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yob. IV. NO. 207 CORDOVA, ALASKA.~THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, _19j9_-====™CE
SENATE PASSES WAGE “BUCK” TO WILSON
SAYS PRESIDENT HAS AUTHORITY TO DEAL WITH STRIKE QUESTION
I GIGANTIC AMERICAN PLAN
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| GENEVA, Aug. 7 (by Associated Press).—American |
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (by Associated Press).—In ac
cordance' with instructions from the senate committee on, inter
state commerce, Senator Cummings, chairman of the commit
tee, has sent a reply to the suggestions of President Wilson for
legislation authorizing the creation of a special railroad wage
board.
Chairman Cummings says in his reply that the committee
believes that he has complete plenary authority to deal with
the new demands of the railway workers for increased wages.
He says that Director General Hines can say whether lie be
lieves that wages should be raised.
Conference and Election to Be Held
Fourteen of the affiliated railway labor organizations have
called a national conference on railway control, to open in
Washington Saturday next.
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Four hundred and fifty thousand members of the Brother
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hood of Railway Clerks, Freight Handlers and Express and
Steamship Employes will begin voting tomorrow on the ques
tion of calling a strike for increases in wages.
Freight Service Suspended
CHICAGO, Aug. 7 (by Associated Press).—The Iowa and
Minnesota divisions of the Chicago & Northwestern railway
have suspended freight service on account of the shopmen’s
strike. The passenger service is irregular.
Practically all of the Middle West railways are accepting
freight only subject to delay, on account of the shopmen’s
strike, which is spreading.
More Shopmen Quit Work
SPOKANE, Aug. 7 (by Associated Press).—Five hundred
car shopmen of the Great Northern railway have struck, mak
ing a total of two thousand shopmen now on strike here.
SENSATIONAL ALLEGATIONS MADE TO CONGRESS
TEAT GREAT CAPITALISTS OF UNITED STATES ARE
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (by Associated Press).—Glenn
E. Plumb, a Chicago lawyer, who first presented the plan of
the railroad brotherhoods for public ownership and private
operation of the railroads to the senate in February last, told
the house committee on interstate commerce today*that the rail
road brotherhoods had discovered that the great Wall street
barking houses controlled by Rockefeller and Morgan had
been systematically plundering every public highway of the
United States.
The looting and wrecking of the New Haven, Chicago &
Alton, Pock Island and Frisco lines were cited by Mr. Plumb
as examples.
REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
GAINS RECOGNITION
OF SCANDINAVIANS
LONDON, Aug. 7 (by Associated
Press).—Denmark, Norway and Swe
d£i have recognized the German gov
% ernment headed by Ebert.
ADVENTUROUS CANADIAN
TO MAKE DARING FLIGHT
VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 7 (by As
sociated Press).—Captain I. C. Hoy,
a Canadian army flyer, has left for
Calgary. He hopes to make the.first
flight ever made across the Canadian
Rockies.
BIG CHICAGO PACKING CONCERNS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (by Associated Press).—Attorney
General Palmer lias ordered that all federal district attorneys
throughout tin* country immediately proceed against all per
sons guilty of hoarding foodstuffs. He said this was the most
important business before the country at the present time.
The suit's against the live big meat-packing concerns under
the anti-trust laws are to be instituted immediately by the de
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partment of justice. The evidence which is in the possession
of the government shows a clear violation of the anti-trust
laws, according to Attorney General Palmer.
The government’s case against the packers will be brought
before the federal grand jury at Chicago three weeks from
now. District Attorney Charles F. Civile of Chicago announced
today that lie intended to proceed under the criminal sections
of the Sherman law, and that he would als bring civil suits
urn! • r that law. The packers also would be prosecuted under
the fend ct ntrol act on charges of hoarding.
Suggestions for Reducing Prices
Chairman Campbell of the rules committee of the house
resi
dent \\ ilson to submit reduetins of governmental expenditures
peimitting a reduction of a billion dollars in taxes and tariff
rates next year.
Senator Myers of Montana has introduced a resolution
asking the senate judiciary committee to report as to whether
it is advisable to prohibit the exportation of food, clothing and
other necessities for a time.
Address to Be Devoted to Question of Hour
Secretary Tumulty announced today that President Wil
son’s address to congress tomorrow will be confined to the high
cost of living, and that it is unlikely that the President will dis
cuss the railway question.
PACIFIC FLEET
REVIEWED BY
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 7 (by Associated
Press).—Thousands of visitors wit
nessed the review of the Pacific fleet
by Secretary of the Navy Daniels here
today.
Secretary Daniels, on board the
cruiser Montana, met the big fleet as
it came out of the fog. A salute of
nineteen guns was fired in honor of the ;
secretary as the fleet passed in re
view before the Montana.
Later Secretary Daniels visited Ad
miral Rodman on board his flagship,
and thousands of persons visited the
various ships.
The Montana fired a salute of seven
teen guns in honor of Admiral Rod
man. The flagship New Mexico did
not enter the harbor, but many of th$
other vessels of the fleet tied up to
the wharves.
Historic Vessel Will Be There
BREMERTON, Wash., Aug. 7 (by
Associated Press).—The navy depart
ment has ordered the battleship Ore
gon to be recommissioned and sent
to San Francisco, where President
Wilson will board her and review the
Pacific fleet from her bridge when it
enters the Golden Gate.
COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER
MEXICAN SITUATION
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (by Associ
ated Press).—The demands of several
senators for an investigation into the
Mexican situation will be considered
tomorrow by the senate committee on
foreign relations.
WORKERS IN YARDS
OF SHIPBUILDING FIRM
NOTIFIED OF REDUCTION
SEATTLE, Aug. 7 (by Associated
Press).—The Skinner & Eddy ship
yards are reducing the wages of
their twelve hundred skilled employes.
The Metal Trades Council is advising
the workers to accept the cut without
striking pending an appeal to the
heads of the international unions, who
are attempting to negotiate a coast
wide shipyard wage agreement.
STREET CAR STRIKE
MARKED BY RIOTING
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NEW YORK. Aug. 7 (by Associated
Press).—Rioting and shooting marked
the second day of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit strike.
The strikers claim that 95 per cent
of thij entire system is paralyzed.
Shots were tired at a wrecking crew
today.
CORDOVA” PEOPLE
HOMEWARD-BOUND
SEATTLE, Aug. 7 (by Associated
Pijess).—1The steamship Alaska sailed
for the North at 9 o’clock this morn
ing with two hundred passengers.
Those booked for Cordova were:
Fred Long and wife, J. G. Mathews,
John Lindsey and wife, Caroline,
Thelma and Alice Lindsey, C. F. Whit
man and'wife, Elbert Norma nd, H. F.
Faulkner, T. B. Ryan and wife, Mrs.
E. P. Harwood, R. Blix, Mrs. Lewis
Kerler, William Kieley and wife, Mrs.
L. J. Day and baby, Richard Mitton,
Arthur Mitton, Evelyn Hassard, Billie
Hassard, Mrs. W. H. Hassard, Stephen
Mainaroff, L. M. Steeinie, Mrs. I. Lee,
Miss F. Steeinie, and one steerage pas
senger.
James Wickersham was a passenger
on the Alaska for Ketchikan.
1 WARNING IS SOUNDED THAT
! SELFISH INTERESTS DESIRE 1
INTERVENTION IN MEXICO |
| NEW YORK, Aug. 7 (by Associated Press).—The g
g board of foreign missions for Texas of the Presbyterian :j:|
ijji church reports that American oil interests are manufac- g
g turing propaganda to force the United States into war g
|| with Mexico. It states that the American people are be- g
|| ing deceived by inspired propaganda, and says that inter- g
g vention in Mexico is coming as fast as certain interests g
g can force it.
PARIS, Aug. 7 (bv Associated Press)—The Hungarian
cabinet has been overthrown, and the Archduke Joseph, with
the consent of the entente, lias established a ministry in Buda
pest.
The Archduke Joseph commanded the Austrian forces on
the eastern front early in the war, and later headed the move
ment seeking to establish the independence of Hungary.
The Rumanians are seizing supplies in Budapest for ship
ment to Rumania.
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Joseph in Accord with Allies
BUDAPEST, Aug. 7 (by Associated Press).—The entente
mission here today conferred with the Archduke Joseph, and
it is understood they reached a full agreement with him. Olem
enceau and the various foreign governments have been in
formed of the results of the conference. American troops are
stationed in Budapest.
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MAN ACCUSED OF BOMB OUTRAGE AT LOS ANGELES
LEAPS ELEVEN STORIES TO FRIGHTFUL DEATH
WHEN THREATENED WITH PUNISHMENT FOR CRIME
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7 (by Associated Press).—Charles
McGwire, assistant chief engineer of the board of public utili
ties of this city, leaped through a window of District Atorney
Woolwine’s offices today, falling eleven stories to his death on
the sidewalk, when Woolwine questioned him regarding the
bombing of the home of former Assistant Attorney General
Lawler last Sunday. Lawler and his wife were seriously in
jured and their home destroyed by the explosion and fire which
followed. The theory had been put forth that the outrage was
the work of radical labor men, actuated by revenge for Lawler’s
activity in the prosecution of dynamiters.
Woolwine had told McGwire that he intended to ask the
grand jury to indict him. McGwire fought off deeetives who
were in the room, and reaching the window, leaped.out.
Lawler recently had been instrumental in blocking the
efforts of McGwire to break the will of a capitalist in whose
estate* lie was seeking to share.
; HYDROPLANES SUBJECT
TO SAME REGULATIONS
; AS COMMERCIAL BOATS
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Hydroplanes engaged
in carrying passengers for hire have j
been classed as motorboats by Cus
toms Inspector John B. Elliott, and,
as such, must be equipped with life
preservers, “flying ” lights, anchor
lights, fire extinguishers, and a sig
nalling system. Collector Elliott takes
the position that hydroplanes, being
capable of moving over the water by
power, are subject to all the regula
tions of the act designed for the pro
tection of passengers at sea.
Collector Elliott has referred to
Washington an application made for
permission to make commercial air
plane trips across the Mexican bor
der carrying passengers and express
or freight.
SPOKANE PREPARING
FOR DE VALERA’S VISIT
SPOKANE. Aug. 7 *(by Associated
Press).—Eammonn De Valera, “presi
dent of the Irish republic,” will pay
a visit to this city next month. A pub
lic reception is ebing planned in his
honor.
FISH QUOTATIONS '
SEATTLE, Aug. 7 (by Associated
Press).—Prices for fish at noon yes
terday were: Halibut, 13%c; sable
fish. 5c; ling and red cod, 4c.
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