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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-26
Miss Elizabeth Harrison,
Mr.. Berntsen Plight Troth
Engagement Revealed at Annual Dinner for Seniors Of Apha
Beta Epsilon Sorority a. Home OF Misses Hesy; Bride
elect First President OF Womens Residence Hall

Coming complete surprise to her Alpha Beta Epsilon
sorority sisters who had gathered the home of Miss Vera
and Miss Barbara Heay Wednesday evening for dinner
honorng seniors of the sorority the Of
the engagement Of Miss Elizabeth Hardison who Is Of
the outstanding seniors of the graduating class Mr. Fritz
Berntsen. who is director of the weknown Sbean male
chorus.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-26
Nov ConvsIeseinq

Mrs. n. l.. Prescott. 1894 No.
Junett. IL nov eonysleselag At her
home and il able 10 see her
friends
Olympic Hebeksb isedxe msm.
oral service Friday. O'Clock, l.
o. o. " hall Mrs Aims Rey-
noIds noble grand Mrs. W. G.
Veddsr decoration chairman.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-05-26
Mrs. Desssn Surprised
By Friends

Friends and relatives cf Mrs.
v. nessen. isss So Alnswurth.
Acnorea her Al surprise birthday
dinner recently. Guests were Mr.,
and Mrs eurmsn freeman and
daughter Virginia. Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph pcssen, Mr.. and Mrs Fred.
erich pessen, Mrs Fsthsr pvssrs
Mlss Soivesx nsszen Mics pvFss
ard Miss Mauresn ps~~n. and
Mr.. Edward pes@en.
Montana labor news., 1939-09-07
issue CALL FOR Go
CONVENTION

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-Official
call for the second annual conven-
ton of the Congress of Industrial
Organizations, to be held at San
Francisco starting October 10, was
issued today by Pres. John L. Lewis
and Sec. James B. Carey.
The CLIO executive board will con-
vene in the Golden Gate city five
days earlier, on October 5.
Sessions of the convention will be
held at Polk Hall in the Civic Audi
torium. Convention headquarters
will be in the Hotel Whitcomb.
Under provisions of the CLIO con-
stitution drawn up and accepted at
last years Pittsburgh convention,
each CLIO international and national
union and organizing committee is
entitled to the following number of
delegates:
For the first 5000 members, two
delegates.
Over 5000 members, three dele
gates.
Over 10000 members, four dele
gates.
Over $4,000 members, five dele
gates.
Over $4,000 members, six dele
gates.
Over $4,000 members, seven dele
gates.
Over 100000 members, eight dele
gates.
Over 10000 members, nine dele
gates.
Over 100000 members, ten dele
gates.
Each CLIO Industrial Union Coun-
Gil and each local industrial union is
entitled to one delegate.
CLIO Director John Brophy is chair
mar of the Convention Arrangements
Committee and Ralph Hetzel is Sec
rotary.
All resolutions, appeals and con-
stitutional amendments offered for
convention action must be in the
hands of the secretary at CLIO head
quarters, HOG Connecticut Ave,
Washington, d. C., at least 10 days
prior to the opening of the conven-
ton.
Montana labor news., 1939-09-07
MIDWEST UNIONS URGE
OF WPA
PROGRAM

DIES MOINES-(FP)-Both the
Iowa State Federation of Labor
(AFL) and the Iowa-Nebraska
States Industrial Union Council
(CIO) have taken action calling for
continuance and expansion of the
WPA worker education program.
The program, which uses unem-
ployed teachers for classes at union
centers in such subjects as labor
legislation and parliamentary law,
has been seriously curtailed in many
parts of the country, despite requests
by labor unions for more service.
1.-THE teachers on your staff have
ably presented the facts through dis
cussion meetings, and there is no
doubt that they have helped the
workers to better understand their
problems" A. A. Couch, state fed
Grafton president, wrote to the WPA.
Pres. Don Harris of the CLIO coun-
Gil declared, Generally speaking it
is difficult to teach an old dog new
tricks, and workers employed in in
dustry generally r content with
the education they have received be-
fore entering into industry.
Montana labor news., 1939-09-07
SHOE WORKERS
Reflect MARA

WASHINGTON, D. C.-John j..
Mara, general president of the Boot
and Shoe Workers Union, reported
that this American Federation of
Labor affiliated union had held a
most successful convention in Toron-
to, Canada.
1T was the most outstanding
gathering of Boot and Shoe Workers
ever held in the history of our labor
movement" said Mr.. Mara, "and
the unusual progress made by our
international Union in the past ten
years is fully recorded in the report
to this 18th convention which con-
tains a long list of achievements, the
substantial increase in membership,
the campaign for our Union Stamp,
the great success of the organization
in securing new contracts with en-
ployers and the satisfactory condi-
ton of the finances of the union"
Several changes were made in the
constitution. Under one of the new
provisions, John ]. Mara becomes
the general president-secretary
treasurer" two offices being COM
bined into one on account of the
able services rendered by Americas
union leader in shoe industries.
Considerable attention was given
to the Union Stamp" by the dele
gates to the convention. This Union
Label of the Boot and Shoe Workers
Union may be impressed upon the
sole, insole or lining Of boots, shoes
or slippers that are made wholly by
members of the Boot and Shoe
Workers Union. The union offers
a sum of $500 in cash to anyone
furnishing evidence sufficient to
prove the fraudulent issue or use of
its label.
Montana labor news., 1939-09-07

Genuine prosperity is a
condition and situation
where all who so desire
may work and receive the
products of their labor"
Leslie Taylor.
Montana labor news., 1939-09-07
Why The Sudden In
crease In Cost Of Living

Organized labor in Silver Bow
County is up in arms about the sud-
den increase in the cost of living in
Silver Bow County. There appears
to be nc reason according to COM
ments made in the Central Council
why sugar, flour, and other neces-
sites of life should suddenly be in
creased in cost. Of course, it is pre-
sumed that the war in Europe has
caused these advances. However,
the wholesalers had quite a stock of
these goods on hand, and at least
they should be sold out before any
additional cost is attached to them.
The unions are appealing to the mer-
chants to be fair in this matter.
There are certain elements that
should be taken into consideration,
and one of them is that the contract
of the miners with the Anaconda
Copper Mining Company does not
expire until October /. In this NOM
ent copper is priced at l2hc a pound.
This means that the miners will get
a twenty five cent additional pay
over the present scale, provided that
this price Is maintained or increased
for the next thirty days, but that
will be after the contract has ex-
pred. The contract Of the craft or
CARNATIONS expires September 20.
Negotiations are now going on be-
tween the crafts, the miners, and
the company for a new agreement.
The rise in prices in commodities,
as is always the case, always pre-
cedes any increase in wages.
To the men under the contract
system with the company and under
the sliding scale, increases in the
price Of copper must be maintained
for thirty days before additional pay
will be advanced to the men. but in
the meantime they must pay the
added cost of living.
It is hoped that the business peo-
pie will not attempt to profiteer on
the working people in this wal the
same as they did in the last one.
Montana labor news., 1939-09-07
Cleric Calls Non-Union
Man Enemy OF His
Fellow Workers

W~ILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - (FP)
For a laboring man to stay out
of a union-and l mean free unions,
not company unions-makes him not
only a prey of capital but an enemy
of his fellow workers." the Rev.
Edward L. Stevens, director of the
Diocesan Missionary Fathers at
Richmond, Va, told Catholic, Jew
ish and Protestant members of the
Williamstown Institute of Human
Relations.
Company unions cannot be free
to accomplish the purpose of labor.
They subject it to the whims of the
employers"
The Rev. Gregory Feige of New
ton, N. j., urged the public to pro-
test against Father Charles E. Coug-
hlin's harmful propaganda to Coug-
hlin's superior, Archbishop Mooney
of Detroit.
Formation by various religious
groups of organizations dedicated
to the preservation of civil liberties
was urged by Asst. U. S. Atty. Gen.
Samuel o. Clark.
Our menace to civil liberties lies
in the tragic kind of thinking that
finds expression in mob violence and
vigilante activities, labor racketeer-
ing, industrial espionage, use Of pri-
vate police systems in labor disputes
and racial and religious intolerance"
Other speakers included Pres. H.
N. cCracken of Vassar College,
Novelist Fannie Hurst and Freda
Kirchwey, editor of The Nation.
Montana labor news., 1939-09-07
KALISpELL ENTERTAINS
ON LAB0R'S HOLIDAY

Kalispell conservative estimates
state that nearly $500 people attend
ed the second annual Labor Day pic
mic held at Lake Blaine under the
sponsorship of the Central Trades
and Labor Council of Kalispell. The
weather was ideal for the occasion
and with Zeph LaVoy as master Of
ceremonies the round of sports events
proved to be exceptionally enter
tanning for young and old.
Speakers on the program included,
Left Erickson, Associate Justice of
the Montana Supreme Court, James
D. Graham, president of the Mon
tana Federation of Labor, and c. A.
Paddock, Lumber and Sawmill
Workers Organizer. Bob Stratton,
President of the Missoula Trades
and Labor Council and Ernest Burns
of Whitefish were lso introduced
and extended fraternal greetings
from their home cities.
Opening with music by the Kalis-
pell band at II a. m, several of the
~children's entertainment features
were run off before lunch at 1890
at which time free ice cream and
coffee were served to the rapidly
growing crowd.
Two of the outstanding events of
the afternoon the log rolling
contest won by Ray Mcbride, Jim
mic Wheeler placing second and the
log saving won by a visiting team
from Troy, Perry, Decker and Mar
ion McGhan. Decker and McGhan
won second place earlier in the day
in a similar contest held as part of
the Labor Day celebration at Libby.
The prize for this event was a 6 #.
Disston cross cut aw donated by
the Disston Co. of Seattle.
Other highlights of the picnic en-
tertainment were as follows: The
larges family Gather a union men,
ber) Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Wheeler and
Mr.. and Mrs. William Greer were
awarded equal prizes, each couple
having ten children. The Pie eat
ing contest won by Robert LaVoy,
Husband calling, Alice Pound, nail
driving, Mrs. Elmer Clark, rolling
pin throwing, Lois Hammer. Geo
rye Ecklund of Somers was the out
standing athlete placing first in sev-
eral events for young men.
Judges for the sports, which IN
tinued late in the evening following
the speaking, were Dick Ricketts,,
Jim Kanaley and Harold Hatlen.
Montana labor news., 1939-09-07

There ea46e<Ao( prosperity
without jutist wages.
Earnings Of wcf1fpE, people
are the basis and index of
progress in any corlmnnity.
Montana labor news., 1939-09-07
MATCH WORKERS URGE BIRD
TERM FOR ROOSEVELT

WADSWORTH, O. (FP) - With
adoption of a resolution indorsing
a third term for Pres. Roosevelt and
one opposing any amendments to
the Wagner act, the Natl. Match
Workers Council (AFL) concluded
its annual convention.
Other resolutions urged the ALL
and CLIO to resume peace negotia-
tons, supported CLIO Pres. John L.
Lewis's attack on Vice Pres. Garner
and urged passage of the Wagner
health bill.
Montana labor news., 1939-09-07
Montana Welfare
Council Meeting

A statewide meeting OF the
Montana Welfare Council will
take place at the Capitol
Grounds In Helena, Friday
afternoon, September g., at
which time it is hoped the
State Welfare Commission will
be present.
Unions and farm O~rganiza-
tons are urged to send dele
gates.
Montana labor news., 1939-09-07

WASHINGTON-(FP)-Bot AFL
and CLIO locals were certified by the
NLRB as collective bargaining
agents for employees of the Natl. Can
Corp. at Maspeth, N. Y. Dist. is,
Init. Assn. of Machinists (AFL) will
represent the plants machinists and
Lodge 1870, Steel Workers Organ
izing Committee (CIO), will repres-
ent all other employees.
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Committees Announced
For Methodist Farley

Including several members from
Washington and adjacent States,
committees were announced last
night to represent the Methodist
Episcopal Church at the Unity Con-
ference to be held by the three
branches of Methodism in Kansas
City, Mo-, April 26.
The personnel was made public
in Indianapolis by DR.. Harry Earl
Woolever of Washington, who was
quoted by the Associated Press as
saving that the selection had been
made by the M. E. Commission
on Interdenominational relations,
which met in Indianapolis this
week.
DR.. Woolever, secretary of the
Joint Methodist Executive Commit
tee on Union, will represent the
ministry in the conference and other
members will include R. M. Williams
of Washington and Francis R. Bay
ley of Baltimore.
DR.. Ernest H. Cherrington of
Washington is on the Committee of
Missions, Temperance and Hospi-
tails; on publishing interests are DR..
Joseph M. M. Gray, chancellor of
American University, and B. j.
Meeks of Frederick, Md. A men,
ber of this committee also is Alfred
M. Landon, Republican presidential
candidate in 1886. D. Stewart Pat
terson of Washington is on the
Education Committee.
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Seton Darr Addresses
LEGAL Aid Bureau

Seton Darr, president of the
District Bar Association, was prin-
cipal speaker last night at the an
nual meeting of the Legal Aid Bu-
reau of the District In the Uni
versity Club. He was introduced
by Dean Hill Stanley, president of
the Board of Trustees.
Mr.. Darr said that behind the
figures of 1000 cases handled by
the bureau during the last year
'lie many interesting but confiden-
tial tales of families reunited, of
understandings between tenant and
landlord, between debtor and cred
itor.
Typical of those aided was the
workman who could not get a job
until the landlady released tools
which she was holding for back
rent; the messenger boy whose
means of livelihood, his bicycle, was
damaged in an automobile acci-
dent; the widow Who was helped
in an adjustment of an insurance
policy so that it could pe used for
the support # her child"
The bureh, located at 1409 L
street NV, maintains conference
hours frols 2 to 4 pm. on week
days and from 10 am. to noon on
Sat, .days with the aid of senior
attorneys on the staff and law stu
dents from local schools.
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Retired Railway Man Has Used
Same Razor Daily Since 1886
Received 1t as Gift
For Saving Life
Of Barber

Lucius T. Royal, retired rail-
road conductor of 408 A street Sc,
has shaved with the same straight
edge razor every day, year in and
year out, since the aged implement
was given to him during the blizzard
of 1886.
At that time, according to Mr..
Royal, he was brakeman on a
Southern Railway train that piled
between Richmond and Danville,
Va. Through the sleet and the ice
he made his way across the top of
freight cers-and between two cars
happened to see the apparently life
less form of man.
The brakeman climbed down be-
tween the cars and rescued q youth
almost frozen to death.
THAT fellow happened to be a
barber" Mr.. Royal said yesterday.
II saved his life. In return for that
service he presented me with this
razor"
After So years railroading Mr..
Royal retired some seven years
ago-and is now doing nothing
about the hardest job he ever had.
when man is turned loose with
nothing to do" he says, somebody
ought to put him out of his misery"
Still, at 80, Mr.. Royal is spry
as a man in his fifties, although he
has difficulty in hearing and his eye
Aeht has failed somewhat, he says
Yet he manages to get around.
He and his wife, II years his
junior, take great pleasure in their
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Norris to Offer Bill
To Permit T. v. A. Deal
Islanders Self Sufficient.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Senator Norris, Independent, OF
Nebraska said yesterday he soon
would introduce corrective legis-
lation" to permit consummation
of an agreement under which the
Tennessee Valley Authority will ac-
quire properties controlled by the
Commonwealth & Southern Corp
The T. v. A. and Commonwealth
& Southern recently agreed that
the properties, operated by the Ten
nessee Electric Power Co., would be
sold to the Federal power agency
for s78,600,0O0.
while many people assumed that
the agreement already had been
consummated,". Senator Norris told
reporters, 'it was only tentative
understanding which cannot be car.
ried oVt until certain technical
changes are made in the T, v. A.
Act"
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Officers to Be Elected
At Sorority Session

Representatives of six active and
II alumnae chapters of Kappa
Kappa Gamma Social Sorority to-
day were to elect officers at the clos
ing business session of a two-day
convention at the sorority chapter
house at the University of Maryland.
More than so delegates, including
representatives from college chapters
at Duke, Goucher, William and
Mary, George Washington. West Vir-
ginia and Maryland participated in
business sessions and round-table
talks yesterday.
A luncheon given by the WASH
ington Alumnae Association at the
chapter house and a banquet at
Brooke Farm Teahouse will be other
features of the program today.
Mrs. c. P. .Leaphart, president Of
the Washington Alumnae Associa-
ton, will be the speaker at the ban
quet tonight.
Evening star., 1939-03-11
National Safety Council
Dinner 10 Be April Is

The National Safety Councils an
nual dinner, climaXing the year.
long National Traffic Safety Contest
conducted in 1.l63 cities and Al
States, will be held at the Mayfower
Hotel April 13.
At that time awards will be made
to four States and six cities which
finished at the top in the various
divisions of the contest. OF these
one State and one city will be given
national awards for the best safety
records in 1888.
Headliners on the program will be
Eddie Cantor, who will broadcast a
safety message to the Nations chill
dren, and DR.. George Gallup. who
will discuss What the People Think
About Safety"
The dinner will be attended by
Governors of the States to be hon.
ored and mayors of the cities win
ming awards, as well as members of
the Senate and House, diplomats,
public officials and safety leaders.
Evening star., 1939-03-11
State Department Maps
Plans 10 Honor Saito
BY the Associated Press,

fy the Associated Press.
The State Department released
today tentative details of the elab-
crate honors which will be accorded
the late former Ambassador, Hirosi
Saito, before his body leaves the
United States from Annapolis Md,
aboard the heavy cruiser Astoria
March 18.
A small guard Of honor will be
sent to the Japanese EMBASSY
March l8 by the United States Army
to render honors when the body is
placed in the hearse.
A procession will leave the En-
bassy at 10 o'clock and drive to
Annapolis. In the procession will
be the widow, Nine. Saito, and two
daughters; the new Japanese Am
bassador, Kensuke Horinouchi, &C
companied by his military aides
and by secretary of the Embassy.
who will be designated to return
to Japan with the body aboard the
cruiser
George T. Summerlin, chief of
State Department protocol. and Of
ficials of the Division of Far East
ern Affairs will likewise be In the
procession.
An opportunity will be afforded
Nine. Saito and her daughters to
board the ship and spend some
time alone with the body of her
husband before the cruiser sails.
The widow will not return to Japan
aboard the cruiser.
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Richardson Memorial
Will Be Dedicated

The Richardson Memorial Church,
Colmar Manor, Md, will be dedi-
Gated at ceremonies at 2:30 pm. to-
morrow at the church, it was an
nounced today by j. R. Best, chair
man of the Publicity Committee.
The Rev. Vernon C. Richardson is
pastor of the church.
DR.. R. E. Neighbour will inaugu-
rate a series of special nightly serv-
ices at the church, beginning at 7:45
pm. Wednesday and ending March
rs, There will be no services on Sat-
urdays. Services will be held at II
am. on7Sundays.
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Mrs. Roosevelt Asks
Decent Conditions
For D. {. Jail Guards
Pay and Hours Are
'IntoIerobIe,' La Roe
Report Says

Guards at the District Jail should
be placed under civil service, granted
a day off each week and given
decent pay" in the opinion of Mrs.
Roosevelt, according to a report
made today before the Commission
ers by Wilbur La Roe, chairman of
the Ciyic Affairs Committee. Wash
ington Federation of Churches.
Mr.. La Loe declared the situation
Of the guards at the jail is in
tolerable and grossly unfair" and
called upon the Commissioners to
state If they would be willing to
recommend improvements.
Mr.. La Roe protested that the
jail guards start at a minimum of
81 500 a year and may be raised
to a maximum of S1,86O, and he in
sisted their work is too difficult and
involves 100 much responsibility to
justify these figures He said there
had been only one promotion in the
past five years, that one guard has
been working continuously for 10
years without pay raise.
He said members of his group had
conferred with Mrs. Roosevelt and
had received from her a communi-
cation saying: 3.
Il think the guards should have
one day off and a lunch hour
of at least 80 minutes. They should
be under civil service and should
receive regular increases up to
maximum and they should be well
trained and should get decent pay"
Mr.. La Roe told the Commissioners
that in the State of New York and
in the Federal prison system the
minimum salary of guards has been
fixed at $1,000. with an annual in
crease of S120 up to maximum of
S2,280. He said he had received
from James v. Bennett, director of
the Federal Bureau of Prisons. in
formation regarding their junior
custodial officers showing that the
basic entrance salary is sl,86O, as
compared with ST 500 here.
Evening star., 1939-03-11
Scourge of tuberculosis Mars
utopia in Bering Sea
Disease Kills Three Out Of Four Babies
At Island Visited by 'GIocier Priest

Up in Northern Bering Sea lies
storm tossed, fog buried King Is
land, where 200 Eskimos live in
drift-wood houses lashed to pre-
cipitous cliffs by thongs of walrus
hide.
1t Is about the closest approach
to an Utopia left on earth, says the
Rev. Bernard r. Hubbard, Santa
Clara University's glacier priest"
who has just spent 18 months
among these people.
For half century there has not
been a murder, a suicide, a divorce,
a serious quarrel, a death in child
birth, a lawyer or a doctor. Yet
the people keep in fairly close touch
with civilization, visit the mainland
to work every summer and are
persistent buyers from American
mail-order catalogues. Once a per-
son survives infancy the chances
are good of living to 10 or 80. With
IN the memory of the oldest in
habitant there has not been a case
of cancer, diabetes or heart dis
ease.
Other Side of Picture.
But the other side of the picture
painted by the glacier priest, who
stopped of in Washington today,
is not so bright. The island has
the highest birth rate and also the
highest infant death rate on earth.
Three out of four babies die before
they reach their Sd birthday ami
versary. The scourge is tubercu-
losis. which the babies contract
from carriers among the adult pop
ulation, and which rapidly develops
into the invariably tuberculous
meningitis. Few others die of the
dread disease, however, because of
the common diet, walrus and seal
oil, which seems to be close to an
ideal diet for producing resistance.
One man serves as doctor, dentist
and lawyer. He is an old Eskimo
named Aolarana, leading man of
the little community, illiterate. but
with vast practical experience. In
IS years. Father Hubbard says, this
man has delivered 1900 babies
without a single fatality. That is
about the only reason anybody ever
needs a doctor-except for tooth
aches, and the old man is an ex-
pert extractor.
Only one white man is a perma-
nent resident of the island-a
French Jesuit, Father Ballarmine
Lafortune. He came there IS years
ago-at that time a mathematician
of world renown-and has remained
ever since. Much of his time he
has devoted to an intensive study
of the Eskimo language, and Father
Hubbard brought off some of the
manuscripts he has prepared. 1t
is about the worlds most complex
language as spoken by the King