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LIST OF CORDOVANS DRAFTED FOR WAR SERVICE
53 U. S. SOLDIERS ARE
KILLED ON TRANSPORT
LONDON, M ny 2«), The British armed merchant troop!
ship Moldavia, with American troops on board, has been tor
pedoed and sunk. There were no casualties among tin* crew,
but it is feared that fifty-six American soldiers were killed in
one compartment by the explosion.
The Moldavia was torpedoed without warning on a moon
light night. A good lookout was kept, but the submarine was
not seen before the torpedo struck. Most of those on board
were iu their hammocks when the explosion occurred amid
ships. The soldiers and sailors showed no signs of panic.
Fifty-six American soldiers on board the Moldavia are un
accounted for, says the British admiralty announcement.
Splendid Discipline
Within fifteen minutes after the Moldavia had been tor
pedoed practically every man on board had gone over the sides
into lifeboats. Two who jumped were drowned.
Disaster Occurred in English Channel
\\ ALDINGTON, May 2b. The war department announces
that fifty-three members of Company B, Fifty-eighth I’nited
States infantry, Fourth division, an* missing as a result of (la*
torpedoing of the British troopship Moldavia. The vessel was
sunk while carrying troops across the English channel.
There were 480 soldiers on board the Moldavia, and it is
believed that fifty-three were killed by the explosion. All the
others have been landed in England. A majority of the men
were from the* Eastern states.
AMERICA SOON HAVE
MILLION AT FRONT
PARIS, May 25.—Andre Tardiu, the French high commis
sioner to the United States, on his arrival from America yes
terday, told the French people that the American forces in
France by midsummer would be double the number recently
announced by Secretary Baker as scheduled to be sent by the
end of the year, and probably they would be three times larger.
Secretary Baker on May 8 announced that more than five
hundred thousand American soldiers already had been sent to
France.
AND 37 OF CREW
QUEENSTOWN, Ireland, May 25.—
The steamship Innistrarra, bound
from Fish Guard to Cork, was tor
pedoed and sunk yesterday, and thir
ty-seven members of her crew are be
lieved to have been lost.
The captain, chief officer, one stew
ard and two sailors have landed.
The ship wa3 struck amidships and
sunk in four minutes. She was of
1,412 tons.
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WINNIPEG, May 25.—The strike of
civil employes, in which thousands of
other workmen were involved by a
sympathetic strike, has been ended, j
The city council and representa-l
tives of the strikers have reached an
agreement, which has been approved,
and the strikers will be back at work
today.
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PORTflF ENTRY,
SEATTLE, May 25.—Ketchikan will! |
soon lose what prestige has attached ! i
to its being the first port of call in j i
Alaska. !
It is announced that the govern
ment will soon establish a customs
house, school and postoffice at Nakat,
five miles north of the Canadian line, I
in order to accommodate the fisheries. I
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♦ SINN FEIN TREASON ♦
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♦ WASHINGTON, May 25 —Ar- ♦
♦ rests will soon be made1 in this ♦
♦ country in connection with the ♦
♦ attempted Irish uprising. Evi- ♦
♦ dence in the hands of the de- ♦
♦ partment of justice shows a trea- ♦
♦ sonable connection between the ♦
♦ Sinn Fein and German iniiu- ♦
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Big vaudeville show at Empress the
ater Monday night..
CALLED TO 00
The following list of draft men
have been notified by the Cordova
board to report on June 14 for mill
tary service, and ihat day ihey will
be taken to Fort Liscum on the launch
Donaldson for training. The quota
from Cordova is 44. and the names
herewith published are the first ot
those in Class A-l who have been
found physically fit for general mili
tary service. Of the intervening or
tier numbers, some were classified in
Classes 2, ?>, 4 and 5; some have not
as yet been located, and others have
not taken their physical examinations
Should any of the drafted men fail
to pass the physical examination at
Fort Liscum, other registrants will
called in the order of their numbers
The men on the list issued today
have all been examined and certified
for service, as follows:
Order No.
2—Edward E. Bamrud, Cordova.
11— John E. Sommer, Valdez.
12— Roy Fraisure, Cordova.
22—Erick M. Myhrberg, McCarthy.
24— Vive Larson, Cordova
25— Paul P. Guststs, Valdez.
32—Steve Green. Cordova
43—Martin Bcngtsen, Latouche.
51—Alex M. Nelson, Kennecott.
62—Herbert V. Hoskins, Cordova.
53—Joseph H. Phillips, Cordova.
69—George E Erickson, Cordova.
74—Albin Nelson, St. Paul, Minn.
77—Andrew Ellison, Cordova.
79— Frank A. Hines, Cordova.
80— John J. Dinneen, Cordova.
87—Leroy Badden, Cordova.
97— Andrew Pearson. Ketchikan.
98— Stephen Maimaroff, Cordova.
102—Pat Sullivan, Cordova
104—Richard E. Lewis, Cordova.
106—John Ovik, Cordova.
109—Pete Nicholoff, Cordova
118—Hume Dula, Cordova.
121— Endry Herreid, Cordova.
122— Charles E. Richmond, Cordova.
129—Emil C. Hagen, Cordova
134—Edward Donnolly, Cordova
139—Jorgen Moon, Kennecott.
141—Robert Ahlson, Cordova.
148— John Larson, Cordova.
149— Arthur Lee, Cordova.
170—George E. Steel, Cordova.
182—John A. Johnson, Cordova.
192—Knute Artcn, Kennecott.
196—George Kennedy, Cordova.
205—Jack Kortberg, Cordova.
-'12—Joseph Botlero, Seattle.
-’15—John E. Porter, Kennecott.
216—August Sellgren, Kennecott.
223— Hans Hanson, Cordova.
224— Wynn Nourse, Cordova.
232—Ralph Downey, La touc he.
239—Fred Soderlind, McCarthy.
Notices Sent
All of the above draft registrants
lave received the following notice for
he call to^be answered on June 14:
“The day and hour specified on the
classification list of this local board,
ind on the order and notice Of induc
;ion into military service which ac
companies this notice for you to re
iort to this local board for military
luty is the time that marks your ac
ual obligation as a soldier of the
Jnited States.
Failure to report promptly at the
lour and on the day named is a grave
nilitary offense, for which you may
>e court-martialed. Willful failure to
eport with an intent to evade mili
ary service constitutes desertion from
he army of the United States, which,
n time of war, is a capital offense.
Upon reporting to your local board
mu will not need, and you should not
iring with you, anything except hand
laggage. You will not be permitted
to take trunks or boxes with you on
the boat. You should take only the
following articles: A pair of strong,
comfortable shoes to relieve your feet
from yobr regulation marching shoes;
not to exceed four extra suits of un
derclothing; not to exceed six extra
pairs of socks; four face and two bath
towels; a comb, a brush, a tooth
brush, soap, tooth powder, razor and
shaving soap. It will add to your com
fort to bring one woolen blanket,
preferably of dark or neutral color.
This blanket should be tightly rolled,
the ends of the roll should be se
curely bound together, and the loop
of the blanket thus formed slung from
your left shoulder to your right hip.
You should wear rough, strong
clothing and a flannel shirt, preferably
an olive-drab of the kind issued to
soldiers.
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♦ TROUBLE BETWEEN ♦
♦ CUBA AND MEXICO ♦
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♦ MEXICO CITY, May 25—Mex- 4
♦ he has severed diplomatic rela- 4
4 tlons with Cuba, and the respec- 4
4 t»ve consular officials have been 4
♦ recalled. 4
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♦ Ambassador Not Informed 4
♦ WASHINGTON, May 25.—The 4
♦ ^tate state department has 4
♦ learned that the Mexican diplo- 4
4 tnatic representatives at Havana 4
4 have been withdrawn, but the 4
4 Mexican ambassador here said he 4
4 had heard nothing of the re- 4
4 ported break. He said that he 4
4 recalled that Cuba recently held 4
4 up a shipment of sugar which 4
4 Mexico purchased, and this may 4
4 have caused the strained rela- 4
4 lions. 4
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SHIPYARDS
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W ashington, May 25. it is un
derstood that engineering experts of
I the United States shipping board have
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recommended that the government
build concrete shipyards at San Fran
cisco. San Diego, Mobile, Wilmington
and Jacksonville.
Puget Sound Wants Slice
SEATTLE, May 25.— It is evident
that Puget sound has tailed in efforts
' to get one of the concrete shipbuild
ing yards contemplated by the govern
ment. On Thursday last represents
tives of nine Puget sound points met
to lay plans for getting such a yard
, for this section.
WASHINGTON. May 25.—'Total,
I subscriptions for the second Red1
Cross war fund, the drive for which
will close on Monday night, have now I
passed the hundred-million minimum j
mark.
Telegrams announcing subscriptions
continue to flow into national Red
Cross headquarters, and the officials
hope that the minimum fund will be
doubled before the drive ends.
ALLIED AIRMEN DROP
BOMBS ON AIRDROMES
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LONDON, May 25.—German artillery was increasingly ac- *
tive last night on the Flanders front. The district east of
Bethune was heavily bombarded.
British raiders captured two machine guns and numerous
prisoners.
Aircraft Activities
The official British statement today says that British avi
ators yesterday brought down three Gel-man machines and dis
abled two others. Three British machines are missing.
Fight tons ot bombs were dropped by allied airmen on the
airdromes near Tournai.
ROOSEVELT AFTER SCALP
POSTMASTER GENERAL
WASHING I < )X, May 25.—The reply of former President
Theodore Roosevelt to Postmaster General Burleson in the con
troversy over the alleged discrimination by the postoffice de
partment in the treatment of certain publications, in which it
is charged that the administrations has displayed favoritism
in the handling of different newspapers and magazines, and
that other publications have suffered through discrimination,,
was presented to the senate today hv Senator Miles Poindexter
of Washington.
Colonel Roosevelt charges that President Wilson is di
rectly responsible for the condition complained of.
GERMAN SAILORS BE SHOE
FOR ATTEMPEED TREASON
LONDON, May 25.—Fishermen re-j
port that thirteen German sailors]
have been sentenced to death and two
to twenty years' imprisonment for at
tempted treason in connection with
the British Ostend and Zeebruggej
raids.
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OF SI)! KILLED
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dropped in the outskirts of Paris on
Thursday night by German aviators
killed six members of a family re
cently repatriated through Switzer
land.
Ten other persons were injured, j
Other bombs were dropped in the sub
urbs, and some fell on farms, causing
little damage.
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from General Pershing received today
3ays that First Lieutenant Walter
Barneby and Lieutenant Kenneth Cor
bett died on Wednesday last as the
result of a fall from an airplane.
They were decorated with the war
cross before they died.
Lieutenant Barneby was from Sum
ter, Wash.
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♦ NICARAGUA AT WAR ♦
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♦ SAN JUAN DEL SUR, Nica- ♦
♦ regua. May 25.—The government ♦
♦ of Nicaragua yesterday declared ♦
♦ war on Germany and Austria. ♦
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CAUGHT II ICE
SAN FRANCISCO, May 25. -The
steamer Kvichak, the ship Seal, the
bark Star of Chile and the bnrkentine
Centennial, which were reported to
have been (ought in the ice off Bristol
bay, are now out of danger, according
to a wireless report received here.
• The ships were being carried out
to sea by the ice. which is reported
to be breaking up rapidly.
The vessels belong to the salmon
fleet of the Alaska Packers’ Associa
tion.
Twenty vessels were trapped in the
ice, and the ship Tacoma was wrecked
and three others were, carried ashore.
PRISONERS IE
BEHIND LINES
LONDON, May 25.—The British
cabinet is considering a general ex
change of prisoners. Information has
been received from prisoners who
escaped from German prison camps
once March 21 saying that the Ger
uana are employing British prisoners
)t war immediately behind the Ger
man lines.