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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-31
. AsoS,s MORE Main Street r raex1 os On

club; G. B. WEIGH. at the Bronx
club IN New York. and Aubrey
Benton. at Butte, Mont. his for
mer home town.
Ben Nichols, city OF Tacoma
purchasing agent. was elected sec
rotary of the Pacific Northwest
Public Buyers association at its
conference last weekend in olym-
pis. Accompanying him to the
meeting restricted to purchasing
agents Of public bodies. was Ar
thur VI. Angoye, chief clerk of the
city board OF contracts and awards.
Thomas Brady. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ. p. Brady. $500 So. Puget
Sound ave. has been given a part
in the Seattle College Drama Guild
production. Tons of Money" TO
be presented soon in Seattle Tom
was graduated from Bellarmine in
1e4i.
Through the campaign efforts Of
the Young Mems Business club,
Ralph Allison Newell and John
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-31
Chamber Executives
Address Roiarians

A realistic conception of what
Tacoma should and could be as
= prosperous metropolis Thursday
keynoted 4 tandem talk" made
by Chamber OF Commerce sxecu-
tives At q luncheon meeting OF
the Rotary club.
President J. J. Kaufman. secrs-
tary-Manager T. A. Stevenson,
Jay W.. McCuns. Frank Walsh
and Z. r. Feterolf made dove
tailed talks TO complete an out
line Of the chambers practical
vision" Of the civic plan OF sc-
complishments necessary TO the
city's continued growth.
The chambers role was de-
tailed by its officers, who told of
the many fields of endeavor, in
GLIDING legislation. military, agri-
culture. merchandising, transpor-
tation. industry and advertising.
The luncheon was held In the
Hotel Winthrop. Army personnel
from Fort Lewis were guests of
the Rotary club.
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Adam Bension, Pioneer Of County,
Dies al His Home; Rites Saturday

lived his sntir. lie in this eoun-
IS. ard Vas = resident Of North
Puysllup from iss3 until ISIS. Al
that tine the site now occupied
BY the town proper was covered
with trees and berry bushes.
He was a member 81 the eoun-
tvs first grange. and in 1872 as
SISTED IN the building ~ the
Grange store in Hillhurst
Prior 10 his death. Benston was
among the few persons IN the
county who could recall the org
inai Ft Sisqually and DR. ". p.
Tolmis. manager Of the Hudson's
Bay Co. interests on Puget Sound.
Sources Of amusements Of that
early day were not As plentiful as
now and horse racing between
kiokitat Indians and the whites
Of the Puget Sound district proved
a great attraction. In the late
1s50s. Benston participated in
these races as a jockey. but later
retired from actual riding and
trained horses.
benston's father was native
OF Scotland and earned his livins
as a trader for the Hudson's BAY
Co. He came to Nisqually from
Vancouver in 1s4i and ATTENDED
at TT. Nisqualy the first Fourth
Of July celebration west OF IN,
Rocky mountains.
Surviving Benston are his wife
Sarah; four sons, William Henry
Albert J. and Edward c., all OF
Tacoma, and Frank T. of Eugene
Ore; five grandchildren, and 81,
great-grandchildren.
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Wesley Haworth. both of Puyal-
lup. recently joined the coast guard
and have been assigned to the
Port Townsend training station.
Pvt. Marvin ]. Park Of Camp
Murray was recently honorably
discharged from the 146th F. A.,
41st division, Fort Lewis.
Mrs. Daisy Brown of 500 SO.
e6th ST. was treated at the Bridge
Clinic hospital Wednesday for
broken right arm and hand LAGER
atoms received when she scciden-
tally run her arm through
wringer while washing.
Married recently in Bremerton
were Miss Geraldine kuhlmann Of
Bremerton and Huel Warren
Ghormley of Sumner.
A marriage license was recently
issued at Occur d'Alene. Ida. to
Robert J. Schweitzer, 80, Seattle,
and Barbara J. Raymond, ~, 2s0l
No Alder. Mrs. Schweitzer was
before her marriage employed as
office secretary in a Tacoma in
surance office.
Virgil c. Anderson. 4sis So. C
ST.. Is hunting moose this week in
British Columbia with Edward
Claus Of Bellinghsm. Mrs. Ander-
son and small son are styling at
the Claus home while the two men
are away.
A marriage license was issued
recently in Occur d'Alene, Ida, to
Noye A. Balmer, 81, 1908 So. Park
ave. and Pearl Buettner, 20, 4042
A ST. Balmer is the proprietor of
the Park Avenue tavern while
Mrs. Balmer is the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank \. Buettner.
|
An application for marriage
license was made recently at Bell
ingham by Jim Hamilton. %, Ia
coma. and Gil MCGEE, II, Blaine.
A marriage license was issued
recently at Occur d'Alene. Ida. to
Elwin II. SAKE. legal. and Norma
VI. jackson, legal. both of Tacoma.
Ernest Jacobson IT,, Of Tacoma.
who will be a member of the crew
of Coast Guard cutter 521 when il
is completed. recently visited with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
Jacobson of Long Beach, Wash.
Col. Paul l.. Ransom. goth Anti
Tank battalion. Fort Lewis, has
been assigned by the war depart
ment as acting chief of staff OF the
fourth motorized division. Fort
Benning. Ca.
Bob schultz. Tacoma student at
Washington State college. has
been named an assistant on the
announcing staff of kWSC, the
colleges radio station at Pullman.
He is majoring in agricultural
education.
Charles Bailie. former Tacoman.
was here Tuesday calling on old
friends
RAY y. Andre, Of Fife. has re-
ceived permission from the state
for the diversion Of S second foot
~ water from Wspsto creek for
irrigation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Moore Of
Minneapolis were on their way
south 10 Santa Rosa. Calf. Thurs
day after a weeks visit here with
Mrs. y. Y. BEDFORD OF 1907 Ea.
Slst 81. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Moore
are past 20. but drove their car
out 10 Puget Sound without mis-
hap. and after visiting relatives
and friends al Santa Rosa, plan
20 return 10 Tacoma TO make their
home here. Moore is a retired
postmsn. At Santa Rosa Mrs.
Moore viii attend q golden we'd
ding ceremony for friends whom
she attended a bridesmaid SO
years ago.
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Funeral services for Adam
Benston. -. q RI l. BOX ss4.
spanaway. who died Wednesday AZ
$50 at his home. all be held sat
urday al i.30 ?. m. from the Piper
chapel. with burial following in
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-31
Sl72,38l for Fort

A WPA allotment Of S172.ssf
for further improvements at Fort
Lewis has been approved. Con-
gresham Coffee telegraphed The
Times Thursday from Washing
ton, ID. c.
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Pioneer cemetery at Gravelly lake
Benston was among the Oldest
pioneer residents of Pierce county,
having been born Nov. %, 1886. He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02

orally speaking. however, the farm
ers tend to complain more about
consumption and the requisitioning
of food at fixed prices by the army
than about the high cost of living.
The merchant class is not badly
of. though its fortunes vary. Some
have grown fat and rich through
profiteering. The coolie class il
comparatively well of. Wages havs
multiplied with prices-and there is
plenty of work. Soldiers are having
hard time of it because their wage
is still pitiful despite increases.
However, they are always sure OF
a full rice bowl.
This is the picture as Of today.
1t is changing daily. The rice Short
age has precipitated a number Of
minor disturbances, but so far there
has been no widespread unrest as
result OF the economic dislocation.
Can it go on without bringing dis
astrouS consequences In the end2
Economists say no. The governments
says yes.
Copyright, 1871, Chicago Daily News, Incl
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Planting Allotment Reduced.

Officials said no accurate figures
were available yet on the quantity
of wheat which might be subject
to penalty if sold. There were I'M
official estimates that it might run
between 100000 and 100000, 900
bushels
Because the country has a pros
pective supply of old and new wheat
sufficient to meet its needs for ne rly
two years the department has re-
duced the 1912 planting allotment
100000 acres to the $4,000, 000-acre
minimum set up in farm legislation.
Officials expect much of this sur
plus acreage to be devoted to pro-
duction of milk. chickens, eggs, meat
animals and other products needed
by Great Britain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
Wheat Growers Vote
For u. ). Control Of
Sales Of Crops
Referendum Invokes
Rigid Marketing Quote
Provisions of 1888 Act
b the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
Growers of wheat joined producers
OF cotton and tobacco today in grant,
ing the Agriculture Department
authority to control the sales OF
their crops this year.
In Nationwide referendum
Saturday, wheat farmers voted de-
cisively for a departmental proposal
to invoke the rigid marketing quota
provisions of the 1888 Farm Act to
keep the surplus production of this
years bread grain crop OF the mar
ket until it might be needed.
Quotas on cotton and tobacco
we're approved in referenda held
last winter.
Virtually complete returns from
the wheat referendum gave 397,559
votes for and 96,223 against quotas.
This was slightly over 80 per cent,
or far in excess of the necessary
two-thirdS.
Nearby States Figures.
In Maryland 2.8l2 farmers voted
for the plan. Bill against Virginia
figures were: for. LIST; against,
63l. In only three States did more
farmers vote against the plan than
voted for it and these votes were
close. The States were New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and Ohio.
BY approving quotas, wheat farm
ers were virtually assured Govern
ment wheat loan of IS per cent of
parity-or about 81 cents bushel-
compared with last years Sc per
cent of parity or 70 cents a bushel.
The loans were contingent on ap-
proval of quotas and the availability
of funds. Legislation providing
loan funds is pending in Congress.
Under quotas, farmers will be
limited to the sale of wheat pro-
duced ON their 1941 A. A. A plant
ing allotmentS, plus any wheat from
previous crops. Grain produced on
excess acreages would be subject
to a penalty tax OF about 48 cents
a bushel unless it was stored under
bond for future use or was delivered
to the Government for relief use.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
Auto Plants Expected
To Boost Output
After Holiday
This Weeks Volume
Likely to Reach
$4,000 Mark
BY DAVID J. WILKIE,
Associated Pres, Automottv. Editor.

Associated Press Automotive Editor.
DETROIT, June 2.-The motor
car industry, facing more uncertain
ty than ever respecting production
possibilities, resumed its 10000
units-a-day output schedule today
after brief interruption because of
the Memorial Day holiday last week.
With no labor difficulties in i'm
mediate prospect the car makers
should be able to add another 1872 900
vehicles this week to the already
huge volume of production so far
during the present model year.
There appears to be growing appre-
hension, however, among the manu-
facturers and sales executives that
the newest priority regulations may
interfere seriously with the original
expectation that 194l model output
would reach 100000 units.
If present projections can be main
tanned the industry will reach the
end of June with an aggregate out
put of 4,672 90 of its 1941 model cars.
Crowded into nine months since the
start of the model year last october
/, this volume of production gives a
monthly average not previously at
tanned by the industry's assembly
plants.
Car Shortage Feared.
Despite this heavy production and
many months of unprecedented re-
tail demand. there is talk among
sales executives of possible short
age of new cars even before the new
model year with its restricted pro-
duction program gets under way a
little more than eight weeks hence.
This had led to the suggestion in
some trade quarters that the car
manufacturers may be anticipating
a cut in their supplies of raw ma
terials well in advance of the sea-
sons end. Because the manufac-
turers have not been in position to
build up a reserve" stock of metals
this, of course, automatically would
cut assemblies.
Many of the producers and mer-
chandisers believe the likelihood Of
a further curtailment of car and
truck production during the 1912
model year has grown materially in
the last week or two. At the moment
the car makers have an authorized"
maximum output for next year of
slightly more than 1900 900 units.
Further Cut Talked.
None of them, however, expects
anything like that volume to come
from the assembly lines. Even as
the adjusted" curtailment of 20.15
per cent was announced in Wash
ington a month ago, the possibility
of a further cut was given consid-
Grafton, according to manufacturing
sources here.
The "realists" among the trade
authorities say that another slash
to make a total curtailment of so
per cent from this years projected
$500 900 vehicles may be expected
before the 1912 model year is many
months old.
Car and truck output last week,
according to Wards Reports, Inc,
declined to 106, 1896 from the preced-
ing weeks 133,560 units.
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Increased Wheat Harvest
Predicted for Kansas
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Assoclated FresS.
CHICAGO. June 2.-The monthly
crop report Of the Atchison. Topeka
81 Santa Fe Railway said favorable
weather the past month increased
Kansas wheat prospects and unless
something unforeseen happens soon
the State should have crop Of
l7s.000 900 bushels.
The last Government forecast was
for 1892 900 bushels in Kansas,
compared with 123,64s 900 produced
last year.
The Santa Fe said wheat has
shown a tendency to decline in
Southeastern Kansas. also in a few
central localities, due to excessive
moisture and insects. 1t is believed,
however, these losses have been more
than offset by gains in the western
two-thirds of the State. Where, with
one or two light rains, yields may
equal that of 1881.
If favorable weather continues
Oklahoma S crop should range up to
around 65,00O,000 bushels. the roads
survey said. The last official FORE
cast was 62.384 900 bushels
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
(Fourth OF a Series.)
By A. T. STEELE.


Special Correspondent OF The Star and
Chicago Daily News.
CHUNGKING (By Clipper Gen.
Chang Kai-shek was recently quoted
as saying that China's problems are
now 10 per cent economic and 80
per cent military, and economists
agree. They contend that China's
capacity to carry on the war against
Japan for an indefinite period de-
ponds more than anything on her
ability to solve the difflcult infia-
tionary situation which has arisen
within the last year.
Coupled with this is an acute
shortage of rice-staple food of the
country-in West China. Last years
rice crop in Szechuan, most populous
province of free China. was only
81 per cent of normal. To avert
famine conditions next winter, West
China must have copious rains and
a good crop this summer. Hoarding
and profteering must be checked.
None of China's many problems
are as acute as the rice question.
If the Chinese can eat. they can go
on. Famine would perhaps be a
straw too many Fortunately, the
outlook is fair.
Record Budget Total.
Americans will find slightly
familiar ring in the revelation that
while the Chinese government will
this year spend a record total of
something like 8,0O0000.O00 Chinese
dollars (about $500 900 ,0O0) the rev.
enues from all sources will scarcely
be more than one-eighth of that
figure. That, say the economists.
means more redink bonds, more
paper currency, more initiation and
higher prices. Of all of these the
Chinese have surfeit. American
credits are big enough to deter but
not to halt inflationary tendencies,
non-government experts say.
A question widely asked is, how
long can China continue to ride her
ever growing economic SNOWFALL
without cracking? Can she keep
her seat until the end of the war.
which looks farther of than ever?
The economists. looking at the fig
ures, say that unless the Chinese
government takes prompt and
drastic corrective measures, 1t will
face a critical situation within a
few months. The officials. looking
al the condition OF the people and
the experience of bankrupt" coun-
tries in Europe, profess to believe
that catastrophe can be averted. A
few reforms are contemplated, eSpe-
cially with an eye to increasing
revenues, but not on the drastic
scale deemed necessary by foreign
experts.
Cost Of Living Jumps.
In spite Of China's growing war
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Advance Is Recorded
Bv Insurance Shares
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Gpecial Dispatch to The star
NEW YORK. June 2.-Insurance
stocks in the New York City market
closed higher for the week after
touching a new 194l low. according
to figures compiled by Holt, Rose &
Troster.
The aggregate market value of
20 leading fire and casualty in
surance issues declined to a new
low of 1881, 1885, 900 on Wednesday,
May %, but recovered to close on
Thursday, May %. at $3.50, 451 900.
This compared with S588. 231 900 at
the close of the previous week,
net gain of sl,220,000, or OIL per
cent.
The current average yield of the
20 issues is 40 per cent, compared
with yield of Ali per cent on May
%. The current market value equals
81 per cent OF the reported liquidat-
ing value, against 96 per cent at
the close of the previous week.
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U. 5. Urged 10 Help
Expand Synthetic
Rubber Output
Government Financing
Of Large Factories
Favored by Expert
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, June IAN ex-
pert urged today the publicly
financed construction of large syn
thetic rubber plants as an emergency
measure, declaring the present crude
rubber supply would last only five
months and the synthetic supply
five days if imports suddenly were
cut of.
DR.. Waldo l.. Semon, research
chemist of the B. F. Goodrich Co,
Akron, who is credited with the dis
covery of a synthetic rubber, said he
based his estimates of supply on the
present rate of consumption OF 8oo,-
900 tons yearly. Through raticning,
extension of reclamation processes
and other drastic methods, he
said, the supply might be stretched
to as much as "a months.
In an address prepared for de-
livery to group of scientists ana
businessmen, he declared:
An expenditure of 5000 1000, 600. or
less than the value of one years
supply of imported rubber, would
assure capacity to produce from
abundant natural raw materials
5000 tons of synthetic rubber per
year. If this were considered
'battleship' plan to be built for ma
tional defense and the cost amort-
lied in the present price of the
product synthetic rubber so pro-
duced could be made available for
less than the present price of natural
rubber.
without question larger synthetic
rubber plants must be built. Capac-
ity must be available so that in case
natural rubber ceases to come, syn
thetic plants can produce i'm
mediately at the rate of 100000 to
AGO. 900 tons per year. thus extending
the supply of natural rubber and
giving time for the construction OF
other plants to make up the de-
flciency."
Construction of synthetic plants
by private industry. he said, in
wolves too great a financial hazard
for these plants might remain
idle as standby emergency capacity.
For national defense we must not
consider the cost of making syn
thetic rubber, but rather the cost of
being without rubber"
DR.. Semon said the results of the
use of synthetic rubber automobile
tires in the last year had been
gratifying" and that synthetic
castings have been tested by the
Army and found satisfactory for
general military use" New uses for
the product, he said, includes bullet
sealing airplane fuel tanks and spe-
cial acid and oil resistant aviation
parts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-02
Chino's War Future RevoIves
Around InfIotionory Situation
Acute Rice Shortage Also Provides
Officials With Major Question

costs and the cutting of of nearly |
her entire customs revenue, China
managed to get through the first
three years of the war without I'M
duly alarming economic symptoms.
Up until last autumn, the rise in
wages and prices was gradual and
reasonable. Then things began hap
pening fast. Since then the cost
of living in free China has multi
piled Enthusiastically. Worst offender
was the price of rice. which stands
at from 10 to 30 times its former
level, depending on the locality.
This sounds serious, but it is less
serious when studied more closely.
The extent TO which the economic
situation will affect the staying
powers of China will depend on the
extent to which it affects the liveli-
hood and morale of the people. For
part of the population, like junior
officials, university officials, school
teachers and others on fixed salaries,
the effect is serious. The cost of
! living has far outstripped their in
comes. Though some are receiving
| rice allowances, they have been
obliged TO cut their standard Of liv-
! ing to the bareSt minimum. Certain
of my friends in government service
are suffering from malnutrition.
They are too proud or too loyal to
complain.
Many Farmers Better of.
! These people make up very small
| proportion of the whole population.
In China, more than 80 per cent
of the population lives on farms
Some farmers are in trouble, but
the great majority are as well or
better of than before the war. To
the producer the high cost of food
| is no problem Even with allowances
/ for profiteering middlemen. they are
! deriving greatly increased income
from their sales. Some are paying
off long-standing debts with de-
flated dollars. To be sure, they can
buy less in the way of cloth and
luXuries, but their needs are few. A
traveller who toured the rural areas
of Chinese province told me of
| stopping at a village to ask about
conditions.
Not bad" said the village elder.
In the old days, when we slaughter
ed hog for meat it was an event
important enough to summon the
/ populace by ringing a gong Now
so many hogs are being slaughtered
that we don't bother 10 ring the
gong"
Another Side of Picture.
! OF course. there is another side
to the picture, Farmers in the
drought districts of Szechuan have
had a very hard time of it. Gen.