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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-06-18
Dog Is Swept Over
Niagara alls; Lives

NIAGARA FALLS, n. IA
terrier dog owned by Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Gordon of New York City,
was swept over the American cata-
ract here and lived to be rescued
by his master. .
According to reservation police.
the dog fell in the water while
romping about the park grounds
adjacent TO the upper river. and
was swept over the 167-foot falls.
Gordon Immediately went to the
foot of the falls by an elevator on
Goat Island and found his pet, wet
and shivering but apparently I'M
injured. on a rock in the lower
river.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-06-18
.Farrar Hearing
On Monday Night

Capt. Bill Farrar. put in charge
Of the detective division Of the
Tacoma police force last week
when Capt. Cliff Osborne left for
active naval duty, will be given a
hearing before the civil service
commission next Monday evening,
June %, to determine his right
to hold the actual civil service
rank of his new title.
AS number one eligible for the
civil service rank of captain of
police. Farrsr was certified by the
commission to that rank. but the
commissioners declined to certify
anyone as captain of detectives.
on the ground that their lists
showed no eligibles.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-06-18
Theaier Bandit Suspect
Held in Lieu Of Bond

MOSCOW. Idaho-Douglas How
ell. 10. Detroit. Mich. was held
Tuesday under 5000 bond for dis
trict court trial on q robbery
charge. He waived preliminary
hearing.
Howell WAS charged with taking
$500 from q Moscow thester owner
Monday. He was captured In
Pullman. Wash. . few minutes
after the holdup.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-06-18
Uses Rifle
To End Life

Otis Davis. s7-year-old logger
for the St Paul and Tacoma Lum-
Der Co. committed suicide Mon
day because Of IN health. the sher-
IFS office said Tuesday.
His body was found near a
swamp close by his home. s75e So.
60th st, with = n calibre bullet
through the head.
Davis left home Sunday after
noon after telling relatives he
planned TO take his life. When he
failed to appear for work Monday.
the sheriffs office was notified
and = search was launched.
A native of Tenino. Davis had
lived here for 81 years. and was
a member OF the Lumber and Log
gers union.
Surviving are his wife, Irene; his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Clark z.
Davis Of Tacoma; two sisters. Mrs.
F. r. Williams Of Belfair. Wash,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-06-18
Tacoma Aciivians
Elect Thursday

Tacoma Active club viii elect
officers at a dinner meeting Thurs
day evening at Meadow Park Coll
club. Candidates are as follows;
President. Hugh Rosellini and
Norton Gordon. first vice presl-
dent. Bill Gustafson and Bill Bu-
chanan: second vice president, BY
Furseth and Dick Ginnold; secre-
tary. Ward Albord and Al Fergu-
son. and treasurer, Amos Hall and
Hugo Peterson.
Three delegates. 10 attend the
International Active clubs eonven-
ton in Portland July 1912, will
be chosen.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-06-18

Sen. H. N. Barney jackson
and Rep. Hugh Rosellini are men,
bers of an interim committee
which started investigating fishing
conditions in the state Tuesday as
step leading towards a confer
ence with Oregon legislators lead
ing TO uniform laws governing Co
lumbia river fishing.
The committee spent Tuesday
investigating the Minter creek
hatchery and hatcheries near
Buckley and White river We'd
nesday. the committee will travel
to Lewis county. Kelso. Vancouver
and Bonneville dam. Some time
viii also be spent In Yakima
county and around Grand Coulee
dam.
Other members of the commit
tee are Sen. Shirley Marsh Of
Kelso. Sen. Thomas voyce Of Bell
ingham. Rep. John Van Buskirk
Of Kelso and Rep. Mrs. Violet
Boede Of Orcas Island.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-06-18
Cain Will Ignore
.Flueni's Attack

Mayor Harry P. Cain, chairman
of the Puget Sound Regional Plan
ming commission, declined to COM
ment Tuesday on a statement
made by King County Commits
sioner Russell H. Fluent referring
to the planning commission as "a
bunch of politicians who want to
start another commission with a
brass name plate"
Cain said that 1.-The members of
the commission stand on their own
feet. several being too well known
as University of Washington pro-
fessors to be discredited by such
attacks.
The commission has too much
work to do to bother with side
issues" said Cain in closing.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-06-18
Railroads in State
Doing Big Business

OLYMPIA-Railroads are doing
the biggest business Of recent
years in hauling freight. transport
ing 24s.727 cars in the first Il
weeks Of 1871 compared to III ,e52
cars in 1885. the state department
Of public service reports.
A year ago the total for that
period was 214.675 carloads. Dur
ing April the traffic was 64,e03
cars. compared to 55.455 cars for
April. 1910.
Livestock represented SIC cars
of the April total. grain STA cars,
forest products 1925. logs 1892,
coal 1872. ore 1916. fruit 1850.
and miscellaneous freight 20.705.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-06-18
Americans in Italy
Forming Ealing Clubs

ROMA m eric ans IN italy,
their cash already dwindling. be-
Gan to pool resources and form
citing clubs Tuesday ss they
waited for the Italian government
e give them details of iss retalia-
tory decree freezing funds of all
United States citizens.
Charles A. Livengood. CONNER
cal attache Of the American en-
uassy. hoped Tuesday to receive an
answer 10 his request for an inter-
probation Of the decree. especially
. regards the possibility of any
exceptions for embassy and con-
sular attaches and Americans at
large.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-06-18
H ERE'S MORE ABOUT
Tacoman Recepiionisi
5 TARTs ON PAGE on z


have = minor RELIEF complaint to
make. want . job digging bitches
for the highway department or
just want to shake his hand.
Since Langiie took office a num-
Der Of the latter type Of visitors
have come in to meet him. Typical
OF these callers was one bewhis-
kered man who informed Miss
Mccain. Il yoost want to shake
hands. He ISIS one of Us Nor
weeians. He ISIS all right"
Probably the biggest task Of
being receptionist, however, IL
handling the scores Of incoming
and outgoing telephone calls from
the office daily.
'FRONT.' FOR OFFICIALS
She places calls for various ones
In the office. to all parts Of the
state and sees that they ara COM
pleted. She has to act as front"
for the officials when they are too
busy 10 see callers OF take phone
calls. Hers il the job OF sending
them away with = smile when they
are unable to make their contacts.
Miss Mccain has to find out
what each callers business is when
he comes In the office and take
his name In TO the governors Sec
rotary. the governor or his assist
ant. Ross L. Cunningham. Persons
seeking jobs are most reticent
about revealing what they had to
see the governor" about and II
takes some probing on her part
TO find out just what they want.
Besides her other DUTIES. Miss
Mccain handles the issuance OF
notary public commissions, several
thousand OF which are sent out
every year. They have to be re-
corded, the bonds checked and
commissions mailed.
She was born in South Tacoma,
attended grade school there and a
year at Stadium high before her
folks moved to Shelton. She COM
pleted her education there but still
regards herself a. Tacoman.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-06-18
Councilmen Devote Session
To Discussing 40-Hour Week

The 40-hour week alone pro-
vided almost enough converse
tional matter for the entire period
of the city councils first lad
ministrative" session Tuesday. the
beginning Of a new program insti-
tuted by Mayor Harry Cain for
daily meetings.
The opening one of the new
meetings, which will be held Tues
days. Thursdays and Fridays,
lasted only the single hour the
mayor promised but touched a
wide variety of subjects.
II Utilities Commissioner r. D.
o'Neil's frank opinion to the
council is an index. the short day
for city employees will meet diff
Guilty. Safety c m m issioae r
Holmes Eastwood assured the
council he favored a 40-hour week
but would fight for the employees
of his own department, whom he
said had been forced to go on even
longer working hours recently be-
cause of national defense needs.
All But One
Mayor Cain announced that last
week he called a conference in his
office of Is department heads In
the city hall and found all but one
certain his staff could take care
of its work in the 5 to office
hours permitted under the new
state law.
o'Neil promptly dissented to the
idea of Gains private conference.
declaring department heads were
too much under pressure of en-
ployes wanting the 7-hour day to
be considered.
IF all tine work can be done in
seven hours that has been done in
eight" O'Neil said. lit shows
some in the department have
been lying down one hour a day.
In private business, IL we find
a man can increase his output,
we give him more work to do"
Put Over 2 Days
He also said his men were ask
ing at the same time for SUBJ
stantial wage increases. The dis
cussion was deferred until Thurs
days administrative session.
Discussion Of enforcing the 1918
anti-fireworks ordinance. also on
the mayors agenda found East
wood shy of drastic action.
Mayor Cain reminded the coun-
cilmen that less than a month re-
mains before they must submit
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-06-18
Two Jury Trials
Under Way Here
: One Mon Accused
|. OF Doiry Burglary

: Two jury trials. which were ex-
pected 10 last at least one full
tsy, began In Pierce county sn-
rerior courts Tuesday with TIE
hnnsnelink Of jurors.
In Judge + d. Hodges court.
Leonard A. Mccoy was being tried
Tor second degree burglary. Nc
Coy was arrested On April II
when he emerged from = swamp
across Bay It. from the Tacoma
Dairy.
The swamp had been guarded
for four hours after q police prowl
ear had noticed someone In the
Dairy office ssfecracking tools
were found In the office by police
but the safe had not been opened.
Mccoy. who has served time In
Leavenworfh and Mcneil island
federal prisons. and II Oklahoma
state prison. i being defended BY
stuart Elliott Deputy Prosecu-
tors Hugo Metxler. r.. and Mar
ehall Mccormick Of Thor c. Toll
isfson's staff are handling the
prosecution.
In Judge Fred c. Remains
eourt. W. c. Johnston. Tacoma
used car dealer. went on trial the
third time charged with fraud.
Johnston. president Of the now
defunct Commercial Auto Parts
Co. Is accused Of defrauding the
Puget Sound National bank OF
around $500 by discounting
mortgages On fictitious automobile
teala
Jobnston's first trial was dis
missed by Judge Remain before
e went to the jury on . ruling |
fhat the states case was incom-
pete. This ruling was appealed |
~ Deputy Prosecutor william |
Goodwin and reversed by the
supreme court Last February a
Jury announced It was hopelessly |
after hearing two days
q testimony. Deputy Prosecutor
Goodwin Is again representing the
data.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-06-18

their departmental budget require
ments to Controller Thomas A.
swayze. Cain suggested holding
of public hearings before adoption
of the preliminary budget.
Must Distribute Work
A complaint sent to the mayor
by Tacoma garage operators that
a few garages were getting most
of the wrecker business from acct
dents handled by city police was
answered by Commissioner East
wood with an assertion that his
department has orders to dis
tribute work evenly. He said in
most accidents the participants
were able to give preferences of
garages and did so.
Commissioner O'Neil brought up
the problem that his department
has been informed that the fed
eral railroad retirement act should
apply to employees of the belt line
railroad. Such pensioning, he said.
would be certain to demand more
belt line revenue.
To Renoyate Annex
Renovation and future use of
the city hall annex. when the
Central Labor council moves out,
also was discussed, with varying
opinions. Mayor Cain estimated
cost of renovating the building
might amount to $4,000: O'Neil
that a few hundred might do the
job.
The building was viewed as a
possible future home of some
utilities department engineers now
housed outside the city hall, of
the health program now in Is
rented rooms elsewhere and as
room for expansion of some public
safety departments. such as the
parking meter division.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-06-18

and Mrs. Z. 4. Freigang Of Ia
coma.
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday at 5 p. m. at the Piper
chapel. followed by cremation. Rev.
Arthur Bell will officiate.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
Benshazi Falls
In British Drive

had been left behind
In all, the British empire forces
had advanced about 500 miles from
their bases in Egypt in 60 days and
had taken about 10000 prisoners
and five strongly fortified towns.
They had fought through half a
dozen sand storms.
Eighty miles from the frontier,
the British had held a line at
Marsah Matruh. They had felt
out the italian strength at Sidi
Barrani December and in the 60
days since then they had driven
another $40 air line miles to Beng
hazi.
1t was up to Gen. Sir Archibald
Wavell, commander in chief in the
Middle East whether the British
empire forces continued to pursue
the broken army of Italy or remain
TO consolidate its gains.
Authorities here refused to specu-
late. But they emphasized the inn
portance of the capture of Beng
haZi, including a valuable naval
and air base Benghazi's fall meant
that the British navy's hold on the
eastern Mediterranean was i'm
menSely strengthened and that from
its excellent airport, British planes
could take off TO bomb Sicily, only
435 miles away, and Southern Italy.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
HOW WAGNER ACT CAN
FIT INTO PRODUCE INDUSTRY

The Wagner act, terms of which gave
the ClO whatever remote chance of sue
cess it had in the Imperial Valley lettuce
strike, is as lily fitted for application to
produce industry as a midget's jacket is
to circus fat man.
If the Wagner act, otherwise known
as the National Labor Relations act, is
to be successfully and sensibly applied
to the produce industry, it must be re-
vised so that part of it makes special
provision for seasonal industries. Until
it is so revised, the average laborer will
have no more chance of fair treatment
under it than he would have in Nazi
concentration camp.
In an industry where activity starts
and ends often within months time, it
is downright silly to attempt to apply
an act which sets up machinery under
which it takes from a month to three
months to call an election where labor
ers can express their choice of a bargain
ing agent Yet the Wagner act does
exactly that.
The shed laborerS are hobbled today
by decisions made at elections a year
ago. In many cases different men were
working in the sheds then, under differ
ent conditions. Yet it would be impos-
sible for regular NLRB election to be
held in the sheds here this year, in time
to have any effect at all on this years
lettuce deal. Just as bad, if elections
We're held this year, next years laborers
would be bound by the results
If it is going to do the working man
any good in such industries as the pro-
duce industry, the Wagner act must be
rewritten to provide for quick action in
determining a bargaining agent. 1t must
be revised so that the men who work IN
sheds this year will do their own voting
not be bound by vote taken among
crews working last year.
The Wagner act could and should be
changed so that it would be possible, in
an emergency such as developed here this
season, to take a vote among the en-
ployes almost Immediately. If that had
been done here, there would have been
no strike this year.
AS long as the Wagner act is consider
ed as including agricultural industries
it should be revised to provide adequate
protection for crops and laborers alike.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
Union Oil Chiefs
Tell Local Crews
Of New Program

High officials of the Uni
company, headed by a. G, < ;Wart,
vice-prcsiient in charge Of sales,
Thursday evening outlined the
complete sales and merchandising
plans of the company for 194l at
a meeting Of more than so local
agents, dealers and statesmen.
The new program stresses fast,
prompt service Stewart pointed
out, because surveys indicate that
customers of filling stations desire
quick service and less high pres
sure selling.
Advertising will be centered in
newspapers, such schedules being
virtually doubled over last year
PrevieWs of schedules on gasoline,
oil and minute man" service were
presented.
Accompanying Stewart were j,
w. Miller, division manager, and
Robert Phillip, advertising direc-
tor of the company. Wiley A. Cole,
manager of the Imperial-Yuma ter
ritory, opened the meeting and in
dividually introduced the gathering
tc the visitors,
The dinner meeting took place at
the California hotel
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
a new new YORK FAIR
1ristian Science Monitor)

Out of the top hat of its sophistica-
ton. New York City has pulled a rabbit.
Or rather, prize hen this time; for it
is announced that, come next Septem-
ber, the city is to have its own county
fair, blue ribbon livestock and all, the
first since 1897.
A county fair in Manhattan inspires
speculation-and fantasy. The last real
farm on the Island is reported extinct;
from whence will come the prize pro-
duce to be judged? One can hardly eX-
pect penthouse gardeners to step into
the breach and adorn the roofs of sky
scrapers with Hubbard squashes. Will,
then, the fair go metropolitan. awarding
blue ribbons for the handsomest of the
new trees on Sixth Avenue, or to the
brightest pumpkin of balloon peddled
by journeying vendor, or to the COM
munity Christmas tree that grew the big
gest crop of lights last December?
No, the American Institute of the City
of New York, fair sponsor, brings US
down to earth, or back to the soil, with
word that this exhibition will be the
genuine article. No glitter, no Coney Is
land. no Worlds Fair 1912 about it. Prize
pigs and COWS submitted by Manhattan
ties owning farms elsewhere and by 9TH
ers beyond New York County industrial
and commercial achievements, with coun-
try fair entertainment will be the order
of the day, It's said.
And after all, that will probably draw
the largest attendance - and the most
satisfying. For New Workers were not
all born there. Thousands-the estimate
is six out of ten in some population
groups-came'f from "up-state," New Eng
land, the southwest, the west. Meath
many Fifth Avenue waistcoat beats a
bucolic, and country-fair-lovin heart.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
Aviation Expert
Says Air Power
MYTH in u. 5.

WASHINGTON. Feb 7. CUP)-
Major Al Williams, aviation expert,
said today that the adminiStra-
tons British-aid policy had re-
duced American air power to a
myth" and that passage of the
pending bill would amount to "vir-
tual suicide of the American way
of life"
America today is Woefully def
cient in air power" he told the
senate foreign relations commit
tee. In fact American air power
is a myth. The neglect to pro-
vide that vital arm for America S
national defense system is nt-
thing short of criminal"
He accused the administration of
seeking a blank check on the AM
erican way of life" and of ten
dencies that would involve the
United States in war abroad"
Talking peace at home and
shouting war abroad and meddling
in the internal affairs not only of
Europe but also OF Asia, I doubt
very seriously if the United States
has one single worthwhile friend
among the major nations of the
world he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
BY II. L. PERCY

LONDON. Feb. 7. CUP)-British
empire forces, driving l60 miles
through choking. binding dust
storms in seven days, have cap
tured Benghazi, capital of italian
Cyrenaica, and the last city in
eastern Libya, the high command of
the army of the Nile announced to-
day.
A brief special commumique from
British general headquarters an
nounced:
"Benghazi is now in our hands" /"
The great Italian North African
army. smashed into broken rem
nants. with more than 100000 of
its officers and men prisoners, was
fleeing in disorder toward Tripoli
in western Libya, near the French
Tunisia frontier All Cyrenaico.
100000 square miles, was effectively
in British hands. Britain had gain
ed a great port and naval base, an
air force base from which to bomb
Tripoli and Italy: italian and Ger
man planes had been pushed back
to a point where they could no
longer bomb Alexandria or Suez
from North African bases.
Brief official dispatches told mill
tary authorities here that royal air
force planes, bombing and machine
cunning roads and village strong
points, and the royal navy, its
units steams along the coast hurl-
ing shells into the fleeing Italians,
had aided the army of the Nile
in it's last stage toward Benghazi.
So quickly had come the fall of
Benghazi that authorities here were
aStonished at the news announcing
it.
Our forces must have advanced
at a tremendous pace" a spokesman
said. only Wednesday they were
at BARGE, go miles away. But it
had been evident for the last two
days that the Italians had aban-
doned their tactics of putting them
selves in fortified towns and await
ing capture. Instead they pre-
ferred to retreat and live to fight
another day. That started at BARGE.
There, we learn, our men collected
groups of 500 and 100 prisoners who
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
AMERICAN INDUSTRY
DOING we'll
{ Riverside Press

Our present war preparation, as most
Americans know by this time, is manly
an industrial problem. And everybody
knows how disappointing it is, not to be
able to start off with rush, when we
have by far the greatest industrial re-
sources in the world. But the situation
is not so bad as it has seemed. Few real
iZe the progress already made
Writing in Newsweek early this month,
Ralph Robey reported that whereas in
1889 the output of our machine-tool IN
duStry amounted to S200,00O,OO0, 1t rose
last year to 00,00O,O00 and this year
it will be about S600,000,OO0. Here Will
be a growth of 200 per cent in two years.
Not bad showing, by any means, IN
field which demands greater skill and
care than any other big industry.
Even so. these machines to make ma
chimes" haven't had a fair chance to show
what they could do when made. For III
many branches of the work for which
they are intended, the types of products
desired have been changing rapidly. Ar
plane designs and parts are being revised
continually, and every such change calls
for new machine tooling.
So, the writer concludes our defense
program has not begged down as far as
industry is concerned We are still GO
ing too slowly, but ''as compared with
what any industrial system has ever
done before, our present showing is with
out parallel and does not warrant cur
rent criticism
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
LINDBERGH HAS COURAGE.
If NOTHING ELSE

Even though we may regard his reason
ing as poor and his judgment as biased
by one-sided observation, we must admire
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's courage in
his appearance before congressional
committees to oppose passage of the Aid
Britain bill Unfortunately, courage
seems to be about the only commendable
thing the honorary colonel has contribut-
ed to the committee hearings.
His statement that the United States
will weaken its perfect defensive posi-
ton" by attempting to aid Britain in an
offensive movement in Europe seems
like tragic echo out of France. France,
you may remember, refused to weaken
its perfect" defensive position behind
the Maginot line by attempting to take
the offensive.
The colonel sounds like one-man COM
pilation of all the gloomy defeatists who
refuse to believe that democracy can be
effective against dictatorship, and so
counsel quietly waiting for fate to catch
up with democracy.
We refuse to believe any such thing,
and the failure of one dictatorship
Mussolini' i's-to equal democratic aggres
siveness has bolstered our belief cOnsid-
erably.
Lindbergh is entitled to his opinion.
but we see nothing in his record that
entities his opinion to the prominence it
has been given.