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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
Former Owner OF Cafe Dies;
Funeral Will Be Saturday

Mark Bowers. SO, of 1888 So.
Tacoma ave. former owner and
proprietor of the Bowers cafe at
III So. 3sth st. died Thursday in
a local hospital He had been in
IN health the past two years.
Funeral services will be held
Saturday at B p. m from the
Buekley-King chapel. The Royal
A. Cove lodge No. go, F. and
A. NJ. OF which he was a men,
Der. together with the Rev. w. s.
Folsom, will officiate. Burial will
follow in Mountain View burial
park.
Bowers, who was born in York
shire. England. July 8. 1850, had
been a resident Of Pierce county
80 years and resident of Tacoma
I3 years. Prior TO establishing
residence here, he was the super
intendent of the Pacific Coast Coal
Co. mines in Carbonate and Fair
fax. He opened the restaurant
shortly after coming to Tacoma
and remained in business there
until two years ago, at which time
he was forced to retire because
of i'll health.
He was much interested In all
sports, but had a preference for
baseball, undoubtedly because OF
the activity of his son. Joseph
Mark Bowers, in the City league
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
Jacobsen Judge in
Piano Contest

Leonard Jacobsen, professor OF
pianoforte In the Conservatory Of
Music, College OF Puget Sound.
leaves Tuesday for Spokane. where
he will Judge the piano division In
a music festival and contest spon-
sored by the Spokane Music
Teachers association. Out Of ITO
entrants, the winner designated by
Prof. Jacobsen win play a piano
concerto with the Spokane Sym
phony orchestra on the National
Music week program in May. The
piano contest will continue three
days.
Entrants in the string section
will be judged by Edward Hurli-
man, of Portland. Clifford Kant
nor. of Seattle. will Judge the voice
section.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
College Dance
Friday Night

Thousands of daffodils will dec
crate Normanna hall at So. 18th
and Kay 1t. Friday night. the
scene Of Knapp's Modern Business
college Daffodil dance.
Mamie Doohan, In charge Of en-
tertainment has gathered several
numbers to form an interesting
floor show. The Singing Secre-
tAries. girls quintet at the college.
head the entertainment. Other
numbers include an act from a
local dance studio, and q skit put
on by students at the school.
Growing Of the mystery queen
win feature the dance.
Refreshments will be served dur
ing the intermission. Knapp's ex-
tends invitations to the public to
attend.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
Briiish-Soviet
Pact RuInored
Report Reds Seek
New Trode Deol


Russia has proposed officially
% Great Britain the opening Of
negotiations for q sh-Russian
trade agreement, reliable sources
aid today at London.
This news was disclosed soon
after the ministry Of economic
warfare had announced the Rus
man steamships selenga and
Vladimir Mayakovshy. long de-
tained at Hong Kong under the
British blockade. had been trans
TERED to French authorities.
Both ships were believed to be
on the way to French Indo-china
under French warship escort
II was understood that Ivan
1faislxy. Russian ambassador. act
ing under instructions from Mos
COW. had communicated q Russian
trade agreement offer To viscount
Halifax, foreign secretary. We'd
nesday.
Offer Discussed
II was believed also that British
leaders took the opportunity to
discuss this offer with French
leaders at Thursdays allied
supreme war couueil meeting.
Britain's attitude toward the
Russian offer was In doubt.
Several foreign diplomats ex-
pressed doubt that Britain would
accept They cited allied. and
particularly French. misgivings
lest any commodities supplied to
Russia under . trade agreement
might be forwarded to Germany.
me selenga and Vladimir May
akovslxy incidents were cited ~
results Of these misgivings. Both
had cargoss Of vital war materials
and Britain stopped them only be-
cause It feared their cargocs
would 90 to Germany via Siberia
NIsisl<y Drops Hint
II had been understood that
Ambassador Maisky. acting on in
structions. had intimated to the
foreign office several times that
there was an opportunity to make
Z benevolent neutral OF Russia.
Though II was said also that
Britain had been cold to the re-
ported intimations. 1t was said
that France was anxious over
them. and had been anxious par
ticularly over the Msislxy-Halifax
talk.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
Posimasiers Meet
Mar. so in Sumner

SUMNER - Postmaster Walter
Bernard win entertain Pierce and
King county postmast6rs in Sum-
ner at 7:S0 p. m Saturday.
The Daffodil Queen and her
court win be guests OF honor. and
the banquet table win be ianshly
decorated in the same theme.
Assisted by the postmasters OF
peiringer and Pacific. Bernard has
arranged q turkey banquet. and an
interesting program to follow.
Dinner music will be furnished
by Bob Huff's orchestra A large
attendance from the two counties
h expected.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
P. L. c. Band Plans
Spring Concert

Preparations for an early spring
outdoor concert are being made
by the Pacific Lutheran college
band under the direction of Prof.
Z. NJ. Akre Of the music depart
ment. To be augmented by the
Falkland community band, this
group win have q personnel OF
thirty members.
Included in the program will be
a variety OF Hungarian dances and
Sousa's marches. selections OF
light opera from the new band
folio of modern music by Victor
Herbert and Romberg. ''Introduc-
ton TO Act Three Of Lohengrin, ,
La Golondrina," The Vanished
Army" poetic march by Afford.
and "I'n Take You Home Again,
Kathleen" with Marvin Loftness
taking the baritone solo and the
trumpet duet played by William
Cannon and Roy Stevens.
Members of this band include
Torger Lee, Jordan Moe, Harold
Peterson and Donald Mates. clari-
nets: william Cannon. Phil Mey-
ers and Roy Stevens. trumpets;
Markus Stuen and Gerhart Reitz,
saxophone. Charles Richter. horn;
Marvin Loftness and Gordon Hus-
by, baritone: Clarence Monson and
Gerhart Ness, basses; Harold
Falkenberg and Robert Landok,
percussions, and Al Jacobs. from
bone.
This group viii also be featured
Friday evening. April 5. in connec-
ton with p. l. c. drama night.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
Groups Sing For
Finnish Relief
Concert TO Be Given Sum
day at Normanna Hall

Sunday afternoon the Runeberg
ehoruses OF Tacoma and Olympia
and the NormAnna male chorus
will appear in their Finnish relief
concert at Normanna hall. So.
18th and K SITS.
The concert is scheduled TO start
at O'Clock. Assisting artists will
be Maxine johnson, violinist, and
Mrs. Vivian Peltier. soprano. Dr.
rectors of the Runeberg chorus
are Mrs. Ralph Carlson of olym-
pia, and Miss Linnea Cord Of Ia
coma. George johnson directs the
Normanna male chorus.
A feature of the program will
be a short address by DR.. Oscar
A. Tingelstad, of Pacific Lutheran
college.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
Youth to Pay Costs
Or Take Jail Term

Roger Hutton. 21-year-old Ia
conan. of 1112 So. sth st. picked
by Justice Clarence E. Layton as
the one who started a scuffle 4
the Play-Mor bowling alleys on
So. X St early on the morning
OF March 20. had the alternative
Friday of 45-dsy county Jail
sentence or paying all costs Of his
trial Thursday afternoon.
offense was third degree assault
upon Arnold Miller. operator of the
place. who suffered a broken nose.
Robert Mathews. 10. Of 1854 18th
St. S. W. Puyallup. participant
with Hutton in the alteration.
was freed on payment of a $40
fine.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
Driver and His Two
Companions Booked

Leo Firth. IS. was jailed on a
drunk-drivng charge and two COM
panions. one . minor, were held for
disorderiy conduct Thursday night.
Larry Towne. q, was held in Jail
with Firth. and the i6-year-old
companion was turned over 10
Juvenile authorities. All were held
overnight.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30

church, leaves his wife. Louisa of
the home, with whom he would
have celebrated his 35th wedding
anniversary Monday; two daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Dora Turner and Mrs.
Alice Henderson of Tacoma, and
two grandchildren.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30

1t wos COY pory that assembled OF the Union Stoton
Thursday night wish hoppy and toru journey to the 40
nnuscions and members Of the public school music sott as
they orted for the National Music Educators conference at
Los Angeles In the po members Of the court OF Queen
Marco l. who presdes this yeors Doffod festival In
the photograph ore Wersen Tocomo music supervisor
and on Official of the conference and Princess Eo Reno OF
Sumner Just otter she had decorated him with wreath OF
doffodis The four-doy conference opens March 81
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
laErDoRs ANNUAL VISITORS

Each year. in the month Of May.
: group Of meteors flash through
the sky. reminders Of Halley's
comet These meteors formed a
part q the train Of Halley's comet
when II came near the earth In
1910. and they were left behind
when II moved off into space.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30

At one time Bowers managed a
Northwest champion soccer team.
Other than his son, Bowers, a
m m Der of the Presbyterian
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Washington, D. C.
BRITISH BOMBERS
The long-discussed transport Of
American-made bombers to Eng
land by flying them across the At
lantic finally WIN get under way in
a couple Of weeks.
The exact date, route and number
Of ships is a secret. But the planes
will be two-motor Lockheeds, known
in England as Hudson middle-weight
bombers, and they will depart from
the big airport at Botswood, New
foundland, which was enlarged ex-
pressly for this purpose.
Also, the first flights will be made
by British crews who already are
in Canada. These men are crack
transport pilots and navigators
trained in celestial navigation.
American flyers, accustomed to pi-
loting on radio beams, will not be
used until later, possibly not be-
fore spring. They will have to UNI
dergo training on the route.
England is seriously deficient in
long-range bombers, as it has had
to concentrate wholly on fighting
planes, pursuits, interceptors and
divers, in order to keep control Of
the air over its islands. This lack
OF powerful offensive planes has
handicapped Britain both in smash
ing at vital German areas and in
gripping Italy, the weak sister of
the Axis. One factor aiding the
British is the lengthening Of the
night. This made possible the re-
cent raids on northern Italy's indus
trial centers, and as the nights grow
still longer these attacks will be in
creased.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-08-30

KITCHEN showers are fun for
Az everyone and, while they are
always supposed to be a surprise,
the prospective bride will be wise
to give out a broad hint as to her
color scheme. The dearest wish
Of one bride-to-be was a kitchen in
gay Mexican colors. Her friends
had a wonderful time selecting
everything from pottery to peeling
knife handles in tones Of green,
orange and red. One gift that was
appreciated most of all was the
apron, curtain and tea towel set
sketched here.
This set was made from muslin
flour and sugar bags. Muslin by
the yard would do just as well,
and I have shown in the sketch
how the Bingham facings and bias
tape trimming were applied to add
the correct touch Of color. If you
have never cut an apron without
q special pattern, you will find di-
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-08-30
Speed of Baseball

A speed Of 139 feet per second,
or 94.7 miles per hour is the great
est recorded speed Of a pitched
baseball. This rate was recorded
by the speed meter owned by the
Cleveland Indians for q ball pitched
by Alley Donald, a member Of the
pitching staff Of the New York Yam
KEGS, in the Cleveland stadium on
August 30, 1889. The previous rec.
ord, established by Dee Miles of
the Philadelphia Athletics, was 1856
feet per second.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-08-30

ders, don't 60 quietly ahead and
i've their lives as they want to,
Their only way out is quarrels and
divorce. But believe many wom-
an would find herself out of the
woods Of headaches, depression,
nerves, discomfort, if she sat down
seriously today-or better, took q
long walk, while bordering the ques-
ton, What changes in our lives
would make me happy? What would
I LIKE to do?"
Almost always the answer is near
er than she thinks.
Set in His Ways.
My husband is the best man in
the world" Philadelphia wife once
wrote me, "but he is set. He hates
anything out of the way. For ex-
ample when two summers ago I
clipped my little girls hair quite
short, for their comfort and my con-
venience in the hot weather, he was
so angry and so long resentful that
l paid dearly for it, and SO did the
girls. This year they wear curls,
a great care for mother. Our boy is
six months old, and as I do all my
own work l was glad to get the
baby-pen into commission again. But
Kent has decided that the pen may
curb the baby's natural daring, as
he grows, and he won't let me use it.
I'VE have a pleasant back yard
with naples and elms in it, and I
have hedges around the clotheslines
and the barrels. Often would like
to serve lunch or supper there, for
the birds do the clearing up and I
can make meal a picnic, with pa
per cups and napkins. But this con-
ventional man of mine is always
conscious Of the few back windows
OF neighbors' houses that overlook
the yard; some one MIGHT be look
ing down on us and our hamburgersl
Kent hands me his pay check
every week; he doesn't drink; he
loves his wife and children. We
save, and we own a lovely roomy
home. But it is trying to be checked
at so many turns, and I am won
dering if you ever had a problem
like mine to solve, and what is the
cure.
Regimented Living.
Il must not send poems to the
evening paper, because it embar-
rasses him. The children are never
permitted to see the 'funnies' in the
Sunday paper. No caller must ever
be in the house when Kent gets
home. If l telephone friend he
keeps up an undertone: Cut that,
dear. You've been six minutes
you've been seven minutes II
suggest movie he is apt to say
kindly, I don't think that with all
you've had to do today you want to
sit in a hot movie Never in the
nine years since my oldest was born
has he stayed at home and let me
go anywhere at night.
But we all love our daddy. and
this i not complaint" the letter end
ed. ITS only that if he would be
little less critical, we would all be
so happy"
This letter is about six years old.
l quote it as a perfect illustration
of the state of vassalage in which
some women unconsciously live. The
man neither knew he was a tyrant,
nor the woman that her life was be-
ing robbed of all its bloom. And
of course the result was frightened
nerves and half-conscious resent
ment on her part, and the encour-
aGement Of his nessianic connIex tn
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WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL r. PARTON

Consolidated Features-wNU Service)
NEW YORK.-More varied in this
' country than in England are
repercussions to the things John
Cudahy, United States ambassador
~ to Belgium, is
Criticized for having said in
Talk on Belgium an interview
in England
that aid would be required next win
ter to save 100000 Belgians from
famine. His defense of King Leo
pold III, is regarded as, to say the
least, undiplomatic. Whether Secre-
tary OF State Cordell Hull will take
cognizance of a further statement
alleging the correct behavior of Ger
man troops in Belgium-criticized in
England as wholly out of order-re-
mains to be seen.
Son Of an Irish immigrant
who went to Milwaukee and
made an immense fortune as
meat packer, Cudahy's dipIo-
matte career began in 1888 with
his selection by President Roose-
veit Is ambassador to Poland.
In May, 1887, he became minis
ter to the Irish Free State and
was appointed to the post at
Brussels in 1899, succeeding
Joseph E. Davies when the lat
ter was assigned as a special
assistant to the secretary OF
state.
Cudahy was the first to advise
President Roosevelt-via telephone
of the German invasion of Bel
gIum where he remained at his post
OF duty, narrowly escaping death or
injury from bombs, until he, togeth-
er with all other foreign represen-
tatives were requested to leave the
country. Later, in Germany, he
spent two hours with Leopold of Bel
GUM in the castle assigned to the
monarch by the German army and
obtained from him a personal letter,
presumably divulging the inside
story of Belgian capitulation, for
Mr.. Roosevelt.
The ambassador is q Harvard
man, class Of 1910, holding de-
grees Of bachelor of law, Wis
eonsin, 1913, and doctor of laws,
Carroll university. Admitted to
the Wisconsin bar In 1913, no
practiced until 1917 when he be-
came . captain In the United
States army. Later he ranched
in New Mexico, and from 1928
until 1888, when appointed to Po-
Land, he engaged in real estate.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-08-30
EQUALITY

Kathleen Norris makes Q plea for
equality OF ,Domen ,Uifh men. She
dePlores the state OF unconscious vas.
sGidge in which many sUomen live.
Their lives are constantly being regu.
lated by donineerins husbands who
don't realize they are acting as tyrants
over their beloved suipes. Miss Norris
studies the serious problem raised BY
this deploroble condition and offers
adUice on hon. il can be solved.
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nNE Of the outspoken critics in
~ congress Of most, if not all, of
President Roosevelt's policies, Sen.
Rush d. Holt (Dem., w. Va.) finds
Young Senator 5 ine cu u; s
Strong Critic senate over
OF Rooseuelt the selective
service and
National Guard bills peculiarly his
dish. Punctuated by daily clashes
between him and Sen. Sherman
Mnton OF Indiana, the colloquys of
the two lawmakers have not been
regarded by their colleagues as en-
HANGING the dignity of the sem
ate. At all events, Hollis reputa-
ton as a senator, who has spoken
to more empty seats than any
other member Of the upper house,
past or present, has not been main
tanned In recent sessions, nor do
legislative correspondents note the
days the smiles of amused toler-
ance which used to mark his
bludgeoning oratory.
With the exception of Henry
Clay, the youngest man ever
elected to the United States sem
ate, Holt landed in Office In 1885
without benefit of the Democrat
10 machine Of his state, though
wearing the Democratic label.
When he defeated Sen. Henry o.
Hatfield, Republican warhorse,
Tor the senatorial toga, he was
70 years old, too young to as
sumo his seat. The voters of
his state knew this, but 1t made
no difference. They Just cast
their ballots for him anyway.
He had to wait six months be-
fore the legal office-taking age
arrived.
Having been at one time an
athletic director, at st. Patrick's
school In West Virginia, the in
stincts Of this flushed, exalted
STRIPPING were all for the old
college try from the minute he
was sworn In, a manifestation of
youthful ebuIIience violating an
unwritten senate rule calling for
shcnce On tne part OF new
member.
One Of the first things he did was
to visit the White House to make
il clear that he was in line with
New Deal policies, but later it was
made equally clear he was q hold
out so far as machine politics, state
or national, were concerned. AS for
the New Deal, he fought the court
reorganization bill. He repeatedly
accused the WPA of political i'm
fermentation. He opposed the cash
and carry neutrality plan.
When his present term in the SEN
ate ends he win not return, having
been defeated in the primary cleo
ton in his state last May.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-08-30

nNE of the outspoken critics in
congress Of most, if not all, of
President Roosevelt's policies, Sen.
Rush D. Holt (Dem., w. Va.) finds
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-08-30

W IHEN was a girl the
w burning question was
w that of franchise for
women. In that day everyone
men and women both-thought
there was some argument
about it. Women were fit to do
all the hard work in the world,
and the few who struggled
through law or medical courses
invariably came out ahead of
the men in class work, but there
was a general impression that
no matter how estimable and
lovable members of the weaker
sex were,. they shouldn't have
any authority.
Nothing to say about schools,
or politics, or business, or hous-
ing, or morality. The only
voices that could speak on these
topics were those of men. In
the delicate questions of their
souls, of their ailments, of in
comes and responsibilities,
women must be guided by men.
Women are not yet awake. They
are still being led blindfolded
through life by the all-controlling
males. But at least they are stir
ring in their sleep, and political re-
sponsibility, being granted a short
~ years ago, has encouraged them
to work for recognition in higher
positions and in statecraft.
Future Holds More Freedom.
Twenty yearsl Biologically one
second. In a hundred years they
will only have begun to grasp the
full power Of their shackles and to
take their rightful places as a sex,
prisoned too long in a world of false
conditions; conditions made by men
only, and for which both men and
women pay.
Women are gregarious. They like
community life. Generations ago
young mothers would have united
their interests, gotten together
groups OF babies, commissioned a
few mothers in turn to do the tend
ing, cook the spinach, watch the
sleepers, and so have freed two
thirds of the other mothers for sew
eral days housekeeping, sewing,
study and relaxation each week.
But man, jealous and monopolis-
tic, decreed that each woman should
hnr
lishment His business is run on
cheerful, companionable, group
unit plan. But until some 80 years
ago no wife ever touched money of
her own; it was doled out to her in
dollars and half-dollars, for shoes
and gas and meat. She dared not
even dream of Babies club, in
which she and her congenial friends
and a group Of happy children might
share the nursery years. No, her
man decreed, consciously or uncon-
sciously, that the only companion
she might have in her long firing
days was some ignorant young for
eigner.
Work Could Be Organized.
II women's work could be organ
lied as mems work is; with centers
where small children flourished I'M
der the care of their own mothers;
with a garden, a playground, a
well-equipped attic for rainy days,
reading hours, music, language
study, there would be happier
homes, less divorce, less nerves, less
psychoses. Women hunger for this
economic, safe, inspiring solution for
the small-years problem, but men
still frown it down. They never
think what it does to wife to spend
all her waking hours in the presence
of three small, restless, demanding
children and an Armenian girl of 10
whose great interest is the Thurs
49," = .1ht darco
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NOTE: AS service to our read
ers Mrs. Spears has prepared q
series Of homemaking booklets.
Booklet 5 just published contains
81 pages Of clever ideas fully il
Illustrated; and a description of the
other numbers in the series. Book
lets are 10 cents each to cover
cost and mailing. Send order to:
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By KATHLEEN NORRIS

w IHEN was a girl the
w burning question was
w that of franchise for
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MN0y Nome NAeA Ijzssl
NJ 0!!,R 81! AL! IT! 4; 3


If the will and the time always
went together, how much we should
be able to do!-Robert Hugh Ben
son.
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by Ruth Wyeth Spears o9P

rectons in Book 4 along with
ideas for more aprons and other
fascinating things to make for al
most nothing.