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The Cordova Daily Times
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VOL. vTnO. 97 CORDOVA, ALASKA. FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1920_2__ PRICE TEN CENTS
PLATFORM TO
BEFRAMEDBY
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PROVIDENCE, R. I., March 26 (by
Associated Press).—Ogden Mills,
chairman of the national Republican
platform commission, addressing the
Women’s Republican Club here last
night, predicted that the platform to
be adopted at the Chicago convention
would oppose government ownership
and operation of railroads, that it
would favor a federal budget system,
a tariff that would guarantee to Amer
ican interests the most favored nation
treatment in the world’s markets.
He said he hoped the platform would
include also a declaration favoring the
establishment of national, district and
international commission for the set
tlement of disputes and the prevention
of strikes. He said the covenant of
^jje League of Nations was defective.
CAPT. BLAINE CLEARED
’ OF LAST INDICTMENT
SEATTLE, March 26 (by Associated
Press).—The last indictment against
Captain John F. Blaine was dismissed
yesterday by Judge Neterer in the fed
eral district court.
BLAIN AGAIN INDICTED
This afternoon the federal grand
jury brought in a new nidictment
against Captain Blain, as the other
three indictments were thrown out by
the court on technicalities.
The latest indictment contains the
same charges as the previous ones.
Blain was rearrested and later re-;
leased on $10,000 bonds.
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.VETERANS ARE
•DRIVEN FROM
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LOUISVILLE, Kv„ March 26 (by
Associated Press).—Fire last night de
stroyed the Confederate Veterans’
home here. One hundred of the vet
erans who were able to walk marched
out in military formation, obtained lit
ters and went back for others who
were unable to walk.
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Sergeant Gus Head called the roll!
and the men bivouacked in a church.•
‘WHOLEFAMILY
'MEETS DEATH
IN SNOWSLIDE
SALT LAKE March 26 (by Associ
ated Press).—Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Parr
and their two sons, Harold and Earl,
were killed today when a snowslide
at Bingham, Utah, demolished their
home. The bodies were recovered.
Snow fell to the depth of a foot in
this city.
AMUNDSEN IS
• MAKING DASH
‘ TOWARD POLE
LONDON, March 26 (by Associated
Press).—It is reported here that
Amundsen, who has been in the Arc
tic off Siberia since 1918, left his ship
on an overland dash to the pole. No
news is expected from him until
spring. Two men are with him on the
dash from the ship, and it is possible
that they are using an airplane.
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MILLION DOLLARS IN
BONDS TO BE SOLD
BY CITY OF SEATTLE
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SEATTLE, March 26 (by Associated
Press).—The city is planning to sell
a million dollars’ worth of city light
and power bonds to the public direct,
without, their passing through the
hands of brokers. This will be part
of an issue of a million and a half
dollars to finance the Skagit river
project.
HOKEliTHIS
NEW CANDIDATE
FOR PRESIDENT
ATLANTA, Ga., March 26 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Senator Hoke Smith
yesterday formally announced his
candidacy for the Democratic presi
dential nomination in the Georgia pri
maries.
Senator Smith declared that he was
opposed to the party committing itself
to a campaign on the proposition that
the covenant of the League of Nations
should have been agreed to without
change.
MATE ON FREIGHTER
IS LOST OVERBOARD
SEATTLE, March 26 (by Associated
Press).—A wireless dispatch received
here says that Karl Sundblad, second
mate on the steamship Ketchikan, was
lost overboard while the vessel was
bound north.
NEW MAYOR
IS STIRRING
UP OLD BONES
SEATTLE, March 26 (by Associ
ated Press).—Mayor Caldwell today
appointed Major Carl Reeves to suc
ceed Thomas Murphine as superinten
dent of public utilities.
Reeves was an unsuccessful candi
date for councilman at the recent elec
tion.
A NEW COMMISSION
Mayor Caldwell has named six citi
zens to membership on the city zoning
commission, to comply with the build
ing zone ordinance. They six ap
pointees are:
Clarence Rlethen. representing the
Chamber of Commerce; C. H. Alden,
representing the architects; Grosvenor
Folsom, representing the building own
ers; Ralph Stacy, representing the
bankers; Louis Nash, representing the
unions, and Goodwin, representing the
real estate men.
FIVE RAIDERS
OF CHINESE DEN
UNDER ARREST
LOS ANGELES. March 26 (by As
sociated Press).—Two police officers,
one civilian and two women were ar
rested here today on a charge of hav
ing held up a Chinese club and taken
$461 from forty Chinese gamblers.
One of the officers confessed, and
said the gang had planned to steal
$30,000 in gold from Chinatown.
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DRUG SMUGGLERS AND
BOOTLEGGERS INDICTED
SEATTLE, March 26 (by Associated
Press).—The federal grand jury yes
terday returned thirteen open and five
secret indictments of persons charged
with violations of the liquor and drug
smuggling statutes.
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SP ART ACIST MOVEMENT ON RHINE
HAS CO-OPERATION AND AID OF
I RUSSIA WITH TROTZKY AT HEAD
ROTTERDAM, March 26 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The Munster corre
spondent of the Courant says the
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Spartacist movement in the Rhine
provinces has been long organized
with Russian co-operation and aid.
Trotzky, it is stated, expected to be at
the Gates of Berlin by July 1.
The revolution originally was
planned for May 1, but the leaders
believed their opportunity had com<
when Kapp revolted.
THE FIGHT FOR WEISEL
I LONDON, March 26 (by Associated
Press). — Communist workers in
trenched along the river Lippe are
threatening to destroy all the factories
and mines of western Germany if they
fail to capture Weisel.
The “reds” have established great
headquarters similar to the old Ger
many army headquarters.
It is reported that the Ebert troops
still held Weisel last night. The gov
ernment forces attacked the invading
i “reds” and drove them back from the
city.
ABANDONING STRIKE
GOTHA, Germany, March 26 (by As
sociated Press).—Order is being re
stored in the industrial centers of Sax
ony. The workmen are gradually ca
pitulating and calling off the strike,
and the military are taking over the
control of the cities. The strikers
I here laid down their arms.
AMERICA NOT TO INTERFERE
WASHINGTON, March 26 (by Asso
ciated Press).—United States Ambas
; sador Hugh Wallace, at Paris, has
been notified that the United States
government will not oppose the send
ing of German troops into the Ruhr
valley to quell the uprising there.
CABINET REPORTED OUT
PARIS, March 26 (by Associated
! Press).—It is reported that the new
| German cabinet, including Premier
Bauer, has resigned.
EXPENDITURES
A CARNIVAL OF
EXTRAVAGANCE
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LANSING, Mich., March 26 (by As
sociated Press).—Governor Allen of
Kansas, in an address delivered here
last night, said that governmental ex
penditures during and after the war
were a carnival of extravagance, ac
companied by no effort to obtain an
honest return for the government.
The Kansas governor assailed Presi
dent Wilson’s European trip and the
negotiations for peace.
KIDNAPEDBOY
SAFE-RANSOM
IS UNCLAMED
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LEXINGTON, Ivy., March 26 (by
Associated Press).—Paul Little, the
11-year-old boy who was kidnaped and
held for ransom, telephoned from a
hotel room today saying he had been
kept a prisoner there since Wednes
day by one of the kidnapers.
Paul’s parents went to the hotel and
found the boy unharmed but hungry.
Last night Paul’s father left the
$25,000 ransom demanded in a down
town garbage can, but no one called
for it.
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CARPENTIER SHOWS
CLASS IN EXHIBITION
GIVEN LAST NIGHT
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NEW YORK, March 26 (by Associ
ated Press).—Georges Carpentier, the
French pugilist, showed a world of
speed and cleverness in a sparring ex
hibition last night with Major An
thony Drexel Biddle at the Interna
tional Sporting Club’s dinner. Tex
Rickard refereed the contest.
ANCHORAGEITE NAMED
FOR RED CROSS WORK
SEATTLE, March 26 (by Associated
Press).—Lieutenant Neil MacGregor,
formerly of Anchorage, Alaska, has
been appointed a member of the Red
Cross commission to work among the
destitute civilians in the rear of Deni
kine’s armies.
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KILLS TWO SONS,
WOUNDS WIFE
ANDJUICIDES
SALT LAKE, March 26 (by Asso
ciated Press).—An Indian known as
“Square John,” crazed from alcohol,
ran amuck at Red Oak yesterday and
shot and killed his two sons and fa
tally wounded his wife, killed the stock
on his ranch and then committed sui
cide.
The condition of the Indian was at
tributed by the officers to the drinking
of flavoring extract.
CL AIMS DEFEAT
OF TREATY DUE
TO CONSPIRACY
CHICAGO, March 26 (by Associated
Press).—-Governor Cox of Ohio, ad
dressing the Iroquois Club, a Demo
cratic organization, last night, charged
that the defeat of the peace treaty was
due to a partisan conspiracy. He also
deprecated the alleged hysteria over
Bolshevism, and urged that caution
be used against running to extremes.
The governor advocated the repeal
of the excess profits tax, the abolition
of federal inheritance taxes, and the
substitution of a small tax upon the
volume of business.
UNIVERSITY TEAMS TO
DEBATE IN BOSTON
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 26 (by
Associated Press).—The Harvard Uni
versity debating team has accepted
a challenge from the University of
Washington for a debate in Boston in
May. The subject has not yet been
determined.
POLICE BARRACKS ARE
DESTROYED BY EXPLOSION
CORK, March 26 (by Associated
press).—The police barracks at Gorta
tlea, near Tralee, county Kerry, were
blown up last night and destroyed.
Three policemen were injured.
MAGISTRATE ASSASSINATED
LONDON, March 26 (by Associated
Press).—Allan Hell, the resident
magistrate who presided over the in
quiry into the Sinn Fein’s dealings
with Irish banks, was shot dead today
outside the Masonic Club in Dublin.
ROOT ACCEPTS POSITION
TO AID IN ORGANIZING
INTERNATIONAL COURT
LONDON, March 26 (by Associated
Press).—It is announced that Elihu
Root has accepted the invitation to
become a member of the committee
to arrange the details of the consti
tution of the international court of
justice provided for in the League of
Nations covenant.
REVJATTHEWS
IS INVITED TO
WITNESS BOXING
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SEATTLE, March 26 (by Associated
Press).—Fred Fulton, the Minnesota
giant, will meet Young Hector of
Bremerton tonight in a four-round
\ bout.
Rev. M. A. Matthews, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church, has written
to Prosecuting Attorney Brown pro
| testing against the bout. He says it
is to be an “infamous disgraceful prize
fight. in violation of law.”
Mr. Brown has replied that the bout
will resemble a prizefight in the same
manner that ping-pong resembles a
naval battle. He invited the Rev. Mr.
Matthews to attend and see for him
self.
FISH QUOTATIONS
KETCHIKAN, March 26.—Prices for
fish yesterday were: Halibut, firsts,
9!/£c; seconds, SV^c.
S. S. SPOKANE
MEETS WITH
AN ACCIDENT
SEATTLE, March 26 (by Associated
Press).—The steamship Spokane,
south-bound, struck bottom in Wran
gell narrows on Tuesday last during
a snowstorm, while seeking anchor
age. She is proceeding southward in
a leaking condition, and will be placed
in the drydock upon her arrival here.
CAPTAIN OF SCHOONER
IS LOST OVERBOARD
OFF COAST OF ALASKA
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SEATTLE, March 26 (by Associated
Press).—The fishing schooner La Pa
loma, which arrived here today from
Hecate strait, reports that Axel An
tonsen, the ship’s master, was lost
overboard on Monday off Goose island.
BORAH DROPS
ONE OF HIS
■ BOMBSHELLS
WASHINGTON, March 26' (by Asso
ciated Press).—In a speech in the sen
ate today Senator Borah (Republican)
of Idaho said that the war profiteers
had combined to control the Repub
lican and Democratic national conven
tions.
The campaign expenditures of some
of the candidates, he said, presented
a shameless situation. The managers
for General Wood, he said, claim that
Governor Lowden is spending more
money than is Wood.
Senator Borah said„ the candidates
should tell who supplies the money
they are spending.
MONTREAL, March 26 (by Associ
ated Press).—The Molon brewery and
warehouse in this city were burned
last night, entailing a loss of one mil
lion dollars.
DANIELS IS
CRITICIZED
BYOFFICER
WASHINGTON, March 26 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Captain Leigh Palmer,
chief of the bureau of navigation of
the navy department during the war,
testifying before the senate sub-com
mittee on naval affairs yesterday, said
that Secretary Daniels was responsi
ble for the shortage of personnel in
the navy at the outbreak of the war,
because of his procrastination.
Prior to the entry of the United
States into the war, the witness said,
Secretary Daniels opposed the building
up of a reserve. After the entry of
this country into the war, however,
the secretary did everything in his
power to aid recruiting.
THOSE SUPERIOR GERMANS
•Rear Admiral Plunkett told the sen
ate committee that the Germans, by
their superior gunnery, “turned the
British on their heads” at the battle
of Jutland.
Plunkett gave no details regarding
the Jutland fight.
The American navy, said the wit
ness, was without sufficient men when
the war began. “We had no men,” he
said, “because Secretary Daniels
would not let us have them and would
let us do nothing to get them.”
ANOTHER INVESTIGATION ON
A naval court of inquiry yesterday
began an investigation of the removal
by Admiral Sims of Rear Admiral
Fletcher from command of the Ameri
can base at Brest during the war.
JURY FIXING OF •
Lff.ff.IS UNDER
INVESTIGATION
SEATTLE. March 26 (by Associated
Press).—Prosecuting Attorney Brown
is investigating charges that Indus
trial Workers of the World investi
gators are tampering with the jury
panels by working in the residence
districts, seeking information from
neighbors about prospective jurors
who may sit in criminal syndicalism
trials. It is reported that several of
the “wobblies” posed as officers.
OPERATORSTO
AGREE TO NEW
WAGE DEMAND
ST. LOUIS. March 26 (by Associated
Press).—Thomas T. Brewster, chair
man of the coal operators’ scale com
mittee. said last night that he expect
ed no opposition on the part of the
operators to the 27 per cent increase
of wages granted to the coal miners by
the presidential commission.
ABANDON PRISON CAMP
FOR ITERNED ALIENS
I SALT LAKE, March 26 (by Associ
ated Press).—The federal department
of justice has ordered the abolishment
of the prison camp for interned aliens
here, and it is expected that the sev
enty-five persons now held will be re
leased within a week.
GOV. HART SIGNS BILLS
PASSED BY LEGISLATURE
OLYMPIA, Wash., March 26 (by
Associated Press).—Governor Hart
yesterday signed all bills passed by
the recent special session of the leg
gislature.