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Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-21

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Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-21

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Expensive Modern Sport

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TIE THRICE-A-WEEK EDITION
 OF THE NEW YORK WORLD
IN 1917

IN 1917 Practically Daily at the Price of a Weekly. No Other Newspa- per in the World gives so much at so low price.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-08
State Board Of Education Names
Present Superintendent of Public
Schools t. Succeed Himself.

William H. Sweeney, who during
tho past seven years has been City
Superintendent of Public Schools OF
Alexandria, was last night again
selected for tnat position by the State
Board of Education. There were nc
competitors for NJ. Sweeney's posi-
ton.
Mr.. Sweeney has resided in Alex
andria for many years. He vas an
educator almost since his boynood
days, and has given his undivided at
tention to his profession. After the
closing of St. Johns Academy, which
had been conducted by the late Rich
ard L. Came, who became Catholic
clergyman, Mr.. Sweeney was e,ected
teacher in the public school sys-
tenn, at first filing minor position.
His worth was Immediately recog-
nized and he rapidly rose upon the
different rungs of the ladder until he
became the only logical candidate for
Superintendent upon the death of
Kosciusco Kemper in 1910. During
his seven years of service he has
thrown all his talents into the sys-
tenn he so faithfully represents, and.
his reappointment will be hailed with,
delight by his many friends and ac-
quaintances.
Mr. Sweeney is the fourth Super
intendent of Schools of Alexandria.
The public school system became ope-
rative here in 1871, about two ye..,s
after the Underwood Constitution had
been adopted which provided for pub
lie education. Richard L. Carne was
the first Superintendent He was
succeeded by his brother, the late
William F. Carne, during the read
juster-republican regime 1879-lS83,
but upon the collapse of that party
Rlchard l.. Carne again became Su-
perintendent. The latter resigned in
the early part of the nineties, when
he entered the priesthood, and the
late llosciusco Kempsrswas appointed
in his place. He held the position
almost up to the time of his death.
NJ. D. Hall was reappointed Super
intendent of Schools of Fairfax
county last night. E. G. Coe wa. his
competitor Mr.. Hall has for years
been Superintendent of the Fairfax
schools. He has many friends and
acquaintance in Alexandria, all of
whom realize that he has fulfilled his
duties faithfully and efficiently.
There are twelve superintendent
yet to be selected by the state board
who will be named on March Goth,
the next regular meeting of that
body.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-08
WILL PUSH HOLLAND.
Entente to Retaliate if Dutch Keep
Their Ships in Port.

Entente to Retaliate if Dutch Keep
Their Ships in Port.
London, March S.-The report cur
rent here that Holland is determined
to lay up her ships rather than ex-
pose them to the dangers of the Ger
man submarine war zone IS causing
so much irritation that it would not
be surprising if the governments OF
the entente should adopt retallatory
measures, unless negotiations be-
tween London and The Hague reach
a successful conclusion. "A well-ln-
formed diplomat expressed the pre-
vailing feeling and policy of the en-
tente to the Associated Press last
night as follows:
Should Holland, after stigmatiz-
ing the German war zone declaration
as wholly illegal, acquiesce in the
measure, the entente would be bound
to regard such action as unneutral
and would feel constrained to take
retaliatory measures, even to the pos
sible extent of using their right,
which would enable the entente gov
ernments to requisition Dutch ship
ping now within their harbors. Such
action on the part of the Dutch would
tend to make the German policy ef-
fective, as the holding up of neutral
shipping is more serious than an at
tack On entente tonnage, which pro-
cceds despite the risk.
"No complaint in this direction has
| been made against the United States,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-08
SEEKS TO RECOVER VESSEL.

Owner of Schooner Captured as
Whisky Runrer Begins Proceed
ings.
The two-masted schooner Eliza
beth Clarke, which figured in the
recent fight in the Rappahannock
river when the sheriffs of Northum-
berland and Westmoreland counties,
in Virginia, went to arrest her mas
ter, Capt. Ike Bozman, on a charge
of violating the Virginia dry laws, is
still lying at Irvington. Va. She is
in the custody of the sheriff of Lam
caster county, and Milton c. Clarke,
of Washington, the owner of the
schooner, has taken steps to protect
the vessel from seizure.
The Clarke, as soon as she is turned
over to her owner, will complete load
ing a cargo of railroad ties, which
she will take to Washington.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-08

in any sense the organization of labor
or any particular union, nor does it
oppose the making of reciprocal
agreements or contracts, but adds:
at does, however, deprecate any
agreement by which it is sought to
take from the employer, directly or
indirectly, the control of his busi-
ness, the right to hire and discharge
his employees for good cause or which
curtails the right of the employer to
dictate the policy of his business and
the mode in which it shall be con-
Quoted.
"Be it further, resolved, That this
association will give its financial and
moral support to all employers in
sisting upon these rights"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-08
Washington Chamber of Commerce
VIII Endeavor to Induce Govern
ment to Locate Armor Plant Here.

AS has several times been stated in
the Gazette, Alexandria will remain
in the field as competitor for the
government armor plant until it shall
have been definitely settled as to the
location of the same. The people of
our city never have seen any good
reason why the plant could not be
located here, and the Chamber Of
Commerce as we'll rs city officials
have set forth the advantages Of
Alexandria over and over again.
There is no need Of reproducing the
arguments at this time. The fact
that our city is two hundred miles
from the Atlantic Ocean renders it
practically immune from attack by a
hostile fleet. Besides, if Alexandria
is looked upon as unsafe for such a
plant, the capital city of the nation
is equally unsafe.
But such objections were answered
from the First. Washington has
been a competitor for the armor
plant, but the representative people
of that city at the outset stated that
should it become apparent that the
government would not locate it in
the District of Columbia, they would
vie with Alexandria in attempts to
induce the federal authorities to Sc
lect our city.
Washington is now out of the race,
according to the board of directors
of the Chamber of Commerce Of
that city.
The board held its regularly
meeting yesterday after
noon, when the special committee
who have had in charge the securing
of the armor plant for the District
of Columbia, reported that Washing
ton, will, in all probability, be over
looked in the. selection of site for
the plant by the government. The
committee strongly recommended
that in the event the District be un-
able to secure the plant, Alexandria
be supported in its efforts. A reso-
luton TO this effect will in all proba-
bility be sent 10 the Secretary of the
Navy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-08

ent truck is unsafe. He endorsed
the purchase of an aerial truck.
Economy could be we'll measured in
safe guarding lives and keeping down
insurance rates, he said. The voiun-
teer system is saving the city about
$4,000 annually, he said. The only
thing being asked for he said was an
apparatus that would reflect credit
on the city, and he added there were
many reasons why the city should
purchase an aerial truck, and that
an aerial truck is the only truck that
will answer the purpose.
A vote Of thanks was extended Mr.
Withers and the fremen who spoke
on motion of Councilman Lawler.
Among the spectators were dele
cation of members of the Relief Hook
and Ladder Company.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-08
CHINA AND GERMAN
Immediate Breaking off of Relations
hy ElOwerly Kingdom Expected.

Immediate Breaking off Of Relations
hy Flowerly Kingdom Expected.
Peking, March S.-The immediate
breaking off of relations with Ger
many is expected here, and it is gen.
orally predicted that China will join
the entente.
This belief is due to the fact that
dispatches from Tientsin say that
Tuan Chi Jul. who resigned March 4
and left for Tientsin, has decided to
return to the capital Immediately and
resume the premiership. 1t is said
that President Ii Yuan Hung has
agreed to give the cabinet full power
to frame the foreign policy.
The cabinet is known to favor the
sevcring of relations with Germany,
and parliament is showing DISPOSE
tion to follow the leadership of Tuan
Chi Jul rather than that Of the presi.
dent.
New York, March S.-Japan sent
an ultimatum to China on February
10, declaring that unless China de-
clared war on Germany she would
seize iron works and mines in China,
occupy all Teutonic settlements in
China and confscate all Austro-Ger-
man property in China, the Tribune
declares. It's information, the Tribune
said, was received by persons in
New York directly interested in
Chinese affairs.
Washington, March 9.-Ambassador
Sato, of Japan, last night branded
as unequivocally false the statement
appearing in newspapers to the ef-
feet that Japan had sent an ULTIMA,
tum to the Republic of China de
manding that that country abandon
is neutrality and join forces
with the entente allies against the
Teutonic empires, Turkey and Bul
garia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-08
ALEXANDRIA MAY ABANDON PRUSSIA
Proposed Revival of South German
Union Reported to Have Vatican's
Backing.

London. March 8. - Austria is
planning to desert Prussia and con-
federate with Bavaria and the other
South German States in case of the
Central Powers defeat, thus revir-
ing the South German Union which
was broken up by Bismarck, in 1867,
according to Arthur S. Draper, writ
ing from London.
According to a Rome dispatch to
the London Daily Telegraph, the iso-
iation of Prussia and the disintergra-
tion, of the present German Empire
have been the objects of several con-
ferences between the King of Bayz
aria and the new Austrian Emperor
and Vienna and Munich politicians.
The Berne CORES spondent of the
Milan Idea Nazionale states that
!Austria's action, backed by the Vati-
can, has been prompted by alarming
reports that Germany intended to
leave Austria to her fate in the event
Of the Allies victory.
Certain utterances in Berlin"
writes the correspondent, chat Aus
;ra would eventually have to look
out for herself, almost created q
panic. A remark attributed to the
German Kaiser has had a wide circu-
lation in Vienna. The Kaiser, it is
said, one day in the presence of some
Austrian officers said, as if half in
Jest and half in earnest, that it would
not be just that Germany, having
made by far the greatest sacrifices
il. the war, should also bear the
greater part of the expenses.
Immediately afterward it was no.
ticed that Austrian diplomacy was
making closer efforts at closer ap-
proachement with some of the South
German States. The young imperial
couple first visited Munich, and nego-
;iations, it is said, were proposed for
the union of Bavaria and Austria
against Prussia.
".Austria hoped to find a strong and
safe ally in Bavaria, the largest OF
the German Catholic States, and it
is hinted that even the good office OF
the Vatican were solicited.
'But nothing could be done in this
direction without its being noticed at
once by Berlin, which instantly TOOK
steps to defeat any such separaast
tendencies. Pressure of such nature,
in fact. was brought to bear on the
King of Bavaria as to compel him
to visit the German headquarters,
and. as has been seen, the Kaiser,
undertook personally to 60 and settle
things in Vienna.
"Vatican circles, it is limited, were
tempted with the suggestion OF Great
mo a Catholic South German State
by means of union between Austria
and Bavaria and agents have been
working in Paris and London to oo-
tain eventual approval of such
scheme. These agents, it is SAID, are
secretly approved by Austria they
are very discreet, but all the more IN!
.iC;ious "
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-08
REPLY TO STRIKE THREATS.
Washington Merchants Say Employer
Has Right to Run Own Business.

Washington Merchants Say Employer
Has Right to Run Own Business.
Threats by the Retail Clerks
Union to tie up the business of several
employers of members of the organi-
zation by calling out employees re-
suited in the adoption last night by
the Retail Merchants Association of
Washington of a resolution condemn
ing labor contracts that restrict the
rights of merchant to engage and
discharge employees at will. The reso-
luton also pledged to all members
of the organization who insist upon
these rights the financial and moral
support of the association. The meet
ing was called to consider complaints
of labor troubles which had been
made by several members of the as
sociation.
The association named a spccia
committee to meet committee from
the union and discuss methods of ar,
bitration. and thus prevent strikes or
| the, part of employees of any store ir
the association.
f'The resolution expressly state:
that the association does not oppose
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-08
IRON CROSS FOR vARDAMAN;
Constituents of Senator Adopt Unique
way to Show Disfayor.

Way to Show Disfavor.
Senator James X. Vardaman, OF
mississippi, is to be decorated win
an iron cross for his. 1S-minute speeeh
in the Senate in opposition to Presl-
dent Wilson's armed neutrality bill.
Constituents of the senator have
adopted this unique way of letting
him know just how they feel with
respect to the part he. played as one
of the "willful twelve" Of the Senate
who blocked this important !eg'sia-
ton by a filibuster.
In Germany the iron cross IS con-
ferred for unusual deeds of 'alor.
But Senator Vardaman's iron cross,
if the dispatches do not eXaggerate'
will make the ordinary decorations
of the kaiser insignificant in compar-
ison.
The emblem to be bestowed on
the Mississippi senator weighs ~
hounds. It was forged in black
smith shop in Biloxi, Miss.
It bears an inscription, which
reads: Lest the Kaiser forget
Thomas Collins made the iron cross,
and he and his neighbors, the last
nights dispatches from Biloxi init
mated, consider it very appropriate.
it was shipped to Washington yes
terday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-08

which has already taken action that
might lead to war. Therefore the
American government is justified in
laying up shipping until measures
are taken to safeguard it.
"The entente policy is not purely
negative, for, should Dutch ships
come out, every effort will be made
to protect them
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-08
Special Notice.

Washington Memorial Lodge of
Perfection, No. Z, wills hold a stated
meeting on March 9th, 1917, at 1880
p. M, in the Masonic Temple, at
which time the ninth and tenth de-
grees will be conferred. All mem
bers and visiting brethren are cor
daily invited to be presen=. .
The annual election of. officers, Will
be held previous to- the. comforting Of
the degrees. rs ~ $50 A..
FRANK W. LATHAM, 90 degree
57-3t. Secretary,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-08

Virginia, IS the guest oi WI. aio
Mrs, George E. Pickett, at their home
in Prince street.
Mr.. Howard Rowen, of Hagers'
town, Maryland, is the guest of his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas },
Rowen, at their home in Prince
street.
Mrs. William Lanahan Unduch, OF
Baltimore, was the guest Of her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Lycurgus E.
Uhler, in south Washington street,
during the week.
Lcnten services will be held in st.
Paul's Church this afternoon at 5
o'clock, in Christ Church tomorrow
afternoon at 5 o'clock and in Grace
Church at 7:30 tomorrow evening.
Mr.. Charles B. Sullivan has re-
.urned to the University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, after spending few
days with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Sullivan, at their home in
rorth Columbus street.
VIM. c. Wolf, son of the late Wm
C. Wolf, who has been stationed at
Camp Wilson, San Antonio, Texas,
with the machine gun company of the
Third Infantry, for the past 5 months
is the guest of his mother, Mrs. Lena
Wolf, on King street.
The Friday afternoon tea, from 3
to 6 o'clock, in the Girls Club room,
921 King street, will be in charge Of
Miss Marion Negley. These weekly
teas at the club are most enjoyable
and we'll attended and pleasant
hour can be spent there chatting
with friends. =.
Rev. DR.. James T. Marshall, pastor
OF the West Presbyterian Church of
Washington. conducted the funeral
service of Mrs. Margaret Z. Mitchell,
at 3 o'clock this afternoon at her late
residence in Mount Ida. The remains
will 'ba shipped to Milwaukee for in
terment.
Mrs. R. w. Goldsworthy enter
tanned informally yesterday after
noon, at her home in Cedar street,
Roscmont, in honor of Mrs. Carcher,
of Cincinnati, who is visiting in
Washington. Other guests were Mrs.
!. w. Spencer, Mrs. Grant FORBES,
Mrs. Jacob Corll, Mrs. Amos, Mrs.
n. Purcell and Mrs. John Curtin.
Miss Martha Fones died at her
home on south Fairfax street yester-
day afternoon. The deceased was in
the 18th year of her age. She was a
native of Westmoreland county, va,
but had resided in Alexandria for
many years. Miss Fones was Sis
ter of Rev. Henry Fones, of West
moreland county.
The regular Friday afternoon
prayer meeting in the Anne Lee Me-
mortal Home for the Aged will be
conducted at 8 o'clock tomorrow al
ternoon by Miss Nettie Henshaw, OF
the First Baptist Church. A cordial
invitation is extended to all and also
the reuest is made to take the blue
books for the song service preceding
the prayer service.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-08
Fish DaY Tomorrow

Potomac shad, steak halibut, large
white perch. boiling rock, fish, yel-
low perch, pike fish, medium rock,
winter shad, steak tile, Potomac bass,
oysters, % cent quart.
Sanitary Fish Market,
Stall No. 2, City Market. Phone 73o.
Open until 5 D. m. 5S-1t
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-08
WHOLESALE
Oysters. CLANS and Crabs,
J. BRILL, No. 2 King 81

LOST-On Washington street be-
twen Prince and Oroncco, Auto
crank. Finder please return TO Mt
Vernon Auto Co. 5S-lt
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-08
Death Notice,

On Wednesday, March 7, 1917, at
his home 706 Duke street. IVAN
MARSHALL, son of the late Ivan
Marshall and Kate Makely Green.
Funeral from the residence Friday,
morning, March 9th, at 10 a. m. In
terment private at Concord, Stafford
county.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-08

Miss Lottie Larmond, Of Richmond
is the guest of her cousins, Mn. and
Mrs. Alexander Slaymaker, at their
home in north Columbus street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-08

MISS Elsie SNOWdeI "sio L'iS
Hast week of Miss Ellen Ball, at hel
home in Westhampton, Richmond.
Mrs. F. 3. Warwick, of Rosemont
has returned from Ironton, ONO
where she was called to attend the
funeral of her mother.
Miss Dare, of Rising Sun, Mary
| land, is the guest of her brother and
sister-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Z. Dare, at their home in Rosemonr.
At a meeting of the Columbia
Steam Fire Engine Company last
night Edward ]. McDermott was
elected first vice president in place
of John Leadbeater. deceased.
Mrs. z. r. Pierce and Miss Annie
Pierce, of Hamilton, Loudoun county,,
have been the guests for the past
week of Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll Pierce
at their home in north Alfred st.
The funeral of the late Miss Sarah
Lukens took place this afternoon
from Wheatley's Chapel. Rev. DR..
S. A. Wallis conducted the services.
Interment was in Ivy Hill cemetery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oakes, Miss Pauline
Oakes and Miss Hembrey Oakes, Of
Florence, S. c.. were the guests for
The Inauguration of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
T. Rollins, at their home in Duke
street, and left this morning to ,isit
friends in Richmond.
Miss Margaret Warthen, Miss
Katherine Warthen, Mr.. Myron
Sheppard and Master Clinton Shep-
pard, of Richmond, and Cadet Harry
J. Sheppard, of the Virginia Poly
technic Institute, were the guests
for the Inauguration of Mr.. and Mrs.
H. J. Warthen, at their home in
Rosemont.
"Virginia Leads" is the tit-. of
small but interesting book recently
issued by Virginia Division of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy.
The book is written by Mrs. w c.
N. Merchant. Of the Rawlcy Martin
Chapter, with items compiled by
Mrs. Cabell Smith. The book abounds
in historical information concerning
Virginia, and is Of interest to every
resident of the state. 1t affords a
ready reference to all the important
happenings in the Old Dominion since
the days of Captain John Smith.
The Methodist Protestant Church
held it's membership meeting in the
lecture room of that church last even
ing at which time the delegate elected
to represent the church at the next
annual conference was instructed to
ask for the return of Rev. e. 7. Kirk
lev for another year. Rev. Kirkley
has been pastor of the church for the
past two years. The following Of
ficers were elected: Stewards-R.
j. Ayers, F. W. Deeton, w. Allen,
II. 3. Smith, Norman Roberts, c. f.
Davis. Trustees: W. S. Risdon and
H. B. Smith. Delegate to the an
nual conference: F. w. Deeton; al
ternate, Norman Roberts.