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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-10

Hminaries TO the annual frohc and
dance during the evening at Para
disc inn.
The inn celebration viii
feature the coronation of
Queen Peggy Peggy Masonl.
along with her two charming
attendants, the Misses Jane
Carlson and Mary Meinert.
Weather permitting, an exhibit
ton of flare skiing Will be given
shortly after dusk above the inn.
And then. on Sunday. the three
races slaloms for the men and
women. a downhill for junior boys
will be held The junior race Is
scheduled to begin at IL a. m, the
women's event at l2;45. with the
men to race an hour later.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-10
Junior DOlrnhM
Attracts Stars

The junior doDnhIll scheduled
for Sunday morning appears to be
wide open, with Johnny Anderson.
Longmirc resident. present holder
Of the title, scheduled 10 find
plenty of competition from Ia
coma ard Seattle high school ski
stars
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-10
Stars To Vie

trophy and a wrist in the strap ~
tho wristwatch. which Ia annually
presented hy Tho Times 10 tha
winner IN addition "a the trophy
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-10
Snow Carnival
Plans All Set

With lovely Queen Peggy the First ruler the eighth
annual Tacoma Winter Sports Carnival will be held Saturday
and Sunday at Paradise valley and the largest court
probably will be in attendance
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-02-10
Expect Record Entry At Tacoma Day SKI Races
Amateur Mountain Photo Contest On

THE company features the
arekia considered 10 he the
mowt a<autifaal knt<k prints ever
made they are the very latest
and were introduced 70 The state
~ Washington exclusively ~ the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-25
Move To Check Water Co.
 Made In Legislative Bill

Hartford 2-UP)-The legislative interpretations withheld action b sponsored by prominent which would Bridge Hydraulic charter permit condemnation of land only aft a court had given approval.
 submitted following months long quarrel between the utility of land a could be built.
 Stuart Chase, author maintains
  the title real estate in Fairfield county.
 He described kind of government"
 another writer said Fairfield county residents and Prof. Ode Shephard Trinity college Pulitzer prize favored the amendment.
 Company attorneys change the charter companies the the Bridgeport Hydraulic Co.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-25
Scovill Co. Officials P Permission Is Sought;
 No Trace Of Youngster
Corner On Strategic Metals Urged For U. s.

Cambridge. 25-UP)-Wllam Elliott professor university today that the United States the worlds supply certain strategic metals of checking Naz-Fascist aggression
 lieutenant with the Senators Henry R. McNary, R. Elliott suggested limited embargo against the Fascs of certain terials such tin, and steel"
 certain members of the state depart lawness' by cutting off United national budget; and obtaining debts.
 forcing their debts and inducing them Gin United States limited embargo of tin. steel"
 potent lever here to force the British to cooperate Chamberlain with his umbrella" Elliott said.
 plan provides British debts in tin from RhOdesia antim0ny and British other materials
 materials would be kept in government stock pile for
 
 British permission to build American Bermuda Newfoundland permission island bases the Pacific and
 c which be strategic value to the United States Tn Of war
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-25
LEGISLATURE FAR
 BEHIND SCHEDULE
Program Stalled, Claim Democrats - G. o. P.
 Leaders Get Blame
By RAYMOND J. FITZPATRICK
 fnax,.oo~o& aoicIa f;vn uarnrkarl ,


 State Capitol, Hartford, March 25 With scarcely any important legislation passed and with adjourn ment due in little more than two months, the General Assembly still shows few signs of forgetting its wrangling and adopting board legislative program. Not one of Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin's recommend- ed measures has yet been adopted, and the governor has added to the confusion by hedging on some of his recommendations.
 The Democrats blame the "stall- ing" in the legislature on the Re- pubIicans, who have an overwhelm- ing majority in the lower house and have at least nominal control of the senate. This charge seems in good part justified, for the g. O p. has been holding up action on bill after bill.
 Weakness of the Republican lead- ership has been demonstrated time after time since the session started. Rank and file members of the House and Senate have lost much of their regard for their leaders as they have watched them tumble and hesitate, take one step forward and two steps backward.
 A serious legislative jam now threatens unless some early and def- mite steps are taken. It may be that the Republicans will have to make some concessions to the Democrats, but this would not be too heavy a price to pay for having at least some much-desired legisla- ton adopted Leaders of the past would have looked at the situation realistically and have arrived at some satisfactory working arrange ment.
 The uncertainty of the house leadership was Illustrated this week in the handling of bill by Sena-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-25
OLD AGE TAX
 CHANGE URGED

Hartford, Conn, March 25 - CU. P.) - Two legislative committees took under consideration today measures to liberalize Connecticut's old age assistance law and to mem- oralize congress on the Townsend plan.
 The judiciary committee heard arguments for and against liberaliz- ing the states old age pension sys- tenn by raising the maximum pay ment from $7 to $9 weekly, lowering the age limit from 65 to 60 years, and other measures seeking changes in the law.
 Representatives of the Connecti- cut Manufacturer Association op- posed changes, claiming the states financial condition would suffer by additional expenditures.
 The Federal Relation Committee took no action on proposal by Townsend plan advocates to install a $200-a-month pension plan in Connecticut, and to memoralize con- gress on the plan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-25
Son-In-Law, John Boettiger, Thinks Garner Too ''Sot" In Ways To Win Presidency
TARTAN DURAND
 TAKES OWN LIFE
Mortally Wounded in Bank Hold=Up, Wyoming Youth
 Shoots Himself

Cody, Wyo., March -CUP)- The undertaken shaved the beard and shingled the unkempt hair to- day and made Tarzan Durand, a savage who ate raw meat and killed five men, into plain Earl Durand, 26, a simple minded youth who had a bad dream and never woke up.
 The National Guard hauled its Howitzers out of the Beartooth mountains and 300 men came be- hind, unbreeching their rifles. The hunt was over. Tarzan, bearded woodsman, killer of man and beast, was dead. And even his parents were glad.
 To the natives of this ranch coun- try who had known Durand all his life, the understandable thing was what had changed him in an instant from an handed youth who loved the outdoors and this wild mountain country, who had felt confined even when he was in a house, into a savage killer. Until eight days ago he had had no rep utation as an untractable person or as bad man."
 Eight days ago he was in jail serving 30 days for shooting an elk out of season, an offense which is not considered to be very serious in this country where game abounds and the natives are known to kill 1t out of season for food rather than to kill their beef cattle. He was a peaceable prisner, on friend- ly terms with his jailers, and he was interested only in serving out his time.
 Ten days ago, the district attor- ney charged him with killing a beef steer belonging to cattleman-a felony in this cattle raising sec- tion, always severely punished. Durand was told about it and some one remarked to him that he might "get 10 years"
 Twenty hours later, the man who loved the outdoors so much he
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-25

ary, 1,506 last month. But the num- Der of institutional cases provided the difference of three in the total of 1,700 as the case load.
 1880 in January
 In January, there were 1,230 per- sons receiving full relief, as against only 944 in December, showing the considerable increase which was due, in part, to the laying off of $50 by the WPA in December, 128 aliens since
 The prospect for the city getting through the year without finding it necessary to find additional funds for welfare costs is considered poor by members of the finance board. Even the controller presently is of- fering the panacea of a special tax levy" to meet the potential de- ficit actually due to the optimism of those who prepared the budget, optimism that business conditions after "the first of the year" would be better.
 The number of individuals on re- lief has not varied so much during the past three months, the real load being the marked increase of those receiving full relief. There were 5,811 persons receiving relief in December, 6,081 in January, 6,107 in February, Yet 455 more persons obtained eligibility for full relief last month over January, nearly 300 more in January over December.
 Welfare Cost High
 Many of the welfare appropria- tions have been subjected to such demand during the first two months of the year that they are from 30 to 55 per cent exhausted. There re- main, subject to approval of $33,000 by the board of aldermen Monday night to city participation in WPA sewer work employing HOO men, $100,000 in the contingency relief fund under jurisdiction of the board of finance and the aldermen.
 Some of the aldermen have felt impelled to make this a political football, however, and the controller was enlisted in campaign to "re- turn" this fund to the welfare de- partment, in toto. When Griffen- hagen & Associates and the finance
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-25
TRUCK STRIKE IS
 NEARLY SETTLED
Terms Due Tomorrow; !; Compromise Is Accepted.
 By Both Sides

Providence, R. l., March 25 = (U. P0 - Settlement of the week-long Southern New England truck strike probably will be announced tomor- row.
 This was indicated today after leaders of both sides accepted ia compromise drafted by Carl Gill. ace trouble shooter" for the federal labor department. Terms of the compromise were withheld but were understood to include small pay rises for the truckmen.
 Tomorrow the leaders will report to Governor William H. Vanderbilt on their efforts to have the employ- CTS and truckmen ratify their ac- ceptance.
 Idle as result or the strike are some 4,000 truck drivers in Rhode Island, Massachusetts,, and Connec- ticut. They are members of the In- ternational Brotherhood of Team sters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers of America, an American Federation of Labor affiliate.
 The union originally demanded 9 three-year contract with 75 cents afj hour for drivers of trucks of over five-ton capacity and 65 cents ar hour for two years and 75 cents an hour for the third for drivers of trucks of less capacity. At present drivers receive an average of so cents an hour with rates varying as to To- cality.
 It was understood that the com promise would provide: M slrAse4t ia fronkintied m Page 3l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-25
ITALIAN-CERMAN
 PEACE PLEDGED
Goering Says Germany Will Remain Beside Italy
 at All Costs

Rome, March 25 -(UP)- Field Marshal Hermann Goering, German economic dictator and right hand man of Adolf Hitler, pledged to- day that Germany would remain at all costs beside Italy.
 The pledge was given in Premier Benito Mussolini's own newspaper, Popolo D'Italia of Milan, as Musso- lini perfected the draft of speech he is to make tomorrow--a speech which may prove one of the most important of his career.
 So sensational was C ering's statement that hope rose sharply that it would now be possible for Mussolini to obtain by peaceable ne- gotiation the natural aspirations" he seeks to satisfy, at Frances ex- pense, in the Mediterranean and Red Sea areas.
 In pledging the German-Italian friendship, Goering spoke bitterly of Great Britain and alluded to her, particularly, as the proverbial dog that barks but never bites.
 
 Goering confirmed that he would confer with Mussolini before he re- turned to Germany from his "va- cation in Italy.
 "The Berlin-Rome axis is un- breakable," Goering said in the statement. Germany will remain beside Italy regardless of what hap pens. Germany, I repeat, will at all costs remain beside Italy.
 Any greater power for Germany is greater power for Italy, and vice versa. The two peoples are perfect ly aware of this. I wish to point out that the French press is chat tering excessively about the fact that France has lost 40 divisions of (allied) soldiers as the result of the disappearance of Czechoslovak- ia, which the Versailles Treaty arti- fically created. This should make the western democracies reflect, be- cause if they have lost 40 divisions it is also possible that we have gained something.
 "What do the two big European democracies hope to gain by their present anti-totalitarian campaign? "Cries in behalf of democracy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-25
John Replies to Elliott Roosevelt on Front Page
 of Newspaper
THIRD TERM SEEN
 ALONG WEST COAST
Vice=President Could Not Carry West, Says Roose=
 welt SOn=in=LaW

Seattle, Wash, March 25. -UP) = Elliott Roosevelt's much-discussed remarks on the likelihood of Vice-PreSi- dent John Nance Garner get ting the 1940 Democratic presidential nomination drew fire today from John Boet- tiger, President RooSevelt's son-in-law. In a chatty let ter signed John" and pub lished on page one of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Pulp fisher Boettiger told his brother-in- law that Garner was too sot in his ways"
 Boettiger, former newspaper correspondent in Washington, D. C., who married the Presidents daugh- ter, Anna, was careful not to make the direct accusation that Son Elli- ott had deserted his father. But he did say: You can't stop people from insisting that your pa has got to stand for third term"
 'lt would be tough on him-to say nothing of the rest of the family but people won't stop talking that way" Boettiger said.
 The letter in part:
 "Hear Elliott:
 "I see by the papers that you think MT. Garner is in the drivers seat ahead of all other contender5 for the Democratic presidential nomina- tiCll in 1940.
 "Out in our neck of the woods we sort of like MT. Garner, too. Hes a good fisherman, chews tobacco, takes his whiskey neat. cusses in a fortnight way, and such human qualities appeal to us.
 "We'd like him lot better if he stood for the new deal and backed up the president like he used to do.
 "Old Cactus Jack has got way of appealing to congressman in their own language that would certainly be helpful if he did his appealing on the right side of things.
 "The trouble with Garner is that he is just too 'sot in his ways, too old-fashioned to grasp the new or der in this world of ours. He can catch those lingering brook trout in the creek near Uvalde but has he ever tied into big king salmon like we run out here in Puget Sound?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-25
Two Airplanes Cruise Over Section in Which Boy Is
 Believed Lost POLICE GRILL MAN ARRESTED YESTERDAY Fears Now Felt Boy Will Never Be Found Alive
 Are Expressed

AS two airplanes cruising low over the East End section found no trace of four-year old Jackie Grady and wearied searching squads likewise uncovered no sign of the youngster who has been sought since Thursday after noon, police this afternoon sought permission to drain the Scovill dam, between Harpers Ferry road and Hamilton Park, to ascertain if the boy had been drowned there. Heads of the Scovill Mfg. Go. were being contacted, police saying that it would be necessary to close several gates to drain out the pond.
 Meantime, at police headquarters. suspect who allegedly told Mrs. John Grady, of Il Gates avenue. mother of the boy, that he would be able to return her son, was being grilled. Police indicated belief that he was not involved in the boys disappearance.
 Virtually every man in the police department, except for those on reg ular street, traffic and motor patrol duty, was working on some angle of the case today. Being sought was the owner of & car seen near the Grady boys home several times Thursday afternoon. z
 Police said they had little hope that the boy would be found alive. unless he had been kidnapped or taken by someone mentally unbal- anced.
 Though the Scovill dam is more than a mile from the Grady home 8 long walk for a four-year old, police nevertheless wanted to make sure that the youngster had not fallen into this body of water and been drowned.
 Edward Klein, 39. of 187 North Main street, was arrested last night by Detective Lieutenants William Foley and Connie shan ahan, after he had allegedly told Mrs. Grady that he would be able to find her missing son. Police said he advanced an impractical theory of laying blanks through the swamp near the boys home in Mill plain. Held on technical charge of breach of the peace, Klein was giv- en continuance to Monday under bonds of $1,000.
 Pump Out Ponds
 AS police this morning resumed dragging the Scovill dam, near Hamilton park, fire department bumper went to the woody swamp in Mill Plain and began draining several ponds of water.
 Two airplanes were scheduled tc fly back and forth over the scene late this morning, seeking some trace of the boy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-25
Violence Breaks Out In
 Boston's Sausage Strike

Boston, March 25 -(UP)- New violence was reported in the five day-old Boston sausage strike today as Boston sausage dealers loaded truck was stolen and wrecked and its cargo destroyed at Brockton, 25 miles south of here.
 Fred w. Baldau told Brockton police he parked his truck on Ames street, in that city, and entered a store to delived frankfurters. When he emerged, he said his truck had vanished.
 Half an hour later police found the truck abandoned on Enterprise street, a quarter mile distant. Sev-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-25
SPANISH CIVIL
 WAR NEAR END

Hendaye, French-Spanish From tier, March 25 - Spanish National ist leaders are awaiting reply from the Republican defense council on proposals for an immediate end Of the Civil War and hostilties may cease at any time, dispatches to the frontier said today,
 It was indicated strongly in dis patches by the Nationalist and Re- publican censors that the National ists had given the Republicans a reasonable time" to permit any Re- publican leaders who desired, to leave Madrid and seek safety abroad before the Nationalist troops enter ed.
 Rumors reached St. Jean De Luz, on the frontier, that detachment of Nationalist motorized forces had entered Madrid at 2 a. m. today but the Madrid radio broadcasting as usual at 8:15 a. m. (3:15 a. m. EST gave a routine program de- voted to the funeral yesterday of three Republican general stan col- onels kilISd in the Ieoent Commur- ist-led revolt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-25
MURDERED WIFE,
 HUSBAND ADMITS
Wealthy Roger Cunning ham Directs Police to
 Body in Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City, March 25-(UP)-- Roger w. Cunningham, eccentric member of a prominent family, con- fessed early today that he had strangied his beautiful, socially prominent wife last March 6.
 He directed sheriff's party to her body which he had buried in a freshly dug sewage ditch.
 The body was found face up by four workmen after they had dug through several feet of soft earth in the ditch which had been filled in March T, the day after Mrs. Cun- ningham disappeared.
 Cunningham, according to County Prosecutor Lewis Morris, said he had strangled herr don't know why'' and had carried her body to the vacant lot through which the sewer ran and kicked it into the ditch"
 T must have been crazy." he told Morris after m ore than two hours of questioning. Tt was hell of a thing to do"
 Morris revealed that Cunningham twice had been held for examina- ton at hospital for the insane at Norman, Okla.
 Cunninghani's confession and the discovery of the body ended wide search of a weeks duration. Nor ris, convinced that his continued plea of innocence was not true and that he soon must break. had held him since Monday, while directing a search for the body which ex- tended into neighboring states.
 Unknown to Cunningham, his con- fession came only a few hours before his attorneys were to be heard in a plea for habeas corpus writ. The prosecution went to the county jail late last night for one final try at breaking his story that he had seen his wife last on the night of March 6 when he drove her to Union sta- tion here with the understanding that she was going to San Francisco.
 we had talked things over in a matter of fact way, Morris said, "and Cunningham stuck to his story. Finally he asked for drink of water and we walked toward win
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-25
SEEKS INJUNCTION TO
 STOP $5,OOO IT M

Windham, Conn, March 25-(UP)
 George J. Rood, a taxpayer, to- day asked a superior court decree restraining town officials from spending $5000 to induce a new in dustry to move into town.
 The suit was filed at Putnam, and asserted appropriation of money for such a purpose was illegal. Rood asked the court for a temporary in- junction against the drawing of the $5000 check.
 The writ said a special town meeting March 1 appropriated the $500O to induce an industry to move here. Town authorities have been in communication with the Electro Motive Manufacturing O.. New York
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-25
CREW RESOLVED
 IN PLANE CRASH
Ice=Clogged Carburetors Blamed for Fate of
 Cavalier
BY SANDOR s. KLEIN

United Press Staff COrreSpOndent)
 Washington, March 25.-tUP)- The British air ministry today blamed ice-clogged carburetors for the loss at sea of Imperial Airways New York--Bermuda flying boat Cavalier January 21. The ministry's conclusions, which absolved the crew, were made in a report of an investigation of the accident. Six of the eight passengers and four of the American tanker Esso Baytown the crew of five were rescued by after they had foated in the Atlan- tic Oceon 10 hours.
 The report was made public by Captain G. 0. Pirie, air attache of the British embassy. It was pre- pared by Wing Commander Vernon Brown, chief accident inspector of the British Air Ministry. Official Conclusions
 l. The forced descent of the Cavalier 285 miles southeast of Long Island was due to complete loss of power in two of the four engines and partial loss of power in the other two as the result of carburetor trouble ascribable to icing.
 1. The sea was too heavy for a good landing.
 3. The officers of the plane were blameless and behaved with great coolness.
 4. All British regulations, under which the Cavalier operated, were complied with.
 Brown found that the methods of heating the carburetors to prevent icing apparently was not fool proof" He suggested changes TOT more adequate protection against carburetor icing and strongly recom- mended that a replacement flying boat should not be sent to Bermuda until the changes had been made.
 The report chided the press for it's unfair criticism" of the Cavaliers skipper, Capt. R. M. Alderson, who was alleged to have continued flying for 49 minutes after knowing that he was in trouble without sending an sos.
 Alderson had transmitted to Port Washington, N. Y, radio station, the following message:
 Running into bad weather, may have to earth"
 That was interpreted by many in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-25

eral hungry dogs were gobbling 50 pounds of frankfurters which had been strewn over the street.
 Police said the trucks motor had been ruined. The sparkplugs had been removed and broken on the ground, and a sledge-hammer ap- parently had been used to wreck the, carbureator, ..,. .ss-s. ,,...-s .,.-
 Nearby residents said they had seen three men working around the truck a few minutes previously.
 Meanwhile, in Boston, peaceful picketing continued as negotiators reported scant progress in their ef- forts to settle the dispute.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-25

Concord, N. H., (UP)-The New Hampshire house of representatives has passed a measure providing for the observance of June 17th as Gen John Stark Day" Ceremonies will be keld "in colnmemoration of the patriotic devttion which this out standing New Hampshire hero gave his country" Gen. Stark fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill.