SOCIAL UPHEAVAL IS PREDICTED
UNLESS FOOD PDICES CHECKED
Washlngtou, May 19 — Predict
ing a social upheaval unless rising
food orices are checked, George An
derson, special assistant *o Attor
ney General Gregory, today sub
mitted *o the house committee on
agriculture facts to prove the ser
ious s'ruatlon. confronting the coun
*ry.
Results of govenment investiga
tions, Anderson, declared, showed
that prices of food, the necessities,
l>a<l reached a point where sober
consideration by congress of means
to avoid a "social upheaval" was
imperative.
There are bills now before con
gress which would give the govern
ment power *o regulate production
and distribution of food products
and to fix .prices.
London, May 19.—Attacked in tin1
Adrift'ic sea by an Austrian war- J
ship, 'be transport Cameronia was j
eunlc and the British light cruiser,
Dartmouth, was crippled by a tor- j
l>edo, according to dispatches re-1
ceired hero today. One hundred
forty men. are missing.
The Dartmouth was acting as a
convoy to the transport. When the
Austrian battleship came up, the
cruiser immediately engaged with
her to give the transport a chance
to escaoe. A shot am. id ship, how
ever, sen' the troopship dewn.
Mos* of the soldiers were able
to get to the boats and were after
ward oicked up by th^" Dartmouth.
JUNE 8 IS BATE
RIVER 10 OPEN
Juno S is the date on which the
Yukon river is expected to open this
season at Whitehorse, according to
F. B. Wurzbacher, general agent
of "h" White Pass railroad, who re
turned yesterday from a business
trip to the Whitehorse terminal.
Stages have been leaving White
horse this week for Carmacks, car- <
rying a large number of passengers
who »xvect to take boats down the
river nex' week. Mr. Wurzbacher
said fhe Sutton and the Canadian,
the first boats out thig year, would
probably leave Cftrmacks Monday.
LOST—Purse containing 6mall a
mount of change and white rosary.
Please return purse and rosary and
keep change. Phone No. 9- 2t.
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SWEARING IN FIRST WOMAN TO ENLIST IN NAVY
Miss Loretta Walsh has the honor of being the first woman to be enlisted In the United States navy except
In the nurses' corps. She was appointed a chief yeoman and assigned to clerical duty at the Philadelphia navy
yard. She is only twenty.
PRESIDENT SIGNS Oil BiLL 1
CALLS 500,000 MEN 10 COLORS
Washington, May 19.—Signing th
war army bill, calling 500,00 men
:o the colors and ordering an ex
peditionary fore© of regular troops
to Prance, President Wilson last
Bight actively set in motion the
wheels of war.
The proclamation calling for the
first unit under the selective draft
law, was issued by the president Im
mediately after he had signed the
bill, under which America's first
jreat army for foreign service is to
t>e raised.
General Pershing, who led the
punitive expedition into Mexico
aat summer, will command the fore
>f regulare to be sent to France.
iVn early date is to be fixed for
;hejr transportation. General
Pershing and his staff may precede
the division.
J.une 5 was fixed today as re
gistration day for men between 21
and 30 years old, Inclusive.
Th§ registration date named, is
for the States. Registration day fo
Alaska will be named later.
A regiment of marines, command
ed by Col. Charles A. Doyea, will
accompany the army division to
France,
London, May 19. —- Thrilled by
the announcement that President
Wilson, bad signed the army draft
bill an-* had called 500,000 Ameri
cans to the colors, England is r©
j&icinr today over the war prepara
tions •» her American ally.
ME NON-COMS
Wita the appointment last night
it non-commissioned officers, the
>rgajuzation of the Skagyv-ay home
;uard has been completed. F. J.
fa.il do Wall, one of th© duty rer
jeants, has been made temporary
lecond lieutenant In place of Roy
3. Gaul*, who will be away for sev
eral weeks on work for the White
?ass railroad.
Sergeant Albert F. Bixby of Fort
tVilliam H. Seward, assigned as in
struct to the guard, will remain
lore another week.
The sergeants and corporals fol
ow:
First sergeant, W. C. Blanchard,
iuty sergeants, L. E. Reynoldsom,
Le« C. Gault, F. J. Van do Wall,
S. A. Rasmuson, David E, Dean, W.
U Landsborough.
M&33 sergeant, Tony Dortero.
Supply sergeant, Frank Pago.
Corporals, A. C. Blanchard, J. W.
CockriH, C. C. Cole, Harry Darling,
H. E. Eckenstein, N. O. Hardy, W.
R. Hillery Dr. L. S. Keller, Stef
fensou, A. A. Rousseau, E. Telfer.
The Princess Sophia of the C.
P. R. arrived at seven o'clock this
morn iu' wif<" thirty-nine passen
; rs. She also broug.' in 125 t,ns
ni freight, 25 tons of lumber and
1C head of _;vestock. Her sched
ul. d sailing i_our is seven o'clock
ih a evening,
The Prince John of the Grand
Trunk, arrived at 2 o'clock this
afternoon with nine passengers.
She sai.ed an Iiout later. (
The steamship Alaska of the Al
aska line will be due at 7:30 this
Bvening and the Dolphin, of the sai(^
line, at. noon tomorrow. A cargo
trt 300 tons will keep the Alaska
In »• rt seven or eight hours.
The Pacific Steamship company's
C ► of Seattle will be due Monday
at 5 a.m.
Among the passengers sailing
south on the Sophia this evening
will bo Mrs. W. L. Phelps, honor
ary regent of the Yukon, chapter, I.
O. D. E., and Mrs. George Armstron
both rf Whitehorso. They are on
their way to Victoria where they
will be delegates to the annual
meeting of the national chapter of
the I. 0. D. E.
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BASEBALL GAME
Crossing bats with the pogt team
from Fort .William JH. Seward, the
SJcagway baseball team wjll inaugur
ate its 1917 season, tomorrow after
110041 a* the White Pass ball i>ark.
The game will be called at two
o'clock. The soldiers- are said to
iave a strong nine and a fast game
is expected. -
Photo by American Press Association.
Brigadier General Carroll A. Devol.
TEDDY'S ARMY
REIMS HOME
• Washington, May 19.—Col. The
odore Roosevelt, at least for thq
present will not lead his division,
nto Franco. President Wilson to
da^ announced that, acting under
expert advice from both sides °f
the Atlantic, be would not for tb,e
present- authorize the expedition.
He complimented Col. Roosevelt for
.his patriotism in Organizing the div
ision.
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AVERS RUSSIA
Pe+rograd, May 19.—That Rus
sia is in the war to stick to the end
and tha* tli-c proyisonal government
is united in Us determination to
reject ajiy movement looking toward
a separate peace, was officially an
nounced here today.
Albany, N. Y., May 19.—Slackera
must look elsewhere than, New York
stata a.? a place to pull off "mills"
dur'na: the war. Governor Whitman
today signed the bill that bars box
ing from the state.
S"ii Francisco, May 19.—No lives
were lost when the Alaska cannery
ship, Standard, wac wrecked, yester
day off Cape Constantino, according
to a report received here today.
The ship was a total loss.
Washington, May 19.—That A
merican troops will be sent to Bel
gium, *o help protect tlws Belgiums
from the Germans, was indicated in
semi-official announcements here to
day. The number of soldiers to
bo sent and under whose command,
• ias not been made public.
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