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The sun., 1918-12-17
ALLIED BANKERS 70
, OPERATE IN RUSSIA
Plan to Establish Financial
Institution in Arch.
angel.
NEW YORK Is INTERESTED
Business VIII Be Confined ID
Districts in Control Of
Friendly Armies.
NEW YORK Is INTERESTED

Representatives Of bankers IN tNs
allied countries, II was learned yester-
day, have Just completed the formation
Of the State Bank OF the Northern Dis.
trict of Russia, with Offices at Archangsi.
This marks tho first step in the banking
regeneration of Russia, which has o.
long been dominated by the Bolshevik,
with an entire disruption Of It's banking
and business system.
Although the banks operations an
confined of course to the territory nov
held by the Allies or by tho peoplea
friendly to them, the State Bank IL 10
be extended Just as fast as the Allics
enlarge their control. Tho bank is 10
Issue ruble currency with an initial value
Of 40 rubles to the pound sterling Or
approximately IL cents a rube The
new currency Is 10 be secured hy Rus
sian gold now on deposit with the Bank
Of England.
1t is understood that at least one PR
vate New York banking house is par
ticipant and that others will be In the
new banking scheme, which IL said 70
comprise the nucleus for a state bank
| for the new Russia which is to artsn
| from the ashes OF the present continent
The news of the extension Of bank.
ing system. established along sound and
| fundamental lines. to tho new Russia
follows the announcement in Washing.
ton last week that trade and business
! with the portions OF Russia held by ths
Allies or those friendly to them can now
be safely entered upon by American
business II indicates that events fore.
shadowing the fall OF tho Bolshevlki are
60 N hao far h..,
| reported.
Local bankers arc optimistic regard
ing the prospects OF early return 10 bus.
ness stability in Russia They were
unwilling to predict Just how much aid
can be given by the newly established
State Bank of the Northern District, bu.
they look forward to an early resJrnp-
ton of commercial Intercourse with that
country.
The sun., 1918-12-17
CUDAHY PACKING
PROFITS DECREASE
Net Income for Year $685..
808-High Costs Cut
Earnings.

The annual report OF the CudsAy
Packing Company for the year ended
November ., 1918, made public yeste'-
day, shows net profits Of s3,s7ssm.
equivalent, after deductions for pre-
ferred dividends, to $c444 a share %
the s11,449.500 common stock outstand'
ing. This compares with pronts OF 50
430,529, or $33.64 a share, In tie preced-
Ing year.
In his statement TO tho stockholdsru
+. A Cudahy, president, says that IN
creased cost OF materials, labor and ivo
stock are responsible for the increased
prices of meats. He points out that n"
company in 1913 paid to the 1--we stock
raiscrs OF the United States, s1j,oo'N"
for animals purchased, while th'9 y'sr
the farmers received more than SlN
900, 900, and the increase IN weight NJ
animals purchased was not nor" than
331-3 per cent. over tho volume % tvs
years ago. The statement SAYS IN n'T'
Cheap meats cannot be made IRON
high priced live stock with high priced
labor. Neither does the tota. pa'NeFS
profit, which amounts at best - frao-
ton OF n cent a pound, have any maze
rial effect upon the prices which we
consumer pays to the retailer FOR mea"
and other products.
During the period OF the var c'
most marked change from the pat wa
the large measure Of control cN'rc''"'
by the Government. This existed tH-olF
the Food. Railroad and Fuel admu''
trat.on, wage and arbitration boards
exports and rriorities ver" rcer7 'ei
also there was control of profits tnTolf
taxation IN many items. even TNe'
were fixed by the CioNerum' 80.
IN 1918 for the first time The r'-,s'
sales OF tho company were ah''" Sl'u
Gee 600. The excess waG from pT"'7,''
not derived from "n!wa's. During ,''
fiscal year just closed oar gross Ni.'
have amounted to around S2Se.ooo ooN
Of which s5O,O00.O0O approximately la"
been from non animal produces
The sun., 1918-12-17

647.sls; barley bu,. 77.s77: -four. bbls
4S,0o5; -four, sacks. 27.292 oil cake
lbs. 1,76l,too; beef, obls., 2,S65; hams
lbs, 5s7,3Ss lard. lbs. 7,495,lO5: cot
tonseed OIL lbs. l,O0s,000 corn. hu,
$685.; beans. bu., 1873: oatmeal
pkgs. 2l.27S; grass seed. bags. 2,7lO;
beef. ties. 80; bacons. lbs. l5,26l.776
butter, lbs. $3.50; cheese. lbs, 1880
lubricatlng oil. gals, 65s, 900.
The sun., 1918-12-17

Exports from New York yesterday
included; wheat. bu,. 59l,1S7 peas. bu..
e.429 oatmeal, pkgs.. 1875: lard, lbs.
&05,SO0; oats. bu. 4l9,S32; beans bu.,
25,3l4: oil. cake, lbs. l.0Tl, 500; bacon,
lbs, 1.40i.90o 'lubricatng oil. gals,
42.250.
Exports from New York last week
included: wheat. bu.. 1.704.s2s; rye, bu,.
The sun., 1918-12-17


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The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-02-22

tons early life. probably because there was little unusual to tell. The story of the hatchet and the cherry tree and similar tales, are quite apocryphal, having been coined by Washirgton's most popular biographers; Weems.
 The boys life was not different from that common to Virginian families in easy circumstances. Hunting. fishing. plantation affairs. and a little reading made up it's substance. His education was but elementary and very defective. except in mathematics, in which he was largely self-taught.
 Sparks has edited" the spelling. grammar, and rhetoric of Washington's 8 writings to such an extent as to des- troy their value as evidence. He was then at Mount Vernon with his half brother Lawrence. who was his guard ian. Lawrence was the son-n- law of his neighbor Lord Fairfax, with whom he had served at Carthagena, and had made the acquaintnce of Admiral Yer non. from whom Mount Vernon was named. commission as midshipman was obtained for George through the
 Admiral, but the opposition of the boys mother put an end to the scheme. As a substitute. the appointment as surveyor of the enormous Fairfax property was given to Washington at the age of sixteen; and the next three years of his life were spent in this ser vice. He always retained disposition to speculate in western lands; many of his later investments were of this kind, and they are treated in Butter fields Washington Crawford Letters" :" He seems already to have impressed mind and character, for at the age of nineteen, when the first indications peared, he was appointed adjudant of the Virginian troops, with the rank of major; on the death of his half brother Lawrence in the following year he was cXecutor under will, and resi- duary heir of Mount Vernon; and in 175S, when he had barely attained his ma jority, the young man was made commander of the northern military district of Virginia by the ncwLieu- this point in his career that Washing ton appears in Thackeray's Virginians, but the portrait--there drawn of q "shrewd young man" on the lookout for a rich wife is not accepted as life like by Americans.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-02-22
BE PREPARED

The many strikes and other serious gent economic discontent which has been chronicled almost continuously for some time past, will impress itself upon all readers. Those workers who know what they all signify, who un- lerstand that they mean labor is in revolt against the bonds of capitalism, will now more than ever exert them- selves to develop the industrial idea among their fellow workers, and which must be grounded upon solidarity upon organization without no kind of action can be effective
 Be Prepared" Without the pre- paredness which organization brings, these symptoms of revolt, and of dis content can turn very easily into the grimest of grim-most barren trage- dies. Organization in one big union of all workers aligned along industries can alone provide preparedness. Now is the time to organize. Now is the time to effectively prepare for the future, and the Industrial Union is the future of the human race.
 It would be a terrible thing should the efforts and the energy and the workers be taken unprepared, and lives of their fellows be spent in vain. One thing alone, can avert that even tuality, and that is thorough organi- zation of the working class.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-02-22

Uncle Sam is refreshing Brother Johns memory in reference to George Washington.
 He's telling him that George Wash ington, the first president of the Uni ted States was born in Westmoreland county Virginia February 22 Gold style Feb. 11,) !7S2. One lawless gen. ealogist has traced his ancestry back to Odin. Another genealogy since giv- en up with much regret connected the family with the Washingtons of North humbelland or Durham, England, The ancestry of Washington can be traced no father back than his great grand father, John Washington, who settled in Virginia about 1854. His eldest son Lawrence, had three hildren-John Augustine, and Mildred. Augustine Washington married twice. By the first marriage, with Jane Butler, there were four children, two of whom, Law renee and Augustine, grew to man. hood. By the second marriage, with Mary Ball. in 173O there were seven children-George. Petty, Samuel, John, Augustine, Charles and Milfred. The father died when George was but twelve years old; Lawrence inherited the estate now known as Mount Yer non and George his fathers usual resi- dence, nearly opposite Fredericksburg.
 Very little is known of Washing
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-02-22

At the outbreak of the French and Indian war in 1753-54 Washington was the agent sent by Governor Dinwiddie to warn the French away from their new forts in western Pennsylvania the command of the Virginian troops who began hostilities fell to him. and his vigorous defense of Fort Necessity (see United States, vol. XXIII. p 734-35) made him so prominent a figure that in 1755, at he age of twenty-three, he was commissioned commander-in-ch of all the Virginian forces.
 He served in Braddocks campaign, and in the final defeat showed for the first time that fiery energy which al- ways lay beneath his calm and unruf- fled exterior. He ranged the whole held on horseback, making himself the most conspicious mark for Indian bullets, and, in spite of what he called the 'dastardly behavior" of the regular troops, brought the little remnants of his Virginians out of action in fair order In spite of this reckless ex- posture he was one of the few unwound- ed officers. For q year or two his task was that of defending the frontier of more than $50 miles with TOO men; but in 175S he had the pleasure of con- manding the advance guard of the ex- pidition which captured Fort Du Quesne and renamed 1t Fort Pitt.
 The war in Virginia being at an end, he resigned his post married Mrs. Curtis a widow, and settled at Mount Vernon.
 Washington's life for the next twenty years was merely that of a typical Der of the Established (EpiscopaD church, a large slave holder, a strict but considerate master, and widely trusted man of affairs.
 His extraordinary escape in Brad
  ter to declare in a sermon his belief that the young man had been preserved to be 'the savior of his country" If there was any impression it soon died away. and Washington gave none of his associates reason to consider him an uncommonly endowed man. His marriage had brought him an increase of about $10O,0OO in his estate; and his diaries show comparatively little reading. a minutely methodical conduct of business, wide acquaintance with the leading men of the country, but no strong indications of what is usual fly considered to be greatness" As in the case of Lincoln he was edHcat- el into greatness by the increasing weight of his responsibilities and the manner in which he met them Like others of the dominant caste in Vir- ginia. he was repeatedly elected to the Legislature, but he is not known to have made any set speeches in that body, or to have said anything beyond
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1918-02-22

la statement of his opinion and the great deal, and took full advantage of his legislative experiences as a polit- ical education is shown by his letter of April 5, 1769, to his neighbor George Mason, communicating the Philadel- phia nonimportant resolutions, which had just reached him. He considers briefly the best peaceable means of resistance to the policy of the ministry but even at that early date faces frankly and fully the probable final necessity of force, and endorses it. Without speech-making he took a prominent part in struggles o6 his legislature against Governor Dunmore, and his position was always radical one. He even opposed petitions to the king and parliament, on the ground that, the question had been put by the ministry on the basis of right, not of expediency, that the ministry could not abandon the right and the colon- ists could not admit it; and that pe- titions must be, as they have been re- jecteds Shall we," says he in a letter, after this whine and cry for relief?" In 1774 the Virginian Convention. ap- pointed seven of it's members as dele gates to the Continental Congress, named Washington as one of them; and with this appointment his national career started
 Gro be continued tomorrow)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-29
KAISER WATCHES
VICIOUS BATTLE
AT KENNEL HILL

Amsterdam, April 29.-Emperor
William watched the battle for
KENNEL hill on April 25, says the
correspondent at the front of the
Berlin Lokal AnZeiger.
"As early as O'clock" the cor
respondent telegraphs, his majes-
ty posted himself on an advanced
field position which gives a view
over the range of heights southwest
of Ypres and which in the early
morning light positively shook un-
der the roar of our gunfire. This
thunderous gun chorus composed a
stupendous picture of modern
battle
Every stage of the battle-the
advance of the rolling curtain of
fire. the storming Of the infantry
and the ebbing of the fire-could be
exactly followed.
THE emperor personally mark
ed all the results on maps. He re-
manned absorbed in the contempla-
tion of this war picture until the
late afternoon On returning to
headquarters he reviewed two di-
visions which had especially dis
tinguished themselves.
IaRuy n Liberty BOnd--
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-29
WAR SUMMARY

During the last IL hours
there has been a lull in the
infantry fighting In Flanders
while the Germans were pre-
pairing for greater efforts TO
drive the British from Ypres
westward toward the channel
ports.
London this morning reports
heavy bOmbardments opened
by the Germans on the entire
front between Meteren and
VOormezeele. south and south
west OF Ypres. Infantry at
tacks followed.
An enemy attack which de-
velOped yesterday afternoon in
the vicinity of LOcre, west of
Mont KENNEL, was repulsed
by the British.
According to Paris. the Ger
mans made several attempts
Inst night 10 advance ON
French positions In the Han
gard wood on the front before
Amiens, but were checked by
French fire.
Ii is now announced that
American troops have taken up
positions on the French battle
front facing the Germans ON
the line barring them from
Paris and Amiens.
Dispatches from Finland con-
tlnue TO report rumOrs that
Alexis, the little son OF the
former Gar Nicholas. has been
proclaimed emperor OF Russia,
and that the new government
will not he .bound by the Boil
sheviki-German peace treaty.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-29
RUSSIASENT
DEMAND
BY GERMANY
Huns Threaten OF Take
Petrograd Unless Slavs
Come to Terms.

Washington, April 29.-Ger-
many has demanded of Russia
an exchange of prisoners and
has threatened to take PetrO-
grad unless the Russian gov
ernment agrees to the terms ad-
Vanced, the state department
here has learned.
The German government is send
ing to Russia a commission of lis
members to present the German
demands.
The German demand, as outlined,
calls for the immediate release of
all German prisoners who are in
good health; that those who are i'll
shall remain in Russia under the
care of neutral physicians and that
the Germans on their side will re-
lease only those Russian prisoners
who are i'll or are ihcapacitated.
Prepare for Revolution.
Moscow, Saturday, April 2O.-(By
the Associated Press "A congress
of war prisoners, representing all
nat:onalities of the central empires,
has been in session here for the last
few days. There are several hun
dred members, all Internationalists
whose aim is preparation for a So
cial revolution in western Europe
and the establishment .of a soviet
republic.
No reply has been made to the
German governments demands sent
sent b. wireless to Foreign Minis
ter Tchit Cherin concerning the
status of war prisoners. The Ger
man note said information had been
received that war prisoners in Si-
IBERIA were forming revolutionary
forces. Germany urgently demand
ed disarming of the Omsk prison
ers, the placing of Russian troops
in charge of the camp. the segrega-
tion of Germans and Austrians,
measures to insure the free return
of prisoners from Siberia, and ac-
tion by the Russian government to
prevent the meeting of the Moscow
congress. The arrest of the pris-
oners' committee and an immediate
report were also demanded.
Peace Treaty Denounced.
London. April 29.-The newest
Russian government in Petrograd
according to the Aftonbladet of
Copenhagen, says the Exchange
Telegraph dispatch has denounced
the Brest-Litovsk treaty with Ger
many. 1t calls for a new treaty
with Esthonia under Russian rule.
(An Associated Press dispatch
from Stockholm Sunday reporting
rumors that former Grand Duke
Alexis has been declared emperor
of Russia in counter revolution.
added that the new government
ould refuse to recognize the new
treaty with Germany. Esthonia
borders on the southern coast Oh
the Gulf of Finland. 1t has been
reported that Emperor William was
to become Duke of Esthonia and
that Esthonia was to be closely all
lied to Germany
7 Eynnd--
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-29
PRESIDENT PICKS
CORPORATION OF
FINANCE CHIEFS

Washington, April 29.-President
Wilson today appointed four di-
rectors of the new $55,000,000 war
finance corporation and new capital
issues committee provided for in
the finance corporation act.
Directors of the corporation are
William P. G. Harding of Alabama,
Allen B. Forbes of New York: Eu-
gene Meyer, Jr of New York; An
gus W. Mclean of North Carolina.
Members of the capital issues
committee are: Charles S. Ham
line of Massachusetts: John Skel-
ton williams of Virginia; Freder-
ick M. Delano of Illinois; James B.
Brown of Kentucky; John S. Drum
Of California; Henry C. Flower of
Missouri and F'redeick H. Goff of
Ohio.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-29
Dutch Glue in
tODenandS of
Kaiser, Claim
(By Associated Press J

The controversy between Holland
and Germany, it is reported unof-
ficially in a dispatch to London, has
been settled by Holland agreeing
to the transport of sand and gravel
through Dutch territory from Ger
many to Belgium. II yielding to
Berlin's demands, the Dutch gov
ernment is understood to have stip-
ulated that the amount of sand and
gravel used in making concrete,
must be limited and cannot be used
for military purposes. Rumors in
The Hague are that Foreign Min
lister Loudon will resign as re-
suit of the passing of the diplo-
matte crisis
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-29
CRUCIAL TEST OF ALLIES
HOLDING POWER BELIEVED
AT HAND; FIGHTING BITTER
Official War Reports
(French War Report J

Paris, April 80. During the
night the Germans attempted
several times to attack the
French positions in Hangard
wood. Our fire checked all
their efforts. There was great
activity of the artillery on both
sides between Villers- -BreOnt-
teux and the Luce river and in
the region between Lassigny
and NOyOn.
A German raid north OF GIRL
yemer was without results.
French detachments penetrated
the German lines in the yicin-
ity of COrbeny near COurcy, on
the right bank OF the Meuse and
in the upper Alsace, bringing
back prisoners. There was very
heavy artillery fighting at
FOsses wood and Caurieres
wood, (Verdun 'front.'
On the remainder of the front
the night passed quiet.
- british War Report.)
London, April 29.-The hos
tile attack reported developing
yesterday afternoon in the
neighbOrhOOd of LOcre was re-
pulsed by rifle and machine
gun fire.
A heavy bOmbardment with
high explosives and gas shells
was opened by the enemy this.
morning on the whole front
from Meteren to VOOrmeZeele,
and infantry attacks are now
developing.
The hostile artillery has also
shown great activity during the
night from the river Scarpe to
Lens and between Giyenchy
and the fOrst of Nieppe.
BY successful enterprise
carried out by us last night the
post i'm the neighborhOOd OF
Festubert captured by the en-
envy on the night of April 26-
%, was retaken by us together
with over fifty prisoners.
A number of prisoners and
four machine guns were Sc
cured by us I'm successful raids
south of Albert and in the
neighbOrhOOd of Neuyille Vi
tasse. &.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-29
KANSAS LAWYER DIES.
LATE BULLETINS

Toxic. Wednesday. April "a
by the Associated Press
Whatever Japan may do in the
future i'm regard to Siberia will
be done with the full consent
of her allies. said Baron Shim-
pei GotO. who yesterday was
installed as foreign minister,
in an interview today.
Washington. April 29.-Lieu-
tenant G.. De Freest Larner, an
American aviator, has brought
down his second German air.
plane. Flying alone he attack
ed the German machine. killed
the observer and shot the ma
chine down in flames, killing
the pilot, according to word
which has just reached WASH
ingtOn.
Amsterdam, April 29.-Dr.
Alexander Wekerle, according
TO a Budapest dispatch to the
LOkaI Anzeiger Of Berlin has
accepted the invitation of En-
perOr Charles to form a cabi-
net in succession TO the one
under his premiership which
resigned recently.
Amsterdam, April 29.-Three
new long range German guns
made ut Dusseldorf for the
h0mbardment of Paris accord
ing to the correspondent at
Maastricht, of Les Novelties.
passed through Belgium last
night In the direction of
France.
Tampa, Fla. April "a
strike of cigaretmakers here In
which the strike committee
claims $3.50 workers went out
began today.