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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-07
. STORIES
IN STAMPS
Goreos Soved Lives
To Build O Canal

THE scourge of yellow fever and
i malaria finally defeated the
French in Panama. Against these
odds they surrendered the dream
OF the greatest canal in history.
But a quiet. soft-spoken physician
in the American army made the
vast project possible.
He was William Crawfor d
Gorgas. Fresh from a brilliant
success in Havana. where he rid
the city OF yellow fever. GorgaS
was appointed chief health officer
of the Panama Canal Zone when
the United States took II over IN
1904 TO conquer the job the French
had given up. His first task was
10 save lives and ne lost no time.
The French had lost four per
cen, Of their employees yearly from
yellow fever in the Canal Zone.
Uncle Sam planned 10 put from
$4,000 to 10000 men on the canal
project. which meant that perhaps
1900 would die annually unless the
area was made safe for workmen.
Corgss made II safe
So safe. IN fact, that within a
few months after his arrival
Gorgas was offering $50 10 any
person no, a member OF the health
department notifying of case of
yellow fever IN the Canal Zone.
Moreover. there IS no record that
the award was ever made
The result was . Canal Zone 1T
for any workman when Uncle
Sam began construction OF his
gigantic project A physician had
paved the way for the engineers.
Gorsss. who died in 1920. is shown
above on q current Canal Zone
stamp. enlarged.
! tcoPyrighi. 1919. NEA Service. lne.)
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down to make way for a hotel.
The site where an assassin tried
TO kill Secretary Seward on the
night Lincoln was assassinatej
is occupied by a theater. On this
square lived Theodore Roosevelt
while the White House was
undergoing repairs. b a croft
when he seized California, found
ed the naval academy at Annap-
oils and wrote his histories.
On one corner Dolly Madison
spent her old age as the belle
of the town, after her husbands
death. On another corner lived
the Corcorans who helped TO fl
nance the Civil war and founded
the famous art gallery at the
Capital. And, of course. on the
southern fringe the president
of the United States has his
home.
II anybody has any ideas-o or
money, to spend on such a res
toration. they can start the
historical ball rolling by getting
in touch with Governor Draper
of the Federal Reserve Board at
Washington. u. c. AS a ID. c.
boy who moved away and made
good in a big way. he IS keen
for this sort of saving and thrift.
Attorney General Frank Muir
phys closest friends are fearful
that ne is too sanity a person
TO live long in Washington's po-
litical world. They wish they
could persuade him to pull some
rough. human stuff at his press
conference.-the say damn" or
'heil' now and then.
The new A. G. has admittedly
captivated Washington. but no.
body knows how long he will
continue to charm. His chief as
set is that he is so different
from his predecessors the gen.
ial. easy-going Homer Cummings
and from almost all his cab
met colleagues. They are weary
and worn and bored with the
game of national politics, they
carry on in a sort Of humdrum
manner. But Frank. new and
strange 10 II all. is breezing
about and smashing the politi-
cal furniture. He's a sort OF
Savonarola bent on reforming
the reformers.
Although Murphy Is an ardent
admirer of the president-and
vice versa the betting is that
the man from Michigan won't
last long on this political earth
Forgetting that 1910 is Just
around the corner. he Will prob
ably insist on departmental &C
ton which would be. politically
speaking. embarrassing and un'
timely. As Harlan Stone die
when he occupied the same post
Murphy might want to prosecute
the wrong people. And thai
would be just too bad-for him
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BLACK AND WHITE
BUT READ ALL OVER

OF the $50 different species Of
plants reaching tree size in Can
ada, 81 are conifers. which form
10 per cent of the Dominion's
standing timber.
Delaware. New Hampshire. and
South Carolina each had their
own president al one time. The
title was changed to governor by
South Carolina in IT'S. by the
other two states in 1922.
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PULSE OF THE PUBLIC

we are planning ahead. Perhaps
we are inviting war. But If we
don't plan. war will be inviting
us. The Bible predicts that there
viii always be wars and rumors
of wars until the end of time. |
am beginning to believe this is
quite correct. Why not be pre-
pared to safeguard our own in
terests and protect our own
homes if that time comes that
we are compelled to do so?
CLARA NOVELLI.
4049 So. Puget Sound.
Tacoma, Washington.
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Bruce Cation
Tacoma Times Washington
Correspondent
WASHINGTON Having bee.

NASHINGTOS-Havlng been
gwen 2 green light and = pat on
the back by congress. Martin Dies
Is all set 10 make his famous in
vestigstIon bigger and better
than ever before.
His committee Is more expert
enced. Il will have more time
and it viii have 500. 900 to spend.
We've got the outline, says
Congressman Dies, nov wen
fill it in with hard facts And
he plans to begin with a quiet,
systematic survey Of the whole
field before holding any public
hearings.
Leaning back in his chair and
chewing hard on cigar, the
stocky Texan recalls that just
two years ago he was roundly
booed when he moved for con-
gressional investigation of the
sit-down strikes. He mustered
only 1lS votes and lost.
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and for any purpose for which
they might have used it before.
Had the defendant chosen 10
erect flagpoles. factory CHM
neys, or tall buildings across the
whole Of its land, and several
times as high as its power line,
it was within its rights notwith-
standing it might have entirely
prevented the landing of air.
planes at plaintiff S airport
The airport was afraid that
plane might accidentally fly so
low as to contact the wires and
injure its passengers. In such
case, the court said, the plane
would be a trespasser toward
whom the landowner owed no
duty to keep his premises safe.
Capitol Always VS.. Power &
Light company, IndianaD
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-07

MIR. Tfxit: My first citizenship
papers were stolen. When and
where can get a copy of them:
q. y.
Go 10 the nearest office OF the
immigration and Naturalization
Service. which Is IN the Federal
building, Tacoma. II you can
tell where and when you obtained
your papers, there should be no
trouble getting a duplicate copy.
Mr.. Fixit:. Please tell me the
name Of the new WPA admin
istrator and his address.
NJ. II. &.
II you mean the national adj
ninistrator, he is Col. F. c.
Harrington and his address.
Works Progress Administration,
Washington, d. c.
Mr.. Fisit: l. unemployment
insurance transferable from Orc
gon 10 Washington I worked
recently for about seven months
In Oregon, but ] now reside. I'M
employed, In Washington. II II
IL transferable, where can ] ap-
ply near Tacoma
X. o.,
Buckley.
II you have unemployment in
surance credit in any state, you
can apply for them through the
Washington State Employment
Service. just as you would for
q claim on this states funds.
You can register at the Buckley
city hall on Thursday without
coming to Tacoma. II eligible,
your checks will come from Ore
gon until your credit is ex-
hausted.
Mr.. Fisit: Please print for
me how 10 address letter TO
Governor Martin and will he per-
sonally open II. or II his secre-
tary opens IL. do they often an
swer without the governor look
ing II over A READER.
To be properly formal, you
should address your letter: His
Excellency the Governor" or
THE Honorable Clarence d.
Martin. Governor of Washing
ton. Olympia. Your letter may
begin Your Excellency:" or
Sir.
There is little likelihood that
the governor will see your letter
at all unless It contains some
thing his secretary regards as
important, and virtually no
chance that the governor will
open II personally.
MIR. Fixit: Where can I get
information rs 10 the 1910 cen
sus taking: Z. J.
You could write TO William
L. Austin, director; Bureau of
the Census, Department of Com
merce, Washington, d. c.
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SCIENCE NEWS

Your pet dog does not need to
miss his meal when you are
gone. In fact. he can have 1t
right on the dot. A recent in
vention has fitted an automatic
feed box with an alarm clock
control. When the alarm goes
off circular lid in the top of
the low rectangular box lifts
open, permitting the dog to eat
from it as he would from a
bowl.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-07

old-fashioned enough to want
HR2 enacted into law. Pay as
you go. pay off the national
debt. and not establish Ameri-
can economic royalists' on a
parity with British economic
royalists," who ENJOY perpetual
annuities from their repudiated
national debt.
How glibly the 100 per cent
New Dealers tell us that our ma
tional debt will never be paid.
JOHN SMITH.
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SIGHTS AN
ANFRIC ANISN WAVE

A few days ago only So con-
gressmen voted against extending
the life Of his committee. Mr. Dies
looks on the change as indicative
of one of the greatest shifts Of
sentiment in American political
history.
People are sick and tired Of
European idcologies.' he says.
They don't want Communism,
or Naziism. or war. or any kind
Of notions from abroad They
want the traditional. fundamen-
tai Americanism- any pub
lie men who don't recognize this
trend are going to be on the out
side looking in after 1910.
Out of this trend. he believes.
will come balanced program
that will lead the country to its
greatest period of prosperity.
THE present administration
has done some wonderful things
he says. But there is such a
thing as an overdose. Its like
medicine: you've got to let nature
do nine-tenths of the healing.
The field in which government
can operate is limited if govern
ment goes outside of that field
it becomes an oppressor of the
people.
Il believe in sane, practical
progressivism. We have TO stay
between the reactionary on one
side and the radical on the other.
The fellow who has a slavish
worship for the customs and ira
ditions of the past is one danger;
the fellow who's wild for change
and doesn't consider the method
by which the change is reached
is another danger
I'VE can't go back. of course.
We shall never return 10 gov
eminent by the organized minor
ity of the money power, for in
stance-and we'll never submit
to the organized minority of
labor. either"
FEARS THE
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Of Communist party members N
this country Is small; but ne
declares that at least ten million
npople belong 10 organizations
which are to a greater or lesser
extent dominated and directed oy
the Communists.
Those people don't want
big party membership. ne eN-
plains. The Communist looks
instead for people who nave no
program. who are wandering IN
a daze He has a program. ana
he sells il 10 the dissatisfled
bourgeois - he uses them and
then losses them overheard.
The united front Is definite
menace to this country. The vast
majority of its members aren't
Communists - but the phrase
ology. doctrines and so on are
framed by Communists. These
modern liberals. for instance,
resent being called Communists,
but their policies tend in the
direction Of Communism. "
Complaints that his commit
tee has spent too much time m
vestigating Communism and too
little investigating Naziism leave
Mr.. Dies cold. He sees these lsms
as simply two facets of the same
thing.
One. he says. is national So
cialism. the other. international
socialism. Both. he feels, stem
from the notion that government
ought to cure all evils, that the
individual can't solve any prob
lens for himself; and this, he
adds. is notion commonly
shared by many modern liberals.
Il don't call those liberals
liberals at all, he remarks.
HE'S A
BUSY BOY
The past year has been tough
one on Mr.. Dies. He lost %
pounds in weight. and has got
so that he doesn't sleep well. His
daily routine for months has
been home-office, office home !;
onl V twice in six months has he
even gone to movie. he says.
He has a wife and three sons,
and in the old days he was a
good bit of family man; now,
he says, his family hardly sees
anything of him.
But he feels that the worst OF
it is over. He won the formal
approval of congress by an over
whelming vote.
His committee now will have
enough money so that he can
spare himself some of the spade
work. From now on, he says, it
Will be going places.
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MR.. fIxIT
He Fixes Things

To receive attention IN this coz
ufnn letters n1uxt give nzne and
scdrexs o. writer Onls initials
viii be published when REQ uested
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FEARS THE
SENI-COMMUNISTS

Congressman Dies rea dill Y
admits that the actual number
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Fear is the mother of foresight-H. Taylor.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-28
MOVED IN WITH WIDOW, CHARGE
 AGAINST NATIVE
Peter Louie Brought Here on Nanslaughier and
 New Count

Peter Louie, bound over to the Grand Jury on a charge of man. slaughter in connection with the death at Yakutat of Fred George, will have another charge filed against him, Assistant U s. Attor- ney George ". Folta announced today.
 The new charge is occasioned by the fact, claimed by authorities, that Louie is living with Georges widow since the tragedy and was in bed with her when he was ar rested at Yakutat on Saturday by Deputy U. s. Marshal Vic Ross.
 Louis was brought here on the Columbia by Foss, who arrested the Native on a District Court bench warrant after he failed to appear in Juneau as he promised when he was released on his personal recog- nizance. @
 George died after a fight with Louie, but an autopsy performed on the body here brought report from the examining physician that death had been due to a heart attack.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-28
MISS w HITE E
 BRIDE ELECT OF
 REX SUNDERLAND
Cerem emony Will Be Per. formed al Northern
 Light Presbyterian

The engagement of Miss Mar garet White, Civil Service nurse at the Government Hospital, and MT. Rex G. Sunderland, electri- clan for the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, was revealed here today.
 A wedding service at 9:15 o'clock has been chosen by the couple and will be held at the Northern Light Presbyterian Church on the morn- ing of September 10.
 Miss White came to this city several months ago from Saco, Mont, and since her arrival has made many friends. MT. Sunder- land has been a resident of the Capital City for the past two and one-half years, having come here from Edmonton, Alberta.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-28
PARK SERVICE MEN EMERGE,
 GLACIER BAY
Find Region Intriguing-Io Recommend Tourist
 Development

Terming the glacial story of Glacier Bay National Monument tremendously intriguing Frank T.. Been, Superintendent of Mount Me Kinley National Park, and Earl A.. Trager, Chief of the Naturalists' Division of the National Park Serv- ice. returned yesterday from months soiourn at Glacier Bay.
 Been and Trager have been study ing the possibilities for extending tourist development in the recently enlarged monument. They nave been using the Forest Service boat Ranger VI for their work.
 Both Been and Trager will leave on the steamer Aleutian tomorrow for the westward and Interior, where their destination is the park. Trager is from Washington.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-28

fourth floor. The cable is covered with an air-tight copper sheath and is cushioned with nitrogen for installation purposes. The reason for all this is that the sending set handing under the balloon trans mits extremely short wave and low frequency signals, which must be picked up on an aerial of pre- scribed length. The lead-in must not extend the aerial.
 What can the Weather Bureau tell from the signals it will recive? The answer is much" Weather men are looking more and more to the upper air for information on what the weather is likely to be tomorrow or next week. If there are found to be two contrasting zones of air in layers above Juneau. for instance, between them will be a front and the front" is what makes the weather.
 Used in Forecasts
 Meteorologist Howard J. Thomp- son will use the clues from the observations in making his forecasts here. The balloons will be launched every night cx- cept in case of unusually adverse weather conditions which would put the instruments out of com mission. Russo and Kleinsasser think maybe it would not be pro- pitious to launch one of their bal looms into Taku wind.
 ' Several test runs of the equip ment are planned this week.
 Kleinsasser and Russo are living at the Gastineau Hotel. Kleinsas- ser's family is staying in the for the time being. Russo is unmarried.
 Verion w. Schaad of Chicago, who will install and operate sim liar radio-sonde station at Fair banks, is expected to go through Juneau on the next westbound steamer
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-28
Dewey for President

SHEBOYGAN, Wis, Aug. 28. = New York District Attorney Dewey is promised the support of Young Wisconsin Republicans if he makes the 194O presidential race. The young voters met between sessions of the convention in Sheboygan. Leaders of the Dewey For President movement said that they hope to form a statewide organization to at tempt to elevate the prosecutor to the position of chief executive.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-28
RUSSIA lS CONC
 TO HELP GERMANY

BERLIN, Aug 28.-Russia will as sist Germany with oil, wheat, raw material and lumber under the new trade treaty. The terms were an- nounced this morning.
 Russia during the first year will use one hundred and twenty mill lion of the two hundred million mark credit granted by Germany. Most of it will be in electrical goods. chemical products and engineering equipment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-28
TRAP WATCHMAN K FINED St50; FIRM
 SEEKS NEW TRIAL

Motion for a new trial was filed in District Court this afternoon by Attorney R E. Robertson for the Alaska Pacific Salmon Corporation, which was found guilty by jury Saturday ] of illegally fishing its Funter Bay trap during the weekly closed period.
 A. J. Bebean, trap watchman, who was also convicted, was sentenced by Judge George F. Alexander to 50 days in jail and a $50 fine, the jail term to be suspended if the fine is paid promptly.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-28
Will profeet
 Panama Canal

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 - The United States Army announced tc- day that 225 enlisted men and eight officers of the Sixty-Third Coast Artillery anti-aircrafJ section will said September from Fort Mac Arthur, California, fer the Panama Canal zone. the first contingent to be so moved since Congress au- thorized strengthening of the zones defense forces by more than 1000 to 24000.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-28
(ANNERY OFFICIAL
 FLIES TO JUNEAU

Frank Wright, Superintendent of the Icy Straits Packing Company flew to town over the weekend, with a poor season behind him.
 Wright said the company packed but around 30000 cases, compared with the years normal canning Of somewhere around 45,000 cases.
 Expecting to stay here until fish cries hearings are completed, Wright is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-28
NATIVE ARRESTED
 AS BURGLAR, AXE
 ASSAILAMT HERE

Accused of breaking into the Ju- neau home of Ed Bowling and as saulting the 81-year-old man with an axe in all attempt at robbery, Sam Jackson native, was arrested yesterday morning by City Police.
 A charge of burglary has been placed against him by the District Attorneys office. Jackson is also accused of biirglarizing the cabin of Jom Howard, native.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-28
TIME EXTENDED FOR FILING BRIEFS IN
 MINERAL TAX SUIT

Due to the illness of Attorney General James s. Truitt, the Ter ritory has been given an extension of time in which to file brief in the Fourth Division Court where legality of the Territorial gold tax is being contested.
 The Attorney General now has until September Is to submit his brief. MT. Truitt is reported to be recovering steadily at his home at the Baranofs Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-28
NATURALI5TS IN
 FROM THE BRUSH

Out of the brush for only the sec end time in 26 days, MT. and Mrs. H. F. Quick of Philadelphia in terrupted their camping out" to come to town today. z s t1
 The couple, who term themselves amateur botanists, ichthyologists, mammalogists and ornithologists" are leaving the Juneau district in about a week to go to Skagway.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-28
Bird Hobbyisf Says Flight
 South Is Begun

Jim O'Neil, proprietor of the Baranof Cigar Stand, reports the southerly migration of waterfowl has begun.
 O'Neil, whose hobby is ornitholo- gy, said he saw a flight of IS pintails yesterday on the Menden- hall Flats that were definitely northern birds" O'Neil also re- ported seeing a few teal and shore birds that were not local fowl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-28
Donald Williams
 Returning Home

Donald G. Williams, elder son of MT. and Mrs. j. P. Williams is returning here tomorrow for a visit with his parents. He has spent the past few years in Minneapolis, where he studied commercial art and advertising layout work, and in which city he was employed by the Dayton Company.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-28
WINDHAM BAY PIONEER
 COMES IN FOR VISIT

B. w. Yates, pioneer Windham Bay resident, is in town visiting old friends and making arrange ments for improved docking facili- ties at the well known old mining camp.
 Yates expects to return to his Windham home next Wednesday on the Dart.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-28
Missions Of British,
 French on Way Home

HELSINGFORS, Finland, Aug 23.-The British and French Mill tary Missions arrived here Sunday on their way home from Moscow.
 The members of the millions will proceed by water to avoid going through Germany by land.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-28
HAS PRAISE FOR
 lj. S. pRESIDENT

WASHINGTON. Aug. 23.-A mes sage from President Navaroz of Ecu ador praising President Roosevelt's foreign policy was made public to- day. The head of the South Amer
 ican Republic said that his nation backed President Roosevelt in his demands for a peaceful settlement.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-28
MEN END
 CRUISE ON TRITON

J. J. Meherin and N. A. McEchran, well known merchandise brokers, returned to Juneau today aboard Meherins boat Triton.
 The two have been cruising West Coast towns for several days.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-28
BIRD LOBBYIST

O. B. Gillette, ornithologist from Brooklyn, New York, arrived Tn Ju- neau this morning on the steamer Yukon from Skagway and is a guest at the Hotel Juneau while he re- mains in Juneau for few days. Gillette is a collaborator with the Biological Survey.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-28
NORWAY ACTS

OSLO, Aug. 28.-Norway called up two classes of Naval Reserves today.
 Simultaneously the Norwegian State Council banned all exports from Norway. The Council also de- clared a ban on the sailing of Nor wegian ships to foreign ports.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-28
BANK ACCOUNT

A bank account of $500 in the Seattle First National Bank is part of the estate left by James Joseph (Jack) Ross, 24, Juneau miner who drowned in the Fortymile River re- gently, the Marshals office here was informed today. Ross has a father living at lyon Rerieo, Michigan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-28
TO CANNERY

MT. and Mrs. Odin Klatt and children flew out to Hawk Inlet yes terday where Klatt will be winter watchman for the P. E. Harris can- nery.
 The Klatt children, Nadine and Marlent also went along.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-08-28
AUDIT POSTPONED

Because of the acute fire sltua- tion in the Northwest, Reglonai Fiscal Agent o. M. Wold ot Ms soula, Montana, has postponed for a month his trip to Alaska to audit Forest Service accounts.