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The daily Alaskan., 1917-07-02

Council of National Defense has ap- pointed a committee Jf women of na- tional importance to consider and ad- wise how the assistance of the women of America may be available in the prosecution of the war. These women are appointed as individuals regardless of any organizations with which they may be associated
 Among the members of the WOman's committee Is Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National Ameri- can Woman Suffrage association. On Feb. 9 officers of Mrs. Catt's associa- tion assembled in Washington and of- fered to the president of the United States the loyal services of the organ ization, numbering 100000 women, for the following program:
 The establishment of employment bu reaus for women. the increase of tho food supply by the training of women fn agriculture and the elimination Of waste, the work of the Red Cross and the AmericanizatiOn of aliens.
 War service in each of these four branches is now in full swing through out the country under the direction Ot the National American Woman Suf- frage association.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-07-02
cn,i.ns l a,d- Curious PeopIe.

Near Cape Horn. in the islands of Tierra del Fue-o. li,c the most curious people In all South America. It rains or snows or slcetS nearly every day, and get they look on their country as the finest iu the world. They wear hardly any clothing auJ seem not to feel cold. Because he saw fires on the shore the explorer Magellan, the first European that rounded the Horn, called the island the land of fire" which is almost the worst name he could have chosen. Their hutS are made of bent boughs and covered with grass and give only the poorest shelter. The folk are vain. too. wearing necklaces Of the teeth of fishes or seals and painting patterns on their bodies. Among them some c0lors have a novel meaning. White Is the sign of war and red Of peace. They are great mimicS and will initiate voice and gesture perfectly.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-07-02
OLD MAN. TRIED TO ENLIST.
Wanted to Help Out" In Any Way,
 but Was Refused.

Wanted to "HeIp Out" In Any Way,
 but Was Refused.
 Topeka, Kan.-The fact that the Unit ed States government does not admit a man over thirty-fve years of age to en- list in the army prevented the officers in charge of the local recruiting station from passing on S. L. Palmer, a pros porous Pawnee county farmer, the oth- CT afternoon.
 Mir. Palmer is siXty-two years of age, but appears to be a man of about forty. He appeared very much grieyed when be was told he was too old for the serv- ice.
 Neither money nor the desire for ex- perience had anything to do with Mir. Palmer's applying for service in the ranks. He owns 700 acres s' good Pawnee county land.
 His only reason was bis des::G to help out" he told the officers. :Ie wanted to be admitted as a telegra- pher, d craftsman or d mechanic. HA said he he'd fifteen years experience as a telegrapher.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-07-02
Handicapped by His Name.

The handicap of a poets name was illustrated in the case of MT William Wordsworth. who was the eldest sur vIving grandson of the poet. MT. Wordsworth was a great scholar and a poet himself of high distinction. 4 volume of his sonnets was issued prt- vately some years ago. On account of the similarity of his name with that of his grandfather, be always refused to publish any Of his pOettcal writings, though pressed to do so by the people Of such high authority as Matthew Ar mold. who described one of his sonnets as the finest in the English language. Montreal Star.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-07-02
BOY FARMER A PATRIOT;
 SAVES MOTHER A FINE
Gennaro Didn't Go to School, but Cultivated Twenty Acres
 In WeStCheSter.

New York.-Mrs. Rosa de Rosa, widow, missed being fined in the mu- nicipal term court for keeping her son Gennaro home from school by just twenty acres. These acres are part os her home at NH Lane, Westchester, and for the last month they have been plowed and narrowed and fertilized and planted and cultivated by GennarO alone, and be Is only fifteen.
 It was his age that got Gennaro Into trouble, for the compulsory education law compels parents to keep their chill dren in school until their sixteenth year. That is why Mrs. De Rosa ap- peared in court, very much frightened and escorted by Attendance Officers Puglieri and Carney.
 Magistrate Appleton looked sternly at the little Italian woman until she had explained that she was a widow, that there was a mortgage on her home and that GennaTo was her only SUD- port. Then he smiled, and after Publh eri and Carney had testified that the twenty acres were under intensive cal- tivatiOn and that one fifteen-year-old lad was doing all this work the mRgis- trate announced his decision.
 Sentence suspended" he said. Your son, Mrs. De Rosa. is doing a patriotic duty. He Is a real benefit to the com munity-more so than if he went to school, as the law requires"
 GennarO did not hear this praise. He was up in Westchester, culhvating the twenty acres.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-07-02
A SUBMARINE BASE.
lt Is a Supply and Repair Station For
 Uads-5eS Boats.

lE i5 a SAPEly anu lNSF-' S>@N'S'' VI
 Uads-5eS Boats.
 What k a "SUluagi"e IaSe:' Well. a submarine base Is, iu d word, sup ply and repair station for undersea boats. Craft of this kind are very elaborate and exceedingly delicate pieces of mechanism; they are liable to need tiukcrlug at frequent intervals.
 Hence there must be machine shop on shore ut the servirc ut the boats when at intervals they return from cruises. There must alsn be store house containing all kinds If supplies and spare parts for the submarines. Most important of ail, there must be tanks of fuel oil
 Usually there is attached to the base a mother s,ip"-a good sized steamer, with machinery aboard for making emergency repairs. The steamer also carries dyuamoS, which may be used for charging tue batteries of the boats though at Soa the yb@r-.ug is accom- plsheL by tho pil engines that propel the submarine when ou the surface.
 When it is not practicable to estab- lish such a shore station the mother ship may bc utilized temporarily as a floating lase-EZcLurgc
The daily Alaskan., 1917-07-02
flows This ?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
 F. J. CHENEY & CO.,. Toledo, O. We, the undersigned. have known r. J. Cheney for the last l5 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE,
 Toledo, O. Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mu- cous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price T5 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
 Take HalrB Family Pins for constipation.
 Advertisement
The daily Alaskan., 1917-07-02

ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
 Constellation Andromeda rises due northeast early in tIe evening. Planet Saturn drawing near the SUR and dim,
The daily Alaskan., 1917-07-02
AID
Propose to Train Women In Ag-
 riCuIturaI Work.
TO INCREASE FOOD SUPPLY.

National American Woman Suffrage
 Association Offers to President serV-
 lees of the Organization, Numbering
 100000 Women-War Work In Four
 Branches Now In Full Swing.
 New York.-Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, honorary president of the National American Woman Suffrage association, has just been named as chairman of a committee on woman's defense work. officially appointed by the Council of National Defense.
 The councils announcement said: 'cRealIzing the inestlmable value of wo- mans contribution to national effort under modern war conditions, the
The daily Alaskan., 1917-07-02
WANT TO BE AVIATORS.
Moro Than Five Thousand Have AP-
 piled to Aero Club of America.

piled to Aero Club of America
 New York.-The Aero Club of Amer ica announces that more than 5000 ap- plicatiOns have been received for en- listment in the aerial reserve corps and several hundred more for mem bership in the naval reserve flying corps, the aerial coast patrol service and the aviation section of the naval militia. More than 5000 men in all have applied for the aerial service.
 The aviation section of the naval mi Rtia will have a camp at Bay Shore, L. l., and the First and Second bat taliOns will be trained there.
 Plans are being made for a training school for college men. Aerial coast patrol 8, composed of Yale men, Is training at the Curtiss school in Buff falo.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-07-02
LONDON HONORS GEN. SHUTS.
BOer Leader Likely to Be Offered High
 British Command.

London. - Lieutenant General Jan Shuts, who was relieved of the com mand of the British forces operating against the Germans in German East Africa to attend the imperial confer ence here, received the freedom of the city of London. General Shuts in an address said:
 "The United States entered the strug- gle because, like us, she recognized that universal liberty was at stake. The end of the struggle is coming near CT. I have learned the spirit of our armies and know that 1t Is magnif- cent in its confidence to carry the struggle through to q victorious end."
 General Shuts will be offered a high military command, and 1t is expected he will accept it.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-07-02
CONNECTS TO HELP FARMERS.
ParoIed From a Penitsntiary For That
 Purpose.

Joliet, IIL-The no conyicts in the state prison here were notified they had received paroles. Most noteworthy among them is James E. Daley, who was sentenced for the murder of his wife in 1905. Recently Daley was given a communication of life sentence to twenty-five years by Governor Dunne.
 Most of the convicts will be employed by the farmers in Cook county. De mand for farm laborers resulted in the parole board granting many paroles that otherwise would not have been ob- tained, as the men were without friends to obtain signers to release papers.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-07-02

THERE IS A sAN-TOX REMEDY for every ordinary household atl- ment. There is room for san Tox Remedies fin your medicine chest. Get a San-Tox Blue Book at Keller Bros., The San-Tox Drug store.
The daily Alaskan., 1917-07-02
Daily History CIaSs-JuIy 2.

I644-BattIe of Marston Moor, Eng land; decisive victory of CromweIs army over rOyaliStS. 1SS1-PresIdent Garfield shot at a rail- road station in Washington by Charles J. Guiteau- 1915-General Porfrio Diaz, president of Mexico, deposed by Madero, died in Paris; born 1880. 1916-British captured Fricourt and the French took Prise in an all day battle on the Somme line.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-13
TO
BACK WAR MOVES
National Convention Endorses
Universal Military Training
and Prohibition

st. Louis, April 13.-Members of
the Progressive party in national con-
vention here have gone on record as
advocates of universal military train
ing for the United States as an anti
dote for 'the militarism which leads
TO aggressive warfare" The position
or the party was set forth in a
lengthy platform which was adopted
and which pledges the party to ma
tional woman suffrage, national pro-
hloltlon and establishment of a ma
tional food commission. The section
devoted to national defense is as fol-
lows:
we urge a compact among ma
tions to dismantle navies and dis
band armies, but until such compact
be established, recognize the necessi-
" Oh maintaining an effective army
and navy for defensive purposes, SO
organized as to eliminate political in
f1uence and corrupt profits.
we abhor the militarism which
leads TO aggressive warfare and ad
vocates as an antidote therefor the
democratic principle of universal
training so applied as to distribute
the responsibilities of service equally
among all our citizens. We also rec.
ommend government owned muni-
tlon, armor and powder plants"
among other platform pronounce
ments are advocation of q national
INITIATIVE, referendum end recall. gov
ernment ownership of all public utili-
ties, universal eigtlt-hour work day.
compulsory workingman' insurance.
Glrect election of President and Vice
PRESIDENT, recognition of the right of
labor to strike, and virtually all of
the previous platform recommenda-
tions of the party.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-13
Will Never Be Without
This Simple Laxative
DR.. Cald,UeU'S Syrup Pepsin
Relieved Her Baby When
Nothing Else Would.

Little Max Pendergrast is now four
years old, and fine healthy boy. When
but tiny baby, in fact almost from
birth, he suffered a great deal from
constipation. His mother, Mrs. Car
w. Pendergrast, Red Key, Ind, heard
of DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, OBJ
tanned a bottle of it from the drug
store, and with it was able to quickly
correct this condition.
Mrs. Pendergrast says DIR. Cald-
wells Syrup Pepsin has saved them
from calling the doctor many times,
and that she will never be without a
bottle of it in the house to use when
needed. She found it equally effective
as a laxative for herself and other
members of the family.
DR.. Caldwelrs Syrup Pepsin is a
combination of simple laxative herbs
with pepsin pleasant to the taste,
mild in action and positive in effect.
1t does not grippe or strain, and con-
tains no opiate or narcotic drug. 1t
is the ideal family laxative, mild and
pleasant for baby vet acting quickly
on the strongest constitution.
To avoid limitations and ineffective
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-13
Recent Deaths in
Central Pennsylvania

Columbia. John McLane, engi-
neer, in charge of the Pennsylvania
Railroads pumping station, at Bridge
street, died at the Columbia Hospital,
from uraemic poisoning, aged 50 years
He was veteran of the Civil War, and
is survived by his wife and three
sons.
Columbia. - Mrs. Barbara Link,
aged 7S, wife of Jacob Link, died at
the home of her son-in-law, Joseph j.
Roth.
Marietta.-MIrs. Sarah Leader, aged
76 years, widow of Isaac Leader, of
Spry, died Wednesday, just two weeks
after the death Of her husband. She
is survived by four children, five sis
ters and brother.
Marietta. - Solomon Harding, of
Muddy Creek, "a years old, the Oldest
man in lower Lancaster county, died
Wednesday night. He was retired
gardener and farmer. Eight children,
twenty-seven grandchildren and nine
great-grandchildren survive.
Marietta. Joseph Scott, OF Bill
myer, aged 10, died Wednesday at the
Columbia hospital from pneumonia
A number of relatives survive.
Marietta, - Mrs. Sarah A. Henry,
aged SO, native of Martic Forge
died Wednesday. She is survived by
her husband and three children and a
number of brothers and sisters.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-13
PERRY S. S. CONVENTION

Marysville, Pa, April 13.-Further
announcements concerning the forty
ninth annual convention of the Perry
County School convention were issued
to-day and the program for the event
issued. 1t will take place on We'd
nesdsy and Thursday, May 2 and 3.
Five sessions will be held, two of them
on opening day and three on Thurs
day. The first session will be held on
Wednesday afternoon with w. c.
Smith, of Andersonburg. presiding.
The presiding officers of the other
sessions in the order named will he
w. r. Hench, of Mllerstown: S. 1T.
Bernhelsen of New Bloomfield; lanes
Wilson, of Loysville. and e. e. Hamil-
ton. of Duncannon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-13
All Desks and Benches
in Factory Decorated

While employees of the big manu-
featuring plants of the city were en-
gagged in patriotic exercises attending
the raising of flags, the employees of
the Elliott-F Fisher Company have had
-raisings every day of the week.
Instead of one large flag on the top
of the building small flags have been
placed on practically every bench and
desk in the buildings.
The employees raised the money for
the decorations by subscription. EXer-
cises marked the decorating of the
rooms. One large flag was draped
from the ceiling and then the smaller
flags placed about the room. Speeches
and patriotic songs accompanied the
flag raisings. One of the most popular
songs is an original parody on The
Old Gray Mare" telling how Uncle
Sam is going to clean up the kaiser.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-13
Jailed For Threatening
toFire on Authorities

Trenton. n. j., April 13.-Charged
with having referred to President
Wilson with abusive language and
also with having threatened his life,
Gustave E. Godshall. of Philadelphia,
was arrested tonight in Frenchtown
and later arraigned before United
States Commissioner Richard S. Will
son in this city. He was held under
So, 900 bail and committed to the
county jail in default.
Godshall, in addition to making
personal reflections upon the Presi-
dent, is alleged to have declared his
intention of shooting any one who
attempted to draft him for military
service. Deputy Sheriff Oscar f.
Broderick, of Hunterdon county. ap-
peared as one of the witnesses against
Godshall, whose defense was that he
had been drinking.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-13
Mrs. Wilson to Cut Down
Expenses During the War

Washington. April 13.-Mrs. Will
son. wife of the President: Mrs. Mar
shall. wife of the Vice-President, and
the wives of members of the cabinet
have agreed to reduce their scale of
living to the simplest possible form in
order to set an example to other
women of the country.
To do their part in the movement
for the conservation of the nations
time and resources, the women of
the highest official families have de-
cided to omit the usual formal en-
tertaining and calling and to reduce
to the minimum their social activities
so that they will be able to give more
time and money to constructive pre-
paredness and relief work. They
have agreed to pledge themselves to
buy inexpensive clothing and simple
food, and to watch and prevent all
kinds of waste.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-13
MRS. WILLIAMS HOSTESS

Dauphin, Pa, April 1S.-On Tues
tainedday evening the Mite Society OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church, was
entertained by Mrs. ]. E. Williams,
at her home, in Juniata and Swatara
streets. After the regular business
meeting a social time was enjoyed by
all, and refreshments were served to-:
The Rev. and Mrs. c. w. Zweisig, Mrs.
Lewis Maus, Mrs. William Garverick,
Mrs. Benjamin Barnhart Mrs. John
Wolf, Mrs Clyde McNally and son,
Charles. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Il. Will
liams, Mrs. Edward Sellers, Mrs. w.
E. williams, Mrs. Charles X. Fertig,
and children, John and Helen, Miss
Rebecca Lyter, Miss May Williams and
Mrs. ]. e. Williams.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-13

PRISONERS IN ENGLAND
London, April IS. - The latest off,
cial figures show that there are now
in England 1858 combatant prisoners
of war and SO,525 civilian prisoners.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-13
FUNERAL FEAST GIVEN TO
JUDGE ABOUT TO WED

Atlantic City, April 13. - Judge
Ihomas j. Baldridge, of Hollidaysburg,
"a, was guest at an unusual farewell
bachelor dinner last night.
A cake shaped like coffin, the in
scriptlon on which read, "Goodby,
Girls" set off with uncanny Iiphtinr
efects supplied by f1ickering candles,
was the centerpiece. The decorations
were black and white, and the food
was served by walters attired as under
takers.
Kid the judge" was the keynote of
the affair.
Judge Baldridge will be married to
MISS Ann Dean, daughter of the late
supreme Court Justice John Dean, of
Hollldaysburg, next week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-13
BRYAN FOR WAR

Columbus, o., April 1s.-Unqualified
endorsement of President Wilson i'm
his war plans was given yesterday bv
William j. Bryan, pacifist, in an ad-
dress at the convention of the Demo-
cratic dry federation of Ohio.
Abiding indirectly to his own .c-
tivities as a pacifist during the last
two years, Bryan said 1t was to be
expected that in country of 100, 600
600 population there would be diver
gent views on subjects and that every
body has the right to express then,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-13
APRIL 10, 1917.

following letter in reply: Citizen
Michael Romanoff has no more right
than any other Russian citizen to such
privileges as a special train or a re-
served carriage. He can therefore buy
ticket at the station like anyone else.
IL he does we shall guarantee that he
can travel unmolested." The Grand
Duke took q first class ticket.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-13
HOTEL M,ALPIN OWNER DIES

New York, April 13.-General Ed
win McAlpin, chief owner of the
Hotel McAlpin, in this city, died yes
terday at his home at Ossining. He
was II years old. He is survived by
nve sons. General McAlpin enlisted
as a drummer boy in Company a
Seventh New York volunteers, in the
civil war, and later became captain
or that company. He was many
times millionaire.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-13
WOILn RAR LIouOR

Philadelphia April 13.-The bar
ring of alcoholic beverages from the
army, similar to the restrictions
placed on naval vessels and stations,
was urged in a resolution passed here
by the board of directors of the
Pennsylvania State Sabbath School
Association.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-13
MIR. ROMANOFF REBIJFFED

Amsterdam, April 13. = When the
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch,
brother of the former Russian EN-
peror, was about to leave Gatchina
for Petrograd recently, he asked the
local Workmen's Union for n safe con-
duct, according to q dispatch to the
Cologne Gazette. The Union sent the
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-01-26
HATS

The hat is an ingenious eontrap-
ton invented by man to give the top
of his head something to do.
But its usefulness doesn't stop
there. A man can get a lot Of fun
out of his hat If he just knows how.
Some men have reduced their hats
to a science. They make them pas
time, exercise and employment. They
take them out windy days and chase
them. Or mix them up at restau-
rants and fight about them with
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-01-26

new york.-they was herring. a
viii trile in the courtroom last week
about a will which a man left sevrul
yeres ago & the airs was having a
SCOT about It
man gets up on the stand & they
asst him a lOtta kweshuns about the
man that was dead & he boosts him
up sky high, after the others had said
he was a littel bit nutty & dident
know much besides.
but this man says the deZeesed
was the best man alive, and the
smartest and Hndest and never said
a harsh word all his life and was the
nisest hHsbend that ever lived and he
tells them that when this man kick
ed OF there was no like him left, he
was that good
the Judge set up & took notise
my ne says, you are very bat
tering in your distTipshun Of the de-
zeesed, suppose you was a init
mate friend Of hisn
no, repIyd the man, never saw
him in all my life
well, how Is that, asts the Judge,
you say he was such a fine man &
you never seen him, how is it you
know so much about him
married his wilder, the man says
-O-O-
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-09-13
TWENTY YEARS
AGO TO-DAY
Items Taken from the Daily
Leader Files.

Not many rains of the past Sc ason
were any heavier than the IL hours
downpour we had last night.
The Omaha Roofing company has
commenced putting on the new roof
ing of the Lannon-Cook block.
Lightning struck the barn of Abb
ner Brooks. on the north line of the
county last night, killing six horses
and burning up the barn. hay and
other contents.
Rev. DR.. Wolff notified his CON
gregation yesterday that he would
tender his resignation to the Presby-
terry at its meeting the 5th of next
month and asked the congregation
to unite with him in asking the Pres
bytery to dissolve the pastoral rela-
ton, his services to close here with
the meeting of the Synod in this city,
October Z.
The following from the Flandreau
Herald of the 18th inst. has refer
, ence to the young man who won the
first place here in the competitive
examination for appointment to- the
naval academy at Annapolis: In
formation has reached US that Bud
Gay has passed the final examina-
ton and is now a full Pledged naval
cadet. That Bud will some day be
come famous is believed by his many
friends"