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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-07
Nobody's Sweetheart Now. "
4:lo. 100. $50.
RETURN SHOWING

RETURN SHOWING
BEVERLY Burns IN Comm
Round the Mountain. also Brian
DonleYy IN The Great Mc0inty.
coMMuNITN-Ray Mllland an Pa
trieia Morrison IN Unframed . also
Lam Turner IN We Who Are
Young"
kAy STREET-William Holden and
Martha Scott IN Our Town, also
Village Barn Dance.
LAkEw Maureen oHara and
Adolph MenJon IN a Bill OF
Enforcement also Pop Always
Pays
PROCTOR - Margaret SULLIVAN and
James Stewart In The Mortal
Storm" also Warren william and
Jean Muir in The Lone Vol
Meets a Lady
PARK Constance Moore in
Framed. also Lola Lane IN
Zanzibar"
REAIART-Don Ameche and Mary
Beth Hughes IN -Four Sons
REN-Lana Turner In We Who Are
soung9 also John Wayne In g
Faces West
sHEI.Is-Cesar Romero and Jean
Rogers In viva Cisco Kid. also
Tailspin Tommy in Danger
Flight"
81 >sET-William Powell and Myrna
10y In Il Love You Again, also
Jack Holt In Passport to Alcatraz. "
IEMpLE-Wailace Beery In Treasure
Island, also Richard DIX IN
Reno
LIBERTY, Pn,aliup-Carole Lands
IN Mystery Sea Raider; also
Maureen O'Hara In "A Bill OF
enforcement"
RIVIERA. sumner--Victor McLagler
In South of Page Page" with Jor
Hall and Francis Farmer
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-07
Moon Over Burma Opens al
The Rialto Theater Thursday
Dorothy Lomour. Preston Foster And
Robert Preston In Romantic Thriller

5 off her long locks and turns
abetted b. two virile eo-stars
he persons Of Robert Preston
logical outcome Is a picture
lgry America. Entitled Moon
to start doing Just that on
A few days later the scene has
shifted To a compound up in the
jungle where Dorothy complicates
everything Tor everybody. She
has both Preston and Foster in
love with her. She startles the
natives BY wearing a white shark
skin playsuit and who wouldn't
be startled and then she has the
boys aged and sightless partner,
played BY Albert Basserman. wor-
RED about her presence
The fact that the boys have oor-
rowed money only involves mat
ters more. for the man they hor-
row It from has daughter
played BY Doris Nolan who falls
for Preston Foster. As il turns
out. she tells Robert Preston that
Preston Foster loves Dorothy La
mour and vice versa. if you follow
us. And then fun goes under full
steam. leading to climactic log
Jam and forest fire and everything
that could no wanted IN tOp off
fun. Louis King directed.
As an added attraction the
Rialto will show The World IN
Flames
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-07
Public Deb
AT Roxy Today
Cisco Kid Returns
In Companion Film

George Murphy Is an actor Of
many and varied roles. But his
most unusual film assignment TO
date was administering a sound
spanking to lovely Brenda Joyce
IN Elsa Maxwell's Public Deb
No /. the goth century-Fox com
edy which opens today at the
Roxy theater
Brenda Is cast as an heiress
who turns a gilded Red" in the
film, and Murphy plays the broke
but brash young man. to whom
America is still Gods country. who
tries 70 smack her back into line
Director Gregory Ratoff insisted
on the utmost IN realism. although
Murphy. a perfect gentleman who
never struck a lady IN his life,
tried his darndest 10 pull his
smacks. This dissension between
gallantry and realism resulted in
no less than six retakes and by
the final one Brenda didn't have
to do much acting to suggest a
thoroughly spanked young woman.
Public Deb. No. l. was pro-
duced by Daryl F Zanuck with
great comedy cast. which features
Brenda. Murphy. Elsa Maxwell.
Mischa Auer. Charlie Ruggles,
Ralph Bellamy. Make Rosenbloom.
Barton Churchill and Franklin
Pangborn. Gene Marley was as
sociate producer.
As a companion attraction. Cesar
Romero will return as the Cisco
Kid IN The Gay Caballero."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-07

finish is in prospect during to-
nights sprint period which has
been increased TO 271a minutes
Comedy will be injected into the
more serious end of tonight's show
by the two popular "stooges. "
Itzie Bachareh and J m m e
Ferenzi They'll be the principals
in an hilarious "Jitterbug We'd
ding. with even the wedding
march PLAYED in swing time.
Everyone will be dressed for the
occasion and laugh second is
promised those attending.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-07

KONf-George Murphy and Brenda
Joyce In Public Deb Number ono. .
90. $50 $40. $50. also Cesar
Romero and Chris PIN Martin IN
Tine Gay Caballero. IL 50, 2.45.
5.35. B.45
RIAITo--cary Grant. Martha Scott
and Sir Cedric Hardwieke IN The
Towards Of Virginia" ll.55, $50,
800. 7:35. 1905.
MUSIC BON-Don hmeehe and Betty
CRADLE in Down Argentine Way"
i2:45. 3.55. 7;o5 1915. also John
Barrymore and Mary Beth Hughes
IN The Great Profile IL 80, 2.4o.
$50. 6.5o.
RIyIERA--George o'Brien and VIZ
ginia Vale In Triple Justice. .
II 30. 2i5. 4 SIS. TAO. 1928 also
Jean Hersholt and Dorothy Lovett
In Or Christian Meets the
Women" / 90, 3:4o, Gas. o:io.
BLUE NoTsI-Wallaee Beery and
Marjorie Main In Wyoming. II 40.
2.3o. 3 40. $40. IL 90. also Dennis
O'Keefe and Helen Parrish In I'm
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-07
Murder to
Share Screen
Myrno 10y And Mel.
Douglos In Feoture

Myrna 10y. perfect wife Of The
Thin Man. pictures. and Melvyn
Douglas. who made Carlo laugh
ir ..Ninotchka. team for the first
time In Third Finger. Left Hand.
Hilarious adventure In romance
coming Thursday to the Music
Box theater. Miss 10y proves far
from a perfect wife. and keeps
Douglas In more trouble than she
did William Powell IN II Love You
Again
She invents a husband for busi-
ness reasons. and Douglas. in love
with her. shows up and pretends to
be the mythical spouse. keeping
away her other two suitors. She
can't expose him. 50 takes 1t out
by getting him into all manner
Of troubles--all of them funny.
Her attorney. Lee Bowman,
wants to arrange divorce for her
50 that ne can marry her himself.
but III iif Gnu tiit Mdiiiut lt-
mancers. who got married so that
she could be legally divorced. dis
cover they were really in love with
each other all along. and. with de-
ecptions ended. all ends merrily
and happily.
Robert z. Leonard. veteran d.
rector of "Maytime. IN w
Moon" and Pride and Prejudice.
directed. The principals include
Raymond Walburn. Bonita Gran
vile, Donald Meek. the eccentric
bee man Of the Nick Carter series,
Felix Bressart of "Ninotchka"
fame. and Ann Morriss.
On the same bill will be Sky
Murder" starring Walter Pidgeon
in another Nick Carter role.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-07

e. ulpI{1A Will lllEdI HITS II
and Preston Foster. the only
calculated to appease laugh-hu
Over Burma il is scheduled
Thursday at Rialto theater.
Lest there be any misapprehen-
sions about Miss Lamour. it should
be noted Immediately that she has
not been made over completely.
She has cut her hair. which has
changed her appearance to some
extent. but she hasn't given Up
chanting those torrid songs. and
she gives out with two Of them
in this picture. Mexican Magic
and Moon Over Burma
The picture itself. as the title
indicates. has tropical locale. but
It isn't Just another picture about
the tropics in which a few people
move around in the heat and Moth
ing happens. This picture finds
the two handsome fellows with
Preston in their names. partners
in the teak business and competing
for Miss Lamour's affections as
well.
This all comes about because
they need money to keep the teak
business going and run across
Miss Lamour chanting a ditty IN
Rangoon bistro after they have
borrowed the dough.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-07
CLUB TO HOLD DANCE

The Chambers Creek Improve
ment club will hold business
meeting at S p. m. Friday at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs Ernest
Paige. The club is sponsoring a
dance at Royce hall on Thursday
evening. Proceeds will be used
toward completing the organiza-
tons ball.
Evening star., 1940-04-04

powers that continuity Of policy and
parallel course" which Secretary
Hull has consistently described as
the keystone of our program in
opposing Japanese aggression in
China. It is program which leaves
the United States free at all times
to pursue action conceived to be In
its own interest, such as the denun-
citation Of our commercial treaty
with Japan, yet permits us to Coop
crate, without entangling commit
ments, with other powers who have
parallel" purposes in the Far East.
The new demonstration of Anglo
Franco-American solidarity is de-
signed, If anything can be, to give
the Japanese government, the war
lords who control it, and the puppet
premier Of Central China" clearly
to understand that the Occident is
not yet ready to turn over the Orient
as an exclusively and exclusionist
Japanese preserve.
Evening star., 1940-04-04
THIS AND THAT
By Charles Z. Trace1pell.

there are certain sorts Of illnesses In
which the pain Is not acute, and what
may be called the observing faculties
are untouched. These persons will bene-
At largely from bird watching.
The sight may be provided at little or
no expense. A window sill will do, and
bread crumbs provide the food for the
feathered guests. Or simple board with
. rim may be placed at any sill, and
chick feed put on it.
What If only English sparrows conner
They are birds, too. and no doubt have
furnished many q message Of cheer
under adversely to human watchers.
The fox sparrow is one Of our very
best.
He is about 6h inches long, in con.
trast with the cardinals sA inches.
We will tell you the bird which looks
much more like cardinal. It Is the
purple finch, another beauty.
When he is in his deep wine-colored
stage there is no prettier bird which
comes to local feeders.
Like q scarlet tanager, he may give
you only glimpse, but what picture!
We had one the other day, just for
two minutes, but 1t was enough, If not
As long as we would have liked. You
cannot be "choosy" in bird Watching
that is, If you want to get the most
out of 1t.
Why, there was q little cardinal!
The crest didn't look exactly right,
there wasn't enough Of it, nor did the
coloring. But the first name which
came to mind was cardinal.
Another look and we saw it was not
cardinal at all, but one Of these nne
fellows the purple finch, which runs
about 6A inches long.
The colorings are not really cardinal
like, Of course. They are really a deep
wine, purple wine, instantly striking
the observer as something rather Diff
ferent.
The "crest" Is not really a crest but
rather a rumpling of the feathers on the
head, such as some birds display, max
ing observers think they have seen q
crest.
4
This is a good time OF year to begin
feeding, If you have not done So
The time-honored beginning is autumn
and winter, at least the latter, especially
when snow lies on the ground. But
there is something to be said for early
spring.
There are many migrating birds, and
these will drop down where food and
water are displayed, along with other
birds already partaking Of these.
If you already have been feeding, dc
not discontinue it now. It is all right
to cut down on the number OF stations
but keep one or two going.
Migrating birds and regulars will feel
at home in your yard. BY continuing the
feeding, you are sure Of getting more
to nest with you than If you did not.
Evening star., 1940-04-04
Fire Protection

Evidence so far compiled by Dis
trict officials as a consequence Of the
disastrous o street apartment flre
indicates definitely the need for
stronger regulations as to fire pro-
lection measures and probably for
larger force of fire and building
inspectors.
While the technical and legal
studies, essential to a final determi-
nation, have not been completed, it
appears there are loopholes in pres
ent rules which should be plugged,
in the interest Of the safety Of per-
sons inhabiting multi-family dwell
ing units.
The District inspector of buildings,
Colonel Oehmann, has declared his
belief there are perhaps more than
a hundred fire traps" in the District,
housing numbers of tenants. The
District code as to fire protection
requirements has been revised in
recent years but new rules cannot be
made fully retroactive. Even now,
a committee of District officials Is
considering further changes.
Yet there seems to be evidence
that, without regard to changed
rules, there are many multi-family
units built in violation of rules exist
ing at the time they were erected. Is
this the fault of the building inspec-
tion system? Colonel Oehmann
asserts his men'make all the inspec-
tions possible; that they cannot ade-
quately cover the field. A house,
passing muster today, it is said, may
be changed tomorrow in violation OF
the law, and the violation may go
unnoticed for years. Some builders
or owners, it is said, will risk rela-
lively small fines at court to gain
rent from tenants.
If this is so, why has not the build
ing inspection service taken action
heretofore? The answer seems to be
the legal difficulty of getting service
OF orders on nonresident property
owners, finding means of compelling
owners to comply with orders as to
fire escapes and other fire protection
facilities, or to accomplish condem-
nation Of buildings not properly
suited to multi-family use. It ap-
pears that the present law is def
nitely weak and the efforts to
obtain remedy just as weak.
On the basis Of reports by Build
ing Inspector Oehmann. build
ers, landlords or lessees of apart
ments or rooming houses can and
do evade requirements of the fire
protection code. According to reports
to the Commissioners, one apartment
owner has resisted for more than a
year an order to install fire escapes,
fire extinguishers and the like, and
up to today the District has been
unable to ascertain the address of
the owner. But 1t is nothing less
than fantastic that such a condition
should exist, and, with adequate ad-'
ministration at the District Building,
The Star does not believe it would
exist
Evening star., 1940-04-04
Cancer Control Month

The past few years have seen
enormous advances toward the
eventual conquest of cancer, the dis
ease which is perhaps the most
dreaded foe Of the human race.
Such colorful procedures as the
freezing treatment, bombardment
with neutron rays, use of cheap, ar
tificial radioactive elements and a
dozen others of hardly less signifi-
canoe have brought new hopes and,
in some cases, more disappointments.
Probably the most significant ad-
vances have been toward a clearer
understanding Of the fundamental
mechanisms of the fatal anarchistic
cell proliferation. Much of this has
little practical application at pres
ent. All in all, it may be said, SCI
ence has barely a toe over the
threshold.
Meanwhile there are two tested
and highly effective therapies Of
long standing-surgery and radia-
ton. Their effectiveness varies al
most directly in proportion to the
time of the treatment A few weeks,
or even a few days, may mean the
difference between a complete cure
and an inevitable fatality. It is uni
versally recognized that If every ma
lignant neoplasm could be treated at
its first appearance the cancer death
rate could be reduced tremendously.
For this campaign Of persistent
publicity and education is essential.
This Is job which has been under
taken by the Women's Field Army,
composed Of influential women In
every State and large city, which
works under the direction of the
American Society for the Control OF
Cancer. The field army has an all
year job, but it has become the prac-
tice for some years past to work
with special intensity during the
month of April. This has become
known as Cancer Control Month, set
aside by presidential proclamation,
when every possible avenue Of educa-
ton and publicity by which the pub
lie may be reached is used to its ut
most effectiveness. This will be the
case this year. It deserves the whole
hearted support Of every person and
every institution interested In the
prolongation Of human life ana the
decrease Of human suffering.
Evening star., 1940-04-04

he needs in order to lay his plans
and carry them out. Constant re-
placement Of personnel In wartime
leadership is bad for morale and q
deterrent to effective cooperation
in alliances.
II before M. Reynaud again faces
Parliament-and a possible conf
dence vote-the new allied leader
ship can give some manifestation of
aggressive action - diplomatic or
military-the prospects for an end to
partisan pickering in France will be
measurably heightened.
Evening star., 1940-04-04

national chairman, for settlement of
those obligations is the peace strategy
involved in the agitation for war debts
collection.
An overwhelming majority of the
American people want to keep out of
foreign wars hereafter. While it is un-
doubtedly true that the greater portion
OF our citizenry hopes to see the allies
win, 1t is even more true that a much
larger group is unalterably opposed to
participation in the second World War
under any circumstances-unles of
course, the extremely improbable should
occur and the United States should be
invaded. Under normal conditions it
would be next to impossible to cajole,
coerce, lure or lash the American people
into this or any other alien conflict
But the most skilled, shrewd and
subtle propagandists the world has. ever
known infest the country from one end
to the other. They are assiduously en-
gagged in trying to change the mind Of
the public and convince us that we must
again help save democracy from obliter-
alton. Despite the widespread and
healthy distaste of the average American
for anything that savors of once more
sending our soldiers overseas, there is
always the danger that the sly and
scheming agents of transatlantic i'm
pertatism may succeed, and get us into
the European inferno in spite of our
selves. They were successful two dec
ades ago. They may be again. After
all, they are not novices in the cruel
and crafty game they play.
One of the most effective antidotes
to the poison Of pro-war propaganda
that is being poured into the veins Of
the Nation is the agitation for collec-
ton Of the debts OF that other painful
and costly conflict. Even If not cent
Of those war debts is ever collected,
either in real estate, cash, ships or
commodities there is good reason
to think that partial collection may be
effected-the very demand is certain to
make participation In another foreign
war less likely. Nobody relishes being q
sucker. Americans, who pride themselves
on a fair amount Of alertness and So
phistication, are especially averse to
permitting anything to be put over on
them. When reminded that, besides
deaths, disabilities, damages and general
war expenses, the first World War cost
this Government over $14,500, 900 900 in
loans that have never been repaid, most
people are apt to make . wry face at
new war proposals.
To be sure, there is abundant justin
cation for urging payment Of the Eu.
ropean war debts at this belated period.
OF this plenty has been said in Congress,
IN the press and elsewhere, and plenty
more will be said.
Little attention has so far been paid.
however, to the war debt collection
movement as . factor for preserving
peace. This phase Of the matter should
be noted by all who honestly desire to
aid in preventing q repetition Of the
blunder America made 23 years ago.
LINN A. E. GALE,
March 30.
Evening star., 1940-04-04
Freedom of Press

"A contempt case which promises
to become historic has resulted In
jail sentences and fines for two
members Of the editorial staff of the
st. Louis Post Dispatch and a two
thousand-dollar fine for the paper
because Of editorials and a cartoon
assailing circuit Judge and prose-
cutor for dismissing an extortion
charge against a member Of the
Missouri Legislature.
In civil case prior to the GRIM
inal action. and involving the same
principals, another Judge had found
that some ten thousand dollars had
changed hands secretly and illegally.
Severance proceedings in the GRIM
inal case then enabled separate trials
of two defendants. After the case
against the State legislator had been
presented, the court ordered his ac-
quittal, and the other indictment was
nol-prossed. The Post Dispatch,
long noted as vigorous crusader for
clean government, denounced the
action in vigorous language, and the
contempt citation quickly followed.
The Post-Dispatch set up as a de-
fense the constitutional right of
newspaper to express an honest opin-
ion about judicial conduct. It was
pointed out that the papers express
sion in no way interfered with the
course Of justice; that the trials had
been concluded, and the defendants
were not subject to further prosecu-
tion on the charges. The attorney
for the court fell back on a case
decided in the Supreme Court OF
Missouri in 1903 adjudging a news
paper in contempt for comment after
a trial presumably had been con-
cluded.
AS the case now stands, the ques-
tions OF the alleged improperly of
the courts conduct and the appro-
priateness of the language used by
the newspaper in its criticism become
Of secondary Importance. If the edi-
torial comment was false the Judge
and the prosecutor had the remedy
OF libel action. Should the mere
fact of their judicial status, after the
particular case in question had been
closed. be construed as justifying the
use Of contempt proceeding, in
which the deciding judge is also the
complaining party?
If this question should be answered
in the affirmative it is not difficult
to conceive Of a situation in which
a newspaper might hesitate to en-
gage in even the most legitimate
criticism of courts action. Yet
there have been many cases, some in
the recent past, in which venality
on the part Of judges has been
brought to light by newspaper action.
Obviously, this question of whether
a judge, by threat of contempt pro-
ceeding, should be permitted to. put
himself beyond the reach of criticism
while also enjoying the protection of
the libel laws is one closely Affecting
the public interest. It is to be hoped
that the Post-Dispatch, should such
action become necessary, will not
stop short of securing a Supreme
Court ruling on the issue.