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...Tacoma, Wash, (population 106,817) has had more than its share of major kidnappings (George Weyerhaeuser in 1935, Charles Mattson in 1936), does not think highly of the way newspapers and radio cover this kind of news. After the Mattson boy was murdered the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce publicly censured reporters and editors for "gross mistakes that many people believe may have prevented the return of this child unharmed" (TIME, Feb. 8, 1937). Last week crime news was worrying Tacomans again, but this time they were afraid they weren't getting enough...
...Tacoma's new Police Commissioner Holmes Eastwood announced that publicity given the arrest of a Texas cop-killer had helped his pal escape, handed down an order forbidding any member of his force to talk about or show records on "serious" crimes to Tacoma's two newspapers (Times, News Tribune & Sunday Ledger) and one radio news service (KMO). Reporters who had lolled for years on desks in the detective bureau were chased out as "loiterers...
Fifty-one voters of Milton, Wash. (Tacoma suburb) last week marked their ballots for one Boston Curtis, Republican candidate for precinct committeeman. Boston Curtis was elected. Milton's Mayor Kenneth Simmons, a Democrat, chortled hugely. He, who had sponsored Candidate Curtis and filed his papers, had proved his point that voters "have no idea whom they support." Boston Curtis is a large brown mule...
William Allen Reed, Tacoma, Washington--Stadium High School...
...Arriving in Tacoma full of beans after junketing in Alaska, PW Administrator Harold Ickes last week jumped into the intra-Democratic dogfight with an unexpected assault upon tart old Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. "The reactionary press," said Mr. Ickes, "hails this 'rugged individual' as another Horatius-at-the-Bridge because of his bitter attacks on economic policies of the Government. Yet no Senator comes oftener and with more insistence for PWA grants than this same Senator Glass." From his home in Lynchburg, back cracked Senator Glass, overflowing with indignation and invective: "Secretary Ickes has become a confirmed...