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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-02

by their numbers may you
know them"-thus do mariners
have a neat little rule by which
the age OF any vessel may he
quickly and accurately determined.
when a vessel il built. the gov
eminent assigns a serial number,
which il carved deeply into the
main beam Tor some other place
deemed 10 be equally permanently.
A ship may meet with disaster
or be otherwise virtually destroy
ed. but IL rebuilt or remodelled she
will carry the original number
until the end.
Change With the Years
About Puget Sound are numer-
Gus vessels which have undergone
such considerable changes with
passing years that their builders
would be COMPOUNDED and unable
to identify their own handicraft.
Just such a vessel Is the new"
diesel tugboat Simon Foss, re-
Gently added 10 the Tacoma fleet.
Her career actually commenced q
long time ago.
The generation Of oldsters re-
members Tacoma's once big and
colorful Mosquito fleet"--smart
little passenger and freight steam
boats serving surrounding com
munities on routes that converged
upon this city.
Served North Hay
Such a vessel was the popular
Alice, which served North Bay
citizens for many years.
During those same years, other
members Of the Mosquito Deet"
included the steamboats, Clara
Brown. North Pacific, Fleetwood,
Messenger. Harry Lynn, Henry
Bailey. Quickstep, Zephyr, Bessie,
lola. Seaside, Albert Lea. Esteila,
North Bay, Tskou, Gypsy Queen
and the Lilly.)
The Alice was built in 1897 at
Old Tacoma yards operated by
Haskell r. Crawford.
Replaced Susie
Capt. Bill Bradford was her
owner and skipper. and he at first
hoped TO have his new vessel ready
by Washington birthday 10 COM
mence on the North Bay run.
However, the new machine shop
operated on the Northern Pacific
dock by the Ollsrd Brothers was
unable 10 make delivery until some
weeks later. The new Alice re-
placed the twln screw steamer
Susie on the route.
A contemporary scribe wrote Of
the Alice as follows:
The steamer that will 20 on
the Tacoma North Bay run in a
few days IN one Of the finest
fitted steamboats, on Puget Sound.
She has neat parior aft. finished
with comforts bic settles. roomy
freight space forward on the main
deck, and crews sleeping quarters
under the main deck"
Bradford Prospered
The new ships schedule called
for noon departures from Fox Ia
land and Longbrsneh on Tuesdays,
. popular vessel and Capt Brad
ford prospered.
The traffic increased enough 10
warrant construction Of q larger
steamer. and Capt. Bradford order
ed the Lotus. The latter Was
sold 70 the government in 1903
and became the MAJ. Cartwright
About that same time Capt.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-02
Predicts Defect
OF Greet Brit0in

BERLIN -Whatever President
Roosevelt does he will be una ole
to prevent Britain's defeat. Pro-
psgsnda Minister Paul Joseph
Goebbels said Monday.
Addressing the German academy
at Berlin university Goebbels said
1T 10 sufficient for us IN stste
that whatever detectives Mr..
Rooseyelt's policy leads TO he nc
longer will be able TO alter ths
luck Of war for England"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-02

Scouts Take Over"
Reins OF Government

A dsissstion Ut about - boys
from BOY scout troop No. 81
called on the city council Monday
morning. After the session the
scouts took places 81 the council
tsbls and earned On . brief meet
ing
Mayor for FIVE minutes wss
John Lsndsrs. works connie
sloner. Bobby sotsk. utilities com
missioner. Wesley Thomiinson.
finance commissioner. Joe Lsviols.
and safety commissioner, Law
renee Orange.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-02
German Tank
Leader Taken
Won novouo@olu y
Captured h LIbyu

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saturday whsie r<tc1nc<t<rtHu -
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ron<uk. 4 wHs rspcfee1 n1re11y
4 fs.r=hstF<d. s''Gn11y nu1It r>1N
n 81 e<smmsndsne ess - ~ ~
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Aries. - 6&vs ~ efse< ~ 49,
Il . nr'tiss n<sr IN enpv1>v
~cuna~a IN driver 4 ~ -.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-02

p0o1u-ANw rs1ooPo, swv&nnn
wers Md hDee1ny ~ ucsugy =
nisrhsii, ~ sosiy-dov ovoonp
iumh>smas. W. 40 (s1nuu1nn ;
sershs - Ne hene hovo.
Mltehsii. : antlvo q nontoa =
survived - twe 1nngneovN ~
?. q. nosgas. walls vvn1lA NJ
uavi etrnass. oeat1la - 49,
soNs. nugses. - onettIeI Wo1ope
and ussy Mstehsll. psvtias1 -
the wsdow.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-02
SPANS Fascisis Lead New
Propaganda Drive on Americas
Reported Speorhsodin9 compoiqn by
Pro-Axis Lotin Americans Aqoinst
Pon-Amsricon Solidarity

- business mn tn<iud< th<ss.
n ku>is>~at Ire Americans
d - unss. not fcr these 80
feols.hly play h>ii wsfs sh<Fa. sas
~ thns~ Their have = h~sf. fus
sear price high They acn't a1re
mske yca par W - lo~ns and
anyway. re s<ls I'll ssan rule tns
wnffd
II r~tts-st -ront 80 The Ersn-
xo~s natid th<sr rsn American
highway - defense has~ss tkes<
are tricks IN help their n~~ army
invade ard cnnquer yoa Already
they are piottlns eth zr~nssh re-
pnhlie.ns IL invade the Canary
islands sad ether srsnsss rrs-
sesstons
surA stories ara advice srs
harmful shss spread ~ isfsa>a-
tai spanissaa In ransms. vnl-
snse leaders include pFcpsiesssp II
tiE ssores ana sserss ~ widely -.
vertis~d avsi<iss whaes money
eamss from THE country. IN shs
rhsslrp.ee schools esnsssbssleNs
have hen collected and s<hrs.
skirs offered In Puerto Rico. M
FsIanss ssmp4thlssrs are sid "a
include university professors and
II least one government official.
and 10 ~ eecaafas Irs the ssavs.
msnt foe Independence frcs~ ths
tinted Atsts.
The rslanse aims especially ~
the Wet indies. ~ . weak spue
af democracy. wtth economic an<
soeiai unrest In rusrte Rics na1
Isrisish isiasds like Trinidad. cssna
10 the ccuneestnG limb with npaln.
and with ihts eounsry Ha pIast1a.
whsre thsrs are many npassarda
and Latin Americana
CONSULATE M
AxDa nuDOgNo
spanish censuistss have MT heea
expelled FROM the United States.
~ have German ard Italian eoa.
suiates. and thsis sssffs seiil mevs
freely and can handle laas fss 18th
axis partners.
Also there sre raianas sruups.
sometimes organised ~ soelai o.
GAMMA tions. In several cttIea, N
eiudins New York. whore France
has influential sympsthis~ra Thsls
propaganda IL printed IN this sessn.
try and Latin America. and Amev-
leans In New York have lstsly re-
osivsd from the spanish legation
In noxeta. coiumbla. Q "wsskiy
Information bulistin" attaching
rresidsnt Roossvvit Gen. George
G. Marshall and the u. ,. army.
Franco and his foreign minlstss.
ssrrane eunss. have iassiy ms1s
statements hostile Ia this country.
but American shortwsvs hroed-
casters who cams hack 81 them
are sh'~hsd BY the stats dspavt-
msnf.
Our government has hAn1ss1
Franco gently. bat u nov trying
70 counter ths raisnss's threat "
the Mexican border and ths pns-
anna canal. The Mexican govern
msnt Ia bsins urged 10 force III
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-02
Ex-0reqon D. A. Dies

PORTLAND Everett A. John
son. so. prominent attorney and
former U. 8. district attorney for
Oregon. died Sunday night from a
heart aiimenf
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-02


INV yoRk-s a<w e.mr~lxr
~ ssis propaganda. espionage and
potential ssbetsxs 70 e<sHf
launched against tn. country. Is
plan r. 70 alp . knife into xuiner.
aels defsn.r spots frcm behind .
cloak that suiss Latin Amer,s.n
taste better than % hFuwn and
black shirts the sesrl<t sad geld
Of spanish Fsscism.
Thls original rtns Column
from Spain. where the term ~ss
coined=@is nov 10 hseems TO
sharp point 90 An. secret war
fare against Am@ricsa interests
In the western hemisphere
n 10 10 slash through the solid
arity defsnsss ne are erecting and
lot IN totsii,srian ld~~s that. 10
presented er~niy - Nsri-Fsselss.
would newt resistance
INVASION nv rAt-A>ossrAs
Word reaches her. that this has
been planned sl Madrid. 81 . con-
ference just completed. by repre-
sentstlvss FROM many latin
American countries vital Il cur
security, Including hvsioc. Cuba.
Puerto Rico and rsnsma. Flip
pines ~sre there. too.
The delegates brought political
and military information 10 Fran
cos seEsuidad. already under the
cestspo's thumb Also they secid.
ed that In Hitler's New ordvF''
spain " 10 be the mldssleman for
trade between Europe and Latin
America. End that the ralsnxistas
tspain's rsscists) are To prepare
the way by becoming the strong.
est vnemy of the United states
In Latin America" Nov they are
en- route hack. fares paid by the
anis.
ON arrival. they viii h~cems TN
pleasantly busy In operations fav
which Spain and Portugal are Ia
10 increasingly important spring
boards. They viii improve the Spy
and propaganda courier wrvies
via ships flying various flsss.
They viii intensity efforts. a..
ready reported by our authorities
a. dangerous. 10 recruit To their
snti-Ameriean ranks spani~rds
near our aefenss outposts. work.
Ing In chosen groups behind
closed doris. strs.sing 1T first cui-
tswsi tvs with the old country.
They win add TO the 5000 agents
they are known 10 have sem 10
Latin America TO work for res
torstion Of the spanish influences
~ against psn.Americsnism- They
don't admit u openly. bu, that
means that Spain should get hack
her former empire In the western
hemisphere. which included not
only Puerto Rico and Cuba. eta.
but Texas and California.
MOBILES AND AUTHORS
ARE PROrA0ANDssTs
A ralsnws mission arrives In
New York this month. en- route To
Peru. II includes several spanish
mobiles and the author Of . book
proving spain shouid regain all
her former empire. The isft-winE
United Spanish Aid commission 10
protesting this To the state depart
msnt.
FaianEs propaganda 10 bearing
down on the charge that President
Roosevelt II smuggling up 10 God
isss Russia" Efforts are being
made 10 enlist church authorities
IN this sffort Other pfopsE snda
stories 10 b. spread among span
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-02
MILITARY MAN TN PULPIT
When Soldiers Go Wronq,
1t Is Because Civilians
Made Such Course Easy
A TACOMA SUNDAY SERMON:

Presented pulpit guest by the Rev Carl A Johnson
the Sunday night the First Christian church
given by Chaplain j. l.. Pttard of the 15Sd Infantry,
Fort Lewis
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-02

ss did . minister In a southern
city adjoining an army camp The
town. said this preacher. was be-
coming demorslized by the sol
diers. They patronized the gam
bling houses. saloons and houses
Of prostitution. and by their pat.
ronase were encouraging civilians
to promote such enterprises.
But. Chaplain Pittard asked.
who put those places there and
encouraged the soldiers TO pat
ronixe them. n civilians. said
he. viii make ~ much effort
TO promote those agencies that
have o good m oral influence
rather than those that have =
demoralizing influence. they
will find the soldier extremely
cooperative.
The young men in the army
camps. said the speaker. are going
through a process Of tremendous
readjustment. They have TO find
themselves anew. Most of them
are in a state of mind 10 be in
fluenced one way or the other.
II the influence Of the activities
promoted by civilians are bad. the
effect on the soldiers il bad.
Take Work Seriously
The chaplains receive the men
the way they are sent to them.
They take their work seriously
and are sincerely trying 10 do a
good job. How Uncle Sam feels
about the religion of the soldier
il indicated, said Chaplain Pittsrd,
by the fact that the appropriation
for chapels at army camps this
year exceeds twelve million dol
lars-more than was spent for the
army religious activities in the
the last war and since. The hard
thing to overcome il the influence
of some of the agencies which the
civilians provide in an effort to
attract the soldiers to town.
IF You have ever done any
praying" said the chaplain,
''pray now ~ You never
prayed before. IL the soldier
loses his religion II 10 going IN
he that much harder to defeat
Hitler. The army needs the
prayers Of = christian nation;
we hope you win pray and that
right early"
In conclusion Chaplain Pittard
read q poem written by a ser
geant In his regiment just before
he left "for the front"-and IL
means just that literally. Half the
regiment has already gone to an
unidentified front and others are
preparing to go.
The poem WAS a prayer for
guidance and q pledge to use his
every effort TO help preserve the
christian religion.
Before Chaplain Pittard's sd-
dress Harold Junso, private first
class. a concert pianist before he
Joined the army, entertained with
a group Of piano numbers. The
regiment includes many others
who came from cultural activities
and 40 per cent of the entire num-
her are COLLEGE men.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-02
Aunt Het

"Girls in my time didn't
chose men, but O smart girl
usually managed to make the
rioht man chose her.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-02

A pstition Of Ars. Glenn Parker
for license 10 oDersis q, l50z .
Broadway a. the Elgln hotel Wa
denied ~ the city council Monday
While tbs applicant passed scrp-
tiny AZ TO character BY ths elty
license inspector. tbs petition wss
denied at the recommendation Of
Plumbing Inspector n. y. smith,
who reported IL without proper
facilities n operate a. q hotel.
You help yourself when you BUY
u. o. Defense Bonds.
The people's voice., 1941-05-07

The Treasury Department asking congress for three and
half billion dollars in taxes And who do you think
they've decided must the bl The Wall Street money
kings with their huge profits? Of course not They
these out of the peopehe farmers
the workers, the little business
The administrations throws the big burden
the people, The with starvation income will pay
higher and will be added to the of al
most everything the people buy These taxes will reach
into the humbe homes and take bread from the mouths of
children already underfed.
What the fat Wall Street COW? There will be prac
ticay milking few corporation taxes-but the huge
super profits won't be touched.
There type of tax that could syphon off of these
profits It's known profits tax but THEY
don't plan it. very feeble profits put
effect few years 1t barely scratched the surface
with the boated bank rolls screamed like stuck
hogs The had to cut the profits tax
pieces before the big indusas would start making mun
huge profits Not only the tax smashed
money actually collected returned to big
porations.
Now the people expected to for the well
fight it.
That's plan of Americas little handful of big indus
trass But the last word must from the people. We
have time to lose Write wire congressman De-
that Wall Street pay the bill Make milk the
big cow!-SAM HALL-Southern News Almanac.
The people's voice., 1941-05-07
Blindness

interesting if somewhat dscouragng for editor to
the releases that reach his desk is not
only discouraging but sometimes stirring to when
received telling about the weighty
industrial and commercial leader anayzng
picture probably large group of his fellows sitting listening
to the hokum he delivers.
Today report of speech delivered by John
W. Dargave executive secretary of the National Association
Retail Druggists In his Speech he legmatey enough,
sought support of farmers for the efforts of his organz
protect the interests of its members In doing he
spoke favor of co of production for the farmers which
al to the good However during his address, he brave
began founder around economics We quote from the
report
r Dargave made clear that he not advocating price
fixing Pricefixng would involve of bureaucratic
that would be mpractcabe and undesirable he said
All advocating is the establishment of mnimums which
will protect the people of this country those
able which inevitably lead
recurring depressions Depressons their
cutting ties to take advantage of his fellow bus
by undermining him; the movement gathers
results in reduced buying lower
overproducton due to the reduction of buying
course, effort to fit strong to the
particular thing discussion However, appears prob
able myriad expressions coming from such
quotation above that few of this gentry have
sons if their mental cabre is sufficiently large to do
par with the cries to balance the budget to stop
government interference with business and like slogans
exploiting shunt blame for stagnaton
Of business because of an economy base4 on scarcity
The people's voice., 1941-05-07
He Splits 1t Out

good many of have doubts and quams regarding
European These based history and past
perences observation but don't utter them In the
present M OUT for England and whoop
up her wn resoutey pushing secret forebod
ngs unuttered limbo. But 'we' doesn't include
everybody and the editor of the Blue Mountain Eagle
who keep his suspicious himself but blurts em
thereby vocng the thoughts that of the rest
of us have kept chloroformed. Listen to him:
''In less than month England and Germany may kiss
and up and that will leave sitting out limb,
just like Charles Lindbergh said it would Again
will be the worlds prize sucker After the Germans
take and the Suez canal there will be nothing left
fight for and England will join hands with Germany
and would not surprise the writer England be-
come an ally of Germany Why not? She has before
and the thing that England breads is communism, the
wipng and mopping up of the titled nobility and landed
estates. She would hitchhike with the devil to stop
that And in the next few weeks look for a nego-
peace with poor old misguided Uncle Citing
limb 1t may transpire that Churchill and Hitler
will gang up Russia. There has been every combina-
of nations out of Europe and this being prmar-
lily business mans war; the gangup will be against any
power that threatens the choke hold of the ruling
and that may drive Germany and England into loving
embrace. At any rate the in Europe and it
is a of picking the bones Capital Press
The people's voice., 1941-05-07
An Open Letter To An Interventionist

this nation to help solve the European trouble
believe English victory essential to Amer
lean way living. 1t is hard understand what you
the american of living but it depends upon
British imperialism is not American and not democratic
By aiding England and entering the you wish to
liberty personal standard of living and vent
spleen hate and fear But by preaching
such of intervention the first thing do de-
the generation of those wants desire for
yourself Do you, American have any right to
happiness the unfortunate draee The drafee loses
individual freedom, his home e his plans for the future
possibly his health earning his life Does
that sound fair to you?
If you have the right to ask this is duty to make
your purpose and aim in entering this European
What objecves will be accomplshedif anything last
ing constructive accomplished through war? What
been made with Britain to have voice in the
coming "just peace?
Once the this country must and win decsvely or
automatically fall under the rule of dictatorship Then
win and fall heir to millions of mentally SICK
homeless This nation either dictate
peace ride the next 100 with rough
boot the neck of crushed Europe You hon
esy this with the concept of democracy
Where do you go from here?-RP.- Montana Kaimin
The people's voice., 1941-05-07
40 FOOD TRUST CASES

industry covering several months, the
antitrust division of the department
OF justice states that it plans to pros
ecute 40 important cases involving
l,50O defendants within the next three
months. 1t has investigated canned
fruits and vegetables, citrus fruits,
meats and staple foodstuffs. Officials
OF the department have repeatedly
pointed out that the effectiveness of
their anti-monopoly actions is serious
~ limited by the fact that the maxi
mum penalty allowed by law is a $5,-
600 fine.
The people's voice., 1941-05-07
The "BOttleneck''

We a nation steel and aluminium produced
today How get it? By delivering docie labor
force and bugng bag to ndusrasts and asking
steel and aluminium monopoies produce more? Bu
they produce more! rather being sovereign
realm and fearing competitors they will produce
not produce depending which is prof
liable and safe for them If they believe that they get
profit for themselves by using the obsolete inefficient
machinery which they already have rather than by putting out
their good for machinery they will right ahead
DID, inefficient machinery the of
apane Industry they believe that plant expansion today
loss of profits tomorrow they'll simply not expand
all the orders they and file them
business read the story of steel Industry The
this Monopoly does not thrive maximum produc
ton monopoly exist produce thrves
limiting production controlling" production Monopoly,
social system "production system simply can't and
won't deliver the goods.
No number of appeals by President Roosevelt amount
with production problems by engineer Knudsen
no amount appropriations by willing Congress- degree
of labor peace can change that basic fact
There thing must do above all else before can
really get going, before really PRODUCE We must
and for ALL the dead hand of monopoly from
production machine and deliver that machine to the people
of this country for aou production effort
effort the purpose of saving democ
racy.
Taking Phrases Seriously
The phrase "aout production very popular phrase
all of people The statement that must forget
about is also popular But taken serious
what do these expressions mean? If they anything
ALL that aout production requires aout social
change They that alout production requires the de-
sruction of the monopoly practices business asusuaF
which years have been sabotagng production
sitting enterprise and hampeng growth They
ing production machine to and releasing
the creativity of people for hope new life
This big the basic fact the vital fact for all of
Today the problem of production the prob
lem of basic social change.-New American
The people's voice., 1941-05-07
MEMO TO PM

WASHINGTON. - (FP) - Marshall
Field Co. of Chicago has been
charged by the Federal Trade Com
mission with using misleading desig-
nations in the sale of rugs and alleg-
ing that the use "of its designations
tends to create the mistaken belief
that its products are genuine oriental
rugs when in fact they have been
woven on power looms in it's own fac
tory in the U. S. and are neither made
in the manner of the true oriental rug
nor possess all of its characteristics.
Marshall Field is the principal finan-
cal packer OF the New York newspa-
per, Pm, which accepts no advertis-
ing.