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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-07

Contest For Place in
State Convention
Hairy cowIes and Willie
Haeemeyer After Job
Kansas a Horrible Example
OF Prohibitions Effect
Frank c. Ross Offers Lots
For Hotel Site
IN the reports that reached Ia
coma concerning the organ
ization Of the convention that
was TO make the constitution for
the new state of Washington
was a story of the sharp contest
for convention messenger. One
of the candidates was 14-year-
old Harry Cowles." He is
now an executive of the Hunt 4
Mottet Hardware company. The
other was Willie Hsgemeyer.'
aged IL. He is now in the Unit
ed States customs service. sta
toned at the Port Of Tacoma.
According to the story in the
Tacoma and Olympia papers.
Harry had the inside track. That,
however. did not keep Willie
from going after the job. One
of the reporters wrote this:
Another candidate, a di-
minutive one, has bobbed up
for the messengership. II Is
Willie Hagemeyer of, Olym-
pia. He Is very young but has
great practical head on his
young shoulders. He has but
tonholed nearly every delegate
here and has received pledges
from sufficient number,
peyhaps, TO elect him."
1t probably was a seasoned
reported who wrote that para
graph and used the word per
haps" to protect himself in case
Of a landslide for Candidate
Cowles. And it was even so.
Promises of some of the poll
ticians in the convention were
no more to be depended upon
than are the promises of the
politicians in this golden jubilee
year.
When the vote was taken
Harry received %. OF those
who had promised to vote for
Willie, II kept their word.
One of the IL was Ralph
Oregon Dunbar, of GoldendaIe,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-07
KEEPING UP TO DATE

Explorers have REPORTED mat
eggs as big as dinner plates are
laid by the blsck-browed alba
tross Of the Falkland Islands.
near the southern tip Of South
America.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-07

and receives his guests in an
aforementioned home that fea-
lures a marble bath, refrigerat-
or, radio, telephone and other
modern appointments.
SEE YOUR RETINA
To see the retinal blood ves-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-07
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TOMB DWELLER

TONB DWFILFN
Forever and ever Zaki Okasha
will rest in a beautiful $780, 900
tomb in the famed City of the
Dead, Cairo, Egypt. So he has
decided to spend the rest of his
life there to get acquainted"
Therein he reads the Koran
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-07

The very idea Of government republican in form, i'm
plies right the part of its citizens meet peaceaby for
consultation in respect to public affairs and to petition for
redress of Court Justices Roberts
and Black in the Hague case
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-07
TODAY'S COMMON ERROR

Do not say, He has curious
way of talking; say, odd" or
singular"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-07
Mr.. FIxIT
He Fixes Things

To receive attention In this eoi-
enn letters must give name and
address Of writer Only initials
will be published when requested
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-07

sells of your own eyes with ease,
60 into a dark room and move
a candle up and down or back
and forth. approximately on a
level with your eyes, meanwhile
gazing at a plain wall. An image
of the vessels will appear pro-
jected on the wall.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-06
SLAIN NEW HAVEN
 BANDIT UNKNOWN

New Haven, Conn.,, March G. (UP)-The body of bandit slain during an attempted holdup of a gambling establishment Sunday re- mained unidentified today while po- lice sought two companions and questioned 27 frequenters of the place, one of whom was wounded during an exchange of shots. The holdup men forced their way intu the gaming house by threatening a doorkeeper and when they ordered the patrons to throw up their hands one of them shot the leader. AS he fell mortally wounded, he fired four shots into the crowd, one of which struck Martin Eierweis, 42, in the thigh. His two companions turned and fled.
 Eierweis was taken to a hospital in a serious condition. Other pa- irons were arrested and held in serious condition. Other patrons were arrested and held in 5000 bond each on gaming and frequent ing charges, and an additional charge of keeping a gaming eStab- lishment was lodged against Ga- brielle Cappricci.
 A revolver used by the slain holdupy man was examined for fin- gerprints in an endeavor to learn his identity. His companions, it was said, carried machine gun and a sawed-of shotgun.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-06
POLICEMAN WAS
 COLLEGE GRAD

Boston, March 6-(UP)-Patrol- man John Maher after investigat- ing a case, turned in this report:
 "A man yclept John Blank, of Blank street, Mattapan, complained that the tintinnabulary staccatos, the abysmal crescendos, and the dismal diapasons that emanated from the radio next door diurnally and nocturnally assail his hypersen- sitive tympanums and have goaded his normally submissive disposition to such a desperate degree that he feels impelled by the lash of neceS- sity to seek succor.
 "Upon being apprised of the gray ity of the situation, James Blank directly engaged to eschew all ob- noxious sections of his favorite pro- grams in the future so that John Blank might be unimpeded in the pursuit of his exotic cogitation in the further emanations from his curtilage."
 Patrolman Maher is a Boston col- lege graduate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-06
Prosperous Insurance
 Executive Kills Girl
Prominent Man of St. Joseph Mo-, Beat l3=Year=Old Child to Death-ln RemOrse He Took His
 Own Life Yesterday

St. Joseph, Mo, March 6-(UP)- William P. Purkhiser, 53, 8 prosper ous insurance executive, murdered 8 child by misctake" last week and yesterday, in self-imposed retribu- tion, killed himself, police said to- day.
 Purkhiser had intended murdering the child's mother, and perhaps, her step-father. He had broken into their home, thinking to find it un- occupied, intending to wait in ann bush. He found the child there, and she ridiculed him with high-school humor. He clubbed her to death and fled.
 The child was Hazelteen Black, 13. She was murdered in her parents home in Oklahoma City Thursday. Purkhiser shot himself through the head in rooming house here yes terday. His body was found last night.
 Two Notes Are Found
 Two notes were found in Purkhis- CTS room and police still were searching it for "a complete confess sion." They were aided by Captain Mickey Ryan, of the Oklahoma city police, who was seeking the fugitive in Topeka when news reached him of his suicide.
 coincidence and hatred which
 The notes revealed the threads of brought about the child's death and solved strange murder mystery. One note was addressed to Purkhis- CTS wife, the other, to the press. Po- lice made the second one public.
 It revealed that after Mrs. Doro- thy Scharber divorced her first hus- band, Hazelteen's father, Purkhiser had employed her as his secretary. A few years passed and Mrs. Scharber resigned to marry R. w. Scharber. She and her husband were planning to go into the lithographing business together, and Purkhiser advanced her $1 1,650 for the business. His note
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-06
Pope Benedict Picked
 Pacelli Back In 1917

form of a letter to Kaiser Wilhelm which he assigned Pacelli to deliver into the Ka,ser'S hands.
 Arriving in Germany, Pacelli got in touch with Count Hertling, chan cellor of Germany, and without re- vealing the contents of the Pope's letter, sounded the count out on what Germany would consider de- sirable peace terms.
 The most important task of Pa celli was to find out the German governments attitude regarding thu independence of Belgium and thu future status of Alsace-Lorraine.
 Hertling showed the greates friendliness towards the papal nun cio and gave his satisfactory ant exhaustive explanations of his ant the Kaiser,s views on Belgium, bu , manifested much more reticence re garding Alsace-Lorraine.
 On June 29, 1917, one week afte his arrival in Germany, Pacelli me the Kaiser near the Imperial head quarters at 10 a. m. in the richly decorated salon of the Royal Villa the Kaiser at first greeted the papa nuncio coldly but made no objec ti-ns to reading Pope Benedict's let ter, which Pacelli personally place. in his hands.
 Writing in La Stampa of Turil Continued on Page D
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-06
JOHN 6. SARGENT
 DIES SUDDENLY
Was U. s. Attorney Gen- eral Under Coolidge;
 Dies of Heart Attack

Ludlow, Vt., March 6-(UP)-Sim- pie home funeral services will be held Wednesday for John Garabaldi Sargent, 78, U. s. attorney-general under the late President Coolidge, Burial will be in Ludlow cemetery.
 Sargent, memer of Coolidge cab met from 1925 to 1929, died ot heart disease at his home yesterday. He had been in poor health for the past six years and had undergone two serious operations. Though trou- bled with diabetes, he had practiced law almost continuously since his retirement from public office.
 At his bedside at death were his daughter, Mrs. Gladys Pearson of Ludlow, and two granddaughters. His wife, the former Mary L. Gordon of Ludlow, whom he married Aug. 4 1887, died last Septemer.
 Born Near Coolidge
 Born near Ludlow on farm close by that of the Coolidge family in Plymouth, he was the son of John Hermon and Ann Eliza (Hanley) Sargent. When 10 years old, he en- tered district school and studied for six years.
 This was followed by studies at the Vermont Liber institution at Ply mouth Union, where he attended classes only in the fall and spring, spending the winter as teacher. He later attended Black River Academy at Ludlow and finally received a bachelor of arts degree from Tufts in 1887.
 Though he had entered college with conditions in practically every subject except grammar and arith- metic, Sargent acted as an instructor in French during his last year and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-06
REV. CHARLES E. .C0UCHL|N' TALK
Pre=Papal Experiences of Pope Plus XII Make
 Him Made to Order

Detroit, March 6-CUP)- The Rev. Charles E. Coughlin said in his Sunday radio sermon that the pre-papal experiences of Plus XII placed him in made to order" status to cope with reconstruction of the Christian social order.
 Father Coughlin said the new pontiff would "courageously and in spirit of peace" face Capitalism, Communism and National Socialism with the hope of replacing them with the doctrines of Christianity.
 "The world will wait anxiously for the contributions which this pontiff will make in behalf of peace," he said. Portugal, Spain and Italy are predominantly Chris tian countries whose citizens enter tain extraordinary love for Plus XII. The same appraisal can be made of the Austrians, Hungarians, Poles, Jugoslavians and Czechoslo- vakianS.
 Held In High Esteem
 German Catholics and Protest ants also hold their former nuncio in the highest esteem"
 With this alliance behind the papacy, the radio priest declared, "it appears that the Hitler government will reconcile itself with the views of the Vatican, even out of self preservation, or else accept the in- evitable destiny of casting its lot with the outcast government of Moscow"
 "It cannot retain its present af- filiations with Italy and the other nations I have mentioned and be contentious toward Italy's noblest son."
 He said that in spite of crisis,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-06
Lawyers Are Prepared to Put Him to Test of All
 His Powers
ATTORNEY CRAWFORD
 RESUMES ON TUESDAY
About Every Other Lawyer
 Is Expected to Batter , at His Testimony

Two weeks or more of gruelling cross-eXamination face James P. Purcell, chief accountant for the city of Waterbury and star witness for the state in the local con- spiracy trial, defense lawyers said today. As the trial opens it's 14th week tomorrow, de- fense counsil will resume questioning of Purcell, who testified on direct examina- tion to scores of payments made by the city between the years, 1930 and 37, allegedly without the ap- proval of the Board of Finance.
 Defense lawyers are prepared to subject Purcell to 8 rigorous ques- tioning, taking him step by step through the testimony he gave on direct examination by Special States Attorney Hugh M.Alcorn, ST. As Purcell takes the stand for the 14th day tomorrow, the ques- tioning will be taken up by Attor- ney George w. Crawford, of New Haven, counsel for Simon J. AL drman, one of the g accused on trial. Attorney Crawford, first of the defense staff to cross examine Purcell, had only questioned Pur- cell briefly when court adjourned for the week end Friday afternoon.
 Every Lawyer To Help
 Every member of the defense legal staff is expected to take part in the ross-examination of the witness, who was appointed Chief Account ant by Controller Daniel J. Leary in 1930 and retained in office by Con- troller Sherwood Rowland. MT. Leary is one of the defendants in the trial.
 In the brief time that he was cross-examined Friday, Purcell sev- eral times was obviously angry at Attorney Crawford. He engaged in several disputes with the lawyer, losing the calmness that marked him as testified on direct examina- tion.
 How Time Will Pass
 Much of the time spent in cross examination of Purcell will be de-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-06
CALLED POLICE
 RATS ARE FINED
Two Young Men Denied That ''Epithet" Was In-
 tended for PatrOlmen

Alleged to have labelled as "rats" a platoon of policemen marching to funeral Saturday afternoon, Jerry Hanley, 28, of 328 Baldwin street and John Carson, 25, of Al River street, were each fined $5 in city court today.
 Patrolmen Clarence Marsella John Johnson and Thomas Dodds reported that while they were on the way to the Alderson funeral home for services for the late Pa trolman Eugene Blodgett Hanley and Carson, standing on the side walk at West Main street and Gen. tral avenue, remarked: There goes 8 bunch of rats."
 The policemen fell out of line and arrested the pair on charges ot breach of the peace. In court today Hanley and Carson said they were not referring to the policemen but to some "squealers" in WPA gang
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-06
Editors Note: This is the third of four dispatches on the life of Pope Plus XII.
BY ELEANOR PACKARD

Vatican City March 6 - CU.PJ - Germany already was three years at war with the allied powers when Eu- genio Pacelli, titular archbishop of Sardi, was sent to Bavaria in the summer of 1917 as papal nuncio.
 When Pope Bendeict XIV took Monsignor Pacelli away from his post of secretary of the congregation of ecclesiastical affairs to make him nuncio to Germany, Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, then papal secretary of state, said:
 My right arm has been taken away from mel"
 Pope Benedict know that in filling the post of nuncio he required one of his ablest men, so that nothing might disturb the good relations be- tween the church and Bavaria dur ing the troubled war years.
 Peace Plan For Kaiser
 By appointing the then 41-year- old Pacelli to a vital post, the Pope created the opportunity of carrying out one of his long-cherished pro- jects-that of. presenting a full and just peace plan to the German government to end the var. The Pope drew up a peace plan in the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-06
SON OF MINISTER
 IS IN TROUBLE

Birmingham, Mass, March G. Charles Rowe Gotcher, 25, son of Mckinney, Texas Baptist minister, was held in $5000 bail today when he pleaded guilty in district court to a fugitive charge on which he is wanted in St. Louis, Mo-, on white slavery charges.
 Gotcher. 8 man of dozen aliases and giving his last address as u513 Hudson street) Oklahoma City, Okla also is wanted, police were told, at Danville, O., where he jumped bail of $35OO on similar fugitive charge.
 The defendant was rearrested Sat- urday after being released on per- sonal recognizance from Natick dis trict court where he faced 8 larceny charge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-06
GROUPS IN
 DEADLY BATTLE
Boston Has Serious Fight as Peace Moves Are
 Made at Capital

Boston, March 6. (UP)-Virtually on the eve of peace negotiations sponsored by President Roosevelt, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Or ganizations were engaged in fin ish fight" for control of MasSachu- sets labor today.
 The AFL was scheduled to put into effect an embargo on deliveries from plants and warehouses operat- ing under CIO contracts. AFL truck men were instructed to refuse to move goods from the American Sugar Refinery in South Boston, the Revere Sugar Refinery in Charles town, the United Drug company m Roxbury, the Boston Woven Hose & Rubber company in Cambridge and several packing concerns in the market district.
 Lopgshoremen May Quit It was indicated that later AFL Longshoremen may refuse to un- (Continued on Page 4)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-06

Clearwater, Fla, March 6-(UP) Van Lingle Mungo, temperament tai Brooklyn Dodger pitcher, today signed contract for $5,000, a slash of $1O,000 from the salary he re- ceived last year.
 In accepting the terms, Mungo agreed to take the biggest salary re- duction any Brooklyn player ever received. He had received $15, 900 last year for winning only four games and when the contracts were mailed out, executive vice president Larry MacPhail offered Mungo one third of his previous years salary.
 Mungo then became a holdout but finally signed after conferrirlg with baseball commissioner Judge K. M. Landis. After Mungo had rejected the original contract, MacPhail said that 5000 was the top salary which
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-06
Pitcher Van Mungo Signs
 After He Is Cut $1O,OOO

would be offered the big right-han- der.
 The conference among MacPhail, Mungo and Landis reportedly was hedl yesterday. At the meeting Mac Phail promised Landis Mungo would never be sold or traded. MacPhail declared that in view of Mungo's poor showing last year the offer of 5000 was fair one.
 Judge Landis agreed, pointing a finger at Mungo and asking: You won't say that is an unfair offer, will you Mungo?" Mungo and Mac- Pha met later and the contract was signed. It does not call for a bonus if Mungo wins a certain number of games.
 MacPhail revealed thets pitchers Luke Hamlin, Tot Pressnell and Whitlow Wyatt also had signed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-06
UNITED SENATE
 BOTHERINC COP.
Gov. Baldwin's Cut, Dried Program Is Partly Upon
 Rocks of DisCOrd

Hartford, Conn, March 6-(UP)- A unified Democratic stand in the Senate today threatened Gov. Ray mond E. Baldwin's legislature pro- gram, and prospects were the Gen. eral Assembly not only would sit through until June but might be unable to complete its business.
 Reporting of bills by committees was behind that of two years ago slightly more than 300, or about one-eighth of the number submit ted for consideration, have been reported upon.
 The statutes compel. the 1egisla- ture to quit the first week in June. Should the present pace be continu- ed, the last few weeks of the session probably will be conducted on a five-day and night-work basis to get major business cleared from the calendar and to the Governor for signature.
 Monkey-W Wrench Tossed In
 The situation in the Senate which developed last week on the dual-joh holding bill tossed a real monkey wrench into the legislative machine Early predictions were that Repub- licans could control that body by an 18 to 1T vote, if the party re- mained unified and the two social ists remained with them.
 As it now stands, Democrats were in control because of their united stand and the desertion from the Republican Leadership of Senator John s. Thornhill, Brookfeld, Fairfield county commissioner whose job was placed in Jeopardy by the dual-job bill.
 Should Thornhill'S revolt con- tinue, Democrats would retain con- trol by an IS to IT margin. In ad- dition, the Socialist-R Republican axis was reported in shaky condition.
 A breakdown in relations threat
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-06

citizens and today several more added their pleas that the public respond to the emergency created by financial lack. Otherwise, it was stressed, the service of the Visiting Nurse Association, which reaches daily into many Waterbury homes, serves many thousands throughout the year, must be lessened. The staff must be cut and various of the phases of health work, care of prenatal cases and training of must be curtailed.
 Among the well-known Water burians who added their appeals for support of the campaign today are the following:
 Edwin c. Northrop, vice president and secretary of the Waterbury Savings Bank, said: T believe that the work of the Visiting Nurse As sociation is extremely valuable and as my mind runs along the line oi my work, I might say I regard contribution to the Visiting Nurse Association as not mere matter o1 dollars but as an investment hav- ing maximum yield in terms oi human values. Certainly the work o1 the nurses in restoring bread win. ners to health and preventing the spread of communicable diseases l. worth an amount in dollars anc cents to Waterbury which must bt
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-06
Defense Counsel FavOrs Overthrow of Negrin to
 Make End More Sure
PRINCIPAL IN NEW
 MOVE IS A MODERATE
NatiOnalists Satisfied That New Regime Is Actually After Peace
BY HARRISON LAROCHE United Press Staff Correspondent

BY HARRlSON LAkOCHE United Press Staff Correspondent)
 Hendaye, French-Spanish Frontier, March 6.-(UP)- Hope of a quick end to the Spanish Civil War spread through Europe today.
 A Republican defense coun- cil whose key members were regarded strong advocates of peace, overthrow the Juan Negrin Loyalist government and the Communists allied with it in a fight-to-a-finish program.
 Gen. Sigismundo Casado, leader of the council, at once broadcast an invitation to the Nationalists to propose peace terms which all Spaniards could accept honorably.
 Authoritative Nationalist circles said as soon as they heard of the coup, that the yoke of Moscow" had been thrown off by the new Loyalist leadership and that there was hope of immediate pacification of all Spain without further fight ing.
 Casado himself, the new army commander in chief and president of the council, was regarded an advo- cate of peace.
 One of his first acts was to in vite to Madrid veteran Gen. Jost Miaja, who had been deposed by Ne grin because he reported that res sistance was useless.
 The principal political parsonage on the defense council was Juar Besteiro, called a moderate even by the Nationalists-a man who fol months had urged peace, who had refused to point the Negrin govern ment or to take an ypart in any war government
 It was understood that Manuel Azana, who fled to France and there resigned the presidency of the re- public, had long planned to bring
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-06
HOLY PONTIFF IS
 GROWING TIRED
Strenuous Activities Is Cause for His Physician
 to Ask Ease=Up
By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Vatican City, March 6-(UP)- Pope Plus XII, tired by the stren- uous activities of the last few days, has been advised by Dr. Aminta Milani, the Vatican physician, to ease up on his work in preparation for the strain of the flve-hour cor onation ceremony next Sunday, il was said today in well informed quarters.
 It was revealed that the long sched- ules which the new pontif has been forced to keep since the death of Plus xI, combined with the shock of fall several hours before he was elected pope, have produced their effects. Dr. Milani, after detailed examination, told him he was over- working and not getting enough sleep.
 Rises at 5 A. M.
 Since his election he has risen at 5o'clock each morning and has not retired before 2 am. In his capacity as papal secretary of state and cam erlengon the new pope had little rest after Plus XI died on Feb. 10. For two years before that, e1er since Plus xI became i'll, the then Card inal Pacelli bore a large share of the pope's responsibilities and duties.
 Although the new pope is at 6a considerably younger than his pre- decessor, Dr. Milani was said tc have reminded him that the strain