The Cordova Daily Times
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ANCE SPENDS ITSELF
AMERICAN TROOPS WIN ADMIRATION OF COMRADES IN ARMS
SUBMARINE THREAT WILL NOT PREVENT MOVEMENT OF TROOPS
Attacks in Mass Formation Abandoned by Huns
and Little Progress Is Made Against
Flexible Defense of Allies
The Associated Press daily summary of the war situation
on the western front this morning says:
“German troops in mass formation no longer hurl them
selves at the allied lines. The Teuton advance seems to have
exhausted itself in striking the yielding allied lines, which now
are stiffening and holding the foe, except for insignificant
gains.
“The Germans are quiet along the British front.”
Appreciable Slackening Noted
PARTS, June 5.—The official French statement of last night
says that there has been a very appreciable slackening of the
German efforts. The French positions at certain points have
been improved. A German attack which made some progress
was later repulsed.
This morning’s official statement says that the Germans
continued the local attacks last night on the main battle front.
They made unsuccessful attacks against the French linos at
Ca.rlepout wood, JJommiers and Corey.
French infantry and tanks have rectified the French lines
north of Corey.
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WASHINGTON, June 5.—President
Wilson has written a second letter
to Governor Stevens of California,
urging the pardon of Thomas Mooney,
who was convicted of participation in
the bomb conspiracy at the time of
the “preparedness” parade in San
Francisco, as a result of which a doz
en lives w’erc lost. He is now at St.
Quentin prison, awaiting execution,
which is set for an indeterminate
date.
Another Appeal Pending
SACRAMENTO. June 5.—Governor
Stephens has not yet received Presi
dent Wilson’s letter. It is believed
that the governor is awaiting the out
come of Mooney’s intended appeal to
the supreme court of the United
States before taking action.
Later.—Governor Stephens an
nounced this afternoon that he had
just received President Wilson’s tel
egram regarding Mooney, and that he
had sent a reply.
The nature of the message was not
disclosed.
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The steamer Alaska left Anchorage
at 8 o’clock last night and is due here
on her trip south about noon tomor
row.
HOME GUARD WILL HAVE
SUITABLE GOAAPANY FLAG
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Seventy-five pairs_of ownas ,
gings have been ordered for the Home
Guard by Captain John Gillis. All men
in the company will be expected to
provide themselves with a pair and
wear them during all drill periods.;
The leggings will sell at cost, which
is expected to be 00 cents a pair.
The regular Tuesday drill of the
Home Guard was held on the base
ball grounds last evening. Six squads
were present. After drill the com
mittee appointed by Captain Gillis to
provide a company flag submitted
a design executed by Rev. E. I’.
Ziegler. It met with the favor of the
officers and steps will be taken im
mediately to have it embroidered on
silk of a suitable size. Every effort:
is to be made to have it ready for
the Fourth of July ceremonies.
RUSSIAN CROWN JEWELS
IN SMOEGLING PLOT
NEW YORK, June 5.—An alleged
plot to smuggle into the United
States the crowm jewels of the de
throned Romanoff dynasty has been
discovered. These jewels are valued
at $2,000,000.
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The mid-week service will be held
at the Presbyterian church tonight
at 8 o’clock.
BUSY SEASON IN INTERIOR
MARKS OPENING OF YUKON
DAW SON, Y. T., June 5.—The first steamboat of the year
to leave Dawson for Whitehorse, the terminus of the \Y bite
Pass and Yukon railroad, left here this afternoon with a few
passengers for the coast. The first steamboats from White
horse for Dawson are expected to leave Whitehorse within a
few' days.
Many passengers and large quantities of freight are awaiting
transportation at Whitehorse, preparatory to the annual rush
to the interior.
All hydraulic concerns in the Klondike are operating full
blast. The rivers are high but there has been no damage aside
from that done by the earlier freshets.
“STROLLER” WHITE IS
MADE PUBLICITY AGENT
(Special to"The Daily Times)
JUNEAU, June 5.—E. J. White, ed
itor and proprietor of the Douglas
Island News, has been appointed pub
licity agent for the territory by Gov.
Higgs.
Mr. White is one of the best-known
newspaper men in the territory. He
is a pioneer of Klondike days, and
is known throughout the North by his
sobriquet of “The Stroller,” as the
author of some most humorous
sketches of Northern life.
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NEW YORK June 5.—Survivors ol
the steamship Carolina, torpedoed bj
a German submarine on Sunday last
say that the commander of the under
seas craft ordered the captain of the
(arolina not to use his wireless, say
ing “We won’t shoot.”
Despite the order of the Germar
comander, the Carolina’s wireless op
erator sent out distress calls until
ordered to stop by his captain, whe
believed that the failure to obey the
mandate ot the U-boat captain meant
the loss of lives of the women and
children on board.
TOLL OF U-BOAT VICTIMS
LESS THAN FIRST ESTIMATE
A\ ASHTX(!T()N, June 5.—Tt
to France will not lx* checked as
0:1 the American coasts, Score
that tin* navy is accomplishing
the doors to France.
Xo advices have been receive
Destroyer Interrup
A destroyer reported to the i
that she had interrupted a suhi
the breach steamship Radiloene
land coast.
She also found the American
a sinking condition after being
cued from the Baird.
Estimate of Casualtie
XFAV YORK, June 5.—The <
the submarine raids on the An
at titty-eight, all from tin* steal
and crew of which numbered
Flocks of airplanes took to th
the coast in battle formation.
The American auxiliary sell*
torpedoed by a submarine on S
and seventy miles off New York
i“ flow ol men and munitions
i result of the submarine raids
ary Daniels asserts. He savs
he great duty of keeping open
■fac>m the patrol fleet hunting
ts Work of Pirate
law department this morning
narine in the act of attacking
sixty-five miles off the Alary
schooner Edward II. Baird in
bombed. Two men were res
s Greatly Reduced
oil of dead and missing from
erican coasts stood last night
nship Carolina, the passengers
■ air today and went out along
inner Samuel C. Mengal was
inday last, about one hundred
harbor.
CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS
CALLED TO GREAT BEYOND
INDIANAPOLIS, 1ml., June 5.—I
Former Vice President Charles W. I
Fairbanks died list night at his home j
in this city. The cause of his deathj
was given as Intestinal nephritis. An
attack of apoplexy sustained a few'
days ago hastened the end.
All the members of Mr. Fairbanks'
family were at his bedside when
death came with the exception of his
son, Major Richard Fairbanks, who is
now with the United States forces in
France.
Sketch of His Career
The distinction of birth in a log'
cabin, which illustrious Americans of |
an earlier day commonly had, was also
that of former Vice President Fair
banks. It is probable that he was
the last of American statesmen to
have been born in one of these hum
ble cabins.
The one where he was born on May
11, 1852, was at Unionville Center,
Ohio. It came dangerously near be
ing the funeral pyre for the future
statesman. When Mr. Fairbanks was,
a boy of four, his father built a new
home, and the one-room log cabin was
used as a carpenter shop. One day
while the workmen were at lunch
Charles wandered into the shop ant
carelessly threw a bunch of shaving:
into the open fireplace. The cabii
caught fire and when the boy realize!
his danger he was forced to scrambh
through a window.
Mr. Fairbanks traced his ancestor
to the days of Oliver Cromwell, whi
counted “Fayerbanks” among his sue
porters. Jonathan Fayerbanks, th
first member of the family to conn
to America, landed at Boston in 183fi
Mr. Fairbanks’ father was Loristoi
Monroe Fairbanks, a wagon maker o
Vermont, who emigrated to Unio
county, Ohio. His mother was a sis
ter of the late William Henry Smith
once general manager of the Associ
ated Press.
The Fairbanks home was frequentl;
the hiding place of run-away slave
and no black man was ever turne:
away from the door. Fairbanks wa
eight years old when Abraham Lit
coin was elected President. The
followed the civil war, the stirrin
scenes of which the future vice pres
dent followed with keen interest.
Fairbanks, at 15, entered Wesfeya
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Brilliant Counter-Attack by Uncle Sam’s Boys
Drives Germans Back Across River
Marne with Aid of French
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WASHINGTON, June 5.—General Pershing’s communique
«>1 yesterday says that the American forces, by a brilliant
counter-attack have repulsed the Germans near Chateau
Fhierry, and that the French and American troops have driven
hack the enemy force which had crossed the Marne farther to
the south.
Win Admiration of Allied Troops
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN THE FIELD, June 5.—
The American troops made their presence felt at several points
in the big battles of Monday and Tuesday, and won the ad
miration of their comrades in arms of the allied forces.
The Americans threw the Gormans back at the town of
\euill\ Lapoterie, near ( bateau Thierry, where the American
machine gunners mowed down the Germans who were trying
to enter the Venilly woods.
An hour after the arrival of the American gunners on the
j hanks oi the Marne on May 31 they were taking an active
l»<ut in the defense of Chateau Thierry, which was menaced
j with capture by the Germans.
London Is Gratified at News
LONDON, June 5.—The dispatches disclosing that Ameri
;ean troops are engaged in hard fighting in two sectors of the
ereat battle trout, and that they had demonstrated their splen
did quality, is welcome news to the British public. The Amer
icans are located between the Marne and Ourcq rivers, where
the fighting is most intense.
Glmmd iiun mratno mic
NEW YORK, June 5.—A member
lot' the crew of the submarine IT-151,
I which destroyed the schooner Edna,
! told one of the survivors of that ves
sel that the submarines intended to j
stay on the American coasts until
August. Ho said they were provi
sioned for a six-months' cruise
GREAT BRITAIN TO USE
WOMEN IN AIR SERVICE
LONDON, June 5.—George H. Rob
erts, minister of labor, says that the,
British government intends to employ
| women as aviators in the near future.
! He believes that they will make good
aviators.
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Enid Bennett, in the five-act Tri
angle play, “The Princess of the
II Dark,” will be seen at the Empress
> theater tonight. Other features of
i the program will be a travel film and
l a comedy, “His Deadly Understand
!; ing.”
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mt atinman
LEWES. Del., June —Sixteen of
he thirty-five persons who were in
t motorboat of the steamship Caro
lina, which was stink by a submarine
Sunday, were drowned during a big
thunderstorm Sunday night, while
tlie boat was drifting about seeking
rescue.
One of the survivors, a German, has
been detained by the authorities for
examination.
TORPEDOED OIL TANKER
IS TOWED INTO PORT
WASHINGTON. June 5.—The navy
department announced yesterday that
the tank steamship Herbert I,. Pratt,
sunk Monday by a submarine off the
Delaware capes, has been floated and
is now being towed into port for re
pairs.
NEW YORK IS PREPARING
; FOR POSSIBLE AIR RAIDS
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NEW YORK, June 5.—The metropolitan police have de
• cided that in the event of an air raid on this city, which is re
garded as a possibility in view of thej>resence of German sub
marines off the Atlantic coast, they will sound siren whistles
J continuously for ten minutes. The residents will be ordered to
i open the windows of their houses and offices and go inline
3 diately to the basements of their houses if the signal is
hsounded.
h Surgical relief units have been ordered established in everv
* precinct in the city, to be ready for emergencies.
Broadway had a “lightless” night last night, and the “Great
p White Way” wore a somber appearance.
The authorities believe there is a possibility that the sub
marines are carrying airplanes.