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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-01
CH|CAGOAN AND
BOY ARE HURT.
Fog Is Credited for
Collision at 26th
and Pacific Ave.

During the past week Michael
Tsggert, IS. of Chicago, has, been
driving his car around curves and
over mountains. heading for Seat
tie. He entered Tacoma from the
south shortly after $50 a. m.
Thursday and was heading toward
the city center, when he ran into
dense fog and then crashed into
the rear end OF truck which had
stopped for a red light at Pacific
ave. and 26th ST.
Taggert and a young hitch
hiker, Earl Matthias, IA. who said
his home was in Portland, were
taken to Pierce county hospital by
police ambulance for treatment of
injuries received as result of the
accident. Taggert received a cut
hand, chest injuries and a few
scratches, while Matthias was cut
about the face.
E. Standert, Route 2, Box 236,
Kent, driver of the truck, was not
injured.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-01
Present Petition
For Street Lights

George soule and others petit
toned the city council Wednesday
for installation OF three street
lights on Wilton road from T1tlow
beach TO the Clear Fir Lumber
Co. plant at Day Island.
Utilities Commissioner Dawson
told the council there are already
some 5000 in authorized street
light installations on file for which
no funds are available. Only 81 900
was put in the 1910 budget for
the purpose. No action was taken.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-01
No Prosecution
Is Contemplated

Mrs.. Madeline Webb. ss-ysar-eld
boarding houss propristress, was
reported improved "Wednesday 81
Tacoma General hospital. whsre
she was taken early Tuesday with
painful head injuries.
Mrs. Webb. police learned. was
struck over the head with = milk
bottle by man while she was
lying In bed Al her home II 400 No.
X st. The woman, detectives re-
ported. was suffering from an at
tack Of influenza At the time Of the
attack.
Police stopped their Investigation
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-01
EPIDEMIC NOW
under CONTROL
Schools in Puyallup
Reopen; Flu Cases
Show Decrease

Reduction a. shs<ntess IN raay-
ailup schools when they recp<nsd
Tuesday was sufficient Tor per-
manent operation. school authors
ties decided. In five ether Pierre
county communities. including Rug
Ton. the combined infln<nsa. cold
and measles epidemic was eon-
sider~d under control and classes
resumed.
Roy high and grade school. Park
Lodge. kspcwsin, Buckley and
Ruston schools were open.
At Dupont . sampiing Tuesday
morning was not encouraging
enough and reopening WAS put off
until Thursday. Others stiil closed
included pieringer, Alderscn. ELK
Plain. McMillln and ruyaiiup
Heights.
The Sumner school system Was
closed Tuesday noon and win re-
main % until Monday. pr. Norman
Z. Magnussen. Pierce county health
officer. said. Aidsrtcn. where n
per cent Of the student body was
missing Tuesday. also win try
again Monday,
Puyailup high school. where AL
were absent when tho school off,
cisis decided TO close = week and
= half ago. had only ~ missing
Tuesday. Grade school absences
were reduced similarly.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-01
Contrasting Tax
On Inheritance

A contest over the inheritance
tax due the state from property
left by the late Fr. Bernard ".
Kofnke, Catholic priest who died
In Tacoma. June 20. 1888. occupied
Judge Robert e. Evans court We'd
nesday.
Administrators OF his estate who
estimated It's value at ss.zo2.si.
took exception TO an attempt Of
the State Inheritance Tar and
Escheats division TO fix Il at
s7,45241.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-01
Revive Attenlpt 70
Improve Broadway
VIII H Discussed Fuslkss Next
Monday, Two Alternative prcpoood

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-01
Camp sos Viii
Initiate Sixteen

Camp No. sos. Modern Wood
men of America, viii initiate ie
new members into the lodge Thurs
day evening in Eagles hall. All
members Of the degree team are
asked to be present. Assisting In
the work will be the degree team
from Elliott Bay camp of Seattle.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-01

Ioold announced.
more pupils in attendance Tuesday
than on Monday, and e72 more
were in school Wednesday than on
Tuesday. That is a much better
picture, and we feel 1t is better to
keep the schools going, and know
what is happening, than to close
them down and have no knowledge
of what Ii taking place.
I'VE are working closely
with the school physician and
nurses and with public health
authorities. With our nurses
on the job, we feel II Ia better
to keep schools open In face
Of this obvious improvement"
Goold said absence Tuesday
represented Is per cent Of normal
attendance; Wednesday the per
centage absent had dropped TO IL.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-01

nreadwAy r~sarfnrina ~ s~pev-
Ing ~ = majof downtown impsuve-
Insnt project va revived a9nfu
before The council "Wednesday. 40
tim was poespone1 uati nest
Monday.
There are two new anxieel "a
Hubnsissina II = supplemental -
tltion az the DUR ssfnse ard oihsss
adding about 80 feet 10 ths fruns-
ass now requesting FswarfaoIng
with asphailic conerets. and ~
report ~ uuiitisa commlenteaes
DAVIDSON that water nystsm
changes win cost about eto.oeo :
sum which the utility dees nat
have svsIlahle. and which win ~
additional cost 10 ths property
owners.
Estimates prepared ~ ths pub.
lie works department. last fan
Indicated IN asphaltie coHeSsts ~
surfscing Job would cost c7bsnoo.
exclusive of any eHpenee inrurfea
by the city utilities IN mahina
necessary changes
TVS Al1pvune1sso
Council members Indicated Wsd-
nssdsy an intention To submit 10
property owners . petition ps~ssnt.
Ing two alternatives for rspavtnx
the street-a plan agreed upon ~
. considerable number u prop
srty owners ~ msss eonfeyeacs
with the council Tbs petitioners
would not directly siset ths choice
Of the case when nrs. Webb s<td
she did not desire 70 pFeseeute hsF
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-01

We've been keeping a close
check on attendance losses due TO
flu and measles and the picture
is rapidly growing brighter" he
said.
Our check Monday showed
5000 pupils absent; there were 277
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-01
School Attendance in City
Is Increasing Day by Day

Approximately 1000 more Tacoma school pupils were
attending classes Wednesday than in school Monday
of this week. Supt. Howard Goold announced
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-01
WPA QUOTA Is RAISED
FOR STATE TO 1920

sEATTLE-State Works Prof.
ects Administrator Don G. Abel
today announced an increase Of
675 persons in the February quota.
raising the total employed by the
administration to 1920.
The January quota was 81 .555
and December 26.0O0. Abel esti-
mated the additional employment
would mean 500. 900 additional ex-
penditures in the state for labor
and material.
II you're not using il, sell IT with
Fast Action Times Want Ad.
Call Main 1851.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-01

Of the case when nrs. Webb 80
she dla not desire 70 psesssuts hsr
aasnilnnt.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-01

Fact 10, in Buick
you've GOT an slI-ssa-
son car - the kind
Of car you ought 10 be
handing rizht nowl
When are you aoina
to do somsthinl
about Getting oneF
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02
SUPREME COURT
 RECEIVES APPEAL

Portland, Me, Oct. 2-UP)--Ar- thur F. Cox. 49, of Philadelphia, seif-styled Jehoval1's Witnesses nlin- ister was lodged in county jail today pending a Maine Supreme Court de- cision on his appeal from conviction in the murder of Deputy Sheriff Dean Pray.
 A defense motion for new trial was denied late yesterday by Su- perior Court Judge Herbert T. Powers after the jury of 10 men and two women, which deliberated three hours, returned it's verdict. March l was st for filing in the. higher court of a long bill of exceptions and Cox was jailed without bail.
 Conviction of murder in Maine carries a mandatory life sentence. Cox contended he shot Pray in self defense when the Deputy Sheriff threatened him with a tire iron Aug. 20. The shooting occurred in Prays public garage at North Windham al- legedly during an argument over the playing of photograph records de- signed to win converts for the sect.
 Judge Powers, who had toly the jury to disregard the laws of self defense In this case, said when the verdict wes given:
 T believe your verdict is duly justified"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02
MALONEY WILL
 GIVE KEYNOTE Returning to State for 5th District Convention At
 TOrrington

U. s. Senator Francis T. Maloney Of Meriden, will deliver the keynote address at the fifth district Dem- acratic congressional convention at the Torrington city hall Saturday afternoon, it was announced today, It will be only the second time that Senator Maloney has returned to the state in recent months and is taken as a tribute to Congressman J. Joseph Smith, who will be nominated for his fourth term at the conven- tion.
 Mayor William A. Patten, of Tor rington, will place the name of Con- gressman Smith in nomination. One of the seconding speeches will be given by Mayor Vincent A. Scully, of Waterbury, who will act as a member of the local delegation of fl members.
 The convention will be called to order at 2 D. m. Saturday by Ber- nard J. Rielly, of Waterbury, who was chosen permanent secretary two year sago. He will act in place of the designated chairman, Peter J. Cavanaugh, because the latter, .as a WPA employe, is forbidden to serve by the provisions of the Hatch Act.
 Following the convention the dele gates will be entertained at a re- ception.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02
GERMANS MAKE
 FIERCE ATTACK
RAF Planes in Surprise" Dives = Fire Alarms
 Sounded in London
BY WALLACE CARROLL United Press Staff Correspondent

London, Oct. 2-CUP)-German air Squadrons attacked with in- creased strength and ferocity dur ing five air raid alarms today, but only few Nazi planes fought their way past diving British defense planes and dropped bombs on the London area.
 British fighter planes, roaming the skies at a great altitude, made screaming surprise" dives On the German raiders and drove most of them back across the coast.
 Nazi raiders which escaped the roaring counter attack were forced to lower attitudes, where British anti-aircraft guns hammered at them furiously.
 A number of bombs were dropped on the capital, especially a south east section, during the fourth air raid alarm, causing some damage and casualties.
 During the fifth alarm, three more bombs crashed into the same district.
 Some of the German fleets were turned back over the coast by fighter squadrons.
 Only 20 German planes pene- trated to the London area during the morning. They dropped bombs on two southeastern districts.
 Observers saw German plane for, nations over the eastern, south eastern and southwestern suburbs, with British fighter planes chasing them, their machine guns rattling
 A blast from big anti-aircraft guns drove of German fleets which attacked the capital during the night, and to the astonishment of Londoners, now inured to night long attacks, there was Hull in the early morning hours.
 Damage was reported to only one street in central London, though 15 outer districts and eight towns in southeast England were bombed.
 Fire bombs were dropped in the eastern London suburbs and incen- diary and high explosive bombs caused damage and casualties in the southern and southeastern out skirts. A hospital in East London
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02
U. s. BELIEVED
 SELF-SUFFICIENT

Cambridge, Mass, Oct. 2-(UP)-- The United States Is the most self sufficient nation in the world in re- spect to minerals needed for peace or war tsme industries, Paul M Tyler. q chief engineer Of the U. s. Bureau Of Mines, stated today Ia an article written for the Harvard Dus- ineas Review.
 "ulyen adequate stock pllaa of tin, hl9h-RfAde mica, radio quartz, in- dustrlal diamonds and a half-d0sen deficient feFroalloylng minerals end certain tropical plant InaleFlale," he wrote, we wohld be virtually inde- pendent ef OveEseaa imports fof gears at \ tlme.s
 He add laboratory research nnd geological Aelf discoveries sn recent y@Afe haft greatly Increased tile e0uNikHE Independence Gf Imports fcS E4|ksa4gfHs4 ana nGalNaEF Eus
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02
MARRIED MEN TO
 GET GOOD BREAK
COnscriptiOn Boards Will Deal Liberally With
 Them

Washington, Oct. 2.-P)-The conScription regulations which will determine who will be drafted were reported today to deal very liber- ally with married men.
 The regulations will be the basis for the rulings of local draft boards. A final draft of them is being studied by the justice department.
 Conscription officials feel that the law is too strict for peace time with respect to deferring men with dependents.
 The army believes that the draft should disrupt homes as little as possible. Officials believe single men make better soldiers than mar ried men.
 The World War draft law exempt ed men who had another person mainly dependent" on them. The present law requires that de- pendent must be wholly dependent in fact.
 Lieut.. coi. Victor J. oKeIliher. legal advisor at draft headquarters, said he would advise all draft boards to be lenient with married men. He believed 6 liberal Interpretation of dependency would not affect quotas. He noted that in i0iT the army was taking 100000 men monthly out Of q pool Of if.000.OO0 men. The pres- enl draft will tako only 100000 men every six months from a pool of io.a04 600.
 o'kelliher said he thought the iaW too severe, but that 70 changes would he recommended tY the draft bearG. Iie said that popular epinipn would hzing ebons feylfsens
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02
Local Schools To Be Used For Registration
Registrars Also to Meet With Mayor Today on City's Plans for COnscriptiOn

Developments today indicated that local schools will be used for regis tration of selective service eligibles Oct. 16, as Mayor Vincent A. Scully speeded preparations for local en- rollment. It was learned that the mayor had arranged a conference with Dr. Thomas J. Condon, super intendent of schools, which fact pointed to the closing of public schools on registration day and the employment of teachers at the 32 registration centers.
 Mayor Scully was also to confer today with Registrars of Voters John T. Derwin and Albert O. Taller rela.- tive to procedure. The mayor, the registrar and other officials will meet with representatives from other New Haven county towns at New Haven next Tuesday night, at which time instructions from the state selective service headquarters will be given.
 Closing of the schools will allow the city to use close to TOO teach CTS and school department workers for registration purposes. Use of the school buildings will make it un- necessary for the city to hire any registration headquarters in any of the voting districts.
 The mayor is still working on the choice of 12 persons he will recom- mend as members of the four draft boards that will function here. The names are to be submitted to Hart ford by Friday.
 Gov. Baldwin today notified mayors and selectmen not to nom- mate doctors for membership on the boards, stating that their services would be needed later for medical boards.
 The governor also asked that negroes be appointed to the boards in communities where there is a large colored population.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02
PROSPECT CONSTABLE GETS HEAVY SENTENCE TODAY

Whitney blonde Prospect
 
 21year old Waterbury cOlOred Prison Judge Alfred 0. Baldwin o'clock this the first that young fenced to not less than 10 than the cnunt that Of indecent assault five Both sentences Baldwin Newspapermn barred from the yesterday, permitted sit in proceedings this after being judges chamber before 1O:3O tators today deputy ifs stationed at both doors leading
 Price charged with approaching last Sunday night occupants and her boy friend At the point to have taken the coored in his later her boy friend The sate through States Fitzgerald charged that alleged ride in the constabes auto Price had pleaded guilty charge and through his attorney Walter
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02
SEEN
 RAVACINC EUROPE
English Physician Believes Britain in Grave Dan=
 ger of Epidemic

London, Oct. 2.-(UP)-Dr. Joseph Barnes Burt, vice-president of the physical medicine section of the Royal Society of Medicine, said in a speech at Bath today that unless every law of medicine was broken, a terrible pestilence would break out on the continent this winter.
 Fortunately we have the Chan nel between us," he said, "but whether that will be sufficient to prevent spread to England is an- other matter. With people herded together in dugouts without proper sanitation and people calling in on their friends, there will be great risk fo an epidemic here"
 Dr. Burt urged health authorities to act at once. regardless of expense, to prevent oyercroWding in houses and shelters and in improving sani- tation.
 There have been widespread out breaks of shelter colds" in London already.
 The appointment of Admiral Sir Edward Broke as shelter dictator" for greater London was expected to speed up at once the task fo pro- viding shelters with adequate sleep ing, heating, ventilating and sani- tary facilities, in preparation for a winter of bombing.
 Medical men are of opinion that London faces danger of influenza and pneumonia epidemics this win- ter unless real shelters are provided instead of draughty surface shell terS.
 One million shelter hunks have been ordered, and it was hoped that within a few weeks sleeping &C., commodations would have been pro- vided for 3,000,000 of London's 9,000.- 900 people.
 It was believed that big electric heaters, or coke burners which would heat water-pipe systems, might help to solve the heating nroblem.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02
BUND HAS 10000
 MEMBERS IN J. s.
20, ,OOO, Eligible to Join Witness Tells Dies
 Committee Today

Newark, N. J., Oct. 2.-(UP) The German-American Bund has about 10000 members in the United States, but there are 20,000,0 ,000 persons of German extraction in the country who are eligible for membership, a Bund leader told the Dies commit tee investigating un-American &C., tivitieS here today.
 The witness, August Klapprott, manager of the Bund's camp Nord- land at Andover, N. J., said that every member of the organization was an American citizen, that the Bund uncompromisingly opposed Communism, and that a prime ob- jective was to oppose the boycott on German goods in this country.
 Rep. Joseph Starnes, D., Ala, chairman of the ub-committee con- ducting the hearings, questioned Klapprott at length about a joint meeting August IS at Camp Nord- land of the bund and the Ku Klux Klan.
 Didn't any of the speakers make reference to the fact that there was a racial minority group in the coun- try that controlled it?", Starnes asked, obviously referring to alleged Semitic statements made at the meeting.
 'Yes, there was reference made to that" Klapprott replied.
 Wasn't the reference to the fact that certain racial groups controlled the press and the movies and that the government of the United States was also controlled by certain racial group?"
 "Yes," Klapprott replied firmly, land it is still my belief that small racial group controls the press, the movies and the government, to a certain extent"
 That was the theme song for the entire meeting. was it not" Starnes asked.
 That should be the theme song for. every American" Klapprott said.
 Until year ago, Klapprott said, 8 large picture of Adalf Hitler hung in the recreation hall at Camp with a smaller picture of George Washington. The Hitler picture has been removed, he testi- fled.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02
NAME COMMITTEES
 FOR COP SESSION
Campaign Meeting Here to Be Attended By Gov.
 Baldwin

Committees which will serve fol the campaign meeting of New Haver County Women Republicans to bt held at The Elton Wednesday Oct 16, wre announced today by Mrs Rowley w. Phillips, who is acting as general chairman. Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin and other Republican candidates are expected to be guests at the meeting, which will follow a luncheon at 12:30.
 The Women,s Republican Club oi Waterbury, host at the gathering will entertain several hundred wo- men Republicans from all parts of New Haven county.
 The business of the meeting will center about an effort to win addi- tional Republican votes at the na- tional and state election Nov. 5.
 Assisting Mrs. Phillips on the general committee are Mrs. Fred erick w. Palomba, Mrs. EdSon Hitchcock and Mrs. Edwin Hunt, Jr.
 Committees have been appointed by Mrs. Phillips as follows:
 Reception Committee-Mrs. Julius B. Smith. chairman, assisting are Mrs. Harry Coe, Mrs. J. Warren Up- son, Mrs. Domenic Santora. Mrs. T. I. Driggs. Mrs. Lura Dutton, Mrs. W. P. Bryon, Mrs. Robert Lowell, Mrs. Fred Nuhn, Mrs. Harold Root.
 Program Committee Mrs. Viola Amelung, chairman, assisting Mrs. Ruth Sanford, Mrs. Agnes Schiller.
 Arrangement Committee - Mrs. Gertrude Keenan, chairman, assist ing Mrs. Alice Gerardi, Mrs. Aurore Dorval. Mrs. Cora Ross, Mrs. Anne VanVaIkenberg, Mrs. Homer Ber- nier, Mrs. Lura Dutton, Mrs. Joseph Reiner.
 Tickets Committee-Mrs. Minnie LeRoy, chairman; assisting, Mrs Carloine Wells, Mrs. Nellie Dews, Mrs. Phoebe Emmons, Mrs. Frank Anderson, Mrs. Builbert. Mrs. Leo Pepin, Mrs. Harold Manville, Mrs. Aurore Dorval, Mrs. Fred Webster, Mrs. Sherwood Rowland, Mrs. Fran els Phillips, Mrs. R. A. Bonner, Mrs. Henry Cook, Mrs. Viola Amel- ung, Mrs. Cora Ross, Mrs. S. T. Mrs. John Stokes, Mrs, Fred B. Webster, Woodbury, Conn, Mrs. Frank Johnson, Thomaston. Conn.
 Publicity-AGrs. Irene Bouchard.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02
AXIS TO DRIVE AGAINST CANAL Britain Claims Nazis Have Taken Over Italian
 Operations
BY NED RUSSELL

United Press Staff Correspondent
 London, Oct. 2.-CUP)-British military sources reported today that Germans had taken over Italian military operations, possibly with a view to a big Axis winter offensive against the Suez Canal.
 An attempt to drive on the vital British Mediterranean lifeline from Syria as well as Africa was believed possible by British sources in view of recent charges that Italy has been seeking bases and indirect control of Branch Syria. (The Brit ish claims that Italy was making demands regarding Syria have been denied at Vichy.)
 "The German masters have talk en de facto charge of Italian oper- ations," British informants said.
 "There is no reason why reports of German troop movements to Italy should not be true"
 There was no indication that the aerial battle of Britain-now being intensified almost daily = would slacken as result of apparent plans to shift the center of military operations to the Mediterranean area, but it was pointed out here that recent Axis comment had in- dicated the Germans were prepar- ing for prolongation of the war throughout the winter.
 The Fascist offensive into Egypt advanced to Sidi Barrani 75 miles in Egypt, but for more than two weeks has failed to attempt further gains and had been subjected to heavy counter-attack by British naval and air forces.
 In the last 48 hours, British air forces have strongly attacked Ital- ian bases in north Africa, especially along the Mediterranean coast where Marshal Rodolfo Graziani has been seeking to build up and