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The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
NEWS AT A GLANCE
CONDENSATION OF WEEK HERE
 TERSELY TOLD.
Strange and interesting Happenings That Are Taking Place Daily
 in the Wide World.
FOREIGN.


 The three surviving children of John M. Little of New York, whose wife and one of whose children were lost on the California, arrived in Glas- gow.
 The French cabinet decided on the reduction in the number of pages in the daily newspapers. The change is made to save coal
 The Amsterdam Handelsblad an- nounces that a powerful bomb loaded with nails and broken glass exploded cn the steps of the stock exchange.
 Although Switzerland is determined to maintain her neutrality, the Swiss federal council will make a mild pro test to Germany against the new blockade regulations.
 President Menocal of Cuba, immedi- ately on receiving the German note on submarine warfare, called coun- cil of ministers and filed a strong protest.
 Austria now is at the end of her D1RPAANo AAOh4 tAC Auob hdl fCel3 6SCOI Q- ing to statement attributed to Aus trian Food Controller Hoefer.
 A bread card system went into op- eration throughout the Netherlands. A central bread bureau will control distribution Of all bread and flour.
 Gen. Carranzaz has sent his best wishes to the kaiser by wireless. The message, it was said, came from Kueretaro.
 Count Plunkitt, the Sim Fein can. oidate for North Roscommon, has been eected to parliament.
 By government decree the sum of S33,000,000 has been set apart in Italy for the construction of merchant yes kels during 1917
 Operations of all transportation of the Belgian relief commission has been suspended and ships in Amer ica, Argentina, Indian and European ports have been held up.
 When the new British pensions min ister, G. N Barnes, unfolds his new pensions scheme next month it will cost the country not less than e50,- 100000 a year.
 An explosion occurred on board the ice-breaker Tscheltouskine while the vessel was unloading at Archangel. It is feared that 30 persons lost their lives.
 Gen. Carranza, 1t was announced ill Queretaro, Mexico. will issue a call Immediately for the election of president, senators and deputies to take place the second Sunday in March.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
GERARD AND PARTY
 AT SWISS BORDER
MEMBERS GIVE A GENUINE SIGH OF RELIEF WHEN STRAIN IS
 BROUGHT TO AN END.

Zurich, Switzerland-Most of the members of Ambassador Gerard's large party gave a genuine sigh of re- lief when the Swiss border was reached, for the strain of the last few days had told more or less on the majority of the travellers. Ambassa- dor Gerard met cordially the horde of newspaper men who crowded about him on his arrival at Zurich, clamor- ing for interviews for papers all over the civilized world, but he kept rigidly to his determination not to speak for publication until after he had report ed to President Wilson in Washing ton
 The strain of the situation of the Americans in Berlin had been height. ened toward the end by the efforts of the German authorities to induce MT. Gerard to open negotiations for an amendment to the Prussian-American treaty of 1799. At the same time the German newspapers were flooded with reports of the seizure of German ships by America and with stories of difficulties and indignities encountered by Count von Bernstorff. Ambassa- dor Gerard was refused permission to communicate in cipher with Washing ton and the authorities ignored all de- nials of the stories printed in the German newspapers until an official message received through the Spanish hoe, 1 oIa hot hn Cfn 0e were false. Prior to this Ambassar dor Gerard's telephone wires were cut, his mail and telegraphic privileges stopped; so that he could not even in- struct the American consults: and he was, in his own words, a prisoner.
 MT Gerard's farewells were said in friendly, though formal manner. Many Germans were in the throng at the station, which consisted partly of Americans who had not received per mission to depart on the embassy train and must await the police routine before being allowed to leave.
 The fact that it was not generally known that Mir Gerard was departing reduced these demonstrations at the South German stations to a minimum of curious crowds.
 The party was accompanied by two representatives of the foreign office and guarded carefully by men from the secret service. The customs in- sSpection and other examinations at the border were relaxed to mere formality.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
PERSONAL.

Richard Harding Davis, novelist. who died at Mount Kasco, N. Y. last April, left an estate valued at s56.. 15566.
 Mrs. Edward Luyerne of St. Paul shot and killed herself on a Great Northern passenger train.
 Alfredo Gonzales, Costa Rica's de. posed president. is on his way to the United States.
 Calvin B. Church, employed for 30 years as janitor in the bank of Cal ifornia, profited by his environment and when he died left an estate of $35,00O.
 Horse meat will be the chief artj. ele of food on the menu of a beef steak" dinner to be given in New York by James E. Lee Tuesday night, Feb. 1S.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
MISCELLANEOUS

National bank resources fell off s186, ,o00,000 in December from the preceding month, according to a re- port by the comptroller of the cur. rency. Resources on Dec. 27 were $15.3s3, 100000.
 The commanding officer at Fort Leavenworth has received an order from the war department to stop the sale Of all kinds of intoxicating lio uors at the officers club.
 The Japanese silk exchange sus- pended operations, owing to the slump in prices occasioned by the American diplomatic break with Ger many.
 A detachment of the Eleventh Unit. ed States cavalry has been sent from Ascension to Sabinal, where the reb- el leader Salazar had been reported with 400 men.
 A man stepped into an open man hole in Brooklyn street and fell into a trunk sewer 65 feet beneath the sur face of the street. His body instantly vanished.
 Henry Ford, peace advocate, offered Secretary of the Navy Daniels the use of his big automobile factory at De troit for government munitions work
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
 DOMESTIC.

The United States navy has issued orders discharging all German sub 5ects at present employed on naval work of any kind.
 Carl Alfred Meltzer, chief school gardener of Chicago. is slated for dis missal by the school board if the charge that he floated German flag over his home when President Wilson severed relations with Germany is substantiated.
 All the available sixinch guns at West Point were shipped to New York for use at the forts protecting the city.
 Woman suffrage received a knock cut when the New Hampshire senate defeated the measure by 16 to '.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
ACCIDENTS.

Locked in the house while her hus- hand went to Marcen, Ia, to consult a physician, Mrs. Frances Streeter. 34 wife of Royal Streeter, a civil engin. eer, was fatally burned.
 Twelve men are entombed in an anthracite colliery at Hahanoy Plane, Pa. as the result of fall of top work.
 Two men were killed, two are dying and nine were seriously injured when the 250foot concrete arch bridge over the Spokane river collapsed.
 Three men are dead as the result Of wreck which occurred when a passenger train on the Canadian Northern crashed into the rear end of a snow blow.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
HEktE9 Al AE-HEHAA

The Bloomington Qll) Trades as- sembly has adopted resolutions pro testing against war with Germany un. less declared by referendum vote of the people.
 The American Union Against Mill tarism headquarters announces that it has undertaken a nation wide post card referendum on the question of whether the United States should go to war.
 Because of danger of a general cpl demic of scarlet fever in Winchester, ILL, Mayor H. H. Fletcher of that place has issued a proclamation sus- pending all public gatherings.
 By an almost unanimous vote the Kansas house of representatives has adopted the Bardwell bill to prohibit liquor advertising in Kansas news papers.
 hunger strike is in progress among five men prisoners in jail at Neodesha, Kan. The men, who claim membership in the I. ". w, have re- fused to eat or work.
 The submarine liner Deutschland is due in America within five days with large cargo of diamonds, some of which belong to the kaiser and kaiserin.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
Austria's Eood Gone

Amsterdam, via London.-Austria is now at the end of her supplies from the last harvest, says a statement published in the Neue F'reie Presse of Vienna, attributed to the Austrian food controller, Hoefer The prevailing frost has greatly impeded the potato supply, the controller says, but the German government has promised supplies from Roumania in March.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
Boycott On pntatnes

Portland, Maine.-Declaring that 6,000,000 bushels of potatoes are held in this state for speculative purposes, the Portland Housewives League yot- ed to ask the women of the state to join in a boycott of the tubers. Po- tatoes are retailing here for 75 cents peck.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
Uncle Sam Follows Suit.

Washington-Incr in cost for all sizes of stamped envelopes, eGee- tive February 1, was announced N the Postoffice Department. The raise was made necessary by the increased cost of paper and the use of msFe and better material. The increases average 43 cents per 1000 envelopes.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
To Decorate Bernstorff.

London.-Count von Bernstorff. dis. missed German ambassador to fhe United States, has been granted she Iron Cross with the white ribbon by the German emperor, says an Ansser- dam dispatch to the Exchange Teie- graph Company. This decoratioE conferred on civilians for services rendered in time of war.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
prauers For President

New York.-A call to "all Christian people" for the observance of Suh- day, February IS, as day of prayer for the president and Congress and all peoples engaged in war was sent out by the Executive and Administra tive Committee of the Federated Councils of the Churches of Christ in America.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
Would Fiuht At 75.

Chicago-The application of John Burns, aged 75, Civil war veteran, to enlist in the United States, is on file in the Chicago recruiting offices. Burns protested when told he was too old, but was conciliated when he was told his application would be placed on file. He left promising to induce his two sons and three nephews to enlist.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16

When orders were sent for the Wis. oonsin regiments to remain on the border the men, 40 per cent of whom are of German descent, turned out and pledged themselves to any serv- ice for which the United States gov ernment might call.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
LABOR.

Switchmen on IS roads running into Chicago have voted to strike. No action is expected until various medi atory steps have been taken.
 The supreme court has taken no ac- tion on the Adamson eight-hour law As the court recessed until March 5, an opinion before that day Is impos- sibIe.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
Submission Defeated.

Austin, Submission of state wide prohibition to Texas voters was defeated in the house, 89 to fl. Nine ty-five affirmative votes would be nee. essary to pass the resolution. The defeated measure may be called up again later.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
Indiana Dry in 1916.

Indianapolis.-Gov James ?. Goodrich signed the statewide pFoht bition bill, making Indiana dry April 2, 1918. The law prohibits the sale, manufacture, giving away or adver- tisement of all alcoholic drinks, ex cept pure alcohol for chemical and medicinal purposes and wine for sac ramental uses.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
Purchase Naval sunnIles.

Washington.-Imm purchase of reserve quartermasters supplies for the army up to the limits of avail able appropriations was ordered by have been sent into the market by Maj-Gen. Sharpe, quartermaster-gen eral, to carry out the orders in the shortest possible time.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
CRIMINAL.

Joseph Vance Will, a teacher. was hanged in San Quentin (Cal1 peni. tentiary for the murder of Warner Smith.
 Rex Wunderlieh of Langdale, Wis. was sentenced to one year in the fed. erai prison at Leavenworth, Kan. and lined $500 when found guilty on charge Of giving liquor to an Indian girl.
 Mrs. Margaret Sanger, under sea tence of 30 days for birth control propaganda, was taken from the Rav- mond street jail in New York to the workhouse.
 Joseph Kaminski, farmer of Mari nette, Wis, shot and killed his son end attempted to kill his wife.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
Decide To End the War.

London,-Addressin a meeting in London, John Hodge, minister of la Dor, said he thought he was giving away no secret in saying that at the recent conference between representa- tivs of the entente allies, the deter imitation had been arrived at to end the war by the end of summer.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
Want More Submarines

Washington.-A bill to place imme- diately in the hands of the president s50,000,000 to complete submarines and destroyers now under construc- tion was introduced by Representative Emerson of Ohio
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
Bolivia With Wilson.

London.-The Bolivian minister of foreign affairs, says a Reuters dis patch from LaPas, has announced that Bolivia has decided to support the at titude of the United States in the crisis with Germany.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
Indians WIll Go Ia Mar

Salt Lake City, Utah.-In case of war between the United States and Germany, 10000 Navajo Indians will take to the warpath for the govern ment, according to message receiv- ed in the office of Gov. Bamberger from the chief at Monticello Utah.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
Million For Militia.

Albany, N. Y.-The Senate unani- mously and without discussion passed upon receipt of special message from the governor, bill appropriate ing $1,000,000 for the expenses of the national guard, naval militia and other organizations called into service. in connection with the existing situa- ton.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
r. R. Jr. Is An Officer

Washington. = President Wilson signed commission appointing Theo- dore Roosevelt Jr. major of infantry in the officers Reserve Corps. MT Roosevelt was member of the Platts. burg training camp.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
Charge a SisaI Trust.

New York.-The government filed a suit in the federal court here against the Pan-American Commission Cor poration, Sol E. Wexler and others. charging conspiracy under the anti trust laws to restrain trade in sisal and to increase the market price of sisal throughout the United States.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
Carranza Wires Kaiser.

Bondon.-A dispatch from Ams1er dam says that wireless telegran has appeared in the German pape's saying that General Carranza has sem his best wishes to the German enf peror.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
Illinois Is Loyal

Springfield, Ill.-The Illinois Legis- lature adopted a resolution pledging support to President Wilson in the event of war with Germany.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
Quit Actina For Germany.

London. American embassy received formal notification from Washington to discontinue represent Ing German interests in Great Bri- ain.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
No Grayson Continuation.

Washington.-Sen Weeks again blocked a vote in the Senate on sfs confirmation of Dr. Cary T. Graysoa' President Wilson's naval aide, nomF mated 10 be rear admiral.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
To Reward U chasers.

Paris.-The French Navy League has opened a subscription list to es- tablish fund for the reward of yes sels capturing submarines. The Navy League has contributed 10 .000 francs.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
To pehate Irish Issue.

London.-The government agreed U set aside day for discussion in sae House of Commons of the 1risA aa ministration as requested by the Na tionalists.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
U. s. Steamer Eired on.

London.-Five shots were fired by the German submarine U-45 at the American steamship Westwego on January 21 None took effect.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
 FIRES.

Fire of unknown origin completely destroyed the Royal Cocoa Co. s plant at New York. The damage will ex. eeed $500,000.
The Pulaskian., 1917-02-16
Brazilian Ports Closed

Rio Janeiro. government has ordered that Brazilian ports be closed at night time.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Peary's Esquimau Applies,
but Mongolian Blood
May Prove a Bar
COURT ACTION LIKELY
TO DECIDE PROBLEM
Ethnologist Says Strict
Ruling Might Count
Out Wanderer

Meme Wallace, the young Esquimsp
Who Of late has been fitting between
the calcium lights of Manhattan and
The northern lights Of Greenland, yes
t,rdav announced that he was going TO
settle down here for good and become
an American citizen.
Wallace, who is probably the only
Creenlsnder in the United States, visit
ID the county clerks office and called for
citizenship application blanks. He left
without flling out the Papers. and said
that he would return tomorrow to
foreswear allegiance to the King oil
Denmsrk.
Wallace had not had smooth sailing
since Rear Admiral Robert 4. Peary
brought him from his ancestral igioo
in northern Greenland in 1895. His
venture in American citizenship may
likewise prove difficult, for there is a
very definite clause in the naturalizs-
ton laws Of the United States which
bars from citizenship all persons Of the
Mongolian race.
Uncle Sam has Of late been fnicky on
the subject Of adopting aliens of whose
racial origin there was the slightest
doubt. Seven years ago Federal judge
in South Carolina refused citizenship
20 a Syrian on the ground that he was
Of Monaghan stock. The fight was car
ried to the United States Supreme Court,
and finally it was decided that the
Syrisns were Semetics and therefore
eligible to citizenship.
Esquimaus, according 70 ethnologists,
are a sort Of betwixt and between
when it comes to racial classification,
but there is Mongolian strain in them.
Meme may be forced, therefore, to take
his case TO court 10 determine whether
or not he may become citizen.
"The Esquimaus show a very distinct
racial type wherever they are found in
Greenland or North America" said DR..
Clark Wissler, the entomologist of the
American Academy of Science. yester-
DAY. But they are undoubtedly Of
Mongolian stock and much more closely
related to the Mongolian group than
the Indians. / am afraid that under a
strict Interpretation of the law Meme
might be counted out"
Wallace, now twenty-six years old,
attended Manhattan College for some
time after Peary brought him here. In
1909 he returned to Greenland. blam-
ing Peary for removing him from his
native haunts. He regretted, he said,
having become civilized. 1t took him
about year or so to get back to the
old, cold country, and when he reached
there he found he could not live among
his people. So he started back for New
York. The return voyage took about
FIVE years. He landed in New York City
last fall.
Before leaving New York. in 1909,
Meme tried his best TO obtain the skele-
ton of his father. now in the American
Academy of Science. He still wants the
bones removed from public gaze and
given a Christian burial. When he
landed last fall he said that he had
new proofs that Peary had not come
any closer to the North Pole than DR..
Frederick A. Cook. He claimed to have
collected his data from the Esquimaus
accompanying Peary on his last expe-
dition So far he has not made them
public.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

patriotic and defence organization here
represented support the passage OF
Federal legislation based on the follow
ing general principles.
(a) Training for defence for all ply
sicslly At young men prior TO the age
Of twenty-one, and preferably in the
nineteenth year.
(b) The training to be intensive, con-
tinuous field or sea training for the
period necessary TO produce an efficient
soldier or sailor.
(c) The system TO be under exclusive
Federal control.
Id Obligation to serve in war as
we'll as to train in time OF peace.
Military Policy
4. We urge the establishment by the
Federal government OF proper mill
tary policy, together with the means OF
insuring its continuity, in accordance
with our system of government, and
that the necessary steps be at once
taken to provide the troops and equip
ment necessary for an effective land
defence. and we recommend to the ma
tional Congress that in carrying this
into effect it adopt the judgment OF our
military authorities.
The Navy
5. Our navy must be restored to the
position of second naval power in the
Atlantic, and simultaneously be made
the first naval power in the Pacific, and
that we respectfully recommend to the
national Congress that in carrying this
into effect it adopt the judgment OF our
naval authorities.
Industrial Preparedness
6. We pledge our continued support
70 the Council of National Defence and
the National Research Committee, and
70 such agencies as are or may be ere
ated to foster a complete and effective
cooperation between governmental ana
private activities looking toward pre-
paredness for both peace and war
Governmental Efficiency
7. Il is our belief that without the
sacrifice of any democratic ideals gov,
eminent should inspire an increased
measure of loyalty and national unity
of purpose; that it should provide
trained public leadership, always re-
sponsible to the electorate, under when
there would be a marked increase IN
governmental and individual eihclency;
We earnestly request the President and
Congress to make our civil service more
Efficient and to bring about the adop-
ton of a national executive budget
system.
AUGMENTATION and Dual Citizenship
3. We advocate that an Americaniza-
ton campaign necessary TO our effective
national defence shall be carried on
through three main chsnnels-(a) Gov
eminent, schools and courts. ,tbl
Business and industry. Co Individual
citizens as neighbors;' that every effort
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
COL. JOHNSTONS
RESIGNATION FROM
18TH is ACCEPTED
Will Return to Regular Army as
Captain and Go to the
Brownsville Section

Brownsville. Texas, Jan. T--J's
resignation Of Colonel Gordon Johnstoh,
Of the Twelfth New York Infantry. has
been accepted by the War Departnnenf,
il was announced here to-day. A few
days ago it was given out that Colensl
Johnston had been resssignsd TO ths
command Of the Twelfth.
Colonel Johnston, who is captain
in the regular army, rendered his res
ignation some time ago because, dui.
ing a review. Major General ORysn, OF
the New York division. ordered htm %
remarch the Twelfth and then did not
wait 10 review the regiment wneh "
passed the second time.
Johnston will resume his place IN the
regular army and will be assigned :?
Headquarters here as assistant inspect
or Of the Brownsville district.