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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-11
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-11
ONeil Warns
Of Shortage
Water Situotion
Called Serious

Tacoma Is facing such a serious
water shortage In the next few
weeks that residents Of higher parts
81 the city may not have even
drinking water Utilities Commits
sioner r. n ONeA told members
Of the Lincoln Citizens club Tues
day night at the 3sth Street Ma
sonic hall.
The shortage, strangely. can he
blamed indirectly on the European
war the commissioner revealed.
Some years ago, O'Neil said. the
city contracted with two large in
dustries on the tideflats for huge
daily supply of water.
Opposed Contract
Personally, l opposed that con-
tract at the time" said the COM
missioner. but Tacoma went ahead
and sewed up its water supply for
10 years to a dangerous point for
its citizens"
The pulp industry, he said. be-
cause of world conditions is in a
particularly thriving condition and
running full blast, taking all water
the contract permits. The city
must live up to its contract or face
q lawsuit.
Weather conditions can be blam-
ed. though. for a major part of the
water shortage. Snowfall over the
winter. O'Neil said. was only ~
per cent Of normal and June rain
fall only one-tenth of normal,
To Start Surveys
OF power conditions. the utilities
chief was more optimistic, although
he said a shortage is due in that
field. too, in the next few years
anticipation of that, he said,
engineers from his department will
start next month on surveys of
possible additional power sites.
Tacoma can produce power with
its own plants" O'Neil said,
cheaper than it can buy from gov
eminent plants, delivered here
Once the plants are paid for, the
city is definitely ahead of the
game"
O'Neil declared Initiative 139 is
the product of the private power
interests trying to wreck public
utilities like Tacoma Power"
The commissioners appearance
before the Lincoln club was his first
there since his election in March.
A large group of members heard
him and was entertained by solos
by Eddie Mitchell. A $40 appro-
priation to Red Cross war relief
was made from the club treasury.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-11
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-11
To Discuss Charter
Al Evening Meeting

Representatives ~ various clubs
forming tho Federation u Inn.
rrnvemsnt Clubs and other inter.
esied citizens viii attend a charter
study meeting At the city hall
council chambers =, p N. Wed.
nesday.
Arthur NJ AnKese. chief clerk
Of the hoard of contracts. viii dis.
euss the oouncll-mansger plan.
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-11

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-11
IARCHHOST MEETING

The Lsrchmont Community club
will meet at : p m. Wednesday.
July 10. IN the old Lzrehmont
sehoo. house.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Rev. D. Butler Pratt
Funeral Tomorrow

Funeral services will be held at
10:30 am. tomorrow at Mount
Pleasant Congregational Church
for the Rev. D. Butler Pratt, former
dean Of the school of religion at
Howard University. DR.. Pratt died
Sunday at his home, 1245 Critten-
den street NV. He will be buried
in Brooklyn, N. Y.
DR.. Pratt had been dean Of the
school of religion at Howard 13
years when he retired in 1894. He
came to the university in 1917 as
professor of church history and
sociology after a long career In Ne
gro education in the South.
Born in Dudley, Mass, DR.. Pratt
was graduated from Williams COL
lege in 1888 and received his bache-
lor of divinity degree at Andover
Seminary in 1887. Howard Univer-
sity conferred the degree of doctor
of divinity upon him in 1914.
Before entering the educational
field DR.. Pratt held pastorates in
Brooklyn, N. Y, and Springfield,
Mass. While in Washington he was
active in work of the Washington
Federation of Churches, serving on
several interracial committees.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
D. T.. Income Tax
Insfa||ment Plan
Awaits House Action
Consideration Expected
February II; Senate
Decision Slated Later

Legislation designed to split the
Districts income tax payment into
two installments today awaited only
House approval to send it on a
journey toward final enactment.
The House is expected to consider
the plan February u, the next day
it is scheduled to take up District
legislation.
Bills pending before both the
House and Senate would relieve tax
payers of the burden of paying the
entire tax March Is and at the same
time advance the date for payment
of the first installment to April Is.
The second installment would have
to be paid October Is.
Senate May Wait on House.
Chairman King of the Senate Dis
trict Committee, who sponsored the
legislation in the Senate, said he
would not seek action there until
after the House had acted.
The proposal Of the Commis-
sioners to allow payment of the tax
in two installments met with prompt
approval at the Capitol. Less than
an hour after request was made for
the legislation, the House District
Committee Endorsed it, even before
q formal bill to put it into effect
had been introduced. Several hours
later, Chairman King introduced
the bill in the Senate.
Haste Urged by Seal.
Corporation Counsel Elwood H.
Seal had stressed the urgency of
early action on the proposed legis-
lation. He said delay would result
in a. Jam" in the Office of the tax
assessor and at the same time leave
taxpayers in doubt as to whether
the tax should be paid in one in
stallment March IS, or whether the
payment could be split and the first
payment made q month later on
April Is.
The bill authorizing q two-part
payment also carries a provision
authorizing the Commissioners to
borrow from the Federal Treasury
for two years enough funds to pre-
clude q deficit In District revenues
resulting from change in the orig
inal plans for collection Of the tax.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Fire Station and Jail
Items for District
Go 10 Committee
Supplemental Estimates
Of $169, ,420 Call Also
For Completing School

The House today referred to It's
Appropriations Committee supple
mental estimates for the 1910 fiscal
year containing items to complete
an addition to the District Jail and
to carry out the program of the Fire
Survey Board for the relocation and
consolidation of various fire engine
companies.
The supplemental estimates. sent
to Congress yesterday by President
Roosevelt, called for additional funds
for the District totaling $169, 40
Slightly less than 100000 of this
amount, however, would be spent at
the jail and In putting the Fire De-
partment reorganization plan into
effect.
Would Complete School.
The President recommended that
$60,O0 60 into the relief and re-
tirement fund of the Police and Fire
Departments, and that $4,000 be
used to complete construction of the
new senior high school at Fifth and
Sheridan streets NV. Another
$2,500 was allocated to printing and
binding expenses.
Congress was told that $4,000
would be needed for alterations and
repairs to fire. engine houses pre-
liminary to consolidation OF the COM
panies, and an additional $14,720
would be necessary for relocation of
wiring to fire alarm boxes and other
changes In the Fire Departments s
electrical system. A portion of the
$14, ,720 would be used, it was said,
for necessary changes in the Police
Departments wire communication
system in connection with the re-
vamping of the second precinct.
Reduces No. 2 Precinct.
The second precinct will be re-
duced in size upon completion of a
new station house on New York ave-
nue. between Fifth and Sixth streets
NV. It will then be known as the
second precinct station. The present
second precinct station on U street
between Ninth and Tenth streets
NV. will become No. 13.
The President explained in the
supplemental estimates that District
officials planned to abandon fire.
houses now quartering Nos. l, 4, S, 10
and II engine companies and to en-
large houses quartering truck COM
panies Nos. S, 6, Z, 10 and 13 to ac-
commodate the engine companies.
The item for completion of con-
struction Of the addition to the Jail
calls for $64,0
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Your ,. G. Income Tax
INV. 17-Deductions for Losses-

Certain which have suffered during
the local law the losses
insurance otherwise In general the oeouct
losses fall into either Of these classes:
incurred in the taxpayers trade business or pro-
which subject to the local income levy
transaction entered into for profit
asceaned be worthless and charged of within the
taxable year.
deductble only in the in which 1t is sustained
compensated otherwise OF course are
deductb the the amount Of insurance not
for the loss sustained the excess OF the
loss the amount of insurance is deductbe
generally result from the purchase and sale OF
usually ascertaned by OF
inventories required by the District when
their determine the income Of
taxpayer.
transaction into profit kind
proposition For instance purchase automo-
bile solely for business purposes and sell at loss the loss de-
ducbe because this business proposition bought the
pleasure and sold at loss this would not
be deducbe item because the ansacon was not business deal
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Sfricter Pedestrian
Control in Outlying
Sections Proposed
Decline in Injuries
Cited by Van Duzer to
Porents and Teachers
Traffic Record

the tramc record, 0S reVealeo
at police headquarters for a.
hour period ending 8 am. to-
day:
Fatalities, l pedestrian.
Accidents, Is.
Motorists injured, I.
Motorists arrested, 301.
Pedestrians injured, l.
Pedestrians arrested for vio-
lation of pedestrian control
regulations, none. 4
Evening star., 1940-01-30
.Low-Cost Milk
Authorized for
DC. Thursday
Federal Supervision
Leaves Distribution Up
ToLocuI Officials

Federal supervision Of Washing
tion's milk industry will be re-estab-
lished Thursday under a marketing
program which includes a broad
proviso for low-cost milk for the
city's needy.
A Federal order putting in effect
at that time terms of milk market
ing agreement was signed yesterday
by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace.
The Secretary at the same time
appointed Charles Irwin Dunn, for
mer Maryland dairyman, overseer Of
milk marketing relations between
Washington milk distributors and
the dairy farmers.
'Indorsed by Farmers.
The Federal order followed White
House approval of the terms Of the
agreement, which already had re-
ceived the Endorsement of an over
whelming majority of the dairy
farmers. Eighty per cent of the
latter are members Of the Maryland
and Virginia Milk Producers Asso-
citation, instrumental in bringing
about hearings last fall which re-
suited in the drafting of the agree
ment.
Local milk handlers did not sign
the agreement, thereby making pres
idential approval of its terms neces-
sary before Government order
could be issued.
Designed to pave the way for low
cost milk-possibly 5 cents a quart
for thousands Of needy families in
the District, one clause in the
agreement provides that the farm
ers will accept $1995 hundred
weight for milk destined for this use.
A, plan for distribution is being
worked out by District officials.
No Retail Price Control
The marketing program does not
provide Federal control of retail
prices but establishes minimum
prices paid by the distributors to the
dairy farmers.
The order specifies the following
prices to be paid for milk as classi-
fed:
Class 1, fluid milk, s3.17 hun
dredweight for District of Columbia
inspected milk, and $2.71 for milk
sold in portions of the marketing
area outside the District by ham
dler not having local Health De-
partment permit.
Glass 2, milk used for chocolate
milk and whole milk drinks, fluid
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Mrs. Walters Will,
Leaving Estate to2
Hagner Girls, Upheld
Appeal Indicated by
P. A. Walters, Whom
Heiress Wed in 1889

The will of Mrs. Caroline Roeb-
ling Hagner Walters, in which the
granddaughter of the late great
bridge builder left an estate of about
81 100000 to her two children, was
upheld by Judge B. F. Curler in a
Reno (Nev) District Court late yes
terday afternoon. His ruling, in
effect, threw out the contesting Pc
tition of her second husband, Paul
A. Walters, who contended that her
subsequent marriage to him invali-
dated the will.
In his two-hour opinion read from
the bench, Judge Curler said the
issue at stake was whether the de-
ceased's marriage to Mr.. Walters
(after she had divorced Alexander
Hagner of Washington. D. c., and
Warrenton, Va automatically re-
voked the will. The judge held that
the old common law theory that a
married woman could not make a
will had been destroyed in later
years by legislative enactments.
Appeal by Walters Indicated.
Mr.. Walters, who will not share in
the estate under the judges ruling,
contended that under Nevada law
he was entitled to one-third of the
estate and that her marriage to him
automatically revoked the will and
attached codiccil. His attorneys in
dicated that an appeal would be
made to the Nevada Supreme Court.
The heiress to the Roebling
bridge building fortune married
Mr.. Walters shortly after her di-
vorce on May 8, 1889, from Mr..
Hagner. On July 8, 1899, Mrs.
Walters died at her Reno home
from a gunshot wound which
coroner's jury decided was self
inflicted by accident.
Will Made in 1888.
Her will and attached codicil,
dated January 81, 1898, and Feb
ruary %, 1889, respectively, left all
of her property in trust for her
children, Margaret Allison and Alex
andra Carolina Hagner. Mr.. Hag-
ner and George Cutting were au-
thorized to act as trustees for the
estates of the children.
Mr.. Walters petitioned the. court
on August IL, 1899, to be appointed
administrator of the estate.
Evening star., 1940-01-30

cream, creamed buttermilk, cottage
cheese, $190 for District inspected
milk, $167 for milk sold by handler
not having permit to sell this class
in the District.
The price of class 3 milk, the
cream from which is used to produce
| ice cream or ice cream mix, under
certain specified conditions, will be
determined later.
Sanitation Differences Affect Price.
The minimum prices for District
inspected milk are higher than for
inspected milk for sale in the mar
keting area outside the District.
principally because of differences
in sanitation requirements. Last
year the average level of prices paid
producers of District-inspected milk
was about 80 cents higher a hun
dredweight than prices paid for
milk distributed elsewhere in the
area.
Mr.. Dunn, who has been con-
nected with the dairy section Of
the Department of Agriculture since
1884, will supervise transactions be-
tween the distributor and producer.
His attention will be focused on
price payments and on other tech
nical producer-handler relationships
generally included in Government
sponsored marketing programs.
AS to the administration of the
low-cost milk program for needy
families, the order left that duty
strictly up to local officials. They
are to map out their own distribu-
ton system, with Department Of
Agriculture economists standing
ready to lend assistance and advice
whenever asked.
The Federal Government Is pre-
pared to subsidize the program
through the Surplus Commodities
Corp. if the District government so
desires and works out q means Of
cooperating.
Tried In 1886.
A Federal milk marketing program
was in effect for a few weeks in the
fall of 1896, but 1t was attacked sue
cessfully in District Court as uncon-
stitutional. Although the appellate
court reversed the decision, the pro-
gram was never resumed because the
farmers, the chief force behind the
original move, gained their end
higher price returns-by private bar
gaining with the distributors.
Prices in the Federal order-and
under the new classification-will
mean an increase in milk costs for
some Of the smaller handlers in the
Washington area, but the budget Of
the larger concerns will remain ap-
proximately the same, due to pre-.
viously scheduled operation Of han
ding plants Ia tho Nearby area.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Figures tending to show the ne'

Figures tending to show the need
of stricter inforcement Of pedestrian
regulations in outlying areas were
cited by Traffic Director William A.
Van Duzer today at meeting Of the
District of Columbia Congress OF
Parents and Teachers.
Reviewing the 10-month period
since pedestrian control" went to
effect, Mr.. Van Duzer said pedestrian
injuries had decreased by 6.6 per cent
from 1873 to 1,675for the entire
city.
In the central district, however,
the decline in injuries was even
greater-12.8 per cent, or from 28s
to 252-and this, the traffic director
said, showed the apparent need of
better enforcement outside Of the
downtown section.
Motorists Cooperation Asked.
Mr.. Van Duzer said there was evi-
dence that motorists are not doing
their 'full part in making the new
pedestrian protection program sue
cess" He called attention to a
number of instances where motorists
"interferred" with pedestrians cross
ing on the proper signal.
"Stricter enforcement Of the new
regulations as applied to both driver
and pedestrian should bring further
improvement, he said, adding: such
enforcement campaign, coupled with
the installation Of pedestrian sig
nails, crosswalks and islands, will put
Washington on the path to true
pedestrian protection"
Size Of Appropriations Deplored.
Other speakers at the meeting In
the National Education Association
Building included washington I.
Cleveland, manager Of the District
Branch, American Automobile Asso-
citation, who discussed means Of CO.
operating with schoolboy patrols,
and Robert w. Eaves, principal OF
the Thomson School, who out
lined the principles on which school
bicycle clubs are founded.
Mrs. George Clark, safety chair
man Of the congress, presided, and
spoke briefly, deploring the fact that
the school system is faring second
best" In District appropriations.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Police Urged Not 10 Ticket
Cars Marooned by Snow

The Keystone Automobile Club
yesterday appealed to police not
to ticket cars which have been ma
rooned at curbs in the residential
districts by ice and snow ruts.
The club said. it would be unfair
to penalize motorists who are vio-
lating the 18-hour parking regula-
ton against their will because Of
IAN act of God and the extreme in
adequacy of the city's snow-removal
equipment"
Thousands of cars have been
stalled along the curbs since the
heavy snow, and their owners can
not remove them without consider.
abs trouble and expense, It was said.
Evening star., 1940-01-30
Band Concert

BY the United States Army Band
at 2:30 pm. today in the Army Band
auditorium. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy,
leader, and Karl Hubner, assistant
leader.
Selection, "The Hall of Fame"
Arranged by Safranek
Characteristic, Lady of SPAIN"
Evans
Solo, "Elegie," from Lies Erinnyes, "
Massenet
Keig E. Garvin, trombonist.
Bolero, "Andalucia" -----Lecuona
Waltz. Three O'clock In the Morn
March, "Bombasto" "-----Farrar
The star spaneaed Banner"
Evening star., 1940-01-30
House Members Will Inspect
Conditions at Blue Plains
DC. Appropriations Subcommittee to View
Needs in Working on l941 Supply Bill

Conditions at the Home for the
Aged and Infirm at Blue Plains
recent target Of criticism by Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt-will be in
vestigated by the House Subcom-
mittee on District Appropriations, 1t
was announced yesterday by Chair
man Caldwell.
At the same time Representative
Caldwell, a Florida Democrat, dis
closed he planned to take his sub
committee on an inspection tour Of
all other District institutions as soon
as it starts work on the 1941 munich
pal supply bill. Hearings on this
bill, he said, probably will start early
in March.
Would Cover All Phases.
II plan to have the subcommittee
visit all District institutions" de-
clared Mr.. Caldwell. "The Home
for the Aged and Infirm is no more
important than the water works, the
detention home for children or other
things in the general scheme of
things. It is a terrible place, I
know. Every such place is terrible.
But we will try and take care Of
those old people out there"
Mr.. Caldwell said he visited the
institution several years ago as a
member of the District Subcommit-
tee on Appropriations and was ia
miliar with conditions existing at
that time.
Houston Interested.
Representative Houston, Demo-
crat, of Kansas, latest addition to
the subcommittee, said he would be
glad to go on an inspection trip to
the institution, because he had never
been there on a visit.
IF conditions are as bad there
Evening star., 1940-01-30
lckes Orders Collection
OF 6 Million From Firm
BY the Associated Press.

BY the A8s0ctAted PrekS.
Secretary Ickes ordered last night
that Interior Department officials
proceed at once to collect $6,21A, ,102
from the Standard Oil Co. of Cali
fornia and secure title to the section
Of oil land in Elk Hills, Calf, which
has been in litigation since it was
involved in the oil scandals of the
Harding administration.
The Supreme Court yesterday re-
fused to review the decision of the
Ninth. Federal Circuit Court, which
awarded the land to the Govern
ment and gave It . Judgment for
uso Of the land and it, oil.
Evening star., 1940-01-30

as the reports indicate" he declared,
ut would be false economy not to
make the needed improvements.
Il will certainly give every con-
sideration to the needs Of the in
stitution."
Evening star., 1940-11-03

form tiny peppermint -flavored tablets scarcely
larger than an aspirin tablet that children chew
like candy give it this way. For each tablet
contains the equivalent of one teaspoonful of
the liquid Phillips and big box costs only
25c at your drugstore.
The small bottle of liquid Phillips costs but
a quarter, too, so no family need take any
chances on an unknown preparation. Get the
genuine Phillips by asking for it by its full
name Phillips Milk of Magnesia."
Evening star., 1940-11-03

In summer time Eskinos
-os you might imoeine-
like to relax. Nothing SO re-
Ioxine os whiting, whether
on bone or wood, and thot's
one Of their fovorite pos
times between chores. Even
the little man of the group
hos his pocket knife busy.
Dexterity in mony lines is
given eorly encouragement
with Eskimo youngsters to
serve them in their later
stern bottle for existence.
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