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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-11
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Cougars and Oregon Ducks
Evening star., 1941-07-01
Soviet Aid
Continued From First Page }

g most defense items is already far
behind American requirements and
the amounts promised to Great
Britain.
At same time the ships leave
America for North Africa, Mr..
Welles said, two other French ships
will leave North Africa to bring to
the United States products of that
country needed here, including
some strategic materials. He en-
phasized that goods going from the
United States under the agreement
would be only for consumption in
French North Africa, with Ameri-
can officials there controlling distri-
button.
Continuance of the agreement
also is contingent upon two French
vessels leaving North Africa for
this country whenever two others
sail from United States ports-thus
making sure that the vessels re-
leased here are not used for the
benefit of Germany.
The French vessels being used for
this trade have been immobiiized
here. The two ships due to sail
from North Africa are those which
were allowed to leave American
ports several weeks ago to take a
cargo OF flour contributed by the
American Red Cross to unoccupied
France.
Mr.. Welles said the agreement
would be voided Immediately If there
was any breach of the French guar
antees that the American supplies
would be used only in North Africa
and that ships involved in the trade
would not be used for any other
purpose.
Among the materials this country
expects to get are cork, olive oil,
red squill Ga ratacide), essential oils
used for perfume, gum arabic, salt,
duorine, tartar and sheep casing.
Evening star., 1941-07-01
Wallace Dedicates
Treasury House 10
Sell Defense Stamps
Tiny Glass Building
Open for Business
In Downtown Park

Treasury House was opened to the
public at noon today with a speech
by Vice President Wallace and to
the tune of martial music.
The tiny glass house, erected in
the park at Fourteenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue NV. and sur
rounded by weapons built in the de-
fense program, was dedicated to
Americans of small income who
wish to invest their change in de-
mocracy From the Treasury House
will be sold defense stamps.
introduced by Bell.
Undersecretary of the Treasury
Daniel w. Bell introduced Vice
President Wallace to open the cere-
monies, which were broadcast ma
tionally. Mr.. Wallace described the
Treasury House as the smallest
but perhaps one of the most i'm
portant Government buildings" and
said:
I'VE are all hoping that this little
house will do so much business that
other little houses will be estab-
nshed. not only in the suburbs of
Washington. but also in every coun-
ty seat. town and especially in those
has tremendously increased popu-
lation.
Prices of all kinds have gone up
faster in recent months than ever
before in history. If this rise con-
tinues, wages will not buy what they
should. Farmers will be dissatis-
fed. and every one except the spec
ulator will be troubled. One of the
best ways of stopping disastrous
price rise, which would interfere
with defense, is to get millions of
people buying United States de-
fense stamps-filling up their stamp
albums regularly - every week.
Workers and farmers filling up their
stamp albums can stop initiation with
much greater certainty than if the
job of investing in defense were
left only to bankers"
Service Bands Present.
The Army, Navy and Marine
Bands were on hand to furnish
music for the occasion. The glass
house, executed in motif of red,
white and blue. did brisk busi-
ness in stamps following the cere-
monies.
Scattered around in the park are
field pieces, tanks, Coast Guard
boats and other implements of the
defense forces. The Treasury House
will be f1oodlighted at night and q
group of attractive young women
will be on duty from 10 I'm. to 10
pm. to sell defense stamps and an
swer questions about defense bonds.
Evening star., 1941-07-01
Bowie Won't File
Charges Against
Fireworks Users
Prince Georges Official
Says Local Lows Make
State Rules InoppIieoble
sv {. staff Correspondent Of The star

UPPER MARLBORO Md, July /.
States Attorney A. Gwynn Bowie
of Prince Georges County today
said he does not intend to prosecute
any one shooting firecrackers or ex-
plosive fireworks in any town or in
corporated community which has
local laws now In effect dealing with
fireworks.
Mr.. Bowie said that in his opinion
the existence of local laws, whether
prohibiting or permitting the sale or
use of explosive fireworks was suf-
ficient to make the new State reg
ulations inapplicable.
This opinion differed sharply from
that expressed yesterday by State
Insurance Commissioner John C.
Centrum who said that the new
State regulations prohibited their
use. He declared he would mobilize
State police and deputize enough
special fire marshals to enforce the
regulations. 50
Meanwhile. volunteer fire COM
panies in Capitol Heights. Cottage
City, Seat Pleasant and Bladens-
burg today were doing a brisk busi-
ness in the sale of fireworks. At
several other places in the county
fireworks for sale" signs were dis
played but investigation showed the
displays consisted Of sparklers and
other non-explosive types.
Mr.. Bowie emphasized that the
use or setting of of explosive fire.
works without doubt would be re-
stricted to those communities in
which the sale is permitted and
that shooting them off anywhere
else in the county or State would
subject the offender to prosecution
and $500 penalty provided in the
new law.
Evening star., 1941-07-01

chromium, tungsten and other ma
terials of most critical importance.
Between July l, 1910. and May
81, 194l, Treasury records show. the
Seventy sixth and Seventy-seventh
Congresses appropriated s8,45l ,113.-
BIT for the War Department. which
was able to spend only S3,577, ,708,-
479 of that sum. Respective figures
of appropriations and expenditures
for other defense departments are
given ss follows: Navy, s3,49S, ,672,-
265 and s2,177941,774; Selective
Service Administration, s24825. .108
and $l7.350,125; Maritime Commits
sion, s313, 100000 and s10.304 ,947.
and defense housing, s14o, 1000, 900 and
s20,083.257.
In other words, the Army is to-
day S4873 ,305.398 behind the years
program as financed by Congress
The Nays arrearage is 81 800, $780,
49l: that of the Maritime Commits
sion is 1903, 1876 ,053, and that of de-
fense housing, s119,916,743.
Tungsten Jeopardized.
Among critical materials in which
shortages have developed. some are
available in the Western Hemi-
sphere, but others were obtained
chiefly from Russia and the Far
East. In the case of Russia, from
which most of our manganese and
chromium was derived formerly,
supplies had dried up even before
Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
Tungsten, coming largely from
China, is jeopardized by difficulties
on the Burma road.
For tin and rubber, the country
has relied principally on the Meth
erlands Indies and British Malaga.
The situation with regard to tin has
become doubly serious, owing to
shortage of shipping in the Pacific
and the battle of the Atlantic,
which has ended the routing of this
metal from Bolivia to smelters in
England. Bolivia has no smelters
and the United States is only now
Evening star., 1941-07-01

since March a. when a 81 ,000. 900 900
appropriation became available, 1t
has disbursed only $20,878,257 in
lease-lend aid, of which S14,120,519
was expended in June alone. Ac-
cording to the Presidents recent re-
port to Congress, however, there
should be added about $66 900 900 of
materials taken from existing Army
and Navy supplies.
Serious Shortages Admitted.
These figures as to a lag between
appropriations and ALLEGATIONS, to
say nothing of actual expenditures,
are accompanied by President
Roosevelt's belateds confession that
a serious shortage exists in the
manufacture of munitions; by re-
ports that the June output of mill
tary planes will fall from IS to 100
planes under that of May, which,
in turn, showed decrease from
April production, and by disclosures
of dangerous conditions in aluml-
mum, steel, rubber, manganese,
Evening star., 1941-07-01

erential clause or q union shop
agreement, and bonus of 5 per cent
for night workers. Pickets encircled
the plant following failure of a
settlement conference in Detroit
yesterday.
A truce was effected last night,
ending a six-week strike of 1,150
c. I. o. employees of the Wilson,
Jones Co., loose-leaf equipment
manufacturers with plants at Chi
cago and Elizabeth, N j. Pending
further negotiations, the employees
will get general pay increase of
cents al hour. An attorney for the
union said the present minimum
scale was 40 cents an hour, the
maximum 81 25 and the average IS 8
cents.
A scheduled strike of 1,500 A. F. L.
members working on $4,000 900 ex-
pansion program at Jefferson Bar
racks in st. Louis was postponed
today in the hope that word from
Washington" might settle the issue
Of w. P. A. labor.
The walkout was planned at the
Army post to halt the use of w. P. A.
workers as painters and plumbers
on construction projects. Union
officials said the A. F. L. Building
Trades Department regarded the
Jefferson Barracks situation as a
national test case.
The Briggs Manufacturing Co.
said its Meldrum Avenue plant in
Detroit was closed by the walkout
of 1000 workers "in an unau-
thorized wildcat strike"
The men left their jobs, a COM
pany spokesman said, when the
management refused to pay them
for time lost yesterday when 302 men
in the paint shop walked out claim
ing it was too hot, although other
paint shop employees in the city did
not quit under similar conditions.
Evening star., 1941-07-01
,eport for Last "a Hours.

Record for Last ~ Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today
Highest, Oil at noon today. Year ago, 76.
Lowest, 73, at 4 am. today. Year ago. 6e.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 81, on May %.
Lowest, Is, on March 1s.
Humidity for Last ~ Hours.
(rrom noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 91 per cent, at 4 Am. today.
Lowest, IS per cent, at 1880 pm. yes
terday.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry: Potomac slightly muddy
at Great Falls today.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED BY United states Coast and
Evening star., 1941-07-01
financing the construction of such a
plant within its own borders.

financing the construction of such a
plant within its own borders.
Should anything happen to inter-
rupt rubber imports, the country
would have to fall back on made
quate stockpiles, and then-in the
recent words of William L. Bait,
deputy director Of production Of the
Office of Production Management
pray that the infant synthetic rub
ber industry in this country would
be able to expand its output rapidly
enough to make up some Of the diff
ference"
The United States produces some
tungsten, an alloy indispensable to
the production of high-speed tool
steel, but the closing of the Burma
road not long ago, brought about
shortage in two months. There is
said to be only years supply for
normal needs of chromium and
manganese, without which the man.
ufacture of modern steel is impos-
sible.
access 10 RUSSIA SlOSfu.
With access to Russian chromium
terminated. industry must depend
on the long and dangerous haul from
East Africa. or lean heavily en- the
distant Philippines. There is some
Cuban and domestic output of a
grade sufficiently high for defense
purpses.
There are large supplies of man
Coast, but these sources are also be-
coming hazardous. However. Brazil
is a potential producer of this metal
on large scale. In order to bring it
within reach. the Reconstruction
Finance Corp. has found is necessary
to finance the repair of Brazilian
railroad facilities. Cuba and the
United States possess considerable
deposits of low-grade manganese,
and to utilize them a new electro
| lytic process is being tested.
Among metals once thought to ex-
ist in easy reach and in adequate
volumes are nickel. copper and lead.
lNlNhCA. uAAboSS NnSAASA'N
from Canada, has had to be rationed.
A large amount of copper now comes
| to us from Chile. Nearly half the
lead needed this year will be i'm
ported from Canada, Newfoundland,
Mexico and Peru.
Agencies Caught Mapping.
| Among charges now ShoWering
down on o. P. NJ. are that it per-
mitted itself to be deceived by the
Aluminium Co. of America, anxious
to preserve its monopoly, as to avail
able supplies of this metal. on which
airplane manufacture is based: that
/ it accepted inaccurate estimates as
to steel manufacturing capacity. and
that it neglected to accumulate
stockpiles of crude rubber while
record imports were exhauted by
the tire industry in sales spree"
for civilian consumption.
The Rubber Reserve Co. and the
Metals Reserve Co., both subsidiaries
of R. F. C. and both under the chair
manship of Jesse H. Jones, Secretary
of Commerce, are declared to have
been caught mapping on rubber,
manganese and chromium supplies.
These two critical agencies are en-
tirely outside the formal defense
structure, and Mr.. Jones. as cab
met member. is accountable only to
the President. All of these develop
ments are held to point to the ne
cessity, at an early date, for nam
ing a commander of the Nations
| industrial war campaign.
Evening star., 1941-07-01
Weather Report

District of
followed thunder
afternoon lowest temperature tonight about degrees
moderate southwest winds shifting northwest afternoon
and tomorrow morning followed by local thunder showers and
afternoon cooler night
to 730 Saturday July 1941, inclusive
Middle Atlantic States District Columbia Virginia
Eastern New York; Showers
hndersoms Wednesday afternoon night followed generally
remainder of Continued high tonight Wedn
followed weather and night
Saturday will normal during
the
Ohio Valley Kentuky Ohio Virginia Western PENNSYLVANIA
We'd
generally Thursday Friday and showers SATURDAY.
Wednesday Wednesday night
Friday and Saturday The will
Evening star., 1941-07-01
S4,OOO,0OO,O0O Fund
Measures Await Only
Presidents Signature
Supply Bills Complete
Legislation Needed
As Fiscal Year Ends
ny the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Congressional clerks today
speeded to the President for sigma
ture more than $4,000, 900 900 in ap-
preparations, the product of the last
strenuous session of the old fiscal
year which ended at midnight.
Weary members of the House
cleared their desks and quit at
1890 o'clock last night and the
Senate did not adjourn until 1914.
Teamwork between the two Houses,
marred only by minor disputes,
cleared not only the key spending
bills, but also legislation expanding
and continuing the Commodity
Credit Corp.
The days work brought close to
$4,000 100000 the ecordbreaking
total of congressional appropria-
ton and spending authorizations
voted thus far this session.
Bills Sent to President.
The principal measures dis
patched to President Roosevelt dur
ing the lengthy day were:
The S910.905, 900 relief bill, the
$1,000, ,500,063 farm measure, includ-
ing funds for parity payments" to
farmers, the sl195,861 $40 supply
bill for the Labor Department ana
the Security Agency, the $l,030,-
100000 deficiency bill, providing
more than 100000 900 for 2,236 new
naval planes; the $54,1s3, LOG supply
bill for the District Of Columbia
and the s25,o02256 appropriation
for the maintenance OF Congress
itself.
Also approved was a measure
continuing the Commodity Credit
Corp. for two years from today and
increasing its lending power from
81 400 ,0OO, 900 to s2650, 900 900. The
increase was necessary In part to
provide for recently-authorized
commodity loans at IS per cent of
parity prices.
Await Presidents Signature.
Although President Roosevelt was
visiting his home at Hyde Park, N.
Y, and was unable to sign the
eleventh-hour appropriations meas
ures last night, congressional parlia-
mentary experts said that if lie
signed them today there would be
no lapse of funds for the various de-
partments. They said the measures
would be retroactive to last mid
night when the Chief Executive
signed them.
There were few record votes in
either chamber as leaders brought
up one big money bill after another.
The differences were largely over
relatively trivial amendments. and
the Senate spent more time debat-
ing whether to grant the Works
Progress Administration an addi-
tional $485,000 for administrative
costs than on any other item.
Before finally deciding by vote
Of ~ to "A to let the House figures
stand and eliminate the previously
approved Senate increase, the cham
ber heard some harsh words about
the tactics of legislators at the other
end of the Capitol.
Evening star., 1941-07-01
Bill Amending D. c.
JobIess Law Stoned

President Roosevelt signed at
Hyde Park today bill amending the
District of Columbia Unemployment
Act to bring certain of its admin
istrative financial proceedings in
harmony with Federal law. The bill
arrived in an overnight mail pouch
from Washington
The measure requires the Dis
trict Unemployment Compensation
Board to report expenditures of
funds received from the Social Sc
curity Board that are not made as
directed by this agency. Board off,
cials said its purpose was to bring
the administration of the District
Unemployment Compensation Act
"up to the Federal level"
Evening star., 1941-07-01
End of First Emergency Year
Sees Disquiet on Defense Front
Lag Is Cited Between Appropriations
And Spending; Serious Shortages Noted

This another In series Of articles dnalyzino the defense
Others uH tollo Stokes Washington
sponden Of the St Louis Dispatch The Star printing these
articles BY special permission OF that newspaper
Evening star., 1941-07-01
6 Bodies Recovered,
y Others Believed
Lost on Missing Boat
Burns on One Victim
Indicate Explosion
Caused Seq Tragedy
By the Associated Press.

HARPSWELL, Me, July l.-The
discover of six bodies-one Of them
badly burned-led searchers to be-
lieve today that all of the 35 mem
bers of gay picnic party which set
out Sunday on the 44-foot cabin
cruiser Don might have perished
after fire swept the boat.
The tragedy, the worst In the
memory of residents of this rocky
coast. apparently occurred in the
fog g-enshrouded waters of Lower
Casco Bay while the party of Rum
ford. Me, residents was returning
from Monhegan Island, 40 miles
from here in the open Atlantic
Coast Guard 1t. Thomas Samp-
son, in charge of the search, said
he believed the cruiser had ex-
ploded, probably while homeward
bound.
Wreckage was found as the day
wore on, including life preserver,
boathook and a piece of green
painted wood.
A sixth body, found on Orrs'
Island, was identified as that Of Earl
Decker of Rumford.
Carlton Smith, one of the many
searchers, said that undoubtedly"
there had been an explosion aboard
the heavily loaded Don.
Body Badly Burned.
He spoke after bringing ashore a
body identified as that of Miss
Elizabeth Howard, Rumford bank
employe. She had suffered bad
burns on her legs and one hip.
Boy Scouts patrolling beaches to
aid the search, found a piece
of green-painted wood and some
scorched cloth-apparently part of
a trouser leg. The Don had green
woodwork trimmings.
The first five bodies found were
those of women. They were identi-
fled as those of Miss Howard, Miss
Ruth Hemingway, Rumford house
keeper; Miss Bessie Strople, Rum
ford bank clerk Miss Anne Stasulis,
also a bank employe, and Miss
HhAAcAAC oNO4AcANb 1NAilAOA0 OlA(C
worker.
The bodies were laid out on a
| rough fish wharf here before being
removed TO a Brunswick funeral
home.
Wrist watches on two of the
women had stopped at the same
minute-ll40. Whether the trag-
/ edy had occurred Sunday night.
Monday morning or Monday night,
authorities were not able to de-
/ termine Immediately.
The Don, with Is women and 20
men and boys aboard, had set out
Sunday morning for Monhegan
Island. Searchers learned that tie
boat arrived there and departed
again at $50 pm. for what ordi-
narily would be a four-hour run.
Dense Fog Over Area.
Before the boat reached home
however, a dense fog settled over
the area.
1t was of the type known local.
as dungeon fog and visibility was
zero.
Even today, as a feet Of boats
nosed through the rocky waters in
search of more bodies or some
| physical trace of the missing cabin
cruiser, Mr.. Smith reported it was
SO foggy in lower Casco Bay that
it was difficult to see more than a
few feet.
Whether the Don put In TO
harbor or dropped anchor Sunday
night to wait out the fog, meeting
with accident later, or whether she
sank while trying to come i'm
mediately to her home landing, was
| matter of speculation.
A systematic search started Mon
day morning.
Coast Guard and State boats are
aiding in the search.
Evening star., 1941-07-01
By RICHARD L. STOKES.

The end Of the first emergency fiscal at midnight last
disquet
defense political from
the White House. and putting cast light hearted
pledges of aid to Britain China and Russia.
today show that IL months
placed the disposal defense actual cash
total of $780, that Thursday last week
802 been that been
disburse another s5746 consequently
balance hand cash unspent unao
Gated by all defense contracting agencies To this will be
Army appropriation BILL which
recently passed House adopted last Friday the
Senate
With Bran's needs taking priority those Of do
mesc defense Treasury reports during the three months
Evening star., 1941-07-01
Firms Laud Hoover Talk;
Hit u. S. Aid to Soviet
ey the Associated Press.

ey the Associated Press.
HELSINKI, Finland, July The
Finnish press and public expressed
approval today of Sunday speech
BY former President Hoover in which
he declared "the theological war to
bring freedom to the worlc died
spiritually when we made that
promise" to aid Soviet Russia.
The Helsinki newspaper Sanomat,
recalling American aid to Finland
during the Soviet winter invasion Of
1939-40, added: TT seems an un-
natural impossibility that civilized,
liberty loving America can support
mankind's worst enemy, who has
attacked us for the second time
within two years"
Evening star., 1941-07-01

Warm moist air Of tropical origin con-
ward between the anti-cyclone that is on
the south Atlantic Coast, the highest pres
sure about 1,O24 millibars t30.24 inches),
ward over the Lake region with lowest
at Marquette, Mich. A mass Of cooler and
drier air of polar origin is moving south
eastward over the northern Rocky Noun
tain region, Minnesota and the Plains
States, The highest pressure n this ar
at wiiliston, N. Oak: Rather seneral
showers have occurred in the northern
Minnesota. and local showers and thun-
derstorms have occurred in portions OF the
Atlantic and east Gulf states. the Appa, pa,
Texas and Western Oklahoma.
Evening star., 1941-07-01
Congress in Brief
TODAY

I Senate:
In recess until Thursday.
Judiciary Subcommittee resumes
hearings on administrative pro-
cedure bills.
Military Affairs Committee hears
testimony on property seizure bill.
House:
In recess.
Ways and Means Committee con-
tinues preparation of new tax bill.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1941-09-11
Mint Yield High in
Quality and Yield

HIGHLANDS farmers or
the Highlands, who raised mint this
year are very busy this week, har-
vesting their crops, which are OF
good yield and very high quality.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Peter AND
daughter, Joyce, attended a wiener
roast at the Valley grange hall on
Tuesday evening.
Mrs. D. E. Taylor and daughter
Shirley entertained at dinner Sun
day, Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Taylor, Mr.
and Mrs. Torrance Taylor and Bob
Taylor of Toppenish.
Mrs. NJ L. Kippes arrived home on
Thursday from Eugene, Oregon
where she spent week visiting rel
ativeS.
Mrs. Earl McClendon of Richland
is a guest of her parents, MIR. and
Mrs. NJ. l.. Kippes on the River
Road, while her husband is employ
ed at Hermiston.
Miss Maude Lampson of Kenne-
wick was a weekend guest at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Lamp
son and family.
Ralph Soper of the Highlands
wrecked his car arounting to $75
damage Friday evening, when he
collided with the car driven by DON
aid Walls of PaSco. Howard Hall #
Pasco, passenger in the Walls car,
was badly injured.