The Cordova Daily Times
__ Only Afternoon Paper In Alaska With Associated Press News
VOLUME III. NUMBER 119._ ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1917, PRICE TEN CENTS.
TEN THOUSAND STIKERS CLASH WI1H MILITARY; BEGINNING OF THE END
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♦ (Undated.)—The German empire is np
♦ parently facing ton economic and political
♦ crisis. Ten thousand striking munition work
♦ ers are engaged in a bloody riot in the great
♦ Prussian fortress town of Madgeburg, and
♦ were only prevented from burning the city
♦ hall after a sharp class with the military. The
♦ lenders of the Berlin strike made reply to
♦ their demands, the compliance of which would
♦ mean a prompt ending to the military regime
♦ in Germany. The demands include the release
♦ of all political prisoners. Hindenbrug made
♦ a personal appeal to the workers, denouncing
♦ strikes as a crime against the fighting forces,
♦ who are hampered by a shortage of shells.
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HOLLAND TO REMAIN NEUTRAL.
WASHINGTON, April 21.—Holland has noti
fied Secretary of State Lansing of its strict neutral
ity in the war between Germany and the Unite<
States.,'
TURKS DECLARED WAR AGAINST U. S.
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 21.- It is reported
flint Turkey lias sev< ivd diplomatic relations with
the United States.
TWO GERMAN DESTROYERS ARE SUNK.
LONDON, April 21. - Two German destroyers,
and possibly three, were sunk in a German raid near
Dover.
FIGHTING WITH GRENADES.
PARTS, April 21. The French made further
gains in grenade fighting in the country of .Jnvin
court and east of Oourcy.
ARGENTINE DEMANDS SATISFACTION.
1U ENt>S, AIRES, April 21. — The government
has sent an energetic note to Germany, demanding
complete satisfaction for the sinking of the Argen
tine sailing ship, Monte Protegido. The Argentine
minister says that a break in diplomatic relations
will follow if Germany attempts to evade the report
or seeks to delay the issue. If prompt satisfaction
I is ungranted Argentine will arm its ships against the
submarine warfare.
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* (Ululated.)—Deville maintains Ins unre
♦ lenling pressure against the most vital point
♦ of the Gorman defenses, at a sharp angle
* where the German line is running south from
♦ Lens and turns east toward Rlieims. Haig is
* also preparing for another tremendous blow
* in the north soon.
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WAR COMMISSIONERS ARRIVE.
WASHINGTON, April 21.—The state depart
ment has announced the safe landing of British For
eign Minister Balfour and his party. They, togethoi
with commissioners from France, will hold a wai
conference here with administration officials.
BRITISH CAPTURE GONNIDLIV.
LONDON, April 21.— It is officially announce!
that the British captured the village of Gonnidliv
between St. Quentin and Oambrni. A large liumbei
of prisoners were also taken.
min n nimn ■ n r
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GREATLY OVER
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 21. — The
first informal offering of a portion of
the $2,600,000,000 treasury certificates
authorized in the $7,000,000,000 war
finance measure has been greatly
oversubscribed. The interest rate will
be three per cent on the first issue
of $200,000,000, which will be speedily
followed by other large issues.
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GRAPHIC STIR!
Plenty of evidence has reached
Alaska from time to time that the
private asylum at Mornlngside, where
in pursuance of a contract made by
the Washington government during
the Taft administration, the Alaska in
sane are confined, is wretchedly con
ducted. The latest to complain is
Prank Litts, in a letter to Senator
Sundbaeh. Refused by the asylum au
rhtoities any opportunity to prove the
fact that he was cured, Litts managed
to escape, reaching Nome, a jury
quickly found him sane. Ltt's letter
follows:
“I wish you would inquire into the
conditions that exist at Morningside
hospital for Alaska insane. I'll tell
you a few facts that you may be able
to improve there.
“A man or woman is forced to eat,
live and sleep with Chinamen, Japan
ese, Eskimos, negroes and all man
ner of filth and disease. There is no
sugar on the table at any time. There
is water on the table for tile mush,
and it’s got enough filth in it to be
called by that name. The vegetables
are cooked in water without a particle
of seasoning and nearly all reach into
the dishes with their hands, there be
ing no spoons in the dishes, each per
son having one spoon or taking the
choice of his fingers or his spoon.
“There are two rooms for the men,
there being about fifty or sixty in
each room, which is poorly ventilated,
and on cloudy nights the air is so foul
a person will nearly smother. It
would be a great deal better if there
were rooms, with from three to five
in each room, the mild cases being
separated from the violent, or small
cottages with that number would be
better. There are only two chairs
on the floor I was on, and they are
ftir tho flttominnta
“There Is absolutely no recreation
or amusement there, there being per
haps ten or twelve trusted to leave
the building. The noise is something
terrible, making it nearly impossible
to sleep from groans, shrieks and his
ses. A person never leaves the build
ing, there being a porch of about eight
feet on each end of the building,
which is the only fresh aid and sun
shine a patient gets.
“If a man has no friends, it is im
possible for him to get his release, no
matter how sane he may be. At the
time I was there, there were five or
six as sane as the average citizen of
Nome. I wish you would inquire about
a man by the name of Russell, who
is being held there unjustly. There
was one they called "Smithy,” too.
“A person has no physical or men
tal examination, has no one to appeal
to for help, and Is at the complete
mercy of one or two men, who re
ceive, I am told $22.50 a month for
each patient. Instead of trying to
bring out the manhood in a man, they
try to cow him and make a stool
pigeon and a sucker out of him.
"There is no mail goes out that is
not favorable to that institution, and
I don’t believe a man can get word
to his friends without you bow to
them and accept them as your mas
ter, and their conditions as good,
which every man or woman there
knows is a lie in their own hearts, il
they got any sense at all, and mosl
of them have some.
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Joseph Marks, a Fairbanks tailor
narrowly escaped death recently wher
an explosion of gasoline set fire tc
his place of business. He managed te
escape from the burning building, bul
collapsed outside and was taken to th<
hospital.
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(By the Associated Press)
LONDON, April 21.—1The superiority of the
English aircraft, which was frequently asserted in
official statements fro mthe entente side last year, is
official statements from the entente side last year, is
correspondents at the front. This is due to the ap
pearance of several new types of German machines,
chiefly modelled, it is said, on French and British
designs, and known as the Albatross, Halberstadt,
Ago, Roland and the new Fokker.
The majority of them have fixed engines, giving
about 160 to 200 horse power. A few retain the rot
ary engine's with which the Germans achieved suc
cess in the Fokker two years ago, but these rotary en
gines are seldom of more than 130 horse power.
The new German machines have a ’speed of
about 120 miles an hour, but their chief feature is
their ability for climbing. Ordinarily they frequent
the 14,000 foot levels, and they have been observed
on picket duty as high as 20,000 feet. The latest
German order for airplane engines is said to have
specifications designed to give their machines a la
dius of action up to at least 30,000 feet.
Meanwhile the British air service is putting
forth strenuous exertions to keep ahead of its rival.
Only in part is this a question of planes and engines.
It. also involves tin* problems of more skilful pilots,
and in this direction of training the British service
has expanded extraordinarily.
After a class of military aviators have* passed !
through their course of training on tin* slower types
of school machines, those who show special aptitude
are passed on to tin* “scout schools,” where they are
given a special course in \vlm| is commonly called
“aerobatics,” which involves JIn* use of the highest
speed machines and handlinghhom acrobatically in
the air, as is accessary in niv A?* k ting. The instruc
tors carry on sham fights in the air with their pupils,
armed with cameras instead of guns.
Then there are the post-graduate aerial gunnery
schools. Tin* most expert pilot in the world is use
less as a fighting man if he does not thoroughly un
derstand his machine gun, for a perfect flyer with a
jammed gun is of little use against a merely model*
ate pilot who is a crack shot and a real gun master.
A combination of the two is the desideratum, as for*
example, in the ease of a young pilot recently men
tinned in dispatches, whose engine stopped dead at
a height of 15,000 feet when he was attacked b\
two German aeroplanes. Despite this loss of motive
power, forcing him to descend constantly, lie shot
down one enemy machine, drove the other away, and
glided into his own lines undamaged.
The work of the aviator has become highly spec
ialized in the course of the last twelve months. At
the British aviation camps along the front in France
there are separate squadrons of machines for recoil
naissanee, infantry contact, photography, artillery
spotting;, and bomb dropping, and in almost every in
stance. squads of these machines may only accom
plish t! eir duties successfully when they are pro
tected from enemy attack by machines of a type com
parable to the torpedo boat destroyers of a naval
fleet.
For these “destroyer machines,” high speed,
high climbing ability and high fighting and ma
noeuvring are essential. Some of the newer British
machines of this type are said to show a speed of ovei
150 miles an hour.
DIG SERVICE
LONDON, April 20. — With a bitu
minous grunt the bluntnosed engine oi
the “leave train" jerks to a full stop
in King's Cross station. Compart
ment doors fly open all down the
length of the coaches. Tin hats clat
ter against rifle butts, tin drinking
cups jangle on bayonets and slee!
studded boots make a thunderous
sound on the pavement. But, frank
ly, Tommy is lost.
The ferocious fighting man from the
Ancre, Salonica and Mesopotamia is
a bewildered boy during his stopovei
in London on his way home on leave
And that is why Mrs. Ruby 8. Gaitnl
is standing at the head of the plat
form, with the smile that came fron
Frankfort, Indiana. Bundled in a fur
coat with a perfect knowledge of trail
times at the tip of her tongue and s
railroad guide on her arm to con
vince the doubtful, she is there ii
good weather and bad to tell thesi
kids from the trenches where to g<
and how to get there.
The brown swarm of men com<
pounding up the platform, looking fo
signs. A dozen or so are clusterei
around a sergeant asking advice, bu
he is an ex-farmer and does not knov
any more about London than doe
the Welsh miner beside him. Mrs
Gaunt pushes through the crowd t
get at the sergeant like a football pla>
er going after the ball.
"Now, sergeant,” this Is a business
like voice, tempered by that smile
“where are these boys going?” Th
sergeant salutes and replies: "01
everywhere, Miss Captain.”
"Well, get the main groups going th
same way, to simplify matters.” Th
sergeant complies. A dozen want t
go to Leeds, others to unpronouncabl
Welsh towns, ten to Lincoln an
others are scattered in their prefe:
ences.
Take the Leeds men, for instanei
Mrs. Gaunt says: ‘‘Your train goes
at 4:20. It's 2 o’clock now. Here’s
what you'd better do. Go over to the
Lord Roberts canteen and stow your
rifles and kits. Have lunch there.
Then you may stay in the reading
room, play the phonograph or sing,
or you may go out to a picture show
—one round the corner. But be back
at five minutes to train time at track
four.”
Every man of them salutes exactly
as he would his commanding officer,
and they go off saying: “Thank you,
Maw," or "Mother, you’re kind.”
A Canadian boy with his face badly
shot away seemed mixed up in his
directions.
“Where are you bound for, Machine
Gun?” asked the infallible guide from
Indiana, catching hold of his lapels.
“Nowhere,” said the boy through
the bandages of his shattered jaw.
“Just wandering around.” His eyes
narrowed as he, grinning, asked: “Are
you not from Canada? I haven’t seen
anyone with a smile like yours since
I left home.”
Mrs. Gaunt is the wife of an Eng
lishman, and therefore, strictly speak
ing, is an English woman. But Am
erica hasn't lost her entirely, because
she never will lose what she calls her
■ “Indiantsh accent.” She regards all
i soldiers and sailors as boys.
! “Tommy or Jack, eighteen to fifty,
i they're all kids at heart,” she said
today. "They’ll have to grow up again
i when the war is over. I don’t mind
’ being called “Maw.” It sounds a lit
l tie familiar, but it is the highest mark
t of respect coming from them. Some
’ soldiers call me “General,” which
i means the same thing—respect.
“Some days as many as 5,000 men
> have passed through the station. Only
- one ever became offensive. He was
a sailor, too, of all men. But he had
- a sleep at the canteen and came back
, to apologize before leaving to catch
i his ship.
, the smile to King’s Cross station.
“One day I asked a young Canadian
3 where he was from in Canada. He said
3 Indiana Harbor. ‘Pshaw,’ I Bald,
3 'what’s the matter with Indiana?’’
a From all the fighters who have had
1 their traveling problems solved by
■- Mrs. Gaunt, there would be only one
answer. There's nothing the matter
i. with the state that sent the lady with
The Douglas Island News states that
a gang of thieves is operating along
the beach in that vicinity.
Thirty cars of coal were recently
shipped from the Dougherty Coal Co.
at Moose creek to Anchorage. This
is the largest single shipment yet
made.
Advices from the Tolstoi country
state that Boob creek is showing up
well and that 22 to 23 men and wom
en have taken out stakes of from $5,
000 to $40,000 each there.
Advices received at Seward state
that Bishop Hughes, of the Methodist
church at Portland, Oregon, will visif
Seward this summer and dedicate the
new Methodist church at that place.
E. H. Mack has been named by
Judge Bunnell as deputy clerk of the
court at Fairbanks, The appointment
is said to be temporary, but he will
serve a part of the present term of
court.
The Pueblo mine near Whitehorse is
sending to Juneau for additional men
for its crew. A good sized ledge of
black oxide of copper has recently
been uncovered, which is the richest
ore yet found In the mine.
Travelers between Iditarnd and
Ophir and Tolstoi are complaining be-)
cause the herds of reindeer in that
section have cut up the trails badly.
At Nome whole reindeer carcasses
sell at 13 cents a pound; half carcass
at 14 cents per pound; hind quarter
18 cents, and fore quarter at 12 1-2
cents.
The tug Commodore arrived in Ket
chikan recently and reported having
lost her tow, the barge Bangor, which
became jammed between rocks at
Mary's island lighthouse.
The Wakefield Company, operating
a kippered herring plant in southeast
ern Alaska, will operate a one-line sal
mon cannery in connection with the
plant this summer.
Andrew Olson, while working on his
claim, the Submarine, near Nome, was
caught in a cavein,' and had one of his
legs badly crushed. He was taken
to the Holy Cross hospital for treat
ment.
Nenana is to have a Moose lodge,
the charter for the lod ;e having been
sent for and is expected to arrive soon
It is expected the n< \v organization
will start off with a membership of
about 100.
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(By United 1‘ress)
WASHINGTON, April 20—Corn meal
is a cheap and valuable foodstuff,
which is not in as general use in the
American home as it ought to be. A
pound of dry corn meal provides about
five times as much en >rgy and tissue
building protein as dees a pound of
raw potatoes. Just now a pound of
corn meal costs one-third to one-sixth
as much.
When potatoes are scarce or expen
sive, corn meal makes an excellent
substitute. It is not, however, a per
fect substitute for potatoes, because
as it is prepared by modern milling,
methods, it contains fewer minerals
and other valuable substances. So
when corn meal is substituted, balance
it with another vegetable, a salad or
a fruit.
Corn meal mush for breakfast or
supper is a standard and palatable
dish. Fried, it is an excellent substi
tute for fried potatoes. There are doz
ens of corn meal dishes In addition
to the various verities or born bread.
What is known in the north as Boston
brown bread is composed of about half
rye meal and half corn meal. I’olenta
is another corn meal dish extremely
popular throughout southern Europe,
and in certain parts of the United
States. Tamales is another corn dish
in high favor when properly made.
If speculators corner the potato
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crop, as was the case in 1916, if the
potato crop should be short, corn mea
is the next best thing. Rice is a par
tial substitute for potatoes, but rice
now costs more than corn meal. Corr
meal is very wholesome.
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EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
St. George’s Mission red Dragot
Club house. Second Sunday afte
Master. Matins and Holy Communioi
at 11 a. m.; Sunday school at 12 m
Mvensong and sermon at Hegg's Hun
galow hall at 7:30 p. m. St. Mark’:
Day, Wednesday, service at 11 a. m.
Matins and Holy Communion.
Services of one hour, to which every
body is cordially invited.
REV. E. P. ZIEGLER.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Preaching service at 11 a. m., "Thi
Fruitless Fig Tree;’’ Sunday school a
12 m.; preaching services 8 p. m., "Thi
Changeless Christ. The Hlble stud;
class will meet at the church Wednes
day evening at 8 p. m. The Catechetl
cal class meets at the church Sunda;
aftermron at 3 p. m. The music fo
the evening services will be:
Prelude.Schuiuai
Hymn — “Sun of My Soul” .. Kebh
Hymn — “All Hail the Power of
Jesus’ Name".Perrone
Offertory.Helle;
Hymn — "The Matchless Worth”..
.Medle;
Hymn — “In the Cross’ .. Uowrinj
Doxology.Kebh
Postlude.Chopii
We cordially invite strangers
friends and you to attend our ser
vices. A. G. SlIKIVER, Pastor
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Assembly Club gave its last danci
of the first series at Hegg's hall las
night. There was an unusually largi
attendance, the gowns worn by thi
ladies being most fetching. An ela
borate banquet followed the da net
the tables being set in the center o
the hall, and the color scheme of pinl
and white lent an additional charm ti
the scene. At a business meeting heli
it was unanimously decided to coi:
tinue holding dances on the first am
third Friday of the month, during th
summer season, the past events ha\
ing been so successful.
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I Read the Times. Only $1 a montt
PARRY DIED AT
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TODAY i
, (By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 21. — The
condition of Will H. Parry, of Seat
tle, vice-president of the trade com
mission and head of the Chamber of
Commerce, which got the Alaska rail
road bill through congress, is report
ed hopeless and his death is hourly
expected.
Later.—Parry died this afternoon.
His remains will be sent to Seattle
J for burial.
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Charley Lange is in town from El
I lamar.
The Trighton is expected from Ka
I talla, and is now overdue.
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Captain Morgan arrived in town last
evening from Whitshed on business.
W. F. O'Rrion, of Juneau, is spend
ing a few days in town on business.
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The steamer Admiral Watson is due
from the westward tomorrow night.
The interior of the Alaska Steam
ship Company’s office is being redecor
ated.
The steamer Northwestern will bo
here tomorrow afternoon on her south
bound voyage.
Charles Dustin and Martin Lien, of
Kennecott, were arrivals in town on
yesterday's train.
Jack Regan and C. Cameron left
this morning for Port Wells to rep
resent their property.
Dr. O. G. Keating, of Seward, has
been appointed a member of the ter
ritorial dental board.
The Pioneer Packing Company has
over 120 employees on its payroll, and
is advertising for more girls to work
in the plant.
Miss Emma Shepherd will render
as a solo at the Episcopal church even
ing service, Sohr's "1 Heard the Voice
1 of Jesus Say."
E. B. Hanley came over from Port
Wells this morning on his launch, and
reports that good progress is being
made in the erection of his new can
nery at Nellie Juan.
1 Jack Steen, who had charge of the
Tjosevig Mining Company’s freighting
1 outfit, is in town and will leave for
Juneau on the next boat.
Some of the merchants on First ave
nue have already begun cleaning up
' in front of their places of business,
and the good work should be con
tinued.
The steamer Alameda left Juneau
Friday at noon, and ns she has some
' freight for Orca, will not reach here
until after midnight. She will be in
port at least ten hours.
The one best bet tonight is the big
dance at Eagle hall. Everybody will
, be there and you are invited to at
tend. These dances will hereafter be
given every Saturday night.
i There will be something doing at
Bungalow hall tonight, and if you en
• joy dancing you want to be there. The
' Bon Ton orchestra will furnish the
• music and pleasure will reign su
. preme.
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The Cordova fire department will
> appear in filmdom in the states, in
l connection with a series of lectures
- which George Edward Lewis will
I deliver during the coming winter. The
s department turned out this afternoon
- and while Fred Ripley and Fred Van
made a leap from the Northern sal
loon building into the new life saving
. net the camera was at work.