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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06
U. S. WILLING TO
DENOUNCE REDS

WASHINGTON - state depart
ment quarters said Tuesday that
the United states IL prepared TO
join In a hemlspherical denuncia-
ton Of Russlss invasion OF Finland
II. but only II. all other American
republics desire 10 take such
action.
state department quarters sald
the attitude Of the United states
on The Pronunciation OF Russia had
been communicated 10 other Amer
lean republics. II followed sugg@s-
lions from several Latin American
capitals that such . statsment BE-
Issued.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06
ALLIES START
new BLOCKADE

Great Britain and France start
ed new trade war against Ger
many today, as their war fleets
imposed. effective at midnight last
night. a blockade OF German goods
destined to neutral nations
throughout the world.
British and French financial
powers started the new drive--to
knock Germany out of markets
still accessible to her.
They planned to break the
Nad economic structure by
buying goods Of countries
neighbor 10 Germany at prices
Germany could not pay, and
supplying goods TO those
countries at prices lower than
Germany could offer.
France started the drive by
sending a fleet of tankers TO seek
cargoes Of Rumanian oil. which
Germany desperately needs. 1t
was reported the ships already had
left for the Black sea.
The cost OF the drive 10 Britain
alone will be. II Was estimated
unofficially. upwards Of $500 .OO0,-
900 a year.
Both Britain and France
sought to capture markets Of
which Germany has been de-
prived In South America.
As a means OF stimulating ex-
ports, priority In goods produced
IN Britain Is 10 be given first TO
national defense purposes. second
~ TO exports. Previously priority
had been % national defense, 90
civil use, (5l exports.
British financial interests
sought also TO shatter the business
Of l0z German firms dealing In In
surance and reinsurance In neutral
countries, including the biggest re-
insurance company In the world.
The Munich company.
The Importance Of the export
blockade, linked with the trade
drive. Ia that British leaders fig
ure that Germany. without foreign
exchange obtained from her export
goods. viii be unable 70 get goods
she needs. and viii be unable 10
deal effectively with some Of her
best neutral customers.
British authorities recognize
that damage must be suffered By
neutral interests as the result Of
the export blockade. They express
regret, but take the view that
Germany forced the var.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06

Gus, when she inspired
"Mademoiselle From Ar
mentieres." most famous
song Of the war.
When war broke out In
1914. and her sweetheart
went TO the front, she
worked In the Cafe do Ia
Paix. In the Rue dc Ia Care
In sArmentierea.
Today, In the cafe 81 q
village well behind the lines
where she now lives. she
told how the famous song
about her was inspired.
1T was a very nice song
when IL was first written"
she commented. But | am
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06

day. with a O. degree
maximum at the downtown
bureau and a 81 at the
Boeing field station. Seat
ties former top was 4 ~
recorded back in 1900.
Though the Tacoma
bureau fixed the local "a
hour minimum at % de-
grees at $50 Tuesday morn
ing. the south end OF town
and the Lakes district re-
ported below-freczing mini
NUNS around 80 degrees
and heavy frosts that
whitened roof tops.
A thick fog settled down
along South Tacoma way
Monday night W lille
myriads Of stars sparkled
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06
CONGRESSMAN
VISIT Fl. LEWIS

A party of flying congressman"
stepped out of three transport
planes at Gray field. Fort Lewis,
shortly past noon Tuesday to COM
plete another leg of their inspec-
ton tour of army posts in the u.
S. and Panama Canal zone.
The planes took off from Hamil-
ton field, Sacramento, Calf. at
Q a. m, and arrived at the fort
at 12:15 p. m. after a 590-mile
flight.
The IL congressman in the party
were greeted at the field by Maj.
Gen. Walter c. Sweeney, COM
mander Of the Sd division. During
the afternoon, they were 10 in
spect Fort Lewis and watch a
review of the 1000 troops
stationed there.
They will stay overnight at the
fort, and will leave for Seattle
CONTINUED on Page 10, Column 81
BANK TRANSACTIONS
Tacoma ...............S 81 $50 600
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06

in Helsinki spent the entire
night going from house 70
house warning that the capital
might be subjected 70 n poison
gas raid.
Families, radely awakened,
dressed hurriedly and STUN
bled through the darkness
toward the city limits and the
safety Of the frozen country
side, reports said
The SNOW, IN ich had
blanketed the country and ira
peded the Russian invaders,
was now but intermittent.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06
SAN FRANCISCO STRIKE
PARLEYS IN COLLAPSE

SAN FKANCIsCO AeEotaa-
tons for settlement u a San
Francisco waterfront tis-up col
lapsed Tuesday and Harry Bridges.
California Go director. issued a
statement Interpreted A. : threat
70 spread the tie-np 10 other Pa
eific ports and particularly 70 san
Pedro, port Of Los Angslez
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06
soMEw IN

SO NJ + w III + X II IN
FRANCE - Mademoiselle
from Armentieres. glamor
girl of the soldiers of the
World war. is here In n
village behind the present
lines--i9. a grandmother.
with a care-lined face and a
wracking cough, which is
the legacy Of a gas attaek
when the Germans captured
Armentieres in 1917.
The woman Of whom
millions Of British and
American soldiers sang in
the l9ld-191S war was
petite. brunette Marie
Lecoq. lively and courage
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06

The woman. too excited to give
her name but who gave officers
an address not far from where
yesterday Winnie Ruth apparently
stole a slab of pie, said the tiger
murderess fled after leering
through the window.
Squad cars Immediately rushed
to the neighborhood and made a
futile search. The home where
Winnie Ruth supposedly made her
most recent wraith-like appear
ance is about two miles from the
state asylum she fled Sunday
night.
RESIDENTS FEARFUL
1t is in the district that was
the crazed killers 'hide-out' dur
ing her first six-day escape in
October. -. "a
Fear was heightened among
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06
COSTICAN, COMMUNISTS
ASK ABERDEEN PROBE

ABERDEEN, Wash.-Com-
munists and liberals asked the
LaFoIIette civil Liberties
committee today to investi-
gate a raid on the workers
hall here Saturday night.
NJ. RAPPORT, Pacific North
west district executive seere-
tary of the Communist party,
and Howard Costigan, execu-
tive secretary of Washington
Commonwealth Fe d er ton,
made the appeals.
RAPPORT called the raid
-wantOn destruction Of priv
ate property by vigilante
groups" G0stigan said the
Finnish Workers federation,
whose hall Was wrecked. u
an affiliate Of NCF and not
Of the Communist party.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06

British consular officials
were so alarmed at the rumor
that they warned all British
subjects to leave the city al
once.
Less than 10000 people re-
manned Of the city's normal
300, 000-odd. Those who were
left. including Americans and
other foreigners, found il diff.
fieult 10 get transport. All
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06


Clark Grew. Il was said.
Admiral Nemura said Japan had
no intention u trying 10 ossl
foreign interests In China. but. %
the contrary. welcomed outslds
activities. particularly tn tbs cuil
tufal and economic fields. accord
ing 10 lnformants.
Discussing the Americas
claim 10 compensation for SOC
asfi-Ameriesa incidents ia
CblsA, Admiral Nomprs said
Japan reosgnized sbsat 80.
lie expressed regret ~ ths om-
phasis IN the United States on the
possibility of American retaliation,
after expiration u tho Japanese
American trade pact neat month,
for alleged antl-Amsrscan aets BY
Japanese forces in China.
Newspapers Reported that
Admiral Nemnra esprss~ed
rsgrst that Asseries ssssi
forces IN tbs AsiAfie rs<ffss
we're b.isg strengthened. In
fsrmsnis ssla later. however.
that Admiral semuss did nat
mention the American fiesf.
a long editorial IN the news
paper Alyako today. urging great
caution IN dealing with Russia.
was taken - rejecting a cooling
atiituds by Japan. a. result u
hussias INVASION u FlDlaDd
Miysko IL an Independent paper. of
iibsral-progrsselye tendency. II
would b highly Inconsistent for
Japan 10 fight . war IN China On
the basis " antl-oommunlsm. tfe
editorial said. and at the SANS
time reach . broad agresseent
with Russia.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06
ASK 100000 PESOS
FOR TYPHOON SUCCOR

MANILA. r. la typhOon that
caused widespread damage to
crops. roads and buildings in at
least five provinces veered off
into the Pacific ocean Tuesday.
The assembly was expected TO
take quick action on a bill to
appropriate 800. 900 pesos for
relief in the stricken provinces.
Although damage was widespread.
II was believed loss Of life had
not been great.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06

residents after hospital attendants
said they believed Mrs. Judd car
ried a razor with her when she
escaped. Citizens had slept little
behind locked doors.
Winnie Ruth. at large for a Sec
time in six weeks, was believed
roaming hop ahead of blood
hounds, hungry and subject to re-
occurring spells" of homicidal
impulses, somewhere In or near
the city.
NIGHTS ARE CHILLY
Sheriff Lon Jordan believed
Winnie Ruth was hiding come
where inside the city. sleeping in
some vacant house or barn and
stealing food from pantries and
orange groves. She already has
raided two pantries.
She is in frail health and the
Arizona desert nights are chilly.
Authorities believed last night
would be about all she could stand
unless she were receiving warm
food and lodging, or unless she
were already dead by her own
hand.
This possibility was not entirely
overlooked because her mother,
Mrs. II. j. McKinnell. doubted she
ever would be taken alive.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06

NEW Y0xk Fritz Kuhn.
leader b the f;ernan-h m>rl -
can bund. wns s<nt>ueed
two and oue-half % five "
Ii prison today a. -
si.2i7 from ne treo1
the organisation.
tn maxlmum eaN1
asuid have hepa M
<a.y~~r-sl6 ''buna1
wae ssuyiets6 q
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06
SORENSEN SUCCESSOR
To SUPT. r. Z. DEvLN

L. X, sofsDssn. Butte. Meal vflIi
succeed ,. 4. Dsviin on Jan. 4. ~
superintendent u eoesf operations
for the Milwaukee, railroad iiis
headquarters sili b. here. A. &.
kohlhaee VIII replace Aorsnsen.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06

The clouds were heavy still,
and apparently had been too
low 10 permit the Russians to
operate in safety. But the
menace was felt constantly.
At the fronts, from the
karelian peninsula on the Gulf
Of Finland 70 the Petsamo
area on the Arctic sea, Finnish
troops and unframed v0lun-
lcoatinaiea o. Page "a. Column ~
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06

p<ndiux seulea<e m ibe ethern.
| r. 1880. -. "a. - e. .~..~
- -. Go.
- -" eA s's ~ W's s'
ths terms sAguld nin toneuffsHzif<
~-....,~~ :. -
:
Kuhn. ~ sf1aia<xH =
stood whlts-faf<a ard fiksd -
Jadxs James q. Ws'iHS< pre-
noaneed Judgement
fhs thr@s en.at. an unlrh K..hn
49, .<af<nced ~s<s ss.s ~ ersnk
lsre<ny .nd t~o n thlr.I.d~wrsS
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06

LONDON - Prime Minister
Chamberlain told the house Of
commons today that Britain
had not protested Soviet KIs-
sia's invasion Of Finland. Hs
did not answer a question ~ 10
whether Britain would support
expulsion Of Russia from the
league Of nations.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06
BYRD'S BEAR AT CANAL

WARRINGTON Tbe navy va
z1sIssd today thai the 3. :. Bear.
one Of the Byrd Antarctic sxpsdl.
ton shlTe. had arrived IN cristo-
bal. g. u.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06

attack from the air. first in
world history on such a city
as Helsinki, impended.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06
Families Warned

Stockholm newspaper re-
ports said evacuation wardens
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06

trucks and many private mo-
tor vehicles had been requisi-
toned for use Of the men at
the front, stubbornly holding
back the colossal Russian war
MACHINE
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06

PHOENIX Ariz-The hunt for the manaca muir
deress blonde and buxom Winnie Ruth Judd gained
impetus early today when suburban resident Historically
reported the shefs office that she awoke Winnie
staring at her through window.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06

Cistsdy, rain ieaishf and Ihnrs-
day. Temperatures illgh, IS; lsn.
a.. san Klse4. 7szlg ssla AZ
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06
Japan Recognizes 300 u. S.
Claims for COMPENSATION
THE ORIENT

Japan has promised to compensate where Justified for
damage done American property In China and has agreed
to make greater efforts TO avoid damage TO American
property and interests in future II said auhortatvey
today at Tokyo.
The gesture made by Ad American Ambassador
Kchsabnro f..tk cs.. A 80.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06

The gesture was made by Ad-
mifal kichisabnro Nomura. for.
eign minister. In n long talk with
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06
ArizOna Trail Dogs Seek
Trace OF Winnie Ruth Judd

Winnie Ruth Judds within
n
the The killer of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-06

HEtsStNhh - An offirtA an
nouncement tonight said 1000
Russians had been killed and 81
Red airplanes destroyed In karciia
alone In the last three days.
MOSCOW - An official COM
munique tonight said the Red army
had shot down IL Finnish planes
The eommunique denied as mali
cious fabrications" foreign reports
that i6 Soviet planes and ~
Soviet tanks had been destroyed.
wAsHIN GroN-rre.,den,
Roosevelt proposed today that Fin
lands payment on her war debt he
used for benefit Of the Finnish peo-
pies.
LONDON - Great Britain laid
responsibility for Russia's invasion
OF Finland at the door Of Adolf
Hitler today, Hitler made a bar
gain with Josef Stain that Great
Britain and France refused, Brit
ish Foreign Secretary viscount
Halifax implied in a parliamentary
debate. and thus "bartered" the
liberties of the Baltic peoples in
exchange for Russian neutrality.
NORTHERN EUROPE
Men, women and children,
tense and fearful, watched
the s0hdding iron gray storm
clouds over Helsinki, Finland.
today, and listened for the
drone of airplane motors, in
the belief Russia might at any
hour launch a ruthless poison
gas attack on the city.
Despite assertions in au-
thorized Russian m e d iums
that only military detectives
would be attacked by Red
planes, the rumor spread
through the Finnish capital
during the night that a gas
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flee
finn CAPITAL,
SNOW SHIELDS
Finnish Troops Are
Reported Holding
Back Russ Hordes,
Scoring Victories
fBUI.IETINs)

tBULLETINs)
HEI.siNkI - An official an
nouncement tonight said 1000
Russians had been killed and 81
Red sirplanes destroyed In karclia
alone In the last three days.
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BANK TRANSACTIONS
Tacoma .............S2.e30. 900
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-03
Cardinal Mundelein

George Cardinal Mundelein of the do
cese of Chicago passed away yesterday IN
his SiXty-eighth year. His death came at
the height of an active career in the Cath
Ollie church of America A contemporary OF
the late Patrick Cardinal Hayes he at
tended the same preliminary schools, and
both received the red hat at the same
consistory in Rome One was destined to
become prince of the church in the large
archdiocese of New York, the other in the
diocese of Chicago, which numbers 1,OOO,-
600 Catholics.
Cardinal Mundelein has been regarded
as one of the outstanding church men of
this country today. His advance in the
church was steady, and his astuteness,
his executive ability, combined with the
excellent qualities that made him holy
!, priest in the order of Melchlzedek, all
combined to make him a person OF great
Importance, not only to his church, but
to his country and mankind.
It has been said that Cardinal Mum
delein's program of building has been
unparalleled in church history. For this
reason he had become known as the
builder Among his efforts along this
line is one of the finest parochial school
systems in this country, if not the world,
an outstanding theological School KIoWn
rs the Seminary of st. Mary, hospitals,
orphanageS, converts, rectorles and
churches AS reward for his services
to the church his diocese was chosen as
the first American one in which an Eu-
charistic Congress was held,
The cardinals death yesterday cuts
short an uncommonly active career. He
was man that could little be spared,
dying when apparently in good health,
but like many another man of his calibre
his work came first, and though his most
active career most certainly must have cut
short his years on this earth, the world
at large never knew him as other than an
active and we'll man, capable of continu-
ing his work with man for God for years
to come. AS a religious leader Cardinal
Mundelein had few equals. His death is
national loss, and his diocese of Chicago
has lost builder of buildings and of
souls.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-03
Small Town Elections

Despite the feeling for the last year
or more that the Democratic party was
slipping in Connecticut and the general
upheaval at last state election, due to the
big Socialist vote and internal disSen-
sion in general in the Democratic ranks,
yesterdays small town elections in West
ern Connecticut failed to materialize up
to the expectations of Republicans in
that section
The fact that the Republicans were
only successful in taking IS of the 40
towns voting in Western Connecticut
yesterday is of more than passing i'm
portance to the outlook for the Demo-
cratic party in the state in next years
election. Although from all reports the
voting as here in Waterbury today,
where a referendum is being conducted
on the city manager plan, was more or
less apathetic. What this BODIES year
and one month from now remains to be
seen. There are far too many exigencies
in the offing between that time and now
to make any predictions right now
However, the fact that the Democrats
wrested such stable towns as Bristol
and NorWalk from Republican control
and kept Torrington in line are en-
couraging features of yesterdays cleo
TONS With things in general politically
speaking getting back to normal by the
time next year rolls around the outlook
for another Democratic landslide in Con-
necticut in 1910 is not too much to hope
for Of course the outcome of today's
referendum vote here may add or detract
much to or from the setting of the polit-
ical picture especially in the Fifth
Congressional District AS Waterbury
goes will probably go the Fifth District.
All eyes today are focused on Water
bury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-03

seemed to us like a very poor joke on the
pig. But little did he suspect There was
worse in store for him. Now the French
soldiers are reported taking those pigs
up to the fighting lines and letting them
root their way through no-man's land.
The pig, roofing enthusiastically, finds
what he thinks is truffle But instead
it turns out to be buried German mine.
And with one stout thrust of bis porcine
muzzel, Mr.. Pig goes to Kingdom Come.
If it were not for the saving fact that the
pig has practically no future beyond the
butcher shop anyway, we'd say that was
pretty bad joke also.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-03

These words were somewhat in line with
a similar statement made last Saturday
by DR.. Margaret V. Kiely, dean of
Queens College in Flushing, N. Y, who
before an alumnae group spoke on the
moral aspects of peace and the considera-
ton of participation in the present World
War DR.. Kiely developed her subject
from the Catholic viewpoint to the end
that peace must and should be main
tanned if this is morally possible, and if
we are not compelled to take the step to
protect both honor and rights when all
other methods of Cancellation have failed.
Another point brought out by DR.. Kiely
and mentioned by Alfred E. Smith in his
Sunday night radio address was to the
effect that if our neutrality law in 1917
had been revised to follow along the lines
now outlined by President Roosevelt,
America would have had no need for en-
tering the war at that time for as Mr..
Smith said and DR.. Kelly in substance: ut
is undoubtedly the absence of such law
in 1917 that brought US into the World
War"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-03
The High Cost of War

No one need have any doubt as to what
a modern war really means. The British
schedule of war taxes, just adopted with
out a murmur of complaint in Parlia-
ment, show in bold relief an outline of
the burden. No one can escape.
Wage-earners whose annual income is
as low as $3.50 will pay So income tax if
unmarried A married man without
children whose income is $1,000 will pay
about $29. The same man making $4,000
will pay about $3.50. And the tax sched-
ule will be higher next year. With this
stiff tax dose comes sharp increase in
surtaxes on higher incomes, and Jump
of from 10 to 20 per cent in estate duties.
Excess profits will be promptly taken in
taxes, and consumption taxes on items
like beer, wine, liquor, tobacco, and sugar
have been sweepingly advanced.
For the present, Britain plans to "pay
as she goes; war loans will come later.
None can escape; from ditch-digger to
millionaire, each must carry his share.
That is modern war - totalitarian war.
The old days, when the poor paid the con-
sumption, or sales, taxes, while the rich
merely loaned their money at interest, to
be paid back later out of taxes, have van
iShed. The new plan is democratic, and
1Icl u w 4COG1 dill dQllll1 dIlO1l lOI GIllS
thorough-going manner of putting the
national shoulder to the wheel,
But this is not to be forgotten: the
whole thing means a lowered standard of
living. Not only in Germany, where
wood fibre bread and ersatz clothing are
already the order of the day, but in Eng
land, in France, and in any country that
goes to war, the great mass of the people
must see their standards of living slip
ping, sliding, gradually sagging down
ward toward subsistence The $2,O00-a-
year man who has to lay out $3.50 in cash
for income tax has very definite slice
lated into new shoes, warm coats, health
full food, that is grave sacrifice. It is
the old guns-and-butter choice all over
again. It will be the same in France and
Germany, and in any country that draws
the sword.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-03

No matter how much you try to dodge
it the main topic of the day is war and
peace. 1t concerns all vitality and though
we in this country do not want to enter
lain thoughts of participating in the war,
we have to face the issue. DR.. Charles
Seymour in his naturalization address to
the Yale students made the most i'm
portant point in his address saying: ODE
feat of the western democracies would be
a disaster of the first magnitude for the
United States. DR.. Seymour used for his
text King Solomons prayer for wisdom
to discern between good and bad" Wis
dom certainly is needed, wisdom and
right thinking, and paucity of hysteria
and emotionalism which two characteris-
tics carried many along on the crest of
the terrors of the last war, DR.. Seymour
went on to say that our representatives in
Washington should weigh the interests of
the nation "intelligently and courageous
ly."We agree with Dr. Seymour that it is no
mans right to spread the idea of war by
idle statements ungrounded, that we will
be dragged into it, and so on, and so
forth. At the same time no one knows
or can assert that we can stay out of the
conflict