PROM IS ANNOUNCED
FOR PATRIOTIC RALLY
Home Guard Will be
Formed at Meeting
Monday Night
Decorated with flags, the |
colors which the whole country is j
now bondiug its efforts to uphold j
as they have beeu since the days
of the colonies, Elks hall i
will be the scene of a great pa
triotic rally Monday evening to
form a home guard in Skagyay.
The committee on arrangements,
o' wnich Mayor Howard Ashley is
chairman, announced the program
for *ha meeting this afternoon. It,
will include patriotic speeches, pa
triotic songs by the school children
and »>atriotic airs by the Skagway
band.
Auspices of Elks
Under the auspices of the Elks,
and with the Eagles and Arctic
Brotherhood co-operating, it is ex
pected that the rally will be at
tended by an audience that will tax
the capacity of the hall.
Members of the local lodges of
Eagles ai.d A. B., it is planned, will
march from their respective club
houses, with flags giving, to the hal
The school children, forming their
line <"f march at the school build-|(
ing, and carrying flags to be provid
ed by 'he Elks, will parade down !
Broadway and thence to the Elks' |
clubhouse on Sixth street.
Mavor Ashley will preside at the
rally. A request was sent this!
a'ternoon to Fort Wm. H. Seward i
that or.® of the officers from the I
post a**erd the meeting.
To BfRfn at S: 13 O'clock j
The meeting will open, the com- 1
mittee announced, promptly at S:15
o'clock. Following is the program: j
Introduction — Mayor Howard j
Ashloy, chairman.
Invocation — Father P. H. Tur-1
Bell.
"America''—Sung by school cliil-j
dren.
Address — TV. B. Batson, exalt- ,
«d ruler of B. P. O. E,
Address — Pbil Abrahams, sec
HEAVY GERMAN
LOSS 111 AISNE
Paris, April 28.—Loss of the
Germans in the recent battles oil
the Aisne front, la killed, wounded
and taken prisoners, total 235,000,
according to official estimates made
public hero today.
The French army today made
further gains wheu they attacked
German, trenches on the Verdun
front
The Germans were unable to
withstand the attacks at several
points and, before they could es
cape, many of the enemy found the
French troops rushing Into their
trenches and ivere compelled to sur
render.
129 DIE IN HE
Trinidad, April 2S.—One hundred j
wen'y-five men are believed to .
1
iav© j erished in the Victor Amen- |
:an Fuel company's coal mine here ;
today when fire followed an expo- j
sicn o' coal gas. Efforts are being j
uade rescue the entombed min- j
;rs but it is feared fiat none of
:hem will be found alive.
:etary o' the Commercial club.
P*itrioiic music by the band.
Address — Andrew Stevenson, j
>rcsideu*. of the* Bank oi Alaska.
Address — Dr. L. S. Keller, pub
lisher of tho Dally Alaskan.
The Star Spangled Banner —Sung
tjry school children.
Address —* Judge E. A. Rasrtuu
son.
Benediction -— Tho Rev. L.. H.
Pedersen.
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SENATE 57 10 30
VOTES "NO" ON USE
LIOO II. S. ARMY
Washington, April 28. — Amend
ments making it unlawful to soil
liquor, wine or beer to any officer
or soldijc-ir of the Unified States
army were passed by the senate
today, 57 for and 30 against.
Tlio prohibition clauses are pait
of tlio mlniInistration's amiy Ui'U.
Ihey provide tliat liquor shall not
bo sold to anyone wearing the
I niMxl States army uniform, oil
knowingly furnish to an}- one,
officer or soldier, In tho army.
Passage of the selective draft
Itill l>y both houses before the cud
off today's session, is believed to
be aasurcd. Tlie house tlUs moin
iii^; v ottxl down all the amendments
that would provide for tho voliui-.
tcor method of raising tho war
army.
Enactment of the bill will nujaii
the raising within two years of an(
army of 2,000,000.
LATINS BREAK
WltH GERMANY
Washington, April 28. —C't-ate
mala has broken, off diplomatic) rela
'ions with Germany, according to at>
vices that reached the state dpeart
ment *oday.
The G«rman minister at Guate
mala City has been given, his pass
port and exequaturs of all German
consuls in Guatemala have been
cancelled.
This action by Guatemala, where
Germany has had important com
mercial relations hag been pending,
according to reports, for several
weeks.
0.S J FIX
SILIOI PRICES
Portland, Ore., Apri 28—Presi
dent Wilson and Secretary of Com
morce Redfield have beeu appealed
to by the Columbia River Packers'
association *o fix the price canned
salmon is Ho be/ sojd at this year.
Telegrams have been cent- to both
officials with *he plea that a price
not to exceed 25 per cent of that
askod at the opening last year be
allowed. Already fishermen are
clamoring for a price of 10 cents
Xla' tier fish, while the canaers, if
thg government fixed the price aa
♦hey pray for, would be aT>Ie to pay
a price of 8 cents a fieh, ivhich, the
sav, is 25 per cent over last year.
Tnere is grave need that the govern
ment fix foodstuff, prices, not only
of salmon, but? o£ every other com
modity. • I
Word from San Francisco inter
ests, under date of a week ago,
states that there are not to exceed
15,000 cases of Alaska pinks he'd
there be* from seven to 10 different
firms. Prices are very firm at ?1.7
'to $.1.75, )
The Columbia river chinook pea
j sou will open next Tuesday.
t SuDEcriba for the Dally Alaskan.
HOUSE DENIES
"lEDOfSliy
Washington, Anril 28. — With
many branches of the proposed
Roosevelt division, for service in
France, already raised, including
that of Texas, action by the house
today in voting down the amend
ment to the army bill to provide
for* thei division, Is believed to have
defea'ed the movement.
Organization of the division has
been under way for several weeks,
in different parts of the country.
PBtPASliilQ FOR
BERLIN 8IRIKE
London, April 28.—Warning that
the £ul1 force of the mllltaTy law
woud bo evoked, if necessary, to
quell threatened strikes May day
i in Berlin and other German cities,
I was given today in the reichstag by
j General Gro^ner, according to
! Router's Amsterdam correspondent.
Reports for several days have
! been *•> the efSfect that the strikes,
which have already occurred,
' would be developed into a concerted
uprising of workmen nex' Tuesday.
The City of Seattle, with nine
teen passengers from Seattle and
ninety-five tons of freight, is due
t.» arrive in SRagivay at ten o'clock
tomorrow morning, the local office
of the Pacific S. S. Co. reported
this afternoon.
The Princess Sophia of the C.
P, R., docked at 1:30 oclock and
•will sail south, at mid-nigh.t to
night. She brought in > fifty-five
passengers and 100 tons of freight.
On the trip south a number of Skag
way oeople were passengers.
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FOOD SHIPS FOB ALLIES
TO OF SOON III SERVICE
Washington, April 28.—Fourteen
citizen training camps for reserve of«
ficers and applicants for admission
in 'lie <new war army, will open
Tuesday, according to orders re
cently issued by Secretary of War
Baker. The camp for Pacific coast
and western states will be at the
Presidio in San Francisco.
Officers and non-commissioned of
ficers will be in charge of the pro
posed intensive military; training.
The maximum attendance at each
camp will be 2,500 men, the mini
mum ago of whom wiU be twenty
yepjrs, nine months, and the maxi
mum age, forty-four years. Those
chosen for admission to the camps
will receive transportation, subsist
ence at expense of the government.
Assignment Of Men
During the first month the stu
dent officers in each camp will be
divided in fifteen companies, re
gardless of the arm of the service
for which, the individuals are des
tined. The qualification of each
man will be studied with a view to
assigning the necessary numbers for
further instruction in the separate
arms. At the end of the month the
men will be reassigned in the! neces
sary woiportions for the formation,
of nine infantry companies, three
batteries of artillery, two troops
of cavalry and one company of engi
neers.. Others will be selected for
Monjce, Vt., or Fort Winfield Scott,
Cal., to finish, training.
Those remaining at the division
camns then will receive two months'
additional training, at the end of
which, regular army officers will
select from each company, troop and
battery the officers for one regiment
of their respective services.
MR. MALUIN ARRIVES
ON WAY OTTER MINES
Mr. M. Maluin, head of the Malu
in Mining syndicate, which. has
mines on Otter creek in the At
lin district, and Mrs, Maluin and
young daughter, arrived in Skag
way today from Paris. They will
leave Monday for Otter creek. They
were passengers on the trip north,
on the Sop|hi«|.
Government Decides to
Commission Boats
At Once
Washington, April 28. — Every
f f issijble effort is to be made tyy
the government to Jiavo ships coji*
Inissioned at once to carry f<>oc|
to the allies, it was announced
here today.
This decision, was reached fol
lowing a conference at which mem
bers of the French war commission
informed officials that France most
naods foodt fertilizers, coal aii(d
steel ond ships In which to trans
port these conmiities.
Ships that are now building will
be rushed to completion as fast as
possible and those which) are avail
able for service wil Immediately be
put into commission.
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FRANCE, ITALY
Washington, April 28.—Further
financial help will be given by the
Unitrd States to the allies when a
loan of $150,000 is made within
the coming week to Fra-nce and
Italy, a8 indicated by the statement
ft ~c%Vc?nTfrclfV"ii^ A<7f \ -
thq first, federal U. S. monetary aid
to the allies, was made Wednesday
to Grea' Britain.
GERMAN MINISTER LEAVES '
Rio janiero, Brazl1, April 28. —
Adolph Pauli, German minister ta
Brazil, which recently broke with.
Germany left today for Uruguay.
No arrangements have been aanounc
ed as to his plans for returning to
Germany.
B. P. O. E. NOTICE
All members of Skagway lodge,
Nw. 431, are requested' meet at
the Elks clubhouse at 7:30 o'clock
Monde-"- evening-, April 30.
[ (Signed) W. B. Batson, E. R.
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