^/QlI~V. NoT~43~ CORDOVA, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1920 _ PRICE TEN CENTS
’FLU C
ON INCREASE
; IN CHICAGO
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CHICAGO, Jan. 21 (by Associated
Ty Press).—There are six thousand cases
of influenza in this city, and thirty
six deaths as a result of the disease
have been reported during the past
twenty-four hours.
The number of new cases yesterday
passed the high mark of last year,
twenty-four hundred being reported.
Appears in California
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jan. 21 (by
Associated Press).—Influenza of a
mild type has made its appearance in
several parts of this state.
Disease of a Mild Type
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (by Associ
ated Press).—Surgeon General Ireland
said yesterday that influenza was epi
demic at Camp Grant, Rockford, 111.,
and at the Great Lakes naval training
station, and that epidemics of lesser
degree prevailed at Love Field. Texas,
and Fort Sheridan, 111. The disease
was also prevalent .among the Ameri
can troops in Europe, he said. He de
clared the disease was of a mild type.'
Surgeon General Blue of the public
^health service said there was nothing
alarming in the influenza epidemic,,
and that the death rate was very low.
STANDARD OIL
TO STOP SALE
> OF DISTILLATE
SEATTLE, Jan. 21 (by Associated
Press).—The Standard Oil Company
of California and the Union Oil Com
pany have discontinued selling distil
late in the Northwest.
The action of these companies may
eripple the fishing industry of Alaska,
as many of the fishing boats use dis
tillate.
It is stated that the sale of distil
late has been discontinued on account
of the great demand for gasoline.
TO PUT BAN ON
COALEXPORTS
TO
* WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (by Asso
eiated Press).—As an act of retalia
tion against the Canadian government
for enforcement of the embargo on the
export of news print paper, Represen
. tative Dyer today introduced a bill
in the house prohibiting the export of
coal, culm, slack, shale and coke for
a period of five years.
It is said that Canada receives about
twelve million tons of coal annually
from the United States.
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No Newspapers in Winnipeg
WINNIPEG, Jan. 21 (by Associated
Press).—There is no indication as to
when news print paper will be sup
plied to the Winnipeg newspapers,
which are still suspended.
SEND ALIENS
BACK WHERE
THEY BELONG
SEATTLE, Jan. 21 (by Associated
Press).—After a strenuous two days’
visit in this city, General Pershing will
go to Tacoma today.
In' a speech delivered lasj night the
general denounced those who are seek
ing to disrupt the American govern
ment, and declared that “if we can not
educate those ignorant of the princi
ples of our government, let us send
them back where they belong.”
General Pershing praised the Ameri
can Legion and American mothers,
and complimented the city of Seattle
on its war record.
GOVERNOR RIGGS WILL
LEAVE FOR WASHINGTON
SEATTLE, Jan. 21 (by Associated
Press).—Thomas Riggs, Jr., governor
of Alaska, will leave on Saturday for
Washington, to be there six weeks.
FAMOUS OPERATIC STAR
IS ILL AT SAN DIEGO
SAN DIEGO, Cal., Jan. 21 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Madame Schumann
Heink, the operatic star, is seriously
ill from pneumonia.
RAILROADS OF
ITALY ARE TIED
UP BY STRIKE
PARIS, Jan. 21 (by Associated
Press).—A general railroad strike is
gripping Northern aiyl Central Italy.
Italian troops are guarding the few
trains being operated by the govern
ment. £
Martial law is in force in the prin
cipal cities and cavalry is patrolling
the streets. Stores and theaters are
compelled to close at 8 o’clock in the
evening. There have been few dis- ’
orders.
FIGHT IS BEGUN
FOR SUSPENDED
ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 21 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Seymour Stedman of
Chicago, attorney for the five sus
pended assemblymen, on the floor of
the assembly today defended the
Russian soviets.
He said the five members were sus
pended because the Socialist party
had approved the soviets. Belief in
the soviets, he said, was not a crime
in England, Germany or Italy.
Morris Hilquit, chief counsel for the
five suspended assemblymen, declared
that if the assembly should oust the
five members it would loosen a vio
lent revolution, which the Socialists
were trying to check.
The Northland Club will give one of
its periodical dances for its members
and friends tonight.
Action of Legion
Raises Question of
What Is American
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 21
(by Associated Press).—The
Americanism commission of the
American Legion yesterday is
sued a statement denouncing
the action of the New York
legislative assembly in suspend
ing from membership five So
cialist assemblymen, with a view
to ultimate expulsion.
ANTI-SEDITION
BILL IS PASSED
UP TO EDITORS
NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (by Associated
Press).—Frank-Glass, president of the
American Newspaper Publishers’ As
sociation, has asked editors of news
papers throughout the country who be
lieve that the legislation proposed in
the Graham anti-sedition &ill unwise
to telegraph tonight a brief statement
of their views to Representative
Campbell, chairman of the rules com
mittee of the house of representatives.
It is said that the measure would
give officials power to refuse mail
without hearing or notice.
TO UNITE CHURCHES
UNDER ONE HEAD
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 21 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The convention of
bishops, pastors and laymen of the
Methodist Episcopal Churches, North
and South, in session hf're, yesterday
adopted unanimously a recommenda
tion that the branches be united under
the name of the “Methodist Church.”
VALUABLES ON
LUSITANIA TO
BE RECOVERED
LONDON, Jan. 21 (by Associated
Press).—Engineers and divers will
soon attempt to raise thousands of
pounds’ worth of valuables from the
wreck of the Lusitania. It is reported
to be impossible to raise the vessel
on account of the great depth of water
in which she lies.
REDUCTiONSIN
CLOTHING COST
ARE EXPECTED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (by Associ
ated Press).—Howard E. Figg, special
assistant attorney general, declared
yesterday that a deduction in clothing
prices was to be expected from the
nation-wide adoption by the trade of
suggestions put forward by the Na
tional Retail Dry Goods Association,
the nature of which was not an
nounced.
Poindexter s Fight
Based on Enmity
To Labor Unions
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Jan. 21
(by Associated Press).—Senator
Poindexter told an audience of
business men here last night
that the anti-strike clause of the
Cummins bill was the first sub
stantial move toward solving a
problem which has in it the
germs of civil war and revolu
tion.
BAKERFAVORS
DRAFT OF Iff
ARMYMEASURE
WASHINGTON, Jan.- 21 (by Associ
ated Press).—Secretary of War Baker
has approved the senate’s army reor
ganization bill, providing for compul
sory military training, the formation
of one big army, to be divided into
citizens’ reserve, regular army and na
tional guard, and to reduce the regu
lar army to a strength of 280,000 men,
Secretary Baker told the senate
committee on military affairs that the
bill was the most systematic attempt
ever made to reorganize the army.
Mr. Baker says he does not want
General Pershing as chief of staff, as
Pershing does not want the place. A
problem has arisen to find a post fit
ting his importance.
STEAMSHIP CHINA
MEETS WITH ACCIDENT
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The steamship China
of the China Mail line is ashore five
miles from Nagasaki, and her cargo
is being lightered.
The China formerly was the steam
ship Congress.
BOMBPLOTOF
EXTREMISTS
FRUSTRATED
NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (by Associated
Press).—A plot for the wholesale as
sassination of public officials and
prominent citizens by bomb distribu
tions next May day or July 4 is be
lieved to have been frustrated by the
arrest of eighteen extremists here yes
terday.
UKPvAINEHAS
COMMODITIES
FOR EXPORT
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (by Associ
ated Press).—The Ukrainian minister
to the United States says that four
million pounds of sugar and twenty
million bushels of wheat, together
with large quantities of hides and
other materials, are stored in the
Ukraine, and that they would be avail
able for the markets of the world
when the blockade of Russia was lift
ed.. The blockade already has been
partially lifted.
SIMS DECLARES
NAVY IS SOLID
TO VERY CORE
NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (by Associated
Press).—Several hundred fellow offi
cers of Admiral Sims tendered him an
ovation at a banquet given here last
night.
In a speech by the guest of honor he
said the navy department was now in
volved in two rows—one over the
medal awards and the other over his
(Sims’) criticism of the department.
Admiral Sims said that Secretary
Daniels had issued orders inviting
criticism. He declared that the navy
was solid to the core. The trouble, he
said, was in its administration and
operation.
To Condemn Action of Sims
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (by Associ
ated Press).—Senator T. J. Walsh of
Montana today introduced in the sen
ate a resolution declaring that the ac
tion of Admiral Sims in making public
official instruction of the most confi
dential character affecting interna
tional relations to be worthy of the
condemnation of all Americans.
PEACETREATY
THROTTLED BY
REPUBLICANS
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NEWARK, N. J„ Jan. 21 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Chairman Cummins of
the Democratic national committee,
in an address at the inauguration din
ner given to Governor Edwards last
night, declared that the United States
would have been the first nation to
ratify the treaty of peace should a j
Democratic house and senate have
been elected in 1918.
Chairman Cummins said the Repub
lican leadership not only had throt
tled the treaty, but after months of
debate can not point to a single con
structive measure enacted into law.
SEATTLE AUTO
KILLS WOMAN
AND ESCAPES
SEATTLE, Jan. 21 (by Associated
Press).—Mrs. George Johnson, mother
of three children, was killed by an
automobile on the main street of the
Fremont district yesterday. The auto
mobile disappeared.
W. E. Peterson of Seattle has been
arrested at Everett in connection with
the death of the woman.
NO PUBLIC BUILDINGS
TO BE ERECTED IN
INTEREST OF ECONOMY
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The committee on pub
lic buildings and grounds of the house
of representatives today decided not
to recommend a general bill authoriz
ing the construction of new govern
ment buildings throughout the coun
try, in the interest of economy.
ALLIED TROOPS
WILL BE SENT
TO CAUCASIA
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (by Associ
ated Press).—The peace treaty not be
ing operative as far as concerns
America, and the United States not
having joined in the demand for the
extradition of the former kaiser, it i*
learned that the position taken is that
this country may have a member on
the court if the treaty should be rati
fied as it stands.
To Fight Bolsheviki
LONDON, Jan. 21 (by Associated
Press).—A Paris dispatch says that
the supreme council has decided to
send two hundred thousand allied
troops to oppose the Bolsheviki in
Caucasia.
Fiume Still Up in Air
PARIS, Jan. 21 (by Associated
Press).—The supreme council of the
peace conference has disbanded with
out settling the Adriatic question.
LABOR EDITOR
TOBETRIEDON
I tCHARGE
SEATTLE, Jan. 21 (by Associated
Press).—E. B. Ault, editor of the
Union Record, the radical newspaper
which was recently ordered suspended
by the authorities, will be arraigned
Friday on a state charge of criminal
libel. The complaint charges that
Ault in an editorial blamed the four
former service men who were killed
in the Armistice day shooting at Cea
tralia for their own deaths.
The federal charges against Ault
and other officials of the newspaper
have been dismissed.
Superior Judge Tallman today over
ruled a demurrer to the complaint,
and Ault probably will plead not guilty
on Friday.
LE0NARD1LL
MEET DUNDEE
NEXT MONTH
NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (by Associated
Press).—Benny Leonard, world’s
champion lightweight, is matched to
fight Johnny Dundee eight rounds la
Jersey City on February 9.
Chicago Tommy Knocked Out
BOSTON, Jan. 21 (by Associated
Press).—Mike O’Dowd, middleweight
champion, last night knocked o»t
Tommy Murphy of Chicago in the
third round of what was to have bee*
a twelve-round bout.
japanTowIthdraw
TROOPS FRt)M SIBERIA
HONOLULU, Jan. 21 (by Associated
Press).—A Tokio cable says that
Japan has decided to withdraw her
troops from Siberia, having up to
date failed in the accomplishment of
their main purpose.
The nature of this “main purpose”
is not announced.
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