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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-09-08
GIRL OF -FOUR
DIES OF BURNS

Burned in an accident while at
play. four-year-old Christine ku-
per, daughter of a rural Tacoma
family, died in a local hospital
Thursday night.
The child was the victim Of
mishap that occurred while she
and other children were playing
with matches. She was rushed to
the hospital by her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Kuper,. Rt. 4, box
406, where physicians battled
yainly to save her life.
The girls body was burned from
her chin to her knees when her
clothing caught fire. In addition
10 the second and third-degree
burns that scared her body, she
sustained severe shock.
Three-fourths of her body was
burned so badly that there was
little hope of saving her when she
reached the hospital. Physicians
kept her under emergency treat
ment for three hours and haf.
according to DIR. Ernest simard OF
the hospital staff. The child died
at s D. m, several hours after the
accident.
Other than her parents the girl
is survived by q sister. Dolores; a
Brother, Vessel; grandparents, Mr..
md Mrs. George Marshall and
1irs. Christine McCarty, all OF Ia
BONA.
Funeral services will be held
Saturday at $3.50 p. m. from Nell
hger's chapel, followed by burial
p Aqan>Ain yisv hnsiai pask
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-09-08
Fire Insurance Rate Drop
Means Saving of Thousands

by the fire rate reduction COM
mittee Of the Tacoma Chamber Of
Commerce.
Announcement of the news was
received Friday In a letter from
the rating bureau TO A. B. Com
fort, chairman Of the rate reduc-
ton committee. With the letter
was a chart showing how Tacoma
scored in the various divisions upon
which final rating Ii based.
The citys fire alarm system was
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RUlOR
AGAIN HEARD
AMIDST WAR!
However, French Say
They Continue to
Make Progress in
Western Attack
WESTERN FRONT

A French war eommunsqus
tonight reported continued
progress" by French forces on
the western front. despite
placing of mines and destruc-
ton of bridges by the enemy.
The oommunique. No. 10 Of the
war. reported active aerial and
naval action in cooperation with
the British fleet. aimed especially
at protecting sea lanes.
II WAS considered .ignlfic~at
In Europe tonight thai Mani
searces began rrpartkne ~
other attempt 10 reach . peace-
full settlement Of the European
conflict may ~ made. regard
less Of the failure 20 date Of
efforts to that end by Premier
Benito Mussolini. The opinion
was freely expressed In off,
ciaI Berlin sources that Ger
many would not be involved In
o long conflict with Britain
and France.
Informdnts said French at
tacks mere led By gigantic 20
ton tanks, mounting s-inch
guns, called rolling fortresses.
The spearhead Of the French
advance was said 10 be = point
40 miles southeast Of Luxem-
bourg. French troops were
believed TO be more than nine
miles inside Germany 1t this
point and perhaps others.
Their spearhead point seemed to
be directed in the vicinity Of
Neunkirchen, which Is about Is
miles inside Germany and a little
less distance than the northeast OF
Saarbruecken.
The German counter attacks
were said to be centering In the
Saarbruecken sector.
Frances idea in its offensive
operation. which 1t was indicated
was developing steadily, was to
force Germany to divert troops
from Poland. 1t was recognized
now, informants said. that Poland's
situation had become extremely
serious.
Luxembourg reported the
sound of guns WAS heard
throughout the night.
1t was understood no British
troops yet were In action. Troops
arriving in France, it was said,
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Luxembourg reported the
sound Of guns WAS heard
throughout the night.

Tacomans can expect to save be-
tween SOS, 900 and $4,000 on their
fire insurance costs next year, ac-
cording to an announcement FRI
day that the city had been pro-
NOTED from a fourth to a third
class rating by the Washington
Surveying and Rating Bureau.
Fire insurance premiums viii be
reduced from 10 to Is per cent
with the new rating in effect.
knowledge of Tacoma's fire
rating promotion climaxed nine
years persistent plugging away"
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War BULLETINS


"Notss" Drop Frem Clssds
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ts~es. nefis~nlfu sskWewA
heard ~ dark Hears " fA>s mewnme gv9 eeey
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parted frsm ssv<vai pcsrfs ss~Aew Juftnnf neNr cl
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ss TAsv contained ks w~yWsaes psI (sspst l1nt 1N(
la~d wAsa fsvssd % nsAt ~n - - veass. kHeessss
eeex md ksr vesesvrss Neao-
Must Carry Cas Masks
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al uun~ pseas vso - nsas
10 asdessd ss ~hs sves.ee9 ssssseA -
,assyea~s svsssai bs~s1nrnen prus~A
Fate Of 81 UnlEnown
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DAY rssspssa An y tAeenss ~ ~sw s
wsrs ansscsanss1 ~ 4
Britain 10 War sn ShipUine
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-09-08

The German high command
Issued q laeonic bulletin 10.
night saying Nazi mechanical
forces had entered Warsaw
after brief fighting.
The entry OF German advances
troops into the Polish capital. after
. week Of war. was tr.umphantly
announced by radio to the German
people.
Capture OF the city OF sandomir
fsandomierzl. SIS miles southwest
Of the temporary Polish capital Of
Inblin. also was announced by
Nazi military circles. which said
German advances through the
south of Poland threatened TO cut
off the normal ifns cf Polisss ~
treat toward Rumanis.
sandomir WAS described az the
center Of Polish armament indus
tries.
The German advance. halted
north of Warsaw for two days. had
been moving up from the south
20 close the wise on the Polish
capital.
Brief hut apparently hope
less resistance by the Poles In
the southeast of Warsaw Was
reported In the Mani dis
patches, which said the Ger
mans broke through with the
use Of tanks. armored cars and
airplanes which rnked Polish
columns with machine gun
fire.
The German troops had pushed
eastward of Warsaw on the north
and were rapidly encircling the
city on the south before the entry
Of Nazis into the capital was an
nounced. thus making the position
of Polish forces untenable.
The Polish military position was
regarded by British experts In
London as less favorable than had
been hoped. but by no means
hopeless. The main Polish forces
were believed to have escaped the
full force of the Nazi thrust and
expected to make a strong stand,
as British-F French west front press
ure against Germany increases.
The Polish government Is now
at Lublin.
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WON'T PERMIT
PRoFIIEElIle,
Ed. PROMISES
There's Surplus Of
Foodstuffs, and No
Conceivable Short
age Of Essentials


wAssssSoros--Asssv~sy ssss-
ersi Framh AwspAy to-day sas1
after . c~sseseses wssA pr~ss1ess
neas~v~sa shas ~ fsas ~ rspse~s
ssts- psssss~>stsu ls~p ~sss 80
sd~sssss 10 % r~ai 49,"
Observation-Disclosures
Roosevelt today assured the
public there viii be no rrpetI-
ton Of war time foo a
profiteering. such a. that
which doomed the cost Of Nv
ing in 1911 and l21A .-z~..
He said that although prices u
foe<istuffs may b. on the rise. thsss
prices viii not 20 through the roof.
Roosevelt said thers 10 M con-
oelvable possibility Of an actual
shortage Of foodstuffs IN this
country.
He said the government must do
IL best 10 prevent the psopls from
becoming excited about . situation
which does not exist.
The prsstdent coaserred -
the question II rising sso1
prices with Secretary If Asrs-
culture Henry A. wailace. No
apparently was convinced that
although prices hsve rtsea
sharply during ths last few
days, there h No cause for
alarm.
The real fact OF the food situs-
ton. Roosevelt said at his press
IN that there 10 an
actual surplus Of all foodstuffs,
and there In no conceivable short
age OF essential commodities.
He said there In no cause for
alarm and that II alarm exists, II
probably results from an unusual
situation In retail food stores.
which developed since the outbreak
Of war In Europe.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-09-08
SEVERE EARTHQUAKE
IN NORTH RECORDED

SEATTLE - The University Of
Washington seismograph recorded
Friday for nearly two hours, a
very severe" earthquake, believed
about $500 or 5000 miles north
west of Seattle in the north Pa
cific ocean or the tip of the Aleu-
tan islands off Alaska. The first
shock was recorded At 4l21z q. m.
psf.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-09-08

"The steamer Jean Jadot advIsef
that It has saved the crew Of A
men Of the s. 8. Regent Tiger,
British, torpedoed by a subma-
rinoe."
A capitalization showed that,
In five days Of war, 10 ships
have been sunk and 1855 per-
sons from their crews and
manifests are believed lost In
the war Of Great Britain and
Germany on one another's
shipping.
N addafion 10 Ne 70 ulxnh. tinnel
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TooAv's FINAL
BASEBALL

NATIONAL ixAsrH
ss.ss~nsu 80 ere liza % .
rns.s<ssA 60 ssf eee--s .
Walters ana L,ent@ssis fsgieAw
and nsasx.
tflrss Esssel
s-Al,sAesrAas 60 - ses-- : .
ero~kisr eli efs sax--ii ~ .
Hlxbe. ftarrsil "a and pssis.
crcaeh and Todd
tS~rosd gsssel
fhils<selrhia .. oes ic--i \ .
Bfeesiss. -...s. rel 49, .
tCailcd. rsinl
Mnloahy and Mules. Tamulls
and Todd.
81 ieuss Ion ~ tee--is n .
Chicago !. 80 o7s oie-- . 10 Q
Mcose. shoun 10, and Owen. ras.
sean. whlishiii CD. Isilsrd co.. J.
Russell lsl. Olsen tsl and Man.
cuso. carhark.
New YORK 81 Boston. postponed
rain.
AMERicAs LEAGUE
nsstea. ....... coo 900 - . I
New yerk. 30 lie va Z Z
tGause called. rsint -
Gaiehoaise. nlckman III. and
Peacock: ffuffing and pickey.
wsshiag tan. 100 ESQ o00---s ~
Philsseiphis. os1 900 eox--s Z .
krakauskaA. carrasqusI. Thsn-
man ~ and Terrell. Ciuliani: Pip
pen and Hayes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-09-08
STATE CASH BALANCE
SHOWS BIG DECREASE

OLYMPIA - The state took in
s6,548. 6s5 from taxes during Au-
gust and spent $S.408,609, State
Treasurer Phil II. Gallagher re-
ported today in his monthly finan-
cial statement.
The balance Of cash In all 81
state funds fell from $10.153,683
to $8,293. sos as result. The gen.
eral fund deficit increased from
s3,5eo.4 TO $4,158.02S IN the
month.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-09-08

more were reported attackeo "
German submarines, but were be-
lieyed safe. and one German sub
was reported destroyed, with it,
crew, by the British navy.
Great Britain, which II master
Of the seas. but not Of raiding
German submarines. lost five mer-
chantmen, all victims Of subma~
rines. British warships had sunk
three German ships. Neutral
Greece had lost one, the Kosti,
which struck . German mine IN
~ Baatis.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-09-08

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-09-08
WAR SUSPECTS
ARE GRABBED
BY OFFICERS
Enemy Agents. Sym
pathixers Detained !;
British Papers Re-
duce to B Pages

Secret agents OF Scotland
Yard and the naval and mil.
tary intelligence departments
have arrested more than 5000
men and women as suspected
enemy agents in the biggest
spy hunt ever held. il was dis
closed today at London.
Lists II suspects we're fully com.
piled months before th< var ssth
Germany started. II ~sz under
stood, and arrests were started -
soon A. thu government announced
. state Of war existed.
The special branch of Scotland
yard whose picked men deal with
espionage, and the intelligence men
Of The navy and army. oo-opersted
IN raids which have now extended
to all parts Of Britain, 4, was re-
ported.
suspects were listed under
thre~ headinEsi L. ACTIVE
enemy agenfs: b. Persons
sssp~csed Of acting ~ enemy
agents; and S--sympsthisers
likely to asslst enemy agcsta
So effective were advance ar
rangements. u was said. that every
suspected person on the secret
agents lists had now been de-
tanned. and will be held durin. the
war. Those OF them who are Brit
ish citizens. however, are per-
mitted 10 appeal 10 the home sec
Rotary within 10 days for a hear
ing before a special tribunal.
Scotland Yard Helps
The work OF rounding up sus-
poets was considerably facilitated.
II was disclosed. because Scotland
yard was able u provide many
more men than had been thought
possible. The reason was that since
the start of the war there had
been a tremendous drop in Grim
inal activities. Criminals, like other
people. were preoccupied with the
war.
Meanwhile, ministry OF informa-
ton communiques indicated naval
operations against German SUBJ
marines were becoming important.
British newspapers reduced their
size TO eight pages today as a war
conservation measure. Monday
they had cut down to IL.
Rap Censorship
Even though they had TO reduce
their size again, the papers. con-
sentative as well as opposition now,
had space for vigorous criticisms
Of the British censorship.
They complained particularly
not In their own behalf but In that
Of foreign correspondents, espe-
cially Americans.
The reason was the feeling that
foreign correspondents were being
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F. D. R. LEAVES CAPITAL

W A 3 II I N q 7 O N-President
Roosevelt left here today by train
for his estate at Hyde Park, N. r..
where he plans to spend the week.
end.
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War Vessels, in FiVe Days,
Haze Sent T en- Ships Doevn
(BULLETINs)

NEWCASTLE, England received tonight aaid ~
Pusstss had sunk BY subnssns ~
Atlantic.
said today It, nnes Staten
picked "a members Of TIE II
steamship WnkIeigh There indication Ne
happened wnkIigh n wnkiish ~
Vancouver, b. G., Aug with wheat and lumber.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-09-08
sANDOIR
ALSO FAILS TO
M INVADERS
Retreat Of Po1and's
Army lsContinuins;
Armament Industry
Center IL Captured
sriIsrr>,

IoNDo>--The Po,ssn yass4O re.
rortszs from Warsaw tonight that
Tire capital had suffered ths nag.
gesi ar raid Of ths ~ar. ~ith many
tncsnftsrs eoushs falling.
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WEATHER FORECAST

Fair tonight and Saturday. Tenn
peratures: High, s.; low, 81. Sun
rises, $40; sets, 6:35.
Tides Tomorrow
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The Radiomarne Corporation at New York today said
had received report that submarine had topedoed and
sunk the British steamer Regent Tiger
Radiomarne said had received the following message
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-09-08
japanese Goodwill
Plane At Chicago

CHICAGO The huge Nippon,
carrying eight japanese airmen
and newspapermen on a round-the-
world goodwill flight, landed at
Chicago for an overnight stop
today after a swift nonstop hop
from Albuquerque, n. M.
BANK TRANSACTIONS
k1seouoa ...-... AZ, 501S>0o
Evening star., 1939-03-31
d. Graduated Income Tax
Still Faces Difficulties
Experts Fear Enactment of Law Would
Mean Hiqher-Brocket Confiscotion

ing a 4 per cent Federal tax and q
2 per cent District tax, or total
of 6 per cent Of his taxable income.
But, according to the Pond-Stam
report, a sharply graduated tax for
the District modelled on the Federal
law would amount to downright
confiscation in the higher brackets" :"
"A tax amounting to so per cent
of the Federal tax" the report says.
would, together with the Federal
tax, cause a cumulative burden Of
almost 80 per cent on large incomes. :"
The experts also point out that
of the $13 300, 900 paid In the Fed
eral tax. only about 5000 900. or a
little less than a quarter Of this
amount, came from the brackets
under $4,000. The preponderant
majority of Government employees
have a much smaller income than
this.
If the same proportion prevailed
in local tax, incomes of less than
$4,000 would contribute only a little
more than $1,000, 900, leaving about
$5,000,000 for the upper brackets
to raise.
The report states "some may aver
that exemptions should be lowered
to reach the great mass of Federal
salaries and that at reasonable rates
sufficient revenue could be raised"
However, it goes on to point out:
l. According to civil service re-
ports, there were 93,047 positions in
Evening star., 1939-03-31

Numerous difficulties over and
beyond mere constitutionality await
any effort by Congress to enact q
graduated personal income tax law
for the District, it was pointed out
today as House subcommittee as
sembled to rewrite a District tax
program in the light of last Mon
days Supreme Court decision hold
ing that State taxation Of United
States employe salaries Is consti-
tutional.
Among those summoned today
to advise Chairman Nichols of the
Fiscal Affairs Subcommittee Of the
House District Committee are DR..
Chester Pond and Colin F. STAN,
the experts who submitted the orig
inal program in January which
called for a combination of a sales
tax and tax on incomes of $4,000
or more. Mr.. Nichols would like
to know what they think of dis
carding the sales tax idea and hav-
ing an income tax instead, in view
of the court decision.
Nevertheless. unless the ideas of DR..
Pond and Mr.. STAN have changed
radically since the time they pre-
pared their original program, Mr..
Nichols and his subcommittee will
get scant encouragement for an
income tax. Mr.. Nichols, it was
pointed out today, need only con-
suit the experts previous report
to discover that they consider the
constitutionality of an income tax
only one of number of equally
difficult problems incident to draw
ing up such a revenue proposal for
the District.
1t May Not Be So Easy.
Mr.. Nichols indicated he thought
the sales tax might be dropped and
the income tax exemption lowered
to produce the $5,500,000 revenue
the sales tax was expected to bring.
But the experts don't think it's
that easy.
The proposition in short is this:
Will an income tax that can be
levied on Federal employees raise
enough money to meet the required
amount? DR.. Pond and Mr.. Stam
in their report said no. No equit-
able income tax will produce the
required amount, they said. and
listed their arguments against it.
In the first place. they took the
amount of income tax paid by the
District to the Federal Government
in 1936-$13, ,290,899. Incidentally,
this figure was nearly twice what
the District paid in 1885 and nearly
three times what it paid in 1884.
To raise the $6,775 900 which the
sales and income tax combined were
supposed to raise, an income tax
meeting this burden alone would
have to be about so per cent of the
Federal tax, taking this 1896 total
as base If graduated percentages
beginning at per cent will raise
$13.290.8 .899. a similar percentlIe
scale taking half of the FeGral
tax in each case would yield half
as much revenue or roughly the
required s6,775,OO This, of course,
assumes that the same exemptions
would prevail in each case.
Thus the man with small but
taxable income would begin by pay
Evening star., 1939-03-31
D. C. Tax Committee
Fails to Aoree

Members of the Tax Subcommittee
of the House District Committee
struggled unsuccessfully for nearly
two hours today to decide upon ma
jor principles of the proposed long
Arange municipal tax program, and
planned to meet again in executive
session probably next week.
At the end of the closed session,
Representative Nichols, Democrat,
of Oklahoma, subcommittee chair
man, announced no decision had
been reached, but that the COM
mittee had requested its tax consult
ants to prepare estimates of what
revenue might be expected under
various different combinations sug-
gested for the program. He said the
committee has made no change as
yet in the program as submitted to
1t by DR.. Chester Pond
Senator Capper, Republican, of
Kansas, who attended the session,
said he was in favor of a personal
income tax and opposed to a sales
tax for the District because he felt
q sales tax had not worked we'll In
other cities and would constitute q
burden on the poor people.
Asked 70 Prepare Estimates.
The tax experts who framed the
= so-called Pond program have been
asked to prepare estimates of what
revenue might be received from q
combination Of an income tax with
: q sales tax of either per cent or
! per cent, or from tax program
eliminating the sales tax plan alto
gether. However, Mr. Nichols en-
phasized the first job for the SUBJ
committee would be to determine
upon the major tax principles to be
carried in the bill and thereafter the
details of each feature of the tax
plan.
Senator King. Democrat, of Utah,
chairman of the Senate District
COMMITTEE, who was invited to at
tend the meeting, was unable to be
present. Members of the subcom-
mittee meeting with Chairman
Nichols were Representative Nc
Gehee of Mississippi. Democrat;
Dirksen, Republican, of Illinois, and
Bates, Republican, of Massachusetts,.
Also attending the meeting were
Commissioners Melvin c. Hazen and
David McCoach: Corporation Coun-
sci Elwood H. Seal, 10 v. Morgan,
sole member of the District Board
of Tax Appeals; DR.. Pond and Colin
r. STAN of the Congressional Joint
Committee on Internal Revenue
Taxation.
Statement is Filed.
The Citizens Committee on Fair
Taxation filed with the Nichols
group today statement that it esti-
mated that progressive personal
income tax, with rates ranging from
1,per cent on the first 5000 above
exemptions to per cent on taxable
income above 100000, would pro-
duce $500 900. It added that If
a.deduction as large as 30 per cent
of the estimated yield were allowed,
on account of credits for payment
BY non-residents on State income
taxes, the District tax still would
Yield $2,300,000. It declared that
the fears on the part of opponents
of an income tax that the rates
would have to be conf1scatory were
absurd
Evening star., 1939-03-31
Italy Ready 10 Wait
On Colonial Claims.
Musso|ini Says
Speech Eases Fears
OF Crisis on Demands
F., Against France
NJ the Assnei tad presS

~ the Associated Press.
RIGGIO. Calabria. italy. March
31-Premier Mussolini said In a
4peech here today that Italians were
9ready to wait" for fulf1llment of
their claims on France. Fascists are
thinking in terms Of decades, he
said.
Foreign observers regarded the
statement as a further indication
that Italy intended to avoid crisis
over African colonial claims on
France, while trying to settle them
by diplomatic means.
Mussolini told wildly cheering
Fascists that he had little to add
to his speech in Rome last Sunday,
In which he identified the French
Italian problem as Tunisia, Jibuti
and the Suez Canal.
Premier Daladier of France, in
response to the Sunday speech, let
III Duce know that France was
awaiting Qualification of the Italian
demands.
The crowd booed and whistled
when Mussolini spoke of stupid
people beyond the Alps vino say
the Italian people are growing away
from the Fascist regime.
After my speech to the Squad
fisti at Rome, there is little to add"
Mussolini declared.
I'VE are not forgetting we are
preparing ourselves; we are think
ing by decades, and, therefore, we
are always ready to wait as a people
which has many arms and very
solid heart
= More than four years have passed
since the month in which was mo-
billzed the Peloritana division sent
to Africa for the Ethiopian War; -,
four years of bitter tests and Sc
fious sacrifices which eliminated
In conquest of an empire which is
an empire of the people and which
will be defended by the people on
land, on sea and in the sky against
anybody.
Some minded people be-
yond the Alps, confusing their de-
sires with reality, have invented the
fable of growing away of the Ital-
ian people from the regime.
Your whistling in their eardrums
will show them exactly the con-
trary is true