The Cordova Daily Times
Member of Associated Press —Day and Night Telegraphic Service
Vol,. I!i. No. :;oi ro|;|io\ A, ALASKA. 'PTEShAA. .11 I.Y <i, lids PRICE TEN CENTS
BOUNTEOUS CROPS OF WHEAT AND CORN ASSURED
FRENCH ATTACK
ADVANCES LINE ON
EXTENSIVE AREA
PARIS, Julv 1).- Tin* French forces attacked the (iermans
yesterday on a front of two and one-half miles west of An
t lien lion, on the front between Montdidier and the < >ise, advanc
iiia mile at some points. A counter attack was repulsed
and 4b4 prisoners, including fourteen officers, were captured.
In the Lonirmont region, east of Ret/, forest, the French in
creased their jjains of Monday, says the official statement.
hast nijrht’s official statement reported that northwest ot
honjjniout the French advanced two thirds of a mile on a two
mile front, occupyinu important positions and oaptuiimr d<4
] irisoners.
British Also Capture Prisoners
h<*\'|>()\', duly b. Raids by the Briti-h during the niald
.■ i•-1 of Arras netted many prisoner-. The (ionium artillery
- active south of the Somme against the position- captured
hv the British, says tie official -taleiueiit. \
A report Iroiii (ieneral llaiir last nieht stated that beyond
.1 few local encounters, there was nothimr of interest to report.
"Heavy Losses’’ Reported from Berlin
BFRLIN, duly !h An official statement dated yesterday
-aid that British attacks on both sides of the Lahasse canal
had failed, with heave losses.
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EXPERIENCE OF
Norwegian steamship Augvald was
ter petfood in mid-ocean June J-'i, ac
cording to survivors who reached port
today.
The crew were ordered to lake to
the bouts and were left adrift for
eleven days at sea in the open boats
before being picked up by a passing
vessel. Kleven of the crew were res
cued and thirteen are missing.
The captain of the Augvald said
that most of the time they were in
the small boats it was raining and
storming. At one time his boat was
upset, hut the men managed to right
it again, although they lost all their
water and provisions
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INSUFFICIENT
11 BUY FIDO
A MBTKKDA M, July !>. In I lie tier
Tintu reichstag yesterday Deputy Metz
inger protested against further sup
plies of grain being sent to Austria
Deputy Wils declared that a further
reduction of rations would be unbear
able. He said that many people «eri
ignorant of the true conditions among
the masses. Unemployment was in
creasing in Berlin, he said, and wages
were insufficient to procure necessary
food The termination of the war
declared Wils, would be a greater eco
noniic gain than the conquest of a
province.
It is reported that severe floods
have occurred in many parts of tier
many, causing serious property and
crop damage.
FATJIL RESULTS
NASHV1LLK, Tenn.. July ‘J
Twenty-five persons are reported t<i
have been killed and from fifty to sev
enty five injured in a collision between
passenger trains on the Nashville
('nnttanooga and St. Louis railway in
the suburbs of this city last night
Six coaches and both engines were
demolished Most of the dead are be
lieved to be negroes
WASHINGTON. July 9 Rationing
of coal to householders Is announced
by the fuel administration as a plan
to prevent a shortage and suffering
finring; the coming winter.
Kach (onsumer will be lalowed
enough fuel to heat his house to a
temperature of tiS degrees, providing
(•onset vat ion rules are obeyed. Kach
order for coal must be passed by the
fuel administrator.
BRITISH PUT IN FORCE
SILVER COINAGE RULES
LONDON, July 9.—The new regula
tlon under the Defense of the Realm
act prohibits uny person from retain
ing any more silver coinage than hr
actually needs for personal expendi
ture and In his business. Sale of any
British coin for an amount exceeding
Its face value is prohibited.
KERENSKY IS OPPOSED TO
JAPANESE INTERFERENCE
PARIS. July :» In a speech deliv
ered here vesterdav former Russian
Premier Kerensky asserted that Jap
anese intervention in Russia at this
tfme would he a mistake, as it would
he very easy for the Germans to con
vince the Russians that the Japanese
were trying to gain a foothold In the
country.
AMERICAN CASUALTIES
I ARE ON THE INCREASE
WASHINGTON, July !». -Casualties
I of the American army and marine
corps overseas increased to 70!» last
week, compared with t!»7 during the
previous week Total casualties of
the American forces now aggregate
l i.oxd.
Kilty name." on tin- casualty list are
those of men killed in action: six died
oi wniimp. thirteen died nf accident,
• ..ml iimi! other i uise- Two hundred
•and I went’, nine were severely
v minded.
destitution™
BT TYPHOON IN CRAM
WASHINGTON, July 9.—Guam isl
and was devastated by a typhoon on
July 11. Crops were destroyed and much
! material damage was done. Half of
1 the inhabitants are destitute.
INSUBORDINATE I. IAI, IN.
CHEN LENGTH!SENTENCE
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CAMP LKWIS, Tueom;i. July
| Private William Moodio lias been se n
tended (o twenty years’ imprisonment
I at hard labor, forfeiture of all pay and
! to be dishonorably discharged from
the army at tin* expiration of his sen
tence, for insubordination by a court
j martial Mondie admitted being a
member of the I W W.
LOANS TD ALLIED NATIONS
REACH ENORMOUS SUM
| WASHINGTON, July 9. Ten mil
| Hon <Mlarn in cash was turned over
j to Italy today by the treasury depnrt
: ment, making the total loans to that
country by the t'nlted States of *«f,u,
oOO.OQO, and total allied loans of $9,
; 091390,(1(10.
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HAVANA, duly 9. t'ulia ha- made
duly "1, Belgian Independence day,
| a national holiday •
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GIVEN JAIL SENTENCE
Kt rl Gray, a cook employed at Orca,
vJh TBatcd and found guilty of via
I lating the dry law. Commissioner
Medley sentenced him to serve six
1 months in the federal jail
ITALIANS SHIFT FIGHTING
TO FRONT IN ALBANIA
WITH SPLENDID SUCCESS
L’O.MK, July 1*. The allied offensive in Albania continues,
and new progress has been made on the left wing along the
Adriatic coast. The operations are being assisted by British
monitors, says tin* official statement.
The Italians have captured the town of I’iere and important
heights in Albania, together with more than thirteen hundred
prisoners.
Situation Remains Unchanged
YIKXXA, '.Inly !•. An official statement issued vesterda\
says that the Italians forced the Austrians hack slightly in the
lighting on the Vovusa river, imAlhania.
The battle in northern Italy remains unchanged.
Operations on the Stoyusa
An official statement issued today says that the pressure
against the Austrians, in Albania continues by the forces ad
vaneing across the river Stoyusa. The French have gained
j ground along the upjier Devoli, and fighting is in progress in
i lie interior southwest of Berat.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 9 —Charles
M. Schwab, director of America's ship
building program, addressed the con
I vention of (he Associated Advertising
Clubs of the World here today.
He was followed by Batn bridge
Colby, also of the Emergency Fleet
Corporation.
War subjects again dominated the
sessions of the ad men's convention
today. Representatives of the food
and fuel administrations and of the
treasury department told the delegates
about the nation's war needs in food,
fuel and funds.
Herbert S. Houston, former presi
dent of the Associated Ad ('lulls of
the world, delivered an address on
the economic pressure resulting from
the war Mrs Itobert Burdette. Pas
adena. Calif., of national fame in the
women’s war work movement, and Hr.
Bay Hyman Wilbur, president of Be
laud Stanford university, also ad
dressed the convention
A hot contest for the 1919 conven
tion has developed among New Or
leans, New York and St. Paul
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TO BRING PRISONER
Frank Cavanaugh, who was recently
arrested at Juneau on his way to the
states from here, on the charge of
larceny of a watch, will be brought
back to Cordova for trial by Deputy
Marshal Horace lie Bine.
Food Conditions Better Than at Any
Time Since Inception of War, Says
Food Administrator Hoover
W ASHI X(iT< bX, July !t. Food Adiniuist rut or Hoover de
(dared today that there was no danger of a sugar famine, and
that the food situation generally was better than at any time
since the Tinted States undertook the feeding of the allied
world.
Mr. Hoover said, however, that it would be expected of the
public that they observe closely the sugar and other conser
vation measures. With the prospect of a nine hundred million
bushel wheat crop, lie said, the country was assured of a big
wheat reserve, but this must be maintained against a possible
short crop next year.
Department Crop Estimates
The department of agriculture has just issued it- July crop
estimates, in which it is predicted that this year's corn crop
will reach J,100,000,000 bushels. The estimate of tlm wheat
crop places it at SJI] ,000,000 bushels.
t SKATTLK. July The Skinner <Y
Kddy floating drydoek broke in two
today because of the additional weight
of the stearnshp Admiral Kvans on
i the forward section. Though listed
j slightly, the Kvans appeared to he
| held firmly and was apparently un
j damaged.
i The steamship \dmiral Kvans. sunk
in Hawk inlet, on the Alaska must,
Ion Man h b last, arrived in Seattle
'Sunday under convoy The vessel will
be repaired here and is expected t<> he
I in commission within two month- Ml
woodwork on the vessel will have to
' he replaced.
SPLENDID FEAT
OF NEGROES
WITH THK A.MKKICAN FORCKS
IN FRANCK. July 1* Henry Johnson
and Robert Robinson, negro privates
from New York, have been eited by
the French government for dispersing
I a party of forty Hermans in a tight
in No Man s Land, unassisted
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A representative of the Old Kim
lish Company is at Katalla investi
gating their immense oil holdings,
with a view to developing them
PURGHRSED BI
\K\Y YOKK. July :• hr .
A. Kumley, \• president and treas*^^H
urcr of the Mall and Express botn-^H
I puny. publishers of tlu* New York
Evening Mail was arrested yesterday,
(barged with perjury in connection
with hi" report to Mien Property bus
Indian Palmer. The a it* t was made
in the of lie* of Mformy c,.*mral
Lewis, where he had he. n called lot
interrogation
The attorney general charge that
Kumley purchased the Mail in June,
1U17. with mon**\ paid bun by the
berman government The -urn fur
nished him is said t<> have been nearly
a million and a half dolIJrs In his
report to the alien property eu todian
Kumley made no. mention of this
money
hr Kumley was arraigned thb morn
ing before a I’nited States eommis
• iotier on a charge ot perjury Tho
hearing was deferred for two weeks,
and he was held in bail of 000.
Kumley had sworn that the Mail
was AnH'i iran ow ned.
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COLUMBIA DEATH LIST
NOW NUMBERS EIGHTY
PK<>l( I \. Ill July '< With the re
coverv this iiiterimon of two tuoro
bodies, the d»*ath list of the steamer
Columbia disaster was increased to
eighty Seventeen persons -till ate
reported ntfieialh a- missing
CHAOS REIGNS SUPREME
IN RUSSIA’S CAPITAL CITY
WASHINGTON, .July 9. J’nited States Ambassador David
T. Francis reports from Volgoda that the assassination, of
Count Von Mirbach, the Gorman ambassador at Moscow, has
been confirmed, lit* states that severe fighting is taking place
in tin1 streets of Moscow, and that several prominent Bolshe
viki officials have been captured. Many of the counter revo
’utionists and their loaders have been arrested by the Bolshe
viki.
War Prisoners Take Part in Fighting
AMSTERDAM, July 9.—A Vienna dispatch says that the
C/.echo-Slovak forces operating in Siberia have suffered sev
eral severe defeats.
It is claimed that Austro-Hungarian war prisoners in Siberia
are taking a prominent part in tin* fighting against them.