The Cordova Daily Times
Only Afternoon Paper In Alaska With Associated Press News
VC>LUME III. NUMBER !«i. COK DO V A ,~A LASK aTMONDA Y.MAY 28. 1917. PKIOK TR\7mrTSr
ITALIANS NEARING TRIESTE, THEIR GOAL
Resume of Sweeping Allied Victory in Routing the Germans
ITALIANS ME PRESSING HARD ENEMY FORGES—
GROUND AND TAKING MANY PRISONERS
UNDATED, May 28.—Tin* Italian troops fought forward
to within two miles of Dnino, which is the most formidable na
tional barrier to bring them and Trieste together. It is known
ns the great battle in the eighteenth day.
ROME, May 28.—The prisoners taken on the Julian front
by the Italians, from May 1 to May 2f>, exceeded 22,000.
ROME, May 28—ft is officially announced that the Italians
crossed the Timavo river and occupied the village of San Gio
vanni, near Trieste, and captured nine cannon.
WASHINGTON, May 28.—The Italian commission reports
that Italy is in great need of railway equipment, coal, iron and
steel.
LONDON, May 28—Counting the Americans serving in the
British and French armies and with additional units serving in
France, there will soon be 100,000 Americans in France. Thirty
five hundred war aeroplanes will be built and (5,000 aviators
trained in the United States tins year.
PETROGRAD, May 28.—'Virtually all of the divergent p >
litical factions, even the Socialist leaders, with the exception of
the extremists, approve of the appeal of War Minister Keren
sky to the troops, urging tin* resumption of active warfare, and
word to this effect lias been sent to Generals Alexieff, Hrussi
loff, Drngomiroff and Echokrensky.
PARIS, May 28.—Former Premier Clemeneeau, in an open
letter, appeals to President Wilson to send Colonel Roosevelt
and his companions to France.
LONDON, May 28.—The war office has issued a statement
showing America’s complete participation in the war and its
ability to give powerful aid.
WASHINGTON, May 28.—A final and complete* agree
ment of the administration espionage bill, including a newspa
per censorship provision, was redrafted on Saturday. The ex
port embargo, search warrant and mail censorship sections were
recalled today by the senate and house conferees. The house
will probably pass on Thursday the first administration food
bill, carrying an appropriation of $14,800,000 for survey and
stimulation of the food supply.
The bill by Senator Poindexter to punish tin* malicious
storing of foodstuffs and other necessaries, under penalties of
from six months to three* years’ imprisonment, was favorably
reported by the senate committee.
The differences over the construction of a great merchant
fleet, have been cleared away and probably two hundred of the
ships will be built of wood and the others of steel.
STORES WIEI. UDUSE OJN DEUUKATiOJN DAY
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The Cordova merchants have decided to observe Memorial
Day by closing their places of business on Wednesday.
gold SUMS
(By Associated Press) '
WASHINGTON, May 28. — The
Japanese embassy says the enormous
exports of gold to Japan are due to
normal trade movements, as America
Is making enormous purchases in Ja
pan, notably urtHrr-wMrir • te~ «o ■ -tanger
obtainable from France and Italy.
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WANT ENGLISH TO LIFT
EMBARGO ON WOOL.
(By Associated Press)
CLEVELAND, May 28. — Clothes
manufacturers meeting here aro to pe
tition congress to ask England to lift
the embargo on wool. Philip Frankel,
secretary of the National Cloak, Suit
and Skirt Manufacturers’ Association,
says that the wool embargo has hit the
clothing business hard.
Over 300 expert designers and man
ufacturers of women’s clothes are at
tending the convention.
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NO EXCUSE FOR HOBO;
PLENTY WORK FOR ALL.
(By Associated Press)
SACRAMENTO, May 28. — The
state council of defense requests
housewife* and citizens to cease feed
ing beggars, as there is plenty of work
and no need for any able bodied man
to beg.
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A. M. Dubeck arrived from the in
terior. and departed for Valdez on the
Mariposa.
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MEMBER ROAD COMMISSION.
George H. Merrifield, of Valdez, has
been appointed by Governor Strong as
i member of the board of territorial
commissioners. Mr. Merrifield re
ceived a telegram from the governor
yesterday notifying him of the ap
pointment and requesting him to for
ward his oath of office and acceptance,
which he has done, and is now a full
fledged member of the board.
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ADMIRAL LINE OFFICER FIRST
TO REGISTER IN SEATTLE.
Second Officer Otto Kohlmeister, of
he steamer' Admiral Goodrich, was fHe
first Seattle man to register under the
military conscription act. Kohlmeister
is a naturalized German, trained in
German merchant marine, but he is
io thoroughly in sympathy with the
country of his adoption in this war
that he lost no time in registering. He
has been an officer on Admiral Line
boats for years. He was quartermas
ter and at the wheel of the steamer
Buckmnn, now the Admiral Evans,
when her captain was killed by a
pirate.
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CONGRESS TO PASS FIRST
FOOD BILL TODAY.
WASHINGTON, May 28. — Both
houses are debating fopd bills, and it
is expected congress will pass the
first bill today, providing for stimula
tion, production and a national food
census.
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NORTHWESTERN IS RETURNING.
SEATTLE, ilay 28. — The steamer
Northwestern sailed Sunday with the
following passengers for Cordova: B.
Johnson, V. Swanberg, Wm. Coleman,
Maurice Jewett, Mrs. A. Foster and
baby, W. Woodward and one steerage.
UNITED STATES
EUROPE
Since America entered the war this
country is very much in the limelight
abroad. Here are some United Press
dispatches, showing how Uncle Sam
is figuring in Europe:
ROME, May 28. — Italy's fad of the
hour is anything and everything "Am
ericane.” The Romans toast Uncle
Sam in Manhattan cocktails, then go
and see movies entitled "The Invasion
of the United States,” “Civilization"
and "The Mysteries of New York,” the
latter a series of shuddering melo
dramas.
ROME, May 28. — “Old Glory" today
is flying on Capitaline Hill, the cradle
of old Rome’s and the modern world's
civilization. The Stars and Stripes
is swinging from the sixteenth century
building designed by Michael Angelo.
PARIS, May 28. — The American
Club of Paris has decided to permit
all American army and navy officers
on duty here in future to become hon
orary members of the club without
paying fees, until the war ends.
LONDON, May 28. — American
housewives in England are generally
observing Lord Devonport’s voluntary
rationing system. Nearly every Am
erican home in London now restricts
to the prescribed four pounds of bread
a week, two and a half pounds of meat
and three-quarters of a pound of sugar.
American husbands, however, are sus
pected of cheating a little bit at noon j
by patronizing restaurants noted for
their liberal helpings.
ROME, May 28. — President Wilson
and the American people will be the (
objects of an Italian propaganda to
show the justice of Italy's claims to
the ‘‘irredeemed" lands of Trent and
Trieste now under Austrian control.
The Roman branch of the Trent
Trieste association has cabled Wilson,
congratulating him on warring for de
mocratic ideals.
LONDON, May 28. — The gum chew
ing habit will become firmly saddled
on the British public when an Ameri
can expedition comes over. Already
the Canadians have introduced gum to
their brothers in arms. Medical folks,
in weighty papers, find that the Am
erican chicle raises the blood pressure
and thereby imparts a sense of confi
dence in the attacking soldier. An
American expedition might start the
while empire's jaws wagging.
PARIS, May 28. — The people of
Prance cannot understand why the
American government since declaring
war on Germany has not leaped to re
cognize in a material way the Ameri
cans who have long been fighting for
Prance. A ietter signed “A Prench
Mother,” printed here, said: “Why is
it that those few Americans, brave
enough to seek voluntarily, while their
country is still neutral, the ranks of
our army, have not yet been claimed
by their own government, whose citi
zens they remain? While all those
*BrbTiOTrerHre-'irpi/zrrvrfirtiy- receHi ttg- com
missions and honor, are these men to
remain sergeants and soldiers in the
Prench army, unrecognized and un
honored by their mother country,”
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LATEST NEWS HAPPENINGS
TO BE SHOWN ON THE SCREEN.
Captain A. E. Lathrop has returned
from Anchorage to look utter his in
terests here. He reports he has con
tracted for a film service for the Em
press theatre that is sure to please its
patrons, including the Pathe-Ilearst
pictorial review, which chronicles the
news happenings of the world on the
screen, as soon after the events hap
pen as is possible to receive them in
Alaska.
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FRANK DANIELS HEADLINER
AT EMPRESS TONIGHT.
“Crooky," a Blue Ribbon five reel
comedy feature, played by Frank Dan
iels for his first appearance in inoiing
pictures, tonight at the Empress the
atre. This is an extra fine farce com
edy, featuring the greatest comedian
of the legitimate stage, and is a sure
cure for the blues. Introductory pic
ture, Pathe News.
TORNADO KILLS
TOO; INJURES
I TOO PEOPLE
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8 UNDATED, Ktj 28 \ tor- ♦
8 nado has been raging during the ♦
8 past three days in seven states, ♦
► middle west and south. Two him- ♦
► dred and fifty persons were ♦
8 killed and nearly twelve hundred ♦
8 injured. Thousands of homes ♦
8 have been wrecked and thousands 8
8 of acres of growing crops In ♦
8 Kentucky. Arkansas. Tennessee ♦
8 and Albania devastated. 8
8 Illinois suffered the greatest 8
8 loss. A hundred persons are 8
8 dead, fifty-four of whom were 8
8 killed instantly and five hundred 8
8 injured at Mattoon, 111. At 8
8 Charleston thirty-seven were 8
8 killed and one hundred and fifty 8
8 injured. The property damage in 8
8 these two cities is *1,000.000. 8
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(By Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, May 28. — F. B.
lall. formerly oonns. ted with the
Unska road commission, came from
he north to enlist in the Eighth en
;ineer regiment of reserves. He was
ejected on account of defective eye
dght, but immediately proceeded to
;et a pair of spectacles and was ac
epted by the army.
COURT'S RULING
TO AFFECT ALL
Judge F. M. Brown has issued a
statement, in which he said that the
ictivity of wholesalers in Juneau and
San Francisco in shipping liquor into
lry territory in this division was be
ng closely watched by the United
States marshal, there being no inten
ion on the part of the court to allow
efforts to enforce the law to be set
it naught.
"I noted the local comment that
we were being made a catspaw for the
wholesalers by issuing strict rules to
prevent retailers in this district from
shipping to dry territory," said the
iudge, “and I desire to assure all that
this will not be the case.
“It is too bad that some of the deal
ers in this division have misconstrued
ihe meaning of the word ‘clean up,’ in
connection with their being given un
til January 1 to clean up their stock
before prohibition becomes effective,
rhere seeftrsT TB be a teeitngtftat ie rs
» chance to make a ‘clean up’ in cash
*nd retire rich. Some of the dealers
have simply gone mad over the idea
jf getting all they can while the op
portunity is open. The people of this
iistrict do not want this, and have
made it so evident that I have issued
prders restricting sales and hours of
business.
“Nothing is being overlooked by the
marshal. The law must be obeyed
by wholesalers as well as retailers."
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ALASKA SAILS FOR SEATTLE.
The steamer Alaska left for Seattle
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock with the
following passengers from Cordova:
Mrs. J. K. Bryson, C. A. Bode, Wm.
Godfrey, R. K. Brown, A. Beck, Mrs.
A. Beck, Ethel Beck, C. C. Keenan, Bat
Dufry, Vic, Sicotte, Chris Jorgensen,
E. C. Hill, H. E. Cleveland, W. Bow
man, Ida Rudolph, Ben Thompson and
Joe Stewart.
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Mrs. Ole Berg and her mother. Mrs.
J. E. Crane, of Boston, wero arrivals
in Cordova Saturday afternoon and
left on this morning's train for Strel
na. where Mr. Berg is developing Borne
promising mining property.
EXPEOITIII n
(Special to the Times)
SEATTLE. May 28. — On the
steamer Watson, sailing from here for
Alaska this morning was the National
Geographical Society expedition, head
ed by Robert F. Griggs, of the Ohio
State University, to continue the in
vestigation into the Mt. Katmai erup
tion.
Besides Dr. Griggs, as director of
the expedition, the personnel of the
Katmai party is Clarence F. Maynard,
topographer of Washington; James S.
liine, zoologist of the Ohio State Uni
versity; J. W. Shipley, chemist of the
Manitoba Agricultural College at Win
nipeg; I). B. Church, photographer of
Danville, Ohio; Jasper D. Sayre, botan
ist and packer of Townvllle, Pa.; Paul
R. Hagelbarger, botanist and packer
of Akron, Ohio; Lucius Grolsom, pack
er of Kodiak, Alaska; Walter Mtroken,
packer, and Andre Lore, packer of
Kodiak, Alaska.
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LEONARD MEETS
WELSH FOR A
NEW YORK, May 28.—Benny Leon
ard. New York’s wonderful light
weight, will have to just make the
best of It and try with all his might
when he meets Freddie Welsh tonight
in this city. He never will get a real,
long distance chance at Freddie's title,
nor will be ever get a short chance in
ix state where decisions can be given
Leonard's record is enough to shoot
a streak of gooseflesh up Welsh's
backbone. He has broken out with
a rash of knockouts, distributed over
the chins of a long and healthy list
of young men who have come up un
til they met the flying fists of the New
Yorker. A string of knockouts Is
something the British dodger nevet
had attached to his name. In fact
there are very few instances in a
glance at his record when an observe!
can find k. o. after a man’s name.
It will be the third meeting between
the two boys. So.ne time ago, when
Leonard had not perfected a knock
’em dead punch, Welsh agreed to meet
him and was given the surprise of
his championship life. Welsh was in
poor condition and was given a sound
beating by the youngster. Then they
were matched again. The bout was
held in Washington Park, Brooklyn
The trimming Welsh gave Leonard in
that encounter will be remembered as
the most thorough thing that ever
happened to a young shining light.
Welsh punched holes in Leonard's de
fense and he moved so fast that Leon
ard never was able to do more than
lay a peevish finger on him.
The end of boxing in New York state
probably will see Welsh's retirement—
for keeps. When they take away the
big boxing center where he has been
able to be beaten without losing his
title' he doubtless will' be content to
stop stalling and go to work on his
health farm. Hence, it behooves Leon
ard to work fast and hard when he
enters the ring with Welsh.
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NORTHWESTERN ENGINES STOP ,
VESSEL BUFFETED BY WAVES.
The Juneau Dispatch contains the
following account of the last south
bounil trip of the steamer North
western:
After leaving Cordova and shortly
before reaching Spencer, the ship ran
into a severe storm, accompanied by
heavy gales, which churned the waters
mountain high. During the blow the
ship's engine stopped for a period of
four hours, during which time the
vessel rolled and tossed like a chip,
as there was a light cargo aboard.
The storm, which officers of the boat
stated yesterday was one of the worst
ever experienced, lasted fully twelve
hours. Notwithstanding the shaking
up the vessel got, the good old ship
weathered it all in fine style; the only
Inconvenience being frequent trips to
the rail of many of the passengers.
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Head the Daily Times and keep post
ed on the world's doings.
DESCRIPTIVE FEATURES AND PHASES OF FIERCE
BATTLE NOW BEING Wf ) IN NORTHERN FRANCE
NEW YORK, May 2tf.—Something like 145 square miles
of French territory regained; more than (JO,(MX) prisoners taken;
from 75,000 to 250,000 killed and stoppage of all plans for a Ger
man western front offensive have been the results achieved to
date in the great Franco-British offensive.
The figures are purely estimates. Neither the allies or Ger
many have yet issued casualty lists for this fighting. The front
is so irregular that it is difficult to figure out actual acreage
wrested from the invader. But the defeat of Hindenhurg’s
plans for the summer’s fighting have been achieved hevond all
1 doubt.
The strategy of the famous Hindenburg retreat was to
force the British and French to make their much advertised of
‘Vnsive over ground chosen bv the German commander and
against positions defensively prepared in advance.
Hindenburg selected the last few days of winter as tlx* time
in which to make his retreat, figuring it was too early for the
spring offensive to begin, and that the spring thaws would
come at a time when movement of pursuing troops would be
most difficult. However, in order to hamper pursuit, he laid
waste to every inch of ground. At least three supplementary
defense lines to the Hindenburg line were spread over this
ground released to the French and British. The Germans fig
ured these lines would check all advances and permit with
drawal with a minimum of German losses to the Hindenburg
line. Once entrenched along the Hindenburg line, the Germans
planned a spring offensive of their own on some other front,
confident in the impregnability of this long prepared line
against any Franco-Britislx offensives.
But the French aixl British pursuit was far more speedy
than the Germans had counted upon. Not only did the allies
quickly swarm over the first preliminary German defense lines,
but they speeded up and started their spring offensive several
weeks ahead of time. Moreover, instead, directed the attacks
at the pivots to the north and south on which Hindenburg had
sprung his retreat.
The British turned the northern point on this Hindenburg
line by the capture of Fresnoy, Gavrelle and Oppy. To the
south the French crumbled it away around Cerny and Craonne.
It is around these northern and southern points that the fight
ing is of fiercest intensity today.
The Hindenburg line is supposed to start somewhere about
Drocourt, which lies midway between Lens and Douai. A so
called “Switch line,” presumably long prepared, connects Dro
court with the old German line around Lens. From Drocourt
tlx- Hindenburg line swings through Bois Bernard to Fresnoy,
then south to Oppy, through Gavrelle, Roeux, Delves, Boirv,
Notre Dame, Remv, Hendeeourt, Reincourt and to Queant.
This section of the Hindenburg line has been dubbed the
“Wotan line” by the Germans, after the Norse Supreme God.
The Wotan line is protected by the so-called Oppy line—a pre
liminary defense front between Oppy, Gavrelle and Roeux. It
has been penetrated at these three points by the British.
From Queant the Hindenburg line runs through Beaumetz,
Villers, Heudicourt, Roisel, Vermand, St. Quentin, LaFere,
Laon, Sissonne, Craonne, across the Aisne and down to a point
north of Rheims.
This section, from Queant south, has been called the “Sieg
fried line” by the Germans—after the Wagnerian hero. It has
been penetrated at Craonne and near Rheims by the French.
NEW YORK DOESN’T FEAR
PLAGUE THIS YEAR.
(By United Press)
NEW YORK, May 28. — Infantile
paralysis may break out this summer
in cities where it was quiescent last
year, according to a bulletin issued
by the board of health today.
The department does not expect an
other epidemic here for some time
In the past they have come four or
five years apart. Health Commission
erEmerson • is experimenting. .see
whether the infection may originate in
decayed teeth, as has been suggested
by Dr. Louis Fischer, a specialist in
children’s diseases.
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AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT
WARNS AGAINST WASTE.
(By United Press)
WASHINGTON, May 28. — If every
one of the 20,000,000 American house
holds should waste one-fourth ounce
of butter daily, the loss would be
114,062,500 pounds a year, the product
of over half a million cows, accord
ing to department of agriculture fig
ures today. If only one in every 100
homes wasted one-fourth pound, the
loss would total over 1,000,000 pounds
annually. The department issued these
statistics to show why no butter what
ever should be wasted.
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RfD CROSS WEEK.
WASHINGTON. May 28. — The
week ending June 25 has been desig
nated by President Wilson as Red
Cross Week, when all effort will be
made to secure contributions for the
fund of $100,000,000 for the American
Red Cross.
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(By Associated Press)
_SEATTLE. May 28. — A huge loco
motive and tender, weighing 125 tons,
was shipped from here last night to
Cordova for the Copper River &
Northwestern railway. This is only
a part of the new equipment ordered
by that company, and which will go
north as fast as it is received from
the east.
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ADMIRAL STEAMER SAILINGS
FROM SEATTLE CHANGED.
The Pacific Steamship Company
have inaugurated daylight sailings
from Seattle, and instead of departing
from Seattle at 9 p. m. all steamers
for Alaska will leave at 10 a. in. This
does not change the proposed sailing
dates from Seattle, but will give a
sailing hour that will be more agree
able to the traveling public, and a bet
ter arrangement for handling the
large shipments of freight that are be
ing offered for the Alaska run.
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NO TAXES ON FILMS. 1
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(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 28. — The ten
ate finance committee has decided to
exempt motion picture films, jewolry
and chewing gum from tuxation