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The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-24
"Over the Top" BY An American Soldier
 Who Went
 ARTHUR GUY EMPEY Machine Gunner Ssroins in Franee
tGopyright, lsi7, by Arthur Guy Rmpeyl
 SYNOPSIS.
M0rhine Gunner Ser0ins in France

CMXPTER Hired by the news of the sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine, Arthur Guy Empey, an Anaeri- can, leaves his office In Jersey City and gees to England where he enlists in the British army.
 CHAPTER IT-After a period of train- ing. Empey volunteers for immediate serv- ice and soon finds himself in rest Ailleta ''somewhere in France" where he first makes the acquaintance of the ever-pres- eent "cooties'
 CHAPTER III-Empey attends hks first church services at the front while a Ger man Fokker circles over the congregation. CHAPTER Iv-Empey's command goes into the front-line trenches and Is under fire for the first time.
 CHAPTER Y-Empey learns to adopt are going to get it, you'll get 1t. so never worry"
 CHAPTER vI-Back in rest bifsets, Elm pey gets his first experience as a mess orderly
 CHAPTER VII-Empey learns how the British soldiers are fed CHAPTER VIII-Back in the front line trench, Empey sees his first friend of the trenches "goe West" CHAPTER IX-Empey makes his 6rst visit to a dugout in Suicide Ditch" CHAPTER X-Empey learns what con stitutes days work" in the fEont-lins | trench.
 CHAPTER xI-Empey goes ''over the
  German trenches and Is wounded by a | bayonet thrust,
 CHAPTER XIII-Each Tommy gets an official bath. CHAPTER XIV-Empey helps dig an advanced trench under GermaR fire.
 | CHAPTER XV-On listening post" in No Mans Land. CHAPTER XVI-Two artillerymen put one over' on Old Pepper, their regimental commander.
 CHAPTER XVII-Empey has mar row escape while on patrol duty in No | Mans Land.
 CHAPTER XVIIJ-Back in rest bill lets Empey writes and stages ,farce comedy.
 CHAPTER XIX-s0ldiers have many ways to amuse themselves while "on theIr own"
 CHAPTER XX-Empey volunteers | tor machine gun service and goes back into the front-line trenches.
 CAPTER XXI-EnIfey again goes lover the top" in a charge which cost his company seventeen killed and thirty-one wounded.
 CHAPTER XXII-Trjck with a ma chine gun silences ,oHe botheTsSne | Fritz. CHAPTER Xg&IEI-German attack preceded by gas wave, Is repulsed- CHATTER XXHV-EnEpey is forced 1 to take part in an execution as a mem Der of the firing squad.
 CHATTER XXV-Brifrsh prepare for the Big Push-the battle of the
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-24

in having 1t ln my possession I am not breaking any regulation or cautions of the British army.
 The whole attack was rehearsed and rehearsed until we heartily cursed the one who had conceived the Idea.
 The trenches were named according to \ system which made 1t very simple for Tornrly to find, even in the dark, any point in the German lines.
 These imitation trenches, or trench models, were we'll guarded from obser- walton by numerous allied planes which constantly circled above them. No German airplane could approach within observation distance. A re- stricted area was maintained and no civilian was allowed within three miles, so we felt sure that we had a great surprise in store for Fritz.
 When we took over the front line we received an awful shock. The Germans displayed signboards over the top of their trench showing the names that we had called their trenches. The signs read Fair" '"Fact," Fate" and Fancy" and so
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-24
NOTICE OF ELECTION
(To be ContInued)

To the Electors of the Town of Cor dova, Division No. 3, Territory of Alaska:
 Notice is hereby given that pursH- ant to Chapter AS, Session Laws of Alaska, 1917, approved May 3, 1917, a primary election will be held on
 TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1918, between the hours of o'clock a. III. and o'clock D. Tn. of said day. The common council of Cordova having heretofore, by ordinance, duly desig- mated the polling place in said town, the electors are hereby notified:
 That all duly qualified voters resid- ing within the town of Cordova will vote at the city hall, the same being the duly designated polling place in and for the town of Cordova.
 Dated this 18th day of March, 1918. (Signed)
 THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE
 TOWN OF CORDOVA. By EDWARD F. MEDLEY, Clerk April 17-23
The Cordova daily times., 1918-04-24
CHAPTER xxVi.
All Quiet CD on the Western Fron.

All Quiet CD on the Western Front
 At brigade headquarters I happened .O overhear a conversation between our q. o. c. general officer commanding 3nd the divisional commander. From this conversation I learned that we were to Lombard the German lines for eight days, and on the first of July the ''big push" was to commence.
 In a few days orders were issued to that effect, and 1t was common prop erty all along the line.
 On the afternoon of the eighth day of our "strafeing," Atwell and I were sit ting in the front-llne trench smoking flags and making out our reports of the previous nights tour of the trenches, which we had to turn in to headquar- ters the following day, when an order was passed down the trench that Old Pepper requested twenty volunteers to go over on a trench raid that night to try and get few German prisoners for information purposes. I immediately volunteered for this job, and shook
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06
LAUNCHING PRAYER
BYPASTOR WORKER
Men of All Trades and Profess
: sions Respond to Call for
4 New England Yards.
WOMEN ALSO IN PLACES
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, October 5.-Butchers have
dropped their cleaners and are
swinging the ADJ in the shipyards of
New England. BARRIERS have learned
to use the calker's maui instead of
the razor. so that Uncle Sam can
have the ships he needs. Clergymen,
lawyers. doctors and college profess
sors have been taught to use the
plane, the hammer or the chisel that
democracy may be triumphant One
poet daily phys a hammer with a
treenailing gang in Maine yard
The clergyman who offered prayer at
a launching Of a ship at Portsmouth,
X. H, was shipwright.
Men of all trades and professions
have responded to the nations appeal
for shipbulders to meet the emer-
Eency of war. After a few months
work many are listed in the skilled
class. The aptitude they have shown
has gone far to solve one. of the
Emergency Fleet Corporations most
difficult problems in this district.
At two yards in Portland, Me, it is
estimated that less than per cent of
the employees, who now number
nearly 1000, knew anything about
ship construction when they began
work there. But the training they re-
ceived was intensive and these yards
are steadily turning out vessels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06
AMERICANS MASKS DEFEAT
ALL HUN EFFORTS TO POISON
Yankees, in Perfected American 'Muzz1es,
Play Strenuous Games to Show Their
Adaptability-Only Carelessness
Finds Victims.

German forces opposed to the
steady advance of the American line
on the Lorraine front have brought
into play every method of defense
considered effective in modern war
fare. They are making a particularly
heavy use of poison gas. Pershiig's
men have been Increasingly bonn
barded with mustard shells. and
every effort has been made to drench
the American advanced positions
with deadly fumes. 1t is a remark
able tribute to the chemical warfare
work in the United States that these
efforts to block the progress of the
offensive have proved utterly futile.
The American attacking forces are
protected against gas by masks
which actual field tests prove give
twenty times the protection afforded
by German gas masks. There is not
as O. matter of fact. a single case on
record of an American soldier fall
ing victim to "a gas attack when pro-
tected by the, mask that is now being
manufactured in the United States
on vast Quantity basis. This fact
has been SO thoroughly established
by repeated experiences that military
authorities place the blame for gas
poisoning on the carelessness of the
victim. A great many officers in the
United$ States. Army insist that in
most. cases the men who, get gassed
should be court-martialed, not, deco
rated. ~:
Fortunately. every American SOL
dier who goes to France is gas
mask expert. He has been trained to
adjust his ''lend life preserver" with
almost incredible speed. The mask is
put on with just five motions of the
arms and hands. The man who fails
to accomplish the feat within a time
limit OF six seconds is left behind
when his unit goes to the front. Re-
Gently in a practice drill, one COM
pany of American fighting men set a
record of four seconds from the time
the order to don masks was given to
the final adjustment by the slowest
man.
The American gas mask was devel-
oped by actual manufacture. The
proper authorities obtained complete
info-matin about the French and
British masks. and full data as to the
efficiency they demonstrated under
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06

feet from the ground and fell, strik-
ing telephone wires and tipping over
before 1t struck the ground.
Every aviator in Lieut.. Thaw's
squadron who could obtain leave of
absence attended his funeral. His
mother and sister. who were in Paris
at the time of the accident. also were
present A solid phalanx of aviators
from Thaw's squadron preceded the
body as it was borne from the chapel
by six American aviators. Serted
ranks of aviation officers and men fol-
lowed.
The burial was in a cemetery where
lies the body of Maj. Raoul Lufbery.
another noted American aviator. At
the freshly turned grave stood a
group of mechanics holding upright
the propeller OF Thaw's Inflated ma
chine as taps were sounded and the
last volley was fired over the grave.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06
AIR NITROGEN PLANT HERE.
Largest Experiment Station Now
Operates at Arlington.

O. The United States Department Of
%Agriculture announces that the larS-
Aslest experimental plant in the United
ESTATES for the manufacture of fixed
SSnitrogen from the air. with the ex-
exception of the plants in course of con-
Obstruction fer the War Department., is
%anow in operation at the Arlington ex-
Experiment. farm of the Department Of
eSAEriculture. near Washington.
AT this plant atmospheric nitrogen
as combined with hydrogen to form
&tmm onia. which is available for use
n n the manufacture of either explo-
= fves or fertilizer. The Haber process
sSOS used in the fixture of the nitrogen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06
Danger of Moral Collapse.
VICTIM OF MANY ATTACKS.

BEHIND THE AMERICAN LINES.
September Is CORRESPONDENCE. Of the.
Associated Press).-Bombed again and
again by German .aviators and suffer-
ing casualties in dead and wounded,
the American hospital unit formerly
located at Jouy, under the command
of Maj. Charles r. Mccoy of Paterson
n. j.. has now established itself in the
environs of Chateau Tnierry and re
CT ntly served AGAIN as the attraction
for visiting German air vandals.
The new location of the hospital is
situated amid the dasolaticn wrought
by the Germans during thei. retr.lt
from the Marine. Ruined houses,
wrecked public buildings and churches
mark the neighborhood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06
AIRPLANES CIRCLE ALOFT
DURlNG'THAW FUNERAL

WITH THE AMERICAN TROOPS IN
FRANCE, September 10 Correspond
ence of the Associated Press).-Air-
planes swung in circles above the lit
tie chapel behind the firing line dur
ing the funeral of the American
aviator, Lieut.. Blair Thaw of Pitts
burgh. The aviators in the flying
squadrons permitted their airplanes
to circle lower as his body was low
cred into tho grave near little ceme-
terry not far behind t.,e trenches.
Lieut. Thaw was killed when his
plane developed engine trouble 1000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06
Marked Absence of Strikes.


Patriotic cooperation of the work
men has played an important part in
the smooth running of the yards.
There has been a marked absence of
serious strikes. To the brawny ina
tive sons who make up the crews the
thought that every hammer blow will
leave its mark on PruSsian militariSm
up system applied by the production
experts the New England district has
already launched more than twenty
wooden and steel steamships and has
double that number on the ways.
Additional facilities for building are
under consideration and contracts al
ready existing call for an eXpendi-
ture of above s50,000,000 for wooden
ships alone.
The Atlantic Corporation at Ports
mouth is to build ten steel cargo
ships of $500 tons each. 1t now has
five ships on the stocks. with $500
men on day and night shifts.
The TeSas Steamship Corpany's
plant at Bath. Me, has delivered four
cargo carriers of 10000 tons each and
four more ships are on the stocks.
For Merchant Marine Also.
The Fore River plant of the Bethle-
hem Shipbuilding Corporation, al
though largely employed in govern
ment work of another type. has four
OF lis twenty ways devoted to the
! building OF ships of more than 10000
tons each for the merchant marine.
Virtually all the wooden ships un-
der construction in New England are
to be steam freighters of $500 tons
deadweight carrying capacity. built
after the Ferris pattern Yards for
their construction and equipment dot
the coast from Penobscot bay to
southern massachusetts
The construction, equipment and de-
livery OF wooden vessels is under the
direction of District Supervisor John
T. Vaughan of the division of wood
, ship construction. From the time the
J big sticks of Oregon fir or southern
, pine are cut jim the forest of the
! northwest or the gulf coast until they
are shaped. assembled and fashioned
| into the completed snip. Fleet Cor
| roration agents have direct over
sight of every stage of the process.
One small feature of the work in
wolves the providing. scheduling and
| following through production. ship
ment and receipt of some 5000 differ
ent items that go to make up the
/ mechanical equipment of one of the
7 s,5QO-tOnnarS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06
SsMAKEs CHOICE OF OFFICERS.
Butchers Association Also Invests
5000 in Liberty Bonds.

Stephen Frank was elected presi-
Adent of the Washington Butchers
Benevolent Association at a meeting
last tuesday night Other officers
elected are: First vice president,
Charles jain; secretary. Frederick P.
Hess: treasurer. George ]. Auth, and
i1nemberS of the finance committee.
kJoseph Newland. II. Warner. W. rTay
iIor and James Elyish.
The association appropriated $4,000 to
purchase liberty bonds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06
COLOGNE PAPER BEM0ANS
LACK OF HUN SOLIDARITY
Internal Political Weakness in Ger
many Is contrasted With En-
tente Allies, in Plant.

NEW YORK, October. 5.-Internal
political weakness in Germany is con-
trasted by the Cologne Gazette with
the solidarity of the entente allies on
the western front. The paper be-
means the lack in Germany Of some
thing like the steel wall" along the
German front
Our interior front has always
showed gaps" says the Gazette. 1T
seems as If we lack a certain spiritual
cement which kept the others togeth-
er despite the blows our victories
gave them in these four years. The
English interior front as soon as an
external enemy has to be fought is
gapless and without weaknesses"
Danger of Moral Collapse.
Danger of a moral collapse in Ger
many evidently is foreseen. for the
Gazette says. only one thing could
rob us of victory, the crumbling up of
the interior front"
The most serious menace of this
interior front is declared to be the
doctrinaires to be found in all parties
and classes of society. The paper
declares that such a man as Prince
Lichnowsky; formerly German am
bassador to London, who wrote a
memorandum accusing Germany OF
beginning the war. and Harden,
editor of Die Zunkuft, whose paper
was suppressed for defending Prince
Lichnowsky. as well as some of the
socialist leaders in the reichstag,
should be removed from political
Positions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06
/! PLANTS NOT FIRE TRAPS
". Il. Merrill So Reports After In.
specting Munition Factories.

Munition plants in the United States
are not fire traps and are we'll pro-
evtded against fire hazard. according
40 report submitted by W. H
sS4errill. chief Of the fire prevention sec
zion Of the War Industries Board.
To date inspections have been COM
pleted at 1871 munition plants and
sthese show conditions good at 1895
Rlants: fair at III: poor at 1G2 and
bad at SO. Improvements have been
made at 1875 plants and started at
Y07 other plants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06
Shoe Prices Doubled in Rome.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
ROME, September 15-Fifteen dol
lars a pair is being demanded here
for an ordinary pair of shoes which
only a few months ago could be
bought for half that price.
One of the measures adopted by the
government to regulate the price of
cloth is a decree compelling manu-
facturers to stamp the cost price on
the material every three yards and
prohibiting the retail price from
being more than 80 per cent above
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-06

Grman gas attacks. Armed with this
knowledge, an order for the making
Ut several thousand masks was
placed in this country. Members of
the force Of 800 officers and 1000 en-
diSted men who are responsible for the
production of this modern weapon
of defense showed the courage of
their convictions by volunteering for
experiments.
Soon Get fascinated"
Although gas mask is a decidedly
uncomfortable article of wearing sp-
parel the first few times it is donned
the soldiers soon become accustomed
to the handicap on the more familiar
form of breathing. 1t fits over the
head. like a base ball catcher's mask.
A nose clip closes the nostrilS and in
sures breathing, via the mouth.
through a tube that is connected
with a canister filled with chemicals.
The exhaled breath leaves the mask
through a, f1utter valve near the chin.
Air cannot. reach the mouth except
by passing through the chemicals in
the canister. and the most exhaustive
experiments show that these chemi-
calls never fail to extract the poison
At the end of thorough training in
this country, American soldiers can
wear the masks for almost an in
definite period of time and can in
du1se in practically any form of
activity while wearing them. Perish
ings men. merely as stunt" hive
played base ball. foot ball and soccer
while wearing the regulation United
States Army masks. On numerous oc-
casions the soldiers have served bat
teries under hurricane fire for
periods of twelve hurs without TAX
ing off their masks.
Absolute immunity to German gas
is now merely a matter of thorough
training and constant preparedness.
American veterans in France know
from actual experience that their
masks will protect them against any
form of gas employed by the German
army. For that reason they are Sc
renely Indifferent to the gas clouds
that come rolling in from the enemy
lines and proceed nonchalantly with
the task Of rolling back the defend
ers of the nation that defied the
opinion of civilization by introducing
poison gas and liquid fire into modern
warfare.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-19
Says Becker's Defeat
Would Hearten Foe

Attorney General Lewis expressed
his satisfaction yesterday with the
statement of Colonel Roosevelt con-
cerning Deputy Attorney General AL
fred L. Becker in the following state
nent:
"The Colonel's approval Of Mr.. Beck
er is highly gratifyins; to me. am as
deeply interested in Mr.. Becker's sue
cess in investigating the German prop
aganda as | am in my own. ! feel
that his defeat and consequent sew
erance from the work in which he is
engaged would be calamity to the
people Of the state.
"His intimate knowledge of the law
and of the activities of the German
propagandists makes it of vital impor-
tance that he remain in a position af-
ter January to cooperate with the
United States government and the gov
ernments OF our allies, as he has been
doing in the last year, in running to
earth the spies and traitors and alien
enemies and bringing about the sus-
pension OF their activities here and
abroad.
"Nlr. Beckers defeat would hearten
the enemies of the Allied cause"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-19
$4,000, 900 Pledged
In w. S. S. Campaign
Statesmen Expect to Dispose OF
$75.OOO.0OO in a Week
Drive

With only one-quarter Of its $780,
100000 quota Of War Savings Stamps
subscribed by New York City after
eight months of work, the statesmen Of
this city, under the direction of the
National Council Of Trsveling Sales
men. are mobilizng for drive dur
ing the week Of August % to 20. which
is expected to bring sales of stamps
$50 100000 nearer the goal.
The next three days, leading up TO
he opening of the drive Oh Thursday.
viii be filled with meetings Of sales
men and business men On Wednes.
day evening. August 81. salesmen will
assemble for their final instructions
IN Carnegie Hail. Job f. Hedges.
Charles F. Hall and Rev. Thomas
Travis. just returned from three years
at .he front, will speak. Geoff N.
Weiicr. father Of The salcsmen drive,
is in charge Of arrangements for the
meeting.
Various firms and trades already are
underwriting the stamps, and accord
ing 10 reports sl0000,000 worth have
been subscribed.