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SOMMERS MIST ALLOT FAY TO FAMILIES.
The following announcement of changes in paychecks
to soldiers and sailors families from the government has
been received in Seward:—
Under the new ruling there will be no change in the
checks of enlisted men whose pay is $30 a month and who1
have been alloting his wife and children only the amount
required by law. $15. They must continue to allot this
amount and the liovernment will continue $15 additions
to tile wif ■ and the same amount as previously for each
child.
There 1 as been a reduction in the compulsory allot
ment for men getting over $30. Under the law, the eompul
soi y allotment is $15 for all enlisted men so those getting
over $30.
If he washes to continue to contribute .to his wife ami
children the same amount as before, lie may make a new
allotment for the difference through the War Department
or Navy Department. Thus, for example, if he had former
ly allotted $1$ to ids wife ami children and wishes to con
tinue to do so, homust make a new allotment id' $3 througl
the W ar o- Navy Departments, as the Bureau of Wa
Risk Insurance will in the future handle only the $15 con
pulsorv allotment.
Relatives or friends of enlisted men not included b
Class A. (wife, child, or former wife divoiced, who has no
remarried and to whom alimony has been decreed) or k
Class B. (parent, brother, sister, or grand child) to vvhoi
allotments have been made, will continue to receive thei
through the War Department or Navy Depaitment ;
previously. Allotments to such persons were never hand!
ed bv the Bureau of War Risk Insurance and no change i
contemplated in this regard.
lhe war ami Navy or tiers, all in Washington I >. i
which handle the allotments are, in the Navy, through th
"Navy Allotment Officer. Navy Department,” in the A:
my, through the "Officers of the Quartermaster Corp
through "Paymaster, 1. S. Marine Corps Headquarters,
and in the Coast Guard, through the "Captain C’omnian
dant. U. S. Coast Guard.”
I'nder the new plan the allotment and allowances 1
simplified. The Bureau of War Risk Insurance will now
handle allotments of onlv two amounts—$15 and $20.
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Formerly the allotment was on a sliding scale and had to
l«e changed every time a man’s pay was increased by pro
motion or otherwise. This required from 150,000 to 200,
000 changes per month.
By transferring to the War and Navv Departments aU
allotments not carrying allowances, the Bureau of Wr.t
Risk Insurance can concentrate all its attention upon pay
ments to [icrsons entitled to the Goverment allowance,
and it is believed that this simplification of the work will
tend to speed up the deiiveiy of checks to these persons.
Prompt notice of these facts has been sent to men in
all branches of the military and naval service, but it will,
of course require some time for the new forms to tie ex*
touted and return to Washington. Many men may decide
that they do not wish to continue to allot as much as be
fore. In such cases the Government cannot compel them to
keep up the former allotments, and the family may re
ceive onlv the minimum compulsory allotment of $15 and
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the same Government allowance as before.
Hereafter a man who has no wife or children need
make an allotment of only $15 to obtain the Government
allowance, for his dependent parents, brothers or sisters.
If he has either a wife or child or children, or both, to
whom as the law requires, he is alloting $15, he need only
allot $5 addition in order to obtain the full allowance for
his dependent parents, brothers or sisters.
Formerly in many cases he had to allot more. In
each of these cases his parents, brothers or sisters will
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now receive a small check from the Bureau of War Risk
Insurance because of the reduction in the allotments re
quired. The amount of the Government allowance will be
the same, but the allotment required from his pay will bo
less. If he desires in have the total continue as before, he
must make an additional allotment through the War or
Navy Departments. Thus if a soldier or sailor was allot
ting SIS to his mother after August 1st she will get $3 less,
through the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, and if he wish
-es her to continue to get the same amount as before, he
must make a separate allotment of $3 through the War or
Navy Departments. If he changes his mind and decided
that S15 is enough, the Government cannot compel him toJ
c. Hot more.
It is also of the greatest importance that soldiers and
sailors and families should be inspired with confidence j
that if distress results in any case by reaspn of these
changes in Governmental proceeding, the Red Cross Home
service stands ready to relieve it.
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Where necessary to prevent hardship, the Red
Cross will make payment from its own funds until tlie;
Government checks arrive. Relatives of enlisted men
should not regard this as charity, hut as part of the mor-;
ale of American soldiers and sailors by instilling then, i
with confidence that their families will not suffer for thcj
necessities of life during their absence.
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ALASKA I>Uj\FT MEN ARE CALLED
FROM THE FAR AWAY SECTORS.
Draft calls for men in the remote and far away sec-;
lions of Alaska have brought youths out over hard mile?!
to report for service. .
Hunters, trappers, traders and prospectors, in ans-j
wer to the draft calis, have come from the tundra countr;, !
up along the Artie, the hills and valleys along the Yukon j
River and the remote mountain sections of southeastern j
and southwestern Alaska. They have been mobilized at;
Alaska forts and later sent to the states for training.
One young man, Claude Harrison, received his draft
questionaire as he w as making plans for speeding the com
mg winter hunting and trapping in the Lake Minchum
ina country, about sixty miles northwest of Mount McKin
ley.
Harrison immediately dropped his plans and set out :
on a 125- mile "mush” to the office of the United State*'
commissioner atKantishna. When Ire arrived he found the
commissioner had gone to Xenana, nearly 100 miles fartb
j or. so the long hike was continued on until the official was
found.
Twelve other young men, who gathered at Marshal.
Alaska, to hoard a steamer for Nome, in answer to calls.
1 found, on their arrivals that on account of the slowness of
mails, they had failed to receive their notifications in time
and were classed as delinquents. They were cleared of the
charges when they explained the delay.
AND AMERICA HAS ANSWERED.
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LONDON, Sept., 17— Will not America set the ex
ample and liven up offical communiques, asks the Man
chester GUARpiAN.
The paper quotes a report on the recent' Australian i
access which left the Germans “still wondering just what
was happening" and congratulates the writer on his in
formation “that it certainly looks as though the Austral
ians have the village pinched out."
The GUARDIAN considers the American official rc-!
ports have been, so far as an American twist to the lang
uage is concerned, a dismal disappointment and have con- i
formed to the unilluminating style of the British offical.
"It is perhaps too much" the paper continues “to hope
that we shall learn of an American success in the infor
mation that our allies handed the Prussian Guard a horrid
jolt or that their attack was prefaced with a bombard
ment of an intensity which ‘blistered reality’. But at least
there is room for official and unofficial reports which
shall strike away from the too familiar jargon that reduc
es them all to the same level, and liven our numbed consc
iousness with a use of English which shows some iniagra
tion. Will not America set the merry example?”
GERMANS FOOLED BY FOCH.
NEW YORK, Sept., 17— Long before Marshal Focli,
began his brilliant counter offensive on the Marne, the
Germans had been told that his reserves had been exhau
sted. This is shown by a Wolff Bureau Dispatch published
m the Berlin TAGEBLATT which described the fighting
about Chateau Thierry. '
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"The hope of the Entente regarding a decisive inter
vention of the great army of manoeuvere has been defin
itely shattered. The proud army of reserve which the war
council of Versailles played out its trump exists as such no
longer,” read the despatch.
"The great victory of the Crown Prince has shattered
a .considerable part of the enemies fighting force and has
resulted in the dissolution suffered by the Entente on the
extensive fronts between Ypres and Rheims will be diffi
cult to replace.”
This was published in Germany about a month before
Marshal Foch struck the Germans on the Marne Salient
, and drove them back to the Vesle. It probably shows why
■ the German public was so greatly surprised by Marshal
; Foch’s brilliant stroke.
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