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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-10-23
Halloween Party Planned
For Puyallup Youngsters
Trick or Treot" Progrom Slotted
For Oct. 81 in Athletic Field

PUNALLUP-Further steps foi
Promoting this cityss Trick Of
Treat" program. 70 be held for
young people At Viking fed
Halloween. were made a. = meet.
Ing Of committees II TIE high
school Monday.
The affair vii open with . con.
cert by the high school hand At
the field az : O'Clock. and from
then on youngsters viii Be kept
busy with activities interesting TO
those in different age groups untn
late into the night.
Events viii include a jack O.
lantern parade for children OF the
first. second and third grades:
a hob goblin parade for fourth.
fifth and sixth graders. with
prizes for the best costumes in
each class. and the telling Of :
ghost story by one Of the city's
prominent readers.
These. together with other
stunts and refreshments. viii be
clmaxed with a pep rally in prep
aration for the Puyallup- Highlne
football game Nov. l at Viking
field.
Programs after activities at the
field are also in preparation. These
viii give young people choice of
entertainment. as there will be
dance, moving picture show, As
well as q party at one Of the
churches. each place to be an
nounced.
The committee hopes every
youngster in the city will attend
the party and. in return. ask that
'all soap be left at home" Mem
bers Of the high school football
team will make the round Of the
grade schools during the next few
days. giving talks on a sane cele-
bration" of Halloween.
Form Drum Corps
All boys and girls who have
drum or bugle are invited to at
tend the first rehearsal of the
drum and bugle corps, sponsored
by Sons Of the Legion. at Spinning
school Tuesday evening at 1880
O'Clock. instruction will be given
by Verne Smith. and the commit
tee in charge is composed of
James Brown, chairman. Rev.
Father Quick and Harvey Wood.
worth. Following rehearsal vol
leybsll and other games will be
played.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-10-23
Initiative l4l To Be Discussed

Those who are interested in OBJ
tanning complete information con-
corning Initiative 14i win have an
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-10-23

Fruitlsnd grange auxiliary has
completed plans Tor t. annual
harvest festival ard dinner. u be
bid in grange hal Friday eve
ming.
Dinner vii b served from 6
Until S O'Clock. with Mrs. lee Ben
nett acting IS hostess. Ms. James
Malcolm. Mrs Geer and Mrs.
Goelzer are serving as the dining
rom committee. and Mrs. c. A.
Gustafson and Mrs. Claude Hurst
viii be n charge a the kitchen.
Mrs Roy Rinehart vii be in
charge Of the bazaar booths and
carnival. and Mrs. James Litton
has arranged the program which
viii be given during intermissions.
A feature win be a FUR style show.
to be directed by Miss Agnes Bren-
ner. There also VIII BE a short skit
by the juvenile group.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
DC. Officials Whip Budget
Into Shane for Submission

District officials are whipping the
city's 1912 budget estimates into
shape for early submission to the
Budget Bureau
All the department heads have
been heard in justification of their
estimates and yesterday the Com
missioners made what may be their
final slashes to bring the estimates
within the estimated revenue for the
coming fiscal year.
Estimates of the department
heads totaled about $62 100000 and
it is understood some S12,000,000
has been cut, principally from the
school, welfare and health depart
ment estimates.
The Commissioners are reported
to be waiting for final conference
with District Budget Officer Daniel
j. Donovan before sending the esti-
mates to the bureau.
Estimates must 60 to the bureau
under the law establishing it, but
Director Harold D. Smith has an
nounced a new policy under which
the bureau will not investigate the
details of the budget where they
are purely District matters. The
bureau will content itself with see
ing that the budget balances, noting
the capital improvement program
and making sure that Federal inter-
ests are safeguarded.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Red Cross Official Warns
OF Epidemics in Europe

Difficulties in transportation both
to and in Europe are causing food,
fuel and medicine shortages of a
serious nature and leave the land
ripe for winter epidemics, Wayne
Chatfield Taylor, chief of the Red
Cross European division, recently
retarned here for consultation, said
yesterday.
1T is extremely difficult to move
supplies from one place to another"
he asserted. "A lack of fuel for
trains and lack of organization Of
transportation are the chief reasons.
The barge system by which most of
the continent moves its coal is badly
disrupted.
THE need of milk is especially
serious. During the blitzkrieg
French COWS were allowed to dry
up. The French had no surplus in
storage. There is little or no con-
densed milk in France, other than
the nine carloads the Red Cross
moved to Paris from Switzerland"
Declaring dysentery and some ty-
phoid have appeared in Belgium and
France, he added, "a flu or pneu-
monia epidemic, which would not
be unexpected, would ravage the
country as there is little medicine to
cope with it"
Meanwhile, it was announced last
night by the Red Gross, that $4,000
heavy wool blankets are being sent
to England in response to an urgent
plea. Orders have been placed with
manufacturers, it was added, for
130, 900 more.
Only wooden blankets are desired,
oficials said, because of the damp
ness in afraid shelters.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Red Cross Roll Call
Numbers 89,469
District Members
With Only Four Days Left.
Campaign Remains
10000 Short Of Goal

The Red Cross Roll Call total
stood at SO ,469 members this after
noon after 1907 names had been
added during the morning.
The goal of 10000. however, is
still short some 10000 persons and
only four days more of the cam
paign remain. In other words, TO-
900 enrollments must be tailed daily
unless the drive is to be continued
longer.
Last night Chairman Edgar Nor
Fis Of the Roll Call told dinner of
200 workers OF the call and guests
at the Army and Navy Country
Club that he believed the EN-
thusiasm which has attended the
campaign" will bring the effort to
a successful conclusion.
The dinner. which was given by
Mr.. Morris for the unit chairmen,
was attended by national and local
Red Cross officials and District gov
eminent leaders.
Fieser Speaks.
Although formal speeches were
ruled out, brief talks were delivered
by number of the guests. James
L. Fieser. assistant chairman of
the American Red Cross, told the
diners that the Red Cross was ready
for any eventuality in this country,
whether "blackouts or dugouts"
Others who spoke were Miss Mabel
T. Boardman, secretary of the
American Red Cross; Commissioner
David McCoach, jr: Brig. Gen. F.
r. Keefer, Brig. Gen Albert L. Cox,
Traffic Director William A. Van
Duzer, Capt. H. c. Whitehurst and
Mrs. John w. Childress.
8,447 Per Day Needed.
In a special program to be heard
over Station VOL at o'clock to-
night. Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld of
the Washington Hebrew Congyega-
ton will discuss the Red Cross and
the Roll Call.
Roll Call speakers and actors also
will be active today in appearances
before various groups throughout
the city.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
D. {. Artist Sentenced
For Shooting n. Y. Girl

Cecil j. Mayo. 26-year-old Wash
ington newspaper artist. was SEN
fenced in New York yesterday to
serve 5 to 10 years in Sing Sing
Prison for shooting Laurabella An
drews, 81, identified there as a
Worlds Fair waitress.
Kings County Judge Franklin
Taylor said in imposing sentence
that he believed Mayo was IRA
tional' at the time of the shooting,
June s, the Associated Press re-
ported
Miss Andrews roomed in Brook
lyn with Mayo's estranged wife,
Joan, %, who had refused to return
to her husband, saying he was in
sanely jealous"
The artist told police at the time
of the shooting that Miss Andrews
had broken up his home by Turing
his wife to New York with promises
of bright lights and good times"
A bullet wound in her chest left
Miss Andrews near death for weeks,
but she recovered.
Mayo lived here in the 1900 block
on Thirteenth street NV. with his
mother.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Justice Morris Eliminates
Self in 4, N. 4. Trial

Because he was an Assistant At
torney General in the Justice De-
partment prior to his elevation to
the bench of District Court, Justice
James w. Morris will not preside
at the Sherman Antitrust Act trial
of the American Medical Associa-
ton and a number of physicians
here, scheduled to begin on Monday.
Due to the importance Of the
case and because some persons
might feel that because Of his pre-
vious connection with the Justice
Department, the constitutional
right of a fair and impartial trial
might be impaired, Justice Morris
eliminated himself from the case
yesterday
Justice F.. Dickinson Let's, who
is presiding in Criminal Court No. l
of District Court, is considered like
" to oficiate at the trial. District
Court, however, may designate one
of the justices now sitting In the
civil division to preside.
The American Medical AsSocia-
ton, other groups and the physi-
clans, under Indictment, are ac-
cused Of hampering the work OF
the Group Health Association here.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Dr.. James A. Cannon
Soon 10 Take Post OH
Board Of Education
Surgeon Was Educated
In District and Was
6. U. Faculty Member

DR.. James A. Cannon is expected
to take the oath of Office shortly
as a member of the Board of Edu-
cation, to which he was named yes
terday by the District Court justices.
A well-known surgeon here, DR..
Cannon fills the vacancy caused by
the death Of Gratz E. Dunkum in
July.
DR.. Cannon was chief of staff and
chief surgeon of Gallinger Hospital
from 1914 to 1928 and was a teach
er of medicine and surgery at
Georgetown University for "a years,
beginning in 1909
Dr. Cannon came here when he
was IS years old from New York
City, where he was born Sc years
ago. His father, Frank S. Cannon.
was vice president of the Southern
Railroad.
Attended Georgetown.
A student at the Franklin School
for a brief time after his arrival
in Washington. he later went to
st. Johns College on Vermont ave-
nue. and then entered Georgetown
University. Completing pre-
medical course in 1902, he entered
the university's medical school and
was graduated in 1906.
For the last Is years of his mem
bership on the Georgetown Uni
versity faculty DR.. Cannon taught
surgery, being an assistant profess
sor of the subject. He has been
chief surgeon of the Washington &
Old Dominion Railroad since 1908
and from 1913 to 1918 was examin-
ing surgeon for the United States
Bureau of Pensions.
Now in Private Practice.
For the last seven years he has
been in the private practice of sur
gerry. He is a member of the Com
mittee on Medical Resources and a
former chairman of the Executive
Committee of the District Medical
Society.
DR.. Cannon is married and lives
at 1915 Biltmore street NV. He has
three children, James A. Cannon,
jr., teacher in the anatomical de-
partment of Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity in Baltimore; Robert I. Cannon,
in the model department of the
Glen Martin aircraft factory in
Baltimore. and Mrs. Edward Detgen.
DR.. Gannon's youngest brother.
Robert I. Cannon, S. j., is president
of Fordham University.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Convention Speaker
Quotes Adolf Hitler
On Advertising
Propaganda Going Places
These Doys, Insurance
Men Are Told

Adolf Hitler was quoted as an "au-
thority" on advertising today by a
speaker at session of the Life Ad-
vertisers Association convention in
the Washington Hotel.
In discussing the importance Of
planning public relations policy.
William D. Kennedy, account eXecu-
tive of j. Walter Thompson Co. en-
ployed a passage from Hitler's "Mein
Kampf. IN which the German lead
er DECLARED ~ ~s3
"All advertising. whether it lies
In the field of business or Of politics,
will carry success by continuity and
regular uniformity of application.
Earlier in his address, Mr.. Ken
nedy said:
Propaganda is certainly going
places these days. The leading
propagandist is just putting on ar
interesting and rather convincing
demonstration of the power Of his
art -. He has made a nation
of slaves feel not only that they
have all the perogatives Of free
men, but the power of masters as
we'll"
Cites Public Relations.
The advertising agency official
said life insurance firms have
come a long way on the public
relations roads in the last two
years"
Other phases of the convention
theme, Dollars and Sense Advertis-
ing for Life Insurance Companies" !"
were discussed by A. H. Thiemann,
New York Life Insurance Co.; S. S.
Larmon, executive vice president,
Young & Rubican advertising
agency, and Thomas C. Boushall,
president of the Morris Plan Bank
of Richmond, Va. The convention
planned panel discussions this
afternoon
The convention opened yesterday
Davis New President.
Following a short business session
yesterday afternoon. the delegates
took part in a program of enter
tainment. 1t included sightseeing
Olnner at dOgdte Oed rOou heo-
taurant and special entertainment
at the Washington Hotel last night.
c. Sumner Davis, editor of pub
lications of the Provident Life In
surance Co of Philadelphia, was
elevated from vice president to
president of the association at yes
terday's elections He succeeds Karl
Ljung. jr. of the Jefferson Standard
Life Insurance Co.. Greensboro. N.
c. The other officers elected were
A. S. Anderson of the Equitable Life
Insurance Co., Iowa, vice president;
Carlton Loeble of the Presbyterian
Ministers Fund, Philadelphia, Sec
retary, and C. Russell Noyes, Phoe-
nix Mutual Life Insurance Co.,
Hartford. Conn. treasurer.
The convention is to last through
tomorrow morning. About $50 del
egates, consisting of sales, promo
ton and advertising executives OF
many leading insurance companies,
are attending.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Series Of Lectures
On Military Law
Slated al {. i.
Col. .Munson to Give
First of Five Tolks
On Compus Tonight

The rights and duties of enlisted
men and officers and the manner in
which these rights may be asserted
and protected in the courts will be
discussed in a series of public lee
lures by 1t. Col. F. Granville Mum
son of the Judge advocate generals
office. U. S. A., starting at $50
o'clock tonight at Catholic Univer-
sity.
Sponsored by the university's
school of law, the series will include
five lectures and a symposium on
American military law and will be
held IN Mcmahon Hall auditorium
on the university campus each Tues
day and Friday for the rest of the
month.
Presiding at individual meetings
will be Maj. Gen. Allen w. Gullion,
Judge advocate general of the Army;
Comdr. Arthur B. McCrary, director
of United States Naval Reserves
in the District area: 1t Col Robert
E. Wysor. acting commandant Of
the r. o. T. c. at Maryland Uni
versity; Rear Admiral Walter B.
Woodson. Judge Advocate General
of the Navy. and 1t. Marlin s.
Reichley, assistant commandant OF
the r. o. T C. at Georgetown Uni
versity.
Speakers at the symposium on
November l will be Assistant Secre-
tary of War Robert P. Patterson;
Capt. Thomas L. Catch, assistant
to the Judge Advocate General Of
the Navy, and Col Munson.
Col. Munson, author of a standard
text on military law and for 10 years
a lawyer in private practice before
entering the Army in 1917, will dis
cuss the origin and development OF
military law and analyze the cur
rent written and unwritter law on
the subject.
Detailed consideration will be
given the jurisdiction of courts
martial, their place in the Federal
system and instances when military
and civil courts have concurrent
jurisdiction.
Planned especially for conscripts
and lawyers handling military cases
in civil courts, the lectures are the
first to be offered on military law
in Washington outside the War Col
lege, according to Father Robert j.
White. dean of the Catholic Uni
yersitv law School.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Mrs. Mary Emma Saxton
Dies Suddenly at Home

Mrs. Mary Emma Saxton, 66, a
native Washingtonian and wife of
Bert I. Saxton, veteran of the real
estate Business here, died yesterday
at her home, 1871 @ street NV.
Thought to be in excellent health,
she suffered stroke at the dinner
table and died an hour later.
She was the twin sister of Miss
Minnie Elizabeth Hawke. More than
so years ago the sisters founded a
dancing school, which Miss Hawke
still conducts. Mrs. Saxton particle
rated informally in the schools ac-
tivities until the time of her death.
Besides her husband and sister,
Mrs. Saxton is survived by daugh-
ter, Mrs. Edward Goring Bliss. wife
of the assistant general manager Of
the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co. Funeral arrangements
are not yet completed.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Bill for Retirement
OF Police and Firemer
Signed by President
Proviso for Voluntary
Severine From Service
Limits Yearly Cost

A bill providing for voluntary re-
tirement at half pay of District
police and fremen who have reached
the age of SIS and have been in the
service 25 years was signed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt yesterday. The bill
also includes those members of the
Secret Service who have guarded
the President for 10 years or more.
Heretofore. members of the Dis
trict Fire and Police Departments
we're retired on account of physical
disability only. Annuities now paid
them amount to about 81 200, 900 a
year, about one-sixth of which is
contributed by the men.
The bill signed by the President
contained a provision that the re-
tirement fund be fixed at $4,000 a
year to preclude the possibility OF
wholesale retirements.
The provision for Secret Service
agents who have guarded the Presl-
dent at least a decade was inserted
in an amendment by Senate Ma
jority Leader Barkley. The number
of agents affected is estimated at
from 10 to IS.
The Commissioners. it is under
stood, urged that the President veto
the measure on economy grounds,
especially in view of the amend
ment including the Secret Service
agents. who will have to be paid out
of District revenues. The Com
missioners, however, opposed the
bill even before this amendment
was introduced, contending that
the Districts financial condition at
this time was not such that an ad-
ditional burden should be assumed.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
funeral Set Tomorrow
For ". A. Brophy, Banker

Funsral services for William A.
Bfpphy, 81, local investment banker,
will be held at II am. tomorrow in
Gawler's chapel, 1750 Pennsylvania
avenue NV; Burial will be private
Mr.. Brophy. who lived at 1000
Cathedral avenue NV, had come to
the District less than year ago as
vice president of the Personal In
dustrial Bankers of Washington.
Formerly general manager of the
Brunswick Phonograph Co., he ar
ranged the first orchestral recording
Of Toscanini.
He was stricken Sunday with a
cerebral hemorrhage while dining
at the University Club with his wife,
MIS-. Marie Tiffany Brophy, former
Metropolitan Opera soprano. Never
regaining consciousness, he died
early yesterday at Emergency Hos
pital.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Lee and Cleveland
Clash at Hearinq

"A verbal exchange between N!csh-
ineton I. Cleveland, former pres
ident of the Montgomery County
Civic Federation, and E. Brooke
Lee, county Democratic leader,
featured a rezoning hearing at the
Bethesda County Building last
night.
President Thomas E. Hampton
of the county board disqualified
himself at the opening of the hear
ing, explaining that he was the
owner of a parcel of property in
cluded in the pending application,
q tract which extends north on Wis
consin avenue from Chase to Chest
nut streets on the east side and from
Chase to Michigan streets on the
west, with the exception of three
lots.
Mr.. Cleveland read a resolution
adopted by the Civic Federation op-
posing the rezoning until 100
foot right of way was protected.
Toward the close of the hearing
Mr.. Lee took the floor and read
from a county newspaper quoting
Mr.. Cleveland as opposing the re-
zoning application because far
sighted policy" demanded 100-foot
right of way. while granting the ap-
plication would "perpetuate" the
6O-foot right of way existing under
the present residential zoning.
"I protest this attack on the good
sense of our county board members,
Mr.. Lee declared, when they have
demonstrated in three applications
last year. the only ones which have
come before them, that they estab-
lished more than year ago the very
policy Mr.. Cleveland is now advocat-
Ing"
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Fireman Is Injured
When Trailer Truck
Hits Hook and Ladder
Two Young People Hurt
As Car Goes Over Curb
After Collision

A collision between a fire truck and
a heavy trailer truck sent fireman
to Emergency Hospital early today
The crash occurred at Third and
F streets NV. about midnight and
caused the injury of Fireman j. C
! Cooke, 27, of No l Truck Company
He was riding on the hook and
ladder which was responding to an
alarm turned in for a restaurant
fire in the eco block of F street NV
The trailer truck, driven by James
M. Kelley. 81, of Charlotte, NJ C.,
crashed into the middle of the fire
truck. 90
The hook -and-ladder apparatus
was badly damaged. and firemen
said there was doubt whether 1t
could be repaired.
An u-year-old boy, who had been
unidentified in Providence Hospital
for several hours after falling off the
rear of truck last night. was iden-
titled as Melvin Glover of 900 B
street NE.
The boy is in critical condition
with a fractured skull and other in
juries. Police said he was riding on
the tailgate of a truck when he fell
off near the Peace Monument, at the
foot of Capitol Hill.
Two young people. who were walk
ing near First and @ streets NV
yesterday, were injured when an au-
tomobile collided with another car
at the intersection, ran up on the
sidewalk and knocked them down.
The injured are Mildred Thomp-
son, IA, of 223 Bates street NV. who
was taken to Sibley Hospital for
treatment of numerous cuts and
bruises. and Floyd A. Herndon. 18
of 1860 California street NV. who
was treated at Freedmens Hospital
for possible rib fractures.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
President Awards Medal
To Woods Adventure Hero

Don Fender, 14-year-old Boy
Scout who was lost for nine days
in the Maine woods last year, re-
ceived gold medal today from
President Roosevelt.
Coming to the White House with
members of his family and officials
of the Army-Navy Legion of Valor,
Fender had a brief chat with Mr..
Roosevelt and was given the annual
award of the legion for bravery.
Dor's adventure occurred July.
1899, when he became lost In the
woods near Mount Katahdin. After
nine days of living on berries and
caring for himself by Boy Scout
lore, the boy finally made his way
out to civilization. The story OF
his adventure was carried in a
series of North American Newspaper
Alliance articles published by The
Evening Star.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Fair Program to Honor
CoIored Leaders

Colored leaders who have made
significant contributions to racial
advancement will be honored at the
New York Worlds Fair at pm.
Sunday, when the diamond jubilee
of the liberation of slaves will be
celebrated.
The National Memorial to the
Progress of the Colored Race, of
which Elder Lightfood Solomon
Michaux of Washington is president,
is sponsoring the celebration. Post
Onaster General Walker will present
to colored leaders at the fair blocks
of 100 special stamps commemorate
ing the signing of the Thirteenth
Amendment. The stamps will be is
sued Sunday.
Evening star., 1940-10-15
Elderly Blind Woman
Suffers Skull Fracture

Mrs. Alice Hughes, 10 years old
and blind, was in serious condition
at Emergency Hospital today with
injuries received in her home at 931
Twenty-second street NV.
She apparently was the victim of
a fall. and suffered fractured skull.
Her brother-in-law, Orista Ridolfi,
1912 K street NE. found the woman
unconscious on the floor yesterday
when he called at the house. She
lived alone.