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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-08
BERKHE|MER'S
IN 18th YEAR

A pioneer among Tacoma in
dustrial concerns. the j. f. Berk-
heimer Manufacturing Co. has ad-
vanced a long way since it was
founded here 3s years ago.
1t started as two-man plant
on the tideflats, Its sole purpose
To handle coal tar, but today, To-
Gated at 1928 So. NJ St, the COM
pany employs more than 20 men
to manufacture wide variety of
roofing and other products.
When a felt making machine
was installed in 1922, only small
quantities were made. but produc-
ton has steadily increased until
today an average of $50 carloads
of felt are shipped each year.
Large quantities of raw materials
are used, most of which are OBJ
tanned within the city.
Deadening felt for wall cover
ings, insulating materials, water
proofing materials, six different
grades of roofing and composition
shingles are all made and dis
tributed by the company through
out Alaska and western u. S.
Large quantities of crude oil are
refined in the plants oil refinery
the oil being used for fuel and the
asphalt residue being utilized in
various manufacturing processes.
J. f. Berkheimer, almost alone,
has been responsible for the rapid
growth of the one-time small con-
Germ which bears his name. It
holds dominant position in its
particular field.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-08
Buckley>King Co. Founded
When Tacoma Was Village

neral parties being able to enter
unseen from private driveway,
hear the services screened from
view of the chapel and depart in
the same way
w. B. Buckley. partner of f. b.
King, retired two years ago, leav-
ing King as president and Frank
T. Walter. general manager. King
was recently elected for a three
year term to the board of direc-
tors of the National Selected Nor
ticians.
Working under Walters are Mrs.
d. c. Nichols. l.. e. Downing, John
Alsip, jr., 0. A. Anderson, Albert
Visel and Jay Walters.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-08

and Canal SITS. From this point
the proposed 42-inch main will be
laid in Lincoln ave to Sitcum ave,
thence via Sitcum to Ea. 18th. It
will also provide for a tie-in when
will enable an extension of the
Lincoln ave. branch to Taylor
Way.
Store and Shop Building
The store and shop building, al
ready completed, is not part Of
the PWA program. The new
structure however, is perhaps the
finest building of its kind in the
Pacific Northwest. In connection
with the building is large stor-
age yard necessary because the
former quarters used by both the
water division and light depart
ment had become inadequate.
Furthermore, the water division
materials and equipment are now
properly housed and stored in
yards and buildings, conveniently
and properly arranged for easy
access and handling. The new
store room was built large enough
to accommodate stores, shops, engi-
neering laboratory, cars and equip
ment, automobile service station
with necessary equipment, and to
provide for future needs as the
division grows.
supply Increased
The present program provides
for increasing the water supply of
the city and for making the pres
ent supply more available and
elastic This is being done by
drilling two or more additional
wells in the South Tacoma area,
one at 43rd and South Tacoma
Way and one at 74th and Clement
ave. with other possible wells if
needed, for the contract with the
drillers stipulates that the wells
must produce a guaranteed volume
of IL million gallons of water per
day.
These two wells when com
pleted and i'm service will re-
place the old air-lift well sys-
tenn installed I'm 1904 to 1908,
assuring a clear gain of at
least million gallons Of water
per day, plus n decided gain
in efficiency of operation of
the Tacoma system.
The old air-lift system had
an efficiency rating of % per
cent while the new system Of
deep well pumps will run be-
tween go and So per cent
efficient, thus reducing the
cost of securing water by
providing twice the water sup
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-08

Back on November 2. 1886, Ira
S. Davisson, commissioner of
public utilities and w. A. Kunigk,
superintendent of the water de-
partment, submitted to the PWA
an application for a grant which
in effect was a major program de-
signed to rebuild. expand and i'm
prove Tacoma's water supply.
The work proposed under this
project which has already been
completed or is now in the pro-
cess of completion, consisted of
construction of a storeroom and
shop building with the necessary
appurtenances; construction of the
Sitcum ave. extension of the tide
flats trunk main, including that
part east of the Puyallup river
and the construction of trunk
mains at various locations in the
distribution system.
In addition, the present pro-
gram calls for rebuilding the
pumping station at South 62nd
and Cedar that had been built
In 1909, and the drilling of two
additional wells In the South
Tacoma area.
Total cost of the program
now under way h S1.576,000
and the sum IL earmarked to
'make extensive improve
ments In the Tacoma water
department supply and dis
tributiOn system"
Supply System improvements
Already well underway is the
work of rebuilding the supply sys-
TEN. Tacomas pipe line between
McMillin and Tacoma is being re-
placed and enlarged. The old 54"
wood stave pipe is being replaced
with 5S-inch steel cylinder. lock
joint reinforced concrete pipe.
The present program calls for
replacing 10000 feet of the smaller
wood pipe with the large concrete
pipe. At the same time the line
is being shortened to cut the total
length of the pipe line. and the
new 5la miles of pipe will soon
be in service, designed so that the
old and the new line can be cut
in and out in sections and thus
used to supplement one another.
The new concrete pipe is
being made right here In Ia
coma. The contract for Its
construction totals S592,OO0,
and will provide nearly 100000
man hours of labor.
Sitcum Ave. Extension
A part of the reconstruction
program designed to provide for
Tacoma's growing industrial needs
is the construction of the Sitcum
ave. extension of the present tide
flats main trunk" consisting of
pipe line beginning at Ea. 21st
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-08
MAKE HUGE SAWS

Two saws have been manufac-
tured in Tacoma by Spear & jack
son. They are 9s inches in diam
eter. little over s feet. without
doubt the largest saws ever
manufactured in this city and
among the largest in use in the
Northwest. They each cost more
than good automobile.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-08

A reverberation Is multitude
of echoes, so closely spaced that
they cannot be segregated.
Twin-City herald., 1939-08-05

day. And if you
want the assem-
bled family to
sit up and take
n o tice you'll
walk into the
d | n ing room
some d In n e r.
time bearing a
Bluepoint Pi Q !
NeedleSS tO saw.
Twin-City herald., 1939-08-05

in order to match the delicious
filling, the crust must be simply
perfect. For perfect pie crust, you
can depend on that wonder worker,
double-acting baking powder.
BIuepoInt PIE
2 cups sifted flour; 2 teaspoons
double-acting baking powder; %
teaspoon salt; 6 tablespoons butter
or other shortening; * cup milk
(about); cups drained oysters;
u teaspoon salt; dash Of cayenne;
tablespoons melted butter.
Sift -four once, measure, add
baking powder and salt, and sift
again. Cut in shortening. Add
milk gradually, stirring until soft
dough is formed. Turn out on
slightly Toured board and knead
80 seconds, or enough to shape.
Roll 1s Of dough B inch thick;
line a 9-inch pie plate, allowing
dough to extend u inch beyond
edge of plate. Fold inward even
with rim of plate. Fill with
oysters; sprinkle with salt,
cayenne, and butter. Roll other
half Of dough 1s inch thick; with
sharp knife make slits to permit
escape Of steam. Fit over oysters,
pressing edges together with -four
ed fork. Bake in hot oven (450' F)
30 minutes. Serves 6.
Twin-City herald., 1939-08-05
Calvin's Newspaper Service
TESTED RECIPE
By FrGnces Lee DdTto

A hot savory oyster dish Is a
IA great comfort to the inner
man - and woman ON a raw, cold
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-24
I Q DA Y
 in the SE " 4 TIE
Passed

Passed
 Senate bill No. 52 by Roden, es- tablishing a minimum wage stan dard of SIS per week for women workers.
 Senate bill No. 62, by Finance Com mittee, appropriating $4,0O0 for the Territorial Chamber of Commerce. Senate bill No. 35, by Cochran, raising the exemption on inheritanc- es subject to taxation.
 Defeated
 Senate bill No AS, by Roden, ap- propriating $500 to reimburse Dr. w. w. Council for expense incurred on trip to Washington in 1886. Senate joint resolution No. 4, by Walker by request, authorizing the Governor to spend $3,0O0 to enter tain members of the National Edit orial Association on their visit to AL aska in June.
 Senate bill No. 68 by Sullivan, setting up schedule of attorneys fees and requiring that same be paid by the loser in court action.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-24
SENATE PASSES
 MINIMUM WAGE
 A(T FOR WOMEN
SIS Per Week Prescribed -Chdmber Commerce
 Money Is Voted

A bill to protect the lives, health and morals of women workers by setting minimum pay rate of SIS per week for them was passed by the Senate this morning by a vote of five to three.
 The bill, Senate bill No. 52, by Senator Henry Roden, provides that no woman under 16 may be employ ed in Alaska, that none over Is are to be paid less than SIS per week, that pay for part time work shall be not less than 45 cents per hour and that the working week of dom- estics and household employees, in- cluding time they are subject to call, shall not be more than 60 hours.
 S4,00O For Chamber
 Also passed today was a Finance Committee bill appropriating $4,- 900 for the Territorial Chamber of Commerce for the biennium.
 Most of the day, however, the Sen ate devoted to defeating and indef- initely postponing measures.
 Defeated just as it was two years ago was a bill to pay Dr. w. w. Council $500 he spent on a trip to Washington in 1936 in connection with public health Work. Senator Roden defended the bill, saying he had learned since he voted against it in 1887 that it was not bill for a honeymoon" as had been whis- pered at that time. But Senators were unsympathetic and voted the measure down four to four.
 Social Security
 Late this afternoon the Senate got up on its high horse and refused to proceed with Senate bill ST, pro- viding for changes in the Unemploy- ment Compensation act to bring it into conformity with new Federal statutes governing railroad work men. It seems the amendments were requested by the Social Security Board under pain of disapproval of our social secruity act. Senator Riv- CTS, holding this means of effecting changes of legislation was high moved for continuation of the measure in second reading, des- pite the fact that two Social Sec urity officials, Walter P. Sharpe and High Wade, had been invited to the Senate Chamber to answer questions the bill
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-24
HAS NO LIQUOR PROBLEM
 SAYS LEGISLATOR

From the city of the largest rodeo in the world on their way to the interior where they will see Fair banks Ice Carnival Harry c. Schleicher and A. J. Williams, Chey- enne, Wyoming. business men were in Juneau yesterday while the Bar anof was in port westbound They were guests in Juneau of Chief of Police Dan Ralston, formerly of Cheyenne, and of Frank A. Metcalf.
 MT. Schleicher served two years in the Wyoming State Legislature and was member of the commit tee that drafted for his State its first liquor laws after repeal.
 Wyoming is proud of it's system of dealing with the liquor problem, according to MT Schleicher.
 Tn fact, we have no problem, :" he said, "either of drunkenness or of violation of State regulations And we don't sell liquor to Indians. Our Indians live on reservations and it is against the law to sell to them
 Wyoming is one of the States in the union that brought back the saloon after prohibition, and the former legislator is proponent of the open bar, says it has worked satisfactorily in his State.
 Immediately after repeal. Wyom- ing entered the wholesale liquor business as a State.
 To individuals, liquor is dispensed in two ways, over the bar and through privately owned package stores that buy their liquor from the States and in this way come under State regulation When a dealer liquor regulations, the State refuses to sell him liquor, Schleicher said.
 State license fees are SIS for either bar or package goods store,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-24

One license is allowed for every 300 population. City licenses of not less than $500 or more than $2000 are provided for. An applicant must advertise for 50 days before he is granted license.
 Saloons in Wyoming may adioin restaurants, and this is frequently the case, MT. Schleicher said, though no food may be served in bars and the day of the free lunch is over Bars must be open, with no blinds at the windows. No checks may be cashed or credit given in either saloons or package goods stores and this has been found to be curb on excessive drinking, according to the man who helped draft the laws.
 We tried to think of everything. We have a special license rate for clubs. the Elks' Club in Cheyenne, for instance, pays $500 We have a day license fee of $l0 for organiza- tions that serve beer at picnics. And we have Sunday closing law Altogether it is working out fine, and I think there is lot less drunkenness with our open saloons than ever before" Mr, Schleicher concluded in favor of his States laws.
 The Wyoming business men are going in to the Interior to look around and expect to be back in their home town in April
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-24

 Pays for
 His(rinle
Franklin Mccall Dies in FL trit Chair for Abduction
 of Five-Year- -0Id Boy

RAIFORD, Fi5-ida, Feb 24 = Franklin Pierce Mccall died in the electric chair for the fatal kidnap- ing of James Bailey Cash. Jr, gaed 3, at Princeton, last May.
 The switch was thrown in early this morning.
 Mccall went to the chair calmly after reading aloud a hand written manuscript in which he reasscrted his innocence in the crime.
 Mccall took five minutes to read the statement and when he finish ed, turned to Sheriff Coleman and said:
 MT, Coleman, want you to know I understand our position. You just takesit easy"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-24
HOOVER DECRIE5 "5TH HH0R5EMAN"
 OF INTOLERANCE
Moral Standards, Spiritual Inspiration Lag, Says
 Ex-Presidenf

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 24. - Former President Herbert Hoover said in an address today that the fifth horseman of intolerant ideolog- ies is riding with the four horse men of war, famine. pestilence and death over two-thirds of the peo- pie of the world.
 Hoover declared. The failure of men to maintain and develop mor- al standards and spiritual inspira- tion in pace with their increase in knowledge and power is responsible for the Worlds "seething with ma lign forces and ferments.'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-24
ANNOUNCE WINNERS OF ESSAY CONTEST

The annual essay contest for pupils of the seventh and eighth grades of the uneau Public Schools, sponsored by the Juneau Wonian's Club, has closed and the awards were made yesterday
 This year the subject chosen was What Qualities Make a Good Citizen in Democracy" This was in accord with the work carried on by the Department of Applied Edu- cation, which has conducted pro- gram of Civic Prevention of Crime Through Education"
 The judges chosen were the Rev. John L. Cauble, Mrs. L. P. Dawes and E. M. Policy. Winner of the first award was Elroy Hoffman. second, Ann Lois Davis; third, Jim Wilcox.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-24
BID BILL E TURNED DOWN
 AZ AMENDED
House to HuddIe with Sen. ate on Revdmp of Pur-
 chasing Measure

The House of Representatives to- day refused to concur in amend ments of the Senate to House bill l6, requiring Territorial offices to submit bids on all purchases in ex- cess of $50.
 The debated point in concurrence was the Senate amendment making an exception clause ill the case of purchases for the Pioneers Home.
 Speaker Howard Lyng said he would appoint committee to con- fer with the Senate in an attempt to save the bill.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-24
NEW HOSPITAL
 E TO BE BUILT
 AT KANAkANAk
Construction Superintend- enf MlGinfy Leaves
 for Westward

Plans for construction of new hospital at Kanakanak are to be made at that Bristol Bay village by Earl D. McGinty, Superintend- ent of Construction for the Office of Indian Affairs, who sailed to the Westward yesterday on the Baranof.
 The old hospital at Kanakanak burned in 1882, since which time the Indian office has been operat- ing hospital in building former ly used as an orphanage.
 McGinty will fly from Anchorage.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-24
DOUGLAS
 NEWS
HAYNES "GLACIER BEARS" .e COMING TO PLAY D.H.S

The Haines High School basket ball team, known at the Haines Glacier Bears, accompanied by their coach Homer Berges, is expected to arrive in Douglas this afternoon for series of games on the local court. The Helen is bringing the aggregation of players, composed of Bud Valencia, Fred Berges, Fred Sheldon, George Jollie, Bud Math- ews, Marvin Troutman and Earl Sorrels, and depending upon their arrival of course, there will be a hardfought game tonight with the locals who had two defeats at the visitors hands while they were at Haines to atone for. A double header is being arranged. Also ap- entertainment for the visitors is planned.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-24

development work has been begun during the past biennium.
 Likewise, there has been a sub stantial incresae in drill surveys of placer areas.
 Exploring Inadequate
 However, the report says "The ex- tent of prospecting for new deposits, both lode and placer. in relatively unexplored regions, continues to be disturbingly inadequate.
 "The number of trained and con- petent men engaged in this vital pursuit is but a pitiful fraction of what it should be- The situation de. mands prompt and vigorous remed- ial action based on an intelligent study of the causes responsible for this unhealthy condition which menaces the continued growth and prosperity of the mining industry of the Territory"
 Increase Revealed
 Total increase in value of minerals produced during the biennium am- cunts to nearly fifteen million dol lars.
 In lode mining, 57 lode properties carried on actual productive mining in 1887 and 1888, 12 in the First Di- vision, one in the Second 28 in the Third, and 16 in the Fourth.
 The total number represents an increase of IA milling plants over the number operating in the preced- ing biennium.
 There were 31 lode properties in development stages, this biennium compared with IT of the previous biennium, most of the development of lodes taking place in the Third Division.
 Coal Production
 Coal was produced from four coal mines, three in the Matanuska bit- field and the other in the Healy section of the Nenan sub bituminous field. Another field in the vicinity of Houston in the Mat section was in the develop ment stage.
 In oil drilling, the Iniskin Drill ing Company has gone down to over 1000 feet at Chinitna Bay with high hopes of oil and intentions to re- sume drilling this spring.
 Another oil drilling enterprise was launched by the Standard Oil Com 1 pany of California, on the Alaska Peninsula, approximately 125 miles west of Kodiak. r @
 Sixty men have been employed all l during the past summer at the scene Of drilling behind Jute Bay, and have reached a depth of approximately 5000 feet. and are equipped to drill to 10000 foot depth.
 Oil Drilling
 The oil drillers at Jute Bay have even gone so far as to have 1000 feet of pipe on hand to carry the | hoped flor oil to the bay shore with put polluting valuable salmon streams.
 In placer mining, four new dredg- i $ started, and employment on the iredges increased 223 men. Other mechanical plants, principally drag ines, increased in the biennium rom 9 to 99 and the employee num- ger from $40 to 9O9.
 During the past two years, there were P dredges in the Second Div sion. g in the Fourth, and none in he First or Third.
 The Fourth Division ranked tops n draglines with 73, the Second Division with 22, and the Third with our.
 In addition to these types of min- ng placers, there were 53 hydraulic 'lacers operating. ''.''-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-24
HONORs TWO MEMBERS

Two members of the Northern Light Rebekah Lodge of Douglas, Mrs. Elsie Waldal and Mrs. vern Saylor, who were among the vic tins of the recent Goldstein Build ing fire, were complimented with a miscellaneous shower, given by their lodge in Douglas last evening in the Parish Hall. Many attrac- tive gifts were presented to the honor guests and refreshments were served.
 Preceding the shower the regu- lar meeting of the lodge was held in the Labor Union Hall. At the meeting new gavel to replace the one lost in the Douglas fire of two years ago was presented as a gift from the Juneau organization of Past Noble Grands,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-24
CITY RE(EIvE5 NEW
 STREET DEPT. TRuCk

The City's new Street Depart ment truck will appear on the streets Monday morning, ready to do maintenance, sidewalk and gen eral hauling work, Superintendent Bert Lybeck said today.
 The flat bed truck, which arrived on the North Coast, is being equipped with wooden body at a local cabinet works, z
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-24

w. Folta said he would leave on the North Coast this evening for ket- chikan to prepare for the session.
 District Attorney William A. Holz- heiner, now in Ketchikan, is expect ed to return to Juneau on the Yu- kon, leaving Seattle tomorrow.
 Grand Jurors are to meet at Ket- chikan, March 28, while petit jur- ors meet April 4.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-24
kET(HIkAN COURT
 HSJl0h PUT OFF
 UNTIL MARCH 28

Converting of the District Court session for March at Ketchikan, has bee npostponed until March 28 be- cause of technical error in an- it was announced by the Clerk of the Court today.
 Assistant District Attorney George
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-24

Selected as the modern" Venus by the Society of Illustrators in New York, Nina Macdougald of Freeport, L. T., an artists model, poses for the camera in New
 York,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-24
MINE WEALTH
 OF NORTH E
 ON INCREASE {! !l:Il.! ]!
Too LittIe Prospecting, However, Stewart Re-
 ports to Legislature

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-24
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-24

Try an Empire au.
Evening star., 1939-05-18
Woodwork Sales Show
Satisfactory Rise
BY the Associated Press,


WATERFOWL, N. Y. May 18.-
Sales of F. w. Woolworth Co. are
showing "a satisfactory increase"
and the management is hopeful re-
suits for the full year 1889 will ring
up gain over 1888, E. C. Mauchly,
wee president, told stockholders at
the annual meeting here.
Indications pointed to a nice
gain" for May, he said. April sales
were shade under a year ago, but
for the first four 1899 months the
aggregate of S89,361879 was 21a per
cent over the like 1888 period.
Directors elected two district office
managers to the board of directors
L. H. Cause and c. o. Gilbert. They
succeeded Arthur Sachs, resigned,
and the late Mrs. Helena Mccain, a
daughter Of the late F w. Wool
worth. Other retiring directors were
reelected.
Commenting on earnings, Mr..
Mauchly said 1888 profits were re-
duced around 20 cents a common
share by omission of unrealized divi-
dendS and undiStributed earnings of
the company's German subsidiary, a
result OF continued foreign exchange
restrictions.
The company during the last four
years enlarged and modernized AL
stores, he said, and at the beginning
OF this year was operating 2O15
stores in the United States, Canada
and Cuba.