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...thought it up-Professor Frederick Kurt Kirsten of the University of Washington. Born in Saxon Germany 55 years ago, Frederick Kirsten once terrified the town of Grossenhain by enveloping it in a smoke screen, ran away to sea at 17 in a three-masted windjammer, jumped ship in Tacoma with $1.50 in his pocket. He first sought shelter with a farmer whose daughter he eventually married. Someone persuaded him to enter the University of Washington. He worked his way through the school of electrical engineering, putting in eight hours a day as a power station operator, graduated...
...Hence War Materials Coordinator Ed Stettinius saw to it that U. S. vessels were put in the Russian service last week. For further encouragement to Russia, about two-thirds of a shipment of machine tools, dies and machinery, deemed unnecessary to U. S. defense, were released in Tacoma for shipment to Vladivostok. Other shipments of standard, easily replaceable machine tools were expected to follow...
Rochester, Wash. (pop. 300) is a flag stop 60 miles from Tacoma. Rochester is also the home town and laughingstock in trade of Dave James, 30-year-old Tacoma News-Tribune humorist, whose sly exaggerations are as American as roasting ears, would have tickled Artemus Ward, Mark Twain or Will Rogers...
Meanwhile Dave progressed to $25 a week as editor and business manager of the Shelton Independent. One day the Tacoma News-Tribune phoned, asked how he would like to go to work there. Stunned, Dave James managed to gulp: "Yes." News-Tribune condition: Dave must write at least one Rochester tale a week...
Happier than the Tacoma's crew were five Chinese laundrymen off the Spee, who were found asleep below decks on the Tacoma when Uruguayan naval authorities boarded her. They, looking innocent, were not interned. They hoped for the same treatment which Uruguay gave to 108 Chinese crewmen of the German merchantmen Anatolia and Nienburg, who mutinied, refused to sail out of Montevideo when war was declared. Last week Uruguay shipped them on the Italian Oceania to Genoa, whence another Italian vessel will take them to Shanghai...