VOL. 5. NQ-_]67__ CORDOVA, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY JUNE 16, 1920__ PRICE TEN CENTS
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SECRETARY PAY! APPROVES
PLAN FOR ACCELERATION OF
TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT
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WASHINGTON, June 16 (by Associated Press).—Co
ordination of federal control of Alaskan lands and resources
and consolidation of the two American shipping* lines serving*
Alaskan ports, were among the recommendations made today
to Secretary of the Interior Payne by a special committee
of officials of the interior department appointed to report a
plan for accelerating Alaskan development. Secretary Payne
Approved the report and instructed the committee to put its
program into effect as soon as possible.
Hearty cooperation is expected from national commercial
organizations, and they have been invited by’Secretarv Payne
to participate in Alaskan development.
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AiasKa is a vast ana immense territory with natural i
resources that have never been developed properly,” said Sec
retary Payne. “During the war the white population of the
territory actually decreased from 50,000 to 36,000 and the out
put of minerals and other industries have been greatly cur
tailed Reserve regulations in the territory have been such
*hat much property was not available. Exploitation of these
resources of the territory will not be turned over to one interest
nor to any group interest. Improvement of shipping and rail
road facilities is to be undertaken with the purpose of admit
ting fresh capital and opening the country for settlement by
American citizens. , > i
“Co-ordina^oTr^^ederat'control of Alaska^Tahds"and re
sources is contemplated by extension of executive authority
to an Alaska development board by congressional action, but
fending this enactment, an inter-departmental Alaska commit
tee will be appointed.
“Other plans include co-ordination of federal road con
struction and development of the plan for a comprehensive
system of roads and trails to serve the entire territory. Inves
tigation of the feasibility of smelting Alaska copper ores on
a commercial basis within the territory will also be under
taken.”
TWO APPOINTMENTS
BY SHIPPING BOARD
WASHINGTON, June 16 (by Asso-'
ciated Press).—Chairman Benson, of
the shipping board, has announced the
appointment of Fred F. Murray, of
San Francisco, as manager of the traf
fic department of the division of oper
ations, and L. H. Ritter, of Chicago,
as manager of the operating depart- <
inert of the same division.
JAPS WANT RENEWAL
OF ENGLISH TREATY
TOKYO, June 16 (by Associated
Press).—Japan had an article inserted
in the Anglo-Japanese pact of 1911 to
remove risk of England becoming in
volved in any dispute between the
United States and Japan, Viscount
Kato, former foreign minister, de
clared in an interview today in which
he urged the renewal of the treaty.
PROHIBITIONISTS WANT PLANK
IN PLATFORM OF DEMOCRATS
WASHNGTON, June 16 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Prohibition advocates
will ask the Democratic national con
vention to adopt a plank for the rigid
enforcement of prohibition and will
present “a solid front against Cox,”
said Waynor B. Wheeler, counsel-for
the Anti-Saloon League, counsel for
view today. Wheeler said the resolu
tfhns committee at Chicago adopted
an enforcement plank, but lost it
homewhere between the committee
room and the convention.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 16 (by As
sociated Press).—Vice President Thos.
C. Marshall arrived here last night to
attend the Democratic national con
vention as a delegate from Indiana.
He said he would not accept the pres
idential nomination if it was handed
to him on a silver platter. “I am an
old man, who has torn his hair for
Bryan, slaved for Parker and done
the hardest kind of work for Wilson,
and I am about ready to retire from
politics,” the vice president said.
When asked his opinion regarding
Harding, he said: “Personally I have
a higt, regard for Harding, and would]
do anything for him except vote for
him.”
NORTHERN EXPLORER
TO VISIT ESQUIMAUX
COPENHAGEN, June 16 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Knud Rasmussen, ex
plorer, and Peter Frenchen, his pho
tographer, are preparing an expedition
to visit the northernmost Esquimaux,
taking provisions for five years. Ras
mussen says there is a possibility they
will be gone for seven years.
ICE BREAKING UP IN
HARBOR AT NOMD
SEATTLE, June 16 (by Associated
Press). — A special dispatch from
Nome today says the ice is breaking
up and it is expected to move out at
any time.
Feud in Virginia
Brings Death to
Two Factionists
BRISTOL, Va., June 16 (by
Associated Press).—The feud be
tween tthe Fee and Berry fam
ilies found expression in a pistol
fight on the streets of Esserville
yesterday resulting in the death
of Robert Fee and George Polly,
the latter a member of the Berry
faction.' Dewitt Fee and baby
were seriously wounded and Tom -
and George Berry slightly hurt.
Reports say the trouble started
last week when the Fee brothers
held up and disarmed one of the
Berrys who was a deputy sheriff.
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LABOR AGAINST
SOVIET FORM
MONTREAL, June lfr (by Associ
ated Press).—The American Federa
tion of Labor convention overwhelm
ingly adopted the report of the reso
lutions committee declaring the fed
eratiQn"’%vas not justified in taking any
action that might be construed as
assistance for or approval of the soviet
form of government so long as that
government was based upon authority
not vested by the will of the popula
tion as a whole, or so long as it en
deavors to create re.volutions in civ
ilized nations. A movement to call
upon the United States for recognition
of the Russian soviets was led by
James Duncan, secretary of the Seat
tle Labor Council.
A resolution was adopted calling on
congress to cancel the gentlemen’s
agreement with Japan and absolutely
exclude Japanese and other Oriental
immigration and declaring a ban on
irresponsible agitators who are at
tempt to discredit recognized organiza
tions in the railway service. The fed
eration unanimously condemned the
sessionist movement which resulted in
the recent railroad strike.
The federation declared war on the
Kansas court of industrial relations,
adopting a resolution declaring such
legislation confiscatory of liberty and
property and a denial of the human
rights of organized labor, and in
structed the executive council of the
federation to fight anti-strike legisla
tion to a finish.
MANY B0LSHEVIK1 ARE
TAKEN AS PRISONERS
CONSTANTINOPLE, June 16 (by
Associated Press).—Forces of General
Wrangel, the anti-Bolshevik leader on
the Crimean front, are moving north
ward from Crimea and the sea toward
Azov. Three columns have been phe
nomenally successful against the Bol
sheviki, capturing 4,000 prisoners and
taking 40 of the Bolshevik’s 100 big
guns, while their losses were only 800
men.
WILL CRUISE ALASKA
ON PLEASURE TRIP
SEATTLE, June 16 (by Associated
Press!.—J. H. Ladew, an eastern mil
lionaire, arrived here today with his
family and a party of friends and has
chartered Robert Moran’s yacht San
Juan for a hunting and fishing cruise
of Southeastern Alaska. The San Juan
will sail the latter part of this week
with Captain Harry W. Crosby in com
mand.
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Cloth Profiteers
May Have to Face
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Lever Act Charge
NEW YORK, June 16 (by As
sociated Press). — The supreme
court of the United States will
be asked to decide whether
cloth is clothing under the Lever
act.
Federal Judge Hand has
granted the writ of error asked
by the government in the case
against the American Woolen
Company and others charged
with profiteering.
Judge Mack had quashed the
indictment on the ground that
cloth was not wearing apparel.
FREIGHT TRAIN
IS WRECKED
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AND BURNED
EELENSBURG, Wash., June 16 (by
Associated Press).—Brakeman C. F.
Washburn was killed and two others
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injured when a Milwaukee freight
train ran away for seventeen miles
and was then wrecked and burned,
causing damage which will run into
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Control of the electric locomotive
failed and after racing down grade
the cars finally jumped the track and
crashed into the power wires. The
high powered wires set fire to the
train and it was burned, while much
damage was also done to the track.
MADRID PAPERS ARE
- FORCED RAISE RATES
MADRID, June 16 (by Associated
Press).—News print shortage has
forced the price of newspapers to ten
centimos and should the cost of news
print exceed 160 pesetas per hundred
kilograms, the price of the papers will
go to fifteen centimos. Maximum
prices for advertising have been fixed
and the surface size of papers limited
to 13,000 square centimeters.
BIG TRAVEL BOOKED
FOR INTERIOR ALASKA
VICTORIA, B. C., June 16 (by As
sociated Press).—Addie Farr, district
agent for the White Pass & Yukon
railroad, says travel in Interior Alaska
this summer will surpass the record
during the season of 1916. All space
on steamers from Seattle, Victoria and
Vancouver to norther ports is booked
to the latter part of August, and to
Atlin alone over 1,000 reservations
have already been made.
D’ANNUNZIO LANDS
OIL TANKER AT FIUME
FIUME, June 16 (by Associated
Press).—A British tanker has suc
ceeaec! in running the blockade
against Fiume and has landed a cargo
of oil here for D’Annunzio, dictator
of Fiume.
ILLINOIS PRIMARY LAW
IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
SPRINGFIELD, 111., June 16 (by
Associated Press).—The state spureme
court today held that the Illinois pri
mary law was unconstitutional.
THREE NEGRO PRISONERS ARE
TAKEN FROM DULUTH JAIL AND
LYNCHED FOR HEINOUS CRIME
DULUTH, Minn., June 16 (by Associated Press).—A mob
estimated to number 5,000 stormed the jail, overpowered the
police, battered down steel doors of cells in which they were
confined and took away six negro prisoners, lynching three of
them after a mock trial on charges of assaulting a white girl.
The others were turned back to the police.
The police put up as stubborn a fight as possible without
firing shots, fearing that to do so would inflame the mob to
greater bloodshed, but they finally gave up when entrance
to the jail was forced.
Two companies of infantry were ordered from Fort Snell
ing and the Duluth home guard called into action to preserve
order.
After the lynching last night, ten negro prisoners were
placed in automobiles and rushed to the St. Paul jail for pro
tection. Normal conditions prevail here today, the national
guardsmen being ready for action if needed. An investiga
tion of the lynching is in progress.
MEXICO DRIVES
JACK JOHNSON
OUT COUNTRY
EL CENTRO, Cal., June 16 (by As
sociated Press).—The newspaper El
Monitor, of Mexica, today printed a
statement by Judge Luics Cacho, of
Tia Juana, that Jack Johnson must
leave Mexico within thirty days from
June 5. Mistreatment of several Mex
ican girls, including the maid of the
colored pugilist’s white wife, is
charged against Johnson. American
federal officers at waiting at the bor
der to arrest the former champion,
who is a fugitive from justice in the
United States on charges of white
slavery.
WARSAW, June 16 (by Associated
Press).—All Americans escaped safe
ly from the region of Kiev when the
Bolsheviki made their western drive.
OFFICER’S WIFE
KILLED WHILE
OUT RIDING
ROCKFORD, 111., June 16 (by As
sociated Press).—Five soldiers from
Camp Grant are being sought in con
nection with the shooting to death of
Mrs. Maude Lucille Moss, wife of Cap
tain Reroy H. Moss, camp utilities of
ficers, and daughter of Bion J. Arnold,
the noted electrical engineer. Mrs.
Moss was riding in an automobile with
her husband and four friends and had
just passed a group of soldiers when a
shot struck her in the back of me
head.
TOKYO, June 16 (by Associated
Press).—Two hundred miners were
killed in an explosion of fire damp at
the Yubari coal mines at Sappora,
island of Yezo.
WOOD ATTACKS SLANDERERS
LENROOT HAS GRIEVANCE
CHICAGO, June 16 (by Associated j
Press).—General Wood has issued a;
signed statement characterizing the
statement of Nicholas Murray Butler;
regarding Wood’s campaign as “a
vicious and malicious falsehood.” He;
said he regretted to make the state
ment, but “necessary to brand a fakir
and denounce a liar.” He declared the'
men who managed his campaign werej
of spotless character and said the at
tack upon them was infamous. But
ler’s action was “an attempt to ingra-*
tiate himself with certain elements
which exercised the determining influ
ence at the convention.”
SUPERIOR, Wis., June 16 (by As
sociated Press).—Senator Lenroot to
day expressed regret at the nomina
tion of Harding and in a statement
given the press declared he would be
among the first to join a new' party if
after the election Harding adopted
reactionary politics or was being con
trolled by the old guard. But the or
ganization of a third party now, Len
| root said, would insure Democratic
success in the November election, and
“with such a situation, there can be
but one choice, and that is hearty
support of the Republican ticket.”
PORTLAND, Ore., June 16 (by As
sociated Press).—More than 5,000 sig
natures have been secured to a peti
tion circulated in Oregon asking Sen
ator Johnson of California to repudi
ate the Republican platform and an
nounce himself as an independent can
dfdate for the presedency, according
to a telegraph sent today to Johnson
by W. P. Adams, an attorney of this
city.
BOSTON, June 16 (by Associated
Press).—“Please accept my sincere
sympathy,” said Vice President Thos.
C. Marshal today, in a telegram to
Governor Coolidge.
WASHINGTON, June 16 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Senator Hai’ding an
nounced today that he will not partic
ipate in the Ohio primaries. He had
nothing to say about the organization
of a third party, nor any of the topics
to be covered in his speech of accept
ance. v j