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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-05
FUNERAL SERVICES

Mrs. Anna Louise Pearson -
Thursday, 1870 p. m. from Lynn's
chapel: Rev. Carl f. Rydell off,
ciating; burial Mountain View
burial park.
Mrs. Emma Strait - Thursday.
IL a. m. from Piper's chapel; Rev.
Charles Snowden officiating; burial
lakewood cemetery.
Ralph h. Enthusiastically. $50
p. m, from Mellinger's chapel,
services will be conducted by Ia
coma Aerie No. 5. F. o. Z. Hon
orary pallbearers will be George
Wallis, Mickey McDougal, Pete
Rasmussen. Jesse Tllbbs. Max
Pabst and Edgar Gerking. Burial,
Mountain View cemetery.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-05
MRS. NEI'MAs 5. GREGORY

Mrs. Velma Strout Gregory, As,
died Wednesday at the home of her
sister, Mrs. Elizabeth s, Williams.
1905 No. 10th st, after an ex-
tended illness. A native of Tacoma.
Mrs. Gregory was a member of
Emma f. Shaw No. 20, Rebekahs.
Other than her sister, she leaves
her mother, Mrs. Ida V. Strout of
Zenith. Wash. and brother, Ed
ward J. Strout of Seattle. Lynn
will announce the funeral.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-05
TRAFFIC NIOLATORS

Traffic violation tickets were
listed Wednesday against Allan A.
Wark. William X. Mckenzie. Ray
mond Gilbertson. for exceeding the
speed limit; A. Mcfarland and
George Snyder. having no drivers
licenses: Margaret Cheeseman,
making ~" turn between street
intersections. and Helen f. Nc
Williams, disobeying traffic
signal.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-05

Nurses said she passed a restful
night and was doing exceptionally
well. The burns about her legs
were deemed superficial and that
the SNAKE which had gotten into
her lungs had caused the chief
discomfort.
Credit for the rescue and resus-
citation OF Mrs tombstone was
given by witnesses Wednesday TO
Gerald T. Payne. 1922 No. Attn st.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-05

in Colorado: Is grandchildren. and
IL great grandchildren. Funeral
services will be arranged by the
Piper Funeral home.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-05

city fireman who wss Of duty on
SICK leave and IN civilian clothes
AZ the time.
Regularly a hoseman - No. I
company. PAYNE, recuperating
from an operation. was visiting at
No. SIS when the tombstone alarm
came in. He had been riding a
bicycle for exercise. and hoped on
that TO make the run 20 the FIRE
Mrs. tombstone home is al 4125
So. Thompson ave.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-05
JACOV kORlJAN

Jacov Jack korljan, So, Of
1896 Fawcett ave, died Monday
in the Seattle Marine hospital. He
was formerly a deckhand aboard
the motorship "Grsyling." He was
a corporal during the World war,
serving with Company A, 44th in
fantry. 18th division. Korljan was
a member of Edward b. Rhodes
post No. 2. American Legion and
of Fishermen's union. He leaves
three cousins, Mrs. ]. Blaskovich,
Mrs. J. Versya and John korljan
of Tacoma. Buckley-king will an
nounce the funeral.
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City Fireman. Off Duty. Praised
For Work in Rescuing Aged Woman

Mrs. jeanette tombstone, 81 who vas overcome bN soh
and suffered burns fire her home Monday Afternoon
reported be well the road recovery at Pierc
o.Lrt.. knsraitaI MednesdaN
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soRES soRENsoN

Soren Sorenson. SO. died Tuesday
at his home, Rt /, Box 5ss, Ia
coma. He was a native of Den.
mark and had lived in the United
States 40 years. He came to Ia
coma 10 years ago. He was q
gardener. Surviving are a sister il
Denmark. and three nieces. Mrs
c. Z. Smith of Seattle, Mrs. J
Getty Of Sumner and Mrs. Alice
Taylor of the home. Piper vii
announce the funeral.
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PETER NELSON

Peter Nelson. 70. of 40 No. X
St. died Wednesday in q local hos
pital. He had lived in Tacoma %
years. Nelson was a member of
Pierce County Association OF the
Blind. and of Scandinavian Fra
ternity of Superior. Wis. He leaves
his wife. Mrs. Augusta: four sons,
William of Emmett, Ida. and Al
fred. Arthur and Donald of Ia
coma: three daughters, Mrs. Amiee
White, Mrs. Abbie Westholm and
Mrs. Mathilda Best Of Tacoma;
one sister. Mrs. Bertha Wicklum of
Seattle; II grandchildren. and five
great-grandchildren. Lynn will an
nounce the funeral.
MISS NETTIE' GIi.sERrsoN
Funeral services for Miss Nettie
Gilbertson. of 41o2 No. 3sth st.
who died Tuesday in a local hos
pital. will be held Friday Mt p m.
from the Lynn chapel. with the
Rev. Adam Hunter officiating.
Burial will follow in Tacoma Gene
terry. Miss Gilbertson. u native Of
Wisconsin. was 4 Lutheran. She
leaves u brother, Oliver of Wesley,
Wis. and four nieees. Mrs. S. T.
Larsen and Mrs. L. A johnson Of
Tacoma and Mrs. c. r. Lund Of
Puyallup and Mrs. r. H. Brown Of
Seattle.
MRS. JULIA 4. SIMONS
Mrs. Julia Elizabeth Simons. a
resident Of Tacoma for the past so
years. died Wednesday morning at
the home of her daughter. Mrs.
Jessie Kicker, At 3426 So. Fife 81.
Ars. Simons. 81 years old. Was q
native of Iowa. She WAS q men,
Der Of Asbury Methodist church.
Surviving. besides Mrs. Kicker. are
three sons. John Simons. in Taco
ma: Perry Simons, at Dupont. anc
George ID. Simons, Los Angeles: a
sister. Mrs- Olive Smith. in Ne
braska. and . brother, David Scarf,
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gear in Buick gives you the econ.
omy of the so-called "gas saving"
top speeds you hear boosted so
enthusiastically.
The big thing is, of course, that this
is no small car that's setting these
economy figures. There are all the
room, size, impressiveness, comfort
and downright thrilling performance
you expect from a Buick.
Maybe that's why people still hesi-
tate to believe their own eyes.
We assure them, however-and you
too-that it isn't because the needles
out of killer that it goes down so
slowly. It's because that needles in
a Buick thrifty and thrilling 1871
FIREBALL Buick.
Evening star., 1940-06-02

Dudley r. Wolfe. Several summers
ago it was presented with the huge
wishbone-ketch Vamarie by Vadim
Makaroff, who won several famous
ocean races in her.
Last summer the academy pur-
chased three new yawls, the Reso-
lutte, Intrepid and Alert (irrever-
emily named the Dissolute, Insipid
and Allergic). Midshipmen once
again became sailors in the old
sense of the word by navigating
the Vamarie in the race to Bermuda
and participating in many Chesa-
peake Bay races. Sailing dinghies
were added to the long list of in
tercollegiate sports. On Sundays
the bay and river are dotted with
academy star boats, sailing whale
boats, knockabouts and half-raters.
For tactical maneuvers midship-
men have large number of "splin-
ter boats" wooden subchasers, of
which more than 500 were built
during the World War. Admiral
Brown commanded a feet of these
small boats in the Mediterranean,
where they made life miserable for
German submarines with depth
charges. There are also 10 Typ"
power voats serving as floating class
rooms, fitted with control equipment
similar to that used by large ships.
Develop Air Training.
The increased Importance of avia-
ton recently brought the addition
of rudimentary air training to the
curriculum. Several observation
seaplanes have been added to the
academy's equipment. and during
this summer a feet of patrol bomb
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emy trains midshipmen for leader
ship above all else, and if a newly
assigned officer Is somewhat slow
at the start of his new duties, he
has trained specialists at his call
among the non-commissioned per-
sonnel.
The officers who will be command
ing the two 45,O0O-ton battleships
and six others of IS ,0OO-ton burden
now building, have been taught
the A. B, Seas of seamanship in
14-foot sailboats. Never in the
history of the academy since the
advent of steam has more emphasis
been placed on free sailing.
Big Return to Sail.
The United States Navy had fire.
quently been criticized for failing to
maintain a large ship of sail for
training midshipmen in the rudi-
ments of seamanship. The large
scale return to sail--was begun less
than five years ago, and under Rear
Admiral Wilson Brown, academy su-
perintendent, the sail fleet has in
creased tremendously.
Three years ago Admiral Brown
accompanied midshipmen on a
training cruise to Kiel and was i'm
pressed with the amount of training
given German midshipmen in free
sailing Shortly after his return
enlargement of the small fleet
was begun, and now there are more
than 80 available.
Within three months the academy
will accept as gift the 79-foot
schooner Freedom from Sterling
Morton and the 60-foot cutter High
land Light, which was owned by
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Whether it does or not is yet to
be tested against a flrst-class ad-
versary. The fleets of the Spanish
American War era, when the United
States had little trouble destroying
Spanish sea power, were compare
lively crude and at that time engi-
neering officers were trained for
their jobs in separate course at
Annapolis. Although lack of spe-
cialiZation is true of the great mass
of 1000 line officers, the Navy has
small group of men who will be
engineer officers for the remainder
of their careers. Five were sent last
year to the Massachusetts, Institute
of Technology for postgraduate
study. However, they may be called
back to sea duty, for any type of
job, at any time.
An officer assigned to a new duty
usually has sufficient time to bone
up" At any rate, the Naval Acad-
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of pedagogy has kept pace with the
advance in naval science. Famous
educators act as advisers and are
made members of the Board of
Visitors which examines activities at
the academy annually.
All-Around Qualities.
Unlike training in the British
Navy, American midshipmen are
being prepared for all duties with
the fleet, except supply, medical and
dental. Graduates from civilian col
leges fill those Offices. British Off
GERS may specialize, but here officers
must be proficient in engineering
gunnery, communications, naviga-
ton and administration. Some
criticism has been made that this
tends toward jacks of -all-trades
and masters of none, but high Off
GERS believe it makes for more eff
cheney in an emergency and all
around fighting ability.
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chief of the Bureau of Navigation,
reported recently that although only
is per cent of the candidates were
rejected in 1887, the 1910 class, which
had entered a year earlier, had a loss
of 1923 per cent.
Culling of those with imperfect
eyeSight is expected to increase the
efficiency of officers who must stand
watch on ship bridges in storms dur
ing which spray might blind those
wearing glasses. 1t will also permit
a higher percentage of graduates
to qualify for aviation training after
their two years of duty with the
fleet.
Technical advances in naval SCI
ence since the World War, and par
ticularly recently with increasing
use of warplanes, have caused the
increase in the past few years of
already long hours spent in the study
of sciences.
Cultural subjects have been re-
duced, leisure hours have been cut,
the curriculum has been expanded
to include new knowledge in avi-
alton, ordnance, engineering and
radio. Entrance examinations this
year include more geometry and no
ancient history, but midshipmen
still are taught more cultural sub
jects than are offered in the best
engineering schools. Students are
now marked for naval aptitude,
lack of which may bring dismissal
even to good students, but seldom
does.
Twenty years ago the instructors
acted as referee between the text
book and the midshipman," an
officer explained. Today the science
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structor in its use. They also shine
in baseball, having won the pen
nant last year in the B. B. Depart
mental League. At one time they
maintained a team in the U. S.
Government League, according to
Paul j. Bergh, and used to play
the F. B. l., but happier days are
now here.
Special Interests.
Agriculture is another branch of
the Government which has highly
organized recreational programs.
In addition to bowling, swimming,
horseback riding, tennis, softball,
golf and basket ball, some of the
1000 members go in for archery.
There is also dramatic club and
philatelic club, and for a change
they hold good old-fashioned SPELL
ing bees. Lovers of music in the
department have gone to much
trouble to produce a symphonic
choir, whose standard of excellence
has been so high that recently one
of their concerts went on the air
and was broadcast from coast to
coast. There Is no hardball team.
Commerce has been slow to get
in, starting only last year. In spite
of this, the department has about
as many varied sports as the others,
although not so formally organized.
They depend on the Advisory Rec
reational Council, and by their own
admission are just beginning to CO.
ordinate.
Much the same situation exists in
the Post Office. So far, the group
competitive activities are intra-
mural, between different depart
ments Of the Post Once. A COM
mittee is nov on the lookout for a
central location in which to crys-
tallize their eforts-a sort of a new
stamping ground, as it were.
And so 1t goes. Smaller branches
Of the Government manage to get
their fun, too, with or without the
aid of employe associations, and
when 1t is all summed up, it is seen
that Washington. the site of gov
ernment, Is also a site Of recreation.
Evening star., 1940-06-02
Bv Basil Gordon.

June. here at last after an almost
incredible delay, automatically
brings with it thoughts of recrea-
ton. There are as many definitions
of the word as there are individual
tastes. At one time it was spelled
with a hyphen-re-creatio in
that form gives better picture of
its real basic meaning, making
anew, in the vegetable world, of
tissues destroyed or frozen into in
activity by winter, and hence by
analogy, a similar recreation Of
the minds of mankind.
There may or may not be scien-
tiflc name for the vernal urge; if not,
the term spring fever" will do. 1t
hits both individually and collective
ly, in tbs one case causing the victim
to 60 fishing or plant vegetables, and
in the other to participate in picnics
and ball games.
1t has hit. collectively some of the
larger branches of our Government
the Departments of the Interior,
Commerce, Justice and Agriculture,
together with the Post Office and
the Treasury. BY an informal pro-
cess of natural selection, leaders
have come to the fore, and organ
lied clubs and societies for recrea-
tional purposes. The process has
proceeded simultaneously but inde-
pendently at the bureaus and the
results attained are a tribute to the
skill of the organizers, who have
succeeded in promoting an extraor-
binary variety of activities at small
cost to the members, and none at
all to Uncle Sam.s
Large Enrolment.
As far as can be determined the
Department of Justice was among
the first to get organized recrea-
tional activities under way on a
large scale, their efforts being con-
centrated on the F. B. I. They be-
gan in 1892. Today. out of a total
of $500 employees eligible to join,
2,400 are in, and pay a purely NOM
inal fee. And lest there be any
doubt about that. the amount Is
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ready sitter four years ago than at
any time in the IS years since the
academy was established on the site
of Fort Severn.
Since 1887 the physical and mental
requirements have become even
more difficult For one thing, in
that year the Navy ordered that
all students be tested for myopia
(near sightedness). Physicians say
that about 20 per cent of all youths
between 16 and 20 years in this
country suffer from that eye defect.
No matter how excellent their
other qualifications, candidates and
students were turned away unless
eyesight was perfect. Casualties in
the class graduating this week were
heavy.
Rear Admiral Chester w. Nimitz,
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just 81, and it travels farther
than the traditional one thrown by
George Washington across the
Rappahannock River. In the first
place, before it is ever spent, it
gives the contributor the right to
vote for or against the establish
ment of any new form of recreation,
the majority deciding.
Lost Only One Game.
This magic dollar has provided
F. B. I. with mems and women's
basket ball teams, bowling teams,
pistol clubs, horseback clubs, camera
associations, a theater group, nu-
merous dances, and even a BIZ
monthly magazine, The Investiga-
tor Last year the women's basket
ball team lost only one game-to
the Department of Agriculture. But
perhaps the outstanding achieve
ment is the Department of Justice
baseball team, which plays in the
six-team United States Government
League.
In order to make sure that JUS
tice triumphs, Quinn Tamm, in
charge of the Technical Division of
Identification, and president of the
Athletic League, has secured the
coaching services of two former pro-
fessionals-Clayton Sheedy, first
baseman for many years with the
Baltimore Orioles, and Howard A.
Myers, who used to hold down the
hot corner at Buffalo and Syracuse,
in the same International League.
In consequence, the team has been
constant menace to the peace and
security of the five others, and usual
ly wins. Last year, though there was
an upset; it was third to Pepco and
Naval Air Station.
ut was just a temporary resur-
gence of the forces of crime" said
Stanley j. Dick) Tracy. These
things happen every now and then.
We will have the situation in hand
this year, and will not let them steal
any more bases or any more games
from us. In the end, crime never
pays"
The activities ef the Treasury
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team and The Evening Star golf
tournament. They have also stolen
a march on the other Government
branches by sponsoring beauty
contest, to be held next month.
Again baseball predominates, as
the Treasury has one of the six
teams in the U. S. Government
League.
1--WE got of to bad start in other
years." said F. A. Birgfeld, chico clerk
of the Treasury. oft will be
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different story now. =" No, I
don't claim that we will beat the
Department of Justice. but one
thing is sure-the Treasury will be
in the money"
Recreational membership in the
Department of the Interior amounts
to 400 and began about four years
ago. In addition to the usual ac-
tivities a subgroup Of the associ-
alton has formed flying club and
maintains a light plane and in
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practically parallel those of the F.
B. I. There are 1900 members Of
the Treasury Recreational Associ-
alton, paying small dues, for which
they get bowling, swimming, tennis,
horseback riding, hiking, basket ball,
softball and golf. They also pub
lish a magazine, the Key. Among
their outstanding achievements has
been the winning of the District of
Columbia Amateur Athletic Union
trophy by the women's basket ball
Evening star., 1940-06-02


taken a new significance for this
country. An II per cent increase in
ships has been ordered; naval war
planes are to be doubled to 5000;
enlisted personnel is to be increased
10000; 81 ships are being built or
waiting for space; $500 naval
aviators are to be trained in four
years.
The program may be expanded
ever further, depending upon the
outcome of the test now being ar
ranged in the English Channel of
warships versus bombers and tor
pedo-carrying speedboats.
Physically and mentally, the mid
shipmen who take their last bow
during June week have no peers in
the 95 previous annual classes as far
as training and selection are con-
cerned third of the entering
class of four years ago failed to
reach graduation because of the new
and sitter academic routine and
physical requirements. Candidates
entering this summer will find 1t
even harder to become midshipmen
and easier to return to civilian life
before graduation.
Attrition in the graduating class
Is not yet ended. For when the
midshipmen parade for the last
time on the greensward of Worden
Field, Wednesday at S pm, there
will be 20 among them who will not
be commissioned as ensigns. They
were found, after four years OF
strenuous study and athletics, to
have physical imperfections, chiefly
imperfect eyesight.
Larger Marine Corps.
However, many will return to ac-
tive duty at Annapolis as Reserve
officers to replace instructors called
to sea duty for neutrality patrol.
Even the 25 midshipmen who will
be commissioned as second lieuten-
ants in the United States Marine
Corps will have more active future
At least 5000 more Marines are to
be enlisted to bring that traditionally
hard guy" corps to a strength OF
$4,000.
AS graduating classes CO. this one
is not large. Last June there were
579, greatest in the Academy's his
tory. OF the 456 graduates this year
402 will be commissioned as ensigns
with the fighting feet and for the
next two years they will almost
literally be crawling on hands ano
knees through every section of every
type of ship learning the technical
niceties of warships. Many, at the
end of two years, will be trained in
the air branch of the Navy.
To the hundreds of civilian spec
tators when diplomas and degrees
are presented Thursday at II am
in Thompson Stadium the midship-
men will not appear different from
any other engineering school grad
uating class, except for the lack OF
eyeglasses and corpulent students
To naval officers who graduated &c
years ago, however, they represent
the product of a minor revolution
in training and selection.
Entrance requirements were al
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Academy Courses Made
Stronger and Broader
Sea Power Recognized as
Goal Toward Which Youth
Must Direct Its Efforts
Bv Robert BruSkiu.

Thirty miles from the Capital Of the Nation which they have to
Academy paradng
monastc seclusion world fighting