(By United Press)
ST. LOUIS. Keb. 13.—Plans, policies’
and personalities around which the!
Republican party will wage its fight
next fall to win control of the house'
of representatives were threshed out
at a rally meeting of the Republican
national committee here last night.
The resignation of Chairman Will- ^
cox, to accept a post on Director Gen-j
eral McAdoo’s new wage board, has
precipitated a hot fight for the com- ]
mittee chairmanship. The candidates
are: A. T. Hert of Kentucky, John T.
King of Connecticut, committee mem
bers; John T. Adams, vice chairman,
and W. H. Hays, state chairman for
Indiana.
Liberals frankly said that unless the
party adopted a more “modernistic”
stand its political future was dim.
World conditions, they pointed out,
pointed surely to greater liberalism.
The conservatives, at the same time,
saw great popular support in what
they termed a more “safe and sane”
policy—with less disruption of the
business status quo.
A treasurer also is to be chosen by
the committee.
Just what part, if any, Roosevelt
was likely to play in the discussions
appeared problematic. That policies
adopted for the fall campaign will be
framed with a broad view to the 1920
presidential campaign was assured.
Harmony of the closest character
will be sought. Conservatives and pro
pressives, initial skirmishes over, were
expected to bury all differences in a
common purpose.
One momentous question up for deci
sion was just how far the Republicans
can go in open criticism of the war
administration.
Nasty Fight Precipitated.
(By Associated Press)
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 13.—John T. Adams
of Iowa has withdrawn from the con
test for chairman of the Republican
national committee. At today’s meet
ing Adams will nominate Will H. Hays
of Indiana, whose election will prob
ably follow.
The executive committee is investi
gating charges that Adams is disloyal
to the United States government.
Among other things with which he is
charged, he is said to have written a
letter from Berlin in August, 1914,
praising Germany’s action in invading
Belgium and France, in which he said
that France had planned to cross Bel
gium while Russia attacked Germany.
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CREDIT DUE COMPANY
The statement that the young Fair
banks men who arrived here yester
day on their way to enlist in the army
were given the advantage of having
their expenses paid by Uncle Sam ap
pears to be erroneous. It seems that
the order was either rescinded oi
never was issued. The boys state
that the Northern Commercial com
pany, which conducts the stage route
between Fairbanks and Chitina, cour
teously gave them a half rate, and they
think the company should be given
credit for its generosity.
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(By Associated Press
ROMB, Feb. 13.—At the opening ol
parliament here yesterday enthusias
tic applause and cheers for Americe
greeted Premier Orlando's declara
tion concerning the war situation.
Conditions on the war front wen
improving, he said, due to the hell
rendered by the United States, whicl
was replacing Russia.
The Italian people, he concluded
were willing to continue the war to th<
bitter end.
ENERGETIC SECRETARY
Of DUAL PERSONALITY
(By United Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—The real
dual personality has arrived here. He
is Secretary of the Treasury-Director
General of Railroads William G. Me
Adoo, and he has to dress for the
part.
At the treasury, up to 11 o’clock each
day, McAdoo is all the man of finance.
A brief whisk in his limousine to
the Interstate Commerce Commission]
building, and he is running the na
tional railroad with heart and soul.
There's no use, either, in asking him
treasury questions at his railroad of
fices—he doesn't know anything
about it.
BRITftlNSMRYINVEST
SMALL SUMS IN RONDS
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(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Feb. 13.—National war
bonds for £5 soon will be on sale at
all banks without investors having to
fill up a lot of application forms The
printing of these easily-bought bonds
was started by King George on his
recent visit to the Bank of England.
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(By Associated Pr%ss)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—The war
department has asked the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers to furnish
fifty men from among its members for
service on the “tanks.’’ One thousand
engineers for the transportation serv
ice in France are also requested.
Warren Stone, the brotherhood’s
grand chief, told the railway rvage
commission that he would furnish the
department with the names of the men
available.
PRISONERS ARE
(By Associated Press)
WITH THE FRENCH ARMY, Feb.
13—The French forces yesterday made
three successful raids on the German
trenches. They reached the fourth
line of trenches, between Lapre, Tre
and and the Morte Mare woods, in
the Woevre district, and took many
prisoners.
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. HIES IIP HUE JEWELS
LONDON, Feb. 13.—The Duchess of
Marlborough has given a $25,000 col
lar, composed of fifteen rows of the
Vanderbilt pearls connected by a large
diamond, to a “children’s jewel fund”
for child welfare, of which she is treas
urer. The work was inaugurated by
prominent society women to care for
needy mothers and babies, thus lower
ing the infant death rate and improv
ing the conditions of living
The duchess has received gifts of
three diamond tiaras, diamond pend
I ants, diamond brooches and other val
uable jewelry toward the establish
ment of 5,000 more centers for the
• distribution of aid. Articles of jew
elry will be received at a central de
i pot, portions being sold through a
> jewel dealer and the remainder dis
posed of by auction.
Women throughout the country are
, asked to send at least one piece of
i jewelry, as anything from a wedding
ring to a tiara is acceptable.
KAISER IS STILE
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(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Feb. 13.—Count Von Hert
ling, the German chancellor, intends
to answer President Wilson’s message
in a speech before the reichstag on
Tuesday next.
An Amsterdam dispatch reports
Kaiser Wilhelm, in speaking of the
peace negotiations, as saying that
peace with the Ukraine is but a small
beginning, made by Germany’s sword
against the closed door leading to a
general peace. '•.«
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PRIZES RE ACADEMY
FOR FRENCH SOLDIERS
(By Associated Press)
PARIS, Feb. 13.—One of the func
tions of the French Academy—more
accurately the Academy of Language
and Literature—is its right to award
a large number of money prizes fori
literary merit and for “virtue.” Since
1914 all the literary prizes have been
reserved to men serving with the col
ors. The “virtue” prizes are awarded
to humble people “who have lived pvire
and useful lives," sacrificing the pur
suit of all selfish aims to the service
of their families or their country.
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Keb. 13.—The contin
ental correspondent of the Daily News
says that facts have become known i
which bring the possibility of a separ-'
ate peace between Austria-Hungary
and the allies much nearer. He says
that great reluctance is manifested in
Austria toward the prospect of fight
ing against the British and Americans
on the western front.
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ROOSEVELT’S CONDITION
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—The condi
tion of former President Roosevelt
cbntinues to show marked Improve
ment.
LIGHT STNTEKCL GIVEN
TO DUMB
fBy Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Feb. 13.—Sergeant Ma
jor Thomas Helmeth Ritter, recently
arrested at (Tamp Lewis in connec
tion with the disappearance of offi
cial papers, has been ordered sent to!
Fort Douglas. Utah, where he will be
interned for the duration of the wrar.
Ritter is a native of Germany.
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RICH OIL FIELDS OF MEXICO
EXCITE CUPIDITY OF FACTIONS
—
LAREDO, Texas, Eeb. 13.—Diplo
macy, not arms, has been called on to
end the latest revolt in Mexico—that1
of Generals Luis Gutierrez and Frau-]
cisco C'oss in Coahuila—while diplo-'
macy, plus arms and American influ
ence. is counted on to bring General j
Manuel Pelaez to acknowledge the
authority of the government and in
cidentally divert to the national treas
ury the flow of money which Pelaez
has been receiving from the Tampico'
oil producers. This information was
brought to the border by travelers;
from Mexico City, and supplemented
from the carefully censored stories ap
pearing in newspapers which recently
have been brought here from Mexico
City.
According to a story printed in Mex
ico City, General Pelaez, whose forces
have been guarding the district that
supplies the entente navies with fuel
oil, had made overtures to treat for
amnesty with the government. The
paper added that the government
would consider nothing but uncondi
tional surrender, and that General
Manuel Dieguez had been ordered to
press the campaign, against Pelaez.
It was stated by one of a party of
travelers who is in h position to know
the workings of President Carranza’s
latest scheme to Jonciliate the war-|
ring Mexican factions that the recent
seizure of the fle^t of the Mexican
Navigation Company was not for the1
purpose of bringing foodstuffs from
Central America, but for transporting
troops to Tampiccjand driving Pelaez’.
forces from they stronghold. One1
steamship already had been loaded!
with troops at vi'a Cruz the day he
left, he asserted.
I Another statenfnt was to the ecect
! that General J,iib Cabellero had re
quested the Tamdico producers to use
their influence 0 bring Pelaez back
into the ranks of government generals,
and that if this ^ere not accomplished
Pelaez would lb attacked from the
landward and ifea sides, with prob
ably disastrouf j results for the oil
fields from a producing standpoint.
The claim was piade that the govern
ment was detetnined to secure con
trol of the oil fields, not only that it
might get addifjmal revenue, but also
to use its cont'Ol of the old supply to
force favorabb (conditions for the ex
portation of fddstuffs and gold from
the United Stijes to Mexico.
With regard to the recent revplt in
Coahuila, MeJco City papers an
m that Gutierrez and Coss had
ta|u>p the field against the state gov
ernment, but had been defeated and
their forces driven to the hills. Gut
tierrez is said to have been wounded.
Unofficial reports received here from
the region of Saltillo and Monterey,
however, state that although five regi
ments were sent from Mexico City to
the affected district and other forces
were hurried there from the north and
east, Gutierrez and Coss virtually have!
been unmolested. They have any
where from 1,200 to 2,000 men, and
theieby paralyzing the national rail
way system.
Gutierrez asserts, according to re
ports, that at the recent state election
in Coahuila he was named governor,
but that Gustavo Espinosa Mireles,
a strong Carranza supporter, was
"counted in.” Mireles assumed office
on December 17. Although the re
volt is given small space in the papers
from the capital. Governor Zembrano
of Nuevo Leon, at his recent confer
ence here with Governor Hobby of
Texas, was quoted unofficially as say
ing that the situation was serious.
Coss is the second cf the divisional
generals who backed the Carranza
feuToiumeiii iu revou. \ nia was me
first.
Americans arriving here from Mex
ico City say that Cantu, Calles, Pelaez
and Alvarado are virtually indepen
dent rulers in Lower California, So
nora. Tamaulipas and Yucatan respec
tively; that Villa is rampant in Chi
huahua; the Cedilla brothers in the
region between San Luis Potosi and
Queretaro, and that unorganized ban
dit!: are opposed to Hidalgo, and in
are threatening to take over the coal
mines in the region of Monclova,
the Vera Cruz and Guadlajara dis
tricts. The campaign against the
Zapata followers in Morelos, at the
gateway to Mexico City, is quiescent,
while forces estimated at thousands,
under the command of former federal
officers, control the isthmus.
Hunger and constantly increasing
cost of living are believed to be the
cause of much of the present discon
tent in Mexico, and especially of the
recent recrudescence of border raids.
The last corn crop in the central
plateau was ruined by frost, and the
embargo measures on foodstuffs are
also beginning to be felt. Prices on
almost everything throughout the re
public have risen to unprecedented
heights.
[SUABLE LADY CALLED !
SUDDENLY BY DEATH
Cordova was shocked today to learn
af the death of Mrs. W. S. Newlln, wife
of the storekeeper for the Copper
River & Northwestern railway, which
jccurred shortly before noon. She had
been ailing for the past six weeks,
but her condition was not considered
serious. In fact yesterday she felt
better than usual, and when Mr. New
lin. returned home this morning he
ound his wife sitting in a chair, un
conscious, from which she never ral
lied, her life departing an hour later.
The deceased was 43 years of age
and has resided here for the past five
years, during which time she made a
large circle of friends. Mrs. Newlln
was a former resident of Philadelphia,
:o which city her remains will be taken
’or interment. No funeral arrange
ments have as yet been made.
The sympathy of the entire com
munity is extended to Mr. Newlln in
:he loss of a devoted and loving wife,
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THE KING IS EXEMPTED
The king of England has no serv
ants in his dining room. Do those
who cannot wait upon themselves
know that they may be buying the
time of a person needed to make gas
masks for soldiers or bullets for guns?
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II THREE YEARS
(By Associated Press)
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 16 (by mail).—
“From the beginning of the war up to
the end of 1916 there were over a
million more deaths in Germany than
is normally the case." says the Berlin
correspondent of the Masbode, in a
statement on the effects of the war on
the vital and population statistics of
the German empire.
“For the first three years," contin
ues the writer, “the entire loss by mor
tality is said to have been 3,700,000.
Thus, instead of the normal increase
of 2,400,000, there was on August 1,
1917, a decrease of 600,000, to which
another 700,000 was added as a result
of the decline in birth figures that
still continues. The absolute decrease
in the population after three years,
therefore, would have been 2 per cent
of the number at the beginning of the
war.
“Other phenomena are to be expect
ed for the near future. Instead of 14,
000,000, the men between the ages of
17 and 45 will only number 12,700,000;
and instead of 800,000, as now, the ex
cess of women over men will be 2,100,
000. It is not yet known how the war
losses will be spread over the various
ages, but it looks as if there will be
J.100 women to every 1,000 men of
marriageable age. For these reasons,
and in view of the fact that there will
be a large number of invalids among
the men. the marriage chances must
be termed greatly reduced, a fact
which will in its turn produce further
shiftings on the labor market, that on
their part will again react on the pop
ulation movement.
The war is not regarded—at anyi
rate by experts—as harmful for in
fants. Natural feeding is far more
general than formerly in all classes
of the population, and the results are^
good, as the food authorities appor
tion to the mother the food for the
child, as, for example, one liter of
milk per day. Infants have a right to
one liter of milk daily, fifty grammes
of sugar and 200 grammes of flour a
week, and one pound of oatmeal a
month, and can do well on that.
"The food question becomes very
difficult in the child's second year,
as vegetables and fruits are scarce, at
any rate in the large towns, so that
the potato has to take the place of
these. The counsel is now heard more
frequently to restrict gymnastic exer
cise and. following the example of the
marmots, to substitute the food that
is lacking by sleep, and to see that
the children get long nights of sleep.”
LLOYD GEORGE
PUCE TERMS
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Feb. 13.—When chal
lenged by Premier Lloyd George to
vote a lack of confidence in the gov
ernment, the house of commons yes
terday failed to take such action. '
Lloyd George, in speaking yester
day on the address from the throne,
did not mention President Wilson's
last speech. He declined to see in
Count Czernin's statement any nearer
approach to reasonable terms of peace
lunu iik uiuov vi jivi LIW15 a.
The premier regarded Von Hert
ling’s demand that England surrender
coaling stations as proving that Ger
many was in no mood to discuss rea
sonable terms of peace.
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(By Associated Press)
LONDON. Feb. 13.—Otic million one
hundred and sixty-three thousand four
hundred and seventy-four tons of ship
ping were built by Great Britain last
year, and one hundred and seventy
thousand tons were obtained from
abroad, according to a statement made
by Chancellor Bonar Law to the house
of lords today. 3
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FUNERAL OF MHSrWALKER
WHS LARGELY ATTENBEO
The funeral of the late Mrs. D. W.
Walker took place this afternoon, serv
ices being conducted at Eagle hall at
1:30 o’clock. Rev. A. G. Styriver of
ficiated and paid a glowing tribute to
the memory of one who was much
loved by all who knew her. Interment
was made at the local cemetery. A
large concourse of friends accom
panied the remains to their 'inal rest
ing place. The pall bearers were: H.
A. Slater, J. W. Lydick, J. D McCor
mack, Link Wain, W. J. McDonald and
C. P. Michelson.
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(By Associated Press)
A SCOTCH SEAPORT. Feb. 13 —Up
to Tuesday night, a week after the dis
aster, one hundred and seventy-one
victims of the torpedoed transport
Tuscania have been buried at differ
ent points on the Scottish coast. One
hundred and thirty-one of these were
identified as Americans, and thirty
three were unidentified on the list of
remaining members of the crew.
Villagers came for miles around to
help the survivors bury the bodies,
which were brought to the bleak burial
ground in one big motor truck.
The American soldiers sang "The
Star-Spangled Banner” at the grave
side, and the villagers sang “God Save
the King.”
The people residing here have start
ed a subscription for the erection of a
monument.
No Alaska Victims.
SEATTGE, Eeb. 13.—'The list of vic
tims of the transport Tuscania does
not contain the names of any Alas
kans. About six men from the state
of Washington were among those
buried in the Scotch seaport.