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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-09

Committee members INDUCED
in personal discussion of the
Roosevelt family's own tax af-
fars. They figured out on
thsir scratch pads that the presi-
dept and Mrs. Roosevelt. on the
basis of an estimated annual in
come of $50. 900 for both. would
save $4,000 a year if each made
separate return.
With a brutal frankness al
most unprecedented, they reach
ed the conclusion that other
nrmbers of the family would
benefit II the committee adopted
the presidents 11th-hour recon-
mendation. Certain cabinet
members also were listed rs
prospective beneficiaries from
tie White House proposal. These
are, OF course, petty consldera-
ttons. But they reflect the pre-
yalent bad feeling.
The resentment dates back 10
the time when Mr. Roosevelt de-
iisered his famous attack on
wealthy people for evading high
taxes through such devious loop
holes as purchase of foreign Sc
curities, incor porating their
yachts. creating family trusts.
Then the treasury's experts
cited the separate return pro-
cedure as one of the most popu-
lar tricks, and Urged revision.
But the administration never
submitted any definite measure
for closing this avenue of escape.
The two who will suffer most
severely from the desperate at
tempt to reopen the compile
Gated tax schedules at the last
moment ale Speaker Sam Ray
burn Of Texas and Floor Leader
John w. Mccormack of Massa-
chusetts. Angry Democrats are
muttering in the cloakrooms
that If they faced reelection 10
their present leadership posts to-
day. they would be defeated.
The speaker set the stage for
the controversy when he refused
10 present TO the house the gag
rule" under which no separate
vote could be had on the joint
return provision.
With the re enforcement OF
members from the eight com
munity property states (Which
include reNasl, he forced the
rules committee 10 permit de-
bate and a floor decision on this
paragraph. II was this strategy
which permitted the president 10
deliver his last-minute attack on
the bill. Had IL not been for
Sam. not even the White House
could have entered the debate
Leader Mccormack circulated
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-09
Quiz
DEFENSE
SAVINGS

O. In what denominations are the Treasury Depart
ments Tax Savings Notes issued?
A. There are two series. A and B. Series notes
issued in denominations of $5 $50 and 800 each Series
notes issued in denominations of 500, $780, $1,000
$4,000 and 100000 each.
O. Do these Tax Savings Notes interest!
A. Yes provided they used to pay income taxes.
O. How much interest do these notes earn?
A. Series A about 1872 per cent year; Series
about 048 per cent year.
NoTE-For complete information about Savings
Plan ask write Treasury Depart
ment Washington. DC
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among the members, and made
the question matter of uphold
ing the ACKNOWLEDGMENT pres
tige as against the committees.
1nasmueh. as ways and means is
the ma jor mouse committee, con-
sisting of veterans and tax stu
dents, the speaker precipitated a
break in the ranks of the Demo-
cratic bosses of the house.
With the exception of 6S menu
bers from the community prop
erty states, the question boiled
down to one OF bread-and- butter
politics. Only six per cent of
the taxpayers are affected by
the operation of the joint tax
return, and they are the upper
crusters who play golf on Elec-
ton day, anyway.
But the other "a per cent are
the kind who usually show up at
the ballot box. They will have to
pay heavier taxes with the Joint
tax return Knocked out. and they
may take their revenge at the
polls.
Federal Reserve Board Cover
nor Mariner s. Eccles is staging
the most serious study OF post
war problems now in progress
at the capital. Almost every
group in the White House cir
Gle is making his own survey,
but his appears 10 be the Mccoy.
Mr.. Eecles has turned over the
permanent assignment 10 Eco
Monies Professor Alvin Hansen
~ Harvard, author Of the recent
~ published book entitled "Fis-
cal Policy and Business Cycles"
Prof. Hansen works closely
with the boards various experts,
but he frequently calls in bank
ers. industrialists and business
men from around the country.
Once a week the outside group
sits with federal reserve men,
bers for a general symposium.
Among the problems under
constant study and discussion
are gold, taxes. banking pro-
cedure and structure, credit ia
cilities. foreign trade. rehousing.
housing construction, etc. No
attempt il made 10 evolve
specific plan; the purpose il
simply 20 formulate rather
elastic program that can he
utilized in any postwar eventu-
ality.
This circle Of economists tries
70 approach the problem reslis-
ucally They are canvsssing all
possibilities in order 10 be pre-
pared 10 ssee any oonglomera-
ton Of condition. including:
% A British triumph; ~ a
Hitler victory; 80 stalemate
and negotiated peace.
Il is probable that the Eecles
realists are the only group which
gives Hitler even an outside
chance 10 win. But they figure
that all alternatives must be con-
sidered. II only as an academic
speculation. At that, President
Roosevelt or Secretary Hull had
better not hear OF their broad
miadedness.
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Once Again, the Warning

People have almost stopped talking about whether we
shall have initiation not Now the usual topic is. How
much inflation?"
There are still many people not to 1t. Farmers
want much higher prices nflaonary) Organized labor
In fact all labor wants higher nflatonary). People
with things to sell generally want higher prices dnfla
tonary). Government financing is still largely by lend
ing to banks, which create the deposit money resulting
dnfationary). Stock market spectators want higher
prices (nflatonary).
There has been considerable gradual initiation since
1880 stepping at faster recently Up now most
people like it. But economist Irving Fisher is only of
many to that while it has been fine now the time
has to begin applying the brakes One way in which
every have his hand the brake is to buy de-
tense bonds thus keeping his out of the
bic for increasingly goods which puts prices up
Is challenge to democracy and to civilization that
women shall not be exploited and used of lower
ing scalesDr Minnie L. Maffett president National
Federation of Business and Professional Womens Clubs
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MR.. FIXIT
He Fixes Things

To receive attention IN nj. COL
umn lstters must give name and
address OF writer only Initials
VII be published when requested.
Mr. Fixit: Could a woman who
IL divorced and then remarked
change her ehildren's names
without consent of first hns-
hand: How could You receive
information Of n person last
heard Of In California hut know
of no address to forward to?
MRS. n.
II the woman has legal Gus
tody OF the children. there
wouldn't seem 10 be any OBJ.
stscle 10 her doing what sh.
pleases with their names. To
find someone who left no clue
to his whereabouts, you prob
ably would do best 10 seek adj
vice Of the police departments
Missing Persons bureau.
Mr.. Fixit: We are living on
old age pension and own two
houses. living In one. The other
rents for $40 a month. Now We
are Informed that we have 10
sell one place and our check win
he held up till we list one for
sale. Please tell me n this can
he done? Wasn't that law
changeds A READER.
The new law, as II Ia inter-
preted. did not eliminate all con-
sideration OF family resources.
A second piece OF property is
regarded as a resource. The rest
Is regular procedure. You would
be expected To list the second
place with a real estate agent
OF your own choosing. and to
sell II at the present market
value. That does not mean fore
ing you to sell at give-away
price. The grant would he con-
tinued as long ns the property
was listed.
Mr.. Fixit: Are coupons any
good In this state. g. A. II.
They are In most cases.
Mr.. Fixit: Can you tell me IL
there Ii a sale for Bcorice root,
how much u IL worth and who
buys IL: And what day of the
year IL II that when you cut off
the tops of ferns the bush viii
die: MRS. X. n.
One firm listing itself as in
the market for licorice root is
the Western Trading Co., 6l5
N. w. 18th, Portland.
You cant kill ferns with one
cutting. Best time to attack
them is when the fern first has
reached It's full height but still
is green. II you cut it off then,
and persistently lop off new
shoots when they reach fun
height, you eventually can ex-
haust the plant reserve in the
roots.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-09
APPRECIATION
SO THEY SAY:

The United States may have
confidence in the friendship Of
Colombia and in her capacity to
prevent all danger to the PAN
ama) Canal by way of her ter
ritory. - DR.. Eduardo Santos,
president Of Colombia.
All of us in America have re-
sponsibilities for failures in hui
man terms everywhere in Amer
lea. - Jonathan Daniels, editor
and writer.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-09
An Inside Picture of Finon-
Ii u IL / ciol and Political America
BY RAY TUCKER
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON - President Rooscvet's last minute
intervention against the joint return has caused more
bitterness among house Democrats than any presidential
action since the bill to pack the supreme court The session
at which the venerable ways and means committee re-
ected his demand of the stormest this powerful
body has staged in wears
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-09

went 10 work with their axes.
They smashed bottles. made
kindling wood out Of the furni-
ture, knocked in the heads Of
beer kegs and whisky barrels
What surprised the people Of
Kansas was the alacrity with
which the prosecuting attorneys.
sheriff and police officers who
didn't know that there were any
liquor joints. went into action.
They didn't wait for somebody
TO bring the evidence and file
= complaint. They went after
Carrie Nation and the other
woman and threw them into
jail. They had broken the law
and must pay the penalty.
Carrie Nations defense was
that the joints were operating in
defiance Of the law and the will
of a majority of the people OF
Kansas. and any citizen was
within his rights when he did
what the officers would not do.
That didn't get Carrie very far.
She had destroyed the property
Of American citizens and had in
terferred with their personal
liberty and freedom.
OF course Carrie and some Of
the other women went to Jail
for a few days but when they
came out the Ratchet squad went
at it again. The outraged law
appeared in the shape of the
patrol wagon and squad OF
special police. The joints must
be protected.
Finally Kansas awoke 10 the
farce and under pressure of
popular demand officials began TO
enforce the law. First II was =
periodical raid In which the Of
ficers welded the axes, and from
that u went to padIocking the
buildings and putting the joint
operators in Jail.
Operation of the liquor bust
ness seems to be one case where
the leopard does not change his
spots. Whether it is prohibit
ton, high or low license or CON-
toll such as the Washington
state liquor board is supposed TO
exercise, its the same old story.
There is lot of hullabaloo
over what is going to be done
when a coroner's jury meets to
determine how come three per-
sons lost their lives in an illegal
liquor joint. Maybe somebody
will go to Jail (the robber prob
ably will die from injuries sus-
tanned in the fight, but after
an observation of more than
fifty years. this writer is skepti-
cal. It will take lot of evidence
TO remove the belief that one Of
the chief functions of the mill
run of law enforcement officers
Is to be looking the other way
while the joints do business but
to get quickly on the pob if any
body tries to interfere.
What is a minority? The
chosen heroes of this earth
hare been in the minority.
There is not a social, poll
ticaI or religious privilege
that you enjoy today that
Uas not bought for you by
the blood and tears and
patient suffering of the
minority. 1t is the minority
that has stood IN the ran
Of ererg moral conflict, and
ochieUed oil that is noble IN
the World.
JOHN p. COUGH.
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painter or classical scholar
Z. All Of the signers OF the
constitution were born in the
American colonies: true or false
s. What union general during
the Civil war led the famous
march 20 the sea-?
2. Do albinos occur in sll
races Of man, or only in the
white race
10. Atlas is pictured as bear
ing the ----- on his shoulders.
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San L5n..

treasure house to store the gold
and silver brought from the
plundered Aztec empire in Mex
leo. In 1889 La Fortaleza be-
came the residence OF the gov
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ernor, and has served In that
capacity to this day. Guy ].
swope is the present occupant.
TO ROW: Municipal
Wailinq WALL
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-09
PULSE OF
THE PUBLIC
ONE WAY TO DO TT

Editor, The Times: A great
deal has been said and written
in the last few days about pros
titution in Tacoma but not once
has there been any reference to
the men who frequent those
places. They constitute the real
menace. II 1t were not for them
there would he no prostitution.
There is another side to this
question. too. What caused the
downfall of these girls? They
may have been out of employ
ment and hungry when the op-
portunity to make living was
offered. These women are not
all prostitutes any more than all
men behind prison bars are GRIM
inals.
When we awake to the fact
that men are no better than
women we can do something
about this problem. S. S.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-09

You help yourself when you buy
L. S. Defense Bonds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-09
APRON STRINGS

Editor, The Times: Some time
ago l wrote to The Times and
you published letter on being
tied to mothers apron strings.
Since then I have received
number OF letters expressing
sympathy with the thought and
some that "bawled me out"
still think the good old U. 6.
A. would be a still better country
in which TO live II mother or
sister or wife had more to say
about public affairs.
HARRY DICKSON.
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ToDAY's COMMON ERROR

used in the second and third
person to denote determination
on the part of the speaker, as
They shall not pass"
Your Postmaster can tell You
how TO invest in Y. S. Defense
Bonds.
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wsged efficiently only by total
itsrian states. But how can war
be renounced by any nation II,
as Mariner Eccles recently said,
War is merely the armed con-
tinuation Of our peace-time bust
ness?" Let those who chortle
over Russian successes ponder
their meaning a little.
CONROY KRoDER
APPRECIATION
Editor. The Times: The second
annual picnic Of the Washington
Montana club at Point Defiance
park Sunday, July ~, was in all
respects a very successful and
enjoyable affair. The publicity
given by The Tacoma Times was
an important factor in making it
so. Roy F. SWANSON,
GEORGE ALRICK,
ED SOLBERG.
Board Of Control.
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TREASURE PALACE

TREASURE faLAtE
In the 18th century the Span
iards built La Fortaleza over
looking the harbor at San Juan,
Puerto Rico. II was used as
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Maybe We Need Some
Carrie Nations Nov
Speakessy Killings Recall
Hstehet Days in Ksnss,
Somebody May Pay. But
Probably Not
DUCK passing in connection
- with the recent speakeasy
killings in Seattle recalls ex-
periences in Kansas when Carrie
Nation took over the job Of law
enforcement officers and began
smashing the furniture of Illegal
liquor joints with an ak. Prose-
cutting attorneys, sheriffs and
police officers did not know that
the Kansas prohibition law was
being violated. To be sure. 4
few people had come around and
complained that bootleg liquor
was being sold in the Kansas
joints but they didn't produce
any evidence. and it wasn't the
business OF the law enforcement
officers to 60 shopping about
for evidence.
That was the situation when
Carrie Nation organized a wo-
mans vigilance com ittee.
Armed with axes they began the
campaign in Topeka. They didn't
have any trouble getting into
the joints and once inside they
didn't stop to argue the techni-
cal points OF law involved in de-
stroying the property being used
in the violation of the Kansas
prohibition statue. They just
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And the Lords anger kindled against Israel, and
he made them wander in the wilderness years. until all
the generation that had done evil in the sight the Lord
consumed-Numbers 80 :13.
Evening star., 1941-02-12

ton of Stain himself. Krivitsky
in particular cautioned us against
believing that his death when 1t
came would be suicide"
No New Evidence.
Police said, however, that they
had uncovered no evidence to war
rant altering their view that his
death was case of suicide.
The notes found in Krivitsky'S s
room were addressed to Mr.. Wald-
man, Miss Suzanne La Toilette, a
writer, and to "Tanya and Alex, "
Krivitsky's wife and son in New
York The latter note, as translated
from the Russian by police, said 1t
is very difficult and I want to live
very badly, but 1t is impossible"
Representative Rankin of Missis-
sippi yesterday referred to the death
of KrivitSky in a speech to the
House and declared if members in
veStigate the homicide" they will
find that the gun was in the wrong
place for it to have been suicide" j"
He declared the circumstances
seemed to indicate IAN old scheme
of the Communists to kill of those
who would expose their dastardly
activities. They say those notes he
is supposed to have left bear the
earmarks of forgery"
Evening star., 1941-02-12

suit airplane To make up for lack
Of maneuverability, they must rely
On increased speed.
Calls for More Power.
To achieve speed, with increased
size unless there is some radical
development in the art of reducing
drag" by Streamlining or other
means. there must be greatly in
creased horsepower. Since there
has been. until just recently, no
great increase in the size of the
airplane engine in production in
any part of the world. both Ger
many and the United States have
developed n-engined fighters.
The outstanding German two
engined fighter is the Messerschmitt
ITO, which has almost supplanted
the sinele-engined Messerschmitt
l09 in the war of England. The
single-enQined MesSerschmitts fell
prey to British Spitfres and Hurri-
canes in such numbers that the
NaZis had TO abandon their use
over England.
In the United States the Army
has developed the twin engined Bell
Airacuda, 13 of which have been
delivered for service tests. and the
Lockheed P-38 pursuit-interceptor.
which is being brought TO the
production stage The Navy has its
twin -engined Grumman fighter.
1000 Horsepower Engine.
Within the past few months. how
Evening star., 1941-02-12
American Warpldne
Output Reported
Over 1000 Monthly
Air c. of c. Engineer
Sees TotoI of 20, 1000
Produced This Yeor

American production OF military
aircraft this month will exceed 900
a month for the first time, according
to an estimate by Harvey L. Will
liams, production engineer and
former Governor of the Aeronautical
Chamber of Commerce.
Mr.. Williams believes the output
of military aircraft will continue
upward, reaching a total Of about
10000 airplanes in 1941, 10000 in
1912 and 10000 in 1943.
He said every effort is being made
to speed up the aviation production
program by wider subcontracting of
parts. suba ssemblies and accessories,
and by using every man-hour pos
sible on all currently installed ma
chine tools.
British Get 80 Per Cent.
1t is estimated that the British
today are receiving nearly 80 per
cent Of the total American output of
warplanes. British sources have
said that practically all November
production went abroad and that
fewer than 40 new airplanes were
delivered to the United States Army
during the last quarter of 1910.
American manufacturers, in many
cases, have confirmed these re-
ports. The total production of the
Curtiss P-40 single-engine pursuit
now is going to England it has been
reported. These planes are coming
off the assembly line in Buffalo at
the rate Of eight a day. Reports
from England today credit this air.
plane with outmaneuvering the
famous British Hurricane fighter
Meanwhile, Federal research au-
thorities and military observers ex-
pressed the view that the small pur-
suit airDlane which has been the
chief offensive weapon against other
aircraft may be doomed as a result
of present war developments.
New Plane Carries Cannon.
In place of the small. one-man
flying machine gun" there already
is appearing a type of fighter carry
ing armorplate around vulnera BILE
areas. including the pilot. selfseal-
ing fuel tanks and cannon which
gradually are replacing machine
guns and soon may supplant them
entirely.
Such an armored airplane. armed
with cannon, is a far different air.
plane than the pea shooters the
air powers of the world have known
for two decades. They are much
larger and heavier As they gain
size and weight, they lose maneu-
verability, which always has been
the primary requirement of the pur-
Evening star., 1941-02-12
Patrols
Continued From First Page

ciudes Ninth street NV. from Penn
sylvania avenue to New York ave-
nue.: G street N w. from New Jersey
avenue to Seventh street, Seventh
street NV. from H to K street,
PENNSYLVANIA avenue NV. from
Fourteenth to Fifteenth streets, and
the square between Eleventh and
Twelfth, H and I streets NV.
In the second precinct-Thee entire
area except between K and N streets
and Ninth to Fifteenth streets NV.
Georgetown Included.
In the third precinct-Pennsyl-
vania avenue from Seventeenth to
FWenty-sixth street NV, L street
from Connecticut avenue to Twenty
first street NV, Twenty-sixth street
NV. from New Hampshire avenue
to the Riverside Stadium and
Lafayette Park.
Seventh precinct: M street from
Twenty-ninth street to Key Bridge;
Wisconsin avenue from M street to
P street.
Tenth precinct: Fourteenth street
NV. from Euclid to Monroe streets.
Thirteenth precinct. From the
vest side of Second street NV. TO
Eighteenth street and from S to
Euclid streets.
Fourth and fifth precincts. An
area beginning at Third street and
independence avenue SW., south
on Third street, west on D street,
south on Fourth street. east on N
street, north on New Jersey avenue
Sc. west on Virginia avenue Sc,
north on South Capitol street. north
on Canal street SW. and west on
Independence avenue to Third
street; and an area bounded by
Eighth street Sc. from the Navy
Yard gate to Pennsylvania avenue
Sc, west on PENNSYLVANIA avenue
to Second street, west on B street
Sc. to New Jersev avenue
Ninth precinct: H street NE.
from First to Fifteenth streets. and
on Benning road out to Seventeenth
street NE.
Eleventh precinct: Nichols ave-
nue. Sc. from S street to the north
wall Of st. Elizabeth's Hospital, and
Good Hope road Sc. from Nichols
avenue to Minnesota avenue.
Maj Brown had suggested that If
the report were approved by the
Commissioners the file be referred
10 the War Department.
Evening star., 1941-02-12

cooled airplane engine has gone into
ever, the 1000 horsepower air
production in the United States,
providing in one power plant the
horsepower which formerly could
be obtained only by using two en-
gineS.
Around the Pratt e. Whitney
2,OO0-horSepoWer engine has been
built the new Navy Eau Vought-
SikOrsky fighter, which may be the
first Of series of big. heavy fight
ers Of the type which war devel-
opments seem to indicate is neces-
sary to cope with cannon-b bearing
foreign fighters and bombers.
BY shrewd designing. involving
some precedent-breaking pioneer
ing. the Bell single -engined P-40
Airacobra pursuiter, however, has
been built around a 1000 horse
power liquid-COOled engine with suf-
ficient performance to permit the
carrying of cannon, armOr and SELF
sealing tanks. This airplane, re-
garded as one of the outstanding
new American fighters. now is near
ing the quantity production stage
for the Army Air Corps and Brit
ain.