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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19
MAY CUT OUR
MAIL SERVICE

Government curtailment of pas
senger trains in the west may re-
suit in radical changes in Taco
mas postal service, particularly
in daily deliveries of mail, Post
master Stewart declared Friday.
He received telegram. from
headquarters of the railway mail
service, indicating that the Great
Northern mail train No. 81, which
has been arriving in Tacoma at
1880 a. m. with the big easterf
mail, may be cut out, and that
the eastern mail may not arrive
until as late as 1880 in the aft
ernoon.
AS this would make it impos-
sible to distribute the mail for
afternoon delivery in Tacoma, the
local office has wired back ask
ing that the hour of arrival
should be advanced at. least to
noon.
Postmaster Stewart says the
changes contemplated. by the gov
eminent probably will mean a
complete Encouragement of the
possoffice fnr"e here.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19
GRAHAM IS
AT POINT
OF DEATH

Police Judge Frank II. Graham,
who was taken to st. Joseph's hos
pital following a stroke of paraly-
sis Sunday, was failing rapidly
Friday and physicians gave up
hope of his even surviving the
night.
The police judge is 6S years of
age and has served as a justice of
the peace in Tacoma for more than
10 years. He is a widower and
has resided at the Samson hotel
for a long time.
Following the paralytic stroke,
which caused him to lose the use
of both legs, Judge Graham suf-
fered from heart trouble, and his
resulting weakness brought on
pneumonia Thursday night. lie
has been unconscious for two days.
Judge Graham has three chill.
dren, a son who is Boston news
paper man, and two daughters in
Maine. The son is on his way
west.
George M. Thompson, former
deputy prosecutor, is acting as po-
lice judge temporarily.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19
CARRY JUNK,
AUTO OWNER

Here's fine new job for auto
owners. Every time you drive
down town in your car bring a
load of junk with you and de-
post 1t at the headquarters OF
the Red Cross salvage depart
ment at 18th and A streets.
Auto owners are being asked
by John T. Bibb, in charge OF the
department, to do this little SER
vice in helping to raise funds for
the Red Cross. II you can't
scrape up any junk from your
own home. get some castoffs
from your neighbor and haul
them in.
Everything under the sun ex-
cept old clothing is wanted. The
Red Cross has market for every
thing, says Bibb.
The goods had begun to pile
up at headquarters Thursday
There were old lawn mowers. old
auto tires, music boxes, shoes,
monkeywrenches and plows. And
there were piles Of newspaper
and shoes. All are to be sold ct
I good price.
THE funds OF the Red Cross
already are strained. What will
Il be when q million Americans
get into battIef" said Bibb.
This Is Just one method Of pre-
'paredness that the Red Cross
he's adopted"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19
AIRMAN FIGHTS HUN:
SHOOTS HIM DOWN!
BY LIEUT.. GRANVILLE A. POLLOCK
American Aviator in the Lafayette Flying Corps
French Foreign Legion
(COPYRIGHT. fOt81

During the height of the IT,
tanic struggle for the Chemfn dies
Danes had my first single
| had been transferred to
squadron 65 after the first army
was withdrawn from Flanders.
! was returning from patrol.
Everybody was hungrily look
ing forward to dejeuner-I know
was-when we spotted a single
German machine just inside our
lines.
1t seemed a crime to attack the
boche with such overwhelming
odds in our favor, but war is
war, and it was our duty to sur
round and annihilate him.
Before concentrating on the
job, took the usual precaution-
airy survey above, below, and in
front, in order to be sure that
no other enemy planes were in
sight, ready to surprise me at
work.
Two Jobs to BE Done.
If | had not, this tale most
likely would not have been
written. | was up 1000 meters.
Under my tail, at the 5000 meter
level, saw two biplanes with
the tell-tale maltese crosses on
their wings.
So there were two jobs to be
done. left the lone boche to
the rest of the patrol.
ME for one of these other
guys" | said to myself.
1t was bitterly cold. AS vol
planed down, the icy blast chilled
my Hispana- Suizza motor. The
gauge was steadily creeping down
to the danger point. Keeping one
eye lodging between the motor
temperature indicator and the
air pressure gauge of the essence
tank, | continued on my dizzy
dive, letting two or three Out
of my Vickers gun thru the pro
reller, en- route, to be sure 1t was
all right.
l foolishly put my head over
the side of the nacelle for a sec
ond, and peered below to be sure
just where | was-and nearly
had my head blown off.
Down | "picqued'-almost YER
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19
'T.R. Is Not
Interested
In Office!

needs. Universal military train
ing a much more advanced and
enlightened land policy. and
other things tending toward
greater economic democracy. We
must bring up to date the old
progressive party issues.
II am convinced that We must
work thru the old parties. am
willing to work thru the republi-
can party organization IL they
are willing to work with ME. l
have said this frankly to every
republican manager who has
come to me.
IF they will not, however, stand
for the things l stand for, then
! am thru with them and they
are thru with me.
Demands Free Speech.
81 am not in the slightest de-
gree interested in candidates or
elections except as they contrib
ute to really important achieve
ments."
The colonel did not allude to
the present administration, or to
the war.
Something WAS said about the
bill to punish certain utterances
or publications, supposedly OBJ
structive to the conduct of the
war.
81 am determined not to be de-
prived of my constitutional right
of free speech, whether it be
critical or otherwise" he said,
"and ] shall continue to do what
| consider my duty, even If it
should land me in Jail"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19
By ellison Gardner
Snecial Staff Disnafch.

CPCOA0A ot0hI BnSR0ONhe
NEW YORK, April 19.-Col.
Roosevelt is himself again. Any
way he looks it.
I found him at his old offices
in the Metropolitan Magazine
building.
Reports of his sufferings from
the recent operation had led me
to expect more of a change.
The colonel was rampaging
around the place in his customary
fashion, seeing admiring callers,
debating letters for whooping up
the Liberty loan, giving direc-
tions about his mail, doing a few
editorials and preparing to move
to new quarters farther up town.
failed to discover any of that
rumored lameness.
As usual there was a full outer
office and finally the colonel pro-
posed that we dash for the auto
mobile.
Knowing, because of long ac-
quaintance, l would believe him,
the colonel said to me, as we
rode, what he might not have said
to another.
II am not interested in being
president of the United States.
THE time was when wanted
the office. Today l want only to
accomplish certain things and the
office as such has not the slight
est attraction for me.
Against Minor Parties.
81 want to put over some
things which | think the country
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19
DIVISION
AVENUE
MUST GO!

division avenue" must go,
Mayor-elect c. VI. Ridtlell told
TacOmans at a meeting Of the
Commercial club civic bureau
Thursday night.
"Call il Liberty Street
Harmony Lane" or Unity
Avenue'-anything but 'Dvis-
iOn,'" he said.
Every suggestion of division in
Tacoma, of separation between the
North End and South End must
go. From now on our slogan is to
be unity. Tacoma must be unit
We are going to have one city,
and not North Enders and South
Enders."
Riddell declared that from now
on Tacoma is going to have CO.
operation in the city council.
That means we are not going
to play one department against the
other" he said. Il mean we are
going to sit around the same table
and work together, and to arrive
at what We want without person
al differences and Objectionable
language"
A Twin the war" admins
h'ation was promised by both
Riddell and Commissioners
elect Fred Shoemaker.
"Tacoma's policy must be de-
termined by what is best for the
men at the cantonment at our
gates, and by what will bring to
our government the greatest num-
her of ships from our shipyards
Shoemaker declared.
"Tacoma's big problems have
arisen from war causes. Reorgan-
ization of our health department
is necessary, but reorganization
does not mean increased expenses
unless We are assured of increas-
ed benefits.
IL. Roy Harrison, newly elected
commissioner, was not able to at
tend the meeting, having been
called to Spokane on account OF
the illness of his mother. --.--s#
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19

At noon, as Arthur was re-
turning home from school he
spied Mr.. Trout swimming around
gaily in the road. A group Of
boys were teasing 1t. This didn't
look good to Arthur.
He sprinted home in 10 Sec
onds flat, got a pail and sprinted
back. He gave one scoop, and
there was Mr.. Trout safely
landed!
Arthur's eaten sure was a live
one. He ry(ised Old Harry all
might IN the bath tub, and FRI
day morning he got 80 frisky that
he Jumpe3 clean out and Hoped
around fbr awhile on rug.
Arthur claims the medal for
the prize fish story OF the season.
H .-This Is NO slur ON
the c1ty drink, because front
elwels fight shy q uncIean
IW~41- ,tesli. q
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19
10 BRITISH
TANKS DO
EXECUTION
BY VIM. Phillips Simms
United Press staff Correspondent
WITH THE BRITISH

BY VIM. Philips SlmmS
United Press staff Correspondent.
WITH THE BRITISH
ARMY IN FLANDERS, April
10.-Thru rain squalls and
a cutting NORTHEASTERN, the
Germans kept up their press
ure on the Lys front Thurs
. day.
Yet, aside from Haig's with
drawal from the. awkward Pass
chendaele pocket, the British line
today looks pretty much as 1t did
three days ago.
On the high ground north and
east of Givenchy, as this is cabled,
there is some German activity
Won Quasi is doggedly trying to
Flank Bethune, but apparently is
unsuccessful.
The Smelling Of the British guns
Is deadly.
Ten British tanks started an
offensive of their own today.
The frightened Germans sent up
red rockets when they saw the
machines, and German artillery
pounded its own troops, scattering
them everywhere.
Evidence of the importance
Hindenburg attaches to the hills
southwest of Ypres is shown in
the presence of the 117th and
18th Bavarian corps and Alpine
corps in the sector from Mount
KENNEL to Bailleul Ga front of
three miles,.
Every man of these units is
from the German hill country,
and Won Bernhard, who is in
command from Wyteschaete to
Bailleul, is known as a hill
fighter.
The German troops, themselves
underfed, are surprised at the
quantity and quality of captured
British food, which constitutes
the only decent rations they have
had in many months.
The promise of more similar
food is a spur to the Germans.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19
Greene Is Proud of Job

Headquarters Division Camp Lewis, American Lake
Washington, April IT, 1918.
Mr. Elmer Dover, Chairman Liberty loan Association,
Tacoma, Washington.
My Dear Mr.. Dover:
great pride and satisfaction that your
fifteenth instant, informing that
Loyal League of Liberty Bond Holders of
numbering $4,000, well being commander
aggregatng just quite that number
is hard tell which position fills with the greater
pride and satisfaction My division would be helpless with
holders and they would be defenseless without
the division. They absolutely nterdependent. -
: Let the good work We want that big reserve,
millions holders of bonds OF small denomna-
ton We want the great mass Of the people to take their
little savings socks paror
hay places of concealment and loan 1t to
Sam the best security IN the world at very
fair rate OF interest.
He plenty sound collateral but lust at the moment
he needs little ready cxsh let everybody busy and
"come whether or they "go acroes More
power TO you'll Yours very truly Y.
Il H. A. GREENE,
Major General National Army Commanding and Chairman
Loyai League Of Liberty Bond Holderssof Tacoma
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19
SOUND LUMBER Steamer
RUNS AGROUND IN A FOG

to the fog. The steamer is ground
ed so solidly that late last night
1t was considered impossible to
float her unless an unusually high
tide rises.
During the day efforts were
made to pull her afloat with tugs.
Capt. Bender was in command
of the boat which is owned by w.
r. Chamberlain & Co.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19

LOS ANGELES, April 19.-The
lumber steamer Phyllis, en- route
from Puget Sound to New York,
with a cargo of lumber, is ashore
today at Point Vincente, between
San Pedro and Redondo Beach.
The shock of grounding pune
tured the hull and the engines
were flooded, The wreck was due
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19
GERMAN ARMY IN
RUSSIA rs SMALL
United Press Leased Wire.

NEW YORK, April 19.-Ger-
many has less than six divisions
1900 men-on the Russian
front, according to semi-official
reports received here today, while
the invading army which captur-
ed Helsingfors, consisted of about
10000 troops. The other German
forces operating in Russia num-
Der less than 100000 men, it is
authoritatively stated.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19
Dye Austrians
Deep Yellow

POTTSvILLE, Pa, April 49,
Five Austrians who refused to
purchase Liberty bonds at the
Lyttle colliery, near here, were
taken by the heels by the work
men and dipped into a steel tank
used for heating oil. The men
are today covered with an amber
stain that will not wash off. They
all purchased bonds today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19
T FAMOUS
OLD CIT !
EFFACEO

United Press Leased Wire.)
PARIS, April 10.-Rheims
Is completely in ruins as
result OF the German bonn
bradment.
During the past week 1OO,-
900 enemy shells, including
incendiary prOjectiles, have
fallen within the city.
One day alone 10000
shells were thrown.
The city is now a wilderness OF
scorched and blackened stones
with few ghostly remains OF
houses rising from the Sitting
fumes.
The Place Royales theater and
the law courts, like the ancient
hotels, historic salons and the
Maison de Musiciens are mass
of embers.
The arched roofs of the famous
cathedral are splitting and
crumbling. Soon only the pillars
will remain.
One of the most historic and
picturesque cities in Europe has
thus been effaced by German
fightfulness.
Rheims had a population Of
more than 100000 before the
war. 1t was once a stronghold
of the Romans and preserved
much of the Roman architecture
including a beautiful triumpha
arch. On the side of the former
Roman Notifications, fine boule-
wards we're built.
The Rheims Cathedral was one
of the largest and most wonder
full specimens of Gothic architec
ture in the world. 1t was built
during the 18th century. 1t had
facade containing the famou.
rose window" and 500 statues
In this cathedral the French
kings were crowned.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19

tically-at 200 miles an hour,
ana down my motor temperature
went too. Six hundred yards from
the nearest boche and IL had
dropped to 80 degrees cent?
grade. Fifty is supposed to be
the dead line" Below that the
motor might stall when threw
on the juice again, and then me
for the Karlsruhe concentration
camp and paper pants!
There was nothing else to do
but flatten out my Cuckoo" put
on full motor and let her warm
up a bit. This | did, and then
returned to the attack. >,
But the boches had seen my
predicament, and had showed off
for their own lines. The maneu-
yer brought both equidistant from
me.
Continued on Page Five.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19
HUNS USE SHELLS
MADE FOR RUSSIA?
(United Press Leased Wire. 4,

NEW YORK, April 19.--Hud.
son Maxim, inventor, declared to-
day he believed that some OF the
amount Of ammunition being con-
sumed by the Germans on the
west front was supplied them by
the bolsheviki.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19
Stubborn,
Just Like
Belgium!
BY WILLIAM G.. SHEPHERD
United Press Staff Correspondent


Well at least the Germans haven't taken the
grandsand seats in the Plains of Flanders where the
great bloody game is under way.
The grandstand seats in Scherpenberg; they
are the steps Dutch windmill which tops the hill.
Thousands OF the most eminent men in the world
have stood this hill and sat on these steps watch
ing the battles of Ypres and other great contests III
the Flanders plain
The king of England and the Prince of Wales
the president of France and the king of Italy,
Secretary Baker, Gen. Pershing, and every nota-
BILE man who has ever gone to the British front in
Flanders has stood on this hill and seen the 40
miles of battlefront from Ostend to Lens which
is visib' from this eminence.
Atop the Ill and near the windmill is little white
house in which the farmer-miller and his wife abide.
The old man told me one day while was on the
hill viewing the second battle of Ypres that his
sons had gone to war.
All the great men of the earth have come to their
humble doorway, yet the millers aged wife always
went on about her hOusework, unmOved by the pres
ence of greatness and her husband spent his time III
the rough boarded room high up the HILL grinding his
grain as if his part Of the world war was to do his
own particular job particularly well.
On certain day Gen. French, during the second
battle of Ypres climbed the hill to see what his miles
of big guns doing to the German line and to try
to glimpse thru the smoke of the giant battle the
lines which We're bending and, in places, breaking
der the first German gas attack.
The old miller came out from his house, wipng his
mouth with the back of his hand, after his midday
luncheon and followed the well path from his
house to the mill without looking toward the
group of great military leaders 20 feet distant who
were watching the making Of history in the plains
below them.
He pulled a rope which released the wings of
the great wheel, and with loud creaking they
began slowly to whirl in the smoke laden wind
Then he climbed up the half dozen rough steps
on which so many of the great men of the earth
have seated themselves and assembled to the mill
room.
Within few moments we heard the grinding
of the mill. He was doing his part in the great
war.
The old mill was the personification of stub
born Belgium
Sirnms dispatch of Thursday telling of white
haired couple looking from the window of little
white house as he stood on hill watching the fight
from Mt. KENNEL marked his standing place as
The old miller and his wife haven't gone yet, it
seems after all these years of war, even tho Mt KEN
mel, where the German shells falling, is only a
mile distant.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19
GOV. CANDIDATE
GETS FIVE YEARS

MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi, April
ID. o. Bontall, candidate for
governor on the socialist ticket,
found guilty Tuesday on charges
of violating the espionage act, was
sentenced to five years in Leaven-
worth prison by Judge Page Nor
ris here today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19
FARMLAND TO GIVE
ALLIED CARNIVAL;

The community of Falkland
will hold "A Carnival of Allied
Nations at the p. L. A. gym Sat-
urday evening for the Belgium
Relief fund. An admission fee of
10 cents will be charged.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19
CAN'T USE SPUDS
AS SUBSTITUTE

H. S. Griggs, Tacoma food ad.
ministrator, has announced that
hereafter potatoes cannot be
bought as a flour substitute.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19
WEATHER FORECAST

THAT fellow
who takes his
morning bath in
front Of the
third floor Dom
nelly. hotel win
d o W, across
from The Times
building, was
wearing . piece
Of lingerie this
morning. re-
p orts Salts
Bear F91r toz
= =
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19
US. MEDICAL
OFFICER HERO
UNITED Press Leased Wire.

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
IN FRANCE, April 1S.-(Night.)
Lieut.. T. H. Sweetser of the
American medical corps has been
recommended for the British war
cross because Of gallantry and de-
votion to duty near Passchendaele
March 10.
Another battalion's headquar-
tiers was hit directly by gas shell
and their medical officer gassed.
Sweetser attended 40 gas victims
altho himself suffering from the
effects of the vapor.
He also assisted in rescuing a
party whose dugout was hit by a
gas shell.
Especial to The Timos)
T0nAY,2 'CU,EARUNGC
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19

Dill, the Spokane congressman
who voted against war and paci-
listed around before and after,
now is going to run for re-elec-
ton.
We have no idea what Spokane
will do about it, but IL Dill were
Tacoma representative we mag
inc he'd feel more than ever like
a pickle on the morning after
election.
Jack Browne. the linotyper who
set the above item, says Dill ought
to be put in the Bryan class. but
you cant get the joke unless you
read IL out loud.
Spend, hut spend wisely!
Save. and sayc earnestly!
Buy War-Savings Stamps and
Liberty Bonds!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19
PERHAPS MR.. M'ADOO COULD
TAKE THIS SMALL JOB
ON ALSO

OAN allkJO
(From an Iowa Journal.)
Wanted, at Cylinder, Ia, ex-
perienced telephone man to op-
crate exchange from 5 q. m. to
10 .. M. week days and two hours
on Sunday. Also to huild q -
necessary, do all repair WORK. u
nsl transportation. furn1Gh W9I
for office, and answor doctor oaIls
day and night. Bide must - y
March 26. /;
Somebody ou6I1,t % eet rfcA
in Tacoma publiShlng -
xoteer or dict1onn<y q CO. q
cortlnnco OF WhaeevcF a
would b sailed o. M - S
auto may ~ legally ~ 3
the variQue 1oc
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-19

Our time of trial will not end with the war;"
says Doc Michaelis, former German chancellor.
We think 1t will. The time of trial will stop and
they'll begin to serve the sentence.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-04
CROWN PRINCE is HOPING
ONLY FOR DRAWN BATTLE
CONTINUED from page H.

CONTINUED from page ID
Do I need to say that not word
of them Is true?"
Reverting to the question Of what
nation wanted the war, he declared
that lit was clear, that England
would take advantage of the OPP
portunity. ...-..,...-
Belgium after all was only a
pretext," he continued. England
interviewed because German COM
petition was unbearable.
"We are fighting for our existence.
i repeat our aim, therefore, an only
be safeguard ourselves"
"The enemy assault doubtless will
ontinue for some time" the Grown
Prime, said, with referene to the
fighting on the western front, "but
our enemies must themselves see
that they will not be able to attain
their aims. Our troops are fighting
splendidly and I attribute to their
outrage the fat that such colossal
superiority in strength does not
crush u.s."
Discussing the fighting qualities
of Germany's enemies he said: 1.-THE
French fight brilliantly and are
bleeding to death. They do not hest
tate at any sacrifice With the Brit
ish the individual man is very good
and tenacious but the leadership is
deficient. Among the Americans I've
found that the majority do not know
what they are fighting for. asked
an American prisoner what they
were fighting for and he answered:
=" For Alsace,' and to the question
where is Alsace,' he replied: Tt is
big lake."