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VOL. 11
NOU, ALASKA. SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1918.
NO. 2462.
GERMANY YIELDING PEACE MOVE
TEUTONS MODIFY
PEACE TERMS
COPENHAGEN, Jan 11.—That
the Central Powers comprising Ger
many and Austria Hungary, are
preparing vastly modified peace
proposals for submission to the
Bolsheviki envoys in conference
with German representatives at
Brest-Li to vsK according to informa
tion received in this city.
The new peace terms to be sub
mitted have resulted it is believed,
from a mature • consideration of far
eastern affairs and the highly com
mendable attitude the Bolsheviki
had assumed throughout tho first
two conference in the insistence
that while the new Russian order
of things desired and sought a per
manent peace it would have no
thing but an honorablo one and
under no circumstances would con
sent to be treated with a3 a con
quered people.
It is bolieved moreover that Ger
many’s need for the greatest poss
ible development of her western of
for.sive before spring when the
weather and general conditions
make possible a resumption of mi
litary activities on a normal scale
and before the American forces
preparations are completed.
The German Foreign Minister
authorizes the statement that the
the Central Powers are seeking
only a sepal ate peace whereas form
er statement indicated that a gon
cral peace was sought.
SECRETARY OF WAR
STILL TESTIFYING!
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 11.—
Continuing his testimony before
tho Senate Investigation Committee
the Secretary of War Baker today
admitted that there is and has been
a considerable shortage of ordnance
and active service equipment.
Mr. Baker however contended
that the shortage did not in any
wise effect the strength of Amer
ican troops intended for overseas
Service and will not to any appre
i-aible extent delay America’s active
participation in the war.
The Secretary stated that the
cantonment and training camp con
ditions are for the moet part ideal
and leave nothing to be desired.
Complaints of low pay and fail
ure to provide for the families of
soldiers dependent upon them were
in many cases attlbutable to the
fault of the soldiers themselves,
the secretary showed.
He frankly admitted a shortage
of motor-trucks but showed that
every responsible factory was at
work on them and that a greater
than sufficient production is under
way.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 11.—
Senator Swanson today introduced
a bill giving the President power to
take over the naval oil reserve
lands in California.
Reasonable prices, and first class
workmanship at the Nome Tailoring
Company,
Anything in the line of Job work
WATER POWER BILLS
BEFORE CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. Jl.—
A composite bill embracing the
main features of both the Shields
and Ferris waterpower measures
has been up by Secretary Lane of
the Department of the Interior and
Secretary David M. Houston of the
Department of Agriculture who co
laborated in its preparation.
The bill is intended as an omni
bus measure and will be given con
sideration at the present session c
Congress first by a ocmmittee of
eighteen especially selected for that
purpose.
The bill a3 it is now prepared
provides for the creation of a Fed
eral Power Commission to be com
posed of the 'Secretaries of Agricul
ture and of the Department of the
Interior, and of a third member to
be appointed by the President.
The Fedoral Power Commission
flhus formed would control all pow
or rights and. have jurisdiction
over them through the entire coun
try and would substitute a federal
licensing system for the present
franchise system now in force.
The corporations or companies
operating such plants would pay
annual charges of not less than
ten cents per horse-power but
states and municipalities could ope
rate without charge of any kind.
BORAH FIGHTS
HUG6ER-MUGGER
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 11.—
Declaring war upon tho practice
lately coming into vote for the sen
ato to consider treaties with foreign
powers only in closed session, Sen
ator William E. Borah of Idaho to
day succeeded in presenting to the
senate a resolution which provided
for the abandonment of the prac
tice.
The Senator denounced secret
dealing with foroign powers as
provocative of wars and tends to
promote disturst of the people for
tho government. The bill. was sent
to the Committee on Rules.
WASHINGTON. D. C., Jan. 11.—
Oil administrator Requa will fix oil
prices and it is understood that
Fuel Administrator Garfield will in
terpret the food act to incorporate
the fixing of oil prices.
J. A. Phalen, a heavy oil produc
er from the Oklahoma fields de
clared that the appointment of an
oil administrator had all but para
lyzed the oil industry and that it
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could never result In anything but
disatisfaction.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 11.—
A delegation of Congressmen to
the White House today learned that
tho President is opposed to the gov
ernment's entering into the manu
facture of war munitions, Mr. Wil
son stating his belief that the work
is well covered by war industries
board.
(«t us estimate on fonr Job Work
AIMS IDENTICAL
PRES .AND BOLSHEVIKI
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 11.—
In all important particulars Presi
dent Wilson's peace terms and
those of tho Russian Bo'.sheviki arc
to be regarded as idertical accord
ing to discussion prevailing in the
•House of Represcentatives today.
The only substantial point of dif
ference that is discernible is in re
ference to the post-war treatment
of Belgium, President W;iV-on in
sisting upon a restoration of Bel
gium by her invaders and the Bol
rheviki contending that reparation
should bo mido out of internation
al funds.
Tho soundness of the Russian
point of view in many aspects re
lating to the conclusion of hostili
ties is beginning to be recognized
in spite of the attitude of aloofness
from the Bolshoviki regime main
tained by the diplomats of the Rus
sian embassy who continue theii
adherence to the premiership of
Kerensky.
It is beginning to be observed
that the post-revolution troubles
of the Russian people ere in real
ity in the nature of a domestic
quarrel within the limits of the
same revolutionary group that
overthrew the Romanoff dynasty
and the reign of the Grand Dukes.
The progress being made by the
Bolsheviki in restoring order in
their strife torn country is being
watched with increasing interest.
For the Mt 50c. Dinner in Nome
go to the Board of Trade Lunch
Counter.
CZECH LEADERS
PLAN REPUBLIC
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 11.—That
consternation prevails in Austrian
governmental circles over an inter
nal revolutionary move is the burd
en of dispatches reaching this city
today.
,Czech leaders of Silesia and Mo
ravia have met in convention at
Prague the ancient capital of Bo
hemia and have adopted a resolu
tion demanding the formation of a
Czechs Republic.
The Czechs are a branch of the
Slavic race long conquered and de
spoiled by Austria Hungary and
even their language has been
sought to be obliterated. The
valley in which their chief city
Prague is situated is one of great
pastoral beauty and their husband
ry is famed all over the world.
The Austrian government is said
to be greatly alarmed over the de
velopment of the sentiment for are
public, and the aspirations of these
poople may promptly prove force
ful in determining the Austrian war
position In the direction of general
peace.
PETROGRAD, Jan. 11.—The
Peace Conference at Brest-Litovsk
has temporarily suspended its meet
ings to allow the Russian envoys
time to consult with the Bolshcviki
headquarters in this city.
FRENZIED NEGROES
RAID COAL CARS
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 11.—Half
crazed from cold and suffering a
meb of five hundred negroes today
attacked a train of coal cars on the
tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad,
expecting to supply themselves with
buckets and wheelbarrows of coal.
The negroes appear to have met
at ar. given point in their quarter
and then concertedly to have swoop
ed down upon the coal train.
The first alarm given at head
(quarters turned out the reserve
squads in a general riot who ar
rived at the scene promptly and by
a liberal use of their club3 and
night sticks prevented any of the
coal from being taken, and the suff
ering people were compelled to re
turn to thoir empty heaters and
freezing hearts empty handed.
Black mammies throughout the
city cuddled their wailing pickan
ninnies close to them as if to warm
them with their bodies and croon
ed such hushaby lullabies as black
mammies know, while male negroes
crowded the colored restaurants
and resorts and slept on chairs and
on floors as best they could.
• Although Indianapolis is near the
center of a prolific coal belt the ri
gors of the fuel famine arc felt
scarcely less here than elsewhere,
and little prospect of relief is even
now in sight.
MUST FORCE TERMS
ON GERMANY
LONDON, Jan. 11.—In a speech
delivered before Parliament today
Wir.ston Churchill, the British Mi
nister of Munitions declared that
the greatest crisis of the world war
can be solved by effective r.ction on
the part of the United States.
Mr. Churchill further declared
that the Armegeddon of the conflict
is yet to come but expressed ihm
self as confident of the final out
come. He avowed that the war
aims of President Wilson and the
British Premier Lloyd George must
be forced on the Central Powers
without modification and at any
cost.
BERLIN, Jan. 11.—The War Office
here has announced that the Brit
ish. havo bombarded the lines south
east of Yprcs in an attempt to pene
trate the German lines but were
repulsed.
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 11.—Dis
patches reaching this city from Ber
lin indicate an increased pronounce
ment of policies that cannot but
terd toward peace.
As is well understood the social
ist party has never been unitedly
in support of the war and of late
its exponents have grown bolder in
demanding that the imperial gov
eminent abandon its annexation
and indemnities policies, in the be
lief that more modified terms will
pave the way to world peace.
The cry of the Socialist is the cry
of the poor; it is the cry of the
weak and the oppressed; it is the
cry of the down trodden and the
weary; it is the cry of justice
against injustice. You may as well
try to stop the thunder of heaven
as to stop the cry of misery, the
wail of augush, sorrow and despair.
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at the liome Tailoring Company.