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Special
Treatment
Looms for
Factories
WASHINGTON—President
Roosevelt, it was learned Mon
day, has assured the army and
navy of preferential tax treat
ment for manufacturers who
intend to expand facilities
which could be used to provide
national defense needs,
The internal revenue bureau
would be able to accord special
tax treatment under its adminis
trative authority, it was said. New
legislation would not be required.
It was understood the com
cessions would be closing
agreements between manufac
turers and the government
which would stipulate in ad
vance the rate at which plant ‘
depreciation and obsolescence
would be computed. |
Last September, Secretary of
the Treasury Henry Morgenthau,
Jr., informed both the war and
navy departments of his willing
ness to negotiate closing agree
ments in the case of army or mvy}
contracts subject to the Vinson-'
Trammell act. ‘This act limits
eontractors’ profits on naval ves
sels to 10 per cent and on military
and naval aircraft to 12 per cent of
the contract price.
Such a closing agreement,
Morgenthau explained, would
set forth in advance of the
ompletion of contracts the
nanner in which the internal
‘evenue bureau would treat
the cost of any special facilities
in the computation of the con
tractor’s’ profits under the
Vinson-Trammell act.
Normally, in the absence of such
an agreement, the cost of new
facilities may be amortized by de
preciation or obsolescence allow
ances determinable only upon
completion of the contract. |
Recently, representatives of two|
airplane engine manufacturers
sounded out the treasury on pros-[
pects for closing agreements lnl
cases involving plant expansion
for foreign war contracts. These
manufacturers pointed out that the
additional facilities would be avail
able for contracts from the United
States government if an emergency
developed.
Several other manufacturers,
who would be asked to pro
duce planes and other military
equipment if this country were
drawn into war, have indicated
reluctance to expand plants to
meet foreign demands because
of the fear they might be sad
dled with extra taxes after the
European orders end.
Before negotiating any closing |
agreements, it was expected that
the treasury would first consuilt
with the war and navy depart
ments. At present, the army and
navy certify to the treasury their
opinions concerning the proper
percentage of cost to be allowed
as a deduction under Vinson-
Trammell act contracts.
F. R. Flip Flop Over
-
Neutrality For Our
- - .
Ships Anticipated
WASHINGTON—President
Roosevelt's flipflop with re
spect to transfer of American
vessels to Panama registry re
veals how difficult it will be
for the U. S. to maintain its
neutrality in the present Euro
pean conflict. The incident
demonstrates that the only
sure safeguard is American
public opinion,
Here's is what happened: When
the proposition was submitted to
the maritime commission, they ap
proved it without any questioning.
Secretary Hull gave it his bless
ing after a telephonic exchange
with the maritime commissioners
in which they did not give him
the full, and fake data. When he
learned that the proposed transfer
was a phoney sale, he denounced it
as a moral violation of the neu
trality act. Meanwhile, Roosevelt
had given his O. K. to the deal in
a Hyde Park interview with news
papermen. It looked as if there
would be a public clash between
the president and his secretary of
state,
The president backed down-—not
because of any legalistic argu
ments which Mr. Hull presented—
but because of the adverse reac
tion on Capitol Hill and through
out the nation., Had it not been
for popular resentment over the
proposed transfer of shipping
registry, President Roosevelt would
have sealed at Washington the
preliminary approval which he
gave at Hyde Park.
-~ - -
Wilsonians like Joe Tumulty,
President Wilson's secretary, are
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PUD PROGRESS
THREATENED IN
COURT ACTION
Right Of Districts
To Condemn, Buy
Private Interests In
State Court
~ OLYMPIA Development
of public power districts in the
state was seriously threatened
in a suit appealed to the
supreme court Monday involv
ing the question of whether
districts can condemn and buy
private power companies
with a vote of the people.
The question was brought to the
court in a certiorari action by the
Grays Harbor public utility dis
trict, which was enjoined from
paying $2,842,000 for the Grays
Harbor Railway & Light Co., on
grounds it failed to secure ap
proval of the voters on the pur
chase.
So vital was the Issue in
volved that the Washington
state Grange, the Washington
Public Utilities association and
many of the state’s score of
districts intervened in an ef
fort to upset the lower court
decision,
John A. Bayha and the city of
Aberdeen secured a permanent in
junction in lower court barring ac
quisition of the private utility and
issuance of $3,350,000 in revenue
bonds to pay for it and for subse
quent expansion. The bonds would
be retired solely from the district’s
earnings.
In a similar action in Skagit
county, Judge E. D. Hodge of
Tacoma held shortly after the
Grays Harbor court decision
that he believed no election
was necessary before the
Skagit power distriet couMd
acquire the Sedro-Woolley util
ity properties.
Attorneys for the Grays Harbor
P. U. D. urged the supreme court
to decide the case as soon as pos
sible, since its contract with the
private utility to purchase its hold
ings expire Jan. 2, 1940,
They also said if the court could
decide the case by Dec. 15 the
district would be able to withdraw
its $43,000 tax levy on the county
if the decision were favorable,
The two main questions pre
sented in today’s appeal were
whether an election was nec
essary and whether the district
commissioners passed in suf
ficient time a plan and system
resolution to acquire the util
ity. The lower court held the
resolution had to be passed
before the district was com
mitted to purchase the private
company.
If the supreme court holds an
election is necessary before private
holdings can be purchased, it
would seriously hamper develop
ment of power districts because
of the usual difficulty in getting
voters to approve bond issues of
any sort, even though they are not
general obligations on the public.
! |
HEALTHY BOOM
’ SAN FRANCISCO-—An expand
ed manufacturing and construc
tion program for Pacific coast
| industry to “help keep this nation
|out of war” was urged Monday by
|John P. Frey, president of the
| AFL metal trades department.
! “A continued healthy boom is in
|store for the Pacific coast ship
building industry as a result of
the merchant marine expansion
program undertaken by the U. 8.
maritime commission,” he said.
“However, if European condi
| tions continue as they are for any
|length of time, there will be an
| even greater and more urgent need
wfor increased manufacturing of
'v!w materials on the Pacific
{coast. This expansion is impera
tive for an adequate national
fde!eme e
i’ Pointing out that western ship
| building yards were one of the
| weakest links in the national de
fense organization, due to lack of
ship construction, Frey said the
| maritime commission ship con
| struction program would result in
thousands of skilled workers being
|employed in half 5 dozen coast
| plants.
SCOUTS" FOUNDER DIES
PLAINFIELD, N. J.—-William
|D. Murray, 81, pationally known
| civic and religious worker and
one of the founders of the Boy
| Scouts of America, died Monday at
| his home after a logg iliness,
‘Nothing Wrong,’
Mprs. Pantages Says
Mrs. Beatrice Veryl Pantages,
pictured above with her attor
ney, Charles Conlin, testified
Monday in Hollywood there was
nothing wrong in her friendship
with Pete Bedwell, Palm Springs
bartender, as charged by her
estranged husband, Rodney Pan
tages, heir to the Pantages the
ater fortune, in his divorce ac
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS—
Former Kaiser
Escapes Death
e gy R el
i Former Kaiser Wilhelm of
Germany had a narrow escape
'trom death when a cyclone
| passed within 50 feet of him
as he walked in his private
park at Doorn, Netherlands.
It tore down three beech
trees each at least three feet
thick. The former kaiser re
turned to his house highly
alarmed and said prayers of
thanksgiving . . .
Warden Joseph E. Ragen of the
Tllinois state penitentiary rejected
several toy machine guns and pis
tols in a truckload of discarded
playthings charity workers had
brought to be repaired by inmates
and distributed to the poor.
“They're out,” he said. “The boys
are apt te get ideas with them
inside the walls” , ~
Dr. Kakoto Oka, former manag
ing director of the Toyko Nichi
| Nichi and the Osaka Mainichi, two
|of Japan's most important news
ipnpcn. died at Tokyo after a long
illness. Dr. Oka, 66, was a Jap
anese delegate to the Versailles
peace conference and attended the
international labor conference at
Washington in 1919 . . .
Chairman John D. M. Hamilton
{of the Republican national com
| mittee announced at Washington
that the organization's executive
committee would meet there Dec.
|7 to map plans for the 1940 politi
leal campaign. The conferees, he
I said, would not discuss plans for
’m GOF’s convention since that
'mtm is “solely the prerogative
| of the full national committee” . , .
| Maurice Renaud, popular mys
{tery story writer and author of
| scientific and philosophical novels,
' died at Paris . . ~ Marie Teresa
| Benavides, 16, daughter of the
| president of Peru, and Francisco
| Mendoza Canaval, 25, were mar
!ried at Lima in the private chapel
|of the presidential palace. Canaval
|is & member of a prominent Lima
ifamily . ..
| Federal Judge Paul J. MeCor
idah granted a non-suit because of
lack of evidence in the case of
| Comedian Charlie Chaplin, charged
| with plagiarism involving the idea
for his motion picture, “Modern
g‘nnu" Michael Kustuff, Hussian
lwnur. filed the suit charging that
| Chaplin based his picture on &n
il et auaion
!
Rites Held for
| Justice Butler
ST. PAUL, Mian.- The body of
Associate Justice Pierce Butler of
{the U. S supreme court was
| buried Monday in Calvary ceme
| tery.
| Before the burial the body lay
iin state for two hours in Lthe
| rotunda of the state capitol. A
{ military guard of honor stood at
i the head and foot of the casket,
tion. She sald her husband knew
of her acquaintanceship with
Bedwell while she was wvaca
tioning at Palm Springs In
March and April. Pantages and
two detectives had testified
they raided Mrs. Pantages’ bed
room on the night of May 1
and found Mrs, Pantages with
Bedwell,
idea taken from a script by Kus
tuff. Chapiain denied seeing
Kustuff's script and said he first
got the idea 18 years ago.
1 b R RS e R
‘Bridges Accused Of
Making Trouble
Along Docks
SAN FRANCISCO- A
statement attributed to Harry
Bridges that “1 am the clerks’
{union” was reiterated Monday
by the San Francisco Cham
| ber of Commerce as it sought
[to end a strike which has tied
‘up the San Francisco water
| front for ten days.
I W. W. Monohan, executive vice
president of the chamber, address
ed a letter to Henry Schmidt, pres
|ident of the International Long
shoremen’'s and Warshousemen's
{local 1-10, in which he declared
|that five representatives of the
Waterfront Employers’ association
{had heard Bridges boast that be
alone controlled the striking Ship
| Clerks’ association, which is affili
| ated with ILWU., Bridges is pres
{ident of the Pacific Coast ILWU
and California director of the CIO,
Monohan charged that Bridges
had declared publicly that be
would violate any written contract
between the employer and union
at any Uime the contracts were
found to be unfavorable to the
union; that he recently deciared
there could be no common ground
of agreement between employers
and employes; that he had sald
he believed all ship eperators and
waterfront employers should be
{done away with and that he was
responsible for opem viciation of
the award of the maritime arbitra
tor named by the secretary of
labor und that this viclation re
sulted in the arbitralor's resigna
tion
“These statements sre all &
matter of record” Monochan
| continued, “and 1| refer to
i them now as justification of
| our contention that practically
’ all of our waterfrent problems
are directly attributable Lo the
determination of one man lo
incite dissension between the
| employers and the employes
| and to continue the devastal
| img tieups of our pert which
| have characterized his direc
! thom of maritime labor since
1984
Bchmidt answered Monohan with
a flat denial that Bridges ever
had made the remark attributed
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VOL. 36, NO. 288,
i
Czech Bullets Hit
Two Bodyguards of
President Hacha
During Uprising
LONDON--The Daily Her
ald reported Monday in a dis
patch from Zagreb, Jugo
slavia, that German troops
had been forced to fire artil.
lery into workers' quarters to
subdue last week's Czech up- |
rising at Prague, and that at
tempts had been made Friday
to assassinate Dr. Emil Hacha, |
president of the Bohemia- |
Moravia protectorate, i
Although the Germans had n-!
nounced the execution of 12 ring
leaders of the uprising, the Dflly!
Herald Dispatch sald Nazi police |
and storm troopers killed or!
wounded 30 students when they |
stormed the Czech University, and |
that after they captured it, they
uu:(. students against classroom
walld and shot them, leaving their |
bodies propped against the walls |
for 24 hours as & warning. 1
1 There were many other casn
alties In two days of furious
fighting the W sk
The newspaper's cor-'
respondent said he got W-’
mation from an unnamed foreign
commercial attache, who had just |
Tleft Prague. He told of two days |
of furious fighting during which |
Czech students barricaded their |
university and fought off German
secret police and storm troopers |
for hours by showering them with |
‘deskn, busts of Adolf Hitler and |
other misslea from windows,
The informant sald the
trouble started lnat week when
students broke up the lecture
of & new Nazi professor be
cause he insuited them. They
peited him with books and he
fled. The students then bar
ricaded the university against |
the Gestapo men whe arrived ‘
in three buses.
“The rebel students were ‘wul?
until afternoon to pull down their
Czech national flag and sur- |
render,” the informant said. They |
refused and two armored ocars
arrived and took up stations in!
(Continued on Page 16, Column 5) |
U. S. ASKED T 0
WASHINGTON - Rodrigue Car
dinal Villeneuve, spiritual leader of
Canada’'s 4,000,000 Catholies, urged
the United States Monday W siay
out of the European war and help
promote & return among bations
to the Christian foundations of so-
Clety.
In & radio interview Sunday, he
said the United States could best
serve the ends of peace after the
present war s over “if not drawn
into the conflict.”
He was questioned in the inter
view by Rev. Maurice Sheehy of
Catholic university. The cardinal
is attending ceremonies in connec
tion with the observance of the
150th anniversary of the Catholie
hiersrchy in America,
BANK TRANSACTIONS
VIR & oaverdnaieq .. RN
Elmer Dover’s Resignation
- Will Be Effective Dec. 31st
Elmer Dover closed another
chapter in & most colorful political
career by tendering his resignation
as federal district court clerk to
Judge John C. Bowsn, senior U, 8.
Jurist in the state, Saturday.
Dover's resignation becomes ef
| fective Dec. 31,
His resignation comes not as &
surprise. Bince Judge E. E. Cush
man retived several weeks ago,
speculation in court and politieal
circles has been rife with rumors
regarding dispensation of the clerk
‘#hip & post worth more than
$5.000 a year to its holder.
| Judge Cushunan's retirement left
TACOMA, WASH,, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1909
Don’t Fail Te Resnd
The Times B For Newe,
Features Pictures
14 SHIPS LOST
AT SEA DURNG
LAST § DAYS|
THE WAR AT SEA
British naval authorities
Monday listed 14 ships sunk
in the past nine days, most of
them by mines in the North
Sea during the week-end with
A heavy loss of life. They be
lieved Germany's unrestricted
sen warfare had begun,
The loss of the British n.ni
Torchbearer and possibly nime of
tucrwolu,\vnnpfl“u-‘
day morning. It was the seventh
Normlnmmkunmlfi-{
urday, The list also included the
4,208-ton British ship Vensilva,
“sunk since Saturday” and the
345-ton British ship Wigmore, not
previously reported. No further de
taile of the loss of these two were:
O
| authorifien ingisted that
the mines were German, becauss,
‘they said, British mines are %
equipped that they are harmiess
‘after they break from their moor
inge. A week-end gale apparently
had seattered German mines, drive
ing them in on the British Isles and
the Danish and Belgian coasts, but
British authorities said the mines
in the shipping lanes were set de
liberately, probably by German
submarines, and had not drifted
there, ;
(In Hamburg, the newspaper
Hamburger Tagelbatt carried an
article by A. Muersr, retired Ger
man vice admiral, suggesting that
Germany throw its surfgos naval
eraft Into war against m 1
convoys, to assist German sl
planes and U.-boats, "Becauss it's
no longer & battle but & ruthiessly
conducted ecommereial war which
bas become the chief naval task.”)
The ship losses were given ~
follows |
For the week ending last Batur
a-y.mmmu.mmp:!
Cresswell, 275 tons. Ponzane, 1,348
tons. Matra, 5,008 tons: Weed.
mmm;mum‘
tons; Biackbill, 2,402 tons; Terch.
boarer, 1267 tona; Wigmore, 345
(Continued on Fage 16, Column 3)
SAY PROPOSED FILM
STRIKE CALLED OFF
HOLLYWOOD - Widespread re
ports were glreulsted Monday
that the threstened strike of
studioc workers, scheduled for
Tussday, definilely had been cailed
off and that producers and lead
ery of the 27 AFL unioms Inveived
had compromised the unions’ de
mands for an immediste 0 per
cepl pay increase,
KINGNTON, Jnmsies A hurr
cang was reported today off the
inlands west of Jamica
Fioods and heavy rain blocked
roads sl & score of places and
hindered trassport to Kingston.
Judge Bowen ss senior judge,
lflmmmd”
sitions.
| Dover, 66, said he had no Immes
diate plans for the fulure and made
no comment regarding bis resig
- nation further than remarking that
his position “reslly ended when
Judge Cushman retired” 1
~ Dover has held the position
slightly more than a year. He re
placed Edgar M. Lakin, who re
tired on Sept. 1, 1938, |
~ Daover has enjoyed s career such
| (Continued o Page 30, Colume )
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RETREAT FRON
ENELAND COAST
Anti-Aircraft Gum
~ Force Invaders Te
i I‘u'r‘:‘ I‘:ck; Naszi
LONDON Anti-airersft
guna fired Monday on.a wh
:m flying at » grest
T.W
town. No air rad
was sounded, :
Crowds stood in the streets and
watohed the machine flying slong
the const in an easterly direction.
Heavy anti-airersft fire also was
}Muu»“m
i Observers saw ahell bursts one
circle the plane. The anthalreraft
zmhnn away for severnl
minules.
gik v o evetimant
flying high over the
the plane flew
guns ware fired but "
away In an essterly direstion.
&o & ¢
mgnmng‘
N“W“d'fi“-“
‘mmuumm‘
cortain whether ao'rm
| shot down or erashed trying
lumhmh
| The German plans was fired on
imnmmm
by fiying over Holland tervitory.
It erashed within the Duteh from.
Usr. The pilot was illed.
(At the propagands
-&hmflnl.m
had yoit bowm revsived of &
mh-‘. pinne crashing o Mol
)
| m-:aum.n-n
Gormn fiying woke iy 1o
German fiying boats a
Duteh tervitorial waters. A Duleh
plane fired on thres Nasl flying
l:.u. Ons of them returmned the
- The first version of the ineldent
wan that the Nasi piane was shet
down, but later it was said that
1t was uncertal whether the eraft
‘had been hit by the anthaireraft
fire or whether 1t crashed whils
trying to evade buileta
Slayer Awaiting
; Lile Sentence!
POCATELLO, us.J.su»f
graves, jr. 18, Posatille former
conviel, Monday swaited senlenc
ing to life mprisonment by Judge
€. J. Taylor in distriet court Wads
nesday for fiest degree murder,
A jury convieted Hargraves om |
the first degree murder count snd
recommended jife wt
umumummi
day i i
Hargraves was convisled of |
saying ¥. V. Huster, Alameds
town marshal, when he offiosr
interfered with HMargraves ab |
lempt to see Bis estranged wife
and child af the Bome of Ns
fathar-in-law last July 12, i
.
‘Name Seattleite
: -
- Census Director
SEATTLE - Bap. Warres G
Magouson, D, Wash, todey s
nounced appuintment of Joseph P.
Adams, Besllle attorney, as cpnsus
director In Besltie snd Kiteap
county. Theodors Pruitt of Brem
orton Was mamed assistant
Girector.
. Adsms formerly was seoretary
of the King County Democrabie
innlnlm
|
~ VOLCANO FLARES UP
CATANIA, Maly -~ A M-hour
“danger walch” was eastablished
Monday on voleanic t Btos
which was violently mmlé
as laly's most unpredictable val
cano, it flared up suddenly Satur
day, spouting flames snd lave, It
had been quiet jox manthe, -
Tragedy ls Climas
To Quarrel Last
grapher, shot and hilled
o s m:u Monday.
mn:fi ond Wl
annoyeq vernl s soes,
| Mo was walling fn the downtewy
[ neetion with ansther givl when
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wae e aal of an ol
she was oifting in Ms sutomebine
[ voo & drepetnes s, ol
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‘ Coutious seieelion of & Jooy
| Superior Judde Wrmest M. Casd's
’m Monday made & sow Sard
o the trisl of Chauscey 7. M,
30 year-ald Ruston tavern eperaton,
who ia charged with deiving while
intawieatad nat Jan. § when bis aar
struck Mre. Ruth M. Pusen o S
‘u.u..m.. opposite the Temple
Ihsenter
ln that sesident. Mrs. Pusen, S
of 107 80. George ob., had bar sight
leg completely seversd at Lhe knes.
Rarious condition of the injared
woman for & long time snd & civil
personal injury st growing oub
of the seeident heid off triak of the
Crimingl action ageinet Husd
- Attorney Rebert 5. Absl, repres
wnting the defundast, and Deputy
Prosscutors Muge Metuier, jr., sod
Dewitt € Nowiasd questioned
svery jurer af grest length on
prejudices for or sgainst drinking
and agsinst persons in the tavern
usinrae
Mre. Vuson, whoss oivilk sult
againet Hurd was setiled out of
mmmmmz‘r&
ent 1o witness Lhe man's
SEATTLE CLERKS GET
" NEW UNION |
| MEATTLE - The Retall A
:—mm-' :
The contract will run thees
It included one weskls vaealion
with pay for employes of nensty
109 stoves. :
BOY, 16, ACCUSED OF
- THEFT OF FIVE CARS
f:;:ir::amm pect
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o 4 Chebalis, R