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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-14
Daily History Class
DECEMBER IL.

DECEMBER IL.
I79l-Charles Wolfe. poet, author OF
Burial of Sir John Moore" born;
died 1923.
17ss-Death of General George Wash
ington, after q sohrt Illness, at
Mount Vernon; born 1882
1861-The German consort of Queen
Victoria, Prince Albert; died; born
1919.
19l5-sBulgar troops reached the
Geek frontier in pursuit of retreat
ing allies,
l916-British parliament voted new
war credit of $4,000, 600, GOO.
The first locomotive built in the
United States was constructed in 1880
by Peter Cooper at the Canton Iron
Works near Baltimore. It was small
tractor engine. OF little use. and was
facetiously named Tom Thumb
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-14

Chicago politicians, Democratic and
Republican, have joined together in
the formation of patriotic ward clubs
to continue in existence until the war
is ended The clubs have offered their
services TO the state council of de-
tense.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-14

Treat Austrians kindly, but eye
them closely, is the advice Of Attor-
uey General Gregory. A pretty safe
rule to follow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-14

II there is a Bolsheviki party in
the United States senate, the fact will
soon become apparent
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-14

No Christmas celebration will be
complete this year without Red
Cross candle In the window.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-14
MEl|AITH IAl KS
By WILLIAM BRADY ND.
NQTEO PHYSICIAN,

letters to
be
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-14

Enlists in Ordnance Department
William Joens. son Of Mrs. Katherine
joens, and we'll known Davenport
boy. has Joined the ordnance depart
ment of the United States army. He
enlisted at the Rock Island arsenal
and expects In due time to be sent to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-14

Wants Later Schedule - Asking
that the arc lights all over the city
be lighted at 5:45 p. MO minutes
later than they are now being turned
one. n. Chubb manager of the
Peoples Light Co. addressed the
light committee Of the city council
in session yesterday afternoon in the
city hall.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26

Frank ID. Thompson, 2sfs
So. Pine ST., a warchouseman
on the waterfront, was arrest
ed Wednesday morning In
connection with the attempt
TO blow up the home Of j. d.
Jensen, 1913 So. 9Th ST.,
Christmas day.
Thompson Is a brotherin-
law Of Mrs. Jensen. Police
officers say that they have
strong evidence connecting
him with the bomb attempt.
The prisoner is SO years old
and the father of four children
AS a motive for the plot to blow
up the Jensen home with a bomb
containing five sticks of dyna-
mite and a large quantity of nj
tro-glycerine, the police charge
that Thompson has been bitter
towards the Jensens ever since the
death of his wife last spring.
Mrs. Thompson bequeathed her
insurance policy of $1,000 to her
parents. who live at the Jensen
home. Ever since that time
Thompson has been using every
effort, including threats OF
death, according to the story told
the police by the Jensens, to OBJ
tain the money.
He has started suit contestine
his wife's will, and 1t Is scheduled
to come up for trial In the SUI
perior court Jan. 3.
Telltale Rags.
A search of Thompson's home
by City Detectives Garberg and
Modahl Wednesday furnished
clews which the police believe
establishes Thompson's connec
ton with the attempted dynamit
ing.
A sock was found in the attic
which is declared to be the mate
of the large sock in which the
fruit-jar bomb and its deadly
contents were concealed. The
sock which was used as cover
ing for the bomb had been short
ened by cutting off the foot. A
small piece of cloth tape, bearing
peculiar oak-leaf design. was
used to tie up the open end.
In Thompson's home was found
large ball of cloth strings,
rolled up by Thompsons' daugh-
ter for the purpose of making
rag" carpets, and the string at
the end of the roll bore the iden-
tical pattern with that found on
the string which tied up one end
of the deadly bomb.
Claims Alibi.
Thompson was questioned
closely at headquarters for two
hours before he was formally
placed under arrest.
He denied any knowledge OF
the Christmas eve plot to annihi-
late the Jensen family of nine
persons, and declared that he
could furnish a complete alibi
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26
Anyone Want
a Bomb Job?

Police Detective Archie Mon
deau has suddenly found himself
in new police role. He Is the
explosive squad"
In two days the detective has
destroyed enough explosives to jar
the entire city
When someone was needed
Christmas day to destroy the dy-
Mantle and nitro-glycerine bomb
under the home of j. o. Jensen,
Detective Mondeau was assigned.
He took the bomb in launch to
the center of the bay, weighted it
down with stones, and sank 1t In
$50 feet of water.
Wednesday a bottle of nitro
glycerine was found beside safe
in the East Side which cracksmen
had abandoned in haste. There
were two ounces of explosive in
the phial. Once more Detective
Mondeau was sent out to destroy
the stuff. He took a rowboat,
padded a half mile into the bay
and gently poured the nitro out.
Mondeau says he will not fight
for his new job IL anyone else
wants 1t.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26
Relative OF
FAMILY HELD
AS PLOTTER!

A formal charge OF attempted
murder was to be filed In the SUI
perior court Wednesday afternoon
by Deputy Prosecutor Healy.
Hazy.
Closely questioned at police
Headquarters, Thompson could
give no detailed statement OF his
actions on Christmas eve, when
the bomb was planted. He told
the police he went down town In
the evening to do some Christmas
shopping, and that after loafing
around town awhile he returned
home.
Thompson has been married
twice. He has a grown son ana
daughter by former wife, and
two young children by Mrs. So
phia Thompson, sister of Mrs. j.
o. Jensen. The parents OF
Thompson last wife live with
the Jensens, and IL was beneath
their bedroom that the bomb was
placed.
On one occasion several loaded
cartridges, u biuuS'oh maui ''o"
an ak handle. and other articles
were left in the Jensen yard as
an apparent threat OF injury.
Other Episodes.
Another time dynamite explod-
ed in the Jensen kitchen stove.
blowing the top off but not In
turing anyone. Thompson was
rot arrested on either occasion.
but the police were notified by
the Jensen family that they be
lieved him responsible.
t At another time THOMPSON told
the Jensens that unless they de-
livered the $1,000 Insurance.
money to him on certain dai y
they would meet with disaster,
the police were notified. The JeD-
sen home was guarded at that
time.
AS yet the police have been
unable to trace the dynamite and
nitro-glycerine of the Christmas
bomb to its source.
Had not the fuse ceared burn
ing within a few inches OF the
dynamite cap, the entire Jensen
house and it's nine human lives
would have been obliterated, in
all likelihood.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26
WET SCANDAL; SHAkEUP

came as the result OF the biggest
cleanup yet made in any county
and town in the state under the
direction of Attorney General w.
v. Tanner and Frank p. Christen-
sen, assistant attorney general
Besides the ousting of officials
one of the results is the limitation
by the county auditor. Mrs. Bertha
Gage, OF the amount OF liquor to
80 gallons of whisky, 45 gallons
of beer, 20 gallons of alcohol and
five gallons of mixed liquors in
each six months period.
A Clean Sweep.
A brief investigation convinced
Assistant Attorney General Chris
Jensen that nothing but a clean
sweep in the administrations
from top to bottom could bring
about the desired reform. He
then got busy. On January
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26
SEVEN FACE
GRAND JURY

All of the seveneI. W. w. arrest
ed at the construction barracks al
Camp Lewis several weeks ago
charged with attempting to OBJ
struct U. s. war work, have been
bound over to the federal grand
jury by U. s. Commissioner e. B.
prockway. =. =. ;
Brockway's decision was given
Christmas eve. 1t had been .lreld
up over the question of whether
four of the men, against whom no
direct evidence of making utter
ances against the government, was
given.
The commissioner held that
their connection with the l. w. w.
and the |. w. w. propaganda in
troduced In evidence was sufficient
to hold them under the espionage
act.
Testimony against the seven
was given at the hearing by sol
diers who mixed with the work.
men at the barracks in disguise.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26
SLIM CHANCE
FOR TACOMA
DANCE HALLS

Tacoma's dance halls were
given another chance by the city
council Wednesday, but it's a slim
chance.
Finding themselves legally
barred from closing the halls UNI
der previous ordinance, the
councilmen passed new ordi-
nance which gives Commissioner
Petit power to stop the public
dancing whenever he deems 1t
necessary. Petit announced aft
er the meeting that he expected to
close the halls in a few days.
The new ordinance provides
that no person under 81 years of
age may dance in the halls; that
no person suffering from any con-
tagious disease shall frequent the
places, and that no woman shall
be hired in a dance hall who is a
prostitute or a disorderly person.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26
.w0mA AN
aide OF
kAI SER!

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. ga
woman spy, credentialed by Will
helmstrasse as. one of the highest
agents in the German secret sery-
lice, directed the movements of
Franz Schulenberg, master spy"
who is held by the federal authori-
ties here, according to announce
ment today.
The woman, who signed her di-
rections H." is declared to have
been in San Francisco Dec. g..
When Schulenberg was arrested
in Santa Cruz, on that date, he
was on his way to this city to con-
fer with her.
Starts In Berlin.
Amazing revelations were made
when federal agents began an e&-
animation of documents seized on
Schulenberg When he was arrest
ed.
These showed that the woman,
whose identity is said to be known
to the government, directed Schulz
enberg's movements-from the sum-
mer of 1914 until he was arrestei 1.
She began from Berlin.
35 and Pretty.
1t is understood that the Schulz
enberg documents have dovetailed
exactly with other documents seiz-
ed by federal agents when the
New York offices of Wolf Won
Igel were raided.
Federal agents believe this same
woman is nowsvirtually the direct
ing head of all German spies now
operating in this country.
She is said to be pretty, about
30 years old, with Swapping black
eyes and CARRIED fashionably.
She is declared to have been
associated with Franz Won Papen,
German naval attache, before his
deportation.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26

there will be new prosecutor for
the county, whole new admins
tration in Chehalis, a new admin.
istration in Centralia, save that
Mayor John Calvin remains.
Chehalis and Centralia are ex-
pected from now on to be the
cleanest cities in the state, in
stead Of being ranked among the
worst.
Christmas Spirit SOftens Penalty.
When DR.. Coleman and DR.. Ser
geant were arraigned in court
Christensen asked for the maxi
mum penalty and jail sentence,
but the court declared that mas
much as 1t is Christmas time and
the whole affair OF the past is to
be wiped clean he would fix only
fine, and each was assessed 5000
and costs. Both had been ar
rested previously and acquitted.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26
(Special to Tho Times. }

LONDON, Dec. 26.-Russian-
German peace negotiations have
been suspended pending consulta-
ton by German delegates with
their government on Russia S
terms, according to Petrograd dis
patches printed by the Times to-
day.
The Russian delegates, it was
stated, are returning from Brest
Litovak to Petrograd.
Two commissions to negotiate
peace will shortly be formed, the
Times correspondent asserted,
one to meet at Petrograd and the
other at Odessa. Both will con-
slider purely military aspects of
the situation.
A third will shortly be appoint
ed to prepare for prospective
European peace conference.
= 1t was asserted the bolsheviki
will convoke the constituent as
sembly at the end of next week.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26
ARREST TACOMA BOMB SUSPECT
Will Tacoma
Now Breed a
Seaman Race?

Tacoma, from it's infancy an ocean port, never
has produced seafaring population.
True, we have had captains and mates and en-
gineers as citizens but most of them were retired.
Also we have had sailors, but nearly all OF them
Europeans who merely dropped the ocean life to
settle ashore here in other pursuits
Tacoma boys with few exceptions have not TAX
en- up navigation as they have other work.
Now war, the changer of everything, has laid It's
hand on maritime things, too.
So we have free navigation school in Tacoma
that is training some of our young men to command
Uncle Sans merchant fleet already the second
biggest probably destined to be the very largest,
of all the world
And today call comes for $4,000 young men to
enlist at good pay, for the lesser positions OH these
vessels of steel and of wood that going to spin
Uncle Sans web over the Seven Seas.
1t is call that ought to challenge hundreds OF
our ambitious youths. Tacoma, great port, ought
to be the home of seafaring men.
Boys who enter this work can be doing yeoman
service toward winning the war and at the same
time be fitting themselves for useful careers when
peace comes.
Will you answer the grey seas call? -s..
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26
RuSS-TEuT PEACE
TALkFEST halted

will be continued If Germany in
sists on a policy of annexations
We still hope that general peace
negotiations will be possible. We
will fight defensively until a gen.
eral democratic peace is achieved.
II admit we do not intend, and
will be unable, to remain in pow
er after peace"
Vorovsky flatly denied reports
that German agents were in Pc
trograd financing the bolsheviki
THE bolsheviki do not need
German money" he declared
1--WE are printing all that is neces-
sary."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26
U. S. TO RUN RAILROADS
WITH M'ADO0 DIRECTOR

Wage questions pending with
employes--0ne OF the biggest prob
lens before the government in its
great scheme, will be taken up at
conference with railroad chiefs
and their legal advisers at the
White House tomorrow.
The president is sufficiently en-
powered by the act Of congress OF
Aug. 20, 1916, to assume control
Immediately, altho there will be
legislative adjustments necessary
later, 1t Is said.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26

planted at the governors mansion
at the state capital and at the
homes of two other officials. not
designated, and that it will be set
off If the money IL not left. If the
money is placed at the designated
spot, the dynamite will be remov-
ed, the letter says.
The communication, printed
with rubber letters, is similar to
one that was found in the yard
of the governors mansion while
Hiram Johnson was governor. II
was turned over to Chief of Po-
lice Conran, who will cooperate
with postal authorities in an eff
fort to get a line on the sender.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26


OLYMPIA, Dec. 26.-Two days
ago Centralia and Chehalis, twin
cities of Lewis county, boosted the
reputation of being the two wet
test towns in the state.
Today they are as pure as the
driven snow.
The resignation OF w. II. Cam
eroD, prosecuting attorney for
Lewis county; the ousting of the
chiefs of police in both cities; the
arrest and admission of guilt in
issuing illegal prescriptions by
DR.. J. T. Coleman, until last Mon
day mayor of Chehalis, and DR.. j.
G. Sargent of Centralia, followed
a cleanup campaign.
Both physicians were fined
$500.
Limit ImpOytatiOns.
The shake-up in the two towns
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26
TROOPSCHASE
MEX BANDITS

Ell PASO, Dec. 26.-American
troops in pursuit today of Next
can bandits who. according to
word received here, crossed the
border, looted the American town
of Candelaria, Texas, held up the
mail stage. killed the driver and
looted the mail sacks.
The American troops were ex-
pected to cross into Mexico II they
did not catch up with the bandits
in the meantime.
It was reported that two Mexi-
can stage passengers we're shot
and killed by the bandits and that
at least one American passenger
wal shot and wounded. The
driver, Mickey WEIGH, was hanged
and then hts throat cut.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26
Officer in Gun Fight
With Two Men Shot

Dumping into three men,
believed to be safe-crackers, /
William G. Copsey, Tacoma
policeman, was shot and
slightly wounded while walk
ing his beat ON the East Side
last night.
The men are thought to have
been making their escape after
attempting to blow the safe oil
the Reservation Meat Market,
1904 Puyallup avenue.
As they met the policeman, one
of the men pulled gun and fired
point blank at him. The bullet
went thru his trousers leg and
shoe, slicing off a piece of his
foot.
Cropsey is new policeman,
having been on the force only a
week. 1t was his first visit to
the East Side.
Fire 1t Officer.
y In the course of his beat, al
East M and 25th streets, he ran
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26
THREATEN TO BLOW
UP GOV. STEPHENS

UNITED Press Leased Wire.)
SACRAMENTO, CAL, Dec.
26.-Gov. Stephens received
a letter this morning in
which the threat is made that
unless he leaves 100000 at .
certain place in Redwood cam
yon, Alameda county, by 3
O'Clock on Dec. 81, he and
two other state officials and
the whole Sacramento detec-
tive force will be "blOwn up"
The place the money is to be lef
IS designated on a rudely draw
map inclosed in the letter.
The letter, signed &c. c. C.
states that dynamite has beef
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26
MEMBERSHIPS
STILL COME

Final reports of the number OF
Red Cross memberships obtained
in Tacoma and pierce county in
the Christmas campaign were not
ready for announcement Wednes-
day.
Reports of memberships from
outlying districts still are coming
In, according to Manager Paul
Thompson. The estimated total
for the campaign still stands It.
5000.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26

WARM SUITS
Omitted Press Leased Wire.)

Omitted Press Leased Wire.)
WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 20.
senate military affairs COM
mittee told Secretary of War Bak-
er today to cut out red tape and
supply every man in environments
and training camps with clothing
suitable for winter weather.
The committee unanimously
adopted a resolution demanding
Baker give camp commanders au-
thority to buy wooden blouses and
overcoats in the nearest towns, If
they can get them quicker that
way than the quatrermaster' de-
partment can supply them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26

(unlte0 PreSS Leased W1re.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 26.
Government operation Of the
country's railroads probably I'M
der the direction of William G..
McAdoo, now secretary of the
treasury, will begin early in jan
uary. -y 49, .-
A few legal and financial prob
lens, not yet finally disposed Of,
are holding up President Wilson
announcement of this new war
step-the most revolutionary yet
taken by the government.
The president is confident that
his plan, including the compensa-
ton to be fixed for the railroads,
will meet with the approval Of the
railroad heads.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26
ADMIT THEY CAN'T
y HOLD THEIR JOBS

STOCKHOLM, Dec. 26.-Frank
belief that the bolsheviki regime
will not be able to retain its grip
on Russia after forcing thru a
separate peace with Germany,
was expressed by Bolsheviki Min
lister Vorovsky today.
1.-The bolsheviki will never con-
clude an undemocratic peace" he
told the United Press. 1.-The war
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26
Aged Woman
Is Murdered

COLUMBUS, o., Dec. 26.--Her
head crushed in as tho beaten with
a heavy rod Mrs. Sarah q. Null
ford, n, was found murdered to-
day in her grocery store here. The
aged woman is believed to have
been beaten down when she at
tempted to prevent robbers from
ransacking her store.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26

into the three men hurrying along
the street.
Two of them were carrying
suit cases. Without warning, the
third man pulled gun and firei,
Continued on Page 81
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26

Now put in the rest of the week
Hooverizing yesterdays left-overs.
After reading the ads we had
understood that Youth, health
and strength testify to the value
of Bakers cocoa" But the Wash
lngton dispatches make-clear that
Gen. Crozier does not agree with
this statement.
Once more we read that
Nicholas Romanoff has fled
from Siberia. We don't blame
him. t.e 1"
We suggest that III congress
finds time hanging heavily on its
hands 1t begin inquiry into some
Of its inquiries.
In fact, we're beginning to be-
lieve Nick showed good sense
when he Abdicated. Il
There II . great young
opening In Petrograd for the
old-fashioued editor who
used to Head off with col
umn and . half ON "Whither
Are We Drifting?"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26
DEMAND MUNITIONS
MANUFACTURE END

PETROGRAD, Dec. 20. = The
bolsheviki government issued a
manifesto to all the people today
demanding that manufacture of
all war material Immediately
cease, ''inasmuch as the Russo
German armistice will probably
shortly be transformed into a gen.
eral democratic peace"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26
PUT IT OFF UNTIL
JAN. "a. ASKS KAISER

united Press Leaned WIre.D
PETROGRAD, Dec. 26.-Ger-
many has asked postponement of
peace negotiations until Jan. "a,
according to semi-official an
nouncement here today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26
INVITE SAMMIES
FOR TURKEY HASH

DALLAS, Tex, Dec. 26.-After
turkeying and cranberrying more
than 1000 soldiers yesterday
Dallas people today invited them
back for turkey hash tomorrow.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26
OFFICER NAMED
FOR SHIPBUII.DING

tumted s'rens Leased Wtresp
PORTLAND. Ore, Dec. ze.--s
Lloyd Wentworth was today an
pointed district officer Of the Ore
gon shipbuildins district. .
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26
TODAY's CLEARINGs

Clearings .s......$ 811,163.57
Balances ......s.. 3e,S34.91
Transactions $500. 2,576,S48.45
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26

Greetings, hOw's the car
service out your way?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26

Now put in the rest of the week
yesterdays left-overs.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-26

See news story on page 8.