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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25
Independent Service Station Men
Accuse Big Companies Of Bad faiih
Copies of Resolutions Adopted Here
Will Be Sent to Secretary Ickes

Big oil companies owning and
operating their own service sta
tions. were charged with bad faith
in their methods of compliance
with the gasoline rationing rules
of the government at meeting
of Independent service station
men under auspices of the Western
Petroleum Retailers held Monday
night in Ray c. Roberts hall. 9th
ave. and Anderson SITS.
Resolutions were adopted pro-
testing various phases of the pres
ent rules and urging their revision
particularly as to hours stations
may be open and as to the strict
ness of the rationing.
Copies of the resolutions
were being sent Tuesday to
Secretary Harold Ickes, fed
eral petroleum coordinator and
TO the Fifth district marketing
committee of the industry.
1t was charged in the resolu-
tons that the big companies by
staggering the hours their sta
lions are kept open are defeating
the purpose of the regulations. in
tended, the independents asserted,
to curtail consumption of gasoline,
to reduce costs of operating sta
tons, to conserve lighting and
eliminate unnecessary night light
ing along highways, among other
things.
Actually. by the methods adopt
ed by the big companies, there is
no curtailment of consumption of
gasoline and rationing is made a
joke. the independents asserted.
The meeting was attended
by delegations of dealers
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25
Snare Negro Again in Laws Tolls;
Hadn't Squared Last ENHANCEMENT

he owed the city s140, plus
$3.50 court costs from his
previous arrest.
Bradshaw's last arrest came
Saturday night when he was ap-
pretended together with his wife,
Marine. and another Negro, Phil
Rucker. at 1915 Fawcett ave. Both
Bradshaws were treated at Pierce
County hospital for injuries suf-
fered in a brawl All were charged
with drunkenness and disorderly
conduct.
Mrs. Bradshaw was fined $40
and costs. and Rueker drew a fine
of S25 and costs. Bradshaw went
to Jail this time; he'll serve out his
debt,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25
S32,56l Bid
Lowest for
Sitcun Ave.

A joint bid of Paine & Gullucci
and Woodwork e. Co. for $50. 561.-
SIS was the low one opened by the
Tacoma board of contracts and
awards Monday afternoon on the
widening and resurfacing of Mil
waukee way. also known as Sitcum
ave. from Ea. 18th ST. to Lincoln
ave. Albert Anderson submitted a
bid of s34 ,27675. Both were being
analysed by the city engineering
staff Tuesday
The project. financed partly by a
federal works agency grant, will
provide another route for tideflats
industrial traffic to escape from
the 18th st. bridge bottleneck.
The board called for bids Tues
day on 100000 barrels of cement
for the Nisqually power project
For use on that project it ordered
purchase Tuesday of a large bull
dozer from the Western Tractor d
Equipment Co. on bid of S4,o15.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25
WEDNESDAYS TIDES
Pacific Standard Time)
Marriage
license,

Marriage license applications
were received Tuesday by the
county auditor from the following:
William Williams Mentzer. "a,
Santa Monica. Calf. and Edith
Henry, 30, of SIT No. Yakima
ave-. Anne Joseph Carl. %, of $40
Fawcett ave. and Eleanor b.
Hayes. 30. Seattle; William Fl.
Metzger. 25. and Letha Zoe Will
liams, 81 both of p. o. Box 423;
Charles Cyrus Clapp, "a, Rt. 8,
Box 1914, and Alice Victoria
Gibson. %, of 3410 No. Union ave. /;
Alvin A. Mielke. 90, Fort Lewis,
and Alrita S. Hansen. 81, Port
Washington, Wis. John B. Eakin,
~, and Emma Raleigh. 45, both
of centralia; Marvin r. Rathsam.
IS, Tacoma. and Rosalyn Fried
lander, 26. Chicago; Orlando Butt.
%, and Catherine Schrieber, &c,
both of 1861 Broadway.
Leo Sucholas. 20, of 1911 So.
Sheridan ave, and Marlis c. War
ter. 25. of 1913 So. Sheridan ave,
William Frackenpohl. 81. Hylebos,
Wash. and Maxine Jeffries. 25. of
1884 South Tacoma way; William
Edward Wilson. 81. Seattle, and
Mary Louise Sparks, 10, Vancou-
yer. Wash. Robert d. Conlee, %,
Fort Lewis. and Roberta D. Gilpin,
20. Route 2. Box 400; William J.
Heating. 10 of gao So. 18th st,
and Lorraine A. Tauscher. 10, of
707 So. So st. Dalton r. Court
ney. %. Fort Lewis. and Gertrude
Cole, Is. Tillicum; William Fran
els Caruthers. 81, of SIT No. NJ st.
and Laura Helen Carnes, II, of
1410 9th ave.
Charles Henry Slightam. 26 and
Mavis Fern Taylor. 81, both of
Auburn; Edgar John Murnen, jr..
"a, of 3015 No. Proctor st. and
Evelyn Shaw, %, of 2506 No. Law
renee st; Newton Eugene Corn. 25,
of TAO Fawcett ave. and Dorothy
Louise Murphy, p, Boise, Idaho.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25

Edwin Bradshaw. 33 year old
Negro. was on the spot Monday.
He WAS put there by Police Judge
W. A. Richmond in the morning S
session of police court.
Booked Saturday night on
charges of drunkenness and dis
orderly conduct. Bradshaw went to
court Monday TO face the music.
The music" was hot and fast. but
not sweet.
IL developed Bradshaw WAS
arrested Feb. p. 1871, for
drunken driving. He obtained
his release on promise to
pay his fine of Sl52.50. includ-
ing court costs.
He failed to keep his promise.
A bench warrant was issued for
his arrest April "a. 1871. He came
in and brought with him an excuse
accepted by the court. The excuse
earned him his freedom His last
payment of the promised SIS per
week" was made last August. He
paid $40, leaving a balance of
S112.50.
Then Monday he WAS fined
an additional Ss5 and costs for
his latest brush with the law.
A final checking up revealed
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25
Shareholders
Efforts Baked

BOSTON An attempt by pre-
ferred shareholders of the Puget
Sound Power e. LightsCo. TO wrest
control of the company from
Engineer Public Service Co. was
baked at the annual meeting
here.
Percival f.. Jackson. attorney
for a group of stockholders own
ing 5000 shares of Puget Sound
prior preference and preferred
stock, challenged the validity of
the voting proxy of Engineers
Public Service. representing 1907
sss shares of common stock or 20
per cent of the total common
shares of Puget Sound.
Contention Denied
D. c. Barnes, vice president of
Puget Sound and president of
Engineers Public Service. acting
on advice of counsel. denied Jack
sons contention on the grounds
that it was mot supported by
facts" Jackson alleged that
Engineers Public Service. in its
management and control of Puget
Sound. had not fairly represented
the bondholders or preferred stock
holders of the operating company
that nearly $4,000. 900 in back
dividends have accumulated on
Puget Sound preferred stocks:
and that the common stock voted
by Engineers Public Service was
Of no value.
Barnes asserted that in the
dark days" of 1880 and 1881,
Engineers Public Service had put
SIP 600 900 into Puget Sound and
thereby saved that company for
the stockholders.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25
Superintendent
For Grand Mound
School Is Named

OLYMPIA - Finance Director
David E. Lockwood Tuesday ap-
pointed Miss Florence Monahan
as superintendent of the Grand
Mound state school for girls, eff
fective April Il. She replaces
Ruth Orndorff. who resigned some
months ago.
Miss Monahan. who is 81,
graduated from University of
Minnesota law school and served
as superintendent of that states
reformatory for women from 1919
to 1882 she then was for five years
superintendent of the state train
ing school for girls in Geneva. Ill,
and following this was superin-
tendent of CALIFORNIA; institution
for women at Tehachapi for two
years.
Miss Monahan recently published
a book Women in Crime" and is
now engaged in public lecturing
on the subject Delinquency
Among Women and Girls"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25
Hylebos Floodgates Case
Believed Finally at End

way turning basin on grounds that
to do so would permit salt water
from the waterway to back up
over the Cheslocks' Cd acres above
the gates.
The gate installation lies under
the old Hylebos loop roadway now
being used by contractors on the
aluminium plant construction. john
ston said his district is willing for
the contractor to keep right on
hauling the fill dirt for the plant
over this road.
The city. he said. has agreed to
remove the gates in due time to
prevent any damage to the drain
age district property should there
be any spring freshets.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25
Reduces Folsom S
Bail to $4,000

Although the prosecuting attor-
ney's office resisted, Superior
Judge +. NJ. Card declared the bail
of $4,000 set for DIR" Frederic
Folsom. alleged abortionist, as ex-
cessive. and reduced the amount TO
$4,000, during hearing Tuesday.
An attempt was being made
Tuesday to raise bail bond for
that amount so that Folsom can
obtain his liberty from the county
Jail.
Deputy Prosecutor Marshall Nc
Cormick filed an information in
superior court Tuesday charging
Folsom and Anna Milleson with
three counts of abortion and two
counts of unlawfully practicing
medicine or surgery without filing
a license as required.
Mrs. Milleson was Folsom S
nurse. IL is charged. in thriving
abortion business practiced in a
downtown office building.
Mrs. Milleson has been at liberty
under bail bond since shortly after
her arrest.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25

Maybe the Hylebos floodgate
case is closed after all. Attorney
Harry II. Johnston, representing
Pierce County Drainage district
No. % filed Tuesday an order
signed by Superior Judge F. G.
Remain dismissing an amended
suit filed last Saturday by Joseph
Chesloek and wife.
Johnston had convinced the
court that the case begun last
year had been dismissed by the
state supreme court, and could
not now be opened again.
Cheslocks sought to have the
city restrained from removing the
floodgates at the Hylebos water
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25

exhibits forming a part 81 the
city's case.
The petition reeites the city's
purpose 70 construct the hydro
electric power development. and
notes the federal approval and
license to proceed.
BIDS for construction Of the
dams and other general structures
of the power plants will be opened
BY the eity's board Of contracts
and awards next Monday.
Engineers estimated that when
the huge lake has been created.
the entire town of Alder viii be
some 40 feet under water.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25
Whetstone's Expense
In Compoiqn. S924.6l

The last major city candidate
to file his sworn statement of
campaign expenses. DR.. l. S.
MILESTONE. had his list on file
with the city clerk Tuesday. He
listed expenses of S46i.e1 in the
primary election and S462.70 in
the general. q total of 1924 81.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25

in Shanghai with bundle in his
arms. The bundle was thrown over
a wall into a school courtyard. ac-
cording to testimony reported by
the Shanghai newspapers that de-
voted considerable space to ae-
counting the somewhat lurid trial,
and was subsequently found to
contain the battered remains of
easements stepson, child of Mrs.
Helen Sebastian. estranged wife of
Easement who had previously been
married to a marine officer, the
baby's father.
Pleaded Not Guilty
Easement pleaded innocent at
his Shanghai trial before Federal
Judge Milton j Helmiek and stead
tasty contended that he had
neither murdered the baby nor dis
posed of its body.
While Easement seeks writ of
habeas corpus and freedom, ironic-
ally enough the u. S. district at
torney that prosecuted him and
Judge Helmick are now both pris-
oners-Japanese prisoners of war.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25
Free Long Distance Telephone Call
Soldier S Award for Chess Victory

There's nothing unusual about
seeing soldier in q telephone
booth: but some novelty may be
conceded TO the sight of a sergeant
placing Tree long distance call
permitted him as a prize for win
ming a chess contest.
That was the luck that befell
Sgt. Everett Atkinson of Fort
Lewis following his victory Sun
day over Caryl Grain, Tacoma
Chess club champion.
But the news about Atkinson
good fortune has spread and three
sergeants who have come out here
from the Atlantic seahoard now
are figuring on some free phone
calls home.
Part of Entertainment
It's all part of the fun for en-
listed men at the South Tacoma
USO center where Tacoma Chess
club members are helping to en-
tertain the army boys.
Grain, rs champion hereabouts.
offered to play 10 men from the
fort simultaneously. Grain beat
nine of 10 who faced him last
Sunday and while the gang
stopped. looked. but couldn't listen,
Atkinson placed his call--presum-
ably to his home town in klamath
Falls. ore.-from a glass phone
booth.
There will be another stimuli
taneous game next Sunday and
the three east coast sergeants
have written home about IL. telling
the folks to stand by for a pos
sible call.
Greatly Appreciated
Mrs. Eloise Stirling Hirt, as
sistant USO staff member, said
Tuesday the Chess club interest
is greatly appreciated by the
soldiers.
Five club members took on five
medical corps men last Sunday
but c. r. Hewitt was the only
civilian TO win, defeating Sgt
John Mason. A. A Mercer. George
P. Eaton. who is SIS years old hui
among the best: Louis Danbechei
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25

City Starts Condemnation Suits
To Acquire Land Around Alder
Neorly loo Defendants Are Nomed;
Site Will Be Power Plant Reservoir

CITY ~ Tacoma filed condemna-
ton action in superior court Tues
day to acquire title to AL land ana
rights in the vast area around the
town Of Alder which vii become
the reservoir for the xi1. 900 600
Nisquaily power project
Nearly 100 defendants are
named IN the action. many Of
them big corporations owning ex-
tensive tracts. The states land
commissioner IS one defendant
Pierce county is another
The petition occupies II type
written pages. legal size. exclusive
of various ordinances and other
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25

from Thurston and King
counties. l.. X. Bob kranse,
president of the Western
group, presided.
One of the proposed reforms
suggested was to insert the word
consecutive" in the rule permit
ting stations TO be open u hours
per day.
adopted was one directed to the
marketing committee and national
coordinator declaring the restric-
tions are being imposed without
the independent operators having
any representations, and demand
ing a voice in the affairs of their
business.
Another urged adoption of
n system of rationing on
curtailment basis; that II, on
a stamp quota basis, so that
when a person has exhausted
his stamps, he must stop
buying gasoline, until eligible
for more stamps.
The group announced plans to
go direct to the public through
the medium of newspaper adver-
Using in case the big oil COM
panies refuse to agree to more
equitable competition and COM
plianee with the spirit of the ra-
tioning regulations.
One of the charges included in
resolution was that the big oil
companies are soliciting CONNER
cial accounts. and that CONNER
cial accounts not on the prefer
rental lists be made to conform
to ration limitations the same as
service stations.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25
BUILDING PERMITS

Building permits were issued by
the city Tuesday to H. J. Schnei-
der. 1882 No Prospect, for a
s.. 500 residence at 601s Pacific
ave. and TO H. V. Overdorf. 500
Es. 18th st, for q 1900 cottage
at 62ss So. Orchard.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25
--HAPPY--
Mi;rthday
TUESDAY. MARCH "a

TUESDAY, MARCH "a
Patricia Rody, Rte. 2, Box
606, Tacoma.
Mrs. Mary Il. Warren, 6045
So. Montgomery 81.
Bernice Darden. s07 East
24th 1t.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25

and G. f. Faithful were the other
club players. losing to Sgt. At<in-
son. Sgt. Lawrence DeLisa. Sgt.
Biela and Pvt. Abraham Klein
man.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25
Arrest 3 Persons
On Liquor Counts

State liquor board officers raid
ed three speakeasies Monday night
and arrested three persons. all at
liberty Tuesday on cash bail of
$500 each.
Grace Hamilton. so, of 1909 4
Commerce St, Bobbie Griffin. AZ,
of 1921 Broadway. and Jacob
Pavlich. rs. of 52o5 South Tacoma
way. were the three accused OF
violating the Steele act.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25
Market Irregularly Higher,
More Active During Tuesday
Markets OF q
Glunce


TUESDAY
Stocks: Irregularly higher in mod
crate trading.
Bonds: Higher: rails strong.
Curb Stocks: Irregularly higher.
Cotton: Up as much as $50 a
bale.
Silver: Unchanged in New York.
Wheat: Up ] to Ia cents.
Corn: Up !. to y cent.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25
RANK TRANSACTIONS

Seattle - Clesrings S11.547 423.-
z. balances S5,091. 1875; trans
actions SIS. 4se, 10000.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25

You help yourself when you buy
u. S. Defense bonds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25

Curb sales were 5000 shares COM
pared with $4,000.
NEW YORK - New highs in
leading automobile issues and
weakness in few high-pr,ced rail
and utility stocks Tuesday fea-
tured an irregularly higher. more
active stock market.
Industrial stocks rose in the
average. Norfolk & Western broke
seven points to a new low al 153
because Of poor showing in Feb
ruary earnings. Aside from this
issue. rails were firm.
Steel shares made small gains
on the record rate of operations
for the industry. Aircrafts were
better. with Consolidated and vul-
tee at new highs for the year.
vultee's strength reflected decla-
ration Of an initial dividend of 30
cents.
Automobile shares were strong.
Chrysier reached 55a., up la. a
new high for the year. General
Motors made new 1912 top at
S5A, up y.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25
ruEspAi,s outiTATIoNs

Quotations courtesy Merrill, Lynch.
Pierce. Fenner a. Beane, Washington
Bldg. members New York Stock
ExchanRel
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States army authorities The Ia
coma Times IL not permitted to
publish any news Of current
weather conditions in the eight
western states.
Highest temperature on March
% was ~ degrees and lowest up
until a. m. March % was 35.
Sun rises at 7:03 Pacific war
time Wednesday and sets at 7:29.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25

Buy U. s. Bonds and Save,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-25
Personals

CHRONIC AILMENTS
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nervous cases 80 wears experience.
Consultations free Office O. Health
Resort care
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4o5 Rust Bldg Tacoma Main 1898
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April 18th. Save up to 1880 on
one TO four year subscription
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Tacoma Orthopedic association SUBJ
scription division.
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contracted by anyone other than
myself (Signed)
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driving TO California. 1416 So. 9th.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-22
British Retailers Forced
To Make Wartime Cuts

How war has hit Britain's retail shops
comes out in newly published figures
showing the reduction during the IL
months ending with June, 1912.
Department stores lost Is per cent Of
their space and 30 per cent Of their per-
sonnet. Cooperative stores lost and
Is per cent in each category. Multiple
shops are II per cent fewer with % per
cent less staff. Chain stores are per
cent fewer with Is per cent less staff.
These losses are due to rationing and
to the Governments policy Of concen-
tration of industry to conserve man
power and raw materials.
Regionally, business differs widely.
London's center and West End shops
showed a Is per cent decline in sales
last May, compared to similar pre-
war month. But few other sections
benefited through new trade brought by
munitions workers and troops, and
showed gains ranging from II per cent
In the Midlands to 25>per cent in Scot
land.
Concentration Of industry has released
100000 persons from retail businesses
for war work. In the past IL months,
5000, 900 square feet Of store space
have been liberated for more essential
activities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-22
Black Market Rumors Secuted
You Can't Bootleg Something You Can't Get,' Price
and Rationing Officials Point Out
By Frank I. Weller
Associated Press stad Writer,

BLACK market rumors are going beg
ging around here.
Food-rationing and price-control Of
f1cials are very vigorous about this tell
ing one and all that you can't bootleg
something you can't get"
1t seems lot of high minded folks
start right in to recall the price and
condition of prohibition liquor when
they think of coffee and meat being as
hard to get as sugar, tires and gasoline.
They catch some neighbors sailing down
more Of these items than they person.
ally require while other citizens are
quite short. They read about similar
affairs in Europe winding up in big black
markets.
Now, they reason, something is bound
to happen, considering prohibition taught
this country the easy ms and outs and
all there is to know about the black
market business of creeping up alleys
and around dark corners or coming right
out in the broad daylight to peddle con-
traband.
Dabs of This and That.
And, sure enough, little rings of dis
honest characters pop up here and there
to offer a portion or two of whatever
rationed article you want at profits any
fair minded rum runner would have shut
his eyes to ask. Illegal tires are reported
selling here at five times their original
retail price. Authorities concede that
folks in almost every community know
where they can sneak a little dab of this
and that at unlawful prices-but, say
they. 1t is not in any sense a black
market.
In the first place, these are purely local
violations quickly dealt with by the au-
thorities; they do not result from or
ganized pilfering from ships, shops,
boxcars and warehouses; there is no
secret national trade route from agent to
customer and the whole business will
bust up as soon as stores sailed away
prior to rationing peter out. .'.
In no time at all now, authorities as
sure every one-including the new-crop
bootlegger-will be hanging onto every
thing rationed to him for his own private
uses; there will be no chance whatever
for any one to get anything the law does
not allow.
They cite coffee as an example Coffee
would be prize item for bootlegging,
what with folks limited to one legal
pound every five weeks and yelling for
more. But, to get coffee hereafter, a
Government coupon or certificate for
stipulated amount must pass from the
individual to the retailer to the jobber
to the wholesaler, to the importer, to the
Government. None Of these can afford
truck with bootlegger because he will
short himself in his next ratioining an
amount equal to whatever he sells with
out getting certificate.
The real squeeze on any prospective
coffee black market Is Government
control OF every cubic foot Of ship cargo