
There is one aspect Of the question
Of Japan's surrender, however, which
Mr.. Crews statement does not clear
up. We have told Japan officially
that unconditional surrender does
not mean the destruction or en-
slavement OF the Japanese people.
But we have not given them any
comprehensive statement of what it
does mean, and there have been
suggestions from responsible sources
that the process of capitulation
might be FASTENED If this Govern
ment saw At to define the terms
which it knows it intends to impose.
This is by no means proposal for a
compromise peace, and that distinc-
ton should be clearly made. How
ever, the language used by the
Acting Secretary indicates that the
Government does not look with
favor on making even this conces-
sion to Japan, and the record of the
men conducting this war is such as
to inspire confidence that they have
good reason for adopting this
attitude
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Why Need We Fear?

The ,corro Of time enfolds the noon and
night
Like captured birds, yet cannot set
them tree ss
Until the summoned hour; each poised
for flight,
Yet Gagged to sky and earth etern1lly.
Nor can they stay, tcien the appointed
hour
Has clicked the sky. and struck the
echoing chime.
These may not stDerps nor talter, but
must soar
Abore the great circumstances 81
time.
This being so. my iovs. schv need W
fear
The days unfolding, and tbs NOR
row's sun?
Within US, too, time foios. month into
year
Man and the uniperse tn unison.
aud, too. within US, shadoiDed against
the moon.
Bnrns the broad fdnss OF the ascendant
noon!
MAE wnsKLER GOODMAN.