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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-03-27
TELEGRAPH BRIEFS

Paris.-Extraordinary precautions
to guard against great Zeppelin raid
on Paris while super war council of
allies is in session taken by French
military authorities.
Copenhagen. - Small German
steamer Greta struck mine and sank
outside GOItzlOw, with loss of about
10 lives
Pittsburgh, Pas men instantly
killed, another fatally injured and
others suffered minor cuts and
bruises today when train on B. & O.
railroad ran into gang of Iaborers.
Baraboo, Wis.-LoIa B. Whitmore,
%, of Utica, N. Y, and Caroline Du-
ror, q, of New York City, graduates
of geological department of Chicago
University, killed by Chicago &
Northwestern passenger train. Walk
ing on tracks.
Washington. - Thomas J. Pence;
sec'y democratic national committee,
dead
PottsviIIe, Pa--FisEy COWS have
been prevalent here since Sheriff ].
P. Murphy emptied more than 1000
barrels of beer from bankrupt Heimb
Brewing Co. into stream running
through pasture.
Philadelphia - Pres. Wilson has
another granddaughter. A daugh-
ter, Eleanor Arson, was born to Mr..
and Mrs. Francis BOwes Sayre here
president wired CONCENTRATIONS, !
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-03-27

LABOR TO DEMAND PLACE Ar
WORLD PEACE COUNCIL
Washington, March II. Labor's
peace congress call was sent out by
American Federation of Labor for an
assembly of workers to meet at the
same time and place the beIigerents
meet to make terms which end the
world war and to demand that the
peace delegates of warning nations
determine nothing touching the lives
Ofg the workers without taking coun-
sci with them.
The Labor's peace congress was
first proposed by the executive coun-
Gil of the federation and approved at
the national convention in San Fran
cisco last year.
The call declares:
Eve are not UnmindfUI of the is
sues involved for which men are Civ
ing their lives. We, too, have been
confronted by national problems
which have grown out of war condi-
tons, and now our great concern is
that out of the horrors, the suffering,
the destruction of war there shall
come greater opportunity, freedom
and protection for those who do the
worlds work-the toilers of all coun-
tries.
''The workers can refuse to be the
victims of the blunderers, the evil
plans, the ambitions Of those respon-
sible for this var. In their struggle
against oppression have been born
warnings for human freedom, for
better opportunities, for justice in
life and work. ..
"In appreciation of their dignity
and value, it is the duty of wage.
earners to make demands upon the
world assembled in the next world
congress that nothing touching the
lives of the workers shall be deter
mined without taking counsel with
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19
WIN TICKETS FOR
MASSIVE MOVIE
SHOW AT TACOMA

Four more contestants won
prizes of two tickets apiece to the
great photoplay spectacle "Civi-
lization" Monday, by being the
first to bring to The Times office,
Immediately after nine O'Clock In
the morning, mis-spelled words
found in the classified ads on The
Times classified page, with their
correct spelling.
The successful ones were: Ed
gar Anderson, 5639 South L; AL
len Porter, Bcstwick Hotel; Rus
sell Butler, 937h Commerce st.;
Miss L. Brown. TO South 18th.
The same offer is made by The
Times for each day of the run of
Civilization"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19
WATER
Low IN
RIVERS

Electric juice from Taco
mas power plant on the
Nisqually river is hauling all
street cars i'm this city Tues
day afternoon and evening,
besides furnishing motive
power for nearly half the
electric cars in Seattle.
The Stone-Webster interests,
.acing an unusual shortage of wa
ter in White river, which sup
plies the Lake Taps power plant,
and Puyallup river, supplying
Electron, was so hard pressed for
electric current Tuesday that it
made an urgent request for mu-
nicipal power.
The city agreed to sell 5000
kilowatts of current for period
of IL hours, commencing Tues
day afternoon. The price, under
emergency rates, will be $27 an
hour.
This is the first time that the
city has been asked to furnish
current for operating street cars
of the Tacoma Railway & Power
Co.
The cut-over is simplified be-
cause large switches were in
stalled last winter when the city
and power company signed a
franchise-contract by which either
corporation could purchase emer-
gency electricity from the other.
Operate Extra Dynamos.
Last Saturday, when the short
age of water first became evil
dent. the city furnished $500
kilowatts of current to the street
car company, simply for expert
mental purposes.
Two sets of generators at the
LaGrande station were put to
work, operating separately from
the two generators furnishing
juice to the city for domestic and
commercial purposes.
This current was brought to
Tacoma on the auxiliary trans
mission line, and turned directly
over to the T. r. & p. Co.
Steam Plant Running.
At Q o'clock Tuesday morning
the Stone-Webster people made
their first appeal to the city for
emergency current. They re-
ported that low water in the
rivers was causing their reser-
voir storage to decrease at an
alarming rate.
Although there are three hydro
electric plants under control of
the syndicate-Lake Taps, Elec-
tron and Snoqualmie-there was
not enough juice from the COM
bined system to operate cars in
Tacoma and Seattle.
The company has already
started its steam auxiliary plant
at Georgetown and may be forced
to get its Tacoma steam plant
ready for operation, IL the low
water crisis continues.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19
Women Will
Meet to Talk
Bread Trouble

NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-House-
wives from every corner of the
United States. have been asked to
meet in New York next Monday at
the session of the national bread
committee of the National House
wives League in an effort to de-
termine what steps shall be taken
to meet the increased cost of
bread.
Gloom hangs over New York
bakers today for, despite the fact
that they have shown figures in.
tended to prove that an increase in
the price of their product is nee
essary to their existence, they
face investigation by the federal
trade commission and ordinance
enactment by the board of alder
men prescribing the sale of bread
by weight rather than by the loaf.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19
CLUB TO
APPEASE
UNIONS

Will the labor unions of Taco
ma and the Tacoma Commercial
club wipe out past resentments
and get together to work in har-
mony for the interests of the
city?
This proposition, suggested
editorially by The Times recent
ly, is being put before the Gen.
trail Labor Council and the vari-
GUS unions of the city this week.
If an understanding can be
reached, 1t may result in the for
nation of a labor bureau of the
Commercial club, through which
organized labor may take hand
in the clubs activities.
The law and order" resolution
of the Commercial club, which,
organized labor claims, was aim
ed directly at the longshoremen
i'm an attempt to discredit them,
and which has caused the great
est resentment, is the chief thing
which stands in the way of har-
mony.
Plan Up to Unions.
The harmony plan Is up to
the unions as the result of con-
ference in the Commercial club
last night between the clubs
trustees and IA representatives of
Tacoma labor organizations, in
Guiding the president and secre-
tary of the Central Labor Council,
officers of the railway mems or
CARNATIONS and representatives of
the striking longshoremen and
lumber handlers.
The conference was called at
the invitation of the clubs trus-
tees, who tried to explain their
law and order" statement,
which, they said, had led to
MISUNDERSTANDING.
J. T. S. Lyle, the clubs spokes-
man, declared the statement was
not aimed at the strikers, but was
only declaration for law and
order in the city.
The union men, while not COM
pletely satisfied that the trustees
had not acted through prejudice
against the strikers, agreed to
report the conference to their or
CARNATIONS. They declared the
clubs resolution clearly had sent
out the impression that the long
shoremen favored violence.
Those Present.
Among those who attended the
conference were w. e. Horn,
president of the Central Labor
Council; Rea Last, secretary;
j. ID. Smythe, secretary, of the
railway engineers; ID. l.. Richard
son, secretary. of the railway
trainmen; w. T. Morris, T.. j.
Bjorklund, A. C. Hill, c. H. Grant
and Arne Jones, representing the
longshoremen.
A committee of the Commercial
club, including r. d. Mcdonald,
chairman; w. II. Pringle and j..
T. 8. Lyle, is investigating the
feasibility of the proposition.
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WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. 10
Only 1875 persons out of every
1000 in the United States died
during 1915, according to figures
by the census bureau today
This constitutes the lowest
mortality rate ever recorded in
this contry.
OF the states reporting, Wash
ington shows the best record,
with 81 deaths to the thousand.
'The widespread awakening of
the people throughout the United
States" said the bureau, "togeth-
er with the progress in medicine
and sanitation has resulted in the
saving of 10000 lives during the
year over 1905, decade ago.
The most striking decrease dur
ing the period was registered in
Rhodes Island, 1913 per cent. New
York follows with falling off of
14.6, New Jersey 14.3, Massa-
chusetts 1871, Indiana 3.S per
cent. Chicago showed a slight in
crease of AS of one per cent.
Among cities of 100000 or
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19
I. R & p Power Plants Crippled: City Carries Load
Tough Job, This
Sending Thousand
Strikers to Jail

The Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul railway is having a desperate
time trying to land the thousand
odd members of the Tacoma
Longshoremen's union in jail;
and the longshoremen so far ap-
parently are having it all their
own way.
No long ago the railway tried
to have the officers and members
of the union punished for con-
tempt of court, alleging they had
violated the restraining order is
sued Aug. IA.
Federal Judge Frank Rudkin
put the kibosh on the railways
hopes.
Now New Move
He ruled that the only way the
longshoremen could be punished
would be to have criminal charges
brought against each individual
member, stating distinct viola
lions Of the restraining order.
Also he held that contempt pro-
ceedings could not be brought by
a civil action against the whole
bunch.
Meanwhile Assistant District
Attorney Fishburne isn't ready to
load 1000 separate criminal cases
on his own hands.
Now the railroad, despairing of
getting Judge Rudkin to punish
the strikers. is off on a new tack.
1t is going to try Judge Cushman
on the same thing when he re-
turns from the south.
So the railway has filed an
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amended complaint" in the same
action, together with Ia affidavits
from strikebreakers, and has Sc
cured another order citing all the
Officers and members of the Long
shoremen's union to appear Oct.
8 and show cause why they should
not be punished for contempt.
Oct. is the day Judge Cush-
man gets back to Tacoma.
In addition to all the officers,
representatives and members of
Tacoma union, these men are also
cited to appear:
John Doe, George Doe, Patrick
Roe, Thomas Roe, Frank Roe,
Hans Roe, Peter Roe, Michael,
Roe, Charles Roe and Henry Roe.
BY some error Shad Roe was
omitted.
A Lovely Time Coming
Marshal Boyle didn't have the
time Tuesday to chase out after
the Doe Brothers and their cous-
ms, the Roe family, so he con-
tented himself with serving the
order on the longshoremen's at
torneys, Homer Bone and Govnor
Teats.
The Roe brothers and their
friends the longshoremen are
smiling up their sleeves. For
Judge Rudkin happens to be up
held in his decision by no less a
body than the United State SUI
preme court.
The Milwaukee is going to have
a lovely time landing those 1000
longshoremen in jail.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19
u. s. WOULD SMASH 4
ANTHRACITE TRUSt

WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. 10.
the Reading combin-
alton is the backbone of an al
legged anthracite monopoly, that
1t controls about two-thirds of
the anthracite deposits and that
its supply will outlast many years
that of any other producer, the
government today filed In the U.
s. supreme court it's brief asking
for complete separation of the
Reading Co.. the Philadelphia &
Reading Railways Co.. the Phila-
delphia & Reading Coal & Iron
Co. and others.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19
JOHNSON
CONTROLS
United Press Correspondent.

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Sept. 19.
Governor Hiram w. Johnson,
repu blcan nominee for United
Str .es senator, will undoubtedly
dominate not only the republican
state convention but also the pros
gressive state convention when
they meet at 2 o'clock this after
noon ~
1t is doubtful IL a score of
voices will be raised against any
motion of the administration in
the convention.
The conventions of the five par
ties, repu blican, progressive, DEM
ocratic, prohibition and socialist,
were to have met at 10 o'clock
this morning, but were postponed
at the last moment until 2, in orr
der to give additional time for
caucuses and lining up of dele
gates.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19
SEEK TO AVERT A
GENERAL STRIKE

tImftcd Press Leased Wtre)
NEW YORK, Sept. 19.--Mayor
Mitchell and Oscar Straus, chair
man of the public service COM
mission. are to meet today in the
first of a series of conferences
with committees from the cham
Der Of commerce and the Mer-
chants association, in an effort
to avert sympathetic strike,
again threatened by more than
half million workers.
Two hundred motormen and
conductors on the New York q
Queens County electric railway
struck at midnight and the SER
vice was demoralized today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19
PREDICTS BATTLE
OF LAND "FLEETS'

tInited Press LEAKED Wfre.1
: LONDON, Sept. 19.--Great bat
ties between whole fleets of land
dreadnaughts may result from the
introduction of the new tanks"
or motor car monsters in the
Somme fighting by the British, a
London Times correspondent at
British headquarters suggested
today.
\ I'm one short hour" the cor
respondent wired, 1.-THE tanks did
more military service and killed
more enemy in uniform than all
the Zeppelins have ever DONE"
Only one of the "tanks" was
destroyed in the somme fighting.
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billings May Testify.
HUGHES AGAIN ON
STUMP, IN PEORIA

PEORIA, ILL.,. Sept. ia
Nominee Hughes chose Peoria as
the city from which to hurl forth
today the first speech OF his sec
ond presidential campaign tour.
In an hours sermon on the ma
tons needs and future, he enun-
ciated practically every one of his
doctrines on Americanism, a pro-
tective tariff, adequate laws COW
ering labor and fair treatment to
legitimate business.
The G. o. P. candidate was
plainly pleased to get back to
campaigning again.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19
SERBS ON
OWN SOIL

LONDON, Sept. 10. - Allied
troops have crossed the Serbian
frontier at two places and are ad-
vancing against the Bulgarian
base at Monastir. Serbian SOL
diers are fighting on their native
soil for the first time since their
retreat through Albania last win
ter. They have captured a series
of heights from the Bulgars at
Kamakchalan and have crossed
the Serbo-Greek border north of
Lake Ostrovo.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19
GOLFER KILLS BIG
CARP WITH TEE SHOT

BEDFORD SPRINGS, Pa,
Sept. he. s. Kuhn of the
Stanton Heights Golf club,
Pittsburg, told how when he
was playing the third hole,
which Is across a water haz-
ard, the other day his tee
shot landed In the water and
killed a four-pound German
carp, which was coming up
to feed.
He said his caddy waded
into the water and returned
with the fish, which he ate
for dinner.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19
STAFF OF TAHOMA
NAMED BY EDITOR

The staff of Tahoma, high
school magazine. for 1917, was
completed Monday by Editor-in-
chief Sanford Martin. and is as
follows: Marian Selby, Delmar
Haverkamp, Edward Cushman,
Esther Whittier, Grace Twichell,
Margaret Brady, Catherine Hunt,
Jeanne Geiger, Margaret Craig,
Esther Snyder, Hays Rehm, Anita
Wheeler, Mary Perry, Darrell
Smith, Harrison Clark.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19
INTERSTATE HRIDGE
SCAFFOLD FALLS

United Press Leased Wire.)
VANCOUVER, Wash, Sept. 49,.
-Workmen on the interstate
bridge over the Columbia were
suffering today from broken
bones sustained when their scat
folding dropped and they fell 40
feet to rocky earth. Work on
the bridge is not interfered with.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19
HILL BACK
FROM RUSSIAN TRIP

Quilted Prees Leased Wire.)
PORTLAND. Ore, Sept. 19.--
Returning from vladivostok, Sam
uel Hill. Portland capitalist,
reached home today after two
months in Russia. II was report
ed he had charge of transporting
war munitions across Siberia.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19
ACCUSED
A
DOUBLE
: tUni,sd Pres. Leased Wire,

(United Press Leased WIre)
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10. -
BY calling the double" of War
rem X. Billings to the witness
stand, the defense in the murder
trial resulting from the prepared
ness day bomb plot today opened
a wide breach in the states chain
of evidence.
Shortly after the defense OPEN
ed its case. Attorney Maxwell Nc
Mutt called to the witness stand
AL DeCassia, a clerk. De Cassia
bears remarkable resemblance
to Billings. He testified that 10
was he. and not Billings, whom
the prosecution witnesses saw on
the roof at 721 Market street Just
before the explosion.
Same Features.
The same high cheek bones,
straight nose and peculiar inden-
tation OF the forehead by which
state witnesses had identified
Billings were prominent charac-
teristics of the defense's new witt
ness.
De Cassia testified that II was
he who leaned over the edge OF
the roof and waved at pedestrians
below. The people he hailed were
not Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Mooney.
bomb plot suspects, but were com.
panions who worked for the same
firm on Market street.
Illustrates Gestures.
While the audience which pack
ed the court room watched with
tense interest, De Cassia climbed
on chair, leaned over the edge
and initiated the gestures which
states witnesses testified were
made by Billings.
- The only other person on the
roof with him at the time, De
Cassla testified was a photograph
err, carrying a small black camera.
who remained there until 4
O'Clock. II
Billings May Testify. =
Attorney McNutt intimated that
Billings himself may take the
stand this afternoon or tomor-
row.
Thomas Dodge, a motion pic
ture man, contradicted the testf-
mony of Traffic Policeman Moore
that Moore had talked to Mooney
In front Of 721 Market street.
The defense called John Nc.
Donald. the states star witness,
who again denied telling any one
OF three men that the police had
paid him for his testimony.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19
BRITISH VESSELS
SENT TO BOTTOM

VUnIteu FrtNb IeuHeu MTTr,J .
LONDON, Sept. 19.-The Brit
ish steamers Dewa and Lord Ire
degar have been sunk. The Dewa
displaced 1902 tons and was $50
feet long. She was registered at
London. The Lord Tredegar dis
placed 1856 and was 3S5 feet
long.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19
VIOLENT BATTLE ON

Omitted Press Leased Wire.)
PARIS, Sept. ia most vi
olent battle is going on between
the Italians and Bulgarians east
of Beles mountains in Macedonia,
said an official statement issued
here today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19

You'll find the very latest on
today's big league games in The
Times Pink tonight.
Watch for The Pink sport edi-
ton.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19
Get The LATEST IN BIG
LEAGUE PENNANT RACES

The races for the American
league and National league PEN
nants are growing hotter every
day, Each new game is likely to
upset the entire dope.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19

The Jerome volunteer fire de-
partment was called out at 10
o'clock this morning to extinguish
Mexican woman. The Prescott
lark Journal-Miner.
Oh, see Chestnut Charlie!
He has moved from page .
OF page 0. 4
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19
Randall Parrish

can write stories about the
early days in the upper
Mississippi valley that are
not only mighty entertaining.
but are historically informa-
tive.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19
FLASHES
lUnIted Pres. Leased wire)

NUnNeu Press Leased Wfre)
CHICAGO-Wheat prices re-
NAMED down today, due to freer
shipments from India and Aus
tralia and a reduction in Argen-
tina wheat prices. September was
unchanged over the low opening;
December down lac at $1.47
ga; May down lac at S1.4S IA.
CHICAGO - Federal officers
admitted today that four of those
held here in connection with OPP
erations of an international black
mailing syndicate might be re-
leased because of lack of evil
dence.
NEW YORK - United States
Steel common set another new
record price at 100 a share on the
stock exchange Tuesday after
noon.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19
ATTACKS REPULsTD

United Press Leased Wire.)
SOFIA, Sept. 19.-The repulse
of all allied attacks around the
Greek town OF Florina was an
inounced by the Bulgarian war Of
flee today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19
TACOMA'S is 80 PCT.

Tacoma's death rate is far be-
low the average.
Statistics in the city health Of
flee show that sos persons died
here during 1915, or an average
of S.9 deaths thousand inhabit-
ants.
This rate is lower than the
death rate of 1914. Deaths per
thousand capita have been stead
lily decreasing in Tacoma during
the past six years.
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Washington's Death
Record Best In i. S.

more inhabitants, the tendency
was still greater toward reduc-
ton. Newark, N. j., showed a
decrease Of 1896 per cent; New
York City 26.OS; Los Angeles % !;
Jersey City 24.9; Pittsburg 23.9;
st. Louis 22.9; Denver 22.7; Pat
terson. N. j., 21..9; San Francis
co 21S.
Minneapolis showed an in
creased death rate of 1871 per
cent during the decade; Detroit,
per cent; st. Paul, Z; Toledo,
III; Albany, 81, and Omaha, 6.1.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19

ANY OLD BACHELOR WITH
PLENTY OF MONEY CAN OBJ
TAIN A SITUATION AS A HUS-
BAND.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19
TODAY'S CLEARINGs
Talk o the Times

Greetings, have you had
enough corn ON cob to last
over until another season?
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It's time to burn up the stick
fly paper.
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Beyond the
Frontier

is one of his latest and best.
And II is the next noyel-a-
week to appear in The Times.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19

Even the city council has
found out now about the
abolition OF free phones in
stores.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19

Just put yourself in Adams place
Without blooming cent,
With winter coming ON apace,
And not q house for rent!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-09-19

Uncle Sam now operates
railroads In Alaska, Panama
and Manila. Next!