davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
CUTS IN RELIEF
EXPECTED SOON

Curtailment in relief expendi-
lures for Pierce county doomed
Thursday after Gov Martin signed
the Omnibus Social Security bill.
which provides for revision Of
the states social security set-up.
Pierce county commissioners
were awaiting the appointment Of
a private citizen 10 serve on z
three man commission. which
under terms Of the bill. would be
in charge Of administration Of the
S42.379 400 program for the COM
ing biennium.
The commission viii consist Of
the governor. Finance Director
Olaf Martin and A private citizen
to be named BY the governor The
commission would act mainly as
policy-making budget control
board. Social Security Director
Charles F. Ernst viii continue to
head the state department.
The budget for the social Sc
eurity program-s42, 379, 100
IL a million dollars short of
" Sot th'
1887 legislature.
Under terms of the bill. counties
are charged with responsibility for
administration of the welfare pro-
gram, with the state acting in its
same supervisory capacity. A
merit system of selecting employees
will continue and commissioners
will appoint their own SUPER
visors.
Counties will operate on quarter
~ budgets, with provisions in the
law preventing horizontal redue-
tons in assistance grants being
paid to aged, children or blind.
Provision also is made in the
law for state help to counties
whose three mills is insufficient to
care for direct relief needs, while
counties whose millage raised
more than enough will have to re-
turn to the state part of the
money they get for federal aid
assistance programs.
Incorporated In the bill were
provisions of SB47, defining
need and resources of old age
assistance applicants, giving
the department the right TO
look to ability of relatives to
support applicants in consider
ing eligibility.
By including these provisions in
the omnibus welfare bill it had the
effect of re-enacting the old pauper
law, which provided for relatives
to aid their needy aged, blind or
children.
Also included in the law was a
provision which said the state
could recover from a recipients
estate the amount of assistance
given him or her.
Another section permits assist
ancc to be given Immediately upon
application if the applicant makes
sworn declaration of need and
resources, with a provision for
Furnishing the offending for false
statements.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24

F It as much as You like She
laughed Name your figure. Tom.
Not many men have such 4 chance.
and Albert would hate i 50 10
think all that money for which he
cheated and stole To raise himself
In the world was going 10 gen
tleman. He wanted so much 10
be a gentleman. but you couldn't
make a silk purse from SOW S
ear
I've got plenty for myself. Ny
grandmother saw to that Any
way, if I'm drawing up the will
II wouldn't be legal for me to be
in It Is Then an idea came to him
and he said. But so long as you're
scattering i about, you could leave
il 70 the Ranehipur Ministry of
Public Welfare Then Smiley and
I would have the Use of IL
Good. Put down 100 900 for
that II you want more. say So"
No. I think that Will do
She sat up again and said,
That's all I can think of now
I'm too tired to think any more
and my head aches like the devil.
They can do what they like with
the rest. Albert has brother
he never let me see. He lives in
q villa IN the Liverpool suburbs.
II would be fun to see how wind
fall of million pounds would
change his life. / suppose there d
be no end of people fighting over
the money"
He stood up and thrust the
paper into his pocket. "I'll go
and write it out Forget it now
and try to rest" He took the tin
box off her knees, and bending
over he held her up with one arm
while he laid the pillows flat again.
She seemed to weigh nothing at
all, and as she lay down she said,
That box Is full of jewelry. You
might as well give it to Fern"
Don't talk nonsense"
I'm not. Has your brother an
heir >"
No"
We'll, If you and Fern have
children, your son might be Earl
of Nolham. He'd have a wife and
some day she might like the mag
nificent jewels left her by an Eng
lish woman called Lady Esketh
who died in Ranchipur during the
great disaster of 1886. Shed al
ways have story to tell about
them. II would help when she had
to make conversation at boring
dinners. We're such snobs at home.
We like stories like that" She
sighed and added. Don't argue
with me. I'm too tired. Put that
in the will, too :. that the Jewels
are to go to Fern" She opened
her eyes, smiled, and looked up at
him. Il suppose" she said, this
is the way it feels to repent and
get religion Her voice grew
weaker . e. Giving away my
worldly goods" In a whisper she
said, Anyway. it's a nice feeling"
Then he went out of the room,
and as he entered the kitchen the
major rose quickly and looked at
him with an expression of anxiety,
as if he. the physician were seek
ing reinsurance from Ransome.
Ransome said, II think the visit
did her good. She wants we to
draw up kind of will for her. |
told her it was nonsense, but she
seemed set on it and ] don't sup
pose it will do any good to cross
her She doesn't seem as ill as l
thought she would be"
But it wasn't, he knew, the
actual Illness. 1t was the apathy
he felt in her, the strange GER
Continued on Page IA. Column s.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
State School Fund
For Month Divided

The monthly apportionment for
common schools throughout the
state. distributed Thursday by
State School Supt. Atwood, show
ed an increase over March of last
year. Today's apportionment total
ed Sl.232. 1913. compared to $685.
Ss5 for March. 1858.
The apportionment was from
sales and business tax receipts.
plus Sil2.23s from the auto excise
tax. which goes TO counties for
equalization purposes.
Pierce county Golfers received
sl07 s2s of the total sum. Other
distribution included: kitssp. s2s.-
Az; Mason. se.26I. and Thurston.
s25,es2.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
To Present Skit
To Welfare Club

A card party. sponsored jointly
by women of General Welfare club
No. l and the West End Improve
ment club. will follow business
meeting of the General Welfare
club at $50 p. M, Friday.
The session, open to the public.
will be held At the home of Fred
S Lambert. 2907 So, 9th 81. Actors
from the WPA visual education
project will present skit on
socislized medicine. Refreshments
will be served and prizes awarded.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24

It's easy to get the feeling that
you're looking your prettiest and
most springlike self Just slip
into this simple but-exquisite Anne
Adams style. Pattern 4077 has the
freshness and feminine
softness that men. above all. adj
mire. Scalloping. that favorite
form of decoration, adorns the
dainty yoke and unusual neckline.
The little sleeves have angel
wing points, and wide scalloped
edges finished off with flash of
ruffling. And what a lovely con-
tour the bodice has, with darts
shaping in the waist, The skirt
has eight cores to assure the most
graceful swish and swing. Such
glamour calls for the sweetest of
prints or plains,
Pattern 4077 is available in
misses and womens sizes IA. 16,
Is. 20. 81. "a, IS, IS, 40 and AZ.
Size Is takes SIS yards 3a-inch
fabric and yards lace edging.
Send Is cents in coins for this
Anne Adams pattern. Write plain
~ SIZE, NAME. ADDRESS and
STYLE NUMBER.
Order. and enjoy. the finest Anne
Adams Spring Pattern book ever
issued, All those stunning clothes
you want to make in fifty are
PACED" Select from frocks for
classroom, office and the home,
Also-"special occasion gov n S,
sportswear, suits, lingerie. and en-
sembled outfits, Patterns for
everyone from one TO seventy are
included. and each brings impor-
tant hints on how TO sew easily,
thrifty. smartly, Write today.
Price OF book Is cents. Price of
pattern. Is cents. Together. book
and pattern are IS cents.
Send your order TO The Tacoma
Times, Pattern Dept.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
$4,000 Paid Here
To 1879 Jobless

Tacoma ranked third last week
in amount of unemployment COM
pensation paid out by the state. a
report OF Tom G, Rathbone, Taco
ma district manager of Washing
ton State Employment service,
showed Thursday.
While Seattle and Spokane job
less are receiving more, S53, 500
and 22,o44. checks totalling STA
22l were sent to 1.27e Tacomans
during the week, he said.
Industrial unemployed here have
received since Jan. l. S93.121. Rath-
bone showed. State payments rap
idly are approaching the $1,000
600 mark.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
FACES CHARGES OVER
WPA CHECK FORGERY

Sought by local police more than
is months. Walter c. Goodnough.
"a. was arrested Wednesday night
by Officers Art Gilbo and J. A.
Kelly, and charged with the theft
and forgery of another mans WPA
check.
Detective John paulson. check
investigator. said the alleged theft
occurred in September. 1887.
Questioned Thursday morning by
Paulson and a federal agent, Good
nough was reported to have adj
mitted the theft. He gave his
name as Edward ]. Boyle when
arrested. His home is at saith and
South Tacoma way.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
Answers TO Test Questions

Below are the answers 10 test
questions printed on the editorial
page,
l. An instrument for measuring
the intensity of light.
>. A hole played IN one stroke
less than par.
5. The coastal region.
4. Wild rose.
). Ra
s. Bulgaria.
:. 81. Lawrence.
$. Samuel D Riddle
p Frank r. NcNinch
10 Latin for greater bear"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24

Dear Miss Grey: ] am young
mother about TO have my first
child. My husband and I have been
ideally happy. but now II seems
tina. we are IN the midst of storm.
Every relative we have has some
thing to say about the name of the
baby. Especially my husband $
people. They insist that the baby
he named after my husbands
father.
NV mother wants 1t To be named
after her father why do people
presume that all first babies viii
be boys y, and my sister has found
o name that Is incredible, but she
likes It and figures the relatives
had better tend TO their own bust
ness.
I figure that my sister and all
Of them should mind their own
affairs. What do you think?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
By LOUIE BRo1FIELD
Copyright ias7 1885. 1879 hJ Louis Bromfsid
Distributed By Ledger Syndicate

4 really wanted To talk bust.
ness Lad. Esketh said 70 Tom
Can you open that box for me o.
He opened It and she took ou'
a few papers and then small
box which she opened. Inside the
box there was a ring consisting Of
a single enormous sapphire mount.
ed IN platinum Il don't suppose
you have any ring for Fern. Give
her this one. I'd like you both Il
have IL
That's sweet of you. my dear
It's what you might call rich
gift. =
Does she like sapphires ="
Il don't know. / don't suppose
she knows one jewel from an
other
Il wish she'd come and see me.
I'd like TO talk to her
I'll tell her. I'm sure she'd like
TO come
I've never had any sort Of
will even for my own settlement.
That's what ! wanted To talk to
you about Now that I've got all
this money, I suppose ! should dc
something about IT.
You needn't to il now. You
can wait till you're well again.
She ignored the remark. saying
Gould you write it out for me II
| told you what / wanted ,"
II think you'd better tell me
now what IL is you want. and then,
while the ajor is having a look
at you, I'll write 1t down in the
best legal fashion. You've talked
enough. I thould think"
There's Miss Hodge" she said
I'D like to make sure shes safe
and well cared for for the rest of
her life. The poor old thing has
had an awful life. I'd like to leave
her tw n ty or thirty thousand
pounds
He took pencil stub from his
pocket and a paper on which was
written a report of the actual sup
plies at the music school Twenty
thousands pounds Is a great deal
of money :. more than enough to
care for her. Besides. Miss Dirks
left everything she had to her.
She told me so. And she'll have a
pension from the Maharanee.
Don't be tiresome, Tom. It's
my money and there's such a lot
of it,"
So thinking it was better not to
argue, he wrote on the back of the
paper Miss Hodge, Twenty Thou
sand"
And f50,000 to the Smileys"
She looked at him. do you think
that is enough ?"
Il should think so. Money
doesn't mean very much to them
one way or another. They won't
spend 1t on themselves.
And I've an old aunt, and a
young cousin in the navy I haven't
seen for two years. I'd like to
leave them each 10000 Their
names arc Lady Sylvia Weldon
and Lieutenant Arthur Weldon.
She lives in house called Parmley
Vicarage near Salisbury. That adj
dress will do for both.
Closing her eyes, she turned
away from him and said IT'S
funny, sitting here, changing peo-
pies lives just because a long
time ago when was poor l gave
in and arried Albert" She
sighed i've given away for
tune already and | haven't even
disposed of a fraction of what
there is. 1t must be tiresome to
be so very rich. I'd never thought
about 1t before. For a long time
now I've always had what | want
ed just for the asking I'd like to
leave you $4,000 or so if you want
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24

me L HDHiE4 Afd@ - I'll II q ~ -
took the stand Thursday morn
TestifyIng we're H. E. Bixhy. Of
1922 No. 18th ST. Tacoma, me-
ehanie with Metropolitan Park de-
partment. and MS older brother,
J. L. Bixbv. kelso farmer.
They represented part OF the
huge army o. 10000 P. 9. & o.
leaseholders which the government
charges lost 81 900 600
The trial went faster Thursday.
partly because investor witnesses
have less to say. and partly be-
cause a ruling Of Federal Judge
Edward f. Cushman Wednesday
afternoon limits them.
The court settled an argument in
favor Of the defense. when As
sistant I. 5. Attorney Frank A.
Pellesrinl asked that investors in
the oil promotion enterprise be
permitted "a tell the jury what
P. G. & o. statesmen had told them.
Story shortened
As n result. testimony had to be
limited to the investors versions of
public meetings at which some Of
the indicted promoters spoke.
II shortened the story of Andrew
Larson. Tacoma metal worker, Of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
Baby's Name Often
Causes DissentiOn
Relatives Should Have Common Sense
Enough to Let Mother Do the Naming
By CYNTHIA GREY

To this department many problems have been
Shall divorce my husband want to commit suicide
Why don't the boys gs) like mellow make the
extra money need and number Of other human calls
that mean souls in either minor major distress.
It fortunate for column such this that has readers
who experience often help when the writer cannot
But there are times when the writer ably take
of herself
So it is with no msgivngs that print the following
letters and opinion because the writer asked for it.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
CLAIMS BANKRUPTCY

Voluntary petitions in bank
ruptcy We're filed in federal district
court here Thursday by Norman
F. Wiener. millworker. of CIT So.
Tacoma ave. listing debts of
S42o.57 to assets of S25, and by Roy
DeLong. Of Alp 4th st, NE. Puy-
allur. listing debts of Si.6i5.sS
and assets of $3.50. all claimed
exempt.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24

Problems of public health and
Specialization of medical care will
be solved under the leadership and
cooperation of the American Medl-
cal association or without it, DIR.
Clifford Halvorsen of the Western
State hospital staff declared We'd
nesday evening at College of Puget
Sound.
DR.. Halvorsen was speaker at
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
PLANE VICTIMS
TESSATURDAY

Funeral services will be held at
30 p. m. Saturday at the Bonney-
Watson mortuary in Seattle for
Ernest f. Elk. one of the six men
killed Feb. L in an airplane wreck
at Grand Island. Alaska. The
wrecked plane was not discovered
until last week
FIX was married To Tacoma
girl. the former Edith Carlson.
Also surviving are his mother.
Ana Elk: his father. Elmer Elk.
and sister. Charlotte Elk, all of
Seattle.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
Nlinted Pineapple Sauce for
Spring Shorfcake


Anyone can make good coffee.
First of all have a thoroughly
clean coffee maker. use only fresh
clear water, measure the water
accurately as well as the coffee.
use the right grind for the method
you like best, use freshly ground
coffee and brew it carefully.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
HAPPY-
BIRTHDAY

THURSDAY. MARCH %
Robert Chamberlain, 1868 So.
Tacoma ave.
Lorraine Sundnes, Route 4.
Box 633.
Miss Jaunita Meisfer, 5l2 Ea.
2Sth st.
Mrs. Bernice Playford, GAO
So. Junett st.
Arthur q. Rowe, X. ID. 6.
John 7. McCutcheon, Stella
COON.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
Spring Short Cake
Linens Up Menu

Spring made its official bow
yesterday. Let's return the cour.
tesy with spring dinner ending
with this delicate new cake Gre
ated for the occasion.
It's made in one of the brand
new layer cake dishes, SIS by
inches. of heat-resistant glass, with
large convenient handles.
Spring Short Cake
t6 servingsl
One-quarter cup butter or other
shortening. y cup graduated SUI
gar. u teaspoon almond extract,
egg yolks, Is cup cake flour,
teaspoons baking powder, !. tea
spoon salt, u cup milk. For top
ping use two egg whites, n cup
graduated sugar.
Cream butter. Add the II CUP
of sugar gradually. then add ex-
tract. Cream thoroughly. Add
egg yolks one al a time and bea,
after each addition. Sift and
measure the cake flour. Then sift
together the flour. baking powder
and salt and add to creamed mix
ture alternately with milk. Blend
thoroughly.
Pour into well creased glass
layer cake dish.
Topping: Beat the egg whites
stiff. Add the other y cup of
sugar and again beat until stiff
Spread the meringue over the
cake. Bake in a moderate oven
1850 degrees I'd for about 40 min-
utes.
Serve warm topped with ice
cream and fresh pineapple mint
sauce.
Nlinted Pineapple Sauce for
Spring Shorfcake
Two cups chopped fresh pine
apple, 1-3 cup sugar, ! glass mint
jelly (6 ounces).
Mix sugar with chopped pine.
apple. Chill. Slice jelly with q
knife SO that it comes from the
glass in small cubes. Fold into
the chilled pineapple and serve.
Crushed fresh straw er ries,
slightly sugared. would be an
other delicious sauce, especially if
accompanied by bowl of slightly
whipped cream.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24

Treasury figures recall TO
Mr.. Roosepelt daily that he
eridently WH complete his
second term Nth an eJtroor-
binary record of eight success
sire budget deficits. The no-
tiondl debt has eoomed from
around So 900, 100000 to
close to s40,000,0 100000 and
it Is headed for So, 900. 000,-
600 Is months from nolU.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24
New Deal Coming From
Behind in Congress Battle
ByLYLE c. WILSON

WASHINGTON-The New Deal is coming from behind
today in for control of and may yet look
back on this session fairly satisfactory
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-24

Two sets Of brothers trial in federal court here IN
The Peoples Gas & Oil fraud another set Of brothers
took The stand Thursday morning witnesses against them
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-21

He went to the government, and
made great promises of explo-
ration.
So he was given two years off.
He found associates to back
him. and in 1882 he headed west
from Fort Asage with ITO men.
Ho for the fur country, and
riches,
But alas, he did not plan well,
In Wyoming, he founded Fort
Bonneville" But it was useless
and quickly abandoned. and other
trappers unkindly called it Fort
Nonsense"
He then came west. but alas,
at Walla Walla, instead Of being
welcomed with open arms, as he
had hoped, he found the Hudson's
Bay company would sell him no
supplies. lie hadn't made his
own arrangements for suppliesO
He fooled around the Northwest
until 1885, and then gave up.
The army was angry because
he had overstayed his leave of
absence, and it took him two years
TO get back into the service.
Although his expedition was a
failure. he was well liked He
never lost man. and the Indians
loved him. His favorite way of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-21

One of the best known names
in the west is Bonneville today,
because of the great dam OF that
name in the Columbia.
One of the biggest names in our
history is that of Capt. Benjamin
Louis Eulalie de Bonneville. whose
name has been given the dam.
Captain Bonneville. genial and
kindly, is one of those men who
succeeded in failure. He was I'M
able to buck the power of the great
Hudson's Bay company-but he
did bring more American influ-
ence into this Northwest terri
tory, so that eventually the area
went TO America.
Bonneville was u. s. soldier
in the midwest.
One day he saw a trapper with
4 collection of furs.
How much are they worth ?"
Bonneville asked
"Oh. around $4,000" answered
the trapper casually.
Bonneville was goggle-eyed at
the sum-and Immediately applied
for leave of absence from the
army in order to get some of
what he thought WAS the easy
money" to be found in trapping
and trading.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-21
THREATEN COAL
STRIKE MAY 4

NEW YORK United Mine
Workers Of America today ordered
a strike in all soft coal mines in
the country MAY 4 unless opera
tors have granted them a new
working contract by then.
The order affected 1870 900 min
ers in mining districts Of Il states.
Since April /. the $4,000 miners
of the Appalachian eight state
area in the east have been idle,
while negotiations between the
union and the operators have con-
tinued in deadlock and coal
shortage has been developing.
II has been estimated that
!. 900 900 men already have been
idle in the railroad and other in
dustries by the lack OF coal ship
ments and shortages of fuel.
4 complete shutdown Of the
soft coal industry would Leave
the $4,000 anthracite miners
Of the northeastern district Of
Pennsylvania producing the
only coal. The country con-
sumes 1000. 900 tons OF coal
week. The anthracite miners
contract expires April 80.
Soft coal production has not
been stopped completely since 1922.
when President Harding inter-
vened to end a deadlock in union
negotiations that persisted from
April to Sept. IS.
The order applied to all districts
including Ind lana. Colorado,
Illinois. Iowa, Wyoming, Montana,
Washington. Missouri. Oklahoma,
Texas, New Mexico, Kansas. Ala
bama and Kentucky.
Railroads were first to suffer
from the coal shortage. The
Baltimore and Ohio reported it had
fuel for only six or seven days
operation. and Pennsylvania rail-
road reported supply for two or
three weeks.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-21
BATTLE FLEET
ON way WEST

NORFOLK. Va. The nsvy's
battle fleet. ordered last Saturday
to cut short a two-week visit here
and return TO the Pacific coast.
steamed out Of Hampton Roads at
SIS a. m. (EST) today.
Naval communications head
quarters at the Hampton Roads
base said the last of approximately
40 vessels returning to the west
coast left at that time.
The cruisers Boise and Mil
waukee led the procession SOUTH
ward toward the Panama canal.
Next followed the L. s. S Penn
sylvanis. flagship of Admiral c. c,
Bloch. commander Of the fleet.
Then in succession came the New
Mexico Idaho, Mississippi and the
California. flagship of Admiral
E. c. kalbfus. second in command.
After the bsttleships. the air.
plane carriers, cruisers, destroyers,
submarines, and then the mine
sweepers departed.
In keeping with the mystery
and suddenness of the sailing order.
which came from Washington last
weekend, the departure was swift,
efficient and lacking in fanfare.
Movement of the battle fleet to
normal operating areas of the
Pacific was expected to require
about 10 days.