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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-03

Seasonal offices of the Washing
ton State Employment Service to
help meet the demand for farm
and cannery labor from now until
September will open Wednesday
in both Puysllup and Sumner. Tom
G. Rsthbone, Tacoma district man
ager of the service, announced
Tuesday.
The Puyallup office will be in
the bus station on Stewart st.
and will be in charge of Howard
S. Root. Phone will be Puyallup
301.
In Sumner the office will be In
the City hall, with Charles c.
Campbell in charge. Facilities
have been provided by the city
council of the two valley cities.
The valley offices will handle both
placements and unemployment
compensation work.
Eligible April l
Failure of the valley canneries
to pack either rhubarb or sspars-
gus during the past month forced
several hundred normally en-
ployed cannery workers into the
employment service office here for
unemployment compensation. Man
ager Rathbone reported. Vege-
table cannery workers became
eligible for payments on April l.
Result of these new eligiblilties,
he noted. Were that Tacoma has
been raised from 9th to 4th place
In the amount being paid out in
unemployment compensation. In
the last week reported, state war
rants were mailed out TO las
persons. a total of s12.162.76. To
date $153 e62 40 has been paid out
Of the unemployment insurance
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-03
GREEN ANSWERS
LEWIS CHARGES
WASHINGTol

WASHINGTON President Will
lam Green. OF American Fedora
ton OF Labor. today accused his
rival. president John L. Lewis. Of
Congress Of Industrial Organiza-
ton, OF seeking TO fan the flame
Of class hatred" and 10 'instill
thoughts OF falsehood and misrep-
resentation in the minds Of work
ing men and women"
Green made the charges before
the senate labor committee. in
answer to an assertion by Lewis
that amendments to the Wagner
labor relations act proposed by
AFL were drafted in collsbors-
ton with National Association Of
Manufacturers and other enc
mics OF labor.
In a letter to committee MEM
bers. Lewis said he possessed doc
umentsry evidence 10 support his
charges and requested that Green
be asked certain questions in con-
nection with them.
THE purpose Of the letter is
patent and obvious" Green
said angrily ut the conclusion
of his testimony on the pro-
posed amendments. at Is
filled with trickery and deeep-
ton"
II am sure no member OF the
committee will be deceived or
misled by 1t, even though that
may have been the intent Of
Mr.. Lewis"
Green. saying It was difficult
to exercise self-restraint" in re-
plying to some of Lewis questions
denied he had ever conferred open
ly or secretly with any represen-
tative of the same or any corpor-
alton in connection with the prep
aration of the amendments.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-03

The state pilotage commiss
1885 Puget Sound pilots law
rieious and arbitrary manner
today in a decision directing
pilots to take the competitive
The court reversed a Thurston
county superior court decision
against p. s. Safer. J. f Brinker.
Alex C. Halstesd. NJ. NJ. Jensen
and Ernst Lsndstrom. to whom the
board refused to give exams or
issue pilots licenses.
The 1885 law does not give the
commission the authority to limit
the number Of pilots who shall be
allowed to operate on Puget Sound,
the supreme court said.
The five plaintiffs asserted they
were denied the right 10 qualify
as pilots under the state law, al
though they held first class United
States pilots licenses on Puget
Sound.
They complained they were re-
fused the right to take examina-
tions, although two other men,
p. c. Frsatz and Fred J. Johnson,
were given licenses without having
taken the exams. Neither Of the
latter two held federal pilot
licenses, they contended.
The supreme court said the
communication ~as admin teFiuY
the law In AN unconstitutional
manner when II permitted
some pilots to take the exams
and not others.
I'VE are clearly OF the opin-
lon that the appellants Land
strom and Jensen should have
been permitted to take the
examination. and that, for the
benefit Of those two appellants
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-03
Hoffman Is Seattle
City Lights Chief

SEATTLE 49, Mayor Arthur b.
Langlie today appointed Eugene
r. Hoffman, assistant regional
director of the public works ad-
ministration. as superintendent OF
City Light, to succeed the late J.
ID. Ross.
Hoffman has assisted with PWA
work In Washington. Oregon.
Idaho and Alaska. He formerly
WAS all employe Of the state high
way department. working In vari-
GUS capacities firm 1913 to 1927.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-03
ALASKA TO HAVE FIRST
HANGING IN LATE YEARS

JUNEAU. Alaska-Alaska will
have its first hanging in recent
years July 81, when Nelson Charles.
native. goes to the gallows for the
murder Of his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Joe johnson. September 4. 1883.
Charles, sentenced Monday, was
convicted Of stsbbing his mother
in-law 10 death.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-03
SOLDIER ARRESTED

Argene kuykendall, soldier. was
held In the city Jail Tuesday on
charges of being drunk and dis
orderly. following his arrest Mon
day night at 18th and Broadway
by Patrolmsn G. A. Anderson.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-03
LUMBER MILL REOPENS

BELLINGHAM - The Bloedel
Donovan Lumber mills re-opened
its Larson plant Monday with 175
men going back to work.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-03

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-03
BUILD WAREHOUSE

J. f. Berkheimer Mfg. Co. was
granted a building permit Tuesday
TO erect $1,000 warehouse at its
plant, 2e2s So. NJ ST.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-03

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Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29
MEASURE QUALIFIED

SACRAMENTO, Oct. CUP)-An
initiative measure providing for
daylight saving time in California
today was qualified for the 1910
general election ballot.
Sponsors of the measure FLED Pc
titions bearing 219,286 signatures:
The legal requirement is 2l2'll7
signatures.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29
Neutrality Law
May Force Quick
Move by Germany
Continued from Page -

French in Paris disclosed continued
oelief that the Germans are plan
ling an offensive. Although the
war office described the night as
calm, military dispatches said heavy
lircraft movements were reported
behind the German lines and that
Intensified patrol activity indicated
impending operations on a larger
scale than hitherto.
Well informed French sources
nailed the United States senate
neutrality vote, and the expected
House passage of the revised Dill,
as possibly the most important sin
gle development of the war.
It was asserted that final passage
of the bill would have important
effects on the entire war situation
by formidably increasing the Allied
material resources.
Informants emphasized that the
sh-and-carry provision benefited
the Allies exclusively because they
commanded the seas.
Between Sept. / and Sept. D, when
the embargo was imposed, the Unit
ed States shipped to the Allies
nearly S6,OOO,OOO worth of airplanes
and parts, it was asserted-a rate
of nearly S1,200,000 a day.
When the neutrality bill become
law. it was said, the United States
would be able promptly to ship
France s58,OOOOOO worth of sup
plies, principally planes, and Brit
ain S14,0OO,000 worth.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29
Charters Prevent
Banks from Takinq
Ham.Egg Warrants
Continued from Page -

'AOHlllueQ from rage u
power or credit of the state gov
ernment. In short, they are SIM
ply pieces of paper giving the per-
son who holds them the privilege
OF paying two per cent tax every
week"
Therefore, no bank, nor business
for that matter, can afford to &C
cept them and give in return the
face value in currency, he con-
tinued.
Small attacked promoters claims
that the proposed state bank would
redeem warrants in 80 days in cash.
That is like guaranteeing a 1000
per cent return on your money in
80 days. he said.
If anyone can convert 10 cents
in stamps into dollar bill in 30
days. I. and everyone else, will start
believing a dozen rabbits really can
be pulled out of one hat,
In the first place, the amend
ment itself prohibits conversion in
30 days by specifically stating that
warrants will not be redeemed in
less than a yearl
In the second place. funds OBJ
tanned through the per cent gross
income tax, by which the promoters
claim they will finance the con-
version. are specifically earmarked
and no section would permit grab
bing for this purpose,"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29
Chief 7 ernns Of
Neutrality Act

WASHINGTON, Oct. %. (UP)-
Chief provisions of the neutrality
bill, as approved by the senate,
follow:
l. The embargo on shipments of
arms, ammunition and implements
OF war is repealed.
2. American ships are forbidden
to trade with belligerents, except
with outlying countries far removed
from the war zone, such as Austria
liza. New Zealand, Capetown and
countries or possessions in the At
lantic from Bermuda southwark
Such exempted trade, however. ap-
plies only to general cargoes q
not to arms, ammunition and i'm
plements of war. No ban is placed
on rail or inland waterway trade
with Canada.
3. Belligerents may purchase
munitions and all other materials
from this country on a "come-and-
get-it' and cash on the barrel
head basis. Title to all goods
bought must pass to the purchaser
in advance of shipment. Belliger-
ent governments cannot obtain
credit in the purchase of any ma
terials. Private purchasers in bellig-
erent countries can obtain credit
on purchases on all articles except
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29

Chances for approval of the pro-
posed Argentine trade agreement
we're reduced at the october hear
ing In Washington, John L. Dubois,
president Of the Southwest Flax
seed association, reported Saturday,
after receiving a communication
from Argyle McLachlan, association
secretary who represented Imperial
Valley in Washington.
McLachlan, who appeared at the
hearing to protest the proposed
reduction of a tariff on flaxseed.
declared that eight senators. twelve
congressman and several agricul-
tural leaders in Washington oppose
The trade pact. Only one represen-
tatiye appeared at the hearing to
encourage passage of the pact. He
was the representative of the Ar
gentina American Chamber of
Commerce.
Dubois urged valley growers to
write to their congressman asking
that the lawmakers oppose any tar
iff reduction, that would be HARM
full to county agricultural interests.
McLachlan pointed out that re-
suits of the hearing will not be
announced for at least 60 days.
National agricultural experts listed
the following possible decisions:
/. The treaty as it stands will
not go through.
2. Treaty has already been for
mulated. Will go through with 20c
per bushel reduction in flaxseed
tariff
3. Treaty will go through with
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29
Snub lrks u. 5. in
Vessels Seizure
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icanS aboard 1t was not believed
likely that the British would per-
NIT her to pass unchallengeo
through their blockade and the
ability of a ship SO slow to slip
through the blockade was doubted.
Would she be escorted by German
naval vessels? Would they and the
City of Flint's prize crew resist a
British attempt to seize her? II
there was resistance, a battle would
follow, placing Al American lives in
jeopardy.
Two parts of Steinhardt'S report
stood out-a direct accusation that
the Soviet government had not on.
ly failed to cooperate in his efforts
to obtain information about the
City Of Flint, but had withheld
information from him. He said he
had expressed his indignation at
this treatment to Assistant Com
missar of Foreign Affairs Potemkin.
The other was an implied doubt
Of the truth Of the German con-
tention-which Russia accepted
that the German prize crew had
been taken to the remote Arctic
port because of damage to machin-
cry
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29
House Approval Of
Neutrality Action
Expecfed in Week

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stormy weeks of oratory, and
brought in sight adjournment be-
fore the end of next week. Antici-
pating a let-down, Senate Majority
Leader Alben w. Barkley. D, KY.
pleaded with senators to stay in
Washington TO see the bill through
conference. if this procedure is
necessary.
Speaker William B. Bankhead
expressed confidence that the
House viii uphold the senate and
that action on the administration S
neutrality bill will be completed by
the end of next week.
Bankhead announced that the
House leadership plans Tuesday to
bring up for discussion the bill
passed by the senate last night.
II will come up under a rule to
send it TO conference with the SEN
ate. He will recognize someone op-
posed to embargo repeal for the
purpose of moving to instruct the
conferees TO insist on rejection Of
the senate's Scrapping of the en-
barge.
This motion will allow the House
to take separate vote on the
embargo provisions. Should the
motion prevail it would have the
effect of House rejection of the
senate action. House leaders. how
ever, felt certain Of defeating the
motion.
i am confident that we have a
majority in the House TO sustain
the major features of the senate
bill" Bankhead said.
Majority Leader Sam Rayburn
said he had discussed the question
Of time to be allowed for debate.
Bankhead said that if this pro-
gram is carried through, final ac-
ton undoubtedly would come be-
fore Saturday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29
War Has Not Changed U.s..
Policy for Str onS Fleet

WASHINGTON, Oct. %. (UP)-'
High naval officials, studying close
ly all phases of sea and air action
in the European war, were conf
dent today that United States pol
icy of a strong surface fleet, with
huge battleships as its backbone,
remains unshaken by the conflict.
Acting Secretary of Navy Charles
Edison, principal speaker last night
as the nation celebrated founding
of the U. S. Navy 164 years ago,
said that navy officials were max
ing a "meticulous examination" Of
all phases of the wars naval action,
ION and under the sea and in the
air"
ITO date" Edison added, moth
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29
Coal Mine Blast
Kills 81 Scots

DUNFERMLINE, Scotland, Oct.
%. CUP)-Thirty-four men were
killed in an explosion that wrecked
the Valley Field Colliery, seven
miles from here, during blackout
last night.
Officials said that about 10 min
ers were underground when the
disaster occurred. Many men died
Of burns and the rest were killed
by the explosions conclusion.
The force Of the explosion shat
tered everything in the colliery, >
Dr.. William Reid, son OF the gen.
eral manager of the mine, said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29

ing has happened abroad to change
our minds as to the policy that we
have pursued, namely a homogene-
Gus surface fleet, with battleships
as its backbone, supported and de-
Tended by strong air arm"
Should such a conception be al
tered by time and results, Edison
continued, the navy will hasten
to conform to the lessons OF eX-
perience."
Other speakers last night includ-
ed Rear Admiral Harry E. Yarnell,
who addressed a dinner given in
Chicago by the navy council OF
Illinois: Rear Admiral j. H. Towers,
who spoke at Atlanta, Ga, and
Secretary of War Harry Woodring,
who addressed the Baltimore unit
of the national guard.
Woodring warned against "ama-
teur strategists" who contend that
the United States inevitably will
be drawn into the war and said
that it was the duty of all military
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29
u. 5. Cannot Slash
Ties with World.
Speaker Declares
Continued from Page u


only to supply the navy in time
Of war but to retain our own for
eign trade"
Vernons address climaxed a long
business meeting marked by these
chief points:
Although the executive board hac
previously voted favorably upon
Proposition Five, the main body
declined to go on record after sew
elal members pointed out the op-
position of Assemblyman Clarence
Walker. Howard Patrick spoke H.
favor Of the resolution.
With no opposition, the associat-
ed chambers went on record oppoS-
ing Proposition One, 30-Thursday
The chambers endorsed renewal
of an application to conduct a bus
line between inland and Yuma and
Robert Hays was authorized to at
tend a hearing before the Inter-
state Commerce Commission in
November when the PING. Co. ap-
plication will be decided.
Legislative and Taxing commit
tees were ordered to cooperate with
tl-30-Thursday leaders in cam
paigning against the proposition.
The agricultural committee was
directed by President Harold Tyler
to investigate possible revision of
the county ordinance regarding no.
tice before lettuce crop dusting
The committee also was told to
give thought to the advisability Of
increasing sugar beet acreage and
to establishment of a flax seed oil
mill.
Next meeting will be at CaIexico
late in November.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29
Flax Trade Poet
May Be Defeated

sc per bushel reduction of tariff
on flaxseed at time of signing and
sc per buShel at various intervals
until the total 20c per buShel re-
duction has been made.
4. A bill is in process of draft
to provide for processing tax for
parity payments to flax growers if
treaty is consumated. This will, OF
course. entail crop control such as
that now imposed on wheat and
sugar beets. etc.
5. President Roosevelt is opposed
to curtailment of flax acreage and
to reduction of flax tariff.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29

officials to combat such misrepre-
sentation.
Towers, new chief of the bureau
of naval aeronautics, warned MS
listeners against believing sucn
slogans as "battleships obsolete,
war can be won in 70 hours by
aircraft" and United States open
to air invasion" He said aviation
should be given its full due" but
cautioned against belief that the
battleship and footsoldiers could be
disposed of.
"They have settled all major wars
heretofore" Towers said, land will
continue to do so for many years
to come"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29
Woman Frozen in
FiQhf on Cancer
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lip. "Wednesday her pain had gone
DR.. Harrington accelerated the con-
dengor motor. Thursday, close to the
border line of consciousness, her
eyes lit up for moment of sub
lime animation. Then, late in the
day, her temperature driven far
below what once was. considered
fatal. she entered a five day period
of suspended life"
The therapy has, in some expert
ment5 undertaken by DR.. Fay, ar
rested the growth of cancer cells.
1t assuredly eases pain, and the
question yet to be decided is wheth-
er by freezing the carcinoma can
be cured and lives saved.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29
Hubby Still on
Walk, Wife Ayers

CHICAGO, Oct. %. CUP)-The
night of July IA, 1892, George j..
Henry put on his bowler hat and
mackinaw, kissed his wife, Mary,
and said he was going for a walk
She waited but he didn't return.
Late yesterday, Mrs. Henry, now
p, went before Superior Judge Os-
car Nelson and obtained a divorce
on a charge of desertion.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29

OF war.
4. American ships are prohibited
arms. ammunition and instruments
from carrying passengers to bellig-
erent ports. except those listed in
the trade exemptions. American
citizens are forbidden to travel on
belligerent ships.
5. The president may from time
to time define combat areas, and
American citizens, vessels or air
craft are prohibited from entering
them.
6. American merchantmen are
prohibited from arming themselves,
except with small arms and ammu-
milton required to maintain disci-
pline.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29
Nazis Claim Bio
Loss for British

BERLIN, oct. 28. up = Ger
many has destroyed British war
ships totalling 73,5OO tons since the
outbreak Of the European war, au-
thorized German quarters claimed
today.
The Nazis also claimed that 1885,
500 tons Of British war vessels have
been damaged so seriously that they
must remain in drydock from six
70 nine months.
The authorized quarters said that
Germany had damaged the British
battle cruisers Hood and Repulse,
the cruisers Edinburgh, Southamp-
ton and Mohawk and another
heavy cruiser.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-29
Cooking School
Best Ever Held

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Mrs. George Shelton, Mrs. John L.
Mauldin, Mrs. Charles A. Mccall
mon, Ruth Martin, Mrs. Lewis
Rhyner, Elva Sutherland, Minnie
Pearce, Mrs. Nellie Gillett, Mrs
E. D. Hammett, Mamie House. Mrs.
Frances Ada Offiel, Mrs. Myrtle
Bishop, Vivian Luckinbill and
Mabel Sullinger.
BY virtue OF being the most re-
cent bride in the audience, Mrs.
C. S. johnson received a gift anc
Mrs. Leila Hall received one for
being the mother with the most
children. She claimed II.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17
No Explanation Offered for Planet Mystery

total eclipse of 1918 did scientists
give up Watson's discovery as
mistake, although no one had ever
been able again to observe either
Of his two intramercurial bodies.
During each eclipse from 1873 until
that time, astronomers set up and
ran intramercurial cameras in the
search for Vulcan, as the "theoret-
ical" planet had been named.
"These famous observations Of
Watson's," DR.. Curtis asserts, defy
any satisfactory explanation. Per-
haps as probable theory as any is
that he saw a moderately bright
comet with an almost stellar nu-
cleus." The relatively strong illumi-
nation of the sky background, he
explains, would have prevented the
detection of a tail, while the failure
Of astronomers to find the comet
after it had left the immediate vicin-
ity of the sun is explained by the
fact that all comets enormously de-
crease in brilliance as they leave
the sun, and small one observed
near the sun might never be seen
again because its light would di-
minish by hundreds of times within
a short time. While this theory may
explain one of Watson's intramer-
curial objects, says DR.. Curtis, no
explanation has been offered for the
other.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17

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then hinged to the front of each
box. White paint was used next.
The Powered chintz in tones Of
rose and blue-green with narrow
frills of the plain blue-green tone
matched the. window curtains.
The dressing table skirt was
made with one-inch heading
at the top and tackled along the
ends of the table and the hinged
arms with thumbtacks through a
double strip of the plain material.
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-17

Astronomers Of the late Nine
teenth and early Twentieth Gen.
turtles spent some 40 years disprov-
ing the discovery of a new planet
between Mercury and the sun,
writes DR.. Heber D. Curtis, director
Of the University of Michigan OBJ
servatories, in an article in the
Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Re-
view.
During the total eclipse Of 1873,
says DR.. Curtis, two bright, star
like objects near the sun were OBJ
served by Michigan's Prof. James
Craig Watson, one of Americas
leading astronomers and, according
to former President James B. An
gell, the most brilliant man ever
graduated from the University of
Michigan. The existence of planet
inside the orbit of Mercury had long
been predicted by theoretical as
tronomers, he writes, although the
body had never been seen. Wat
sons observations, therefore, he
says, were heralded as the discov-
cry of new member of our plan
etary family. Confirming Watson's
discovery, he adds, were the OBJ
servations of Prof. Lewis Swift, who
saw one of the bodies only few
seconds later than Watson during
the same eclipse.
Not until the observations Of the