The Cordova Daily Times
Only Afternoon Paper In Alaska With Associated Press News
v< >1 ATM E III. NUM BER <)7. CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDA Y, MARCH 27, 1017. ~
_ _ — - — ■ — _ I KM u FEN i ENTS
THREE COURSES
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
♦ (By Associated Press) ♦
♦ WASHINGTON, March 27. — ♦
♦ Prior to a cabinet meeting, which ♦
♦ discussed the details of prepared- ♦
♦ ness, Senator Hitchcock, a mem- ♦
♦ her of the senate foreign rela- ♦
♦ lions committee, discussed the ♦
♦ situation with President Wilson. ♦
♦ Afterward Hitchcock outlined the ♦
♦ following three courses as being ♦
♦ open lo congress: The passage of ♦
♦ a resolution endorsing the steps ♦
♦ already taken by the president ♦
♦ to place the United States in a ♦
♦ state of armed neutrality and au- ♦
♦ thorizing further preparedness ♦
♦ moves. The adoption of a resolu- ♦
♦ tion declaring a state of war al- ♦
♦ ready exists between the United ♦
♦ States and Germany, and the ♦
♦ adoption of a declaration of war ♦
♦ against Germany. O
♦ Further mobilization of the ♦
♦ national guard regiments now in ♦
♦ federal service was suspended to- ♦
♦ day by the war department. ♦
♦ It is understoo dthat units will O
♦ be used in the respective states ♦
♦ for police protection purposes ♦
♦ rather than to call into service ♦
♦ other guards and regiments. ♦
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦«
-4
(By Associated Press)
PETROGRAD, March 27. — The
grand dukes and royal princes, in a
joint telegram to the provisional gov
ernment, associate themselves with
the abdication of Grand Duke Michael,
and turn over to the new government
their holdings of crown lands and
other state grants attaching to their
ra$ks.
PASS MEMORIAL
(Special to the Times)
JUNEAU, March 27.—The house
passed the Sutherland memorial to
congress not to pass the Alexander
bill, the Heckman bill for the estab
lishment of fish hatcheries by the fish
commission, and the bill granting
franchises to public service corpora
tions by the city council.
-*
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, March 27. — The steam
ship St. Louis reports its voyage
across the Atlantic as uneventful. If
any German submarines saw the liner
they made no effort to destroy her,
but avoided her guns. The St. Louis
carried a full non-contraband cargo.
-♦
COL. RICHARDSON TO REMAIN
AT WASHINGTON FOR PRESENT
S. L. Carter, of the Alaska road com
mission, came over from Valdez on
the Northwestern, and will return on
the Watson. He stated that Major
Davison had received a telegiam from
Colonel W. P. Richardson, president
of the commission, saying that had
the appropriation of $500,000 asked for
been granted by congress, he had
planned to make a hurried trip to
Alaska and start work at the earliest
possible moment. This plan had to
be abandoned and the colonel will re
main in Washington during the extra
session of congress, and devote all his
energies to securing favorable legisla
tion, and the secretary of war has sig
nified his intention of doing every
thing possible to assist In getting the
appropriation through.
Colonel Richardson also telegraphs
to give no credence to any report re
lative to change in road commission
management in the near future.
SAMPSON SAIL!
El ROUTE TO
(Special to Daily Times)
SEATTLE, March 27. — The steam
er Admiral Sampson sailed., for south
western Alaska last night. Her Cor
dova passengers were Thomas Hyde
(!. Stocks, B. Knapp, Captain George
Green, Captain J. Oliver, E. Bemis
M. Adams, W. Hartnett, Paul Jensen
C. Hitchcock, it. McCaorkle and eight
steerage.
BACKS CHARGES
ON FLOOR OF
SENATE
(Special to the Times)
JUNEAU, March 27. — Senator Su
therland addressed the senate yester
day for an hour In attempting to
prove that men had been railroaded
to the penitentiary from the Fourth
division. He made a number of strong
statements, and read the comments
of the newspapers on Callahan and
Woolridge crimes at Fairbanks.
He declared that he had never lied
to the people of the Fourth division,
and they knew it.
-»
(By Associated Press)
BERLIN, March 27. — The allies
have occupied the French town of
Kotsel, in the forest between Ooise
and Couchy Lechateau. The Ger
mans gave way to avoid being out
flanked, but attacked the Russian po
sitions southwest of Baronovich. The
Russian positions and three hundred
Russians on the west bank of Bara
river were captured.
-♦
HIS POLICY
WASHINGTON, March 27. — Presi
dent Wilson still has an open mind on
the steps to becommend to congress
when It meets next Monday .although
the preponderance of official opinion
is that he will ask for a declaration
that a state of war exists between the
United States and Germany.
-«
PLAN TO COMBAT
AFTER WAR
PARIS, March 26. — France Is al
ready organizing to combat the spread
of tuberculosis after the war among
men who have been weakened by the
hardships of campaigning. There are
at present 100,000 men in the army at
tacked by this disease, of whom about
80,000 have been sent back to their
homes. At least another 100,000 will
come back from German prison camps
with the same 111, and a great chain
of national sanitoriums is proposed
to deal with the plague. Two and a
half million francs have already been
subscribed, and a program of work
has been drawn up which will Involve
the expenditure of many millions
more.
-4
ITALY'S COMMERCE BLOCKED
BY FREIGHT CAR FAMINE.
MILAN, March 27. — The freight
car famine is being made a subject of
protest and investigation by the Milan
Chamber of Commerce, as much of
Italy's merchandise freight originates
in this section. Because of the lack
of coal and in order to accommodate
military needs, the state railway is
refusing such freight, "has reduced its
passenger traffic by half or to 72,000
miles, and has further discontinued
free passes or reduced rate tickets
except to commercial travelers.
invasion inn
By TEUTDNS
(By Associated Press)
HOME, March 27. — A great Teutor
offensive on the Italian front Is pre
dieted freely throughout Italy, bui
no uneasiness Is felt, as General Cad
orna says he is ready to meet thf
enemy.
-♦
(By Associated Press)
LAWRENCE, Kan., March 26.—Bip
business wants college trained men
and is demanding that the universities
train their young men for managers
as well as technicians. Professor Ar
thur J. Boynton, of the department of
economics in the University of Kan
sas, is receiving letters every day
from bankers and manufacturers ask
ing for young men who have the “re
quisite qualifications of energy, men
tal alertness and culture that the high
plane of our business demands.”
The firms that are applying all say
the burden of business responsibility
is too great for the young man who
comes up through the ranks from of
fice boy. Although that sort of train
ing gives the very best technique,
there Is a noticeable lack of culture
that leaves the individual in a rut.
The freighter Eureka is on the way
to Cordova and will go to the west
ward as far as Anchorage.
The Woman's Guild will meet at
the rectory, with Mrs. Ziegler tomor
row afternoon at 2 o’clock.
The steamer Admiral Watson left
Katalla at 12:30 o’clock this afternoon
and is due in Cordova at 10 o’clock to
night.
The steamer Alameda, with a ban
ner list of passengers for Cordova, is
due here from Seattle at 8:30 o’clock
tonight.
A special train left this morning
for Kennecott to bring down a ship
ment of copper ore from the Bonanza
and Jumbo mines.
The Loyola Club has moved its fur
niture into the building opposite the
Windsor hotel until permanent quar
ters can be secured.
There will be a special program on
at the Empres stheatre tonight, includ
ing feats by Joe Gelang, "The Mystery
Man;” Kenneth Holden, interpreting
the Indian dance; Charlie Chaplin, in
“A Woman;” two reel comedy and a
I’athe News. Music by the Bon Ton
orchestra.
Yesterday afternoon, while the Alas
ka Transfer Company was engaged In
hauling a seven ton boiler from the
dock to the Lighthouse Packing Com
pany's plant, Peter Olson got his foot
under the skid and had it broken. He
was removed to the hospital, where he
is receiving treatment.
La# night a fire broke out on
Clarke & Graham’s launch, which was
tied up at the city dock, by the gaso
line igniting. An alarm was sent in
and the department responded and ex
tinguished the flames with the chemi
cal. Tom King, who was in charge of
the boat, was badly burned about the
body and was Immediately removed to
the hospital.
-♦
FAMOUS NATIONAL CLUB IS
COMMANDEERED BY GOVT.
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, March 27. — The Nation
al Club, the only club in London which
has morning prayers, has just moved
to a new club house a long distance
from the government buildings around
Whitehall, whose proximity resulted
some time ago in the commandering
for war purposes of their old club
house.
-»
Job Printing at Dally Times office.
(Special to the Times)
JUNKAU, March 27. — A public
hearing of the Aldrich bill, providing
for n sick and disability ,;und. wus
held last evening from 8 S'clook to
midnight. Mine managers, doctors
and miners freely discussed the ceti
tral issue, in which miners are al
lowed to choose their own doctors and
hospitals. Further hearings will he
held.
lilt RECRUITS
ARE STILL
NEEDED
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 27. — The
United States marine corps needs
over 4,000 men to fill the ranks to war
strength. Seventeen thousand four
hundred for the naval militia have not
as yet been called, but will be needed
to man the new ships.
NEW YORK, March 27. — The aux
iliary medical committee for national
defense is seeking to recruit 25,(too
medical reserve officers.
RAILROADS ASK
TO INCREASE
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Maxcb-sf*. — The
railroads of the southern and south- '
west lines have joined the eastern and
western lines in requesting the Inter
state Commerce Commission to amend
its rules and permit of a general ad
vance in freight rates.
-*
EXPERTS DOING
ROOD WORK !fi
BRAZIL
(By United Press)
RIO DE JANEIRO, March 1. (By
Mail.) — Nine agricultural experts re
cently employed in the United States
by the Brazilian department of agri
culture, have just arrived in Brazil.
According to the story told by Senor
Oliveira Castro, the Brazilian govern
ment’s agent sent to employ the ex
perts, he had extreme difficulty in
finding men willing to go to Brazil be
cause of the prevailing idea in the
United States that revolutions were
matters of daily occurrence.
After a great deal of effort and re
peated assurances that revolutions
took place only in the story books and
not in actual Brazilian life, he induced
Professors O. T. Clawson, il. II. Car
dinell, W. C. Johnstone, J. E. Bohm,
E. Pithman, R. H. Cook, Maurice
Blohm, Dr. K. E. Quanta and Dr. B. T.
Harve to leave with him on the steam
er Minas Geraes.
When the Minas Geraes arrived at
Pernambuco, the first Brazilian port,
and as she hauled up to the docks,
there was the sound of rifle firing
within the city. There was great curi
osity on board the ship, particularly
among the Americans, as to what the
disturbance meant. A venturesome
ship's officer brought back the news
that a revolution was in progress. It
turned out later that it was a mere
celebration over n minor election and
nobody wus hurt.
But, as Senor Castro expressed it.
"The Americans clapped their hands
to their heads.” They arrived sufel
in Rio de Janeiro and are.busy show
ing the agricultural department new
stunts in fruit, grain, tobacco and
other kinds of culture.
. -4
SOUTHERN GOVERNORS MEET
TO PLAN RIVER TRAFFIC.
(By United Press)
NEW ORLEANS, March ”7. — Gov
ernors of Mississippi valley states met
here to plan the UBe of the Mississippi
river and others to obtain relief from
freight rates which tend, thev say. to
force shipments by lake and rail in
stead of via this port.
I—
f
All la not serene in the camp of the
territorial Democrats, In which the
federal offices appear to be the bone
of contention. National Committee
man Thomas Jefferson Donohoe if
back at Washington with his little
"who's who" book, which he Is ex
hibitlng to the appointive powers in
the hope of being able to name those
whom he considers are entitled to the
plums that are soon to be shaken from
the patronage tree.
In this connection it Is interesting
to note that the first gun fired against
the reappointment of Governor Strong
was stationed in the trenches at Val
dez and the Prospector furnished the
ammunition. Its broadside charges
that Strong has been flirting with the
Republicans and Wickershamites in
the filling of the several appointive
positions that fell to his lot. That pa
per also charges that the gallant ma
jor is not now, nor never has been, a
Democrat, as was demonstrated in his
refusal as a member of the canvassing
board to "count in” Sulzer as the next
delegate to congress.
Evidently taking its cue from^our
neighboring town, the Cordova Demo
cratic Club met last night and adopted
resolutions protesting against the re
appointment of Strong as governor,
because he failed to reward faithful
Democrats.
It is intimated that Judge Jennings,
of Juneau, is likely to have the en
dorsement of the Democratic machine
for governor. The other aspirantH foi
this office are Judge Bunnell, of Fair
banks; John W. Troy, of Juneau; E
W. Griffin, of Chena. W. H. Whittel
sey, of Seward, who was mentioned
as a candidate, is in reality seeking
to succeed District Attorney Spence
whom the Democrats are anxious to
replace, but are likely to favor A. J
Dimond, of Valdez, for the place if he
will accept It. There is little or nc
opposition to Judge Brown continuing
on the bench for another four years,
but whether Marshal Brennenutn will
be able to hold on depends entirely
upon how far Vice-President Marshal
is willing to go for him in the face ol
lhe fact that there are other Demo
crats who have strong local backing
for this office.
_A_
TRIP SHOE 1C
(By United Press)
NEW YORK, March 26. — Interest
Ing figures compiled by P^ter U. Car
ney, Philadelphia booster of trap
shooting, show that many men, well
known in this country, are ardent de
votees of the trap game. Among them
he names Vice-President Thomas R.
Marshall, King George of England.
King Alfonso of Spain, King Victor
Emanuel of Italy, Governor Walter E.
Edge of New Jersey, Governor Brunt
haugli of Pennsylvania. Governor Cap
per of Kansas, former Governor Major
of Missouri, former Governor West of
Oregon, Governor Ferguson of Texas,
John Phillip Sousa, the bandmaster,
and many lesser lights in the public
light.
Theodore Roosevelt and Amos Pin
chot. Carney writes, are two men who
long ago realized the value of outdoor
exercise as personified in the use of
a gun, bat these two, he admits, have
never displayed any great hankering
for the tame method of killing birds
built of clay.
Carney picks out a few mayors for
public approval who are trap enthusi
asts. Charles A. Fleming, mayor of
Spokane, Wash., he says, broke 90 per
cent of the targets thrown for him at
the Northwest Sportsmen's Associa
tion shoot last summer. R. E. Duval,
mayor of Belleville, 111., a year ago
tied for first place in the Southern
Trapshooting Handicap at Memphis
Mayor Thomas I). Smith, of Philadel
phia, Is a member of a gun club and
often takes part in contests.
-♦
DOUGLAS FIR BEAM STANDS
PRESSURE OF 88,400 POUNDS.
SEATTLE, March 27. — A piece
of Douglas fir, 16 feet long and 16 by
8 inches in cross section, stood a pres
sure of 88,400 pounds before break
in.". at the test conducted in the en
gineering laboratory of the Univer
sity of Washington, by C. W. Zimmer
man, of the United States forest ser
vice, before the visiting delegates to
the third annual convention of the In
tercollegiate Association of Forestry
Clubs.
FULTON CRAVES
TO MEET JESS
(By United Press)
NEW YORK, March 27. — Fred Ful
ton, the ponderous plasterer from Min
nesota, who has lived up to hta trade
with considerable vigor, in New York
performances, wants to know why In
Sam Hill Jess Willard prefers the life
of the sawdust ring to one with a can
vas spread over the soft spots.
Fulton figures that a few thousand
dollars a minute or some such induce
ment of an allied nature should at
least be sufficient to make Willard
put a ten day clause in his contract
so he could fight once in a while in
stead of Just showing the circus pat
rons what a guy he is.
"Look here,” he said, "there's a
champion who isn't, not by any means.
He rants around the country showing
the curious multitude how he knocked
Jack Johnson stiff, and then he dis
appears. He wears a lot of leather
breeches and other things that remind
the old-timers of the Rio Grande, and
gets away with it. He don't show ’em
how he knocked out anybody since he
and Johnson pulled off their little Ha
vana meeting. And the reason is that
there ain't no other."
Fulton wants to fight. He is just
aching for a chance to get to Wil
lard. He Is almost as tall as the big
Kansan and he carries a terrific kick
in his left tentacle. He's the right
man to fight Willard, and it does seem
a little strange that Willard is not
willing.
Of course Willard might dispose of
Fulton in a round, if he did he would
become a lot more popular than he
now stands. If Willard lost, well, the
public would just heave one long sigh
and hope that Fulton would be more
of a champion than Willard had been.
Bib Jess would simply, gently slide
into pugilistic oblivion, for everyone
knows there wouldn't be a chance for
him to w-hip another title holder.
Looks like a chance for Jess to die
the happy fistic death he has been
waiting for, or make himself so solid
with the public that he never will be
dethroned in popular favor.
It is the Inherited duty of a heavy
weight champion to defend his title
whenever a good man appears. The
popularity of many of the old time
bruisers lay in the fact that they wil
lingly vaulted the ropes of a ring and
hammered some opponent for a dozen
or so rounds. There is just the one
man who stands out now over the
many contenders for Willard's crown,
and his name is Fred Fulton. He is
the man who must ventually meet Wil
lard. Let's have it.
WHAT AMERICAN
WOMEN MUST
WEAR
(By United Press)
PARIS, March 26. — The directoire
gown has come back. It is in Paris
today. Soon it will be in New York
and a little later it probably will be
all over the United States.
The new directoire, however, the
famous Paris designers decree, may be
used only for dinner and evening
gowns. For the street it is taboo, and
must give way to "pegtops.”
American buyers who have braved
the ocean voyage to Paris, are pay
ing hard American dollars here today
for 1917 dress models. War permit
ting, the buyers and models will soon
be back in the United States dictating
what is proper for American women
folks to wear.
When the United Press correspond
ent dropped in at a famous Paris show
room today, the American buyers, the
directoire, pegtops and many other
new creations were there. It will
hardly be such a lavish display of
feminine ankle on American streets
this spring and summer. Neverthless,
the new frocks will hang about seven
inches from terra firma. An expert
might describe waist line or draped in
folds or loops over the hips and taper
ing to a very narrow skirt at the bot
tom. The “peg” effect is arranged by
a fullness at the top, buttoning into a
pleat or two at the hem.
-♦
AMSTERDAM TO STUDY
SYSTEM FOOD KITCHENS.
(By Associated Press)
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, March
27. — A municipal deputation, head
ed by a Socialist alderman, is being
sent to Germany to study the system
of popular food kitchens in the large
cities there, presumably with a view
to the possible institution of similar
establishments in the Dutch capital.
! SULZEB WAITS
II fiEPflESENT
ALL PEDPLE
(Special to the Times)
JUNEAU, March 27. — Before leav
ing for W ashington Charles A. Sulzer
Issued a statement, in which he said
that he would represent all the people
In congress, and he wanted them to
keep him advised as to the needs of
their districts.
-♦
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, March 27. — The losses
of merchant vessels exceeded four
hundred and twenty thousand tons
thus far in March, as the result of
war measures of the central powers,
Charles Beresford told the house of
lords.
I ’ :
■ Ml
I
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 27. — The
Belgian legation has published an ap
peal for (he Belgian workmen for or
ganized assistance by neutral govern
ments and the laboring classes to neu
tral governments, it says half a mil
lion men have been thrown into idle
ness and kept so, while the working
classes are being threatened with sla
very, starvation or death.
_A_
'FRENCH CAPTURE
VILLAGE AND
HOLD FOREST
PARIS, March 27. — It is officially
announced that the French troops
have captured the village of Coucy
Leehatean, and made further progress
in the lower part of the Coucy forest,
and continue to hold all the northern
part of the forest.
SATS SHIPPING
(By Associated Press)
LIVERPOOL, March 27. — The an
nual report of the Liverpool Steam
ship Owners’ Association, which in
cludes practically all the important
shipowners in England, emphasizes
the seriousness of the shipping situa
tion, and declares squarely that all
the measures thus far taken by the
government are insufficient. The re
port insists that state management
of shipping has failed, and must fail,
and expresses the opinion that only
the most radical curtailment of im
ports and a similar radical limitation
of the amount of tonnage used for
military purposes can save the nation
from the most serious shortage of food
and vital raw materials.
Commenting on the appointment of
a shipping minister as a member of
the Lloyd George cabinet, the report
says: “The association welcomes the
appointment of a minister charged
with the duty of seeing that the mer
cantile marine is used to the best
advantage of the nation, and It will
render every assistance in its power
to that minister. But the problem of
providing the nation with its essen
tial supplies of food and raw mater
ials is only a part of the shipping pro
blem. The essential factors, the limi
tation of Imports, the amount of ton
nage to be devoted to purely military
purposes, and the labor shortage, can
be dealt with by no one department.
They must be faced and dealt with by
the whole war cabinet.”
-♦-—
Amateur night at Empress theatre
tonight, with some good stunts on the
program.