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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-20
ALBERT W. PORTER

Albert w. Porter of Spokane, a
musician with a u. S. army band
during the World war. died Tues
day in local hospital. He leaves
his wife. Linda NJ. of Spokane.
Funeral announcement by Buckley
King.
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WILL. MEET THURSDAY

The East I'D Street Improve
ment club win meet at s p. m.
Thursday q y00A "a. 3 81
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Tacoma Obituary Notices

and Mrs. Henry Hademan. both of
Tacoma. and two grandchildren.
Piper's will announce the funeral.
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GEORGE HEssEiGRAvEs

George Hesselgraves, s4. OF
Coupeville. Wash, died Monday in
a local hospital He is survived by
one brother. James. Funeral an
nouncement by Mellingers
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PETER II. LEE

Peter Hulverson Lee, "A, native
of Norway. died at home, o042
No. Pearl St. late Tuesday. He
lived in Tacoma for SO years. He
is survived by a son, Harold Lee.
and n granddaughter, Dolores
Lorraine Lee. both of Tacoma.
Final rites will be conducted at
5 .. m. Friday in the c. o. Lynn
chapel. followed by burial At New
Tacoma cemetery.
WILLIAM EMIL SCHMECHEL
William Emil Schmechel. IS. died
Tuesday at his home. Route /. Box
40. Spansway. He had lived at
Spsnsway for IS years. He leaves
his wife. Anna. two sons. William
K. jr. and Ernest; daughter,
Mrs. James Ockfen OF Spansway: a
brother Fred Schmechel OF Taco
ma, two sisters. Mrs. Roscoe Dorau
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FUNERAL SERVICES

Mrs. Cora NabIe HoItkhtImet-
Thursday at $50 p. m. from the
Piper chapel. Elder J. II. Pike Of
ficiating; burial in New Tacoma
cemetery.
Peter Michels - Thursday at ?
D. m. from the Roy church, Rev.
II. n. Svinth officiating: burial will
be in Roy cemetery, under direction
of Piper's.
Mrs. Hannah Elizabeth Stoves
THURSDAY. 10 a. m. Mellinger
chapel. Rev. J. Arthur stevenson
officiating; interment. New Taco
ma cemetery,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-31
Fire Record

The answer to any question as to
the efficiency of the District Fire
Department is the low per capita
property loss from fires during the
past fiscal year. The timated
damage of $733,5O1 reduces to a per
capita of Sill, a very favorable
showing when compared with the
$3.50 per capita which fire control
experts set as very low"
This excellent result was accom-
plished despite the fact that the total
estimated loss is practically double
that Of the previous year. There are
a number Of reasons to explain this
increase, one being the fact that the
department had at least fifteen fewer
men under requirements of its
budget, and that the past winter
was an exceptionally cold one in
which heating plants were pushed
to capacity, resulting in more than
400 fires.
Fire Chief Stephen Porter and his
force deserve the commentator of
the city for their efficient work in
protecting it's 663, 900 inhabitants and
its $4,000, 100000 worth of property.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-31
Seeks Establishment
OF Second Naval Academy.
To the Editor of The Star.

To the Editor of The Star.
The last naval appropriation bill. as
a part of our preparedness program, pro-
vides for an increase in our Navy to dou-
BILE its present size. one fleet for the At
lantic and one for the Pacific. Our
naval experts estimate that this program
can be completed and the ships commits
stoned by 1916. We have six years to
prepare officers to command these ships.
1t takes four years properly to educate
midshipman to be commissioned to the
rank Of ensign. We have but one Naval
Academy and am informed that this
institution at the present time cannot
accommodate the additional classes
necessary to meet this program. These
classes must be started within two years
to have the proper number Of subordinate
officers ready for commission by 1916.
We must begin now to enlarge the pres
ent Naval Academy or establish sep
arate institution. I believe we should
have separate institution for this pro-
gram and 1t should be located on the
Pacific Coast. Competition between
schools creates efficiency in student
bodies, 30 let us have two Naval Acad-
emies-one In the East and one IN the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-31
French Africa Fights On

1t is news Of genuine significance
that comes from London regarding
the African theater of war General
de Gaulle, leader of the free"
French forces which continue to
make war on Germany, announces
that French Equatorial Africa has
rallied to his standard and will fight
on against the Nazis and Italy. Ad-
jacent former German territory, the
Cameroons, held under mandate by
France, has also joined the De Gaulle
movement.
The action of these territories,
bordering the Anglo Egyptian Sudan
and Libya, gives the British a wide
corridor across Northwestern Africa,
which links the Atlantic Ocean and
the Red Sea, enhancing their value
for operations against Italian pos
sessions. Libya on the north and
Italian East Africa fringing the In
dian Ocean would be directly &C
cessible from the vast stretch of
French domain which has evidently
determined to remain at war with
Hitler.
General de Gaulle, possibly in too
optimistic mood over this develop
ment, voices the belief that "the
French Empire is now rising to make
war" He intimates that if Morocco,
Algeria, Tunisia and French West
Africa were also to join his cam
paign, the whole course of the war
might undergo radical change.
OF vital interest to the United
States and the other Americas would
be the adhesion of French West AT.
RIGA to De Gaulles colors. It in
cludes the important seaport of Da-
kar and the African Atlantic coast
nearest to South America. That re-
gion, in control of the axis powers,
would afford them relatively easy
access by air to the bulge" of Brazil.
This is one of the strategic posi-
bilities which undoubtedly lie at the
root of the United States plans to
lease British naval and air bases in
the Southern Atlantic. The State
Department, because of Dakar's
newly acquired Importance In this
regard, recently dispatched a con-
sular officer to represent us there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-31

West. Let us take from the politician
the privilege of appointing the cadets
to this new academy and vest it in the
Governors of the several States under
the following conditions: That the
Governor of each State shall appoint to
the Naval Academy Subject to the pass
age by the applicant of the entrance
examination at the academy each year
a number of cadets to be ascertained
according to the population in each of
the respective States; that these students
selected by the Governor must be from
class submitted to him by the School
Board or other educational administra-
tive agency of the State, as being those
students, who, after graduating from
high school. received the highest marks
in an examination given for the selection
OF appointees to take the entrance exam
ination at the Naval Academy. What
could be more democratic than to let
every boy in this land, rich or poor (who
is citizen of the United States, know,
upon entering school, that, if he studies
hard and leads a clean life. he has an
equal opportunity with every other boy
to obtain an excellent education at the
expense of his Government and perhaps
some day be an admiral in the United
States Navy. Notwithstanding the nep-
otism of the politician. The great ma
jority of boys who enter our high schools
today have no objective nor is any spe-
cial inducement held out to them; there
fore, upon graduation a great many be-
come mere driftwood in that great stream
of business commerce. We must have a
highly educated population to have
strong Nation and the way to educate the
youth of this country is to hold out an
alluring objective as an inducement to
study.
This plan would strip the appoint
ments to this Naval Academy Of any
semblance of nepotism or political pres
tige and give an equal opportunity to
the rich and poor, thereby teaching the
youth Of this great Nation that democ-
racy can and does work in America.
RICHARD E. WEXFORD.
August 20.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-31
Settlement at Vienna

The settlement of the Pennsylvania
dispute, so arbitrarily imposed on
King Carol at Vienna yesterday by
representatives of the axis dictators,
deals a heavy blow to Rumanian
hopes for a prominent place in the
Balkan sun.
Loss of nearly half of Transyl-
vania, following earlier important
territorial Surrenders to Russia and
Bulgaria. reduces Rumania almost
to her pre-World War One dimen-
sions. 1t marks a decisive stage,
though perhaps not a final one, in
that process of disintegration which
King Carol so accurately predicted
would follow the making of any
concession to Rumania's clamorous
neighbors.
Rumania acquired Pennsylvania in
1920 by the Treaty of Trianon. But
Hungary has never acquiesced for
a moment in the surrender of this
province, which cannot accurately be
described as either Hungarian or
Rumanian so far as the racial origins
Of its population are concerned. Nor
does the Vienna settlement dispose
of this troublesome problem any
better than did the Treaty of Tri-
anon. The hundreds of thousands
of RumanianS living in the portion
of Pennsylvania marked out for
cession to Hungary, as we'll as the
Hungarians residing in that part of
the province left to Rumania, may
be exchanged at their own option,
but it may be doubted that many of
these minority groups will assume
the heavy sacrifice that would result
from such transfer.
AS a part of the settlement, Ger
many and Italy undertake Jointly to
guarantee what remains of Rumania
against further dismemberment. This
guarantee is interesting now pri-
marily to the extent that it may in
fluence future relations between
Stain and his axis associates, Hitler
ana MuSSOl1nl. AT nrSt bluSh, the
guarantee may appear as a rebuff
to Moscow, but it would be unwise
to conclude too hastily that either
Rome or Berlin courts trouble at
this time with the master of the
kremlin.
Dictators Hitler and Mussolini
have their hands full at the mo-
rnent in the struggle with Great Brit
ain. The conduct of that war is
their primary concern, and it is most
unlikely that either II Duce or Der
Fuehrer have taken any action in
Rumania or made any commitment
that has not received the advance
approval of the enigmatic Stain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-31
Team Play

One OF the encouraging features
of the $160,0OO,O 900 Federal contract
for airplane engines announced by
Secretary OF the Navy Knox Is not
a matter which can be written into
any contract. It means more than
the mere delivery of 1900 o. the
worlds finest aircraft engines to the
Federal Government, important and
even vital as that may be. Behind
the announcement is an unpublished
drama of fine team play on the part
OF the Army, the Navy, the National
Defense Commission and private
industry.
One senses that a tremendous
amount OF red tape has been cut in
the placing of this order; that quib-
bling over matters of precedence and
non-eSSentials was dispensed with
IN the interest of speed. The order is
expected to cover all requirements
OF the Army and Navy for Pratt &
Whitney aircraft engines, manufac-
tured by the United Aircraft Corpo-
ration at East Hartford, Conn, during
the 1912 fiscal years. 1t is not
known yet how many engines the
Army will get, since details of the
Army appropriations for the purpose
have not been settled. The contract
for the bulk delivery of engines is
being handled by the Navy and the
engines ultimately delivered to the
Army will be paid for by the trans
fer of Army funds to the Navy.
Secretary Knox indicated that all
future engine requirements for the
two services will be handled in the
same sensible, realistic manner,
without interdepartmental COMPETE
ton, confusion or excess motion.
On its part, United Aircraft is
practicing team play by placing
reliance on legislation as yet not
enacted, in what Secretary Knox
described as "a very sporting spirit"
Without waiting for action the Con-
gress may take on excess profits
taxes, amortization and related prob
lens, the company is bearing the cost
of the necessary plant expansion
out of its own pocket and at its own
risk, Mr.. Knox said. 1t is a risk
running into several millions of
dollars.
In the major defense emergency
which faces the United States today,
every individual concerned must
work in a harmonious concert of
action toward the final goal, which
is absolute security for the Nation
and its institutions, liberties and
ideals. Such concrete evidence that
there is working realization of this
fact Is as reassuring as is the gear
ing up Of one of the great industrial
plants upon which the Nation must
depend for production of the neces-
sary equipment for defense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-31
ComoufIoged Planes

The British seem to have developed
a secret weapon Of their own-the
invisible airplane" At least, Nazi
military authorities are convinced
that they have a new problem on
their hands as a result of recent
successful bombing raids on Berlin.
According to dispatches from Ger
many, anti-aircraft crews have been
able to hear, but not see, British
bomberS over the German capital in
several nocturnal forays Powerful
searchlights, which ordinarily could
pick up enemy raiders at the alti-
tudes flown by certain of the Royal
Air Force planes, have found only
limitless blackness overhead. That
planes were up there in approx
mately the locations indicated by the
sound detectors could not be doubt
ed, however, for they dropped plenty
of bombs as evidence of their pres
ence. 1t was all very puzzling-and
undoubtedly very embarrassing to
the Nazi propagandists who had pic
tured Berlin as being virtually invul-
nerable to attack from the air.
But the Germans say they have
found the reason for the invisibility
of the English bombers. A wrecked
r. A. F. ship, Berlin dispatches as
sert, was found to be painted on the
underside with a sooty varnish
which absorbed light rays and rem
dered the plane almost indistin-
guishable even under the glare of a
powerful searchlight beam. To this
the British answer nonsense" and
suggest that the Nazis are just trying
to find a good excuse for their inabil-
ity to cope with the aerial invaders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-31
Lest We Forget

It is important to remember, as
Secretary of State Hull pointed out
in a statement this week on the
twelfth anniversary of the signing
of the Kellogg BRAND pact, that the
underlying principles of this interna-
tional remuneration Of war must be-
come firmly established unless all
mankind is to relapse into the chaos
of barbarism." The ideals that in
spired Sixty-one nations only twelve
years ago to sign the treaty designed
Hull describes as 'the untold suffer-
ing and indescribable tragedy of the
kind we are witnessing today" must
not be forgotten. Their soundness is
unimpaired, even though the law
less conduct of a few conquest
bent nations-Germany. Italy, Russia
and Japan-has put them on the
shelf for the time being.
Wishful thinking cannot bring
about the necessary firm establish
ment of these principles for the
peaceful solution of all disputes be-
tween nations, however. There must
be realistic action to make them
effective. They cannot prevail until
the power of the forces of conquest
that have destroyed one peace-loving
nation after another has been de-
stroyed.
In the meantime, every American
should take to heart Mr.. Hull's SOL
emn warning that mo country and
no individual is secure against the
destructive effects of the existing
armed conflicts" and that "only by
vigorous and adequate preparation
for self-defense can any country,
including our own, hope to remain
at peace" Because few nations are
violating their pledges under the pact
outlawing war-and because there
was no effective machinery for CO.
operative action to check such vio-
lations before they gained momen-
tum-each country which wants to
keep war away from its shores now
finds itself forced, as the Secretary
emphasized, to "arm as speedily as
possible and to the utmost Of its
capacity in preparation for self
defense" 1t is an expensive lesson,
which, If well learned, should lead
in the future to the type of inter-
national corporation necessary to
make snti-war pacts truly effective.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-31

This may, indeed, be the case. But
If the British actually are using spe-
cial non-glare, light-absorbent paints
to camouf1age their planes, 1t would
cause no surprise among American
military experts, for the Army Air
Corps has been experimenting for
several years with paints Of this type.
Various colors and combinations OF
colors have been tested, with varying
degrees Of success There was a
news report recently to the effect
that the British had confounded
Germans camped across the Channel
by grouping planes in pairs and
painting the undersurfaces in such
way as to make each pair resemble
one large plane. As a matter of fact,
tricks of camoulage are as old as
war itself. The art reached a high
degree Of effectiveness during the
first World War. Britain's phantom
bombers may have benefited from
some new technique-but the most
likely explanation for R. A. F.
achievements in the Berlin area is to
be found not in camouf1age, but in
expert airmanship on the part of the
flyers and faulty defense on the part
of the highly touted German anti
aircraft service. That service was
supposed to possess automatic sound
locaters and range-finders that
functioned even when planes were
hidden behind clouds. The Berlin
bombings have proceeded with but
little interference from guns pre-
sumably controlled by such devices.
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CONSUMPTION Held Essential
In Changed World.

To the Editor Of The Star.
In connection with CONSUMPTION, some
ask what is the emergency requiring it
and imply hidden motives on the part
of supporters of universal compulsory
military service. 1t matters little wheth-
er there is an emergency. The basic
and important fact, however, is that the
world has changed. 1t is largely in con-
troll of those who believe in force and if
the United States is to maintain itself,
not to speak of the Western Hemisphere,
1t must become a militaristic Nation.
And the period Is not for an emergency,
nor until 1912 as proposed in legislation.
but indefinitely, until the world returns
to a more sane attitude and the pledged
word of nations again proves worthy Of
some reliance. M. L. McATEE.
August ~.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-31
Says Negroes Are Denied
Opportunity to Enlist.

To the Editor of The Star.
Today, American Negroes are con.
fronted with a strange anomaly in our
democracy. Army and Navy recruiting
stations are informing Negroes that no
vacancies exist for them. We are denied
an opportunity to enlist for the defense
Of our country, although both branches
of the service are desperately in need of
men. We are citizens. Should We be
denied the right which Is granted all
other Americans? The Negro soldier
has never been guilty Of treason.
It is difficult for loyal Negroes to be-
lieve that American leaders-our leaders
subscribe to such policy. Everywhere
Negroes are asking how can this be pos
sible. Daily we read of devices such as
shorter periods of enlistment, more com.
pensation, etc., as means of encouraging
enlistment; still, we are denied the OPP
portunity. Understand, we are not op-
posed to this as the means of speeding
up enlistment. However. we believe that
this justifles our saying that the country
is desperately in need Of men.
We are not willing to accept the theory
that the Negroes intelligence level makes
him liability as a soldier If this is
contended, set an !. @. level as an ad-
mission requirement and Negroes will
measure up
Consumption is upon us, yet thousands
of Negroes have been denied an oppor-
tunity for voluntary service. Negroes
who are ready, willing and capable of
helping in the preparation for the de-
Tense of our country. Picture thousands
of young Americans being forced to leave
their daily pursuits, yet thousands of
their follow countrymen, through no
fault OF their own, have been denied an
opportunity for voluntary service. This
is indeed a strange anomaly for which
those who formulate our policy will have
to answer to the fair minded American
public and to those who will one day
read American history of 1910.
JAMES N. WARD,
Assistant Secretary, District of Co.
lumbia Branch of N. A. A. c. p.
August %.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-31
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. TrdceDeH.

Of cottage cheese. creamy white, with a
bit Of 1t In his bill.
Jays always make the same approach
to this feeder, placed on the side Of an
arch over the gate.
They land on the arch, then drop down
to the roof of the feeding station, then
fly down with q twisting motion, and
land squarely on the edge.
A jay about fills up one side Of the
cheese, withdraWs II, and consumes Its
find Immediately.
We have not found that many other
species care much for this food. Off,
hand, you might think they would all
like it very much.
AS most people know nowadays, cot
tage cheese is one Of our best protein
foods, besides having minerals and vita
minis. Birds and humans should eat
more of it.
Yet many persons even today tend to
look upon this fine food as sort of side
dish. when as matter of fact five table,
spoonfuls of cottage cheese give about
20 grams of protein.
We intend to try this food for the
birds next winter. It's soft, moist con-
sistency might be more acceptable to
them at that time of year than during
the summer, when there is plenty of
food and drink everywhere.
There Is hairy woodpecker which
comes to this feeder upon the arch.
The bird has a very cute way of COM
ing down the arch behind the feeder.
and reaching around with its bill to
take food.
Usually this food consists of ground
beef of the cheapest cuts. This food is
one of the best which can be put out
for birds during the nesting season,
since 1t helps the parent birds in keep
inc the bills Of their youngsters filled
The little woodpecker never approaches
head-on. as the jays do, but always
comes around from the back of the
post. and then allows only as much of
him to show as may be necessary for
getting the meet.
Those who have not fed the birds this
summer should be thinking about 1t for
the autumn and winter months.
This is good time to decide where
feeding station may be placed and how
many are to be used.
If feeding has not been continued,
there is no particular need for begin
ming it this early. however
1t is better to wait until cool weather
arrives.
Then the birds which winter with us
will begin to look around for food. as
the seeds of weeds and cultivated flowers
BEGIN to disappear.
This will be the time to begin to build
up memory trails in the birds minds
Nothing makes greater impression on
bird, one may feel sure. than the sight
Of good food. They have remarka bly,
good eyes, and a sure memory of places
where they found food; they never for
get, and are only too glad to find It
waiting for them at the same place
again.