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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-26
Baseball Dinner
On Monday Night

Advance reservations for the
Tacoma Chamber OF Commerce
annual baseball dinner. 10 be held
Monday at $50 at The FRS. on
the Mountain highway. Indicate a
capacity crowd viii be on hand TO
honor members Of Tacoma base
ball club.
Howard Armstrong. chairman
IN charge Of arrangements. reveal
ed Thursday that rs tickets had
been sold for the affair. Reserva-
tons may be made by calling the
chamber OF contracting Armstrong.
Attorney Robert Abel win pre-
side at the dinner. Program fea-
lures Will include. besides a va
riety Of entertainment. community
singing under leadership of Her
bert Ford and a pep talk by Ted
Faulk. chairman OF the chamber
sports committed Principal
speaker of the evening will be
r. II. Knickerbocker, Seattle.
president of Western international
league.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-26
H ERE'S MORE O
War in the North

ward to the Trondhjem-Swedish
frontier railroad. which Is held by
their Trondhjem occupation force.
II they did that, they would COM
mand the Swedish frontier all the
way up from the Oslofjord and.
with their east side protected by
neutral Sweden, would be able to
strike westward against the allies.
British Fighting
British and German troops are
fighting fiercely in the Meiri
(Meare) area so miles north of
Trondhjem. an authoritative in
formant said today.
German troops occupied the town
Of Steinkjer, north of Trondhjem.
after sharp fighting and British
Norwegian forces dug in at Meiri
village. six miles north of Steinkjer.
II was asserted British troops
had reached the Otta area in the
G~udbrandsal valley, and were now
at a point about IS miles south
east of the important railroad juno
ton at Bombaas.
Pressure at Narvik
British and Norwegian troops
gradually were closing in on the
German troops isolated at Mar
vik, in the north, it was asserted.
Weather conditions at Naryik were
reported most difficult for troop
operations. II was extremely cold.
and there had been heavy NOW
which apparently continued.
The German high command
claimed two allied submarines had
been destroyed in the Skagerrak
and that German outpost ships
had attacked a group Of French
destroyers at the western exit of
the Skagerrak. but that the French
ships had escaped to the west
Beriin's Report
The high command communique
said three British airplanes had
been shot down over the North sea.
another over Aalborg, Denmark.
and that two other British planes
had been reported missing.
The communique said two mod
ern Norwegian destroyers had been
put in service with German crews.
1t said German planes had severed
enemy" communications in the
regions north of Lillehammer. Ber-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-26
Graduation Ceremonies
AT Puyallup June 4
Rev. Wotkin to Deliver Boccoloureote
Sermon Sunday Evening. June 2

PUYALLUP-Tuesday evening.
June 4. was announced Thursday
by Principal Harry p. Hansen Is
the date for graduation exercises
at Puyallup high school. This
years class viii be the second
largest In the history OF the school
with It's students receiving diplo-
mas. The largest class was gradu-
ated In 1895 when there were 1873.
A feature of the exercises will
be a panel discussion by Miss
Dorothy Hoss. valedictorian: Miss
Ruth Hanawait and Ronald Angel.
co-salutatorians; Chester Skreen.
faculty representative. and Miss
Marie Jones. senior class represen-
tative.
Baccalaureate services will be
held In the school auditorium Sum-
day evening. June 2, with Rev.
Walter Watkin, pastor of the
Pioneer Avenue Baptist church,
delivering the sermon.
Two business changes have been
announced here. At the J. c.
Penney store F. S. Bates of Yaki-
ma has been appointed manager
to succeed H. B. Anderson who
will retire May 1. Z. w. Bittner
of Tacoma has purchased the in
terest of Vernon Cornell in the
Pastime club.
Church Elects
Members of the congregation of
the First Baptist church gathered
at the church Wednesday evening
for their annual dinner and bust
ness session.
Elected officers for next year
were: J. L. DeCoursey. Emil
Eckert, Don Marty. C. A. Swan
son. Dick Woodruff and Earl
Triplett, deacons; Mrs. Frank
Marty. Mrs. J. L. D Coursey. Mrs.
A. Robinson, Mrs. c. A. Swanson,
Mrs. Emil Eckert and Mrs. James
Myers, deaconesses; Miss Marian
Marty, clerk: Herbert Harris,
treasurer; Mrs. Marvin Kits, mis-
sionary treasurer; Thomas Thorn
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-26
Start Census
Check Friday
Reports Are TO
Be Consolidated

WIN Tsoomsss population for
1870 show N increase or decrease
ever 1880.
This question, Of vital interest
% merchants and of especial I'M
portance 70 the Tscoma Chamber
Il Commerce. may Be partially
answered Friday.
Nrs Kathryn Malstrom, census
supervisor for Pierce county. said
that ! check Of consolidated re-
porfs a. enumerators ~ expected
70 RI under way Thursday after
noon and that figures may be avail
able Friday.
o. course, totals win not be
complete. but Il win give IN idea
n b what the census population
FOR 1910 may reach.
Mn. 1falstrom said that snum-
eratcrs were still endeavoring 70
contact persons missed earlier IN
the canvass, those who were abb
nenf from homes. hotels and apart
mentu when ccnsus takers called
Meantime, chamber Of COM
mercs officiais issued another APP
peal to fhoee who have not been
ineladed n the census 10 notify
either Nrs. Malstrom in the Rust
bldx- Or the chamber Of COM
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-26

The lumber representatives. APP
peared before the committee, which
is considering a proposal to per-
NIT the u. S. maritime commission
to sell or charter 100 f~'retired"
vessels, to make up for che defi-
cheney in i~ntercoastal tonnage re-
sulting from sale and diversion of
ships to the European trade since
the war.
w. B. Greedy, Seattle, represent
ing West Coast Lumberments as
ISOLATION. testified that shortage
of shipping space was causing cur
tailment of numbering activities in
Washington and Oregon.
Employment in the tidewater
areas OF the two states had been
reduced one-third as result of the
situation, Greedy said.
He told the committee a lumber
shortage was approaching on the
Atlantic coast and that If 1t were
not remedied, 1t would be a serious
setback to eastern residential build
ing.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-26

as, financial secretary; and DR.. |
James Thomas. trustee for three
years. The finance committee Is
composed Of Mrs. A. Robinson
Z. N. Hill and ]. NJ. Jones. Heal
ing the missionary committee Is
Mrs. Frank Marty and Z mil
Eckert Ii chairman Of the n9ausic
committee. Ushers T Bob sny-
der. Jim Swanson, wilfred Cook
and Warren Dawson.
Austin Dodd was, elected( Sunday
school superintende II; Didk Wood
ruff. assistant superintendent and
Joyce Thomas. secretary.
Plan for May, Day
Plans for the May day luncheon
next Tuesday afternoon of the
Women's society of the Presby-
terrain church have been COM
pleted.
On the program after 1.-THE lun-
cheon Mrs. Frank clemfnt viii
read a one-act play; Pau6 Revitt
will be heard in violin selections,
accompanied by Miss JMarjory
Wentworth. and Mrs. Ralph Good
ale, with Mrs. Earl Poe at the
piano, will sing. Mrs. E. &c. schon-
born and Mrs. Poe hava arranged
the program.
Puyallup will open its softball
season Sunday afternoon at vik-
ing field at 100. HI E. Spear,
president of the Chamber of Com
merce, will be master of cere-
monies. On the pre-ga.me program
will be Mayor Willianl P. Lough-
lin and the city council.
In the first game on the double
header the Neal-Picke,ns team will
meet the high schools Vikings
with Bill Spencer doing the hurl-
ing for the former ard Buchanan
and Strankman for the latter.
Elks and Eagles will play in the
second game WITH Joe Johnson
pitching for the ELY S. The Eagles
pitching selection has not been an
nounced. Ralph Fftzsimmons and
Curt Tenzler will umpire the
games.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-26
Weiherell 10 Speak
Before Active Club

z. n. (Ernie) Wetherell. secre-
tary to Mayor ]. J. Kaufman. will
be speaker for Thursday evenings
meeting of Tacoma Active club at
Tacoma hotel at 7 o'clock.
Wetherell. former publisher of
the South Tacoma Star. will talk
on proposals for changes in the
city's charter and on his expert
ences at city hall.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-26

Bob Bishop. popular student of
Knapp's Modern Business college,
was recently elected president for
the new spring term. Bob Ii a
graduate Of Lincoln high school
and . tennis enthusiast.
Mamie Doohan from Eatonville
high school Ii the new vice presi-
dent; Marjorie Jordon. also from
Eatonville, was elected secretary;
the treasurer's office Ii filled by
Maryis Petersen. Other students
elected to the Student Council
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-26

WieIand Is : member OF the re-
figious education council, Char
lotfe Ann Thompson has been
named TO the international rela-
tons council. and Violet Crowder
viii assist with publicity.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-26

gen and Trondhjem, and had at
tackled enemy troop bases.
Claim Town Hit
"A heavy bomb hit was scored
on a British flagship cruiser off
the Norwegian coast and the Brit
ish ship was set afire." the COM
munique said.
The enemy has begun air wal
against undefended towns without
military Importance" the commu-
nique said. II charged that a bath
ing resort at Wenningstedt. on the
island of Sylt, had been bombed.
and that bombs had fallen outside
the town of Heide. Schleswig-Hoi-
stein. the night Of April %.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-26
West Coast Lumbermen Voice
Plea for More Cargo Ships

A telegram from Ossian Anderson, executive vice president of ST.
Regis Kraft Co, received In Tacoma from Washington, d. C, Thurs
day morning, disclosed the Buck amendment had been returned from
to the house of representatives with recommendation for
passage. The Buck amendment Is designed to release the maritime
commissions "steriized' fleet Of cargo ships for use In the inter-
coastal trade.
WASHINGTON - West coast lumber interests told the house
merchant marine committee that the federal governments laid-up
fleet of obsolete vessels was needed to furnish adequate shipping
space for the intercoastal lumber trade.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-26
ssochuse Ice
Shipped to Tropics

SAUGUS, Mass.-Back in 1905
when there weren't ice-making ma
chimes or electric refrigerators,
Frederick Tudor of Ssugus had an
idea. He'd be a long-distance ice
man.
Ice in the tropics. he figured.
would be unusual-in fact it would
be gold in his pockets. From this
Massachusetts, town he shipped ice
to the West Indies. Tudor per-
sonally accompanied the first ship
ment to the Island of Martinique.
He was richly rewarded and
made many later consignments.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-26
Elect. Tacoma Girls

Amorhg the group named to
head The University Of Washing
ton y .W!C-A- for the coming year
are three Tacoma goods. Jaequeline
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-26

were: Nike Bratovitch, Dorothy
Grisell. Barty Mendenhall, Hen
rietta Bell, Ronnie Ittner. Bernard
Erdahl. Verne Heidal and Kay Gal
lagher.
Speakers for assemblies every
Friday. school dances and many
other social activities are sched-
uled.
II you're not using Ii, sell II with
a Fast : Action Times Want Ad.
Phone Main 1851
Evening star., 1940-12-20
Law Unit 0yerrules
'0'Conor Decision on
Commercial Vehicles
Owner-Operoted Truck
Hauling Own Products
Held Excluded

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. Dec 20.-The State
Law Department overruled today an
opinion handed down by Gov.
O'Conor during his term as Attor-
ney General and held that the legal
definition of commercial vehicle"
in Maryland does not include a truck
operated by the owner and carrying
his own products.
Aruling written by Attorney Gen.
eral William C. Walsh and Assist
ant Attorney General Robert Clapp
noted that the law names CONNER
cial motor vehicles" as those used
in the transportation of passengers
or property for hire
The question was raised by Trial
Magistrate Walter L. Green of
Hyattsville. in connection with a
truck owned by a Washingtonian
and used to deliver coal which the
owner had sold to a Prince Georges
County resident.
ut was ruled that truck
operated by the owner and carrying
his own products is within the pur-
view of this section, but we are un-
able to concur" Mr.. Walsh advised
Mr.. Green. 1T can hardly be con-
tended that a person transporting
goods pursuant to sale by him to
customer is carrying said goods
for hire ="
1T is with great reluctance that
we differ with a previous conclusion
of this office, but in view Of the
language of the statute here in
volved and the administrative prac-
tice under it. we feel constrained tc
overrule the tpreviouS opinion ~
he added.
Evening star., 1940-12-20
Resiqned Official Warns
OF Wafer Supply Threat

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 20.-The State
administration was told yesterday
by a resigned member of the Mary
land Water Resources Commission
that failure to provide adequate
funds for conservation of water sup
ply might result in serious situa-
ton.
The declaration came from Philip
B. Perlman. who notified Gov.
O'Conor yesterday of his resigna-
ton from the commission and dis
closed that Dr. Abel Wolman had
resigned as chairman. Both had
been members since 1888, when the
late Gov. Ritchie named the COM
mission.
Mr.. Perlman asserted the State
had failed to appropriate annual
funds for the commissions work, had
failed to work out program for
conserving and regulating water sup
plies and apparently was not overly
interested in its water problems.
THE failure to provide the COM
mission with an adequate staff and
with facilities with which to dis
charge its duties and exercise its
powers will undoubtedly work great
injury to the people of the State,
but the general public may not be-
come aware of the situation until,
because of drought, depletion or
otherwise, a shortage of water sup
ply or some other catastrophe oc-
ours" Mr.. Perlman said.
Evening star., 1940-12-20

He added young Buchanan denied
firing any shots but that he was
armed when seized by omcers yes
terday near Wheeler, Va, about nine
miles from here.
Mr.. Smith led SO heavily
officers and citizens who captured
the youths fatally-wounded father,
Clyde william Buchanan, 40, de-
scribed by County Attorney as a
U. s. Army World War sharpshooter,
former Virginia convict and more
recently an intinerant basket
weaver.
The two Buchanans, had been
sought since Tuesday In what Mr..
Smith termed the biggest nanhunt
in the history Of the Eastern Ken
tucky mountains"
Evening star., 1940-12-20
1t. johnson Succumbs
To Plane Crash Injuries
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, Dec. 20-Lt. Web
ster. C. Johnson, about 30, attached
to the fighting squadron VIZ of
of the aircraft carrier Wasp, died
last night at the Naval Hospital
in Portsmouth of injuries received
Tuesday in the crash of his plane
near the naval operating base.
1t. johnson had been unconscious
since the accident. His two-seater
fighting plane crashed after the
plane motor failed. The plane was
practically demolished.
1t. johnson had been married
only about three months. He was
graduated from the Naval Academy
where his father and grandfather
were professors in mathematics. His
home was in Annapolis.
Evening star., 1940-12-20
Milk Sales for Army Camp
Bring Tanq|e With State

By the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Dec. 2o.-A
tangle over State or Federal regula-
tions Of milk sales at the Indian-
town Gap Military Reservation de-
veloped today, where an estimated
$4,000 officers and men of the Penn
Sylvania National Guard are to be
called into service in February.
The milk mix-up was over the
question of who regulates the sales
at the camp, and the State Milk
Control Commission declared it in
tended to enforce its provisions.
Frank Coho, counsel for the milk
Evening star., 1940-12-20
Health Department
lnspects Condy Shops

Agents of the Health Department
are making an annual inspection Of
shops selling candy of the penny"
variety to make sure all health rules
are being met, the department an
nounced yesterday. The work is be-
ing done under the direction of DR.
r. r. Ashworth, head of the Food
Inspection Bureau.
The department said loose, hard
candy of bright colors, sold in bulk,
was being inspected particularly,
since rules require that only dyes
certified by the Food and Drug Ad-
ministration were permitted.
Evening star., 1940-12-20

commission, said the State agency
has advised Federal authorities its
restrictions on minimum prices ap-
ply to Federal institutions" within
the borders Of this commonwealth.
THE Army and Navy take the
opposite side" Mr.. Coho said. ''They
take the position It's not their busi-
ness what we require from milk
dealers"
Mr.. Coho added that the military
authorities want to deal in the
open market" for the milk rations
and that the State regulations
interfere" with them.
Evening star., 1940-12-20
Son Of Posse Victim
May Face Murder Charqe
By the Associated prexs.

By the Associated Press.
MIDDLESBORO, KY, Dec. 20.-
With his father dead from posse.
mems bullets, 15-year-old Clyde
Buchanan, jr., waited In q jail cell
today for the law to decide whether
it will press murder charge against
him in the Staying Of a peace officer
and the wounding of two others.
Bell County Attorney Walter B.
Smith said he would question the
boy again before making a decision.
Evening star., 1940-12-20
Virginia and Maryland
Get a R. (. A. Projects

By the Associated Press.
The rural Electrification Admin
istration reported yesterday it had
allotted $9,133, 500 for projects in %
States including 100000 for four
projects in Maryland and Virginia.
Among the allotments were:
Choptank Cooperative, Inc, Den
ton, Md, $572,O00: Virginia Electric
Cooperative, Bowling Green, $172,-
900; Northern Piedmont Electric Co.
operative, Culpeper. Va, $160,0O0,
and Community Electric Cooper
ative, Suffolk, Va, $4,000.
Evening star., 1940-12-20

Japan has decreed that maximum
admission prices for theatrical per-
formances shall be SIPS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15
Book Highlights

These are grim days when many
people who ordinarily do not think
about such things are intent on
American relations with the rest
of the world. Guidebooks for these
unknown roads are poisoning in
great profusion, and two of the
best come out almost in tandem
from the same publisher. They
are: "A Foreign Policy for Ameri'
ca" by Charles A. Beard Knopf:
$3.50 and Isolated America" by
Raymond Leslie Buell. (Knopf: So.
Charles A. Beard, one of our
wisest historians, regards himself
as a "continentalist'' rather than
an ''isolationist." In any case he
thinks it would be foolish for the
United States to get involved in
the European war.
He believes that close adherence
to a ''continental' policy is the
traditional course of the United
States from its foundation, and that
the various foreign adventures we
have goen mixed up which were
he argues, to cleve closely to our
tradition of acknowledgements in for
eign %quarrels. He martials an i'm
pressive array of facts and argu-
ment to support his view.
Buell., as head of the Foreign
Policy Association, is naturally
more inclined to the 'internation-
al" view. He sketches American
foreign policy concisely and clean
ly from the World War to the pres
ent, and then draws his picture Of
a brave new world and the part
he thinks the United States ought
to play in it. In the creation of this
new world of order and justice,
Buell. thinks the United States must
play a leading role if it is to make
possible the survival of our own
way of life.
Buell's book is more circumstan-
tial in its relation, step by step, of
how we got where we are. 1t is
more visionary in its glimpse OF
the possible future. But it cfers
few hints Of how to meet the day
by-day problems which beset dip.
lomatic policy as it is actually
created in action. The Beard book
is more down-to-earth, and has a
closer application to the hourly
scene The question men ask one
another every hour these days is,
Shall we get into the warp"
Beard answers it. Buell. doesn't.
Together, the two books provide
ample materials for e such
frenetic discussions of foreign
policy as are shocking the country
today. /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15
FIVE

sized grasshoppers out looking for
breakfast, Joe will try to straight
ten. Godoy up with an assortment
of plain and fancy hooks to the
body.
Up to now, the Bomber has been
a pretty fair country clouter, but
no one has ever accused him of
boasting a particularly brilliant or
diversified style. He has been a
one-track fighter - shuffe forward
and pitch until the other fellow
goes down. Whenever he has faced
any opposition even slightly unorth-
odox or out of the ordinary, Joe
just didn't know what to do. He'd
be as baffled as a first grade kid
with his first problem in long de
vision. But Jack Blackburn, the
military strategist of the Louis
bombing squad, has it all figured
out this time.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15
BEHIND THE SCENES
in WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON. - Expansion of
the nations military air force has
begun to put the squeeze on the
commercial air lines.
Because the army and navy are
taking every qualified flyer they
can lay their hands on, good all
line pilots are hard to get these
days. The commercial aviation
business is expanding, just as the
army and navy air forces are
but the government gets first call
on the supply of pilots and the
supply is very definitely limited.
Once, no major air line would
even consider a job application
from a pilot who could not show
at least 1000 hours in the air. To.
day a nan with 500 air-hours is
likely to get work quickly.
That doesn't mean that the air
lines are e%ntrusting their transport
planes to less capable men; it does
mean they have had to go pretty
extensively into the pilot-training
business themselves, and the 500
hour pilot will get weeks or
months of flying in a company
training plane before he is made
a co-pilot on a regular run.
UNCLE SAM USED
In the old days when army and
navy air forces sailed comfortably
along, the great service flying
schools were in effect training sta.
tons for the air lines. Interested
in building up a reserve and also
in fostering civil aviation, the army
and navy had no objection to see.
ing some of the best graduates oil
the flying schools sign up with the
air lines.
Today the graduates have the
stick with the service. So the great
source for the air lines is cut off
despite the fact that the service
schools are graduating 200 pilots
every six weeks these days, as
compared With 200 a year a short
time ago.
In n sense the air lines are
completely subservient to the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-15
|]RI IS FOUND !.
FATALLY SLASHED
,.,.ber.ln-Law Is Held For
Shaving OF Attractive
Woman

.cTr, r. Pa, June 14.-R)
IN" antive beauty operator was
A dashed and beaten to death
rr ~ ssdsv just outside the city
erly 'oua, onrs after the body Of the
A rev. victim. Helen Nasal, 27,
rune'le in a field by three boys
hs iou, rd her screams, District At
DO peal 1ohn G. Lamoree announced
prn.s .Ser.in.law, Arthur F. Dean,
per oi', heen taken into custody and
y D sirep police a full statement
'tnit.l nrse said Dean, a wPA work
Isn III. escorting Miss Nasal from
p wa wan home to the Nasal home
Ne no suddenly attacked her with
|ts knife ho didn't know wbv
|, 'g DID it. the prosecutor said:
s'aD covered the body, One cash
acAss the left shoulder and hip
atod the lung and heart, caus-
Ts0rs we're seven slashes on the
.tao of the neck which severed
'sD ..a,,,.r vein. The left side of the
W w.. fare was cut through from
.,th 10 ear.