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VOTj. 11.
NOME. ALASKA TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1918.
NO. 2488.
FOOD ADMINISTRAT
OBJECTS PURCHASE
CUBAN SUGAR
WASHINGTON, Feb. II—Claus A.
Spreckles, president of the Federal
Sugar Refining Company, testifying
before the Senate manufactures sub
committee in the sugar investigation
today, declared there is no sugar
shortage "except in spots.” One of
the spots is the Eastern United States,
tie steid. .
Spreckels placed entire blame for
the present crisis on the Food Admin
istration.
•"The Unitel States has ample
sugar.” he said "The shortage is loc
alized in the Eeastem States. As a
whole there is plenty of sugar.’
Spreckels added that here Is enough
sugar in. Java to supply the whole
British Isles for a year.
"You say there is no shortage, yet
we can get no sugar. Why is that?”
asked Senator James A. Reed,
Hoover Held to Blame.
Spreckels said the Food Adminis
tration, by "interfering with his busi
ness" had made it impossible for him
to obtain raw sugar to refine. Under
a price agreement with the Food Ad
ministration, he said, he had been un
able to buy raw sugar from Cuba and
other markets.
‘■Canada, for instance, outbids us” he
declared. "We were willing to pay
the higher price, but the Food Admin
istration would not permit us. So the
sugar went eisewhere-some of it was
shipped right hrough New York.’
“You mean that at a time when this
country needed sugar, supplies were
shipped right through the United
States and the Food Adtminlstration
wuold not let you bid to get it.
"Yes, and our refineries are now
shut down, because we cannot get
raw sugar.”
Sugar Trust Control*
Nine-tenths of the sugar production
in the United States is controlled, di
rectly, or indirectly by the sugar
trust, Spreckels declared.
"Is there a sugar trust?” Senator
Heed asked.
"There is the American Sugar Re
fining Company,” Spreckles answered
promptly.
How much of the total sugar refln
ing business does it control? asked
Senator Reed.
“About 40 per cent directly,” Spreck
els replied.
"How much does the Federal Sugar
Refining Companp controll?” asked
Senator Reed.
"About 10 per cent,” responded
Spreckels “How many of the others
are outside the trust control?”
"I should pot guarantee any but my
own,” Spreckels said. "A great many
of them are more or less affiliated with
the trust in one way or another.”
"You mean there Is a sort of un
derstanding between them?" inquired
Senator Vardanian of Mississippi.
“I think so" replied Spreckels. “The
Federal! Company produces 10,000 bar
rels of sugar a day. The entire daily
production of the country is 100,000
barrels. The annual consumption of
the United States is about 3,850,000
tons.”
As for a sugar shortage. Spreckels
adrritted that world production th'.S
year was 1,323,000 tons greater than
ever before in history.
This is on the basis on eliminating
ing Java with 900,000 tons of Its old
crop still untouched, due to shipping
difficulties" and he added that some of
this was being used despite this
trouble
BERLIN AND PARIS
REPORTS ANOTHER
AIR RAID
BKKL.IN, Fob. 11—The War office
reporta another successful air-raid on
Parts, and vicinity. Our men success
fully dropped many bomlbs on the rail
way stations and supply depots at
Dugny, Rosny, Gournay, Genesse and
Meuse and did great damage to the
enemy. In the vicinity of Paris and
in the city Itself, many buildings and
factories were fired. Many of the
airdomee and partly finished airplanes
of the latest type were wrecked. At
Couily and Crecy the railroad bridges.
stations and a number of other build
ings were destroyed. Only one of the
machines ■was badly damaged but all
managed to reach our lines.
The Berlin papers, commenting on
the raid state the French claims, that
the former German raid could never
b0 repeated without the loss of at
least one half of the raiding planes
was proven an empty boost and that
the German air raiders were fast at
taining the effectiveness of the subs.
The papers say the repeated raids of
the German planes are striking terror
to the French.
PARIS, Feb. 11—The Huns again
raided this city and surrounding towns
dropping tons of high explosives on
residences, streets and factories. Many
womjen and children were killed and
Injured and few buildings destroyed.
But as far as any real damage being
done to railway stations, supply sta
t;.,.is, and airplanes-faetories it was a
dismall failure.
ALL THE SHARKS
EAT WHALE NOW
BAY CITY, Wash. Pc*. 11—Hun
rireda of whales are being killed oft
tie northwest Pacific coast this year,
and hundreds of tons of meat is be
in* carefully butchered and sold for
food throughout the United States.
Whale meat Is now being offered at
«t tow price as a foil for beef, mutton,
*ark and other animal foods, which
continue to aviate.
Most coast restaurants are giving
their patrons choice of roast whale,
ifrted jwhale steak and whale pre
pared variously to tease the appetite.
Some like it; others don’t, but restau
rant men say that with beef at the
present high price whole meat has
come to stny. It has been eaten for
'years in Japan and Europe.
Mince last May, this station and
others north of here have been con
serving1 whalie meat for food. Just re
cently 45 tons were shipped by refrig
erator cars to Chicago, and other big
consignments have been sent out over
the country.
AVhaJe meat may solve the animal I
YON HERTLINO NOT
IN FAVOR RELINQUISH
TERRITORY GAINED
WASHINGTON. Feb. 11—President
Wilson today told congress tn.-.t ’.hi re
can be no peace terms based upon the
plans outlined by the German Chan
cellor, Count Von Hertling. '.rhe po
sition taken by Von Hertling, quite
definitely commtits the German gov
ernment to the holding of the provin
ces of Alsace and Loraine, regardless
as to whether or not It may be the
wish of the people of those provinces.
Von Hertling does not believe that
Germany should give up what she has
fought so hard to gain, and that the
wishes of the people of small states
or provinces cannot be considered
When they conflict with the wishes of
a powerful autocratic government,
such a policy said the President con
only make for a continuance of the
wax, The position taken by the Aus
trian-Hungarian government is direct
ly opposite to that taken by Germany,
and the President war(mly praised the
address of Count Czernin in which
the Premier said that the struggle at
the present time going on goes deep
enough t otouch the very foundation
of the life of man, deeipor than any
struggle that the world has ever be
fore Witnessed, and then when it is
setteBed the only just and right way to
settle it was to settle the questions on
the surface and beneath the surface
at the saime time. But, Mr. Wilson
made it very plain in his address that
he firmly believed that the domina
tion of the Kaiser’s government over
Austria had prevented the latter from
being even more frank in its reply to
the peace proposals of George and
Himself.
Mr. Wilson stated that the entire
strength of this country would be de
veloped to emancipate the people of
all countries from threat and the at
tempted mastership of selfish groups
of autocratic rulers; that the central
empires can secure peace only when
adjustment is likely to bring perma
nent peace and that hereafter people
or provinces would not be bartered
like chattels and that each and every
territorial settlement involved Id this
war. must be in the interest of, and for
the 'benefit at all the peoples concern
ed.
REMOBILIZING THE
RUSSIAN ARMY
LONDON, Feb. 11—In a dispatch
from the Brest Litovsk it is intimated
that the Russian army will be immed
iately remobolized and that it will con
sist entirely of volunteers. Great prep
arations are being made to re-enter
the war on a stupendous scale. Trotsky
states that the Russian Bolsheviki has
so far carried out its program to the
letter. That they have given the Ger
man people full information as to the
Intentions of the Bolsheviki and cites
the recent revolts in the Ge.rman Navy
and the strikes and general unrest
throughout the Central Empires as a
direct result of that information. That
food problem for the troops on the
allied front, according to Maitland
Kinsley of London, who has been in
vestigating for the English govern
ment.
MORSE WOULD
CONSCRIPT
CHINESE
NEW YORK. Feb. 11.—Charles
A. Morse, the eminent financier,
says that in view of the scarcity of
labor he believes it advisable to
soon limit labor available for in
dustries not essential to the con
duct cf the war and CONSCRIPT
a sufficient supply Tor vital necess
ities. The importation of two mil
lion Chinese temporarily to tide
over the alarmng situation in this
respect he thinks would be a good
policy.
iM Ml /•«]’ Job Wort
and there by everted any possible
tile Bolbhevlkl divided up the great
estates and thereby averted and possi
ble chance of anagarlan revolution
If Russia is forced to re-enter this
, war then every soldier wi'll know that
he is really fighting for Russia and up
to the present time he did not know
this and that each and every soldier
can have every necessity provided
both for himself and his family while
he is at the front.
BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE
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If you have a gray-haired mother
In the old home far away.
Sit down and write the letter
You put off day by day
Don't wait until her tired steps
Reach heaven’s pearly gate
But show her that you think of her
Before it is too late
If you’ve a tender message
Or a loving word to say,
Don’t wait till you forget it
But whisper it today.
Who knows what bitter ircn.cries
May haunt you if you wait?
So make your loved ones happy,
Before it is too late.
We live but in the present
The future is unknown;
Tomorrow is a mystery
Today is all our own
The Chance that fortune leads to
May vanish while you wait
So spend your life’s rich pleasure
Before it is too late
The tender word unspoken,
The letters never sent
The long-forgotten messages,
The wealth of love unspent
For these some hearts are breaking,
For these some loved ones wait
So show them that you care for them
Before it is too late.