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rCHORAGE WEEKLY TIMES
AND ALASKA LABOR NEWS.
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ANCHORAGE. ALASKA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1918.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
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* SERGEANT MAJOR THOMAS B.
RITTER ACCUSED OF GIVING
SECRETS TO THE ENEMY.
,’UXZSHMENT MAY BE DEATH.
Prisoner Has Father and Brother in
German Army—Case Is Said to Be
First of Its Kind in History of Pa
cific Coast.
TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 8.—What is
aid to be the first case of alleged
treason on the Pacific coast involves
oergeant Major Thomas Belmuth Rit
ter, one of the highest non-commis
sioned officers at Camp Lew"’-* tne
cantonment at American Eake, near
*1 acoma, where men aie under
military training.
Ritter is accused of having betrayed
military secrets to the enemy. The
penalty for this offense n a> be as
S'-.ere as death. Instructions relative
to putting the prisoner on trial are
awaited from the authorities at Wash
ington.
MILK COW CAN BE
KEPT BY SOLDERS
ANIMAL’S FOOD, IT IS DECIDED,
MAY HE BOUGHT WITH RA
TION SAVINGS.
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WASHINGTON, "DP C., Jan. S.—
A detachment of soldiers kept a cow
for the production of milk fov the
detachment mess, and the question
was presented whether it was legal to
purchase feed for the cow from the
ration savings in view of the i*equire
ent of paragraph 1220, Army Regu
cj ns, that “such savings shall be
used solely for the purchase of arti
■s of food.”
Enoch H. Crowder, the judge ad
ite general, decided that the pur
, yjns of the regulation being simply to
'•oqUire that funds appropriated by
congress for the subsistence of sol
<’ ers shall be used for no other pur
-e, either directly or indirectly, the
enditure of ration savings for feed
the cow under the circumstances
id not be in violation of the regu
lation, such expenditure resulting in
procurement of milk for the sol
OFFICERS NAMED FOR
FAIR ASSOCIATION
chamber of commerce DIS
CUSSES PLANS FOR FOOD
CON NERVATION H ERE.
Plans were discussed today at the
amber of Commeri^ luncheon meet
n g at the h risco CuN for the or
nization of the agricultural and
' omercial fair corporation, which
r. dl take charge of the fairs to be
given in Anchorage in the future.
, Ihe temporay officers elected were
>. idrew Christensen, president, E. T.
ndner, secretary und A. A. Shon
ck treasurer.
The articles of incorporation will
; sent to the office of secretaiy of
<e territory at Juneau tomorrow.
Plans were also discussed relative
o the food conservation policy to be
dopted in Anchorage in accordance'
ith the Suggestion of the national
ood administration. Details of the
cal policy will be announced in the
urse of the next ten days.
LIEUT. TAFT ASSIGNED.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8.—
:rst Lieut. William H. Taft, 2nd,
assigned to duty at Watervliet Ar
uul, Watervliet, N. Y.
NEW ARMY SHOE IS
BETTER THAN OLD
DELIVERY BEGINS OF FOOT
WEAR FOR SOLDIERS ORDER
ED SOME MONTHS AGO.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8.—
American soldiers in France and those
training in this country soon will be
gin to receive the new army march
ing and trench shoe contracted for by
the government several months ago.
Delivery of 10,500,000 pairs has be
gun, it was announced, and will con
tinue until May.
The new shoe is regarded by leather
experts as one of the best ever turned
out and by army officers as superior
to those of any other army in the
world. Although manufactured at
less cost—$4.65 a p«ir—the new shoe
is much sturdier than those used here
tofore. Tljc.v " ill be treated with wat
erproofing materials.
SECRETARY OF COMMERCE’S
ORDER A1FECTS WATER FROM
DELTA TO MILES LAKE.
FROM JANUARY 1 TO JUNE 5.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8.—
On complaint of the bureau of fisher
| ies that the Copper River is overfish
I ed, Secretary of Commerce Willimr r
Redfield today issued an order prohib
iting commercial fishing in the Cop
per river, its delta or its tributaries,
from the head of the delta to the foot
of Miles lake, from January 1 to June
5 of every year.
Several large companies have fish
ing stations in the waters included in
the secretary’s order of prohibition.
It is expected they will continue in
business, but their catch will be great
ly curtailed. They will be able to op
erate, it is thought, because the run
of fish in these waters continues some
years as late as August.
GERMANY SAD TO
BE PAYING I. W. W.’S
FIRE UNDERWRITERS CHARGE
PLOT TO DESTROY MILLS
AND CROPS IN WEST.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 7.—
The Pacific coast board of fire under
writers has evidence of a well organ
ized plot to destroy lumber mills,
manufacturing plants and crops along
the Pacific coast.
The Industrial Workers of the
World are declared to be behind the
plot, and it is believed that Germany
is furnishing the necessary money.
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* Christensen Favored. *
* _
* Andrew Christensen head
* of the land and industrial de- *
* partment of the Alaskan Engi- ♦
* nering comimssion today was ♦
* endorsed by the Anchorage *
* Chamber of Commerce as a ■*
* member of the commission to ♦
* succeed Major Frederick *
* Mears, who is now on his way ■*
* to Washington to arrange for ■*
* the organization of a regiment *
* of engineers for service in •*
* F ranee. *
* Telegrams advocating Mr. **
* Christensen’s appo i n t m e n t *
* were sent by the chamber to •*
* Chairman William C. Edes, of *
* the commission, and to Secre- *
* tary of the Interior Franklin *
* K. Lane. *
* Mr. Christensen is now act
* ing member of the commission •#
* in place of Major Mears. +
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CONGRESS OEMS FOURTEEN
ISSUES TO BE SETTLED BY WAR
OPEN PEACE COVENANTS WITHOUT ANY PRIVATE
INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING, FREEDOM OF
SEAS, REMOVAL OF ECONOMIC BARRIERS, RE
DUCTION OF ARMAMENTS ARE URGED.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8.—
President Wilson today addressed a
joint session of congress and restated
the war aims of the United States.
These aims are regarded by states
men and diplomats in Washington as
practically in agreement with the
aims of Great Britain as announced
recently in a public address by Lloyd
George, premier of England.
President Wilson’s definite program
for a world peace contains fourteen
considerations. They follow:
1. —Open peace covenants without
any private international understand
ings.
2. —Freedom of the seas.
iirmoval of Barriers.
3. —Removal of all economic bar
riers in order to promote the estab
| lishment of equal trade conditions
among the nations associating them
selves for the maintenance of peace.
4. —Reduction of national arma
| ments.
5. —Adjustment of colonial claims
I on the principle that the peoples con
i cerned have equal weight with gov
j ernmental interests.
j 6.—Evacuation of Russia and the
| opportunity for Russia’s political de
I velonment.
| 7.—Evacuation of Belgium without
| limiting her sovereignty.
8. —Restoration of all French terri
tory with reparation and the restora
tion of Alsace-Lorraine.
Changes in Italian Frontiers.
9. —The readjustment of Italian
frontiers along the lines of national
ity.
10. —The greatest opportunities for
the autonomous development of the
different races within the boundaries
of Austria-Hungary.
11. —Evacuation of Rumania, Ser
bia and Montenegro, with guarantees
SAILORS WRECK
NEWSPAPER PLANT
DESTROYED MACHINES, WORTH
$15,000 WERE USED IN PRINT
ING RADICAL SHEET.
SEATTLE, Jan. 8.—Sailors from
the Puget sound navy yard at Brem
erton and Seattle civilians last night
wrecked the plant of the H. C. Piggot
Printing company in Seattle. They
smashed practically all the equipment,
completely ruining it. The loss is es
timated at $15,000.
The plant printed The Daily Call,
a radical newspaper that disseminat
ed doctrines like those of the Indus
trial Workers of the World.
The party that wrecked the plant is
said to have been comprised of twenty
sailors and two civilians. No arrests
have been made.
GERMAN BOYS MUST
PREPARE FOR WAR
ESSEN NEWSPAPER SAYS SIX
TEEN-YEAR-OLD LADS WILL
SOON BE NEEDED.
AMSTERDAM, Holland, Jan. 8.—
Intimations that Germany is planning
to force boys of 16 and 17 years into
the army are contained in an appeal
appearing in the Essen General An
zeiger that they immediately join the
juvenile corps.
“This great struggle between the
nations,” says the newspaper, “will
necessitate those who are now 16 and
17 being called up at no very remote
date for army service.”
of Balkan independence and access to I
the sea for Serbia.
12. —The Dardanelles to be opened
to all nations with the sovereignty j
resting in Turkey.
Independence for Poland.
13. —An independent Poland with j
access to the sea.
14. —A general association of na- :
tions under guarantees of political in- !
dependence and territorial integrity
of all.
Coming at the moment when Ger
many faces the socialists’ demands :
for the abandonment of the program
for annexations and indemnities and
when she faces failure in the peace
negotiations with Russia at Brest
Litovsk, the president’s pronounce
ment is regarded as of tremendous!
importance.
He spoke before the crowded cham
ber. A favorable demonstration oe
i curred when he mentioned Alsace
Lorraine.
He said he wanted the Germans to
take a place of equality and not of
j mastery among the peoples of the
world. He declared that in making
peace the entente nations must know
■ who the German spokesmen speak
j for.
President Wilson concluded by say
I ing that the United States is willing
to fight until the fourteen arrange
ments outlined by him are achieved
because it wants a just and perma
nent peace.
Stocks Slump at First.
NEW YORK, Jan. 8.—Stocks on
the New York exchange slumped at
the opening of President Wilson’s ad
dress before congress and trading vir
tually ceased for a while. When the
essential points of his speech became
known, however, general selling be
gan.
ENCLANDTOPUT
PEOPLE ON RATIONS
GOVERNMENT SAYS COMPUL
SORY REGULATIONS WILL
SOON BE IN EFFECT.
LONDON, Jan. 4. — Official an
nouncament was made today by the
British government that compulsory
rationing of food would soon be put
into effect throughout England.
! The official statement said that
; compulsory action was necessary be
cause of the refusal of the people in
their homes and of proprietors of ho
tels and restaurants to heed of their
own volition the advice and requests
| of the authorities relative to the con
! servation of food.
The British ministry realizes that |
when the ration order goes into effect
it will occasion considerable criticism,
particularly among workers in the
well-paid factory districts.
MASSES ARE SAID
FOR SOLDIER DEAD
AMERICAN FLAG HANGS IN DO
REMY CHURCH WHERE JOAN
D’ARC WORSHIPED.
PARIS, France, Jan. 7.—Masses
for the American and French soldier
dead were said in French churches
yesterday on the occasion of the na
tional celebration in honor of Joan
d’Arc. American and French flags
were draped over the altar at the
church in Doremy, where the Sainted
Maid or Orleans worshiped.
DUTCH SOLDIERS TO
TOY WOODEN SOLES
INCREASED COST OF LEATHER
LEADS TO EXPERIMENT IN
FOOTWEAR FOR TROOPS.
THE 'HAGUE, Netherlands, Jan.
8.—The commander in chief of the
Dutch army has notified the corps
commanders that an experiment will
be made with wooden soles for shoes,
in consequence of the increasing ad
vance in the price of leather. For the
experiment, 5,000 pairs of shoes will
be made; 2,000 are now ready. The
wooden soles will be on new shoes,
each pair having an extra set to re
place worn-out soles.
The wooden soles are first soaked in
water to increase their flexibility.
When a definite judgment of the ex
periment can be formed and if it is
found feasible, it will be extended on
a large scale.
TWO SHOPS, AFTER TRIAL OF
HIGH SCHEDULE, GO BACK
TO TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.
BUSINESS WITH OTHERS BAD.
War to the bitter end is being wag
ed by the Anchorage barbers, accord
ing to a statement made today by
John F. Adkins one of the proprietors
of a barber shop here.
At a meeting of the barbers held
two weeks ago it was decided that in
view of the eight-hour law, which
went into effect on January 1 and the
high cost of living it was necessary to
raise the price of a shave from 25
cents to 50 cents. The schedule went
into effect with the New Year.
After trying out the increased
prices for the short period of three
hours, the Star barber shop gave up
the ghost and went back to the price
of 25 cents. Then followed the bar
ber shop in the Curley rooming house,
which now advertises the price of a
shave as of old, 25 cents.
It was planned to try out the new
schedule for the period of thirty days.
If at the end of this period the bar
bers were able to outdistance starva
tion the schedule was to be made
permannet.
The barbers in the other shops say
they will continue to maintain the new
price although they admit they are do
ing very little business.
WASTE HEAPS HAVE
LOTS OF GOOD FUEL
COUNCIL OF PENNSYLVANIA
TOWN URGES USE OF 60
YEARS’ ACCUMULATION.
HAZLETON, Pa., Jan. 7. — The
Hazleton council has forwarded to Dr.
H. A. Garfield, federal fuel adminis
trator, a resolution calling his atten
tion to the existence in Hazleton and
at other points in the coal fields of
accumulations of sixty years of good
anthracite in culm banks, slush fields
and debris heaps.
The suggestion is made in the reso
lution that he authoidze the people of
the hard coal section to gather this
fuel, pay a nominal sum to the op
erators per ton and thus release the
mined anthracite for the nation in its
need in time of war. Councilman W.
D. Gerlach, author of the resolution,
declared that, while driving a sewer
this year, his men went through solid
beds of good anhracite coal discarded
as waste, in many places twelve and
fifteen feet thick.
SENATE PASSES
GOAL AND OIL
BILL PROVIDES FOR MORE LIB
ERAL GOVERNMENT POLICY
ON SALES AND LEASES.
ALASKA IS NOT INCLUDED.
Proposed Enactment Will Now Go for
Consideration to House Which Is
Expected to Favor It Without Ma
terial Amendment.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8.—
The Walsh-Pittman bill, providing1 a
more liberal governmental policy for
the lease and sale of coal and oil
lands in the -United States, its terri
tories and possessions, except Alas
ka, was passed late yesterday after
noon by the senate.
The measure will now go to the
house, which is expected to pass it
without material amendment.
By the provisions of the bill, gen
eral leases can be obtained on oil
lands by the payment of royalties to
the govei-nment, and arrangements
are also provided for the purchase of
oil and coal lands on certain condi
tions.
Unjust Discrimination.
SEATTLE, Jan. 8.—Officials of the
Alaska bureau of the Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce and Commercial
club declare the Walsh-Pittman bill
! discriminates very unjustly against
; Alaska.
FAULT FOUNDWITH
PRICE FOR FEED
FARMERS COMPLAIN THAT THE
STOCKYARD CHARGES ARE
ALTOGETHER TOO HIGH.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8.—
Complaints in considerable numbers
ai'e reaching the federal food admin
istration from farmers, cattle feeders,
and live-stock producers that stock
yards companies exact exorbitant
charges for feed for the stock while
it is in their yards. They also com
plain of the yardage and commission
charges and methods.
The fact that these public stock
yards are under license by the food
administration, under the president’s
license proclamation, will enable it to
make an analysis of the charges and
other expenses required of owners of
| live stock by the stockyards compa
i nies, and if any of the camplaints of
■ charges of poor service are found to
be well-founded, to bring about a re
| adjustment.
The food administration will go
I ahead with this investigation at once.
ONE BABY FEEDS
POISON TO ANOTHER
BOY, TWO YEARS OLD, GIVES
CHEMICAL TABLETS TO SIS
TER, AGED ONE YEAR.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 8.—
When Mrs. Julia Meoehiro returned
after answering the ring of the door
bell early last evening, she found her
two-year-old son. Dominie, feeding
poison tablets from a bottle to her
other child, Sarah, aged one year. The
baby, thinking the tablets candy, had
chewed up several when the pair were
discovered by their mother.
Mrs. Meoehiro immediately rushed
with her child to a hospital, where
physicians said the poison had spread
through the child’s system, and it is
not expected to recover.
ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8.—
John Lord O’Brian, of Buffalo, N. Y.,
has been named special assistant at
torney general.