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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-09
BLACK AND WHITE
BUT READ ALL OVER

1t costs almost $12. 900 to COW
er an acre Of ground with glass
for growing dollhouse produce.
Eight hundred lightweight OPP
erations are required to make a
shotgun shell which retails for
four cents.
In Japan. siliworms provide .
living. wholly, or In part for
Is.00o. 900 persons.
Protozoa called "trypsno-
somes" are responsible for true
African sleeping sickness. Tsetse
flies only spread the disease.
So far away il the planet
Pluto from the earth that our
most powerful telescopes show it
only as = point Of light.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-09


Wendell Willkie appears to
have strong support in the great
eastern and middle western
states--where formerly the New
Deals policies appealed to labor.
the middle class. the small BUSH
nessmen, the so-called foreign
element. The canvass indicates
that these groups-also the
colored vote-are returning to
their traditional Republican af-
fiiation. Testing of various
voters strata confirm these adj
vance reports. They make Will
kie the most potential threat
Roosevelt has faced in New
York or in the national area.
On the basis of these prelimin-
airy checkups the COP. nominee
makes show of having more
than the necessary 266 electoral
votes.
F.D.R. expects to hold the
Solid South, despite ominous
mutterings. He figures that
Wallace will anchor the west.
His defense preparations - and
periodical inspections" - are.
designed to appease business in
terests looking for war profits.
And Ed Flynn is counted on to
deliver the all-important state
of New York. Roosevelt. Wal
lace, Flynn-that is the New
Deals 1e40 backfield.
Ambassador Joseph p. Ken
needy has forfeited his former
high standing with the British
people and politicians. Private
advices reaching the capital re-
veal that the man once assailed
as an "Anglophile" now stands
on the outside looking in at
London.
Kennedy's fault was charac-
teristic. He was too blunt. too
fortnight. in denouncing Bril-
tain's lack of preparedness for
the Hitler menace. From Amer
lean scouts-naval and military
returning home via London.
he obtained an accurate closeup
OF the French military weakness
and Germanys power.
Our attaches on the continent
have been uncannily correct
and honest--in their forecasts of
the conflict. Joe also realized
that France and Great Britain
placed too much reliance on
American reinforcements. Rey-
naud's desperate plea for help
only three days before the sur
render and Beaver r o ks
promise of 5000 planes a month
show how utterly ignorant the
allied statesmen were Of Amer
lean conditions.
But when the ambassador
tried to give the Churchillians
a true picture Of our military
and industrial backwardness-
incidentally. a report which does
not bear out present-day opti-
mistic statements at Washing
ton-he was labeled a defeat
ist." Not even tragic proof that
he was right has improved his
diplomatic estate.
Cordell Hul's Havana triumph
If sny-lost il flavor as soon
as he returned TO the mainland
Of the United States.
En- route TO Washington from
Miami, the secretary Of state
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-09

What Happened in
Forty Years
Immigrant Boy Becomes
No. lndusirislist
The Rock Which VIII Break
Herr Killers Neck
EORTY years ago a young
blue-eyed Dane. a few inches
more than six feet tall and car
rying the right weight for his
height, came down the gang
plank Of a ship just IN from
Europe and passed through Ellis
Island Today he IL known as
William s. Knudsen. q men,
Der Of President Roosevelt's adj
visory defense commission In
charge OF the industrial division
for the production of tanks,
trucks. airplanes. engines and
other manufactured commodi-
ties required in the national de-
Tense program. His story reads
like fiction, but is stranger be-
cause 1t IL true.
"Bill" Knudsen, ~ he WAS
christened by n hard-bolled ship
yard time keeper, didn't have
anybody to give him . boost
He was just another immigrant
boy when he started, but he was
n fiend for work and used his
head rs well n his hands.
The man who has the biggest
job in the United States today
was born in Copenhagen, tenth
child of Knud Knudsen, q Gus
toms inspector. At IA he had
finished the public school work
and was apprenticed to a bicycle
manufacturer. Two or three
years later he startled his home
town folks by riding through
the streets with a friend on the
first tandem bicycle in that part
of Europe. designed and put to-
gether by himself. That set him
apart from his fellows.
After a few years in the New
York shipyards and railroad
shops, he had an opportunity to
go back to his old trade and
become superintendent of a BIZ
cycle factory at Buffalo. That
was the real beginning of his
career. The bicycle plant began
the production of automobile
parts and Knudsen developed
the capacity for production that
has made him the nations lead
ing industrialist. In 1911 when
Henry Ford bought the plant.
Knudsen went along and be-
came Ford's No. l man.
In the next seven years
Knudsen designed and estab-
lished 26 assembly plants for the
, Ford company. He was the man
behind the production of &C
submarine chasers turned -out
by the Ford plant at Dearborn
in 1917-18. When m order wa
placed with the Ford company
for $500 ambulances, Knudser
delivered them before Gen. Per
shing was able to provide the
drivers.
A couple of years after thu
close of the war, Knudsen joined
General Motors and was put II
charge of Chevrolet production
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-09
PULSE OF
THE PU BLIC
by John Hix
AN ICONOCLAST

AN t1ONOCLASI
Editor, The Times: While TAX
ing time out yesterday we did
a little reading and listened to
the radio.
Mrs. Roosevelt wants to set
tie the world war with the Bible.
She does not give us her inter-
probation Of the Book.
Gen. Hugh johnson is specific
about the Bible as a war rem
edy. The general is a long
time disciple of Barney Baruch
and should speak ex cathedra.
This gentle voice commentator
would apply the war tactics Of
Moses to settle the worlds prob
lens.
Mr.. Johnson's tutor. Simon
Baruch, does not believe the
New Testament nullifies the Old
Testament
A radio preacher told us the
ark Of the Hebrews never should
have been taken into Solomon's
temple since the ark stood for
war and the temple for peace.
General Pershing advocates
Intervention. War has not been
Improbable for the general.
There should be ample reward
for patriotic service, but true
patriotism does not call for
s62.50 per diem for retirement
compensation.
Charles Lindbergh gives us
what he regards an accurate
diagnosis of the European war.
The air soloist says the British
have the money while central
Europe starves-
Colonel Lindbergh not so long
ago was in good standing at No.
10 Downing street and we sus-
poets he speaks from knowledge.
II is our inclination the colonel
is orthodox on the money issue.
The house Of lords. British no
bility. "roysl economists" should
be privileged to live in the Lon
don slums to save their souls
long enough for regeneration.
r. +. RADKIN.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-09
SO THEY SAY

For an imaginative and disci-
pinned group, war need never
be the last rexort.-Dr. Henry
J. Csdnury, Harvard divinity
school.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-09

We protest that colleges should not be mirrors to
reflect contemporary society that they should be torches
TO light and lead it-Rev. Robert Cannon president of
Fordham university.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-09
An Inside Picture of Finon-
II u II / ciul ond Political America
BY RAY TUCKER

WESTINGHOUSE first presidential polls help to
explain the strategy which the New Dealers will pursue
in the campaign. They account for FDR's choice of
Henry Wallace for his running mate and Ed Flynn as
national chairman-the rural mystic and the other
hard hoilaJ citxv hoes
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-09

Cordell Hull's Havana triumph
If sny-lost it flavor as soon
as he returned to the mainland
Of the United States.
En- route TO Washington from
Miami, the secretary of state
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-08-09

To receive attention IN this col
umn letters must give name and
address OF writer Onlv Initials
VIII - published whsn requested.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-12-13
Sets Record For
Benefits

Yehudi Menuhin, who played his
first New York benefit concert on
Dec. 2, when he appeared at Car
negie Hall in behalf of the Pal
eStine COnservatOire of Music, has
become something of an expert on
charity concerts, says Daniel L.
SchOrr, Southern Jewish Weekly
correspondent. 1t is vaguely pos
Sible that he has set some sort of
record for benefits by raising ap-
prOximately 100000 for various
causes through concerts on three
continents in the past two years.
He has raised more than $50, 900
for the cause of Jewish refugees
alone. On his last European tour,
which was in 1889, he played with
the London Philharmonic Orches-
ira in Royal Albert Hall for the
Lord Rothschild refugee fund,
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-12-13

Mitzi Solomon, with Lillian Ro-
gin as alternate, all of Miami.
Sidney Aronovitz of Key West,
and Kurt Teutsch, refugee stu
dent, will represent the boys.
These debaters are the winners in
competitive speaking meets held
by their respective Hillel Societies.
A second team selected at tn e
Gainesville competition consists of
Ernest Katz and Bernard Fuchs of
st. Petersburg, and Nathan Arono-
vitz, alternate. This second team
will meet local teams in debates
in the state. The judges of the
Gainesville-T Tallahassee debate will
be State Senator Leroy Collins,
Rainey Cawthon, former Gator
football captain, and julius Park
er.
1888
The Student Union Committee
of the Florida B'nai Birth met
in Gainesville on Sunday, Dec. 8.
Mr.. Louis lehman, Miami attor-
ney and chairman of the commit
tee, presided over the meeting.
Hillel plans for the remainder of
the school year were discussed.
Many committee members from
various parts of the state were
present in addition to members of
the University of Florida HiIlel
Executive Council.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-12-13

was not necessary to schedule such
concerts now; it could be expected
that he would be approached by
worthy causes when he reached
South America.
Menuhin, who will reach the ripe
old age of "a next month, intends
to leave for his South American
tour on April FL under a contract
signed with Bernardo Iriberri, the
BuenOs Aires impresariO, calling
for appearances in Rio de JaneirO,
Sac PaulO, MOntevideO, BuenOs
Aires and SantiagO-de- Chile. In
each city he will make about five
appearances, including both reci-
tails and performances with orch
eStraS.
This will be his first visit to the
lands south of the border. He had
been sought for a South American
tour for the past ten years, but
had found it impossible to include
it in his crowded schedule. Now
that the war makes a European
tour impossible, he, like many 9TH
er musicians, has been able to turn
his eyes southwark.
Menuhin declined to make any
observations about the significance
of his contemplated tour in the
broader frame of pan American
relations and cultural goodwill be-
tween the United States and her
southern neighbOrs.
II don't like to make cut-and-
dried statements" he said. I'll be
better able to talk about South
America after I've seen it. There
is nothing official about my tour.
(Mr. Salter has referred to him
as a goodwill ambassador I
represent goodwill anywhere I go,
just as Bach and Beethoven rep
resent goodwill.
cit seems the artist is the best
expresser Of goodwill these days.
1 don't know anything about South
America, but 1 know I'll play the
best 1 can, as / have always done,
and our relatiOns-between my au-
diences and me-Pm sure win be
good"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-12-13

Upper e American Red Cross chairman Norman Davis with
organization MOnky Upper Right president OF
~ has which the entire manpO"er
800 Bnai Birth lodges and auxar
country being put at the edate
tho home service sections chapters to help
the Red executing its home service program Tor the aS
of men called into the of the United States
eIO) Reproduction to all Red cross cnapS
~ D smith director of Red Cross Service advising them
Of the offer of by Birth and outlining the spheres
which the Red Cross Birth will work together In the local
communities they b 9th represented particularly "0
there are no Jewish caSe-wOrk agencies
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-12-13

which brought in more than $780,
900. Last Summer, in Australia,
he appeared in sonata recital with
his sister, Hephzibah, to aid the
same fund. In addition, he gave
concerts with orchestras in Mel
bourne and Sydney for the Brit
ish Red Cross, the French r e d
Cross, the YM-YWCA and the
ORT Jewish vocational retraining
society.
Menuhin's hopes of obtaining a
uuarter-miIIiOn dollars for various
refugee-aid committees in the
course of world tour were dashed
by the outbreak of the war. In
deed, to his family ne has some
times voiced the wish that he were
financially independent so that he
might devote a complete tour to
benefits.
So habitual has it become for
the young violinist to include char
ity concerts in his tours that, when
he recently signed a contract for
a three-and-a-half month tour of
South America n ext Spring, it
seemed natural to ask whether
benefit performances were includ-
ed in his itinerary. He smiled. 1t
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-12-13

-L:Is1o
Washington, D. C.-To moDliize
enlarged resources of American
Jewry to sustain the $4,000 Jews
of Palestine in the most cr1tical
neriod of their history is the am
of a National Conference Ior
Palestine which will be held at tne
Hotel willard, Washington D. C''
ON January % and rs, it was an, i,
nounced today by DIR. Abba Hillel
Silver, National Chairman OF INC
United Palestine Appeal Amer
can Jewry's Embarrassing mstru
ment for the upbuilding OF tne
Jewish homeland in Palestine
1900 readers, representing ma
t,onal and local organizations,
welfare Fund organizations ano
various Zionist and non-zionise NJ
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-12-13
Welfare Board Has
Recreation Center

ADMISSION, Ala, Dec. S--The
first recreation center established
NV a welfare agency for the bene-
fit of soldiers of the 9th DIVISION
Of New York encamped at Fort
Mcclellan was opened here today
nv the Jewish Welfare Board on
a,,thorization of the Army and
Navv Committee, headed by John
M. Schiff, chairman.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-12-13

Resolved, That opportunity for
free speech should be denied those
who advocate racial and religious
discrimination in the Unit d
States" Representing the Talla-
hassee girls are: Evelyn Rodnesky,
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-12-13
Week In Review
TERROR IN RUMANIA
By MILTON SRoWN. JT.A

TEKEGNIlG Nv 1OO4sAAAAN
First reports rom Bucharest
dicated that terrorism was in
m sway in Rumania as the Iron
,ard kicking aside the traces,
rouph horrible revenge on its OPP
Inents. However, the full extent
the violence was suppressed by
> steel censorship and did not
|ach the outside world until a
v correspondents had the OppOr-
nity to leave Rumania-
According to the ]. T. A. cores
ndent in Bucharest, who trav-
d to Budapest to send his dis
Itch. between $50 and 500 per-
MS were killed in the first week
the terror, about half of them
WIS. Mobs of rampaging Iron
,ardists killed and wounded
Ores of Jews in Brasov; anti
mite outrages in Ploesti
ought an estimated toll of IL
lied and dozens injured. Other
h-Semitic outbreaks occurred
other cities and towns.
In such towns as Giurgiu the
ti-Jewish persecution was so
eat that hardly a jew remained.
who were not killed were be-
we'd to have fled to the noun
ms and villages, which so far
d been untouched by the hyster-
In some towns the anti-Semi-
m expressed itself in the form
cOnfiscation of Jewish enter
ses.
The Runanian Government it.
i was not above a bit of expro-
iation. Premier Ion Antonescu
creed confiscation of all boats
d III ps owned by companies
tn Jewish stockholders and for
de Jewish companies henceforth
fly the Rumanian flag.
The terrorism has intensified eff
IT'S Of Jews to escape from Ru-
mia. Many Jews and nOn-Jews
We been buying false Bessarab-
birth certificates in order to
able to emigrate to the now
Viet-Occupied territory, and the
ligratiOn rate across the Soviet
pntier has reached more than
weekly. Others have sought to
via the Black Sea. Eight hum
ID Jews and one ship and 200 on
other embarked for Palestine.
naller groups have tried to stow
az on ships sailing for Greece
4 other countries.
REFUGEES IN PALESTINE
As an exceptional act of mer-
the Palestine Government
decided to permit the approx
tely 1900 survivors of the ref
&c ship Patria to remain in Pal
me. However, their number will
deducted from the next immi-
zion schedule and the govern
Mt reaffirms it's policy of de-
ting all future illegal immi-
IatS to a British colony (Mauri-
ms n announcement ended the
,eFTanty as to what the British
aO1des would do with the ref
es following the sinking by an
PlOslOn on Nov. rs of the ship
Which they had been trans
.ed to be transported to the
.lSn colony. 1t was expected
u the refugees would be re-
Seo from the internment camp
Athlit soon.
ne governments announcement
mat the cause of the explo-
sun had not been ascertained,
a special commission was ap-
E y, to investigate the causes
the blast.
:. TINS writing the ascertained
IN Toll of the sinking was 81,
! uVers still probing into the
merged ship in Haifa harbor
recover other bodies.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-12-13
cams romG ainesvi||eand
Tallahassee Will Debate
BY STANLEY B. RICHARD

FlOrdas team in the National HiIlel Debating TOurna-
ment will be decided Sunday, December 18th, at Taahas
when the Florida State College Hle Society will stage
public debate with the University of Florida HiIe.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-12-13
AMERICAN RED CROSS
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
WASHINGTON D. c.

10: Bcns Service DAtSs November -, 1870
lOa' Don c. Saith suh3octscOOpsration Of Birth
in Hone Service
Following Conferences,
B'na1 Birth has offered Red Cross Of
local units in matters Of Hone Service There 500
units throughout the United States, located that all COMMITTEES
confined MEMBERS Of Jewish faith,
spirit has been evidenced the Red Cross appeal for foreign relief
in Roll Call drives and In other Ways.
Many familiar Bna1
Birth. Of the
entttses In such circumstances this latter Nm sny to
workers pledge eooperAt4on
mile those its interest Viii Wish to discuss
With local leaders Of the organization Methods Of working togeter
matters locating families, obtaining employ
assisting solution of problems, assisting
Teestahihie enselves other welfare
problems Of fani1tes enai Birth
activities social service committees Of
cities there
Jewish Their legal aid counittees which
$50 COMMITTEES, they believe also b helpful
assisting individuals
entitled Probably
Sailors Civil Relief Act
could specially veil interpreted thssO and other legal aid
committees.
Is going out from Bnai Birth
Mutual planning Will
fit naturally into the general nteragncy considerations when
Chapters undertaken.
M~ dill
C.
Service
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-12-13
Jewish Leaders Plan Aid to Palestine
at Washington Meet, January 70, 70

situations will assemble for the
Conference.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-18
SAN FRANCISCO
 GETS REMINDER,
 GREAT DISASTER
Severe Earth Movement Is FeIt on Anniversary of
 1906 Quake, Fire

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April l8 A clearly felt reminder came today of the sudden disaster which be- fell that city 34 years ago.
 On the anniversary of the de- structive quake, which practically destroyed the city in 1906, San Francisco residents felt a sharp trembler which lasted for more than a minute.
 Today's trembler seemed center ed at San Jose but it did not dc any apparent damage.
 The earthquake of April 18, 1906 tumbled buildings into the streets shut off San Francisco's water sup ply and communications systems and killed hundreds of people Scores of fires started simultane- ously in various parts of the city The fire swept four square miles 498 blocks, including the entire business district. Without water firemen finally halted the blaze with dynamite after three days.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-18
Exe(utionof Alaskan Held
 off 90 Days
Governor Olson Grants Re. prieye 10 Robert Perry
 Sentenced to Die

SACRAMENTO Cal, April 18- A 90-day reprieve by Gov. Olson has delayed the execution of Ro- bert Perry, an elderly Alaskan scheduled to die in the San Quen- tin prison gas chamber tomorrow
 The postponement was requested by the State Advisory Pardon Board, which is considering Perrys plea for communication of his sen- tence to life imprisonment.
 The elderly prisoner, well up in his seventies, was convicted of staying a San Diego bank jani- tor during an attempted robbery last year. He claims that Perry is not his true name-and that he wishes to spare the feelings of relatives in Alaska.
 Perry said he left the Territory to search for his second wife, who withdrew his substantial bank bal ance and departed for the States.
 If the death sentence were car- ried out, Perry would be the old est man ever executed in Cali fornia.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-18
COAST STEAM SCH00NER5ARE
 TO BE TIED UP

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April Is The Shipowners Association o1 the Pacific Coast announce the suspension of the entire west coast steam schooner service.
 The action was taken after the shipowners cancelled their con- tract with the CIO American Com munications Association after a dispute over radio operators.
 It is estimated that the tying up of the fleet of more than 35 steam schooners will take several weeks
 Owners said that the vessels will be tied up as fast as they reach port. More than 1000 men will probably be thrown out of work by the tieup.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-18
BRITISH NOW IN CONTROL OF NARvIk; ARE FIGHTING
 WITH NORWEGIAN ALLIES

SOMEWHERE NEAR MAR VIK, April 18. The British Marines are fighting alongside of the Norwegian Allies and have occupied the Narvik ore port and surrounding area and the Germans are retreating to the south says J. Norman Lodge, Associated Press Staff COrres- pendent.
 Lodge says: with a driver as a guide, I made my way afOOt to the outskirts of Narvik where I was arrested by British troops.
 q ascertained the British are occupying BjOrksen, short dis tance this side of the Swedish border; Grataujen and also three places to the north and south of Narvik, Elvegaard, FL vegaarsmoen and Harstad, the latter which is the British land
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-04-18
SAYS JAPAN
 NOW BUILDS
 BIG 5HIp5
Forty-t three Thousand- Ton Battle Graft Under
 Construction

WASHINGTON. April 18.-Con- vinced that Japan is building sev- eral 43,000-ton battleShips, Admiral Stark said that the United States Navy is contemplating the con- struction of several super dread naughts of 5O,O0O to 52,0O0 tons.
 The Chief of Naval Operations told the Senate Naval Affairs Con- mittee that he believed Japan is building eight large type vessels but he doubted reports that twelve were under construction.
 Earlier in his statement, he said the Navy has renewed advocacy of a major air and submarine base at Guam, an outpost l,500 miles from Tokyo.