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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-12

Election Of officers for the com.
munity committee for ies2 showed
Jacob Steiling az the choice for
Chairman Louis Hsllenharter is
vice chairman and Albert Linke
third member OF the committee
Alternatcs are William Heimolo
and Robert Collier SIZZLING anc
Hsllenbsrier are also delegates "a
the county meeting 20 he held In
the Pierce county court house
Thursday morning.
More Police and Firemen
Measures to insure safety IN the
present emergency were taken Nv
the city council Wednesday night
by adding more men 20 the police
force and fire department The
former gets two new officers and
the latter four additional paid
members. An emergency ordinance
sppropriating $1,000 for their pay
until the first OF the year and
other miscellaneous expenses for
the department was passed.
Fire protection being one Of the
principal problems under present
conditions. Fire Chief Chester
Brskefield presented a list Of re-
ottirer,enfs necded ~ onr. - ,ttt
the department in position 10
fight any emergency. Total cost
of this budget amounts 10 s2o.e36
and includes an air whistle at
81 500 and four portable pumps
totaling $4,000 which can be used
in any part OF the city. or the
full amount asked, the council de-
cided 10 ask for bids on certain
items Of equipment TO the extent
Of $4,000 now and intimsted the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-12
Just the Core
WILL. ADDRESS BAR


Speaking on the subject Of In
come Taxation" Prof Alfred r.
HarSoh of University Of Washing
ton will address q luncheon meet
Ing Of the Tacoma par associs-
ton in racoms hotel Friday.
DIR. Phillip C. Kyle has resumed
practice. Limited TO obstetrics and
gyneeology. i427 Medical Aria
building. adv.
BIKE THEFT REPORTED
Theft OF a bicycle from the
home OF Richard Wagner OF 2soe
So. Grant ave. was reported 10
police "Wednesday.
Butter Is caesper at Cow Butter
Store. adv.
GUN STOLEN
A as oaliber automatic Was
stolen Wednesday night from the
home OF Fred Nassr at o3o So.
NJ st, according TO his report Ia
police. He said the prowler
entered through an open window.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-12
War in Europe
A Year Ago
Dec. IL, lS40

Greek capture 81 Porto Palermo
on the Alhsnian cost was announc-
ed and captured italian com
nander was quoted that the ftsl-
ian command IN Trans was con-
sidering asking Greece fer an arm
istice
sheffield. English steel CITY.
blasted last night BY = German
utter destruction raid.
British admiralty announced Tire
loss of the armed merchant crui-
ser Inns. Fcrfar.
Adolf Hitler and Joachim Won
Riheentror left the German capi-
tai for long weekend"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
REMOVES wRECKs

The Coast Guard searches out and removes wrecks and derelicts. It enforces all laws and regulations pertaining to operation and an- chorage of merchant vessels and motorboats. It watches over vessels in the deep-sea fishing fleets. It enforces the laws concerning whal- ing (on American ships anywhere
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25

 PAINTINGS
 ON VIEW
Special Showing of New Territorial Purchase
 Monday Afternoon

Given a room of their own at the rear of the Territorial Library, the 24 pastel paintings of Alaska na- tives recently purchased from Mrs Nina Crumrine by the Legislature will be on view to the public Mon- day afternoon from until 4 o'clock Acting Curator Josie White of the Museum announced today.
 Mrs. Crumrine's paintings, show ing typical Indians and Eskimos ir costume, have been framed in spe- cial yellow cedar frames carved witf native designs. The 24 portraits were purchased by the Legislature at a cost of $3,600
 The artist will be present at the showing Monday to give any infor- nation desired on hte subjects.
 A cordial invitation to the pub lie to attend this initial showing ol the new Territorial purchases is ex- tended by the Museum staff.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
GAMES THURSDAY Pacific Coast League

Seattle 2; Sacramento 3. San Diego 0; Portland 4. Oakland 8; San Francisco 3. Los Angeles 3; Hollywood 4.
 National League Philadelphia 1; Brooklyn 6. Chicago 1; Pittsburgh 2. New York Boston, postponed. Cincinnati 3; St. Louis 2.
 American League St. Louis 3; Detroit A. Cleveland 1; Chicago 9. Boston 3; New York G. Washington : Philadelphia, post. poned.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25

in the world), seal, salmon, sponge and other fishing It patrols regat- tas during regattas. Don't snicker !. there were 443 regattas in the last reported year) It maintains all the light stations and beaccns for navigation and shoreline avia- ticn. When the neutrality patrol was set up in the fall of 1899, the Coast Guard got that order, too.
 It has it's own Annapolis at New Lcndon. Conn, where officers are graduated after four-year courses. And it has trained for the U. s. merchant marine something like 800 licensed ana 4.000 unlicensed seamen in the last three years.
 These are just it's peacetime ex- ploits. Tomorrow, I will tell you about the Coast Guard in time of war. Perhaps you already can see why there are no punies 'n this service which, with all those duties, has to live up to its motto. "Semper Paratus s"-always ready.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
REAR GUARD
 FORCES NOW
 FALL BACK
Invasion Armies Route Al lies in Famous Ther-
 mopYIde Pass
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the rear guard "annihiliated.'
 The British Command acknow- lodges the British Expeditionary Forces have made further withdraw als but only after inflicting severe losses on the enemy" which has been substantiated by German re- ports that casualties have been high"
 Dispatches indicate that waves of NaM infantry. storming the pass, were driven back with frightful loss- es, then the Germans brought up heavy six-inch guns and opened a terrific fire on the defenders. The artillery brought up by the Germans was the heaviest yet used in the Balkan campaign. it is officially stated.
 Nazi dive bombers, in three waves last night, raided Pireaus, port of Athens. One bomb squarely hit a ship taking on refugees, setting it afire and taking a heavy toll of casualties.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
MELQUIST RETURNS

Travelling man Jack Melquist re- turned to Juneau today after a short trip to Sitka. Melquist is staying at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25

White Sox allowed only six hits for a victory over Pitcher Al Smith of the Cleveland Indians in a hurling duel yesterday afternoon.
 Grant Croucher of the Detroit Tigers tripled in the sixth inning yesterday afternoon to drive in two runs and beat the St. Louis Browns.
 The Cincinnati Reds turned the tables on the St. Louis Cardinals yesterday afternoon, scoring a run on Lonnie Frey's ninth inning double to register a victory.
 Luke Hamlen yesterday turned in his second straight low hit pitch ing for the Brooklyn Dodgers to down the Phillies He allowed only four hits.
 An infield hit by Rip Collins, with the bases loaded, gave Pitts burg victory in the eleventh in- ming yesterday afternoon over Chi cago
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
Mrs. .DeIebe(que and
 Child Return by PAA

Returning from an extended va cation in the States, Mrs. Louis Del ebecque, wife of the Juneau PAA traffic m mag CT, and daughter, Katherine, arrived in Juneau last ri"ht from Seattle on PAA Lode star.
 Delebecque, who is still in Seattle on combined business and vaca- tion trip, will return to Juneau in a few days.
 The Daily Alaska Empire has tfs largest paid circulation of any Al. aska newspaper.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
1941 SEASON DUCAT5 READY
 FOR ALL FANS
Cab Company Giving Away Two Season Tickets
 for Coming Series

Fire Chief V. w. (Penny) Null vihil, Secretary of the Gastineau Channel Baseball League, an- nounced today that season tickets for the coming 1941 season are now on sale at the Canadian Pacific Steamship office or the Elks Club. Price of the season tickets are S5
 Mulvihill said the Royal Blue Cab Company has offered free season tickets to the first two per- sons taking cabs to the ball park for the first game May 4
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
SEATTLE IN VICTORY IN
 50L0N GAME
Portland Also Breaks Jinx Two Other Tight Con-
 tests Last Night
(By Associated Prcss)

The Seattle Rainiers broke the jinx last night in game of the first home series by defeating the Pacific Coast Leagues leading Sac ramento Solons T to 3. Farmer Hal Turpin chalked up his first victory of the season with nine-hit per- formance.
 The Portland Beavers also broke their jinx with a sparkling victory over the San Diego Padres to O.
 Oakland won last night There was sharp hitting and effective pitching by Stanley Corbett which combined to give a defeat to San Francisco
 Hollywood last night beat Los Angeles in another tight game.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
ssALEsMEN SAIL

Travelling men Leonard Taylor, w. G. Vaughn and Bill Douglass, left Juneau last night on the North Sea, bound for Southeast Alaska ports to call on their trade. Vaughn and Taylor were booked to Ketchi- kan and Douglass was bound to Petersburg.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
''Let inc Coast Guard Do Ii" k New Slogan
tContinued from Page One,

lished an iceberg patrol and just how well it has done that is writ ten into the record of 28 years without a single casualty from the bergs which once were float ing death" in the north Atlantic sea lanes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
YANKEES IN FIRST SPOT,
 AM. LEAGUE
Pittsburgh Pirates Win Game in Eleventh h.
 hing with Cubs
tBy Associated Press)

The New York Yankees bombed their way into first place in the American League yesterday by downing the Boston Red Sox by a score of 6 to 3. Marius Russo's "teady seven-hit southpaw pitch ing, 10-hit attack featured by Charles Keller's 3-run homer, were the winning factors.
 Thornton Lee of the Chicago
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
American League

GEORGE RETURNS
 Wallis George, President of the Juneau Cold Storage, returned to Juneau on the North Sea after short business trip to Sitka.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25
TOSS LEAVES AGAIN

Harold Foss, Juneau architect, re- turned to Juneau from Sitka on the North Sea last night after short business trip to the Coast town, and immediately booked passage on the vessel for Wrangell.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-04-25

Empire Classiiieds PayI
Evening star., 1941-09-28

time adjusting their lives back and forth
from one to the other.
The filing of 100000 additional tax
returns as a result of the lowered tax
base has necessitated night shift of
Ill at the Internal Revenue Bureau.
The Secret Service is manned "a hours
a day and the Foreign Funds Control
Office has a small night staff filing and
sorting applications as a result of the
Governments freezing orders.
At the Navy Department there are
592 on late shifts in addition to q num-
ber of duty officers who stand by their
telephones at home. Navy Aeronautics
has a small night force-women in the
file room and men in the Photographic
Section. There are seven on duty in the
Naval Dispensary, including medical Of
ficers and a nurse who average eight
to ten treatments a night Grading
papers for medical Reserve officers
correspondence course and Office work
requires dozen persons at night in
medicine and surgery. The Marine Corps
has staff of 20 copying card index
file. There are more than 100 each in
the Secretary's Office and the operating
offices at night.
In the Navy's photographic Section So
men work late printing and preparing
charts. In Supplies and Accounts a
night force of 100 has just been started,
principally to pay claims to contractors
There also are late workers in Yards
and Docks, the Bureau of Ships, Ord
nance, Navigation ano the Judge Advo-
cate Generals Office.
At the War Department, each branch
of the general staff has groups working
late at night from time to time, and
each one of the main divisions has at
least one officer on duty.
In the various parts of the Office of
Emergency Management scattered over
town, it would appear that officials and
their secretaries have no quitting times.
Lights burn until all hours and news
handouts sometimes are issued after 8
pm. But the only regular night shifts
there are in two duplicating rooms,
where 100 workers mimeograph and
photostat material, and in one steno-
graphic unit of 25.
One of the old hands at night work
in the Capital is President Roosevelt.
The White House has telephone opera
$tors on duty "a hours a day, and one
aide, estimated that the President has
Jap called to the phone at one time
- another in the last eight years at
each different minute Of the night.
Evening star., 1941-09-28

to his heirs, one of whom, Nicholas Car
roll Stephen, acquired the interest Of
others and resided here for many years.
In 1904, James H Kyner purchased the
property from Mrs. Julianna Jennings
Brice Stephen Dieudonne, who inheri-
ted the place from her father, Nicholas
Carroll Stephen. Her grandfather,
Judge John Stephen, was the son of
Rev. John Stephen. who was born in
Edinburgh, Scotland.
Judge John Stephen married Julianna
Jennings Brice, and in 1922. shortly
after he became chief judge of the first
judicial district of Maryland, he took
up his residence at Bostwick. When
Lafayette visited this country in l8245,
through some friendship gained in the
Revolutionary War with the Brices, he
made an early visit to Judge Stephen
at BostWick.
1t is likely that it was not long after
this that he visited Judge Stephen at
Bladensburg, where, according to tradi-
tion, a big reception was held in his
honor in the living room, or as they
probably called it then, the parlor. And
in those days, too, by the way, they
not only called the room where they
entertained company the parlor, but It
was perfectly proper to drink out OF
ones saucer, and in order that the
tablecloth might not become soiled from
the bottom of the cup while the saucer
was in use, a smaller dish, which was
part of many dinner sets in those days,
was given each person at the table.
1t is said the numerous guests who
went to BostWick upon this occasion to
meet the Marquis de Lafayette. entered
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ing consulted while agents calling in
from the field wait on the telephone.
One F. B. official said that admins
trative officials there average four or five
hours overtime daily, and that j. Edgar
Hoover, director, works two shifts.
With its rapid expansion in the past
two years, the F. B. I. long ago reached
"the maximum output for its space" in
the daytime, one executive explained,
and started the evening shift. The mid
night trick was begun more recently,
especially for the filing and identifica-
ton divisions.
"A few years ago We received 500 or
600 fingerprints a day." he said. Now
we get $4,000 fingerprints a day-from
law enforcement agencies, of persons
arrested, from defense industries, of
workers engaged in vital production,
from the Army and Navy services, in
cluding prints of the draftees, and from
civilians, and are being f1ngerprinted by
choice In greater numbers than ever be-
fore. The alien registration program
brought in 100000 sets of fngerprints' .
TT takes six months to train a finger
print expert" he continued, land when
this came upon us, we didn't have the
people. Now we have a midnight school.
New employees come in, go through the
orientation program and start to school
at midnight"
The F. B. I. file section also gives "a
hour service, he said. Supervisors work
at night, brieflng information and CO.
ordinating cases. Special agents in the
field may need information from the
files at any hour, and clerks are on
hand to see that they get it. When it is
midnight here, it is only pm. on the
West Coast, he pointed out.
The school for new agents now runs
from 9 am. to pm, since the training
course has been cut down from 16 weeks
to IL weeks. The F. B. is technical
laboratories now are taxed to capacity,
since alleged cases of sabotage may take
as much time as real ones. When an
expert starts something, perhaps an
operation which requires setting up an
elaborate study, he keeps going till he
has finished, and some one is working
in the laboratory every evening.
The F. B. l., like the State, War and
Navy Departments, also keeps it's comt
munications center running "a hours a
day.
Sale of Defense bonds and stamps and
tax anticipation bonds is one of the
factors which keep the United States,
Treasury working late, although most Of
Evening star., 1941-09-28
By Beth Campbell.

At the F. B. I. the midnight shift of
500 is large enough so that the cafe
terra serves hot dinner-with soup,
meat, vegetables and pie, if you please
between and 4:30 o'clock in the morn
ing. There's supper, too, from until
pm. for the 800 workers on duty
from $50 until II pm. The Government
Printing Office cafeteria also serves din
ner in the middle of the night.
Special Service
Nowhere else, apparently, has provision
been made for the midnight shifts meals,
although some special service is provided
for those who work before midnight.
The Navy cafeteria offers two soups,
three hot dishes. salads and pies for some
300 workers at 7:30 pm. Evening serv-
ice also is available at the Bureau of
Engraving and the Census cafeterias.
The Welfare and Recreation Associa-
ton operates very limited lunch counters
in the evening at five buildings and
sometimes 200 persons buy their din
ners" at the Munitions Building soda
fountain.
Other workers with night hours do the
best they can. few eat dinner upon
arising and breakfast after work, so
they can take advantage of boarding
house rates. Others take their lunches
or go in groups to aI-night cafes.
One rooming house operator described
the night women workers as Uncle
Sans forgotten girls" He said he has
had two roomers faint from lack of food,
then explain they had been afraid to go
to town alone from their building to get
dinner after dark.
In some industrial communities where
24-hour shifts have been started, COM
missaries and portable lunch wagons
have been installed upon suggestions OF
the recreation division of the Federal
Security Administration, but no move OF
that sort was discovered in Washington.
Reasons for the night shifts vary. 1t
may be the need of speed or the lack OF
space A force of workers may be needed
to copy a card index file that is used in
the daytime. Equipment may have to
be used over and over. The very exist
ence of one night shift in a department
may lead to manning of others, such as
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emergency rooms with doctors and
nurses.
Always the communications centers
must be stated to receive flood of vital
messages from all over the world and to
send replies. That means telephone
operators at their switchboards, telegra-
pliers at work, perhaps radiomen on duty
as well as mail clerks amid clicking ma
chimes and whirring typewriters.
One of the Eveliest places in the Capt.
tai these days after midnight is the F.
B. I. Schools are in session, technical
laboratories are lighted and files are be-
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age 45 years,
and also of

age 45 years,
and also of
BENJAMIN STODDERT, who died on
the 18th day of December, 1918,
aged 81 years"
Benjamin Stoddert died in Bostwick,
where he spent much of his time when
n3 living in Georgetown, and it is likely
that his wife inherited the estate from
her father, Mr.. LoWndes. 1t will be re-
called that, in addition to Benjamin
Stoddert being the first Secretary Of
the Navy, he was also one of President
Washington's conf1dants in treating
with the original proprietors of land de-
sired for the Federal Capital.
About 1922 this Colonial home was
sold to Judge John Stephen and passed
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its late shifts end before midnight
There are 525 on two late tricks in the
Public Debt Service and a late force of
131 busy in the Accounting Division of
the Treasurer's Office.
Nearly 700 work until II pm. at the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
printing the additional bonds and notes,
but some employees there report that
the sting is taken off night work for
them by an arrangement whereby they
work nights two weeks, then days for
two weeks. Others say they have hard
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'In Memory of
CHRISTOPHER LOWNDES, Esq,
who departed this life at an advanced age
on the 9th day of January, 1885"
On one side of the grave of Mr..
Lowndes is the grave of Elizabeth, his
wife, who died on September 10, 1889,
and then come the tombs of other men,
bers OF the Lowndes family.
Benjamin Stoddert. first Secretary of
the Navy, is buried close by, as is his
wife, Rebecca Stoddert who was the
daughter of Christopher Lowndes. The
inscription on the slab covering this
tomb reads:
ITO the Memory of
REBECCA STODDERT, who died on
the Sd day of February, AID. 1909,
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shillings, the highest for pounds 10
shillings.
Just who erected the first residence
in this old town the writer will not at
tempt to say. But surely one of the first
houses erected there was the Bostwick
or Bostock House, as it is sometimes
called, and which still stands in almost
perfect condition close by the Parthenon
site. This Colonial mansion is of brick
and was erected in 1746, date made in
large iron figures and placed high up on
the south chimney. Christopher Lowndes,
merchant, built this house and made it
his home and down in the churchyard
of Addison Chapel, not far from Seat
Pleasant, lies this pioneer Marylander,
his tomb being inscribed:
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by the front door, and, after greeting
the French patriot in the main room,
left by the rear door. Indeed, Lafayette
was so we'll treated that the writer would
not be surprised to learn that he repeated
his visit there frequently, for he seems
to have been a good mixer and enjoyed
a good meal and plenty of sociabihty.
BostWick is now owned and occupied
by Mr.. and Mrs Felix E. Cristofane, Mrs.
Cristofane having inherited it from her
father, James H. Kyner, who died in
1886. The old homestead stands on
original lot 50, and the estate embraces
this lot as well as lots 46 and So.
There is so much to be said of this
old village that justice cannot be done
to it in one short story, and, of course.
the writer intends to return to this
subject at later date. In the mean
time, he still has space to mention
some of the other old buildings which
were occupied by important and prosper
Gus men in the early days of the Re-
public, and perhaps even before that
time
Gen. Ross Dined
About a block from the Peace Cross
on the north side of the Defense high
way, sitting back in the yard, is what is
known as the DR.. David Ross house,
where it is probable that Gen. Ross
of the British Army dined prior to the
battle of Bladensburg, in 1914, and it
is also plausible that British soldiers
did die there, and some were buried in
the garden es.<>Sass@
DR.. Ross died some time between 1773
and 1779, and Arianna Ross was his
executrix. The property, including this
red brick residence, remained in the Ross
family until 1t was sold about 1875 to
colored man named Samuel K. Lee.
Further along the Defense highway.
near the top of the hill, and on the
same side of the road is Highburg, owned
by Judge Alfred Bailey. 1t is said to
have been the parsonage of the Rev.
William Pinckney, bishop of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church.
Nearly opposite the Ross house is the
Magruder home, which indicates its age,
and farther up the street, sitting back
from the road, almost out of sight, is
a small stone building covered with vines,
and, if appearances indicate anything,
it is surely the oldest looking building
in the town. It's age is uncertain, but it
is believed to have been butt in connec.
ton with the market which was planned
to be erected nearby. 1t is now owned
by Raymond s. Evans