WOMEN TO WORK ON R. ROAIS
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VOLUME XVII. NO. 106. TELEPHONE MAIN M NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1917. TELEPHONE MAIN 46. PRIuE 25 CENTS
GERMANY OFFERS PEACE PROPOSAL THURSDAY
GERMANY TO MAKE PEACE OFFER;
HER PEOPLE ASK MODERATE TERMS
International New* Service.
THE HAGUE, May 1.—Chancellor
ilollweg is to make a peace offer in
the reichstag on Tursday which
will astonish the world by the mod
eration of its terms, is the announce
ment made by the Berlin Tagoblatt
today.
The Berlin paper states that in
ternal strife is over running Ger
many and that the strike situation is
far from settled. It is the intention
of the German government to make
the most strenuous peace effort pos
sible and if that is not accepted by
the allies an effort is to be made to
cement the German nation together
and carry out the war to the bitter
end.
The terms are not those of a con
queror says the dispatch but that of
a people who arc sick of the miseries
and bloodshed of war and who now
want to take their place among the
nations of the earth and forget the
past.
In the peace movement it is stated
that the action is taken by the peo
ple of Germany who demanded that
negotiations for such measures be
op™ ed up again.
"It 'is the German people who are
stilting terms by which peace is to be
made," says the Tageblatt, and they
will take the responsibility of the is
sue.”
An appeal was made to the people
of Germany to refrain from any law
lessness or rioting on May day and
a conference • ordered between them
and the chancellor Which resulted In
th convening of the reichstag—in spe- |
WOMEN TO REPLACE MEN
ON RAILROADS OF 0. S.
Pacific Newa Service.
SRATTLR, May 1.—Following the
example set by our Franco-Hr.tish
allies the Northern Pacific railroad
have issued orders that women will
b? employed in all ueparunt s to
place men who will have to answer
the call to arms,
r
This order is to come into effect
light away. Any man quitting the
employ of the company from May 1
will be replaced by a woman if she is
capable of taking over the work.
Yesterday afternoon this announce
ment was made by the company and
thousands of names of women willing
workers have boon registered up to
noon today.
The company have started to or
ganize classes of instruction for the
various offices which the women will
fill and the first lectures will be given
j tonight.
Jt is expected that all of the trans
continental railroads will follow the
example set by the Northern Pacific
and which has been so successfully
carried out by the railroads on the
other side of the Atlantic.
Hawaiian songs, African Travelog,
tonight, 8:30, Federated church.
TECNICALITY CAUSES
CONSCRIPTION TO
BE RE-PASSED
International News Service.
WASHINGTON, May 1.—After
thoroughly considering the fine points
that has been brought to their at
tention by Senator Chamberlain, and
realizing its importance in the face
of future events, the senate is bring
ing up conscripton «gain for repas
sage.
Chamberlain in a long oration on
the conscription bill, during which he
went into the most minute: details, ex
plaining clauses which might easily
be misconstrued, showed that ono
clause in particular must be changed.
The bill as it reads calls for the
Immediate conscription of men, to be
HIV REMS FOR
HOHTH Of If*
International Newa Sarvica.
WASHINGTON, May 1.—Forty
thousand two hundred and fifty six
recruits enlisted in the United States
army and militia during the month of
April la the statement given out by
the war department this morning.
used in the war against Germany,
and Chamberlain explained that
should the United Slates become in
volved with any other powers during
the war, he feared that the troops
raised under that bill could only lie
used against Germany,
He then procecdea to offer an
amendment (making the troops avail
able for the present emergency), strik
ing out the clause reading (against
Germany.)
After considerable discussion
Chamberlain's point was seen to be
well taken, and a decision was quick
ly reached to bring up the bill again
for repassage.
This is nn extraordinary large
amount and is due to the fact that
war with Germany 'is declared and
many young men filled with patriot
ism did not wait for any call but
Joined the colors right away.
The national defense act which be
came law In July, 1916, provided for
an increase of our standing army
from eighty thousand to two hundred
and ten thousand and was embodied
in a five year period. What efTect
conscription will have on that meas
ure is not yet known.
Advartiaa In The Noma Nugget
; cial session—to discuss peace terms
which will be presented on Thursday
next.
International News Service.
COPENHAGEN, May 1.—It has
leaked out here that Germany will
sue for peace on Thursday next and
•
that the German people have dictated
the terms whereby a lasting peace
With the allied nations is to be made.
The conditions are not stated but
it is said that Germany will accede
to any reasonable demands made in
their final effort to again make
peace in Kurope,
DEMAND CHURCHILL AS
FIRST SEA LORD
lu'ernationai News Service.
LONDON, May 1.—Alleging that
the admiralty ate lax in the'ir efforts
to cope with the submarine warfare
the prominent newspapers through
out England are openly criticising the
sea lords and urge that drastic
changes be made In the admiralty
deparement.
department. Winston Church'ill to be
re-entered as first lord of the admir
alty is the demand of the English
press.
The inability of the admiralty to
offer better protection to allied ship- |
ping has now reached its highest'
point of criticism. It has been taken
up in the British house of parliament
and several of the leading members
are now heading the movement to
have ChurcIVill tl’| hie |■ j11 as Iheii
first sen lord.
At the outbreak of the war Win
ston Churchill was first lord of the 1
admiralty and was removed later, lie
has since that time served in the
capacity of n.rtil’jery officer on the
fighting line in France.
NOTICE TO PULU.IC.
All persons i re requeued lo im- j
mediately take advantage of (he warm j
weather and get the winter's refuse |
out on the ice beyond the flag fine I
before May 10th, 1917.
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Health Officer.
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NAVAL MEN DESPAIRED OF
International News Service.
LONDON', May 1.—All hope is
abandoned for *ho lives of those mem
bers of the crew of the American
steamer Vacuum who were reported
missing yesterday. .Search, In the
vicinity of where tht big tanker was
sunk, was made by many destroyers,
tugs and power boats some of which
are still out.
Ileports from Belfast this after
noon state that there is no hope for
those men who were in number 1 life
boat. It is definitely stated that the
American naval lieutenant and nine
naval ‘gunners were in this boat and
that they are lost.
LONDON, May 1.—Deports here
this afternoon state that a German
submarine was sunk in the North
Channel by a British destroyer and
that all lives on the U boat were lost.
The submarine is one of the many
who play havoc with the shipping on
the northeastern coast of Ireland and I
may have been the boat which ac- j
counted for the American armed ,
steamer Vacuum on Saturday last.
GERMANS CAUGHT IN ATTEMPT
DYNAMITE MORGANS OFFICE
International News Service.
NEW YORK, May 1.—Caught in
their attempt to blow up the offices
of J. Pierpont Morgan, Wolf Hirsch
and Cleorge Meyringor, Germans, con
fess that this was their plan. When
arrested they were on their way to
Morgans, and had time bombs in their
possession.
They were taken to headquarters,
and upon being put through the third
degree opened the eyes of the offi
cials with the most astrounding de
tails of a gigantic conspiracy that has
ever come to light *in the annals of
the department.
A number of the wealthiest Ger
mans In the east had planned a coup
on the stock exchange that would net
millions, the men under arrest were
to first blow up the office of Morgan,
others were to tap and cut the tele
graph and telephone lines to prevent
mny immediate Communication with
Washington and then a wild report
was to be circulated to the effect that
President Wilson had been assas
sinated.
This report and the fact that the
wires were all out of commission,
following so closely on the blowing
up of Morgan & Co. would ro etfe?t
the stock market that the ringleaders
would clean up millions on specula
tion before the truth became known.
These men overlooked the fact that
iMorgan’k office is ffituated directly
opposite the United States sub-treas
ury and that this particular section1
is perhaps one of the heaviest guarded
spots in the country since war was
declared.
The luthoritiea say that it would be
impossible for anyone to place a time
bomb within reach of the offices of
the great hanker without being de
tected, but these men say the'r plans
would have surely carried had the of
llcials not picket! them out of the
crowd at the dead line.
This dead I r ► bega .s at Malden
Lane uni Uraodwny, a few blocks
above Vail strcol and was t. t llihsed
years ng for :be protection c' the
Diamond center, the mini? by which
Maiden Lane If. best known, ns It is
here that the great diamond mer
chants of tlio United States cirt lo
cated. Tt is the boost of tie New
York police department that no crook
has ever been able to get below that
dead Pne, since ils establishment, and
the records bear out their claims.
't|lie system adopted by the de
partment in thus protecting tlio
world’s great financial center Is most
wonderful, hut the method employed
is known to those only whose duty
It is to always be on guard there,
and these men are not even known
by any of the police department ex
cept the high officials, and the Bank
ers and diamond merchants, while
knowing they have this protection
have no idea ns to the klontity of
those who are rendering the sendee.
COMMISSIONS SQUABBLE OVER
TROOPS TO THE FRONT
International News Service.
WASHINGTON, Slay 1.—General
JofCre of the French commission
wants the United States to send
troops to the front in France imme
diately.
General Hugh Scott of the United
States army hajj taken a decided stand
against Joffre in this regard, saying
that Joffre's proposal that we send
twenty five thousand men to the front
at once is ridiculous, and has put the
matter jup to President Wilson as
commander in general of the army.
The president states that he now has
the matter under advisement, and at
the earttest moment will hand down
his decision.
In tlie opinion of many who were
interviewed here today, the govern
ment will send no men to the front,
until wo are in a position to send
them in large bodies, which can only
be done after the drafting of men for
the army is well under way.
General Scott says that we must
not rush into the war In any such way
as proposed, and insists on our delay
ing action.
WASHINGTON, May I. Lord Eus
tace Percy member of the British
! commission in session here today,
stated that the first step to be taken
to crush J ’rass'ionism is to offset the
work of tlie submarine which Is a
great menace to the allies.
He desired the co-operatkm of tho
United States in Ihis paramount prob
im and deemed it advisable that the
navy department enter into the field,
by despatching torpdo destroyers and
submarine chasers to assftst in the pro
tection of allied shipping.
RAILROADS ARE ORDERED
TO LIMIT DIVIDENDS
International News Service
WASHINGTON, .May I. All Am
erican railways must limit the rate nf
dividends during the war, according to
the latest rules issued by the inter
state commission comm'isslon.
This is in direct line with the policy
that is being adopted 1 >v the United
States, 'm their effort to bring about
a reduction of profit sharing in all
lines of business. It may yet work
out that the government will put into
effect a general order to all corpora
tions setting a limit on the amount |
of dividends that are to lie disbursed
among the stockholders,
BiffiHS atfi'KF CAUSES
BREAD BIOIS
International News Service.
CHICAGO, May 1. A great bakers
strike is now on here, which is so
effecting the bread supply that a
series of riots are ocettring through
out tlie city. The demonstrations of
the strikers are sufficiently serious,
to have made it necessary to call out
Iii this was ili»- government could
more roadils gef nil exact line on In
comes, In their rflfort to collect the
income taxes, that so many who are
getting enormous revenues from their
holdings are so clever at dodging.
Drastic laws will he enacted along
these lines, is Aion as the admin
istration has taken care of the more
Important business, of putting the
country on a war footing.
This ruling of the commerce com
mission Is the first step along this
line, and it is expected that others
of a similar natun are lo quickly
follow.
every available man on the police re
serve, and add; d to tliis now 'are the
riots of those who are clamoring for
bread. How alarming Hie situation is,
may be gleaned from the statement
of official figures that have been
given, that through this strike the
daily supply of bread has been de
creased by over one million five hun
dred thousand loaves.
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