davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Glacier County chief., 1940-09-27

I still stick with Johnson. One
answer is that Big Barney pitched
more shutouts and had more strike
outs than any pitcher in baseball
113 shutouts, il I recall the exact
figures. And johnson had no chance
to ease up with a weak-hitting club.
Also every hitter in those days knew
fast one was coming, but they still
couldn't hit the Big Train.
81 guess johnson, with that rec
ord, gets the CALL" Dickey said.
The Detroit Mystery
Here's another angle few fans fig
ure out. I asked one of the Tiger
stars how he accounted for Detroit's
sudden rise from sixth-place pick
to pennant contender, and then the
mid-season slow-up prior to the final
surge.
Nature" he said. "In the spring
we were afraid of Dick Bartell's legs
and Charlie Gehringer's legs and
back. But we happened to get a
damp spring which ran into June.
We had soft ground to work on until
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-01
Announce Wage
Increase

CHELAN. Wash.-Howe Sound
Copper Co. today announced a 20
cents daily wage increase for en-
ployes. based on rise in copper
prices.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-01


In conjunction with the three
day United Tacoma Days sale,
which opened Thursday. johnson
Paint and Wallpaper Co. 1142
Broadway, is featuring a one-eent
sale, according to Frank j. john
son. owner and manager.
- great share OF our stock has
been placed on sale" Johnson said,
and all such articles will be sub
jet TO the one-cent feature We
are pleased that we can offer home
owners OF Tacoma and surrounding
vicinity the opportunity to beauti-
~ their homes at the great saving
represented by this sale"
johnson added the paint fea-
tured during the Narrows bridge
celebration Is still available at sale
prices.
"Our store has been encouraged
by the reception accorded this
paint" Johnson said. and We feel
we have a share Of interest IN the
many homes which have been
painted during the past months"
Many patterns Of wallpaper, to-
gether with other items necessary
in maintaining a home. are to be
found in the popular downtown
paint store.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-01

Southwest Washington are very
familiar with our value and service
giving, and henee our store Is
crowded to capacity on the open
ing OF our huge holiday sale.
The pendulum swings. This
year. probably as never before, a
presidential campaign has not af-
fected business activities In this
part OF the country and elsewhere.
Generally during n national cleo
ton. business slaekens down said
Burnett. but in this campaign
business has been going on at an
even level. and looking forward to
one Of the biggest holiday seasons
probably in the last ten years.
For nearly half century our
firm has established a policy Of
Tightening the burden Of the Christ
man and holiday shoppers and buy
ers. by beginning to exploit and
to show our goods long before the
start of the Christmas rush, thus
enabling our friends to choose their
gifts leisurely and with comfort.
Every man and woman knows how
difficult it is to shop for Christ
mas late In the season on account
of the rush and tumble that pre-
walls through the last few days
before Christmas. So, this policy
has been highly endorsed by our
patrons In Tacoma and vicinity.
1--WE believe in business prepar-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-01
Another WPA
Job at Fort
Washington Okeh
Is Being Awoited

A WPA project for the rehabili-
tation and repair Of al buildings
at Fort Lewis and the construc-
ton of five-acre recreational
area. including a quarter-mile Gin
der track has been approved by
the state Work Projects Admin
istration office and forwarded 20
Washington. D. C.. for final con-
sideration, Lieut. Col. Charles II.
Lehner Of the quartermaster corps
at the fort has been informed.
The project calls for Si0l ,o50
from wPA and s36.1s0 from the
war department. Work includes
grading and cindering running
track and construction and placing
Of 100 rustic benches. One hun
dred fifty acres Of standing tim
Der VIII be thinned out and down
timber cleared away.
More than 40 miles OF roads win
be graded. widened and gravel sur
faced especially on the artillery
range.
Seven acres Of grading. top-soil-
ing and landscaping will be done
on the grounds OF the non-com-
missioned officers quarters. Five
hundred shrubs will also be planted
on this area.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-01
Langlie Charges Dill Would
Reduce School, Pension Funds
LONGNIEN

LONGNIEN-Arthur =. Lange the Republican eandi-
date for governor Wednesday night challenged the promises
Of & C. Dill that the Democratic candidate would cut taxes
and the pay SO monthly pensions the aged
and allocate the schools their statutory % per day
for each pupil.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-01
Banks Amendment
Support Urged

Passage of the constitutional
amendment to place state banks
on parity with national banks
was urged today by Warren NJ.
Jenkins, of Everett, chairman of
the committee sponsoring the
amendment.
The amendment would repeal
stockholders double liability in
state banks protected by federal
deposit insurance.
National banks have been re-
lieved of this restrictive liability
for five years, Jenkins said, and
AZ other states have also abol-
ished it.
with this in mind the last
state legislature voted almost
unanimously to give the people the
opportunity to vote on this amend
ment. which will put our state
banks on the same fair footing as
national banks"
Adoption Of the amendment is
being actively supported by the
Federal Deposit Insurance corpor-
alton. state banking division. ex-
ecutive council OF Washington
State Federation of Labor, Wash
ington State Grange. Associated
Chambers OF Commerce, Washing
ton State Taxpayers association
and Washington Bankers ssSoeia-
ton.
Considering it the equal OF any
beverage, natives of Mongolia
drink catsup from the bottle.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-01
Fresh Produce
On Stamp List

Seven fresh fruits and vegeta bles
we're marked available as federal
surplus commodities on food order
stamps on a new list for Novem-
Der released Wednesday for Wash
ington retail stores.
Fresh oranges. apples pears
cabbage. onions and Irish potatoes
were on the list.
Other surplus foods listed were
butter. raisins, rice, pork lard pork
in all but cooked and canned forms,
corn meal eggs. dried prunes. hom-
my grits. dry beans and wheat and
graham flour
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-01
Promote Cadets
AT Bellarmine

A list of promotions in the r. o.
T. e. corps at Bellarmine high
school was announced Thursday by
Rev. FIR. Henry ]. schultheis. S. j.,
president OF the school
Peter r. Deibert has been named
battalion commander. and Thomas
II. Roblee battalion adjutant. Com
petition was keen, and it was only
by narrow margins that they won
over John F. Smith. Richard NJ.
Gilman and John Roller, who were
selected to command Cos. a. h and
{, respectively. with the rank OF
captain.
Other promotions included the
following:
To first Romano Far
rell Jack Henriot, Joseph Ford.
To second lieutenant 49, William
CALLER, Edward CALLER, Robert
Spahr, James Bannan, Wilfred
Carigan and Ned Baritone.
To first sergeant-Harry Middle
ton, Richard Grenier and George
Van kleeck.
To sergeant-George lombard.
Robert Ehreth. Buster Van Rooy,
Richard Hermson. Charles Batz-
laff. Anthony Goblet, William
Pitzl. James Roth, William Per
kins. William Renner, James Nc
Nerthney, William McDevitt and
Paul Greiwe.
To corporal-Ted Boskovich, Joe
Devlin, Fred Hill, Rudy Mockel,
Amede Beaudoin. John Gloor. Jack
Martin, Charles Mcqueen, Douglas
Mclean, Ted Seimion and James
Moriarity.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-01

ciai problems. sad he cannot
promise am TAX reduction until
such time as the aged. schools
and other vital functions ~ the
state are financed adequately.
Langle ash pointed out that
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-01

II Mr. Dill Is elected and Z
he Is sincere In what ne now Is
promising. he vii deal our old
folks a disheartening blow Lang
lie declared
The ex-senator has been prom
ising that u he Is elected. he If
going 10 abolish certain taxes that
provide approximately four NIL
lion dollars ~ state revenue a
year" Langlie said Two million
Of this sum augments the funds
that can be made available 10 old
age pensions.
Under such reduced rev
enues aecruing to the state.
the department of social Sc
curity would not only be out
that revenue. but Il would de
tract from the matching funds
that the state must put up to
equal that of the federal gov
ernment-for. a. all pension
ers know. every dollar that
the state overnmen ad-
sances up to $50, il matched
by federal funds up to $50.
Thus. when the state falls
Ia provide the funds Ia pay
$40 month 10 the needy
aged. IL fails Ia take advan-
tage of the federal matching
funds" Ianglie declared.
The Republican candidate point
ed out that his platform calls for
SO monthly pensions, but the adj
ditional revenue needed would be
derived from economies in the
state government. Langlie. speak
ing frankly Of the states finan-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-01
Business Is Not Affected
This Year by Campaign

edness II Is just as essential TO
be prepared In business a. u Is
for 4 government 70 be prepared
Preparedness IN business means
foresight and future anticipation
on account Of avoiding advance
ment in prices and distribution.
We had that IN mind. We knew
that diamonds were going 10 ad-
vance because the statistical rec
ords show that the importation Of
rough diamonds has fallen from
1886 e45 To x2i3. s25-these figures
are from August. 1889. to 1870
due TO the invasion by Germany OF
the diamond centers OF Belgium
and Holland. but We were fortu-
nate enough to procure our needed
requirements before the advances
took place"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-01
Carbureiors Stolen

Theft of between 20 and 80 ma
rine engine carburetors from the
Babare Boat Building Co. on
Hylebos waterway, was reported
TO police Thursday by G. NJ Ford,
bookkeeper at the plant. Ford said
thieves pried off boards to store
room to gain entrance and steal
the carburetors.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-01

SEATTLE - Carloadings In the
Pacific Northwest reached a new
high last month for any Septem-
Der since 1887. the Pacific North
west Advisory board reported to-
day.
Heaviest increases were In forest
products. logs, ore, and fruit.
Total loadings were 1857, COM
peared to the 1887 peak of los. 1922
For the nine months. ending Sept.
80. loadings were 7Te.233 cars. COM
pared TO the 1887 mark OF 1888
for the similar period.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-01
Brings Damage Suit
Over Auto Fatality

OLYMPIA-Jean Douglas, exc
cutrix of the estate of Clara
Douglas. ~. filed S4.426 damage
suit in superior court here We'd
nesday against Gerald W. Mills,
Thurston county resident. She
charged Mills ran down and killed
the elderly woman with his car on
August 3 near Puyallup. The COM
plant charged he was speeding
and under the influence OF liquor.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-01

the equalization moneys =. tire
poor school districts nov = hing
paid because o. lack 81 ms
Yet Mr.. d. proposes % suck no
million dollars more out - the
school fund LznEhs said.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-01

DTS eaHtsued state revenue woald
reduce aloca tions n Ire schools.
which already arc not receiving
the full support stipulated by law
Neither the full = cents pei
day nor ne intended amount Of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-01
IVA Union Auxiliary
Will Sponsor Dance

Auxiliary unit of local Is, IVA.
will hold a Halloween dance IN Go
hall. 113 So. 18th st. Saturday.
Dancing will be held from 9 p m.
until midnight. Door prizes Will be
featured Members and friends are
invited TO attend
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-01

"Our gigantic Christmas holiday
sale has taken the people Of Ia
coma and vicinity by storm" L Il.
Burnett. president Of Burnett Bros.
said today.
Our customers in Tacoma and
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03

Imperial county sheriffs office to
arrest and hold Julian Navarro,
Dorteo AScuncion, Ariston Alcantra
and aynone else in their company,
as they were believed to have fled
to Imperial Valley after assaulting
and robbing Mary Nah, Stockton
business woman, of $1,000 and her
bank books.
Hold the men, their car, and all
their possessions" Stockton officers
ordered. land we will send men
after them Immediately" They sent
\ description of the car the island
ars were said to be travelling in.
The valley officers received the
message via police radio in West
morland Mt $50 p. m. In a few
moments they found the wanted car
standing empty before an amuse-
ment resort. While they waited,
the islanders appeared and entered
the car The arrest was a thing OF
the past at 8:37 D. m, minutes
after tnev received the order to ar
rest the islanders.
With the wanted men was Fred
c. Peralta. 30. who was arrested
and taken to the county Jail with
the other islanders
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
Dictator Power in
Emergency Asked
For FIR by Edison
Navy Secretary Would
Have Congress Give
President Authority

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.
(UP)--The 10th congress met
in third session at noon to-
day with an emergency re-
Iuest for another extension
of President Roosevelts peace time
powers.
Secretary of Navy Charles Edison
made the request to congress to
authorize the president to COM
nandeer facilities in time of ma
tional emergency.
Edison's request seemed to key
note the session beginning today
under international conditions moro
menacing than at any time since
Europe last blazed into war in 1914
He asked congress for legislation
to permit the president to obtain
ships and materials and to COM
mandeer factories and the like"
in periods of national emergency.
Mr. Roosevelt proclaimed "lim-
tied national emergency last Sep
tember after outbreak of war in
Europe but the authority Edison
proposed would not be available
to him under existing statutes un-
less the United States, also, were
at war.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
Hewes Reports Colorado
Bosin Development PIan

Drafting of a comprehensive plan
of development of the Colorado river
basin was included Wednesday in
the annual report of Evan T. Hewes
chairman, Of the California Colo
RADIO river board.
The plan is being prepared by
the Bureau of Reclamation, in
volving Investigations of feasibility
of all projects.
'If successful, the program will
avoid endless strife and litigation
among the states" Hewes said
Each of the basin states, thereby
are kept informed of the progress
on various projects in other states,
Among the projects under study
was the proposed Colorado-Great
Basin project in Utah, This would,
# constructed, divert one and a
half million acre feet from the river
into the Great Basin near Provo,
Utah.
"The implications of such a huge
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
Supervisors Order
Efficiency Drive

Echoes Of the recent grand jury
probe of county affairs rumbled
family in supervisorial chamber
Tuesday as the board ordered ar
immediate step-up in the efficiency
and industry of all county employees
Board members decided to meet
rs individuals at later date ans
investigate the amount and the
type Of work accomplished in tn
various county departments.
IF there is anything in the hint
that some county employees are not
working as much or as efficiently
rs they should" Supervisor Hugh
t. Osborne said, lit is up to the
board of supervisors to find it out
and correct it Immediately"
This was the only reference made
to the recommendation included
in the annual report of the 1889
grand jury.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03

congress his hope and eXpectatlons
that the United States would re-
main at peace.
Mr.. Roosevelt did not suggest
how congress should raise new tax
revenue. The extra emergency ma
tional defense sum he desires is
estimated at $400,000,000 to $780,
100000.
The third session of the 10th con-
gress convened at noon and met
In joint session shortly before pm.
to- hear the message-a world wide
broadcast by the president of Unit
ed States foreign and domestic poll
cy.
Practically all government ex-
penses except for national defense
will be reduced next year, MI.
Roosevelt said, in the hope that
these days of increasing economic
prosperity" will permit continued
reduction of the federal deficit.
But he warned that unemploy-
ment remained an unsolved prob
lem and that with program of
social improvement begun, the pro-
cesses of recovery must be carried
On to preserve gains and provide
Jobs at a living wage.
A large part of the treasury's
deficits for the past several years
mas been created by national de-
| tense costs, the president said, but
concluded that such spending must
oe continued.
81 am asking congress-" he said
for army and navy increases which
are not based on panic but on COM
mon sense. They are not as great
as enthusiastic alarmistS seek. They
are not as small as unrealistic per-
sons claiming superior private in
! formation would demand"
The amounts asked will be re-
vealed in his budget message to-
morrow.
He said the social and economic
forces which had been mismanageG
abroad until they brought revolu-
ton and dictatorship and war were
identical with those we were at
tempting to adjust at home. Express
ing the hope that I'VE will have
IeWGT OSJTlClleS III our IIllQSI, Ilt
asked Americans to look ahead and
see:
l. The possibilities for our chill
dren if the rest of the world is
dominated by concentrated force
alone.
2. The effect on our future if
small nations throughout the world
are shorn of independence by pow
erful military systems.
g. See the kind of lives our chill
dren would lead if much of the rest
of the world were compelled to
worship a god imposed by military
rule, or were forbidden to worship
at all, or we're deprived of true news.
See the effect on our future
if world trade is controlled by mill
tary force by any nation or group
of nations.
Continued on Page 8; Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03


ed in it had licked upward through
the halls and stairways, trapping
scores of residents in their apart
ments and in the Railways. Many
of them still were in their beds.
Five hours after the fire was
discovered II bodies were lined up
in the Hennepin county morgue.
Three more were being removed
from the still burning building
Several of the bodies were burned
beyond recognition.
Relatives and friends sWarmed
through the morgue.
Identified were the bodies of Mrs.
Jay frankie, So, her son, Otto, 25,
and her daughter, Renee 16. A wom-
IN who jumped head first from
third story window was identified
tentatively as Florence Hessing, 80
Others identified were Mabel
Brown, "a, and the infant son OF
Charles Coovert.
Forty persons we're injured, and
23 of them were taken to three hos
pitfalls. Two firemen and two police
nen we're among the injured.
Survivors said that when they
we're warned nearly every avenue
Of escape was blocked Most were
Continued on Page 8, Col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03

was reported today.
Russia had hoped to make the
Mannerheim line untenable by send
ing a force down the lake shore
where it would be in position to
attack the Finnish left wing and
drive westwards directly along the
defense line.
The asserted collapse of this eff
fort was attributed partly to the
destruction of the Russian 1880
division, $4,000 men, farther north
in the Suomusalmi sector. The mar
row winding roads in the thick for
eStS of this region were reported to
be strewn with useful Russian ma
terial.
Strategically, according to mill
tary experts, the Firms all along
their 1900 mile line from the Gulf
of Finland to the Arctic sea were
in better position than at any time
since the start of the war. Five OF
IL separate Russian thrusts between
Lake Ladoga and the Arctic sea
had been smashed, experts said,
and great quantities of war ma
terials-Which the Firms need bad
ly-had been captured. For the
present, it was asserted, not only
had Russia'S thanking movement
failed in the south but immediate
hope of driving across to the Gull
of Bothnia in mid-Finland had gone
glimmering.
Russian columns, including new
crack troops, had crumpled against
the determined Finnish resistance.
and on the Petsamo front in the far
north the Firms now had the initia>
tive.
In the south the Finnish line con-
tinued anchored to the Taipale river,
on the Lake Ladoga side, and the
island of Koivisto on the western
side.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
Arrest May Clear
Up MANY Thefts

Solution of numerous burglaries in
El Centro, Brawley, Westmorland.
Imperial and Heber was believed
near Wednesday because shoes worn
by a man arrested in Imperial
matched. footprints found at the
scenes of the burglaries.
Francisco Hernandez, 20, Ell Cen
tro Mexican, wore the telltale shoes
with the damaging heel marks. He
was arrested by Chief w. H. Burton,
given a 30 day sentence for vagrancy
in Imperial and lodged in the coun-
ty Jail while deputy sheriffs and
police officers investigate his activ-
tiles.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
Dies Committee Declares
John Lewis No Communist

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. CUP)-'
The Dies committee in unanimous
report to congress today exonerated
John L. Lewis and the majority
of members of the Congress of In
Gustrial Organizations of charges
that they are Communists or Com
munist sympathizers, but charged
that the leadership of IL of the 43
CIO unions "is more than tinged
with Communism.
1T is Enthusiastically clear" the
committee said, that the over
whelming majority of the members
of the CIO, as well as its president,
0ewis), are not Communists or
Communist Sympathizers, but sin
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
Dave venciII, HoItviIIe Supervisor,
Named New County Board Chairman

the plea that others were more
qualified to preside Other board
members Tuesday ignored his GUS
tomary excuse and elevated him to
the Craftsmanship by a unanimous
vote
AS president of the First National
bank of Holtville, Vencill always
kept in touch with financial condi>
tions He always was known as tho
boards most conservative member
and consistently advocated SOUND
business methods in the handling
of county business.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03

Dave Vencill. Holtville's represen-
tative on the county board of super
viSorS for IA years, Tuesday was
elected board chairman for 1910.
He succeeded B. M. Graham OF
Brawley, chairman last year.
The new chairman first was elect
ed to the board of supervisors in
1926 and represented his district
continuously since that time.
In spite of his long service on
the board this was the first time
he ever served as chairman. He
repeatedly refused the position on
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03

Rose at the close of the regular
meeting. When he found that the
district had received no official copy
, ofthe report and that the secretary
did not have one on file, Rose COM
mented:
II agree in principle with the crit
icisms and recommendations made
by the grand jury in reference to
district affairs, and I believe things
;. are open to discussion of the
board"
Secretary Walter Goodson was
asked to make copies of the report
for all board members.
After the session Chairman Evan
T. Hewes said he had not read the
grand jury's report beyond SKIM
ming it and preferred to reserve
comment until next week
The grand julJ's recommendations
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
Caiexican Beats
Wife, Kills Self
With Pocket Knife

CALEXICO, Jan. 3-While his
two small sons played near tha
house, John D. Harlas, 30, relief re-
cipient. beat his wife into insen-
sibility with an axe today and COM
mitted suicide by slashing his
throat with a pocketknife.
Harlas was lying dead on the
floor of a blood spattered room at
922 Imperial avenue when police
broke into the house at the request
of Bill Burns, ST. who lived at the
same house. Mrs. Harlas was lying
unconscious on a blood soaked bed
Burns said Mrs. Harlas had threat
ened to leave her husband. Before
Burns went down town at 9 a. m
Continued on Page 8, Col. %