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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-28
Talbot to Speak
AT Kinwonis Club

r Guy Talbot, chairman Of the
Pacific coast division Of the Com
mittee to Defend America ~ Aid
inF the Allies will be the speaker
Fl this weeks luncheon meeting
Of the Taroms Kiwanis club ~
the Hotel Winthrop Tuesday noon.
Also on the program is a baritone
solo by Everett Craven, new army
and navy Y. NJ. c. A. secretary
for the Tacoma area.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-28
FBI Enters Civil
Service Theft Case

WASHINGTON The Federal
Bureau of Investigation sought TO
determine Monday whether for
eign agents were involved in the
theft of confidential files from the
Civil Service commission.
Omen have in custody here
Harlan G. Carndall. 20 year old
civil service commission employee.
and Lawrence HAYNES. whom they
identified as an Official of an es-
Enlistment which furnishes mail
ing hsts. presumably TO private
firms seeking prospective Gus
toners.
An FIJI official said that one Sc
rious aspect Of the theft was the
fact that questionnsires filled out
by Omen were among the stolen
files.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-28
Holds First ~"
Campaign Lunch

First reports of progress in the
Y. NJ. c. A. campaign for its an
nusl budget of S2e.T5o were sub
mitted at the report luncheon
Monday noon at Hotel Winthrop.
A large percentage of the 242
workers attended the affair and
each team gave its report OF
solicitations completed to date.
Similar luncheons will be held
daily through Thursday. the final
reports TO be submitted At the
victory dinner Friday evening.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-28
Rescue Party Goes to Aid Of Three
Young Skiers Lost on Mount Hood

Sunday night and followed until
the missing skisrs we're seen
jumping u and down under = tree
10 keep warm.
The youths vers found hv
Marshall stenerson. assistant for
est ranger. HcKeen Smith. forest
guard. and Paul Livingston. mem
Der Of the Mount Hood SKI patrol.
One Of them returned 10 the sum
nit guard station. which notified
the lodge BY radio.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-28
Moiorist Made Mistake-Crowded
Prosecutor Goodwin Into Ditch

James Rooney. 22-year-old Ia
coma laborer. of Route 4. Box TIC,
who confessed he had mo idea
how much he had been drinking.
successfully cleared the Mountain
highway Mt Spanaway Saturday
night but made a mistake when
he chased Deputy Prosecutor Bill
Goodwin into the ditch.
Goodwin backed out of the ditch,
turned around and started in pur-
suit of the weaving car, noting as
he did SO that three other motor
lists had been run off the road by
Rooney. The deputy prosecutor
gave Rooney taste of the same
thing by crowding him off the
pavement jerked him out of his
car and started up the road look
ing for telephone.
When he got back after calling
the sheriff's office, State Patrol
man Z. T.. Esteb had arrived. at
the call of other drivers all along
the highway who had met Rooney.
Rooney told Justice Clarence f.
Layton he didn't even know whose
car he was In. He thought II be-
longed to Mrs. Mildred Holloway,
S5. of 670' Ea. st, who was in
the car with him. (She forfeited
bail on drunk in public place"
charge. The car belonged to her
husband)
Rooney had no bail to forfeit
He was fined $3.50 for drunken
driving and $50 more for driving
without an operators license. He
didn't have one because 1t had
been. forfeited three years ago for
drunken driving and he never had
petitioned for new one. Justice
Layton couldn't revoke his license
so extended the revocation another
year. Rooney went to Jail TO serve
out the 5000
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-28
People in.
The News

President Roosevelt began HI
seth birthday celebration sunds,
night hy making one ~ his rar'
appearances At a Washington the
alter. Accompanied BY Mrs. Roose
welt. Vice President and Mr.
Henry A. Wallace. and the Wal
lace's daughter, Jean. the president
attended q command performance
Of old Acquaintance. New
York comedy hit starring Jans
Cowi and Peggy Wood. The per.
Torrance was an infantile paraly.
sis benefit
Walter l. Fleisher. president
elect Of the American Society OF
Heating and Ventilsting Engineers,
said at Kansas City that the u. s.
must Immediately begin to consider
the safety Of Its civilians In case Of
war. and recommended the con-
struction Of above ground bomb
shelter, which could he utilized as
public garages in time Of peace
He recommended five story
structure OF steel and concrete.
with the bomb shelter on the third
floor -.
Film Actress Jean Parker and
Radio Commentator Douglas Daw-
son applied at San Diego. Calf.
for a marriage license. They plan
to wed on st. Valentines day. Miss
Parker obtained her final decree
OF divorce Friday from George Nc
Donald, New York newspaperman.
Count stephen Csaky, ~. Hun
garian foreign minister, whose
friendliness toward Germany and
Italy was regarded as having had
much to do with Hungary's adher-
ence In the axis. died at Budapest.
He had been III Of uremia for more
than a month since ne went 10
Belgrade to sign friendship treaty
with Jugoslavia. A few hours he
fore Count csaky's death Adolf
Hitler and Joachim Won Ribben-
trop, German foreign minister. had
sent best wishes for his recovery.
and the pope had sent his blessing.
Brenda Marshall and Bill Holden
OF the film colony have postponed
their marriage because of the pos
sibility the young actor may be
called into the army
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-28
One Killed When
Locomotive Rolls
Down Bank

QUINCY, Calf. - An engineer
and fireman who chung to the air
brakes even as their locomotive
plunged down a 250-foot embank-
ment In Feather river canyon were
credited Monday with saving the
lives Of so passengers on the
Western Pacific Exposition Flyer
when Il hit 4 landslide on the
tracks Sunday.
The only fatality was James f.
Cry, San Rafael. Calf. an
American Railway Express clerk
who was missing and believed
drowned In the baggage car which
rolled into the river. All passen-
ger cars stayed on the track.
The locomotive slid halfway
down the steep bank and damned
it, nose into a narrow ledge OF
broken rocks. Engineer Fred G.
Loucks and Fireman Eric c.
Hecker. who refused to jump. were
only slightly injured.
The accident occurred at 4:20
,. m. Sunday. The ten-car train,
westbound from Chicago, was
rolling down the rocky canyon IS
miles from Quincy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-28

morning at Paradise valley and
was unable TO participate in the
annual Tacoma Day slalom cham
pionships, which she won last year.
Undersheriff Clyde Knowles was
weekend steelhead fisherman
down Southwest Washington way
somewhere-Quinault or there
sbouts-but he was using reels of
film rather than reels of line. Clyde
was giving his new moving picture
camera a workout with color film.
j. Il. Feist and &. q. Jennings,
Tacoma hardware dealers. were
named to the board of directors
during the recent convention of
Western Washington and Oregon
hardware men, which was held in
Seattle.
Henry l.. Willis. sales manager
for Valleys. is being introduced
around as the newest member of
the Tacoma Kiwanis club.
X. G. Webb. trainmaster for the
Milwaukee road here, has been
promoted to assistant superintend-
ent of the railroads Rocky Noun
tain division at Lewistown. Mont.
effective Feb. l. His place here
will be taken by &. A. Nummerdor.
formerly trainmaster at Miles
City, Mont. Webb has been as
ISOLATED with the Milwaukee since
1919.
Ted kennard of $40 No. Proctor
was receiving praise Monday for
his rescue on Saturday of Will
lam Roberts of 1928 No. Cove
st. and Richard Clinton. 4101 No.
Mason st. Roberts and Clinton
were riding in a sailboat. when ii
suddenly overturned. throwing the
two boys in the water. Kennard
noticed their plight and went 10
their aid in a rowboat. The sail
boat was retrieved by coast
guard boat Sunday.
Former County Commissioner A.
A. Rankin is in Tacoma General
hospital recovering from jor
operation which he had delayed
until he turned over his chair to
his successor. Bob Gleason. Ran
kin's condition was described as
fairly good.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-28
Vents Fisheries
Problems Studied

OLYMPIA-A resolution calling
for appointment Of six-man
committee from the house and
senate 10 center with an Oregon
Legislative committee on Columbia
river fisheries problems was filed
Monday by Sen. Barney jackson.
Pierce. and Robert r. Ray. Clark
The measure called for three
members from each house to dis
cuss fish trap and other problems
Of fisheries common to both states
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-28
State Agents
Raid Again

State liquor control o,tic.,u
went calling again Sunday nigh,
IN ths third series Of raid. sinos
Tacoma bootleg liquor establish.
nents reopened at the first Of ths
year.
Sunday night they again arrest
ed Rizieri Buonaguidi. ~. proprie-
tor OF the Little Inn. at seth ana
Sales road. who was caught in thu
first raid OF the year. Jan. "a.
Neither he nor blond sherry Lyons
23-year-oid manager Of the De.
hotel, On lower Broadway. who
also vas arrested that night. has
yet gone to trial
A downtown raid Sunday night
Melted Johnny Rivers ~. OF IN.
Roma cafe. 1920 Broadway. Both
men we're freed promptly on $500
bail each.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-28
Naval Building Fire
Under Investigation

NORFOLK, WA naval board
of inquiry Monday investigated q
fire at the naval base administra-
ton building here Sunday which
did approximately $275.o0o dam
age and left the base cut off from
communication for more than five
hours.
The fire started in the radio
room at communication headqusr-
tiers. Also destroyed were a num-
Der Of official documents. decod-
ing apparatus. and naval records.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-28
Salmon CATERS Fined

Elmer Willis. unemployed Roy
timber failer. and his partner,
Clyde Flowers, also Of Roy. were
fined 500 and costs each by
Justice Clarence T. Layton Mon
day for gaffing salmon from
Murray creek 10 days ago. The
two men were arrested by Depart
ment Of Fisheries Officers Don
johnson and Lester Miller while
sorting out their fish.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-28

Also held in the county jail Mon
day under $500 bail and charged
with drunken driving. was Aaron
Overall, 2e-year-old Tacoma ship
yard worker. living at Orting, who
was arrested on the valley road
Saturday night by State Patrol
man Paul Pattison.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-28
Indo- China. Thailand
Fighting 10 Cease

II A n OIL, French 1ndo-China
Hostilities between Indo-China and
Thailand will cease at 10 a. m.
Tuesday 40 o'clock tonight EST
under an agreement to negotiate
peace with Japan as mediator. II
was announced officially Monday.
Negotiations will start at Saigon
1ndo-China, Wednesday. between
French and Thai armistice COM
nissioners with Japan taking part,
II was added.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-28
New Train Departure
Time Is Announced

Earlier departure Of train No.
as from Tacoma for south and
eastern points was announced
Monday by ]. w. Padden. general
agent here for the Union Pacific
railroad. Padden said the new
departure time will be $40 p. m.
instead Of $50 and will become ef-
1ective Sunday, Feb. 2.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-28
ACTIONS IN DIVORCE

An interlocutory decree has been
granted TO Amanda A. from
George Z. Rickwall: final DEGREES
70 Madeline NJ. from II. c. Craw-
ford. Richard from Pearl Stubs
and Sylvia V. from William
Beecher.
Divorce action was filed in su-
perior court here Monday by Roy
II. against Doy Lee Miller,
grounds cruelty.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-28
ASKS NEW TRUCK

An ordinance given first reading
Monday would authorize the water
department to trade in an old
truck on a new il. ton truck, and
would appropriate $3.50 to pay
the difference
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-28

II you're not using Il, sell II with
Fast-Action Times Want Ad.
Phone Main 1851.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-28
II + X ELS MORE ABOUT
Main Street

morning at Paradise valley and
was unable to participate in the
annual Tacoma Day slalom cham
pionships, which she won last year.
Evening star., 1941-09-04
500 Lost in Two Theffs
And Armed Robbery

More than $7O0 was lost in two
thefts and an armed robbery yes
terday and today. Mrs. Ruth Kozak
wife of a laundry proprietor, re-
ported that burglar took a green
metal box from the bedroom of her
apartment at 6420 Fourteenth street
NV, police said. This contained
about $160 in bills and $145 in
change.
Philip Schunerman of 1922 Fort
Myer drive, Arlington, lost S305 in
cash and $118 in checks from the
glove compartment of his car
parked last night on Church street
near Sixteenth street NV, accord
ing to police. The thief cut a hole
in the car roof.
A tall young white bandit, armed
with an automatic revolver, robbed
the Potomac Hotel, 1900 block of Il
street NV, early today, police re-
ported.
The youth threatened Fred Bare
field, night clerk, and escaped with
S12, according to police, who sale
that the bandit had surveyed the
lobby on the previous night.
Evening star., 1941-09-04
Commissioners Study
Report on Police Changes

A long list of recommendations
designed to improve the efficiency
of the Police Department was being
studied by the Commissioners today
at a round-table conference attended
by high police officials and legal
advisers.
The recommendations are those
contained in the report submitted
recently by the special committee
of municipal officials appointed by
the city heads.
After comforting more than two
hours, the Commissioners sent out
word that they had not taken action
on any of the proposals and probably
would not do so today. They ad-
journed the discussion at 1890 pm.
and said they would resume at pm.
They said they planned to go into
the matter thoroughly before taking
any formal action, although they had
indicated previously they favored
most of the recommendations.
Attending the conference were
Acting Police Supt. Edward J. Kelly,
Corporation Counsel Richmond B.
Keech and the three members of
the Investigating Committee, Assist
ant Engineer Commissioner Beverly
c. Snow, chairman; Budget Officer
Walter L. Fowler and Maj. James
r. LuSby, District diSburSing officer.
Evening star., 1941-09-04
D. T.. Man Killed
By Auto; Years S
Toll Goes 10 54
Fatalities Total
6 More Than Same
Period for 1910

A 49-year-old man, who was struck
this morning by an automobile op-
Grating on a wet street after this
mornings rain, today became the
Districts 54th traffic fatality of the
year.
He was later identified by his wife
as Walter w. Hook of Route No. 4
Anacostia, D. c. He was member
of a filters and joiners' union in
Baltimore. At this date in 1910, 48
persons had been killed in traffic
here.
Police listed Richard E Robey, 81,
of 522 Third street NE, as the
driver. He was going west on Ben
ming road near Minnesota avenue
when his car hit the pedestrian,
police reported. They said the man
was walking south across the road.
The accident occurred at 2:15
am and the man was pronounced
dead at Casualty Hospital within
half an hour, after taxi had rushed
him there. Shock was thought to
have been the principal cause of
death, according to police.
Cuts and bruises were suffered by
William Wolfe, 10, of 615la Park
road NV, when two cars collided
early today at Park road and
Warder street NV, police re-
ported. He was treated at Garfield
Hospital.
Three young men were slightly
injured in a skidding automobile
this morning on Adams Mill road
at Harvard street NV. Treated
at Garfield Hospital were Delto o.
Townsend, 18, of 176O Lanier place
NV; James A. Robb, 18, of 2520
Fourteenth street NV, and Charles
F. Coffin, 20, of Arlington, Va.
Young Townsend was charged at
No. 10 police precinct with driving
without a District operators per-
NIT. Police said he was driving
when the auto skidded into parked
car,
Evening star., 1941-09-04
10. f. M. Orders
ICIoser Attention
To Telephones

So many telephones are being lett
unattended in defense agency Of
fees during the lunch perlod-"ll
m. to pm."-that there is serious
interference with adequate tele-
phone service, Sidney Sherwood,
director of central administrative
services for the once for Emergency
MANAGEMENT, declared today.
In a memorandum to o. E. M.
employees, Mr.. Sherwood asked
them to-:
q. Please arrange to have some
one in attendance on your telephone
during working hours.
q. During the midday luncn
period please refrain from request
ing the operator to transfer calls TO
another number.
IS. Please do not request tele-
phone secretarial service during
regular working hours"
Mr. Sherwood explained that the
size of the o. E. M. switchboard,
which has 20 operators on duty dur
ing rush hours, makes it impossible
to give the secretarial services that
have been requested by many ern-
ployes.
Evening star., 1941-09-04

ties. Washington has gotten off
lightly.
From August "a to August 80
eight cases of poliomyelitis were
reported here. For the same period
At cases were reported in New York
City and IA in Baltimore. York
County, Pa, with population only
a fourth the size of the District re-
ported Is cases for the week end
ing August % to six in the District
and reported "a for the week end
trict.
MARYLAND has had 129 cases to
date this year. 81 of them reported
in August and 6 so far in September.
In a single week in August. when
six cases were reported in the Dis
/ trict. Alabama reported 78; Geor-
gia, IA; New York, 66; Ohio. A, and
Tennessee, 80.
Throughout the country, Public
Health Service officials say, the
rate of increase declined both last
week and the week before LAST. IT
was predicted that for the country
as a whole the number Of cases
will begin to decrease either this
week or next week.
Prevalent in Hot Chimes.
Now, here is what the public and
private physicians think of the pres
ent situation in the District:
District Health Officer George C.
Rutland, now on his vacation, point
ed out that in past years Washing
ton has always escaped major out
breaks Of pohomyelitis. Hot, dry
weather, he said, seems to be the
condition most favorable to the
disease, and Washington is notori-
ouSly humid.
A child is as safe here as any
place else" he said. Polio is found
all over the country"
One health official suggested that
| II children are at a resort on the
beach or the mountains where there
has been no outbreak Of the disease
and it is convenient for them to
remain there a while longer, it
might be a good thing to delay a
short time before bringing them
home.
Cautions Against Alarm.
The doctors agreed, however, that
there was no reason to take such
drastic action as sending children
away from Washington. AS one
doctor pointed out, the chances of
being stricken with infantile paraly-
sis here were much more remote
than the chances of injury in a $50
mile automobile trip.
A pediatrician who has been prac-
ticing here for more than 20 years
declared that I'VE haven't had an
epidemic of polio here since I've
been in practice and we haven't got
one now"
He cautioned against useless
fear" and pointed out that the sea-
son in which the disease was most
prevalent was almost over.
Several of the doctors advised
that if parents wished to take safe
guards, they might keep their chill
dren away from unnecessary contact
with crowds.
Evening star., 1941-09-04
Workman Bodily Burned
By Touching Live Wire

Seriously burned about the hands,
chest and abdomen after touching a
live wire, Adrian Taylor, 35, of
Stony Point, Va, was in serious
condition today at Emergency Hos
pital, according to police.
The accident happened yesterday
when Mr.. Taylor was unloading
poles at the Potomac Electric Power
Co. pole yard. 1t was reported.
Evening star., 1941-09-04
fun.Time Permit Given
To Radio Station WWDC

The Federal Communications
Commission yesterday granted the
application of Washington's sixth
and newest radio broadcast station,
WWDC,. owned by the Capital
Broadcasting Co., to operate on the
frequency of 1450 kilocycleS, with
$50 watts power, unlimited time.
1t also granted the license for its
booster station, designed to give
good coverage in the Northwest sec
ton of the city and the adjacent
Maryland territory.
The station has been on the air
for some months, but only for the
purpose of conducting program tests,
and to enable the commissions en-
gineers to check the new booster
system, by which the main trans
mitter is connected with the booster
by wire, rather than by radio relay.
In granting the permit, the COM
mission ignored the petition of Dyke
Cullum, one of the stockholders of
the company, to deny the license,
on the ground that the booster
transmitter was not on the site
designated in the application.
Evening star., 1941-09-04
Unemployed Blind Man
Buys Defense Bond

Declaring that he was driving a
nail in the coffin of Hitlerism, +"
Thomas Garnett, blind graduate of
Howard University, celebrated his
44th birthday anniversary today by
buying a $25 Defense Saving bond.
Mr. Garnett, who lives at All
Fourth street S.W, surprised the
bond clerk at the City Post Office
by presenting the purchase sum in
milk bottles filled with pennies.
Unemployed at present, the blind
man said that pennies were about
the biggest things he could get for
saving-but he was determined to do
his bit for national defense.
Evening star., 1941-09-04
No Cause for Fear Over Polio,
Doctors Assure Parents
ID Coses Reported in Prince Georges;
Small Increase Within District

Hundreds of mothers are calling
their doctors or the Health Depart
ment to find out just how serious
the outbreak of infantile paralysis
in Washington really is.
They are being told there is nc
cause for alarm.
Here are the facts behind that
statement:
Since the beginning of the year
there have been "a cases of in
fantile paralysis reported, "a of them
in August, five of them since the be-
ginning of this month.
The number of cases in August
is the highest Washington has ever
had but that in itself is not con-
sidered alarming for several rea-
sons.
In the first place. occurrence Of
the disease is usually spread more
equally over the four summer
months. There were no cases re-
ported here in June, only two ir
July and "A in August. Physician:
predict that by the end of summer
the number of cases will not fal
exceed the totals of other years.
In the second place, the largesi
number reported for previous Au-
gust was % cases in 1885. Since
then the population has increased
by more than 100000 people and
yet the August total for this yeal
is greater by only two cases.
14Cases in Prince Georges.
However. in Prince Georges
County, Md. IA cases have been re-
ported this year, all in July and Au-
gust. and Dr. j. M Byers. health
officer, warned parents to keep theii
children from crowds and public
places until cooler weather. DR.
Byers said there is no need as YET
to delay the opening of Prince
Georges schools, scheduled for Mon
day.
There were no poliomyelitis case:
reported in Prince Georges County
in 1899 and 1910. There were sever
cases in 1888, the previous high.
In other countries, however, tht
situation was reported much more
mild. DR.. ", L. Ellicott said there
were three cases in Montgomery
County, all of which were reported
during the past two weeks.
Only two cases had been reported
in Arlington County, Va.-one in
July and one in August-Dr. Ralph
G. Beachley, health officer, said.
In Alexandria, Va, there have
been three cases-two in July and
one in August-and a fourth suspi-
ciouS case reported in September
the health officer, DR.. w. A. Browne
said
Calls Arlington Fortunate.
DR.. Beachley said Arlington had
been fortunate" SO far this year, in
view of the dense population there
| and conditions prevalent elsewhere
Last year Arlington had five cases
of poliomyelitis and four cases were
reported in 1899, he said. The Vir-
ginia total thus far in 1941 is SO, in.
Guiding 20 cases reported in August
and nine in September.
Compared with some other locali.