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

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hate ea neutrality isw r~vtssca.
ths ~sstesnsr csntsre<i hsa attack
on provisions II ts< present Get
which permit American SHIPS 10
carry any goods eHc>pt srsns 70
the warning nations Ne alan
urged repeal AZ the arms embargo.
which he said was not true sym-
noi az American neutrality.
The 800 gallery sessn were filled
and long lines 81 disappointed npee-
tatnrs extended down the long
marble staifways 10 the basement
Of the capitol. Extra police WIRE
called 20 keep tho crowd orderly.
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Lion II Idaho" ssn. William =
BorAh. who 20 years agu helpsd
lead another. and successful. BATHS
against . presidents foreign pol
League Of Nations fight
against President Wilson.
There 10 no cause for fear now
that We win b. drawn into the
brutal and widening conflict" Pitt
man said. "and yet. Mr.. Prssident,
we. A. the representatives Of .
peace loving, democratic people.
nave no right 10 refuse 20 take
INTO consideration that such war.
Dr. a war that develops out Of II.
may not some day be brought TO
he gateway Of our country"
1T seems 10 me that the strong
md almost fanatical zeal Of some
If our senators In treating these
goods PERMANENTLY ~
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Take Your Choice;

completing occupation q Warsaw wttneuf Neok
raise white Hsla psntnsua fa o
lightning blow 1t Anss BY ar ~ eoo
peace ultimatum" rsjsctsd- Nazs mtGsky conlteF
searching neutral ships England bound enhag pon4 f@p
vendia with II untdntsd arme1 1ot6n uur1
German, sinks British ship in South Atlantis
reported seeking establish naval and ~ hae = LAMA
well Estona; forssn minister aanmoned = M~f
Russian troops reported Latvian boedor. 3A u
British aircraft out scouting ufnskcns ev~ neD -
Potsdam; observation squadron az five planes over ~ ve
but ehoots down tn -
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warning nation u fQr G<1 49,
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total 10000 tons more Thar elt
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troops captured portion f Borg woods
Mosels yalisy villages. succsanm scou1tng NoA
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Attack Fatal To
Catholic Cardinal

CHICAGO = George Cardinal
Mundelein, spiritual guide Of
/ 100000 Roman Catholics in the
archdiocese of Chicago, died Mon
day in his 66th year.
Although he had been In his
customary robust health recently
he suffered heart attack during
the night. He died at his home at
Mundelein, q suburb,
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DEATH TAKES
LOCAL RECTOR
Illness Is Fatal T o
Rev. r. II. McGinnis
At Age Of II

Less than a month from the
submission of his resignation
as rector of the Church of the
Holy Communion, Rev. Robert
II. McGinnis died at 1:50
o'clock Monday morning at st.
Joseph's hospital, ending a
ministry of % years in one
Tacoma church.
His resignation was given to be
effective Sunday, and Sunday his
parishioners learned that the young
Rev. Charles T. Mentzer, whose
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Wife OF Railroad
Executive Passes

Los ANGELES-Mrs. Sadie Lu
Murphy, SO, former Portland, Ore,
social and civic leader, died Sum-
day after a long illness.
Mrs. Murphy was the wife of
Arthur A. Murphy, assistant to
the president Of the Union Pacific
railroad. She and her husband
moved to Los Angeles in 1887.
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PALOMAR BALLROOM IS
DESTROYED BY FLAMES

LOS ANGELES-Palomar bali
room, one of the largest and most
sumptuously appointed on the Pa
cific coast, burned to the ground
Monday otter 1t had been orderly
evacuated of 5000 dancers.
The fire started in curtains on
the bandstand, evidently ignited
by a smoidering cigaret butt, and
swept In a spectacular swoop up
the heavy plush wall drapes to the
roof.
The ballroom cost $4,000 to
construct.
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Senate ATTACK On
Neutrality Act Is
Opened BY Pittrad,a
Repeal 81 Arms Embargo Urged hy Ds@e
crat; Provisions Of Present Law Criticised
In Momsnlous Debate a Capitol


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wAsHINCrON--s<n. Key Pstsmsn D. New chairman
foreign relations committee declared Monday
hat the present neutrality Law handaps America in her
10 stay out of
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studies for the
ministry began
in Tacoma, was
to be the sue
ceeding rector.
Thus his main
work was done;
he had looked
forward to re-
tirement and re-
lief from the
grind which he
kept always be-
fore him. Serv-
Ice s. sermons,
weddings, bap-
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LIGH Il
WASHINGTON -

WASHINGTON - While
treasury and justice law ex-
perts vaguely ponder the prob
lem of prices, Henry Wallace
has struck. His has been prob
ably the only blow delivered at
Washington on behalf Of the
consumers of food.
The secretary Of agriculture lit
orally read the law behind closed
doors TO an advisory COMMITTEES
representing the interests Of pro-
ducers. professors and distributors
Of foodstuffs. He told them that
unless they voluntarily kept living
costs down. he would invoke every
authority In the agricultural act
for that purpose. His power over
marketing quotas and licenses, he
warned, enabled him TO regulate
the flow of wheat, corn and live
stock TO the market--and therefore
the price. But he preferred. he
said. NOT to apply government
controls at this early date.
The food peoples lawyers also
Wallace's--are not certain he en-
joys sufficient authority TO carry
out these threats. but they have no
appetite for ouch an unpopular con-
test In the courts. Moreover. he
convinced them that they were on
trial-that he could probably OBJ
tain more price-fixing machinery
from congress II he needed it---and
they solemnly resolved TO behave
themselves.
The surest guarantee against
sending American troops overseas
in hurry Is the complete unfitness
of the army for war at home or
abroad. Even with several years
preparation, the high command con-
cedes that our army could not con-
quer the Polish force which Herr
Hitler rubbed out In three weeks.
Functionally, the army Is an
antique piece Of machinery. 1t
has just begun TO streamline Its
divisions In accord with modern
tactics. Manuals OF arms--drilI
Continued on Page 4, Column ~
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Daily Prizes to Be Given at
Programs Here Oct. u-12

Coming here by special arrangement Miss Cnla Bnker
noted electric cookery authority will give demonstration
programs in Fellowship hail. Masonic temple So. End and
St Heens the afternoons Of Oct IL and IL. Her
visit is Jointly sponsored by The Tacoma Times City Light
Department and Edison General Electric Appliance Co., lnc
makers of the Hotpoint line of home appliances.
Buker well to and particularly the North
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tons, visits to the sick, funerals
a field extending far outside the
confines of his parish. Time al
ways, too, for a place in Tacoma's
civic affairs.
Born in Newark, N. j.
Rev. McGinnis was ~ years old,
having been born in Newark, N. j.,
July 2s, 1867. His advanced and
theological education were obtained
from University of Toronto, Cam
ada, where he was graduated from
Wycliffe college with award of the
Gurd prize. He was ordained dea-
con of the Protestant Episcopal
church in 1898, priest in the fol-
lowing year, being ordained at at
st. Adams cathedral, Toronto. He
served in the Toronto diocese until
1898, then two years in the diocese
of Niagara.
In 1900 he was sent to Japan
as a missionary and remained there
IL years, when he came to this
state and the diocese of Olympia
and very soon was assigned to the
church and parish which he served
so long.
Was school Director
His general community service
was spread consistently over the
entire period of his ministry here
Gov. Listers state minimum
wage commission, social service
board, ministerial federation, and
election and reelection to the Ia
coma school board from 1880 to
1887 during which he exerted
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column ~
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CZECHS TO AID CHINA

CHUNGkING--About 200 Czech
military officers, including avn
ators, have come to China az vol
unteers in the war with Japan. re-
liable quarters reported today. It
was said that the volunteer Off
GERS had gone to Russia after the
German absorption of Czechoslo-
yakia and thence had proceeded
to China.
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WEATHER TORECAsT

Cloudy tonight and Tuesday.
Temperatures: High, 80; low, 48.
Sun rises, 6;I2; sets, b:4a-
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FIND OUT how easy If
is TO locate needed
goods and services.
Turn TO the Business
and Professional Dir
ecfory" in the Want
Ad Section Of today's
Times.
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BANK TRANSACTIONS
Tacoma ............. .$a,s6l. 600
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Boys Held as ProwIers,
Disturbing Women

Three colored youths were held at
the fourth precinct today as men,
bers of a band which has been in
vading homes in the Southwest sec
ton recently, awakening sleeping
women.
The boys were captured early to-
day after one of them had been
chased from the home of Mrs. Mary
Butler, 81, of 473 N street S.W. He
was arrested by police and gave in
formation that led to the arrest of
his companions.
Mrs. Butler was sleeping on the
second floor of her home about
am. when she was awakened by the
touch of a hand. She screamed
and her son John, Is, dashed out of
an adjoining room. He swung at a
running figure and knocked it all
the way down flight of stairs.
The trespasser, however, recovered
his footing and raced out the door
Policeman w. w. Knox and A. E.
Corley found pocketbook at the
foot of the stairs and this served as
clue leading to the arrest.
For several weeks police had been
receiving complaints from women in
the section who were awakened
when members of the band invaded
their homes. Police say they have
had six complaints recently.
Evening star., 1939-08-08

Goldie White, 40, of Soldiers
Home, was in serious condition at
Casualty Hospital today with in
juries received in a traffic accident
on the home grounds yesterday.
Mr.. White was hit by a backing
truck and received injuries to his
ribs and his lungs.
Hilda Hallifeld, 13, of 1904 C
street S.W. was treated at Provi-
dence Hospital for slight injuries re-
ceived when her bicycle and an auto
mobile collided at D and Eighth
streets SW.
Emma B. Taylor, 81. colored, of
209A Morgan street NV. was in
Casualty Hospital with a possible
fractured skull received in an acci-
dent at South Capitol street and
Virginia avenue Yesterday.
Melvin De Hart, 18. of Landover.
Md, was removed to Casualty Hos
pital with multiple injuries, and
Oscar Basiliki, Is, of 2527 Tenth
street NV, was treated for minor
injuries, following a collision at
Sergeant and Chillum roads, near
HyattSville Driver of the car in
which young Hart was passenger,
William A. Dixon, 80, of Benning
D. c., was charged with reckless and
drunken driving.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
N. A. A. c. P. Will Meet
At Y. M. 6. A. Toniqht

The District of Columbia branch
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People will
meet tonight at the Twelfth Street
Y. M. G. A.
George E. BIice, chairman of
the Entertainment Committee. an
nounced that tickets for the moon
light cruise, sponsored by the N. A.
A. C, P. for August 30, will be on
sale at the meeting.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Stop Sign Bandits
Take Sis After
Asking the Time
Bus Driver Reports
Thief Slit Pocket
To Get Wallet

Stop sign bandits robbed Philip
Atkins, 618 Madison street NV, of
SITS last night at Ninth and @
streets NV, police reported today.
Mr.. Atkins, butter and egg sales
man, was heading home with his
days collections when he stopped his
car for the sign at the intersection.
A colored woman approached the
car and asked Mr.. Atkins for the
time.
He glanced at his watch, then
looked up to see colored man
pointing blue steel revolver at him
from the other slide of the car. After
obtaining the money, the couple ran
up a nearby alley.
Purse snatchers and pickpockets
victimized several other persons here.
Charles P. Hawke, 1347 Fourth
street SW, reported that thief
slit his pocket and took wallet con-
tanning $34. Mr. Hawke was driving
a Capital Transit bus at the time of
the theft. William j. Deckowiski,
AZ, of 2509 Thirteenth street NV,
reported loss of $21.50 to pickpockets.
A purse snatcher took a pocket
book from Ella Henry, 27, of Arling-
ton, Va, at Ninth street and Madi-
son drive. After taking $14. the
thief returned the empty purse to
his victim. Gertrude Queen, 241
Fifty-seventh street NE, had a
purse containing sl3 snatched from
her at Thirteenth and G streets NV.
yesterday afternoon.
Burglars entered the Curtis School.
3243 o street NV, and stole 300
stamps, valued at Sl050, police were
informed. William Kligman, truck
driver for the Standard Tobacco Co.,
635 Indiana avenue NV, reported
5,400 cigarettes stolen from his truck
while parked in the 400 block of New
Jersey avenue NV.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Lighthouse-Coust Guard
Bill Is Signed
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt signed yester-
day a bill to perfect the consolida-
ton of the Lighthouse Service and
the Coast Guard, effective July l
under the Reorganization Act.
1t transfers certain technical and
professional employees of the Light
house Service to the military service
OF the Coast Guard. with ranks
commensurate with the duties they
perform.
Appointment of civilians to the
positions affected is discontinued,
with future vacancies to be filed
from the military service.
The transferred personnel will be
extra numbers" in their new ranks
to avoid interference with promo
tions in the regular Coast Guard
service.
Evening star., 1939-08-08

terested persons toward the new CO.
operative community was consid-
cred. 1t would have been at this
point that most proponents Of
''rugger individualism" would have
been found Wanting-had any ap-
piled in the first place
Primary factors in the selection,
also, were the applicants need for
better housing, his ability to meet
financial obligations and his rec
ord with former landlords.
No record of the number of in
quiries was kept, but the number of
applicants has been estimated at
upward of 10000. Many were OBJ
viously ineligible, because of too high
or too low incomes or residence out
of the Washington area. Single
persons and childless couples, hav-
ing few financial incumberances
were considered with incomes as low
as $500. Top incomes-for families
Of six persons-were fixed at $2,250.
Registration further reduced the
Continued on Page B-2.)
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Eye Camera
Used to Settle
Speed Disputes

A device designed to settle def
nitely the courtroom arguments be-
tween traffic policemen and the
speeders they arrest was being given
tryout in Washington today.
The gadget is an electric eye"
camera and was being tested by In
spector William Holmes and Capt.
Milton D. Smith of the Traffic Bu-
reau. Fixed on the front of a police
car, the combination camera and
speedometer will make a picture of
a speeding auto, recording at the
same time the speed at which the
pursuing police car is travelling.
1t also is useful for photographing
actual traffic violations-jay-walk-
ing, failure to signal turns, over
loading, etc.-and for making pic
lures of accident scenes.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Wheat|ey 10 Continue
Harassment Tactics
In Drive on Gamma
Every Gambling House
In County Must Co.
Prosecutor Says

Claiming he has started at the
top" States Attorney H. Winship
Wheatley, jr.. today directed police
to continue the drive to close all
gambling establishments in Prince
Georges County. Md.
After conference with police
who have conducted the drive, Mr.
Wheatley declared in his Office in
Upper Marlboro yesterday that
every gambling place in the county
must 60"
The same tactics used by police
in the closing of 'Jimmys Place" on
the Bladensburg road near the Dis
trict line will be followed in the
campaign against other known es-
tablishments, Mr.. Wheatley said.
The Prince Georges County Cham
Der of Commerce Board of Directors
adopted resolution indorsing the
campaign. 1t was introduced by
Walter F. Mulligan of Berwyn.
"Jimmy's Place" said to be the
largest gambling casino between
New York and Miami, was closed
after three days of "harassment" by
county police. Hampered by a
Maryland law which requires a
sworn statement that gambling is
going on before a search warrant
can be issued, Mr.. Wheatley is
striking at the patronage of gaming
houses to force them out of business.
A For Rent" sign today appeared
on the windows of an establishment
in Hyattsville which was the next
place on the list of spots to be in
vestigated by police. Mr.. Wheatley
had announced this place would be
closed by police, but the operators
closed the doors within "a hours
after the Bladensburg road estab-
lishment suspended business, police
said,
Evening star., 1939-08-08


marked that there is probably less
politics in Greenbelt than in any
other town in the country.
Wallace Mabee, director of public
safety, said that since fewer than
half of the men in Greenbelt had
shown interest in Democratic clubs
possibly that meant that the other
half was Republican.
Henry Maurer. the community
second mayor. allowed that perhaps
Republicans thereabouts were hid
ing their light under bushel bas-
ket. waiting for a more favorable
time to step forth.
Adaptability Considered.
All of which may be of minor sig
nif1cance, but it does hint that New
Deal sympathies are the rule rather
than the exception. President Roose-
welt, or the candidate he indorses
in 1910, should carry Greenbelt by
a wide margin.
While nothing was said of politi-
Cal affiliations in application forms
for tenacy or in interviews with
prospects, the "adaptability" of in
Evening star., 1939-08-08
King Discusses
Reorganiziing
With DC. Heads
Suffrage Is Among
Topics Considered;
Decision Withheld

Various possibilities in reorgan-
ization of the District government
were explored today at conference
between Chairman King of the
Senate District Committee and the
Commissioners and two of their
key officials, but it was announced
afterwards no decision had been
reached.
However, District department
heads are under instruction to sub
NIT detailed reports on the details
Of the effects and implications of
different reorganization schemes.
Senator King said it was planned
to hold another conference early
next month after the data had been
compiled. The statements of the
department executives are expected
to be completed between September
! and Is.
Await Statements.
Senator King said that he and the
group of District officials, which in
cluded all three Commissioners,
Auditor Daniel j. Donovan and Cor
poration Counsel Elwood H. Seal,
had discussed comprehensively many
OF the controversial phases of plans
for municipal reorganization. He
emphasized no conclusion had been
reached on any of them and that
they would be discussed again when
the statements are received from
the heads of the divisions, bureaus
and agencies.
Among the subjects mentioned
were the proper place the Board of
Education should have in the mu-
nlclpal establishment the proposal
for freeing the District budget from
the control of the Federal Budget
Bureau, the proposal for establish
ment of a separate Civil Service
system for the District govern
ment and the suggested provision
OF an administrative officer as an
agent of the Board of Commits
sioners.
1t was said the group also devoted
q brief portion of the conference
to the subject of suffrage for the
Districts disfranchised residents. On
this point it was recalled that the
sponsors of some of the reorganiza-
ton schemes have SHE'D away from
the demands of organized civic
groups for local suffrage or national
representation.
Seek to Learn Powers.
One of the Commissioners sug-
gested that one of the first steps to
be taken in the study would be to
determine as definitely as possible
what additional powers could be
delegated by Congress to the Board
of Commissioners. There has been
some dispute on this during the past
year, some advocates of reorganiza-
tlon insisting that Congress could
permit the governing body of the
District even to formulate the Dis
tricts budget and tax programs.
Other advocates of the reorganiza-
ton have said Congress, by enlarg-
ing the powers of the Commission
ers, could relieve itself of a mass of
the detailed legislation now going
through the congressional machin-
cry, but question whether under the
Constitution Congress could delegate
the vital powers of budget making
and taxation, holding that this con-
stituted 'legislation.'
1t was suggested that a second
step would be to consider what con-
solldatlons of departments might be
effected and what economies might
thereby be effected.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Band Concerts

BY the United States Army Band
this evening in the Formal Garden
at Walter Reed General Hospital at
$50 o'clock. Capt. Thomas F. Dar-
cy, leader; Karl Hubner, assistant
leader
BY the Washington Elks Boys
Band tonight at 730 o'clock at the
National Sylvan Theater; J. L. Kid
well, director.
BY the United States Soldiers
Home Band this evening at $50
o'clock in the bandstand John S.
M. Zimmerman, bandmaster; Anton
Pointner, assistant.
BY the United States Navy Band
tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the Dis
trict of Columbia War Memorial;
1t. Charles Benter, U. S. N, leader;
Charles Brendler, assistant leader.
Evening star., 1939-08-08
Analyses OF the 9th, 10Th and
32d traffic fatalities haze not been
published, pending completion of
official Investigations. The first
t1Do mentioned Dere hit-run cases.

OUtCtuL HUCSttyuLbOHo. i Hc VTSL
tDo mentioned 1Dere htt-run cases.
The place: In front of 2917
Twelfth street NE.
The accident: An 8-year-old boy,
while running from the east to the
west curb of Twelfth street NE.
between two parked cars, was struck
and knocked down by a delivery
truck going north on Twelfth street.
The child was IA feet from the east
curb when he was knocked down by
the right front fender, and the right
front wheel went over his chest.
An officer testified at the inquest
that there were skid marks running
for IS feet south of a point 18 feet
from where the child was struck.
Other witnesses, however, testified
the skid marks were only a few
feet from the body. The driver
said he applied hand and foot
brakes after seeing child and sWerved
to the left. The child was taken
to a nearby doctor who rushed him
to the hospital, where he died at
1885 am, August of a crushed
abdomen and injuries to the kidney,
liver and spleen, with accompanying
hemorrhage and shock.
The time: About Z pm, August g.
The weather: Cloudy, dusk. Rain
began to fall a few minutes after
the accident.
The street: Dry, straight.
The vehicle: A 1899 paneled- body
truck driven at about 20 miles an
hour. Brakes we're tested and found
in good condition.
The driver: A 45-year-old driver
for a cleaning establishment, who
told police he saw the boy running
across the street and tried to STOP
He has IA years driving experience
and has held a District permit for
a year and a half.
Coroner jury's verdict: Accidental
death.
Playground nearest scene: Noyes
Playground at Tenth and Franklin
streets NE, four blocks away.