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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-28

iids tiO pOWtI III ILLS llelu.
So far the somewhat sensa-
uonal increase in the prices of
staple commodities colt on,
wheat, corn and hogs-has been
Of speculative nature. AS this
column revealed several weeks
ago, the Allies may soon tap our
commodity markets for war sup
plies. Despite the attempts of
foreign purchasing agents to
buy their stuff secretly and quiet
ly, word has gotten around that
they may have to stock up on
food. clothing and building ma
terials. The cost of those ma
terials will increase for domestic
customers because of foreign
competition.
The result may be that in the
spring at the latest the United
States may find itself in the
midst of price initiation. Politi-
cally and economically, such
situation would be dangerous.
The administration would like to
prevent it, and to keep domestic
prices down. That explains why
the economists and the lawyers
have been given the assignment
of writing emergency legislation
for federal control of the domes-
tic price levels.
Mayor Fiorello Henry La
Guardia of New York figures in
all the extreme New Dealers po-
litical calculations for 1910 and
thereafter. II they cannot get
him on the Democratic ticket as
vice presidential candidate,
they hope TO sneak him into the
next cabinet, provided it is Demo-
cratic. FDR and the mayor have
discussed the latter's future with
utter frankness.
Nomination of LaGuardia even
for second place on any Demo-
cratic slate appears to be an inn
possibility now unless you know
what is happening-and will hap
pen-behind the scenes. Suppose.
for instance. that the Democratic
convention decides to nominate
a Garner. a Hull. Farley or a
Wheeler-the four men who now
have the inside track. II the
party strategists are smart-and
they are - they viii phone the
man in the White House to as
certain whether he will actively
support any Of those prospects.
II is quite conceivable that Mr..
Roosevelt will reply: why GER
tainly, provided you name La
Guardia for vice president" In
such an event II is quite possible
that the Democrats. although the
orthodox old = timers hate the
mayor, viii comply.
The Ickes-Murphy proposal 10
summon nationwide conference
of ibersls-first disclosed in this
column - also fits in with the
plan TO draft LaGuRrdia for
Democratic service. He would.
in fact, be a leading figure AZ
the proposed powwow under the
present plans. The bsckstage
idea is 10 give Mr.. LaGuardia
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umn letters must give name and
address OF writer. Only initials
VIII be published when requested
Mr.. Fixit: Could you give me
some facts concerning the pock-
ct baffIeships Deutschland and
Admiral seheers Why are they
called pocket battleships ?"
What Is their tonnage? Were
they built in accordance with the
treaty of Versailles. X. r. n.
They were termed pocket"
battleships because they carry
guns almost as heavy as battle
ships but are only about a third
the size of regular ones. All are
of 10000 tons. They were built
under the Anglo-German pact
which supplanted the treaty OF
Versailles on naval tonnage. II
provided that except for subma-
rines German naval vessels in
any classification could not ex-
coed IS per cent of the British
tonnage. BY cutting the tonnage
but arming the ships heavily.
Germany sought TO circumvent
the pact.
Mr.. Fixit: 1 would like 70
know how photographs glued TO
the folders may be removed so
as 10 place them In books.
MRS. A. Is. s.
Unless unusual glue was used,
you should be able to loosen the
picture by holding the back side
against a steam jet from the tea
kettle. Or, If you are skillful,
you might slice the picture free
from the folder with a razor
blade and avoid the risk Of
curling the print with steam.
Mr.. Fixit: I was told rice was
polished with paraffine. Is this
correct?
After rice has been hulled and
the chaff blown away. 1t is pol
ished by running it between two
vertical cylinders. The inner
one, covered with leather strips,
revolves rapidly, polishing the
rice grains as they fall down
along the fixed outer cylinder
Of iron screen. Air cools the
rice and blows out the dust
from polishing.
Mr.. Fixit: Could you tell me
who could arrest the president
Of the United States?
READER.
The constitution doesn't speci-
fically prohibit arrest OF the
president but apparently implies
that immunity by giving him
power to pardon all offenders
against the u. S. government
except in case of impeachment.
Frederick J. Haskins in his THE
American Government Today"
makes the statement that the
president cant be arrested or
restrained by any official" but
adds that in spite of that Presi-
dent Grant was arrested for
driving too fast by Washing
ton policeman who didn't recog-
nize him.
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SCIENCE NEWS

Cross-eyes in their most diff
cult form. alternating squirt"
can be corrected by exercise, re-
ports DR.. Frederick Brock OF
Staten island. As both eyes are
turned toward a special chart
Of red and green figures. a red
glass is put in front Of the one
and green glass in front OF
the other. The result is to cause
the eyes TO look together, in
stead Of one al 4 time.
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wHIsTLER's GULLs

James Abbott Mcneil Whis-
tier. great American artist
whose etchings command prices
ranging in thousands OF dollars,
in 1855 was discharged as a
craftsman for the u. s. coast
and geodetic survey because he
could not refrain from decor
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Jew and Semitic Find q
Common Bond
An Experiment Of the
Vatican
Calvin Coolidge Had
His Moments

SoiNin Sooho9e Eioo
His Moments
CTRANGE things are happen
~ ing In this old world.
At a Christmas service in one
of the evangelical churches in
Tacoma the pastor read mes
sage of good will from a Jewish
organization. The message was
authorized at a meeting of the
Jewish congregation and was
signed by the presiding officer.
There Is scarcely an issue
on which the Jew and the
Christian would be farther
apart doctrinally than that
relating to the observance
of Christmas. IL was n case
Of pushing creed and tradi-
ton into the background to
permit a kind, friendly
gesture.
Time was. and not so many
years ago. when the Jew and
the gentle did not exchange
frien dly greetings, especially
when the fundamentals Of the
religions were concerned even
remotely. The very happy situa-
ton is very much to be desired,
no matter how it was brought
about.
And here is something else to
interest thoughtful persons:
Some years ago when Pope
Plus XII was officially in the
United States in his then Ca
pacity as papal secretary of
state, he was a guest in the
home of Myron c. Taylor, in
dustrial leader and churchman.
Several times during his stay in
the Taylor home he discussed
the uncertainty of world affairs.
Among other things he predicted
that the time would come when
the forces of religion would be
compelled to unite against pa
ganism to preserve civilization.
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ating official charts with such
embellishments as sea gulls and
mermaids. The notation oppo-
site his name reads: Separated
from service"
CANADIAN PREPARATIONS
Strange as it seems, Canada
repaid st. Adams, VT, for gold
looted from its banks by Con-
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CANADIAN PREPARATIONS
- ~ eial and Political America

WASHINGTON-Federal reserve officials here and in
New York deeply disturbed the rising price trend
They have communicated their fears to the White House,
end unofficial will be exered to keep housewives
and their husbands happy The has discovered
after thorough scrutiny of existing legislation that it
hasn onounr in hiSf iald
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Reg. u. D. Pat of.

federate troopsi Most norther-
ly act of the Civil war, the st.
Adams skirmish cost one life
and 5000, 900. The Confederates
fled into Canada and there were
acquitted. But international
complications arose and Canada
appropriated $4,000 in gold to
help defray the financial loss.
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IN NEW YORK BY GEORGE ROSS

NEW YORK-Dick Taggart
is one of the few men who are
alive today by courtesy of an
act of congress. He is a door
man at the Pegasus Polo club,
at Rock Lane, N. j., where COM
ments on his military bearing
meet the modest rejoinder,
well, used to be in the
army" This is probably the
basement of understatement.
Taggart went to France dur
ing the last war with the Sixth
Regiment, assigned to the Ma
rine Corps. He was stationed
in the aviation department,
where his bravery and bearing
won him the Croix de Guerre,
the Congressional Medal of Hon.
or, the Victoria Cross, the Cana
dian Leaf, division medals and
an award from Albert, King of
the Belgians.
On the morning of Aug. 20,
1918, he took his plane out on
a morning reconnaissance flight
over the German lines and was
shot down in German territory.
Miraculous surgery saved him
from death.
When the war ended, the Ger
mans sent him from country to
country, but no one could iden-
tify him in France, England
and Canada. Finally he was
sent to the United States, where
war department researchers dug
up his war record. But in the
meantime, he had been declared
dead and it took an act of con-
gress in 1888 to return him
among the living!
An ironic twist to the situa-
tion concerned the 500 a month
death insurance his wife and
family had been receiving dur
ing the years he was believed
dead. When congress legally
breathed life back into him, the
compensation was reduced to $50
a month. No one seemed to
want a battered war veteran as
an employee, and Taggart wan
dered around for years before
he obtained work.
I'm back in uniform" he
said, even If it's only a door
mans"
SECRETARIAL
SALADS
Thomas E. Dewey has hurled
his hat into the presidential ring
and so the spotlight Of publicity
will be turned on the most in
consequential aspects Of his life.
For instance:
New York's two-fisted district
attorney and Republican near
nominee for president hasn't
left his office for luncheon in a
long, long time. For that repast
consists merely of a decorative
fruit salad and he does not trust
the nearby restaurants to whip
one up.
So this is an assignment that
has been thrust upon his secre-
tary. Along with her executive
ability goes a housewifely attri-
butte. She prepares the salad
every day and should her en-
ployer land in the White House,
she probably Will be the first
presidential secretary who mixed
shorthand with recipes
CAPTAIN BLIGH
SPINS A YARN
Hobbies OF the Great: Mary
Martin. the Ny Heart Belongs
10 Daddy" girl. was approached
to pose for a crocheting picture
recently. She agreed TO the pic
ture, the csmeramen set up their
equipment and all was in resdi-
ness when . voice IN the studio
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He fixe. Things

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For will take You from among the heather and gather
you out Of all countries, and win bring you into your
land.-Ezekiel 1924
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-28
CAPTAIN BLIGH
Spins A YARN

Hobbies OF the Great: Mary
Martin. the My Heart Belongs
TO Daddy" girl. was approached
to pose for a erocheting picture
recently. She agreed to the pic
ture, the csmeramen set up their
equipment and all was in readi-
ness when . voice in the studio
Evening star., 1939-03-05

When finally he raised his head he
saw the summit a few feet away, up
a gentle slope Then he rolled over on
his back, grinned up at her. But
Comics clear blue eyes were serious.
You'll never know how scared was
- before the fall, | mean. 1t looked
as if my little scheme was washout.
I'd given you up, my dear!'
"Yes, and then you fell. Something
happened to me - / don't know what.
That shock i simply forgot to be
afraid for myself in my fear for your
safety. And it's still different. Some
time let's do this needle again. ! think
i by gad. might almost enjoy 1t.
But Great Scott! Do you realize that
if YOU hadn't fallen -"
''Oh, don't you see" - happily -
there's some force. some power, so
much bigger than we. You - you
we're never meant to harbor sick fears.
Jack. And l know you never will
again. Well always think of that fall
as pure accident. Was it? | wonder -.
l wonder
Evening star., 1939-03-05
HEIGHTS
Continued from pogs nine

know all this? You've never reached
the top"
'Oh, the guides told us two years
ago. Pete and asked, naturally"
A few more moments of agony -
then quick relief. Jack clutched at the
promise.
ego on, then
He braced himself afresh, trying
desperately to make his mind blank.
He failed miserably - the nausea
gripped him like cramp.
Connie was leaving the friendly
ledge now. was working her way up
past him. He could not look. He felt
her hand on his shoulder, then she was
standing on his shoulders without any
handholds worth the name. fingers
merely pressed up against the over
hang - the most dangerous position
in this most dangerous of sports.
He closed his eyes. Hobnails bit
into his flesh. but he was too far gone
in terror to feel them. What was she
doing - how much longer?
Abruptly her weight shifted. A
sharp cry: Jack!
Her falling body brushed his back.
desperate fingers dragged at his
sweater - were gone. The rope at his
waist jerked with bullets impact.
She was swinging pendulum-like; her
weight was tearing him loose. 1t
mustn't! He had to save her - some
how. For the first time on any climb
he ceased to be conscious Of himself.
Connie! Can you hear me?
A faint gasp: "Winded - is all.
Rope caught round =. arms.
He heard her bump heavily against
the rock. Her boots rasped. scrabbled
as they fought for hold. The swing
ing ceased, the strain eased "a bit.
For perhaps five secondsnothing hap
pened. Then
my arms are useless. Jack. I'm all
bound up in this rope"
Evening star., 1939-03-05

This has been our previous stick
ing point - right here" she said.
"You mean. you've been here be-
fore?"
She had purposely told him nothing.
"Oh, yes. Twice First with Pete,
then Archie"
He assumed that meant they would
now begin the descent. Going down
would be a clammy horror. yet at
least every foot covered would bring
them nearer the ground.
Neither Pete nor Archie had quite
enough strength for shoulder stand
Jack heard her saying, but you have.
"Shoulder stond2" His blood turned
to water, "Oh, God. Connie. you -
you can't mean you want to try that
now - you can't" Gasping he dug
trembling fingers into the rock. Cold
sweat rolled from him.
She reasoned with him quietly. "The
-overhang is nothing to speak OF.
Standing on your shoulders III be
able to get a hand over the top of it.
All you have to do is hang on here"
His face was gray under the tan. Il
can't" he mumbled. II won't"
The thought of that dizzy maneuver
threw him into a blind panic: he had
another all but overwhelming impulse
to let 20, to have done Nothing in life
was worth - this.
Connie waited until the worst OF
the paroxysm passed. Aren't you
strong enough to hold me?'
1T - it isn't that. But the very
idea of it II ugh -
Her disappointment was enormous.
She had gone into this with such hlgn
hopes, had deliberately subjected him
to torture, suffering with him every
inch of the way, only to reach the
reluctant conclusion that he was in
durable. In his present state, she had
doubts as to whether they could re-
trace their steps. His eyes we're wild.
Listen to mev' She had one argu-
ment lett. "If we 60 down now. at
least an hour and half more of agony
faces you. If we climb past the over
hang, the SUBMITS just beyond. The
other side - our way down - is very
easy, with shale glissade to speed the
last few hundred feet
He was suspicious. "How do you
Evening star., 1939-03-05
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE

He locked down - something he
had previously been unable to force
himself to do - suddenly realized he
felt no fear for himself.
He was taking most of the strain
on his feet. He called to her. IF you
can find footholds, l believe | can
draw you back up here. I'm all right
- solid as rock"
And then his great strength stood
him in good stead. He released his
right handhold and with a certain
amount of help from Connie. dragged
her up to him foot at time, holding
the rope gained between clenched
teeth just long enough to enable his
hand to seek fresh grip.
That was magnificent" she
gasped, when at last she regalned
the ledge. Between them, very care
fully they managed to untangle the
rope from her arms.
Her eyes were shining.
"What do you Dragon Guards do
when horse throws you. Jack?"
Mount again"
"Well?"
Good Lord! You mean you've the
eternal CUTS to take another crack at
that overhang?",
"Only way to get my nerve back.
well, I'll be -"
Its been done from shoulder
stand dozens of times. 1t seemed so
easy l was careless and my hand
slipped. 1t won't - next time"
Lost in admiration Jack said: mo
wonder you Americans won the
Revolutionr"
She eyed him narrowly, but made
no reply. After a moments more rest
she climbed past him as before. This
time when the sharp boot studs
pressed down on his shoulders he was
conscious of the pain. 1t did not last
long. There was a great scuff1ing, a
final push against his left shoulder
and her shadow disappeared.
ITS ten-acre lot up here she
cried cheerfully. "Just walk right up
that old debbil overhang on your rope.
I've got you"
He recalled previous occasions when
he had been compelled to walk" up
rock face in this manner. He had
died thousand deaths each time he
had leaned back against the rope and
swung outward at right angle. so
that his feet might be fat against the
mountain. But now? The sensation
was infinitely disagreeable, yet he felt
an odd, new exhilaration, too.
He moved short step at time -
step, pause. step - evenly. to enable
the invisible Connie to maintain a
taut rope. All at once she pulled him
over the last of it - kissed him swiftly
behind an ear as he sprawled beside
her.
Evening star., 1939-03-05
Vocabulary Answers
(Fron, page six)

(Fron page six)
l iconoclast (b) 6 misogynist (c)
2 somnambulist (c) 7podiatrist (a)
3 polypamist (c) 8 botanophile (c)
d numismatist co. 9 gourmet (c)
5 hypochondriac (a) 10 pyrophobe (a)
Evening star., 1939-03-05
WHAT Do You MEAN, MODERN ?
bV Bextoll BEaleY

by Bexfon BxaleY
Whatever it is, it has happened before,
A statement that's trite, but exceedingly true
The tablets of old hieroglyphical lore
Are stories of people behaving like you;
They got in the self-same predicaments too,
Thus causing the neighbors gossip and gable
They relished tdb of scandal to chew
When Nebuchadnezzar was ruling in Babylon.
They greeted their heroes doubt, with roar
And later forgot 'em, gave 'em 'boo,'
They didn't play golf, but they certainly swore
Whenever the game that they played went askew,
And when with whoop and hulabaloo,
The slick politicians leading the rabble on.
Thew fell for the same sort of hooey you do,
- When Nebuchadnezzar ruling in Babylon.
They chose the same dumb, pretty clucks to adore
And let wiser women stay lonely and blue,
They let their bills run the grocery store,
And bet on the gee-gees and lost every sou.
The bluffs that we throw the bluffs that they threw
Thew scrambled and scrabbed scramble and scrabble
According to customs that Aourished and grew
When Nebuchadnezzar ruling in Babylon.
Professor those ancient inscriptions you view
Those cuneiform tablets you dig up and dabbe
Reveal our ''modernity' scarcely new,
When Nebuchadnezzar ruling in Babylon!
Evening star., 1939-12-05
High Court Denies Review
In Cooper Bond Suit

The Supreme Court yesterday re-
fused to review . case involving a
suit to force an accounting on the
sale and distribution Of securities
held by the Government as collat-
eral for deposits in the Commercial
National Bank, which failed to re-
open after the bank holiday in 1888.
The suit was brought by Col. Wade
H. Cooper, former president Of the
bank, against J. F. T. O'Connor,
former controller, and other officials
of the Treasury Department. The
plaintiff lost in District Court.
Col. Cooper contended that after
the bank closed Government agen-
cies with deposits there sold the
collateral and thereby obtained full
repayment on their deposits. This
action gave them the status Of pre-
ferred claimants, he argued, assert
ing also that the collateral had been
sold at a loss Of 100000.
A suit seeking to recover the diff.
ference between the 100 per cent
recovered by Government depositors
and the 10 per cent recovered by
private depositors is pending in the
Supreme Court, having been brought
by the receiver of the Commercial
National Bank.
Evening star., 1939-12-05
Jefferson Junior High School
Corner Stone Is Laid
1,500 Attend Ceremony in Southwest;
Hozen Reviews Sections History

The corner stone of the Thomas
Jefferson Memorial Junior High
School and Library was laid yester-
day.
while the black clouds of dicta-
torship hang over Europe, we lay
the corner stone Of an institution
dedicated to democracy" said Mrs.
Henry Grattan Doyle, president of
the Board of Education.
ION teachings in institutions such
as this" she said, I'VE pin our faith
that democracy shall live forever.
A school building such as this is
our guarantee that government Of
the people, by the people, for the
people shall not perish"
Mrs. George c. Thorpe, chairman
of the Women's Safety Committee
Of the American Automobile Asso-
citation. which was largely instru-
mental in obtaining the appropria-
ton for the school, placed the NOR
tar under the cornerstone with a
trowel handed her by Col. David
McCoach, jr, Engineer Commits
sioner.
The $4,000 Colonial-type struc-
ture is being erected at Eighth and
H streets S.W. Fifteen hundred per-
sons, including 800 children now
attending Jefferson Junior High
School. which will be abandoned
when the new building is occupied
next fall, witnessed the ceremony.
The east end of the building will
house branch library.
Commissioner Hazen, a resident of
the Southwest section when a boy
and a student at the old Jefferson
School, reviewed the early history of
Evening star., 1939-12-05

the section and expressed his graft
fication at erection of the new build
ing. He said:
The Women's Safety Committee
q powerful group including q num-
ber of congressional wives, took up
the fight for the school because of
the hazards to the children caused
by the nearby railroad and the
traffic from a nearby Treasury pro-
curement warehouse.
Harry S. Wender, president Of the
Southwest Citizens Association, pre-
sided at the ceremonies and de-
clared that the new building is the
elimination of a life dream for
those who worked for its erection u
He paid special tribute to predeces-
.sors in his Office, Jacob M. Schafier
and ]. Millard Hall, who as head
Of the citizens group, we're instru-
mental in bringing to completion
plans for the structure.
Welcomed by Principal.
The crowd was welcomed by Hugh
Stewart Smith, principal Of the
Jefferson School, who will continue
to serve in the new building and
the invocation was pronunced by
the Rev. Harry v. Porter. president
Of the Southwest Children's Council
The Metropolitan Police Boys
Club Band furnished music.
The committee in charge of ar
rangements was composed of Mr.
Wender, Lawson j. Cantrell, Wash
ington I. Cleveland and Mr.. Smith
The foundation of the building
has been completed and workmen
are now erecting the superstructure
1t will be two stories high on the
Evening star., 1939-12-05
Skunk
Continued From First Page.)

approached from the leeward side.
Seven times he swung at the wrig-
Cling animal, shifting about as the
wind shifted and at last he landed
solid blow.
The police smiled happily and
started to leave. Mr.. Kirby was
looking for a good place to hide
his truncheon when an alarming
thing happened. The skunk rose up
again.
This time Capt. Kelly said there
was to be no mincing matters.
He can't intimidate u.s." he de-
clared.
Evening star., 1939-12-05

east and west ends and three In the
center. Nathan G. Wyeth, munich
pal architect, is directing the con-
struction, being done by Je6ress-
Dyer, Inc.