The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME IIII. NUMBER 44. CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1917. ~~ -PKI, K 7
FRENCH AGAIN IN CONTROL AT VERDDN
ITALIANS MAKE GOOD SHOWING ISONSO FRONT
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* PARIS, Aug. 23. — The French objectives north of ♦
* Verdun have apparently been attained. To continue the ♦
* offensive fresh artillery preparation will be necessary. ♦
* The French now control all of the ground held at the Ik*- ♦
* ginning of the great battle last year, except Hill 304, ♦
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RUSSIANS RETIRE BEFORE GERMAN OFFENSIVE
PETROGRAI), Aug. 23.—The Germans begun their offen
sive on the northern part of the Russian line, between the Tirol
marshes and river, as tin* Russians retired northward.
FRENCH CAPTURE FORTIFIED POSITION
PARIS, Aug. 23.—The pris oners taken at Verdun now
number 7,600, also twenty-four cannon. The French last night
took the German fortified position north of Mortmont farm.
LOOKS LIKE THE RUSSIANS ARE QUITTING
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BERLIN, Aug. 23.—The Germans yesterday occupied,
without fighting, the Russian positions west of river Aa to the
Odingbagaun line, on the Riga front.
RADICAL CHANGES DEMANDED IN RUSSIA’S COURSE
PETROGRAI), Aug. 23—Conferences held at Moscow, p t
liminary to the opening of the extraordinary national council,
indicate that the proceedings are likely to result in a struggle
of the cabinet, backed by the Socialists, against the bour
geoisie, consisting of Constitutional Democrats, discontented
Moscow business men and dismissed generals, who all a gree in
severely criticising the present course, and demand radical
changes. Kerensky is exempted from condemnation.
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A MILLION DOLLAR TAX ON THE WEALTHY
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—The senate has unanimously
adopted the amendment to raise a million dollars in taxes on all
millionaires and incomes.
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS FORCED TO RETREAT
PETROGRAI), Aug. 23.—The Russian soldiers on the nor
thern end of the front retired under pressure from the region
of Raggedzem and Kammern to lake Shloyirn and the Franken
dorf region, as the Germans began their offensive.
FIGHTING CONTINUES ALL ROUND YPRES
BRITISH FRONT, Aug. 23.—Operations east and north
east of Ypres are definitely successful.
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FRENCH CRUISER SINKS GERMAN SUB
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—As a result of a submarine’s
destruction of the American tanker Campana, after its supply
of shells had become exhausted, the amount of ammunition fur
nished merchant ships will be doubled. The submarine tool;
the captain and five gunners prisoners. It is reported that a
French cruiser afterward sank the submarine.
RED CROSS WORKING TO LOCATE BRITISH MISSING
LONDON, Aug. 23.—Of the thousands of British families
who have waited in dread anxiety for final news of relatives
posted as “missing,” but few have known how much effort
was being made to relieve their fears. The fact that the army
contains a large corps of men who spend all their time searching
for missing men is not generally known.
The hospitals are the principal scene of the searchers’
work. With a book containing the names of men missing for
many months they make the rounds, following up clues and sug
gestions that may lead to the clearing up of the individual mys
teries. The work requires tact and intelligence and, above all,
patience.
USE PRO GERMAN METHOD TO SAVE CABBAGE
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—Uncle Sam lias been forced to
employ pro-German methods to save America’s cabbage crop.
The emergency bureau of the department of agriculture today
reported that tremendous rains have given us a whopper cab
bage crop, and that unless thousands of heads of it are at once
turned into sauerkraut it will be lost.
Despite the fact that we are at war with Germany, sauer
kraut is so popular in this country that the price has taken a big
jump. It is an easy and exceedingly profitable way to handle
surplus cabbage. Last year a million dollars’ worth of cabbage
went the sauerkraut route.
ARMY SURGEON FAVORS PUBLICITY
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—Fathers and mothers whn.-e
sons go to the “firing line” in France will know just what sani
tation conditions surround the military camps, says Dr. Frank
lin H. Martin, chairman of the committee on medicine and sur
gery of the national defense council.
Vital as is the matter of surgical care of the wounded, this
• .sk is of small importance, Dr. Martin says, in comparison
with that of keeping the men in the camps and on ships free
from infectious diseases. “It can be promised that then will
be no dangerous epidemics of preventable disease,” Dr Martin
concluded.
ALAMEDA TAKES
BIG LIST TO
SEATTLE
The steamer Alameda sailed for Se
attle at 10:30 o'clock last night. She
took out 6,000 cases of salmon from
the Orca cannery, 6,000 cases from
the Nellie Juan cannery and 1,200
tons of Kennecott ore. The passengers
from here were: Bud Sargent, J.
Johnson, Mrs. Reddington, Mias L.
Moyer, Elmer S. Rekris, C. J. Patton,
Mrs. J. Barrett, Lawrence Barrett.
Miss Lowrie, Mrs. W. H. Harvey, Miss
‘Ulrich, Jean Slobre, Miss Boag, Mr.
and Mrs. Locktnan, Mrs. E. Long, A.
M. Hotzberger, O. Peterson, Mrs.
Koartln, Mrs. Nerderlng, Tom Ncrder
ing, Niles Nelson, C. Tomlin, H. B.
Blanton, R. A. Keohan, Miss O'Neill.
J. Kelly, E. Harris, Mrs. Walch, Mrs.
Nathan, Ed Nathan, C. U. Stuart, A.
B. Dodd. T. Graham, for Seattle; J
Hogan, for Tenakee Hot Springs; W
Oanavan, for Juneau; and 33 steerage
for Seattle.
The Admiral Evans sailed for west
ward, points at 6 o'clock last night
with the following- passengers from
Cordova: Talmadge Frasur, Mrs. Fred
Cameron, V. Linsted, Mrs. Allan M.
Bateman, E. L. Durell, J. C. Black,
K. Renig, E. Friend, John Erickson.
Bill Johnson, O. Barman. H. D. Van
Sichle, Miss B. Sheuvally, J. E. Wll
son, Mrs. Anna Elliott, Bishop Rowe.
Rev. A. Fletcher.
(By Associated Press)
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Aug. 23
—Three telegraph operators, who
were charged with having supplied
to an agent of the British intelligence
service copies of telegrams exchanged
between ministers of the central pow
ers at The Hague and their govern
ments. have been sentenced here. The
ringleader was condemned to a year's
imprisonment. A girl operator, who
had been drawn into the affair by the
principal offender, was given a con
ditional sentence of five months.
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COPPER DOWN TO 25 CENTS.
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Aug. 23. — Copper is
dull. September and fourth quarter
deliveries are selling at 25 aud 26
cents.
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MILITARY COURSE
IT UNIVERSITY
MONTANA
(By Associated Press)
MISSOULA, Mont., Aug. 23. — Cen
tered in the school of forestry of the
University of Montana this year is to
be a new course known as “military
service." This course, according to
Chancellor Edward C. Elliott, is de
signed to meet the needs of young
I men who have not reached the mini
mum age of those subject to selective
draft, and for those who have not
been drafted under the first call.
While the course in military ser
vice cannot in one year train men
fully for all the requirements of mill
tary engineering, it will equip those
who pursue the outlined curriculum
for different duties. In the engineer
ing college of the university special
training in that branch of the service
is also to be given.
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“KERCHOO,” PARDON ME, MY
HAY FEVER’S ARRIVED
NEW YOKE. Aug. 23. — Twenty
five thousand New Yorkers suffering
from hay fever today, began piling
up a grand total of 76,660,000 sneezes
So saith the fool who sent this para
graph on its rounds of the great Am
,erlcan dallies.
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Exemption board* for tlie following
unincorporated towns have been re
commended by Governor Strong in ad
dition to the bodies named a few days
ago to serve in the incorporated
towns:
Anchorage — J. Gi'Watts. townsite
agent; Charles Herro^, business man.
and C. 0. Benedict, My I).
McCarthy — Joseph H. Murray, law
yer and mining man; Peter S. Erick
sen, game warden; Ijrnest S. Reedy.
M. D.
Ruby — J. J. Fllbin, business man;
John W. Dunn, lawyer; B. F. Finn.
M. D.
For purposes of the draft the above
will be treated the same as incorpor
ated towns, says the announcement
from the governor's office.
If there is any doubt as to whether
a man Is entitled to exemption or dis
charge from military service under
the draft, that doubt, so far as the
personnel of the exemption boards
named by Governor Strong Is con
cerned, can be removed. These ap
pointments call to service on the
boards many of the strongest patriotic
men of the north. These boards will
have headquarters In all the principal
towns and camps of the territory.
They will pass upon all cases Involv
ing exemptions. An appeal can then
be tehee to the, ttt- p'J(®*^£‘ven»'|}Uou
boards, which will be located In the
larger towns of the territory.
These divisional boards will have
direct jurisdiction over all claims for
exemption on the ground of employ
ment in any necessary industry, in
cluding agriculture.
They will make It hard for any
slacker or dodger from military ser
vice who appears before them. To be
perfectly blunt and frank about It. the
boards will have a sharp axe ready
at all times for gentlemen who seek
to avoid military service without a
legitimate reason.
Moreover, even when the reason is
legitimate, it must be an exception
ally good one.
Here is the test each board will pro
bably apply when called to pass on
appeals from decisions of the local
boards on claims tor exemption or dis
charge on the ground that the man
sought to be exempted or discharged
has a dependent or dependents to sup
port:
A aepenueni wm oe construed n>
mean one who might become a burden
upon the community if the person tip
on whom he or she claims to be de
pendent was inducted into the mili
tary establishment of the United
States."
If there Is any doubt about it, the
policy of the boards will be to deny
the appeal and hold the man for mili
tary service.
The other resolution relates to the
granting of discharges to persons
claiming it on the ground of emplo
ment in u necessary industry, includ
ing agriculture.
Such claims cannot be considered
by local boards, and must be made
direct to the district boards. They
can only be made, however, after the
applicant has passed his physical ex
amination and has been posted by ih->
local board as called up for service
and not exempted or discharged.
The resolution adopted by some
districts boards relative to their po
licy In dealing with such claims fol
lows:
"Resolved. That these district
boards will not discharge any person
on the ground that he is engaged In
any agricultural or other exempted in
dustry, unless such person Is need
sary to the maintenance of such 'p
dustry and Is regularly and continu
ously engaged In such Industry as dis
tinguished from an occasional or tem
porary employment therein."
Under this policy, the man who
works regularly and continuously as
a ship carpenter or as a fisherman
and the like, who applies r'or dis
charge on the ground that his work
is necessary in that industry, will re
ceive thorough consideration.
But the fly by night type of woik
er, and the man who feels a sudden
call back to these industries about the
time his turn comes in tho dra'l. will
not.
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.Something new—Pyrex Oval Bakers
Northwestern Hardware Co.
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Agu. 23, — The Central
Labor Council has voted that all lum
ber mills and camps refusing to grant
an eigh hour day be placed on the un
fair list September 1, and all union
labor will refuse to handle lumber
manufactured by them.
COLLEGE OPENING POSTPONED,
STUDENTS DOING FARM WORK.
(By Associated Press)
PULLMAN, Wash., Aug. 23. — Un
official reports say the fall semester
of the state college will not open until
the first Monday in October. The
rumored change, it is said, is to be
taken in order to give as many of the
young students as possible an oppor
tunlty of doing farm work and finish
ing the harvesting on Washington
farms.
What effect the action, if taken,
may have on all athletics, is not
'known, but J. F. Bohler, head of ath
letics at Washington State College,
has said that undoubtedly the foot
ball schedule will be rearranged to
conform with the change, if It Is
made.
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GOAL DROPS 1
PRICE FROM
SI TOSH
(By Associated Press)
CHICAGO, Aug. 23. — The Consum
ers' Company, the largest retail coal
dealeis in the world, yesterday an
nounced a slash of $1 to $1.80 a ton
on soft coal, effective immediately, as
the result of President Wilson’s price
fixing order.
Other dealers promise similar reduc
tions, and the decrease in Chicago's
annual coal bill will be $30,000,000.
ITElNEEDED
(By Associated Press)
SANTA FE, N. M.. Aug. 23. — Suit
recently was filed in the federal dis
trict court here by federal officers
pcting for the reclamation service,
seeking to restrain residents of the
lower Pecos valley, in southeastern
Now Mexico, from diverting water
from the Pecos river. Action was
taken because, it is alleged the water
was needed for the Carlsbad reclama
tion project.
The project, it is said, requires 500
second feet of water to maintain its
reservoirs at normaly height. Now,
it is asserted, continued drought has
reduced the flow of the Pecos to about
one-tenth of this amount, all of which
the reclamation officers seek to se
cure for the project.
The action affects only three eiti
•/.ens adversely.
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EVERY TWENTY-NINTH
PERSON AUTOMOBILE OWNER.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 23.—With one
automobile for every eleven persons
In the state, Iowa led the country in
1916 in the number of motor cars per
capita, according to official figures
in the government office of public
roads. California was second with
one car for every twelve inhabitants.
Nebraska and South Dakota had one
for every thirteen. Arkansas stood
last in the list of states, with only one
car for every 116 persons. The na
tional average was one for every
twenty-nine. By sections the south
had relatively the rewest cars In pro
portion to population.
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The United Iron Works at Juneau
wore recently sold toMcssrs. Carpen
ter and St. Clair, well known machin
ists of that city.
NG DOWN
BERING SEA
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Aug. 23. — The Bering
sea salmon pack is reported extremely
poor. One large company has closed
its canneries and brought back its
men five weeks earlier than usual
there being no fish in their usual run
ways. This company in its Bering sea
canneries put up only one-fourth its
last year's pack. The Bering sea sea
son opened unfortunately with the loss
of three sailing ships loaded with can
nery supplies and crews. There was
no loss of life, but vessels and car
goes were a total loss.
Western and southwestern Alaska
are reported producing 70 per cent ol
n full pack. Southeastern Alaska has
more fish than the canneries can takt
care of.
Up to August 5, the sockeye salmot
»run on Puget Sound, the tjuadrennla
big run, had been disappointing, bu1
canners say there is plenty of tim«
yet for the fish.
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CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS
MEXICO TO TAX ALL
(By Associated Press)
MEXICO CITY, Aug 23. — A ta
of five mills on the dollar has beoi
placed on the capital of all prlvat
charitable institutions in Mexico, e:
fective next September.
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FILLING JACKIES' SWEET TOOTH.
(By United Press)
GREAT LAKES TRAINING STA
TION. III., Aug. 23. — Caramels, 100,
000 packages; milk chocolate, 100,000
packages; sweet chocolate, 12,000
packages; salted peanuts, 50,000 pack
ages; sugar coated peanuts, 50,000
packages. Thai reads like an order
lor all the girls' seminaries in the
world, but it is all intended for the 11,
000 jackies in training here. In ad
dition. they eat 240 gallons of Ice
cream, in cones, daily.
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GREAT BRITAIN INCREASES
OLD AGE PENSIONS.
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Aug. 23. — Old age pen
sioners, who have hitherto received
-five shillings a week pension, will
now be paid seven shillings and six
pence, the chancellor of the exchequer
has announced.
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RUBBER CROPS EAST INDIES
HAS INCREASED 40 PER CENT.
BATAVIA. Netherlands East Indies.
Aug. 23. — A big increase in the rub
ber production of the Netherlands
East Indies is shown by statistics for
916, just published by the Associa
tion of Rubber Dealers.
The total crop of the Netherlands
East Indies in the current year is es
timated at 40,700,000 pounds, an in
crease of 40 per cent. American capi
tal has recently taken an increased in
! terest in the growth of rubber in the
i Dutch colony.
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Largest assortment of fancy Rib
bons at Mrs. Kate Rolfe's.
ITALIANS CONTINUE TO MAKE GAINS
ROME, Aug. 23.—Furious fighting continues on the Isonzo
front, and the Italians made further gains with their northern
and southern wings.
ITALIANS CAPTURE 16,000 PRISONERS
ROME, Aug. 23.—It is officially re ported that 16,000 pris
oners have been taken by the Italians in the present battle.
GOVERNMENT TO REGULATE WHEAT PRICES
WASHING TON, Aug. 23.—The price paid by the food ad
ministration for a portion of the 1017 wheat crop it buys will
probably exceed $2 a bushel. The price will be fixed next week,
and the government is ready to buy the entire crop for distrilm
tion if prices are unestablished.
30,000 KILLED AND WOUNDED IN TWO DAYS
l DINE, Aug. 23.—The enemy losses in the first two days
ot the Italian advance is estimated at 30,000 killed ami wounded
and prisoners.
AUSTRIANS CAPTURE VILLAGE OF SELO
VIENNA, Aug. 23.—The Italian offensive was forced back
on the Austrian line at some points. The village of Ke'o was lust
and the Austrians took 5,600 prisoners.
HOSPITALS SHELLED BY GERMAN AVIATORS
FRENCH FRONT, Aug. 23.—Incendiary bombs, dropped
by German aviators on two hospitals behind Verdun, killed ten
people and wounded one woman nurse and nineteen trained
male nurses.
TRAINING CAMP MOVED FROM CALIFORNIA
WAfVllI NHt'l j )N,Ang,-23. The lulieatiiOUB are that Wash
ington, Oregon, Mon tana,""Itfaho and Wyoming troops will lx*
sent to Charlotte, North Carolina, for training, as Camp Fre
mont, at Palo Alto, California, has been abandoned because the
local health authorities insist upon unreasonable sewerage.
\\ A8HINGTON, Aug. 23.—Late today Camp Fremont was
officially abandoned, and the troops took a train for Charlotte.
BOMBS ARE DROPPED ON BURNING CITY
8ALONIKI, Aug. 23.—Sixty thousand persons are hoi c
less on account of the recent fire. The property loss is enor
mous, the insurance companies carrying policies for over $ld,
(XX),(MX). The refugees are camping on the outskirts of the city
and are being fed by the military authorities, the British taking
care of 30,000. Three enemy aeroplanes circled above and dn p
per bombs while the city was burning.
WAR TO INVADE COUNTY FAIRS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—Now they are standardizing
patriotic demonstrations. Uniform plans were announced to
day by the council of national defense for patriotic demonstra
tions at food training camps, at fairs and expositions through
out the country this fall. A discussion of some angle of the war
ind America’s part in it is contemplated each day. Exhibits
will also be standardized.