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The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-23

inevitable sacrifice war entails said William c. Edes, chairman of the Alaskan engineering commission, dis cussing estimates and uncertainties connected with the enterprise, Al slsakseh aslne oE tlle aelay would 'BsKss intervened even under normal 'condi- tions.
 During the last two seasons we have practically completed the coastal sections of the line, along which we were enabled by transport conditions to work simultaneously at number of points. In the future we shall be constructing straight up into the 1n- terior, extending the line at most from only two points"
 Assuming the usual congressional appropriations become available, the commission which stir has some doubts about it's ability to secure even half the labor force it had year ago will center its efforts during the com ing summer upon the completion oi the main line from Seward to An chOrage, both of which are Pacific ocean ports on the Alaskan southern seabOard, between which a ra1i gap of seventeen miles now exists.
 Main railheads, in addition, will be pushed some forty or fifty miles to ward the Interior terminal, which is Fairbanks, opening the line approxi mately from Mile 215 to Mile 265, dis tance estimated from the ocean ter minus at Seward northward In Alaska, except in certain places and on certain types of work, the com mission has found that construction is only practical during the summer after May Is.
 The Alaska railroad. stretching uI i 560 mjles ill trunk ard branches to ward 1he Arctic cree. :.; literally fur thcsl north in lailrcad building ell terprise. and as | stands today has ] 25G miles of rails laid, has grades and cuts complete far ahead of rails, an1 location engineering entirely com pleted, It does not quite touch the 1 polar zone, for its northern limit al Fairbanks is 120 odd miles south o1 ] the great circle, but it's tracks cut across an area where the sun shines for twenty-two hours a day in June and Chairman Edes admits that the daylight saving prescribed in tho United States will appear trivial iron an Alaskan viewpoint
 Engineering and transport prob lems of no mean magnitude have beer solved and are being solved in the construction of the line, for it locat ors and even its grade crews must hold themselves abreast and ahead of the pioneer settler. With wori } proceeding from both ends of the line glance at the maps will show tht transport line built up to supply the } Interior terminus, stretching up from
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-23
WILSON URGES FURTHER APPROPRIATION
 FOR CONTINUING ALASKAN RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION

literally work wonders. The com mission, standing behind organizes the commissary, tools and equip ment.
 Our figures indicate that the av- craze scale Of wages we paid dur. ing 1917 would work out around $500 year." Chairman Edes said, but it actually doesn't run year for more than a part of the men, be- cause of the seasonal character of the work. I have no doubt but that we shall, have to revise our wage scales upward this spring, for Alaska is not now the high-wage country that it was"
 As a side issue to railroading, the commission operates, on a small scale, coal mines at Matanuska, on a branch line thirty-eight miles from the trunk, and is doing some port dredging at Anchorage, and building docks and coal bunkers at Anchorage and Seward. It is also operating sec tions of the ilne, in a sketchy sort of fashion, incident to the construction, with a passenger rate of cents a mile.
 To date, $23,67O,OO0 has been spent upon the enterprise. out of a $35,- 000,000 estimate for the total cost, which estimate Secretary Lane has raise dto $4O,OOO,O0O because of higher costs of labor and materials. Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Mears, borrowed fro mthe army for Panama railroad purposes, was a member of the commission, but has recently been returned to the army for railroad building in France, and in his regi ment has included an appreciable number of the Alaskan commission staff. Thomas Riggs, the third mem Der, has been named by the President to be governor of Alaska.
 One stretch of the main line amounting to seventy miles, was pur- chased for little over $1,000, 900, while more recently he commission acquired for $3OO,O00 a forty-ive-mile stretch of narrow-gauge road running out of Fairbanks to Chatanika. All of the rest has been built or will be built
 AS to whether the road will pay the commission ventures no predic- tion. and considers present traffic no guide to possibilities
 Since the United States took close to a billion dollars from Alaska. the government has adopted the policy oi making this return" Chairman Edes remarked, 'tand probably does not worry about the results. All our con struction amounts to pioneering. Both the mineral and agricultural possibili- ties of the area opened are quantities virtually unknown, and the railroad itself must be the final factor re- quired to prove or disprove their value"
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-23

WASHINGTON, April 23.-Presi- dent Wilson today sent to congress the report oit the Alaskan engineering commission, which is charged with the work of construction of the Alaska llEaatl
 The report urges continuation of construction work on the railroad dur 1ng the war, and says that $23,000,000 has been spent on the road to date. It estimates that twill cost $40,00O, 900 to complete and equip the road.
 The report says that 438 miles of the road has been completed, and that although labor is not plentiful in Alaska, the commission considers it advisable to furnish employment for what there is.
 To Furnish Employment for Labor
 A serious curtailment of work at this time, cominues the report, would be a grave blow to the country through which the road runs. Much material is on hand, and labor will not be cheaper for several years.
 In conclusion the report says that the Fairbanks district produced $3,350,000 in gold last year, and the coal fields along the road produced l 54,000 tons of coal last year. A big crop of potatoes also was produced
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-23
BRITISH NAVAL RAID BLOCKS ENTRANCE TO CANAL
THREE GERMAN SHIPS SUNK

LONDON April 2S-Ffrst Lord of the Admiralty Geddes tos the house of coons today that British naval raid all probability succeeded in blocking the entrance of the Bge British stoming parties had landed at the Zee brugge mole he said where German destroyer had been Tedoed and two bockadg ships had been sunk of the Bruges png beside the Zebrugge mole had blown up by obsolete submarine filled with explosives
 The British loss said the first lord consisted of de s1roypr and two coastal motor boats.
 1t IS believed that the British tried to block the channels be tween snd and Zeebrugge through which Gehan subma rnes pass on their way the North and English channel
 The plGit similar tohe attempt of Lieutenant obson c block the haTbor of Santiago during the Spanish American
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-23

WASHINGTON, April 23.-Con- struetion of the Alaska railway is be ing materially delayed by the war. and completion will be deferred in. definitely beyond the 1919 or 1920 date originally projected for it.
 While more than 5000 men were employed in the field during 1917, a force of perhaps 5000 is all that can be maintained through the summer of 1918, and though the $40.000,o0O un- dertaking stands at a stage 65 per cent toward completion. the remain. der may take much longer to con- struct than has the two-thirds so far built
 A linking up of gaps in the coastal section, and the pushing of main rail heads some forty or fifty additional miles toward the Interior, is the limit of construction which the commis. sioners feel certain that the shortage of men, materials and shipping will allow them to attain.
 That will be Alaska's share of the
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-23
LIBERTY BUN ]
 SALES STILL
 IN ASCENDANCY

WASHINGTON April 23.-RepOrts issued by the treasury department to- day indicate that the third Liberty loan bond sales n0w total $1, ,596, ,709,- 900
 Until further reports have been re- ceived it win be impossible to de termine whether St. Louis or Mime apolis districts exceeded their quotas first.
 Tfe Twelfth District
 SAN FRANCISCO, April 23.--The Twelfth federal reserve tfistrict Aas subscribed $139,2S4.75O to the third Liberty loan. The quota of the dis trict is $21O.000000.
 California Leads in Honor Flags
 SEATTLE, April 23.--The following from Liberty loan headquarters, un' der date of April P, has been received by Colonel Lenoir of the signal Serv- ice:
 -Four hundred and forty-efght honor flags have been awarded in the Twelfth district. Every city and county in Oregon now has it's flag Granite county was given twenty seven stars.
 "California is leading in the num- Der of stars, with 195. The total sub scriptions of the district, according tC official figures are $134,417,300. The percentages of quotas subscribed by the three principal cities of the dis trict are as follows: San Francisco 5298; Los Angeles, 57.S5; Seattle 4S.33. VAN SMITH"
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-23
ILL TREATMENT ]. ]. SOLDIERS
 BEING PROBED

WASHINGTON, April 23.-The state department is investigating the press reports of the ill-treatment of American prisoners of war in Ger many. If found to be true the ad- of retaliation, if protests are unavail- ing.
 There are more German prisoners of war in the United States than American prisoners in Germany
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-23

the United States through the Pacific Michael, at the mouth of the Yukon riySr. Steel, powder, food and equip men mpst go thousands of miles by Efailrsilspped to river boats, fgrcpd upward against the currents of the Yukon and Panama rivers, and then overland by a last painful stage of pack and wagon train to Fair banks
 Until last November the commits sion had a steamer, an army trans port borrowed for the work, but then the army took it hastily back for the more important duty of carrying sol diers. The commission will now de- pend upon commercial transport ia cilities. already greatly restricted, to deliver 5000 tons of freight this year over the circuit whose magnitude can be comprehended from any map. Sup plying the southern terminus will pre- sent less difficulties, for the sturdy ocean tugs can still put out from Pu- get sound and go safely up the inside passage" sheltered by islands from the Pacific winds, and bring the clumsy, heavy-laden barges into Sew ard and Anchorage.
 Building the line itself, across tun- dra wilderness. smiling valleys and sharp-edged passes alike of the Arctic coastal range, the commission has met conditions and problems strange to the railroader. For a part of it's dis tance it skirts a living glacier, and a glacier. as Mir. Edes remarks, is "a tfcklish thing
 You never know what it is going to do,' he says, "and from it we al. ways look for trouble We don't ac. tually run over the ice, but We have to skirt the gravel of the terminal moraines. And in the summer the ice recedes, loosing a veritable flood of water, while in the winter it pushes slowly forward again. Just now we run the line up on a trestle, high above the gravels, but the glacier working away, has always the ca pacity to change the entire topogra. phy of the country. Still, the diff culty is not unsurmountable."
 AS was done at Panama, the com mission has proceeded to it's task without any intervening contractor. The actual labor has been performed by station men," hard-bitten set of old hands. who have come through the era of railroad constructing in the West. Each of them, or perhaps a pair or group, agrees to construct 100 linear feet of the grade, whether il involves cutting down through a hill, building up from a swamp, or blowing out the hard rock, at a price based on quantity and type of ma. terial moved. Then they set their own pace, and their own hours, and
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-23
ALLIED TROOPS ARE PROTECTING
 COAST RAILWAY

MOSCOW, April 22.-British and French troops have been landed at Mourmansk, on the north coast ot Koka peninsula, to reinforce the Brit ish marine detachment landed there several weeks ago.
 Allied troops are cooperating with the Bolshevik forces in protecting the Mourmansk coast and railway against attacks of the Finnish White Guards.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-23
MOnE EARTH TREMORS
 HRE FELT IN CALIFORNIA

SAN .JACINTO, Cal, April 23-- Three more earthquake shocks yes terday made Hemet and San Jacinto shtver, but there was no further de struGtion
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-23
ALASKANS TO BE DRAFTED
 ON MAY 1

JUNEAU, spfil 23.-COmp1ytng with telegrapATc instructions from Provost Marshal General CTow&er to- day, the governors office announces that the date flor the going into effect of the draft has been advanced, and registrants will be called on May |, instead of .LInme 30, as formerly ;Sa- ,nOunceH
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-23
PRISONERS IN
 NOUN NTA|NS BY
 SUNDAY QUAKE

FL CENTRIC, Cal, April 23.-Two picnic parties and number of smaller groups of pleasure seekers are held prisoners in the mountains as a result of Sundays earthquake, which rolled large rocks down the mountain sides and blocked the roads.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-23

Bartley Howard will leave tomorrow morning for Strelna, where he will make his headquarters for a couple of months, having accepted contract from the Copper River railway to erect seven houses along the Chitina branch of the road.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-23
ARGEN TINE AND URUGUAY TO GO
 AGAINST HUNS

IIONEION, April 23.-Berlfn dis patches say that Argentina and Uru- guay are expected to declare war against Germany soon
 The Sherman newspapers have been notified in order to prepare the people for tti2H development
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-23

SEATTLE, April 23.-Thomas Riggs, Jr., who arrived here yester- day on his way to the North to assume his new duties as governor of Alaska, says there is no indication that the Alaska government railroad appropri- tion will be cut down. The labor shortage may delay work on the road this year, however. Governor Riggs intends to tour ritory's needs.
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-23
Another Account

another the statement that the British naval forces raded the German submarine bases Ostend and Zeebrugge Five old cruisers, which had been filled with crete to block channel aground blown up and abandoned by their Incomplete reports said the raid ''met with a reasonable measure of success"
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-23
REPORTED HUGARIANs
 HAVE ENTERED BELGIUM

WASHINGTON, April 23.-It is re- ported that Hungarians are now in Belgium. Many troops trains have passed through Liege.
 There will be a train for Chitina at o'clock tomorrow morning.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-04-25

Use "Get-Ir-see Corns Peel OFT

Tho relief that "Gets-It" gives
from -paibs-the way II makes
~ In one piece-is one OF the won
dcrs Of the world. The woman In
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-04-25
AMERICAN DEFENSE
SOCIETY WARNING,

Every German or Austrian in the
United States, unless known by years
Of association to be absolutely loyal,
should be treated as a potential spy.
Be on the alert. Keep your eyes
and ears open. Take nothing for
granted. Energy and alertness may
save the life Of your son. your hus-
band or your brother.
The enemy is engaged in making
war in this country, in transmitting
news to Berlin. and in spreading
peace propaganda, as well as lies
about the condition and morale Of
American military forces.
Whenever any suspicious act. or
disloyal word comes 10 your notice.
communicate at once with the Vigil
lance Corps Of the American Defense
Society, with the police department,
the local Office Of the Department Of
Justice. or with the national head
quarters Of the American Defense
Society. "a East 23rd Street. New
York City.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-04-25

thereG" he said. "They all were.
Every boy who goes into a trench,
every man who goes over the enemy
lines in an aeroplanc, every lad in
the navy. should have Victoria
Cross"
The swarthy face Of the man who
had been born in a gypsy tent and
who had spent the first sixteen years
Of his life as a vagabond was grave
as he tailed Of the latest word Of
the German advances.
at means that this is the crisis Of
the war. and that every energy must
be bent toward stopping the Ger
mans" he said. "The Kaiser is
beast His people for forty years
have been fed on the belief that they
must first crush the British Empire.
and then 'England's spawn, the
Americana The war must BE fought
to a finish. We've got to put the
Germans where they are in no posi-
ton TO do the world further harm.
The German Kaiser has perpetrated
deeds that would make an honest saw
age bow his head with shame. Ger
many has shamed the soul Of the
whole world"
Gypsy Smith will be in America
only a few weeks. During these
weeks under the auspices Of the Y.
NJ. c. A.. he will talk to the boys in
the training camps and TO other au-
diences Of his experiences just be-
hind the firing line. Then he is go
ing back TO his work in the trenches.
Going back?'he said. "Of course,
in a hospital in England talked with
a mere boy who had been wounded
four times. lie was all shot to pieces.
When was leaving after a long talk
with him, | said We'll. sonny, where
will we meet AGAIN. His eyes flashed.
In France. SIR he said Surely you
don't want TO go back TO FraneeT I
asked him. All. don't ~ he said
Where else is there for a man these
days. "
No new religion will come out Of |
the war, Gypsy Smith thinks, but a
great renewal Of the old faith. Ev-
cry man is a believer in God over
here. where the heroism Of the
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-04-25
MOVIE STAR ARRIVES IN
ST. LOUIS YESTERDAY TO
SELL LIBERTY BONDS.
(Dy international New. s.r,ie..)

(Dy international New, S-rviee.)
st. Louis. Mo-. April 23.-Miss
Marguerite Clark. one Of the most
popular moving picture stars in the
country, who with Mary Pickforl
and Douglas Fairbanks has been rs.
signed TO speak in the st. Louis Fed
eral- Reserve District in connection
with the launching Of the Third Lib
erty Loan drive. arrived in this city
to-day to speak TO St Louisans and
otherwise aid the local Liberty Loan
officials in milking the campagn n
success.
A complete schedule for the speak
ers has been mapped out and Il IS
expected that they will help mate.
rally in the sales Of bonds. The
speakers will travel in groups ~
three and will include a soldier or
other person who has been a. the
battlefront. Treasury Department
representative and an organization
man. The tours will be preliminary
70 the actual campaign.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-04-25
BENEATH STAMP WAS
MESSAGE-"THEY HAVE
CUT OUT MY TONGUE


(By International News Serviee.)
Auburn. Neb.. April 24.-Just be-
fore DIR. Wilkie. n well-known phys
ician Of this city, went to war he told
relatives that IL he was ever captured
by the Germans he would communi-
cate with them. and that they must
look under the postage stamp to get
the real conditions IL harm befell him.
A few days ago the family re-
eeived a letter from him, written
from a German prison camp. II was
the stereotyped message. saying he
was well, etc. Much Of il was de-
leted by the censor.
The letter was laid aside until
some one remembered what the doc
tor had said about a message under
the stamp. The stamp was carefully
removed. Under il he had written
these words:
They have cut out my tongue"
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-04-25

the homo. the shopper. tho dancer.
nee. the clerk inothe store. tho
worker In tho shop. have today. In
this great discovery, .Gets-It," tho
one sure. quick relief from all corn
and callus pains-the one sure. pain
less remover that makes cornS come
on as easily rs you would peel a
banana. II takes seconds TO ap-
ply ~Oets-It''; ~ dries al once. Then
walk with painless Joy. even with
VIII loosen from your toe-peei II on
rith your fingers. Try nwcorn sur
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Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-04-25

who are fighting the Kaiser. He has
been doing II up where the big
noise u.s." with no thought Of danger.
He went through four gas attacks.
Times without number he went into
the trenches with the men. and for
three years he was never outside the
danger zone.
ITS the biggest bit Of work God
ever gave me TO do" said Gypsy
Smith yesterday. They've got my
heart, those boys Of ours and those
boys Of yours, who are fighting with
out thought Of being heroes. I'd
rather unite their shoelaces than
preach the greatest sermon in the
world. ! just wanted TO serve them
and didn't care whether I did II
washing cups or scrubbing floors or
handing out chocolate or preaching. ="
Speaking Of decorations. Gypsy
Smith has his own ideas Of who
should get them.
"The bravcst man / saw over
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-04-25
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Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-04-25
WOMEN OBJECT TO BEING
CALLED WEAKER SEX"
MAKE GOOD AS GUARDS
(By international New. Service,

New Britain, Conn, April ga
When a woman was appointed as a
railroad crossing gate tender and a
local reporter referred 10 the sup.
planting Of "mere man" by the
weaker SEX" the item drew fire.
both from the male gate tenders on
duty and a score Of women who OBJ
jected TO the reference to their sex as
the weaker Of the two. Nevertheless.
il is reported that the New Haven
road is entirely satisfied with the
first woman gate tender and will
other men II the war makes
i necessary.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-04-25
GYPSY SMITH
THE NOTED
EVANGELIST
TELLS WHY kAIsER's GOD IS
HIS DEVIL AND WHY HE
WOULD LIKE TO KILL
HIM.

New York. April 2i.-"Pve been
loving people all my life. but could
shoot the Kaiser and feel that was
doing a favor to God. The Kaiser's
God is my devil"
Gypsy Smith, one-time vagabond.
for forty years the worlds greatest
evangelist, and for the past three Of
these man-of-all work for the Young
Mems Christian Association just be-
hind the British firing Hncs in France.
made this declaration Of hate to-day
with a fcrvor that shook the dingy
red fragment stitched to the breast Of
his "Y" uniform.
That little red flag. already dimmed
by the grimes Of the trenches. where
Gypsy Smith has stood side by side
with the men who fought, making
his machine gun speeches" up there
where the big guns were rival orators,
didn't lock like much. To Gypsy
Smith IL wasn't much. lie wouldn't
even talk about il.
In. fact, the little red flag was moth
ing more than a decoration by the
King Of England. II wasn't just for
hating the Kaiser. Of course. that
Gypsy Smith was honored at Buck
ingham Palace. Lots Of folks would
be wearing Victoria Crosses II they
came that way. Gypsy Smith got his
decoration the has a medal besides
the red fragmenD for shooting the
Kaiser by proxy.
For three years he has been put
ting new soul and spirit into the mn
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-04-25

Sold in Hopkinsville and RECON-
monded rs the worlds best corn
remedy by L. l.. Elgin.