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VOL. XV. NO. 148. THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA. TACOMA WASHINGTON, WKDNKSDAY, JUNE 19, 1918.

YANKS IN FIRST GAS DRIVEFRENCH HURL BACK VICIOUS ATTACK ON RHEIMSU.S. Women ;ilidFarmers 'Saved

War,'-Hoover

A Little Pill-Now Eat It, Bill!

EIHTOn'S ROTE—Hi\ month* a«o Herbert Hoover gave our

Uii-lmiKtoii bureau (lie only exclusive, Interview obtained fromhim since lie has been on the jol>. Xow he has tome ncroM witha .ms on.l.

He tells you sumi'iliiiiK you didu'l know b*roN—facts aboutthe fooil lihPis in Kntcland while our shippinK was c.<l up.

And his interview Im HHle shor< of sensational in that he has1.-isl.i-il out Hi his critic* In a blunt way that luis not been equaledby any man in public life here.

"Gnats" he cmIN them.

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Special Dispatch From Washington Bureau ofThe Tacoma Times, Written by Milton Bronner.

* WASHINGTON, D. C- June 10.—"Last year weInvented a llogan to the effect that food would winthe war.

"It is a matter of simple truth to tell the Americanhousewife and the American farmer that Americanfood this spring saved the war."

This statement was given me by the coinmandcr-in-chief of the greatest volunteer army in the history ofthe globe. He hold, his commission from PresidentWilson, and such powers as he has were given by anungenerous congress, but his soldiers of the common

• good were not drafted. :They number not. millions, but 1

tens of millions, because they arethe farmers who raised the foodand women who saved it. Of

course, the general 1 am quoting

Is Herbert C. Hoover, nationalfood administrator.

The last time 1 had an extendedtalk with him for readers of TheTimes was six months ago. Every

prediction he made then has beenverified.

He said the allies would need140,000,000 bushels of our wheatand that our housewives wouldsave it. And it came to pass 100per cent.

Maybe Hoover is physically andmentally tired after bis Rrincl of

(Continued on rage Five.)

TACOMAN !WOUNDEDIN ACTIONIn the marine*' casualty

list for Wednesday Ujere ap-|H\we«l the names of severalWashington men, amongthem, under tin- list of sc-\<-ri-l> wounded, that of I'i-inl\cninan, who liveil at 026

Start ThirdTerm Boom

For Wilson

OFFENSIVEFAILURE, IS

ADMISSIONSouth X street, Tacoma.Newman, who was an employe

of the Lotus cafe while here, en-listed several months ago withthe marines and was sent toFrance, where lie saw active dutyfor some weeks before he was in-jured. Newman h;is no livingrelatives that are known.

(I n1i..l rreM I r:i«.-.l Wire.)

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 19.J—The movement for the re-elee-]tion of Woodrow Wilson as presi- j

dent of the United States in1920 was launched at the Indi-ana democratic convention today.

The first speaker to declarefor the re-election of Wilson wasSamuel M. Ralston, former goy-

' .ernor and permanent chairman ofthe convention.

He said he would not stand he-hind a precedent that would in-terfere with efficiency in carry-ing on the war or that would deny*the country the best ability in thereconstruction period to followthe war.

"I maintain, therefore, that theexigencies of the ttMM cn.ll for therenomination and re-election in1920 of Woodrow Wilson," de-clared Ralston.

Vice President Thomas R.Marshall, temporary chairman ofthe convention, and the platformadopted called upon the people ofthe nation to stand by the presi-dent and highly commended thewar acts of the administration.

Want WomenAs Janitors

Commissioner of Public WorksRoy H. Harrison has vacancies forthree women for janitor work inthe city hall. Good paying posi-tions are open for strong, huskywomen who can help "keep thecity hall in order."

The work consists of eighthours, the women going on shift at3 p. m. and finishing at 11 p. m

ilolini I»r»a l.raatd Win.)

The army casualty 11.-t bore thename of Oscar Benson of Yelm,Wash., reporting him to lie se-verely wounded.

ROME, June 19. —Enemy of-ficers, captured in yesterday'sfight in;;, admitted today that theAustrian offensive lias failed, asemi-official statement said.

Both Austrian officers and mencaptured are profoundly affectedby the enormous losses and theirfailure to attain a single objec-tive.

The enemy's casualties has beentremendous. The 27th and 32ndenemy divisions, withdrawn fromthe Mount Grappa region were re-duced to a few thousands.

On the Montello crest, the 31etdivision lost 2,000 men.

Here a small Italian assaultgroup penertated the enemy linesand wounded and captured Maj.Gen. yon Kron- taut, division com-mander, who died in a hospital.

The 106th Hungarian infantryregiment was entirely wiped out.

The Hth enemy division oper-ating in the Candelu sector, suf-fered frightful losses.

As none of the local recruitingstations have any record of Ben-son, It Is very I'kely that lie waswith the national guard of thenational army.

Marine*.Marine casualties reported to-

day total 130, divided as follows:Killed in action, 30; died of

wounds, 7; died of disease, 1;wounded severely, 92.

Westerners listed:Killed in action: Frank WJII-

-iam A<ldan to, Marcus, Wash.Died of wounds received in ac-

tion: Donald E. Erickson, LosAngeles.

Wounded severely in action:Karle Jones, Minneapolis, Minn.;Corp. Herbert Hinda Churchill,Minneapolis, Minn.; Fred New-man, Tacoma, Wash.; -Herbert L.Short well, Denver, Colo.; GeorgeE. Roberts, Spokane, Wash.; Corp.Herbert B. Woodruff, Sedro-Wool-ley. Wash.

WEATHER FORECAST

War Department.The war department announced

144 casualties, divided as follows:Killed In action, 28; died of

wounds, 12; died of airplane acci-dent, 2; died of disease, 8; diedof accident and other causes, 3;wounded severely, 87; woundedslightly, 1; missing in action, 1;prisoners, 2.

Westerners named were:Killed in action: Elmer C. Ed-

Ron, Idaho; Ira Evens, Bissell,Wash.

Died of airplane accidents:Unit. Donald A. Bigelow, HotelSt. Francis, San Francisco.

D'ed of accidents and othercauses: Cook Arthur W. Daven-port, Barnard, Moot.

Wounded severely: William J.Curlett, San Francisco; AlbertGibbons, Hood River, Ore.; Oscar

We athermanCover keeps onpredicting"wanner," butwe haven't no-ticed it, haveyou? However,Mr. Weather-

roan, Sat's Bearhas no kick onthe kind ofsunshine you'rehanding out.

Today's WarSummary, byUnited Press

Italian Front

TEUTONSSTRONGEST

ON PIAVEAustria has thrown practically

Its entire offensive strength —about 1.f100.000 moil—Into thrItalian offensive.

lluly -111! has great forces Inreserve.

The otTonsivo evidently has de-generated Into a nibbling proccil,wlilch cannot be productive uf impoitdiit results, and the British,French and Italians appear to begradually stealing the Initiativefrom tlic Austi tans.

Marne FrontAn attack by ;!Ii,GOO Germany

last night, In an effort to takeRhrims "at any price." wus com-pletely repulsed by the French,who Inflicted heavy casualties.

Picardy FrontBritish made a successful raid

on tho western portion of thefront, and frustrated an enemyraid on the northern portion.

GermanyItalian aviators bombed Frie-

derick.ohafeii on the eastern shoresof Lake Constance Saturday.

The meat ration in Bavaria hasbeen cut In half.

Austria-HungaryForeign Minister Burlan, In an

Interview, Bald the central empiresdo not desire world dominationand admitted they could not at-tain it .anyway,

RumaniaKing Ferdlnanfl, addressing

parliament, said Humanla wasforced to withdraw from the warto escape utter exhaustion.

U REGENTFUEL HEAD(I nllr.l l'rr.» Irii.r.l Wire.)

SEATTLE, Juno 19.—WlnlockW. Miller, agent of the Universityof Washington and a capitalist ofSeattle, has been appointed statefuel administrator, to succeedDavid Whitfonii), who left severalweeks ago for Washington, D. C,to become executive secretary tothe national fuel administration.

Miller la a native son of Wash-ington state, the son of the lateGen. Winlock W. Miller, banker.

tCDIIM Preu i..««ni Wire.)

LONDON, June 19. —Allied jforces still retain the initiative inthe mountain area of the Italian'front, while the Austrians con-tinue their efforts at both ex-tremes of the Piave line, it wanindicated in last night'ti officialstatements.

The Italians also maintain anadvantage at certain points alongthe river.

While the greatest strategicdanger to the Italians lay in theassault on their mountain de-fenses, as a major Austrian MO--cess there would compel with-drawal of the armies along thePiave and probably evacuation ofVenice and Trevlso, thp com-bined British, French and Italianforces have stopped the enemy intheir tracks.

The Huns, therefore, haveshifted their « lforts to acquisitionof II Montello, the crest guard-ing the northern end of the Haveline, and to the marshland alongthe lower Piave.

In both these areas, the Aus-trians, who are employing closeto a million men in the entiredrive, have registered theirgreatest gains. They have ad-vanced a maximum distance ofthree miles over Montello, occu-pying two-thirds of the highland.

On the Ki-mile front betweenFossa Ha and the sea, they havepenetrated four miles, reachingthe Fosetta canal at a point aboutmidway between the Piave andSile rivers.

RELKASE MRS. BIBOH(I i.li.d Prm Leased Wire.)

KEY WEST, Pla., June 19.—Mrs AdDlphus Busch was re-leased by the federal authoritieshere today and will leave tonightin a private car for St. Louis.

It is ' understood that MrsBu«ch is prostrated by the ordealshe has gone thru since leavingGermany.

JINK 9STH

EnemyLossesAre Big

$1,000,000MORTGAGEON TRIBUNE

Dispatch From Frank fJ. Taylor.

By United IVr-s l,< kniil Wire.« _i

WITH THE AMERICAN AIt.MY,IN LORRAINE, Jum It.- Thefir.-t Anicricun nay projector at-tack was launched anainst the :(ierman troops north Of Tonl thisMoralag, evidently casting heavycasualties.

36,000Men InAttack

The Tribune Publishing Co. hasvoted a |1,t06,004 loan for tin'purchase of the Taioma Daily amiWeekly Lodgar and the DailyNews from S. V I'erkins.

• I mini Prru I rn-rrt Wire.)

I'AHIS, June u>. —A d<w.|WIH|C OMHI .llli'llipl tOlake Itlii'ims al any price"liixt ni-lii was i i.nipli-i<lyI'll*I.«*I in Ilie defenders, theI rein li hw offiie auiiounredlixiny.The assault was made on a 15-

--mile front hetween Vri(?ny andFort Nal'omitelle, fonninn a com-plete half firrle aljout tlio city onthe north front, east to went.

Thirty-Mix thousand Hermansparticipated In Urn repeated at-tacks.

"Ypstenlay at fi p m., th© Ger-mans launched a violent artillerybombardment on the wholeItheims front from Vrlpny to oast-ward of I'ort l.a I'oiupolle," th»communique sai<i.

(Vrluny is five niilos west andlllKbtlj south or Itheims. ForLaPompelta is in a correspondingposition to the eastward.)

"Herman infantry attacked theFrench positions between thoaatwo points. The French resistedthe enemy Uttttltl with full sue-MM.

The boche losses were added to;Whea, in attempting a retaliatory!attack, the wind blew the Uer-|man tfas back Into their owntrenches.

American etmineirs usingAmerican made projntois, dlscharged 1,0O() Anirrii ;,ij-iii:i<lc

\u25a0halll into a Miit'll Qamafl ai<a

The projectors were fired liy elec-tricity.

The (iennans were taken com-1pletHy by mrpflaa. The gu at-tack was followed liy an intenseartillery harrapp, lifter which Hieboches. frantically shelled theAmerican positions.

The unsuccessful (ierinan casattack followed their artillerybombardment.

RESERVESAWAITINGTHE WORD

Fair tonight. Fair and warmerThursday.

Benson, Yelm, Wash; Frank C.Crawford, McMinnvllle, Or.; LouisBurwell Fleet, Glendora , Cal.;Marion C. Hampton, Franklin,Ida.; Geo A. McCollum, Battle-ground, Wash.; Ray W. Miner,lone. Cal.; Jos. F. Rounaltl, En-glewood, Cal.

(I nlit-il Prena f.ramri «Vlre.)

IX>NIM>N, June 10.—TheKalians have 1.-uy fin.es ofMHfni lit slr.-iH'uir |x>intsInn i. of the bjUllcfront, rciulyto fliiiKinto (hf HgtrtimsimsiM Hi.- Austriuu drive In'-MM seriously hk-iihinr: itwas li-:n ih-iI untliurilatively(<xlaj.In the Foi-saltii rPßion, Hie Ital-

ians pushed the Aiistrinns backto the Piave river urnl canturedCapodurgine, cuttinp off the Aus-trians in tho Neolo salient (four

miles west of the river).

Hut tho Italian* later wereforced to fall Imck to the PoIUUline, still retaining a gum of akilometer (about two thirds of amile I.

Tlie Austrians have made a fur-ther Blight gain at Boutello.

Northwest to

This was d:-close,! in a $1,---iiiio.odo Bortgmgo tile<i Tvmtmyeveniiiß by Frank S. Maker to se-cure tlio first tnortnaKe six perc!-nt bond issue.

A bill of sale involving Ilietransfer of tlie eitire property wasfiled at the same time.

What the actual consideration!was in tlio purchase of the I'erkinsne-A spapers is BOi disclosed. Tlic |U'll of sale UK'iilions tlie consid-eration as $10, while tlie mortgagecontiiins the provision that $7.'".---(JIKI worth of the interest-bearing

Itonds sliall lie turned over toParktM by tin- Fidility Trust C0.,1tlio trnslci'.

Organize ItsWar Industries

.1 iiiiniI'rtu !,<•!>.i.i wire.)SEATTLE, June 19.—The first

steps toward the organization ofthe Northwestern Industrial zone,one of 20 established by the warindustries board for the divisionand co-ordinating of war workamong all the industrial plants ofthe country, will be taken at ameeting called by President Al-bert J. Ithorit's, president of theSeattle Chamber of Commerce,and temporary chairman of thedistrict, for Monday, June 24.

The president* of the cham-bers of the nine industrial cen-ters of the northwest, which willprobably form the basis of or-ganization within the zone, havebeen requested to meet In Seattle.

The cities Included are Taco-ma, Portland, Walla Walla, Spo-kane. Great Falls, Untie, Helenaand Boise.

Proper!) >loi-1«:i^i«l.The entire property of tbe

.News and LotCtr, witli its tele-!graph MTVIM liamhiv. tlip entile

jnewspaper plant ami machine iv.advertiw'ng contrai t>\ MtMCrlp-tion lists, teOOUOI hooks, airounUand bills receivable, their putron-ftgO iind good will, aro Riven as •-e---curity.

Also the entire capital storl oftlie Ivodgor —51 sliaies of $l,(lO(i,par vuluo ciicli. and 4.'> shares (if

News stock at the same par \al.nvIn addition the Tribune* fran-

chise and membership in the I"nit-ed Press association is gi'i-n as se-en rity.

"Hetween Vrigny and OrmesI two miles east of Vrigny) the(lerm.ins weri' stnpjipd by thoFrench fire and hurled hack sev-eral times upon their lineß of de-parture. They were unable toreach the I'reinh lines at anylime.

"In >'\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 vicinity of UlieLnifttlieri' Wtm vioU-nt righting,with lici«\y MMM) !<>ssp«. The

TIM bonds are rlatod from thefirst of July and will fall dueevery year beginning July 1,lf>L'S, until July 1. 19.17.

Must Pay Off s.-.iiu i

Tlio mortgage provides that allthe net earnings secured by theTribune Publishing Co. after pay-ing all operating expenses Khali beapplied cai h year to the taking upand redi million of the bonds.

OMMM MN ri'imlMxl ev-rr)Hln>rr tlierr."TO the eastward of ltheims,

the rigliting resulted to the ad-vauta-e of the French. The Ger-mans who penetrated the wood'northeast of Sillery (two mlleasouth of h'ort l.aPonipelle) werehniliil hack b\ a Kronen counterattack.

"Prisoners taken in the RhelmaraglOD declare the town was at-Uck«d by three divisions i ..c.OOOineti I and was to he taken tb«IUM night, 'a' any price.' "

The BlortßM* ta held to be afirst l'p.n on the entire net profitsof Urn Tribune PubtUhlßl Co. un-til $.",oii.oiio of the bonds shallhave been iiaid off and cam riled,and thereafter the mortgage andIxHids remaining will lie a flrntlien on one-half tho not profit*. riULKOTHE

Greetings, have you said God-ppeed to your soldier?

(Hit- interesting thing about•I\u25a0 •- raiti- in i.-iiii>>.nl rule-, i*iii.ii U.ill -in i i fit-is notK«"t it-

Jeremiah O'l^eary, charged withtreason, is pleading some brandof insanity.

Architect Darmer, whose right*to citizenship are in jeopardy,

l"made a fool of himself," accord-ing to his own lawyer.

It Is tit least an encouragings!gn when they admit it.

PLANNINGCAR PROBE

PROGRAMTo map out a program for the

committee of 2,"i citizens to fol-low in conducting their Inveßtiga-tion of Urn street car situation inTacoma, a sub-committee of fivemen were to meet Wednesdayafternoon in the office of ArthurG. Prichard.

The members of the sub-com-mittee are Judge 0. G. EIHk, ,T. H.Holme, H. C. Boyle. C. R. Harrettand I'richard. They will makerecommendations on how the evi-dence in the investigation Rhall begathered and how testimony shallbe taken.

Wo quoted the laOy nextdoor as waving "Aiivttodjr c'nIx-iit a «•!<«*, but you can'tfx-ul Time."

\V«wloy Myws poMt<-ar<l* lato rlinh- the I. n. il. Hays anyniUNic i< .11 in i ran.

Srott Z. Henderson, chairmanof the committee of 25, has out-lined definite plan of procedure,but will Ruhroit it to the com-mittee as a suggestion beforemnking it pulilic.

Give up your luxuries that thekaiser may be made to give up hisambitions.

Had a Western Union employe snubbedI President Wilson as Newcomb Carlton, \u25a0

head of the concern, did, he would be in jail \u25a0

now on a charge of sabotage. It is not too jlate to intern Carlton, for the period of the i

j war. \

The Huns are talking some moriabout sending the fleet out tobattle. They're a great deal wlaerthan we Americans are willing toadmit. They never do anythingmore than talk about It.

Says the lady next door:"I never heard tell uv a feller

li • v in' a headache an' a bad llvarfrum goin' home early."

Tin- Council of NftliOMllii-fciivrin wiring folk U> cotout Christmas Kif!s thin y«wr.flood work. \V<' know m wuw.an wlm rut lux list of 40 clearriou-a to .<W laat <'Jirinttnaa,ob account of tfae wmr.