OUR MERCHANT FLEET WILL BE
GREATEST WORLD EVER
KNEW, SAYS HURLEY.
HAVE 1,400 VESSELS NOW.
Shipbuilding Is Progressing Rapidly
in All the Ship Yards of the Coun
try—Can Build 13,518,000 Pons of
Shipping in 1919. it Is Believed by
the Chairman.
SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 5.—Am
erica in 1920 will have a merchant
marine of 25,000.000 deadweight tons,
Chairman Hurley of the shipping
board declared here recently in an ad
dress giving the most complete state
ment of the nation’s shipbuilding pro
gram which has yet been made pub
lic. He was speaking to the gradu
ates of Notre Dame University.
This great commerce fleet, Mr. Hur
^ leysaid, the largest ever assembled in
the history of the world and involving
the expenditure of more than $5,000,
000,000 will link the United States to
South and Central America by weekly
steamer service, which will enable the
Latin American countries to utilize
their unlimited natural resources in
the freest competition with other na
tions. It also will bridge the Pacific
for the transportation of the products
of Japan, Russia, China, Australia and
the Orient, and will continue to pro
mote America’s trade with Europe.
And with it all, he added, American
ships “will serve humanity loyally and
unselfishly on the same principles of
liberty and justice which brought
* about the establishment of this repub
lic.
“The vast merchant fleet we are
building,” said Mr. Hurley, “must be
come the greatest instrument of inter
national probity, honesty and square
dealing at the close of the war. It
must become the vast and vital ma
viuiic »uacu> rvinciiva n ui pi tut
the oppression of the weak by the
strong, the crushing of right by
might.”
Next Year 13,.') 18,000 Tons.
Mr. Hurley said he and Director
General Schwab of the Emergency
Fleet corporation expected the ship
ping output this year to exceed 3,
000,000 deadweight tons, while next
year the nation’s tremendous new
• ' shipbuilding industry would be capa
ble of turning out 13,518,000 dead
^ weight tons, more than Great Britain,
heretofore the greatest builder of
ships, has completed in any five years
of her history.
“It was before the formation of the
present shipping board,” Mr. Hurley
continued, “that Secretary McAdoo in
sisted that our pioneering upon the
high seas must in the future be done
by an interest having boundless re
sources, an interest that has a single
purpose—the general welfare of the
United States, as a whole. Obviously,
there is but one such interest, and
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that is the government of the United
States.
“On the first of June we had in
creased the American-built tonnage to
over 3,500,000 deadweight tons of
shipping. This gives us a total of
more than 1,400 ships, with an ap
proximate total deadweight tonnage
of 7,000,000 tons now under the con
trol of the United States shipping
board.
“In round numbers, and from all
sources, we have added to the Ameri
can fiag since our war against Ger
many began nearly 4,500,000 tons of
shipping. We are adding to this ton
nage rapidly, and I do not believe I
am overoptimistic in saying that our
tonnage output will continue to in
crease, until before this year closes we
will be turning out a half million tons
each month.
“Our program calls for the building
of 1,856 passenger, cargo, and refrig
erator ships and tankers, ranging
from 5,000 to 12,000 tons each, with i
an aggregate deadweight of 13,000,
000. Exclusive of these, we have 2451
commandeered vessels, taken over
from foreign and domestic owners,
which are being completed by the
Emergency Fleet corporation. These
will aggregate a total deadweight ton
nage of 1,715,000.
Need $5,000,000,000 More.
“This makes a total of 2,101 vessels,!
exclusive of tugs and barges, which
are being built and will be put on the
seas by the Emergency Fleet corpora-1
tion in the course of carrying out the
present program, with an aggregate
deadweight tonnage of 14,715,000.
“Five billion dollars will be requir-{
ed to finish our program for 1018,;
1010, and 1020, but the expenditure of
this enormous sum will give the Am
erican people the greatest merchant
fleet ever assembled in the history of
the world, aggregating 25,000,000
tons.
“American workmen have made the
expansion of recent months possible,
and they will make possible the suc
cessful conclusion of the whole pro
gram. From all present expectations,
it is likely that by 1920 we shall have
close to a million men working on
American merchant ships and their
“We have a total of 819 shipways]
in the United States. Of these, a to-;
tal of 751, all of which, except ninety,!
are completed, are being used by the
Emergency Fleet corporation for the
building of American merchant ships.
“In 1919 the average tonnage of
steel, wood, and concrete ships contin
uously building on each way should be
about 6,000 tons. If we are using 751
days on cargo ships and can average
three ships a year per way, we should
turn out in one year 13,518,000 tons.
“The total gross revenue of our
fleet is very impressive. From the
ships under control of the shipping
board a total gross revenue is derived
of about $360,000,000.”
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE
occurs at McCarthy
(Cordova Times, June 29)
At 1:30 o’clock this morning a fire
broke out at McCarthy, which for a
time threatened the destruction of the
entire town. Before the flames could
be gotten under control the loss am
ounted to about $20,000.
It is believed that the fire originat
ed in the rooming house owned by
Mi’s. Rose McLellan, which, together
with its contents, was completely de
stroyed. The owner carried insurance
of $1,000. From this building the
flames spi'ead next door to James He
ney’s restaurant, burning it to the
ground. So far as known this prop
erty was not insured. The fire then
leaped across the street and destroyed
William Faddis’ store and residence.
He only saved a few personal effects
and carried but little insurance.
A telephone message from McCar
thy late this afternoon places the
losses at the following figures: Will
iam McFaddis, $12,000; Mrs. McClel
lan, $6,000; James Henev, $1,200.
R. L. Vining, the Fairbanks mer
chant, is shipping 2,000 live chickens
to Fairbanks. They wall go down the
river on one of the first boats leaving
Whitehorse. They will be used for
laying purposes during the summer
and killed for winter use at the end
of the season.
JOHN PURROY MUTCHELL, THE
YOUNGEST MAYOR CITY EVER
HAD, SERVED TWO TERMS.
MAJOR IN AVIATION CORPS.
Remains Will Be Interred in New
York City Burial Ground and De
ceased Will Be Accorded Full Mili
tary Honors When Taken to Last
Resting Place.
NEW YORK, July 6.—The city of
New York is in mourning today over
the untimely demise of its former
mayor, John Purroy Mitchell, who
met a tragic end when a scout ma
chine in which he was riding collapsed
and fell to the ground on the Gerstor
aviation field in Louisiana, yesterday.
Mitchell was thirty-eight years of
age and was the youngest mayor New
York ever had. He was a man of ex
ceptional talents and ability. After
serving two terms he was defeated in
the election last winter by John F.
Hylan, the Tammany candidate. Fol
lowing his defeat Mayor Mitchell en
tered the United States army aviation
service and soon gained the title of
major. He showed unusual daring as
an aviator.
The remains will be brought to New
York for interment and will be bu*ieci
with full military honors. He leaves
a wife and child to mourn his loss.
PROPERTY ASSERTS'RUME
LY HID THE TRUTH.
IS OUT ON $.30,000 BONDS.!
Palmer Charges That New York Mail
Was Purchased by Dr. Rumely With
Money Supplied by German Govern
ment—Failed to Make Report of
True Status.
NEW YORK, July 9.—Dr. Edward
A. Rumely, vice-president and mana
ger of the Mail and Express Publish
ing company, publishers of the New
York Evening Mail, was arrested last
night, on the charge of perjury. The
complaining witness is A. Mitchell
Palmer, federal .custodian of enemy
alien property.
The arrest was made in the office of
Attorney-General Merton A. Lewis, of
New York city.
Palmer charges that Dr. Rumely,
purchased the Evening Mail in June,
1917, with money paid to him by the
German government. The sum is said
to have been a million and a half dol
lars. In his report to the custodian of
alien property, Rumely made no men
tion of this fact, as required by law,
hence the prosecution.
Rumely was arraigned before a
United States commissioner this
forenoon and the hearing was de
ferred for a period of two weeks. He
was released on bonds in the sum of
$30,000.
CHIEF ASSISTANT
TO GEN. MARCH
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 8.—
Major-General Frank McIntyre, chief
of the insular bureau and formerly
chief military censor, is slated to be
the principal assistant to General
Peyton C. March, chief of staff of the
United States army. He will succeed
Major-General Graves, who takes
command of eight division of regulars,
stationed at Camp Fremont.
To induce a canary to take a bath
sprinkle a few seeds upon the water,
this added attraction will make the
bath become a habit with the bird.
PRESIDENT WILSON SENDS A
STIRRING APPEAL TO CITI
ZENSHIP OF NATION.
FOUR-MINUTE MEN DELIVER IT.
Personal Message from the Chief Ex
ecutive of the United States Urging
People to Celebrate Fourth With
Due Regard for Significance of the
Auspicious Occasion.
Committee on Public Information
Division of Four-Minute Men.
* Juneau, June 17, 1918.
All Divisional and Local Chairman,
Division of 4-Minute Men, Alaska.
Gentlemen: I am today in receipt of
the following telegram from Director
Blair:
“President Wilson has asked the
Four-Minute Men to present the at
tached message for him to audiences
on the Fourth of July. Please have
message forwarded to all Alaska or
ganizations:
“ ‘You are met, my fellow citizens,
to commemorate the signing of the
Declaration of Independence, which
marked the awakening of a new spir
it in the lives of nations; since the
birth of our republic we have seen the
spirit grow. We have heard the de
mand and watched the struggle for
self-government spread triumphs am
ong many people. We have come to
regard the right to political liberty as
the common right of human kind.
Year after year within the security
of our borders we have continued to
rejoice in the peaceful increase of
freedom and democracy throughout
the world and yet, now suddenly we
are confronted with a menace which
endangers everything that we have
won and everything the world has won
in all its old insolence. With all its
ancient cruelty and injustice military
autocracy has again armed itself
against the pacific hopes of men. Hav
ing suppressed self - government
among its own people by an organiza
tion maintained in part by falsehood
and treachery, it has set out to im
pose its will upon neighbors and upon
us. One by one it has compelled ev
ery civilized nation in the world either
to forego its aspirations or to declare
war in their defense. We find our
selves fighting again for our national
existence. We are face to face with
the necessity of asserting anew the
fundamental right of free men to
make their own laws and choose their
own allegiance or else permit human
ity to become the victim of a ruthless
ambition that is determined to destroy
what it cannot master. Against its
threat the liberty-loving people of
the world have arisen and allied them
selves. No fear has deterred them and
no bribe of material well-being has
held them back. They have made sac
rifices such as the world has never
known before and their resistance in
the face of death and suffering has
proved that the aim which animated
the German effort can never hope to
rule the spirit of mankind against the
horror of military conquest, against
the emptiness of living in mere bod
ily contentment, against the resolu
tion of becoming part of a state that
knows neither truth nor honor. The
world has so revolted that even peo
ple long dominated and suppressed by
force have now begun to stir and arm
themselves. Centuries of subjugation
have not destroyed the racial aspira
tion of the many distinct peoples of
eastern Europe nor have they accept
ed the sordid ideas of their political
and military masters. They have sur
vived the slow persecutions of peace
as well as the agonies of war and now
demand recognition for their just
claims of autonomy and self-govern
ment. Representatives of these races
are with you today voicing their loy
alty to our ideals and offering their
services in the common cause, I ask
you, fellow citizens, to unite with them
in making this our Independence Day.
the first that shall be consecrated to a
Declaration of Independence for all
the peoples of the world.”
This is a personal message to us!
from the president of the United j |
States, who sends it directly to all!
four-minute men. Its importance as
a public statement made by the
world’s leading statesman is self-evi
dent, and we should endeavor to live
up to the occasion, and give it spe-;
cial attention on our Independence
Day. The message is not to be made 1
public to the press or otherwise prior!
to the Fourth of July.
Yours sincerely,
R. E. ROBERTSON,
Territorial Chairman for Alaska.
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GROUND UNDER WHEELS
OF FAST-MOVING TRAIN
(Cordova Times, June 29)
“Jalmer Isaacson met death by his
falling under the cars of a moving
train” was the verdict of the coroner’s !1
jury yesterday afternoon of the re- i 1
mains of the man who was killed on (
the railroad track about three miles' 1
from Cordova about 3 o’clock yester-! £
day afternoon, while attempting to!,
board a moving passenger train on the
Copper River railway. j}
Deceased was about 25 years of age,'}
and his parents live at Pearson, Wash, j j
He had been working at the Kenne-1
cott mines since last December, and ■ s
came to Cordova this week with the1 (
intention of going to Fort Liscum to j j
enlist. Isaacson was registered at I j
McCarthy, but was not called in the j s
; first draft. !,
Isaacson had been acting queerly j (
since his arrival here, so his friends j ^
report. He purchased a ticket for j
I Valdez on the last steamer, but for j j
SEATTLE, July 3.—Alaska’s great (
volcano, Mount Ivatmai, called “The!
Valley of the Ten Thousand Smokes,”!
is to be visited this year by two ex
plorers sent north in the interests of (
the National Geographic society, the
organization that last year sent Prof. .
Robert F. Griggs of the Ohio State
College to make the first extensive ex
ploration of the mountain.
The two men going north this year j
are Jaspeh D. Sayre and Paul B. Ha-;
gelbarger. They are also from the!
Ohio State university and, it is be-;1
lieved here, were recommended by •
Professor Griggs. It is thought at the :
University of Washington here that *
Professor Griggs would have return- 1
1 ed to the mountain this year but did 1
not go because he could not get back !
in time for the opening of the fall se
mester at college. | ‘
Sayre and Hagelbarger will attempt
to reach the crater from a direction; 1
opposite to that taken by Professor.!
Griggs and his pai'ty. The two left j
I here recently for the north and prob- !!
ably will spend the entire summer
studying the mountain.
! Katmai is the greatest crater on the 1
face of the globe, according to Pro-1
fessor Griggs. It is over nine miles
in circumference and 3,600 feet deep.
It burst forth in 1912 and sent out fine
ashes that fell on an average depth of
ten feet for a radius of 100 miles. It
is said there was an appreciable fall
of ashes as far south as Victoria, B.
C., and scientists claimed they found
Katmai ashes in Virginia, North Af
rica and parts of Europe.
Before the 1912 eruption very little <
was known of Katmai. In 1916 Pro- ;
fessor Griggs visited the mountain, :
but did not make an extended explor
ation.
MAN DROWNS AT CORDOVA.
(Valdez Miner.)
Henry Helgirson, a fisherman, was
drowned at Orca Monday about 8:00
o’clock while taking in his nets off
Dags Flats. There was a heavy swell
at the time and Helgirson fell over
board, drowning despite the efforts of
his partner, Olais Siverson, to rescue
him. The body has not been- found.
Helgirson was a married man and had
a family in Portalnd.
FIFTY LOSE
EXCURSIONISTS MEET DEATH
WHEN STEAMER SINKS IN
ILLINOIS RIVER.
)NLY FEW FEET FROM SHORE.
dany Passengers, Being Panic-Striek
en, When Boat Hits Obstruct ton and
Begins to Go Down, Jump in River
Without Life Preservers—Women
and Girls Victims.
PEORIA, 111., July 6.—It is esti
nated that one hundred and fift/ peo
>le—men, women and children—met
leath in the shocking disaster that
ollowed the sinking ot the river
teamer Columbia in tne Illinois river
esterday evening.
The steamer was carrying to their
tomes in Pekin 500 passengers who
tad been on a day’s outing at a danc
ng and amusement park near Peoria.
^ heavy fog was prevailing and the
teamer hit an obstruction that caus
d it to sink. The passengers became
lanic-stricken and many of them
umped overboard without life pre
ervers, and were drowned. The shore
vas but a few feet away. Others met
leath through being crushed between
he first and second decks of the boat.
Divers are at work rescuing the
>odies of women and girls who were
Irowned.
DEPUTIES
JNE MEMBER KICKS AGAINST
SENDING FOOD SUPPLIES
TO AUSTRIA.
HERMAN PEOPLE SUFFERING.
\n Immediate Termination of the
War Would be a Greater Economic
Gain to Germany Than the Mere
Conquest of a Province or Two, As
serts Another.
AMSTERDAM, July 9.—In the Ger
nan reichstag yesterday, Deputy
VIetzinger made a bitter protest
igainst further supplies of grain and
>ther food products being sent to Aus
tria, on the grounds that the German
)eople themselves were living on
short rations.
Deputy Wils, supporting Deputy
detzinger’s protest, declared that a
'urther reduction in the food rations
)f Germany would be unbearable. He
said many people were ignorant of
;he real conditions existing in Ger
nany at the present time. He said
;hat lack of employment was increas
ng in Berlin and that wages were in
sufficient to procure the necessary
"ood. He asserted that an immediate
;ermination of the war would be a
greater economic gain to Germany
than the conquest of a province or
two.
REVEREND BECK IS
ASSIGNED TO DUTY
(Juneau Dispatch)
Rev. George J. Beck, prominent in
connection with Presbyterian work
imong the Alaska natives, has been
issigned to duty as chaplain aboard a
transport running from New York
larbor to an English port.
Rev. Beck was among the first to
volunteer his services to the flag. His
new duties carrying him back and
forth through the torpedo zone and
tvhere there is an element of danger
at all times.
Charges as a basis for disbarment
proceedings have been filed in the dis
trict court at Fairbanks against Will
iam H. Smith, an attorney of that
place. He had been convicted of ap
propriating the funds of a fraternal
organization to his own use.