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NOME, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1017.
SO. 2231.
HOUSTON WILL URGE
CONTROL FOOD SUPPLY
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 17—
The Secretary of Agriculture, David
Franklin Houston, announced today
that he was preparing a report urg
ing upon Congress to empower thi
government to regulate food prices
and to eliminate the middleman.
This step is everywhere being hail
ed with more satisfaction popularly
than any one action taken by the
Wilson administration since taking
office. The report will certainly re
sult in its being overwhelmingly
ratified by the people, but what
reception it may receive from Con
gress is another Question as so many
business elements are anxious ‘“to
make big war money”.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 17.—
The government officials are con
ferring with the offer of the Chicago
packers to turn over their plants for
operation by the government.
The packers suggest one meatless
day for the purpose of conserving
the supply. The offer of the packers
may result in the government taking
over the plants during the war for
the purpose of securing a supply
for the people and for the Allies
in Europe where possible.
As far as the meatless day a
week is concerned, this is hardly
likely to affect the situation in favor
of those who have at present not
one but many meatless days. All
the packing companies have been
paying enormous dividends for the
past few years.
Anything In the line of jolt work
GREATEST DRIVE IN
WAR NOW PROCEEDS
LONDON, April 17.—With con
tinuous and sanguinary fighting,
frequent hand to hand conflicts and
desperate artillery shelling, the Al
lies are now engaged in a drive
which envelops a front of one hund
red and seventy-five miles long and
which is the fiercest effort of the
war.
It is admitted that the battling,
extensive as it was, up to this on
the western front only assumed its
gigantic proportions when yesterday
a general attack was precipitated
all along the western front, to anti
cipate a heavy offensive of the Ger
mans and for which the latter had
been preparing for weeks.
The British and French are using
every man and every gifn of the
resources which they had been con
serving through the winter months
of titanic preparation and today
for the first time this year the War
Office admits that the great Spring
drive has been begun and that it
wil* continue.
Lens, Lafere and St. Quentin are
expected to fall hourly, the British
attacks being concentrated at these
points but with no intermediate
points of cessation in this Herculean
attack. At Laon, the Germans, who
had been making their greatest
concentration there with a view of
a powerful offensive, made heavy
counter attacks but all of them were
repulsed with heavy losses.
The fighting is intensive and still
proceeds, night bringing no lull to
the most ferocious drive of the
whole war.
STAR WITNESS NOW
SAYS WAS BRIBED
SAN FRANCISCO, April 17.—A
bombshell was exploded in the
ranks of the prosecution in the
cases against Billings, Mooney,
Weinberg et al. charged with bomb
ing the preparedness parade in
San Francisco last summer.
This was the announcement that
Kstelle Smith, the star witness
against Warren Billings, and upon
whose testimony the Fickert crowd
secured the boy’s conviction, had
made an affidavit that she had been
offered a heavy bribe to testify now
against Israel Weinberg when he
would come up for trial.
This is full confirmation of the
allegations made by the defense
throughout that the prosecution of
WHY PAYS? AT THE DREAM,
Ruth Roland the popular and
magnetic star will be shown tonight
iu the third episode of "Who Pays”
the instalment is entitled "When
Justice Sleeps”. The story: A young
man with a future meets a young
girl blessed with straight features
und an enormous appetite for the
good things of life. They get mar
ried and are one of the "few” coup
les in this world who do not live
happily ever after”. He tries to keep
her love, and she to wreck his cre
dit; he can’t keep her love without
losing his honor, 90 he chooses to
lose his honor—“even as you ant}
I.” A roaring Comedy is also on
the banner program.
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ALTERING ft
REPAIRING
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has the largest
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these defendants was inspired by
their activities in labor circles and
not because of any complicity in the
: bomb plot.
The defense has now the Smith
affidavit.
This is by no means the first af
fidavit produced by the defense as
to efforts at corruption and none
of which were denied although they
held one of the men implicated at
the trial for the purpose of afford
ing the prosecution an opportunity
of calling him to the stand to deny
the testimony offered, a fact pointed
out by Bourke Cockran in his ad
dress to the jury.
It is also held by the defense that
they will have further sensational
matter affecting these cases to pro
duce before the whole thing is con
cluded.
MASS MEETINS HELD
A. 8. HALL LAST NIGHT
Last night in answer to a com
mittee’s call a mass meeting was
held in the A. B. Hall where patri
otic bunting was the feature of the
decorations. The Hall was crowded
with a large audience who come to
hear the patriotic addresses from
several speakers. A number ot
school children attended and their
singing of national airs was a feat
ure of the evening. The entire pro
ceedings ending with the singing of
America.
F. C. Dean the first speaker brief
ly announced the purposes ot the
meeting which were to enable the
people of Nome to announce to the
President that they were ready to
perform to the utmost their Jull obli
gations as American citizens in the
wak-.
Judge Lomen the next speaker
said Wore making some remarks
he would ask Rev. Dr. Parsons to
utter an invocation and he would
be followed by the children singing
America.
This having been done Judge Lc
men in his address summarized the
war in Europe and said that finally
America has joined the war of de
mocracy against autocracy. War
had been declared and when the
President and Congress had decided
upon t,his it was not for tfye people
to .question it bpt to support this an
tion with loyal service.
Judge Tucker who was the speaker
of the evening delivered an address
which excited the firsts stir of en
thusiasm and which lasted through
out the rest of the evining. lie
counted himself as a pugnacious
individual a very unfortunate man
in that when the civil war broke
out he was too /oung to fight and
now that th» country was embroiled
with Germanv he found himself to
old; if however they would take him
as a cook or as a nu se he would
certainly go. But he did want to
see the young men like Joe Sheldon,
Alf Lomen and Ralph L -men to
go forward to serve their country.
He said is was natural that men
born in other countries should have
found their sympathies affected for
one aide or another in the European
wa/. but now that Ameriac was at
war, they should all he Americans.
He congratulated Nome on this
splendid manifestation of patriotism
and loyalty. He expressed profound
sympathy for his German friends,
but he urged them to Jb^e consistent
and in that they pledged allegiance
to the United States and forswore
allegiance to their ruler in Europe,
they should remain loyal not to the
latter but to the United States. He
said America stood for democracy
and democratic principles in this
war. He had no love for England,
Germany 01 Russia. He did love
France but he would uncrown King
George, uncrown the Kaiser, the
COAL MINERS FORCE
WACE INCREASES
NEW YORK, April 17.—After
trying in vain to hold the coal min
ers to the terms of their wage agree
ments made two years ago when
coal prices were fifty per cent lower
than at present and the costs of liv
ing less by the same per centage,
and when it was seen that at least
225,000 miners would strike if a
wage demand for an increase was
denied them, the operators finally
agreed to give a sixty cents a day in
crease to all coal diggers employed
by them by the day, and a similar
per car increase to those engaged
on piece work.
The new wage scale affects as
stated two hundred and twenty-five
thousand men employed as coal
miners in the states of Ilinois, Ohio,
Indiana and Pennsylvania.
Operators estmate that it means
an increased pay roll of $24,000,
1 000.
Upon settlement of the difficulty
both sides agreed to co-operate for
the biggest production possible o?
coal for the support of the nation
in time of war.
The announcement of the settle
ment has been received with great
satisfaction in government circles
and removes a serious problem
j which might otherwise have devcl
1 oped considerable friction.
STRONG PATROLS ARE
GUARDING NEW YORK
NEW YORK, April 17.—A Ger
man submarine without any warn
ing caught the U. S. destroyer Smith
standing off New York harbor napp
ing, and the American craft
was shelled by the diver. The U
boat immediately submerged. The
Smth was not hit, the shell explod
ing in the water some distance from
the destroyer. The incident occa- j
sioned no end of a stir in shipping
circles when it became known that j
a U boat was in such close proximity j
to the leading American port.
NEW YORK, April 17.—Extra
ordinary precautions are being taken
to prevent hostile submarines shell
ing the city. The channels have all
been screened with nets and strong
patrols are now standing outside
Sandyhook. Nothing has been heard
of the U boat since the diver fired
a shell at the Smith.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April I"—
The presence of a U boat in United
States \vaters is not entirely unex
pected, and it was expected that one
of these would present an appear
ance sooner or later. The Xavy
'Department's order to the fleet are
for the greatest vigilance upon the
part of all ships of every class to
the end that these menaces to navi
gation may have a short lived career
on this side of the ocean.
There is no doubt that these
divers have a secret base in some
section of the western hemisphere
which has so far not been discovered
but which is being sought for with
the utmost diligence.
WHEAT GOES WEST TO
SUPPLY ENTENTE NATIONS
PORTLAND, Or., April 17.—One
hundred cars of wheat are being
rushed east daily for shipment to
the Allies. It is estimated that this
will cover a period of seventy-one
days. The inflated prices which now
prevail are an inducement to brok
ers to let go and take advantage
of the prices on call and May wheat
of which the buyers are short.
MINNEAPOLIS, April 17.—Can
ada struck the high price of wheat
Tzar and crown the people of those
countries.
The following resolution was then
adopted by a unanimous standing
vote:
Resolved, that the people of Nome,
Alaska, citizens of the United States,
in mass meeting assembled, express
to the President of the United
States, their profound appreciation
of his untiring and patriotic efforts
to keep this nation from being em
broiled in internal strife:
And now that a state of war ex
ists between our country' and Ger
many we further wish to convey to
our president the firm intention of
all our citizens to accord to him the
most loyal support in the conduct
of the war.
Short talks were made by Duncan
M’Donald, Mayor Moller,,Tom Gaff
ney, Dr. Mustard. Judge Hobbes,
District Attorney Saxton and Mrs.
Darling. A song was sung by
Deakin and W. C. McGuire read
James Rodman Drake’* American
Flag.
HOLD MEETING,
At the meeting of the Federated
Ladies Aid Society yesterday ar
rangements for the Travelog Friday
evening were completed. A recep
tion committee, consisting of Mrs.
Mulligan,. Mrs. Kocb, Mrs. Shields,
and Mrs. I. Reed, was appointed.
Also a social committee, which will
have charge of the refreshments,
the members being Mrs. Kelling,
Mrs. Fred Peterson and Mrs. Oliver.
Dainty refreshments will be served
for twenty-five cents. Over 180
members of the Travel Club have
been enrolled, and when the steam
ship Minnesota departs for the Or
ient a record crowd will be aboard.
a body blow today when the tarift
on exported wheat to foreign coun
■ tries was lifted today as far as ship
ments to the United States is con
cerned, and wheat and wheat flour
by the Ottawa government were
placed upon free list.
Immensely heavy shipments were
received today, both the Great
Northern and the Soo lines sending
special after special laden with grain
into this city and to Chicago.
It is expected that this will mate
rially reduce prices.
CRITICALLY ILL.
NEW YORK, April 17.—Sarah
Bernhardt is here critically ill and
an operation is necessary.
FIRST TALK AT CHICAGO
CHICAGO, April 17.—Colonel
Roosevelt’s first plea for young men
to support the colors will be deliv
ered in a stockyard speech on April
28.
PLAN TO KEEP ON SESSION.
[ WASHINGTON, D. C., April 17.—
The leaders plan to keep the senate
in session until they pass the seven
billion dollar loan tonight.
RESOLUTE LOYALTY.
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. April 17.—
The German Lutheran conference
today resoluted fealty to the United
States.
FOR SALE CHEAP.
Two 4 H. P. Boilers.
Qne 12 H. P. Boiler.
One IS H. P. Boiler.
Two 0 H. P. Boiler.
DARLING A DEAN CO.
M. PASOOFF. '
LADIES & GENTS TAILOR.
Yonr Clothes Cleaned, Pressed and
Repaired.
SUITS MADE TO OARER from
select fabrics and triynmlags.
ALL WORK (GUARANTEED.
Got. Lane's Way sad Front Stmt.
CHICAGO, April 17.—The wheat
market slumped eighteen points
today and is still sinking. The ef
forts to get the wheat dealers short
are proving futile for the sellers are
swampng the market with wheat
from Canada and from Washington
and Oregon.
It looks probable that many of the
speculators will be heavily involved
in the slump.
GOT REWARD.
JUNEAU, April 17.—Arvid Frant
zen was paid one thousand dollars
reward by Governor Strong today
for killing Krause.
SENT BACK.
JUNEAU, April 17.—The Aldrich
doctor bill was sent back to the com
mittee to be re-written. The choice
of doctors will be retained in the
new bill. i ’
REPORTED BREAK WITH U. S.
PARIS, April 17.—It is reported
here that Turkey and Bulgaria have
broken with the United States.
NOT ADVISED.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 17
Officials have received no confirma
tion of the press cabled advices as
to the seizure of the American gun
boat Scorpion by Turkey.
STORM BOUND.
Yesterday Albert Matson was
storm bound at Chlnik where a big
blizzard was blowing.
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