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i ♦ WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—Pres- ♦
♦ ident Wilson in an address today ♦
| J ♦to congress restated our war ♦
♦ aims and in agreement with ♦
♦ Premier LloyiJ George presented ♦
♦ a definite program for world ♦
♦ peace, containing fourteen con- ♦
♦ siderations. ♦
♦ The President says the pro- ♦
♦ gram removes the chief provoca- ♦
♦ tions to war, and that its aims ♦
♦ are shared by the allies. He made ♦
♦ clear at the outset that German ♦
♦ statesmen having challenged ♦
♦ their adversaries to a restatement ♦
♦ of war aims he undertook to ♦
♦ respond with candor. He said ♦
♦ that the voice of the Russian ♦
♦ people, prostrate and all but help- ♦
♦ less with power shattered but ♦
♦ souls not subservient, called for ♦
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♦ a statement of aims, and that ♦
♦ he had responded with simplicity ♦
♦ and frankness. He declared that ♦
♦ that we must know whether the ♦
♦ German statesmen are speaking ♦
♦ for the German reischtag major- ♦
♦ ity or for a military party and ♦
♦ men whose creed is imperial dom- ♦
♦ ination. Applause greeted the ♦
♦ speech of President Wilson. ♦
♦ First—Open peace covenants ♦
♦ with private and international un- ♦
♦ derstandings. «
♦ Second—Freedom of Seas <►
♦ Third—Removal of economic ♦
♦ barriers and more equal trade ♦
♦ among nations associating them- ♦
♦ selves for maintenance of peace. ♦
♦ Fourth—Reduction of national ♦
♦ armaments. *
♦ Fifth—Adjustment of colonial ♦
♦ claims on the principle that the ♦
♦ people concerned have equal ♦
♦ weight with government’s inter- ♦
♦ ests. «
♦ Sixth—Evacuation of Russia ♦
♦ and an opportunity for Russia's ♦
♦ political development. ♦
♦ Seventh—Evacuation of Bel- ♦
♦ gium, without limiting its sov- ♦
♦ ereignty. +
♦ Eighth—Restoration of French ♦
♦ territory and reparation for Al- ♦
♦ sace and Lorraine. ♦
♦ Ninth—Readjustment of Ital ♦
♦ ians’ frontiers along lines of na- ♦
♦ tionality. ♦
♦ Tenth—Greatest opportunity ♦
♦ for an autonomous development ♦
♦ of Austrians and Hungarians. ♦
♦ Eleventh—Evacuation of Ru- ♦
♦ mania, Serbia and Montenegro, ♦
♦ with guarantees of the Balkan’s ♦
♦ independence and access to the ♦
♦ sea for Serbia. ♦
♦ Twelth—The Dardanelles to be ♦
♦ opened to all nations and a sov- ♦
♦ ereignty for Turkey. ♦
♦ Thirteenth—Independence of ♦
♦ Poland and access to the sea. ♦
♦ Fourteenth—General associa- ♦
♦ tion of nations under guarantees ♦
♦ of political independence and ter- ♦
♦ ritorial integrity to all. ♦
♦ President Wilson said that ♦
♦ Americans were willing to fight ♦
♦ until these arrangements had been ♦
♦ achieved because they want a ♦
♦ just peace. ♦
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Food Administrator Gunnison, ol
Juneau, this afternoon wired W. R
Hillery, of the local food conservation
board the following information, which
is of vital interest to one or Cordova s
principal industries:
Governor Strong yesterday issued
a proclamation suspending for one
year the eight hour law so far as il
relates to the taking, preparing and
canning of clams, halibut, herring, cod
and all other kinds of food fish.
Gunnison also urges the restaur
ants to conserve on sugar and says
that new pamphlets will soon be is
sued in reference to corn.
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—Homei
Ferguson, president of the NewpoG
News Shipbuilding company, tesiifieo
before the senate committee, that al
though the government’s purpose ir
commandeering ship construction was
to expedite work it had failed to speed
it up.
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BITELESCOPE
(By Associated Press)
PASADENA, Cal. Jan. 8.—Details of
the moons topography hitherto be
yond the reach of the most powerful
telescopes were revealed when prelim
inary tests were made recently of the
new telescope with its 100-inch re
flector, now being installed at the
Mount Wilson solar observatory, near
here, according to Prof. Frederick H.
Seare of the observatory staff.
A number of fittings and appliances
yet to be installed will delay use of
the telescope, said to be the largest in
the world, until next spring but ir
tests made since installation of the
great lens, the grinding and surfacing
of which required nine years of deli
cate manipulation, it has given highly
satisfactory results. Prof. Searer said.
Until the new telescope is complet
ed no scientific observations will be
attempted with it and no detailed r«
ports will be made as to astronomical
phenomena revealed in test observa
tions.
Most of the parts required to com
plete the instrument are being made
in the instrument shops of the ob
servatory here by staff experts.
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Kenzie, phone 170 or Hegg’s hall eve
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—Secretary
Baker, in his weekly war review, says
it is expected that the German of
fensive on the western front will be
their greatest assault, but that the
British and French can be relied upon
to withstand the shock. He says the
British and French have steadily
pushed ahead through sixteen fierce
battles with cumulative gains. He be
! lieves that the offensive is probably
being delayed for the massing of sup
plies and says the French success on
the Italian front have turned the
scale against the Teutons.
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(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Jan. 8.—Partial dismem
berment of Rumania, control of the
Danube river and domination of Ser
bia, are the Hungarian war aims as
defined in the Budapest Hirlap. organ
of Count Stephen Tisza, formerly
, Premier of Hungary,
j “We want part of Rumania, an
area of about 15,000 square kilome
ters, including Buzen, Dabolotza and
Prahovo,” declares the newspaper.
i “Why? Because it is perferable for
us to have a frontire near Bucharest.
The cannon will roll better descend
ing the Carpathians. The Rumanian
fox must not play the role of the
wolf between the Magyar town of
Buzen and the Bulgarian Dobrudja.
1 The richest oil wells are there, and
the best salt mine is at Prahovo.
“Then we want 10,000 square kilo
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meters near Orsova and in the elbow
of the Danube. Why? Because it is
preferable that our door should be
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common with the Bulgarians, in or
der to make the Berlin-Bagdad route
more sure.
"In the peace treaty we must be
assured of a twenty years’ right to
construct an Austro-Hugarian canal
1 across the Moravo-Vardar valley,
which must be under our administra
tion and control. To make this cer
tain we shall demand that the Serbian
army be permanently suppressed and
the Serbian throne occupied by a sov
! ereign approved by the emperor of
j Austria-Hungary.
“A miracle will be accomplished
in the twentieth century; seven hun
i
dred millions of men in China and
India will enter the productive system
; of European activity. That will mean
an influx of gold from the New East
to the New West. It is Germany which
will be this New West.”
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Chas. A. Derry, former editor and
publisher of the Iditarod Pioneer and
Ruby Record-Citizen was an arrival
in Cordova on today’s boat.
SOLDIERS HE
BILLIONS OF
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\V. R. Hillery, vice president of the
Bank of Alaska, is in receipt of a let
ter from Andrew a Benson, of New
York, one of the state vice presidents
of the American Bonks association
and a Ho one of the stockholders of
the local institution, in which he ex
plains the W’ork he is at present en
gaged in for the government in con
nection with war insurance plan for
the soldiers. He says:
For several weeks, I have been in
\\ ashington, and a very considerable
part of my time was spent in outlin
ing the organization of the Bureau ot
War Risk Insurance of the lives of
soldiers. As you doubtless know, the
government is going to insure the
soldiers, and make an allowance for
such soldiers as allot part of their pay.
It is an enormous undertaking, for
insurance will have to be written on
about two million soldiers, and allow,
ances tfill havejto be paid to between
five hundred thousand and a million
families of soldiers. When 1 left, we
had been writing insurance for about
twenty days, and applications were on
hand for over one billion, two hun
dred million. By the middle of Feb
ruary, they will probably have writ
ten fourteen billions of insurance. My
services for the government are per
formed without remuneration, except
that they pay my expenses.
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(Bv Associated Press)
\\ ASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—The senate
yesterday confirmed the namination of
F. P. Brenneman, of Valdez, as United
States marshal for the Third division
of Alaska_
FOOD FAMINE IS
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(By Associated Press)
ZURICH, Switzerland, Jan. 8.—Vi
enna newspapers report Austria's near
approach to famine in eggs, vege
tables, sugar, bread and milk. As a
result of poor and insufficient food
there is said to be a large increase
in skin diseases manifested in boils,
abcesses, and eczema.
The working capacity of the labor
ers in mines and munition plants, and
the health of the children is serious
ly menaced. Any further deterior
ation of the food supply is bound to
have inconceivably grave conse
quences, say Austrian papers.
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Job printing at Daily Times office.
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Jan. 8.—Premier Hughes,
of the Australian cabinet, has resign
ed. Frank Tudor, labor leader, was
summoned to form a new cabinet since
the defeat of conscription and be first
reported that Hughes intended to re
(By Associated Press)
TOKIO, Jan. 8.—The building of the
superdreadnaught Nagato has had to
1 be abandoned for the time being on
account of a shortage of labor. This
seems almost unbelievable in Japan
but the rapid rise in wages has been
most marked In shipyards, and the
workmen have left the naval docks at
the Kure arsenal for employment in
private companies which pay higher
wages.
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(By Associated Tress)
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 8— Plans for
general conscription of women after
the war are being made in Germany,
and there is a general feeling that
girls, as well as boys, will be com
pelled to undergo a regular period of
training corresponding to the Ger
man youth's service In the army. The
service proposed for girls is not mili
tary, but civil. It is proposed that
all women should, preferably at the
age of 17, be taken from their homes
and compulsorily “trained,” either in a
profession, a trade, or in household
duties.
The characteristic German divisioK
between rich and poor is maintained
’in the project. Girls of the upper class
es are to be trained in special insti
tutions; poor girls will go to factor
ies or be placed in private households,
where, their employers will give them
a trifle of pocket money and make a
contribution to the state.
The idea meets with wide commen
dation in the German newspapers, but
one English critic notes that “there
is some difference between male con
scription which puts a man into a
regiment run by and for the state,
and a female conscription which
makes a girl work without wage for
the profit of private individuals. The
latter cannot with accuracy be called
anything but slavery.”
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All the latest and most authentic
telegraphic news in the Daily Times
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♦ WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 —The ♦
♦ Walsh-Pittman coal and oil land ♦
♦ leasing bill passed the senate late +
♦ yesterday afternoon It provides ♦
♦ for a general leasing of the coal ♦
♦ and oil lands with royalties paid ♦
%
♦ to the government and also for ♦
♦ the purchase of lands under cer- ♦
♦ tain conditions. The measure ♦
♦ now goes to the house. ♦
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♦ SEATTLE, an. 8.—The Alaska ♦
♦ Bureau of the Seattle Chamber of ♦
♦ Commerce says the bill discrimin
♦ ates against Alaska. This organ ♦
♦ ization addressed personal let ♦
♦ ters to the members of both ♦
♦ houses protesting against the ♦
♦ passage of the bill in its presenr »■
♦ form, as it would not permit of ♦
♦ the development of two import- ♦
♦ ant resources of the northern ♦
♦ territory. ♦
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♦ The Cordova Chamber of Com
♦ merce as well as other comnier- ♦
♦ cial bodies throughout Alaska
♦ protested against the passage of •
♦ senate bill No. 2812. known as ♦
♦ the general leasing act and set •'
♦ forth at length reasons why the ♦
♦ bill should be amended so that ♦
♦ the same law that applies in the ♦
! ♦ States would bp extended tn vf- »
♦ aska
♦ Senator Pittman advised 'hat ♦
♦ he would introduce such an ♦
♦ amendment to the bill before it
♦ was reported from the commit- ♦
♦ tee, but if he did it was evidently ♦
♦ defeated. Senator Walsl also ♦
♦ promised to give the changes #•
♦ recommended his careful con- ♦
♦ sideration, while Senator Cham- ♦
♦ berlain said that the re<iuesr •
♦ made by Alaskans would have his +
♦ earnest attention !n connection
♦ with any action that was taken on ♦
♦ the measure. ♦
♦ The bill has now gone > the ♦
K house and Congressman Seott ♦
♦ Perris, chairman of the commit- ♦
♦ tee on public lands, advised the ♦
♦ Cordova Chamber of Commerce ♦
♦ that he was taking up the resolu ♦
♦ tions adopted by that body with ♦
♦ the interior department, request ♦
♦ ing their experts to go over them ♦
♦ and to make such recommenda ♦
♦ tions they are willing to do re- ♦
♦ gardlng the difficulty we are ex
♦ periencing. He also promised to ♦
♦ help out in any way and the ill *
♦ timate fate of the bill is awaited •
♦ with considerable infhresi in Al- ♦
♦ aska. ♦
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The Juneau Commercial association
wired the Cordova Chamber of Com
merce: “Understand steamship com
panies will raise freight rates on en
tire Alaskan coast. We have wired
protest to Delegate Sulzer and Inter
state Commerce commission at Wash
ington. If the prevention of the in
crease is to be obtained it is neces
sary that all towns get busy. Suggest
that you wire Interstate Commerce
commission and Delegate Sulzer.”