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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-26
TOUB PLACED
ON PROBATION
No Guilt Found on
His Part in Gas
and Oil Case

A six-months' probationary per-
Tod was imposed upon Isador Toub.
Los Angeles real estate operator.
by Federal Judge Leon r. Yank-
wich Saturday because Of Toub's
admitted connection with the
Peoples Gas q Oil Co. as a sales
man.
Assistant District Attorney
Frank Pellegrini explained to the
court that there was no formal
finding of any guilt In Toub's case.
Toub was represented by Attorney
Ben Blue of Los Angeles
Seattle Salesman
Toub was Seattle salesman for
Peoples Gas & OIL Co. for about
nine months. When the organiza-
ton heads and statesmen were In
dicted, Toub came from Los An
geles to enter q plea Of nolo con-
tendere - that In, he admitted
working as a salesman for the
company. IL that should be shown
to be a crime. He later made no
change Of plea one way or the
other and since the case came to
trial here. he has been at liberty
on his personal recognizance.
Judge Yankwich in fixing the
probationary period Saturday
Toub to report TO the
probation officer Of the federal
court at Los Angeles during the
six months period.
Record VIII BE Clear
AT the end Of that time. II
there has been no question of your
your record will be
clear" Judge Yankwich told Toub.
Toub Is connected with the San
Clemente realty development be-
tween Los Angeles and San Diego.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-26
GUEST ARTIST
FROM TACOMA

Featured guest artist for the
University OF Washington dance
drama which opens on the campus
Feb. ~ will be Uwarda Egley.
former university student now a
teacher of art at Annie Wright
seminary. Miss Egley will do
four umbers-"Diplomacy." Song
to Aggression, Hood Of Sorrow"
and Morning Song"
Miss Nancy Jane Bare, Tacoma
coed. and president Of orchesis.
honorary. viii be student
featured artist. Miss Helen En-
mons, also of Tacoma, Ia among
the dancers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-26
Butter Prices
Lowered; Wheat Is Higher

The wholesale price of butter
was down one-half cent locally
Saturday. Prices. as reported by
local distributors. range from 1924
to 34l5 cents. Butterfat remained
unchanged at 80 cents.
Despite a sharp increase in the
wheat market, local Touring mills,
to stimulate consumer buying,
have withheld an advance in
wholesale flour prices. Present
quotations include prices from
$3.50 to S745. The wheat market
closed at SO Friday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-26

Crawford. who testified he had
been in newspaper work since
1924. said he could answer from
his own experience that this was
true.
Il worked for the United Press
a long time" he said. Il worked
as bureau manager in bureaus
where the telegraph operators.
who were organized. not only got
a lot better pay but worked short
er hours than I did"
He added that he did not mean
to convey the United Press had
not been a good employer.
Crawford said the Guild has
about 10000 members and about
200 contracts. OF which so are
CLOSED shop" contracts and lao
are not.
Hope for Reunion
Rep. Reuben T. Wood, D., Mo,
who also is president Of the Mis-
souri, Federation of Labor, asked
what Is wrong" about a closed
shop.
Crawford replied that directors
to the practice contended news
paper workers are in a unique
position because of the constitu-
tional guarantee of freedom of the
press.
WELL" Wood commented, I'D
like to see you boys in the ALL"
We'll all be together soon. ]
hope" Crawford said.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-26
ASSAULT IS CHARGED

r. B. Butler, 35-year-old mer-
chant, of 2713ia 9Th ave, was held
in the county Jail Saturday on a
charge of third degree assault
upon his wife. Deputy Sheriffs
Wright and Cassidy. who made
the arrest, said Mrs. Butler had
two blackened eyes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-26
Leaders Develop
Late Weakness
MARKETS AT A
GLANCE

Stocks: Irregular and quiet
Bonds; Irregular: u. s. Govern
mcnts irregular.
Curb Stocks: Irregular.
Foreign Exchange; Easy.
Cotton: Firm.
Wheat: OF sboutis to y cent;
corn off about y TO y.
Rubber; Lower.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-26
BOOK THREE DRIVERS

Three motorists were arrested
on speeding charges Friday. They
were Ralph r. johnson, Rt. !, box
5e6. Puysllup; II. o. Burey, io2
So. 46th ST. and J. A. Apthorp.
1i0e So. 6ist at.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-26
overtime.
OH. FREDDIE, OH.

PUYALLUP-'Long about the
fourth quarter Of the Buckley
Puyallup game here last night the
fans started singing, "Oh, Freddie,
how he can shoot" as they watched
Fred Strankman, tall timber Puy-
allup guard, toss in basket after
basket for total of SO points as
the Vikings won, 1920.
Puyallup led 1871 at half
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-26
Gbc Gdecma Gimes
New President of ANG Tells
Why He's for Guild Shops

WASHINGT0N-Kenneth Crawford, president of
American Newspaper guild told the house labor committee
that he considers the guild shop the closed shop
sary to of the guilds program and that it not
threat to freedom of the press.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-26
TWO GET TWENTY

sUMNER-A pair OF 20-point
shooting exhibitions by Hugo
Toschi and Ed Lopan gave Renton
Indians a 1887 victory over Sum-
ner Spartans here last night. Rem
ton seconds won, 25-1s.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-26
RELEASED on BAIL

Arrested for being disorderly,
James A. Stanfield. 81. of 800 a
So. Yakima ave. posted $50 bail
Friday. He will have a court hear
ing Tuesday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-26
Investment Trusts
TO HEAR CANDIDATES

All candidates for mayor are
slated to speak Sunday evening at
7 o'clock at the meeting of the
Washington Old Age Pension union
in Emerson hall, 110ei2 Broadway.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-26
KENT MOVES UP

AUBURN - Kent Vandals got
right in the thick Of the fight for
second half Puget Sound confer
ence honors by defeating Auburn
TroJans, 27-24, here last night,
Kent led 1876 at halftime and man.
aged to stave off Auburn,s closing
rally. Kent seconds won, 26-17.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-26

Stock sales Appropriated $780,
80 shares compared with 400. 900
IN the short session last week.
Curb stock sales were $4,000
shares against lo7. 900 q week ago.
NEW Yosx.-sAssrp weakness
developed in . few leading shares
IN the final minutes Of trading on
the stock exchange Saturday.
after they had moved narrowly
through most Of the short session.
There was no heavy selling In
The group. but some of the pivotals
met extremely thin markets ana
dropped several points on q few
sales.
(ouosations courtesy Dean Witter q
Co. Warrington BLDG. members
new York stock Exchanee)
Qirh Low Close
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-26
Pirates Sink
EnumClaW Five

time but q shift In the last
half which sent Strankman 10
. fast-breaking forward posi-
ton started the hoop solo.
Buckley seconds won, 1918.
after Puyallup had led 1873 at
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-26
RANK TRANSACTIONS

SEATTLE - clesrings. S6.2o5,-
27202. balances. S2.4s3.747.t2;
transactions, Sis,064, 5000
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-26
MAKE APPLICATION

Application for a marriage Ii
cense was made at Port Orchard
by Peter Metcalf, SO. and Lillian
Taylor. SO, both Of Tacoma.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-26
PUGET SOUND CONFERENCE

hf@utts
Highline 49, Enumclaw ~.
Puyallup IS. Buckley 40.
Kent ~. Auburn ~
Renton 80, Sumner 81.
ENUMCLAW - Harold Rude's
the Puget Sound conference sec
ond half cruise when they made
the Enumclaw Tigers walk the
plank, 1912. here last night.
The game was close all the
way, with the tally being
knotted Is times. Highline led
21-20 at halftime. Little Dick
Marshall spanked the closing
drive.
Highline seconds won, 21-20. In
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-26

BANK TRANSACTIONS
PORTLAND-Clearings $5,37i.'
e64.0l; balances, S1,e10.13i.27.
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-29
Coal Exports to
Europe Up

WASHINGTON-(FP) - War-torn
Europe has been providing market
for bituminous coal produced in the
| u. S. for the first time in many years
according to Secretary of the Interior
Harold L. Ickes.
Quoting figures assembled by the
bituminous coal division, Ickes said
the U. S. shipped 1898 gross tons
of bituminous coal to European ma
lions in March 1910, as compared to
an average of only 1873 gross tons a
month in 1888 and no shipment at all
in 1899 prior to September, the month
the war started.
All European coal shipments in
1898 went to France. Shipments since
the war have been going to Norway,
Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Portugal,
Spain, Switzerland, Russia and Ice
land.
Shipments of coal to South Ameri-
ca also have increased heavily since
the European war. In March 1910,
American mines shipped 148,441 gross
tons to South American ports as COM
pared to shipments averaging 1894
gross tons a month in 1888. Exports
to Argentina, Brazil and Chile account
ed for practically all of the increases
in South American shipments.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-29
two KINDS OF FEAR EXPLAIN
Market PANIC AS REAL WAR BEGINS

hardened financial pirates sense the
danger inherent in the situation.
There is a second reason why a
major military offensive has led to a
sharp reaction in American business
circles. Since 1917 it has been evil
| dent that no ruling class can be GER
tain that war will end short of rev.
olution.
The War of 1914 was not won in
the military sense. 1t was swept
aside by the revolutionary wave that
passed from Russia through Middle
Europe Despite the most strenuous
efforts of British, American and other
ruling class groups, the threat of rev.
olution dogs the footsteps of warmak-
ers on every continent.
Hence the panic. A real good war
provides chance to sell merchandise.
1t also threatens the merchants posi-
tion in capitalist society. 1t likewise
threatens capitalism itself, which is
|noticeably weaker in 1910 than it was
in 1914.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-29
Labor League Asks
Lowering of Interest
|RateonHOLCLoans

WASHINGTON-(FP)-E. L. DIV
er, executive vice-president of Labors
Non-Paritsan League, filed brief May
% with the senate committee on bank
| ing and currency in support of Sen.
Meads 3D., N. Y.) bill liberalizing
lending terms of the Home Owners
Loan Corporation.
Pointing out that up to the end of
June 1889, almost one-third of all
Hole mortgages either lost their
homes or had a very difficult time in
keeping them" Oliver said that unless
the agency's terms were made less
stringent it will serve no useful pur-
pose to large sections of home owners
turning to the HOLC for relief.
Labor's Non-Partisan League, Oliver
told the committee, supports the dis
tressed home owners in seeking re-
lief by reducing the rate of interest
of loans made by the Hole, by ex-
tending the period of amortization of
such loans, by liberalizing other poll
cies of Hole in dealing with home
owners, by providing for moratorium
on foreclosures, and by the abolition
of certain deficiency judgments.
He said that up to the middle of
1899, 27,809 defaulted loans were in
various stages of foreclosure and 204,-
298 mortgagors were in various de-
grees of default out of total original
borrowers in active status of 1885.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-29
Injunction Signed
Against $50 Atlanta
Produce Dealers

WASHINGTON.-(FP)-An injunc
ton permanently restraining 1SC
wholesale produce firms in Atlanta
Ca, from violation of any provisions
| of the wage-hour law was signed by
U. S. Judge Marvin Underwood May
l21, according to word received here.
The injunction affects almost all
of the dealers engaged in the whole
sale produce business in Atlanta, and
involves not only the large wholesale
establishments, but most of a bigger
group, who occupy stalls at the farm
ers' market The Atlanta farmers
market is regulated by the Georgia
state department of agriculture.
Under the terms of the injunction
several thousand employees of these
concerns will have their workweek re-
duced from as high as Sc hours to AZ
or less, or they will receive overtime
at the rate of time and one-half for
all hours worked in excess of AZ in
any workweek.
In announcing that the dealers had
agreed voluntarily to comply with the
act and had entered no objection to
the filing of a decree against them,
wage-hour administrator, Philip b.
Fleming expressed his qualification at
the attitude of cooperation evinced
by all of them.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-29
By SCOTT NEARING
Federated Press)

Ever since last September spokes
men of American big business have
hoped privately and publicly that the
war would take a serious turn. They
wanted it to leave it's phony phase
and become a real good war.
A month ago the rival general stats
obliged. Mines were laid in Norwe
gian waters. Expeditionary forces
battled on Scandinavian SOIL Then
mechanical units Numbered across
Holland, Belgium and northern
France. The war was on in earnest
The effect of militant warfare on
the stock and produce markets of the
U. S. was drastic. For days stocks,
bonds, wheat, cotton and other pro-
ducts were dumped on the market
Prices declined before the wave of
selling and the whole situation be-
spoke extreme nervousness and a
sense of insecurity in responsible bus
mess quarters.
Why this panicky reaction to the
serious war for which American bust
ness has in theory been waiting
There seem to be two principal an
swers.
First, war is a stupendous gamble.
Ruling classes that open the gates for
military action are never sure how far
the war will go, where it will strike
and who will be the victor.
War in an industriaI society is like
fire in a crowded city. II may leave
an entire community destitute. If
only there were some way to mobolize
and burn up commodities
without the uncertainty of
an appeal to arms
But no way has yet been found.
When the die is cast and the competi-
tive policies of rival ruling classes
lead to military action, even the most
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-29
Relief Breakdown
Seen as Threat to
National Safety

| GRAND RAPIDS, Mich (FP) "A
serious threat to national safety is
the breakdown in relief for the un
employed, the American Assn. of So
cial Workers was told in a report
based upon data from 38 chapters in
81 states and territories.
A typical example, said Exec. Sec
Walter West, is the PRACTICE in Ark
ansas of estimating minimum needs
the amount in half. Even a 1907
budget in Arkansas allows man only
! 21c a day for food and a 6-year old
child 13c.
Failure to use the productive ca
pacities of these workers, denying the
necessities of life to them, their fam
| lilies, and many other groups not COW
cred by federal-state programs, are
inhumane practices; they tend to low
er standards of living for the whole
population; they are destructive of
national morale" West declared.
For these reasons, the present re-
| lief situation is dangerous and the
further development of effective pub
lie works, social security and general
relief should be a first step in ma
tional defense"
The practice of giving relief families
half, or less than half, of the barest
minimum is by no means limited to
Arkansas. California's unemployed
get only 44% of minimum subsistence
needs, the report showed, and from
March to May the amount was cut
300 to 500 by legislative action.
Families in Dayton, O., get $175 a
day to cover all needs of IL persons
Still worse was the report from Lin
coin, Neb, where entire families were
receiving only 22c a day for every
thing. Cleveland, which got nation
wide publicity when relief was cut off
altogether, now pays 18c per person
for food in family of six.
"While there are variations from
state to state and community to com
munity in the degree of inadequacy
and discrimination" West commented,
lu6 ldClS lIOHl ISpl6 S6HldtlfG COlll-
munities throughout the country give
incontrovertible evidence that neglect
Of the general relief problem by fed
eral and state governments has led to
a crisis vitality affecting the welfore
of the whole American people"
The general breakdown is attributed
to the refusal of the federal govern
mept to accept responsibility for gen.
eral relief, the curtailment of WPA,
the tendency Of states to buck-pass
relief problems to communities, the
lack of funds in many counties and
cities, and economy drives directed
at the needy, handicapped and unem-
ployed."
AS a remedy, the association recon-
mends that public works, relief and
social security be organized on
sound basis with the financial burden
equitably distributed" with admins
trative responsibility shared by all
levels of government, and with no
groups of needy persons excluded or
against.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-29
Taft First To
Oppose LaFollette-
Thomas Bill

Observation-Disclosures. Robt
Taft (R., o., potential republican
nominee, gained the dubious distinc-
ton of being the first senator to op-
pose publicly the oppressive labor
practices bill pending in the senate.
During debate on the measure, spon-
sored by Senators LaFollette prog,
Wis.) and Thomas d., Utah.) as the
result of their investigation of civil
liberties violations by employers, Taft
asked that the bill be recommitted
to the senate labor and education COM
mittee.
Taft contended the "bill itself is an
extremely complicated bill. 1t is a
bill which one must read over and
over again to understand what it
means"
The measure prohibits the employ
ment of labor spies, finks, the use Of
private armies by employers, and the
possession of tear gas and similar
weapons by employers. 1t was drafted
largely as result of the committees
disclosures concerning the practices
of the Republic Steel Corp, located
in Taft's state.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-29
CALIFORNIA LABOR
CAMPS IMPROVED.
REPORTS OFFICIAL

SAN FRANCISCO. - OPP - The
Grapes Of Wrath and the United Can.
merry Agricultural Packing & Allied
Workers (CIO) have evidently influ-
fenced some agricultural labor camp
operators.
Employers have spent $4,000 since
January 1 in improving housing and
sanitary conditions in their California
camps, reports George G. Kidwell, d.
rector of the state department Of in
dustrial relations.
Extensive improvements made or
planned in labor camps are described
in report submitted to Kidwell by
Carey McWilliams, chief of the divi-
sion of immigration and housing. Sew
eral letters have been received from
operators who are going to erect COM
plete new camps before the 1941 sea-
son, the report said.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-29
Demonstration
Against War,
.Paralyzes Traffic

NEW YORK-(FP)-Whi the cleo
trio news bulletin around the Times
Bldg. flashed out the latest develop
ments of World War II, some 5000
to 10000 young men and women took
over Times Square for an hour late
May 81 in an anti-war demonstration.
With cries of mo Sir, The Yanks
Are Not Coming" and Peace on Earth,
Down With War" the throng ap-
peared suddenly at 10:30 p. m, TAX
ing the police completely by surprise.
The demonstrators formed an UNI
broken circle three and four deep
around Times Square from 42nd to
47th streets. The White Way was
paralyzed.
Flags and banners identified some
sections of the demonstration with the
Communist party. Among the slo-
gans were Roosevelt, Dewey and
Hoover-United for War;" 1.-THE Yanks
Are Not Coming, Let God Save the
King" and LET the Bankers Go to
War, We Want Jobs"
Police reserves, including some 40
mounted men, appeared around IL,
when the theaters start emptying.
Dividing into squads of four and six
they charged the marchers at differ
ent points. By this time the square
was almost a solid mass of people,
taxi cabs, trolleys, buses and private
cars, rivaling New Years Eve and
election night proportions.
Mounted cops charged the sidewalk
crowds and captured two American
flags. A few fights broke out as
heightened men and women rushed
for cover into stores and theater lob
bies
At Loew's State Theater the man.
agement locked the doors, permitting
police to hem in group of 100 per-
sons around the cashiers booth. Two
blocks up the street the Trans-Lux
theater gave refugees a more friend
ly reception.
The demonstrators were not dis
persed until the police, using the cur
rent strategy of the German army,
worked out an enveloping movement
that cut off one section after another,
forcing each batch of marchers into
the side streets toward 9Th and Sth
avenues.
One mounted policeman paused
from his labors to, escort two hand
some and well dressed young women
to a taxi. Toward the end of the
demonstration, when some rs police
were gathered on 43rd street near The
New York Times plant, a bystander
explained to another bystander: 81
they're protecting The
Times from attack.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-29
Japanese Workers
Earn Less Despite
Labor Shortage

NEW YORK. - OPP - Despite a
shortage of labor real wages in Japan
have decreased by 1857 since the
start of the war in China, Miriam S.
Farley writes in the May % issue
of Far Eastern Survey. published by
the Institute of Pacific Relations. She
cites figures of the Bank of Japan,
showing that between July 1887 and
December 1899, living costs increased
by 30.7eo, but wages rose only 17%.
Because of the lack of unions, the
workers are not only denied higher
wages, but must work longer hours
with an increased speed-up.
"Since independent labor organiza-
ton is almost non-existent, Japanese
labor has been unable to take full
advantage of this sellers market"
Miss Farley says. 1.-THE keen demand
for labor is reflected rather in longer
hour and the speed-up, which, to-
gether with the great influx of mex
perienced workers in industry, has led
to sharp increase in the number of
industrial accidents.
Nevertheless, despite the decline
in trade union membership and the
activities of the League for Service
to the Nation through Industry, Ca
patriotic labor organization sponsored
by the government, labor disputes,
which had died down after the out
break of war, were again on the in
crease in 1889.
Although reports from Japan do
not as yet indicate any alarming dis
content with the deterioration of liv-
ing conditions, the failure of official
policies to stabilize the peoples live
lihood may become more serious
problem as time goes on" Miss Far
ley concludes.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-05-29
President Refers
5th Column Queries
To Dies Group

Recommendations
ed endorsement of the Dies commit
tee was given by President Roosevelt
here May "a as he advised press con.
ference questioners on fifth column
activities to read the committees rec
ord
Some of it, he said, was good and
some not so good. 1t would, however,
answer the query as to what form the
fifth column activities are taking.
1t has been the contention of the
Dies committee that fifth columnists
have gained control of number of
labor unions with the intent Of stop
ping work in key industries at some
unspecific time in the future.
Dies followed up the Presidents pat
on the back by announcing the "com-
mittee has information" about secret
air bases being built on the Mexican
border. He has asked the house for
an additional 100000 with which he
plans to plant agents in 10 unnamed
cities.