BIG DELAYED
Just Unpacked jtnd Will SELL AT SPECIAL PRICES
■ FOR A FEW DAYS ONLY ..—
$ 9 SHOES FOR . . $ 6.50 $15 SHOES FOR . . $10.50
$12 SHOES FOR . . $ 7.50 $ 7 CANVAS SHOES. $ 4.75
These Shoes Come in the Latest Colors and Lasts — Both Dress and Street Shoes
Slippers, $8.50 Values for $6.50 $10.00 Values for $7.50
THE LATEST IN CHILDREN'S SHOES ALL SIZES THIS SHIPMENT
NEW HOUSE DRESSES ANDBUNGALOW APRONS
Also the Feminalls and Hoover Dresses with Caps. These come in Ginghams.
Percales, Galateas in the Billy Burke's, Middies, Ruffled Effects and Pleated.
All Colors and Sizes, PRICE $1.25 TO $4.00
WATCH FOR ANNOUNCEMENT OF OTHER GOODS ARRIVING ON THE ALAMEDA
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LONDON, April 30.—The British
ministry of munitions has been
charged by a committee of the house
of commons with wasting public
funds through failure to adopt ele
mentary precautions in awarding con
tracts for war supplies. The expendi
tures of the munitions department
were investigated by a committee
on national expenditures.
In its report the committee
charged that the department had no
adequate system of estimating costs
or of controlling prices of munitions,
that it did not properly limit profits
to the contractors nor regulate the
use of labor and material.
According to the committee, the
ministry of munitions has expended
about £100,000,000 in the erection
and equipment of national factories,
fn grants to private firms, and in sup
plying buildings and equipment to
them.
Investigations by accountants have
corrected some of the wasteful meth
ods alleged. In this way £3,000,000
was saved by a reduction in the price
of cordite. Reductions in the contract
prices of ammunition, following tech
nical investigations of costs, resulted
in the saving of £35,000,000 in two
years. In one contract for gun equip
ment, it is asserted, accountants em
ployed by the munitions department
reduced the contractors’ profit by
£2,000,000.
Great sums of money, the commit
tee reported, have been spent in ex
tending the munitions factories, while
others which could produce the same
commodity have been left idle for
lack of material and labor. “There
is continual waste of labor, material
and money in the construction of fac
tories which compete with each other,’’
said the committee, “while their pro
duction could have been obtained at
infinitely lower cost by concentration
of labor and machines in certain
places and using them to their full
capacity.”
It is stated that prices in this fourth
year of the war are still really deter
turers are out to get as much profit
as they can. They favor “collective
bargaining,” in which prices are de
termined for the whole trade by the
cost of profitable production in the
factory which produces most expen
sively.
A profit of 340 per cent was earned
by one munitions firm.
WASHINGTON, April 30.—Price
fixing in Germany has been a failure,
and profiteering exists everywhere,
says the April bulletin of the bureau
| of labor statistics. The upper classes
are rolling in wealth while the masses
j are in abject poverty.
Not daring to tax the people di
rectly, the bulletin says, money is
raised for the war by floating loans.
These loans, although taken to some
extent by the wealthy classes, are
really paid for* by the people, who
have to pay exorbitant prices. Writh
imports cut off, the land does not pro
duce enough to properly sustain life.
Shortly after the war started maxi
mum prices were fixed on commodi
ties, but these, says the bulletin, were
evaded by dealers and producers. Reg
ulation of the amounts of the necessi
ties sold to one customer was at
tempted, but resulted in much illicit
rading at high prices, with the rich
getting the much-needed commodities.
German government figures show
the cost of living to have increased
117 per cent, but the bulletin says
these figures do not show the real
facts. Buying has to be illicitly done
to get the goods and enormous prices
have to be paid.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING.
LOST—Bunch of keys; one pass key,
two trunk keys, two safety deposit
keys and beer opener on small ring.
Finder return to Alaskan hotel.
FOR RENTi—Six unfurnished ' cot
tages. Cordova Abstract & Realty
Co., Adams building.
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t ron sale—Five-room House, fur
nished; everything in first-class
order; lights, water and phone. In
quire Claysop’s store. 25-tf
i WANTED—A maid for general house
work. Apply to Mrs. E. L. Har
wood. 23-3t
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! FOR SALE—Six-horse power Detroit
gas engine, for $75. Apply North
| western Hardware store. 22-6t
PIANO FOR SALE—Price $250. Write
Mrs. J. C. Martin, Valdez, Alaska,
for further paiticulars.
| WOMAN—First-class cook, wants po
sition in camp or restaurant. Apply
Daily Times. 20-3t
FOUND—Bunch of keys on ring.
Owner can secure same at Daily
Times office.
j WANTED—Men to pack herring;
those familiar with Scotch method
preferred. Also gas engineer, ship
and boat builders. Also one good
codfish splitter. Ohm Fish & Pack
ing Co.
FOR SALE—9x12 rug, like new; also
other pieces of furniture. Room 16,
Michelson & Currier building.
WANTED—Position as fisherman or
handy man around cannery. Apply
room 30, Northern hotel. 16-2t
WANTED—Grown boy to learn the
printing trade. Apply Daily Times
office
FOR RENT—Caolns. See Dooley.
HUNGER.
For three years America has
fought Starvation in Belgium
Will you Eat less — wheat
meat — fats and sugar
that we may still send.
Food in ship loads ?
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Interlocutor.,. “Billie” MacConnell
End Men—Messrs. Brock, Council, Chase, Daggett, Uillery and
Haascli
Soloists—Mesdames Hnbbort, Kerr, Nichols, MacConnell and
Miss Barrett
Ensemble—Mesdames Brown, Bell, Hegg, and Misses Anderson,
Desilets, Fraisure, Giles and Sheppard.
Accompanist for minstrels, Mrs. Jack Sapiro
Principals of All-Star Vaudeville: Mesdames Nichols and Mac
Connell, Misses Sheppaid, Fraisure, Anderson, Churchill,
Foster, Giles, O’Louglilin, Thawley and Taylor; Messrs.
Kenny Holden, Chas. Ristine, Steve Oris, Brown, English,
Gear and Still.
Accompanist for vaudeville, Miss Madeline Anderson
Thirty-three Individuals, Forty Characters
On Tuesday, April 30,
at the Empress Theatre
The Proceeds will go 50-50 to the Y. M. C. A.
and K. of C. War Funds
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