* CHILDREN KEPT
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BY HUNGER
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, June 12
(Correspondence of Associated Press).
-One-third of the school children in
Czechoslovakia are absent from school
every day on account of hunger, ac
cording to Red Cross investigators’
reports. Many of the children in the
schools were found so weak from lack
of nourishment that they could not
hold their heads erect. Frequently
children had to be carried home be
cause they had not the strength to
walk.
Miss Edith Hoyt of Washington, D.
C., and Mrs. Ethel D. Earle of New
York city, two of the trained social
workers sent by the Red Cross into
seventeen towns in the Erzebirge dis
trict, reported that in this section 90
per cent of the children Avere actually
% starving. To relieve this situation ar
rangements have been made for the
establishment of public kitchens
throughout the country. The Ameri
cans are supervising their operation
and the distribution of food supplies to
them.
“The children Avere undersized and
backAvard,” writes Miss Hoyt, “both
physically and mentally. They shOAved
signs of tuberculosis, rickets and
anemia. We Avent through school
rooms after school room asking, ‘Hoav
many have had no breakfast this morn
ing?’ In a class of forty-eight, nine
teen little hands Avent up. This was
typical of the situation throughout the
district.
“Nettles, a weed, form the principal
item of diet in the poorer homes, and
only one tOAvn Ave visited had any po
tatoes. We entered many houses un
expectedly, in order to obtain a true
idea of conditions.
“Among the school children, rickets
softening of the bones due to lack of
* fats—prevails universally. Childen of
seven are like children of four. Chil
dren of ten or twelve are the size of a
/ normal six-year-old. Their faces are
gray Avith pallor, and abnormally sad
and gloomy.”
UPHEAVAL OF STREET
DUE TO TORRID HEAT
Mrs. Sophia Scott is in receipt of
a letter from her daughter, Mrs. Florv,
who has many friends in Cordova,
where she spent a summer a couple
of years ago, inclosinig a clipping
from a Dayton, Ohio, paper of July
4, which gives some idea of how the
people back East are suffering from
the rays of Old Sol, and is as folows:
“Tiie sizzling heat of yesterday was
a source of general complaint. And
if there is the slightest doubt that it
was all that was claimed for it, just
inspect the pavement at Grand and
Belemon avenues.
“The heat became so intense that
the bricks of the street were actually
blown up, forming an upheaval about
six feet wide and extending from curb
to curb. It was necessary to detour
( traffic.”
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FATHERLESS GIRLS
PHILADELPHIA, July 16 (by mail).
—The Charles E. Ellis College for the
Education of Fatherless Girls is now
open. It is located in the beautiful
Whitmarsh valley, four miles north of
the Chestnut Hill section of Philadel
phia.
Mr. Ellis provided for the mainte
nance of the college, which he de
signed to do for girls what the Girard
College does for boys, by endowing
it with $5,000,000. He died ten years
ago. Girls who can not be supported
t properly under their present living
conditions will be given the opportu
nity for free education. More than
two hundred can be accommodated,
If you do not receive your copy of
the Times regularly, please notify the
circulation manager.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court in and for Cordova Precinct,
Territory of Alaska.—In Probate.
In the matter of the Estate of Michael
James Costello, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the estate
of Michael James Costello, deceased,
to the creditors of and all persons
having claims against the said de
ceased, to exhibit them, with the nec
essary vouchers, within six months
after the first publication of this no
tice, to the said administrator at the
office of Frank H. Foster, at Cordova,
Alaska, the same being the place for
the transaction of the business of said
/-state. WILLIAM HAYES,
if Administrator.
July 8—5w
STAGE DIRECTOR FORCED
TO RESIGN BY STRIKE OF
FORCES OF OPERA HOUSE
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BERLIN, June 18 (Correspondence
of Associated Press).—The principals,
chorus and stage hands of the German
opera house at Charlottenburg, after a
five days’ strike, have forced the re
tirement of Otto Neumann Hofer, its
director general, with whom the em
ployes had been in conflict for several
years. The forces of the opera house,
numbering five hundred, went on
strike without warning.
Socialist members of the Charlot
tenburg town council espoused the
cause of the strikers and demanded
that the board of directors remove
Herr Hofer. Realizing the futility of
further resistance, he resigned. It was
charged that he consistently opposed
all social reforms in favor of the em
ployes and was unyielding in his dis
cipline.
The incident was one of the most
sensational episodes in the history of
German grand opera, and the occur
rence would have been impossible un
der the old political dispensation.
AMERICAN RED CROSS
CARES FOR RUSSIANS
FIGHTING BOLSHEVIKI
OMSK, Siberia, June 2 (by mail).—
To meet an emergency in hospital
work for wounded Russians of the
army fighting the Bolsheviki, the
American Red Cross has opened one
of its biggest hospitals at Cheliabinsk.
The opening of heavy fighting on the
Ufa front brought many wounded sol
diers to the already burdened Russian
military hospitals. The Red Cross
sent to Cheliabinsk Dr. Henry W.
Newman.
Cheliabinsk promises to be an im
portant station for American Red
Red Cross work this summer, as it is
expected that the fighting will be par
ticularly heavy in the district front
ing it.
REAR ADMIRAL SIMS
PRAISED BY JELLICOE
SYDNEY, Australia, June 4 (by As
sociated Press).—Recognition of the
service rendered by Rear Admiral
William S. Sims, as commander of the _
American naval forces in the war zone,
was accorded by Lord Jellicoe in a
speech delivered at Adelaide on a visit
there recently. He said:
“While we -were developing offen
sive measures against the submarine
we were also developing a defensive
or offensive system of convoying
ships. Admiral Sims, for whom I have
the highest regard, and whose assist
ance was always valuable, looked upon
the convoy as an offensive system be
cause if submarines could be attracted
to the convoy the destroyers had an
opportunity of dealing with them. At
first we had not sufficient cruisers and
destroyers for convoys, but the suc
cess of the system was shown almost
immediately we had.”
GERMAN INTRIGUE
EXPOSED IN CHINA
TOKIO, June 5 (by mail).—Defend
ing his policy towards China during
his premiership, Marquis Okuma has
made a statement that it was never
his intention to make a protectorate
of China.
He declared that the movement of
Yuan Shi-Kai to make himself em
peror of China owed much to the in
stigation of Germany, and if Yuan’s
ambition had been attained and he had
been proclaimed emperor it was more
than probable that China would have
been brought under the complete sway
of Germany. At that time Japan ten
dered advice to President Yuan, and
France and Great Britain took the
same view as Japan did, endeavoring
to check the realization of Germany’s
designs.
Referring to the famous twenty-one
demands presented to China while he
was premier, the marquis held it was
wrong to attack the Chinese policy of
the Okuma government without mak
ing a careful study of Chinese affairs
and of the diplomatic history that
obliged the conclusion of the treaties
that followed.
FIRSTMEXICAN-MADE
AUTO IS ON MARKET
MEXICO CITY, July 24 (by Associ
ated Press).—The first automobile
ever constructed in Mexico appeared =
recently in the capital, having come
from Monterey, where, it is said, ar- £
rangements are being made for build- I
ing the machine in quantities. \
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