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Evening star., 1939-12-19
Hatch Act Amendment
Progress Reported

Continued reports on the progress
being made to attain an amend
ment to the Hatch Act In the COM
ing session Of Congress that would
permit Federal employees to partici-
pate in politics in their own munic-
ipalities featured meeting Of the
1nterfederation Conference last
night in the United States Chamber
of Commerce.
Supplementing an existing COM
mittee consisting of Albert A. Car
retta, Julian D. Simpson and I.
Chance Buchanan, all of Arlington
County, which Is to confer with
Senator Hatch this week, was the
appointment Of an additional four
delegates to the conference from
Prince Georges County and Mont
gomery County. The additional
committeeman are Judge Alfred D.
Bailey and Fred w. Cast, Prince
Georges County, and H. s. Yohe
and Stephen James. Montgomery
County.
DR.. Victor Meyers, acting chair
man in the absence of Mr.. Yohe,
appointed Col. j. C. Gilbreth, Harry
N. Stull, Mr.. Cast and Robert E.
Evening star., 1939-12-19
Civilian Pilot Traininq
To Be Started Herein
January by {. A. A.
10 From District Who Get
Best Marks in Ground
Course Will Fly

Initial training for the Districts
quota of non-college students who
want to become aviators will get
under way in January under direc-
ton of the Civil Aeronautics Au-
thority and the sponsorship of the
local Junior Board Of Commerce, it
was announced today.
The training will be given under
authority of the Civilian Pilot
Training Act, which provided for
the training of youthful flyers
throughout the country, and for
which $4,0O0,00O was appropriated.
The act provides that per cent
Of those who receive the training
must be non-college students.
In January the ground training
will get under way. Both males
and females between the ages of
18 and Is are eligible, and any
number may take part in the ground
training
Only 10 from the District, how
ever, are to receive actual flying
AloCA 0ttAOAl, dllu CklC0C dlC W UC
selected from those making the best
marks in the ground course. OF
the 10 chosen to receive instruction
in flying only one can be woman.
There will be a cost of $40 each
to those taking the ground instruc-
ton, and those chosen for the fly
ing instruction will have to pay an
additional $50 each, it was explained
today. The sums will cover the
costs of medical examinations, in
surance and other items. The re-
mainder of all costs will be taken
care of by the Civil Aeronautics
Authority, which is now training
nearly 11,000 students in 435 COL
leges throughout the country.
The authority, it was explained,
will have a local sponsor at each
place for training of the non-college
groups.
Local persons who want to take
the ground training course to qualify
them for training in flying must
apply at the headquarters of the
Junior Board of Commerce, room
204. Star Building, Eleventh street
Evening star., 1939-12-19

strike bound canneries and summon
ing the large deputy force to assem-
BILE at the courthouse without guns
but with pickhandles.
He said he took this action be-
cause non-striking cannery workers,
including women, were eager to re-
turn to their jobs and fearful of
Violence. He asserted less than 10
per cent of the pickets were bona
f1de striking cannery workers.
Evening star., 1939-12-19
Woge-Hour Violations
Charged in Boto Suit
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. 19.-The United
States Labor Department filed suit
in Federal District Court yesterday
charging the Bata Shoe Co., Inc,
with violating the Wages and Hour
Law in its Chicago plant.
The suit asked an injunction re-
straining the company from paying
upwards of 55" employees less than
30 cents an hour and from working
more than AZ hours q week.
The suit charged that Wage Hour
Law violations dated back to Octo-
ber "a, 1898.
The company's answer, filed soon
after the injunction papers were re-
corded, asserted the Bata Chicago
plant was not engaged in interstate
business because it is an Office and
warehouse.
Evening star., 1939-12-19
Man Held in FutoI
Restaurant Fiqht

Joseph Springs, 20, colored, 205 L
street NV, was held at the 1st
precinct today in connection with the
death last night of Lonnie Pittman,
Is, colored, no fixed address.
Pittman died at Casualty Hospital
Of a gunshot wound received in a
hight In a restaurant in the 900
block OF Fourth street NV. Springs
was removed from the same restau-
rant and treated for knife wounds.
Evening star., 1939-12-19

Plymale ss the Nominating Com
mittee for officers Of the conference,
to oe elected at the January meet
ing.
Further business was confined to
reports Of the delegates consisting
OF Mr.. Stull, District Of Columbia;
Mr.. Ulymale, Arlington County;
Mr.. Cast, Prince Georges County,
and Col. Gilbreth, Montgomery
County.
Two new delegates from the Dis
trict Of Columbia. Culver B. Cham
berlain and William M. Greene,
were introduced to the conference
by Mr.. Stull.
Evening star., 1939-12-19
Hopkins Appoints Two

Secretary Hopkins yesterday ap-
pointed Lowell j. ChaWner of
Pasadena, Calf, as chief economist
Of the industrial service of the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce, and Robert R. Nathan
of Dayton, Ohio, as chief of the
national income division of the
Commerce Department.
Evening star., 1939-12-19
Tear Gas Salesman
Called in Hearinq
On Cannery Strike
La Toilette Told of Plan
To Incite Fight to
Breuk Picket Line
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. ls.-The
La Toilette Civil Liberties Commit
tee, investigating the Stockton Can
merry strike of 1887, asked tear gas
salesman to tell about riot in
which tear gas and birdshot were
used. More than so persons were
injured.
Ignatius McCarty, the agent, rep
resented the Lake Erie Chemical
Co., distributors of tear gas, at the
time.
introduced yesterday as prize
bit of evidence by committee investi-
gators was message sent over a
cannery teletype April 16, 1887, dis
closing a plan to break the picket
line" by inciting teamsters to fight
strikers.
Message Quoted.
The message was addressed to
Grifflth-Durney Co. of San Fran
cisco and was sent by Arthur
Schmidt, receiver for the Packwell
Corp. at Stockton. Mr.. Schmidt,
now in South Africa. acknowledged
authorship of deposition.
I'VE are trying to break the picket
line here by getting teamsters in
this town riled up so as to start
battle between them and the wab-
bles.' the message said. ITO do this
we must have permission from Well
man Peck (San Francisco wholesale
house, to haul load of canned
goods by one of our trucks instead
of theirs. - 1t will only take one
load to do the trick"
The term "wabbles" was not ex-
planned but observers suggested it
was variant of "wobblies," slang
nickname for l. w. w. members in
the Northwest, later used loosely to
designate any radicals.
Admits Recruiting Deputies.
Ex-Sheriff Harvey Odell of San
Joaquin County admitted recruiting
1900 farmer and businessmen depu-
ties during the strike, issuing proc
lamation for reopening of four
Evening star., 1939-12-19

and Pennsylvania avenue NV, to-
day, tomorrow or Thursday Of this
week or Tuesday, Wednesday or
Thursday of next week between 5
pm. and 1850 pm. Tallmadge p.
Delaf1eld, chairman Of the Aviation
Committee of the Junior Board of
Commerce, will be on hand to in
terview and register candidates.
Evening star., 1939-12-19

FIGHT PARALYSIS-Jesse H. Jones' Federal
loan administrator and chairman Rogers
mittee and Samuel Wheeler chairman of the local Will Rogers
Collection Committee Cleft to righ shown presenting check
$4,000 Engineer Commissioner David McCoach chair
the District chapter of the National nfante Paralysis
Foundation the Variety Club luncheon yesterday at the
Willard Hotel The check part Of the local Will Rogers fund
given by Washington theatrical Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1939-05-19
Admiral Anderson
To Head Intelligence
As6Are Shifted
Assignments Include
Transfer of 1t. Guno
From Research Laboratory

Orders affecting six naval as
signments in Washington have been
issued by the Navy Department, the
most important of them detaching
Rear Admiral Walter S. Anderson
from command of Cruiser Division
4 and assigning him to duty as di-
rector of naval intelligence, Navy
Department. This change was fore
cast recently.
Capt. Frederick C. Sherman, now
under medical treatment in the 18th
Naval District, has been ordered
here for treatment in the Naval
Hospital.
Assigned to Destroyer.
1t. Roy A. Gano will be detached
from duty at the Naval Research
Laboratory, Anacostia, next month
and assigned to Destroyer Squadron
as engineering officer.
1t Comdr Floyd c. Bedell Civil
Engineer Corps, has been assigned
to duty in the Bureau of Yards and
Docks, Navy Department. He now
is on duty at the Receiving Ship,
New York.
To Supplies and Accounts.
1t. Emory D. Stanley, jr., Supply
Corps, has been detached from the
Fleet Air Base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii,
and assigned to the Bureau of Sup
plies and Accounts here.
Ordered detached from duty at
the Washington Navy Yard, 1t.
Thomas J. Knox, Chaplain Corps,
has been assigned to the battleship
Wyoming.
The Navy Department also an
nounced the assignment of 1t. STAN
ley w. Lipski, U. S. S. Fairfax, to
Riga, Latvia. for instruction in the
Russian language and the assign
ment of Comdr. John Wilkes, now
aide to the commandant. Mare
Island Navy Yard, Calf, to COM
mand Submarine Division IA.
Evening star., 1939-05-19
Boulder Dam Problems

Boulder Dam Power Problems"
will be discussed by Jay A. Carpen-
ter. professor of mining at the
Mackay School of Mines and con-
sulting engineer for the Colorado
River Commission of Nevada, at a
dinner meeting of the Washington
Section, American Institute of Min
ing and Metallurgical Engineers,
next Thursday at $50 pm. at the
Harrington Hotel.
You may be right, but you'll be
dead just as long unless your luck
Is tempered with judgment.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-19

building erected which has hen
the home Of the Peoples store for
- years. II was Tire first ronsiruc-
ton project here since n. crash
IN the early nineties and the first
evidence that business was h~inK
- established. The contractor. w.
r. Nichols. agreed to finish the
building IN what seemed an i'm
possibly short time. But Nichols
knew what he was doing. he set
up a dozen electric arc lights and
carried on the work night and day
with two crews. The building was
finished on time.
The business continued To grow
with Tacoma and the state Of
Washington. A reorganization
under the management of C. NJ.
Gillespie revived some OF the old
traditions with modern streamline
effects. but it is stin the People
Store. serving a new generation.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-19

The late Joseph Bachrsch, one
Of the co-founders, arrived in Ia
coma in 1889. a year after the
arrival Of Theo Fest. In '95 they
launched the partnership that link
ed their careers through the years.
Their first store was opened
that year on Tacoma avenue. Felst
was president, Baehraeh vice presi-
dent of the firm.
Their next store was in their own
building on Pacific near 10th.
They opened there in 1897, re-
NAMED until the year following
the San Francisco exposition. when,
in 1915, they built the structure on
Broadway which now houses the
j. c. Penney company.
They stayed in the latter loca-
ton until 1927. when the firm
moved to its present address on
Broadway.
A year after Thee Fest settled
in Tacoma, his sister. irma and
Lucie. moved here from Paris.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-19
BAKING BREAD
FOR so YEARS

Although Tacoma is celebrating
the golden jubilee of the State Of
Washington. pioneer residents
don't have to think back 50 years
to recall the day when mother
spent the better part of one day
each week baking \ supply Of
bread for the family.
Many conveniences have been de-
vised since to tighten the domes-
tic burden. One of the most note
worthy contributions has been
made by the Federal bakery. with
record of service in Tacoma that
extends back half a century.
Donald Mcpherson established
the Federal bakery in 1882. Nc
Pherson, who arrived in Tacoma
about the time of Washington's adj
mission as a state, started the
bakery at 1907 So. h. where 1t still
operates.
The delicacies from his ovens
found quick favor with Taeoma's
and the business
prospered. Control OF the firm
and the secrets Of its products
excellence remained in the family
after the founder retired several
years ago.
Wallace A. and Allan r. McPher-
son manage the firm started by
their father. But instead of di-
recting merely the operations of
one bakery. they manage five Fed
eral retail stores in the public
market areas-a testimonial to the
popularity of the service to Taco
ma for fifty years.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-19
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-19
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-19

The next thing was to get nearer
what WAS obviously going to be
Me retail business center. The
site at the corner of 18th and
Pacific was purchased and the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-19
LONG RECORD
IN BUSINESS

Pioneering In mortirssn's serv.
ices for more than half . century.
"MeIllngerss has come TO mean .
place OF friendly counsel 10 the
people Of the community u serves
Established 81 years ago by the
late c. c Aelllager, u has grown
ln slxe and increased facilities al
a pace timed with the cily's
growth.
An estimated third Of the fn-
neral service of Tacoma and its
enylrons IL handled by the firm.
nov operated by J. J. hellingsr.
son Of the founder.
The firm Ia housed In the build
Ing of old colonial design which
first was built In ig0s. Additions
aud renovations have made Il mod
ern in design and large enough
70 meet the requirements
More than $50 persons can be
seated In the chapel A Robert
Morton cathedrsl-type organ. elec.
tricaliy powered. was built special.
ly for the firm and In used fof
the services.
Complete from It's preparation
rooms TO the IL slumber rooms.
the home offers every convenience.
and 10 designed to provide for
privacy Of families Ia bereavement.
This sharply contrasts with the
facilities for the first helilngsr
funeral services 81 years ago
c c Meliinger came To Tacoma
In isss. and became associated
with Murphy. Fraser a Roberts.
who operated = funeral establish.
ment on Broadway near nth.
In 1905 he began construction
on the present building. after In
corporation Of the firm which
bears hls name.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-19
Peoples Store Here
In Territorial Days
Parent Concern Organized as Wholesale
House Three Years Before Statehood

Two years before statehood.
Hiram p. Garrstsen. attorney in
the booming city Of Tacoma went
hack east for = visit. he talked
90 Enthusiastically about Tacoms
that his brother. W. c. Garrstson,
New York dry goods merchant.
and w. X. Woodruff. in the same
business IN New Jersey. became
interested. They asked Leroy
Pratt wholesale dry goods sales
man out here. To check IN on
Brother Hirsm's glamorous tales
Of the prospects for business in
Tacoma. Pratt's report fully jus
titled everything he had said. Pratt
was invited to back up his faith in
the Puget Sound country By join
ing Garretson 4 Woodruff in a
firm that became the Peoples
Store.
The next year, q few months
before Washington became a state.
a train of q cars of dry goods
left New York for Tacoma. On
the cars were banners which read
like this:
''Garretson, w odruff
Pratt, Wholesale Dry Goods,
Tacoma, w. T. Eric Dispatch
via Chicago. 81. Paul 4 Kan
sas City and Northern Pacific
railroads."
In few days the Northern Pa
eific agent at Puyallup telegraph
ed, Dry goods train just passed"
That was Tacoma's cue to 20 down
N the railroad yards and see the
effect Of one mans enthusiastic
talk about his home town.
At Pacific and Thirteenth
The firm had contracted with
John s. Baker to erect a building
at 18th and Pacific which is still
standing but will be wrecked with
other buildings in that block to
make way for the new federal
office building The Baker build
ing was outgrown in four years
and the firm moved to larger quar-
tiers at 10th and Pacific.
Four years later. when the panic
created hazard in the wholesale
business, the members of the firm
decided that retailing was better
risk. Men on horseback carried
posters all over the Tacoma trad |
ing area announcing the new de-
parture. The day the retail store /
opened, the place was crowded |
from morning till night.
That days experience was the
beginning of steady trade. The /
wholesale business gradually was
closed out and the retail depart
ment became the People Store.
Move Uptown
The next thing was to get nearer |
what WAS obviously going to be
Me retail business center. The |
site at the corner of 18th and
Pacific was purchased and the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-19

ture Laicis reist married Joseph
Bae brach.
At present. Mr. Fslss 10 In New
York city on one of hls regular
business trips AZ buyer of thu lat
est in modish garments for this
firm BE IL making the trip
joint business and pleasure lauat.
taking In the worlds fair during
his soloufn there.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-19

France. The year the partners
opened their first business ven
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-15
CHRONICLE MILFORD

and Mrs. Leonard King, last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Windsor. of
Laurel were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Eli Elliott last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Jones were the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Car
mean last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Isaacs of
Laurel were guests of Mrs. Missouri
Isaacs last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Givens were
Wilmington visitors on Saturday.
Several families in this cOmmun-
ity are busy butchering hogs
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-15
COKESBURY

The ~ II. d. Club will have their
Christmas party in the club house
on December 81 at p M. with
covered dish supper.
The All Club Christmas party win
be held December 20 in the club
house. A program is being planned
and Bridgeville and Greenwood
Clubs have been invited to be pres
ont
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-15

The members and families of the
Ladies Aid Society of Cokesbury
Methodist Church are invited to
Stockley, December 2S. as guests of
the Bethesda Ladies' Aid Society.
Please don't forget the date and plan
to go along
Miss Ada Warrington was home
with her parents over the weekend.
Miss Ruth Isaacs spent last week
end in Philadelphia visiting her sis
ter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis King of Cam
bridge, Md, were the guests of Mr..
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-15
McCOIIey's Methodist Chapel
Rev. Oren b. Rice, Pastor
Sunday, December ]

Sunday school 1880 p. m, in charge
of Harvey E. Penuel, superintend-
ent.
Afternoon worship with sermon by
the pastor at 2:30 O'Clock.
The Christmas entertainment in
this church will be held on Satur-
day night, December %.
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-15

Some people like native sorghum
on hot cakes, others like native
honey, and we also understand that
there are some poor deluded souls in
our midst who use canned mixture
of cane and corn syrups when the
aforementioned are available.
Milford chronicle., 1939-12-15

Never in the history of our store o..
more than 90 years !. have we beer
better prepared to supply Christmas gift
needs. Our stocks are metropolitan in
their scope, they are we'll selected. they
afford the finest merchandise produced
we take great pride in the quality
of our wares Yet, you'll never find our
prices other than modest. We are fire.
quentIy complimented upon the excel
Ience of our service. too! Therefore. we
firmly believe our store to be your logical
shopping centre when it becomes neees.
sary for you to shop elsewhere than at
home and we extend cordial well
come to you at all times.
Evening star., 1939-05-28
Signal Equipment
Being Checked for
Army Maneuver
Guard Expected to
Have Latest Thot
Is Available

When the militia of the Sd Army
Corps goes into the field this sum-
mer for the big war games, it is ex-
pected it will have the very lat
est communications equipment that
is available. This is made possible
by a policy established in the
National Guard Bureau, making
available relacements to the Ma
tional Guard units which are to
take part in Army maneuvers. In
the past few years there has been
a serious shortage of modern signal
equipment. 1t was learned there is
a marked need for telephone re-
placement throughout the National
Guard, since all old telephones are
of World War manufacture.
Efforts are being made to bring
other equipment up to the quantity
and quality needed on mobilization
day, rather than on the basis of
minimum training requirements.
The States and the District of Co.
lumbia now are said to have at
least one complete medical field
outfit each for training at camps.
A new pattern battalion medical
equipment is reported to be neces-
Sity to each line regiment or sep
arate unit for mobilization emer-
gency, which are to be supplied as
fast as funds become available. Six
cavalry regiments have been sup
piled with medical pack equipment.
In the matter of gas mask equip
ment, the National Guard is re-
ported to be sadly deficient. Dur
ing the past year 100 service gas
masks were procured, which only
provided replacement for unservice-
able masks. The ratio still remains
at eight gas masks per 100 men,
which is held to be entirely made
quate for proper chemical warfare
training, and would be very seri-
Gus deficiency should it be necessary
to call the Guard into active service
for field duty in an emergency.
In the case equipment for the
engineer regiment. shortages have
been materially reduced. All main
tenance and repair needs have been
provided for All combat regiments,
such as the 12lst Engineers here,
have been supplied with water sup
ply and electric light equipment and
six assault boat units. Five regl-
ments have been supplied with new
map reproduction equipment. More
of this equipment will be given to
other units as fast as funds become
available. Heavy and expensive
items of equipment, such as air
compressors and gasoline shovels,
are not contemplated for early
peacetime equipment, as it is be-
lieved that they could easily be OBJ
tanned from commercial channels in
the event of an emergency. Artil-
lery units have been supplied with
large number of Typographical sets
during the year, but a number of
shortages could not be met with
funds available.
Evening star., 1939-05-28
Veterans Will Join
In Benediction Service

Father, Hurney Post, 112, Catholic
War Veterans, will participate
Jointly with the Irish War Veter-
ans and the Sons of Union Veterans
Of the Civil War at joint memo
rial benediction for all veterans at
Mount Olivet Cemetery today at 3
pm. The Rev. Edward A. Bukey
will give the invocation and blessing
Representative Kenneth E. Keller of
Illinois will deliver the principal
address. St. Johns cadets will fire
the volley.
The post will place wreaths at the
Tomb OF the Unknown Soldier and
> also at the graves of all deceased
comrades of the post who are buried
at both Arlington and Mount Olivet
Cemeteries.
The post was present with COL
ors last evening at the laying of a
wreath at the War Nuns Monument
at Rhode Island avenue and M
street NV.