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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOLUME XVII. No. 289. TEl»EPnONE MAIN M NOME, ALASKA. TUESDAY, JULY 10 ,1917. TELEPHONE MAIN 4«. PRILE 25 CENT9
LONDON PRESS DENOUNCES FUTILE AIR DEFENSE
SENATE STILL CONSIDERING
FOOD BILL PROVISIONS
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, July 9.—Having at
last got rid of the disquieting prohibi
tion question, the senate is now en
gaged in consideration of the various
subsidiary provisions of the food con
trol bill.
Today the solons were engaged in
thrashing out the section authorizing
the president to commandeer factories
and other plants and to operate them
und fix the wages that shall he paid
to labor employee! therein.
Considerable opposition *s mani
fested by a portion of the senatorial
body toward this section on the score
that tlie placing of industry in the
hands of the president is a. serious
blow at competitive trade. ,
Bitter comment on the tendency to
make the president the sole arbiter of
everything American has frequently
cropped out in the debates and refer
ence* to ‘one man rule” have at times
flown thick and fast.
Aside from £hc difference in the
prohibition provisions as passed by
the house and senate there will prob
ably be few changes to be reconciled
by the joint conference, according to
present indications.
The liquor section of the bill as
passed by the senate prohibits the
importation and manufacture of dis
tilled spirits, but retains beer and
•wine The house provision prohibits
the manufacture of all intoxicants
during the period of the war.
LARGEST CORN CROP
IN HISTORY PREDICTED
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, July 9.—A three
Oil lion liu.shel prospective corn crop
is the announced return by the farm
ers of the United States to the call
of President Wilson for food for the
nllieR.
Never before in the history of the
United States was such s a corn crop
thought of let alone expected.
Reports from every section reaching
the department of agriculture indi
cate that there will not only be a
tremendous corn crop but other
classes of cereals will also he ahunT
dant. The wheat crop will be far
greater than anticlpaied if untoward
weather conditions do not interfere
while oats and barley will be fully as
abundant as before.
Potato production, owing to thou
sands of acres having been added to
the potato producing lands of the
country ns a result of the recent scare
over a possible food shortage will be
doubled and possibly trebled and the
present high price of that food com
modity is expected to take a trmend
ous tumble without the aid of the food
control bill
Agriculture department officials are
delighted nt the evidences that both
our allies and ourselves will be well
supplied with grain food stuffs, with
a possible surplus to All the wants
of neutrals.
AIR RAID CAUSES DENUNCIATION
' BRITISH AUTHORITIES
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By Associated Press.
LONDON, July 9.—Charging that
the officials of the war office and ad
miralty are disgracefully Incompetent
in the matter of checking the con
tinued air raids on J^ondon and other
British towns the papers are today
clamoring for the removal of those
officials who are responsible for the
miserable failure of the air defense
plans.
The papers declare that the recent
air raids and the great loss of life at
tending them are a disgraceful 'in
dictment of the methods of the ad
miralty and war office.
The case with which the Germans
were enabled to commit immense
damage in the east end of the city is
declared to be undeniable evidence that
the officials in control of the air
forces are utterly Incompetent to meet
the German air menace and should
lie supplanted by others better fitted
to meet the task.
The miserable attempt to conceal
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the results of the air raid last week
by the issuance of statements min ■
izingr the actual effects of the dei -
man visitation also come in for severe
excoriations bv the pa ■a.-s. The pa
nels bi.tr,-I/ complain that the British
| ere fad . s 1 • hind t;i'> German air plan
I of destfipit'i n.
HD QDIIS
DMHC SEDUCE
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON July O.—Jnmea W.
Gerard former Unltpd States ambas
sador to Germany and one of the
foremost American diplomats, today
announced his resignation from the
diplomatic service and will retire to
pi'ivate life.
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Moonlight water at the City Bath
House.
ANGRY CITIZENS DRIVE
I. Ml. MI’S FROM JEROME
By Associated Press.
JEROME. Ariz., July 10.—Follow
ing attempts of the Industrial Work
ers of the World to further heighten
the already crit'ical strike situation
here( a mob of angry citizens today
attacked a gathering of the indus
trialists and drove them out of town.
The workers made no resistence. PuW
lie opinion is at a high pitch of ex
citement as the I. W. W. is blamed for
fomenting the copper strike.
KAISER DISSATISFIED
WITH MINISTERS
By Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM, July 10.—Reports
reaching here from Berlin indicate
that the breach between tl>e kaiser
and certain of h'is ministers, rumored
to exist for some time, has been grad
ually widening until the emperor has
decided to ask for the resignation of
two or them.
Tiie reports say that the two men
who are scheduled to retire to private
life are Vice Chancellor Hetlferich
and Foreign Secretary Zimmerman.
The kaiser is reported as much dis
gruntled with tlie latter, owing lo tiis
crude handling of the German effort
to enlist Mexico and Japan in n war
with the United Stales.
Since the exposure of t lie Zimmer
man plot tlie kaiser is said lo have
displayed frequent signs of irritation
with Zimmerman's methods and is
thought to have had Ills resignation in
mind for somte time.
Tlie disgrnntlement of tlie emperor
over t he vice chancellor is said to
have its rise in the action of the
minister in espousing the Prussian
electoral franchise proposals The
kaiser is said to have been greatly
displeased with officials who favored
the proposed reforms.
DRAFT SELECTIONS
COMMENCE SOON
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Jul^ 9.—Probably
within the present week the task of
selecting the men who will compose
the new national army from the more
than nine million who have answered I
the army draft call will he under
way.
Registrants subject to the draft
were today notified to hold themselves
in readiness to appear before tlie va
rious boards which will conduct the
examinations and consider exemption
claims presented at the time of reg
istration.
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AEROS DO VAST
DAMAGE AT KRUPP
GUN WORKS
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By Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM, July 10.—Gorman
newspapers received today disclose for
the first time that the great Krupp
gun works at Essen Germany, was
visited by a hostile aero fleet last
Friday and sustained a vast amount of
damage from the bombs of the visi
tors.
The announcement is made by
means of a srivall paragraph stat'ing
that a large number of workmen em
ployed in the plant have been laid
off as n result of the destruction of
a number of buildings during the
course of a French air raid.
Although the German accounts fail
to state the extent of .the damage,
reliable information says that at least
a quarter of the great German gun
works was destroyed by the French
air bombs. At least a hundred of the
employes of the plant are reported
killed and several hundred received
wounds. The attack is the most cost
ly that Germany has yet sustained as
a result of enemy air activities. It I
is also the first serious effort of the |
allies to strike at ttie Krupp plant ^
from whence Germany obtains most
of her great guns.
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FEDERAL AGENTS
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INVESTIGATING EXPLOSION
By Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO July 10.—Agents J
of the federal government are today i
investigating the reports that German '
spies are responsible for the Uisns- 1
trous explosion at the Mare Tsland
navy yard yesterday. Up to the pres
ent no evidence has been found con
necting tlie explosion with spy acti
vities.
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GERMANS AGAIN REPULSED IN
FIGHTING ON AISNE FRONT
By Associated Press.
PAUIS, July 10—The official war of
fice communique announces that the
Germans have again suffered a se
vere reverse on the Atsne front foj
low'ing- the renewal of their offensive
last night.
Apparently still of the opinion that
they can break through the French
defenses at this point the Germans
agfam hurled their infantry against
the French defenses in the Berry-a
Bac region soon after nightfall and
for hours continued to make steady
thrusts at the French line.
But, as in the case of all recent
efforts, they were thrust back after
sustaining heavy losses in k'dled ami
wounded in addition to a number of
soldiers taken prisoners by the French
in the course of counter attacks.
At no point were the Germans able
to gain a foothold in the French lines
and the majority of the attacks were
repulsed by the French artillery and
machine gun fire.
The French military staff 'is frank
ly puzzled at the persistance of the
Germjans in attacking a section of
the line where they have been beaten
in practically every engagement that
lias occurred during the spring of
fensive.
RUSSIANS CONTINUE ACTIVE IN GALICIA
PRISONERS, GUNS, SUPPLIES CAPTURED
By Associated Press. i
PRTKOGRAT), July 10.—The Rus
sian offensive west of Stanislnu in
Galieia continues despite stulil'nrn re
sistance I>y the Teuton's.
At all points west of the Om 'islcr,
the Germans are reporter! ia steady
retreat witfi Hie Russians m close
pursuit.
Additional villages hav. is a cap
lured l»y the Russian forces and over
a thousand prisoners have lieen added
to the large liutnlier already eapttir
crl in the new offensive. The Rus
, sinus have also taken a large (|U;nljty
of hooty and guns in the fighlng of
t'"j past twenty fop>- li v.>-s
The official state non’, of the Aar
| o fee includes iti the I'ist of guns and
>\ai material raptured tiller fedu guns,
of large < aliher wine i t-e I'euims
were compelled to nlrituion tit th > >r- j
rifle fighting in the Haliez region yes-1
terday. The <iuantity of war material:
and supplies is Staled |o he very
la rge.
The war office statement asserts
that the Austro-Gcrman forces have
retreated to the Domenico river with
the Russians pressing their rear
guards closely. The statement says
that the Russian forces have ad
vanced seven miles along this front
in the past two days.
Russ Break German Line.
UNDATED—The startegetic posi
tion of the contending armies in the
Xtanislan-Heliez sector doatly favor.**
the Russian.s The long established
Teutonic line has been definitely
broken find the continuation of the
Russian pressure points to the proh
ably speedly fall of Halicz.
Tlie Russians are advancing along
two first class railway Vines. A dan
gerous salient lias already been cre
^ ated arounld Halicz.
British Advance Lines.
I.O.MK i\, .lnl> 10. Reports from
the Rritish front state that Sir OoU
glas Haig again advanced his lines
in the region of Ostaverne and north
west of Wytchaete last night.
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REPUBLICAN TROOPS SURROUND PEKIN
MONARCHIAL MOVEMENT DOOMED
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By Associated Press.
WASHtNGON, July 30.—Diploma
tic reports from the Chinese capital
today foreshadow the complete de
struction of the recently Inaugurated
monarchist 1 movement in China.
State department dispatches declare
that the republican troops have en
tiroly surrounded Pekin and the doom
[ of the monarchial movement is sealed.
Save for official communications
there is practically no news coming
out of Pekin today lint the city is
apparently <|\iiet and no gr -it amount
of tear is felt over the presence ol
the monarchial forces who arj in jos
cession of the city The leT'-H-'UJ h*ve
lienvy ciinisiB posted.
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MARE ISLAND SCENE OF
MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION
By Associated Press.
VALLEJO, July 9.—A mysterious ex
plosion in the powder magazine at
the Mare Island navy yard tills af
ternoon blotted out the lives of six
persons injured a score or more and
committed an immense amount of
damage to the buildings and supply
stations.
The dead are: Allen F. McKenzie,
hief gunner 'in the navy; Mrs. Mc
Kenzie, wife of Allen McKenzie; the
two young daughters of McKenzie;
George Stanton, the navy yard gar
dener and N. C*. Darm.stad, a civilian
•inploye of the ordnance department.
The force of the explosion was so
great that windows were broken In
this djityl and a number of people
were knocked down by the shock.
The origin of the explosion is a
mystery which the navy yard officials
are trying to fathom. Early reports
that the disaster was due to German
spy activities are scouted by the offi
cials who declare that there was no
possibility of the explosion occurring
from outside sources.
The house oeeupied by the McKen
zies was in close proximity to the
magazine ami the family was taking
the air near the powder house 'in com
pany with Stanton and lbirmastad
I when the explosion occurred.
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MAIL CLOSES TONIGHT
Registered mail for the states via
the Umatilla w'lil close at the post
otfiec at tifiye this evening; ordinary
at 7 p. m. The mail for Council and
Solomon will close at 5 p. m. today.
SILVER TAKES SUDDEN RAISE.
By Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 10.—Bar silver
took a sudden Jump today and readi
ed the highest point registered since
the outbreak of the Kuropean war.
The metal wn*s quoted at seventy
nine and a half cents in the metal
! market with a prospect that the price
may advance still further.
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