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The Cordova Daily Times
. ~V<)LUME IHI. NUMBER 23. ( '< >K IVc lUr^ UASKA^TlTtNUA Y~ JULY 30, 1917. ..' PRIG?: TEN CENTO
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♦ BERLIN, July 30. — Artillery «
♦ duels, in the Flanders section yes- ♦
♦ terday are described by the gen- ♦
♦ trail staff as representing the ♦
♦ highest degree in massed effect ♦
♦ since the war began. The Brit- ♦
♦ ish attacks east of Mouchy and ♦
♦ northwest of St. Quentin were ♦
♦ broken with heavy losses. South- ♦
east the allies In the Aisne region ♦
♦ were repulsed In four French at- ♦
♦ tacks. In a hand to hand battle ♦
♦ thirty-five British aeroplanes ♦
♦ were shot down. +
TWO AIR RAIDS
ARE IDE ON
PARIS
(By Associated Press)
PARIS, July 30.—The censor per
mits but scanty details to be sent out
of the air raids on Paris last Friday
night. Bombs were dropped in three
sections of the city, and two women
were hurt. An attempted raid Sat
urday night was unsuccessful.
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UNDATED — Operations on a not
atiie jseale are expected on the Belgian
front owing to the heavy gun fire
and intensive aerial work in taking
photographic observations on a large
scale. There has been a heavy de
: struction of aeroplanes on both sides.
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FERNIE, B. C„ July 30. — Eight
men perished and a number are miss
ing in A forest fire which raged in the
Spruce river valley, fifteen miles
northwest of here on Saturday, when
sixty men and twenty teams were
trapped in a blind valley. Eight bodies
✓ have already been recovered.
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TENDER CEDAR
SEATTLE
SEATTLE. July 30.—The now light
house tender Cedar, built for Alaska
service, has arrived here and Is tak
ing on supplies preparatory to sailing
for southeastern Alaska.
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WACO, Texas, July 30. — Negro sol
(tiers of the United States infantr)
clashed with citizens on the stree
last night and shooting resulted. SI:
soldiers were arrested and four other
placed under guard at the camp.
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BIG SHIPMENTS
ITEBML FOB
GDVTJOAD
SEATTLE, Juiy 30.—Twenty-on*
hundred tons of rails, fittings, hard
ware and a million feet of lumber, all
for the Alaska government railroad
left here Saturday for the north. All
the rails with the exception of 600
tons lor Anchorage and Seward go
to Nenana to be used in the completion
of the Fairbanks and Tanana Mines
railway, recently purchas'ed from Fal
con Joslin.
This Is one of the largest ship
ments ever sent out of here for the
north, and will go to the Interior via
St. Michael and the Yukon river route.
DIES AFTER 48
YEARS NAVAL
SERVICE
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. July 30. — Rear
Admiral Stephen B. Luce, founder and
first president of the Naval War Col
lege at Newport, R. I„ died at his
home in this city on Saturday, He
saw his country victorious in three
wars, two of which, the Mexican and
Civil wars, he helped to fight. He
spent 48 years in active naval service,
passing 33 on duty at sea.
Beginning his nival apprenticeship
on a wooden man o’ war of 74 guns,
he lived to command a squadron of
floating fortresses of steel. He bsw
lit modern American warships make
the same grand tour of the earth that
he had made a half century before
on the old wooden Columbia. He visi
ted Japan when a youth and when that
nation was classed as barbarous and
weak, and lived tp see her develop
into a world power on land and sea.
The rear admiral was a fighter; he
believed in the stern necessity of war.
Born in Albany, N. Y„ March 25,
1827, he swore fealty to his country
at the age of fourteen, when he be
came a midshipman in the navy. At
nineteen he was following Commodore
Bloat and Stockton along the Pacific
coast in the Mexican war. Two years
later he was studying at Annapolis,
which was then only three years old,
for promotion to passed midshipman.
The next few years he passed in cruis
ing about the world and increasing his
knowledge of naval tactics.
At the outbreak of the Civil war,
Luce was lieutenant on the Wabash,
changing to five different vessels be
fore peace was declared. His train
ing in the Mexican war showed to ad
vantage when he was chasing block
ade runners along the South Carolina
joast and participating in the battles
of Ports Sumter anu Moultrie,^ and at
Port Royal and Hatteras inlet.
tin nmu A C iron ea nl/l an/1 a Aanialn
when the next war threatened, and
he was ordered to take command of
the frigate Minnesota. It was during
the crisis when Spain captured and
took to Cuba the United States ship
Virginius in 1873.
His next step upward came at the
age of 48, when he was promoted tc
the rank of commodore and given com
mand of the North Atlantic squadron
Four years later he was advanced t(
rear admiral. Another four yean
passed and then he was retired fron
active service, having reached the re
tiring age of 62, in 1889.
He rendered his last dlstinguishe<
public service at the age of 65, whet
he went to Madrid as tne represents
tlve of the United States, and com
missioner general of the Columbli
celebration in 1882 in commemprs
tlon of the four hundredth anniversar
of the discovery of America.
Rear Admiral Luce was recognize*
as an authority on naval tactics an
training. He wrote “Seamanship,
1 which became a text book for nav«
- students at Annapolis.
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< F1IIS 0PE1INE
“Secretary of Interior Lane Is ver;
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much In earnest In hla desire to d<
something for the development o
Alaska, and by this I mean that hi
believes in the Immediate opening o
the resources of the territory,” sal<
Herbert A. Meyer, assistant to Mr
Lane, who spent four or five houri
In Cordova yesterday. Mr. Meyer li
a bright and affable young man, ant
Is on a todr of Investigation in ordei
that he might become thoroughly con
versant with Alaska, Its resources ant
the host means of developing them
He is accompanied by A. Ir. Shepard
formerly a prominent railroad man o'
San Francisco: Edwin F. Wendt, an
engineer with the interstate commerce
commission, and R. S. Austin, his sec
retary. Mrs. Shepard Is the only lady
in -the party.
Mr. Meyer stated that the trip Is
being made exclusively Tor the pur
pose of examining conditions connect
ed with the construction of the rail
road and the opening of the Matanus
’ka coal fields. He pointed out that
Secretary Lane haR a multitude ol
duties created by the war, partlcu
larly as he Is a close adviser of the
president, and as he is, a member ol
the national defense council, he finds
it Impossible to make the trip t > Alas
ka which he has had In contemplation
so long.
“A!ftRknnu mnv nut Itnmu It " H'llil
Mr. Meyer, "but with all those most
Important duties to perform Alaska
comes, I might almost say, first In the
thoughts of Mr. Lane, and one of his
greatest ambitions is to roo it de
veloped to the fullest.”
Just how long the party will be to
tho westward Mr. Meyer was unable
to state, but he expressed the hope
that be could find time to return to
Cordova and go from here to Fair
banks for the purpose of looking into
the railroad construction In the in
terlor. He also wanted to visit the
coal and oil fields at Katulla, but was
unable to do so. Mr. Meyer, as moat
Alaskans know, took charge at Wush
ington of the railroad work in Alaska
last March to relieve Mr. Lane, ami
be is now making his fiist trip ol
inspection to Alaska, although it may
be mentioned in passing that he show*
a most extraordinary knowleJgo ol
the conditions in-every detail.
"This is a trip of Inspection and cdu
cation,’’ he said. "Our primary pur
pose is to look into the Matanusko
coal fields with a view to seeing that
everything possible is being done to
ward expediting the work of opening
them and bringing the coal to tide
water. If we secure the four milllor
dollar appropriation just asked for
and it the plans in view materlalizt
we expect to complete the railroac
over the gap between Seward and An
chorage in the early summer of 1918
so that we may be ready for the ship
ment of coal in that year. The dredge:
are now on the way to dredge the An
chorage harbor.”
"We are educating ourselves 01
Alaska,” was another statement etn
phatically made by Mr. Meyer, "si
that we might have a perfect under
standing of the conditions on the rail
road and other matters and so be abl
the more intelligently to advise Sec
retary l.ane. That is the purpose.”
WILSON FIGHT!
FOOD CONTROL
: AMENDMENTS
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(By Associated Press)
1 WASHINGTON. July 30. — Pree
1 dent Wilson as declared agcin his o
. position to the food control bill, no
1 in conference, providing for an adml
istratlve board of three Instead of ot
and also for the creation of a co
^ gresslonal committee on the expe
l j dttures in the conduct of the war.
SEIM DEFEATS
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ANCHORAGE, July 30. — Retort
>ne of the largest crowds tha' possibly
iver gathered in Alaska to witness a
nasehall guise. tho Seward team yes
torday defeated the Anchorage clul
in the first cr a series of three games
It took eleven Innings to settle tht
contest, wheii Seward finally wor
the score stosl 4 to 3. On account o:
the Intense''rivalry between the tw<
teams the en husiasm of tho fans war
at white hca' and they witnessed a
brilliant exhibition of the nations:
game. It Is estimated that over S2o,
000 has boon wagered on the series
the second game of which is to be
played this afternoon.
RESULT LEAD IIE
GAMES PLAYED
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(By Associated Press)
i NEW YORK. July 30. — Yesterday1!
i base ball games resulted ns follows:
j National League Philadelphia, 1;
Cincinnati, 0, Boston. 3; St. Louis. 1
j New York, t>; Chicago, 5.
American League — Washington, 9;
j Cleveland. 5.
SEME MU
BEKlFEtt
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, July 30. — The stree
car company has offerod to refer al
of Its differences to four arbitrators
chosen from a list of eleven met
named by the company, including lv/i
bishops and two United States Judges
The strikers rejected the proposal anc
asked for arbitration under the U. S
law, with three arbitrators chosen b;
the men and three by the compiny.
SEATTLE, July 29. — There are nt
developments in the street car strike
while the city awaits the answer o
the new arbitration proposal made b;
the company last night to refer al
differences, including the question o
affiliation with the national organlza
tion to a board of railroaders to bi
selected by men from the list of elevei
names submitted by the company. Thi
committee representing the men dis
cussed the proposal at meetings holt
today, but no action was announced
Advices from Kennecott today ar
to the effect that about 375 men, o
ninety per cent of the regular workln
| crew, is now employed at the B<
Inanzn and Jumbo mines. On Satui
day afternoon ten cars of copper or
were brought from the mines to Coi
dova. Tomorrow’s train will brln
twenty-two cars and from now on noi
mat shipments are expected.
Although production was serlousl
retarded for a time, just a/ter th
strike, there is still in Cordova awai
ing shipment to the Bmelter a part <
I- the accumulated ore on hand previon
>- to the strike, which the steamei
V have beon unable to move owing I
l- heavy shipments of canned clams an
e salmon.
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n- Butter Snails and Doughnuts, free
twice daily, at City Bakery.
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FRENCH REPULSE,
LATER MAKE
GAINS
(By Associated Press)
PARIS, July 30 -The crown prince's
troops at dawn yesterday made a vlo
ent attack near liurteblse on the Ala
tie front. The French were repulsed
and Instituted an offensive between
Hurtebise and Lapovello; Raining all
points in this sector.
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(By Associated Press)
LONDON, July 30. — It is official
ly announced that the British cruiser
\rladne, of 11.000 tons burden, has
been torpedoed and sunk.
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SELECTED HIS
ASSISTANTS
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(By Associated Press 1
BERLIN, July 30. — Chancellor
Mlchaelis has been in active communi
cation with the leading party mem
bers of the Prussian lower house and
the selection of men who are to aaaist
him in carrying out the electorate.
The forms have been agreed ' upon
and the appointments are merely
awaiting the emperor's approval.
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(By Associated Press >
WASHINGTON, July 30. — The
Norwegian expedition to the U. S.,
headed by Fridtjof Nansen, called at
i the state department today to discuss
i working agreement for the importa
tion of foodstuffs Into Norway.
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WASHINGTON, July 30. — The me
thods of Increasing the revenues from
the war tax bill at least $1,043 000.000
fro mtho present total of $1,670,000,000
was today considered by the senate
finance committee.
JUS IB AW HAS
: DONATED 19
•- (By Associated Press)
SYDNEY, Australia, July 30. — The
y Australian air squadrons fund has
e been responsible for the presentation
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t- to the British war office of cash for
f the construction of eighteen fully
s equipped battleplanes for the empire's
s air forces at the front. The fund
o was started and raised by C. Alma
d Baker, who came to Australia from
the Malay States, where he raised
funds for fifty battleplanes. He wishes
h Australia to give enough for 100 of
the machines.
PflGHIB BILLTOI
BE VOTED ON
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, July 30. — All three
big Issues before congress, food con
trol, revenue and prohibition bills, are
on the calender for this week. The
prohibition bill has the right of way
In the senate, which will vote Wed
nesday on the resolution. Senator
Shepard's proposed submission of a
national prohibition amendment to the
constitution will be submitted during
the week. The senate commerce com
mittee expects a report treating with
the enemy bill, and Senator Chamber
lain will offer his bill for the grafting
of subjects of the Kuropean allies.
OFFICERS NAMED
AUGUST 8
(By Associated Press)
9AN FRANCISCO, July 30. — Only
one-fifth of the 2,600 applications for
appointment to the second reserve of
fleers' training camp at the Presidio,
will remain when the culling process,
under the supervision of Major Samuel
F. Bottoms, has been completed, which
will be August 7, according to the
schedule.
Four examining boards will act up
on the applications. Major Bottom*
has named Captains A. T. Faston, W.
H. Johnson and G. G. Criswell to aid
In this work. The western depart
ment uaar-.hyan divided Into districts
to accelerate the work. The date set
tor issuing notifications as to accept
ance and rejection has been set at
August 10.
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(By Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, July 30. —
Major General Hunter Liggett, com
manding the western division of the
army, requested that mall for mem
bers of the Twentieth National Guard
camp at Palo Alto, Cal., be addressed
to Menlo Park, Cal.. wKere the mili
tary postoffice has located, thus
saving confusion and delay in deliv
ery. “Palo Alto Training Camp''
should be in the address on the en
velope.
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THREATENS
BERLIN, July 30.—An order has
been Issued, restricting the lighting of
stores, hotels, restaurants and cafes.
A coal shortage and transportation
difficulties for the coming winter are
dmittedly inevitable.
DUTCH FISHING
BOUTS SUNK
(By Associated Press)
AMSTERDAM, July 30. — A Oer
man submarine sank five Dutch fish
Ing boats, between Scheveningen and
Ymiuden on Saturday. The ftsher
men assert that the boats were in th<
safety zone.
RUSSIANS BEING
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♦ BERLIN. July 30. — The Rus ♦
♦ sians retreating on the eastern ♦
♦ Qalician front have retired be- ♦
♦ hind the Russian border at Hus- ♦
♦ latyn. seventy miles east of Ha- ♦
♦ llcz. says an official report Kur ♦
♦ ther south the Russians stand be- ♦
♦ tween the Dneister and Pruth ♦
♦ rivers, but a powerful attack ♦
♦ broke (heir resistance and the ♦
♦ Russians are now being pursued ♦
♦ on both banks of the Dneister. ♦
♦ Ku»y, in the Carpathians, has ♦
♦ been taken by the Germans. In ♦
♦ Roumania the Germans com- ♦
♦ pleted a retrograde movement be- ♦
♦ gun Friday on the upper Putna ♦
♦ river.
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iCHAEUS SAYS -
NU PEACE
(By Associated Press)
BERLIN, July 30. — German Chan
cellor Michaelis told the newspaper
men that "Lloyd George's speech and
recent debate in the house of com
mons again proved that Great Britain
does not desire peace by agreement,
but only a conclusion of the war
which means the enslavement of Ger
many.’’
(By Associated Press)
MADISON BARRACKS. N. Y., Jul>'
30. — In a speech before seventeen
hundred officers of the reserve corps,
Secretary of State Lansing said the
German pfeople would not cast off the
yoke of autocracy "until the physical
sight of the united Democrats of the
world had destroyed former ambitions
of the military rulers of Germany.”
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OESEBTEHSIIRE
NOW BEING
EXECUTED
(By Associated Press)
LONDON', July HD. — It is reported
that General Korniloff is executing
Russian deserters by the wholesale
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SEHLED THEIR
(By Associated Press)
CHICAGO, July 30. — The Brother
hood of Switchmen's strike of nine
toen Chicago railroads, was settled by
arbitration. The closed shop was not
involved in the controversy.
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Charles A. Connell, of Los Angeles,
commissioner of the conciliation un
der the department of commerce and
labor, arrived Sunday on the steamer
Admiral Evans aim left on this morn
ing's train for McCarthy to investi
gate the facts in connection with the
recent miners' strike at Kennecott.
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