20,000 SPIES
KNOWN BY (1. S.
SECRET SERVICE
(By United Sute* U»ble>
NEW YORK.—(Special.) — United
States secret service men, working in
connection with English detectives,
are listing the suspected German
spies in this city, ami have already re
corded over 20,000 names. Those
parties will be kept under surveillance
and will be immediately taken into
custody in the event of hostilities.
For the past two and one-half years
agents of the government have been (
investigating thousands of Germans
in connection with Scotland \ aril de
tectives and many have been shown to
have been constanly furnishing the,
German government with information
regarding the naval and military
plans of the United ‘States and Eng
land. In the raid on the office of
WoltT Von lgle, the ex-German con
sul in this city last year a list of more
than 1,000 names of Germans loyal to
the impreial government was found.
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“Damaged- Hoods,” the play which
carries with it a denunciation of the
double standard of morality will be
shown at the Km press tonight.
“Damaged Hoods” pictures the ter
rible consequences of vice and the!
physical ruin that follows abuse of
the moral law. It is a stirring plea
for a pure life before marriage, in or
der to make impossible the transmis
sion of hereditary taints to future
generations. Children under 1(1 will
of age not admitted to this perform
ance.
BIDS CALLED FOR CARS ON U.S.R.R.
(By I'nitod State* ('able)
SEATTLE, Tuesday, March (».—
liids were called today for six new
refrigerator cars, two used combina
tion baggage and smoking cars and
two passenger coaches to be used on
the Anchorage division. Early de
SIX CANDIDATES
NAMED AT PRIMARY
SKATTLK.—(Special.)—in the re-‘
cent primary to select candidates for
the coming' election at which three
councilmen will hi* named, the follow
ing six gained a place on the final
ballot: Hesketh, 14,000; Krickson,
Lane, 9,128; Dale. 8.059; Cal
houn, 8,226; Phelps, 0,.‘198.
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supplies to construction camps this
summer.
All-Alaska News
The live-year-old daughter of An
tone Courda, of Douglas, playing
with sticks in the lire, set the bed
clothing on fire. She ran to a neigh
bor’s and told that her little sister
was crying because the smoke was so
thick. The little one was rescued but
the house was totally destroyed.
While the freighter Cordova was
lying at Juneau recently C. Stoessel.
a member of the crew fell overboard
sometime during the evening, to the
ice below, and was not discovered un
til the following morning. Whether
he was killed by the fall or froze to
death is not known.
\ largely signed petition has been
sent out by the residents of the Ta
kotna district to the Alaska road
commission asking that a summer
road be constructed between Ophir
and Takotna. a summer trail staked
between Ophir and Iditarod, and build
a trunk road from Ruby to Seward.
Cecil H. Clegg, the well known at
torney of Fairbanks is now president
of the Grand Igloo of Pioneers of Al
aska. Mr. Clegg, who was chosen
vice president of the Grand Igloo at
the last election of officers, succeeds
the late John (I. Heid, of Juneau, who
was elected president at the same
time.
A. M. McHenry of Anchorage, is
authority for the statement that
Frank B. Cannon, of Knik, who was
recently elected to the territorial leg
islature, and who has been for some
weeks past in Southern California
for his health, has almost entirely
recovered from the stroke of
paralysis he suffered early in Septem
ber.
' Charles Crawford
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KARL GRAVES,
! MASTER SPY,
| IS FREE AGAIN
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. — There
will be no further prosecution of the
case against Karl Armgaard Graves,
self-styled “master spy,” arrested
here recently charged with attempt
ing to extort $”.,000 from Countess von
Bernstorft’. Graves is now out on bail
pending a preliminary hearing set for
March f> Government agents hand
ling the case have abandoned all plans
respecting it because the principal
witnesses against Graves are connect
ed with the German embassy and will
have departed from the United States
before the time set for the arraign
ment.
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