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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-15
ANNUAL DANCE
FRIDAY NIGHT

Members of the Cooks. Walters,
Mattresses and Bartenders union.
local No. 81, will present their 3sth
annual ball Friday evening at
Coliseum ballroom. II was an
nounced Tuesday by Les Green,
local secretary.
The affair will be In form of a
masquerade, with numerous prizes
10 be awarded for costumes. Many
surprise features are planned dur
ing the evening. Committee mem
bers in charge of arrangements
include Ray Long. chairman;
Minnie Prout, Florence Jones, Lille
johnson and Freddie Smith.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-15
NAvYLACK|NG
IN DRyDOCKS
Situation Acute on
Pacific Coast Is
House Report

house
naval affairs committee today
reported that a shortage in
naval drydock facilities is of
serious concern to the national
defense and urged approval of
4 $S8, 524.500 public works bill
to provide additional facilities.
The report. drafted by Rep.
Patrick H. Drewry. D., Va, said
shortage Of facilities is acute even
In pcacctime. and facilities espe-
cially are inadequate on the Pa
cific coast and Hawaii.
Docking facilities on the
west coast and In Hawaii r
now INADEQUATE to meet ths
needs II the existing fleet In
time Of peace" IN. committee
said.
Even with the completion of
the drydocks now under construc-
ton at the navy yards, Mare Island
and Puget Sound. the pcacetime
situation win become steadily
worse unless further relief is
afforded, as vessels now under
construction or authorized m
added to the fleet.
Shortages exist In all sizes of
docks to meet peacetime and a
time requirements. The depart
ment has outlined a program OF
additional docking facilities con-
sidered essential for the proper
support of the fleet In the Pacific.
The items listed in this authorize
tion bill are those which are the
most urgent and which cannot
long be deferred II the navy is to
meet its responsibility for national
defense"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-15

branch OF Atwood's department.
The Pacific Northwest rem
tenniaI exposition commission
of seven would have charge of
the states exhibit and inter
ests in the fair at Seattle in
1912. for which the legislature
appropriated 81, ZOO, 900.
The dairy products commission
would consist OF five dairy prod
ucts producers. the director of ag-
riculture and supervisor of live
stock and dairying. They would
use money from a fifth of a cent
tax on all b%utterfat to advertise
dairy products. The money will be
deducted from the producers
check.
To Check on Apples
The apple marketing board
would be composed of seven prac-
teal producers and four practical
handlers If apples to administer
the states Little AAA' code fol
that industry. This and the pre-
vious board would get $40 a day
while actually working.
The interstate cooperation
commission would consist OF
five senators, five representa-
tiyes and five state officials.
Their task would be to discuss
and work out ways to end con-
flict between laws of this state
and other states to further
interstate goodwill and cooper
alton.
In addition to these AS appoint
ments to positions created by the
legislature, the governor still has
to appoint a superior judge to re-
place the late Kazis Kay in Seattle
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-15
Air Reserve Will
Get Federal Help

TOLEDO, O.The civilian air
reserve. into which Toledo amateur
pilots. owners of aircraft and stu
dents of aviation have pooled their
resources for study and develop
ment Of flying. has been assured of
aid from the federal government,
under the new civil aeronautics
authority training plan.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-15
Boys Request for Term in
Training School Is Denied

officers. The lad was told that
should Knowles Adams apple
start to wiggle, he would know the
undersheriff had caught him In a
lie.
Shortly after the boy began to
tell the kidnapping story, Knowles
throat began to culver. The boy
then confessed the kidnapping story
was false and that he, alone, had
stolen the auto from a parking lot
neal So. 18th and Market SITS.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-15
ADOLF HITLER
winner AGAIN

Continued From Page One)
foreign office was that several
thousand Of Hitier's body guard
regiment and storm troopers would
march into Slovakis.
Given Free Hand
Germany obviously was given
a free hand in central Europe by
Great Britain and France, which
kept hands off of Hitlers sudden
move to force fun Cooperation
by the Prague regime.
The declaration of an independ-
ent Slovakia cut the Czech states
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-15

and n to replace William o.
Chapman of Tacoma and a Uni
yersity of Washington regent TO
replace the late Robert Montgom-
cry of Puyallup.
Developed by House
An interesting sidelight of the
AS new state positions created by
the legislature was that all we're
originated in the house of repre-
sentatives or by amendments put
on in the house except the one
social security commissioner. The
more conservative senate created
no new boards and commissions
outside of that one.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-15
NAMED FOR MARINES

WASHINGTON-ln recognition
Of hurricane relief work nine years
ago. the Dominican republic has
named its newest boulevard after
the u. S. marines. The thorough
fare has been called the Avenide
Y. S. Marine Corps.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-15

PRAGUE - President = emil
Hacha and Foreign Minister
Frantisek Chvalkoysky left for
Berlin on a special train at 4
p. m, to confer with Adolf
Hitler.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-15
48 appointments UdH
Filling BY Governor
Six Bills Passed by Legislature
Provides for Many New Boards
Bv ARTHUR l.. SCHOENI

OLYMPIA-Goy Clarence d. Martin has as appointments
to make as a result of six bills passed by the 1899 Legislature
and before him today for his signature.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-15
SMITHS AND JONESES
ONLY ONES IN SCHOOL

LAKE GENEVA. Visit you
aren't a Smith, you're a Jones in
the White River rural school.
That's why Dorothy Schsrpf be-
lieves her roll calling job is as easy
as any in Wisconsin.
The Smiths Ruth. Loretta,
James and Wallace - are related.
as sre the Jones-Vernon. June
and Jeanette. The two groups
comprise the entire enrolment
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-15

BUDAPEST, Hungary -
Hungarian troops battled
their way into Czechoslovakia
today and the government
sent an ultimatum to Prague
demanding within "a hours
withdrawal Of Czech troops
from Carpatho- Ukraine.
The ultimatum was delivered in
a note TO the Czech minister, Milos
Kobr. at 3 p. m. 70 a. m. Tacoma
time). Hungary demanded an
answer within IL hours and said
that the Prague government would
be responsible for failure to
answer.
Seized 30 Villages
Hungarian troops were reported
to have seized 80 Carpatho-Uk-
raine villages, penetrated Is miles
and to be headed for Szalyva-
half way to the Polish frontier
when the ultimatum was delivered.
Inc ulllIlldluIH utlildllutu
Freedom for all Hun
garians informed by the
Czechs during a series of raids
across the frontier in recent
months.
0-Pcrmission for the Hun
4 garian minority In Gre
choslOvakia TO organize 'fOr
self defense" and to carry
arms.
o-Withdrawal of czech
, troops from the Carpatho-
Ukraine within "a hours.
Hungary desires TO annex Car
patho-Ukraine. which was severed
from connection with the Prague
controlled area of Bohemia and
Moravia when Slovakian indepen-
dence was proclaimed.
The Hungarian ultimatum was
delivered by Johann Voernle, vice
foreign minister.
Friendly to SlOvakia
II contained friendly references
to Slovakia which were tantamoun'
to a declaration of solidarity will
the new independent regime a
Bradshaw.
II was reported that the
Hungarian government had
received tacit assurances from
Berlin that penetration of Car
pathO-Ukraine would not meet
resistance from the NaZis.
1t was indicated that German,
would not oppose establishment o
a Hungarian-Polish frontier if thu
Hungarians are able TO ESTABLISH
one in their present drive.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-15

One Chinese army compels its
soldiers to be thrifty. Ten per cent
of the rate Of pay must be saved
a rule from which no n is
exempt,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-15

OF Bohemia and Moravia off from
the easternmost tip of the republic
-Carpatho- Ukraine-and made it
inevitable that that state would
either become Independent o. fall
TO hungary.
Slovakia is the center section of
the long sausage-like combination
that made up the postwar repub-
lie of Czechoslovakia.
Evening star., 1939-10-24
Mrs. PeI|er 10 Address
Protective Association

The application Of psychoanalysis
to the problems of childhood will
be discussed tomorrow at the an
nual meeting of the Children's
Protective Association just before
the organization throws open its
headquarters to "Go-and-See" tour
visitors.
Mrs. Lii Peller, formerly director
OF a progressive school for children
in Vienna and now a lecturer at
George Washington University on
mental hygiene for children, will
be the speaker at the meeting, to
be held at 2:30 pm.
At the agency's open-house ses-
sion at pm. visitors will be shown
the contrast between the child in
the ideal environment which the
Children's Protective Association
seeks to provide and the child left
in crowded homes and alley play
grounds.
Acting as hostesses at the open
house will be Mrs. David S. Barry,
Mrs. R. Thomas West, Mrs. Peyton
Hawes Dunn, Mrs. Jesse c. Adkins
and Mrs. William Hurd Hill.
Miss Mildred Terrett, executive
of the Community Chest-supported
agency, will make her annual report
to her Board of Directors at the
meeting before the open house.
Evening star., 1939-10-24
Mrs. Elizabeth Merrill
Granted Reno Divorce
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RENO, New, Oct. 24.-Mrs. Eliza
beth Watson Merrill yesterday was
granted a divorce from Oscar C..
Merrill of Washington, D. c., former
executive secretary of the Federal
Power Commission and director of
the Third World Power Conference.
The Merrills were married in VIM
chester. Mass, on October II, 1906.
The divorce agreement provided a
5000 cash settlement and property
in Chevy Chase. Md.
Mr.. Merrill is graduate of Bates
College and Massachusetts, Institute
OF Technology. He was an instructor
In civil engineering at the Univer-
sity Of California in 1866, an engi-
neer with the United States Forest
Service from 1909 to 1920, executive
secretary of the Federal Power Com
mission from 1920 to 1929. He served
as chairman of the American group
of the World Power Conference
from 1929 to 1885 and was named
director of the Third World Power
Conference in 1885. Until a few
months ago he was associated with
the Public Works Administration.
Mr.. Merrill lives at 7142 Alaska ave-
nue. NV.
Evening star., 1939-10-24
Youthful Murshu|s to Protect
Glen Echo on Halloween
Woman Mayor Says
Task Will Teach
Civic Responsibility

Instead of the usual hefty town
marshals, children will police the
town of Glen Echo, Nd, against
Halloween. vandalism this year.
Mrs. Beulah McCuen, Montgom-
cry County's- only woman mayor,
said today that despite expendi-
ture of about $50 for special mar
shals to patrol the town last Hal
loween quite a little property
damage was DONE"
AS q result, she said, it was de-
cided to turn over the protection Of
the town to the children, some 200
of whom will meet in the firehouse
tonight at 7::30 o'clock to elect their
own marShalS.
These will all be deputized by Mrs.
McCuen and given badges to wear.
I'VE planned to have a marshal
to each block who will then ap-
point two or three deputies" Mrs.
McCuen said.
Although Mrs. McCuen expressed
the opinion that last years damage
may have been done by children
outside the community, she said the
new plan was intended to bring
home to the children themselves
their responsibility for community
property.
A large turnout for tonight's
Evening star., 1939-10-24
Disciples Of Christ Pastors
Hold Forum Sessions
By the Associated Press,

6S the Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 24.-Break-
fast sessions for ministers and their
wives, followed by four forum ses.
sions, occupied delegates to the
international convention of the
Disciples of Christ here this
morning.
The Rev. F. H. Groom, vice presi-
dent, was to preside this afternoon
at a general meeting with Clark
Walker Cummings Of st. Louis
speaking on "The Christian Implica-
tions of Benevolence."
Alexander Paul of Indianapolis will
discuss News From the Orient" and
Miss Muriel Lester of London will
deliver an address on Politics and
Prayer" at tonight's session.
Announcement was made by Jesse
M. Bader, general secretary, that the
1910 international convention of the
church, originally scheduled for
Toronto, Canada, had been post
poned because Of the European con-
oict.
DR.. w. L. Sperry, dean of the
Harvard Divinity School, warned the
convention last night that the rise
Of totalitarian doctrines which hold
that force, cruelty and lying are the
best methods Of obtaining objectives,
bring christianity in contact with
rare and banning experience"
The dictators, he declared, have
put themselves out of bounds for the
type Of appeal on which christianity
previously has relied. -
Evening star., 1939-10-24
Chest-Aided St. AIMS Gives
Children of Poverty a Chance
Nearly 100 Young Ones at the Home,
To Be Visited on 'Go-ond-See' Tour

A mother leaves the hospital with
her infant. She takes it to a ROOM
ing house and, for a while, tries to
support it. Then the task gets too
big for her. She walks out one day
and the landlady finds the de-
serted child.
Another mother gets sick in a
nome full of children. The father
is out of the house most of the time
working. Relatives will take the
children who can care for them
selves, but there's an infant that
needs attention day and night.
A home is broken up when a hus-
band and wife disagree. One of the
parents takes the child and there
is long succession of maids un-
trained in baby care. The child is
neglected.
Babies like these, infants born into
poverty, homeless or surrounded by
illness find a temporary haven in
the old red brick house overlooking
Washington Circle. The British
Ambassador lived there once, but
since Civil War days it has been st.
AIMS Infant Asylum.
Lined With Cribs.
Here the quiet-voiced Sisters of
Charity of st. Vincent de Paul make
a home for newborn infants, for
"creepers," for rugged little 5-year-
olds until new home is found for
them or until they can return to
new life in their own homes.
In one long room the walls are
lined with tiny cribs. On one side
are the infants, their faces still
wrinkled and red. Some of them
are only few weeks old. On the
other side are the chubby 6-month-
olds, who spend their waking hours
in the baby swings suspended above
their cribs.
The "creepers, those who crawl
or walk around with wobbly dignity,
like the sun parlor. They recline at
ease on the floor negligently clinging
to bottles. Or they roll balls at
each other or rock on little oilcloth
horses. There is always one gig
Cling and one crying and they have
a fine time.
IS Of Them There.
The sun streams into the play
yard, where there are wagons and
swings and slides. The toddlers,
round bundles in snow suits, race
around and have a fine time. They
are very happy.
They eat at baby-size tables and
learn how to draw humpty dumpties.
Right now they're pretty occupied
making paper chains to decorate
the house for Halloween.
There's no anxiety here, no chance
of neglect. There are 95 children
usually and the sisters know every
one of their names. Each one of
them, the solemn child, the gay, the
one, is loved as . spe-
cial little individual.
They didn't avk to be brought
Evening star., 1939-10-24
Stadium to Be Dedicated
Before Football Come

Woodrow Wilson High Schools
new stadium will be formally died.
icated Friday at $3.50 pm. in brief
ceremonies preceding the Wilson
Western football game.
The program will consist of IT,.
presentation of flag by Mrs. Phil,
Sidney Smith, a member of tn,
Board of Education, to Alice John
son, vice president of the Student
Council and chairman of the Student
Forum. the two student governing
bodies Of the school.
Miss johnson will then turn the
flag over to Jerry Collins, president
of the Student Council. who will raise
1t on the new lagpole Archie
Farmer, trumpeter. will blow an
appropriate call. The Western and
Wilson bands, grouped around the
flagpole, will play the "Star
Spangled Banner" after which the
game will be played. The stadium
has been recently completed at
cost of some $4,000. Norman j.
Nelson IS principal of the school.
Evening star., 1939-10-24
Witness Asserts G.M.A.C.
FOUGHT Wisconsin Bill
By the Associated Press.

oy VIC ASSOClAteu TISSS.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Oct. 24.-A
Wisconsin State Senator told a Fed
eral jury here General Motors Ac-
ceptance Corp. official fought a pro-
posed bill which would have prohib-
1ted automobile manufacturers from
forcing dealers to use finance COM
panies of the manufacturers choice.
G. M. A. c., General Motors Corp.
two other G. M. subsidiaries and II
officials are being tried on charges
they plotted to coerce dealers to
finance sales with corporation picked
firms.
G. Earl Ingram of Eau Claire,
Wis, testified yesterday he was on
a Wisconsin Senate committee which
considered the bill in 1885.
He said George F. Benkhart, G..
M. A. c. vice president, told the
committee provision striking at
factory control of dealers financing
was unconstitutional and would
cause General Motors "embarrass-
ment."
H. G. Jones of Clinton, Okla.
testified G. M, A. c. and Chevrolet
representatives arranged an auction
sale of more than 100 repossessed
cars in his Chevrolet agency and
sent "confederates' into the crowd
to bid up the price.
Mr.. Jones lost his leadership in
1882, he said, after controversy over
financing sales himself.
T. K. Morrow of Peoria ILL.,, former
Chevrolet dealer, said that Chew
rolet road man told him in 1925 he
must get in line with G. M. A. c."
but he used G. M. A. c. only par
TALLY. He testified two other deal
ers were put into his territory and
two months afterward he went out
Of business.
Evening star., 1939-10-24
Inland Areas Studied
For Location Of
War Industries
Wider Distribution Of
Factories Is Urged
By Louis Johnson

Army engineers are making studies
for the location of vital wartime
industries far inland, out of reach
of possible enemy bombers, War De-
partment officials disclosed today.
These studies. it was emphasized,
are one phase of the national de-
fense program, along with expansion
of the countrys armed forces and
plans for industrial mobilization in
time of a national emergency.
More than go per cent of the Ma
tion's industries which would be
vital in time of war are located at
present near the seacoast, ranging
from Wilmington, Del, through
Pennsylvania and into New England.
The studies now being made con-
template the location of new indus
tries that would be required in time
of war in other geographical areas
Would Need Many Factories.
While no official figures are avail
able, it is estimated that nearly a
billion dollars worth of new fac
tories for munitions and vital sup
plies would be required in a major
war. The figures are based largely
on the country'S needs in the World
War.
A wider distribution of factories is
being urged by Assistant Secretary
of War Louis johnson. He has
called attention to the concentration
of industrial enterprises near the
sea coast, where transportation and
materials, capital and labor most
available.
"As a result of this tendency" Col.
johnson said, large metropolitan
cities have grown up which in peace
time place great strain upon our
political and economic system and
which, in case of war, would afford
easy targets for invading bombers.
Scattering Held Good Policy.
1T is my opinion that better bal
ance of our national economy de-
mands a wider distribution of our
plants geographically. From a ma
tional defense standpoint, it is a
good practice to have our industry
so scattered through the country
that successful attack against any
sector will not have a serious effect
on our defense plans"
1t was stressed that no request for
the creation of additional facilities
is contemplated at this time. The
studies being made are to provide a
basis for industrial expansion in any
possible emergency which confronts
the country.
Evening star., 1939-10-24
Estranged Husband,
Wife and Companion
Slain Near Reno
Coroner Terms Tragedy
Case Of Double Murder
And Suicide
BY the Associated Press,

RENO, New, Oct. pa middle
aged New York City matron, her
estranged husband and her woman
travelling companion were shot to
death in what Coroner Francis ].
Cunningham said today apparently
was case of double Staying and
a suicide.
Mrs. Lillian Hawthorne Webster,
the matron. had expected to sue for
divorce in Reno tomorrow.
The other shooting victims were
Nils Albin Almgren Webster, the
husband, and Mrs. Webster's COM
panion, tentatively identified as
Louise Schmeltz.
Mrs. Webster's Reno attorney, Al
bert D. Ayers, said he understood
Webster had come to Reno in an
effort to effect a reconciliation.
Driver Asked to Leave.
The shooting occurred on a high
way near Pyramid Lake yesterday.
Sheriff's deputies said Webster and
the two women had gone for a ride
in an automobile driven by H. H.
Forester of Reno.
Webster asked the driver to stop
the car and leave the three together
for a short time, and when For
rester had walked 100 yards from the
car, Deputy Sheriff Ben Parks said,
pistol shots caused him to turn back,
The two women were dead and Web
ster was fatally shot.
Coroner Cunningham, who ex-
pressed the belief Webster might
have shot the women and then him
self, set an inquest for tomorrow.
Attorney Ayers said the Websters
were married in Manassas, Va, last
January q, but that he knew little
OF their background.
Coroner Finds Notes.
The coroner made public the con-
tents OF notes he said were found
in Webster's pocket. One note, ad-
dressed to New York City and Reno
police, Coroner Cunningham said,
directed that Webster be buried be-
side his wife, and asked that all rec
ords IN Apartment "A, los West 55th
street, New York, be "impounded. !"
as we'll as all Webster family papers
in possession of Samuel Mann, New
York attorney for Mrs. Webster
He asked that his personal jewelry
be given to the eldest son of his law
yer, Walter Avery. at Schemerhorn
street and Court, Brooklyn.
In another note Webster directed
that his wearing apparel and other
personal property at his hotel room
in Reno be given to E. Gordon Bur-
row, clerk at the hotel.
Deputy Sparks said Mrs. Web
ster's woman companion was known
at her hotel in Reno as Miss Dam
lels," but that a notebook in her
pocket indicated her correct name
was Louise Schmeltz of College
Point, Long Island, N. Y.
Evening star., 1939-10-24
LethuI Fumes Turned on
Rots to Combat Typhus
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Oct. a.
Nashville is using poisonous gas to
safeguard the health of its citizens,
menaced by an incipient epidemic.
Of typhus fever.
Thousands Of rats, which medical
authorities say are carriers of the
disease, died in their burrows along
sections Of the city's railroad yards
yesterday as city health department
inspectors turned the lethal fumes
upon them.
AS the department intensified its
efforts to eradicate the rats believed
to have been brought to the city on
freight trains from rural sections
farther south, two more cases Of the
fever were reported, bringing the to-
tai In the city e % since October /.
Evening star., 1939-10-24

into the world but they're here and
st. AIMS figures they should be
given the same chance in life as
children born into other homes.
Today, the Community Chest
agency is holding open house for
visitors on the Chests "Go-and-
See" tours. The children love Wis
itors, and because they're the kind
OF children they are, the visitors are
going to love those children.