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No. 90 TWENTY FIRST YEAR
SKA6WAY, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 17. 1918 • PW0E 10 CENffc
Washington, May 16. •— The Fed
eral Snipping Board today order coa
tra-ts let for two hundred more
wooden ships with a total of forty
seven hundred tons.
Charles Sciiwab, ehaiim&n of the
Federal Shipping Board aunouneed
today that ships aggregating ton
nage to the anivount of tea thous
' a.-d tons were being placed. in
commission at the rate of one e&ch.
day, and that ho hopes to increase
this to three each day next year.
The Shipping Board, today de
cided to build ono hundred, five
thousand tons more of concrete
shikis, eight of which will l>e built
on the Pacific coast.
Ideal Weather For Fighting
Hindenberg Makes No Move
With British Army in France,
Friday.—The Allies are still wait
ing for Hindenberg to show his
iian^1. There could be no more magni
ficent weather imagi^iWe for fight" i
ing than has favored the western :
front for the past forty eight
hours, but even this has brought
no change in the military situa
tion
The delay is said to be an in<Mea
tiou 'hat the next German push, will
be one ot great magnitude and of
terrific fierceness.
5,500,000 PIS
SHOES JOE
WO
Washington, Mai 17.—The Quar
ternips'er General's Department has
awarded contracts for the manufac
ture of 3,500,000 pairs of metallic
fastened field shoes for overseas
us;. The average price of the
sue ?Ssful bidders was approximate
ly 17.75 iw pair.
- Contracts liave also been awarded
fCr the manufacture of 2,000,000
pai's of field welt slices for Un
>"£d States and overseas service,
th>» average price hieing approximate
!y SO.50.
GERMANY GIVES.
ASSURANCES ?
Washington, Friday.—Moscow dis
patches received this morning by the
States Department of State
said that Germany has given as
sura ice to the Soviet Government
« that German armies will advance no
.further into Russian territory.
PEOPLE FEAR
; MILITARY RULE
Amsterdam, Friday.—Martial Jaw,
according to advice which has been
r^e'ved here, has been proclaimed
at Odessa by the Austrian mili
tary commandant at the request of
I the German government.
Street fighting: has been fre
quent in Kiev, an<l Austrian pa
tiols are in the streets endeavor
itie *o maintain order day and night.
Thousands of persons are fleeing
from the city fearing that there
mar be a general uprising, in
wnich event the military authori
ties might not be over particular
as to whom they punished'.
S\YS MEN KILLED IX BAT
TLE SURE OF SALVATION
Chicago May 17.—Men who die
cl' the tattlefied, whether they are
professing Christians or not, will
be saved. Dr. John Thompson,
secretary of the City Missionary and
Church Extension society, told) the
Methodist ministers at a convention
held Jn this city.
"Those men are In my opinion as
truly dying for mankind as did
39sus Cirvst." he said.
Special Offering On
Men's Suits
We are Offering a Line of Men's
Suits at $ 17.50
$ 1.50 Dress Shirts for $ 1.00
A Broken Lot of Men's Shoes at
One Half Off
ALBERT REINERT
Broadway between Third and Fourth Phone 41
LOGGERS PEAK POKER
ARE HELD UP BY BANDIT
Ai ARE ROBBED OF' POI
Evere't, May 17.—Fifteen loS"
' gers who were engaged in ft game
of poker last might were rudely iu
terrupted when a lone bandit walk
ed 'nto the camp house and ordered'
them to throw' up their hands.
Fourteen of the men, although
?.bey thought the man bluffing, did
not call his bLuff, and throwing
tueir cards on the floor threw; up
their hands, but John Jarnos who
l'elieved ho had a cinch on tho
_>ct, refused to obey the command
of the highwayman, and' was shot
|and inalautly killed for resisting.
After lulling the man, the ban
dit brushed the money that was
on the table into a sack and made
his get*away. Immediately the men
who had been covered by the gun
in the hands of the robber,
some of them first obtaining pis
tols or rifles started in pursuit, but
up to a late bour yesterday no
trace of the murderer could be
tonnd. 1
BALTIC FLEET
BACK III IE
Geneva, May 17. — A dispatch
from Hamburg: received today says
that the entire German Baltic fleet
with the exception of a few Jteht
cruisers was recalled last week to
the Kiel canal where an important
naval force of the Germans Is be
ing concentrated.
SIIEE HUNGER
MUGS
Amsterdam, May 17 —"To boar
.hunger without at the same time
suf(e:iag from headache Or any
other indisposition is very difficult
for most people," reads the open
ing SoMerce of a significant adver
tisement inserted in Sunday's Tag
liscbe Rundschau of Berlin by a
Berlin chemical firm, praising5 a
newly invented drug, which, tho'
no* forming a substitute for the
m nimum daily sustence, is an
ex ellAht preparation for ^tilling
premature hunger and "enables one
to hold out until the next meal
time."
AIRPLANES FAIL TO
GET THROUGH TO CITY
Paris, May 17.—German aero
ol»nes ' dropped bombs in the
suburbs of Daconi yesterday after
noon, but failed to break through
to the city proper.
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Easily attached to the stern
of rowboat or canoe —
ready to take you on enjoy
able outings, fishing and
hunting trips.
Portable, easy to operate,
always dependable.
Evinrude Magneto — Built-in
Flywheel Type — Automatic
Reverse — more ower and
speed.
Sold bu
P. H. Ganty
VICTORY 1UST
BE ESfl OF
Philadelphia, May 17.—Ex-Presi
d-ent Taft in au address •which; he
ni«do at « convention of the League
to Enforce Peace, pleaded that an
army cf five million men must be
raised and in substantiation of hie
plea said, 'It is war to the death.
We should set our faces in a stern, 1
manner ai:d our efforts should) he [
as unbond'ing towards but one end
to ihe war, .and that must be un
questioned victory."
Montevideo, May 16.—The Im-1
peri->l German government has noti- ]
tied Uraguay in response to a re
quest from that country as to a j
definition as to the relations ex
is'in^ Detween the two countries,
that it does not consider that
state of war exists.
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Washington, May 17. — A poa
sib'e 650,000,000 bushels, the great
est winter wheat crop since the re
cord breaking yield of 1915, to
gether witli a probable Increase of
15 per cent In the acreage of spring
wheat—that is the forecast made
in a report on the condition of
wir.ter wheat issued today by the
Chamber of Commerce of the Un
ited States through, its Committee
ou Statistics and Standards.
"The present acreage now
standing in winter wheat," says the
report, "is 20 per cent greater than
the acreage at the same time In
1917. But the greatest promise of
» high yteld of winter wheat is
found in the general high, condition
of the wheat, a condition which has
improved steadily since the first of
April. v 1
LATE REPORTS SAY BIO
GUNS STILL POUNDING
London, Friday. — Late reports
this afternoon from the French
bgttlefronts state that the Ger
man artillery fire is Increasingly ac
tife from Locon to Hinges along
the western 6ide of the Flanders
sal'ent and between the forest at
Nieppe and a point near Meterin
on the northern saUemt.
Paris, Friday.—Violent artillery
fightiu" in the region of Hailles,
which 's eituaitefl southeast of
Amiens is reported lata today by
'ne French war office.
REAL PEACE PROPOSAL WGULO ■
BE LISTENED TO BY BRITISH
London, May 17—Secretary of
Foreign affairs Balfour declared to
tile Brltl&b House of Commons In °
Si eech which he made on. the floor
today that Britain Is prepared to
consider peace proposals from tho
enemy provided tha( they are put
forward by accredited persons i»
a s'ragihtforwad1 manner. "If suj
representative of any; bolligeiea'
country desires seriously to J iy
before i_3 any proposals which a .V
found to be serious," ho said, ' >v«
ar°. ready to listen to them."
New American Army Being
Battallioned With The British
With Americaa Army in1 France,
Friday.—Troope from the newly
organized American army have ar
rived in France and are now With
in. the zone occupied t>y the Brit
ish forces In northern1 France.
The new troops are completing,
their training la tha area occupied
by the Allied troops which is block
ing the path of the Germans to
the English channel ports.
Tho American troops refered fo
as new American army) are forces
being brigaded and1 trained witn
the British troops, which will prob
ably be on the Flanders battle
front.
They are not troops which hav#
been; detached from Pershing's pre *•
ent forces but are a jart of a ve t
movement of troops recently arm*
ed from the United States, ■wbi; 1*
'weie forecast by Premier Llovl
Georee a short time ago.
Paris, Friday. — Announcement
was today made of the fact thai
American troops had1 arrived in N'of
thern France, In. the zone occupi~J
by the British fotces. The
nouncement concludes with t!>#
statement that the relations t-*
tween the British and American &'*
ficers and soldiers were extraort'.*
narily cordtfal.
CASUALTIES
ARE REPORTED
Washington, May 17.—In his
i-eoort to ttue war office yesterday,
General Pershing reported ninety
onp casualties to American soldiers
in. France. Twelve were killed or
diPd of their wounds and fifty nine
wer® wounded. The balance 9-re
m.asing. • •' ' :
Washington, May 17.—One hun
dred and six casualties, including:
21 Wild or died' of wounds, 72
wounded and the balance missing
ia reoorted from France today to
the War Office,
AMERICAN FLYER BAGS
ANOTHER HUN AIRMAN
With American Army in France,
Friday.—American aviators in the
section northwest of Toul brought
down another German aeroplane
tnls morning.
1,900,000 MEN IS
; PROMISED Blf
END 1918
Paris, Friday. — According t»
aa article printed in Clemenceac'*
3i;tr, Homme Lifer® this moraine,
tl » United States is sa.id to hava
p-omiseii to hare one million, ii»*
Jtiundred thousand fight log men i*
France by the and of 1918.
12 ME.V LOSE LIVES IN
ATIATION' AJOCIDENTH
W shington, Friday. — Tie ac
cidents happening oa American avia
l<oa 'ielde for the last two wee**
have cost the lives of twelve men,
according to announcement made by
the aviation department this men*
In'g.
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Spring Suits
With A Gentlemanly Air
About Them
As good in their inside make-up as
they are in their outside looks.
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
overdressed. No disappointment
lurks in the values at the price
range.
JAMES KENNEDY