Because of the fact that certain
productive activities have been dis
continued some of the people have in
ferred that the need for Red Cross
service in sewing and knitting is over.
This is not the case, however, and
one cf the important future activities
tof the American Red Cross is the pro
duction of refugee garments, both
knitted and sewed. The Red Cross
commissioners in Europe report that
thousands upon thousands of men,
women and children are actually suf
fering from the lack cf clothing, and
conditions are such that while the
Red Cross is planning to send much
of the material to Euurcpe for the
women to make into garments at the
present time, it is necessary to send
many garments already made up
* * *
Answering the question that has
often been asked, why the factories
are not given this work in order to
give employment to the unemployed,
the present plan of the Red Cross is
to give the most difficult garments,
such as boys’ suits, girls’ dresses and
men’s shirts, which are more difficult
and require more time in making, to
the factories.
T *** *
Chapters all over the country were
recently sent a production order for
knitted refugee garments. From a
second appeal through the Red Cross
News notes of last week the names of
Mrs. Bartley Howard, Mrs. W. A. C.
Baldwin, Mrs. Delate Cook, Mrs.
Arthur Holt, Mrs. I. L. Smith, Mrs.
Harry Robinson, Mrs. Funk, Mrs.
Mrs. Archie Field, Miss Joslin, Mrs.
William Frusman, Mrs. William Mc
Donald, Mrs. Henry Maillard, Mrs. Dr.
Chase, Mrs. James Lyons, Mrs. George
Buchanan, are added to the list of
refugee knitters.
* * *
Information received on the last
boat tells of the coming spring drive
for refugee garments of the simpler
kind, such as women’s and children's
skirts, night gowns and chemise.
* * *
Some of the workers in our local
chapter are ready and willing to con
tinue with this work, but not as many
as should. Cannot all those who have
so cheerfully helped in the past con
centrate their energies for the next
two months in helping the women of
Europe to furnish garments to clothe
themselves and the great number of
children who have been left homeless
and fatherless?
This final effort to help clothe the
thousands of fatherless, homeless,
friendless children, the women who
are left destitute and the men who
will be busy reclaiming the devastated
areas of Europe will take place:
When—Any time between now and
June ist.
How—A11 materials will be supplied
free of charge to chapters.
Who—Every Red Cross member is
asked to help.
Where—The work can be done at
home or at headquarters.
* * *
Says German Prison Food Far From
Appetizing
“It was nothing more than slops.
We wouldn’t feed it to the hogs at
home.” That is what Sergeant Edgar
M. Halyburton says of the food the
Germans gave their American prison
ers. Sergeant Halyburton was the
man chosen by hi3 2400 fellow Ameri
can prisoners at Rastatt as “Com
mandant” of the prison camp there
where the captured Yanks were finally
congregated. He was thirteen months
in Germany as a prisoner. When he
was sent to Rastatt on August 14,
1918, he found 550 Americans already
there as prisoners.
In an Interview Sergt. Halyburton
said that when he was first captured
on November 3rd, 1917, the Germans
did not allow the American prisoners
to get in touch with the American Red
Cross representatives at Berne, Swit
zerland. He adds that apparently no
mall was allowed to go out from
American prisoners. On January 25th
a wire came from the Red Cross to
the German commander demanding
the names and whereabouts of all
American prisoners captured on No
vember 3, 1917. The sergeant was
then at what he calls “hell-hole
Tuchel,” Germany. He at once sent
In the names of all the American pris
oners he knew of who were captured
with him on that date, and this was
allowed to go through.
Red Cross Boxes Arrive
“Within a month after that,” says
Sergeant Halyburton, “Red Cross
boxes began to arrive regularly about
every week. Apparently the Huns
stole a small percentage of each ship
ment of the boxes each week, as there
were always several missing and each
time they were the boxes of different
men.”
While at Tuchel the sergeant wrote
the American Red Cross at Berne,
Switzerland, telling them the Ameri
can prisoners there understood Tuchel
was to he made the official American
prison camp. This was the Yanks’
impression from the talk they heard.
At the suggestion of the Red Cross
representatives at Berne, the Ameri
can prisoners at Tuchel had organ
I£IUU> im-J UIVU 'MWIU V'*V.UK
for a reserve supply of food and cloth
ing aside from the regular weekly
boxes. “One carload of such a re
serve supply was shipped by the Red
Cross,” says Halyburtan. “But the
Germans stole 96 out of a 100 pairs of
shoes in the shipment.” The Ameri
can lads were able to prove the goods
had been stolen by the Huns as one of
them found a button off a .Gorman
soldier’s coat in the car. The greatest
percentage of everything near the
TWO—RED CROSS
doors of the car was taken when the
Yanks went to get their shipment.
“The Red Cross is wonderful!” ex
claimed Halyburton. “They supplied
us so well that a prisoner receiving
his weekly box ne.ver needed to touch
German slops. When I first reached
Germany prisoners in West Prussia
all worked except the top sargeants.
I was put to work on a wagon drawing
wood fourteen kilometers a day. Just
like a mule." The sergeant kicked so
that later they classed all Amerlca'p
sergeants as top sergeants and there
after sengcants did not have to do this
work. All the other enlisted men did,
however. “There was not a horse in
the camp,” he continued. “The pris
oners had to do all of their work in
stead.” After months of hardship at
Tuchel the Yanks there were sent to
Rastatt.
Recommended for Commission
In a letter written by Colonel W. L.
H. Godson, U. S. cavalry, military at
tache at the United States legation at
Berne, Switzerland, to Sergeant Haly
burton, the colonel states thp.t he is
recommending the young man for a
commission in the regular army to
the commander-in-chief of the Ameri
can army, because of the sergeant’s
services to his country while a pris
oner of war In Germany.
Sergeant Halyburton’s story will go
down In history. He is perhaps the
one man qualified to compile the offi
cial report of the treatment of Ameri
can prisoners in Germany. He has
been in the regular American army
for nine years and his home is in
Stony Point, N. C. His outfit, the 16th
infantry, was among the first Ameri
can units to go into action. They were
in the trenches in October, 1917, on
the Rhine-Marne front in Alsace-Lor
raine. Sergeant Halyburton and ten
comrades were probably the first pris
oners taken by the Huns. They were
captured on the night of November 3,
1917, in a trench raid twenty-five
kilometers from Nancy, near a town
called Battlemont. Three Americans
were killed in the raid.
* * *
Word comes in a letter from
France that at the coming of peace
the hilarious joy of the French people
living in the small, scattered villages
that had long been under the menace
of the guns, found expression ir
Light.
“Light, light—more light, Babette!
See, here are candles. Light them;
light them, every one! Put them ir
the windows—the ‘boche’ will nol
come tonight! Put them in the ole
candlesticks on the mantlepiece!
More, more! Ah, thank God, we car
have light at last!”
It Is the night of November 11, 1918
The small, squatty house looks quit<
like a Christmas tree, so brightly d<
its windows glow. Squares of yellov
light fall across the snow. Within
Babette and the old woman can be
seen flying about preparing a feast for
the ‘poilus’ who will drop in, and they
laugh and sing and cry and talk ex
citedly of Pierre, who 1b coming back
to them. Pierre of the laughing eyes
and flashing smile! There is the de
licious smell of something frying. A
group of laughing soldiers comes down
the street. Babette flings wide the
door, crying: "Ah, come in, come in,
my brave ones. * * * Come, see,
w'e have good wine and the lights are
shining! This is the great day of
France!” And they troop after her,
laughing, one by one, into the house.
And there is more singing and more
laughter. The candles burn and sput
ter and Babette snuffs them with the
old snuffer that hangs above the
hearth. The winter moon climbs
slowly in a sky whose trackless blue
will no more be torn by maurauding
planes. The night goes. Peace has
dawned upon the world!
* * *
PARIS.—An American Red Cross
nurse serving in a French hospital,
where American wounded had been
sent, was on duty in her ward, when
a couple of French nurses arrived in
a somewhat excited state.
“Come quickly! The American boy
in our ward has something the matter
with his leg. Every time we move it
he says something, and we cannot un
derstand.”
wnen tne nurse arrivea at tne ueu
side of the American there were a
couple of orderlies, several more
French nurses and a convalescent
patient or two trying to do something
to his leg, which was in a cast.
“What’s the matter with it?” asked
the nurse.
“Nothing. For the love of Mike call
them off. I only tried to tell them it
was comfortable.”
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NOTICE OF GENERAL MUNICIPAL
ELECTION
Notice is hereby given that on Tues
day, April 1st, 1919, a general munlci
pal election will be held in the towi
Df Cordova, Alaska, in the second storj
of the town hall, on Second street, it
said town.
Polls will open at 8 o’clock a. m.
Polls will close at 7 o’clock p. m.
The qualifications of electors foi
councilman, mayor, town clerk ant
town treasurer are as follows:
He or she shall be a citizen of th<
United States, or one who has de
dared his or her intention to becomi
a citizen of the United States, 21 year
of age or over, who has resided con
tinuously one year next preceding thi
election in the territory of Alaska an<
six months continuously next preced
ing the election in the town of Coi
dova, Alaska, and who has registerei
in accordance with the requirement
of Ordinance No. 17, of the town o
Cordova, Alaska, entitled “An ordl
nance for the registration of the lega
electors in the town of Cordova
Alaska.”
nPV»o mi □ Hnnu rxf votora fn
members of the school board for Coi
dova school district shall be as fol
lows:
All adults, males or females, wh
are citizens of the United States, o
who have declared their intention t
become such, and who are resident
of the Cordova school district.
The offices to be filled at said elec
tion are:
A Mayor—To serve one year.
Six Councilman—Three to serve on
year, three to serve two years.
A Town Treasurer—To serve on
year.
A Town Clerk—To serve one yeai
A Director for the Cordova Schoc
District—To serve three years.
NATHANAEL, GREENE,
x Town Clerk.
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF
ACCOUNT
In the United States Commissioner'
Court, Cordova Precinct, Territor
of Alaska (In Probate).
In the Matter of the Estate of Gui
nard Johnson, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that V. C
Vance, administrator of the estate c
Gunnard Johnson, deceased, has rei
dered and presented for settlement ti
and filed in the probatd court of sal
Cordova precinct, his final account a
such administrator, and that Tuesda:
the 15th day of April, 1919, at 1
o’clock a. m., at the court room of oil
said probate court at Cordova, Alaski
has been duly appointed by the pri
bate court for the settlement of th
final account, at which time and plac
any person interested in said estal
may appear and file his exceptions 1
writing to the said final account an
i contest the same.
Witness the Hon.
(Seal) . A. J. ADAMS,
Judge of the said Probate Court, and
the seal of said Court affixed, this
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF
PARTNERSHIP
Notice la hereby given that the
partnership heretofore existing oe
tween William Croolter and Charles
Mathews in the operation of thd
launch Wall has been dissolved. All
accounts du*. will be collected and all
bills payable will be settled by Will
iam Crooker. The operation of the
Waif hereafter will be by Mathews
& Arnold. Regular trips to Katalla
and way points.
MATHEWS ft ARNOLD.
Dated Feb. 6, 1919.
NOTICE OF MONITION.
In the District Court of the United
States, Territory of Alaska. In Ad
miralty.
Nels Andersen, libelant, vs. the ship
Myrtle H.
Public notice is heby given that on
the 7th day of March, 1919, a monition
issued out of the clerk’s office of the
District Court of the United States,
Third division, Territory of Alaska, in
a cause civil and maritime wherein
Nels Andersen is libelant against the
ship Myrtle H., her boats, tackle, ap
parel and furniture, for the sum of
seventeen hundred and thirty-one and
90-100 dollars, by virtue of which I
have taken the same into custody.
The said*monition is returnable on the
7Lh day of April. A. D.. 1919. when, if
that be a day of jurisdiction, or if not,
then on the next day of jurisdiction, a
hearing will be had of the cause.
Ail persons interested in said Myrtle
H., her boats, tackle, apparel and fur
niture, are required then to interpose
their claim, if any they have, other
wise the same will be pronounced
against for debt and costs as prayed
for in the libel.
Dated March 7th, 1919.
F. R. BRENNEMAN,
United States Marshal, Third
division, Territory of Alaska.
By WM. L. FURSMAN,
Deputy.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To L. T. Gray, heir and devisee of
Robert D. Gray, deceased, to all other
heirs of the said Robert D. Gray, de
ceased, to James Smith, executor oi
the last will and testament of the
said Robert D. Gray, deceased, to all
persons claiming liens upon or against
the ihltcrest of said estate, of said ad
miniSrator, or of said heirs, in the
mining claims hereinafter described,
and to all whom it may in any mannei
concern:
vn Mid each of you are hereby iietl
fled that I have expended during thi
year 1918 one hundred dollars (8100)
in labor and improvements upon an«
for the benefit of each of those three
certain mineral oil mining claims, ai:
situated at the head of Mirror Slough,
in the Kayak recording precinct, ter
' ritory of Alaska, and known as an*
called:
The Brown Bear Association Min
1 eral Oil Claim,
The Bald Eagle Association Min
i eral Oil Claim, and
i The Gray Wolf Association Min
■ eral Oil Claim,
> the location notices or certificates o
1 which may be found of record in Bool
- 6, at pages 148 and 149, of the record!
- of Mining Locations and Declarator;
l Statements, in the office of the Unite!
i States commissioner and ex offici!
t recorder in and for the said Kayal
- recording precinct, at Katalla, Alaska
1 that is to say, I have so expended it
, such labor and improvements upoi
and for the benefit of all of salt
r claims during the said year 1918 thi
- sum of three hundred dollars ($309)
- in order to hold said claims unde
the laws of the United States am
> the Territory of Alaska relating t<
r the annual labor upon mining claims
> being the amount required to hoii
i said mining claims and each of then
for the period ending on the 31st daj
- of December, 1918.
And if within ninety days after thi
publication of this notice, to wit
5 within ninety days after the 8th da:
of May, 1919, you fail or refuse t
» contribute to me, the subscriber, on
of the owners in common of said min
. Ing claims and each of them, you
1 proportion of such expenditures
which amounts to the sum of lift:
dollars ($50) for each of said claims
or a total of one hundred fifty dollar
, ($160) for all of said claims, you
Interests in each claim for which yoi
so fail or refuse to contribute wil
become the property of the said sut
scriber under the provisions of Set
1 2324 of the Revised Statutes of th
r United States.
A. T. COTTON.
Residence and postoffice addresi
Katalla, Alaska.
First publication, Feb. 6, 1919.
L Last publication. May 8, 1919.
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