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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-17
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Evening star., 1939-08-11
Two Women Injured
Cycling and GoIfinq

Two sports-minded young women
were injured yesterday in accidents
involving bicycle and a golf club.
Miss Eleanor Goebel, 27, of 27OO
Q street NV, was taken to George
town Hospital with fractured leg
after she fell from her bicycle in
Potomac Park. She had been at
tempting to execute a turn.
Miss Mildred Smith, 25, of 638
D street Sc, was struck on the
head when she got too near a golf
club swung by friend at the Lin
coin Park course She was treated
at Casualty Hospital.
A tree surgeon and a fireman were
also hurt yesterday. The tree sur
geon, James Lattanzio, was operat-
ing on an oak tree at 1861 Arcadia
place NV, when he was struck by
a falling limb. He was taken to
Emergency Hospital with possible
fractures of the arms and vertebrae.
The fireman, Francis E. Warren.
43, of BOT Hamilton street NV, was
treated at Casualty Hospital tor Sec
ond degree burns on his left hand,
received while he was fighting a nre
at 225 Third street NE Flremen
said the fire started in the basement
and spread through the walls to
the roof, lgnitlng adjoining houses.
Evening star., 1939-08-11
Summer Tourists
Set Record Here,
Hotels Report
Highest Percentage Of
Occupancy Is Noted
By Association

A record number of tourists have
visited Washington this summer.
check of local hotel registrations
Indicated today.
Registrations at downtown hotels
are up as high as so per cent over
last summers. The Hotel Associ-
alton reports the highest percentage
of summer occupancy in local hotels
since it began keeping records.
w. M. Kochenderfer, secretary of
the association, said that in June
the local hotels showed 68 per cent
occupancy, compared to 81 per cent
during June of last year. This indi-
Gates, he said, an increase of 80 per
cent or more in the number of per-
sons stopping at local hostelries.
The increase is generally attrib-
uted to the New York Worlds Fair.
The New York hotels, Mr. Koch
enderfer said, report l6 per cent
increase in occupancy and a 38 per
guests over last year.
The Mayflower Hotel said that
during the last two months its busi-
ness has been so per cent better
than last summer. The Willard
estimated between 40 and so per cent
and the Ambassador better than IS
per cent"
The Shoreham Hotel said visitors
had not descended there in sWarms,
since it was primarily residential and
did not handle a large percentage
OF the transient business at any time.
Shoreham officials said that brisker
business in the hotels downtown and
near Union Station indicated that
the visitors were persons just stop
ping off here for a short time on
their way to or from the fair.
Hotel managers say they know
that great deal of the business is
being brought here by fair visitors
because they are housing large
groups of tourists brought here from
New York by travel agencies.
The late stay of Congress has been
responsible to small extent for the
hotel boom, it was said.
The Greater National Capital
Committee reports that it has noted
a record number of summer visitors.
A check at the Smithsonian Museum
during the last three months shows
an increase of about $1,000 sight
seers there over last year-and that
was record year.
Evening star., 1939-08-11
Dr.. Fry to Sail

DR.. Allan H Fry, head of the De-
partment of Comparative Philology
at Catholic University, will sail
Tuesday for Brussels, Belgium, where
he will represent the university at
the Fifth international Congress of
Linguists.
Evening star., 1939-08-11
Bruin TwizzIers
BY PROF. ]. ID. FLINT.
Looking I'm Over

At a world fair one time there
was professional weight guesser in
a booth. He was approached by
three merry couples who were there
to see the sights and have fun. The
Evening star., 1939-08-11

weight guesser discovered that the
three girls combined weight was
1896 pounds. Aggie weighed 10
pounds more than Birdie and Birdie
weighed 10 pounds more than Car
RE. Now, regarding their escorts,
Alf weighed the same as his girl,
Buck weighed half again as much
as his girl and Cy weighed twice
as much as his girl. The whole bunch
weighed a half a short ton. Who's
who and with whom?
tAnswer on Page B-12)
Evening star., 1939-08-11
House Full Of
mosq quitoes?

Here's what to do. Close all windows. Use
good sprayer and fill each room with mist Of
Bee Brand Insect Spray, closing doors as you
proceed from room to room. Let rooms stay
closed for Is minutes. When you re-enter the
rooms, the only mosquitoes will be the dead
ones on the floor.
Don't confuse Bee Brand Spray with other in
Wcticides. 1t has no nasty kerosene smell-only q
Evening star., 1939-08-11

Gedn CeOdr fragrance thaC 500
Bee Brand really kills flies,
mosquitoes and other flying
Insects quick-yet it's entirely
safe to use in the home. Dom !
waste money on cheap, weak,
smelly stuff. Get Bee Brand
and get rid of flies. Insist on
the genuine, quick-killing
Bee Brand Insect Spray--in
the red and yellow can. It's
sold with a guarantee of salts
faction or your money back.
i NOTE: You can also kill
toes, us aoell as reaches an
Brand Insect Powder. Reod
Evening star., 1939-08-11

This Jug gives double service.
because it has double STOP
per with a small opening for
pouring liquids easily and
large opening to facilitate get
ting foods out.
Evening star., 1939-08-11

Think of 1t just little &c roll for this toilet
tissue. 1t is snoWWhte embossed silk tissue
actually soft enough cleansing tissues for the
face. Wrapped for cleanliness
Evening star., 1939-08-11

Gre a m Y. wholesome
fudge with a delight
full homemade flavor
and goodness gen.
erously topped with
crunchy Brazil nut
halves.
Evening star., 1939-06-14
F. B. !. Aid Asked as Body
OF Stolen Baby Is Found
By the Associated Press.

6y the ASSOClAIeQ fIebS
CLYDE, Ohio, June 14.-The body
of 10-week-old Haldon Fink, re-
ported stolen from the crib of his
home here last night, was found to-
day in creek on a farm seven miles
west Of Clyde.
The child had been missing about
IL hours when its body was found in
Green Greek, on the George Thom-
sen farm, near U. S. Highway No. 20.
Sheriff H. L. Myers, who said
earlier today the disappearance Of
the boy "looks like a kidnapping"
announced he had enlisted the aid
Of the Federal Bureau of Investi-
cation.
Finding of the body eliminated an
all-night search after the baby's
disappearance between 10 and IL
O'Clock last night. The body was
recovered from the creek by two
deputy sheriffs, who sighted it as
they stopped on a highway bridge,
floating three feet from shore in q
maze of willow branches.
Coroner D. w. Philo was called.
The baby was sleeping in street.
level room. Mrs. Irwin Fink, %, the
mother, and the grandmother left
the house at 10 o'clock. An hour
later they returned and found the
baby gone.
The parents are divorced. The
child's father, a 23-year-old foundry
worker, was said to have been in
nearby Fremont all evening.
Sheriff Myers, unable to establish
. possible motive, believed it was
the work of q maniac.
Evening star., 1939-06-14
By stan Correspondent of The Star.

ROCKVILLE, Nd, June 14-Five
17-year-old youths held in the Mont
gomery County Jail awaiting grand
jury action on charges of attempted
theft at an A. & P. store in Ken
sington May 6 wrecked their cell
last night and delayed opening of
Circuit Court in the rooms below
this morning by changing on the
floor with steel cots pried of the
wall.
Unable to proceed with q civil
case set for $50 am, Judge Sted-
man Prescott ordered States At
torney Ben G. Wilkinson, jr, to
prepare contempt citations after the
youths were brought before him and
admitted their purpose had been to
make a disturbance that would in
sure their being "sent to some other
place"
''IIl send you to another place, and
when you get out you'll appreciate
the Montgomery County JAIL" the
court warned.
Called from his home shortly
after midnight, Sheriff H. Leslie
Carlin Of Boyds rushed to the jail to
find the place wrecked.
1T looked as though q tornado
had struck 1t" he said.
In the hallway was . pile Of
debris, consisting Of the splintered
remains Of . porcelain washbowl.
The youths had torn 1t from the
wall, smashed 1t into q thousand
Evening star., 1939-06-14
Youths Who Wreck Cell
Ordered Cited for Contempt

pieces on the floor, and hurled It
through the cell bars. On top Of the
pile rested the twisted screen door
from the inside of the cell.
Neighbors within q block of the
Jail, on the top floor of the court
house, had been awakened by the
banging of steel cots against the
bars and shouts Of complaints about
the food.
Sheriff Carlin said he succeeded
In quieting the youths and returned
home about 2 am, but they resumed
their shouting and Changing about
5 am. and kept 1t up intermit-
tently until judge Prescott mounted
the bench.
Brought into court by the sheriff
each In turn answered "Yes sir"
when asked II it was his intention
to disturb the court. At that point
Judge Prescott ordered the con-
tempt citations prepared.
The youths, John Cowan, Henry
Flynn, George Railey and Harding
Matters, all of Capitol Heights, and
John Shatzer Of the 200 block of
Fourteenth street Sc, were charged
with attempted housesbreaking after
. brick had been thrown through
the store window in Kensington last
month. The day after their arrest,
while In the Bethesda hold-over
awaiting transfer to Rockville,
Railey and Mattera broke out Of the
cell In the basement and escaped.
Both later surrendered.
Evening star., 1939-06-14
D. T.. Milk Probers
To Hold Last Session
Friday 10 Draft Report
Whether to Recommend
Opening Of Market
Is to Be Decided
BY JAMES E. CHINN,

Representative Bates, Democrat,
OF Kentucky today called q special
meeting of his Milk Investigating
Committee for 10:30 am. Friday to
write the final chapter of the long
and explosive inquiry.
The committee will decide what
to put into the report it must make
to the House in obedience to the
resolution ordering the investiga-
ton.
The principal question to be de-
termined is whether recommended
ton should be made to open the
exclusive Washington milk market
to milk and cream produced in
areas beyond the local milk shed.
Members of the committee from
Midwestern States have indicated
they will insist that the report con-
tain such a recommendation.
Only milk produced in the WASH
ington milk shed, which embraces
parts of Maryland, Virginia and
West Virginia, Is now permitted to
be shipped into Washington for
fluid consumption. Cream for man
ufacture into ice cream, however,
may come into the District now
from any part Of the country.
Price Cut Possibility Seen.
Representative Schultz, Democrat,
OF Indiana, member of the inves-
tigating committee, has charged re-
peatedly that monopoly" exists in
connection with the District milk
(See MILK, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1939-06-14
DC. Revenue Bill Seen Doon1ino
| Lowering of Tax Rate to $3.50
Deficit Of $75oooo to 81, 100000 Forecast
Under Scale After Study by Experts

Passage Of the District revenue bill
In the form it was approved by the
House-or anything approximating
that-would wreck plans for a re-
turn to a $3.50 tax rate, in view of
the 1910 budget demands, it was
predicted today.
Even hope for any substantial re-
duction In the present $l.75 rate on
real estate and tangible personal
property, they found, is dimmed by
the estimates of what revenue may
be expected from the House tax bill,
including the personal income levy.
This finding was a shock to the
various financial students, since a
cut in the realty and personal prop
erty burden had been held out as
one of the major benefits to flow
from adoption of a broadened and
permanent" tax structure.
Experts at the District Building
and at the Board of Trade calculated
that $1,000, 900 is the most that con-
f1dently can be expected to be raised
by the drastic personal income levy
included by the House-after men,
bers of Congress and their employees
Evening star., 1939-06-14
Five Risk Lives
In Boat Down
| River in Idaho
BY the Associated Press.

SALMON, Idaho, June 14.-A
woman and four men are adventur-
ing somewhere on the Salmon-"the
river of no return"-in Idaho's
rugged primitive area.
First woman ever to attempt the
trip in a light boat is Mrs. A. B..
Spreckles of the San Francisco su-
gar family. With her are her hus-
band and three Oregonians.
They are risking their lives in
roaring cataracts and perilous rap
ids, which can be navigated only
with the aid of long sweeps at each
end of their three f1at-bottom boats.
The Salmon is called river of no
return" because its swift currents
prevent passage upstream.
They will be forced to sleep on
sandbars in midstream in the Sal
mons famed canyon, whose per-
pendicular cliffs rise thousands of
feet.
No word is expected from them
for 10 days or two weeks, when they
hope to reach higgins. $50 miles
away. They left Sunday.
Evening star., 1939-06-14
Additional Control
Over Phone Industry
Asked byF. &C.
Report Receives Approval;
Some For-Reochine
Proposals Dropped
BY the Associated Press.


The Federal Communications
Commission asked Congress today
to give it additional control over
the 100000 900 telephone indus
try, but toned down some of the
previously published recommended
tions of one of its members.
The report, approved by all seven
commissioners, omitted some of the
most >far-reaching suggestions of
Commissioner Paul A. Walker, who
was in charge of a two-year inves-
tigation of the industry at a cost
Of s1,5O0,0O0.
Among the Walker recommended
tions not included was one urging
that the F. C. C. be authorized ito
review, approve, or disapprove all
Bell policies and practices promul-
gated by the central management
group" of the American Telephone
& Telegraph Co.
Despite substantial revision of his
proposed report, MIR. Walker ex-
pressed qualification that the COM
mission approved it 'in principle,
and largely in substance"
Major Recommendations.
Major recommendations of the
commission included:
l. That the F. G. c. be author
lied to prescribe basic cost account
ing methods for the Western Elec-
trio Co., described as the manu-
facturer and suppIer" for the vast
Bell System.
2. That the F. c. c. be given
jurisdiction over the issuance or re-
funding of securities by telephone
companies subject to its jurisdic-
ton.
8. That the F. c. c. be author
lied to prohibit abandonment Of
any interstate line operated by any
firm subject to its jurisdiction.
4. That the filing with the F. C..
c. Of applications for consolidation
Of telephone companies be manda.
tory. instead of optional, as at
present.
5. That F. c. c. approval be re-
quired for all acquisitions by one
company of the stock of another
company for purposes of control.
6. That the Bell System be re-
quired to license its patents to others
who can use them beneficially. The
(See TELEPHONE, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1939-06-14

had been exempted from the pro-
posed tax.
In all, the new revenue measures
were estimated to produce some S.
425, 600.
District Building finance experts
checked revenue expectancy against
budget demands as created under
either House or Senate action on
the 1910 appropriations to see how
the picture would balance. They
found:
l. That if the tax rate were low
cred to $3.50, as proposed in the
House budget action, and If the
Federal payment were no more than
the 5000. 900 limit contained in the
revenue bill, the District had pros
poets of winding up the next fiscal
year with deficit of some $3.50, 900.
2. That under the $3.50 rate and a
$5,00O,00 Federal payment and the
more liberal Senate appropriation
proposals the deficit would run as
high as $3,30O,0OO.
Promises and predictions that the
income tax section of the revenue
(See TAXES, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1939-06-14
,Nuzis Ban Public Rites
For Slain Czech Officer
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASS0clated Press.
PRAGUE, June 14.-Johann Muel-
Ter, Czech policeman slain Friday
by German police officer, was
buried privately today after German
authorities had banned public
funeral in fear of disorders.
Only relatives and few others
were present for the interment at
Porici, Mueller's home town.
Approximately 10000 persons had
gathered yesterday at nearby Nachod
for a public funeral when German
authorities banned the ceremony at
the last moment, saying they feared
trouble.
Evening star., 1939-06-14
Mexican Funeral Plane
Hits Bog in 1ake-0f
By the Associated Press.


MEXICO CITY, June 14.-After
a near-accident due to a muddy
field, the United States bomber
which brought the body of the
Mexican aviator, Francisco Sarabia,
to Mexico departed for San Antonio,
Tex, at 1929 am. E. s. T0 today.
The departure was delayed 10
minutes because the plane, proceed
ing from the hangar runway, missed
the takeof runway. Its wheels sank
in the soft earth and a field crew
was needed to extricate the machine.
The plane circled the city twice In
final tribute to Sarabia, killed in a
crash at Washington, D. c. Crowds
witnessed the departure.
Evening star., 1939-06-14
7. Y. A. Backers Fear
House Action Will Kill
Utility Purchase Plan
Drastic Substitute for
100000, 900 Bond Issue
Bill Voted 1872 to 167
BACKGROUND


Suggestion that T. v. A. be
authorized to issue bonds greD
out of agreement reached be-
tWeen the Federal agency and
Commonwealth & Southern,
giant pripate utility, for transfer
OF ldtfer's Tennessee properties
to public ownership Cost to T.V.
A, first of New Deals po,Der and
conservation developments, Uould
be s45, ,0O0, 900.
BY the Associated Press.
Congressional supporters of the
Tennessee Valley Authority ex-
pressed concern today that the
agencys proposed purchase of Ten
nessee Electric Power Co. properties
would not materialize because of
House-approved limitations on T.
V. A. operations.
BY vote of 1872 to 167, the House
adopted yesterday drastic substi-
tute for a 500 ,OOO, 900 T. v. A. bond
issue approved by the Senate.
Funds from the bonds would be
used for T. v. AS portion of the
$78,000,000 utility purchase. Ten
nessee municipalities would share
in the cost. Under the purchase
agreement, the deal must be con-
summated by June 80.
The House substitute would cut
the amount of bonds to $65, ,00O, 900,
restrict T. v. A. operations to a
specified area in the mid-South and
prohibit 1t from reimbursing States
and counties for loss of taxes now
paid by privately owned utilities.
The bill as altered goes back to
the Senate and thence normally to
a joint Senate-H House committee for
adjustment of differences. T. v. A.
supporters see little possibility of
reconciling the House and Senate
versions, however, and If no agree
ment is reached, the bill will be
dead.
Power Trusts Friends"
Friends Of the power trust have
dealt a blow to security holders of
the Tennessee company" Senators
Norris, Independent, of Nebraska
and McKellar, Democratic, Of Ten
nessee said.
Representative Sparkman, Demo-
crat, of Alabama said that since 1T.
v. A. and Nashville and Chatta-
nooga and other cities can't buy the
private facilities, the only recourse
is for the cities to build their own
duplicating distribution systems to
compete"
T. v. A. Director David Lilienthal
said before leaving for Knoxville,
Tenn, last night that I'VE need time
to think this OUT and added, We'll
leave no stone unturned to find a
solution"
T. v. A. supporters agreed to re-
duce Their bond proposal from $780,
100000 Is the $65, 900 900 figure fixed
by the House Military Affairs Com
mittee, but Chairman May and 9TH
ers insisted on the passage of their
substitute bill with further restric-
tions.
1t would prohibit T. v. A. power
sales outside the area drained by
the Tennessee River and the area
involved in the Tennessee Electric
Power Co. deal, plus q counties in
Evening star., 1939-06-14
BY JOHN C. HENRY.


Complaints Of collusion between
the American Federation of Labor
and the Works Progress and Public
Works Administrations to freeze out
c. I. o. members or to force them
to join Federation unions before
getting public employment were be-
fore the Executive Board of the C
I. o. today.
1t is expected that the complaints,
presented yesterday afternoon by
Ralph Hetzel, unemployment di-
rector Of the c. I. O., will be the
subject OF resolutions of protest and
perhaps Of direct negotiation be-
tween the labor organization and
the works agencies.
Criticism Of the Labor Depart
ment for its failure to select a rep
resentative of the c. I. o. on the
three-man American delegation to
the International Labor Office at
Geneva, Switzerland, was voted by
the board this morning. The trio
chosen, all members of the American
Federation of Labor, were Daniel ],
Tobin, Robert Watts and Herbert
Wood. They sailed for Geneva on
May 81.
Hiring Practices Hit.
The c. I. o. resolution of criti-
cism strongly condemns this dis
criminatory action on the part of
the Labor Department and calls
upon that department hereafter to
recognize the injustice that has been
done to the C. I. o. and to provide
for full c. I. o. representation to the
International Labor Office and to all
conferences of any character having
to do with the welfare of labor"
In connection with his charges of
collusion, Mr.. Hetzel said:
"A series of complaints has come
to the c. I. o. office with regard to
the practice Of the w. P. A. of turn
ing over procurement of labor on
projects to the control of A. F.. L..
unions.
&C. I. o. aniliates have reported
that it is impossible for C. 1. O.
members to obtain work on P. w. A,
projects unless they take out mem
bership in A. F. L. unions.
Excessive Rates Claimed.
Reports have also come that GER
tain A. F. L. afi1liates were abusing
P. w. a. by requiring all workers on
a Job to take out temporary men,
bership in the A. F. L. at excessive
rates. Either the membership would
ICan a 8 =
Evening star., 1939-06-14
e. !. 0. Officer Claims
A. F. |. Collision
With Works Agencies
Public Jobs Hinge
On Federation
Membership, He Says
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
LABOR Increment split In 1885
Then c. I. O. 1ods formed to or
gdnize mass production work.
ers on industrial basis. Suisse
quently suspended and then er-
PEELED from A. F. L., c. I. o.
unions last tall formed permd-
nent labor organization. Erecu-
the Board is noD holding first
meeting ,Dith prospects of recon-
cilidtion tDith A. F. L. apparently
Derp dim.
Evening star., 1939-06-14
Tigers Get AveriIl

CLEVELAND, June u @.-The
Cleveland Indians today traded Out
fielder Earl Averill to Detroit for
Pitcher Harry Eiseustat and cash.
Evening star., 1939-06-14
Summary of Toduy's Star

Foreign.
British weigh retaliation in Japa-
nese blockade. Page Al
Japanese reject mediation, widen
demands on British. Page Al
Slovakia alarmed by reports Reich
plans new partition. Page A
National.
Bitter fight expected as House takes
up w. P. A.-relief bill. Page Al
Several injured as rival auto unions
battle again. Page AS
T. v. A. hackers fear House action
will kill bond issue bill. Page Al
F. c. c. asks additional control over
telephone industry. Page Al
Washington and Vicinity.
House milk probers called to final"
session on Friday. Page B-1
Lowering tax rate to $1.50 seen
doomed by measure. Page Al
Overton asks action first on land
formula plan. Page Al
Worst thunderstorm Of year hits
city; debris in streets. Page AS
Senate body backs j. w. Morris
Tor District bench. Page AS
Evening star., 1939-06-14

(See LONDON, Page A-4J
Evening star., 1939-06-14

(See D. c. TAXES, Page A-50
Evening star., 1939-06-14

(See T. v. A., Page ABB
Evening star., 1939-06-14

(see TIENTsIN, Page A-4.)