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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01
SPECIALIZING
AT PRESIDE
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SAN FRANCISCO, June L.
Plans for the reorganization of
companies at the Preside train
ing camp SO that instruction may
be specialized are in progress to-
day.
Tomorrow two additional COM
panies will be formed from 400
national guardsmen who will ar
rive to take up training and on
June 1b the men will be assigned
to infantry, cavalry, artillery and
engineer companies for the re-
mainder of the training.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01
PETITION FOR
RATE INCREASE

OLYMPIA, June Asking for
a flat raise of Is per cent in the
freight rates throughout the state,
Is railroads have filed petitions
with the state public service COM
mission.
They base their claim for high
err rates on the contention that
the Adamson law will make them
bankrupt If the freight rates are
not raised.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01
GOES ON
BOND FOR WELLs;

SEATTLE, June 1.-Hulet NJ.
Wells, former president of the
Seattle Labor Council, who was
arrested this week and charged
with circulating anti-draft litera-
ture, was suspended yesterday
from the Seattle light department,
where he was employed. Wells
obtained his liberty on a $1,000
bond.
Rev. Sydney Strong of the
Queen Anne Congregational
church, a prominent pacifist, was
Que of the men behind the bond.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01
LUMBERMEN PREPARING

Confident that definite regarding the construction
wooden ships the Pacific shaped that they
will deal direct with the the sale of the material
West Coast umbmen will hold specially called meeting Ia
Monday $50
1000 where the negotiations direct
Teegraphic ades Robert Allen, of asoc
alton who is in daily communication with the department at Wash
the received yesterday
telling Col Goeha had asked West Coast umbemen advise
him what they would do furnishing lumber for sixty
wooden ships $3 O0O recommended by the lumber
national council O defense.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01
TELLS CONDITIONS
AT INSTITUTION

PUYALLUP, June &c. Dove
McQuestan of the state board OF
control will be the speaker at the
Monday MONDAY luncheon of the
Puyallup Commercial club, June
4. General conditions in the in
stitutions will be described.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01
PRESIDENT BUYS
$4,000 IN BONDS

WASHINGTON, d. c., June L.
II make this with great salts
faction, but wish it were larger, y
said President Wilson in letter
to Secretary Of the Treasury Nc
Adoo in subscribing to $4,000
worth of Liberty bonds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01
| ROTARY CLUB Is
ASKING HOLIDAY

The Rotary club has passed a
resolution asking that June 8 be
observed as a holiday, provided II
does not interfere with the neces-
sary work of Tacoma factories.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01

King Gustav V. and Queen Vic
toria of Sweden, it is reported, are
ready to flee the country in case
of revolution. Two warships
are near the royal palace to take
the royal couple away. Revolt may
be due to the German leanings of
the monarchy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01
Here and Elsewhere

Wong Hing of Seattle, a tong
man, who was found guilty of
murder, was sentenced by Judge
Dunno of San Francisco Thurs
day. He is the first tong man
to receive a death sentence In that
city.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01

TURN To THE CLlSSIFTED
RESULTS. SEE PAGE SEVEN.
WANT ADS ON PAGE z FOR
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American hospital opened at
Paris, under American Red Cross.
DR.. Cora, dentist, 2O1 PrOvi.
dent. adv.
Prinz Eitel Griedrich and KrOn-
prinz Wilhelm, German CONNER
cial raiders in U. S. ports, will be
used by the navy. Five others
will be used for GOLFERS and cargo
carriers.
Harvard university will not
close next year as rumored, an
nounces President Lowell.
Chicago Dentists. DR.. Mark,
Mgr. 1124k Pac. av. adv.
Charles b. Gay, probation Of
ficer of Jackson county, Ore,
charged with contributing to de-
linquency of 16-year-old girl.
I0e . M. ~. ~ W crsce WV oiS
circus tents at American lake,
through funds obtained for war
Y. M. @. A. work.
Don't 60 fishing without a 47c
Compass. 1903 Pac. adv.
Auburn high school graduates
81 students, largest class in the
history OF the school.
Whitman college will open Sep
temper 10, and plans to continue
all school work as In times OF
peace.
Lumber, Sash, Doors. Keystone
I.br Co. adv.
Washington congressman all
vote against censorship bill,
Where's the sig?-thus: E. W..
his way east after attending Sena-
tor Lanes funeral.
We give s. & II. Green Stamps.
Palace Hardware Co., l5ll FAC
Aye adv.
Kenneth l.. Fenton. Stanford
graduate, attorney of Seattle,
killed Thursday night after a fall
of 10 feet to a concrete ledge.
War department asks railroads
not to encourage conventions, so
as to aid the war department In
moving troops and freight.
War Bread-fOO per cent nu-
triton. Duenwald's, 1112 Broad
nov adv.
Gen. SoukhomlinOff, ex-ninister
of war of Russia, is charged with
giving the enemy aid. HIS wlie Is
charged with the same offense'
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01
COMMERCIAL BlNDERY q
PRINTING co. Main AT. adv

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Grover
Cleveland Wall, 1896 East Howe
street, May 10, girl; Mr.. and Mrs.
George d. Brison, 6036 South
Warner St, May rs, twin boys.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01
PROBE PASTORS LETTER

letter Ito the man. dealing with the conscientious
supposedly of the
Plymouth Seattle to
u. S District Attorney Clay Allen by Lieut. Gov. Hart
The advise that must be governed by
which authority church
has right without their permission also said to specify
which objections based such opposition
a
faith belief that the unjust the
surrender OF American rights
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01
POOR: KILLS HIMSELF

Rather than depend others to the county
II, ended his life Thursday little
where he lived alone.
Ill Wednesday when ambulance went
hospital with bullet in his
a willing all the he possessed 81
Stark who keeps boarding house by and
befriended him him food.
having wife and several children
Chicago He worked in the Hague box factory until
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01
LOTS OF PARADE MUSIC

Bishop F. W. Keator will be the
registration
double quartet composed
religious patriotic
during parade and a the Stadium
will furnish music for the parade, and
Washington regmental band
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01

DIR. COMA, dentist, col Provi.
dent. adv.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01
WOMEN DRIVERSPARADE

A. the motor division OF
Womens Service will form of the big
expected
machines each,
will be in line.
Anderson, general chair
chairman of detachmen Besides the
drivers division
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01

Women of the First Baptist
church sewed for the Red Cross
Friday afternoon at the church.
American hospital opened ut
Paris, under American Red Cross.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01

Gen. Soukhomlinoff, ex-minister
of war of Russia, is charged with
giving the enemy aid. His wife Is
charged with the same offense.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01

War Bread--tOO per cent nu-
triton. Duenwald's, 1112 Broad
wov adv.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01

Prinz Eitel Griedrich and Kron-
prinz Wilhelm. German CONNER
cial raiders in U. S. ports, will be
used by the navy. Five others
will be used for GOLFERS and cargo
carriers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01

Charles Ii. Gay, probation Of
ficer of Jackson county, Ore,
charged with contributing to de-
linqnency Of 16-year-old girl.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01

Harvard university will not
close next year as rumored, an
nounces President Lowell.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01

Chicago Dentists. DR.. Mark,
Mgr. ll24h Pac. av. adv.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01

The Y. nj. G. A. to erect two big
circus tents at American lake,
through funds obtained for war
Y. M. @. A. work.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-06-01

Don't go fishing without a 47C
Compass. 1903 Pac. adv.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-31
PR0GRESSIVES WILL
MEET DESPITE WAR
No Intention of Abandoning
Convention April II, 13
and IA at st. Louis.

NEW YORK, March 3O.-Hcad-
quarters of the national Progressive
party. OF which Matthew Hale is act
ing chairman, gave out a statement
today saying lin spite of the interna-
tional crisis" there was no intention
to abandon the national convention,
fixed for April Il. l3 and II at st.
Louis.
Accompanying the statement was a
copy of a letter from President Will
soE to Chairman Hale, which was
cited to show that the president has
no fear that political activity and
the holding of the convention at this
time might embarrass the president
while he and his advisers are zeal
ously looking after our foreign af-
fairs"
The letter, dated March %, reads:
1T would give me genuine pleasure
to attend the projected convention at
st, Eouis on April II next, If the cir
CumStancos were not so unusual as
the present / am sure that you will
agree with me in judgment that in
view of the most recent developments
of our foreign relations it is impera-
tive that | should devote all my thot
aud energy to my duties here II
Washington and that probably it is
to the best interests of the country
that / should think only of those
duties and not turn to occasion of the
sort to which you invite me, i'm
portant as they are.
II am proud, indeed, to have you
feel as you do that / have proved
myself the leader of the liberal forces
of the country. Such assurances make
me very grateful and give me the
deepest encouragement"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-31

FIRST RIGHT, THEN
SENTIMENT-WILSON
President SAYS It Tears NV ucart'
Not To BE Able To Pardon
C;minctti.

WASHINGTON March 30,-Presi-
dent wilson has written Mrs Anthony
Camine,ti the reasons why he could
not pardon her son, f. Drew Cant
netti. convicted at San Francisco OF
violating the Mann white slave Jaw.
The presidents letter to Mrs. Can't
nett, SAID.
at tears my heart to have to say
TO you that | cannCt see my way clear
to pardon your son. If I followed
The dictates Of my heart or allowed
myself to be influenced by my senu-
inc friendship for yourself and your
husband. ! would of course do 1t. but
m matters OF this sort II seems to
me my imperative duty to leave per
sonal feelings and connections out of
the question entirely and look ut the
matter from the public point of View
with regard to the influence 1t would
Lave upon other cases.
When / look az the case of your
son from this point of view, 1t seems
to me clearly my duty TO withhold a
pardon"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-31
GAS COMPANIES HIT
BY BUTTERFIELD LAW
Governor Signs Measure For
bidding Chargin" of Mini
mum Rate for Supply.
Special TO The World.

Special TO The World
OKLAHOMA CITY. March 30
Governor Williams signed the Butter
field bill this evening prohibiting a
minimum charge for gas service In
the state.
This is perhaps the most important
piece of legislation affecting the con-
sumption Of gas for domestic purposes
that has ever been passed by an Ok
lahoma legislature. II requires dis
tributing gas companies to make a
charge for only the amount of gas
actually consumed.
Governor Williams also signed the
bill that permits organization or
boards of trade thruout the state.
which was asked for by the farmers
of the state, and the following other
measures
Senate bill 439, providing for sol
dicrs and sailors to vote when away
from home and on army duty.
Senate bill eos, providing penalties
for noncompliance with the corpora
ton commission license law
House bill 47S, permits boards of
county commissioners to select and
designate public roads for improve.
ments.
House joint resolution Ia. redeems
interest on the first installment of the
1913 public building bonds. SOS, ,407. so.
House concurrent resolution 80,
authorizes payment to j. NJ. Hill. at
torney $4,000 for assistance in litiga-
tion Of the freight rate case.
House bill SAG, relating to the sale
of fish and hunting licenses
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-31
DEMOCRATS SELECT
CLARK FOR SPEAKER
Champ Nominated for Re-
election at Caucus; Is Con-
fident of Election.

WASHINGTON, March go Champ
Clark was today nominated at the
Democratic caucus to succeed himself
as speaker of the house of represen-
tatiVcs
Mr. Clark is confident of re-elect-
tDn when the house meets Monday
There was no opposition to him today
nomination.
Representative Shackelfold, col
league, made the nominating speech
and the formality Of voting was dis
pensed with.
Mr.. Clark has been in congress more
than twenty years and has been
speaker for the last three congresses.
After the nomination the caucus
took up questions of house organiza-
fiOD
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-31
WINE FOR RELIGIOUS
SERVICES DETAINED
Express Company Refuses to
Deliver Liquor Until Rabbi
Makes Affidavit.

The congregation OF the Jewish
synagogue came near not having wine
for the weekly communion service
last night. The consignment arrived
yesterday by express. but the company
refused TO deliver it as it was sent
to an individual member of the con-
gresaticn.
Prohinitcry laws permit the impor-
tation Of spirituous liquors for sacra-
mental purposes. but provides that it
must be shipped to the minister,
priest or rabbi ot the church fo-
which it is to he used. After several
unsuccessful attempts yesterday oft
ernoon to get the wine from the oX-
press office 4 was finally released
upon an affi lavit of the rabbi that
the wine was TO be used in the re-
hgious service.
Many members Of the Jewish faitn
are beginning TO wonder how they will
procure wine for feast of the Passover,
which begins next Saturday and lasts
eight days. According to custom they
are expected TO drink wine with meals
on certain days during that period.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-31
FATE OF SEATTLE
OFFICERS TO JURY
Judge Instructs Jurors to Consider
Biilingslcy's Testimony on
Face Value.

SEATTLE, Wash. March 80. - The
whisky trial in which Mayor Hiram
c. GIL, Chief Of Police Charles C.
Peckinsham and four city detectives
are defendants charged With conspir-
acy to violate the federal liquor laws,
went TO the jury late today. The in
structions of the court were strenu-
ously objected to by the defense be-
cause they gave the jury liberty to
consider the testimony of the Billings
ley brothers, the principal government
witnesses, without regard to JneiI
criminal records in Oklahoma and
West Virginia, provided their tosti-
mony in the present case seemed true
and was confirmed by ether evidence.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-31
HALF MILLION IN
CHASE FOR SPIES
Government Calls Entire Force
of Federal Employees to
Hunt Germans.

WASHINGTON, March 80. Vir-
tually the entire force of the federal
governments civilian employees, ap-
proXimately five hundred thousand
men and women, engaged in every
branch of service, has been summoned
the secret service in the detection of
spies and the apprehension of persons
engaged in plots. intrigues or other
activities against the interests of the
United States
In addition the government has
sought the active cooperation Of the
police and detective forces of every
town and city Of consequence thruout
the country. Hundreds Of letters re-
questing such cooperation have been
mailed broadcast by the department
of justice and replies pledging un-
stinted aid are coming back in great
numbers by telegraph and mail.
The largest single force enrolled in
its nationwide spy hunt, with the
possible exception of the municipal
police and detective forces. is the
army of postmasters, all of whom
have been instructed to permit no
clue to go unreported. Under the
postmasters are the letter and rural
free delivery carriers. a force all told
of about three hundred thousand men.
Instructions to the federal employees
call for the prompt reporting to au-
thorities of all information, no matter
how minor it appears. which might
seem to furnish clues in ferreting out
agents of foreign governments. Under
this head come letters passing thru
the mails, kilograms and even over
heard scraps of conversation, indi-
eating activity against the govern
ment. Such information will be
promptly forwarded to the investl-
eating body at Washington, the name
of the informant held secret, and an
inquiry quietly begun wherever in
vastipation Is warranted.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-31
TOWNSEND QUITS
POLICE POSITION
Assistant Chief Accepts Posi-
tion With Carter Oil Com
pany as Guard.
OFFICIALS ARE RETICENT
Indefinite Leave of Absence"
Says Chief; Purity Squad
Man in Oil Fields.

Assistant Chief of Police II. H.
Townsend, leader of the purity
squad captain of the raiding force
that killed Vernon Hatfield and other
wise a prominent figure in Tulsa, has
suddenly quit the department and
gone into the Gil fields to take charge
of squad of guards who are to pro-
tect the property of the Carter Oil
company from foreign INVASION"
The departure of Townsend was
guarded with the greatest secrecy. He
left the city Thursday night. To
avoid publicity he instructed police
department heads to refrain from Civ
ing out any information as to the
work he is now engaged in. Two Of
ficials of the Carter Oil company,
when called last night. denied any
knowledge of Townsend's connection
with that concern. Tho president, j..
Edgar Pew, could not be reached.
Nevertheless it is known that he il
ON their pay roll at a handsome
salary and that a residence in Cushing
is to be built for him if he likes the
work" 1t was the salary inducement
that caused him to quit the police de-
partment.
Cavitt Aware of 1t.
Municipal Judge Cavitt. confidant
mitted last night that Townsend had
departed on a ten day leave of alb
sence" but thot he was merely on a
vacation"
Chief of Police Lucas who had to
get out of bed to answer the phone,
said that Townsend had Deen granted
an indefinite leave" lie admitted
that his former Co-Workcr had accept
ed a position with n private corpora
ton, but said he was obliged to give
out no details. Townsend told him
before leaving, he said, that he prob
ably would not return to the police
department, altho mis- resignation has
not yet been filed. SO far as could be
learned last night.
He Put on the Lid.
Prior to Townscnd's advent on the
police force Tulsa had no assistant
chief. The office was created for him.
He was popularly believed to have
been the Y. NC. A. representative OF,
the police department. His work was
almost solely confined to running
down bootlegSers, closing up the red
light district and raiding gambling
Joints 1t was Townsend who first
clamped down the lid on Tulsa.
Whether or not a successor will he
appointed cannot be ascertained until
the period covered by the leave OF
absence has expired.
IL the meantime Capt. Dan Herring
will be next in command to Chief
Lucas.
No information concerning Town
send could be procured at police head :
quarters last night No one there
seemed TO know anything about it.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-31

PHILADELPHIA. March 80. -
Harry X. Thaw. having been ad1udged
insane by court of law, is "civilly
dead and cannot be tried for crime,
said James Gordon, representing the
Thaw family in opposition to efforts
to have Thaw extradited to New
York.
Hearing before Attorney General
Brown. representing the governor Of
Pennsylvania, to whom requisition for
Thaw's removal to New York has
been made by Governor Whitman to
stand trial for beating Frederick
Gump. jr.. a Kansas City school boy
Thaw recently was declared insane by
n philadelphia court.
He is in a local hospital. where he
was taken January IL. after trying TO
commit suicide.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-31
A BAD SIGN FOR KENNEDY
Oil Producer Hit by Falling Board
On Third Street.

When 3. L. Kennedy was struck on
the head by falling sign in from OF
the Tulsa Book store yesterday NOM
ing, he almost fell into an ambulance
which was standing on the cuIbing
where the accident occurred. Ken
nedy was on his way 10 work and had
Just passed beneath a sign over the
door of the bookstore when its sup
ports gave way.
one of the Mowbray ambulances
was standing within ten feet OF tho
place, having n glass door pu. in the
sash and as the sign struck Kennedy
to the pavement the attendant Jumped
from the scat and placed the injured
man in the u.bulance and rushed
him to the Oklahoma hospital.
From that institution last night
came the report that, while his IT.
!uries we're painful. due TO the deep
cuts and bruises, they We've not ex-
pected to prove fatal.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-31
TWO DIE WHEN AUTO
PLUNGES INTO DITCH
]. D. Cummings of Tulsa One
Victim of Spill Near Sa-
pulpa; Details Meager.

World Creek County Bureau.
SAPULPA, Okla, March 30.-John
d. Cummings. about so years old, of
Tulsa and Ed Bodkins, about 30, OF
Pumpkin Center were killed almost
instantly about O'Clock this after
noon when their auto struck a pipe
line and plunged down an embank-
ment.
The victims were buried beneath
the machine in a slough of crude oil
and were either drowned or suffo-
Gated The accident occurred near
Pumpkin Center, four miles north
west of here.
Passing autoists worked frantically
to rescue the men, but they were dead
when the auto was lifted from their
bodies No one saw the accident.
Cummings was identified by papers
found in his pockets. II is said ms
wife resides in Tulsa. They were EN-
ployed on a lease near Pumpin center.
There Is no John ID. cummings
listed in the city directory OF Tulsa.
II the man was a resident OF TINS CITY
he had moved here after the directory
was issued.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-31
Thaw "Civilly Dead, His Attorneys
Claim in Resisting New York Claim

A. l., Becker, deputy attorney-gen
eral of New York, and Assistant Dis
trict Attorney William II. Black OF
New York appeared In favor of the
extradi,ion, and J. B. Shannon, Kan
sas City, and William A. Gray, Phil
adelphia, represented the Gump
family.
Assistant District Attorney Black
and Deputy Attorney-General Becker
argued that the function of the gov
ernor was ministerial and legislative
and not judicial. and that under the
law he must grant the extradition.
Attorney shannon, representing the
boys family. said the mother of the
boy only wished that the activity Of
the Thaw family to have Thaw de-
clared insane had been begun before
lThaw met her son.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-31
FINS TO FORD PEACE TRIP
Robert BulOw OFF for Holland to
Close the Branch There.

GOTHENBERG Sweden. March 30
CVia LondonJ The last chapter in
tho history of the Ford peace com
mission efforts in Sweden, Denmark
and Norway was written today with
the departure of Robert Bulow for
Holland to close the branch there. He
had intended TO go overland thru Ger
many, but was Informed by the Ger
man representatives in Stockholm
that IL would be necessary to detain
him for ten days at each border as
a Quarantine measure
Mr.. Bulow thereupon decided to
take the rick Of sea voyage.