HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ILL AND
MANY HAVE DIED OF
FEVER IN BERLIN.
LACK OF FOOD THE CAUSE.
Revolts in City of Prague, Austria,
Are Renewed, Growing Out of Want
of Bread—People Have Had None
Since July 7—Grand Duchy of
Baden Has Malaria Epidemic.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 27.—
A dispatch from Switzerland today
confirms the reports that a typhus epi
demic is raging in Berlin. Hundreds -
of people are ill and many have died, j
The disease is caused by lack of ade
quate and proper food. It is further
reported that an epidemic of malaria
is previling in the Grand Duchy of
Baden, in Germany, and that there is
much suffering in that region. j
REVOLTS IN PRAGUE.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 27.—:
Famine is the cause of further revolts j
of the populace in Prague, Austria, ac- i
cording to advices received in Wash
ington today. The report says that
the people of Prague have had no
bread since July 7.
HUNS ILL-TREAT
AMERICAN BOYS
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 27.—
The three hundred American seamen
interned in Germany are not being
well-treated, according to advices re
ceived by the United States shipping
board, which is planning means of re
lief. The seamen were taken captive
by a German sea raider in South At
lantic waters and were members of
the crews of allied ships.
BOMB MAKER
UNDER ARREST
NEWARK, N. J., July 29.—Fred
erick Bischoff, a dentist and chemist,
is said to have confessed to the mak
ing of a bomb in an attempt to de
stroy a large manufacturing plant in
this city. The plot was frustrated and
Bischoff, who was suspected of com
plicity in the affair, was taken into
custody.
H.W. NAGLEY
General Merchandise
’ Susitna
Branch Stores at
McDougall - - - Talkeetna
Dealer in RawT Furs, Snowshoes,
Camp Outfits. Selling Agent
—FOR—
Hipress Boots and Pacs.
I NORTH POLE
BAKERY
AND COFFEE HOUSE
4th Ace., Bet. C and D.
W. D. WANDLING
HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR
FURS.
AMERICA IS
MILES OF ALL TYPES ROARING
IN TESTS AT ABERDEEN,
MARYLAND.
TEN 155’S A DAY’S OUTPUT.
General Pershing’s Armies Will Soon
Be Independent of Co-Belligerents
in Artillery—New Shell Is Under
Test—Rapid Progress Now Being
Made in Artillery Production.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 28.—
American-built 155 millimeter how
itzers are now moving to France, sup
plementing the equipment of General
Pershing’s troops heretofore obtained
from French ordnance factories. One
American firm which had never touch
ed ordnance work of any character
prior to America's entrance into the
war, is turning out these guns at a
rate of ten a day from a factory, che
site of which was a flourishing corn
field last August.
These facts were disclosed today to
newspaper correspondents from Wash
ington who visited the new army prov
ing ground at Aberdeen, Md., as the
guests of Colonel W. A. Phillips, com
mandant. A long row of the 155s,
tested, approved, and waiting ship
ping orders, was one of the most strik
ing object lessons of the trip.
The howitzers, which are of French
design, are of approximately six-inch
bore and are the heavy barrage guns
which support an infantry advance
against an mtrencned position, me
United States soon will be independent!
of its co-belligerents for guns of this;
type.
The visitors today saw a day’s j
work in progress on this 36,000-acre j
tract of land that a year ago heard no I
more warlike sound than a duck-!
hunter’s gun. Today several miles of j
‘‘firing line” barked and roared with
big gun blasts, and out on the ranges
sudden black smoke clouds marked
the burst of high-explosive shells |
timed to break in the air and leaping
sprouts of sand and dirt told of havoc
wrought by missiles designed to wreck
German trenches.
From a high observation tower the
party looked down on the trench war-j
fare section. Beginning with rifle gre-1
nades, all sizes of mortars were ham- j 1
mering away. The 3-inch Stokes mot - j
tars stood out in the open, but the j
big fellows, up to the huge Sutton
Stokes 11-inch monster, developed by
a British ordnance officer in this coun
try, stood in stockaded shelters. A
row of demolished guns which burst in
tests, constituting the post’s “ceme
tery,” and the battered sides of some 1
ofg the log-walled embrasures, show- !
ed the necessity of the stockades.
Next in line was the mobile artillery 1
testing range. On the firing line stood |
guns of all kinds, French 75s, British!
18-pounders, 4.7 howitzers and rifles, i
! 1
Thl Sitka Hot Springs \
These springs are five in
number and one of the old land
marks of Alaska. The Russians
had a hospital there in 1841,
where they sent patients with
diseases of the skin and consti
tutional blood disorders. ,
The temperature averages
145 degrees Fahrenheit at the *
Spring. The baths are effica- i
cious for rheumatism, stomach
and liver troubles, kidney and 1
bladder diseases, and for consti- j
tutional disorders.
These springs are in charge 1
of Dr. F. L. Goddard. Th* <
terms for room, board, and
baths, $2 a day and up. Cabins, c
$7.50 per month and up, includ- (
ing furnishings, except bed
ding. ADDRESS 1
F. L. GODDARD, M. D.,
SANITARIUM, ; ALASKA i
pf
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ALLIES CLOSE ON HEELS OF
STUBBORNLY RESISTING FOES
WHO ARE MARCHING TO REAR
With the Americans on the Marne, July 29.—Reinforced by two
crack divisions of Bavarian guards, the Teutons are giving the hardest
resistance yet displayed against the American forces north of the Ourcq
river. Although heavily hammered by the enemy, the Americans re
plied in kind. The fighting shifted back and forth through Serg, three
miles southeast of Fere-en-Tardenois. Up to noon yesterday, the Ger
mans were unable to force a re-crossing of the Ourcq river.
ALLIES’ FORWARD PRESSURE UNINTERRUPTED.
French Headquarters on the Marne Front, July 29.—The al
lied forward pressure was uninterrupted Sunday. Saturday, the ad
vance was extremely rapid, but it met with a slight opposition yester
day. The Germans everywhere demonstrated their power of determined
resistance. There was very strong and severe fighting on the streets of
Fere-en-Tardenois yesterday. Hand-to-hand fights were frequent. The
allies eventually gained the upper hand and the battle has shifted for
possssion of Ville-en-Tardenois, on the western side and near the Vesle
river.
BIG GERMAN RETREAT IS ON.
London, July 29.—The big German retreat is continuing today
along the whole line between Soissons and Rheims and between the later
point and the Marne river, with the French, American and British
forces in close and unfaltering pursuit. The Germans yesterday suc
ceeded in checking, but not stopping, the French forces in the northern
part of the line. The French forces, employed on the north bank of
Ihe Ourcq river, secured possession of the road leading between Rheims
and Dormans, on the Marne river. In retreating, the Germans are of
fering stubborn resistance to the allied forces, and are burning the vil
lages in their pathway on their rearward march. South of Soissons,
near Buczancy, the French so far have been unable to advance, due to
intense German resistance, but expect to resume the forward march be
fore the day is done. That the Huns expect to retreat at this point is
evidenced by the burning of the villages in the immediate rear. Four
teen miles east, between Soissons and Bazouches, the Germans are like
wise firing the towns and villages, leading to the belief that a further
retreat is intended in that sector. The allies advanced between two and
three miles since Saturday night, on a twenty-mile front. It is be
lieved the Huns are retiring beyond the Vesle river, on a line thirty
miles long, between Rheims and Soissons, which is probably entrenched
and having good lines of communication. The German retirement is
orderly and deliberate. They lost four big guns yesterday, compelled
to abandon them in the haste to retreat. The Americans are vigorously
pressing the Germans at Fere-en-Tardenois, the road center.
ALLIES OCCUPY FERE-EN-TARDENOIS.
With the Americans on the Marne, July 29.—Franeo-Amer
ican forces are slashing vigorously at the stiffening German rear, with
the prospect that the advancing line will be closed at the River Ardre,
i few kilometers away, before night over takes them. The German base
ind road center at Fere-en-Tardenois is now occupied by the Franco
American forces.
FRANCO-AMERICANS CONTINUE ADVANCE.
With the Americans on the Marne, July 29.—Franco-Amer
ican forces arc continuing a rapid advance on the Aisne-Marne front,
)ut are losing contact with the enemy because of his still more rapid re
reat. The Fere forest, which was a veritable nest of the enemy, has been
-leared.
AMERICANS TAKE THREE TOWNS.
Washington, July 29.—General Pershing reports that the Amer
cans crossed the Ourcq river and captured the towns of Seriangeet
lesles, Sergy and Roneh yesterday afternoon.
AMERICANS ARRIVE IN ITALY.
With the Americans on the Marne, July 29.—American fighting
roops began arriving on the Italian front in Italy Sunday. They were
rreeted with the utmost enthusiasm by the Italian troops. The first
hing the American troops sought was a place to take a bath, following
heir long march overland.
quat, vicious looking 8-inch and 9.2- [ j
nch howitzers and long ronge rifles, '
joking their muzzles high in tir. All
vere flaming and roaring.
Some of the guns were at work on
nuzzle velocity tests and the ordnance
>ffleers showed with pride the new .
Aberdeen chronograph, the delicate <
jlectrical device for measuring the 1
peed of a shell flight that has been ]
',-orked out at Aberdeen and is a long 1
tride ahead in this part of the work, i
jJext in line came the hangars for the .£
ii rplane squadrons. They were leap- \
ng up as the party watched. The \
iroject is only a few weeks old, but
fficers expected to have the plant in
peration in August, with planes cir
ling about every day, dropping test
iombs to add to the din. (
Next came the battery, extending 1
ts range length for miles along the 1
hores of Chesapeake bay, where the l
ig rifles up to 16-inch calibre are A
ested. At another battery where new I
evices are tried out, strange, long- c
osed high explosive shells were being 1
ired. They represent an improvsd
lan for killing men.
Eventually guns will go direct from
be Aberdeen testing pits to the
hips that will carry them to France. 1
l sturdy pier, able to stand the weight s
f the heaviest piece, is now under i
onstruction at the testing ground. p
U. S. SUBMARINE
FIRED ON BY ALLY
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 26.—
\.n allied armed ship mistook an Am
iri can submarine for a German U
>oat and fired on it yestei'day off the
'lew England coast. A few plates of
he submarine were broken, but none
iboaxd were injui'ed. The submarine
ippeared suddenly near the ship,
chich stopped firing when its identity
vas disclosed.
ROBINSON CRUSOE’S WILL.
LONDON, July 29.—The “last will"
f Alexander Selkirk, the original of
iobinson Crusoe, was sold at auction
iere this month for $300. The will
iegins: “Being now bound out on a
oyage to sea, and calling to mind the
lerils and dangers of the seas and
ther uncertaintys of this transitory
ife-”
STOLE A FEW BEANS.
NEW YORK, July 21).—A German
;tter carrier with a long record of
ervice, got three months for steal
ig 35 coffee beans that fell from a
ackage.
WOMEN PLEDGE
HID TO HELP
DR. ANNA SHAW SAYS THEY
tflLL DO ANYTHING THE
GOVERNMENT ASKS.
ADVOCATE FURTHER UNITY.
Speakers at National Education Asso
ciation’s Convention Urge Commun
ity Centres to Organize—America
Winning Democracy at Home by
Fighting for it Abroad.
PITTSBURGH, July 29. —United
support by the women of America of
the government's prosecution of the
war was plended here today by Dr.
Anna Howard Shaw, chairman of the
women’s committee of the Council of
National Defense, in an address be
ore the community service section of
the National Education association.
“The government,” said Dr. Shaw,
“has not a better or more lawabiding
army in the field than the women of
the United States. We will do any
thing the government wants, if in
structions are issued us. Women’s
education has been a personal educa
tion, and it has been a hard task to
get them away from the personal idea
into the community idea. The diffi
culty in organizing rural districts has
been overcome by electing school
teachers as chairmen. As a result the
school teacher is considered the most
important factor in community service
today.”
America is winning democracy at
home by fighting for it in France, de
clared John Collier of New York,
president of the National Community
Centre association, in an address to
night. Advocating the organization
of community centres in every village,
town, and city in the United States,
“The Community Council represents
democracy every day in contrast with
the earlier political method which rep
resented democracy once a year. The
Community Council summons every
man, woman and child into national
activity and the program of the Com
munity Council is the whole civil and
social program.”
Organization of the people of every
community throughout the Crated
States into a community council so as
to concentrate public opinion and pub
lie effort upon the winning of the war
and to maintain the standards of de
mocracy after the war, was advocated
by Henry E. Jackson, special agent of
the United States bureau of education,
in an address before the conference.
Mr. Jackson brought to the confer
ence a letter written to him by Presi
dent Wilson, in which the president
wrote that he was glad to learn that,
in Mr. Jackson’s statement, the move
ment for the organization of commun
ity centres was rapidly taking hold of
the judgment and entering into the
action of the country. “I hope that
the movement will spread with energy
and effectiveness,” added the presi
dent.
There must be constructive social
reorganization in the United Staes in
order that America shall help to win
the war, Everett D. Martin, directoi
of the Cooper Union Union Forum of
New York City, told the conference.
“No sane persons wants a social up
heaval in this country at any time,”
said Mr. Martin. “But even now the
social adjustment is upon us. Next to
the events in France, it is the most
significant thing which is happening
and it requires the whole counsel of
democracy if it is to succeed, and if
it is not fo be accompanied by the dan
ger of just such a social outbreak as
we all would deplore.
“It will not do at such a time as this
to have the lobbies of congress open to
special interests, and*nearly every ex
pression of popular will suppressed.
The government must take the people
into its confidence. It must help or
ganize them locally as in the commun
ity council, and it must talk with them
direct, give them the information and
counsel which will sustain them in the
crisis and steady the social organiza
BUDGET IS
PREDICTED
CONGRESSMAN KAHN SEES
ENORMOUS FUTURE EXPEND
ITURES FOR WAR PURPOSES.
GOOD PROGRESS MADE NOW.
Ranking Republican Member of House
Committee on Military Affairs Says
Eighteen Billion Dollars Will Be
Required During Years 1919 and
1920 for Army Upkeep.
CLEVELAND, O., July 29.—In a
speech here Saturday night, Congress
man Kahn, of California, ranking re
publican member of the house commit
tee on military affairs, and who, be
cause of the opposition of Chairman
Dent, the chairman, took the initiative
in the passage of the administration’s
selective draft bill through the house,
expressed the belief that there would
be eighteen billion-dollar army appro
priations bills in the years 1919 and
1920, because of the proposed large
increase in the army.
The California congressman said he
was well satisfied with the way war
activities were going on now, but be
lieved that the war would last at least
two years more.
GOVERNMENT
GOING AFTER
FAKE OUTFITS
INVESTIGATION REVEALS WILD
CATTING FLOURISHES
THROUGHOUT NATION. *
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 26.—
A conference of government agencies
and other organizations has been cal
led by the capital issues committee to
consider plans to suppress the enor
mous growth in activities in the sale
of wildcat stocks and bonds by com
pany promoters. These pernicious ac
tivities are said to be due to the high
wages prevailing and to the willing
ness of the promoters to take liberty
bonds in payment for the fictitious
stocks offered the public. It is alleg
ed that the promoters make pleas on
the basis of government needs in the
development of oil, coal and other pro
ducts Over $250,000,000 worth of
fraudulent securities were sold last
voqV if ic n 1 lorrorl
PEACE MEETING
ENDS IN A ROW
AMSTERDAM, July 26.—A Kiev
dispatch says the Russian-Ukrainian
peace conference culminated in an
open quarrel. The Ukrainians are al
so opposed to the Don Cossacks’ ter
ritorial claims and has broken off dip
lomatic relations with the Crimea re
public.
tions wThich the war has made neces
sary.
“The old mediators between govern
ment and people—the newspapers, the
political party, and the intellectualist
reformer—no longer mediate. They
have ceased to represent anything
very significant, and the people no
longer believe them. Here in the com
munity council is the making of a new
instrument of government, in which
the public mind is represented only
by itself, and that is what the nations
are bleeding to establish in the earth
today.”
OneTfourth of the active forces in
the modern army is made up of tech
nical specialists, B. P. Capen of the
National Bureau of Education told the
lepartment of higher education.
The need of federal aid for training
teachers and meeting increased salar
ies was emphasized by John A. H.
Keith, president of the State Normal
School of Indiana, in an address be
fore the normal school department.
Expert psychological tests in the
army, school, and business were urged
by Bertha M. Luckey of Cleveland,
speaking before the special education
section.