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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-18
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Coolidge Turned His Book
On the Presidency

is early as the spring of 1927, a
= movement got under way to
re-elect Calvin Coolidge. then
serving his second term. But the
quiet New Englander wanted no
more of the most difficult Office in
the country. On Aug. ?, 1927, he
set about to cut short the re-elec-
ton campaign.
He did it at his summer Office
in the Black Hills OF South Da-
kota, issuing one of the briefest
but most historic presidential
statements of all time, 81 do not
choose TO run for President in
1928"
The Presidents announcement
fell on ncwspapermen like a
bombshell. At IL O'Clock he told
them he would have a statement
at noon when he was 10 be in
Quoted into the Sioux Indian
tribe. Soon after he handed his
statement to his secretary, told
him to type IS or is copies and
bring the messages TO him. He
then personally cut them apart
into thin slips and handed them
out to reporters as they passed his
desk. He refused additional COM
ment.
The public, however. refused to
believe the President. They
placed every possible interpreta-
ton on the message until at last
in a terse six sentences added TO
a speech at the final moment in
December, Mr.. Coolidge declared
that he was not a candidate and
that the decision must be re-
spected.'
So retired into public life one
of the most legendary characters
ever 10 reach the White House.
The prosperity President" is
shown here on 3 stamp Of the new
Y. s. regular series. enlarged.
tcopyrighs lsss. NEA Service. Ine)
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RAPs GOV. MARTIN

Editor. The Times: What is
this we see? A very vocal lady
named Conservation going for
an enforced ride on the back of
q tiger by the name Of Martin "
Here are a list Of questions
for the reader TO answer IN
forming q mental picture of this
scene:
/. Who has weaned legislators
away from prediction promises
to constituents on specious
premises 10 form a tail 10 his
kite
? Who has opposed liberal
legislation consistently. defeated
il and rendered the legislature
& farce. himself a one-man gov
eminent?
5 Who has broken reelection
promises 10 the aged and enact
ed the outrageous prehistoric
pauper act-an insult 10 every
pioneer of the state?
l. Who whitewsshed the in
vesiigstion Of relief several years
ago. and refused 10 fire Mr..
Ernst at the request Of Mr..
Hopkins
A clue .. this man owns
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sions would become a permanent
threat against French territory
and the British possession of
Gibraltar. Italy, in short, would
dominate the western tip Of the
Mediterranean.
France and Engla and,
though unprepared in the air,
would never tolerate such a
dagger thrust at their safety
or their empires. The only
alternative would be war. So
the danger spot for the next
month will be Spain. not the
Ukraine or Tunisia, as the
professional war mongers in
sist.
Cordel Hull rarely engages in
an open duel with fellow Off
Gals. but recently he cut loose
with healthy swat in the dlrec-
ton of the White House. II left
White Housers and state depart
mentors gssping for breath-and
wondering what will happen
next
The secretary OF state told his
press conference that business
ana industrial conditions would
not improve SO long as the threat
of war lowered on the horizon.
Business men, ne explained,
were afraid 10 make long-term
investments or commitments in
the worlds present unsettled
state. What Hull dio not say is
that President Roosevelt. Secre-
tsry Ickes. Senator Pittmsn.
Messrs. Bullitt and Kennedy,
Assistant War Secretary John
son and Secretary Morgenthsu
are the ones keeping this coun-
try in a daily other over the
prospect of a world conflict.
What ne meant TO say. obviously.
is that they should talk peace
rather than war.
Hull Is rather naive, believe il
or not He may have expressed
these sentiments without sens
ing their implications. But in
view of his resentment over the
free-for-sn conduct of foreign
affairs in recent weeks. he prob
ably knew what he was talking
sboQt-snd why.
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Mr.. Fixit: j. u unconstitu-
tional for a president 10 raise
his salary II not, has il ever
been done: A. VI.
Only congress could raise the
presidents salary and the con-
stitution forbids increasing it
during any presidents term of
office. That means the presi-
Dental salary could be raised,
but the successor TO the man in
office at the time 1t was raised
would be the first to benefit.
Mr.. Fixit: Could You please
tell us where this Franklin park
and lake rs We drove all over
the West End last Sunday and
only found a few swamps and
n mud hole. STUDENT.
Franklin park covers most of
the land adjacent TO the Frank
lin school, west OF the school on
So. 18th st, between Alder and
Union ave. Since 1t is an UNI
improved park. your description
indicates that you probably saw
IL.
Mr.. Fixit: Would you please
give me the address of Tommy
Manville, the famous playboy:
What would be the best way TO
address the letter 80 that 1
might be sure he receives il:
A. ID. ID. c.
The address of T. Franklin
Manville Jr probably still is
New Rochelle, n. Y. where he
has his 2s-room bullet-proof man
sion. II also is possible that he
receives mail in care of the
Johns Manville Corp. % East
40th St, New York City, but we
know Of no infallible way to ad-
dress a letter to him.
Mr.. Fixit: win YOU please
tell me where ] can locate buy
ers for the Stradiyarius violins:
BILL.
One of the Tacoma musical
instrument dealers probably can
tell you If there is a chance your
violin is Stradivarius. A cou-
pie of the larger dealers and
collectors of violins are the Ru-
dolph Wurlitzer Co. 100 West
AID St. and Emil Hermann, 120
West 57th St, New York City.
They might be willing to give
you some information which
would help you identify your
Mr.. FiNit: Will you tell me N
a persons age can he proven
by the L. :. census? II 40, how.
and where: MRS. NJ. NJ. W.
Published records of the GEN.
sus bureau do not have indi-
vidual names and ages, but that
is on file in Wash
ngton. d. c. The welfare de-
partment is able TO verify ages
by ascertaining the figures Civ
IN for census statistics few
years ago, before pension-mind-
edness set in. You should be
able to get the same informal
ton by writing to Department
Of Commerce Bureau of the
Census, Washington, d. C.
MIR. FiXit: Can you help me
locate IA friend who I think still
Is around Tacoma His name is
Melvin Mode. II you can, will
YOU ask him To get In touch
with Kay Jensen, 71S So. 18th,
Tacoma h. j.
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France at least emphasized
airplane today is a highly I
forces all over the world.
There is nothing new about
the sale Of American military
planes to foreign countries. IL
has been going on for a long
time in steadily increasing vol
ume. Indeed. the fact seems 70
that American fighting planes
and motors are integral parts
OF the fighting fleet OF nearly
every great nation.
Last year, FOR instance, Il
censes were issued for the ex-
port to Great Britain of s2o,-
600 900 worth of military planes
plus $3.50 900 worth OF motors.
other licenses issued during
the year provided for the export
of nearly S6.000,000 worth of
fighting planes to China, $4,000
600 worth to the Netherlands
East Indies, S6,000.O00 to the
Argentine and more than No.
600 900 worth to France.
AND STILL
MORE
These are only a few Of the
military airplane export licenses
listed at the state department.
Japan. incidentally, last year
bought military planes worth
1874 900. Nazi Germany took
S106. 900 worth of airplane en-
gines. Soviet Russia bought nom
military planes and airplane mo-
tors worth upwards of 81 ,1O0,-
900. Brazil got 100000 worth
of war planes from the United
States, Peru took 1897 900 worth
and far-off Siam bought to the
extent of $685.. 600.
Nor does that tell the whole
story. Some time ago Germany
negotiated for. and got. the right
to build airplane motors to Amer
lean patents In the same way,
Russia for more than a year has
been building planes on Amer
lean models. The fact that Amer
lean manufacturers say that
neither the Germans nor the
Russians are turning out as good
a job as the American originals
Is beside the point, most likely)
But the military planes sold
abroad are only part of the
story. American commercial
planes are in vast demand
abroad. The Dutch are particu-
larry sold on them. Their IA
nous kim line from Amster-
dam to India. Java and Australia
uses American transports and is
highly popular; incidentally, it
might be worth noting that in
rebuilding their East Indies mill
tary air force the Dutch are re-
lying largely on American planes.
SELLING PLANES
NO SNAP
Selling American planes to
commercial air lines overseas
is a tough job, because most of
those lines are heavily subsi-
died by their respective gov
ernments and do their buying
in the home factories regardless.
Consequently. say aviation peo-
pie here, the figures on the num-
Der of foreign-built planes used
on European commercial lines
don't really tell the story.
They do say, though, that when
commercial liners are sold strict
ly on merit, with no nationalistic
political considerations involved,
the American brand usually
comes out on top. Incidentally,
on routes where American liners
compete with Europeen built
craft, il is the American ships
which are more popular with the
travelling public.
Every so often someone
comes back from Europe to
report that American planes
are being outclassed in two
respects. First, because Eur
opean designers are far
ahead in the business of
building milne. liquid-cooled
motors. which offer far less
head resistance than the
American radial, air-cooled
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flour mills and is using his ma
chine to push an amendment to
al" through the legislature. l
am sure the submerged four
tenths' of my fellow citizens
will know the answer to my rid
die. but then they are only re-
lief clients" to this man and Mr..
Ernst, neither of whom have ever
been hungry, ragged or cold,
nor have they seen their wives
and children cold, ragged and
malnourished.
Anyway this man is not run
ming for office again, we are
told. and that is something. The
facts speak for themselves,
o. B. GERMOND,
PeEl, Wash.
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Bruce Cation

1IrASHINGTON-If it accomplished nothing else the re-
cent dusup over the sale OF American war planes TO
France At least emphasized the fact that the American
srnlsne TO-DAY is highly priced bit of equipment IN air
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MR.. FIXIT

To receive attention IN this COL
umn letters must give name and
address Of writer OniY initials
Will be published when requested.
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DOUBTS PROGRESS


Editor, The Times: It's laugh
when the wise men of Olympia
discovered the dairymen were
receiving three cents quart for
their standard test milk, They
sprung that old gag about ore
production.
How about overproduction of
unemployment when some p
million are out of work, yet
must pay their part of the high
salaries of public service, which
includes politics, civil service and
union labor?
It's one thing to say our pub
lie servants must be adequately
paid and still another when so
per cent of our population does
not receive enough to meet ex-
penses of very modest living.
We even become more and
more doubtful whether the
world is moving forward or back
ward Counting from the days
of the little red schoolhouse,
when 80 or 40 youngsters gath
cred in one room to absorb
knowledge at a public cost of
less than SIS a student for
each grade. - 10 the present
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ToDAY'S COMMON ERROR

Do not say, John Jones pre-
sided at the piano; say played
the pianO"
Evening star., 1939-10-31
Tax Appeals Boord Rules
Mrs. Gore Owes S13.1 16O

The United States Board OF Tax
Appeals in a decision made public
today held that Mrs. H. Grady Gore
of Washington owes the Govern
ment deficiency of $l3,16021 on
her 1885 income tax, growing out of
her purchase of the Fairfax Hotel
at public auction that year.
Mrs. Gore had filed petition last
April protesting an additional as
sessment of $48,687.38 which the
commissioner of internal revenue
had levied OF. the ground that she
had realized a capital net gain OF
Sl19,6l0 from the purchase. The
Tax Board decision reducing the
amount she must pay was entered
Saturday as a result of a s. lpulation
signed by Robert Ash. counsel for
plaintiff, and the chief counsel for
the Bureau of Internal Revenue as
an outgrowth of settlement nego.
tiations.
Evening star., 1939-10-31
|HeudlineFoIk
And What
They Do
Ex-Cheer Leader
Keeps Fire Hot in
Election Campaign
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

At football games this onlooker
has at times had disquieting thoughts
about what would happen If the
cheer-leader couldn't get untracked
and went on that way all his life.
1t has happened Willie Allen. who
whips California into a froth In the
ham and eggs campaign, ending
In next weeks election, was the most
ululant and acrobatic of all the YELL
masters Of the University Of South
ern California.
They are spending $1,000, 900 on
their thirty dollars every Thursday
campaign" according to news re-
ports. Mr.. Allen, wearing a
checkered sports coat and modish
pleated pants, with gray spats and
haherdashery in keeping, leads the
huge meetings of elderly persons
with their ham and eggs" veil:
Five! Ten! Fifteen! Twenty! TWen-
ly-flve! Thirty!' with a leap and a
compelling arm sweep after each
count, fetching from the audience a
roaring crescendo on the Thirty,
Last year they got 1,143. $40 votes for
nam and eggs" and a gain of 5 per
cent OF the total vote would have
put it over. The opposing stands are
yelling Hold 'em Yale!"
The Allen brothers, Willis and
Lawrence, in their early forties, ara
HOLLYWOOD home talent boys, ex-
posed to the febrile excitements OF
the f1ickers since their early child
hood. They have an advertising
agency, controlling time on a radio
station, and they have kept things
quite steadily stirred up in the
land OF the ukelele and the
eucalyptus. They more or less took
the ham and eggs" enterprise awav
from its putative father, Robert
Noble, a stimulating radio orator.
who boiled down Upton Sinclairs 3
epic gospel to TWENTY-FIVE DOL
lars Every Monday Morning" The
addltlons and betterments to the
slogan-Thursday being the eve of
free-spending Week-end-put the
Allen brothers way ahead. and dues
paving membership has jumped to
100000 from Mr.. Mobiles paltry
10000, during 1886 and 1887.
The late Jacques Futrelle. In his
book, The Thinking Machine" had
a man with masterful brain take
over the world. He could not have
anticipated radio and its amplifca-
ton of a college yell-master larynx,
and all that may come thereafter.
Released by Consolidated News Features.
Evening star., 1939-10-31
New Pump Primers
City News in Brief
TODAY


Dinner dance, Lido Civic Club
Mayfower Hotel, 7:3O pm.
Bridge party. Federal Bridge
League. Wardman Park Hotel, pm
Meeting, Associates Club, La
Fayette Hotel, pm.
Meeting. New Jersey State So
ciety, Wardman Park Hotel, $50
pm.
Dance, St. Patrick's Alumnae
Wardman Park Hotel, 10 pm.
Dance, Beta Mu Eta Sorority
Wardman Park Hotel, 10 pm.
Meeting, Civil Aeronautics Au-
thority, Raleigh Hotel, all day.
Convention, Association Official
Agricultural Chemists, Raleigh
Hotel, all day.
TOMORROW.
Meeting, American Feed Control
Officials, Raleigh Hotel, 10 am.
Meeting, Womens Board, George
Washington University Hospital
MayfloWer Hotel. 1890 am.
Luncheon, Lions Club, Mayhower
Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Rotary Club, Willard
Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Gyro Club, Willard
Hotel, 1890 pm
Luncheon, Soroptimist Club, Will
lard Hotel, pm
Dinner, Master Builders Associa-
ton, Hamilton Hotel, $50 pm.
Meeting, Pennsylvania Democratic
Club, Willard Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Washington Philatelic
Society, MayfloWer Hotel, pm.
Meeting, Polish Club, Wardman
Park Hotel. pm.
Meeting, Tau Phi Sorority, Ward
Evening star., 1939-10-31
Paul Muni Is Hailed
On Return 10 Staqe
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS. Oct. 31.-Paul
MUM returned to the stage here last
night after a seven-year sojourn In
Hollywood and was given an ovation
by first-night audience for his
performance in Maxwell Anderson S
Key Largo"
Mr. MUM has the role Of an
American participant in the Span
ish civil war who returns home
thoroughly disillusioned, his SOU
tormented by the fact he survived
after deserting four comrades and
ultimately served with the enemy
to save his life.
The actors portrayal of King Nc
Cloud equaled his several note
worthy screen impersonations. This
part fit him-or perhaps he fit it
as if it had been made for him.
Sharing credit with Mr.. MUM for
the plays enthusiastic reception
were Anderson's rhythmic lines
Guthrie McClintic's direction and
10 Mielziner's SETS The play was
produced by the Playwrights Co.
Evening star., 1939-10-31

President in the West, with labor as
tail to the kite.
Mr.. Lewis letter, addressed to Gov.
Olson of California. was an attack
upon proposed conference of pro-
gressive leaders of IL Western
States" which he said was being
engineered by Norman N LitteIl, as
sistant to the Attorney General in
charge of the lands division in the
Department of Justice, and Marshall
E. Dimock, Second Assistant Secre-
tary Of Labor. His complaint was
that these gentlemen were indulg-
ing in secret methods of organiza-
ton and were excluding labor from
participation in their plans.
Lists s Principal Objections.
Said Mr.. Lewis, Labor's Nom
Partisan League is opposed to the
holding of this conference for the
following reasons:
"a. The source of its conception
and the surreptitious manner in
which its organizers have worked
"b. The doubtful source of its
finances. An anonymous individual
in California is counted upon to pro-
vide a plentitude of money.
&C. The questionable legality under
the Hatch Act of the activities of
Littell and Dimock.
ID The slight to Senator Burton
K. Wheeler and other great liberals
in the West who have not been con-
suited and who are slated to be ex-
cluded from the conference.
"e. The exclusion of labor from
the privilege of making suggestions
for legitimate program
#. The secret plans to use the
conference to launch a third term
BOOM
Mr.. Lewis expressed doubt that
the President knew of the plans for
the proposed conference or would
approve them. He added that the
Presidents recent public utterances
and his rebuke," through a White
House secretary, of Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace for declaring a
third-term nomination should car
~ conviction" In conclusion Mr..
Lewis said that instructions had
been issued to the leagues chair
men in the II Western States not
to participate in the conference.
Mr.. Littell comes from the State
of Washington, where the Presi-
dents law. John Boettiger,
has been agitating for a third-term
nomination for the President.
Some Hunt Wheeler's Scalp.
Senator Wheeler of Montana, who
was mentioned in Mr.. Lewis letter
as not having been consulted about
the proposed conference of progress
sives, insists that he knows nothing
about the matter. Mr. Wheeler has
been put forward himself as can
didate for the Democratic presiden-
tial nomination by Senator Johnson
of Colorado and other Westerners.
Also Mr.. Wheeler strongly opposed
the President in the fight over the
court bill in 1887 and in other
measures advanced by the admin
istration Some of the New Dealers
would dearly love to get Mr.. Wheel
ers scalp-but he is so we'll in
trenched in his home State that
any move against him appears i'm
possible
The third-term issue-like Ban
quo's ghost-Will not down. Last
week it was Mr.. Wallace who stirred
the political waters with a declara-
ton in California that President
Roosevelt's denomination and re-
Evening star., 1939-10-31
The Capital Parade
Economists Are Unanimous in Predicting
Business Decline EorIy in 1910

Government
which sometimes
Nevertheless it significant present booming
prosperity the storm warnings
slump January February and March The
uon MdeX best OF business indicators
estimated l25 in December to around lis months
Inc forecast deserves special attention for
Recently they have holding meetings. statistics and
A
Evening star., 1939-10-31


going real boom pretty be
certain peaceful branches of the trade
South
will eventually add effect
from Britain
New Pump Primers
The astonishing situation
recent New Deal history forecast of slump has
another
mental the economists
the New Dealers doctrine
spend OF the this puzzle
that the slump will be short the that
armament program will constitute spending Where
believed the businessmen could do the Dealers
allow the
Armies to prime the prosperity
Anne Newspap AlianceI Inc)
Evening star., 1939-10-31

llelr luQQ IdlS-
ing and organiz-
ing work for the
1910 campaign
by the truce OF
the Ia S t e "
weeks.
Next, t er e
will be a resump-
ton of Demo-
cratic warfare,
too, with the
prospect t h a t
the speeches Of
prominent Dem
oCrats W h i C h
h We b e e n
n1, O q h @ d la1,
Evening star., 1939-10-31

man Park Hotel, pm.
Meeting, Alpha Beta Phi Fratern-
ity. Raleigh Hotel, 9 pm.
Buffet. 260th Coast Artillery,
Raleigh Hotel, 9 pm.
Meeting, Civil Aeronautics Au-
thority Raleigh Hotel, all day.
Convention, Association Official
Agricultural Chemists, Raleigh
Hotel, all day.
Evening star., 1939-10-31

cleared
Code Hull of the thv
working well together but their unity
announcement Of Rooevelts
Al he moment that concrete
plans on the thrdem If
deeps 1t probable that he will be forced
Whh Will
so clearly impossible that need for Mr.
Roosevelt to do Coolidge do choose rum" ~ ~
Evening star., 1939-10-31

Wnlcn seemed on
its surface to op-
pose a third
term boom for
President Roose-
welt. At league
headquarters it
W a S explained,
h o W e er, that
such a construc-
ton on the letter
was going too
far; that Mr..
Lewis was criti-
clZlng an at
tempt to launch
a t h ir d-term
hnOn1 for the
Evening star., 1939-10-31

truce on politics" to deliver a
third-term-for-R Roosevelt suggestion
in San Francisco. H. A. Is thus in
the position of the Scotch preacher
who was told joke on Monday,
pondered all week over its meaning,
being unable to grasp the point, and
who finally scandalized his congre-
cation on the following Sunday by
bursting into delighted chuckles in
the middle of the prayer with a
reverement "Oh, Laird! see it moo!
Evening star., 1939-10-31


erstwhe expressed their amazemen that should
the holy calm pasanhip with about
showing his pasanhp seeking
issue which had been settled last Juywhe
presidential nomination next necessary to reunte the
unkndest however White
Walaces
disclaimer of the Wallace that left Wallace
position
middle the reading Gettysburg address
Evening star., 1939-10-31

THE opinions the rters on this paoe are their on not
sors snr 1hs Sta1s Such opinions presented
readers although such opinions may contradictory aon0
thenaselues and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1939-10-31

clear whether this statement was
expected at this time or whether
both the Wallace statement and the
White House reputation of poll
tics" during the crisis was pre-
arranged. Certainly the whole Incl
dent has had a calming effect on
Capitol Hill.
1t also reflects the growing
unity Of the Democratic party itself.
Evening star., 1939-10-31
We, the People
Wallace Makes Strong Bid for Respect
For Courage in Bowine Out Of 40 Picture
BY JAY FRANKLIN,

The lamp burning the White House window the New Deals
prodga
stead Of the fated calf the
greeted with Bronx cheer and kick below
For Henry AL Wallace Secretary
possibity for the presidential
Evening star., 1939-10-31

A weather observatory being con-
structed at $4,000 feet altitude on
Mount Kazeb, in Russia, will have
three stories and % rooms.
Evening star., 1939-10-31
6. o. P. Eyes
Dies Data
For Election
Republicans May
Keep Probe Alive
BY Voting Funds
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

After the embargo, what? First
of all politics will be reconyened
rather promptly. The Republicans
have been rather embarrassed in