The Cordova Daily Times
_(Member of Associated Press')__ __
VOL. IV. NO. 208___CORDOVA, ALASKA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1919 _ PRICE TEN CENTS
DUELS WILL
MAKE VISIT TO
' PACIFIC ISLES
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 8 (by Associated
Press).—Secretary of the Navy Dan
iels will leave for Honolulu on Tues
day next, on board the dreadnaught
New York. While in the Hawaiian
islands he will be participate in the
formal opening of the huge naval dry
dock at Pearl harbor.
The secretary expects to return to
San Francisco September 10, in time to
participate in the review of the Pacific
fleet there in company with President
Wilson.
It is expected that the governors of
California and New Mexico and a rep
resentative of the governor of Arizona
will go to San Pedro and there visu
he fleet with Secretary of the Navy
Daniels.
PRACTICAL MOVEMENT
* MAY TEND TO REDUCE
HIGH COST OF LIVING
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NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 8 (bv Asso
ciated Press).—The city hall and
twenty-five fire stations have been con
verted into municipal grocery shops,
where government bacon and vege
tables are being sold at cost.
Cheaper Flour to Be Had
NEW YORK, Aug. S (by Associated
Press),—The United States Grain C or
poration will sell flour at 810 per
barrel.
AMERICAN OFFICIALS
TO GAIN FIRST HAND
PARIS, Aug. 8 (by Associated
Press).—Herbert Hoover, the Ameri
can food commissioner, and Brigadier
General Harry Bandholtz left today on
a tour of the European capitals to in
vestigate food and economic condi
tions.
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Brutal Hun Officer
Fo F ace 1 rial for
Prisoners Deaths
LONDON, Aug. 8 (by Associ
ated Press).—The allies have
demanded the surrender of Gen.
Kruska, commander of the Ger
man prison camp at Kaiserhof,
as the first enemy official to be
tried for violating international
law during the war.
The accused general is to be
held responsible for the typhus
epidemic at the camp which
caused the deaths of three thou
sand French prisoners.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (by Associ
ated Press).—The country’s corn crop
showed a decrease of 27,250,000 bush
els as a result of weather and other
conditions during July, according to
announcement in the department of
agriculture’s crop report.
Indications are that the crop will
be about 2,788,000,000 bushels.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. S (by Asso
ciated Press).—Three bandits held up
two clerks in the Morgen jewelry
store, in the heart of the business sec
tion of this city, today and made their
escape with $50,000 worth of gems.
CANADIAN~AVIATOR'
MAKES NOTABLE FLIGHT
CALGARY, Aug. 8 (by Associated
Press).—Captain E. C. Hont yesterday
flew from Vancouver to this city, mak
ing the first flight across the Canadian
Rockies. His time was 16 hours and
45 minutes.
KING OF RUMANIA MAKES VISIT
TO HIS VICTORIOUS TROOPS IN
CAPITAT OF DEFEATED HUNGARY
SST'E? *---—
VIENNA, Aug. 8 (by Associated Press).—There appears
to be no intention of making the Archduke Joseph king of Hun
gary. Joseph, who says lie is a true democrat, surrendered his
extensive estates to the government recently, and says he will
handle the affairs of the government until an election is held.
* Advance of Rumanians Was Stubbornly Resisted
PARIS, Aug. 8 (by Associated Press).—An American Red
Cross unit which accompanied the Rumanians in their advance
on Budapest says the fighting was most severe in the city.
The hospitals at Cradoa Maria alone received twelve hun
dred wounded men.
King Visits His Victorious Army
ZURICH, Aug.*8 (by Associated Press).—King Ferdinand
of Rumania has arrived at Budapest.
BELGIANS PURCHASE EAST COAST PASSENGERS
MUCH-NEEDED SUPPLIES IN PERILOUS SITUATION
BRUSSELS, Aug. 8 (by Associated BOSTON, Aug. 8 (by Associated
Press).—The Belgian government has Press).—The steamship North Star,
, paid between ten and twelve millions carrying 285 passengers for Yarmouth,
of dollars for a huge stock of American is stranded. Steameis are standing by
army supplies here. to render aid if needed.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (by Associated Press).—President
Wilson addressed a joint session of congress tins afternoon at
4 o’clock on the high cost of living, proposing remedies for the
present inflated prices and declaring that the existing laws were
inadequate to deal with the situation. ^
The high prices prevalent, declared the President, were
not justified by shortage of supplies, present or prospective, but,
he said, they were created in many cases artificially and de
libei ately by the aid of vicious practices.
The President recommended that the food-control act be
extended for peace-time operation, and recommended that con
gress exclude from interstate shipment goods which did not
comply with its provisions. He recommended that the food law
be provided with substantial penalties for profiteering, and
suggested a federal cold-storage law, placing a time limit on
the keeping of food products in cold storage. He suggested
that the prices at which such goods should be sold when re
leased from cold storage should be identical with the prices
prevailing when they entered storage.
A further recommendation was made by the President that
a federal licensing system for corporations engaged in inter
state commerce be enacted, which would embody regulations
to insure competitive selling.
In conclusion President Wilson urged the ratification of the
peace treaty, in order that the country might be speedily re
stored to a peace basis, for, he said, “there can be no peace
prices while the nation is on a war basis.”
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (by Associated Press).—Represen
tative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas, lias introduced in the house
resoluion declaring that a state of anarchy exists in the United
States, and authorizes the President to “free interstate mail
and traffic from further unlawful interference.”
The striking railroad shopmen throughout the nation are
returning to work rapidly in response to a statement publicly
made by President Wilson that the strike must end before re
lief is granted.
Western Railroads Demoralized
CHICAGO, Aug. 8 (by Associated Press).—The railroads
have canceled forty additional trains on account of the strike.
The railroad administration announced, however, that there
would be no nation-wide curtailment in passenger trains at pres
ent as a result of the strike.
Twenty Eastern roads and one Western road are affected
by the discontinuance of trains, and it is believed that many
of the large roads soon will be compelled to curtail their pas
senger service. Statements issued by the New York Central, the
Nickle Plate and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific are to the
effect that after today the condition of the locomotives will de
termine schedules.
Kansas City Shopmen to Return to Work
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 8 (by Associated Press).—Striking
railway shopmen here held mass meetings today and voted to
return to work immediately.
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Youthful Murderer
Changes His Mind
About Appealing
OSSINING, N. Y„ Aug. 8 (by
Associated Press).—Gordon Faw
cett Hamby, the young man ar
rested in Tacoma, Wash., for
the murder of a Brooklyn
banker, who is now in the death
house at the state prison here
under sentence of death, has de
cided to appeal to the higher
courts for a new trial.
Recently he declared that he
did not care whether he was
electrocuted or not.
HONOLULU, July 14 (by corres
pondence of Associated Press).—Mar
against the United States will be
made almost prohibitive for any Or
iental nation through the establish
ment at' Pearl harbor base here of
the greater part of the new Pacific
beet, according to naval authorities.
The arrival of the fleet late in Aug
| ust, it was declared, would make
Pearl harbor one of the greatest naval
bases in the world and the most im
por.ant to the United States.
Naval authorities have said Hawaii
affords the only possible location far
a strong naval base in the Central
Faciflc ocean for a distance of 4,UU0
miles. It lies approximately 2.LA
miles off the American coasf If Hr,
waii were in the hands of an enemy,
according to local authorities, that
nation could harass and threaten the
entire Pacific coast. To guard the
| Pacific coast against an enemy occu
pying Hawaii, the United States
would be compelled to keep a fleet
many times the size required with
Hawaii as an American base, it is
declared.
With the LAiited States in control
of the islands an Oriental nation
moving against the United States
would be compelled to work from a
base 7,000 to 8,000 miles from the
American coast instead of the Hawaii
an coast, only 2,500 miles off.
Pearl Harbor, where the base is sit
uated, is considered one of the best,
if not the best, natural harbors in the
world. It has an area of ten square
miles and a depth of more than 60
feet. It is landlocked, and ships with
in the harbor are out of view from
the sea. The great new drydock just
completed will be officially opened by
Secretary of the Navy Daniels when
he arrives with the fleet. It is 1029
feet long, is 138 feet wide and can
handle any ship afloat or contem
plated.
The war department also has ample
sites at the channel entrance and al
ready has engaged on the construc
tion of protecting defenses. A con
siderable army force also is main
tained in the islands.
STRIKE NOT CAUSED
BY RACIAL ANIMOSITY
CHICAGO, Aug. 8 (by Associated
Press).—Thirty-three thousand pack
ing plant employes here struck today
when five thousand negroes returned
to work in the yards.
The dispute arose over the employ
ment of non-union negroes rather than
because of race hatred.
The state troops have been recalled
from the stockyards and riots districts.
The presence of these troops was one
of the causes of the stockyards strike.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7 (by As
sociated Press).—Advancement of na
val armament from Spanish-American
war days to present is shown in the
weight of a broadside fired from the
old battleship Oregon, the largest at
the time of the Spanish-American war
and from vessels of the Pennsylvania
type of the new Pacific fleets.
The Oregon could fire a broadside
of steel projectiles weighing 5,660
pounds. A broadside from the Penn
sylvania type with its 14-inch guns
would weigh 17.500 pounds.
Future American dreadnaughts and
battle cruisers are to mount 16-ineh
| guns. Each projectile will weigh 2,
i 100 pounds compared with the 14-inch
shells of the Pennsylvania. The
broadside from the future battle ships
will weigh a total of 25.200 pounds,
more than four times the size of an
Oregon broadside.
The new ships will be the heaviest
armed ships in the world. The 16
; inch guns were developed during 1918
j and proved satisfactory in every res
! pect.
The largest guns on the Atlantic
fleet in its cruise of 1907-190S around
the world, was 12-inch. The greatest
1 number of these on any single ship
j was four against the batteries of
twelve 14-inch guns on the more pow
erful dreadnaughts of Admiral Hugh
Rodman’s new Pacific fleet. The 12
I inch gun had a maximum effective
range of 10,000 yards against the
22.000 yard Rodman guns. The fleet
| of ten years ago, naval officers say,
i would be helpless against even a
! small part of the Pacific fleet. The
I Atlantic fleet when it made its fa
mous trip was considered the greatest
fleet ever brought together.
| Admiral Robley D. Evans com
j mauded the Atlantic fleet until it
| reached San Francisco. All his ves
j sels burned eoal4 as did the Oregon
I of Spanish-American war days. Ad
miral Rodman’s flagship, the New
Mexico, is electrically propeled and
most of his vessels are oil burners,
thus materially increasing their cruis
ing radius over any previous Ameri
can fleet.
PROMINENT BUSINESS MEN
VISITING CITIES OF COAST
TACOMA, Aug. 8 (by Associated
Press).—Twenty-four directors of the.
United States Chamber of Commerce,
who are on a tour of the nation, ar
rived here today, and will leave for
Seattle tonight.
GERMAN BRIDES OF SOLDIERS
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NEW YORK. Aug. 8 (by Associated
Press).—The first of the German war
brides of American soldiers have ar
rived here.
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MEXICAN MILITARY CHIEF
WANTS TO BE RELIEVED
MEXICO CITY, July"lS (by mail).—
General Fortunato Zuazua, the youth
ful chief of military operations in the
state of Tamaulipas. has, according to
Excelsior, asked to be relieved from
his military command as a result of
the attack made some weeks ago on
the state capital, Ciudad Victoria, by
a small rebel band under Eugenio Lo
pez. Evading the garrison, the rebels
penetrated into the center of the city,
committed various depredations and
fled, after emptying the penitentiary
of all prisoners. In his defense Gen.
Zuazua declared that he had been
given too few men to defend the city.