to THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW, SPOKANE, WASH. FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 12, 1939. 3 Coulee Dam. 4500 MEN RECEIVE $193,000 IN PAY Average Weekly Check of Workers on Great Coulee Dam Project Is $42. GRAND COULEE DAM, May 11.
-More than 4500 men, workers the dam, received $193,000 today, for today, was, payday in Grand Coulee. average pay check was slightly more than $42. received additional by 950 pay engineers checks will and clerks of the bureau of reclamation and the employees of the three private contractors fabricating materials for the dam. Cooling Stops. The cooling of the poured concrete in the dam has been stopped for summer.
The temperature of the river water is too warm to be of, much use as a refrigerant. The placing of the cooling pipes at five-foot levels will continue with construction. During the winter the water will be sent through to cool the concrete in three months to a temperature of '42 degrees. Grouting Completed. Government engineers have completed the grouting of the last 5 50- foot block of concrete poured.
Expansion and contraction joints are left between each block. Fine concrete under high pressure is forced into the expansion joints through grouting holes left in the block for that purpose. Grouting thoroughly connects the newly poured block with the previously poured blocks, making the dam a solid piece of concrete. Block 40 Is Dry. Friday, Notables Visit.
The top of historic block 40 is again dry, due to the opening of two more tubes through the dam, causing the lake level to fall four inches. This is the first day since the flood season started that the lake level fell. Pipe Makers Resume. The Columbia Concrete Pipe company, makers of porous drain tile used on the dam, resumed operations May 9. The plant has been closed since January 20.
Professor G. E. Thorton and 16 engineering students from W. S. C.
will make a study tour of the dam Anna May, Lochner, national president women's auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, St. Petersburg, and Kathryn Brewer, state department president, Tacoma, were guests of the local president, Mrs. L. A. Spratlin, on tour of the dam.
Previously, Mrs. Spratlin entertained with a luncheon in the Green Hat. PIONEERS AGAIN NAME JURGENSEN WILBUR, May election of officers held yesterday by the North Big Bend Pioneers' association resulted in the unanimous reelection of Holgar Jurgensen (his consecutive term) as president: George M. Wilson, vice president, and James Llewellyn, secretary-treasurer, all of Wilbur. The date was annual picnic of the association.
June 15. It will be held in the Wilbur where" park. the picnic has Jurgensen been grove held more than decades has lost so many trees that the shade is not ample. The president will secure an orator for the morning program and the general arrangements will be in charge of J. C.
Mearns, J. H. Kunz, George M. Wilson, Holgar Jurgensen, and from Almira C. G.
Schively, A. J. Reinhart, R. A. Pugh, J.
G. Johnson, who will cooperate with the program committee. Dr. Paul Calhoun, pastor of the First Presbyterian church in Spokane, will give the baccalaureate sermon here 21; Commencement will be 25. May JANITOR SUES ARMY OFFICER YAKIMA, May suit for $190 was filed in superior court by Robert Highfill against Major S.
W. C. Hand, national guard commander here, today. Highfill charged that monthly checks ranging from $20 to $25 were sent to him by the state and board of control of veterans' organizations here by whom he was employed as caretaker and janitor from April 30, 1936, to March 31, 1938. Highfill alleged that Major Hand received the checks, which were mailed to the armory, indorsed them and converted the money to his own use.
An inventory and appraisem*nt of the estate of the late Grant Shelton, Toppenish stockman, was filed in superior court, The estate was appraised at $22,843, of which $12,000 was in real estate and the remainder in personal property. E. W. Shandy of Portland told sheriff's officers he had a narrow escape from death when a rear tire blew out on the Goldendale highway, 30 miles south of Toppenish. He said the car ran the road and overturned several times, but he escaped injury.
WEE GIRL SAVES FAMILY IN NIGHT Awakened by the cries of a COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, May daughter, Layne, 7. who cried, "Daddy, can't Louis Gellner discovered his three-room house on North Fourth was ablaze and led his wife and two children to safety early today, The blaze caused an estimated $700 damage to the dwelling and $500 loss to the furniture. The fire was a long distance from a hydrant, and firemen had to send out two trucks and lay 1850 feet of hose. Owner of the house is A. G.
Morris. Inland Empire Events in A. P. and Spokesman- -Review Reports Hotel Man of Yakima Aiding Infantile Paralysis Sufferers ed pool and a considerable amount of orthopedic equipment, A victim of paralysis himself, Mr. Burke, tied to a wheel the last year, decided to open his pool free of charge to all infantile paralysis ferers who might benefit from use.
None others are permitted in it. Here is the scene at the "dedication." In the water is C. Y. Fletcher, From left to right: Sterling Boone, historian 40-8, Nurses Graduate From St. Ignatius Hospital School at Colfax Commencement exercises will be held at the high school auditorium today, National Hospital day, for the seniors of the St.
Ignatius school nursing at Colfax, Wash. Eight nurses will receive their diplomas. Left to right: Lola Barr, Pullman; Angeline DeLange, Wallace, Idaho; Wilma Gaffney, Hamilton, Florence Nearing, Potlatch, Idaho; Anne Golding Ruff, Colfax; Amelia Schmick, Colfax; FRUIT MAN HAS FOREIGN PICTURE State College Program Offers Man Who Worked in London Market. Steve Burke, proprietor of the Donnelly hotel in Yakima, recently opened the "Little Warm Springs" he built in the basem*nt of his hotel. It includes a small steam heat- WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE, PULLMAN, May -F.
A. Motz, United States agricultural commissioner at the London embassy, who has just returned from England, will discuss foreign outlets and the outlook for northwest fruit at the fruit marketing institute here May 18 to 20, the program committee announced today. Motz, who has spent a number of years in Europe, specializes on the promotion of sales of American fruit in British markets. He will bring to the institute movies on certain phases of European fruit marketing, and will attend throughout the three-day conference. Included in the list of out-of-state specialists are H.
R. Wellman, professor of agricultural economics, University of California, and Ford Quitslund of the farm credit administration. California Reaction. Wellman will discuss California's experience in the control of fruit shipments, of which he has made a special study. Quitslund for a number of years has studied the problems of the marketing of Pacific northwest fruits in American cities, especially New York and Los Angeles.
Among those actively engaged in fruit marketing in the state who will present prepared discussions at the institute are Walter Hebert, Growers' association: Frank G. Gough, American Fruit Growers, Everett Minard, Gwin, White Prince, Bert Baker, Wenatchee Traffic association; Lyman Bunting, Rainier Fruit company; J. Klahre, Pacific Northwest Fruits; Guy R. Coe, Growers' Service: Noel Bakke, Prince, Morton Stone, and Jack Rogers, Fruit Sales, Inc. Speakers from the state college will include Dr.
R. B. Heflebower, director of the school of business administration, who will discuss the role of government in the pricing process, and Dr. E. F.
Dunmeier, professor of economies, who will discuss the economic outlook for the Pacific northwest apple industry. YOUTH FACING SERIOUS CHARGE ST. MARIES, Idaho, May Don West, 19, waived a preliminary hearing before Probate Judge Fred Elwell a and was bound over to district court under $1000 bonds on a statutory charge. West is alleged to have beaten Mrs. Henry Unthank of Emida, breaking her jaw in three places, Mrs.
Unthank is in a Spokane hospital. William Arthur Quick alias Arthur Valjean, 22, who has been held in the county jail on a charge of vagrancy, was found to be an inmate of the state hospital for the insane at Salem, Ore. He escaped April 14. He will be returned. EARL OF PLYMOUTH ILL.
LONDON, May 11. (A) -The earl of Plymouth, it was announced today, has resigned as parliamentary undersecretary of foreign affairs for reasons of health. DAD INSTITUTES $115,100 LAWSUIT 1935 "Kidnap" Scare Is Basis for Case Against Judge, Banks, Newspaper. KALISPELL, May Kalispell's big kidnap scare of June, 1935, reechoed today when a United States marshal served summonses on 21 defendants in damage suits totaling $115,100, instituted In the United States district court by E. A.
Heitmeyer, The defendants include District Judge J. E. Rockwood, eight publie officers, two banks and the Daily a Interlake. The action goes back to a day in June, 1935, when Heitmeyer, who had been living in Spo- a kane, appeared unannounced and took his little daughter, Vera May Heitmeyer, from in front of the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
William Studt, with whom the child had been living for some considerable time following separation of her parents. Alarmed for the child, Mrs. Studt obtained a warrant and Heitmeyer was overtaken officers this side of Polson and returned to Kalispell, Word got out that there had been a kidnaping and excitement was great for a few hours. Followed then a series of incldents which included his restraint under $500 bond on a kidnaping charge, all of which Heitmeyer alleges were in violation of his constitutional rights and without due process of law. Hungry Horse dam moved another important step toward realization today, according to word received by H.
J. Kelly from Senator James E. Murray, The chief of army engineers in Washington has ordered the Hungry Horse survey completed without waiting for A two-year comprehensive survey of the Clark Fork and Columbia drainage. Work on completion of the Hungry Horse survey, he indicated, will begin as soon as funds are available from the war department's civil appropriation bill, which is now before congress. "This is exactly what the Hungry.
Horse committee asked," said Kelly, "We believe that remaining survey work can be man. completed this summer. When that is completed, we will be in a position congress for an appropriation for construction." KETTLE FALLS RECEIVES ASSURANCE FOR SCHOOL KETTLE FALLS, May 11. Stanley F. Atwood, superintendent of public instruction, has asked the school board to arrange a meeting Sunday to school.
discuss the accreditation In his letter he stated that the department has no intention of taking the school away, and further that they do not have the power to do this. His visit and this statement are expected to put to rest the many rumors that this school is to be discontinued. It is expected that some 400 persons will attend the meeting. Local merchants said that the first checks from the road contractors and from the White are beginning to come in. Whereas two months ago every out of work, now it is difficult to hire a man.
Some 6000 library books were moved to the new town from the school in preparation of moving. It is planned to have everything out by May 24 so that the contractors can start to work. SMELTER MAN FOUND DEAD IN BUNKHOUSE COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, May Charles Grosvenor, 42, Smelterville, was found dead in the bunkhouse of the Jenson logging camp in the Fourth of July canyon today partner, John Bankirk. The coroner said the man parently was victim of a heart atGrosvenor had worked at the Kellogg, officers smelter said. up to two weeks Survivors include his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. E. E. Grosvenor of this city, and a brother and two sisters. AGED RECORD DONATED.
WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE, PULLMAN, May -W. 0. Druffel, cashier of the Security State bank at Colton, has presented to the state college library the minute book of the town council of Colton, extending from January 3, 1899, to March 20, 1922. It's Old-Fashioned Pot Roast today at the Delicacy Shop Dinner 50c Pot roast that flakes under your fork potatoes cooked right in that flavorsome meat Juice. Mixed spring vegetables hot biscuits lettuce with Davenport's famous.
Thousand Island dressing. Tasty variety nf co*cktails, soup, dessert and beverage. Second Entree Braised prime beef with homemade egg noodles en casserole. Dine with your friends and business associates in this restful, sunlit nook. Appetizing menus to please every purse, every palate.
Delicacy Shop First at Post DAVENPORT HOTEL Musicale Luncheon. Isabella Room. 12 to 4. Monday. Organ concert.
Luncheon menus, 856 to $1.35. JUDGE DEFINES RIGHTS OF FIRM Iron Works Gets Chance to Finish Two Harvesters Despite Creditors. WALLA WALLA, May The Walla Walla Iron Works, will remain in physical possession of its property until a reorganization hearing in federal district court June 6, under an order signed here today by Judge J. Stanley Webster, The order was granted nection with the plea of several employees of the company to have a receiver appointed and for back wages allegedly due them. Also contained in the order was a clause which will permit the company to complete and sell 12 weeders, proceeds from the sale of which will be used to purchase materials needed to complete two of the company's harvesters, now under construction.
Any money received from the sale of the harvesters will be impounded pending the June 6 hearing, at which time the company's plan for reorganization will be heard by Judge Webster. Mrs. Ruth Lindeman was sentenced to a year and a day in fedferal prison after she entered a plea of guilty on a narcotics charge before Judge Webster. 9-YEAR SEARCH ENDS IN ARREST New Mexico Claims Suspect to Explain About Murder in 1930. WALLA WALLA, May 11, (AP)A nine-year search by federal authorities was ended today at Two Rivers, 30 miles west of here, with the arrest of Allen Lastroh, 48, on a warrant from Raton, N.
charging murder. Lastroh is suspected of slaying Ray Sutton, federal prohibition agent, at Raton. No details of the slaying were contained in the warrant and Sheriff C. A. Woodward said he knew no particulars.
Sutton was slain in 1930, the warrant disclosed. Sheriff Woodward said Lastroh signed a waiver of extradition and that New Mexico officials were expected here soon. The arrest was made at a sheep camp. A. D.
Sides, Seattle, of the alcohol tax unit, and Pat O'Leary, Seattle, of the federal narcotic unit, assisted local officers. The federal men said Lastroh been in the Inland Empire about three years. DINNER TO AID MISSION FUNDS DE SMET. Idaho, May Most Rev. Edward J.
Kelly, D. bishop of Boise, will be the honored guest at a dinner to be served by the young Indian women in the Sacred Heart school auditorium May 20. The proceeds will go into the mission rebuilding fund to replace the historical building which burned after an explosion a month ago. Jesuit missionaries have done much toward the welfare and advancement of the red men, who not long ago did not know the meaning of religion and it is hoped the donations already coming will conSuggestions will be appreciated for plans to build a modern mission for the future welfare of the Indian people. Music and entertainment during the feast will be by the school band and was arranged by the committee in charge, Basil Campbell, chairman; Joe Saltice and William Cassidy.
BACCALAUREATE SET. ALMIRA, May exercises will be held in the Methodist church Sunday, VEHICLE WILL GO TO INSPECTION HARRINGTON UNIT, HARRINGTON, May 11. -E. A. Malmstrom, in charge of the vehicle safety inspection station, will have the unit here May 18 to May 25, inclusive.
The commercial club will hold a noon meeting next, Wednesday, when a committee be appointed to greet the delegation from the Spokane Chamber of Commerce, which is scheduled to arrive May 19. Ann Taylor, high school senior, will represent Harrington in the declamatory contest in Davenport Saturday. Contestants from here in typing will be Vivian Knoll, Beverly Earney, Helen Mielke, Natalle Sorrels and Jean Williams. Margaret Unbewust, Natale Sorrels and Doris Hawkins will compete in tennis in the annual county con- can legion; Bill Diehm, Byron Yadin, post commander Disabled Veterans; Leland LeClaire, Byron Lee, S. R.
Maxey, Steve Burke, Kokernik, John Forcier, 'Arthur Karr and J. Keck, 40-8. Leta Schmick, Colfaxi, Sister Tarcisius, Colfax. President of the St. Ignatius hospital Dr.
L. G. Kimsey, is the acting chairman. The charge to the graduates will be given by the Rev. Curtis J.
Sharp, S. Gonzaga university. Presentation of then diplomas will be by L. R. Stieg, superintendent of Colfax schools.
Colfax high school band and choir will furnish music. JURY OUTLINES LIQUOR PROBLEM Indians Need Special Attention to Curb Murder and Reservation Crime. MOSCOW, Idaho, May -The federal grand jury tonight reported five items designated to cope with the illegal sale of liquor to Indians, blamed for several recent killings and crime on the Nez Perce land Coeur d'Alene reservations. They are: "There should be established and maintained on the reservations a court for Indian offenses, with its own jail and enforcement officers. "Counties adjacent to reservations should cooperate in law enforcement on them.
"Congress should provide funds for adequate special Indian service officers. "The state should amend existling laws licenses to sell provide beer, for one two to classes prohibit off-premise consumption on or near Indian reservations, the other for territories not adjacent to reservations and without this restriction. "Copies of these suggestions should be sent to the state's congressional delegation, the commissioner of Indian affairs and to state and county officers." One secret and three open indictments involve Frank Murphy and Austin fa*gan, alleged sale of liquor to Indians, and Charles Mullen, charged with transporting a woman from Denver to Pocatello in violation of the Mann act. He will be arraigned in Boise. HIGH SCHOOL PREPARES FOR ITS COMMENCEMENT PLUMMER, Idaho, May The Rev.
Charles P. Milne, minister of the Congregational church of Pullman, will deliver the baccalaureate address to the graduates of the high school May 14. The commencement program will be held in the high school auditorium on Thursday, May 18, with the Rev. Andrew E. F.
Anderson of Moscow, Idaho, making the address. SILVER DOLLAR STOPS BULLET Flock Tender, Accidentally Shot, Rides Horse Two Miles for Help. HAMILTON, May Power of the pocketbook was noted in an odd way by Cecil Soden, Bitterroot stock farmer flock when a bullet from his 45 automatic pistol lodged against a silver dollar after it had inflicted a twoinch flesh wound in his left thigh. Soden was carrying the pistol in a belt and he was engaged in wood chopping to prepare supper at his Girds, creek camp when the aX struck the gun, causing it to discharge. Soden was alone and he managed to mount his horse and ride two miles before pain made him stop.
His calls reached another herder, who has a car, and he brought Soden on to the stock farm. A freakish note was that the ridges of the dollar's edge were marked into the bullet as it struck the wallet which Soden carried in his hip pocket. The wound is not serious and Soden hopes to be in camp within the month, he said. PERJURY COSTS CANADIAN YEAR IN NELSON JAIL CRANBROOK, B. May Charles Hampton McNab, Waldo, was convicted by a jury at the assizes today on a charge of perjury arising from, statements made at a judgment summons at Fernie.
The defendant was acquitted last spring on a manslaughter charge after a fatal motor accident. For the perjury he was sentenced to one year in the Nelson jail by Justice D. A. McDonald. CANADIAN CHINESE STORE SUFFERS FROM FLAMES CRANBROOK, B.
May 11- Fire destroyed the roof and third story of Sam Yick's store in Chinatown early today. Lee Luke, owner, has been ill in Vancouver for several months. The building was cleared of inhabitants quickly, and firemen fought the blaze for two hours. Dont forget supply buy of beer your FRIDAY or SOLD ON SATURDAY 32 OZ. ECONOMICAL PICNIC SIZE NO BEER THIS STATE 11 OZ.
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to $1.50 PHONE MAIN 2000 "PALACE State Theater Bldg. Over 40 Years in Spokane ADVERTISING. KETTLE FALLS PLANS TO ADVERTISE TOWN KETTLE FALLS, May are being made by the chamber of commerce to start an active campaign to boost Kettle Falls. With the actual laying of the water pipe and the moving of the school to start next week, it is thought the time is ripe to advertise the town. The only business places left in the old site are Langston Wiegelts cafe and the telephone office.
are to move within two weeks. The White Pine mill will be ready for operation within a few days. COURT RECORDS THREE ESTATES COLFAX. May Charles S. Matzger, retired Colfax merchant, who died April 13, left an estimated $12,500 estate to his widow, Nina Lee Matzger, under terms of his nonintervention will filed for probate today.
Mrs. Matz-1 Iger was named executrix to without bond. The estate consists of cash, Colfax real estate and adjusted compensation bonds received from his World war services. An order approving the final report of the administrator and a decree of final distribution was issued by Superior Judge M. E.
Jesseph in the estates of Robert M. Hanna and Alice E. Creighton. The Hanna estate had an appraisal of $13,046 while the Creighton estate consisting of several tracts of Whitman county farm lands had an appraisal of $65,198. Car Kills Sheep.
Earl Bailey, Pullman, crashed his car into a band of sheep south of Lacrosse killing five of the animals. The sheep were being trailed by Martin Carter of Pasco and were on their way to summer range. Funeral services have been set for tomorrow at 2 in Bruning's chapel for Vigo Lieberg, about 60, resident of the Harvard, Idaho, district, who died on the way to St. Ignatius hospital. The Rev.
A. B. Kern, Christian church pastor, will officiate. Picnic Date Set. The annual Whitman County Pioneers' association picnic will be held at Schmuck park Sunday, June 4, J.
T. LaFollette, the association's vice president, announced at the weekly chamber of commerce luncheon. Governor Martin has been invited to speak. Deputy Sheriff W. W.
Nicely and John D. Evans, deputy prosecuting attorney, decided an old human skull excavated on the Palouse river near Hooper Tuesday involved criminal case. The officers acted at the request of Joseph Marnes, who made the discovery while excavating dirt for his yard. Couples to Wed. Marriage licenses were issued to Winston Neace, 22, and Melvina Weitz, 23, both of Endicott, and to Loren E.
Schell, 25, Medford, Oregon, and Rachel Evia Hall, 21, Butte, Mont. ESTATE PROMPTS SUIT. REPUBLIC, May The suit of Willard Zwang against his brother, Harold Zwang, and his father, Ivan Zwang, was begun today in superior court here, with Judge Schwellenbach of Ephrata presiding. The plaintiff alleges defendants, executors of the estate of Mrs. Ivan Zwang did not properly distribute this estate.
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