NOTHING THAT HAS HAPPENED
IN PAST WEEK WILL WEAK
EN BRITISH ALLEGIANCE.
FIGHTING FOR GREAT PURPOSE
Former Premier of Great Britain, in
Speech Yesterday. Aserts That I he
British People Propose to light
on Until High Aims Have Been
Achieved.
LONDON. June 15.—“Nothing that
Las happened in the past week in
France will in the slightest degree
weaken the British allegiance to the
p eat purpose for which she is fight.
ing,” declared H. H. Asquith former
premier and leader of the liberal par
ty in the house of coinn ons, at a
luncheon yesterday.
Mr. Asquith said it was useless to
conceal the self-evident fact that the
allies have reached, for them, the
most critcal point in the fortunes of
war. If the German armies cannot
gain an advantage in the present of
fensive, he said, they will expend
their forces to such an extent that
they cannot hope to win, for the
United States is constantly added to
her forces in France, so that the al
lies will soon be the stronger in man
power.
While conceding that the situation
on the fighting front is critical for
the allies, the former premier declar
ed that he Huns would again be
stopped before they had reache 1 their
objective.
SALE OF LIBERTY BONDS IN
THIS COMMUNITY WINS
HIGH RECOGNITION.
E. B. Ansley, chairman of the local
liberty loan committee, is in receipt
of a communication from the treas
ury department relative to Anchorage
quota in the third liberty loan drive.
However, much more important
than the words of praise, contained
in the letter, is the blue honor star,
which will be delivered to Mayor J.
G. Watts for further decoration of
Anchorage’s honor flag. The letter
from the department follows:
San Francisco, June 1, 1018,
Mr. E. B. Ansley,
Chairman Liberty Loan Committee,
Anchorage, Alaska.
Dear Sir:—I take great pleasure in
sending you herewith one blue honor
star to be sewed upon the white field
of your honor Hag, advices indicating
that your district has oversubscribed
its original quota in the third liberty
loan by at least 100 per cent.
With heartiest congratulations up
on the excellent showing made by
your district, I remain,
Yours very truly,
JAMES K. LYNCH,
Chairman Liberty Loan Gen’l Ex
ecutive Board, Twelfth Federal
Reserve District.
NO JOKE.
“A paint brush and a man, ’tis true,
Are much alike,” said Mr. Fare;
“For, the morg work they have to do,
The sooner they will lose their
hair.”
GREATEST DISPLAY OF PAT- .
RIOTISM EVER NOTED IN
THE UNITED STATES.
LOYALTY WAS WATCHWORD. 1
With Seven Hundred Thousand Amer
icans in France, Fighting the Hat
tie of Human Liberty, Added Sig
nificance Was Given the Auspicious
Occasion.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 15.—
Never before in the history of this J;
nation was “Flag Day” observed with J,
a greater display of patriotic than
yesterday. Every state and posses
sion. every metropolis, town, village
and hamlet within the confines of the ;
L’nited States joined in a proper ob- }
servance of this auspicious day, de- j \
voted and dedicated to the “Stars and j (
Stripes,” the emblem of liberty, free- h
dom and justice ; (
Added significance to the occasion ]
was given by the fact that seven (
hundred thousand American men are (
on the battle front in France, fighting ?
for human rights and world freedom. t
General C. G. Williams, acting
hiof of the ordnance department of j
the army, was the principal speaker j
at the “Flag Day” exercises in the 4
national capital. In his speech, Gen
eral Williams declared that ordnance
plant workers were the soldiers’ re
source and reliance.
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Exports of Alaska products, includ- «
ing gold and bullion, for the month '
of April totaled SI.of)4,775, according <
to figures prepared and issued for 1
publication by the Juneau customs 1
house. il
The shipment of copper ore for the 1
,
month was very light, the entire
amount totaling only $843,31, while 1
(here was no canned salmon shipped. 1
The detailed statement as issued is *
as follows:
Curios .$
Fresh fish other than salmon
Pickled fish .
Fresh salmon .
Canned clams .
Shrimps .
Other fish products.
Furs .
Ivory .
Jewelry .
Oils, animal ...
Copper ore .
Lead ore .
Wood and products . .
All other articles .
684
120,626 (
31,863 1
43,174
500 1
987
70
10,360
I i
843,631 |
5,888 '
3,200 |1
771 ,:
Total .$1,061,798
U. S. Good returned . 66,879
Foreign mercandise . 25,394
Total .$1,154,071
Gold bullion . 146,611
]
Gold ore . 167,916
Silver ore . 36,17? j
Grand total.$1,504,775 j
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YUM, YUM.
We don’t know much about other
towns in that state. But we know
that you can always C. A. Pippin in
Ozark, Alabama.
* EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND SOLDIERS *
* HAVE BEEN SENT TO FRANCE SINCE *
* AMERICA ENTERED WAR, SAYS MARCH *
* _ *
* "WASHINGTON, June 15.—Over eight hundred *
* thousand American troops have been sent to France *
* since America entered the world war, according to an *
* announcement made by General March, chief of staff of * .
* the American army. General March declares that the * ]
* number of troops that will be sent to the overseas service * ,
* will be limited only by the capacity of ships to carry *
* them. This year an especially fine record has been made *
* in getting American troops over to France, and General *
* March says that an effort will be made to maintain the *
* record. *
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It STICK COLAHAN AND MAY
OR’S SECRETARY TO TELL OF
HIS DISAPPEARANCE.
RELATIVES AID IN SEARCH.
[’hey are Hunting for Him in Ad iron
dak Mountains, While Canadian Au
thorities Are Watching the Border
—Definitely Established That He
Knew Date of Trial.
NEW, YORK, June 15.—The feder
il grand jury for the southern dis
rict of New York began an investi
gation recently of the disappearance
>f Jeremiah A. O’Leary, the Sinn
rein agitator and pro-German propa
gandist, who was to have gone on
rial in the federal court last Monday
m an indictment charging him with
laving entered into a conspiracy to
ibstruct the operation of the military
aws of the United States. The fed
u-al officers in charge of the O’Leary
ase said they would make every pos
ible effort to ascertain the circum
tances of O’Leary’s going away. The
fraud jury investigation will be con
inued today.
Among the witnesses called before
he grand jury yesterday were Su
n-erne Court Justice Daniel F. Cohal
tn, John Jerome Rooney, a member
if the committee appointed to go to j
Washington this week and seek to i
- t
ibtain President Wilson’s interven
ion in the Irish situation; Grover j
Whalen, secretary to Mayoi Hylan, j
vho is a brother-in-law of O’Leary,,
he mother and father of the fugi- j
ive. Alexis O’Leary, a brother, and
fohn Devoy, editor of the Sinn Fein ;
veekly known as the Gaelic Ameri-j
■an. It was reported that no witness;
examined yesterday was able to
brow any light oh the matter. None
)f them, it was said, has heard a
vord, directly or indirectly, from tnc j
ugitive since May 8, the day of his;
lisappearance. Justice Cohalan and
he other witnesses all refused to talk
ifter they emerged from the jury
•oom.
A high federal official said yestcr- j
lay that it has been definitely estab
ished that O’Leary had not been mis-,
informed as to the date of his trial.:
Jn May 7, the day before he left New :
fork, O’Leary is known to have left
vith a relative a list of questions
vhich he desired to be asked when
le came to trial. ..This was the day
ifter Judge Foster set the case for]
rial on May 20.
The report is general that the gov
ernment is now making a thorough
nvestigation of the whole Sinn Fein
situation in New York. This city is
he headquarters of the organization,
n this country, and among the most j
ictive members of the organization
me several persons who are British
subjects and who on various occasions
•ecently have not only agitated for
>pen rebellion against England, but
lave also advised drastic action in
his country unless the government
:an be made to interfere in the inter
lal affairs of Great Britain on the
dde of the Sinn Feih agitators in Ire
and.
The trial of O’Leary will begin as
;oon as he can be located. Assistant'
J. S. Attorney Earl £5. Barnes, who
s in charge of the case for the gov
ernment, was asked if he thought!
here was any chance of O’Leary be- ?
ng found in time to be placed on
;rial tomorrow morning. He replied
hat he had hopes that the fugitive
vould be on hand when the case is
called.
Several relatives of O’Leary, among
;hem his brother John, it was said,
lave gone to northern New York in
in effort to locate Jeremiah. They
ire searching in the Adirondaks for
lim. The entire secret service ma
■hinery of the government is also
ooking for him in every part of the
United States, while the Canadian au
diorities have been asked to look for
lim on the other side of the border.
Head the Anchorage Tmes.
KNOT TIED SINCE ENACTMENT 1
OF DRAFT L \W NO LONGER
EXCUSE TO ESCAPE.
TO RE-CLASSIFY SUCH CASES. I
Exception Is Cases of Men Who At- 1
tained Majority Since June Five
Last Year, Who May Re Exempted
if Married Before January Fifteenth
—Last Drastic Amendment.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 15.—
Provost-Marshal Crowder, in charge i
of the application of the federal draft :
law, has ruled that marriage since the 1
enactment of the selective draft law ]
will no longer be accepted a* a cause |
for exemption from military duty in
the United States army.
The only exception to this rule is in
the case of men who have attained
their majority since June 5 last year,
and who may be exempted if married
before January 15 next.
This is the last drastic amendment
to the selective draft law to be an
nounced by the provost marshal. Draft
boards throughout the nation are re-, '
quired to re-classify' all cases involv- ;
ing such marriages.
GRAND JURY INDICTS
DOCTOR OF DOUGLAS;
I)R. WEYERHORST CHARGED 1
WITH OBSTRUCTING OPER- 1
ATI ON OF DRAFT LAW. ;
(Juneau Empire)
Ur. Joseph v\ eyernorst, or uougias,
was this morning indicted by the
grand jury for obstructing the draft
under the espionage act on two counts
and was ordered into court for ar
raignment.
The indictment against Weyerhorst
charges that on April 12 one Mike
Avoian Manyoff was ordered before
the doctor for examination, that
Weyerhorst was the regular examin
ing physician of the Douglas exemp
tion board and that Manyoff was ord
ered up for examination by the board,
and that Weyerhorst repeatedly refus
ed to make the required examination.
The case attracted considerable atten
tion at the time Weyerhorst was first
arrested and tried before Commission
er N. L. Burton.
On the second count Weyerhorst is
charged with having offered to oper
ate on F. J. Henson by removing one
eye which would prevent him passing
the physical examination. The indict
ment charges that Weyerhorst on
April 30 said to Mr. Henson: “I could
remove your eye and then you
wouldn’t have to go.”
In the Manyoff case Dr. Weyerhorst
is said to have refused to examine the
man until he paid $25 which Weyer
horst aleged was due as a back bill.
Manyoff referred the matter to Cap
tain J. T. Hunt and Governor Strong.
They advised him to return with wit
nesse and try again to get examined.
Manyoff did so and in his testimony
alleged that Weyerhorst asked him if
he had the money with him. On his
replying that he did not, Weyerhorst
ordered him and his witness to leave
the office and not o come back until
he had the money?
AUSTRIAN TO HAVE
BREADLESS DAY NOW
COPENHAGEN, June 14.—An Ex
change Telegraph dispatch from Zur
ich says that the food situation in
Galacia is absolutely insuportable and
the population is dying of hunger, So
cialist deputies of Galacia have tele
graphed to Dr. Seydler, the Austrian
premier. The deputies demand the im
mediate importation of grain from
Poland.
Popular exasperation, they said, is
growing to such an extent that the
deputies decline to be responsible in
the event of grave developments.
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)R. C, A. EATON DECLARES
APPOINTMENT OF ^SCHWAB ,
HAS STIRRED MEN UNDER HIM. .
JBERTY RAIL FOR SEDITION. ,
tides on a Heated Iron Pipe Now Em- (
ployed by Workers to Suppress Dis- (
loyalty in Yards of the Nation— ■
Head of National Service Section
Tells of Tour of Plants of Country. ,
NEW YORK, June 15.—“The ship
vorkers can be trusted by the nation,
ind the more the nation trusts them
he better work they will do,” said
)r. Charles A. Eaton, head of the na
ional sei’vice section of the Emer
1
1
fency Fleet corporation, yesterday on
lis return from a four weeks’ circuit
»f the country’s shipyards. During his
rip Dr. Eaton, who was commissioned
o gauge the spirit of the men and
o stimulate them to greater effort,
risited 154 shipyards and addressed
ibout 125,000 of the 350,000 workers.
Dr. Eaton said that every man in j
“very yard was now awake to his re
sponsibilities and that there had de-I
reloped an inter-yard rivalry that was
jutting all the workers on their met- \
-le “in the practice of the gospel ofj
speed the ships.” Discussing slacking
ind pro-German atempts to slow up
lie men, he declared that the enemy
ictivities had been practically stamped
>ut through the organization of the
nen themselves to light them. Enemy
igents, said Dr. Eaton, are being seiz
'd right and left, and those the de-1
•artment of justice doesn’t get are
riven severe treatment by vigilance
committees formed by their fellow i
vorkers.
‘.Out on the Pacific coast,” he said,
‘the men have what they call the
rail committee.’ This is formed of
vorkmen and is charged with seeing
hat every hand in the yards is 100 per
ent American and on the job eig':
lours, six days a week. In a yard at
Seattle the rail comittee has an iron1
>ipe which they call the ‘Liberty rail.’
t is kept near the blacksmith’s forge.
A’hen a workman utters a disloyal re
nark, fails to buy bonds or war sav
ngs stamps, or in other ways proves
le is lukewarm, the rail committee ,
vaits on him The Liberty rail is heat
ed at the forge and the disloyal work- .
nan is ridden about the yards on the
j
lot rail. At one time, I was told,
here were 12 men in a Seattle hos- j
>ital recovering from “Liberty rail”
■ides.
“I saw a man at one of the yards j
vho failed to take off his hat one night1
vhen the national anthem was played
luring a change of shifts. This man
vas seized by the workmen and badly 1
>eaten before the guards could rescue
lim. These punishments, rough but
earned, should indicate the men’s
r.ood toward anything or anybody,
hat attempts to block the shipbuild
ers’ determination to carry their work;
hrough rapidly and thoroughly.
“The appointment of Charles M.
schwab has had an inspiring effect on
he men,” he added. “They appeared ;
o be crazy about him and to regard! i
lim as ‘one of them.’ To hear the |
;hip men talk you’d get the idea that
;he big boss was a man who when he i
vanted a little change from the mon
itony of speeding things up would slip
nto overalls and drive a few thousand
'ivets or put in a couple of hours at
he brake of a hoisting cfrane.”
Though he was convinced that the
nen had done much toward eliminat
ng the insidious work of Germans
md their sympathizers he cited an in
stance to show that efforts were still
>eing made to tie up the ships. He
;aid that when his party visited the
plant of the Union Iron Works at San
Francisco 7,500 men assembled to hear
speeches. Just as one of Dr. Eaton’s
lids, A. Richmond Tarkhurst, started
lis talk a secret service man edged
ip to the platfrom and warned the
ipeaker not to go on. He said the gov
ernment had been informed that five
Hermans armed with bombs planned
;o enter the yards while the speech
naking was at its height and, taking
idvantage of the assemblage, wreck
seme of the ships then on the ways.
Ahile Mr. Parkhurst suspended his
speech, government agents went
;hrough the crowd and the half-finish
id ships, but without success. Dr.
Eaton said that while the search for
;he Germans was being conducted
lands of angry workmen followed the
secret service men with shouts of
‘Turn them over to us!”
Dr. Eaton said that orders had been
•eceived extending the scope of his de
lartment to include patriotic cam
paigns to increase the output of all
factories turning out materials which
inter into ship construction. In all,
ibout 3,000 factories will come under
lis supervision.
LONDON, June 15.—Details of the
Biitish naval attack on Zeebrugge re
peal that the medical service perform
ed its share of the hazardous business
vith great courage and efficiency.
Most of the casualties on the Vin
dictive, the veteran cruiser which car
ried off the honors of the raid, occur
red before she got alongside the mole,
ind these were promptly dealt with,
despite the darkness, the crowded con
dition of the ship, and flying shot and
'hell. One of the surgeons found him
self working in an area that had be
:ome flooded with petrol. Fortunately
't was not ignited.
In all there were six surgeons on
the Vindictive and when the mole was
reached, several remained on board
sending the wounded, while the re
mainder, with their stretcher-bearers,
jumped to the mole to look after cas
aalties expected there. With great
difficulty and under sharp fire, they
superintended the removal of the
rounded to the ship.
UNITED STATED WILL
STAY UNTIL THE END
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 15.—
President Wilson, replying to Presi
lent Poincare’s congratulatory mes
sage on the anniversary of the ar
•ival of American troops in France,
said that it is America’s high purpose
:o continue to send men and mater
als to France until any temporary
nequality of that great nation was
mtirely overcome.
FOOEY!
“Here is a letter fi-om one of your
•onstituents who traps skunks for a
iving,” said the secretary.
“What does he want?” asked rthe
congressman.
“He claims that if the skunk is not
protected it will become extinct,” re-.
olied the secretary.
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* AMERICAN SOLDIERS MORE THAN A *
* MATCH FOR GERMAN SOLDIERS, SAYS *
* THE CORRESPONDENT OF REUTER’S *
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* LONDON, June 15.—Reuter’s correspondent says *
* that American soldiers are more than a match for Ger- *
* man soldiers. Whenever the Germans have met the *
* Americans on the battle front, they have been defeated. *
* The correspondent says the American soldiers resemble *
* the British ‘‘dominos.” The Americans are full of *
* tenderness, but will avenge comrades who have been *
* slain by treachery. The Americans have no mercy on *
* men who will not fight straight, and the Germans are be- *
* ginning to realize this fact. The Americans are “mak- *
* ~ing good,” says the correspondent. *
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