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Weekly journal-miner., 1917-05-16
REGULAR ARMY ID BE BROUGHT ID FULL WAR
 STRENGTH

RGANIZ LAYTON OF A NEW REGIMENTS WILL BEGIN TODAY; EFFORTS TO BE MADE TO STIM- ULATE RECRUITING;ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN
 THOUSAND MEN NEEDED
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-05-16
WAR BILLS MAY NOT BE PASSED UNTIL MIDDLE
 OF AUGUST

SPEED IS VITAL IF U. s. IS TO DO ITS PART IN STRUGGLE AGAINST TEUTON AUTOCRACY; IN THE MEANTIME SOLONS WASTE PRECIOUS TIME IN USELESS GABFEST.
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-05-16
May Be Insane.

DIES MONIES, May 14-An at tache of the department of justice said Kelley will probably be brought before the sanity board. A witness is said by the attorney general to have declared that Kelley related the de- tails of the crime to him at Mace donia, Iowa, 75 miles from the scene of the crime, only half an hour after the murder was discovered.
 law were proposed by the administra- ton to bring more banks into the Federal reserve system, and by liber- alizing the reserve requirement in crease the gold holdings of the system more than S3OO,OOOOOO. Congress was told their enactment would prepare the Federal reserve system for prac- tically any shock it might be called upon to sustain.
 In addition to these principal meas urcs there are a few others which have administration sanction and which congress will be called on to pass before adjournment.
 For the present all the pushing in fluences of the administration are be- ing concentrated to convince congress it ought to hurry with the army bill, thc bills 10 provide ships as the first means of combating the submarine menace and to enact laws to guard the country against hunger.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-19

ing the data concerning terrible
crimes committed by German of.
ffcers, and these will have to be
accounted for. The officers who
did these things will be shot.
Marvellous Decision
Nothing has ever been told
concerning German atrocities,
equal to what has ben done. There
Is nothing in history to parallel
1t.
America is aoing into a war
that will test everything we have.
Not until we have 100000 men
In the trenches, will there be vic
tory. But Americas decision to
enter the war was the most mar
velous decision ever made by any
nation, and we can love our coun-
try today as we never loved 1t be-
fore.
There are eight young Nc
Clures at the front-my sons and
those Of my brothers-and they
won't all come back; but | would
rather none of them came back
than that none of them had gone"
Mcclure will return to Tacoma
Saturday night and will speak In
the Elks' temple at 8 o'clock.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-19
WAR WILL END WITH A DAY OF
JUDGMENT, DECLARES Mcclure

Japan can only live II she is
in alliance with a large naval
power. Fancy her going to war
with America. a vital market for
her goods!
There Is no possible danger OF
war with Japan"
Mcclure spent two years In
Europe, studying war questions.
There is not going to be any
peace conference to end this war; -
he said.
81 think Bethmann-H ollweg,
and probably the kaiser, realized
how foolish 1t would be for the
Germans to go into this war, when
England was ready to concede her
her place in the sun, and that It
probably was with difficulty that
the military party in Germany got
the government to 60 into It. II
the treaty with regard to Asiatic
Turkey had been signed, believe
Germany would in 10 or 20 years
have attained an unbearable DOM
mating position in the world.
The war will end only when
Germany makes unconditional sur
render; and there will be the
most extraordinary day of judy
ment then, that the world ever
saw. because the French and
English have boen quietly collect
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-19

extraordinary interest and value
and then followed 1t by the one
on the European war.
"The Japanese question is in
teresting," he said, "but it doesn't
60 to my soul as the other matter
does. I will pause moment to
give those who wish to leave
without waiting for the talk on
the European war, an opportun-
ity to do So"
There was an instant's 81
lence, and then tho audience
rose as ono person, and went
NOT out at the door, but
down to the front benches
where they could hear bet
tor.
There IL a Japanese problem"
said Mcclure, "the problem of
how a population half as large as
that of the United States and
Mexico together, crowded into a
territory the size of California,
with less farming land than the
state of Ohio, and practically no
coal, iron or other large natural
resources, is going to make .
living. I don't know how this
problem Is going to be solved; but
/ know that whatever the Japa-
nese do, they will be unable to DO
by force.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-19
BY Mabel Abbott

Sometimes sitting on the table
with his spectacles pushed up on
his forehead while he talked,
sometimes balancing dangerously
on the edge of the platform and
looking over his glasses, some
times lingering thru sheaves of
German documents, photographs
of German officers diaries, etc.,
as he read pitilessly the German
admission of things which Ameri-
cans have been unable to believe.
Is. s. Mcclure. writer, editor and
publisher, gave the regretably
small audience who heard him
speak on Japan and It's Relation
With the United States" at the
First Christian Church, q whole
collection of thrills.
Mcclure returned Just a week
ago from making q several mont
study Of the Japanese problem,
and found that without his knowl-
edge, a series OF lectures on
Japan had been arranged for IN,
when what he wanted to talk
about was the responsibility for
the European war, and the truth
about German atrocities.
So he conscientiously delivered
the lecture on Japan, which was of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-19
FOOD COSTS
TO TUMBLE!

WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 10.
The public will get lower food
prices by the new year.
That Is the latest food admins
tration pledge with the single If
the matter Of whether farmers and
retailers cooperate with the gov
eminent.
Despite the fact that many cities
are on sugar rations, due to a
temporarily short supply, this
commodity and others show signs
OF going down before the new
year.
A larg. reduction from August
prices Is shown In flour.
The corner has now been turn
ed in high prices" says Hoover.
THE bean harvest is plentiful:
corn promises a 40 per cent drop
on the big new crop; beef, pork
and poultry feed wiql. be cheaper
and hence meat should be lower:
cold storage In meat lines Is In
process of regulation; beef prices
show q tendency toward reduction
In Wholesale but this has not re-
acted yet in the retail price; low
or potato prices will be warranted
this fall: and importation of GER
tain oils should reduce soap
prices"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-19

War gardens pay big.
Take it from Tacoma school
ildren gardeners whose reports
the season have just been
implied by School Garden Super
or M. o. Evans.
The total value of produce
own by 80 pupils who kept
Noks amounted to s749.91. To-
expense for seed, fertilizer and
ound preparation was $120.35,
wing a net profit of $629.55.
The highest net profit for an
lividual pupil was made by
,rbert McBreen of Fern Hill,
tn $72 clear. Garfield Rodside
Lowell was next. with 5000
profit.
Most of the pupils reporting
AIDED the ground themselves.
tout % per cent purchased
lnure or other fertilizers.
More than 10 per cent of the
al produced, consisting mostly
early peas, beans and potatoes,
Is Sold. Between 10 and is
cent of the total was canned
pupils or their parents.
Supervisor Evans says that as
any more pupils also made
cd showings, but he has been
able to get In their records.
Evans is leaving Tacoma FRI
y for Oregon and California to
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-19
TACOMAPOLES.
TAKE SHOT AT.
THE K AISE RI.

Members of the Polish Falcons.
Nest 635. voted to help the U. 8.
by buying Liberty bonds. at a spe-
cial meeting called Thursday
night by Andrew Dydv. president
Of the order.
Dydv and Frank Pannek were
appointed q committee to buy I
bond Of $3.50. Other members OF
the order will take 5000 Of the
bonds.
Every bond is q shot at the
kaiser" said Dydv today, ''and.
kaiserism must 60 out forever.
like cxarism went out in Russia.
And liberty must come after this
war to all the nations big or small
and Poland will come to its free
dom and Independence.
"A Polish army is formed In.
France. and Polish young mon
from all over the world are COM
Ing to enlist in the new Polish
army to fight the Huns.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-19
Fruit Of the Loom Muslin.
Special 15c Yard

just 756 yards of this old household faor-
Ito for sale at this very special price. A
muslin that has been the standard of quail
tty for years and needs no Recommendation,
Full bleached, yard wide, and for this oc-
casion-awsy below the wholesale E0>
market price; special tomorrow, yd. IJC
(Limit Of 10 yards to the customer)
Eleventh Street Floor
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-19

RICE STRAW BROOMS VERY SPECIAL 19c
Tor In the Kitchen sweepn
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-19
LEAVES HAULED FREE

Figuring that 1t is much cheaper
to gather leaves now than to make
repairs later when the leaves drift
into storm sewers and choke them,
the public works department an
nounces that 1t viii collect all
leaves that are left in piles on the
parking Of residence streets.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-19
DOUSE FIRST REAL
CAMP LEWIS FIRE

The first real fire at Camp
Lewis was put out by the head
quarters fire department in Is
minutes Thursday afternoon. A
farmer was trying to burn down a
barn near the third brigade, and
the flames got beyond control, en-
dangering one of the government
stables.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-19
lid WAR GARDENERS
MAKE GOOD PROFITS

begin work for the U. s. depart
ment of agriculture on the farm
| labor problem.
His parting word was that
hundreds of Tacoma youngsters
can do as we'll or better next
season II they are given encour-
agement."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-19
LOGGER KILLED BY
ACCIDENT AT CAMP

Working in a Sumner logging
camp to pay off the mortgage on
his home in North Carolina, where
his wife and children are, Ellis
feeder was almost instantly killed
Thursday when q log chain slip
ped from Its pulley and struck him
in the chest. The body will be
sent east for burial.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-19
MINsTRELs' NIGHT

Friday night viii be mia
strels' night ct st. Leo's bazaar.
a quartet Of soldiers entertaino6
the big crowd Thursday evening.
The Prescott daily news., 1917-07-25

Get this weeks Saturday Evening Post-nhone PAP.
The Prescott daily news., 1917-07-25
BODY FOUND IN POINSETT

Jonesboro, July 24.-Dr. B. L. liar rison of Truman, coroner of Poinsett county, was in the city today and told of finding a body near Weona, but on account of the man having been dead for long time, it was im- possible to say whether he was white or a negro. It is believed by many to have been John Washington, a negro, who was hurt very seriously in a mill and refused to go to the hos pital and afterwards disappeared. Others believe that it is the body of a white hunter, who was killed in the woods. The head was severed from the body and lay more than 100 feet from the body.
The Prescott daily news., 1917-07-25
WILL HURRY UP
 GREAT AIR FLEET
Bill Carrying $64O,OOO,OOO App rr0priation is Signed by Pres ident-Element of Speed is Foremost in Building Fleet.

Washington, July 24.-The S640,- 100000 airplane bill became law to- day with President Wilson's sigma ture.
 This immense appropriation is only the beginning of preparations for the campaign intended to overwhelm Ger many from the tir. More than 2O,- GOO planes will be built as first in- crement, and there will be many thousands of aviators. The first task will be the instruction of the vast army of American fiers.
 Germany, realizing the danger of the air campaign, already is feverish- ly building airplanes to fight the com- ing fleets. The element of speed therefore is foremost in building the American fleet. This feature was em- phasized today in a statement by Howard E. Coffin, chairman of the Aircraft Production Board of the Council of National Defense.
 'The program must be carried out with promptness equal to that dis played by Congress in passing the measure," he said. Ut is a task de- manding all the initiative power of American industry for it's consumma- tion, and just for that reason, one to which the nation will respond. All worlds records for industrial develop ment of a new art must be broken. Whatever crimes may later be laid at the door of those who are to direct this work, that of inaction or slowness in accomplishment must not be one of them. We are prepared to go ahead at once with the expanded plans which the appropriation makes pos sible."
The Prescott daily news., 1917-07-25

trenches captured by the Germans during weeks of tenacious assaults. All the lost ground on the California plateau and the Classmates plateau has been recaptured and the French. despite vicious counter-attacks by tried regiments of the German crown prince, have even pushed their line forward at several points in the lat ter region.
 The artillery battle in northern Bel gium, which has been in progress for some time, has reached an intensity never before experienced While the British official communication as vet has only barely mentioned the fact that the big guns are hammering away, it is probable that General Haig is preparing for another of his great drives similar to those on Arras and Lens fronts, which worked great havoc on the Germans and their posi- tions, and gave the British forces bases of important strategic value from which to continue their opera tions.
The Prescott daily news., 1917-07-25
DECISION AGAINST
 PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS

Little Rock, July 24.-Attorney- General Arbuckle today held that prosecuting attorneys cannot collect $75 fee allowed in death penalty con victions in cases where juries, under newly enacted statute, assess life penitentiary sentence for crimes pun ishable by death. The statute gives juries the power to decide whether punishment shall be death or life inn :.
The Prescott daily news., 1917-07-25
DOCTORS COMMISSIONED

Five Little Rock physicians have received commissions for the Medical Reserve Corps, which carries a first lieutenancy rank. They are pr. T. M. Fly, Dr, G. B. Fletcher, Dr. G. A. Mccormack, Dr. S. J. Fuller and Dr. ". D. Rose. None, however, has been ordered to report for duty.
The Prescott daily news., 1917-07-25
OFFICER DIES ON RANGE

Fl Paso, July 24.-Struck by bull lets from machine gun on the Fort Bliss target range, Second Lieutenant L. F. Patten, Thirty-fourth United States Infantry, was fatally wounded yesterday and died a short time later, A board of inquiry is Investigating.
The Prescott daily news., 1917-07-25
CONSCRIPTION IN CANADA

Ottawa, July 24.-The conscription bill passed the House of Commons to- day by a majority of 54. It now goes to the Senate, where it's speedy en- actment is assured by the presence of a substantial majority supporting the government.
The Prescott daily news., 1917-07-25
FIFE BEFORE TEUTON
 GALiCIAN DRIVE
Disaffection Continues, Flight is Pell-MelI-Stanislau, POdhay- tse and Halicz Are Taken French Begin Offensive.

New York, July 24.-Despite the threat of Premier kerensky that a noliev of "blood and iron" will be applied against the seditious Russian troops in East Galicia, whose disaf- lection has lost nearly all the bril- liant gains they had achieved under his leadership early in the month, the Russians continue their retreat pell- mell before the German and Austro- Hungarian armies. From the wooded Carpathians to the region of Tarnopol the forces of General Korniloff almost everywhere are in disorderly retreat. Hardly anywhere are they making an attempt to hold back the enemy.
 Already the losses of the Russians in men killed. wounded and made prisoner, and in guns and stores cap tured are extremely heavy, and these undoubtedly will become greater un- less the hoped-for stiffening in the morale of the Russians is realized soon.
 Stanislau, the principal juneture for commercial activities in the crown lands of Galicia, and an important grain and manufacturing center, is being evacuated by the Russians, while Podhaytse, Halicz and other towns have been taken by the Teu- tons. Tarnopol, one of the chief towns in the crown land, is more seriously menaced than ever, if it has not al ready been retaken by the enemy crossing the river to the south.
 Including the hostilties in Galicia the entire eastern front from the Bal tic practically to the Black Sea is the scene of fighting, but with the Rus sians standing firmly against the enemy only in Rumanian theater.
 As in Galicia, the Russians to the north, around the region of Dvinsk and Wilma, continue to show signs of dsaffection. Although they have at tackled and captured German positions along the Dvinsk-Vilna railway, the Russians could not be induced to press their advantage and retreated, unhn- dered by the Germans, to their old po- sitionS In the repulse of attacks with large forces near krevo, which was recaptured, and south of Smorgon the Germans cut entire regiments to pieces with their galling fire of artil- lery and machine guns.
 French on Offensive
 The Germans having ceased their violent infantry attacks against the French troops along the Chemin des Danes in France, General Petain's forces have assumed the initiative and have retaken the small sections of
The Prescott daily news., 1917-07-25
FIVE BILLION MORE
 NEEDED NOR WAR
First Year of Hostilities to Cost U. s. S14,000,O00 0,OOO-MOre Taxes Planned, to Raise Sec Ond Army Soon.

Washington, July 24.-Plans for raising war revenue were upset today by additional estimates for war ex- penditures totaling more than S5. 5.OOO,- 100000, principally in anticipation of assembling second army of 5OO,OOO men under the selective draft.
 Secretary McAdoo, at special meeting of the Senate Finance com mittee, revealed that the War Depart ment alone is preparing estimates to cover additional expenditures of near ly $5,000,000,000 and asked the com mittee to hold up the S1,67O, ,OOO ,OOO war tax bill until the detailed est- mates of all departments are sub- mtted. The committee postponed a report on the measure which it had planned to submit during the day.
 The new estimates, including $500,- 900, 900 additional for the Shipping Board and $100,000,000 for the Navy Department, will be submitted to the committee late this week, and prob ably will result in an increase of the revenue bills gross tax levy by from $350,000,000 to $1,500,000, Fur ther credits of bonds of indebtedness certificates also may be used.
 ! Besides the additional sums needed for the war program, Secretary Me Adoo told the committee that the $3,- 0000 0000,000 authorized for loans to the allies, probably will last only until October, and that about $2,000,000, 1000 for their further assistance will be needed. Provision for this, however, is not planned in connection with the pending revenue legislation. It prob ably will be considered at the next session.
 The secretary made no recommea- dation as to what part of the total should be raised by taxes and what part by bond issues or other credits. It is reported, however, that the Treasury Department would favor raising S1,000,000,000 more than had been planned in taxes, making the tax bill total $2,67O .0O0,000. As to the tax sources to be tapped to meet the new estimates, the committee IS entirely at sea. Mir. McAdoo's an- nouncement came without warning, and more than one committeeman eX- pressed himself staggered by the size of the forthcoming estimate. The first disposition was to turn to new taxes on war excess profits and in- comes. =.
 "There are many great sources of revenue open for great and rich people like ours," said Chairman Sim mons, but he would not predict what the committee will do.
 A resolution was adopted calling for submission of new estimates by all departments so that the whole ex- penditure program may be considered in connection with the pending tax legislation. The $5,000,000,000 army increases, Secretary McAdoo informed the committee, are largely to provide for the second draft army of 500,000 men to be called while the first 500,000 are under training. The $5,000, ,000,- 900 would provide for expenditures until July 1, 1918.
 During today's debate on the rivers
The Prescott daily news., 1917-07-25
WOMAN 65 ASKS DIVORCE

Fort Smith, July 24.-Mrs. N. J.. Hartley, 65 years of age, filed suit in Chancery court today for divorce from J. T. Hartley, aged "A, to whom she was married 50 years ago. They are parents of five children and Mrs. Hartley says in her complaint she fears her husband will carry out threats to kill her.
The Prescott daily news., 1917-07-25

and harbors bill, Senator Shoot pre- sented statistics to show that appro- priations for the war session already aggregated S9,226,0O,0O0, so that the new estimate would raise the total for the first year we'll above $14,O00,- O0O,OO0.
The Prescott daily news., 1917-07-25
BIG LAND DEAL IS MADE

Eureka Springs, July 24.-The 88O- acre tract of timber just south of the city has been sold to Kelly and Glatt- ly, timber men, for $2,200. Sani- tarium Lake is situated in the center of this tract.
The Prescott daily news., 1917-07-25
A HINT TO WISE WOMEN

Don't suffer torture when all female troubles will vanish in thin air after using "Femenina." Price soc and $1.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-08-14
AUSTRIA JUBlLANT
OVER SPLIT IN
BRITISH CABINET

Zurich. Switzerland, Aug. 14,-Aus-
trian newspapers are jubilant over the
vote Of the British labor conference to
send delegates to the Stockholm con-
ference and the resignation of Arthur
Henderson from the war cabinet. The
Reichsport and Abeiter Zeitung see
therein an important event heralding
the dawn of peace. The Reichspost
says
Henderson wrecks Lloyd Georges
cabinet and party coalition at a moment
when the entente statesmen are max
ing new arrangements for a continual
tion of the war. The ententes war
policy threatens to collapse and the
terrible world war is reaching an end. "
The Arbeiter Zeitung says:
"The resignation of Henderson marks
detection Of labor from Lloyd Georges
war which was to be continued until
mankind perished. One may hope now
that the time Of suffering and terror
is approaching an end"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-08-14
MARTIAL LAW
FOR ALL SPAIN
STRIKE BEGUN BY RAILROAD EN-
PL0YES SPREADING TO ALL
LEADING INDUSTRIES.

Madrid, Aug. 1.-THE whole OF Spain
has been placed under martial law fol-
lowing disorders resulting from the gen
eral strike which is spreading.
This decision was reached at a meet.
ing Of the cabinet which devoted its
entire time 70 a consideration Of the
strike. Instructions were sent to mill.
tary authorities who have been given
full control
Disturbances which occurred at va
rious places have been stopped by the
military forces.
The strike, begun by the railroad EN-.
ployes, has even affected newspapers
here, and only those which have non.
union staffs will appear tonight Tn ~
have received assurances OF govern.
ment protection
At noon yesterday the capital was
quiet.