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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-12
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Washington Bankers Association
To Open Convention on Thursday
Two-DoY Sessions Will Be at Winthrop;
Entertainment Program Also Arranged

NJ. Roberts. president Of the FRS;
National bank Of kirkland, viii
give the response.
The local committee. cooperat-
ing with officers OF the Bankers
association. has planned a full
program of speaking and enter
tainment, with special features for
the wives of the delegates, includ-
ing a yacht cruise.
On the opening day. Scott 2.
Henderson, Tacoma attorney. will
speak on The Banker in Public
Affairs" and Robert M. Haines.
president of the Wachovia Bank &
Trust Co, Winston Salem. N. c..
and president Of the American
Bankers association, will give an
a dress on The American
Bankers Association "A Vital
Force"
Marking the speaking program
for Friday, when regular business
sessions will start, A. Campbell
Galbraith, vice president of the
Union Oil Co. Of California, will
speak on Leadership in Industrial
Relations"
In the evening, a banquet and
dance will bring the convention to
a close.
A. r. Whitman, vice president of
the Puget Sound National Bank
and president of the Tacoma Clear
ing House association, is general
of the convention. Mrs.
A. L. Rabbit, wife of the assistant
manager of the Bank of California,
is head of the women's committee.
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II Z RES MORE ABOUT
Won | Clear Goods
STARTS ON PAGE ONE

u y
burg, Sweden, in March OF this
year, and is making her maiden
voyage.
Juxtaposition of the train and
the ship has given rise to numerous
rumors.
Now Impossible
However, three factors COM
bined Tuesday to make impossible
the loading of the 1873 carloads
into the ship:
1.-The u. s. customs refused
to grant clearance to the goods.
1t is believed this was in COM
pliance with the ADMINISTRATOR
policy of keeping all American
resources at home for use In
arming this country.
Tacoma has no facilities for
handling a good deal of the heavy
machinery involved. Inasmuch as
the floating derrick employed to
discharge similar cargo from
the steamer Wildwood recently
has been Communicated by the
navy for use at Bremerton, il is
believed it may be necessary to
take at least a portion of the
train to Seattle for loading into
the Ecuador or any other ship.
3.-The Ecuador has not been
specifically assigned to lift the
mooted cargo. II was pointed out
the Panamanian freighter Aurora
remained here 10 days for the
same purpose, but left without &C.
complishment.
1t was Indicated that neither the
1873 carloads nor the Wildwood
cargo" will be released for export
at any time, but must remain per-
manenuy in the United States.
Both the big trainload and the
wildwood cargo originated in the
east; the train coming directly
mere, the steamer turning back
in mid-Pacific while en- route to
Vladivostok Estimated value of
the combined shipments amounts
to several millions of dollars.
Contrary to erroneous rumors
Tacoma longshoremen are disin-
terested in the nature of the ship
ment presumably to be loaded
aboard the Ecuador.
We don't intend to usurp the
authority of the state department.
-. 1nasmuch as the cargo is law
full. we are simply grateful for the
business. We will load the
Ecuador when we are asked to do
So declared T. A. Thomson, Sec
rotary.
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PuYanup Couple Observes
66ih Wedding Anniversary
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A. Booth Honored:
Driver Fined After Accident

PUYALLUP-Mr. and Mrs. J
A. Booth. us 14th St. S. W., are
looking back over IS years of life
together. They quietly celebrated
their 6sth wedding anniversary
Sunday at the home OF their
daughter and son-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs.. Elmer Thieman near Buckley.
Tables were spread under the
trees for a dinner attended by
more than 30 of their children.
grandchildren and great grand
children. Mrs. Gordon Himminger
md three children completed the
Inc Of four generations present.
= Both Mr.. and Mrs. Booth are
Cert and do most of their own
work about their attractive home.
Ehey were married in Marion
county, Kentucky, and came to
Puyallup rs years ago from
eaunee City, Colo. Mrs. Booth
happily said. I'VE have never had
. death in our immediate family.
We have 16 grandchildren. 16
great grandchildren and our
laughter and five sons"
The sons are Louis of Puyallup,
Silas of Oakland, Calf, Arthur
q Sunrise. wyo.. and James. who
with his wife and family. is on
the way here for a visit from
their home at Paunee City.
a
All members and friends of
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0ne-Man Art
Exhibit Here
Tucomun's Work
Is Being Shown
BY BEVERLY THOMPSON

The quantness of Taxco. Mex
leo. and the picturesqueness OF
Acapulco. Mexico's Miami beach,
are being brought to Tacoma this
week, in all their brilliant color, by
Eral Leek In his one man art ex-
hibit at the American Art COM
pany's gallery on st. Helens ave
Leek, a former Tacoman. whose
home is now in San Francisco, is
visiting his mother, Mrs. Val Leek
OF So. 3sth st. He but recently re-
turned from two months paint
ing and sketching trip to Mexico
and has with him, at his mothers
home. George Post of San Fran
cisco, one of the two artist friends
who accompanied him on his
travels.
Strong. rich, vibrant colors seem
to be the keynote of the Leek
show which opened Monday even
ing TO run the remainder Of the
week. The paintings, for the most
part. are landscapes, the artist
choosing both water color and oil
as his medium OF expression.
One Interior
His Sillas Verdes (green chairs)
although the only painting OF an
interior in the show. is perhaps one
of the best. Other oils to be rated
with the Sillas Verdes are his
Farm House, outstanding for the
vibrant sunlight which plays upon
one side of the building, and his
De La TERRA (of the earth). done
in subdued tones. The latter is
to be praised for its splendid COM
position.
Unusual, is Seasons End "A
bleak stretch of sand with three
palm umbrellas-done in
oil by Leek at Caleta beach at the
close of Holy Week, the end Of the |
resort season.
Vivid Memories
A FEW of the paintings were done
In California and for the many who
have been to San Francisco-and
to visit the Bay city is to come
away with true affection for 1t
- his impressions of far-famed
Hill and Fisherman's
Wharf will bring back vivid men,
,ries. Both pictures are oils, the
splendid composition and rich rusts
and greens in the former and the
almost irridescent color of the sec
md placing them among the out
pieces in the show.
Among the water colors, Chabe-
ieta is a good example of the
rhythmic flow of line so often en-
,loyed by the artist. His street
scenes Of Taxco, which Is now
gaining favor as an artist colony,
and Acapulco clearly demonstrate
% the observer Mr. Leek's versa
.ility in the field of water colors
Is well as in that of oils.
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SYNOD Convention Closes Here
After Selection Of Delegates

of Kennewick delivered the pas
torsl sermon. taking as his theme
Let Us Faint Not
AS the convention prepared to
draw to a close. another appeal
was made by the Rev. H. Harms.
Davenport, Iowa, in behalf OF
sacrificial giving. He said, "Presi-
dent Roosevelt has asked without
apology for billions. Nor need ne
apologize. As citizens of this
country we want the necessary
work done for defense. Should
we as citizens of Christ's Kingdom
apologize for stepping before
Christs people TO ask them to
supply the necessary funds for the
building of Christ's Kingdom Do
not we az Christians want His
work done? We must courageous
" ask them to sacrifice to advance
the cause of the church in world
of spiritual unrest"
Praises Missionaries
The Rev. H. H. koppelmann,
Portland, reporting on the foreign
missions of the Lutheran Missouri
Synod, commended the faithfulness
of the many foreign missionaries.
we thank God for the fidelity
of our missionaries, he said. In
lands of war and bloodshed none
of them have yet resigned. Some
of them have sent their families
to this country. but they them
selves have remained with their
people. In China many of our
have been driven
away from their stations, but con-
tinue to remain in contact with
their people. to give them aid
spiritually and TO alleviate their
suffering as much as possible"
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Dill to Speak
On Wednesday
Candidate Will
Appear At Reilly

Former L. S. Senator Clarence
c. Dill, who put an end to guessing
about his political intentions with
his announcement to Spokane
Democrats Saturday afternoon, will
open his campaign for the party's
nomination for governor at a Ia
coma meeting Wednesday evening
at Ray C. Roberts hall, Sixth ave.
at Anderson st.
The senator will speak at S
o'clock on his program for the
state administration he would head.
Wednesdays public meeting will
be the first in Tacoma for Dill
since he was principal speaker at
the Pierce County jefferson Day
banquet. Sponsor Of it is an or
ganization of Dill f ernor
supporters. Former or w.
A. Richmond, Tacoma attorney,
will preside.
In his recent announcement
of his program as governor,
Senator Dill said: I'm going
10 clean out of the statehouse
all unnecessary, inefficient,
dietatorial and high-salaried
commissioners and officials
Other proposals are decentraliza-
ton of state government to give
county officials greater govern
mental control and a program of
promotion of public control Of cleo
trio power.
Senator Dill retired from office
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Jailed and held for investigation,
two young soldiers were in police
custody Tuesday while authorities
probed reports they permitted two
juvenile girls to become intoxi-
Gated while on a date" Donald
A. Robinson, 81, and L. z. Mccoy.
10, both of Co. A, Srd quarter
masters battalion, Fort Lewis,
were taken into custody late Mon
day night and held for Mrs. Myrtle
Van Bevers. head of the police
women's protective division.
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Odd Signs Are Used
HUNTINGTON. Ind.-First

HONTiNGTON. Ind.-First wit
ness in the divorce suit of Or. Mel
win w. Tinkhsm against his wife
Nina answered questions OF the
court by either a yes" or no."
transmitted by lifting his left knee
or by wiggling his left foot. The
witness was Or. Tinkham. who had
suffered a stroke.
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nual convention OF the Washing
ton Bankers association.
Delegates will register AT the
Hotel Winthrop. where the conven-
ton will be opened at $50 a. m. by
J. II. Miner, vice president of the
First National bank of Seattle
and president of the association.
The Rev. Cyrus +. Albertson OF
the First Methodist church will
give the invocation, following
which Mayor Harry P. Cain will
make the address of welcome. F.
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Concluding week-long conven-
ton here Tuesday afternoon, more
than 200 Zion Lutheran pastors
and laymen were en- route to their
homes throughout Washington and
Oregon.
The convention was the 18th
annual meeting Of the Oregon and
Washington district Of the Missouri
Synod. Final business was naming
delegates to attend the general
convention of the Synod next June
at Fort Wayne, Ind.
Monday afternoon the entire
congregation paused for a united
prayer that peace might soon be
restored among the nations at
war. The president Of the district,
the Rev. F. NJ. l.. Nitz. voiced
the prayer, in which supplicstion
was made to God that He would
in mercy remove the causes Of
war, and alleviate the great
amount of human suffering caused
by 1t.
Pastoral Service
Monday night a pastoral serv-
ice was conducted for the men,
bers of the convention. The Rev.
F. Dobberfuhl of Mount Angel,
Ore. delivered the communion ad-
dress, and the Rev. M. c. Kauth
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Pastoral Service

to take up private law practice in
1888. He had been in the senate
since 1922 and served at Washing
ton in the house of representatives
from 1915 until 1919, through the
period of the last great war.
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Bankers Of this state and OF
numerous states in the east and
south will meet in Tacoma Thurs
day and Friday for the 45th an
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-12

Rhododendron court, Order of
Amaranth. are invited to attend
the strawberry festival and pro-
gram which viii follow the business
session of the court Tuesday night
at Masonic hall. Special guest will
be Mrs. Nadine Ridgeway of Ia
coma. grand royal matron of the
grand court.
Mrs. Sam Clements. royal ma
iron. announces that the program
win include numbers by an ac-
Gordon trio from Sumner. Negro
poems by Richard Sloat and an
original skit arranged by a COM
mittee headed by Mrs. Robert
Heston.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Forslund
Of Pullman are guests of their
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Fors-
lund, 4th ave-, N. W., and Mr..
and Mrs. ]. w. l.. Kaufman, 9th
St, S. w. From here they will go
to Harrington for the summer.
Leave for East
Wednesday a party composed of
Mrs. Stewart Perry. Mrs. Sam
Clements, Mrs. Steven Boyce and
Mrs. A. Morgan will leave by rail
for Detroit where Mrs. Clements
will purchase a new car. The
group then will drive home. AT
Salt Lake they will pick up Miss
Margaret Annis. sister of Mrs.
Clements, and continue the trip
to Bryce and Grand canyon, the
painted dessert. San Diego. Tia
Juana. Long Beach and San Fran
cisco.
Recently Mrs. Clements and
Mrs. Perry were given a going
away surprise party at the home
Of Mrs. Clements by a group of
fellow members OF Rhododendron
court. o. of A. Present were
Mesdames John Reynolds, Marie
Dulce Crabs. Mabel Bel
chart, Hermanie Jochimsen. Alta
Locklin, Mae Sloat, Grace Owens, |
Margaret Wrigley. Cynthia Steven
son, Margaret Mitchell, Eva Amey
md Misses Grace and Isabel Tun-
nard, all of Puyallup, and Mrs.
Hazel Orhner and Mrs. Bessie
Smith of Orting.
The Mothers auxiliary of Boy
Scout troop No. 96. sponsored by
he American Legion, will meet
Thursday evening at 7:30 at the
nome Of Mrs. Lloyd Burdue, 207
It'll St, N. +.
Past Pocahontas club will serve
public dinner at Red Mems hall
Wednesday from IL until l o'clock
With cards to be played in the
Afternoon. Committee in charge
g composed of Mrs. F. w. Carey,
Mrs. Ray Goodncr and Mrs. VIII
lam Wischemann.
Driver Fined
Charles Pearson of Steilacoom,
involved in a traffic accident at
md ave. and Meridian st. Sunday
vening was taken before Judge
.
Robert Campbell Monday and
ound guilty of reckless driving.
lie was fined S35 and had his
rivers license revoked for a year.
lie crashed into car driven by
larry Anderson of Seattle when
he latter stopped for a traffic
icnal.
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First Rains

Continued from Page One)
greening up in Sanders and Glacier
counties.
Irrigated corn, sugarbeets, potatoes
and other late crops are in fine condi-
ton but dryland corn because of
drouth damage will only make fodder.
Late spring wheat yields in the north
east have been about average; little
damage resulted from rust Alfalfa
seed prospects have improved with
better setting conditions.
Ranges are very dry and good rains
are needed to relieve the serious fire
hazard, to tougher the brittle grass,
TO freshen pastures for fall feeding,
and to replenish stock water supplies
Although grass cured earlier than u.s.
ual this season, there is mostly ade
luate supply for fall feed as well as
abundant hay supplies for wintering.'
Livestock are in mostly good to ex-
cellent condition and beginning to
move down from the higher eleva-
lions. Sales activity has increased in
all lines. Marketing of dry cows,
steers, and lambs is getting underway
in most districts-some, however, be-
cause of local water shortages. In
Custer and Powder River counties cat
tie are reported showing best weights
in years.
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Freedom for
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CONTINUED from rage OueJ
consumer who actually employs and
actually pays the wage, relish their
power over man temporarily subject
to them.
The employer seeks to keep thai
power because he desires to use it
whenever he deems it necessary So
despite the official machinery of So
ciety, the struggle of labor must go
on. Government has only ordered d
truce-and it is a well-armed truce
The kind and powerful Louis D.
Brandeis used to remind his young
friends that responsibility is the
great developer" Labor has recog-
nized responsibilities and every day
is seeking new responsibilities. But
how, in this world of force, can labor
exercise it's great responsibility to as
sist in making all men free? How
can labor lift the smudge of the black
outs and substitute the light which
will free labor to assume all of its re-
sponsibilities? The only answer is
that labor must become the owners
of industry.
All the signposts point to the con-
sumner co-operatives. Down that road
alone labor must travel if it will be
free to exercise all of its RESPONSE
bility and enjoy it's opportunities The
consumer cooperative movement is
pathway toward that innocence of
which Paine wrote, that innocence we
have lost and which finds its clothing
of shame in the cost of government
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NEW COOP CENTER

KWANTUNG, CHINA new CEN
ter of Chinese Industrial Co-operatives
has been established in the North
eastern section of Kwantung. 1t is
made up of II small produce coop
eratives manufacturing such articles
as glassware, tinware, oil lamps, and
soap containers These units are the
latest additions to large string of
such co-operatives, estimated at from
1900 to 1,7O0, set up all over China
to provide the war-torn land with es-
sential commodities and with means
of employment for the thousands of
refugee peasants and laborers.
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Newspapers


Continued from Page One)
denim the Peace Mobilization Confer
ence." (The World-Telegram did not
name any group that had condemned
the conference.)
The committee wanted to know why
the newspaper had omitted the names
of such sponsors as Robert Morss
Lovett, Oscar Ameringer. Pres. ]. Car
roll Morris of the Christian Youth
Council, Harriet Pickens of the Y. w.
G. A., the Rev. John H. Lathrop of
Brooklyns First Unitarian Church,
Prof. Roland H. Bainton of the Yale
Divinity School, editor of The Journal
lie, editor of The Protestant Digest;
Irving E. King, master of the Wash
ington State Grange, and hundreds
of Others"
The World-Telegram's answer to
this question was a refusal to publish
any part of the committees state
ment.
Basis for the Times 2-column story
on split in the CLIO over the peace
issue was a joint statement issued by
Local 1888 of the United Retail &
Wholesale Employees (CIO), condemn
ing Pres. Joseph Curran of the Great
er New York Industrial Union Coun-
Gil for his support of the peace rally.
The statement did not point out,
and neither did the Times and other
newspapers, that the "28 CLIO unions"
whose officers issued the joint state
ment are all affiliates of one inter-
national, the URWE. Since all but
two of these locals have not Joined
the CLIO council, it was hard to see
how they could be split from it.
'Tf these unions" said Curran,
were as quick to protest against con-
scription as they are to protest
against the peace mobilization, they
would be working in the interests of
organized labor"
The statement from Local 338 said
that Curran was dragging the CLIO
into peace front organized by the
communists, nazis and other fifth col
umnists." Asked for proof of this,
Editor Ephraim Schwartzman of 33S
News said that story in the news
paper PM on August II had referred
to nazi support of unnamed peace
groups. A member of PMS editorial
staff tried to find the story mentioned
by Schwartzman but was unsuccess-
full.
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Thomas Asks
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Continued from Page One)
8. What is your program toward
Latin America?
A. What do you, an avowed cham
pion of civil liberty, think of the SUI
preme courts's decision in the case of
the Witnesses of Jehovah? What do
you think of the Smith Alien and
Sedition Law?
5. Where concretely does your eco
nomic program differ from the New
Deal? Specifically, where do you
stand on wages-and-hour legislation
and the Wagner Labor Act?
g. In the field of public utilities:
a. Do you still think the IVA
should be turned over to private in
dustry?
b. Do you believe in encouraging
municipal and cooperative electric
plants or distributing systems in
town and country?
c. What justification is there for
the power of a holding company,
controlled by a few financiers and
high-salaried men, to determine pol
icy and rates, even though it may
be in default on preferred dividends,
and has never paid on common
stock? What legitimate interest is
thus served that would not be far
better served by public ownership?
7. think the issue of the hour is
the cooperative commonwealth VS..
IN, hnt
hand plenty, peace and freedom. You
believe in winning prosperity through
some qualified return to laissez faire.
1t hasn't been done in Europe. How
can it be done here?
OF course, | should welcome your
suggestions by way of improving and
clarifying this statement of issues.
Sincerely yours,
NORMAN THOMAS.
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Capitol Corridor
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governor isn't probably at the state
house very many days in the month
now with all this outside business he
has getting elected again. I'll be kind
of easier in my mind if he takes the
whole patrol shebang out again put
ting up signs for him and rustling
votes.
| hear that in week or so there'll
be more soldiers around because the
army in Montana is going to be gath
cred up and put through the sprouts
for a whole year. They've Just been
away for three weeks and a guy was
showing me a picture today of how
the outfit was training in how to fight
with tanks and they were using a
truck with big sign on it which said
Tank" | told the bird that was
showing me that they'd better make
sure that the guys they were fighting
could read English, otherwise the
dumhbells might just think it was
truck out celebrating or something
and they might not understand how
dangerous it was. Well the fellow
told me that they were going to have
regular tanks when they got to fight
ing. 1t told him that | could think
of lot better things to use a tank
for than to fight with it. If had
tank full of Dutch spunk l wouldn't
even need gun. I'd just roll it along
and take them along with me. Chances
are they'd rather help me lower the
level in my tank than fight anyhow.
| never could see much sense in shoot
ing at guys you don't know and aren't
sore at anyhow. But that's what a
uniform does to you, | guess. If they
get enough of them around, chances
are thereIl be plenty fights to accom-
MEDIATE them all. But I've got to look
into this tank business more. If |
was sure l could get hold of one of
them | might join up at that.
Well, it'll soon be time for thos-
guys at the state house to get their
dogs down off the desks and go out
on another vacation for the governor.
know one fellow that isn't too keen
about it, He is kind of a scrawny,
hungry built guy and likes to hug the
radiators when it gets down around
freezing and he was kind of low think
ing that he'd have to start out maybe
when it got cold and tack up signs
and rustic come-ons to vote for his
nibs. He said he had a notion to get
another heater put in his car so he
could keep warm.
I'd get a tank. JAKE