U. S. [XPERT
WASHINGTON, D. C.—That the
food supply in the United States is
adequate to meet the needs of the
population is stated by Charles J.
Brand, chief of the office of markets
and rural organization, who says that
in so far as available stocks are con
cerned there is no need for suffering
in the large cities. Stocks of storage
beef are shown, by reports received
at the office of markets, to be consid
erably larger than they were a year
ago.
Comparison of stocks of frozen beef
shows a supply on hand March 1 of
this year 17.1 per cent larger than
March 1, 1916. Figures from 246
firms in all sections of the country
show the storage supply of frozen
beef to be 157,701,821 pounds the first
of this month. Cured beef stocks on
hand this year represent an increase
of 34.5 per cent over last year, there
being 37,948,483 pounds in storage
March 1.
Stocks of frozen lamb and mutton
show a decrease of 31.1 per cent over
last year, while frozen pork has de
creased 36.9 per cent. Holdings of
creamery butter were 3 per cent less
this year, while the stocks of Ameri
can cheese were 29.3 per cent less.
During January and February the
supply of cold storage eggs was rap
idly diminished, the stocks on hand
March 1 being 86.3 per cent less than
on the corresponding date in 1916. A
year ago there were 33,639 cases on
hand, while the supply on March 1
this year was 4,100 cases.
Despite the high cost of seed pota
toes, the early spring plantings in the
southern states, except in eastern
Texas, have been largely increased,
according to Leon M. Kstabrook. chief
of the bureau of crop estimates. The
acreage planted in early potatoes in
six southern states is estimated to be
188,000, as compared with 161,000 in
1916, an increase of about 17 per cent.
The estimate is based on reports from
Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro
lina, Florida, Alabama and Texas,
the chief early potato sections of the
south.
Owing to the high price of white
potatoes, many persons are planning
to grow them this spring in back
yards or in vacant lots, according to
the department of agriculture. Num
erous requests have been received by
the department for information as to
the best methods for potato raising
and for ways of reducing the cost for
seed. The department points out that
a considerable economy will result by
cutting the individual eye from the
potato, rather than using the whole
potato, in this way saving about
three-fourths of the potato for table
use. The department stands ready to
furnish full information on this sub
ject without cost.
Prevailing high prices of food sup
plies in the United States, in the face
of an adequate supply, cannot be
charged to any shortage of freight
cars for the shipment of foodstuffs,
according to the car service commis
sion of the American Railway associ
ation which is meeting in Washington
to direct the movements of freight
cars on all the big railroads with a
view to providing an equitable distri
bution for all commodities.
The commission says, "No way has
the increase in the cost of food been
affected by a shortage of freight cars
in which to haul the food. At no time
has any complaint been received which
would indicate that there was a short
age of food anywhere in the United
States.
“There has not been a shortage of
flour and grain as a result of freight
congestion and car shortage. There
is comparatively little wheat for do
mestic use awaiting eastbound ship
ment at Chicago. There is an accu
mulation of corn and oats, and a very
large part of it is for export. There
has not been any shortage of cars for
shipment of dressed meats and pack
ing house products. As a matter of
fast the packers for the most part
own their own cars, and control their
movement entirely.
“The movement of vegetables has
not been affected in any way by car
shortage. There has been nothing be
fore the commission on car service
even mentioning a shortage of cars
for shipments of butter, eggs, sugar,
lard, onions, cabbages, chickens, cof
fee, rice, prunes, live stock, oatmeal,
and the many other food commodi
ties.
“Early in December there was a
shortage of cars for moving the Maine
potato crop. That emergency was
taken care of, through the efforts of
the commission on car service, and
today potatoes cost about as much in
Maine as they do in New York city.
“It has been the practice of all rail
roads to exempt from embargoes
food products for domestic consump
tion. fuel, government shipments and
news print paper. There has been a
shortage of coal cars on the coal-pro
ducing roads of St. Louis and Chicago,
because the coal cars had accumulated
largely on western lines. In the same
way, the box cars of western roads
accumulated on eastern lines.”
PROMINENT Jl'NKAt LADY
DEAD AT OAKLAND, CAL.
(Juneau Dispatch)
The sad intelligence was received
yesterday in a wire from Captain
George H. Whitney, in Oakland last
Sunday. Captain Whitney was en
route to his wife’s bedside and had
reached Seattle, at which place the
sad news was conveyed to him.
The deceased was one of Juneau’s
prominent ladies and had resided here
for many years. Mrs. Whitney was a
native of New Brunswick. The wire
from the captain yesterday stated
that the remains would be taken to
New Brunswick for burial.
Mrs. Whitney had been a sufferer
for some time. Last winter she spent
the winter in the south in the search
of health and returned to this city
last summer, seemingh iti good
hearth. Just recently, on account of
failing health, she again left for the
south. The deceased was an active
member of Juneau’s social circle and
a member of the Episcopal church.
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PETROGRAD, Russia—The provi
sional government issued a manifesto
on Monday to the citizens of Russia
which opens by describing the early
vicissitudes of the duma and the with
drawal one by one by the old regime
of all rights won in 1905. Continuing
it describes the situation of the coun
try on the outbreak of the war faced
with moral decadence of power not
united with the people; of a power
indifferent to the destinies of the coun
try and steeped in vices and infamy.
When Russia, through the illegal and
disastrous acts of her governors, was
faced with greatest disaster, the peo
ple had to take the power into their
own hands.
The manifesto then mentions the
establishment of the provisional gov
ernment and says the government be
lieve that the lofty patriotism which
the people have shown in their strug
gle against the old regime will also
animate their gallant soldiers on the
battlefields. On its side the govern
ment will do its utmost to provide
the army with all thaat is necessary to
bring the war to a victorious conclu
sion. It expresses the intention
faithfully to observe all alliances with
other powers and all agreements made
in the past.
\\ Idle taking measures indispensable
for the defense of the country against
the foreign enemy, the government
will consider it its first duty to grant
the people every facility for express
ing its will as to the political regime
and will convoke as soon as possible
the constituent assembly on the basis
of universal suffrage, at the same time
assuring the gallant defenders of the
country their share in parliamentary
elections. The constituent assembly
will also issue fundamental laws guar
anteeing the country immutable
rights of equality and liberty.
The manifesto goes on to emphasize
this determination of the provisional
government to establish political lib
erty and equality and to assure the
participataion of all citizens in com
munal elections on the basis of uni
versal suffrage and it concludes by
promising the return from exile and
prison of all who have been punished
for standing by political and relig
ious ideas.
The daily papers definitely reap
peared on Sunday morning and showed
a remarkable change in their entirely
novel freedom from the censorship.
Each paper expressed the most in
tense enthusiasm in regard to the
revolution, and the front pages carried
joyful headlines.
The Novoe Vremya expressed grati
fication at the sympathy immediately
expressed in the allied press and also
at the attitude of entente representa
tives in Petrograd toward the new
regime. All papers take a hopeful
view of possibilities.
As the food 'question and the deci
sion of M. Rodzianko’s committee to
place lids matter in the hands of mu
nicipalities was one of the precipi
tating causes of the revolution, it is
natural to find municpalities and
zemstvos hard at work on this prob
lem. A list of maximum prices has
been issued which shows a decline
of something like two-thirds as com
pared with the previous week. Al
ready small dealers had patriotically
reduced their prices and in some cases
had been compelled to do so by sol
diers, who thought the method of
solving the food problem was to in
vade shops and order grocers to sell
at prices they considered reasonable.
The question of Finland and Poland
has not been lost sight of Genera!
Sevn, governor-general of Finland,
has been arrested and M. Roditcheff.
member of the duma, has temporarily
succeeded him. Baron Rosen, former
Russian ambassador at Washington,
may become governor-general.
M. Suinhufud, president of the
Finnish diet from 1909-1912, has been
released by order of M. Kerenski,
minister of justice, and a manfesto
as to Finnish liberties is expected
shortly from the government. In the
army, meantime, discipline, which in
some cases relaxed, is being quietly
restored.
JUMPING OF CLAIMS
IN TOLSTOI DISTRICT
CAUSES LITTLE FLURRY
—
IDITAROD, April 1.—News reached
here this week that there is consider
able excitement in the Tolstoi because
of claim jumping on Midway creek,
upon which discoveries of excellent
prospects were recently made. It ap
pears that William Stonbloch and Alex
Holmberg have relocated ground
claimed by J. W. Williston because of
alleged non-compliance with the pro
visions of the mining law which stipu
late that claims shall not exceed 1320
feet in length. The claims involved
are those upon which Williston re
cently gave an option.
Ground claimed by Stenbloch and
Jorgenson, also on Midway creek, is
said to have been restaked by Mrs. N.
S. Jacobsgaard and Pete Jorgensen.
The latter claim that the ground was
open to relocation for the reason that
the annual assessment work had not
been done.
It is quite probable that legal pro
ceedings will result from the contro
versies.
BOMB GUN INVENTED BY
PACIFIST MOST DEADLY
LONDON, April 10.—A deadly gun
that sends up 'nto the air, like a flock
of lead pencils, a flight of bombs
which sail down on their object with
unusual accuracy and terriffc explo
sive effect, has been affording the
British army in France a great deal
of satisfaction. Officers and men
have said it is much the most effective
short-range weapon thus far devolved.
It is known as the Stokes gun, taking
its name from Wilfred Stokes, inven
tor. Stokes is a kindly-looking iron
manufacturer, who says that until
this war he had never wished to in
vent a gun that would as much as
muss a man’s eyebrow.
Best music at Peterson's. 444
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In the New York World, under date
of March 15. there appears an article
telling of the arrest of one William
Kleinberg, in connection with a plot
against the government. A number of
people in Fairbanks are of the belief
that this is the William Kleinberg who
formerly conducted a drug store in
Fairbanks during the early days of the
camp.
The article reads:
William Kleinberg, a German na
tive, who says he has ben in this coun
try thirty-one years and lives at the
Madison hotel in Twenty-seventh
street, was held in $20,000 bail by
Magistrate Groehl in the Tombs court
yesterday for examination Monday.
He is charged with assaulting Wil
liam Dubilier, inventor of a wireless
telephone, wireless telegraph appar
atus and other devices used in the na
vies of France, England and the
United States.
Deputy Assistant District Attorney
Murphy told the court the federal
authorities were interested in the
case, and he had been informed
Dubilier was a representatives of the
United States government.
“Certain secrets of the govern
ment are at stake,” said Mr. Murphy.
“The complainant is furnishing them.
If he is destroyed the secrets are lost.”
Says He Has Navy Order.
Dubiler testified Kleinberg said
when arrested: “As soon as I get out
1 will kill you.”
Dubilier admitted Kleinberg was
once his partner. Kleinberg insist
ed government secrets were not in
volved, but the trouble grew out of
his attempt to get his share in pat
ents which he claimed he and Dubilier
had interests.
Dubilier said the partnership had
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been dissolved. About a year ago the
inventor returned from France, where
according to Bernard Sandler, his
counsel, he received the Legion of
Honor medal for providing the gov
ernment with submarine detectors.
These, the lawyer said, proved ef
fective until a German spy obtained
| the secret. Dubilier also is the inven
I tor of a wireless device by which air
ships may communicate.
He has recently, Mr. Sandler said,
talked with Secretary Daniels and re
ceived a large order for a new form
of condenser for wireless apparatus,
of which he alone possesses the se
cret.
The complaint against Kleinberg al
leges he threw Dubilier down, placed
his knee on his chest and threatened
to kill him.
United States Takes a Hand.
According to Mr. Murphy, Dubilier
said he had not seen Kleinberg for four
weeks, when the latter came to the in
ventor’s office, No. 434 Canal street,
yesterday and demanded 100 of the
condensors. The assault, according to
Mr. Murphy, followed Dubilier’s re-#
fusal, and in Kleinberg’s pockets were
several of the plates when he was ar
rested.
Assistant United States Attorney
McDonald said he requested that
Kleinberg be held, because he had
been told the plates were for the gov
ernment and bore secret numbers. He
said he and agents of the department
of justice would investigate.
Dubilier asked the police to furnish
a guard upon leaving court and the re
quest was granted.
Kleinberg denied to a World report
er that he had committeed an assault
or that there was anything secret
about the plates. He said he was also
manufacturing them.
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April 28
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