The Cordova Daily Times
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Y(ILl llE lli NUMBER 244 CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1918 PRICE TEN CENT,
REPORT GERMAN DIVISIONS BADLY DEMORALIZED
WILL MAKE ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO REACH THE CHANNEL PORTS
WASHINGTON, May 3.—Senator
McOumber of North Dakota told the
senate today that America must send
five million men to the battlefields of
Europe within a year. He said that
America’s efforts in the war had been
almost negligible up to the present
time.
Senator McCumber closed with the
startling statement that the shipping
board had wasted six months, and that
the $640,000,000 appropriated for the
aircraft program had been worse than
squandered.
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WASHINGTON, May 3.—A report
on the aircraft situation, compiled by
an investigating committee of the Aer
onautical Society of America, has been
filed in the United States senate. It
brands as false the statements attrib
uted to Secretary of War Baker re
garding the progress of the building
program.
The Aeronautical Society charges
that not more than 5 per cent of the
country’s facilities for the building of
aircraft have been utilized.
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CHIEF! SWF
'• WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, May 3.—rMajor General
Janies McAndrews has been named
chief of staff of the American expe
ditionary forces, and will assume his
duties immediately.
Brigadier General James Harbor,
General Pershing’s former chief ot
staff, has been assigned to command
in the field.
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DAWSON, May 3.—The Canadian
Dominion government has notified the
Yukon legislature that the Ottawa of
ficials have affirmed their former de
cision to cut the cash allowance to
the territory 42 per cent this year.
Local officials are wondering how
they w’ill be able to maintain schools
and hospitals on the reduced allow’
ance.
tomimiyburnsIenlists
FOR SERVICE WITH CANADf
SAN FRANCISCO, May 3—Tommj
Burns, the former heavyweight chain
pion pugilist of the world, has enlistee
for war service with the Canadians
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ALLIED FORCES ARE PREPARED
FOR THREATENED NEW OFFENSIVE
1 lit* summary of the war situation issued by the Associated
i’ress this morning says that tin* battlefields continue quiet,
and that the Germans have given no sign when or where the
next blow may be expected. Military experts believe that the
German offensive has not yet ended, and the Teutons arc ex
pected to make another attempt to reach the channel ports.
Germans Have Troubles in the Ukraine
On account of their oppressive methods of dealing with
the people of the occupied Russian territories, the Teutons are
meeting with great difficulties, and grave uneasiness is felt in
Germany. As the result of tin* German overthrow of the
Ukrainian government it is reported that the Ukrainian peas
ants have destroyed their crops rather than allow the Germans
to get them.
French Optimism Backed by Logic
FRENCH ARMY HEADQUARTERS, May d.—Under the
German blows of the past few weeks the allied armies are now
welded together as never before. Against the enemy’s terri
i tonal gains must be set the fact that he has had to throw one
hundred and forty divisions into the battle in five weeks, and
| the reckless use of these divisions has left him with a total of
only sixtv-six divisions which have not been engaged, out of
two hundred and six divisions in France. Therefore there is
little likelihood that sixty-six divisions can accomplish what
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one hundred and forty failed to achieve.
No Longer “the Kaiser’s Battle”
LONDON, May 3.—With the lull in the fighting since the
Germans were so severely defeated at Ypres, all German talk
of “the kaiser’s battle” has vanished. The German military ex
perts and newspapers have been instructed to warn the people
that no new Sedan is possible, that Ypres is very strong, that
the British fought stubbornly, and that, after all, Ypres is not
of importance. The German command may decide not to take
Ypres.
French Capture Important Position
PARIS, May 3.—The French attacked yesterday between
Hailles and Castel, southeast of Amiens, and captured Hill No.
82 and the woods on the Avre river near by, says the French
official statement today. "
The ground gained by the French yesterday is probable of
more military value than any other equal area along the river
Soutine. Hill No. 82 is within three miles of the Paris-Amiens
railroad.
Artillery Active on the Lys
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, May 3.—A
tremendous crescendo of gun fire has broken out along the
northern front, the principal increase being apparent in the
Lys region.
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Federal Food Administrator Royal
A. Gunnison has issued an appeal to
the residents of Alaska in which he
points out that it is their patriotic
duty, as well as a matter of saving,
to use the potatoes grown in the ter
ritory, He says that in 1917 the Mat
anuska farmers raised some 1,200
; tons of spuds, of which 700 tons have
i been used in Anchorage and vicinity,
leaving about 300 tons unused at this
time. In order that these may not be
i wasted the food administrator has se
! cured from the steamship lines plying
between Southwestern Alaska ports a
freight rate that enables the farmers
to offer the Matanuska potatoes at
the same price to dealers that they
can lay down Yakima potatoes for.
The Matanuska potatoes are being
graded by the Anchorage Chamber of
Commerce and are now being sold by
the Cordova merchants at a cent a
pound cheaper than potatoes brought
here from the States, thus affording
] our residents an opportunity to both
j help our country and our territory.
The food administrator urges Alas
kans to use the Matanuska potatoes
for three reasons:
First—That by so doing you will
i be saving a valuable home food prod
J uct, which will be wasted and lost to
| us if it is not now marketed.
Second—That by so doing you re
| lieve the north-bound tonnage just
; that amount. This is essential be
cause of heavy north-bound freight
j shipments, offerings for which are
| greater now than the steamship lines
; are able to handle.
Third—Potatoes are a valuable food
product, and dealers should urge the
consumer to use potatoes in lieu oi
bread as much as possible.
GOV. RIGGS m S
HIS PRIVATE StliRETARI
KETCHIKAN, May 3.—Governor
Thomas Riggs today appointed G. F
Cramer of Nenana, to fill the position
oi private secretary to the governor.
FISHERIES CONFERENCE
COMES TO A CLOSE TODAY
KETCHIKAN, May 3.—The American-Canadian fisheries
conference, which includes high officials of the Knited States
and Canadian governments, met here vesterdav, and after a
lengthy session, at which local fishermen and business men
were heard, left for Yes bay today. They will leave for Seattle
tonight.
Governor Riggs, who came here to meet the conference
members, invited Secretary of Commerce Redfield to visit Ju
neau, but the secretary declined, saying that lie might possibly
make another trip to the North this summer, when lie would
visit Juneau and other Alaska communities.
The conservation of halibut and the development- of tin*
Alaska fisheries were discussed at the conference. It v as
brought out that there are about one hundred and twentv-five
varieties of food fishes in Alaska waters.
SEATTLE, May 2 T'it’ty hvidtpiarter* policemen last
night raided a meeting of the Industrial Workers of the World
and arrested 213 alleged members of that organization. Mam*
of those arrested were found to be without registration cards
A great crowd gathered at the entrance to the meeting
place and along the streets and cheered the police as they car
ried the men to jail. .
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FUR SALES FOR
APRIL WE A
ST. LOUIS, May 3.—The annual
April international fur auction sales
closed here yesterday. The sales
reached the enormous total of $6,250,
000, which is believec to oe the record
for such auction sales.
Yesterday 2,600 fox skins brought
$50,000.
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KENKCOTT GIKS SIILZDI
IK EKELIEKJ HIE
The returns from Tuesday’s pri
mary election at Kennecott were as
follows:
For Delegate—Wickersham, 9; Sul
zer, 32.
For Senator—Ward, 9; Price, 22.
For Representatives—Green, 2;
Murray, 10; Reed, 5; Slater, 12; Suth
erland, 6; Thompson, 5; Noon, 18;
Patterson; 16; Ray, 14; Small, 16.
For Road Commissioner—Galen, 7;
Sullivan, 2; Wood, 1; Wilson, 22.
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WASHINGTON, May 3.—The rail
way administration has placed orders
for seventy thousand freight cars in
supplement to the order for thirty
thousand recently given.
The aggregate cost of this equip
ment will be between $250,000,000 and
$300,000,000.
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Fred A, Parsons, the well-known
traveling man from Juneau, who is at
present in Cordova, has received no
tice that the order from the govern
ment commandeering all woolen
goods has been somewhat modified,
and his company will be allowed to
sell such goods up to the quantity
used last year.
The government was shown by the
company that without woolen wear
in Alaska there would be much suf
fering, owing to the rigors of the cli
mate at certain seasons of the year.
“Even during the summer months
in Southeastern Alaska and the coast
section," said Mr. Parsons, “fisher
men and others who work outside need
heavy woolen clothes. The single ex
ception is possibly a couple of short
months in the Interior,^where the sun
makes the weather rather hot.
“And during the long winters in
every section of Alaska woolen fab
ric is essential. A man traveling the
winter trails in the Interior would
freeze to death quickly if garbed in
cotton clothes. Wool goods and furs
are imperative for winter wear. The
government was quick to realize the
emergency so far as Alaska was con
cerned, and therefore modified its ori
ginal order respecting this country.”
LONDON, May 3.—A German wire
less dispatch reiterates the statement
that American flyers are crossing to
Europe on hospital ships, and for that
reason they arc placed in a false posi
tion.
The charge is made here that the
Germans are endeavoring to lay the
foundation for a justification of the
future torpedoing of American hospi
tal ships bringing home invalided sol
diers.
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AMSTERDAM, May 3.—The old
Ukraine government and Rada,
according to advices received here
from Berlin, was overthrown by the
peasants’ deputies, who arrived at
Kiev, the Ukrainian capitaL
The new government immediately
declared that it would adhere to the
Brest Litovsk peace treaty.
Sebastopol Occupied
BERLIN, May 3.—It is officially an
nounced that the Germans have occu
pied Sebastopol, the Great Russian
fortress in the Crimea. It was taken
without fighting.
WASHINGTON, May ’ —Today's
statement issued by the treasury de
partment shows that Liberty bonds to
the amount of $2,838,317,300 have
been subscribed for. The Chicago dis
trict is the fourth of the twelve fed
eral reserve divisions to oversubscribe
its quota, and it is believed that every
state west of the Mississippi will over
subscribe its quota before, the finish
of the drive tomorrow night.
Twelfth District
SEATTLE, May 3.—The following
is today’s report from Liberty loan
headquarters:
“The second quota of this district
has been oversubscribed, according to
an unofficial statement by Weeks.
“Unofficial figures show a total of
$231,616,300 in subscriptions. The to
tal number of subscriptions is 888,021..
The total number of honor flags
awarded is 1,182. VAN SMITH.”
Yesterday’s Report
yesterday’s report, giving figures
for May 1, showed that $226,469,650
had been subscribed and that the to
tal number of subscribers was 853,440.
George K. Weeks, campaign organ
izer, estimated that the total actual
subscriptions for the district would
be $250,000,000.
Oregon had subscribed to the extent
of 116.73 of its quota; Southern Cali
fornia, 103.29, and Washington, 102.44.
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FISH MARKET
SEATTLE, May 3.—Seatte quota
tions on fish at noon today were as
follows: Halibut, 14^c; sablefish,
7MsC; red cod, 4c; ling cod, 3^c.