Loudon. Thursday. — Reports re
ceived at British war office this
afternoon states that there is great
artillery activity extending along
the Picarily-Flanders front.
The big guns are reported! to he
especially activevn the sector be
tween Villers Brettonneaux, Buc
quoy and Miteren.
NO CHANGES 70
Wasnington. Aug. 1.—Postmaster
Burleson announced this morning
that there would be no changes in
the operating forces of tne tele
graph or telephone lines which were
taken over by the federal govern
ment at midnight under a special
war emergency measure rassed by
both branches of congress.
CITY OP SEATTLE
SAILS FOR XOKTH
Seattle, Aug. 1.—The Pacific 5.
S. company's steamship City of Se* I
attle sailed for the north at noon
today.
Pa^engers' booked through for
Skagway are R- P. Bonham, T. V. |
Kemp, Nellie -Jaaqrrln. Mrs. H. Rob
inson. Elmer Robinson, Daisy Keller,
Mrs. Clarence Billy, Miss Duval,
General Manager Haines of the Pa
cific Steamship company, Mrs. Ira
Griffin, G. Burdotte
Passengers booked for Haines are
P F. Connelly and wife, W. L.
Holmes, C. C. Tinn.
ELKS WILL MEET
TONIGHT AT 8:^0
This oeiag tha first Thursday in
the month, there will be a regular
meeting oj Ska«rway Lodge No.
431, B. P. O. Elks. It is requested
that there.be a good attendance to
night as important business mat
ters will come before the meeting.
Washington. Aug. 1,— According
to federal officials, the American
Nation must steel itself for the
shock which it will receive when the
first great casualty list from the
American forces now at the front
is received.
These lists, the officials stated,
while not disproportfonate to the
scope and magnitude of the recent
fighting will be far greater than
the recent announcements of the to* ]
talg of American casualties, and
will Oring the war home to all A"
mericans as nothing else possibly
can do. •
PRINCE'S NEPHEW IS ALLY
PRISONER
Paiis, July 31.—Among the pris
oners captured in the Aisne-Harne
battle was a nephew of Prince von
Buelow, the former German imperial
chancellor. The officer, who was
a battalion commander, was as
tounded to hear that there was a
large American army in Prance. He
said he had been convinced, as
had all Germans, that the Ameri
can eoldiers in France did not ex
ceed 50,000.
Amon^ the heroes decorated by
President Poincare in his, present
visit to the battle zone was a
nephew of Premier C16menceau.
LETTERS ABOUT DEAD.
SOLDIERS TO BE SPEEDED
Washington, Aug. 1. — The de
livery of letters from chaplains and
Red Cross workers and others
to families or American soldiers
killed overseas, giving the details
of their death, are to b^ expedited
hereafter.
Such letters 'will be marked with
a small cross so that they can be
distinguished at once and will be
given the right of way and hurried
to their destinations.
CASUALTY REPORTS
Washington, Aug. 1.—The war de
partment announced this morn
ing that from reports received from
France the American casualties sus
tained for the past twenty four
hours are 125. Of this number 38!
were killed or died from wounds
and 63 were severely wounded.
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FRENCH THROW
MEM!
Paris, Thursday.—At aa early
flour this morning the German forc
es made aa attack on the French
positions ia the region of Bllgny
southwest of Rhelms, but they were
quickly repulsed with heavy losses.
b¥7ut
INTO BATTLE
With American Army on Aisne
Marne Front, Thursday. — The A
mreicans hare advanced within two
kilometers of Chamery, where Lieu1
tenant Roosevelt was killed by the
Germans as. he was flying over their
positions.
The Germans in this region are
stubbornly resisting the advance .of
the Americans and are using a new
gas having a white flame and a
great deal of sinoke.
JOHV J. BOYCE FORMER OF
FICIAL VISITING JUNEAU
Juneau, Aug. 1.—John J. Boyce,
United States District Attorney for
the First Division of Alaska for
nearly eight years, la a Juneau visit
or, the first time since leaving this
place in 1909. Mr. Boyce is here
on business and will remain a week
Or two.
After leaving Alaska*nine years
ago, Mr. Boyce went to California,
his old home State, and has been
livine most of the time at San Fran
cisco, where his home now is.
Mr. Boyce found so many old
friends in Juneau that he has been
unable to attend to the business
since his arrival on the Humboldt.
He has rooms at the Noyes resi*
deuce, where he roomed when he
first came to this city fifteen years
ago.
FLY TO NEW YORK WITH MAIL
LV TWO AND A HALF HOUKS
Washington, Aug. 1. — Airplane
mail was carried from Washington
to New York July 10 in 2% hours,
including the stop at Philadelphia.
The average rats of speed for
the entire trip was OTer 90 miles pel
.hour, and that between Philadelphia
ajid New York was 108 miles per
hour.
During the month of June the
Airplant Mail Service made the re*
markarle record of falling below
100 per cent only six times. Since
June 12 it has fallen below 100 per
cent only once.
Increasing familiarity of the fliers
with oonditlong attending the
flight* has resulted in a consider
able ahorteningg of the average
time. The direction of the com
pass If compared with the chart
every 10 minute® during the flight
and a* each of the larger towns
on. the route. la this way the routf
through the air as been accurate
ly charted.
KAISER MAKES
PROCLAMATION
i
Amsterdam, Aug. 1.—"The com
ing of the American armies to
France and the consequent numeri
cal superiority on the part of the
Allie^ armies do ny>t. frighten Ger-<
many," declared Emperor William in
| a proclamation which he has just
made to the German army.
"The vital forces which are I
strewing across the seas to the
enemy," he stated, ''are being at
tacked by German submarines which,
are certain of Buccess."
if Had
AIJKRAINE
Amsterdam. Au<r. 1.—According
to advice received here this morn- j
ing from Berlin, the German gov
ernment is today contemplating the
recall of Ambassador Von Mumm i
from Ukraine and if this is done
she will hand passDorts to the Rus
sian ambasador to Berlin and,
Ukraine. •
U. S. MASKS PROTECT SOLDIERS
AGAINST GERMAN* GASES
j Washington, Aug. 1.—Protection
against any of the gases now to use |
"oy the Germans is given to Ameri
can soldiers by the masks now be- '
1 ing worn. Statements that Ameri- I
can masks do not protect soldiers
from the effects of mustard .gas are
not warranted.
The masks now worn will protect
soldiers as long as they are requir
ed to remain in areas drenched by
gas. The clothing worn by the
soldiers will resist the effect of the
gas for a normal period.
As an added precaution the sol
I diers are now provided with a neu
tralizing ointment to be rubbed on
those parts of the body where mus
tard gas is likely to penetrate thru
the clothes.
V. s. WILL DISPLAY EXHIBITS
CIRCUITS OF L AUGER FAIRS
Washington, Au?. 1.—The Joint
Committee on Government ExhiDits,
representing the Departments of
| Agriculture, War, Navy, Interior,
and Commerce, the Food Adminitsra.
tion, and the Committee on Pub
lic Information, has adop-ted a
revised itinerary for the display of
exhibits representing the war-time
and other activities of the Federal
agencies.
Five circuits of larger fairs and
expositions throughout the country
have been planned, according to
an ann.QUcement by F, Lamson-Scrib"
n©r, of the Department of Agricul
ture, who la chairman of the joint
committee. J A J
BRITISH MAKE RAIDS OX HUNS
NEAR ENS
London, Thursday.—British forc
es carried out successful raids Bo31"
ens.
Fruit Jars,
Jelly Glass etc
WE ARK PREPARED 00 MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS FOR
CANNING SUNDRIES AT FOLLOWING PRICES:
Telly Glasses With Tops 60c per doz.
Mason Self Sealer Pints ' $1.10 per doz.
Maaon Self Sealer, Quarts £1.25 per doz.
Mason Sell Sealer WIDE MOUTH, Pint* $1.25 per doz.
Masos Self Sealer, WIDE MOUTH, Qts., $1.45 per doz.
Masoa Sell Sealing Tar Topat 35c per doz.
Mason Self Eelinag Caps, 20c doz. 8 for GOe. ^
Mason Porcelain Lined Jar Caps, 40c per doz.
Jar Rubbers—Best Grade—heavy, 10c per doz.
Parowax In 1 lb. bricks, 20o each.
Pewnita are now obtainable from ocal Food Administrator for
25 2b. lots of sugar for can king purposes.
P. H. GANTY
BAYONETS USED
TO DRUE HUNS
Pafcs, Thurdpay. — Reports from
the front aa glvea out by the Frenc
war office today state that the
German forces have been driven
from Meunler wood south of Fere
en Tardenols at the point of the
bayonet.
NOW MAKING 400
PROPELLERS PER I>AY
Washington, Aug. 1.—Twenty-five
experienced American manufacturers
are now producing & total of 350 to
400 highest quality airplane pro
pellers per day for the air service.
Ample stock of propeller timber is
already purchased r-r available and
the present supply of propellers in
this country is more than equal to
the demand.
The number of spare propellers
required for each fighting unit was
reduced by the air service recently.
Henco 't has been possible to cut
dowa the original program for the
production of propellers.
Amsterdamf Aug. 1. — Admiral
Von Moltzendorff, chief of the Ger- '
man naval staff Doasts in a sensa- ,
tional prediction which is printed
in the Tinden, a newspaper of Ber
lin, that it is only a question of
a short time until the German U
boats will completely destroy the
British fleet
London, Thursday. — The Ameri
can and French forces are attacking
on a front of more tfian three miles
in length on each Bide of Nesles.
The ape* of the Allied, wedge is
north of the Ourcq, and their great
est advance has been towards the
east.
Paris, Thursday. — Prom authen
tic sources reports haye been re"
ceived* by the war office indicating
that the Germans are endeavoring
to bring more men from the Rus
sian front.
PHYSICIANS TO BE DRAFTED
BY UNITED STATES
Washington, Ausr. 1.—The govern
ment plans to take active control of
the medical profession to assure
sufficient doctors for the Army.
Those not taken for the Army
will oo distributed in focalities
where most needed.
It is planned to have them enroll
voluntarily, and «hould the neces
sity arise they will be drafted.
PARIS OFFENSIVE
NOW COMPLETE
FAILURE
London, Thursday. — Reutar's
correspondent at the American front
in France has telegraphed the fol
lowing to his paper here this morn
ing:
"The Allied gains during the last
forty eight hours may seem small,
and some of them may seem exceed
ingly Insignificant, but the enemy
must accept his defeat as a smash
ing blow and as a forerunner of
evidence that his great offensive to
wards Paris from this sector has
■broken down completely.
"The enemy may plume himself
on his retirement, and claim that
It has been made according to care
fully prepared plans but U can
scarcely be accredited to hare been
accomplished entirely as to plan
by reason of the fac* that the Ger
mans left hundreds of tons of am
munition behind them.
"There can be no conception of
the enormous losses that the Qer*
mans hare sustained not only In the
nature of men. killed, wounded and
taken prisoners, but In th« losses of
war materials.
"The enemy moved his guns, but
tbe gunners, according to Bt*W
ments made by many who have been
made prisoners by the Allies, wer#
warned to he sparing of their am
munition, and to fire only when
necessary to support the Infantry
either In attacks or yrhile retreat*
ing:."
NAVY MEN NOT AFFECTED
BY OVERSEAS PARCEft BAN
"Washington, Au?. 1.—Referring
to department order No. 1269 of
March 28, 1918, and Instruction*
of the post office pertaining there
to dated April 8 and May 31, 1918,
prohcoiting acceptance for mailing
to memDers of the American Ex
peditionary Forces in Europe of
parcels containing articles which
are not being sent at the Written
request of the addressee, approved
by his regimental or higher com
mander or an executive officer of
the organization with which h« U
connected, postmasters are advised
that such restrictions do not apply
to parcels addressed in care • of the
postmaster at New York, N. Y., to
the officers and men on board Unit*
ed States naval vessels or attached
to naval bases and not addressed to
the American Expeditionary Forces
in France.
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As good in their inside make-up as
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Shapely, sturdy, smart suits for the
man who knows which way the
wind of fashion blows this year.
Patterns neither too loud nor too
modest, but just medium, for the
man who doesn't wish to appear
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range.
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