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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-14
Johnston Wants
Judge Layton to
Name Big Boss"

Continued From Page one)
eggers FOR their time spent /,
Jail while serving out the sen
fences imposed by him gIayton)
who IL the Big Boss. L.
Ne 30 big that hi. name can
only he whispered hut never
mentioned out Loud. Il this
Big Boss 50 big that he has
the entire city buffalced.
And where is his headquarter.
from whence at night goes forth
the drunken drivers to MAIN and
kill? The justice says there i.
such q place. Why should hs
scruple to let us know where it is ;
And II IL is what he saws il
u, why has II not been absted :"
Johnston queried.
rs this the Big Boss who fur
nishes the campaign money for
the successful city and county
candidates" Johnston hazarded.
"Come, Mr.. Justice. give ms
his name. Smoke him out. 80
that we may knew who u h
who controls the destiny Of
this City of Destiny"
The county VS.. city battle start
I'd last Monday when Police Judge
w. A. R mon d commented
caustically from his bench that
the state liquor board agents take
all their cases to the justice courts
at the courthouse, adding that the
bootleggers received only fines
there, never Jail sentences.
Justice Layton of the courthouse,
IN whose court most of the boot
logger cases are tried, said in a
statement Thursday that the stiff
fines he has imposed on liquor
violators have caused consterna-
ton in the underworld. He said
the fines are SO large that. in
many cases, the bootleggers can
not pay them and, thus, serve
them out in jail. Justice Layton
also said the big boss Of Tacoma's
underworld had found it too ex-
pensive to keep on paying heavy
fines assessed by this court"
In still another statement,
Claude Ravens, state liquor
board inspector. charged that
bootlegger cases were not
taken to the city police court
because the court had been too
lenlent.
Judge Richmond. in his Monday
sxpostulation from the bench, had
charged the state had taken the
cases TO the county courts because
he (Richmond) had threatened to
give jail sentences instead of fines.
And in reply to Ravens state
ment, Judge Richmond said his
tHsvens) hot and quick reply
does not deny my charge"
There matters stood Thursday.
And now, Friday, comes John
ston with a new angle: who
h the Big Boss?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-14
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29
Where Hospitality Is HiQh.hat

invest in an expanding country.
In desperation the city fathers tried
one scheme after another to improve
their social and economic lot. But
nothing much happened until one
bright citizen. remembering the old
slogan clothes make the man" con-
ceived the notion of giving the place
an air of prosperity by a very simple
stunt
He got the harassed merchants and
professional men Of the community to
dress up in their Sunday best, includ-
ing the high hats which were marks Of
prosperity and social standing in those
days. and parade leisurely back and
forth on the town wharf whenever a
steamer hove in sight.
The trick worked. Passengers began
10 feel that things must be pretty.
good in Lacrosse or its gentry would
not be behaving like that. Business
picked up and Lacrosse in manner
Of speaking high-hatted its way out
of the depression OF 1873
From that day TO this the town has
kept up an organization known as the
Lacrosse Plugs, and it has found that
hospitality can be high-hat-if 1T Is
ample and from the heart.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

kind, is stocked with everything from
soup to nuts
Another part of the city hall
houses diminutive postoffice that
serves the ranchers, and Billys living
quarters. The other buildings in the
town act as storehouses.
The ranchers aren't Billy's only
customers, though, for the 137-mile
highway that sweeps through Mill
cans aCre-wide city limits connects
central Oregon's two principal towns,
Bend and Burns. It's a rare motorist
who doesn't stop off for a visit with
the sage of Millican.
Consequently although his nearest
neighbor lives more than n mile away.
the 69-year-old Billy isn't troubled
with loneliness and he has had only
two really exciting experiences in
his one-man town. Both were holdups.
The police department under Chief Of
Police Rain handled the situations
with admirable speed and dispatch in
each instance.
One moonless night pair of young
bandits strolled into the postoffice
and pointed pistol at Billy with the
usual demand
He just looked them over and said
You can't do that
With that he calmly reached across
the counter and took the gun away
from the flabbergasted young hold
up Later the town sold it for $25
In the second holdup the town
came out even. The bandit didn't get
a thing, and neither did Millican.
Those were the only times the
police department has been called
into action, but the mayor and the
council also have had two mo-
mentous decisions to make-besides
Vulnerable minor ordinances and
both were effected with no opposi-
ton, Billy says
The first came several years ago
when the State Strengthened the
Bend-Bums highway from its SER
pentine pioneer course to a modern
straight-away road The new road
The Walls OF the "City Hall" Are
Plastered With Pictorial Odds and
Ends That Strike the MAYORS
Fancy-but They Have No Politi-
cal Posters Because His Honor"
Is the Entire Electorate and Has
No One 10 Vote for hut Himself.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

the fourth mans corner of the cat that started the
fire and that he should pay all the damages involved
in the case.
The slant-eyed Judge listened TO this seeming
logic and ruled against the three ltgants in favor
of the remaining member of the quartet who sat
dumbly through the trial unable to present
counter-argument
The Judge, who must have had touch of Solo
mons celebrated wisdom in him, sagely announced
that it was the three good legs the cat which
had carried him through the warehouse and that
the fourth bandaged foot had contributed nothing
to the felines fiery progress. Therefore the owner
Of the bad leg exonerated and the other three
partners ordered to foot the bill. 49,
But in China many court decision in a civil
case is not carried out until the losing party sgni
flies his acceptance of il for to the Chinese il would
be contrary to natural law to compulsion on
free mind. The three men retired 10 think it over.
The logic Of the judge evidently convinced them,
for they came back and paid up.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

NN/1RY, grizzled w. A. Billy"
-Rahn-lipes alone and gets
a great kick out of being
the one resident of Millican, Oregon
Americas most venerable and prob
ably its only organized one-man town
Billy has been not only the lone
inhahitant of Milhcan for 81 years
but also (a) mayor (b) chief of
police (c) chief of the Millican fire
department Id town treasurer (e)
postmaster tf) municipal dog catcher
( superintendent of the municipal
water bureau and th1 president of
the Millican chamber of commerce.
Those are Billy's Official titles as
town boss. He is also Millican's
leading merchant, No. Il business
man, and chief crackerbox humorist.
Back in May 1920. Billy moved in,
bought Millican's only mercantile
establishment. inherited the post
masters job, and set himself up as
sole resident. He promptly elected
himself mayor and at a brief meet
ing of the city council appointed
himself to the other offices
Since that time not one other per-
son has spent so much as a night
within the city limits of Millican.
Billy is firmly convinced that this
is record no other town in the ma
ton can touch. Just to make sure,
during the past winter, he sat down
with an atlas and diligently picked
over all the one-man towns in the
country
He found only eight that boasted
postoffices and hence could be off
cially classed as a city" He wrote
TO his fellow postmasters in those
eight towns, and found in every in
stance but one that there were other
people living in them.
In that one instance, Billy learned.
1t was a town in South Dakota-his
fellow postmaster had held the Job for
less than nine years And TO top it
off, that town didn't boast so much
as municipal dog catcher.
Millican squats, a sun-battered
cluster Of a half dozen buildings on
the edge OF central Oregon's major
east-west highway. The city hall is
Billy's store, the chief meeting place
for the ranchers of the central
Oregon high plateau who find il
their chief source of supply, for the
store, like the good oldfashioned
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29
China'S Queerest Court Case

FROM the Occidental point of view, the Chinese
do a great many things backwards. With them
white is the color for mourning. and it is a boor
ish and unappreciative guest who does not belch
after good meal. In the face of famine a China
will put dishes Of tender chicken the graves
Of his departed ancestors.
In many ways what some people call Chinese
Justice is just AS topsy-turvy The rulings of many
an Oriental magistrate made with little regard
for the rules Of Jurisprudence they under
stood in Europe and America.
Not long ago judge in Annoy, China faced
with difficult legal puzzle which he solved in
typical Oriental way.
II seems that warehouse filled with bales of
cotton was burned down because cat with an
o-soaked bandage on its left front paw ran through
the warehouse after mouse and knocked over a
lantern which set the place attire.
IL also seems that the cat was the Joint property
Of four Cinnamon each Of whom. believe it or not,
owned quarter of the cat including leg The
owners of the three good legs contended that 1t
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

.H%EEN students Of the American
IL Scene tell us that the United
~ States is getting more democra-
tic all the time and that it no longer
behooves a man because he is well
heeled to put on the dog" Yet there
is one community in this country
Lacrosse, Wisconsin, to be specific
that has been high-hab with visitors
since 1878 and is still that way.
There is in this town an organization
called the Lacrosse Plugs, citizens who
get all duked up with silk toppers
whenever a celebrity comes TO town,
when convention is staged in the
community and on the years big holi-
days. They look as prosperous as those
often-lampooned Captains Of Industry
who are not supposed TO give much
thought to the "shrunken bellies Of
the underprivileged.
But the high-hatted gentlemen Of
Lacrosse are not like that at all They
are only keeping up an old American
custom which originated in their BALI
wick 6S years ago and in a very
strange way.
II seems that deep depression hit
Lacrosse back in 1873 so that the pas
senger steamers putting up and down
the Mississippi began to avoid the
place. The town had a down-at-the-
mouth appearance which discouraged
visitors and gentlemen with money to
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

passed a half-mile north of Millican
The project would have left MILL
can definitely in the backwoods,"
Mayor Rain observed. Hence after
consulting with the town council and
the treasurer we agreed to move the
entire town up to the new highway"
The only thing that couldn't be
moved was Millican's municipal
water works. AS result the chief
of the water bureau goes out to get
The days supply at the old well
The other decision that faced the
town was when road workers pc
titioned to bunk in couple Of Milf
cans storage cabins. That problem
was settled in short order, too, and
the status Of the city remained UNI
changed when Mayor Rain officially
moved the city limits so that the
cabins stood just outside of town.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

The Judge Ruled That the Three
Men Who Owned the Cats Three
Good Legs Were Responsible for
the Fire That Burned Down a
Barn Full of Cotton Bales.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

Mr.. RAIN Starts the Day
by Turning on the Pump
That Provides the One
man Town With It's Water Supply.
photos by " II Jorgensen. JrD
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

AV/1RY, grizzled w. A. Billy"
w RAIN lives alone and gets
w great kick ont of being
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

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Evening star., 1942-09-25
Births Reported

James and Nellie Allen, girl.
Louis and Dora Baker, boy.
Maurice and Esteiie Crenshaw, boy.
William and Lillian Davis. boy.
Stephen and versie Dudd. boy.
Ernest "a and q. Lena Ter Pahlfsdes, adl.. boy
Prank and Clare Grimm, boy
Cornelius and Cinda Hampton, boy.
Joseph and Audrey Jones, girl.
Max and Michalina. Libmsn, boy.
william and Nancy Lynch, boy.
Joseph and Gwendolyn Mereno, boy.
wendell and Mary Marsan, girl;
Edv.rd and Mary Mcdaniel. sirl.
Gasriss ana and 5ssa Ehsi s.ssr,as siss hoy boz,
william and Alice Pisman. girl.
Norman and Lillian Ritz, girl.
sidney and Sylvia Schacter. girl.
Roswell and Mary Smith, girl.
Charles and MaTsaret Starr. boy.
Phillip and Marit Thorson girl.
Thomas and Marie Atohi. boy.
walter and Eleanor Brumbaugh. boy.
charleS and Catherine Coakley, girl.
deofSe and Marcia Daddy, boy.
Aaron and Sybil Dinabure, boy.
Joseph and Anita Einstein, girl.
EArion and Marsie. Fisher, boy;
Robert and Ruth Haas, girl.
Perry and Jane Hay. girl
Robert and Maresita Kuhn. boy.
walter and Helen lock, boy.
Russell and Helen Long, girl.
Thaddeus and Ada Martin, boy.
George and Florence Miller, girl.
Alexander and Emily Norm, girl.
walter and Anne Michele. boy.
Lewis and Winifred Pensmith, boy.
Bernard and Kathryn Pickett. girl.
Robert and Emma Powell. boy.
David and Margaret Salladay, boy,
Isadore and Dorathea Shinberg, boy.
Philip and Almyrs Smith. boy,
Marion and Violet Srebro, boy.
Robert and Evelyn Terrett, girl.
Barnard and Helen Welsh. girl.
Le Roy and Edith Bryant, boy.
Edward and Marguerite Gerald, boy.
Albert and Helen Quarles, girl.
John and Bessie Virgins. girl.
otorwest and Georgia F1ournoy, boy.
Joseph and Grace Mackell. girl.
Howard and Florence Smith, girl.
Evening star., 1942-09-25
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Evening star., 1942-09-25
Army's Biggest Job
Is 10 DecentraIize
Command, Lear Says
Qualities of Leadership
Must Be Developed in
Ronks, He Asserts

BY the Associated Press.
WITH SECOND ARMY, SOME
WHERE IN TENNESSEE, Sept. IS.
The biggest job the Army now
has Is decentralizing command re-
sponsibility, 1t. Gen. Ben Lear, COM
mander of the I'd Army, declared
today in an interview.
Discussing maneuvers in which
units of the I'd Army are engaged
in Middle Tennessee, Gen. Lear said
I'VE must centralize control, but
decentralize execution"
Future Officer Material.
Gen. Lear added that in maneu-
vers and the training of troops in
general the responsibility OF leaders
down through corporals and SER
geants was being stressed He ex-
planned, the Importance Of develop
ing qualities of leadership IN nom
commissioned officers was made
more important by the fact so many
Of them are future commissioned
oficer material.
Second Army divisions have been
stripped again and again, Gen. Lear
declared, to furnish experienced per-
sonnel for other units going into
action, and at the same time hun
dreds Of men from the ranks have
zone to officer candidate schools.
Complicated Problem.
This has complicated the problem
Of training divisions participating in
the current Observation-Disclosures
which are old in name only but COM
posed in large measure OF fresh
civilian selectees.
Praising the men who have come
out of the officer candidate schools,
Gen. Lear, who rose to his present
position from the ranks, said he felt
experience in enlisted ranks gives
men the viewpoint of the soldier and
non-commissioned officer which
every officer should have.
Stressing this point, Gen. Lear
said he wished every ofncer could
have at least year OF training IN
enlisted ranks.
.sI'd like to see a man serve In the
ranks for a year before being select
ed as a candidate for West Point"
the general declared.
Evening star., 1942-09-25
Trusting Nozis

The Nazis have allowed the Brit
lsh policemen to carry on In the
Channel Islands, now under Ger
man occupation. but they keep an
armed guard over them to make sure
they perform their appointed tasks.
Evening star., 1942-09-25
10 CoIored Registrars
Will Report tomorrow

Seventy colored registrants and
CLARK w. Hart, white selectee, Will
report ut 10 o'clock tomorrow morn
lnz for assignment to training camps.
The men, given two-week tur-
loueh, were inducted September IL.
Evening star., 1942-09-25

-NAcy 0AS'
whiting, joseph r.
iedbetter, Russell
Spottswood. 3. p;
Taylor, Albert II.
Bank, Henry A.
Roberts, WayMan l..
Truly. Robert B.
Mullen, James Z.
brown, James H.
GLADDEN., 0eorEe w.
Harris, Herman B.
Grimes, Raymond M
williams. John A.
6rnith. Willie b.
Proctor. Gus
6tith, Golden N.
Tate, Robert NJ.
Daroen, Johnny u.
Frazier, 6ylvanus M
Ratlid, Joe P.
HARRINGTON. D. r,
Smith, Edward =.
Teamer, Joseph b.
Jackson, Walter c.
larkins, Ardie C.
Chinn, Norman A.
Whitby, Sylvester
Hairston, Eddie B.
Hall, Bernard J.
Blakey. Ernest, 1r.
Dade. James e.
Tyson, George
Shelton. James ].
wallace. r. W.
Lowry, James =.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-08
Negro Housing
Site Obtained

As a result OF negotiations with
the Ford Motor Company, a site
at Modern and Dequindre avenues
which was 10 have been used by
Ford for defense work, is now
available for Negro housing
project. Councilman Eugene l. Van
Antwerp said Saturday.
Van Antwerp made the an
nouncement at a meeting with
Councilmen Charles r.. DoraiS,
William Rogell and James II. Gar
lick. The meeting was called in an
effort 10 reach a compromise in
the dispute over placing Negroes in
the recently-completed Sojourner
Truth housing project.
II has been suggested that white
tenants be- placed in the completed
project and that a new project bc
erected al Dequindre for Negroes.
Van Antwerp said such a plan has
been submitted 10 federal housing
officials.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-08
War of the Air

Officials Of the defense savings
staff i'm this CITY lOined with ma
uonal officials IN halllng the cam
paign as an outstanding move in
financing of the WAR or TIlt.
AIR
Patriotic citizens are reminded
Shat The campaign ncWIN-Iaunchod
means KEEPING line stamps and
bonds purchased D"uol,crS arh
mot asked TO contribute tu amy
fund but 10 invest IN II VIC
FttfttCt+t-4 M r {, 4 tt-4-etteeh
buying tor themselves the defense
stamps and bonds
And the amount thus raised IN
Detroit Will be credited for De
lrolt : bomhcr>
In order that NONE may be
o>rtIookod, il is requested thdt
individuals. groups or orGanIa-
tion> W RITZ. to the Buy o \
BOMBER EDITION, HE Detroit
Times, stating. exactly HOW
Mitch in defense stamps and
bond, they are buying or haN
pledged themselves TO buy during
the four weeks OF the campaign
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-08
Remember Pearl Harbor

The bomber 10 bc presented Will
HE appropriately named and Wal
lctaIu Ms ldcutJtN-As. gait OF tine
Hearst newspaper readers.
II VIII be- one %. the latest and
most formidable of ITS type ami ID,
guns and -lt444++-AA-llh II VIII
carry VIII take the personal mos
~agr uf us thousands OF dHnol- I'D
Ia most effective manner 10 the
IenemieS OF the United State.
1t Will represent the answer 20
aggression by thousands OF readers
from coast 90 coast who wanted 10
express In some Way by direct aC-
ZION ThCT reaction 10 what nap
pcncd az Pearl Harbor
IN examination of any Of The
lists of donors reveals a most UNI
usual cross section OF American
patriots The bomber fund actually
includes widows mites. the large
cheeks OF rCh men. pennies from
chIdrcnS banks. the total of a
day $ wages from each OF hundreds
of employees OF industrial plants
hard earned money from scrub
women the 500 and 500 biliS that
mIght nave bC'U VpUrTt- -;r-et-tf-t-
.al least one relief check and many
contributions from friends and
.relatlVr~ Of men and women of the
service.
A group Of teen age boy en-
route Ia .lTt Irg with fD, [ rIf,I
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-08
Mayor Refuses
Toilet Israel Quit

Mayor Edward J JofricS Jr.
Saturday refused to accept Tho
resignation 81 Walter Israel re-
tired fire marshal aS Detroit arr
raid warden and tnytcad gave
Israel an indefinite leave of all
>pnCC.
Israel wished to resign because
he has been confined to has home
by illness for several day.
TO perform the duties OF Israel
in his absence, the mayor pro-
NOTED George Edwards and VII
liam J. Scrlpp> from deputy air
raid wardcns 20 co-chIel AR rand
WardcnS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-08
Chinese Helping
Allies at Burma

RANGOON. Feb = UP) Brit.
Sh imperlalS held the japanese al
the Salween River Tine slit toda4
Ind ruled the skies over Burma.
(ChlneSe regulars are fighting
alongside British and Burmese
troops IN the defense Of Rangoou
md the Burma road II -AAaA- an
aounced today by Gen L. NJ
Penny, head of the British mir
iary mission in Chungklng
The all-India radio reported
that Jap alrplaneS attempted 10
raid RanGOon again saturday
but that two were shot down
and others probably destroyed
by American and British fighter
planes. raising their confirmed
Joss in Burma 10 L. planes COM
pared with FIVE Allied craft lost
and one damaged The broad
cast was heard by CHS
II was the seventh day of stale
mate Al the turbulent SalWccn for
Inc invaders.
Their Scthacks in the last Is
hours were many.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-08

MOSCOW Fob. : ,UPJ Rus.
ian tanks. ranging zap 90 Wa,sN"
j2-ton dreadnaughl>. today We're
thrown into the fighting west OF
Moscow where German resistance
s beginning 10 N'if,r.
Reports received mere .tum tho
front sand the hEr'uE "s- Hseom-
hg more intense su hr' cold
md heavy snow.
The Germans apparently using
endorsements recently W pN . q
Into the front lines. have made
numerous counteratacE- and the
use of the great tanks was under
ttood 30 boz the Russian answer 'o
TINS effort 20 CncOe toe Soviet
prIVe.
Russian official reports ~~d "a,
kovletS were encoWtrruG entire
Dew German divisions
These fresh rt-rit-. t-tt-.e- tife., ht
weary Naz> who had fought both
the Russian foes and the puiG e,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-08

A South Bend attorney who is
alleged TO haze participated IN the
fraud IS sought 10y postal nSpcc-
tors.
According 10 Postal Inspectors
Roy IsHForgc and N--N.-SHsg -the
attorney. with the aid of Wilson
and Prlckett, prepared Scores of
fake injury claims against the rail-
road as the result of an accident
IN which a Grand Trunk football
special from Detroit coillded with
a Michigan Central tram.
Either Wilson or Prickett
would then approve the claims,
which ranged from $500 Ia
$1,000" l.atorCr SAID The
persons who were on the train
and supposedly injured actually
received only 50 or $50 for
their claims