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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-18
Union Services
AT Gig Harbor
Churches Join
For Thanksgiving

GIG HARBOR-All churches oi
Gig Harbor and peninsula com.
munities are invited 10 the Unior
Thanksgiving services to be hello
at Memorial Presbyterian church
Wednesday evening. DIR. George
Frame will give the message and
music will be provided by the
young peoples choir. assisted by
the orchestra composed of the
younger church members.
Miss Jeanette Uddenberg ma,
been asked 10 usher at the presi.
dents reception at the University
Of Washington Tuesday evening
This will be the third time this
distinction has been awarded 10
Jeanette. who Ia In her fourth
year at the university.
Gig Harbor Union high school
PIT. A. will meet Tuesday eve
ming with members of the Rose
dale PIT. A. a. the host group.
This will be Dads Night" and
the program. under direction OF +.
C. Milne and Frank Wing. will
consist of piano solos by Mrs.
George Gilbert, songs by the girls
sextet, led by Miss lorraine Mid
satire. and mystery number, 4"
the nature OF which will not be d.
vulged until the program begins
Engagement Announced
Miss Eleanor Reiber Of Tacoma
In announcing her engagement TO
Albert Northey of Port Orchard.
Mr.. Northey In the son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bill Northey, former we'll
known residents of Gig Harbor,
Mr.. Northey having been the local
deputy sheriff for several years.
Mi1 Reiber Ia the daughter of
Mrs. Emma Rciber of Tacoma.
They plan to be married in mid
December.
Miss Jessie Dorsey Of Crescent
Valley wHs rushed to 4 Tacoma
hospital Friday. where she under
went an emergency appendcctomy.
Her condition 10 reported to be
satisfactory.
The Arletta Community Guild
meets Tuesday at the home OF
Mrs. Ray Arnold at 2 o'clock. Miss
Mary Jane Turner win take charge
Of the Bible study hour.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burrell Rucker are
receiving congratulations on the
birth Of = baby daughter at an
Olympia hospital Friday. Mr.
Rucker 10 the twin brother OF
Murrell Rucker and made his
home with Mr.. and Mrs. Harold
Rucker before moving to Olympia
the past year.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-18

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avoid all danger Is to quit bob
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prossction-bus aieh on to mi-
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he-man character Of an oil
mans job-sre the safety
results Standard has attained
through employee. Company
coopefasion.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-18

EEATTIE-Elmer J. Smith. Is.
vas held Monday for the wounding
Of Kendall Dupuy. Is. who Smith
said vss one Of three boys who
annoyed" him BY throwing stones
st his house Police said Smith
admitted the shooting, but de-
MED intention TO harm any Of the
boy&
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-18
OLD TACOMA MEETING

Old Tacoma Improvement club
will meet Tuesday evening at In
Slovenian hall. No. 30th OFF Carr
st where the committee has
arranged to present a Thanksgiv-
ing program. Refreshments viii Be
served.
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Final instructions for the busi-
ness district blackout scheduled
during the month will be given at
a meeting Of business men TO be
held in Room 1908 Puget Sound
Bank building at 7:so p. m. Tues
day, according to r. p. Fulker-
son. chief warden. FUN coopera-
ton Of business men In the dis
triet is anticipated and all In
terested have been invited to at
tend Tuesdays meeting.
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-18

PORTLAND The condition Of
MAJ. Cen George 4. White. <ist
division commander. confined 10
his home with an intestinal all
rent. was reported A. improved
Monday.
Relatives said General White
spent q good night.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-18
Creamery Operator Dies

PORTLAND 80 Stephen Preston
Hurley. -. widely known Pacific
Northwest creamery operator. died
here Sunday night after : major
operation Hurley had creamery
interests in Yakima and Spokane.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-18
ACCESSORY SHOWER

Warner discovery, Eleanor
Parker. who celebrated her sisning
with the purchase Of a new car.
was the surprised one at surprise
auto accessory party" given by
her friends.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-18
YouMayAIwaysBe
Constructed If

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In the naeantirne 20 help insure cenfie
yet thorough bowel rnovements-take
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Olive Tablets are simply wonderful
not only TO relieve constipation but also
10 stir up liver bile secretion and tone up
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adv
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-18
H Err Els MORE ABOUT
The Russians Saw

l = ~ ~ q ~ - " n " ~ n
southern tUkrsinel front. with
out gaining any ground.
On the Moscow front. the dis
patches reported 100 German
tanks knocked out on the Tula
sector. where the Germans at
lacked repeatedly in an effort to
find q soft spot Several attempts
10 storm Tulsa were reported
thrown back.
VILLAGES RECAPTURED
BY RUSSIAN TROOPS
On the Naro-Fominsk. voloko-
lamsk and Mozhiask sectors west
OF Moscow. the dispatches added.
the Russians recapturcd villages
IN a strong <s-hour counter-st-
tack and wiped out 5000 enemy
soldiers. 500 trucks. eight artillery
batteries and 80 trench mortars.
The Germans are attack
Ing desperately In nm effort 20
retake the town of m from
which they were driven" one
dispatch said.
The snow-covered fields near
volokolamsk were said to be lit
tered with wreckage" Of mechan-
ixed enemy units after a three
hour battle in which IL Russian
tanks ambushed 60 German tanks
and a motorized regiment, captur-
ing Is tanks.
RUSSIAN COsSACKS CHOP
UP NAZl REGIMENTS
On the Ukraine front. dispatches
said that Russian Cossack troops
had chopped up" three German
regiments during IS days OF fight
ing against the 4th German
fusilier division at zuyevka. on
the Donets basin coal sector.
German dead were strewn on
the field and many were drowned
trying to cross river" the Off
cial press reported. "zuyevka
changed hands several times"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-16
FIRE SWEEPS
JAPANESE TOWN

TOKYO, April 16 (UP)-Tire
swept through Shinminato-M MACH in
Toyama prefecture today and des-
troyed 500 homes. Fifty persons
were known to have been injured
in the conflagration, which lasted
for three hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-16
Battle underway,
Germans Declare:
JuqosLays Whipped

BERLIN, April 16 CUP)-Nazis
reported today that Jugoslav arm
ed forces were disintegrating, that
the second Jugoslav army had capi-
tulated and that the British ahd
Eeen brought to battle in the main
defense line of Greece, anchored on
Mount Olympus. after stiff fighting
in which prisoners and booty were
captured.
The German advance in Greece
which the high command called a
hot pursuit. of the British-fol-
lowed Official statements Jugoslav
resistance was ceasing.
In addition TO the capitulatior
of the second Jugoslav army, the
official news agency said six Serb
ian divisions had been annihilated
by two German divisions and that
eight Jugoslav generals, many
other Officers and $4,000 men had
been captured.
The remnants of the Jugoslav
army arc surrendering in increasing
numbers each hour, the agency
said, apparently ending threats to
German rear lines on the Greek
front
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-16
London Says Nazis
Attacking Fiercely
On Greek Front

LONDON, April 16 (UP)-Ger-
man forces in Greece are attacking
the British-Gree line flercely and
the Greeks are retiring through
Albania TO Join the British left
wing on q line which pivots on
Mt. Olympus. British military in
formants said today.
1t was admitted that German
pressure on the allied line was
steadily increasing.
Informants said the British line
continued to be based on Mt. Olym-
puS, on the Aegean coast, and that
it extended northwestward, with
the Greek line, in the direction Of
Corizza.
They added that there was no
ground for reports that the Ger
mans had broken through the allied
line and ridiculed reports that the
British intended to evacuate Greece.
1t was reported unofficially that
the British and Greek forces, yield
| ing slowly under the terrific Ger
man pressure, were struggling to
maintain a battle line which would
prevent the cutting off of Greek
troops in Albania from the main
allied forces.
The Germans were driving down
the Kozane-L -Larissa road in an at
tempt to drive a wedge cutting the
Brit!sh-Greek line at its center.
Military experts said frankly that
if the allies yielded much further,
they might lose all contact with
the Greeks in Albania.
There was but one favorable as
pect to the situation at the moment
as the experts saw it: the Greeks,
at the left of the allied main line,
were taking up new positions in
ground which would become in
creasingly difficult for German
tanks.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-16
FDR Tags Hungary
Aqqressor in War

WASHINGTON, April 16. (UP)
President Roosevelt today pro-
claimed that a state of war exists
between Hungary and Jugoslavia
and said that Hungary was the ag-
greSSor in the conflict.
The proclamation. declaring Am
erican neutrality, followed a prev
iouS proclamation of a state Of wal
between Jugoslavia, on the one
hand, and Germany and italy on
the other.
The new proclamation was speci
fic in designating Hungary as the
aggressor:
Acting under and by virtue OF
the authority conferred on me i.
1 do hereby proclaim that, Hungary
having without justification attack
ed Jugoslavia, a state of war exists
between Hungary and Jugoslavia.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-16
BIifz Raid Hits
Northern ireland
With Full Fury

LONDON, April l6. (UP)-Ger-
man planes rained bombs on Bel
fast and almost the whole of north
ern Ireland for hours during the
night in a blitz attack, and bombed
towns in northwest and northeast
England heavily.
The northern Ireland ministry
of public security asserted that the
bombingS in some areas were vic
ious and indiscriminate," and it
was indicated that both damage
and casualties were heavy in Bel
fast, city of 100000 people and
a great shipbuilding and linen CEN
ter
Belfast had been attacked in
force on the night of April but it
was indicated this attack was the
most serious which northern Ire
land had suffered since the war be-
gan.
The Belfast communique said:
"A heavy force of bombers car
ried out an attack lasting several
hours over an area covering pract-
cally the whole of northern Ire
land. The intensity of the attacks
varied. In some areas it was vicious
and indiscriminate. Damage was
sustained by some industrial prem
ises. Many bombs fell on residen-
tial property. From preliminary re-
ports it is feared that casualties
may be heavy. Further details will
be announced later"
Two churches, a movie theater, g
library, a hospital, a nurses home
and many commercial premises and
homes were ruined. In one district
where many homes were wrecked il
was believed that loss of life Would
be serious. Fires were started al
many places.
The nights raids cost the Ger
mans six bombing planes in all, ac-
cording to official count, and il
was believed that Others were lost
Over Britain the raids were heavy
and widespread but they did not
assume the intensity of those or
northern ireland.
The heaviest attacks were or
Liverpool and the Merseyside and
on the northeast coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-16
0PM Approves Big
ShipbuiIding Yard
For Pacific Coast

SAN FRANCISCO, April l6 CUPl
Rep Albert Carter, Oakland ad-
viSed local interests today the ord
er of production management has
given final approval TO a $6O00,O0
shipyard to be built by Richmond
Shipbuilding Corporation at Rich
mond.
Construction can go ahead at
once" Carter said in telepgrams
sent from Washington.
The company plans TO build CO
type ugly Duckling' freighters for
the U. S. Maritime Commission at
the new yards, which will be con-
structed on l80-acre site in the
Richmond inner harbor near the
Ford Motor Company assembly
plant.
The company expects to employ
5000 workers in carrying out $40
0O0,000 shipbuilding contract.
Richmond Shipbuilding Corpora
ton is owned principally by the
Henry j. Kaiser Co. of California
and the Todd Shipyards. Inc, New
York. The two firms also operate
Todd-C California Shipbuilding Com
pany which IS also located in Rich
mond. The Todd California firm is
at work on contracts for 80 freigh-
tiers for the British shipping COM
mission. The keel of the first boat
was laid this week.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-16
Reds ProIong War,
Turkey Charges

lSTANBUL, Turkey, April l6
(UP)-RusSia's neutrality pact with
Japan largely cancels the value Of
RusSia's friendship declarations
with Turkey and Jugoslavia, Tur-
kish political quarters asserted to-
day.
Informants said the new pact
tended to confirm allegations Rus
sia's policy was aimed solely at pro-
longing the war, so the participants
would be exhausted, and that Rus
sia had no intention of opposing
the axis activity il it could avoid
doing so.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-16
BY BRYDON TAVES

LONDON. April 16. (UP)-Emis-
saries of the Duke of Aosta, italian
yiceroy of Ethiopia, have arrived
at Dire DaWa and are discussing
with British army chieftains terms
for the capitulation of 10000 Ital-
ian troops still resisting in Ethio-
pia, it was understood today
British military authorities here
said they had received reliable con-
firmation of reports that the ennis
sarieS had arrived at Dire DaWa,
on the Adds Ababa-Dj Djibouti rail-
road, ION a very important mis-
SION
An italian surrender in East Afri-
ca had been expected here because
of the danger TO tens of thousands
of. Italian civilians from vengefu
Ethiopian tribesmen, who are re-
Voting in increasing numbers.
1t was recalled that after the
British took Adds Ababa April
6, the Duke thanked them for their
treatment of Italian civilians in this
message: His Royal Highness the
Duke of Aosta wishes to express his
appreciation of the initiative taken
by Gen. Wavell and Gen. Cunning
ham regarding the protection of
women and children in Adds Ababa
demonstrating that strong bonds
OF humanity and race still exist e.
tween the nations"
italian forces now are gradual
ly concentrating in three Abyssin-
ian tEthiopian) areaS-Dessie, Con-
dar and Jimma,' military quarters
said today. 1T is estimated roughly
that in the Bessie district there are
10000 italian troops and 10000 ma
tiveS while there are 5000 Italians
and 5000 natives in the Bondar
area. Troops in the Jimma region
are estimated at $4,000 Italians ana
$1,000 natives
Military quarters said the Ital-
ians had surrended at Obbia. Ital-
ian Somaliland 800 miles up the
coast from Mogadiscio. A British
patrol flying over Garda, 300 miles
north of Obbia, saw white flags
flying.
British patrols attacked and rout-
ed the Italians at Safartak Ford,
80 miles southeast of Debra Markos,
capital OF Gojjam province. Forts
on the left bank of the blue Nile in
the Debra Markos area were taken
by the British
Military ln1ormantS said the Sit
uation in Libya was serious but
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-16
10000 italians
Offer Surrender

there was no immediate threat to
Egypt. Thousands of British en-
pire troops, fresh from conquests
in East Africa, streamed through
binding sandstorms across Egypts
western desert to meet the Ger
man blitzkrieg forces who had driv-
en- into Egypt from Libya.
British forces successfully at
tackled" the rear of German-Italian
positions near Fort Capuzzo, south
of Tobruk, shelhng and setting enc
my vehicles afire, it was said.
The British warned, however,
that the German push in Libya had
not yet been exhausted or finished.
While German communications in
North Africa are difficult, the Brit
ish thought the Germans could i'm
prove them.
Military quarters said that Ger
many's success in transporting at
least three mechanical divisions
from Sicily to North Africa did
not mean they could easily repeat
the performance in Britain itself.
THE two cases are not compar-
able" it was said. Germans attempt
ing to land in Britain would find
the shores hostile with British air
and naval bases at hand, it was
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-16
BY J. w. I. MASON
United Press Var Expert

In the three battle areas where
British troops now are engaged
against axis forces, pressure OF
events is producing a situation
Which will make the fighting in
north Africa the most important
Tor the future of the war. The north
African field of combat can be
considered the central zone towaro
which hostilities in the two outer
zones are gradually moving for a
major challenge by the British
army.
In the southern zone London re-
ports negotiations may be starting
TOR the capitulatjon of all that
remains OF the italian army in Eth
iopia. There is good reason to be-
lieve that if discussions have not
already begun they must do so
within a short time
GUERILLA WARFARE
AS the Jugoslay army, according
to LCndon reports, no longer is able
to offer organized resistance, SC
the italian forces in Ethiopia have
been disintegrated into three sec
tors, incapable of coordniated op-
erations. In Jugoslav guerilla fight
ing and combat by independent
units still are possible, because the
populace is not hostile to its own
soldiers.
In Ethoipia, however, the rem
nants of the italian divisions are
not in a similar position. Beside
having to fight the British, the Ital-
ians must face the hostility of the
natives, who see the return of their
lost independence in a final Ital-
| ian defeat.
There must be serious uneasiness
by the natives, or at least refusal
among the Italians OF a massacre
OF the tribesmen To assist the Ital-
lanS in getting food. 1t is, there
fore, reasonable to believe that cap
ltulation is the only realistic step
lor the Italians to take.
Once surrender comes the Brit
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-16
Ru LEON KAY


SOMEWHERE IN JUGOS14AVIA,
April 14CUP)-Delayed-Jugoslay IA
forces, rallying with the aid of bad
weather which hampered the Ger
man air force, have routed a big
German armoured column north OF
Skoplje, advices from the front said
today.
Since the Germans started their
invasion with a terrible bombing
of Belgrade and an attack on
southeast JugoslaVia which had
taken them beyond Skoplje, the
situation apparently has improved.
Three days Cf rain, snow and
cloudy weather hampered the Ger
man air operations ana enabled the
Jugoslavs, whose morale is high, to
rally for i renewed defense.
Gen. Milan NeGinc, now promoted
to VoiVode commander III chief
bided his time until German col
umn of 400 tanks and LOCO trucks
reached q deep canyon on the Ne
rodimka river north of Skoplje.
Near the Kachanik Pass the Ju-
goslavS attacked. concen-
trating first an destruction of the
gasoline supplies on which the Nazi
motorized column depended and
secondly against the German in
fantry force with the column.
The result was that the German
motorized and mechanical column
was thrown back upon itself and
the Jugoslavs entered Skoplje.
It was believed that they still
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-16
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-16
Dynamite Closes
Danube 70 Germans
For Three Months

LONDON. April 16 tUP)-Jugo-
slavs have dynamited the famous
narrow Iron Gate on tie Danube,
on, the Jugoslav frontier with Ru-
mania, and have blocked Danube
river traffic for perhaps three
months, reliable Jugoslav quarters
reported tonight.
Closing of the Iron Gate to river
shipping was described as a "hard
blow" TO Germany since it blocked
river traffic to Germany from Rus
sia via the Black sea and from Ru-
mania and Bulgaria.
German supplies of oil, manga
nese ore, cereals, non-ferrous metals
ana other commodities were expect
ed to be affected seriously.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-16
RESEARCHERS MUM ON
EUROPEAN INQUIRIES

NEW YORK, April 16 (UP)-Dr
James Bryant Conant, research
chemist and president of HarvIrd
university. returned from Europe
aboard Pan American Airway's
Dixie Clipper today after two
months IN Great Britain as heao
of three-man mission named BY
President Roosevelt to expedite "re-
cent scientific information of I'M
portance to national defense" He
said he could not reveal what hi
had learned.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-16
.yuqo slows Smosh
Biz Nozi Column

llclu Ille Guy.
1t was estimated that in the
bombing of Belgrade between 1000
and 1000 persons were killed and
about one-fifth Of the city destroy
ed Most of the ruin was in the
center cf the city. The home of
American Minister Arthur Bliss
Lane and the German legation were
among the buildings wrecked. Lane,
who left the city with his wife and
the legation staff, had a narrow
escape and a narrowing experience.
Some of the legation staff re-
manned in Belgrade to bolster the
morale of the people. The morale
OF all in Belgrade has been fine.
The bombing started shortly be-
fore 7 am. Sunday and continued
intermittcntly for two days and two
night. All Americans and Britons
were reported safe. 1t is definite
that the personnel Of the Trepcha
mines, headed by Walter Page OF
the American Reclamation Service,
and Leigh White, of the Columbia
Broadcasting System, are safe.
The Croatian separatists move
ment apparently has not been wide
spread. Attempted putsches in sev-
eral town have been easily sup
pressed.
This, however, apparently indi-
Gates that there have been such
uprisings in towns under Jugo.
slav control)
1t is reported that II German
planes were shot down in attacks
in Belgrade. saw the wreckage OF
two when 1 revisited Belgrade
Tuesday. april 81.