The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-02
Impeachment
Threat Made

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on which he will leave Monday
evening.
Mayor Kaufman. in his state
ment, referred TO complaints
against wide open gambling. boot
Logging and other obnoxious vices
piling up in my office"
Out Of Control
There seems to be no doubt"
he said. that the situation Is out
of control and somewhat 1auseat-
ing to the people Of Tacoma.
During recent months officials
Of the state liquor control board
have raided one OF our well known
dives no less than 40 times. In
each case arrests have been made
for bootlegging and / believe in
every case a fine has been paid.
1t is generally known that gam
bling a big scale is carried on
at this dive but the police depart
ment and the sheriff's office have
left this place unmolested. There
must be a reason"
Blames All Three
Kaufman held Commissioner
Eastwood. Sheriff Bjorklund and
Prosecuting Attorney Thor C. Toll
lefson jointly responsible.
1T is necessary" he concluded.
that l be absent from the city
for about three weeks on public
business. am hoping that during
this period there will be notice
able improvement. II there Is no
Improvement l shall upon return
ing ask the council to join me in
taking whatever steps may be
necessary and legal to bring about
an improvement"
Defends Organization
Woodwork defended his organ
ization as nonpolitical except as it
took steps to clean up Tacoma.
which he asserted is gaining a rep
utation as the cesspool of thePa-
cific Coast"
1T Is charged" he added, that
there Is an invisible government in
Tacoma"
Waving a file of typewriter
papers from which he later read,
Woodwork said he could find no
record of a police arrest in a liquor
case since Eastwood has been in
office. Arrests, he said, were be-
ing made by state liquor control
board agents and others.
From his list he read off names
of a couple of dozen joints at which
from 10 to more than so arrests
have been made. He said he had
taken the list from court records
Remains Silent
Throughout that part Of the
meeting Eastwood maintained ar
unbroken silence. Only afterward
did he comment to The Times that
there is no basis in fact" for the
charges against MIN.
Woodwork insisted the council
should begin impeachment pro-
ceedings Immediately.
"If you don't. the recall is al
set to CO." he said. We've got tn.
money"
Woodworth asserted that he hac
affidavits of "our own members
who have sat in Is different pro
tected poker games in Tacoma.
$500 Per Table
'It is our information that the
operators pay $500 per table. The
invisible empire knows very wei
where that goes. Mr.. Eastwood
might be able to tell you something
about that. / venture to say that
Mr.. Eastwood could make one
phone call stop all Is of those
games within an hour to an hour
and a half.
Woodwork went on to charge
racketeering in punchboards ano
penny slot machines and in mari
juana even. He declared the penny
slot machines alone gross 5000
pennies a week. and individual
innocent looking little machines
produce $40 to SIS every four days
Punchboards. he said, are keyed
so that winning numbers aren'i
even on the boards. He further
charged the proprietor Of one
little place tried to use a punch
board Of his own choosing. that
1t was snatched up by the agent
OF the big operator. and that the
proprietor was later called upor
by police and charged with SONS
minor violation of part of his
business that was being operated
under license.
Hurls Question
rs this council running tbs
destiny of the city of Tacoma oil
is II being run by an invisible
government ?" h, asked.
A. NJ. Dabroe, representing ths
Municipal Civil Service league
told the council. for the record
that since there had been refe'
renee TO Eastwood and civil serv
ice. il should be clear the league
had nothing whatever to do viii
the Allied Citizens club charges
or the recall movement.
Lester ]. Green. speaking fol
Cooks & walters union. said mem
bers Of that union are not involved
in charges Of vice and law viola
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