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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06
ITALY IS
JOY MAD
AT NEWS
Omitted Press Leased WireD

ROME, Dec. 6.-Italy Is over
joyed that America Is to declare
war on Austria Hungary. A ma
tion-wide demonstration of graft
tude for America was being plan
ned today.
News of President Wilson's rec
ommendation to congress. trans
mitted Immediately to Italian
soldiers at the front, has been sent
by them to the enemy. Great
signs were erected in the trenches
so that the Austrians opposite
might read trem.
Aviators dropped hasti printed
messages by the thousands over
the Austrian lines, informing them
of Americas decision. A notable
celebration is being planned in
Milan to mark that city's graft
tude to America. Rome was also
planning a demonstration of STU
dents and civilians today.
1t has already, been decided here
to serenade the American ambas-
sador.
Americas decision to make war
on Germany's chief ally was hail
ed by officials as certain to i'm
prove the morale of the Italian
armies and strengthen immeasur-
ably American-Italian understand
ing.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06
WORKING
HERB HOOVER

Nine days in each month will
be "foodless" days in one Camp
Lewis mess. Tuesdays and Fri
days, no meat will appear on the
table of the cooks and bakers
school and on Wednesdays and
Saturdays there will be no wheat
served to the officers and men
who patronize the schools dining
room.
Two hundred and forty pounds
of meat were saved on the first
meatless day and the predicted
saving of flour is enormous.
The 364th infantry regiment
messes also will observe meatless
day, but for another reason. The
majority of the men profess a re-
ligion which forbids meat eating
on Friday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06
A CLEAR COMPLEXION
Ruddy Cheeks-SparklingEy Eyes
Most Women Can Have
Says DR.. Edwards, a Well.Known
Ohio Physician

DR.. F. M. Edwards for 17years treated
scores of women for liver and bowel all.
ments. During these years he gave to
his patients a prescription made of a
few well-known vegetable Ingredients
mixed with olive Oil, naming them
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets You will
know them by their olive color.
These tablets are wonder.workers on
the liver and bowels, which cause a
normal action, carrying off the waste
and poisonous matter in ones system.
If you have q pale face. sallow look,
dull eyes, pimples. coated tongue, head.
aches, listless, no-good feeling, all out
of sorts. inactive bowels, you take one Of
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets nightly for
a time and note the pleasing results.
Thousands of women as well as men
take DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets-the
successful substitute for calomel-now
and then just tokeepin the pink ofcondi.
ton. 10c and 25c per box. All druggists.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06
(United Press Leased wire.)

AMERICAN FIELD HEAD
QUARTERS, FRANCE, Dec. O.
Search was begun of British front
hospitals today with the hope of
finding some of the missing
American army engineers caught
In the German advance around
Cambria.
Until this is completed head
quarters will probably not issue
any official statement of casual
ties.
1t was semi-officially announc-
ed today that at least four off
GERS and ESQ men of the American
army engineer detachment were
in the thick of the Cambria fight
ing. This was a party caught in
an enemy barrage at Gouzeacourt.
Some of them joined nearby
British units and all day long
Friday, fought with the Tommies.
Tho remainder attempted retire.
ment under artillery, machine gun
and aeroplane fire. A majority
of the whole, it was stated,
reached their base camp at Fins.
Still others took refuge in dug
outs and were captured. Some
were recaptured. A scattering
few made their way back to the
American base.
The 2S4 men departed from
their camp at Fins at $3.50 a. M,
Friday.
They began their regular work
in the Gouzeacourt region in con-
junction with a detachment of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06
DOCS TO BE
EDUCATED UP

Draft board physicians will re-
ceive the rejection slips, showing
the causes of rejection of each of
the men sent from their divisions
to Camp Lewis and afterwards
discharged here.
1--WE hope in this way to edu-
cate the physicians OF the boards
so that they VIII not repeat mis-
takes which cost the government
more than $1,000,000 during the
mobilization of the first draft"
said an officer.
Five thousand two hundred and
fifty-six men sent here supposedly
physically fit have been rejected
on physical grounds and sent
home. Ninety-nine per cent of
these men, according to the army
doctors, would not have been
drafted had the local boards used
common sense in interpreting the
orders OF the war department.
Each man in service represents
q cost of $500 to the government.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Dec. g.
Forty billion dollars per year
five times Germanys annual war
expenditure, is what it is costing
the allies to eliminate the Hohen-
zollern menace, according to fig
ures furnished by reliable sources
here today.
While Germany is spending
$500, 100000 monthly, according
to her own admission, Great
Britain and America together will
spend $29,O0O,O00,00O during the
first year of this country's parti-
cipation in the war.
France, Italy and other entente
powers will bring the total up to
the $40,000,000,000 mark, it was
stated today.
That the central powers yearly
war debt is nearer $4,000, 900, 900
than the $6,O00,000,00 they adj
NIT is the belief of British and
American officials. Prior to June
80, 1917, Germany had expended
more than $35,000,0O0,000. The
Teuton persistency in camouflag-
ing means that this figure is
greatly underestimated, officials
declare
Great Britain, tho she has vir-
tually financed the entente for
three years, is still the worlds
banker. During the six months
ending Sept. 30--since America
entered the war-she loaned in
cash to her allies $1,305,000,O0 90.
Her loans the last Is months ex-
coed $3,975.000,000, while the
total American loans to date are
less than $3,000,000,000.
Americas contribution to the
Russian war chest-$1s0,0 900, 900
regarded as enormous here,
dwindles into insignificance when
compared with the amounts Eng
land has sunk in the ex-czar's do
main. Previous to Kerensky's
downfall, Britain's bankers had
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06
Search for Missing
American Engineers

Canadians under q Canadian ma
jor. This officer Is believed to
have been Californian and an
ex-member of the famous Canadi-
an-American legion.
At Z o'clock shortly after the
Americans and Canadian had ar
rived on the job, an enemy bar
rage enveloped Gouzeacourt. Half
an hour later, seeing no let up in
the hail of shells, the unarmed
engineers attempted to retire.
1t was then that goodly num-
Der joined with nearby British
and grabbing rifles, fought thru
out the remainder of the day.
While the 2S4 were in Gouzea-
court under barrage, other engi-
neers, in the camp at Fins began
experiencing Smelling by German
long range guns. Two big shells
exploded in the camp itself. The
engineers there were ordered to
scatter. Later they were as
sembled and each given a rifle and
200 rounds of ammunition.
Toward afternoon it was decid-
ed to entrench their camp and
the engineers went Justify to work.
BY o'clock Friday evening they
had finished four foot trench.
Then the detachment was with
drawn again to the base and held
there tS man British trenches.
An American brigadier general
visited the engineers camp today
and paid generous tribute to their
courage, quick initiative and the
GOODNESS in working under heavy
fsrn
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06
Just to Be Near Him
Brings Many Wives
"Just to be near hint"

Just to be near him!"
There is a pathos In that little
remark that oftimes escapes one
who hears for the first time.
Sometimes one hears 1t, or over
hears 1t, in an auto bus on the
way to or from Camp Lewis and
Tacoma. Sometimes its in the
little store at Dupont.
But weherever ii is heard. 1t
means that Cupid has been foiled
by Mars.
1t is difficult to say how many
women are living In Tacoma or in
little towns near Camp Lewis
lust TO be near him." but there
are hundreds.
There is one woman who is very
sick. She must soon so to the
hospital. Her husband is cook
who enlisted because an aged
grandfather, veteran of the Civil
war, urged him to do so and thus
avoid the draft That was before
Il became known that married
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06

men would be exempted. She Is
barely able to make a living in
Tacoma because of her illness but
she won't go home to her family
because she wants to be near
him."
There is another woman, a So
ciety leader In Detroit, who cross
ed the continent to be near him"
and he is spending two weeks In
quarantine for spinal meningitis
Two women are spending 80
days in the Tacoma jail because
they took drugs to husbands who
had been drug users in civilian
life. They came from Los An
geles to "be near him."
Every available room in Dupont
is occupied by officers wives, and
some wives of enlisted men, who
couldn't bear to be away from
him."
Despite the presidents decision
to have single army, there are
hundreds of men at camp with
wives and some with children.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06
RAIN DOESN'T HALT THE TRAINING
GOOD PREPARATION
FOR LIFE IN France

tanks-so big and clumsy with
their shiny tarpaulins stretched
sleekly so that the ribs stand out
on the top
Sheets of mud and water spray
out as the big tires take to the
water of the pools. The drivers
are speeding their engines, for
the evening is near and when
the scant light fails the roads are
dangerous.
Night.
Still 1t rains. 1t is colder now.
Here and there the will-o'-wisp of
an auto light, orange in the mists,
hobs its way down a road. The
caves of the quartermaster S
storehouse are dripping, dripping,
dripping-endlessly, monotonous-
ly dripping.
Then bugle lifts its wall.
It's sloppy" call. The bugle
speeds it thru that he may return
to his shelter from the storm.
There is a brisk show of life
about a short line of khaki tents
near the entrance to the camp.
The bugle call sounded warmth
and food for one shift of men and
cold and wet for another.
For an instant the flaps of the
tents are back, and from their
mouths, shining yellow from the
fires inside, q handful of men
tumble forth with the carbines in
their hands.
"GUARD-fall I'M" snaps a
corporal. Right FACE! Fo'-
ard-HUCH!"
Down the road they go, splash
ing thru the puddles and STUN
bling in the darkness.
Half an hour passes and the
old guard, stiff and cold, crawls
under the tent flaps, and the
camp is silent again.
Winter, age old foe of armies,
has descended upon Camp Lewis.
He is nagging with machine
gun fire of raindrops and gas
attack of fog. The oracle of
headquarters has spoken:
LET the training go on"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06
Hill Academy Students
Life at Camp

Thirty-One students Of the Hid
Military academy, Portland, are
spending four days at Camp Lewis
studying the life of the soldiers.
They are the guests of the govern
ment and are sleeping and messing
with the Utah av. sanitary train
troops.
Their uniforms of blue are In
sharp contrast to the olive drab of
Uncle Sam. Most of the lads are
between II and Is years of age.
They are under the supervision
of Prof. Joseph A. Hill.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06
SEND NO MONEY
just your name and addre

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"a postal card. Say: Dear Sam
Katz: Please tell me how you
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to say, / will understand, and I
will write to you with complete
information, FREE at once. Do
not delay. Send postal card or
write me a letter today. Don't
think of turning this page until
you have asked for this wonder
full treatment that can do for you
what it has done for me.
SAM KATY, Room ID. T. $50,
5000 Indiana Avenue, Chicago, III.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06
Idaho Normal School
Damaged by Big Fire


LEWISTON, Ida, Dec. 6. -
After destroying 100000 worth
of property, fire of unknown orig
in in the east wing of the Idaho
State Normal School was brought
ander control early today.
The first was discovered in the
main building Of the school about
HAS last night. Thru the siren
uous efforts Of the fire fighters
the west wing Of the building was
practically unchanged and other
buildings escaped the fire alto
gether.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06
TACOMA ASTONISHED
BY MERCHANTS STORY

A merchant relates the follow
ing: For years ! could not sleep
without turning every hour. What
ever / ate caused gas and sour
ness. Also had stomach catarrh.
ONE SPOONFUL buckthorn bark,
glycerine, ETC., as mixed in Adler
i-ka relieved me INSTANTLY"
Because Adler-i-ka flushes the
ENTIRE alimentary tract it re-
lieves ANY CASE constipation,
sour stomach or gas and prevents
appendicitis. 1t has QUICKEST
action of anything we ever sold.
The French Drug Co., Cor. 18th
and Pacific av.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06
MACHINE GUN
PRACTICE ON

More than 1000 rounds OF am
munition are being fired at Camp
Lewis daily in machine gun prac-
tice.
The noise of the guns resembles
the swift tearing of tough canvas
and they bob and jump around on
the ground in surprising man
ner.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06
NEW JOB FOR
THE JEWELER

Tacoma jewelsr are doing a
thriving business in plating.
The recent war department Or
der authorizing second lieuten-
ants to wear a single gold bar.
Formerly they wore no insignia
on the shoulder.
The order found no Tacoma
jewelers. with gold bars In stock.
Instead they are plating silver
bars.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06

No weaklings are wanted In
the Wild West division.
1.-The climate here is much IKE
that of Northern France" said
Brig. Gen. James A. Irons, tenn
porary commander Of Camp
Lewis, yesterday.
1T will do the men good to
become accustomed to the camp.
Rain will not interrupt the train
Ing"
Winter has stolen a march on
the national army.
II was hidden in the fog that
envelopes the camp most OF the
time and now 1t has thrown
aside its cloak and laid siege with
a barrage fire of rain
Last night it rained, and the
day before, and the night before,
and the day before that.
Pools, even lakes, have formed
in the shallow hollows Of the Ia
coma prairie.
The roads are ribbons of glis-
tening, oxidized silver that cast
back strange distortions of the
gray, sodden clouds. The oil
that dripped from countless auto
mobile engines has come to the
surface to lend itself to mixture
of dust and water that resembles
clotted ink.
From the barracks caves the
l,Ain In
murmur that makes one think OF
the Fall of the House OF
Usher"
Across the parade ground
hangs a vesture of mist, tinged
black by the smoke from the
barracks furnaces.
They are drilling.
The olive drab uniforms blend
perfectly with the dun-colored
spongy turf of the drill field.
The men are wearing coats
with brown rubber ponchos over
them, and as they go plodding
thru the storm, swinging now to
the right and now to the left, the
ponchos flap idiotically back and
forth.
A band plays, but the music
seems deadened by the rain.
Here and there on the field
bayonets cast wicked, baleful
CLEANS as squads of soldiers,
learning to thrust and to plunge,
maneuver with the "stabbers."
Somewhere in CANT" location
deleted by censor) men are dig
ging long, criss-crossing trenches
in the gravelly mud.
The men speak once in awhile,
but mostly they streak the water
from their eyes with grimy hands
and keep to their task. Some
times one of them slips, to fall in
several inches of water. He
swears and the others laugh.
There is a moments rest and
then work again.
Up in a big wooden bowl at
the Remount Depot there is the
dull thump of hoofs on moist
and spongy sawdust. Horses are
being broken to saddle and to
bride and taught the parts they
will play in the theater Of war.
Blanketed, they wait their
turns in the "bull pens" and they
shake their lowered heads to the
lee of the driving storm.
Down the road a train of mo-
tor trucks are lungeing and
careening thru mud holes and
thank-you-mam's. They look like
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06
Captain Commission
For Listers Secretary

Assigned to Gov. Listers office
in charge Of the draft in Wash
ington, Irwin w. Siegaus, former
ly of Tacoma. now private secre-
tary to the governor, has been
given the commission of captain
in the U. s. army by the war de-
ma ri mant
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06
Wilson Message Make
Hit With LansdoWne

NEW YORK, Dec. 6. - Lord
Lansdowne was quoted in a dis
patch printed in the New York
Times today as warmly apprecia-
tive of President Wilson's mes
sage to congress.
81 am in agreement with the
policy which he so eloquently de-
scribed," the Times quotation of
the former foreign minister con-
tinued.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06
Billy and Doug Bring
Jov to Camn Athletes

The first consignment of ath-
letic goods purchased with the
money raised by Billy Sunday and
Douglas Fairbanks arrived at
Camp Lewis Wednesday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06
FORTY BILLION A YEAR
TO BEAT HOhENZOLLERN

given Russia credit for more than
$4,000, 100000, it was authorita-
lively learned today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06

durable and beautiful. To appre-
ciate our plates you must sec
them. Come in this week and
see our samples. We are the
largest plato maIkers ON the
coast.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06
Plates

II you require n
plate, let MS show
You our Electro
WhaIebone Plates
the very high
est grade plate
made. 4 h Q $ g
plates are light,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-06

FOR CONSULTATIONS AND EXAMINATIONS
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-09-01
Local Exemption Board
Plans for Actiue Draft

9, ? men
BY special information letter yester-
day the Chickasha board was advised
that previous regulations would be
used In mobilizing drafted troops, the
tag account system being utilized
after entrainment. BY this plan when
men have been placed on trains di-
rectly for Camp Travis, Texas, tags,
upon which are inscribed the mans
name, home address, camp assignment
date. etc, viii be fastened to members
OF the contingent and to their bag
gage These are attached to the cloth
ing so that cantonment officers may
be supplied with reliable data on the
selected man on his arrival. Pullman
accommodations and meal tickets will
be furnished by the war department
through the local board, the routing OF
Chicgkasha forces being left to Mr.
Murrays management,
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-09-01
200 Responses from Soldier Boys Al
ready in and Numbers Of Guests
will Reach 1000

Invitations for the biggest barbecue
which has ever been arranged in Ora.
dy county have been sent out to 300
draft soldiers. enthusiastic responses
to which stating '1'll be there" have
been pouring in to Harry Hammerly
head of the invitation work. yesterday
and today. Assurances that their at
tendance is thereby guaranteed which
have come in from enough men Ia
raise the guest list to over 200 gore
at hand early this morning though
Mr. Hammerly is certain that easily
1000 bonored participants of The feed
will be hero Monday From every
point IN the northern Grady draft dis.
trict indications that interest in the
barbecue is spreading rapidly have
come to the local men who are prepar.
ing the spread
Tom Dwyer chairman Of all commit
tees, is working out specific details
today for executing the spread to the
entire satisfaction of all men who
have been called for a new national
army. All OF the feed preparations
will be made on the o. G. W campus
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-09-01
These 97 Young Men are NolU
Subject to Military SerUice
But Not An in First Quota

tho local board today or Monday from
the district board at Tulsa, upon re-
ceipt OF which the names OF the first
t67 men to be selected as northern
Grady's quota will be selected and also
the first eight men who will form the
first increment for shipment to train
ing quarters on September ..
Following are the names Of the nine
tyseven Young patriots some of whom
may not be called to service, however
until the second quota is called in Jan
uary:
Albert Boysen. Chickasha: Forest L
sherard, Chickasha; Lee wills. Chick
asha; Spangler Willis. Middleberg; AL
win A. Crews Chickasha; Edmond
Rim. Minco; Elmer L. Basinger Tut
tie; David r. McKown. Pocasset; Ad
die King. Minco; William r. Hubbard
Chickasha; Urel Reed, Chickasha
Henry Bake, Minco; Ben Foreman
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-09-01
LOwdeH FOrbids Peace Push to Operate
in Illinois; Gives Orders
10 Police
WILL CALL TROOPS
OUT If NECESSARY
Executive Action Follows Welcome Ex-
tended 10 Delegates By Mayor
Ol Chicago

BY United Press.
Chicago, Sept THE police, acting
under orders issued by Governor Low.
den. dispersed the delegates to ~.
meeting Of the Peoples Peace Coun.
Gil here this Afternoon.
Earlier in the day officials Of the
Peace Council announced that mect-
ings would be held IN this city immedl.
ately Mayor Thompson announced
that he would welcome The deIegatos
to Chicago and that meetings would
be held
After the openlnEt Of the session IA
the west side auditorium Uofcrnor
Lowdon ordered the Chicago police 10
stop tie meetings.
The governor announced that he
would not permit the Peoples Peace
council to hold meetings anywhere IN
Illinois lie declared that be would
call out troops to break up nny at
tempted meeting II such action SHOULD
prove necessary
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-09-01
PERSUADED
TO RESIST
HE CLAIMS

After entering plea Of guilty be-
fore the United States commissioner
here, Oldest Northcut, taken in custo'
dy at Waurika yesterday for dodging
registration, was bound over 70 the
federal grand jury at Ardinore this
morning under $500 bond.
Northeut testified to having been
dissuaded from registration by his EN-
ployers who showed draft enrolment
up as being insignificant Upon learn
ing Of the drafts realities, the non
registrant came Immediately and sur
rendered to the Jefferson county
sheriff for justice The mans EN-
ployers will be arrested for obstructing
draft.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-09-01
MASONS GUESTS OF 0. E. S. IN
ROBT. NORRIS ANNIVERSARY

tie Square" by S. &. Durbin. and a
scmiburlcsque response to the same
poem by eugene Hamilton lnstru-
mental music was furnished by Misses
Marjorie Dwyer, Dorothy Stone aud
Hazel and Roberta Bledsoe. and vocal
music BY a selected 1uartette. Per-
haps the prettiest feature Of the even
ing's entertainment was an exemplifi-
cation of the 0. E. s. floral cercmo-
mics.
As tokens Of both organizations ep-
probation OF faithful service and pion-
eer work Of its Oldest members.
small tokens OF esteem were given
William Frasier and Mrs. Shannon Of
this city aud John coyle Of Rush
Springs. the last having been one Of
the organizers OF the Chickasha chap
ter twenty-one years ago.
Z The observation Of great founders
birth was closed by a patriotic song
by the ladies Of the Eastern Star. The
membership OF the two lodges feel that
the event was decidedly II greatest
success Of any similar affair ever
staged as cemmorative service Ia
Chickasha