.FIRST PAPER MEN
MUST EIGHT OR
* FOREIGNERS WHO CLAIM EX
EMPTION CANNOT BECOME
CITIZENS OF UNITED STATES.
N E W DRAFT REGULATIONS.
Citizens and Subjects of Neutral Coun
tries Who Have Declared Their In
tention to Become Citizens of This
Country Lose All Rights If They
Claim Exemption.
According to a recent act of con
gress and instructions wired to the
governor’s office July 22, natives of
certain neutral countries may not be
drafted, even though they have their
first citizenship papers. But should
they claim this exemption, they will
be forever barred from becoming cit
izens of the United States.
The wire to the governor’s office
reads as follows:
lV “Local and divisional exemption
boards: Your attention is directed to
the following telegram from the pro
vost marshal general ot July
“By a recent act of congress, citi
zens and subjects of countries neutral
in ihe present war who have declared
their intension to become cit'zens of
the United States are relieved from li
ability to military service on certain
conditions, in accordance with the reg
ulations prescribed by the president.
“Pending receipt of these regula
tions, instruct local boards that they
shall not involuntarily induct any regi
strant who is a subject of a country
neutral in the present war who has de
clared his intention to become a citi
zen of the United States, but who has
not completed his final naturalization.
“Declarant registrants of the fol
lowing countries do not come within
the terms of this telegram:
“Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, China,
Costa Rica, Cuba, France, Great Brit
ain, Greece, Guatemala, Italy, Japan,
Liberia, Monaco, Montenegro, Nica
Jhi Sitka Hot Springs
These springs are five in
number and one of the old land
marks of Alaska. The Russians
had a hospital there in 1841,
where they sent patients with
diseases of the skin and consti
tutional blood disorders.
The temperature averages
145 degrees Fahrenheit at the
Spring. The baths are effica
cious for rheumatism, stomach
and liver troubles, kidney and
bladder diseases, and for consti
tutional disorders.
These springs are in charge
of Dr. F. L. Goddard. The
terms for room, board, and
baths, $2 a day and up. Cabins,
$7.50 per month and up, includ
ing furnishings, except bed
ding. ADDRESS
F. L. GODDARD, M. D.,
SANITARIUM, : ALASKA
H.W. NAGLEY
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ragua, Panama, Portugal, Roumania
Russia, San Marino, Servia, Siam
Turkey.
“Subjects of Austria-Hungary am
Germany shall be classed as alien en
emies.”
The prescribed regulations concern
ing one coming within this provisioi
who has not completed his final nat
uralization papers but who has receiv
■ed his first papers state that he “mai
be relieved from liability to military
service upon a declaration, in accord
ance with such rules and regulation:
as the president may prescribe, with
drawing his intention to become a cit
izen of the United States, which shal
operate and be held to cancel his de
duration of intention to become ai
American citizen and he shall be for
ever barred from becoming a citizei
of the United States.”
Several natives of Alaska have de
| sired to do their bit under arms t<
| down the Hun, and. their wishes wil
not be fulfilled, for the registratioi
| board has received instructions to reg
! ister only those who no longer main
I tain tribal relations. This order in
eludes those of mixed blood who ar<
living separate from their tribe. Th<
general registration of Alaskan na
| tives who are not living apart fron
Lilt iiiuc uuca nvc
in the order, which is as follows:
“To the governor’s office,
j “1. You are directed to notify al
registrars under your jurisdiction a
i the earliest possible time, to registe
half breeds and others who are livim
separate and apart from tribes an<
who are leading a civilized life. In
struct registrars NOT to register an;
who were z-egistered in 1917.
“2. For the purpose of accomplish
ing the registration, excepting thosi
who have become twenty-one years o
age since the first registration a yea
ago, use the same forms that were is
; sued in 1917. Use the new registra
| tion forms exclusively for the regis
tration of persons who have reachei
the age of twenty-one since the firs
registration in Alaska.
“An Indian is a citizen if he live
separate and apart from his tribe ani
has adopted the habits of civilized life
“4. You are advised that the regis
tration of Indians generally in the ter
ritory of Alaska is still deferred. Reg
ister only the half-breeds and others
defined by the foregoing instructions.
SUBMARINE SINKS
THREE VESSEL!
_
WASHINGTON, D. C„ August 12
—A German submarine recently sanl
the British steamer Penistone, th
| Swedish steamer Sydland and th
American schooner Herman, all o
which were destroyed off the coast o
England.
FLEW OVER ALPS
TO DROP MANIFESTO!
! _
ROME, August 12.—One of eigh
aeroplanes that dropped manifesto
over Vienna Friday failed to retun
and it is believed lost. The machine,
made a flight of a thousand kilomet
ers over the Alps, in a great storm a
a height of ten thousand feet.
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GERMAN AIRSHIP
i FALLS IN HOLLANE
LONDON, August 12.—Official: J
German airship, in flames, fell ii
northern Holland yesterday.
RETURNS FROM SEWARD.
C. W. Donnally, prominently con
nected with the Alaskan Engineering
commission, returned to Anchorage
Saturday night from Seward, when
he has been on official business.
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AMERICANS LEND AID TO PEO
PLE OF PARIS WHEN HUN
AVIATORS ATTACK CITY
WASHINGTON, July 10. - (Ry
Mail)—Writing of a German air raid
on Paris, one of the American Red
Cross inspectors gives a thrilling ac
l count of how American troops and
Red Cross worl trs give aid to th.r eiiy
to the city in such desperate moments.
He describes an air raid in this fash
ion:
“Nowhere is there any sound but
the echoes of foodsteps. Not a street
light is to be seen, not a single ray of
light—nothing but the inkiest and
| most impenetrable darkness. Then
! all of the noise of the world seems to
break loose. Clang-clang-clang booms
the tocsin—like a gigantic pneumatic
riveter working on a colossal bell.
Whooo-o shrieks the siren, running
i; up and down the scale in an awful
! wail.
“The streets come to life. Doors
1! open and slam shut. The sidewalks
t' are full of ghostly figures hurrying fo
■! wards the caves, wrhere the inhabitants
r' have fitted up cots and bunks. They
1 get up now to make a sitting place for
- the newcomers. The place fills up.
i Everyone looks apathetic, sleepy and
bored. The children go to sleep with
- their heads on their mothers’ should
i ers, and a girl in the uniform of a
[ street car conductor swaps war yarns
r with a poilu in dingy blue. In the
- last raid the front trucks of her car
- were thrown from the rails by the
- displacement of air caused by an ex
1 ploding torpedo. The car and its in
t mates were unhurt. The poilu looks
a mite incredulous and murmurs, T
3 can well believe you, Mademoiselle.’
1 “Outside the noise continues for
. about three or four minutes and then
- subsides as a new noise starts—the
- Archies, or anti-aircraft guns, which
- commerce to bark furiously frciti half
, a dozen different points. Searchlights
’ rake the sky. The Archies continue
their clamor, but they are not linng
at anything, merely keeping up a bar
rage fire to prevent the Boche from
i flying over the city.
^ “Suddenly there is an earthrocking
! WHOOM. No more doubt as to where
• the Boches are. WHOOM, WHOOM,
c WHOOM-! One involuntarily ducks
3 and tries turtlewise to cover his
? head with his shoulders. A hM-’ous
^ noise resounds up and down the de
r j serted street—falling walls, and the
tinklin gand crash of showers of brok
en glass and roofing tiles.
“Through the glass and litter of the
street an American Red Cross camion
' ette comes ploughing its way. One of
the city firemen stands on the running
board. They stop and the fireman
• flashes an electric lamp into the ruins,
5 makes a hasty inspection, and then
’ runs upto the street and dives into the
; redlight ‘cave.’
“ ‘Anybody here from numbers 49
■ to 51 ?’ he calls. A half dozen voices
yell out that there is.
“ ‘Is everybody here from those
numbers? Was there anyone left in
either of those buildings?’
| “There is an anxious calling back
and forth and a rapid counting of
noses. ‘All here,’ is the answer.
1 “‘Good! Not much left of those
1 two buildings. Don’t enter the ruins
until they have been inspected by the
engineering depaitment. Go to the
Sisters of the Poor if you want food or
- a place to sleep.”
' “A wail and several curses compete,
' but the fireman is gone.
: “The Archies have stopped and
there are no more whooms, but peo
ple stay in their cellars. It is onlv 9
I i:
o’clock, and experience has shown that
the industrious and methodical Boches
will keep coming back again and again
until after midnight.
“A half a mile away a bright red
glow gets larger and larger and lights
the sky. A fire has broke^i out in the
railroad yards and is making great
headway. Several cars of oil are
burning fiercely and spreading to cars
of merchandise. Half a dozen Ameri
can soldiers are working feverishly
trying to get the untouched cars away
from the fire.
“Two of them have got hold of a
switch engine and are shunting oui
whole springs of cars.
“ 'Do you know anything about
these French engines, sir?” asks the
impromptu engineer. ‘I can’t find the
damn brake.’
“The fire is eating its way towards
a pier on which stands a line of drums
of gasoline.
“Come on, boys! roll them kegs of
gas outa here,’ yells the corporal, and
the line of drums starts trundling
down the pier. It is infernally hot, and
the average man does not know just
how hot gasoline can get before it be
gins to misbehave, but the line never
wavers.
“ ‘Roll ’em along boys! keep ’em go
ing. Everybody has got to die some
time.’
“ Little by little things leeome qui
eter. The fires die down. The Archies
stop. Here and there a working party
still continues its labors in the ruins
Someone is missing, and they want tc
get him out of a cellar. Now the
tocsin sounds again, this time with
slow, stately, measured beats. This
is the ‘All’s clear’ signal. No more
enemy planes are flying between here
and the fighting lines. People come
out of their cellars and go home. A
few cautious souls are busily putting
sheets of paper and pieces of bedding
across their broken windows to keep
out the dreaded ‘courant d’air.’ Now
and then there is a small group in a
doorway, recounting experiences.
“The Boche has dropped more than
! 100 bombs tonight, many of them oi
| the 660 pound size. The net damage
is not very great. A few houses de
j stroyed, many windows broken, a few
victims—very few' but all too many;
'a few holes blown in the streets, some
| trees uprooted in the parks and some
pansy beds obliterated.
“I imagine that back in his quarter;:
j the Boche escadrille kommandatur
after sadly cataloguing his owr
! wounds, is writing up an account oJ
| his glorious night’s work for the edi
fication of the reader of the ‘Kol
nischezeitung.’ His ductile pen is reel
ing off: ‘The earth reeled and rockec
while rows of buildings went dowr
like card houses; the light of thi
flames showed panic-stricken crowd:
surging through the streets towari
the open country; the railroad depot:
were leveled to the ground and man}
munition dumps were blown up, am
several fires were seen to break out ir
the barracks and military warehouses.
“The escadrille kommandatur wouk
be grieved beyond measure could h<
but .walk through the streets tonighi
and inventory the net results and set
the effect produced on the population
He who is now houseless shrugs hi:
| shoulders and says ‘C‘est le Guerre,
i and once more the peaceful stars shim
| down tranquilly on the silent streets.’
DECLINES TO SEE
NEW PAPAL NUNCIO
PEKING, August 12.—China refus
es to receive Monsignor Petrelli, the
new papal nuncio, on the ground tha1
he is a personal friend of the German
admiral, von Hintze, who is secretary
for foreign affairs in the German min
istry'.
LENINE - TROTZKY
FLEE FROM MOSCOW
LONDON, August 12.—A Berlin
dispatch says Lenine and Trotzky,
head of the Bolsheviki government in
Russia, have been compelled to flee
from Moscow to Kronstadt, the naval
base near Petrograd.
COUNTESS IS_
UNDER SUSPICION
NEW YORK, August 10.—Countess
Sonia Scaniawaka, said to be the wife
of a Polish officer now serving with
the allies, was questioned at the alien
enemy bureau yesterday. She is al
leged to be friendly with a group of
Hungarians living in New York city
who are under suspicion.
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BIG SERIES, IF HELD,
WILL BE ON WAR BASIS
NEW YORK, August 13.—Baseball
circles here believe there will be ai
baseball world's series between the
pennant winners of the major clubs as
in the past—but this year with new
rules that will prohibit the payment of
huge sums of the receipts to ball play
ers and magnates.
Players who participate in this
year’s classic probably will be asked
to give at least half and probably
more of their usual shares to* the Reel j
Cross or some fund which provides
athletics for soldiers.
The national commission’s share, it
is stated, probably will all go this
way, with most of the fund usually
paid into the coffers of the clubs sched
uled that way, also.
Unless this step is taken, according
to many close followers of the game,,
the attendance at a world’s series
would be practically nothing, with
baseball reaching a high point in dis
favor.
Indications are now that Chicago j
and Boston will be the contesting j
teams. If such is the case the largest j
crowds in the history of baseball J
might turn out, for the Boston games
| could be played on Braves field, the •
largest field in the country. One game:
might be played at the Polo grounds, j
New York, which has a tremendous!
seating capacity and a large popula- j
tion to draw from.
Barney Dreyfuss, acting for the Na
tional league, said today that plans
| had practically been completed for
playing the series about September 6.
SHOSHONES ADOPT
WILSON’S DAUGHTER
—
HAVRE, Mont., August 13.—The
Shoshone Indians have adopted as a
member of their tribe Mrs. William
| G. McAdoo, wife of the secretary of
| the treasury and a daughter of Pres
; ident Wilson, giving her the name of
j “Sacajawea,” after the Indian maid
I; who acted as a guide for the Lewis
l and Clark expeditions. The Indians
, regard this as an especially high
;! honor.
PENSIONING
U. S. EMPLOYES
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li WASHINGTON, D. C., August 14.
—The rirst provision ever made by the
government for pensioning civilian
employes is contained in the annual
lighthouse bill recently approved bv
. j
* I President Wilson.
A retirement system is instituted,
j permitting optional retirement at (55
years for those having thirty years
! active service and making retirement
compulsory at 70 years. Pensions will
be computed at one-fortieth of the av
1 erage annual pay during the last five
years of service multiplied by the j
number of years spent in the light
house service ot some other branch of
the government which has a retire
! ment service. In any case, the pay1
shall not be more than thirty-fortieths
of the annual average.
Despite several qualifying clauses,
the bill is regarded by government
employes and officials advocating a
general civilian retirement system, as
a marked step forward. Only em
ployes in the field service and on ves
sels come under the law, those contin
uously employed in district offices and ;
shops being excluded. The provision
that service only in branches of the
government having retirement sys
tems may be counted in qualifying for
a pension imposes strict limitation on
the transfer of veteran workers fi*om j
civilian departments to the lighthouse j
service, while permitting soldiers, sail-!
ors, marines and employes of the coast!
guard, all of whom have benefit of the j
military retirement systems, to enter
the sei*vice without prejudice to their
record.
In keeping Avith the generally ad
vancing trend of wages, the limit for
the average pay of lightkeepers was
increased by the bill to $840 from
$600, at which it was fixed more than
half a century ago. Superintendents
of districts were advanced from $2,400
to $3,000.
ARE EXPECTED
THIS SEASON
—
LACK OF RAIN LESSENS CROP
PREDICTION MADE A
MONTH AGO.
MORE LAND IS CULTIVATED.
Department of Agriculture Reports
That Despite Adverse Weather Con
ditions Prevalent in Some of the
States of the Union, Crops Will Be
Large.
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 9.—
The department of agriculture today
reports the loss of 171,000,000 bushels
of corn and 13,000,000 bushels of
wheat from the prospective production
from this year’s crops in the United
States, as indicated by the depart
ment’s estimates made a month ago.
The falling off in com and wheat
production is due to dry weather pre
vailing in various parts of the country,
particularly in the states of Texas,
Arizona, California, Oregon, Was'.'.ing
ton, Idaho and Montana, and in some
of the corn-growing states of the
south and Mississippi river valley.
Despite the adverse weather condi
tions, the corn and wheat crops will be
bumpers, compared with other years,
because much more land is cultivated.
TO BE CONSIDERED
AT THE PEACE TABLE
GERMANY HAS GOUGED OVER
THREE BILLION FRANCS OUT
OF BELGIUM.
LONDON, August 8.—Lord Robert
Cecil, assistant secretary of state for
foreign affairs, stated in the house of
lords yesterday that German war lev
ies upon Belgium now totaled two bil
lion, three hundred and thirty million
francs, besides enormous fines that
have been imposed on cities and towns.
He declared this must be taken into
account in peace negotiations.
TAX DODGERS
LIVE IN CANADA
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 10
A corps of trained revenue agents will
be sent into Canada to round up Am
erican tax-dodgers residing in that
country.
CASUALTY LIST
STEADILY GROWS
REPORTS SHOW SIXTEEN THOU
SAND ON LIST SINCE AMER
ICA ENTERED WAR.
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 8.—
Yesterday’s army and marine casualty
list in the Aisne-Marne fighting num
bered 498. This brings the total toll
of victory to 1,213, and the number of
casualties since the Americans landed
in France up to 16,400. Yesterday’s
casualty list was composed almost en
tirely of wounded men. No Alaskans
have appeared on the casualty lists
thus far.
ALLIES DESTROY
MANY HUN PLANES
PARIS, August 10.—Official: Dur
ing the month of July allied airmen
destroyed a hundred and eighty-four
German aeroplanes, downed a hundred
and fifty-four, while many others were
downed and fell behind the German
lines. No record of the number that
fell out of control is available.
SECOND CASUALTY
LIST PUBLISHED
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 7.—
The second United States army casu
alty list shows that 256 soldiers were
killed in action and 46 died of their
wounds.