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VOL. IV. NO. 234 _CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1919 PRICE TEN CENTS
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PRESIDENT DISCUSSES RESERVATIONS
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Cheers Resemble Thunder as American Hero Rides
Through Metropolis—President’s Brief but
Significant Message—Son and Brother of
General Share Honors of Occasion
NEW YORK, Sept. 8 (by Associated Press).—General
J. J. Pershing, commander in chief of the overseas forces of the.
United States, arrived here today on board the steamship
Leviathan, itself symbolic of Germany’s defeat. General Per
sliiug, sad-faced and stern, and giving the impression of a splen
did picture of a soldier, was hailed as a conquering hero. Six
destroyers and two airplanes convoyed the Leviathan up the
bay, the forts fired salutes, and cheering thousands lined the
shores.
Vice President Marshall, Secretary of War Baker and
General Peyton C. March, chief of the general staff, greeted the j
returning general at the gangplank.
A police airplane had dropped copies of the mayor’s wel
come to the decks of the Leviathan.
^ The First division band, on board the Leviathan, played
4‘Hail! Hail! the Gang’s All Here!” as the boat approached the
clock.
Modest Reply to Gorgeous Welcome
At the (lock Secretary Baker told General Pershing that
he had sacredly kept the great confidence which the nation had
put in him. Tie handed Pershing his commission as a full gen
^ oral, the fourth time this great honor had been paid to an Amer
ican soldier since Washington. Pershing handed the document
to his young son, who had accompanied him home, who gloried
in the parchment.
President Wilson sent General Pershing a message in
which he said: “You have served your country with fine devo
tion and admirable efficiency. The nation is proud of you.”
General Pershing told the Associated Press that he ac
cepted this overwhelming welcome “on behalf of our brave
boys.” He was glad to return, he said.
“All credit is due to those brave fellows who faced a well
drilled army without flinching, and with little preparation,”
sahl General Pershing, and he -continued: “Those we left be
hind are in the hands of a grateful and affectionate people.”
He thanked Secretary Baker for the confidence the admin
istration had placed in him.
\ Tremendous Cheering for Hero
A continuous roar accompanied General Pershing’s auto
mobile through the thronged streets to the city hall. Pershing
stood up in his car at salute, but, carried away with the enthusi
<#dic reception, lie waved his cap around his head. The cheer
ing resembled thunder as the general entered the city hall.
General Pershing’s son and brother are with him, and they
are occupying a suite composed of the whole third floor of the
Waldorf-Astoria.
FRIGHTFUL RAVAGES OF
CHOLERA IN RUSSIA
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 8 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Between two and
three hundred persons are dying
daily at Petrograd from cholera. Many
of the hospitals have been compelled
to close on account of the lack of
food and medicine.
BRITISHABANDONING
' NORTH RUSSIA FRONT
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 8 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The British have com
menced the evacuation of Archangel.
Admiral Kolchak has begun an offen
sive against the Bolsheviki.
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AMERICAN IS KILLED
BY GERMAN SOLDIERS
COBLENZ, Sept. 8 (by Associated
Press).—Private Rease Madsen of
Sacramento, Cal., was shot and killed
by German soldiers in the neutral
zone, about a mile from the boundary
of the Coblenz bridgehead, on Satur
day last.
PROMINENT ATTORNEY
MEETS SUDDEN DEATH
NEW YORK, Sept. 8 (by Associat
ed Press).—James Osborn, former as
sistant United States district attor
ney here, and a well-known criminal
lawyer, was found dead in bed here
yesterday.
AUSTRIA ACCEPTS PEACE TREATY
AND RUMANIA MUST DO LIKEWISE
VIENNA, Kept. <s (bv Associated Press).—The na
tional assembly, by a vote of 97 to 26, lias voted to accept
the peace treaty. The assembly, however, protests
against the treaty as a violation of Austria’s right to the
free disposal of herself.
Reservationists in Rumania Also
PARIS, Kept. 8 (by Associated Press).—The supreme
council of the peace conference has announced to Ru
mania that she must sign the Austrian peace treaty with
out reservations or not sign it at all.
The Rumanians recently announced that they in
tended to sight with reservations.
RAILWAY BILL MEETS
WITH NO OPPOSITION
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (Special to
the Daily Times).—The house on
Saturday last passed the $17,000,000
appropriation for the Alaska govern
meni railroad, the money to be im
mediately and continuouly available
ailcr the approval of the act.
The bill was advocated on the floor
by Chairman Curry of the committee
on territories, Delegate Grigsby and
others, and it passed by a unanimous
vote.
Mondeli Agrees With Wickersham
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The house on Satur
day passed the bill authorizing the in
crease in the limit of cost of the
Alaska railroad project from $35,000,
000 to $52,000,000.
The Republican floor leader, Mon
dell of Wyoming, charged that mis
erable management had marked the
conduct of work on the railroad, but
admitted that the increased cost was
due primarily to the higher cost of
labor and material.
The house sent the bill to the sen
ate. The money appropriated is in
tended to complete the railroad pro
ject.
Early Action by Senate Predicted
SEATTLE, Sept. 8 (by Associated
Press).—Specials from Washington
to the Seattle newspapers say that
the senate is not planning for hear
ings on the AlasKa railroad appro
priation bill. Many senators attend
ed the house hearings. Senators New,
Jones, Pittman and Chamberlain pre
dict the early passage of the bill.
In the house on Saturday Delegate
Grigsby told representatives that
“congress can appropriate the seven
teen millions or can refuse to do so,
and give the territory back to the
Indians.”
Bering River Coal Superior
Curry, Grigsby, Miller, Mondell,
Strong of Kansas, Baker, Langford of
Georgia, and Kinkaid of Nebraska,
spoke in favor of the appropriation
in the house Saturday.
Mondell said the commission had
been wasteful and badly managed,
The project lacked intelligent direc
tion, the commission being prone to
attempt to direct work from Wash
ington. He said the bill should pass,
however.
Mondell said Alaska’s coal had been
greatly overestimated. The Bering
river field, he said, was superior to
the Matanuska field. Alaska’s coal
leasing law had proved a gigantic
fizzle.
Clark and others interrogated Mil
ler, who said he believed Alaska’s
coal fields had not been over
estmated.
Walkins defended the commission.
J. L. McPherson had an exhibit of
maps, charts and photographs in the
cloak room.
On account of the peace treaty dis
cussion, it is uncertain when the sen
ate will consider the bill.
PROPERTYSOLD
TO GERMANS IS
LOSTJN FIRE
COBLENZ, Sept. 8 (by Associated
Press).—Property valued at two mil
lion marks, sold recently by the Amer
icans to the Germans, was destroyed
by a series of explosions in ammuni
tion dumps near Nieuweid yesterday.
Among the materials destroyed was
a large quantity of ammunition sold
to a German company on Friday last
for commercial uses.
CONFLAGRATION
ON BATTLESHIP
CAUSED BY “CIG”
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8 (by As
sociated Press).—Fire aboard the
superdreadnaught New Mexico yes
terday killed three men and injured
forty others. The damage is esti
mated at $100,000. Two mess attend
ants were suffocated and one engine
man was drowned in the ice-machine
room.
The fire probably started from a
OPPONENTS OF LEAGUE COVENANT
WANT TO REPOSE AT DOOR WITH
HAND ON KNOB, SAYS PRESIDENT
Monroe Doctrine Has Been Swallowed by Great
| Powers, “Hook, Line and Sinker”—League
Only Guarantee Against War—Treaty
to Be Reported Wednesday Next
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OMAHA, Sept. 8 (bv Associated Press).—For the first
time during his speaking tour President Wilson today dis
cussed the proposed reservations to the peace treaty and league
covenant. He said reservation was assent with a big “but.”
The proposed reservation providing for unconditional with
drawal from the League of Nations, lie said, means that its
sponsors want to sit near the door with their hands on tin* knob,
so they can run if they see something they do not like.
The President said that the league proviso that interna
tional obligations must lx* fulfilled before withdrawal never
would restrain the United States, because Americans would
live up to its provisions. Those Vho wanted reservations to
Article 10 simply did not want to come in now, he said, but
wanted to be late joiners. The peace conference had swallowed
the Monroe doctrine, “hook, line and sinker,” he declared. For
the first time the big powers in this treaty authenticated the
Monroe doctrine.
The President urged the prompt acceptance of the treaty,
so that uncertainties in labor conditions throughout the world
might be settled.
Reiterates Belief in Ratification
President Wilson said that he believed the treaty would be
accepted soon, but that “no man could tell how long it would
take the senate to do anything.” He said the league was the
only possible guarantee against war. Germany, he said, had
committed a criminal act, ant she must suffer and pay.
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Treaty to Be Reported Wednesday
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (by Associated Press).—Senator
Simmons announced today that he favored ratification of the
peace treaty without amendment, but lie felt convinced that
concessions must be made to senators favoring reservations,
lie said the Democrats were discussing a compromise on the
league. The committee, he said would report the treaty
Wednesday next, and the debate would begin next Monday.
It is expected that the opposition senators this week will
reply to the President from the floor of the senate.
Hy Johnson Is on the Stump
SIOUX FALLS, Sept. 8 (by Associated Press).—Senator
Hiram Johnson will speak against the League of Nations in
this city next Sunday, from the same platform that President
Wilson will occupy tonight.
Wilson “Pounding Against a Stone Wall”
CHICAGO, Sept. 8 (by Associated Press).—Chairman
Hays of the Republican national committee issued a statement
today in which he said that President Wilson was “pounding
against a stone wall” in attempting to have the peace treaty
passed without reservations.
cigarette carelessly thrown among
oil waste.
The fire started in the rheostat
room and spread to the ice-machine
room. About one thousand visitors
were aboard the dreadnaught yester
day when the fire started. All were
put over the side in boats. There
was no confusion. Patrol boats from
other ships of the fleet came to the
New Mexico’s side.
A. Hilario and George Dizon are
dead. They were mess attendants.
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In the ice room William M. Savage
was caught by the water when he
went to their asistance and was
drowmed.
FOUL MURDER COMMITTED
ON RADICAL ORGANIZER
CARRINGTON, N Dak., Sept. 8 (by
Associated Press).—The body of Max
Rosenstein, an I. W. W. organizer,
was found beneath the platform of
the Northern Pacific railway depot
here yesterday with two bullet holes
in the head.