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Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-22
Man Kills Dog,
Ends Own Life

PHOENIX, Dec. 22. (UP)-The
body of Francis 5. King, 6l year
old Colorado cattleman, will be
taken to Colorado Springs today
for burial but his German shep-
herd dOg--whlch he took with
him i'm death--will be buried
here.
King called his dog out into
an alley near their home early
yesterday morning, shot the dog
and then killed himself with
pistol. His wife said he had been
in i'll health.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-22
COSTA RIGA QUAKE
TAKES ONE LIFE

BOSTON, Mass, Dec. %. (UP)-
Tropical radio reported today that
at least one death and considerable
property damage occurred in San
Jose, Costa Rica during severe
earthquakes yesterday
The radio reported that the entire
country felt the shocks in greater
or lesser intensity.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-22

LOS ANGELES, Dec. %. up
Stella Dysart. oil promoter who
pleaded guilty to a $6000G0 swindle
began an 18 months term in the
Los Angeles county Jail today as a
condition of being placed on Is
years probation. She was fined
$500.
Five co-defendants were fined
$4,000 each by Superior Judge Frank
M Smith and ordered released TO.
morrow morning on six years pro
baton. They are Mrs. Eleanor K
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-22
COLLECTOR NAMED

WASHINGTON, Dec. %. (UP)--
President Roosevelt today appointed
Paul r. Leake, Woodland, Calf, as
collector of customs for district %,
San Francisco, to succeed Charles
O Dunbar. deceased.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-22
COUPLE WILL WED

Donald F. Kitching. 27, Los An
geles railway employe, and Virginia
Ryerson, "a, Holtville teacher, this
week filed a notice of their inten-
ton to marry
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-22
INTEND TO WED

A notice of their intention to
marry was filed with County Clerk
W. j. McClelland this week by
Fred Bonine, D. and Movie Wheeler,
20, Brawley residents.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-22
COMMANDERY TO CONDUCT
CHRISTMAS SERVICES

Imperial Valley Commandery No,
Sd will conduct Christmas services
Monday morning at a. m. in the
Masonic temple.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-22
UNDER SECRETARY QUITS

WASHINGTON, Dec. %. CUP)--
UnderSecretary of the Treasury
John W. Hanes resigned today to
return to private business.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-22

anu NILS. fLdlpl lIOHlpSOH.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Averitt left
Thursday morning TO spend Christ
mas with Mr.. Averitt's mother an6
sister in Norwalk, California.
Mr.. and Mrs. woodrow w. Routt
of Ell Centro were Sunday dinner
gueSSt OF Mr.. and Mrs. Woodrow
Clevenger
Mr.. and Mrs. Robertson and FAM
lily and Mrs. Lille Faust, and Dor
othy Switzerland attended the V. F.
w. Christmas party held in Cal
exico Monday night.
The high school class of the Ell
Centre Methodist church was in
charge of services held at the com
munity Sunday school last Sun
day. A varied and interesting pro-
gram was presented.
George McCuen of Pasadena was
a Tuesday visitor of Mr.. and Mrs.
Irwin Stooksberry.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-22
Plans Laid
For Holidays

WESTMORLAND NOTES
Mrs. Juanita Lee was a Sunday
dinner guest at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Thompson.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-22

Mrs. Gaylord Huddleson and Mrs
William Cecil we're Sunday visitors
of Mrs. Darrell Grogan of Seeley.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-22

Mrs. Ruth Hamerson of Meloland
was a Heber visitor last Thursday
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-22

Mrs Minnie Switzerland and
daughters, Lucille and Edith. are
spending the Christmas holidays
with Mrs. Southerland's sister, Mrs.
Lille Faust.
Evening star., 1939-05-23

large part of this bill will come out
of your hides. Don't ever think for
split second that the tax gatherer
will pass you up. You may not
recognize the gentleman. He may
slip In the back door; he will prob
ably disguise his voice; but, none
theless, he will take from you his
toll!
We won't get anywhere in our
present dilemma by taking extreme
views of the situation. Unfortu-
nately, most of our thinking along
this line has been from one extreme
to another. On one hand we will
find a group of citizens who, for
partisan or other reasons, con-
denim in scathing tones everything
that the administration has tried
to accomplish. Everything is 100
per cent wrong. While these critics
often have nothing fundamentally
constructive to offer, yet they can
wax eloquent in denouncing every
thing that has been attempted. On
the other hand, we find a group who
say that everything Is 100 per cent
right; who are not willing to profit
by experience to recognize mistakes
and failures, or to attempt to cor
rect our errors. In the opinion of
these partisans anyone who dares
raise his voice or attempt to turn
his hand to correct any of these
blunders of failures is, as the case
may be, tory, reactionary or a
traitor to his party. Nothing con-
structive will come out of either of
these groups.
Someone has very properly said
there are three sides to every ques-
ton; my side, your side, and the
right sides What we should attempt
today is to find the right side. Any
American citizen not blinded by
bitter partisan feeling will give
credit to the present administration
for many splendid and fine accom-
plishments. On the other hand, the
most violent partisan of the present
administration should be willing and
anxious to correct our faults and
failures, wherever we may find them.
Two Extreme Groups.
We find these two extreme groups
very well identified on the question
of public spending. In one group
we find the budget balancers-those
gentlemen who demand Immediately,
Evening star., 1939-05-23

or without legislative control vast
sums of money to be expended by
an administrative agency that has
not always demonstrated its ability
to act wisely, or to spend public
funds prudently.
The situation which faces us is
paradoXical. 1t seems that we are
blessed with too much of everything
In land with bursting barns of
grain. surrounded by fields ripe with
golden harvest, there is hunger;
fields are white with cotton, textile
plants are idle and American citi-
zens are naked. A land where there
is much work to be done and yet
millions of our able-bodied citizens
are unable to find employment by
which to support themselves and
their families. A land where our
leaders in finance, industry and COM
merce have dreams of great indus
trial and commercial expansion, and
yet do not have the formula with
which to carry these into effect; the
greatest country in the world and the
finest people, unlimited resources, in
defatigable energy. and yet the brain
and purpose of America have not
been able to piece together this
crazy-quilt. We have not been able
to solve this riddle. We have not
been able to coordinate our econ
omy or to bring stability out of this
chaos and confusion. Such is the
problem that confronts us today. In
its solution rests the economic Sc
curity of the Nation.
I do not MloW what the answer
may be to these economic problems.
I am very definitely of the opinion
that they cannot be permanently
solved by legislative action alone. I
am very emphatically of the opinion
that the problem will not be solved
by putting all of the workers on the
Federal pay roll and by subsidizing
all OF the farmers of America. 1
feel very positive that we cannot
continue to borrow and spend, and
spend and borrow, unless we are
reconciled to meet head-on some
day the fiddler" when he comes
to collect his pay, and come he
surely will.
Tax Gatherer Must Come.
There is one thought I would like
to get over right here. There seems
to be an impression in certain
quarters that it's all right to plunge
right along to pile up a terrific pub
Evening star., 1939-05-23

not continue to grow. But the pub.
lie debt today is nearly $4,000, 900 900
more than Il was year ago. Our
deficit for this fiscal year is a little
over $4,000 100000 up to the present
time, which is more than twice what
it was a year ago.
Now all of that is bad enough,
but the most alarming symptom, to
my way Of thinking, is that nobody
seems very much impressed with the
necessity of really doing anything
about 1t. Certainly nothing has hap
pened or is happening in this ses-
sion of Congress out of which we
can get very much encouragement.
I regret to have to say that, but
nevertheless it is a fact. The costs
Of Government will not be reduced
and the budget will not be balanced
Continued on page BID
Evening star., 1939-05-23

lars to public expenditures over and
above budget estimates. So much
for. the spending procliviries Of Con-
gress.
Now when you 60 to talk about
raising some taxes to try to meet
these bills, you don't get very far.
While there is a Ioc Of talk going
around about tax revision, the i'm
preston is always left that taxes are
going to be reduced. So we face
the paradoxical situation of reduc-
ing taxes and increasing expendi-
lures. While I am not an economist
or financial expert, I must con-
fess that I cannot follow the logic
and reasoning of that sort of
thinking A public debt in Amer
lea of SAC, 1000, 600, 600, while certainly
enough to make us stop and think
about it, does not necessarily threat
en- to destroy our credit or our finan-
cial integrity, provided that it does
Evening star., 1939-05-23

right now, today. q balanced Federal
budget. They can speak long and
loud about all Of these dangers at
tendant upon public spending and
yet when an opportunity presents
itself to really do something about
it, such as very recently when the
Senate had unoer consideration the
agricultural appropriation bill, there
is strange and ominous silence in
these quarters. Thus we find the
agricultural appropriation bill car
rying, as voted by the House, $685.
100000 for agricultural relief-in-
Guiding $500,00o0OO direct benefit
payments to farmers-we find this
legislation increased by the sum of
1888 ,000, 900 over and above the esti-
mates of the Bureau of the Budget,
and contrary to the recommended
tions Of the President. 1 do not
mean this as any unfair criticism. I
Evening star., 1939-05-23

merely cite 1t to show our present
attitude.
The House OF Representatives is
not entirely blameless in this regard.
Notwithstanding the fact that we
have labored very hard during the
current session to try to curtail pub
lie expenditures and hold them down
certainly to the budget level or be-
low, few days ago when we had
up the bill providing appropriations
for the civil functions of the War
Department, my own body, the House
OF Representatives. loaded on $50,-
600 900 over and above budget esti-
mates for river and harbor improve
ment and flood control. And this
increase was made possible because
of the votes of both Republicans and
Democrats-sort Of a nonpartisan
enterprise. Thus we have in two
instances actions by the Congress
which add nearly a half billion dol
Evening star., 1939-05-23

lie debt-that the worker and the
farmer will get the assistance and
somebody will pay taxes enough
sometime" to pay the bill. Who is
going to pay it, and when? Taxes
can only come from national wealth.
National wealth can only come from
labor and production. The worker
and the farmer have been the pro-
ducers in this land of ours, and you
can be very sure, my fellow country
men, that when pay day comes, a
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-21
DEATH TAKES
L0RY A. WING

Lory Augustus Wing, 81, for
merry an accountant for the Nc
Cormick steamship Co here, died
Sunday IN the Lutheran home at
Puysllup after an illness Of several
years. His home in Tacoma was
at 920 No. Grant ave.
A native of Augusta. Me. Wing
came to Tacoma 45 years ago. He
became resident manager of the
old Tacoma thester shortly after
his arrival in Tacoma Later he
opened a grocery store.
He was a life member of Leb-
anon lodge. F. & A. NJ, which he
helped 10 organize. and was a
member of the First Baptist
church Warren chapter, O. f S,
and Sons of the American Revolu-
ton He was a descendant of an
English family which moved to
America early in the 18th century.
He is survived by his wife. Mary.
and son. Peleg Benson Wing of
Tacoma.
Funeral services will be held
Tuesday at 2:15 p. m. from the
Mellinger chapel. Rev r. H. Nc
Ginnis and Lebanon lodge officiat-
ing; burial in Tacoma cemetery.
Members of the lodge are request
ed to meet at 100 O'Clock at the
temple.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-21
BURGLAR FINDS
CACHED MONEY

A window-crashing burglar. be-
lieved responsible for several store
thefts here recently, broke into two
more local business places between
Sunday morning and Monday
morning, police were informed.
The Chill Bowl restaurant. i4ia
So. 18th St, was entered by the
prowIcr early Monday. He obtained
$3.50 in cash which had been con-
cealed in q bread box.
Iron bars across a window at
the Serv-Us Grocery. 9Th ave.
and Cedar St, prevented the burg
lars entry there. He reached be-
tween the bars. however. and stole
several bottles of soft drinks. The
attack was made before daybreak
Sunday.
T. W. Arledge. SAL No. %eth
st.. reported the theft Of a tub OF
soiled laundry, IS worth of gro
ceries and a set of tools from his
parked car Saturday night. Thieves
repeatedly stole 4 suit and over
coat from the car Of Ed Claus Of
Acme, Wash. while he was visit
ing friends here. but the garments
were found abandoned in an alley
near the place where his car had
been parked.
Clifford Stevens. 5720 Mckinley
ave. reported the theft Of seven
ducks from . pen at his home. .
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-21
YOUTH COUNCIL
MEETS TUESDAY

Instead Of meeting in the Y. NJ.
c. A members Of the Christian
Youth council viii gather at 80
2 m. Tuesday in the Little chapel
Of the FIRST Baptist church.
All final details for the Wen
atchee convention will be made at
this time. The Churches are
especially asked to have their
representatives and councillors at
this meeting, as it is very import
ant that they be there. Coming
plans and activities Of the Christian
Youth Council will be tentatively
made.
Wayne Griffen. president, will
speak. His topic viii be What
the Christian Youth Council Can
Accomplish. His talk will deal
mainly with The future obJectives
and work Of the organization.
Special musical numbers will be
featured
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-21
People In
The Meus

DIR. Charles Francis Potter, au-
thor and humanist pastor, charged
that in representing only three
faiths. the temple of religion at
the New York world fair will be
placing AN invisible but official
sign on the front door reading,
No Heather Allowed ="
Doris Kenyon Lasker, former
screen star. said al Hollywood that
she and Albert ID. Lasker. erstwhile
advertising executive. have sepa-
rated and that she is going 10
Nevada for a divorce.
Three men, to whom Americans
once looked for safety. but who
prefer now to be known as Just
old friends. sat on hotel veran-
da at Tucson, Ariz.. today remi-
niscing. they were leaders of the
American expeditionary forces in
France in 19ls-General John j.
Pershing, Charles u. Dawes and
James 6. Hartford. who now Is
chairman of the Radio Corporation
of America
Physicians at Hollywood hospital
said Geraldine Spreckels, sugar
heiress and recent divorce. prob
ably would recover fully within
three weeks from burns suffered
when her negligee caught fire
Rep. Martin J. Kennedy, d.. y.
Y. blaming the chaotic condition"
in Mexico on American Ambassa-
dor Josephus Daniels, announced
he would urge the ambassador
recall.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-21
TW0-YEAR-0LD
CHILD IS HURT

Edwin l.. Christensen. two-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. b l..
Christensen. of $50 So. 57th st.
was at his home Monday recover
ing from head injuries received
Saturday evening when his IA
theirs automobile collided with r.
parked car on Pacific ave. near
9sth ST.
Christensen machine collided
with car belonging to Charles
Walker of Route 3, Box 800, Ia
coma
Walker told deputy sheriffs he
had run out of gasoline and left
his car TO walk to a service station
for more fuel. Shortly afterward.
Christensen vehicle crashed into
the stalled machine.
The baby received cuts about
the head when the impact threw
the child from his mothers lap
against the windshield. The in
FAINT was treated at Washington
Minor hospital and permitted to 60
home
Christensen said the mishap oc-
CURED about $50 o'clock and re-
ported his car demolished as result
of the accident.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-21
BANDIT
STILL SOUGHT

No trace had been found Mon
day. police said, of well dressed
and good looking bandit who robbed
the Van Duyn candy store here
Saturday afternoon for the second
time IN Is days.
The calm gunman escaped with
about $50 after holding up clerk,
Miss Winnifred Cochran, in the
shop at the busy corner Of 18th
and Commerce ST. Miss Cochran.
the bandits victim on Feb. 3, told
police she was positive both rob-
berries were staged by the same
man.
Miss Cochran was alone in the
front Of the store when the robber
entered. When he left. after fore
ing her TO hand over the contents
of the cash register, he vas fol-
lowed outside by Mr.. and Mrs.
George Hoffman, who were in a
rear room during the robbery.
Hoffman entered the front room
when Miss Cochran first reeog-
nized the robber, but was waved
back by the mans menacing re-
volver The bandit disappeared
into the street crowds a moment
after walking from the store.
Six hours after the previous
hold-up here. the same man robbed
another unit Of the Van Duyn chain
stores in Seattle. Police surmised
ne is a former employee of the firm.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-21
SAYS BUSINESS
IN REST PERIOD
Morgenthau EXP ects
Steady Recovery
From Now On

WASHINGTON-Secretary
of the Treasury Henry Nor
genthau, jr. told a secret
session of a congressional
committee recently that buSi-
ness Is in a rest period. but
predicted a SLOW but steady
continuation of recovery dur
ing 1889, the United Press
learned today.
He indicated disagreement with
the "copensatory spending theory
Of Federal Reserve Board Chair
man Mariner 5. Eecles by declar-
ing the administration should work
toward balancing the budget.
Members OF the committee asked
Morgenthau about his knowledge
Of business conditions and the pro-
gress Of recovery. He replied:
Ever since last Decoration day,
business has had remarkable re-
covery. and has gone forward At a
very rapid rate But right now,
| would say. We seem to be in a
sort Of resting period.
The recovery has been so rapid
that 1t is not surprising that il
seems TO have reached what
would call a temporary halt. Con-
ditions are very much better al
this particular time of the year
than they were y months ago.
think that the country as whole
is in a very much better shape
While never like to make pre-
dictions. think We can expect
during this calendar year SLOW
but steady continuance of improved
conditions
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-21
Cummings Taking Part in
Hospital Assn. Convention

from 81 TO 81 monthly according
10 size, Upon becoming i'll. the in
sured person could enter an ap-
proved hospital OF his own selec-
ton.
The associations secretary.
Thomas r. Clark OF San Francisco.
said $500, 900 Americans but only
in thickly-populated sreas-enjoy
hospital Insurance benefits at pres
ent
The convention brought 1000
delegates from 10 western states.
British Columbia. Alaska and Ha-
wsii Affiliated with the associa-
tion and meeting concurrently were
the Western Conference. Catholic
Hospital association. the Wash
ington, Oregon and California
State Hospital associations and the
American College OF Hospital sd-
ministrstnrs.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-21

The Association OF Western Hos
pitfalls opened its 18th annual con-
vention in Seattle Monday intent
upon extending the benefits Of
voluntary. non-profit group hos
pitsl insurance throughout the
United States.
President A. C. Jensen OF San
Leandro, Cal. said the association
proposes ito provide hospital care
for the millions OF the nation who
are neither rich nor poor al a
price easily within their means.
The matter Of providing medical
care rests with the doctors and
medical societies
Clarence J. Cummings Of the
Tacoma General hospital. chair
man of the convention. said the
plan would call for every person 20
pay between so cents and 81 per
month and every family 10 pay
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-21
new PROPOSAL FOR
STATE INCOME TAX

OLYMPIA-Rep. Jurie B. Smith.
D.. King. introduced a resolution
in the house today that would
allow the legislature to levy an
income tax on the people at uni
form or graduated rate, with such
exemption the legislators thought
best.
The proposed constitutional
amendment would remove all
present bars to enactment Of 4
state tax on net incomes.
Another resolution. by Rep.
Theodore s. Turner. D., King.
would provide for the appointment
Of supreme and superior court
judges by the governor after they
have been approved by 4 judicial
commission to be created by the
legislature
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-21
Rainier Resident
Called by Death

RAINIER-Walter E. Spencer.
81, resident of Rainier for 80 years.
died al his home here Sunday.
He is survived by his wife.
kittie. two sons. Harold and viii
Claussen of Seattle: three daugh-
ters, Mrs. Sam Scott of Forest
Grove. Ore. Mrs. Arthur Church
ward. Tacoma. and Miss Susie
ClauSsen Of the home: one brother,
Tom Of New Westminster, B. C;
a sister, Mrs. Dick Randle of
Alberta; and IS grandchildren.
Young funeral home at Yelm
will announce the funeral services.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-21
Siegle Reported
Gaining at Home

Further improvement was re-
ported Monday in the condition of
Mayor Siegle, now in his fourth
week of confinement at home from
a bronchial affliction complicated
by bronchial pneumonia
II is now believed he may be
recovered in about 10 days or two
weeks. He is still not permitted
to talk, but is gaining strength
steadily, fellow commissioners were
advised
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-21
Clipper Damaged
In Lake Descent

SEATTLE bad landing on
Lake Washington today damaged
the port hydro-sta bilizer. or sea
wing. Of the third 74-passenger
trans-oeeanic clipper built by the
Boeing Aircraft Co. for Pan Ameri-
can Always The planes delivery
flight TO Astoria. Ore. and San
Francisco was delayed two days
by the accident
The clipper. the first of six built
by Boeins for Pan American. was
the same ship which dipped one
wing tip in Elliott bay. Seattle's
harbor. when a heavy wind titled
the unloaded ship shortly after it
had been launched last summer.
One Of its Observation-Disclosures was
damaged last summer when a log
was struck during taxing tests.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-21
I5ll&}4MH9385F&ES;IN
Philippine Freiehter Don Jose
Takes Cottonwood Logs and Lumber

Loading for Oriental ports. the
big Philippine freighter Don Jose
was IN the Tacoma harbor Mon
day. having locked a. Port piers
Sunday evening She vas expected
to sail later in the day. calling al
Bellngham and san Francisco be-
fore making the ocean crossing.
Cottonwood logs and lumber
comprised the cargo being loaded
in Tacoma. The vessel a unit Of
the Madrigal line. calls Al Manila.
Hongkong. Shanghai. Tsku Bar
and Osaka
A newcomer TO this city. The
tanker J. J coney was pumping a
gasoline shipment AZ Port piers
Monday.
The 6uIf-Pacific liner Point
Anehs docked at the St Regis
Kraft Go. at q. m. and was