The Cordo m Daily Times
Only Afternoon Paper In Alaska With Associated Press News
VOLUME 111. NUMBER 41._ _CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1!). 1917, ~~ ~ pinciTIX CUNTS
ALASKA'S NEEDS
fit INSPECTED
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♦ (IVy Associated Press) 4
♦ WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. — 4
♦ There is every probability that a 4
♦ joint congression?! committee 4
♦ will visit Alaska nexet summer 4
♦ to inspect the government rail- 4
♦ road and consider the territory’s 4
♦ legislative needs. The move- 4
♦ ment was initiated last night at 4
♦ conference attended by Senator 4
♦ Pittman, Representative Hous- 4
♦ ton, Delegate Wickersham, Fal- 4
4 con Joslin and D. A. McKenzie. 4
4 Delegate Wickersham drew the 4
4 joint resolution for the commit 4
4 tee, which will undoubtedly pass 4
4 both houses. Secretary of Inter 4
4 ior Lane favors the plan, and if 4
4 possible will join the party. 4
EXTRA SESSION
(Ky Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. PJ. — Presi
dent Wilson visited the capitol today
and conferred with the senate steer
in; committee in an effort to expedite
administration measures The presi
dent laid particular stress on rail
road measures. He sfill desires an
enactment of the whole program be
fore March 4. and insists upon
the enactment of revenue legis
lation. corrupt practices bill, Webb
bill permitting colective foreign sell
ing agencies, water power and min
eral land leasing measures. The sen
ators agreed with Wilson on the de
sirability of avoiding an extra session.
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IDiTARO MINER
(i'.y Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Jan. 19. — Olivia 11.
Larson has begun suit in the courts
hi re against Robert Spencer McMil
lan. a well known mining operator,
who owns considerable property In
the Iditarod, for $50,000 damages. She
says she married Larson at Iditarod
on September IT, 1911, and now al
leges that he has an undivorced wife
i n Prince Edward Island.
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(By Associated I’ress)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. — It is of
in ially stated that there were nine
Americans among the crew of the
British steamer St. Theodore, which
was taken by the German raider and
landed at Pernambuco. There were
no Americans on the other ships
seized.
ARMY OFFICERS
PERISHED BN
DESERT
(By Associated Press)
YUMA, Jan. 19. — Hope has been
abandoned for the safety of Colonel
Bishop and Lieutenant Robinson,
army officers who made the flight
over tile Mexican desert five days ago.
B is now believed that they must have
perished.
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RUSSIANS CAPTURE TWO
FIELD POSTS IN GALICIA
(By Associated PreBS)
PETROGKAD, Jan. 19. — Two Ger
man field posts In the Baranovicb re
gion, on the Russian front in Galicia,
have been captured.
i SWITZERLAND WILL
MOBILIZE ITS ARMY
(By Associated Press.)
BERNE, Jan. 19. — General Will*
commander of the Swiss army, wlshei
to mobilize Switzerland’s entire mill
tary force, while the federal counci
decided to mobolize only the secom
and fourth divisions.
BOAT SAILINGS
The Pacific Steamship Company hat
announced its sailing dates from now
until September 1. The first steamer
to go to Anchorage will be the Ad
miral Watson, on April 9. The sail
ings from Seattle are as follows:
January 24—Evans, to Kodiak.
February 3—Farragut.
February 15—Evans.
February 25—Farragut, to Kodiak.
March 2—Farragut.
March 9—Evans.
March 19—Watson.
March 26—Farragut, to Kodiak.
April 1—Evans.
April 9—Watson.
April 17—Farragut.
April 25—Evans, to Kodiak.
May 3—Farragut.
May 11—Evans.
May 28—Watson, to Kodiak.
June 4—Farragut.
June 12—Evans.
June 20—Watson.
June 28—Farragut, to Kodiak.
July 6—Evans.
July 14—Watson.
July 22—Farragut.
July 30—Evans, to Kodiak.
August 7—Watson.
July 15—Farragut.
July 23—Evans.
July 31—Watson, to Kodiak.
BERLIN, Jan. 19. — The Vorwarts
says that four of the miners' federa
tlons have telegraphed the war feed
ing department, protesting against the
reduction of the weekly potato tation
from five to three pounds. The tele
grams say that turnips are not a sub
stitute ror potatoes, and ask foi the
, restoration of the former rations.
In speaking of the resignation of
the secretary and treasurer of the
Alaska Steamship Company the Kail
way and Marine News says:
William T. Ford, who has for many
years been auditor of the company,
and w ho is also a member of the board
of directors, becomes secretary. Mr.
Ford has been in Seattle or Cordova,
Alaska, for some years, prominently
identified with the Alaska Steamship
Company and the Copper River &
Northwestern railway, coming to this
city from Ely, Nevada, where he had
been auditor of the Nevada Northern
railway.
The position of treasurer of the
Alaska Steamship Company has been
rilled by the promotion of R. G.
Crouch, who for the past eight years
lias been cashier of the Alaska Steam
ship Company. Mr. Crouch has been
identified with transportation inter
ests in Seattle since 1889, when he
first entered the service of the North
ern Pacific, remaining for eighteen
years as cashier in the local freight
office of that company, with Agent
J W. Allen. His advancement to the
treaaureship is a well merited promo
tion, and both Mr. Ford and Mr.
Crouch are receiving the good wishes
of their many friends,
of their many friends In transporta
tion circles.
The steel freighter Grace Dollar, re
cently purchased by the Pacific
Steamship Company, will be delivered
to her new owners on Monday next,
and placed in the Alaska trade. The
company will first have a steel upper
deck and house built in the freighter,
giving her a flush deck. At present
she is of the well deck type. The
Grace Dollar is practically a new ves
sel, having been launched only three
vears ago. In general, she resembles
the steel freighter Paraiso, of San
Francisco, which formerly was oper
ated out of Seattle by the old Pacific
Coast Steamship Company. The Grace
Dollar, however, is larger than the
Paraiso
The power boat Kumbak will be op
erated this season between Anchor
age and the end of the government
railway line running out of Seward
The boat was recently purchased from
J K Patterson hv C. M. Nutter, Capt.
E. J. Moore and B. E. Heifer, and the
new owners will leave with her about
March 1.
The Kumbak was originally owned
by Otis Cutting of Tacoma. She It
equipped with a 30 horse power two
cylinder Atlas engine, is 65 feet long
and 14 foot beam.
The contract has been awarded In
Seattle for a $12,000 cannery tendei
by the Kodiak Fisheries Company
The vessel is to be eighty feet lont
and driven by a 110 horse power Atlai
engine. She will have acrommoda
, tions for ten men and will be equip
i ped with electric light and all othei
modern improvements. The contrac1
1 calls for delivery April 20.
There is also now being built ti
$21,000 cannery tender for Libby, Me
Neill & Libby, twenty-eight 32 fool
fishing boats for the Northwestern
Fisheries Company, two scows and a
piledriver for the Fidalgo Island Pack
ing Company, and a $5,500 purse seine
boat for a private owner.
The steamer Alameda is due from
he westward late tomorow afternoon.
After loading copper ore the Alameda
will sail direct from Cordova for Se
attle, going via the outside passage.
The steamer Mariposa sails from
Seattle tomorrow, having bepn delayed
a day in leaving.
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USE “SCHNAPS”
GREATLY CURTAILED
(By Associated Press.)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan. 19.
The new liquor restrictions, reported
same weeks ago, have already cut
down the retail sales of "schnaps"
(Swedish brandy) in Stockholm,
roundly fifty per cent, according to
Dr. Bratt, head of the "System Com
pany." It is believed also that the
consumption in restaurants has been
materially reduced.
STB. SESOSTRIS
RAISED UTTER
SEVEN YEARS
(By Associated Press)
GUATKMAI.A CITY, Guatemala,
Jan. It*. — The steamer Sesostris, of
the Kosmos Steamship Company of
Hamburg, which sank off this coast
seven years ago, has been raised by
the Skinner Syndicate of Seattle,
Wash., and after the vessel has been j
repaired in the drvdock at Panama,
the derelict will be registered as an
American vessel in the coastwise
trade. She will be renamed Estrada
Cabrera, in honor of the president of
Guatemala. She has a net tonnage of
5,d23. The Philadelphia Breakw ater I
Company made attempts to ruise the I
vessel many years ago, but the work
was abandoned as hopeless and the
Skinner Syndicate was formed for the
purpose, engaging the British Colum i
| bia Wrecking Company for the work
| It is estimated that after repairs have
j been made the recovered steamer will
be worth nearly a million dollars
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RUSSIANS REPORT BIG
CAPTURE OF SOLDIERS
(By Associated Press)
PETROGRAD, Jan. 10. — The Rus
sians have captured over 428,000 of
ficers and men during the last year,
and 525 guns
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EXECUTORS NAMED
FOR BLUM ESTATE
SEATTLE. Jan. 19. — In the will
of the late Samuel Blum he named as
his executors his widow, Leo Schwa
backer and Nathan Eckstein, of Se
attle, and Myer Blum, of Valdez.
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ILLUSTRATED PAPERS
INCREASE PRICES.
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, Jan. 19. — Starting with
February issues, the price of all il
lustrated monthly magazines in this
country will be increased one penny
(two cents), on account of the in
creased cost of paper and other ma
terials. Nearly all magazines now sell
for six pence.
MINERS PROTEST
I
(By Associated Press)
BERLIN, Jan. 19. — The Vorwarts
says the four ef the miners' federa
tions have telegraphed the war feed
ing department protesting against the
reduction of the weekly potato ration
from five to three pounds The tele
grams say that turnips are not a sub
stitute for potatoes and ask for the
restoration of the former rations.
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Seldovian nimrods are reported to
have bagged a number of sheep and
moose recently.
GERMAN RAIRER
15 BELIEVED
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♦ (By Associated Press) 4
♦ NEW YORK, Jan. 19—Eleven 4
4 British warships are hurrying 4
4 into the south Atlantic waters 4
4 seeking the German raider. It is 4
4 generally believed that the raid 4
4 er is armed, reports two captive 4
4 ships, the Saint Theodore and 4
4 Yarrowdale, which became prey 4
4 ing rovers. The Yarrowdale is 4
4 reported as having arrived at 4
4 Cape Verde island with the crews 4
4 of eight ships sunk. The allied 4
4 warships are watching ral 4
4 merchantmen suspecte' Up. 4
♦ plying the raide with na 4
4 tion and ammunition. 4
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DARING DEEDS OE
IDE SOUTH
(By Associated Press ,
WITH SOUTH AKItlT W «'ONTIN
(!KNT OF BRITISH A MIKS IN
FRANCK, Jan. 19. South \ .1 lean
(roopH — men from the iiiIiih and
farms of the gold country are now
serving their lirsl winter in the field
in France and are tli-tingnlshlng
themselves with many deeds of daring
md valor Some 01 them fought
against (treat Britain in the Boer war
and among them a *■ several Ameri
ans who had made 'heir homes in tin
Vfrlcan mining Held? ae of Ihe
most thrilling exploits 01 the South
\frieans w as the recent art of a young
subaltern During a night operation
he became separated trom his com
puny and found hiring;, inside the
i}ernnn lines.'
up six more men of his company who
had become similar)' detached. When
lawn came the little group found it
self practically surro mded by (ter
mans. The young subaltern found
that his rifle and those of his com
rndes had become so clogged with
mud that they wouldn't ork, but he
drew his revolver and as the first
Herman approached he shot hint dead
\ Herman sergeant win started tor
ward was also killed, at as daylight
came two ol the subalt n s compan
j ions got their rifles wot king and sin
needed in killing twelv. nremhers ol
(he surrounding party d capturing
twenty two. Forming ti >r Herman
prisoners into a ring, ilc South Ai
rieans got inside of the . Tele and de
liberately marched tl risonors
over the first lines an U home
safely amid great jin among
their comrades.
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PRINCE GAINS FAME
AS WRITE!, pi ETRY
(By Associated )
STOCKHOLM, Swpi ii jji _
Swedish poetry has le idled re
cently by Prince Will <0»d son
of King Gustave, win published
a volume of thirty tw H entiled
"Slaeckta Fyrar or ned Bea
cons." Many of the \ s,,re writ
ten during the prince . , e as cap
tain of a torpedo boa rover. All
of the poems are rega i N the erlt
its as of a high ordei they have
already become popular
It is Prince Wiliii bird tjook
The first, “Indian L, I’oems," a
free translation after I. Hopes "The
Garden of Kama," appeared in liH"
under the pseudonym L. Wica The
following year the prince puldished
under his own name > hook describing
his travels in Siam, Where Hie Sun
Shines." The prince visited MTica In
1908.
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STEEL INDUSTRY TURNS
TO COLLEGES FOR HELP
(Special to DalL Times )
SEATTLE, Jan is Vll appeal
to the universities and . , lieges of the
United States to susiain the steel In
dustry by loaning graphite electrodes
necessary to the continuance of the
I present extensive ste.-i production. Is
Iming made by one of the largest ion
cerns in New York city engaged in
the manufacture of allows, by electri
en! process 'l he appeal was made to
the chemistry department or the Uni
versity of Washington
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SMOKES to GO UP.
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Jan i». _ The Illanu.
facturers have announced a large In
crease In the selling price o( cigar
ettes.
HALF MILLION DIE
FROM STARVATION
(By Associated Press.)
HOME, Jan. 19. — It is reported
I that five hundred and ten thousand
people died from starvation in Syria
, the number of suicides being appal
ing.
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TRAWLERS USED
AGAINST SUBMARINES.
(By Associatcl Press )
TOKIO, Jan. 19. — Up to the pres
ent some thirty six trawlers have been
sold by Japan to the entente allies.
They are being used in war against
enemy submarines.
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WOMEN DEFRAUD
ENGLISH RAILROADS.
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON’, Jan. 19. — In reporting
an increase of more than one hundred
per cent in ticket frauds by passen
gers since the war began, the Great
Western railway Magazine says the
chief offenders are women and girl
munition workers. This year one rail
way company alone has prosecuted
' ive hundred and thirty persons for
fraud.
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BOSTON ATTORNEY NAMED
AS COUNSEL FOR INQUIRY.
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan 19. — The
house rules committee has invited
Sherman Whipple, of Boston, to act
is counsel in (he peace leak inquiry.
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ABOUT PEOPLE
Geo. It Goshaw came down from
Chitlna on today's train
J L. Ilaurs. of McCarthy, Is a Cor
lova visitor.
Twenty-two workingmen went to
i*atouclie or yesterday's boat to work I
it the Beataon mine.
A. R. Roberts, 1,. Levy and Mrs E
spencpr were passengers from here
or Seward on the steamer Alameda
yesterday.
Hr I) R. Myers, mayor of Fair
banks, reached here today and will
leave for the states on the first south
bound steamer.
M. IS liaburn, w ho is connected with
he Alaskan engineering commission
it N'enana, was an arrival on today's
rain, en route to the states.
Dr. II A Myth, junior partner of
he firm of Drs Daggett & Blyth, has
irrlved from southeastern Alaska j
tnd will likely remain in Cordova.
Ben Simson, one of the leading mer
hunts of Fairbanks, is here on his
way to the stales to purchase his
tpring and summer stock for his in
terior story.
John Barrack and \V. F. Whitley
were passengers for Cordova on to
lay's train, having made the overland
'rip from Fairbanks.
Dave McDonald has purchased the
our cottages on B street, opposite the
<chool house. The amount paid for
his property has not been made
public.
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, Jan. 19. — Quite a change
has come over the shipping auction
market, and whereas there was for
■nerly the keenest anxiety to secure
second hand tonnage at extreme prices
the reverse is now (he case Recent
ly at the Baltic exchange sales from
the Khedlval MaU Steamship Com
pany's four steamers, the Ino, Clap
ham. Horsham and Ishmalia were put
up for auction but so few bids were
received that they were all withdrawn.
The Clapham of 1,040 tons, was taken
in after £25,000 had been bid, and the
Horsham of 530 tons at £ 16,IKK).
This sharp change in the minds of
owners is attributed to uncertainty re
garding the shipping outlook conse
quent on the appointment of a ship
ping controller and possible further
radical changes by government order
TIMES TO INAUGURATE
SOCIAL DEPARTMENT
Beginning tomorrow, The Dail
Times will inaugurate a new depari
ment, and each Saturday thereafte
publish a resume of the social doing
of the week. It is the earnest desir
to chronicle an account of all dances
parties, dinners, club meetings, wed
dings, church affairB, and also to mak<
mention of coming events. By th<
public co-operating with us, by eitbe
j telephoning or mailing any Bocia
j items of Interest so as to reach us no
j later than Friday, this department cai
i be made a success.
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AMERICANS STUDYING
RUINS ANCIENT CITY
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala
Jan. 19. — The ruins of Antigua, tb<
old capltol of Guatemala, which art
said to antedate the Egyptian era
are being studied by separate expedi
| tlons of archaeologists from Harvard
University and Yale. Antigua is the
most ancient city of Central America
and was destroyed by a volcanic dis
turbance which, according to evi
dences, killed all the inhabitants by
pouring scalding water upon them.
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JAPAN PLANS BAN
RELIGIOUS MEETINGS.
(By Associated Press)
TOKIO, Jan. 19. — An official ban
has been placed on open air meetings
in Uyeno park for the propagation of
religion. Soroku Ebara, a Japanese
Christian, and a member of the house
of peers, has lodged a protest with
the police, saying that Christian evan
gelical work had been going on in
the park since 1889, but the authori
ties reply that they can not show dis
crimination in ravor of Christianity.
They declare that the abuse of the
privileges by propagandists of suspi
cious doctrines necessitated the mea
sure.
GERMAN RAIDER HAS
SPEED 16 KNOTS,
(Bv Associated Press)
RIO JANEIRO, Jan. 19. — The re
ports of the further sinking of ships
by the Berman raider are unconfirm
ed. Men from destroyed vessels es
timate the raider’s speed at sixteen
knots.
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LONDON HANSOM IS
AGAIN IN EVIDENCE
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, Jan. 19. — Under the
stress of war, hansom cabs have again
become a frequent sight in London
streets. The "growler" has always
been a fixture as the station cab for
timid country folks, but the taxicab
was deernel to have so completely ban
ished the '"gondola of London" that
it was enshrined in the London mu
seum. The cab derived its name from
(he inventor, John Aloysius Hansom,
who sold the patent bac’ in the lit"
ties for $50,000 to a company which
got into difficulties and was never
able to pay a penny of the money.
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JAPAN SENDS NEW
AMBASSADOR RUSSIA.
TOKIO, Jan. 19. — Viscount Yasu
ya I'chida, former Japanese ambassa
dor to Washington, has been desig
nated as ambassador to Russia, in
succession to Viscount Ichiro Motono.
The latter was recently appointed
minister for foreign affairs.
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ENGLAND IN FAVOR
OF SHORTER SKIRTS
LONDON, Jan. 19. — Lengthen the
skirts and shorten the shoes us an
other war time economy, was the plea
made in parliament the other day. The
member told of going through the
fashionable quarter of London's shop
ping district and finding women’s foot
wear selling for from $10 to $15 a
pair, the average length of the uppers
being from ten to sixteen inches He
found some as high as twenty-two
inches.
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SHI ELS TURNS FISHERMAN
AND MOVES TO BELLINGHAM
Our former townsman. Archie \V.
Shiels, has moved bis residence from
Seattle to Bellingham, having accept
ed an important position with the l’a
| cific American Fisheries at the lat
ter place. Mr Shiels is one of the
: best known men along Seattle's wat
jerfront, having for a great many years
j been closely associated with the late
i M. J. Heney in the latter's great Alas
i kan contracts and enterprises, and
j since Heney's death has been em
! ployed in the settlement of tue estate,
being associated with the administra
tors.
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The average Cordova housewife is
thrifty, and as a result many of them
are taking advantage of the offer oi
six mouths subscription to the Daily
Times for $5, paid in advauce This
Is a saving of twenty per cent, which
all should take advantage of.
IILL IS SERENE
r
:| AND ALLIES
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' ♦ (By Associated I'r< «
♦ ATHENS, Jan. 19. — The min ♦
♦ isters of the entente powers are ♦
♦ thoroughly satisfied with the at ♦
j ♦ titude of the Greek government ♦
♦ in carrying out the entente de ♦
; ♦ mands, as the release of Venize ♦
♦ los adherents from prison has te- ♦
♦ gun. The Greek troops are rap ♦
; ♦ idly returning from Thessaly and ♦
, ♦ the speedy return of normal re ♦
lations between Greece and the ♦
♦ allies is expected. ♦
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El GH BILLION
DOLLARS 1E L
(Bv Associated Press.)
PARIS, Jan. 19. - A French econo
mist. Barthlemy Key. who Is the first
Frenchman of any note to examine the
subject of indemnity in detail, de
clares that if the entente allies are
victorious Germany will hi' called
upon to pay four hundred and one hll
lion francs, or at the normal rate of
exchange, about eighty billion dollars,
lie says that the central powers will
be able to pay oif the whole of such
an indemnity in fifty years at the rate
of nearly fifteen billions a year
Summing up, according to M Key
j on assumption that the war will .-on
tinue until next Inly, the items of in
demnity are:
Billion
| \llies' state war expense jxO
Miles' provincial expenses
Miles' compensation for <1 'nape at;
| Allies' pensions f.
Total.. . , 401
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MEXICO PASSES
(By Associated 1’ress.)
QUERETAH. Mexico. Jan ID.
There seems little possibility that a
clause providing for prohibition in
Mexico will be included in the new
I constitution, according to delegates to
the constitutional congress Tie ad
| visability of prohibiting the sale of
intoxicants and prohibiting gambling
was considered in connection with
Article 4, which declares that no per
son shall be hindered in follow ing any
profession, industry or labor which
does not offend against the laws or
society The article, however, was re
ported from committee without spe
cific mention of prohibition, and
passed as reported by the congress
(By Associated Press >
MUNICH, Germany. Jan. IP
Jests recently conducted t.> the Ba
varian ministry of war upon the ef
fect of alcohol on marksmanship were
carried out by twenty marksmen on
| twenty test days, the total number or
j shots fired being over Jo.eoo. The re
I suits showed, according to Prof. Hr
Krueplin, whose report on the subject
is reprinted in the Military Weekly,
an average falling oft in marksman
ship of about three per cent as the
result of the consumption of fort'
grams of alcohol, corresponding
roughly to the amount contained in a
liter of beer The effect was most
perceptible twenly five to thirty min
j uies after absorbing the alcohol. Most
of the marksmen shot oven worse than
the average, several of them eight,
ten and even twelve per cent worse
One of the amusing sidelights on the
tests was that several of the riflemen
insisted not only that they could, byt
actually were shooting better after
getting the spirits, while in reality
their marksmanship had fallen oft as
much as ten per cent.