davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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sections at the end Of March In
various years totaled 9062 in 1885
10,457 in 1886, 12,l15 in 1887, 13,9Ol
in 1888, 1884 in 1899 and 1908 in
1910.
Utility Sales Expand.
Sales of gas and electricity in the
Metropolitan Area for March and
the first quarter of 1910 set new
records for those periods.
Washington Gas Light reported
sales for the entire area in March
totaled 1892 1853 m.c.f, or thousand
cubic feet. down seasonally from
1,735 ,002 in the preceding month,
but far ahead of 1,225,314 in March.
1899. They were more than double
the same month in years prior to
1892.
The quarters sales reached 4,372,-
675 mc.f., against 3,968,087 in the
same 1889 period. They were more
than double levels of years prior to
1884.
The Virginia sections contributed
66,20l m.cf. sales to the Marcn
total, down seasonally from So, $50
in the previous month, but well
above 52,455 in March, 1899. Sales
In these sections were more than
double 1895 levels in both March
and the first quarter of this year.
Sales for the entire Metropolitan
Area and those for the Virginia Sec
tions Of the area in March and the
first three months of various years
follow:
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Mortgage Bankers Set
ConcIuve for October
Special Dispatch to The Star,

SPECIAL DlSpatch 70 Inc Star.
CHICAGO, April 13.-The 9th
annual convention of the Mortgage
Bankers Association of America will
be held this year in Chicago on
October 2, 8 and 4, Byron T. Shutz,
president, announced today.
This Is the fourth time the or
ganization has met in Chicago since
its founding here in 1918. Most re-
cent annual convention in Chicago
was the 1898 meeting.
The Chicago Mortgage Bankers
Association, largest M. B. A. local
chapter and headed this year by
Ferd Kramer, will handle conven-
ton arrangements.
More than 1900 representatives
Of life insurance and trust COM
panies, banks, real estate organiza-
ttons, mortgage houses and Govern.
meut agencies viii attend.
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Few Railroads Able
To Pay Dividends;
Taxes Increase
Ten Carriers Account
For 80 Per Cent of
1889 Payments

Ten railroads paid approximately
30 per cent of all dividends received
by the stockholders in this industry
IN 1899. according to figures lust
compiled by the Bureau of Railway
Economics of the Association OF
American Railroads, which show
that stockholders received a tota,
return Of s125,819 900 from the s2s,.
000, 900 900 plant.
This was about so per cent bette,
than 1888, when dividends amounted
to s82, 1872 ,566. but was IS per cen,
off from the figure of a decade ago
1929 dividends being nearly half.
billion dollars
An appreciable pickup in busines.
over the last quarter Of 1899 allowed
the class one carriers, which &C.
count for practically all Of tht
mileage of the country, to finish
the year with gross revenue of $3,.
995. 900 900, and net operating in.
come latter deduction of taxes, but
before fixed charges) Of $588 800 1892
a return of 225 per cent on property
investment. This compared with a
return of 1.43 per cent in 1898
The carriers as whole finished
In the red to the tune of s123 00O. .O0C
after fixed charges in 1898, but
last year showed $94 100000 on the
profit side. That meant-as usual
that some dividends came out OF
surplus instead of earnings.
Large Share for Labor.
Breaking down expenses by class
the carriers reported 4443 per cent
Of gross going for labor: materials
other than fuel, loss and damage
claims. insurance and similar items
17.8; fixed charges, 155. and taxes,
8.9 as the principal disbursements
Fixed charges required $6l7,403,-
600, or about 10 per cent less than
in 1929, but approximately $780,
900, 900 went unpaid last year. The
tax bill was up $4,000, 900 from
1898 to $355 ,766 900, and while that
represented a fraction less than
9 per cent Of gross revenues, as
compared to the 95 per cent taken
by Federal and State governments
In 1888, 1t was still far out of line
with the 1929 levy of 6.3 when the
carriers had gross revenue more
than two and quarter billion
dollars above the 1899 earnings.
Another aspect of the tax burden
that the railroads are carrying is
shown by the comparison of taxes
and dividends of those lines which
still are able to make some return
to the investors.
OF the 10 principal dividend
payers, five distributed more In
taxes last year than went to the
stockholders, and in the other five
the situation was reversed.
For example, the Pennsylvania
tax bill ran over $40. .000, 900, as COM
pared to $4,000 900 plus for divi-
dends, and the Sante Fe paid SIS
100000 in taxes and $1,000 900 divi-
dends. The Union Pacific, with its
lucrative transcontinental haul re-
turned approximately $4,000 900 to
the stockholders and $4,000, 900 to
the tax collectors, while the Chesa-
peake & Ohio and Norfolk and
Western, traversing the rich Poca-
hontas coal fields each paid divi-
dends Of more than 0,0O0, 900 and
taxes in excess of $4,000, 900.
Pay Huge Tax Bills.
The New York Central, paying no
dividends, required nearly $32, ,O00,-
600 for taxes, while the Southern,
another n-dividend-payer, re-
ported taxes Of approximately So
600 900. Erie and Seaboard, both
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Matching the larger company's
report, the Washington Virginia.
Maryland Coach Co., operating in
Virginia sections Of the Metropolitan
Area, also reported new passenger
records for March and the first
quarter of the year.
The Virginia company's passen-
gers in March totaled 4l8.l33.
against 377,343 in the preceding
month and 354,33l in March, 1899.
Here also was an increase over 4l2,-
128 passengers carried in busy De-
cember.
Passengers of the Virginia lines
for March and the first three months
of different years follow:
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New York Produce
NEW YORK. April 1a A,-Esss. 2s,17:

NEW YORK. April IL H1-ESgs, 2S,173:
Mixed colors: Fancy to extra fancy,
19N-2ON: extras. 1sh.l9: stoIase packed
rent receipts II: mediums. 16h; dirties
No. l. 16A-17: average checks, 1ba4-16A.
whites: Resales of premium marks, 22-
24h; nearby and Midwestern premium
marks 2O-21h;. specials 1917; standards.
mediums, l7h-29. Nearby and Midwest
ern mediums Ia g.cis an.c,cf. cSa't ,snDo
standards. 22-22N: mediums, 20-2Oh.
Browns: Nearby fancy to extra fancy,
19N-2IN. Nearby and Midwestern spe-
ciais, 1oh: standards. 1sh: mediums.
16h-17.
Butter, 4e2.293, steady. Cpamery;
.hsr sn n1.t. extra ssS sssIs7 7szE sszs5: .es ss2
@ onds ts4-s1), s5A-2eM.
Cheese. 1e1.028. irresular. Prices un-
Dressed poultry. generally nrm. Fresh
an4 iro,ss Rr;e';M = uassnanssd' sl.,9ss 40 .r,,...
nominal; no sales.
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Phones Increase Sharply.

HHUHcS 1HCIcdSc SndTpIy.
The latest metropolitan telephone
total above includes 258,548 in the
District of Columbia and 59,245 in
adjoining Virginia and Maryland
sections.
The outlying sections have more
than doubled their telephones since
1885 and the District itself has reg
iStered spectacular gains.
In 1918 there were 84,4O1 tele-
phones in the District. BY 1929
these had increased to 1924, and
by 1888 they had climbed to 178, 1908.
Telephones in the District of Co
lumbia and in the adjoining Sec
tions in recent years follow:
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Plan for Erie Trims
Fixed Charges and
Capital Sharply
Provides New Shares
For Common and
Preferred Holders
BY the Associated Press,


The Interstate Commerce Com
mission issued plan of reorganiza-
ton today for the Erie Railroad
Co. which sharply scales down its
capitalization and fixed charges.
The plan reduces the Erie's cap
italization from s490, ,953 $50 to $780, :
692 $50.
Fixed charges of the Erie and the
Chicago & Erie, subsidiary, which
amounted to $14,368,84 in 1898
would be reduced to $5,628,245.
Holders Of common and pre-
ferred stock would receive new no.
par common stock on the basis of
one share for each five shares now
held.
In addition they would receive
warrants emitting them to purchase
common stock-1H shares for each
share now held-for $37.17 a share.
The Erie has been in reorganiza-
ton in the United States District
Court for the northern district of
Ohio since January 18, 1898.
If the I. c. c. plan is approved by
the court 1t will be submitted to
eligible security holders for ap-
proval or rejection.
The Chesapeake g. Ohio owns
1.196.40 shares of the Eries out
standing 2.148.681 shares, or $3.50
per cent of Erie's stock
Under the reorganization plan the
holdings of the C. & o. would be re-
duced to approximately 10 per cent
unless the road put up new money.
If the c. & o. exercised all of it's
warrants at cost roughly esti-
mated at $40 0.000, 900 it could retain
voting control of the Erie.
OF the $332, ,692 .25O capitalizat ton
provided, $138, ,289 ,887 would be fixed
interest debt. The remaining cap
italization would be divided as fol-
lows: $52,987 1892, contingent inter-
est debt; $39, ,00l 1923, S per cert pre-
ferred stock; $102,413, SAB, common
stock, no par value (taken at $40 a
share).
The following obligations would
be paid IN cash: New York & Erie
second mortgage bonds. $2,135 900:
New York & Erie third mortgage
bonds, $4,616,000; Railroad Credit
Corp. notes, $686, 1928, and balance
due banks, 81 ,564, $40.
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Virginia growth, as reflected by
electric customers, also has contri-
buted Importantly to increases In
Metropolitan Area gas meters.
Two Washington Gas Light AZ
flliates, the Rosslyn and Alexandria
Gas Co.'S, had 19,093 active gas
meters at the end of March. These
compared with 1884 q year ago and
were much more than double the
total for the same 1894 date.
Active gas meters In the virginia
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U. 5. Per Capita Income
Is Estimated al $515
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
National per capita income aver
aged $515 in 1888, as compared with
$679 in 1929 and 1915 in 1888, the
Commerce Department reported
yesterday.
Figures for 1899 have not been
complied, but the department estt-
mated that the average would be
higher than for 1898.
State averages in 1893 ranged
from $205 per person In Mississippi
70 oS22 In New Ye9k.
Evening star., 1940-04-14

ident OF the Life
Insurance Club
of Washington,
succeeding Dan
Harrison of the
M a S S a chusetts
Mutual, it was
announced in the
financial district
y e S t e rday. He
has been an ac-
tive agent II
years.
P a ul Ham
mack, Pruden-
tial, was elected
Ice president
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Heaviest Traffic in History Registered
BY Transit Lines Here During March
Passengers in Month
Even Exceed Marks
For December
BY DONALD b. HADLEY.

Streetcars and buses carried more
persons here in March than in any
other month in history, reports
showed last night.
Revenue passengers of the Capital
Transit Co. in the month totaled
15,442. .342, more than a million ahead
of 14,162,O4l in the preceding month
and well ahead of 14,875,688 in
March, 1899.
The total even exceeded traffic in
December, when the Christmas rush
produced volume of 15,279,897.
Passengers in the first three
months of this year aggregated a.
552,1l5, new record for the period.
They compared with 1887 ,692 in
the same 1889 months.
Capital Transit Co. revenue pas
sengers in March and the first three
months of various wears.
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PEPCO X. H SALES
VIRGINIA PUBLIC SERVICE SALES
Call Average Higher.

The daily average of calls handled
on District of Columbia lines of the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone
Co. In March followed the same
trend.
The daily average Of 1,166, 6,232
originating calls in the month was
down from 1853 .653 in the preceding
month, but ahead of 1,057,540 in
March, 1899, and was the highest
for that month on record. tr
Daily call average for March in
various years follow: $4,000 in
1929, $50, 1893 in 1881, 617,953 in 1888,
766, 6,625 in 1885, 891,653 in 1887, l.
057,54 in 1899 and 1,166,232 in 1910.
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Celotex Corp. Reports
Deficit Of $194,865
BY the Associated Piss

CHICAGO, April 13.-Celotex
Corp. today reported a loss of 1884,
1856 in the quarter ending January
81, compared with loss of $12,136
the corresponding period a year ago.
Sales totaled $2,566 ,026, compared
with $2,172,628 the quarter ending
January 81 last year.
The company makes insulation
products and building materials.
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End of March
7 End OF February

End OF March
End OF February.
Figures for adjoining sections are
for the end of February, latest avail
able. AS month-to-month changes
at this point are very small. they are
included in the grand total for
March.
A breakdown of the nearby tele-
phones shows that gains are largest
IN the Virginia sections. Telephones
in Prince Georges County, Mont
gomery and the Arlington -Alexan-
dria district at the end of February
in various years follow:
Evening star., 1940-04-14

1ngtOn, member George b. Burrus.
of the washington Lions Club, trus-
tee of the Better Business Bureau,
Board of Trade and member of
the Congressional Country Club.
Active in various civic and char
liable enterprises, Mr.. Burrus last
year directed publicity for the Red
Cross Roll Call and the recent Birth
day Ball celebration. He is married
and has two daughters.
Sinclair Insurance Club Head.
Charles B. Sinclair, with the
Equitable Assurance Society of the
United States, has been elected pres
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directors Friday,
the vacancy be-
ing caused re-
Gently when M.
H. Gibbs was
elected chair
m an of h e
b o ard, T. N.
Beavers presi-
dent. and John
G. Bell execu-
tive vice presi-
dent.
Mr.. Burrus Is
vice president of
the Advertising
Club of Wash
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George Burrus Named
Vice President Of
Peoples Drug
Advertising Chief Has
Been With Concern
For II Years
BY EDWARD c. STONE.

George B. Burrus, advertising d.
rector of Peoples Drug Stores, Inc,
who has been associated with the
company for II years, was elected
Q vice president by the board of
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in various years follow
Electric Customers Combined,

The march electric customer to-
tails for the Metropolitan Area rep
resent the combined reports of Po-
tomac Electric Power for the Dis
trict of Columbia and the Maryland
sections and Virginia Public Service
for the Virginia sections of the area.
Electric customer totals of the
two companies at the end of March
in various years:
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odd-Lot Dealings
By the Associated Press

Os tIIe HS6OCIHGeU FIeBS.
The Securities Commission reported yes.
terday these transactions BY customers
With 3dd lot dealers or specialists on the
3.722 purchases. involving 1.4i3 sharss:
3,e7S ssles. involDtng. 100. 64e shafeS. n.
ciudins ~ short sales. involving 2,23i
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Cash wheat: No; 2, red. l.l0h: No. 3,
yellow; hard; 1.0sh; Corn, No. /. yellow.
62ha. Oats No. .. white. As: No. :. 49,
~: sample. An Barley. mating, So
Rye. No. 4, "a. Soy beans, No. q, yel.
low. 1.O6A.
Evening star., 1940-04-14

Nitrate mines In Chile are pro-
ducing iodine.
Evening star., 1940-04-14
INDUSTRIAL Activity

A. r. MARKET btzkrieg sent most
economic baromeers lower this week.
chat based on latest Associated Press statistics
bonds declined and industrial activity again for the
12tn time In the last 13 weeks Commodity prices however
advanced the outbreak widespread destructive warfare
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-03
MAIN STREET
Goin0s, Cowiwos and DoiNss
Of Ta<omans a. the Re-
porter FosMd Them.

Mrs. Lillian Bourinnd unlocking
door TO Harold Cosier's office 80
newspaper reporter can retrieve
overcoat and hat. X. Fcttcrolf
doing friend q favor--H. q. Fitch
waiting for elevator - Larry
Shanklin trying 10 purchase new
Issue Of stamps Gerald Lang
streth waiting for traffic light to
change color--T. q. Beardsley.
vaien Honeywell and ,. q. Beck
man serving on committee Harry
Doteu telling about his croous
plants sherman InKeIs talking
about new boathouse Fred Hoff-
man planning 10 bowi--Hsrmie
Heron doing double duty while
her mother In in hospitals Steve
kefficr wondering what the ground
hog In going TO do Don Rcdford
finding consolation in the fact 1T
won't be long now"-Fred BitterI-
Ing taking over new duties Vic
Crosta planning TO fix his car
Ray vromsh answering q tsle-
phone Elmer Larson counting the
months until baseball season starts
Jim BirneI talking about his
flying lessons.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-03
M'CnORD FIELD
READY IN JUNE

work II progressing steadily Il
Mcchcrd field 20 the new North
west army airhAse WIN b. ready
10 begin operations In June. II
was learned Friday.
Meantime. four officers from
Hamilton field. headquarters Of the
firth sirhese squadron. located Il
San Rafael. Calf, have been DE-.
tailed to the 18th airbass squad
ron At Mechord field.
Mai Raymond Morrison. present
commander Of the flfth sirhase
squadron. will command the ipth
squadron. Nal Thad v, Foster
viii become supply officer: Capt.
Theodore NJ. Bolen win be base
engineering officer. and capt. ches-
ter Giiger viii serve ~ base conn
mnnications officer.
The officers are scheduled to
take three planes north within the
next two weeks. which will be uned
for command" purposes ~ Nc
Chord field.
Word came from Seattle that
crews from Hamilton field are In
the Queen City awaiting delivery
OF new Bib Boeing heavy bom-
bardment ships, One OF the 30
ordered IA due for delivery Friday.
They win replace some 30 bombcrs
now stationed at San Rafael. which
win be sent 10 Hawaii and the
Philippines.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-03
FEARS EMBARGO
IS STEP TO WAR

WASHINGTON SEN. Arthur
II. Vandenberg, r., Mich. de-
clared today that imposition Of an
embargo against Japan might con-
stitute 1.-The first step toward war"
but warned Japan not to ignore
possibility of such action.
Vsndenberg's statement followed
a charge by Chairman Key Pitt
man of the senate foreign relations
committee that Japan was at
tempting to interfere with con-
gress. Pittman charged that the
Japanese military was "insensi-
tive" to American treaty rights In
the Far East.
Neutrality-suspicious. of the SEN
ate resolution calling for abroga-
ton of the U. S.-Japanese COM
mercial treaty. described the
treaty denunciation as relatively
a pacific alternative" to the en-
barge proposals such as that spon-
sored by Pittman.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-03
TACOMA WOMEN
ARE BASHFUL?

leap Year y tars plain isto -
far a. Pierce eeonty's ycunE
women ara concerned
when County Auditor =. Cilf-
ford Davis lpoked at IN tally Il
marriage licenses issued - a
Feb. l. the FIRST menth 81 Leap
Year va. seven short - January
the year before.
Where Ia licenses were e<ued
in 1859 only iss had been deiiv-
cred In 1910 Even adding the
waiting iiss. required hy Wash.
lngton's new s.dsy period ef delay
under the gin marriage Law,
Leap Year brides were dcsnk
better than last years
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-03

1-Remcmber. that II you buy ORANGE and
= blue stamps from any pay envelope. you must
continue to do regularly II you Wish TO enjoy
the benefits Of the plan later on. In other words
II you purchase stamps for the first month period.
you must buy them for the second In order to be
permitted TO buy them for the third subsequent
pay periods.
9-bont detach stamps from your hook. Present
= the book to the cashier and permit him 20
detach them In payment for food. rood merchants
not permitted to honor stamps that are de-
tached from the books.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-03
SEE SOCKEYES
COMING BACK

WASHINGTON - international
Pacific Salmon Fisheries commits
sion, ending a three-day session.
voiced a belief Thursday that the
s25, 900. 900 sockeye salmon indus
try, materially depleted in the last
27 years, could be rehabilitated.
The commission felt that pro-
lection of spawning grounds and
other conservation measures,
which 1t did not specify. could
restore the industry to the pro-
duction level Of $4,000 cases
annually reached in 1918. BY 1887
that production figure had dropped
to 100000 cases.
The commission, composed Of
Americans and Canadians. heard
1899 reports in closed sessions and
discussed the work Of the groups
director of investigation. DIR. WIN
+. Thompson, OF Seattle.
Three years ago the commission
embarked on an eight-year pro-
gram Of scientific investigation in
the Fraser river system Of WASH
ington state and northwestern
Canada, natural habitat Of the
sockeye salmon. After reviewing
results of the past years studies.
the commission expressed conf
dence in final rehabilitation Of the
industry.
American members of the COM
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-03
To Present Plan
At Gault FridaH

big Brother" presented by the
Clark Players and directed by Phil
burn Friedman. In the attraction
at the Cault junior high school FRI
day at p. m. In the school audi
forum. This much talked OF play
Is drawing crowds wherever pre-
scented.
The Gault orchestra viii play
selections and students Of the
school win present specially acts
during intermissions.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-03
SMELL EGGS
BUTTER, FLOUR
PRUNEs
CORN MEAL
DRIED BEANS
ORANGES
GRAPEFRUIT
ONIONS
Except creen)
h0MlNY
PORK LARD, PORK
RAlSlNS, RICE
FRESH BETS
APPLES
GROUP NO. l.

Includes those families who are
now receiving grocery orders ~
. part of DIRECT public assist
ance. BY applying TO the office
1t 2S15 Commerce st.. 3 =. m.
10 4 p. m. Saturdays. 3 n N.
TO la). persons holding food or
ders may receive IN ADDITION
10 their orders. blue stamps
which win be honored by COOP
Grating food stores land ~ far
~ we know ALL Pierce County
grocers are cooperatinE). for the
surplus foods" listed above.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-03
WALLACE NOW
USING THREAT
Charge Against Secy.
OF Agriculture Il
Made by Woodrum

WASHINGTON - Rep. Clinton
A. Woodrum. D.. Va. leader of
house economy forces. charges that
Secretary OF Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace is seeking to threaten"
congress because Of the heavy cuts
in the s634.s74,25s agricultural
supply bill.
woodrum delivered his attack
in the midst of a series of show
down votes between house econ
omy adherents and farm bloc
members on the s154, 900. 900 that
was cut from the annual bill by the
appropriations committee.
Woodrum said house members
were fully aware Of wallace's SEN
timents when the cuts were made.
Wallace said the effects Of the
cuts-if sustained-would be noted
in congress In 1871 because farm
ers would make their sentiment
known at the polls.
II believe" Woodrum said,
shat the house Of representa-
tives and the senate In their
own judgment will just about
come as near knowing what In
good for agriculture rs Mr..
Wallace.
1T seems unfortunate for q
cabinet member to step out
over the radio and call on the
farmers to march on Washing
ton and remember their ballots
In November. deprecate the
fact that we're voting on the
interests Of the country, and
not just getting votes Of the
farmers Of the country"
Rep. Harold d. Cooley, D., N. c.,
replied that Woodrum's appropria-
tons committee was setting it.
self up as a super committee" and
sacrificing the American farmer
ION the altar of false economy"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-03
MAN AND WOMAN FINED

Mrs. Ruby Parker. Al. 1871 \
so. / ST.. started serving out a
SIS and costs fine In the city jail
Thursday following her conviction
In police court on a charge of
indecent conduct, 10 which abe
pleaded guilty. Ted Workman. 81.
Negro. arrested with her in a
downtown hotel room Wednesday
evening, WAS given q similar fine
by Judge Joseph Mailery.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-03
CHRISTMAS ISLE
HELPING ALLIES

SINGAPORE - The 1920 in
habitants of lone Christmas island,
a tiny corner of the empire far
out in the Indian ocean, have con-
tributed nearly $500 to the Malays'
patriotic fund for war charities In
Britain and France.
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mission are Acting Director
Charles jackson, Of the bureau OF
fisheries. and B. M. Brennan, and
Edward w. Allen. both Of Seattle.
A. l.. Hager. Vancouver. y. C.. IL
chairman. Other Canadian mem
bers are Tom Reid, New West.
minister. b. C.. and A. J. Whit
more. Ottawa.