ANCHORAGE WEEKLY TIMES
AND ALASKA LABOR NEWS.
VOL. 2. NO. 27.
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA. THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1038.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
VERY APPRECIABLE SLACKING OF TEUTON OFFENS
IVE AND INDICATIONS NOW POINT TO COMPLETE
COLLAPSE OF BIG DRIVE—ALLIED RESERVES
MOVED TO FRONT AND ENTER FIGHTING.
AMERICAN FORCES WIN PRAISE OF ALLIES
United States Troops Throw Enemy Back at town of Neuilly
and American Machine Gunners Mow Down Germans Try
ing to Enter Neuilly Wood—Boys Get Busy Within One
Hour After Joining Battle Front on Marne and Aid French
and British in Other Attacks.
SUMMARY: The German masses no longer hurl them
selves at the allied lines, in an effort to break through. The
Teuton advance seems to be exhausted and at certain points on
the battle line vieldin to the allies, who are stiffening up
and holding the foe, except for insignificant gains. To the
north of the On rev river, says a late report, the French infan
trv, aided by tanks, rectified their lines, forcing the Germans
back after desperate fighting. The Germans are not active on
the Flanders front, where most of the British troops are oppos
ing. The American troops made their presence felt at several
points in the big battles of Monday and Tuesday and won the
admiration of their allied comrades for their energetic efforts.
American forces threw back the Germans in the sector near
the town of Neuilly, near the Chateau Thierry and American
machine gunners mowed down German forces which were seek
ing to enter Neuilly wood.
AMERICANS ACTIVE ALONG FRONT.
WASHINGTON, June 5—General Pershing’s com
muiii(|iie last night says: American and British troops, by a
strong counter attack, repulsed the Germans near Chateau
Thierrv yesterday. French and American forces drove hack
an enemv force which had crossed the Marne river at a point
further south than Thierry.
VERY APPRECIABLE SLACKENING.
PARIS, June 5.—Official: There is a very appreciable
slackening of the German offensive today. The French forces,
at some points yesterday and last night, improved their posi
tions. An enemy attack in one sector, which made a slight ad
vance, was later thrown hack by a vigorous counter-attack.
AMERICANS GOT BUSY IMMEDIATELY.
WITH THK FRENCH ARMY, June b.—American ma
chine-gunners who arrived on the battle trout, got bus% with
in an hour after they joined the lighting line, and took a most
active part in the defense of (’bateau Thierry, which was men
aced with capture by the Germans. The Americans joined this
front May M. _
COMMISSIONER SHONBECK PI TS
CREW TO WORK THIS MORN
ING TO IMPROVE ROAD.
Road work in the immediate vicin
ity of Anchorage has commenced in
earnest. A. A. Shonbeck, sub-com
missioner, started a force of men to
work this morning on the wagon road
known as the Whitney Boulevard,
from Anchorage to the Whitney
ranch. This wagon road serves a num
ber of farmers and is possibly the
most used thoroughafer in the com
munity. J. M. Pickle is superintend
ing the work and has a force of three
teams and then men under his super
vision. The work will be in the nature
of repair work and a continuation of
the movement started last year by the
Anchorage Automobile club and Ter
ritorial Road commission.
Mr. Shonbeck advises the Times
that he has plans for other work of
this nature on the wagon roads run
ning into Anchorage. Naturally the
loads serving the most people will re
ceive the greater attention. Next week
it is the intention to start work on
the wagon roads in the Matanuska
farming district. Good roads are very
essential to every community, espec
ially a pioneer country. The people
of this section are fortunate that the
road work is not under the jurisdic
tion of the Alaska Road commission
but in the hands of Alaskan who have
the interest of their community at
heart and not trying to rival the Ap
pian Way.
HUNTER SALTERY
PLANS BIG OUTPUT
MANAGER FIGURES ON PUTTING
UP ONE THOUSAND BAR
RELS OF SALMON.
One thousand barrels of salted sal
mon will represent the season’s pack
of the It. It. Hunter company which
has established a saltery at Moose
Point on Cook Inlet, according to R.
It. Hunter, manager for the company,
who arrived in Anchorage yesterday.
The big nan of salmon is expected
to start within the next few days ac
cording to Mr. Hunter and that the
run will be heavier than in the past
two years is evidenced by the fact that
the Ited salmon are already beginning
to show. A few King salmon have
been caupht up to date.
The company will operate two traps
during the season. One of the traps
will be located at Moose Point and
the other at Frenchmen creek. The
trap at Frenchmen creek is now in the
course of construction and will be
ready within the next few days con
tinued Mr. Hunter.
The saltery of the company has
been established at Moose Point where
the complete equipment has been as
sembled consisting of gear, barrels
and an ample supply of salt.
The other members of the firm are
now at the camp. Mr. Hunter expects
to return tomorrow.
NORTHWESTERN SAILS.
SEATTLE, June 5.—The steamer
Northwestern sailed at 5 o’clock last
evening, en route to Anchorage and
way ports.
FORMER VICE
CALLED TO REST
CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANKS
DIES AFTER LINGERING
ILLNESS AT HOME.
WAS LONG A NATIONAL FIGURE.
I -
! Among His Greatest Services to
Country Were Those Performed
While He Was a Member of United
States and British Commission
INDIANAPOLIS, June 5.—Charles
Warren Fairbanks, former vice-presi
dent of the United States and a prom
inent republican politician, died at his
home in this city late last night, a
victim of interstitial neplmtis. All of
the members of his family were at
his bedside, except a son, Major Rich
ard Fairbanks, now in France.
The distinction of birth in a log
cabin which illustrious Americans of
an earlier day commonly had, was also
that of former Vice-President Fair
banks. It is probable that he was the
last of American statesmen to have
been born in one of these humble
cabins.
The one where he was bom on May
i 11, 1852, was at Unionville Center, O.
| It came dangerously near being the
I funeral pyre for the future statesmen.
! When Mr. Fairbanks was a boy of
j four, his father built a new home, and
| the one-room log cabin was used as
| a carpenter shop. One day while the
! workmen were at lunch Charles wan
! dered into the shop and carelessly
threw a bunch of shavings into the
open fireplace. The cabin caught fire
and when the boy realized his danger
he was forced to scramble through a
window.
Mr. Fairbanks traced his ancestors
to the days of Oliver Cormwell, who
counted “Fayerbankes” among his
supporters. Jonathan Fayerbankes the
first member of the family to come to
America, landed at Boston in 1636.
Mr. Fairbanks’ father was Loriston
Monroe Fairbanks, a wagonmaker of
Vermont, who emigrated to Union
County, O. His mother was a sister
of the late William Henry Smith, once
general manager of The Associated
Press.
The Fairbanks home frequently was
the hiding place of runaway slaves
and no black man ever was turned
away from the door. Fairbanks was
eight years old when Abrham Lincoln
was elected president. Then followed
the Civil War, the stirring scene of
which the future vice-president fol
lowed with keen interest.
Fairbanks at 15 entered Ohio Wes
leyan College at Delaware, O., shar
ing an attic room with the son of an
other farmer, and the two cooked their
own meals. Fairbanks did carpenter
work to earn his first law books.
Soon after he was graduated, Mr.
Fairbanks was appointed agent of The
Associated Press at Pittsburgh, Pa.
holding that position for one year. His
most important assignment was the
rally of the democrats and liberal re
publicans in 1872. This was one of the
largest meetings of the campaign and
was addressed by Horace Greeley.
Later in life he frequently referred
with keen delight to his work as a
newspaper man.
From Pittsburgh, Mr. Fairbanks
went to Cleveland and completed his
law course. In 1874 he married Miss
Cornelia Cole, the culmination of a
romance that began when both were
members of the editorial staff of their
college paper. To them were bom five
children, one daughter and four sons.
After marriage Mr. Fairbanks mov
ed to Indianapolis and opened a law
office. He took a deep interest in
politics and assisted in local, state and
national campaigns, managed Walter
Q. Gresham’s campaign for the repub
lican nomination for the presidency in
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EXAMINER WILL
APPROVE RAISE
IN S. S. RATES
SAYS THOSE WHO MADE COM
PLAINT HAD NO CONCRETE
SUGGESTIONS TO OFFER.
ELEVEN MINOR GRIEVANCES.
Shiping Board Official Reaches Seattle
After Visit of Investigation to Alas
ka Coast Towns—Meeting With
Steamship Representatives Today.
SEATTLE, June 5.—Otis B. Kent,
examiner-attorney for the United
States shipping board, who has just
returned to Seattle from a tour of
Alaska towns, declares that the ship
; pers and others who urged an inves
tigation into the proposed increase in
freight and passenger rates by the
steamship lines, have no concrete
basis for their complaint. At the var
ious Alaska towns he visited and held
investigations, he said he was told
that the rates were too high, but those
| making these charges had no concrete ;
j suggestions as to why they should not
' be raised. He said that eleven minor
grievances of shippers had been dis
covered.
Kent, who reached here Sunday, im
mediately took up these minor griev
ances with representatives of the
steamship lines. The first two items
related to rates on fresh meats and
charges for carload and less than car
load lots of fresh and salt fish from
Alaska to Seattle.
URGES PARDON
WASHINGTON, I). C., June 5.—
President Wilson has written a second
letter to Governor Stephens of Cali
fornia urging that a pardon be grant
ed Mooney.
GOVERNOR IS WAITING.
SACRAMENTO, June 5.—Governor
Stephens has not as yet received a
second letter from President Wilson.
It is believed that the governor is
waiting for the outcome of Mooney’s
intended appeal to the supreme court
| before taking decisive action.
DAWSON, Y. T., June 5.—The first
steamer of the year from Dawson to
Whitehorse sailed last night, with but
few passengers for the coast. The
first steamers from Whitehorse to
Dawson are expected to leave in a few
days. Passengers are gathering at
Whitehorse, preparing for the annual
interior rush. There is also much
freight for the interior. All hydraulic
concerns are operating full blast in
the Klondike. The rivers are high, but
no damage has resulted save in the
earlier freshets.
CALLS ON IRELAND
FOR 50,000 TROOPS
DUBLIN, June 4.—The lord lieu
tenant of Ireland today issued a pro
clamation asking for fifty thousand
recruits immediately and thereafter
from two thousand to three thousand
monthly to maintain the Irish divi
sions that are fighting on the west
front.
MAN OF BIG FAMILY CALLED.
LONDON, June 1. — Exemption
from military service has been refus
ed a man with eleven children, one of
whom is with the colors. The drafted
man has four brothers in the British
army.
OFF DIVER MING A
FLOCKS OF AEROPLANES TAKE THE AIR AT NEW
YORK AND FLY IN BATTLE FORMATION ALONG
ATLANTIC COAST, IN SEARCH OF U-BOATS—
WARSHIPS AND DESTROYERS PATROL.
REPORTS BP TO LAST NIGHT SAY 58 MISSING
All of the Victims, So Far As Known, Were On Board the Pas
senger Steamer Carolina—Three Hundred Survivors of
This Vessel Reach An Atlantic Port in Safety—Mine
Sweeper Picks Up Mine Off the Delaware Capes Where
Tanker Sunk by Submarine.
"WASHINGTON, June 5.—A United States destroyer, en
gaged in patrol duty, reported to the navy department this
morning that she had interrupted a submarine which was at
tacking the French steamer Radioleine, sixty-five miles off the
Maryland coast, late last evening, and also found the American
schooner Edward if. Baird in the same vicinity in a sinking
condition, after being bombed by a U-boat. Two sailors from
the schooner were rescued.
STORM DROWNS SIXTEEN SURVIVORS.
LEWIS, Delaware, June 5.—Sixteen of thirty-five surviv
ors of the sinking of the steamer Carolina, who set out in the
vessel’s motor boat, were drowned in a terrific storm which
overtook them Sunday morning, while the boat was drifting
about on the ocean, seeking rescue. One of the survivors, a Ger
man, was detained here by the federal authorities for an ex ru
ination.
ONLY ONE SUBMARINE IS BELIEF.
WASHINGTON, June 5.—The impression is growing that
only one German submarine participated in the raid on Ameri
can shipping Sunday night. This is the statement of the sub
marine commander, made to victims of one of the ships sunk.
The German commander said that his submarine had been in
western Atlantic waters for the past two months. Officials are
wondering of tfiis submarine destroyed the imp . *; AY liter
(Vclops or captured her and sent her to Germany.
TANKER HAS BEEN FLOATED.
WASHINGTON, June 5.—The navy department today an
nounced that the tanker Herbert L. Pratt, sunk by an enemy
submarine Sunday night, off the Delaware capes, has been
floated and was being towed into an American port for re
pairs. It is said the damage is not serious.
DEATH TOLL FIFTY-EIGHT.
NEW YORK, June 5.—The toll of dead and missing as a
result of the German submarine raid on the Atlantic coast
Sunday night stood at fifty-eight last night, according to the
best available information. All of the victims were on the pas
senger steamer Carolina.
EIGHTY PASSENGERS MISSING.
NEW YORK, June 5.—The master of the destroyed steam
er Carolina was among those rescued by a schooner yesterday.
He says that eighty persons, among the passengers and crew,
are missing, although he holds out the hope that many of these
may lie safe.
ALL MAY BE SAVED.
ATLANTIC (TTY, June 5.—Two boatloads of survivors of
the steamer Carolina reached Atlantic City last night. The
survivors say that they believe all on board escaped in safe
ty. The vessel was destroyed Sunday night.
THREE HUNDRED PICKED UP.
AN ATLANTIC PORT, June 5.—Three hundred people,
passengers and members of the crew of the Porto Rican steam
er Carolina, who had set off in small boats after the vessel was
torpedoed by a German submarine Sunday night, were rescued
by a schooner that reached this port last night.
AEROPLANES SENT OUT TO SEARCH.
NEW YORK, June 5.—Flocks of aeroplanes took the air
today, going out in battle formation. They will scout along the
Atlantic coast, in search of enemy submarines.
MINE FOUND OFF DELAWARE.
WASHINGTON, June 5.—A naval mine sweeper yester
day picked up a mine off the Delaware capes, near the place
where the tanker Herbert L. Pratt was sunk Sunday night.
DISPLAY LIGHTS FORBIDDEN.
NEW YORK, June 5.—The police authorities today issued
an order farbidding the use of large display lights in New
York city until further notice. This is a precautionary meas
ure against possible submarine or aircraft attacks.
INTEND TO STAY AWHILE.
NEW YORK, June 5.—A member of the crew of the 17
boat U-l-5, the diver that sank the American schooner Edna
Sunday night, told one of the survivors that the German sub
marines intended to remain in American waters until August.
He said that the submarines were provisioned for a six
months’ cruise.