The Cordova Daily Times
_ Only Afternoon Paper In Alaska With Associated Press News
VOLUME HL NUMBER jjjg (*>«!>< >V \. ALASKA. W LKMvSDA V, MAY3 imT? - - PRICK TKXCE ITS
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♦ (Uy Associated J’ress)
♦ PETROGRAI), May 30. — The
♦ congress delegates from the
♦ front have ndopted the follow
♦ ing resolutions: "The army in
♦ the trenches in favor of the in
♦ dispensability of taking every
♦ measure to end as quickly as pos
♦ sible international carnage and
♦ conclude peace without annexa
♦ tions or indemnities, on the basis
♦ of the right of all nations to dis
♦ pose of themselves, proclaiming
♦ at the same time the watchword:
♦ ‘whoever wishes peace must pre
♦ pare for war.' ”
♦ They declare the Russian sol
♦ diers have been fighting under
♦ conditions infinitely worse than
♦ the other allies, as the Russian
♦ soldier marched unprotected
♦ against the enemy’s bullets,
♦ breaking with bare arms wire en
♦ tanglements which the allies and
♦ enemy pass freely after; that the
♦ artillery preparation on the Rus
♦ sian front must be provided with
♦ munitions.
♦ The congress appeals to all
♦ friends of free Russia to rally
♦ around the council of soldiers'
♦ and workmen's delegates and the
♦ provisional government, and not
♦ permit adventurers to let the
♦ army become manure for foreign
♦ fields.
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LEONARD'S
(By United Press)
NEW YORK, May 30. — A matct
between Johnny Kilbane, the feather
weight champion, and Benny Leon
ard, now the American ltghtweigh
champion, would bring back with i
punch the old days when good bouti
in the lightweight division were thi
rule and not the exception.
Leonard is heavier than Kilbane
and is such an aggressive, hard-hit
ting youth that Kilbane would be a
a much greater disadvantage than ii
his recent fist fest with Freddie
Welsh. Leonard hits with both hand:
and takes advantage of every opening
Kilbane would have to travel at hi:
best speed to save himself from de
feat.
There is a great difference in the
styles of the two men. Kilbane, as j
boxer and fighter outshines Leonar(
so long as he confines himself t<
brawls with the featherweights. Th<
handicap of meeting a man who woulc
weight about five pounds the heavier
however, would make it hard for him
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DOUBLING SPELL
PARIS, May 30. — The speed o
fighting airplanes has been doublei
during the war. while the ascendini
power of the airplane has been multi
piled ten times. The progress in avl
ation provoked by the needs of th
national defense has given rise ti
speculation as to what advantage
may be derived from it when peac
has been restored. Letter and parce
carriers in regions lacking railroai
* communication Is one suggestion.
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WHERE TALK IS NOT CHEAP.
It will cost the people of Falrbank
and Nenana Just sixty-six and twc
thirds cents per minute to convers
over the new engineering commisslo
telephone line for a period of thre
minutes, according to the announce
ment of phone rates made by Commii
■loner Thomas Riggs, Jr. After thre
minutes of conversation are over th
pate per minute will be fifty cent
The flat rate for a three-minute coi
versatlon will be $2.
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CELEBRATED ITALIAN ACTRESS
P COMING TO AMERICA.
I (By United Press)
ROME, May 30. — I.ydia BoreHi.
Italy's celebrated actress, will be fea
tured in a series of films by a Now
York producer. She is under contract
to leave for the United States in Feb
ruary, 1918. Her picture posing will
bring her the handy little nest egg of
180,000 lire, or $3(j.OOO.
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(By Associated Press)
SACRAMENTO, May 30. — The
theory that a woman should bo barred
from teaching in the public schools of
California after she. marries is at
tacked by I>r. Edwin R. Snyder, state
commissioner of vocational education,
in an article in the latest Issue of the
blue bulletin issued by the state de
partment of education.
Efficiency and not marriage should
be the test of service, according to Or.
Snyder, who declares that “the auto
matic dismissal of the woman teacher
when she contracts marriage has hin
dered the establishment of more good
homes than it has saved from destruc
tion.”
"The conclusion that the married
teacher must necessarily neglect home
lor school is an assumption rather
than a fact,” says the commissioner.
There are many married women serv
ing in the schools who also are main
taining the best kind of homes. It is
not part of the function of the board
of education to assume the preroga
tive of dictating what the home duties
of a woman shall be. the article holds.
Insofar as the appointment of teach
’ ers is concerned, the board is charged
solely with securing the best possible
service for the schools.
Another argument commonly raised
against the married teacher, says Dr.
Snyder, is that because she has a hus
band to support her the position
should go to an unmarried woman. To
agree with this, however, is to assume
that one principle controlling the se
lection of teachers is that the school
system exists to provide opportunities
for a certain class of persons. The
commissioner advances numerous ar
guments in favor of married women as
teachers.
NEXT SUNDAY’S BALL GAME.
The Cordova club will be fully uni
formed for next Sunday’s game with
the Radio ball team, and we under
stand the wireless boys have an ag
gregation that they feel confident can
wallop the local club. Manager J. B
King announces his lineup,, as follows
Crowell. 3b; Hawes, lb; Davenport,
p-ss; Brown, 2b; Cunningham, rf;
King, p-ss; Grube, c; Price, cf; Swig
| ert, If.
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' MEXICAN TEACHERS WILL
MAKE VISIT TO EL PASO.
(By Associated Press)
KB PASO. May 30. — Mexican teach-'
ers from the republic of Mexico will
attend the summer normal which is to
be hold in the high school here. The
director general of public instruction
for Mexico has been invited, through
- -Mexican—Consul—EdnwrHo Rnrlano
Bravo, to send a delegation of teach
ers from the interior to the summer
normal, all fees and charges having
been waived by the normal school in
consideration of the fact that Mexico
is making an effort to establish a
’ free school system similar to that
I now in use in the United States.
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INDUSTRIAL PREPAREDNESS
THEME OF EFFICIENCY SOCIETY
' (By United Press)
5 CHICAGO, May 30. — The human
s factor in industrial preparedness was
1 the keynote of the national conference
1 headed by the Western Efficiency So
ciety, which convened In Chicago re
cently.
The purpose of the conference is to
deal with the war with Germany and
, with industrial preparedness following
the termination of the struggle. Every
, phase of the industrial preparedness
, program Is being discussed by effi
s ciency experts, educators, represents
tives of labor and business men from
various pans of ‘.he country.
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e The Bon Ton orchestra will be the
>• attraction at the dance to be given
i- (at Hegg’s hall tonight, and to which all
are invited.
SOCIALISTS ARE
HELD SERIOUS
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SEATTLE, May 30. — Four Social
ist leaders, Hulet Wfells, former presi
dent of the Seattle Labor Council, Na
tional Committeeman Sam Sadler,
Secretary Aaron Filserman and Rob
ert Rice have been held to the grand
jury, charged with the distributing
of a seditious anti-draft circular.
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The steamer Admiral Farragut is
due from the westward tonight.
SOON LEAVE
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(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, May 30. — George M,
Rice, a railroader who was employed
by the late contractor M. J. Heney in
the building of the Copper River &
Northwestern railway from Cordova,
has been appointed a major In the
first battalion, Eighth regiment en
gineers, which will go to France soon
and operate and reconstruct the rail
roads.
KAISER APPEALS
STRONGLY TO
J ./ 'I
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(By Associated Press)
BERLIN, May 30. — The kaiser in
addressing the troops on the Arras
line, said: “The decision lies near
you to realise that you are righting
for the future of your children and
grand children, who believe in the
fatherland. We will continue the
fight until we have accomplished a
complete victory against those who at
tacked u».M
Our young townsman. Norman YV.
Bratton, who is attending the Colum
bia University in New York, has en
listed for active service in the war,
and in doing so has written his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Bratton, a
very touching and patriotic letter,
from which the following excerpts are,
taken:
“Conscription has been passed by the
nation, and a census of all men in the
country is in progress. Of course, you
know, that I shall be among those that
are first called. I am the age that
is most desired in the government
service; I have a mother and father
that are healthy and at present are
not dependent upon me for a living,
and I am a college man. not married
or saddled with any troubles at pres
ent beyond the maintenance of myself.
The men of athletic prominence of my
age are those especially .-wished for.
1 must therefore beat them to it. If
I volunteer in some branch of the
service and I am accepted, I shall have
the liberty of choice and can do that
which 1 think 1 am best suited for.
There are two things for which I
could qualify; the engineering corps,
and the aviation corps. These are the
most elite of the country, and the
hardest to get into. The record of the
casualties in Europe show that 86 per
cent of the engineers at the front are
among those wounded, killed or miss
ing; and only 14 per cent of the avi
ators. if you are wounded in the en
gineer corps the chances you will lie
in front of a trench for two or three
days before you die. This has been
the general run of things in Europe.
Whereas if you are in the aviation
corps you have an equal chance with
your combatant. You are not fodder
for the guns. There is a chance to
deal the fellow you are opposed to the
same blow as he is trying to give you.
It is a fair, gentleman's fight, and if
you should chance to be unfortunate
enough to be the man that is caught
instead of the man that is doing the
catching, your term of life will be very
short, and you will go to a very quick
death. While you are in training you
also will live like a gentleman. There
is no necessity to await the attack of
the enemy in a trench where it ie Im
possible to get food, water or rein
forcements for days at a time, und
while you do live, to be covered with
thousands of vermin and in danger
of being eaten by rals while you sleep,
bear the unutterable stench of the
thousands that will never fight an
other battle, and hear the nerve and
soul racking bombardment of the dnt n
fire that tears men to pieces witbhnt
a chance to fight against the cold
steel that overpowers them physically
and mentally. I notice in the paper
this evening that the United States is
going to send nine regiments ef ea
glneers to Europe. This means prompt
action.
“We are in this war to a finish. This
is not going to be a money war. We
are going to send the best we have to
Europe. You may cal! it false pat
riotism. but there are things that the
American government are willing to
die for rather than sacrifice, and the
American people are sincerely behind
the government. You are going to
see the American people ns the king
pin of this war. What they do will
serve to crystallize and foster any
movement that advances the liberty
of the world. This war was originally
started probably, due to the internal
jealousies and trade rivalries of the
opposing countries, but at this time it
Is essentially a war that will deter
mine whether this world will be ruled
by a democratic or an autocratic form
of government, and there are many
people, thousands of them, that are
willing to fight in order that a repub
lican form of government may rule
this earth. There are many of 'hose
that are going to fight in this cause
that will never return to see the re
sults of their crusade, but they will
at least die to assure their own con
science. I feel that I shall be lower
than the mangy cur that is in the
street if I am too cowardly Xo serve
my country in this time of need. I
know that 1 am capable of giving the
best that I have, and if my country is
willing to take it, I must offer it to
her. Mother. 1 have no false sense
of patriotism. I know that there is
no glory to go to the front at this
time, or any other time. I cannot see
any glory in the aimless proposition
of trying to kill a man whom you don't
know, and harbor no enmity to per
sonally; but if the cause he represents
and supports is such a one that it
threatens to swamp and terrorize the
earth, I believe that he should be eli
minated In order to eradicate the
cause. People all over the country are
making sublime sacrifices at this
period, and mother and father must
take a chance and hope that Cod will
have the pity to spare you the misfor
tune of losing me in this coming con
flict. I cannot stay out of it. I feel
live a traitor each day that I am not
giving my services to my country. 1 i
have applied for enlistment in the
aviation corps of the army, and hope
to start active service on the first
day of July.
"This will mean that 1 shall not
leave for Europe until the following
spring, so you will have plenty of op
portunity to see men when you come
to the city. Mother, let me tell you
that as an engineer 1 shall be over to
the front before September, and I
shall not be able to see you before
I leave. Cod, I would hate that. There
fore, you must give me your whole
souled heart and devotion and make
the sacrifice that every mother is mak
ing. trusting that her son will be :
among those that are spared. This i
world is a funny proposition, and what i
we are placed here for only the God
in Heaven knows. We see only the
suffering and the tearing apart
of those things that are dearest, just
to slay like the wild beasts In the
forests. I believe this is the hell that
the Bible speaks about. Mother and
father, bear and forbear. I pray that
God spares me in this coming buttle,
not for myself, because 1 don't think
very much of this mundane life, but
for your' sakes. If 1 were free, I
would have been over in France in the
service of the allies long ago. Now I
must go, and I trust it shall be with
your consent."
SI HIKt BREAKERS
E
BIOT
EAST ST. LOUIS. May 30. — There
is a race riot raging here, and last
night it resulted in three white men
and two negroes being wounded by
bullets. Several negroes were badly
beaten and the excitement is at white
heat. After the burning of six negro
homes, the state militia formed a cor
don around the negro districts and dis
persed the crowds wherever sighted.
The trouble arose from thousands of
negroes being brought from the south
to take the places of strikers.
SWEET POTATO CONSERVATION
NEW GOVERNMENT PLAN.
WASHINGTON. May 30. — Urging
increased production of sweet potatoes
the department of agriculture is of
fering farmers plans for new methods
of storing them. Tests of tho new
bins showed an average decay of 2.45
per cent, where nearly 30 per cent are
lost under present methods.
SUCKERS WILE
BE SEVERELY
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 30. — De
spite the anti draft agitation In
many cities, propagated by the
Germans, the department of jus
tice expects virtually all men be
tween the uges of 21 and 30 years
to register for war draft next
Thursday. Criminal action will be
taken against all slackers, and
Cnited States marshals and attor
neys have been instructed to
watch closely for indications of
anti-registration conspiracies.
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Maud Allan, International famous
lancer, in the "Rug Maker's Daugh
ter," at the Empress theatre this
evening. This iB a charming romance
of two continents, with the principal
Beenes taken from the Orient. The
program will finish with the favorite
comedian, Charlie Chaplin, in “The
Vagabond."
(By Associated Pres9)
AMSTERDAM, May 30. — The So
cialist conference at Stockholm has
been postponed until July 15, or a
later date, depending upon the arrival
of tho French and Italian delegates.
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UNCLE SAM PRESCRIBES
A GOOD SPRING TONIC.
(By United Press)
WASHINGTON, May 30. — Here
are the ingredients for the best spring
tonic, as recommended today by the
United States public health service:
Spring gardening, fresh air, good
drinking water.
Taken with a little exercise in the
fly swatting and mosquito pool drain
ing line, (he service believes this pre
scription will cut the undertaker's re
ceipts.
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Read the Daily Times and keep post
ed on the world’s doings.
AMERICAN WOMEN IN PARIS
FORM SHAWL CLUB.
(By United Press)
PARIS. May 30. — American wo
men in Paris have organized a “shawl
Club.” The present purpose of the
club Is to knit warm shawls for the
poor, if necessary, at a later time,
the club will turn its many hands to
knitting sockB for American soldiers.
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MOB LIKELY!
SELL ISLANDS
TDD.S.
(By Associated Press)
ANCON, Panama, May 30 — Reports
keep coming to the isthmus of a grow
ing inclination on the part of the peo
ple of Ecuador to offer the Galapagos
islands for sale to the United States.
The handsome price paid for the Vir
gin islands is said to have made a
great impression on Ecuadorians. The
Galapagos islands have long been eco- ,
nominally worthless to Eucador, but ,
all suggestions to sell them have been ,
hailed by opposing politicians as an ,
intrigue to deliver the territory of the |,
country into the hands of foreigners j.
It may be that the conduct of the L
United States toward Latln-Amerlca 1 (
inder President Wilson has mitigated L
he distrust of the United States anti L
nclined the Eucadorians to consider ,
nore leniently American possession
>f the islands.
The Galapagos lie about eight hun
Ired miles southwest of the canal,
•lose to the road of steamers plying
>etween the canal and New Zealand
tustralia, and the rest of Oceania, and
he lower East Indies. It is asserted
hat the Bite would be a strategetic
mint for naval operations, an outpost
n the defense of the canal and a
taven for ships of peace or war in a
,ast stretch of lonely sea. The popu
iition of the group is reported as about
our hundred persons.
SEND THE ELK TO ALASKA
WHERE THEY WILL THRIVE, i
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(By Associated Press) i
ALBUQUERQUE. N. M„ May 30. — (
Uthough reports from northern sec- i
ions tell of heavy rainfall the past 1
vlnter, so heavy in Wyoming that elk
‘ould not reach the grass beneath the i
mow and so starved. New Mexico '
tenerallv experienced a rather light I
>recipitation last winter. i
This has led to a condition of unusu- '
il dryness in the timbered sections of t
he state and forest service officers i
inticipate an early and long “fire sea
ion.” Eire guards already have been i
>rdered Into service in various forests. I
This spring fire season will last t
intil the rains of late spring or early (
mmmer dampen the undergrowth of t
he forests. <
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JNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SHOWS GREAT GROWTH. I
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(By Associated Press) I
SAN FRANCISCO. May 30. — The I
•emarkable growth of the University
>f California is shown by the recent (
commencement exercises as compared
vith 482 degrees in 1917.
Commencement of this year, as com
pared with commencement ten years
igo, sees nearly two and a half times
is many bachelor's degrees conferred (
is in 191G, when there were 347; four
tnd a half times as many master's de- j
frees, approximately T38, as com-parsd
with 29; six and a half times as many
legrees of doctor of philosophy as j
compared with 5; and ten times as
nany degrees of juris doctors, 29
vith 3.
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SLACKERS AND MUNITION
PLANTS CAUSE MAID SHORTAGE
CHICAGO, May 30. — There's a
shortage of maids along the North
Shore today. Offers of $20 a week j
vith board and room, private bath, {
aundry and other privileges for a
naid and a cook are going begging at
pne home.
Applications for employment as
naids have fallen off from fifty to 1
seventy-five per cent in Evanston, c
Willamette and VVinnetka. 1
Mrs. Helen Gahl, director of the em- '
ployment agency at Evanston, puts
:he blame on the munitions factories, ‘
ps does Mrs. E. N. Graham, director 1
>f the Benson Avenue Agency. <
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The freighter Skagway left for Val- (
let last night at 11 o'clock, and will 1
return here in three days to discharge '
p steasn shovel and coal.
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Bruce Ryder arrived In town with p
his launch from the Copper river flats, i
IH MEASURES '
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► WASHINGTON, May 80 Can-#
♦ tress is not silting today, and ♦
♦ Chairman Simmons, of the senate ♦
♦ finance committee, conferred ♦
e with the federal officials. Th"> ♦
♦ principal questions discussed ♦
e were the war revenue bill, which ♦
$ has been undetermined and re- a
e lutes to the administration’s pro- ♦
► posed automobile license taxes, ♦
► excise ee and tea, ♦
► higher second class postal rates ♦
► and taxes on pet utilities e
► Secretary McAdoo is urging ♦
► the committee to report a lull ♦
► carrying $1,800,000,000, as the ♦
► house measure provides. The ♦
► senate favors reducing this am- ♦
► ount to $1,500,... tbe differ- ♦
►ence to be raisable by short term ♦
i bonds. S
► The conferees of the senate and ♦
► house on a $ '.,300,000,000 war ♦
► budget are considering th,- pro- ♦
► vision to regulate the acquisition ♦
► in an American merchant marine, ♦
► for which $750,000,. has I.. ♦
► authorized e
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qfficial'visit to
ALASKA THIS
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In a letter written to Thos. Riggs,
r., member of the Alaskan engineer
ng commission, Hon. H. A. Meyer, as
istant secretary of interior, states be
xpects to visit Alaska during the coni
ng summer. He has executive charge
f the railroad work in Alaska and he
ntends to visit not only the coast end,
ut the interior also.
The assistant secretary', before be
ag promoted to his present position.
.as private secretary to Secretary
,ane. In that position he gained an
ntiniate knowledge of the railroad
.ork, and was well qualified to take
p the duties which fell to him in his
ew place.
Mr. Meyer has the distinction of be
ng one of the youngest men in the
istory of the country to hold the po
ition which he now occupies. He is
nly 30 years of age. but was given
he position because of the great exe
utive ability which he displayed when
rlvate secretary to Mr. l-ane.
As Mr. Meyer has been a good friend
ot only of Alaska, hut of the interior,
e will be given a big reception upon
is arrival, and it is likely that it will
e an occasion for a general holiday.
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COLORADO METAL OUTPUT
DECREASES IN TONNAGE.
(By Associated Press)
DENVER. Col.. May 30. — While
he value of minerals mined in Colo
ado in 1915 was about 30 per cent
reater than that of the 1914 output,
he 1916 output was but 13 per cent
reater in value than that Of the pre--—
eding year, and actually was of smal
sr tonnage, according to the biennial
eport of the state mine commtssion
r, made public recently.
The 1915 output was valued at $44,
60.621. and while this was reached
s part through high prices prevailing
or metals, the report says, it repre
ents 60,000 more tons of metals pro
uced than in 1914. The 1916 output,
alued at $49,000,000, would not have
een worth as much as the 1915 pro
uet, the report states, had prices been
qual both years.
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SA NFRANC1SCO, May 30. — The
eople have followed the admonition
f the government to plant gardens,
s shown by the monthly report of
he California development board.
The average of beans has been in
reased 50 per cent and the average
f rice 40 per cent, according to the
stimates of the board. Over 400,000
ores will be planted to beans. Yo.vl
ounty shows the biggest increase in
ice planting, with 22.000 acres, which
a double the area of last years fields.
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W. E. Kendrick has built an addition
o each of three cottages on Knob llill,
nd fitted them with bath rooms.