In a cablegram received by the
Valdez Chamber of Commerce re
cently, Delegate Subr’r states that he
has been urging upon the government
the desirability and the necessity for
the stimulation of gold production by
either a subsidy or an increased price
for the precious metal. Delegate Sul
zer, who has taken the matter up with
Secretary McAdoo, recently received
a letter from him which in part reads:
"I fully appreciate that with the
rising cost of war material and labor,
and with a fixed status for their out
put, the gold miners of the world are
facing difficult conditions. I should
be sorry, however, if for this reason
there were any relaxation in the ef
fort to produce gold. At no time has
this country so much required the
largest possible production of gold as
at present. Next to food and ammu
nition gold is one of the most needed
war essentials.”
The secretary then goes into the
matter of international credits and
concludes: “This brief statement will,
I hope, make clear to your constitu
ents the great necessity that exists
for the maintena'nce of gold produc
tion as the maximum point. The man
or the country that maintains or in
creases its production of gold in face
of difficulties and discouragements is
performing a patriotic service which
deserves recognition no less than the
most obvious but not less useful ser
vices that are more in the public eye.”
Delegate Sulzer has great hopes of
securing a subsidy from the govern
ment upon gold production and is
working to that end. In case his
efforts are successful, hundreds of
mines in the Territory, which are now
forced to operate at a loss or close
down, would be operated at a profit,
and thousands of men would be given
luctrative employment.
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SPECI ROCKETS SENE HP
WHEN IIRNIEN MUCH
AMSTERDAM, June 19.—According
to the German newspapers, the Swiss
government has arranged that the
Swiss frontier guards shall send up
special rockets whenever a belliger
ent airman by mistake invades the
Swiss territory. Airmen thus warned
are supposed to turn back without
delay.
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10%c; sable, 4c; red rock, 2c,
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LONDON, May 8 (by mail).—The
German war prisoner has become the
“hobo” of Russia—an idle, shiftless
wanderer who wants neither to work
nor fight. Many such prisoners, both
Germans and Austrians, were en
countered at different points in Rus
sia by the members of the American
Red Cross mission returning from Ru
mania. They were never under guard,
were usually in small groups, and
apparently had no employment nor
wish for employment. They were
without arms and shabbily clad, and
always declared emphatically that
they had no desire to get back into
the German army, nor even any wish
to return to Germany until after a
general peace was declared.
If the prisoners showed any dispo
sition to organize, or even to travel
about in marauding bands, they would
furnish a serious problem, but under
present conditions they are merely a
nuisance.
At a small station north of Vologda
there was a group of about fifty pris
oners idling on the station platform,
some asleep in the winter sun, some
playing cards, others whittling little
toys and knick-knacks out of soft
wood. The Associated Press corre
spondent talked with several of them
They were greatly surprised to hear
that the United States had entered
the war a year before, and several of
them expressed still more surprise at
being informed that America was not
the ally of Cfermany.
They had been sent to this part of
Russia nearly two years before in' a
railway construction gang, but had
done no work for several weeks. They
lived in freight cars, and got their
food by hook or crook from the vil
lagers.
Some of them declared that they
had not had a square meal for many
days, and they accepted with genuine
gratitude three old loaves of black
bread and a few pieces of chocolate
which the Americans were able to
spare them. As an afterthought,.one
of the Americans brought out to them 1
the remains of a large, round Aineri- 1
can cheese. It had been purchased
in New York city, and had accompa
nied the mission from Vancouver to
Yokohama, Moscow and' Jassy, serv
ing throughout the Rumanian cam
paign.
There were several large camps of
German prisoners in the f&r north of
Russia, but these had mostly broken
up completely since the' revolution,
owing to difficulties with the food sup
ply. It was said that thousands of
German prisoners in these northern
camps died of scurvy, which was also
prevalent in many of the far northern
villages and among the refugees.
TWO ESCAPING GERMAN
PRISONERS IRE CAPTUHED
LONDON, May 7 (by mail).—A
daring attempt to escape from England
by crossing the English channel in an
ordinary rowboat was made the other
day by two escaped German prison
ers. They were caught on a dark
night by a patrol at a point oil the
coast nearest Zeebrugge, their objec
tive.
The prisoners, who were dressed as
seafaring men, wearing blue serge
suits and high boots, had traveled
about sixty miles from their camp,
dear Salisbury Plain. One who spoke
English fluently made no secret of
their intention. When searched they
had between them nearly the equiva
lent of $5 in silver. About a mile
along the beach from the spot where
they were captured they had con
cealed, beneath a boat, bags of bis
cuits, together with bread and fruit,
a razor, shaving brush and a large
bottle of water.
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