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The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME m. NUMBER 135~ COHD()VA7aUASKA, MUNU AY, DECEMBER 17. 1917. I'kTci^TtI^CEXTS
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♦ LONDON, Dec. 17.—German ♦
♦ ships attacked a convoy bound ♦
♦ for Scotland and Norway, in the ♦
♦ North Sea. and sunk a British ♦
♦ destroyer and four mine sweep- ♦
♦ ers, one British and five neutral ♦
♦ merchantmen. German destroy- ♦
♦ ers also sunk two neutral mer- ♦
♦ chantmen and a trawler off Tyne ♦
♦ on December 12. +
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(By Associated Press)
ATLANTIC POUT. Dec. 17.—Sixty
four members of the British steam
ship Knight of Thistle, twenty-three
Englishmen and a number of Chin
ese arrived on a naval collier which
rescued them after the steamer found
ered last Monday two hundred miles
southeast of Cape Race.
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Dec, 17.—Secretary
of War Baker, in his weekly review,
attributes the reported German of
fensive on the western front to enemy
advertising. He says Germany wants
the United States to think the Teu
tons are about to win a great victory.
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ZURICH, Dec. 17.—A despatch re
ports explosion in the Zeppelin works
at FTeiderichshaven and an airplane
factory near Kiel, in which many em
ployes were killed and wounded.
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SEATTLE, Dec 17.—The steamer
Victoria with passengers sailed at five
o’clock yesterday afternoon with the
;* following passengers for Cordova: C.
S. Crader, Peter Vachon, Mrs. J. G.
Scurry, Mrs. W. W- Council, N. J.
Smith, Luara Fry, Mrs, M. W. Fry,
W. R. Huffines, E. J. Cornwall, Mrs.
T. W. Lynch, Roy E. Lynch, Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Mulligan, Mrs. Dottle
Tull, Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Larson, Miss
Julia Steinmetz, Arthur Loefflar,
Marguaret Clark, Ruth Goodell and
Mrs. E. V. Kennedy.
BILL IB
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—The clean
up of domestic legislation before the
Christmas holidays began in congress
today. The house votes on national
prohibition this afternoon and its ad
vocates are confident of its approval
by a two-thirds majority. A vote on!
woman suffrage before Christmas is
impossible. The investigation of the
senate military committee was re
sumed today. The sugar and fuel
shortage probe continues. The senate^
will vote on the Walsh-Pittman coalj
and oil leasing bill on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON, Dee 17—The housej
is to vote on the federal prohibition
amendment at 5 o’clock this afternoon.
Prohibitionists are confident of the
necessary votes for the adoption of
the resolution, which requires ratifi
cation by three-fourths of the States
within seven years. The resolution
in the senate, approved last August,
fixed a time limit of six years to*
state action.
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♦ WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.— ♦
♦ Western congressmen expect the ♦
♦ passage of bills for the develop- ♦
♦ ment of the coal and oil lands, ♦
♦ chiefly in the western States ♦
♦ and Alaska, comprising 54,000,- ♦
♦ 000 acres. Liberal leases of the ♦
♦ coal and oil lands, comprising ♦
♦ tracts up to 2560 acres is pro- ♦
♦ posed and the outright sale of ♦
♦ land under certain conditions is ♦!
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(By Associated Press)
DES MOINES, Dec. 17.—Frank A.
Gotch, the retired champion heavy
weight wrestler, died at noon yester
day at his home in Humboldt, Iowa,
from uraenic poisoning. He has been
failing in health for two years.
HIM ISM IS
SIGNED BT
BOLSHEII
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Dec. 17.—The armistice
of the Bolsheviki government and
Teutonic allies was signed on Satur
day and is effective today at noon
until January 14. Peace negotiations
began immediately after the signing.
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Wise is the man.who knows him
self thoroughly and doesn't try to find
out things about his neighbors.
RED GROSS GREAT
HELP TO UNCLE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Chairman
Davidson says he believes the Red
Cross membership will obtain 20,000,
000 representing all classes of the
country in the drive which started'to
day.
The Christmas drive for JO.OM'.OO)
members of the American Red Cross
started today and will be waged for
one week. Cordova has been di\'iddj|
into districts, with a manager ai>
pointed for each one in the effort to
enroll every resident of the town as
a member of the local chapter.
In this connection it may be inter
esting to our people to know how the
work is being carried on in the States.
Malcolm Brock has just returned from
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a trip to Pacific coast cities where he
attended a number of Red rCoss meet
ings and heard some of the really, big
men of the country expound the prin
ciples of the organization and poini
out the magnitude of its scope and he
furnished us with much information of
value.
Among the great many people th«
objects of this worthy organizatior
and the immeasurable good it is do
ing are not fully understood and ap
preciated. When the Red Cross wai
started it consisted of a small cor
terie of people who were engaged ii
doing a purely local charitable work
The correspondence amounted to bu
a hundred letters daily and was handl
ed by this volunteer corp's? Srnce thi
war,- however, this correspondent
jumped to from 75.000 to 20,000 let
ters a day and this increased volurm
of business necessitated that it b<
handled along bigger and broade:
lines. Until the readjustment tool
place there was necessarily many de
lays and some complaints. It la now
conducted on sound business lines and
the organization is as near perfect at
it is possible to make tt. In fact tht
Red Cross can be compared to a $1,
000.000 corporation and its affairs art
being conducted by competent ant
trained business men. It is an or
ganization of units with the smallest
detail being looked after. All appro
priations are passed upon by the head
and go through the different organ
izations until available. Every month
the war department audits the affair?
of the Red Cross. There are a thous
and clerks in the Washington office
and the business handled the same as
any other big concern. The work that
the women are doing gratutiously
would amount to $50,000,000 a year
if they were willing to receive puy
for their services.
Mr. Brock had the pleasure of hear
ing such speakers as Henry P. David
son, of the J. P. Morgan Co., now
chairman of the war council of the
American Red Cross; Harry Gibson,
president of the Liberty National bank
of New York, also a member of the
executive board of the Red Cross, and
Rev. Davis, of New Jersey, who has
been in the training camps of France
with the American soldiers. These
men, as w’ell as many others, are giv
ing their entire time to the work with
out any compensation. In their tour
of the Pacific coast they made a num
ber of addresses describing the ob
jects and ideals of the Red Cross,
together with outlining the business
like manner in which the work is be
ing handled and Mr. Brock has re
turned to Cordova a very enthusiastic
supporter of the American Red Cross.
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Few bachelors would obpect *o be
ng taxed it if would Insure them
igainst designing mothers.
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The Council of National Defense
ror Cordova met at the city hall yes-!
terday and organized by the election
of the following permanent officers:
< hairman, George C. Hazelet; secre
tary, H. G. Steel. A plan of action inj
solving problems and meeting issues
that will inevitably arise during the
continuance of the work was discuss
ed. District Attorney Munley was
present and gave the members a very
interesting and instiuctive talk on
I duties, pledging the cooperation
of the government in carrying on the
work of the organization.
The operation of the eight hour
| law in Alaska, effective January 1,
J as passed by the last legislature, was
J discussed at length and inasmuch as
l it does not permit of overtime it waSj
i the concensus of opinion that it would
j rfitard the output of minerals and
! foodstuffs, so badly needed by the
| United tSates and its allies, as well
1 ap work a hardship on labor which
; is desirous of earning the maximum
wage. The law expressly says the
period of employment for all wage
> earners and salary earners in the ter
ritory of Alaska shall not exceed
eight hours for any calendar day, ex
cept in cases where life or property
is in imminent danger. Violations
i this law are punishable by a fine
of ttot less than $100 or more than
$'stuVn' by iBUtrisonment in > fodv
* d* not less than sixty days or
more than six months, or by both fine
and imprisonment.
I Under the circumstances it was felt
that the enforcement of this act. dur
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ing the period of the war. would work
1 a hardship on the laboring man and
I also curtail the output of our indus
! tries, to the detriment of the govern
1 ment's war plans. The law permits
1 the governor to suspend its operation
i during the war. upon the request of
the Council of National Defense and
I the local body unanimously adopted
the following resolutions:
RESOLVED: That in view of the
present great shortage of labor pre
! vailing throughout the Territory, and
the further decrease in the labor sup
i ply soon to result from the military
I operations of the Nation, the Gover
1 nor of Alaska be, and he is hereby,
I requested by the Council of National
I Defense for Cordova to suspend for
' the duration of the present war the
I eight-hour law passed by the last Ter
1 ritorial legislature, to the end that
1 the production of war materials and
' necessities may not be disastrously
j interfered with.
RESOLVED, further, that the Coun
cil of National Defense and the SBere
tary of the Interior be, any they are
hereby, asked to make like request
upon the Governor, and that the Coun.
oils of National Defense throughoi t
Alaska be communicated with by wire
and requested to join in this petition.
RESOLVED, further, that this ac-!
tion shall in no sense be interpreted;
as indicating opposition to. or dis
belief in. the principle of an eight
hour period as the normal working
day, and that it is taken solely because
the present law, in forbidding abso
lutely all persons from working over
time, would, if enforced, grievously
cripple all branches of production
throughout Alaska at a time when the I
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national safety is in peril.
AUSTRIAN WAR LOAN
VIENNA. Dec. 17.-5,801.000,000
kronen were subscribed by the sev
enth Austrian war loan.
JURY ACQUITS
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(By Associated Press)
CONCORD, N. H., Dec. 17.—Gaston
B. Means has been acquitted of the
murder of Mrs. Maude A. King, of
New York, wndow of a Chicago mill-1
aire. The jury deliberated but
two hours.
Mrs. King was killed near here Au
gust 29, last, while visiting relatives
of Means who was her business
agent. A local coroner’s jury decided
she accidentally shot herself. After
the body was taken to Chicago for
burial suspicions were aroused which
caused an autopsy to be performed,
and the Chicago coroner’s physician
announced that the bullet wound in
the back of the woman's head which
caused death, could not have been
self inflicted.
The investigation started in Chica
go, was carried to New York and
search of Means' apartments there
disclosed evidence, which represents- [
tives of the district attorney’s office
said indicated Means had planned to
get $2,000,000 for Mrs. King through
an alleged second will of her husband.
The latter in his first will had left
her more than $1,000,000, and had be
queathed the remainder of his fortune
to a charitable institution near Chi
cago.
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♦ SEATTLE. Dec. 17.—The fed- ♦
♦ eral Bureau of Mines has an- ♦
♦ nounced that forty tons of Ma- ♦
♦ tanuska coal will be received for ♦
♦ testing purposes and will be ♦
♦ washed in the King county wash- ♦
♦ eries. then divided between four ♦
♦ industrial plants for testing ♦
Should the test prove the coal to ♦
♦ be good blacksmith fuel it is ex- ♦
♦ pected the Alaska mines will sup- +
♦ ply the entire Pacifi ccoast. The ♦
♦ bureau of mines expresses its ♦
♦ confidence in a successful test. ♦
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BOSTON. Dec. 17.—Henry Clay Bar
nabee died at his home here yester
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day at the age of 84.
A number of years ago Barnabee
was one of the most popular operatic
comedians on the American stage, i
His career as an entertainer spanned
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practically all of his long life time.:
but his chief work was in the 70’s as .
a leading member of the Boston Ideals
a company which became famous all ^
over the country in the production
of light opera, and its successor, the
Bostonians, which he helped to organ
ize. Barnabee appeared in fnnumer !
able roles, serious as well as comic. |
and for two decades after the Civil
War period his name was always one
of the “headliners.” Past 70 years ,
of age he continued to exercise his'
fun-making talents in vaudeville.
AUSTRIA LOSES
A BATTLESHIP
(By Associated Press)
♦ WASHINGTON, Dec 17—Rome ♦
♦ reports a second Austrian battle- ♦
♦ ship torpedoed on December 1) *
♦ at the same time the Italian t- ♦
♦ pedoe boats sunk the Austrian ♦
♦ battleship Wien in a daring raid ♦
♦ off Triest. The Wien sunk it; ♦
♦ five minutes. A torpedo struck ♦
♦ another battleship but owing to ♦
♦ the great distance it was im- ♦
♦ possible to discover the damage ♦
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FRENCH' OFFICER
KILLED B!A
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(By Associated Press)
ITALIAN FRONT, Dec. 17.—Col.
Ferreol Francis Bell is the first high
French officer to die in the Italian
campaign. He was killed by a shell
while inspecting the line.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 17.—
Three members of the 113th Aero
squadron were burned to death when
the government warehouse at Middle
ton was destroyed. The men had been
confined as prisoners for minor of
fensives.
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SERVICE *
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—Legisla
tion bringing the crews of transports,
mine layers and other army vessels
into military service was recommend
ed by Quartermaster General Shar#e
in his annual report.
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(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Dec. 17.—The death is
announced here of Countess Sarah
Esterhazy, widow of Count Maximil
iam Esterhazy, a former Austrian am
bassador to London, who died 30 years
ago.
The countess was an American by
birth, and her first husband was Gen
eral Griffin of Ohio, who commanded
the Fifth corps in the Civil war. Her
first marriage certificate was signed
by President Lincoln.