ANCHORAGE WEEKLY TIMES
AND ALASKA LfBOR NEWS.
VOL. 2. NO. 31,
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1918.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
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ON THE POLES.
FRONTIERS OF POLAND WILL BE
DETERMINED BY MILITARY
NECESSITIES.
ALL CENTRAL POWERS AGREED. ;
New Power Must Also Agree to Make S
Economic Concessions With Ger-!
manic Powers for Period of Fifty j
Years, on Basis of Most Favored
Nation Principle. |
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LONDON, July 3.—German news
papers, publishing the principal feat-' c
ures of the German solution of the i I
Polish problem, which has the en-; 1
dorsement of all the central powers,'t
with one accord approve the condi- i
tions that will be imposed on Poland, t
The conditions imposed by Germany £
are that Poland’s boundaries shall be t
fixed according to the military neces
sities of Germany and her allies and r
that Poland shall make favorable eco- t
nomic concessions to the Teutonic na-! t
tions for a period of fifty years, on the: \
principle of the “most favored na-j r
tion.” Further, German schools must I
be established in Poland at ar.y point '
where ten German children reside. {
CROWDER SAYS HE HAS NO AU- (
THORITY OVER PERSONS
CONFUSED WITH STATE LAWS. :
Provost Marshal Asserts His Regula-j $
tion Applies to Men Within Draft
Age Only and That These M ill BeJ
Made to Enter Useful Occupations;
or Fight.
WASHINGTON, July 3.—General!
Crowder, provost marshal, asserts j e
that the new “work or fight” regula- i f
tion doesn’t affect men outside of the c
draft ages, over whom he has no jur- o
isdiction, unless authority comes from i
congress to this effect. He says he in- i
tends to see that registered men get g
into useful occupations, or fight.
He declares that this regulation j
has been confused with the anti-loaf- g
ing laws that have been passed by g
several states of the union. c
FIRE DESTROYS ;
PART OF PLANT;
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MOUNT UNION, Penn., July 3.— £
Fire of undetermined origin, destroy
ed four buildings of the Aetna Chem- C
ical company’s big plant in this city
last night. The loss in the burning of
the buildings is estimated at $1,000,
000. The fire consumed 450,000 pounds *
of gun cotton for war munitions fori
the United States.
WICKERSHAM TO
COME TO ALASKA :
WASHINGTON, July 3.—Delegate 1
James Wickersham, who won the elec- !
tion contest over Sulzer by a unani
mous vote of the house committee, \
will return to Alaska immediately and i
begin a vigorous campaign for re-elec- (
tion. i
DEPARTMENT
HEADS FAVOR
D. SJONTROL
IAKER, DANIELS AND BURLE
SON ADVOCATE TAKING OVER
COMMUNICATION LINES.
APPEAR BEFORE COMMITTEE.
secretary of the Navy and Postmas
ter-General Believe That if Govern
ment Once Takes Over Telegraph
and Telephone Systems, They Will
Never Revert to Owners.
WASHINGTON, July 3.—Secretary
f War Baker, Secretary of the Navy! ■
)aniels and Postmaster-General Bur-;
sson appeared before a house commit-,
ee yesterday and made urgent pleas i
n favor of a resolution empowering j
he president to take over all tele-j1
raph, telephone and radio systems in ;
he United States. j;
Daniels and Burleson advocated per
nanent ownership and operation of
he systems. Burleson volunteered,
he information that once the systems
t ent into the hands of the govern- j
lent, they would never go back into;
irivate ownership or control, if they'
rere handled as efficiently as the
iostal service.
OFFICIALS STILL HOPE IT WILL
REACH THE BILLION
BUSHEL MARK.
,EW RECORD MADE IN 1913.
filiation in June of That Year Point
ed Out to Substantiate Hope For
Big Crops This Year — Acreage;
Sown to Spring Wheat Larger Than
Ever Before.
WASHINGTON, July 3.—A bump
r wheat crop this year, which before <
arvest may develop into a production
f a billion bushels, was forecast to
ay by the department of agriculture]
n its June crop report, giving the first
ndication of the size of this year’s ■
pring wheat output.
With American people using the
sast amount of wheat possible and1
ending to Europe every bit they can
pare, the size of this year’s crop will
etermine the extent to which wheat
rill be available for home use until i
he 1919 harvest. The government had \
oped for a billion-bushel crop, and:
rhile conditions for winter wheat j
ave not been the best a crop of that
ize may yet be realized.
Basing its estimate on the condition
f the crop on June 1, the department
orecast a total wheat production of
31,000,000 bushels, which would place j
his year’s harvest as the second lar-!
:est ir the history of the country.
Experts of the government pointed to
he develepoment of the record crop
f 1915 to substantiate their hopes for
i crop equal to that.
In June of 1915 a total wheat pro
luction of 950,000,000 bushels was
orecast and the quantity gradually
rept upward until the final figures
or the year showed the crop to be
,025,800,000 bushels.
The acreage sown to spring whea*
his year is larger by 2,000,000 acres
han ever sown before, and 21.5 per
ent larger than last year, aggregat
ng 22,489,000 acres. The condition of
PLANS TO EXPORT FIFTY THOU
SAND TONS OF POTATOES
TO FEED GERMANS.
ALLIES CLOSELY WATCHING,
Would Violate Agreement With Eng
land With Reference to Yearly Po
tato Supply and Would Likewise
Imperil the Food Agreement With
United States.
WASHINGTON, July 3.—The Unit
id States is informed that Holland
alans to export 50,000 tons of potatoes
to Germany. Such exportation would
ae a violation of the agreement be
:ween England and Holland with ref
irence to the yearly potato supply
ind would likewise imperil the food
agreement as between Holland and
:he United States.
Officials of the American govern
nent express surprise at the report,
vhich comes from reliable sources, in
new of the very recent report of
prospective famine in the Nether
lands.
Should the report as to the exporta
tion of potatoes prove true, it is be
lieved drastic action will be taken in
the matter of retaliation.
the crop on June 1 was 95.2 per cent
>f a normal, or 1.5 per cent better
than the ten-year average. A pro
luction of 344,000,000 bushels was
'orecast. That is 111,000,000 bushels
rtore than harvested last year and
jnly 7,000,000 bushels less than the
record spring wheat harvest of 1915,
Winter wheat growing on the sec
ond largest acerage ever planted
showed a condition 3 per cent better
than the ten-year average, with 83.8
per cent of a normal. A production of
>87,000,000 bushels was forecast,
,vhich is 15,000.000 bushels more than
'orecast from conditions existing on
May 1. Such a crop would be the third
n size grown in this country.
Winter wheat conditions and pro
motion forecasts by principal states
ire: Ohio, condition 87 per cent; pro
luction, 35,816,000 bushels; Indiana.
)1 and 50,809,000; Illinois, 95, and
j1,533,000; Missouri, 96 and 49,999,000
Nebraska, 70, and 43,049,000; Kansas,
r8, and 97,114,000; Oklahoma, 74, and
12,267,000.
Details of spring wheat by principal
states follow: Minnesota, acreage.
1,038,000; condition, 98; production
forecast, 65,294,000 bushels. North
Dakota, acreage, 7,630,000; condition,
)3; forecast, $92,247,000. South Da
cota, acreage, 4,243,000; condition,
L02; forecast, 56,262,000.
The oat crop also promises to be of
record proportions. On an acerage 2.1
per cent larger than last year, when
:he record crop—1,587,000,000 bushels
- was grown, conditions on June 1
warrant a forecast of 1,500,000,000
auhsels. Only last year’s, and the
rrop of 1915, exceeded that quantity.
Rye production will be a record, the
forecast being 81,000,000 bushels,
which is sightly les sthan was fore
;ast in May. Last year’s crop was 60,
100,000 bushels, which was a record.
BIG COTTON CROP
WILL BE REAPED
WASHINGTON, July 3.—A huge
cotton crop is expected this year, ac
cording to the department of agricul
ture’s forecast, which predicts thal
15,325,000 pounds of cotton will b<
grown. This will be the largest cot
ton crop ever raised in this countrq.
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PROVED BEYOND ALL DOUBT BY
SINKING OF LANDOVERY
CASTLE RECENTLY.
BRITISH NEWSPAPER COMMENT
German Submarine Commander Who
Destroyed British Ship Says He Did
So Because Ten American Flight
Officers Were on Board—An Odious
Excuse, Says Newspaper.
LONDON, July 3.—British newspa
pers assert that the sinking of hospi
tal ships as a deliberate policy of the
Germanic powers is proved beyond all
doubt by the destruction of the hospi
tal ship Landovery Castle, which was
torpedoed by a German submarine re
The German commander of the Hun
submarine said he submarined the
hospital ship because there were ter
American flight officers on board.
The London News declares this to be
an odious excuse and a damnable lie.
manufactured out of whole cloth.
GERMANY FACES
A BIG DEFICIT
NEW YORK, June 29.—Announce
ment that there would be a deficit of
several hundred million marks in the
Prussian budget for 1918 was made in
the Prussian house of deputies recent
ly by Minister of Finance Hertz, ac
cording to the Cologne Gazette.
“Our people must fully realize the
seriousness of the situation,” he said.
“The restoration of the railroads will
cost billions. Canal projects are be
ing discussed which also involve bil
lions. I will not indulge in absurdi
ties. Tax rates of 50 per cent have
been mentioned. I consider tax rates
of 20 per cent to 25 per cent as ab
solutelv unbearable.”
1 LONDON, July 3.—A message of
' personal greeting from President Wil
; son will be delivered tomorrow by the
I Red Cross to every American soldier
! and sailor in British hospitals.
TIL
UNITED SMS TO THE FRONT
Washington, July 3.—American troops sent overseas number one
million, nineteen thousand, one hundred and fifty-five up to July 1,
President Wilson announced today, in making public a letter to him
from Secretary of War Baker. American troops who have returned,
from overseas service, those lost at sea and casualties on the fighting
front aggregate eight thousand, one hundred and sixty-five. Only two
hundred and ninety-one were lost while being taken over the ocean
to France.
HEAVY GUNS BEING BUILT.
Washington, July 3.—American-built 155 millimeter howitzers
are moving across the ocean for General Pershing. The guns are of
French design, six-inch bore, and are adapted for heavy barrage in sup
porting infantry advances. The United States will soon be independent
of allies for heavy guns.
HUNDRED SHIPS TO BE LAUNCHED.
Washington, July 3.—Chairman Hurley, of the United States ship
ping board, has wired General Pershing that 100 ships will be launched
from American ship yards tomorrow—the Fourth of July. General
Pershing replied, “No more efficient answer could be given to the en
emy 's challenge. ’ ’
HUN REGIMENT ANNIHILATED.
With the American Army in France, July 3.—An entire German
| regiment was annihilated yesterday by American and French forces
in the fighting west of Hill 204, on the Marne front, southeast of Cha
| teau Thierry.
MANY HUN AEROPLANES DOWNED.
London, July 3.—British airmen yesterday downed twenty-five
German aeroplanes. Fifteen were forced to descend behind the Hun
Idles, eight were destroyed and two captured. This report is.official..
FRENCH CAPTURE ST. PIERRE.
Paris, July 3.—The French forces yesterday captured the village
of St. Pierre-Aigle, occupied by the Germans. German attacks against
Americans in the Chateau-Thierry sector were repulsed with heavy
1 losses..
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ESKIMOS IMPLORED TO
TALK ENGLISH LANGUAGE
SEATTLE, July 1.—Eskimo child
ren are urged not to speak their na
tive language in the United States
government native school building at
Kotzebue, an Arctic ocean point in
northwestern Alaska, according to
The Eskimo, anative school publica
tion issued at Nome.
“A school republic has been organ
ized at Kotzebue,” the paper says.
“Each Friday the officers report how
many times each child has spoken Es
kimo in the school building.
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THE FOURTH OF JULY
By Edgar A. Guest.
The cannons now arc spitting shells for freedom’s holy cause,
The rockets light the inky skies to mark the foes’ advance;
For freedom men are dying now. The laughter and applause
Have vanished in the moaning of the battlegrounds of France.
And oh ! Banner of the Free.
You are meaning much to me.
I am flesh of those who raised you up to glory in the fray;
I am son of those who died
For your luster and your pride:
And I’m standing now to serve you at whatever post I may.
Men are fighting once again for the cause which gave you birth;
Men for liberty are dying as our brave forefathers died;
Men are striving, Starry Banner, for a better, happier earth,
And the freedom-loving people are united, side by side.
And 1 gaze at you and see
That if worthy I'm to be
Of my heritage of glory and the splendors of the past
I must hold you first of all,
Even though in‘death I fall,
I must give myself to service, and be loyal to the last.
In the days of peace and laughter, underneath a smiling sky,
I have sung the songs of freedom in a boy s unthinking way;
I have made a play occasion of the Fourth Day of July,
But my spirit is awakened as I celebrate today.
Far from ended is your toil;
Blood of men still stains the soil;
And ’til all the earth is happy, men will gladly die for you;
Home and peace and life forsaking
For the better world you ’re making;
So I pledge myself this morning to your Red and White and
Blue.
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VACATIONS MAY BE
PROFITABLY EMPLOYED
BELLINGHAM, Wash., July 1.—A
way has been discovered whereby city
weary persons can conscientiously
take their week-end trips to the woods
and mountains without feeling they
are wasting valuable time that might
be put to good use in helping to win
the war. Hereafter Sunday picnick
ers fro mBellingham, at least, will be
asked to hunt for sphagnum moss
while spending the day in the woods.
Whatcom county has been asked to
supply 10,000 sphagnum moss dress
ings for the Red Cross, and George H.
Bacon, chairman of the local Red
Cross committee, has hit on this plan
of facilitating collection of the needed
article.
REINDEER MEAT TO BE
SHIPPED TO THE STATES
NOME, Alaska, July 1.—About 450
carloads of dressed reindeer carcasses
are in cold storage here awaiting ship
ment to the outside, where they will
be cut up and placed on the markets.
It is believed nearly the entire ship
ment will go to Minneapolis.
“HOGS IS HOGS.”
COPENHAGEN, July 1. — Den
mark’s stock of swine, which amount
ed to about 2,500,000 head at the out
break of the war, has now dropped to
400,000, "accoi’ding to latest estimates.
Further serious inroads on this stock
are being compelled by the impossi
bility of importing fodder, principal
ly corn. In 1913 Denmark’s total ex
ports of pork were nearly 250,000
tons, of which just under one-half
went to England. All exports have
now been stopped and the outlook for
supplying the domestic consumption’s
requirements will be dark if the war
continues much longer.
ROTTERDAM, July 3. — The
Nieuwe Rotterdam Secourant says
that the Dutch cabinet will resign in
a body tomorrow.