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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-27

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-27

throughout Britain and the
BBC'. listeners repon~d with
more excitement that then
announcer.
Nhooping shouts Of The
Yanks are here.' were heard
on the street. and In bars.
II was what Britain had beer
awaiting. for II had long beer
realized that American man powel
was To be needed to crush the
axis. The notion that only Ameri'
can tools would be needed vanished
when Britain realized that II wa,
unable 10 invade the continent
even when Mt least three-fourth'
Of Hitler's Wehrmacht was strug
Cling with the Red army.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-27
Bottlenecks
In Traffic
To Be Ended
Federal Funds Are
Assured City for
Tideflots Area

Federal money to cut out traffic
pottlenecks which have been ham
pering Tacoma tideflats industrial
efficiency was assured to the city
Monday.
A wire from Congressman John
M. Coffee to The Tacoma Times
and to City Works Commissioner
A. r. Bergersen announced that
presidential approval had been
given to a s125,700 ALLEGATION for
the tideflats roads.
Altogether some $4,000 feet
Of road TO take defense indus
trial workers to their jobs, APP
proximately five miles, will be
improved or built new.
The allotment of u. s. funds
contemplstes supplying of addi-
tional city and gas tax money TO
bring total cost to S209.56l.
Five major industrial district
road projects are included.
MOST IMPORTANT
Most important. probably. in
taking the great mass of Seattle
Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. en-
ployes to and from the plant, is
inclusion of funds for extending
Alexander ave from Ia. 18th st
TO Lincoln ave. For the past sew
eral months fill dirt has been ex-
tending the road little at a time
but to complete it a large fill
must be made across mudflats
now covered by water most Of the
time.
While Alexander ave was i'm
proved recently as far as nth ST.
traffic then had to run into the
main business section by that
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Van WAGNER LOSES
SkRMSn IN COURT
Metzler Wins
Second Round
Bunco Suspect 10
Appsol Ruling

OKLAHOMA CITY psssriss
Judge Clarence Mills Monday over.
ruled = writ u hab<ss carpus for
John Francis Gilmore alias John
n. Van Wagner seeking 70 avoid
sstraditlon 70 the state II Wash.
lngtoa.
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Jsue~ nsssets spp~~s~a fss
ssi.sese. They isalesteS th~y
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criminal esust ~ spp~s1~.
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Tuesday "a fila their appeal
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der fslse pfstsnses a sum IN -.
cess ~ $40
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IN latest.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-27
First American
Forces in Europe
During This War

WASHINGTON - Secretary Of
War Henry L. Stimson announced
Monday that L. s. army troops
under command Of Mai. Gen. Rus
sell r. Hsrtle have landed in
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-27

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-27
Nips Effect
New Landing
In Solonnons
Australia Pluns
Practice Blockout
As Precoution
BY BRyDoN TAyEs
United Press Writer

MELBOURNE. Australia Ten
thousand japanese troops have
been landed at Rabaul. In the Bis
marck islands, and the Japanese
have effected a new landing IN
the Buka passage At the north
end Of the solomons. the govern
ment reported Monday.
The powerful japanese
force now concentrated At
Rsbaul, 800 miles northeast of
Australia, was landed from \
I7-ship invasion fleet.
In addition the japanese bad
invasion forces at ksvieng. IN New
Ireland island near Rabaul: at
Kieta IN the Solomon Islands and
In the island-dotted Buka passage
This passage. At the northwest
end Of the Solomons. Is a step
ping stone between the solomons
and New Ireland. IN the Bis
marcks II separates Bougain-
FAlt'f eA HAA'H Et'ta - ne RAt4s
town. and Buka island. only i23
miles from New Ireland.
OTHER LANDINGS FEARED
II was feared here the japanese
had succeeded in landing troops
at Isolated spots in New Guinea.
A government statement said
civilians had been evacuated from
Madang. on the sasg coast Of New
Guinea. and from Tulsgi island
in the solomons. weWak. In
northeast New Guinea. vas
bombed Monday.
A fest blaekout Was ar
ranged for the entire eastern
coast Of Australia. In "a
pectation Of japanese air raids
on the continent. and = for
NAL blaekout WAS expeet1d
soon.
II was announced the govern
msnt intended 10 register every
male up 20 the age - 90 for
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BULLETIN

A NORTH IRELAND PORT
The first American soldisr
ashore Monday In the new AEF
was Pvt. First Class NIilburn
Henke of Hutchinson, MINI.
whose father was born In Ger
many.
A NORTH IRELAND PORT
The first contingent of several
thousand men of the new AEF
arrived in Northern Ireland Mon
day and was hailed officially as
part of a worldwide United Ma
tons campaign to smash the
dictator powers.
The American troops were
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with heavy bombs on two Jzps-
nese cruisers and a transport off
lConllnusd o. Page 2. Column q
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-27

You help yourself wnen you buy
Y. S. Defense Bonds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-27
School Blaze Prebsd

wArAf0. Wash. Police and
shsriffs officers Monday senxn'
ps,.<ibis evidences n lnesndisfls<H
In FIRE which dsstreysd = Jzps.
nss~ language s<ho<4 evsF th<
sees ed.
Evening star., 1942-10-13
Mans|aughter Count
Brings $325 Fine in
HyattsviNe Court
Driver Is Acquitted Of
Other Death Resulting
From Auto Collision

Charles E. Schulters. %, of Lyons,
N. Y, was sentenced in Hyattsville
Police Court yesterday to pay fines
totaling 1925 in connection with the
traffic deaths of two persons Sep
tember Is at Laurel.
The victims were John Pape, So,
retired Army sergeant, of Laurel
and Mrs. Ethel Bowie, 81, of An
napolis Junction.
According to Maryland State
Trooper Edward r. Mettee, a trailer
truck driven by Schulters collided
with Mr.. Pape's car when both tried
to pass the intersection of Main
street and the Baltimore boulevard
as the traffic light was changing.
The force of the crash sent both
vehicles careening over the curb,
striking Mrs. Bowie, a pedestrian,
and then blowing into the side of
the Laurel Pharmacy.
Schulters was fined 5000 by Trial
Magistrate Walter L. Green on a
charge of manslaughter, $10O for
reckless driving and $25 for passing
a read light. He was acquitted of
another manslaughter charge in
Mrs. Bowie's death.
He was convicted under a recent
State law, which makes a man.
slaughter charge growing out of an
automobile accident a misdemeanor
rather than a felony and provides
for trial before a magistrate instead
of in Circuit Court.
Evening star., 1942-10-13
Two Wives Face
Man, 70, Married
In Alexandra
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Oct. 13. - Philip
Handel, tall, blond, handsome and
%, apparently just can't help pitch
ing WOO in all directions.
While faced in Brooklyn Felony
Court yesterday with two gives,
Magistrate Charles Solomon showed
him what police said was love
contract" binding still another
woman to him.
Don't you think it was unusual
to draw up a love contract when
you already had two wives, with two
children by one?" asked the magis-
trate sternly.
Whats so unusual about falling
in love?" Handel reported.
He was before the court on a
charge of being a fugitive. New
York police placed the charge on
the assumption that Virginia au-
thorities would wish to prosecute
him for bigamy.
Police said Handel married his
second wife, Shirley, in Alexan-
dria, Va, while still married to his
first wife, Lillian.
Magistrate Solomon held him in
$4,000 bail.
Alexandria police said they would
confer today with commemorative
Attorney Albert E. Bryan regard
ing possible charges against Handel
Evening star., 1942-10-13
Virginia State Agents
Ruled Immune 10 Suit
BY the Associated Press,

RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 13.-Em-
ployes or agents of the State of Vir-
ginia enjoy the same immunity from
suit as the State while acting within
the scope of their employment, the
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
ruled yesterday in the first opinion
it had ever been called upon to make
on this question.
The case was brought to the ap-
pellate court by John G. Sayers,
Smyth County farmer, whose suit
for $4,000 against two employees of
the State Commission of Game and
Inland Fisheries had been dismissed
by the Smyth Circuit Court.
Mr.. Sayers contended that dyna-
hitting of rock on State property
near his farm by G. w. Butler and
Dixie Shumate caused his spring to
60 dry. The two commission en-
ployes were making a ditch in which
to lay pipe line to a fish hatchery
and the blasting was done across a
road from Mr.. Sayers' spring.
The opinion of the court, written
by Justice Herbert B. Gregory, stated
that the States right to lay pipe
line on its own property could no
more be questioned than the right
of the State to construct q highway
upon land acquired for that purpose.
Evening star., 1942-10-13
Houses in GreenbeIt
Being Filled,
Town Official Says
Assistont Manager
Denies There Is Any
Surplus Of Homes

Tenants for approximately half
of the 704 new houses turned over
to the town of Greenbelt about two
weeks ago have been assigned and
applications for the others are be-
ing approved daily, Arthur L. Rys-
ticken, assistant town manager,
announced today.
The houses were built by the
Public Housing Authority last
spring and summer.
Declaring that there is certainly
no surplus of housing facilities in
Greenbelt," Mr.. Rysticken said
there is a waiting list for 148 one
bedroom homes.
Admission to the units is open to
civilian personnel of the War and
Navy Departments and the Mari
time Commission. he said, as well
as to Army and Navy enlisted per-
sonnel and commissioned off,
GERS and defense workers in Gov
ernment-operated plants making
less than $4,000 a year.
While admitting many applicants
for the newly completed homes had
obtained quarters elsewhere, Mr..
Rysticken declared, 1--WE can fill all
these homes and 1000 more
He also denied the War Produc-
ton Board has approved use of ma
terials for new recreation and shop
ping centers while turning down a
request for a new elementary school
and an addition to the high school
"It is true that we have been un-
able to obtain priorities for the
school projects" he said, "but we
definitely have not applied for a new
recreation or shopping center"
Evening star., 1942-10-13
Prince Georges Electric Lines
Garry OCD Radio Messages
Three Experts Perfect System to Send
And Receive Speech Through Cables

A means of communication over
electric power lines which allows
radio hams" to continue function
ing, although they have been or
dered off the air for the duration
has been perfected by three Prince
Georges County men and will be
used to assist needed communica-
tions by units of Maryland civilian
defense workers.
Thomas F. McNulty, chief OF the
war emergency radio service Of the
Maryland Council of Defense, said
that two sending stations in the
system, perfected by Perry E.
Wightman of Hyattsville with the
aid of Harry Lyon, also of Hyatts-
vile, and Carl Stello Of Beltsville,
are now in operation at Hyattsville
and Mount Rainier. Eventually
seven transmitting stations will be
hooked to the county wide network,
he said. and it is hoped to place
receiving sets in the homes of all
air raid wardens to receive instruc-
tions and general information Only
persons connected with civilian de-
fense are authorized to operate sets.
Experiments Eight Years.
Mr.. Wightman who is q radio
engineer. said he had been work.
ing on the idea of sending mes
sages over power lines since 1894
when he first started developing the
system for its commercial possi-
bilities."
When the war came along" he
said, the system became valuable
in home defense due to the fact that
radio amateurs, banned from the
air waves, now may send messages
over power lines relieving crowded
communication channels and en-
abling vital defense information to
get through"
Mr.. Wightman said he was as
sisted In rerfecting the system by
Mr.. Lyon, another radio engineer,
and Mr.. Stello, an amateur. He said
the three worked night and day In
order to get the network into opera
tion In order to serve the needs Of
Evening star., 1942-10-13
Benjomin F. Stephens
Dies at Virginia Home

Benjamin Franklin Stephens, 88,
lifelong Virginia farmer, died yes
terday at his home near Manas-
sas, Va.
Born near Fredericksburg, Mr..
Stephens was a witness to the
Battle of the Wilderness during the
Civil War, and upon two occasions
lived within the Union picket lines.
He moved to Prince William
County in 1895, where he married
the former Miss Grace Carrico.
He is survived by his widow, two
daughters, Mrs. Sargent C. Elliott
and Mrs. William Kane of Wash
ington: eight sons, Alvin, Roy,
6trother. Robert, Jesse and Hunter
Stephens, all of Washington, Wal
ter Stephens of the United States
Coast Guard, and Gordon Stephens
of Manassas: a brother. Marshall
Stephens of Manassas; a sister, Mrs
Annie Foster of Midland, Va, and
four grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 2
pm. tomorrow at the Baker funeral
home at Manassas, with burial in
Manassas Cemetery.
Evening star., 1942-10-13
Government Workers
Living in Maryland
Contest State Tax
Appeal From Decisions
UphoIdine Income Levy on
Out-of-S f-Stote Employees
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Oct. 13.-The
question of whether out-of- State
employees residing in Maryland are
subject to the State income tax and
whether income can be taxed only
for the portion of the calendar year
that the taxpayer resided in Mary
land came before the State Court of
Appeals today.
Four Government employees whose
homes are in Montgomery County
planned an appeal from decisions
handed down by the county circuit
court, holding the State had the
right to tax out-of-State employees
residing in Maryland. All four work
in Washington.
To Contest Another Ruling.
Controller J. Millard Tawes
scheduled an appeal from another
Montgomery Circuit Court ruling
that the income could be taxed only
for the part of the calendar year
that the taxpayer lived in Mary
land
Henry c. Wood has taken an ap-
peal from the circuit court order
which he said affirmed in part a
State Tax Commission decision ap-
proving an assessment of income
tax made by the controller for the
calendar year 1889. Mr.. Woods
case was one of four chosen last
March from about 80 appeals by
Government employees living in the
county.
Circuit Judge Charles w. Wood
wards decision upheld the controller
in all but one instance, Deputy At
torney General Hall Hammond said,
and this ruling that out-of State
income earned before March %, 1899.
could not be taxed was the reason
for the States appeal
Called Discriminatory.
Mr.. Wood and 10 v. Morgan
claimed that because MARYLAND
public officers were exempted from
the 1899 tax, the levy was discrimi-
natory against them.
In another case. j. H. Lewis, Mich
igan National Guard officer, con-
tended he could not become subject
to the Maryland tax law because
he was an Army officer ordered to
duty in Washington.
The fourth appeal, by Alexander
Tucker, attorney in the Department
of Justice. was based on the argu-
ment that Mr.. Tucker was not a
resident OF Maryland but that his
home was in New Jersey.
Evening star., 1942-10-13
7. R. kckeIdin 10 Speak
In Prince GEORGES County

Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin of
Baltimore, Republican candidate for
governor, will make his first and,
1t is believed, his only campaign
appearance in Prince Georges
County tomorrow.
Accompanied by Horace P. Whit
worth, Republican candidate for at
torney general, and Galen L. TAFT,
chairman of the Republican State
Central Committee, Mr.. McKeldin
will be met at noon at Laurel by
a group of county Republican lead
ers headed by William A. Duvan,
county chairman of the State Gen.
trail Committee.
After stopping briefly at Glenn
Dale, Bowie and Croome, the party
will go to Upper Marlboro where
Mr.. McKeldin is scheduled to speak
at 3 pm.
At 6:15 pm. Mr.. McKeldin and
his party will be guests of Mr.. Duvall
at dinner meeting of the Prince
Georges County Rotary Club at the
University Club.
The tour will be climaxed by a
rally at 8 pm. at the Hyattsville
Armory.
Evening star., 1942-10-13
Bethesda PIT. A. to Hear
G. W. u. Professor

DR.. B. H. Jarman, director of in
struction for secondary schools in
Arlington County, will discuss i'm
provements in the Maryland public
schools during the last decade at
the first fall meeting of the Bethesda
Elementary School Parent-Teacher
Association at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow.
The group will meet In the school.
DR.. Jarman is also assistant profess
sor of education at George WASH
ington University.
Evening star., 1942-10-13
Service Recreation Group
Formed at Silver Sprinq

Permanent organization of group
to provide recreational facilities for
servicemen at Silver Spring was
voted at meeting of civic leaders
last night at Montgomery Blair
Senior High School.
Action followed the report of a
special committee appointed re-
mently to survey need for facilities
of this type in the area.
Lee H. Robinson was elected pres
ident; Byron Sedgwick, vice presi-
dent; Mrs. John F. Victory, secre-
tary, and Fred Lutes, treasurer. The
officers will elect seven members
from local organizations to work
with them as a board of directors.
The initial step in the new or
ganizations program will stress
home hospitality. An immediate
drive will be made to have residents
open their homes to servicemen over
the week ends.
Members of the Survey Committee
were w. H. Arbaugh, William c.
Connolly, Shirley Workman, Mr.
Sedgwick and Mrs. C. w. Mitchell
The new organization has not yet
chosen a name.
Evening star., 1942-10-13
Police Probe Reports
OF Taxicab Service 10
Nearby Gaming House
Proof Could Bring Loss
Of Drivers Cos Cords,
Operating Licenses

Washington police today were in
vestigating reports of an alleged
taxicab ferry service" to a gam
bling house in Prince Georges
County to determine whether there
is any basis for police action against
the drivers.
The Public Utilities Commission
made preliminary examination of
the facts and allegations yesterday.
1t then authorized it's chairman.
James H. Flanagan, to announce
that no PUG investigation would be
made, after Corporation Counsel
Richmond B. Keech advised that
the commission lacked jurisdiction.
Maj. Edward j. Kelly, superintend-
ent of police, announced last night
that Sergt. Joseph Harrington of
the hack inspectors Office already
had begun to inquire into reports
of the ferry service" and was in
tervieWing cab drivers said to be
involved.
Took Party to Tavern.
Sergt. Harrington has talked with
one driver who took passengers from
the District to a Prince Georges
County tavern, Maj. Kelly said, but
was told by the hacker that he
was not in the employ of the tavern
and had been paid by his passengers
Might Revoke Licenses.
Mr. Keech said it might be possible
to revoke hackers permit If it was
proved that he had been taking pas
sengers to gambling establishment
on a charter basis and thus had
been actively involved in the illegal
operation. Questions of revocation
or suspension of a hackers permit
go to the Board OF Revocation and
Review, from which there is an ap-
peal to the Commissioners.
Applicants for cab licenses must
agree to abide by uniform zone and
rate rulings Of the PUG, but their
licenses are issued by the superin-
tendent of licenses and their char
acter permits by the Police Depart.
ment. A license could be revoked
on character grounds, If co-opera.
ton with any illegal project was
proved.
Evening star., 1942-10-13
80 More Men Enlisted
In Alexandria Auxiliary

Thirty applicants have signed up
for Alexandria's auxiliary police
force, according to Capt. Edgar
Sims. who announced today that
training course for the men will
start this week.
The 28-hour course will be under
the direction of 1t. Russell Hawes
OF the Alexandria Detective Bureau.
assisted by members of the police
and fire departments.
Addition of these men to the aux
iliary force will bring the total to
more than 200. The present auxil-
iary force is composed of only 18o
men, many having resigned to 90
into the armed forces or moved
away from the city.
Evening star., 1942-10-13
Civic Unit Fails
Too. K. Charter
Board Slate
Montgomery Group
Kills Resolution
Of Approval

The Montgomery County (Md.)
Civic Federation today was still Of
nc1ally neutral in the contest for
posts on proposed county charter
board. having refused to take action
on a motion indorsing the Charter
Committees nominees to the board.
The resolution, presented at last
nights meeting by DR.. w. M.
Gamble, urged that the federation
recommend to county voters the five
nominees of the Charter Committee.
After DR.. Gamble had requested
emergency action on his motion the
matter was referred to the Advisory
Committee, which found that no
emergency existed. The resolution
then was referred to the joint Ex-
ecutive and Advisory Committee.
In sustaining the action of the
Advisory Committee, the federation
in effect killed the resolution, since
the next regular meeting of the Or
ganization will be held after the
general election November 3, at
which county voters will name a
charter board.
-Four new citizens associations
were accepted as members of the
Federation. They are the Parkside
Citizens Association, Sligo-Grand-
view Community Association, Clifton
Park Civic Association and Locust
Hills Estates Citizens Association.
DR.. F.. l.. LeWton, chairman of the
Social Welfare Committee, reported
on the community war fund drive
and presented film prepared by
the Community Chest. Circuit
Judge Stedman Prescott is chairman
OF the drive in Montgomery County.
Other reports were given by w. H.
McLennoh, member of the Legis-
lation and Legal Action Committee,
who discussed seven proposed
amendments to the Maryland con-
stitution to be placed on the ballot
at the general election, and Samuel
E. Stonebreaker, chairman of the
Public Utilities Committee.
Richard H. Akers, vice president
of the Federation, presided over the
meeting, held at the Bethesda Ele-
mentary School, in the absence of
Joseph B. Matre, president, who
is Ill.