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NOMK. ALASKA MONDAY, MAY 7, 1917.
NO. 2247.
DERIDES U. S. ENTERING WAR
INDUSTRIALIST WAS ACQUITTED
Wizard’s Mysterious War Plans Talk of Country
GERMAN CHIEF SCOFFS
AT AMERICA’S POLICY
BERLIN, May 6.—Von Hinden
berg in an official interview scoffs
at the notion of the United States
entry into war and says that Am
erica is quite a negligible quantity.
He says that the war will be over
before one American soldier can
land in Europe. He is satisfied of
the safety of the position of Her
many.
The German chief of staff is ad
mitting that on every hand he sees
reason for satisfaction. Russia has
practically ceased to be a factor
worth consideration. Prance i*
bled to death and the submarines
he is convinced will dispose of
Great Britain before the war is
much further advanced. Ke be
littled the gains made by Haig as
of no importance.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 6.—
The papers here are publishing the
Hindenberg war statement in full.
The general derision with which he
treats the American entry into the
war and the confidence that the war
will be over before any United
States army can take a hand is
considered generally to be all
buff..
The knowledge that German con
ditions in domestic life are anything
but satisfactory and the fact that
German internal troubles can no
longer be concealed compel the Ger
man Chief of Staff to put on a bold
face in order that when peace pro
posals are again put forward they
may be accepted wth much greater
alacrity.
EDISON INVENTION IS
) NOW BEFORE NAVY
/
/WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 6.—
The Naval Advisory board has bad
submitted to it the plans evolved
by Thomas A. Edison for success
fully resisting submarines. The
invention is still held secret and it
is not known as to what the prin
ciples consist of. The plan is in
turn transmitted to the Navy De
partment.
The Board announced that the
program which had been submitted
the Navy Department "comprised
the astonishing invention of Mr.
Edison”.
The Navy Department has now
the plans under consideration.
NEW YORK, May 6.—All kinds
of reports are issued as to the Edi
son invention, founded ac
cording to reports upon the state
ments of a “member of the board”.
None of these reports are lucid
enough to be intelligible, although
the advisory board intimates that
they looked feasible and upon expert
ment proved astonishingly efficient.
They will “revolutionize naval war
fare”.
The fact is understood that Mr.
Edison has been silently devoting
his attention to the submarine pro
blems of the war almost exclusively,
and he announced quite freely
yesterday that he believed that he
had solved the most troublesome
problems which had so far present
ed themselves to him.
He is quite confident of the suc
cess of his plans as are the other
members of the board.
PEACE PLANS POSTPONED
FOR A SHORT TIME ONLY
AMSTERDAM, May 6.—That the
German Chancellor fully deter
mined to present a peace resolution
to the Reichstag last Thursday is
positively certain, although whether
this was to be a separate peace
plan with Russia or a general peace
is not positively known.
It is now stated that the Chan
cellor after a consultation with the
war staff was induced to postpone
the consideration of peace or the
promulgation of any peace plans
nntil after the submarines had put
the screws a little lighter upon
Great Britain which is still appar
ently hostile to any peace parleys
at the present time..
■LONDON, May 6.—The subma
rine menace is not denied in this
country at the present time and it
is not concealed from the people.
Fortunately there is no actual
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dearth and with the summer season
approaching food in sufficient quan
tities will be available.
The efforts to cope with the sub
marine still are herculean and a de
cided improvement is noticeable Tor
the past five days when the number
of ships sunk showed for the first
time in several weeks a slight de
crease.
There appears to be a general
feeling that the Germans before
placing their contemplated peace
plans before the world will make a
desperate sally with their navy aid
ed by a host of submarines in a
final effort to wrest the mastery
of the seas from Great Britain.
This is expected very soon.
COLONEL SUICIDES BECAUSE
DEFEATED BY MISS RANKIN
ELKHART, Ind. May 6.—Colonel
Crull the democratic candidate who
was defeated by Representative
Jeanette Rankin of Montana in the
last election committed suicide here
today.
The Colonel regarded it as a dis
grace to be defeated in the cam
paign by a woman and had brooded
over it greatly since the last elec
tions.
He hid been adviced to travel to
prevent a nervous break down, but
persisted in nursing his disappoint
ment over his defeat.
It was not expected that he would
go to such extremes and none ot
his friends believed for one instant
that he would attempt any such
thing.
The man shot himself in a hotel
here and was quite dead when at
tendants hearing the shots broke
into his room.
He will be buried in Montana.
His death is a great shock to his
friends.
TRACEY IS DECL
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n
NOT GUILTY MURDER
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SEATTLE, May 5.—Today after
two months trial, the longest in the
history of labor cases, the case ot
the State versus Thomas Tracy
came to an end when Foreman
Williams handed in a verdict ot
“Not Guilty”.
The trial has practically bank
rupted Snohomish county and the
officials involved after a fair hear
ing are completely discreditted. All
under arrest will probably be freed.
"Phe verdict paves the way for
civil suits and possibly murder
trials against the aggressors.
Veitch, the attorney sent from
Los Angeles by the M. & M. asso
ciation to assist in the prosecution
of the laborites, having established
a reputation in this line in the
Schimdt et al trials, was left out
of the arguments. Black opened
and Cooley closed.
Vanderveer however for the de
fense was more clear and convinc
ing in his argument than either one
or the other. His statements as to
the aims methods and tactics of the
industrialists were especially clear.
SEATTLE, May 6.—It is an
nounced that practically all the in
dustrialists now under arrest will
he released.
The Snohomish county authori
ties intend however to have some ot
the leaders re-arrested and will
not give up the effort to railroad
them.
ALASKA SOLONS CEASE
WORK AND RETURNING
JUNEAU, May 5.—The Alaska
legislature adjourned sine die at
half past eight o’clock yesterday
morning with due ceremony.
Sundback will leave on Monday
or Sunday for Vancouver, B. C., and
Coombs, Corrigan, Allan and Daly
will leave on the boat sailing Sun
day -night for Seattle.
The closing hours were interest
ing and indicative of the strong
factionalism that began and lost
nothing throughout the session.
The election bill amendment
enacting and perfecting the title of
the 1915 election law with an
amendment throwing out all votes
not made upon the official ballot
was killed through a deadlock. Dan
Sutherland led the fight against the
amendment.
The House supported the bill.
The Sundback Memorial to Con
gress asking legislation whereby
the claim owner could turn one
hundred dollars into the road fund
in lieu of representation was killed.
The Senate got back by killing
the amendment to the lien law pro
viding for a lien granted through
commissioners on the dumps. This
is an amendment to the Reed bill.
The governor signed the bill al
lowing the territorial road com
missioner to divert a certain
amount of the road money to dredg
ing purposes was passed.
Other measures will probably re
ceive the gubernatorial assent to
day.
Now lit the time to Subscribe.
STILL BATTLING ON THE
WEST; EAST FRONT QUIET
PARIS, May 6—The fighting on]
the west front still continues to be
of an intensive nature. The fight
ing in Champagne today resulted in
i a French advance later succeeded
by a heavy artillery bombardment
of the German positions.
Further north and on the banks
of the Scarpe the forward move
ment of the British troops continues
slowly but steadily.
LONDON, May 6.—Haig reports
that the fighting on the west front
still proceeds in a satisfactory man
ner, several villages being occupied
today with the house to house fight
of a peculiarly bitter nature.
This evening there is a lull on
the west front. The British have
begun an artillery bombardment
further south and concentrated on
the positions beyond Cambrai. This
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CLEANING
PRESSING
ALTERING ft
REPAIRING
Ladles »nd Gentlemens Clothes.
is taken to indicate that severe
fighting may soon be anticipated in
this bection.
BERLIN, May 6.—An active Ger
man offensive will soon be ordered
on the west front. It is believed
that the submarine campaign suc
cesses will soon make the shbrtage
of material felt in the manufacture
of shells and the Allies will soon
find themselves in the same position
as the Russians over a year ago.
All is quiet on the east front.
NAIL FLAG TO UNION
HALL; HAD OPPOSED WAR
GLOBE, Ariz., May C.—Today as
a signal of their pro-war anger, the
LOCAL ITEMS.
The Road Commission, of which
Dan Jones is the local Tzar, is all
at sea over the finnacial situation.
No advices have been received as to
whether or not the funds eliminat
ed in the former bill by the House
have been passed in the final pass
age of the army bill. Hence little
will be known before the tenth of
this month and the commission hsa
been unable to outline the plans
for the ensuing summer.
mob nailed an American flag to the
Western Federation Hall.
The local here of the Western
Federation of Miners has mani
fested a strong anti-war policy and
is bitterly opposed to it. This se
cured tho resentment of many in
the city, mine owners etc. joining
in nailing the flag on the union
hall.
There was no opposition.
The mob then went to the Hall
of the I. W. W. and did the same
thing. There was no resistance
offered to either acts by any of the
members.