Cordova Daily
_ Only Afternoon Paper In Alaska With Associated Press News
VOLCMEI11. Nil MB 1111133. _ CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUKSDAY, MAY 8, 1917, PRICK TBS CENTS
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, May 8. — Communal feed
ing will lie established on a large
scale in London this month, under the
direction of the food controller. The
kitchen of the largest hotel In Lon
don will be utilized for preparing the
food, which will be distributed over
a wide area by means of local depots.
The intention at present is not so
much to provide cheap food for poor
persons as to provide economically
prepared food for all classes, the idea
being thus to conserve available sup
plies. Mrs. I’ember Reeves, woman
director of the food controller's of
fice, defined the purpose of the new
move as follows:
"We shall have a central kitchen
where food can lie cooked in the most
economical way, so that the best pos
sible use is made of the supplies
available. We shall not bake bread.
We shall hope by providing nourishing
and palatable meals to get people to
eat more of their meat ration and so
lighten the consumption of bread,
which is the most important thing
just now. We shall take foods that
aro comparatively plentiful, such as
the salted fish which is coming on
the markets in large quantities, and
make it into a great variety of attrac
tive dishes. It is not a question of
money saving, but of proving that
the sound scientific handling of food
by a skilled staff is economy in food.”
CANADA’S TRADE
(By United Press)
OTTAWA, May 8. — The outstand
ing feature of the session of the Do
minion parliament now in session will
be the annual budget statement pre
sented by Sir Thomas White, min
ister of finance. Sir George Foster,
who opened the session, is acting pre
mier during the absence of Right Hon.
Sir Robert Borden at the imperial,
war conference in London.
The budget will show that Canada’s
trade for the past twelve months has
been well over the two billion dollar
mark, for the first time in history. It
will also evidence the Dominion’s won
derful war vitality; for the balance of
trade in her favor during the fiscal
year will be shown to be in the neigh
borhood of $350,000,000 — a sum al
most equal to the year’s war expendi
ture, which has averaged somewhat
over one million dollars a day.
It is regarded as unlikely that there
will be any considerable changes in
tariff, but it is probable that an addi
tional impost will be placed upon mu
nition makers. In addition there may
be a fresh levy upon race tracks and
other amusements as a war measure,
although it is almost certain that
the Wilcox bill, to prohibit racing will
be dropped.
New legislation will, it is under
stood, include provisions for returned
soldiers. The dtails of this are still
sub rosa, but will probably include
federal schemes for vocational train
ing and the settlement of such as de
sire upon the land under a system
which will provide the necessary capi
tal for the development of the grants
made.
A scheme for assisting in the rapid
development of Canada's shipbuilding
industry will also be brought before
the house. It may take the form of
a federal subsidy or the relaxation of
duty on all material necessary for the
construction of tonnage. Canada is
ideally situated for the construction
of vessels, both wood and steel, and
plans are to be laid for the perpetuat
ing and extension of this industry. At
the present time contracts amounting
to over sixty million dollars have been
placed in Canadian yards, including a
British government order amounting
to $25,000,000.
A further debate on the Ross rifle,
the original arm of the Canadian ex
peditionary force, is assured, and it is
a foregone conclusion that Lieutenant
General Sir Sam Hughes, former min
ister of militia, will be ‘Johnny on the
spot' in the defense of his favorite
arm. ThiH will probably prove one of
the,warmest debates of the session.
The opposition is likely to introduce
the Justice Galt report, censuring
Hon. Robert Rogers, minister of pub
lic works, and may even go so far as
to demand his removal.
^ Railway legislation will be intro
duced for the purpose of consolidating
the Canadian railway acts.
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(By Associated Press)
PARIS, May 8. — The courage, tli
joyousness of France, has been tli
aspect of the war most remarked t
Jessee Benedict Carter, director <
the American Academy of Rome, wli
has been visiting provincial uni vers
ties in France as lecturer for tli
Hyde Foundation.
“Nowhere have I found any lac
lack of courage, any lack of joy, ar
of courage, any lack of joy, ar
tory,” said Mr. Carter. “The joyou
ness of France in this moment <
crisis is not the superficial though
lessness of those who are afraid I
think. It is the calm happiness <
those who cannot fail and who kno
that they cannot fail because the
are seeking after those things whlc
are not of the earth and must, ther
fore, continue for that very reaso
because, without them the earth woul
become a madhouse. The greatei
things are always simple, and tli
French today are simple as Abrahai
Lincoln was in our Civil war.
“There is no hatred for the Ge
man, there is instinctive abhorrenei
but no wasting of words over sym]
toms and acts which belong in th
realm of pathological psychology. Con
mon decency draws a veil over thes
things, and leaves them to the phys
cian, who at the end will doubtles
write the verdict and give his fu
skill to drawing up ‘the post-mortem
meantime it is day and we must wor
in the day while our strength and ou
courage is with us.
"Of course there is a natural obje(
tivity about any people engaged i
a great work. They forget themselve
in the enormous importance of wha
they are doing. This iB nature's anaes
thetic.”
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COURT HUM
(By Associated Press)
PARIS, May 8. — Two-thirds of th
court-martial cases at the war fron
and immediately behind the front hav
developed from either drunkenness o
fear, sometimes from both, accordini
19 Monsieur Rene de Planhol, who ha
had more than two years’ experienc
as counsel for the defense in sue]
cases. Drumhead court-martials, wit]
summary executions of spies and dt
serters, have been far less frequen
than might be imagined. Not only hav
sentences to death been infrequonl
but extraordinary as it appears, th
verdicts of justice at the front ar
seldom executed.
The general in command of the set
tor has the power of suspending a]
court-martial sentences until the en
of the war. and he exercises that prt
rogative nearly always, even in case
of second offences. The only pena
ties immediately applied are those <
death and punishment that involve
military degradation. Even in thes
cases the condemned man usuall
begs to be sent back to the batt]
line and his request is sometimes at
corded after a certain lapse of time.
Sentences to prison and hard labc
are few. It is considered absurd t
lodge in prison rugged soldiers whos
misdeeds would thus have the effec
of relieving them from fighting, whil
well behaved soldiers are risking the
lives. That is why military jurisdi
tion at the front has become essei
tially a jurisdiction of honor.
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♦ WHATCHAMA COLUMN.
♦ Suspenders.
♦ Suspenders are used by man to
♦ support his self-respect. And
♦ the amount of his self-respect
♦ was in direct ratio to the number
♦ of trouser buttons he had to at
♦ tach to it. If he had eight but
♦ tons he was all right. But if he
♦ had only seven buttons and a
♦ nail he wasn’t very respectable.
♦ Or else he wasn't married. Or
♦ if he was married, his wife didn’t
♦ care much about him. Which
♦ amounts to the same thing.
♦ But those were the days before
♦ it became fashionable for the av
♦ erage man to bulge in the middle.
♦ Since then we have abandoned
♦ suspenders, hung our trousers on
♦ the top rung of our stomachs with
♦ a belt and let it go at that.
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Woody Island, near Kodiak, has bet
selected as the site for a big rad
station to be erected by the navy d
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REGIMENTS OF
(By Associated Press)
e WASHINGTON, May 8. — The war
department is raising nine regiments
' of engineers for duty at the earliest
possible moment on the communica
tion lines of France. These engineers
* are additional to the forces eontem
* plated In the administration army
plans.
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d The Blum, O’Neill Company has re
i- ceived a new horse from Seattle for
if its delivery wagon.
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U. S. IS STILL DOWN
AND BE REPAIRED—SOMETIME
The cable |g »tJll down and bo far
aa we have been able to learn, no at
tempt is being made to repair It In
the meantime the radio station is
handling a limited amount of business,
but for some unaccountable reason the
Daily Times appears to be the heaviest
sufferer from the break in communica
tion with the states,
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The weather man is evidently de
termined Oiat jjje baseball season
shall be deferred as long as possible,
and until the floodgates are again shut
off the local players are unable to re
port for practice.
The organization of a Red Cross so
ciety will bo effected In Cordova very
shortly, and as a number of energetic
ladies are at the head of the move
ment it is sure to be a success.
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, May 8. — Halt of th
German prisoners taken by the Bri
ish are boys aged nineteen years. Th
boys realize the hopelessness of th
struggle, therefore they are poore
soldiers than the older men.
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FLOUR $15 A BARREL.
(By Associated Press)
Minneapolis, May x. — Fane
patent flour is selling for $15 a bai
rel, which Is the highest price on r<
cord.
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DAINTY JAPANESE NURSE FRENCH WOUNDED
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t Photo by American Ptetm Association.
I Met u reai i ue Nil >Pone»e Hcd Cross workers have been caring for the wounded allies in France.
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PEACE IRIH
A crowded house greeted a thrilling
, film production at the Empress theatr*
t last night, and "The Battle Cry o
, Peace,’” which showed what migh
1 happen to the United States if a for
r eign foe landed on her shores, arouse*
’ a keen feeling of preparedness am
, patriotism amongst Cordovans. Th*
( arguments of a peace loving peopl*
( were torn to shreds, after viewinj
the convincing argument for prepared
t ness against war. The film flays th*
methods of certain peace propagan
dists who believe that peace can bi
[ obtained by disarmament, and pro
, duces a realistic story of the downfal
of New York and the fall of the na
tion, as an argument for preparednesi
j against these conditions,
j Mr. Blacton, who is responsible fo
(. the picture, has plied his pen treti
s chantly. Obsessed by the fear that th
. United States through present lack o
f a mobile army, and an adequate navj
s would be at the mercy of an invadlni
B power, he has laid his ideas on th
y screen, with a heavy and uusparin
e hand. He reviews page after pag
of natural history, to impress upon th
people of this country that in propoi
r tion to the nation’s resources, wealt
0 and possible fighting force, we ar
e so meanly equipped, and so woefull
t unprepared to cope w'ith and resis
e invasion that our position as a natio
r is ridiculous and portentious of poi
sible annihilation.
1 Although this picture was filtne
some time ago, it is of special intern
today, on account of the fact that th
► main teaching portrayed — prepare*
► ness against war — has become a
► actual fact, and the United State
► is preparing because of similar argi
► ments that are advanced as the basi
► for this picture. Don’t fail to see
► tonight, if you have not already don
► so. It will broaden your ideas regar*
► lng your duty to your nation. Tonigt
► for the last time, at the Empress tin
► atre.
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^ Mike Stepovich arrived In Ealrbank
^ a short time ago with a roller ml
^ for use on his tungsten property o
^ Gilmore creek. The mill has a cap:
^ city of 75 tons per day and will l:
^ at work within a few weeks. Step*
^ vich haH about 200 tons of ore o
^ the dump at the mine. He als
^ brought in a sawmill and will get ot
^ his own mine timbers.
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A bill to prevent the wanton an
u malicious killing of dogs has bee
lo presented to th<S house by RepreBei
e- tative Coombs of the territorial legl
£ lature.
blnl HII Wilts
IN CAMP NEAR
(By United Press)
WASHINGTON, May 8. — With
■ girl rookies from 25 states present in
khaki, the annual spring encampment
of the National Service School — the
women’s Plattsgurg, has been opened.
The girls are equipping themselves for
war service.
More than 500 young women an
swered the first roll call, as Mrs. Hugh
L. Scott, and other leaders of Wash
, lngton society reviewed the prospec
tive “rankers” who will serve their
, country.
Over half of the regiment are girls
I from out of town; the Pacific states,
. the south and the middle west being
, well represented. The girls will live
under rigid army discipline, sleep in
. army tents and for twenty days” taste
the luck of the army."
, Daily instruction in “the arts and
f crafts of war" will be given by army
officers, and doctors and nurses of
’ the Red Cross. Picked men from the
’ Washington police force guard the
, 27 acre camp loaned by the govern
’ ment.
1 DAVID W. TAYLOR.
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* Naval Constructor’* Appointment
t ae Rear Admiral le Confirmed.
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L> Arthur Heed and Carl Rogers, two
* recent arrivals, who were operating a
restaurant at Petersburg, quarreled
over money matters and Reed, who is
d an old man, drew a gun and fired
n two shuts at Rogers, one taking effect
i- In his head, Inflicting an ugly but not
j- dangerous wound. Reed was taken
Into custody by Deputy Marshal Wick
III! SHULL CUffi
ARE SEEN IN
(By United Press)
BERNE, May 8. — German papers
report a vexatious and almost mystert
ous disappearance of small coins, mak
ing it constantly necessary to issut
new provisional iron money, whicl
must be "cashed” in after the war.
The government, since 1916, has
coined and issued 10,603,000 marks
worth of silver 50 pfenning pieces
most of which have disappeared from
sight almost as fast as put out. 1>
addition it has put out 116,000,000 II
pfenning pieces and about as man;
five pfenning pieces made of iron
and even these are disappearing. Busi
ness firms are known to have in sonn
cases as much as 70,000 marks’ wortl
of iron money.
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CARDINAL GIBBONS FOR
UNIVERSAL SERVICE
(By James, t’ardinal Gibbons)
I believe in preparedness in com
pulsory military training for all mei
of the nation. Universal military sei
vice is the best means of prepared
ness.
The discipline which young men at
quire will develop their character an
Improve their physical condition; th
daily exercise will invigorate thei
manhood; the habit of early risln
and retiring to rest will strengthe
their will to resist evil. Disciplin
will instill into them the spirit c
obedience to lawful authority, to
often forgotten in our land of fre<
dom.
The few years our youth will, upon
in military training will not indefiniti
ly withdraw them from the active an
pacific pursuits of life.
The association of poor youths wit
wealthy youths, of the sons of Amur
ca with the sons of foreign lands, cai
not fail to create a spirit of fraternit
of incalculable value to the citizen
of a common country.
I am persuaded that universal trail
ing in the United States will tend t
protect peace rather than to cans
war. For if any nation is dispose
to attack our country, it will be dt
terred by the knowledge that our cout
try is prepared to resist invasion.
For these reasons 1 am lntimatel
persuaded that the military trainin
of American manhood is of vital In
portanco for the welfare and securit
of this nation.
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Owing to the high price of fish th
Alaska halibut fishermen are reapln
a harvest these days. The fishernie
work on shares and are reported t
be averaging from $10 to $30 per da\
and in a recent instance they receive
$30.71 per day for the trip.
The city council held a very length;
e meeting last night, at which man;
matters of interest to the public wen
e considered. The dog ordinance was
e one of the principal topics discussed
r and opinions seemed to differ as tc
I he enforcement or the present law
and how would be the best way ol
controlling or regulating the dogt
about town. It was rinally decided tc
Y refer the matter to a committee con
- slating of Howard, Council and O’Neill
- with instructions that they file theli
report at the next regular meeting.
. The sewerage question also occupied
the attention of the local legislators
and the necessity of providing drain
age for the properties between A and
U streets was urged and some action
will likely be taken in the near future.
An ordinance regulating the speed
of automobiles to eight, miles an hour
with! nthe city limits passed first
reading.
The street committee was instructed
to make the necessary improvements
on First avenue, between B and C
streets, and also to repair the ap
proach from the ocean dock.
Monthly reports of the different of
ficials were read and ordered placed
on file.
It was decided to allow the assistant
lire chief a salary of $25 per month,
and the council also appropriated $25
a month to the fire department to de
fray current expenses.
The police committee reported that
it had ordered placards printed in
order to notify all offenders of the
law, as well as those found drunk or
disorderly on the streets that they
will be prosecuted to the full extent
of the law.
As clerk Medley will bo absent from
' f’ordova for a month or six weeks. H.
\ 1 I-ewis was elected to fill the office
during the interim.
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An appropriation of $850 was made
to the school board after the bond
of its treasurer had been received and
approved, in the sum of $1,500.
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BEINGAI
AGAIN
(By United Press)
NEW YORK, May 8. — Dave Daven
port, burly pitcher of the Browns, is
wearing a Brownie uniform today to
the surprise of several hundred thou
■ sand fans, who expected to mourn
the death of one of the game’s iron
! men whey they read that he had drop
ped a gun and received a wound in
his huge frame above his wrist.
Perfect physical condition probably
has helped him out considerable, for
. he declared a few days ago that he
would be ready to help Fielder Jones'
team this year just as much as ever.
That statement probably is stretch
i ing it a little, for there are few men
- who can receive the wound that Dav
- enport did and live to tell about it.
He can hardly be just as good as ever.
Davenport is weak and walks with
l a limp, but the news that he was go
3 ing to take a whirl at baseball again
r this summer was considerably encour
? aging to the Browns. It is possible
t Davenport will carry the marks ol
b his accident all his life. He can’i
f move his body in the long, swinging
3 motion essential to pitching. He ean’i
i- open his mouth to its full extent be
cause he received part of the chargt
i of shot in his chin. Outside of thai
t- he's nearly all right. The wounc
1 didn't hurt his heart any. The gril
that carried him through a double
i header last summer is still there. II
[- he cun pitch with anything like his
i- former form, the Browns will be much
1 more dangerous than anyone ex
a pected.
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Pat McConnigal, of Yankee cove,
3 was brought to Juneau recently and
3 will be examined us to his mental
1 condition. Lately he has been wan
- dering around in that section in a de
- mented condition and has been with
out food.
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; W. II. Courtney, who is engaged in
- some excavation work at Petersburg,
i is reported to have gotten gold to the
value of four cents from a pan of dirt
taken from the place where he was
3 working.
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t Senator Gaustad, of the Alaska leg
3 islature, recently presented a memor
, ial to the senate, asking that the for
1 get-me-not be designated as Alaska's
official flower.
MIN WILL NOT
ENTER INTO
THE WAR
(By Associated Press)
MADRID. Spain, May 8, — Spain has
entered into a settled policy of keep
ing out of the European war, of ob
serving neutrality despite and tempo
rary complication and embarrassments
this policy may cause her, and of thus
occupying a vantage ground between
the belligerents which will naturally
turn them towards Spain as the ntedi
atlng power when the time comes to
settle the conflict. This is not only
the view of the party in power, as
stated by its leaders in the govern
ment, Count Rotnanoes, president of
the council of ministers, and Senor
Oimena, minister of foreign affairs,
but also by Senor Edouard Dato chief
of the Conservative party, in the
course of a talk today with the repre
sentative of the Associated Press.
Senor Dato was president of the
council of ministers at the beginning
of the war, and it was he who first
put into operation the policy or neu
trality which has since been fol
lowed by his successor, Count Rotna
noes. Since retiring from the presi
dency, Senor Dato has been the strong
directing force of all the opposition
elements in the cortes, and if there
was to be any change of present po
licy it would have to come about large
ly through his direction. But Instead
of combatting the government, Senor
Dato Is supporting it in its present
course.
“There is. in fact, little or no divi
sion of opinion among parties or in
the sentiment of the country at large
as to the observance of absolute neu
trality,” said Senor Dato. “It is the
accepted view of practically all the
parties and groups with only here and
there some individual view in opposi
tion. And it is that which has aroused
the belief when the opportune moment
arrives for terminating the confliyj.
ung such a noble result.”
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(By United Press)
WASHINGTON, May 8. — “What
has come to him, he has won by hard
work always.” This is what the navy
department thinks of Admiral William
Sheplrerd Benson, chief of naval op
erations, president of the general
board of the navy, and the one man
above all others, upon whom rests
the success or failure of the fleet.
When congress recently wrote into
the law that Admiral Benson’s orders
"were to be considered as emanating
from the secretary of the navy and
have full force and effect as such,”
it showed what it thought of him.
The chief of operations is truly a
southern gentleman. He was born on
a small plantation in the heart of
Georgia in 1856, and has carried with
him throughout his brilliant career
the best traditions of the old South.
Tall, spare, with a most courtly
bearing and full white moustache,
much like his predecessor, Admiral
Dewey, the admiral presents the most
distinguished appearance His rise
has been meteoric during the past
few years.
His first cruise as captain of a bat
tleship was in 1913, when he piloted
the Utah to the fleet pennant. He
then assumed command of the Phila
delphia navy yard, where he did “his
bit” with such “great labor and excel
lence,” as to be called to Washington
in 1915, when a man was sought to
create and take charge of the new
vital office of naval operations.
Admiral Benson is not a man given
^o epigrams, especially those of the
first person. "I" seldom falls from
his lips. If he can be induced to ad
mit his services in Washington to
have met with “fair success," the ad
miral will immediately impress it upon
you that it is solely owing to "the
loyalty and co-operation" of his as
sociates.
This is what his brother officers
say of the present ranking officer of
the United States navy: “This is the
happy warrior; this is he, whom every
man in arms would wish to be."
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Not guilty was the verdict rendered
by a Jury in the district court at Fair
banks in the case of the United States
vs. Dr. F. M. Hall. The case was tried
more than two years ago, when a ver
dict of guilty was returnod. The case
was up for retarial by the appellate
court a short time ago. Hall was
charged with illegal relations with
nine-year-old Selmi Lappi.