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ANCHORAGE WEEKLY
AND ALASKA LABOE NEWS.
VOL. 2.
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NO. 12.
ANCHORAGE. ALASKA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28. 1918.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
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AUXILIARY CRUISER WOLF OP
ERATES IN ATLANTIC, INDIAN
AND PACIFIC OCEANS.
CAPTURES 400 PRISONERS.
Many Entente Vessels Reported to
Have Been Sunk and Quantities of
Valuable Raw Materials Are Ob
tained bv Teutons.
AMSTERDAM. Feb. 2G.—A Berlin
dispatch says that the German eruis- j
er Wolf, Captain Nerger, has reached j
the Austrian harbor of Pola in the
Adriatic sea, after fifteen months of I
raiding in the Atlantic, Indian and Pa
cific oceans.
The Wolf brought to port more than
400 members of crews of sunken en- i
tente ships. Several guns were cap-;
tured with armed merchantmen. Raw
mateiials including rubber, copper'
and brass valued at many mill in
marks are aboard.
The Wolf sank manv
indue! !
ing three Americans. She captured;
an English cruiser, the Turritella and :
rechristened her the litis and oper-1
ated her as a raider in the gulf of j
Art ten for fifteen weeks. When she!
met a British and French stjuadronj
she was sunk b\ her own German i
jTi
1m
«cr
crew.
MUNICIPAL BUILDING IS MOKE
(ONVKMENT THAN GENE
RAL HEADQUARTERS.
By C. w7 JONES,
Publicity Agent, Food Campaign.
iVrmits to purchase wheat flour
. .1 sugar may now be obtained up
on application to Miss Helen Park,
assistant executive secretary of the
* district food administration, whose of
' ' co is in the Anchorage townsite
j ■,,
i ■ Park succeeds C. Verne Mar
.-ha. . of the Alaskan Engineering I
™ commission . The change in officials!
- made in the interest of convenience ,
to the public, the townsite office being j
more accessible to the business houses
of Anchorage than is Mr. Marshall’s
office, in the genera! office building
j
of the railroad.
Information concerning the food
regulations may he obtained by tele
phoning E. T. Lindner, who.has been
appointed executive secretary, suc
ceeding Ralph X. Moyer. Mr. Lind
ner’s telephone number is 02.
G US JOHNSON IS BURIED BY AV
ALANCHE AT MILE 77 ON
SEWARD DIVISION.
Gus Johnson, a laborer for the
Alaskan Engineering commission at
-'•.iie i < on the Seward division of the
government railroad, was killed in
stantly by a snowslide which occur
red there this morning.
Johnson was working on a fill on
the railroad right-of-way when the
slide, which was about 500 feet wide,
started to come toward him. He ran,
but was overtaken by the avalanche
and his body was buried beneath tons
/ f snow and ice.
The remains have not yet been re
covered.
SAINT’S SERMONS FOUND.
AMSTERDAM, .Feb. 25.—A series
jfa hitherto unknown sermons of St.
Augustine have been discovered, Ger
man paper say, at Wolfenbuttel
Brunswick, by Father Germain Morin,
a Belgian Benedictine monk.
CHARGES MADE AGAINST PRES
IDENT CHRISTENSEN AND
SECRETARY SUTHERLAND.
Complaint under the federal law
charging Ed. S. Christensen, presi
dent, and Jack Sutherland, secretary,
of the Alaska Labor union, with dis
criminating against the United States
army uniform, was filed late this aft
ernoon in United States commission
er’s court at the instance of Lieuten- j
ant Thomas B. Longre, in command of I'
the detachment here of the Four
teenth infantry. Warrants were is- -
sued for the accused men and their
bail, pending a preliminary hearing,
was fixed at .$500 each. <
Major Misdemeanor.
The alleged offense is a major mis
demeanor punishable by a maximum
(ino of $500. j1
The basis of the charge is that sol- '
'iers of the Fourteenth infantry were :
.ot permitted to buy tickets to an
athletic smoker given at the Labor '
temple last Monday night under the '
auspices of the Alaska Labor union.
In connection with the matter, Pres- 1
■ dent Christensen of the union today
issued the following statement:
Statement of Christensen.
‘‘The entertainment committee of
the Alaska Labor Union desires to
answer the statement of Lieut. Longre
:n regard to the accusations made by
him for publication in yesterday’s
Times.
‘‘It has been the custom of the
-.doi. to ho in a smoker for members
only and the men in charge of the
tickets were ordered to sell them to
members only; but evidently some of
these handling the tickets or mem-i
hers securing them distributed a few
amongst their friends who secured ad- j
mission. We have no desire to break!
any law governing entertainments, j
nor have we broken any such law, or
any law, hut with such a large crowd,
it is impossible to keep strangers out j
entirely.
Subject to Draft.
“In regard to refusing men in sol
diers’ uniform the privilege of secur
ing tickets, there is not nor ever has
been any member in authority in the
Alaska Labor union who would cast
any reflection on the defenders of our
flag and our country, nor have any
such reflections been cast upon the
uniform. All of the prominent men
in charge of the affairs of the Adaska
Labor union are now subject to draft j
and have at all times been ready and !
willing to don the uniform in the in
terest of democracy and stand shoul- '
der to shoulder with the boys now in
khaki, for the abolition of all autocra
racy.
“We take the stand that the mem
bers of the Alaska Labor union are
loyal to American principles and that |
the members are loyal Americans and
brand as untrue any statements to the
contrary.
Regarding Prize Fights.
“In regard to the illegality of hold- |
ing prize fights in Alaska, we most
emphatically declare that there was
no prize light scheduled nor did any
prize fight take place at the smoker,
but only friendly boxing and wres
tling exhibitions given by the mem
bers for prizes, and no cash consider
ation was ever intended, and the
events were clean athletic exhibitions
of the purest kind, free from profes
sionalism.
“We do not wish to be misrepre
sented at any time. Lieutenant Long
re’s statements are erroneous either
as a result of hasty judgment or lack
of .ormat.'' n.
“W’e hold that we are the friends of
the men in uniform and would be sor
ry to see a break in our friendly re
lations just at this time when our
country requires united efforts from
all men.”
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COLONEL WIRES FOR FOURTEEN
EMPLOYES OF ALASKAN EN
GINEERING COMMISSION.
rWO EN ROUTE TO SEATTLE.
All Will Enlist As Privates and Prom
ise Is Given That if They Qualify
They Will be Promoted to Non
Commissioned Officers.
In response to a cablegram from
Colonel Frederick Mears twelve em
ployes of the Alaskan Engineering
lommission will leave here within the
text few days to join the operating
•ailroad engineers’ regiment now in
•ourse of organization by Colonel
Mears. They will report at Seattle
:o the officers of the regiment.
The young men are A. A. Ferguson,
deck in store department; Harold Mc
Cutcheon, brakeman; O. A. Kenyon,
secretary of the Young Men’s Chris
;ian Association; Charles D. Merritt,
derk in material yard; Roy A. Ander
son, foreman in machine shop; Leslie
\xe, brakeman; Chester S. Duncan,
•lerk in material yard; Robert Y. Ja
•obs. clerk in store department; J. L.
strong, train despatcher; Don S.
Griffiths, clerk in hospital; C. M.
vVressell, clerk in disbursing office,
ind Edwin C. Oldfin, clerk in account
ng office. Ray C. Schott, clerk in
.he maintenance of way office, and X.
B. Cicovich, locomotive fireman, are
low eh route to Seattle and no doubt
vi31 enlist in the regiment on their
•A a! there.
Col. Mears’ cablegram asking the
young men to join his regiment was
eceived yesterday and they immedi
itely wired their acceptances.
All the young men will enlist as
privates. After brief experience, they
xre promised positions as non-com
nissioner officers if they can qualify
'or the work.
SHEEP OFFERED
TO RED CROSS
ANIMALS MAY BE KEPT IN MOV
ABLE PENS IN CAPITOL PARK
AT OLYMPIA, WASH.
OLYMPIA. Wash., Feb. 27.—Wool
and mutton may be raised for the Red
Cross on the Washington state house
lawns and in the capital park here. F.
F. Benson, state commissioner of ag
riculture, has offered to donate twp
?wes, each with two lambs if the
state board of control will place them
in movable pens on the lawns of the
capital or in the park. When the lambs
grow up and the wool is “ripe” for the
rutting the flock will be properly 1
sheared and the wool used by the
Olympia Red Cross.
AMERICAN SOLDIER IN WAR
ZONE NEEDS NINE PAIRS
OF SHOES ANNUALLY.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 23.—
Seven hundred thousand rifles have
been produced since the entrance of
the United States into the war, the,
ordnance department announced to
iay. The army now possesses 1,300,- i
300 service rifles. About 50 per cent
of the troops are provided with weap
ons.
Secretary of War Newton D. Bak
er states that the war department has
15,407,000 pairs of shoes in the army
storehouses and will need another 1,
000,000 this year. General J. J. Persh
ing, commander of the American
forces in France, has asked that nine
pairs annually per man be reserved
for the American army in France.
PETROGH DIGS
TRENCHESTD
SIREN WHISTLES AWAKE RESI
DENTS AT NIGHT WHEN TEU
TONS ENTER PSKOV.
REPORTS ARE CONFLICTING.
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Arrangements Are Made to Move j
from Moscow Although City Is Not j
in Danger of Immediate Capture by j
Teutons.
LONDON, Feb. 26.—Blaring sirens j
awoke sleeping Petrograd Sunday j
night, signifying that Germans had j
entered Pskov, 175 miles southeast;
of Petrograd.
Small detachments of German
troops are moving toward Petrograd.
Whistles Sunday summoned the peo
ple to dig trenches for the defense of
the capital.
A Petrograd dispatch says that
Russian Maximilist troops yesterday |
recaptured Pskov and that they are
resisting the German advance every
where.
Berlin dispatches last night an
nounced the capture of Pskov.
Arrangements have been made to
move Americans and other citizens of
entente countries in Moscow to Sa
mara. 500 miles east. No immediate
ocupation by Germans of Moscow is
reported as likely, however.
AMERICANS SCORE
UNITED STATES AND TRENCH
PATROLS CAPTURE TEUTONS
AFTER BRISK FIGHT.
WITH THIrAilERICAN ARMY j
IN FRANCE, Feb. 20.—German linos'
in the Chemin des Dames sector in
France were penetrated for a distance
of 200 yards and two German officers,
twenty German privates and one Ger
man machine gun were captured by
an American patrol operating in con
junction with a French patrol.
Sharp fighting -occurred. Several
Germans were killed or wounded.
There were no American casualties.
The combined American and French
patrol was in command of a French
officer. i
SALESMAN HELD ON
MILITARY CHARGE
SAN FRANCISCO MAN ACCUSED
OF SELLING GOODS WHILE
WEARING UNIFORM.
SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 25.—Feder
al official today arrested David H. Up
right, of San Francisco, an importer,
on the charge of impersonating an
army officer.
Upright won a first lieutenant’s
commission at the Presidio recently
and was discharged at Camp Lewis on
acocunt of physical disability.
Police officials declare he was rep- j
resenting his father’s firm and show-j
ing samples from his trunks while j
wearing the uniform of an officer.
PRIVILEGES GIVEN
DOMINION FISHING CRAFT CAN
ENTER AND CLEAR BETWEEN
AMERICAN PORTS.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 26.—
Canadian fishing boats are given the
privilege of entering and clearing be
tween United States ports, according
to instructions issued today to all col
lectors of customs by William C. Red
field, secretary of commerce.
The United States will ask Canada
to extend reciprocal privileges to
American fishing boats.
VESSEL CAPTURED BY GER-1
MANS AND THEN OPERATED
BY THEM IS WRECKED.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Feb. 27.
—The Spanish steamship Ingotzmendi J
with a German prize crew aboard and |
a number of prisoners taken from j
destroyed ships went ashore yesterday j
in a storm near Skaw lighthouse on j
the Danish coast. As soon as the ves- j
sel struck, the German captain sent to j
land a lifeboat containing twenty-two j
of his captives. They included nine j
women and two children. Among the
prisoners taken off destroyed ships by
the Igotzmendi are two Americans, j
Danish officials boarded the strand- j
ed ship and brought her captain
ashore and interned him. The German
crew was left aboard of her under the
guard of Danish sailors. Most of the
members of the stranded vessel’s crew '
are afflicted with scurvy or beri beri,
and these diseases afflict a number of
the prisoners.
The Igotzmendi is believed to have
been captured from her Spanish crew, j
carrying contraband, by the German
auxiliary cruiser Wolf, which yester
day reached Pola, Austria, after hav
ing spent fifteen months as a raider it.
the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian
oceans.
The Igotzmendi is said to have op
erated as a converted German raider
for eight months. She sank six en
tente ships in the Paciiic.
The Wolf destroyed at least thirty
five vessels, according to an official
report from Berlin. Several of the
vessels carried British troops.
The sinkings resulted in heavy loss
of life.
MONEY IS FORWARDED TO DE
FENSE LEAGUE HEADQUAR- .. |
TERS IN NEW YORK.
Twenty seven hundred and eighty- j
three dollars and sixty cents is the
sum of money that has been sent by
the Anchorage branch of the South
Slavic National Defense league to the
headquarters of the league in New
York city, according to a report made
today by M. M. Jonovich, a member
of the Anchorage chapter.
The sum of $200 was sent yester- j
day from here to the New York head- j
quarters. This money has been con- |
tributed by the citizens of Anchorage I
for Red Cross and relief work among «
the war victims of the Slavic peoples. !
The Anchorage branch of the league !
has taken an active part in war relief !
work here and along the government
PRISONERS SENTENCED TO SIX
MONTHS AND THEIR DEPOR
TATION RECOMM EN DED.
LONDON, Feb. 27.—Two American
representatives of the Industrial
Workers of the World in England
were today sentenced to six months’
imprisonment with the recommenda
tion that they be deported. The men i
were found guilty of spreading pad- J
fist propaganda.
INVENTORY OF FOODSTUFFS.
CHRISTIANIA, Norway, Feb. 21.—!
A census of the population and an in- j
ventory of all public and private j
stocks of foodstuffs is being made by
the Norwegian government, as a basis
for a new food restriction.
INVADERS ARE SAID TO HAVE
REACHED HALF WAY BE
TWEEN PSVOK AND CAPITAL.
CAPTURES TWO REGIMENTS.
Muscovite Soldiers Frankly Refuse to
Fight and Government Officials Are
Prepared to Retire to Moscow If
They Have to.
LONDON, Feb. 27.—Although Ger
man Chancellor George von Hertling
declares that German’s intentions in
Russia do not contemplate aggression
or aggrandizement, the Teuton mili
tary officers commanding troops in
vading Russia decline to grant any
armistice to peionit the discussion of
terms of peace that have been proffer
ed by the Russian government.
The German troops are marching
onward. They are rumored to have
reached Luga, which is midway be
tween Pskov and Petrograd. They are
said to be north of Dorpat, and cap
tured two Russian regiments which
were retreating.
Street Fighting in Pskov.
Street fighting is declared to be pre
valent in Pskov. The city is reported
to have changed hands several times.
At Petrograd, women and civilian
men are building trenches around
Petrograd.
\\ bile the workmen of Petrograd
are enrolling enthusiastically in res
ponse to the call of the government
to defend the capital, the Russian
soldiers frankly refuse to fight. They
say that they have had enough fight
ing and that if the Germans come, “let
them take us.”
Prepare to Go to Moscow.
The officials of the Maximilist gov
ernment are preparing to retire to
Moscow if the Germans take Petro
grad.
Lepn Trotzky, Russian minister of
foreign affairs, will resign it is re
ported, because of disagreements be
tween him and the members of the
workmen’s and soldiers’ delegates.
OFFICE GIRLS WORK
ON ROLLER SKATES
TELEGRAPH COMPANY DE
CLARES EFFICIENCY OF EM
PLOYES IS INCREASED.
BILLINGS, Mont., Feb. 27.—Office
girls employed here by a transcontin
ental telegraph company wear roller
skates in carrying the messages from
room to room.
“Use of roller skates by our check
girls has speeded up the distribution
of telegrams in our office from 200 to
o00 per cent,” said Wire Chief E. J.
Townley. “At first it was difficult for
the girls to become used to the skates,
but now they move about the floor
with ease and with far less exertion
than when they walked.”
P R O M I N E N T NORTHERNERS
URGE HOUSE NOT TO CHANGE
SENATE MEASURE.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 26.—
Charles A. Sulzer, Alaska’s delegate
in congress; J. J. Finnigan, of Sew
ard, and Henry Harriman, of Ketchi
kan, argued before the house commit
tee on public lands in favor of the re
tention by the house of the provision
in the oil, gas and coal bill placing
Alaska on the same basis as the
states and other territories.
The Alaskans urged that the house
pass the measure in substantially the
same form as it has been passed by
the senate.