The Cordova daily times. [volume], November 03, 1917, Image 1

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V. Nov. 3. — A German re
'ng party captured American
■n the Rhine at Marne canal,
'dally announced that over
iaoners were taken in the
npaign on the Italian front,
s no important fighting on
1 front yesterday.
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By Associated Press)
\ Nov. 3. — The Teuton pres
oticeable on the left wing of
tan army on the Tagliamento
he Italians detained the Teu
#npts to reach the right bank
iver. ' •
iPiGKETBOAT
Ifl ITS GREW
WNGTON, Nov. 3. — The navy
nent has announced that a
boat of tlie U. S. S. Michigan
ed October 30, and apparently
ire crew of twelve was lost.
;f the bodies have been, reeov
no tract’s have been found
ur the remainder of the
-HINGTON, Nov. 3. — It is be
that a picket boat on patrol
oundered in a heavy sea or rnet
in accident and that the entire
-as lost.
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MAIL CAR IS BURNED.
* of the N. G. mail cars was
, jl up fast week at the Sourdough
house. It is said that the fire
started by an explosion caused
ling the tank with gasoline while
ogine was running.
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AL TEMPERANCE LEGION
SILVER MEDAL CONTEST
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ie latter part of the coming week
Residents of Cordova will be given
.pportunity to hear some of the
hful speakers of the town on var
subjects relating to our moral
.re.
is is the first of a series of con
t for medals and all should show
appreciation by attending or con
ting. A varied program which
be published later will be ren
1 during the evening. The con
will be held at Hegg’s Hail, the
t date to be announced soon. An
* ission of 25 cents will be charged,
public is most cordially invited.
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be steamer Victoria sailed from
ova direct for Seattle at 10 o’clock
morning, with five first class and
ty steerage passengers from here,
he could accommodate. She also
|: out 1200 tons of copper ore.
:ine All Comedy change of short
’ subjects at the Empress Theatre
- evening. Also Hearst Pathe
y s. Lillian Walker in (ireen Stock
h tomorrow evening—A comedy
una in five acts with the Hearst
I he News.
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Che young women of the eommun
A are invited to meet at the Red
■agon Club House next Wednesday.
8 p. m., for tire purpose of organiz
a junior auxiliary to the Red
ss. All over fifteen years are eer
ily invited. This is none-sectarian.
ter the business session a pleasant
ur will be spent.
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(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Nov. --The admiralty
announces that there are certain Brit
ish forces of Kngiand in Cattegart arm
of the North sea, between Sweden and
Denmark, and prisoners are being
brought in. No further information
is available. It is unknown whether
the prisoners are from the raiders.
POLES FIGHT FOR
INDEPENDENCE
PARIS. Nov. 3-—The new autono
mous .army that is being organized
in France to fight on the western
front for the eventual freedom of an
independent Poland has just been
augmented by the enlistment of Poles
of the Russian brigades that for a
year and a half past have been figh
ing on the French front.
While the new Polish army will be
composed largely of Polish recruits
from the United States, the enlist
ment of these veterans of both the
Russian and French front is consider
ed of value.
In conjunction with the Polish vol
unteers who served during the first
three years of the war in the French
ranks, and who now form the first
troops of the autonomous Polish army,
these picked, trained and experienc
ed troops give the young Polish army
a solid military neucleus that is ex
pected to have influence in the organ
ization of the new army! There Rus
sian and Polish veterans, with three
years of actual warfare behind them,
will be used largely in drilling the
n ftw rc>/>pilUo
The enlistment in the new Polish
army of these contingents from the
Rusian brigades in France was done
with the full permission and sanction
of the new Russian provisional gov
ernment. All Russians of Polish ori
, gin or extraction were allowed their
own choice of either the Polish or
j Russian army for future service.
The voyage of these new Russian
| volunteers across France to the Po
lish camp where the new army is be
ing organized on an independent, au
tonomous basis, was a sort of trium
phal procession marked by nn inci
dent of the most striking Interest.
: The locomotive drawing the train
j flew the crimson and white flag of
reborn Poland, although the soldiers
| filling the cars wore the Russian tini
j torm in which they had come to
France together with the medals con
j firred upon them by the Czar, they
chattered in Polish and Polish colors
were pinned on their breasts.
At every station at which the train
stopped, enthusiastic crowds greeted
them. Then as the train came into a
large station in the central part of
France, strange cries were heard from
an opposite track of the railway.
Twenty German prisoners, all from
Posen who were employed in unload
ing freight cars yelled with surprise
as they beheld the train bearing thp
| White Eagle of Poland and the Po
lish national colors.
Their surprise turned into bewil
derment. as in answer to Ihelr cries,
there popped out of the windows of
, every car the heads of Russian sol
1 diers, wearing the caps of the Rus
sian army yet trimmed without ex
ception with the Polish colors. News
of the formation of the new autono
mous Polish army was given, and to a
man the Polish-German prisoners
; threw down their working utensils and
begged to be allowed to join tl.eir
brothers in arms for th4 independence
f'o Poland.
I It was only with the utmost dif
I ficulty that they were made to under
; stand that under international laws
! of war, they as prisoners, could not be
allowed to take up arms on French
j soil.
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The Rag-Time Trio will play their
: regular dance tonight at Eagle hall.
JUDGES AWARD PRIZES
TIMES’ AUTO CONTEST
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► We, the Judges, find the following to be the correct count accord- ♦
► ing to votes filed on subscriptions and award the prizes as follows: 4
4 MRS. BLANCHE BUTLER (first) Ford Car or $500.00 gold. 4,243,000 ♦
4 MISS CATHERINE DENNIS (second) Victrola. 4,087,600 ♦
4 MISS MARIE ROSSWOG (third). Victrola . 4,029,000 8
4 MRS. SADIE MCDONALD (fourth) Elgin Watch .... .2,207,580 *
4 MISS LOTTIE LARSEN (Honorable Mention) .. 2,093,603 ♦
4 The above to be as an order for the prizes ori the publisher of ♦
4 The Times. Judges of the Campaign: 6
4 J. F. GALEN, - ♦
4 EDWARD F. MEDLEY. ♦
4 W. H. CHASE. ♦
4 Signed this 3rd day of November, 1917. ♦
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(By Associated Press)
LANSING, Mich., Nov. 3. — William
Sailer, 56 years old, and a well known
litizen, was given a mock trial and
:onvicted ol' pro-Germanism. He was
afterwards tarred and feathered by a
?rotip of citizens wearing white robes.
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SEIZE PHONE ;
WASHINGTON Nov 3. — Frank J.
McNulty, peeuidrnt of the bn' 'rnntlon
at As*o< iation of Electrical Workers,
lias telegraphed the striking telephone
operators in the Northwest cities to
return to work pending mediation.
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 3. — Noth
ing has resulted as yet from the mes
sage Mediator Reed sent to Secretary
of Labor Wilson yesterday, recom
mending that the government seize
and operate the Pacific Telephone and
Telegraph Company, and admitting his
failure to settle the strike. Reed
urged that President Wilson be ad
vised to commandeer the plants in the
interests of national defense. The Se
attle strikers are still out, despite or
ders from their international to return
to work. /
PORTLAND DROPS OUT
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE.
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SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 3. — Sac
ramento Is to replace Portland in the
Coast Baseball League. Portland will
probably 'join the Northwestern
League.
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NOW JUST LISTEN
to the music at Kagle Hall tonigh*.
The Rag-Time Trio on the stand, and
it’s fine dancing weather, too. Better
come.
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The freighters Valdez afid Juneau
ure in port, loading copper ore. The
former will take out 3600 tons and
the latter complete her cargo hy tak
ing 300 tons, having aboard ore from
Latouche, Kllamar and Landlock bay.
The Hancock boys brought their
newly built boat from Boswell bay to
Flemming Spit yesterday. It is a neat
craft and reflects the mechanical
genius of the designers and builders.
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Angus McDougal, of the Chitina
Kuskulana Copper Company, left on a
short business trip to the states on the
Victoria.
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The cinnibar properties on tho Kus
kokwim. near Georgetown, have turn
ed out well this season. It is reported
that Fuller. Willis and Millett, who are
operating the properties, have done
well this season and have retorted
considerable, quicksilver.
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(By Associated Press*
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 3. — Appoint
ment of a supervisor of teacher train
Ing courses in household economics
will be considered at the Januar]
meeting here of the California stat<
board of education. The position wll
tarry a salary of $24,000 iinnfially. an*
traveling expenses.
The appointment is the second ti
be considered under the terms of th<
Smith-Hughes hill providing for fed
oral and Htate aid for vocat’onal edu
cation. The first appointment wn:
made at the meeting of the stati
Ijoard last week when J. B. Liltard
supervisor of agriculture in the Lo
Angeles city schools, wag named stati
supervisor of agriculture at a salary o
$3,600 a year. Lillard ijegan his net
duties on Thursday.
The household economics sniper vi
sor. will be expected to supervise tin
training of teachers who are prepai
ing themselves to teach home econc
mica under a standard course require*
of schools seeking federal aid for vc
rational education.
The revised and re-enacted stat
workmen’s compensation, insuranc
and safety act, which becomes effec
five January 1. 1918, and fixes th
date of the beginning of corapenss
tion payments on the eleventh day o
disability instead of the fifteenth a
now provided, will necessitate an ir
crease in rates charged state cornper
sation insurance fund policy holder
according to the insurance commit
sion. A temporary rate will be fixe<
to cover the increase caused by th
reduction of the "waiting period” ur
til the effect of the change on the cos
has been determined.
The revised law provides that al
employers must carry insurance or ol
tain from the industrial accident con
mission, a certificate to self-insure
The employer will be required to fm
nista proof of ability to carry his ow
insurance and pay any compensatio
that may become due to employes
before the certificate is granted.
State compensation insurance fun
policy holders have been informe<
that policies in force will automat
rally cover the additional liability ur
der the new law.
The California Iteal Estate llirec
tory of licensed brokers and salesmei
is being printed and will be ready fo
distribution within a few days, at
cording to Freeman H. Bloodgootl
state real estate commissioner. Th
law licensing real estate dealers wa
passed at the last session of the legit
lature.
As soon as the directories have beei
distributed the commission will sem
inspectors to different cities in searcl
of persons who may not have obtainei
licenses.
"l-icensed brokers are placed unde
bond to the state as a pledge of gooi
faith and financial liability under th
terms of the law," Bloodgood said
"Unlicensed brokers are violators o
the law. and no redress can be securei
on grievances of clients dealing wit]
them.”
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(By Associated Press)
COPENHAGEN. Nov. 3. — British I
destroyers have sunk the Crocodile, a !
j German commerce raider, and five
! armed trawlers in Scandinavian wat
| ers. Two Danish steamships saw the
German vessels burn and later sink.
• The Crocodile carried a crew of one !
hundred men and was a new ship of ]
; nearly a thousand tons burden.
( ELSINORE, Denmark, Nov. 3. —
Wounded men from a German' nuxil
j ary cruiser, sunk in the North sea, I
I were landed here and are probably!
! from a raider.
j PARIS, Nov. 3. — The French are
advancing between Oise canal and
Corbeny, and have reached the south
| bank of the Ailette river. The Ger
! mans retreated to the north bank and
^destroyed the bridges across the Ail
ette since October 23. The French
captured forty-two guns and seven
hundred and twenty machine guns.
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NORTHLAND CLUB ENTERTAINS
VISITORS FROM NOME.
1 Last evening the Northland Club en
! tertalned some of the passengers on
. the Victoria and crew of the Saturn.
1 President Thos. S. Scott welcomed
- the guests on behalf of the club. At
‘ torney W. A. Gilmore, of Nome, re
' sponded for the guests. Walter Gaff
ney impersonated Gus Bolte, the gen
- thwimn from Nome, who . “hires and
» fires" the government- eiswafw i..
fact he read a letter from the gentle
man, telling of conditions there. Af
1 ter a smoker the guests enjoyed danc
ing in Eagle hall. A supper and music
by George Kennedy finished a moi^j
delightful evening. The guests all
, voted the Northland Club royal enter
tainers.
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BAZAAR AND DANCE NETTED
THE RED ORAGON $275.
The Hallowe'en bazaar and dance
given by the Woman's Guild of the
Episcopal church at Eagle hall, was in
every way a great success. It would
be hard to say who was not present,
for the attendance was large and en
5 thusiastic. The merchandise sold to
. an article, and the booths and their
t presiding geauises a sight of rare
beauty, such a sight, in fact, that the
1 sum of $275 was left in their hands.
The Guild wishes to thank the pub
. lie for their usual graceful patronage.
and also wishes to thunk those who so
. generously contributed toward the mu
, sical part of the program.
, The proceeds will go toward current
, expenses of the 'Red Dragon Club
House and are a guarantee of the up
1 ikeep of this increasingly popular es
1 tablishment now in its tenth year.
t NAM E OF WOMEN’S GUILD
HAS BEEN CHANGED.
i The Woman's Guild Auxiliary met at
i- the Red Dragon yesterday afternoon.
. j After a short business session, at
| which it was decided to call the aux
, iliary the "Edith Cavell Auxiliary."
< and the day of meeting was changed
from Friday to Thursday afternoon of
each week at 2 p. m. The ladles busied
t themselves with knitting, and alto
1 gether it was a very profitable meet
i Ing. MRS. W. H. Chase, Secy.
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NATIVE IS SHOT.
1 A native known as "Dude,” was
* brought front Simpson bay yesterday,
. to the Cordova general hospital, where
f he is being treated by Dr. W. H.
I i^Chase. While out hunting for otter
t his gun accidentally discharged, blow
j ing off his right hand.
THIRTY KILLED
BATTLE
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Nov. 3—Thirty marines
on the cruiser Ma’rie, off Lensburg,
were killed in an engagement with
British destroyers, accordin' to dis
patches received from Copenhagen.
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(By Associated I’ress)
EL PASO, Nov. 3. — In the arrest
of Ernest Lohendorff, the government
agents believe they have discovered
an underground route by which infor
mation was transmitted between the
United States and Mexico, for relay to
Germany.
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Nov. 3. — The British
vessels destroyed ten ships or an
armed patrol craft, in addition to a
'German auxiliary cruiser. The cruiser
was probably a raider, as she carried
six-inch guns. ^
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SPEED BOAT •
LONDON, Nov. 3. — An electrical
ly controlled speed boat attacked Brit
ish vessels patrolling the Belgian coast
and the speed boat was destroyed.
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A largely attended patriotic meet
ing was held in the A. B. hall. Mc
Carthy, on Sunday evening last.
Practically everybody in town was
there and a most interesting program
was rendered, Ihe flag drill, by the
school children, being one of the fea
tures. Speeches that rang true were
delivered by Judge Barnes, who pre
sided. Representative Joseph Murray,
Mrs. C. K. M. Cole and Judge O'Con
nor all gave vent to their Americanism
when the true status of t'ncle Sam's
participation in the war was made
clear to them.
Immediately after the meeting
Judge Barnes announced that Robert
Gottschalk, chairman of the executive
committee of Cordova chapter. Ameri
can Red Cross, was present, and ho
thought then and there was ihe time
for McCarthy to organize an auxiliary.
He called upon Mr. Gottschalk, who
explained ihe necessary steps to take
at the conclusion of which a tempor
ary organization was effested by the
election of the following officers:
Judge Barnes, chairman; Mrs. Samuel
Laurie, secretary; Judge Faddis, trea
surer; Mrs. C. F. M. Cole, chairman
membership committee, and Mrs. Geo
Rust, chairman entertainment commit
tee. Aft honor roll was opened and
practically all present joined, the
membership fees amounting to $635.
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