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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-04-16
SCRIPTS
FAVORS
BONDING
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SAN DIEGO, Cal, April 16.-
E. w. Scripps, the newspaper pub
Usher, today denied that the
American Committee for War
Finance, which is conducting a
campaign for a pay-as-you-go sys-
TEN of war financing, had any
authorization for placing him on
record as opposing government
bond issue.
1.-THE use of my name by any
person as opposing a bond issue
to meet the urgent financial
needs OF the allies or the United
States Is unauthorized" said
Scripps.
mot onlyAam I not opposed to
such bond issue, but | strongly
favor 1T. also strongly favor
the levying of an income tax, par
ticularly on the incomes OF the
rich, to pay off these bonds and
to pay future war expenses; and
I also favor good pay for our sol
diers.
81 have every confidence in the
president and his plans for direct
ing the nation in the war with
Germany, and believe that 1t Is
the patriotic duty of every citi-
zen in or out of office to stand
by the president"
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Fiercely Push Forward

WITH THE BRITISH ARM
les AFIELD, April British
troops fought their way forward
in the outskirts of st. Quentin
and Lens today. Just north of
st. Quentin they took the village
of Troissauvages.
Around three sides of Lens they
were fiercely fighting against
German defenders and slowly en-
circling the coal city.
Again early today the Germans
threw two more strong attacks at
British positions at Monchy-Le-
Preux. Both failed. The British
artillery concentrated a devastat-
ing fire at the massed attacks.
I'VE progressed to the north
west of Lens" was the British
commander-in-chief's laconic COM
ment of that point in the fight
ing. where British forces have
straddled the famous Hindenburg
line.
Haig also announced the cap
ture of Villaret, southeast of Har-
gicourt. It's taking by British
troops widens the wedge thrust
against the main Hindenburg line
of communications from st. Quen-
tin to Cambria on front of APP
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have some preference as to where
he slept.
"Give me a Three, II you have
one," he requested of the Pullman
conductor. His voice, Connery
noted, was distinctly pleasant. Al
sound of 1t, Dorne turned and
looked that way and said some
thing in a low tone to the girl
Harriet Dorne also looked, and
with her eyes ON Eaton, Connery
say her reply inaudibly, rapidly
and at some length.
II can give you Three in Cal
Three" the Pullman conductor
offered.
"That'll do very WE'LL" Eaton
answered.
AS the porter now took his
bags, Eaton followed him out OF
the car. Connery went after them
into the next car. He expected
that Eaton would at once identity
himself as the passenger to whom
President Jarvis note had refer
red. Eaton, however, paid no at
tention to him.
Besides Eaton. Connery saw
but half a dozen people in this car !;
the Englishman in Section Four;
the young girls of about 10 and
20 and their parents-unobstr
sive, middle aged people who had
the drawing room; and an alert,
red-haired, professional looking
man of 40, whose baggage was
marked sd. S.-Chicago." Con-
merry stood a few moments, then
he again passed Eaton, slowing so
that the young man could speak
to him II he wished; but Eaton
allowed him to pass on. AS he en-
tered the next car back, Avery
stopped him.
"Mr. Dorne would like to speak
to you," Avery said. The tone
was like a command.
Connery stopped beside the sec
ton, where the man with the spec
tacles sat with his daughter.
Dorne looked up at him.
"You are the train conductor"
he asked.
Eyes, sir" Connery replied.
Dorne fumbled in his inner
pocket, brought out a card case,
opened 1t and produced card.
Connery saw that 1t was President
Jarvis visiting card: across its
top was written briefly in Jarvis
familiar hand, This is the pas
senger."
Connery's hand shook as he
took the card. He saw that his
too ready assumption that Eaton
was the main to whom Jarvis
notehad referred, had almost led
him into q mistake objectionable
In trusted" man.
"You need. of course, hold the
train no longer" Dorne said.
Continued Tomorrow
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INQUEST INTO AUTO
TRAGEDY MONDAY

girl when the accident occurred.
police say.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mcvoy were
thrown to the pavement and
killed instantly.
Youth Not Worried
Ashford and Rankin have been
held in separate cells at police
headquarters since their arrest,
and have been permitted to talk
only with their parents and at
torneys. George Addison is rep
resenting Ashford.
The driver of the car is only IS
years OF age, but members of the
police traffic squad say that he
has been causing trouble as
driver of motor vehicles for some
time. He was fined in police
court last July for speeding with
a motorcycle. and again convicted
in December of the same offence.
Although facing probable
manslaughter charge, the youth
has not even seemed to realize
his predicament, the police say,
and has not even seemed to rea-
lie the seriousness of the acct
dent.
Kirk McVoy, only hon of the
accident victims, is Frustrated
with grief.
The funeral was to be held late
Monday afternoon from the Buck
ley-King Co.'S. Both bodies will
be taken to Minneapolis for in
terment.
Mr.. McVoy was manager for the
Northwestern Woodenware Co.
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Evidence in the hands OF the
police that Verne Ashford, auto
mobile mechanic, had taken sew
eral drinks OF liquor Saturday
night shortly before the accident
In which machine driven by him
killed Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. McVoy,
604 North l street, in front OF
their home, may result in serious
charges being filed against the
youth.
r. w. Rankin. another me-
chanic, whom Ashford had taken
home just before the accident,
was arrested Sunday. He declared
that he and Ashford had been
drinking during the evening, and
that he had tried to discourage
the youth from driving a car in
his partially intoxicated condi-
ton. Ashford. who is also held
In a police cell, admitted the
truth of Rankin's statement, po-
lice say.
Was Hugging Girl
Coroner Stewart has called an
inquest for Monday afternoon.
The accident occurred at IL p.
m. Saturday, Just after Mr.. and
Mrs. McVoy had alighted from q
Point Defiance car before their
home. Ashford maintains that
he did not see the couple until too
late. He swerved to the curb and
kts, snA@ taI
pole, injuring Miss Gladys Math-
ews, who was riding with him.
Ashford had one arm about the
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STRIKE AGAINST
THE DEATH CHAIR

For half an hour May 1 all
union men will strike as a signal
for demand for the freedom of
Tom Mooney, who was recently
convicted of numbering several
women and children last spring
at the time of the San Francisco
preparedness parade. This was
the vote taken Sunday afternoon
at meeting of union men in Ia
coma.
Robert Minor, one of the attor-
neys for Mooney, declared that
MONEYS conviction was the great
est miscarriage of Justice in the
annals of the courts of the coun-
try. He charges that Mooney was
being railroaded to the death
chair.
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R0CKEFELLERS'
FEUD AT END

sphlHtu Hrtbs beuNeu " tFt''
NEW YORK, April 16. death
today ended the 17-year reud be-
tween John d, Rockefeller and his
brother, Frank. The bilionaire
oil king announced that he would
attend his brothers funeral at
Cleveland.
1t took the Reaper to settle the
grim, silent hatred that existed,
for what reason they themselves
only knew, between the brothers
for nearly a score of years.
Neither friends, associates, mu-
tual business interests, nor FAM
lily ties succeeded in breaking
down the mysterious wall between
the two men. They neither spoke,
wrote nor so much as referred to
each other.
They were chums in boyhood.
They fought their early business
battles side by side. They shared
their first successes as they had
shared their childhood overly.
The break came in 1900. In
that year Frank Rockefeller an
nounced that he had left the
Standard Oil company, never to
return; and that he had taken a
vow never again to speak to his
brother.
Both men spent part Of each
year In Cleveland, John coming
from New York and Frank from
his ranch In Kansas.
Even when he knew he was 60
Ing to die, Frank prohibited ahose
about him informing his brother
John.
Nothing vexed Frank RockefeI-
Ter more than to be referred to as
John DIS brother"
Frank, although he made a
large fortune in stocks, did not
begin to equal his brother Johns
fortune; but he lavished as much
care and affection on his seven
mile-square farm in Kansas as
John d. has on his Pontiac Hills
estate.
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The Blind Mans
= ~ E EDWIN 1 szss E yes :: s5;

came by appointment. Kondo
ushered him into the smoking
room. The Jap did not announce
this arrival. but several times in
the next half hour he looked upon
him. The stranger had not moved.
In about forty minutes, Corboy
drove the car under the porte
corchere. got down and opened the
door. There was no motion in
side. The chauffeur looked in and
saw Warden lying back quietly
against the cushions; he was alone.
Warden was dead; the top of
his head had been smashed in.
The chauffeur drew back, gasp
ing; Kondo behind him, ran into
the house calling for help. Two
other servants and Mrs. Warden
ran down. The stranger, now
seen for the first time by Mrs.
Warden, came out from the smok-
ing room. He aided in taking the
body from the car into the living
room: he remained until 1t was
certain that Warden had been
killed and nothing could be done.
When this had been established,
Kondo and Mrs. Warden looked
around for him-but he was no
longer there.
The news OF the murder Great
ed a sensation, which deepened
with the disclosure that this was
the second time such a murder
had happened.
Warden had been close, at one
time, to the great Western capt.
talist. Matthew Latron; and Lat
ron. five years before, had been
murdered. Latron's murderer
had been man who had also
called by appointment.
Latron's death had occurred at
a time of fierce financial stress
and warfare. But in this compar-
ison Warden's statement to his
wife was not borne out. Men of
high place In the business world
all concurred in saying that, 80
far as Warden and his properties
were concerned, the time was one
of peace; neither attack nor seri-
GUS disagreement had threatened
him.
Investigation of the murder went
on increasingly. The statements
of Kondo and Corboy were veri-
fled 1t was even learned at what
spot Warden's murderer had left
the motor unobserved. Beyond
this, no trace was found of him.
This disappearance of the young
man who had come to Warden's
house was also complete.
No suspicion attached to this
young man. His disappearance
seemed explicable. 1t was gener-
ally credited that he, too, must
have been killed; or, IL he was
alive, he saw in Warden's swift
destruction warning of his own
fate IL he came forward at this
time.
Thus, after ten days, no infor-
nation from or about him had
been gained.
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SOCIETY STUNTS
AT u. DISCARDED

SEATTLE, April 16.-For the
first time in the history of the
U. OF w. formal social functions
are being called off. The Junior
Prom, one of the biggest functions
OF the year, is being toned down
to an informal.
The spring musical opera has
been given up because one of the
principals has enlisted in the am
bulance corps. The Greek play,
"Antigone," will be given to aid
the ambulance corps.
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CHAPTER III.
Express Is Held for a Parsonage.

Express Is Held for a Parsonage.
Bob Connery, special conductor,
was surprised at breakfast on the
18th day to get from the presi-
dent of his railroad an order in
writing on private note paper, de-
livered by special messenger. 1t
read:---
mo. will run one hour late
Take charge prepared to run thru
to Chicago. You will facilitate
every desire and obey, when pos
sible, any request which may be
made by a passenger who will
identify himself by a card from
me-"
As he went to work he saw,
across the bay, the incoming Jap
enese liner, the Tamba Maru, and
the thought occurred to him
Probably President Jarvis has
some mogul on that boat whom
he wishes to coddle." In the Sc
attic terminal he climbed aboard
the waiting express and took a
walk up and down. Travel was
light that trip. There were but
IA passengers aboard.
Connery got off and went to
have chat with old Sammy Sea.
ton, the gateman. Just then q
group Of people crowded out to
the gate, the baggage of some
showing foreign labels The first
TO pass thru was a girl about %.
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BY Edgar G. Wheeler

Do you feel today as IL you'd
been run over by a two-ton truck?
So do I.
That's what comes to a fellow
when he's unprepared.
The doctor diagnoses 1t as war
food preparedness lameness."
When the war food preparedness
notion Sits It's way through flabby
flesh it plays hob. But it's greae
stuff, isn't 1t?
These fine looking soldier boys,
parading through the streets in
uniforms, have been getting on my
nerves. They have been making
me feel small and watery. They
have been making me feel like q
worse pacifist than | really am.
II
But since Sunday I've been
feeling better.
There are actually three
blisters on my left hand, and
q blood blister and the making
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RIOTS RAGING
IN ARGENTINE
United Press Leased Wire.


BUENOS AIRES, April 16.-Ar
gentine seethed with war and anti.
war demonstrations today.
In Buenos Aires pacifists, in a
well-organized group, had a pitched
battle with pro-war advocate-and
won.
Today the peace advocates were
planning monster demonstration
for late this afternoon.
Practically all Argentine prov
inces reported disturbances on Sum-
day. created by peace and war agi-
tators.
A survey today OF the damage
done to German property indicated
there might have been some lives
lost, although the official govern
ment statement insisted simply
that many were wounded, mostly
from sabers welded by the gem
darmes.
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MEXICO
WILL BE
NEUTRAL
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MEXICO CITY, April 16.-
Mexico Is neutral.
The capital today received with
satisfaction the long-expected
statement by President-elect Car
rama of the nations attitude to-
ward the world war since the
United States is in.
The situation had grown tense.
Nobody knew what stand Car
rama would take until he start
ed to read, his first presidential
message to the first constitutional
congress Mexico has had in three
years.
Every chair in the diplomatic
boxes was filled when Carranza
began to speak.
He spoke for four hours, from
200 typewriter pages of manu-
script.
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SAYS TEDDY WILL
CALL ON WILHELM

CHICAGO, April 18.-Ex-Gov-
ernor Willis of Ohio turned the Sc
date Sunday Evening club meeting
into wild patriotic demonstration
when he said: Put Roosevelt at
the head Of. AN American division
and he'll call on the kaiser at
Potsdam-provided Wilhelm is at
home when Teddy arrives"
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FRANCE JOINS
BIG Drive:
LENS BOXED UP

UNITED Press Leased Wire.l
PARIS, April 16-France's
great offensive, timed to SYM
chronize with the British
''big push," may now he
staring.
Today's official report in
dicated spread of violent ar
tillery preparations all aiond
the Champagne front; an in
crease i'm the French drive
toward st. Quentin; more
bitter fighting south of the
Disc, and a series of terrific
smashes far down to the
south In Alsace-IJorraine.
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TACOMA ALONE HAS
GAIN IN BUILDING

Tacoma was the only coast city
TO show a gain in the building op.
erations for the month of March
a gain of per cent.
Tacoma's report showed 1870
buildings at a cost of $176,179, as
compared with 143 buildings with
an estimated cost Of $16S,122 for
March, 1916. Seattle and Port
land had losses of 81 and 3S per
cent respectively.
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MUST TURN OVER
ARMS TO POLICE

All German aliens OF Tacoma
and vicinity will be obliged to
turn over all firearms to the po-
lice in accordance with President
Wilson's proclamation, according
to a dispatch received in Tacoma
Sunday from Washington, ID. 9.
Any unnaturalized German who
fails to do SO will be liable to
arrest.
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She was of medium height.
slender and erect in figure. She
had the air of person of assur-
ed position. Her fair cheeks were
rudy and her blue eyes bright.
her hair, deep brown and abun-
dant, was caught back from her
brow, giving her a boyish look.
Connery was certain he did not
know her. He now gave his at
tention to the first man-tall,
strongly built, with powerful
patrician face. His face and mus
tache were dark; his brows were
black: his eyes were hidden by
smoked glasses.
Connery found his gaze follow
ing this man; the conductor did
not know him, nor had old Sam
my recognized him; but, unques-
tionably, he was a man to be
known.
A trim, self-assured man of 80,
wearing a cutaway coat, came past
next. An Englishman, with red
veined cheeks, fumbling. clumsy
fingers, and serious, interested
eyes Immediately followed. lie,
plainly, had booked" at Hong
Kong.
A fifth person had appeared
suddenly. He had taken his place
behind the four only after scru-
tiny of them and of all around.
His ticket was a strip which orig
inally had help coupons for the
Pacific voyage; 1t was close to
the date when 1t would have ex-
pired. 1t bore the name Philip
ID. Eaton" An American, and
young, he made a profound I'm
preston upon Connery. He COM
bined, in some strange way, ex-
altation with WEAKNESS. Con-
merry felt that it was by premedi-
tation that he was the last to pass
he gate.
Connery stepped beside the old
man.
"who is 1t, Sammy" he de-
handed.
The gateman mumbled to HIM
self the names of the famous, the
great, the notorious, in bis effort
to fit one to the man who had
just passed.
II Eaton were not the mans
real name, old Sammy was I'M
able to find any other which TT
ted.
Connery went out to the train.
The passengers had got aboard;
the last five to arrive had disap-
peared into the Pullmans. Con-
merry jumped aboard the observa-
ton car and went forward into
the next Pullman. In its aisle
the five whom Connery had just
watched pass the gate were gath
cred about the Pullman conduc-
tor, claiming their reservations.
The three who had passed the
gate first-the girl, the man with
the glasses and the young man
In the cutaway-were one party.
They had had reservations made,
apparently, in the name of Dorne,
for compartment and two sec
tions in this car, the last of the
four Pullmans. The girls ad-
dress to the specialized man made
plain that he was her father; her
name. apparently, was Harriet;
the young man in the cutaway
coat was Don" to her and "Av-
cry" to her father. His relation
while intimate enough to permit
him to address the girl as "Har-
ry," was unfailingly respectful to
Mr.. Dorne, and against them both
Dorne won his way; his daughter
was to occupy the drawing room;
he and Avery were to have sec
tions. And Dorne directed the
porter to put Avery's luggage in
Section One. his own In Section
Three.
The Bnglishman, unsupplied
with a sleeping car ticket, accept
ed Section Four In Car Three
the next car forward--and de-
parted at the heels of the porter.
Connery watched more closely. as
came the turn of Eaton. Like the
Englishman, Eaton had no reser-
alton; he appeared. however. to
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ENLIST OR SCOOT.
ORDERS TO TRAMPS

VU"Ved Press LenDed Wfre.)
CHICAGO, April 16.-Enlist or
get out of town, is the police ukase
to Knights of the Road who are
flocking into Chicago. Many
have already taken the blind bag
gage route west.
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NEGRO BAND RAGS
THE RECRUITS IN

United Presa Lehsed Wire.I
CHICAGO, April ia negro
band of the Eighth Illinois infant
ry started a ragtime recruiting
campaign. Fifty shoulder hitch
ing youths followed the syncopat-
ed melody into the armory.
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JUST COULD NOT
WAIT UNTIL DAY

tCrited Press Lensed Wire.J
CHICAGO, April 16.-ChesteP
e. Taylor got war religion" in
the middle of the night, so he
aroused the recruiting officer at
4:15 a. m. and enlisted forthwith,
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proximately five miles.
Towns Set Afire.

IPiOAinlutCiy llNt Ilil6B.
Towns Set Attire.
THE enemy attack at Monchy
on Saturday. Haig's report assert
ed today, was pressed in the
most determined manner. The
third Bavarian divisions was
again hurried as a reinforcement
to the German line and ordered to
retake Monchy at all costs. Its
losses, like that of other German
troops, was exceptionally heavy.
Battle front dispatches today
revealed the wild haste of the
German troops to withdraw great
supplies of food, ammunition and
guns out of the doomed cities of
Lens and st. Quentin.
Flames were to be seen in
both towns from the British lines
now holding the suburbs of both
cities, As miles apart.
Occupation of DiXmude by
Belgian troops without OppO-
sitiOn from the Germans
may he planning a retirement
on a vast scale on the west
front.
Some believe this retreat
might even carry the Ger
mans back to the Belgian
border.
Such a maneuver would great
ly shorten the German line and
therefore release mass Of men
for defense against the smashing
British and French attacks.
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Repulsed, Say Germans
Omitted Press Leased Wire.)

BERLIN. via London, April 10,
-Repulse of three British attacks
were announced in today's official
statement.
THE British were repulsed
along the northern bank of the
Scarpe and northeast of Crotssil.
le,' the war office declared.
They were also driven back at
Lagnicourt and Boursies."