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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-03-12
CHATTER THIRTY-FoUR

CHATTER THIRTY-FOUR
Jan walked out the great walnut
door Of Hollmount. free as air.
Free Of obligations to the Van
VHst family for her rescue Of
Peter and rescue it really was
had cancelled those obligations.
Free of the worries and doubts
which had hung over her for
months. Free.
81 should like TO dance and sing,
right here on the doorstep, she
thought, standing sedately for a
moment, watching the sun go
down over the river at the foot of
the terrace. But it wouldn't be
so good, under the circumstances.
Left Fania
She had left Fania, Robert,
Peter, and their lawyer in a state
of upheaval. She sensed, without
minding at all, that Peter was re-
lieved. He had pressed her hand as
she left and grinned wickedly as
he whispered, Thanks, for every
thing. Now go on out and
have yourself a time"
Fania was resigned hut
ready for the next move. Rob
ert. dignified and little dis
approving, was kind to the
last. He had offered to drive
her back TO Three Oaks, hut
she explained that she would
rather walk the short distance
through the woods.
Mr.. Nourse was in a other o
uncertainty about the whole bust
ness and had kept clearing hi!
throat as if TO make some protes
which, eventually, he found no op
portunity 10 voice.
So she left them . E. for good
I hope" she thought, cheerfully
i've cut loose. What fun"
Then around the corner of
the house, wandering through
the bleak rose garden, she met
Sandra Paget.
The girl looked i'll, Jan say
with a shock. There were darl
circles under her eyes. She wa
hatless and, huddled into a shor
fur jacket, was walking slowly u
and down the paths.
Sandra looked up and
smiled at her family, and a.
she spoke was trying desper-
ately TO hide her emotions.
Hello, JAM" she said. peter
Is looking better, isn't ne ."
Good as new, almost" sal
Jan. Then she held out her han
impulsively. "Sandra," she sale
Il must tell you. I'm going ava,
from Hollmount, and I'm neve
coming back"
You =.
1T was all a mistake about
Peter and me. We don't love
each other. we never did. Both
of us know 1t now. and there
isn't bit of hurt feelings on
either side"
Color began to come back int
Sandra's cheeks They smiled a
each other, and Sandra wits
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-03-12
SIMPLE RAsHEs, PlmPLEs AND SIMILAR
B Lem s HE'S
OF External Origin Usually Relieved BY
zZZZZD8|s9l
BAckAcHE,
LEG PAINS may
Be DANGER SIGN
OF Tired kidneys

II backache and leg pains are making you
miserable. don't Just complain and do nothing
about them. Nature may be warning you that
your kidneys need attention.
The kidneys are Natures chief way of taking
excess acids and poisonous waste out of the
blood. They help most people pass about 3
pints day.
II the is miles of kidney tubes and filters
don't work well, poisonous waste matter STAYS
in the blood. These poisons may start nagging
backaches, rheumatic pains, leg pains, loss OF
pep and energy, getting UP nights, swelling,
puffiness under the eyes, headaches and dizzi-
ness. Frequent or scanty passages with SMART
ing and burning sometimes shows there is some
Don't waitl Ask your druggist for Deans
Pills. used successfully by millions for over 40
years. They give happy relief and will help
the Is miles of kidney tubes flush out poison-
Gus waste from the blood. Get Doan's Pills.
adv
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-03-12
TEST ANSWERS

Below are the answers to test
questions printed on Editorial
page.
l. Twenty-Five trillion.
2. Tony.
3. Secret commercial society.
T. Easter.
5. John Gilbert Winant.
6. Golf.
Z. Yes.
s. Riders.
9. English poet.
10. Yes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-03-12

ConCoCl dIt koiHk uIldlltnutu,
by the Windsors, except when
given in the most worthy
charitable causes.
DUKES INTEREST IN
POOR II NOT NEW
Thus. a half-year after the one
time King Emperor of all the Brit
ish Empire. came to the politically
and geographically insignificant
Bahama Islands as their governor,
he finds himself % growing in
popularity with his dark-toned
subjects who comprise so per cent
of the Bahamian population. and
90 being viewed with mingled
feelings by capital S Nassau So
ciety.
The Duke of Windsor's interest
in the poor IL no new mantle,
taken on to pass the time during
his stay on what unkind critics
have called his st. Helena. The
fact is that the Edward whom
Nassau now Is seeing In that man
who. when he toured London s
slums as the Prince of Wales in
1919. called them ''damnable be-
yond words" And who, after see
ing the Welsh coal miners in 1882.
said, 81 wish could do something
that would really help"
Those words re-echoed the
other day when the Duke told
me: Something plainly must be
done to improve the conditions of
the neglected four-fifths of the
population of the Bahamas"
TOO LITTLE DONE
FOR THE NATIVES"
spoke to His Royal Highness
in the yellow and gray library in
wing of the sprawling. white
frame Government House. Topping
the towns highest hill, affording
a view of both town and harbor,
1t Is both home and office for the
Duke and his American-born
Duchess"
Slender and gentle hammered,
the Dukes suntanned brow knit
with deep earnestness as he spoke
to me of the unemployment, the
poverty and the i'll health which
harass thousands of the people he
governs these days.
I'VE have serious unemploy-
msnt problems here in the Ba-
hamas," the Duke of Windsor said
to me. Most of the natives never
have steady work. Now, with the
sponge industry at a standstill be-
cause of the disease that has
ruined the crop for the last few
years. there is almost nothing left
for them to do.
"All in all, far too little has
been done in behalf of our native
population"
DOESN'T PULL
ANY PUNCHES
Then. with surprising frankness,
he said: Trying to get coopera-
ton in Nassau is like batting your
head against a stone wall" and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-03-12

II you're not using il, sell it with
a Fast-Action Times Want Ad.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-03-12
PENNY SERENADE

Ann Doran, who plays her big
gest role with Cary Grant and
Irene Dunno in George Stevens
Penny Serensde" for Columbia,
made down payment on her first
automobile with % pounds OF pen
nies-S115-which she had saved
since childhood.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-03-12

themselves in for a lot Of high
pressure hoop-la."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-03-12

Tomor A closeup
lcordpicture of the Duchess
of Windsor IN her role as the
Governors lady.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-03-12

the advent of the Windsors upon
the scene to mark the start of a
gay society whirl unparalleled in
the islands history.
you see" a prominent Ameri-
can resident of Nassau told me,
1.-THE Duke of Windsor had been
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-03-12

You see. there are all too few
steady employers of labor on the
islands. Something must be done
to develop potential agricultural
and industrial resources. Only a
mere handful of people are work
ing along these lines.
We need more and better roads
here. Ways to grow all OF our own
food ought TO be developed. l don't
see why We cannot solve unem-
ployment problems and at the
same time make the Bahamas
self-sustaining, more convenient
and more beautiful islands on
which TO live"
During the bright. sun-drenched
days OF the Bahamian winter. the
Duke stays close to his office. His
schedule keeps him at his desk
from 10 to 5. taking care of Off
cial business. II is during these
hours and afterward as well that
he considers native problems.
SERIOUSNESS RATHER
THAN SHOWMANSHIP
Listening TO him express his
serious views, il is easy 10 under
stand the CONSERVATION Of those
Nassauvians who had expected
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-03-12

dirty, smoke-filled one room
shacks. The rough boards which
make up the walls seldom meet.
Old newspapers are pasted over
the rickety doors. Cooking is done
over smudgy, open fires alongside
the doorsteps.
Toothless women many too
young to be toothless-grin from
the doorways. Ragged children,
their stomachs bloated, their legs
bowed out from ricketts, lin this
land of sunshine), walk listlessly
up and down the streets. Peck
marked. grimy, inarticulate men
come slowly from behind huts TO
plead for money, to beg to pose
for pictures money, of course.
Sandwiched in between the
houses are a few stores one
room novels. Here slabs of dust
laden bacon, bowls of dried peas
sugar and coffee beans lie on
filthy. makeshift counters, attract
ing flies and disease.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-03-12

added that certain homeopathic
civic leaders are "stuffy in what
they are pleased to call their
staunchness."
He sat cross-legged. utterly re-
Taxed, sunk deep in the cushions
of an upholstered divan. The glass
top Of the coffee table before him
picked mp the sun rays streaming
from a nearby window and lighted
his boyish face, his sandy and UNI
grayed hair.
Then his expression became
witsful and sad. rather than grim.
as he leaned forward. rested his
chin in a hand. and asked:
Have you been out to Grants
Town. Yes? Then you know why
I am deeply concerned about ways
for social improvement among the
people who live there. Have you
ever seen such squalor, such des-
I perate poverty"
A PICTURE OF
REAL POVERTY
never had.
I Set on the very edges of mar
row. rough streets-not half q mile
from the swsnk. exclusive Mon
! tagu Beach-Ars rows Of tiny,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-03-12
HOPES TO DEVELOP
ISLANDS RESOURCES

If you are shocked at Grants
Town in Nassau, then you ought
to see how the natives on the I'M
improved outer islands live" His
Royal Highness continued. Com
pared to those on other islands,
the natives of Grants Town are
really well off.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-03-12
DOESN'T PULL
ANY PUNCHES

Then. with surprising frankness
he said: Trying to get coopera-
ton in Nassau is like batting you,
head against a stone wall" and
Evening star., 1941-04-03

TO the proposed location and the
actual location on the map of the
anti-tank unit and the hospital. The
camp construction quartermaSter
and the engineers proposed to build
these two units on what was a part
of the old World War site, easily
accessible. with roads ready and
ground leyeled without expense.
They were overruled by the Army
authorities and the hospital and the
anti-tank unit was built on the pres
ent location.
Il was informed that the two
units were built near the divide be-
tween the Severn River watershed
and the Patuxent River watershed: !:
that one unit was built on one side
and the other unit was built on the
other side of the divide, necessitat-
ing the construction of q 1900 foot
sewer tunnel through : ne hill to
connect the two. This tunnel was
from IS to 40 feet underground.
Il was also informed that the
Government could have saved the
expense of building 1900 feet of
sewer line, trunk electric line, tele-
phone line and roads had the World
War site been selected. The in
creased cost of the new hospital site
was estimated as high as 81. 200, 900.
The engineers informed me that
the old concrete roads were in good
conrition; that thin coat Of asphalt
would have made them as good as
Evening star., 1941-04-03
EnqeFs Fort Meade Summary
Representative Says Estimated Cost
Was 9 Millions; Actual, q Millions

tional cost due to the fact that ma
terial used on so per cent of the
camp site had to be dragged through
mud on improvised sleds drawn by
tractors to the building site.
Lumber prices were from 20 per
cent to 25 per cent above current
trade prices. The lumber was pur-
chased at above the average prices
paid at other camps.
Rental Prices Cited.
The rental paid on equipment was
from 100 per cent to 200 per cent
above the Associated General Con-
tractors schedule. The rental paid
on this equipment was AZ per cent
of its value and 2 per cent of the
total cost of the job.
The ratio between labor and ma
terial on this project was 65.5 per
cent labor to 345 per cent material
This was out of all reasonable pro-
portions even after one considers
weather and emergency conditions.
The amount of premium paid for
overtime on this job was s1,808 .320
This means that 1877 per cent of the
money paid on the pay roll was paid
for services which were not actually
rendered This represents per cent
of the total cost of the job.
Priorities demanded by the Army
some of which could have been
avoided, account for considerable
additional expense. In at least one
instance. I am informed, the troop
commander refused to house the
troops in barracks provided for be-
cause, while these barracks were
ready for occupancy. they had not
been built for his organization.
Evening star., 1941-04-03
Everybody in Turn,'
Is Nozis' Policy on
Ship Protests

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, April 3.-Germany
won't make her attitude re-
garding ship seizures in Central
and South America known un-
til the attitude and measures"
concerning United States ship
seizures have been made pub
lie, authorized sources said to-
day.
Everybody in his turn" they
added. "We Germans love order
even when it comes to unpleas-
ant things"
The seizures as such again
were branded as contrary to
international law.
Authorized sources could
neither affirm nor deny whether
a second protest had been made
by the German government on
the ship seizures.
Evening star., 1941-04-03
Wars New Super-Bombs
Are Like His, Barlow Says
b the Associated Press.

sS SIe AsbOCldIeo FresS
Lester P. Barlow, Baltimore in
ventor, expressed the opinion yes
terday that the new British super
bomb" and German super power
bomb" mentioned earlier in Euro
pean news dispatches were of liquid
oxygen carbon character.
Mr.. Barlow, co-inventor of liquid
oxygen-carbon explosive which he
has contended is more powerful and
more economical than INT, has
asked the Senate Military Commit
tee for a further hearing to dis
cuss the possible uses of his in
vention.
Senate and House committees ar
ranged for demonstrations of the
explosive last year before Army and
Navy officials, but Mr.. Barlow said
these were insufficient to show the
potentialities of the invention.
In a letter to Chairman Shep-
pard of the Senate committee, Mr..
Barlow asserted that Government
departments concerned with his
claim for patent infringement in
the World War had a "grudge at
titude" toward him and would not
give recognition to his invention.
He added that he would waive any
compensation for patent rights to
the liquid oxygen carbon explosive
II 1t were used for military pur-
poses.
He told Senator Sheppard that al
though Congress had voted 100000
to pay his patent infringement claim
six months ago, that congressional
act has not been honored by the
Treasury Department at the ad-
vice Of the Attorney General"
Evening star., 1941-04-03

very catching demonstration before
but the effort in Rome was called
off.
I think they failed because the re-
action of the Italian public in that
period was so inStantaneously op-
posed to such a demonstration that
the German secret police thought
better of the idea.
All Rome knew of the demonstra-
ton to be held before the American
Embassy five hours before the time
fixed for the shouting. In that five
hours 1 heard the same reaction
from at least Is Italians. When
we are being beaten by the Greeks
are these madmen going to make
us provoke American"
BY now I think even that much
common sense has been destroyed
by the daily pricking of Nazi Prop
aganda Minister Goebbels' poisoned
pens and the careful preparation of
the black books of Heinrich Himmler,
Nazi GeStapo chief.
No Italian officer or diplomat can
see an American in Rome today
without written permission, and
private citizens are told that they
risk having their names written in
the Gestapo black book. Most
Americans, including your cor
respondent in his last month there.
are followed by detectives wherever
they go, and the servants of every
American household are questioned
daily on all visitors and their con-
versa tions.
Persons entering the American
Embassy are stopped by detectives
who ask for their papers and take
down their names. All American
telephones and the walls of the
American Embassy and conSulateS
are tapped with listening devices.
The American Ambassador con-
sequently can have no private con-
versation with any Italian, and in
| deed 1t is very doubtful whether he
can consult with Washington with
out having his coded cables broken
Italy, in short, is German, and
its public must be prepared for
Hitler's declaration of war, as axis
spokesmen sometimes say in Rome,
If America begins to make aid to
Britain decisive by conveying arma-
ments directly to British ports
tMr Whitakers second article will
appear tomorrow.
tCopyrisht, lo4l, by CHICAGO Daily News
Evening star., 1941-04-03
Representative EnqePs otun

Representative Engeps otun
summary OF the situation he
found at Fort Meade after an in
spection there tollotOs:'
The estimated cost of this project
was S9.053,187. The actual cost will
be s23,117,0O0.
The original cost of utilities was
estimated at s766,264, whereas these
utilities will actually cost So $50, $50.
A part of this excess cost of sl,884, =
900 was due to the failure of the
War Department to follow the ad-
vice of the contract engineers.
The site selected was hilly and
uneven. The camp was laid out in
an L form instead of on a square
concentrated plan. The l. form ex-
tended the length of the camp to
nearly five miles for one division
camp Of $4,000 men. This required
practically double the length of
main sewer. electric power and tele-
phone lines, roads, main roads, etc,
and accounted in part for the fact
that the utilities cost was nearly
four times that originally estimated.
Hills Complicate Sewers.
The hilly nature of the site Sc
lected necessitated cutting one sewer
line as deep as 25 feet and further
necessitated the construction of a
1200-foot tunnel from IS to 40 feet
underground. which would have
been eliminated had the site recon-
mended by the engineers been
adopted by the Army.
The grading and clearing cost of
S536,000 could have been materially
reduced had the proper site been
selected. This includes the addi-
Evening star., 1941-04-03
II Arlington Students
To Broadcast PIuy

Twelve students-all of whom are
9 years of age-from the Henry CLAY
School, Arlington, Va. Saturday will
broadcast play dedicated to British
refugee children in this country.
The play, The Goose Hangs
High" will be broadcast from WINK
at $3.50 pm.
The students, from the classroom
OF Miss Charlene Swartz are James
Enright Simpson, Barbara Holt,
Teddy Holmes, Irving Nisewander,
Ann Payne. Betty Joe WEIGH, Jack
Durant, Nancy Melroy. Wallace
Dixon, Carroll Cummings. Frank
Linton and Noland Tuition.
Evening star., 1941-04-03
Fort Meade
Continued From First PAGE

Labor Perkins fixed higher wage
scale for carpenters, electricians,
plumbers and laborers at Fort Bel
voir in nearby Virginia than at
Fort Meade, with the result that
real craftsmen and mechanics
Third, he declared, that of the
BIB carpenters employed at Fort
Meade, only 10 per cent were finish
ed carpenters" and that SIS per cent
were what might be called rough
carpenters" and that IS per cent
were not carpenters.
Fourth, he said, a CLOSED shop
existed at Fort Meade and that no
one was hired for more than three
days without permit from the
union. The carpenters and common
laborers' unions, he declared, repre-
sented the largest number of men
on the job. The carpenters union,
he explained, charged an initiation
fee of s57. so and the laborers' union
$25. If a worker did not pay, he
said, he lost his job.
Mr.. Engel also charged that rent
ais paid for equipment used at
Fort Meade were, in most instances,
100 to 200 per cent higher than
those fixed by the associated general
contractors schedule. The rental
paid on the equipment. he declared,
was AZ per cent of its value and
2 per cent of the total cost of
the job.
In addition, Mr.. Engel declared,
the premium" paid workers for
overtime on the project amounted
to s1,808,320. This means" he
said, that 1877 per cent Of the money
paid on the pay roll was paid for
services which were not actually
rendered. This represents about 8
per cent of the total cost of the
job"
Priority Expense Hit.
He added: "Priorities demanded
by the Army, some of which could
have been avoided. account for con-
siderable additional expense. In at
least one instance, I am informed,
the troop commander refused to
house the troops in barracks pro-
vided for because, while these bar
racks were ready for occupancy, they
had not been built for his organiza-
ton"
Mr.. Engel said on his visit at
Fort Meade he made triple in
spection of the site of the new Army
reservation and the adjoining one,
where World War troops were
trained.
"On the one side" he declared. Il
saw ghost town. where $4,000
World War troops had been cam
toned and trained in 1917. The
buildings were all gone, but the
site was still there. On the other
side I saw the new camp being
built on what was practically a
complete new site.
"On the one side 7 saw miles of
World War streets and roads, in
cluding some concrete roads leading
through sites where World War
buildings were built at a cost of over
1891 900. On the one side I saw
miles of main and lateral sewer lines
used in the World War and on the
other they were spending over $780,
900 constructing $4,000 feet of new
sewer lines. On the one side I saw
acres of level land where the old
streets were laid out and where
World War barracks had stood,
while on the other saw them grad
ing and clearing land for streets,
roads and building sites at an esti-
mated cost of $3.50, 900.
It wish especially to call attention
Evening star., 1941-04-03
Whitaker
Continued From First PageD

in Rome knows that story but not
one of the correspondents can tell it.
They work there under a censorship
that is intelligent and complete,
fighting a daily battle in the war of
nerves. sick that they must with
hold so much of the truth but loyal
to the editors and readers who want
a man on the spot, however difficult
it is to do his job.
Your correspondent can tell that
story because he has been expelled
from Italy, and he writes free of
censorship for the first time in a
year. The authorities could cite no
dispatch of mine from Italy as either
inaccurate of tendentious. They asked
Evening star., 1941-04-03

new: w:-that the sewer lines were in
good condition, and that they actu-
ally used a small portion of them !;
that all they required was cleaning.
The World War water lines were
good mains and. in my opinion,
could have been utilized.
In my judgment, hundreds of
thousands of dollars of the tax
payers money could have been saved
had the old site been utilized as it
was utilized in some of the other
projects