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VOL. 5. NO. 1 70_CORDOVA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1920 PRICE TEN CENTS
GIVING WILSON
VILLA ORDERS
WOMEN HERDED
AND SHOT DOWN
MEXICO, CITY, June 19 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Three hundred camp
followers attached to government
forces have been killed by orders of
the bandit Villa, according to the
newspaper El Democrat, wThich quotes
a wealthy merchant at Jiminez as au
thority for the statement.
The Excelsior also prints a similar
lfsory, but without giving its source of
information.
According to the report, Villa cap
tured three hundred women camp fol
lowers of government troops in an en
counter with a cavalry regiment be
tween Parral and Jiminez and ordered
them lined up for review to see if any
were soldiers masquerading as women.
One woman shot twice at Villa but
missed him. Villa was unable to de
termine which one attacked him, and
ordered all the women herded together
shot down.
MANUFACTURERS MUST
NOT COMBINE TO P
UP PRICE OF ARTICLES
WASHINGTON, June 19 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Warning that agree
77«ents between manufacturers and
dealers which prevent dealers from
reducing the selling prices of manu
factured articles is unlawful was
sounded by the depart7nent of justice
today as part of the campaign to re
duce the cost of living.
EAGLE BOAT COMING
NORTH FOR PATROL
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BREMERTON, June 19 (by Associ
ated Press).—The Eagle boat “57” is
undergomg repairs here preparatory
to sailing north to join the “294” and
“310” in patroling the Alaskan waters
to protect fish traps.
RESOLUTE WINS RACE
* IN SIXTH OF TRIALS
NEWPORT, June 19 (by Associated
Press).—The Resolute today won the
sixth of the nine races with the Vani
tie to decide which yacht will defend
America in the race for the Lipton
cup.
POLICE ARE CALLED ON
TO CHECK UNIONISTS
LONDONDERRY, June 19 (by Asso
ciated Press). — Violent pistol and
rifle fighting continued here for two
hours today before the soldiers re
stored quiet. Several men were
wounded. Many unionists were en
gaged in the fighting, the police being
powerless to hold them in check, and
the soldiers were called out to assist
them.
TENNIS HONORS ARE
WON BY AMERICANS
LONDON, June 19 (by Associated
Press).—Johnston and Tilden won the
doubles championshinp in the tennis
tournament, defeating R. Norris Wili
ams, of Philadelphia, and C. S. Gar
land, of Pittsburg, thus giving the
Americans first and seconds places in
both classes.
TWO ARRESTS MADE
FOR MURDER OF DRAKE
PORTLAND, Ore., June 19 (by As
sociated Press).—George Moore and
Russel Drake were arrested here to
day charged with the murder of Harry
Dubinsky, a chauffeur, whose blood
spattered car was later returned to its
^tand by an unidentified man. The
police say Moore confessed and placed
the blame on Drake.
ARREST GIMBLE
FOR CLOTHING
PROFITEERING
—
NEW YORK, June 19 (by Associated
Press).—Frederick Gimbel, vice presi
dent of the Gimbel Bros, department
store, was arrested today by depart
ment of justice agents on a charge of
profiteering in clothing. It is charged
that a suit costing $33 was sold for
$75, and that suits costing $15 were
sold for $33.75. Two other officials
of the company were also arrested,
charged with making profits on cloth
ing ranging from 90 to 275 per cent.
FEDERATION TO
MAKE FIGHT 0
PROFITEERS
MONTREAL, June 19 (by Associ
ated Press).—The American Federa
tion of Labor has approved the levy
of an assessment of $1 on every affili
ated union to establish a bureau of
co-operation for the “promotion and
advancement of the cause of true co
operation between the United States
and Canada.”
A committee was appointed to assist
in the pi-osecution of profiteers on
charges, and the ixiovement against
profiteering will be given further as
sistance by local and central bodies
issuing warning where profiteering is
shown, and by the establishixxent and
operation of co-opei-.ative stores.
The 1921 convention of the federal
will fee held in Denver, that city hav
ing been selected today as the next
meeting place.
SURPLUS MATERIAL
BILL IS POCKETED
WASHINGTON, June 19 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Among the bills which
failed to become laws .because of
pocket veto by the president, is one
authorizing the secretary of war to
transfer certain surplus material and
machinery equipment to the depart
ment of agriculture to be used in road
building.
RUSSIAN CAVALRY
DEFEATED BY POLES
WARSAW, June 19 (by Associated
Press).-—The Polish official announce
ment today says Polish detachments
have defeated the Russian cavalry di
vision, taking 800 prisoners, many field
Avagons and eight guns.
Thte steamship Alameda arrived
from the westward at 4 o’clock this
afternoon and will sail for Seattle to
morrow at noon.
SECRETARY GLASS ALSO HAS
UP LIGHTNING RODS FOR
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION
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SAN FRANCISCO. June 19 (by As
sociated Press).—Announcement that
Bernard M. Baruch and Thos. L. Chad
bourne, who were to maintain head
quarters here to promote the candi
dacy of William G. McAdoo for the
presidency, had cancelled hotel reser
vation and would not come to the con
vention, was made known today by
party leaders. This followed absolute
refusal yesterday of McAdoo to per
mit his name to be presented before
the convention.
WASHINGTON, June 19 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Carter Glass, of Vir
ginia, present secretary of the treas
ury in the Wilson cabinet, issued a
statement today in' which he declared
he still favored the nomniation of
William G. McAdoo, notwithstanding
the latter’s decision not to allow his
name to go before the convention.
Glass has also been prominently
mentioned for the nomination, and a
boom for him has already gained con
siderable headway. When told today
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that McAdoo supporters were planning
to urge . his^ nomination, Glass said:
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“Even if I'could measure up to the
stature of the kind of a man the con
vention should really nominate, I live
in the section of the country relied
upon to furnish electoral votes, but not
to supply a candidate.”
TV
NEW YORK, June 19 (by Associated
Press). — President Wilson’s nine
months’ illness “have neither daunted
nor impaired in the slightest degree
his splendid intellect,” according to
the World, which published an inter
view by its Washington correspondent
with the President.
The president has gained twenty
pounds in the last two months and his
complete recovery his assured. His
face is not distorted, though it bears
the impression of great physical suf
fering, and he walks with a slight limp
and uses a cane.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 19 (by As
sociated Press).—Leaders of the Dem
ocratic national committee stated to
day that whatever stand was taken
by convention on the League of Na
tions it will be an endorsement of
the president’s course of reasoning.
The committee will make a clean
cut decision on prohibition, and the
Irish question, woman suffrage and
labor proposals will be dealt with
wtihout equivocation.
The proposed conference of western
governors and delegates will be held
shortly before the convention to dis
cuss further reclamation of the Im
perial valley, mining problems, dispo
sition of oil and mineral lands and
other questions of vital interest to
the West.
FARGO, N. D., June 19 (by Associ
ated Press).—“The wet governor of
New Jersey will never be the Demo
cratic candidate for president,” de
clared William Jennings Bryan here
today. He also named Governor Cox
and Senator Hitchcock as wets, and
said he was taking a dry plank and
a “prison term for profiteers” plank
to San Francisco to be presented as
part of the Democratic platform.
WASHINGTON, June 19 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Secretary of State
Colby says he is not even a receptive
candidate for permanent chairman of
the Democratic convention at San
Francisco.
WASHINGTON, June 19 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Senator Harding has
temporarily abandoned his vacation,
and will iremain in Washington for
further conferences with Republican
leaders.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 19 (by
Associated Press).—Senator Reed was
today unanimously re-elected to rep
resent the Fifth Missouri, Kansas
City, district at the national Demo
cratic convention. The district dele
gation re-elected the senator after his
rejection by the state convention,
which ordered the district to name an
other delegate.
BRITISH TROOPS i
ENTRENCHED
ON PENINSULA
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CONSTANTINOPLE, June 19 (by
Associated Press).—The British troops
confronted by Turkish nationalists on
the Ismud peninsula in Asia Minor
are well entrenched, it was reported
today by the British fleet, and there
is no apprehension that the national
ists will take the fortifications. The
inmates of the Armenian orphanage
at Ismad were brought here under the
direction of Sophie Hunt, the Amer
ican missionary, and many other refu
gees have arrived in the Asian side
of the Bosphorus.
The Turkish nationalists completely
control Anatolia except a small area
held by the British, who have 37,000
w ell equipped men and abundant avail
able reinforcements. What remains of
the Turkish government is declared
to be helpless. Belief prevails that
the nationalists are acting in accord
with the Bolsheviki.
ALLIED NATIONS
WILL confer;
ON MONDAY
LONDON, June 19 (by Associated
Press).—Lloyd George and Miller
will confer at Hythe on Sunday pre
liminary to the conference at Bologne
Monday at which France, Great Bri
tain, Italy, Japan, Belgium and Greece
will be represented. Great interest is
taken in the Bologne meeting, news
papers declaring that the world is in
a state more perilous than two years
ago.
QUARREL OVER DOG
RESULTS IN MURDER
SEATTLE, June 19 (by Associated
Press).—C. Davis, a dog dealer, shot
and killed Peter Angle, a butter cut
ter, during a quarrel today over the
ownership of a dog. Angle leaves a
widow and six children.
POLICE TROUBLES AT
TACOMA ARE SETTLED
TACOMA, June 19 (by Associated
Press).—The order by the commis
sioner of public safety that members
of the police force work overtime dur
ingthe Shriners meeting here has been
modified to provide extra pay and not
making the overtime work obligatory,
and the men have decided not to
strike, as was threatened.
WOMAN FOUND
GUILTY MURDER
OF HUSBAND
SEATTLE, June 19 (by Associated
Press).—The jury in the murder case
of Madge Anna Sawyer, 21 years old,
last evening found her guilty of sec
ond degree murder. She shot her
husband, Howard I. Sawyer, in a house
boat on Lake Union here on the night
of May 10, and set up a plea that she
was temporarily insane when the
shooting occurred. The jury, on which
four women sat as members, were out
two hours, when a verdict was agreed
upon.
SKINNER-EDDY
SHIPYARD HAS
COME TO END
SEATTLE, June 19 (by Associated
Press).—Skinner & Eddy Shipyard
No. 1 has been sold to the Barde In
dustrial Corporation of Portland, Ore.,
and the equipment will be sold and
distributed throughout the country*
The nrice paid is approximately half
a million dollars. The dismantling of
the building and the selling of the
equipment will bring the closing chap
ter in the story of Seattle’s big ship
building plant which during the war
turned out seventy-five steel ships for
the emergency fleet.
Skinner & Eddy will retain owner
ship of the land and permanent build
ings and these may be used for ter
minals, as they are situated in a com
manding position on the water front
GERMAN COMMERCE
USING PANAMA CANAL
WASHINGTON, June 19 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Twenty-five thousand
tons of German commerce traversed
the Panama canal during April, the
first since the war, and tolls were paid
amounting to $20,872.
STUDENTS TO ATTEND
CAMP DURING SUMMER
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, June
19 (by Associated Press).—Fifteen
Stanford students will attend the sum
mer artillery school camp to be held
at Camp Taylor, Kentucky, June 17 to
to July 28, it has been announced.
This camp is part of the government’s
now plan to keep up the strength of
the Officer’s Reserve Corps. Men who
attend the camp and take the train
ing offered here during their college
career will be commissioned upon
their graduation from, the university.
JONGS SECURED
SIGNATURE TO
POWER BILL
SEATTLE, June 19 (by Associated
Press).—A Post-Intelligencer despatch
from Washington says Senator Jones,
of Washington, is credited with being
largely respondent for the president
signing the water power bill. Secre
tary of the Interior Payne objected to
the measure because it permitted de
velopment of water power in national
forests. Jones admitted the objection
was well founded but promised to
offer an amendment to eliminate the
objection at the next session of con
gress. Senator Jones urged the pres
ident that the importance of the meas
ure was so great that its failure to
become a law would be a national
calamity.
LLOYD GEORGE WILL
NOT SACRIFICE THE
INTERESTS OF PUBLIC
LONDON, June 19 (by Associated
Press).—Premier Lloyd George today
told a delegation of railroad men that
he would never agree to sacrifice the
interests of the public unless abso
lutely beaten to the ground. He said
Lincoln had faced a million casualties
in the five years’ war rather than ac
knowledge independence of the south
ern states, and Britain would do the
same if necessary.
POLISH OFFENSIVE
FACING BREAKDOWN
BERLIN, June 19 (by Associated
Press).—A Breslau despatch reports
that a Polish official communique an
nounces the collapse of the Polish of
fensive and the envelopment of the
Polish army by the Bolsheviki.
SOVIET AMBASSADOR
HAS BEEN RECALLED
WASHINGTON, June 19 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Ludwig K. Martens,
who for more than fifteen months has
been self-styled Russian soviet ambas
sador here, has been recalled by the
soviets.
FERTILIZER SHIPMENT
COMES ON BARKENTINE
HONOLULU, T. H., June 19 (by As
sociated Press).—The barkentlne Al
ta arriving here recently with a cargo
of fertilizer from Norway, was the
first ship to bring a European cargo
to Hawaii since the outbreak of the
Great War.
The Alta made her first trip to
Hawaii shortly after she was launch
ed in 1900. At that time she was un
der Chilean registry
AFGHAN R00PSPLAN
ATTACK ON BRITISH
LONDON, June 19 (by Associated
Press).—A wireless message from
Moscow declares Afghan troops are
concentrating on the India-Afgbau
border for an attack on the British in
India.