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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-12

Regular meetings u Fife Grange
have been changed 10 the first and
third Wednesday OF each month.
A first aid class. with Bill Bar
ringer A. instructor. Will start at
the next meeting on Feb. Is All
Changers viii be sslcoms 10
attend.
Eggs are dropping fast at Co.'S
Butter Store iady.D
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-12
Avs. MAKES
1T ALL POSSIBLE

With the aid of a status board,
showing exact positions and avail
ability Of defending planes. the
controller orders pursuit aviation
into battle. Anti-aircrsft. coast
artillery and bomber officers syn
ehronize their commands. In a
nearby room, pursuit officers, in
radio contact with the planes IN
action, plot the best attack. Intel
ligence officers study the attack.
Meanwhile the afraid warning
officer has notified civilian de-
Tense organizations for alarms
The whole action is being followed
and coordinated on another opera
tons board. this one taking in the
entire interceptor command area,
by the commanding general
Such Is the intricate. split-sec-
ond machinery which gives the u.
s. army its fighting chance to pro-
tect Ameries. IL In made possible
by the sacrifice OF the men and
women who walk their lonely posts
watching, listening.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-12

Their owners. members Of the
AFRAID Warning Service. are the
forgotten men and women Of ma
tional defense. Volunteers all, they
form an army hundreds Of thou
sands strong. standing guard long
monotonous hours in order that
America may remain secure.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-12
LUNCHEON 'rHijRsDAY

Members Of tho Tacoma Engi-
ne~rs club Will mold a funchso8
meeting Thursday noon ~ the
Model suIi. II 10 announced by J.
Lester Sharp, secretary treasure
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-12
Looking Up!
EUery Fire Miles Along u. S.
Coasts, Eyes Scan Skies

Every five miles the length and breadth of Amer
icas ongstretching coastal sandy beaches oil
Washington in groves Of California and even on snow
covered htops of New England pair of at this
minute scanning the skies pair of ears Is listening
On these alert second of the day and
night depends the safety of America from bombing attack
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-12

Mrs. Addis A. Morse. candidate
for the school board. resides al
320s No. 10Th II, instead Of 32os
No. 7sth ST.. as stated in Mondays
paper.
For Your Safety Elect coLYAR
adv.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-12
MANY NEVER
SUSPECT CAUSE
OF BACKACHES
This Old Trsstmsnt Oftsa
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Evening star., 1942-01-24
Better Street Lighting
In Fair|awn Village Asked

Street Lighting in the new Fair
lawn Village development is made
quate. the Anacostia Citizens Asso-
citation held last night in voting to
petition the District Commissioners
to remedy the situation. The sec
ton involved, bounded by Eight
eenth and Twenty-third streets Sc,
Good Hope road and Minnesota ave-
nue.. is at present Illuminated by
single-bulb lamps spaced at wide in
tervals, Robert Thompson. chairman
Of the groups Highway Committee,
charged in making the motion.
A resolution by H. E. Willer to re-
quest more fire boxes for the Ana
costa area was approved. Twelve
more boxes are necessary for salts
factory fire protection, he said.
In a discussion on assisting school
children at busy street crossings, 1t
was suggested that civilian auxil-
iary policemen be urged to aid in
trafflc work.
Cooperation was pledged to va
vious salvage drives now in progress
in the District. The association also
voted to ask for no-parking signs
along the northwest side of Maple
view place between Nicholas avenue
and the nearest alley Sc.
Due to the illness of John ]. Wat
son, president, Mrs. Carrie G. Smith,
vice president, presided at the meet
ing, held in the Anacostia Junior
Senior High School.
Evening star., 1942-01-24

reached . total Of $1,73S, ,002 900,
compared with 31.112.373, 900 TN 1910
Commenting on the 1041 con-
struction record, Thomas 8. Holden,
president Of =. w. Dodge Corp,
states.
This post-depression record vol
ume was compounded Of . large
defense construction program and
up to last September. q rapidly
mounting volume of public and pri-
vate non defense construction. Ac-
cording to Government estimates
about 40 per cent of the total 194l
construction program was for de-
Tense construction.
Same Volume Seen for 1941.
THE 1912 program is presently
estimated to equal in total dollar
volume that of 194l, with q vastly
increased war construction program
volume of civilian construction cur
tailed to absolute essentials and an
approximately normal volume Of
maintenance and repairs.
"Seventy-dve to 80 per cent oi
this years total volume will be wal
construction. quite widely distrib.
uted throughout the country. Be-
Evening star., 1942-01-24

and prepared 1t TO meet the task
assigned to It,"
Evening star., 1942-01-24
Venetian Blinds Held
Good Protection
From Flying Glass
Fasteners Needed to
Prevent Shotterine
In Air Ruids
BY DOROTHY DUCAS
and ELIZABETH GORDON.

If YOU have Venetian blinds at
your windows and equip them with
fasteners the blinds can give some
measure of protection against flying
glass should bomb explosion shake
your building. Venetian blinds are
not recommended as blackout
screens, for it is virtually impossible
to use them to exclude light. But
II the blinds are held rigid and
anchored at the window sill or below
the window frame they will screen
the room from flying glass and
sphnters caused by anything but
close hit.
Even a slight rocking Of the
building might make blinds billow
out unless they are equipped with
plunger or hook type fasteners to
keep them rigid. These fasteners
cost from 25 to IS cents a window.
The plunger type fastens to the
under side of the bottom rail of the
blind and holds it in place by a
rubber-tipped spring plunger which
exerts force against the jamb or
stop-bead. 1t is easily released to
enable the blind to be raised and
may be used with the blind at any
Evening star., 1942-01-24

height. as 1t requires no attachment
other than to the blind rail. These
cost from As to rs cents a pair,
enough for one window.
Holds Blind in Place.
The hock-type fastener consists of
two parts-screws protruding from
each end OF the bottom bar of the
Venetian blind and hooks which are
attached TO the window sill or
window casing at the sill. The screw
engages in the hook and keeps the
blind steady and in place. These
cost from Is cents to so cents pair,
depending on the number OF blinds
equipped.
Both devices also are useful to
prevent noisy swaying and rattling
of blinds In a breeze. They are easily
attached and come with complete
instructions for installation.
For AFRAID defense close the Stats
OF the blind tightly, with all the Stats
facing the room tilted upward. This
makes the Stats tilt downward on
the side toward the window SO that
any object falling from above will
tend to be DETECTED.
Auxiliary Gas Heater.
Auxiliary gas-burning wall heaters
are available at reasonable cost and
present no elaborate installation
problems If gas lines already serve
your home.
One such heater is a compact
unit measuring 161a inches in width,
13 inches in height. 1t weighs nine
pounds and is finished in sparkling
white enamel. 1t is set right into
the wall, requiring an opening 1914
inches wide, 1924 inches high, 21a
inches deep. Or it can be hung flush
on a wall with a special receptacle
that is attached with wood screws.
Installation of the wall heater is
not difficult, as all parts come pack
aged, with instructions for Install
ing. 1t requires ss-inch standard
size gas pipe to the wall opening
with a ss-inch street ell facing out
ward from the pipe. Ask your gas
company whether the piping is
available before you order the wal
heater.
Heat Easily Radiated.
The heater has a specially de-
signed burner which quickly heats
the element to incandescence, and
a polished chrome reflector radiates
this heat into the room. Three pro-
tector bars prevent you from touch
ing the red-hot element by accident
The heater cost about sl4 or Sls
unfnstalled. with cost of installation
varying in accordance with the dis
tance the gas pipes must run te
the heater.
If you are troubled with too much
frost on window panes, try some o1
the new chemically treated cloths
which are used to prevent fog or
windshields of automobiles.
1t is good idea to wash the
windows thoroughly before usint
the cloth, as a film may remain
after the window has been treated
because of the amount of dirt or
the surface before treatment.
The time the chemical remains or
the pane depends on temperature
Evening star., 1942-01-24
40 Pet. Drop Expected
In Residential BUILDING

Private residential building in the
United States during 1912 will show
decline of at least 40 per cent,
according to q survey Of members
of the Mortgage Bankers Associa-
ton of America announced today
by Frederick p. Champ, president.
A poll, completed just before the
outbreak of the war, asked members
to estimate the decline In their
cities provided no further govern
mental restrictions are placed on
private residential construction"
OF 81 principal cities reporting,
replies from IS indicate declines
ranging from IS per cent as high
as 80 per cent. Members in only six
cities anticipate volume equal to
that of f941 or higher, and all OF
these were in areas where heavy
victory activities are concentrated
The decline expected In the 55
cities averaged 40 per cent.
Evening star., 1942-01-24

and humidity inside and outside the
house. Very cold weather and out
side humidity reduce the length of
time the treatment will last. but
even under such conditions visibility
through the panes should last about
four hours.
This cloth may be used on en-
trance doors with glass lights in
them, kitchen windows where the
woman of the house watches the ap-
proach of visitors, etc, but need not
be used throughout the whole house
The cloth may be used on the out
side of the pane to prevent drop
Evening star., 1942-01-24

Ing thus called upon to produce
greatly expanded facilities for Army,
Navy, air force, war production and
war housing. construction becomes
in 1912 one Of the country's leading
war industries. During recent
months successive priority rulings
and orders curtailing non-defense
construction have channeled the in
dustry's capacity into its war job
Evening star., 1942-01-24
Paint Lost Step Liqht

Basement stair steps are safer II
the bottom step is painted in a
contrasting color. Most steps that
lead into the basement are painted
in dark colors. Therefore if the last
step is painted white this contrast
ing color will show up, even at
night. and will help to prevent
stumbles and missteps.
Evening star., 1942-01-24

hghtful, lacy fragility in deep
shadow frames and uses them on
the walls of one of the rooms In
his house. From one of these he
has designed this bedspread which
will be in Washington stores in time
for st. Valentines Day.
Though the colors are delicate
and sweet, just as any valentine
Evening star., 1942-01-24

formation as long as rain or snow
continues. Between usings see that
the cloth becomes thoroughly dry
The cloths may be used over and
over. They are available in 10, IS
so cent and 81 sizes.
Note: For further information
- about any Of the products de-
scribed above, write Misses Ducas
and Gordon, in care of The Star,
and inclose = stamped, self
dressed envelope.
Evening star., 1942-01-24
Building
Continued From Page B-1)

in number and 80 per cent in total
cost over 1910; two-family houses
doubled in number and total cost;
multiple dwellings slipped backward
to the extent Of a % per cent de-
crease in dollar volume and a "a
per cent decrease in new family
units, as compared with the pre-
vious year. Heavy engineering con-
tracts public works and utilities)
Evening star., 1942-01-24

We all love to be sentimental
and a bedspread copied from an
ancient valentine is universally
pleasing.
Joseph Platt, one of our foremost
industrial designers and smartest
interior conSultants, has a collec-
ton of lovely old valentines which
is famous. He surrounds their de-
Evening star., 1942-04-24
Astronomy Fans Invited
To Children S Museum

Astronomy fans. young and aid,
are invited TO view the moon and
other celestial bodies tonight from
TO 1880 o'clock at villa Rosa,
AIS Massachusetts, avenue NV.
The Children's Museum OF Wash
ington there will be open at night
for the first time.
Telescopes will be set I'D In the
garden by the National CAPITAL
Amateur Astronomers Association.
It's president, Stephen Macy, said.
II the weather is not suitable. tbs
astronomers viii try 1t again tomor-
row night at the same hour.
II the Chiidren's Museum stays
at Villa Rosa. the Astronomers AS
sociation plans to build q l7-inch
telescope to be mounted on the roof
OF the garage, Mr.. Macy stated.
Evening star., 1942-10-22

e.9s to 1898 Needlepoint. Sizes:
23x42, 23x36. Chair seats and
backs (23x23 and 27x2D 5.98
3Oc Bucilla Tapestry Yarn;
m othproof and light-fast;
4o-yd. skein --------5 for 81
1.1O Ombre Wool; soft 4-ply
wool; shades from light to
dark. 4-oZ. Skein ---88C
69c Heather Sport Yarn; me-
dunn weight wool; contrast
color fieck. 2-oz. ball l---- 52C
SOC Sport Yarn; medium
weight wool; 2 oz.-------48c
YxNcnnpCu
Evening star., 1942-10-22


39c Saxony Yarn; soft 3-ply
wool; pink, blue, white in
cluded. l-oz. ball ll------28c
SOC Polar lingering Yarn; soft
3-ply wool. Beautiful colors.
1-oZ. Skein ------4Oc
soc Bucilla WonderSheen Gro
chet Cotton; ivory: for spreads,
cloths, scarfs, etc. 700-yd.
skein -------------------4Oc
1.29 Pictures; attractive prints;
include popular magnolia;
many subjects -----------8 80c
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1942-09-01
Sell Your Old
Typewriter To U. S.

If you have a typewriter that
wants to go to war'call the E. W..
Hall Company, and they will form
ally enlist it.
WPB is seeking 100000 used
typewriters needed by the War
and Navy departments. Production
of new typewriters has already
been cut sharply and will cease en-
tirely in a short time.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1942-09-01
Boeins Sea Ranger
Armed Petrol Bomber

The Sea Ranger, new long
range experimental flying boat
for the U. S. Navy, recently built
in a Seattle plant of the Boeing
Aircraft Company is designed to
answer the need for a long range,
heavily armed overseas patrol
bomber, the Boeing Sea Ranger is
expected to have a longer range,
and to carry a larger bomb load
than any Naval plane now in
service.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1942-09-01

a burning desire for overseas ac-
ton. But twice his sailing orders
were cancelled because he was too
valuable as an instructor to be
spared.
Many of Daredevil Doolittle's
achievements and long list of the
prizes he has won are detailed in
official record books. A few of
them are the Harmon trophy,
Mackay trophy, Distinguished Fly
ing Cross with oak leaf cluster,
the Bolivian Order of the Condor
of the Andes, and the Congress
sional Medal of Honor.
That flight over Tokyo was all
Jimmy's own idea. Infatuated by
radio reports broadcast about
Japanese aggression, he said
grimly: I'm going to Tokyo with
a load of bombs" convinced Lieu
tenant General H. H. Arnold that
he could do it and, with his trained
staff, made the trip that Tokyo
will be long time remembering.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1942-09-01

Seventeen pounds of kitchen fats
saved will provide a pound and a
half of glycerine, enough to fire
So anti-tank shells.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1942-09-01
"DaredevI" DooIttIe = Prize Stunning Ace

DOOuIIle, director OF The DOLHDlilS
raid over Tokyo, has certainly
proved a misnomer, for ever since
he was knee high to grasshopper
this worlds greatest stunning ace
has been a most energetic do
much.
Daredevil Doolittle, they call
him, also Rough-on Japs Doolittle
for 25 years a pioneer in aero
nautics stunning.
Daredevil Doolittle is one of the
greatest ateronautical engineers in
the world, who can make a test
flight, bring his plane down, take
it apart and then make a detailed
report on his findings.
There is greater safety in fog
flying today as a result of his ex-
periments in blind flight flying at
Mitchell Field. The use of high
octane gas for aviation is also
credited to this twinking-eyed As
year-old, five-foot-siX hero, who
perfected the accelerometer, and
contributed to pioneering of aerial
photography.
Most spectacular of General
Doolittle's aviation stunts was in
Santiago when, with both legs
freshly broken and in plaster of
paris casts, he had himself lifted
into a plane, his trussed legs tied
to a rudder bar, and took off for
a precarious trip over the invul-
nerable Andes. In six and half
hours he landed safely in Buenos
Aires, with but two gallons of gas
in his tank
Jimmy was mad all the way
through when he made that trip,
which was a demonstration of the
Curtiss Wright military type plane
to the Chilean government. Jimmy
was mad because his G erman
competitor wanted to capitalize on
his broken legs, by putting on his
own demonstration at the sched-
uled date, which he felt positive
Jimmy would not be able to keep.
But the sight of Jimmy, grinning
happily, at the wheel of his plane,
the day after his accident, was too
much for the German. He flew
away and was never heard from
again. Jimmy won a huge order
and kept his record for selling any
plane that he undertook to demon
strate in any part of the world.
A condensed log of Jimmy's
aeronautic achievements, reads
something like this:
1922-Made the first nonstop
flight across the continent in less
than "a hours.
1925-Won Schneider Cup races
for seaplanes and next day hit a
new world seaplane speed record
of 245.71 miles per hour.
1931-Won the Grueling Bendix
trophy race from the Pacific Coast
to Cleveland, then went right on
to Newark and set the precedent
of spanning the North American
continent in exactly IL hours, 16
minutes and 10 seconds.
1882 - Captured the Thompson
trophy at the National Air races
in Cleveland with land plane at a
speed of 300 miles an hour.
1939-Struck the transcontinental
transport-plane record of IL hours,
SO minutes.
General Daredevil Doolittle'
was born in Alameda, Calf, in
1896, but spent most of his boy
hood in Alaska, where he was the
smallest boy in his school. He be-
came amateur bantamweight box
ing champion of the Pacific Coast
while in high school, and when he
entered the University of Cali
fornia made the most of his 1873
pounds by winning the intercolle-
giate middleweight crowns in two
classes heavier.
Jimmy, a senior at the Univer-
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1942-09-01

Like the true-blue, dependable
horse you have admired on the
track = the quiet, sure-footed
one that pays off at the finish,
Louis Forbes is out in front as
he approaches the home-stretch
in the Democratic primaries.
You'll be on a winner every
time you go with Louis Forbes.
Remeber, its FORBES
paid Adv
Evening star., 1942-02-09
CHICAGO Livestock

CHICAGO, Feb. o lP, Omitted States De-
psrtment Of AsrieSaturelEs.ia6ie hosIs;
to 10 higher than fridays average top.
1870; bulk 1s0-270 pounds. l2.26a66;
mostly 1885 up: 270-320 pounds, IL ! B.
40: most 160-s0 pounds, 12.00-5O; $50
500 pound sows. 12.25-75; lishter weights
UP to 1900.
Salable sheep. 10000; total, $4,000: fat
lambs slog: few early sales CHOICE HANDY.
light weishts held At IL. so; nothing done
on weightier kinds: fat sheep steady to
strong; one deck choice 97-pound fed ewes.
700.
salable cattle, 5000: calves, 800: choice
yearlinss steady; others weak TO 25 lower:
weishty steers weak to 25 on with medium
to good grades 25 or more down; choice
heifers steady. others 25 lower; cows. bulls
and vealers steady: early top, 1415 on
light steers meager supply weighty bullocks,
12.25-13. so; 1925 pounds, 1900: / ,422
pounds choice heavies, 1880 largely IL 90
1875 steer and yearling trade; best heifers,
1900; some held higher; cutter COWS to
vealers. 1900 down.
Evening star., 1942-02-09
Increase in Theater
Attendance Boosts
Film Earnings
Diversion Of Spending
To Amusements Seen
In New Survey
spt cial Dispatch to The Star.

speci Dispatch to The Star.
BOSTON, Feb. 9-Gains in do
mestic theater receipts and income
from film rentals are lifting motion
picture company earnings despite
the loss of former foreign business,
says the United Business Service.
Motion picture attendance this
year . expected to extend the es-
timated 6 per cent increase in l94l.
Stimulus will come from increased
public buying power and the di-
version of more spending into
amusement channels as supplies of
other goods are curtailed. The auto
situation will cause dislocations, but
is unlikely to curb total box once
receipts.
A continued moderate uptrend In
average theater admission will also
help to swell total 1912 theater
receipts.
Producers are planning to turn
out more and better films in 1912.
There will be more class A features
and fewer class B films. The in
dustry is also producing some pic
lures for the Government and
armed services. Such business,
however, will not bulk large in re-
lation to income from regular op-
erations.
Production costs and tax burdens
will be higher this year than in
194l. Material shortages, however,
are not a major worry. The war
drain on talent will not be a serious
handicap and there are no current
indications that unexposed film sup
plies will be curbed.
The service also points out that
the major movie companies will be
allowed to withdraw so per cent of
profits up to october 81, 1912, from
British operations instead of the IS
per cent limit recently in force.
Also they will be permitted to with
draw so per cent of funds previously
frozen" With British theater at
tendance running above prewar lev
els these funds will add consid-
erably to total 1912 cash income.
Evening star., 1942-02-09
Washington Produce

BUTTER-p3 score. tubs. 37A; ,pound
p.5res' teores tubs. sbs.; pound prints. seh; e
Iopound PIopg prints, 35is: M-pound prints; 49,
90 score, tubs, 3494; 1-pouno prints, 35M;
I.pound prints. 34& N-pound prints
39Is: Is-pound prints. 34s4.
LiVESTOCK-Calves. 10: spring lambs
From Agricultural Marketing Service
Prices paid net fob. Washineton:
EGGS-Market steady. Prices paid Ior
Federal-State GRADED eggs reeelVeq from
erading stations (February 81: Whites
q S. extras, large, 35-36, mostly 30: ~ g.
extras, mediums, 1898; U. s. standards
1894 mostly 80; U. standards; me
browns, U s. extras large. %; Y G
sxsraS, sfandsrdH' eo larae' 3a34, mostly 3a q S.
Standards, mediums, 30-31; U. s. trades,
%: nearby unsraded egss, current m receipts,
LIVE PoULTRY-Market steady. Fowl
eplored pounds and UP, 1921; Lsghorn
lens, 3la pounds and up, 1914: NO rs,
20: roosters, 1914; chickens Virsinia
Rocks broilers and fryers, all sizes, 2l -2s
No IS, 1915. Delaware and MARYLAND,
Rocks and crosses. broilers and fryers, all
sizes. 21-22: No. Is. 1918; Reds. 1920.
Capons, SO pounds, 25: Z pounds and up:
26-2S; turkeys, young toms. 16 pounds and
up, "a: youns hens. 10 pounds and up,
2S-29: No Is and undersizes, IL; gulneas,
young, all sizes % per pound: old 10.