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The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-03-26
No MORE INDUCT|ONs
FROM ALASKA DRAFT LIST

The local exemption board received
a cablegram from Governor Strong
this morning informing it that there
will be no further induction into the
army from Alaska. The message fol-
lows:
"Advices received at this office in
dicate that some boards are inducting
and sending out registrants without
regard to the order of the provost
marshal general stopping induction in
Alaska The imperative necessity of
compliance with instructions is inn
pressed upon you No further in
ductions without special orders are to
be made by any board"
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-03-26
LIBERTY BONDS
To BE ISSUED
EARLY IN APRIL

WASHINGTON, March 26-The
third Liberty loan will open on April
6. The issue will consist of bonds to
the amount of three billions of dollars,
bearing interest at the rate of ia
per cent.
In announcing the loan Secretary
of the Treasury McAdoo said:
''The events announced today must
fire the soul of every American with
the determination to give all the dol
lars and material resources needed to
end the execrable atrocities of Ger
man militarism."
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-03-26
RO-GERNANIS|N
IS NOT POPULAR
IN OHIO TOWN

LIMA, Ohio. March ga mob at
Delphos. near here, made a house-t0-
house canvass yesterday and dragged
every suspected pro-German from bed
and forced him to salute the American
flag or be hanged to tree.
Barney Lindermann, wealth. meT-
chant, to whose shoe store flag had
been nailed at the beginning of the.
canvass, was notified that if he took,
the flag down or refused to salute it
he would be thrown into the canal and
drowned.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-03-26
.!lNE 6uIRlS
ENROLMENT IS
| ENCOURAG|NG

The movement for the formation of
a Home Guard military company is
meeting with the success that it de,
se'ves and before the list closes 1t is
Believed that practically every loyal
American in town will become an ac-
tire member. There were seventy
siI names on the honor roll the first
day, which is a most creditable show
ing. The members pledge themelves
to obey all the commands of the law
fully and properly constituted officers,
attend at all drill, and so conduct
themselves as soldiers and Americans
should on all occasions; also to act in
defense of our country in all possible
ways. Arrangements are under way
70 secure rifles from the government
and drilling will start as soon as they
are received. The following persons
have already joined the Guard:
Geo C. Hazelet, Edw. F. Medley. NJ.
! Sullivan, H. A. Slater, H, |. O'Neill,
4. ]. Adams. w H. Chase, w. w Coun-
Gil, Thos. s. Scott BARLEY Howard,
". NJ Brock. H. G. Steel. C. A. Derry,
]. V. Carter, J, D. Bogart, o. C. Meyer,
2. R. Byers, Geo. Steel, D. A. Mosser,
L. Vain, H. " Hoskins. H Thisted,
guy Banta, d. T. Phillips, p II.
Singleton, J. G. Smith, c. H. Scheffler.
X. Z. Holden. C. L. Hale Geo. Dooley,
D. A. Cohrs, A. Cohen, Christ Xiros,
Chas. Cerney, N. Greene, Calvin c.
Hazelet J. B, Sapiro, F. A. Jones, ]. A.
Terry, ]. C. Jackson. r. Mcdonald
Charles Getty. N. Casperson, w. r,
Hlllery, Sam Brightwell B. F. Nichols,
Chas. Goodall, c. Winkler, E. w. Metz
dorf, Jerry Perry. f. L. Harwood, &.
+ Harwood, E, e. Ray. Charles Game
Chas. Gogarty. f. A. Fletcher. G. A.
Harmon, r. l.. Gottschalk, B. @. Boil
iinger. J. ]. Mccarthy, C. H. Hill, r
M Foster, w. e. Downing, ]. V. Ly-
dick. VIM. b. Black, ]. C. Czerwenka,
A. ]. Mcconnell, T. n. Hubert, C. NJ.
Rosswog. John Dinneen. Ben Ferrell,
M. J. Scheuch, J. W. Crompton. Tony
Lynch and P. Shearman.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-03-26


greatest surprises of the in the gun which is lombard
ag Paris
NOYON EVACUATED
PARIS March 26-The French are holding the left bank
2 the ose firmly. Noyon has been evacuated
rs WONDER GUN IS OF AUSTRIAN MAKE
GENEVA, March 26.-The long range guns bombarding
ans are OF Austrian manufacture and built great
'Koda factory The gun The novelty lies in the
W type OF shell and explosive gases used in the gun There
lre only two or three of such guns.
AMERICAN ENGINEERS IN FIGHT
WASHINGTON, March 26-Two regiments of American
abroad engineers attached to the British armies in the
afh OF the German onslaught They employed the
rOseat canal where Berlin statement mentioned engage
nsnts with Americans
officials here anxousy awaiting regarding fate
If these Americans.
GERMAN USE OF TANKS"
BERLIN, March 26-German tanks, reinforced by cap
red British tanks took leading part in breaking down the
enerny resistance says semi-Offical statement.
FIGHTING SLOWING DOWN
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, March 90
The fighting has slowed down Up to 10 o'clock this morning
there had been heavy attacks The British holding the
'neny strongly half way between Combles and Albert
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-03-26
HUN SUBMARINE
SEEKS REF FUGE IN
SPANISH PORT

Ell FERROLL, Spain, March ga
40O-ton German submarine has sought
refuge in this port. The captain made
an urgent request fer admission, say
ing that his vessel had been severely
damaged in a fight with three ships
She carries two 11-centimeter guns
and a crew of thirty. Spanish VAT
ships have been sent to guard her.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-03-26
GERMAN SHIPS
DESTROYED BY
BRITISH BOATS

LONDON, March 26.-The British
destroyer Botha has rammed a Ger
man warship, cutting the Teuton yes
sci in half, in an engagement off Dun
kirk On Saturday the British de-
stroyer Morris torpedoed large Ger
man destroyer, which Immediately
sank.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-03-26
REGISTRANTS ARE
TO BE CLASSIFIED

Telegraphic advices were received
today instructing the local exemption
board to again begin mailing the iues-
tionnaries to registrants and from
twenty-five to thirty will be sent out
each day. The board will begin to
classify as soon as questionnaires are
returned.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-03-26

STEAMSHIP IS
CONFISCATED

A PACIFIC PORT, March 90
Agents of the shipping board have
seized the Norwegian steamship Stor-
viking, following the refusal of the
owners to embark the vessel for the
war zone.
The ship has lain at anchor here for
more than a month. The board had
ordered that no coal be sold to the
vessel She is of about twenty-seven
hundred tons.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-03-26
MILLIONS OF
AMERICANS
WANTED

WASHINGTON, March 26.--Mator
General Leonard Wood has submitted
a confidential statement to the senate
military committee recommending
that the American fighting forces in
France be increased to four or five
million men, half of them to be con-
centrated in France as soon as pos
sible ~.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-03-26
Alaskan Invented 1t

Some time ago the Daily Times
printed an article relative to a shell
invented by young Alaskan, jeff
Bowling by name, and who formerly
lived at Valdez. He was said to have
sold his invention to the German gov.
ernment, after having offered it to the
United States. This country was not
then at war with Germany. This sher
was double-action affair which,
reaching the limit of its projection
from the gun, received new impetus
from an outside casing which
contained charge of explosives. 1t
is claimed by local men that the
German she'll is Dowling's invention.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-03-26
That Big Gun

But the most prolific source for in
teresting rumors was the big gun
used by the Germans in bombarding
Paris. Basing the supposed range at
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-03-26

anywhere from sixty-two miles, the
distance from where the shells fell to
the nearest point in the German llne.ss
to seventy-six miles, the distance from
the Paris city hall to the woods where
the gun was located, mathematicians
were busy figuring on velocity, weight
of charge, ira. cory, and various
other phases of gunnery with which
the world has become more or less
familiar in recent years. The result
was staggering. 1t was figured that
the gun fired at an agile of 45 degrees,
would have to prOpel its projectile to
a height of more than thirty miles; the
velocity at the muzzle was greater
than that of a high-power .30-30 rifle
Then there was the man of pseudo
scientific bent, who was afraid that
it was impossible to shoot such pro-
jectile to such a height, because it
NC pOSSlulS JAdL Tie l0ICS vi
gravity did not operate at that height
from the earth, and that such a mis-
sile, fired to such an altitude, would
not fall to earth, but would travel on
and on in space, until eventually it
collided with some small heavenly
body and shattered itself in the ether.
Like the country gentleman whose
sight of the giraffe at the circus
prompted him to remark that there
amt no sech animal" there were
others who with all the assurance in
the world denied the possibility of a
gun being invented that could carry
that distance. They pointed out that
the heat developed in such an ex-
tended flight through the air, would
consume both shell and contents. The
suggestion that it was made of tung
stem did not convince them, and they
said the only metal that could be used
would be platinum.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-03-26

The next train for Chitina will
likely leave Friday morning.
The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-03-26

1t IS conceded that the Teutons have sprung of
e Paris
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-11
Small Lots Coal Prices
Fixed by Fuel Director;
IS Lbs. Nut For 40 Cents

Ross A. Hickok, fuel administra-
tor of Dauphin county, has just is
sued the prices of the nut and pea
grade of anthracite coal when sold
in lots of less than one hundred
pounds.
The rates to be charged follow:
Nut coal, IS pounds, 40c; nut coal,
371a pounds, Csc; nut coal, 1S%
pounds, 15c; pea coal, rs pounds,
35c; pea coal, 37h pounds. zoe; pea
coal, 1SA pounds, lac.
All peddlers or retail dealers SELL
ing coal in less than one-hundred
pound lots must receive from the
Federal Fuel Committee of Dauphin
county proper authority to carry on
this business.
The prices refer to all anthracite
coal sold in these quantities in the
City of Harrisburg, but 1t will not be
necessary for the established retail
dealers who receive shipme ents of
anthracite coal direct from the min
ing companies to get permission
from the Dauphin county committee
to carry on this class of business.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-11
Wife of Soldier in France
Dies After a Long Illness

Mrs. Margaret Bretz Miller, so
years old, after an illness of several
months from a complication of dis
eases with her condition somewhat
aggravated by worriment over the
absence of her husband, Harry Mil
Ter, in France with Uncle Sans S
forces, died this morning at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel c. Bretz. 645 Harris street.
For a period of almost two weeks
the big Pennsylvania Railroad whis-
tie at Reilly street had not been emit
ting it's shrill blasts at the accus-
toned times because of Mrs. Miller's
condition.
Mrs Miller is survived by her
husband, Harry Miller, who is in
France as a private in Company d,
One Hundred Ninth Machine Gun
Battalion, Twenty eighth Division
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
G. 'Bretz; three brothers. Claude
Bretz. serving in France with the
American Expeditionary Forces. and
Warren and Norman Brett, at home,
and one sister, Miss Jennie Bretz, at
home.
Funeral services will be held on
Friday afternoon at 100 o'clock
from the home of her parents, con-
Quoted by the Rev. Alfred n. Sayres,
pastor of Second Reformed Church.
Burial will he in the East Harris
burg Cemetery.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-11
County Officials Next Week
Will Pick Site For Hospital
For Contagious Diseases

County commissioners and direc-
tors of the poor next Monday after
noon will visit the county poor farm
to select a site for contagious
disease hospital. This plan was de-
cided upon to-day at a meeting of
the special committee appointed by
Commissioner Henry M. Stine to
make plans for the proposed struc-
lures. Before proceeding any
further ii was agreed to select a suit
able location. City officials will
probably be asked to accompany the
county commissioners and poor
directors.
At the meeting to-day Director
Frank B. Snavely. Charles Yost of
the Steelton Health Department, E.
S. Gerberick, Middletown borough
council president City Commissioner
S. F. Hassler and DR.. c. r. Phillips,
county medical inspector, of the
committee were present; also Health
Officer j. M. j. Raunick, Commits
sioner Stne and j. w. Bayles, clerk
of the poor board.
Various plans for new buildings
both temporary and permanent, were
discussed. The members took up
the question of taking over the pres
ent smallpox hospital, but according
to DR.. Phillips and others a number
of important changes would be nee
essary first, and a trained attendant
would be placed in charge. Dr.
Phillips intimated the State Depart
ment of Health would not permit the
county to operate the hospital in the
manner in which the city is conduct
ing 1t, but would require better
trained persons to be in charge
whenever smallpox patients are
there for treatment
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-11
Spring Rains Aiding Park
Officials in Planting

The heavy rain of last night was a
great help to the department of
parks in the rolling and alignment
of the new walk along the river en-
bankment from Maclay street south
ward. This work has been under way
for some weeks with a small force,
but Commissioner Gross expects to
have 1t completed within the next
week or ten days.
Meanwhile the planting force is
preparing to place the vines and
plants in the newly graded slope,
which was destroyed in the riprap-
ping last year. 1t is probable that the
new walk can be continued to Hard
scrabble Notwithstanding it was nee
essary to discontinue the riprapping
at point south of Hamilton street
last year.
The filling out of the river en-
bankment from Maclay street to
Woodbine has been so rapid that it
is probable the department of parks
can establish the walk and the grass
along the curbline in this particular
section without further delay,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-11
Loyal Americans Open
Convention in Board Of
Trade; Woman Secretary

With the fifty delegates in attend
ance the fourth annual session of the
Supreme Temple, Loyal Americans.
United States of North America,
| opened this morning in the Board
of Trade Building, with Samuel r.
Smith of Reading. Supreme Instruc-
tor, presiding. Mrs. NJ. j. Billings,
of Pittsburgh, is acting as secretary.
| Sessions will be held both morning
and afternoon tomorrow, also. One
hundred more delegates are expected
to be in attendance at the latter
sessions of the convention.
This mornings session was taken
up with the report of the creden-
tials committee, the appointment of
various committees and nomination
of officers. Various committees
rendered reports at this afternoons S
session. AT to-morrow's sessions the
election and installation of officers
will take place and final reports of
committees rendered.
Yesterday eighteen of the dele
gates who reached Harrisburg on
Sunday visited the battlefield at
Gettysburg, making the trip by auto
mobiles. Tomorrow the delegates
expect to visit the Capitol
The Loyal American order was
Instituted four years ago to unite
its members in a patriotic, fraternal
and beneficial society. 1t now has
twenty temples located throughout
Pennsylvania and New Jersey with
an enrolment of approximately
$500 members
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-11

orders to go ahead needless of what
the others are accomplishing.
While attempting to do this, the
Germans are coming under the fire
of the allied batteries and groups of
machine guns, which possess the
accurate ranges of all points.
Hoist on Own Petard
This fierce opposition offered by
the allied troops appears to have
disconnected the German high COM
mand, which expected to be able to
reduce the allied salient around
Noyon much more easily.
The enemy guns were very busy
throughout yesterday and last night
but were well countered by the al
lied artillery In addition, the wind
changed its direction and ten OF
thousands of poison gas shells fired
by the Germans did more damage
to themselves than to the allies.
Indications show that some of the
enemy divisions which started the
attack are already being withdrawn
from the line because of the severity
of their casualties and are being re-
placed by fresh units.
The armies are fighting it out foot
by foot and it cannot be claimed up
to this writing that the enemy has
gained any definite advantage, de-
spite the fact of the indentation he
has made in the allied line. This
was a very natural result under the
tremendous smash.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-11
Nine Wharton School
Graduates to Finish at
Tech Auditorium Tonight

Commencement exercises for the
graduating class of the local branch
of the Wharton School of Commerce
and Finance of the University of
Pennsylvania will be held this even
ing i'm the Technical High school
auditorium. A class of nine grad
yates will receive certificates. They
are: Thomas j. Bard, Lewis Ira
Cargill. William Henry Dimmick,
Charles Edward Fox. Lee M. Hale,
B. Frank Morgal, George Leroy
Neff, Lawrence Aloysius Och and
John Arskine Zock.
Vice-Provost Josiah II. Penniman,
of the University, will make the ad-
dress of the evening and will also
award the. certificates. The program
for the exercises follows: Invoca-
ton. the Rev. Lewis Seymour
Nudge; hymn, Hail, Pennsylvania" /;
address, Vice-Provost Josiah H.
Penniman, Phi. D., Ii. D.. song, Red
and Blue; presentation of grad
yates; award of certificates, by the
vice provost; hymn, America; I;
benediction, the Rev. Lewis Seymour
Nudge
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-11
Meyer and Johnson
Will Make Addresses
at Betsy Ross Home

Gabriel H. Meyer. of the Auditor
Generals Department, and head of
the Patriotic Order Sons of America
in Pennsylvania, and Judge Albert
w. Johnson. of Lewisburg, will make
addresses on Flag Day at the Betsy
Ross home in Philadelphia The P.
o. S. of A. is to observe with ap-
propriate ceremonies every day of
the year to which important pa
triotic significance is attached, ac-
cording to announcement made by
the officials yesterday.
The exercises on Flag Day will
take place at the Betsy Ross house,
birthplace of the American flag. after
a parade. Thirty thousand men will
march, according to present plans.
Eight brass bands will furnish mu-
sic.
The order has been in the front
rank of organizations supporting the
government. 1t has subscribed more
than $1,000 900 to Liberty Loans and
given one lin every six of its MEM
bers to war activities, besides con-
tributing heavily to the Red Cross.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-11

conferences with allied leaders in
Europe
I'VE must have 1000 men and
women workers added to our forces
overseas before September /, for
these reasons:
"First-To relieve from impossible
strain the 1000 and more American
men and women already overseas.
They work on an average of four
teen hours day wherever they may
be, whether in the port cities or in
the training areas or in the zone of
combat under shell fire. 1t is not
right, it is not Just that we should
ask them to bear that burden alone
"Second--To fill gaps caused by
death, physical breakdown and the
removal of the few misfits who have
crept into the service despite our
most careful efforts. Within two
weeks three of our workers have
been killed, one by shell fire and the
other two being victims of German
gas. Several weeks ago two of our
women workers were killed. The Red
Triangle is no uniform for the slack
er and the pacifist.
'Third-To provide successors for
many who have given all the time
they can for the present and must
return to their families and business
in the United States. A majority OF
these are eager to go back to France.
"Fourth-To increase our efficiency
from the present fifty per cent. eff
hciency to what it might be if we
could obtain the necessary recruits
The patriotic women of this country
and the men above draft age must
settle down to the belief that this is
going TO be a long war, and make
whatever sacrifice is necessary to
win the war.
"Fffth-To overtake arrears in
unoccupied areas. We have been
obliged to call upon the British
workers to receive our men in num-
erous cases where we were so short
handed that we could not extend a
welcome to our own boys coming
across the seas 5000 miles to stay
until the victory is won. Many of
our units are without single work
er, with no one who can relieve their
homesickness.
'Sixth-To keep pace with the
ever expanding Army and Navy over
seas. Our men are going over by the
thousands. The Y. NJ. c. must go
with them, not behind them, and
ahead of them if possible.
''Seventh-To have reserve force
so that the critical situation we now
face will not recur. A military leader
would not think of going to war
without reserves. The Y. NJ. c. A. is
a part of the military machine-to
the extent that it provides recreation
and keeps up the morale of the fight
ing men-and the Y. NJ. C. A. must
have reserves:
'Eighth-To win this war the Y.
M. c. A. must have sufficient workers
TO do the work which General Per-
shing, the President and the premier
of the French Republic, the King of
Italy and the King and Queen of
England regard as so essential to the
defeat of our enemies"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-11
Recruits For Army Are
Sought on Circus Grounds; (;
Veterans to Lead Rally

The fact that the public attention
was focused on the circus to-day was
utilized by the publicity bureau of the
Harrisburg recruiting party to re-
mind folks that big recruiting drive
is on and men are needed in the
Army. An Army tent was erected
early this morning in the "city of
tents and recruiting officers were
on hand all day to encourage enlist
ing A Kaiser head was placed at
the grounds and mail the Kaiser"
party was staged.
The meeting tomorrow evening
will be in charge of the veterans of
foreign former wars. Inasmuch as
rain prevented the meeting to be
held under the auspices of local
Army officers last night, those in
charge of the drive will make an
effort to have the speakers scheduled
for last evening on hand tomorrow
evening. Attorney General largest,
Major Garrison and Major Gray
were the scheduled speakers. Mem
bers of the G. A. r., Spanish Amer
lean War Veterans and Veterans of
Foregn Wars, will participate to-
morrow night.
Thursday nights activities will be
in charge of the Independent Order
of odd Fellows. The meeting will be
preceded by parade of the Odd Fell
lows in full dress uniform. The Mu-
nicipal Band will furnish music, and
will lead the community singing at
the stand. Frank B. Wickersham.
and the Rev. George N. Lauffer will
be the principal speakers.
While the drive ends Thursday
night, the number of enlistments is
not expected to decrease as activities
over the entire twenty-five counties
of the district will continue with un-
abated energy.