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The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-03-26
SPOOKs HAUNTING CABII
PROVED TO Be RAvNs

Explanation of a mystery ma for
long time enshrouded a cahit on
a bleak stretch of coast betweenCor-
dova and Katalla is given By Ben
Goodman, the jeweler and fur uyer
of Anchorage.
An early breakup a few year ago
having made it necessary for ne to
postpone a fur-buying trip had
started to the interior l concllldd to
return to the coast, where I Bn,w a
boat would pick me up" reconted
Mr. Goodman.
ON leaving the interior Indiar vii
lage, the natives told me not "a stay
in certain cabin on the coast bsause
of spooks-a doctor having committed
suicide in it.
However, I started for the sdace,
having no apprehension in regad to
the spirits of dead persons.
"The cabin had been built and lsed
by fishermen years previously. Early
in the morning after my first nielt in
the dilapidated structure l head a
repeated and uncanny knocking On the
roof. | looked out, and the knociing
ceased. | could see nothing tia in
any way would account for the strange
noise Next morning the same Htling
happened.
''In front of the cabin was the
beach and behind was a high nck
wall $50 feet high; so it was fnpos-
sible for human being to comefr go
from the cabin unseen
Having noticed that the doorkade
noise on opening, l left it open the
third night and remained fully dressed
Bright and early, again came thetgost
rat-tat; out l rushed. A raven would
dig clans on the beach and tly to
the roof to crack the shells and eat
his breakfast-previously the mise
of the opening door had scared him
away-this was the spook Of the
cabin"
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-03-26

Notice is hereby given that the
registration book for the registering
of voters for the municipal election to
be held in the town hall, in Cordoya,
on Tuesday, April 2, 1918, win be
closed on Saturday, March 80. 1918,
at o'clock p. m.
CHARLES NJ. RosSwoG,
Registrar of Voters.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-03-26

Eskimos of White Mt, a village
lying near Nome, recently donated one
hundred dollars to the Red Cross fund.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-03-26

Dr.. Homer A. Biyth, of the dental
firm of Drs. Daggett & Blyth with Of.
fees at Cordova. has equipped modern
offices at Mccarthy, Alaska.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-03-26

LOCATED IN GOLDEN HOTEL
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08
Will Experiment

1t has been stated that the Emer-
gency Fleet Corporation will build a
three-way yard, probably at Whining
ton, N. c.. at which it will construct
three 3,500-ton ships as experiments,
and will then drop the type that rep
resents three months of work Of it's
own department. The official bulletin
yesterday carried the following an
nouncement:
1.-THE Shipping Board is planning to
construct three launching ways for
three 3,500ton concrete vessels. These
ways will be built in one Of the South
ern yards, probably Wilmington, Del,
or New Orleans. At whichever yard is
selected an organization for building
concrete vessels will be formed and
directed by the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration. This type of vessel is yet
in an experimental stage. If found to
be successful the board may then go
to 7.500-ton concrete ships"
Even on the 7,500-ton ship the Ship
ping Board seems to be vacillating. An
nouncement was made the other day
that the contract for four 7,50O-ton
ships had been let to the San Fran
cisco Shipbuilding Company, which has
;jast launched the Faith, the first large
concrete ship, but the company has
not yet had any word about the con-
tract.
Congress has not been called on for
an appropriation for a concrete ship
programme-and, indeed, there does
not appear to be any, board programme
after all the pains and expense that
have been taken to determine the
merits of the concrete ship. Members
OF Congress are curious to know
whether the concrete department has
made definite building programme
recommendation to the Shipping Board.
If it has they cannot understand why
with the repeated assurances that have
been made that Congress is ready to
appropriate the money for any con-
struction the Shipping Board will re-
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08
Bor9|um Had Sleuth Trailing
Men Who Were Shadowing Him
SCULPTOR Armed With Presidents Letter. Was Followed by
Secret Service Agents on General Squier's Orders,
but He Had Detective of His Own

papers showing the most intimate de-
tails of the aircraft programme.
Thoroughly alarmed. General Squicr
called in the Intelligence Service, and
from that time on Mr.. Borglum was
followed. One intelligence officer ap-
preached H. H. Sheets, secretary Of the
National Association for Universal
Military Training. a friend of Mr..
borglum, and urged him to get Borg
lum into conversation, and either re-
port what Borglum had said or permit
the conversation to be overheard. Mr..
Sheets ordered the intelligence officer
from his office, from which time Borg
lum's friends insisted that high officers
IN the Signal Corps were trying to save
themselves from the consequences of
Borglum's investigation.
What Borglum did to the young Off
GERS, it developed on investigation, was
to show them the letter from President
Wilson authorizing him to make the
inquiry into the aircraft situation. Fur
ther, he cautioned them to keep quiet.
Borglum, moreover. was prepared for
the espionage set upon him. He had a
young sleuth Of his own. At the end
of each day Borglum usually knew of
the conferences of those officers in the
War Department he regarded as prof.
tccring villains about as we'll as they
knew Of his, and both sides were pretty
we'll informed most Of the time. When
he wished to make movements of espe-
clal secrecy his rear would be guarded
by his young sleuth, who sought to
drag red hnrrings across the Borglum
trail and enable him to elude. the
eSpiOnage
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08
4O-Foot Channel
For He'll Gate Is
Urged in House
Representative Dempsey
Expresses Confidence 1t
Will Be Obtained
Need Declared Great
Charleston Harbor Has Such
Channel With Less Ton
mage Passing Through
Need Declared Great
[Staf Correspondence

Stag Correspondence
WASHINGTON, April 7.-Confdence
that forty-foot channel through He'll
Gate will be provided by Congress was
expressed to-day by New York members,
following the attack on the action of
the House Rivers and Harbors Com
mittee in wording the appropriation
evasively, by Representative S. w.
Dempsey, of New York, the only mem
ber of the Empire State on the COM
mittee.
The House intended to have a forty
foot channel through He'll Gate last
year, Mr.. Dempsey pointed out in his
attack yesterday, but the engineers of
the War Department construed the lam
guage to mean thirty-fve feet at once
and forty feet eventually.
Mr.. Dempsey produced letters from
Secretary of the Navy Daniels and Sec
retary of War Baker both approving
the idea of forty-foot channel
through He'll Gate as soon as possible
as war measure. Mr.. Daniels in his
letter emphasized the necessity of per-
mitting an injured battleship to come
into the New York Navy Yard from
Long Island Sound.
"Now, let us take the situation in
the City of New York." said Mr.. Demp-
sey. "Ninety-one million tons of car
goes pass through the City of New
York, and the values annually run up
into billions of dollars.
~ believe, and we all do. that the
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08

system, and should not be adopted un-
less consistent with the welfore of the
city and not inconsistent with the gen.
eral scheme of state taxation.
1t was introduced on April 2 at the
instance of the Controller of the city
and has been unanimously indorscd by
the Board Of Estimate. If there are
any objections to it they should be
made at the hearing on the bill ap-
pointed to be held Tuesday afternoon.
April Q, at 2 O'Clock, before the Com,
mlttee on the Affairs of the CITY OF
New York. The bill comes in at the end
OF the session, and the Lcgislaturo is
unwilling to act without due consider
alton"
Senator Browns opposition to the
personal tax bill means its death
Democrats tonight said they would
concentrate their efforts on the bill
hXlng Sl.75 as the maximum tax on
each S10o of assessed valuation. bmt
republicans declare that unless The
Hylan administration cuts down OK.
pe,n1dltures greatly the passage of this
nlll would not provide enough revenuos
TO run the city. The personal tax
measure was aimed at meeting the do f.
CT IN revenue which would ensuo fron,
the enactment Of the bill limiting th1
TAX on real estate. The belief hero ie
tnaC DOth bills will be killed
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08
[Staf Correspondence1

WASHINGTON, April IA trail of
mystery and suspicion, shadowing and
espionage work at cross. purposes, was
left in Washington, and particularly
through the War Department; by Gut
zon Borglum, the sculptor, given a
special commission by President Will
son to investigate the whole aircraft
situation.
Borglum was not only sleuthing; he
was being pursued by sleuths. He
attempted to uncover, in most mys-
terious fashion, proofs of the charges
with which he had alarmed the Presi-
dent-charges that the whole aircraft
appropriation of S640,OO00OO was be-
ing divided by profteers in the United
States, when. in his opinion, the air.
planes should have been bought abroad.
buying motors and planes Of known
sCundncss.
Major General Squier chief signal
officer. was informed one day by one
Of his staff that this officer feared a
German spy was corrupting many of
the young officers. The officer said
that mysterious, German-looking
stranger had been observed to ap-
proach several of the. young officers,
talk to them a few minutes, after
which they always did his bidding.
They had been observed slipping out
to meet the suspected spy at night,
carrying with them plans, maps, speci-
fications, and all sorts Of confidential
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08
Few London Bomb Shelters

LONDON, March (by maiD.-Very
few Of the buildings in London which
are used as air-raid shelters provide
any adequate protection against bombs
dropped from great height.
at is quite obvious to engineers"
says "Fire," chat floors of concrete,
whether reinforced or not, will not
withstand the kinetic energy of a
bomb falling several thousand feet.
For instance if 40-pound bomb falls
only 1000 feet, the kinetic energy of
the missile at the moment of impact
is 100000 foot pounds.
"This bomb, weight and height, how
ever, is small compared with some
of the latest missiles and the distance
they descend. An 60-pound bomb, fall
ing $4,000 feet would have a final
velocity of 976 feet would have XII
netc energy at the moment of impact
Of 100000 foot. pounds. Where is the
square foot of concrete flooring that
will withstand so tremendous a shock i?
We doubt whether even three of the
finest concrete floors would withstand
such direct hit"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08
New Workers in
Congress to Unite
On State Bills
[Stof Correspondencel

WASHINGTON, April 7.-Most of the
members of New York States delega-
tion in the house Of Representatives
are heartily in favor Of a movement
undertaken by the state Chamber of
Commerce with view to the forty
three New York members caucuslng
and then voting soldly on all ques-
tions affecting any portion of the state.
Representatives Of the chamber visit
ed Washington and have arranged o
meeting Of the delegation on April 23,
when the question Of having delegation
caucuses on all questions affecting the
state will be taken up.
New York is virtually the only state,
members pointed out, whose delegation
does not caucus and bind all the mem
bers to vote for anything which is de-
sired by any section of the state. AS
a result of this the tig membership of
the. state in the House never has
lad much effect. From time to time a
portion of the delegation has acted
unitedly on some specific thing, but
even on these questions so many men,
bcrs voted independently that little
was gained.
The delegation has always split along
party lines, the Republican members
having little to do with the Demo
cratic. Virtually all the Democratic
members of the House from New York
are Tammany men, all but two of the
Democratic members being from the
greater city. the two exceptions being
Smith, Of Buffalo, and Lunn, Of Schc-
nectady. But the Republican dclega-
tiop is far from harmonious, and the
Tafnmany influence is seldom exercised
by a mass vote. An evidence of the
power even Of part CT the big delega-
tion was given when the Philippine
bill was under consideration. At that
time the Tammany delegation boltcd
the Democratic caucus and voted
against the Clarke amendment fixing a
definite time for the independence of
tho islands.
The Clarke amendment was defeated
by that one detection. No one in the
House remembers any occasion on
which the entire New YORK delegation
insisted on some action being taken,
with the threat Of boiling on the bill
for the delegations Of other states to
do this is d regular occurrence. The
result Of the situation, officers Of the
State Chamber Of Commerce pointed
out, IN that the Empire State always ig
being djscriminated against, som ctmes
OF, incongequcntial things sometimes =
on big things.
Some Of the Western states with
similar interests are banding together
70 have their delegation caucus and
vote unitedly on qucstions affecting
any one Of them. Minncsota and the
two Uakotas have recently effected
such an organization. New York'g del.
egation OF forty-three members is
much bigger than these three dcIcya.
tions put together.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08
Measures on Calendar to
Make Army More Efec-
tive on Battlefront
Draft Act Changes Up
Military Matters Will Have
Right of Way in House
After To-day

WASHINGTON, April with the
nation entering the second year of war,
Congress will work this week on I'M
portant legislation designed to make
its powers more effective at the battle
front and at home.
While the House gives right OF way
to bills extending the draft law and
other army legislation. the Senate
schedule. includes hna! disposition of
several bills aimed at German spies
and agents, to curb mob law against
disloyalists and to stamp out propa-
ganda. Further consideration also will
be given to the Ovorman bill increas-
ing President Wilson'S authority to re-
organize government departments and
make them more effective in prosecu-
ting the war.
The sedition bill, penalizing pro-
German utterances and attempts to
obstrUct the army draft and Liberty
bond sales, temporarily has right of
way in the Senate, which will resume
debate tomorrow. It's passage, prob
ably with some modifying amendments,
is expected within few days.
Other Bills Near Completion
Other bills which probably will go
to the President cay this week are
the measures extending espionage laws
to enemy alien women and providing
$4,000 fine and thirty years impris-
onment for destruction of war material
or acts or propaganda curtailing its
production. Conference reports on
both bills were approved yesterday by
the House and now await action in the
Senate.
Renewal of Senate debate on the
Overman bill also is promised to-mor-
prepared to attack the broad author
ity it proposes to confer on the Presi-
dent, and Senator Lewis. of Illinois,
Democratic whip, ready to defend the
legislation. The discussion is expect
ed to continue internationally through
out the week.
Beginning tomorrow military bills,
will have the right of way in the House.
1t was unanimously agreed yesterday
rarily laid aside until several bills
which have been completed by the Mil
itary Committee are offered for pas
sage.
Fight Over Draft Quota Bill
The principal fight is scheduled for
next Thursday over the bill changing
the draft quota from state populations
to the number of men in Glass l. An
other Senate bill, to which there is less
opposition, is that requiring rcgistra-
tion of youths reaching twenty-one
years of age since June 5, 1917.
A vote by the House on the Senate
amendment to the agriculture appro-
priation bill, increasing to $3.50 q
bushel the government minimum guar
antee for wheat, also is expected dur
ing the week A close vote is predicted.
Final action by Congress also is
planned on the Webb export BILL au-
thorizing American exporters to COM
bire in foreign commerce, which was
pressed aside last week by war legis-
lation.
Chairman Baruch, of the War Indus
try Board, will confer tomorrow with
the Senate Military Committee regard
ing problems Of war material produc-
ton, and especially the housing ques-
ton. Another Senate committee is
working on the House bill appropriate
ing s6o,oo0,000 for housing workmen.
The Military Committee now plans
virtually continuous inquiry into
various war problems.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08
Hylan Rule Condemned
7. Nj. Osborne Says Wrong Is
on Throne Here

The present administration at the
City Hall "fails to attract" Thomas
Mott Osborne, former warden of Sing
Sing Prison and now lieutenant COM
mander in charge Of the naval prison
at Portsmouth, N. II.
"If the men in this city's admin
istration go to heaven, then give me
hell for mine with a 14-karat smile,"
was the way he put it yesterday, speak,
ing before the Free Synagogue in Car
negie Hall. Not only in New York City
is fright forever on the scaffold, wrong
forever on the throne" said Com
mander Osborne, but in upstate cities
conditions are almost as bad.
81 know a police chief in one Of your
principal Cities" he said, "who wrote
with his own hand letter to a no.
torious pickpocket telling him things in
his city were good and proposing that
the thief come on and enjoy the free
rum paying the chief 5000 week. The
pickpocket went, too."
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08
Hylan Tax Bills
Doomed to Defeat.
Belief in Albany
Elon r. Brown, Republican
Senate Leader, Announces
He Will Fight Them
IStaf Correspondence

ALBANY, April 7.-Elon r. Brown,
majority leader of the Senate, tonight
made known his opposition to the Hy-
Ian administration tax bill placing an
impost of 81 on each 500 of personal
property wherever found.
This bill was introduced five days
ago, and, according to Senator John J.
boylan. Democrat, Of New York. who
sponsored it, was designed to relieve
real estate holders in New York City
from unjust taxation. With this end
~ ~ view a companion bill providing that
the tax rate on real estate shall MT
exceed s1.75 per s10O of assessed valu-
alton ION was introduced the same day.
.. rhe proposal in the Boylan bill to
Wcn, sa1 personal W' property in the City of
wolves the enactment of an innovation
in our taxing system, viz, the listing
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08

shipping of this country is eo;..
vastly increased during tSa 70 be
year. We all expect that We s o. coming
to have new ships with wb;cha a.e !. going
al Kinds OF supplies to the Allis. catry an!
whlch TO transport our own troos. win
munitions abroad, and the strain y. aad
haTDor at the City of New York W ~ y ms
eno OF hudson River, at the foot ~ ~ "a .ae
Great Lakes, the strain on tho thva MY NE
or the seven great trunk railroada daI;Oos ,;s
enormously. 'n'seased
IF there is one place in tho ~. :,
world in which America is ints,s.a.o ~aols
II there is one place on wkieh tha s.eo,
of the United States should be d;s.s!e div s!es
in the shipping question. il ;s:!ed !. q
great metropolis of which we % s,. sass aS
SO proud. a'' all
Il voted yesterday morning a.,
intended to vote-and I voted ~, saa
vote will full knowledge~thaatt that will
should have forty feet in Chass. Chs. W
Harbor, with only 100000 tons .Ist.oa ~ 10
mage, and yet we hesitate to c;vs ~ = va
feet to New York, with 81 ooo oe nao sSfsy
tonnage. So far as the New Yorkp psS S..el q
is concerned, we Do not know ~ t'sse ~
present time any North or anv SorMs & Ms
we do not know any West or anv Is1 E...
We know only the United States '-''
"We ask the gentlemen of thi. a..
mittee, and we ask the gentlemsss' s'la. !:
the House, to look at this matts. ~ =.
the same way, and we ask It to ,;as y
an obvious wrong; we ask You "a tsa. =.
that which should haye been don. NJ 70 y
committee, and l trust that thiIs this cnm ~
mittee and the chairman of tho ssm sss,'
mittee will recognize the nccessitv WV, =.
this amendment and not force an ~ l.
dividual member 70 propose It on 4. ~.
floor, or, if it is proposed, that the esm. y.
mittee will ADOPT it, ''
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08

mail to be dispatched from New York
at 8 a. m.
"On account of the more frequent
train service and different schedules of
trains going north the saving of time
would not be as great to outlying sta
tons for northbound mail.
Letters dispatched by air route
from Washington will at Philadelphia
connect with earlier trains for Trcn-
ton, Manunka Chunk, N. j., and East
Stroudsburg. Chester, Wilmington,
Camden, Atlantic City, Cape May,
Reading, Pottsville and Bethlehem.
"At New York earlier connections
will be made for Bridgeport, New
Haven, Springfield, Boston, Albany,
Syracuse, Rochester. Buffalo, Cleve-
land, Toledo, Elkhart and Chicago.
"An alrplanc leaving Washington on
this noon schedule would make the late
afternoon city delivery over the entire
City Of New York. To make this de-
livery by train letters now have to be
mailed before 8 a. m."
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08
Demand Asbestos Suits

The Dyers' and Cleaners Union.
many OF whose members are employed
on army work, voted strike yester-
day, to become effective on April 16,
unless asbestos suits were provided for
the cleaners.
The cleaners use benzine in their
work, and the mortality rate among
them is higher even than among the
dyers. The union thinks it only a
reasonable precaution to clothe them
in aSheStoS
New-York tribune., 1918-04-08
Concrete Ship Plan Now Victim
Of Official Zeal for Perfection
Shipping Board Hesitates to Act Judgment of Own
Experts and Has Practically Thrown Out 3500
Ton Vessel, Wasting Months of Effort
By Theodore M. Knappen

WASHINGTON, April 7. The con-
crete ship idea is now the victim of
the zeal for perfection. the devotion to
overrefnement, the sacrifice of Tins
to niceties that held Up rifles and can
non and are dissoIving the Liberty
motor in a sea of changes.
On December q last the concrete
ship department was created by the
Shipping Board to deal with the ques-
tion of the concrete ship. After three
months OF the most careful investiga-
ton this department has taken q
definite and confident stand in favor
Of the building of concrete ships. This
position was stated by p. ]. Wig, chief
of the department in an interview that
was published in The Tribune last
Wednesday. AS that interview showed,
the department has not only invcsti-
gated but it has perfected the design
of a 3,500ton ship that is at least as
strong as a steel ship; and all the
many engineers who have coopcrated
in the work are willing to stake their
regulations on it.
Now. the Shipping Board hesitates
to act on the judgment of it's own
court, and has already practically
thrown out the 3,500-ton ship, on
which the department copcentratcd its
efforts for months and which is the
only type of ship on which quantity
production can begin Immediately, as
it will take sixty or ninety days more
to perfect the design of the 7,500-ton
ship.