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The Cordi wa Daily Times
Only Afternoon Paper In Alaska With Associated Press News
VOLUME III. NUMBER 96. CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 26,1917, ~~ |>|{1( k tkVcKXTS^
DNITED STATES PREPARING FOR WAR
Imperative Need Of
Men to Man Ships
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♦ Men to handle the fighting ships of the United ♦
♦ States are needed and a request is made today by Sec- ♦
♦ retary Daniels that this matter be called to the attention *
♦ of all eligible men. Seamen, gunners, machinists, elec- ♦
♦ tricians and engine room men are wanted. ♦
♦ There are building or contracted for by the United *
♦ States over 120 warships, and as shown in a recent chart ♦
♦ by the conference committee on preparedness, there are ♦
♦ in the navy yards out of commission for lack of full ♦
♦ crews to man them, over 100 other vessels of the navy. ♦
♦ Volunteers are needed to man these ships. ♦
♦ The navy now has in commission 224 fighting ships ♦
♦ and the personnel will have to be nearly doubled in case ♦
♦ of war to put the remainder in service. ♦
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The following self-explanatory telegram was received' this
morning:
Washington, March 25, 1917.
Managaing Editor Times,
Cordova, Alaska.
The president last night signed an executive order direct
ing that the authorized enlisted strength of the navy be in
creased to 87,000. lie was authorized by congress, in case of
emergency, to direct such increase in enlistment. New ships
and ships in reserve are being commissioned as rapidly as jkis
sible, and the need is imperative for a larger enlistment to
man them. There has been a net increase of over 6,500 in en
listment since congress recently authorized an increase, but
many more are needed, and needed now.
Will you not emphasize this need by giving special promi
nence Monday on the first page of your paper, to the presi
dent’s order, and also by making an editorial appeal for new
recruits for the navy.
The navy offers exceptional advantages to young men of
stuff and ambition to serve in the first line for national defense.
In this emergency you have the opportunity and privilege of
performing this public service, and 1 am confidently appealing
to you for your cordial and helpful co-operation.
JOSEPHUS DANIELS,
Secretary of the Navy.
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 26. — The
American liner St. Louis, the first
armed American ship to cross the At
lantic ocean, has arrived at its Euro
pean destination. She left an Ameri
can port on March 17, carrying thirty
one passengers.
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III JINS
(By Associated Press)
BERLIN, March 26. — General Von
stein, the Prussian minister of war
_ jdlsfpilsses the American participation
in war as one of the minor matters
In discussing the battle at Somme
VonBteln says the Germans have sup
plies, but that their guns are ineffi
cient.
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WOOD AS USEFUL AS STEEL
IF HANDLED INTELLIGENTLY
SEATTLE, March 26. — Wood h
Just as useful as steel if it is handle)
with intelligence, declared O. P. M
Goss, engineer for the West Coas
Lumbermen’s Association, in an Ulna
trated lecture during the national con
vention of the Intercollegiate Forestry
Clubs, held on the campus of the Uni
versity of Washington .
Mr. Goss called attention to a wood
en stave pipe line now under construe
tion on the Pacific coast in replace
ment of a steel line, but ten years old
(Special to Daily Times.)
JUNEAU, March 26. — President
Hubbard has been compelled to absent
himself from the senate for a few days
on legal business, and Senator Aid
rich has been unanimously elected
president pro tempore.
The senate on Saturday passed the
bill making Lincoln’s birthday a holi
day, also the amendment of the com
mittee for promoting a uniformity of
laws, the bill providing an aged wo
man's home at Skagway, carrying an
appropriation of $20,000 and a bill
with an appropriation of $50,000 for a
home for the indigent pioneer men
and women of the territory.
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(By Associated Press)
PETROGRAD, March 26. — The
news that General Hindenberg is plan
ning a campaign against Petrograd
has caused no alarm, but rather a
spirit of confidence in the loyalty of
the troops and their ability to protect
the city. Telegrams from every part
of the front have declared that the
army can be trusted to defend the
country. The freedom from censor
ship has had a salutary effect on the
people, who now know the truth and
false rumors are unable to circulate.
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Art Cloninger left on this morning's
traiu on a business trip to McCarthy.
COURT CALENDAR
FOR CORDOVA
The district court will convene at
Cordova on Monday, April 2, and con
tinue in session about a month. The
most important case to be tried is
that of the United States vs. Otto and
Caroline Kanitiz, who have been in
dicted for arson in connection with
the recent big fire at Valdez. It is
expected that there will be between
fifty and sixty witnesses heard in this
trial.
Judge F. M. Brown, District Atorney
W. M. Spence, Clerk of Court Arthur
Lang and Deputy Clerk John Miller
arrived from Valdez on the steamer
Northwestern Saturday night. They
left on this morning's train for Mc
Carthy to look into matters connected
with the granting of liquor licenses at
that place, and also to investigate the
factional fight between the United
States commissioner and deputy mar
shal. The court party will return to
Cordova on Friday and the other of
ficials, jurors and witnesses will reach
here from the westward the latter
part of the week.
The Petit Jury.
The regular panel of jurors is as
follows: F. D. Nickerson, John Flan
nigan, E. P. Skeen, F. W. Powers, W.
L. Conway, L. C. Bates, W. M. Sauers,
Charles Crawford, W. W. Alderman,
Samuel McDonald, Charles Emsweller,
Gus A. Seifert, from Seward; Charles
Spongberg, Valdez; Norman Merchant,
W. S. Frazer, Granby; Louie Little,
Ellamar; H. Daniels, Fred Schrenger,
Eyak; Axel Nasman, E. S. Malone,
Granite; W. L. Smith, James Buchan
an, Cordova; Ephriam Brewster,
Roosevelt; R. F. Spicer, Latouche.
The Eagle hall has been secured
for holding the court sessions, and the
marshal and clerk of the court will
have their offices in the Northland
(Tub, where the former will be ready
to transact business on Saturday. The
jury will deliberate in the hall on
Burkhart Way.
Civil Cases.
The following is the court calendar
for the coming term:
E. C. Maddox vs. Asa Markley, to be
dismissed.
Archie A. Cloninger vs. Asa Mark
ley, to be dismissed.
J. Costello vs. F. W. Purdy, to be
dismissed.
Rothehild vs. J. Nafsted.
B. B. Tibbs vs. Ell Verran.
E. J. McGuire vs. S. O. Breedman.
M. A. Eldridge vs. Lighthouse Can
ning & Packing Company.
H. A. Sprague vs. Lighthouse Can
ning & Packing Company.
Bessie Vera Davis vs. Emil Davis.
N. H. Brown et al. vb. Canoe Pass
Packing Co.
Tom Bush vs. Copper River &
Northwestern Railway.
Henry J. Brandt vs. D. K. Brandt.
H. W. Nogley vs. S. Lawrence and
C. M. Day.
Lakina Copper Co. vs. J. L. Harper
et al.
John Christensen vs. Matilda Chris
tensen.
F. L. Walt vs. A. J. Adams.
William Goodpasture vb. Lakina
Copper Co.
Ora L. Topen vs. W. H. Topen.
Criminal Calendar.
United States vs. Otto Kanitz and
Caroline F. Kanitz.
United States vs. Erickson.
United States vs. John Jackson.
United States vs. John Noeknibsh.
United States vs. Carlisle Packing
Company.
United States vs. Carlisle Packing
Company.
United States vs. Carlisle Packing
Company.
United States vs. John McCrary.
Cases Disposed of at Valdez.
The Valdez term of court closed on
Saturday.
The case of the United States vs.
Ed Sellers was finished and the de
fendant discharged on a directed ver
diet by the court.
This being the last case to be caller
the jury was discharged.
Lee Murphy of Seward and Charier
Olson of Valdez were admitted to citl
zenshlp.
A liquor license was granted by the
court to McPhall and McKenzie n!
Seward.
A minute order was entered trans
ferring the case of Ora Tupln vs. wil
liain Tupon to Cordova.
The motion for the return of certain
trunks, papers, etc., belonging to Ot.tr
Kanitlz, made by attorney Booker, for
the accused was granted by the court.
In the case of H. Kerr vs. the Gold
en Eagle Mining Company an order
was issued dismissing the case.
An order for service of summons
by publication was made by the court
In the case of H. E. Ellis vs. Talkeetna
Lumber Company.
SAYS Will HE
GOOD HIS
(Special to the Times)
JUNEAU, March 20. — Attorney
General Grigsby gave as his legal opln
ion that the eight hour law in under
ground workings of all kinds was per
fectly satisfactory, and the bill will
be reported to the house tomorrow.
Senator Sutherland was extended
the privilege of the floor this after
noon to reply to an editorial In the
Empire, which said that the senator's
remarks about men being railroaded
to prison in the Fourth division were
evidently made recently in a heated
partisan campaign. Sutherland claims
he will have the proof to back up his
assertions.
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. March 21! — Repub
lican Leader Mann, on his return from
Haiti, said he was willing to withdraw
from the speakership race in the in
terest of unity if the house could be
organized on partisan or non-partisan
lines.
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(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, March 20. — W. L. Col
ller, president of the defunct North
ern Bank and Trust Company, has
been given an indeterminate sentence
of from one to ten years in prison foi
making a false charge of $8,000 in the
books of the bank, to which charge ht
plead guilty.
HELP WANTS 1
RESTRICTION
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, March 26. — One resul
of the yoluntary rationing system nov
in force in this country has been tha
a large number of families in thi
fashionable quarters of London havi
put their servants on board wages
which means that instead of givini
board to servants the householde
pays them so much a week and let:
them board themselves. The reasoi
for the change is that the servants re
fused to eat the restricted meal
served to others in the household
Board wages are now generally twelv
or sixteen shillings a week.
Militia Is Called Out
To Protect Property
CHINA HAS LOST
ALL FAITH III
JAPAN
(By Associated Press)
PEKING, March 24.—Chinese news
papers are devoting much space to
discussions of the apparent change In
Japan's attitude towards China. Pa
pors of all parties and factions share
the opinion that Japan has abandoned
at least temporarily all thought of
physical conquest of China, and is de
voting itself to an economic conquest.
Japan's attitude towards the new
American enterprises in China and the
renewed efforts of Japanese bangers
to entrench themselves more thorugh
ly through loans of various sorts are
widely discussed in the Chinese press,
as well as in parliament. The follow
ing statement from the Peking Dally
News is representative of the view
generally taken by the Chinese press:
"At Tokio the bellof prevails that Ja
pan will continue her endeavor to in
grease her political influence in
China. The Japanese business men
are continually clamoring for a poll
tical ascendancy that will not be so
abrupt us to endanger peace. What
they want Is a thorough economic con
quest of the neighboring republic.
“The readiness with which the Chi
nese recently granted American capi
talists the concession to build a long
railroad and their hesitation in ntak
ing contracts with the Japanese have
awakened the Japanese to the fact
that ascendancy in China, to be suc
cessful, must be accompanied by some
measure of trust and confidence. The
Japanese have tricked the Chinese so
much that the Chinese have lost all
confidence in their neighbors, both
politically and commercially.
"The situation as it stands between
the United States, China and Japan is
in its infancy, but it is growing daily
and will have to be taken Into con
sideration soon.’’
Chinese papers throughout the re
public show hostility to any financia
arrangement in which Japan has t
hand. There is a general dispositior
to discourage action between any
group of foreign powers and China
if Japan be included in the group
Chinese newspapers are practically
unanimous in their expression of tht
hope that American bankers will in
vest large sums in the developmen
of China without co-operation witl
foreign powers. The United States ii
heralded as the one country which hai
dealt fairly with China, and has nt
desire to acquire Chinese territory
and exercise undue political pressurt
on China through financial channels.
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 26. — Ful
plans for a National Service Tralnini
School for women, ending with a~ Rei
Cross diploma for those who success
fully dare the rigors of military train
ing for a month, were announced hen
today.
Two hundred and fifty women wll
be given a course of instruction at thi
Presidio military reservation. Mon
than 100 applications already havi
been received, according to Mrs. Fred
> erick H. Colburn, regent of the Sal
‘ Francisco chapter, women’s section, o
. the Navy League, which is backing thi
; project.
All participants will wear the regu
i lation army hat, a khaki suit and i
i feminine edition of "army” shoes
• They will arise and retire at th
i sound of the bugle, and the same an
. thority will govern their daily prc
i gram. Colonel Ouy L. Edie, medica
ccrp», U. S. A., will be commander.
(By the Associated Press)
\\ ASHINGTON, March 26.—Seven militia regiments were
called out yesterday, one each in Washington, Oregon, Idaho
and Montana and thr<*e in California.
Twenty additional complete infantry regiments and five
additional separate battalions of militia were ordered into ser
vice today in eighteen of the western and middle western states.
The militia will be assigned to guard the industrial plants and
other property, public or private, in the respective states in case
of war.
The naval recruiting officers throughout the country are
under orders of President Wilson to redouble their efforts and
bring the navy to its full authorized' strength of 87,000 enlisted
men. Twenty thousand men are needed to man the reserve
ships.
General Hunter Liggett has been transferred from the
Philippines to the department of the west, with headquarters
at San Francisco, and his district includes Alaska. General
Franklin Bell has been transferred to the department of the
east.
WASHINGTON, March 26.—The state department has
refused to reaffirm or extend the agreements of 1701* and 1828
with Germany, alleging clear violations of these treaties and
the German disregard of the canons of international courtesy.
The reply was sent through the Swiss minister.
The refusal to reaffirm the old treaties will not affect the
status of Germans.in the United' States. There will be no gen
eral internment or prosecutions. The most serious project un
der consideration is the adoption of a mild Canadian system un
der which Germans must register and remain within certain
limits, unless specially permitted to leave. The activities of
plotters has already been discovered and the certainty that
more will follow has not shaken the official belief that a major
ity of the Germans will remain loyal to their adopted country.
SEATTLE, March 2(5.—The second Washington regiment
is assembling to protect property.
W ASHINGTON, March 26.—The recruiting of the marine
corps to its war strength of 17,400 has been authorized by the
president.
COPPER FOR 0. S.|
SUPPLIED IT
WASHINGTON, March 26. — After
a conference between the principal
copper producers of the. United States
it was formally agreed by them to sup
ply the army and navy copper for war
use, at 16 and a fraction cents per
i pound .about half of the present mar
ket price.
Forty-five million pounds will be
i supplied at once and the saving to
the government by this patriotic ac
■ tion will amount to over 16,000,000 on
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the first delivery.
One of the principal factors it Is be
lieved which moved the copper mag
nates to action was to prove the fal
lacy of the contention that the muni
tion workers are driving the country
to war.
WHITE SLAVERS
MUST SERVE
r SENTENCES
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(By Associated Press)
I WASHINGTON. March 26. — Presi
dent Wilson has refused to pardon
Maury Diggs and Drew Caminetti,
convicted under the white slave law,
and they must at once begin their
prison sentences.
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> A meeting of the Democratic Club
will be held tonight at S o'clock at the
■ office of Attorney R. E. Capers.
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C. H. Golden came over from Valdez
i on the Northwestern and left on this
- morning's train for out the line,
- where he owns some mining claims
l which he expects to develop dur
ing the coming season.
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(By Associated Press)
PETROGRAD, March 26. — After
the discharge of four gas waves the
Germans attempted to advance near
Post Avy, in the northern part of the
Russian front, below Dvinsk, but were
repulsed.
PARIS, March 26. — Notwithstand
ing the bad weather and the difficult
state of the ground, the French troops
continue to advance south of Oise and
the French patrols reached Folemberg
south of Coney forest.
PETROGRAD, March 26. — The
Russian detachments in Persia are
pursuing the Turks, and have crossed
the border into the Turkish vilayet of
Mosul.
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(Special to the Times)
JUNEAU, March 26. — Senator
Charles A. Sulzer left on the steamer
Humboldt last night and expects to
reach Washington on April 2, to take
his seat as delegate from Alaska at
the extra session of congress. Emil
Hurja, of Seattle, was appointed by
Sulzer as his private secretary and
went with him to the national capital.
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The Windsor hotel is having the
spacious room occupied for some time
by the Loyola Club, transformed into
twelve single rooms, on account of the
I constantly increasing demand for
more rooms at the hotel.