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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-29
Plays
AT Buckley
Three on Progrom
FridoY Evening

BVCkLEY-Thre> one-.et riays
VIII Be given Friday evening by
amateur thespisrs a tire Bue alley
high school auditorium fer the en-
tsrtainment of the ruhlsr and 10
rsise funda for the student n.pdy.
No rrespasins . comedy al
rected hy Miss Ruth Rack, hss =
cast of eigh, characters with lead
Ing parts bring taken BY John
Sander ard Louise Stenholm
Dumb Dora also comedy. d.
rect-d hy Miss Mary Meyers. has
q cast cf five. A ene-aet realls-
tic drama of four mvn. with it,
setting during the Russian revoiu-
ton 81 isi7.ieis. IN the third
play. The Game Of Chexs." writ
ten by Kenneth Sawyer Goodman
and directed by PHI Haeger.
Carl JohAnssn' Enumeiaw bust
ness man. announced this week
that IN plans 10 install 200 cold
storage lockers in Buckley ct
onc~. He said they would be
ready TO use by January list
Plan Improvement
The Buckley council took AN
other step Tuesday toward the
betterment OF Buekley's water
system by voting to replace the
water mains on Dundas and Edith
streets on the west side and Raj
nier avenue on the east side.
The Town Property committee
reported that two old buildings
which menace adjoining property
had been torn down. and that
blackberry bushes on these proper
ties will b removed and the en-
tire lots cleaned up.
The Ladies AID Of IN. Com
munity church IL sponsoring .
church fair Friday and Saturday
to raise funds. Friday q rummage
and white elephant" sale was held
In the old Lund meat market
building on Main street and on
Saturday the church basement Will
be the scene Of Q bazaar. From
1880 on . merchants lunch will
be served and cake and coffee viii
Be served all afternoon.
Mrs. c. II. Stewart 10 acting o.
general chairman Of the fair and
IL being assisted by = corps OF
some dozen oth-r AID members.
c.rn.,ion club me, Friday =,
the home OF Mn. Wiley Cook for
q one o'clock dessert luncheon and
several tables Of 800" Mrs. Elsl,
Skjelkvale was eo-hosts~s.
Birthday Honored
The birthday OF Mrs. G. l.. Mac.
Giothirn was honored this week on
both Thursday and Friday eve
nings. Thursday group Of
friends gathered at the new home
Of Mrs. Clarence Caviexel and sur.
prised Mrs. MacClothlen by show
ering her with gifts and good
wishes at the close Of m evening
Of sewing. Refreshments were
served. Participating were Mes
danes c. Csviezel, Ward Cannon,
Van Madden. r.. c. y. Hamilton.
J. w. Smith. John Boyle, Paul
Demko and r. b. Anderson.
Friday evening Mrs n. A. Park
ington was hostess.
Rev. and Mrs. orr A. Cheek
announced this week that the pub
lie 10 invited to q Harvest Fes-
tivsi Of Music" at the Buckley
Community church this Sunday
afternoon At five O'Clock. Both
adult and the Junior choirs will
furnish music and special instru-
mental numbers will be given by
Mrs. Harry whitmore. hsrpist,
and Douglas Workman. vioiinist
Vocal solos will be given by Mrs
Friedrich N. Lash and Miss Dor
othy Hiber.
Nine members OF the Mixmss,er
club were present Wednesday aft.
ernoon for q 100 luncheon al ths
home Of Mrs. Melvin Wsns In
EnumcIsw. Sewing was enjoyed
The next meeting will be tbs
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-29

HOME DEFENSE MEETING
A Tacoma Home Defense corps
meeting for residents Of precinct
% will be held at Q p. m. Monday,
Dec. /. at the Stanley school.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-29
MANUFACTURERS TESTED RECIPES

mAN VI M ! Ounu0
eap nsusar Meal pesvsass
ess well beaten
- cup bread etnmNs
- cup srsHnd believer Hsss
! trsspo"s salt
Pepper
". ar.r. .nie~ fas~s
chopped resers " aesisea
Nin all ingredients sell, form N
small cones. roll IN ess ana bread
erumbs and frf IN deep fss e~frs
With mint Jelly.
pxrrr~s RAksD WIS nAcAaoss
Cut tops from
medium sired gvess pepp>ss
fire. f~s stand 10 70 - minute
then drain.
Brown
IN. ssusass meat
erslmbilns into ANAL hits sith
onmhine with
1 medium ,if.ss, cen Hesss
Csshed Macsreut IN Cream
Christmas party NJ the homo Of
Mrs. Peter Demko.
Mrs. willard Macponald. Mn.
W. o. Bensdom, MI. Frank
Ciogston. and Mrs. chrs oison
were the hostess commiitse for
the meeting Of the woman's Nh
sicai and Literary club Monday
evening. Clyde Brill. Tacoma
stamp dealer. showed rafv stamps,
Mr.. and Mira ID. c. Garrett Of
Black Diamond provided music for
the evening and Mrs. Gladys
Cobb, also Of Black Diamond. gave
readings.
Mrs. kcsko hostess
Members OF the o. ". o. club
enjoyed q social evening wednss
day at the home Of Nrs. Mihs
Ko~ko. Primes were won by Mrs
Robert schwab, Mrs. Fred zydat
and Mrs. Louis Bolton. Others
present were the Nesdames Peter
Koval. Andy kosko. John Kcsko,
William Moeiler. Toivo Hahto and
TED Bolton.
Mrs. L. N. Morse and Mrs 4.
l.. Watts were hossssses this
week 10 the LADIES' Aid n the
Community church at the horss
home. Following the business
meeting Miss Dorothy Hib<r sang.
accompanied by Mrs.. Harry Whit
more. Refreshments were served
from . tsbie st which Mrs. Joseph
Livernash and her sister. Mrs.
Cunnsr Gustafson. presided The
society win meet next on wednes-
day. Dec. 10. Mrs. John workmsn
and Mrs. John Loughrsn win b
hostess.
Mrs. John Workman and her
daughter. Mrs. n. L. Underwood,
entertained Thursdsy afternoon
with . luncheon and soms Sin
tablss Of bridge. At ths Underwood
home.
Ro.munds Theta Rho met thl1
week ~ tbs ]. o. o. y. hall n
initiate the following eiaAs n
candidates; Ethel and Msrtory
Campbell. Phyllis Mcclure and
Rose Locke.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-11-29

The Buckley council took AN
other step Tuesday toward the
betterment OF Buekley's water
system by voting to replace the
water mains on Dundss and Edith
streets on the west side and Raj
nier avenue on the east side.
Evening star., 1941-01-12
Randolph, III, Tells
District Committee
To Reorganize
Meeting Likely This Week
After Seven Vacancies =,
Are Filled

The House District Committee
may reorganize this week in the
absence of Chairman Randolph. who
is undergoing medical treatment in
Garfield Hospital.
From his hospital bed. Repre-
sentative Randolph yesterday sent
memorandum to veteran members
of the committee urging them to
hold an organization meeting as
soon as the House Ways and Means
Committee fills seven existing va
cancies. The seven appointments
are expected to be made before the
end of the week.
Representative Randolph entered
the hospital Thursday, suffering
from a digestive ailment. His ply
Sician, DR.. Beveridge Miller, said
last night he is resting comfortably
and is not in critical condition.
One of the seven new members
of the committee is expected to
be Representative Sheridan, Demo-
crat of Pennsylvania. There has
been. continuation, however, as to
the other six appointees.
Representative Schultz, Democrat,
of Indiana, is now ranking majority
member of the committee, and will
preside at the meetings in the
absence of Mr. Randolph. He moved
up in seniority rank as a result
of the defeat in the November elec-
ton of former Representative Ken
nedy, Democrat, of Maryland.
Evening star., 1941-01-12
Fifth Battalion TO Leave
For Cuba Wednesday

Seasoned by more than two
months of training at Marine Bar
racks, Quantico, Va, $50 officers
and men of the 5th Battalion, Ma
rine Corps Reserve, from Washing
ton and vicinity are making final
plans to leave for Guantanamo,
Cuba, at 6 am. Wednesday.
Going by rail from Quantico to
Norfolk, the battalion will sail for
Guantanamo Bay. The Washing
ton unit is one of seven battalions
which the Navy Department an
nounced yesterday will leave soon
from Quantico and Paris Island,
S. c., for Cuba.
The battalion is commanded by
1t. Col. Harvey l.. Miller. 1t has
been reduced somewhat in numbers
due to discharges because of physi-
cal reasons or dependency.
In Cuba the battalions will be
assigned to the 1st Brigade of Ma
rines, Fleet Marine Force, in COM
mand of Brig. Gen. Holland M.
Smith.
The medical section of the bat
talon has been separated and will
not leave Wednesday. The section,
headed by 1t. Comdrs. Don S. Knowl-
ton and William L. Schafer, included
the local medical personnel. Comdr
Knowlton is organizing and prob
ably will command the new 7th and
9Th Medical Companies for the duty
With the Fleet Marine Force.
Evening star., 1941-01-12
Blue Plains Home Still Lacks
Urged Year Ago
Institution Mrs. Roosevelt Criticized Needs
Many New Facilities for Patients

Wallace, was a member of the Gal
linger Hospital group sent to Blue
Plains last year TO examine all in
flrmary patients.
Since his appointment last Au-
gust, DR.. Wallace has examined and
made detailed report on each
inmate.
He has also constituted himself a
committee of one to keep Blue Plains
from being the dumping ground
of the District. He visits every pros
pective inmate. refuses to accept
young people with venereal diseases,
epileptics and feeble-minded Since
he came to Blue Plains, only the
aged and infirm have been admitted.
DR.. Wallace may be called into active
Army service at any time.
A number of patients have been
sent to Gallinger for medical atten-
ton. A 24-year-old girl suffering
from paralysis of the legs was pro-
vided with braces. Several pSy-
chiatric cases were committed to St.
Elizabeth's Hospital and two were
sent to the District Training School.
The doctor has asked for and re-
ceived, after patient waiting, steril-
izers for dressings and instruments
and a little room which he will use
as a clinic has been built on the side
of the old treatment room.
Privacy Still Lacking.
An addition to the infirmary, built
with funds from the 1910 appropria-
ton. has made it possible to move
the beds further apart. The addi-
tional space will also make it pos
sible to use one of the old infirmary
rooms as a sun parlor. No curtains
have yet been hung to screen pa
tients from their neighbors.
Besides providing for the super
intendent who has not been ap-
pointed and the resident physician
as well as some other attendants, the
increase in the 1941 appropriation
provided for some repairs and equip
ment.
A passageway has been built off
the kitchen to allow traffic to go in
and out of doors without passing
through the kitchen; the admins
tration building has been repainted
and a larger dishwasher has been
bought SOC that the dishes are now
clean when they get to the table.
The Welfare Department plans to
send a staff social worker to the in
stitution to determine which of the
inmates can be rehabilitated.
Young Suggests Project.
The w. P. A. project, proposed at
the suggestion of Commissioner
John Russell Young, would assign 65
w: P. A workers to aid in operation
of the institution and 81 other
workers to improve the plant. Fed
eral approval has not yet been won.
w. P. A. officials however, after
going through the Blue Plains in
(see BLUE PLAINS, Page BAD
Evening star., 1941-01-12
Auto Tax VaIuationCu
To Save D. T.. Owners
$4,000 Annually
Bose to Be Only IS Pct.
Above Book Listing
Instead of Is Pet.

Washington motorcar owners will
be saved an estimated $4,000 a year
through a reduction in personal tax
valuation on automobiles, effective
April /, it was announced yesterday
by Edward A. Dent, District tax as
SCISSOR.
The reduction was made by the
Board of Personal Tax Appraisers
after a. careful study and number
of conferences with such organiza-
tions as the American Automobile
Association, keystone Automobile
Club, Federation of Citizens Asso-
Citations and washington Automo-
tive Trades Association.
Specifically, the decision was to
make the local valuation base only
Is per cent above the cash and loan
value of automobiles as listed in the
Used Car Market Report" instead
of Is per cent, as was done during
the current tax year.
In fixing the 25 per cent above
the used Car Market Reports" fig
ure for this year, the board "felt the
cash and loan value as shown in
the reports did not represent the
full and true value of the motor
vehicle" But the reduction was
made, the board explained, because
subsequent study and conferences
have shown the Is per cent above
figure to be fair and equitable. :"
The board decided further that
all 1941 model standard equipment
automobiles will be valued at 25
per cent below the retail sales price
in the District.
The personal tax rate on auto
mobiles is SITS for each 100 pounds
weight of the vehicle, with mini
mum tax of 81.
Evening star., 1941-01-12
Owl Watching Game
Becomes Prisoner
Of Bethesda Police

Somebody's pet owl is So
journing temporarily in the
basement of the Bethesda police
station. Members of the force
would like to know who-o-o-o-o
it belongs to.
Yesterday afternoon several
children were playing football
on oxford street between Prim-
rose and Quincy streets, in
Chevy Chase, when they spied
the owl contemplating the game
from a nearby tree.
Members of the Chevy Chase
Fire Department and county
police brought one of the fire
departments 35-foot ladders
into action and captured the
owl. Apparently tame, it did
not resist, and Bethesda Police
men Melvin Wheeler and E. E,
Shoemaker brought the bird to
the station house.
Evening star., 1941-01-12
By MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

On January 26, 1910, Mrs. Roose-
velt visited the Home for the Aged
and Infirm at Blue Plains and found
it "far below standards of decency."
Today-almost a year later:
The beds are still head-to-foot IN
some wards despite a decrease in
the population of the institution
from 700 to 610.
A dietician still is lacking. The
menu has changed little except for
the addition of eggs daily.
The capable and trained indi-
vidual'' for whom Congress appro-
priated a superintendent's salary
has not yet been appointed.
For the water cooler in the mems
ward there is one battered tin cup.
Pairs of inmates stay in the dark
bathrooms to help their aged COM
panions in and out of high tubs.
Lighting Criticized.
Poor illumination for the evening
meal, criticized by a Public Health
Service official last year, was COM
mented on by a w. p. A. officer who
spent an evening at the institution
recently and said the electric lights
were so dim that the inmates could
do nothing after dinner but go to
bed.
The inmates still complain that
their food is cold.
No additional fire escapes have
been provided. The fire escapes are
of a ladder type which the acting
superintendent of the institution
fears the infirm would be unable to
get down in case of fire.
These condition were found this
week by a Star reporter who had
visited the institution before Mrs.
Roosevelt made her unannounced
inspection trip last year.
The reporter found changes, too,
most of them traceable to three
sources-the resident physician pro-
vided for in the 194l appropriation;
w. P. A. workers sent to the in
stitution without awaiting approval
of a contemplated s135,8l0 w. P. A.
project, and q $4,000 increase in
appropriations for the institution
over its 1910 budget.
The resident physician, Dr.. Joseph
Evening star., 1941-01-12
II Street Projects
Listed for District,
-Four This Year
Repovine Scheduled on
Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts Avenues

Announcement of four street
improvement projects already ap-
proved for the fiscal year 1941 was
made late yesterday by Capt. H. C.
Whitehurst. District highway direc-
tor
At the same time, Capt. White
hurst listed 13 street improvement
projects for the 1912 fiscal year
which he plans to submit tomorrow
to the Bureau of Public Roads.
The 1941 projects are:
Repaving of Pennsylvania avenue
Sc, between Barney Circle and
Eleventh street.
Repaving of Massachusetts avenue
NV. from Wisconsin avenue to the
new bridge over Rock Greek Park.
Repaving North Capitol street
and Blair road, from New Hamp-
shire to Peabody streets NV.
List of 1912 Projects.
The 1912 projects to be recon-
mended tomorrow are:
Repaving of Pennsylvania avenue
Sc, from Eleventh to Eighth streets.
Repaving of Alabama avenue ST
from Pennsylvania avenue to
Bowen road.
Repaving of Bowen road Sc. from
Alabama avenue to the District line
Repaving Massachusetts, avenue
NV. from Nebraska avenue to
Western avenue and from Fordham
road to Forty-ninth street.
Widening of Third street NV. to
56 feet between H street and New
York avenue.
Repaving South Capitol street
from Atlantic avenue TO the District
line.
Widening M street Sc. from
Fourth to Eleventh streets.
Repaving West Virginia avenue
NE. from Mount Olivet road to
New York avenue.
U Street Widening Included.
Widening of U street NV. to Sc
feet between Tenth and Eighteenth
streets.
Repaving Forty-ninth street NE
from Deane avenue to Sheriff road
Repaving Utah avenue NV. from
Nebraska avenue to Western avenue
Repaving Reno road NV. from
Rodman street to Van Ness street,
from Yuma street to Chesapeake
street and from Nebraska avenue
to Davenport street.
Repaving Firth Sterling and South
Capitol streets from Howard road
to Nichols avenue, and repaving
Overlook avenue and Fourth street
from South Capitol street to Chesa-
peake street.
Evening star., 1941-01-12
McNutt and Mccormack
To ToIk to Jewish Group

Federal Security Administrator
Paul v. McNutt and House Majority
Leader John w. Mccormack will be
principal speakers at the National
Conference for Palestine, which
opens here January Is, it was an
nounced yesterday.
More than 1,500 Jewish leaders
are expected to attend the meet
ing, according to DR.. Abba Hillel
Silver, national chairman of the
United Palestine Appeal.
The meeting will officially launch
a campaign to raise $12,000,0O0 for
the war emergency. The two-day
sessions will be at the Willard Hotel
Evening star., 1941-01-12
Engineer to Get Medal

Franklin F. Snyder, associate hy-
drologic engineer at the United
States Weather Bureau, will be
awarded the j. James r. Croes Medal
for his paper "Ffood Routing at
the 88th annual meeting of the
American Society of Civil Engineers.
January 1911 In New York City, 1t
was announced yesterday.
Evening star., 1941-01-12

(See DRAFT, Page B-3.D
Evening star., 1941-01-12
Marine Corps Also
Begins Training
Parachute Troops
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Marine Corps also is
going in for parachute troops.
Three officers and A men are
training now at the Lakehurst
IN. j. Naval Air Station in
preparation for assignment to
parachute units in the Fleet
Marine Force.
Evening star., 1941-01-12

ed wooden buildings with ample hot
water have been provided as mess
halls, recreation structures, post ex-
changes and latrines.
The District unit will be quartered
with five other anti-aircraft regi-
ments, two of which already are in
stalled on the area and engaged in
target range training.
Evening star., 1941-01-12
BACKGROUND

FOLLOWING Mrs. RooseDelts un-
announced inspection tour OF Blue
Plains Home for the Aged and
Infrm last January, columns and
columns OF publicity resulted and
a congressional investigation tDdS
launched. Mrs. Roosevelt, Dis
trict officials and health duthori-
ties criticized the institution dur
ing hearings before House sub
committee. Medical examination
OF all infrmary patients at the
home Uas ordered and $40,
900 increase in appropriations Was
granted.
Evening star., 1941-01-12

In January, Beware Of:
/. Crossing a street at point
other than a crosswalk. Three
persons were killed doing so in
January, 1910.
2. Crossing a street at an I'M
controlled intersection. This
took one life in January last
year.
All four pedestrians killed last
January were over so years of
age. two being 10 or over. The
fifth death was that of a motor
cycle policeman killed in a col
lision while pursuing a speeding
car.
Evening star., 1941-05-06

and the Gllianas this species spends
all its time. An adult matamata
has shell l8 inches long. A sizable
TURTLE That is not what most i'm
presses us. because we have turtles
of that length in America and do
not get unduly excited about them.
1t is the weird assortment of points,
frillS and filaments, all possessed by
one creature, that makes us stare
open-mouthed and suddenly i'm
aglne how much it resembles the
creature we encountered in a recent
nightmare.
Face to face with matamata, the
effect of the small eyes, placed so
far forward. is startling, to say the
least. Then the snout, long and
tubular, is wide at its base, fiat
tened and heavy, with long pro-
jecting ridges. To intensity this
ludicrouS combination is series of
flat, tieshy projections and filaments
Evening star., 1941-05-06
Civil Service Agency Acts
To Speed Promotions

Moving to speed promotions and
transfers necessitated by the de-
fense program, the Civil Service
Commission today authorized di-
rectors of personnel to make changes
without prior approval by the COM
mission in junior-typist and under
clerk-typist positions in grade and
in grades l and for clerical and
machine-operating positions. Ordi-
narily the commission must approve
a shift before 1t becomes effective.
The commission order sets up a
schedule of experience requirements
and provides that no employe may
have status changed unless he has
had six months service in a non-
defense agency or 80 days in a de-
fense agency.
1t is also required that where a
change from non-apportioned
position to an apportioned position
Evening star., 1941-05-06
Merging Of 2Courts
Asked by Georgetown
Progressive Unit
Loading Platforms Also
Urged at Three N
Street intersections

The proposed consolidation of the
Police and Municipal Courts in the
District was Endorsed last night bv
the Progressive Citizens Association
Of Georgetown.
Walter F.. Bramhall, Police Court
clerk, offered the proposal in his
report as chairman of the associa-
hon's Traffic Committee. His report,
which was unanimously adopted,
also recommended Endorsement of
the Keystone Automobile Associa-
t1on traffic safety program.
In another motion. the association
asked for the erection of loading
platforms on NJ street at the inter-
sections of Thirty fourth. Thirtieth
and Twenty eighth streets NV. A
recent accident in which two per-
sons were injured while standing in
Q safety zone was cited.
The association expressed its
regret over the resignation of Earl
Cassie and Mrs. Cassie as heads of
the Industrial Home School in
resolution presented by Henry W.
Draper. The resolution commended
the two 'for their services to the
community"
Mrs. Lawrence Martin announced
a meeting to be sponsored by the
groups Cleanup Committee for
representative Of several organiza-
tons in Georgetown. A program to
encourage participation of school
children in cleanup drive will be
outlined.
DR.. David B Wilson, assistant
surgeon of the United States Public
Health Service. spoke on the rela-
tlonShip OF public health to defense.
Evening star., 1941-05-06

Is involved, prior approval must be
obtained from the commission.
The commission today also an
nounced that employees obtaining
civil service status under the Ram
speck Act will be required to take
non-competitive examinations unless
they have passed appropriate COM
petitive examinations within five
years, or unless their name is on an
appropriate register.
Evening star., 1941-05-06
Natures Children
Matamata Turtle
(Chelys fimbriata)

which are usually scalloped and
studded with small rounded knobs.
To add to this, some of these fila
ments have the power of move
ment!
When the owner of all these
gadgets wishes to dine, these thin,
f1eshy filaments sway back and forth
with every movement in the water.
Imagine seeing matamata swing that
long, laterally-folding neck back and
forth in the slowly moving waters
of the home stream or river, search
ing for fish for dinner.
With the exception of the time
when the mother leaves the water
to lay her eggs, the lifetime of each
matamata is spent in the water.
Evening star., 1941-05-06
BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY.

do my eyes forsooth deceive me?"
you naturally want to know when
confronted by one of natures chill
dren whose appearance is decidedly
out of the ordinary. Ali who have
seen matamata for the first time
claim that this turtle reminds them
of very bad dreams.
In creating this masterpiece,
nature saw to it this reptile had
place of its own. 1t is a genus by
itself. This fact alone makes us
wish to know more about it.
In the tropical rivers of Brazil