HIGH HANDED
METHODS USED
BY ITALIANS
FLORENCE, Italy, Aug. 18 Cor
respondence of Associated Press).—
If Dante Alighieri lived in Florence
today he might be inspired to write
another “Inferno,” with shoes as the
prime cause of evil. Nothing has
been so evident during these post-war
days as the need of Italians for foot
wear.
The recent public demonstrations
backed by the Camera del Lavoro, or
“chambers of labor,” where stocks of
goods of all descriptions in the hands
of profiteers in many cities were com
mandeered and ordered sold at re
duced prices, precipitated unusual
somersaults of trade, but the wildest
scrambles were In the shoe stores.
Here the demand for shoes produced
scenes of the wildest disorder.
In Rome, Milan, Forli, Bologna, and
Naples the search for shoes continued
many days. The struggles in each
city were so great that few law-abid
ing persons tried to procure shoes.
There appeared to be no pretext for
fitting anyone. Shoes were handed
out in boxes and %the buyers took
them seemingly not caring whether
they fitted or not, just so they were
on the basis of a 50 per cent reduc
tion in price. It was a common
sight to see a man loaded up with
shoes for his entire family.
To obtain admission to a shoe store
was fully as difficult as buying a
ticket for a world series baseball
game. For hours the shoe hunters
would wait in long lines guarded by
soldiers and police before they were
finally admitted into the storerooms.
Shoe merchants fixed two hours in
the morning and two hours in the
afternoon for the opening of their
stores, but the long line was waiting
for shoes several hours before the
scheduled time arrived.
Impatience on the part of the
crowds caused, in most cases, the
summary seizing of goods and the
resort to ransacking. Food stores
were treated first in this way, but the
lawlessness soon spread to clothing
and shoe shops. Stores ransacked
would be depleted of every com
modity—eatable, wrearable or porta
ble. There were examples in Spezia
of carrying out all the commoditie,
loading them in a motor truck and
taking them some four or five miles
outside the city for distribution.
Whole hogsheads of wine were rolled
out of the city for distribution in this
way.
It seemed as if the mobs had desig
nated for them the stores to be loot
ed. There wa apparently the most
systematic pillaging of those accused
of war profiteering. Merchants
known to have violated governmental
regulations by selling prohibited ar
ticles during the war were treated in
the same way.
Soldiers sent to restore order in
some cases were charged with ac
cepting gifts from the rioters and at
other times filling their pockets with
eatables, including biscuits, fruits,
nuts and chocolate.
The new situation created by the
arbitrary commahdeerings and fixing
of prices is now beginning to react.
Store keepers are refusing to run
their businesses on the new basis
while there is evidently a general
shortage throughout the various cities
affected by the new economic
changes. Many well-to-do familes
who have always been law-abiding
have found themselves suddenly un
able to buy food. Some merchants
have closed their shops and gone
to summer reports in the hope that
when summer ends the eruption will
have subsided and there will be a re
turn to normal conditions.
TO REIMBURSE GERMANS
FOR LOSSES CAUSED
BY REVOLUTIONARIES
WEIMAR. Aug. 17 (by mail).—The
national assembly has received a bill
for reimbursement for personal injury
or property losses incurred since the
revolution. It provides that those
who suffered losses, injury and death
have a right to recover from the gov
ernment. Money claims are limited
in the measure to amounts necessary
to replace damaged property, to ac
tual expenses in case of personal in
jury and to grants for loss of labor
and for death. The national govern
ment, the state and the community
are each to bear one-third of the
costs.
Electric irons, 3 pounds to 6%
pounds. Pi'ices $3.50 to $6.50 at the
Northwestern Hardware Company.
Special dinner served from 11:30
o’clock every day at the City Bakery.
Best coffee iri town at the City
Bakery. 2'6*
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SUMMONS
In the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division. Torger
Asbjorson plaintiff vs. Caroline
Asbjornson, defendant. No. C-176.
The President of the United States of
America, Greeting to the above
named defendant:
You are hereby required to appear
in the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division, within
thirty days after the completion of
the publication of this summons, to
wit, within thirty days after the 25th
day of October, 1919, and answer the
complaint of the above-named plain
tiff in the above-entitled action,
wherein said plaintiff prays that he
be given an absolute decree of di
vorce from you forever dissolving
j the bonds of matrimony heretofore
i existing between you and said plain
! tiff.
j And unless you so appear and
answer the plaintiff will take judg
ment against you for want thereof
and will apply to the court for the
relief demanded in his said complaint
as hereinabove set out.
The date of the order for service by
publication herein is September 3,
j 1919, and such order was duly made
and entered and filed herein o.i said
date.
The date of the first publication of
this summons is September 13, 1919,
and the date of its last publication is
October 25, 1919.
WITNESS, The Honorable Charles
E. Bunnell, Judge of said court, and
the seal of said court, on this 3rd
day of September, 1919.
(Court Seal) ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk of tho District Couit for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
By JOHN B. MILLER,
Deputy.
To Wash a White Sweater.
Dissolve one level tablespoonful of
borax and one-fourth of a cake of
white soap in cold water to cover the
sweater generously. Let soak an hour,
then squeeze it out, but do not wring.
Rinse very thoroughly through sev
eral cold waters, then squeeze as dry
as possible (or put through the wring
er), pull it into shape and dry it. All
wool flannels and blankets are safely
^washed thus.
When drawing thread from linen
rub white soap on the cloth and the
work will be much more easily accom
plished. When making eyelet em
broidery, if a piece 6f w7hite soap is
held under the material and the stiletto
is allowed to pass into it a much bet
ter eyelet can be made, as the soap
gives a sligln stiffness to the cloth.
Packing a Blouse,,
Much difficulty is often found in
packing blouses. If folded in the fol
lowing wray. they can lie, closely pack
ed, for a long time without looking
crushed when taken out to wear. Lay
flat on the table, front down, and fas
ten. Then fold back the sleeves, and
pin to the blouse at the top and at
the cuff to keep in position. Nowr fold
.tack the foot of the blouse at the waist
line, and pin to make secure. *
Medicine Stains. f
As most medicines, especially tine
tures, are soluble in alcohol, methy
lated spirits will often remove the
stains from clothes and other utensils.
When stains contain silver compounds
(to this class belong paints for warts,
the throat and nose), any white fab
ric on which a little compound has
been spilt acts like a piece of sensi
tized paper, and at once darkens on
exposure to the light. An effective
method is to soak the stain for some
time in a tincture of iodine, then treat
with a strong solution of hyposulphate
of soda; strong ammonia will then
complete the process. Medicine stains
very often yield to alcohol. These
stains frequently leave terrible disfig
uring discolorations on table bed linen,
and not uncommonly also result in iron
mold. They should be spread with a
paste made of pulverized fuller’s earth
and spirits of hartshorn, allowing the
application to dry upon the stain, and
finally washing out in cold water. If
necessary, the treatment may then be
repented, but one trial is generally suf
ficient.
To remove medicine stains from
spoons, rub first with a soft rag dip
ped in sulphuric acid, wash with soap
suds und polish with a chamois skin.
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Ladies’ Shoes half-soled $1.50
At Hubbert’s Tailor Shop
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