VOL. V. NO. 129___CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 3, 1920 _ PRICE TEN CENTS
THOUSANDS PARADE AT PANAMA
J PROTEST AGAINST ACQUIRING
OF ISLAND BY UNITED STATES
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PANAMA, May 3 (by Associated Press).—Thousands of
Panamans paraded the streets here Sunday night in protest
against the acquisition by the United States of the major por
tion of Toboga island for fortification purposes. General J. «T.
Pershing, who is here on an inspection tour, was compelled to
return to his hotel in an automobile which was taking him to
a ball being given in his honor. All American officers were or
dered to leave the ball room.
The mobs stoned prominent Panama officials.
CHAMBER IS
INTERESTEDIN
COMING MEET
Ambers of the Cordova Chamber
of Commerce are takinig a keen in
terest in the great national gathering
of business men to be held at Atlantic
City the last of May by the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States for
discussion of ways of increasing pro
duction in the United States.
This increased production conven
tion, which will mark the eighth an
nual meeting of the national chamber,
will go into the very roots of the in
dustrial and commercial situation.
Cordova business leaders, along with
representative business men in all
parts of the country, have come to
realize that in a stimulation of pro
duction lies a way towards stabiliza
tion of business and price conditions.
The representative of the local
chamber named to attend the conven
tion is Falcon Joslin.
* Lack of production, business men
point out, is one of the primary causes
of high prices. Small hope is held
out for a reduction in the high cost of
living until more goods are manufac
tured and put on the market. Prices
have been forced up by competitive
bidding.
Even with the exchange situation as
It is, threatening reductions in exports
to Europe, manufacturers generally be
lieve it will be a long time before
production in the United States over
takes the demand for goods. In the
meantime producers are faced not only
with the task of meeting current de
mands, but also with that of making
up in many directions for production
lost as a result of the diversion of
plants to war work.
flFTYKHLEDIN
SEVERE STORM
IN OKLAHOMA
MUSKOGEE, Okla., May 3 (by As
sociated Press).—Fifty persons are re
ported to have been killed and one
hundred and fifty injured in a storm
which destroyed Peggs, Cherokee
county, today. Thirty-seven bodies
have been recovered.
Special trains with doctors and
nurses are hurrying to the scene. Com
munication is interrupted.
GI CR
r(K
IS PREDICTION
WASHINGTON, May 3 (by Associ
ated Press).—Frank A. Munsey pre
diets 5 and 10-cent daily newspapers
in the near future, and William R
Hearst advocates a reduction in sizt
of the daily newspapers, saying his
own reductions have not affected his
revenues. Both statements wer<
made today before the senate commit
tee which is investigating the news
print situation.
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FORGER FORBES
AFTER HEARING
IS BOUND OVER
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Robert Cullen Johnstone, who stole
five blank United States treasury
checks from the general land office
at Juneau, forged one of them for
$2,000 and passed it at a local bank,
was brought to Cordova on the Ad
niiral Watson yesterday afternoon and
given a hearing before United States
Commissioner Noaks, who bound him
over to the grand jury. He was taken
to Valdez on the same boat.
Johnstone, whose true name is Dr.
Robert E. Forbes, was arrested at
Hite, Utah, after a chase by federal
officers across the country.
The records of the secret service
show a long list of Forbes’ offenses,
covering a period of seven years. His
specialty is said to have been the
theft and forging of postal money or
ders, and in a list of half a dozen in
dictments he escaped with only one
conviction and prison term. On Feb.
18, 1914, he was sentenced to five
years in the Illinois state penitentiary
at Joliet, after arrest and trial in Chi
cago for forging and passing postal
money orders stolen from Station 53,
San Francisco, in January, 1914. He
was later transferred to the United
States penitentiary at Leavenworth,
Kan., and served his term. There is
no record of his activities after his
| release until he was arrested at Oka
nogan for forgery.
Forbes was indicted at San Fran
cisco under the name of Karl C.
Fisher on January 27, 1914, for steal
ing blank money orders from Station
53, on January 5, 1914. On November
27, 1914, he was indicted at Newark,
N. J., Under the name of Robert B.
Hanley for stealing money order
blanks from the postoffice at Belle
Mead, N. J., August 21, 1913. On May
22, 1916, he was indicted under the
name of J. H. McGregor at San Fran
cisco for stealing and forging money
orders at Dunsmere, Cal., October 20,
1913, and for stealing similar blanks
from the postoffice at Elk City, Idaho,
! October 10, 1913.
! In addition to the above names, he
was known at different times as Otto
D. Wiperman, A. E. Webb, Robert E.
Harris, Paul Dunperth and George
Dumpier.
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VANDEVEER IS
FOUND GUILTY
ATVANCOUVER
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VANCOUVER, Wash., May 3 (by As
sociated Press).—Attorney Vander
’ veer, counsel for the I. W. W., who
defended the men charged with the
Armistice day murders at Centralia,
was convicted in the superior court
. here on Saturday last of violating the
. state law prohibiting unauthorized con
[ versations with prisoners in- jail. The
case was appealed from a decision oi
j the justice court last winter.
i
i J. J. Jones, superintendent for the
! Bering River Coal Company, left yes
. terday on a visit to Seattle to recuper
i ate his health, having just recovered
from an attack of influenza.
CALIFORNIA TOWN
MAKES REMARKABLE
GAIN IN POPULATION
WASHINGTON, May 3 (by Associ
ated Press).—The population of Pitts
burgh, Pa., is 588,193, an increase of
10 per cent, according to census fig
ures published today.
Hoquiam, Wash., has a population
of 9,885, an increase of 21 per cent.
Long Beach, Cal., increased in pop
ulation 212 per cent, and now has a
population of 55,593.
The population of Pomona, Cal., is
21,719, an increase of 32 per cent.
ENGLISH CHAMPION IS
EASY MARK FOR WILLIE
LAWRENCE, Mass., May 3 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Jimmy Willie today
knocked out Bobby Dyson, the bantam
weight champion of New England, in
the first round.
REFUSED TO PRODUCE
BOOKS IN COURT AND
ARE HEAVILY FINED
PORTLAND, May 3 (by Associated
Press).—Federal Judge Dean today im
posed fines of $2,500 each against the
Northwest Steel Company and the Co
lumbia River Shipbuilding Company
and ordered the arrest of C. R. Bowles
and Alfred Smith, the heads of the
two companies, for contempt of court
in refusing to produce books for the
federal grand jury investigation.
MORSE IS INDICTED FOR
VIOLATING SHIPPING ACT
NEW YORK, May 3 (by Associated
Press).—The federal grand jury here
today indicted Charles W. Morse for
violating the Shipping Board act, pro
hibiting the sale of vessels of Ameri
can registry to foreigners.
EASTERN CAPITALISTS TAKE
LEASE ON OIL CLAIMS AND WILL
OPERATE IN KATALLA FED
SEATTLE, May 3 (Special to the
Daily Times).—The Alaska bureau of
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce,
| which has been active in beneficial
I legislation for Alaska, is again to the
front with an indorsement of the pro
posed legislation for the good of the
territory. At a recent meeting of the
bureau a memorial was adopted set
ting forth the needs of the territory
and the hampering results of present
conditions, which was sent to the
Washington delegation in congress.
The memorial states: “Natural wealth,
seemingly inexhaustible, precludes
even the possibility of failure under a
constructive industrial and coloniza
tion policy effectively administered.
One of the world’s greatest store
houses of natural wealth, situated in
a country designed to support a large
population of homeseekers, awaits the
consummation of such a measure.”
Oil Development
A special from Washington says
i Eastern capitalists will this summer
begin the expenditure of money for
l the exploration of the oil fields of
Alaska. The syndicates will operate
in the Katalla field. Representatives
of these syndicates have been in ne
gotiation with the interior department
for several weeks for leases in these
fields. The barrier formerly existing,
in the shape of royalties demanded,
has been removed by Secretary Payne,
who has waived all royalties on oil
production for five years, provided
the production is less than 100 barrels
a day in each well.
Inter-Department Committee
Harry Y. Saint, formerly chief of the
foreign trade bureau of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce, has been des
ignated by Admiral Benson, chairman
of the Shipping Board, to represent
that board on the committee the ap
pointment of which was suggested by
Secretary of the Interior Payne, to
formulate plans for better transporta
tion facilities to Alaska and for ad
vertising the territory with a view to
promoting traffic over the government
railroad.
Otto Praeger, second assistant post
master general, has been designated
by Postmaster General Burleson to
represent the postoffice department.
Dr. Alfred H. Brooks will represent
the interior department. He is gath
ering data for consideration of tl
board.
The inter-department committee on
Alaskan affairs recommends to Secre
tary Payne the establishment this
summer of a government steamship
line between Seattle and Alaska. The
committee decided to go to Seattle
and hold hearings on a solution of the
transportation problem for the terri
tory. The committee is expected in
this city this week.
Fishing Prospects Bright
E. G. McMicken of the Pacific Steam
ship Company, who has just returned
from a 4,300-mile trip in the North,]
visited twenty-seven points. He says
the salmon men are all busy and are
expecting a good season. They are
preparing for a heavy pack, especially
in Southwestern Alaska. Prospects
for a heavy travel to the North are
bright.
Alaska Exports
According to the report of Collector
of Customs John W. Troy, shipments
of merchandise from Alaska in March
totaled $2,133,114, and in February,
$1,215,297. Canned salmon was the
most important, amounting to 5,931,500
pounds, valued at $973,805. Copper
shipments in February amounted to
$973,602; furs and skins, except seal,
$87,874.
Nome Harbor
The Alaska bureau of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce is advised by
Lieutenant Colonel J. A. Woodruff of
the United States engineers that there
will be available for the improvement
of Nome harbor this summer approxi
mately $115,000, which will construct
the west jetty and complete dredging
of the inner harbor. The engineering
department is prepared to push this
work with all possible speed. Engi
neer E. L. Carpenter will leave for
Nome on the first boat. This improve
ment will afford a safe landing for
small craft at all times during the
open season. Nome is only 140 miles
from Siberia, and her merchants are
alive to the golden opportunity for
trade with Vladivostok, from which
they were excluded prior to the war.
Floating Nets and Traps
Colonel Woodruff has received ad
vices from the secretary of war that
floating pound nets and fish traps in
navigable waters of Alaska are lim
ited to a length of 2,400 feet. All per
mits which do not conform to the
amended regulation will be revoked
Excursion Called Off
The proposed excursion to Alaska
by members of the Washington State
Press Association and other Coast
newspaper men has been called off. It
was found that summer tourist reser
vations on the Alaska steamers were
taken up so rapidly that it would be
impossible to hold accommodations
sufficient for the party of newspaper
men and their wives on any steamship
leaving Seattle in July. It was ex
pected that at least 100 editors would
have made the tour.
Westward Radio Stations
A telegram received by the Alaska
bureau of the Chamber of Commerce
from the Union Fish Company, at Pi
rate Cove, Alaska, advises that it has
opened a radio station to general serv
ice at Pirate Cove, with local connec
tions to Unga and Sand Point. Mes
sages for those points will be received
without restrictions. Unga is happj
over this change for the better, and
the further fact that the launch Pulit
zer is en route with express and mail
lor that point
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TRAVEL AND FREIGHT TIDE
TURNS IN FAVOR OF ALASKA
DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED
SEATTLE, May 3 (by Associated Press).—The report of
Port Warden Fred 0. Lathes for March shows 2,797 outgoing
Alaska passengers, compared with 1,987 last year. Incoming
passengers numbered 459, compared with 929 a year ago.
Shipping men say the tide has turned and great develop
ment is in prospect for Alaska. The cargo movement from
Alaska in March was valued at $1,554,782, compared with
$768,700 in March last year, which is instanced as a further
proof of the revival of the North.
NO DISORDERS I
ARE REPORTED
ON MAY DAY
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SEATTLE, May 3 (by Associated
Press).—May day passed quietly
throughout the country. The threat
ened attempts on the lives of federal
and state officials did not materialize.
A number of strikes were reported,
but in most instances they were
caused by the regular expiration of
wage contracts.
Five hundred timber workers in the
Seattle district struck for the day. It
is declared that they will not be re
instated. Everything was orderly.
GLASGOW, Scotland, May 3 (by As
sociated Press).—A crowd of forty
thousand persons gathered here on
| Saturday last to celebrate May day
adopted resolutions of greeting to the
Russian soviet, and demanding the
establishment of a co-operative re
public.
MILL WORKERS STRIKE
NEW BEDFORD, Mass., May 3 (by
Associated Press).—Twenty thousand
cloth mill workers struck today
against the rule requiring them to op
erate more looms than formerly.
THE RAILWAY STRIKE
CHICAGO, May 3 (by Associated
Press).—John Grunau, president of the
Chicago Yardmen’s Association, the
“outlaw” union, said today that nine
teen thousand switchmen who struck
in sympathy with the yardmen are
ready to return to work if their senior
ity rights are restored.
Twenty of the forty-two defendants
in the conspiracy case have quit the
railways and taken other work.
NO DECISION ON
! VOLSTAD LAW
UNTIL MAY 17
WASHINGTON, May 3 (by Associ
ated Press).—The supreme court took
a recess today until May 17, without
deciding the constitutionality of the
prohibition amendment to the consti
tution or the Volstad act.
WESTERVILLE, Ohio, May 3 (by
Associated Press).—The Anti-Saloon
League, through Dr. H. A. Baker, its
general superintendent, has approved
the candidacies of Herbert Hoover,
Governor Lowden, W. G. McAdoo,
Judge C. E. Hughes, Senator Miles
Poindexter and W. J. Bryan for the
presidency, and is investigating oth
ers. The league offers no special can
didates.
MARCONI WIRELEST
CAN NOT GET DAMAGES
SAN FRANCISCO, May 3 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A decision denying the
right of the Marconi Wireless Com
pany to collect three million dollars
for alleged patent infringements in
damages from the Kilbourne & Clark
Company of Seattle was handed down
by the United States circuit court of
appeals today.
DEMOCRATS OF
KING COUNTY
IN BIG ROW
SEATTLE, May 3 (by Associated
Press).—The King county Democrats
held two conventions on Saturday last
and elected two contesting delegations
to the state convention. The two con
ventions adopted platforms differing
squarely on the principal planks.
Charles Fullen, chairman of th«
county central committee, was late in
making his appearance, and Judge
Rochester, registrar of the United
States land office, called the conven
tion to order. Fullen called the police,
who did not act.
The first convention indorsed George
Harroun of Seattle for national com
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mitteeman to succeed Titlow of Ta
coma.
The second convention indorsed
Fullen for national committeeman and
adopted a resolution reading of the
party Judge Rochester, District At
torney Saunders, Immigration Commis
sioner White, Collector of Customs
Druniheller and Prohibition Director
McDonald because of their attendance
at the first convention.
SPLIT AT TACOMA ALSO
TACOMA, May 3 (by Associated
Press).—A personal fight between Na
tional Democratic Committeeman Tit
low and David Williams, collector of
internal revenue, split the Democratic
county convention here on Saturday
and resulted in the repudiation of Tit
low and the indorsement of W. R. Rust
of Tacoma for national committee
man.
A number of waitresses held the bal
ance of power in the convention and
practically decided the results.
BUT TWO RUNS
ARE SCORED IN
26-INNING GAME
BOSTON, May 3 (by Associated
Press).—All major baseball league
records were broken on Saturday last
when Boston and Brooklyn of the Na
tional League played twenty-six in
nings to a tie, the score being 1 to 1.
The game was a brilliant one, and
Cadort and Oscher pitched throughout
the entire game.
PRINCETON CREW WINS
RACE FROM HARVARD
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 3 (by As
sociated Press).—Princeton won the
varsity crew race here Saturday, Har
vard being second and Pennsylvania
third.
VARSITY IS VICTOR
SEATTLE, May 3 (by Associated
Press).—The University of Washing
ton defeated the Washington State
College in the dual track meet here
on Saturday, by a score of 77 to 54
points.
Captain A. E. Lathrop came over
from Anchorage on the Alaska, and
left last night for that place.