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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-24
II YEARS AT THE
CORNER 9TH AND
BROADWAY
MARINES
CALL ON
TACOMA

Tacoma is asked to furnish
more men for the marine corps.
The following telegram was re-
ceived today from George Barnett,
major general commanding, in
Washington:
Editor The Times:
THE bill signed by President
Wilson yesterday authorizes the
marine corps to enlist men be-
tween the ages of IS and 80 for
the period of the war. Men who
want to fight where the action Is
hottest, on land, on the sea or in
the air, will find the marine corps
offers them a great opportunity
to uph old the honor of their coun-
try and their flag.
ION behalf of the officers and
enlisted men of the marine corps
again desire to express our sin
cere appreciation of the able as
sistance and hearty cooperation
rendered by The Times in recruit
ing the corps.
Tacoma has responded splen-
didly to our calls. | am now ask
ing your further assistance and
cooperation in recruiting the ma
rine corps to its full authorized
strength of 10000 enlisted men.
The special national marine
corps recruiting week Is from
June 10 to 16, inclusive, and
hope that the marine corp will be
at full strength before the close
of the present fiscal year."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-24

King county officials began q
search in the waters OF Puget
Sound today for the body Of Jo-
seph Gordon Hunter, age II, a
retired Alaska mining man, who
leaned over the rail of the steam
er Indianapolis last night on the
o'clock trip from Seattle, fired
a bullet into his brain, and top
|pled into the water before any
one had time to approach.
Although the steamer was
stopped, and remained in the
neighborhood for nearly 80 min
utes, no trace of the body was
found.
Hunter had carefully planned
his death, leaving notes to three
friends In his rooms at the Madi-
son hotel, Seattle. He had been
Respondent for several weeks be-
cause of his increasing weakness
with old age, and blindness
that was imminent from cataracts.
Causes Sensation.
The suicide created much ex-
|citement on board the Indianapo-
lis. Most of the passengers were
Tacomans returning to their
homes. Hunter, well dressed and
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DOOMED TO failure

Instead of such a general meet
ing, they predicted merely a con-
tinuation of the group meetings Of
socialists of various countries, as
now in progress.
Best information was that most
of the Swedish and Norwegian
delegates and some of the Dutch
representatives had indicated their
inability to agree to the German
terms, as outlined by the Swedish
socialist leader Borgbjerg. Fore
most in their objections, it was
reported, was insistence by Ger
many that she retain Alsace and
Lorraine.
The Danish delegates, on the
other hand, were reported to SYM
pathize more fully with the Ger
man aims. The only socialist
delegations which have so far ar
rived are those from Scandinavia,
Bulgaria, Austria and Turkey.
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Continued From Page One.)
the year he has been in the death
house.
Warden Meyer tested the cleo
trio chair today and placed 1t an
der sealed locks to prevent any
tampering with the apparatus.
The murder of Waite's father
in-law, John f. Peck of Grand
Rapids, Mich, and his mother-in-
law, by poison and by the use of
germs, came to light In the spring
of last year. Mrs. Peck died Jan.
20, 1916. Her husbands life end
ed March 10, 1916. Waite admit
ted he planned to kill his wife
also.
Money the Motive
Driven by a desperate need of
money to maintain himself in lux
urious surroundings, Waite went
about his poisonings methodically
and with as deadly GOODNESS as a
Borgia might have manifested.
His gay parties, his studio orgies,
his nights Of music and merriment
were founded upon the agonies of
his victims, slowly dying of arsenic
poisoning and suffering from the
ravages of bacilli with which he
innoculated them.
Waite was determined to possess
the Peck family fortune. He re-
sided in magnificent apartments
on Riverside Drive. spent his days
on the tennis courts or motoring,
loitered for hours in the sensuous
splendor of his studio, and return
ed from his revels to prepare
deadly cultures Of germs, admins
tered behind a mask of smiling
solicitude.
"Man From Egypt"
Waite blamed his deeds on a
Influence which he
called "The Man From Egypt"
This mysterious force, he asserted,
periodically took hold of his body
and brain, and forced them to do
its bidding.
Insanity was pleaded at his trial.
Witnesses testified he had been
doing cruel and irrational things
ever since bis college days.
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DEATHS

Edward d. Johnston, age A.,
died Wednesday at a local hospi-
tai. A wife residing at the Web
ster apartments survives him.
Funeral Saturday at 8 from
Buckley-King's.
l.. Keener, age As, died We'd
nesday at local hospital. He
had lived in Tacoma for 25 years,
and had been a longshoreman. A
mother and sister survive him.
Body removed to G. o. Lynn's.
George o. Pratt, age 36, died
Thursday at local hospital. He
was restaurant keeper of South
Tacoma. A wife, an adopted son,
mother, four brothers and two
sisters survive him. Funeral Fri
day at 1 from Piper's.
William Wellan, age II, died
Wednesday in Centralia. A sister
survives him. Body will be
brought here for interment.
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u. S. SENATOR
LANE PASSES
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SAN FRANCISCO, May "a
U. S. Senator Harry Lane of Ore
gon will probably be buried in
Portland next week, although an
nouncement of arrangements for
disposition of his body had not
been made early today by his wife.
Senator Lane died at st. Fran
els hospital last night after sew
eral months of suffering from a
general nervous breakdown COM
plicated by high blood pressure.
Senator Lane was a member of
one of the most prominent Ore
gon pioneer families.
He was the grandson of Gen.
Joseph Lane, first territorial gov
ernor of Oregon and candidate
for vice president on the demo-
cratic ticket in 1860.
OF his immediate family, DR..
Lane is survived by his widow,
Harriet Lane, two daughters,
Harriet Lane Hicks and Nina Lane
Mcbride, and one adopted daugh-
ter, Dorothy Lane.
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BLAST kAISER'S
PET SCHEME

ference had succeeded in its pro-
gram, a separate Russian peace
would have been concluded.
France has already blazed the
way by her premier's statement
showing that the allies have no
rapacious aims of conquest and
indemnity, but that they demand
reparation and surrender of Ger
man conquered territory.
England and France will proba-
bly, join. too, in the American
action of refusing passports to any
of their subjects for attending the
Stockholm conference.
Morris Hillquit, Victor Berger
and Algernon Lee, U. S. socialists
who have desired to be represent
ed, are claimed by other membrs
of the American socialists to rep
resent a pro-German viewpoint,
rather than truly socialist spirit.
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Some Wear Overcoats

Literally, a submarine Is
nothing more nor less than a
floating machine and electrical
shop.
And not a member of the
crew was stripped to the waist.
On the contrary, number of
them were wearing their over
coats,
Were just getting ready to
go out to sea for a dive" Ben
nett said. at gets mighty cold
down under the surface. The
boys have to dress for it."
As we went from room to
room. Bennett introduced me
to the crew.
1 was struck by the fact that
the men, for the most part,
were much older than the gen.
eral run aboard the Texas.
"Only petty officers are al
lowed to work on submarine"
Bennett explained. Most of
the CA men are old-timers in
the navy. You've got to put in
some years before you become
a first-class machinist or cleo
trician."
Just then, Capt. Foster, on
the bridge above, called down:
start the engines and get
ready for a dive! Everybody
below"
Tomorrow: Under the Sea.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-24
With the Fingers!
Says Corns Lift Out
Without Any Pain

Sore corns, hard corns, soft
corns Of. any kind of corn can
shortly be lifted right out with
the fingers IL you will apply d.
rectly upon the corn a few drops
of freezone, says Cincinnati au-
thority.
1t is claimed that at small cost
one can get q quarter of an ounce
of freezone at any drug store.
which Is sufficient to rid ones
feet OF every corn or callus with
out pain or soreness or the dan
ger of infection.
This new drug is an ether COM
pound, and while sticky, dries
the moment Il is applied and does
not inflame or even irritate the
surrounding tissue.
This announcement will interest
many women here, for II Ii said
that the present high-heei foot
wear is putting corns on prae'
cally every woman's feet.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-24
SWEEPING.
PLANNED
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WASHINGTON, ID. c., May "a.
Government control over all
great monopolies in the United
States will be authorized-but not
directed-by the present con-
gress.
This legislation is expected to
keep in line" combinations
which will be permitted to form
during the present emergency,
despite the Sherman antitrust
law.
A bill will be reported out of
the senate interstate commerce
committee within a few days au-
thorizing President Wilson to
direct the operation of all the
railroads.
Provision will be made for him
to commander all shipbuilding
plants and factories engaged in
production of material necessary
in the construction of vessels.
The president will be given vir-
tual powers of dictator in direct
ing distribution of supplies of all
kinds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-24
PINS SKIRT;
THEN STEALS

A professional woman burglar,
who gains admission to homes on
the pretext of needing privacy for
the purpose of fastening her skirt,
is operating in Tacoma, according
to warning issued by the police
Thursday.
The woman tried to enter the
home of Mrs. Mary Uzafovage,
818 No. 9Th st., Wednesday aft
ernoon, on this plea, but was re-
fused admission when Mrs. Uzafo-
wage became suspicious. The
woman has entered other homes,
and is said to be responsible for
several robberies here.
She is of large stature, about
35 years of age, has dark rings
beneath her eyes, and wears a
pink dress.
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WASHINGTON, ID. c., May "a.
forthcoming state
ment on the Russian situation
will probably blast for all time
Germany's insidious peace-at-her-
own price propaganda.
This statement, taken with the
government refusal to give any
American passports to the Ger
man-engineered socialist confer
ence" in Stockholm next month,
will probably serve the double
purpose of heartening Russia and
of exposing to the wrold a new
chapter of German intrigue.
On the surface, the statement
will be a discussion of the mo
annexations, no indemnities" slo-
gan which Berlin has fostered.
Some officials here have frank
ly said that if the Stockholm con-
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WHAT DIVER
LIFE IS LIKE
CONTINUED from Page IL

Continued from Page IL
First, I'll show you over
the boat" Bennett said on TAX
ing charge of me. THE CA is
157 feet long and IT feet wide
in the middle"
followed Bennett down
through the only open hatch,
and when ! stepped off the
ladder | had my first view of
the inside of a submarine.
Like a Pullman Car!
I'll say that every precon-
ceived notion / had formed con-
corning the interior of a sub
marine was knocked into q
cooked hat!
Like most people l had got
an idea somewhere that sub
marines were unspeakably
dirty: that the crews fairly
wallowed in oil and grease;
that everybody stripped to the
waist because of the intense
heat; and that the air was foul
and stuffy.
!. But what different picture!
The CD was about the cleanest
thing I've ever seen. Her in
terror is painted snow white
with the exception of the deck,
or floor, which is red.
Like Pullman sleeper, she
is divided off into little COM
partments and rooms, with a
passageway running from end
to end, through the center.
Each room is filled with ma
chinery. There is, for exam
pie, the electrical room that is
crammed full of motors,
switches, wires and other ap-
paratus of every description;
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Won't Salute
Flag to Stay
Out of Jail

WOODLAND, Cal, May "a
Captain II. Weber. who says he is
a German observer" would not
salute the American flag even to
keep out of jail.
Not only that, but he freely ex-
pressed the opinion today that
President Wilson is "the greatest
enemy OF the German people" and
declared he owes allegiance to
non but the kaiser. These things
he told to Sheriff Monroe follow
ing his arrest as spy suspect.
Weber says for 16 years he has
travelled as an "observer"-he in
sists he is not a spy-for the Ger
man government.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-24
WOMEN AT WORK:
MEN PROTESTING

Under the auspices of the Des-
tiny and White Lead lodges of
South Tacoma, mass meeting
will be held Thursday night to
protest against the hiring of wom-
en- at the South Tacoma car shops.
The men are protesting that the
hiring Of women will tend to low
er the scale OF wages at the shops.
The women are now employed
in washing windows of the cars.
beating carpets and cleaning up
holstery.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-24
HELD FOR BUYING
BOOZE PERMITS

]. p. Morton, proprietor of the
Avenue hotel, was arretsed We'd
nesday night by deputy sheriff
charged with violating the dry
law. He is alleged to have bought
two liquor permits recently after
he had plead guilty to a violation
of the dry law In the police court.
Section Is of the law provides
that any person found guilty Of
violating the act cannot obtain
ermits.
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have permitted an expression of
regret over failure of the German
plot for separate peace with Rus
STA to pass may be highly signifi-
cant. Every indication to date
has been that Germany's strong
est effort to this end was still to
be exerted through the German
dominated socialist peace confer
ence," at Stockholm next month.
The following United Press dis
patch from Stockholm indicated,
in this connection, that leaders
now there were convinced it would
not be a success. 1t was filed,
moreover, before news reached
Sweden of the American refusal
to issue passports.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-24
After a Field
Artillery Co.

If a field artillery battalion is
to be formed in the state, Mai.
Seth w. Ellison wants Tacoma to
have it. The matter has been
taken up with the adjutant gen.
erals office.
According to the recent an
nouncement of the war depart
ment, the national guard of the
state must be increased by a regi-
ment of field artillery, a battalion
of engineers, field hospital COM
pany, an ambulance company, a
machine gun troop cavalry and a
headquarters division.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-24
BUYS His Clothes

With her husband earning from
81 to 81 day, Mrs. Flora Oliver
testified Thursday morning in her
divorce suit against her husband,
p. l.. Oliver, that she has bought
all his clothes for the last five
years. She was given a divorce
by Judge Chapman.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-24
MRS. GAIT WILL
BE HERE MONDAY

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait,
prominent suffrage worker and a
member of the national council of
defense, will speak in Tacoma
next Monday night at the First
Congregational church. A recep-
ton in her honor will be held at
the Woman's clubhouse in the aft
ernoon.
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RAIN VALUED
AT MILLIONS
UNITED Press Leased Wire. }

TUNED PRESS Leased Wfre.D
CHICAGO, May 24.-Gen. Pre-
cipitation is the best ally Uncle
Sam has right now. He is doing
his bit by deluging the country
with a series of rains that have
saved the wheat crop in many sec
lions and aided other grains and
foodstuffs.
Each ten minutes rain is
worth a million dollars to the
American farmer" one statisti-
clan declared today.
Reports from all parts of the
country, gathered today by the
United Press, showed that crop
prospects in general are excep-
tionally good, due mostly to the
recent rains, while the heavy frost
failed to cause the destruction
that was feared at first.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-24
One Divorce
a Day Here

One hundred and twenty-six de-
fault divorces have been filed in
the superior court so far this year.
Subtracting 20 Sundays, it makes
more than one default divorce a
day in the superior court.
This was discovered Thursday
morning by Prosecuting Attorney
Remain in checking up.
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May "a. 1917.

LOCAL Improvement District No.
414.-Notiee is hereby given that
in pursuance of Ordinance No. 3703
OF the City of Tacoma. a roll has
been placed in my hands for the col
lection of the Sth annual INSTALL
ment of the assessment levied for
improving North 39th Street, North
41st Street. North 42nd street and
North 43rd Street from the present
proposed pavement on Stevens Street
to the present proposed pavement on
Mason Avenue.
Said Improvement shall consist In
grading said portion of said streets
to the established grade. with road
ways twenty-four CAD feet in width.
and laying down on said roadways,
a pavement of asphalt on a concrete
base, with brick cutters, concrete
and granite curbs, and all neces-
sary storm water drainage. Also In
extending all walks to curbs, taking
up and relaying same where necss-
sary.
Said installment may be paid on
or before June oath, 1917, but
IL not paid on or before said date,
added interest, penalty and costs
JAMES C. DRAKE,
City Treasurer.
May 1891. June 7, 1917.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-24
BRING BIG SCOW
FOR TACOMA co.

HOQUIAM, May 24-The Grays
Harbor Construction Co.'S tug
Hunter left this morning for Ia
coma with two of its largest
scows, which we're bought We'd
nesday by Arthur Foss of Tacoma
for the Foss Launch Co,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-24
SUSPICIOUS NOTES

LOS ANGELES, May "a. -
With a notebook in his possession
in which there was reference to
a Fort Curry" and ~. s. Ship
No. 2, Long Beach," Bruno Vein
ard, a German who speaks little
English, was taken into custody
early today.
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BLOW TO GERMANS
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PARIS, May 24.-Eight thous-
and six hundred German prisoners
have been taken by French troops
since May 1, in the offensive. be-
tween Scissors and Auberive, to-
days official statement asserted.
The Vauclerc attack was a
bloody check to the Germans.
Their troops were literally thrown
back to the starting point of the
counter thrust. Prisoners cap
tured were identified as belonging
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United Press Leased wirc.)

UNITED Press Leased Wirc.D
AMSTERDAM, May 24.-"Rus-
sia's rejection of a separate peace
is a most bitter disappointment"
declared the German socialist Or
gan Vorwaerts today, the first ad-
mission Of failure of the German
peace efforts which the German
censors have permitted to pass.
"The rejection is all the fault
of Imperial Chancellor Won Beth
mann-Hollweg. the Vorwaerts edi-
torial continued. IF he had, like
announced Germany had
no intention of annexing an inch
of territory, the result would have
been different"
That tho Cnrp,on oapenr. eho,,ld
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LONDON, May 24.-Four or
five German airships raided east
ern counties of England last
night, dropping a number of
bombs and killing one man in a
Norfolk village, Lord French.
home defense commander. an
nounced today.
1.-The airships approached the
coast shortly before midnight" "
Lord French said. 1.-THE sky was
overcast and thick bank of rain
clouds made observation diff
cult. Four airships pursued an
erratic course, being unable to
locate their position. Our aero
planes pursued them, but the
thick clouds enabled them to
escape
"Airships' presumably means
Zeppelins. If so, the present raid
is the first since Nov. 90. and the
22nd of the war. The total casu-
alties have been 229 killed and
451 injured.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-24
QUIET WITH HAIG

LONDON, May 24.-The lull on
the British front continued today.
All Field Marshal Haig had to re-
port was a few prisoners taken
by British forces in raid east of
LIE Vertuier and small patrol en-
counters.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-24
LEGAL NOTICES

ORDINANCE NO. 6606.-AN ORDI-
NANCE appropriating the sum OF
$500 to defray the expense of an
electrical display to represent the
City of Tacoma in the Fourth of July
parade.
BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE CITY
OF TACOMA:
Section 1. That the sum of $500
is hereby appropriated from the
Light Fund of the City to be used
by the Light Department for defrsy-
ing the expense of an electrical dis
play representing the City of Taco
ma i'm the Fourth of July parade.
Passed May %, 1917.
A. v. FAWCETT.
Mayor.
Attest: w. d. NICKEUS,
City Clerk.
a
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Omitted Press Leased wIre1

STOCKHOLM, May "a. The
German plan for general peace
conference" of socialists next
month is foredoomed, in the opin-
ion OF well-informed sympathetic
non-socialist observers here.
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ENGLAND RAIDED

to four different German divisions,
indicating that the enemy attack
was by force of not less than
60, 900 men.
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ITALIAN VICTORY
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Omitted Press Leased wire.p
ROME, May 24.-Following 10
hours terrific bombardment, Ital-
ian attacking forces broke
through strongly organized Aus
trian lines in the Carso, captured
Jamiand and took 5000 prisoners.
The war office statement today
announced the victory, stating
that 1870 aeroplanes participated.
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THREE CAMPS FOR
MEDICAL CORPS
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WASHINGTON, ID. c., May "a.
Establishment of three training
camps for officers of the medical
corps at Fort Benjamin Harrison.
Indiana; Fort Riley, Kansas, and
Fort Oglethorpse, Georgia, was
announced by the war department
today.
The camps will open June Is
with 5000 men In training.
While w. w. Jacobs confesses
that he often sits, pen in hand, a
whole morning, without putting a.
solitary word on paper, Sir Ar
thur Conan Doyle has written a
story of 10000 words without
once leaving his desk.
Take q trip with Edgar Allan
Poe.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-24
PLATES

If. after failure of other dentists. you think you
can not wear plates. If your old do not suit
you-or IL you thinking of having your old
roots out and new set put Income to us and
join our thousands of satisfied pate-wearers. We
the largest plate makers on the coast A guar
antee with each plate.
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IkkI4 DRS. AUSTIN AND BURNS,
= ILL 4 4 DENTISTS
BEST DENTAL
WORK
at Reasonable Prices
DRS. AUSTIN AND BURNS,
DENTISTS

Perhaps the idea that prevented
you from having teeth properly attended this the
case dismiss the thought In office will do work for
approximately 20 less than offices posi-
lively that will
better. matter how you pay.
All we ask is the opportunity claims We
want TO show of the producing others
want you to know just why HIGH GRADE Dental
work more reasonably than other There
you to two three prices you'll wen
prove