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THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
COVENANT FINISHED HAS
IN IT TWENTY-SIX RULINGS
War Between France and Hungary is Imminent Says
French Newspapers-6eneral Mangin Will
Probably Direct the Operations
PARIS, Mar. 27.—The covenant of the League of Nations has
been completed bv the Supreme council with President VA ilson
presiding and is said to contain twenty-sis articles. None of
tnese. it is understood recognizes the national equality of Japan.
No Change Contemplated In Alsace-Lorraine
Premier Clemenceau. speaking this afternoon to a delegation
of the left wing of the Republican party, denied formally the
rumor that M. Jonnart was to be appointed governor-general
ot Alsace-Lorraine, me present authorities would remain in
their places. M. Clemenceau said. Important improvements in
the public service in that region, however, are promised.
According to thenewspaper Gaulois. war between France and
Hungary is imminent. General Mangin. it is said, will probably
direct the operations which another paper says are, “indicated
plainly by the events in Hungary.H
GOVERNOR W ANTS TERRITORY
TO START STEAMSHIP LINE
(By Special Correspondent)
JUNEAU. Alaska. Mar. 27.—Governod Riggs, Jr., in a spe
i-ial message today before the legislature advocated the tern
lory of Alaska going into the steamship business to alleviate
the difficulties experienced by Alaskans in obtained transporta
tion. proper mail service and freight space. Bills earning out
the Governor's recommendation were introduced in both houses
today. 'V
A new eight-hour-law was introduced permitting a greater
number of hours to constitute a day's work if agreed to in writ
ing by the employe? and employee.
A bill providing for the awarding of medals to soldiers and
sailors from Alaska, a bill repealing the primary election la*
and a bill providing for the election of a Mine Inspector were
passed in the Senate today.
KETCHIKAN REAL ESTATE
MAKES SEVERAL SALES
Tie Ketchikan R«al Estate & In
surance Company has made a number
of sale* and purchases this week,
among which was the purchase of the
E. L. Sampson residence on Court
House Hi] which is new occupied by
District Attorney and Mrs. Ragan.
Mr- Sid Hooper has purchased a tot
from the company today. Mr Jack
Hendricks cf Charcoal Point has pur
chased the Lee Hendricks property in
that district and the Lee residence
opposite Kreiidier's in Newtown has
been sold to M. Webber who arrived
recently from Salt Lake City.
Superintendent and Mrs. Ira W.
Kelly of Chomley. were visitors to
town yesterday on business, returning
last evening.
In action you couldn't see the Yanks
for dust. And coming home, in the
case of some of them you can't see
'em for medals,
TEAR DOWN OLD
SHOOTING GALLERY
Mrs. Hamilton, who purchased the
old De Young Shooting Gallery in In
diantown from Mr. James E. Smith
recently, is having the building torn
down and she plans on erecting a
mode-n two story building in its
place. The place has already been
rented for a location for a meat mar
ket, she announced today.
DAUGHTER ARRIVES
Srn to Mr. and Mrs. Trygve Kjels
berg cf Newtown, a baby daughter os
riday, March 21. Both mother and
baby are doing well under the care
of Dr. Dickinson,
LEAVES FOR JUNEAU
Mr. E. Clark, of the Liberty Theatre,
leaves this afternoon on the City d
Seattle for Juneau where he has been
subpoenaed on a case, and hopes to re
turn cn the same boat.
fl Mfssaoe About
ftdvertislno
FROM THE
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
If you are not advertising, then advertise be
cause it saves money for you and it reduces the
price to the consumer.
Advertising prevents profiteering. It insures
honest profits and makes them permanent.
The message of the U. S. Department of La
bor to merchants and manufacturers and to all
progressive American business men is to ad
vertise.
Tell the public about your goods. The consu
mer has plenty of money. He as willing to
spend it and we want him to spend it on Ameri
can-made products. The easiest, quickest and
most economical way in which this Can be ac
complished Ls by advertising.
.Start your campaign right now.
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
W. B. Wilson, Sec. Roger W. Babson, Director
PHILIPPINES tO
HAKE A flSHT iRJfti
itaHEPENBENCE
WASHINGTON, a O, MSr. 27,—
The formal pin of the Philippine Isl
and? for their dependence is to toe sub
mined to Secret**? Baker of the War
Department on April 4, It was learned
here today The plea is adgreseed to
President Wilson and is to be trans
mitted to him by the eeeeretary.
VANCOUVER, B. C.. Mar. 27,—The
illness of a two-year-old child here
who has been asleep elate March 11
and whe is being kept alive by arti
ficially administered nourishment, is
called ‘sleeping lufluentp." This i*
the ttrst caee of the kind reported
here.
TO SOUND PERSHING
ON NOMINATION
WASHINGTON .D. C, . M*r. 27, —
Chairman Hitchcock of the R«pUbl! !
car tiaticaal Commission la to soun
Generai Per?his: <:-n the question o
the Presidential Nomination, it war
announced her# today.
LEAVES IMMENSE FORTUNE
K. ”
RIVERHEAD, L. U Mar. 27, —TV
will of the late Commodore Frederick
G. Bourne, he of t Sinaer Sewinp
Machine Con. ty a numoer of
years has been He* r# and dispose*
of an estate es* m. d at $2!LOOO,OOC
Many bequests to ' irches and charit
able institutions a made.
ENGLAND TO SHIP
POTATOES FOR
CENTRAL EUROPE
PARIS, Mar. 27.—Herbert C. Heov
er. Director General of the Interallied
Heiiei urganitauon on nn rot urn
from England today, announced tha‘
the British are preparing to ship 100.
000 tons of potatoes to Rotterdam un
der the supervision of military officers
for disbursing in Central Europe.
WASHINGTON. D. C„ Mar. 27, —
The'-department of agriculture has an
aounced that under the stimulus of
war-time demands, meat production
-eached the enormous total of 23,
366.000.000 pound* I set year.
AMERICANS TO BRING
BACK HUN VESSELS
NEW YORK, Mar. 27.—A couple O*
hundred American officers and sailors
belonging to the cruiser and transport
force* have been sent serose to France
to take over the German ships as fast
's they are delivered. They are to be
vpoierrianted with men from naval
forces stationed abroad. The first of
the German ships are expected here
shortly after the first of April.
ALONG THE WATERFRONT
The Pacific American Fisheries
boats Redondo and Warrior cleared
yesteroay tor unga. and ine Tango
arrived with a cargo cf Oolicane from
Arrandaie. B. C.
A matter of much importance Vo the
Canned Salmon trade was the incor
poration late in February of the 8hip
•vers’ Commercial Corporation, a com
pany organized for the purpoae of con
ducting a general import, export and
com mi mi on business. The following
well known figures in the industry
were elected ae officers of the new
corporation; President, T. C. Mc
Hugh; vice-president and treaeurer,
Auguet Buechmann; secretary and gen
era) manager, K. Dehn. The head of
fice* of the company ar* in the L. C,
Smith building, Seattle, Waeh.
COMING ON PRINCESS
Mr- Oren Mill wired today that he
nad left Vancouver on the Princes*
Mary and will arrive Monday evening
Mie* Fitzpatrick of the C. L. P. A W.
Co, who haa been (haring Mrs, Hill’s
; apartment, haa moved and will make
her home with Mr. and Mre. V, A,
' Peterson.
ALASKA COMING
SEATTLE. Mar. 27.—The Alaska
sailed for the north thle morning with
I the following passenger* for Ketcht
’ kan. Mis* Andre Befe, O. KJeUberg,
; Blanch* Shea, 8kar Kjeleberg, Mrs. E.
Moore, Robert Lefontaine, wife and
! child, Hugh M. Sawyer, and thirty
| four Chinees and eleven white steer
rye. There Art A total et two hundred
and seventy yafeeengert oh board for
norther* pert*.
i MOVEMENTS OF BOATS
! . at*._A
Northbound
City of Seattle 6 p. m. today.
Princess Friday.
Alaska Saturday 28.
Jefferson Sunday.
; '"trlTtboBiwJ
Alameda • p. m. today.
WICKEDSHAM’S1
LETTER APPEARS
IN INSTALLMENTS
Second Chapter Declares!
Alaska Coal Fields Are
Being Monopolized
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Mar. 27, — ’
Delegate James Wickersham’s letter'
to Secretary Lane, of the Department I
of the Interior is being published in:
chapters, the second chapter appear-1
lng today.
In this issue the letttr says: “The.
Alaska Syndicate (Guggenheims) and;
the Southern Pacific control of these
great coal fields for fifty years is!
based on a written contract signed by
you for the United States." referring
t« the Bering and Matanuaka coal
fields. Continuing it reads: “The mon
opoly is beyond the control of congress
or tht people of the United States or
Masks and the Southern Pacific have
been and are now in charge of the
Government Alaska Railroad under
vour administration. At any rate it is
-uite apparent that these two great
coal fields have been most effectually
•ransferred to monopoly by the occu
pation of strategic positions by their
easers and there are, no other leases
than theirs in existence.”
“Last fall hundreds of horses were
-Hied along the line of the government
ailroad in the Tanana Valley. Leav
ing the wagens'and harness piled and
-overed. the teamsters walked out of
Maaka because the transportation in
“erests were permitted to control the
•ates of the Government railroad as
to make it impossible for Alaskans to
'xist in the interior," reads Wicker
sham's indictment against Lane. “And
ycu are to blame. The Transporta
‘ion Companies are flatly charged with
having in 1914 entered into a written
■ on tract for combination against the
i 'ovemmeht railroad."
j SEATTLE. Mar. 27.—Delegate Jas.
I Wickersham sailed this morning on
‘ e Alaska fer Juneau, where he will
await the verdict of the canvassing
board. . . «
Admiral William B. Caperton.
RIO JANEIRO, Mar. 27.—The A
merican Squadron which for some
time has been paying visits to South
■American countries, sailed for home
oday. Rear-Admiral Caperton is in
command.
5AYS FATE OF LEAGUE
RESTS WITH NEWSPAPERS
NEW YORK—‘•The fate of the pro
ceed league of nations, and of every
;hlng else that affects the affairs of
sur country, depends upon the press,”
said Col Frederick Palmer, official:
American newspaper correspondent at-,
ached to General Pershing’s staff, on
iis return to this country.
••The character of the American
-ess, high as it is, cannot be too high
'or the welfare of America,” he con-.
<nued. ‘The great thing now is that
'r shall not sow bad feeling between
-he United States and our associates
while we are striving for a solution of
the greatest problem that has ever
confronted the world.
•The newspapers are a great and
definite power, and this great and
'efinite power has been immeasurably
rnhanced by the world war. They
stand between the people and the
source cf news, and what they select
for publication has a powerful effect
rpon the sentiments, the opinions and
the judgments of their conatitutnts.
"The great requirement of the
press, therefore, is unity; not neces
sarily unity absolut in the news they
publish, but unity of purpose in the de
termination to gather the Important
-ad vital elements of the news and to
place them fairly and without bias be
'ore tht reading public.”
Mr. and Mrs. G. H, Close of Hadley
are visitors in town on business.
Naval Commission
’ *• — . I
To Investigate
Coal Possibilities
SEATTLE. Mar :.'. — It was an
nounced here today that a Naval
cortirrisarUu of five men will sail from
Premertoh on Tuesday for the north
to investigate the possibilities of de
veloping the Matanuska coal fields for
use of the American Navy on the Pa-,
ciflc.
•SALT LAKE CITY. Mar. 27. —The
89th annual general conference of1
(the Church of Jeusus Christ of Latter
Day Saints (Mormon), scheduled for
April 4, 5. and 6. has been postponed
iTdefinitely on account of a serious re
currence of the Influenza epidemic in
:lrtf«rent parts of Utah.
IMPORT MUTTON TO
PUT DOWN PRICES
\ * I
NEW YORK. Mar. 27.—Frozen mut-j
•on from New Zealand is being ship-:
ped here in hopes of hammering down
:he prevailing high prices of meat, it
was announced this morning. A big
shipment is now on the way.
18TH SHIP LAUNCHED
PHILADELPHIA. Mar. 27. — The
.eighteenth ship launched at Hog Isl
and is the Schenectady, a 7,500 ton
cargo ca.rie', for the Emergency
Fleet Corporation.
TAKES BODY OF U, S,
REPRESENTATIVE
DOWN RIVER RHINE
COBLENZ.' Mar. 27.—The river
Steamer “>reussen, requisitioned for
the use of General Dickman, left here
today for Rotterdam with the body of
Representative W. P. Borland of Mis
souri, who died several weeks ago
while visiting the area occupied by A
mericau trocpe. The American offic
e's accompanied the body which is to
be sent to the United States for inter
ment.
MiNNtAtuLis, Mar. zi—Accord
ing to C. C. *ovey, of the Washburn
Crosby Flour company here, radical
revision downward of wheat is neces
sary for a loaf A price «Ufc
proxlmately *1-50 a bushel for wheat
would be required for the m-Je to
produce flour at W a barrel and then
the profit would not be large, he as
serts.
GREAT BRITAIN TO
PUT TAX ON FOOD
LONDON. Mar. 27.—The journal
■•The Nation” announced in a recent
issue that the British Government has
decided to place a tax on food and it j
proposes to give preference on articles
which now pay customs duties, pro
vided they are either produced or man
ufactured in British possessions.
FORTY “COMA” CASES
The second death from ancephalitis
or what the hearth authorities called
epilemic coma, was reported yesterday.
The victim was Harry Carp, ten
months old, who died in Beth Israel
Hospital on March 9. The disease is
rare and when it appears, the doctors
say, it is apt to follow influenza.
Whether the Carp baby had influenza
<g not made known. Its parents had
that disease.
In making known the second death
frem the disease within a week Health
Commissioner Copeland said his de
partment was giving the matter seri
ous consideration and he urged the
same precautions as were urgtd for
influenza in its early stages.
•‘Investigation in the last few days,”
said Dr. Copeland, "shows that there
are about forty cases of this disease
in this community, and these may be
divided about equally into post-influ
enza complication and true epidemic
cema. To the best of our knowledge
‘here have been but two deaths here
from one or the other of these simi
lar conditions. There need be no anx
iety en the part of the public."—New
York Times.
Some of those ball players who
;ushed to the steel league will find,
they did not make such a wise move
as they supposed,
It must be a great relief to the com
ic papers of Germany to be able at
last to work off their large accumula
tion of jokes on the ex-kaiser,
““ ” a* ~
.. vs •
. Germany’s efforts to make a market
for toys would indicate some misspent
time that might have been devoted to
war gardening,
Any U-boat commander who refused
to destroy fcod cargoes would have
been disciplined to the limit, Yet
Germany now issues a plea for ra
tions.
PROVINCEOF BASSAR BIA HAS
DECLARED HER INDEPI KDENCE
AND CREATED A GOVERNMENT
Czecho-Slovak Forces Have Crossed the River Dan
ube Cutting Off the Vienna-Budapest Rail
way Communication from Revolutionists
WARSAW, Poland, March 27,—The Russian Province of
Uessarabia has proclaimed her independence from Russia and
has established a soviet republic and have begun an offensive
against the Rumanian Army of occupation.
Bessarabia lies between the Pruth and the Danube and the
Dneister rivers. It was conquered by the Treks in 1747. taken
*>y the Russiansin 1770, ceded to them by th^ Pence of Buchar
est. 1812; the S. E. extremity was given to Turkey in 1856 but
was restored to Russia by the treaty of Berlin in 1878 in ex
change for the Dobrudsha. Kishenef is the capital and the
population is composed of Wallachians. Gypsies and tartars.
Czecho-Slovak Forces Play Important Part
LONDON, Mar. 27.—The Czeeho-Slovak forces have crossed
the Danube river and have cut off commuiv’cation between the
revolutionists in Budapest and Vienna by taking the Vienna
Budapest railway.
All Restaurants Closed In Vienna Now
BERNE. Switz.. Mar. 27. — A Bolsheviki uorisi'v; in Austria,
and Czecho-Slovakia is imminent and any move in those coun
tries against the Hungarian Soviet Government is expected to
precipitate trouble, it was learned here. The British military
mission in Vienna has notified the government that the Allies
are ready to increase Austria’s food supply if order is maintained
The Austrian population is greatly excited over the recent
events in Hungary. All restaurants in Vienna have been closed
as there is no pas or coal. The meat ration has been reduced
to infinitely small quantities.
Blame It All On Germany Says Statement
The Czechoslovak Information Bureau has issued a prepared
statement in which it is alleged that the Germans are now re
doubling their efforts to seize a large Dart of the Czecho slovak
Republic. Germany now looks upon the union of German Aus
tria with Germany as practically accomplished, and are basing
their claims on the self-determination of the people. They are
bolstering up their claims with statistics in which it is assert
ed that the number of Germans in Czecho slovak lands is V
r»02.682, which the Czechs assert is greatly exaggerated.
Special Court To Try Ludendorff
BFRTJN. Mar. 27.—It was officially announced today that the
National Assembly is establishing a special court to try General
Ludendorff and former Chancellor, Von Bethmann Hollweg.
Kaiser Wants To Go To Switzerland
GENEVA, Switz., Mar. 27.—The newspaper La Swisse, in to
day’s Issue, says that the former kaiser bel:evin<r that his life
is in danger in Holland is preparing to leave and will seek refuge
in Switzerland.
“SMILES" NEW PAPER FOR
HOME-COMING SOLDIERS
NEW YORK—Soldiers coming a
ej-os-s tht Edgewater ferry are being
banded a copy of ^Smiles," this being
the name cf the official paper that is
being issued by the Bergen County
War Camp Community Service. The
bulletin Is in the form of a four-page
pamphlet, and tells the soldiers where
they may spend their time to the best
advantage when they are on leave
rom Camp Merritt. »
As there are about 30,000 troops
passing through Edgewater every
week at the present time, it can be
seen that the pamphlet will dc much
good. The paper will be issued every
Saturday, and will contain as much
information as the Bergen County
War Camp Community service is able
tc obtain between press times.
L. vy. Wilson of Yes Bay is a guest
at the Revllla
EDITOR OF STARS AND STRIPES
MAY GET PROMOTION
NEW YORK,—For his work “in
keeping up the- morale of the person
nel of the A. f F.” Capt, Guy T, Vis
kniskki, who edited the Stars and
Stripes, the official army newspaper in
France, has been recommended for the
rank of major Captain Visknlskki is
now on his way home.
in recommencing Captain Visknisk
! i sT romotion, Gen. D. E. Nolan said:
Thifi o"':“r i? a veteran of the Span
r He organized and
administered r.1rs and 8tripes,
which, to my mind, big factor In
keeping up the morai. ie person
nel of the A. E. F. In 5 of the
rials and trip lations connt. with
the newspaper work he has b- ' 1«
to bring forth a most creditable
lication, which Is of distinct ben -t
| to the A. E. F.”
,___
I A GERMAN WHO SPEAKS HIS MIND j
Maximilian Harden, editor of
Pie Zukunft in Berlin, seems to be the
ordy responsible man in Germany who
dares s ak Ids mind. He writes iri
an issue • . his newspaper now at hand,
among other things:
“And ' must add the fact that one
of them, the all highest, at once be
took himself to a foreign land. Even
the supreme war lord, before the con
clusion of peace, chose the deserter’s
path. This fact must ut last have
opened the eyes of even those who still
believed In that shimmering idol.
“Now all the secret plottings and
writings must he brought to the light.
. . . Hesitate no. longer, ye who
now ruj$, to publish -fbe unambiguous
proof in the archives, to unmask the
liars!
“Germans, you shall not, us yes
terday you did for princes, excellencies,
bank presidents, ministerial directors,
today fawn upon the furor of work
-rr» uji'j »uiuivr» i:uuu»:uw. xou Hiittii r><* jeu Ik your jrawu i»f
determined by your lioncst convictions, end devil a curt* whether you please
anyone or not."