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Evening star., 1940-10-21
US. kagnate's S Daughter
ENGAGED 10 British War Ace
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
OYSTER BAY, N. Y, Oct. Ala
wartime romance between a socially
prominent American girl ambulance
driver in England and a Royal Air
Force ace said to have shot down
% Nazi planes was disclosed yes
terday.
Martha Jane Mooney, "a, daughter
of James D. Mooney, vice president
of the General Motors Corp, cabled
her father she was engaged to 1t.
John Keswick McGrath.
"McGrath has shot down % Nazi
planes, for which he has received
the Distinguished Flying Cross" Mr..
Mooney said. When we had word
from Martha it explained that he
was then in hospital. having been
brought down after his own great
record"
Miss Mooney, who went abroad In
August, 1899, ard remained there TO
do ambulance work despite efforts
by her family to dissuade here, yes
terday received one of the three am
balances of the city Of Hull. England.
to drive for the British forces.
Evening star., 1940-10-21

ointment. For one thing. until the
German occupation, the Dutch Nazi
Bund was numerically small and
generally inconsequential, as a
prominent German Nazi writer re-
Gently pointed out. For another
thing. the bund is now suspected of
having served as a fifth column for
the invading Germans.
Eminent Reich Nazis have con-
sidered it advisable to defend the
honor of the bund. 1t is worthy
representative of the Dutch cause
and can in no way be accused OF
treason" DR.. Arthur Seyss-Inquart,
Reich commissar of the Neither
lands, has declared.
Most of the Dutch, however, con-
tinue to have reservations in their
minds on this point and many
others.
tcopyrisht 1910 by Chicago Daily News
Inc)
Evening star., 1940-10-21
Electricity Conducting Rubber
Demonstrated to Surgeons

from the pavement to draw the
static from the halted car
In case of the car, the rubber
tires, by insulating the vehicle, are
the main cause of static building up
on the auto body and the passen-
berS.
The electric conducting rubber
works exactly the opposite. The
surgeons were shown hardened, con-
ducting rubber castors for operating
tables and other surgical room roll
ing furniture.
1t was explained that the rubber
is designed for use not only fol-
feet" for the furniture where static
tends to build up, but for surgeons
and nurses shoes. for the tubes
which carry anesthetic gases to the
patients masks and any place where
it is desirable for safetys sake tc
draw off electricity.
Evening star., 1940-10-21
Interned Spec Officer
Escapes From Uruguay

By the Associated Press.
MONTEVIDEO, Oct. 21.-H. Ker-
sermann Steinhauser, an officer Of
the scuttled German pocket battle
ship Admiral Graf Spec, who was
interned with IS other officers and
men, has escaped, 1t was disclosed
yesterday.
He was the first Of those interned
in Uruguay to get away. Most of
them were wounded in the battle
last December with three British
cruisers.
Evening star., 1940-10-21
100 Reported Dead
Or Missing in French
Catalonia Floods
Thousands Are Forced to
Flee Homes; Damage in
Billions of Fruncs

By the Associated Press.
VICHY, France. Oct. 21.-More
than 100 persons were reported dead
or missing today and omcials esti-
mated damage of a billion francs
as a result of torrential rims and
floods which forced thousands to
flee their homes in French Cata-
lonia.
Details of the weekend disaster
became known in Vichy only today
as telephone communication with
Perpignan, capital Of the stricken
region, was restored. Perpignan
itself had been evacuated when the
swollen river Tet inundated the
lower parts of the city.
Prefectural authorities there esti-
mated a hundred dead or missing
in Pyrenees-Orientales department
alone.
0n Spanish Catalonia, 1872
persons have been officially re-
ported missing or dead as a re-
suit of floods. Heavy rains con-
tinued to hamper the rescue work
there.
eleven persons drowned in
high waters resulting from a
cloudburst in the Cagliari Prov
ince of Italy, on the island Of
SardiniaJ
The little mountain spas OF
Amelie-Les-Bain, where rs persons
were reported missing, Vernets-Les-
Bains, Arles-Surtech and others
suffered heavily. Houses, summer
hotels and even the large thermal
establishment at Amelie were car
ried away by mountain torrents.
Most coastal villages and ports,
such as Canet-Plage and Port Vend-
res, were cut of from the mainland
and little was known of the plight
of residents.
Urgently needed supplies-food
clothing. medicine-were rushed
into the region bv Red Cross work.
ers using planes, since all road and
rail connections were smashed by
! the floods.
Weather reports from Perpignan
this morning indicated clouds had
cleared away and the rains. which
had poured down for more than a
week, had stopped.
Evening star., 1940-10-21
No Property Damaged,
COMPANY Is Advised

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 81 P).-
\ Philip H. Patchin, director OF the
Standard Oil Co. of California, said
yesterday he had been advised that
no property was damaged or en-
ployes of the Bahrein Petroleum
Co. injured in italian air raids on
: the Persian Gulf Island of Bahrein.
Mr.. Patchin said he had not
received full details of the raid, but
the two San Franciscans employed
there, Lloyd Chliger, manager of
the Bahrein Co., and Milton Lipp,
were safe.
Evening star., 1940-10-21
Keep Speed Down

Avoidance of high speed has been
recommended for a variety of rea-
sons, but the man who wishes to
enjoy long life from the engine will
bear in mind that doubling car
speed quadruples engine-bearing
load. 1t is also true that an engine
uses So as much oil at IS miles per
hour as it does at 80.
Evening star., 1940-10-21
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO. Oct. 21.-A new kind
of rubber that conducts electricity
instead of insulating against it was
shown to the American College of
Surgeons today as likely means of
preventing explosions of anesthetics
during surgery.
The rubber is real, acts and wears
like normal rubber, but contains a
compound which enables electricity
to flow through 1t readily.
Explosions of anesthetic gases
during surgery are uncommon. but
feared because it has been difficult
to prevent them completely and be-
cause they are likely to occur in
patients lungs, with fatal results.
Their cause is static electricity, the
kind that sparks of persons fin
gers, and is the reason auto highway
toll stations have wire sticking up
Evening star., 1940-10-21
Quukers Brand Draft
TotuIituriun Move
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Ind, Oct, 21-
spokesmen for American Quakers
in session here have branded adop-
ton of peacetime CONSUMPTION in the
United States a drift toward to-
talitarianiSm."
The meeting Of Friends in Amer
lea approved a statement of its
Peace Committee to this effect made
, aublic Saturday.
The statement expressed belief
this country should and could stay
out of the European war"
Evening star., 1940-10-21

other power as is welded for the
time being by any of the Germans
themselves.
The bund is, of course, delighted
by the prospects which German
sponsorship opens up, and DR.. Mus
sert himself has expressed appro-
pirate qualification.
Il have unshakable faith in the
feeling for justice of Adolf Hitler"
he recently declared.
Complete Confidence.
st can assure Holland that the
Dutch will be strong and free
people," he said: "a friend and ally
of the German people. This Dutch
people will govern itself and it will
be national socialistically governed,
for it is not for nothing that the
National Socialist Bund has been
marching for nine years.
The National Socialist Bund
declared its solidarity with Germany
and Italy as early as 1885, DR..
Mussert concluded. THE bund has
been a friend of the reborn Ger
many for five years. For this reason
the bund looks to the future with
complete confidence"
Animated by this confidence,
bund leaders are trying to build up
an organization capable of taking
over the country. They have
founded an S. S. (elite guard copied
from the Germans, for example
They have been given key posts in
the administration Of the Neither
lands-although not all the key
posts by any means-subject, of
course, to orders from the Reich
commissars. And, in the manner
of all true revolutionaries, they have
already begun to talk In terms Of
foreign wars Of liberation"
DR.. Mussert himself, for example,
demands that the Dutch take part
in the freeing of South Africa
from the British yoke"
Too Harsh a Punishment.
"Now that the possibility of liberia
ton is at hand, are we to be con-
demned to sit by idly while the
German sword frees the Boers?" he
recently asked. mo, this would be
too harsh a punishment. The
Fuehrer can ask for no more loyal
allies than the Dutch in the struggle
for the liberation of the Beers"
But there are flies in the NaN
Evening star., 1940-10-21
Tvo Raid AIertS in Cairo,
By the Associated Press.

CAIRO. Egypt, Oct. 81 R.-
Cairo had two air raid alerts during
the night but both passed without
any planes being heard by resi-
dents.
Evening star., 1940-10-21
CIOudburst browns II.

CAGLIARI, Italy, Oct. 81 P).-
Eleven persons drowned yesterday
in high waters caused by cloud
burst in Cagliari Province on the
Island of Sardinia.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02
Wounded Woman
Fights for Life

Attendants al the Pierce County
hospital Friday said the condition
OF Mrs Myra Nosier. 80. injured IN
the triangle tragedy that left the
one day bride a widow. showed
little change.
Physicians credited blood trans
fusions and an emergency opera
ton for the abdominal ginsbot
wound with bolstering the womsn's
fight for survival
She was shot and beaten with a
poker In the melee Al the home Of
the husband. Hale Sosier. who WAS
killed In the same affray last FRI
day night John Ord. city fireman
and former husband Of the woman
victim. remains in the county jail
facing a murder charge. King
Pomeroy, who patched with Hale
Sosler and was the third victim Of
the attack. IL recovering Ia St
Joseph's hospital from less serious
inJuries-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02
Fremont Compbelrs
Condition Improves

Fremont csmpbeil. forms
Pierce county auditor and .hssiff
who IL critically ~ in . Yakima
hoHpitai, showed = slight improve
ment Friday. according 70 tsls-
afaphioh reports from Mrs. Camp
bell to TAcoms friends.
Campbsll " suffering ffofn
organic SICKNESS. The telegram
explained 10 part. while hs
showed siight Improvement and !
believe he viii come through. he
IL still q tired. sick man
The csmpbells nave operated sn
auto camp In Yakima fof several
years.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02
Take a Look
AT Europe
Noxi Reporters
Are "Isoluted"
NY WILLIAM 4. WHITE

HEf.siskI One Of the inter-
sstlng things TO watch In this
warning capital 10 the effect u
III. big passiys war on foreign
newspaper msn here covering
this little activs one.
There are about doxfn
American reporters. almost NJ
many British. about half dozen
French. perhaps two doxes
scsndinaslans. half . doxen
Germans and = scattering of
lone Jugoslays. Italians and
Japanese. most Of whom center
around the dining room ~ tina
Hotel kamp. which - press
headquarters. In addition. there
are. Of course. many reporters
for the Finnish newspapers
They all mia smoothly. ths
British and Americans often
tesmlng up on stories When
you walk into the dining rs,om
Continued on Page .. Column D
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02
She'll Reign
During Week
Duffodil Festival
Week OF Morch Is
A queen has been chosenl

She In Queen Marge tpronounc-
ed Mar-gee) I. Puyallup high
school senior. who will reign dur
ing the 1910 Daffodil Festival here
and in Puyaliup and Sumner.
March 20 To 81.
Queen Marge I daughter Of Mrs
Mary Roscoe of 72f 9Th ave. s.W..
Puyallup. was chosen from group
of 10 girls Thursday afternoon
with the method Of SELECTION
unique.
Five news photographers. hard
boiled critics with an eagle eye
for feminine pulchrituds. made the
choice. They took innumerable
pictures. selected the hes, from
their developed negatives. and then
said TO the selection committee.
Here's your queen"
And a queen indeed II Queen
Mar9e /. She il a striking brun-
Continued on Page .. Column 81
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02
See Papa"
As Dictator,
Vanishing!

CORVALLIS. Ore
Papa as a dictator in the
American family home.
rapidly is passing. the 10th
annual conference on home
interests was told here by
DIR. Edmund Des Drummer.
Columbia university sociol-
ogy professor.
Drummer said democracy
was being practiced in the
home nowadays. as well as
on election day.
The trend toward smaller
families will afford unparaI-
leled opportunities for edu-
cation during the next dec
ade, Drummer said.
Mrs. Il atrice Walton
Sackett, Marshfield. mem
Der Of the state board Of
higher educ alton. and
mother Of two children. ia-
vited the homemakers to
follow her around for a day
and see whether house
wives still have plenty TO
do. She declared women
need the best Of education
now, plus a good sense Of
humOr.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02
British Ship
Goes Down
Itolion Vessel Il
Victim OF Mine

LONDON 49, German aerial
raiders attacked coastal ship
ping and n British naval com
voy with bombs and machine
guns Friday, and the blue
Funnel liner Pyrrhus WAS
sunk. by enemy action" off
the west coast Of England.
with loxs of eight lives.
An authoritative ststsment said
that tho Britlzh naval convoy
fought of the ssr1si attack -
royal air force planes raced ~ the
scene snd thst nsithsr the war
ships NOR the merchant vessels
wers damaged In Issfiin, tins
official nsNs agency said tbs war
ships usrs bombed. ssysfal Hasf-
chant ships psfs sunk and othsss
sst afiss,
The .iskiss ~ tn 5sstsatss
lisss rysshas sssft FRIDAY fst-
is~sd fhs damaging ~ ~
NssseKl.s ssssas~r usstt. NJ
Las fsas. ~ ssfi@i bssosss
sad the ziakisx 81 fbs ffsiisa
sissm@hip Mlssiis. s,sss ssns.
~blss sif . miss. SEVERAL
memss~s. " the MIselia efsw
wsrs fs.ssa ie.s. smsSi f.@sf-
ii ses.eis alas uess sst.<kea
b. fhs Nary sif raiders.
Al ~ fhose io~t On the Fyrfht's
acre Ehinsss fifsmsm Ths snip
carried M passengers.
the German aerial attacks as'
psrsnsiy usfs Ia rspFisai for IL
most sxssnAys royal sif fDrc<
flights BY bombing craft - over
Germany since ths war started
me planes mads siz 70 tsn-nouf
reconnaissance filshts over German
cities and coastal bases.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02
Fall Kills Engineer

skATTLE-A fan down an
elevator shsft Friday killed Scott
Howard. 45. night engineer a. The
Railway Exchange building. Re
fell from the fifth fioOr. and bis
Dooy Was found hanging Al the
second floor level where his foot
caught on the grillsd door Howard
was married and the father Of
three eh4sdren.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02
Kennedy's Condition
Slightly Improved

Slight Improvement VAS acted
Friday at Pierce County hospital
in the condition of James Kennedy.
20. critically hurt when his auto
mobile plunged of the East 3fth
81 span inio the Tseoma Eastern
guleh late Monday night Kennedy.
1907 10. g At. mlraeulousiy
escaped instant death IN the iso-
foot fall He has not improved
sufficiently 10 withstand an opera
ton. physicians said.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02
Exiradiiion 0kehed

OLYMPIA Gov. Clarence u.
Martin Friday granted sxtrsaition
o. Anton p. and Donna cerenzi.
held in Spokane and wanted IN
Fresno. Calf. on charges Of
lssuinz fscsslsoax c<sso<s.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02

lsnasr-s<esetsry II stsfs. strives
Ter conferences with ltlsiev sn1
ath~f high offi<isis and - ~
firm snnivsSssfy ~ the fnaza11ng
~ Inc German ar fores hss1ed ~
gosflnk,
~s>s~sni ships = Mr. 49,
sss< wese sssnt ~ hsutn -
several sleess sess - ef1gp
~ snsseaee~seet sntA 90
s4svsy mss~o Was bsstsa so.-
hat. sseof5lne 10 oa<fin4's -
ssasf sstleaai z<lssnk. he atta8he
sm Britain shipping ara nashiAe
compared - tns tasks foF ~hiee
tiss asr fsses IL prepared.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02
Found in Tree
Prisoner Free IS
Years Back in Pen

BOZ : E. Charles Smith, who
wandered the world a free man for
SO years, became No. 942 Friday.
Smith, an escape from the Ida
no state prison in 1904. sur
rendered to couer d'Alene police
last week. lie was returned TO
finish his sentence late Thursday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02

She heated creamed dried beef,
frugally held over from the pre-
vious evenings dinner, On gas
plate In a corner Of her uncom-
Portable little room. She made a
slice Of toast. She ladled four
stewed figs into a dish and placed
two cookies on a plate. To give
her morale a lift. she took two
precious silver spoons from a bu-
reau drawer, rescting delighteoiy,
as always, TO their satiny luster.
She tried 10 eat. really tried II
was useless Getting water from
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02
District Engineer
For Tacoma Named

Expected to arrive here next
week to assume his new duties.
Fred NJ. Veatch was named Friday
as district engineer for the U. s.
geological survey.
He succeeds Glenn L. Parker. who
left Tacoma last September follow
ing his promotion to chief of n.y.
draulic engineers at Washington.
d. C.
d. J. F. Calkins has been acting
district engineer during the in
term, and will remain as head OF
the office staff at Tacoma.
Veatch comes here from Louis
Vile, KY, where he has been dist
riot engineer.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02
STAT E
EDITION
lsS;sj;E:!9ii;S%&iN
EsaNMsi>Il)

pORlLAND CITY ollicidiS,
members of the Port of
Portland commission, mer-
chants, industrialists and 9TH
ers of the Rose City's civic
forces are going into huddle
with themselves within the
next two weeks.
They are worried. Why
should Portland be losing new
industries to Vancouver, Wn.,
and to Tacoma, they ask?
Portland Chamber of Conn.,
!. merce has called the city's
civic forces together to ar
rive, if possible, at the correct
answer. They call it a SHOW
down" meeting.
1t has been with something
of a shock that Portland in
recent weeks has seen two
m a j or industries announce
contracts with the Bonneville
administration and selection
of sites just across the Co
lumbia at Vancouver, on the
Washington side.
Portlanders have suffered
from an original complex that
the federal government was
building Bonneville just for
Portland's special benefit. Ac-
tually, until the agreement for
power exchange with Tacoma
was signed, Bonneville had
hardly begun to justify its
federal backing. To be justi-
fled as a federal project, Bon
neville must serve more than
one major community in more
than a single state.
However queer" some
Washington laws may have
seemed as they emerged from
legislative chambers at Olym-
pia the last few sessions, law
makers of this state at least
did not make the mistake of
imposing specially burden
some loads that would dis
courage industry in this state.
1t must be reasonably OBJ
vious to Portland now that
state income taxes levied on
business and high property
tax burdens drive industry
away-in this instance, across
a state line where Bonneville
power is just as available, and
costs are no more.
EUTILITY of the jurisdic-
tional fights between the
AFL and Clio was recently
illustrated in an experience in
the national capital itself. A
department store - between
the White House and capital
embarked on a renovation
campaign. The store owner
employed a firm who hired
AFL men. The CIO thereupon
branded the store unfair to
organized labor" The pro-
prietor daily appeals to the
CIO chief anent the situation,
the public rallied behind the
merchant, sales doomed. and
eventually the Clio boss pulled
off the pickets.
, Thousands of speeches, u. ).
investigation of NLRB prac-
tees and what not are moth
ing compared to these prac-
teal efforts, which can only
result in a curb of labor
through additional legislation.
Small wonder the rank and
file on both sides insists that
Green and Lewis "cut out the
baby stuff" resign, and per-
-. L., knIl;oarant chiefs in
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02

the bathroom On the floor below,
she washed the dishes. She
wrapped the spoons In tissue and
put them away. Then shs tried all
the usual things. an hour Of con-
structive reading. a magazine
story, the triumphant. happy end
ing adding to her depression. She
played three games of solitaire.
II was $50. suffocsting lone
llneEs crowded In on Der. The
loneliness had become - real a
thing that II seemed 10 have form
CONTINUED OF Page q. Column Al
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02
Favor Schwellenbuch

WASHINGTON - Tfzs Railway
Labor Executives ssao Q tion ..
spokssmsa for approximately L.
600 900 rail- Dnloaists. has endorsed
"a senatorial candidates. including
Lewis senwslisnb@Sh. u. Bssh.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02

Victims wsrs Charles orst~s ard
Arnis Llndaulss Only cas hnty
wss found. n was burned asyea1
recognition. IRE men were IL
only oues unaccounted fos.
4 lhtr1 pun~. h1e4sts>e1 ea1y
- oosss. wss rspestea nplsn~
iwn. ssstaas ~ lAn1@us~e
wese ks>A yssax sssea. hetwe~a
~ ard - yeass a. sne.
Neshiag wns ksswa shs~s
Olsea.
Flfem~a rescued eight srreem.
ins men by cutting = hnle N NJ
side Of the building, Terrified. ~
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02

MOSCOW soviet military
s<psfts forecast the immlnsnt
fall u viipsssi fyIbeFEl. FIn-
isnd's Second city. Friday ard
Indicated that sffsfwxfa IN
He'd army wiIl spIlt. en~ saIt
stssmptinx ~ turn IN MsnnSs-
heim line northwsfa and IN
osh<r pushing - ths vlbark-
tfsIslnks railroad win The rln-
hish capital ~ 10 obl~etive.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02

WASHINGTON me martins
Labor board asked congress Friday
70 GUARANTEES seamen free sxereiee
Of their rights 10 collective bar
gaining without DelnK considered
guilty Of snstiay. and 70 psnaiizs
maritime employers who fan 20
abide by the National Labor Re
iatlons act.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-02
Damage Rising
In California
State Copitol in
Danger of Flood

SAN FRANCISCO - New
flood threats developed in the
Delta regions where the Sac
ramento and San Joaquin riv-
ers empty into northern Cali
fornia bays Friday as the rag
ing Sacramento, ravaging its
rich valley, rushed toward the
sea.
Il. II. tcher, government
meteorologist at Sacram o.
warned that flood waters were
concentrating in the Yolo bypass
and the delta region where the
flood hazard is rapidly increasing. :"
City Is Threatened
There was no flood along the
San Joaquin river itself but the
heavy accumulation OF water in
its delta. added to that of the Sac
ramento, was expected To create
serious situation during the
next two or three days, Fletcher
said.
The Sacramento river flood
was nearing the city of Sacra-
mento on the last lap Of Its
1s0-mile dash through th1
rich farm lands above the
state capital.
Fletcher said the situation be-
tween Colusa and Sacramento
would be critical for the next "a
hours.
Numerous levee breaks were re-
ported south of Coluss.
A thrilling rescue of four
persons given up ~ drowned
occurred at leyees this morn
Ing.
The waters engulfed the auto
mobile in which Ray Carnegie.
river patrol guard. was driving
five other members OF his family
to safety. Frank Fleeharty, one
OF the car occupants. reported the
other five had been drowned.
Found in Tree
Hours later rescue parties found
two women and a child clinging
to the upper branches of a tree
with flood waters tapping beneath
them. They were identified as
Csrnegie's wife. his sister-in-law,
Essie Fleehsrty. and the Carne-
gies year-old infant child. Later
Carnegie himself was found aid
ing in the battle against the river.
Mrs. Frank Fleehsrty. mother of
Mrs. Carnegie. was still missing
and II was feared she had been
drowned.