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Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
plumbing STOVES and RANGES HEATING
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valves, Hose, Pipe and Fittings
Valdez Dock. Opposite Prospector Office. Telephone 24
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I CIGARS ^VND BILLIARDS , ::
> Nicely Furnished Rooms. Phone 35
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TOBACCO AND CIGARS
POOL AND BILLIARDS
PHONE 69 Me Kinley St, Valdez
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A. M. DIERINGER, Proprietor
Office on Valdez Dock, Next to Prospector
Building.
General Trucking and Freighting to all
Interior Points
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General Wood Says America Ought
to Arm o.tMMMMtO Soldiers as
Scam as Possible
A special dispatch to the Christian
Science Monitor gives the following
account of Gen. Wood's statement to
the Senate Committee of military af
fairs on his return from the western
front in France:
WASHINGTON, I). C.—The task
ahead of the United States in its ef
forts to contribute Its fair share to
the overthrow of the German menace
was very clearly outlined when Gen.
Leonard Wood told the Senate Mili
tary Committee, in executive session
on Monday, that 5,000,000 men must
be put under arms as soon as possible.
The sooner this is done, General Wood
said, and the sooner 2,500,000 men
are dispatched to France, the sooner
will the war be brought to a success
ful conclusion. The point pf the whole
testimony before the committee on
Monday was that the United States
must prepare immediately to make
war on a scale larger than has been
hitherto contemplated, either by offi
cials of the war department or by the
Congress which declared war on the
Imperial German Government.
As the session of the committee was
executive, much that General Wood
said must naturally remain a secret
as far as the public is concerned; but
Senator Chamberlain the chairman of
the commitee, did not hesitate to
state that information supplied by
General Wood, who studied the war
at first hand for five months, had one
great lesson for the American people,
namely, that troops must be sent to
France as quickly as possible to re
lieve the strain on the British and
French armies, now outnumbered;
that ships and more ships must be
built to transport men and supplies
to the theater of war; that all the
industrial resources and man-power
of the country must be mobilized and
employed to this single end; and,
finally, that there must be more speed
and more efflcilncy in the building of
ships, aircraft and ordnance than has
been hitherto the case, in fact, after
the hearing was over, many senators
felt almost convinced that considering
the stupendous task ahead, the Uni
ted States has been hitherto playing
at war.
Shortage of Guns and Fliers
General Wood discussed the whole
situation, and every phase of the war
from the time he left here in Novem
ber till his arrival the other day at
an Atlantic port. He gave the com
mittee to understand that the Amer
ican army is a splendid fighting unit,
the only weakness being that it is too
small to be of any material aid to the
allies. This army is well equipped
with ordnance, every piece of which
has been supplied by Great Britain
and France. Not a single piece of
heavy artillery has been sent from the
United States to the expeditionary
army; not a single American-made
airplane flies over the American sec
tor of the battle line, although there
are at present 10Q0 American fliers
in France. When the American line
i
3 7 i-■ •1 •—n
Is not protected by French planes, the
aeroplanes of the enemy fly po low
that the troops shoot at them with
their revolvers. This It was intimat
ed, was a condition of affairs which
must be speedily remedied.
General Wood said that Great
Pritain and France were somewhat |
disappointed at the lack of prepared- j
ness shown by the United States, and i
more so at the time it took to convert |
the peace industries of the country j
to a war basis. These nations, after
buttling for more than three years.,
••vidf' ti> expected the United States
to seed more men to Kurope. This is !
the reason why General Wood urged
that men l e sent to the other side as
soon as possible. lie told the coin-j
mittee that the national army in 1
training is, in his opinion, a splendid
body of men, the only criticism being
that there are not enough of them.
Members of the Military Committee j
who have all along insisted that the,
problem before the United States has
been visualized in Its true state, inti- j
mated on Monday that nothing would j
he left undone to bring home to the
nation the urgent necessity for more •
speed and more sacrifice.
Optimism over urive
General Wood was closely question
ed regarding the great German drive
and the retreat of the British army.
Senator Chamberlain said that the
result of the discussion of this all
absorbing problem with Gen. Wood
was more optimism and more confi
dence on the part of all who heard
him that the British and French
would hold the lines against the Ger
man onslaught, even should the bat
tle develop into a second Verdun. It
was, in fact, intimated that the Brit
ish general staff was well prepared
for this eventuality, and was by no
means caught napping for lack of de
fensive positions in the rear. That, in
fact, the retreat was contemplated
and well considered, though it may
have gone farther than was antici
pated. The morale of the British end
French troops. General Wood said, Is
splendid, and no amount of battering
is likely to undermine it.
The events of the past few days
and the testimony given on Monday
by General Wood will, in the opinion
of members of the military committee
mark a new beginning In war prepa
rations. After 11 months of war many
senators who are eagerly watching the
heroic resistance made by the British
army are forced to admit that the
United States is so far nothing more
than a spectator in the gigantic strug
gle, and that the republic must wake
up and send all its energy and all re
sources to bring the contest to a sue
cessful conclusion.
K1K I AXIS PRICES FIXED
WASHINGTON: The government
today fixed the price of fir logs, grades
i, 2 and 3. at $19. $15 and $10 res
pectively. The price of fir lumber re
mains the same, except that ship lum
ber is fixed at $40 per thousand.
WARNING GIVEN TO
SEDITIOUS PASTORS
WASHINGTON: Disloyalty foster
ed by certain religious sects has been
growing in the United States within
recent months, according to depart
ment of Justice officials who have
charge of enforcing the espionage
acts. Many preachers and religious
teachers in public speeches and print
ed pamphlets, officials assert, are urg
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Mining and Cannery Men
We can fill and deliver your
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ADDRESS VALDEZ or GRANITE; ALASKA
Port Weils Mill & Lumber Co.
ing the doctrine that war against Ger
many constitutes murder ot fellow
Chrlstians and the great human folly
described in the Book of Revelations.
Several German and Austrian preach
ers and Sunday school teachers have
been interned for disloyal utterances
and many others, particularly in ex
treme Northwestern states, have been
warned to desist from criticizing the
United States' motives in the war.
Several publications have been sup
pressed and others are being investi
gated.
The Chesterfield blend
has in it the highest-grade J
Turkish tobacco that 1
grows. They Satisfy— 1
and yet they're MILD. |
The Brave Fire Laddies
Will do what they can but they
cannot save you from loss no
matter how quickly they put
out the fire. The only aura
protection against Ore loss is a
policy in a good company such
as we represent Let us Issue
one to you today. Ton may
have a fire tonight. 'You Never
Can Tell.”
C. B. SMITH
Valdez Real Brtate Agency
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