(From the Detroit Free Press.)BATTL.B CREEK, Mich.—Although • city

cat-tag* wigon, carrying 3,000 povnds ofoenicat, ran ovct Asa, BrMtueyer's head to-dXy, the only result was a headache.

25c A MONTH.TACOMA, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, DKCEMHKR 14, 1916.

The TacomaTimesTHE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA. lc A COPY. {

VOL. XIII. NO. 311.

WEATHER :Tacoma: Fair tonight and Fri-

day, continued cold.Washington: Same, continued ;

cold.

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U.S. DIVER IN PERIL OFF EUREKAH-3 GOES

AGROUNDIN A FO6

(United Press I/eased Wire.)EUREKA, Cal., Dec. 14.—

Within a short distance ofthe shore, the IT.lT. 8. subma-rine H-8 today whh badlydamaged in the berukers op-posite Kurrka, having be«nrolled over at a heavy nnnli-by the seas.

After an alarm had beensounded and the coast guardcrew In cntter* had hurriedto the rescne, the xnbmarlnesignalled that all on boardwere safe.The coast guard crew arranged

to bring a gun up the beach atooce and to shoot a line over thediver.

Exactly what happened to thesubmarine has not yet been ascer-tained.

The vessel was discovered indistress shortly before 10 o'clockthis morning by a little girl whowas walking on the shore.

A shoal runs out into the bayat this point, with deep water oneither side.

Girl Report* Accident.The girl reported the situation

to the Samoa offices of the Ham-mond Lumber Co. and the tug Re-lief was started out.

Simultaneously the submarinetender Cheyenne wirelessed thatthe vessel was in distress.

The Relief and the Cheyenneare standing off shore away fromthe spot where the submarine islocated.

A great crowd gathered towatch the work of rescue.

At 11:40 rog, which had liftedtemporarily, dropped down againand the submarine was lost to\u25a0view.

Itattinged on Kitrr Bar.The mother ship Cheyenne at 11

o'clock made a daring attempt toreach the submarine, but soonwithdrew to sea.

The submarines H-t, H-2 andH-3, with the U. 8. monitor Chey-enne, stopped at Astoria Tuesdaywhile Commander Howe inspect-ed the port as a possible navalbase.

While crossing the olumbia riv-•r bar, Inbound, the H-S's engineswere damaged.

It was necessary for the Chey-enne to tow the H-3 Into the river.

The flotilla put out Tuesdaynight.

GERMANS ADVANCEIN RUMANIA FRONT

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BERLIN, rla Sayville wireless,Dec. 14.—"Favorable progresson the whole front, despite heavydifficulties caused by conditionof the roads," was reported fromField Marshal yon Mackensen'sfront in Rumania in today's offi-cial statement.

C. P. R. SECRETARYON RETIRED LIST

(Special to The Times.)MONTREAL, Dec. 14.—W. R.

Baker, secretary of the CanadianPacific Railway Co., and assistantto tha presildent, has at his ownrequest been placed on the retiredlilt. Baker has been succeededby Ernest Alexander.

U. P. BUYS 200 CARS(United Press I^eased Wire.)PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 14.—

Contracts for 200 Union Pacificfreight cars have been awardedTwohey Brothers of Portland.

NeedingAssistance

This company givesparticular attention tothe business of thosewho, through lack ofexperience, need ad-vice or assistance inthe management oftheir investments.

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Cutting Him Free!

Mayor ProclaimsFeast of Candles

BY A. V. FAWOKTT, MAYOK"Tacoma again approaches the

annual Christmas festival."Interpretations of philosophy

may clash but all humanity unitesto glorify the golden rule Chrinttaught and lived, and all theworld longs for the time when hismemorial of "Pence on Karth;good will toward man" shall findits perfect consummation.

"Itla fitting, therefore, that allshould celebrate the Christmastime and cultivate the law of lovehe taught and lived so splendidly.

"My sentiments respond heart-ily to the suggestion of SenatorKalph Metcalf to revive in Tacomathe beautiful Puritan custom ofplacing a lighted candle in thewindow Christmas night as a Blgnof welcome to the Christ spirit.

"Our city is apparently enter-Ing upon a new era. Just in pro-portion as we now forget the pastand live the Christ Idea of all forone and one for all will we climbhigh upon the ladder of success.

"It Is a fitting time to dedicateourselves to common welfare andthe principles of unity and broth-erhood that made Christ's life

I Talk o' the Times \———™—\u25a0 —^ i

Greeting", have you bouuliiyour Christmas candles?

No, Suzanne, emphatically no,Senator Metcalf's Feast of Can-dles is not that kind of a feast;you may with propriety servegoose as usual.

King George tried to pulla Bonar, but found a Lawagainst it.

After Investigation (Old EnFlißh for "probe") our Researchdepartment reports that the bal-ance of evidence is against theuso of the hyphen in the nameDavid Lloyd George.

The English "Who's Who," theAmerican Congressional librarycatalogue, and the London librarycatalogue list the Welshman un-der the L's and give him a coup-ling pin; but the official Ist of thePrivy Council, all English news-papers and periodicals, and evena published volume of LloydQeorge's speeches, omit the pin.The valued proofroom would besafe, we believe, in following theseexamples, but we presume it won'tdo It.

That Idea of having thewhole Northwest pay for ad-vertising British Columbiais another Million-DollarIdea—for British Columbia,

THE KINO OF RUMANIA TOHIS GOVERNMENT

We move today to Jasty,Where the Jail bands play,

worth glorifying through all thesecenturies.

"As a mark of our apprecia-tion of these principles and as apledgo that we will henceforth tryto take our place and do our parttoward consummation of alltilings that make for progress andfor Kenernl good, I call upon ourcitlztms of every creed and raceand . ...in' of thought to place onChristmas night a lighted candlein the window of their home orstore or shop to typify the lightwithin our hearts and give us alla part in honoring Christmas."

250,000 BALLOTSCAST FOR PROHIS.

CHICAGO, Dec. 14.—The pro-hibition vote at the Novemberelection, It is Bald at prohibitionnational headquarters, was inround numbers 250,000 for presi-dent and 600,000 for state offi-cers.

Socialistic headquarters saythey are etlll short the returnsfrom a number of states, but es-timate the presidential vote at750,000 to 800,000.

To drink our demy-tassyFar from the madding fray.Of courso 'twould he more classyIn Bucharest to stay,But the Teutons ate so sassy,So pushing, so outre,That we move today to Jassy,Lord a'massy!Dear old Jassy, far away.

D. E. J.

<in.ni fr« it;! 11 rales, neread, have ciiuxcd an increasein the price of bananas. It'sa very complicated situationbut it's like this: The cum-puny owning the bananasowns the boat*, mid Itis com-pelled to charge itaelf higherrate*, henco the higher priceof the Immunis.

"She rolled her eyes from thesick couch across the room."—Chicago Post.

Commercial frankness fromthe Kinjf Motor company:"You can't ride in one with-out being sold."

This kind of a December Is anuisance. One has to meet adozen or more men or womendally who insist upon telling youthat the climate is changing.

BE A HPCGWhy not buy something useful

for mother? Frinstance—•A teakettle.A waffle iron.A book of milk coupons.A griddle.

A kitchen spoon.

NEWS FREAKSOFF THE WIRE

(United Prm I.ea#ed Wire.)

NEWARK, N. J.—The NewYear's greeting Sergeant Bonnet'swife mailed him on a pogu&rdDec. 30. ISUft, was Just deliveredtoday. It had been resting at thepostofflce.

A $16,250 DINNERNEW YORK—Manager Charles

Gehring of the Biltmore will sitdown to a simple little $16,250dinner tonight. But he won't eatIt all; there will be 649 otherhotel men to honor and help him.At $25 a plate.

BLAMES WOMENAURORA, 111.—Dr. A. R.

Reeder blames grip on women."They dress for a hothouse andrun out on the street. Theywon't cover up and the mencatch it from the women," hesaid.

DEATH BEATS THEMCHICAGO— Mrs. Joseph Brown

swore to a warrant against herhusband and returned home witha policeman, but death beat them.Brown was dead from asphyxia-tion.

WE'D RATHER BE FATCHICAGO—She's getting fat

and fears Bhe will lose her jobas a clothing model, so Miss Hal-lle Piper goes bathing in the lakeeach day despite near-zeroweather.

HOPE SHE MARRIESSAN FRANCISCO—Miss Gud-

run Bodrarsdottir Orderedson ofReykholtsdal, Borgarfjardarsisla,is the first native Iceland womanto seek American citizenship. Shetook out her first papers here.

VESTLESS WILLIAMGRASS VALLEY, Cal.—Be-

cause he would have had to weara coat and vest, Trustee WilliamMann refused to attend the fu-neral of Mayor Hosktng. Exceptfor a few minutes when he wasmarried, he has never worn acoat.

By Lord Northcliffe(Copyright, 1910, By the United

Press.)(Copyrighted in Great Britain.)LONDON, Dec. 14.—Germany's

peace proposals are due to thefact which interned neutral cor-respondents In Berlin have notbeen allowed to Indicate, that dur-ing the last few weeks, grave in-ternal dissensions have arisen,owing to the food shortage and areign of terror.

Moreover, relations have beengreatly strained between the vari-ous German and Austrian statesand also with Turkey.

MEDICALEXPERTS

OK STANDJohn Plerwsza's Sunday

suit waa added to the ex-traordinary collection of cx-

hlbita in Judge Clifford'scourtroom Thursday morn-Ing, in the case in which Pler-WK/ii 1m charged with h*vlngmurdered his wife at Wllke-son, Oct. 80.Testimony in rebuttal began at

noon.Thursday morning was occu-

pied by medical testimony.Drs. H. A. Wall, Q. O. R. Kunz

and T. F. Smith all testified thatthe wound received by Mrs. Pier-wsza would not necessarily haveprevented her leaving the spotwhere the defense claims she w:isshot, an dwalking around thestove to the place where she wasfound.

Dispute Assertions.They also agreed that the gun

probably was held close to herhead when fired, thus furtherweakening the state's contentionof murder.

The point on which the statehas laid stress, the difference !>e-aween velnoua and arterial blood,wa sfshaken by the testimony oftwo of the doctors that the differ-ence would not be perceptibleafter an hour or so of exposure tothe air.

Quarrel at Supper.On the stand in his own defense

Wednesday afternoon Pierwszatold, partly in broken Englishand partly through *n interpreter,his story of his wife's death.

They had had a quarrel at thesupper table that evening, he•aid.

"I says, 'Why don't you saynothing to me?'" he narrated,"and she says, 'To a husband likeyou It don't pay to talk.'

"She says, 'I see you go to Mrs.Tumchuck's house this mornlirc.'and I says, 'Yes, I'm go there butI'm not do nothing bad, only callfor Charley Tumcnuck.'

Confides In Neighbor"Then she start to chew the

rag with me some more and cry,and she take a knife from thedrawer and says she will stabherself right before my eyea. AndI says, 'Many times you promise

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BerkeleyitesPlan War OnFood Combine

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BERKELEY, Cal., Dec. 14. —Citizens of Berkeley took thefight against the high cost of liv-ing Into their own hands today,and plans are being made to im-port a huge shipment of potatoesIn oar load lots from Canada.

A meeting will be held today toconsider placing the consignmentunder municipal jurlsUc'tloii

Potatoes from Canada, it wassaid, could be sold for less thanhalf the price of local spuds.

The matter of building a mu-nicipal flour mill here will betaken up before the city council.

Are furnishing a lot oftalk just now.

The high price of them,however, doesn 't makeany difference to DawnO'Hara.

She took egg-nogg No.426 and flopped back,again on the pillow.

Read about it in the newnovel-a-week, beginningMonday, in The Times.

ItEeds Saturday

CALLS IT BLUFFThe Prussian government also

has learned that tbe British em-pire will, during 1917, put forthan effort equal, at least, to thatof Germany In 1914, and fromthe point of view of guns andshells, three times that of Ger-many at any period of the war.

The proposals have beenreceived here with contempt.

We are gratified that theAmerican senses of humorand Justice have seen throughthis Muff.

France, Russia, Italy andlittle Belgium an firm •*

Plymouth Rock>

(CBlted Vrrmm l.<-»«<-<l Win.)

NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—A

stock market break this afternoonwas more serious than that which

came on Tuesday after the an-nouncement of Germany's peaceproposals. It extended to thecurb, where breaks of 1 to 6

points were made by munitionstocks.

The break was the nearest topanic proportions seen on thestock exchange in years. At 3:26the official stock exchange tickerhad not yet caught up with clos-ing sales, ho great was the dump-ing of stock*.

GRIM, SIMPLETRAGEDY THIS

BY MABEL ABBOTTIt is a grim, simple tragedy that has been

unrolling itself in Judge Clifford's courtroomthis week-a story that Gorky or Turgenieffmight have written.

Just the story of a Russian-Po'ish immigrantand his wife, like millions of others in all butits ending.

The man, John Pierwsza, is an insignificantfigure as he sits behind his attorneys all daylong in the crowded courtroom, his stumpylegs swinging clear of the fioor, his headresting heavily on his hand, or craned for-ward to catch the meaning of the things thatare going on around him.

He has the broad face and high cheekbones of his race, palewith the unhealthy pallor of the coal mine. His hands are muti-lated and the nails worn to the quick with a lifetime of toil.

The habit of obedience shows itself in every motion, and thereis a sort of a dumb, animal-like endurance in the very set of hisshoulders.

John Pierwsza was only 26 years old when he came to Ameri-ca. He had served four years in the Russian army before hecame.

He had courage and initiative, for he did not settle down tothe dull, hopeless life of the peasant, but struck out in the boldhopefulness of youth for a free country.

He was married. He left his wife behind, to wait until hecould send for her.

His first job in the new world was "in a tunnel, under thewater," in New York—the hard, dangerous work that he and hiskind do for the country to which they come.

When he had saved money enough, he sent a ticket back to theold country, and his wife joined him. They lived in New Yorkfor some time; and then he came west, leaving her to wait againuntil he should find work.

He found it in the little mining towns of Washington. InCarbonado he sent for her again, and she came. Later they wentto Wilkeson.

He could neither read nor write. She could not even countbeyond the first seven numerals. Neither of them ever learnedto speak well the language of the new country. But they workedhard, and he had a certain shrewdness, and by and by they ownedtheir home—a house with a parlor and a bedroom and a diningroom with portieres, and a kitchen with a fine range, and a sep-arate summer kitchen. They owned other property, too.

John and his wifewere close together may have been < r l«ii"n-ii.'ilby i his atwith a closeness that easier lives do not first, but it Ik mire Hint by and by heknow. shrugged his -!\u25a0• >.tl-i<-*—- and told her"My wife know all what I know?" he he had heard (lint h,fore.Raid on the witness stand yesterday, in The neighbors heard of their trou-Rimple surprise at a question. "Hure hies. They both talked about them Nileshe know where the gun is — she know went once to the mayor to have Johnererything Iknow. I buy one of my lots arrested. He went in un attorney toIn my wife name—the one in Tacoma." see about getting n divorce

BIT WITH ALL THIS THKY WERE AND THKN ONE NIGHT IT HAPNOT HAI'PY. PKXKI).THKV HAI> NO CHII.DItKX. WHAT IT WIN NO n\V urnJohn always knew what he wanted. KNOW rvTii xvi.- \u0084'\u25a0,,:„„ .„

He knew when he cut loose from the old HRNIIKIIL'h M»»UT 18country; he knew when he left New „„. .' \u0084

_York and came west; he knew when he erliaps she finally found courage totolled and saved and Ixmght his prop- <*"-y out her threat, so Uiat Johnerty. And what he wanted, he had got. *S| "^ *}"""••»* "•mostly. ertiai* the smouldering anger of ibe

Dnt what he wanted most of any- '""" le*|MMl ml" flalne ln M>""> Priml-thiug In the world hw. children. live moment nnd he hilled her.

"I wanted to have children in the , , ,"f "'*stor> r ls le«»y Ou>house to play with when I came home," *?m „"rtlh/T ra*e for ller. » W«ve lalie said In answer to a lawyer's question. {,„? "'"" nilnlnX «<•"" »" the new, un.He spoke with the quiet confidence of !.T hJi >; '"'' "'" Mr«nK«>.one who has no doubt that everyltody , ,', , .!*." J°°m- **>« lawyers whowill understand. Itwas not conceivable „ ' 'h'n«" "•'••••"' not understand,iimi anybody should not w«nt children """'K» "J* [«ie <lc|ien<]a on them, themost of all. J"lep \u25a0\u25a0*

*«> «*"•And no children came. A" <lay n<" "lt« dumb, with «irainl.igHe and his wife were too close to- *yeB< and nervous fingers tracing cinles

gether not to Irritate each other when around his mouth. He does whatever hethey were unhappy. « *oW to do, promptly and docilely, with

They quarreled. Their quarrel* were unresentful obedience of the RuHsiannot restrained by social conventions. soldier—holds out his hands for theWhen John felt like swearing at her, Jur>' *° "*"n»lne the stubby nails, htundxhe swore. She said he struck her. They "•'• "118 *'«». walks quietly beside thequarreled about big tilings and little oherlfr.tilings; and always he had the unan- JOHN* I'll i;\\s/ \ AND ins WIFHswerable taunt—she gave him no chll- WKKK IN THK HANDS OK lATK-dren. ANO THKIK STORY HAD A TRAOIOShe threatened to kUI herself. He ENDING.

NEAR-PANIC ON WALL STREET$35,000 AWARD

IN LIBEL SUIT<<-\u25a0\u25a0<*« Prnu I«ik| Win.)

NEW YORK, Ooc. 14—Matrate Joseph C. Corrlgan «mawarded 955.000 In fata lIBO.Hlibel miit against the BoklMerrill Publlghlnf Co. today.