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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-07

l want 10 encourage him 10 play
at home, because simply couldn't
have him running around the
neighborhood the way other chill
dren do. but I have reached the
place where have the house over
run with youngsters all day long.
I'm sure the other women in
the neiehborhood take advantage
Of my willingness to have them at
my house. They go away for
hours at time while their children
play in my house. without so much
as asking me if | mind.
I don't want to cause any hard
feelings. but I shall have to put a
stop to this sort OF thing before
long. It is getting so home just
isn't home. What would you do.
Mass Grey
TROUBLED MOTHER.
Dear Troubled Mother: I would
send the children home when l
got tired Of having them around.
You are right 10 keep your
son occupied ut home under your
own supervision. and you are
right to encourage him to mingie
with and make friends of other
children, but In your effort to
make a leader of him, be careful
not TO encourage him to be
domineering or overbearing.
A certain portion of each day
should be spent with other chill
dren, but ] would say that the
major part of the day should be
spent without the confusion and
excitement of having neighbor-
hood children running In and out.
II were In your place
should send the children home
whenever they proved to be .
nuisance to you or . bad influ-
ence on your son. I don't sec
any reason why this should
cause hard feelings. You
could give any OF several rea-
sons. and tell them they could
return the following day.
Dear Miss Grey: This is the first
time have asked you for help. but
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-07
J SERIAL STORY
MURDER IN PARADISE
BY MARGUERITE 6AHA6AN

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suft sppt IN ~ heass ~ penay
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~ was bsss. . euess N hsv ns~ep.
and - hadn't Nd . real ennnee
10 80 srosnd - match Ne ito1
and fAatastir stories Win hotle<
ones a sev ewn-
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Ing peany mees eltsN myeotf.
but No heps rspestsvs heues.
which meant ~ 49, usually 80.
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truck came ehuoutna " ~ snen
road, aa1 thaa set W w1en
naudis and ! wsvs hsvlng iueeh.
Ne wasn't having ssy ptuHls.
though. I knew. kpeauss ! hsps
tab an him through NJ stosses IN
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thoss In The other papssA eou11
- that ~ was more than hel1-
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knew Denny 10 ~ sAhsa ~ ~
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work under ~ psotsstssu ~ sasns
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would make him ~ white haired
by again until NJ sest fali frsm
kraee.
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that always sasy1sd Mn onfely
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that last patrol waapw spten1e.
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him than. fpv hoavue hnews n
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thinking that perhaps I M ~
too ssvsrs In ssa1ing Mn sway.
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sthes ysar - 80 M 49, NJ
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-07

We pttH ToutIHk Tot % IuIk TOT
recipe for graham cracker pie
crust. Could you print one for
me7
I would appreciate II 80 much
A READER.
Graham Cracker Pie Crust
Mix lightly III cups cracker
crumbs trolled fine) with N
cup graduated sugar and !.
cup melted butter. Line pie
plate and place In refrigerator or
cool place until ready TO nh.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-07

Neighborhood Children Are
Sometimes Nuisances
Wise Mother Has childs Psymsies 81 Her Hon.
Bur Her Hospitality Shouldn't Be Abused
Ry CYNTHIA GREY

Dear Miss Grey: wonder if you could tell me how 20
keep good terms with my neighbors keep small
amused and eontented at home where keep
him. and yet not be constantly forced into the role of
nursemaid for the entire neighborhood
Ny little boy four years DID, and of very friendly,
gregarous nature He TO display all the Characters
tics of potential leader seeming always to have other
children around him. and to be the center Of the group
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-07

Th@ hostNn wHe y eens<htnf
for shs unusual II saeie ssfetnoG
viii want 70 consl1es dtnnes eleth6
Of finsss ofKsn1y. Striking -
fsets are obtained ~ ssmbtninG
psnsis u printed designs w1t1
PLATA fabric. Cloths are mA<e 4
All ~hsts. white wifh Iemos yei-
i<~. wbit4 with roes ss1 wh1e6
~1tn sis@. Matching naphsns ~
Of lfnsn.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-07

Give slippers-orocheted By yourselfor Chrstnos ond
you'll be right line for delighted fnonk yo0s Coorfu
but simple crochet they the thing 10 slip IN
hurry Poern 1851 confons directions for making slippers
in any desired size. Illustrations Of them ond stitches;
feros required Send ten cents CON ond fox token
for this poftern The Tocono Times Needecroft Dept
Write Poiny pottefn number. your name and address,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-07
BY ANNA w. NJ. WOLF


How can We keep children safe in a world at war?
Most parents, in asking this question thinking for
the moment not about physical safety which is separate
question but about the strain to the loss of
of security the shock to sensitive feelings of children reared
to hate force and boodshed
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-07
Parents Job Is to Help
Youth Meet Reality

Anna Wolf author Of this article 10 one Of TIE fossmost
consultation service OF the Child study Association OF AMERICA and
Manual considered
Times the your child Tomorrow"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-07
BETTER WAYS
OF LIVING

II young people can consider
such questions and come 10 feel
that war 10 not the final answer
to all our problems. that there
could be better ways Of living II
we have the wit 10 discover them.
I do not believe that frankly fac
Ing this war and Its necessities
will make them cynical.
n their parents can face tina
future. the sacrifices and the dan
gers with resolution and practical
good sense. children Will almost
certainly feel that they can too.
II 10 the grown-ups who furnish
the cue. The problems" Of chill
dren In . world at war usually
turn out 70 be not theirs but their
parents.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-07

Your postmaster can tell you
how to invest In u. 3. Defense
Bonds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-07

ular childhood game.
There are. of course. exceptions.
Some children ara by nature fear
full and sensitive. Even II there
were no war. they would tend 20
people the dark with frightening
creatures: these have an anxious
attitude toward life In general.
For such children. of course we
need not dwell on the details and
the bloodshed. But thu cause of
their fears lies not in the actual
horrors of real life. II lies within
their own inner and personal trou-
blcs. They will never be cured by
mere censorship.
All children need to listen now
and then 10 adult conservation.
Older children should hear war
discussed as something we are all
trying TO find ways of getting rid
Of some day.
They should know that this
means studying the needs OF peo-
pie Of all nations before we ever
60 to war. II may mean many
changes In our personal lives and
quite a new kind Of world. II win
mean that we will all have 10
make sacrifices. For WHAT What
are the values we want most 10
saveg
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-07

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-07
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-07

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-27
HOUSING PROJECT
 CONDITIONS BAD
Wretched Living Incidents Are Being Related for.
 Public Comment

Applications which have been filed for tenements in the defense housing project here reveal the wretched living conditions of many of the defense workers and their families at present. Among the more distressing cases are two fam flies now living in tents because of inability to pay higher rents else where, one couple living in car for the same reason, and one facl- ily with SIX children livXing in 8 one-rocm cellar.
 Few of the applicants for rents in the federal project, of course, face such dire necessity of getting improved housing conditions. Many simply object to having to live with parents, or being forced to share quarters with other families. A great many applicants state that they are living here alone, and that their families are in Pennsylvania, New York or Massachusetts,.
 Others find their present quarters satisfactory, but have been told by landlords that they must leave, and are frantically scrambling for some accommodations they can afford.
 One Desperate Case
 One of the more desperate cases is that of a loader at one of the local factories, who with his wife has been living in his car for the past two and a half months, be- cause he is unable to afford better accommodate tionS.
 Another man reports in his appli- cation that he and his wife have
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-27
BRITISH BOMBS
 FALL ON FRANCE
German City of Cologne Is Hammered - Ten Nazi
 Planes GO Down

London, Aug. N.-(UP)-The Royal Air Force swept over north- ern France today in an offensive operation which cost the Germans 10 Fighter planes after a night of bombing the industrial quarters oi the German city of Cologne.
 RAT planes also bombed docks at Le Havre and Boulogne during the night.
 Three British bombers were lost during the night air raids and eight British Fighters were listed as miss ing after this mornings dawn of- fensive over France.
 Operations were on a somewhat larger scale than of late," the air ministry said of the attack on Cologne.
 It disclosed also that during the night planes of the Fighter com- mand maintained an offensive pa- trol over enemy airdromes in northern France.
 The dawn attacks on northern France were in considerable force.
 Squadron after squadron crossed the channel with the regularity of
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-27
Three Children Found Slain Beside Mother
Wife of Former New York Policeman Enacts Frightful Tragedy In Her HOme-FOurth Child,
 Father, Are Also Wounded ss

New York, Aug. 27.-UP)-Three children and their mother were found slain in a shabby Brooklyn apartment today, and an assistant district attorney said it appeared that "the mother cut their. throats and then her own throat" A fourth child was wounded seriously.
 The bodies-the children naked, the mother wearing a housecoat-were found in the home of William Mercy who had been dismissed from the police force five years ago for drunkenness He was hospitalized with decorations of the forehead and the index finger.
 Investigators searching the four room, ground floor apartment found a knife, an ax-head, and an unSign- ed note, all blood-stained. The note read in part:
 Best Way Out"
 '"This is the best way out. Don't touch anything. am suffering from some disease"
 Assistant District Attorney Ed ward Heffernan said. Mrs. Mercy wrote the note.
 The victims were Mrs. Mary Mercy, 34, and Marcella, T; Claire, 4, and Paul Mercy, 3. William Mercy, Il, suffered head injuries in addition to his cut. throat and was in serious condition.
 Detective Lieut.. Elmer Joseph said Mercy told the following story:
 T got home at 1:30. I went to sleep with my wife. My baby, Paul was between us. I awoke and as I got of the bed I fell to the floor. My wife was not in bed then.
 T started out to look for her. Then I saw Junior walking, blood all over him. Then saw my wife at the bedroom door. saw her cut her throat with a knife. Then I went to call for help, and the po- lice came"
 Mrs. Morey's mother, Mrs. Mar celia KurdelSki, said the family had been on relief most of the time since Mercy was dropped from the police force.
 Prom every indication 1t looks like suicide in which the mother cut the throats of the children and her own throat, Heffernan said.
 "The cut on the mothers throat
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-27
Several Factors Brighten Picture of Holding That
 Front This Winter RUSSIA HAD 5O,OOO
 TANKS AT BEGINNING Only Lost l5,OOO By Nazi RepOrt-Germans Send
 Out Glowing Story
BY H. L. PERCY
United Press Staff COrrespondent)

United Press Staff Correspondent
 London, August 27.-UP) . The Red army admittedly faces a grave situation on the eastern front, a high Allied source said today, but added that several factors brighten the picture. Survey ing the prospects for main- taining an eastern front this winter, the Allied authority who is in position to know what is happening inside the Soviet Union made these points:
 Tt is highly probable that the Red army started with 50,O0O tanks -an estimate based on conservative assessment of Russia's big tractor production aside from plants devoted only to war industries. CThe Ger mans have claimed destruction of about 15,OO0 Soviet tanks.)
 &The Red army and air force morale and efficiency are high and supply lines are fiinctioning smooth ly.
 3-Russian air activity If anything has increased steadily since the war began. (Nazis claimed destruction of about 12,000 Russian planes).
 1.-The process of transferring Russian heavy industry east of the Urals and the lessons learned in the war with Finland made 1t possible for the Soviets to lose western ter- ritory with vastly less injury than would have been inflicted two years ago.
 Reports Disquieting
 It was admitted by British ex- perts that the immediate military reports from the eastern front were disquieting. The German threat td cut the Leningrad Moscow railroad east of Novgorod seemed to b. greatly increased and there was no new report on the Russian central front offensive in the Gomel sector, which was of vital importance in protecting the rear of the Ukraine army.
 But in the long run, according to Allied information, the Russian pie ture was less discouraging. Despite big air losses, it was stated, tfe Red air fleet is fighting as hard or harder than at the start of the war and the Russians have been quite prodigaI' with fighter planes, send ing up more than seemed necessary whenever the Luftwaffe penetrated Russian territory.
 There also has been free use of anti-aircraft ammunition, which authorities here viewed as showing that the Russians were quite sat- iSfied with the state of their sup plies."
 The urgent Russian request for airplanes from the United States and Britain, particularly Tomahawk and Hurricane or Spitfire fighters, was not regarded as necessarily meaning a shortage but as possibly designed to meet the needs of e long war in which the Russians must mass materials for counter blows.
 This source also took the view
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-27
American Federation Wins
 In Detroit Street Voting

Detroit. Aug. 27-tUP)-An Amer lean Federation of Labor Union to- day defeated a rival CIO group in a collective bargaining election for the exclusive right to represent eni- ployes of Detroit Public Transporta- ton System.
 The vote was sOTl for the AFL Analgamated Association Of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes and io2S for the CIO State. County and Municipal Work CTS ck America.
 ClIy Clerk Thomas keadbetter. in ehar9e of the election, announced the result of the 24-hour long hal- lotlng by the street railway employees ln the common council chamber the gallery of which was iainneo with AWL and cfo union aynpath- lzeH1.
 1he olsollon, unprecedented ln thl eliy'1 in.year oNuerr1iip cf thi fFanalt facilities, Was ofaeFod a@ 4 result of n Hgt=4ag HlIlko iAgl W4ei " we AMf'SsN4st4 Aoale alen ~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-27
NO GAS PRICES
 RAISED TODAY
Dealers Claim No Fear of Any Probe Ration Cards
 May Be Issued

Price increases in gasoline were delayed by most local stations today but a spokesman for the Water bury Gasoline Retailers Association denied that it was because of the announcement by Price Admins trator Leon Henderson that he planned investigations of previous and proposed boosts in price.
 'The increase we announced two days ago has been held up simply because the other major distribu- tors haven't as yet followed the ex- ample of Socony in raising tank car prices eight-tenths of cent a gallon" said George Gaughan association secretary. Instead ot fearing any investigation, we'd wei come one. We wrote letter to oil Coordinator Harold Ickes in July after distributors had raised tank car prices then, and two weeks ago we got reply saying that there would be an investigation"
 Second Inside Week
 The postponed increase would have been the second in less than a week, the dealers raising prices last week after a meeting. That increase was needed, 1t was ex- plained, to make up for sales lost through the rationing regulations.
 Prices in most cases today re- mained at 19 cents gallon for reg ular gasoline and 21.5 for premium gasoline, though some stations prices were above those figures.
 Mir. Gaughan said he had an- nounced Monday that all stations would increase prices because nornl- ally all distributors increase their tank car prices when one does. In
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-27
HOME OF LOCAL
 LAWYER ROBBED
Attorney Finkelstein of Cooke Street Finds $7OO
 Worth of Jewelry Taken

Thieves footed the home of At torney Alfred L. Finkelstein at 829 Cooke street of jewelry valued at about $70O and rifled a coin bank |of $95O sometime between Aug. IS and 25, Lieut.. Henry Johnson of the local detective bureau report led this morning.
 The intruders gained entrance through pantry window and went to the bedroom where they ran- sacked bureau drawers, and clothes closets. The robbery occurred while MT. Finklestein's wife was away on la 10 days vacation although Atty. |Finkelstein was at home nights, the detective explained.
 MT. Finkelstein told Lieut.. John son that during his wife's absence he noticed a knob from g. bureau drawer was lying on the bureau top but believed he picked it up absent-mindedly when he returned home, thinking that nothing was
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-27
2,8OO PLANES BY
 ALUMINIUM ROUTE
Contributions of P o ts /, Pans Furnished Material
 to Build That Number

Washington, Aug. T.-(UP)- Housewives contributed enough aluminium pots and pans in the. re- cent collection campaign to supply aluminium for 2,800 fighting planes, Civilian Defense Director Fiorello H. LaGuardia revealed today.
 He said incomplete returns mdi- cated that I4,000,O00 pounds of simultaneously cooking utensils were contributed; that John D. Biggers, OPEM production director. has sent 6,7O0,000 pounds of scrap aluminium to smelters.
 Final reports on collections, La- Guardia said, have been received from seven states and the District of Columbia, while figures for 10 other states are three-foirths conn plete.
 "The results to date," he said. "ln- dlcate an estimated average col- lection of nearly half 6 pound oi scrap per occupied dwelling"
 The largest ''per dwelling" yield to date was reported by Rhoda Island where houEeholders contrib. uted aO4.O0O pounds for an average Of ii pounds per dwelling. New York state reported the highest tota collections, i,iO0OOO pounds, but it' average was only 0.9 pound,
 Other states listed by LAduarala' Now fTampEhiFe, ei .0o0 pounds: Con. fieetlcut, 30i,i40; Mafxachusetts 100000; isew JeFBey, eO0Oo0.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-27
SEX MANIA GROWS
 THROUGH NATION
Only Church Can Correct This Evil Says Rev.
 Felix M. KirsCh

Boston, August 27-(UP) - Sex mania Is prevalent throughout the nation and only the church can cor- rect this evil, according to the Rev. Felix M. Kirsch, Catholic University professor of education.
 He told the 32d annual teachers institute at Boston College high school yesterday that priests, par entS and teachers are. alarmed over the growing immortality of the young" and said religious strength must be instilled into pupils to ward off sex contamination.
 ''Diabolical efforts" he said, 'a're being made to teach our American boys and girls all the pleasure of sex, to unleash deliberately the beast that is in the best of them and to break down all the ir inhibi- tions of modesty and decency."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-27

Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach employees (AFL.
 The AFL union, victor in today's election, called the strike to fortify demands for exclusive use of bul- letin boards after charging the CIo union with using the boards for dis playing flake propaganda"
 Robert 0. Armstrong, interna- tional representative of the AFL union, been in the majority among the employees Of the department of street railways"
 Afmesrong conkended that "had the city administration" recognized the AFL union as the ''prcper repre- sentative Of the DSR employees tho recent dificulty might have been avoided"
 Lawrence Blythe. regional diree. t0r Of the CY0 union, sald tho cleo. ton ''eosha't aettio anything"
 sWe'Se going tO continue our ila' lenmvo organization drive auionl DNn employee" he deolnred. "cul members aFo not soinS to V eoeEeea H# F |4 %t .. l- ...5 I1..|.I.. ..