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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-26
Care|essness Of 7. R. & P.
Gives City Line Black Eve

Tacoma'S contract with the Il
r. & P. Co. for operation of the
municipal street car line is rapidly
proving itself to be a moose with
which the line may hang itself.
Because the operation of the
city's street cars Is left entirely tC
employees Of the traction company
and these employees are not kept
under the same supervision ant
regulations as they are on other
city lines, the municipal railway
is getting shabby treatment.
More than $500 worth Of
damages to city equipment ON
the municipal line has been
done in accidents Of the past
six weeks, and every accident
has been directly due to care
1essness Of T. II. q p. en-
ployes, according to city Off
cials.
Because the T. R. e P. refused
to take any responsibility for ac,
cidents when the contract was
drawn, and the city did not insis,
on such a clause, there is no re.
dress for any of this carelessness
Every item of damage due te
carelessness of T. r. & P. motor.
men and conductors on the city
line must be paid from the fin.
ances of the line.
And yet the city has no direc,
supervision or control OF the mer
who are causing the accidents!
One of the city street car.
bumped into another city car {
week or so ago in broad daylight
Damage, 5000.
A city street car was shuntet
upon a siding in broad daylight
and deliberately ran over an cleo
trio automatic rail-drilling ma
chine which the city had JUS
spent 5000 for. The machine wa!
total wreck.
Another daylight accident oc
CURED when city car ran over 9
drilling machine owned by a con
tractor, completely destroying it
The city had to pay a $165 bill.
In each accident, according t,
tie public works department, tn,
street car motormen and conduc
tors laughed heartily over the oc
currence and considered tn,
wreckage of city property as ,
great joke.
The accidents occurred on .
track owned by the city will
street cars owned by the city
and thru the utter negligence o.
men operating the cars, accOrd
ing to investigators. Yet tn
city is powerless to discharge OF
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-26
WOUNDED
SOLDIER
IS FAKE

If Charles Turpin had been a
little better coached on war
events in France. he might still
be a war hero today.
But the 17-year-old soldier boy
with one leg cut off at the knee.
who was arrested for fogery after
gaining the sympathies of hun
dreds of westerners thru his war
injuries, was a little too hazy on
the details of trench work.
Sergt. Willis of the Canadian
recruiting office here questioned
Turpin at length in the county
jail yesterday afternoon, and aft
or hearing the injured youths re-
cital of trench warfare pro-
nounced him an imposter. Tur-
pin promptly broke down and
confessed that he hadn't been any
nearer to France than Calgary,
Canada.
The youth is an escaped pris-
oner from the Chehalis reform
atory. After escaping, he was re-
captured and suffered a severe in
jury to his knee while trying to
make another escape. His leg
was amputated.
Turpin roomed with a returned
Canadian soldier in Canada for
some time, and learned enough
about the war to convince him
that he could pose as wounded
soldier.
So he bought a secondhand
uniform, got some false discharge
papers, and started out. People
everywhere befriended him and
willingly cashed his bogus checks.
The youth has left a trail of sew
eral hundred dollars of worthless
paper thru the west.
He pleaded guilty in superior
court late Friday to a forgery
charge and will be sentenced later.
His family lives In Spokane.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-26
LOSES YEAR
OF HIS LIFE
SOMEWHERE

One hour in the custody of the
u. S. marshal was the sentence
imposed by Federal Judge Cush-
man Friday on Charles II. Jen.
nings of Hoquiam, accused as a
Stacker, after Jennings had con.
WINGED the judge that he had slip
ped cog in counting up his age
Jennings has discovered he is a
year younger than he thought he
was.
Before the draft, Jennings trieI
to enlist in the army but was re.
jected on the ground of physical
disability. Because he was quite
sure he was over 81 years old, he
didn't register in the draft. Some
time later, however, he said he re-
ceived letter from his mother, in
which she informed him he was
not 81. Then he went to the police
and explained matters and was
taken to court.
But how does it happen" ask
ed Judge Cushman, that an ap-
parently sane man nike you doesn' t
know his own age?"
You see, judge" Jennings ex-
planned, II left home when l was
ID, and l guess | lost a year some
where"
He showed the judge that he
is at present at work helping get
out spruce lumber for the govern
ment.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-26
WILSON WILL
AID MOONEY

Continued ON Page Five.)
people of California a new trial
for Mooney if the California su-
preme court refuses to grant an
appeal from Moneys death SEN
tence, imposed by the lower court
and once upheld by the state su-
preme court.
The presidents attention was
first called to the Mooney convic-
tons vast influence when meet
tngs Of protest sprang up in Rus
sia and the western states. From
there the protest spread to the
entire country until it had gath
cred momentum from many
sources whose opposition to vio-
lence is unquestioned and whose
devotion to our cause in the war
is unstinted.
"The liberal sentiment of Rus
STA and this country was aroused"
the commission report said, be
cause the circumstances of
: Moneys prosecution, in the light
of his history, led to the belief
that the terrible and sacred instru-
ments of criminal Justice were
consciously or unconsciously made
use of against labor by it's enemies
in an industrial conflict"
War is fought with moral as
well as material resources" said
the report. I'VE are in this war
to vindicate claims Of unstained
processes of law. These claims
must be tempered by the fire of
our own devotion to them at
home"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-26
A. B. ST. JOHN DIES

A. B. st. John, well known
newspaperman Of Tacoma and Sc
attic, died Friday night in Seattle,
according to word reaching here.
Recently he was assistant to Man
aging Secretary Kemmer of the
Commercial club. For the last
two weeks he has been staying
with relatives in Seattle. His wife
passed away last spring. He leaves
three small children.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-26
BIG SPY FIRES

Continued From Page One.)
The Submarine plant seemed
doomed until two New York fire
boats made a path thru the ice
and checked the conflagration.
Soldiers used dynamite to de-
molish buildings between the
blaze and the huge shipyard.
Oil barges which had been fro
zen against the dock spilled OF
on frozen Newark bay and 1t ignit.
ed. The sky was lighted up roi
miles around. The entire New
ark fire department was rushed
to the blaze.
RumOrs of Plot.
Crowds gathered around the
blaze, but soldiers kept the spec.
tators back by firing into the all
repeatedly.
Rumors Of a spy plot to de
stroy the Submarine Boat corpor'
alton plant were circulated more
than a week ago, Just prior to q
visit paid the plant by Edward
N. Hurley, chairman of the emer
gency fleet corporation. When
Hurley left, a guard of 200 sol
diers was sent at once to the yard
and began a patrol. Police also
were sent from Newark.
The plant is one of the largest
in the country and had Just beer
completed. One ship already IL
on the ways and nearly ready for
launching. Others are being laid
down.
A trainload OF coal near the
Submarine Boat corporation plant
caught fire. Several heaps oil
coal near the shipyards also ig-
nited.
The sweep Of the fire was aided
by burning oil flowing over ice
and by the wind, which swept the
flames along the docks.
One of the burned docks was in
the submarine boat corporation
Flames menaced two
big ship ways, just completed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-26
N. P. increases"
EDITOR THE TIMES:

EDITOR THE TIMES:
j wish to correct an erroneous
idea which might be obtained
from an article in a recent issue OF
The Times, quoting Judge G. T.
Reid as saying that the employees
of the Northern Pacific have been
given a 10 per cent increase In
wages.
The facts are that during the
year 1917 the unorganized en-
ployes were given 10 per cent
bonus, payable at the end of six
months for the amount they had
earned during the previous six
months. On Jan. /, 1918, this
bonus was discontinued and in
its place a 10 per cent increase
was granted.
There was no deduction from
the bonus for hospital fee, but
from the 10 per cent increase there
is a deduction of / per cent for
hospital fee. For example: A
man drawing $3.50 a month, dur
ing 1917, received an additional
10 per cent bonus, making his
monthly salary $9O.75. less per
cent of the $3.50, would leave
$500. Under the 10 per cent in
crease he would draw $90.75, less
1 per cent for hospital would
leave his salary $S9.75, or 10
cents less than he received be-
fore the 10 per cent increase was
granted.
There are good many in the
same shape l am In, trying to fig
ure out where the increase comes
in. AN EMPLOYE,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-26
Tourist Travel
EDITOR THE TIMES:

EDITOR THE TIMES:
Herewith please find letter
from the publicity bureau of the
Commercial club in regard to tour
list travel, which explains itself.
Notwithstanding your excellent
arguments in regard to this mat
ter we must nevertheless stick
to our think" that we ought to
take advantage of present condi-
tions to bring the attractions of
the Pacific Northwest to the at
tention of the moneyed easterner.
The government has announced
that the national parks will be
open this season.
Tacoma at this time offers the
best opportunities for endurably
profitable investment of any city
In the United States.
II, cut off from European travel,
the tired business man wishes to
spend his money and his time in
seeking rest and relaxation in
travelling in his own country II
surely will not congest the rail
roads any more to bring him to
the evergreen Pacific Northwest
than it will to take him to SUM-
baked, dust-covered California.
Now is our opportunity to say
to him, Come out to Washington ;
breathe our invigorating atmos-
phere; look upon our marvellous
scenery, climb our matchless
mountains, ride upon our scenic
highways, sail on our wonderful
seas, go out into our primeval for
ests, fish in our lakes and rivers,
feel to touch and thrill of our en-
thusiasm, and you will never again
waste your time or your money
on the flat, stale and unprofita-
BILE insipid, dwarfed attractions
of Europe"
Some of these moneyed eastern
ers will be looking for invest
ments as well as rest and relaxa-
ton, and now is the time to let
these people see for themselves
the remarkable opportunities
which await them. in time of
war prepare for peace"--NOW ID
our opportunity.
Respectfully,
M. G. MITCHELL. :
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-26
FUNDS
FOR HOUSING
Especial to The Times. J

WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. &c.
Passage of the bills recently
adopted by the senate authoriz-
ing of $50,000.000 for housing
facilities for shipyard workers
and 70. reating military zones
around yards building govern
ment ships was urged by former
Rear Admiral Bowles and other
officers of the shipping board yes
terday before the house investi-
eating committee.
Bowles scored the profiteering
of real estate men and said that
both government and private
yards are working less than SO per
cent capacity with. about 1000
men employed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-26
BAR ASKS FOR
THE EVIDENCE

Evidence military authorities
at camp have that Tacoma law
yers have been guilty of unprofes-
sional and unpatriotic conduct in
gouging ignorant aliens who have
come to them to get advise in
asking draft exemption, is asked
by President J. w. Quick of the
Pierce County Bar association in a
letter to Capt.Plummer of the
Camp Lewis exemption board.
In his letter Quick says he
thinks the members of the Pierce
county bar have been very
patriotic" and that he docs not
think the association at large
should suffer from the misconduct
of few"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-26

are not received with any degree
of cordiality.
Under the present contract, the
city car line is at the mercy of
the 7. r. & p. and its employees.
Commissioner Atkins is rack
ing his brains for some means of
slipping out of the moose which
the city council deliberately set
its neck when 1t signed the tide
flats contract.
The car line made a net
profit Of nearly $1,000 in six
months. II the accidents
had not occurred, the profit
would have been 80 per cent
greater.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-26

even reprimand the men respon.
sible for the accidents.
II the Il. II. Il p. Co. is
anxious to discourage the
city's plans for municipal
street car service i'm Tacoma,
its employees on the tide
flats line are certainly doing
their part.
An official inspector of the
traction company has been as
signed to handle the municipal
line, and the city has to pay his
salary of $125 a month.
But he cannot take orders
from the city, which owns the
line, and his suggestions to the
T. r. & P. Co. for improvements
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-26
Tacoma Boy Is
Student 1000

Donald ]. Davis of Tacoma is
student No. 1000 in the Univer-
sity of Washington college of
mines. The school has been in
operation for 22 years.
Eighteen men have come for
the special winter session. Last
year 55 men completed this three
months course. Many of them
are now in war service.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-26
EDITOR THE TIMES:

EDITOR THE TIMES:
Not only In Armenia are
Christians being slaughtered (as
We hear much about) by Moham-
medans, but in q great many
other places on land and sea.
Greek and Roman Catholics
and Protestants of all faiths from
Lutherans to the latest we know
of. a sect calling themselves Pent
tecostal Pilgrims--all these Al
now engaged In killing each Other
because they live under different
rulers, occupy various political
divisions Of territory, In short
fight under various flags.
What can we think Of all this
slaughter! I think Hike this:
"For Gods sulke let tho World
have old-fnehioneA priullfv1
Christianity, nno<zstn eplr1fnn1ien
or something cIss for : ehanG1 =
W. n. BoNNUY.
|LonRbranch WI.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-26
Sc TON SCHOONER
CROSSES PACIFIC

In SETON schooner, with a
crew of only 10 men, Capt. s. Tani-
gami, master of the Hohko Maru,
has just completed a trip across
the Pacific in midwinter in So
days. The Hoko Maru is the
smallest vessel of any kind to make
the transpacific voyage to Puget
Sound
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-26
NEW u. s. VESSEL
NAMED TACOMA

Another steamer bears the name
Tacoma" This time IL is one of
the new government standard steel
vessels, the second to be launched
by the Emergency Fleet corpora
ton at San Pedro. The vessel was
Christened Tacoma" by Miss Ber-
nadine Murphy, daughter of a Los
Angeles oil operator.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-26
WANTED FOR
91ST DIVISION

Wanted-a name for the 91st
division when it leaves for active
service at the front. Two national
guard divisions have been named
the Rainbow" and Sunset" di-
visions, and now suggestions are
open for a name for the nationsl
army men from Camp Lewis.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-26
SAY STORES ARE
NOT OVERCHARGING

The Commercial club commit
tee which has been investigating
reports Of overcharging to men in
uniform, has reported that Tacoma
stores are selling army goods at
prices allowing for just profits
only.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-26
TODD'S LETTER
Mrs. M. @. MITCHELL,

Mrs. M. q. MITCHELL,
Box 8, r. 4,
Tacoma, Wash.
Dear Mrs. Mitchell:
p l certainly wish to thank you
for writing the forceful letter to
The Tacoma Times in answer to
its editorial, Let 1t Wait"
II there ever was q time when
business OF every kind, including
travel. should be better than
usual 1t is now for 1t is the bus
iness men who are making money
that are able to assist in Financing
this great war.
believe there are two kinds Of
economy There IL an economy
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-26
NAMED POSTMASTER

Kenneth s. Mckenzie has been
appointed postmaster at Spanaway
in place OF G. G. Lindsy, resigned
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-26
In the
Editors Mail

that means prosperity and sue
cess in war. There is another
kind that means poverty and de-
feat. The kind we need Is OF the
products of nature, chiefly perish
ables.
There was never a time when
our people stopped spending
money but what II caused hard
times.
Our bureau was about to write
The Times about the editorial but
believe the matter has been we'll
taken care of by your letter to
Mr.. Pinkerton.
Thanking you for your unusual
interest and assistance in our pub
licity work, | am,
Very respectfully.
HARRY X. TODD,
Chairman Publicity Bureau, Ia
coma Commercial Club.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-26

Twenty couples at a ball at Du-
quoin. ILL.,. danced for one hour
and 20 minutes without stop.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-01-26

The Times wishes to take
respectful issue with the pub
licity bureau just as IL did
with Mrs. Mitchell In cOnnec-
ton with her first letter.
The Times believes tourist
travel from the eastern states
to this cOast--and, Of course,
that includes CALIFORNIA;
distinctly a non-essential bus
iness 1t this time. We believe
that In view of the railroad
congestion, the war business
congestion of all the coast
cities and the need for every
citizens applying himself to
the one business of winning
the war, that such travel
should not now be enco,lrag.
ed.-EditOr.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-11-21
Sugar and Flour
Lid Is Going OFF

You can now secure flour without
purchasing any substitute, and after
the fifth of next month you will be
allowed four pounds of sugar for
each member of your family. These
changes in the food regulations were
announced last week by Food Admin
istrator Parker. Four pounds of su-
gar is supposed to be more than
enough for any person and several
manufacturing concerns will be al
lowed double the sugar next month
that they had this month, which
means that there will be no more
shortage of candy or soft drinks. The
changes in sugar regulations is said
to be due to the fact that the Cuban
crop viii be coming in within a short
time and that transports will carry
articles which are needed more than
sugar.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-11-21
NO INTOXICANTS TO
SOLDIERS ALLOWED

Signing of armistice in no way les
sens responsibility of civil commun-
ity for protection of soldiers from
prostitution and sale of liquor. All
states and cities ought never to lose
the control which has been estab-
lished, or stop so vital q work. The
government proposes to leave no
measures unused in continued repres-
sion of prostitution and sale of IL
quor from now until such time as de-
mobilization is fully accomplished.
War Department is fully determined
to return soldiers to their families
and to civil life uncontarhinated by
disease. Reports of laxity from your
state after so much has been done
would be a disaster to our soldiers
and their families. am telegraphing
larger cities of your state according
to above. You are requested to
transmit this message verbatim to all
cities and towns in your state.
NEWTON D. BAKER,
Secretary of War
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-11-21
SALTS # BACKAcHY
AND KIDNEYS HURT
Drink lots Of water and stop eating
meat for q while if your Bladder
troubles you

When you wake up with backache and
dull misery in the kidney region it gen.
orally means you have been eating too
much meat, says well-known authority.
Meat forms uric acid which overworks
the kidneys in their effort to filter it
from the blood and they become sort Of
paralyzed and loggy. When your kidneys
get sluggish and clog you must relieve
them, like you relieve your bowels; re-
moving all the body's urinous waste,
else you have backache, sick headache,
dizzy spells; your stomach sours, tongue
is coated, and when the weather is bad
you have rheumatic twinges. The urine
is cloudy, full of sediment, channels often
get sore, water scalds and you are obliged
to seek relief two or three times during
the night.
Either consult q good, reliable physi-
elan at once or get from your pharmacist
about four ounces of Jad Salts; take
q tablespoonful in a glass of water
before breakfast for few days and your
kidneys will then act fine. This famous
salts Is made from the acid of grapes
and lemon juice, combined with ithia,
and has been used for generations to
clean and stimulate sluggish kidneys,
also To neutralize acids in the urine so il
no longer irritates, thus ending bladder
weakness
Jad Salts is = life saver for regular
meat eaters. It IL inexpensive, cannot
iniure and makes delightful, eneE-
gsscent lithia-W&teT drink.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-11-21
PRISONERS PAROLED
AND ALL RETURNED

When the signing of the armistice
was announced in Bogalusa week
ago last Monday there were eleven
prisoners in the city jail charged
with various misdemeanors, and all
we're paroled for the day. They were
told to report back at the jail after
the celebration and Chief of Police
Magee reports that at 9 o'clock the
same night everyone of them re-
turned, which goes to prove that sim
ply because a few of Bogalusa citi-
,zens get into mischief that they have
honor. Few, if any, other cities in
the entire country could report such
honor among prisoners.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-11-21
Offer Prayers as
the War Ends

On Monday morning, November
II, as the men were gathering to
their work in the plant of the Great
Southern Lumber Company the siren
whistle began to blow. The first
thought was fire, but in less than a
minute we all knew that it was
sounding the glad tidings of peace.
At once Rev. T. A. Pettitt sug-
gested that we have prayer and he
and T. W. Reeves gathered the men
and women on the plank walk. Mr..
Reeves told the people that we should
rejoice and give thanks to God. Rev.
Pettitt led the crowd in prayer. There
were about forty men and women in
this service and Reverend Pettitt says
he is proud that he had the oppor-
tunity to pray with the people on
this special occasion.
Immediately after the service Mr..
Camp told all hands to quit work for
the day and rejoice. Mr.. Reeves sug-
gested to Reverend Pettitt that they
hold a religious service in Richard
sontown at l 80 p. m. This was
glorious service. The opening song,
Nearer My God to Thee" was led
by T. w. Reeves. Reverend Pettitt
read Psalm 1OS and commented on
the twelfth verse of the tenth chap
ter of First Corinthians: "Let him
that thinks he stand take heed lest
he fall"
The services were closed by sing
ing ''Hold to Gods Unchanging
Hand" At night there was religious
services in Richardsontown, conduct
ed by Rev. J. Frierson and T. w.
Reeves. The opening song, I'm the
Resurrection Morning." and closing
song, 1.-THE Half Has Never Been
Told" were both led by Mr.. Reeves.
There were services in Denham-
town at the home Of Dock Warner,
conducted by Rev. w. F. McGehee.
This service was closed by singing
Loyalty to Christ"
/ am sure that everyone enjoyed
these services to the fullest extent.
While our President, our boys and
all the Allies deserve great praise for
this victory, yet God deserves all the
glory.
Now just as soon as the war clouds
can be rolled away there viii be a
great field for missionary work
opened up in the eastern counties,
and let us do everything in our power
to send men who will help to reap a
great service for our God.
Yours iii the Masters Manse,
E. R. MOORE.