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(By Associated Press)
UNDATED.—Ope year of the Ger
man ruthless submarine warfare
brings this answer from Sir Eric
Geddes, first lord of the British ad
miralty:
“The first year of the unrestricted
use of the German submarine closes
coincident with the disclosure in
Dutch newspapers of the fact that the
German military authorities expected
the submarines to bring about the de
feat of Great Britain within six
months.
"The sinking of merchant vessels
has now dropped below the level
maintained before the campaign of
unrestricted destruction was inaugu
rate.”
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Secretary
of the Navy Daniels announced today
that he would not ask the present
congress for appropriations for the
new naval stations on the South At
lantic, Gulf and Pacific ports, which
had been recommended by the naval
board under the chairmanship of Rear
Admiral Helms.
The recommendations included a
submarine and aviation station for the
Puget Sound navy yard at Bremerton,
and a submarine station at Port
Angeles, Wash.
SPOKANE RESUMES RUN
IN NORTHERN ITERS
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Feb. 2.—The steamship
Spokane will leave this afternoon for
Alaska ports on her first trip since
she ran aground some months ago.
She has been thoroughly repaired and
placed in excellent condition at a cost
of approximately $100,000.
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WOMEN’S PART IN
INTERNATIONALISM
“The great, lesson of the war is the
new internationalism,” said Mrs. Nel
son L. McClung of Edmonton, Alberta,
a prominent Canadian war worker.
“We are not citizens of Canada, of
the United States, or of Britain only;
we are all citizens of the world, and
no part of the world can live unto
itself alone.” said Mrs. McClung. “We
are bound together either by the cords
of love or by the chains of death. We
are not free while any part of the
w'orld is bound. The world is not safe
for any of us until it is safe for every
one.
“This makes living a very' serious
business. When a woman sees her boy
go out to kill or be killed, she loses
from her life some of the spirit of
youth; she can no longer be deceived
into believing that all is well with the
world. Women are the last reserves
of the nation, and they have never yet
exerted their full influence. They have
lagged behind the men in their devel
opment. But the women ere being
awakened, and a mighty influence for
good, for kindness, for human safety,
is being felt in human affairs
“Women are sorely needed in every
department of life to make the world
a homelike place to live in. Their
touch has ever been constructive. And
when this war is ov«r, and a victory
won for liberty and human rights,
women and men must together decide
the basis of settlement if the world is
to be given a permanent peace. The
mothers and wives who have given so
much must be given a place in the
great reconstruction.”
Mrs. McClung is the mother of five
eons, the eldest of whom is fighting
for his country in France.
LADY ABERDEEN
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Lady Aberdeen is devoting much
time now to checking the infant mor
tality in Irish cities.
(By Associated Press)
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 2.—Two British
aviators captured behind the German
lines have been sentenced to ten
years’ imprisonment for dropping
copies of a hostile proclamation in Ger
many, according to the Berlin Tages
Zeitung.
British Demand Reprisals.
LONDON, Feb. 2.—British newspa
pers are demanding reprisals for the
imprisonment of British aviators by
Germany.
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PRICES FOR FISH.
SEATTLE, Feb. 2.—Prices for fish
at noon yesterday were as follows:
Halibut, 31c; sable fish, 4c.
At Ketchikan.
KETCHIKAN, Feb. 2.—Yesterday’s
fish prices were as follow's: Halibut,
15 1-8c; sable fish, 4c; red rock, 2c.
GERMANS9ACCBLUES
OF IMITATING METHODS
| UNDATED—Interest is added to the
strike situation in Germany by the
publication in German newspapers of
the outline of an alleged Anglo-Ameri
can plot to spread dissension among
the people of Germany and Austria
Hungary.
German newspapers claim that 250,
000,000 marks have been raised in
Washington for the use of an organ
ization which was to start a revolu
tion and strikes throughout Germany
and her allied countries.
Threats of force to be used by thej
German military authorities against
the strikers have not yet had the ef
fect of ending the strike movement.
National Demonstration Threatened
LONDON, Feb. 2.—Herr Hitman, a
Socialist member of the German
reichstag, has been arrested for ad
dressing a crowd on the Berlin streets.
A national demonstration is being
organized as a protest against his ar
rest.
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Mob Attacks Soldiers.
LONDON, Feb. 2.—Serious rioting
has taken place at Spandau, Germany
where important war industries arc
located. A mob of strikers attackec
the soldiers who had been summonec
to restore order.
Seven factories have been placed un
der matrial law.
Military Control Berlin.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 2.—Chancellot
Hertllng said today that Berlin was
in control of the military authorities
and therefore he would be unable tc
do anything regarding the release ol
Dittman.
It is reported that the Berlin fac
lories where the strikes have occurred
are being militarized.
Both the First Bank of Cordova and
the Bank of Alaska report a ready sale
of thrift and war savings stamps ever
since they were put on sale here The
former institution has organized a
“Two Bits a Day Club,” and the large
membership buy s a thrift stamp each
day
War Savings Stamps
The following questions and an
swers, taken from the government
pamphlet, shows the purposes of the
stamps and the manner of handling
them:
Q. Does the price of a War Savings
Stamp always remain the same?
A. No. The price for each month
appears on the face of each stamp.
Never pay either more or less than
the amount shown for the month in
which you make the purchase. The
price is $4 12 in December, 1917 and
January, 1918, and increases 1 cent
•each month after January, 1918, until
in December, 1918, when the price is
$4.23.
Q What is the price of War Sav
ing stamps for each month of 1918?
A. January, $4.12; February, $4.13;
March, $4.14: April, $4.15; May, $4.16;
June, $4.17; July, $4.18; August, $4.19;
September, $4.20; October, $4.21; No
vember, $4.22; December, $4.23.
Q. Why is the price higher each
month?
A. Because the stamps are earning
interest.
Thrift Stamps and Cards
Q. If I do not have enough money
saved up to buy a War Savings stamp
and can only save in small amounts,
what should 1 do?
A. Buy a 25-eent Thrift Stamp at
a postoffice, bank or other authorized
agency, and ask for a Thrift Card, tc
which you can attach your Thrill
Stamp.
Q. Is there any charge for a Thrifl
Card?
A. No. It is given to you to hole
Thrift Stamps, and contains a place
for your name and address,
i Q. How many Thrift Stamps will
the card hold?
A. Sixteen stamps, which repre
sents a value of $4.
Exchanging Thrift Cards for War Sav
mgs Stamps
Q When I have filled the Thrift
Card, what do 1 do?
A. Take it to a postoffice, hank
I or other authorized agency, surrender
j the card and pay in cash the few' cents
j difference between the $4 worth ot
Thrift Stamps and the price of a War
Savings Stamp for the month in which
the exchange is made.
Q. What do I do next?
A. You take the War Savings Stamp
given you in exchange for your Thrift
Card, ask for a War Savings Certifi
cate, ffijMHwfraverft one already aipe
attach fne stamp to the certificate.
Q. Should I continue to buy Thrifl
Stamps?
A. Yes. Ask for a new Thrift Card
and begin again.
til Do Thrift Cards bear interest?
A. No.
Q. Then why are they issued?
A. To make it convenient for yon
to save in small amounts so that you
can purchase a War Savings Stamr
which does bear interest.
Q. May I exchange Thrift Stamp#
for War Savings Stamps at any time'
A. No; only oil or before Decembei
31, 15)18.
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Chief Deputy Marshal J. H. D
House came over from Valdez toda;
and will remain here until the Vic
toria sails to the westward.
JOSEPH S. M'COY
Joseph S. McCoy, United States gov
ernment actuary, is the only treasury
department employee for whom Sec
retary McAdoo has asked a raise In
salary. McCoy has an encyclopedic
knowledge of government finances and
is always consulted by the ways and
means committee of the house when
appropriation bills are being framed.
The government has been paying $2,500
I a year for his exper t services, but Sec
| retary McAdoo has asked that he be
j promoted to $4,000.
(By Associated Press)
WITH THE AP M iCA,v .\RMAj, Feb
2.—Roald Amundsen, the famous Nor
wegian Arctic explorer, is visiting tht
Ameican war zone as correspondent
for Scandinavian newspapers.
Some of the American troops are lo
eated but sixty feet from the Germai:
lines, while other are a mile away.
The American trenches are in a
| somewhat marshy sector, and.the sol
j diers are compelled to work the pump?
constantly in the dugouts in order tc
keep them free of water. Much dif
ficulty also Is experienced in keeping
the trench rats away.
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BIRTHDAY PARTY.
Mrs. Winkler commemorated f
birthday anniversary last night by en
tertaining a numbetr of friends ai
■ "500,” after which dainty refreshments
were served.
JOHN L SULLIVAN, KING OF ALL FIGHTERS, TAKEN SUDDENLY BY DEATH
ABINGTON, Mass., Feb. 2.—John L.
Sullivan, former champion heavy
weight pugilist of the world, died at
his home near this city last night from
heart trouble. He visited Boston yes
terday. He was 59 years of age.
Sketch of His Career.
John Laurence Sullivan was one of
the most picturesque characters in
the history of prize-fighting. For
more than ten years, from the time he
defeated Paddy Ryan, in 1882, in a
bare knuckle fight under the London
prize ring rules, until he w'as defeated
by James J. Corbett, in 1892, his per
sonality and methods of fighting com
pletely dominated sporting circles in
the United States.
Fought for Small Sums.
In the annals of pugilism in this
country the distinction was his of be
ing the last champion of the United
States to fight under the London prize
ring rules. It was largely through his
achievements that the championship
title was made a prize of great mone
tary value. In the early days of his
career $1,000 a side was looked on as
a great sum. He received only $53
for the fight that made him a na
tional character in fisticuffs and won
him the right to challenge Paddy I
Ryan for the championship.
His friends ranged ail the way from
the ordinary “fight fan” to many men
of social and financial distinction in
the United States, and it is said he I
was on chumming terms with the late
King Edward VII, of England.
| He began his fighting career soon
after he was 17, when as the “Boston
I Strong Boy” he took part in amateur
boxing contests in several cities in
Massachusetts, if Sullivan’s customary
procedure in his early youth could
be called boxing. Tactics, strategy,
plans of campaign were all swept away
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when John L. hammered his ruthless,
undeviating way to the front. His
style was atavistic, a return to the
simple, primitive principle of batter
ing an opponent into insensibility. His
success, coupled with his free man
l ners, a certain social triumph and his
subsequent position as a semi-public
character proclaimed him a sort of
dignitary in the sporting world.
Originated “Knockout”
After his nine-round tight with Pad
dy Ryan, pn the strip of greensward
on the Gulf of Mexico, the word
“knockout” was manufactured by Billy
Madden, Sullivan’s trainer, to describe j
the effect of his blows when properly
delivered.
His hardest fight was with Jake Kil
rain. It was fought near New Orleans
and lasted for seventy-five rounds.
That was the last championship con
test in the United States to be fought
with bare knuckles, under the old
rules.
That fight practically decided the
uselessness of trying to beat Sullivan
by combatting him in his own sledge
hammer style. A thirty-nine round
fight with Charley Mitchell, a wary
and skillful boxer, seemed to show
fighting managers that the great Johu
L. might be vulnerable to a man who
could box well and stay with him long
enough to wear him down. The op
portunity to try this method on the
champion fell to James J. Corbett.
The purse was the largest ever put up
in a ring battle up to that time. The
sum was $25,000 and the stakes $20,
000. The fight that was to end John
U.'s championship was fought before
the Olympic club of New Orleans.
When the fight was over there was a
new champion of the world. Sullivan
was 34 at the time of his defeat.
Sullivan said himself that he made
two million dollars in the fighting
business and that he spent one million
of it in buying drinks for himself and
his host of admirers.
He had knocked out two hundred
men, of one sort or another, in hi:
fighting career, and finally, he said
that in a saloon in Terre Haute, Ind.
in 1905, he gave the “black bottle,’
his greatest enemy, the knockout wal
lop. On the occasion of the decisior
with regard to the "black bottle.” hi
said:
“If I take another drink, I hope
choke, so help me God.” He neve
took another, but kept up his figh
for temperance by lecturing occasion
ally on the evils of drink for thosi
who have athletic ambitions.
He was born in Boston, October 15
1868, and passed the later years of his
life on a farm which he owned neat
West Abington, Mass. He was twict
married. His first wife was Annie
Bates, of Centerville. R. I., whom he
married in 1882, but with whom he
lived only a few' months and from
whom he obtained a divorce on the
ground of desertion after twenty-sis
years. At fifty-one years of age the
former champion took as his second
wife Kate Harkins of Roxbury who
was his sweetheart years before when
he was “The Boston Strong Boy.” Sh<
die(> several months ago.
BOLSHEVIKI III
SEEK RELEASE
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(By Associated Press)
N’F.W ) ORK. Keb. 2.—Emman Gold
ninn and Alexander Berkman, the no
torious anarchists who were convicted
of conspiracy to interfere with the
operation of the selective draft law,
have surrendered to begin serv
ing their sentences. The United States
| supreme court recently upheld the
verdict of the lower courts.
Berkman made the assertion today
that the Russian Bolsheviki govern
ment would demand of the American
government the release of the Gold
man woman and himself.
Brama Goldman is on her way to
i the federal penitentiary at Jefferson
City, Mo., and Berkman to Atlanta.
Ga. I3ach was sentenced to two years’
imprisonment and to pav a fine or
$10,000.
Addressed Bolsheviki Meeting.
i Both Berkman and the Goldman
1 woman made impassioned speeches be
fore the Bolsheviki-contcolled "Russ
ian Colonial Congress" here yesterday.
| the delegates to which declared it to
I be their purpose fo carry the spirit of
I (he Russian revolution throughout
America.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The fuel
administration is willing to revoke -
the '‘heatless'' Mondays after neti
week, it is reported •odav, if the state
fuel administrations, who meet here
| Monday next, believe that the clos
ing has served its purpose.
MMRHMItt- 'I
M-HONEO Pin
The Old-Fashioned party given by
the children of the Presbyterian Sun
day school was a great success from
i every standpoint. It was enjoyed by
old and young alike. Old fashioned
games were played in which all ot
I l*1G pent energy of the youth was al
lowed to take form in the different
I games.
A short program was given, sotos
were sung by Mrs. Hubbert and Mis®
Fraisure, and Mrs. G. Heed gave a
reading.
The party was the result of a mem
bership contest in which the girls or
the Sunday school were defeated by
the boys by a narrow margin.
The officers and teachers wish to>
s thank the parents and friends for their
J co-operation in making the social hour
a pleasant one and in making the
school a success. After the games
light refreshments were served and
i the event was voted a most ejnoyable
i one by all present.
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! “PRINCE AND PAUPER’r
AT EMPRESS SUNDAY
, “The Prince and the Pauper,” with
Marguerite Clark playing the stellar
role, at the Empress Sunday evening:
,j is one of the most interesting pie
: tures shown here for a long time,
i Marguerite Clark makes an attrac
tive boy and displays great char
| acter acting in the role of the prince
j of the beggar boys.
A comedy so filled with action that
it fairly takes away the breath of the
spectators follows the “Prince and the
Pauper” and causes everyone in the
audience to wonder how the actors
escape death. For action this comedy
surpasses anything seen on the local'
i screens. Both plays will be r etaoire
screens. Also Heart-Pathe News film
will be shown. The orchestra will
furnish the music.
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Perhaps the “benzine board’’ is so
called because benzine has qualities
that make it a rapid cleanser.