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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-28
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Clothing of Doll
Stolen by Thief

Loss of a dolls wardrobe was
reported to police by Ivar Berven,
2406 No. Union ave, who said his
small daughter was grieving be-
cause of the theft Sunday.
1t was only few minutes after
the child put down the small over
night case containing the dolls
clothing that he returned to the
scene at 26th and Pacific, he said
The case was no longer on the
curbing.
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GUST ELLISON

Gust Ellison, 81, died suddenly
Sunday morning at his home in
Roy, the victim of a heart attack.
A native of Sweden, Ellison had
lived in Roy and vicinity 30 years.
Survivors include three nephews,
Edward and Oscar Bloom OF Roy
and Harry Bloom of MERGED, Calf,
and one niece, Mrs. Ida Reid OF
Napa, Calf. Storlie's will an
nounce the funeral.
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FUNERAL SERVICES

Catherine A. Siddall - Services
were held Monday at 10 a. m.
from Buckley-king's chapel; Rev.
Arthur Bell officiated.
William MeCarty- Tuesday, 800
a. m. from St. Leos church, cor
tege leaving Cassidy A Aliens
800 a. m; burial Calvary GENE
terry; rosaray. Monday. 7:30 p. m.
at the Cassidy & Allen chapel
Laura n. Wright - Tuesday, 2
p. m. from the CAffney chapel
lakewood cremation.
Mr.. Lucy Taylor - Services
we're held Monday az / D. m. from
Mellinger's chapel; Rev Lester
Hearn ofneiated; interment Span
away cemetery.
George W. Myers ~ Tuesday. 2
p. m. from the Sumner Methodist
church; Rev. L. c. Schultz and
L o. o. r. officiating. burial
Sumner cemetery. under direction
Of Sumner funeral chapel. Myers.
who had been a resident o. Sum
ner 81 years died Thanksgiving
day In Mason City. Wash.
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CANADIANS HALT
Sn|NcLE EXPORT

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HARRY GALE

Harry Gale of South Prairie died
Friday in a local hospital. Mel
fingers will announce the funeral.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-28
MKT MoNns

Wind At = m. Monday, aouth.
east } m. p. h.. barometer ~
30.3p and rising steadily.
sun rises At Ti32 a m. Tuesday
and sets Al 4.za p. m.
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LAURETTA DEAN CHERRY

Lauretta Dean Cherry. eight
year-old danughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard ID. Cherry. 124 Ea Wright
ave, died Sunday in a local hos
pital. She was born In Gig Har-
Dor, the family moving 10 Tacoma
five years ago. Other survivors
include a sister, Janet. and grand
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Lynn Price
and Mrs. Martha Cherry. Mel
fingers will announce the funeral.
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CHARLEs GAssIN

Funeral services for Charles
Gassin. 4s. Of s0ls FaWcett ave.
who died Saturday in a local hos
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Dec. io Be 10 De- 10 D@es
Forecast for Washington Part
ly cloudy and cool Monday night
and Tuesday, local morning fogs,
gentle east wind off the coast /.
moderate east wind in the straits
and light variable wind in the
sound
Rainfall for the - hours ending
At s a. m. Monday. trace. since
Nov. !. 2O4 inches. a deficiency
Of 353 inches. since Jan. /. n
inches. a deficiency o. 1895 inches
Evening star., 1939-08-06
EXPLORER VALUES ARCTIC LIFE
Sefansson Washington VISIT Gives Picture North and Its
Challenge to Those Who Venture Into Ice Realm and
Require Judgment of High Order

OF hundred trappers in 1929 have
become thriving towns of $4,000 in
habitants. Their houses, built Of
timber, rest on foundations Of ice
hard as granite and protected from
melting by layers of sawdust in
summer"
And the plumbing?" asked some
one OF practical turn of mind.
The plumbing" came the quick
response, 'is simple. The pipes are
insulated to keep from freezing. In
any case, the temperature never
falls lower than IL degrees below
zero underground"
Sustaining Lite.
From the military and economic
value of the North, it was but a step
to Stefansson's personal experiences,
especially to the expedition under
taken to prove that the Arctic can
sustain life indefinitely. an expedi-
ton on the brink of which even ma
tive Eskimos hesitated and turned
back.
"A year in the North with food
AoA oAiiy IodI lllS uOS
driver inquired.
I'VE shall shoot our game and live
on meat only" Stefansson had re-
assured them.
But fresh water" they asked.
You can't take fresh water for q
year"
1--WE will get our fresh water from
the ice," Stefansson had answered.
"Ha, now we know that he is
crazy" they cried. Fresh water
from salt water ice. No, that is
too much"
And SO Stefansson and his dogs
and two faithful Norwegians had
turned their faces and steps to the
North, while crowd of Eskimos
and sourdoughs had waved him
what they doubted not was q last
farewell.
He had taken four months pro-
Continued on Page CT, Column g.
Evening star., 1939-08-06
Bv Garneft d. Horner.

F'Ound-a Government official who
Is appealing to the public to abolish
his job!
The service he directs is one of
the few Government agencies that
pays for itself and turns in a profit
to the Treasury each year.
His work is caused only by the
mistakes of careless letter and parcel
mailers, and he thinks people should
quit making those mistakes and so
put his Office out of business-but
knows they never will.
He is Burton G.. CoWles, super
intendent of the Post Office Depart
ment's division of dead letters and
dead parcel post, which last year
handled 13,7006S3 letters and 4O4,-
668 pieces of parcel post that could
not be delivered normally because
OF errors in addressing or packing.
The dead letters included around
300 blanks" a day-letters mailed
without any address on the outside
at all. And about 3 out of every 10
of these blanks contained money or
some other valuable enclosure.
Plenty of mistakes were made
right here in the Nations Capital,
where total of $356.55 in cash was
found just floating around loose in
the mails. There we're 514,977
blanks and improperly addressed
letters-more than 1,400 a day
handled here, and they contained
$2,527.43 in cash.
Profitable.
Altogether, Mr.. Cowles' division
collected s218,O5685, including
money and stamps from unde-
ii, cradle mail and found loose in
the mails, fees for returning dead
letters and money made on sales of
unclaimed merchandise and maga-
zines. The total cost of operating
the service was $105, 5,92895-so it
more than twice paid for itself.
But all of this money represented
loss for thousands of people
Evening star., 1939-08-06
By Cora WeHs Thorpe.

We sat, an eXpectant group, in
vited to meet at an informal sum-
mertime dinner, the man who in 35
years of Arctic exploration and re-
search has added more to the knoWl-
edge of the manner of life within
the Arctic Circle than any one else
living And when he came, thread
ing his somewhat tortuous way be-
tween the gaily decked tables, a
Gallup pole would have recorded
our identical reaction. Here was a
man the antithesis of almost every
preconceived idea.
Tall, perhaps, though not of the
stature reminiscent of some 10 CEN
turies of Icelandic forebears. A slight
droop of the shoulders; an inclina-
ton of the head, which gave his
dinner companion an impression of
fattering attention; eyes in which
one searched in vain for the gleam
of adventure-and found rather a
prevailing gentleness, matched, if at
all. by penetrating sagacity.
Courage is not rare, nor one Of
our finer qualities" Stefansson re-
piled in answer to an opening salvo
of admiration. "A very low order of
animal has courage. For expedi-
tionary purposes, Judgment is much
more imperative"
Courage, too, often connotes un-
desirable recklesSness AS for my
self" he continued with a slight
shrug of the shoulders, ut is very
kind of you to suggest that I am
brave, but I assure you 1 have Wor-
ried less about where my next meal
was coming from in the Arctic Cir
Gle than on the streets of New York. y
Ideas Discarded.
To spend an evening in the COM
pany of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, we
were soon to discover, was to undo a
great deal of ones thinking and to
toss overheard a lifetime's cargo of
obsolete ideas. Even the time
honored conviction of the fatal as
sociation of red meat and rheuma-
tism was to go into discard.
my diet?" queried Stefansson
For an aggregate of one and a
half years l have lived exclusively
on meat, and meat alone. AS fol
rheumatism, I've never had
twinge."
"Of course, it has its advantages,
we conceded, resistance to cold anc
all that"
1--WE do not concern ourselves or
polar expeditions with resistance tc
cold. We dress to meet it-fur un.
derwear, for instance, with the full
side in," he emphasized.
Closely regarded, his appearance
did not belle his words. A pallol
amounting even to transparency
of skin, seemed scarcely to indicate
a decades contact with the Arctic's
sub-zero weather. His hands, play.
ing idly at the moment with the
silver, we're those of a man who
had stripped from seals their pelts
intact, as one draws off a glove
had inflated them, lashed them pom
toon-fashion to the dogsleds ir
which to sail bnthely from ice flot
to ice foe, and yet those hands
with the long, tapering fingers, wer.
those of an artist, not those of 8
sourdough.
1t was Stefansson's knowledge o1
the ABC of living in the Arctic tt
which we were. indebted for thi,
unusual occasion, for he was ir
Evening star., 1939-08-06

destroyed and 62526 that contained
valuable Enclosures were filed to
await possible reclamation.
Campaign Successful.
For many years Mr.. Cowles has
been carrying on an education cam
paign, trying to get people to mail
letters and parcels properly, and
gradually it is having some effect.
In 1923 there were 19,238,548 dead
letters. This figure rose year by
year to a peak of 25,854,S45 in 1925,
and then began falling off gradually
to a modern low of 10,708, 1853 in
1888. Increased postal business
generally since then has brought
some increase, but the percentage
of dead letters out of all those
mailed still is dropping off.
A letter goes to the dead letter
office only If it bears no return ad-
dress and it cannot be delivered
because of a wrong address-or
none at all. Then the dead letters
are opened and those which contain
the addresses Of the senders inside
are returned at once in official
envelopes which provide for the
collection Of a scent fee upon de-
livery. Those which contain moth
ing of value and no information
making it possible to return them
are destroyed at once without rec
ord. Letters containing matter
of obvious value are recorded and
If unbelievable are held one year
awaiting claim of ownership. If
this doesn't materialize, the valu-
able contents become the property
of the Government.
Evening star., 1939-08-06

her a piece of my mind, I can tell
you"
This case illustrates one interest
ing point you may be glad to know
about. The postmaster couldn't
open that letter. Sealed letters are
considered so sacred that nobody
except those specially assigned to
such duty in the dead letter division
can open them. And Mr.. Cowles
discourages his employees from read
ing letters they have to open in
search of some clue as to where it
should go. They are supposed to
look at only the bottom and top.
Even then, if they should happen
to see something that would in
criminate the sender-possibly lead
to the capture of public enemy
they couldn't do anything about it.
The rules say that no information
contained in sealed correspondence
while in the custody of the postal
service" can be used as evidence for
arrest, prosecution or for any pur-
pose whatsoever detrimental to the
Interest of the sender or addressee.
II it was of major public interest
to bring the information to light,
the postal official might somehow
or other let a prosecuting official
know that it would be a good idea
for him to have court subpoena a
certain letter from him, but Mr..
Cowles doesn't recall such ever being
done.
The more usual procedure for
getting around the sanctity of
sealed letters when there is suspicion
of wrongdoing is for the letter to be
held up and the addressee notified to
come and get it. Then, when it is
in his hands and out of "the custody
of the postal service" a postal
official can conflscate it. This is
done every day in the case of letters
containing lottery tickets, when
there is reason to suspect they do so.
Petticoat Fraud.
One of the biggest jobs involving
fraud that Mr.. Cowles recalls oc-
CURED in 1916 and is known as the
'petticoat fraud case" Some con-
Germ advertised that fine petticoat
would be sent any one who mailed
in a dime. The Post Office Depart
ment discovered it was a fraud and
held up all letters addressed to the
advertiser. They piled up to nearly
1000, 900 letters, all containing dimes
from women who wanted bargain
petticoats. Patiently, Mr.. Cowles'
staff went through the letters and
returned nearly all of them to the
senders.
Still a mystery is the source of
$500 that was found some years
ago in II letters, all mailed from q
Pacific Coast city to the same
woman in a Midwest city. They
bore only general delivery address
and the woman never called for
them, so the money went into the
Treasury.
Such cases are comparatively
rare-except for the daily bundles
of letters coming in from foreign
countries with lottery tickets, many
OF them outright fakes, according
to Mr.. CoWleS.
AS . matter of fact, 999 out of
every 1000 letters reach the persons
they are intended to without ever
going to the dead letter Office
Nearly 100000 of those that did
go to the dead letter Office last
year finally were returned to the
senders. A total Of 10,6S5, ,576 were
Evening star., 1939-08-06

Washington to confer on Alaskan
problems, including its defense. This
We knew and the conversation be-
came naturally a round-table dis
cussion, with the value of the Arctic
to the United States as future base
the first subject on the tapis.
Value of Arctic.
The value of the Arctic to the
United States as a war base depends
on its proximity to a possible en-
emy. An excellent air base, of
course, too"
But for ships, no dependable
navigation" we countered.
II was asked that same question
10 years ago and my answer was
negative" he replied. To-day I
have had to reverse my opinion.
The U. S. S. R. has anticipated us.
There are at least a dozen head
lands on the north of Siberia where
radio stations and air bases have
been established. Scouting planes
report changing channels in the
shifting ice daily, and twice daily
ice charts, corresponding to our air
and weather charts. are issued FORE
casting navigable channels.
But this northern littoral must
be far removed from the sources of
supplies-too far to make practical
outlet objected skeptic among us.
You perhaps are unaware" was
the rejoinder, that the three main
rivers of Siberia flow north into the
sea, making a natural form of trans
portation for lumber, oil and the
salt which is in great demand for
the fish industry. Already ship
ments are being made as far south
as South Africa. The construction
of terminal facilities, bridges, spurs
of railroads." he continued, fore
stalling our questions. involves, in
some cases, transportation of sup
plies by airplanes. They bring rail-
road rails, bridge trestles, even draft
oxen by plane. Towns of a couple
Evening star., 1939-08-06
OFFICIAL WANTS JOB ABOLISHED
Superintendent of Post Offices Dead Letter Division Backs
Campaign Designed to End Careless Addressing and
Wrapping of Letters and Packages

money they could have saved by
just taking the trouble to put their
return addresses on their letters
and parcels and to wrap their
packages so securely that they
wouldn't fall apart in the mails. If
everybody would do those things,
Mr.. CoWles could retire and his Job
would end with him.
1t isn't all carelessness, of course.
Sometimes the return address is
left off a letter because the sender
doesn't want some nefarious scheme
traced back to him. Mr.. Cowles has
seen a lot of such illicit mail in his
40 years in the service.
There was a letter some 20 years
ago that bore only a general delivery
address. When it was not called
for, it was opened. Inside was $50
600 worth of bonds. These were
traced as part of the loot in big
New York brokerage robbery and
they were returned to their rightful
owner.
And then there was the woman
VIII CldlIIleu 10 De lIle vile OF Ule
son of the postmaster in a town Mr..
CowleS doesn't care to name. A
letter addressed to her as Mrs. So
and-So arrived at her post office
from neighboring town. The elder
Mr.. So-and-So refused to deliver
the letter to her because he con-
tended she did not have the right
to his sons name. She raised so
much hades that he sent the con-
troversial letter to Mr.. Cowles and
put the problem up to him.
Blank Enclosure.
Il opened the letter." said Mr..
Cowles, peeking over the top of his
spectacles and sliding the words
out of the side of his mouth, "and
inside was nothing but a blank
piece of paper. The woman had
mailed it to herself, apparently with
some scheme in her mind to get Mr..
So-and-So, as postmaster, to recog-
nize her as his sons wife. I wrote
Evening star., 1939-08-06

wen, WndtS tne nltcn? Why Is
it that you and I aren't out JOY
riding through the clouds on Satur-
day afternoons instead of agonizing
our way through traffic on the
highway?
The principal trouble, say aviation
men, is that there still is no plane
on the market at any price that the
duffer can learn to fly in three easy
lessons. Planes have been improved
tremendously in these two decades.
Speed has risen hundreds of per
cent; range has grown even more
so. Streamlining has turned the
airplane from "contraption" to
thing Of slick beauty. There have
been numberless other advances, in
radio, in weather forecasting, in
maintenance. And still the acci-
dents happen to private flyers.
The un-airminded part of the public
still looks on private flying as dare
devil stuff.
Harder to Fly.
Why has safety Jagged behind in
the teeth of so much technical i'm
provement? The answer is not hard
to find. The more new devices
added to plane, the haroer it Is
to fly it.
For the expert, the professional
pilot, these devices make flying enor-
mously safer. He has had time to
master their uses. But to the person
who flies for fun only, in his spare
time, many of the new gadgets are
added hazards. And to the duffer,
just learning to fly, the modern ships
are just as hard to learn in as the
old "contraptions" were, or maybe
even harder.
In short, most of the effort by
aircraft designers has been in the
direction of greater speed, and other
such attributes that appealed to
those who already were flying. A
comparatively small amount of work
has been done toward making the
airplane inherently safer and easier
to master
Experienced flyers have even
tended to deprecate the limited de-
velopments that have been made up
to now in this vein.
Five years ago John H. Geisse,
heading the department of Aircraft
Development in Gene VidaIs Bureau
of Air Commerce, began doing some
very radical things in the eyes of the
ultra conservative airplane indus
try. Mr.. Geisse was trying to stim-
ulate the manufacture of planes that
would more nearly comply with the
limited physical attributes of the or
binary man. He wanted planes that
were simple enough for beginner to
master easily, and that were auto
matically free from the characters
tics which had been the downfall Of
so many flyers of Indifferent skill
namely, stalling, spinning and high
landing speed.
Lines Of Approach.
The bureau found two promising,
though very different, lines of ap-
proach to solution of the problem.
One of these was the autogiro. This,
of course, was no airplane at all, but
a novel form of aircraft supported
in the air by spinning rotor, kept
in rotation by the air through which
conventional engine and propeller
pulled it.
Mr.. Geisse bought an improved
giro from the Pitcairn Autogiro Co.
of Willow Grove, Pa, which has
contributed the bulk of giro de-