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THE DAILY PROGRESSIVE-MINER
Ketchikan, Alaska, Thursday March G, 1919
Number 118
VOLUME FOUR
Campaign Against League of Nations Will be Started
LLOYD GEORGE RETURNS TO
PARIS. SUPREME COUNCIL
RESUME ITS DISCUSSION
Fate Of German Fleet Now Interned At Scapa Flow
Off Coast of Scotland To be Subject
For Consideration Now
PARIS, Mar. 6.—Lloyd George, premier of England having
arrived here today from England, the Supreme War Council
was able today to resume its discussions of military and na
val terms for Germany.
Morrocan Question At Issue
PARIS, March 6.—The Morrocan question must be settled be
tween France and Spain, the two nations most interested, it was
decided by the Supreme Council today. It is proposed that
the international status be abolished and be replaced by a spe
cial regime in which there shall be provision for adequate pro
tection of the French interests.
Danish Representatives Are Germans
Four Danish representatives at the Peace Conference arriv
ed here today from Denmark, having been appointed delegates
from that country. While being German subjects, coming from
North. Schleswig, they are Danes by race.
President Resting For Two Days
ON BOARD THE GEORGE WASHINGTON AT SEA. March
—At the order of his physician. Admiral Cary T. Grayson,
President Wilson has laid aside all work for the next two days
and will rest in preparation for the big work he will undertake
on his arrival at the peace conference.
British Government May Protest
‘LONDON, March 6.—Mr. Balfour will be asked in the house
of commons next Monday whether a diplomatic protest will be
lodged by Great Britain againse the Irish Home Rule resolution
passed recently by the American House of Representatives it
was announced from an authoritative source this afternoon.
Committee On Responsibilities Completes Wo/k
PARIS, March 6.—The American delegates this afternoon
suggested to the Supreme Council that the various committees
investigating issues, be instructed to draw up articles embodv
ins-their reports with a view to the formation of a Treaty of
Peace. , " ~ "
The committee appointed to determine the responsibility of
the authors of the war have completed their labors this evening
and it is reported that Secretary Lansing, chairman of the
committee will submit a report at an early date.
AIR MAIL SERVICE ..
EXTENSION URGED
New York Times.—Failure of the
United States, as contrasted with the
initiative shown by European nations,
to develop extensively the aerial mail
is called to the attention of the coun
try in a special report prepared by Ot
to Praeger. Second Assistant Postmast
ter General. He points out that the
United States, despite the equipment
which the signing of the armistice
freed from military use, is operating
only a single aerial mail route while
Europe boasts of thirty-one. He urges
<he extension of mail routes on the ba
sis of the success of the New York
Washington line, the single aerial mail
venture of the Post Office Depart*
ment.
This ioute, according to the report,
is only 218 mites long, while the Euro
pean aerial route*.-not including-those
used exclusively for the despatch of
special matter, come to more than
6,000 miles. One single route, oper
ated by Norway, he says, covers 670
miles. Statistics collected by the
Post Office Department show that
Italy has 12 aerial mail routes; France
6; Norway, 4: Denmark, 3; Greece^;
Great Britain, Spain, Austria and Ger
many, each 1.
Four transcontinental lines for aer
ial mail are under contemplation in
this country, but while other and
smaller nations are making increas
ed efforts to enlarge the facilities of
this faster service, the United States
hesitates, Mr. Praeger infers.
New York-Waehington Figures
He makes public some interesting
data in connection with the New York
Washington route. In Sthe first six
months cjr its existence its operation
covered 68 892 miles, at a cost to the
Government of $75,165.91, including 6
per cent, on investment and 33 1-3 per
-er.t. for depreciation. In that period
anpianes carried 7,452% pounds of
mall between the two cltlee. T/ie rev
enue derived by th Post Office Dpart
-rent, according to Mr. Prager, totalled
»60.653.28. The net deficit, not taking
into account the 6 per cent invest
ment. was $8,968.08.
The New York-Washington route, he
hays, was established not as a typical
commercial line, but to solve the prob
lems that had to be met to establish
a daily depend ble schedule. He pointt
to the flying records of the pilots ir
the ^rial mail service. The fastest
time carrying the mail from College
Park. Washington, to Belmont Park
N. Y.. he states was an hour and •
half; the slowest time for a continuoui
'light was four hours fifty-six minutei
The average time was two hours for
ty minutes.
The contention of Mr. Praeger in ad
vacating the broadening of the aeria
mail service is that the greater thi
distance between two points on s
route, the greater is the service t<
commerce. It is pointed out that •
letter leaving New York at 6 a. m.
and arriving in Chicago at 3 p. m., Ii
time to connect with the carrier deliv
ery. will advance the mail between thi
♦wo cities by sixteen hours over an)
train.dispatch that can be made aftei
8:45 p. m.
Based on cost accounting statistic)
collected by the department, the cos
of an east and west trunk line fron
New York as far west as Omaha ant
a nerth and south trunk line fron
Boston to Atlanta has been estimate!
at a total of $1,600,000. Mr. Praege
says he is desirious of establishing thi
New York-Chicago ’line immediate!]
and extending it west to the foot o
the Rockes during the coming fisca
year with a view of reacting the sea
ports of San Francifco and Seattle.
Time to Coast, Forty Hours
The air mail time between Nev
York and San Francisco, according ti
the official, will be forty hours. Hi
also hopes to tag this transcontlnenta
tine to serve Minneapolis and 81
Paul on the north and St. Louis ant
other points on the south.
WILL NOT EXPEL
- I, W, W, FROM UNION
SEATTLE, Mar. 6.—Last night the
Seattle Central Labor Council vct«j
ten to one against the expelling of n
W. W. from membership or future
' membership in the Seattle labor un
| lonns.
SEATTLE, Mar. 6.—The referendum
voting ordered for today by the Cen
j tral Labor council^ indicates that the
j shipyards will reopen next week, and
in all probability next Monday. They
I i-.e bee a cut exactly a month. *
TEN THOUSAND
MEN OF 27th DIV,
ARRIVE TODAY
NEW YORK, Mar. 6.—Ten thousand
! troops composing the Twenty-seventh
: Division arrived ifrom Prance today
j on board the steamship Leviathan.
They paraded down Fifth Avenue to
i day and were given a warm welcome.
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PARIS, Mar. 6.—The strikers being
satisfied with the measures being tak
j en by the authorities to remsdy condi
| tions of which complaint was made,
' the strike of the employees in the
! slaughter houses here had been de
| blared off today.
i YELLOWSTONE PARK
TO BE ENLARGED
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Mar. 6_In
! crease by one-third of the original size
I Yellowstone park has been approved
by the senate public land committee
i which ordered 1265 square miles of !ft>r
est reserve land
the park.
in Wyoming added to,
DISFRANCHISEMENT
FOR DEFAULTERS
REGINA, Sask., Mar. 6—The Great
War Veterans association of Sas
I katckewan have passed a resolution
j asking the government to demand the
; aurrender of the 50,000 defaulters in
Canada and that they be disfranchised
'or ten years in addition to suffering
•he penalties c*f the law.
DUTCH ON GUARD
LONDON, Mar. 6_According to a
Central News dispatch from The
Hague, the Dutch minister of war
ieclared in an address before the
second chamber that “it is necessary
to hold the Dutch army ready against
my effort to annex Gutcb territory."
He said that disarmament at present
was very dangerous.
HUN TRICK FATAL TO 1000
I
PARIS__The last party of Germans
left Prussets by train on a Sunday
morning. As the train was about to
ieave reports started that the Germans
had made a gift of wagon loads of
food, which was at the station and
could not be taken away, to whomever
might care tc fetch it. The result was
j *hat all the people of the neighbor
I hood colleced at the station.
While they were waiting a series of
vast explosions took place, in which at
least 300 were killed and 150 wound
ed.
It was extraordinary to witness the
street crowded with people carrying
| the national flag and rejoicing at
the approach of their saviors while
the sky was filled with clouds at the
time set for the explosions,
j At Hammont a German munition
! train blew up and burned two Ger
j man hospital trains, killing 1000
: wounded men and partly wrecking the
town. Hapimont is a Belgian 'frontier
station on the railway through Dutch
Limburg,on which the Germans had
romised the Dutch to carry no mili
tary supplies.
R. Muller, of Loring, is an arrival at
the Revilla Hotel.
. It was learned yesterday from those
familiar with the aortal mail <eituaton
that the department had been hamoer
, ed in the work of SMtekding the linea
| by the failure of Congress to give the
i necessary permission to go ahead with
>he plans. Another source of delay is
I caused by the necessity cjf modifying
. many of the military types of planes,
I which have been found to be too light
for the mail send cat
WICKERSHAM
LEAVES FOR !
ALASKA
Delegation Confers With
Lane to Plan for Some
Alaska Legislation
WASHINGTON. D. C„ “March 6
There is some agitation going on in
officii quarters here for the taking
over of the completion of* the Alaska
RaiiK'd by ttfe National Railroad As
sociation ,it was reported unofficially
today.
A congressional delegation conferred
with Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of
the Department of the Interior today
,*jr the purpose of outlining a cam
paign for Alaska legist tion for the
next session of Congress.
James A. Wickersham. delegate for
Alaska, left here today for the north.
SILVER TO INDIA
PHILADTLPHIA, Mar. 6.—A ship
ment of 8253 bars of silver started
from here today for India and is val
ued at $4,000,000. They will travel via
San Francisco.
TO BEGIN A
NATIONWIDE
CA MPAIGN
Senators Borah, Lodge,
And Knox to Lead
Thirty-Seven
WASHINGTON, Mar. 6.—The thirty
tfven Republican senators who con
ducted the recent fillibuster in the
senate as a pretest against the adop
tion of the League of Nations constitu
tion and to force the Presilent to call
an extra session of congress now,
have announced that they will begin a
nation wide campaign against the
league.
The campaign will be under the
leadership of Senators Borah, Lodge
and Knox and will be opened in New!
York City this evening by Senator
Borah.
THE NEXT LOAN TO BE A
“ THANKSGIVING LOAN ”
PITTSBURGH, Pena., Feb. 3.—The
next Uberty Loan will be a "thanks
giving loan” as well as a “victory
|oan” and must be fleather In a spirit
of patriotism rather than on a cold
commercial basis. Secretary Glass de
clared ia an address before the Pitts
burgh Chamber of Commerce.
“A little thought will teach the wis
est among the financiers that it is im
possible now to float purely 'for in
vestment purposes a loan of five or six
billion dollars,” Mr. Glass said. “We
have got to apeal to the patriotism of
the American people, and it will not
be in vain.
"The honor of the Government is
involved. Pej^ig your Government, It is
your hoaor that is involved. Four
Liberty Loans have ‘gone'over the
top,’ and nothing nor anybody can
fhake my faith in the purpose of the
country to put the capstone to the
splendid structure oy national credit
by making the Victory Loan an
aboundant success. The American
should supplement the patriotism of
war by the patriotism of eace.
“When I am told of the difficulties
which will beset the Victory Loan, I
refuse to lose faith in the enduring
patriotism of the American people.
I decline to believe that the fathers
and mothers who gave four million
sons to die if rtded be thaj liberty
might survive wifi now haggle over
the material coet of saving the very
soul of civilization from the peridition
of Prussian tyranny.”
Mr. J. C. Carper, chairman cjF the
miUtary relief committee of the lo
cal Red Cross chapter announces that
♦he sweater yarn for the refugee
sweaters has arrived and is ready for
distribution, . .
SIXTY-NINTH COAST
ARTILLERY ARRIVES
SEATTLE, Mar. 6.—The Sixty-Ninth
Coast Artillery arrived Ifrom France
this morning and were given a rousing |
reception by the returned soldiers a]- !
ready here and the people of the
town. Big doings are scheduled to
take place in their hollor.
LONDON. Mar. 6.—Sir Guy Spencer
Galthrop, controller of coal mines
since 1917, died today of influenza. He
was made a baronet In 1918.
RUMANIAN QUEEN
AND DAUGHTER
NOW IN ENGLAND
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GENEVA, Switzerland, Mar. 6.—Ac
cording to a dispatch received here to
day fieri; Vicii.ta, the queen ot Rou
rr.ana and her daughter, the Princess
Elizabeth, have fled from Bucharest to
Tngland.
MELBOURNE, Australia, Mar. 6. —
An expenditure of three and a half
million pounds sterling will be in
volved in the policy of the war service
'e3ve gratuity.
UNDESIRABLES NOT
WANTED IN AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE, Mat. 6_Measles
to prev^ht the-]anding of Bolsheviks
and other undesirables in Australia
are beiug taken by the federal govern
ment. Some 500 Belgian employees or
Cockatoo island have been dismissed
by the government owing to their “go
slow'' policy.
ICE CATCHES
A BIG LINEF
HALIFAG, N. S., Mar. C. A wire
less report from the Furness linr
steamer Graciana stated that she war
caught in an ice* jam dff Cape Race
She left here enroutr jfor Liverpoo
Several days ago.
utKMAN UnUrS IN
POOR CONDITION
PERLIN, Mar. 6.—At the meeting o'
the German agricultural society here
today, Herr Ramm, under-secretary o4
the ministry of agriculture, gave e
-l'oomy picture of the prospects of the
-rmi.'.g harvest. He said nothing be*
ter than half a normal crop could be
’xpected this year due to the lack o4
y'rtility and the impoverished condl
Lion of the soil.
HEALTH SURVEYS IN
AMERICAN CITIES;
Health surveys of many cities inj
the United States will result from the
•’ctivitie^ of the working conditions
service, Department of Labor, in the
next few years. Two or three such
surveys will begin very soon. The
-rohlem of securing industrial health j
begins within workshops and facto- j
r’es. There must be santitary sur-i
-oundings and equipment, and prop-j
or protection for workers employed in!
hazardous processes or; using poison-;
nus materfals. Workers must be!
taught how to Keep well and to guard;
against physical disabilities. Simple)
'j damentaig of personal hygiene i
should be taught by the plant physi-i
oian. In order to maintain a healthy!
working force, it is often necessary!
to trace the causes of sickness out
s:de the work place into the industrial’
community or the workers’ home, i
The fact that the personnal of the1
division of industrial hygiene and i
medicine of the working conditions!
service is detailed from the United)
States Public Health Service will en-j
able the division to made coffipre-;
hensive surveys, taking all casual con-j
ditions into consideration.
The close relationship cf the health,
of workingmen by the service, which!
is working out careful plans for in-J
vestigating the sources and methods
of handling milk, meats, and other,
perishable food supplies whenever in-i
vestigations are made.
Mi'k is perhaps more than any oth
er foed product a potential disease
jr ricr cjt sanitary measures are not
-bserved in its handling, and Its
great importance as a food for young
children necessitates the careful fo]-j
lowing of milk from the dairy to the
GERMAN OFFICERS ORDERED
TO WEAR THEIR UNIFORMS
BY AMERICAN COMMANDER
American Forces in the Adriatic Intervene In
Clash Between Jugo-Slavs add Italians At
Spalato Say Rome Dispatches Today
COBLENZ, Germany, March 6. — General Dickman has is
sued an order here forbidding German officers to appear on
ihe streets in-civilian clothes. The latter have been persisting
in wearing civilian attire in order to avoid having to salute the
American officers, especially those of lower rank.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 6.—According to dispatches
reaching the War Department today, the American forces sta
tioned on the Adriatic coast have intervened in a clash between
the Jugo-slavs and the Italians at Salato.
Government Warns Italy Regarding .Policy
WASHINGTON, D. C., March ti.—The American government
through the War Department today formally notified Italy that
'he must cease endeavoring to slow up the movement of supplies
♦o the Ju«o-Slovaks and Czechs, or else her -own relief supplies
will be cut off.
The relations of Italy and Jugo-Slavia are viewed as serious
in peace conference circles, the War Department learns. Dif
ferences have been growing until both sides are taking a
threatening attitude.
The Italians are comiplaining that the Jugo-Slavs are mobil
:~ing and the latter retort that the Italians continue to land
troops on the Dalmatian coast and that they are digging trench
es in Fiume and elsewhere; also that they are imprisoning and
arresting female Jugo-Slav teachers on political gournds and
'topping1 couriers of the Jugo-Slav government. The Jugo
^'avs ask that the Auzonia river be made the boundary between
•hem and Italy. They also wish to annex the whole of Styria
and Trieste with Fiume and the whole of the Dalmatian islands,
with the exception of Pelagcsa, which is left to Italy.
Fight For Police Headquarters Raging
BERLIN, March 6 —Heavy fighting is still in progress here
<Vtr the possession of the police headquarters which is still in the
hands of the Government forces. Dispatches report that order
has been restored at Halle where the two opposing factions were
clashing.
Compulsory W7ork To Be Enforced
PARIS, March 6.—A wireless dispatch arriving via Copen
hagen today states that the Russian Soviet government is insti
tuting a system of registration preparatory to enforcing the
principle of compulsory work for all classes.
;onsumer’s home.
Sanitary arrangements in bakeshops
ud public dining rooms are also of
,-emendous importance to workers as
.veil as' to the community, and in in
vestigations along this line not only
:-.he cleanliness of the quarters oc
cupied. the utensils used in handling
^:od. and the methods of cleansing
iishes, etc., but also the health and
canliness of workers and their
clothing will be considered. In many
places where other conditions are ex
cellent, the medical expedts have
found lax regulations about washing!
'heir hands and taking care to keep
odstuffs from contamination.
OSBORNE WILLIAMS ARRIVES ON
GAS BOAT APEX
Mr. Osborne Williams, formerly,
•cad of the Grocery Department of J.
R. Heckman & Company, and well:
' nown musician and singer, arrived in
'<etchikan today on board the Apex,
he canery tender for the Wilson Fish-:
'ries. on his way to Port Walter,
•■'here he has accepted the position
f auditor and accountant for the
cannc
Mrr Williams and children are:
still vi».iing in Oakland but will come
north sometime next month and will:
ioin Mr. Williams at Port Walter for,
the summer.
The Apex will be in port until to-!
morrow morning and Mr. Williams!
has been going the rounds today visit-j
t 'a with his old cronies.
Mr. and Mrs. Williams and family j
sold their home last fall here and left!
for Seattle where they planned to
locate, but like many other Alaskans,:
the lure of the north proved too strong.,
R. Evans, U. 8. N., who was given
a leave of absence from the navy
«ard. and who has been employed at;
‘he Smiley cannery for the past month,!
h-«8 b«*en ordered to reoort back to;
Bremerton and plans on leaving on the;
first boat south.
1
r BI8H0P PATRICK J. HAYB8 )
NEW YORK, March 6.—Announce
ment was made today at the residence
of Monsignor Dunn, chancellor the
diocese of the appointment of Bishop
Patrick J. Hayes as archbishop of
New York.
MOVEMENTS OF BOATS.
Southbound-—
Admiral Farragut Friday.
Northweate-n Friday.
City of Seattle Saturday.
North bound
Jefferson Thursday.
Princess Friday.