GOVERNMENT PROPOSES TO !
CONTROL ENTIRE MEDICAL
PROFESSION HERE.
GIVEN CHANCE TO VOLUNTEER.
Those Not Taken for Military Duty,
Either in Foreign or Domestic Serv
ice. Will Be Distributed in Locali
ties Where Their Services May Be
Most Urgently Needed.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 20.— |
The government is working out a plan
to control the entire medical profes- {
sion of the nation, so as to insure suf
ficient doctors and surgeons to meet
the demands of the army, both for for
eign and domestic service.
Those not taken for active military '
duty, either in foreign or domestic
service, will be distributed in locali
ties where their services may be most
needed.
It is planned to have the medical
men voluntarily enroll for duty at the
call of the government, but if neces-;
sarv, they will be drafted and com
pelled to serve.
YOUNGEST SON OF FORMER
f PRESIDENT MEETS DEATH
ON BATTLE FRONT.
WAS IN AN AERIAL BATTLE.
«
f
In An Engagement Between Ameri
can and Herman Aeroplanes in the
Chateau-Thierry Sector Yesterday
Young Roosevelt’s Machine Shot
Down and Falls Within the German
Lines.
LONDON, July 18. — Lieutenant
Quentin Roosevelt, the youngest son
of Colonel Roosevelt, was killed at
Chateau-Thierry, in an aerial battle
between American and German aero
planes. Roosevelt’s machine was hit1
and fell behind the German lines.,
Phillip Roosevelt, a cousin, witnessed
the air battle and saw Quentin’s ma-1
china fall to the ground.
ROOSEVELT HEARS NEWS.
OYSTER BAY, July 18.—When in
formed of the death of his youngest
son, Colonel Roosevelt said: “Quen
tin’s mother and I are glad he had a
chance to render his country some ■
service before his fate befell him.”
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INVITES GERMANS TO CON
FER ON MATTER.
MEETING IS CALLED AT BERNE.
Switzerland to Aid the Invalided—Is
Ready to Receive the Americans If
Mutual Arrangement With Berlin
Is Completed—Believed No Difficul
ty in Agreeing.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 22.—
Germany has been asked through
Spanish diplomatic channels to send
-epresentatives to Berne, Switzerland,
;o meet American representatives j
here on August 5, in order to discuss j
he maintenance, treatment, and ex
change of prisoners. In response to a
jroposal fi'om the state department,
;he German government recently sig
nified its agreement in principle to
>uch a conference.
The United States has also asked
Germany to permit a Swiss commis
sion to visit German prison camps to
ietermine what American prisoners
may be classed as invalids and releas
ed for internment in Switzerland. Re
ciprocal priveleges are promised. The
state department made public today a
communication from the Swiss gov-,
eminent consenting to receive invalid-i
ed Americans and intern them until j
the end of the war.
It was announced that the proposal \
to the German government regarding;
invalided prisoners was sent through
the Spanish ambassador at Berlin on
June 15 and that no reply had been
i■ <->n/a i x r ca nn fa ■fViic fimo
A schedule of what the United
States would regard as disabilities j
warranting repatriation of prisoners ;
ar their internment in a neutral coun-:
try has been forwarded to Germany, j
and the request has been made that
immediate internment in Switzerland
will be permitted in the cases of those
Americans who obviously would
come under any schedule agreed upon.
All of these questions will be discus
sed fully at the proposed conference
at Berne, if it is arranged.
The Swiss note replying to the orig
inal American proposal, addressed to
Minister Stovall, says:
“It is with particular satisfaction
that we learn by your excellency’s
note of May 0 that the Government of j
the United States has conceived the j
idea of interning American soldiers in
Swtizerland who have been prisoners
if war in Germany, in case such there
ai e. It is hardly necessary to assure
you, Mr. Minister, that your compa
:riots would find the best welcome in
Switzerland, for the authorities and
all the population would congratulate
themselves to be able to give under
this form a new proof of their friendly |
sentiments to the great sister repub
lic, America.
“Your excellency, who knows well i
—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. E. 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
FRENCH FORCES DRIVE RUNS
FROM SOUTH SIDE OF MARNE
RIVER, IN VIOLENT ATTACKS
ADVANCE ALONG SOISSONS-CHATEAU THIERRY FRONT
HAS BROUGHT FRANCO-AMERICAN FORCES WITHIN
ARTILLERY FIRE OF IMPORTANT GERMAN RAILWAY
JUNCTION AND MAY RESULT IN CUTTING HUN COM
MUNICATION LINE—MAY CAPTURE THOUSANDS OF
PRISONERS.
Paris, July 22.—Official: The French forces violently attacked
the German right flank south of the Marne river late Saturday after
noon, forcing them to retreat across the river. The French are now in
possession of the entire southern bank of the Marne. Over twenty
thousand German prisoners and four hundred big guns have been
taken.
With the Americans on the Marne, July 22.—The Franco-Am
erican advance along the'Soissons-Chateau Thierry front has brought
them within artillery distance of the railway line connecting Sojssons
with the Marne valley railway and which is serving as a line of com
munication for the Germans. The railway junction is already under a
heavy fire of the Franco-American artillery, and if the Germans arc
not successful in holding it, thousands of them may be cut off from
their major forces, or forced to retreat. Fighting is light east of
Chateau Thierry, except at a point where the allies, despite a stubborn
resistance on the part of the Huns, moved forward a half a mile
yesterday.
ADMITS COSTLY GAINS BY ALLIES.
Berlin, July 22.—Official: While admitting costly gains by the
Franco-American forces, enemy trusts southwest of Soissons and north
west of Chateau Thierry were repulsed by German forces. German
troops were withdrawn Saturday night from the south bank of the
Marne river, without being noticed by the allied forces.
NO GERMANS SOUTH OF MARNE.
London, July 22.—Reuter’s correspondent with the French head
quarters telegraphs today that no German troops remain south of the
Marne river, except a great many prisoners and a large number of dead.
AMERI( ANS IN RAID ()N ALSA('E FR()NT.
With the Americans in Alsace, July 22.—An American raid on
the enemy lines southwest of Munster last night resulted in a penetra
tion of the Hun positions a distance of six hundred meters and the
capture of some prisoners. The enemy suffered heavy casualties.
BRITISH FORCE HUNS TO WITHDRAW.
London, July 22.—Official: The British forces last night forced
the Germans to withdraw from Rossinnol woods, located between
Hebuternc and Bucquoy.
the present economic difficulties of
our country, will understand on the
other hand that the number of Amer
icans to be received will depend essen
tially on the general situation of
Switzerland as well as on the number
of interned from other countries who
may be in our territory at the time
when the internment of Americans
should start, but you can be sure that
we will do everything in our power to
conform to your desire in all cases.
“We are very touched with the
generous offer to put at that time at
our dispositon provisions from the
‘American Prisoners’ Central Commit
tee,’ which we would accept certainly
with gratitude. To avoid all misun
derstanding, however, we believe we
must observe even now that this help
from the point of view of nourishment
cannot be sent directly to interned
Americans, the Swiss federal govern
ment adopting the principle that the
interned should be treated as far as
concerns their rations in all foodstuffs
on exactly the same footing as the
Swiss popualtion.
“W;e add that the competent Swiss
authorities will be happy to lend their
help for the nomination of Swiss doc
tors in an understanding with the Ger
man authorities for the repatriation
or internment of American prisoners
of war.”
’TWAS EVER THUS.
First Debutante—How on earth did
you manage to make such a hit with
Mr. Writeleigh? I told him I’d read
every single thing he ever wrote and
that I though he was better than
Kipling, Shakespeare and Balzac put
together, and it didn’t seem to im
press him at all.
Second Debutante—I told him he
danced better than Vernon Castle.
ACCUSED OF MURDER.
SEATTLE, July 18.—Alvin Adams,
19 years old, a soldier stationed at
Fort Casey, was arrested in Portland
today charged with the murder of M.
A. Raymer, a local jitney driver.
Job Printing at the Times office.
WAS NOTED CHARACTER.
EL PASO, July 10.—Another bor
der character suffered a violent death
here when Ike Alderete, an American
born native of Mexican parentage was
accidentally shot and killed by a drug
crazed Mexican across south El Paso!
street. As a political leader, an or
ganizer of Mexican fraternal societies
and a participant in Mexican political
and revolutionary affairs, Alderette
was well known along the entire bor
der. He was a friend of the poor
Mexicans and did much charitable
work among these people.
THE ICE MAN IN TROUBLE.
EL PASO, Tex., July 22.—El Paso
ice men must weigh every piece of ice
before it is delivered at the back door
of El Paso homes. This was the or
der of the city weighmaster. It has
[ long been the practice of the local ice
i wagon drivers to guess at weights of
ice and the complaints of short weight
caused the order.
REPORT IS CONFIRMED.
WASHINGTON, July 18—The state
department has received confirmation
that regular Turkish troops looted the
American hospital at Tabriz, in Persia.
THAT’S THE STUFF.
Why make one day Flag Day and why
Observe it in a pompous way?
Let’s keep old glory waving high,
And have a Flag Day every day.
FAMOUS AFFINNITIES.
Ham and Eggs.
Salt and pepper.
Liver and Onions.
Corned Beef and Cabbage.
Bread and Butter.
Pen and Ink.
Rock and Rye.
Tom and Jerry.
Pork and Beans.
Oil and Gas.
Pool and Billiards.
Kids and Candy.
Cheese and Crackers.
Funerals and Flowers.
Soap and Water.
—Ex.
DEMAND FOR STEEL PRODUCTS
HAS REACHED ALARMING
PROPORTIONS.
DUE TO WAR NECESSITIES.
Chairman Hurley Fears Shortage
Will Handicap Ship Construction
Unless Many More Steel Mills Are
Started in This Country—Situation
Is Serious.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 18.—
rhe government demand for steel has
reached such proportions, on account
if the war program, that the war in
iustries board fears a shortage, des
pite the plans to check and keep tab
m all steel in the nation.
Chairman Hurley, appearing before
.he war industries board yesterday,
said he feared the shipbuilding pro
gram would be delayed ,if the con
struction continued to increase as it
lias in the past few months unless the
number of steel mills were greatly
increased.
DOUGLAS, July 22.—Fred Henson,
for several years steward at the
Treadwell mess house, now a success
ful merchant at Port Angeles, Wash,
in a letter to his father, United States
Commisioner John Henson, at this
place, tells of what is said to be the
most gigantic undertaking by the gov
ernment in the line of aeroplane lum
ber production in the United states.
At a point forty miles back Iron
Port Angeles, on Lake Crescent, am
toward the Olympic mountains, th*
government is erecting what will be
when completed, the largest sawmil
in the world, which will be used ex
clusively for the purpose of cutting
spruce for aeroplane construction foi
use in the ozone and azure that inter
venes between Germany and the firm
ament of heaven.
The vast prairie country contiguous
to the foothills of the Olympic moun
tains contains billions of feet of the
finest spruce in America and Mr. Hen
son writes his father that 2,000 expo
rienced woodsmen are now engager
in cutting it down and getting out
logs for the big sawmill which is being
rushed to completion as rapidly as pos
sible, and which will have a capacity
of over one million feet of lumbei
daily.
A railroad 42 miles in length, c
branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul, is being constructed to the
new mill and a system of feedei
tracks will be built throughout the
timbered region to facilitate the wort
of getting logs to the mill.
The United States government is ir
charge of the mammoth undertaking
and will conduct it until the end of
the war when the industry will be
taken over by a private corporation
presumably the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul Railroad company, which is
known to own much of the timber
land in that section.
The fact that the government is go
ing so extensively into the spruce
lumber business bears out the belief
that reports to the effect that future
warfare on Germany will be made
mostly from the air are true. Also,
one million feet of lumber daily will
permit of the construction of a fleet
or flock of airplanes within a short
tim ethat will almost shut off the sun
light from the land of the Hun.
PAW KNOWS EVERYTHING.
^Villie—Paw, can a man serve two
masters ?
Paw—Yes, my son. But he'd be ar
rested for bigamy.
Maw—Willie, you go upstairs and
take a bath.
30 AND 40
MOST OF THE VICTIMS WERE
MEMBERS OF THE ENGINE
ROOM CREWS.
WERE KILLED BY* EXPLOSIONS.
While Not Definitely Known, It Is the
General Belief That Cruiser Was
Sunk by German Submarine—Navy
Department to Start Inquiry to De
termine Cause.
NEW YORK, July 22.—A semi-of
ficial estimate made here yesterday,
following the arrival of over 1,100 sur
vivors of the destroyed armored cruis
er San Diego, says that between thir
ty and forty men lost their lives in the
sinking of the warship off the en
trance to New York harbor. Most of
those who perished, it is said, were
members of the engine room crews.
These were killed by the explosions
which followed the torpedoed or :nin
' ing of the cruiser.
While not definitely known, it is the
general belief that the cruiser was
torpedoed by a German submarine.
Others hold to the belief that the ship
hit a sunken mine. It will be several
days before it can be definitely known.
An official investigation by the
navy will probably start tomorrow.
SEARCHERS SUCCESSFUL
IN LOCATING BODY
NENANA — The searching party
which came down from fairbanks to
! locate the body of Knute Helenius, the
! lower river mail carrier, ended their
■ search today. The party started over
j the trail from Minto road house to
: this town, keeping a close watch for
! any signs of what might have become
I of Helenius. The body was found by
Jack Desmond and Jack O’Connor and
was lying about ten feet off the trail
i near the 45-mile house.
There were no signs of any vio
I lence, and it is thought that Helenius
met his death from natural causes.
| He was known to have been on his
II way from Fort Gibbon to the hospital
■ here. When last seen at the Minto
■ i
; road house he said that he was feeling
pretty sick, but thought he would be
able to make it to Nenana. This was
March 14.
After being missed for some time
inquiries were made, but no one had
seen anything of him. A party from
Fairbanks using the launch belonging
to the bureau of fisheries and in
' charge of C. F. Townsend left the up
| per town several days ago. Arriving
i at Johnny Campbell’s on the Tanana,
i the party went overland to the Minto
i road house and from there started
| their search for the unfortunate man.
1 the deceased was very well known
throughout Alaska, and has been en
gaged for the past several years in
carrying mail on the Yukon below
Tanana. He was a member of the
Moose, Eagle and Pioneer orders,
which lodges, it is thought, will take
charge of the interment.
OVER SIX BILUON
LOANED 10 ALLIES
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 20.—
The treasury department today gave
a credit of $100,000,000 to Italy and a
war credit of $9,000,000 to Bel
gium. This makes the total loans by
the United States to allied nations to
date $6,388,040,000.
FAR AS HE GOT.
Helen—Why, he yawned three times
whil el was talking to him!
Myrtle—Perhaps he wasn’t yawn
ing. He may have been trying to say
something.
FISHERMAN’S FANCY.
“But Eliza,” said the mistress,
“your little boy was christened George
Washington. Why don’t you call him
Izaak Walton? Walton, you know,
was the famous fisherman.”
“Yes’m,” answered Eliza, “but dat
chile’s reputashun for tellin’ de troof
made dat change imper’tive.”