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The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
Congress Hears President WiIson's Address
CITIZENSHIP
 AND READINESS FOR
 WAR WILSON'S THEME

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-The doc trine of Pan-Americanism, with full partnership between the nations Of the Western hemisphere in the worlds affairs was proclaimed by President Woodrow Wilson today in his third annual address to Congress, the theme of which was preparedness by the United States, to defend not only It's own independence. but the rights of those with whom 1t has made a. con- mon cause.
 The message was read by the President to the Senate and House of Representatives. assembled in joint session, in the House chamber, at noon.
 Every recommendation embodied in the document had to do with compre- hensive plans for strengthening the national defense. and the program out lined included the army and navy plans already made public by Secre- tary Garrison of the War Department and Secretary Daniels of the Navy De- pertinent. legislation for government owned merchant ships, rural credit laws. Philippines and Porto Rico bills which failed of final passage at the last session, conservation legislation. laws giving federal aid to industrial and vocation education, and the crea- tion of a commission to inquire into the transportation problem.
 Naturalized natlye-Dorn Americans who by sympathizing with the Euro pean belligerents have plotted and conspired to violate their own coun- try's neutrality were scathingly de- nounced by the President and Con- gross was urged to provide adequate federal laws to deal with such offend CTS.
 Of preparedness for war the Presi- dent said: Unless you take it within your view and permit the full signif- canoe of 1t to command your thought I cannot find the right light In which to set forth the particular matter that lies at every front of my whole thought as address you today. l mean nation al defense. Great democracies are not belligerent-they do not seek or desire war. We insist upon security in our self-chosen lines of national development. The war has never been a mere matter of men and guns: 1t Is Q thing of disciplined might. IT our citizens are ever to fight efiec- lively. upon sudden summons, they must know how odern fighting is done and what 10 do when the sum mons comes Go render themselves im- mediately available and immediately effective"
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07

 STANDS PAT ON RECALLS

WASHINGTON. Dec. 7.-Secretary of State Lansing today answered Ger many's request for an explanation Of the demand for the recall of it's naval and military attaches at Washington, stating fatly to Ambassador von Bern storff that Captain Richard Boy-Ed and Captain Franz von Papen were undesirable because of their military and naval activities"
 It was learned at the White House that the decision will be adhered to by the United States, no matter what Germany does on it's account, as the President fully approves Secretary Lansing's stand
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
 OF FEVER
 IS FEARED

That Juneau is threatened with an epidemic of scarlet fever Is the belief which tomorrow may result in the closing of the public schools for per tod of at least seven days. Three cases Of the disease developed last night. two of them being serious and the other mild.
 Dr. F. M Bevis. health commissions CT. met with the school board at the office of Superintendent l.. D. Hen derscn this morning and after ways and means were discussed thoroughly it was decided to close the schools as a first preventative measure but later. further conference were held and late this afternoon the matter of clos ing the schools was undecided.
 The three cases which developed last night are Harvey Nicholson. Peter Nicholson. and Marie Latten. young high school student These patients have ail been confined in one house which Is ouarautred. lt is She be- lief of several of tho physicians in town that there are a number Of oth- CT cases which havc not been detect ed. since the disease seems to be at- tacklng in very mild form. It has been stated by two or three local doc tors that in all probability some of the so-cailed cases Of Ia grippe have really been scarlet fever in very mild form and that since the rash has been apparent only short time peo- pie have attributed it to other causes.
 Councilman Geddes and Wolland. as Of the health and police committees of the City Council have taken the matter in hand and the strictest quar- antine will be enforced over the cases which have developed and any others which may come to light
 A health officer will be appointed by these committees this afternoon whose duty it will be to investigate all cases of contagious diseases which are reported and where nevessary, to es- tablish and discharge quarantine This appointment had not been made at press time today
 The three known patients are quar- antined with four other persons, at the home of Mrs. Ida Pettingill.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07

 CAMPAIGN
 COST 7,OOO

LONDON. Dec. 7.-Further success es by the Central Allies in Serbia, and report of new activity on the Russi- an front featured the war news today. On the Italian and Gallipoli fields a lull in the fighting is reported.
 From Bucharest today, through Ger ban sources. came advices that the Austro-German losses in the Serbian campaign have been 1000 men, In killed, wounded and missing. It Is claimed that about 1000 men were killed by the Serbs
 Mutineers Were Shot?
 According to advices from Saloni- ka. three hundred Bulgarians were shot at Bucharest, for mutiny It is said they had been ordered to fo to the Dardanelles.
 A dispatch from Petrograd says the Czar has issued a rescript, postpon- ing indefinitely the opening of the Du- ma.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
SAYS INDIAN GIRL LEFT GEORGIA OF
 HER OWN ACCORD

Captain Edward Thornton. of the steamship Georgia. denied today that Mary Nook. a Kluckwan Indian girl. said by her tribespeople to be @ witch. was Kidnapped from the Georgia at Killisno0 last Wednesday, but said that. on the contrary. she left the boat of her own accord
 Captain Thornton and Purser Chas- Ottesen said this morning that sever al Indians came aboard the Georgia, probably Go see the girl. but that the Georgia's crew elected them from the boat. Later. others Of the crew say, the girl left the boat She had Q tick ct Co Sitka. and was expected to enter the Sheldon-Jackson school. It is al- legged that she is reaping O harvest Of money by practicing witchcraft, al- though the educational bureau officials say that she has disappeared at Kil- lisnoo. and Supt- Johns. of the mission at Sitka fears that she has been done away with.
 Although Mary Nook told the author ities here during the recent witch craft investigations that she wac 15 years old. the Indians say she is near CT 20
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
TEMPERANCE IS
 AID TO ENGLAND

LONDON. Dec. 7.-The new tenn perance regulations now being rigid iy enforced in Great Britain have al- ready had most beneficial effect upon labor. according to the report of Lord Dabernon. Chairman Of the LOquor Control Board.
 Wo-kmcn. he states. are now com ing of their duties in the morning prepared for a hard days work. They show up Tie for work and not with bodies haif sick and brains befuddled-
 The regulations. the report empna- sizes. are having a most salutary ei- feet upon the seagoing classes; drum kerness among sailors. dock laborers, end iiremen have decreased. New crews signed up are now more sober and ships are loaded and cleared with greater despatch than ever be- fore in consequence.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
vENIZELOS URGES
 ALLIES TO STOP
 ENEMY IN SERBIA
VI

LONDON, Dec. IT, The London Post contains the following interview from NJ. Venizelos. the great Greek statesman and leader Of the war par
 "I am not strategist. but two things seem quite clear to me. First the Germans are bound to be conquer ed in the end from the fact that the reserves from which they are draw ing their resources are much smaller than those at the disposal of the AL lies. The Germans in fact, have al- ready passed the zenith of their full strength. though they are still power ful enough to prolong Che struggle for a long time.
 Secondly, 1t seems to me that this new battle ground in the Balkans of fers favorable conditions Go the AL lies Their position in the west must be strong for them to hold on there and at the same time detach large bodies of troops for use here In the Balkans
 Tt is important that you should cut off Germany from supplies of men and minerals waiting for her in Tur- key and the morale effect upon the Greece and Roumanian countries of Allied success In the Balkans would ha considerable
 "A German reverse in the BaliSans too would have the most serious eff fleets for them at home The German people have been promised SO much and have so often been disappointed, first. at Paris. then at Calais and then in Russia. after the taking of Warsaw. and if this new enterprise, with its trumped aim of opening the road to Egypt. turns out another fall ure. the results is the interior of Germany may be disastrous
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07

SAN FRANCISCO Dec. 7.- The Hnl line frelghter Minnesota, believed 10 have been the victim of anti-Eng- fish plotters. is 500 miles South of San Francisco today, with all of her sixteen boilers out of commission and with three tugs hastening to her assistance.
 Captain Gallick wirelessed that the vessel was disabled from natural causes and did not explain the trou- bic which was told in previous wire less dispatches He failed in the mes sages received today, to mention the charge that the secret use of chemi- calls had been employed by a spy among the crew Co corrode the boiler tubes.
 The Minnesota left Seattle Noyem- Der l4 with 9 great cargo for England, including munitions of war.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
ITALIANS LEAVING
 UNITED STATES IN
 INCREASING NUMBERS

WASHINGTON. Dec. 7.-since the outbreak of the war in Europe 172'- S75 Italians have returned to their na- tive land to join the colors, and the records of each weeks departures show steadily increasing sailings of members of thls nationality the Blu rean of Immigration annotnces.
 ln the last four months 75,S67 ltal- lans sailed from Atlantic ports for home November figures indicate tha. not less than 10000 more left to join the colors.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
WISCONSIN SENATOR
 URGES GERMANS TO
 SUPPORT ONLY U. S. A.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 2. - Senator Paul Husting. the new Democratic Senator from Wisconsin. in a state ment directed to German born Ameri- cans. urged them not to forget that the American side of the hyphen Is the one that should control their ac- tions as citizens of the United States
 eve cannot learn too much good and the time is gone by when any nation has any right Co think that 1t has a monopoly Of an the excellence and goodness in the world" said Sem ator Husting. "We may well learn from Germany its methods of effic- iency. but. my friends. we cannot adopt It's form of government"
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
HEARING IN
 KRAUSE CASE
 IS TOMORROW

Edward Krause will be given a pre- Hminary hearing before United States Commissioner Marshall at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. at the court house. on g charge of-kidnaping Will fam Christie of Treadwell on the af ternoon of October 30. by serving fake subpoena on him. District At- torney James 4. Smiser and Assist ant Prosecutor J. J. Reagan will rep resent the government Kazis Krauc- zunas will appear for the defendant.
 The star witness for the government will be Foreman Nick King. of the zoo" stamp-mill at Treadwell. King has identified Krause as the man who took Christie out of the mill. after seeing the prisoner at the United States jail.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
COMPTROLLER OF
 CURRENCY TO
 FIGHT FOR REFORM

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-John Skel- ton Williams. Comptroller of the Cur rency, under fire of the Federal Re serve Advisory Councils recon mendation that his office be abolish ed, has indicated his intention to con tinue his campaign for banking re- form. He will ask Congress to make usury by national banks punishable without complaint of the borrower.
 Mir Williams remarked that it would be for Congress, not the kanbs. to determine whether his office is no longer necessary. Beyond this he would make no comment on the rec ommendation that he be legislated out of office.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
SALESMAN SAYS
 HE HELPED IN
 WOMAN'S MURDER

CHICAGO. Dec. 7-Confessing. ac- cording to County Prosecutor George W. Armstrong of Hennepin County, Minnesota. that he aided Frederick T. Price of Minneapolis. in hurling Prices wife Co death over cliff. Charles D. Etchison. a travelling salesman of Washington D. C.. is due in Minneap- olis today to face legal action. Mrs. Price was killed November 2S, 1914, one day after she had been given S6O.- 900 by her father.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
THREE DEPARTMENTS WANT CONTROL OF
 COMMUNICATIONS

WASHINGTON, Dec z. - No less than three Cabinet departments have asked for appropriations in connection with telegraphic and wireless com munications in Alaska, and two of them ask for full control of O part or all of such communications.
 Postmaster-General A. S. Burleson asked for an appropriation of $300,- 900 for the Postoflce Department to operate the cable, telegraph and wire less system in Alaska. Accompanying this request is submitted drafts for legislation which would permit him to take over the whole system on July 1st. next The proposed legIsla- ton authorizes the Postohice Depart ment to borrow such men as may be needed for tho operation of the system from the United States army signal corps.
 On the other hand. the War De- partment has asked for S50,000 for repairs and betterments to the Wash ington-Alaska cable and telegraph sys- tenn. in addition to estimates for It's operation as heretofore. It is atipu- lated in the army request that S10,- 900 of the S50,000 asked for may be used in installing wireless plants where needed.
 In conflict with the last request, the Navy Department asks that it be su- preme in the wireless field in Alaska.
 Postmaster-General Burleson's rec concentrations include O provision that his department be given full con- trol over the telegraph, telephone and wireless systems of Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico.
 Lane Wants To Build to Matanuska.
 The request of Secretary of the h. terior Frank R. Lane. which includes recommendations for appropriations for Alaska railroad construction which aggregates SS.247 620, asks for $1,295,- 97O for building road from Matan- uska Junction to the coal fields of Chickaloon,3 ,38is miles. He also asks for $2.304 .493 for building the rail- road from Mile No. IS on the Alaska Northern railroad, which Is now call ed the end of the line. or Mile 90, to the crossing of the TallScetna river or Mile No. 1855. a distance of 91K niles
 Want Money for sltka Monument.
 The Secretary of the Interior asks for $1,000 for caring for the Sitlsa Ma tional Monument reservation. He al so asks for Sl15,OOO for land and boun- diary surveys.
 Want Money for Roads.
 The War Department asks for an appropriation for roads and trails in Alaska to be expended with the road moneys of the Alaska Fund through the Alaska Board of Road Commits sioners. making a total that 1t Is es- timated will run from $S20,000 to $350.- GOO for this purpose.
 WASHINGTON. Dec. T. - The Ad- ministration's redrafted shiy purchase bill providing for the expenditure of $50 100000 will be introduced Wednes- day in the Senate and House.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
RECOUNT GIVES THE
 DEMOCRATS A MAJORITY

UTICA. N. r.. Dec. 7.-When the voting machine in a disputed district In this city was opened under order of Justice Ross of the Supreme court 1t was discovered that the figure three appearing several times in the first column had been read by the chairman as figure eight.
 On the vote for Mayor this figure would have given the election Go the Republican candidate by forty one. By correcting the error the Demo cratic candidate. J. D. Smith, at pres ent Mayor. is reelected by plural ity of fourteen.
 The Democrats have held all the time that they would abide by the record of the machine, and it is be- ieved that the contest is settled.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
SPAIN GUARDING AGAINST
 VIOLATION OF NEUTRALITY

MADRID. Dec. IT. The Spanish government has increased its watch fitness against the German submar- ines being supplied from Moroccan or Spanish coasts. It is the common be- lief in Spain that the government has never been able to prevent snug gling. especially of tobacco, and that many adventurous seamen make a liv- ing of running cargoes of contraband in small sailing craft.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
GERMANY SUFFERS
 FROM COPPER FAMINE

LONDON. Dec. 7.- A Copenhagen dispatch says that the copper famine in Germany is SO acute that requests, which are equivalent to demands, are now reaching the authorities of the churches to hand over all the copper in their possession. Huge copper roofs of the great cathedral at Bre- men are being dismantled. and every thing made of copper belonging to the cathedral has been placed at the dis posal of the military authorities.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
CHoKEs MAD DOG.
 TO SAVE WOMEN

LOS ANGELES. Dec. IT. Jumping down from an operating table in the city. receiving hospital II. A. Kell, an automobile man. ran to the rescue of several women who had been at- tackled in the street by a mad dog and with his bare hands choked the ani- mad to death today Kell was bitten several times and will be given the pasienr treatment.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
BRAND WHITLocK RANKS
 WITH KING IN BELGIUM

NEW YORK. Dec. z. -"The most powerful figure in Belgium today, so far as the Belgian people still in that devastated country are concerned, is Brand Whitlock. American minister at Brussels" said Captain Lucey, presi- dent of the Lucey Manufacturing Cor poratlon and former officer in the United States Army. He continued. The Belgians hold for him rever- ence and affection as great as that which they entertain for their heroic King"
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
HUDSON MAXIM SEES DANGER OF
 DEADLOCK IN WAR

BOSTON. Dec. 7.-Hudson Maxim says: "I predict that the war will last from three Go seven years longer if the Germans win in the Balkans and attack Egypt The war is liable to resolve itself into a condition where neither side will be able to get at the other. England will be supreme on the sea and Germany will command on land"
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
AMMUNITION IS
 POURING INTO
 FRANCE IN STREAM

LONDON. Dec. IA correspondent who has just returned from the French front says the Allies are now receiving war munitions in a steady stream and that as Q continuous sup ply of ammunition for big guns is assured. the conviction is growing that the work of blowing the Ger. mans out of France" will proceed im- mediately.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
HILL LINE BRIGHTER
 WAITS AID
BULLETIN

San Franclsco, Dec. 7.-Rumors, probably without foundation, arc swcoping inc waterfront to the ef- feet Chat inc Minnesota has fail- on completely into the hands of mutlneers. spasmodlc dlstreos slanals which have como from the chip since last Thursday, coupled wlth the strange mystery which Che Mlunesota's wireless main talns as to the ship'o exact po- sltlon, has aroused the worst fearo here as to what has occurred on bSard.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
Accuse vRoINIA PoLITIcIAN

NORFOLK. Va. Dec. 7- Charges that Alyah II. Martin. Republican Ma tional Committeeman for Virginia, has permitted Irregularities in his ac- counts as Clerk of the Norfolk Coun- ty Court. have been filed in the court by a special Investigating committee appointed by Judge Coleman.
 Martin filed a general denial of the charges.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
LOS ANGELES SCHOOL
 BEATEN BY SYRACUSE

LOS ANGELES. Dec. 7.-The Syra- cuse University football team. which is touring the West. had no difficulty in beating the eleven representing Oc- cidental College yesterday. The score was 6to O. The only mar Go che game was in the third quarter. when Cap tain McClurg. of the Occidental team broke his right leg.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
JAMES O. PLUNKETT

This is a splendid likeness of Cap tain James o. Plunkett, believed to have been murdered by Edward Krause. Although the picture of Capt. Plunkett was taken in Wlllows, Calf. over fifteen years ago, it shows Plunkett as Juneau knew him before he disappeared late in October. Plum ketts binoculars, and one of his guns has been found in Krsuse's posses sion and the tender from his 9asboat Is said to have been used by Krause in reaching Petersburg.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
GERMANY STILL HOLDS
 SOME CHINA TRADE

LONDON. Dec. 7-Germany's trade with China is far from being exiting uished. declares Q Picking despatch to the Times. There are still consid- erable exports Of German owned and German financed commodities shipped through Chinese firms in neutral ves- sells to America
 "Au the machinery of business is maintained for resumption of fuh trade immediately when the war has ended.' the correspondent says
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
NEGRO CHAUFFEUR
 KILLS MAN. LATTER'S
 INVALID DAUGHTER ILL

SEATTLE, Dec. w. J. Jackson, @ negro chauffeur. ran down and kill ed Charles Anderson, a laborer, today. The victim was the father of four children. enc of whom is an invalid daughter whose death as a result of shock at hearing news of her fathers death is feared. Jackson is in Jail, arrested on @ charge of manslaught- ars
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
sALoNlKi HAR6oR
 IS WELL PROTECTED

ROME. Dec. 7.-The harbor of Sal oniki is guarded by French armored tugs and is closed almost complete ly a a huge steel net French and British cruisers are at anchor inside. The streets of the city are thronged with allied soldiers. It is noteworthy that the French and Greeks salute when they meet. but the British sa- lute only among themselves.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
GERMANY HAS ALL
 MONEY SHE NEEDS

AMSTERDAM. Dec. IT. President Gwinner of the Deutsch Bank says that Germany can endure a long war. He says "An German money stays in the country. It does not make much difference who's got the money, so long as Germans have it and keep it in Germany The Allies won't set another loan in America 70
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
HIGH IN RUSSIA

BERLIN. Dec. Flood prices in Russia are reaching alarming propor- lions due to the freight congestion at several railroad centers; at Mos cow 5000 cars of foodstuns are de- tained. The Russian minister pro- poses to organize military companies of teamsters. consisting of refugees and soldiers. to discharge freight.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
KITCHEN WILL AID

WASHINGTON. Dec. 7-Represen- tative Claude Kitchen chairman of the House ways and means committee and Majority leader on the floor of the House. is working in perfect har- money with the administration in all things except his opposition to in- creased army and navy appropriations Notwithstanding this opposition, he comedies that the administration measure will pass and he has prom ised to aid in securing legislation to provide the additional revenues that will be requierd.
 Including the military preparedness plans it is estimated that the reve- nues that will be required by the gov ernment for the next fiscal year will approximate 1.300.0000O0
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
DEMOCRATIC
 COMMITTEE
 IN SESSION

WASHINGTON. Dec. 2. The Democratic National committee met here today to fix the time and place of the next Democrat ic convention. to elect secre- tary and to dispose of contests for membership from Kentucky and Oregon. Of three cities in the field for the convention st. Louis claimed the priority
 The proxy of Committeeman z. R. Cheney of Juneau, Alaska, was held by J. Bruce Kremer, of Butte. Montana.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-07
BELGIUM DIGS UP
 ANOTHER se,oooooo lNsTALmENT

AMSTERDAM. Dec. 2. - The Bel elan provinces have just paid the German administration the tenth in- stalment of the war levy of S96,OOO,- 900. They have up to date actually paid out SS0,O00O0O.