CONSCRIPTION DUE IN EVENT
. OF WAR; GENERAL STAFF HAS
PLAN TO MAKE ARMY IN YEAR
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' WASHINGTON. — (Special.)—
With conscription as a basis, the
army general staff has worked out a
plan of operation for the United
States army to he followed in war.
In the main this plan involves:
First, using the present regular
army and national guard as a force
to train an army of 2.000,000 in one
year, sending no troops to Kuro|v»
during this period.
1 Second, obtaining the immediate
passage of a universal military ser
vice law and calling out the first three
classes under that law for training.
Third, establishing training camps
in every state, and more than one
camp in states which have large
cities.
Fourth, putting American munition
plants and other factories to work
turning out supplies for an army of
this size and converting other factor
ies so that they may manufacture war
material.
100 Pi visions Planned
The tentative plan of the army gen
eral staff calls for the creation of 100
army divisions of 20,000 officers and
men each. For this army there would
he required something like 50,000 of
ficers. At present there are 0,000 of
ficers in the United States army.
If the present plan of giving a ma
jor general command of a division
were carried out. there would he 100
major generals needed instead of the
present half dozen, ami a proportion
ate increase in brigadier generals,
which would necessitate the creation
of a big list of genera lofficers from
the grades below.
Vi preparing the data for the pro
posed universal service bill the army
staff decided that there would br- *,*
000.A00 young men subject to call for
military training every year, if the
call embraced every youth attaining
the age of IS or that year* It was
estimated that one-third of this num
ber would not be available, through
failure to meet physical standards
and for other causes, leaving some
thing like 665,000 men in each class.
Would Call Out Three Classes
To give the army a force of 2,000,
000 in the first year, therefore, tju‘
I general staff would call out the first
I three classes; that is, those young
men attaining the ages of IS, 10 and
20 the first year.
Using all the present regular and
, militia officers and such noncommis
sioned officers »as were capable as a
training force, staff officers believe an
i army of 2,000.000 could be turned out
| in a year, and that an army of 4,000,
000 could be trained in two years,
j The United States army then would
I be able to meet any situation which it
might he called upon to face.
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WITH FRANCE
IN FINANCE
WASHINGTON.—(Special.)— The
federal reserve board today author
ized the appointment of the Bank of
France as correspondent of the fed
eral reserve bank of New \ork. Other
federal reserve banks, it was an
1 nounced, will bo permitted to partici
pate in the arrangement upon its
establishment.
Authority for the appropriation
was granted in pursuance of the
board's policy of extending the bank
ing connections of the federal reserve
system throughout the world and was
foreshadowed by similar action taken
in the case of the Bank of England
1 ;st December.
As the Bank of France, like the
Bank of England, ami the federal re
serve system are official government
organs, the establishment of the pro
posed arrangement will link the fin
ancial departments of the United
States anti France in an official ca
pacity for the first time.
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THREE SLAIN
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ST. LOUIS.—(Special.)—St. Louis
has three times as many murders per
100,000 of population as New York.
In a list of thirty-one cities of the
county, St. Louis stands ninth in the
percentage of homicides-, according to
; population.
Chief of Detectives Allender told
this at a hearing of the criminal jur
isdiction committee of the senate at
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Jefferson City.
The committee is in charge of the
j Allender bill requiring the registra
tion of all sales of firearms.
i All-Alaska News
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The employees of the commission
at Xenana have organized a volunteer
fire department. Mr. H. P. Curtis,
general storekeeper, has been ap
pointed chief, and Mr. J. J. O’Neill,
' assistant chief. Apparatus for fight
ing tire has been distributed among
the commission buildings and a sys
tem of fire* alarms installed.
Nineteen carloads of coal were
brought to Anchorage by the Sour
dough Limited from the Eska creek
and Doherty coal mines. This is the
largest shipment of coal yet received
in the Anchorage yards and Photo
grapher Hunt took a picture of the
train that was in charge of Engineer
Elms and Conductor Knight.
H. McAlernan, an employe of the 240
mill at Treadwell, dropped dead re
cently while on his way from the
mess house to the mill to go to work.
J. S. Matthews, who has been tak
ing a census of Anchorage for the
purpose of publishing a city directory,1
i says that he has 5,209 names of bona
tide residents of that city.
Miss Margaret Keenan, superinten
| dent of the Fairbanks' public school,
| has been appointed by Governor
Strong as representative of the terri
tory at a national convention of
teachers to be held at Indianapolis
next summer.
Walter Shields of the department
| tff education, returned to Nome re
cently from a trip to Cape Prince of
! Wales. He reports the natives are
having a prosperous year as foxes
ami lynxes are very plentiful.
The Icy Stratis Packing company
: is the name of a new $100,000 corpor
ation recently organized at Juneau for
following the fishing and packing
business in the waters of Alaska. The
officers of the new corporaiotnetaaa
officers of the new corporation are J.
C. McBride, president; Herman T.
Trip, vice president; and H. L. Faulk
ner, secretary and treasurer.
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