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VOLUME III, NUMBER 160 CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDN 1 ^ ^JANUARY 16, 1918. PRICE TEN ( 'UNAS
GERMAN NOTES
MADE PUBLIC
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 16—From its
mysterious stock of intercepted diplo
matic correspondence the state de
partment today published correspond
ence between former Ambassador
Bernstorff and the German govern
ment showing that Caillaux, the form
er French premier, communicated
with German agents in Argentina in
1915.
One dispatch gave the plans for
the capture by submarines of the ship
on which Caillaux was sailing for Ar
gentina. The ship was wanted because
the captain carried important papers.
The Germans were asked to treat
Caillaux with every courtesy.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Gossip
propaganda is the latest thing in Ger
man wares to be distributed by pro
Germans in America.
Insidious rumors apparently rising
out of nowhere but carefully dissem
inated until they have followed a
course from coast to coast have in
recent months flooded the country.
Here are a few of them:
Secretary Tumulty, the President’s
confidential right-hand man in the
White House, has been reported ar
rested, jailed at Fort Leavenworth
and shot for treason in every state in
the union.
Transports carrying American sol
diers to Franck have been sunk in
fleets and countless war vessels have
been destroyed by the rumor-mongers.
Shortages in salt and numerous oth
er necessities, forecast by rumor,
have caused housewives to start buy
ing stampedes in many cities.
The wildest kind of reports have
emanated from training camps.
All of these have been designed to
create unrest and dissatisfaction with
war conditions.
As a matter of fact, Tumulty is
alive and well pursuing his daily work
at the White House and admittedly
growing somewhat stout on the job.
Not an American transport has been
attacked or sunk that the people have
not been duly informed about through
the press and any threatened food
shortages are announced in advance
by the food administration.
The government counts on the Am
erican sense of humor and intelli
gence to deal lightly with the nation
wide “whispering propaganda” of Ger
man agents not yet brought to jus
tice. An appeal to refuse to pass on
this talk is made.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 16—The Ameri
ean-Hawaiian line steamship Texan
reported to be sinking off this coast
two days ago, is now safe, according
to a report given out by the navj
department.
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Job printing at Daily Times office
CONGRESS URGED TO LIMIT
WAR TIME USE OF AUTOS
(By United Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16—Congress
may take drastic steps to restrict the
use of motor cars during the war to
conserve oil.
Senator Kenyon, member of the
committee investigating fuel, declared
the use of pleasure cars during the
w-ar should not be allowed. Great
Britain has found it cannot keep its
motor cars going and at the same time
fill the oil needs of its navy, he said^
adding that, unlike the condition in
this country, automobiles are never
seen in front of theatres in London
and other cities.
(By Associated Press)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Jan.
1C.—While a referendum vote of the
directors is being taken as to the
time for holding the annual meeting
of the Pike’s Peak Ocean-to-Ocean
Highway association, at St. Joseph,
Mo., plans for the session are being
worked out by officials at headquar
ters here and the importance of at
tendance from every state on the high
way is being urged.
"It is important that every state
from New Jersey to California be rep
resented at the annual meeting of the
Pike’s Peak Ocean-to-Ocean Highway
association,” A. W. Henderson, secre
tary, says in a statement sent to di
rectors.
The by-laws provide that the meet
ing be held in February, hut the sec
retary's statement says there prob
ably would be no serious objection to
a meeting in March. He suggests a
meeting just prior to the session of
the United States chamber of com
merce at Chicago March 18, so that
delegates from a distance may arrange
to attend both conventions in the
same trip.
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INTERIOR PHYSICIAN WEDS
Advices received recently state
that Dr. F. W. Lamb, formerly sta
tioned at Nulato as physician in
i charge of the government hospital
there, and later transferred to Akiak,
! in the Kuskokwim, had been married
| to Miss Rose May Wynne, daughter
of Mr and Mrs. J. H. Wynne. Whether
they were married at Akiak is un
known, but hey are residing at that
‘ place at present
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(By Associated Press)
EL PASO, Texas, Jan. 16.—Hot
shower baths are being furnished by
the local Y. M. C. A. to the hundreds
of recruits who are passing through
here daily enroute to or from the Pa
cific coast. They are invited to go
to the association building and take
a plunge or a shower bath as a part
of the war service wohk being done
here. Recently 300 recruits who had
but one and one-half hours between
trains here were rushed through the
association bath rooms and all re
ceived hot baths, post cards and sta
tionery in time to catch their train for
the east.
MOBILIZATION
FOR WAR WORK
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, .Jan, 10. American war industries lias
The newly created labor ad- been started under the direc
ministration announces that it tinn ol Secretary of Labor \\ il
will enforce its policy to pro son.
vent the introduction of woman To Devote Time to Railways,
labor in positions for which Daniel Miller, president of
men are still available, and tJm Baltimore Ohio railway,
that it will countenance no ie has resigned the chairmanship
duct ion in wages because ot of the war industries hoard, in
the employment of women in order to devote his whoh time
the place of men. to the railway problem.
To Mobilize Labor. I' >s stated that his resign.i
A campaign for 1 lie m )bili'/.a- tion is not the outcome of the
timi <d' labor to meet the largej Organization of the war de
dificiencies in the personnel ol partment.
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LONDON, Jan. 16—Th? Hungarian
cabinet has resigned on account of the
failure to obtain the necessary sup
port for the military program, accord
ing to Copenhagen dispatches.
No Independent Army for Hungary.
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 16.--A Vienna
dispatch says that Emperor Charles
of Austria has rejected the scheme to
establish an independent Hngarian
establish an independent Hugarian
premier.
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STOLEN MONEY RECOVERED
CAMP KUNSTON. Jan. 16—'Tlu
money taken from the army bank here
by Captain Whisles, said to be more
than $62,000, has been discovered hid
den in the walls of Whisler’t quarters
in the barracks here.
EVERETT fPHEE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—President
Wilson today nominated Everett Me
l’hee to be postmaster at Anchorage
Alaska, to succeed F. D. Wood.
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CAPTURED TOMMIES HAD
VALUABLE INFORMATION—BUI
(By United Press)
LONDON, Jan. 16.—General Byngi
successful tank advance on Uambra
was due, in the last ^analysis, to th<
steadfastness of forty British Tom
mies.
The morning before the advanct
was scheduled the Germans made £
raid on the very sector behind whicl
350 tanks were mobilized for the at
tack. Forty unwilling Tommies re
turned from the raid with the Boche
j When this was known at Byng’i
headquarters gloom descended on th<
i
i camp like a winter fog on London
i "Mill they put the Germans wise?’
! was the question on the lips of al
the staff and “if they do we’re lost,’
w'as the reply.
Next morning’s triumph proved th<
men had kept their mouths shut dur
ing the usual German examination ol
prisoners.
A high British officer, discussinf
the incident, said the slightest tij
about the tanks to the Germans woulc
have meant the total collapse of th<
I tank offensive.
PETROGRAD Jan. 10—It is re
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ported that an automobile carrying
Lenine, the Bolshevik! govern men
leader, was fired upon Monday, wbil<
he was driving to a meeting of tin
people's commissaries. Lenine wa
uninjured. Bullets shattered tlie \\ir
dows of the automobile.
A member of Lenine's party wa
wounded in the leg.
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MEN OVER 31 YEARS
DISCHARGED FROM DRAF
WASHINGTON. Jan. 1G.—Secretar
Baker has advised the senate mllitar
committee that the war departmer
favors discharging from draft liabilit
men who are past thirty-one year
who registered last June without ha\
ing been called to colors.
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| HER LIN, Jan. 16— Following arti
lery operations, the French attaeke
in the Vosges and temporarily pern
trated the German front trenches.
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YOUNG FAIRBANKS SOLDIER
VICTIM OF HUNS’ GUN
A letter was received in the las
i mail from Frank Blanchfield, fathe
of Percy Blanchfield, the young Fail
, banks boy who was killed fightin
. with the Canadian forces before l.en
last August. This letter gives a fei
i more details of Percy's death and c
his gallant behavior during the whol
campaign in which he perished.
Mr. Blanchfield stated in his lette
that he had received two conimun
cations from officers of the 47th Cant
; dian Infantry, telling of his son'
bravery. A letter from Captain Hov
ard of the company, told Mr. Blancl
1 field that he could well be proud c
his son’s gallant death for so nobl
and just a cause. The same office
said that Percy had been one of th
i best machine-gunners in the whol
regiment, and was well liked an
respected by all his comrades. Perc
was killed by a German shell, and wa
; buried on the outskirts of Lens, hi
i grave being plainly marked with
white cross, and it can be locate
without any* trouble.—Fairbanks Cit
ten.
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JITNEY DANCE NETTED
RED CROSS $110.50
I he jitney dance held in Eagle’s
hall last evening for the Red Cross
was a decided success both socially
and financially. This netted $110.50
there being no expense whatever.
The committee in charge wish to
express their thanks through this pa
per to the Times for publicity, to the
i Fraternal Order of Eagles for use of
the hall, to the Cordova dance or
chestra composed of Mrs. M. S. Wilson
and Messrs. Pinkus, Foster and Steel
! tor music, also Miss Madeline An
| derson and Ceo. Dooley for music and
j to the public for their generous pa
j tronnge.
(By Associated Press)
COLFAX, Wash. Jan. 16.—J. J. Os
sler, who has two sons in the military
service of the United States, has been
i accepted in the naval reserve after
| he had been rejected five times, be
1 cause of his advanced age, 60 years,
j One of Mr. Ossler’s sons is in the
navy and the other is in the army.
He passed the physical examination
for the naval reserve without diffi
culty, as soon as he was permitted to
take it, he informed his relatives in
Colfax, his former home.
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S| LONDONERS SING DURING
TEUTON AERIAL ATTACK!
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1 LONDON, Jan. 16—The groun
r floors of many office and apartmen
! buildings are thrown open for publi
' shelter during air raids and on rail
i night many of the shelter seekers con
f
sole themselves by singing popula
y
songs.
s The other night in the United Pres
building there came floating up fron
below the appropriate strains of “Thi
1 End of a Perfect Hay.”
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FRENZIED BIDDING ART
^ AUCTIONS PROHIBITEC
BERLIN, Jan. 16.—Frenzied bidding
at recent art auctions here ha
; prompted the Prussian chamber b;
| unanimous vote to authorize the gov
! ernment to enact a law prohibiting oi
impeding the sale abroad of art ob
jects or paintings of old masters now
1 owned in Germany.
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MAKES TRIP FROM FAIRBANKS
TO CHITINA ON SKIJ
H. Larson arrived in town on yes
' terday’s train, having traveled fron
5 Fairbanks to Ohinta on skis. He
t says the trail was heavy and as he
r had been working indoors he only cov
ered eighty miles in the first foui
K day’s travel. The trip from Sour
s dough to Chitina. 100 miles, was made
in two days. Larsen was on the trail
f eight days, but his actual traveling
s time was ninety-two hours.
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r ESTABLISH NEW RECORDS
FOR CONSTRUCTION AND SPEED
WASHINGTON. Jan. 16—A new
s record for sustained endurance has
- been established by one or two new
- flush destroyers. The voyage from a
f Pacific to an Atlantic port w-as made
s in ten and a half days, with an aver
r age speed of nineteen knots an hour
6 A new record in the construction of a
e destroyer has been made, tifty-one
d weeks being required.
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s Theda Bara in "Under Two Flags.’
s a masterly picturization of Ouida s in
a ternationally famous novel, will ap
d pear at the Empress tonight, and
I- she is well worth seeing in this great
play.
SEINE FELT BF
(By Associated Press*
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1G.—The fuel
administration proposes the issuance
of an order stopping the supply of
fuel for a cumber of the less essential
industries, in order to furnish sup
plies to important industries until the
fuel famine is relieved.
Temporary Shut Down.
DES MOINES, Jan. 1G —The Illinois
fuel administrator at Chicago has
sent a telegram recommending the
cessation of industrial business ac
tivities on Saturday, Sunday and Mon
day for two weeks throughout Illinois,
Iowa, Indiana and Missouri to effect,
a coal saving.
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fBv Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—A inetai
tube resembling a bomb was found
beside one of the drydocks in the
^ Brooklyn navy yard today. The con
trivance was six inches long, and was
wound with string and wire. A fuse
was attached to it. Written on it in
i Gerrugri were the words, ‘"^bia is .a;,
25-second explosion bomb.”
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t LORD LUNCHES GUESTS '"■\j
:! WITH HOOVERI2ED MEAL
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(Hy Associated Press)
LONDON, Jan. 16.—Lord Rhondda,
the British food controller, is rot only
' living on rations but insists on his
| guests dining in very plain fashion.
‘- At his estate at Llanwom Park the
other day, a number of Hereford
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stock breeders after inspecting
^ some of the famous cattle, sat
1 down to a lunch consisting of bread.
: cold beef, pickles and apples.
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BLIZZARD FAILS TO DRIVE
PRESIDENT FROM GOLF LINKS
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i (By United Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—The re
cent blizzard in the east did not inter
I |fere with President Wilson's daily
1 round at golf.
Finding the course covered with
snow, the president secured a numbe-r
of red golf balls, easily spotted by
‘‘caddy." and enjoyed his usual game.
Secret service men, following him
are not over-enthusiastic about win
ter golf.
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-FACED PIES
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(Rv Associated Press)
EL PASO, Jan. 16.—“Open faced"
pies are being advertised at the
local restaurants on wheatless days
as a part of the Hoover food adminis
tration campaign Instead of using
flour for making the pastry dough
which covers the filling of the pie,
the bakers have agreed to eliminate
this top and use graham flour for the
bottom and crust. Many restaurants
have refused to serve any form of
pastry except that made entirely from
non-wheat flours on wheatless days