The Cordova Daily Times
Member of The Associated Press
VOL. IV. NO, 49 _CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1919 PRICE TEN CENTS
HUN COLONIES TO BE UNDER AIDED CONTROL
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LEAGUE OF NATIONS TO BE
GUARDIANS OF ALIEN TERRITORY
PARIS, .Ian, L’H (by Associated Press). President W ilson
lias advanced the proposal that the (lerinan colonies be placed
under tile guardianship of thy league of nations, which would
appoint one of its members from each nation to administer
them.
Le Matin, the Paris newspaper, says the idea is a generous
and noble one, but apprehends the likelihood of difficult) in
putting it into practice. Premier Lloyd (leor.ge >ay- that coin
nies usually cost more than they bring in.
The American peace delegates have determined to keep
Pm labor question to 11:■ ■ fore as far as possible in the peace
conference.
Argentine Will Support President Wilson
W’ ASI11 \( !'l < ).\, dan. ‘Js (by Associated Press). Argeii
tina has notified the Pniteil States that the Argentine minister
at Paris has been instructed to support President Wilson’s
plan for a league of nations.
BOLSHEVIKI TROOPS ORDERED
TO RETAKE NARVA WITHIN WEEK
STOCKHOLM, Jail. *_’S (by Associated l’less). It is re
ported that the Bolsheviki premier, Leniue. has ordered the
Bolsheviki troops to retake Narva from the fisthonians within
a week, and to sack the town and kill all the bourgeois
Bolsheviki Attack Fails
AB('HAN't!ML, Jan. L’N (by Associated Press). The Bol
sheviki have failed in their attempt to drive the Americans and
British from their positions at Tulgas, on the Dvina river,
southeast of Archangel. Th(> Bolsheviki bombarded the Ameri
can positions, but there were no allied casualties.
Prisoners say that the Bolsheviki had planned a general
attack, but lost themselves in the woods.
TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND ARE
DIE ON ACCOUNT OF STRIKES
LONDOX, .Jan. L’S (by Associated Press).—It is estimated
that nearly two hundred thousand men and women are idle in
the United Kingdom of (treat Britain and Ireland as a result
of strikes. One of the most serious situations the nation has
had to face in yearns is presented. Half the strikers involved
are at Belfast, more than twenty thousand Clyde shipworkers
are out, together with miners. The dockers in London also are
out. Some of the strikers want increased pay and others
shorter hours.
The Daily Mail says that a hundred thousand men are in
volved in the Belfast strike, and that twenty-six trades are af
feeted. Belfast is paralyzed, and is like a dead city. A forty
four-hour week is demanded.
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TURKS ARE AGAIN MASSACRING
ARMENIANS BY WHOLESALE
LONDON, .Jan. -H (by Associated Press).—Armenians
here are intensely excited over reports that large bodies of
Turkish troopos have joined the Tartar bands and are attack
ing Armenian villages. Details still are lacking of the mas
sacre at Baku, after the Turks, reinforced by Tartar and Ger
man troops, captured the city.
Unofficial reports indicate that about twenty thousand per
sons were slaughtered in Baku and vicinity.
TO STOP FOR
FOUR YEARS
W ASHINGTON. .Jan Its I by Asso
eiated Press). Tin* house committee
on immigration has tentatively ap
proved the legislation prohibiting gen
era I immigration for four years fol
lowing the signing oi the peace treaty
As submitted the measure would
permit an alien resident to bring his
wife and minor children, or orphan
minor nephews aatid nb-ces. into the
count ry
Labor leaders are urging the prohi
Lit ton of immigration during the • n
lire r* construetion period
In Canada Also
VAM’O! VKK. L G .Ian its t b>
i \ssociated I’ressi. Tin- city council
i ha- unaniuiousl> passed a resolution
introduced b> Mayor Gab*, culling I'oi
tin- expulsion of all alien enemies and
for th*‘ prohibition of immigration
from enemy countries
The resolution declares that Gan
ada’s doors must be locked for some
time at least to all subjects or citi
zens of Germany and her allies.
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SAN FRANCISCO
SHIPBUILDING
TO BESTOPPED
SAN KItANCISl’O. Jan 2S (by As
sociateil Press). The Kniergoiii y
j Fleet (Corporation has suspended ship
' building eohtracts in California yards
aKBreRutinK $51.1)00.000. Work on
thirty-four hulls has been stopped hy
this action
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RESTRICTIONS REMOVED
FROM ALL NEAR BEER
WASHINGTON. Jan 2.8 (by Asso
ciated Press I President Wilson has
removed the war restrictions on the
production of so called near beers
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K IS ENTERED BY
FRENCH AND RUMANIANS
PARIS, Jan. 28 (by Associated
Press). A Vienna dispatch says that
French and Rumanian troops have
entered Kiev.
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LAND ALONG RAILROAD
•AVAILABLE TO SETTLERS
Application is being made by his at
torney. S. H. Wllwee, for a pardon
for Kd Lund, who was convicted of se
dition and sentenced to serve u term
of a year in jail and pay a line of
$1,000.
Kd I,und was a partner with Char
ley Johnson & Co., who hud a con
tract to grade u section of the right
of-way on residency 3, and while
working on the grade guve utterance
to sentiments amounting to sedition.
The application for a pardon is now
being made us the war Is ended und
Lund is not in the best of health.
The application needB the approval
of United States Commissioner It. S.
McDonald ami Deputy Marshal James
Hagun.—Nenana NewB.
WILHELMSHAVEN
GOVERNMENT
TOPSY-TURVY
COPENHAGEN. Jan. 28 (by Asso
Hated 1*1*688). The Hpartucldes have
overturned the government at Wil
helmshaven. Germany, and occupied
( the banks and public buildings.
The.' have ordered their opponents
to be court-martialed
It is reported that Rosa Luxemburg,
the Spartacide woman header who was
; said to have been killed with Dr Karl
Liebknecht. is alive and in hiding.
Marching Against the Poles
PARIS, Jan 2S (by Associated
Press) Two full corps of German
troops have been assembled by the
general staff to march against the
Poles. hSght troop trains are passing
I through Frankfort on theOder daily
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LOOKING FOR
FIGHTER TO
MEET WILLARD
KANSAS CITY. Jan L's (by Assn
‘dated Press). Tex Rickard, the spurt
j promoter, will soon start on a journey
« m search of .t location for the pro
posed finht in which Jess Willard, the
heavyweight champion, has contracted
to appc.ir on the Fourth of July.
It is possible that Rickard will visit
France and Kngiand.
RETURNING SOLDIERS
AS FAST AS POSSIBLE
PAHIS. Jan. 28 (by Associated
Press) General Pershing said today
that by April he will have three hun
dred thousand American soldiers leav
ing for home monthly. They can not
he moved any faster, he says, or
transportation would become clogged.
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NINETY-FIRST BOYS
ARRIVE AT CAMP LEWIS
CAMP LEWIS, Jan 28 (by Asso
ciated Press) Governor Lister and
.other Washington state officials today
formally welcomed home a portion of
the returned Ninety-first division.
The program included a review and
speeches.
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PRAISES PERSHING BUT
CRITICIZES DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (by Asso
dated Press. Senator Wadsworth of
New York, who has recently returned
from France, addressed the senate
today In high praise of General Per
shing and his ''fighting Americans.”
He criticized the department of sup
plies and equipment.
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WASHINGTON STATE
MAY REVIVE RACING
OLY MPIA, Jan. 28 (hy Associated
Press).—A hill has been introduced in
the lower house of the stuto legisla
ture Intended to create a state racing
commission and prescribe rules for
running races.
\\ ASl11\(i | o.\, .lau. L’s (11\ Associated Press). Action
on President W ilson > lenoniination of Judge ('liarles K. Hun
tied and District Attorney IP I”'. Kotli of Fairbanks, Alaska, was
fold tip in the senate today on request of Senator Jones of
Washington, who said lie intended, if possible, to prevent the
continuation ot these otticiaP on account of alleged political
activities, particularly with respect to the W’ickersliani Sul/.cr
contest.
flic senate judiciary committee lias appointed a sub com
mittee, headed by Senator < Herman of North Carolina, to hear
Senator Jones' object ions to the confimint ions.
GENERAL SYMPATHY STRIKE IS
ASKED BY SHIPYARD WORKERS
SKATTI.K, Jan. d- t by Associated Press). The Metal
Trades t 'ouncil of this city Inis decided to wire the metal work
ers throughout the nation to call a general strike in sympathy
with the Seattle shipyard workers. *
Thirty Seattle unions are voting on the question of calling
a general strike on February 1. The Plasterers’ Structural
Ironworkers and engineers' unions have voted in favor of the
strike. The City Firemen's I nion announces that its consti
tution forbids strikes.
Eight Thousand Fur Workers to Strike
NKW Y<)RK. Jan. d> thy Associated Press). The Inter
national Fur Workers’ Inion of the Pnited States and < '.uiada
has directed it' eight thousand inemliers in this city to strike
next Monday if their demands for a forty four hour week are
not granted. They also demand a uniform wage throughout
the year.
SERVICES HELD TO
HONOR BILL’S BIRTHDAY
AMERONtiKN. Holland. Jan Js thy
Associated Press» Keligious serv
ices were held at the castle chapel
here yesterday in honor of the for
mer German kaiser's 00th birthday
miss wilson'entertains
IN HONOR OF MRS. WILSON
PARIS. Jan. 28 (by Associated
Press). Miss Margaret Wilson,
daughter of President Wilson, who is
a guest of the American embassy to
Brussels, gave a reception today in
honor of Mrs Wilson, wife of the ,
President, at the American Y W (
A here today
Four hundred prominent French
and American women were present
BOYS ARE ANXIOUS
TO RETURN TO ALASKA
Grover Frame is in receipt of a let
ter from his brother Hilly, who is in
the navy. He says:
"There sure is going to be a big.
rush to Alaska just as soon as this >
war is over, for 1 have talked to boys j
from all over the States, and just the j
minute you mention Alaska they are j
all attention, and declare that they j
have always wanted to go to Alaska.;
and will do so as soon as they are j
out of the war.”
He says that ho has not seen half J
a dozen Alaskans In the last year who j
have not mentioned the fact that they !
were going to get hack "to the North
Just as soon as they could, for the |
opportunities In the States are few j
and far between.
SEATTLE PAPER
PAYS TRIBUTE
TOJNO.ROSENE
SEATTLE, Jan 28 (by Associated
Pressl. The funeral of John Koseno,
the Alaska pioneer who died in this
city Sunday, was held this afternoon.
The body was cremated
The Post Intelligencer, in an edi
torial tribute to the dead Alaskan,
said that John Koseno had left his
mark as a constructive Alaska pio
neer
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ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS
FOR EUROPEAN RELIEF
WASHINGTON. Jan 28 (by Asso
elated Press). The senate today
passed the house hill appropriation
one hundred million dollars for Euro
pean famine relief, as requested by
President Wilson.
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ALASKA MINING STOCKS
NEW YORK, Jan. 2S. Alaska Gold.
2*4 : Alaska Juneau. 1%.
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FISH QUOTATIONS
SEATTLE, Jan 2S. Prices for fish
at noon today were as follows: Hali
but. 21-%c; sableflsh. 8c; linn and red
cod. 8c.