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The Tacoma TimesTHE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA. lc A COPY.

VOL. XIV. NO. H.'i.

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BELL ORDERS N* G- W* TO LAKEMOBILIZATIONOF MILITIASETFORSATURDAY

Gill Knew for Certain the TimeHe Went to Bed December 24

Maj. Con. J. Franklin Bell has ordered the mobili-zation of the Washington National Guard at Ameri-can Lake Saturday, according to word received fromBan Francisco Thursday.

The order, it is understood, applies only to the 2dinfantry regiment, now mobilized in Seattle, whichwill be transferred to the American Lake camp.

Everything is in readiness at Cosgrove for thetroops when they arrive Saturday to establish themobilization camp, it was announced.

Neither Troop B nor Tacoma's four companies ofcoast Artillery had received mobilization ordersThursday morning.

The Oregon National Guard has been ordered tomobilize at Vancouver Barracks Friday, thus placingtwo army camps in this state.

Gen. Bell has also issued orders dividing the west-ern department of the army into three districts foradministrative purposes, it was announced.

The first district wlll haveheadquarters In Portland and will

Iprise Washington, Oregon,o and Montana, with Col.i L. Hayden, coast artillerys, In command.)1. Richmond P. Davis, coastlery corps, will command thend district comprising all ofi and California and Nevada

TACOMATO BUILDFOR U. S.

By Mabel Abbott.SEATTLE, March 29.—Mayor

Gill testified in his own behalfWednesday ln the liquor-graftcase.

Lean, cartoonable, lisping withone lank leg

hooked over theother, he lean-ed forward Inthe witnesschair, a serio-comic but dead-ly earnest fig-ure, telling hisversion of theoften and vari-ously told storythat has re-duced Seattleto helpless be-wilderment.

He had a

ATTORNEY FINISHESHIS FLEA POM MAYOR.

(By I'nlted Press.)SEATTE, March 29. —

"There are two people whoawait your verdict most an-lously. One is little Mrs.Gill, with her two boys. Theother is Logan Blllingsley,emissary of hell!"

With these words, Attorney

Frederick Bausman thismorning closed hi* dramaticplea for Mayor Hiram C. GUIbefore th ejury that will de-cide the fate of the city'schief executive, his chief ofpolice and four city detec-tives on trial for conspiracy toaid the Blllingsley bootleg-

ging syndicate.Mali.-1 Abu.... man s size Job

on his hands. Ifhe was telling the truth, he hada barbed wire entanglement oflies to conquer; if he was tellinga lie, he had to tell one thatwould hold together against theterrible force of truth.

* * *Recess Interrupted the mayor's

testimony. The long-sufferingJury and the insatiable audiencetook breath.

And then Judge Bausman call-ed—"Mrs. Gill!" And the may-or's wife followed the marshalthrough the craning crowd.

It was the first time most ofthem had ever seen ber, prob-ably.

Logan Blllingsley ha* claimedhe called the mayor at his housethat night; and in telling of the

call, he said the, telephone wasanswered by a woman's voice.

Judge Bausman questioned Mrs.Gill. Had there been any suchcall? Was there any other wom-an ln the house but herself? Atwhat, time had the mayor gone tobed? How did she know thesethings?

She answered simply — a littlenervously, her furs rising andfalling with quick breaths bo*tween her words—but clearly.

sleeper, and It wakens me."The telephone did not rt__ at

all that night."Mr. tiill retired about 12

o'clock."That was practically all. She

was not cross-examined.An she slipped dnwn from the

hliind, her liiislniiiw stepped up,only a tew eyes saw bini pat herarm as she passed liiin.

The stern business of the daywent on.

The mayor was questioned con-cerning "drug stores" and raids;disputed conversations; "the pa-pers" on which the whole tangledplot turns, in proper melodramaticstyle; and «ll tlie hard and dan-gerous and doubtful sides of theproblem that lias torn the city'sgovernment to pieces.

He answered steadily and keen-ly. It whs a two-sided fight.

There seemed no room in theharsh work that was going for-ward, for gentleness.

They eume to the question ofthe Christmas eve telephone call.

"Do you remember last Christ-mas eve?" asked the attorney.

"Yes," said tlio mayor, swing-ing his dtmglln.g leg.

"Where were you?""At home.""Did anybody at all call you

on the telephone that night?""Only the chief of police, about

8 or 9 o'clock. I went to bed justa little bit "before 12 o'clock."

"How do you remember that?"asked the lawyer.

The mayor paused, and his face"There was no such call. There

was no other woman ln tbehouse; I had let the maid gohome because it was Christmaseve.

"We have three telephones Inthe house. The one in our roomis on my side of the bed, p.nd 1always answer It, because Mr.Gill's hearing is very defective,and he cannot hear it. He couldnot hear it more than 20 or 25feet away, even if It rang loudly,and It Is muffled, so he couldnot hear it at all. I am a light

north of the 37th degree. Head-quarter* willbe in San Francisco.

The third district with head-quarters ln Los Angeles will becommanded by Col. W. E. Wilder,Fifth cavalry, and will Include allof California and Nevada not intho second district.

Assigns Officers.The orders reorganizing the de-

partment direct the commandingofficers of each district to organ-ize their own staffs and they willbe permitted to draw on nationalguard officers if they so desire.

Another announcement fromthe headquarters of General BellIs the assignment of mustering of-ficers for the national guard. Theyinclude:

Tacoma, as - growing ship-building center of the Pacificcoast, is destined today to have abig part in tbe immediate build-ing of 1,000 wooden vessels totransport supplies for the U. S.army, to supply the allies withfood and munitions, and to offsetlosses to shipping caused by ruth-less submarine warfare.

How many of these vessels willbe carved out of Washington tim-ber by Tauima shipbuilders willbe determined when they meet inconference here with Vice Chair-man Theodore Brent of the fed-eral shipping board, April 6.

With the announcement of theshipping board's program for1,000 ships, each with 3,000 tons

cargo capacity, Brent declaredThursday that most of them wouldbe built ln Pacific coast yards,where enough timber and skilledlabor has been secured.

The vessels will be built underrush orders.

Two lards Heady Now.

It looks today as If there willbe some hustling along Tacoma'swaterfront during the months thatme coming.

Two Tacoma yards—the Sea-born yards on the city waterwayand the Barbare Bros, yards atOld Town —are equipped rightnow to turn out a number of thevessels under the supervision ofthe shipping board.

Three vessels of a similar typeare under construction at theSeaborn yards, and it was an-nounced that the plant could pro-vide for the construction of con-siderably more than that numberat one time.

Nicholas Barbare of BarbareBros, declared that three woodenvessels of the type planned couldbe built in bis yards.

Many more can be handled assoon as the plants of Tacoma'snew shipbuilding companies arecompleted.

$r.i»,(io(i,(HMi Available.

Just how many of the ships theTodd Shipbuilding corporation,the Washington Shipbuilding Co.,tbe Tacoma Shipbuilding Co. andthe Western Shipbuilding Co. atGig Harbor will be ready to turnout when their plants are com-pleted, wlll not be learned untilafter the conference with ViceChairman Brent.

In this conference will be In-cluded the shipbuilders of Ho-quiam, Aberdeen and Olympla.

Brent has announced that $50,---000,000 Is Immediately availablefor the building program, and thatcongress may vote $200,000,000 ifit is needed.

Meanwhile Tacoma shipbuildingconcerns are rushing their plansin rat Intn a-etlnii.

changed. The sardonic humor that'is the Joy of his cartoonists soft-ened to something different, as heglanced toward the woman In thepretty new mustard-yellow hatand the brown furs, sitting graveand shy In the crowded court-

Lieut.-Col. Ulysses C. Alexan-der, Third Oregon infantry; Capt.Rex Van Den Corput, camp quar-termaster for Washington nation-al guard; Capt. H. D. Coliurn,Second Washington Infantry; Cap-tain John J. Mudgott, Second Mon-tana Infantry; Lieut. C. E. B.Elagg, medical examiner SecondWashington Infantry.

32 NAVAL MILITIAMEMBERS CALLED

Orders from the navy depart-ment Thursday have called Intoservice seven officers and 103men of the Washington naval mil-itia for an "Instruction cruise" oftwo weeks, beginning March 31

(Continued on Page Five.)

CHOP "PARK" FROMHIGH SCHOOL NAMEBeginning Wednesday, it's no

longer Lincoln Park high school.The "park" part of the name hasbeen chopped out by the schoolboard on petition of south endresidents.

On TrialWe shall be very

glad to have you

open an account

with us on trial,subject totermination at your

pleasure.

OuffßJ Round flankI S Trust nenmeny

Mrs. Gill Is as little known asher husband Is well known.

She faced them quietly, apleasant picture ln her pretty hatof the new mustard-yellow, andher brown furs that fell apart toshow a modest trinket danglingat her throat.

It was a simple, though import-ant thins that she was to testifyto—-merely whether her husbandhad had any telephone call attheir home on Christmas eve.

S. A. R. ACCUSES JONESAccusing U. S. Senator

Wer-sley L. Jones of "givingaid, assistance and encour-agement to nn enemy of tbeI. H.," llu- Alexander Hamil-ton chapter of the Sons ofAmerican Revolution sent aburning letter to the Wash-ington senator Thursday, di-recting lilin to cut out debateanil hair-splitting and tostand with President Wilsonin a firm policy for national

YEAR IN PENFOR PERJURYFred (or E. E.) Carpenter,,

who created a sensation in theMcCabe-Lindberg trial last Janu-ary when he was arrested for per-jury, was sentenced Thursday toserve from 1 to 5 years in the pen-itentiary at Walla Walla by JudgeEasterday.

Attorney Teats made an elo-quent appeal for clemency basedon Carpenter's 111 health, and onthe fact that the perjured state-ments he made had no directbearing on the case before tbe

Icourt.In the previous case, Carpenter

said he had never been ln jail,but Deputy Prosecuting AttorneyThompson told the court that hehad been tn jail in Tacoma, hadiserved two terms in the Coloradopenitentiary and had served a jailterm In San Diego.

Carpenter also claimed that hehad only two wives, but Thompsonclaimed before the court that hehas had six wives.

As he was led away, Carpenter,who is 60 years old, broke downand sobbed bitterly.

NIC GOOD DOG

The letter was in reply to onereceived by the chapter fromJones March 19, enclosing a copyof a letter sent by him to W. W.1:li*lii of Everett, explaining hiaactions In the armed neutralitybill.

After citing acts of Germanrutlilcssness and plotting againstAmericans, the letter says:

"Your speech and that of Sen-ator Stove have been quoted atlarge ln the pro-German papers,and-have conveyed to the ruthlessGerman general staff the Ideathat America was divided and un-der no condition would she go towar. So Germany's acts have be-come more atrocious and she hasthrown off all restraint.

"You plead 'not guilty,' but for-tunately we have the congres-sional record of March 3, lnwhich are contained your re-marks on the sinking of theLusltania, in which you carryout the idea that the U. S. should

[Talk o' the Times

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PETROGRAD, Mar. 29.—Nich-ols* Romanoff Is a model prisoner.

He seems entirely contentedwith his lot.

t. liftings, have you count-ed the angleworm** on yourfront walk?

(47 on ours.)

Reports from Tsarskoe-Selo pal-ace today declared be was con-tinuing the regime of early risingand plenty of exercise by walkingthat he adopted when he was auto-crat of all th* Russians, and thathe has uttered no word of com-nlalnt at his treatment

Rom, listening,"I remember," he said slowly,

"because I had dozed off whileMrs. Gill was around getting her-self ready to come to bed; andwhen she came, she poked me andwaked me up, and wished me aMerry Christmas."

have warned Its citizens to keepoff the high seas.

Ifyou want something done, justoryantschool, and you'll get It.

Henry Ford may bo thegreater auto expert, but Ittook Yon Bin to get the boysont of the trenches.

A New York paper's church col-umn discloses the fact that theFifth avenue Presbyterian usedlast Sunday as an offertory, "OLord, Thou Hast Searched Me."

111 111 \l IN PAREEThere once was a farmer from

MaineWho walked through Paree ln the

rain.In crossing a riverHe was hit by a flivver,

Which tended to drive him lnSeine.

—Harvard Lampoon.

"Your speech, as taken fromthe Congressional Record, is aspartisan a pro-German argumentas any that has been advancedby Zlmmermann or Yon Bet lima n-Hollweg, and yimr remarks inregard to the sinking of theLusitania are so like those ofthe German chamellor that thopublic press of this country hasaccused you openly of appropri-ating his language.

"Your speecli lias been quotedwith approval by all pro-Germanorgans, and German spies havereferred to you as a 'messengersent from tho Almighty toplead the cause of Germany.'

"Your attitude has been as ofone who was in favor of aban-doning every right now possessedby American citizens to a war-mad nation, which seeks by acampaign of frlghtfulness, todrive neutral nations from the

sea."

PAGE BERNICE NEWELL.(From the Ft. l»auderdale, Fla.,

Sentinel.)In Mrs. Marshall and Mine. Hull,

Ft. Lauderdale has two of thegreatest artists In the republic.The singing by Mrs. Marshall wasthe best we have ever heard, andwe have heard all the grandoperas by singers who received athousand dollars a night, and notone of them that we have beardcould equal the matchless voice ofMrs. Marshall. Ifshe would singIn the grand opera her fame andfortune Is assured, and she wouldrank with the best singers ln his-tory.

Motto of the Prussian ad-miralty: "Ifai first you don'tovert, try, try again."

An "Invest-ors' " associa-tion ln NewYork has starteda crusade for a15 per cent In-crease ln freightrales to pay the

wage increase caused by the Adanißon law.

Do you remember when oldGen. Kiir-e|iAtkln wm fightingibe Japs how he used to "lureUiem on?"

PEACEOFFERLIKELY(lulled Press Leased Wire.)LONDON', March tt. German

Chancellor yon Hetlimauii-llollwegmay strive to stave off a glowingsentiment for democratizing ofGermany today by a new peaceproffer,

At the very least he Is expectedto announce sweeping reforms inGermany's governmental struc-ture permitting more active par-ticipation by the people, accord-ing to rumors here.

German socialists have unitedln formidable demands which thegovernment apparently realizeshave the backing of a largo partof the pc )ple.

Herr Schcideniaun, socialist,who lias heretofore supported thegovernment's war policy, was un-dertsood to have warned yonBetlimann-llollweg that the dem-ocratizing of Germany must startat oncp.

Dispatches from Berlin evenhinted that the socialists are de-manding immediate institution ofa constitutional monarchy likeEngland, claiming that Germany Is(lie only autocratic governmentnow left alive and in order tomaintain the friendship ln futureyears of the rest of the world*democracies, she must change.

CHIEF WILLPOUR $2,000BOOZE AWAY

Police Chief Harry M. Smith ispreparing to pour nearly $2,000of bonded whisky into the city'ssewers. The liquor was seizedby policemen last week when Itcame to Tueoma for two localdruggists.

"The druggists have 10 daysin which to claim their liquor, ifthey think they have a legali laim," said Chief Smith Thurs-day. "The time is nearly up, andneither one lins even uttered acomplaint because wo seized thebooze.

"As soon as the 10 days are up,the stuff goes to the fishes."

ARREST BOYFOR JOYRIDE

A five-day .loyrlde in a stolenautomobile, driven by B. F. Niel-son, an express agent who wasyesterday sentenced to a year'sImprisonment at Walla Walla fortheft of express packages, was re-vealed to the police Thursday bythe arrest of Jimmy Dixon, aliasSheddon, age 20.

Dixon wrote a six-pane confes-sion. He said that Neilson wasspending money freely, and wasanxious to make a favorable im-pression on two gjrls they tookalong. Dixon refused to Rive thenames of the girls, but said theylived in Tacoma.

Neilson stole the auto,with Dix-on's help, it is said. It was themachine of C. W. Reed of Tacoma.They rode to Seattle, Everett,Bellingham, and finally to FallsCity, eluding police officers.

At Falls City they stopped atthe home of a deputy sheriff, in-duced the man to do some repairwork on the car, and spent thenight at his house.

Later they returned to Seattle,"ditched" the stolen car, jumpedInto a Ford owned by the Seattlepark board, and drove to Tacoma.The Seattle car was found on adowntown street by the police nextday.

Two days after Neilson was ar-rested on charges of having pil-fered packages from the AmericanExpress Co.'* office In Tacoma,where he was employed as nightagent, and confessed that he hadstolen a large quantity of women swearing apparel.

He will be formally charged Inpolice court Friday with larcenyof the Reed auto, according toDeputy Prosecutor Cramer.

JAPANESE INJUREDN. Yamheuchl, s Japanese lum-

ber handler employed at theNorth End mill, was probablyfatally Injured Thursday morn-

ing: when a large stack ofi lumberfell on him. He was removed toSt. Joseph's hospital.

Former Tacoman,FreeLance of Kaiser, IsThought to Be Alive;Often Reported Dead

IS THIS JEBSEN'S WORK?(I lilted I'l-'ss I-cumml Wire.)

VANCOI'VER, 11. C March 29.—The sinking of a Japan-

ese warship in the South Pacific ocean by a German submarinewas reported today by tlic Canadian News, a Japanese news-paper published here. The paper declared the report wasbased on a cablegram from Toklo.

The fait that a oer_u.li raider of some type has beenoperating in the South Pacific and Indian oceans has beenknow n for some time.

By a Times ReporterThe uncertain fate of Gftpt. Frederick Jebsen,

"master adventurer" of ilio Pacific, is today .1 mat-ter of grave concern for Uncle Sam's Intelligence

department.Alive, he must at this

time be reckoned as agrim potential menace tothe United States, and es-pecially to this part of it.

Lieutenant in the Clcr-_____naval reserve and

doughty skipper, Jehsen'sexploits since the out-break of the war rival th*wildest fiction. From theequator to the Sound, hisescapades in behalf of theTeuton cause have shownhim a genius at intrigue.

Whether they be sympa-thizers with the kaiser's(Wise or with tlio allies'—•and they're fairly evenlydivided — the men alongTacoma's waterfront have

both a soft spot in their hearts and a vast admirationfor 1 apt. Jebsen.

About 10 rears aero. I believe it was. bo h™-,**/

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coming occasionally to Tacoma.Captain be was then of the little IGerman steamer Krna. owned byan uncle. He was barely past hismajority, as I recall, and theyoungest master la the Germanmere •bant marine.

Tall, blond, handsome, impuls-ive, of the good fellow type, lie•TH an interesting and pleasantman to meet. I recall diningwith him in his homey cabinaboard ship and later in the littlebark room of the old Peerlesscafe, where he consumed quanti-ties of steamed clams and thicksteak.

Not long after, he was gradu-ated from the station of master toa position as shore manager for

.the Erne and n sister ship or two.Still later he was a member of

ithe firm of Jebsen & Ostrander.

I While those duties of late yearshave taken him to many ports, heoccasionally lips returned to Ta-coma.

Often Reported Dead.

Since tho war started be hasbeen the kaiser's most fearless aidand adroit free lance in the West-ern sea.

Reports of his death rival themortality record of Villa, andhave probably been Just as mm hInspired and exaggerated. Theyare not credited in official quar-ters.

Recent rumor locates himvaguely in the South Seas, keep-ing under cover, awaiting word tostrike where his sharpened judg-ment dictates, in rase of actualhostilities between this countryand Germany.

Highly Resourceful.Hints that Capt. Jebsen has

established a German submarinelease in the far Pacific have fre-quently come out of the Orientlately. Their ready credencealong the waterfront Is a tributeto hie uncanny resourcefulness.

Heretofore Jebsen's clashes withU. S. authorities have been overviolations of neutrality regula-tions. Time after time he hasbeen detained and the ban placedupon his ships and cargoes. Healways turned up with others.

When the German cruisers Lelp-r.ig and Schamhorit, prior to theirdestruction by the British rovingfleet, menaced allied shipping lnthe Pacific, Jebsen managed to

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supply them with coal and provi-sions out of San Francisco.

Several limes thereafter, underelaborate intrigue, he managed toevade clearance restrictions, keep-ing in torn h with the German ves-sels along tlio Mexican and Bra-zilian CO* It*,

I.lie a ghost lie slipped through.the Britlah, Australian and Jap-anese patrols. "Willo' the Wisp**Ibey dubbed him.

He ran arms and Mexican sol-diers fii.i.i port to port for pre-sumably pi o German Mexican fac-tions ami otherwise actively inter-ested himself in military affairethere.

Jebsen had a close mouth, an lr*>ritating smile and suave demeanor,an alertness that never relaxedand the courage of a bulldog. Hl*myatertott* disappearance baffledeven his losest confidantes. Andhis reappearances were just _#)startling.

Knows the Coast.The master adventurer*

knows the west coast like a book,its defenses, its sea retreats, th*ships that come and go. and thispeculiarities of the men who manthem.

At any moment this knowledgemay become highly dangerous lathe maritime genius who lefworn to serve his kaiser. ThaiIs why Uncle Sam's intelligencedepartment is today so anxiousto locate nnd keep tab on Jen-sen, the elusive.

START DRIVEFOR SUFFRAGE

(United I'm--., Leased Wire.)

WASHINGTON, D. C. Marc*29.—Miss Jeanette Rankin, th*"lady from Montana," will reia-lroduce ln congress the Susan B.Anthony constitutional amend-ment for universal suffrage as herflret official act after being iworaIn on Monday.

While Miss Rankin is introduc-ing and pushing her woman *uf-frage resolution ln the house.Senator Jone* (Wash.) wlll startthe battle for ballots In the sen-ate, according to pltus complete*,today.