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The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01
JACKSON IS APPOINTED
 AS CHAIRMAN
Will Have Charge of Red Cross Drive to Begin May 20th and to
 Last a Week.

George T. Jackson has been ap- pointed chairman of the Second Red Cross War Fund drive for Juneau Chapter. The drive will begin May 20 and will last one week. The ob- ject is to Taise $1O0,O00,OO0 for the Red Cross
 B. M. Behrends has been appointed Territorial chairman otrthe Red Cross for Alaska.
 Mrs P J. Malone and Mrs. c. P Morgan are leaving on the Prin- cess Sophia to attend the Red Cross conference in Seattle. Beginning May 9th, the conference will be held on the University campus. It will com prise one weeks intensive training for Red Cross Chapter heads. Mrs. Morgan is the surgical dressings in structor at the local chapter and she intends to learn more of the new spanghum moss dressings. It is ex- pected that Alaska will be able to turn out more spanghum moss than any of the Northwest divisions be cause it grows so profusely in this part of the country.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01
GERMANY'S BURDEN OF DEBT GREATER
 THAN ANY NATION

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, May i. According to figures given out by tie General Publicity Committee for tie Third Liberty Loan:
 Cermany's total indebtedness is S31 ,G0G,000,000 which means that eahc of her 68,000,0O0 inhabitants, each of her 6S,OOO,OO0 inhabitants, in debt $456. Here in America with a population of 110,O0O,000 our total indebtedness is only $6,- 900, ,000,00O, or per capita ln- debtedness of only one-eighteenth that of the German citizen, matter of $57 each.
 "We can run our Liberty Bond fiotations up to $50, 100000, 900 be- fore each one of us owes as much as each German across the Rhine, says the statement.
 'In other words, we can run this war at our present rate of expend- itures for eight years before we are as badly off as the Germans are, to- day. Don't be frightened at the money we are spending. We are not breaking" ourselves. We are spending very little of our national wealth. Buy bonds. If this war lasts for eight years, Germany will be so badly "broke" it can never be put together again.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01
WOMAN OF NORTH WHO MUSHES WITH
 BEST SOURDOUGH

NOME, Alaska, Feb 29.-(By MaiD
 An Eskimo woman, Mollie Dexter, is considered one of the best native trappers of the Seward Peninsula. in far Northwestern Alaska, according to the Eskimo, paper published here for the Eskimos of the north country.
 This lady, Comalik' (meaning rich Eskimo (rushes out to her traps reg ularly as the hardest man hunter of the village" The Eskimo says 'tThe boys say she knows of the habits of the animals of the tundra and all the cunning ways to outwh them
 In addition to being good trapper Mollie Dexter also is good cook, the paper says. She conducts trail roadhouse at Chinik, at Norton Sound and is known all over the Peninsula by white mushers who stop at her roadhouse
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01
University Professor Thinks No Power Able to Over- throw BOIShekiki in
 Russia. MUCH MASS POVERTY Says Russia Will Never Be Able to Free Herself
 from the Poverty
 of Masses.

NEW YORK, May 1.-There is no power in Russia, which in the absence of foreign aid, has the least chance of overthrowing the Soviet or Bolsheviki, government, declared Professor E. A. Ross, of the University of Wisconsin, in report which he has just made to the American Institute of Social Service. The Institute sent Profes- sOr Ross to Russia last year to study social conditions in that country and to try to establish re lations between Russian and Ameri- can social institutions.
 "The Cossacks have ceased to ex- ist and the bourgeoise are impot- tent to do anything for themselves, ' wrote Professor Ross. "The es- tates, no doubt, have been divideed among the peasant communcs and nothing but foreign conquest can tear them from the Moujiks
 With the masses so ignorant and inexpert in organization, and the OLdlt tOl ouCu W lJll llIt SldII dIlu inefficiency inherited from the old regime, one cannot imagine public capitalism succeeding in Russia. Such an experiment should be tried only by more developed people. If low productivity and waste cause the things produced by the factor ies to be very scarce and dear, the disgusted peasants may in time lose faith in the Trotzky-Lenine pro gram and throw their support to a party that believes in private capi- tai and individual enterprise.
 Russia will never be able to free herself from mass poverty, unrest and explosion till she adopts, with ample safeguards of course, the sys- tenn of individual property in the soil.
 "I am often asked the question whether h4enine and Trotzky are not agents of Germany. l have no means of knowing, but I found no avowed such a belief. The bour- geoise newspapers were full of such charges but the initiated paid no attention to them. Let me ob- serve, furthermore, that these lead CTS are responsible for everything they do to a delegate body of 250 genuine Russians and if they have sold out their country these Rus sians have been unable to perceive the fact.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01
A SAFE TEST

For those who are in need of a remedy for kidney troubles and back ache, it is good plan to try Doan's Kidney Pills. They are strongly rec commended. Read this case:
 Robert R. Watts, 142 s. Mt. Yer. non Ave, San Bernardino, Calif., says q suffered untold agony from pains in my back and could hardly get out of bed in the morning due to terrific pains across my kidneys. could hardly sleep and was restless and more nervous when lying down. gave up work for several weeks. had dizzy spells also and my sight was affected The kidney secretions would be too frequent in passage also. The secretions were profuse ana then again scanty and I had no con trol over them. I had puffy sacs un- der my eyes and my feet were so swollen couldn't get my sroes on. Doan's Kidney Pills helped me from the first and continued use entirely cured me"
 COG. at all dealers. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo. N Y.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01
EVEN ESKIMO HAVE TROUBLES FROM
 SLOW SUBSCRIBERS

NOME, Alaska, Feb. 29. (By MaiD Eskimo newspaper subscribers of far Northwestern Alaska, like their fellow citizens on "the outside" are sometimes slow in paying their sub scriptions, according to The Eskimo, monthly publication issued by the Government teachers in this section for the benefit of the Natives.
 Nearly every Nmber of The Eski- mo has an editorial note of warning urging the Natives to pay their dol lar yearly subscription to their pa per.
 A few days ago the November number was issued. For some req son is was not put out until Jan uary so Arthur Shields, school su- perintendent and editor published the following announcement:
 q tell you this race not very fast. Calendar speaks this January month but Eskimo paper only for Novem- Der month. All the same two months behind Paper try had to catch cal endar but that fellow he too fast go. But maybe paper not much good short race. maybe if race plenty long then paper catch calendar. I think so. Say, maybe you fellows send me one dollar then paper go little more fast
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01
ALL ROADS TO
 LEAD TO DANCE
 AT A. B. HALL
Arrangements Made for Special Ferries for the Alaska Labor Union
 Dance Tonight
ALL ROADS

All arrangements are completed for the big Liberty Dance to be giv- en this evening at A. B. Hall under the direction of the Alaska Labor Union. A special ferry has been ar ranged for, to leave Juneau at one o'clock for the benefit of patrons from the island and Thane and Per severance
 The women's committee has also completed details, and the hall is decorated in patriotic colors. First class music has beep secured, and enough tickets have been sold to make the ball one of the biggest events of the season.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01
ANOTHER HOTEL IS TAKEN OVER FOR
 AMERICAN USES

LONDON, May 1.-The American authorities here have just taken over another hotel, the Belgrave Mansions in Grosevenor Gardens, located only stones throw from the present American naval head quarters. The embassy already has two hotels and five large houses-i in this district, as well as a large building a short distance away oc- cupied by the United States Ship ping Board.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01
COUNCIL WILL
 MEET MEMBERS
 LABOR UNION
Governor Riggs Wanted to Be Present but Was Called Away to
 ketChikan.

Members of the city council have promised to attend a special meeting of the Alaska Labor Union to be held tomorrow evening in-Pond's 2x4 Hall, and discuss local questions for the improvement of Juneau and work ing conditions
 Gov. Riggs was invited and wrote letter to the Union saying he was sorry he could not attend, as he was called away to Ketchikan to attend the convention there of fisheries.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01
SPY SYSTEM PROVES UNEASY TO JAPAN
 FROM SIBERIA

TOXIC, May 1.-The Nichi-Nichi prints sensational narrative alleg- ing the existence of an association of Korean spies who have received money equal to three million rubles to carry out a campaign of spying against Japan and who have their headquarters in Siberia.
 The newspaper mentions the re- port that the organization was paid the money in German marks.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01
W NIT FER R A TIES.

You cant beat it, steam heated rooms with hot and cold running water in each for $10 and SIP the month. Tub and shower baths at the disposal of the guests. The most comfortable beds in town, big statements but come and see if they are not true.
 PERGMANN HOTEL
 Lee A. Kicker, Mngr
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01
THIRTY THOUSAND
 WOMEN WORKING IN
 KRUPP GUN FACTORY

AMSTERDAM May 1-The Krupp Works, German gun and munitions manufacturers. employed more than 10000 persons in February and the number was then expected to reach 126.000 by May l. according to an Essen dispatch. Thirty thou- sand women were among the em- ployees.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01

THE EMPIRE PRINTING COM PANY has the best equipped com mercial printing office in Alaska; in cludes 13 linotype faces. the lates: styles in types. the only exclusively Book and commercial cylinder print lng press in the Territory: modern h every particular: only one quality c pr1nting-THE eEsT-Prices reas eoabls.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01
TOBACCO FUND FOR OUR BOYS
 PRESENT DATE

The total of the tobacco fund do- mated The Empire for Our Boys Smokes in France is $772.3O to date.
 Previously reported $766.30 Douglas Firemen's Dance,
 on April 28 ........ GOO Present Total .$772.3O
 TELEPHONE NUMBER.
 The telephone number of the Gift Shop is 258.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01

Old papers TOT sxls xt The Empire of1ce. Second and Main sIreets.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01
FIRE ALARM BOxEo (Correct to Auoust 13th)

i (Correct to August 13th) 1 1-4-3rd and Franklin. 1 1-5-Franklin and Front.
 1-6-Front Street. opposite Union Iron Works ! 1-7-Front Street. opposite City
 1-S-Front Street. below Worthen | Mills 2-3-Willoughby and Ind. 1-4-Seward and Front.
 2-5-Main and Front 2-6-Main and End. 2-7-Main and 4th. | S-2-Gastineau Avenue and Rawn Way. 1 3-4-Gold and End | 3-5-4th and Harris. o-o-5th and Gold. s-7-6th and East.
 S-S-7th and Gold. | 4-1-9th and Indian | 4-2-5th and Calhoun l 4-3-West end Distin Avenue 4-5-sth and Calhoun 1 4-6-7th and Main 4-7-5th and Seward | 4-8-Government Road, old Jap l Gardens.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01

Coal. feed. hay and grain. Fem. mer and Ritter. Phone 114.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01
MISCELLANEOUS

SCHOLARSHIfS-A scholarship you might select in the International Correspondence School. Scranton. Ia. Address scholarship. Empire
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01
FOR RENT-Houses

HOUSE FOR RENT-4 rooms and bath. Apply J. c. Lund. Phone 429.
 FOR RENT-Furnished and un- furnished houses. II. R. Shepard & Go.
 Houses for rent Mrs. M Davis, 9th St.
 PIANO for rent, apply phone 143.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01
TURKISH BATHS

HILLSIDE BATH HOUsE-Turkisb Needle, Steam, thower and tub baths Dry and steam heat 31s Front St phons ls3. u-rs-~
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01
CARD READING
LOST AND FOUND

FOUND-Dark gray fiat bottom row boat, 15 it. long, 4 it. wide. Owner please call at Knudson's 5 ranch, and please pay for this adv
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01

Dine at the Gastineau. Concert every evening.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-01

PIANO for rent. apply phone 14s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-03
City Beaaggea for the
T,oo Generals. the.
L;berators - Houses
Looted By; DEPARTING.
Huns-Pathet;c Graf.
;tude to the Americans.
The Boche Rule.

passed them to Gen. Pershing, and in
this graceful act the Inhabitants saw
the significance of the victory being
American. although tho first troops
held 1.-The point OF the salient. q,
"vive IAmerique" they cried again
and again. and "Vive la France" ~
The chiefs could not go farther. The
people surged about them, and when
Gen. Petain paused to ask. q ques-
tion.. they burst into an impassloned
recital of their wrongs.
20. my general, will the Americans
bring my son back to me?" asked an
old woman. 1.-THE Germans took him
just few. months over sixteen. but
they. took him and all the other boys
from sixteen up. and the men to
forty-fve. But we have heard that
the army has trapped the Germans
and that our men and boys will be
my general. we have suffered"
1t was a bearded old man in baggy
clothes--he had starved SO long-who
began in that manner, but he could
not go on because his voice broke and
tears ran down his furrowed face.
An old bent woman who had stood
by. munchins piece OF dry bread
and saying nothing, then pressed
through the crowd. She had been
listening to the soldiers pointing out
the visitors. ana so she pushed her
way toward Gen. Pershing and took
him by the hand, and said in her ma
tive tongue:
yesterday I was hundred years
old. Today l am ten years younger.
thank the good God that have
lived to see you"
Finally the project waved the people
aside and tho generals continued into
the city. French flags hung every
where. sometimes over signboards
broadly lettered in German, and the
French flag flew from the city hall.
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Imphal entry into st. Mihiel. And
the walls of the Roman camp
which knew the grandeur of Caesar
Elistened and sparlled with colors. for
the rain fell and the sun shone through.
The journey of the allied chiefs was
full of incident They could not come
by the main road from Commercy be-
cause the trenches which cut it had
not been filled in. They went through
Chauvoncourt>-rid slowly over the
trenches into which debris has been
piled, avoiding the shell holes and
craters. the big tank trap which the
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American division had arrived In
France, but. they laughed, without
rifles.
So 1t was no wonder that when
they saw the khaki uniform and tho
garrison cap that resembled those
their oppressors had. worn they
had their suspicious and asked their
beloved poilus IL 1t was not true that
the imposing figure In brown might
not be a captured. German general
who had been hiding near the town.
i "B4t that Is Gen. Pershing," heard
nun who had asked.
h'Who?" She demanded.
the American commander who has
liberated the. CITY," the soldier re-
'.,"Ah. yes. an American" she said
and shook her head approvingly.
But how was I to. know? They did
not tell us about the Americans, and
no one here has ever heard the name
you mentioned"
!. But the word got around. We heard
them trying 1t on their tongues, old
men and boys, old women and girls,
lnumbling it or crying it aloud:
III est Pershing-notre sauveur."
Gle is Pershing-our laboratory
rom tne Dfldgehead the children
ran on ahead into the public square.
Here a squad of French colonial cav
airy had drawn up and the majority
OF the 5000 inhabitants had gathered.
They had forgotten everything but
their happiness. Business there was
none: And who cared for food that
day. So they stood around in groups
and talked. How good it was to
talk to those French soldiers, and to
recount TO themselves all their woes,
their suffeHngs, to say now freely
Tor the first time in four. years that
the Germans Were filthy beasts, and
to cheer, with unguarded voice the
nag of France and to sing!
las Gen. Pershing entered the square
the populnce was chanting:
"Ye- sons of freedom wake to glory!"
Nwas one Of the few times the Mar
seillaise has been heard in France in
the last two years, for, like all ma
tional anthems, 1t had been sung too
often at the beginning of the war
But the people of st. 'Mihiel sang it
with fervor. for it was fresh to their
tongues.
The cava1rymen drew their curved
blades as the generals approached
and the sun flashed on them. A few
foot soldiers. stood at attention fac
ing the horsemen and some fifteen
feet apart. There were no more than
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they had laid. With Gen. Pershing
and Gen. Petain was q small group con-
sisting of u French divisional general.
the project of st. Mihiel in his black
uniform and black hat with silver
braid, the type of KEPT worn by a COM
mander. but in different color; an
American corps general, the chiefs
aid and three minor French officers.
): :: 'e'
BY the luckiest OF condolences, be-
came part. of this entry. for it was I'M
expected and implanted. Capts
Wallace Morgan and Ernest Pcixotto,
two of the official artists. md the cor
respondent of this newspaper had set
out the same morning, an hour be
any one had crossed the repaired foot
bridge into st. Mihiel. in the doubtful
hope that this had been done
The tank trap at Chauvoncourt
stopped all the cars. From there II
way by partly destroyed houses. led
to the river bank, land the two generals
set out afoot. at almost every hull
dred yards wooden signboard with
German words greeting Gen. Pershing.
telling him that the enemy saw him."
that he must wear his gas: mas SIX" and
telling him chiefly that this and that
and the Other thing We're "verboten."
When we reached the river we
stopped to view the city. The French
guards at the broken bridge came to
attention with their rifles and the Of
ficers returned the salute. From the
other bank came shouts and we could
see the waving Of the flags.
Gen. Pershing glanced up and down
the shattered facade, and then turned
to gaze moro interoStcdly at the bro
ken bridges and the skeletons of the
houses. 1t was as If the whole city
were in ruins. and the wonder was
that the inhabitants had lived through
tho battle. Not IL perfect house could
be seen. To the right, at a distance OF
a mile, there were two or three
bridges broken. like men holding out
their arms to one another across Il
"chasm. On tho left the Roman camp,
still strong, still imposing.
Cen. Pershing.' Gen. Pctain and the
others i'm turn descended the rickcty
footbridge which had been put to-
gCther from stray timbcrs that morn
ing. Underneath it lay the stones of
the proud bridge of the old city. The
planks tremblcd and sagged with the
weight of numbers, and there was Il
halt while by tllrccs and tours the
party and it's followers crossed
"Vive la France. Vivc rAmeriquc"
ne "CoIc oI Two OF Oh lOlkS ana
children shouted as the army leaders
approached. Some OF the first French
troops to enter had been telling them
about tho Americans. The st. Miiielcsc
found it all incredible. but they added
their give IAmcriaue!" when they
saw the strange uniforms. The Ger
mans had told them some pretty tales.
RIO he sure, they said. America had
declared war, but declaring wasn't
everything. 1t would take four years
to build the ships to send an Army
over, and In that time, they added,
the kaiser would he In Paris. Then,
no less than month ago, these same
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Tho main avenues and the residential
portion We're almost unchanged, for
the French had been careful with
their artillery fire for four years. and
III all that time only one inhabitant
had been wounded by 1t. In the
streets lay German things, for the
housewives had been busy all morn
ing Kidding their homes Of the traces
of the beast.
Into tho city hall went the distin-
suished visitors. and there they sat
down at the council table and talked
for quarter OF an hour. Several
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thirty soldiers, but the civilians
quickly took the hint and formed
themselves into two rows also. and
tho generals passed on between them.
their hands to their heads at sa-
lutte.
~ !;
Out OF the ranks OF civilians ran q
little child with an armTul OF wild
flowers which she gave to Gen. Pc
tain. A woman presented him with a
bouquet. the same wild flowers. but
neatly arranged. Gen. Petain in turn
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The Sunday Stars Cor
RESPONDENT Was the
First Ne,Dsbaber Man
to Visit the City.
With Gen. Peta;n and
Gen. Persh;ng The
Peo61e's Welcome.
ny GEORGE sELDEs. '.-
Special Correspondent With the
American Army in France.

American Army in France.
October rs, 1918.
NltE great fact we know-how
the Yankees on the north
west struck the line like a
manner blow between the
eyes of brute whose head
was menacing France, and how the
Yankees on the east cut the brute's
throat This is the story of how Gen,
Pershing and Gen. Petain before the
brute was quite dead entered its
menacing mouth, which was at ST.
Mihiel, and why the people of the
town, who early that morning did not
know his name, hailed our chief in
the afternoon as lie saviour"
If you have a picture of the kaiser
on a milN-white charger waiting on
hill outside Rheims for edtry into
conquered city. with fanfare and
panoply and dramatics to come, and
assume that our entry WAS "tri-
umphaP in that same manner YOU
have erred on the side of autocracy
we who have joined with democratic
peoples in democratic war entered
i'll a democratic fashion. Whatever
was triumphant or eXultant remained
in the heart.
And there was enough to crowd the
heart full to breaking. by our
stroke to the north and east we had
closed the salient, and the city of st.
Mihiel itself, the first fruits of our
victory. fell into the hands of French
colonials, and for the first time in
four years there was restored to
France city which had been in Ger
man hands since the first battle of
the Marnc. Poor pale-faced and
Wrinkled old men and women. little
starved children. sick and suffering,
they who had lived with the terror
Tor four years. gatheted with their
few wild flowers and the French tri-
color. which they had kept hidden all
TINS time hoping and hoping. and at
tho broken bridge Of st. Mihiel cried
their greetings to "le sauveur"-the
1iberator. Then they followed tho
generals through the streets, throw
ing their flowers at the two tall
straight figures. crying, give la
France" "Vive l'Ameriquew and
smiling through their unrestrained
tears. That, in short, was our tri-
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When the American Forces Entered St. Mhel

quartered Germans told them that one
American division had arrived In
France, but. they laughed, without
rifles.