The Alaska citizen., 1916-01-24
1s EnR PREPAREDNESS

10 the NdlAoudl A.lN " IfN'a c4Nlbtt tf Samuel Gompers, its vicepr"sident
 The labor leader parttcuiarlt It'u stress on the fact that the United States should. while they are tack ling the proposition of placing th" country on a basis safer from az grcssi0n. do the work thoroughly.
 WILL TAKE STUMP.
 WASHINGTON. D C. Jan. IS President Wilson has decided to take the lead personally in the ad- yaucement of the militry prepare ness scheme and 10 that end has decided definitely to make a mum Der of public speeches on the sub feet In the course Of a few days
 he will outline program cf spcah- | ing dates It is probable that some of his addresses will be made in the west The President will also ! frequently confer on the subject with leaders Of the senate and house
 LABOR OPPOSED i INDIANAPOLlS. Jan. 1S--John r. | White the international president of the United Mine Workers. as serted in report he made today | before the delegates to the C0nVen- ! tion. that laboring men as a whore are opposed to the preparedness scheme
 ENDORSES PREPAREDNESS l WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. IS i The convention of the National ] Civic Federation was opened in this
 city today, In his opening address | Seth Low, the president of the fed ! oration endorsed the administra- | tion's measures for the prepared
 ness of the nation against attack COMBINE EFFECTIVE. 1 SEATTLE, Jan, 1s-The merger 1 of the Seattle ChGmbel uI rI I.Ic and the Seattle Commercial club which has been discussed for a long time, will probably be encompassod | in the course of very snort time now, as the proposal has been favor ably passed upon by the trustees 1 of the Chamber of Commerce and l the directors of the Commercial club
 EEMENT RENEWED. i WASHINGTON, D C., Jan. lS.-- ! The state department has been ad-
 ,ised that tho reciprocity agreement ! between the Tinted States and Bra 1 gil has been renewed for this year ECHO OF THE PAST. 1 WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 1S,- 1 A letter written by Woodrow Will ] son a month prior to his inaugura- ! tion, to Hon. A Mitchell Palmer, i of Pennsylvania. which has just been published, shows that the
 President was opposed to the one 1 term plank In the letter Mir. Wit
 son stated that the Presidents
 power to fight for the people would 1 be greatly weakened by the limita- 1 tion.
 TOO HOT FOR THEM 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. Is The German cruisers Cormorant, interned at Guam. and Grer, interned at
 Honolulu have been ordered crnv~r'
 ed to this port. The order is is
 sued by the United States state de ,artma~t t-~aus" 0f 0hvs'cal a.iii" ! tions that are suffered by members of the crews as a result of the eX- cessive heat
 REPORTS FAVORABLY. | NEW YORK. Jan. 18.-Colonel E. 1 T. Guenn, of the United States army, who has just returned from a sir i weeks visit 10 the canal 2"ne states
 that the Panama canal will be open | Q tha passage cf the largest shin- 1 by February IS. The damage
 wrought by the recent heavy slides i he says, has been almost repaired,
 small vessels having for somo time i past been able to get through the i canal.
 SPY ESCAPES
 l NEW YORK, Jan. 1S-Ignatius
 Trebich Lincoln, a former member
 of the British parliament, who con ! fessed to being a German spy and
 was arrested at the instance of off ce1s from Scotland Yard, today es- capped from a United States deputy marshal, in whose custody he was. Lincoln was being held by the Unit ed States authorities, pending the
 completion of papers warranting his | eXtradition to England
 SHIELDING THEM. | CHICAGO. Jan. 18.-Fornam D Updike, the local millionaire whose sons were arrested yesterday charged
 with plotting to murder their par
 ents, is today trying to shield tho young men, He claims that the oldest son, Irving, who is 38 years of age, is insane, his mind having been unbalanced as the result of an injury he received in his early youth The sister of the young men is said also to have been included in the brothers plot against their parents.
 AMERICAN BOAT SEARCHED SAVANNAH, Ga, Jan. 18.-Word
 has reached ttis city that the Amer '~ar ho~oNr Isabella lying in the harbor at Bridgetown, Barbados isl ands. in the West Indies, was held up by British soldiers and searched.
 Two members of the crew, suspect ed of being German spies, were ta- ken into custody and landed in jail. TAKES ANOTHER CHANCE. SEATTLE, Jan. 18.-A report is
 current in this city. and generally believed. that Mrs. Hugh R. Rood the wife of one of the Titanic vic tins. has become the bride of Ne vine D. Pontius, the well known eye and ear specialist of Seattle, and that they have gone to Europe on their honeymoon. The marriage is of considerable interest Tn Seattle in that the bride ie corsidnred th" wealthiest woman in Seattle, hay ing an income of half million dol lars. If the report is true, it is Df. Pcntius' third matrimonial venture as he was twice married and di- vorced in this city.
 IS FAULTLESS. BALTIMORE, Ian. 19.-A dyna- mite gun, claimed to be smokeless noiseless and without recoil, will b. tested by the United States govern ment at the Indian Head testing oround shortly The gun is the III.