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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27
Stories in
Stamps
Beloions Bottle Sermons
In World Wor | Fashion

I UNDERGROUND Europe today
~ is brewing cauldron of
hatred that may boil over and
scald the legions of Adolf Hitler.
Stories OF resistance. both passive
and active. against Nazi conquer
ors alter out OF Europes van
pushed nations. They constitute
an ominous threat for the little
man who sits astride the rem
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27
City Praised
For Its Work
Surgeon General
Meets Officiuls

Or. Thomas Parran Of Washing
ton. d. c, surgeon general Of the
United States Public Health serv-
ice. told Mayor Harry P. Cain and
DR.. Lee Powers. director Of health.
Sunday in Seattle that Tacoma
deserves great credit for its action
In cI~ing the houses of prostitu-
ton.
TIE physician, enroute 10 Wash
ington. d. c.. was met In Seattle
by the city officials.
The city OF Tacoma il 10 be
congratulated" Parran declared.
''on its recent action In closing up
Its district We parents who have
sons in the service win feel more
secure about their health II every
city clamps down on the exploitz-
ton Of such Illicit traffic"
Enforcement Of the May act.
federal law prohibiting CONNER
cialised prostitution. solicitation.
or the renting Of q house for such
purpose. will follow, Parrsn said.
He predicted that the first move
viii be against persons VINO organ
ize and profit by the business.
Cain and Powers were informed
that the acting attorney general,
in a recent conference. pledged the
full cooperation of the department
Of Justice in enforcing the law.
Remember. this In . mans bust
ness. organized chiefly by men for
the sex Subtraction of men. FIRE.
qusntly they are aided by grating
public officials and INSCRIPTIONS
doctors. Real estate interests also
have a financial stake in the bust
ness."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27
Diesel Motor Bids
Opened by County

Bids TO supply Pierce county
with a diesel motor that will oper-
ate . rock crusher were opened
Monday by the commissioner and
then turned over to the county
engineer for his recommendation.
Bids were ~ follows: Garda
Fogg. Tacoma. $3.50; Service
Equipment Co. Seattle. $500; A.
H. Cox Co. Seattle. s2.4s7. and
Howard Cooper Corp. Seattle.
$l,7<5. The engine described by
the Cox Co. IL new, the others
secondhand.
The commissioners took under
consideration identical bids Of two
Tacoma firms to supply a dictst-
ing machine for use In the county
health department. Bidders were
the II. d. Baker Co. and the o. d.
Williams concern. each submitting
bids ranging from si92.b0 to $3.50.
depending on the type of machine.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27
ABSENTEE CONTROL
LED TO MANY ABUSES

Il share the view OF my brethren
in the state who believe we should
create something that would be
integrated into our community
life. For years. we have had be-
fore us the picture OF bad results
OF absentee control of private
power companies by holding COM
panies far removed from the scene
OF operations. This led to all sorts
OF vicious abuses.
Certainly thoughtful men dc
not want to set up something OF
the same character in a federal
operation which conceivshly might
develop some Of the same weak
nesses, and where every decision
Of any moment would have to be
made by someone $500 miles
away.
Both bills provide for immedi-
ately acquiring existing private
systems and selling them back to
communities and cooperstives
They handle the proposed aid to
the reclamation project at Grand
Coulee in practically the same
manner. In the last analysis, the
chief point OF difference in the
two proposals Is in the type OF
management.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27
State Without Power
To Regulate Bus Rates

OLYMPIA - The state depart
ment 'of public service is without
legal authority to regulate rates
charged by buses operating from
Fort Lewis to neighboring cities,
Attorney General Smith Troy
held Tuesday.
He advised Director Frederick
G. Hamley, the post exchange was
federal fundamentally and did
not bave to have certificate Of
public convenience and necessity
to run the buses.
Fort authorities have COM
planned at high rates charged by
the motor leasing corporation,
which has a contract with the post
exchange TO furnish the service.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27
DANGER OF HILL BILL
Is CITED BY BONE

This is why we set up the type
OF management suggested in cur
bill"
Senator Bone said his bill has
nothing TO do with present Secre-
tsry Of Interior Harold Iekes. who
he believes is in good faith N
favoring the other measure. What
he doubts IL wisdom of building
a program around one man. re-
CARELESS OF the fact that he may
be a good executive.
Danger OF the Hill bill. Bone
warns, Is that a private power
minded president might appoint
as lone chief OF the Authority a
person opposed to its interests. A
subsequent congress. under such
president. in order 10 hberalize
the bill at that late time. undoubt-
edly would face having 10 get a
two-thirds vote 10 override a press
Dental veto.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27
OBITUARY NOTICES

officiating. Burial will be in the
old Tacoma cemetery.
Private services for Steven
Craig Stiltner, infant son OF Mr..
and Mrs. Fill Stiltner of zoos No.
7th st, were held Monday in
Mellinger chapel, with Rev. Harold
B. Long officiating. Burial was
in the new Tacoma cemetery. The
baby died at local hospital Sat
urday. Besides his parents he is
survived by his grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. Jack Busenius of Puy-
allup and Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Miller OF Tacoma.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27
Bone Power Bill Offers
Home Rule for Northwest

Continued From Page one)
important point IL to have fairly
lengthy service, whether 1t be a
one-man or three-man administra-
ton.
We believe that President
Roosevelt would pick three men
who are devoted to the principles
set out In the bill. for under the
bill ! propose they would be COM
PEELED to take an oath that they
believe in the wisdom and FEAST
bility of the law.
This theory of management
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27
SAME MERIT SYSTEM
OF IVA Is PROVIDED

Incidentally. we have set up
the same type of labor relations
and personnel administration un-
der the same merit system now
employed by IVA, which has
worked very successfully, and has
not been challenged by anyone as
far as / know.
NO one knows what the future
holds in the way of political
changes. Certainly, those OF us
who are friends of public power
ought not TO have the last weapon
OF protest against bad appoint
ments taken from our hands.
We might wake up in the near
future and discover that we have
made a serious blunder. II a fu-
ture secretary Of the interior (un-
der the interior department bilD
should name an administrator un-
friendly TO public ownership. the
people OF our Northwest would be
the first TO demand that members
OF congress enter a violent pro-
test. We could make such a pro-
test effective only IL we retain in
the senate the power TO confirm
such an appointee.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27
Beaverbrook Would Like
To See America in War

II am not going TO be hypo-
critical" he said at a press
conference. II am one Of those
who would like to see the
United states taking q higher
part in the war"
Beaverbrook said he was salts
fled with United states produc
ton. A steady flow Of supplies wa
going to Britain. he said. and tn
United states was doing its ut
most TO keep supplies flowing.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27

LONDON Lord Beaverbrook,
minister Of supply. said Tuesday
that Il would like to see the
United States in the war" but
added that that is question
which the United States people
must decide for themselves.
Beaverbrook turned from
Washington where he conferred
on supplies for Britain after sit
ting in on the Roosevelt Churchill
conference at sea.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27
TAKEN TO HOSPITAL

Pat Patterson. 50. Of 1901 Pa
cific ave. was treated at the coun-
ty hospital Monday night for a
badly-cut upper lip which required
two stitches. He told police he
walked into a Mushroom OF cafe
at 1910 Pacific and was followed
in by two soldiers. unidentified.
After some words. he said. one of
them hit him in the mouth.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27
BY JlNMr HArlo

and the oath In much the same
az in the IVA set-up. Members
Of congress in both houses from
the South seem TO be very much
devoted 10 the IVA, for IL has
been a magnificent force for good
in the Tennessee valley and other
sections Of the great Southland.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27
His 1913 Car Runs

RIDGE. n. Y.-Demus J. Kuhn
has good reason TO be proud of
his 1918 vintage automobile - 1t
still takes him where he wants to
go. The car has ehugged an esti-
mated 400. 900 miles and has been
driven every year since its pur-
chase.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27
ATTEMPTED BURGLARY

An ATTEMPTED burglary at 1902
So. wilkeson was reported by Lew
Florence, who said someone ap-
parently attempted to enter either
Saturday or Sunday night by cut
ting a window screen. Apparently
the intruder was frightened away
by barking OF the family dog.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27
Core Of the News
SCHOOL BOARD

Board OF directors OF Tacoma
School District No. 10 will meet
at 2:3o p. m. Thursday in the Cen
trail school building.
Hospital flowers. HIM Florist.
adv.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27
WILL HOLD EXAMS

Full information about ". s.
Civil Service examinations for car
penter foreman. carpenter. foreman
electrician, electrician. machinist,
painter, plumber. steamfitter and
helpers may be obtained by writing
10 the Recorder. Labor Board. r. s.
Navy Yard. Bremerton. Applica-
tons must be submitted not later
than Sept Is.
When wounds won't heal. poui-
tice with WoUNDEx. adv.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27

picnic by eating % ears of corn
at a sitting. Awed friends wonder
IL this didn't set a new worlds
record.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tony Olsen re-
turned on the weekend after
driving Mrs. olsen's mother to
Portland. where she boarded a
train for Redding, Calf. to visit
another daughter.
Mrs. II. L. Axling and sons.
Clarke and Thomas, left Tuesday
for Columbus. Ga, where Mrs.
Axlings husban an army
lieutenant. IL stationed. In Ia
coma they have been spending the
summer with Mrs. Axling's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. l.. Camp
bell
Mra. Mime Young Of Randle
has been entertaining her grand
sons. Gary and Buddy Goranson
of Tacoma.
Mrs. II. J. Schroeder viii be the
only Tacoman among nine judges
at the Washington State Dahlla
society's show at Point Defiance
next weekend.
=
A distinct honor was paid
Tacoma man Tuesday afternoon
when w. !. Flanagan, st. Paul,
bestowed the Presidents Medal"
on A. r. Walter, Northern Pacific
railroad employee in the South Ia
coma shops. In June, 1910, Walter
saved the life OF Takanobu MafsuI
by applying artificial respiration
after the latter had been pulled
from the water at Sunny Beach,
near Steiiacoom.
Miss Mary ReItrel, graduate of
the College of Puget Sound, will
teach this fall in Tenino.
Visiting at the home of Capt.
and Mrs. Russell d. Powell on
vsshon Island has been Mrs.
sunan jacob Of Tacoma.
Mr.. and Mrs. william wedmark
have been entertaining Mrs.
Theresa whitman. former Taeoman
and now a resident of California.
In California on a two weeks
vacation trip are MIR. and Mrs.
Leslie Lunan.
Mrs. Inga Watland has been
entertaining Mr.. and Mrs. George
X. Demarest and son. Kenneth. OF
Glendale. Calf. Mrs. Demsrest
Is Mrs. Watlands daughter.
Marcel SandoE and Roy Meri-
dian have been chosen TO repre-
sent the Tacoma Agate club at
the convention Of Northwest Fed
Grafton Of Mineral societies in
Portland August 80 and 81.
MIR. and Mrs. Frank But. of
Walnut Creek. Calf. have been
in Tacoma as guests of Mr.. and
MN. G. G. Hubiey.
Miss Della Tomlinson. wsds-
worth. kans.. Is a guest OF her
brother. DIR. Warren Tomlinson,
and his wife.
Mrs. Harold Young OF Randle
visited here with relatives before
leaving for Los Angeles 10 join
her husband.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. ID. Bell have
been vacationing in San Francisco.
Mrs. Harold Gillian. Mrs. RE.
Hedberx and Mrs.. Harry Hough
are scheduled 10 make reports on
the convention held at Yakima
when Tacoma auxiliary Of the
American Legion meets Tuesday
evening at eoeis Commerce 81.
Jack B,elanln LETT Tuesday for
St Louis as an eniistee In the
army air corps. His home here
has been AZ 4o45 No. 7th st.
Your Postmaster can tell you
how 20 invest in Z. S. Defense
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27
Did You Eper
Count Up To
FIFTEEN
BILLION?

IT'S AS EASY TO count q bill
i lion dollars, some authorities
insist, IS il is TO count . billion
cents, q billion blondes, = bill
lion inner.ubes or . billion old
razor blades. But IL does seem
thar whatever one counts -
By the time one reaches q bill
hon he's too old to have any
further interest.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27
RADIO STOLEN

Theft of radio from a car
parked at So. 18th and X SITS. was
reported TO police Monday night
by the owner. Bran Milligan. Of
Soft Melrose ST.
Alway- better butter at Cow
Butter store.-(Ady1
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27
Gasoline Shortage
Probe Is Ordered

Continued From Page onel
dent Henry a. Wallace. II ths
special committee i named. the
subcommittee vill turn over the
inquiry 10 Il.
Members Of the commerce sub
committee who viii start the gaso-
lire shortage inquiry Thursday
are Maloney chairman: Sens
George l. Radcliffe. D. Nd.
W. Lee O'Daniel. D. Tex. Harold
X. Burton. r. o. and ". Warren
Barbour. r. y. J.
No witnesses Chosen
Maloney said no witnesses had
been selected for the first hear
ing
The commerce committee also
approved Maloney's resolution for
an investigation Of the defense
priorities system.
Meantime. three non-interven-
ZIONIST senators challenged the ad-
ministration to prove that the
shortage OF gasoline on the east
coast is real and not lust an
attempt 10 bolster the war spirit q"
Sen. Gerald p. Nye. r. ". D..
led the attack. charging that the
gasoline shortage was a 100 per
cent occasion for a performance
10 create war consciousness. "
He was joined by Sens. D. Worth
Clark. D.. Ida, and John A. San
sher. r.. Conn.
To Stop Increase
With wing apprehension
along the eastern seaboard about
the gasoline situation, the office
OF price administration and civilian
supply promised action to stop
rising retail gas prices.
Indications that officials were
thinking in terms OF rationing
were seen in the revelation that a
sample gasoline ration card has
been printed for the District OF
Columbia.
1T must not be forgotten that
II any shortage exists. 1t exists
because we have given too many
tsnkers to Britain" Clark said.
Il have serious doubts as to
whether that shortage does exist
but only a congressional commit
tee. empowered to demand the
facts, would determine that
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27
MRS. CLARA EVA

Mrs. Clara Eva, OF 81 Broad
way. died Tuesday in a local hos
pital. She was native of
Minnesota. The widow Of George
Eva, Northern Pacific local freight
agent. she had lived in Tacoma
for so years. She leaves a niece.
Miss Doris Eva of Tacoma: two
sisters, Mrs. Minnie Hall OF
Minneapolis, MINI, and Mrs. May
Phillips of Pasadena. Calf, and
one brother. Dave Terwilliger Of
Mankato, MINI. Buckley King
will announce the funeral arrange
ments.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27

Your Postmaster can tell you
how TO invest in Z. S. Defense
Bonds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27
FUNERAL NOTICES

Ulysses s. Grant Wolf-Wed-
nesday at 1890 a. m. from C. o.
Lynn chapel, with Rev. p. B. Hoff
officiating. Burial Will be in
Trinity Lutheran cemetery at
Falkland.
Burt Paul Sheriff-Wednesday
at p. m. from Piper chapel, with
Rev. George Fulcher officiating,
followed by cremation.
John Henry Johnson-Wednes-
day at 100 p. m. from Mellinger
chapel, with Prof. J. p. Pfleuger
officiating. Burial will be in the
new Tacoma cemetery with the
Knights of Pythias in charge OF
the service.
Milton p. Extraordinarily
at $3.50 p. m. from Mellinger
chapel, with Rev. w. B. Hawthorne
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27

Jack Bielanln left Tuesday for
St Louis as an eniistee In the
army air corps. His home here
has been al s545 No. 7th St
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27
H 4 X ELS RE ABOUT
Main Street
STARTS ON PAGE ONE

tablemates At a recent company
picnic by eating % ears of corn
Mt a sitting. Awed friends wonder
IL this didn't set q new worlds
record.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Tony Olsen re-
turned on the weekend after
driving Mrs. olsen's mother to
Portland. where she boarded a
train for Redding, Calf. to visit
another daughter.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-01-17

children. What is needed, he said,
is maintenance of normal good spirit
and wholesomeness of daily family
life.
He commended the attitude of an
acquaintance Of his who keeps a
balanced attitude toward current
events by opening his newspaper
first to the sports and comic sec
tions. Fortified by the confidence Of
Superman and the muscular compe-
tence Of athletes, he finds himself
strong enough finally 10 look 1t lie
front page.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-01-17
Military Training Hell ps Reformation

Army training is making men out
Of these boys at the New York City
reformatory, at New Hampton, N.
7. At the suggestion Of Mayor Flo
rella La Guardia, military drill was
tried n an experiment at the cor
regional institution. The average
age Of the boys Is 10. Here you see
Oeft company presenting arms ut
. hag-lowering ceremony. Right:
Inmates charging with their wooden
guns during field drill.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-01-17

ST. LOUIS.-The American people
have supped full with horrors in
1910 and. il they continue the un-
mixed diet into 1871, are likely to
have 4 bad case Of psychological
indigestion. according to two St.
Louis physicians.
The health Of America II essential
to H. preparedness. Dr.. LYMAN II.
Fheert aAded. 's1he more vitamins,
H. bs41ee vim b. oH national think
-. AanAal hoa2Ah a H. nation b
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-01-17

by no means less important than its
nutrition"
He advocated greater participation
in sports and other activities that
take the mind away from the trou-
bles of the world.
''Preoccupation with woe Is un-
healthy. like eating an all-gravy
diet"
Dr.. Howard A. Rusk asserted that
breeding On war problems By par
snts can have . stalttfy ins effect On
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-01-17

IN 1888, young man from Potts
vile, planting his typewriter on
his bed in a New York hall bed
room. rounded out Is 900 words of q
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-01-17
GENERAL
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Washington, d. C.
SHORT OF WAR


On the most debated questions in
the public's mind, the Presidents
speech on the state of the Union
didn't say much that he has not said
before. 1t is far more significant in
what it did not say. One thing it
did not say were the words "short
Of war" in promising aid. Many Of
our most belligerent unofficial arm
chair strategists who also began ad-
vocating aid but stressing short Of
war have now also dropped that
qualification, and some want war
right now.
The President followed these only
in dropping the words short of
war, which he was so careful to
include in his campaign speeches.
Nevertheless. he did indicate that
definitions of "acts of war" in in
ternational law are ''out" so far as
he is concerned, since the Axis Pow
ers have disregarded these laws. In
this he is probably right, but most
Of the opposition to his proposals
has not rested on purely technical
acts Of war, which are not physical
~ acts Of warlike aggression-like
trading the destroyers. They have
Questioned our taking physically Of
fensive action in foreign waters that
would automatically engage us in
war-like crashing a blockade with
naval convoy.
On the whole list of questions in
this category, the message is re-
soundingly silent. Are we to repeal
the Johnson act forbidding loans of
money to defaulting nations, or the
Neutrality act which keeps our ship
ping and our people out Of danger
zones? Are we to permit shipments
Of contraband of war in American
vessels or convoy shipments to bel
hgerents with the implied threat Of
naval action against any belligerent
blockade Of them?
All that part of the message, its
silences as well as these suggestions,
remain to be cleared up. With its
main part, about and greatly speed
ed arms production and defense, the
whole country will follow him. Some
OF it has been ahead of him for
years. 1t is just possible that the
Unexpected obscurity of the other
part is a matter of necessary or
prudent timing controlled by some
thing that is happening or intend
ed abroad. and which Harry Hopkins
is going over to explore. On the
main questions of immediate policy
we must wait and see. The message
Is not revealing.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-01-17

book he was
writing. He
was down to
his last three
dollars. He
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-01-17
MONETARY REFORM

Nothing more necessary and con-
structive than the Federal Reserve
anti-infiation recommendations has
come out of government in a long
time and nothing more hopeful
than the Presidents apparent &C.
ceptance Of them at least in part.
Early in his first administration,
Mr.. Roosevelt was sold" a cluster
OF schemes to increase debated
prices by monkeying with money,
debasing the nations currency.
Among them was the authority
granted to the President to debase
the value of the dollar by buying
gold and paying for it as much as
twice as much as it is worth, and
to buy silver also for much more
than it is worth and issue dollars
against that phony price at a still
higher figure. Another, more diff
hcult to explain, was the plan and
practice of spending billions more
money than government had, paying
for it by bonds sold to the banks
(rather than to Individually and let
ting the banks pay for the bonds
simply by crediting government with
the price of the bonds. Without 60
ing into too much detail, the tend
ency of this is exactly the same as
printing bales of irredeemable money
unless some limit is put on the banks
power to use this swiftly increasing
mountain of credit exactly as though
it were actually money deposited by
their customers from their earnings
or sale Of goods. 1t expanded the
amount Of bank" money to fantas-
teal heights just as printing truck
loads Of fiat paper money expands
the currency. The effect of either
kind q expansion will sooner or
later Be to make the people afraid of
the value Of money and start an
upward spiral Of prices or down.
ward spiral Of the value Of money.
which b the same thing and both
are Imitation"
Briefly, the Federal Reserve rec
emmsnds putting limit or q COM
p1sse stop 10 al these authorities
and practices and also 10 put 4 limit
- ~ amount of our vast gold hoard
Inst can - used - . basis for fur
0ee incfeases h III volume Of
oi1Aar bank O. actual mooay. Mons
= 0Aaoo oa1hae1l3as Wao I'D n fun
- nsns aeel1 prodnes1 he real
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