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VOL. 5. NO. 149 _ _ CORDOVA, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1920 PRICE TEN CENTS
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VILLA IS THREATENING ANOTHER RAID
SUICIDE STORY
FORCED UPON
COMPANIONS
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MEXICO CITY, May 26 (by Asso-!
dated Press).—The commission ap
pointed by Obregon and Gonzales to j
investigate the death of Carranza!
have made their report. The report
says Herrero guided the president
to a sleeping hut, posted his own
i^en as sentries, and then left, say-!
ing his brother had been injured.
At three o’clock in the morning Her-j
rero’s men entered the hut, osten-1
sibly to report conditions, but sup
posedly to locate the exact position
of Carranza’s bed. Half an hour later
the hut was attacked from all sides,
the fire being concentrated on the
spot where Carranza slept. The
president cried out and begged for
a carbine to defend himself, when
a volley silenced him. Other occu
^pants of the hut fled. Many were
recaptured by Herrero and forced
to sign a statement saying Carranza
had committed suicide.
PRICE PLACED ON VILLA’S HEAD
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EL PASO, May 26 (by Associated
Press).—Villa is again bidding de
fiance. The outlaw had been given
until yesterday to decide whether
he would be at peace or war with
♦the new government, and he has
threatened to begin another of his
raiding expeditions. Large bodies of'
troops have been ordered to effect
his capture, and a price of a thou
sand pesos has been placed on his
head.
CARRANZA’S SECRETARY HELD
EL PASO. Tex., May 26 (by asso-'
ciated Press).—Louis Cabrera, for-'
mer secretary of finance under Car
ranza, has been taken prisoner at
Villa Juarez, in Puebla, and is now
' held in Mexico City, according to a
tekgram' from Obregon "ecei/ed here
today.
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PHILADELPHIA, May 26 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The report of the com
mittee on Friendly Relations, at the
Presbyterian General Assembly yes
terday made a 'standing plea for the
League of Nations.
An effort to evangelize Jewish peo
ple in Newark, N. J., Baltimore, Md.,
Brooklyn. N. Y., and this city is be
ing made by the Presbyterian Board
of Home Missions, according to its
annual report, which was presented
by Secretary H. N. Morse. It said
fRe year closed with “much finan
cial perplexity but great spiritual ad
vance.” The board, it was said, pro
jected a budget on the basis of a cer
tain anticipation through the New
Era movement “which the fact have
not justified.” Total receipts, exclu
sive of legacies and applicable to cur
rent work were said to be $978,622
and expenditures for the year were
$1,219,223, leaving a net deficit of
$240,600 which, added to the debt of
the board faced on January 1, 1920,
makes the total debt $479,228
NEW YORK, May ?6 (by Associ
ated Press).—The American Woohm
Company was charged with jfrcbfiteer-)
irg today in an indictment returned
by the federal grand jury. It is al
leged the company sold cloth at un
ji**t and unreasonable prices.
WASHINGTON, May 26 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A tribute to the mem
ory of those who fell in France is
contained in the Memorial day mes
sage of the veterans by President
Wilson received by the American
Legion. In sending greetings to the
veterans the president said:
“What your arms have done for
liberty your spirits will continue to
do for justice here' at home. Great
experiences make great men and out
of the tragedy of this test new and
better ideals has come to American
manhood. The country’s affection for
you and what you have done is only
equalled by the confident hope that
you will continue your manly course
in the part you still have to play.’’
SEATTLE, May 26 (by Associated
Press).—Fire department officials
are working on the theory that the
Lincoln hotel fire which cost the
lives of five persons was the work
of an incendiary. Ten other hotel
fires have occurred within the last
month, six of them starting appar
ently in the same manner and all
of them seemingly the work of the
same firebug.
PALMER SPENDS GOOD
MONEY TO NO AVAIL
WASHINGTON, May 26 (by Associ
ated Press).—Former Representative
C. C. Carlin of Virginia, Palmer’s
campaign Tmanager, told th<? senate
committee investigating expenses of
presidential candidates in the pri
mary elections, that contributions
had been received totaling $59,610,
and that the largest contributor was
James McCurg Guffey, a Pittsburg oil
man.
A LIBERAL CONTRIBUTION
William C. Morton, of the Proctor
Gamble Company of Cincinnati, testi
fied that he had advanced half a
million dollars and contributed ten
thousand dollars toward the Wood
campaign fund. He said this sum
was more than the total contribu
tions from other sources.
WASHINGTON, May 26 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Senator Hitchcock
said today that he did not expect
to support the president’s request for
authority to accept a mandate over
Armenia. “I understand other bem
ocratic members of the foreign rela
tions committee also will not give
their approval,” he said. The com
mittee plans to dispose of the re
quest adversely tomorrow Williams of
Mississippi is said to be the onlv
Democratic committeeman favoring
a mandate.
SENATOR SHERMAN IS
OPENLY OPPOSED TO
SOLDIER RELIEF BILL
WASHINGTON, May 26 (by Associ
ated Press).—Senator Sherman, Re
publican, of Illinois, speaking in the
senate today, denounced the soldier
relief bill as “a disgraceful deteriora
tion of patriotism,” and said that if
the American Legion aims to loot
the treasury of the country, then it
is a “disgraceful organization.”
NEW YORK, May 26 (by Associ
ated Press).—Sir Auckland Geddes,
British ambassador to the United
States, made a sweeping denial to
day of charges that Great Britain was
seeking to monopolize the world’s
oil supply. He said the British pol
icy was directed against no man,
but was inspired by a desire to seek
peace, bring order out of the pres
ent unsettled conditions, improve the
lot of oppressed peoples, and increase
the prosperity of the world.
NEW YORK, May 26 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The American com
mittee- for Armenian independence
has wired the senate foreign rela
tions committee that if full rights
for Armenia are not recognized by
an American mandiate, it would mean
she would be despoiled of her most
fertile resources and that American
soldiers would be used simply to pre
vent Armenians from coming into
their own.
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SEATTLE, May 26 (by Associated
Press).—A special dispatch to the
Times from Washington says the de
partment of agriculture is ready to
enter into thirty-year contracts for
Alaska pulp wood with a definite
maximum price for the first ten years
and the fixing of, the prices after
that period by the department. It
is said there are a hundred million
cords now available. Eastern states
stumpage is now selling at $4 a
cord. A recent circular of the de
partment quoted spruce at 50 cents
and hemlock at twenty-five cents a
cord.
Canada’s policy of entering into
fify-year leases has hitherto proved
very attractive to manufacturers.
The Order of the Eastern Star will
give a bridge party at Masonic hall
on Thursday evening at 8 o’clock.
All Masons and their families and the
members, of the Eastern Star and
their families are invited to attend.
MARYLAND REPUBLICANS
REJECT PROHIBITION AS
AN ISSUE IN CAMPAIGN
BALTIMORE, Md„ May 26 (by
Associated Press).—The Republican
state convention refused to go on
record concerning prohibition as a
party, passing the question to the
individual candidates. The conven
tion ratified the selection of Wood
as the party’s choice in the primary
and elected eight delegates at large
with half a vote each.
SEATTLE, May 26 (by Associated
Press).—The Northern Commercial
Company’s steamer Ozmo will sail
next week for Bethel and the Kus
kokwim river with a full cargo of
mining machinery and supplies and
a full list of passengers. The Ozmo
will also take outfits for the Union
Construction Company’s quartz prop
erty on the Kuskokwim, as well as i
a hydraulic outfit for the Taluksak
& Alaska Fidelity Company.
WASHINGTON, May 26 (by Associ
ated Press).—J. Bruce Kremer of
Montana, vice chairman of the na
tional committee, will call the Dem
ocratic national convention to order,
it was announced today. The selec
tion was made because Chairman
Cummings has been selected to act
as temporary chairman and because
it was thought fitting that a western
man should open the first conven
tion west of the Rockies.
WASHINGTON, May 26 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Declaring that steam
roller tactics were being used on him,
•Secretary Daniels tolday told the
senate naval investigating committee
that he would appeal to the full
committee if Hale insisted in putting
into th£ record unfair and unfounded
statements of conditions of the Amer
ican warships when war began. Sen
ator Pittman warned Senator Hale
that he would protect the secretary
on the senate floor against the char
acter of questions Hale was asking.
The questioning of Daniels can
tered around his statement at the
conclusion of the war that, in April,
1917, the navy was ready “from stem
to stern.” Secretary Daniels said
this statement was an epigram.
SEATTLE, May 26 (by Associated
Press).—1-The White Pass & Yukon
Railway reports the Yukon river as
being the lowest in twenty-five years
and indications are that navigation
will not open until about June 12.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N. M„ May 26
(by Associated Press)|—A Santa Fe
passenger train was wrecked today
at Lajoy, south of here, due to soft
track resulting from high water. The
engineer and fireman were killed and
thirty passengers injured. A special
train with nurses and doctors is being
rushed to the scene of the wreck.
ALBANIA THREATENED
WITH INTERNAL WAR
LONDON, May 26 (by Associated
Press).—An Exchange Telegraph mes
sage from Durazzo pictures Albania
in the throes of a civil war the utli
mate consequences of which it is im
possible to forecast.
BRITISH TROOPS i
FORCED BACK
LONDON, May 26 (by Associated
Press). — Bolsheviki forces pouring
into Persia have occupied Nesht,
from which the British troops re
tired toward Teheran. The Daily
Sketch says Indian reinforcements
are being landed at Batum to be fol
lowed by other troops as soon as
transportation is available.
SUTHERLAND LEADS
WOOD WEST VIRGINIA
WHEELING, W. Va., May 26 (by
Associated Press).—Sutherland leads
Wood by 3,000 votes in the results
received from the primary election.
No names were printed on the Demo
cratic ballots.
SALMON IN FRAZIER
RIVER ON DECREASE
MONTREAL, May 26 (by Associ
ated Press).—John McMullen, a pio
neer resident of the Skeenia river,
declared in an interview here that
Frazer river salmon have decreased
from a million a year to less than
forty thousand.
DELAWARE DELEGATES
ARE UNINSTRUCTED
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DOVER, Del., May 26 (by Associ
ated Press).—The Delaware demo-1
cratic state convention chose six un
instructed delegates to the national
convention, also approved the League
of Nations without destroying or
nullifying reservations.
TWO AMERICANS ARE
PRISONERS IN MEXICO
WASHINGTON, May 26 (by Associ
ated Press).—Homer Carr and a man
named MacDonald, both Americans,
are reported as being held prisoners
at Jiminez, Chihuahua, the state de
partment was advised today. No
details, however, were given in the
report.
TEXANS STAND
FIRM AGAINST
WET PLATFORM
DALLAS, Tex., May 26 (by Associ
ated Prsss).—The Democratic state
convention unanimously approved the
Democratic administration, highly
commended McAdoo as a presiden
tial possibility and selected thirty-six
delegation to the national Democratic
convention, including three women.
Sixteen delegates at large with one
foutrh vote each were also selected
under the uninstructed unit rule.
Postmaster General Burleson was se
lected as a delegate from his own
district. The platform opppses any
changes in the prohibition law.
HARDING NOMINATION
BE MADE BY OHIOAN
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CHICAGO, May 26 (by Associated
Press).—Former Governor Frank B.
Willis of Ohio will nominate Gover
nor Harding for president at th«
national Republican convention. The
nominating speeches are expected to
take place June 10.
HOW DRY THEY’LL BE
AT BIG CONVENTION
LOS ANGELES, May 26 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Six hundred and forty
cases of champagn consigned by the
California Wine Association to a
Chicago hotel was seized by federal
authorities today at Needles, Calif.
MORGAN’S OFFER OF
LONDON RESIDENCE IS
LAID BEFORE CONGRESS
WASHINGTON. May 26 (by Asso
ciated Press).—President Wilson to
day, without recommendation, laid
before congress the offer of J. P.
Morgan as a gift of his London resi
dence to be used as an American
embassy building.
AMRASSADOR GEDDES
IS FORMALLY RECEIVED
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WASHINGTON, May 26 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Sir Auckland Geddes,
the new ambassador to the United
States from Great Britain, formally
presented Iffs credentials today to
President Wilson.
MORTON’S ESTATE IS
WORTH TEN MILLIONS
WASHINGTON, M#y 26 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The will of the late
Levi P. Morton was filed for probate
here today, the value of the estate
being given as ten million dollars.
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GEODETIC STEAMER
SAILS FOR ALASKA
SEATTLE, MAY 26 (by Associated
Press).—The Coast Geodic steamship
Lydonia sailed yesterday to engage
in survey work on the west coast of
Price of Wales and Dali Islands.
Captain E. H. Pagenhart is in com
mand and the expedition will last
six months, with the base of opera
tions at Craig. The work includes
the developing of the approaches to
Mear’s Passage and Bucarell Bay.