THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOLUME XVII. NO. 84. TELEPHONE MAIN 40 NOME, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1917. TELEPHONE MAIN 40. PRIi-E 25 CENTS
WILSON IS PANNED BY GERMAN NEWSPAPEBS
BILL CALLS FOR 2,200,000
MEN FOR THE ARMY
international News Service.
WASHINGTON, April 5.—Final de
tails toward the raising of armies
are being worked out at a conference
now taking place between Secretary
of War Maker and Senator Chamber
lain chairman of military affairs.
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They are working out a bill that will
be introduced calling for two million
two hundred thousand men.
This bill it is thought will pass
quickly, as it carries out plans* that
will dovetail nicely with others that
it is known will follow.
BEL6IAN RELIEF
SUFFERS-U BOATS
DASTARDLY WORK
international News Ssrvic*.
AMSTKliDAM. April 5.—Whilst oft
. ast of Holland, in the North sea
the Belgian relief steamer Trogier
was held upt by a German submarine
and refusing to stop was shelled by
the U boat and six of her crew injur
ed. The steamer was put out of ac
tion as one shell exploded in her en
gine room and the crew were given ten
minutes to take the boats after which
a, torpedo was launched and the relief
ship sent to the bottom.
The Tregier was on her way from
New York to Rotterdam loaded down
with supplies for the distressed Bel
gians sent by the American relief
fund. Her cargo was most valuable
and was badly needed by the Belgians.
The crew of the relief steamer were i
landed at Wassenaar and suffered!
from i . >-sure. The wounded moin
bei-s of the crew were in had shape
and two of them are e..pooled to die.
KUCHIN DEFIES
HIS CRITICS
Ir *ernational Newt Servic*.
WASHINGTON, April 5,— Close
friends of Majority Header Claude
Kitchen say he will vote against
war. Kitchen says he will explain his
stand when the proper time comes.
A movement is on to replace him
with a man whom it is known will
act In accordance with the adminis
tration.
WASHINGTON, April 5.—Majority
Header Kitchen announces his vote as
for war.
This announcement created a sen
nation, and ho followed with an ova
tion.
Slating that his conscience and
judgment had shown him the path of
duty he must tread that path if hare
foot and alone.
lie said he knows he will'be critic
ized from one end of the land to tho
other by a yelling band of critics
Hut that his duty to his belief in what
is right at such a time must te para
inoun* in spite of ouuhr. opinion.
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CANADIAN TROOPS
GALLANTRY MENTIONED
International News Service
LONDON, April 5.—Reporting Im
portant gains on the outskirts of St.
Quentin Field Marshall Douglas Haig
in his dispatch states that the Brit
ish troops have taken possession of
many villages within striking dis
tance of the city.
Thed ispatch states that a complete
change of front hns been made on the
British linr for a distance of ten miles.
This move is made to enable the at
tacking of St. Quentin from three
sides.
Considerable gains were in this
morning's attack in which the bravery
of the Canadian troops is especially
mentioned.
BARIS, April 5.—The southwestern
section of the town of St. Quentin
is now under a heavy shell fire di
rected from the reserve trenches of
the French forces. During last night
the front line advanced and captured
much ground and are now well en
trenched waiting the close of the ar
tillery duel before the general advance
is made.
The opinion of the general staff
here is that St. Quentin will be in
the hands of the allied forces within
the next five days notwithstanding
the immense strength of its fortifica
tions. When this city is in the hands
of the Franeo-British forces It will
be their last obstacle until they cross
the Franco-Belgian border.
NEWS NOTES.
Smothered in reindee- furs c:.d with
a Sheekleford-Peary expression on
his sunburnt face H.irry I.omen re
turned to the city yesterday from his
trip in the Arctic regions. Harry has
been away in the wilds of the Kou
Shrok. Traveling with the reindeer
express over hill and date and taking
no thought for trails or roadhouses
Harry siwashed It out at night, ato
snowballs, froze his face and hands
and thawed them out again and ar
rived at the Hot Springs happy. He
made the return trip to Nome In rec
ord time and Is now back at his old
stand.
M’AOOO ASKS THREE
BILLION TOR ARMY
liAernatronal News Servic®.
WASHINGTON, April 5. Secre
tary of the Treasury McAdoo is about
to ask for an emergency lump sum
of three billion dollars.
This he says will be needed to take
cure of the army department in fur
therance of the plans that are being
mapped out. He says that the treas
ury department must lie in a posi
tion to place at the disposal of all
other branches, whatever money may
lie necessary without the least delay.
That this money will he placed at
his command seems without ques
tion.
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AMR. PENTIELD IS j
LEAVING VIENNA
International New* Service.
WASHINOT i\ April 5. Official
announcemen' w is >na i>' today that
.• mbiisKiidnr t’onfield is ieaOng Vie 1
11 ' with Mrs. I’enfield.
No •■xplaeation is given for the
cause of his leaving, tl is understood
he will return by way of Switzerland.
'1 he embnssv •- lap in eh urge of As
sistant Grew. oiTi/i.'ils here while
refusing to discuss the Austrian sit
uation expressed their views that
I’enfield would be as safe in Vienna
as any other citizen.
REP. COOPER
CHALLENGES
•n'e. national News Servlc«.
WASHINGTON. April 5.—A sensa
tion was sprung in ‘.lie house today
by Henry Allen Cooper, representa
tive from Wisconsin.
He challenged the president’s state
ment that American lives were lost
at the time the Sussex was attackd.
He stated that as yet no positive
proof had been forthcoming that Am
ericans had been lost.
The matter was put over pending
j further investigation.
MILLER RESURRECTS
ZIMMERMAN LETTER
International News Service
WASHINGTON, April 5.—Repre
sentative Miller of Minnesota today
I produced what he purported to be
an unpublished paragraph of the Zim
merman letter. This paragraph told
of ordering the establishment of sub
marine bases in Mexico and also or
dering all the German reserves in the
United States into Mexico to attack
us along the border. Miller claims
that ho received his information from
good authority.
Secretary Lansing declares lhat the
information Is utterly untrue.
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buyers of Cabaret tickets.
LORD NORTHCLIFFE URGES U. S.
SEND TROOPS AT ONCE
International News Service*
LONDON, April 5. All British and
French newspapers hail the t’nit'd
States as allies today.
There is great rejoicing over the
fact that into the breach steps a na
tion that has, to use the expression
that is heard on all sides today "never
been whipped."
Lord Northedift’e, ownei of the Lon
ilon Times, sviiod in his paper today,
that I he I'nited States should at once
send troops across. He said that with
the .ini of the Americans, who can
In* in position on the battle front when
Russia is ready for her great drive,
we can force the central powers t«.
their knees.
In refering to shipping, he points out
j'i. \ this ne v move will end the at
tacks on merchant men, as (lermany
I will keep tier .submarine where she
ican make better use of them. His
article finished? by saying that the
world is due for a surprise, that will
come on the nature of the speed with
which America will get into action.
As he has positive knowledge that
this country has made preparations,
far beyond those of which the general
public has any conceptions.
Lord Northeliffe is considered one
of the best posted men in the news
paper world, and any statement eman
t.'ing from bis otlico carries wonder
ful weight among his re el -r through
cut the world
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FAIRBANKS OFFERS U. S.
FIVE HUNDRED MEN
Pacific News Service.
FAIRBANKS, April 5. « n» the »<
ceipt of the wur flash Iasi night im
mediate arrangements were made to
organize two companies of volunteers
from hi ll1 to answer the rail‘to arms.
The war department were notified of
the fact that Fan hanks Was perfect
mg a lililitaiy organization and would
agree to furnish two companies oi
men who would come up to the stand
ard requirements for military service.
Volunteers were called for today
and before 9 o'clock one hundred and
I fil l \ »»1’ Kail bank's best pledged
, l tielliselv es. I I IS expected that by to
, morrow night ovei live hundred will bo
t»n the list.
Man \ of Ka irba uk's representative
: business and mining men have sign
et! tb> roll a id phono calls from the
sin rounding erei-k of men offering
'hen services keep coming in.
An aaswre from the war department
is hourh exported the opinion being
that all the interior Alaskan volun
. teers will be mobolized at Tanana
! where there is ample room in the
111 iiit;ii \ encampment. Tin* Alaskan
volunteers would go into immediate
training under tin* ollU ■ rs of the mil
! »t.;: post at 1’mt Gibbon and would
1 \ the opening of navigation have a
fait knowledge of the game of war.
Itnby and tin* IdFarod sections
. would also send th»*ir quota of voltin
j fi»i mi!ilar> s. r\a e to Fu”t Gib
bon and that little ramp in the cen
t i and bed of the u.igl f\ Yukon inay
j be the scene of mu h military activi
| ties before the big river breaks up
again.
GERMAN JOURNALISTS
PAN PRESIDENT WILSON
international News Service.
itlOUIJN, April 5.—The newspapers
throughout Germany condemn Presi
dent Wilson openly stating that lie |
is endeavoring to rush the people of j
the Pnited States into war with a
eountr.\ who is struggling to maintain ,
her existence iii the face trarnendoiis
odds.
They accuse the president of pub
licly supporting the starvation block
ade which the allies have been trying
to accomplish. They state that the
German people will still assert their
superiority as a lighting nation even
if the I’nited States decades to enter
the war and say they will acquire by |
conquest what they are now depri\
I'd «*f by ;t coinbi 11ation who seek the
extermination of their natid^i.
Tin > declare that America from a
militaiA standpoint is too la'.e to be i
of any estimable value to tin* nations |
who now oppose them as their re- |
sources are such that (leiinany can |
hold out indefinitely.
If I go on crutches I’ll be at the
Cabaret Saturday night.
SINK BRITISH STR.
ALL ARE SAVED
International News Service.
BOSTON, April 5.—Tlie British
steamer Canadian was sunk today by
a German submarine.
The Canadian was a vessel of nine
thousand tons capacity and has been
in service for the past four years on
the run between Boston and Liver
pool.
houseTakes up ”
1 FLOOD RESOLUTION
Internationa) News Service.
WASHINGTON, April 5.—At ten
thirteen this morning the house took
up the Flood resolution for debate.
Flood took the floor and entered
on what looks like a long speech. He
Ilr. llurne the ship's surgeon cabeld
that all on board were saved.
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is going into the matter in a way
that proves that he has studied the
situation down In ‘.be most minute
detail.
That ah all daj debate is ahead
seems assured.
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MINE WORKERS
MAY DEMAND
INCREASE
lu'erriational News Service,
INDIANAPOLIS, April 6.- Repre
sent a ti\iH of the mine workers say
they may demand an inerease. De
spile tier fact that their signed agree
ment has still a year to run, it is
claimed that tlie mine workers are
considering a proposal to demand a
li\e to ten pet cent increase in wages,
The Representatives from Illinois,
Indiana, Ohio and western Pennsyl
vania are new at a meeting thrash
ing out this tfuestion and expect to
arrive at conclusions at once.
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girl for the babies and the time of
you life for the gents at the Cabaret.
DARE DEVIL EXPLOIT
BY GERMAN U BOAT
international News Service.
LONDON, April 5.—One of the most
daring exploits in ihe history of sub
marine warfare was tbo visit of a
German U boat Into the harbor at
Portsmouth this afternoon. The sub
marine destroyed two torpedo boats
and whilst advancing to the naval
dockyards was blown up by a mine.
Considerable excitement prevailed
in the harbor which was occupied by
many war-ships Torpedo nets were
put out by all ships and the light flo
tilla of destroyers and torpedo boa's
went out under all steam to the Isle
of Wight where another submarine
had been sighted.
The action of the U boat In coming
through the harbor which was packed
with shipping, mostly merchantmen,
and selecting for his prey the fast
torpedo boats is considered to be one
of the most dare-devil maneuvers
executed on the water sititje sink
ing of the Merrlmac.