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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-14
Street
Goings. Comings and Doings
OF Tacomans as the Re
porter Found Them.

Archie Morrison proudly display
ing raspberries growing in his yard
Sgt. Glenn Newman scouting for
excitement - Lawrence Aus dedi-
eating new American Lake flag
pole - Roger Scudder returning
from New York-Jack Barry dis
playing wooden socks-Hy Mandles
and Harry n. Todd talking over
Pacific ave. improvements - Jac,
Bjorklund leaving on a trip-Harry
Rowen settling election bets-Ed
Eisenhower breezing along the
street - Harold Conger doing a
rushing business in the sale OF anti
freeze-the Rev. Carl A. Anderson
making out church announce
ment-Mrs. John Bullion, Mrs. My
ron Willard and Mrs. James Fry
preparing to take part in "a play
Sam Montgomery and Austin Hen
son paying off election bets after a
weeks "hedging"-Carl Miller tell
ing about his sons tonsil operation
Ray Nroman liking the idea OF
having Saturdays off-Jimmy Gal
lucci driving up 18th st. - Chris
keffler blowing on his hands to
warm them--GeorGe Clark adding
up a bill--Lamar Tennent prepar-
ing to tackle a milkshake - Al
Scott deriving scant satisfaction
from the thought spring always
follows winter-Art Boyd and NAL
colin Panther returning from a
week : end hunting trip empty
handed-Bert Meier drinking cup
Of coffee.
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We FURNISHED
THE
',go,grsase'-
they THE cuff

FLYERS have an expression.
/ They call il "so-sfease."
It's that unseen something
which gives = plane what il
sakss TO git up and git" For
commercial aviation and many
smother industry Of vast impor-
lance 10 the West. the go
grease" has been furnished by
Standard.
Evening star., 1940-05-20
Special Peace Mass Held
Al Catholic j. Shrine

Citing the death that scientific
knowledge Is causing in other parts
OF the world, the Rev. DR.. Edwin
Ryan, secretary OF the Institute o1
Ibero-American Studies at Catholic
University, yesterday told diplomats
Government officials and scientists
1T is hideously abnormal that mer
should use their superior grasp o1
scientific truth to make their fellow
men miserable"
He spoke at a special peace mass
In the Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception on the university cam
pus. Delegates to the American
Scientific Congress Of the Pan
American Union, now in session
were among the invited guests.
DR.. Ryan urged taking a coura-
geous stand against "those perverted
creatures who would misuse the
truth to make us slaves"
Four members of the university
staff recited a prayer for peace In
four languages common to this
hemisphere. They were DR.. An
thony De Vito, DR.. Manoel S. Car
dozo, DR.. Rafael Pico and DR.
Arthur j. Hartman. The sermon
by DR.. Ryan was in Spanish.
Heading the list of Government
officials present was Undersecretary
of State Sumner Welles. Bishop
Joseph M. Corrigan, rector of the
university, pontiflcated the mass.
Evening star., 1940-05-20

the end. be 1t bitter or be it
glorious: nay. If We fight to the
end 1t can only be glorious.
Having received his majesty's
commission I have formed an
administration Of men and wom-
en- Of every party and of almost
every point Of view. We have
differed and quarreled in the
past, but now one bond unites
us all, to wage war until victory is
won and never to surrender our
selves to servitude and shame,
whatever the cost and agony
may be. And If this is one Of
the most awe-striking periods in
the long history of France and
Britain 1t is also beyond doubt
the most sublime. Side by side.
unaided except by their bonds in
the great dominions and by the
wide empires which rest beneath
their shield, side by side the
British and French peoples have
advanced to rescue not only Eu-
rope, but mankind from the foul
est and most soul-destroying
tyranny which has ever dark
ened and stained the pages of
history.
Behind them, behind U.s. be-
hind the armies and fleets of
Britain and France, gather a
group OF shattered states and
bludgeoned great races - the
Czechs, the Poles, the Norwe-
gians, the Danes, the Dutch. the
Belgians-upon all of whom the
long night of barbarism will de-
scend unbroken even by a star of
hope unless we conquer, as con-
quer we must, as conquer we
shall.
Today is Trinity Sunday. Gen.
turles ago words were written to
be a call and spur to the faith.
ful servants of truth and jus-
uce. Arm yourselves and be
ye men Of valor and be in readi-
ness for the conflict, for it is
better for us to perish in battle
than to look upon the outrage
OF our nation and our altars. as
the will of God in His Heaven.
Even so let Him do"
Evening star., 1940-05-20
Text Of Churchill Speech
Prime Minister Expresses Confidence
Front Will Be Stabilized in France

At the same time, our heavy
bombers are striking nightly at
the tap root of German mecha-
nized power, and already inflicted
horrible damage upon the oil re-
fineries upon which the Na1
efforts to dominate the world di-
rectly depend.
We must expect that soon as
stability is reached on the west
ern front, the bulk of that hide
Gus apparatus of aggression
which dashed Holland into ruin
and slavery will be turned upon
us. I am sure I speak for all
when I say: We are ready to face
1t, to endure it, and to retalitate
against it to any extent that the
unwritten law of the war permits.
Declares Imperious Need
For Vital Munitions.
There will be many men and
many women in this island who,
when the ordeal comes upon
them, as come it will, will feel
comfort and even a pride that
they are sharing the perils of
our lads at the soldiers,
sailors and airmen, God bless
them-and are drawing away
from them a part, at least, of
the onslaught they have to bear.
Is not this appointed task for all
to make the utmost exertions in
their power?
If the battle is to be won we
must provide our men with ever
increasing quantities of the
weapons and ammunition they
need. We must have and have
quickly more airplanes, more
tanks, more shells, more guns.
There Is imperious need for these
vital munitions. They increase
our strength against the power
fully armed enemy. They replace
the wastage of the obstinate
struggle and the knowledge that
wastage will speedily be replaced
enables us to draw more readily
upon our reserves and throw
them in now that everything
counts so much.
Our task is not only to win the
battle but to win the war. After
this battle in France abates its
force, there will come the battle
for our island, for all that Britain
IS. and all that Britain means.
That will be the struggle. In
that supreme emergency we shall
not hesitate to take every step,
even the most drastic to call
forth from our people the last
ounce and the last inch OF effort
OF which they are capable. The
interests of property. the hours
OF labor are nothing compared to
the struggle for life and honor,
for right and freedom to which
We have bound ourselves.
Assured by Reynaud
France Will Fight to End.
I received from the chief OF
the French republic and in par
ticular from its indomitable
Prime Minister, M. Reynaud, the
most sacred pledges that what
ever happens they will fight to
Evening star., 1940-05-20
American Wur Mothers

The Washington Hebrew Congre-
cation has issued invitations for q
service and . nlassing Of the colors
at 816 Eighth street NV. on May
"A at 8 pm.
The Ladies Auxiliary, Jewish
War Veterans OF the United States
invited the chapters to attend the
seventh annual Mothers Day cele-
bration Tuesday at 8:15 at the Jew
ish Community Center, Sixteenth
and @ streets NV.
Washington Post, Jewish War
Veterans, requests the American
War Mothers to attend memorial
services May 26 at 2 pm. at the
Adas Israel Congregation Cemetery.
This service Is in conjunction with
G. A. r. Memorial Corp. and Co.'S
'tello Post, American Legion.
Arrangements are completed for
the luncheon and card party for
the benefit Of the District of CO.
lumbia Chapter sponsored by Mrs.
Marian Barrows at her home at
1888 Albemarle street NV. on May
2S at 1890 pm.
Evening star., 1940-05-20

Jamaica is importing thousands
OF tons Of asphalt from Trinidad to
resurface Its roads.
Evening star., 1940-05-20
Must Poy for Slender

The Amalgamated Engineering
Union of South Africa must pay
Archibald Hodgson $500 for slander.
Evening star., 1940-10-13

stone quarried by hand in the 1820's.
Once the water was down to the low
er level, Mr. Connor opened the lower
gates and the canoes swung out into
the canal again.
Our fun was over, however, be-
cause below Great Falls there are
five locks in quick succession. All
have to be portrayed and two steep
stone walls have been built along
the towpath so that it would be vir-
tually impossible for less than three
persons to lower a canoe to the
water again without damaging its
thin hide. BY the time we had ne
gotiated the fifth lock we had
enough. One or two locks to portage
with a couple of miles of padding
in between wouldn't be so bad, but
five in quick succession, some close
together, are plain drudgery.
Pass 1889 Flood Point.
Below lock Is, however, is another
level stretch of canal about miles
long. In the middle of this stretch
the canal occupies an old flood chan
mel of the river. in places 80 feet
deep, called Whitewater. It's rocky
shores and small islands make the
scenery unlike anything near Wash
ington. being more like that Of New
England.
1t was here that floods, including
that of 1889 which forced the canal
company into the hands Of receivers,
did their worst damage. About
s1OO 900 had to be spent in one con-
tract alone to repair this section
of the waterway. The canal is 80
feet above the river and the river
is wont to seek its old channel with
disastrous effects. The park Office
had arranged things now so that
by blasting portion OF earth fill
at one point the rest of the canal
can be saved.
At the end of Whitewater we
camped for the night, pitching our
tent on the towpath. We had
brought our drinking water down
the canal with us and others are
advised to do likewise until the
park Office is able to provide good
water at strategic points.
Cooking the evening meal was
perhaps the high point of the trip.
Grouped around the fire we broiled
steak, fried tomatoes, made soup
and coffee and, after eating more
than any one should, lay about the
fire until bedtime.
The Rains Came.
Then came the showers. Happily,
Abbie had brought a good tent with
a groundcloth capable of sleeping
five abreast. Even so the water,
Evening star., 1940-10-13

plus various insects, managed to
find us. The hard-packed towpath
was soon turned to mud.
No one was anxious to sleep late,
but we managed to build q fire
and breakfast off bacon, eggs, flap
jacks and coffee before the rain
got too hard.
We started down the canal again
and ran into more locks. There
were seven of them in quick sue
cession, Nos. IA, 13, II, II, 10, 8 and
8. About halfway through this or
deal of canoe carrying, a cloudburst
hit us, drenching everything and
adding considerable weight to the
contents of the canoes. From time
to time, however, we had a chance
to ease up and notice that we were
passing some beautiful scenery, the
new naval testing basin at Carde-
rock, the neat camps of the two
colored C. C. C. outfits which have
been working on the canal, Cabin
John, Glen Echo and numerous sum-
mer cabins where Washingtonians
enjoy the canal and river.
Miss Historic Section.
When we got to Lock the spirit
of adventure was gone. We decided
to quit.
Drenched and weary We hauled
the canoes out on the bank and
called for help in the form of Star
car and a Park truck. We had
planned to 60 through to Key Bridge
in Georgetown past Lock S. where
we had figured on getting Mrs. Julie
King, only lock tender still employed
on the canal, to let us through the
lock. and down the Smile home
stretch-the second section of the
canal to be completed, more than a
century ago.
Therefore we missed seeing that
portion of George Washington's Po-
tomac Canal which is still used to
feed the c. & o. Canal at Lock S,
the site where President John
Quincy Adams broke ground for the
canal on July 4. 1928, the same day
that John Carroll of Carrollton laid
the cornerstone for the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad in Baltimore; the
outlet incline below Lock S which
was to slide boats into the river but
was never used after several men
were killed on its first trial, and
other points of interest. But
We'd had enough!
Evening star., 1940-10-13
Paddle Your Own Canoe
(Just Try H!) in Famed Canal
Five Woshingtonions Find Trip Is Fun,
But the Portoging Is Weorisome

ton of the canal this year, there are
no lock tenders. Therefore, a portage
was necessary.
Orthodox portaging took too much
time so we picked up each canoe
and its cargo and walked it to the
nearest point below the lock where
it could be launched
This constant business of carry
ing the canoes around locks just
about spoiled the trip.
The sight of Pennifeld's Lock re-
called the legend of the drunken
lock tender, who in 1876 let the
water out of the lock before canal
boat was entirely. through the upper
lock gates, thereby cracking the
boat on the sill of the lock, de-
posting 1l2 tons of coal at the
bottom of the canal and involving
the canal company in lengthy legal
proceedings.
Old LOckhouse Just Shell.
The old lockhouSe is now little
more than hollow shell. The canal
reconstruction program. however,
calls for the rebuilding of the lock-
houses for public use The houses
in this section of the canal were
built in 1828-30.
Safely around Pennihclds Lock we
padded comfortably to SWANS
Lock, No. 81, near which the pres
ent generation of the Swain family
lives.
Another portage was made and
just below the lock and around a
bend We stopped to lunch off tea
and cheese and bacon sandwiches
grilled over a campfire.
Just as we were launching the
canoes Park Policeman Walter
Sconyers came up The towpath
for a large part of the distance is
now wide enough to accommodate a
scout car and Policeman Sconyers
obligingly paced us along the way
and told us we were doing mp.h.-
pretty good. We thought.
Passing through more beautiful
scenery, we next approached Great
Falls. The roar of the falls could
be heard a mile away.
In canal days the company main
tanned village here. 1t was called
Crommelin in honor of the Dutch
bankers who so helped finance the
canal Crommelin now consists of
a group of houses where live War
Department employees who look after
the intake of the conduit which
supplies Washington with water,
and well-known Great Falls Tavern
slated for reconstruction in the
canal rehabilitation program. A
new parking lot and canoes for rent
are recent installations at Crom-
melin.
Meet Old Canalman.
Luckily at Lock 20, near the
tavern, we found Lewis Connor, Co.
year-old canalman, who was born
on a canal boat and who has spent
most of his years either operating
boat or a lock somewhere along
the canal. He now is employed by
the tavern.
Canals a lot different now from
what it was when the company oper-
ated it. Locks are in better shape,
channel is dredged out better and
the towpath's lot wider" said Mr..
Connor as he opened the butterfly
paddles in the upper lock gate to let
water roar into the lock.
When the lock was filled to the
upper level Mr. Connell put his back,
still wiry from years of hard work
to the lock beam. However, it took
some assistance to open the gate
Into the lock went the canoes, the
upper gates were closed and the
paddles in the lower gates opened
to bring the lock down to the lower
canal level. 1t was new sensation
to sink from sight between walls the
Evening star., 1940-10-13

18th Century EnsIish-senuine Honduras
mshose"y;, conveniently e're"sed shelves.
eebinet space in base. OCTOBER
SPECIAL PRICE
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IIpf Nil run. burn no~. pwy slab.
l. core blocks. Coal
HILISDALE FuEL. CA 0SsS-E
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TIE SLAB. 2 o1s. %. dry. asa CT +;
81 So . EDS. %. for. wood IA ios7
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SPECIAL 2 run rass q g., boo. s a.,
o.. o.. - worth. AAln s7ss
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QC IL I cord dry upland block
QO.IO and slab. o. O forest
wood, % 90 per cord
JOHNSON FUEL. GARLAND ITS
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$l250-HOME-$i,25o
NEAR s6th and Alder streets. 3
room home; full plumbing. 2
lots. Price si.25o; terms. $500
cash, $40 monthly. it's q real
bargain. Eve. phone Mr.. Davis.
Main <62e.
R. {. Meheffey & Sons
7is Fidelity Bldg. MA siss
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LISTEN. HOME BUYERS
WHY not buy your new hcme N
heciosksy addition the fast
est growing section In Tseems.
where you are surrounded ~
distinctive new hom~ss We have
sold . in the past few months.
iiks the following. There must
~ q reason.
THIS s-rcem home has large 1is-
ing room. dinstis. lovely mod
srn kitchen. iarEe bedroom
down and space fer ~, larre
utility room. Insulated. rlss-
tered walls. oil heat. fun alley
corner and saraEe Price.
es.sso; terms.
c. w. COppOCk
sTo7 Pacific Ave. GA lsss
Evenings. Ma es7s
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suffelen 2-In g 2. 50 s'' ns as $50 $50
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Close TO 10th and Park Ave.
FIVE rooms, basement, furnace.
fireplace. two lots; only $3.50:
1906 down. balance easy month
ly payments. Call ewes, GA
063%; daily. Ma 0I04: agent.
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$IOO DOWN

s-Rooh bungalow; uvtns room. cab
met kltehsn, I b~droom. bath rm.
but 40 tub down. bedrooms 0r
amount Of painting ana papeFinH
u worth $500 mos< Real price
Nioo. els mo Ewes Fn 1sss.
days. Ma S1o1.
500 Down
s-nooN bungalow. paved street. !
ssdrcom<. a-piecs bath. kitrh<n.
basement EarAss. 81 $50; go no.
I've Pr eco: day. Ma s7os.
R. w. Spesrs. P. S. BIZ. 6ldo.
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Mason School District
MODERN home with large living
room. two bedrooms. hath.
kitchen, nook. part basement.
Full price Si,eso on easy terms
56ih and M SIS.
DISTRICT. nice modern <-room
house. part basement, , nice
lots. . very good buy at $3.50.
on easy terms. Colson's Ex-
change. so2 p. q. Bank Bldg.
Main le06.
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-rrY ACRE ron flEzs THAN rARn
PRICE Owner needing money
badly Gays "aeii vest end cleared
tracts with small homo. sheds for
wood. storage and $50 chickens, tor
only $500: must have eAoo cash .
Propsrty has fruit uees ana nsos
southeast slops for garden and bar
ries. buy this place now ana I'm
Independence. PRED HorsTTrTHR
AucrfoFKKR and Reaitor, D7a
Taccma ave
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Smth Ave. District
MODERN brick s-room home.
combination living and dining
room. fireplace: basement. fur
mace. oil burner. hardwood
fioors: enclosed hack porch nice
lots: paved street Here 10 = real
buy for only $4,000: easy terms
to right party.
MODERN s-room bungalow. north
a. 9Th ave. completely redeeo-
rated: fun basement and fur
mace; wired for electric range.
large attic: : nice lots: paved
street and alley. Here 10 . real
bargain at s7.sso. Terms $500
down. s2s per month.
+. NJ. Raver
1905 9Th Ave. MA Asst
Sun. or Eve. PR siis or Ma sTeT
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Marine Xiew

Marine View
A NEW s-room all modern bunsa-
low, fireplace. hardwood floors,
basement. furnace. oii-o- Matte
heat; running spring; large tract
Terms, Eve. PR i7es.
berline-MeIendy Co.
sii wash. Bldg. BR zs4l
Evening star., 1940-06-09
District Youth 10 Tell
OF Search for Jobs

Experiences of youths In Wash
ington in their efforts to find en-
ployment will be outlined to a
panel Of leaders at a meeting to be
held tomorrow at 8 pm. at the Y.
w. C. A., Seventeenth and K streets
NV. The panel will include Ar
thur Miller, director of the Ma
tional Youth Administration for the
District; Miss Marie Curley of the
District Employment Center; E. A.
Drumm of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association; Miss Dorothy
Height and Miss Phyllis Wheat
ley of the Young Women's Chris
tian Association and Hugo Wolter
of the Council Of Social Agencies
Of1icers of the Youth Council
will be elected. Nominees are How
ard Ennes and Charles Odell for
chairman; Thelma Dale, vice chair
man; Margaret Ostrove, secretary,
and Frances Beacock, treasurer.
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is sched-
uled to be toastmistress at Youth
Council dinner at the Y. w. c. A. at
8 pm. Friday. Speakers will in
clude Senator Murray of Montana
and John P. Davis of Washing
ton, executive secretary of the Ma
tional Negro Congress.
A youth legislature will be con-
Quoted at the Y. w. C. A. Satur-
day to consider a wide range of
youth problems, outline a course of
action to support the American
Youth Act and to discuss jobs. peace,
civil liberties and education. Ses-
sions will be held from to and
from 7 to 10 pm.
Evening star., 1940-06-09
Sneak Thief Gets $21.45
Al FiIIinq Station

A sneak thief last night took
s2l As from the cash register of q
filling station on the northeast cor
ner at Twelfth and E streets NV
while two employees we're busy serv-
ing customers.
The man, police were told
emptied the cash register while the
employees were outside the office
The loss was discovered soon after
he left.
Rudolph Jackson, colored, OF
Woodbridge, Va, an employe of q
Washington chain grocery store
told police last night two colored
men snatched his pay envelope con-
tanning $40 as he was standing al
Fourteenth and S streets NV.
A thief who followed Miss Mar.
jorie Cline of 1926 Whittier street
NV. robbed her of her pocketbook
last night after she alighted from 8
bus in the $500 block of Massa.
chusetts avenue NV. Miss Cline
said the colored man was on the
same bus and followed when she
got off. The purse contained $1(
and personal effects valued at $6
Mrs. Eunice O'Harra of isis
Thirteenth street NV. reported tc
police last night that a thief forced
entry to her car parked in Anacostia
Park and made off with sll and
rings valued at $l00.
Evening star., 1940-06-09
7ydings Forum Speaker
National Preparedness to Be Discussed
By Maryland Senator Tomorrow Niqht

National preparedness for both
the present and the future will be
discussed by Senator Tydings, DEM
ocrat, of Maryland in the National
Radio Forum tomorrow night.
The Forum is arranged by The
Star and Is broadcast over a coast
to-coast network of the National
Broadcasting Co. It may be heard
locally through Station WMAL at
10:30 o'clock.
Senator Tydings, member of the
Senate Appropriations and Naval
Affairs Committees, has been sup
porter of an increased national de-
tense, and has expressed confidence
that a great deal could be done
quickly toward speeding up produc-
ton Of necessary arms and mate
rials.
The Senator has been keenly in
terested in ways and means Of pay
ing for the Nations defense pro-
gram, and has frequently stressed
the importance of . strong "nnan-
cial front"
In q recent speech, Senator Tyd-
ings said that as soon as the funds
and methods are assured to put
the Army, Navy and air force in
condition for adequate defense, then
at the earliest moment Congress
should write q tax bill embodying
the "pay-as-you-go" policy as near
ly as 1t can be done, and thus put
the country's financial defenses in
an equally strong condition.
Finances, the Senator holds, are
important even II the United States
Evening star., 1940-06-09
Four Beaten in Fight
Over 'Pocifist' Pamphlets
By the AsSociated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GLENWOOD, Ark, June 8.-Four
men were beaten late today in a
street fight here by group of Glen
wood residents who, Sheriff w. e
Branch said, objected to the con-
tents of pamphlets the men and a
woman companion attempted to dis
tribute among the Saturday shop
ping crowds.
The sheriff said the Glenwood
residents interpreted the pamphlets
to be "un-American literature" and
attacked the distributors when they
refused to leave town.
The men and the woman, the
sheriff added, identified themselves
as members of religious sect. He
said the pamphlets were of a
pacif1st nature.