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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-22

! question that 0. B. IL q woman
and . mother. That letter sounds
TO ne ~ though II were written
BY some propaganda - probably
by the author Of The quoted article
used In the letter.
Verify, Ia view Of the insidious
propaganda creeping into the
newspapers and magazines 1t
would seem that some Of our far
seeing men are right when they
declare that the powers-that-be
are endeavoring 10 get the people
of the United States into q war
frame Of mind. N. 8. w.
Another Letter
Dear Miss Grey: In Response TO
o. rs letter I must write the
following: Every son. father and
even mother would suffer and die
IN the defense Of our country
against an aggression. That u
not fear but = noble instinct born
In every loyal citizen.
But every mother has the dread
full fear that her son might be
forced into = war for profit or
for an imperialist.
II every mother refused to send
her SON to fight another country's
battles--if every mother would
fight to zee that her son fought
ONLY In defense Of his own ooun-
try-we would find more peace in
tho world.
n we remain q peace-loving ma
ton we win be strong and mighty.
but II we send our boys to defend
another country and her interests,
We viii become weak and may be
destroyed by q foreign power.
NJ. c.
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BRONCHIAL
COUGHS
Just q few sips and--iike q Flash
its powerful punEent action
spreads through throat. head
and bronchial tubes

Spend as cents today at any drug
store for bottle of Buckleys
CANADIOL Mixture triple actingl
by far the largest selling cough
medicine for coughs due 70 colds or
bronchial irritations. IN al wintry
Canada
Take q couple Of doses: feel It's
quick powerful. plunge action
spread through throat. head and
bronchial tubes II acts quickly
starts right IN 10 loosen I'D thick
choking phiegm. soothe raw mem
branes and make breathing easter.
Contains no sugar % can be used
BY diabetics. Get Buckley's CANA
biol Mixture today. over 10 million
bottles sold.
Crown Drug Co.. Pay Less Drug
Store, Riser Drug Co,
Penny Wise Store
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-22
Neighbor Gossips

Neighbor Gossips
Dear Miss Grey: I am a young
girl and have been going with a
boy for some time. He calls at
my home about three times a
week and usually leaves after mid
night. Often, when the weather
permits, walk out To the front
porch with him and talk q bit
when he Ia ready TO 60 home. ]
can see nothing wrong In this but
q gossipy neighbor has had q lot
to say about 1t and told my
mother 1t looks bad for me to be
Hanging around outside the
house. las she expressed it) SO
late at night. with my young man.
I have told mother she was
wrong to listen TO this scandal
monger, but mother thinks
should say goodnight inside and
not 20 out with my boy friend at
that late hour.
Please tell me what you think 7
BETSY.
Well, I think that II you only
had to consider what your sus-
picious neighbor thought, would
continue walking out to the porch
with the young man IL you 30 de-
sired, but ! do think 1t no more
than right to defer to your
mothers wishes and say goodnight
to him inside your home II she de-
sires to have You do so. What she
thinks and feels Is OF far more
Importance to you than what any
gossiping neighbours opinion.
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Mothers Stirred by
Discussion of War
Majority Against Having Our Boys Enter
Into Any More European Conflicts
By CYNTHIA GREY

Dear Miss Grey: would Ike to answer O. BIS letter and
say: Certainly raising to be men but we
not should not be- raising them to be puppets be
used fodder to swell the Golfers of the lords
think there is not mother in the United States who
would be unwilling TO have her fight for the defense Of
his country But to send him TO foreign country to
fight somebody ees is very different matter and if
the mothers wake enough to take action this won't
happen.
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Answers TO Test Questions

Answers TO Test Questions
Below are the answers to test
questions printed on the Editorial
page.
]. The Pacific ocean.
2. 1909.
3. Eastern.
4. Five Aces.
3. Yes.
8. Professional football.
Z. Davis Strait.
8. Lon-jev'-i-ty; not longevity.
Q. Rio Grande.
10. David r. Houston and Ed
ward T. Meredith.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-22

her parents. I did and found that
I always got myself into trouble
by being deceitful for the truth
comes out sooner or later and 1t
pays to tell 1t from the start.
As for running away from home.
nothing could be more silly and
nothing could be more cruel to
the parents who really are con-
cerned about her welfare.
ANOTHER Z. r.
The Washington times., 1939-01-17
z MILLION ARMY
CONTRACTS LET

G.N.S.) The War Department
today announced award of con,
tracts totalling $12,116,892 for
purchase of equipment and for
construction work for the quarter
master and air corps, and ord
nance and chemical warfare ser,
vices. The contracts were awarded
between December Is and 81, but
announcement was withheld.
Awards for construction at Army
posts in connection with the PWA.
WPA program totalled $7,475,731.
The largest of these contracts
was $2,985, sos to the Great Lakes
Construction Company, Chicago
for the Fitzsimons General Hos,
pital at Denver, Colo. At Nc.
Chord Field, Wash, construction
of a 1,2O0-man air corps barracks
was contracted for at cost of
$768,000.
The Washington times., 1939-01-17
FRANKFURTER
W|NS;F|GHT ON
MURPHY OPENS

Q.N.S.) An attack on the ap.
pointment Of Frank Murphy as
Attorney General was begun in the
Senate today by Senator Bridges
(R0 of New Hampshire a few min
utes after the Senate, by voice
vote, confirmed the appointment
of Felix Frankfurter as an asso-
ciate justice of the Supreme Court.
Bridges began his attack by de-
claring that Murphy, former gov
ernor Of Michigan, is not qualified
for the position as Attorney Gen.
eral because he has had little ex-
perience as lawyer"
There was not ripple of opposi-
ton to confirmation of Prof.
Frankfurter. Senator Matthew M.
Nicely CD, West Virginia, made
the motion for confirmation and
there was a loud chorus of "yeas." I"
The Senate then took UP con-
firmation Of Murphy, with Sena-
tor Bridges taking the floor.
IF you examine records Of
the Supreme Court of Michi-
gan, you will find that Murphy
has never tried a case there"
Bridges said, continuing:
Mr.. Murphy was never admit
ted to practice before the Su-
preme Court until recently when
he was appointed Attorney Cen
eral."
The Washington times., 1939-01-17
9HBOMb
Scare In
Britain
Explosion Rocks
Birthplace of
Chamberlain

BIRMINGHAM, England, Jan,
II G.N.SD.-A mysterious explo-
sion today rocked Birmingham,
birthplace of Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain, as Scotland
Yard officials launched a wide
spread investigation into alleged
Irish Republican army terrorism
believed responsible for the recent
series of unexplained blast S
throughout England.
A bomb exploded beneath an
electric pylon on the Birmingham
Walsall Road, damaging support.
There were no injuries.
Shortly afterward, an mdeto'
mated bomb was found nearby.
Wartime Vigil
LONDON, Jan. " QN.S).
The British government took
stern measures today to stamp
out an apparent political bomb
plot which caused a series Of ex-
plosions in various English cities.
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Ed. TO HOLD
PARLEYTO
ON D. c. VOTE
Reported to Favor
a City Manager

Plans to enfranchise voteless
District citizens and to reorgan-
ize the local government on a
more efficient basis are scheduled
for serious consideration by PreSi-
dent Roosevelt at a conference
this afternoon with Representa-
tive Jennings Randolph of West
Virginia.
Representative Randolph, new
| ly elected chairman of the House
District Committee and long a
champion of District suffrage,
expects to leave the White House
with a complete understanding Of
the Presidents views on local
problems, it is understood.
Vacancy PaUes Way
The vacancy on the Board of
District Commissioners created by
the resignation of George E. Allen
will pave the way for discussion
of the advisability of changing the
present form Of local government,
it was learned.
It is known that the President
has been giving close. attention
to a plan suggested by one Of his
close daily associates which calls
for appointment of a city manager
cloaked with complete executive
authority over administrative as
Ipects of the local government.
Powers of the Commissioners, it
has been suggested, should be re-
stricted to questions Of policy.
Referendum Studied
The President, it was learned,
has been considering the posi-
bility of giving local residents a
voice in affairs of their govern
ment through the medium of some
form of authoritative referendum.
It is expected that Randolph
will make clear to the President
that District taxpayers voted
Continued ON Page 4, Col. ~
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Falls
4FlOOrS

Mrs. Margaret Kincannon, 80,
plunged four stories in the rear
stairway of an office building at
Seventeenth and H Streets shortly
after noon today.
At Emergency Hospital, where
she was taken by her husband,
P. A. Kincannon, of the 770O block
of Chicago Ave-, Silver Spring,
Md, and who has offices in the
building where Mrs. Kincannon
fell, her condition was described
as "Very critical"
According to witnesses, Mrs.
Kincannon landed on the concrete
Of the Second-floor landing of the
office building.
Lewis Fitzgerald, an attorney,
was the first to reach Mrs. Kin
cannon, and Immediately sum-
moned an ambulance.
The Washington times., 1939-01-17
More About MoneyIenders

THE Times today prints the second article the
l. business Of Small loan" operators in Virginia and
Maryland Hundreds of Washington residents have felt
the lash of sudden poverty Rushing these loan estab
lishments they have put their financial future in their
hands.
Month after month Of payments have taught them how
it feels to pay and pay and pay The Patterson News
papers have deved into every angle of this business The
District of Columbia outlaws such business Read what
it meant to a young who made loan and then
tried pay back with interest amounting much
42 per cent year. (Turn to Page 15)
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D. C. MAN FOUND
SHOT TO DEATH

Richard Badger Covelle, SO, of
the 1900 block of R st. N. W., was
found dead today from a bullet
wound in the head. The body was
lying in an alley in the rear of
the 1400 block of K. st. N. w. A
revolver was found nearby, police
said.
Oscar P. Devie, of the 1900 block
of Half st. S. w., and Annie Car
ter, of the 900 block of Fifteenth
St. N. W., discovered the mans
body and spread the alarm, &C.
cording to police.
D. L. r. Harris, an optician in
the 900 block of Fifteenth St.
IN. w., where Covelle had been en-
Iployed since last July. said Covelle
reported for work at 7:30 a. m,
apparently in good spirits.
A few minutes later, Covelle was
said to have gone out, taking a
revolver from the store.
The Washington times., 1939-01-17
Sales Levy Begins
On Purchases
of 25Cents
BY JULIA BONWIT

A tax program for the District
reaching into the pockets Of per
sons in every stratum of society
and estimated to yield as high as
9I3, 100000, was ready for the con.
greSsional grind today.
The proposed tax structure, laid
before Congress minus the ap-
proval Of the sponsoring congress
sional committee, anticipates a
levy on the money men earn and
on the things men buy-down to
purchases of commodities that
cost IS cents.
Eight-POint Program
Charging that the present tax
structure represents an "inade-
Quate patchwork" Of many ill
advised taxes, that it "relieS too
heavily upon the general property
tax and gives almost no considera-
ton to the ability theory Of taxa
tion," the Joint Congressional
Committee on Internal Taxation
submitted the report asking an
eight-point program.
1.-THE report" the letter Of
transmittal stated, "doeS not
represent the views or recon-
mendations of the Joint Con-
gresSional Committee on Inter
nal Taxation, but is transmitted
as the survey made by a special
staff appointed for that purpose
in accordance with the act"
Plan Detailed
The program follows:
/. Repeal of the intangible
personal property tax.
2. Permit the business privi-
lege tax to expire on June 80,
1899.
8. Enactment Of combined
personal-income retail-sales tax
and use taxes.
4. Enactment Of a corporation
income tax of per cent on net
incomes arising from sources
within the District.
S. Enactment Of a tax OF 2
per cent on gross receipts Of
parking lo0S.
6. Amendment Of the tangible
personal property tax to change
Continued on Page 4, Col. u
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Andrews Not Sure
# Waqe Act Works

G.N.S.) Wag E. Hour Admin
strator Elmer F. Andrews ad.
nakted today that it will be more
than live months before he will
be ready to arrive at conclusion
regarding efficacy of the act he
has been administering since
october "a. In an interim report
to Congress, Andrews said he was
still feeling his way along. striving
TO be fair with all employers, and
keenly conscious of the fact that
court tests of the acts constitu-
tionality are certain to come.
The Washington times., 1939-01-17
Yarneu Cruises Yangtze
To Strengthen u. S. Stand

SHANGHAI, Jan. II Q.N.S0.
Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, com
manding United States Naval
forces in the Far East, and Clar,
ence E. Gauss, American Consul.
General in Shanghai, will proceed
up the YangtZe River tomorrow
aboard the admiral's yacht. lisa,
bel, it was learned in Shanghai
tonight.
The Washington times., 1939-01-17
New Tax Plans
Will Hit Every
D. C.. Resident
It's Still a
Worry!

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. II.
Heart-brOken lovers are
merely suffering from an
overdose of aIkaI0SiS, DIR.
william ]. Kerr, head Of the
University Of California De
partment Of Medicine re-
vealed today.
There is nothing romantic
about alkalOSis, DIR. Kerr re-
vealed. You can get it by
worrying about the state Of
the nation or the dunning
letters of creditors. Symp-
toms are heavy signing, fol-
lowed by heart trembling.
dizziness and pains.
AlkalOSiS is caused, he re-
vealed, by the draining Of
carbOnic gas from she blood
system. It can be cured by q
new girl friend, a legacy, or
. boom period.
The Washington times., 1939-01-17
James Takes Oath
As Pa. Governor

HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. II
(I.N.SO.-Governor Arthur H.
James gave Pennsylvania an un,
Stinting pledge of aid for industry
today in an inaugural address that
called for private instead of pub
lie pump-priming and a return to
constitutional American govern
ment." Pennsylvania'S "own
home market" musto be revived
and reopened, he told the thou
sands jammed about the State
capitol steps upon which he took
the oath as chief executive.
The Washington times., 1939-01-17
Soviet JaiIs 500
As $4,000 Strike

BERLIN, Jan. II (I.N.SJ.
Twenty-Five thousand Soviet
workers in the shipbuilding
and q rIn q m eMt industries
staged . Sit-dOwn strike to-
day in protest against the
governments new work dis
cipIine DEGREES, the German
official news agency, DNB,
reported from Warsaw today.
DetachmentS Of the OGPU,
SOvOiet secret police, evacu-
ated thousands of workers by
using tear gas. A total of
500 workers were reported ar.
rested.
The Washington times., 1939-01-17
Powell Improves
After Operation

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. II Q.N.S).
William Powell, popular motion
picture player, was reported rest
ing comfortably today in Holly
wood hospital following a minor
operation. Powell underwent a
more serious operation several
months ago.
The Washington times., 1939-01-17
Postmark on Letter
Shows June Is Here

Mr.. and Mrs. I. ]. Sommers, of
Alexandria, Va, were willing to
testify to the rapid delivery Of
mail today, for this morning they
received a letter from Lively, Va,
and the postmark-June 6, 1899.
Sommers, a clerk in the Washing
ton Detective Bureau, pointed out
that one must use his imagina-. i.
ton slightly in reading the post
mark, for it was appreciated :
Jun. 8, 1885,"
The Washington times., 1939-01-17
Nazis Abandon Plan
To Try Schuschnigg

BERLIN, Jan. IT QN.S).
IWell-informed German quarters
admitted today that plans to
bring former Austrian ChanceL
lor Kurt Schuschnigg to trial for
opposing the Austro- German an
SchlusS have been abandoned
ISchuschnigg will be removed to a
private house, where he will be
held under surveillance, it waa
STATED.
The Washington times., 1939-01-17

note that she expected to be
her last. II feel no worries
or anything"
Then the note ended in a long
scrawl as she lapsed into uncon-
sciousness. A building superin-
tendent, smelling gas, broke into
her apartment and rescued Betty
The daughter of Mrs. j. G.. Nc
Continued on Page 2, Col. q
The Washington times., 1939-01-17

Betty Mccormick, the Washing.
ton girl student attending New
York dramatic school, was recov.
ering in a hospital after she was
rescued last night from a gas
filled room just before the last
breath of life escaped her.
FEEL WONDERFUL"
"You have no idea how won
derful I feel" the girl penned in
The Washington times., 1939-01-17

Adopting precautions which re-
Sembled those Of wartime, the
government placed special police
guards at every power station and
reservoir in the British Isles.
Cordons of guards were main
tanned at all electric and gas
stations in London. Large squads
of police patrolled the Thames
River front area.
Whitehall Guarded
Police detachments in Downing
street and the Whitehall area
were reinforced. All pedestrians
in the government building dis
trict were closely scrutinized.
Home Secretary Sir Samuel
Hoare called on Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain during the
afternoon to discuss the incidents.
The precautions were extended
to Belfast, where state buildings
were guarded and known trouble
spots searched for arms. The
Ulster border was heavily guarded
and closely watched.
The Washington times., 1939-01-17

The decision of the American Of
ficials to move through the Yang,
TIE was interpreted in diplomatic
quarters here as another demon.
stration of the resurgent attitude
of the Washington Government
in insisting that there should be
no diminution of its rights in
China.
The Washington times., 1939-01-17
Mccormick Receivers
In Pneumonia Siege

LOS ANGELES, Jan. II d.N.S0.
Harold F. Mccormick. Of the ia
NOUS harvester family, was report
ed recovering in his Santa Monica
home today from serious attack
of bronchial pneumonia. "Mr.
Mccormick was stricken with
bronchial pneumonia about a
month ago, but is now fully recov-
ered," said his personal physician,
DR., Donald Frick.
The Washington times., 1939-01-17
so GroveI in Rain
And Shout For Relief

LONDON, Jan. II Q.N.SO.-As
a bleak winter rain drenched Ok
ford Street in the center of Lon
don's shopping district today, So
unemployed men stretched them
selves on the ground, shouting:
Release us from starvation.
We want more winter relief"
Police dispersed the demon
Strators after traffic had been
held up is minutes.
The Washington times., 1939-01-17
FRANCO Navy
AIDS ATTACK
ON BARCELONA
Capital ckade
Planned by Fleet

BURGOS, Jan. IL U.N.S.).-
Spanish insurgents advancing
along the Barcelona highway
from Cereva today captured
four towns within a 12-mile
radius Of Igualada, according to
announcement here. The cap
tured towns were named by
BurgOs authorities as PallerOlS,
GuadriOlada, LIuida and AguiIIO.
BARCELONA, Jan. II Q.NSO .
A report that GeneralisSimo Fran
cisco Franco is planning a sea
blockade of Barcelona electrified
this city today as men and women
volunteers pressed forward with
construction of "last ditch" de-
fenses against the insurgent drive
through Catalonia.
Reports received in Barcelona
by circuitous routes stated that
Francois fleet entered the newly
conquered port of Tarragona, pre-
sumably for fuel and supplies,
and then steamed out to sea en-
route northward to Barcelona.
Isolation Planned
The reports stated the fleet COM
manders had sailed under orders
to blockade Barcelona and inter
cept the entry Of troop and supply
ships upon which this city de
pendS for its existence.
News Of the projected blockade
reached Barcelona simultaneously
with new insurgent claims of wide
advances in the Igualada area on
the South Catalan front.
Spanish government authorities,
utilizing every means to keep up
the morale of the Barcelona popu-
lace, denied these claims, assert
ing in a radio broadcast that two
attempted insurgent advances dur
ing the morning had been repulsed
by government troops.
Plead for Defense
In acknowledgement of the fact
that the insurgents have bitten
deep into government territory
during the last few days, the gov
eminent, however, renewed its ap-
peals to every able-bodied man
and woman in Barcelona to aid
in defending the city against
threatened invasion.
Women left their home fireSides
and their jobs to volunteer their
services. Even wounded veterans
recently returned from the front,
some Of them minus legs and
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1939-01-17
Soviet Drafts 3-Year
Aerial Defense Plan

PARIS, Jan. II Q.N.S9-The
Soviet government has drawn UP
a three-year aerial-defenSe plan, in.
volving expenditure of 100000
roubles about $1,000, 900, accord
ing to French press reports re-
ceived in Paris today.
The Washington times., 1939-01-17
u NaVa! Planes
FIy 10 War Games

CIUDAD DE TRUJuLO, Do
minican Republic, Jan. II u.N.S0.
Twenty-one United States naval
planes from the fleet converging
in the Caribbean for war games
flew over Ciudad de Trujillo in
formation today.
The Washington times., 1939-01-17
AViatrix and CopiIot
Are Rescued at Sea

HAVANA, Jan. II Q.N.S0.
Hermalinda Briona, Ecuadorean
aviatrix, and her copilot were safe
aboard the freighter Liberty today
after being rescued by the ship
when they were forced down at
sea about 20 miles from Key West
on an attempted flight there from
Havana.
The Washington times., 1939-01-17
Girl Scrawls Note Telling How
Feels When Life Is Ebbing

Washington mother sped to her actress daughters side in
New York city today after the 18yearod girl lived to tell
dramatic story of her attempt kill herself with gas
The Washington times., 1939-01-17
Hopes Canada Aids

Urging that the ambitious prof.
ect at Passamaquoddy be under.
taken again, the President wrote:
1T is my belief that the time
will come when there will be .
joint agreement between Can
Continued on Page 2, Col. ~
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LOST

CAT, male. all black, white under neck;
gone since New Year Eve. from 1885
Bennett Pl. N. E.; rev. Ii. 1347-W.
DINNER ring, gold band. platinum top,
many small diamonds; reward. EN-. 400.
ROSARY, white, last Friday In Lafayette
Park. Reward. PO. 2763.
WRIST WATCH, Gruen, ladys. in Avenue
Grand Theater or vic. Rev. AT. 1865.
WRIST WATCH, platinum and diamond:
Elgin; downtown. EN-. 341S.
(Other Lost and Found Ads on
2age "a. Col. u