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VOL. V. NO. 131 _ _CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1920 _PRICE TEN CENTS
CHICAGO, May 5 (by Associated
Pr«#*).—Fourteen thousand lumber
mill workers struck yesterday for an
advance in wages from 85 cents to
SI.10 an hour.
WIDESPREAD SAWMILL STRIKE
ST. PAUL, May 5 (by Associated
Press).—The timber workers in virtu
ally every mill in Northern Minnesota
struck yesterday for an eight-hour day.
BUTTE LABORERS STRIKE
BUTTE, May 5 (by Associated
Press).—The Butte Workingmen’s
Union, consisting of laborers, voted
yesterday to strike for an increase of
$1 a day in wages. The union refused
an offer of an increase of 50 cents per
day.
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ilANY SWITCHMEN STILL OUT
CHICAGO. May 5 (by Associated
Press).—The railroads have refused
to restore their seniority rights to the
striking switchmen, and nineteen
thousand of them remain on strike.
EYAK ROADWAY TO BE
BUILT THIS SEASON
DECLARES OFFICIAL
"Work is to begin immediately on the
building of a roadway around Lake
Byak. This information was gathered
from J. M. Myers of Portland, a repre
sentative of the bureau of public roads,
who arrived in Cordova yesterday. Mr.
Myers says there is about $28,000 now
available for this work, and he in
tends to put on a crew of thirty or
forty men, in order that it may be
rushed during the favorable weather.
'Hie going rate of wages will be paid
the men.
The Katalla-Chilkat road, connect
ing the former place with the oil
fields, is also to be constructed at
once, and more men will be required
for this work.
FIVE SUMMER CAMPS
FOR BOY SCOUTS OF
PACIFIC NORTHWEST
SEATTLE, May 5 (by Associated
Press).—Five attractive and benefi
cial outdoor training summer camps
for boy scouts of Puget sound cities
wi^l be maintained at cost and direct
ed by carefully chosen men of exper
ience as a result of co-operation of
scout councils. The project as an
nounced by chairman L. S. Booth of
the campaign committee of the Seat
tle boy scouts council, a twelve week
season at the Seattle training camp
on Wood Canal; a month in Mount
Ranier National Park; six weeks at
Tacopm Council camp on American
lake; three weeks in the Cascades
near Mount Pilchuk at a camp to be
operated by Everett Council and a
series of one-week and two-week trips
into the Olympic mountains one of
which will take a party across the di
vide to the Pacific. All camps will
be open to scouts from all cities and
towns within reach of the sound.
BIDS FOR LANDS ON
YAKIMA RESERVATION
WILL BE RECEIVED
YAKIMA, Wash., May 5 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Bids for the purchase
of ninety-two allotments of land on
the Yakima Indian reservation will be
received by Don M. Carr, superinten
dent and special disbursing agent of
the Yakima agency, until two o’clock
on the afternoon of May 25. Aj an
indication of top value * six 80-acre
tracts have been appraised at from
$12,600 to $21,000; seven 80 acre
tracts are valued at $5,000 to $7,000
and eleven range from $3,000 to $5,000.
T. S. Elsemore, cashier of the
Petersburg Bank, was unanimously
elected mayor of Petersburg by the
&ty council.
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WASHINGTON, May 5 (by Associ
ated Press).—It will cost $88,000,000
annually to enforce prohibition, de
clared Representative Ballivan (Dem.)
of Massachusetts, in the house of
representatives. “You can’t keep pro
hibition out of politics,” he declared.
NO CHANGE IN MAIL RATES
The house committee on postoffices
and post roads has refused to act fa
vorably on the Fess bill, providing for
the repeal of the graduated increase
in second-class mail rates for 1920,
1921 and 1922.
INCREASED CIVIL WAR PENSIONS
President Wilson has signed the bill
increasing the pensions of veterans of
the Civil war, their widows and de
pendents.
PEACE RESOLUTION DOOMED
Administration officials close to the
President believe that the Knox reso
lution, declaring peace with Germany
and Austria, is certain to be vetoed.
PENCIL SKETCH
NECESSARY IN
LOCATING OIL
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JUNEAU, May 5 (Special to the
Daily Times).—Frank A. Boyle, regis
trar and receiver of the United States j
land office here, announces that appli- j
cations for oil permits should be ac
companied by a rough pencil sketch
showing the natural monuments, land
marks and adjoining claims.
ROOSEVELT COINSWILL -j
BE PUT IN CIRCULATION
WASHINGTON, May 5 (by Associ
ated Press).—The senate yesterday
passed the bill authorizing the coinage
of Roosevelt 2-cent pieces.
DISCONTENTED
WAR BRIDES
FROM FRANCE
PITTSBURGH, May 5 (by Associat
ed Press).—Incombatibility of Ameri
can and French customs has caused
12,000 of approximately 50,000 French
war-brides to return to France, ac
cording to Mrs. Reginald H. Johnson,
president of the recently organized
L’Espoir Franco-American club here.
The club, formed at the suggestion of
Mile. Odette de Bouglon, of Paris, who
was in Pittsburgh recently, is expect
ed to broaden the interests of French
girls who became the brides of
Americans overseas, and to make them
contented in their new homes.
Mrs. Johnson, herself a war-bride,
and wife of a professor of language
at the University of Pittsburgh, de
clared that members of the club are
learning English, of course, but slow
ly, and “when one cannot talk, one
thinks too much.”
“We of France are individualists,”
she said. “We live within ourselves
and our own people, and that makes it
doubly hard for the French girls who
have left their homes and families.
Not that they do not love their hus
bands, to be sure, but they miss their
people.”
WANTS APPROPRIATION
FOR TELEGRAPH DEFICIT
WASHINGTON, May 5 (by Associ
ated Press).—Postmaster General
Burleson reports that the operation of
the telegraphs and telephones during
the war cost the government more
than fourteen million dollars, and he
asks that an immediate appropriation
be made to liquidate the debt.
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PRACTICAL STEPS ARE TAKEN
TO DEVELOP ALASKA COAL FOR
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SEATTLE, May 5 (by Associated Press).—A Washington special
to the Post-Intelligencer says that in anticipation of the early passage
of the naval appropriation bill, carrying a million dollars for the
development of the naval coal mines in the Matanuska field, Alaska,
Secretary of the Navy Daniels has appointed a commission of five of
ficers to leave soon for Matanuska to direct the development work.
Secretary of the Interior Payne says the coal must be developed,
and that Alaska is a potential source of fuel for the nation’s fighting
ships.
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SEATTLE}, May 5 (by Associated
Press).—John W. Troy, United States
customs collector at Juneau, reports
that the soviet at Anidir, Siberia, has
informed him that trading in furs by
citizens of the United States will be
permitted only through the soviet gov
ernment store.
Tlfe matter has been referred to
George B. Grigsby, delegate in con
gress from Alaska, and he has been
asked to ascertain the status of Amer
ican trade in Siberia.
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CANAL INTO
EXISTENCE!
ROME, May 5 (by Associated Press)
—Don Gelasio Caetani, a brother of
Prince Caetani, the American-trained
engineer, who laid the mine which j
blew the top off the mountain, Col di j
Lana during the war, burying several i
hundreds of Austrian soldiers be
neath it, has just dynamited a canal
into existence from Lake Caprolace
to the Mediterranean Sea.
The work was undertaken under
direction of the Prince, also knowm as
the Duke of Sermoneta, head of the
Caetani family, in the Pontine Marsh,
near the Duke’s vast estate of Cister
na. forty miles from Rome.
The Pontine marshes constitute the
swampy forest country which
stretches between the Roman Cam
pagna and Terracina, a region which
the prince has labored for years to
reclaim. On the seashore of ' this
strange volcanic region there are
lakes or lagoons, called Fogliano,
Monaci and Caprolace, communicating
with each other, into which ai high
tide all kinds of fish find their way,
remaining there to breed and fatten
for the Roman market, to which every
day some ten to forty hundredweight
are shipped. Only one, that of Fog
liano, is directly connected with the
sea, and in order to unite that of Cap
rolace with the neighboring Mediter
ranean, and to greatly increase the
yield of fish, Prince Caetani decided
to explode a series of mines so as to
form a canal between this lake and
the sea.
The undertaking took fifty tons of
explosives and 1,200 large bombs or
five times as much as was required
to destroy the mountain top. It was
successful, opening a channel to the
sea.
WILL DISCUSS PROBLEMS
ARISING OUT OF WAR
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NEW YORK, May 5 (by Associated
Press).—Economists, banker# and ed
ucators will discuss problems arising
from the war, chiefly as they affect
the high cost of living and price in
flation, at the semi-annual meeting
of the American Academy of Political
Science to be held tomorrow. Profes
sor Samuel McCune Lindsay, of Col
umbia University, in making the an
nouncement, said the prime purpose
of this national forum was “to bring
together the best thought of the
nation in an effort to remove the
hazards of the era of reconstruction.”
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WASHINGTON May 5 (by Associ
ated Press).—Though Carranza may
last some time, his opponents are
menacing him on all sides, and their
strength is constantly being increased i
bv desertions from the government
forces.
The fall of Juarez enables the revo
lutionists to turn their strength soufh
vvard toward Carranza’s home strong
hold of Coahuila. Meanwhile the rev
olutionists from the south are almost
knocking at the gates of Mexico City.
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DISORDERS
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DUBLIN, May 5 (by Associated
Press).—An article entitled “Guerilla
Warfare,” which sheds new light on
assassinations in Ireland, had been
discovered in the effects of Paul John
Vignoiss of Cork, recently tried by
court-martial and sentenced to six
months’ imprisonment “for having in
his possession an issue of the official
organ of the Irish Volunteers.”
“It is duty of Volunteers to recog
nize in all their plans, in methods of
training and study, and in their gen
eral outlook, the existence of this j
state of gueralli warfare and all that
it implies,” says the article, which
has been made public in an official
communication. “It is our business to
develop those guerilla tactics which
we have found most serviceable in
dealing with actual conditions in Ire
land at present, and to bring them to
the highest pitch of perfection of
which they are capable. It is our busi
ness to wage war against the forces
of the invaders whenever and however
we find it can be done most effectively.
“Of all forms of small wars, that
most dreaded by imperialist armies of
conquest is prolonged guerilla warfare ^
in which they are unable to obtain a
moment’s security nor gain any oppor
tunity of effectively crushing their
foe. Particularly do they dread the
adoption of well-organized guerilla tac
tics by a civilized foe of keen Intelli
gence auu courage. ourynses, am
bushes, raids on their fortified posi
tions, sniping of their stragglers, the
capturing of their arms and equipment,
interruption of their communications,
interference with their intelligence,!
are to be apprehended by them daily,
and their forces are driven more and
more into the positions of invested
garrisons in the midst of a hostile
country, afraid to venture from their
strongholds except in” force, living in
a state of perpetual apprehension.
That such a state of affairs exists in
Ireland at present is obvious to all,
and it is the business of the Irish
Volunteers to see to it that it con
tinues to grow more intense and more
menacing to the invaders.”
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Colonel D. D. Pullen and his bride
contemplate a trip to Alaska during
the coming summer and a visit to his
mother at Skagway. Colonel Pullen
was married at Ancon, Canal Zone,
to a daughter of Colonel E. M. Blake
of the Canal Zone.
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LOS ANGELES, May 5 (by Associ
ated Press).—James C. Huirt, alias
Walter Andrew Watson, the alleged
murderer and polygamist, was taken
to the Imperial valley yesterday to
show the officers where he buried Nina
Lee Deloney, the murder of whom he
recently confessed.
Two more possible victims of the
prisoner have been unearthed, making
a total of more than thirty.
Huirt claims to be insane. He says
he should be pitied. He tells a long
hard-luck tale. He admits to five mur
ders, but says he can not remember
whether or not there were others.
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FIND BODY OF VICTIM
DIXIELAND, Cal., May 5 (by Asso
ciated Pres3).—The body of Nina Lee
Deloney was found by searchers, led
by her alleged slayer, Huirt, at the
spot where he said he had buried her
after beating her to death with a ham
mer.
WOOD EASILY
DEFEATS HI
IN MARYLAND
BALTIMORE, Md„ May 5 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A light vote was cast
in yesterday’s presidential primaries
in this state, resulting iu a victory for
General Leonard Wood over Senator
Hiram Johnson by two to one on the
Republican ticket. The Democratic
delegates are uninstructed.
UTAH’S DELEGATES UNPLEDGED
PRINCE, Utah, May 5 (by Associ
ated Press),—The Republican state
convention, in session here yesterday,
elected eight uninstructed delegates to
the Chicago convention, including two
women.
SEALED GLASS
BOX HIS HOME
FOR SIX DAYS
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CAMBRIDGE, May 5 (by Associat
ed Press).—Joseph Barcroft, a reader
of physiology at Kings College here,
has lived for si? days :u a hermeti
cally sealed glass box.
The experiment arose cut of a 30
yea;-old controversy as to whether it
is possible to calculate the amount of
o>ygen in the blood from a knowledge
of the amount of oxygen in the breath.
The test was also made to demon
strate whether it was necessary that
airmen should have oxygen apparatus
when flying at great heights. It
proved that oxygen was necessary to
flying men but it did not show to
what height they could fly with safe
ty to the aviators.
While in the box Barcroft kept a
record of his sensations and made
scientific observations. He said he
suffered from sleeplessness but other
wise did not experience much incon
venience except on the last day, when
the atmosphere became extremely
rarified. He then had headaches and
nausea. He was watched continually
while in the box. He took food and
slept in two small compartments
fitted up with wicker chairs, a table,
a small bed and a bicycle on which
he exercised every morning.
SEVENTY WERE VICTIMS
OF SUNDAY’S TORNADO
MUSKOGEE, Okla., May 5 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The death roll from
the tornado of Sunday last at Peggs
now numbers seventy. Many of the
wounded will die.
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EXAMINATIONS
FOR TEACHERS
WILL BE HELD
All teachers who are holders of tem
porary certificates must secure a cer
tificate of a higher grade before the
opening of another school year. Arti
cle 3, page 15, School Laws of Alaska,
contains all the provisions regulating
the issuance of certificates.
Those who are holders of certifi
cates by indorsement which expire at
the end of the present school year
may have the same renewed by pre
senting them at the office of the com
missioner of education, together with
a statement from school boards or
other competent authority certifying
that the holder has been successfully
engaged in teaching during one-half of
the period in which the certificate was
in force. The same ruling applies to
certificates upon examination.
Teachers’ examinations will be held
at Ketchkan, Juneau, Cordova, Anchor
age, Kodiak, Fairbanks and Nome on
June 3, 4 and 5. Those who wish to
secure a certificate upon examination
should communicate with Mr. Hender
son or with W. A. Knox, Ketchikan;
J. E. Lanz, Juneau; Miss Emma Kee
ver, Cordova; John H. Dunn, Anchor
age; Howard McGinley, Kodiak; Miss
Henrietta Mirick, Fairbanks, or Miss
Emma Lee Orr, Nome. In case there
are applicants for such certificates who
find it too expensive or inconvenient
to take the examination at one of the
places indicated, it may be possible
to arrange for an examination at some
more convenient point.
No examination for an Alaska teach
er’s certificate will be given to an ap
plicant who is not 18 or more year*
of age and who has not completed the
equivalent of four years of school work
above the eighth grade of the elemen
tary school, and who has not, in addi
tion, had at least one year of profes
sional training in a school of higher
grade than a high school. This regu
lation is, however, not retroactive, and
those who are now teaching in the
Alaska schools and have had less
training than that indicated are en
titled to write upon the examination.
Applicants for a first grade certifi
cate must successfully pass an exami
nation upon the subjects listed below,
applicants for a second grade certifi
cate upon the first thirteen, and for a
third grade certificate upon the first
eleven: Arithmetic, civics, geography,
history, grammar, orthography, pen
manship, physiology and hygiene,
reading, school law, theory and prac
tice, American literature, English com
position and rhetoric, general science,
algebra and English literature.
DOLLY VARDEN MINE
STILL IN LITIGATION
OTTAWA, May 5 (by Associated
Press).—No decision has been reached
by the minister of justice on the dis
allowance of the special statute passed
by the British Columbia legislature
regarding the Dolly Varden mine,
vesting ownership in the Taylor En
gineering Company, but disallowance
is expected.
URGES COAL BURNERS
FOR NEW VESSELS
WASHINGTON, May 5 (by Associ
ated Press).—Secretary of the Interior
Payne, in a public statement just is
sued, urges that all merchant marine
and naval vessels hereafter be de
signed to burn coal, in anticipation of
an oil shortage.
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
HAS HEAVY ROWING CREW
SEATTLE, May 5 (by Associated
Press).—Ed Leader, rowing coach of
the University of Washington, has.
rearranged the ’varsity crew with the
result that the average weight of the
oarsmen has been increased to 177
pounds—the heaviest crew Washing
ton has carried in years. The Wash
ington champions of last year aver
aged a little more than 165 pounds.