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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-16
StOckSAreUnSteddv;
Trading Very Dull
DOWJONES AVERAGES
WEDNESDAY,


WEDNESDAY,
Industrial =. 14s-Ss, off ora
Rail .......... ss.21, off e.0s
Utility 1890. zs.es. up e.o6
Stock sales Appropriated $50. 600
shares. against 10000 Tuesday.
Curb sales were $50. 900 against
1910 in the previous session.
NEW YoRK-stoeks turned ir-
regular Wednesday. Trading was
around the dullest in a month.
Business news continued favor
able, including higher dividends,
increased corporation earnings and
high rate of operations In heavy
industry.
Rubber shares were aided by fig
ures showing october domestic
consumption at new record high.
Electricity production for the
Nov. IL week was 2,513.6ss, 900
kilowatt hours. up 1873 per cent
over a year ago. Building news
continued favorable.
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-16
Tacoma Times Almanac

Dse. 10 nov IL Nov - p<e.
Forecast for Washington Gen
orally fair in the east portion and
somewhat unsettled in the west
portion Wednesday night and
Thursday; light rains On the coast;
local morning fogs in the west
portion Thursday morning: little
change IN temperature: moderate
southerly wind off the coast and
light southerly In the sound and
straits.
Rain for the - hours ending st
8 a. m. Wednesday. none: since
Nov. /. LA inches, . deficiency
of la inches: since Jan. l. AHA
inches. q deficiency Of s.ss inches.
Wind st 8 =. m. Wednesday,
south 5 m.p.h.: barometer at 5000
and rising slowly.
Sun rises at tbs a. m. Thursday
and sets At asa p. m.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-16
TWO ARRESTS
after MISHAP
Ambulance Carrying
Accident Victim
Hit by Auto

An elderly pedestrian was IN
Pierce county hospital "Wednesday
for observation after being struck
by a light delivery truck. and two
motorists were At liberty on their
personal recognixance as result Of
the mishap. one Of them having
been arrested for failing 10 heed
the siren Of a police ambulance.
In the hospital was William
voss, 81. Of 2ssf Marine View
drive. Attendants said the mans
condition was not serious. lie was
recovering from facial cuts and
shock.
struck Nv Truck
voss was struck shortly after
$50 p. m. Tuesday by a delivery
truck driven by w. s. Stewart, 50.
OF $3.50 SO. ] st. an employe Of the
City Dye Works.
The pedestrian was walking
along the edge of the pavement on
Ea. 18th st. In the 900 block, when
he was struck by Stewards ma
chine. Stewart, who was booked
at police headquarters for investi-
CATION OF an auto accident and then
released on his personal reeog-
nizanee. told officers he did not see
the MAJ until II was too late 10
stop.
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Observation-Disclosures

Quotations courtesy Dean witter &
Co. Washington bldg, members
New York Stock Exchange)
High Low Close
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-16

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The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18

ing brought nearer mans practical
use. Addressing the southwest sec
ton of the American Association for
Advancement of Science, DR.. Comp
ton made dramatic news by fore
casting that a quantity of atomic
power the size of a pinhead may
some day propel an ocean liner from
the U. S. to Europe. Potentially ca
pable of revolutionizing heat and
transportation methods, atomic pow
er-like fire-couId be both a bless
ing and curse. Sample curse: II
could fire a gun several thousand
miles.
DR.. Compton's claims are not
dreams. Unrelated, recent expert.
ments in both Europe and the u. S.
have started from the same assump-
tion and led to the same conclusion.
The assumption: Production Of heat
and light in the stars is a radio
active process, therefore man should
60 about unlocking atomic power by
artificial radiation. The conclusion
and problem: To find out whether
theories regarding the source of So
lar and stellar power can be made
practically effective on earth.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
NORTH CAROLINA:
Discovery?

In the late Sixteenth century Sir
Walter Raleigh developed a light
war vessel called the cromster, de-
scribed in Henry Culver-Gordon
Grants Book OF Old Ships. After
1903 storm, one A. w. Drinkwater
walked down the sands of North
Cardinals Roanoke island and found
the hulk of a ship barely jutting
out of the sand. This spring came
another storm, barring more of the
vessel to watchful Mr.. Drinkwater.
One hundred CCC youths bent to
their shovels, excavated the hulk
and found what Mr. Drinkwater and
the Roanoke Island Historical asso.
citation thought was an important
discovery. Recalled was Sir Wal
ter's famous 'lost colony" which
disappeared there in 1884 Since the
newly discovered boat checked per-
fectly with measurements of a Raj
eigh cromster, might the long buried
ship have some connection with the
lost colonists?
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
EUROPE:
Forgotten Patient

Early May found Poland the No. l
source of European trouble, but the
cancerous sore had spread so far
afield that Poland's woes were al
most forgotten. Specifically Ger
many wanted Danzig (whose 385, 900
population is 96 per cent GermaD
and a 15-mile-wide path across the
Polish corridor to East Prussia. Far
more adamant than her protectors,
Britain and France, little Poland
bravely let her foreign Minister Jo-
sef Beck reject the Reich's demands
bluntly. Next she gave dictatorial
powers TO President Ignace Moscicki
and stoically awaited whatever fate
might be showed down her throat by
the Vaccinations of Europe's five
powers. President Moscicki watched
his nations troubles spread into the
following hopeless confusion:
Anglo-French solidarity, highly
touted after the Czecho-Slovakian
and Memel crises, had broken down
completely for want Of purposeful
direction. While Britain swerved
back to appeasement policies and
outspokenly urged Poland to sur
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
G. o. p. Has
Tactical Advantage

Within the Republican ranks there
are undoubtedly more of those wait
ing to see which way the cat will
jump than there are among the
Democrats. The Republicans, how
ever, have one distinct advantage;
they can attack anything and every
thing the New Deal administration
has done. They do not need to de-
fend anything, which is the handi-
cap that burdens each faction of the
Democrats to a greater or less ex-
tent.
Moreover, the Republicans are not
burdened with the will of any one
man to which they must give con-
sideration. That is to say, neither
former President Hoover nor Gov.
Af Landon, the nominees in 1892
and 1886, respectively, will or can
have as much voice in selection of
the next candidate as Mr.. Roosevelt
ordinarily would have in making
the Democratic choice. This condi-
ton springs from the fact that, as
President, Mr.. Roosevelt retains tit
ular leadership of his party. Messrs
Hoover and Landon, having taken a
licking in turn, need not be accepted
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18

oy the rank and file of the party or
by Republican wheelhorses as hav-
ing any greater rights than others.
And by the same token, the Roose-
welt leadership complicates the
democratic picture Since he has
stated with great frequency and with
an emphasis that cannot be denied
mat there is no turning back" he
can be regarded as determined to
insist upon selection of a Democrat
lc candidate-either himself or
someone else-next year who will
push the New Deal forward. And
that position, boys and girls, is what
the old line faction of the party seem
determined now to overturn. AS a
matter of cold fact, it appears from
all OF the information available to
me that Mr.. Roosevelt's determina-
ton on this point is really the fun
damental basis for the current can
yon between the New Dealers and
the old liners. Again, none can fore
tell how far it will go; but it can be
SAID without equivocation that if that
schlsm continues up to the 1910
nominating conventions, the 1924
convention fight between William
Gibbs McAdoo and AL Smith will
appear as tea party. This bitter
ness can be just as deep seated as
that.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18

But Generalissimo Chang did not
expect what happened next.
Into Chungking (normally 635, ,OOO
population) swarmed 100000 refu-
gees. in itself a grave problem. Then
one day Is Japanese war planes
swarmed over Chungking, dropping
incendiary bombs and demolitioners,
more than 100 in all. When the
smoke cleared China could count
5000 casualties, ruined capital and
temporarily blasted morale. Ger.
many and Britain found their EN-.
bassies destroyed. For all concerned
it seemed best to move the capital.
on-Wheels again, this time $50 miles
northeast into Chengtu, whose nor.
NAL half million population will au.
tomatically double overnight.
Peace-loving Chengtu might well
regard this official invasion as q
death sentence. General Chang
probably hopes an -the-river cap.
ital may break his bad luck ink.
but Tokyo thinks otherwise. Despite
British protests that Chungking's S
bombing was purely terroristic and
without definite military objective,
Nippon's warriors announced their
death planes were prepared to fol
low China's capital wherever it may
roam.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18

render Danzig, thereby counting
ltalo-German friendship, France
bluntly rejected an Italian offer to
settle the Mediterranean problem.
Meanwhile both Britain and France
tried with left-handed diplomacy to
make Russia defend Polish integri-
ty. The Soviet took a sensible course,
standing aloof from any commit
ments. Having fired Foreign Com
miSsar Maxim Litvinov, who had
been leading the treaty conversa-
tions, Russia gave vacillating
France and Britain a choice: Either
sign a double-barrelled military pact
for joint protection of eastern Eu-
ropean nations, or Moscow would
isolate itself and leave the democ-
racies to stew in their own juice.
AS is their wont, Rome and Ber-
lin took advantage of this confusion.
At Milan, Foreign Secretaries
Joachim Won Ribbentrop and Count
Galeazzo Ciano expanded the axis
into an outright military pac. which
resulted directly. London learned,
from Frances refusal to arbitrate
the Mediterranean problem with It.
ally.
Adolf Hitler once wrote Gin Mein
KdmpD that IAN alliance whose
purpose does not include the inten-
ton to wage war is meaningless
and worthless" Observers thought
the new Italo-German pact held that
purpose as a threat which would
have three sorry results for the de-
mocracies:
D Premier Mussolini would in
tervene in the Polish-German quar-
rel just as he did in the Czech crisis
last September, using his nominal
friendship with individual Anglo
French statesmen to help force
plebiscite in Danzig and lead to
repetition of the notorious Munich
settlement.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
Government Spending
Causes Dissatisfaction

Another obvious sentiment shows
a rather amazing dissatisfaction
with continuation of government
spending and the creation of added
debt. With this, of course, is cou-
pied the general fear of added taxes.
1t is quite widespread, this feeling
that some gloomy years are ahead.
While the money flowed as free as
water, there was no lack of takers.
A change appears to have taken
place, however, and from all quar-
ters one hears expressions, or ques-
tions, as to how high the taxes will
have to be to pay off even a part of
the debt.
A third thing that stands out wher-
ever political leaders talk over the
campaign problems is the matter of
unemployment which, of course, in
cludes the question of whether gov
ernment would not be serving bet
ter if it omitted attempts to ''re-
form" business. 1t Sits down to
some of the basic New Deal poll
cies and, say what you will, it is a
red hot subject. 1t remains as fact
that there were 10 or II million un-
employed when Mr.. Roosevelt took
office, and there are at least 10 mil
lion now. Voters are asking, there
fore, whether and how long such
situation can continue without col
lapse.
All of these questions, it is to be
noted, strike very close to every
voter in one way or another. 1t
likewise comes within the range of
thought that the man who is elected
next year-man, because no woman
is yet included in the list-will have
a tough time satisfying even ma
jority of the people. Just as rail
fence guess, or maybe it is hunch
anyway, I believe the next Presi-
dent will be good for only one term.
He will not be popular after four
years. AS a further guess, l have
an idea that the candidate who will
be elected next year will be the
man who paints the greatest picture
of gloom about the situation.
tReleased by Western Newspaper Union.l
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
Is NeU Deal
On the Wone?

l believe it can safely be said as
fact recognized by most able po-
litical students that the 1888 cleo
tions, with the attendant increase
in Republican strength in the house
and senate, together with the evil
dent trend of thinking throughout
the country, that there is a wide
spread movement away from the
New Deal philosophy of government.
How far it has gone, or how far it
may yet go; how much the personal
popularity of President Roosevelt
has waned, or how much it may yet
fuctuate, and how vigorously Mr..
Roosevelt is opposed within his own
party are factors yet to be evalu-
ated. But that evaluation has be-
gun; hence, the activity within the
Democratic ranks.
The fact that there is a trend
away from the New Deal philosophy
not all of those policies, but a
very great many of them-is the fac
tor that is causing Democrats, New
Dealers as well as anti-administra-
tionists, to scramble around. There
is more under cover" maneuvering
for delegates to the Democratic ma
tional convention going on right now
than / have witnessed thus far in
advance during any of the last sew
en- preliminary battles. The faction
of the Democratic party that may
be roughly delineated as headed by
Vice President Garner, Sen. Pat
Harrison of Mississippi, and Sena-
tor Byrd of Virginia-the old liners
appears determined to rid the par
ty Of radical leadership. The group
which has stood by President Roose-
velt-New Dealers through thick and
thin-iS overlooking no opportunity
to keep the Democratic label pinned
upon their faction.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
SCIENCE:
atomic PO,Uer

Albert Einstein once said that TO
find the nucleus of an atom was like
going out on your porch some dark
evening and firing a gun in the hope
of hitting a duck A few years later
science developed atom smashers
which turn out neutrons (uncharged
particles in the atoms nucleus) with
little trouble. BY bombarding new
element called uranium with neu-
irons, scientists disintegrate urani-
um and get another element, actino-
uranium. Bombardment Of this with
neutrons produces more neutrons
and thus creates an endless chain
of explosive power.
Thus, said the University Of Chi
cago's DR.. A. H. Compton, is the
longsought goal of atomic power be-
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
PEOPLE:
Justice Triumphs

When he took over the justice de-
partment from well-meaning Homer
T. Cummings, Attorney General
Frank Murphy was regarded with
askance for having failed to stop
labor strife while governor of Michi-
gan. After four months in office,
however, Frank Murphy had prob
ably shown himself one of the most
capable Observation-Disclosures
ever to hold the justice portfolio.
Resigned was New York's Federal
Judge Martin T. Manton, under
grand jury indictment. Alo indicted
was Kansas City's longtime Demo
cratic Boss Thomas Pendergast.
Pending were income tax evasion
cases against Philadelphia Inquirer
Publisher Moses Annenberg and
Chicago Politician Billy Skidmore.
Said Mr.. Murphy to Chicago Daily
News Paul Leach: THE important
thing is that the American peo-
pie have faith in their federal prose
cution and court machinery 4.
There will be no political fixing
while / am attorney general"
q Expected in September, "anoth-
er New Dealer" by 26-year-old Mrs.
Harold L. Ickes, wife of the 65-year-
old secretary Of the interior.
G Nominated as ambassador to Ar
gentina, 53-year-old Norman Arm
our, currently ambassador to Chile,
formerly minister to Canada and a
career diplomat since he went to
Vienna in 1912.
q Reported dead il a Nazi concen-
tration camp near Vienna, Duke
Ernst Hohenberg, second son of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose
assassination at Sarajevo in 1914
started the World war.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
Pattern 6317

Mexico, land of excitement and
color, served as inspiration for
these fascinating designs for lin
ems. Bright prints from your
scrap bag form the easy applique
patches while simple embroidery
adds the finishing touches. You
can turn out delightful tea cloth,
towel or scarf quick as a wink!
Pattern 6317 contains a transfer
pattern of four motifs averaging
5s4 by 834 inches; patterns for ap-
plique patches; materials needed;
color schemes; illustrations Of
stitches.
To obtain this pattern, send Is
cents in coins to The Sewing Cir
Gle, Household Arts Dept, 259 w.
14th ST., New York, N. Y.
Please write your name, ad-
dress and pattern number plainly.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
Small G. o. p. Machines
Demand RECOGNITION

II should not be overlooked, how
ever, that there is hair-pulling in
prospect on the Republican side as
well. 1t extends down to the grass
roots because of individual thinking
that has been taking place. This
condition results through lack of
federal political machine. Dozens
OF small machines have been wag-
ging their own tails for so long
that they now are demanding rec
ognition from the brass hats at the
top.
Further, since there is a growing
belief that the Republican presiden-
tial nomination in 1910 is worth
something that is, that the Repub-
icans have chance after eight
years of political drouth-there is an
extraordinary crop of favorite sons
coming forward.
Concerning the prospective cam
paign, itself, there again is that un-
certainty about Mr.. Roosevelt's per-
sonal popularity, about the prestige
he has or will be able to lend to the
mantle bearer of the Democratic
party. There is likewise the ques-
tion as to how much of the New
Deal ought to be discarded and how
much ought to be kept, and it is not
an easy decision to make.
There is, for instance, no ques-
ton in my mind but that voters
everywhere are getting disgusted
with too much government. 1 do
not mean to infer that they are unan-
imous. But the evidence cumulates
that the federal government is en-
gaging in too many functions; that
it is invading private rights too far;
that its general scope is beyond what
government was designed to be, and
that more and more people are say
ing there ought to be some laws
repealed" rather than that there
ought to be a law"
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
LABOR:
FDR Dog House

In 1922 half million u. S. coal
miners struck from April to Sep
tember 6. In 1889 about $50, 600 soft
coal miners went out again, not to
celebrate a seventeenth anniversary
but because c. l. O.'s John L. Lewis
ordered it. Reason: c. l. O.'s United
Mine Workers demanded a closed
shop to protect itself against threat
ened raids by rival A. F. of l..
union. Guided by U. S. Conciliator
John R. Steelman, employers and
c. /. O. representatives argued one
month to a stalemate, operators Of
fering as their final proposal a
checkoff system under which mines
would remain an open shop but dues
would be levied against both union
and non-union workers. c. l. o. re-
jected this and by May l some AGO.
600 workers were idle. Meanwhile
the nation faced its worst coal short
age since 1922.
Pressed by public opinion. Presi-
dent Roosevelt finally decided his
conciliator should get tough Lee
tured Mr.. Steelman to weary con-
ferees: Il insist that you bring this
matter to civilized conclusion. 1t
i'll behooves grown men to Sc
riously contemplate open warfare
The American public will not
stand for a state of insurrection
brought about by an industry involv-
ing vital minority of our popula-
ton"
A few days later settlement ap-
peared imminent; certainly not per-
manent, but the simple type of set
tlement John Lewis has offered all
along and which thus far had re-
ceived no consideration. Four times
before the 1879 contract expired,
U. M. w. A. proposed that it be ex-
tended until new agreement could
be drawn up. Only hitch is that by
sponsoring such temporary truce
obviously in public INTEREST," the
President is unavoidably siding with
c. /. o. against employees. Already
in the dog house so far as business
is concerned, this would hardly win
him any friends.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
FORECAST

BY MICS President Major Len
OK r. Lohr, a-high-frequency
transmitters that can rifle" tele-
vision programs through booster
stations at 15-n1ile intervals from
New York to Chicago, overcom-
ing television's present distance
handicap.
BY Bishop Frederick D. Leete
of Deland, Fla, early worldwide
union of three branches of the
Methodist church.
BY Mexican government Off
cials, early settlement of the
u. S.-Mexican oil-land controver-
sy, following new conference be-
tween Americas Donald Rich
berg and Mexico's President La
zaro Cardenas.
BY British Prime Minister
Chamberlain, early consumma-
ton of barter-trade deal be-
tween the u. S. and Britain in
volving British tin and rubber for
American wheat and cotton.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18

(2) AS his reward, Mussolini would
win German help in breaking up
Yugoslavia, now torn by southern
Serb and northern Croat autonomy
moves which are strongly reminis-
cent of the late CZecho-Slovakia' S
troubles. Marching in to keep
peace" and expand his political do
main, Mussolini would add to the
Balkan domination he began by
seizing Albania.
81 Another reward would be re-
emphasis of Germany's promise to
help Italy win Mediterranean claims
from France, including free port
at Djibouti in French Somaliland,
domination over the Djibouti-Addis
Ababa railroad, joint control over
the Suez canal and an adjustment
regarding Italians in French Tu-
nisia.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
Bruckart's Washington Digest
Early Political Activity Presages
Bitter l94OPresidential Campaign
Widespread Movement Away From New Deal Phioso,
ply of Government Worries Democratic Leaders;
Popularity of President Yet to Be Evaluated.
BY WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg Washington n G.

XXIASHINGTON.-There seems to
w be no doubt that the political
mill for 1910 has begun to grind
earlier than has happened in al
most any modern time. Politicians
and political forecasters, alike,
agree that the activity, the advance
agents of the 1910 campaign with its
national conventions and presiden-
tial nominations and national elec-
tons, is evident now to a greater
extent than has been recorded in
almost any other quadrennial Pc
riod.
1t is to be recognized, of course,
that there would be more intensive
effort in advance of the 1910 cleo
tions than occurred prior to the 1886
national elections because, presum-
ably at least, both great political
parties will be sorting over the can
didates.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-05-18
ASIA:
Up the Riuer

Twenty-Five months ago China's
capital was Marking. Japanese ag-
gression pushed it westward up the
Yangtze to Hankow, next backward
into Szechwan province and the an
cient walled city of Chungking. Play
ing a retreating game, Gen. Chang
Kai-shek knows that the deeper he
can draw Japan into his bailiwick,
the easier will China's resistance be.