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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-13
FIND REAL BUDGET
 CUT MADE BY THIS CONGRESS

cantile ships. That meant that the ship building would go on, but the cost wouldn't show up in the ap- propriation bills for time. This year it began to show up-at a mighty bad time. Admiral Emory $. Land, chairman of the Commission, asked Congress to put up $200000,000 to pay something on these shipbuild- ing contracts he had been author ized to make. Last year it was a swell idea to build ships. This year it isn't so popular The Neutrality Act has bottled up the ones we have, so why build more?
 Congress couldn't repudiate con- tracts it had authorized, but it did trim the Admiral's requests to $125,- 100000. That looked like a net sav- ing of $75 100000. It wasn't anything of the kind It was just a post ponement. Congress will hay to pay it later-but not much later. The Admiral came rushing up to Congress to protest that $39,000,000 of the $75,o00,000 was needed al- ready to pay on contracts let, and, by jimminies, he wasn't going to be left holding the bag.
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 BudgetGets
 HouseS|as|1
Guam Now Included in Ap- propriation to Become
 U. 5. Lookout Post

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-A slasn of sill ,0OO was handed Presl- dent Roosevelt's budget for the Navy today by the House Committee on Appropriations.
 The committee recommended ap- propriations of $966, ,772, ,000 instead and urged the nation build battle ships and cruisers superior" to those abroad.
 The cut was the largest yet made by the Appropriation Committee on any single budget recommendation, but the committee said the fleets needs could be adequately met" with a small sum.
 Included in the measure is mll- lion dollars with which to start work on a three million dollar pro- feet designed to develop the island of Guam as naval lookout post.
 The Guam improvements were turned down last year after heat ed controversy involving questions of foreign policy toward Japan.
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Rear Admiral John lowers Seeking Additional
 Appropriation
AER0NAUTI(S CHIEF
 APPEARS AT HEARING
Explanation Given for h. crease = More Equip
 ment fo Be Added

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. = Rear Admiral John Towers, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics of the United States Navy, during hearings before the House Appropriations Committee on the Navy appropriation bill, ask ed for S104000 for installation ot a new hangar at the Sitka fleet base, test stand and utility shop to take care of one patrol plane squadron which is based there permanently and one additional squadron for en- ergency.
 Rear Admiral Towers said the Sitka base is being enlarged along the lines of those at Pensacola and Pearl Harbor but on more limited scale
 "A new seaplane hangar, power house. administration building. of- ficers' and enlisted mems quarters, barracks, dispenasry and store house are being built besides several small CT buildings. A new gasoline fueling truck, costing $8,500, and automotlve equipment costing $15,000 and two fire engines costing $15,000 are being added" Towers said.
 Rear Admiral Towers said similar equipment is being added to the Kodiak air base.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-13
WAR POLICY OF NIpp0N5
 UNDER FIRE
Budget Member Throws Diet Into Uprodr in
 Hot Debate

TOKYO, Feb. l3.-Ryozo Makino, member of the Budget Committee, threw the Diet into an uproar to- day by outrightly criticising the army and demanding an explana- tion Of the military expense ac- count.
 War Minisher Shunroku Hata bluntly refused and the verbal ex- change which ensued was so heat ed that stenographic records were ordered halted.
 Makino said ''The people are uneasy. To remove that uneasiness it is necessary that the armament plan be explained concretely. To some extent, the people. are barred from making political criticism, but they are criticising nevertheless in other ways. They still want to know why Premier Konoye re- signed"
 Hata replied: We are in the midst of war and doing all that is possible to prevent espionage. Beyond this I cannot explain"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-13
NEWL0ANS ON MINING
 PROPOSED
Delegate Dimond Infro- duces Measure Extend-
 ing R. F. (. Field
By J. J. ECCLES Secretary t~ iagate DimOnd

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-(Spec- ial Correspondence) = Introducing a measure in the House on January 31 to emand the law under which the Reconstruction Finance Cor poration is now authorized to ex- tend mining development loans on gold, silver and tin properties. Dele gate Dimond would include in this authorization the right to make loaans for development of platinum, tungsten, chromite, nickel, molyb- denum, antimony, vanadium, man. ganese, mercury, or asbestos or any combination of these minerals. The sum of $20,000 is the maximum amount available for individual de- velopment loans from the REC.
 Because of the recently aroused national interest in some of these items on account of their classifi- cation as deficiency or critical war time minerals, and the need for ob- taining domestic sources to provide for at least a part of the nations needs of these should imports be curtailed or entirely stopped, MT. Dimond said that he believed the outlook for enactment of the pro posed legislation is definitely more favorable than it would have been if introduced two years ago. He added that this was certainly an instance where enactment of the proposed legislation would be both in the national interest and the Territorial interest, and that he hoped it would help to initiate the development of new and diversified mining industry in Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-13
LINCOLN EXT0LLED
 IN TALKS
New Deal Condemned in Series of Speeches
 by Republicans
(By Associated Press)

Republican notables last night ex- tolled Abraham Lincoln and cor demned the New Deal in a series of speeches across the Nation cele- brating the New Deal in a series of speeches across the Nation cele- brating Lincolns birthday.
 United States Senator Robert A. Taft at Greensboro, North Carolina, who is said to be an avowed Repub- lican Presidential candidate, said If the New Deal is licensed to pro- ceed in the 1940 elections" unleash ed, it will lead inevitably to a mod ern, streamlined totalitarian Dicta- torship."
 Dewey in Portland
 Thomas E. Dewey, District At- torney of New York, an active ca1l- didate for the Republican Presi- dential nomination, in Portland, Oregon, said the present Admins tration's strategy of divide and rule is subtly undermining Nation al unity"
 Dewey further said that this strat- egy may help the Administration but it can only hurt the country" He further said this Nation is ui1- dergoing erosion of capital" through failure to make capital re- placements during the last several years.
 Senator Bridges Talks
 Senator Styles Bridges in Okla homa City said Lincoln would de- plore the economic power of the Government over citizens as trend toward making citizens the wards of the state in the guise of benevo- lent paternalism."
 Hoover's Warning
 Herbert Hoover in Omaha, said jobs for nine million is the only safety for our Republic" and "the Nation must abandon the National drift towards statism and turn from
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-13
SiIverShirf Legion Chief
 0uton Bond
Released on Bail of 800 Pending
 Extradition

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-Leader William Dudley Pelley of the Silver Shirt Legion has. been freed under a $2,5O0 bond by Washington police court Judge Casey
 Policy was arrested last Saturday as a fugitive from North Caarolina as he finished his testimony before the Deis Committee.
 Judge Casey continued his case for thirty days to obtain the neces- sary extradition papers from Ash vile. Assistant United States At torney Kndelberger accuses Policy of having violated parole under the terms of No>th Carolina con- viction in 1885 for violation of the Blue Sky laws.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-13
lCkES BLASTED
 AT REPUBLICAN,
 BARAN0F PARTY
LittIe Comment Made as 10 Perey's Territorial
 Group Meeting

Local Republicans and friends had dinner for both of their houses last night, some 160 of them dining at the Baranof and TO at Percy's Cafe, in honor of Abraham Lincoln's 131st birthday anniversary.
 At the Baranof Hotel in the Gold Room with two radio microphones at the speakers table, toastmaster. Grover c. Vim introduced as first speaker of the evening, Walter P. Scott, who declared, after summing the life of Lincoln in his rise to faame, that Lincoln prophesied the Republican troubles under the New Deal.
 Scott quoted Lincoln's statement, If ever this free people, thsi gov ernment, is utterly demoralized, It will come from this human struggle for office-a way to live without work
 Cash Cole, Republican candidate for Delegate to Congress, promised mo mud singing with reference to the other Republican dinner III town when he followed Scott as speaker, and declared many Repub- licans are mot going to follow the man who claims to be leader of the Territorial Republican party
 Dislike For Ickes
 Continuing, Cole blasted out against Secretary of the Interior Ickes called Alaska a horrible example" of cen tralization of governmental control under one man at the head of the Interior Department.
 Cole said Ickes controls 90 per cent of Alaska and will soon get the other ten per cent in the Forest Service. He condemned Ickes' plan to bring about mine leasing sys- tenn, his departments practice of levying road tolls in the Territory, and the eight per cent gross gold tax proposal.
 Its time we go together to de- fend our heritage before Ickes takes it away Cole declared.
 Another Attack
 R. E. Robertson continued the attack on Ickes with barrage of condemnations of 'all Alaska under one bureaucrat, Ickes."
 ''We are in imminent danger of our political liberties and welfare
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OppOS!TION HIT IN ADDRESS BY
 ALBERT WHITE
S5 Republicans of Official Organization Meet
 af Pereys

Attacking the alleged black Re- publicanism" of another faction which met elsewhere, 85 White Re- publicans" of the official local party organizat ton met last night at Per- cys Cafe to honor the memory of Lincoln at a harmony banquet.
 Albert White, candidate For Dele gate in 1888, stated in fiery ad- dress that the rival Republican or ganization was started two weeks ago for the purpose of taking over patronage in the Territory"
 T do not wish at this time or any other" White said, to do anything that will work against harmony in the Republican party in Alaska
 Too Many Movies
 He mentioned newspaper state ments coming from the other group which alluded to a White machine and said members of the new club must have been over seeing MT Smith Goes To Washington two or three times"
 White said the attitude of the rival group lin attacking the Re- publican party in Alaska, is poison to the national organization.
 Referring to the officers of the new Juneau Republican Club, White said:
 "Metzgar and Wilson, who elected them? Were any of you allowed to vote for them? No, they were picked in a room at the Baranof Hotel. There is no majority rule in what they're doing"
 Stabler Is Speaker
 Howard Stabler, principal speaker of the evening, said in criticism of the present Administration that liberties of the individual are be- ing subordinated to the desires Of the mass" and called for mot New Deal, but a new deck"
 Judge H. B. LeFevre, oldest of Juneau Republicans, advised that contention between factions Of the party be stopped He said he was tied to no personality in the party and stated he would have been at the Baranof if they had sold me a ticket first"
 Sam Duker, candidate for Dele gate to Congress, said, after we get through with this inter-party
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-13
NAVAL PATROL I5
 BEING INCREASED
 ON ENGLISH COAST
Great Britain Is Expanding Forces for Swift At-
 taek on Germany

LONDON, Feb 13.-Great Bri- tain is expanding her air and naval coastal patrols for swift smashing of Germany's mine and bomb block ade on British shipping
 The Admiralty announces 10000 additional fishermen are being re- cruited for naval patrol duty against German mines and the Air Force has been increased to make effective attacks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-13
German Freighter Set Afire Off Coast 10 Prevent beinq
 Captured by British Ships

RIO DE JANERIU, Feb. 13. - Crewmen of the British cruiser Haw- kins declare that the German freighter Wakama was set afire by her own crew when three British CTS overhauled her shortly after she left Rio Sunday afternoon.
 The crewmen of the Hawkins said the German sailors and officers left the burning ship in small boats and as far as they can ascertain they have not been picked up by any Of the British navy craft.
 The Wakama left port heavily loaded with freight and apparently intended to run the blockade.
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PARIS, Feb. 13.-British scouting parties have flown over Northern Germany where they encountered German fighting air craft.
 The British planes returned safe ly to their bases.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-13
WOLF I5 DEAD

SAN JOSE, Cul., Feb. l3.-Wolf the lead dog of the Rev. Bernard Hubbard's team on seven trips into Alaska, is dead from effects of a head injury.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-13
By PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. - Con- gress knows more tricks than mag ician when for political purposes a little cut in an appropriation must be made to look like a big one.
 That explains most of the slash ing the members are talking about. In actual dollars and cents Congress hasn't saved the taxpayers much Later Congress may. Wise Washingtonians doubt there will be any revolutionary budget cuts in 1940.
 Most of the savings are not sav- ings at all. They are postponements. Congress is simply putting off spending until after election day. If the Congressmen can't put it off that long, at least they will stall 1t off several months. By then so much politics will be in the air that a couple of battleships could be lost in the mists.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-13
CLAIM CREW SAVED

RIO DE JANERIO, Feb 13.-Rear Admiral Sir Henry Harwood has radioed the Associated Press that the crew of the German freighter Wakama, after setting fire to the ship yesterday off the Brazilian coast, took to the lifeboats and were later picked up and taken aboard a British cruiser.
 Sir Henry Harwood, who is con- mander of the British forces in the South Atlantic, said 10 officers and 36 men constituted the Wakama's crew.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-13
DO ALASKANs FLY?

From statistics recently furnished a Congressional committee in testi- mony relating to delivery of mail by air in Alaska it was shown that in the fiscal year 1889 there were 116 times as many commercial planes in Alaska as in the United States; 70 times as many air miles flown in Alaska as in the United States; g times as many passengers flying in Alaska as in the United States; l. 034 times as many pounds of freight and express carried by air and 48 times as many pounds of mail car- ried by air in Alaska as in the Unit ed States-population considered, or per capita.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-13
ON MANNERHEIM LINE

COPENHAGEN. Feb, l3. = The European warfare today focused on Finland's Mannerheim Line where the Red Army, in an official communique issued in Moscow, claims the capture of 32 defensive Qualifications, including 12 iron and concrete artillery forts and a number of machine guns The communique claims this makes 61 Finnish defensive Qualifications cap- tured within one week.
 The Films maintain their de- lenses are holding against the Rus sian invasion.
 War Increasing
 The communiques of both sides. pieced together, give war pie ture of increasing magnitude with artillery laundering along the Karelian Isthmus, now scene of the heaviest fighting of the pres- ent conflict.
 Line is Intact
 The Finnish Communique issued this morning made no mention of losing any Qualifications but say the Mannerheim Line is sufficient ly intact to stave off the Red Army assaults which have spread along the length of the Karelian Isthmus.
 Thousands Make Attack
 One source of information re-
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.Bitter Fighting Is Marking Invasion of Russian
 Red Army
DEFENDERS ARE HOLDING POSITIONS, SAYS REp0RT5
Withdrawal Is Admitfed d But Advance Wins
 Back Positions

B U LLETIN-HELSINKI, Feb. l3.-After thirteen days of bitter fighting. Finnish mili- tary authorities announce that all positions of strategical inn portance on the Karelian Isth- mus have been won back in Finnish counter attacks.
 The military authorities ac- knowledge for the first time they withdrew late Sunday from some of the positions in the sector about Summa but the military interpreter ex- plained that such movements often occur for strategic pur- poses.
 "The Mannerheim Line is stiil intact and the battle is raging with much fury" says the official report.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-13

Gloria Dei, a Swedish church near Philadelphia, is said to have been the first American church to be equipped with an organ.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-13
BRITISH FORCES
 ARRIVE AT 5UEz
Thirty Thousand Austral- ions, New zeaIdnders
 Reach Palestine

JERUSALEM, Feb. 13.-Austral- ian troops began arriving today Ill specified areas in Palestine.
 It is estimated that 30,oO0 Aus tralian and New Zealand troops ar rivd at Suez yesterday after lO,- GOO mile journey from the Anti podes.
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MONEY FOR MERCHANT SHIPS

Here is a sample. Last year Con- gress kept the appropriation of the Maritime Commission moderately low but gave it an authorization to contract for $230, 100000 in mer-
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-19
Announce Beiroihal
OF Sister

Mrs. Wallace Simms announces
the engagement Of her sister. Miss
Violet Lewis. daughter OF the late
Mr.. and Mrs. Carter Lewis. to Mr..
Wilfred Bisnett. son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Leo A. Bisnett. The betrothal was
first made known at a recent birth
day party given In the parlors OF
Sprague Memorial church. Games
filled the early evening hours
which were followed by late sup
per.
Guests were Messrs. and Mes
danes Leo Bisnett. Frederick Cor
don. Jack Rancipher. George Jor-
censor. silas Craig and Allan
Hughes. the Rev. and Mrs. Charles
snowden. Mesdsmes Stella Burg.
Vernon Eyers, Amy Proctor.
Misses Lorene Accafferiy. Mar
garet Walters. yonds Hudson. Wv
ian Fulton. Henrietta Thompson.
Lucy Berry. Florinds Browne. Julia
Proctor, Louise Hsgerstrom and
Violet Mae Simms
Others were Aessrs. Harry Mo
Gill. Glen Kicker. Ronald Rickert.
Walter Riekert, Robert Derby. Rod
ney Strong. Ernest Ranciphsr and
James simms. jr
The wedding has been set for
early fall.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-19
Tacoma Estates TO Be Opened
For Yearly Garden Caravan
wv. c. A. 70 Sponsor Motor Tour TO "Thornewood. =
'WaIoma" and "DowerdeN' Wednesday. June 10

Three of Tacomas most beautiful spacious gardens
being opened the Y W. c. A. and its friends for the
annual Garden Caravan which the organization will sponsor
again June 26 Last the event delightful
summer highlight and again promises much for those
attending.
Estates to be opened for the occasion will be Thorne
wood the beautiful American Lake home of Mrs Chester
Thorne which has this been reopened and being
occupied by Mrs Thones daughter and sonnaw and their
family Gen. and Mrs David l.. Stone. recently back from
Panama; "Waoma attractive home Of Mr. and Mrs. Alex
ander Baie also American Lake. and Dowerde verdi
ant estate Chambers Creek Of Mr. John Dover and the
late Mrs. Dover.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-19
Shower Compliments
DAUGHTER -in-Law

Mrs o. y Nelson was hnssss.
last week at a shower given IN
honor of her daughter. ,n-imw. Mrs
Herbert Nelson ~ Seattle Mrs
Nelson was assisted by Mrs Nelly
HulIs,rpm and Mrs Anna Olson.
Luncheon vas served IN tho gar
den. the tables heins atsrsetiveiy
eentered with snapdragons. white
carnations and California peoples
bridge was played during the
afternoon with honors heinE taken
by Mesdames Oscar CsrtHon. Ing.
vald starwick. ErlinK Olson. John
Breien. Ernest Norman. John Nor
man and fngvad Jorgenson.
Guests were Mesdam.s John
Norman. Chris paht Jahn Holl.
.trom. Ernest Norman. John wes-
tsriahi. fngvsld jorgenson. John
Erickson. Hugo Nelson. inKvaid
s,orwick. Eriing Olson. John Brc.
ten. Carl Berriund, Jack i@urson.
John Solely. Anton bang. N J.
preiing. Eiof Norman. Oscar Carl.
son. Ted Larson. Fred Holm. Arnis
Gerne.s. Cecil Russell. Elmer Ness.
Gunnar Erikson, Gerald jackson.
Erns., Italian. n Hanson, Nd I've
ten. Hilms aandbeek. Missos Vic.
toria Tveten. Lillian Hoilssrom.
Dorothy Holm and Nelly HoIlstrom
and Randi Olson and Magma Mel.
son.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-19

The caravan viii be organized as
IL was last summer under the d.
rection OF Mrs. Bcrtram Thomas.
Members and friends Of the Y. w.
G. A. are being asked 10 furnish
cars that NIL who wish 10 take adj
vantage Of this opportunity may be
accommodated. Captain Ross of
the city police Ia arranging a mo-
torcycle escort for the caravan.
The caravan will leave the cor
ner Of 9Th ave and so. | IL. at !
o'clock and cars should report nj
IL 80 10 receive the courtesy stick
ers required for admission To the
gardens. Occupants of tho cars
other than the drivers must pur.
chase admission tickets before the
caravan starts. Reservations should
be made In advance with the driy-
ers Of the cars or al the 4. w. G.
A. office
Members Of the committee who
Will register the cars sre Mrs.
Bertram Thomas. Mrs r. r. Miller.
Mrs. c. G. Parker. Mrs. v. =.
Watts. Mrs. Charles Taylor and
Mrs. Lothrop Crosby.
Further details may be obtained
at the Y. " G. A., BR isl
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-19
Miscellaneous Shower
For Miss Miller

Miss Bertha Miller was eompli-
mented recently a. her home. stlz
SO. Montgomery st. by Ars. Malt
zahn and Miss Emma zipdt. Fayors
were won by Mrs. Elmer Leyen-
hagen. Mrs. Evelyn Ainnsr and
Mrs. Schroeder
Guests present were the Mes
DANES l.. Adams. r. Hutehins. Paul
Cirkie. @. McClothsn. Bert Lsrson.
Elmer Leyenhagen. William Lsyen-
hagen. Fred Aaltzahn. v Miller.
r. QBsschnik. c. Quasehnik. Evelyn
Minner. ~. Rye. W Shaw. W.
sehlewity. w. Schroeder, "
Schneider. John Zindt and Emil
Jaseh Of Spokane.
Misses Margaret HUtchins, Betty
Kofoed. Bethel Kofoed. June Lev
enhagen and Helen Louise Leyen.
hagen
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-19
Mrs. Greenup Opens
Home for June Program

Mrs. H. T. Greenup, 1918 No.
18th, will open her home Wednes-
day for the June missionary pro-
gram of Grace Baptist church.
Dessert luncheon will be served at
1890 from tables centered with
summer flowers. The program will
be presented at 1870 with a short
business meeting, presided over by
the president, Mrs. Greenup. The
program chairman, Mrs. Floyd
Alexander. will call on Mrs. Harry
Broomfield for devotions followed
by Mrs E. w. Perdue in a group
of vocal numbers, accompanied by
Mrs. Fred Dufall. Mrs. w. l..
Quest of the Story Tellers' league
will tell a missionary story.
Assisting hostesses will be Mrs.
William Thompson, Mrs. Wayne
Browning and Mrs. A. J. Carter.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-19
Men OF Lincoln Court
Plan Meeting OF Group

The men Of Lincoln court. Order
Of Amaranth, viii take charge Of
the entertaining. az the regular
meeting Of the organization Thurs
day evening In the Royal A Cove
Masonic hall. 3sth and Yakima
ave. James T. Jones. royal patron.
In chairman and win be assisted
by all the other men members
All members Of the order are most
cordially invited 10 attend. The
business meeting viii BE- short and
viii be followed by motion pictures.