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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-25
Blitzkrieq and Cod-Liver Oil

Probably you can't get Junior very about this but
there may be a codliver oil shortage.
Most Of our codver oil comes from the Lofoen Islands,
where the British are landing Narvik The in
vasion by the Germans just time when Norwegian
stocks were at their high point and those of American i'm
porers at their lowest The latter not knowing when they
on what they have.
Thus. because rival European powers fight Norway
American babies may miss their regular dosage of bottled
sunshine. So small world it is, and il-managed
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-25

TO fecfive ATTENTION N TINS coll
umn letters must give name and
address Of writer. Only fnftiAls
viii be pubiished when REQUESTED
Mr.. Fixit: Would like TO know
where 10 write I'm regard 10 cat
tie being turned out ON the
states highway. READER,
Rochester.
You should contact the near
est office OF the state highway
patrol. In some parts Of the
state where range law prevails.
the cattle owners have a right
to let their animals run loose.
You can find out from your
county commissioners whether
you are In a range law district
or a herd district. where the cat
tie must be fenced.
Mr.. Fxit: Are we going TO
have daylight saving this year
In Tacoma I sincerely hope we
do. II not, why not? ID. b.
We can predict safely daylight
saving viii not be put in effect
here this year. The squawk
from those who didn't like 1t was
20 strong the last time 1t was
tried here no one has been in
terested or had the courage to
promote 1t again.
To make the system work. you
would have to get it adopted not
only in Tacoma and Seattle but
the smaller communities. Last
time the opposition Of farm peo-
pie kept daylight saving out Of
the rural districts, no bus and
ferry schedules were thrown into
confusion.
Mr.. Fixit: Could you please
tell mo what kind Of spray to
use for mIIdew on rose bushes :
Also what kind to use for little
red spiders on roses?
M. w., Auburn.
A copper solution Is the re-
commended spray for mildew.
II you are going to spray your
bushes for several ailments, 1t
would be a good idea to get an
all-around rose spray from your
seed dealer.
Mr.. Fixit: / am thinking Of
going hack 10 Detroit to buy .
1898 car. Could you tell me
whether or not II would be prof
liable 10 do this and drive it
hack here? Also could you give
me the approximate price:
L. b.
BY the time you pay for the
trip. buy a Michigan license, pay
necessary taxes there and then
return here and pay for a license
and compensating tax on an out
of-state purchase. it Is doubtful
that you'd have a very profit
able deal. Getting a used car
back there would be different
from taking delivery on new
one purchased through a Taco
ma dealer.
You would have to figure out
yourself by comparing used car
prices in a Detroit newspaper
with prices here whether there'd
be any profit In such venture.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-25
Baek-Traekine-Fort
NisquaIly to Vancouver
We Follow Archibald
McD onaId's Trail
Old Trading Post Be-
coming Industrial Center

ONE of the interesting expert
Fences which go with the pre-
paration of material for this
column was a drive recently
over part of the route Travelled
by Archibald McDonald's men
when they came up from Fort
Vancouver to establish the Hud-
sons Bay company's Puget
Sound headquarters at Fort Mis-
qually in 1888. Two of the men
had come up the previous fall
to do some preliminary work.
The others arrived early the
next spring, bringing two yoke
OF oxen and some supplies.
We began tracing the trail
which the Hudson's Bay men
made more than hundred years
ago near the point where the
Pacific highway crosses the Mis-
qualify river just south of Fort
Lewis. Much has happened
since the first oxen plodded
their way to Puget Sound. Part
Of the old trail has been lost,
but much of the concrete high
way between Puget Sound and
the Columbia river follows the
original line Of overland COM
munication between Fort Van
couver and Fort Nisqually.
The objective of this par
ticulsr trip was the city of VAN
couver which now occupies the
site OF the original Fort Van
couver established in 1928. 1t
was the center from which the
Hudson's Bay company operat-
ed an extensive fur trading
business and a haven for the
missionaries and few settlers
who were then venturing into
the country.
Jason Lee. militant crusader
Of the Methodist church and
who established . mission ut
Fort Nisquaiiy, was welcomed
20 Fort Vancouver BY DIR. John
Mclaughlin, who represented
the Hudson's Bay company.
DIR. and Mrs. Marcus Whitman
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-25
THE TOWNSEND PLAN

THE TOWNSEND PLAN
Editor The Times: In your
issue of the goth was a letter
from Clarence Dolan referring
to the Townsend movement and
inviting its membership to in
vestigate some of the things
which happened long time ago,
both inside and outside of its
ranks. When all is said and
done, Mr.. Dolan still leaves I'M
touched the serious question of
unemployment, which was with
us six years ago and is still
with us today. His letter is
criticism OF attempts made to
improve conditions, but he Of
fers no solution of the prob
lem. He finds fault with what
other men have unsuccessfully
tried to do. Could he have done
better If given the opportunity?
One of the tests of good lead
ership is to be able to take hard
knocks without whining and
still 60 on.
Assuming, for the sake of ar
gument that Dolan's refer
ences to distasteful facts were
all true, we, today, are not
helped by gloating over them.
Many people were deceived by
the grossly exaggerated and I'M
true stories of funds received
and exorbitant salaries paid to
officers. What's the use of cry
ing over spilled milk? II is
freely admitted there was a lot
Of wishful thinking instead of
work; mistakes galore; politi-
cal activity, and other things
which always have been present
with any new national move
ment In every organization
trying to accomplish, some good
purpose, there is generally a
small minority ready TO kick. or
criticise. or quit.
The Townsend Plan. which has
for its object the improvement
Of conditions for both old and
young, was not claimed TO be q
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-25
An Inside Picture of Finan-
cial and Political America
LIGHT

WASHINGTON-Benito Mussoni may be the man
who will decide whether the Allies Hitler will win the
second World Though friendly to Hitler II Duce will
hold out until he of the identity of the winner Here
is what happened at Rome result of Hers storming
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-25

Ten years ago Lester Herbert
Perkins of Ogunquit, Maine, was
accidentally shot In the heart
with a .22-caliber rifle bullet and
physicians dared not remove it.
Yet, strange as 1t seems, Lester
completely recovered and today
participates in basketball, foot
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-25
by John Xix

he was in open rebellion against
our authority.
If we haven't the nerve to
"step" on the rats who are fill
ing our jails with frightened
girls and boys, if We are afraid
of our own skin (or good
name?) we have to fear fear"
itself. Let's admit it and let
men like Judge Remain who
know Of what they speak have
a go at it.
Why is it necessary to place
unreasonable restrictions upon
clean, fun-loving boys and girls ?
Is it because we are afraid they
will see what their eyes observe ?
Are we afraid they will see our
words are in direct contrast to
our actions?
If. any person or groups of
persons are inclined to believe
no vicious conditions exist, I
suggest they attend session of
juvenile court. The lesson they
would learn would shake the
idea that their own children are
safe.
If we. the people of this city,
will give the sheriff and his
assistants a free hand they will,
as far as their authority allows,
give these people who thrive
upon the mistake of our young,
Just cause to wish they had
chosen other fields in which to
display their wares.
L. r. PERRY,
oil Fawcett Ave.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-04-25
Mr.. FIXIT
He Fixes Things

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Evening star., 1940-01-01
Pedestrian Tunnels
Aqain 10 Be SOUGHT

Representative Schultz, Democrat,
OF Indiana plans to renew his de-
mand at the coming session of Con-
gress for an appropriation for con-
struction of a series of pedestrian
underpasses in the congested Sec
tion Of Washington.
These underpasses, he believes,
will remove the potential traffic
hazards for pedestrians at busy in
tersections.
Mr.. Schultz, who is chairman of
the Traffic Subcommittee of the
House District Committee, fought
vainly at the last regular session of
Congress for funds to construct pc
destrian underpasses beneath Penn
sylvania avenue at Eleventh, Thir-
teenth and Fourteenth streets NV.
Chief opposition to the plan came
from police officials who admit un-
derpasses would increase pedestrian
safety, but claim they would set up
a more serious problem from sani-
tation and law enforcement stand
point. Maj. Ernest w. Brown, SUI
.perintendent of police, feared that
many holdups might take place in
the underground pedestrian tunnels.
Evening star., 1940-06-25

boxer; he plays the drums and piano -
ike professional: he can do all
types OF dancing; he stands at the Eahe.
Evening star., 1940-06-25

quick perlod OF Jay Carmooy'
our history. Its line and timing
difficulties were inimical to the true
elucidation of Mr.. Hoyt's art. de-
feats which time and Director Ralph
Fowler may correct to the advan-
tage of the play in subsequent per-
formances.
Through the worst, one comes
gradually to the best features of "A
Black Sheep" of which a first act
singing and dancing interlude al
most makes the evening worth
while. In that passage, depression
which must have been a sensation
in its day, Bibby Osterwald sings a
deeply felt version of Casey Jones"
that has the audience in stitches.
The choral effects are something,
too. The dance is an inspired copy
of the awful acrobatics of burlesqde
queens at the turn of the century.
Its creator is Lansing Hall, whose
spangles and tights show just how
far she has come since she broke
hearts as a dairy maid in Our
American Cousin"
Dealing with the case of the
ne'er-do-well lost heir, lusty fell
low with a heart of gold, Hoyts
play assemblies enough and suffi-
cient variety of characters to give
it great deal of action. But it
never picks up its promised mo-
mentum, even its fights turning out
to be as brief as its speeches are
long. Moreover, its villain is only
dilettantish sort of louise, and its
romances could be called trapped
Evening star., 1940-06-25

Lake, incidentally, Katie raid
R-K-O $4,000 to make Holiday
at Columbia. 1t was worth Ito
this reporter. who enjoyed the pic
ture enormously.
There is nothing phoney about
Judy Garland's romance with Rob-
ert Stack. She was working late
the other evening, and got more
and more depressed. Finally at
$50 pm. she asked Director Busby
Berkeley, How much longer are
we going to work?" Until about
II o'clock" said Berkeley. "Oh,
dear!" moaned Judy. But thought
he was working late, too," said the
director, trying to cheer her up.
HE is" almost wept Judy, "but I
want to go home and think about
him!"
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Evening star., 1940-06-25
Dostoievski Yarn
For Davis, Bower

The Warner Bros. search for an
other story to co-star Bette Davis
and Charles Boyer, >yho make their
first appearance together in "All
This and Heaven Too" has led to
THE Gamblers" powerful story by
Feodor Dostoievski
The studio confirmed its plan for
another Davis-Boyer co-starring
vehicle as soon as sneak and press
previews of AL This and Heaven,
Too had been acclaimed.
Availability of Boyer, who has
numerous other films pending. is be-
ing sought now. The war situation
also has bearing on production of
"The Gamblers" since the French
star is subject to his country's call.
He had returned to France to join
his regiment last fall and may have
to go back again.
Evening star., 1940-06-25
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Earle-"The Ghost Breakers" !"
namely Bob Hope and Paulette
Goddard: IL am, las, 4:30, 7:20
and 1905 pm. Stage shows: 1910,
$3.50, SIS and 9:05 pm.
Capitol-"Florian," hands e
horses lead dramatic lives: 10:45
am, 1:30, Ais, 7:05 and $50 pm.
Stage shows, with Bonnie Baker
1875, 3:20, sos and 8:55 pm.
Keith's my Favorite Wife"
Irene Dunno is Cary Grants: 11:35,
am, 1::35, $40, $40, 7:45 and $50
pm. March of Time: HAS am,
1:15, 800, $40, TBS and $50 pm.
Columbia-Lillian Russell" i'm
personated by Alice Faye: II am,
1:35, AIS. $50 and $50 pm.
Palace - "The Mortal Storm" I"
Margaret SULLIVAN caught in the
one that engulfed, Germany: II,
2:25, 4:50, '7:l0 and 9:35 pm.
Metropolitan Brother Orchid
Edward G. Robinson in a gayish rib
on rackets: II am, 1:05, 3:15, 5:25
7:35 and Gas pm.
Little "The Wandering Jew"
persecution through the centuries:
11:15 am, 1:15, 3:05, 4:55, $40 and
$3.50 pm. "Algiers," preview, 9:5S
pm.
Trans-Lux News and shorts
continuous from 10 am.
In the Country.
Cross -Roads-"Meet the Wife,
comedy with q touch of bigamy
$40 pm.
Roadside-"Black Sheep" mellow
melodrarna, ct $40 pm.
Evening star., 1940-06-25

director" He will be, too. And
good one.
Here's something I didn't know
until the other day. Greta Garbo
has never had written contract
with Metro. All her deals are made
via the verbal method, and picture
by picture So that when she
doesn't work she doesn't get paid
When she does work it's S250,000 a
time, which is taking a lot on trust.
Merle Oberon has left the hospital,
but is still visited daily by a spe-
cialist. What is the matter with
her? No one, not even Merle, seems
to know I think it's the climate
here. 1t just doesn't agree with her.
BY the way, Warmers will probably
shelve "The Constant Nymph," for
which Merle had been scheduled.
The theme and plot concerns Euro
peans in Europe And right now the
studios are chiefly interested in pic
lures that deal with America or
Americans.
The Shirley Temple living room
is piled to the ceiling with scripts,
through which Mama Temple is
delving for the right" vehicle for
Shirley's picture comeback. So I
repeat, you can absolutely discount
those reports that Shirley has re-
tired from the screen. When
Sonia Henie left for New York she
was followed by Dan Topping Sonia
should make cute looking bride.
BY the way, Miss Henie is almost
as rich as her near bridegroom.
They tell me that her last skating
tour brought her $250,000. Why
didn't my parents train me to be an
ice-skater?
Katharine Hepburn is busy max
ing tests for the movie version of
'"The Philadelphia Story" and word
reaches this desk that this time
Katie is going to cooperate with
the press. Miss Hepburn was re-
Gently explaining the why's and
wherefores of her long feud with
the ladies and gentlemen of the
fourth estate. "It was because of
that awful publicity got at R-K-O
when I first came here. The first
thing they did was to put me in a
bathing suit-me with my fiat, boys
figure! All my friends laughed at
me. Then they decided to make
me crazy and mean. No wonder
the press tore me to bits whenever
they had an opportunity" (She
refers to the avalanche of unfavor-
able criticism following her appear
ance on Broadway in the "The
Evening star., 1940-06-25

seems to me that isn't very funny.
Not enough contrast. I want to
get over the fact that you think
they really wouldn't know a slogan
II they saw one"
More silence and deep thought
Writer-director Sturges is now in
q rewriting mood. Finally he turns
to the assembled cast and asks:
Did you ever see skunk in sun
bonnet?"
There is no answer.
Il never did either" Sturges says
brightly to Walburn. $50 you say:
Who wouldn't know a slogan from
a skunk in a sun bonnet"
That's how some of the best COM
edies roll out Of the Hollywood mill
mot always from the script, but
of the cuff.
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Evening star., 1940-06-25
Miriam's Red Hair

Miriam Hopkins will be THE Lady
With Red Hair" in the Warner
Bros production of that title based
on the late Mrs. Leslie Carter's
memoirs George Brent will appear
opposite Miss Hopkins and the film
will be directed by Kurt Bernhardt,
who made his directorial debut in
this country with my Love Came
Back" starring Olivia de Haviland.
Charles Kenyon wrote the screen
play of "The Lady With Red HAIR"
Evening star., 1940-06-25

affairs, If the linotype has the right
accent mark for trapped.
Apart from the players mentioned,
only performances worthy of note
were those of Richard Walsh as
MIR. Cunning, swashbuckling editor
of "The Tombstone Inscription -
and Macubbin Waters interpreta-
tion of Hoyt's pastel shade villain; a
fellow, incidentally, named Percy
We're.
The normally secondary features
of any production are conspicuously
among the best of "A Black Sheep"
Both the costuming by Dorothy
Croissant and the settings of Don
Jones definitely are qualities to ap-
plaud. Miss Croissant was con-
fronted not only by a remote period
in dressing the show, but also by the
problem of costuming such different
sets as the cafe societies of New
York and Tombstone, Ariz, together
with a stranded burlesque troupe.
But she did it!
X 4 X
Sheila Barrett, satires hand
maiden who usually gets notions of
a sabbatical summer of playing
stock at this time of year, apparent
ly has not been infected so far this
season. At any rate, the woman
who can pillory any worthy type of
either sex, but most especially her
own, is booked as headliner for the
Capitols stage show starting Friday.
Whether she will feel like desert
ing her famous solo business for a
whirl at ensemble art before the
barn theaters go back to the live
stock is something this department
doesn't know. 1t should find out by
Friday.
Also on the same bill with Miss
Barrett will be Harriet Hoctor, bal
lerina who made vaudeville con-
scious of the back-bend as a form
OF intelligible expression.
Progress through organization
note: Hollywood stand-ins have Or
ganized for purposes of making the
public stand-in wise. 1t is their
thought that the contribution of
stand-ins to the art of the motion
picture is entirely too little known
in this world.
AS first step in correcting public
ignorance, the group will campaign
Tor change in the name of their
function. Instead of being called
stand-ins, they want to be known
as assistant stars.
Somehow, it sounds even funnier
than stand-in.
Memo department: That's Fred
Clark leading the Earle's orchestra
this week Regular conductor,
Joe Lombardi, is visiting relatives
A note from Lodevic Vroom.
whose name always inspires this de-
partment to write limerick, SAYS
Ladies in Retirement" that swell
melodrama, will be an early fall
attraction at the National Week
from tonight's the night Robert
Freund's gypsy chorus inaugurates
the summer program of the Sylvan
theaters Orrin Tucker, who
once left medical school to play
saxophone in order to get money
enough to go back to medical school
later, doesn't think he will go back.
after all In no spirit of criti-
cizing medicine as a profession,
Orrin thinks he is likely. to make
out better in what was once his
avocation . incidentally, he still
concocts his own home remedies
for a sore throat Memo, specif-
ically to the Roxyettes: Now, how
about that autograph you owe?
Evening star., 1940-06-25
This Rooney Is a Genius
In Several Other Ways
He Shoots Excellent Golf at Once,
Was Local Kid Champion
At Tennis and Boxes, Too
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM,
HOLLYWOOD.


Is there end to Mickey
TOOK up golfng A few days
Here few OF the things people
junior champion; pong-he
still beats them; his swimming diving BEST good
Evening star., 1940-06-25
Funny Films
Are Sprung
Off theCuff
Some Better Lines
In Comedies Are
Impromptu
HOLLYWOOD.


Studios nave suddenly put the
brakes on war and fifth column
notions. After a few bitter tastes
from unresponsive box Offices,
they're finally getting around to the
idea that comedy is the most ap-
propriate theme of the hour.
Hence, a hasty revision of plans.
from writing departments to sound
stages. finds a rapidly increasing
number of light and airy make
believe facing the cameras.
One of these is "The New
Workers." which Preston Sturges,
writer-director, is rushing to com
pletion on Paramount stage. This
particular scene shows RAYMOND
Walburn and Franklin Pangborn,
two accomplished funny men, ridi-
culing the verdict of a slogan con-
test jury.
They're a gang of horsewhistles
who wouldn't know a slogan from a
poke in the eye with a pointed
stick" Walburn roars in the first
rehearsal.
Sturges walks to the center of
the stage, frown on his face.
Il don't know" he ponders. at
Evening star., 1940-06-25
Roadside Tackles Comedy
From Turn of Century
And Both Are Thrown for a Loss;
Sheila Barrett on Capitol List;
Cinema Stand.ins Organize
BY JAY CARMODY.

Whatever contributed to the gayety of the
for all its likely sounding title hardly
Roadside Thater this Hoys three act
the theater old trouble trouble is the
shot of meodrama, its and
Evening star., 1940-06-25
Learns From Films

Philip Dorm, young Dutch actor
now playing a top role in Ethel
Vance's Escape" actually learned
English through seeing motion pic
lures. Arriving in Hollywood 10
months ago, he spoke no word of
English. He began his language
study in projecting room with an
English coach, seeing more than
100 pictures a month. Within six
months, he was speaking perfect
English.
Evening star., 1940-06-25

his play might
have Jared more
happily, at that,
had "A Black
S h e e p" been
b ! e S S e d with
better interpre-
tation. The cast
was too seldom
able to bang
across the play
wright's vicari-
ously W or I h y
points on life
and love in the
herman, S h e =
woman get-rich-
Evening star., 1940-06-25

top of the box
office parade.
And in his
spare time he
knocks off songs,
plays and what
n a We . ou .
(Mickey's latest
song is titled
1T h a nix Your
S t a r S a n d
Stripes.") When
you ask Mickey,
What are your
plans for the fu-
ture?" he replies
pro m p t ly: Il
want. to be a
Evening star., 1940-06-25

eFs*SR~S]1SS d 1VDV HHkNSxxO2IINs
Mr.. Hoyt and those who chose
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-31
Bananas
A Big Hand

Bananas win -- hands down IN
mcnu making, Give them n hand.
and buy them that why, IN The tidy
clusters Rs cut from the biz stem,
Buy them ut the stage OF riponoSS
youll find them IN tho store, and
let them ripen NJ home OF room
temperature, not In tho refrigCrat tor,
Bananas have three stages OF rlpc-
ness; slipped, Nll-yclloW, and
ilecked with brown, and nj any and
all stages, there are n dozen ways
you ean use them When they're
slightly green-tippod, youll want 10
broil them, bake them or fry thom
like the extra vegetable, When
they begin 10 "froekle", the time
land the bananas) are ripe Tor eat
Ing "aS ls", for slieing and serving
with cream, for making luscious
salads, Also when they're fully cpo,
they're right for making mullins,
bread, cookies and cakes,
Remember, too, that sliced or cut
bananas for salads viii keep their
youthful appearance and not turn
dark II you dip the slices into grape
fruit, pineapple, orange or lemon
juice. so give bananas n rousing
round OF applause; call for chow
OF hands or their popularity; In
other words, call for n hand OF
bananaSl