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VOL. 11.
WOMB. ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1017
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NO. 2444.
FOOD BRIGANDS
WAR PROFITEERS •
ROBBING NATION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 21.—
Information that has come to the
hands of the Federal Trade Commis
sion says that the entire country
is in the grasp of a nation wide
combination of merchants and pro
fiteers controlling eighty per cent
of all commercial foodstuffs as well
as all other necessary products.
The information points to the
fact that this avaricious combine
has the nation irredeemably at its
mercy and reveals a plot so fiend
ish and greedy as to prove alarm
ing even for the safety of the peo
ple. It appears to have already cov
ered its operations so that it could
sell food at wholesale prices and
make fabulous profits. This amaz
ing data has been gathered by Mr.
Francis J. Heney who is Attorney
for the Commission and points to
the Chicago Meat packers trust as
being the centre of the conspiracy
already so well developed that it is
doubled if their strangle hold can
be broken.
The first step in the direction of
an effor: ot break the combination
is expected to follow the Commis
sion's investigation when criminal
prosecutions will be attempted
against such of the packers as may
own stock in the railroads of the
country, since it is believed to be
through railroad control that the
combine best operates.
Let n» estimate on /oar Job Wort
LABOR TROUBLES
DELAY SHIP BUILDING
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 21.—
Chairman Hurley of the Shipping
Board Commission testifying before
the Senate Investigation Committee
today declared that the presence of
labor troubles in practically all the
ship-building plants in the country
and the unusual demands of the
navy were responsible for the delay
in the construction of tonnage and
the little progress being made on
the government’s ship building pro
gram.
Mr. Huriey proceeded to outline
and define the present dual manage
ment for the furtherance of the pro
gram and stated that fourteen
hundred ar.d twenty ships are now
under construction or contracted for
and that this shipping now under
way provides an additional tonnage
of over eight million tons dead
weight. He expressed himself as be
lieving that no complaint whatever
could be had at the Goethals-Den
man shipbuilding program, and i
stated that the whole trouble lay in
the human factors of the problem^
which of course is beyond the pow
ers of the engineers to overcome.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 21.—
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion today adopted a resolution un
til June 30th, 1918, the contemplat
ed increases in commodity freight
rates amounting to fifteen per cent
and requested by Eastern roads.
963 SHIPS SUNK
SINCE MARCH
LONDON, Dec. 21.—In the face
of Premier Lloyd Georges state
ment to parliament that the subma
rine campaign of t.'ie Central Pow
ers is a failure the admission is
made by the admiralty office that
the number of ships destroyed by
enemy divers since the first of
March reaches the enormous total
of nine hundred and sixty three, in
cluding the seventeen that were
sunk last week.
PETROGRAD, Dec. 21.— The
conflict which has been raging be
tween the Bolshiviki and the Ukra
inians has subsided and compara
tive peace reigns at Odessa. By
mutual arrangements the city is be
ing policed by both factions in an
effort to prevent disorders.
LONDON. Dec. 21.—In spite of
the bad weather conditions prevail
ing in France at this season the
British aerial attack upon the
enemy front continues. Two enemy
machines have been destroyed, two
have been driven out of control, but
General Birch’s machine is missing.
BERLIN, Dec. 21.—The main
committee of the Reichstag will
take up the discussion of the peace
situation on December 22nd accord
ing to schedule arranged today, it
is believed that the Russian nego
tiations will likewise be taken up.
NOME SCHOOLS HOLD
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION
The first of the entertainments in
celebration of the Christmas season
was held at the School building
yesterday when the pupils of the
first four grades, of the Grammar
school pieseiKcd a charming and in
structive program to an audience
made up of the school officials, a
nu nber of parents and the teachers.
The splendidly executed program
Included the following features, an
account ol' which is furnished us
through the courtesy of Professor
Thompson:
Christinas Exercise.
1. Declaration. Loyalty to Amer
ica.
2. Flag Salut. By Assembly.
3. Love* to Give, by Eva Nicoli,
Elsie Wheeler, Helen Ander
son and Elna Johnson.
4. Advice. By Frances Ross.
5. A Little .Christr.as Fairy—Grace
O'Conner.
6. Christmas Wishes. By Thomas
Ross. Lawrence Smith, Maxie
Kiistan, Ceslie Smith, Harvey
Watson, Emerson Bassett,
Walter Gawne John Johnson,
Robert Hanson, Paul Nelson,
Mohie Seidenverg and Walter
Cavey.
7. Christmas Pessimist. Eliabcth
Mueller.
8. ’ Song. Harry M’Cloek.
9. Lazy Joe. Emma Nicoli and
Erika Larson.
10. Who Is It? By Dorothy Morris.
11. Glory to the Highest. By Al
vin Polet, Arthur Johnson,
Willie Alexson, Billie Cliace.
12. When Santa Claus Comes
By Vilma Brown. Ingeborg
Stevenson, Austin Dickson,
Andrew Sather, Edna 'Wheel
er, Robert Lyle.
13. Why was Santa Sad? By
Gladys Laiblin.
14. Christmas Play: Santa at
Homes. Santa.— Sanford
Seidenverg,. Mrs. Santa, Alice
Morris. Toy makers: Finn,
Alfred Matsen; Tonly, Robert
Hansen. Postman, Arwyu
Riggs Jack Frost, Arthur
Johnson. Sunshine, Victoria
Anderson.
Both ihe High': and Grade schools
have a two weeks holiday vacation
beginning today.
CONTROL PRICES
RUMORED RUSSIAN
! JAPANESE 60MPACT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 21.—
' International developments of a
j most startling and rapid nature are
i in prospect if the statements attri
I butcd to the new foreign minister
j Trotsky for tile Bolslieviki Russian
j government should materialize.
The State Department for the
United States today received confir
mation of an announcement made
by Minister Trotsky that the allied
powers will be given two months in
which to join the ' Bolsheviki peace
movement and in tlie meantime the ■
peace proposals and propaganda of
Russia is expected to be advanced
among the working classes of the
combatant nations, including those
of the Teutonic powers. Also it is
believed that the Bolsheviki are
spreading their propaganda through
the neutral nations with the view
of establishing a permanent peace
for the world, based upon the teach
ings of the Bolsheviki which is
in large part result from the peace
and sociological writings of Tolstoi
and Prince Peter Kropotkin, the
nobleman anarchist and scientist.
The dispatches also include infor
mation of a secret pact made in
191G that Russia and Japan would
unite to prevent any other nation
interfering in the affairs of China.
Dont stop at just Membership for
yourself.—Work for the cause Red
Cross Membership.
NICK KOMANOr TO
LEAVE RUSSIA
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LONDON, Dec. 21.—That the Bol
shiviki government have decided to
permit the czar and his family to
leave Russia is the information
reaching this city today. This will
restore to the former ruler and the
members of his household their li
berty of movement in whatever
country they may choose to take re
fuge, subject only the laws of such
other country.
There have persisted unauthenti
I cated reports that the eldest daughl
| cr of the former czar has escaped
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incognito, by pretending to be the
wife of one of the former court at
taches and had made her way to
America. There are nothing in the
present report indicating to what
advantage the ex-czar will put his
release.
PARIS, Dec. 21.—It is reported
here that all former officers of the
Russian army who ware serving in
Frcnce have tendered their services
to the American forces there. Gen
eral Pershing has taken the offer
under advisement.
ATLANTIC TORT, Dec. 21.—
The members of the crew arriving
here from the ill fated Steamer
Rochester, declare that the Germans
shelled the life boats containing the
sailors who were escaping from the
sinking steamer.
Work for the Red Cross Member
ship Campaing.—It is every Citizens
Duty.
SAID KAISER AIDS
BOLSHEVIKI REGIME
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 21.—That
the revolution against the Bolshe
viki regime in Russia is steadily
gaining ground in the Southern pro
Vinces, is the- burden of telegraphic
dispatches reaching this city.
A considerable portion of the
Roumanian s rmy is reported to
have joined the Ukrainians who
are fighting the Bolsheviki.
On the other hand it is believed
that the German government *s ac
I
(lively aiding and fasterir.g the Bol
sheviki, supplying them with mili
tary needs ard encouraging the
spread of the movement.
Kerensky, the deposed Russian
leader, is reported to be marching
toward Moscow hut with greatly re
duced forces.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 21.—
Karl Babst who is President of
the American Sugar Refining Com
paiiy, the most importatn single
factor in the sugar situation, in
testifying before the Senate investi
gation Committee declared that tho
domestic canning and preserving of
fruits by the American housewife
under the impetus of the food con
servation movements was one great,
cause of the shortage of sugar, but
stated that a contributing cause
was the lack of cars for the liand
-ling of the sugar crop.
GERMAN GUNS SHOOT
SIXTEEN MILES
ROME, Dec. 21.—The deadliness
and power of German military ope
rations are well exemplified in the
fact that the city of Bassano in
northern Italy is fully eleven miles
within the protection of the Italian
linos it none the less is undergoing
a bombardment of death-dealipg
shells from German artillery.
That the Teuton forces eou’.d in
vade Italy transporting guns with
them of such tremendous range
brings forcibly home, in the opin
ion of military experts here,—the
military problems confronting Italy
and the allied powers.
The Germans continue to moke
slight daily advances along tbe
Piave and Brenta, but have failed
so tar in their efforts to cross tho
Piave River.
PARIS, Dec. 21.—News reaches
this city today of the capture by
French Torpedoe boats of (he cap
ture of the commander and twenty
one members of tho crow of the
German submarine which sank the
Cruiser Chateau Renault in (lie
Mediterranean sea recently. The
diver was destroyed in making the
capture.
GENEVA, Dec. 21.—Alarmed by
the fall of Jerusalem and British
advances being made in Palestine
Go: many is sanding re-ir.forecvnents
to the Turks.
See that every man has a mem
bership in the Red Gross this
Christmas.
WK CAN' 1)0 IT.
Peoples Laundry w.i-li o\orjtiling
except the Gaby.
W. .1. WILLIAMSON’, Prop.
Closing out Xmas goods. Largo
S; K useful presents at HOLTS.