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AN ad in a Buffalo paper asks for

a woman to play second violin.

They don't make 'em that way.

DYNAMITE SUBWAY

YEGGMEN ATTEMPT AN $80,000,000 ROBBERY

WHSON GETTING

PREPAREDNESS

PLANS IN SHAPE

By Oilson Gardner.

WASHINGTON, D. ('., Sept. 8.

—The plans of President Wilson

for adequate preparedness are

rapidly taking shape.

These plans are being worked

out by Secretary of War Garri

son and Secretary of ths .Navy

Daniels with the assistance of a

corps of army and navy experts.

The ground that will be covered

may be summarized about as fol

lows:

Increase in the regular army in

continental United States to per

haps 200,000 men.

Secretary Garrison will also, no

doubt, recommend a shortening

In the term of enlistment lo one

year (or possibly even six months)

in order that more men may get

military training und be held In

a reserve list to be created by

law. These men would be subject

to a very short training |ieriod

each year (after the first) and

their equipment, would Iki concen

trated ln central reserve depots

ready for them if needed.

Has Been Studying

Foreign Systems

Secretary Garrison has been

making a thorough study of the

systems in use In Switzerland,

Australia and the Argentine re

public, in each of which a trained

citizen soldiery is the military re

liance. The secretary believes

these systems could be adapted to

use ln the United States. All are

based on giving all citizens a

military training of from two to

six months.

There will also be recommenda

tions for appropriations to in

crease very largely the reserve of

military supplies of all sorts, par

ticularly of artillery ammunition.

TIRPITZ

NOT TO

RESIGN

BERLIN, Sept. B.—Grand Ad

miral yon Tirpitz, the creator ot

submarine warfare, will not re

sign.

An official denial today was

made of stories that he would re

tire because of being overruled

by other leaderß, particularly ln

relation to German-American af

fairs.

10 DIE IN

AIRRAID

LONDON, Sept. B.—Ten were

killed, and three others are nils-

Ing and believed to be burled in j

the debris in last night's Zeppelin i

Tsid on the east English coast. J

The location of the raid was

withheld by the admiralty, and

this has led some to fear that am

munition stations or naval yards

may have been affected.

FRENCH IN It \IU. ALSO

- PARIS, Sept. B.—Sixty bombs

were hurled by French airmen

today on Herman air camps at

Medard and Dteuse.

Germans bombarded Nancy

and the plateau Malsevlll, killing

several. Taubes later dropped

wreaths with messages of condol

ence for the family of Captain La

Touche, the noted French avia

tor, who was killed by Herman

airmen In Monday's raid on Saar

brurken.

HONKYMOONHRS DIE

1 JS AVTO SMASH-UP

MONTagTE, Cal.. Sepf. B.—A.

T. Anderson his wHe and moth

er, Mri. Margaret Anderson ana

S cousin, Aaron Anderson, werei

almost Instantly l< tiled **B*h their j

automobile was hit by a passen-1

gar train yesterday. Anderson!

was oa his honeymoon.

The Tacoma Times

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MONTH I VOL. XII. NO. 222. TACOMA, WASH.AVKDNKSDAY. SKPTKMBKK 8. 1»15. I BDITION

With respect to the coast de

fenses, congress will be asked to

face frankly the fact thut our

coast defenses are merely

harbor fortifications and that

the only defensive weapons

we can use to repel invasion are

a mobile luiid force nnd a strong

uuvy, supplemented by a very

large number of submarines and

mines.

Will Lay Emphasis

On Four Classes

For increasing the strength and

usefulness of the navy, Secretary

Daniels will ask Increases along

four lines: .Submarines, aero

planes, battle cruisers and scout,

cruisers. These, in addition to

the regular addition of two (or

three) first line battleships.

Tha navy now has no battle

cruisers or scout cruisers at all,

and the usefulness of these ves

sels has been amply demonstrated

in the naval conflicts of the pres

ent, war. .

The l . lie of siiliinariiie will un

doubtedly lie able, if necessary, to

make the trip across Hie At

lantic.

The secretary already lias .stni't

ed an aeroplane factory at Pen

sacola.

The need of greater speed in

the American navy has baen

brought out in the battles between

the European combatants.

The Herman cruiser Blucher,

when overtaken nnd destroyed by

the British battle cruiser Lion in

the North Sea was making a speed

several knots greater than the

fastest cruiser in the American

navy.

Government plants for the man

ufacture of armor plate undoubt

edly will be recommended.

MAYBE NOT VERY

HANDY BUT SAFE

FROM PICKPOCKETS

Miss Verna Klliott and her "knee

watch."

In Akron, 0., the girls are

wearing "knee watches"; at least

they are if they are following the

fashion set by Miss Verna Elliott,

prettiest of Akron's belles, who Is

that scared of pickpockets that

she designed the knee-watch

pocket just to fol them.

"It isn't such a handy place for

me, but this knee-pock «t ia very

uphsii.lv for the pickpocket," ex

plains Miss Elliott, tilting her

skirt to snow tbe watch.

i**9o* it'( "•advanced. 1 but to

c irench skirt and the fad of

carrying live birds on tbe prome

nade, and no one seems to mind

them. Mine Is a sensible fad and

I hope folks will like it."

PROPER

The Times frankly admits

Its inability to understand

the surprise of some parly

democrats nnd republicans

at Hie fact thai William

11..\i mini Tuft, when lie vis

its Tacoma, is to lie the guest

of Hugh Wallace.

These men are labeled dif

ferently on pun., lines, nnd

therefore some of tlie pet te

ndinis in Milled party labels

loom I. Hue think it nothing

less than Mcandnloiis that

democrat and republican

should play golf together.

llosh! William Howard

Taft and Hugh Wallace

stand for the same thing

politically — nhmely, Privl-

Young G. 0. P.'s

Try to Annihilate

W. H. Paulhamus

In a meeting surcharged with

stand-pattism, the Voting Men's

Republican club last night made

it clear that men of progressive

ideas will not be welcomed in

parly work, and endorsed the

gubernatorial candidacy of James

McNeely, millionaire lumberman.

The latter was inty'iided as a

slap-direct at Senator \V. H. Paul

hamus of Puyallup, whose ideas i

and legislative record were too

progressive for last night's meet

ing.

He was described by one speak

er as a man unfit to run for party

honors because two or three years

ago "he had his knife in the very

bowels of the republican party."

Newspaper Scheme?

There also wns a good deal of

state-wide significance in the en

dorsement. It means that cer

tain newspaper strength in this

county feels unable, of its own

strength, to oppose the popular

and energetic Paulhamus, al

though it dislikes his principles.

But now the fact that the

Young Men's Republican club has

endorsed McNeely gives this in

fluence a perfectly plausible ex

planation for ihe program it had

determined on in advance.

In fact, there was every Indi

e.iiiou last night that the endorse

ment of McNeely had been hatch

ed in advance by this interest.

Pay No Heed to Warning.

J. P. Nevins, of Puyallup, warn

ed the meeting that this endorse

ment of one candidate 12 months

prior to the primaries, would

have only bad results for the par

ty, but he was overruled.

He held that the true func

tion of the club was to support

republicanism in general before

the primaries, aiding any candi

date who asked aid, and to get

solidly behind the victor in tlie

primaries.

Two speeches, enthusiastically

applauded, made known the true

political ideas of-the meeting.

Attorney Will Hayden said:

"For a time 1 was not so proud

of the republican party. When

it compromised with the populists

and put a lot of freak legislation

on the taxpayers of this tsate, I

lagged away from the party, and

stayed by its old principles.

Returning to Hayden!

"I have stayed there ever since,

and now I find the party Is com

ing back* to me."

J. C. Taylor, of Ortlng. said:

"I'm g'tt-he republican and have

been all my life. But there are

a few persons whom I have heard

of am running for office on the

ticket whom I would not vote for

If they were nominated, for Just

two or three years ago they had

their knives ln the very bowels

of the republican party."

88 Persons Present,

Arvld Rydstrom, «x legislator,

said: "I was in the sessions of

1911, when they passed all that

freak legislation, and I Voted no

on every measure. They gave

me h'—l than* for a stand-patter,

but I'm all right again now."

There were 83 persons present.

Fulljj 40 per cent were office

holders.

BANK CLEARINGS

i

Clearings $ 427,249.24

Balances 90,212.13 I

Transactions 1,246,79:1.74 i

leg«\

The pi ill (lr.il function of

both is to protect l*rivilege

in their I. spi-ciixc parties.

We imagine iv tin ie visit

there "ill be inmij a sympa

thetic exchange of confi

dences on how hard to con

trol the cantankerous people

are thene days.

We can't think of any

thing ii inrc natural than

these two men sitting elbow

to elbow at the I'uloii club,

or mutually gracing the so

cial register of the Country

club.

I li. iiiiiinliir.il thing is

that some folks can't see

this most obvious truth.

I c\ <$P <J> <i, (jj. <$> tfs> <$> <£> ,-t, $, <$ <_> $ ts,

* *

g HE liE.SCRIH.VS lllMsll.l *

<$> When James McNeely an- *

<•■ nouueed him ambition to be *

♦ governor, he gave out the ?>

9 following statement, which *

♦ pretty aptly describes the 9

j • kind of political ideas he *

♦ holds: *

♦ 1 would like to see the *

I ♦ wholesalers, manufacturers <$

♦ and business men generally *

<8> get together and decide on g

g the man they want as the $>

g candidate to pull for better ■$>

9 times. • $,

g "If they select some oth- •&

• er candidate 1 would gladly g

<S> step out. *

* "What strength I have g

<•> rests, it seems to me, in *

— that I am a business man, •»

9 and I hope that other busl- <$■

M ness men will run for the *

9 legislature so that a strictly •»

• business administration can $>

- be assured." <•>

• This is a verbatim stata- ♦

• ment from McNeely himself. *

• ♦

********^i^t>*,****m

QUITE A JOKE

W. H. Paulhamus was in Shel

ton today, at work for the Puy

allup fair, but his friends chuckled

amusedly over what they term

the young republicans' bone

head play In endorsing McNeeley.

They were particularly amused

at the statement of a pert young

fellow, Ed Mills of Puyallup,

whom a lot of them allow to be

president of the Young Men's Re

publican club out in the valUy.

Ed said, without ever cracking

a smile, that McNeely could baat

Paulhamus in the valley

I'.i.illiHimis' friends can't see

why Al Joison gets by with his

comedy when there are so many

funnier fellows, like Ed, loqgmfga

Moreover, they figure thaj^

night's action stamps Mjiieely\it

the stowed machine Candida*,

which gives'the adroit paulhamus

Just one more effectiv^tampaign

Issue.

HASTTSife

BREAKS FEET

The cause of injuries to Cyrus

Smylte, chauffeur to F|re Chigf

McAlevy, who was 111 most of last

month, came to light at todays

meeting of the firemen's pensSa

board, when flmylte riled aX?

salary .Maim.

The lire chauffeur responded

to a midnight alarm oothy last

month, and jumped down the

brass pole of the fire station be

fore he was fully awake. As a

result several bones ln his fast

were broken.

___^_

t'APTI KB VOLHOVYSK

BERLIN, Sapt. 8. —After a ter

rific bombardment the Germans

captured Volhovysk, an Important

railway junction 48 miles south

east of Grodno, it waa officially

announced today.

U. S. PROBES GERMAN

POWDER CONSPIRACY

WASHINGTON, D. C,

Sept. H.—Alarmed at the

quick succession in which

acts of violence have piled up

in Hie last fortnight, govern

ment officials mi' at work

today endeavoring to find If

the I'nited States is not Uie

center of a great dynamite

pirn, planned and financed

ill llili.|ie.

It is suspected that a web

of Intrigue will be uncover

ed, and probably traced to

llm hundreds of underground

diplomats and agents in the

pay of the Teutonic alliance.

It b. to this influence, the

government officers believe,

that flic many dynamltings

of limn it ions plants and oth

er acts of destruction and

loss of life are due.

Tn all 37 lives have been sunff

ed out in 25 explosions in what is

an apparently wonderfully organ

ised plot to destroy men and fac

tories hi thiß country that are

contributing supplies to the allies

In. JSurope.

The great plot, probably

months in the making, seems in

fuH operation now.

One Day's Activities.

Mere Is one day's activities of

aliased roreign spies—significant

eptjodes that occurred Aug. 31:

Jlt was revealed ln New

York that liner Minnehaha,

' got afire at sea by a bomb

July 8, iiad been loaded from

lighter whose < aptkln, a Ger

man naval reservist, Is now

toder arrest on another

fljiarge.

} Dynamite bomb exploded

in front of home of M. F.

Coombs, in Depew, N. V.,

whose plant, now building,

Witt be used to manufacture

jfofoplanes for the allies.

I Hercules Powder Plant, at

mole, Oal., partly wrecked

fy mysterious explosion In

fketory. Two men killed.

Tin Houston, Texas, H. W.

Siysson, German-American,

•rested as bomb suspect, ea-'

eaped from deputies.

Ignatius T. T. Lincoln,

self-confessed German spy,

was arraigned ln court In

Brooklyn, N. V., on forgery

charge.

Bearing of Gustsv Kopsch,

German, recently arrested by

federal detectives charged

with making drawings of for

tifications In Virginia.

Secret sarvlee man's dis

covery of huge war map In

possession of Karl Jlencke of

Germany', studedt in dental

School of ' University of

Pennsylvania. IS detained ln

Philadelphia.

Train of dynamite was de

railed and blown up, killing

three men near San Fran

cisco.

Fifty hand bills, calling on

German nnd Irish "patriots"

to help end European war by

dynamiting powder factories

in this country were seized

by postal authorities In St.

Louis.

Police of Council Bluffs,

lowa, report that Otto War

ner, a German, arrested

there on forgery charge, de

clared he Intended to raise a

fund of 1100,000 to aid the

German cause.

Bribes For Supplies.

In addition to these acts of

violence U. S. secret service men

have unearthed other evidence

which indicates that the kaiser

has a desperate campaign under

way in America to try to block

the shipping of supplies to the

allies.

Correspondence recently seized

In the office of one of Germany's

agents in New York city reveals,

It Is charged, an "inside organiza

tion." involving prominent Gar

mans Id this country and German

officials.

The startling charges wens

made as a result of the discovery

of this correspondence that bribes

r~ — ———-

Deposits la the Tacoma

banks, according to an offi

cial report to tlie treasury

department, show a gain of

$Sfi»,ooo over what they

were ia June.

They are the highest they

have stood at any time in two

years, aad are only a small

awn below the hlghwater

mark. ,

Smile, brother, smile!

----EATHEH:

11 AI II TacoTna: Falr > warmer Thurs-

WAV/ "ay

Iff Iff Washington: Same, excepfj

1/ 1/ near the coast.

had been offered in Washington

to gain the sale of a huge sup

ply of discarded U. S. army rifles,

snd that organized attempts had

been made to buy up huge sup

plies of war munitions already|

contracted for by the allies. j

Dead Pustor an Agent.

The murder of the Rev. Ed

mund Kayser in Gary, Indiana,

has revealed the existence of al

leged plots to destroy powder

plants in Indiana. These suspi

cions have been strengthened by

the discovery that the deed min

ister of Gary had sent numerous

telegrams to the German ambassy

in Washington.

GREAT

FILMS

To Mr. and Mrs. German Sym

pathizer and Mr. and Mrs. Allies

Sympathizer and all the little

Sympathisers:

Wouldn't you like to see tha

marvelous German army ln

action?

Wouldn't you enjoy observing

at close range how the Teuton

soldiers live in their trenches

and what they do behind their

world-defying fortifications?

Don't you wish you could see

the civilian Germans—the men

engaged in everyday pursuits, and

the women, and children—as they

go about their dally work and

pleasures in Berlin and .the oth

er German cities and towna?

Well, very few. If any, of you

can do this actually.

But every one of you CAN do It

In a manner that will be almost

as realistic as if you were on the

ground.

In a manner that will permit

you to see all the sights, without

a speck of the danger. "

, It-is this way: Films of all

the scenes we have described

were taken in Germany under au

thority of the kaiser's general

staff.

- Those pictures have been

brought to Tacoma.

They will be shown here for

four days, beginning thin after*

noon and night.

And by clipping a coupon,

whlcl apears on page 3 *t to

night's Times, you can ears flvel

cents on every ticket you buy.

Turn and clip it now, J

PUT IN

SAFER

VAULT

NEW YORK, Sept. 8. —

Fifty armed guards were

thrown into n panic this aft

ernoon when a mysterious

explosion shook a building

where $80,000,000 In Kng

llsli gold is stored temporar

ily-

The explosion occurred In tha

subway.

Fearing that an attempt waa

being made to reach the treas

ure, the Morgan Co., to which tha

money is entrusted, transferred

it to Its own almost Invulnerable

vaults.

Police nnd Halted States offi

cers are working on the mystery.

Arrest

Society

Burglar

CHICAGO, Sapt. B.—The po

lice today arrested Melville

Reeves, the alleged society bur

glar, and made arrangements to

take lilin to the Armour mansion

which he is said to have robbed

of several thousand dollars worth

of jewels, meanwhile holding

Mrs. Armour up.at the point of a

revolver.

At the Armour residence, she

will be asked to identify him.

Beeves denies his guilt.

It was after Reeves had enter

ed the house that he was discov

ered by Mrs. Armour. He level

ed a revolver at her, and when

she seized It, slugged her with a

billy.

Makes Nic

a Viceroy

PETROGRAD, Sept. B.—Grand

Duke Nicholas, superceded in

command of the Russian forces

by the czar, has been appointed

viceroy of the Caucusus, It was

officially announced today.

carTylTkicks

on glass-case

food proposal

F. J, Carlyle, manager of a

Pacific avenue cafeteria, entered

a strenuous protest today to Pure

Food Inspector Johnston's new

food ordinance, directed at his

establishment.

The ordinance provides that

cafeterias of Carlyle's type must

provide glass cases for all food.

Carlyle declared that he had

been singled out for persecution

by Mra. Johnston, and that the

glass cases would Injure his busi

ness fully 35 per oent. He said

cafeteria patrons wanted quick

service.

Mrs. W. N. Allen of the Presi

dents' Council of Women's Clubs,

spoke in favor of the ordinance,

as did Ufa. Johnston and A. A.

Duenwald, a delicatessen proprie

tor.

The council voted finally to

hold up the new food ordinance «

week, and to Inspect Carlyle's

place ln the meantime. Mrs. John

ston told th« commissioners that,

ahe bad no fault to find with sani

tary or purity conditions at the

cafeteria.

Claiming that har unborn efl^H

had been killed when aha fed .

* rotting sidewalk on Bast J

A. last month, Mrs. reran B

Patrick. HI J Bitot lit% «t,flffl