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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-16
Firms Deep N
WAR Of NERVES

Th4 Finnish mls~lon rssasned -
HsisinGfoss TO-DAY from Mespev.
10 report . d<adlo<k Ia nseotiar
tions m ftusslass tsfffto<isi -
msnaa Thsr fesiHa th<lf sessakrr
already IN The fi1nt s<ixafes - .
state of nsFyss svsr inetd<nfs -
ths Russian border.
When the ml~len. headed ~
J. X fsAs.kiyi. arrived : sfp~d q
loo .as a TIE railway slsfi1a.
including Frsmief A. X. Cagsnd<F
and. as Usual. lhs mifiatsfH of
friendly psnmAfk. Norway snd
Sweden.
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that Jes<f BtAiln and In 1s0v5e<
prsnl<r for<iEn mlnz1tss. si3xhes-
lss ~ k6slosss. I'D ~ he Finulsa
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sietsxif sfFsaeezzs* = sesie<
press statement fbaf FIniasd's
eesasfnie could ast en6n<s
nsebfilx&fiea nsers th&n fsssw
four = sssea asealhs.
Reports from ths border. n<ither
confirmed nor denled. we're thai
Soviet alrplan< had been sn0t
down. that thers hs1 been several
bursts II ara from Finnish anti
aircraft guns aimed II Heyief
''raidsrs;~ that the Russians we're
going through sueh taatailzlnE
maneuvers ~ charging" TIA
barbed uirs frontier bafricadee
with fixed bayonets and shooting
IN the air. although making no
prstense Of attacking tho Finns On
shs other side Of the wire.
RANK TRANSACTIONS
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FALLS ON saw; KILLED
170nI Y

HAMILTON. Mont William y.
Fox, ss-year-old Bittsrroot Valley
pioneer. Was killed yesterday when
be fell into a whirllng aaw At his
mill and vas cut IN tao.
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Lumber Co, which was set last
July. causing an estimated loss Of
$500. 900.
On this charge. the pair Was
taken into superior court ln Che
halls and entered a plea Of guilty.
SENTENCE DEFERRED
Sentence was deferred while In
vestigators studied the activities
Of the pair In other parts Of tins
Northwest.
While in Tacoma. Ina pair re.
sided at the y. N. G. A. detectives
revealed.
Detectives. Fire Chief Emory
Whitaker and RObbis Larsen. Ta~
coma fire inspector. we're unable
70 determlne why the men set the
fires. except for the Joy Of seeing
them burn. The older man was
said 10 have been bitter against
society and labor unions. Thls. IL
WAS believed. might account for
SONS u the fires IN factories and
companies using union labor.
SULLIVAN QUIZZEs
Authorities were d the opinion
the pair were pyromaniaes.
State Insurance Commissioner
William A. sullivan aald the men
told him they met about five years
ago Ia Whitefish, Mont Most u
the ineendiarism was IN lumber
Continued on Page II. Column ~
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WEATHER FORECAST

Unsettled tonight and Friday.
Temperatures: High. 81; low, Al.
Sun rises 1;I5; sets Asa.
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BY LOUISE LYND

GREENVILLE, Mississippi
Greetings and salutations:
This is Louise speaking. | find
myself in the peculiar circum-
stance of having to defend
myself and console others in
regard to my well-being. This
is due to a great amount of
correspondence that has come
my way, urging me to abandon
the trip for the sake of my
health!
am deeply appreciative Of the
concern shown, but feel called
upon to reassure anyone worrying
about the vicissitudes of river
travel upon an expectant mother.
Acting upon the assurance of a
good specialist that to continue to
New Orleans would enact no undue
hardship or strain upon my physi-
cal well-being, but would tend to
strengthen my stamina and gen.
eral health. 1 am finding his advice
very worthwhile. Life in the out
doors is the perfect panacea at
such a time.
WHY SHE'S HAPPY
For instance, instead of spend
ing my time worrying about my
condition" I find myself confront
ed with new vistas, new people,
new incidents to occupy my mind
and give me a wholesome outlook
on life. Instead Of dragging around
over endless household tasks, am
free to rest or romp as the spirit
moves me.
Instead of the stuffiness and
WEAKNESS of an over-heated house,
i am continually outdoors, drink
ing in the sunshine. filling my lungs
with untainted fresh air.
Instead of being encountered with
proper clothes, / can dress COM
fortably and without thought to
appearance" If 1t is warm, / can
expose my body to the vitalizing
rays of the sun. If it is cold, there
is enough warm clothing at hand
A. =. onxof1rtahIo ~
A TYPICAL DAY"
A typical day will find me emery
ing from the cradling-canoe moi
long after the sun has risen. Bot
already will have fire going, and
while the sun climbs higher, en-.
veloping coats will be discarded anC
we will work around our campfire
preparing breakfast, clad only IL
loose Stacks and sweatshirt, bare
feet digging into the clean sand Of
the bar.
Fruit Juice, eggs, toast and cof
fee will fortify US well for the be
ginning Of our day. Then We paci
and shove off downriver, ready foi
any adventure that might befal.
DOES HER WORK
AS l rest comfortably on an in
flated air-mattress and back rest
the first part of the morning L
spent "sprucing up" Hair-brush
comb. toothbrush, soap, washeloth
and manicuring set are all at M
fingertips. and while We put-pu
down the Father Of Waters"
brush and curry to my heart
content.
Then the log is written. and an,
letters that are due Books are a
hand, or my knitting So, all to-
soon, il is lunch time. Fresh milk
fruit, raw vegetables and sand
Continued on Page u, Column 6
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Gas Companies Are Indicted
Over Coast Auto Fuel Price

Los ANGELES -- Thirty-DIne oil companies anu Two
asnocatona under federal Indictment today
on charges Of conspng to maintain high gasoline prices
ON the Pacific coast =
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news agency snld Wednesday
that Foreign Minister Ioe-
chin von Rlhlentrop hnd toId
tho Belgian and Dutch min
listers 70 Germany that the
mediation offer II oueen VIII
hrImIna and King Leopold
failed because u IL brusQue
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had compIstxd . series - asyIlene
reconnaissance fIiahts axsf ~
rsieh. photnxssphing many mir
isry oblestisss.
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Mrs. Harold Dahl. American dancer wife Of the nier
imprisoned by the Spanish Nationalist government arrives
Boston where she will start lecture tour to raise fnndn
attempting obtain release Of her husband. psh. Nhe
flaw for the Loyaist forces Spain, captured BY
Frances and sentenced 20 DEATH picture Of her
self which Mrs Dahl sent TO Gen Franco reduced nahs
sentence to life imprisonment Mrs. Dahl II formerly Oh
Seattle. lAcme Telephotol
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SETTING
THREE blAzES
IN THIS CITY!
81, 600, 900 Was Loss
in Conflaarations
Pair List a. Their
Torch Handiwork

Clever work on the part Of
Tacoma police detectives and
fire department officials We'd
nesday had resulted in arrest
OF two men and confessions
which cleared up Is incendiary
fires in Washington and Ore
gon. three of them having
been in Tacoma. Total loss by
the fires was placed at
81, 900, 900.
The men under arrest and In
custody at chehalis are Fred
stine. 7s. Of Rochester. N. r.. and
Robert walzer. ~. former rail-
road section hand. of Rome, ". Y.
The pair first was arrested by
Tacoma authorities the early part
OF the month. Investigation of ac-
tivitieH Of the two men was
launched by police and fire depart
ment officials, who later were aid
ed by state inspectors.
At the time OF the arrests. Ia
coma newspapers coopersted with
officers in Withholding informs-
ton. in order that they might
work on the case unhampered.
60 To FIRE SCENES
Waller told Captain OF petec-
tives Cliff Osborne after HIS arrest
here that he met Slime In the east
four years ago after hs lost his
Job "a section hand. and that the
pair had Travelled together since
then.
After being turned over TO state
inspectors. the two men were taken
TO scenes Of incendiary fires In
Tacoma. Olympia. chehaiis, Gem
tralia. Hoqniam and Aberdeen.
which had been set during the
latter part OF October.
PLEAD GUILTY
In chehalls waizer broke down
and signed confessions OF setting
II blazes In Washington. including
the s1oo,00o Cooney Transfer Co.
warehouse fire here In March. 1880.
In his confessions. hs azsertedly
implicated stine.
stine would admit only partici-
patton In one fire. that OF Palmer
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WOMAN,S REALM
GloriNing Yourself
Ry Alicia Hart
NEA Service Staff Writer


 Nowadays there is, fortuuntely, no stigma attached to having dyed hair. Your hair is your own. You can do what you please with it. And no sensible person is going to think you are silly because you decided that you don't like gray hair any mort than he thinks you are silly because you prefer red lips to naturally pale ones.
 When you come right down to it, having your hair colored the shade it was before white streaks appear ed should cause no more comment than wearing lacquer on your nails or using cosmetics to enhance your coloring and make your skin appear a great deal smoother and lovelier than it actually is. If the gray streaks make you look years older and you don't want to look years older, why shouldn't you have your hair dyed?
 Dramatize or Dye
 However, before you make nasty OcClSlOll, yOu AlA6h1 ACAAOAhAbSA IAAoo white hair sometimes improves a woman's appearance. It may have a softening effect on the features or make the lines around her eyes less obvious. Or it may be just plain lovely in itself. Coal black hair, streaked with pure white, very often is positively handsome.
 And snow white locks, na ma ture face or a fairly young one, can be charming, too.
 If you decide against dyeing, then find coiffure which absolute ly dramatizes the white streaks. Play them up instead of trying to hide them. And keep them spotless- ly white. Frequent shampooing is important. Brushing is all import ant, too, especially since you will notice that the white hairs are in- clined to be little stiffer than those which have not turned white vet r
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We think

Where we get our ideas is hard to say. It's even harder to understand why we don't alter them as we grow up.
 But we don't. We even think the people where we come from" are a certain kind of people, and we would resent anyone's telling us otherwise.
 Try to tell woman from below the Mason Dixon line that southern women aren't different from all oth- CT American women and she'll start right in to show you how little you know about the south.
 They tell an eastern woman that iddle-westerners dress just as smartly as New York women, and then watch her hit the ceiling.
 Try to tell a westerner that any section of the country has as hos pitable housewives as the wide open spaces, and you'll be in the middle of an argument.
 It tickles our vanity to think that the people in the part of the coun- try we come from are different from all others.
 And it pleases us to make broad generalities about people in another section--even when we can count our acquaintances from there on one hand.
 We'll have fun travelling across the country to our two World s Fairs, but we won't learn much about each other. We'll go home be- ieving that eastern women are chic; southern women helpess f1irts; and western women good scouts"
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as much as any other specialists do.
 Like all other specialists in America today, pediatrists have to decide for themselves how much training or experience physician ought to have before he ventures to hold himself out as child special ist. There are no legal restrictions or qualifications imposed upon doctors who desire to be child specialists. However, the doctors themselves have made some ten- tative efforts to set up certain minimum qualifications for those who desire to practice pediatrics exclusively, all of purely voluntary character so far.
 In any unusual or difficult case an honest doctor is not only willing but eager to have the counsel of any specialist who may be of any help. Good doctors never hesitate to suggest to patients or their families the desirabality of such special counsel. A real specialist responds to the doctors call, ex- amines the patient or makes such special study as he deems necessary forms his opinion and frankly advises the doctor AND the family, then, gracefully retires until he is again summoned by the attending physi- clan.
 A trick specialist would starve if he had to depend on being called in consultation. He is in competition with the honest practicing doctor, the family physician. Once he gets a chance to do his stuff it is his ob- ject to impress the credulous family with his superiority to the plodding family doctor, to shake their con- fidence in the family doctor and. if all goes as he hopes, to persuade the family to pass up the ordinary" doctor and take their child problems in future directly to the eminent specialist. ...".
 This is, believe, a fair state- ment.
 In time of crisis the help of a real specialist is of inestimable value, and every family should freely sanction the request of the attending physician for such coun- sel.
 Patronizing the pretentious but poorly qualified child specialist who ekes out a living by beating the family doctor to it, is an affecta- ton which becomes the unintelli- gent. People with good sense know that they get better service at 8 fraction of the cost by taking their routine baby or child care problems to the family physician. After all his training qualities him for just that.
 In the Abstract
 My doctor, A-by name, has re- moved by diathermy tonsils from forty children with excellent results. I thought you would be interested in knowing about it. (Mrs. A. O.
 Answer-I might, if you would re- veal the doctors name and address, but it is of abstract interest only to know that a doctor by the name of A-somewhere Is skilled in diather- my extirpation of tonsils in children find no physician of that name listed in your city.
 What Germ
 tried the what germ treatment for colon Arrangement incidentally I owe you my gratitude for dis abusing my mind of the mucous colitis" obsession-and want to re- port bowling success. (M. c. Al Answer-Victims of the mucous colitis" obsession should study "'The Constipation Habit and Colon Hy- giene") for copy send ten cen.s and Sc stamped envelope bearing your name and address. Do not send a clipping or postage stamps.
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Here's a m-the-fgure dress that echoes a style slogan of the season = Wear boleros - they're youthful!" Its slenderizing front panel is cut bias or straight, de- pending entirely on you. Its collar is debonair and it's skirt has gra- cious flare. You'll find Pattern 778 fun to cut and stitch, for the ac- companying Sew Guide tells how to go about all details. Moreover, there are few pieces to assemble! Most decidedly, this will be one of the most useful ensembles in your Spring wardrobe, with the bolero dressing up the frock for more im- portant events. Light checked fab- rics, as you see, are most attractive, with bolero contrasting. Dress may have attractive short or three quar- ter sleeves-the latter not pictured.
 Pattern 778 is cut in women's sizes 36, 38, 40, A, A, 46 and 48. Size 36, dress, requires 3 5-8 yards 35 inch fabric and 3-8 yard ribbon.
 Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins for this pattern. WRITE CLEARLY SIZE, NAME. AD- DRESS AND STYLE NUMBER.
 Send orders to Waterbury Demo- crat, Pattern Department.
 Thursday: Afternoon Dress
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Itch to Kick the Cat" Is Common Human Impulse

a deal at the office. The pent-up disappointment or chagrin or whatever it is, bursts its bonds and gathers force once the wall ic down. It is not insanity, only dammed-up emotion, caused by dear -knows-what, nursing itself to the verge of uncontrol. The climax is destruction. It may be done in fury, or coolly, depend- ing on the temperament of the wrecker.
 Punishment May Help
 The ideal cure, of course, is prevention. To find out what is eating into the child's heart and removing the cause. He may, or may not, attack a possession of the one whom he planes. That all depends. But one thing that may deter him in the future, make him stop and think and weigh consequences, is punish ment. He should learn that out lawry demands restitution and and atonement. He must pay for an impulse that gets beyond his own control. . It is amazing how the thought of paying up acts as a deterrent on human conduct.
 If child is given to many such exhibitions, I should see a spe- cialist at home. But one isolated case may mean merely that he is unhappy in his home life, is feel ing some injustice, or is just plain jealous, or disappointed.
 Copyright, 1889, NEA Service, Incl
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or 13 and, unaware of any new sex emotions, may continue to play with younger boys and girls, remaining emotionally and socially a child un- til some experience awakens in her more adult reactions; or boy, grow ing up with adults and spending
 much time in wide reading and
 adult conversation, may reach 16 with an intellectual maturity far beyond that of the average adult, while physically and emotionally he is still a child. Not until the child
 begins to grow up is he, however, likely to be troubled zy, or even con- scious of, the fact that there are many sides to his nature; that these sides do not always keep pace with one another; and that, although he is too big to do some things, he is not old enough to do others. The growing up in our children requires approximately years; and these 8 years have come to be regarded as 8 special period with peculiar quali- ties and characteristics of their own, known as the period of adolescence"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-01

Sweet lilies-of-the-valley, here again to remind you that spring is on its way! .-'~
 You can quickly grow them from pips-in water. Add a little sand or fiber to keep the pips above the waters surface, place the bowl in warm, dark spot until the shoots are three inches high. Remove to the daylight and soon-fragrant, bell-like blossoms!
 Always beautiful are ferns-says the luxuriant polypody fern in our picture. Simple to keep them healthy, start new ferns too. Just watch out for drafts, submerge the pots in pail of water every five days for a good soaking.
 To start new ferns, peg down the small green runners growing ing on the old plant-as our dia- gram shows. Soon they'll root, be ready to pot. Or you can grow young ferns from the spores in the fruit "dots" which appear on the under sides of fern leaves in the spring.
 Another indoor joy this season is forcing Towering fruit-tree branch es in water Complete instructions are given in our 32-page booklet. Tells how to raise foliage plants.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-01

 stroy from curosity, watches and clocks being the first victims or the curious. He had not unscreWed the works and tried to piece them together again. He threw the watch on the floor and quite calmly demol- ished it with his heel.
 This happened some time ago. I was asked about the case, and l do not intend any pun. Besides there was not enough watch case left to ask about. Since then l have run across several parallel instances where children destroyed for obscure reasons. A few days ago a child took knife and cut up all his mothers house plants, flowers she had nursed for months. He seemed to bear no grudge. He also knew how pre- cious those plants were to her. She could not understand it. Be- fore. the boy had seemed affec- tionate and normal.
 Which brings me to the crux or the matter. Is child abnormal when he does unpredictable things like this? Well, it would take an alienist with a couple of psychiatrists thrown in to dis cove. the facts. am certainly not either of those.
 It may seem far cry from a hundred dollar watch to a few inexpensive cuttings that cost nothing but time and trouble. Yet the two cases I have chosen for examples are identical in motive. There is no question in my mind about that.
 I think it is the same tempo rary unbalance that causes father to kick the cat after he has lost
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-01
SMALL CHESTS HANDY


 Few apartments and small dwell ings have quite enough drawer or storage space. Unpainted wooden chests are very inexpensive, fun to paint or stain yourself, and come in such a wide variety of widths and heights that several can be tucked here and there without talk ing up noticeable room. A chest in a hall will hold overcoats, rubbers and extra scarves One or two in the living room can be used as end tables and will hold all sorts of odds and ends such as playing cards, score pads, extra ash trays, and in the children's room provide ample space for small toys and games. And, of course, in bathroom and kitchen for extra linen.
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ferns, bulbs, vines, blooming plants grow flowers, plants in water.
 Send 1Oc in coin for your copy of MAKING PLANTS AND FLOW FRS GROW INDOORS to the Wa terbury Democrat Home Service, 635 Sixth Ave, New York, N. Y. Be sure to write plainly your NAME, ADDRESS, and the NAME of book let.
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By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

The whole family was upset. Frankie had taken watch from a bureau drawer and stamped on it. The watch was ground to atoms and with 1t went a hundred dollars in cold cash.
 Should he be punished? What were his motives? He had not seemed angry when he did it. He
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-01

are sophisticated and a little on the intellectual side; that south ern women are helpless hirts; W o m e n are out-doorSy a n d v cry g o o q scouts"
 It does not make any differ ence how many thousands of us cross the United States this sum- mer, we will go home with the same convictions.
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e. What is the age of adoles- cence?
 A. Dr. D. A. Thom in his book Guiding the Adolescen5" published by the Children's Bureau, U. s. De- pertinent of Labor, Washington, D. O., says: Adolescence is the pe- riod of growing up that comes be- tween childhood and adulthood. It may be thought of either as the actual growing-up process, or as the time during which this process takes pdace. In either case it is usually regarded as covering the years from 12 to 20, or the teen" age. A girl may reach puberty at the age of 12