SLUES REJECT
PEACE OFFER
EMPEROR CHARLES MAKES SUG
GESTION IN LETTER TO
TITLED FRENCHMAN.
TURNED OVER TO GOVERNMENT
Conference of Representatives of En
tente Nations Decides There Is No
Occasion to Act on Royal Pro
posal.
PARIS,, April 13.—Suggestions of
peace, advanced by Emperor Charles
of Austria-Hungary, have been reject
ed by the conference at Paris of rep
representatives of the entente nations,
according to an article published to
day in the Petit Parisien newspaper.
Emperor Charles is said to have
communicated hfs peace suggestions
in a letter to Prince Sixtus, of Bour
bon, a prominent Frenchman, who
lives in Paris. The letter outlined
details of a plan by which France
might attain peace.
The prince, immediately upon re
ceipt of the letter, turned it over to
the French government, which in turn
submitted it to the inter-allied confer
ence.
The conference unanimously decided
there was no occasion to act on the
emperor’s suggestion.
A HISTORIC CHURCH.
Linked For a Century With Official
Life ia Washington.
In historic St. John’s Protestant
Episcopal church, just across Lafa
yette square from the White House,
more presidents and mc-n prominent in
Washington official life have worship
ed than in any other church in the na
tional capital. St. John’s, now a cen
tury old, was the first building to be
erected on Lafayette square after the
White House, which was completed in
1800. The presidents of the United
States who worshiped here were John
Quincy Adams, Madison, Monroe, Van
Buren, William Henry Harrison, Tyler,
Taylor, Fillmore and Arthur and in
more recent times the White House
was represented by Mrs. Roosevelt and
Mrs. Taft, who made St. John’s church
their church home.
Other prominent people were regu
larly seen in the congregation, includ
ing Stephen Decatur, Henry Clay,
John C. Calhoun, Chief Justice Fuller,
Salmon P. Chase, Benjamin F. Butler,
Lewis Cass, George Bancroft, Winfield
Scott and George Dewey. Its rectors
offit atfed at nearly all of the early
White House weddings, many notable
ones having taken place within its sa
scred walls.
The denominations have been pretty
well represented in the presidency.
Grant attended the Metropolitan
Methodist church, McKinley the
Foundry Methodist church; Benjamin
Harrison and Cleveland attended the
Presbyterian church; Wilson is a Pres
byterian and like Cleveland, the son of
a Presbyterian minister; Garfield was
a member of the Disciples church, and
Roosevelt attended the Dutch Reform
ed church.—Christian Herald.
ARMY CAMP TO GET
WOMAN LIBRARIAN
OLGA WYETH WILL TAKE
CHARGE OF WORK AT SPAR
TANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA
WASHINGTON, 1). C., April 13.—
The American Library association,
working with the commission on
Training Camp Activities, reports the
first appointment of a woman librar
ian to a camp hospital library.
Miss Olga Wyeth, who has been li
brarian of the University of Illinois,
will go to Camp Wadsworth, Spartan
burg, S. C., to take charge of the li
brary work in the camp hospital there.
The medical officer in command at
Camp Doniphan has asked for a hos
pital librarian.
A trained woman librarian will al
so take charge of the work in the
hospital at Camp Upton.
FRENCH TROOPS, UNDER HEAVY
BOMBARDMENT, ARE TRYING
TO QUENCH FLAMES.
CO-OPERATION OF AMERICANS.
desperate Fighting Continues in Ar
mentieres Sector, Where Kaiser’s
Soldiers Fail to Gain Messines
Ridge.
PARIS, April 13—Rheims is ablaze.
Resumption of gunfire by the Cer
iums last night started the flames.
Trench troops, working under a heavy
lombardment by Teuton artillery, are
trying hard to limit the burning area
by preventing the spreading of the
■onflagration.
German forces, in the Rheims sec
or, launched violent attacks last
light. The most severe assault was j
n the Apremont forest region.
In the Rheims theatre of activities, j
American troops are co-operating i
vith the French.
The German attacks were combat
ted with vigor, and in the great ma
jority of instances the assailants were
repulsed wit hheavy losses. At one
niportant point, where the Germans
had gained a footing, they were
thrown out by a vigorous counter at
tack.
I Fighting- Near Armentieres.
! LONDON, April 13.—On the ex- ;
Ireme western battlefront in France!
the Germans are conducting their
most vigorous operations in the Ar
mentieres sector.
Teuton troops today are advancing
toward Bailleuil, about eight miles
northwest of Armentieres.
North of Armentieres, at Neuve
Englise, Messines and Wytaschaete,
tire fighting was extremely heavy to
day. The Germans have been unable
to gain the Messines ridge.
East of Locon, which is about twelve
miles southwest of Armentieres, the
Germans last night entered the Brit
ish trenches at several points, but
were ejected by counter attacks.
The Germans evidently are endeav
oring to widen the salient south of
Armentieres in an effort to outflank
the hill positions held by the British.
South of the Somme river, the Ger
mans yesterday penetrated the vil-'
lage of Hangard, but they were oust- j
led from the town and from the ad-'
'joining cemetery today.
HOME OFFEREDTO
WOUNDED SOLDIERS
WEALTHY MONTANA FARMER
TENDERS HIS HOUSE FOR USE
OF INVALIDED TROOPS.
HELENA, Mont., April 13.—Mon
tana soldiers invalided home will not
lack for a comfortable institution in
which to recuperate. A. C. Stouten
berg, a prosperous farmer of Utica,
has offered hospitality to eight of
them, including comfortable quarters
and good home cooking and the use
of a seven-passenger automobile.
In a letter to Governor Stewart,
Mr. Stoutenberg makes the offer of
accommodations for eight soldiers
without charge, and suggests that
the plan be adopted by other Mon
tana people who have commodious
homes.
OLD ROYAL PALACE
USED FOR WAR WORK!
RED CROSS MEET IN OLD
THRONE ROOM OF HAWAIIAN
BUILDING .
HONOLULU, T. H., April 12.—Ha
waiia’s famous palace, the present ter
ritorial capitol, is now headquarters
for much war work. One half of the
lower floor, the old throne room, is
used by Red Cross workers every week
day, while the other half, the former
dining chamber, is used for draft
work.
BOTH NORTHERN COMMUNITIES HAD ABOUT SAME
ALLOTMENT AND BOTH ARE EXPECTED fO DOU
BLE AMOUNT ORIGINALLY ASSIGNED TO THEM
BY MANAGERS OP GREAT FINANCIAL DRIVE.
OREGON LEADS ALL PACIFIC COAST STATES
Residents of This District Have Subscribed to Date $90,310,
According- to Figures Compiled by Directors of Local Cam
paign, and of This Amount Commission Employes on Turn
again Arm Took $20,000, Which Averages Approximately
$100 for Every Railroad Worker Between Camp 91 and 83.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 13.
—Anchorage, Alaska, today was
awarded an honor flag for having
oversubscribed her quota of the third
liberty loan. Two cities in Alaska
have won honor flags—Anchorage and
Keethikan. The quota of Anchorage
was $59,000 and that of Ketchikan,
$56,000. According to the latest re
ports received at the head libery loan
headquarters in San Francisco for the
twelfth federal bank reserve district,
which includes the Pacific coast states
and Alaska, both the honor cities in
Alaska are close to the one hundred
thousand dollar mark in their sub
scriptions, and each is expected to
double its original quota.
The total number of the honor flags
awarded in the twelfth district is 173.
Oregon leads in the number of honor
flags. California is struggling to hold
the second position.
Nation Behind Schedule.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 13.—
Subscriptions in the first quarter rf
the four weeks’ drive for the sale of
Liberty bonds total $539,426,100,
which is slightly more than one sixth
of the minimum amount of subscrip
tions sought by Secretary of the
Treasury William G. McAdoo.
Close to $100,000.
Ninety thousand, three hundred and
ten dollars worth of Liberty bonds
have been subscribed by residents of
the Anchorage district during the first
week of the third Liberty bond sale,
according to figures compiled by Sid
ney Anderson, vice-president of the
Bank of Anchorage; E. B. Ansley,
cashier of the Bank of Alaska and
Ralph Moyer, assistant clerk of the
Alaskan Engineering commission.
Of this total sale of bonds, em
ployes of the Alaskan Engineering
commission on Turnagain Arm pur
chased twenty thousand dollars worth.
Elevn thousand, three hundred and
fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents of
this amount was paid in cash by the
purchasers of the bonds at the time
of the purchase.
The Liberty bond drive on the Arm
was under the direction of Daniel
Leech, superintendent of construction
and M. M. Thompson, timekeeper at
Camp 88.
Turnagain Arm claims to have a
record for liberty bond purchases in
that the total bonds purchased repre
sents an average of approximately
$100 for every employe on the railroad
between Camp 91 and Camp 88.
Names of early subscribers in the
Anchoraeg district to the third liberty
loan were published in the Times the
other day. Additional subscribers are
as follows:
J. J. Haffner, James G. Watts, jr.,
Mrs. E. Cerney, J. E. Coughlin, H. A.
Polley, Harta Tolley, Henry Levy, C.
E. Lindquist, David Danielson, Dom
ical Turcatti, Jaffe & Bayles, S. A.
Tolley, T. M. O’Connor, F. A. Taulii,
J. T. Cunningham, A. Christenson,
Gertrude Jaffe, A. Haag, Weldon L.
Durham, W. A. Costello, R. E. Thomp
son, J. C. Seeley, John H. Robinson.
William B. Schmitz, Jean Jackson,
Charles A. Brunson, D. B. Rose, Fred
W. Therriault, Fred Lilyman, F. A.
Hansons James Culbertson, Virginia
Culbertson, Robert J. Agnew, J. L.
Simonton, J. A. Bobillard, Carl Sten,
riiomas Morgan, I. W. Tilcher, Chas.
A. Mathewson, Thomas S. Brown,
William Mcllvaine, H. C. Henshaw,
Frank Tyrer, A. Hamren, William G.
| Wilt, P. L. Hunter, Emil P. Hedberg,
' Birger Benson, William Dougherty,
i Walter R. Rathburn, Stanley Rod
I gerson, Walter DeLong, W. R. Man
j ning, Ralph Pulver, John W. Blase, P.
H. Weber, Charles Badis, C. E. Mown,
Ed. Maurer, George Ganopulos, W. O.
j Hunziker, Charles A. Coates, Fred W.
| Howe, Norman L. Jones, William Ku
I back, Harry C. Mills, Stella M. Mur
phy, Alice E. Hales, A. F. GiHessen,
j Mrs. James Coll, M. Gans, Sam Cash.
J. J. Sturgis, N. J. Gaikema, Robina
P. Harman, Louisa Nahrwold, Sher
man Duggan, E. W. Hughes, Carl
Johnson, Ben Malmberg, Ernest Le
vin, T. A. Wade, Esther Blomquist,
Amanda Wilson, Albert Lee, Albert
I. . Harman, Mrs. N. N. Jaffe, William
Sunderbruck, George C. Annable, H.
L. Worcester, M. G. Shaw, H. R. Mill
er, George M. Kugler, Carl Swanson,
Roy A. Anderson, W. Morgan, Einar
Ericson, Charles Balhiser, James A.
Wilkinson.
Elvera E. Swanson, G. Stone, Thom
as Sheehan, John Hermanson, Albert
Sandvig, William Hanson, William
McKenzie, Moses Shinn, William Wor
den, William Hammer, Albert Well
man, Axel Nordin, William S. McLel
lan, Andy Peterson, John Berch, Hil
bert E. Olson.
i\. liiuimts, rjiiaimtM, o. v>.
Davidson, ‘Ingrold Anderson, Jack
Muyre, Hugh S. O’Neill, Howard W.
Shader, James Aveam, E. G. Jones,
Stanley A. Jones, J. S. Truitt, John F.
Colfey, Women of the Moose Heart
Legion, Eileen Gaynor Sapp, W. W.
Wade, Ford Wooley.
: John Slovarp, Louis K. A. Lawsen,
I Henry A. Tucker, Elof Nelson, E. O.
| Archibald, Ernest Podbov, R O. Al
britton, Nick Samos, Samuel McNiece,
E. W. Ryan, Mrs. A. J. Landstrom,
Emma Brueckner, Fred Herman, Jack
Jennings, Fay Jennings, Mrs. Felix
Brown, W. W. Butts, Rosalie Diebolt,
Edward Mahle, Nels P. Hansen, Ar
thur Frame, Z. J. Loussac.
N. J. Gaikema, Rosalind Simon,
i Muriel Ruth Simon, Mrs. Rudolph
Schultz, Rudolph Schultz, J. H. Cal
lin, Martin Larsen, Peter Albert Cook,
W. H. Howard, Mrs. Clara Strye, M.
J. McDonald, Patrick McNulty, Buda
j Curich, Mrs. Sol Wolsky, Sam Delich,
1 Mike Curich, Nick Mrdga, Gjuro Yoj
novich, Harry J. Schultz,' Mrs. R. O.
I Albritton.
| Mrs. Charles Glatfe, Mrs. P. J. Mur
| phv, J. C. Murphy, B. Kenny, Jonas
Edward Erickson, Andy Masevich,
Victor Johnson, Oscar Miller, Mr. and
i Mrs. M. Divyak, Lucie Louise Noizet,
! Frank Antonich, Julian Florianovieh,
James 0. Hansen, Stanley Michalec,
Joseph Weierman, F. M. Policy, Chas.
I Janich.
: Josephine F. Chapin, Franklin H.
Chapin, W. J. H. Fogelstrom, Edward
T. Lindner, D. B. Van Derlip, Grover
Cleveland Hammond, Gerrit Snieder,
Wm. Gerig, Hugh Brown Laughlin, B.
F. Hill, J. R. Lingo, Austin Fields,
William B. Clayton, H. A. Mills,
George E. Ulelliken, Barry Patrick
Milliken, Victor E. Meyer, Edward
Olson, Claus E. Lagerberg, Walter
Franklin Clark, W. D. Stearns, W. J.
McMillan, William Fox, E. R. Barnes,
John Padgett, Robert Elkins, Antoni
Kwasny, Thomas B. Longre, Edwin
H. Byerly, H. M. Chesterman, Fank
L. Knight, W. M. Peltier, Mike Beten,
Eser Wikholm, John H. Dunn.
Arthur J. Hewitt, Mrs. Fanny Ger
ig, Mrs. R. S. Tenime, Frank Nyberg,
William Wallace Busey, Willard Nass
trom, Knud Bradland, John E. Peter
son, Lera Caroline Teterson, Charles
THREECHILDREN
IN ASYLUM ARE
SHELL VICTIMS
BRITISH GUNNER TELLS HOW
GERMANS WERE MOWED
DOWN BUT KEPT ADVANCING,
i _
i FIGHT FOR MESSINES RIDGE.
_
English Soldiers Repulse Waves of
Attacks of Teutons Near Ville
Capelle and Ground Is Strewn With
Their Dead.
—
PARIS, April 12.—German’s long
i range artillery bombardment was re
sumed yesterday. A shell hit a
foundling asylum, killing three chil
dren.
Went Down in Heaps.
LONDON, April 12.—“You could
i have shot them down with eye closed,’’
, said a British machine gunner describ
ing how Germans fought against the
British on the Fernch front. “We tired
straight into them. They went down
in heaps, yet we could not stop them.”
British soldiers say the Germans
outnumbered the Britsh on the battle
front two to one.
German troops; having within the
last few days pushed the British back
along a twenty-five mile front north
and south of Armentieres to a depth
of more than two miles, are now
struggling to increase their gains.
The brilliant defense of General
Haig, commander of the British forces
is beginning to tell, however, and the
German advance has slowed up con
siderably in many places today,
i At one point, however, the Teuton
attacks are undiminished in violence.
This place is Messines ridge, which is
about nine miles north of Armentieres
and which is the key to the British
Flanders line. Despite two days’
fierce fighting the Germans have been
unable to reach the crest of the ridge.
After a desperate combat late yes
terday near Ploeghstreert, the Ger
mans drove the British back to Neuve
Eglise, which is about five miles
southwest of Messines ridge.
The Germans, following heavy
fighting, have also captured Merville,
an important railroad junction on the
river Lys, about ten miles southwest
of Armentieres, and Neuf^ Berquin,
about ten miles northwest of Armen
tieres.
In determined counter attacks, the
British have regained some positions
on the line between the Loise and
Lawe rivers in a westerly direction
from Lens.
Reuters News Agency reports that
the British near Ville Chapelle re
pulsed three attacks which the Ger
mans made in great waves. The Ger
mans suffered immense losses and the i
ground was strewn with their corpses.
SUFFRAGIST PAPER
QUITS PUBLICATION
“VOTES FOR WOMEN” SUSPENDS j
BUSINESS AFTER TEN YEARS’
EXISTENCE. _ !
LONDON, April 13.—After ten j
years’ continuous existence as the or-j
gan of woman’s suffrage in England,!
the periodical “Votes for Women”
ceases publication with the February
issue.
“The time for an exclusively suf
frage journal has gone by,” it says in j
its valedictory. “ ‘Votes for Women',
did its work for ten years; it was a
pioneer among women’s papers. It
comes to an end at a dramatic mo
ment.
TRACING A BRIGHT SAYING.
“Pa, who started the saying that a
man’s wife is his better half?”
“Some man’s wife, I presume.”—
Stray Stories.
McMannama, Fred T. Mumma, John
M. Brown, George Englund, John Van
Zanten, Edward Lynch, W. S. Van
Voorhis, Nick Foster, Fred C. J. Pet
erson, Trig Berg, Henry Heino.
Charles V. Allen, Harry Sommerfield,
Jack Lian.
L II iJJJ IT 1J X ilUX/kJ
SIR HORACE PLUNKETT, CHAIR
MAN OF RECENT CONVEN
TION, MAKES REPORT.
MANY FACTIONS ARE AGREED
Nationals, Southern Unionists and
Five of Seven Labor Representa
tives Unite On Plan for Composing
Century-Old Dispute.
LONDON, April 12.—Sir Horace
Plunkett, chairman of the recent
Irish convention, in a formal report,
to the British goverijpnent today, sal
that the convention had laid the foun
dations for an agreement on the Irish
question, an achievement unprecedent
ed in history.
He said that the convention was
unable to overcome the objections of
the Ulster unionists. He declared
that the majority of the Irish nation
alists all the southern Unionists, and
five of the seven labor representatives
had agreed upon a scheme of Irish
self-government that should be en
acted into law.
TUGS AND BARGES
ARE PUT INTO WATER
EQUIPMENT OF ALASKAN EN
GINEERING COMMISSION SUC
CESSFULLY LAUNCHED.
The marine ways of the Alaskan
Engineering commission are the seem
of great activity now. The tug “Anne
W” was launched at an early hour this
morning. She slid gracefully into
the water. A few minutes later the
big barge, No. 107, was sent into the
water. Both the tug and the barge
were launched without the least diffi
culty.
The launching was under the super
vision of Harry Locke, port engineer
in charge of the marine ways.
The launch Wilhelmina which will
be operated during the summer by
Captain Frank Johnson and Einar
Thompson was also launched this
morning.
The launch Swan in charge of Cap
tain “Nic” Gaikema was put into the
water several days ago and will re
sume in a day or so her regular sched
ule to Knik and Turnagain Arm
points.
CABINET OFFICER
COMING TO ALASKA
SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
LEAVES FOR VISITS AT SEAT
TLE AND KETCHIKAN. ..
W ASHINGTON, D. C., April 13.—
Secretary of Commerce William C.
Redfield left Washington City for
Seattle today to attend the American -
Canadian fisheries conference. He also
will make liberty loan speeches.. Later
he will go to Alaska.
To Discuss Fisheries.
SEATTLE, April 13.—It is expected
that Secretary of Commerce William
C. Redfield will go to Ketchikan, Alas
ka, to attend the fisheries conference
there.
GERMANS ATTACK
IN PALESTINE
TEUTONS AND TURKS ASSAIL
BRITISH ON COAST OF MED
ITERRANEAN SEA.
LONDON, April 12.—Turkish and
German forces near Palestine opened
an offensive Wednesday. They at
tacked the British near the Mediter
ranean coast.
BEST WAY TO GET IT.
If you want something you should
pray for it as if you had no hope on
earth and work for it as if you ex
pected no help from heaven.—Elbert
Hubbard.