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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-29
July 4h Used Car BasanBuy Yours In Tacoma Now and Be Ss
Real Estate for Sale

BUY A HOME AND SAVE
TIE RENT
POUR ROOMS. 81 400
DANDY little home With two lots
located in west end near bus line,
all kinds Of mutt and berries; only
$3.50 down. balance go month
NEW FouR-ROoM. - zoo
LOCATED near Roosevelt school,
house Ia iust being finished. flrst
time offered for sale, tao lots,
ssrAge; tire view OF city; only $500
down; balance $40 month
ROOMS AND q LOTS. ~ 400
bath. lots all IN fruit berries. gar
den and flowers; small chicken
house, gsrase, fine soil. no rocks,
$500 down: balance $40 month.
-FOUR ROOMS, $500
ALMOST NEW. modern IN every re-
spcct. hardwood floors "a Twins
room: cabinet Kitchen wired for
range; breakfast room and two
bedrooms. full basement With fur
mace and laundry trays. reasonable
terms
SOUND REALTY CO.. INC.
Main Sos Gal Tacoma Az.
WashinGton-Mason Schools
NEAT. clean. fine condition: COM
bination living and dining room,
one bedroom. cabinet Kitchen.
bath down: two finished rooms
In fun attic; part basement ex-
cavated; nice yard and garage.
Yours on terms for s2,65o.
Marine View
ON NO. SAITH; six fine rooms and
n dandy view; the lot Is sra by
ITO, and with a minimum OF
work this can be made one OF
the fine homes in this very fine
district For a home or speeu-
lation, this is an outstanding
buy. Very easy terms at s3,l5o.
COMFORT & DAVIS
e26 Rust Bldg. BR iii
Ewes Call Mr.. Nogelsr. PR 0s2s
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Furnished Houses

FOR RENT-Four-room furnished
house. Inquire 37o2 SO. Tacoma
ave.
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81 Chevrolet Pickup
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= Demonstration.
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Real Estate for Sale

COLLEGE DIST. DUPLEX
HERE'S YOUR CHANCE TO own
home and have the other fell
low pay for Il. Building Is In
good condition. with new roof
and new paint. Large lot on
paved street. with ornamental
lights Close 10 transportation
and all schools One apartment
is rented for enough 10 make
the payments. VIII submit offer
of So $50. on easy terms
DUPLEX located on Eas, 26th st,
newly renovated throughout,
nice new plumbing. light fix
lures. cabinet kitchen; will rent
for $40 each. Total price. 81 500.
5000 cash and balance on con-
tract.
w. :. KERR co.
300 Rust Bldg. BR 2iSl
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DRY. green upland block arc slso.
JOHNSON FUEL. GA 17se
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$e75 5 dso az. sto ... eos .:s . a.l' g:
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THREE-ROOM upper duplex. bath,
garage. water and garbage; ZIG. ITO
East 35th.
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Waterfront Property

10 ACRES cultivated. salsnee
.ssssc off. small orchard: f.tso feet
beautiful bathing and fisisins
beach. 4-Foosn ard 1-room Hsus<s
furnished outouilfiESs 2 sgxs
Big imDlsmsnts On An1<rsol
Island Also csbia for rent. Victor
Larson. vega, Wssh.
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Real Estate for Sale

Wednesday, thursday,
s 10 sp. NJ.
JUST AN ADORABLE little
holne: large living room, new
floor: cobhlestone fireplace; two
bedrooms; pretty and new, with
French doors. three-piece bath .
real nice kitchen With lots Of
huili-lns. everything is in per
feet condition. double garage;
fine water system. cost over
$500. The setting Is Just 4
dream. Beautiful natural trees
lawn and flowers For only
$3.50; $500 down. balance easy
terms. Follow Veteran Hospi-
tai drive TO last right-hand main
road, Go about 400 feet. Watch
for our sign or stop at office
for directions. We always have
several buyers come early :
Bring your deposit with you
FREEMAN REALTY CO.
opp. Lakewood Center Ia 2e2a
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bury? A. Yes.
 o. How freqeutly?
 A. I can't say.
 e. Possibly every month? @ Possibly every month";
 A. About every month.
 a. Isn't it so that in the elections which took place every two years that these statements were pub lished?
 A. I wouldn't say that.
 e. You don't remember?
 A. No.
 Martin Hayden was then called to the stand.
 Alcorn: MT. Hayden, what is your business?
 A. Welfare agent.
 O. And have you the record of the Welfare Board?
 A. keep them.
 o. Is that book kept in the reg ular course of business as public records of the city of Waterbury? A. Yes.
 Pages 242-243 and 360-36l were then offered by Alcorn to be marked as exhibits.
 Saved Pride
 Special Prosecutor Alcorn declined to read the exhibit to the jury, and the defense undertook that proce- dure. The minutes showed records of votes of the board to transfer funds from the welfare department to the street department to pay men who had been hired by the latter department on recommenda- tion of welfare officials.
 At the conclusion of Hayden's testimony, Attorney Healey asked him, with regard to the fund trans fer votes, You know that 1t was done to save the pride of men who would otherwise be on the public welfare roll. Isn't that it?"
 The answer was "Yes," and court adjourned.
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Five members of the board of finance, the city treasurer and a clerk of the board of welfare testi- fled in the Waterbury conspiracy trial yesterday afternoon. The high lights are as follows:
 Alc0rn-Harley w. Tripp.
 c. Did you know of your own knowledge if claims such as Will namson, Spellacy, Thoms, Guilfoile Weisman, that I have called your attention to, do you know whether or not they were placed on the war rants payable sheet after you sign- ed them?
 A. didn't know that they were there.
 @. Did you know as a matter oi fact, that the lawyer named Levy oi New Haven, from 1881 through 1887 received sums of money at various times from the City of Waterbury aggregating nearly $125,0 Didn't you know that?
 Attorney McDonough: I object on the first ground that 1t is im- proper on the second ground that il is immaterial and irrelevant, and or the third ground that 1t is typical Alcorn speech. Objection overruled)
 A. did not know it.
 @. Now, did you know the Abri- gador Digger and Philip Coppeto re- ceived from the City of Waterbury from 1930-37 total payment in ex- cess of $800,000?
 A. No, didn't.
 @. During this period of depres- sion that we mentioned through
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A. Yes.
 @. How long have you been a member of the board of finance?
 A. Since 1886.
 o. And you attended the meet ings of the board of finance regu- larly?
 A. Yes.
 @. And who brought n the war rants payable sheets?
 A. MT. Leary.
 @. Did you examine the sheets at all?
 A. Not very many.
 o. More or less a forlnality with you as it was with the other mem- bers, in respect to the signing of the sheets?
 A. Yes.
 0. Did you ever know that items were added to the warrants payable sheets after they had been signed by the board?
 A. No.
 Q. Did you know, for instance, that $29.000 was paid to MT. Thoms, December 1857?
 A. No.
 o. Do you know of large pay ments during l936-1937?
 A. No.
 o. Do you know about the Levy situation?
 A. No.
 Printed Charter o. Your paper did the charter for the city?
 A. Yes.
 e. Do you remember that you printed the charter for the city of Waterbury?
 A. Yes.
 Q. What was your return for the printing of the charter?
 A. $2500.
 e. And you understood that was to include the printing of the index? A. No.
 Q. So you had two inuexes-an index prepared for MT. Guilfoile and an index prepared for MT. Weisman Was anything said to you about printing the index?
 A. It has never been given to me for printing.
 e. It has neve. been given to you for printing? Do you know that a large sum of money was paid to MT.
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funds?
 A. Yes.
 @. That was what?
 A. The Citizens & Manufacturers National Bank.
 e. Whether or not you made re- ports to the Board of Finance?
 A. Yes, SIT.
 Q. Who prepared those reports?
 A. I did.
 @. Yourself?
 A Yes, sir.
 o. Did you have the assistance of anybody in the preparation of them?
 A. Not any more than was neces- sary for the expenditures.
 @. Where did you get the infor- nation with respect to the finan- cial affairs in the matters concern ing the city?
 A. What do you mean, MT. AL corn?
 Q. How did you get your infor- nation?
 A. From the duplicate deposit slips which were sent to me.
 @. And who sent them to you? A. The various departments. @. Didn't you rely on anybody with respect to the situation? A. No, sir.
 o. Did you know that the various individuals whose names I have read were getting large sums of money from the city? A. No, I didn't know that.
 No Duplicates
 o. Then, take it there were no duplicate checks furnished you?
 A. No, sir.
 @. Didn't you know anything about it at all?
 A. No.
 o. Prior to the Hayes-Leary ad- ministration in 1880, whether or not you negotiated the city loans?
 A. No, sir. i o. Did you have anything to do with negotiating the city loans? | A. never did. o. Through the years 1880 down through 1887, what was the city's financial condition? A. would say very good. o. And was the city's credit good?
 A. Yes, sir. @. To your knowledge, was any money spent during your regime as treasurer, for the purpose of selling bonds for the city? A. No. Attorney Murray: Q. What was your salary as city treasurer?
 @. Was 1t any of your business as city treasurer of a thousand dol lars a year, to go to the state leg islature in Hartford in behalf of the bills for the city? A. No, sir. o. Was it any part of your duty to go to any banks for loans? A. No, sir. @. Or to try to raise bond issues? A. No, sir.
 Q. Was it any part of your busi- ness to know what money was spent for lawyers? A. No.
 @. Or the excess of the expendi- ture? A. I believe not.
 o. Did you get any assistance from MT. Purcell? A. Yes, sir.
 c. Isn't it a fact that you de- pended on MT. Purcell for the fig ures that he gave you from the con- troller's office, that were reflected in your city treasurer reports? A. Yes, sir.
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the army on the march through the wildly excited city. Hitler presumably chose marines to occupy the city formally instead of the army because of Memels tra- dition as port, and to demonstrate the rising power of the German navy.
 Ernst Neumann, German leader in Mernel, in welcoming Hitler said:
 Seven hundred years ago Ger man knights founded the Memel fortress, and the city of Memel has remained German to this day"
 His Statement In his speech Hitler said:
 "Memel German men and women, in the name of the entire German people I greet you today and am happy to welcome you into the great German Reich.
 q lead you herewith back into the homeland which you have not forgotten and which has not for gotten you.
 "In the name of the entire nation, I thank you also for your courageous manly and unswerving steadiness in maintaining your right to belong to the German Reich.
 T have given your leader the in- signia which the best German men carry on their breasts. The fact that you are able to celebrate today is the fruit of sacrifice and hard work. Determines Her Own End
 "As Germany has arisen today who does not trust her fate to sor- eigners but determines it herself"
 "This is so even iNit does not please the outside world. Tn support of this new Germany stand more than 80,- 100000 Germans. You enter now uhe great current of our national life, our work and hopes, and if neces- sary, our sacrifices.
 You will understand this better than other Germans who live in the heart of our gref.t German Reich. You will know what it means not to be deserted but to have behind you solid nation.
 Never MoN Fan Apart
 "Out of pain and need has come new community. It is our oath and our will that it shall never more
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Guilfoile for the preparation of the index?
 A. No.
 @. Do you know that a large sum of money was paid to MT. Weis- man for preparing the index? A. No.
 Q. You made an estimate, didn't you, of the cost of preparing that index?
 A. I couldn't without seeing it. o. After the charter was printed whether or not it was kept on the property of the Waterbury Demo- crat?
 A. What do you mean?
 Kept Copies
 Q. Did you keep the copies in the possession of the Democrat?
 A. kept most of them. Copies were called for from time to time. o. Have you copy of the char ter?
 A. Yes.
 Q. And is that the charter for which the city paid two individuals for preparing the index?
 A. I don't know anything about them.
 Q. This is the charter that you printed?
 A Yes. MT. Alcorn offered the charter as an exhibit.
 o. You printed the charter, MT Hayden. Now, haven't you spoker to any one or any one spoken te you about printing the index?
 A. I got word to hold copies unti I got the index.
 o. Who told you to hold copy? A. The order came from MT. Kel. ly or the mayors office
 o. When did you get that word A. Sometime before the actua job was completed. I can't remem. ber-it was a number of years ago
 o. Well. did your contract for tht city of Waterbury include binding
 A. Yes.
 o. And it hasn't been done?
 A. It hasn't been bound because I couldn't get the index.
 Q. How many copies of the char ter did you print? A. I think 2500.
 o. And how many did you retain in your possession? A. I believe I retained 1700. Attorney Cassidy: o. You say that the controller brought theses warrants payable sheets into the room. Is that right: A. Yes. o. And as I understand it, wher they were up, they were up. I! that right? A. Yes.
 Q. And when they were down they were down?
 A. That's right,
 @. Can you tell me where they were when they were neither ur nor down? General laughter throughout the court-room.)
 City Treasurer
 Next witness: Edward L. Futile. Alcorn: How long have you re- sided in Waterbury?
 A. 50 years.
 o. Do you occupy any position in the city government?
 A. City treasurer.
 o. Did you make any effort al any time to get possession of any copies of the charter?
 A. No, sir.
 o. Do you know whether or not they were printed?
 A. No, sir.
 Q. Do you know what depository was used in the city for the city
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Fuehrer Makes Most
 Surprising Statement
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fall apart and our oath that no other power in the world shall break it.
 Twenty years of suffering and distress shall be a warning lesson to us for all the future. We know what we have to expect from the outside world.
 We have not the intention to cause outside pain. The pain, how ever, which they caused us-that we must make good.
 T believe we now have essential ly ended this making good.
 We welcome you as German conl- rades, newest citizens of our great German Reich. and so at this nio- ment in the entire, tremendous Ger man Reich we express our loyalty and faith in our battle cry, Our People, Our German Reich, Sieg Heil."
 The fuehrer came to Memel on the pocketbattleship Deutschland, which was unable to enter the har- Dor, the Leopard being used to ferry him to the port.
 WucUlcr uc WOulu dSdul CTdIlSIer back to the Deutschland at sea or continue on the faster Leopard was undisclosed. He departed just be- fore 4 p. m., without announcement of his destination.
 As Germany celebrated the re- turn of Memel, the government, in close consultation with Italy, pre- pared plans to strike back at the Stop Hitler" drive of the democra- cies.
 Well informed Nazi quarters pre- dicted that German retaliatory measures were likely to include:
 l. Denunciation of the Anglo German naval limitation pact in the near future.
 3. Publication of documents found at Prague and alleged to dis close British negotiations with lead- ing Czech statesmen for restoration of the Czechoslovak State to pre- Munich agreement form.
 3. Powerful trade drives to coun- teract any Anglo-French trade moves.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-23

Attorney Cassidy:
 Later in his cross-examination )
 Monthly Reports
 e. These reports that you made every month, as understand it, re- flected the financial condition of the city of Waterbury. Is that cor- rect?
 A. Yes. o. It showed the balance in the bank and the expenditures during the preceding month. Is that cor rect?
 A. Yes.
 o. And those reports, as under stand, were presented to the Board
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of Finance every month, so that the Board of Finance were informed of the financial condition of the city of Waterbury every month. Is that correct?
 A. That's true.
 o. And those reports were also public records of the city of Wa terbury?
 A. I think so.
 o. And isn't it so that those re- ports were published periodically in the newspapers in Waterbury?
 A. I won't say as to that.
 Q. They were published, were they not, in newSpapers in Water
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wages to the unemployed, and most of that money was spent through the public works department, street department and welfare depart ment?
 A. I don't know about the public works, but it was the welfare and street.
 (After recess, Peter Griffin was called to the -stand).
 MT. Griffin questioned by Alcorn: Q. You attended the board of finance meetings pretty regularly? A. Yes. e. Did you look on the front of the sheet before you signed? A. No, didn't.
 Q. How were they placed before you? A. Just as he happened to drop them-sometimes up and sometimes down.
 Q. You took them as they were presented to you? A. Yes. c. You didn't know what was on them? A. No. Denies Knowing MT. Griffin testified also that he knew of no large payments made to Williamson, Thoms, Judge McGrath, Spellacy firm, Guilfoile, Carmody & Thoms, or to Levy.
 @. Did you know that a sum of money was paid to Santalucia? Do you know anything about that?
 A. No.
 o. Or the Conn. Supply Co.,?
 A. know they did work for the city but didn't know what they were paid.
 e. Did you ever see any vouch- CTS?
 A No.
 0. Did you ever know that items for payments were added to the warrants payable sheets after the board of finance signed them?
 A. I didn't.
 Charles Jackson was the next wit ness. Questioned by Alcorn:
 o. What is your occupation, MT Jackson?
 A. I am connected with a con- cern which manufactures cut stone
 o. The fact is that you are in the monument business?
 A. Yes.
 o. Now, you were a member oi the board of finance and you at. tended the meetings regularly, didn't you? | A. Yes. | o. Did you ever know that any items were added to the warrants payable sheets after they had beer signed by the board of finance?
 A. I didn't.
 MT. Hayden Called
 John Hayden followed MT. Jack son as witness. He was questioned by Alcorn as follows:
 @. I believe you are connected with the Waterbury Democrat?
 A. Yes.
 e. And in what capacity?
 A. Business manager.
 o. How long have you been busi- ness manager of that paper?
 A. Since 1914. l c. I suppose you are a Democrat in politics? A. I am. l o. And you are a member of ths board of finance?
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here. there was cut in the payroll O. the city. Was there not?
 A. There was.
 e. And employees of the city were reduced in their pay?
 A. They were.
 Assessors Paid
 @. Did you know that the asses scrs were paid from 1892 on, an amount of about $500 year in excess of their salary?
 A. No, I didn't. Y @. Did you know that the teach CTS payrolls were cut during this period of depression?
 A. I knew that.
 @. But you didn't know of these other large payments, did you? A. No.
 Attorney Murray:
 O. Now, MT. Trip. did you know whether or not the payments to contractors, including the Copettos, were perfectly proper, legal pay ments for services rendered.
 A. I don't know that they were. o. And you don't know that they weren't, do you?
 A. I think that they were excess sive.
 0. Do you know that they were excessive?
 A. In my own mind I do know that they were excessive.
 o. That is, you assume that they were excessive.
 (Objection by Attorney Cassel overruled).
 @. Do you know the services rem dered?
 A. I don't know the services ren- dered.
 o. We'll, did you know that it was claimed that bills for lighting in the City of Waterbury were ex- ceSsive?
 A. I know that it was claimed that they were excessive.
 c. Did you know, as a matter of fact, that they were excessive? A. No, did not know that they were excessive.
 e. Did you know there was a resolution passed by the Board of Aldermen to retain someone for the purpose of attempting to reduce the rates?
 A. I don't know that either. <
 Firms Mentioned
 In his croSs-examination, Attor- ney McDonough called the witness attention to the fact that M. J. Daly and Company, J. E. Smith and Company and 0. A. Templeton, Inc. did considerable business with the city of Waterbury during the years of depression. Attorney McDonough remarked that he mentioned those firms because MT. Alcorn had neg lected to do so.
 The next witness was MT. Judge. Questioned by Alcorns
 0. Are you 8 resident of Water bury, Mr.. Judge?
 A. Yes.
 @. And I believe you are an off, ciai of the American Brass Com pany?
 A. Yes.
 o. What is your position there? A. I dlll uooAobuAAv- pA CesouASAs @. And how long have you been asistsant-treasurer?
 A. A little over 19 years. s. @. And whether or not you are a member of the Board of Finance of the City of Waterbury?
 A. Yes.
 e. Under the appointment of Mayor Hayes?
 A. Yes.
 o. Whether or not you attended the meetings of the Board of Fin ance regularly?
 A. think about 75 per cent of them.
 0. What was your average in 1887?
 A. I think 20 out of 26 in 1887. @. Where did the board meet? A. In one of the mayors suite of rooms.
 c. Do you remember whether the mayor and MT. Leary were reg ular attendants at the meetings? 4. Quite regular.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-23

Oregon will ship a colony of beav- CTS, some elk and other animals to the California Worlds Fair as part of its exhibit
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-23
Finance Commissioners Deny
 Knowledge OF Big Checks !"

Board of Finances Actions Reviewed Recorded Printing of City CharteCy Treasurer Explains Reports Trans
 ferred Funds Kept Names From Relief Rolls
Evening star., 1939-05-31

The vacation season Is upon us.
The landscape blossoms forth in
gorgeously colored railroad and
steamship folders. So the annual
husband-and-wife Wrangle starts
over the relative merits of seaside
and mountains, and farmhouses
versus swanky resorts.
Now a vacation is more than a
pleasure. 1t is duty that We owe
not only to ourselves, but to those
with whom we live, and to our jobs
No family can stand being together,
Gagged in the small confines of a
home, for a year without getting on
each others nerves. No man and
woman can do the same work over
and over again for 1865 successive
days without losing their pep and
enthusiasm in it and coming to re-
gard it as a chore instead of career.
Probably the greatest modern dis
covery Is the vacation, but not all of
us have found out what it is all
about, and that it doesn't matter
where we go or what we do, just SO
we get change For what we need
is to break away from our routine for
a little while, to go somewhere where
we will see different sights, meet
different people, eat different food
get something new to think and talk
about. Most of all, we need to get
away from the people with whom we
are thrown in intimate contact all
the time. And this goes for hus-
bands and wives. no matter how de-
voted they are to each other.