PRICE TEN CENTS.
WILL NOT ABANDON SUBMARINEPOLICY
Clash Between U. S. And Germany Now Certain
BETHMANN SAYS
NIT DESIRED
(By Associated Press)
BERLIN, March 30. — Chancellor
Bethmann Hollweg, in speaking be
fore the reichstag, said:
“Germany never desired war with
*he United States, and does not de
re it today.”
Declaring that Germany had under
en unrestrained warfare for its
(defense, the chancellor continued:
I the American nation considers
<s a cause to declare war against
.ne German nation, with which it has
lived in peace for a hundred years, and
if this warrants an Increase in blood
shed we shall not have to bear the
burden of responsibility for it.”
WASHINGTON, March 30. — Tak
ing it for granted, from the speech of
Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg, that
Germany will not abandon its subma
rine campaign of ruthlessness, offi
cials here have abandoned all hope
that an actual clash with Germany
is avertible. Secretary of War Baker
says the early graduation of the upper
class of West Point is under consider
ation. Secretary of State Lansing an
nounces that progress is being made
in the plans for mobilization of labor
resources.
Cabinet members who belong to the
council of national defense, report that
everything possible is being done to
co-ordinate all resources of the nation
for the government in case of war.
More militia regiments were today
ordered into service.
The cabinet meeting lasted an hour
and a half, and the p'rf-AHlent's partly
finished message to congress was dis
cussed. There are renewed indications
that the administration expects con
gres sto adopt a resolution declaring
a state of war exists.
WASHINGTON, March 30. — Presi
dent Wilson held a final conference
today with his cabinet, preparatory
to beginning the actual writing of the
address he will deliver before the
joint assemblage of congress next
week.
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AUSTRIA LOYAL
POLICY
(By Associated Press)
BERNE, March 30. — A neutral dip
lomat arriving from Vienna, says Aus
tria is almost feverishly anxious to
retain good relations with the United
States, but even more desirous and
determined to support Germany.
The Swiss parliament has decided
that Switzerland will make no peace
move at present, it being agreed that
the psyschlogical moment had not ar
rived.
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HAUL TAKEN
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, March 30. — It is official
ly announced that the British troops
captured Ruyaulcourt, eight miles east
of BapaumeT
BERLIN, March 30. — The furthei
withdrawal of the German troops on
the Peronne road has been an
nounced.
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BIG GOLD IMPORTS. ,
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, March 30. — The to
tal gold imports for January, 1915
were $1,400,000,000.
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Grant Reed has returned from Chi
sana. He broke trail out over th«
Rohn glacier, and made the trip tc
McCarthy in three days. Grant re
ports that everything is quiet at the
interior camp, there still being a scar
city of provisions.
GILL'S FATE NOW
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(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, March 30. — The case
of Mayor Hi Gill went to the jury late
this afternoon, and it is a matter of
conjecture as to just what the verdict
will be. Gill feels confident of being
acquitted, while his opponents believe
to cause him to be found guilty of hav
to cause hi mto be found guilty of hav
ing accepted a bribe.
SPAIN’S ACTION
STRIKE
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. March 30. — The
Spanish ambassador has been in
formed that the revolutionary move
ment, which has resulted in the call
ing of a general strike, was directly
responsible for the suspension of con
stitutional guarantees. He reports
that conditions in the country are at
present quiet.
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CANDIDATES FOR
SPEAKER ARE
BEING NAMED'
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON March 30. — The
Democratic caucus has made plans for
the prompt organization of the house
on assembling Monday, so as to avoid
any unnecessary delay in hearing Pre
sident Wilson’s address. Speaker
Clark was nominated by acclamation
by the ways and means committee,
and instructed to report the Demo
cratic committee selections direct to
the house.
WASHINGTON, March 30. — The
house Democrats caucussed last night
to consider the organization of that
body. The Republican committee also
met to prepare recommendations for
the Republican caucus.
WASHINGTON, March 30. — The
Democratic caucus has nominated
Champ Clark for re-election as speak
er of the house.
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(By United Press)
SALEM, Ore., March 30. — House
hold cares keep men out of jail, In
the opinion of Charles A. Murphy, war
den of Oregon state prison. Hus
bands who are responsible for the
wife and kiddies have less time to
become criminals than unmaried men,'
in his belief.
"Counting widowers,” said the ward
en, "we find that about 3 per cent
of the convicts received during the
last two years are married men. Sixty
two per cent are bachelors. I believe
a larger number of the younger in
mates would not have gotten into
trouble if they had had the responsi
bility of caring for a family. When
a man has a wife he hangs onto his
job and works.”
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Judge F. M. Brown, District Attor
ney W. N. Spence and Court Clerk
Arthur Lang were returning passen
gers on today’s train from McCarthy,
where they spent several days inves
tigating federal conditions.
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Captain Nolan, who has been on a
tour of inspection of the signal corps
stations along the government trail,
returned to Cordova this afternoon and
will go to Valdez, his headquarters, on
the next boat.
NORWAY'S FISHERY VALUES
GREATLY INGREASEO
(By Associated Press)
CHRISTIANIA, March 30. — The
value of Norway’s fisheries in 191G
was 146,000,000 kroner, as against
37,000,000 kroner in 1914, according to
statistics prepared by the Norwegian
controller.
FIE HlTN G MEN
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 30. — The
grade of second lieutenant in the offi
cers' reserve corps of the army has
been thrown open by Secretary Baker
to men without any military experi
ence whatever, provided they are phy
sically and mentally adapted to mili
tary life. An urgent plea has been
sent out to men between 21 and 32
eyars all over the country to send in
applications for commissions, with as
surances that the army will supply
after enrollment, the military training
necessary to fit them for duty.
Under the national defense act, the
corps should be able to furnish offi
cers for a force of 1,000,000 volunteers
In war time, and also serve as a re
servoir from which additional officers
for the regular army could be drawn
at need. Uess than 1,000 men have
been given reserve commissions In
the line, despite the fact that the law
has been in operation for more than
eight months. Applications are com
ing in slowly, and army officers are
using every means In their power to
attract young men to this service as a
patriotic duty.
There appears to be no lack of men
desiring to serve in the staff corps
reserve, such as the engineer corps,
the Quartermasters’ division and the
medical service. Enough commissions
in these corps have been issued to
provide the special arms for a million
troops. It Is fighting men who are
lacking, line officers who may look
for service at the front in time of war.
Army officers believe the failure to
fill up this reserve Is due only to lack
of information as to the requirements,
for it is the fighting lines that are
attractive to the young men in war
time.
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ABERDEEN PLUAABER BUYS
INTEREST LOCAL FIRM
J. C. Smith, who arrived on the Ala
meda, has purchased the Interest of
C. H. Fuqua in the Fuqua & McCon
aghy Plumbing and Heating Company,
and will be an active partner in the
future business of this concern.
Fqr the past seventeen years Mr.
Smith has been actively engaged in
this line of work as manager of the
Western Heating and Plumbing Com
pany, and later of the C. A. Pinkney
Co., both of Aberdeen, Washington.
Under his active management the C.
A. Pinkney Company installed the
plumbing and heating in the $100,000
Hoqulam high school, the $150,000
Aberdeen high school and the Cheha
lis public library and city hall. Dur
ing all this time he was active in the
Washington State Association of Mas
ter Plumbers, holding a number of
important offices in that organization
during his affiliation. For the past
five years he has been a member o(
the school board of Aberdeen, the
latter three years being vice-president,
which position he still holds. As soon
as the school season closes Mr. Smith
will bring his family from the states
and make this his permanent home.
RUSSIAInStURES ALL
ITS W000SAWS
PETROGRAD, March 30. — A thou
sand woodsaws per month are being
manufactured at the new government
factories in the Ural region. Russia
has hitherto obtained all her wood
saws from Sweden
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Make your plans so as to be able tc
attend the dance at Eagle hall tomor
row night.
U. S. ILL SOB!
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March .10. — pros|.
dent Wilson, In a general way, has
heard the sentiment or the country
and the preponderance of opinion is
for a declaration that a state of war
exists In regard to Germany. \s the
cabinet met today for the last time
before the assembling of congress, the
concensus of opinion was that the
United States would soon enter active
ly into war with Germany.
(Special to the Times)
JUNEAU, March 3ft. — Two sus
pects were brought here from Chicha
goff island, where the store building
at the mine was entered by masked
bandits and gold bars worth $20,000
stolen. The gold, however, has not
as yet been recovered.
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IN SIBERIA
NEED FOOD
(By Associated I’ress)
BERLIN, March 30. — To prevent
any further exodus of agricultural
workers from the farms to highly paid
jobs in the munition factories, the fol-1
lowing appeal, signed bv the director
of civil and military supplies. General
Groener, has been placarded in all the
rural districts:
“Agricultural work is a patriotic
auxiliary service. Our brothers at the
front and in the factories at home
rely on you. Be proud of this. He
who runs away from the plough to
the town for the sage of earning a
wfe pence more is a deserter. Hold
back such weaklings by example and
word.”
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♦ (By United Press) 4
♦ WASHINGTON, March 30. — 4
4 The department of agriculture 4
4 figures a family of four needs 4
4 these seeds to keep it In fresh 4
4 vegetables for the summer: A 4
4 pint each of snap, pole lima and 4
4 bush beans; half ounce of early 4
♦ cabbage; one ounce of carrot; 4
4 one paek^f of cauliflower; one 4
4 packet of celery; half ounce of 4
♦ cucumber;; one packet eggplant; 4
4 half ounce of kale; packet of 4
4 parsley; half ounce of parsnips; 4
4 one ounce of salsify; half ounce 4
4 of summer squash, and quarter 4
4ounce of hubbard squash. 4
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came to Cordova this afternoon on her
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GERMANY'S COIL TUX WILL
YIELD BID SUM
(By Associated Press)
BERLIN, March 30. — The new coal
tax which the government plans to
put In force shortly Is expected to
yield about $250,000,000 a year, this
amount being figured on a basis of
600,000,000 tons output.
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(By Associated Press)
PARIS, March 30. — However press
ing the problem of coal may be tc
France in war time, it will be even
more pressing with the return of
peace. Already the government is
studying possible ways and means of
freeing France after the war from
bondage to German coal. The InduR
trial situation before the war was
continually aggrevated by the fact
that France had to depend on Ger
many for so large a proportion of her
supply of coal. Everybody in France
hopes that some way out of a return
to that condition of dependency may
be found after the war.
The situation is complicated by the
French expectation that Alsace-Lor
mine again will become French. The
return of these provinces would mean
virtually a doubling of the nation's
requirements of coal, owing to the
immense amounts required for the de
velopment of the iron deposits in I^>r
mine. This means that instead of do
ing with about 50,000,000 tons o) coal
a year, as before the war, France will
need more than 100,000,000 tons.
A French expert Maurice Alfassa,
has just published a report showing
where France must obtain her coal i!
she wishes to maintain independence
of Germany. He indicates three main
sources. Development of the deposits
of coal in France, England and the
coal mines on the left bank of the
Rhine, the output of which is estimat
ed at 30,000,000 tons yearly. This
opens up the question of the future of
the German territory west of the
Rhine, and M. Alfassa suggests that in
the peace treaty the left bank of the
Rhine should be given a special eco
nomic standing, enabling France to
remove some of the tariff walls which
existed before the war between her
self and Germany.
M. Alfassa suggests that the peace
treaty ending the war should provide
for the opening of the Rhine as a free
waterway for international trade.
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BE TAUGHT IN
(By Associated Pres)
TOKIO. March 30. — Miss Toshlko
Sakamaki, a young Japanese woman,
Is leaving for the United States to
preach Shintoism, the great Japanese
religion of ancestor worship. She
will settle in Los Angeles, and while
her initial efforts will be to revive
Shintism among the Japanese in Cali
fornia, she will strive generally to
convert Americans.
She explains her mission as that of
endeavoring to counteract the ten
dency of young Japanese women to
neglect the "beautiful manners and
customs of Japanese civilization.” She
is the first Japanese woman Shinto
missionary to visit America. Many
times sought in marriage, she has al
ways declined, declaring herself wed
ded to her cause.
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Representative Jos. Murray placed
on his desk in the house yesterday an
ink well made out of the ore of the
Bonanza copper mine. The well is of
nice design and well carved, while the
ore is over seventy per cent copper
and looks like pure metal. Jewelry
is also made out of the ore, which is
black and has a fine polish. — Juneau
Dispatch.
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A meeting of the Bible Study Class
will be held at the Presbyterian
church at 7:30 o'clock tonight.
[road fund bill
BE PASSED Bf
WASHINGTON, March 30. — The
Democratic members of the house
ways and means committee met to
consider plans for raising revenue.
The army bill, containing a half mil
lion dollar appropriation for Alaska
roads and trails, will be rushed in the
senate when received from the house.
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(By Associated Press) '
WASHINGTON, March 30. — Alas
ka's fiftieth anniversary was signal
ized by Secretary of Interior Dane
with a statement, In which he said:
“Alaska's period of trial is over. She
has been weighed in the balance and
found magnificently worthy." Dane
stated that the wisdom of Seward,
who had negotiated Alaska’s purchase
against virulent opposition, had been
justified.
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(By Associated Press)
MEXICO CITY, March 30. — The
department of communications has
announced that in future it will be
the policy of the government to con
trol or supervise the management of
all railroads. It also is announced
that the policy of the government will
be against giving subsidies or special
privileges to railroads in the future.
The government supervision of the
railroads will be in the hands of a
commission of technical inspection and
auditing. Hereafter no franchise for
a railroad will be given for more than
75 years. It formerly was customary
to issue franchises for 99 years.
SWEDEN AND DENMARK TD
STAND TOGETHER
(By Associated Press)
CHRISTIANIA, March 30. — “If
the disaster of war should strike one
of these countries it would strike the
other," declared M. Morvinckel, pre
sident of the Norwegian storthing, at
the opening session in the course of
a speech advocating co-operation with
Sweden and Denmark. “Our inter
ests,” he added, “are binding us close
together, and we will keep together,
not for love, but for the reason
of practical politics. This ought to
be made clear to the belligerents.”
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BUNGALOW CLUB ELECTS
LIVE STAFF OF OFFICERS.
At the conclusion of the Comi
cal Hat dance, given by the Bungalow
Club last Monday night, the following
officers were unanimously elected:
Roy Hegg, president; Johnny Jones,
vice-president; James Clark, secretary
and treasurer.
_The_former officers were Clarka
Rosswog, president; Milton Scheuch,
vice-president, and John Muller, sec
retary and treasurer, to whom the
members of the club extend their
thanks for many good times.
The future officers are all "live
wires.” Just watch “The Bungalow
Club."
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NOTICE TO COAL CONSUMERS.
Beginning March 19 we will make
sidewalk delivery only of coal. Cus
tomers whose coal cannot be deliv
ered from wagons or by chute will
hereafter arrange to have their coal
packed In.
ALASKA TRANSFER CO.
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Rev. A. G. Shriver returned on to
day’s train from a trip to Kenuecott.
BILL IS SIGNED
IKING TODAY
A HOLIDAY i
(Special to the Times)
JUNEAU, March 30. — The house
yesterday passed the Joint memorial
asking congress to make a law requir
ing that only citizens of the United
States be employed on government
work in Alaska.
The eight hour underground work
ing bill was also passed.
Lincoln's birthday, February 12, and
Seward's birthday, March 30, were
declared legal holidays by the legisla
ture. The latter to become effective
today, was signed by Governor
Strong at the Grand Igloo dance last
night.
A memorial was passed asking con
gress to reinstate the $500,000 appro
priation, for the building of trails and
roads in Alaska.
Representative Price introduced a
bill prohibiting United States commis
sioners from practicing law in their
precinct.
Senator Snow introduced a bill for
a citizenship night school, the expense
to be borne by the territory. It pro
vides for from three to five meetings
weekly, and the instructor to be paid
$5.00.
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JtPUN PLEASED
(By Associated Press)
TOKIO, March 30. — That the
breaking off of diplomatic relations
between the United States and Ger
many will be a factor in promoting
trade co-operation and generally bet
ter relations betw'een the United
States and Japan, is the view expres
sed by Kiyoshi Nakashoji, the min
ister of agriculture and commerce. Mr.
Kakashoji was one of a number of
busines sand financial leaders Inter
viewed by the Japanese press on the
probable effects of the stand taken by
America. Many divergent views were
expressed, but none of them Inter
viewed foresaw any economic damage
to Japan in the new world situation.
Mr. Nakashoji expressed the opinion
that the break between the United
States and Germany would strengthen
the Anglo-Japanese alliance and that
this fact, together with the new spirit
of co-operation, will result in the
smooth working of enterprises for the
development of China.
It is beyond doubt, the minister said,
that the rupture will mean greater
prosperity for Japan's trade, as the
Pacific and Indian oceans will be the
only sea routes in the world free of
danger from enemy submarines. Mr.
Nakashoji believed that the break
would not have any great effect on
Japan's export trade in silks, tea and
other products to the United States.
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MUNITION PLANT
DISCHARGES
1 ZOiMEN '
(By Associated Press)
PITTSBURG, March 30. — Twelve
hundred men employed In the Weat
inghouse plant, making explosive
shells for foreign governments, have
been discharged, as the contracts are
all filled.
The sailing of the steamer North
western from Seattle has been
changed to April 11 from April 9, thus
leaving two days earlier than
scheduled.
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The Eagles will resume their regu
lar weekly dances tomorrow night, and
they promise all who attend a good
time. Strangers are especially invited
to come and get acquainted with Cor
dovans.
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