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COURT REPORTER
Decision in the Strange Case of
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BOTH ARE GUILTY.
In this strange case of circum-
stantial evidence, the higher court
of South Carolina affirmed the de-
cision of the lower court, which
found that Eddie Barnett, who re-
manned in the car probably two
hundred yards from the barn, was
as guilty of the crime of arson as
Jack Carr, the one who actually
held the lighted match.
Circumstantial evidence is always
a tricky and dangerous thing, for
prosecution and defense alike.
Sometimes the guilty go free and
old records show instances where
overwhelming proof sent innocent
people to their doom.
According to the Interpretation
OF the law in most states, where
two or more persons conspire to-
gether to commit a crime and the
crime is carried out to completion,
all who were present, aiding, abet-
ting and assisting in the commission
OF the crime are equally guilty. The
act of one is the act of all.
Eddie Barnett had worked for
Austin Baird. They disagreed over
money matters, fell out, and Eddie
harbored a grudge for many months
against his former employer.
Then came the urge for revenge,
the plot to burn the barn, but
Eddie weakened. Jack Carr did the
Job little knowing that his act of
friendship would land his friend
in Jail.
This is taken from a true case.
Reference of citation may be had by
sending a stamped, self-addressed
envelope to bella Lanan-Court
Reporter"
Starting Next Week
THE STRANGE CASE OF
THE UNFINISHED CRIME''
Don't Miss It-Follow 1t Daily In
This Newspaper.
Trade Marx Registered; u. s. Patent o6e.
World Rights Reserved BY Garlic crutcha.)
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J. w.

BLADENBORO, Oct. i'll. W.
Johnson, 81, prominent Baden
boro man, died of heart trouble at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Clar-
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Obituaries
r MARY w. .COSTIN

Mrs. Mary Whitaker Costin died
suddenly Thursday night in Ashe-
vile, it was learned here yesterday.
She is survived py her husband,
Alpheus H. Costin, a son, Boyce
Costin, of Asheville, a sister, Miss
Harriet Whitaker, of Wilmington,
a niece, Mrs. E. C. Hicks, Jr., and
two nephews, j. Laurens Wright,
of Charlotte, and DR.. Thomas H.
Wright, of Lexington, Va.
Funeral services will be held to.
day at II a. m. from the home
Of Mrs. Hicks, 1907 Princess street.
Interment will be in Oakdale ceme-
terry.
Active ~pallbearers will be: w. A.
Davis, D. H. Craig, Bradley Woot-
en-, G.. S. LeGrand, Frank Harriss,
and C. W. Broun.
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-20

I know that Mr.. Johnson has
done so as I have been shown
such letters received by precinct
committeeman from Mr.. john
son, precinct committeeman who
knew I was very much interest
ed in another candidate.
Aside from either of the can
didates mentioned in Mr.. john
sons reply to the Pierce County
Democratic clubs charges, there
are other worthy and capable
candidates running In the Demo-
cratic primaries. Along with
many others, I am neither inter-
ested in Mr.. Johnson's admitted
candidate nor Mr.. Elliot's sup
posed candidate for Democratic
governor, but for another highly
qualified and intelligent aspir-
ant entirely. A man who has
pledged himself to the cause Of
the underprivileged.
As Pierce county Democratic
chairman, I cannot see how Mr..
johnson can possibly do his i'm
partial duty to all primary
Democratic candidates. while
serving as campaign mana
ger for one particular individual.
This is meant to cast no re-
Election on Mr.. Johnson. but If
he is fair as I believe him to
be / think he will be the first
one TO admit he has made a mis-
take. NELLIE SMYTHE.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-20
NO SIGNS YET OF
ARNfAGEDDON

Editor The Times: I am
gratified at X. CAROLS request
that l discuss 1.-The possibility of
the present state of world af-
fairs ending in Armageddon."
The query recalls to mind
Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 third
term slogan, I'VE stand at
Armageddon and we battle for
the Lord" The first World war
was frequently referred to as
Armageddon, and a dozen other
instances might be given in
which this sounding Biblical
word has been used TO give re-
ligious color to personal or
national grabs for power.
But as *. Carroll doubtless
uses the word. Armageddon is
a battlefield of the Apocalypse,
prophetic writings supposedly
set down by Saint John, as a
result of visions seen by him
at Patmos. There is much eccle-
siastical dispute concerning
Johns authorship: but at Arma-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-20
What Have We Learned?

Have the American republics learned the lesson of
Europe? Has the spectacle of Europes small countries
jealous and fearful unwilling to unite and then falling
after another into the hands of conqueror brought home
anything to the Americas?
We going to find out The Havana conferences will
tell by the end of July to what extent the American
pubcs have learned the lesson of cooperation.
The United States has taken the lead, patiently and
painstakngy, for 10 in fomenng united western
hemlsphere-in creating Pan Americanism in which
the Monroe Doctrine should be not a policy of the
United States but joint policy of all the Americas
What fruit this has borne will be apparent in the Havana
meeting.
On the record it is concusvey clear that United States
policy in regard to the Americas has nothing to do with
continental hegemony in simpler language, do not
want to the two Americas set of branch Offices
controlled from Washington.
Japanese and German action in Asia and Europe have
no similarity to the Monroe Doctrine of 1923 of today
Did the Japanese hold conferences with China Siberia,
Manchura lndoChna Australia and the Dutch East Indies
from abroad and to devise better of trading and
living together? To ask the question answers it.
Did Germany hold similar conferences in Europe for
the reasons? We heard of none. Pan Americansm
of today something duplicated nowhere else in the world
The specific questions to be discussed at Havana include
activities of alien groups endangerng American
democratic ideals joint defense and united action
to foreign trade situation which may bring with it
threat of foreign political domination.
The American nations all Free They unite freely
on these matters not.
If they do not wish this, they within their rights,
and the United States will not question them 1t has for
10 been offering and urging cooperation equal
terms and living to that ideal its foreign relations
Specifically, it believes that all the American nations
should jointly prevent European in this
hemisphere from changing hands the result of
military conquest But if other American nations do not
to their end of this responsibility. let
that it is imperialism for the United States to pro-
tect its safety and interests by whatever
available.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-20
RELIEVES COUNTY
CHAIRMAN Is FAIR

Editor The Times: Judging
from comments being heard, 1t
appears that the Pierce County
Democratic club is to be COM
mended for its attitude regard
ing Hans Johnson. Mr.. johnson
is Pierce county Democratic
chairman. and as such il seems
very unfair that he should def
nitely support any particular
candidate for governor in the
primaries.
He seems TO be making mis-
take, and, in this writer's opin-
ion. he will regret ii. ! do not
personally know Mr.. johnson.
but as spectator ! have
watched him preside over many
Democratic me- tings and have
always been impressed by his
fairness. Granting that he is
fair, I believe that he would be
t4ie Aisl ono " PtNsSSs "N
the situation reversed.
Not knowing Mr.. Elliot and
Mr.. Johnson's personal relations.
I am in no position to take sides
in their differences. But l do
know that Mr.. Elliot has writ
ten no pressure letters to pre-
cinct committeeman, using mis-
official capacity TO further the
cause Of q particular candidate.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-20

PEARSALL DEFENDS
JOHN COFFEE

Editor, The Times: Excess of
zeal probably occasioned c. w.
Overturf's letter purporting to
explain the real reason for Con-
gresham Coffee's vote against
the Allen bill deporting Harry
Bridges.
Slight research would have dis
covered that clause in Section s
of the constitution, defining pow
ers of congress: mo bill of at
tainder or ex post facto law shall
be passed" With little more ef-
fort. Overturf might have learned
that this provision has been held
for $50 years to forbid ANY
bills of pains or penalties" di-
rected against individuals, citi-
zen or non-citizens. by congress.
Thereafter it would be only fair
to assume that Coffee was
simply honest and courageous
enough to comply with his oath
of office and uphold the consti1
tuition, regardless of the ten.-
porary hysteria of the majority
of his colleagues.
But this is too simple and easy
for Overturf. Instead, he strains
politic a imagination to the
breaking point to build a n.y.
pothetical political situation in
which Coffee might profit by
that vote which his enemies loud
" claim would ruin him.
Overturf's statement that all
letters defending Coffee were
obviously prepared in Washing
ton shocks and chagrins me
deeply. OF course, my own let
tiers all come hot off my private
wire from Washington, unless it
becomes crossed with other
wires from Moscow, Berlin or
Afghanistan. but I thought I
was the only "Pulser" so favored.
ROBERT J. PEARSALL.
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geddon is prophesied to occur
the final struggle between good
and evil on this planet, with
good triumphant forevermore.
AS frequently happens, to de-
fine the question is to answer
it. To have Armageddon, all
good people must be gathered
on one side, and all evil people
on the other, as in Johns sup
posed vision, and are there any
signs of such grouping of
forces?
True, it is the fashion of all
wartime governments to repre-
sent their enemies as all evil.
but what modern government,
with its black record, would
have the auuacity today to
claim that it represents God, all
good? What peoples are all
good or all evil-or, indeed, what
individuals Has K. Carroll
known any? But In war, in the
main, it is the better people
that die. II is the worse that
gain more power.
Some actions seem to me COM
pletely evil. Cold-blooded muir
der for material gain is such an
action; and thus modern war,
as waged or planned by all
great powers. is to me the sum
total of evil. For modern war
is commercial war. as Wood
row Wilson discovered too late;
it is mass murder plus every
other conceivable crime, for the
defense of existing areas of ex-
ploitation or for the gain of new
areas. Out of that, how can
come the triumph of all good?
How can figs be gathered from
thistles?
ROBERT J. PEARSALL,
S715 So. Park Ave.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-20
HOROSCOPE
SATURDAY. JULY 20

Adverse aspects dominate to-
day. 1t Is time for careful
procedure In all important mat
tiers. Labor is subject to dis
rupting influences which will re-
tard industry. Agents of hostile
governments will be active in
fomenting serious trouble.
Heart and Home: While this
Is favorable day for starting
on a journey, danger of acci-
dents is forecast. II is not a
lucky day for any travel by wa
ter transportation. In the fam
lily too many minds may be evil
dent whenever a decision is to
be made. The stars presage
anxieties for parents who will
disagree with the modern ideas
of their children. Training for
public service is enjoined by the
seers who urge girls to study
nursing and boys to enter camps
where military tactics are
taught.
Business Affairs: Importa-
tons from South America will
increase. Fashions will offer
modes popular in the capitals of
Brazil. Peru and the Argentine.
In the United States prosperity
will encourage spending with
little thought of the morrow
when financial crises affecting
the world will be felt in this
country. Gayety will be sought
in the effort to forget the hor-
rors of war. Colorful notes will
be introduced in home furnish
ing and summer attire.
National Issues: AS the old
civilization ia shattered and
many of its precious possessions
are destroyed. precedents in the
United States will be ignored in
business and politics.
International Affairs: Espion-
age is to reach such scientific
efficiency that secret service
agents will achieve success
along many lines of govern
mental service. Statesmen, diplo-
mats. army and navy officers
will be betrayed by emissaries
of hostile lions Secret
agencies In the United States
will be camouflsged as religious
or philanthropic organizations
while subyersive teachings
honeycomb schools and colleges.
A prominent American woman
Is to be detected in a grave
plot.
Persons whose hirthdate IL Is
have the augury of year of
perplexities. Quarrels with rela-
tives or friends may be serious.
The young will court and marry.
Children born on this day may
be intense in nature and of
cryptic personality. They may
have strong artistic bent and
should be wisely educated.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-20
QUESTIONS TO TEST
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can you answer seven of these
test questions Turn to the
woman's page for the answers.
/. In which country is Hud-
son Bay?
,. Boise, Pocatello or Lewis
ton is the capital OF Idaho?
5. What is H2O7
4. July is in the summer or
winter season in Brazil?
5. How can judge OF
United States court be removed
from office?
6. Are the Balkan countries
near the Mediterranean or the
Baltic sea ?
:. What nationality was John
Huss
S. What is the fourth estate .
q Name the composer of The
Rosary"
10. What is the French pro-
nunciation Of Paris.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-20

We shall not the of democracy and human
freedom by becoming involved in the present war; shall
that by keeping out of warWendell Wille
COP presidential candidate.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-20
GIVES PURPOSES OF
ELECTRIC CENTER


Editor The Times: So much
has been asked as to just what
the Electric Center is doing for
Tacoma-and what 1t is,
First, it has a large display
room to show electrical prod
ucts and sell them for the diff
ferent firms who may want this
space. Only legitimate mer-
chandise with a good guarantee
will be taken. Ranges which the
city shows and sells and other
electrical goods help the city
utilities build up the kilowatt.
Home Builders display is in
a section by itself to promote
home building and remodeling,
with the use of additional cleo
trical merchandise, which also
helps build up the kilowatt.
In another section we have
two model kitchens to encour-
age the installation of modern
electrical equipment.
Next we have the Van Lake
Travel service, know from
coast to coast, which was put
in for civic purposes TO help
Tacoma get business when the
Narrows bridge was built. Now
the bridge is finished and good
foundation is laid for the bust
ness it will bring for all Ia
coma. Tacoma newspapers get
advertising of resorts and no.
tells because of the efforts Of
the Travel service.
We need the trade from all
districts, and the Narrow
bridge was built with this IN
mind. We get as much business
as we 60 after.
The travel service is open to
all organizations for their use.
Tacoma needs more contact
with Alaskans shopping for the
needs of families who have to
send out for their purchases.
Our sister city Seattle has been
working on this program for
many years, before our bridge
was started or finished. In other
words. it is a go-getter. What
Tacoma needs is more boosting.
FRANCES VAN LAKE.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-20

lea with his brother and two
Union balloons. His subsequent
observations over dense Para
guayan forests enabled the allied
forces to break 14-month
deadlock and subdue Lopez
army. Allen was paid $4,000.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-20

He Fixes Things

To receive attention IN this col
urnn letters must give name and
address Of writer Oniv initials
will be published when requested
Mr.. Fixit: Can n person join
the army and get 10 be an
ambulance driver without TAX
Ing military traininge
n. I. X.
You couldn't enlist as an
ambulance driver directly. AM
bulance driver is job in the
medical corps, so you would
have to enlist in that corps as
a step toward becoming one.
The local recruiting office in the
Bankers Trust building can
enlist you in the medical corps.
Mr.. Fixif: What was the
date of the Jack Johnson James
J. Jeffries fight A. A. II.
johnson knocked out Jeffries
In the 18th round at Reno, New.
July 4, 1910.
Mr.. Tfsit: VIII you help me
settle an argument? Il IL true
that Chinese or japanese
who comes over TO u. 8. can
never become L. s. citizen?
My argument il that though
their parents cannot become
citizens, Japanese or Chinese
children born In this country
are automatically American
citizens. My friend says the
yellow race never becomes a
L. s. citizen regardless of place
of birth. MRS. V. r. SEEK
Your friend should get more
familiar with the constitution of
the United States. Any child
born in the United States, re-
CARELESS OF the birthplace or
race of his parents, automati-
cally acquires the right TO citi-
zenship. Furthermore, some
Chinese and Japanese who came
to this country from the Orient
have become naturalized citizens
by right of having served in the
American armed forces during
the World war.
Mr.. Fixit: VIII you tell me
the name Of the glldcrs club In
Tacoma, the address and the
meeting time' Have they .
glider? R.. B.
For information about the
Tacoma Glider club you should
get in touch with Cy Sims at
the Roxy theater. The club has
a ship, but its meeting places
and times are subject to varia-
atoms.
Mr.. Fixit: VIII you please
tell us your opinion of which Ia
best, an oil heater or a small
floor furnace TO heat a five
room cottage?
MRS. w. s. 8.
Opinions on things like that
are out of Mr.. Fixit's field.
You will find all the furnace
men In the city more than will
ing to give you information
about the heating plant your
house needs. After you have
heard the opinions of all those
heating experts, looked at their
heaters and read their literature.
you will be qualified to decide.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-20
DETOURS ON ROAD
TO DEMOCRACY

Editor The Times: You have
heard the song, All Who Talk
About Heaven Amt Going
There" That is also true about
democracy All who talk about
democracy are not headed for
democracy. Many would lead
US to the other place Every
destroyer of liberty claims to
be defender of democracy.
As I see il. we have lost con-
siderable democracy the last 25
years. We now have many self
appointed dictators, or rather. a
government by pressure groups.
II you are not a member of these
groups you are not represented
in government.
Government statistics show
that the farmer really enjoyed a
higher standard of living 80
years ago than he gets today.
The prices of his products We're
much higher and the cost of
goods that he bought were much
lower. What do you think has
caused this disparity in in
comes,
The politicians OF both parties
have been very busy late years
building up a price structure for
industry. and a wage structure
for labor in industry, at the ex-
pense of the farmer. farm labor.
and others. They call this sta
bilization. protecting living
standards. and planned econ
omy.
The great trouble with il is
that only about one-half of the
population can get in the plan-
ned economy. The others are
shut out, and are made to SUI
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-20
National Income RISING

The national income for 1888 nearly $70,000000-
O00 the commerce department has announced That is
still well under the peak Of for 1929 but
because things produced in these times bring lower prices
than 1929 actual physical production is probably about
equal to that year.
Yet unemployment is still with This points again
to the welknown fact that production be increased
far above any figures yet known in this country
The armament will probably further in
national production in 1910 and for years
But with the tremendous drive must go a con-
nua effort to increase domestic consumption of all kinds
of goods Export markets will be hampered in the
future
Permanent well-being will depend eventually our
ability to absorb most of everncreasng national pro-
duction.
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fer for helping the others.
Now they have the system of
distribution so far out of bal
ance that it cannot work, and
the politicians have not the
courage to straighten it out.
OF course, as long as the poll
ticians can hold the support of
the protected groups he need
not worry; he can stay on the
public payroll. And that is what
is known as leadership.
OSCAR c. ERICKSON.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-07-20
Broadway Job Recalls
Pick and Shovel Days
Machines Cut Down
Man Power
But Machine is Stuck
Without Man
An Analogy from the
Wheat Country

CoMETHTNG about a eonstruc-
~ ton job attracts adults as a
circus does the youngsters. Dur
ing the day hundreds stop to see
the jack hammers and power
machinery tear out the old paw
ing and street car tracks on
Broadway preparatory to max
ing it a modern business street.
II there are among the observers
any who watched the original
job they will recall what a thrill
they got out of it.
An inspiring sight 1t was TO
see the 200 or more pick and
shovel men, half a hundred
horses hauling hand loaded
wagons that carried not to ex-
coed a yard and half.
The crowds that watched the
pick and shovel men, and the
horses, were just as big as
those that stand by and dis
cuss the work. of the power grad
ers and excavators today. What
will impress them most, next to
the speed with which the work
is being done, will be the alb
sence of man power, only about
one-fifth IF what II was on he
original job.
If some of them are inclined
to philosophize, they will lay the
economic upset to the replace
ment of man power by machin-
cry. But outside of their own
minds they will not have leg
to stand on. Some CT the most
eminent economists and all of
our eminent industrialists can
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-24
Elaine Beswick
To Be Married
To Georqe Weiss

Miss Elaine BesWick announced
her betrothal to George Weiss on
Saturday by wearing her pretty
engagement ring for the first time,
thus revealing the news to the many
friends of the young couple.
While the exact date for the
wedding has not been set, it is to
be an event of the near future.
Both young people are relative
newcomers to the valley but have
made many friends during their
brief stay. Miss Beswick came from
NorWalk where she was graduated
from Excelsior high school and she
Is employed at the Imperial Hard
ware company office.
Mr. Weiss, who is the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Weiss of
Seattle, Washington, is connected
with the local office of the South h.
ern Pacific and attended the Uni
verSity of Washington.