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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-02-01

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died 70 as oo,shsres from 1853 600
in the previos session.
>Ew yoR-Stocks moved up
fractions to iore than a point in
quiet dealing Friday in what mar
tet commentfors described as .
purely teohnal recovery"
IRE advsne followed two sss-
sions II shsrTnecline which forced
N. general nrkst average down
n N. lowest >oint since Aug 20
Bethlehem Steel vas strong.
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most Of the gin.
l. s. stee set up a +-point
gain. but sae up most OF the
advance. indstrisls also met fair
support.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-27
Electrical Appliances

l Norge; cubic feet, 1885 model rebuilt 81 so
cubic teet 1888 model! rebuilt
Crosey; cubic fleets 1889 model rebuilt
Hoover Cleaner model 1903; rebuilt ............ e5
2 Hoover Cleaners, model los; rebuilt 9s
2 Eureka Cleaners; model OBJ rebuilt
2 Eureka Cleaners; model lib; rebuilt
4 Hoover Cleaners; model 700; rebuilt
q Hudson Hand Cleaners; model 312; demonstraors
Odds and Ends Of Small Electrical Appliances
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-27
Rugs and Carpeting
Luggage

Is Weekend Cases; covered; second,
Wardrobe Gases; imitation leather second, .s...
Dressing Carer 2nds Jority imitation leather soc
Glsdstones; split grain eowhide seconds .....
Mems Overnight Cases; split-Rrain cowhide second,
SO Weekend Cases; esnva, covered; seconds ....
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-27
Lamps and Occasional

"a Reflector Floor Lamp Bases; marred .....
81 Plastic Table Lamps; complete; married
Handy Clip.On Lamps; adjustable reflector
y2 Boxed Pairs Of Pictures; assorted subj eots
III Folding Steel Bridge Chairs slightly MARI
Table of Lamp Shades; some slightly DANA
4Tsbl. of Assorted Table Lamps, complete "
Evening star., 1941-08-31

the chiselers - who are legion. There
is the old-car driver, who claims DAM
age to his jaloppy and demands CON-
pensation. There are the folks, fresh
out of money, who beg anything from
one to fifteen gallons of gas. One is
the maximum they get, and they have
to sign receipt for that.
And there was the racket of young
fellows, going home late after party,
who would order the tank filled and
then discover that they had neither
cash nor credit cards. Now they are
invited to leave a watch or a spare
tire, to be redeemed when they come
back with the cash, and losses from
this game have been largely elimi-
mated.
Investment in modern, stream
lined service station, if you want to 60
into business for yourself as a distrib-
utor, will set you back $4,000 to
$12, 500, not counting land or lease.
But don't get the idea that you can
choose right location by appearances.
1t isn't done that way. Big companies
have location specialists who count
number of vehicles, classify by through
traffic and neighborhood business, set
down truck and bus usage, and study
city growth.
All those are important factors,
and it pays to be right the first time.
For gas station is like an iceberg -
most of it is under the surface where
it can't be seen, and it's hard to move.
A city corner at the intersection of
two main routes is, of course, the
prize site of all. But which street to
face may fool you. The traffic on
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Five GALLONS, Please"
Cont; u~dG Gomno .SvneIxe
Continued from pogs twelve

Main Street may be so heavy that
getting in and out of your station
would be difficult; while the quiet
cross route may come from residen-
tial district, filled with two-car Gus
toners with charge accounts. Incl
dentally, about half of all gas-sales
are made on credit, and the large COM
panies encourage the practice
Streamlined cars have inspired SIM
Evening star., 1941-08-31
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But He Wasn't Fired

p RoRsENECK SHoLTz, my
friend that calls himself
Il Z a stump-jumper because
he works for the phone company
an climbs poles, nearly got him.
self fired last week, for kindness.
Now Horseneck amt much to
feast your eyes on. An you'd
never expect the big hulk to get
caught nursin' tender thoughts.
He claims he was born with cal
louses on his palms and warts
on the back of his hands.
Well, it seems like the phone
company told Horseneck to
trim the branches of some trees
over on Gardner Street, where
they was rubin on the wires.
A few days later it rained and
the water in the branches short
circuited the wires or something,
an caused trouble. Horseneck's
boss drove past the trees an saw
that the limbs hadn't been
touched.
He was fit to be tied. He called
Horseneck in an let him have the
whole works, / guess. Anyway
when Horseneck come in here
he had practically no appetite.
He usually has four eggs on a
hamburger steak. This time he
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Never Never Doubt Them

30, AS l say, like women because
they are most of them constructive
and most of them honest. And like
American women better than the
women of any other land. Although
they are more spoiled land. let us face
it. the really spoiled ones are the worst
spoiled in the world), they have still
left in abundant quantities the vir-
tues of the pioneer and immigrant
women who made this land. They
are more jealous of the well-being
and the freedom of their menfolks and
children than European women. And
they have the physical and moral
courage to fight for what they are
jealous of. Never doubt that the
Observation-Disclosures of those
pioneer women who beat out the
flames of their burning homes with
the bloody shirts of their husbands
and began to build on the ruins before
they stopped smoldering, and the
granddaughter of immigrant mothers
who braved hardship and suffering on
great oceans, sacrificing the dark
security of an old world for the bright
insecurity of the new one - never,
never doubt that they will show, in
the dark days which are coming upon
us, as staunch spirits and as iron
Evening star., 1941-08-31

cut it down to three. So l ask
him what's the matter.
"Wally, l guess l ought to be
fired. | deliberately violated my
ordersp' he says.
What made you do that?" |
asks him.
well, when | got over there
on Gardner Street, | found them
trees just full of birds nests. l
bet there was twenty of 'em in
the two trees that caused the
trouble. The little birds was al
ready hatched an learnin' to
fly. So rgive 'em just few days
to get out of the nests. If l dis
turbed them before that l was
afraid the old birds would aban-
don 'em or somethin'."
why on earth didn't you tell
the boss in the first placer l ask
Horseneck.
"Shucks." he says, "I'd rather
get fired than laughed at for bein'
a sissy"
Maybe | forgot to tell you that
back in 1918 this same Mister
Sholtz was machine gunner
with the Marines over in France.
CUoQG1
wAttv'sO@th
Evening star., 1941-08-31

women's courage can comfort and in
the end cure - when they do, they
will move, organize and function so
much more efficiently and effectively
in their self-appolnted roles than men
do. it will make you quite dizzy.
Copyright. l94l, by Clare Boothe)
Evening star., 1941-08-31

nerves, as the women of any other war
torn land today.
When American women have fully
sensed the danger to their homes; and
fully imagined the suffering and sor-
row which only women's hands, wom-
ems minds, women's hearts, and
Evening star., 1941-08-31
S TO p
John Jones

And when he stopped they told
him what he hadn't yet discovered -
that he was fiat broke. Then they
filled his tank with gas, lent him five
dollars and sent him on his way.
And not long ago package arrived
addressed to John Smith. care of gas
station at Pocatello, Idaho. A few
days later Mr.. Smith, travelling
salesman, introduced himself and col
lected his laundry from home.
We've come all the way from Hol-
lywood to get married" the driver
poured out his troubles to the lad
polishing his windshield in Reno
station. II wired ahead to judge
know. He's out of town-and don't
know another soul in the state of
Nevada What can we do now?"
''Oh. I'll fix that" Scotty answered.
Still in his greasy uniform. he routed
out the county clerk to get license,
walked a preacher, stood up with the
bridegroom as his best man. And then
sold the newlyweds a tankful of gas
to start them on their honeymoon.
Johnniss.on.fhs. Spot
1HE boys have witnessed marriages
for clippers, donated blood for trans
fusions after accidents, fed and wat
cred pets of all kinds - one of the
strangest being a Nevada horned owl
with four-foot wings that drank only
from battery-water syringe.
A teacher sent small boy round
from school one morning with a note
that said: This will introduce Johnny
Jones. who unfortunately sat on
someone's gum. AS these are his brand
new pants, anything you can do to
help him will be much appreciated by
his teacher"
Careless people leave their coats,
their hats. their watches, rings, pock-
etbooks. spectacles. valuable papers
when they stop. There was a collec-
tor who drove off and left a Dag with
$1,000 in it. And one man forgot his
wife until he had driven ten miles out
of town. He got her back.
Selling gasoline to motorists is a
newish business - and business for
young men. Average age of station
lads is about twenty-five. Turnover
in employment is heavy, for other
businesses are always reaching out
for young men who have learned to
sell without high pressure, who move
fast, greet customers with a smile,
and can handle any emergency, no
matter how unexpected or bizarre.
Like the time when young woman
parked her car at a Seattle station
and delivered herself of bouncing
baby boy in the ladies' washroom!
The End
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Service OF Al Kinds

10 a station at Idaho Falls came
long distance call one day from Salt
Lake City. my husband has left
home without his money" said an
agitated voice. He'll need gas by
the time he reaches your town. Will
you try to stop him and tell him I've
sent his wallet to Helena and he'll
get it there tomorrow.
The boys put out big sign by the
roadside, lettered:
Evening star., 1941-08-31

pier, more efficient service stations.
Constructed of metal, ordinary build
ings cost about $l,500. Tanks for
1000 gallons of gas, pumps, COM
pressors and other equipment cost
another $4,000, but you can make
deal with one of the big oil companies
to buy those, with ten years to pay.
Depending upon his location and
how hard he is willing to work.
man should clean up from $500 to
$500 month if he owns the business.
The government will make about
as much as he does. Retail gasoline
taxes pay into state and Federal trea-
suries more than billion dollars a
year.
Once established, there's no end to
the things that the station man will
be asked to do
A couple of winters ago, Mime
sofa travellers car was wrecked in a
mountain sleet storm in New Mexico.
The driver. when picked up. reused
himself just enough to murmur,
Take us back to the gas station at
Roswell. The manager there is the
only man | know within thousand
miles" And he knew him. as it turned
out, only because he had bought gas
a couple of hours before.
The filling station attendant took
his injured customers to the hospital,
wired their family, notified their in
surance company, and took care of
their affairs until they were well.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
WHAT I LIKE
ABOUT WOMEN
Continued from pose three

tell at once whether that home is
home built and run for her husband
and her children. or for herself. The
happy and healthy home is obviously
built and run for all three, with the
emphasis on husband and children, of
course.
Now this may sound like gibberish
to any man reading this article. But
every woman will know precisely what
l mean when say woman reveals
her true self beyond possibility of con-
cealment in her home.
This is why, after a man and his
wife have just made a short. pleasant
call on married couple, the wife
sometimes says, on the way home,
MARY will never make John happy"
or, Harry and Sue are really going to
make a 60 of it," or, "It's awful the
way she neglects (or spoils) her chill
drenv'
And the husband says. How on
earth do you know? - we were only
there few minutes"
And the wife says, well =. my
intuition :" because how can she
teach one who will never learn the
language that another woman's home
speaks to her =? The language Of
food, good or bad; of too-loud noises
or too-deep silences in the nursery; of
which mother -in-law's picture is on
the piano; of too many ashtrays and
books or too few; of furniture too frag-
lie for a mans comfort, or too ugly for
him to be proud of; or of objects that
point to whimsical extravaganza or
petty economies.
How can woman tell man about
those shrewd, swift, sure deductions
she makes from her delicate compari-
sons between the way wife dresses
herself, her husband, her children, her
servants? A woman's home speaks her
innermost thoughts and habits with
thousand tongues to those who know
the language of houses.
Evening star., 1941-07-13
"Oh, Just wait till | catch that cop"

"Oh, just wait till catch that cop"
You'll wake up the whole neigh
borhood," says Kitty. land that is
violation of section 4 of the law on
public nuisances. was at the Blue
Heaven getting evidence. They didn't
suspect for minute that Marv and
we're cops"
You didn't need to stay this late"
"A lot you know" snaps Kitty.
I'VE had a tip downtown that the
Blue Heaven was staying open after
its closing hour as specified in its
license. so we had to wait and find
out. Section S. paragraph 8. of the
Evening star., 1941-07-13
THE HELPFUL
STRANGER
Confinvsd from poss five


hatchet-face. Dan spends the evening
walking around by himself waiting
for her. and half a dozen times he al
most goes into Charles place to hoist
few and see if he can't get feeling
better. At eleven-thirty. when she is
due home, he is walking up and down
in front of her house. looking at his
watch every half-minute. At one
o'clock he is red-eyed with worry, and
his stomach is doing backbend when
he thinks what maybe has happened
to her. At one-thirty, when the taxi
drives up and she hops out. he is in
such state you would think he has
been the whole time at Charles
place.
Hello, Inspector" she says, as
calm and cheerful as ever. pushing a
bill at the taxi driver. What are you
doing up so late?"
Dan sinks down on the porch steps.
He has lot of things ready to say to
her. but all he can get out is, Where
we're you? Where did that hatchet-
face take you?"
Kitty laughs merrily. "Oh, wasn't
with her. was with Sergeant Marv
Decker"
Decker, is it!' Dan roars.
Il was performing my duties as
policewoman." says Kitty. putting
her chin up.
"Yeah?" says Dan. And where
did the low-life take you?"
To the Blue Heaven dance hall"
ITO dive he takes you!" yells Dan.
Evening star., 1941-07-13
city dance hall law clearly states -

II don't care if you can recite the
whole city charter" yells Dan. II
don't want you running around with
that smoothie cop!'
"You are acting childish" says
Kitty. IAN officer takes orders from
her superior. am now attached to
the downtown detective bureau under
Sergeant Decker. Good nightr'
She breezes past him and leaves
him sitting there. He doesn't sleep
much this night. He spends an hour
being mad at Marv Decker and an
other hour being mad at himself for
raising such row about nothing; then
he fills in until dawn wondering how
it will end with him and Kitty.
But however it ends, he is not going
to take it from Marv lying down.
He catches up with him the next
afternoon in the squad room. Marv
is whistling and humming to himself.
and he looks pretty pleased with life
when he sees Dan coming at him.
you should get more sleep. Officer"
Marv says. Those circles under your
eyes -'
you lay of my girlr' blurts Dan.
"You mean our sister officer Kitty?"
says Marv. chuckling.
"She amt anybody's sister," says
Dan. land she is my girl"
"A very capable police officer"
says Marv. He rolls his eyes and adds:
"And she can step a neat rumba
besides. That orchestra at the Blue
Heaven sure is hot
"A COUPLE OF cops come in and stop
to listen, because Marv is talking
pretty loud. He gives them a wink
and they look at Dan with his neck
sticking out and the color spreading
up around his ears. So they stand
there grinning. But Dan keeps at it.
Kitty amt taking the squeal on any
more jobs with you'll! he growls.
Marv shouts out laugh and he
rubs his hands. "The court needs evi-
dence to convict" he says, and winks
around the room again. Il got to do
my duty even if it means dancing
half the night with your girl Kitty"
Don't you want to stamp out
crime in our city beautiful, you big
mug? wisecracks one of the cops.
Amt you learned the depart
ment's new motto?" says the other
one. lone for all. and all for your
mouse Kitty'r'
The room is full OF cops now, and
it looks like a pleasant time riding
McGarry is about to be had by all.
so they stand around, grinning and
waiting. But Dan just sticks his chin
out further and glares at Marv. you
are smoothie. snaky, sharpshooting
"copper"" he says. land l don't like
your face!"
"And I'm not so fond of yours"
replies Marv. so here is bench war
rant for mug that works in a boiler
factory in the South End. 1t is pretty
hot in that boiler factory, but if you
look long enough you will find your
man. And now l got a date with
Policewoman Kitty to get some evi-
dence against an old dame on WASH
ington Street who is telling fortunes
at four-bits throw"
So after this what can Dan do?
He clips Marv short neat one on the
side of the chin, and he is ready with
another that will do the business for
good and all, when the boys gang up
on him and pull him away. Marv
narrows his eyes and growls, you'll
hear about this, Copper"
(Continvsd on nsxf poss)
Evening star., 1941-07-13

THE LIFE INSURANCE BUSINESS,
like all American enterprise, is built
upon faith =. . faith in a business that
has kept its promises.
In a life insurance policy, the COM
pany promises to pay a certain sum of
money to the policyholder or his bene-
6ciary when certain specified events
occur. In the case of Metropolitan, the
Company has made. such promises to
about 100000 policyholders who
have faith in Metropolitan's ability to
do what their policies contract to do.
In the 73 years of its existence, Met
ropolitan has paid every obligation in
full when due. In 1910, for example,
Metropolitan policyholders and their
bene6ciaries received almost S6O0, 600
600 in benefit payments.
Evening star., 1941-07-13

Just as Metropolitan policyholders
have faith in the Company, so Metro
politan has faith in the strength and
stability of American business, agri-
culture, and industry. To help meet the
cost of life insurance, we invest policy
holders dollars in the promises of re-
sponsible people people who PROM
ise to pay Metropolitan certain
amounts at stated times.
Evening star., 1941-07-13
The business thot is bvit on fuith

These investments must be selected
with the utmost care Whether the in
vestment is government, municipal,
or corporate security or a real estate
mortgage, it must be backed by real
property, such as plants. mills, facto-
ries, fertile farm lands, office buildings,
modern homes, and other soundly val
ued assets, or the taxing power of
government. In addition these invest
ments must be of such type that past
record of performance, present avail
able resources, and future ability to
pay, make it virtually certain that the
promises to Metropolitan will be kept.
People buy life insurance to help
them fulfill their most sacred obliga-
tions to their families, and they want
to be as certain as they humanity can
be that those obligations scM be full
filled. They confidently expect the
Company to invest safely and 5oundiy
the money they have entrusted to it.
In order to merit this confidence, Met
ropolitan must and does make satety
its first requirement in all its invest
ments.
Second, and aisuoys second, to safety,
is the effort to earn the best possible
rate of interest to help meet the cost
of YOUR life insurance.
The chronicle-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1920-1941, 1941-08-15
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