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Denver labor bulletin., 1918-11-02

imperfect or mutilated ones, or to use
the vernacular of the bureau, the
"muts" are cast aside. Incidentally
the many new processes evolved have
almost caused the extinction of
"muts." They are then ready for the
last stages, counting, packing and de-
livery to the loan and currency di-
vision of the United States treasury.
Aside from the two press divisions,
practically all the work incident to the
issue of $4,000 100000 worth of bonds
for the Fourth Liberty loan is the
work of women.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-11-02
CONTINUED from Page One.)

the skeleton of the bond as it comes
from the plate printing division and
complete the printing with one opera
ton. This will save an enormous
amount of time and labor.
Girls do all the work in putting the
bonds in shape to be pressed and
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-11-02
HOW WOMEN MAKE LIBERTY BONDS
AT UNCLE SANS ENGRAVING PLANT

plated. Two bonds are placed back to
back, between heavy card board. One
girl puts in the sheets, another the
card board. Placing 5000 sheets a
day is the rate of the average girl.
They are then "ironed" by hydraulic
press, 5000 pounds to the square inch.
The sheets are again examined, the
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-11-02
TRY THIS.

$50 you sent five shillings for that
advertised appliance to keep your
gas bills down. What did they send
you?"
"A paper weight."-Tit-Bi Bits.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-11-02
WRONG NUMBER.

"Did you ever get a proposal,
auntie?"
"Once, my dear. A gentleman pro-
posed over the telephone, but had had
the wrong number. ."-Tit-Bits
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-11-02
MUSIC AND MARS.

"They say singing men make great
fighters"
81 have known it for many years."
murmured the grand opera manager,
wearily.-Washington Star.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23
BY LIEUT.. GRANVILLE A. POLLOCK
American Aviator in the Lafayette Flying Corps,
French Foreign Legion.
(COPYRI GIT, 1879

The most exasperating thing
aviators have TO put up with is to
have their airdrome bombed after
the squadron has settled down
quietly in barracks for the night.
"Strafing" an airdrome is the
invariable prelude to an endless
chain OF reprisals.
But to open this story at the
beginning:
Near Scissors one evening at
about 10 o'clock we were all sit
ting around in our huts writing
letters, playing poker, or singing
(the next mornings early patrol
was already in bed and snoring) ,
when a sentry reported a machine
flying over our field. We dropped
everything and rushed outside.
Tricked by Boche.
The machine was spiraling down
lower and lower. 1t must be a
French aviator who had lost his
way and wanted us to put him up
for the night.
The distressed mariner, as he
came lower, flashed on his port
and starboard lights-green on
one wing tip, red on the other
the rule in alighting at night.
We watched for him to fire his
"fusee," and give the code signal
for the might.
This is done with kind OF
pistol that fires colored balls in
some prearranged combination of
red, blue, green, white, yellow
and orange.
His fussee won't work." one of
our men suggested.
Get out a flare" was the more
practical suggestion of another.
A mechanic fetched can OF
gasoline, put match to it and
in an instant the field was hos
pitably lit up for the unexpected
guests convenience in alighting.
"Un Boche! I'm Boche!" ex-
citedly shouted a mechanic, at this
instant recognizing the character
istic roar of a German motor-at
least characteristic to a real good
mechan'.cian.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
crashed four high explosive
bombs.
The reverberatiOns echoed
and re-echoed over the low
hills.
We had been tricked by
willy bOclle. No sooner had
the flare started up than the
German took advantage Of the
illumination to aim four
'eggs" at our hangers and
Bessoneaux.
In an instant, before we
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23

lit could conveniently reach-the
guilty and the innocent.
The aviators at the unoffending
German camps in turn became en-
ragged, and commenced to strafe
other French airdromes further
down the line-and these latter
naturally couldn't stand the in
suits without returning them.
Our fellows in neighboring air.
dromes would call us up on the
phone Or drop messages from air.
planes over our field and ask us
what the hell we meant" by start
ing all this senseless rumpus.
According to an unwritten
scrap Of paper" the French and
German airmen have decided that
the midnight strafing of each
others airdromes is not playing
the game according to the Hague
conventions. 1t doesn't get on
with the war.
We have agreed that it is an
annoying, sleep-robbing and I'M
gentlemanly thing to do. No self
respecting aviator on either side of
No Mans and wants to spend his
nights suffocating in bomb
proof or dugout, same being an
nexes to every well-colducted air.
drOme at the front.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23
KIDNEY TROUBLE not
EASILY RECOGNIZED
APPLICANTS FOR INSURANCE.
OFTEN REJECTED

An examining physician for one
of the prominent Life Insurance
Companies, in an interview of the
subject made the astonishing
statement that one reason why so
many applicants for insurance are
rejected is because kidney trouble
is so common to the American
people, and the large majority of
those whose applications are de-
clined do not even suspect that
they have the disease.
Judging from reports from drug
gists who are constantly in direc.
touch with the public, there is one
preparation that has been very
successful in overcoming these
conditions. The mild and healing
influence of DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root is soon realized. 1t stands
the highest for its remarkable
record of success.
We find that Swamp-Root is
strictly an herbal compound and
we would advise our readers who
feel in need Of such remedy to
give it a trial. 1t is on sale at all
drug stores in bottles of two sizes,
medium and large.
However, II you wish first to
test this great preparation send
ten cents to DR.. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y, for a sample
bottle. When writing be sure and
mention Dept. nj. Advertisement
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23
SUBS ARE
STARVING
NEUTRALS
Omitted Press Leased wire.)

WASHINGTON, d. c., April 30.
German submarines now are
starving neutral Holland, Switzer-
land, Spain and Sweden.
Food and agricultural supplies
promised these nations by the U. s.
are not going forward because
German threats have frightened
ship-owners from sending bottoms
for the supplies.
The supplies were promised I'M
der various trade agreements this
country made with the nations
named in return for use of ships.
Holland is badly in need Of
grain. Two Dutch ships loaded
with grain are In Atlantic ports
waiting to sail. A third Dutch ship
is held in an Argentine port with
grain waiting similar release.
Germany has threatened to tor
pedo Dutch ships leaving for the
U. s., cable dispatches say.
Ship owners Of only two neutral
countries are daring to keep their
agreement with the U. s. and are
sending bottoms despite German
threats. These owners are resi-
dents OF Norway and Denmark.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23
Orpheum, Now In 18th
Week, Runs Till June

Tina Lerner, one of the few
women piano virtuosos to acquire
international fame, is the head
liner of the next Orpheum bill at
the Tacoma theater, Friday, Sat
urday and Sunday.
She has played in concert in
practically every one OF the
worlds principal cities. Miss Ler-
ner is a Russian, born in Odessa.
This is her fifth American tour.
Another headline feature of the
bill is the musical comedy, The
Naughty Princess" by Hough and
Friendlander, with a real story,
bright humor and tuneful musi-
cal score. 1t is deliberately Staged
and costumed.
Harry Van Fossen, remembered
for his merrymaking in Watch
Your STEP" is on the bill.
Others are: Louis Stone, pre-
senting a new novelty revolving
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23

had time to fire q machine
gun, he was roaring upward
iEto the darkness, made
dOubly black by contrast with
the flashes Of the exploding
bombs.
Nobody was killed, but one
hangar got a direct Inland went
up with IL brand new Lafayette
machines.
We all kicked ourselves for not
having been forewarned. The
mysterious machine that had been
seen to hover over our field the
night before, of course, visited us
to spy out the land.
Well, the usual disastrous re-
suits followed this prelude. The
show" lasted many nights before
peace and quietness returned to
the airmen's camps in our neigh
borhood.
Breaks Unwritten Rule.
The very next night we started
out to get hunk. A patrol strafted
all the nearby German airdrames
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23
CAMPAIGN
TO CATCH
HUN SPIES
Omitted Press Leased Wire.)


WASHINGTON, ID. c., April %
-Thoroly equipped with all ne
cessary powers for the first time
since the war began, the govern.
ment today began a more rigorous
campaign against enemy spies and
plotters.
With President Wilson's sigma
ture to the sabotage bill, and with
the espionage and woman alien
laws in effect, justice department
officials informed congressional
leaders they believe they now have
all the powers they need to cope
with the Germans within the ma
tion.
The Chamberlain spy bill, Civ
ing military court-martial juris-
diction over espionage cases now
tried by civil courts, was dead to-
day as a result of President VIII.
sons personal opposition.
The house military committee
today heard Secretary of Wal
Baker in executive session. Bak.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23
5 LAWYERS
AFTER JOB

Five Tacoma attorneys had
made application to the county
commissioners Tuesday for the
vacant berth of justice of the
peace, which resulted from the
death of Police Judge Graham
MONDAY.
Il. J. Hackett, who celebrated
his 10th anniversary as clerk of
police court Tuesday, was one of
the leading candidates. He is
said to have the backing of
Mayor Fawcett, Mayor-elect Rid
dell, and Commissioner Petit.
Others who seek the place are
George M. Thompson, F. j. Part
ridge, F. A. Magill and ]. NJ. Sell
den.
Frank Latcham, justice Of the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23

dance chair; Hudler, Stein and
Phillips in Steps of Harmony;
Drew and Wallace in a flirtatious
fizz "At the Soda Fountain; and
the Aerial Mitchels offering Fun
in the air."
This will be the 18th week of
Orpheum vaudeville in Tacoma,
and 1t is evident from the attend
ance that this aristocrat of the
vaudeville field is appreciated
here. The Orpheum season will
continue until about the middle of
June when, in accordance with
custom, 1t will close for the sum-
mer,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23
FIRE ABOARD
STEEL SHIP

SEATTLE, April 23.-Fire Of
unknown origin, starting in the
hold of Hull a." an S,S00-ton
steel ship under construction in
the shipyard of j. +. Duthie & Co.,
was extinguished with compare
lively slight damage early this
morning by the fire department.
Officials at the Duthie yard re-
fused today to comment on the
fire, further than to Say the dam
age was slight.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23

er was to tell the committee'how
many soldiers the department
plans to put in the field and the
committee is ready to vote for any
appropriation needed.
1t was generally believed Baker
would recommend an army of
from 100000 to 100000.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23
ortipg-Tacon. stage Li.e

Le. S.;I"f Tsco%s. 80 s;sse. $50 s sse
IL a. m: 'l2 m; 1880. 1850. '3:ao.
''i Leave s;s o;rt + ~ q. ~. 80. II a
m; 1890. 1850, 5, e. Is. 8. p. m.
trips direct to Soldiers Home.
leaving home Is minutes before leav-
sng Orting.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23
BUCkIEY-TACOMA

Nv. Tacoma-10:O0 a. m. $50 .. m.
Lv. Buckley-S:00 a. m. 1880 p. m
Tacoma and Yeim. Iakeview' Hill.
hurst. Greendale. Roy. McKenna
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23

MOOSE AUTO STAGE
etand-Croft Hotel. 1919 Pacific Ave.
and Central Bus station
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23
GARDEN SPECIALS

Every man with a garden is
as we'll as helping to overcome
-S5c Cultivator Hoes, spe-
cial, SOC.
-$1.25 Spading Forks. long
or short handles, special, 9Sc.
-$1.25 Roselawn Fertilizer,
lob. pals, for lawns, gar
dens and roses, special, 9Sc.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23

Icing a part in winning the war
The IL. c. l..
$500 Soft. lengths Cotton
Covered Hose, special, $4.08.
Other kinds up to 15c IT.
-35c Lawn Sprinklers, black
cast iron, special, 2Jc.
-S5c Grass Shears, special,
6Oc.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23

peace in the Tacoma building, Is
also an aspirant for the appoint
ment as police Judge.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23
BRITISH GAIN

BY WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMMS
United Press staff Correspondent
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES
IN FRANCE, April 23.-British
forces advanced $50 yards on a
thousand yard front south Of Ave-
luy wood Monday, pushing the
Germans toward the Ancre river.
Aveluy wood Ii two miles north
; of Albert.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23
$500, 900 More a Year.


1.-The company and the commit
tee representing the employees, felt
the increases offered were sub
stantial and would have the effect
of retaining employees in the serv-
ice. The increase would have
gone into effect three and one
half months before the expiration
of present agreement and was TO
carry until after the participation
of the United States in the present
war but not later than August l,
1919.
"In the agreement there was
set forth the fact that the COM
pany and employees recognize the
emergency caused by war and the
responsibility devolved on both for
the proper operation of transpor-
tation facilities as q vital necessity
to the community, and especially
to the ship construction OF the
United tSates government.
This same offer was made the
Seattle trainmen and meant to the
company an increaes in wages In
Seattle and Tacoma of about
100000 per year."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23

Our Siverware Section carries complete the
Adam, Sheraton Georgian and Patrcian Designs in
COMMUNITY SILVER PLATE
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-13
Spies Face Moose
in America Soon

Washington. March 13.-Death
penalty for convicted spies is pro-
vided for in a bill introduced yes
terday by Representative M. Clyde
Kelley, of Braddock.
The measure is planned to be the
final weapon in the hands of the
United States government against
the operation of enemy agents in this
country. Under it's provisions "any
person who acts as spy
for any government with which the
United States is at war or any ally
of such government, and who seeks
information with the intention of
communicating it to the enemy.
shall. upon conviction thereof. suffer
death by hanging by the neck
Mr.. Kelley believes the laws now
on the statute books give the enemy
an opportunity of operating with
comparative impunity, as they are
often brought before the courts on
some minor charge that calls merely
for term of Imprisonment or a fine
upon conviction.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-13

from his commission in the National
Army and to remain on his present
duty as commanding the Eastern
Department with his Regular Army
rank of brigadier general.
Major General Richard NJ. Blatch-
ford, National Army, to be dis
charged from his commission in the
National Army and remain on his
present duty commanding the De-
partment of Panama with his Reg
ular Army rank of brigadier gen.
eral.
General officers who are to re-
place the divisional commanders
have not yet been selected. so far
as could be learned and they may
not be until the medical board has
examined many other officers who
would be in line fer service in
France as divisional commanders il
they pass the required physical test
Major General Mann commanded
the Rainbow Division when il
went to France, but later was re-
lieved of that command and re-
turned to this country. Shortly aft.
erward he was given command OF
the Eastern Department, relieving
Major General j. Franklin Bell, now
commanding the Seventy-seventh
(National Army division at Camr
Upton, n. Y.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-13
FROM BASEBALL TO BOCHES
By H. c. WITWER
BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH GOLFERS WEEKLY

see the world-changing the map
here and there if you don't like the
way 1t is now-it really looks like
Uncle Sam is a sucker to pay us at
all, Ell?
BY the time we was ready to leave
camp I had learned how to march a
couple dozen different ways, salute,
the manual of arms. how to keep
myself and a gun clean, how to take
care of my kit. and how to fire off
a rifle without KILN the colonel.
Every one of them things. and a lot
more, looks like cinch right off
the bat, and every one of them takes
about a month before you can do
'em right, and that's if you got
more brains than there is in Har-
ward.
Well, Joe. one mornin' the orders
comes from Washington for us to
start on our joyride to Berlin, and
you ought to of seen the way that
camp busted up. Everybody was as
full of pep as an epileptic clog
dancer and as happy as a dame
with her first engagement ring. We
was all whistlin' and singin and
joshin' each other, and even the of
flcers was GRIMM except when they
passed a private. Just before we got
on the special trains the colonel
made a speech that was a knockout!
He said our regiment had made a
name for itself here and there. and
he knew we'd be riot once we got
to France. He also reminded us
that they was other reasons for us
goin' over outside of the ocean voy-
age and not to think this was gonna
be the same as the regular monthly
clambake of the Bartenders' Social
Association We was due for some
rough goin', but he knew we'd make
it rougher for whatsoever blocked
traffic when we was tearin' acrost
France.
When he got through we give him
a cheer that must of woke up ceme-
terry inmates all over the U. S.
Then the chaplain tried out q
prayer on us, and we piled into the
trains the happiest bunch of guys
that ever pulled on shoes. I felt the
same as ! did the day | famed Cobb
with a guy on third.
| amt allowed to tell you how we
got on board the ship finally with
out half America KNOWN it, but we
did, and we stuck one over on them
German spies.
(Just like we're gonna stick it
over on their boss)
l hope them censors amt camou-
flagin' these letters on me
Yours truly,
ED HARMON.
(Formly the prominent southpaW.)
Next instalment in an early issue.)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-13
By H. c. WITWER

Well, the next stop was was the
Quartermaster's Department, where
we was give uneyforms. You ought
to see me in mine, Joe. If / say IT
myself, | look as good as $500 a
week would look to a motorman!
1t fits me like an cells skin, and 1t 5
got that baseball uneyform L USED
to wear lookin' like overalls. After
| had give myself the once over
when 1 was all logged out. dressed
to kill (the Germans). L felt IKE
sittin' down and sendin' Mack a tel
egram, thankin' him for cannin' me
off the team
In a couple of more days they
staked us to a lot of other furnlSh-
ms like blankets, shoes, overcoats,
and so forth, and by the end or tne
week we had more stuff than the
average young couple starts out HE
with. Uncle Sam is sure good TO
his nephews. take it from me! L
us all this stuff. and some of these
guys is livin' better right now than
they ever did in their lives.
We didn't leave any minute Tor
France, like the sergeant told us,
but stalled around the camp for
about a month after 1 joined.
L met up with a lot of regular
guys here, and they was dum1ouna-
ed when / confessed to bein' ED
Harmon, the famous southpaw.
They wouldn't have it no other way
but that l would pitch for their ball
team when we got to France, in case
we played another regiment, or the
Red Cross guys, or the Germans, OF,
in fact, anybody, for a series.
We played one game before leaY-
in the camp with a team from b
Company of the same regiment Il m
in G Company. OF course | was in
the box for us, and / guess l don I
have to tell you who won the thlnS.
l had nothin' on the ball but the
cover, yet they only stung me for
two hits. After that, first base could
of been in China, for all they
knowed. and we quit in the seventh
with the score 12-1. favor of us.
The whole camp seen the game,
includin' the officers and the colo
mel, which is a nice old guy at that.
He hates baseball like chorus girl
hates a telephone, and after 1T was
all over he demanded to see me,
and he says if 1 can put as much
stuff on a bomb when I get to
France, / won't be a doughboy very
long. A doughboy is what they call
a private in the infantry. l don't
know why they call us that, because
thirty-three dollars a month amt
much dough, is it, Joe?
Still, when you figure you're get
tin food, clothes, a place to, sleep,
doctors. medicine, and a chance to
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-13
SEVEN GENERAL
OFFICERS
OL.DPOSITIONS
Men Unable to Stand Physical
Ordeal Barred From
Overseas Service

Washington, March 13.-Seven
general officers of the Array, five
of them now commanding National
Guard and National Army divisions
in this country. have been found
physically unfit for overseas duty by
a medical examining board, and, in
the case of the divisional COM
manders. will be assigned to other
duty. This is in line with the an
nounced policy of the War Depart
ment to send to France only general
officers who are prepared to stand
the physical ordeal which a COM
mand on the battle line entails.
The officers with the recommen-
dation of the examining board were
announced by Major General March,
acting chief of staff, as follows:
Major General Thomas Fl. Barry,
Regular Army. to be relieved from
command of the Eighty-sixth (Na-
national Army division, Camp
Grant, Illinois, and assigned to COM
mand the Central Department, Chi
cago, relieving Major General w.
III. Carter, U. S. A., retired.
Major General Charles G. Morton,
Regular Army, to be relieved from
command of the Twenty ninth (Na-
tlonal Guard) division, Camp Nc
Clellan, Ala. and assigned to other
duty.
Major General Edwin J. Greble,
National Army, to be relieved from
command of the Thirty sixth (Na-
tional Guard) division. Camp Bowie,
who was discharged from his COM
mission in the National Army, and
assigned TO other duty with his reg
ular rank of brigadier general.
Major General William H. Sage,
command of the Thirty-sixth (Na-
tional Guard) division, Camp Shelby,
Miss, discharged from his commits
sion in the National Army and as
signed to other duty with his Regu-
lar Army rank of brigadier general.
Major General Edward HI. Plum
mer, National Army, to be relieved
from command of the Eighty eighth
(National Army division, Camp
Dodge, Ia, discharged from his
commission in the National Army
and assigned to other duty with his
Regular Army rank of brigadier
general.
Major General William A. Mann,
National Army, to be discharged
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-13
BARON BLYTHsWOOD
DEAD IN ENGLAND
BY ASSociI.ci Press

London, March 13.-Baron Blyths-
" ood, Lieutenant Governor of Guern-
sey and dependencies from 1903 to
19OS, died yesterday at Douglas Sup
pert, Lanarkshire.
Darlington b. Douglas Campbell,
third Baron Blythswood, was born in
1S45 and succeeded to the title in
1916. He was former commander of
the Scots Guards and served in Egypt
and South Africa. He became a ma
jor-g general in 1898 and was a X. c.
B and c. V. o. His heir. the eldest
of three sons. is the Honorable Arch
ibald Douglas Campbell, a captain in
the Scots Guards.