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The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME HII. NUMBER 66._,T~ ' ('OHI)OVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1917. |.,;H | i i;\ n;\
GERMANY DENIES SENT PEACE TERMS TO U. S.
France Will Continue War Until It Annexes Alsace-Loraine
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♦ By Associated Press)
♦ BERLIN, Sept. 18.—The German foreign office, in
♦ a statement to tlie Associated Press, denied tin* stories
♦ appearing in Danish and other foreign papers, saying
♦ that tlie government had indirectly communicated peace
♦ terms to Washington, or endeavored to sound the sen
♦ tintent in the United States, and claims there was no.oc
♦ casion for Germany to address Washington.
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♦ BERLIN, Sept. 18.—Erzberger, the Caholic leader
♦ in the reichstag, in speaking on Sunday last, said: “The
♦ foundation of peace must be no conquests of any kind.
♦ We are advancing along a stride toward peace built upon
♦ reichstag pence resolutions.
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ROUMANIANS MAKE SPURT OCCUPY FORTIFIB POSITIONS
PETROGRAD, Sept. 18.—It is officially announced that
the Roumanians occupied a section of the fortified positions in
the region of Vamitza.
TWENTY OFFICERS KILLED E SIKH MISSING IN RIOTS
HELSINGFORS, Sept. 18.—-During the disorders at Vi
borg, in which soldiers were involved, twenty officers were
killed and sixty others are missing. __
NEW CIVIL GOVERNMENT IS PROMISED fiELGBM
BERLIN, Sept. 18.—The German papers say the resigns
tion of Dr. Von Handt, head of the civil government and assist
ant, Von Lutz, are in conjunction with Germany’s plans for tin
future of Belgium. Their successors have not as yet been ap
pointed. _
BURGOMASTER BRUSSELS^ RELEftSED FROM S3
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BERLIN, Sept. 18.—Germany, at the request of the kiny
of Spain, will release Adolphe Max, burgomaster of Brussels
Max is seriously ill in a Prussian prison camp. The burgonmstei
was arrested for his irreconcilable attitude.
ALIEN SLACKER BILL IS PASSED BY THE SENATE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—The seven billion dollar tie
ficieney appropriation bill is again before the house, and it -
passage bv the senate is expected today. The alien slacker hi I
lias already been passed by the senate, and will follow the de
ficieney bill. _
NINE HUM GERMANS KILLED AND WOUNDED BY RAH
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 18.—The allied bombs dropped 01
Roulirs, Belgium, killed and wounded nine hundred Germans.
KORNILOFF IS PREPARING STATEMENT FOR THLPHBLII
GRAD, Sept. 18.—Twenty generals and other offi
eers arrived at Mohilev on Friday with Korniloff, and are beinj
eloselv watched. Korniloff is imprisoned in a hotel, where h<
is writing a statement. _
PARIS IS AGAIN COMPELLED REDUCE SIZE OF PAPER!
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PARIS, Sept. 18.—The Norwegian paper manufacturer
have cancelled their contracts owing to the German submar'm
blockade. This will again reduce the size of French papers.
j MANY APOLOGIZES SWEDEN OVER ARGENTINE CAS
k‘ STOCKHOLM, Sept. 18.—The German minister to Swede
has formally extended to the Swedish government Germany’
.•egrets over the Swedish-Argentine telegram affair.
FRENCH EJECT GERMANS FROAA CAPTURED LINE
PARIS, Sept. 18.—The Germans after a violent bomba n
ment of Niette river, last night, launched an attack wliic
reached the French lines near Neufehal road. After altar
fighting the Germans were ejected, losing heavily and leavin
many prisoners in French hands.
RUSSIAN DPS ACAIN FIGHTING ON RICA FRON
PETROGRAD, Sept. 18.—The Russian forces prt the Rig
front continue to progress against the Germans. The Russia]
>ave occupied a German position southwest of Hapsal, an
forced the Teutons from Sadzen farm, south of Sissal. Keret
sky accompanied General Verkhovsky, minister of war, and A
miral Verderski, minister of marine, left for general headifua
ters in the field.
INSURANCE BILL
SURE TO PUSS
NEXT WEEK
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—The sen
| ate leaders are arranging to pass the
] soldiers' and sailors’ insurance bill
; before adjournment, In acco, dance
j with President Wilson’s request, II
will probably pass Monday or Tues^
day of next week.
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i CEASES UNTIL
I AFTER WAR
(By United Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. ,JS. - Whig
' key making in the United States end
; ed legally a week ago at" .11 o'clock.
But whiskey drinking does "not end
There were 238,404,870 gallons of ii
stored in warehouses at the last repori
not to mention supplies in saloons
wholesale liquor stores and with li
censed liquor- dealers. This suppl}
j will last several years.
While the food control law undo,
which John Barleycorn is knocki d out
is effective only for the duration ol
; the war,.prohibitionists declare whis
key making ,. never will be known
again in this country. They are con
Indent. that with the experience gained
i from the present war experiment, na
tion-wide prohibition will soon be
adopted by federal constitutional
amendment.
John made a hard fight in congress
| before the knockout was administered
in section 15 of the food control law
Herbert Hoover counted John out lr
ortler to' save about 40,000,000 bushel:,
of foodstuffs to fight the war.
What will happen to whiskey distil
. lories Is problematical. Some have
already announced they will go out
of business. Others plant to continui
making alcohol for industrial pur
yunen. many uiuy. enter Ollier lines
even, making malted milk.
The law prohibits the making o!
distilled spirits for beverage purposes
Straight alcohol and denatured aleo
hoi may continue to be manufactured'
There are about 700 plants equipped
for making alcohol in this country.
Only about 600, however, actually
have been making whiskey.
, Hoover's order stops all processes
I in the production of whisky last Tuer
j day. “The use of foo.ijs, fruits and too.’
j materials or feeds may not even lit
initiated unless the entire process may
be fully completed prior to 11 p. m.,’
| his order stated.
Two other “dry” provisions in the
food bill have not yet been acted upon
by Hoover. One gives the president
the right to commandeer any or all
| distilled spirits if necessary for re
. distribution and use • in munitions
» making: pr' othor military purposes
Tho other empowers the president ti
limit, regulate or prohibit the use of
- foodstuffs to make beer.
CRACK BALL PITCHERS
HAVE QUIT THE GAME
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j BUTTE. Sept. 17. — Carl Zamloch
for seven years a baseball pitcher, hat
1 quit the game and has become a sales
s | man for a meat packer. Zamloch h ac
Aured Ills right leg playing ball Ir
Butte lu July, and as it was tho third
1 ' break he has sustained he decider
* to quit.
Zamloch started with Sacramento ir
lull and in 1814 was with the Detroit
(Tigers. Oakland, of the Pacific coast
1 league, sold him to Spokane early this
* j year.
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- AFFAIRS OF WAR DISCUSSED
AROUND BREAKFAST TABLE
r(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Sept. 18. — Breakfast ai
a political and social function is belli)
I revived. Premier Lloyd George usei
*1 in breakfast party to announce the buc
S cess of the Paris conference to a part;
,] of Frenchmen and has had number!
. ;of breakfasts at It) Downing stree
when business Is freely discussed
Lord Rhondda also Invites bUBines
men to breakfast when impurtan
plans are being arranged.
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(By Associated Pres*.)
BUTTE. Sept. 18. — The HfnperUes j
of the Anaoondo Copper Mining Com
pany. closed since August 24. by a
walkout of the workers at Anaconda,
resumed operations yesterday, and no
trouble was experienced Anywhere,
dorses and mules were lowered into
the mine, also machine drills.- The In
dustrial Workers of the World leaders
pplied to the military for protection,
saying they feared deportation. Pro
tection was promised the ni tht shifts.
All of the mines and smelteis win ()p- j
crate continuously.
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TO STOP ILL I
STRIKES
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. — Chair
nan Hurley, of the shipping board, has
ppeiled to Gompers to slop the,
-.trikes on the Pacific coast. Hurley .
j nd Gompers will confer. Hurley has ;
; been to see Secretary Dunifds on a !
navy settlement of the wage demands I
In government yards.
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STILL OUT
(By Associated Pres-0 .
SEATTLE, Sept. 18. — The ship |
yards strike situation is unchanged i
odav. The steel yards are running I
uid the wooden yards clued by a I
(trike against handling ten hour
u ntber.
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(By Associated ITess)
CHICAGO, Sept. 18. — Sixteen new
ases of infantile paralysis were dls
overed today, making a total of lie
■ases under observance. An add!
lonal twenty-five quarantine inapee
tors have been employed.
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PLAN INAUGURATED TO
ALLEVIATE RUSSIAN TAXATION
(By Associated Press)
PETROGRAD, Sept. 18. — A com
mission lias been appointed to pre
pare an inventory and valuation of the
Russian state.
N. Pokrovski, president of the ceil
tral war Industrial commission, will
direct the work.
The Inventory will comprise lands
forests, railroads, factories, workshops
and other profit yielding state under
takings. The government's aim is to
alleviate the burden of taxation by in
augurating a less wasteful and more
enterprising system of management.
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AUTOMOBILES REPLACE GAILY
DECORATED WINE CARTS
ROME, Sept. 18. — War efficiency
has eliminated the gaily decorated
and multi-colored cart which since me
dteaval, if not Roman, times has daily
brought to the city from the Alban
mountains its portion of white and red
wines.
■ These one-horse, two-wheeled ve
. hides with jangling bells and sleepy
'drivers hidden under a covering not
, | unlike a buggy top, long familiar to
1 the streets of Rome, will he replaced
entirely this fall by an automobile
, service.
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Furnished cabins. See Dooley.
MARINES GUARD
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(Ry Associated Press)
B IN FRANCISCO, Sept 18. — Two
companies of United States marines
guard the Union Iron Works, the
largest plant Involved in the strike.
The federal authorities have closed
all the saloons within half a mile of
the works.
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(By United I’retts)
AMERICAN FIELD HEADQUAR
TERS, France. Sept, is -- Way up
at the end of this cam) apart from
"those army people." are the United
States marines, the fellows who
bought $60,000 worth of French Wal
loon bonds just as a starter.
Army fellows have to come up to
the marine camp occasionally to have
their teeth fixed or their feet repaired
by the marines’ chiropodist. Aside
from these few invasions the marines
don’t suffer the presence of th’lr an
cient rivals.
The chiropodist is a Boston boy,
who studied foot culture in F'htladel
I’M* and enlisted there when the war
•»*•» declared. .ill* book of opera tlrtit;
shows a record of thousands .if imtreh
ing blisters, hundreds of troublesome
coins and a long list of miscellaneous
foot troubles cured since the expedi
tion came to France.
With their own headquarters, their
own billets, their own instructors and
a training ground all to themselves,
the marines are managing to keep the
line drawn between themselves and
the army. They claim their streets are
a little cleaner, their manners a little
better than those of the army. And it
was sort of a challenge to the fellows
in khaki when the marines pulled off
their sudden drive with that contri
button of gold to the French war
funds.
To get to the murines’ camp you
pass all along the line of the first con
tlngent. At the roadside you see the
lean-to cook tents, covered with cam
ouflage of paint and leaves to prevent
aerial plotting. Cooks are preparing
big pans of stead, cauldrons of stew
and rows of peach pies for the time
when those tiny figures visihie on the
ridge of the distant hills will form in
to columns and come trooping back
into town with a loud demand for
grub, and a whole lot of it.
Khaki disappears from view and (he
grey-green of the marine corps take
its place in the scheme of the camp
when you break into the zone of the
soldier-sailors. At the roadside theie
is a long low roof, sheltering marine
mules, while over the road hangs an
arch with the words, ‘‘Honor and glory
to the American soldiers," written in
letters of. wild flowers by the French
townspeople.
Officers quietly encourage the rival
ry between marines and the army
portly because of pride in their own
arm of the service and partly because
they know it is a good tiling la have
competition between two forces that
are nearing perfection in the business
of killing Germans.
Just at present the marines arc mo
del hoys in caring for their clothing
because there is an order out tti.it
when the present issue of uniforms i
gone the marines w ill drop their gre>
green and adopt the army khaki. ,\’i
marine wants to wear the army suit
But the present marina uniform hi.f
long trousers, which won't do for th«
kind of fighting that goes on in tht
trenches.
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MARIPOSA IN PORT.
The steamer Mariposa arrived frotr
Seattle at 2 o’clock this afternoon witt
the following passengers for Cordova
F. A. Fletcher, A. A. Thomas, Mrs. R
T. King, J. K. Ugenheim. John Fran
cis. Mrs. A. Mentzene.
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The pictures shown on the screei
last night empluisizcil the fact tha
; Cordova boasts a lot of very prett;
l and healthy looking children.
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* PARIS, Sept. 18.—The French ministerial deelnra- *
tion read tc the chamber of deputies reaffirms the deter- ♦
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“Victory War Slogan
American Business Man
(Bv United Press)
ATTiANTTC CITY, Sept. 18.—With “victory” as their slo
gan, American business men met here today for their first war
(invention. Leaders in finance, trade and industry, in the
greatest gathering of its kind ever held in this country, met to
liseuss their war duties and to prepare for readjustments after
he world struggle ends.
President Wilson in person or it message from him through
one of his cabinet members, will be an outstanding feature.
Prices, priorities, industrial relations, diplomatic problems —
the whole sweep of war’s intricate questions— will be treated
n addresses by the country’s war chiefs and distinguished for
eign representatives. The convention was called by the Cham
ber of Commerce of the United States.
When the meetings close on Friday, America’s business
nen will be in step with the country’s march against autocracy,
‘Showing the whole world,” said President R. G. Ifliett, Char
leston, S. C., “in what spirit and with what determination busi
ness faces the task ahead.”
What may be done to control'prices and profits will be one
if tile biggest problems before the business men. Secretary of
War Baker, Secretary of Interior Lane, Food Administrator
Herbert C. Hoover and Cliinnan Frank A. Scott, of the war in
dustries board, who are on the program, may touch on the price
piestion. They will appear for co-operation in war.work.
President Rhett’a message on private ThUtrewta during the
var is: “Every business man, firm or corporation must suhor
dinate individual interests to the common cause. This they are
eady to do; all that is needed is direction.”
Special interest is shown in the address of Boris Bnhme
tieff, Russian ambassador, and of Lord Northelil'fe, chairman
if the British mission, who are on the program. Among promi
h lit business men who will be heard by the convention are A.
’. Bedford, president of Standard Oil, and George M. Reynolds,
Chicago banker.
The discussion of readjustments to follow the war will deql
vitli the course of prices, the return of the army into civil and
industrial life and the new international relations of the Uniti d
States.
SWEDEN IS UNABLE TO LOCATE FOLKE GRONHOLM
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STOCKHOLM, Sept. IS.—The present whereabouts i f
| Folke Gronholm, who acted as messenger for the German min
j ister in Mexico City, is unknown, lie was placed on the unat
j (ached list on recall^'rom Mexico last December, but got no
ut her pi»l. 11 i 111 imati d that lie wa> ret in d I'm ran--.
WANT MEN AND WOAAEN TO ENFORCE CHILD LABOR LAWS
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Uncle Sam is holding cxamin
| itions today and tomorrow all over the country to secure cx
| terts—men and women—to assist in the child conserving, ha by
j aving work of the department of labor in war time. Miss .Julia
'. Lathrop, chief of the children’s bureau, needs a corps of
! rained investigators to enforce the new federal child labor law.
J die also needs skilled women to aid in the prevention of infant
j mortality. To meet these demands civil service examination is
eing conducted today—aud they are examinations extraordi
miry, shattering the hoary traditions of competitive tesis for
overnment service.
SOLDIERS OF WORLD MEET ON FIFTH AYENDE, NEW YORK *
NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—Fifth avenue is a promenade for
•epresentativos of all the allies’ fighting forces today. The
salutes of many nations may he studied on the avenue any nf
•moon. French soldiers, in their blue uniforms and their red
opped caps, Italians, Britishers with fatigue bonnets stuck on
lO 'sides of their heads; Russian sailors with astonishingly long
ap ribbons dangling down their back, stroll along often arm in
nn with American officers and enlisted men. And they’re all
opt busy saluting, the Americans jerking their arms straight
down from their hat brims, the Europeans flinging their arms
mt in snappy semi-circle._
TO BUY MILLION BUSHELS
OF CORN FOR MEXICAN POOR;
MEXICO CITY, SepL 18. — The
committed ct the National Chamber
ct Commerce, which has been consid
ering way. and means for wising
money to purchase 1,000,000 bushels
of corn in the United Stales and bring
it to Mexico, where it will he sold at
cost for the benefit of the poor, has
decided that the most feasible means
to raise the money is by popular na
tional subscription.
The National Chamber of Commerce
at first asked the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States to aid in
establishing a credit for this purpose
but the American organization was on
able to do so. The commission regu
lating the sale and price of sisal or
Yucatan, one of the richest organiza
tions in Mextca, then was appealed to,
but declined to act.