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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-14
REPORT Is At
WORkONC CASE
C-Men Said to Have
Prints of Nation
kidnap-Slayer

eGATTLL - The Seattle Star
said today In q dispatch from it,
Warrington, d. C.. correspondent
that G-men had on file the finger
prints of the man who kidnapped
young Charles Mattson of Tacoma
from the fashionable Madison
home the night OF Dec. ~. 1896.
The Stars correspondent, who
said he got his information from
reliable and authoritative sources.
also declared the department Of
justice has specimens Of the kid
naper's handwriting. These came
from a ransom note received by
the Mattson family, the cor
respondent said.
The FIJI director has conccn-
trated Is picked men in the Pa
cific Northwest to work on the
case. according TO the Stars story,
which added that Hoover believes
the crime will be solved through
apprehension Of the perpctrator
when he seeks to repeat II or
through his arrest on n minor
charge and identification by fin
Eerprints.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-14
NOTE INCREASE IN
EMPLOYMENT FIGURES

A decided increase in employ
ment in this state is shown in the
figures released today by Tom C.
Rathhone, manager of the Wash
ington State Employment Service
for this territory
The total placement of workers
Tor the first quarter throughout
the state amounted to $500, Rath-
bone said or this number. ap-
proximately So per cent were in
private employment The total
placements for March. by the en-
ployment service. amounted TO
2.93S. Of which S45 per cent were
IN private employment.
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personally as a dry" and tee
totaler himself.
1t was not until 1884 that he
put on political harness for him.
self as candidate for MAYOR
against the Tennent administra-
ton. He emerged in second place
in a field of nine primary candi-
dates. but in the finals was de-
feated by George Smiley.
With bulldog tenacity he clung
now TO a determination to become
mayor. The "a campaign was
hardly cold before he was laying
plans for the 1885 campaign. With
vast acquaintance and friend
ships in every part of Tacoma and
in every walk of life. he won his
1888 campaign to reverse the re-
suit of '34-defeating Smiley in
the finals.
To his 1884 campaign assets he
had added large following among
sportsmen and commercial fisher
men, whom he had led in the fight
against fish traps. and an equally
large following of older people
known to him through his long
campaigning for the Townsend
plan
Dr.. Siegle was a Mason, a men,
Der of VIM. P. Daughertv lodge
in the far North End neighbor-
hood where for many years he and
his family made their home. He
was member of Afifi temple OF
the Shrine.
Home Life Quiet
He was active and leader for
years in the IZaak Walton league
and other sportsmen orsaniza-
tions as chief of his hobbies had
been fishing and hunting. He was
an authority on game birds and
fish and on hunting dogs.
His home life was quiet and all
Tacoma knew him as devoted
husband and father and contrib
utor to the social and church af-
fairs of his home neighborhood.
In city politics leading up to his
election and since, he had been a
militant champion of the under
dog''-the citizen who could not
fight his own battles, except to
depend upon elected officials TO
fight for him. Siegle eagerly ac-
cepted such responsibility. He
was ambitious for a clean city
here and progressive one. Jack
Siegle, during his life, did much
to contribute toward those ends.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-14
Denies Rabid DOg
Loose FiUe Hours

F. 3. Lee, 3s41 So. Tacoma ave-
nue., today denied published reports
that his dog was running loose for
five hours in the city while suf-
fering from rabies Tuesday.
Lee said the dog was actually
loose only two hours and was
always close to home. He him
self caught him and had him on
leash again before symptoms of
rabies developed and he was taken
to the veterinary for examination.
There 1t was determined the dog
had rabies and he was put to
death. Lee doubted if there was
any chance the dog could have
bitten and infected other dogs.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-14
ROSS Tiffany
TO TENNESSEE

Ross X. Tiffany. executive Off
Ger for the Washington State
Planning council. will leave this
week for Chattanooga. Tenn. 10
attend = meeting on April IL Of
the Board Of Direction of the
American Society of Civil
Engineers.
Tiffany. now serving his second
year rs director Of the national
organization. is the elected repre-
sentative of almost 500 members
Of the society resident In the
northwestern part Of the United
States and parts of Canada.
The spring meeting. which
Tiffany and some $50 leading civil
engineers will attend is one of the
society's national quarterly meet
ines.
From 1901 tn 1920 Tiffany was
engaged In irrigation operation and
construction in the Yakima valley
In Washington Hc then became
project manager on irrigation de-
vclopment In the Spokane valley
until 1925. For the next four years
Tiffany served as Washington state
hydraulic engineer. then going into
private practice until 1898. at
which time he became manager
OF the Washington Emergency Re-
lief administration and assumed
his present position In 1894.
Tiffany has been active In so
ciety affairs since 1920, serving for
five years as a member of the
irrigation division. and for one
year as president Of the Tacoma
section. He is a member on the
Hoover commission on conservation
and administration OF the public
domain. and former president of
the Washington Irrigation insti-
fute.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-14
OREGON POST, Y. +. W.,
WILL VISIT SATURDAY

Members of the U. S. s. Oregon,
navy post Of Veterans of Foreign
Warn will visit the u. s. s. Ia
coma post on Saturday. April 10.
The meeting will be held In Macca-
bees hall, 30. 18th st. and Pacific
ave. The committee in charge has
arranged \ special program of en-
tertainment. Refreshments will be
served.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-14
five DRIVERS BOOKED

Five motorists today were to
face speeding charges in police
court. after being tagged by po-
lice Wednesday. They were j. NJ.
Petersen. 1904 No. Alder st; J. S.
Gamblin. 1881 So. Yakima ave. /:
]. H. Gilpin. SIT No 9th st; Floyd
Burns, Saith and Mckinley ave,
and f. limerick, 500 So. Yakima
ave.
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Continued from Page Onel

AkVu4 + NJaAt
tai. IL was presumed he must have
decided at Los Angeles to speed
home, a fatal decision
As mayor. Siegle's last day at
the city hall was January 25. He
attended council meeting that
morning. but for weeks he had had
bad cough which had developed
into a heavy chest cold. He told
his friends he had decided To 90
home and rest for few days, hop
ing to fight off the infection.
Even before this. there had been
DAYS when his voice failed him and
the cough had been irritatingly
persistent. He had not spared him
self In his official duties. and. de-
spite the throat difficulty. filled
many speaking engagements and
spoke vigorously in council sessions
during his battles over vice condi-
tions and street railway matters.
Had Driven Himself
He had spent days and nights
at Olympia in the opening weeks
of the 1889 legislature on affairs
involving the city OF Tacoma and
cities of the state generally. which
he served as one of the directors
of the Association of Washington
Cities In short, for weeks before
collapse of his health he had been
driving himself in public affairs.
Normally of tremendous phys
icsl energy, this caused his family
and associates no unusual alarm,
since. as habitually clean liver,
he had quick recuperative powers.
However, in late January he had
lost so much weight and was so
far run down. that Mrs. Siegle
protested against continued opera
ton of her home as hospital,
and bluntly told Jack that either
he'd go to bed at home to seri-
ously fight off his ailment, or she d
insist on him going to hospital.
Battle Seemed Won
At home his condition swiftly
grew worse as the ailment resolved
itself into combined bronchial
pneumonia and flu, with a cough
that violently wracked the once
sturdy frame, the physique of
former star football player of
Northwestern university
With several doctors attending.
including specialists, there was
prolonged fight from which Siegle
apparently was to emerge vic
torious.
However, his condition was so
weakened and his body so ENACT
ated by the illness that it was de-
cided he should leave Sunday,
March u, for place between
Palm Springs and Banning on the
California interior desert-'just to
soak up some sunshine"
Son Visited Him
He Travelled by train. His son
drove the family car down, and
with Mrs. Siegle, established a
temporary home for him at the
resort community. Young Siegle
soon returned to Tacoma to re-
sumo his school work.
During the spring vacation he
made fast motor trip down to
the desert to visit his father, re-
turning to report continued i'm
provement and growing urge to
get back to Tacoma and into of
fetal harness again The two girls
at home were destined not to see
their father again in life.
Mrs. Siegle kept up regular cor
respondence with the office here.
conveying Jacks orders about such
matters as were presented
to his attention.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-14
Tlr0 Arrested bu
Railroad Officers

Two men Were in city Jail cells
Thursday after being arrested by
railway policemen Wednesday
night for alleged unlawful use OF
railroad property.
Edward Crutchfield, alias Neal
Conner. WAS charged with vagrancy
after being found lettering in the
Union station, and EliJs Williams
was accused of trespassing and
drunkenness. Officer II. A. Boyes
and |. b Mccarthy declared they
found Williams lying in a stupor
in an empty box car.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-14
TOLLEFSON WILL SPEAK

Prosecutor Thor c. Tollefson will
be speaker at a meeting Of the
Veterans Service league 10 be held
Friday night at s o'clock at the
Carlton hotel hall Kay knight
OF the Northwest Veterans GROUP
will speak on organization sctivi
ties. All veterans employed on
WA are urged to attend.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-14
new OFFICERS
OF RED CROSS
las at Annual Meet.
ing of Chapter
Reports Made

Emery Asbury was reelected
chairman for 1889 of the Pierce
county chapter of the American
Red Cross at the annual meeting
and dinner held Wednesday night
at the Tacoma hotel, attended By
145 members.
Other Officers elected We're,
Arthur York, vice chairman: Miss
Edith Burston, secretary and Mrs
Nell Fslskow, treasurer.
Members OF the board include
the following who agreed 10 con-
tinue to serve for 1883: Mrs. Her
man Calm. H. Eugene Emmons
Howard r. Goold, Fred w. Crit
fiths. William Hesly. A. r. How
land, Mrs. Grace Watson. Mrs
l.. L. Lamb. r. A. Lind, Mrs. Nellie
Marchetti. Howard Packard. Mrs
Hubert Secor, DR.. c. G. Trimble
G. W. Van Scoyoc, Lloyd J. Voiles
and the four officers already men
toned above.
New Board Members
New board members elected
were: Mrs. NJ. f. Case. Harold
Deering. Mrs. A. D. Fay. Richard
Hirsch, W. b. Laughbon. Harry j.
Lynch. Dr.. Russell Neff and DR..
Chas. Tollefson.
Junior members OF the Red
Cross had an important part in
the program and furnished the
entertainment, which consisted of
selections by the Lincoln high
school girls quartet, members of
which are Jean Rolfe, Marian
Raybourn, Lois Hartung and Jean
Stabbert. and violin solos by Miss
Dorothy Isaacs of Stadium high
school accompanied by her mother
Mrs. l.. X. 1saacs.
Miss Kathryn Newschwander of
Stadium high spoke on behalf of
the Junior Red Cross.
Carpenter Main Speaker
Ben Carpenter. national life saw
ing and first aid field representa-
tive, was the main speaker of the
evening. He explained the respon-
slbility of the Red Cross in com
batting home, farm, highway and
industrial accidents. He said he
was pleased to report that in his
recent study covering chapters in
the Pacific area he found Pierce
county chapter led all other chap
tiers in proportion to its popula
ton area in a ratio of better than
Z to l IN services performed.
Asbury gave a brief report
covering the activities of the chap
ter for the year just passed. and
prefixed his report by stating that
this chapter was classified by rea-
son of its all-service activities as
class "a"
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Mayor John c. Siegle Expires
Aboard Train on WAY Home

For the most part, all routine Of
the mayors office was conducted
by Utilities Commissioner Ira
DAWSON. who. as vice president OF
the council. automatically became
acting mayor in that officials alb
sence and incapacity to serve
Thus. AT the peak of realization
Of long-standing ambition is
ended a remarkable career OF
native son. born Of German par
ents-hotel keepers July II,
1885.
John Charles Siegle began his
education in Tacoma schools. and
after many vicissitudes, came
home from Northwestern univer-
sity. near Chicago. with a degree
in dentistry, which profession he
practiced in Tacoma almost con-
tinuously from 1913 until he took
his oath of office as mayor last
June.
Father Died Early
Here in Siegle's life story is
saga OF personal ambitions achiev-
ed only by a constant battle TO
overcome obstacles. His fathers
death when Jack was only 10
years old put an end TO parental
hopes that he might make his
place in the world as a mechanical
or electrical engineer.
Yet the young mans Unborn
driving force was to mark step
after step ahead toward higher
achievement. With only element
airy school education. he appren-
ticed himself in iron and steel
work. worked on ships plying to
Alaska. learned the machinists
trade, working at the Northern
Pacific shops at South Tacoma
and at the navy yard at Bremen
ton, and before he was 81 was a
foreman.
Played Football
Still professional career beck
oned. and he determined upon
dentistry. With savings he fl
nanced his first year at North
Pacific Dental college at Portland,
and followed that with three years
at Northwestern. where he dis
tinguished himself in football
through two seasons as tackle and
fullback.
From the beginning of his prac
tice here he took active part in
civic affairs. Tacoma was his
home town and here he proposed
to cut out place for himself in
the city's affairs. With the World
war be obtained a commission as
first lieutenant in the dental corps.
Later leadership in the Ameri-
can Legion eventually placed him
in the commander chair of Ed
ward B. Rhodes post. He served
through the chairs of Tacoma
Ellls lodge and became It's exalted
ruler for a term. His work in
Kiwanis club brought him the
presidency
Entered Politics
He dropped out of dental prac-
tice for relatively short time to
manage a lumber mill at Camas.
but Camss was not Tacoma. so
home he came to resume his work
here.
He first went into politics as a
citizen with no intention of seeking
political position for himself. He
was a sharp critic of things as
they are" In the late 192Os he
gained the limelight by making a
modified wet speech as keynoter
of the state Republican conven-
ton at Bellingham, though known
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needed. One positive action:
Amendment of the Wagner labor
act.
lin Washington, the LaFoHette cipH lib.
critics committee opened its hearings by
accusing Mr.. Coonley's N. Il. NJ. toith de
iberate" attempts to promote organized
disregard" for the Wagner act. N. 4. NJ.
called the report gross nisrepresenta.
tion OF tact.")
Next day c. I. O.'s Vice Presi-
dent Phillip Murray, whose Boss
John Lewis has been in the public
dog house ever since he called Vice
President John Garner an "evil old
man." appeared on a radio network
to urge that President Roosevelt
summon business, government and
labor leaders to a national unem-
ployment conference. The Murray
position: Unemployment is Amer
ica's No. ! social, economic, and
political problem Failure to
solve it constructively might very
well rock the foundations of our gov
eminent"
Hesitant to tack political implica-
tons on what appeared to be an
honest, labor-sponsored move
against unemployment, many bust
ness leaders nevertheless held their
tongues-in-cheek wondering what
Phillip Murray had in mind. Should
c. I. o. emerge from such a con-
ference as a Great Peacemaker,
business drive to modify John Lew
is pet Wagner act would be serious
ly hamstrung.
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creating a federal court budget of.
ficer. At that time he boosted that
all detectives of the 1887 court re-
organization plan had been accom-
plished despite the plans defeat as
an entity. Next day he charged con-
gress' defeat of his neutrality and
lend-spend legislation was leading
business over a precipice. On the
third day he created a sensation
by warning he would bolt the Demo-
cratic party in 1910 if the conven-
ton decided on conservative
or ip-service candidates" and a
"straddlebug platform.
This served to produce 1910 fore
casts from previously silent sources.
Nebraska's Sen. Edward R. Burke
predicted the President would or
ganize and lead new "liberal" par
ty. He also thanked Mr.. Roosevelt
for bringing about such a realign-
ment, terming the present labels
Democrat" and Republican" as
San offense to the intelligence of the
electorate"
Most sensational development,
however, came from the Presidents
own house leader, Texas Rep. Sam
Rayburn. Probably smelling par
ty rift, he wired this reply to
query by the Fort Worth Star-Tele-
gram: 81 am for that outstanding
Texan and liberal Democrat, John
N. Garner, for the presidential NOM
ination in 1910, believing that if
elected he will make &. 49,. great
President"
Meanwhile, North Dakota's Re-
publican Sen. Gerald Nye saw that
a Roosevelt drift toward super-lib-
eralism meant that all parties must
follow suit in modified fashion. Said
he: eff the Republican party is 60
ing to get anywhere in 1910 it has
got to make up it's mind that its
candidate and platform are going to
have to be forward-looking and pro-
gressive. Both will have to
maintain and improve some of the
advances established under
the New Deal"
Another voice, that of Minnesota's
Farmer-Laborite Sen. Ernest Lun-
deem: eff the A. F. of L. and
c. l. o. would get together they
would hold the 1910 election in the
palm of their hand. The farm vote
would swing in and they could
march right into the White House"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-24
EUROPE:
Another Munich?

One fear long entertained but lit
tie discussed by France and Britain
is that Danzig might simply and
peacefully declare its union with
Germany. If Poland then went to
war, she would be labeled as an
aggressor. This crafty scheme has
been brewing in Adolf Hitler's mind
ever since it became apparent that
German force in Danzig would be
met by Poish-French-Br British force.
But originally it was Benito Mus
solini's idea, for conflict over Dan
zig would enmesh Italy just as a
war over Sudetenland would have
brought similar consequences last
autumn. Already tired of aiding
Germany's ACKNOWLEDGEMENT at the
risk of their own necks, rank-and-
file Italians were about ready to
junk the Rome-Berlin axis.
A more exalted statesman than
Der Fuehrer, II Duce sent his SON.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-24
BUSINESS:
What Challenge?

What congress did or did not do
to help or hurt business and labor
offers a meaty conversational me-
LANCE this month. Reason: Con-
gress' refusal to try more pump
printing left the burden of recovery
proof on the shoulders of private
enterprise. But at the same time
congress did little Tin business
eyes, to alleviate business tax and
labor woes. Therefore both bust
ness and labor jumped into the ma
tional political arena soon after ad-
journment, one anxious to encourage
a trend, the other willing to hop the
bandwagon for whatever it was
worth.
First word came from President
Howard Coonley of the National
Association of Manufacturers, who
wrote his membership that business
should be encouraged by the ICON
sentative" trend in congress, but
that further positive action" was
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in-law foreign minister, Count Ga
leazzo Ciano, to confer near Salz-
burg with German Foreign Minister
Joachim Won Ribbentrop. The ap-
parent decision, pressed by Count
Ciano and ultimately accepted by
Hitler, was that Danzig was not
worth a war. Having thus coun-
seled moderation, Mussolini had
again pressed his pants and entered
once more the good graces of
France and Britain. He was now
set to repeat the history that led to
last years notorious Munich con-
ference.
Rumors leaked out that II Duce
was loud in acclaim of the Vatican's
sincere efforts for peace via nego-
tiation. But II Duce was not so high
minded. Laying the groundwork for
a five-power conference Germany,
Italy, Poland, Britain, France) he
intended to settle not only the Dan
zig issue but few others as well,
attaining his own end by winning
colonial concessions from France.
London heard that Danzig's League
appointed commissioner, DR.. Kari ]. Burck.
hdrdt, had visited Hitler in BerchteSgaden
iUith British authorization to transmit a
compromise" proposal. HitIer's counter
offer tOas repeatedly taken back to Poland
by DR.. BurckhardLJ
While all Europe awaited an Of
fetal invitation, the controlled Ber-
lin press laid down preparatory
barrage by laundering that the ecu
ropean powder barrel may explode"
unless the Danzig issue is settled
speedily. Significant in this picture
was Russia's position. Should Brit
ish-French military authorities drop
their Moscow, conversations like a
hot biscuit when Mussolini makes
his bid, observers agreed Paris and
London would be guilty of a heinous
crime. But both democracies as
sured no such thing would happen.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-08-24

Add that touch of luxury that
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piece-a large and two medium
sized ones for buffet set-three
sizes repeated for luncheon set!
The large dolly measures 18
inches, the medium one IL inches
and the small 6 inches. Pattern
1885 contains directions for max
ing doilies; illustrations of them
and of stitches; materials re-
quired; photograph of dolly.
Send Is cents in coins for this
pattern to The Sewing Circle Nee
dlecraft Dept, 81 Eighth Ave,
New York.
Please write your name, ad-
dress and pattern number plainly.
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eighth meeting in Boston September
IL to Is.
Scientific development in the Unit
ed States has been notably advanced
by European refugees, DR.. Brownies
studies show. He recalls the COM
ing to this country in the Eighteenth
century of Joseph Priestley, Eng
lish chemist, after persecution for
his liberal views; mentions the ar
rival in America of German chem
lists after the 1848 disturbances, and
describes the contributions of
group of Irish exiles.