* JAPS’ POLICY
IN SIBERIA IS
OUTLINED
TOKIO, Aug. 3 (by Associated
Press).—There are no indications that
the Japanese will refrain from carry
ing out military arrangements made
* dealing with the problems arising from
the Siberian situation. The forthcom
ing note to Washington outlines and
amplifies statements regarding the
Siberian policy and it is understood it
points out the temporary character
of the Japanese occupation of the
Sagahlien district. Officials have been
careful to explain to newspaper men
that the United States was within its
rights in asking for a declaration cf
the Japanese policy.
MORE APPLICATIONS
* FOR ALASKA OIL LANDS
Five additional applications for oil
leases were received by Register F.
A. Boyle of the Juneau office, from
the westward, totaling 12,800 acres of
land. The claims on which the appli
cants have filed are situated in the
Katalla and Cold bay oil fields.
Only one, however, is in the Ka
talla field. In that district Charles
E. Bryan, of Cordova, has filed on
2.560 acres. In the Cold bay re
gion Carl Armstrong and W. J. Fin
negan, Earl E. Simmons and Edwin
Wentworth, each man filing for
2.560 acres.
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Chas. Brown, a former Dawsonite,
was recently found floating in the
bay at Oakland, Calif., with his hands
bound behind him with baling wire
in such a way that the authorities
believe he was done to death. Brown
had left a note to his wife stating
that he intended to commit suicide
but the officials are puzzled to know
how he could tie his hands securely
behind his back.
HILLMAN AGAIN
CHARGED WIT
CONSPIRACY
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3 (by As
sociated Press).—C. D. Hillman of Pas
sadena, former Seattle real estate
man, pleaded not guilty today to
charges of grand larceny and con
spiracy resulting from an alleged swin
dling from Edward Wineman of $900,
000, when arraigned in court here.
The case was continued until Septem
ber.
TERRITORiALNOTES
An Indan boy fell from a raft at
Moosehde and was drowned. The
little fellow was the adopted son of
Old Stephen.
Alphonso Tanquail, 58 years of age
who went to Dawson in the days of
’98 via the Chilkoot trail, was found
dead on his claim recently by his
neighbors. The body was taken to
the Lesperance roadhouse. He was a
former resident of Quebec.
A. A. McMillan of Dominion creek
near Dawson, met with a serious ac
cident recently. While coming down
Calder he met two bears, his horse
taking fright and throwing him out
of his rig. He was badly cut and was
covered with bruises about the head
and face.
A healthy condition in business as
a whole for the first judicial divi
sion, both in the larger towns and in
smaller villages, is indicated by the
tax receipts for the fiscal year, 1920,
according to Clerk of the Court -T.
W. Bell who has just completed his
report on the tax collections.
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At a meeting of tlie Yukon Order
of Pioneers at Dawson it was decided
to have a rousing celebration on
Discovery Day, August 17, the day
Carmack discovered the first big
gold deposits on the Klondike. A big
exhibition of quartz, placer gold, 'and
Yukon grains will be assembled for
an exhibit.
A shortage of water is reported on
Eureka creek and many of the miners
have left on that account. A. J. Wik
strom is working in an open cut. Jos.
McLaggan is sluicing. Steve Bede is
hoisting and sluicing. M. Velge is
at work on an open cut on No. 3.
Tom Warner is shoveling in his win
ter dump. Hill Stephens has finish
ed the winter dump, and intends to
sink another shaft.
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF
PARTNERSHIP
Notice is hereby given that the
partnership heretofore existing by and
between James Dinneen and Cyrille
Decuyper doing business in the Town
of Cordova, Alaska, under the firm
name and style of “Cash Grocery
Company of Cordova,” was on the 29th
day of July, 1920, dissolved by mu
tual consent; that said James Dineen
will hereafter conduct said business,
will collect all outstanding accounts
and settle all outstanding indebted
ness. CYRILLE DECUYPER
3-5t JAMES DINEEN
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ALONG WITH THE
THE LINE ' NATIONAL
OF MARCH' SERVICE MEN
(Copy for This Department Supplied by National Headquarters of the American Legion)
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HANDLES WAR RISK CLAIMS
Head of Service Division of the Amer
ican Legion Has Had Exten
sive Experience.
Charles F. Sheridan, head of the
service division of the American
region at nation
al headquarters,
Indianapolis, is a
native of Oswego,
New York, and
has had consid
erable experience
in the war risk
insurance bureau
which enables
him to handle
with the great
est dispatch the
thousands of war
risk claims that
constantly pass tnrough his office.
Following his graduation from Am
herst college in 1912, Mr. Sheridan
was engaged in the practice of law
in Syracuse, New York, under the
firm name of Sheridan & Sheridan,
when he entered the service as a
private and served until November
1918, when he was commissioned a
lieutenant.
He was transferred by the war de
partment to the war risk section, and
appointed a battalion sergeant major
of infantry, December 1917. He
sailed for France on Christmas day
of that year and was appointed regi
mental sergeant major of Snfantry
May, 1918.
His entire service overseas was with
the war risk section. From chief
clerk of the allotment department, he
was promoted to be assistant head,
and was finally appointed head
of the allotment department.
He was appointed chief of the spe
cial service division of the bureau
of war risk insurance on February
5, 1919, and continued in that posi
tion in Washington until May, 1919,
when he was appointed national war
risk officer of the American Legion.
He was appointed assistant national
secretary of the Legion and then di
rector of the service division.
LABOR UNIONS FAVOR LEGION
Kern County, California, Labor Council
Recommends That All Members
Join World War Body.
While a number of isolated cases of
local unions taking action against the
American Legion have been given con
siderable publicity in the press, practi
cally nothing has been said with regard
to the hundreds of locals through the
country that have indorsed the work of
the Legion. A story along this line was
recently carried in the Union Labor
Journal of Bakersfield, Cal., ns follows :
There has been a disposition upon
the part of some persons who are none
too desirous of seeing a friendly spirit
developed between organized labor and
the American Legion who have gone
out of their way to make representa
tions to the effect that union labor is
antagonistic to the Legion. This sort
of misrepresentation has been indulged
in to the extent that false reports have
been disseminated to the effect that la
bor organizations have attacked the
American Legion in resolutions of con
demnation. In no instance have we
known of any such attitude upon the
part of a labor organization, nor do we
credit as truthful any report to that
effect. On the contrary organized la
bor recognizes the fact that the great
mass of the membership of the Ameri
can Legion are working men to whom a
great debt is owed by the nation. It
recognizes the further fact that the
interests of the members of the Legion
are identical with those of the rest of
American working men.
The national executive committee as
well as the state executive committee
of the American Legion has repudiated
the attempts of those who have sought
to make the Legion an organization an
tagonistic to labor, a thing which could
never be because of the fact that from
the ranks of labor came the great ma
jority of the young men who made up
the army of democracy.
Union labor has not sought to make
of the Legion a partisan of unionism
nor can it take kindly to the efforts of
those designing ones who try to create
enmity between the American Legion
and organized labor.
During the present week a statement
has gone from Bakersfield to a certain
metropolitan paper to the effect, that
the Kern County Labor Council had in
a resolution denounced the American
Legion. The report is so maliciously
groundless that it could have been in
spired only by a desire to influence the
Legion and labor organizations else
where into an attitude of antagonism.
The Sacramento Labor Council has
this week passed a ringing resolution
of indorsement of the American Legion
and the Kern County Labor Council
has taken occasion to deny the canard
alleging enmity by stating in unequivo
cal terms its friendship for the Ameri
can Legion, its membership and its
purposes, in a resolution of indorse
ment.
We wonder if the author of the libel
ous report that the Labor Council had
condemned the American Legion knows
what proportion of the men from this
community who served in the military
and naval forced was or now are mem
bers of organized labor. If he had he
would certainly have nicked out a com
munity in which the number of work
ingmen who carry union cards and an
honorable discharge from the army
was ndt so numerous as in Kern
county. It would surprise him to know
that at least half of the men who went
into the service from Kern county are
or have been members of a labor union.
The resolution follows:
“Whereas, The American Legion is
an organization composed of men and
women who gave their services to the
government of the United States or
one of the allied powers during the
great war; and
“Whereas, The American Legion is
organized for the purpose of promoting
the interests of those who gave their
services to the country in that great
crisis; and
“Whereas, The interests of the great
majority of the members of the Amer
ican Legion are known to be identical
with the aims and aspirations of or
ganized labor; therefore be it
“Resolved, By the Kern County La
bor Council, in regular session assem
bled, this 23rd day of December, 1919,
that we indorse the American Legion
and recommend that all members of
local unions affiliated with this body
eligible for membership in the Ameri
can Legion take their rightful places
as members of that organization.”
FRENCH PAY TENDER TRIBUTE
Present Elaborate Certificates to Next
Kin of American Boys Who Died
in the War.
The French certificates, 118,409 of
which were distributed to the next kin
of the American soldiers, sailors and
marines who died in the war, are beau
tifully engraved diplomas typical of
the artistic nature of the Fi*ench peo
ple. The certificates were distributed
by the posts of the American Legion
with appropriate exercises on Wash
ington’s birthday, in expression of the
French government’s appreciation of
the supreme sacrifice made by these
men.
The principal figure of the group
symbolizes the sou! and spirit of the
American army which helped France to
maintain alive the flame of the torch
of liberty and justice.
The sword is not in the scabbard but
ready at any moment to protect and
stanchly defend the weak and op
pressed, who are symbolized in the
group to the left by a mother holding
her baby to her breast, and to insure
Certificate Presented to the Kin of
Americans.
freedom and justice to the coming
generations, represented hy the figure
of the kneeling boy, praying and thank
ing God for deliverance.
At the right, the figure of a man,
chained and shackled, symbolizes the
spirit of evil and the victory over our
enemies. Also at the right, crowning
the Spirit of America, stands “Glory”
who rejoices with the old war veteran,
standing to the left of the principal
figure, symbolizing the armies, who are
always ready to fight for the good of
humanity.
Universal fame is symbolized by the
winged figure, flying over the group,
and trumpeting to the world, the great
triumph in which the United States
participated. The American eagle,
posed on the staff of peace, watches
zealously and stands ready to swoop in
case enemies again endeavor to disturb
the peace of the world, so dearly ac
quired.
The entire group is framed by a bor
der of oak and laurel leaves which are
always decreed to the victors.
At the foot of the cenotaph the flags
of France and America are draped and
joined together hy a wreath, which is
the mark of gratitude and homage
which France pays to our sons who
gave their lives for liberty and justice.
The lines engraved on the wall be
hind the group are taken from one of
Victor Hugo’s poems, and when trans
lated read, “Those who died piously
for their country, have the right that
at their graves, the people come to
pray.”
Humming birds are not found out
side the Western hemmohere,
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
LOST—Bunch of keys Sunday even
ing. Finder please return to Bank of
Alaska and receive reward. 3--6t
FOR RENT—A newly furnished three
room apartment. Call Mrs. Lambert,
Smith Rooming House. 3-tf
WANTED—Machinist, lathe hand, wants
work for short time. Address Times
office. 3-lt
?OR SALE—Furnished house; $150; Ap
ply to George Kennedy. 2-tf
FOR SALE AND RENT—Pianos. Ex
pert piano tuning. Anderson piano
Shop, Juneau. * 2-tf
WANTED TO RENT—Furnished three
room house by September 1st, by re
liable and permanent tenant, Inquire
P. O. Box 238, Cordova. 31 -tf
FOR SALE—Three room house.. Inquire
R. A. Wilcox at Finkelstein & Sapiro’s
store or phone 142-3 rings. 26-10t
WANTED—Experienced waitress at the
Alaskan Grill. 20-tf
WANTED—An ironing girl. Apply at
Northern Laundry. 15-tf
FOR SALE—Three-room partly fur
nished house at ocean dock. Phone
167-2 rings. 14-tf
fSfT RENT—Apartments In the Burk
hart flats. Phone 61. 3-tf
-
FOR RENT—Furnished cabins.. Apply
to Cordova Abstract & Realty Co. 22-tf
FOR RENT—Furnished Cabins. See
Dooley.
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Beginning Sundajr Night at 8:30
A series of ,
LECTURES
gn important Bible subjects will
be given in
- EAGLE HALL
The following are the subjects for
the first week:
TUESDAY NIGHT—■
The Infallible Word of God.
THURSDAY NIGHT—
The Rise and Fall of Four Universal
Empires foretold in Bible prophecy.
FRIDAY NIGHT—
The Fifth Universal Kingdom; When
and Where Set Up.
ALL CORDIALLY INVITED
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Improve
ment
Soon Shows
A look in the glass after a short trial of
our toilet aids and accessories will convince
you that your complexion is clearer, hair
smoother and eyes brighter. A visit to our
store is a step toward a better appearance and
naturally a larger feeling of self satisfaction.
NORTHERN DRUG
THE DRUG STORE OF ALASKA
"Service” is Our Motto
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Civi! Service a “Scientific Raid on Treasury?”
A SERIOUS move to reorganize the vast civil service of the federal govern
ment on a scientific basis involving a reclassification of jobs and the elimi
nation of inequalities of pay, inefficiency of management and political iiiflu
ence is in progress.
The joint commission on the re
classification of the 106,000 federal
employees in the District of Columbia
will report to congress a compre
hensive reform plan worked out with
the assistance of a staff of experts
from Arthur Young & Co., the Chicago
accounting concern which recently re
classified the 60,000 government em
ployees of Canada.
Representative Mann of Illinois
some time ago described the work of
the commission as “a scientific raid upon the treasury.’ Many hold this view
and as a result strong opposition to the proposed legislation is expected, par
ticularly in view of the present condition of the nation’s finances.
“Equal pay for equal work,” will be the rule if congress adopts the pro
posals of the commission, whose report is to form the basis of consideration
of a readjustment of salaries to meet the increased cost of living, a condition
which has been dealt with crudely in the last two years by voting a bonus of
$240 a year to each civil employee.
One questionnaire was returned with the notation: “This man has been,
on the pay roll thirty years, but is an invalid and has not been at his desk for
the last ten years.”
In one bureau stenographers were receiving $1,800 a year, while In an
other bureau, which had been unable to impress congress with its necessities,
stenographers doing identical work were receiving $600.
One of the recommendations was to appoint a woman to the civil service
commission, It having been found that more than half of the federal employees
are women.____
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HONG KONG
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CHOP SUEY
All Kindt of Light Lunches
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CHARLEY CHONG
Phone 189
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SMITH &
M’CONAGHY
Plumbers and
Steamfitters
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COR. FRONT and B STS.
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CORDOVA BEVERAGE AND
DAIRY COMPANY
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
CORDOVA, ALASKA
Distributors of Ice Cream Manufacturers from
BLUE STAR DAIRY MILK Fresh Milk and Cream
From Certified Cows We specialize in family trade
BUSINESS HOURS: 8 A. M. TO 7 P. M.
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MY LINE IN
HOWARD, HAMILTON AND ELGIN
WATCHES
IS NOW COMPLETE—THOSE WATCHES HAVE STANDARD
PRICES AND ARE SOLD HERE AT THE SAME PRICE AS ALL
OVER THE STATES
PAUL BLOEDHORN’S
Jeweler and Watchmaker. Phone 132
LUMBER
WHOLESALE RETAIL
Prompt Attention Given to Small as Well as
Large Orders
CORDOVA MILL & LUMBER COMPANY
v Phone 5 P. 0, Box 218
THE NORTHERN CLUB
FRED HAEF, PROP.
POOL, CARDS, TOBACCO
Soft Drinks of All Kinds
The Popular Corner
PHONE 47 CORDOVA, ALASKA