VOLUME XIV. VALDEZ, ALASKA, WEDN E8DAY. FEBRUARY 6, 1018 NUMBER 26
CONTROL KSTED
ADMINISTRATORS
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Fishing and Fifth Canning Industries
on I'aciHr Coast Turned Over
to Federal Officials
PORTLAND, Jan. 6.—Complete
control of the fishing and fish can
ning industries on the Pacific Coast,
both in the States and in Alaska, has
been vested by Food Administrator
Hoover in the food administrators of
California, Oregon, Washington and
Alaska. The administrators are in
conference here today and will an
nounce rules for the canneries later.
The government released the tin
product for cans late last month, and
also provided for a 25 per cent in
crease in the pack. The price of can
ned fish was also established at the
following rates:
Chums '. $ 1.60 per dozen
Pinks. 1.65 per dozen
Med. Reds 2.25 per dozen
Keds 2.35 per dozen
As four dozen cans are packed in
a case the. price will be the highest
known, $6.40 per case for chums,
and $9.40 for reds, enabling the can
neries to make a goodly profit on
their pack.
' ■^Arrangements are being made by^
the Pacific (’oast canners to put up
the largest pack kuown.
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SAVE THE. FOOD
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Two w heaths days ’ each
'**a’nd Wednesday.
Vng meal dally,
. __ iatless, Tuesday.
One meatless meal dally.
Two porkless days for each
week, Tuesday and Saturday.
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PUNS JR SPRING
Says Fleet Will Participate in Big
Drive—Claims Strategic Su|»er
iority—Nation .Optimistic
AMSTERDAM. Feb. 6.—The Ber
lin newpapers are full of what Ger
many intends to do in the coming
spring offensive, and are most optim
istic in tone. The Tageblatt says the
German fleet will play a large part in
the coming year’s work, and that the
next six months will prove a decid
ing period in the world war. The
Frankfurter Zeitung says that dur
ing that eminently Important period
the central powers will with absolute
certainty prove their strategic super
iority, and that the hopes of the en
tente allies for help from America
cannot possibly be fulfilled within
that time. The tenor of the papers is
to the effect that Germany will be
Able to withstand the combined arm
ies of the powers and hold her own.
German Nation Whistling
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Feb. 6.—
That tbe German nation like a small
boy passing a graveyard, is whistling
to keep up courage, is the opinion of
many officials here. The allied pre
parations for a supreme effort are
steadily progressing, and a telling
blow will be delivered at some vul
nerable point within a few weeks.
The entente allies can now match the
Teuton armies gun for gun and man
for man, and have already proved
their superiority when it comes to
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LLOYDS AGENCY COMPETES
WITH BRITISH GOVERNMENT
LONDON, Feb. 6.—Lloyds under
writer yesterday accepted war insur
ance on trane-Atlantic cargoes at
rates much below the llatr ate of the
British Government, according to the
Times. This action probably is con
nected with tbe proposal to extend the
government scheme, which In effect,
the Times says would make such in
surance on cargoes in British ship^ a
government monopoly.
SPLENDID DONATION TO
RED CROSS CHAPTER
Mrs. Wm. Kramer made a splendid
donation to the local Red Cross chap
ter this week, when she turned over
two weeks salary as a teacher to the
organization. Mrs. Kramer substitut
ed in the public schools for two weeks
and being a director would accept no
salary, but donated the entire pro
ceeds, $62.50, to the Red Cross.
CARDINAL SAYS FANATICISM
RUIJNG UNITED STATES
BALTIMORE. Md., Feb fi. Car
dinal Gibbon denounced the national
prohibition amendment today in a
statement issued by him, saying that
the legislators of the states “should
not bow to the fanaticism that seems
to be ruling the United States in this
respect.”
BOLSHEVIKISM
ON THE DECUNE
Numerous befeubt of Party and
tijre of Ensign Kyrlenkoaki and
.Stall' Marks Downfall
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LONDON. Keb. 6 -The Poles of
middle ^Russia having captured the
Bolshevlki headquarters at Mohilev,
making Ensign Kyrlenkoaki and his
staff prisoners, together with the fact
that the Tartars are now marching on ]
Sebastopol, the Crimean headquar-1
ters^f,the Black Sea fleet, with the
dld&rmihg of the Ninth Russian regi-j
nimti at Galatz by the Rumanians; 1
.^^qxpulsion of the Bolhseviki ele-.
JneriE from Crimea by the Krim Tar-j
"tars, and the demoralizing defeat ofj
the Red Guard in Finland: all cause]
Russian dispatches to agree that the!
Bolshevlki power Is waning.
Whether the next government will i
be anarchistic in its tendencies is tin-1
known, but it Is universally believed j
by foreign diplomats .that the present!
reign of antftchy and revolution will
be succeeded by a more stable and
ftberal government.
Poles Occupy Mohilev
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 6.—A wire-!
less dispatch front Kiev, received at|
Berlin, state that the Poles have oc
cupied Mohilev. and arrested Ensign!
Kyrlenkaoki. commander in chief of
tlie Uolsheviki army and his staff.
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Robbers Make Big Haul
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 6. -!
Seven armed men raided the Cosmo
politan club In the heart of the down
town district just before midnight
Thursday, took approximately $5300
in cash and $1500 worth of jewelry
from seven faro players and the deal
er and about $300 in cash from thirty
loungers In the clubrooms. They es
caped.
The club has been unsuccessfully
raided by the police several times un
der the suspicion that gambling was
being conducted. Two meu were
knocked unconscious by the robbers
when they jested about the proceed
ings.
GOVERNMENT TO
BE PERMANENT
Congress of Soldiers and Workmen's
.. Deputies Pass Law Declaring Con-.,
stitutional Assembly Null
PETROGRAD, Feb. 6..—At the
close of the session of congress of the
soldiers’ and workmens’ deputies to
day a law was passed declaring that
the workmen’ and soldiers’ govern
ment was permanent and not tem
porary, and declaring that the consti
tuent assembly has been eliminated.
John Meals, the local Insurance
agent, will return on the Victoria to
night from Strelna, where he has been
to adjust some insurance losses for
his companies. *
Some relief Is promised from the
prevailing high winds within the next
•24 hours as the barometer Is Mowly
Lrlsing. Indicating calm weather.
HEAVY FIGHTING
ON VO FRONT
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American Artillerists Prevent German
Scouts from Nosing out Positions
, —German Force* Arriving
WASHINGTON. D. C„ Feb. 6.—
The American army in France reporta
that all day Wednesday and through
out Tuesday afternoon German air
men tried to fight their way through
a stiff barrage fire from American
guns to flud out what was going on
behind the lines. They were driven
hack each time by the shrapnel that
incesantly peppered the clouds
U ider an almost ceaseless fire from
the German guns the American
iroops are holding a large sector of
the Lorraine trenches, and are pre
paring for a general assault of great
magnitude. The conduct of the troops
under fire is most exemplary, their
officers stating they stand fire like old
veterans.
On the British sector operations
were conflued to raids and patrol en
counters. Last night one party of
British raiders got into the enemy po
sitions near Poelcapelle, and after
killing 29 of the enemy brought hack
three prisoners.
Enemy reinforcements continue to
arrive from the east front, but the
allies are also adding a great num
ber of men to their forces on the west
front. Both sides are increasing their
forces steadily and when the clash
does come it will be one of the most
stupendous in point of numbers ever
known.
The allies are prepared at all
points to meet and hold the greatest
thrust that the teutons can direct up
on their lines, and are confident that
ill an even test they can more than
hold their own.
WORLD-WIDE
FOOD FAMINE
CnleMN Itrastie Ste|>s at Once Taken
World Will l>c in Want—Ger
mans Take Wheat Helds
WASHINGTON. 1). Feb. ti.—
A world-wide food famine will be ex
perienced unless drastic steps are tak
en immediately to increase produc
tion. was predicted today by Repre
sentative Baer, testifying before the
House Agricultural Committee. He
stated that Germany had taken pos
session of all Russia's winter wheat
fields, and was using the lands for
her own grain supply.
PKACK NEGOTIATION
ARB BROKEN OFF
LONDON, Feb. 6.—Peace negotia
tions at Brest-Litovsk have been
broken off, the Times correspondent
at Petrograd is informed.
The coldest weather of the year is
being experienced today by the oper
ators at the Summit, who report 30
below zero and a blizzard raging.
Temperatures all along the trail are
much lower than yesterday, which ac
counts for the prevailing high winds.
BILLIARD TOURNAMENT
WILL START TONIGHT
The billiard tournament arranged
by local experts at the Pinzon starts
tonight. The first game will be be
tween U. S. Marshal Brenneman, who
is a wlz with the cue, and Robert Kel
sey, who Is also an expert. Brenne
man plays 160 to Kelsey’s 126. The
second game will be between Mar
shall Brenneman and Jake Hepfinger.
Jake plays a strong game and the Is
sue Is in doubt, many players pick
ing first one and then the other as
winner. The Moose Band will play tor
the occasion, and ladles are Invited
to witness the games.
SOLDIERS SHOT IN THE ARM
The local employes of the Signal
Corps received the third and last shot
of typhoid serum this week, and arc
now Immune from that dread disease.
Many of the boys are.rather tender
In the vicinity of the puncture In the
grm, but-iim sapid* rceovettag.
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BAKER TELLING
WMSECRETS
Senate Committee Ommk Number of
Tm>oi>n to be Divulged—More
Than Planned For
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Feb 6 —
The senate committee on military af
fairs again subjected Secretary of
War Raker to an exhaustive grilling
on the conduct of the war, and how
the situation had been handled by
his department. When asked as to the
number of troops in Europe the sec
retary stated that America had many
more men in France than the origin
al schedule called for, but refused to
publicly state the number, saying
that he would divulge the knowledge
to the committee privately if forced
to. He told the committee that a mil
lion more men would be taken over
this year.
(TVII. RIGHTS HIM. I'AHHKS
WASHINGTON, 0. 0., Feb. 6.—
The soldiers and sailors civil rights
hill providing for a moratorium for
men in military establishments unani
mously passed the house today.
“TIIH t'I'START"
The sparkling, satirical comedy.
"The I'pslart," will be presented at
I he Empress theatre tomorrow night,
with Marguerite Snow in the stellar
role and the popular juvenile actor.
George J.e Guere in the role of the
1'pstart. The comedy deals with the
! divorce problem, the Gpstart being a
fanatic on the question. He practices
his theories on the parson's young
wife, and a peck of trouble ensues.
The comedy will be preceded by a
*Hear«t Path** News. Sunday Theda
j Mara in "Her Double Life."
GERMAN AGENTS
ARE SENTENCED
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Eleven Found Guilty of Placing I'irc
Bombs in Cargoes leaving Am
erican Ports
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NEW YORK, Feb. li. Franz von
Kiutelen, an alleged German naval
officer and reputed member of the
German war staff, was found guilty
today, with ten other defendants in
the federal court with conspiracy to
destroy foodstuffs, munitions and
ships of the entente allies by placing
fire bombs in their cargoes. Judge
Howe imposed a maximum penalty of
18 months lnt he penitentiary on each
of the prisoners.
SPECIAL BREW A WINNER;
MANY ORDERS RECEIVED
I Manager Otto Haering of the Val
dez Beverage & Bottling Works is re
ceiving a large number of orders for
his special non-alcoholic beverages,
and siphon goods. An order of twenty
cases and ten half cases was received
front Seward by the last boat, and on
the return of the Victoria 16 half
cases will be Bhipped to Cordova, 9
half cases to Shushana Junction and
six cases to Strelna. All having sam
pled the local product are loud In its
praises, and claim that it is far supers
ior to the product form the states.
WOLFHOUNDS BEING
EATEN IN DENMARK
NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 6.—Maurice
Egan, United States minister to Den
mark, in an interview here today,
said that European food experts
agreed that the entire world would be
brought to the verge of starvation If
the war was kept up for two years.
Northern European neutrals are In
dire straits, he said, and the famous
Danish wolfboundsa re being slaugh
tered for food in Denmark.
A young widow .can get a man
hypnotised into believing that she
has never kissed a man before.
There are some fellows who think
that having a perpetual grouch gives
tftetu an . air of dignity . But you
laugh at them and so do va
MM KN I P WATCHMAN
AND WORKS ON VAULT
LOS ANGELES. Feb. A mask
ed burglar worked vainly for two
hours today on the safe of the Metro
politan Life Insurance company, in a
Broadway office building, after lock
ing a scrub woman and the night
watchman in a clothes cabinet in an
adjoining room. The burglar fled at
the approach of the night superin
tendent investigating the watchman's
failure to report on his rounds.
(X)U UNDERGOES OPERATION;
WILL NOT AFFECT SPEECH
NEW YORK. Feb. 6.—Theodore
Roosevelt underwent a minor opera
tion today for an abscess, causing him
to cancel his western speaking en
gagements. It is reported he will be
about again within a few days.
«SEPARATE
CHURCH JW STATE
Eliminate All lliurch Incomes. Con
fiscate Property. Ineluding Fur
nishings and Paraphernalia
PETUOGKAD. Eel*. 6 The Siviet
today isued a decree signed by Prem
ier Letiiue and other members of th«
defacto government, absolutely sep
arating the church and state, elimin
ating all church incomes from the
government,., and confiscating all
church realty, furnishings and para
phernalia. The Orthodox Russian
Church is the prevailing religion. ,
Threatens Excommunication
i’ETROGRAD, Feb. 6—The church
of Russia has declared a holy war
against the Boishevlki, as a result of
the order separating church and state
and confiscating church property. J
The church has threatened the revo
lutionists with xecommunication and
appeals to all parishioners to fight j
and suffer for the sanctity of their re-j
llgion.
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l*OHTMAHTKB8 MAY BK
KM 1*1/0 YMKNT AGKNTKj
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WASHINGTON. D. Feb. 6.—j
A scheme to establish a nation-wide |
federal labor agency is under consid-j
oration at Washington. It is proposed |
to attach it to the postottice depart-j
ment and every postmaster in the]
country will perform the duties of J
employment agent. It is claimed that■
no class of men are closer in touch |
with the conditions prevailing in their j
respective districts than the postof-i
flee officials.
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BAI/POI'lt CAN’T U8K
1)11*1/0MATIC LANGCAGK
LONDON, Feb. 6.—Arthur J. Bal
four, British foreign minister, in re
ply to the claim of The Netherlands
government for damages because of
the sinking of one Dutch steamer and
the damaging of another while the
latter was being salved by the Brit
ish navy, through the attacks of Ger
man submarines, declares that the
claims should be made on Germany.
Mr. Balfour adds: “It is not easy to
characterize such action by a pro
fessedly friendly power, with due re
gard to the amities of diplomatic cor
respondence.”
Judging by the things we see them
leadingt o the alter, some girls must
just naturally hate to work for a liv
ing.
Here is one thing you can bet on:
if a man’s bank account is o. k., you
will find that he thinks the Govern
ment is.
LARGE TRUCK CROI*
Irrigated lands in the lower Rio
Grande Valley, Texas, promise the
largest winter truck crop ever known.
By moving up the planting season a
month it is hoped to escape the Creas
ing weather that comes this month.
The cultivated areat his year is sev
eral thousand acres larger than here
tofore. Two crops of corn are har
vested from thes amel and, averag
ing fifty bushels each.
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FRIDAY Is a MEATLESS DAY.
Refrain from using this much needed
artiole and help feed the boys in the
trenches. Did you-observe a WHEAT
LESS day today,
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[('vnjtretMnuui Miller of .Minnesota
Hay* War WiU Not b« Won Cn
l«s» More Men Sent
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Feb 6 —
Until tbe United States has 3,000,000
men in France, tbe war will not bo
won. Congressman Clarence B. Mil
ler of Dulutb, Minn., who has just re
turned from the French battlefront
told the House today that we must
have at least four million and should
have five in the Held to insure the
winning of the war.
War Ta\ on Theatre Admissions
Makes Small Coins Absolutely
Kssentiul in Interior
The first (limes ami nickels that
over wcut into Fairbanks, Alaska,
were shipped in after the new war
tax on motion picture theatre admis
sions went into effect, to meet tho
problem of making small change,
says the Oregonian of I’ortiand, Or.
F. \V. Talbert, special representa
tive of tin- Universal Film company,
who has returned to i’ortiand from a
three months and a half trip through
the coast cities of Alaska, told of the
.shipping of the cargo of dimes and
nickels from Cordova to It. I,. Thom,
manager of the theatre at Fairbanks,
just before Mr. Talbert left Alaska to
return to Portland.
“Heretofore everything in Fair
banks has cost 25 cents. 50 cents and
so on in multiples of 25 cents.' says
Mr. Talbert. “The rise of five cents in
theatre admission prices brought in
the problem of odd change.
“The films shown in the interior
towns of Alaska now are those re
leased in the states from one to two
years ago. The big drawback to get
ting film service into Alaska is the
fact that there is a ten-day schedulo
in summer and fifteen to eighteen
days in the winter to tne const cities,
and it takes much longer to get them
by dog team to the interior. This
makes it entirely impractical to take
new films off the service in the states
and let them idle tnrougli the long
trip to and front the interior of Alas
ka. As a result the films are used in
all the theatres in the states before
they go up to the interior. Alaskan
towns.
“Strangely enough current events
and weeklies are what the people
want worst of all.
Buys Mini Outright
“This demand Is met by buying the
films outright from the Seattle ex
changes. taking them up to Alaska
and putting them through the circuit
of the coast cities. Captain A. E. La
throp, who controls theatres in Cor
dova, Seward, Valdez and Anchor
age. buys the films, puts them on to
the circuit and then sends them on to
the other cities. They are six weeka
old when they go out of Seattle and
the run along the coast cities is about
sixty days. They then send them in
to the Interior cities by sled and per
haps this week's current events film
will reach Nome audiences some time
late next spring.
In spite of the handicap of trans
portation against which they must
work, there are a number of excel
lent theatres in Alaska, in Anchorage.
Cordova, Valdez, Juneau, Ketchikan,
etc.
Shy of Mining Plots
"One kind of film the exhibitors in
Alaska fight mighty shy of is the
film that Is made up on the plot of
a mining story. Their audiences know
the mining game down to the ground,
and the way that the hero of the av
erage moving picture strikes his plclc. -
Into a mud bank and pulls out a for
tune, doesn’t get by with an Alaska*
audience for a second.
'They've tried one or two mining
films there, but they won’t run ’em
on a bet now. It’s safer to book cow
boy and New York society films, in.
which the detail won’t meet with such,
a critical eye.”