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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-01-24

LIGHTING PUTS ON A SHOW
Lightning flashed 354 times in
"A minutes in one Of the most in
tense electrical storms on record
at Buffalo, N. Y, shortly before
midnight on June 20. instruments
of the Buffalo Niagara Electric
Corporation recorded the specta-
Gle. The previous record there
was 191 flashes in 43 minutes on
June 2, 1913.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-01-24

m. first postwar washing ma
-.;ne produced by one electrical
hufacturing company Went 70
kbees on the Island OF Ilnlan IN
~ South Pacific.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1946-01-24

riot from the producer of Kiss
and Tell. It would seem that It
couldn't be funnier that the
Broadway play, but it is. It is the
story of a returned boy-hero
whose postwar problem is his
family.
Evening star., 1946-09-16
Truth Serum Restores Voice
Yunk Lost in World WurI

ney infection, and he said doctors
decided to experiment on whether
they could restore his voice
They tried hypnosis but 1 couldn't
go UNDER" he recounted.
so the doctor asked II I'd be
willing to take a sodium pentathol
shot. 1t relaxes the higher mental
centers and relieves tensions.
agreed. The shot in the arm made
me sleepy.
The doctor said Signal just be-
for you fall asleep l did and the
doctor kept talking. He sounded
miles away. He kept asking me to
count one, two, three, four l tried
and at first it seemed / was whis-
pering and then my voice came
louder and as I revived l heard
myself talking. I knew I could talk
Then l felt all faint and when
came to the doctor was shaking
me to beat hell and I was taking
Mr. Smith said he knew his vocal
cords had been all right during his
speeches. travail because I've been
known to talk and sing and cuSs
in my sleep"
Evening star., 1946-09-16
Head-0n Train Collision
lnjures IL in Montana
BY the Assoeioted Press

WHITEFISH, Mont, Sept. l6-A
head-on collision of troop train
and freight injured Al soldiers and
railroad crewmen near here late
Saturday night.
A Seattle-bound troop special and
Great Northern freight crashed with
such force that Is lumber laden
cars were piled up, two cars from
the special derailed and several
hundred feet Of rails ripped out.
Only two of the injured required
disqualification. First aid was neces-
sary for 81 injured soldiers and two
sleeping car porters.
Most seriously hurt were J. s. Con-
nelly of Whitef1sh, freight train en-
gineer, hospitalized with a broken
arm and other injuries, and one COL
Iored porter, whose name was not
available.
Crew members said engineers of
both trains reduced their speed
shortly before the crash, probably
saving the lives of many of the 125
soldiers, air force troops, aboard
the special.
COLUMBUS, Miss, Sept. l6 (P).-
An engineer was killed and several
passengers received minor injuries
in the head-on collision of two Co.
lumbus and Greenville railroad
trains 6 miles east of Winona, Miss,
Saturday.
Engineer w. J. Lynch, about IA
years old, of Columbus, at the thfot-
tie of westbaund passenger train,
was fatally injured.
Evening star., 1946-09-16
Boys on Way 10 Face
Charges in Staying Of
Father, Stepmother
BY the Assoeiofed Press

BARSTOW, Calf. Sept. 1.-two
teen-age youths were enroute to
their home in Northern California
today to face charges of killing one
boys father and stepmother.
They are Billy Anderson, Is, and
Nathan Edwards James, IS, who.
District Attorney Lloyd Hewitt OF
Sutter County said, had confessed
the Staying September 8 in Yuba
City of Rancher w. H. Anderson and
Mrs. Donnie Marie Anderson, Billy's
father and stepmother.
With them in their brief flight
from California. but not implicated
in the slayings, was 12-year -old
Marilyn Hodge.
Mr.. Hewitt and Sheriff G.. w. Car
penter OF Yuba City planned to take
the three by automobile to Yuba
City.
Caught in Trying to Cash Check.
Billy was taken into custody here
when he tried to cash a check, was
transferred for questioning to San
Bernardino and returned here sec
Iretly last night.
Nathan and the girl were picked
up In Topock, Ariz., questioned at
klngman and brought here last
night to rejoin Billy in a reunion
that was marked by silence when
the two boys passed each other in
the Jail.
Alternately fearful and calm. the
boys gave matching stories of the
slayings, the district attorney said.
Boys Recount Murders.
Mr.. Hewitt said the Anderson boy
told of firing blast from a 12-
gauge shotgun at the side of his
fathers face just after the James
boy had shot the stepmother with
.22-caliber rifle. A second shot
was fired into Mrs. Anderson's body
by Nathan, Mr. Hewitt said. The
boys, hiding outside, fired through
window.
Il did 1t because the folks were 30
tough on me and my stepmother
never did get along with me-" Mr..
Hewitt quoted Billy as saying.
The trio long had planned to run
away but the girl, the boys insisted.
was never aware of the slayings,
Mr.. Hewitt recounted. They picked
her up after the shooting, which
occurred in the bedroom of the
Anderson home, and later separat-
ed. driving the Andersons' two cars.
| Mr.. Hewitt said the boys stuffed
the bodies into the compartment of
one car and later Billy dumped his
fathers body beside a creek east of
Yuba City and his stepmother's
body was left on a rock pile near
Oroville.
Next day he cashed checks total
ing nearly $500 and the trio's out
of-State dash began, the district
i attorney revealed
Evening star., 1946-09-16
Split by Operators
Brighfens Hope for
End Of Truck Strike
BY The Associated Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-Pros-
poets of a settlement of the
trucking. strike that has shut
down many industries and food
stores In New York appeared
brighter today despite a break
down In negotiations between
the union and an employers
committee.
The solid front of employers was
broken by two large firms which
offered the union a reduction in
working hours and S7.40 weekly
pay increase. Union representatives
unanimously agreed to recommend
the proposal to their membership
at a meeting tomorrow.
Mayor William O'Dwyers Advisory
Committee reported the offer made
by the H. c. Bohack Co., Inc, and
Daniels & Kennedy after the un-
successful conclusion of the COM
mittee's talk with organized en-
ployer representatives and officials
of Locals 80, 282 and 8l6, Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Teamsters.
AFL.
Ask to Deal With Union.
The committee reported at the
same time that one of the three
employer associations, the Master
Truckmen of America, had asked
that it be allowed to deal with the
union, apart from the other two.
A spokesman at City Hall said it
was hoped that the union member
ship, which last week voted not to
authorize signing of separate agree
ments, would go along this time
with the divide and conquer"
strategy.
Only the membership of Local
8O7 need ratify the agreement, since
the other two locals have empow-
cred their negotiating committees
to enter into an agreement.
Calls Offer "Out of Line"
Joseph M. Adelizzi, chairman of
the Joint Wage Scale Committee
representing the Motor Carrier As
ISOLATION and the State Motor
Truck Association, said in a state
ment that the new wage offers were
"outrageously out of line" and
would be opposed by his group ito
the utmost"
A union official recalled that a
1888 trucking tieup similar to the
present strike was ended within "a
hours after the Daniels & Kennedy
firm, haulers Of newsprint and gen.
eral commodities, broke away from
other operators and signed a. sep
arate contract with Local 807.
The strike has forced closing of
two major food chains, the A. Sc P.
and Safeway Stores, with a COM
bined total Of ITO stores and 1880
employees, and other industries de-
pendent on trucks manned by mem
bers Of the. striking locals, and has
resulted in drastic curtailment of
the use of newsprint by all daily
newspapers.
Evening star., 1946-09-16
Radio Show Producer
Dies in Plane Crash
ey the Assoeioted Press

CHICAGO, Sept. 16--Johnny
Neblett, 80, Chicago radio announcer
and producer of the widely heard
transcribed show, so the Story
Goes" was killed yesterday when his
BT-13 plane, Navy primary trainer
crashed on Tam O'Shanter golf
course in suburban Niles.
Brice A. Buckingham, As, sales
manager for the National Sheet
Steel Co. of Chicago and a former
resident of Salem, Wis, also died in
the crash.
The two men had played golf" at
Tam O'Shanter, left their wives at
the country club and driven four
miles to the Palwaukee Airport, a
private field. A few minutes later,
the plane appeared over Tam
O'Shanter, circled low, banked
sharply, then crashed into a high
steel fence
Mr.. Neblett, who was reported to
have logged about 400 flying hours
came to Chicago in 1912 after
broadcasting over stations at Baton
Rouge, La, Louisville, KY, and st.
Louis. Featured in MICS Tin Pan
Alley of the Air." he had recently
launched Neblett Radio Productions,
Inc, which sold his show to almost
100 stations.
Last Christmas Mr. Neblett mar
ried Angeline Orr, former Chicago
radio actress and Columbia Pictures
starlet. He also leaves a 6-year-old
son by a previous marriage.
A native of Houston, Miss, Mr..
Neblett was graduated from Louisi-
ana State University in 1886.
Evening star., 1946-09-16
Search Begun for Hull Kin
Missing on Way 10 Work
BY the Assoeioted Press

SEATTLE, Sept. 16.-Sheriff' S
deputies were conducting a search
today for Raymond Robert Hull, A,
granddaughter of former Secretary
of State Hull, who has been missing
since leaving for work Thursday.
Mr.. Hull was a guard for the
Northwest Protective Agency and
was assigned to duty on ship
moored at Tacoma.
Sheriff's Deputy William Frazee
said investigation disclosed that Mr..
Hull left home with $40 in cash
and more than 5000 in checks. He
said also a valuable ring for which
Mr.. Hull carried a claim check was
called for at Renton jewelry store
by p man who did not answer Mr..
Hull's description.
Il know he must have been the
victim of foul play" his wife said.
1--WE made plans for Thursday after
noon and I know he intended to
come home then"
Evening star., 1946-09-16
Nome-Co oIIing Won't Move
Noyy Ljppmonn Soys

NEW YORK, Sept. Is (P.-Walter
Lippmann, New York Herald Trib-
une foreign affairs columnist, said
today in answer to an attack on
him by the Soviet government news
paper Izvestia that the publication
won't get rid of the American
naval forces in the Mediterranean
by calling me names"
Izvestia yesterday termed Mr..
Lippmann the ardent troubador of
imperialist circles in the United
States" and assailed him for de-
Tending the idea of a display of
American naval strength in the
Mediterranean.
Mr.. Lippman said in a telephone
interview:
There is no point in exchanging
adjectives with the editor of Izvestia.
But I suppose he realizes that he
won't get rid of the American naval
forces in the Mediterranean by call
ing me names"
Evening star., 1946-09-16
Army Officer Robbed
After Rushing 10 Help
Lady in Distress

An Army bomber pilot who was
shot down over Germany, fought
his way back to the American lines
and later was decorated for his war
services, was victimized early yes
terday by lady in distress"
First 1t. Kenneth Sentner, sta
toned at Fort Meade, told police he
was robbed of s85 about 4 am. when
he went to the assistance of
woman, about %, who, he said, was
lying on the ground in Farragut
Park, Fifteenth and I streets NV.
When he approached her he said
a man stepped from the shrubbery,
stuck a gun in his back and robbed
him. The girl helped her COM
panion in lifting his billfold, he
said, and they escaped in a new
automobile parked nearby
In reporting the theft, 1t. 'Sentner
told police that during the war
he and one other member of his
bomber crew were the only two
to escape when their plane was
disabled during raid over Ger
many.
1t. Sentner said that a month
ago he was robbed of $22 when his
trousers were rif1ed as he slept in
a hotel room.
Thieves who ransacked the cabin
cruiser Sally Ann, moored in the
Washington Channel at Fourteenth
and Maine avenue S.W., early
today, also stole the 6-month- -old
dog left to watch the boat, Col.
August H. Quade, u. S. A., so, who
lives on the boat, reported to police
today.
The dog, Chesapeake retriever;
a wrist watch and SIS in cash were
taken, Col. Quade said.
A maple sofa and matching arm
chair were stolen from the st. Johns
African Methodist Episcopal Church,
Stanton and Douglas roads Sc, yes
terday by thieves who forced open
the basement door, police said.
A portable bar, dresser set, three
radios, toaster and saucepans were
taken from the New York Jewelry
Co., 719 SeveRth street NV, by
thieves who smashed a rear door.
police reported. Total value OF the
items taken was estimated at $282.
Police are looking for two soldiers
who attacked and robbed William
Lee Allen, Al, of 1915 F. street NE,
taxicab driver, of $6 early yesterday.
Mr.. Allen told police the pair
hailed him at the corner of Eighth
and L streets Sc. and Immediately
began beating him.
After they had robbed him, he
went to Providence Hospital, where
he was admitted for severe face cuts.
His condition was described as good.
Evening star., 1946-09-16
Two Carnegie (III.) Mills
Idle Under Pickefinq
BY the Associated Press

GARY, Ind, Sept. 16.-The sheet
and tin mills Of the Carnegie Illinois
Steel Corp. here were idle today be-
cause of what company spokesmen
said was strike of clerical employees
and what the union termed a com
pany lockout"
A spokesman for United States
Steel, Of which Carnegie Illinois Is
division, said that Local 3,008, CIO
United Steelworkers' Salaried Cleri-
cal Union, had established picket
lines around the two plants, when
the first shift reported last mid
night.
Only supervisory and maintenance
employees crossed the lines, he add
ed. The two mills employ about g.
300 workers on three shifts.
The company spokesman declared
that the union had filed mo formal
grievance" but added "it is obvious
that company plan for CONSOLE
dation of the planning production
departments of the two mills Is re-
sponsible for the picketing."
A union spokesman said the pro-
posed consolidation was largely re-
sponsible" for the picketing, but en-
phasized there was no strike.
1T is purely company lockout"
he asserted, without elaboration.
Evening star., 1946-09-16
Soboteurs Who Wrecked
Police Station Sought

JERUSALEM, Sept. 16 R.-Pal-
estine police, forwarned by a new
threat of intensified terroism in the
Holy Land. searched the Sarafand
area today. for bomb carrying
band of saboteurs who attacked a
police station and. wrecked power
lines IN a raid last night.
The warning of new violence
came from the secret radio of.Irgun
Zvai:.l Leumi, Jewish underground
organization, a. few hours after po-
hce had announced the arrest of %
Irgun leaders.
Fifteen other men, described as
suspected terrorists," were arrested
this morning in a Jewish quarter
on the outskirts of JeruSalm and
were held for questioning.
The broadcast said that Irgun,
which has claimed responsibility for
many of the recent outbreaks of
violence in Palestine, planned re-
newed and almost continuous acts
of terrorism.
1t was not Immediately clear what
organization was responsible for the
attack last night in the Sarafand
area, approximately IS miles south
of Haifss Official sources said merely
that a Jewish band attacked a DO
lice station and was driven off after
an exchange of shots. The power
lines were wrecked by bomb blast
The Palestine police, in referring
to the arrest of q alleged members
of Irgun, said the Jews were picked
up in Haifa and that number were
high on our wanted list" .
Hagana, the largest Jewish resist
snce movement in Palestine, and
the Jewish Agency Executive both
issued statements over the week end
condemning violence in Palestine.
The Irgun radio criticized Hagana
for what the announcer. described
as its moderate attitude toward al
legged abuses of Zionists.
The broadcaster also accused the
British of planning to- create "a
Ghetto in Palestine, ruled by a
puppet government under the lead
ership of another Petain or Laval.
Jamal Bey Musseini, deputy chair
man Of the Arab Executive, went
to, Government House today at the
initiation of High. Commissioner
Sif Alan Cunningham for 4the sec
ond conference in two days
Evening star., 1946-09-16
BY the Assoeioied Pres.

GOLDENDALE, Wash, Sept. 10
A hair-raising ride with a stunt
pilot failed to do it, and hypnosis
had no effect, but Mark Smith, 81,
Klickitat County farmer, today
credited sodium pentathol, the So
called truth serum" with restoring
his voice, lost 28 years ago in a
World War I German artillery bar
rage in France.
And at the veterans hospital at
Vancouver. Wash. where Mr.. Smith
was treated, DR.. Ben E. Grant COM
manding officer, verified that
sodium pentathol was administered
and added it was the first case in
his knowledge of its use in re-
storing speech
1t was good news for Mr.. Smith S
73-year-old mother, Sarah, too, be-
cause her eyesight is dimming and
she was having increasing diff
Guilty in reading her sons scratch
pad notes to her.
Mr.. Smith fortnight ago was
at the veterans hospital for a kid
Evening star., 1946-09-16
Wallace Talk Shows
u. 5. Uneasiness Over
Policies, Pravda Says
BY the Assoeioisd Press

LONDON, Sept. 16.-A Pravda
editorial broadcast from Moscow
today said the New York speech
by Secretary of Commerce Wallace
showed signs of uneasiness in the
United States that American policy
might lead to disastrous Conse-
quences."
The Communist party newspaper
said Mr.. Wallace was compelled to
make some very significant admis-
Sions."
Wallace could not deny the
editorial said, the existence of
dangerous imperialist tendencies in
the U. S. A. and Britain and said
that II the Americans managed to
overcome imperialist tendencies in
the western world there would be
no war, -
Reflects Uneasiness.
There is no doubt that this
speech reflects the uneasiness
of the more far-sighted elements in
the u. S. A. in connection with
those disastrous consequences to
which the further strengthening of
imperialist militarist tendencies in
American policy may lead"
Mr.. Wallace, Pravda said, point
ed out that the u. S. A. was arm
ing itself to the teeth and that
the American press was, in most
cases, propagating the idea of war
in the hope of intimidating the
Soviet Union"
wallace describes this as GRIM
inal foolishness," the newspaper
continued, adding:
We can agree with this descrip-
ton"
Pravda declared that ''it is known
that the American policy of eco
nomic subjugation of the British
empire, as the price for support of
British reactionary colonial policy,
was the basis for the establishment
OF the so-called Anglo-Saxon bloc. -
Troops Go Together.
American troops together with
British troops exercise police func-
tions in the Near East" it said.
American military equipment is
used for suppression of the Indo-
nesian national movement. But not
withstanding all this, the military
agreement between the U. S. A. and
Canada finally excludes this oldest
dominion from the political orbit OF
London.
That same Australia, which has
recently been playing the role of the
most active armor bearer of the
Anglo-Saxon powers, is subjected to
the strongest pressure on the part
of the U. S. A. and will obviously be
compelled to yield its island bases
in the Pacific"
American aspirations to world
hegemony, which have very greatly
gained in strength since the war;"
the editorial concluded, "are famed
by the activity of the American war
machine in their policy of seizing
bases and bridgeheads far beyond
the boundaries of American terri
tory."
Evening star., 1946-09-16
Aqueduct Results

FIRST RAcE-Purse. S3,5O0; claim
Wee Ossie Delaral 1O.10 $40 $50
Happy Lark (Jessop) $40
Time, 1:25as.
Also ran - Minehnder Navy Dance,
Cheestraw, Ascertain, Art of War, Raw
Recruit. Ask Me, Dagger.
SECOND RAcE-Purse, $4,000; claim
ing: 2-year-olds; 6 furlongs.
Golden Arrow (Guerin) 1850 4.36 $50
10 Stafford tJames) 40 $50
Around Town (Williams) $50
Also Also ran2NSavy a.aoNS Award, Tom Ferris,
Full Flush. Sir Gallascene, Eddie Butler,
Penalong, Dusty Ribbon.
THIRD RAcE-Purse. S3,5oo: maidens
hurdles; 3-year-olds and up; about 1K
miles
Big Sun adams 4sO 43O 3.1C
a Cash (Williams) 40 42C
Hard Facts (MarzanD 450
Also e ran. s Bur. Bath. Flash Wing. Mon
darah Topsy Rose, Captains Aide, Jack
Spraggon, Tourist Pride
Mrs. c. Sullivan entry
FOURTH RACE-Purse, 81 900: claim
ing; 3-yea r-olds and up; 6 furlongs.
Saguaro (Renifk) 1870 $40 BIO
IaTawa lAtkinson) $50 24O
Sole Parate, (Kirkland) 230
Time, l:12B.
Also ran-She's Home, Lady Hairan
Gontortionist, Marseilles, Our Candidate
Flange.
Evening star., 1946-09-16
Ang|o-American Plan
For Palestine Called
Workable by Bevin
BY the tssooioied Press

LONDON, Sept. 16.-Foreigr
Secretary Ernest Bevin told the
Palestine conference today that
the British-American experts
plan, for liberalization of the
Holy Land into four provinces
with limited autonomy, was
workable" and could lead to a
final solution"
In 90-minute statement the For
eign Secretary detailed Britains re-
ply to criticism of liberalization
which Arabs had leveled last week, q
conference spokesman reported
The text of Mr.. Bevin's speech was
not made public, but conference
sources emphasized he made no new
proposals.
Jews May Take Part.
Three members of the Jewish
Agency Executive flew to Paris to-
day for a meeting of the committee.
Jewish sources said the discussions
might result in Jewish participation
in the London conference
Their departure followed what one
source described as informal con-
tact" between British and Jewish
leaders over the week end. No de-
tails of that contact were immedi-
ately available, but members of the
Agency Executive are believed to
have seen either Colonial Secretary
George Hall or Mr.. Bevin, privately.
The executive members who flew
to Paris this morning were Prof
Selig Brodetski and Beryl Locker of
Britain and DR.. Nahum Goldman
Washington representative of the
agency.
Soon after they left, delegates rep
resenting the seven states of the
Arab League resumed their talks
with British representatives at Lam
caster House.
Demand Jewish State.
One agency informant said that
If the Jews decided to participate in
the London talks at the present
stage of the conferences, 1T will Ger
tainly be on the basis of our original
demand-which envisaged the estab-
lishment of a Jewish state within
an adequate area"
Other conference sources said that
the unanimous Arab League rejec-
tion of four-way participation, as
urged by the British american COM
mittee. had prepared the way for
Jewish entry into the conference
Now, they said, Britain appeared to
be convinced finally that no party
to a settlement in Palestine really
wanted liberalization as announced
by Deputy Prime Minister Herbert |
Morrison in the House of Com
mons July 81.
When the Lancaster House con-
ference resumed this morning Mr..
Bevin was understood to have begun
MS reply to the Arab delegations
comments on the federalizat ton
plan. During the course of his
address he was expected to ask the
Arabs for counterproposals.
Faris Bey El Khoury, president
ot the Syrian Chamber of Deputies
and official spokesman for the Arab
League, is due to answer Mr.. Bevin
later today.