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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-14
Driver TO Serve
Out Fine Of Sl50

Tacoma citizens who pursued
one motorist and police who beat
the brush" for another were
equally successful Wednesday
night. Charles Jarvis was held in
Jail on a drunk-driving penalty
Thursday and his companion, Rus
sell LaDuke, faced drunkenness
charge.
Both were suspected occupants
OF car that crashed into an
electric light pole on So. 18th st.
between Grant and Ridgewood
ayes. about 3 p. m. The car was
abandoned by two men who left,
running. Witnesses caught Jarvis,
and turned him over TO Officers
A. c. Gillbo and Dan johnson.
Johnson. continuing the search in
the weeds and brush of nearby
alley finally found LaDuke.
Jarvis was fined $3.50 and costs
in police court, and started serv-
ing the fine. LaDuke's hearing
was set for Friday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-14
Elections Cost
Tacoma S7,6O4

City Of Tacoma's share OF the
cost OF the spring elections totaled
s. so4. which the county treasurer
deducted from s7e. oes.5s remit
lance sent 10 the city treasury,
1t was disclosed Thursday.
Bulk of the cost was wrapped
up in the February primary
election. expense Of which was
Sc. 03e %. The primary was purely
city election.
The March Il general election,
however. was a countrywide affair
and involved election OF school
directors. park commissioner, a
port commissioner. and decision
on a couple Of propositions for
special tax levies and for port
control Of tideflats industrial pro-
perties. Accordingly part OF the
cost of the March election was
distributed to other tax-levying
bodies besides the city govern
ment.
City's general election share
was sl.567.71. which included
s405.15 charged the city as extra
expense in connection with placing
Of Mayor Harry p. Gains name
on the final voting machine ballots
after the death OF Or. G. b. Ker-
stetter.
The county election board con-
ducts all elections for municipal
bodies and bills them for the cos,
after that has been determined.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-14

ward a. the county hospital. that
the girl vas not a polio victim.
Miss Little had been tentatively
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-14
Seattle Teacher
Traffic Victim

A Seattle school teacher, Miss
Bessie Carson. 81. was injured
Thursday morning when she was
struck down at 18th and Pacific
by a motorcycle.
The woman. the motorcycle and
Its driver, Robert S. Haddon. 20,
1924 No. sth st. landed in a
tangled heap when the machine.
turning south onto Pacific from
18th St, struck the woman who
was walking across the street.
Detective A. o. Peterson, an eye
witness. took her TO the county
hospital, where her injuries were
found TO be minor and she was
released. Haddon told police the
pedestrian became confused when
she saw the machine coming.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-14

aries. That's the states own fig
ures. The state relief agency
should run on five per cent. which
would save five millions alone for
the old and the needy"
WOULD CUT TANES
Dill said this state spends 40
millions annually. while the state
OF Nebraska. with the same popu-
lation and approximate area, gets
by on so millions.
Dill pointed out that by taking
the sales tax from foods he could
save three million dollars. He de-
clared he would quit unless he
could cut this tax by that amount"
He declared that the 88 per
cent control which the gov
ernor exercises over expendi-
lures must be- reduced and the
power returned TO county gov
eminent and county officials.
I'VE need more local self-gov-
eminent"
Dill announced that II elected
governor, he would ask the legis-
lature to pass law to govern cam
paign expenditures. limiting the
amount TO be spent and revealing
the source OF the money. This was
evidently reference TO Gov. Mar
tins reported statement that he
had spent large sums OF his own
money to secure the nomination.
FAVORS INCONSISTENCIES
Saying that the governors salary
Is only $4,000 a year, Dill said:
while this is enough to live on
comfortably. a man can't afford TO
spend much in campaigning and
expect TO get 1t back. II man Is
elected by his friends. he owes the
people and will serve the people.
II he is elected by money. he bought
the job and owes his friends moth
ing not even loyalty"
Dill concluded by saying. 81
would like TO make this state truly
progressive. ! want ii to interfere
little as possible with honest
business activity. want II to help
the unemployed, the unfortunate
and the helpless"
Following his address. which
was carried throughout the state
by radio, ex-senator Din conducted
an open forum meeting for dis
cussion OF pension problems and
state conditions.
On Thursday Dill spoke at a
luncheon OF the Everett "Dill for
Governor club" and returns 10
attend the Tacoma Elks in the
evening. He will spend Friday
and Saturday at the Democratic
state convention at Yakima.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-14
Ex-senator Dill Launches
Campaign for Governorship
Seeks State Position to Protect
Interest of Public in Coulee Dam

Making his first official speech
for governor. former L. S. Sena-
tor c. {. Dill told crowd Of 500
persons in Ray c. Roberts hall
Wednesday night that he intended
to win on what he is going to do"
and not on what he has ALREADY
done"
Discussing the world situation,
he said: we don't know how long
or when 1t will end. II is too ter
rible for words what they are doing
today in Europe. But we don't
want TO get into this war. ! was
not popular when ! voted against
war before. was opposed to
sending our boys over there am
still opposed to il.
The people are behind the pres
ident 100 per cent in his program
for building thousands Of planes
and training pilots TO fly them"
PRAISES ROOSEVELT
Dill said he was confident the
president would rise to meet all
occasions. "He will look after the
interests OF the people, for we never
before have had a president so
interested in all the people and, in
my estimation, he is head and
shoulders boye any other leader
in the world today"
He was cheered when he as
serted: I'VE want TO he 80 pre-
pared that n any nation dares
to send an Invading force, they
will never get back TO tell Of
the trip"
Dill said he had been asked why
he was seeking the position Of gov
ernor instead OF running for his old
post in the senate. He replied by
saying he believed leadership and
understanding Of power problems
is needed to prevent power COM
panies from taking "our cheap
electricity away from the people.
Cheap electricity will build new
empire in our state"
TO SERVE PEOPLE
II did not leave the senate
until was assured that Coulee dam
would be a reality. got that dam
them am not going to see the
power generated by that dam pour
dollars into the Golfers of the pow
err interests" Dill declared, speak
ing with all his old fire and vigor.
II would like to be in the posi-
ton OF governor so that I might
serve the people. To serve the
people, I think it necessary TO cut
out unnecessary expenses. We can
cut expenses by getting rid of need
less high-salaried officials, costly
bureaus and commissions. Fifteen
per cent of the millions for relief
In this state were used for sal
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-14
Windshield Stickers
Are Now Available

Windshield stickers giving pub
licity 10 the celebration in connec-
ton with the opening of the Ia
coma Narrows bridge and Nc
Chord field are now available for
free distribution. Picturing the
bridge with a motor boat UNDER
meath and an airplsne flying above,
the stiekers are in three colors.
advertising both events. Tacoma
and the peninsula and giving the
dates of the celebration, June so
TO July 4.
These have been printed for
Rhodes Brothers department store
and may be obtained at any indie
pendent service station in the city.
at $40 Provident building. or on
the main floor at Rhodes Brothers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-14
To Hold Services
AT Weyerhaeuser

Miss Lillian Pickens. preceptress
and instructor in Christian eduea-
ton at Seattle Pacific college. will
conduct a special missionary meet
ing at the church at Weyerhaeu..r
Thursday at 8 p. m. Weyer-
haeuser is located about % miles
south OF Tacoma, on the Mountain
highway.
A graduate Of the Greenville
college. Illinois, in 1916, Miss
Pickens taught English and Ger
man at washington Springs Junior
college. South Dakota. for two
years and then went as a mission
airy to Japan. where she taught
in the public schools and was an
instructor in Christian education
from 1918 to 1885.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-14

listed as the third TO die in the
polio epidemic.
She was stricken several weeks
before the disease manifested itself
here, but did not become critically
III until May 20. when she was
placed in a respirator in a vain
attempt 10 save her life.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-14
Bawling Cow
Saves Life
OF TaCOn1an

Bawling OF an unmilked COW
was credited with possibly saving
the life Of Charles o. Mcknight
Thursday. police reported.
Mcknight, IS, was found lying
on the floor of his home At 6ils
Ea. D st, in semi-conscious con-
dition. evidently the victim Of a
heart attack suffered late Tues
day.
The elderly mans wife had been
away on a visit. and neighbors
grew alarmed when Meningitis
COW reminded them he had not
been in evidence for two days.
The neiehbors called relatives.
who found Mcknight and notified
police. He was taken TO st.
Joseph's hospital, and repeatedly
was improving.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-14
Actions in Divorce

Divorce actions were filed In
superior court Thursday by Hattie
A. against Frederick A. Bledsoe.
grounds cruelty; Eva against Roy
Dopps. non-support: Ellenene
against Earl Lenglle, burdensome
homelife. and Mary A. against
George Simpson. separation since
1891.
An interlocutory decree was
granted to Irene T. from Frank
f. Kinsey; final DEGREES TO Louise
from Vernon Wright, Genevieve
from Russell Spangler. Emily
from Henry Won Classen, Myrtle
f. from A. +. Allen and Z. J.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-14
VIM. E. Weeks
Stricken Here
u. S. Inspector
Posses at "a

William E. Weeks, 81. Inspector
for the L. S. interstate commerce
bureau of safety since 1912. died
suddenly Thursday at his home.
3716 No. Mason ave. He was born
IN Paradise. KY, and came to
Tacoma in 1916.
Surviving are his wife. Pearl T.:
two daughters, Mrs. F. r.. Cochran
of Seattle and Mrs. Arthur Doty
Of Wichita Falls, Tex; one sister,
Mrs. Belle Gaddis Of Chicago, Ill.
and one grandson. William Weeks
Cochran Of Seattle.
Funeral services Will be ar
ranged at Buckley-King's.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-14
Waller Road Club
To Meet FridUy

The Waller Road Improvement
club will meet Friday at p. m.
in the community hall, according
to Henry Elem, program chairman.
Candidates for county commission
er are invited TO speak A straw
berry social will follow the meet
ing.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-06-28
DR.. Mudd's Island Prison
Is Now Open to Public

Observation-Disclosures old Fort
Jefferson, abandoned as a military
post in 1874 and made a national
monument by President Roosevelt
January 4, 1885, has been made &C
cessible to Florida visitors by the
national park service.
A triweekly boat service has been
inaugurated to the fort, which is
located IS miles off the coast of Key
West on one of the Dry Tortugas
islands. Docking and anchoring IA
cilities also have been provided for
private craft.
The fort was built on the island
in 1916 as the key defense Of the
Gulf of Mexico and, although it was
abandoned as a military post in
1874, troops still are stationed there
ga years later.
It was on this island that DR..
Samuel A. Mudd, Maryland physi-
clan who set John Wilkes Booths
broken leg following the assassina-
ton of President Lincoln, was i'm
prisoned. He was pardoned on
March 81, 1869, because of his faith
full service to the island inhabitants
during a yellow-fever plague.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-06-28
Misunderstanding Fish

A strange fish with lot of names
and without any friends until recent
ly is providing the richest known
source of vitamins A and D. The
ling, lawyer, Josh or burbot is the
fresh-water member of the cod fam
lily. This fish lies low in warm
weather, preys on game fish in cool
weather, and its liver, which is one
tenth of its weight, is 10 times richer
in vitamins than cod liver. Theo-
dore RoWell, son of a commercial
fisherman on Lake of the Woods.
Minnesota, discovered the value of
burbot liver in a homemade labora-
tory. The life-saving extract of the
oil is prescribed by physicians for
many deficiency diseases. The Ma
tional Wildlife federation reports
that the demand for burbot liver
has greatly helped game and food
fish in Minnesota lakes. The flesh
is processed and sold to fur farms.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-06-28
Fuse Is Safety Valve
Of Electrical System

Fuses, or circuit brakers, are the
safety valves in the electrical sys-
tenn. Extra fuses should be kept
on hand in case one blows out.
There should be enough circuits,
each controlled by fuse, to carry
all the appliances the home is likely
to have, point out NJ S. c. special
lists.
When fuse blows out it's usually
an indication that there is a short
circuit or an overload. Perhaps
too many appliances have been con-
nected to one circuit. This trouble
occurs frequently in houses wired
several years ago, before people be-
gan to have such variety of cleo
trio devices, such as mixers, dish
washers, waffle irons, percolators,
fans, razor and warming pads, as
well as the refrigerator, washing
machine, laundry iron and vacuum
cleaner.
BY removing fuses one at a time
and noting which lights and outlets
are dead" a blown fuse may be
found.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-06-28
s5,0OO,OOO a Day Is
Lost to u. S. Farms
Heavy Drain Is Caused by
Soil Impeachment.

CHICAGO.-More than s.. 900, 600
day is lost to American agricul-
lure through depletion of plant food
elements IN farm land due to ero-
sion, 1t is disclosed in a study on
SOIL depletion based on SURVEYS con-
Quoted by DR.. H. H. Bennett. chief
OF the U. s. soil conservation serv-
ice.
1t IS estimated that Sc, 900 900
tons of plant food material of all
KINDS are removed from the crop
ana pasture lands of America each
year by erosion" says statement
summarizing the study. This is
more than 81 times the amount of
plant food removed in growing
crops.
If only nitrogen, phosphoric acid
and potash-the three most essen
tai elements for soil fertility-are
considered, the loss amounts to
$4,000, 10000 annually, based on the
cost at which these elements could
be purchased in fertilizers.
The need for more far-reach-
ing program of soil conservation is
illustrated by the fact that less than
100000 acres of Americas $780,
100000 annual crop acreage are
treated with fertilizer every year.
Consumption for the entire country
is slightly more than ton per farm
for the nations 6,812,350 farms.
"The movement toward soil i'm
provement through the use of fer
tllizer is being strongly supported
by agricultural colleges, state ex-
pertinent stations and county agents
everywhere. Farmers are being in
creasingly made aware that an in
vestment in nitrogen, phosphoric
acid and potash will not only be a
safeguard against soil depletion and
erosion, but will pay valuable divi-
dends in increased crop production
and replenished fertility"
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-06-28
Aged Scientist Invents
Secret Signal Lights

LONDON.-At 80 a man might
reasonably think his usefulness to
his country in war time had ended.
But Sir Ambrose Fleming, famous
scientist, has invented at that age,
a simple spy-proof lamp for signal
ing from ships, the signals of which
can only be read by the specially
equipped receiver for whom they
are intended.
Until this invention anyone could
read the continuous signals from
ships in British naval bases and
harbors-if they knew the code.
The secret of Sir Ambrose's lamp
is "polarized" light Light consists
of vibrations. In ordinary light these
can bound in all directions. Pola-
rized light looks the same to the
naked eye, but the vibrations are
confined to single plane. The pro-
jector sends out a beam of light.
For the dots and dashes it changes
momentarily to ordinary light. The
naked eye cannot detect the differ
ence. But the special receiving in
strument filters the polarized light
and makes it appear darker and of q
different color. On top of this the
message stands out in separate
flashes of white.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-06-28
Whoa-Yelling Crow
Annoys Plowmen
Loquacious Bird Interferes
With Work in Field.

PINEHURST, N. C.-The plow-
men vending their homeward way
in this section are getting very
weary indeed of Hop-Along Cassidy.
The other day one of them re-
marked that if the derned split
tongued crow didn't watch, he'd be
a split-throat crow. And pretty
quick, too.
Hoppe is loquacious bird, but
his garrulity runs mostly to the one
word whoa" Perched above the
road, he shouts it imperiously at
every team he sees. Sometimes he
even flies along above a mule, in
dulging in a contest with the exas-
perated driver, meeting every gid
dap" with a mule-stopping "whoa!"
Hoppe, the pet of John Hanes Of
Lakeview, was picked up about two
years ago, along with his noisy
brother. The brother died at a ten
der age because he ate some glass,
but Hoppe survived, and about a
year ago burst into untutored
speech. He can say "come on"
hurry up," "I'm waiting for you,
George" and, confides John ga lit
tie cussing" But mostly Hoppe
says whoa" and he says whoa"
morning, noon and night, and he
says whoa" when there is spring
blowing to be done.
The mule-drivers think John
Hanes should teach the creature to
say "gid-dap."
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-06-28
Mercury Mine in Idaho
Discovered by Chance

A chance discovery of a sheep
herder has provided Idaho with its
first mercury mine and a new
81 ,000,0 600 industry, according to
state mining officials.
A sharp price rise in the quick
silver market gave new impetus
to the venture when the European
war broke out and now the Almaden
mines, developed by L. K. Requa,
veteran Santa Barbara mining en-
gineer, are producing an estimated
400 pounds of pure quicksilver a
day.
Andy Little, young sheepherder
with flair for mining, chased q
lost sheep across the sagebruSh-
covered mountains 20 miles west Of
the city of Weiser in 1896 and no
ticed an outcropping of reddish ore
at his pony's feet He came back
the next year and staked out 18
claims
Requa visited the area on one Of
his periodic tours of western mining
districts and examined the sheep
mans cinnabar stake He leased
the property for 20 years with an
option on further leasing. formed
a company, set up plant and be-
gan production last summer.
The venture is a closed corpora
ton and no stock is sold.
Requa believes the mountainSide
on which the mine is located is a
solid mass of mercury in opalite and
phyolite forms, left by an old lake
bed Cinnabar is an ore mineral
that occurs in both bedded and vein
deposits.
The plant is the latest metallur-
gical science has produced. The ore
is roasted in a kiln at 1900 degrees
and the mercury passes off in the
form of vapor to be condensed in
II tubes, 80 feet high. The mercury
is drawn off at the bottom into
buckets and placed in TASKS, ready
for shipment.
The mine is an open pit operation.
The ore is blasted out of the hillside,
tons at a time and rolled in cars
along a narrow-gauge track to a
bin, attached to a long conveyor
belt. The belt carries the ore to a
crusher and thence to kiln where
it is roasted.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-06-28
Peak Climbing in Storm
Offered as Wart Cure

VANCOUVER, B. C.-Have you
any warts? Then go mountain climb
ing in a thunderstorm.
Leonard c. Chatwin, young sci
enlist at the University of British
Columbia, believes that electrolysis,
caused by forks of invisible light
ning," striking the axes of the noun
tain climbers during a thunderstorm
will kill warts.
Chatwin, member of the British
Columbia Mountaineering club, de-
scribed how, with a fellow MEM
Der, he had been caught in thun-
derstorm while scaling an 8,000-feot
peak.
Chatwin said that his partner, who
had warts, lost them week after
the mountain thunderstorm and at
tributed it to the forks of invisible
lightning that struck their axes, set
ting up a STEADY, buzzing hiss"
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-06-28
Model FSA Client
Finds Year Thrifty
Crops Are Good and Steel
House Is Comfortable.

JASPER, ALA.-A years resi-
cence IN the first steel house erected
by the Farm Security administra-
ton IN the South has convinced
George Kilgore and his family that
the house is more comfortable than
wood structure.
Kilgore admitted he had "done
pretty well' with the 72-acre farm
the government rented him for S13O,
despite a rainy spell of 80 days in
May and June.
From the 48 acres that he and
his two sons cultivated they picked
Az bales of cotton which sold for
S207.57; harvested 300 bushels Of
corn, so bushels of sweet potatoes,
four or five tons of hay, made 40
gallons of sorghum sirup and
raised Is head of hogs and about
$50 chickens.
He borrowed 1894 and his present
bank balance is S21783 Joseph
Spears, FSA supervisor at Jasper,
admitted Kilgore had done all right.
The steel barn is bursting with
corn and hay and Kilgore says it's
too small. The FSA, which owns
the farm and erected the unit Of
five steel buildings - dwelling
house, barn, smOkehouse and poul-
try house-agrees it is small and
proposes to add lean-tO sheds to en-
large it,
Across the Holly Grove road
from Kilgore's house is another steel
unit, into which Earl Honeycutt and
his family of a wife and four girls
moved last winter, shortly after the
kllgore homestead was occupied.
Honeycutt also has done well
and likes the new steel houses bet
ter than wood structures. He bor-
rowed $1,08l.85 and has paid back
$4,000.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-06-28
Cost of Living in Italy
Up 80 Pct. Due to War

ROME.-The cost of living in It
ally has increased approximately 30
per cent since the war started.
New increases in food and ciga-
rette prices were ordered. A pack
age of 20 foreign cigarettes. former
ly 40 cents, now costs so cents.
American cigarettes are rationed at
the rate of not more than two pack
ages day to a person.
In addition to the price increases,
new 2 per cent receipts tax has
been added. Domestic tobacco
prices are up 1919 per cent. Among
the staple food products appearing
twice daily on most Italian tables,
there have been the following price
increases: Bread, per cent; olive
oil. per cent; sugar 1915 per cent;
coffee, 80 per cent; dried Goldfish,
ga per cent.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-06-28
Urge to See Old Home
Saves Another's Life

WINCHESTER, ENG.-Edward
Passey owes his life to the urge of
another man to have a look at his
old home.
Passey was walking in the dark
ness, up the path of a lonely dis
used house some miles from his
own home, when the ground sud-
denly gave way beneath him and
he fell so feet into the mud and
water of an old well shaft.
For "a hours he called for help
but no one heard. And no one
would have heard but for the fact
the previous tenant had an urge
to see the place, and was just in
time to save Passey's life.