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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-10-13

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TWO NEW ApnrrroNs

Eggs are cheaper. Cow Butter
Store. ladv.l
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JUST THE CORE
WILL MEET FRIDAY

The Pierce county unit ef the
chtidrsna Benevolent league will
meet a. Sorrnanna hal. 50. i3th
and X ats. on FRIDAY evening.
On Saturday. Cow Butter store.
Pacific and jefferson. Will seli
, dnxsn newly laid Fox Island me-
dunn sggs for s5c. Special prices
On all food. domestic and import
ed lady.l
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APPLY roa CHARTER

FAN bulbs you can afford The
Garden shop. Rhodes Bros.--adv.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-10-13
Ptty0Nup CO07ciL1en
Take Over Hiring
Ordinance Taking Power From Mayor
Given Unanimous Approval

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two grandchildren. Funeral an.
noanesmsnt by Boekiey-klnga
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Chris Rehkugler. ~. of s233 So
Park ave. died In a local hospital
Tuesday. storiles viii announce
the funeral
Mks. VIVIAN DAY
Mrs. Vivian Day. IS. OF oil So,
18th ct. died Thursday in a local
hospital, She has been a resident
of Tacoma three years. coming
here from Aberdeen. Survivors in
clude her husband. Claude; her
mother. Mrs. Bessie Strickland Of
Tacoma: her father. Frank strick'
land OF Rockford. H.: three broth.
ers. csntello and Jack OF Taeoma
and Roy OF the L. S. N. and one
sister. Mrs. Beverly coombs OF
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announce the funeral.
FUNERAL SERVICES
Hubert II. Craft - Friday. al;
p. m. from Mellingers chapel;
burial Mountain View burial park
Nichoiaus Rody - Saturday,
p. m. from the Pentecostal taber-
nacle; Rev. Harry Steil officiating
interment Mountain View burial
park under direction OF c. o. Lynn
Co.
Annie Marian WhltaLer-Satur-
day ; p. m. from the c. o. Lynn
Co. chapel: Rev. Arthur Bell Off
ciating: interment Tacoma ceme-
terry.
Fred Dayis-Friday. IL a. m.
from Buckley-Kings chapel; Rev,
William T. Turner officiating: in
terment New Tacoma cemetery.
Elmer Smith, sr.-Saturday, 3
p. m. from the Roy Community
church: interment Roy cemetery
under direction of Piper's. Smith,
who was rushed to Tacoma hos
pital "Wednesday following a brain
hemmorhage resulting from over
exertion on hunting trip. was a
native of Roy, having been born
and raised there. He leaves his
wife. Lucy: two daughters. Lillian
and Geraldine; one son. Elmer jr.,
all of the home: seven sisters. Mrs.
Zella LEM, Mrs. Beatrice Reichel.
Mrs. Victory Lenz, all of Roy. Mrs
Irene Vowles of Bucoda, Wash,
Mrs. Eva 1nderbitzen and Mrs.
Katherine Richmond. both Of Span
away and Mrs. Angie Topping of
Tacoma: four brothers, Waldo,
James and Jack Of Roy and Fred
of Eiectron.
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HOMECOMING
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-10-13

IN xe@~ 80 1Ess<AEsp
The state liquor board In olym-
pla has denied 1870 beer license
10 Reeds tavern. Elbe. for alleg-
ediy making Sunday sales In the
past.
cholc. cactus. H.nz. FLORIST
adv.
Fan bulbs you can afford The
Garden shop. Rhodes Bros.--adv.
APPLY Fon CHARTER
Small business men OF Tacoma
Thursday asked the National Small
Business Mems association. IN sec
ond annual session In Detroit, for
charter al unit No. Of the asso-
citation in this state. The local
group was organized Wednesday
night. and II Is expected other
units In the state will be organized
soon.
nk' @@' N1f~Aa efaRhSA
Store. ladv.)
TWO NEW ADDITIONS
The West Coast Lumbermen's
association has made two add
tons TO its trade promotions staff.
Chester J. Hogue will head the
division Of timber engineering.
handling technical publications,
and II. T. Titus. manager of the
Intercoastsl Lumber Distributors
association at New York, will take
charge of trade promotion there.
Order your suit before prices go
up. o. II. Sluth, 9i6 Com. adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-14
War Will Benefit
States Business

SACRAMENTO, Sept. ID. CUP)-
California business men will ben
eft more than California's farm
ers from a war boom caused by a
sustained European struggle, state
and federal officers predicted to-
day.
Farmers may little better than
break even with higher dried fruit
prices balancing off a possible drop
in fresh fruit orders, market spe-
cialists believe. England already is
placing restrictive import quotas
on most fresh fruits in order to
conserve transport space for more
important commodities, it was re-
ported.
Citrus products are included in
the fresh fruits that may be af-
fected adversely by war conditions,
it was pointed out.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-14
Polish
Defense
otterS
Germans Claim Big
Victories Over
Defending Troops

BERLIN, Sept. IA. (UP)
The Nazi high command
said today that French fore
es advancing in the Saar sec
tor had been repulsed on the
western front and that strong Ger
man columns were smashing south
Poland in the Lwow district.
The encirclement of Warsaw Is
complete the high command re-
ported, and Polish resistance in
the Radon sector has been crushed.
The Polish port of Gdynia, on
the Baltic. surrendered and Ger
man troops entered the city, the
announcement said, but fighting
continued nearby.
"On the western front, stronger
French forces than hitherto ad-
vanced against our advance posts
in German territory lying far west
of the Siegfried line, between Saar-
bruecken and Hornback," the high
command announcement said.
'They fell under field mines and
German fire.
In regard to the Polish front,
the high command said that "oper-
ations in south Poland are now
encountering only slight resistance
and are progressing rapidly east
ward toward the Rumanian and
Soviet frontiers in a drive to cut
off the Poles from Rumania.
Strong forces reached the road
Continued on Page 2, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-14
Cern1dn
PincerS
Closing
Warsaw Appeals
For More Aid from
Allied Nations
By JOE ALEX MORRIS

Cscu AAeSS rOACi6h NC"S EuAsoi
German troops hammered
their way swiftly across Po-
land toward the Rumanian
and Soviet frontiers Thursday as
the first hint came from Moscow
that the Russians might approve
creation of a Ukraine state.
Seeking to free Nazi forces for
fighting on the Rhineland front.
the Germans said their war ma
chine picked up speed after a SER
les of Polish counter attacks. en-
circled Warsaw, took the port Of
Gdynia, thrust southwark against
Lwow and eastward almost to
Brest-Litvosk.
Dispatches from Paris, Bucharest
and Berlin agreed that the Polish
defenses were being smashed in
both north and south-although
Warsaw still held out-and that
the Poles were falling back into the
Pripet marshes in southeastern Po-
land.
Poland urged more effective
British assistance in note deliver
ed to the foreign office at London
by Ambassador Count Edward Rae
zynski. =...
On the western front, the Ger
man high command reported that
stronger" French forces seeking
to advance in the Saar sector had
been hurled back under German
fire, but Paris dispatches said that
the French continued their meth
odical advances and held their
ground under heavy Nazi artillery
barrages.
In the House of Commons in Lon
don, Prime Minister Neville Cham
berlain said that Great Britain
never would resort to deliberate
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-14
E| Centrans Hurt
As Loaded Movie
Bus Crashes Truck
Vehicles Burst Into
Flames After Collision
On Puente Highway

Twenty-six persons, in
Guiding two Ell Centrans,
were injured Thursday near
Puente when a bus loaded
with movie extras crashed
into stalled truck.
Both vehicles burst into flames,
the United Press reported, and Sid
ney Curtis, 5O-year-old Negro truck
driver of Ell Centro, was trapped
with his wife, Mrs. Ophelia Curtis,
48, in the truck cab. Actors drag
ged them from the blazing mach
inc.
N Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis were seated
in the truck, stalled by motor trou-
BILE, when the studio bus rounded
curve and crashed into the rear
of the Curtis machine. Six persons
all movie folk, were injured SER
iously.
Curtis lives at 608 South Second
street and operates regular truck
service between the valley and the
coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-14
Millionaire Dish
Washer on Liner
Home from Europe

JERSEY CITY, N. j., Sept. IA
(UP)-The liner President Monroe,
hastily converted into a passenger
vessel to return Americans from
the war zone, docked today with
a crew that included a millionaire
waiter and college president dish
washer
The liner has not been in the
regular passenger service for some
years and the state department
orders which reached it at Genoa
necessitated many changes in ship
routine. Among the rules was that
a}l men taken aboard would have to
work in some capacity.
Walter Weingehimer, millionaire
head of the Calamba Sugar COM
pany in the Philippines, was as
signed to wait on tables. He said
he enjoyed the work but broke a
lot of dishes.
DR.. Rolfe Crum, president of Neff
College in Philadelphia, was a dish
washer.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-14
Fletcher Feels
Out Politicians

Indications that the politica,
wheels are beginning to move In
anticipation of the next congress
sional elections were noted in Ell
Centro Thursday when Ed Fletcher
jr., son of Col. Ed Fletcher of San
Diego, present state senator and
potential candidate for the house
of representatives, paid the valley
brief visit.
Fletcher said his father expected
to visit the valley in week or
ten days and indicated he was
feeling out public sentiment to-
ward a possible race against Rep.
Ed Izac, incumbent of this district,
at the election next year.
A reliable political source said:
ut looks very much as though
the colonel will run for the house,
and will probably have a good
chance of success"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-14

at speeds varying from rs to 80
miles an hour. Only a scarcity OF
traffic during the mad ride which
lasted from 2:38 am. until 1858 am
prevented him from committing
wholesale murder, officers said.
He crashed through hastily es-
tablished road barricades and went
still faster at every order shouted
by officers at Westmorland, Trif-
olium, and Oasis.
The big stage sideswiped truck
at Trifolium and sped unheeding
into the darkness with mangled
windwings smashing through win
dows into the stage interior.
Two officers rained bullets on the
speeding vehicle as it swerved from
side to side in tearing through
Oasis. Harold Simpson, Indio po-
lice officer, and w. D. Patton
Coachella highway patrolman, fol-
lowed with police car, sirens
screaming. They emptied their guns
at the stage.
Williams ignored bullets which
hinged past his head and shoulders
and smashed windows all aroune
him.
The twelfth shot fired by tht
officers nicked Williams in ths
arm. He stopped the stage anc
submitted dazely to arrest, the of.
ficers said.
Officers said he appeared drug
ged as we'll as drunk. A physician
agreed and said the drug might
have been barbital.
Williams was still too dazed tt
answer intelligently upon arrival al
the Imperial county jail in Ell Cen.
tro Thursday morning in custody
of Deputy Sheriffs Park Burrit'
and Don Campbell.
He said he remembered drinking
in Brawley Wednesday night ane
insisted he then had $14. He tool
the stage which had been parked
in downtown Brawley between runs
The stage when new cost 10000.
Williams was unable Immediately
to give a clear account of his re.
cent activities except to say he wa.
working for a Thompson trucking
company of Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-14
Captain Who Saw Ship Torpedoed
Tells of German Officers Kindness

NEW YORK, Sept. IA. CUP)-
A captain who sat in a lifeboat
and watched his ship torpedoed
said today that a German subma-
rine commander called him aboard
the U-boat and courteously gave
him four loaves of bread.
He was Capt. Thomas Georgeson
of the British freighter Winkleigh
whose boat was sunk on Sept. 8
and who reached port today on
the Holland liner Staten
dam with SO members of his crew.
The submarine commander, &C
cording to Georgeson, was worried
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-14
License Restored
But Hens in Jail

While A. r. Hens entered upon
the second week of his imprison-
ment in the Mexicali Jail on a
charge Of violating immigration
laws the California board of en-
balmers and undertakers restored
his license revoked this spring.
The undertaken halted the boards
action by mandate proceedings,
presented more evidence, and was
exonerated of a charge of unpro-
fessional conduct toward the FAM
lily of dead Mexican. The board
restored his license, Hens attor-
ney said, at meeting in Long
Beach Tuesday.
His release from Jail awaits in
structions from labor department
officials in Mexico City.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-14

over whether the crew of the Wink
leigh would have enough food to
hold out for long journey in life
boats. Georgeson told the German
that the boats were we'll stocked
with food, but the U-boat COM
mander insisted that they take
four loaves of bread and some
cigarets.
The Winkleigh was the second
ship that Georgeson has lost to
submarine. He said that in 1917
he was master of the freighter
Meldon which was torpedoed off
the west coast of Scotland.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-14

Hlg CHt possible groundwork IUr
approval of establishment of sep
arate Ukrainian and White Russian
republics which later. or even pos
sibly Immediately, depending upon
the will of their populations, could
be incorporated into the USSR. as
autonomous republics.
Pravda editorially raised the mi
nority question in Poland and crit
icized Polish exploitation of the
Ukrainian and White Russian pop
ulations which, it declared, is the
reason for Poland's mil
itary defeat.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-14

gress to convene Sept. 81. An emer-
gency atmosphere and booming
business appeared to improve pros
poets for an administration victory
in its demand for repeal of the
arms embargo feature of the neu-
trality law.
White House Secretary Stephen
T. Early said, in answer to a ques-
ton, that European developments
were a factor in the presidents de-
cision.
European developments were a
factor considered Early said, par
ticularly submarine operations and
the sinking of the Athena"
More than 300 Americans were
aboard the British owned Athena
when she went down.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-14

Poland Is a multi national
state" Pravda said. THE Poles con-
stitute only about go per cent OF
the population of Poland while the
remaining 40 per cent is made up
of national minorities. chiefly Uk-
rainians. Byelo twhite) Russians
and Jews. Suffice 1t TO say that Po-
land is inhabited by no less than
100000 Ukrainians and about D.
100000 Byelo Russians. These two
largest national minorities account
for nearly 100000 inhabitants.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-14

Whether they will be permitted to
view the bodies will depend upon
their condition.
After the bodies have been re-
moved, the Squalus will be dry
docked. Then, before repairs begin,
a naval board of inquiry determin-
ing the reasons why she met dis
aster in a practice dive May %,
will inspect her. She cost $4,3OO,000
and 1t has been estimated that 1t
will cost 100000 to make her
seaworthy again.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-14


mans. We're shelling road inter-
sections behind the French advanc-
ed lines so heavily that there was
unofficial speculation whether they
were preparing for counter-of-
fensive or merely seeking to pre-
vent further French advances.
A communique of the high COM
mand, 21st of the war, said at Ills
am. C4:15 am. CST:
There is heavy action by the
enemy's artillery on the heights
south of Saarbruecken"
This communique was interpret
ed to mean that the Germans had
brought up big guns because French
operations were threatening I'M
portant German positions.
1t was reported unofficially that
the French had captured many
mines in the famous Saar valley
coal district. Numerous other mines
nominally still under German con-
troi, had been rendered unwork-
able because French big guns con-
stantly shelled principal roads. The
French guns were not bombarding
Saarbruecken, but were concentrat-
ing their fire on three sides of 1t.
Unofficial reports said that at
the northwestern extremity of their
front the French pressure had be-
Continued on Page 2, Col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-14
Fort
system Menuced
By Allied Troops
Heavy Artillery Action May Mean Drive
BY Nazis to Protect vulnerable Spot
In iesfried Line, Observers Say ~es
BULLETIN

BRUSSELS, Sept Ii. (UP)-Messages to Brussels
tonight said French troops Nth tanks had crossed the
Moselle riUer Luxembourg and attacked the
German side Machine fire and artillery heard
clearly in Schengen, the Luxembourg side of the
border, indicating a severe battle.
PARIS, Sept. a. (UP)-Germany put it's heavy artil-
lery in action the western front today in effort to
stop the steady mehodca advance of the French toward
its Westwall Notifications.
German fire had reached it's greatest intensity
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night towed up the Piscataqua riv-
er to the Portsmouth navy yard.
A vast crowd jammed the water
front as the ship was towed off
Rye beach, and parked automobiles
blocked all highways. Naval guards
kept the crowd out of the navy
yard, and heavy guard was
mounted in the vicinity of the
Squalus dock, where equipment was
being brought up to open the after
hatch and remove the bodies.
Families of the dead men were
being cared for by naval men.