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Cordova Daily Times
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VOL~V NO 37 7 rTTT“ CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1920 PRICE TEN CENTS
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FORTY THOUSAND EXTREMISTS
PROTEST AGAINST ENACTMENT
OF NEW EXPLOITATION MEASURE
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BERLIN, Jan. 14 (by Associated
^Press).—A mob of forty thousand per
sons, organized by the extremists in
protest against the industrial council
bill now before the legislature, yes
terday jammed itself before the
reichstag building, carrying red flags
and placards and crying “All power
to the soviet!”
Troops surrounded the building and
t&ed to quiet the mob, when the 10b
tried to disarm the guards. Thr
troops fired on the mob at close range,
killing and wounding many. Bodies
littered the ground in front of the
building. The crowd then broke and
ran pell mell.
The government has proclaimed
martial law. All sections of Germany
are following the demonstrations.
Gustav Noske, minister of defense.
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has been named commander for the
Greater Berlin district.
More Demonstrations Expected
Rifles and machine guns were used
on the mob for the space of five min
iates. It is reported that two police
Tinen were killed and ten wounded.
Members of the national assembly
left their seats in the chamber and
rushed into the corridors. The mob
smashed the oaken door of the reich
stag building.
It is expected that the Independent
Socialists will stage more demonstra
lions Thursday, the anniversary of the
deaths of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa
Luxemburg. Barbed wire has been
stretched in the down-town streets,
and traffic is being kept off the Wil
helmstrasse. The police have restored
order.
Cause of the Outbreak
The mob was organized against a
bill introduced to place the workmen’s
councils in various industries on a
legal basis. The radicals demand that
the reichstag enact law^ giving the
workers great power in the manage
ment of industries.
Extends to Provinces
Plundering on a large scale is in
progress at the town of Oberhausen,
where a mob stormed the town hall,
seized the archives and threw them
into the street.
The outbreak has spread to near-by
villages. The rioters are using fire
arms.
Paris Report of Losses
PARIS, Jan. 14 (by Associated
Press).—Berlin dispatches say that
thirty-one persons were/killed during
the riots at the reichstag building.
A Swiss Report
BASEL, Jan. 14 (by Associated
Press).—Many persons were killed
and wounded in Berlin yesterday
when troops fired on or bayongtted
demonstrators who tried to rush the
reichstag entrances, in protest against
the exploitation law, according to dis
patches received here.
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SEATTLE. Jan. 14 (by Associated
Press).—Judge Jere Neterer of the
federal district court yesterday sus
tained the demurrers to two of the
three indictments against the officials
of the Union Record, charging viola
tion of the amended espionage act,
and the cases will not come to trial.
A decision is expected shortly on
* the third indictment, charging conspir
acy to violate the act.
RADICAL SOCIALISTS
NOMINATE CANDIDATE
PARIS, Jan. 14 (by Associated
Press).—Paul Deschenal was nominat
ed for president today by the radical
Socialists.
STATES WANT
NO INDEMNITY
FOR WARSHIPS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (by Associ
ated Press).—The state department
announced today that the government
had refused to accept any part of the
indemnity to be paid by Germany for '
the destruction of the fleet in Scapa
flow, because it objected to the prin
ciples of settlement made by the su
preme Council of the peace conference.
DENVER PROFITEERS
TO BE INVESTIGATED
DENVER, Jan. 14 (by Associated
Press).—A federal grand jury has
been called here to investigate profit
eering in food and clothing.
STERLING ANTI
SEDITION BILL
SIDE-TRACKED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (by Associ
ated Press).—The house committee
judiciary has set aside the Sterling
anti-sedition measure for a bill pre
pared by Attorney General Palmer.
It is said that the Sterling senate
bill is too drastic. The Palmer bill
provides for the infliction of the death
penalty where agitation against the
government results in loss of life.
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NO FUNDS FOR
RECLAMATION
OF ARID LANDS
WASHINGTON, Jin. 14 (by Associ
ated Press).—The governors of sev
eral Western states, including Gov.
Hart of Washington, are here to urge
government aid . for reclamation of
Western arid lands. They have re
ceived little encouragement, as it is
learned that congress is practicing
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strict economy, and probably will au
! thorize no new large appropriations.
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PRESIDENT’S FELICITOUS WORDS
ON OCCASION OF CONVOKING
MEETING OF LEAGUE COUNCIL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (by Associated Press).—President Wil
son, in the call for the first meeting of the council of the League of
Nations,-made public today, said the assembly next Friday would
mark the beginning of a new era in international co-operation, and
the first great step toward an eal concert of nations.
REPUBLICANS
SECEDE FROM
JUNEAU CLUB
JUNEAU, Jan. 14 (Special to the
Daily Times).—Forty-six members of
the Juneau Republican Club, including
the officers who were removed at the
last meeting, and many of the leading
business men of the city, as well as
those who were responsible for the in
dorsement of J. R. Heckman of Ketchi
kan for national committeeman, have
withdrawn from the Republican Club,
in a signed statement which was pre
sented by Ralph E. Robertson at a
pieeting held last night.
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The secessionists assigned as a rea
son for withdrawing the impossibility
of getting along in harmony with peo
ple who acted as they did at the last
meeting, when thirty-four members,
finding themselves in the majority, re
moved the old officers and discharged
the old committee on constitution and
by-laws.
There remain seventy-three mem
bers, many of whom were not seen,
who will be given an opportunity to
sign the withdrawal notice.
TRANSPORT BUFORD
HEADED FOR RUSSIA
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KIEL, Jan. 14 (by Associated Press).
—The United States transport Buford,
with the deported “reds” from America
on board, left here today for an un
named Russian port.
DEMPSEY NOT
WANTED IN
NEWJERSEY
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14 (by Asso
j ciated Press).—Kearns, manager for
Jack Dempsey, the pugilist, issued a
statement today declaring that Demp
sey was not a slacker. He said that
Dempsey worked in the Seattle and
Philadelphia shipyards during the war,
and appeared in boxing'thows for the
benefit of the Salvation Army and Red
Cross. He was placed in Class 4-A of
the draft on account of his having a
dependent wife, mother, sister and in
valid brother. _
Barred from New Jersey
TRENTON, N. J„ Jan. 14 (by Asso
ciated Press).—John Smith, president
of the New Jersey boxing commis
sion, said last night that Dempsey
and Kearns would not be permitted to
participate in a boxing contest in New
Jersey. Dempsey was “not good
enough,” he said. The commission
approved of the branding of Dempsey
as a slacker by the posts of the Ameri
can Legion.
PERSHING CLUB IN
NEBRASKA IS ACTIVE
LINCOLN, Jan. 14 (by Associated
Press).—The Pershing Club wants
Nebraska to be the scene of a Per
shing-Wood contest for delegates to
the national Republican convention.
ODESSA CITY
ENTERED BY
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COPENHAGEN, Jan. 14 (by Associ
ated Press).—A Lemberg dispatch
says the Ukrainian ihsurgents have
entered Odessa.
Bolsheviki Capture Polish Legions
LONDON, Jan. 14 (by Associated
Press).—Bolshevik forces are reported
to be moving ^eastward rapidly along
the Trans-Siberian railroad. A dis
patch says that seventeen columns of
the Polish legionaries, with sixteen
guns and twenty thousand rifles, have
been taken.
MEDAL AWARDS
CAUSE HEATED
HOUSE DEBATE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (by Associ
ated Press).—The house of represen
tatives yesterday, after a warm de
bate, adopted a resolution calling on
the war department for the names of
all who had been awarded Distin
guished Service medals.
Gallivan made a bitter attack upon
General March, who was defended by
Dewalt and Steele of Pennsylvania.
Representative Kahn of California
questioned some of the statements
made during the debate.
MAKES CONTRIBUTION
FOR ALASKA DERBY
SEATTLE, Jan. 14 (by Associated
Press).—The Boeing Airplane Com
pany of this city has agreed to con
tribute $5,000 toward a $25,000 prize
for the proposed air race to Alaska.
KETCHIKAN, Jan. 14.—Yesterday’s
prices for fish were as follows: Hali
but, 20c; seconds, 15c; sablefish, 4c;
red rock, 2c. 1
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WANTS PROHIBITION
LAW EXTENDED TO
CONSULAR DISTRICTS:
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (by Associ- 1
ated Press).—Senator McNary of Ore- 1
gon yesterday introduced a bill in the 1
senate ^ providing that the prohibition j
law extend to American citizens living 1
in consular districts in China and
other countries where it does not" con- ‘
flict with treaties. <
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS VOTE
IN FAVOR OF COMPROISE ON
LEAGUE OF NATIONS COVENANT
NEW YORK, Jan. 14 (by Associated
Press).—Incomplete returns from
fifty-three of the four hundred col
leges throughout the country voting
yesterday on the League of Nations
covenant show that 22,000 out of 41,000
students and teachers favor a com
promise making immediate ratifica
tion of the treaty possible.
The Eastern colleges want a com
promise, some of the Western colleges
"want ratification without reservations,
and the Southern colleges are against
the reservations.
For Mild Reservations
SEATTLE, Jan. 14 (by. Associated
Press).—The students of the Univer
sity of Washington, by a large major
ity, voted for the ratification of the
peace treaty and League of Nations
with some form of mild reservations.
This plan received the largest vote.
The vote for the senate majority com
mittee report received the second
highest vote; for unreserved ratifica
tion, third; for a separate peace,
fourth; for any compromise, fifth;
against ratification, sixth.
Catholic College Opposes Ratification
SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 14 (by As
sociated Press).—Gonzaga University,
in this city, gave a plurality vote in
opposition to the ratification of the
peace treaty. a
Yale Favors Compromise
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 14 (by
Associated Press).—Students of Yale
voted in favor of a compromise ratifi
cation of the peace treaty.
LEAGUE WILL
NOT BE ISSUE
IN. CAMPAIGN
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (by Associ
ated Press).—Senators Lodge and
Hitchcock yesterday assured a score
of representatives of labor unions and
other societies, including church, edu
cational and religious bodies, who
urged a speedy ratification of the
peace treaty, that the Democratic and
Republican senators had united in an
endeavor to end the deadlock and to
avoid carrying the issue into the com
ing campaign.
Johnson Is Defiant
NEW YORK, Jan. 14 (by/ Associ
ated Press).—Senator Johnson of Cali
fornia, in an address delivered here
last night, said he would .accept the
challenge of President Wilson to take
the treaty of peace to the people.
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COL. BEACH FOR CHIEF
OF ARMY ENGINEERS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (by Associ
ated Press).—Colonel Lansing H.
Beach has been nominated by the
President to be chief of the army en
gineers, his name being sent to tile
senate today.
SAYSANARCHY
FLEES BEFORE
PATRIOTISM
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14 (by As
sociated Press).—At a baaquet given
n his honor last night, Will Hays,
chairman of the national Republican
jommittee, said in his address that
;he Republican party in the campaign
;o come would be governed by strict
standards of morality, equity and jus
ice. He said the Republicans always
lad carried the flag for the Union,
hat it was the party of patriotism,
md that it offered women everything
hat it offered to men.
Mr. Hays pleaded for patriotism.
'Anarchy flees before patriotism,” he
leclared.
ALASKA LAW
IS HELD VALID
IN CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14 (by As
sociated Press).—Judge Rudkin, in the
federal court here yesterday, rendered
a decision in which he upheld the
Alaska school tax law, in a case in
which employes of the Alaska Pack
ers’ Company sought to collect the
amount of the tax from the company
on the ground that they were not resi
dents of Alaska.
Judge Rudkin upheld the payment
by the company of the tax, the with
holding of the amount from the wages
of the men, said that the law applied
to the men, and that it was constitu
tional.
INFLUENZA IS RAGING
AT NAVAL STATION
OF GREAT LAKES
CHICAGO, Jan. 14 (by Associated
Press).—A partial quarantine of the
Great Lakes naval station has been or
dered because of the existence of about
one hundred and seventy-five cases of
influenza. All are of a mild nature.
SHIPPING BOARD
VESSELS WERE
MONEYMAKERS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (by Associ
ated Press).—The .vessels operated by
the United States Shipping Board
earned $100,000 each during the last
year. Twelve hundred ships were op
erated during the year.
Overhead and other charges must
be deducted before the final returns
are known.
SEATTLE, Jan. 14 (by Associated
Press).—T. A. D. Jones, general man
ager of the Ames shipyard, will be
given leave of absence to return to
coach the Yale football team next
year.