______^—^ _ J M— I V-~£v* Have you a right to be honorably alive? Maj Arthur Peuchon, Canadian financier and yachtsman, survivor of the Titanic wreck, has. 5 Ordered by a chief officer of the Titanic into one of the lifeboats, which was manned by but two sailors. Peuchon demanded a written order. He willkeep that order as long as he lives. Itis his certificate, he says, of his right to be alive. Ismay hasn't any such certificate. : j/HOME HOME EDITION EDITION^ - 4\I " :Isla Death With HiubMdHusband BetterBettor \I WKATHKR ROREOAjBT. '\u25a0 I Tan Life. Without Him, Page 7. .t I r 1^ 'Actor and Doctor In Farce, page 4/:' I The Tacoma Times Shower* tonight or Thursday. THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA VOL. IX. NO. 107. TACOMA, WASHINGTON. EDNESDA , APRIL 24, 1912. 30 CENTS A MONTH. OFFICER CURSED ISMAY AND ORDERED HIM OUT OF BOAT LINCOLN AND TAFT; Testimony of Oi Sen Is Wife 111. Ismay Wants Fatal To Wong Si San EXTRA To Return Home At Once ISMAY ANXIOUS PINCHOT RETELLS TO LEAVE BALLINGER STORY DID VESSa Dr. John Wesley Hill, ardent defender of Taft, has just left us. SHIP (By He put the president pedestal with Washington and Lincoln. | United I Prrtm Xeaaed Wire. on a « ism\(iTo\, 1). > Lent we forget, let's look at the Ballinger case again. Amos C, April 54.. Plnchot, attorney connected with the case on the people's side, and REFUSE TO Chairman' Smith of the senate- brother of ex-Forester Plnchot, has Just written a comprehensive Investigation committee Usued a> Statement of the whole affair for Pearson's magazine, out today. caustic-statement today,' believed.: It Is a plain lawyer's statement, written without dramatics, and to be aimed at J. llruce Ismay,'di- liiiv.-ii on the records on file in Washington. Here's the summary: rector of the White Star Mne>4V\ Aug. 18, 1909, Louis Glavis went to Beverly and made a personal Senator Smitli exonerated (1u» charging secretary interior, and some HELP? am! report to Taft, that the of the (By United Press Leased Wire.) officers crow lof ' the Tltmiie- of his subordinates, were in league with the Guggenheims to acquire WASHINGTON, D. C, April 24. from attempt Inn (<> block a \ full a coal monopoly in Alaska. —Ai-iliik on an anonmou* tip, expo*« of Uio shipwreck mill In H. Sept. 6, Ualligner arrived from Seattle with Oscar Lawler, bitter Senator Sin if ii, invent ifcatinK tiie veiled way liini.-l that lie had ref- ,' \u25a0 interior \u25a0 \u25a0 personal enemy of Glavis, and legal adviser of department. Titanic wreck, today oaked l"re- erence i.> Isniay. , . ." ,\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 \u25a0;:, .. Spent evening talking over situation with Taft. niier llonlen of (Canada t«) hold • All. i- -making lilh V up 3a. - statement* Sept. 7 (evening)— Went over records to m. Iho -I. iimi i Mount Temple at Smith refused tv call iNinay to the Then Taft's own statement, published much later, that as he Moiilri-iil. stand calling Fifth Officer speeches Instead was to -leave for a two months' trip and had six or seven to Smiiii in seeking verification of liomi' of the Titanic, up decision, he requested . '-.''& ''i> prepare, he didn't have time to draw his bo a report that the Mount Temple >l "From • tin- very hi-ulnuliiy; or Mr. Lawler, to prepare a report as if he were president. the Investigation liuh hee.n> draw up "whitewash report," wan only HO miles from the 11- ' thero j Sept. 7 to 10 —Lawler and Ballinger --tanie meddlesome attempt by drafts. when tile liner Btruck the a certain burning up preliminary Icobei-K, one persons of Sept. 11—Lawler finished report and goes over it on train to and that of her patt- to Influence the course with Atty. Gen. sennei>. xaltl to be v Dr. Quinzau, thin committee mill tO stop lt.« Beverly Wickersham. saw go procedure., heard ' Sept. 12—-Taft receives report; re-writes a few paragraphs. the Titanic down. I also littve that inlvr<|iiiv.in/ 11,,11- have,-~ '¥ Sept. 13-—Lawler's report published under Taft's signature. Be- .|.2 beet* gins: "I have examined, the whole record most carefully and have \u25a0natle. Ido not wish to subpoena reached v moat definite conclusion." witnesses whose only . »tory ls»' Now those records, says Plnchot, occupied 2,000 pages of closely iMtsed on bias and prejudice,..,';*/^ typewritten pages of reports. No human being could have read them ! "I «ish It (lUtinctly understood! S through In a few hours. Louis O. Hrandeis, one of the best lawyers in IHSANERUSSiAH that this committee will not toler- ' the country and the man who defended CJlavis, snys that It took every ate ilii- attempts of anyone to> through them. >'.- minute of his time for 12 solid days to go slu«|»' Its course." • \u25a0\u0084 . *ij*">; Rumors liegan to get out. Finally congress, on Dec. 2, adopted \u25a0• Harold Lowe, fifth officer of the- papers an extraordinary resolution, demanding from Taft all the Titanic, Rave Ills a;*',; an 29 and: in the case. SHOOTS EDITOR stated he had the- 1 (By I ni(. that jfollowed Jan. 6—Taft answers congress. Sends 40,000-word summary of I Fnh leased Wire.) sea since he was - BACK Sept. 11, SPOKANE. April 24.—Believ- 14.'r--":-»:X!.-,,'HvfSss the evidence, signed by Wickersham, and DATED to .'-,. No , Lifeboat. Drills.' : '. general time and that ed, to b« Insane a result of .c s:• as if the attorney ii.nl reported to him at that M Lowe declared.that; no fire or this had been the basis of his whitewash of Ballinger. brooding over the Titanic disaster - the Lawler Richard Aleck, Russian, 87 X. BRUCE ISMAY. Ufa clrillH ocourred after fie Ti- The president's answer did not muke any reference to a tanic left Southampton. year* entered the j report, which he had copied almost verbatim. old, editorial CONDON, April 14.—Passing my lvawler report was in his files. rooms Spokane hysterical "I never : took*a drink •In-, Wickersham twice denied that the of the Chronicle from utter colapse to life," months after this and during the congressional investiga- today and shot and instantly kill- declared the 'young officer? Two efforts to call her husband, Mrs. hotly when aukiid If ho drank. tion that followed, after he had seen both the president and the at- ed E. H. Rothrock, the city editor. J. Bruce Isinay Is a nervous wreck torney general deny by implication that Lawler had anything to do Al without a raised today. c;j;Lowe was -'asleep when ; the- 1 word, here came. V, ";' -• '-\u25a0- with it, Frederick Kerby, the stenographer, employed by the United his i. jlver and shot Tsmay crash* .- \u25a0i- r;,'f"'';! Rothrock, Mrs. feels keenly the \u25a0 l report, full j j "1 got my revolver— you know States, who had taken down the Lawler told his story to who was approaching the door as criticism directed against her hus- Washington. needed. \u25a0 I helped the Scrjpps representatives at Aleck entered. It is believed that band, and declares that he has what is load/ Kerby, course, fired. But the exposure that he had made lifeboat No. 5 and lowered.: It of was Ol Aleck, who approached the edi- been Judged unfairly. She sent subsequent admissions of President Taft that his story was SEN. away. ;. ,; . '.- .-; ., ;/'/-:'\- and the torial rooms quietly and with cable after cable to America beg- ,„ ;. - : true, the retirement of Ballinger from the cabinet and blocked Unltpd Xcased Wire.) largely on the testimony of Oi Ordered Ismay Away. s ,v caused (By Press weapon concealed, had not singled ging him to come to her. Mrs. . .. - Alaska. Ore., April swore ordered , away • the coal barons from PORTLAND, 24. Sen, a Chinese woman who out Rothrock In particular, but Ismay daughter a prom- •"I Mr. Ismay;. Such is the story of the Ballinger affair, and the part President Wong Si today has been— Wong Si Sam and Woo Long, Is the of from When he got.m Sam intended to shoot the flrst person inent York family. the boat. Taft played In it. The report is taken from files and reports now found guilty of murder in the sec- whose trial on a murder charge New the Carpathla the steward asked' beyond question. he encountered. at Washington. The facts are ond degree for killing Seid Wah is to be Instituted Immediately, Aleck me what I said to Mr. lamay.;^rJ Wesley Hill compared Taft with Lincoln. Blng was arrested and taken Isinay to lleturn. Dr. John Bing, whoso dismembered body killed Seld Wah In her police replied that I had used , pretty In 1836. says Plnchot, when Lincoln was a candidate for the to the station where he told \u25a0WASHINGTON, D. C, April 24. shipped.from Se- strong language. \u0084 .',•,.'\u25a0' that he in was Portland to room. a rambling story, constantly —J. Ismay appeared -early . legislature, one Col. Robert Allen stated was possession attle and found till some killing is supposed to have re- Bruce • "Kmiay was over-an.vlons and ;• unfavorably Lincoln's fitness hold office. not The ferring to the Titanic disaster. at the Titanic Investigation today of facts that bore on to days crime. been prompted through Jealousy excited,. saying, constantly-- Lincoln resort to evasions and predated letters and the like? after the After the shooting Aleck was and asked that his testimony De trifle v Did The case of depended over the woman. 'lower away; lower away.' .;..," His answer to Allen and the people was: the state overpowered by members of the taken Immediately, explaining " confidence of the people of Hangamon Chronicle He mumbled his "At this juncture l.owi- .paused' "That I once held the staff. that wife is illin London and glanced county sufficiently evident; and if 1 have done anything since, something about the Titanic he wishes to return home. in . his narrative 'and at is \u25a0 that ifknown would lsntuy, who appeared visibly iktv- either hy misadventure or design, subject me to wreck. He was under the influ- Ismay promised to return when- ' 0u5. ,., : t \, :.,."-'r: c[ a forfeiture of that confidence, he that knows that thing and conceals ence of liquor when taken to the ever summoned. ft ...... ; :^ WILSON-BRYAN MEN TO , I say I it is a traitor to his country. police station. Chairman Smith refused to re- "Shall what said?" the- The comparison of Taft to Lincoln doesn't bear out very well, "I was Just preparing to leave lease Ismay or to call for his tes- witness asked. f> "^.^J.'.^"' \u25a0 it on piece of paper,"' •* doctor. the office," said John Dewitt, a MRS. J. B. ISMAY. timony Immediately. ''.'Write a CONVENTION reporter on the Chronicle, "and suggested Chairman Smith. :.\u25a0,,... RUN DEM paper noticed standing Lowe took and pencil' It conceded that Langhorne Rothrock In ~" "Three for Clark, all the rest Is front of a and wrote: . \u25a0'.•i^-*i will choice Saturday for poorly dressed man. I Single Taxer To Refused Aid To for Wilson but the wlioH crowd be first heard no conversatiln. '.'You get to out of that."" delegate to the national conven- Olympic Stokers Resuming, Lowe— said , that ' Is- really men." "The man had hie Quit Bryan tion. will also endorsed hand In his may He be as pocket. He withdrew it suddenly was excited until •he had That is the way Sixth Ward national commi-tteeman. Lang- at, , ,he j Debate With Struggling Men and shot Rothrock with a revol- been sworn.'. when '. went . Chairman R. V. Leonard says the horne Is a Bryan man at heart. away to help . lower boat i No. Zi.: gets delegates ver he had concealed. The lat- Demand delegates county If Tacoma When For j to the democra- two fell hig ...','„ •.,*; Anxious to Leave... »;,,,' . Saturday up will a fight between ter to the floor and assail- Socialist Says Survivor tic convention lined then It be ant, leaning over him, shot him I Lowe declared ': that • Ismay Fletcher, man, r (By United Press Leased Wire.) last night in his ward. the Wilson and again. "appeared very anxious to get off* Will the single tax settle the The same comes pretty near \u25a0Hugh Wallace, the reactionary, the Titanic." '..,; \u25a0.\u25a0'.;.; : ,;")u-K, system WASHINGTON, D. C, April 2 4. "He then threw the gun away More Boats Is Refused present wage evilß of the testimony Maj. being true in most wards. for the other place. "1 dldnt know who.be was so- are fighting? —The j>t Arthur and ( picked it up. I believe the (By United Pr«s» I«>hm-<1 Wire.) *" which the socialists Peuchen yesterday that the Ti- The Sixth and Eighth ward In most of the ward caucuses murderer crazy used strong language In the heat H. of Bellingham, bo is as the crime SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., April 24. —Three hundred stokers W. Kaufman tanic quartermaster refused to caucuses endorsed Maurice Lang- last night contest was appar- of the moment, sir,' added Lowe. for governor, and fol- was entirely unprovoked." struck today on the big White Star liner Olympic, declaring they - candidate swimming water horne and J. D. Fletcher for'na- ent. Henry George, will try lo aid men in the promises develop would not leave port with vessel until protecting facili- llwer of caused a sensation. Peuchen tional delegates—a Wilson >or It to at the the the life prove this tonight at the labor Bryan combination. convention Saturday, however, for ties were augmented. .-./•\u25a0 • headquarters, 1-2 Commerce said: The stokeholds of Olyiriplc partially 1137 ready The Third and Seventh endors- there Is a good sprinkling of Wal- Hubby Mere tha were filled from other in debate Joseph "I"helped to get the first among Child ships and tugß towed the out of the harbor. street, with port Only ed Langhorne and Hugh Wallace. lace men the delegates. Vessel MRS. ASTOR IS Jervis, socialist. lifeboat on the Bide. The White Star line declared tlint enough stokers were necur- asked permission to women were allowed in. I did not But < enable the to hut Kaufman attempt Able To il to Olympic proceed, officers held the liner out- address the labor men. They see a male passenger to side the harbor while the attempted to more enter. It could have taken more. recruit men. VERY ILL came back with a challenge. The Spank Her NEW YORK, April 24.-—Mrs: accepted. There were about 36 in the boat. Played Cards As Titanic Sixteen wooden and single taxer or get FRANCISCO, lifeboats Madeline Force Astor, widow ol The debate is open to the pub- One two women refused to SAN April 24. SOUTHAMPTON, April 24. forty metal collapsible boats were in because they would not leave Though he was a "mere child,"— Colonel Astor, is under the con- lic. Because the firemen refused —to put aboard, enough to accommo- care physicians and their husbands. Sunk to Check Big Panic W. W. Woodward was generally stay ship stant of. with the unless its life- date 3,000 persons. nurses here today a result "The boat was lowered parallel YORK, April 24. —"We Band. We knew what it was Intoxicated and able to adminis- saving apparatus augment- as of" NEW time chastisement her, were collapse. with the sea deck. Here the were playing bridge when the Ti- for. ter corporal on the Olympic of a second here, pret- ed, steamer the Mrs. Astor wag seriously 111 the quartermaster in charge cried: tanic struck," said George Brad- "People crowded around and said Mrs. Woodward a White Star line, sister ship of the manage ty Seattle girl who was divorced day after her arrival on the Car- HITS PIER "We can't that boat wltti ley, describing the accident. watcbed us, thinking surely there 111-fated Titanic, scheduled to gall MAURETANA today. pathla, but rallied Sunday and (By Press leased Wire.) only one seaman.' "Henry could be no danger. Then the today, Millionaire Is United B. Harris was a member employed for New York failed to Monday. YORK, April 34—Smash- "An officer- called for more of party. deck, band up "Nearer My God Woodward Is in a Now her condition ls> XKYV the He went on struck San Francisco bank. The couple leave Its berth. causing grave alarm. the pier hs she left New men. I was standing nearby and wife into lifeboat and to Thee," and we knew the time company ing into saw his a were married in Seattle in 1906. Officials of the en- York harbor for England, the bit; asked if I could help, telling him returned. We went on with the had come—that it was no use to deavored to appease the firemen Home To Face Cunard liner Mauretanla created that I was a yachtsman. The cap- game. bluff longer. I got into a lifeboat by putting about 14 wooden life- 1,200 pns- tain to enter. I got out «\u25a0< ius! itminim among told me " 'There is danger, but for the between decks as it was being boats and 44 metal lifeboats of seiiKers aboard today. The bridge an oar and rowed with Fleet, the sake of the women and children lowered. There was plenty of the collapsible kind, enough to Grave Charge Saw 100 Bodies rail was twisted by the Impact, look-out," make no sigh,' he said. Every room. Congress Will accommodate 3,000 persons. The (By United l'i-.-ss Leased Wire.) but no one wag hurt. Cnrsed Survivors. man knew the stake we were "It was less than 100 yards firemen declared, however, that NEW YORK, April 4. —Fred- Peuchen An Italian stowaway, playing for. We played on. The away when the Titanic went the collapsible boats unsafe erick O. Beach, millionaire club said, tried help to row with a were Afloat In Sea to band struck up Alexander's Rag- down." Regulate Boats and could not be handled quickly and societ man, accused ot hav- YORK, April broken arm. The quartermaster NEW 24. —Dec- (By United Press Leased Wire.) enough to insure* the saving of ing slashed his wife's throat last laration that he had seen at least BUY A swore and cursed and refused to lives in. the event of a disaster. February, arrived here today row, he said. WASHINGTON, D. C, April 24. 100 bodies of victims of the Ti- They demanded that the com-; from England accompanied by tanic disaster, as' well as much "Soon we heard sounds of the —Rour bills, relating respectively Mrs. Beach. Baby Romps While Neighbors sea, pany replace the metal boats with wreckage and the iceberg which breaking of the Titanic and then to wireless telegraphy at wooden ones. Beach announced his equipment of vessels with intention caused the horror, was made here dreadful cries—calls for assist- life- long delay caused by of fighting the boats, manning After a warrant. by the captain of the liner Bre- HOME ance, moaning and crying. I nak- Mothers Good Name of lifeboats and the refusal of 100 firemen to sail Mrs. Beach, it is asserted, was Attack regulations men, which arrived today. ed the quartermaster to go back regarding seamen, are life-saving ap- assaulted With little Route, 17 months and non-support. Beaudin cam today by house unless the liner's with a knife and a but he answered: complaint. being prepared the paratus were augmented, the fence rail in the yard of her only old, romping and laughing about back with a cross committee on merchant marine. home. " 'It's no use. There are while her mother's Neighbors today told of two Joy steamer Olympic left her berth A negro prowler was blamed at a lot ntlffs bark there' The the court room SITE of reputation under pitilesa fire, ride partless followed by singing here for New York today. the time. Titanic was still afloat." was MORE $10.00 CASH the divorce suit of Florida vs and noise till late at night at th« Women Crowd Hearing. TIME John Beaudin. held the limelight Beaudin home. $5.00 MONTHLY at the court house today. Mrs. Beaudin said she had nev- WASHINGTON, D. C., April 24. Play Cattle Rustlers And Brand Little Girl Mrs. Beaudin alleged desertion er been In an auto In her Mfe. —A lung line of fashionably SOUTH SAN Cal., 24.—Branded FOR GILLIES FRANCISCO. April on the back ex- for two lots In Hoamer's addi- LET BRIDGE CONTRACT dressed women stood waiting two with a hot iron in the hands of three small boys, Ceslra Bolery, a 1 :i- The council this morning tion, on graded street. Only The council this morning au- GRT ALLdGBD YEGGS. LAURA WANTS DIVORCE hour* today for the opening of --year-old girl. Is under a physician's care here today. The branding tended the time for A. P. Gillie* $120 for the two. Taxes and the letting of con- City Detectives \u25a0 Hecob, Harklna the Titanic Investigation. When girl Bufferings to begin work on his subway and thorized the . Ellison, night arrested : Laura M. Tourpln has filed a was done last Friday, but the plucky bore her for assessments paid. American Bridge and Monday door was finally opened tne parents terminal scheme for 90 days and tract to the com- six imiiH, living In a house at 21st divorce suit against Sidney L. the five days before her learned the truth. pany charge vagrancy took possession of every The boys West show band des- then If things look like business PHILIPS CO. for the steel for the lower and D streets. A of Tourpin for desertion and incom- women had been watching at a Wild a of CALVIN deck of the 11th street bridge. wan placed against them. The de- patibility. "AThey were married ' In \u25a0eat. Including those reserved for peradoes brand stolen cattle and decided to try It themselves, making will give him until 1915. 211 California Bldg. tectives allege that the men ar« all child, boy required ten Bolery boys arrested and J. M. Ashton told the council he The International Contract com- first Iclass i "moochers" and : some jof 1896 and have one' j the committee. It little Miss their victim. The three were pany will do the work. them are alleged to t>« be yaggmen. of It. -\u25a0\u25a0:.;. C:: : 1j;;;"v.: x-'yu.l^.• pollcement to eject them. bound over to the juvenile court. The girl will be marked for life. was going to take the matter u/y