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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-04-29

daughter, and piling them on the
floor with wadded newspapers set
fire to them.
Officers say that Conner had
packed his suitcase beforehand
and left as soon as he had set the
fire. He was taken into custody
on the following day, when he
called at the Kennewick police
station to report that his suitcase
had been stolen.
Neighbors discovered and ex-
tinguished the fire with only $25
damage to the rented trailer. The
loss in personal effects is estimat-
ed at between 500 and $500.
Deputy State Fire Marshal G.
r. Young of Yakima assisted Fire
Chief Herb Malchow with the in
vestigation. =
Other offers who participated
in the case were Deputy Sheriff
Chuck Lambertson and State Pa
trolman Smith, who first reached
the scene of the fire; and Deputy
Sheriff Ted Wagner and Police
Chief M. H. Kershaw, who took
Conner into custody.
Conner is being held in the coun-
ty Jail at Prosser, where he was
from the Kennewick
Jail on April %. .
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n. P. Appoints
Farm Aren't

Kenneth L. Cook has been ap'
pointed agricultural development
agent for the Northern Pacific
Railway at Seattle. effective May
l. He succeeds ]. L. Mcguire, who
resigned to accept position with
the Washington State Apple COM
mission, it was announced today in
st. Paul by ]. w. Haw, director OF
the agricultural development de-
partment of the company.
Cook, who has been engaged in
county agent work in Yellowstone
county, Montana, at Billings, for
two years, will serve the railway
in Washington, northern Idaho and
Oregon with ". p. Stapleton, N.
P.'s western agricultural develop
ment agent.
After growing up on an irrigat-
ed farm at Riverton, Wyo., Cook
completed a four-year course in
agriculture at the University of
Wyoming, where he made both
the varsity football squad and the
livestock judging team. On grad
uation from the university, he inn
mediately went into the army. He
served % months in New Guinea
and the Philippines and was an
infantry major on his return to
the United States in January 1916.
He is q years old.
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Pasco Plans
Celebration Of
First Wafer

First water will flow on lands
Of the Columbia Basin project
Saturday, May IS, and the Pas.
co chamber of commerce is in
wiling the entire Pacific North
west 70 help celebrate the event.
the first unit Of the project 70
receive water will be the Pasco
pumping plant unit comprising
$500 acres lying seven miles
northwest Of. Pasco. There are
81 individual farms on the unit
The celebration win start at
2 p. m. AZ the pumping plant
site, when the pumps win be
started and water will flow into
the main canal from discharge
point directly above the pumping
plant. Water will be taken from
the ditch at the first diversion
point and directed into earth
coTrugations by a group Of farm
ers who have already settled on
the project. ii
A dinner at $50 p. m. will
recognize men who have pro-
noted the Columbia Basin Pro-
ject over q long period Of years,
men from Wenatchee, Spokane,
Ephrata, Othello and many other
towns in and out of the basin.
A number of prominent speak
ers have been invited to take
part In the celebration, both for
the afternoon and evening pro-
grams.
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MecARTY.HARrs

Laura Pearl McCarty of Route
No. 2, .Kennewick, and Thomas
]. Harris also of Route No. 2 were
quitely married in the study of
the Methodist church at 1890 p.
M. Sunday. April Is, the pastor
Rev. John B. Coan officiating in
the presense of the witnesses on
ly. The couple are both formerly
from Yakima. Harris is employed
in the construction department
with General Electric at Rich
land. They plan to purchase a
home in Kennewick and for the
present are residing near the Y
on River road. .-s
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Little Stories
OF The Week

Members and friends of Kene-
newick Valley Grange are having
a box social Saturday night. May
I, at 8 o'clock. Bring own table
service. There will be enter
tainment Of dancing and cards.
Mrs. Floyd Oswald entertained
tor her daughter, Mrs. Raymond
Schwartz at q. birthday dinner on
Sunday. Present were Peter
Schwartz and fanny, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Oswalt and family and
MIS-: Richard Oswald and daught-
er, Linda. =
= Mr.. and Mrs. ". o. Hughes and
daughter Audrey from Alberta.
d, G., were callers at the G. s,
Hughes home. hi6nday.
Mrs. Paul. O'Hearn who has
been patient In General hospital
in Walla Walla is at the Neil o..
Hearn home with her infant twin
sons.
MI. and Mrs. Fred Simmelink
were business visitors in Yakima
tor the day Friday.
Highlands Woman's club will
meet, Friday, May q at 2 o'clock
at the Highlands club house.
There will be. a Mothers day pro-
gram.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Neuman en-
ertained at a family dinner Sun
day. Present were Miss Ella Neu-
man, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Neuman,
Mrs. Anna Reinan and Lorenz
Neuman, all from Seattle, Mrs.
Christine Neuman, Robert, and
Miss Lydia Sickle from Kenne-
wick. The Seattle party visited
here Saturday to Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. S. Hughes,
sons Carroll from Kennewick,
and John from w. S. c., attended
a family reunion Sunday at Lind,
honoring the seventy-ninth birth
day Of Mr.. Hughes uncle W. w.
Yeisley Of Lind. Present were
80 members Of the Hughes fam
lily, many Of them known in Ken
newick, including DR.. and Mrs,
Harvey Fearn Of Bozeman, Mont,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry, Aumocl, Spo-
kane, Mr.. and Mrs. v. O. Hughes
Taber, Alberta, Canada; Mr.. and
Mrs. Clark Hughes, Tacoma; Mr.
and Mrs. v. J. Hughes, Seattle;
Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Crow, Sno-
homish, Wn.; and Mr.. and Mrs
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-04-29
Conner 10 Face
Charge Of Arson !!
Prosecutor Says

Taylor w. Conner, 80, will be
arraigned in superior court at
Prosser on a charge Of arson In
the second degree within the near
future, Deputy Prosecuting Attor-
ney Kenneth e. Serier said Tues
day.
The charge arises out of a
trailer fire at the Hofmeister
trailer court near the Richland Y
on April 10, when, it is alleged,
Conner ripped apart garments be-
longing to his wife and step
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w. E. Morrison of Auburn, Mr..
Yeisley is a pioneer of Adams
county and when Mrs. Hughes
was widowed took it upon him.
self to provide a home for her
and her children. The reunion
was a tribute of honor and love
paid him by his foster children
and their families.
The Nome nugget., 1948-05-05

waterway routes, particularly from the Baltic to the Black seas.
 Pillau, on the bay of Danzig, has become the Russians main base for its South Baltic fleet. Here Soviet ships can fuel and take on food. Backing it up is the major repair and building harbor of Koenigsberg.
 The Schichau ship yards at Koenigsberg were expanded rap idly by the Germans during the war as Allied bombers flying from England made it more and more difficult to keep up produc- ton, particularly of submarines, in yards on the North Sea and the Western Baltic. That expan- sion now is being stepped up by the Russians.
 Rostok, the major German port in the Russian occupied zone, IS being used by the Russians for minor repairs and as an out let for the shipment of reparations from the Soviet zone. General Lucius D. Clay, the American commander-in-chief, recently ac- cused the Russians of building warships at Rostok.
 When the remnants of the Ger man fleet were divided among the victors, the Russians were all lotted the light cruiser Nuremberg, eight destroyers and ten submar- ines.
 The North Baltic fleet head quarters still is located at Kron- stadt, outside Leningrad, inform ants said.
The Nome nugget., 1948-05-05
tovsk near Archangel.

tovsk near Archangel.
 Practically the entire Wilhelms- haven yard, which was the main German base on the North Sea, is going to the Soviet Union as rep arations. Dismantlement of it's me chine, electrical, torpedo, sheet metal, furnace and other shops is proceeding.
 Observers here said they were watching with great interest Russian development of its far northern sea routes as well as the energy being put into building up
The Nome nugget., 1948-05-05
SHISHMAREF YOUTH IN MEDICAL CORPS

Private First Class, Henry Ol- anna, son of Mir. Foster Olanna who resides at Shishmaref, Al aska. successfully completed the Medical Corpsman Course, Fri day, April 9, at the Air Univer- sity School of Aviation Medicine, Randolph Air Force Base. San Antonio, Texas. This course in cluded training in the care of the sick and wounded and the pre- vention of diseases through sani- tary means.
 Pfc. Olanna attended the Mount Edgecumbe High School, Mt. Ed gecumbe. Alaska prior to his en- listment on November 28, 1947. to the Air Force. he also worked in civilian life as an engineer.
 At the present he is awaiting assignment to a special technical school that is offered by the Air Force to its new recruits.
The Nome nugget., 1948-05-05
Communication
Nome, Alaska, May 4, l948.

Nome, Alaska,
 May 4, l948. To The Editor:
 From the Lick Observatory at Mt. Hamilton. California, l have received information on the ex- act time of the eclipse The ec- lipse at Nome will begin at 3:37 pm. on Saturday May 9th and will end at 5:41 pm. If the Wea- ther is clear. it should be an in- teresting event. The eclipse be- gins in the Orient. passing through Korea, then the Aleutian Islands and Alaska. It will not be visible in the United States except, per- haps, in northwestern Washing ton.
 Yours very truly,
 Olaf HalverSon. CThank you very much MT. Hal verson, we appreciate this in formationD Ed.
The Nome nugget., 1948-05-05
Sgt. & Mrs. Quuckenbush Have DuckY Shrub

S/Sgt. and Mrs. George Quack- enbush are the proud parents of a baby girl born Monday evening at the Army Hospital. The young lady weighed eight pounds, 12 ounces.
The Nome nugget., 1948-05-05
AP NeWSfeatures

AP NeWSfeatures
 RERLIN-T h e Russions
 are re-constructing the former Germun naval yards of Wilhelmshuven ds q key base on the White Seq in their de- velopments of arctic ocean routes according to the best information available here. Reliable inform ants say the site selected in Molo-
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Troopers Guard Home
OF Negro in Jersey
After Cross-Burninq
BY the Associated Press

WALL TOWNSHIP, N. j., June II
"A 12-foot cross was found burning
outside the home of colored en-.
gineer who had moved his family
into an all-white section here, ano
State police today assigned specia,
patrols to the area.
The engineer, Leroy Hutson
moved his wife and 8-months-old
son here from the Bronx, N. Y, last
Wednesday to avoid daily 58-milc
trip to his work at the nearby Evans
Signal Laboratories operated by the
Army.
He found the blazing cross out
side his home last night and sum-
moned State police. Six carloads Of
friends armed with pitchforks, base
ball bats and shotguns remained
outside the house during the night
but there we're no incidents, State
police said.
Mr.. Hutson said he would not be
scared off" by the cross-burning
I'm not moving" he told reporters
Mr.. Hutson said he had received
several threatening telephone call,
yesterday. "All the phone calls were
the same" he said. They asked mt
whether I intended to continue liv.
ing in the house. When I replied
yes they hung up
State Police Sergt. Joseph J. Nc
Cormack said troopers had visited
the neighborhood Immediately aftel
the cross burning and warned resi-
dents there to keep off Mr.. Hutson
property.
Extra patrols were ordered tt
maintain a special watch through
out the week end, State Police an
| nounced at nearby Howell Barracks
Evening star., 1948-06-13
observation-disclosures

The University of Rochester will
confer an honorary degree on DR..
Martha May Eliot, associate chief of
the Labor Departments Children's
Bureau, at its commencement exer.
cises on June 81, it was announced
| Yesterday.
Evening star., 1948-06-13

Diplomas will go to 1876 graduates
of Gonzaga High School in COM
mencement exercises at 8:l5 pm.
today at the Statler Hotel.
The Rev. Harold C. Gardiner, S. j..
literary editor of America will
address the graduates, who include
Evening star., 1948-06-13
a Killed as Army JET Plane
Rams Auto in Kentucky
By she Associoied Press

FORT KNOX. KY. June 12.-Four
persons were killed here this after
noon when a sjet-propelled Army
plane crashed throughaa fence In
an attempted takeoff from Goldman
Field and plowed into a passing
automobile.
The Goldman Field Public Rela-
tions ONCE said the plane failed
to leave the ground. 1t was en-
route to Eglin Field, Fla, after
stopping off here. The pilot, Capt
Bill Myers, escaped serious injury
The dead, all from nearby Eliza
bethtown, we're identified as Vernon
C. Ferren, So; his wife, Mrs. Annie
B. Ferren, so; Miss Leila Ferren, 81
a sister of Vernon Ferren, and Spen-
Ger Blackburn, 43.
They were passengers in the auto
mobile and were reported enroute
from Elizabethtown to Louisville.
Spectators said the plane, de-
scribed as a P-80 Shooting Star,
dragged the automobile several
Jards. The plane burst into flames
Evening star., 1948-06-13

viewing stand, Mayor ODwyer
greeted Arm j. DAILY, burgomaster
of Amsterdam. Holland.
In top hat and cutaway he came
to receive a tribute from the de-
scendants of the Dutchmen who
founded New Amsterdam"
Later the burgomaster smiled and
applauded when the new Utrech:
High School squadron-on the sta
of one of the earliest Dutch settle
ments-stopped to give its school
cheer in his honor.
Also reviewing the parade were
Gen. Courtney H. Hodges, First
Army commander. Admiral Thomas
C. Kinkaid, commander OF the
Eastern Sea Frontier, and other top
military leaders.
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Four Injured When Navy Bus
Is RiDDed End to End in Crash

that were chartered yesteday by
Naval personnel at Quarters K, Arl-
ington Navy Annex, and WAVE
Barracks B in Potomac Park for
an outing at Triton Beach, Md.
Other buses in the caravan picked
up occupants of the wrecked bus
and continued on the trip.
The accident occurred at the
crest of a small hill on the two
lane road. The two vehicles, headed
in opposite directions, sideswiped
each other. The truck, carrying a
load of cinder block, ripped open
the side of the bus from a point
lust behind the drivers seat to Its
rear. Police said occupants had an
almost miraculous escape.
Both drivers were charged with
reckless driving. The case is to be
heard next Friday at Upper MARI
boro police court.
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Australia Is Reported
Working on Atom-Rocket
BY the Associated Press

SYDNEY, Australia, Sunday, June
13.-The Sunday Sun says Aus
tralian scientists are developing a
new guided missile to carry atomic
bombs long distances.
The newspaper adds the British
government is urging Australia to
impose stringent security safeguards
on scientists at the. Mount Ebo
rocket range in the Central Aus
traIian desert.
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Gonzaga TO Graduate Freedmen S Doctor
176 At Stat|er Tonioht Wins Atomic Award

DR.. Frank B. johnson, rs, director
of laboratories at Freedmens Hos
pital, has been awarded fellowship
by the Atomic Energy Commission
for research in the medical sciences,
it was announced yesterday.
He was one of A named by the
commission for fellowships in study
at "a institutions. The research fell
lowships include postdoctoral re-
search in medical sciences, biologi-
cal and agricultural sciences and
the physical sciences, and predoc-
toral research in the biological and
physical sciences.
Also named to a fellowship was
Robert Kellogg Crane, OF Frostburg'
Md. He will do research in bio
chemistry.
Dunbar High Graduate.
DR.. johnson, who lives at 1877 S
street NV, is a graduate Of Dunbar
High School. He attended the Uni
versity of Michigan and then went
to the medical school OF Howard
University where he received his
doctors degree in 1914.
He interned at the Medical Gen.
ter in Jersey City for a year and
then became resident physician. He
ioined Freedmen's staff last July.
He will conduct studies on the
"metabolism of essential amino
acids, utilizing radioactive and sta
BILE isotopes" at the University OF
Chicago. His fellowship carries a
basic stipend of $4,000 a year.
Evening star., 1948-06-13
0y the Assoeiatsd Press

NEW YORK, June 12.-The bands
played East Side, West Side, All
Around the Town" and 1000
gathered on Fifth Avenue today to
see great New York put its 50 years
Of history on parade.
The march of $4,000 in q New
York at work" parade marked the
start of the golden anniversary
celebrating the consolidation Of i've
boroughs into New York City.
At the head of the parade rode
Mayor William O'Dwyer in q four
horse tallyho, with a driver and q
trumpeter in the brass-buttoned
coats and white breeches Of half =
century ago.
With him were actors portraying
the borough oficials who brought
about the consolidation.
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Truman 5 Comments
On old Joe Surprise
His Own Diplomats
By John N. Hiehtower
SA-A Wxixas


President Truman's remark about
Josef Stain being a prisoner Of his
own Politburo took diplomatic
Washington-including many Of the
Presidents own experts-by COM
plete surprise.
The diplomats view has been
roughly the opposite Of the one ex-
pressed by Mr.. Truman. Questions
Yesterday about the Presidents COM
ment Friday night brought a re-
statement of the idea that the IA
man Politburo certainly does run
Russia-but that Stain runs the
Politburo.
Mr.. Truman said at Eugene. Ore,
that "Old Joe," as he called Stain,
is "a decent fellow" who would
keep agreements If he could. But
Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo,' y
Mr.. Truman confided in rear
platform talk.
Oficials Think He's Captain.
State Department officials, trying
to figure out just what Russia Is
I'D to. are known to have been op-
Grating on the basic theory that
Stain is captain of the Soviet high
command, not its prisoner.
This does not rule out the effect
of possible rivalries among the Soviet
leaders, however, nor does 1t sug-
gest what might happen should
Stain vacate the No. post.
Stains role in the recent peace
offensive" is regarded at the State
Department as part of team play,
with Foreign Minister Molotov, Po-
litburo member zhdanov and other
high Soviet officials also playing
leading roles.
Propaganda Campaign Seen.
The Politburo, including Stain,
is privately described by foreign
diplomats here, and by many OF the
American State Departments own
Russian experts, as being engaged
in a global campaign to discredit
the United States Government as
being intent on war. The object
they say, is to upset American
plans for rebuilding Western Europe
and preventing the continued spread
OF Communism in the world.
Into this picture, according to
the Governments experts, can be
fitted the magazine attack published
in Moscow yesterday on Secretary OF
State Marshall and American Am
bassador w. B. Smith. They were
assailed as part of a military, war
seeking clique which the article said
has captured the control of the
State Department.
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Finnish and U. S. Ships
Collide OFF British Coost
By the Associoted Press

LONDON, June 12.-The British
Coast Guard said tonight that the
2,41O-ton Finnish steamer Finnborg
sank of the Island of Jersey after
collision with the American
steamer Southport. No loss OF life
was reported.
The collision occurred 40 miles
north of the Jersey coast in a fog,
the Coast Guard said. 1t added
that the Southport, 8,l45 tons,
rescued all aboard the Finnborg
Evening star., 1948-06-13

Three sailors and a truck driver
we're injured yesterday when an
Alexandria, Bancroft & Washing
ton Transit Co. chartered bus car
rvirlg AZ sailors collided with truck
on Central avenue near Largo in
Prince Georges County, Md.
The injured, who were taken In
private cars to the Bethesda Medl-
cal Center, were listed as Seaman
John Robert Flood. who suffered a
fractured elbow; Seaman James
Horvath, and Seaman Ivan Lloyd
Higgins, who suffered cuts.
Driver of the truck, John T. Ad-
ans. colored, A, of Upper Marlboro,
suffered a cut face but did not re-
quire disqualification.
The bus driver was Thomas
Moore, %, of l2l South st. Aspaph
street, Alexandria.
The bus was one of l3, including
8 from the A. B. e. w. company
Evening star., 1948-06-13
IS, 900 Parade as New York
Celebrates Golden Jubilee

II am astonished," the Mayor told
them, "at the prophetic vision Of
you people Of 1885,"
Behind the Mayor marched the
|city's Old Guard, in its blue and
white uniforms and black bearskin
shakos. Then came the gold
epauletted, relocated Veteran
Corps of Artillery-founded in
1790 and the city's oldest military
group.
Leaving his tallyho at the re-
Evening star., 1948-06-13
50 Girls GET Diplomas
AT St. Cece|ia's Academy

Fifty nine girls were awarded
diplomas at graduation exercises ot
st. Cecelia's Academy. COS E. Capi.
tol street, at which the Most Rev
John NJ Mcnamara, vicar genera
Of the Washington diocese. presided
One of the graduates, Miss jane
Head. class valedictorian who hac
a scholastic average of SO. wa!
awarded scholarship on which shl
will enter Dumbarton College thi!
fall. Miss Head, daughter Of Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence M. Head, rs;
Seventh street Sc, also attended
st. Cecelia's on scholarship.
Other graduates were:
Anderson. Frances A. Hughes. Audrey r.
Barbour. Mary j. Kane. Nora Lee
Boiand. oHd" Mary w D. Larner. Patricia 4.
Booth. SIenevieve M. Macdonald: P. B.
Bickerton. C. T. MacNeil, Virginia M.
Bozzonetti. Mary T. Mccarthy, S. NJ.
Brawner, Mary M. Mcdonald, Mary c.
Buehler. Dolores D. Miller. Betty j.
Carnahan. c. L. Mathews. Sara A.
Carney. Kathleen Mudd; Irene A.
CLARK, Martha E. Murphy, E: A
Collins Florence E. Murray. Gathering A.
Conway, Ann M. Neuland, Anna l.
Cousins, Helen L. Pettinato, Marie F.
Cozzo, G. j. Phillips. Helen A.
Cullinane NJ E. Plant, Margaret A.
De Cicco, Claire A. Pyles, j. A..
Doucet. Rose M Purdy. Dolores e.
Finoechiaro Betty J. Rainey, Kathleen A.
FraZe, Elizabeth A. Rowe. Lorraine 7.
Ghiloni. June s. shorter, j. M.
Grimmel, M. p Syer, Diana NJ
Harlow, Theresa NJ Tramill. Juanita L.
Hagan, Theresa A. Trudewind. P. A.
Harmon, Pauline W. Valentine, Louise r.
HarmeI Patricia Bogt, Margaret B.
Helbtg, Edith NJ Williams. P. A.
Evening star., 1948-06-13
VoIou Crops Bod

MOSCOW, June u (P.-Izvestia
reported unfavorable crop condl-
tions today from the Volga area
The newspaper said: I'm connec-
ton with the dry and excessively
hot weather, state winter crops and
especially spring crops in the area
of the Volga during recent days
have significantly worsened.'
Evening star., 1948-06-13
Actors Protest Mutinees

BUENOS AIRES, June II (R.-
Matinees in legitimate theaterS
we're ruled out by municipal au-
thorities today. They agreed with
an actors complaint that matinees
made the working day too long.
Evening star., 1948-05-10
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

BALTIMORE, May 1O.-President
Truman has categorically denied
rumors that Premier Stain has
made peace talk overtures, accord
ing to Senator Tydings, Democrat,
of Maryland.
Senator Tydings said constitu-
ent asked about reports that Rus
sia suggested a conference between
Premier Stain and Mr.. Truman be-
fore the Czechoslovak crisis. Sena-
tor Tydings said in a speech over
Station WBAL that he was GER
tain the report was not true, but he
continued:
I'm order that there might be no
question about it whatever. I put
the matter squarely up to President
Truman.
Il asked the President whether
or not Mr.. Stain or anyone else
representing Russia had made
peace overtures to the United
States and had suggested that Mr..
Truman and Mr.. Stain meet some
where to discuss world affairs, and
if the President had refused to ac-
Evening star., 1948-05-10

demand for . 30-cent hourly wage
increase and improved pension and
vacation plans. Current wages av.
erage $1.21 an hour, the union says