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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-19
-Four Sons
To Temple

Don Ameche, Eugene Leonto-
vich, Mary Beth Hughes. Alan
Curtis. George Ernest. Robert
Lowery. Lionel Royce and Sig Ru-
mann are featured in -Four Sons. -
the goth Century-Fox film drama
which returns TO the Temple to-
morrow. The picture, which has
been called one of the great films
Of recent years. was produced by
Daryl r. Zanuck and was direct
ed by Archie Mayo.
Brother Orchid" which also re-
turns to the Temple Thursday.
brings Edward C. Robinson back
into action as the cinema's classi-
est killer. in a rib-tickling satire
on gangsterdom. Featured with
him are Ann Sothern. as his girl
friend; Humphrey Bogart, as a
double-crossing PAL; Donald
Crisp. Ralph Bethany and Allen
Jenkins. Brother Orchid" Is
based on the Collier magazine
story by Richard Cornell.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-19
NOW PLAYING At LOCAL rHEArERs

LARAMIE Day in And One Was
KAY sTREET-Joan Blonden and
Lana Turner in Two Girls on
Broadway: also Boris Karloff and
Bella Lugosi in Black Friday"
LAkEwooD-Zorina and Richard
Greene in 7 Was An Adventures. /"
also Ciaudette Colbert and MELVIN
Douglas in She Married Her
Boss"
PARK - Priscilla Lane and Dennis
Morgan in Three Cheers for the
Irish" also Information Please"
PRoCToK-Closed fair week. Open
Sunday. Sept. "a.
REALART-F-edric March. Franciska
Gaal and AKIN Tamiroff In The
Buccaneer."
REx-Vivien Leigh and Robert Tay-
lor in Waterloo Bridge" also Gene
Autry IN In Old Monterey"
SHELL - Warner Baxter and Alice
Faye in "Barricade." also George
Brent and lisa Miranda in "Adven-
ture In Diamonds"
SUNsET-Brian Aherne and Made
liene Carroll in My Son, Ny Son.
also Margaret Lindsay and Edmund
Lowe IN Honeymoon Deferred"
TEMPLE-Dorothy Lamour and Jon
Hall In The Hurricane" also Joel
McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck in
"Internes Can't Take Money"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-19

Mud wasps make curious mud
nests resembling the pipes Of
Pan"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-19

Race track sequences were filmed
at the famous Santa Anita course.
and Barbara Stanwyck's famous
Marwyck ranch made its screen
debut in the film. appearing as
Stones stables and training
track.
When boy meets a girl. you
can expect romance. and when .
salty old tar invades an Old La
dies Home. you can expect COM
edy. Both happen in The Cap
tain Is a Lady" also opening at
the Blue Mouse today. Based on
hit stage play, by Rachel Croth-
ers. whose Susan and Cod is one
of the great successes OF the sea-
son, the new picture combines ro-
nance and comedy in a story OF
life in a New England fishing vii
lage. One OF the best casts Of
character players ever assembled
take the films comedy roles.
Charles Coburn and Beulah Bondi
head the group.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-19
Marian Wins Again!

NEW YORK - Custody of her
six-year-old daughter was award
ed to Marian Talley, former
Metropolitan opera soprano, in a
court fight with Adolph Eckstrom.
Miss Talley's estranged husband.
Eckstrom appeared near tears
as he watched the yellow-haired
child drive away with her mother.
A previous court decision
last year had ordered Eek
strom 20 surrender custody Of
the child to her mother, with
the exception of the three
summer months a year.
When Miss Talley sought TO
take the child away with her to
California Sunday, at the end of
Eckstrom's period of custody, he
refused to surrender her. and the
singer instituted contempt pro-
ceedings before Supreme Court
Justice Aaron Steuer.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-19
Newest Crosby
Hit to Rialio
Rhythm on the
River" Thursday

Seven new songs are fea-
tured in Bing Crosby's new
Paramount picture, Rhythm
on the River" which opens a
weeks engagement at the
Rialto theater tomorrow.
They are: only Forever" Il
Don't Want TO Cry Anymore. ="
That's for Ne" What Would
Shakespeare Have Said ,"
Rhythm on the River" Amt II
Shame About Name ," and When
the Moon Comes Over Madison
Square
The tunes are divided between
Bing and Mary Martin, Broadway
stage star, well known for her
renditions Of My Heart Belongs
TO Daddy" in Leave II to Me"
hit musical Of last season.
Also starred is Basil Rathbone
with Lillian Cornell and Oscar
Levant. one Of the experts on
radios Information Please" in
the featured cast
That three-ring circus Of the
sporting world. the hair-raising
annual amateur "get-together."
the Golden Gloves. is the back
ground for the ether new Para
mount picture which also opens at
the Rialto Thursday.
called. appropriately enough.
.'Colden Gloves" the film brings
two comparatively newcomers TO
the screen and = number Of old
favorites. Richard Denning and
Jean Cagney. sister Of the justly |
famous James, have the featured |
roles. In their support are to be
seen ]. Carol Mash, Robert |
Paige, William Frawley and Eddie
Brophy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-19

fE.sil5!3
M aAU. D.
OF Al Things,

OF III Things!
WIN Rock. master magician,
who Is now the feature attraction
a. the Roxy theater. really works
for a living the hardest kind
Of work. the success Of his many
illusions depending on split-second
timing. He not only has himself
10 keep in line but he must also
worry about the actions Of q large
staff Of assistants.
A back-stage chat with him
yesterday afternoon following
the first performance con-
WINGED me that magicians are
very human people and
very charming. An hour out
front during his show h proof
of the fact that Win Rock IN
perhaps the greatest living
magician.
OF course, he knows a great
deal more than he displays during
the one hour show at the Roxy
back East on the big time, his
show runs for a full two hours
and a half.
That portion Of II which he
uses at the Hamrick house Is
most mystifying and enter
tanning, not only because OF
what he does hut the way he
does II. In fact, his "impos-
sibies" come tumbling down
upon the audience 30 rapidly
that one has difficulty keep
ing mp with the crafty gentle
man who makes his living
out of thin air.
As = companion attraction for
VIII Rocks stage show Of magic
there is q single screen feature
titled, Gross Country Romance"
with Gene Raymond and wendy
Barrie In the lead roles. II has
been two years since the blonde
husband Of jeanette Macdonald
has done any romancing on the
screens of the nation and much
longer than that since he has had
such charming partner as
Wendy Barrie.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-19
Babies for Sale 4"
To End Thursday

Columbia's sensational expose of
the illegal adoption and sale of
infants, Babies for Sale" will
close its hit run Thursday night
at the Riviera theater. The scar
ing indictment Of disreputable
nursing homes is based upon a
series Of front-page stories which
startled the nation recently with
revelations Of a widespread racket.
Rochelle Hudson. Glenn Ford. Isa-
bel Jewell, John Qualen and Miles
Mander head the cast of the new
film, which was directed by
Charles Barton.
Stage to Chino" is the other
Riviera attraction.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-19

Hardy Family" pictures for the
first time this year to join the cast
as Maureen's father. Others in
the cast are William Gargan.
Lynne Carver, Clarence Muse,
Lloyd Corrigan. George H. Reed,
Tom Kennedy and Russell Hicks.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-19
Maureen 0'Sullivan and
Robert Young in Race Story
Cherries Coburn Ploys Old Salt
In New England Play

Robert Young and Maureen OSulivan teamed again
the romantic interest in Sporting Blood story of South
horse racing opening today at the Blue Mouse heater
The paired in Tugboat Annie and were last seen
the together in THE Emperors Candlesticks
Lewis Stone his position Judge in the celebrated
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-19

Blue MOUSE Maureen o'sullivan
and Robert Young in Sporting
Blood" also Charles Coburn and
Billie Burke IN The Captain Is a
Lady"
Music BON-Errol Flynn and Bren-
da Marshall in The Sea Hawk"
also Wendy Barrie and George
Sanders in The Saint Takes Over"
RIaLTo - Jerry Colonna and Una
Merkel IN Comm Round the
Mountain" also Penny Singleton
and Arthur Lake in Blonde Has
Servant Trouble"
RINIER - Rochelle Hudson and
Glenn Ford IN Babies for Sale. I"
also George O.Brien and Virginia
Vale IN Stage 10 Chino"
ROXY = Stage. Will Rocks magic
show. screen, Wendy Barrie and
Gene Raymond in Gross Country
Romance"
RETURN SHOWING
BEyERLY-victor Mature and Carole
lands in "One Million B. c." also
Lucille Ball and James Ellison in
you Can't Pool Your Wife"
CAPITOI.-Myrna 10y and Tyrone
Power in The Rains Came: also
Melyn Douglas and Joan Blonden
in THE Amazing Mr.. Williams"
COMMENTARIES Hope and Paul.
cite Goddard in The Ghost Break
ers," also Robert Cummings and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-19

II you're not using IT, sell 1t with
Fast Action Times Want Ad.
Phone Main 1851.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-13
by Hendrix WiIIem van Loon
lIIustresed by the suther

monarchy wiring their hands in
despair.
Historians faced with this prob
lem. blamed the years OF foreign
invasion for this deterioration Of
the Greek character. They pointed
out that the Greek peninsula had
been over-run by 20 many foreign
tribes - Tsrtars. slavs. Italians.
Turks-that the blood had deter
iorated.
Perish the thought.
And those who imagine that
the democracies of Greece had
been inspired by lofty ideals
of humanity and international
dccency have derived their In
formation from those authors
of the romantic period OF the
first fifty years of the last
century.
These romanticists were also
hopeless sentimentalists and like
all true sentimentalists, they fitted
the facts to suit their fancies. As
a result, most of US obtained a
completely distorted view Of the
history OF old Hellas during the
era of its famous experiments
within the field of democracy. And
once such an opinion has gained
a firm foothold upon the popular
mind, 1t Is almost impossible to
dislocate II. Yet that will have TO
be done IL We want to profit by
the mistakes of Pericles and his
contemporaries who ruined the
of Athens and brought |
about the introduction of a dicta-
torship.
Next: Early Democracies
Had 10 Be Built on Founda-
lions of Slavery.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-13
Junior Order To Be
ORGANIZED In Tucomo

A cultural. non-sectarian move
ment for children between the ages
Of five and Is inclusive, affording
them the opportunity of self-ex-
preston In music. art, drama and
literature. In to be begun under
the sponsorship of the Rosicrucian
Order. AMORC. Mrs. r. L. Meser-
vey of 3s4s Mckinley ave. an
nounced Tuesday.
Mrs. Meservey received author
ity from the Rosicrucian Grand
Lodge In San Jose. Calf, to or
ganize a chapter Of the Junior
Order OF Torch Bearers, an inter-
national movement founded by the
Order.
Junior officers will be elected at
the chapters first session on FRI
day, March 10.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-13
P. S. P. Buy "
Is Objective
PUBS Organize
Public Company

OLYMPIA - Incorporation pa
pers for Consumers Non-Profit
Public Power corporation, organ
lied TO buy Puget Sound Power a
Light company's statewide hold
ings. were flied late Monday with
Secretary of State Belle Reeves.
Ineorporators were Robert Kuhn.
3. A. sween. r. J. stratch. Monte
J King. Charles Nelson. John
wylie, r. w. Schultz and c. B.
Sherwood. all commissioners of
various public power districts
about the state.
Purpose of the organization Is
to issue bonds. or, by mortgage,
buy all property of the private
company and resell or lease it to
the individual public power dis
tricts. The board of trustees named
above would be expanded to include
representatives of all power dis
tricts and state or federal agencies
involved in sale of public power.
The corporation was formed to
solve the problem faced by individ-
ual power districts, which were
unable to buy the small portion of
the vast Puget Sound holdings
lying within their boundaries. II
would hold and operate itself all
properties it did not sell or lease
to the individual districts.
Incorporation papers said the
home office of the company would
be in Seattle. Its life tenure was
listed as so years.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-13
The Story Of Democracy '' , s..s..
Growth Of Auiocracy Results When
Good Democracy Turns Into Bad One

turned into a stable, Grand Canal
10 lined by row of ruined palaces.
Or. worse than that. cities like
Babylon or Nineveh are absorbed
by the sands of the desert or the
population of Rome is reduced
from \ million to less than forty
thousand.
Greece. one Of the most
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-13

democracy 10 invariably the re.
suit Of m intolerable form OF
autocracy."
The theory about . historical
cycles" can b carried . little toe
far, but the available evidence Of
the last three thousand years un.
doubtsdiy points TO = wave like
movement in history.
A Golden Age ARISES out Of
N srs Of hard and Flooding
labor.
II reaches . point Of almost un-
natural perfection. Then invari-
ably. the people seem TO tire of the
exalted regions which they have
reached, Of too much prosperity.
Of too much fine sculpture. too
many excellent paintings. too
many interesting plays. and they
grow Indifferent. They grow weak.
Unlike their ancestors. they are
no longer willing to fight for their
own good rights - or what they
used 70 consider their good rights.
Their neishbors. still In the state
Of Flooding and hard labor, cast
envious eyes upon the well-being
and glory Of the country just be-
yond their frontiers. And when
they find out that those frontiers
are no longer being defended, but
have become paper lines Of demar-
cation, they win cross them at the
first convenient moment and the
Muse of History records another
disaster. An Metropolis becomes =
barracks. : famous cathedral 10
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-13

painful examples Of this the
ory Of historical cycles, could
only develop Its democratic
experiments while II wa4 free
from foreign domination.
In the year 40 B. c. the fourth
and last expedition Of the Persians
against Hellas was routed at Pla-
taea. In the year s3s B. C. Philip
OF Macedonia, after the battle OF
Chaeronea, made himself the
chosen dictator Of Greece.
Incidentally. that title of "cho-
sen dictator" shows that there il
very little new under the sun. for
that IL exactly what Adolf Hitler.
Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stain
claim to be when they defend them
selves against accusations of usur-
patton and aggression that are
launched against them by the
western democracies.
The ancient Greek unfortu-
nately was quite - incurable
m individualist ~ his modern
descendant.
The history of the modern Greek
ever since its establish
ment in the year 1880, has been
IN almost uninterrupted series of
revolutions and rebellions.
The idea Of cooperation seems
10 have been entirely foreign to
he minds Of the Greek politicians
who have murdered and succeeded
each other with a rapidity which
made the western statesmen who
had helped to establish this unruly
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-13
Complaint Amended
In Johnston Case

An amended complaint raising 10
four counts q charge OF grand
larceny against William c. john
ston, sales manager OF the now
liauldated Commercial Auto Parts
Co. was on file In superior court
Tuesday.
Johnston was charged by Deputy
Prosecutor Bill Goodwin with sell
ing worthless commercial paper to
the Puget Sound National bank In
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-13
Famous Americans
Stamps Arrive Here

Good news for stamp collectors
The local postoffice has received
new supply of stamps in the
Famous Americans series, Post
master George Fishburne said on
Monday.
The current two issues of the
series are dedicated to poets and
authors, and will be followed by
issues concentrating fam GU
American educators, scientists, in
ventors, composers and artists.
Stamps in the first issues bear
likenesses of Longfellow, Whittier,
Lowell, Whitman and Riley, poets,
and Irving, Cooper, Emerson, AL
colt and Clemens, authors.
II you're not using 1t, sell 1t with
q Fast Action Times Want Ad.
Phone Main 1851.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-13
Conodiun. 80. Seeks
Political Election

MONTREAL-c. H. cahan, for
mer secretary of state, is back in
the political fight again, despite
his 80 years. Cahan has been
member of parliament since 1925
and went into the Bennett cabinet
in 1880. He was reelected in the
1888 general election.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-13

1887 and 1898 in amounts totalling
81, 1856.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-13
Asks for Ticket
To Ride Rolls"

ST. ALBANS, Yt.--An unidenti-
fled Travelled startled Central
Vermont railway ticket clerk by
asking II he could buy a ticket
TO ride the rails" to Montpelier.
He said he had ridden more
than 5000 miles blind baggage"
on railroads without paying a
cent, but now wanted to pay the
full rate for the privilege.
The clerk refused and the
traveller walked away. announcing
he would do II for nothing.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-13
Course Contributes
To Fume of Golfers

SANTA CRUZ, CaL-This city'n
golf links have produced IS golfers
sufficiently expert 10 be included
In Golfdom's Hall of Fame" OF
Hole in-One. members. Some OF
the epic shots made here was one
player who made three aces" in
= month while another bagged q
two In six months.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-13

IN = little book devoted mot too
pleasantly. I am afraid 70 Adolf
Hitler. I laid down the rule that
@autocracy h invariably the result
Of bad democracy" One could OF
course transpose these two words
and the statement would still make
sense, for 1t 10 equally true that
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-13
University Alumni
Will Receive Award

Next year. for the first time,
the University Of Nebraska Alum
nj association will make an annual
award FOR distinguished service to
an alumnus of the university. The
prize will be based on service A.
a citizen or to the university.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-13
Core Of the News
WANT STREET LIGHTS

Street light petitions were re-
ceived by the council Monday as
follows: From Mrs. s. J. Vixen and
others for lights on the west side
Of Union ave, No. 9th 10 18th sts.:
from u. p. railway and Mutual
Fruit Co.. for a light at So. 18th
and Railroad St; and from Mr.. and
Mrs. L. H. Love and others for
light on White St. at the intersec-
ton with the alley between No.
30th and 3ist.
Choice cactus. HIM. Florist.
adv.
THEFT is REPORTED
Mrs. John H. Meyer, 1914 SO.
10th st, complained to police Mon
day a thief had stolen $-1.1o from
her home.
ADDRESSES KIWANIANs
A talk titled "Out Winchelling
Walter by Mrs. Junia Todd Hal
len, entertained the Tacoma XII
wants club at Its meeting Tuesday
noon at the Hotel Winthrop.
Butter down again Cow Butter
Store. adv.
REFLECT LYLE LEMLEy to
the school board. adv.
FOURTEEN JOIN NAVY
Fourteen more young men have
been enlisted in this district for
service in the U. S. navy. Those
signed at the Tacoma recruiting
station were Milton Frederick Ten
ton, Longmire; Arthur Donald
Kortangen, so2e SO. Cedar st.
Floyd Lee Clark. 1901 No. Stevens
st, and Earl Albert Briggs, sos So.
Frace IT.
Rose bushes, acc. Puget Sound
Nursery. Inc. s201 Pacific ave.
adv.
WILL MEET THURSDAY
A meeting Of Tacoma school di-
rectors viii be held at 2;3o D. m.
Thursday At the Central school,.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-13

WILL MEET THURSDAY

a meeting Of Tacoma school di-
rectors win be held at 2:3o D. m.
Thursday at the Central school.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-13
THEFT is REPORTED

Mrs. John H. Meyer, 1914 So.
4oth st, complained to police Mon
day thief had stolen S-l.1o from
her home.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-12
CONVOYS ATTACKED

BERLIN, Aug. 12.-The official German news agency announces that German planes attacked a Brit ish convoy off Margate between II am. and noon today The DNB re- port said that the deadly German dive bombers sent four merchant men, totaling about 10000 tons, to the bottom of the sea. Several other ships are reported to have been set afire and others damaged. The re- lease says that the German bombers dived on the convoy through the heaviest conceivable anti-aircraft fire. During the bombing German Messerschmitts shot down three British Hurricanes and two Spitfire fighter planes. The claim is made that all the German bombers re- turned safely from the attack.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-12

Harold Crary, (above) Vice Presi- dent of United Air Lines with head quarters at Chicago, arrived Sat urday afternoon on the Alaska Clipper and left for the south again yesterday morning on the Pan American ship. He had breakfast here Sunday morning, reached Se- attle and was a passenger aboard a United Air Lines sleeper plane leaving Seattle at 5:l5 o'clock yes terday afternoon and arrived in Chicago at 8 o'clock this morning fer breakfast which makes fast travelling time from Juneau to Chi cage.
 MT Crary came north to sec abCut development of more inter change of business between the United Air Lines and Pan Amer icas clipper at Seattle not only from the East but from California points, and as the service gets bet ter will increase substantially the number of travellers to be turned over to Pan American at Seattle for Alaska points.
 MT Crary knows Alaska. For years he was with the Seattle Chamber Of commerce. He left that organi- zaticn to accept position at Boe- ings at Seattle l2 years ago, then
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-12
CIinper Service Praised

became associated with United Ali
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-12

Clipper Service Praised
 "YCu have no idea what the clip per service will do for Alaska not Cnly for regular traffic but for those who fish and hunt and are able to spend only short time at the sport. For instance, three men came north on the Clipper Satur- day fromC Chicago to fish. They left Chicago Friday morning, left Seattle Saturday morning and ar rived here Saturday afternoon. They immediately went fishing and will return south on the Clipper Tues day, if weather permits of the flight. They will therefore be back in Chi cago on Wednesday morning just five days away from their positions and having enjoyed a splendid short vacation, thousands of miles from home. The clipper service will mean that hundreds of men with ample funds will come north for their vacations owing to the excel lent traffic connection between the United Air Lines and Pan Ameri- can. Not only sportsmen, but busi- ness men, Cn urgent matters, are finding the air service meeting that necessary thing. People are cer- tainly becoming airmined
 U. A. l.. Carries Alaskans
 The United Air Lines is carry ing scores of Alaskans from Se- attle to California and also east as the sleeper service is proving a great boon to those in a hurry
 The United Air Lines has just placed an order for new planes at an estimated cost of S9,000,000 which is some item to think about and illustrates the growing of the traf- fic by air.
 T want to say one word for the i excellent pilots you have in Alaska Considering the limited landing fields, the unmapped air routes etc, they are certainly the pion- eers of air travel in the north ano safety is absoluately their policy Praise cannot be stintingly giver to these fliers and they deserve the greatest of credit"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-08-12

One of the 12 beauties selected by Hollywood film studio to serve as models for the Tennessee Valley celebra jon to be held on Chickamauga Lake, Chattanooga, Labor Day week end. Dolores Ia tum makes an appealing picture in this pose at the scene. More than 200 communities throughout the seven states of the valley will unite in dedicating the lakes that are being impoUnded above the IVA power dams. The lakes will be dedicated as the Great Lakes of the South"