PLANS MADE TO DUE
PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA
Vieuua, Jan. 3. — According to
au announcmeet made by President
Maharvk, of the Czecho slovak gov
ernment. President Wilson, of the
L'nite<i States, Prime Minister Lloyd
George of Great Britain and Premier
Clemenceau, of France, have all
agreed on the creation of a
German confederation, which will
b»» under Bavaria's direction.
President Mah^ryk state® that
the scheme as proposed included the
instruction of Prussian supremacy.
which would be accomplished Dy
the sf1!''1!''"-of the provinies '■!
Posen, Silesia and the Rhine pro
vinces.
It also provided lor the destruc*
tiuu of the Hungarian supremacy
by separating all lands under in*
dividual governments in which the
Hungarian tongue is not spoken,
Hiifj the establishment of the Danube
Czoeho-Slovak confederation of
stales which would include German
Austria.
Washington, Jan. 3. — The larg
est winter wheat crop ever giowu
in 'he history of the United1 States
is promised by the enormous acreage
sow u this tell- The acre-age is al
most 16 per cent larger than last
year's and totals 49,027,000 acres.
Winter wheat was sown this fail
on 49,027,000 acres, Or 15.9 per
cent more than the revised estimate
area $<y&n in the fall of 1917, which
was 42,301.000 acres, the depart
ment of agriculture t'.day announc*
BE HOB SOON
Washington, Jan. 3.—Secretary Of
War Baker announced this morning
th*t practically the entire sunset
division of the American Expedition
ary force now in France has been
assigned for an early convoy home
to the United States.
LIST OF I. S. KILLED
YEAR COMPLETION
Washington , Jau. 3. — General
od1. The condition of the crop o»
Dec-ember 1 was 9S.5 per cent of a
normal compared with 79.3 a year
ago, or S5.7 in .1916 and a 10-year
average of SS.2.
A crop of 765,000,000 bushels,
or S0.000.0o0 bushels more than
tt.e oegt record, is forecast by the
department as next year's winter
wheat yield, allowing for winter
killing and spring abandonment.
Last year's crop was 55,725,000
t-ushels.
Pershing cabled the war department
tod'iv that practically complete re
port oi deaths in action among the
expeditionary forifs should reach
tha department within a few days,
and severely wounded will follow
((Ui» Kly,
2,000,«MM> AMUUICAX
WOMEN IX WAR WORK
New York. Jan. 2. — Approxi
mately 2,000,000 Americau women
are engaged in war work, according
to an estimate made pullie recently
by tie national war council of the
Vohiijt Women's Chiistian associat.-oi
The organization's ligures are based
on u survey whi li it is conducting
tj ootain information in the basis
of which its welfare woik in n"
dustry will be exte: d1' d.
IDLE MONEY
IS LIKE A TRAMP NO
VALUE TO ANYONE
YU„'ur MONEY Work
Deposits made here before January I Oth draw
interest for the full month
BANK OF ALASKA,
ijapjig Nnu
P. H. GANTY
BUSH COMMIE ORDERS
B0L5HE1I ADVANCE HALTED
Copenhagen, Jan. 3. — According
to tlie Deutsche Tages Zeitung,
the commander of the British army
now occupying the Baltic provinces
hag issued" an ultimatum to General
Darlaring-, commander of the Ger"
man forces, that unless lie proceeds
at once to prevent the further ad
vance of Bolshevik! and immediately
recaptured Walk and Wenden, the
Allies will invade Germany and pre
vent the advances of the Bolshe
vists. _____
fiUSCH OF 77 ALASKANS PULL THE
WIS TO BE TURNED LOOSE
Washington, Jan. 3.—In a wild
scramble for their discharge from
army service, the latest appeal to
be madfe to congressmen for help
cornea from a group of 77 Alaskans,
some of 'whom, it la said, dropped *
few yearg from their ages in order
to vet a clianoe to go over seas ftnd
fight the Hun?.
Now that the opportunity for ac*
tive service uo longer exists, they
r.re equally anxloug to get hack
north, to a£ain take ui> their work
ol carving a productive empii e out
of the wilderness.
SB ILL I ASKED IB j
AUTHORIZE A VOLUNTEER Mt
Washington, Jan. 3. — Secretary
ol War Baker appeared before
the House Military committee this
morning and informed the members
of the committee that a bill -would
soon be introduced in the senate
authorizing a temporary volunteer
army of five hundred' thousand men.
Ttis army is advocated by Secre
tary Baker as a means for facilitat
ing the quick discharge of the men
who have already seen service.
This volunteer army, Mr. Secre
tary explained, would be of a tem
porary nature, and merely designed
to hasten the demobilization of the
present-National Army.
1,900 Soldiers Are Safely Landed
1,6000 Of Whom Were Wounded
New York, Friday. — Nineteen
hundred troops have been taken
of i I he stranded American trans
por Northern Pacific, which ran
onto Fire Island in a fierce gale.
Of this number si*t«en huiidred are
wounded soldiers who were being re
turned to America from French, and:
British hospitals. At four o'clock
thig afternoon six hundred soldiers
were gtUl aboard, but these will
pri-t>aDly be removed before mid
night.
WILL OCCUPY
AUSTRO-HUNGARY
Homo, Jan. 3.—According to
authentic despatch from Budapest
to the -Messagero, of this city, "which
wag received today, it is the inten
tion ox the Allied amies to at once
occupy the whole ol Austro-Hun*
gary,
timTbul
GARS BATTLING
Saloniki, Jan. 3.—A terrific bat
tle is today- in progress near
Adrianopl© between Turkish and
Bul<arian forcee.
No details were given in the
dispatch.
Soldier Show
House Opens
New York, Jan. 3. •— The Persh
ing theater waa opened last night
with Miss Margaret Vale, niece Of
President Wilson, heading the volun
teer cssat. i
This theater is to be maintained
solely fop ooldierg and there Is to
.be no chargg for admission.
IILlltS ARREST
mmm
London, Friday. — According to
a dispatch from Innsbruck received
a» army; headquarters here this
morning, General Von Mackensen,
former German field marshal, has
Deen arrested by authorities <o£
the French government at Budapest.
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MM CITIZEN
Rome, Friday. — Th^ formality
of conferring citizenship of Rome
upcn President Wilson will take
place tonight.
britisFTand
TROOPS AT RIGA
London, Friday. — Advice^ r0"
ceived here this morning Bay that
British troops have landed at Riga.
SOPHIA ENQUIRY
BEGINS JANUARY 0
Vancouver, Jan.. 2.—Enquiry in
to the wreck of th0 Princoss So
phia will begin next Monday, Jan.
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GEET KM WILSON
Rome, Jan. 3.—President Wilson,
America's chief executive, arrhed in
this city at 10:30 o'clock this
morning and1 wag greeted at the
station uy King Victor Emmanuel
III and Queen Elena, and the
Queen's Mother, Margherita.
Great crowds gathered1 around
th« station and lined the street
through which the King escorted
President Wilson to the royal palaco
| It is planned to give a. formal
reception by the Italian parliament
and a state dinner will be given
President Wilson by Italy's King.
The newspapers printed long art
ides today, lauding the President,
j in entire first page broadsides.
no WANIS fiG 01 TO
RAILROADS FIVE VEflRS LONGER
Washington, Jan. 3. — Former
Secretary ol the Tre^urer McAdoo,
testifying t-efore the Senate Inter
state Commerce commission this
morning as chairman of the Govern
ment control board a-gain urged
five ye^ra additional control o£ the
railroads »y the federal govern
ment.
Mr. McAdoo said- that the publlo
has had no opportunity to weigh
the real value of what has been
accomplished by the railroads under
federal control, and that it would
be able to be of great benefit to
the pulic to allow the control to
remain with the government for
the coming five years. '
l'ETROGRAD DESCRIBED
AS "CITY OP HORRORS"
Washington, Jan. 3. — Violent
method^ still are being used, by the
commission charged with. combating
the .revolt against th« bolsheviki,
according to advices reaching Wash
ington through official channels. Ex
ecutions were sald to be numerous,
the victims including many priests
ana monks.
In one small city, Katerntj, in
Vjatka, 10 persons were recently ex
ecuted and at Spask the commis
sion -waB said to haVe caused 22 to
b« shot. Foreigners reaching neu
tral countries from Petrogra# eaid
that conditions in that city are
"beyond human power to grasp,"
one describing it as "a city of hor
rors."
URUGUAY MOBILIZES
AGAINST BOLSHEVIKI
Montevideo, Uruguay, Jan. 3. —
The government has ordered the mo
bilization of unita of the Uruguayan
army in face of threatened labor
trouDles throughout the republic.
Foreign agitators, principally Rus
sians, kave been busy for several
days endeavoring to foment a gen
eral strike. .
BRITISH ACE IS
A HH FLIER
London, Jan. 3. — The world
recorjl for altitude ha8 been es
tablished by Captain Lang of the
British Aviation corps, when in a
flight yesterday, he forced his ftero*
plane to a height of thirty thous
and five hundred feet above the
earth.
When this daring ace alighted af
ter setting thos wonderful re ord,
H was 'ound that his nose and ears
ha,] been frost bitten, even though
he was dressed warmly with the e*"
pectation of meeting an extremely
ujld altitude.
PRESIDENT WILSON* OPPOSES
I SINKING GERMAN WARSHIPS
Washington, Jan, 3.—It may be
stated authoritatively that President
Wilson will oppose in the most dl"
rect fashion proposals from any
source to sink the warships sur"
rendered by Germany und<er
termg of the armistice.
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