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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-07
BE A SPECIALIST

DE- n ~ IL tftLtSi
Editor The Times: This is an
age of specialization. with in
creasingly rigid exactons impos-
ed upon youth as II is launched
upon the sea OF human actiyi-
ties which, just now, is par
tieularly turbulent. The young
men students of the country
who win be graduating in few
months from high school and
college viii do well to concern
trate their interest and thought
upon some promising specific
line of endeayor.
Merely drifting, without a def
mite objective. Is altogether too
hazardous. The only certain
thing about that is the uncer-
tainty. There are several million
drifters In the country at the
moment who know not where TO
light.
Any n o o n that whatever
comes, THE Government. which
is only ourselves, must sustain
and provide for them and will
do 50. is dishonest, demorslizing
and unworthy Of our young
people; and II Is as improbable
as Il u crooked. No one has
ever found a way of taking out
of a bucket more than had been
put in II is one OF the million
things that some people with
wild pension notions and other
faneies about getting something
for nothing continue TO enter
tain. but which merely VIII not
work.
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OF the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties?
I. Have three. twelve or six
popes been named Plus >
S. What are the pigment pri-
mary eolors2
9. What building is depicted
on the Jefferson five-eent piece >
10 The diaphragm separates
which part Of the BODY?
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Scoring bridges and boats.
Blondin, famous acrobat, crossed
a tight rope over roaring Nj
agara Falls. in 1860, on stills,
topping past performances in
GLIDING crossing a similar rope
in five minutes, blindfolded and
pushing a wheelbarrow.
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To cultivate kindness is valuable part of the business
Of ife.-Johnson
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To receive attention N this ooi-
unn letters must give name and
address OF writer. Only inittala
viii be published when requested
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Measured by the standards of
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AN APPRECIATION

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So. Tacoma.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-30
NO TRACE OF TWO
LEGION MEMBERS

Vichy, Sept. 30.-(UP)-A two
month search of prison camps and
burial records has failed TO disclose
any trace OF the last two Americans
In the Foreign Legion.
They are Arthur Dallin. son OF the
Boston sculptor. Cyrus Dallin, and j..
Miller OF San Francisco, World war
veteran who has been 0 member OF
the Legion since 1895.
The two men were with the 18th
Foreign Legion regiment In the
bloody battle OF the somme where
the regiment lost 90 per cent OF To
strength. The survivors were award
cd the croix De 0uerre for excep-
tional bravery.
The unit Was practically wiped out
IN q hopeless battle against German
tanks,
John Clement Of Boelon. one Of
The last Of the Aiaerlcan volunteer
ambulance drivers, Was found after \
iRo inolilhk Search Clement had
been reported killed q Ainlona
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-30
POWER co. PLANS
OUTPUT INCREASE
$4,000, 1000 Project to
Give Added Current for
National Defense

Ofiicials of the Connecticut Light
& Power Co. met today with con-
tractors to plan details of a four mil
lion dollar project which will in
clude an increase of $1,000 kilowatts
in the company's electric generating
capacity and enlargement of substa-
ton and transmission line facilities
to handle the added current.
I'VE are anxious to be prepared to
deliver as much power as may be
needed to meet national defense re-
quirements," G. L. Campbell, preSi-
dent Of the company explained.
"Connecticut,s industries play a
most important part in the manufac-
ture of materials essential to we'll
planned program Of national defense.
Connecticut's manufacturers and
Connecticut's workers know and ap-
preciate their important places in
this program. But without a plentiful
source of electric power, the manu-
facturers and the workers would be
unable to fill the governments or
ders.
1T is principally for this reason
that the Connecticut Light & Power
Co. is ,making the addition to present
generating capacity.
I'VE have already made certain
that our present generating capacity
will not be reduced by any factors
which we can foresee. For Instance
we have on hand supply Of coal
SUFFICIENT to fill the needs Of oul
steam generating plants for q full
six months In advance 30 that any
Continued on Page ~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-30
RALPH RUCCLE, 5,
DIES OF INJURIES
Injured Sept. II When
Driverless Truck Pinned
Him Against Curb

Ralph Ruggles, S, of 106 South
street, injured when he was dragged
BY driverless truck on South street
Sept. IL, died at st. Mary's hospital
at 1882 O'Clock today. The child,
whose name was on the danger list
for several days after the accident,
out who had rallied sufficiently to
lead hospital authorities to. believe
he was recovering, suffered airelapse
over the week lend.
The fatality broke the deathless
day period OF the city, bringing it
down to $50 as compared with l62
last year. An automobile fatality Is
not counted on the day Of the death,
tut on the day Of the accident. Rug
gles' death was the seventh resulting
from an automobile accident this
year.
Medical Examiner Edward H.
1irschbaum was notified Immediate
" by hospital authorities shnt had
not given the cause Of the death by
,ress time. The childSsufgered q man
yled right leg IN the ACCIDENT, and
he lower part Of the limb was arn-
,utated on the day Of the mishap.
Coroner William B. Hennessy was
,lso notified and viii conduct an In
t.iest late this afternoon or tonight.
The Ruggles child was injured
when he attempted to stop a Brock
(Continued on Page q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-30
ROLLS ROYCE co.
HEAVILY BOMBED
English Plant Attacked By
Nazis Planes, Berlin
Reports

Berlin, Sept. 30-(UP)-A Ger
man plane dropped bombs of the
heaviest type in the middle of
workshops of the Rolls Royce mo-
tor facotry at Derby, the official
news agency asserted today. and
members of the crew we're able to
observe destruction in a building
where airplanes were being assem-
bled.
1t was asserted that London was
effectively" bombed during the
night and that the first 80 planes"
we're able to report the bombing of
industries and wharves from low al
titudes despite heavy fire.
Big bombs were dropped Satur-
day and Sunday on Edinburgh and
tn Firth of Forth area, the agency
said, and powder magazines were
set afire in the Middlesborough
area.
The propaganda ministry said
that a single German squadron had
dropped 5000 tons of bombs on
England since mass attacks began.
There was a two hour air raid
alarm in Berlin today but no ac-
tivity was observed n the central
part OF the city.
Authorized sources said that
bombs struck the morgue and sew
eral residences during q raid on
Hanover.
A communiQue said that British
planes flew in over western Germany
and that weak forces" flew Over
middle Germany in the direction Of
Berlin without reaching II,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-30
AID TO BRITAIN
CAUSED PACT
Russia Expects to See
War Aggravated By AM
glo=U. S. Cooperation

Moscow, Sept. 30-(UP)-Russia
ascribes the Japanese German
italian alliance to Anglo American
cooperation, expects it to aggravate
and expand the war by linking the
theaters of hostility in Europe and
the Far East, and is determined to
maintain its own neutrality insofar
as this will depend on it," the
authoritative newspaper Pravda
said today.
The Tass News Agency issued the
text of the editorial, eagerly awaited
since the signature of the alliance
Friday, because of Russia's key posi-
ton as next door neighbor of both
Japan and Germany and fellow Slav
country to Italy's neighbor, Jugo-
slavia.
Pravda. official newspaper organ
of the Communist party, questioned
in its editorial whether the Allies
would be able to realize their pro-
posed division of the eastern hemi-
sphere into spheres. OF the relation
of the United States to the alliance
it said:
What was the reason for the ap-
pearance of this pact? What slim
ulated it? Doubtless it was stimulat-
ed in the first place by the latest
facts of the intensification and ex-
tension of military cooperation be-
tween England and the United
States
"This refers to the continuously
increasing military assistance rem
dered by the United States to Eng
land, the transfer of English naval
bases in the western hemisphere to
Continued on Page a.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-30
COP. BID FOR
ITALIAN VOTE
MEETS REBUFF
Galullo Launches Attack
at Italian-American
Outing Yesterday
COL. RICE RESENTFUL
AT VOTE DELIVERY
Palomba Says ''NOt Time
for Change in Party
leadership"

An attempt by the local
Republican organization to
win back Italian-American
support was on the books as
a distinct failure today, with
prospects that in the long
run it would do the party
more harm than good. The
wooing of Italian voters took
the form of having the local
delegation to the Republican
state convention give seven
OF It's eight votes to Frederick w.
Palomba at the fifth district con-
g.essional convention here Satur-
day, following a plea by an Or
ganization spokesman that the dis
trict give more recognition to Italian
candidates.
The hope that this move might
restore harmony was short Lived.
Yesterday, Prosecuting Attorney
Michael ]. Gaiuilo, speaking at an
outing Of the Young Mems italian
Republican Club, said bluntly: The
more I'm in politics the less respect
I have for certain leaders" Mr.. Ga
lulio, in whose mind is still fresh
the refusal of the G. o. p. to NOM
mate the then mayor. Patrick Per-
relic. for full term last year, made
it clear that Mr.. Palomba was one
Of the leaders" to whom he refer
red.
Rice Resentful
To add to the organizations woes,
Colonel Roy Rice, who lost the con-
gressional nomination by a small
margin to Frank T. johnson Of
Thomaston, was openly resentful of
the delivery of Waterbury's eight
votes to johnson after the second
ballot. Rice's friends charged that
lTSo,, fi,,.raN IN DaUa A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-30
AID TO BRITAIN
IS ACT OF WAR
So Declares Important
Italian Editor; Spanish
Envoy Due in Rome

Rome, Sept. 30-(UP)-The most
widely circulated newspaper in Italy,
the authoritative Corriere Della Sera
of Milan, today charged that United
States aid to Great Britain consti-'
tuted IAN act of war"
The attack conceded with the
return here of Count GaleaZzo CT
ano, foreign minister, from Berlin
where he signed the Berlin Rome
Tokyo military alliance. Ramon Ser
rano Suner, SPANS special envoy, is
expected here shortly, possibly to
negotiate a new axis agreement es-
tablishing SPANS place in the new
axis order"
The newspaper conferred its fire
on the deal whereby the United
States gave Britain so over-age de-
stroyers in return for western hem
isphere defense bases and proposals
to provide England with flying for
tress bombing planes.
(The flying fortresses are long
range bombing planes which easily
could carry out bombing assign
ments in Italy from either British
or Egyptian bases.)
Now it's announced" said the
paper, that the United States viii
give half its flying fortresses to
Britain. Again the dealer isn't a
private citizen out the state. These
acts are more than merely supply
ing other countries with ones own
gcods-these are acts of war;
The newspaper contrasted the
campaign statements o. Roosevelt
and the Republican nominee, Wen
iell Willkie.
"Willkie promised some time ago. .
1t said, that he would not allow
the United States to become involv-
ed in. the European war. This was
What the electors wanted him to
premise. Roosevelt promised exactly
tie same thing and swore he hated
war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-30
Cassidy Asks | ime Of.
Verdict Go In Records
Argument to Be Heard By Supreme Court in Hartford
Tomorrow Conspiracy Trial Pleas Also Scheduled
for Hearing-Date Of Appeal May Be Fixed

Attorney John H. Cassidy, coun-
sci for several of the accused in
the Waterbury conspiracy trial,
will file motion with the Supreme
Court in Hartford tomorrow morn
ing that the time the jury brought
in the verdict be inserted into the
records, a fact the records do not
reveal currently.
Previously, Atty. Cassidy had re-
quested Superior Court Judge En-
nest Inglis to put the time. into
the records, but had been refused.
Atty. Cassidy alleges that States
Attorney Hugh M. Acorn Of Hart
ford admits that the Jury return
ed the verdict at 4:30 p. M, Stan
dard Time.
Attorneys Sidney Cassel and AL
bert Hummel will also attend the
Supreme Court hearing tomorrow
as counsel for several defendants
The three local lawyers will also
press their pleas that the hearing
set for. Tuesday, october %, be
postponed until some time in Mo-
vember. The outcome of this mat
ter will determine whether or not
the appeals of the IA defendants
in the famous trial will be heard by
the Supreme Court on that date OF
not. The defense motion for recti-
fication of the appeal record will
also be heard at the same time.
The Supreme Court has allotted
the conspiracy case motions the
right of way over all other October
term matters. Tomorrow's argu-
ments may be bit extensive, but
a decision is expected some time
Continued ON Page AZ
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-30
FOUR CONFESS TO
THEFT OF BOOK
Story Of How Famed
Shakespeare Folio Was
Taken Now Revealed

Rochester, N. Y, Sept, 80 = GU.
P.) Two youths never went to
high school, a convicted bootlegger
and shoe store clerk pleaded guilty
today in federal court of stealing
the famed $4,000 Shakespeare folio
from the library Of william College
at Williamstown. Mass
Each faces a maximum two-year
prison term and a $4,000 fine. Fed
eral Judge Harold p Burke de-
ferred sentencing OF william Kwiat-
owslxi. 40, his brother, Edward. 20
their brother-in-law, Edward Bier.
nat. AZ. the former bootleeger, al
OF Buffalo, and Donald Lynch, 80
OF Glen Fails. The specific charge
against them was interstate trans
portation OF stolen goods.
Lynch said he has posed as q col.
lego professor after taking time Oh
from his duties IN the shoe store
won the confidence OF Williams Col
leae ofIlcials and finally gained &C.
cess 10 the library Then he mace
on with the rare volume published
h 1873
The stolen book, valued BY tlls
CONTINUED on Page ~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-30
French and Belgian Coast
Ports Also Attacked
By Raj Flyers
BOSCH FACTORY AMONG
BOMBED DETECTIVES
LOng-Range Firing Across
Channel Continues From
Both Sides
BY WALLACE CARROLL
UNITED Press Staff Correspondentl

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
London, Sept. 3O.-UP)
British bombers started fires
visible go miles away" in a
smashing, three-hour attack
on the great German oil re-
finery at Magdeburg, the air
ministry said today in report
ing extensive blows at the
fuel supply of the Nazi war
machine. Although Royal
Air Force bombs and shells from
big guns on the English Channel
coast again crashed on German lin
vasion" bases in France, the extent
of the British attack on oil sup
plies in Germany aroused specula-
ton as to whether authorities be-
lieved that the threat Of NaI IN
vasion had been reduced.
Use Huge Planes
The Germans still were attempts
| ing without success to win air
supremacy over Britain, using giant
four motored planes protected by
hordes Of fighter craft in attacks
that were thrown back from London
by British defenses.
In the counter-blows against the
Reich, the air ministry said. Bril-
fish bomberS for three hours at
tackled the Braubkohlen BENIN Ag
oil REFINERY plant at Magdeburg,
causing big explosions and trench
dous fires.
Fires Helpful
A ground haze hampered the
British bombing crews at first In
the Magdeburg attack, according to
the communique, but later many
fires started by incendiary bombs
illuminated the target and guided
the following aircraft directly 70
their objective"
Attacking in shallow dives,
often at low level, the raiders
straddled the oil plant with high
explosives leaving trail of many
| colored fires and spasmodic explo-
sions in their wake" it added.
The planes also attacked ports
| on the French and Belgian coasts
and German gun emplacementS at
Cape Griz Nez, opposite Dover.
| Railroad and concentration points
oil plants and aluminium works IN
Germany were bombed, the min
istry said.
Bosch Works Hit
SAT Stuttgart other forces Of
heavy bombers launched attacks
against large coal and gas works
and the Bosch factory which pro-
duced spark plugs, magnetoes and
other electrical equipment for the
German armed services" the com
munique said.
zone stick Of heavy bombs fell
across the gas works and caused
ten separate explosions, accom-
panied by brilliant white flashes.
1.-THE Bosch works was subjected
to is minutes Of hombardment
| from varying heights and was be-
lieved to have been heavily hit as
a large fire was seen blazing as
| Continued on Page a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-30
Threat Of German Invasion
OF England May Be Reduced
FINAL DRAFT OF
BILL WORKED ON
Experts Seek Solution to
Excess Profits Tax;
Plant Amortization

washington, Sept. 3d. CUP -
Congressional legal experts worked
today on the final draft of the ex-
cess profits tax-p.ant amortization
bill which will be presented to the
House for final approval tomorrow.
The final draft was agreed to by
a Senate House conference commit
tee at an unusual Sunday session.
The confereeS had been seeking Tor
seven days compromise on the
House and Senate versions for the
bill which is intended to speed the
defense program.
Only two major pieces of defense
legislation remain: The "home
guard" bill which would authorize
states to establish a new military
organization to replace national
guardsmen indicted into the reg
ular army; the House-approved
81, 470, 600, 900 arnly-navy deficiency
appropriation bill carrying funds to
finance CONSUMPTION.
Senate finance committee chair
man Pat Harrison promised Senate
action on the conference report OF
the tax bill "as soon as possible
after the House approves it.
In its present form. the bill is ex.
pected to raise about 81 ,000, 600 .O0t
annually after the first year of 1t.
operation, according to Harrison
Estimates of revenue for the pre-.
sent fiscal year were not available
because of last minute changes.
The excess profits features viii
affect approximately $4,000 corpor-
atoms.
Normal income taxes of corpora
tons with a net income of more
than $25, 900 a year would be in.
creased 81 per cent. thus bringing
the total corporate tax rate, includ.
ing the permanent rate and tenn
porary national defense taxes, OF
such corporations to "a per cent.
The other provisions of the bill
Excess Profits
Corporations required to pay {
graduated excess profits tax on al
net income in excess of theoretic.
al normal" income Corporation
can compute theoretical normal
income by two methods:
Continued on Page A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-30
FRENCH HOLDING
JAP ARMY BACK
Command Entrance to VAL
ley Leading to Indo=
China Capital

Hanoi French Indo- China. Sept.
30-(UP)-The French army has
taken up a strategic position at the
entrance of valley leading to
Hanoi, capital of French Indo-
China, and is holding a Japanese
army at bay several miles away.
The French have destroyed a
railroad bridge across a small river,
and Japanese planes have been
accommodating the area looking
for way out of the statemate.
At French headquarters, the
French officers lamented the fact
that the United States had not
realized Indo- China's need for
planes.
Officers said that Langson had
fallen into Japanese hands largely
because Of the French commands
orders to hold fire. This permitted
the Japanese. 10000 strcng and
guided by native traitors" TO sur
round the city. Their aerial and
artillery barrages destroyed the
French anti-tank emplacements,
and Langson fell. A large part Of
the Indo Chinese army was cap
tured and disarmed.
Continued ON Page A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-30
NAVY FAMILIES
TO STAY HOME
Travel to Far East For
hidden After Shang=,
hal Incident
BY ROBERT BELLAIRE
United Press staff CORRESPONDENT

Shanghai, Sept. 30.-(UP)-Amer-
lean naval authorities have forbid
den American Navy families to pro-
coed to the Far East, it was report
ed today as Admiral Thomas C.
Hart, United States Asiatic fleet
commander in chief, protested to
the Japanese against the beating of
a United States sailor by japanese
gendarmes.
Japanese gendarmes seized the
American Navy man in the business
and financial district of the Inter
national settlement, in which they
have no legal jurisdiction.
Reliable informants said that he
was beaten in an attempt to obtain
information regarding the where
abouts of certain United States
Warships.
Hart was understood to have pro-
tested the attack to vice admiral
Hantora Shimada, the Japanese
navy commandant.
As regards the report of the navy
department ban on the passage OF
navy families to the Far East, it was
said that there had as vet been nc
ofdef FOB Tire evacuation 81 navy
families now here.
The attack on the navy man was
made ON the allegation that he was
intoxicated, in an area in which the
japanese have no proper authority,
He was dragged to new head
quarters the gendarmes have estab-
lished in the bank of communica-
| tions building on the water front.
United States naval authorities
withheld details pending investiga-
ton. but it was understood that the
Japanese had released him.
Admiral Thomas c. Hart. COM
cander in chief of the United States
Asiatic fleet: Col. De Witt Peck,
United States Marine Commandment
and Richard P. Butrick. United
States consul general, conferred to-
day aboard Harris flagship, the
cruiser Augusta, about japanese
encroachment into the settlement
and also, 1t was believed, about the
assault on the seaman.
1t was understood that the Amer
lean naval, marine and consular
authorities would maintain that the
Japanese have no right to maintain
a. gendarme office in the financial
and business district.
Continued on Page A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-30
TABLE, COOKING
FATS RATIONED

Rome. Sept. 3d. tUP) --Ratloning
CT table and cooking fats including
butter. olive oil and lard was an
nounced by the ministry Of corpora
lions today for II Italians.
Each person viii be allowed half
a litre "a little more than one pint)
OF olive oil a month plus 800
erammes (i0h ounces) OF butter, "
alternatively 800 grainines Of lard,
Any individual may choose 70
have all butter and lard Or ell OLIVE
oil. Those who do 30 choose Will
be allowed " OF one klloeraia
(abgit i.G pound6) OF butter and
lard or As Of u lllro Approximately
80 quartz Of olive OIL month.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-30

Boston, Sept. 3O--CuP)--A week.
end toll OF Is violent deaths IN New
England included seven highway IA
talIties and three drownInes. A. y
8. sailor aboard tho ,niinesweeper
Kittiwakc. John d. Stone, 81, OF
Mlllville, Pa, crowned At Quincy.
Byron Attaquln 81. one OF the last
Chnppaqniddlck Indiana on Mar.
thab VINEYARD island, drowned N
Oak Bluffs harbor Harris p. Batch.
elder. 81, Of Meredith, n ~, wat
burned 70 death Ia 4 woodnnan's
cabin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-30
STORM WARNINGS OUT

Washington. Sept. 9O-CUP)--A
tropical storm, now 200 miles SOUTH
southeasl OF Cape Hatieras. CAUSED
the u. 3. Weather Bureeu today 70
order storm warninaa from Sandy
Hook 10 Nantucket, Mas,
The disturbance Nns described ~
being Of moderate intensity" At
tended b. strong Northeast Wln1As
probably 81 galn ioree.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-30

~ unised Press
Poles tel ~ new government
II EEnnoe.
Pepe piuk snakes q fearful
speseh 10 Poles, stFessins hepe
CO.. fheIE salFalien
Germany, IN official state
allnl, noliiled ilfIialn that ~
A|ps Eosle be snnh Wliheui
warning,
nsasSsa as.ivIly On Western
frunL
l|la1l nnnlraIaaEg 81 nlsnIns
q isnfsptHaI Hsn'sh psei
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-30
TREASURY BALANCE

washington. Sept 80 (UPl--Gov-
eminent expenses and receipts Tor
the current fiscal year through Sept.
9th, compared with a year ago:
rails Wear Expenses Last Year
$2,220,S2S,6 24.00 $2,349.97o,720.7s
Receipts
81, 4s1. Oi5,s22.s0 s1.41e.o4L19S. IS
Gross Deficit
$3.50, s07 SOTO sess.s29.52s.sa
Net Deficit
S74s,474, ssi.7O se2s.9gs.57s 50
So, 4so.7is.ss1'as ss.ia4.iss.o54ss