LEADING A lAVE ADVERTISING NEWSPAPER IN A MEDIUM Coulee City Dispatch PROGREBSIVE OWHR VOLUME XXVI—NUMBER 16 COULEE CITY, GRANT COUNTY, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, PCT. 21, 1937 SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR Call Dam Bids on December 10, Is Plan Huge Oil Fraud Charged as At the Russian Polar Base Tentative Date Grand Jury Indicts Eleven Set by Page former and sal- Eleven officers CARD [PARTY SATURDAY ' December 10 was tentatively esmen for the Peoples Gas and set today for opening of bids for Ofl comipany and associated ‘com- for the card The date Rebekah completion of Grand Coulee dam. paniesz were indicted by a federal party changed from Fri- has been - The bids will be opened ip the district court grand jury at Taco- day until Saturday night, it was assembly hall of the Chamber of ma Yyesterday for mail fraud, vio- announced today. The change was Commerce. lation of the federal securities act that made when it was learned Announcment lof the bid opening and congpiracy. was Sat- no dance scheduled for was made in Washington, D, C, to- The complaint involved business urday night to the conflict with day by John C. Page, federal of the Peoples Gas and Oil com- com- affair. missioner (of reclamation. pany, by which it clgijmed the Prizes will be awarded winners was * “A lot depends on when we, com- de’endants have .collected more and a supper served following the plete the specifications,” Page than $1,881,000 from Washington pinochle session. ’Mir. recidents. said, ‘“The contractors should have at least six weeks to look them Denfendants Named ROAD JOBS AWARDED f over and make their estimates Joseph F. Simons, alias James TO NELSON COMPANY the specifications are being com- F. alias Jim Simons, Simons, for- pleted in our Denver office.” mer president of the company, Stockpiling of gravel will be The department of labor lis headed the list of defendants, Oth- done this ifall on a road improve- working its survey of wage ers are his brother, Sim- ment job on the Sunset highway on Milton scales to be included in the call his partner, William Marko- near Waterville which was award- ons, for bids. | witz, Samuel Markowitz, H, Harry ed this week to the Nelson Con- Meyers, William H, Broome, Louis struction Co, Ltd., of Tonasket Through in December, Roth, owner of a Los Angeles wo- for $53,207. | The MWAK company, now build- men's clothing store; Marshal B. Three miles of road from the ing the dam foundation, 1s ex- top Fisher of Spokane, Isadore B. of Pine canyon to Waterville, pected to complete its contract in three miles east Taub, C, R. Stowell and Pat Rob- of Waterville and early December, according to word about a mile g kins, all salesmen. and half near from the prioject today, The 4,000- Baird, seven miles west of The indictment Coulee 000th cubic yard of concrete was voluminous City, will be glven charged Meyers and Broome some a bituminous poured Wednesday, leaving a lit- years surface treatment, road mix type, three or four ago obtained tle more than half a million yards on a class ‘“B’”. Cool weather will pre- leases large tract of oi] land to be poured, - vent of surfacing in the Frenchman hills district, application the The Commerce, next Chamber of at giving in payment only before spring, but gravel will GRAND COULEE FREIGHT | their DISTRICT CONFERENCE the Tequest of the reclamation promises of royalty payments to be gottent out this fall and wiriter. WOULD FILL TRAIN HUGE DRAWS CROWD HERE bureau, 'has heen holding its as- Gail Matthews, Ephrata abstract- Two-Day sembly room opem for the |id or, and owners the property DEER SEASON ENDS; BIRD The issue of or- School house of last the The ISeventh district conference opening from 26 to wiep and if oil was discovered. HUNTING BEGINS SUNDAY gan of the MWAK, Novémayr contractors of the Veterans of Foreign Wars December 11, Ford, = who erecting, the Grand Cou- AverCash Squandered axe - axd the auxillary of that” ongasni- managing sidcretasy = to As Washington’s 1937 deer scasom lee dam, gives some interesting Janm.ried The government charged most Vacation zation, held at the school house the chamber Over trustees Wednesday 1s drawing to its October 20 closing figures on what sort of .a of the money collected was dis- train last Thursday night, attracted evening. date, hunting conditions are sipated, $450,000 being paid out improv- would be needed to haul the ma- School started again sixty ing noticeably in most up Wednes- about members. The Coulee The call for bids will be for in dividends to stock holders of sections of the terfals to the hig construction day state. after two,k days of vacation for City post was host for the meeting. completion of the dam, construc-~ the Peoples Gias and Oil company, project if the freight were moved Warm the kiddies during which the fa- An address of welcome was tion of the power plant on the whose never and dry weather that held in ong train, securities were offer- culty absorbed inspiration by McCann, river, down the deer kill early in the season Freight brought and lat- given the group Frank west bank of the Columbia to public. The companies’ in since Feb- est oed the has given pedagogicel information at the president of the Chamber of Com- the pumping plant wings and books show, the government said, way to smow in many east- ruary 1935 would fill a train 220 ern Washington districts, thus Wenatchee institute. It was the merce and member of the city foundation for a pumping plant to that Joshua Simons drew $237,- glving miles long, contlaining 21,000 cars, huntsmen to annual two-day meeting of the W, council. water to to be ir- 636 for no investment; the better chances bring pulled by 450 ‘locomotives. The elevate lands Willlam home the venison. E. A. of Central Wiashfiington, rigated. Markowitz $159,000 for no invest- cargo would weigh 2,050,000,000 Thomas Cadzow, district = com- game protectors Wilard ¥, Matters, state presi- ment, and Roth $134,000 for State are having a pounds, mander, presided over the general Submit Estimates ousy time working with the dent of the about $17,000 invested. In addi- greatest The cement would Trequire 18,- association, Professor session, Short talks were given It is estimated the new wiork array of Paul Hannah tion, [Simons and 'Markowitz were hunters in the state’s history 000 freight cars, or an equivalent of Stanford univer- by Department Commander F. L, will involve about 340,000 cubic and enforeing the rules of the game. sity, main' guest speaker of the in- alleged to have drawn SI,OOO each of 4,200,000 barrels. There would Pruitt, Adjutant Harry Stengel, yards of excavation, about 5,800, The regular report of chief stitute, (State as weekly salaries. the be about 60 million board feet of and Superintendent and Department Liaison Officer 000 yards of concrete, about b50,- partrol officer of the State Game De- Stanley The fraud icharges included al- timber aboard, and a total 54,- Atwiood were the headliners Arthur L. Smith. 000,000 pounds of reenforeing, 10,- partment of legations that the company reveals that 138 individ- tong on. Monday's program, at which claim- 550 of steel. Corsages were precented to of- 000,000 pounds of pipe and fittings, ed to have gas uals who subsequently were convicted H. P. Backus, local superintendent found 01l bearing ficers of the visiting auxiliaries. 50,000,000 pounds of gates and op- of violating the game code were ar- of asg in the Frenchman hills operations RUSH WORK ON GRACE schools, served chairman, erating devices, 24,000,000 rested last month, " Lunch was served in the home poundg when nothing had be found, Thirty-eight of the FULL BUILDING In the afternoon Professor Han- GOSPEL economics by wives of local of metal work, 16,000,000 pounds arrests charged illegal possession or nah, accompanied by room Mr. Matters, penstocks 8,000,000 of bear, elk, veterans, of and __pounds nunting deer and There Superintendent Profes- For the past few weeks much Backus and of cranes, JEAN HARLOW IN FINAL were 42 arrests for violation of meas- activity hags been taking -place on sor Samuelson of Ellensburg Nor- GREAT FILM AT ROOSEVELT ures protecting game birds, ‘Cement, machinery, metal work Most of completion of the new Grace mal, made a trip to Grand Coulee SERVICE LOANS AVAILABLE arrests were and monufactured materials the made just prior to way other church building. Some have work- Dam by of Rock Island. Bur- GRANT FARM permanent part Thrills, laughs, drama and romance the September 26 opening of the deer TO GROUPS which form a of ed during the day, some at night, eau of Reclamation officials made mingle in a literal cross section of season and the five-day grouse the work will be furnished by the blue arrangements for party American racing life in ‘‘Saratoga,’’ shooting schedule, and some both day and night, the to tour Community and cooperative ser- government. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s dramsa of the There is a determined effort be- the area and visit the house of vice loang are available for groupg Numerous Arrests turf which has brought Clark Gable ing put forth to complete the maglic. Being a keen student of of farm families in Grant county, Arrests have rather numerous TEAMS IN CLOSE RACE and Jean Harlow to the Roosevelt | been new building by November 8, Ac- economicg and a finm believer in where joint use of cooperative fac- this month too, according to the State Theatre, in Grand Coulee, for 5 days cording to the pastor, Rev.