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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-09
Formal Request
For More Lights

Formal request that the city
council purchase needed street
traffic lights with the sl,l0o saved
when the board of contracts and
awards reversed Commissioner
rastwood's recommendation in
purchase of police automobiles was
received Wednesday from secre-
tarv c. v. Munsey Of the Fedora
ton of Improvement clubs.
Nunsey In q letter said he had
been directed to write urging that
you, through Commissioner East
wood. apply the money saved by
his department on the automobile
purchases to install some traffic
lights"
I'VE do not know" he continued.
s.how much money the safety de-
partment has used for traffic light
installations. but we do know that
the commissioner has expressed his
deep anxiety for lights at 26th and
Ea. d sts., 3sth and South Tacoma
way. N and So. Tacoma way, and
At 18th nj. and Union ave.
I'VE feel sure the commissioner
will appreciate your aid in allow
ing him to make these installa-
TOMS"
When the communication was
read. Eastwood grinned and said
he had been after" the state
highway Department. to install
the lights ut these locations for a
year and = half.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-09
Centralia Youth
Tells About Trip

A complete confession which
may involve Dee Devlin, 1e-year-
old Centralis youth, in more seri-
Gus charges. vas in the hands Of
Undersheriff Clyde Knowles We'd
nesday.
The youth. arrested in Kelso
Monday as he and his girl friend,
1s-year-old Bonnie Jean Nohl-
macher. applied for marriage IL
censs. still was held in the county
Jail Deputy Prosecutor Hugo
Metzler. il. who vas handling the
case. was in Olympia.
Devlin told Knowles the trip to
California was a sudden decision
after they had driven TO Centralia
with four other young people the
night of Dec. %. All six, includ-
ing friends Al Kories. Jack Adams,
Helen Furrier and Betty Bayard,
drove to Los Angeles. he said.
+ Later he and Miss Wohlmacher
separated from the others, stayed
with friends in Los Angeles and
then returned TO the homes of his
mother and sister in Centralia for
a few days.
The first sale of Christmas seals
f in the United States occurred at
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-09

The first sale of Christmas seals
in the United States occurred at
Wilmington. Del, in 1907.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-09

The Hart Construction Co.,
working under q contract with
the state highway department,
has two pile drivers on the Job.
and In nearly through with the
new landing for the county's Fox
ialand boat.
To give adequate service TO
Point Fosdick. II was necessary
20 build a separate landing. so
the two boats would not conflict.
The truss for the Fox island boat
landing In on the wharf at Titlow
beach being retimbered.
White said II would have been
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-09

impossible for materials and equip
ment to be delivered in time 10
get a cross-sound service on the
Point Fosdick route started by
Jan. 10. as was predicted some
time ago by state officials.
Another reason for the job taxi
ing little longer. the engineer
explained, In that counter-weighted
landings are being built to handle
the big Bremerton buses. They
will give much better service than
the lighter. pontoon-type landings
used by the county but are more
complicated.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-09

The international Dongshore-
mems association (AFL) embrac-
ing some 500 members in Tacoma.
Port Angeles and Anacortes viii
be represented by Attorneys
Leslie B. Sulgrove and John Gels
ness OF Tacoma and Seattle,
respectively.
Bridges Attorney
The International Longshore-
mems q Warehousemen's union
(CIO), organization TO which
longshoremen in all other Pacific
coast ports belong, will be repre-
cented by Grossman, Gladstein
and Margolis of San Francisco;
the same firm OF attorneys de-
Tended Harry Bridges in deporta-
ton proceedings held in California
in 1889.
The Waterfront Employers as
sociation will be represented by
Edward G. Dorbin, Seattle attor-
ney.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-09
Congregation Of Puyalup's
Christian Church Elects

In the Sunday school depart
ment Rufus Fairbanks was re-
elected superintendent; Miss Vera
Mae Law is superintendent of the
primary department; Mrs. Byron
DcBolt. superintendent of the be-
ginners' department, and Mrs.
Bert Martin Is cradle roll super
intendent. Howard HUMPHREYS is
secretary and treasurer.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-09
H f ELS MORE ABOUT
Main Street

manager of Northwest Airlines,
speak.
The meditative look of County
Treasurer Paul Newman, as he
holds his chin in his hand. is the
result of a recently removed tooth.
Ann Parks of the city hall has
been vacationing in California.
Olaf Nervik assumed his duties
this week as new president of the
Tacoma Civil Service league.
A. W. Tommy Thomas. up to
few days ago, was Leo Hermes'
chief assistant In a Pacific ave.
barber shop. Tommy" kept a
keen edge and worked a vibrator
on scalps and necks. The Gus
toners thought he was kidding
when he mentioned being a gradu-
ate of Chicago finger printing
school. Leo is hiring new bar
Der to replace Thomas. Tommy
is at Fort Lewis-fingerprinting
recruits.
Esther Ostron OF the county
clerks office has been unable tc
work, due to trouble with an ankle
Jack Horr. 1901 9th ave. ha.
returned from Vancouver, B. c.
where he visited his grandparents
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Simm.
A. H. Banwell. u years age
publicity director OF Ia com {
Chamber of Commerce. hobs VI
in town now and then making con
facts for the Manufacturers asso
citation. He's here this week unit
Thursday. Based in Seattle now
he retains his slim figure and re
members old friends.
Speaker at the Wednesday nooi
meeting of the Tacoma Gyro clul
at Hotel Winthrop was DIR. War
rem r. Tomlinson OF the Colleg'
OF Puget Sound. His subject was
where Is Hitler Headed ,"
Ciell Royd. Al Whitman an,
Bertil Johnson are among recen
"flu" victims. now reported recov
erinE.
Gordon Andreasen has been il
with measles.
Dot sampson has returned I
the University OF Washington {
resume her studies.
Mrs Ada johnson has been az
pointed chairman Of & committe
to handle q membership campaig
for the Young Democratic club
John Fletcher was elected pres
dent at the last meeting.
Prof. Raymond s. Seward. hes
of the physics department at {
p. s. has accepted from l.
Waynick Of the Block House II
dian museum at Burton. valuabl
: electrical instruments for use
. the college physics laoorator.
, wsynick built many Of the instr
: ments while q student at Higi
land Park, Des Moines, Ia
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-09

II is intended the hearings VIII
settle the jurisdiction. disputed
between the AFL and Go groups,
Of longshoremen in the three
Puget Sound ports.
Strike Followed
An earlier decision of the NLRB
ranted collective bargaining
rights for longshoremen in all Pa
cific coast ports to the ILWU,
and protests of the lila were
climaxed last summer by a two
week strike, which paralyzed ship
ping in the three ports and serious
ly crippled all maritime commerce
on the Pacific seaboard.
The re-hearings before the
NLRB were granted as a result
Of the vigorous protest
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-09
MEETING POSTPONED

A nesting Of the Park Avenue
and So. I'D Street Improvement
club. scheduled for this Friday
evening, has been postponed until
Friday. Jan. II. if was announced
Wednesday by officers Of the or
ganization.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-09
SPECIAL MEETING

The Narrows View Community
club will hold special meeting
at p. m. Thursday at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Deloert Ford, Uni
versity Place
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-09

IN the summary school uepart-
ment Rufus Fairbanks was re-
elected superintendent: Miss Vera
Mae Law Is superintendent of the
primary department; Mrs. Byron
DeBolt, superintendent of the be-
ginners' department, and Mrs.
Bert Martin Is cradle roll super
intendent. Howard HUMPHREYS Is
secretary and treasurer.
Canvass Jan. 20
Puyallup Youth Movement which
each year raises funds for the
benefit of various young peoples
groups Of the city has named the
week of Jan. 20 to ~ for its an
nual canvass. The committee,
composed of 20 local men. Is
headed by Ray Gregory with Don
Hartung. vice chairman and May
nard Grunder. secretary.
Funds rased will be used through
the Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Girls,
Needy Child and Y. M. c. A.
groups.
Install Directors
Merchants of the Puget Sound
area have an outlook for Increased
business In 1e41, according to Ed
Phelan, manager of the Seattle re
tail bureau. speaking at the Cham
Der of Commerce luncheon Tues
day. Government contracts let and
under way will total 1904 600, 900
by February. he said.
Three directors. Streator Beall.
sr.. A. Il. Mason and s. A. Stoner.
and o. M. Baldwin. treasurer. were
installed by Fl. e. Spear, retiring
president. who handed the gavel
over to Clyde Gregory. his sue
cessor. Conley Stone. new vice
president, was not installed, being
In California.
A financial report for the year
given by Rex Kelley. secretary,
showed the largest gain in the his
tory of the chamber. A report
on transactions of the food stamp
office showed that from Its begin
ming on March IL to date 1t has
taken in $177.014.
Constitutional Quiz
Mrs. William Eatough will open
her home Friday at 1880 a. m. for
a philanthropic meeting of Chapter
AN, p. f. o. Assisting her at a
1890 luncheon will be Mrs. c. X.
Aylen and Mrs. Tom Montgom-
cry. During the afternoon program
Mrs. Robert Montgomery will have
charge of the Constitutional quiz.
Mrs. Jessie M. Newland. 81, died
Wednesday morning at her home,
AIS 4th St. N. e. She was the
widow of David Newland and came
to Puyallup four years ago from
California. Hills funeral home II
making arrangements.
Gain in Postal Receipts
A gain Of better than seven pei
cent was recorded in receipts a
the Puysllup post office in 1s4t
over 1889. making the highest rec
ord the Office has ever attained
according to a report of the years
business released by Postmaster
Andrew Hunter Wednesday.
Each quarter showed q gair
over corresponding periods in the
previous year with the thre'
months ending in December max
ing the largest increase. IL pei
cent. In the quarter ending the
last Of March receipts were S.
640.25 as against Ss.261.5e II
1899: the three months ending
June 80. the amount was So. 164.
II. for 1899 1t was ss.653.s7: the
; end Of September 1s40 showes
50. 703.S4 while 1899 had $e.254.
So. and receipts for the quarter
ending in December were S12.ss3.
: 81 against S11. 534.3s for the SAM
, period In 1889. Total gain 70
1910 over 1899 was s2.6s6.ss.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-09
NLRB Hearings on Dispute
OF liza to Start Thursday
Some 800 Members in Tacoma. Anocortes
And Port Angeles to Be Represented

National Labor Relations board hearings the AFICO
ursdconal dispute concerning ongshoremen of Tacoma
Port Angeles and Anaeores will be commenced Thursday at
8 a. m. in the federal building.
Participating in the hearing before unnamed NLRB
examiner will be three factions
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-09
Speeding Up Construction
Of Narrows Ferry Landings
Service to Point Fosdick. However.
Connot Stort on Jon. 10. Dote Set

Top-speed construction of ferry landings the
Earrows. but chance of service there before Feb
the report of Pierce County Engineer Ernest White
Wednesday after inspection of the work
Evening star., 1941-05-17
Average Hourly Earnings
Increased 10 69.7 Cents
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The heightened work week In
industries producing for national
defense-some of them running as
much as 81 hours-has boosted
average hourly earnings from 66.5
cents to 69.7 cents in the past year,
the Labor Department reported
today.
Government economists estimated
most of the increase was traceable to
time-and-a-half overtime wages
paid for work in excess of 40 hours.
The departments report relates
to the year ending last March and
does not cover the significant wage
increases of the last six weeks in
such key industries as coal and
steel and, more recently, General
Motors.
The departments survey of wage
and hour conditions for March
reflects the impact of defense pro-
duction on the heavy industries.
Average weekly earnings in dur
able goods amounted to $3.50, a
gain of 17.3 per cent over March, 1910.
In the non-durable goods industries,
the department reported an average
og $23.63, a climb of only 85 per
cent for the year.
Evening star., 1941-05-17
Hepburn Wants Censorship
Extended 10 Latin Vessels
Nm thu Assnciatad preSx

BY the Associated Press.
Rear Admiral Arthur j. Hepburn
asked yesterday for a voluntary
censorship on the arrival of war
ships of friendly foreign neutrals in
American waters as well as on
movements of American and British
vessels.
Taking charge of the Navy's ex-
panded public relations Office, Ad-
miral Hepburn said the request ap-
piled to such cases as the arrival
this week in Philadelphia of a
Colombian warship, and to all
Latin-American vessels which might
come to the United States for
repairs.
Explaining he had just started
study of what Information the
Navy might release or withhold,
Admiral Hepburn said it was too
early" to decide whether publicity
polices would be relaxed or frightened.
THE Navy is under obligation to
give the public all news possible" /"
he said, but it must be realized
information cannot be supplied to
the public generally without in
forming subversive elements and
potential enemies. I don't see any
adequate solution of the problem :"
Admiral Hepburn said he agreed
with George Creel, chairman of
the World War Committee on Public
Information. that censorship was
dangerous, because 1t would tend
to undermine the public's confidence
in all news"
Evening star., 1941-05-17
Axis to Make u. S. Pay,
Italian Lecturer Warns

ROME. May 17-Luigi Villari,
italian writer and lecturer, told an
audience of diplomats and others
yesterday that the Axis powers will
make the United States pay for the
grave responsibility of having pro-
longed and propagated the war;" and
the Fascist press gave wide pub
licity to his remarks.
Lecturing on United States ag-
eresSions in Latin America" under
the auspices of the Italian Center
of American Studies. he narrated
what he called a series of brutal
aggresSions perpetrated against the
small countries of Latin America"
from the Mexican and Cuban wars
and "usurpation of Puerto Rico and
Panama" to intervention in Haiti,
San Domingo Dominican Repub-
ic) and Nicaragua.
American sequestration Of Italian
and German ships and imprison-
ment of their crews, he said, was
piracy whose authors in other times
would have deserved to be hanged
from the foremasts of the very ships
they stole"
Villari has lectured in the United
States. After the Italian conquest
of Ethiopia he told the University
of Virginia Institute of Public At
fairs at Charlottesville, Va, that a
five-power pact by Italy, England,
France, Germany and Poland would
be the soundest effort yet attempted
for peace throughout the world.
Evening star., 1941-05-17

Mrs. Putnam fatty denied today
having made such statement, hav-
ing merely protested that the seizure
was unethical and illegal.
The Bookshops main worry about
the list seizure is that the names
will be used by other firms as a
mailing list, Mr.. Hanover declared.
1T is an attack on a legitimate
business enterprise"
Membership Meeting Called.
THE curious tactics of the Dies
Committee agent imply either an
attack on the Washington cooper
ative movement" he said. "or else
an attack on freedom of ideas, be-
cause the Bookshop from its very
beginning has been a democratic
progressive organization"
He said a membership meeting
of protest will be held at 8 pm
Tuesday in the Bookshop, and the
shops board will probably meet
before.
The first mass protest came last
night from the Washington Com
mittee for Democratic Action, meet
ing last night in the Friends Meet
ing House. 2110 Florida avenue NV.
A resolution declared that this
latest addition to the long list of
illegal and un-American activities
of the Dies Committee" seems de-
signed to smear liberal organizations
as subverSive and terrorize men,
bers by seizure of membership lists.
The Speaker of the House was
called on to curb ''these illegal
activities of the Dies Committee.
Evening star., 1941-05-17
ID. T.. Board Of Trade
Off for Shad Bake

Several hundred members of the
Washington Board of Trade and a
host of invited guests left the city
this morning for full day Of fun
and frolic at the boards 47th annual
outing and shad bake at Bay Ridge,
Md
Two dinners were to be served, the
first at IL 80 a m. and the second at
pm. Joseph C. Monaghan, gen.
eral chairman of the affair. and his
Entertainment Committee have ar
ranged a vaudeville show to follow
each dinner.
Among the guests Of honor were
members of Congress. Federal and
District officials. Fred A. Smith,
recently elected president of. the
Board of Trade, was to preside at
the first dinner.
Evening star., 1941-05-17

list of Bookshop members at the
Cooperative League headquarters,
and asked why no subpoena was
served at his shop.
Bookshop Quitting League.
The Bookshop is now affiliated
with the Cooperative League, but
has offered its resignation, to be-
come effective in about one month,
Mr.. Hanover said. He declared the
resignation was largely due to a
dispute over publicity for a Book
shop membership campaign, but
Mrs. Putnam offered another ex-
PLANTATION.
She said that rumors had con-
stantly reached the league that the
Bookshop was under Communist
domination, and the league had
formally asked the BookShop to
answer some questions and supply
information that would clear the
lowed, she said, without any ex-
planation being given.
Seizure Held Illegal.
Mrs. Putnam and the Dies Com
mittee agreed that she arrived at the
Office of her league last night in
response to phone call placed
by the league attorney when the
Dies investigator appeared.
She said that her resistance to
Mr.. Barker was prompted by the
assurances of her husband. identi-
fed by Secretary STRIPPING as a
Social Security Board attorney, who
accompanied her, that the seizure
of records would be illegal.
The league president declared
that when she arrived Mr.. Barker
was tipping out a subpoena for the
attorney to produce the Bookshop
list, and she replied that the list
was not supposed to be in the at
torney's custody.
ut is in his physical possession"
she quoted Mr.. Barker as saying.
Not Hurt in Scuffie.
"Oh, no, it is not" she said she
replied. tucking the records under
her arm and running downstairs
from the second-floor office at 2621
Virginia avenue NV. She said she
suffered no injury in an. ensuing
struggle for possession of the names.
Mrs. Putname cried out that she
would have burned the names If she
had known the committee wanted
them, according to Secretary Strip
ling. He said this statement was
repeated when she and her husband
came to his Office Later last night.
Evening star., 1941-05-17
53,024 at Ford Plant
Given S13,682,432 in
Raises Since January1
Bennett Says Boosts
Ronee From 5 to IS
Cents on Hour
5y the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, May 17.-Hourly- rated
employees of the Ford Motor Cos
River Rouge plant in suburban
Dearborn. scene last month Of lO-
day strike, have been granted sl3,.
682, ,432 in wage increases since JAM
uary /. according to a company
spokesman.
Personnel Director Harry H. Ben
nett, saying Ford wages now were
the highest in the automobile In
dustry," disclosed the boosts ranged
from to Is cents an hour and
went to 53,024 employees. About half
the raises, he said, have been made
in the last three weeks.
Gives Credit 10 A. F. J..
He said an American Federation
of Labor union. which will compete
with the c. I. o. United Automobile
Workers in a National Labor Re-
lations Board Election Wednesday
for sole bargaining rights in the
River Rouge and Lincoln plants.
had been instrumental in obtaining
some of the raises.
This was disputed by Michael r.
Widman, jr., Ford organizing direc-
tor of the U. A. VIC. I. O., the union
which called the strike at the River
Rouge plant. largest single industrial
unit in the world.
Thousands of Ford workers re-
ceived wage increases this past
week as the direct result of negotia-
tions instituted by the U. A. W.
c. l. o. Immediately after the recent
strike" he said.
Company Accused.
He charged statements that ths
A. F. LIS Federal local had OBJ
tanned the increases lis another fu-
tile attempt by the company to
throw votes to the A. F. l.. in the
N. L. r. B. election" and asserted
the pay increases still leaves the
Ford hourly wage substantially be-
low that of Chrysler and General
Motors workers
Current Ford hourly wage rates
have not been made public.
Since the strike early in April.
the Ford plants have been operating
on six-day week, with the company
paying time and one-half for the
sixth day.
The River Rouge plant employees
about 10000 workers and the Lin
coin plant between $500 and 1000.
Eighty-five thousand workers have
been declared eligible TO vote in
Wednesdays elections.
Evening star., 1941-05-17
Funeral Directors End
Three-Day Convention

The three-day convention of the
Advertising Funeral Directors Of
America came to a close at the
Mayflower Hotel today with a
round table" on many problems
which had been discussed by speak
ers throughout the convention.
Among those who spoke at this
mornings session were R. M. Lackey,
president, and S. r. Brice, execu-
tive vice president of Brown Service,
Birmingham, Ala.
The annual banquet of the or
ganization was held last night at
the hotel. Speakers yesterday in
cluded w. w. Chambers of this
city, Col Leroy Heron, advertising
director of The Star, and r. E.
Adkins of the Veterans Administra-
ton Supply Service.
Evening star., 1941-05-17
Russians Shifting
Commanders From
Far East 10 Europe
Troops in Orient Freed
By Neutrality Pact
With japanese
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. May 8 delayed -
Soviet Russia is shifting some of
her most able military commanders
from the Far East to western from
tiers.
The most notable shift is that of
Gen. Grigori M. Stern, veteran Ash
attic campaigner who has been COM
mander In chief in the Far East.
This dispatch was written two
days before the official news
agency. Tass. reported that one
division had been shifted from the
Far Eastern frontier of Man
chukuo to Central Asia. but de-
MED any large scale troop move
ment westward was in progressD
For decades Russia has kept some
of the best troops of the Red Army
in an autonomous force called the
Far Eastern front"
Far East Force Liberated.
With the signing April 13 of the
Soviet-Japanese pact of neutrality,
which established friendly relations
between the two powers for the first
time in quarter of a century, this
force has been liberated.
Gen. Stern, who bolstered repub-
lican forces during the Spanish Civil
War. is reported by observers who
knew him to have been seen on
Moscow's Red Square in the May
Day parade He was wearing the
insignia of a general staff officer.
Gen. Stern served in the fighting
against the japanese on the Man
chukuoan and Mongolian border in
1898 and 1899, and after the fight
ing was over in Finland last year
was disclosed to have been sent
there. too. Then he went under
cover again.
Succeeded by Apanasenko.
He was succeeded as commander
in chief in the Far East by Col. Gen.
j. P. Apanasenko, former COM
mander of the Central Asiatic mill
tary district.
1t. Gen. M NJ Popov. former
chief of staff of the 1st Far Eastern
Army under Gen. Stern, recently
was appointed commander of the
Leningrad military district. replac-
ing Col. Gen. M. P. Kirponos. who
took the vital southwestern post at
Kiev.
Kirponos succeeded Gen. G. K.
Zhukov, new chief of the general
staff.
Rear Admiral A. G. GoIovko. who
formerly was commander of the
Amur River f1otilla along the Siber-
ian-Manchukuo border. also came
west to become commander of an
other fleet in the Barents and White
Seas off the coast of Finland.