RED CROSS HH NEWS NOTES
This Department Will Appear Every Wednesday |
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Headquarters are open every after
noon except Saturday.
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C'onlovtt's patriotism Is still at top
notch Watch the Red Cross mem
bership campaign now on.
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The American Red Cross in Siberia
is asking for knitted garments for the
Czechoslovak army in Russia
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"The Red Dross is a great organ
ization which is making its good work
felt, and which has answered the call
to render the greatest service to those
trusted to her care, our fighting men.
Dr. Henri Hearst. former mayor of
Rheims.
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Le Havre. Seven thousand six hun
dred and fifty Belgian soldiers are
taking educational course's in schools
operated by the American Red Dross,
•according to an official report. Of
this number 1.200 are* faking corre
spondence courses. 050 students are
preparing for various trades, and son
are studying theology and philosophy.
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Mr> John If. Powell, superinten
dent of garments, Northwestern divi
sion of the American Red Dross,
writes under date of December 27 the
following self-explanatory letter:
are pleased to advise you that
we have received a most excellent
shipment of sweaters from your chap
ter. These were up to the standard
in every way Thank you for your
good work and eontinuod interest."
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The rise of our Ked Cross lias been
one of the wonders of the war. The j
largest Ked Cross activity in the war.
outside of the United States, has been
that of Great Britain, which in a
period of four and a half years has
raised something over $60,000,000 for
I its work. But through our Ked Cross
j the American people have in a periml
1 of one and a half years contributed
j $::oo,ooo,ooo in money, in addition to
Ian amount of voluntary service al
! most beyond imagination.
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Are you entitled to wear a Ked
Cross service badge?
Badges in recognition of loyal serv
iee to the nation through the Red
[Cross shall be awarded to all persons
who have given regular service dur
ing a period of not less than six con
secutive months, in which period the
actual work done shall be equivalent
to al least four days a week, or ap
proximately Mill hours; or for eight
[months of service of not less than
[three days a week, or approximately
Min hours; or twelve months of serv
ice of not less than two days a week,
[with a service stripe added for each
[additional Mid hours' service.
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A letter has just been received
[ from headquarters announcing the
[ suspension of knitting, one of the war
time activities of the Ked Cross
which has been of very great service
to our soldiers and sailors since the
i outbreak of hostilities.
A recent careful inventory of stocks
of knitted articles on hand hns been
made in till division and camp ware
houses. Sufficient garments for the
needs of all men now In camps and
those returning from the other side,
have been set aside for the use ot
the Military Relief Department. The
remaining supply has been turned
over to the Department of Foreign
Relief for shipment to France for use
by our men or for use in civilian
rel'of.
Including the estimates receipts of
socks and sweaters that are now in
process in various chapters through
opt the country, there will be sufii
c om garments to take care of till
needs. Consequently no more wool
will he given out by the local chapter
Ml socks and sweaters now in make
tm : i lie completed as quickly as poi
slide that the final shipment can lie
ru de to Seattle by February 1
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Every Yank Overseas Got an Old
Fashioned Christmas
I’arls. ilei 2tv American soldiers in
and out of the hospitals are still talk
lug about th«' entertainment and tur
key feast provided for them on Christ
litas by the American Red Cross, and
looking forward to a duplication o:
the celebration on New Year's da>
Every Yankee fighting man who a,
peared at any of the four Red Cros.
canteens between noon and night time
on Christmas received an old fash
ioned dinner served by Red Cross
girls, who were determined that tin
hoys front hack home should have so
much attention during the holiday
that they would forget all about
cooties, trench fever and other wor
ties.
The men in the hospitals woke up
Christmas morning to find that during
the night Santa Claus had left a sock
filled with goodies and best wishes
from home at every bedside. Christ
mas trees and evergreen decorations
,in every ward added to the atmosphere
I of good cheer. At Paris headquarters
of the Red Cross there was a Christ
mas welcome for every soldier who
I dropped in A vaudeville show in the
afternoon was followed by dancing at
night.
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H«*re is a letter of an American sol
dier who was a mule wrangler in
France :
‘ We had a short march last night,
got some food from the Red (Tons
and entrained with the Supply Co.
Since then life has consisted in try
ing to get back to the, Hat ear with
tlie rolling kit hen on it. That being
my present conception of a dinner.
We rode most of the morning on the
seat of a truck on a flat car and ac
quired most of Me- soft coal in the
district Just had a stop got milk
and bread from the French Red Cross
and beans and coffee from the*
kitchen. The sun seems brighter
Anything that you have that you
want to give to charity, anything that
you want to give to me. even, (JIVK
IT TO THK RKI) ('ROSS I have
now covered most of France up and
'down and across, at tin* Front and
about' as far in the rear as you can
get. and 1 want to say that for being
tberi* when the train goes through, or
the column passes, and slipping the
men a liandout, for having the stuff
on the spot and getting it across to
the men at three in the morning, after
loading all night They Are Then* Kv
ry Time, French and American alike.
They are all the same over here
They don’t ask you for your identifi
cation card, thev slip you the bowl
when its too dark to see who you are.
or for you to see what’s in the howl.
\ll they ask is if you want another.
“So I say don’t worry about semi
:ng anything over t<? me personally 1
have thrown away most of m> stuff
anyway (a bedding roll. m> .addle
b: gs and a bag on my back will see
’me through tins w. n and I. per-onal
1\. am always all right aiy ay. but
Hi*' Red <’ne • means a cup of hot
Cl !; • « to a man u tin !i;• b*-**n pH llitl"
mules into a box <ar I rom !* I’. M. to
1 \. M Ami b* is the man, aft* i all.
v. I o is going to win t he u ar "
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PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST
Frank Burns, formerly cashier for
the Blum O'Neill Company, Is now si r
jgeant in the quartermaster's depart
intent at Camp Lewis
Mrs. A. V. Tyler will continue to
occupy her position in the business
office of the Blum O'Neill Co. store
alter her husband has been transferred
to Fort Liseunt.
Seward has reorganized its Cham
ber of Commerce, with twenty boost
ers enrolled us members, and they
will contribute monthly to a fund for
publicity purposes.
Among the Cordovans who came
over from Fort Lrseum on the Don
aldson on a visit are Phil Truckey.
who is now a sergeant major, George
Larson and Harry Anderson.
11 C Larson, a former resident of
McCarthy, and now residing in Seat
tle, writes to McCarthy friends an
pouncing the arrival of a fine baby
gril at his home on December 10.
Fire destroyed the upper story and
roof of the wireless station at Kodiak
last week, according to information
reaching here on last night's boat.
The station was not put out of busi
ness. however.
Deputy Marshal Harry Kavanaugh
was a passenger aboard the Alameda,
with two insane patients from Anchor
age. Kd Welch and Joe Krikoroff.
whom he is taking to the Morningsule
asylum. Portland,
influenza ims nrusen oui ai i op
1,or Center, there being twenty cases
among the Indians, from which one
dei th has resulted. A wire from there
today to Dr. \V. H. Chase states that
a quarantine has been established at
Nafsted’s roadhouse at Lower Ton
slim.
Dr. Krause and two of the nurses
from the medical ship Brutus, Miss
Ots and Miss Nelson, who have been
in Cordova for the past couple of
weeks, will leave on the next train
for Copper Center to render aid in
combatting the influenza epidemic
raging there.
Sergeant Harry C. Preston of Fort
Liscum is a passenger aboard the
Alameda. Through the application of
the Dally Times he received his dis
charge to Join our force, but yester
day we received a wire from him at
Valdez stating that he was on his way
to marriage and his old printing job in
San Francisco.
Lieutenant Huffum who ha* boon
in ( harg« of the iddier* . tatioin 1 at
i nidnwi and along tli• • Copper Ki\or
\.ille>, w ill return tonight to Fort
Li ■ uni, w’.ier* lie will In* stationed
11 • : •.liter Tie lieutenant has made
m;n> I ri* nd * who will learn with r**
■ i < t ot Ins trail ter.
Captain llewes. commander at Fort
Li a-utii. arn s > i in i 'm dov.i the morn
ing «m tie- launch hmiald on. having
< nine over mi official huim- H»*
report* that of 1 1 *<»1 di• -r at tin* fort,
hut I'll -fill remain and 1" of tin -*•
dll Hot wall! hi accept I lieir dl-a ha Ige
until 11i« > had lir*t -• cured th• *ir nat
urali/ation paper*
Treasurer (leorge A Harmon of tin
Red Cross Christmas roll call reports
that the following subscriptions have
been received by him from the vari
ous committees up to (into; Mrs. Ly
diek and Mrs Corner. $74; Mrs !>*•
Leo and Mrs. (Iraham, $40.o'*; Mrs
(Joodrearer and Mrs Ristim*. $41; H
H Wolking. $2.".; W L Smith. $4Va<»
Total. $226.aa.
Kven though Kennecott is cut oft'
from the rest of the population by
(luarantine, it does not prevent Cupid
from marking victims for his own
within its boundaries, it is said that
in a very short time the chief account
ant of the Kennecott Copper Corpora
tion will join tin* ranks of th• * Hen**
dicks, having persuaded one of tin*
hospital staff to share his lot.
Richard V Watkins has been in
Alaska many years, and has lots of
- friends, whose sentiments we echo
when we offer him our congratulations
and wish him and his lady every hap
piness.
The bride-to-be is Miss Christina
Hoag, who came to Kennecott last
April McCarthy News.
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ROOSEVELT WANTS PRIZE
MONEY GIVEN TO F :H
WASHINGTON. Jan la (by Assn
dated Press). It became known hen*
today that Colonel Roosevelt, shortly
before his death, asked the Red Cross
to donate $5,1*00 of its share of the
Noebel peace prize money received
from him to the French village near
which his son. Lieutenant Quentin
Roosevelt, is buried.
COMMINGS IS SLATED TO
SUCCEED M’CORMICK
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (by Asso
dated Press).—It is expected that
Homer Commings, vice chairman of
the Democratic national committee,
will succeed Vance McCormick, who
has resigned.
STATE OF WASHINGTON
IN FAVOR OF SUFFRAGE
OLYMPIA, Jan. 15 (by Associated
Press).—The Washington legislature
today passed a resolution asking con
gress to pass the woman suffrage
bill.
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$125 fur-Uned overcoat for $40. See
Tom Hubbert. 15-tt
SERBIANS OF
ELLAMAR WANT
JUSTICE BONE
The Serbian N.I': I »- • . ■ .f
Kllamar, Alaska. p* d i h. ? •.11* v. me
resolut ion at if * in* -t n .• In «l 1 >• *-m
ber L’s last
Whereas. At a ruin : ■ b- ; at
Hf>nn* on April H». l;• |> repr.senta
tic* s of the Jugoslav and Italian p*o
pi* - agreed that the completion of
unity and the Independence of both
peoples, as well as the freedom of the
est to both, that In the interest of
Adriatic, are of vital reciprocal infer
future good relations between the two
people., their various territorial on
trover-i.-s ought to be resolved ami
c.ibly on the basis of nationality and
the light of peoples to decide their
own fate in such manner as not to tn
jure the vital interest of the two na
tions; and that the nuclei of the peo
ple which may have to be included
within the frontiers of the other shall
he guaranteed the right to have their
own language culture and moral and
econoinh interest respected.
Whereas. The secretary of state,
on May _*!». l!«ls, announced that the
proceedings of the mentioned con
gress have been followed with great
interest by the government of the
t'nited States, and that the national
istie aspirations of the Jugoslavs for
freedom have the* earnest sympathies
of this government;
"Whereas. President Woodrow Wil
son. in his reply of October PJ. 191S.
to Austria's peace* proposal, again and
in the fullest manner recognized the
Justice of their nationalistic aspira
lions for freedom, acknowledging to
tile Jugoslavs the right of judging
themselves as to what conception will
satisfy their situation as members of
thi- t.'iinilv nt' n:iti(\Tiij
“Whereas. By the London conven
tion of April 27. 11*115, czaristic Hus
sin. with France and Great Britain,
allotted to Italy as a price for her en
trance into the war, important parts
of Jugoslav territory of former Aus
tria-Hungary of purely Jugoslav or
mixed Itulo Jugoslav population; and
"Whereas. Italy still claims this part
of Jugoslav territory;
"Whereas. These imperialistic as
pirations clash with the principles of
the Rome congress, indorsed by the
United States and the whole civilized
world; and
"Whereas. A settlement of terri
torial contests on an Imperialistic ba
sis to the benefit of Italy would be
a cruel injustice to the Jugoslavs, and
would render Impossible a lasting
peace:
“We resolve to protest most em
phatically against the allotment of
any Jugoslav territory with a pure
Jugoslav or mixed population to a
foreign power, In contradiction of the
above-mentioned principles of the
Rome congress.
"SERBIAN NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF ELLAMAK. ALASKA.
"EGAN PETROKOV, Secretary."
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HEATING STOVES
To eliminate the necessity of carrying over heaters
until next season, and also to make room for new goods,
the following prices will prevail (until stock is exhausted)
on Agate, Garnet and the 12E size Cole’s Hot Blast:
Prices that will Interest You
i
Regular Special
Four only 1 1-in. “Garnet” $15.00 $11.50
Four only 13-in. “Garnet” 17.00 13.50
Two only 14-in. “Agate" 26.50 21.50
Two only 16-in. “Agate” 30.00 24.50 j
Three only 12E “Cole’s Hot Blast” 27.50 24.75
These are good, serviceable coal heaters of attractive design and
ornamentation. Large swing front feed doors with screw register
draft. Ample range of sizes for any room. One joint of pipe, with
damper, and the setting up free with each stove.
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