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VOL. V. NO. Ill _ _CORDOVA. ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1920_ _PRICE TEN CENTS
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GOVERNMENT THREATENS TO
CHICAGO, April 12 (by Associated
Press).—It was estimated on Saturday
last that approximately forty-two thou
sand railroad workers were out on
strike in fifty-one cities.
^he first important bi-eak of the un
authorized strike of railroad employes
occurred at Columbus, Ohio, yester
day, when six hundred switchmen of
the Pennsylvania railroad returned to
work, in addition to five hundred en
gineers and firemen who were forced
out by the strike.
Officers of the railroad brotherhoods
declare that the strike situation is rap
idly improving, while John Grunau,
who called the strike, says the situa
tion is unchanged.
GOVERNMENT TO TAKE HAND
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The government, through District
Attorney Clyne, has delivered an ulti
matum to the railway strikers in which
it is declared that the men must re
turn to w-ork or the government will
help the railroads to find men to re
place them.
IMPROVING IN CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO, April 12 (by As
sociated Press).—The Southern Pa
cifier' railway announces a partial lift
ing of the freight embargo, wdiich has
tbeer^in effect since the switchmen’s
strike began. Officials of the com
pany claim that four hundred and
thirty striking switchmen in six West
ern states have returned to work, leav
ing nine hundred on strike.
SITUATION IN EAST
NEW YORK, April 12 (by Associat
ed Press).—The New Jersey Central
railroad has suspended all passenger
service, affecting 55,000 commuters.
I The New York Central is running op
full schedule.
It is reported that the strikers at
Syracuse have a $400,000 fund.
IN NEW ENGLAND
BOSTON, April 12 (by Associated
Press).—New England passenger and
freight trains have been curtailed on
account of the strike.
WILL NOT STRIKE
SEATTLE, April 12 (by Associated
Press).—Tacoma, Everett and Seattle
switchmen have voted not to strike.
i few men are still out at Portland and
Spokane.
OFFICIALS CONFERRING
WASHINGTON, April 12 (by Asso
I Press).—Attorney General A.
lmer is conferring with officials
department regarding the rail
itrike.
AMLL BE INVESTIGATED
he senate today Chairman Cum
of the committee on interstate
erce announced that the senate
not be asked to investigate the
imen’s strike, but that'the White
would name a railroad labor
within twenty-four hours to in
atre the strike.
1EDS” AT BOTTOM OF IT
1VE&AND, Ohio, April 12 (by
iated Press).—Brotherhood offi
lav that the switchmen are on
to destroy the trainmen’s
srhoods, and that the strikers
iming for the “one big union.”
aay the strike has nothing to do
he wage question.
VI. Reed of Nome, Republican
ate for delegate to the national
ition at Chicago, was in town
on his return from a trip to
d and Anchorage.
BIG SUM NEEDED BY ROADS
FOR NEW EQUIPMENT
CHICAGO, April 12 (by Associated
I Press).—The Association of Railway
j Executives announces that the rail
' roads need $600,000,000 this year tc
| finance the purchase of new equip
ruent.
PRESIDENT OF YALE
UNIVERSITY RESIGNS
NEW HAVEN, Conn.,' April 12 (by
Associated Press).—Dr. Arthur Twin
i ing Hadley, president of Yale Univer
• sity for twenty-two years, has ten
dered his resignation, to be effective
in June of next year.
MINERSSME
FOR RELEASE
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PITTSBURGH* Kan., April 12 (by
i Associated Press).—Ninety per cent of
i the Kansas coal mines are idle, and
the miners have announced their in
| tention of refusing to work while
i President Howat and three other of
i facials of the district union of the
j United Mine Workers are held in jail,
j The latter are held in contempt be
j cause they refused to recognize the
i authority of the newly-constituted in
dustrial court.
The miners today marched on
Girard, where the officials are incar
cerated.
Eleven mines are operating with
short forces.
CHICAGO, April 12 (by Associated
Press).—General Leonard Wood, In ar
address delivered here, declared tha1
no man was fit to hold high adminis
trative office in America who had nar
row religious prejudices.
“We want a government run with
out prejudice to race, color or reli
gion,” he said, and continued:
“We as a people must hold to re
ligion. Personally I am a Protestant,
but have served for years among Cath
olics, and received strong Catholic
support in Cuba and elsewhere.”
LOWDEN’S SOLUTION
CHICAGO, April 12 (by Associated
Press).—Governor Lowden, in an ad
dress delivered here, advocated the im
mediate resumption of the work of the
Hague international conference, “to
provide the necessary judicial machin
ery for the settlement of international
disputes, to prevent future wars.”
falmer'jTopinion
SAVANNAH, Ga., April 12 (by As
sociated Press).—In an address deliv
ered in this city yfesterday Attorney
General A. Mitchell Palmer declared
^hat a majority of the senate reserva
tions to the Versailles treaty of peace
were “political bunk.”
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NEW SHIPBUILDER AT
SEATTLE TO PLOY
SIX THOUSAND MEN
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SEATTLE, Ap/il 12 (by Associated
Press).—Rodgers, the purchaser of
the Skinner & Eddy shipyards, took
possession of the yards today. It is
planned to employed six thousand men
in ship construction, and the annual
! payroll will total ten million dollars.
JAPSAREBONE
i OF CONTENTION
! TO SIBERIANS
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MANILA, April 12 (by Associated
Press).—General William S. Graves
who commanded the American forces
in Siberia, declares that the Russian
| situation will adjust itself when the
Japanese leave Siberia. '
A majority of the people of Siberia,
says the general, are Bolsheviki, and
they are working for the peace and
good of the country and trying to be
just and fair to the people.
The anti-Bolshevists, he says, do nol
Avant the Japanese to leave because
they would lose immense concssions
granted to them by the crown before
I Vhe Russian debacle.
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NEW YORK, April 12 (by Associ
| ated Press).—James Gerard, at a Jef
ferson day dinner here Saturday, said
that the Hoover movement was a pro
test against party control, and not a
declaration that Hoover was the only
man fit for'the presidency.
“I advocated Hoover’s nomination
by the Democratic party,” said Mr
Gerard, “but Hoover as a partisan
seeking only the Republican nomina
tion, is another Hoover.”
RELEASE JAIL
RDSBOOKED
FOR ALASKA
SEATTLE, April 12 (by Associated
Press).—The thirty-five men broughl
from San Francisco to work at the
Alaska canneries, who have practically
been held prisoner since their arrival
some days ago, refused to go on board
the fisheries vessels and were re*
leased. Seven of them were arrested
later, charged with being disorderly
persons.
The men are said to have been re
leased from jail in San Francisco on
condition that they go north to work
during the canning season. They
claim the company broke the terms
of the contract. <
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NEW YORK, April 12 (by Associ
ated Press).—A collision on the ele
vated railroad here today knocked one
passenger car twenty-five feet to the
ground. Fifteen passengers in the car
had a narrow escape, but none was
killed.
I THROUGH THREE STATES
I TO EXPLAIN PRESENCE
OF SHIPS IN MEXICO
EL PASO, Texas, April 12 (by Asso-I
ciated Press).—The Mexican govern-j
ment has formally asked the govern-;
ment of the United States to explain
the presence of American warships
in Mexican territory. It is charged
that American submarines entered
Magdalena bay without permission.
CREEL IS SAID j
TO HAVE BEEN 1
IN SHADY DEAL
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WASHINGTON, April 12 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Legal proceedings are
to be commenced by fflie government
against George Creel, fqrmer chairman
of the committee on public informa
' tion, Roger W. Babson and others con
cerned in the transfer of the commit
tee’s war publication, the Official Bul
letin, to Babson, if the recommenda
tions of the congressional printing
committee are carried out.
It is alleged by the committee that
Babson obtained the publication by
secret connivance with Creel and oth
ers, without the government receiving
a cent of compensation. ,
WASHINGTON, April 12 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The long-threatened
revolution in Guatemala against Presi
dent Estrada Cabrera has started.
Opponents of the president are in
| control of Guatemala city, after street
! fighting.
I Marines from the United States
cruiser Tacoma and the submarine
tender Niagara have been landed to
I protect American interests.
FRENCH TROOPS
WILLWITHDRAW
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LONDON, April 12 (by Associated
Press)—A note which has just been
handed to the British government by
the French ambassador says the
French troops will evacuate Frankfort
when the German troops leave the
Ruhr region. France, it is declared,!
will take no more independent action.
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trouble at an end
BERLIN, April 12 (by Associated
Press).—The German troops are with
drawing from the Ruhr basin.
SEATTLE PHYSICIAN
GOES TO FINAL REST
SEATTLE. April 10 (by Associated
Press).—Dr. E. E. Becket, aged 48, a
Seattle physician for a quarter of a
century, died here last night. He
participated in the rush to the Klon
dike in 1898.
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MINING MEN INSPECT
SMELTERS AT TACOMA
TACOMA, April 12 (by Associated
Press).—Delegates of the International
Mining Convention, which concluded
its session at Seattle on Friday last,
spent Saturday inspecting the big
smelters here.
SCOTLAND WANTS TO
CONTROL OWN AFFAIRS
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GLASGOW, April 12 (by Associated
Press).—A meeting held Saturday un
der the auspices of the Scottish Home
Rule Association adopted resolutions
asking the government to give Scot
land control of purely Scottish affairs.
RAISING FUND
TO BUY AUTO
FOR PIONEERS
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JUNEAU, April 12 (Special to the
Daily Times).—In response to a pop
ular request, the Alaska Daily Capital
is starting a campaign to raise money
by subscriptions from the people of
Alaska to purchase an automobile for
the old pioneers at the Sitka home.
Subscriptions are to be taken up by
the entire press of Alaska, and each
district will be credited with the
amount raised. All Pioneer Igloos will
be called upon to assist, and every
newspaper in Alaska is requested to
start an individual campaign to raise
money.
The money should be sent direct to
the First National Bank of Juneau for
the Juneau pioneers’ automobile fund.
CONDEMNATION
AND PRAISE FOR
WAR OFFICIALS
WASHINGTON, April 12 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Two opposing reports
on the long congressional investigation
into the construction of the thirty
two camps and cantonments used dur
ing the war were submitted to the
house of representatives today.
The Republican majority of the com
mittee criticized the government,
while the Democratic minority report
praised the war department.
The majority report said the govern
ment lost $78,000,000 on sixteen can
tonments on account of waste, graft
and inefficiency. The minority report
said the construction of the canton
ments was equivalent to the building
of thirty-two cities, and was one of the
great achievements of the war.
FISH QUOTATIONS
KETCHIKAN, April 12— Prices for
fish at Ketchikan Saturday were: Hali
but, firsts, 13% c; seconds, 10c.
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TO RESIST CARRANZA FORCE
t NOGALES, Mexico, April 12 (by
Associated Press).—The government
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of the state of Sonora has severed re
lations with the Mexican federal gor
! ernment. /
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General Alvaro Obregon is under
technical arrest in Mexico City. In
connection with the arrest, Roberto
Cejudo, the rebel leader in the state
of Sonora, has proclaimed the suprem®
power of the republic, of Sonora.
A manifesto issued by the state con
gress declares that while the state haa
seceded, it will return to tfee Mexican
republic on guaranties from the na
tional administration that there will b®
no infringement of its rights.
The secession of the state of Sonora
is due, according to officials, to th®
action of President Carranza in order
ing federal troops into the state. Th®
customs houses and all property of th®
Mexican federal government have been
seized in the name of the republic of
Sonora.
SECESSIONISTS TO HAVE ARMY
Officials of the new republic of So
nora are preparing an army to resist
the forces of Carranza. The Sonora
officials say that Carranza must guar
antee states’ rights before Sonora re
turns to the republic, and must agree
not to send troops into Sonera against
the wishes of Sonora.,
The state officials say Carranza had
planned to establish a military autoc
racy in Sonora to defeat the presiden
tial candidacy of General Obregon, a
resident of Sonora.
OTHER STATES TO FOLLOW SUIT
AGUA PRIETA, Sonora, April 12 (by^
Associated Press).—General J. ' M.
Pino, commanding the first divisional
army of Sonora, told the Associated
Press today that thirteen additional
states had voted to follow Sonora’s ex
ample in seceding. A definite list of
the states is lacking.
NOT SECESSION
DOUGLAS, Ariz., April 12 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The state of Sonora
has seized the customs house, post
office and immigration office at Agua
Prieta, Sonora, and the militia is pre
i pared to defend the town from an in
vasion by Carranza’s troops.
I General Pino, commanding the
j state troops, said the action of the
I state in withdrawing from the Cai"
ranza government was not secession
from Mexico, but a protest against the
present government.
PHILIPPINES GOVERNOR
| WILL BE CANDIDATE FOR
I NOMINATION AT FRISCO
MANILA, April 12 (by Associated
Press).—The Democratic territorial
| convention, which met here Saturday.
| indorsed the administration of Presi
dent Wilson and selected six delegates
to the national convention at San Fran
cisco, instructed to vote for Francis
Burton Harrison, governor general of
the Philippines, for the presidential
nomination.
IRISHlRADB UNIONS
CALL GENERAL STRIKE
DUBLIN, April 12 (by Associated
Press).—The Irish Trades Union Con
gress has called a general strike for
tomorrow to protest against the treat
ment of political prisoners.