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NOME, AliASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1917.
NO. 2146.
LEAK PROBE CONTINUES JOB
LAWSON MAKES SERIOUS CHARGE
WILSON STATEMENT NOW BEFORE COMMITTEE
MORNING PROBE IS
QUIET AND SEDATE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8.—
Secretary Tumulty testified this
morning, the first of the witnesses
before the Leak Probe Committee.
In doing so he said that he had no
knowledge of the matter at all. He
also introduced a statement from
the President wherein Wilson said
that the exact facts were that Mr.
Tumulty was without knowledge of
the matter until the note was pub
lished and made the subject matter
of news reports. Tumulty says that
White House attaches were quite
ignorant of the note. President Wil- I
son wrote the note himself on his
own typewriter.
Tumulty introduced the name of
Gerard Hibbs as Washington brok
ers who buy bonds and who denied
the alleged personal stock transac
tions accreditted to Tumulty.
Tumulty verbally castigated Wood
using the name directly and said
that he was still awaiting an apo
logy.
Examined Tumulty said that he
never consulted Bernard Baruch in
his life. He admitted to having met
him formally at some functions, but
had no closer personal or business
relations with him whatever. He de
clared that the connection of his
name with the flurry in Wall street
was a gratuitous insult founded
upon falsehood and circulated for
reasons best known to Congressman
Wood from whom he still awaited a
public apology and which he was
fully determined to exact or obtain
its equivalent.
Tumulty gave his evidenece in a
cool and collected manner.
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VILLA IS BADLY
BEATEN NEAB PARBAL
EL PASO, Jan. 8.—The Mexican
Consul here reports officially that
Villa has been subjected to a crush
ing defeat by the de facto forces
under General Murguia who aU
though outnumbered by the bandit
leader sustained a three day battle
forcing Villa to retire and following
up the victory with such skill and
cleverness that Murguia entered
Parral yesterday and the Villatists
retired to the mountains broken and
humiliated.
EL PASO, Jan. 8.—General Fa
vila commanding the Carranzist
forces broke down all isolated Villa
tist opposition when he smashed
them near Jimminez when the Villa
tists were re-organizing for another
attack. The Villatists fled after
about one hundred were taken pri
soners, and promptly executed as
deserters from the Carranzist forces.
COLUMBUS, Jan. 8.—Pershing is
now awaiting the war department’s
orders to withdraw from Mexico.
This statement is given out today.
Pershing’s infantry and artillery will
probably be brought to the border
by the Mexican northwestern rail
way instead of marching overland.
Advices from Pershing today state
that he is all ready to withdraw
upon noitce from Washington which
is every day expected.
It is likely that this force will be
maintained on the border for a con
siderable time.
WAR ACTIVITIES ARE
IN FAVOR OF TEOTONS
LONDON, Jan. 8.—The push ot
General Mackenzen continues. Galatz
is now occupied while the Rumanian
center on the Riminik is still badly
retiring according to Berlin reports.
The Russians are fighting desperate
ly while the Germans and Austrians
are pressing forward to gain the
banks of the Sereth.
In the Carpathians the flanking
movement through the Oitoz Pass
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seems to have failed owing to the
vigorous counters of the Russians.
It is now apparent that the Russians
intend to build their permanent
front within Moldavia and not'along
the borders of that country as ex
perts had first concluded. Fochani is
evacuated.
BERLIN, Jan. 8.—The victorious
career of the Teutons is now not be
ing stopped by the Danube, the
Mackenzen forces pressing ahead at
all points beyond and are now flank
ing the Russian forces on the
Danube delta. Fighting is very
bloody and the Russians are resist
ing desperately.
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PETROGRAD, Jan. S.—The ef
forts of the Germans and Austrians
to force through the Carpathians
into Moldavia have been successfully
foiled. This had led to renewed
weight being thrown against the
i Russian lines on the Trotus where
the armies of von Falkenhayn are
trying to press ahead and compel the
withdrawal of the Russians from
their guard of the entry of the
passes.
BRITISH DOMINATE THE
ENTENTE WAR COUNCIL
BERLIN, Jan. 8.—It is known
here, says a Staats Zeitung report,
that the British ministerial delega
tion dominated the war conference
of the Entente in Rome. It is po
sitively stated that Russia and Great
Britain bitterly fought any possibil
ity of peace and insisted that the
war be fought to a finish. In this
France and Italy somewhat tardily
fell in line, and with some reluct
ance. The British representative
fought hard the idea of returning to
the status quo.
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LANSING TELLS HOW
NOTE WAS HANDLED
I WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8.—
This morning and for most of the
first section of the afternoon Robert
Lansing, secretary of state, was on
the witness stand before the Leak
Probe of the House Rules Commit
tee. Lansing went into details ex
plaining at considerable length the
confidential handling of the note.
Lansing said that the note was
brought to him personally by Pre
sident Wilson and he had typed it
with his own hand on his own ma
chine. Thereafter it was scrutinized
Lansing and in turn ny him
turned over to the official corres
pondents who codified in his pre
sence in- sections, eacn having a
small and widely separated portion
of the note to handle. A leak was
for this reason a physical impossibil
ity.
Lansing said that he first learned
of the leak through the newspapers
and admitted that the note was sent
to printers after being codified in
sections also.
Thomas Lawson followed Lansing.
He made a blanket charge against
officials and Congress but could not
show anything substantial whatever.
He said that officialdom Congress
and the White House has been in a
gigantic conspiracy to effect a roo
bery of the people.' He charged
that the real object of the committee
was to smother the statements made
as to the leak and nothing else. Con
gressman Chipperfield resented these
remarks of Lawson and told him ha
was a big four ftusher, whereupon
Lawson squared up, brandishing his
fist and yelled that ‘‘he wanted a
square deal.”
The testimony is a fizzle and is
divulging nothing valuable or shows
anything real about the leak.
ARGUMENTS BEGIN ON
ADAMSON BILL COURT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8.—
The arguments in the case of the
Adamson law before the Supreme
Court began here today. There was
a good attendance of railroad offi- I
cials and quite a sprinkling of broth
erhood men was also to be noticed.
The legal fraternity were present in
great numbers.
The companies’ brief recites the
conditions under which the law was
passed and contends that the law is
unworkable, is not legislative mat
ter, is experimental and is inappli
cable and unreasonable. The brief
finally contends that the law is clear
ly and decisively an undue and un
constitutional interference with the
liberty of contract between master
and servant.
The government brief in support
of the Adamson law makes a very
poor showing and is astonishing the
lawyers who support the bill, at the
poor effort made by the government
to have it sustained. The brief pe
culiarly suggests that both compul
sory arbitration and government
strike interference are constitution
al and workable, intending only to
change the ten hour schedule stand
ard to the eight hours as the stand
ard schedule.
It is stated that the arguments
will all be finished tomorrow, and
that the decision will be reached at
the latest in three or four weeks.
There is no indication of what ac
tion will be taken by the railroad
brotherhood men under any contin
gency. They are not talking for
publication.
BIG FIGHTING NOW
EXPECTED ON WEST
LONDON, Jan. 8.—The closing of
the Straits and an extraordinary
movement of troops into France is
. reported to be taking place, indicate
that big fighting is planned in the
near future. Operations southeast
of Arras continue and it is not im
LOCAL ITEMS.
Joe Felder arrived up with the
mail from Safety yesterday after
noon. It consisted of quite a batch
of first and second class matter. The
first class mails have been arriving
more frequently this winter than
ever before for some unexplained
reason.
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possible that this may extend until
it joins the Somme sector. However
the War Office censorship is strict
and the official press bureau is qual
ifying many of the speculations of
the correspondents and experts.
The revival of Somme activities is
regarded with some satisfaction as
an indication that the offensive is
biding weather conditions only and
is not suspended. Paris reports big
artillery activity on the Verdun
front.
PARIS, Jan. 8.—The war situa
tion is again moving the peace talk
from the leading columns of the pa
pers. Some resentment is heard
over the fact that the Entente is be
ing criticized for not favorably re
ceiving the German peace proposals.
PARIS, Jan. 8.—The situation ou
the west is to remain uncomplicated
by the change of commands. Gen
eral Neville will have command of
the Somme while Casteneau will be
brought to Paris to have general
charge of the supply system upon
the recommendation of the council
of generals. Joffre is now at the
front and is consulting with the de
partment commanders over the win
ter offensive.
HINDENBERG WILL NOT
TALK OF ANY PEACE
GENEVA, Jan. 8.—A Berlin dis
patch says that General Hindenberg
h£q expressed himself as perfectly
satisfied with the progress of the
war. The success in Rumania is
the result of careful prevision and
the fighting quality of the men. Hin
denberg said that Germany is not
troubling about what their adversar
ies are saying about the central
powers. More than ever it is being
shown that it is not many men but
trained brains that will win this war
and Germany is winning it.