Centralia Daily Chronicle (Newspaper) - October 28, 1938, Centralia, Washington Weather CeniraBa and and Saturday Increasing winds Yesterday's temperature 82 minimum 46 M inches DEVOTED TO TOE INTERESTS OF LEWIS AND SOUTHERN THURSTON COUNTIES Today's New br Associated and Newt the Day It the Every Day Member Prm EDITORIAL Government Increase Colossal Tax No End Yet in THE TIME is drawing near when every qualified citizen has the opportunity to vote for Congressmen whom they believe will truly represent their political convictions for the next two years at least We have been riding to a fall since the New Deal party discovered that they had control of Congress and by their attitude have placed the Supreme Court in a petition where Individual com- ments have been made Ing the Independence of the court on all appeals that come before it It Is well known by all the efforts that have been made by New Deal leaders not only to the make congress sub- servient to the branch of our government but the Court as well With such a set-up the expense of ment liave been enormously in- creased Instead of permitting the laws of supply demand to regulate production consumption and prices business has been under false economic ciples that have resulted in ki- crease of taxes beyond the limit of the taxpayers ability to pay The taxpayers have been driven to he wall their property ed and many thousands forced to go relief to keep ing THE DOTTED STATES men Is a great institution and it does things which no other ment in all history ever did be- fore As for during the fiscal year 1938 it collected in internal revenue taxes mately the largest sum which any government ever collected io any period After a figure gets about so high It ceases to any meaning Perhaps we can better understand it by realizing that this amounts to just about a quarter of the en- tire world's stock of monetary all of the metal that has been mined since the discovery of America the product of Inca mines and California and gold booms of Australian rushes arid South African bonanzas tour turies of would pay for just lour years like this last still operates at a NOR IS THE END in sight Re- lief and public are still us to say nothing of cultural surpluses and the army and We are to launch new preparedness program and double trie of bur air force No we can hardly hope that this particular kind of record finance is going end in the im- mediate future But perhaps it will be worth all it costs if it com- pels -us to re the whole question of- the relationship be- tween government and citizen For the world today seems to be sweeping along a road which leads to greater and greater the individual to the state In some lands that subordination Is complete for example sia man exists for the state he may read and speak and act and even think only as the state directs and his life and property In every detail at the disposal of the state We have not reached or even approached that point in this country Given halfway decent luck and the ex- of ordinary intelligence we need not approach Yet this tax collection may help us to understand that the i tendency to approach it does exist that the tend in human affairs is running that way THE REMEDY unfortunately is not simple It is eu to say down the cost of government but very hard to suit action to the words And in the long run we can protect ourselves against this trend only by remembering con- stantly the oldest truth of can government exists to and that as a general thing It serves him best by leaving him alone There may be emergencies In which It can't leave him alone times it must spend huge sums to give him service or protection that he can't get for himself Then costs up and taxes mount But we can keep government from de- through cy into a- colossus that Is our master rather than servant And pur natural antipathy to the ought to help us keep that -In mind Additional on Our Guests Tonl At Boys Town 6 R HILL Ml S SUver WEBSTER 213 N Ash A j w MITCHELL At St tOl R MS Adams Bthel guests get two tickets at of- fice names ta mall may can for next Tots Centralia Washington Friday October 28 1938 Vol XLVII No 254 Fire Sweeps 10 Buildings In Marseille Chree Believed to Have Died in Blaze in French Conference Postponed until Tomorrow Seattle authorities hailed the heroism of a young mother Mrs Merrill Stewart who saved tier two children 5 and Allen 3 from a blazing death when they were trapped aboard a yacht by a Lake Union waterfront fire Stewart lept overboard with the two children In her arms and swam to a pier piling where she clung with the tois until rescued Mother Lost Bet But Her Daughter Damages CHICAGO Oct Three-year-old Arlene a superiour court jury has de- was to collect pr 500 times the amount her mother lost when she she could drink a pint of whiskey in one hour The jury awarded Arlene that amount In damages against Paul Sakenas and Peter cunas owners of the tavern where her mother tin An- toinette and had made the wager She had consumed quarters of the pint when she collapsed and died of acute alcoholism The suif was brought under the dram shop act which holds tavern keepers responsible for acts by persons un- der the Influence ob- Case In Court Again Sues Patrolmen Who Him for Drunken Driving Yew Ago Another repercussion from Edwin P McNulty's arrest in Centralia on August 22 1931 on drunken charges had been heard today after he filed an amended com- plaint in the Lewis county rior court at for damages Named as defendants were John Lester and George Waterman tralia police officers who and their bonding ies the United Fidelity and Guaranty company and Maryland Casualty company McNulty's complaint two officers beat him when they arrested him inflicting permanent left It alleged also the court in May had granted to ed complaint Charge Dismissed In the affair's previous knotted skeins the drunken driving charges against McNulty were dismissed last April 14 by Superior Judge William E Campbell of McNulty had carried the case from the Centralia police court where Cameron then police judge had guilty Meantime McNulty had filed third-degree assault charges In at against the two of fleers The first trial ended in a hung jury and the second m conviction of Lester and acquittal of waterman V Girl Scouts to Honor Founder Annual Observance Opens Here Sunday with ance at Church Service Centralia Girl Scouts will join in the world-wide observance of Girl Scout Week which each year honors Juliette Low founder of the organization whose birthday fails on October 31 The ance here will open with Scouts Scout's ing the Sunday service at the Lutheran church November 3 members of the local council will be esses at a tea at the home of Mrs W H Oliver 619 North Hock street from 3 to 6 o'clock tations have been issued to leaders arid instructors and to active in Scouting Rally Staled Friday will join with Chehalis hi a rally to-be held at Scout house in that city The two cities nate this part of the celebration Saturday November 5 all tralia Girl Scouts will join in a hike to pavis hill if the weather Is fair If it rains the girls will go park Each troop also is planning a special program for next week which will feature the life of Mrs Low Tomorrow afternoon the ie Scouts will hold a Hallowe'en party at the Presbyterian church Seattle Delegation Here A group of about 90 Seattle iness men on a tour Washington sponsored by city's chamber of com merce arrived here special train early this afternoon Half of the delegation to the Lewis-Clark hotel to be guests of the Centralia chamber at a eon and the remainder proceeded to a similar function The special was late In arriving from where the tourists spent last night A breakfast was bald at yesterday ing luncheon at Aberdeen at noon and stops were made at and Una on the trip from Grays Harbor to the capital Dock Scene of PORTLAND oct out at the dock In were fought Motorists Fail To Take Tests Lewis County Drivers ened with Prosecution Un- less They Comply with Law Lewis county who have not yet taken the state auto op- tests were threatened with arrest and prosecution today by John Corcoran Lewis county ex- aminer and State Patrolmen ard Held and John Williamson Corcoran explained public tion to the tests has been during the five months but with some drivers in the county yet to be examined before July 31 1939 attendance at the testing station in the Centralia city hall has dropped off alarmingly He estimated there are some 000 drivers in the county and about have faced the re- tests To Slips The state patrolman said the drive to get untested drivers Into the fold will begin at once will be stopped at different points over the county and ed operators will be given slips permitting them 24 hours In which to take the tests or arrest wil Tests can be taken any day of at the patrol's headquarters In the cit haB Hours each day are from I m Those who find it Impossible to the testing station during these hours are or Thursday from 8 p Continue Hight LANCASTER Calif Oct set a light plane flight endurance were still air today determined to stay there until near ly a m tomorrow will break the present of- 136 hours io minutes U-l thay are able to hold out that tong The plane went up Sunday Here's Plenty of Orange Juice Going to Waste Oct huge fire which swept 10 ngs in the heart of Marseille day and was believed to have ed three led Premier adier until tomorrow the conference I Tlie fire destroyed the big veiles Galleries de Paris menl store the Daladier and Foreign Mini- ster Georges Bonnet were spread to two other hor els a bank nud several other buildings i There were 20 known Injured I Marseille's whole fire ment battled the flames ed by military he but the eon continued to spread Tapers Rescued Before the roof of the lolei caved in a police officer MOke Into apartments and Bonnet who were at parly congress nnd rescued papers Besides lie roof fleers of the hotel collapsed The Nouvelles de Palis store was a mass of ruins The whole block of buildings in the square by the Boulevards Canebiere and the Rue Papers and the Rue Marche des Capucins were imperilled The fire was accompanied by numerous gas explosions Girls Leap Into Nets The outer wall of the ment Nouvelles Galerie de Paris collapsed shortly after eral salesgirls had leaped from fourth story windows Into nets spread by firemen The roof caught fire nnd the flames traveled to ancient bank building A ber of those injured jumped from windows of the hotel American Tot Victim of Air Raid by Japs Phoebe Olive Nyhus Aged 3 Killed and Her Mother and Skier Wounded when Planes Destroy Mission A bumper orange crop is being harvested near Anaheim Calif and citrus growers are daily dumping 120 tons of low-grade fruit on a pile a mile and a quarter long 20 feet wide and 15 feec high In an effort to present price levels Officials of the California Pension Plan called attention to the situation Rally Held by Republicans Community Hall at Toledo To Pranksters Chief of Police Vandalism Will Not Be mitted on Hallowe'en ed to Capacity to County Candidates Hear A crowd that the ty hall iU Toledo even ing room taken attended a re- publican rally there last night by the Lewis county tral Grant Armstrong of chairman presided and were given by each of the party's nees present Gny Allen Turner nominee for county treasurer the first to he in- of as of Whitman county and also of his work in the Lewis comity treasurer's office where he Is now employed R L Ponder for prosecuting To Spend Millions To Expand Output Of Electric Power WASHINGTON Oct dozen big utility companies joining hands the federal in its national de- fense program disclosed today they would spend in the next two years to expand the output of electric power This amount said Floyd L Carlisle of the Consolidated Edison company of New York virtually such expenditures As first step the utilities definite ments for factory ders to supply capable of Next Monday night Is the one night of the year spooks goblins and jack hold forth in Centralist and the witches and lins and jack carriers will be permitted all the leeway sible but outside of that the city's 1938 Hallowe'en is going to be quiet Police Chief Milton Jastram announced today The police head's statement was in the form of a warning that acts of vandalism will be treated as during the next few days despite the fact the jack and pumpkin pie season is at hand Tearing down fences breaking lights defacing buildings ruining flower beds and causing general damage are strictly Jastram said He added thought should oe given to the property owners be- cause damage resulting from stunts costs just as much to repair in November as in any other month of the year Special Officers Hired Several special officers will be on duty Monday night and thies radio patrol cars will be the streets Residents are welcome to call the department for any seemly disturbances and they will get quick results Jastram said The police chief done by youngsters will mean in- In every case and those responsible wiU be prosecuted nnd the parents of the children will be forced to pay the damage He pealed to parents to talk to their children and explain the consequences of damaging pranks Residents are warned that from tonight until Monday night the parking of cars on residential streets an invitation windows and flat tires to torney culled attention to 1 ies that could be effected in that office by the work with one less em- ploying discretion in taking cases for prosecution Mr Ponder ed as u deputy prosecutor for a long period Mrs Well Received Mrs David Justice nominee for county clerk followed Mr Ponder nnd was well received She work in the assessor's office where she hns ment stated she has taught school in Lewis county where she lias ed most of her life nnd expressed confidence she could conduct the clerk's office efficiently with one less deputy than is now employed She added she never realized how big the county was until she en- present campaign dentally she has handicapped in covering the territory by not owning an automobile George Literal for er from the second district put forth liis liest efforts if elected He declared lie was for the Townsend plan which assertion brought quick A seeking llon as commissioner from the first district asked for support on his record discussed road work done term of office and oilier projects started which he hopes to complete Quick lie curd Harold Quick nominee for auditor reviewed his record as treasurer and called attention to the fact his system of calling rants hhs meant a saving to the county ill interest also that he lias made it a whenever possible to make all purchases of county supplies within lie county Jess Scherer for assessor gave a convincing talk Including ex- as deputy assessor and knowledge of land values James McCash for stale Girl Marries At Age of 10 Kentucky Child Changes things for Husband Who Is Widowed Coal Miner Head Stricken rin C BY BOB BURNS reason why Hollywood has made so many mistakes In Is because producers the public would like ever they did Now they're to take the advice of the theatre managers over the try because they realize managers are the boys that know what the public want Not long ago a visited a little town where his picture was being shown for the first time When the audience started to boo and hiss the picture the producer turned to the little manager and says Listen I de- clare I don't know what the public wants The manager says Well now that aint so hard to In this case they want their money back I Inc Unexpected Death Conies to Warden J Lewis Known as Square Deal Jim SALEM Ore Oct den James W Lewis of the gon stale penitentiary who Hie prison a model of orderliness and discipline throughout the tion and who from prison mutes nickname of Square Jim died here early today Warden Lewis had not been In good health for several For the past 10 days he had been slightly 111 with a cold and two ago his heart began o en He had left his bed each day and his death was unexpected Was Native of Oregon Warden Lewis was born in ton county near 09 years nnd much of Ills career had to cto with law and order He was appointed deputy warden of the slate penitentiary in 1919 by Dr n K Lee who mi Hospital Fire Proves Fatal Ky Oct Columbus has her child for a II lj u Johnson county health officer sold records I his office showed Birl IK 1C years old She married Monday to u conl niftier marriage license was ob- t here the girl's mother Mrs Grace Columbus who gave node's nge as At Dr said office records showed the girl was born in county 1928 The Rev W O Ratliff employed as a coal mine blacksmith said he pronounced the marriage vows in a1 simple hill country ceremony in front of a log cabin near here where the will live By Associated Press An American child was killed and her mother and sister ed In a Japanese air attack Octo- ber on a Lutheran Brethren mission belated reports received at Hankow disclosed today Phoebe Olive Nyhus was ed and her sister Ruth 8 and her mother were wounded the report said when Japanese planes de- stroyed the mission at southern Honan de- spite American flags marking the building i The report came from er Arthur Nyhus of Fertile la Hie only member of the family un- scathed In the bombardment He moved Jhe Injured survivors of his family to also In Honan where he telegraphed ed States Ambassador Nelson T Johnson at China's hew provisional capital China Won't Up A Central News Agency nese dispatch from Chungking said Generalissimo de- clared China would fight on and a decisive battle between a ed China and the Japanese armies would be fought west of the ent area of Japanese conquest The dispatch quoted a telegram sent by the Chinese from new headquarters somewhere west of fallen the people's central council at Chungking visional capital General Chiang's telegram re- affirmed China's decision to con- resistance until ultimate tory is achieved It discounted the loss of ton and Hankow and suld Japan's invasion nf soulli China was prompted by Column I Conference Plans Made Attendance of 200 Expected at Meeting of Social Workers Here Next Month i Child Loses Life in Second Speakers Listed Blaze in Institution Within Past Month Plans nre advancing rapidly for a regional meeting of the ton State Conference of Social Workers to be held in Centralia November 1C and 17 according to Miss Helen Rowe of Seattle secretary of the tion was here yesterday In connection with arrangements for the event An attendance of about 200 from nil counties west of the Cascades Is expected Mtss Rowe said From every angle phases of welfare work will be discussed at the con- ference by speakers prominent in state social security and welfare work as well as in county and state government YAKIMA which early Oct this morning out in the children's annex of St Elizabeth's hospital caused the death of Margaret R Flahaut year-old patient from despite the heroic efforts of the nurse In charge Miss Hattle rett and orderly and man Guy Thomas nnd Leonard Cohlman Fire In the linen chute of the main building caused much damage on the two upper floors on October 4 The child was In a croup under treatment for a throat ob- struction and asthma The blaw was discovered soon after midnight by the nurse who called the two men and used fire extinguishers so effectively the flames were un- der control when firemen arrived All children in the annex were carried to the main hospital building Cause of the fire not been determined but Chief Ray Hare considers defective wiring a possibility The little girl wu severely burni cd on her body and died seven hours The recently came to A preliminary program for the two-day conference reveals that leading speakers will Include Charles P Ernst state curity director and president of the American Public Welfare Dr Donald Evans di- the state health ment Don o Abel state WPA administrator Alexander B on director of industrial relations for group of com- panies San Francisco Art Carton president of the Washington state Association of County ers and Chapln Foster of lls chairman of the state ress commission Demo Denounced SEATTLE Oct central committee man Tom today de- Tom E Smith democratic county commissioner seeking re- election by name Smith's threat to dismiss ployes who fail tq vote the straight democratic flagrant and shocking attack at free ment He said watch to see If the corrupt invoked Smith told 100 who not back of the democratic would not con- on i Pane Column 4 Republicans Making Gains Advance Attributed to Voters Over Political Use of Relief Funds WASHINGTON Oct Sen John Townsend of Delaware chairman of the republican campaign committee said tor day voters in 15 states which had been called doubtful now were ing to the republican cause We are gaining ground every he said Republican peels are on the upgrade Townsend said the party's gains resulted from Voters disgust at what he termed the political ad- ministration of relief from dissatisfaction among farmers and from failure of the administration to increase employment materially To my he said con- ditions in New York look very I believe It Is possible to elect a governor and or two senators there Other Gains Noted If this trend keeps up we may win in Connecticut New shire New Jersey Pennsylvania and Ohio If the upsurge continues we also may take Indiana and Illinois In the west I think we have a very decided advantage in Kansas South Dakota North Iowa Wisconsin Oregon and California Farmers of are very much dissatisfied with conditions and with the low prices for crops In industrial centers persons are disappointed because they have been unable to get work Minera Output Is Increased in State OLYMPIA Oct tion of minerals Hi Washington during 1831 showed the In the state the total value being 053 compared with in 1936 -J Pink director of servation and development said day Gold production last year was 310 ounces valued at ah increase of more than percent over 1936 Production of silver was ounces with ounces valued at 814 In Killed v Two Uon caused damage
