VOLUME FOUR _ Ketchikan, Alaska, Tuesday April 29, 1919 Number 163
SIXTY GERMAN DELEGATES ARRIVE
SPECIAL limSIlES LAST
NIGHT TO ATTEND PEAGEGONGRESS
Baron Makino, Japanese Delegate Makes An Impas
sioned Appeal For Racial Equality But To
No Purpose-Amendments Withdrawn
VERSAILLES. April 29.—The German delegates sixty strong
arrived on a special train here at nine o’clock last evening and
have taken quarters at the Hotel Des Reservoirs.
PARIS. April 29.—The Japanese and French Amendments to
the covenant have been withdrawn! now and will be turned
over to the League of Nations for decision. Baron Makino. head
«.? the Japanese Delegation, made an impassioned appeal to the
conference today for racial equality, but to no purpose.
ROME, April 29.—Thomas Nelson Page. American Ambassa
dor to Italy, departed suddenly for Paris today and it is believed
his action is the result o fthe intense feeling against President
Wilson here on account of the Fiume incident.
PARIS. April 29—Indications are today that the Peace treaty
will be presented to the German Delegates for their signature
next Saturday. They will be allowed a short time for considera
tion but i be given no opportunity for argument.
The delegates traveled to France by way of Spa. Belgium, to
which point they came in their own conveyances. At Spa. they
embarked upon the special train provided by the French au
thorities. and made the remainder of the journey under guard.
The Germans will be regarded as enemies as long as the
neace treaty remains unsigned. They will not be allowed to go
about as they please, nor will newspapermen be permitted to in
terview them on pain of being charged with communicating
with the enemy.
VERSAILLES. April 29.—Thirty additional German delegates
and commissioners arrived tonignt to taxe part in the work of
the peace conference. Of the ninety members of the delegation
now here, thirty are women.
PARIS. April 29.—But very few of the points in the peace
treaty to be presented to the Germans, remain to be settled now
and present indications are that the document will be in their
hands this week. Press dispatches express much disappoint
ment over the covenant of the League of Nations as adopted.
WASHINGTON. D. C.. April 29.—Nine clauses proposed by
'he Commission on International Labor Legislation for inser
tion in the Peace Treaty as adopted in the plenary session were
• made public todav. Amone the principles incorporated are the
-andard eight hour day; a weekly day of rest; the abolition, o*
child labor: eoual pay for men and women workers and t.,e
right association for all lawful purposes.
PARIS. April 29.—The British delegates reported today that
it has been agreed that the first meeting of the League of Na
tionsshall be held in Washington. D. C. with President Wilson
presiding. The definite date has not been set lust yet. but it is
Relieved that the meeting will take place this summer.
The peace conference failed to reach any agreement in t e
China-Japanese territorial controversy in the first session today.
ROME April 29.—Thousands of people stormed the Varna
ment buildings here today in an effort to hear Premier Orlando
make his speeeh outlining the Government's policy m regard to
the peace conference doings and laying the peace program of the
Italians before the people.
LOST BATTALION
ARRIVES IN N, Y,
NEW YORK. April 29.—The Trans
port America bringing the famous
"Lost Bata]ion" arrived in port her#
yesterday. The famous fighters were
given a reception second to none in
this city.
BOISE, Idaho. April 2?.—The start
ling announcement was made today by
Miles Canon, commissioner of agricul
ture here that Idaho’s prune crop is in
danger of complete annihilation unless
prompt action is taken to rid the
trees and blossom sof the red spiders
infesting them. Mr. Cannon w-i]l help
fight the pests. I
SEC, BAKER SAILS
BREST, France. April 29.-—Secre
tary Newton D Baker of the War De
partment sailed for the United States
on the George Washington Sunday.
SHERBOURG. France. April 29. —
Sev rman stfbamrines which were
on their w-ay from En jand in tow!
have been lost in a storm, according to:
word brought here today.
PORTLAND IS
COAST CITIES
With Figures Incomplete
Reports Show Cities
Lagging Behind
8AN FRANCISCO, April 29.—'"With
the official figures still incomplete, the
latest reports show a total of $55,303.
250 subscribed in the district ■with
139.‘'00 subscribers.
The counir>' districts are compar
ing favorably with the previous loans
but the cities are lagging behind.
Portland is leading all cities on the
coast with half of her quota subscrib
ed. San Francisco has passed the five
million dollar mark and Seattle has
subscribed four million and a halt"
‘'Farnsworth/'
The above message is the daily re
port made thru the courtesy of Colonel
Lenoir, in charge of the Washington
A’aska Cable system, at Seattle.
SEATTLE. April 29.—Liberty Loan
i subscriptions throughout the country
to date are up to the billion dollar
mark, according to reports from
Washington. D. C. yesterday.
J H. Nichoalds, of Armour v Com-]
pany was an arrival Saturday from
, the North and is at the Revilla.
Father A. P. Kasheroff. returned
yesterday from a trip to Juneau where
he went to hold. Easter services for
the Russian church. He now returns
to Nakat Inlet where he will be locat
ed again this summer.
KEEP HIM IN
I
MO
MARTIAL LAW
IS DECLARED
IN LINTON
Central Labor Union Tries
To Deport Strike
Breakers
CL1XTOX, Indiana, Apnl 29.—Mar
tial law was declared in Xiinton today
to prevent any possible ', violence in
Connection with the efforts Of the lo
cal Central Labor Union to deport
fight strike breaking telephone oper
ators. who were imported'^ here by the
local company when the force went on
strike for more wages, y* f
ALASKANS UNABLE
TO LEAVE SEATTLE
SEATTLE. April 29.—Over ninety
returned Alaska soldiers are now in
Seattle unable to get traasportation
to Fort Liseum and Seward. They
will not be mustered oiu moon earlier
than June 1, owing to thO heavy pass
enger traffic north.
SEATTLE HONORS
RETURNED SAILORS
AflD NINETY-FIRST
SEATTLE. April 29.—-Men from
nine slibmarine chasers arriving here
today from the Xorth Atlantic, via the ■
Panama Canai. and seven hundred and
sixty from the Wild West Division
were honored today by the feople of
Seattle. The sailors and soldiers!
marched in the same parade.
Says Has No Idea What
Will Be Done Until Leg
islature is Over
James Wickersham, delegate to con
gress from Alaska, who arrived from
the north this week-end, is here to
settle up some mining business and
plans to return on the next southbound
boat to Juneau to await the adjourn
ment of the legislature.
"I have no plans made at all and do
tot know what I shall do until I know
what my friends, the enemy will let
me do, by the time they get through
holding their caucuses in Juneau,” Mr.
Wicker-ham said today.
‘■The legislature is busy passing new
legislation ar.d amendments to the
I resent election laws whereby they
will be able to hold elections by tele
graph and so forth, and when they get
through, I don't know whether I will
be allowed to do anything or not,” Mr.
Wickersham added humoruosly.
ALONG THE WATERFRONT
Halibut boats clearing for sea fish
eries during the past week end were
the Helen D.. Star No. 1, a whaler,
Progress. Atlas. Tatouche. Norma, Au
rora and Gjoa.
Mr. J. C. Black of Portland is a
guest at the •Revilla.
ARRIVALS ON PRINCESS
Arrivals from the south on the
Princess Mary this morning were R.
W. Bibby, Miss O. Hewitt, Dr. and Mrs
Thatcher Miller, I. Werthcim, Mr, and
Mrs. C. J. Sewell, Mr. and Mrs. W. R.
Walther, Mrs, E. B,Wakefield and
child, Mrs. E Xye, J C Wilson, Hyman
Bergman, C G Tein, C S Riekard, Geo.
Richards. Mr. and Mrs. C M Kennedy,
D S Cox, John Bendixson, B M Stone
and wife, E Bogens, Miss Elsie Bmith,
Mr- and Mrs. W M Dynes, Albert
Dynes, Mrs. A. Campbell and child,
8am E Guerin, Mr. and Mrs. W T
Hale, Edward G Morrissey, L R Rho
da, Miss J Roessel, H M Stackpoye,
i Chas B McCallum, W A Pierson, Ethel
O'Neil, P. Blakstad and J. Robert*'
■ son.
MOVEMENT OF BOATS
Northbound
City of Seattle Saturday,
Alameda Sunday.
Admiral Evans Monday.
Southbound
Alaska May 1st.
I Jefferson 9 a, m. tomorrow.
Princess Friday.
ISSUES WARNING
TO AGITATORS
TAMPA. Fla., April 29.—Mayor Mc
Kay has issued a proclamation here
today to the effect t':.it any plans of
the local labor element to arrange a
May day demonstration as a protest
against punishment of Eugene Dobs,
Tom Mooney and others, would be
stopped by the police.
LONDON. April 2;*.—For the first
time in 21 years. England is having
a panic over rabies. Several cases de
veloped in the country recently and
two were discovered in Loudon in the
last week. An order has been issued
that all dogs in London and surround
ing counties must >be muzzled or led
and that none can be taken in or out
■ f these boundaries.
LLOYDS IS BETTING
ST JOHNS. N. F„ Apirl 29.—Lloyds
Underwriters of London are offering
odds of two to one that not one of
the contestants in the Transatlantic
flight will be able to make the flight
during the month of May. Adverse
weather conditions have been respons
ible for the continued delay in the
“hop off" by the various machines now
prepared for flight.
WORSTPHASE
FAMINE IS ON
Estimates That Europe
Must Import Twenty
Nine Million Tons
PARIS, April 29.—Herbert C. Hoov
er, general director or the interallied
relife commission has estimated that
Europe must import twenty-nine mill
lion tons of food froth overseas this
year and that therif'is available for
the purpose'thirty-fivli million tons but
a shortage of ships. He said. “We are
now at the worst phase of the Euro
pean famine that was inevitable after
this World War."
SCARCITY OF FOOD
BEING FELT IN ITALY
ROME, April 29.—The critical
food situation in Italy is aumented by
serious epidemics reported all over
the country. The foot and mouth di
sease has reappeared among the cattle,
which die off as they did in the awful
epidemic of 1908. Meats of all kinds
have risen fabulously in price, accord
ingly and beef which is a quarter bone
cost3 $1.40 a pound; lard costs $2 a
pound, ham. $3.50. Mutton which pre
viously could be had for 30 cents is
now hard to get for 90 cents a pound.
A small pork spare rib 35 cents
and cold storage veal costs $2.20 a
pound. An increase in these prices is
predicted.
GERMANS PROTEST
AGAINST OUTRAGE
LOTDOM, April 29.—A picture ap
pearing in the Canadian war paint
ings exhibition depicting the cruci
fixion of Canadian soldiers by the
Germans, has bern made the subject
of c°®r'laint by the German foreign
office.
The German Government claimed
the Canadian Government lent its sanc
tion to “an invented outrage.” The cor
respondent is informed by the over
seas ministry that the work in ques
tion w'as executed by Captain Derwent
wood, of the Royal Academy, who is
1 hot a Canadian citizen and does not
bold A Canadian Commission.
OREN F, MILL
DOESN’T FORGET
When Sgt. Orcn F. Hill reutrned to
Ketchikan after having served a year
in France, •with the U. S. Medical
Corps as a volunteer, giving up his
br-ne. position and eVeitything "worth
while to do his duty, everybody
thought he had done his share, but ap
parently Mr. Hill doesn't figure it out
’ that way at all, at all. Yesterday
Mr Hill took out a Victory Bond and
,paid for it, “in full.”
Mr. Hill who went thnu.^B.U>y-^fryiH
'■/ experiences of <NHybf"Seing gassed,
wounded, shell shocked and every
thing elso that goes with it, and
! d,-. -su't talk about it, has followed up
, his policy by coming thru again, uot In
; word* but "cash." tUa nii that is
going to put over the Victory Loan
Ketchikan has in Mr. Hill a man to
whom everyone can point withpride
and from whom ail can take a lesson
; in the matter of duty. k,.
Russian Troops Are Gradually Replacing American
Troops In Archangel District-Will Leave As Soon
As Harbor Is Open This Spring For Home
PARIS, April 29.—Reports arriving today from Copenhagen
and Berne state that German Government troops are gradually
tightening their hold upon the city of Munich which is being en
circled. The communists and Spartacans have gathered all their
forces within the city and are preparing for a lengthy siege.
BERLIN. April 29.—The German Government is becoming
a'armed at the tendency of the industrial and commercial in
terests to demand the immediate signing of the peace treaty no
matter what the terms are.
ARCHANGEL, Russia, April 29.—Russian tr. ^ps are ar
riving here daily and are gradually replacing the American forc
es preparatory to the departure of the latter for the United
States as soon as the harbor is open for navigat 'o i.
MAJOR REENLISTS
SEATTLE. April 29.—Mjor W. D.
Gilbert, formerly a sergeant in the Al
aska Signal Corps lias returned from
^Vance and has been discharged He
'■■''enlisted today for service with the
Signal Corps in Alaaskn.
ANCHORAGE
“OVER THE TOP”
The Miners and Merchants Bankj
received a message yesterday front
Governor Riggs stating that Anchorage 1
was the first community to go over
♦he too in subscriptions to the Vic-!
♦ory Loan. Gov. Riggs asked for
daily wire of amount of subscriptions ,
and number of subscribers. Honor;
flags will be distributed to communi- j
♦ics as fast as they accomplish their
quotas.
NEWSPAPER MEN
ARRIVE TO TAKE
OVER THE PAPER
Among the passengers arriviug on
■ 'he Princess Mary this morning for
Ketchikan were a party of men and
) Keir wives and families who will take
over the work of the Daily Progressive
Miner within a short time.
Mr. Bernard M. Stone is to be pub
lisher for the paper. Mr. Edward G.
Morrissey, special writer for the P.-I.
' od former secretary to Delegate Sul
r«r who visited in Ketchikan for
l sometime last fall during the election
campaign, will also be on the staff of
' Titers. Mr. W. M. Dynes is the new
Torype operator and is accompanied
I h:3 wife and son, Albert Dynes,
who will he job-man. Miss Elsie
Smith, a friend of the family accom
,‘ ar.ied them to Ketchikan.
The party are busy today locating
1 living quarters preparatory to making
1 heir homes here permanently.
LOCAL DRAFT
BOARD TO CLOSE
OFFICE SOON
Mr. Milton S. Dobbs, of the local
Customs office, who has been in charge
"f the draft board office here since
Mr. Bine’s resignation, reported this
morning that the last shipment of re
Dorts- and papera Will leave tiie office
this week for Juneau, cleaning up the
work of the board during the period
of the war.
Mr. Bergman, of the Bergman fish
' -rles, returned from Seattle today
where he was called recently by the
. serious illness of his eldest son, Sam,
who suffered a severe attack of spinal
| meningitis, but. Is recovering rapidly
' no-w. He is at the Stedman.
I
Mr: Har. y M. Stackpole, manager
of Mie_Jn<j/. P.lBeegle & Company of
ficey who Went south to Prince Rupert
! for the week on business on the Fran
ces R, thru the courtesy of Captain
Hank Roeselle, returned on the Prin
! ’ess this morning.
loiter AvA Mrs, TM-i.'-Williams, who
have spent the winter visiting hero
with Mrs. Williams’ parents, Captain
and Mrs. Roesselle, returned to British
, Columbia on the Frauces R. on Satur
day. Mr. Williams is interested In
some muting property in the interior
which h« expects to look over this com
ing summer. Miss Ji-rry Roeselle ac
companied them as far as Prince Ru
pert on the Frances R. returning on the
! Princess last* evening.
HORSE CAP DRAWS
CROWD SN PORTLAND
PORTLAND, Ore., April 29. — The
street care of almost preliisfr Ic stage,
♦ be hnrsodrawn street a vehicular
curiosity which passed from sight more1
than a score of years ago. was used as
an attraction in the Liberty Loan
drive here this week. The funny old
car drawn by a team called the
crowds which listened to street-corner
talks for the loan. Buglers sounded
the rally call from the car.
SUICIDE CLUB
SOLDIER LETS
OLD CAT OUT
Private, first class, Joseph E. Roon
- v of San Francisco was at Camp
Lewis last summer. He wanted to get
to France. He had almost given up
hope when at Retreat one day Cap
tain X, his company comander, said:
“Does any man here want to volun
teer for the machine' guns? It’s a
chance to get to France.”
Rooney stepped out with about six
o+heT strapping fellows of the West.
faTttain X looked them over.
“You understand men, that you are
mining a suicide clttb?”
He got no answer and his eyes
twinkled because he knew that they
knew.
Those fellows got to France in a
' nrrv. Rooney is one of the survivors
of that half dozen but even he was
shot up in the Argonne and is over
there yet. He is with the V47th
”"ii>,e Pun Battc.iOn of the Ninety
’* -q* Div's’on and has been cited for
1 --every' in action.
His sister wrote a cheering letter
which he received in hospital and
here is what Joe wrote back to her:
“It is surely fine to hear how the
folks at home appreciate my efforts.
It was the thought and love for his
folks at homo that made the Ameri
ean boy fight so hard.”
In that one sentence lies the secret
of the success of America’s arms. Joe
Rooney in his modest way let the cat
out of the bag.
Those “American boys” want the
folks ; : '' stay with them yet
a while. It wiii . .1 -g tears to their
eyes when the cables carry this mes*
sice: "America has c "rsubscrlbed
the Victory Liberty Loan."
For they will know that th. folks at
home arc still with them.
DR, MILLER AND
WIFE BACK AGAIN
Dr. and Mrs. Thatcher Miller were
returnin'.' passengers on tho Princess
Inst evening from Chino, California,
where they had planned to locate per
manently and having disposed of their
interests there, are back to Ketchikan
to stay.
Before leaving for California last
September, Dr. and Mrs. Miller had
made their home here for eight years,
which they decided was long enough
but a few months outsido convinced
them this was not so, and immediate
ly they began making plans to re
turn.
Dr. Miller has made arrangements
to take Dr. Piggies’ offices in tho Ton
gass building where he will tako up
his old practice and for the time being
will be at home at the Stodraan hotel,
until suitable quarters can be secured.
“Ketchikan eurely looks good to me,
and it is the only town I have ever
lived in which had no much pep,” Djf.
Miller said today. Ho is busy going
around shaking hands with Ills old
friends 'who arc no less glad to wel
come him back to his old place in
their midst.