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VOL. 5, NO. 187_CORDOVA, ALASKA, c A TT JRDAY, JULY 10, 1920 PRICE TEN CENTS
TWO CABINET OFFICIALS TO CORDOVA
BATTLESHIP IDAHO AND SIX
■ DESTROYERS COMING NORTH
WITH DISTINGUISHED PARTY
BREMERTON, July 10 (by Associated Press).—At
1 o’clock Admiral Fields said the plans at that hour were
that the destroyers St.-Clair, ITenshaw, Moody, Macauley,
Meyer and Bowen will sail with the Daniels party. The
first stop will be Juneau, and the next Cordova.
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CHICAGO, July 10 (by Associated
Press).—The Committee of forty -
eight, assisted by fraternal delegates
representing half a dozen liberal and
radical organizations, launched the
third party movement here today in
their first national convention.
Senator La Follette of Wisconsin,
who won the mail preference referen
dum to determine the most popular
■candidate for the presidential nomina
tion, appeared to have no opposition.
Nearly all of the five or six hundred
delegates wore La Follette badges.
Today’s session was largely devoted
to keynote speaking and organization.
Allen McCurdy, the temporary chair
man, condemned both the Republican
and Democratic platforms.
• The opening of the convention was
delayed by conferences between rep
resentatives of the committee of forty
eight with the Labor party, Non-Par
tisan League, Single Tax party, Triple
Alliance of the Northwest and several
other organizations. Each group has
some set plank and the task of har
monizing all elements threatens to
prove complicated.
The Single Taxers announced an
unequivocal and bittef stand against
Socialistic and paternalistic policies
and will demand a single tax plank.
The Single Taxers are also attempting
to combine with the national Labor
party, which opens its national con
vention tomorrow.
Difficulties between the committee
of forty-eight and the Labor party are
-♦acute where they touch the railroad
problem. Both stand for government
ownership but differ as to the amount
of “democratic management” which
would attach if the systems were
taken over by the government.
The Non-Partisan League represent
atives announce they are attending the
convention in personal capacities only.
The Labor party insits that the word
“Labor” must be preserved in any
name adopted.
DAIRY TAKES PLACE OF
REDLIGHT THEATER
MISSOULA, Mont., July 10 (by As
^sociated Press).—More than 25 years
ago and up to about ten years ago,
a^^oads in Western Montana led
direct to the Gem theater, then in the
heart of the most lurid of “red light”
districts in the new country, on West
Front street, Missoula. This spring
is seeing here the passing of this
last remnant of those days. The the
ater building is being entirely remod
elled and will he reconstructed to
serve as a dairy.
In the old days, “tired business
men,” lumberjacks, miners and stock
men there wooed the goddest of
chance. Even as the workmen are en
gaged on the building today may be
seen in letters whose paint is dimmed
by time, across the walls of the
strutures.
“Who loves not wine, woman and
song,
Remains a fool his whole life long.”
And, if that were true, old timers
-■•Rays, there were few fools in the good
eld days.
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! CAR SHORTAGE PUTS
CRIMP LUMBER TRADE
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. PORTLAND, Ore., July 10 (by As
sociated Press).—Lumbermen attend
j ing a meeting of the West Coast Lum
bermen’s Association declare a lum
: ber crisis may come this fall unless
j the car shortage is relieved. The sup
ply now is only 50 per cent of re
quirements.
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PALMER PLAYED
POLITICS BUT
COULD NOT WIN
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ST. LOUIS, July 10 (by Associated
Press).—Witnesses told the senate in
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i vestigating committee that the high
| cost of living bureaus established by
j the department of justice in Missouri
j were “political enterprises intended to
bring about the nomination of Pal
mer.”
Miss Olivia Bruggemann, formerly
holding an executive position in the
Missouri bureau, said she was dis
missed because she was a Republican.
Mrs. Mary Scott, publicity director
of the bureau, and Mrs. J. R. Leighty,
charges. She said the bureau’s repre
resentatives attended conventions to
organize the counties to fight the high
cost of living.
Chairman Kenyon announced today
that the committee will demand the
repeal of the appropriation granted to
the department of justice to fight the
I high cost of living on the ground that
it his been used primarily to boost
Attorney General Palmer for the pres
idential nomination. He said he was
convinced that little of the million
dollars appropriated had been used to
fight the high cost of living.
LAW STUDENT CLAIMS
BUDDHIST RELIGION IS
MORAL AND COMPLETE
BUENOS AIRES, July 10 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Permission to swear
by Buddha instead of God and the
Holy Apostles was granted by the
superior court of Cordoba the other!
day to a young law student of agnos
tic belief when he took oath of mem
bership in the Argentine bar. He
sought first to take the oath“ by my
country and my honor,” but the court
informed him that he would .-be
obliged to take a “religious oath.”
The student, it is related, there
upon went to a library and began a
profound study of the world’s relig
ions, on which he spent several days.
He then returned to the court and in
formed the judges he had found that
the Buddhist religion was “the most
moral and complete” and asked per
mission to take oath upon it. The
judges consulted musty volumes of Ar
gentine law and decided there was
nothing to exclude him from taking
such an oath.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
TO MEET NOVEMBER 15
WASHINGTON, July 10 (by Asso
ciated Press).—November 15 has been
determined upon as the date of the
first meeting of the League of Nations,
the state department announced today.
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WASHINGTON, July 10 (by Asso
ciated Press).—An increase of 28,000,
000 bushels in the country’s wheat
crop as compared with last month,
Avith a total forecast of 909,000,000
bushels; a prospective corn crop larger
than last year’s, and larger crops of
oats, barley, flax, potatoes, tobacco,
flax and rice than were produced last
year, featured the government July
crop report, issued today by the de
partment of agriculture.
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DIPLOMATS ARE
MUCH OPPOSED
BOMBARDMENT
PEKING, July 10 (by Associated
Press).—The diplomatic corps has
warned the government that in case
of an uprising there must be no fight
ing in this city and Peking must not
be bombarded by the forces com
manded by Tuan Chi Jui, former sur
mier and misister of war, who are sur
rounding Peking. Tuan’s threatening
attitude is the result of dismissal by
the government of the resident com
missioner for inner Mongolia.
SUSPENSION OF STEEL
PLANTS THREATENED
WASHINGTON, July 10 (by Asso
ciated Press).—J. F. Townsend, rep
resenting more than a score of steel
manufacturers, told the interstate com
merce commission today that many
steel plants are threatened with sus
pension which will throw thousand of
workmen out of employment, because
of the car shortage.
PEACE PROPOSAL OF
VILLA TO BE REJECTED
MEXICO CITY, July 10 (by Asso
ciated Press).—General Serrano, un
der secretary of war and marine, told
the Associated Press today that the
government had decided to reject
Villa’s peace proposals, and would ac
cept only his unconditional surrender.
SNOW BLOCKS ROAD
IN NATIONAL PARK
BUTTE, Mont., July 10 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Superintendent Al
bright of the Yellowstone national
partk, by using large snowplows
mounted on powerful tractors, plans
to clear the road of snow over the
continental divide. The motive power
for the work will be supplied by the
war department while the snowplow
attachment is an invention of the park
superintendent. This will be the first
time the roads to the park will have
been cleared of snow until Old Sol
saw fit to, do the work.
WOOD AND CUMMINGS
CONFER WITH HARDING
MARION, O., July 10 (by Associated
Press).—General Leonard Wood and
Senator Cummings conferred today
with Senator Harding, discussing vari
ous features of the campaign.
SEATTLE, July 10 (by Associated
Press).—The Northwestern sailed at
9 o’clock this morning with 200 pas
j sengers. Those booked to Cordo /i
are: A. Shields, Richard Bacon, C. S.
Johnscon, G. E. Manning, J. Larson,
J. C. Van Orsdel, Mrs. E. Mayfield,
Mrs. D. Chapman. Mrs. B. O. Graham,
Ethel Graham, Mrs. A. Skog and baby,
Emma Irmminger, Mrs. J. R. Smith,
C. C. Hoyt, Mrs. W. J. Crooker, and
six steerage.
GENERAL STAFF
ARRESTED FOR
CONSPIRACY
WASHINGTON, July 10 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The embassy at Mex
ico City has advised the state depart
ment that munitions officers formerly
of the staff of General Pablo Gonzales
have been imprisoned on a charge of
plotting against the governor of the
state of Chiapas, which is in open re
bellion. General Murguia, who de
feated for governor of the state of
Michoacan, has raised the rebel flag.
CANADIANRAILWAYS
WANT INCREASED RATES
MONTREAL, July 10 (by Asso
ated Press).—The Canadian Railway
Association, representing all the lines
of Canada, has applied to the railway
commission for a 30 per cent increase
in freight rates.
ADMITS MURDER OF
WIFE FOR HER MONEY
CHICAGO, July 10 (by Associated
Press).—Lieut. Carl Wandered has ad
mitted to the police that he shot and
killed his wife on June 21 to get rid
of her and get possession of her
money. He admitted that he planned
a frame up robbery with a man whom
he killed at the same time in his
home.
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STEEL CORPORATION
UNABLE TO FILL ORDERS
NEW YORK, July 10 (by Associated
Press).—Unfilled orders of the United
States Steel Corporation for the
month ending June 30 amounts to al
most 11,000,000 tons, which is the
greatest since July, 1917.
QUARTER COLLY WINS
OHIO TROTTING EVENT
CLEVELAND, O., July 10 (by Asso
rted Press).—Quarter Colly, driven by
Charles Leventine of Columbus, won
the Ohio state $5,000 purse for 2:08
trotters here yesterday.
LA FOLLETTE IS CHOICE OF
RADICAL ELEMENT IN FAVOR
OF NEW PARTY MOVEMENT
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SEATTLE, July 10 (by Associated
Press).—Secretary of the Navy Dan
iels was at Bremerton this morning
making an inspection of the navy yard
there, while Secretary of the Interior
Payne spent the morning playing golf.
The hour of departure for the trip to
Alaska is undetermined, but it is ex
pected the party will leave early this
afternoon.
The Daniels and Payne party, in
cluding Dr. Alfred Brooks, chairman
of the inter-departmental committee,
and Governor Riggs of Alaska, will
travel north with Admiral Rodman on
six destroyers of the Pacific fleet, ar
riving at Juneau probably on Tuesday
afternoon, where Governor Riggs will
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be dropped. Only a short stop will
be made at Juneau, when the party
will proceed to Seward, thence to the
Mantanuska government coal fields.
After thoroughly investigating the
coal beds and the improvements there,
Anchorage will be visited. From An
chorage the destroyers will go outside
and join the battleship Idaho, on which
the party will return to Seattle before
July 25 by the outside passage.
Admiral Rodman will stay in the
north with the destroyers, which will
engage in a patrol of Alaska for a
month, covering the coast along the
peninsula.
Investigations of the visiting secre
taries will cover the manner of hand
ling coal for the navy and the possi
bility of opening the fields for com
mercial leases.
The presence of Daniels and Payne
together on the trip is considered very
important. They will investigate the
development of fisheries as a food
source and will consider the feasibility
of extending the railroad to Portage
bay for easier shipment of the coal.
Secretary Daniels and Admiral Rod
man are particularly interested in
naval affairs in Alaskan water. Offi
cers of the destroyers will be made
thoroughly familiar with northern nav
igation.
Admiral Rodman spent four years
on the Alaska coast in survey and
boundary work and is intensely inter
ested in the country. He expects to
enjoy a few days of good fishing dur
ing the stay in the north.
REPUB HEADQUARTERS
AT FRISCO BE KEPT OPEN
CHICAGO, July 10 (by Associated
Press).—Republican headquarters an
nounced today that the San Francisco
branch will be continued with Ray
mond Benjamin in charge, while El
mer E. Dover of Tacoma will assist.
Senator Harry S. New of Indiana
has been selected by the Republican
national committee to head the Repub
lican speakers’ bureau.
ADMIRAL FISHER DIES
AT HOME IN LONDON
LONDON, July 10 (by Associated
Press).—Admiral John Arbuthnot
Fisher, former first lord of the ad
miralty, died in London today.
MEIGHAN NEW PREMIER
DOMINION OF CANADA
OTTAWA, July 10 (by Associated
Press).—Arthur Meighan was sworn
in today as premier of the Dominion
of Canada, suceeding former Premier
Borden, who resigned on account of ill
health.
SISLER LEADS BATTING
IN AMERICAN LEAGUE
CHICAGO, July 10 (by Associated
Press).—Sisler of St. Louis holds his
position as leading batsman of the
American league, his percentage being
.410. “Babe” Ruth is second with .318
and has 25 home-runs to his credit for
the season. Horns of St. Louis leads
the National league batters with .403.
PERSIAN PORTS
ON CASPIAN SEA
TAKEN fBOLS
PARIS, July 10 (by Associated
Press).—A Teheran dispatch reports
that Bolsheviki troops have landed at
several Persian ports on the Caspian
sea.
POLES MOVE FURTHER BACK
PARIS, July 10 (by Associated
Press).—The Poles are withdrawing
from Brest. Litovsk, Vilna and Pinsk
as a result of the Bolshevik offensive,
according to a telegram received by
information, a Paris newspaper.
The evacuation of Brest, Litovsk,
Vilna and Pinsk would indicate a gen
eral withdrawal of the Polish lines
to the frontier of that new republic.
The Poles are making every effort to
stop the onrush of the Bolsheviki, but
the situation is regarded as very
grave.
TRAIN ON SANTA FE IS
WRECKED; TWO KILLED
AND SIXTEEN INJURED
PRESCOTT, Ariz., July 10 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Two were killed and
sixteen were injured last night when
a Santa Fe train on the Phoenix and
Prescott branch, on which Governor
Campbell was a passenger, struck a
cantaloupe train near Kirkland.
VANCOUVER GARAGE
DESTROYED BY FIRE
VANCOUVER, B. C., July 10 (by As
sociated Press).—Thirty automobiles
were destroyed and other property
damaged in a fire in a Granville street
garage last night. The loss is $75,000.
ALASKA NAVIGATOR
DIES AT PORTLAND
PORTLAND, Ore., July 10 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Captain Edward Par
sons, a pioneer Alaska navigator, died
here last night.
QUARTER OF MILLION
FIRE LOSS AT DENVER
DENVER, July 10 (by Associated
Press).—Fire destroyed East Turner
hall, the Scott auto body plant, seven
dwellings and a printing shop last
night, with total damages of about
$250,000,