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OF OUR ENTIRE STOCK
In order to make room far our new merchandise every
article in the store will be sold at a BIG REDUCTION!
DRESSES WAISTS HATS UNDERWEAR
$oo Sresses 1°*.$10.50 values for.$8.75 $10.50 values for.$6.75 Camisoles, Satin, both flesh and white,
£:r °r. 9.00 values for. 7.25 70° ^UeS 0r. 4»° $1.75 values for.$1.35
25.00 Dresses for. 18.50 k.oo values for q 7^
91 nrpespa fnr 16 50 8.00 values for.. 6.50 . , . 1.50 values for. 1.10
23.50 Dresses tor. lb.5U These include both Trimmed and Tai- (inmhinatinns
These include Serges, Charmeuses, 7.00 values for. 5.50 lored Gage and Simon Hats. T OK
Georgette Crepes, Foulards and Jerseys ott tc unqp „„„„„ 5,6 values for.$5-25
in all the latest shades and styles. • SHOES 5.50 values for. 4.25
Both in Fancy and Plain Lisle Top, $12.50 values for.$9.50
C0ATS with reinforced heel, all in one lot, at 9.00 values for. 6.75 SUITS
32.50 values for. 24.50 Ir„lr..T5 8.0U value. for. 5.75 $37.50 values for.$31.50
29.50 values for. 21.00 PETTICOATS 5.00 values for. 3.50 35.00 values for.... 27.50
26.50 values for. 19.50 $6-95 values for . $5.00 SWEATERS 32.50 values for. 24.50
These come in Wool Velours, Chenille, All the new shades in the close-fit Fifteen per cent off on all Sweaters, 29.50 values for. 22.50
Bolivia, Serges and Silver Tone- Taffetas with Jersey tops— including shipment just received. 25.00 values for. 18.50
Mrs. Bell is leaving on the next boat for New York and she will be glad to make any special selections of Goods for her customers
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Hotel Northern Block Cordova, Alaska
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PHDMOTECLOSE
: TOKIO, June 19.—The appointment
■of a special business commissioner to
the United States for the purpose of
•promoting closer economic relations
between Japan and America has been
, recommended by the Tokio Chamber
of Commerce.
It is understood that the Japanese
merchants in the United States and
the business men interested in Japa
nese trade are anxious to have an ef_
fective medium of cementing closer
relations. The idea of appointing a
business commissioner who would rep
resent Japanese business interests is
i the outcome of the recent visit ot
the Japanese financial commission
headed by Baron Megata.
1A plan to establish a Japanese cham
ber of commerce in the United States
and to organize an American-Japanese
1 bank is also being studied here.
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I INVENTOR OE PAPER SACK
I EXEMPTED EROM SERVICE
LONDON, June 19.—Because he had
vented, a paper sack for potatoes, the
anager of a British textiel engineer
g firm was granted six month’s ex
nption from army service. At the
sarlng it was stated that Germany
id been making paper sacks for
sars.
ostriaisUnteo
BY SHORTAGE OE EM
NEW YORK, June 19.—So great if
ie shortage of flout''in Austria that
e government has been empowered
take from the peasants the suppliet
hich were to cover their own re
ilrementa, says a Vienna dispatch
i the Berlin Tageblatt, a copy ol
hich has been received here.
ARE PICKED OUT
LONDON, June 19.—How does the
British air service pick out from its
thousands of airmen, the particular
men who are destined to become the
star “fighters” at the front? This
question was put to an official of the
air ministry here by the Associated
Press correspondent in an interview.
Here is his answer:
“The pilot who is destined to fly the
single-seater machines of the air force
is discovered almost as soon as he
has been baptized in the air.
“To begin with he must have passed
certain physical tests with a hundred
per cent, result. Many wise men,
doctors and organizers, sit in conclave
over perfect sight, age 24 or its equi
valent in physical make-up, a total ab.
Stainer, good hands, quick brain, con
fidence. It is odd how much emphasis
is placed on a man’s hands by the ex
aminers, who argue that there is as
much difference between flying a
plane used for scouting and an ordin
ary machine as there is between rid
ing a thorughbred and a cart-horse
“Some men show their destiny from
the first moment of training. Mer
like Ball and Bishop promise well
right from the start: they revel in
finding new stunts and tricks of theii
own long before their heavier-handed
brethren begin to attempt the things
that are safe on all modern machines.
“Other men begin slowly, and find
themselves through sheer-pluck and
hard work. Having gone over the
channel to pilot a placid artillery ob
servation or photographic machine
they give a good account of them
selves in the first scrap they gel
mixed up in, and thereafter they lool
for and seem to enjoy fights. An ob
server in his official report sacuallj
remarks that Pilot So-and-So is al
ways ‘wanting to tackle the Huns in
stead of taking photographs or rang
ing guns,’ and straightway his com
mandln officer send the trouble
hunter off to headquarters with a rec
ommendation which lands him in i
special post-graduate school of aeria
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gunnery for training in what the air_ ;
men call ‘fire-eating.’
“Here he meets the men—aces they
call them in France—who have been
fighting in single-seaters, and who are
resting or have been sent back for
use as instructors. The public knows
little about these post-graduate
schools for young eagles; the work is
intensive and thorough; the science
of air-fighting is taught by stages up
to a deree of perfection almost un
believable.
“To the airman who fights, such
things as tactics and deflection, ranges
and sights must come by instinct. The
good fighting men, it is generally be
lieved, are born, not made. They must
have the quick brain that will direct
the hands with the judgment of ex
perience. They must have keenness,
and also luck. They must love ‘the
game,’ although it is not necessary
that they should have been sportsmen,
or yachtsmen, or racing motorists, in
their pre-war days.
"It is the general opinion among
pilots that a scout fighter who has
completed a month on the western
front has passed through his proba
tion and will be good for a long time
unless bad luck or the laws of chance
bring him down.”
MITE POWERFUL SHELL
EKPIHSIIOHT Ml USED
LONDON, June 19.—Lyddite, still
the most powerful shell explosive, has
gone completely out of fashion, ac
cording to Professor Young of the
Royal Military Academy at Woolwich.
He could not understand why, he told
the Royal Society of Arts, because he
had never met an artilleryman who
was not satisfied with it. He said the
shattering power of T. N. T. was 10
as compared with lyddite’s 11.
THOUSANDS OF WOMEN
WITH GERMANS IN FIELD
AMSTERDAM, June 19.—More than
30,000 women* volunteers are now en
gaged in work directly connected with
\ the German army in the field, accord
1 lng to an official telegram.
Would You Help?
Time Is Precious
War has a way of driving on with
out regard to the desires or
conveniences of the
individual.
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....This is no time for hesitation....
If you are going to do your part to bring
victory nearer, you must get started.
The Government wants what your i
money will buy—and wants it before it
is too late to be of use in this war.
Join a War Savings Society. Decide now
to cut down the unnecessary things and
lend what you save to the Government.
1IIUED BY TUB
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT