' VALDKZ, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 85, 1918 NI MBKR IS
rOlAMn ait*
GERMANYSHU 1
TALKING PEACE
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•i hsnrellor Hay* that Many of Wilson's
View* I ntennble—Never Intend
ed to Hold Belgium "
BERLIN. Jan. 25.-—Chancellor von
Hurtling, addressing the reichstag
(hi* morning, demanded that the lead
ers of the nations at war with Ger
many set forth new proposals. He
stated that the terms outlined by
President Wilson and Lloyd George
contain certain principles which could
be accepted with honor by Germany,
but concrete proposals at best were
unsatisfactory.
Commenting ou the fourteen points
wet forth in the terms for world peace
by President Wilson in his recent ad-,
dress to Congress, the Chancellor said!
ihat an agreement could be obtained]
without difficulty on the first fourj
points, but asserted that there could!
be no talk on the cession of the pro-!
•winces of Alsace-Lorraine by Germany!
••o France, and that the matter would ,
..dmit of no discussion as Germany;
;,nd France were the interested par-j
lies.
• i /miHifntinc vtujH that GCT
many had never demanded the incor-j
i,oration of Belgium territory by vio-l
Hence; that she had never intended to!
„nnex any of her territory, but was I
• iorced to wage war on her to reach
her enemies. The state of Poland, he
declared, would be decided by Ger
many and Austria-Hungary. When all
other questions had been settled and
brought to a head. Germany would
be ready to discuss the question of a
neace league.
The chancellor declared that Ger
many did not wish nor had never
,,een in favor of annexation by vio
ence, but that the question of north
ern France could be discussed only
by France and Germany. The evacua-,
lion of Russian territory was a ques-!
-,ion which only concerned Russia and j
ihe central powers.
Chancellor von Hertling stated that I
while negotiations with Russia had)
been temporarily suspended, he still |
held fast to the hope that the Brest-!
Litovsk negotiations would reach!
satisfactory conclusions at an early j
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Advocates Exchange of \ iews
BERLIN. Jan. 25.—Following
hancellor von Hertling. Count Czer
nin addressed the Reichstag, stating
•hat an exchange of views between
America and Austro-Hungary might
form the starting point for a concil
iatory discussion among all nations
which have not yet entered into peace |
negotiations.
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Declarations dear Way
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 25.
Based on the cabled outlines of the
speeches of Chancellor von Hertllng
and Count Czernin before the Reich
stag today, the opinion is expressed
by officials here that a substantial ad
vance has been made toward final
peace terms, as a result of these dec
orations.
POLICE TO HAVE ROSTER
OP GERMAN TONGUES
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25.—A ros
ier of the German speaking officers in
the San Francisco police department
is being made up by Chief of Police
D. A. White. The chief has announc
ed that the men will be formed into
a squad for the arrest and question
ing of Teutons wbo may be caught
in the commission of acts detrimen
tal to the best interests of the city and
country.
Company commanders have been
asked to prepare a list of the German
speaking officers in their commands
and to forward such list to Chief
White, He is now trying to find an
appropriate name for this squad.
C. A. Schonaker, representing the
Richmond Paper Company of Seattle,
is interviewing old friends In the city
this week in the Interest of his firm.
He is an old resident of Alaska, hav
ing conducted a brokerage business in
Juneau for many years, and has a
host of friends in the city. He will
leave for Cordova on the steamship
Northwestern.
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Donohoe will
leave on the Northwestern for Juneau,
where Mr- DonohP® 1» Interested Ip
several eases before the district court.
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MILLIONA IRK'8 (U lST
HOQPIAM, Jan. 25.—A letter re
ceived a few days ago from W. P.
Phillips, well known Hoquiam young
man, a member of the naval militia
now in port at New York City, tells of
the hospitality of the Easterner. The
reputation of being “stuck up. he
declares is misapplied, for the people
of New York are doing their utmost
to entertain the sailors and soldiers
in their midst.
Phillips tells of a millionaire who
invited him and his "matey" to feel
free to come and go to his home when
ever they are on leave, and to use his
automobile and his servants as they
felt Inclined. He also says he dined
a few days before writing with Theda
Bara, and of being entertained by the
wife of the ex-ambassador to Spain,
after which they attended grand
opera. A Russian count is another pro
minent party whom Mr. Phillips says
has extended the sailors much hospi
tality.
SEATTLE POLICE
MAKE 1 HAUL
Huge Stock of Liquors < ’onsigned to
Druggist Taken in by Dry Squad
in Raid Today
SEATTLE. Jan. 25. Eight thous
and dollars worth of liquor including
a large lot of champagne, wus seized
by the police today. It was consigned
to the Prince Drug Store, R. G. Stev
ens, proprietor. The dry squad under
direction of Chief Warren has nearly
Btamped out the illicit sale of liquor
In this city.
POPULAR TRAVELING MAN
MAKING IjAST TRIP
J. C. Moulton, the Alaska repre
sentative of the Seattle Hardware
Company, who has been in the city
the past few days, will leave tonight
for Cordova, from whence he will re
turn on the steamer Alaska to Sew
ard, taking dog team for Iditarod and
interior points, covering several thou
sand miles up the Yukon, and back
via Fairbanks. Mr. Moulton, who has
been with the company he represents
for the past thirteen years, states
that this will be his last trip,, he be
ing tired of the long trips and expos
ure incident to traveling in Alaska.
He has a host of friends here who re
gret to see him leave the territory.
The Order of Alaska Moose have
planned a big dance tomorrow night
to be held in their spacious hall. The
dance floor is in excellent condition
and the music will be of the best. A
good time Is assured all who attend.
WALTER CLARK TEAGLE
Walter Clark Teagle, formerly vice
president of the Standard Oil company
of New Jersey, hae been elected preel
dent of the corporation, aucceeding A.
C. Bedford, who becomes chairman of
the board of directors and chief exec
utive offleer. Mr. Teagle, who la not
yet forty years old, la a native of
Cleveland, O., and has been In the ell
business einoe graduating from eellea*
GUARDING NEW YORK WATER FRONT
Soldier on-gourd In lower West street, New York, questioning two uien j
wlio look to liltn like enemy ullens !
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Isks that Senate .Military Committee i
Cull Meeting so he May Reply
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to Senate Strictures
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 25.—
Secretary of War Baker addressed a
premptory letter to Senator Cham
berlain, chairman of military affairs,
demandisg that the senate military
committee meet without delay so that
he may defend the army from the re
cent severe strictures of Senator
Chamberlain and others, who have
charged that inefficiency exists and
that the department is smothered in
red tape.
“THE OLD HOMESTEAD”
AT EMPRESS SUNDAY
The world-famous rural classic,
"The Old Homestead,” in motion pic
tures, will appear at the Empress the
atre Sunday night. For more than
thirty years this popular play has
I amused the theatre-going public. It
jhas circled the globe three times and
been presented to over 20,000000
people. It has a gripping interest, and
its moral tone is excellent. It describes
I the efforts and failure of a country
boy to make his fortune in the city.
The city’s bitter dregs are poured out
upon him until in despair he returns
to the Old Homstead where loving
hearts await his coming; hearts whose
faith in him have never faltered. Here
he finds the peace and happiness he
has vainly hunted for in the big city.
A Pathe News will precede the play.
RETAILERS PATRIOTIC
| WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 25 —j
Approximately 75,000 food retailers
i have signed the food administration’s
pledge to give their customers fair
and moderate prices with no more
than a reasonable profit above cost, in'
the first week of the drive to enroll;
the 350,000 retailers of food comniod
! ities.
HEARING DELAYED
ST. PAUL, Minn.. Jan. 25.—The
late arrival of Francis J. Heney and
his associates, who were delayed by
the snow, caused a delay of several
hours in the opening of the St. Paul
hearing into the federal trade com
mission's packing investigation to
day. Witnesses were expected to be
gin testimony this afternoon.
A. I\ MEN DOING BIT
FOR UNCLE HAM
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 26.—
Nearly 200 telegraph operators in the
Associated Press service, responding
to appeals by the chief signal officer
of the army and the federal board of
vocational education to supply in
structors for national army men,
have volunteered to give a part of
their -own time to the work. They
will train thousands of drafted men
in schools to be opened in about twen
ty-five states and at each school at
least one “A. P.” man will sit la the
tasCrhctloe-work.
Ambassadors Confering With Holshe-j
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viki on Question—Will Stop j
ITo-Gcrmanism
PETROGRAD, Jan. 25.—The am
hassadors of several governments in
terested in the war met here today
ind are conferring with Bolaheviki
representatives with a view to recog
nizing that government. It is believ
ed this step will check much of the
pro-German sentiment existing among
Russian officials.
DREAM SHATTERED WHEN
HE IS POt'Ml) TOO YOt'NG '
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TACOMA. Jan 25. Chester K. j
Baldwin, l'i, allowed his patriotism!
and enthusiasm to overcome his judg-j
ment and enlisted in the 44th infan-1
try. G Company, Camp Lewis. When
his parents learned of his whereabouts
•he.v informed the commander of the
!4th infantry of Chester's true age.
and this morning the youth was dis
charged because of fraud in enlist-j
ing.
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SMUGGLERS USING EVERY
GAG TO HANDLE FOODS
EL l’ASO. Texas.. Jan. 25.—All of
the tricks which smugglers have used
in the past to get contraband goods,
ammunition and Jewelry in and out
of Mexico are now being employed to
get contraband foodstuffs into Mex
ico through this port.
False bottoms in trunks, wagons
and automobile trucks with two
floors and peddlers' carts with false
partitions are some of the devices re
sorted to by the men who would
evade the food embargo. Recently a
large quantity of lard and sugar, pro
hibited articles, wpre discovered un
der a pile of merchandise on a com
mission broker's float. The goods were
confiscated and the broker's license
revoked. It is believed much of the
smuggled contraband is being sent to
Germans in Mexico.
BABY BUGGY MAKER
WANTS EXEMPTION
NEW YORK. Jan. 25.—The dis
trict exemption board, St which Chas.
E. Hughes is a member has before it
for decision no less momentous a
question than:
"Is the manufacture of baby car
riages an estfental war industry?”
The board has already ruled that
pushing a baby buggy exempts a man
from the draft, and now there has ap
peared before it a man who contends
that there wHI be no buggies to push,
and, alack, perhaps to babies to be
pushed If the baby buggy manufac
turing industry in tbs country Is al
lowed to become all balled up by his
conscription Into the army.
The board has refused to decide
this grave matter without careful con
sideration and the case has been laid
over. .
KNIGHTS SET WASHINGTON
FUND QUOTA AT *100,000
NEW YORK. Jan. 25.—The board
of directors of the supreme council
of the Knights of Columbus begun a
two days' conference here late today
to consider war activities.
Walter Kearnan. overseas commis
sioner of the order, who has been in
France for several months investi
gating conditions relating to bases
and field secretaries, reported on the|
proposed work.'lie recommended the
appointment of a number of field sec
retaries. preferably not within the
draft age. and asked for boss work
men to supervise construction of port
able buildings to care for men as close
as possible to the trenches.
Directors from various parts of the
country presented assurances that
nearly $10,000,000 would be raised I
in this country by the Knights of Col-1
limbus for the war activities of the1
order iu France. Washington's quota '
is placed at $100,000.
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Will l>e Held Hi Otlire of Governor
Strong in .fttneuii l-'ch. 5.—Will
Affect Many Industries
JPNKAP. Jail. 25. At tin* sugges
tion of the Council of National In
tense public hearings upon petitions
for the suspension of the eight-hour
law as affecting lumber and logging!
industries, steamship *'and railway,
transportation, and the operation of:
mines in the territory will be held |
at the office of the governor at Ju
neau. beginning at eleven o'clock;
Tuesday. February 5, next.
Persons or companies desiring to be j
heard, either for or against these pe-1
titious, should be present or arrange!
for authorized representatives to ap
pear. The governor's office has sent ■
out notices to this effect to all dis
tricts in the territory.
I'MOV MIVKKS Wild.
DISCISS FIGHT-HOCK I.AW
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The members of Valdez I'nion No.
1SS, will meet in their hall Sunday af
ternoon to discuss the advisability
of entering a protest against the sus
pension of the eight-hour law insofar!
as it affects mining. The public is in-j
vited to attend this meeting at '■> !
o'clock. i
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IIOOTI.FGGFK GFTS
SFVFKF SFVTFMF
H. C. lteed, proprietor of the Hank
Pool Room at Anchorage, who was re
ceutlytried and found guilty by a jury
in Commissioner David's court at that
place, wa ssentenced yesterday by the
commissioner to pay a tine of $1,000;
and serve one year in the federal Jail. !
The case has been appealed to the dis
trict court.
MISS MAUD KAHN j
Mias Maud Kahn, N«w York ooeioty
girl and charity worker and daughter
of Otto H. Kahn, la driving a dlapateh
oar for tho Britlah feroea In luropo.
$ho bought her own automobile and
volunteered for tho worfc^ A"'.
HUNS ASSEMBLE
IMMENSE ARMY
KngUsh Military (Yitlc says that i'orw*
May Hatch iCJO Divisions—
Outnumber Allies
LONDON. Jan. 25. Col. It. Kil
ling, the famous military critic, writ
ing an article on the war outlook to
the lajndon Post says: “I am not go
ing to mince words. The Germans
have concentrated one hundred and
sixty divisions on the western front,
which is more than the combined
forces of the allies at war. These
forces may reach the enormous total
of two hundred and twenty divisions.”
Americans Arriving on Front
WASHINGTON. D. Jan. 25.—
While declining to comment directly
upon the statement attributed to
President Wilson that there would
be twice as many American soldiers
abroad next June as had been origin
ally planned. Secretary of War Maker
sad: -'l cannot discuss the number of
men in France or the anticipated
number to be in France at this time,
lint we have made substantial pro
gress."
VIENNA COtNCII. DEMANDS
MOItE IlKEAD STOCKS
XI'Kl('ll. Jan. 25. Tile municipal
council of Vienna threatens to resign
and disclaims all further responsibil
ity for feeding the city, declaring that
the permanent reduction of the flour
ration of Vienna is lacking. Die Post
admits that the last harvest was very
unsatisfactory. The Arbiter Xeitung
declares that of all the belligerent
countries, Austria is suffering most in
the matter of bread and flour sup
plies.
HIGHWAYMEN ItOD
SEATTLE EATING HOt'SES
SEATTLE, Jan. 25. Three high
waymen held up a downtown Chile
parlor and nearby oyster house here
early today, robbed the cash registers
and tile proprietors of $47 ami escap
ed in an automobile.
As they tied around a corner their
car skidded against a < urb. Patrol
man J. D. Sandusky, patrolling his
heat and knowing nothing of the rob
beries, saw the car and went to see if
lie could be of any assistance. Accord
mg to bis story, one of tin* trio point
ed a revolver at him and told hint to
mind his own business, while the driv
er speeded up the engine and drove off
into tile dark.
WHISKY IS HHiH
AMI SCARCE IX LONDON
New York. Jan. 25. —Arthur H.
Mappin. a coffee broker, who arrived
at an Atlantis port yesterday from
London on a business visit to Ameri
ca. said that the high price of Scotcli
whisky( with the restricted hours for
the sale of intoxicants and the auti
treatng law in England had made a
great difference in the habits of the
people. Even beer which has been des
cribed as the beverage of the British
workingman. Mr. Mappin continued,
has become so scarce that the public
ans sell out their allowance for the
week on Saturday and Sunday, and
many of them close their places for
the other five days.
“Whisky, which is now 50 per cent
water,” he went on to say. "costs a
shilling, of 25 cents, for a small meas
ure about the size of a tailor's thim
ble.
“This just suffices to dampen the
bottom of the large glass into which
it Is poured by the barmaid, and can
only be discerned by a person posses
sing strong eyesight. To get a real
Scotch highball costs about 60 cents
in American money and no treating is
allowed. Any person either treating
or passing money to another for the
purchase of a drink is liable to im
prisonment for 30 days and a fine of
$50.
"The average price of a bottle of
the denatured Scotch whisky is 12.
to 14 shillings, $3 to $3.50 in Am
erican currency, and beer or ale is a
shilling a pint. When an intoxicated
men la seen in the streets of London,
which is rare in these days, the taxi
cab drivers credit him with being a
millionaire, and vie with each other
in getting him as a patron.”