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No. iy-2 TWENTY FIRST YEAR
SKAGWAY, ALASKA. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. 1918
PRICE 10 CENTS
limy HELPS SERBS IN OBI
AGAINST BULBARS III SERBIA
London , Monday. — Official re
ports received fro ItaIy state that
Italy has sent a largo body of
troons into Serbia where they are
today assisting the Serbs in their
drive. The report says that at
last reoorts the Allied forces were
within four miles* ot the main, line ol
communication of the Bulgars with
Saloniki.
The enemy front in the Vardar
valley has been attacked at Doiran,
j and the last report said that the
operations were Progressing fayor
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DAIEIJ SET FOR
5
The Skagway local dr^ft board ia
in receipt of President Wilson's pro
clamation fixing the time for the
registration under the recently en
acted Man Power Act ia the Terri
tory of Alaska Hawaii, and Porto
RJca.
The time as set names Oct. 15th,
at 7 o'cclock in the morning as the
beginning of the time for registra
tion and December 16th at 9 o'
clock d. m. a« the final duy for
closing, Suudavs and legal holidays
excepted.
During this time all male Persons
la the territory of Alaska who have
attained their. ISth birthday and wit
havtf not attained their 46th birthday
by the said 16th day of December,
mutt register, excepting thos® call,
ed for und«r the original act and
those who have previously already
registered under the previous act.
This information, was given out by
II. J. Shaw, secretary of Local Ex
emption board No. 7, with the re*
Mueai that it be given pUDlicity
thrcugh the columns of the Daily
Alaskan
CASUALTIES REPORTED
Washington. Monday. — Three
hundred and thirty-seven casualties
were reported to American troops
In today's report from the French
irouts. Of this number 153 are
reported dead, and the balance are
wounded or missing.
Washington, Monday.—The cas
ualties reported' for yesterday gives
a l'n of 712 names, of tnis number
316 are reported killed or died
from wounds, and 525 severely
wounded, and 144 missing.
PEOPLE CAN
HELP WIN WAR
Washington, Monday. — Herbert
! Hoover, food administrator for the
I United States expressed his opinion
' tod'tv that the war war would l?e
won next year if every man, woman
and child in the United States did
hi* patriotic part towards bringing
'Uij success about. ^
WILSON" TKLLS OF PLANS
FOK Bit; LOAN ORIVE
' Washington, Sept. 23.—Frank R.
Wilson, publicity director of the
fourth Liberty Loan, today aanounc*
ed his plans for newspaper ad
vertising. Designs and copy for
the ads already have been prepared
»:id will be supplied free in the form
of ewspaper mats and plates to
daily or weekly publications. The
government will not pay newspapers
for the publication, but local com
mittee^ will canvass merchants and
business 'nterests in each community
to oay for the space.
I The Western Newspaper Union
h;»8 been made the publicity bu
' reau's agency for preparing and
! distributing mats and plates to
newspapers.
"Newspaper display advertising
| will be relied on more than ever to
sell bonds during the fourth Liberty
Lo^n campaign, which opens Sep
tsmber 28," says Mr. Wilson. '"In
full-page and part-page adver
tisements, designed by trained ad
vertising men, the story of Liberty
binds will be borne home to news
paDer readers. The campaign will
be one to advertise the war as
much as to sell bonds."
BAN K 'OF ALASKA
SKAOWAY, ALASKA
Branches at
ANCHORAGE CORDOVA WRANOELL
Resources Over $850,000
-OFFICERS
Andrew Stevenson, President E B. Ansley, Vi««-Pre»., Anchorage
A- A. Benton, Vice-Pres., New York G. K. Betts, Acting Cashier
W. H. Warren, Vice-Pres., Wrangell, B. A. Ross. Auditor
W. R. Hillery, Vice-Pres., Cordova R. N. Mover, Ass't Cashier
POPIU PltlM PlUCE
GEORGE MOWL. Proprietor
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QUARTET OF ALLIED GENERALS
BATTLE 10 ENCIRCLE ST. QUENTIN
I —
British Headquarters in France,
I (Received Sunday).—At an early
I hour this morning English troops
j m;ide five attacks on the German
1 lines midway Between Havricourt
wood and 3t. Queutin extending over
a front of three miles.
Paris, (Received Sunday. — The
most stubborn fighting that haa
been indulged in for weeks past is
going on today. Th© French war
office acknowledging that the fight
ing is taking place in the regions of
Cambrai. St Quentin and Soissons,
where the armies oi! Generals Byng,
Itawlinson, Debny and Manguin are
battling against the Germans.
London, Monday. — The British
war office announced tonight that
reports from Field Marshal Haig
stated that on the Western front
the British troops had smashed! into
the German lines at four different
polits.
The report says that advances
were made at Epliey and Vlllers
Gulsiain, and the British positions |
at Moenvres and north of the Scarpa
river were improved.
HONS READY 10
' LEAVE CAM
Paris, Monday. — The Temps, la
today's edition, saya that from d'es
patcneg received from Its corres
pondent on the ."Western front, the
Germans are evacuating Cambrai
and are sending the inhabitants of
that city to Mons.
G EKM AX AMERICAN
BOVS ARE LOYAL
With American Army in France, |
Monday. — An American force raid-,
ed the enemy lines in the neighbor- j
li^od of Haument in the center of •
tue new line across the St. Mihiel
salient last night, and in the opera-,
tlons captured twenty-five Huns.
FIRST AUTOMOBlIJiLESS
SUNDAY A SUCCESS
Washington, Sept. 23.—When Cas
per Metz, of the state of New Jer
sey, himself a veteran of the Franco
Prussian War, was notified that his
son. William, fighting with the
American army, had ljeen missing
since July 15, he expressed nothing
j but pride that his boy had been ablo
to serve so well th^ cause of de
mocracy. Regarding his own serv
ice In the Franco-Prussian War,
Metz said it wag an endless re
gret to him that he haii fought in
the war which helped Germany gain
power for the present conflict.
This is not an isolated case. The
list ot casualties from the battlefields
of France, containing an abundance
of names of soldiers o German de
scent, is lending a new dignity to
citizens of German birth in this
country. On July 4, in a patriotic
parade held in New York, a float
labelled "The Pilar of Fame-' and
containing the names of 250 Ameri
can sold*iere of German blood who
have been killed in the war raised
n storm of enthusiasm among Amer*
cans of all nations and races. Since
then the papers daily report not
merely the casualties of Americans
■oi German blood but ''so deeds of
heroism on the P&rt of soldiers and
officers of the German race. It all
proves that when once a citizen of
German origin Is convinced of the
justness of a cause, he figtg for it
with the greatest bravery and de
votion.
U. 3. Marshal J. M. Tanner ar
rived in Skagway thig morning and
will spend a few days here look
ing after business matters connected
with hi» office. He will probably
take one of the next boats t>ack to
Ma headquarters in Juneau.
Washington. — Reports received
by the United States Fuel Adminis
'ra-tion indicate tbat the request of
the administration lor the abandon
ment of pleasure riding in auto
mobiles on Sunday was thoroughly
observed throughout the country.
With automobiles idle, various
transportation methods were sub
stituted, President Wilson, who led
'he country in gasoline conservation
Sunday, went to church in an
ancient White House carriage, be
hind a pair of horses. His police
escort usually mounted on high
power motor cycles, rode bicycles.
The request of the Fuel Adminis
tration applied only to the terri
tory east of the Miasippf River, in.
which territory it ia estimated the
savins of gasolin© amounted to 7,*
600,000 gallons.
NEW JERSEY LAND BOUGHT
FOR U. S. ORDNANCE DEPOT
Washington, Sept. 2'3.—The War
Department has acquired' from 44
owners a tract of about 2,000 acres
near Bedricktown, N. J., to be used
for the Delaware depot of the Ord
nance Department. It is estimated
that when requisitioning ia complet
ed the total cost of the property will
be about $250,000. The tract is lo
cated on Oldmans Creefc, at its
junction with the Delaware River,
and ia oppoite Wilmington, Del.
Tn« tract of land ia one which ha
been und'er cultivation from colonial
times, there being a number of
residences on the Property which
will have to be removed la order to
complete the plans tor the new or<V
nance depot.
COOKING OIL
Wesson Large Size $ 1.90 per can 2 Quta. 14 oz.
" Med. " 1.00 " " 1 Qut. 7 oz.
" Sml. .50 " " 1 Pt. 3 oz
Mazola 1-2 Gal. Size $ 1.50
Quart " .85
r Pint " .45
Cotton Seed Cal. Tin $ 2.85 each
These oils are very palatable used in Salads.
P. H. GANTY
TURKISH tlY IS ANNIHILATED
BY BRITISH FORGES IN PALESTINE
London, Monday.—Advice receiv
ed from the far southern theater of
war this morning by the British war
office saya that General Allenby'a
operation^ in the northern, section,
of Palestine has virtually annihilated
the Turkish army there.
Thp British forces in their drive
through Palestine and the resi°n
north of there aro reported to have
already captured 18,000 Turkish
prisoners, and 120 guna have *1*0
fallen Into the hands of the British.
London, SePt. 23.—This after
noon's dispatches indicate that the
British have captured a total of
forty thousand Turkish, eoldlers and*
through the &elzure of the last of
passages to the river Jordan. The
British have traversed the famoua
battle field of Armageddon andi kav«
occupied the toyn of Nazareth.
Corunna, Spain, Monday. — Three
officers and twenty-seven, members
o* the crew of the Amricaa Steam*
er Buena Ventura, arrived' In this
ucrt this morning.
The Buena Ventura was torpedoed
by a German submarine yesterday,
and 64 persons who were on the
shin at the time besides those arriv
ing 'n this port, are missing.
AMERICAN INDIANS A8
SOLDIERS
Washington, Sept. 23. — Thous
and? of Red Indians who, a genera*
tion or two ago, decked themselves
out in paint and feathers, are today
wearing: the olive drab uniform of
the United States army.
At Camp Bowie, Texis, the H2nd<
Infantry is composed wholly of Choc
taws, and through this camp alone
are scattered more than a thous
and Indians. In Nebraska the Win
nebagos formed a company early in
ihe war, but the formation o! separ
ate units is generally frowned! up
on by the Government, which pre
fers, when poasbile, to piape the
Red men in the same companies
with white soldiers. Fourteen tribe®
are represented! in the service and,
when young enough, th© chiefs have
enlisted. In rank they scale down
from major, and almost every
branch has attracted some of them.
The Indiana have a good Liberty
bond record'. Although they are
not wealthy people, on the three
k>ans they have subscribed more
than $13,000,000, or between $30
and $40 per capita. The Osages,
wiib a population of only 2,180, Bub
scrioed $226,000 to the last loan.
Paris, Monday. — Th» French,
troops made noticeable progress
in their operations in the enclrcie
mea» of St. Quentin.
•* The advice from the front say®
thai the French forces pushed 1°
far on the south of St. Quentia and
tanlured' the village ftn<i a*
Vendeuil, situated nina miles south
eait of St. Quentin.
SAY IHEf WILL
HOLD J BACK
Amsterdam, Monday.—"Ws will
.uevei let the French or the Ameri
cana througn here" wag tha prom*
is« given to Emperor William / fojr
' liig troops when he visited th<j Al
sace Lorraine front on SeptembW!
' 20tli, says a despatch received her*
, Irom Berlin today.
|
I WHERE 19 ERNEST KERR
Juneau, Sept. 19, — The Gov
ernor's office is In receipt of *
request for information, regarding
the whereabouts of Mr. Ernest Kerr
who is supposed to be working for
a mining company in Alaska.
His mother, Mrs. Saraj; Kerr, ot
No. 6 Nicholson Street, Tempe, Syd
ney, Australia, i8 anxious to be8*
from him. , I ttdMM
If any person should know
present address of Mr. Kerr,, they
should communicate with, th$ Got
ernor'a office, or write direct to Mrs.
I Kerr,
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Today
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JAMES KENNEDY