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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-05-20
Agent Gives Fire
Prevention Tips

With camping out season al
hand, few simple rules for build
ing that campfire and making 1t
safe may be useful, sarys Frank
Webster, county agent.
The following tips come from
.Knut Lunnum, Extension Fores-
ter at Washington State College:
1. Before building a fire in a
field, alonside the road, or in the
woods, scrape away all leaves,
twigs, dry grass or other inflam-
mable material from a spot five
feet in diameter. Dig hole in
the center, and build the fire in
the hole. Keep the fire small.
Never build it against trees, or
logs or near brush.
2. Never leave a fire until it is
dead out. Put the fire out by
stirring up the Goals while soak
ing them with water. Turn small
sticks and drench on both sides.
Then wet the ground around the
fire. Drown every spark. If you
cannot get water, stir in moist
earth and. tread it down until 1t
is packed tight over and around
the fire. Be sure the last spark
is dead.
: Be sure the match that lights
the fire is out. Break 1t in two
before you throw it away. Be
sure also that cigarette or cigar
stubs and pipe ashes are dead
before you throw them away.
Never throw them into brush,
leaves or pine needles. When
travelling in a car always use the
ash tray. Remember only YOU
can prevent forest fire.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-05-20

visitors at the Franz Heartburg
home Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Keck visit
ed the A. H. Shelter hofne Mon.
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Dubry have
moved to North Richland.
Mrs. Manter Hauge, Lila and
Robert are leaving for Iowa Tues
day evening to attend the gradu-
alton of the Hauge's son, Duane,
They plan to stay about month.
I wish all my customers OF
Hawn's court would purchase the
Kennewick Courier-Reporter from
Mrs. Hawn during my absence.
plan to take up my route again
when I return. Thank you.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-05-20
Bethlehem Lutheran to
Have Vocational School

The Bethlehem Lutheran church
Third Avenue and Benton street,
will sponsor a Vacation Bible
school for two weeks from May
"a to June 4, at the Bethlehem
Lutheran school.
Classes will be held daily, Mon
day through Friday, from 8 until
IL am.
All children from to IA years
of age are invited and urged to
urged to attend. There will be
Bible stories, singing, handwork
and games.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-05-20

CURRENT EVENTS n,-
The Current Events club will
meet Friday, May % at the home
of Mrs. Harley Peter. Mrs. Brock
and Mrs. Ayers will be co-hostess-
es. There will be picnic lunch
con at I o'clock. Each member
is to bring guest and table ser
vice for two. Coffee and dessert
will be served by the hostesses.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-05-20
Benion City Herd
Of Jerseys Cited
Or Production

The herd of registered Jersey
cattle owned by Mr.. and Mrs o.
Rhoades, Benton City, is announc-
ed by the American jersey Cattle
Club from their Offices in Column
bus; Ohio, as having completed a
years work in official Herd Inn
provement Registry testing with
an average production Of 1914 lbs.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-05-20
TOWNSEND CLUB

The Fourth Congressional Dis.
trict council Of Townsend cI,h.
will meet at the Christian church
Sunday, May %, at 100 o'cloc,
Visitors will be welcome.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-05-20

Shoshone Falls, in Idaho. are 40
feet higher than Niagara Falls
Evening star., 1948-04-30
Soviet Veto Threat
Blocks u. n. Probe Of
CzechosIovakia Coup
BY the Associofed Press

LAKE SUCCESS, April 30.-Rus-
sia's veto threat last night blocked
a Security Council investigation into
Moscow's role in the Communist
coup in Czechoslovakia.
After arguing for nearly two hours
over how to avoid a oath Soviet
veto, the Council adjourned u....:
Thursday without voting.
Prospects are dim that the U. N.
now will be able to do anything
about Chiles demand for an inquiry
into the February grab of power in
Prague.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Andrei A. Gromyko left little doubt
that he will veto the investigation
when the vote finally comes next
week. He insists the whole affair
is an internal matter Of the Czecho-
slovak government and the Council
has no business intervening.
The lengthy Council argument
centered around the so-called dou-
BILE veto. The debate was finally
halted when Britain's Sir Alexander
Cadogan moved for adjournment
with this remark: This kind of
discussion can go on for hours"
The U. N. Charter provides that
questions of procedure are not sub
ject to the veto right held by the
five big powers. Questions of sub
stance are.
Mr.. Gromyko contends that set
ting up an investigating subcom-
mittee, as asked by Chile, is a sub
stantive step. The United States
Evening star., 1948-04-30
Sergeant Defies Reds
Threat 10 Fire on FIaq
By the Associated Press

LINZ, Austria, April 30.-Sergt.
Frank DruSchel of Aurora, H.,
told last night how he defied Rus
sian troops who threatened to shoot
Evening star., 1948-04-30
By the Associotsd Press

PANAMA, Panama, April 30
Manuel Mora Valverde, exiled Costa
Rican Communist leader, arrived
here last night in a bullet-riddled
plane and a Panama official said he
was Immediately placed in police
custody to await the first available
transportation out of the country.
Mora, accompanied by two women,
was among five Pan American World
Airways passengers whose plane was
fired on as it was prepared for flight
from San Jose, Costa Rica's capital.
Mora arrived by plane in
Havana today on his way to
Mexico City,
The Communist leader supported
the government of President Teo-
doro Picado Michalski, deposed this
month by Rebel Chieftain Jose
Figueres. One report said Mr..
Figueres accompanied him to the
airport.
Mora had been given refuge in the
Mexican Embassy at San Jose since
April "a, when the rebels took over.
Officials who talked with Mora at
the airport here quoted him as
saying he would rather have stayed
in San Jose to face his enemies, but
that he was forced to leave. His
companions were identified as Judith
Ferrero, 80, and Maria Isabel
Carvajal, SO, Communist writer
Evening star., 1948-04-30
4 Youths Accused of Blasting
Teachers Home With Bullets
Boy Afraid of Passing
Test Charged With
Organizing Roid
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, April 3O.-Four
soda-sipping teen-agers were ac-
cused today of blasting a pretty
young high school teachers home
with gunf1re after telephoned
death threat warning her not to
funk anybody in mathematics.
A 14-year-old freshman, desper-
ately afraid of failing an algebra ex-
animation organized the raiders in
a candy store, police said. They used
an automobile stolen for the occa-
sion and loaded with seven % cali
ber' automatic rifles taken from a
Coney Island shooting gallery.
At least 26 shots peppered the
teachers home in Brooklyn and two
adjoining houses.
A 12-year- old boy was left behind
to phone the warning-a few min
utes before the burst of bullets.
The shooting occurred Wednesday
night. The boys were caught yes
terday. authorities said. because the
ringleader had thought up a third
scheme to pass his algebra test and
escape his fathers wrath.
Police said Anthony Durso, grimy-
faced and clad in dungarees and a
plaid cowboy shirt, got a smart
neighborhood youngster to be his
proxy at the examination.
However, the proxy failed to pass
the test. The principals office said
his paper was graded 43, whereas
the passing mark is IS. The substi-
tute, the school said, is a junior.
Police, questioning 165 of the
teachers pupils, uncovered the mas
querade during the tests and quickly
Evening star., 1948-04-30
Police in Trieste Use
Pistols and Fire Hose
To Break Up Red Rally
BY the Assoeioted Press

TRIESTE, Free Territory, April
30.-Civilian police used pistols and
fire hoses last night to break up a
pre-May Day Communist demon
stration in the heart of Trieste.
Several hundred Communists
maSsed to protest an Allied Military
Government order that pro-Yugo-
slav and pro-Italian groups confine
their May Day celebrations to their
own sectors. The Communists want
to celebrate in the city's main square.
Police moved into action as soon
as groups of pro-Yugoslav demon
strators left the Slovene sector and
started toward Piazza Garibaldi and
Piazza Impero.
Rocks Hurled From Rooftops.
They followed the crowd into the
Communist sector, where rocks were
hurled from rooftops. The police
fired over the crowd, then soaked 1t
down with fire hoses.
Motor cycle patrols were busy
breaking up little knots of demon
strators more than an hour after
the first disturbance. No casualties
were reported.
The Allied Military Government
all but sealed off the British
American zone as a precaution
against threatened Communist May
Day disorders.
Today at am. all highway block
posts except one into Italy and
one into Yugoslavia were closed.
No one will be permitted to debark
from ships until further notice.
Blockade Runners Reported.
Police were advised shortly be-
fore noon that 10 boats loaded
with Communists had set out from
the little port of Pirano near Capo-
diStra, Italy, to run the blockade
into Trieste. Police said they were
told the first two boats were loaded
with women and children planted
TO hamper police.
Boats were sent to intercept them.
One carload of men identified as
Communists was reported turned
back at the only block post open
between Trieste and YugoslaVia.
Evening star., 1948-04-30

cupation zones at that point.
Sergt. Druschel. in charge of the
boat. said a Russian officer on the
Russian side of the river shouted a
demand that the flag be lowered
and threatened to have it shot
down. The Russian also threatened
to have the steamer blown up if
any attempt was made to move the
vessel.
Sergt. Druschel said that when
he refused to lower the flag the
Russian troops withdrew from the
bank.
There were 19 passengers aboard
the steamer at the time. Three
Austrian crew members and an
Austrian policeman were arrested
by the Russians when they went
ashore on the Russian side to seek
help. They were held until yes
terdaV morning.
Evening star., 1948-04-30
New Press Seminar
Will Open May ;
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, April 3O.-Fifty-fou
specialists will discuss problems of
State government and politics at a
three-Week seminar of the American
Press institute, it was announced yes
terday.
Included among them are: 13
newspaper editors and writers who
will analyze techniques of reporting
government, politics and elections.
The seminar opens at Columbia Uni
versity May 3.
Among specialists who will lead
discussions are:
Louis Seltzer, editor, the Cleve-
land Press; James Kerney. jr., editor.
the Trenton IN. j. Times: Bernard
D. Field, jr.. promotion and research
manager, the Birmingham News:
Evening star., 1948-04-30
Costa Ricun Red Chief Reaches
Punumu in BuIIet-RiddIed Plane

whose pen name Is Carmen Lira.
A report said police found a copy
of instructions he had left for Costa
Rican Communists.
A Pan American spokesman said
five haki-dressed youths rushed up
to the plane and pumped five pistol
bullets into it as it stood on the
runway No one was struck. /.
Although one of the bullets pune.
tured tire on the plane, it landed
at nearby Albrook Field without
mishap.
Pan American said it had sus-
pended all flights into Costa Rica
until the Costa Rican government
assures that the planes will be fully
protected.
Evening star., 1948-04-30
HiIIeI House Foundation
To Be Dedicated at CIV

Dedication ceremonies and q
housewarming will be held at the
Hillel House Foundation of George
Washington University. located at
2129 F street NV, at pm. Sunday.
The Hillel House is one of ITS
such foundations established by
B'nai Birth on college campuses
throughout the country for Jewish
students. Mrs. Francis Gewirz Is
in charge of the dedication cere-
monies, in which DR.. Cloyd Heck
Marvin, university president, will
participate,
Evening star., 1948-04-30
lombardy Apartment House
Wins 69o AVERAGE Rent Rise.

Rent increases averaging 636 per
cent have been authorized by the
District Rent Control Administra-
ton for 120 units of the Lombardy
Apartment House, 2O1s street NV.
Examiner Denis K. Lane recon-
mended the increases, after consid-
ering petition of the owner that
there have been substantial rises
since 1941 in maintenance. operat-
ing costs and expenses, real estate
taxes and water rent. The owner
had sought a 20 per cent rental in
crease.
The new rents at the Lombardy
will range from $3625 a month for
two rooms and bath to $3.50 a
month for four rooms and a bath.
Rents formerly ranged from $34
to $77.50 a month.
Plans have been made to produce
43,500 passenger automobiles in the
British zone of Germany this year.
Evening star., 1948-04-30

maintains it is procedural and out
side the range of the veto.
However, Mr.. Gromyko argues
that he can veto a decision on
whether the issue Is substantive or
procedural and thus make his will
prevail. He previously used this So
called double veto in the Greek and
Spanish cases.
Unless the western powers can
find legal loophole or get Mr.. Gro
myko to change his mind, the
Czech case appears headed for a
pigeonhole.
Evening star., 1948-04-30

corraled the five other boys, the
oldest 16 years of age.
Throughout it all, the teacher,
Blond Margaret Jokiel, "a, went
quietly about her examination duties
under police guard.
Police were told the raid ring
leader ordered nov shoot if you're
not chicken hearted and the car,
its license plates and headlights
covered with handkerchiefs, slid
slowly past the teachers home,
with four guns blazing.
After the shooting the four boys
relaxed over ice cream sodas.
Durso and the other raiders under
Is face Juvenile delinquency charges
and the l6-year-old will be charged
with assault. No police action was
planned against the boy who served
as Sit-in at the examination.
Evening star., 1948-04-30
Judge KincheIoe Resigns
From U. 5. Customs Court

The White House today an
nounced the resignation of Judge
David H. Kincheloe of the United
States Customs Court in New York
Judge Kincheloe, a Democrat,
who once served in Congress from
Kentucky, was appointed to the
court in 1890 by President Hoover.
He has just passed his list birth
day.
In accepting the iurist's resigna-
ton, Mr.. Truman praised his scrv-
ice. The resignation is effective
TODAY,
Evening star., 1948-04-30

James NARROW, the Associated Press
Joseph Howell, State capital COR
respondent, the Tulsa (Okla) Tri-
bune; Paul Prescott, Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin; Arthur Sylvester,
Washington correspondent, Newark
Evening News.
David Patten, managing editor,
Providence Bulletin; S. Burton
Heath, NEA service; Lloyd Felmly,
editor, Newark Evening News; Har-
old Kirby, State editor. Providence
Journal; Allen Duckworth, Dallas
Morning News; James A. Farley and
Prof. Allan Nevins of Columbia.
Evening star., 1948-04-30

down an Amer
lean flag on a
grounded eXcur-
sion steamer a
mile from here.
T h e Ameri-
c a n = lie a s e q
steamer, Stadt
PaSSau, struck a
Sandbar a fte r
an oil line broke
w e d n G S d a y
night The Dan
ube River forms
t he boundary
b e t W e e n the
United States
a0d PIlcCiaO or
Evening star., 1948-04-30
ForrestuI Will Confer
With Cunudian Officials

Defense Secretary Forrestal will
visit Ottawa May ITO to confer
with Canadian officials on joint de-
fense problems.
The United States and Canada
have been working closely on de-
fense matters. particularly those
concerning the Arctic and the inter-
change of military personnel.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-11-13

there were no doubts b gu
what happened - the Republi-
cans ran the wrong presidential
candidate. Commented the Trib-
une sadly: I'VE hope the Repub-
licans have learned their lesson.
If the same forces control the
next Republican convention the
party is finished.
There were sour grapes in the
pOst-election words of Chicago
Daily News pub is her John
Knight, who described Truman
as 1.-The underdOg who refused
to concede defeat, the consum-
mate politician who played up
on emotions and mass prejudice,
the 'spunky it'll guy who
never quit, even when deserted
by members of his own cabinet
and leaders of his own party"
On the other hand, the New
York Star, which had pumped
for Truman, admitted that st
was more than a victory for
Truman. 1t was victory for
most Of VIII Mr.. Wallace
stands for :"
Walter Lippma was not
caught short with a wrong fore
cast. Writing after the returns
were safely in. Lippman opined:
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-11-13

reelected. And he was right.
The World-Telegram struck
the same note when it de-
clared that ''he CTruman) and
his running-mate, Senator Bark
ley, put on an exhibition of
gameness that entities them to
whole-hearted admiration"
The New York Times, how
ever, tried to play down the sig
nificance of the Truman victory
I'VE must not build this re-
versal into landslide. Mr.. Tru-
man did this in a campaign
which was correctly described
as leaving the country largely
apathetic. Ger tain groups
friendly to Mr.. Truman seem to
have voted in strength; others,
perhaps because of indifference,
perhaps because of OvercOnfi-
dence, who might have voted
the Republican ticket, stayed at
home"
From the st. Louis Star-Times
came word that 1.-The mood of
the American people was mega
tive, and the eople were
against the Republicans m r e
than they were against the De
mocrats"
For the c h icago Tribune,
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-11-13

sit can be said with much JUS
tice that of all Roosevelt S
electoral triumphs, this one IN
1948 is the most impressive. For
it was the Democratic Party as
Roosevelt transformed it and
developed ii. which won this
surprising victory"
Another cOlumnist, writing in
the pro-Wallace York (Pa)
Gazette and Daily, suggested
that "The epubl ans had
everything in their favor except
the election returns"
The Washington Post took its
punishment gracefully by in
viting President Truman to be
guest of honor and eat turkey at
a banquet at which all other
guests - editorial writers, po-
litical reporters and editors -
were to eat crow"
The Worker, left-Wing New
York weekly, Jaw the election
outcome showing IAN enormous
democratic upsurge which re
mains locked within the two
party system for the reason that
the illusion still persists that the
Democratic Party can be the
vehicle of genuine liberal-labor
forces"
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authorities. If there was a kick
back, it is not known-except
perhaps to the FBI-just which
politicians collected it.
More than four years ago,
Whites son, Edward, resident
of Milwaukee, sued his father
and White Consolidated for So
million which he claimed they
owed him. Edward said that the
company, which enjoyed $40 mil
lion in city and county contracts
here and at Milwaukee, had
paid out a large part of his 81
million in political kickbacks.
A short time after Whites son
filed suit, Whites granddaugh-
tiers, Mrs. Mary Angela White
Dunphy of Milwaukee and Mrs.
Henrietta White Joyce Of Win
netka, made similar charges in
a second law suit.
Their attorney, Charles F.
Short Jr. of Chicago, told a
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-11-13

grand jury here that he had
traced 100000 of the company S
funds to an important Republi-
can politician, whose name he
gave to the grand jury but not
to the press.
Short told the grand jury here
that White kicked back per
cent of his contracts to politi-
clans. He suggested that the
grand jury go after the politi-
clan and investigate the road
graft situation"
Attorney General George r.
Barrett. who was defeated for
reelection recently by Ivan A.
Elliott, Immediately interviewed
in the 1914 grand jury probe.
"Barrett's men jumped in
with both feet and muddied up
the case beyond repair by in
dieting a potential key witness,
who was going to expose the en-
tire thing" Thomas J. Courtney,
then states attorney, disclosed
recently. Courtney is now chief
justice of the Circuit Court here.
''It was the first time Barrett
came into a case in Cook Coun-
ty without invitation" Courtney
added.
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B. Vail (R. Ill were beaten.
A third, Karl E. Mundt (R.
SD left the committee to be
elevated to the Senate.
The unAmerican committee
was the center of attacks on
civil liberaties in the 80th Con-
gress. Throughout its history
the committee membership has
included the most thorough re
dictionaries in the House.
While it is not likely that the
unAmerican committee will be
given a liberal cast by addition
of new members, there is
chance that the fate of Mcdowell
and Vail will slow up further
labor batting and witch hunting.
Another defeated witch hunter
was Representative Fred E.
Busbey (R, ILL. While he was
not a member of the unAmeri-
can activities committee, he CO.
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Willis urges
1rumQn:OuSt
OiXiecrots

Rep. William L. Dawson ID,
IllD and President Truman this
week were called upon by the
Progressive Party to carry
through Mrs. Ele9nor Roose-
Velt's proposal that pro-Dixie-
Gratis be ouSted from the Demo-
cratic Party.
Nelson M. Willis. chairman of
the Progressive Party in the LIST
congressional district, semi mes
sages to both urging them ito
join all liberal groups in sup
porting Mrs. Roosevelt's pro-
pOsal."
Such a move against the
DixiecratS and their less open
Democratic allies from South
ern states would deprive them
of the Craftsmanship of key con-
gresSional committees.
In his message to Truman,
Willis pointed out:
'The votes of millions of
Negro Americans were de-
cisive factor in your victory.
They voted for you because they
believed in your sincerity in
advocating civil rights pro-
gram designed to end their sec
ond-clasS status in their country.
Il therefore call upon you as
the first step in demonstrating
your sincerity regarding civil
rights to accept and fight for the
of Mrs. Roosevelt"
He concluded:
You will have the support of
all Americans who believe in
democracy if you act to cleanse
the Democratic Party of these
elements"
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vestigationS. Both w+re de
feated.
Representative bertrand
Gearhart Or, Cali was beaten
after having taken the lead in
the attack on the social security
system in the House Another
defeated California Republican
was Charles K. Fletcher who
had been considered one of the
most open mouth-pieces of the
real estate lobby in fighting
public housing.
Representative Forest A. Har-
ness Or, Ind picked the Federal
Communications Commission as
his target. The FEC had been
trying to keep the airways out
of the hands of radio monopoly.
Harness was beaten, too.
Two others who used the
House labor committee to in
veStigate unions and were de
feated were Representatives Max
Schwabe Or, Mo- and Edward
o. McCowen Or, o.
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Attorney Howard Doyle OF
Springfield, who said he had
received several tips that
politicians were getting secret
kickbacks from contractors who
were awarded highway construc-
ton projects.
One of the cases under study
by the FBI, it is understood, in
wolves the late Michael E. White
of Chicago, who for more than
80 years received most of the
highway paving contracts in the
Chicago area. His firm, White
Consolidated Inc, was awarded
30 per cent of the street and
highway paving jobs in Chicago,
Cook County, and other nearby
counties.
These contracts were placed
with White by both Democratic
city and county officials and Re
publican county and state