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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-18
McChord Ship
On Long Trip
Nearly All States
Will Be Visited
hcCHoRp FIELD 10 DAYS

hcCHoRD FIELD A 10 DAYS
fight during which virtually ever
state in the union VII be seen. D
TO begin Saturday for 10 MeChorC
fed officers and men in q Dougls,
B-lsA medium bomber
In command Of 1st 1t !. C
Schneider. the flight vii be an eN.
peumentsl one, IN particular "a
test special equipment installed for
suh-zero temperature operation.
1t Schneiders crew VII 10
composed Of I'd 1t II :. Taylor
2d 1t o. H Rehmann. % Il L. r
Maeksy, I'd 1t. f. p. Clark. Master
SGT. H. d. Leroy. engineer: staff
Sgt. T. D. Hebb. radio operator
Cpl. r. II. Wood and Pvt. y. W
Elliott, gunners. 1t Msekay is
attached 10 the infantry-reserve
the others all belong TO the air
corps or air corps reserve.
Stops are scheduled az Offutt
field, Omaha, Neb; Municipal Air
port. Chicago: Selfndge field,
Mich. Mitchell field. New York:
Municipal Airport. Nashville.
Tenn; Kelly field. San Antonio.
Tex. Meacham field. Fort Worth.
Tex, and March field. Riverside
Ca
The men hope 10 return 10 Nc
Chord field in time to celebrate
the new year.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-18
Owner Of Injured
Pigeon Is Sought

At the home ~ Thomas Turn
hui. 400 Ia Division Lane. there
Is pigeon with a broken wing
Tlrnbul. custodian Of Trinity
Methodist church. Ia. 35th and
Mckinley ave., rescued the pigeon
from the church helfry
Tuesday the Turnbull family was
trying TO find the pigeons owner
On one leg Of the bird Is band
reading "AU-40M3ls
Members Of the family have
been taking care Of the pigeon as
best they can. though none OF
them knows much about the
birds
But they say he's lively
pigeon. eats all right. but cant fly
Just walks around.
They invite the owner. or any
one knowing the owner. to call
GA 5746.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-18
Twenty Trains, 100 Buses,
700 Autos Are TO Be Used
Much transportation TO Be Required
When Soldiers Leave on Furlouqhs

ard the only men Who wear mi.
forms probably are street corner
Santa Clauses
Their Christmas fuflaughs End
Jan :. which Wtii give time
enough 20 travel % any home. ~
matter where If Is in the L. 5
The men viii ~ leaving Tor almost
every state ~ the a. with NEST
of the men stationed here having
their homes in western states
Those who plan 10 pass up the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-18

Christina. Through md remain
in barracks vent fna u - hsd
Most - Their usual duties vlli
ee enrtsilsd. giving them plenty
% time % iass advantage II =
number q special programs sna
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-18
Surgical Dressing
Office Will Close

Mrs. Darcy Dayton announces
that the American Red Cross sur
gical dressing classes vii terml-
nate for the year al the Thursday
meeting Of the groups
Glasses have been meeting regu-
larry at the 9Th floor office Of the
Red Cross in the Medical Arts
building. They will be resumed
Tuesday. Jan. :, Mrs. Dayton said.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-18
~ staff Correspondent

- u i l. y " >-TsFntN 10
eosch trains 100 so-paSsengsr
buses and zoo privately owned
cars al - utilized when FORT
Lewis ard Camp Murray soldiers
approximately $4,000 strong.
desert their posts sn mssse
Friday.
They aren't ne only ones who
Will leave. either. Mere than
oo0 McChord field officers md
men. too. wil Be A. ". l.. which
Is somewhat different from
A. ". Q. l.
To Start FRIDAY
Christmas holidays begin FOR the
soldiers Friday. And al. or most
Of them. anyway. are going home.
where there aren't any hugles
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-18

ssisd ffsslt esk<. nlne< pc. 81
fiam pazldinx with rim ssuref.
etc
n has stso h@<n snueuared thnk
religious services for Fa<n ~ ~
faiths III - H~ld r. - p1~t
chapel
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-18

slaxi whsf . sinner hss k<sn a.
neunrei
noast turkey I'll - - menus
piece - RESISTANCE. nsit aIonx WITH
Il eiIi - practically everything
saffh n1sutionlaa n the 10y Il
snsH thru. - e. fr=sA ersh
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-18

athletic svsnis planned far N.
holiday period
rhrFen ~ he<lnk skssF. Tor
ere thing hAskstHzn games =
Bowling tournament cStfa sre-
ela1 programs hlilsd IT the army
lhszters era ~ Christmas aav
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-18
Bandits Hide Out
And With Red Faces

GREAT FALLS. Mont. -Five
red-faced bandits hid out today
not from police but from
friends
The shsdmeu= staged = hold
% % : bus - wild west
gesture FOR a Chicago boxing
tssm.
In TIRE midst o. Their Eun-
point shakedoVn Of passengers
they discovered they had the
wrong hus
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-18
Wife Has Husband
Arrested I'd Time

A second time within a month.
Jack Heiser. so-year-eld Tseoms
carpenter. Of a2ii SO. Ash st. Vas
arrested BY county officers Mon
day afternoon on the complaint Of
his wife Nov 20 she had him
picked up on = third degree assault
charge. lie wss in the county jail
Tuesday charged hy his wife With
being an hAbitual drInkArd,
When you need a few extra dol
lars. look around the basement or
attic fer discarded articles These
will bring You cash from some
one II you advertise them with
an inexpensive Times Want Ad.
Phone Main 3ia1.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-12-06
DEFENSE INFLUENCE

There was a hidden brickbat in
that sharp warning issued by Assist
ant War Secretary Robert Patterson
that no one has an inside track
in the awarding of army defense
contracts.
What the mild-mannered former
U. S. Circuit court judge didn't say
was that he is planning to insert a
little clause in every army contract,
requiring contractors to swear they
paid no commissions or any other
fees to obtain the order. Penalty for
doing so is cancellation OF the con-
tract.
Under the law Patterson is legally
responsible for the entire industrial
mobilization program and passes on
every large army contract. The
boasts of certain lobbyists and high
pressure promoters that they can get
army orders through Inside infiu-
ence' are, therefore, direct refiec-
ton on him. He doesn't like it one
bit and has no intention of putting
up with it.
Some of the influence" operators
have even told officials of cities they
could deliver defense projects which
had already been located elsewhere
by the war department for strategic
reasons.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-12-06

WASHINGTON. - Natal, Brazil,
one of the proposed South Ameri-
can bases to be used by the United
States for defense of the Western
hemisphere, is already an impor-
tant point on international trade and
communications lines, says a bulle-
tin from the National Geographic So
ciety. ION the receiving end Of air
service westbound from Europe and
Africa to the northeast shoulder Of
Brazil and beyond, It Is set at the
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-12-06
Natal Forms Gateway for South Atlantic Air Traffic

narrowest stretch of the Atlantic be-
tween the Old and New worlds. Only
1,620 nautical miles lie between Ma
tai and Dakar, strategic French air
and naval base of Senegal, West
Africa.
Before the outbreak of the war in
September, 1899, two European serv-
ices linked Natal with Europe by
way of the west coast of Africa. A
French line ran between the Bra
lillian port and Dakar; while Ger
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-12-06

man service operated between Natal
and Bathurst, capital of the British
colony of Gambia, 100 miles south.
east of Dakar.
Both of these air services were
discontinued a few days after the
start of the war in 1889. In their
stead, an italian line is now in op-
Grafton on an irregular and unan-
nounced schedule.
'The terminus Of a railway from
the interior of the province, Natal
has considerable coastwise a. well
a. foreign trade.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-12-06
DUTCH PRINCESS

Inside story of the expected White
House visit of Crown Princess JUL
ana of The Netherlands is that she
and Mrs. Roosevelt have kept up a
correspondence ever since the prin-
cess arrived in Canada six months
ago with her two baby daughters.
The visit to Washington might
have come sooner, but the princess
put it off because she didn't relish
a round of eXtravagant entertain
ment. She wants to avoid being
dined and wined while her own peo-
pie, now under German domination,
are living on rationed food.
The princess, with her two chill
dren, has been living in a rented
house in Ottawa. Her husband,
Prince Bernhard, is in London as
aide-de-camp to Queen Wilhelmina,
and her brother is reported to be in
a German concentration camp.
In Ottawa, the princess has not
entertained, has amused herself by
walking and playing tennis. She will
be White House guest for two days,
beginning December 10.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-12-06

THERE is pace and precision
L in Rachel Crothers' polished
dramas of life and manners. SINH
larly everything clicks in her Amer
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-12-06
CONSCIENTIOUS DIRECTORS

The man responsible for the light
sentence given the eight divinity col
lege students who refused to register
for the draft was not the New York
court, but Attorney General Robert
Jackson.
The young men, who were stu
dents of Union Theological seminary,
we're about to receive a three-year
sentence. But as result of Jack
sons intervention, they got a year
and a day.
jackson polled the judges in adj
vance of the decision and found they
were all in favor of a long, stiff
sentence. Partly for humanitarian
reasons, and partly because he
didn't want the boys to become mar
tyrs who would arouse wide popular
objection to the law, jackson in
structed u. S. Attorney Cahill to ask
for q short sentence.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-12-06
Needy of Britain
Is Taken Under
Thespians' Wing


en-, and which now has more than
5000 persons knitting, sewing, gath
erlng funds, garments, food, blan-
kets, even ambulances and can
teens, and keeping them moving to
England in mounting quantity.
About 1000 of Mrs. Crothers' asso-
ciates are New York women, in and
out of the theater. But the organi-
cation and momentum are distinctly
of the theater, and a score for the
world of make-believe in facing the
grim urgency of harsh reality.
Mrs. Crothers has staged an
average of one play a year ever
since the Broadway presentation
of THE Three of U.s." in 1906.
At her home in Bloomington, ILL.,,
she was an impreSario Of paper
dolls at the age of four and
staged her first play-in the back
parlor of her home so years ago.
when she was IL. 1t was a FIVE
act play, called Every Cloud
Has a Silver Lining" She was
the outstanding dramatist of her
Sunday school class, but, be-
cause Of the deacons, her plays
were discreetly offered as
sketches. Her parents, Of Scotch,
Irish, Hugenot antecedents, were
both doctors.
After her graduation from the
state normal university of Illinois,
she worked first in amateur and then
professional theatricals, writing,
acting and producing and then
stormed Broadway with no impress
sive resources other than the manu.
script of 'The Three of U.s." The
Sunday school playwright from
Bloomington hit bright note of big.
town sophistication right from the
start, clear on down to Susan and
God" Of two years ago.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-12-06

Ernest u. draper mas Dtth
speaking up for the small business
man whenever he had a chance.
Out to Channel c .M,S liI bis Of of
Small Business fetal assign
In Defense Work ment, as the
serve board, of which he is a gov
ernor, designates him as the boards
representative in its invita- ton to
small business to get in happily on
the defense effort. He will work
with the officers of reserve banks in
their cooperation with local banks
in loosening credit and giving small
concerns crack at government
contracts. The idea seems to be to
channel small banking as well as
small manufacturing into the de-
Tense mobilization of money and
productivity.
MIR. Draper, New York head of
food packing and marketing
business which isn't SO small, has
earnestly extolled what he calls
business craftsmanship" He
writes for trade journals and
exp0unds for business forums his
idea of wide diffusion of oppor-
tunity among small business
men, and the peril of unre-
strained monopoly and whole
hog taxation. From 1885 to 1888,
he was assistant secretary of
commerce, becoming a COVER
nor of the Federal Reserve board
in March of the latter year. In
1880, he was the representative
of industry on the National La
Dor board. In June of last year
he advocated, before a senate
subcommittee, a proposal to
liberalize federal banking ma
chinery in the interest of the
small manufacturer and mer-
chant.
Owning yacht and belonging to
several sWank yachting clubs might
seem to exclude Mr.. Draper from
the small business league, but it has
been no bar sinister. Amherst gave
him a degree in 1906 and later on
an honorary masters degree.
This writer was talking to the
owner of small tool plant in New
Jersey the other day, and found
him quite angry about the defense
program. He said the New Deal
had rugged everything for the big
boys, with nothing for the little ones,
and that it will be worse now that
the election is over and small-busi-
ness votes aren't Immediately need
ed. Mr.. Diapers new activities may
reaSSure him.
THERE is pace and precision
IL - p,,la1 r11,zl :.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-12-06
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ROBOT PLANE SCORES HITS
WASHINGTON.-No military Sc
cret is more closely guarded than a
being tried out secretly by the navy
in both Hawaii and Langley field,
Va.
Navy experts have been working
for more than 10 years to develop
reliable "pilotless" plane operated
by radio control. Observers who
have witnessed some of the latest
tests, pronounce the device as near
miraculous. A robot bomber takes
off, discharges it's bombs over dis
tant target, returns to base and
lands without being touched by a
human hand.
The distance of the target is cal
culated in advance, and when the
robot reaches it a device automat-
ically releases the bombs. Nat
urally the aiming is largely a mat
ter of chance, but in the tests num-
Der of direct hits were scored. The
cruising radius of the robots is linn
tied only by fuel supply and the
radio frequency range.
While most effective at short dis
tances, the robot can be used for
long-range bombing in conjunction
with piloted planes or by so-caued
system of "relay cotrol," that is,
by radio stations along the line of
flight.
So closely is the invention guarded
that navy officers have been warned
that any talk about it will be con-
sidered violation of the Espionage
act, and make them subject to court
martial and dismissal.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-12-06
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

Consolidated Features-WNU ServiceJ
NEW YORK.-For many years,
Y Ernest G. Draper has been
speaking up for the small business
man whenever he had a chance.
Evening star., 1940-03-10
Future of Railroads
Will Be Debated

Two prominent railroad men will
debate on do the Railroads of the
United States Face Nationaliza-
tion?" Friday night at 8:15 o'clock
At the Cosmos Club at the monthly
meeting of the District of Colum-
bia Section, American Society of
Civil Engineers.
The speaker for the Affirmative is
Col. William j. Wilgus, formerly vice
president and chief engineer of the
New York Central Railroad and
deputy director general of trans
portation for the A. E. F. during the
World War. M. J. Gormley, execu-
tive assistant, Association of Ameri-
can Railroads, will take the negative
side.
A panel representing private and
public interests will question the
two speakers at the conclusion.
Evening star., 1940-03-10
Electrical Students
Guests of Institute

Student members of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers at
George Washington, Maryland and
Catholic Universities and at the
Bliss Electrical School will be guests
Of the Washington section, A. I. E.
E., at meeting at pm. next Tues
day at the Harrington Hotel.
Addresses will be delivered at the
meeting by DR.. Charles FELTON,
Scott, New Haven, Conn, professor
emeritus of electrical engineering at
Yale University. who is past presi-
dent and founder of the A. I. +. E.
student branches and an honorary
life member Of the institute; r. NAL
colin Farmer, New York, national
president of the institute, and H. H.
Henline, New York, national secre-
tary.
A motion picture, depicting scenes
In DR.. SCOTS career. will be shown.
Evening star., 1940-03-10
South's Fishery Products
Valued at $13,O73,OOO

Commercial catch of fishery prod
ucts in the South Atlantic and Gulf
States in 1888 amounted to 621,-
S58, 900 pounds, valued at $13, ,073, 900,
the Bureau of Fisheries announced
yesterday.
While the, catch represented IA
per cent increase in volume, as
compared with the previous year,
the dollar volume was 8 per cent
less. Florida ranked first with re-
spect to both volume and value of
the catch. Production in that State
amounted to 241, ,443 900 pounds, val
ued at $4,988, 600.
There were 48,300 persons en-
ployed in the fisheries, of whom
29,600 were fishermen. Manufac-
tured products produced a value of
Gil, 1852 ,783.
Evening star., 1940-03-10
Syracuse Chancellor
Deplores hurrying
OF Student Training
Grohum Fovors Giving
Opportunity to Follow
Through With Any Idea

. Chancellor william Pratt Graham
Of Syracuse University last night de-
plored the type Of high school and
college instruction which harries
the student and judges results by
grades and hours. expended.
He favored q form Of liberal train
ing to allow student enough time
to grasp the fundamentals of q sub
ject before shifting hurYiedly to
something else. Chancellor Graham
spoke before several hundred men,
bers of the Washington chapter Of
the Syracuse Alumni Association
and guests at dinner 1T the Shore
ham Hotel.
why is It," he asked, that 30
many young people 60 through high
school and college and come out
with not much more than q record
OF grades and hours; without any
real acquaintance of the subject
matter covered, and with more or
less contempt for the educational
process?"
The answer, he said, is found in
the last report Of the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement
OF Teaching. Research conducted
shows that students never have any
opportunity to follow through with
any idea. Two outstanding at
tempts to eliminate this tendency
In the educational processes, he said.
are being conducted at st. Johns
College. Annapolis, Nd, which is
concentrating on the mastery of
some 100 OF the worlds classics: and
at the University of Chicago, where
a similar experiment is being tried.
DR.. Graham said Syracuse Uni
versity would maintain the tradi-
tlonai form Of liberal training, with
the liberal arts school as a center
OF the entire institution. He said he
old not think higher educational
training should be strictly vocational
In character, as is advocated in some
schools, but that vocational training
could properly be worked in with a
program which emphasizes q sound
preliminary training.
Former Judge Clarence N. Good
win introduced Chancellor Graham
following brief talks by Charles A
Lee, jr, alumni association field
secretary, and Miss j. Winifred
Hughes, association executive secre-
tary. Dean Ernest Grifith was
toastmaster. A concert by the syra-
cuse Alumni Glee Club followed the
banquet. Ernest Bryan, president OF
the association, was general chair
man Of the dinner.
Guests Of honor included Senator
James M. Mead of New York. who
spoke briefly, and Mrs. Mead; Repre-
sentative Robert Rich of Penn
sylvania and Mrs Rich, and Repre-
sentative Clarence E. Hancock OF
New York and Mrs. Hancock and
Mr.. and Mrs. F. M. Davenport,
Evening star., 1940-03-10
Gaming Devices Found in Raid
Near Police Headquarters

A gambling raid on an establish
ment at Sixth and D streets NV
located 50 close to police headquar-
tiers that almost all the department
officials could see it from their win
dows-resulted in the apprehension
of 20 men yesterday, two of whom
were charged.
The raid was on a barber shop at
500 D street-police headquarters
standing at the juncture Of D street,
Indiana avenue and Fifth street.
It was not conducted by the head
quarters raiding squad, but by four
officers from the first precinct.
Detectives B. F. Bean and Roy
Blck led the raiders into the place
about pm. and found it crowded.
All entrances were blocked and two
patrol wagons were summoned.
Twenty men were taken to the
first precinct for questioning. Two
Evening star., 1940-03-10

men, both colored, were identified as
proprietors Of the place and were
charged with operating a lottery,
possession of lottery slips and setting
up gaming table.
They were Joseph Jackson, A, Of
319 T street NV. and Robert Shaw,
So, of 204 D street NV. They were
released later on $500 bond and
ordered to appear before United
States Commissioner Needham C..
Turnage Monday.
Police say they found a quantity
Of numbers slips and other gambling
devices in the place.
It was the second time within the
day that there had been evidence
Of illegal activity within sight of
headquarters. This morning. bur-
glars entered the Courthouse Cafe,
which Is just one door removed
from the police building.
Evening star., 1940-03-10
Dartmouth GIee Club
To Give Concert Here

The Dartmouth College Club of
Washington will hear Dartmouth
Colleges glee club at concert and
dance in the Washington Hotel
March 80.
The glee club, directed by Prof.
Donald Cobleigh, will present q pro-
gram Of college songs and choral
music. Washington will be one Of
the stops on its annual spring tour
Of Eastern and Middle Destern cities.
Among" the glee club members
is Wayne X. Hill, who participated
In operettas at Theodore Roosevelt
High School from which he was
graduated in 1887.
Members OF the Committee on Ar
rangements are N. Page Worthing-
ton. Charles Grant, Winston E.
Hobbs. Lawrence G. Reeves and
Barry Sullivan.
Evening star., 1940-03-10
and I am thoroughly opposed to T.

and I an thoroughly opposed to Y.
here"
Increased VANDALISM Reported. =
Increased vandalism In the neigh.
borhood was reported by DR.. Thomp-
son, who said he had lived in the
area for II years and had never seen
conditions so bad. He introduced
q motion which accused the Police
Department Of inemciency in con-
trolling fragrant vandalism, urged
the District Commissioners to cor
rect present conditions and asked
that the Federation Of Citizens As
sociations support the measure for
q safe neighborhood. In adoptihs
the proposal, the association de-
clared more vigilant police patrol-
ling, coupled with parental disci.
pline, probably could correct the
situation.
Dissatisfaction over Saturday
night meetings was expressed and
q motion that. QUESTIONABLE be
mailed to all members tnquiring
their stand was adopted.
The association met in the base.
ment of the Mount Pleasant Library
with William G. Lee, president. con-
Quoting the meeting.