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VOL.. 11.
NOMX, ALASKA, * THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1918.
NO.
2454.
STREET CAR COMPANY
HARO UP FOR HELP
OLYMPIA, Jan. 2.—The Puget
Sound traction Light and Power
Company, the Bellingham Railway
Company, and The Tacoma Railway
Light and Power Company, operat
ing electrict r.treet railways in the
cities of Seattle, Bellingham and
Tacoma, respectively, have made
application for permission to em
ploy women as conductresses and
motorwomen on their lines.
The request is presented through
the agency of the Stone and Webst
or management which is the gen
eral operating concern controlling
the companies and oomes before
the State Public Service Commis
sion.
The reasons given for the atson
ishing and sensational application
is the unprecedented shortage of
male help and the prospect imme
diately ahead of a still further di
munition in the supply of male la
bor, presenting an operating pro
blem that cannot be overcome, as is
believed, without resort to the fe
male labor market.
It is knowu that the phenomenal
increase n wages in other lines of
employment have resulted in the
desertion from the company’s ser
vice of many of its trained men.
Where the company is paying $3.50
to $4.00 a day for ten hours, ship
building and other lines are paying
$6.00 to $9.00 per day of eight
hours.
GERMANY TO GET
WHEAT FROM RUSSIA
ZURICH, Jan. 2.—One of Ger
many’s important, if not her most
urgent and important war needs is
held to be met in a recent arrange
ment resulting from the temporary
peace negotiations in progress for
the last two weeks.
Germany has lacked several
things lack of adequate reserve man
power lacn of sufficient cotton,
gTeat quantities of which must be
used in the production of most ar
tillery ammunition. She has lacked
meat and many are the harrowng
tales that have come of the extrem
itteE of the German people because
of the fact that meat as a food had
practically ceased to be, since every
ounce possible must be used by the
soldiers if they were expected to
lemain much of a lighting force.
But mainly she has lacked bread
and it was for the lack of it in suf
ficiency that Germany as a nation
is alleged to be dying of slow un
dernution. It is bread more than
any other food that sustain life.
Without it in adequate quantities
Germany’s man power was said to
be weakening.
This Deed is uow to be supplied,
and supplied abundantly. By the
agrement just entered upon Russia
is to supply her. Russia even now
has a surplus of wheat and in her
untouched soil she is known to
have grain producing resources that
would supply all Europe if not the
entire world. She will grow the
wheat for Germany’s wars. It is
considered moreover that the agree
ment indicates a practical settle
ment of the war so far as Russia
and Germany is concerned.
OIL STRIKE NEAR
SETTLEMENT
HOUSTON, Jan. 2.—The oil
fields of this district have been the
scene of violence and disorders re
sembling a small war for six weeks.
The oil workers had demanded
an eight hour with a minimum
wage of four dollars a day and
upon this issue the dead-lock has
continued.
Upon the first attempt of the ope
ratosr to introduce strikebreakers
the trouble started, trains bearing
strike breakers were wrecked, and
many were killed cn both sides,
and despite the efforts of the police
and of the sheriff's office the strife
continued.
The lay of the oil fields atid the
great number of widely scattered
wells made policeing the strike
area difficult and in the end it was
inevitable that the operators must
yield to intervention by the Federal
Government in the form of media
tion. Verner Reed one of the Pre
sident personal mediators came to
investigate and upon thoroly can
vassing the situation flatly recom
mended the inauguration of the
Eight Hour Day and urged the
grunting of the wage scale demand
ed by the strikers.
Mediator Reeds recommendati<yis
have so far not been acceded to
and a secret meeting held here to
day decided to send a committee di
rect to President Wilson and to
appeal to him for a modification of
the mediators report.
HOOVER ADMITS
STARTING FOOD SCARE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 2 -
It is being openly charged that the
propaganda ol the Food Adminis
tration Bureau under the dictator
ship of Herbert M. Hoover is a di
rect important cntributing cause of
the rising prices of foodstuffs on
the presumption that the rhout of
scarcity was caculated to induce a
false apprehension as to the supply
and so incline them to mark the
prices up.
Hoover, when called before the
Senate investigating committej vig
orously denied that his Bureau's
publicity methods had anything to
do with increase in price.
Ho admitted having made sensa
tional statements regarding food
shortages but explained himself by
stating this his purpose was to
wake people up to the need of win
ning the war and stoutly contend
ed that he regarded such a course
to be a function of hs work.
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RECRUITS DIE
FROM NEGLECT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 2.—
The National Council of. pejE^ose^ to
day entered a denunciatory protest
charging the War Department,
inexcusable and . disastrous short
ages, of war equipment... .
The graft pid .incompctency of
the Depertment of War is held to
be directly accountable for shock
ing and deplorable conditions that
resulted as the National Defense
Council alleges in the deaths of
hundreds of recruits in the canton
ments and training camps in var
ious parts of the country.
Rumors and complaints of the
spread of contagion and prevent
able disease among the new sold
iers due to congestion inadequate
horsing, overcrowding, insufficient
clothing, etc., have been rife for
some time and the National Coun
cil for Defense, a comprehensive
patriotic organization, upon thoroly
sifting the matters alleged find a
condition so appalirg that they con
clude to lift the lid from over the
War Department.
Charles Etonian who is vice-chair
man of the Supply Committee of
the Council in his testimony before
the Senate investigation committee
laid the responsibility for the short
agf 8 _ upon the Army Quartermast
er’s Department'' had blundered in
calling trobps in excess of the num
ber which could be equipped and
that through its incompetency had
misdirected shipment of such sup
plies as were available in such a
way that some men got nine
blankets while others got none.
Etoman admitted himself to be a
heavy stockholder in worsted mills
in Clevelond, Ohio, and that his
own concern hail received contracts
amount!] g to a half million dollars
to supply blouses and uniforms for
the army. He farther admitted
that ho knew this to be unlawful
but stated that the contractu g au
thority had been delegated to other
members of the committee.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 2.—
Some of the returning American
|delegates who participated in the
recent well-guarded conference of
the allied powers held in France
are urging the rapid forwarding of
treops to Europe and have pointed
out the supreme necessity of the
earliest possible completion of the
nations ship-buildirg program.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 2.—
Encouraging news has been le
ceived here of the defeat of Aust
rian troops by the Italians on tho
Picave River yesterday and this ;e
garded as a confirmation of tho
freely given prophecy that further
Teutonic military achievements on
the Southern front are improbable.
LONDON, Jan. 2.—It is authora
tivcly announced here today that
the English Ambassador to the
United States is to be withdrawn
because of a general move to reha
bilitate the government service.
GET THE NEWS RIGHT. READ
THE WOKRER.
AMERICA TO
DEFY GERMANY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 2.—
ro all effective intent and purpose
;hc government of the United
IRON CLAW AND I’ATHE
WEEKLY, DREAM TONIGHT
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Tonight at the Dream Theater
Pathe presents the 18ih chapter of
‘The Iron Claw” under title of
‘The Green 3yed God”. Ufargory
s certainly keening things busy
tnd the real Laughing Mask will
toon have to declare himself.
‘Who Is He?. A late Pcthe
Wcokv with its many interesting
!cene3 around the world and a
aughalbe farce Comedy “Hilda’s
ffucky Helper”, are also on the
program for tonights show. Friday
night one of the famous Bostck
mimal pictures and a repeater
dhaplin in “Easy Street” will be
3howrn.
WEATHER REPORT.
U. S. Weather Bureau.
Temperature: Max. —12, Min.
—17.
Barometer: 29.746 inches.
Weather: Clear.
Wind: N., 1 mile per hour.
Precipitation: None.
Temperature: Max. —7., Min.
—18.
Barometer: 29.711.
Weather: Clear.
Wind- N., 2 miles per hour.
Precipitation: None.
States has answered Germany’s
peace proposals today when the
State Department made public
Colonel House’s exhaustive report
on European conditions.
As is understood Colonel House
is known as President Wilson’s con
fidential adviser and personal re
presentative at home and abroad,
in affairs domestic and foreign, na
tional and international. His lat
est mission in that capacity was to
represent the President personally
in the great inter-allied conference
in France held for the purpose of
bringing about a greater unity of
action between the allies and a
closer cc-operation in the adminis
tration of the military and eco
nomic resources of the powers in
the alliance.
^The Colonel’s bvs-iness for the
President while abroad in the war
ring countries was general as well
as special and it is of note that no
thing of interest to the administra
tion could escape his argues eye.
As bearing directly on the ques
tion of peace and the considera
tion of the Kaiser’s so-called peace
proposals the report of Colonel
House failed to show the slightest
indication of weakening but on the
contrary showed a most vigorous de
termination to win, and showed
clearly and conscisely just how the
war can be won.
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MANY TYPES OF
FLYING BOATS
SAN DIEGO, Cal., Jan. 2.—All
the types of seaplanes and flying
boats so far designed have not been
successes in the present war "and
probably never will be,” was the
statement of Floyd Smith, one of
California’s best known aviators,
when he returned to San Diego
from Europe recently. "In the
early air raids in England," he said
"the Germans used huge coastal
seaplanes, the slowness of which,
together with the extreme difficulty
experienced in maneuvering them,
made them easy prey for the Brit
ish airmen. The English have
tried 50 distinct types of flying
boats, ard the French and Germans
have done the same.
Fur garments made and repaired
at the Nome Tailoring Company.
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