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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27
TO LAUNCH
TACOMA"
THURSDAY

The Tacoma" first steel YES
sci ever launched in this city, will
slide down the ways at $3.50
Thursday afternoon at the Todd
shipyards, on the Hylebos water
way.
Miss Alexander, daughter OF
II. F. Alexander, president of the
Pacific Steamship Co.. will be the
sponsor.
The Tacoma" is a 7,500-ton
steel steamer, built for the gov
eminent.
Three more steel vessels are
on the ways at the Todd yards,
the next one to be launched in
three or four weeks.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27
CHECK
EvER Y
BLOW

United Press Leased Wire.D
PARIS, March 25.-"With-
i'm ~ hours the allies will
be masters of the situation"
Premier Olemencesu de-
clared today, upon his re-
turn from the front.
Clemenceau made the state
ment in a report to the minis
terial council.
At the same time he did not
attempt to conceal the serious
ness of the situation.
The premier said Amiens Is
well defended and that it is i'm
probable the Germans will break
thru.
The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger pub
fishes a dispatch from Lausanne
declaring the British saved their
entire complement of heavy ar
tillery.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27
Mashell Opened
To Fishermen

After being closed OF fishermen
for two years, the Mashell river,
formerly one Of the best fishing
streams in Pierce county, will be
opened for fishing April /. The
Pierce county game commission at
a special meeting Tuesday night
decided to open the stream from
the old wagon bridge at Eatonville
to the Nisqually river, a distance
OF over three miles.
The stream has been stocked
with cutthroat trout, and will be
a mecca for fishermen this season.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27
AGENTS OF
R. RS ARE
ABOLISHED

Director General McAdoo
Wednesday abolished the offices
of passenger and freight traffic
agents on the national railroad.
- As forecast, this action was
taken to accomplish great saw
ing in operating expenses.
Consolidation of all railway
ticket offices in Tacoma into one
central downtown office for all
railroads is likely to result soon
from an order stopping all soli-
citation of freight and passenger
business.
Eliminates Duplication.
McAdoo's order, eliminating
duplication and waste, applies
chiefly to soliciting agents and
will not necessarily abolish all
traffic agents, according to the
Interpretation placed on it by
Judge Reid. assistant to the vice
president of the Northern Pa
cific.
"A few agents will, of course,
be needed to quote rates and sell
tickets. But all solicitors will
go.
"The governments reason in
taking this step is plain.
As the government controls
the railroads, and is guarantee
ing their earnings, it is natural
the government should want to
eliminate every possible duplica-
ton and expense" he said.
Carruthers Likes 1t.
William Carruthers, district
freight and passenger agent for
the O.-W. in Tacoma, predicted
all city offices would be CONSOLE
dated soon.
81 think it's great war meas
ure," he said. 1T will mean a
saving of at least 81 500 a month,
or $4,000 a year, in office rent
and incidentals in Tacoma alone.
Think what a saving that will
mean thruout the country
In addition, consolidation of Of
flee would mean convenience
to the public, he declared.
Carruthers said he was in favor
of having the central office in
the offices of the Milwaukee rail-
road at 10th and Pacific.
He predicted not many men
would be thrown out of jobs, as
there is at present a shortage OF
experienced men.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27

The fighting is heavy between
the converging Ancre and Somme
rivers. It is hottest around
Meaulte. south of Albert, where
one of Haig's divisions was re-
ported holding its own early last
night.
During the afternoon a fierce
attack against Auchonvillers,
north of Albert, was driven Off,
while northwest of colincamps
the entire German patrol was
made prisoner.
Stubbornly Resisted
The enemy is reported heavily
shelling the line between Hamei
and Beaumont-Hamel.
At ABS this afternoon a report
they were in Henuturne was un-
confirmed.
Likewise a rumor that German
armored cars are advancing lacks
confirmation.
This morning the enemy was
in the region Of Aveluy
wood, north of Albert, while north
of this point, the situation was
unchanged. save for an attempted
enemy raid west of Arras.
All roads in the Sommer region
converge on Amiens, but linden.
burg's most desperate efforts tG
push forward TO this place are
meeting with stubborn resist
ance.
Bomb Amiens Nightly
Enemy airmen bomb the city
nightly. The famous cathedral
was very nearly hit by a huge
bomb.
The weather was perfect until
CONTINUED on Page Five.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27
TE
ALI IN
DRIVE

Prejudices and differences
Of race and language are to
be broken down by the conf
ing third Liberty loan cam
paign in Tacoma, along with
all religious differences and
divisions between employers
and employees.
A far-sighted plan for unit
ing men and women Of all ma
tionalities and languages i'm
Tacoma on common ground
and with the common cause
Of saving the freedom of the
world, was announced We'd.
nesday by Elmer Dover,
chairman of the Liberty loan
committee for this city.
1t consists of the creation of a
foreign bureau, of which DIR. Ed
ward H. Todd, president of the
College of Puget Sound, has ac-
cepted the chairmanship.
DR.. Todd declared Wednesday
he was confident this bureau
would be one of the most effec-
tive branches of the coming cam
paign.
Carrying out the plan, he will
appoint chairman for each ma
tionality in Tacoma. Each of
these chairman will be authorized
to appoint his own committee, to
consist of members chosen from
Tacoma residents of his own ma
tionality.
Meetings probably will be ar
ranged for the discussion of the
Liberty loan in the various Ian
guages.
DR.. Todd is busy now making
a canvass of the city to learn the
number Of languages represented.
Plan Dinner.
A dinner for the members of his
committee and other interesting
features are being planned for the
bureau. DIR. Todd says he will be
glad to receive any suggestions
from the public.
City Librarian Kaiser has made
up a list showing that there are
more than 80 different recognized
languages.
II believe this bureau not only
will unite the city more strongly
for the coming campaign, but will
be of permanent benefit to the
community. The war ought to
furnish common ground on
which all opponents Of tyranny
and militarism can unite.
Passes For Workers.
Manager H. z. Pieront of the
Hippodrome theater announced
Wednesday that the volunteer
workman" button wern by the
men who constructed Victory Hall
last Sunday will be accepted fer
admission at the Hippodrome the
alter for the second performance
on Thursday evening, March 2S.
Thomas j. Myers, manager Of
Pantages theater, has announced
that the same button will admit
the wearer to the second show at
the Pantages theater on Friday
evening, March 20.
1t Is understood that some OF
the moving picture theaters will
later announce similar privileges
for some other dates.
Miss Nina Straw is appearing at
the Hippodrome theater, called at
Victory Hall Wednesday and paid
for a 500 Liberty bond which Is
to be forwarded to her home in
the east.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27
us. TANKER
BEATS SUB
(united Press Leased wire.,

WASHINGTON, d. c., March
27.-After an hours battle with
a German U-boat on the morn
ing of March /, the American oil
tanker Paulsboro sent the enemy
vessel beneath the waves, dam
aged and in Distress" the navy
department reported today.
1t was the tanker's; second
struggle with a submarine in SIX
days.
In the first encounter a torpedo
missed the boat by rs yards.
Four shots at the submarine sent
her diving away.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27

to your highness my hearty recog-
milton by appointing you chief Of
the grenadier guard.
81 am convinced this brave regl-
ment will always prove worthy of
its princely chief"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27
OF
u. S. GIRLS
DESTROYED
BL HENRY WOOD

United Press Staff Correspondent.
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES
IN THE FIELD, March 81. -
Many towns and villages in which
Smith College girls, Anne Morgan,
Elsie DeWolfe and other American
charity workers spent hundreds OF
thousands of dollars succoring the
population and restoring the de-
vastation, are again the center of
a battlefield and renewed devasta-
ton.
All restoration so far accom-
plished in these places has been re-
destroyed.
There is every reason to believe
the workers have had ample time
to evacuate the threatened cities
before the battles approach.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27
WEATHER FORECAST

Sat's B e a r
says he's tired
Of having his
picture taken
with raindrops
a s a b a c X
ground. Today
we have q cub
list drawing with
rural a { m o s.
where. Rain to-
n | g h t a n d
Thursday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27

Zine! The
great success
you troops
achieved against
the British army
affords me q
welcome oppor-
tuInity to express
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27

might serve to protect the French
troops. Even the knot on the
southern extremity of the plain,
where Prince Eitel Friederich's
hunting lodge is located, was de-
nuded Of everything except the
lodge itself.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27

In answer to numerous in
quiries, we hereby issue a blanket
statement THAT WE DO NOT
KNOW WHAT THE OWNERS OF
SUN DIALS ARE TO DO WHEN
THE CLOCKS MOVE UP SUN
DAY.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27

The female Of the pro-Ger-
man species, oddly or natur-
ally enough, is always more
virulent than the male. And
usually she is a native of this
country.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27
BY WILLIAM PHILLIP sIMMs

United Press Staff Correspondent
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN THE FIELD,
March 27-The British are holding the line west Of
Albert fighting every rod according to the latest re-
port at the moment of cabling.
I The British apparently retired west of the town
yesterday afternoon
! This is the first news of the retirement by the
British from Albert where Haigs official statement
reported local fighting north and northeast with the
lsituation 'unchanged.')
| Thus. with the wal made desert of the Somme bat
tefield now crossed the fighting will begin to offer
certain advantages to the British, who have good
communication behind them. The wooded hills val
Laws VILLAGES and towns furnish screens.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27
ODESSA IS
WON BACK
dUaIted Press Leased WIRE,

MOSCOW, March 81. The
Ukrainian bolsheviki forces have
recaptured Odessa from the Teu-
tons, after q bloody fight, accord
ing to an official telegraph agency
dispatch received here today. The
Black sea fleet co-operated.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27
NEW JOB FOR
CROWN PRINCE

AMSTERDAM, March 27.-The
kaiser today telegraphed the Ger
man crown prince the following,
according to dispatches received
here:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27

Spring is now here Official
ly and IL is to be hoped will
conduct itself more seemIy
than the official winter which
is now officially over.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27
BANK oLEARINGs

Clearings -. ....$ 525,128.37
Balances -. 80. 69,520.S4
Transactions :. -. 1,667,457.3S
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27

We used to believe that tn,
greatest din in the world was q
city campaign.
But now the world war browns
out even that.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27

Fireworks
for Fourth
Under Ban

1t will be unlawful to dis
charge fireworks of any
kind in Tacoma this Fourth
of July.
The city council agreed
unanimously Wednesday
that fireworks should be
put under the ban as a war
time waste of money and
powder.
An ordinance will be
drawn at once, making 1t a
Jail offense for any person
to sell or set off any fire
cracker or other fireworks
within the city limits.
Fire Chief Carlson and
Fire Marshal Chantler
asked for the ordinance.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27

Think Of I'll! x75O,OOO
paid out for hat checks in
New York in seven years to
one concern. That shows
how little there was under
the hat.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27
1T MIGHT ENTERTAIN SOME
PEOPLE

From the Brazil, Ind. Times,)
The Dorcas Society OF the First
Baptist Church was entertained
last evening at the home Of Mrs.
Chas. Coughanewr.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-27

couple Of fellows with hat check concessions
in New York hotels have been making $4,000 q
year. And yet there are folk who wonder why
II is so difficult to find men to build ships.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-27
Wilson to Outline
Immediate Need
For Revenue Bill
Formal Statement Urging
Action at Once Expected
in Few Days
Members to Confer
Eleventh Hour Compromise
To Be Sought to Bring
About Adjournment

WASHINGTON, May 26.-Dissatisfied
but resigned, Congress is prepared to
revise its legislative programme this
week and abandon plans for adjourn
ment in July.
President Wilson is expected to state
formally in few days why revenue
legislation before the December ses-
sion is regarded as imperative.
Democratic and Republican leaders
failed to agree on plans proposed by
the President for special session after
the fall elections. The work OF form
ing new tax bill will proceed at once,
unless there is some most unexpected
development.
Final conferences on the question
will be held tomorrow. Senator Sim
mons, chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, plans to see Secretary Nc
Adoo, and compromise movement. to
afford Congress a summer vacation
later on may follow.
Hope for Adjournment Later
Leaders hope the Administration may
consent to an adjournment after the
revenue bill has made substantial prog
ress carly in the fall, possibly after 1t
has reached the Senate, and defer COM
plction of the measure until the winter
session.
With an all summer session regarded
as disappointing certainty, slowing
down of recent speed on legislation is
expected. Week end recesses are
planned during the summer while com
mittces work on the tax bill. This
week, however, much important iegisia-
tion is on the programme.
The record breaking army approprla-
ton bill. totalling about $4,000, 100000
with it's provision for calling all men to
the colors who can be trained and
equipped, will~be taken up Tuesday by
the House under an agreement to give
it the right of way, in the hope of its
passage early next week. Tomorrow
the House plans to pass the new urgent
deficiency bill, carrying $l23,0oo,0oo.
Army Increase Bill Up
Increase of the army also is sched-
uled for consideration by the Senate
in discussion Of the resolution of Sen
ator Reed, of Missouri, authorizing 81
100000 more men, unanimously re-
ported by the Senate Military Com
mittee. Some opposition already has
developed in the Senate to the pro
vision in the House bill, and champions
of the Reed resolution hope to make it
the basis of a compromise.
The aircraft inquiry of the Senate
military subcommittee, headed by Sen
ator Thomas, of Colorado. will meet tc-
morrow to discuss procedure.
Proposed increase to $3.50 bushel
of the governments maximum guaran-
teed price for wheat will be considered
again tomorrow by Senate and House
confcrrees on the agricultural appro-
priation bill, with prospects of defeat
of the proposal by continuation of the
present deadlock.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-27
u. S. Leads World
I'm Moral Care of
Army, Says Wilson
President Praises Work of
Spiritual Resources Mobi-
lized Back of Troops

WASHINGTON, May 26.-No army
ever before assembled in history has
had more painstaking thought given to
the protection and stimulation of it's
mental. moral and physical manhood
than the new American Army, Presi-
dent Wilson declared in a statement
made public here to-day by the Com
mission on Training Camp Activities.
Every endeavor is being made to
surround our fighting men with the
kind of environment which democ-
behalf" the President said. II do not
believe it is an exaggeration to say
that no army ever before assembled in
history has had more conscientious and
painstaking thought given to the pro-
lection and stimulation of it's mental,
moral and physical manhood. In this
work the Commission on Training
Camp Activities have represented the
government and the governments
solicitude that the moral and spiritual
resources of the nation should be
modified behind the troops"
The Presidents statement appears
in Excepting Our Fighters Fit for War
and After" an official account of the
educational and recreational activities
in the army and navy training camps,
written by Edward FRANK Allen in CO
operation with Raymond B. Fosdck,
ing contrast is drawn between the
demoralizing conditions obtaining on
the Mexican border in 1915. when
American troops were concentrated
there, and the conditions of training
camps TODAY.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-27

The greatest stop yet taken by the
government in it's dealings with labor
is marked by the order of Director Gen
eral McAdoo for the increase Of rail-
road employees wages. according to
Hugh Frayne. general organizer of the
American Federation of Labor ana
member of the War Industries Board.
Mr.. McAdoo's frank acceptance of the
principle of the basic eight-hour day,
even in railroad service, was regarded
yesterday by labor leaders in this city
as distinct victory for the working
mems organizations which have been
championing that principle. Following
the receipt Of the order here, Samuel
Gompers, head of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. went into conference
with international leaders for the pur-
pose of mapping out a campaign to put
the United States, industrially speak
ing, on an eight-hour basis.
"Mr. McAdoo's decision establishing
the principle of the basic eight-hour
day removes any doubt, insofar as the
government is concerned, as to the
right and justice of that principle. +"
said Mr. Frayne, at the Hotel Con-
tinental last night.
New Board Step Forward
"The creation of the new Board of
Railroad Wages and Working Con-
ditions, by M. McAdoo's order, is a
marked step forward also, as it calls
into effective action machinery to deal
with all future matters regarding rail-
road employees generally in the United
States. =
Furthermore, the principle tacitly
established by the government in deal
ing with the workingmen collectively
is very advanced stride in dealing
with the labor problem, as it affects
the railroads and industries of all
kinds. 1t establishes the fact that COL
lective bargaining is a sound principle,
and no more will we see the spectacle
of groups Of men in the same occupa-
tions, often working on the same rail
road, bargaining individually for a
common end.
"Thus is removed the Danger and un-
New-York tribune., 1918-05-27
Patriotic Homicide
Plea of Accused i'm
Prayer Lynchi11g
Defence Aims to Show Kill.
ing Was an Act Of
: Loyalty
Especial Dispatch to The Tribume)

tOpectdt D1SpGtcb to The 1rlbn7le)
EDWARDSVILLE, ILL.,, May 26.-The
prosecution to-day was preparing to
tear to pieces the unwritten law per-
mitting patriotic homicide," which
counsel of defence is expected to plead
IN behalf Of the eleven men accused of
lynching Robert Prayer
From questions to jurors, since the
opening of the murder trial here two
weeks ago, it has been evident that J.
M: Bandy, the defendants attorney,
VIII stake the lives of his clients on
the anti-alien sentiment in Madison
County. If he obtains full parel of
venlremen who believe that mobs have
the right to anticipate Federal author
itles IN dealing with alleged disloyal-
lists his case is won.
States Attorney Streuber said to-
day he was ready to meet any defence
that tries to show Prayer as danger
Gus outlaw and fair game for the first
man who decided to hunt him down.
The defence has indicated that it
will try to establish Prayers killing as
an act OF patriotism" he said. "I'm
not saying now whether l think Prayer
will be threshed out when we begin
taking evidence
"He really was a German. Let US
assume that he made seditious remarks
that he was an enemy, which Pm not
admitting. But if he were everything
the defence probably will try to make
him out, / don't just see how we can
feel any great local pride in the men
who are charged with hanging him.
I'VE have eleven here on trial, of
that number seven are husky, unmar-
ried citizens within the ages of mill
tary service. Let US go so far as to
say that Prayer was a menace to the
community. In such case the law
would have taken care of him. And he
was only one man.
Con the Western front in France
there are about two million Germans,
and we know they're dangerous. 1t
seems to me that the place for really
patriotic American to kill Germans is
in France, not in Illinois. If this
patriotic plea is carried too far, it will
be pertinent to inquire why seven of
those defendants have failed to prove
their Americanism in the front line
trenches"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-27
Sim Feir, Arrests
Are Likened to
Anti-Popish Plot

LONDON, Saturday May 25.-Will-
lam O'Brien. member Of Parliament,
telegraphs to the newspapers in refer
.nce to the SinnFein revelations:
centuries ago, there has been nothing
more disgraceful to English statecraft.
The Irish people will read Lloyd
Georges story with the same mingled
indignation and contempt as they felt
when they read the forged letter pub.
lished by the authors of 'Parnellisn
and Crime
"A similar reaction, even in Enr.
land, is sure to follow. The fact tha,
internment is the punishment of trai.
tors is a sufficient commentary upor
the rubbish, showing it to be an at.
tempt foul means, to break up The
anti-conscription movement. The Ger
grosser blunder than the extension ot
conecription to Ireland"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-27
Dillon Declares
War to the Death
On Sis1y, Feiners
'Sy The Associated press)

MARLBOROUGH, Ireland. Nav
Se..John Dillon. chairman of the
Nationalists. speaking here to-day de-
Siared war to the death on the Slim
rein. The occasion for his speech was
2 meeting. Of delegates from East
Savan to decide whether the National
lst party ought to Withdraw its candi-
asts as.s and permit the Sim Feiner,
annn s.nas 1riinth, to be elected un-
Mr.. Dillon's speech brist,ed with
references to America and annea,s ~
irishmen not to neglect American public
opinaon- he emphasized his denuncia-
ton OF the Sinn F6in by QUOTING saw-
cral phrases from his statement rs.
Gently made to the Associated Press
and added: '''S'
Some English newspapers have
quoted the interview ! gave to the As
sociated Press Of America as evidence
that ! have broken Off my alliance
with the Sinn Fein. You cannot break
on what has never existed.
am being denounced to-day by the
Sinh rciners as an lmperialist, which
never was. and as an enemy Of the
true principles of Irish nationality
And | have repeatedly explained that
while ] was in favor of the Mansion
House conference for the sake Of nrr.
senting united font on the single
question Of conscription, was SO Far
from believing that there was any
other possible common platform with
the Sim Fsin that was more bitterly
and more irreconcilably opposed to De
Valera and Griffith than ever before
in my life.
II am to-day more convinced than
ever that the Sim Fein policy is cal
culatcd to rob Ireland OF the sympathy
of America and Of all democratic peo.
pic thxquGhout tho world"