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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-15

70 own anu ~ SITS Frpm lnefF NH
it made a bee-line for Puyailup.
Wells Along Road
Along the road, a string OF wells
was dug for man and beast. II
was not speedway. and the oxen
never tried 10 break the speed
| limit.
Later one OF the sons Of the old
Mr.. Byrd donated two acres TO the
school. whereon the present Fern
Hill school stands. When a church
was built, he donated property for
1t on saith and Park.
But, we are not through with the
old mill road. Around 1927, the
Fern Hill Improvement club was
organized, and started to have
saith cut through from Yakima
ave. 10 South Tacoma. The coun-
ty under Meade was willing to do
its share. but the city. even in
those days before the depression.
did not have any money to spend
In Fern Hill.
The club did not lose heart. II
took up a collection and got about
$500. They went 10 work and. as
they feared too much red tape,
they had the right of way decided
to the club. They got graders from
the county and Mr.. Sanders. q
county employe. operated IT with
out pay.
Everybody Worked
Powder was bought ana stumps
blasted and all Fern Hill turned
out and set TO work grubbinE and
cutting.
Today the road Is there, a. fine
an example OF cooperation IS can
be found. When II WAS eomplet-
ed, the deeds and all were turned
over TO the city.
But, the story is not ended. A
few years later the v, !. c. set out
to finish the work by cutting ssth
through to Puyaiiup. One morn
ing four members Of the club. Mr..
Athow. Mr.. johnson. Mr.. Goodwin
and the writer. vent with Mr..
Athow. one Of the oldest settlers.
a. a guide. 10 explore the road.
About half mile east Of Wal
Ter road the timber was 20 heavy
and the brush so thick that the
trail was nearly lost. BY crossing
back and forth ovsr the side roads
We succeeded IN reaching hcDsr-
mots place. Tier. ws found q
man who had been esswslsseiy
working towards the SAINT goal
without us knowing n.
Pionesr Road Reborn
Then things started moving. The
depression wss On and the old
pioneer nail road 20 Puysiiap sss
reborn as a federal project
When saith was cut through II
followed the old min road win
my dl+@&A FAgAAL4tAs-
As a tribute to the Old settlers
and their good judgment II Is the
easies grade Of al roacs leading
into Puyaiiup from the .sst. II
the last piece from FrpltiAnd ave.
Il graded II VIII terminate az the
entrance 20 the fair grounds
We are nov working for the
paving Of the historic old road. and
az In the fail Of 1880 Fern I'LL
school L having its e0ih snniysr-
szry. II xoBd be very fitting that
me county and city get together
and give % Fern Hil the paved
road ana. as tribute u tho Old
pioneers. give Il back its old name.
Byrd I'LL road.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-15
WOOD DEALER FINED

Found guilty of failing to give
a proper sales slip 70 customer
after delivering load of wood,
George Miller, fuel vendor. was
fined SIS and costs by Police Judge
Joe Mallery Friday afternoon.
A gift plant from Puget Sound
Nursery. s20l Pacific, makes an
everlasting Mothers day. (adv.)
LUMBER MILLS REPORT
The West Coast Lumbermen's
association reported today that
Washington and Oregon mills pro-
duced 1881 .so4 board feet Of
lumber In the week ended May 9,
which Was s3s per cent Of the
average weekly cut during 1926
1929 New business amounted to
los, 307 .242 feet. hipment
totsled s3.373.+i2 feet. Untitled
orders stood at 32s ga ss7 feet.
Tune in 10 tngIo-saxon Fed.
GRAFTON broadcast Sunday I.i5 10
$50. KMo, The Destiny of Amer
iea- adv.
Bedding plants. HIM., Florist.
adv.
May IS.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-15
Music Week Program

A National Music week pro-
gram will be presented following
the business session at the meeting
of the Puyallup Heights PIT. A.
Saturday evening at the school,
house. Mrs. L. B. Botsford is gen.
eral chairman and Mrs. James
Yazzolino has prepared the pro-
gram.
Students on the program are
Theresa Spencer, Nadene Goelzer,
Gene Humiston, Joyce Botsford.
Alan Goelzer, Dale Pitton, Mar
jorie Yazzolino. James Yazzolino.
Roy Botsford, Kathryn and How
ard Johnson, Marilyn and Irwin
Goelzer and Margaret Miller. The
Puyallup Heights Rhythm band
will also be heard in several num-
bers. Refreshments will conclude
the evening.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-15
AMELIA'S MATE
KIDNAP VICTIM

BAKERSFIELD, Cal.-Dis-
covered bound and gagged in
a vacant house. George Rlmer
Putnam, noted publisher and
husband Of the late Amelia
Earhart, related today how he
was kidnapped from his North
Hollywood home 100 miles
from here by two men who
spoke German.
The men made no threats ard
voiced no motive, Putnam said.
However. Putnam said some re-
marks they made in English con-
WINGED him he was abducted as
scare because he brought out
an snti-NsK novel recently. Re
was unframed. but badly shaken
and unnerved by the experience.
The hook Is entitled The Man
Who Killed Hitler" Putnam said
that en- route from North Holly
wood one Of the men questioned
him about the source Of the in
formation that went into the
volume. The publisher answered
that he did not know Il. The book
was written anonymously.
Bound and Gagged
Putnam related that he was way
laid in the garage Of his home in
the Toluca Lake movie residential
colony. where Bing Crosby. Mary
Aston, Andy Devine and other stars
live. Something feeling like" a
gun was jammed into his side and
he was forced TO enter the auto
mobile and ride with the two men
to Bakersfield. he said.
There he was bound and gagged
with auto tire tape and left in a
partially constructed home on the |
southeast outskirts.
After several hours struggle /
Putnam managed TO loosen his |
gag and call for help. Neighbors /
Just going to bed heard him and /
released him. Finding Putnam
extremely i'll, they took him into |
their home and gave him hot oof- I
fee. then notified the sheriffs
office.
Reported Engaged
Putnam said he was convinced /
he had been kidnapped only in an
attempt to frighten him.
Putnam recently was reported !
to be engaged to marry Mrs. Jean
Marie Consigny James. young
Beverly Hills socialite.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-15

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Mike Wayne and l. r. Roberts
were watching for the bandits
Mt the Roy cutoff. Rut the
young robbers. driving hack
from Morton. sped past the
patroImen at 10 miles an hour
and etuded capture.
they afterwHrd abandoned the
car. II was found at $50 this
morning AZ 2Tth and Ea. q SITS.
The young u~n walked into
the q. X. Dairy ~ ioiio p.
m. and ono ri them demand
an.
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customer ignored
In the dairy at the tins was a
late customer. Hazel Michaud. <525
so. Yakima ave. who WAS stand.
ing NJ the end Of the counter. The
bandits ignored her.
While one Of the youths held up
Ellington, the other STOOD oy us
door TO warn MS companion OF
passefspy
"hen the bandit. left Ellington
teiephohed police offieers talbot
ana ofefdshi sped 10 the scene
Gave Chase In Car
lust q. th. bandit. a.ov. off
four person, In . car stopp.a in
front al IN. dairy On finding a,,t
what had bappen.d ih.v act or
after the bandit. down 4bth At
They had almost caught to with
them AZ 1s,n ard " AZ. whs, ,wa
shot. ,tysd hv Tn. robesr. forcea
ths uursusrs Ia slow Down and
finally civ. AN IN. ehss.
rbo~ I'm N. car w.r. pu M.
ilng,on xss2 10 Y.kim. svs
Dusn. pa.sam 4s2X No. Thomp-
son ave. Edra esahm t4fs Al
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-15
Building Starts In Soundview Addition
Promising New Resi-
Dental Area Off
to Good Start

Actual work On the first home
for the new residential distrie,
az scundvisw addition. near Uni.
versity Place. started Friday at
ternoon when Don W. Pierce broke
the ground for the basement O,
his residence.
In the party witnessing the
ground.hresking were Gardner J,
Gwinn. president ~ the Tacoma
Improvement Co. owners az
soundview. and A. A. Rankin.
county commissioner Commits.
sioner Rankin compiimented
Pierce for owning one Of the mos,
beautiful marine view homesitss
anywhere around Tacoma
Groundhrcaking At the Pierce
domestic I. not the only activity
At Soundview. Other lots are be-
ing cleared, the boulevsrds oiled
and much progress Is being made
on the construction 81 other roads
IN TINS attractive ADDITION.
L. Not Far Out
Soundview lies in the heart %
one Of the most promising dist
riots in and around Tacoma Lo-
Gated near University Place. the
addition Is easily reached BY bus
and automobile over hard-surfsced
roads. According to Gwinn. Sound
view IL nearer the city center
than Pt. Defiance park,
Many Tacomans have visited
the addition since its recent open
ing and have expressed surprise at
the wonderful view OF Puget
Sound, the Olympic mountains and
the Narrows bridge. From the
natural handicapped heights of
soundview is one Of the best views
of the famous Puget Sound sun
sets.
Office on Property
Offices have been opened on the
property. new and modern strue-
ture being located on olympic
boulevard. Visitors TO Soundview
are asked to stop at the office for
full information concerning the
addition, to see plans for houses
and to inspect the Eiant-sixed plat
on the wall OF the office.
Agents for the soundview sddi-
ton in Tacoma are the Taylor
May company. Rust building.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-15
Old Pioneer Road to Flour
Mill At SteilacOOm Reborn

then continued in the same diree-
ton on across the school grounds
10 saith and G SITS. From there on
1t made a Decline for Puyallup.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-15

Theta Rho girls will hold a
yachting party Saturday evening
on the sound, meeting at Odd Fell
lows hall at $3.50 o'clock. Chap
erones will be Mrs. Margaret
Carey, Mrs. Ida Wickstrom, Mrs.
Evangeline Nelson and Austin
Doud.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-15
POLL WORKERS
WANT BACK PAY

Possibility that the county win
soon he sued for several thousands
Of doIisrs hack pay ny voting pre-
ninct workers WAS sesen saturday
~ John ~. rishbuTns. pemoesatie
county chairman. collected assign
menss from the per sons involved
10 josn tosether for . suit.
The blanks filled eus BY april
eants for jobs ~ precinct workers
siipuists that % Ia the wage. but
state law siiows payment ~ -
cents an hour. Most workers work
on election days from .. N. 70 Z
p, m. plus an hour ~ two overtime.
The ssIlt would demand ~ The
county all money earned above %
q day. n Was Indicated bssk pay
would be asked foe ali slsetions
ssncs 1884.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-15

Fraser Family Dinner


Mothers day will be celebrated
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Fraser, s03 West Pioneer ave,
Sunday when Mrs. Fraser's two
sons and their families will be
guests. At the family dinner
places will be marked for Mr.. and
Mrs. Earl Riser and sons, Donald
and Clifford Of Puyallup: Mr.. and
Mrs. Everett Riser and daughter,
Mary Lee, of Tacoma. and a friend,
Miss Lucille Cahill of Seattle.
Motor to Sumner
Members Of the Round Table
Garden club will motor TO Sumner
Tuesday where they will be the
guests of Mrs. A. w. Lsngdon. A
picnic dinner will be served at
1880, followed by a program.
Visiting in Spokane
Mr.. and Mrs. T. II. Scheffer OF
702 West Pioneer ave are spend
ing a few days at Spokane as
guests of their son and daughter
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Seheffer.
Mrs. Wolf HOnored
Mrs. Arthur Wolf was the honor
guest at shower given by her
sister, Mrs. Henry Van Beck, at
her home on 18th st. NV. Friday
afternoon. Games were a feature
of the informal hours before re-
freshments were served. At small
tables through the rooms places
were marked for Mrs. J. Triplett,
Mrs. V. Edwards. Mrs. Krone An
derson. Mrs. r. Strobe. Mrs. Frank
Nicholson, Mrs. II. L. Meader. Mrs.
r. ]. Benedict, Mrs. Jennie Nc
Crse. Mrs. Evelyn Peterson, Mrs.
Christine Peterson. Mrs. Orville
Anderson. Mrs. Gladys Kiel, Mrs.
II. Rodvelt, Miss Hazel Larson,
Miss Gertrude Psrrott, Mrs. r. C..
Parrot. the honor guest and the
hostess.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-15

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-15

Following the business session
of Naomi chapter No. IS, o. E. s..
at Masonic hall Tuesday night there
will be Mothers day program at
which past matrons and past pa
irons will be honored.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-15

man OF the roundup. expressed the
hope that there will be a 100 per
cent response.
About rs per cent OF the chill
dren were vsecinsted for smallpox
and also received diphtheris anti
toxin, administered by Or. r C.
Morse. city health officer. Other
physicians aiding in the work were
DR.. Carl Scheyer. Or. Kenneth
sturdevsnt for general essmins-
tons and Or. David Langdon for
dental work. Mis-. Ruth Robert
son. local school nurse. three ooun-
ty nurses and one accompanying
each doctor also aided.
Memorial Sunday Service
Due 10 a misunderstanding, gen
eral announcement was made that
annual Memorial Sunday. May 2s,
services were to be held this year
at Christ Episcopal church. How
ever, a joint committe of the
American Legion and Veterans Of
Foreign Wars posts announced
Saturday that the service will be
held at Peace Lutheran church
with the V. r. w. in charge. The
committee on arrangements is
composed OF Leon Cecil. Zephyr
johnson and Lloyd D. WHY'S.
On Memorial day the American
Legion post will have charge OF
ceremonies in Pioneer park with
Lester Robertson heading the COM
mittee in charge. In case OF rain
the exercises will be moved to the
civic auditorium, Robertson said.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-15

row, would revfvN he claims
against France.
Nnnscliurs campaign TO satisfy
aspirations" tn the Mediterranean
basin ~ Frances expsnss wsas
pushed into the n~xhgsgund ~
Adcsf Hsslev's sstsure a. cuoeho-
siovskta ana Msmst. ard Nc 0wn
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-15

A. the point Of gun. Filing.
ton, who was closing the place at
the time. took a paper sack and
into 1t put about ~ IN nickels
dimes and half-dollars. all that
was in the cash register.
Evening star., 1939-07-30
Vermont Valley
By Walter Hard. NeD York.
HnrcOnrt- Rrnce e. Co

This is volume of so-called
verse. but do not, by any means,
interpret the qualifying adjective
as meaning that it is a bad book
1t is very nice book, indeed, anus
ing, we'll done and generally accom-
phshed. But it does not, by any
standard with which the reviewer
is familiar, come under the heading
Of verse. 1t is, rather, book of
anecdotes. such anecdotes as one
might hear df one were a skillful
listener while sitting around a
country store. Mr.. Hard Is evi-
IDENTIFY a very skillful listener, and
he has also known how to put his
rustic tales into the most effective
form-pungent and compact. But
he has not made poems of them
The reviewer must insist upon that
Still, what's in a name, after all?
Poems or not. these bits of dour
Yankee humor are immensely en-
tertaining. Little verse is being
written today which has their quail
ity of making you turn another
page The volume is recommend
ed-even to those who want to call
it poetry.
Evening star., 1939-07-30
campaigns to keep him away.

campaigns to keep him away.
In such a society even a man of
the low spiritual stature of Tally
rand loomed large: he had, at least,
some concept of patriotism and he
was, too, educated and brilliant.
His corruption was beyond question,
but it was not a stupid or vulgar
corruption. and it was not wholly
selfish either. Throughout the
italian and Austrian wars, as Mr..
Pratt makes plain, this congregation
of mountebanks used Napoleon as
their tool and he accepted their
orders dutifully. It is an amusing
counterpart which the author works
out-between the Directors fear of
their indispensable plunderer and
the eagerness of the plunderer to
please his political masters.
The chapters which present this
picture are good, interesting read
ing. Mr.. Pratt uses heavily ironic
explanatory style which suggests
about equally the influences of
Thomas Carlyle and Philip Cue
dalla. At times the effect is
forced, but in the main it makes its
points. The parts of the book which
deal directly with Napoleon, how
ever, are not SO readable. They
consist in the main of blow-by blow
accounts Of the various military
campaigns, and consequently are
apt to be dull going for any but
enthusiastic amateur strategists.
What little material they contain
on the "life" Of the hero deals al
most exclusively with his reactions
toward politics. This Is true SO
generally that the occasional COM
ments on his personal affairs-as
his relations with Josephine-seem
almost irrelevant.
The book Is to be recommended
for its rough debunking of even the
little reputation which the Directory
has retained. For the rest, it is
nice lesson In the true origins Of
political greatness.
Evening star., 1939-07-30
Mokinq Good Before Forty

By Walter B. Pitkin. New
York: Robert M. Mcbride &
Co.
Just what making good means
is not very clearly defined by the
eminent author of Life Begins at
Forty" He implies that there is
more to making good than making
living sufficient for ones tastes
and habits, but from the context of
most of the book one would gather
that making money and making
good are synonymous.
While there is much food for
thought in the volume, most of the
book seems designed to be as irri-
tating as possible. To the woman
who has worked for a living from
the age of IA or so, much of it
seems designed expressly to irritate
her. Mr.. Pitkin makes it quite clear
that he has no great respect for
either womans mentality or ability.
His statistics and references to
women in the worlds of art, busi-
ness, science, ETC., impress the lay
reader as being slightly askew.
While they cannot be absolutely re-
Evening star., 1939-07-30

Of a quality to make any reader
feel that editorial acceptance is, in
our country, any particular credit
to an author But this does not
mean. conversely, that rejected
stories are all works of art either.
And the editors of the Pyramid Press,
plunging into the vast welter of
''unknowns," have been singularly
unsuccessful in their search for
genius. The worst criticism possible
therefore can be made against their
proffered volume-it is quite as bad
as if the stories in it had been pub
lished. Indeed, after ploughing
through it's completely conventional
pages for some time the reviewer
could only wonder, in increasing dis
illusionment. why these stories had
ever been rejected in the first place.
They are certainly not too good for
publication They are just about bad
enough. Beyond that. there is prac-
tically no more to say.
Evening star., 1939-07-30
juveniles,

juveniles,
THE MAGICAL JUMPING BEANS,
BY Eleanore Hubbard Wilson,
New York: e. p. Dutton Co.
Story Of a little Mexican boy
who had some jumping beans which
could carry him back into the past
history Of his country-sugared hts
tory, in other words, but well done.
The author has made the illustra-
tions, which are average good.
THE STUCK-UP PRINCE. BY
Loris Corcos. New York: Z. p.
. Dutton Co.
Story of a little prince who almost
lost his popularity through being
too popular. Average nice, and
illustrated humorously BY the
author.
Evening star., 1939-07-30
Shanghai 81

Shanghai 81
By Vicki Baum. Translated
from the German by Basil
Creighton. NeW York: Dou-
bleday-Doran G. Co.
In this, her latest novel, Frau
Baum uses a device which has been
greatly honored by time. And that
Is the device of bringing a group of
unrelated people together by chance
from the ends of the earth and then
confronting them with calamity.
Ever the opportunist, she has chosen
the Sino-Japanese War as the back
ground for her plot. But except for
some casually assembled scenery OF
an Oriental character, there is moth
Ing in the novel which might not
have come out of any up-to-date lit
erary factory operating this side OF
Hollywood. 1t is Frau Baum again
it is just Frau Baum.
Her point of climax in the lives
Of her assorted characters comes
when a bomb strikes the Shanghai
hotel in which, for one reason or an
other, they are all present There is
q great Chinese banker who, by ma
tive wit and ruthlessness, has risen
from the ranks of the coolies to be
virtual dictator of Chinese finance.
There is his soma progressive lib
eral, who despises his fathers pirat-
ical individualism. There is a young
American chemist and his fiancee, a
nurse who has just come out from
the United States to meet him; the
bomb falls on their intended wedding
day. There is also a wicked and
gorgeous Russian adventures lin
decd, who murders her worthless
Evening star., 1939-07-30
Brief Reviews of New Books
Novels.

Novels.
JUNGLE CAPTIVE. BY E. M.
Hull. New York: Dodd Mead
and Co.
The lady who thought of "The
Sheik" is at her thinking again. Pu-
trid stuff about q beautiful gal on
safari.
ANNE OF INGLESIDE. BY L. M.
Montgomery. New York: Fred
erick A. Stokes Co.
The lady who thought Of ANNE
Of Green Cables now gives us
that evergreen heroine In the form
Of wife and mother. Might be
called IN adult juvenile.
Evening star., 1939-07-30
Another Life of Bonaparte Proves Interesting

the board-and in their failure Ma
poleon Bonaparte got his worldly
start. Mr.. Pratt is less concerned in
writing about his hero than in show
ing us the kind of rotten political
soil from which the Great Adven-
turer sprang.
His history centers around the
Directory and the Convention. With
blunt, heavy-hitting style he
describes the morass of intrigue,
graft, self-interest, cowardice and
bad manners which by 1892 had
swallowed up the Revolution-its
ideals and its terror alike. 1t was
a day of f1fth-rate men, now that
the blood-letting was over and the
kings were gone, day of petty
Evening star., 1939-07-30

politicians whose concept of public
service was contained in the ideas
of security and graft, a day of
ignorance, crudity, immortality, pre-
tense and vulgarity. The Directors
had no notion whatsoever of
economic stability; they wanted
money and, when the juggling of
the properties confiscated from the
victims OF the guillotine began to
give out, they looked to foreign wars
for their revenue. Precisely there
Napoleon was of use to them. He
could fight and he could loot. So
they sent him to Italy and, when
his popularity among the soldiers
seemed likely to become dangerous,
they thought up more wars and