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"vOLCMK XIV. VALDEZ. ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1918 NUMBER 20
15 AMES
English Capital Suffers from Two
Raids last Night—One Raider
Brought Down In Flames
LONDON. Jan. 29.—Fifteen ene
my airplanes appeared over the En
glish coast last night, flying at a
height of about 10.000 feet, five of
which eluded the English scout ma
chines and reached the city of Lon
don dropping a number of bombs in
ihe streets. They were driven off by
British flyers.
A second raid occurred a few hours
,ater, only one of the fleet of ma
chines making the second attack
reaching a position over the city.
One aircraft was brought down in
flame6. falling from a height of 10.
000 feet like a blazing meteor,' her
crew of three burning to death before
hey reached the ground.
An indecisive engagement was
iought with a German machine by a
British pilot, while they were com
ug in over the sea. All the British
flyers returned to their bases in saf
ety.
This is the first raid for several
weeks, and the*damage done was
loniinal.
LONDON. Jan. 29.—Korty-seven
were killed In last night’s airplane
■aid. including 14 men, 17 women
ind 16 children, nearly all residents
rif the city. One hundred and seventy
were injured.
Secretary of War Baker's Frank
Statement Believed Have Stop
ix-d All Criticism
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WASHINGTON. I). <’.. Jan. 29.—
Secretary of War Baker's frank
statement to the senatorial military
■committee disclosing the marvelous
achievements of the war department
• n arming and equipping the national
army has probably killed all attempt
by congress to reorganize the war de
partment.
Ralph McCrary left Copper Center
for Chitina yesterday in one of the
road commission autos.
STATE RAILWAY LAWS
TO REMAIN IN FORCE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—All state
railway laws and regulations will re
main in full effect under government
operation. Director General McAdoo
told a delegation representing the Na
tional Association of Railway and Ut
ilities Commisisoners.
HOQUIAM MAY HAVE
PULP AND PAPER MILL
HOQUIAM, Jan. 29.—Plans for
building a big wood pulp and paper
mill in Hoquiam have just been an
nounced by R. Thomas, paper and
pulp manufacturer, who has been in
Hoquiam for several months in con
nection with the promotion of the pro
ject. The plant he expects to build will
have an initial capacity of 100 tons of
pulp per day and employ several hun
dred men. Local and outside capital,
it is understood, have been secured
for the project. The Commercial Club
is to furnish a site of several acres.
The local weather observer reports
a minimum temperature of 4 degrees
during the past twelve hours.
ALASKA DUE TOMORROW
The steamship Alaska arrived in
Cordova this morning at 11 o’clock
and will remain there twenty hours,
leaving about 8 o’clock tomorrow
morning for Port Valdez.
Copper Center is adding to its rec
ord for cold this winter again bear
ing oft the palm tor the coldest spot
on the trail, the mercury reaching
28 below today. Fairbanks reports 4
below and Summit * IV. With calm
weather.
FORMER POLICE JUDGE
OF CENTRA 1J A JAILED
CENTRALIA. Jan. 29.—Redmond
P. Judge, former Centralia police
judge, has been arrested in Stockton.
Cal., and placed in jail there on Infor
mation from Portland. Ore., charging
him with failure to provide for his
wife and family, according to word
which has been received here. Judge
resorted to habeas corpus proceed ingr.
in an effort to secure his liberty and
prevent his return to Portland. He
was indicted by the Mulnotnah coun
ty grand Jury. His wife and children
reside in Portland.
Will Never t'ouclude an Imperialistic
Peace With Enemy—Cossacks
light Against Kaledines.
PETROGRAD. Jan. 29.—‘We will
never conclude an imperialistic an
nexationist peace.” was the message
to the pan-Sovett Congress, deliver
ed today by Minister Trotzky, on the
eve of his departure for the Brest
Idtovsk peace congress.
Cossucks Fight General
PETROGRAD. Jan. 29.—Minister
Trotzky was advised by an official
statement from the Smolsky Institute
today that twenty regiments of Don
Cossacks had joined in the revolt
against General Kaledines.
I'O.U TAKEN ANOTHER
RINK IN PRICK
The price of coal was advauced ano
ther fifty cents per ton today, owing
to the increase in price on the last
shipment received by the Dock Com
pany. Fuel is hard to get at any price
now, and is rapidly mounting skyward
in all points of the nation.
RIKKIANH ATTACK AMERICAN
PARIS, Jan. 29.—T. J. Durand, of
the American army detailed
French minister of war. was attatjKI
without provocation yesterday by tan
young ruffians at Ivry-Su'r-Ceine, a
suburb of Paris, and left for dead. He
was picked up and recovered con
sciousness after being cared for in a
drugstore. He was able to describe
his assailants, eight of whom were ar
rested.
Pitt litK OK DEATHS AT
ARMY CAMPS LIKELY
WASHINGTON D. C.. Jan. 29.—
Aroused by the death from pneumon
ia of Maj. Augustus P. Gardner, for
merly one of their number, members
of the house today agitated congres
sional Investigation of camps and hos
pital conditions, not only at Camp
Wheeler, where the former congress
man died, but generally throughout
the country. Leader Kitchin announc
ed that if Mrs. Gardner agreed the
funeral services will be held at the ca
pitol, where the body would lie In
statfi.
MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE
-——-■ T,
The plM of th* marquis of Lane
dawns, farmer British cabinet member,
that the allies relinquish certain ef
their war alms In order that peace
may some before Germany Is thorough
ly beaten,. has boon generally de
nounc'd, eaeggt by t|ie Oenfeaaa, who
joyfully Indorsed Mb suggsbtleh.
MAKING USE OF OLD KID AND LEATHER
The stage women's war relief committee Is making great numbers of
vests for our soldiers out of discarded kid gloves, old leather pillow tops aud
library table covers. Two of the members are here shown assorting and
sewing the leather.
LEAVE PETROGRAD
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Former Friends and Allies (Jetting j
Heady to lioose Dogs of War— 1
Russian General Outlawed
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FETltOGRAD. Jan. 29.—Ruman
ian representatives are being sent out i
of the country by the shortest pos-!
sihle route following the announce
ment of the severing of diplomatic
relations between Russia and Ru
mania. Lieutenant General Bimitri
Grigorivitch Stetcherbatche. who is
in command of the Russian forces in
Rumania has been outlawed by the
Russian government as a common
enemy of the- people. *;
MR PLACED
FORMERS
Government. (Jives Seattle Kirnt Con
tract for Fourteen Immense
Steel Ships for War Service
SEATTLE, Jan. 29.- The govern
ment today placed an order with the
Skinner & Eddy shipyards of this city
for fourteen more 8S0p ton steam
ships, as at estimated cost of $20.
000,000. This plant has already turn
ed out several vessels of the above
tonnage, and at present helds the re
cord for tonnage produced in ship
yards of the United States.
('limb Into Trunk in Piny and are
Found Dead later on by
Their Mother
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BOSTON, Jan. 29.—Two small
girls, Catherone Avassa and her sis
ter Adeline, were found by their mo
ther suffocated in a trunk in their
home here tonight. While playing
about the house they had climbed in
to the trunk and closed the lid, which
has a spring lock.
The big quartermaster building on
the corner of McKinley Street and
Wall Street is rapidly nearing com
pletion. Carpenters are busy finishing
the interior and it is expected it will
soon be ready for occupancy.
Capt H. L. Rider‘reports that he
has remodeled and overhauled the
launch Della while on this trip. The
Della is one of 0u finest passenger
boats on the down-sound run.
JFtttj inches of snow is reported at
TsikheU, wtt£ Outsail drifted.
U. S. Will NOT
BE AGGRESSOfi
President Wi Ison l>e fines 1’iiNenl Sta
tus in l<etu*r to l*resident How
ard of Union Pacific.
NEW YORK. Jan. 29.- The United
States will in no case be the aggres
sor against either the political inde
pendence or territorial integrity of
any other state or nation, declured
President Wilson in a letter made
public today. At the same time she
proposes to insist upcw similar
pledges from all nations of the world
who has its peace at heart and are
willing to associate themselves tor
the mainteuace of that peace.
The extracts published were taken
from a letter addressed by President
Wilson to President Howard of the
Union Pacific Railway, who is leaving
for a trip to South America.
KAULNIU HE FACTORIES
CLOSE, LACKING COAL
I.USANNE. Switzerland, Jan. 29.—
The Gazette says it learns that the
German ammunition factories at
Karlsruhe have been forced to close
owing to lack of coal and that 9,000
men and women are out of work.
Seven other large towns are affected
in a similar manner.
The German government's » con
signments of coal to Switzerland un
der the diplomatic arrangement, the
newspaper adds, are decreasing
monthly, the German government
seemingly being unable to spare coal.
U. S. PROMS
TO BMEVIKI
Says That Germany Is Viol mug Her
Agreement in Removing Troops
to Western Front
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 29.—
Charges that Germany is violating
the terms of the Russian truce by
withdrawing troops from the eastern
front and transferring them to the
western battle lines were ordered to
day to be made to the Russian gov
ernment by the war department.
Earl Hinds will leave tomorrow
for the power plant of the Prince
William Sound Water, Light & Pow
er Company, where he will remain.
ALLEGED WOMAN
SPY ADDLE BRAINED
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2».—Mr*.
Elisabeth Gulatorf. arrested last
week at Hanford as a German agent,
with seditions documents In her pos
session, is suffering from mental aber
ration, and there is no truth to. state
ments she has made that she hag,been
a German spy in this country since
last May, aeeording to aaaounoemeht
today by federal authorities, who bare
Investigated her ease thoroughly.
ARK TO OUT 100,000,000
FRET AIRPUANF, BPRtCE
ABEERDEEN. Jan. 29 —John D.
Porter, representing Sanderson &
Porter, and C. D. Smith, of Grant,
Smith & Co., who have a contract to
furnish the government with 100,
000.000 feet of rived airplane spruce,
arrived here today with a corps of
cruiser and other assistants. They
spent today in the woods, returning
this afternoon. Mr. Porter said: “WeJ
are working for the government and
cannot disclose any of our plants at
this time."
CAN era
ANY OFFENSIVE
l<ord Ihmmore Says German* Can
not Advance Against Forces—
“We Hhali Succeed
NKW YORK. Jan. 29. “Any of
fensive. no matter of what degree of
magnitude the Germans may launch
on the western front can be haRed by
the British, French and Americans
together" is the opinion of Lord Dun
more, who arrived here at the head
of the British mission.
“We can heat the Germans and go
through their lines any time we mak*
the attempt." he asserted.
Ix>rd Dunmore stated there was no
doubt but that the Allies would ul
timately win the war.
IRISH CONVENTION CLOSES SOON !
LONDON, Jan. 29.— Several of the!
morning newspapers refer to the ex-1
pected conclusion of the Irish con
vention this week. Among the reports
is one that today’s session perhaps
will be the fateful meeting which is
to decide whether the convention has
been a success or failure. A Dublin
dispatch to the Times says matters
have taken a disappointing turn,
which the newspaper interprets as
meaning that the prospect of an
agreement is more remote.
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James Cusick of Kllamar is a Val
dez visitor toduy
GERMAN AVIATOR WITH :H>
MATH INKS TO CREDIT DIES
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 23 Tile death
of Vice Sergeant Max Muller, one of
the most successful German airmen
is reported in a Munich dispatch to
the Lokal Anzeiger, of Derlin. Muller
was killed in a fall resulting from a
defect in his engine. He claimed ■',»
victories in aerial engagements.
SWIFTS GET EXTRA STOCK
ST. PAUL. Minn.. Jan. 29. —Testi
mony that the capital stock of the
South St. Paul Stock Yards company
was raised from $1,000,000 to $?,
000,000 when the Swifts agreed to
build their plant was given at to
day's sessionu ot the federal trade
commission's hearing by A. A. Mc
Kechnie, nine years secretary of the
stockyards company. The extra stock,
he said, had been given to the Swifts.
MAJOR KENDALL BANNING
MaJ. Kandall Bannlno, algnal aarpa,
U. a. *„ J* aharpa af tha dlatrihtrtlan
af tha affietal Amarlean nawa phata
ypft Majar ■annlnp- waafarmaftr
a aiaf;»m aiHa^_ .
REVOLT STARTED
Red Guard Being Reinforced by Ma
chine Guns— Helsingfors in the
Hands of Revolutionists
STOCKHOLM, Sweden. Jan. 29. -
The long-threatened revolution iu
Finland has broken out in the east
ern provinces, according to a report
from Haparanda. forwarded today.
The railway station at Helsingfors
is in the hands of the Russian Red
Guards, and sporadic fighting is oc
curring at many points in the inter
ior.
Machine Guns .Sent
FETROGRAD. Jan. 29.—Sis hun
dred Red Guards with machine guns
have left Fetrograd for Viborg to re
inforce the Finnish Red Guard, which
is battling in that city.
AMKICICAN AKIM) ( IAII
HONORS WILLIAM THAW
PARIS. Jan. 29. Maj. William
Thaw, of the Lafayette flying squad
ron. who recently received his com
mission in the reserve of the Ameri
can army, has been awarded the spe
cial war medal of the Aero Club of
America.
liKSOKTS TO CAMOIILAOK
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 29 - Alfred
K. Sells, w ho was reported to have es
caped yesterday front San Quentin
penitentiary, where he is under two
life imprisonment sentences, was
found early today hiding in a shed in
the prison yard. Sells was reported to
have escaped by placing a dummy in
his bed.
ITALIANS CAPTURE
MANY GERMANS
Fifteen Hundred Meu and Sixty-two
Officers Taken in Drive on Asia
go Plateau Tod a)
ROME. Jan. 29.--The capture of
1500 men and 02 officers hy the Ital
ian forces in the great drive on the
Asiago plateau this morning, was an
nounced by the war office today. Al
though the Germans made the most
desperate resistance. the Italian
troops succeeded in driving them out
of their trenches for a distance of 700
yards, inflicting great losses.
Berlin Reports Attacks
BERLIN. Jan. 29.—The Italiaus
are making desperate attacks today
on the front between Asiago and the
Brentna rivers. The lighting is hand
to hand at points along the front,
and the enemy is sustaining heavy
losses.
ALCOHOL PLANT WRECKED
BY INCENDIARY EXPLOSION
MARQUETTE. Mich.. Jan. 29.—A
plant making refined alcohol and
chemicals for government use wan
wrecked here last night by enemy in
cendaries the authorities claim.
One of the topical mysteries that
must be solved shortly Is “Where la
Billy Conley." The baseball season
approaches and the town can't do
without Billy.
LAUNCH DELLA ARRIVES
IN PORT PROM ELLAMAR
The launch Della, Capt. H. L. Rid
er, arrived In port this morning from
EUamar and sound points. James.
Cusick of EUamar and Ike Westberg
and Wm. Salisbury were passengers
for Valdes.
Ike Westberg arrived in town this*
morning from down-sound points.
The Prospector has a tine lino of
wedding stationery and calling cards.
Prioea are cUmhing, so you had better
order now.
. DO NOT SAT MEAT MORS THAN
ONCE A DAT. _J