VOL. 5, NO.>29 , '-/j__CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1920 PRICE TEN CENTS
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EARTHQUAKE DESTROYS MANY
ITALIAN TOWNS AND HUNDREDS
OF PEOPLE HAVE LOST LIVES
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ROME, Sept. 8 (by Associated
Press).—Scores of lives are believed
to have been lost in the district north
of Florence from an earthquake. Re
ports coming from the striken region
show the extent of the disaster to be
growing. The district shaken extends
over 100 miles, containing many popu
mr ious towns, and no reports have been
received from many of them.
WHOLE TOWN DESTROYED
LONDON, Sept. 8 (by Associated
Press).—The town of Fivizzano, 34
miles northwest of Lucca, has been de
stroyed by an earthquake, according
to a dispatch from Spezia, which adds
that Solero and Monte have also been
badly wrecked.
Rome reports heavy shocks in Tus
cany, while Milan and Genoa felt five
second tremors.
Messages from the region in Italy
affected by the earthquakes say the
number of dead and injured is increas
ing hourly. The Spezia district espe
cially is devastated, the towns of
Molassa and Tarasco being destroyed.
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SEVERAL HUNDRED KILLED
ROME, Sept. 8 (by Associated
* Press).—A Massa dispatch says sev
eral hundred people lost their lives in
an earthquake there, and many more
were injured.
CONVICTION OF
INTERFERER OF
DRAFT UPHELD
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The United States cir
cuit court of appeals yesterday upheld
^ the conviction of Frank Hinkhouse, of
Grant county, Washington, who was
sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined
$4,000 for interference with the army
draft.
THIRSTY CAMEL RAIDS
FAIR LEMONADE BOOTH
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 8 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Fifty policemen at the
state fair grounds were called to sub
due a thirsty camel yesterday which
entered a soft drink booth and drank
ten gallons of red lemonade.
SOVIETlOVT.
ISSATISFIED
EAL
WARSAW, Sept. 9 (by Associated
Press).—The Russian Soviet govern
ment has sent a wireless to Poland de
claring the Russians are dissatisfied
with arrangements for the Russo-Pol
ish peace negotiations at Rega be
cause the Letvian guarantees were in
sufficient.
REVOLT CAUSES BLOODSHED
LONDON, Sept. 8 (by Associated
Press).—A Copenhagen dispatch to,
the Exchange Telegraph says several
revolts against the Soviets in the vicin
ity of Moscow have been downed with
4 much bloodshed.
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SENATOR HARDING IS
GUEST OF GEN. WOOD
CHICAGO, Sept. 8 (by Associated
Press).—Senator Harding called on
General Wood at Fort Sheridan yes
terday, en route to the Minnesota state
fair. The senator did not make any
speeches here.
NOBILITY OF
AUSTRIA IN
DIRE STRAITS
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GENEVA, Sept. 8 (by Associated
Press).—Eighty members of the Haps
burg family are in great financial dis
tress, according to former Empress
Zita of Austria. The exiles have been
forced to seek employment in order
to live and archduchesses are becom
ing governesses and maids, and arch
dukes are working as clerks.
D’ANNUNZIO TO RELEASE
OFFICERS OF STEAMER
LONDON, Sept. 8 (by Associated
Press).—A Rome dispatch, quoting an
other dispatch from Fiume, says
D’Annunzio has disapproved the seiz
ure of the American steamer and will
order the officers’ release.
ALASKAN DIED
AS PAUPER BUT
LET FORTUNE
NEW YORK, Sept. 8 (by Associated
Press).—Peter Vidovich, an old char
ity patient at a municipal lodging
house, died today. It was learned
that he possessed a fortune of $125,000,
with $50,000 in Liberty bonds, $60,000
deposited in Alaska banks, jewels, and
deeds to real estate in Fairbanks. He
was registered at the “hospital as an
Alaska miner.
GOVERNOR COX TAKES
FLING AT BIG BUSINESS
MINOT, N. D., Sept. 8 (by Associ
ated Press).—Governor Cox flayed big
business and preached progressiveism
in a 200-mile tour through North Da
kota yesterday near the Canadian
border.
COX IN MONTANA TODAY
EN ROUTE WITH COX, Sept. 8
(by Associated Press).—Governor Cox
carried his campaign from North Da
kota into Montana today, with the
lightest schedule in his western swing.
He will speak at Havre this afternoon
and at Great Falls tonight. He ex
pressed himself as enjoying his first
visit in the west, and well satisfied
with the receptions he has received.
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YOUNG GIRL IS SHOT
ON WAY TO SCHOOL
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8 (by As
sociated Press).—Thelma Lee, aged 11,
was shot and killed yestreday on her
way to school at Saar Brun, a suburb.
Thomas Nelson, a carpenter, was sus
pected, and was surrounded and cap
tured after fatally wounding himself.
NAVY PLACES BAN ON
WHISKEY AS MEDICINE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The naval bureau of
medicine and surgery has published
an order forbidding the use of spirit
uous liquors for medicinal purposes in
the navy. Whiskey will be stricken
from the navy medical supply list.
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CHICAGO. Sept. 8 (by Associated
Press).—Continuing his testimony yes
terday before the senate investigating
committee, E. H. Moore, personal rep
resentative of Governor Cox, supported
the statement that “Cox had no scoop
when he said the Republicans had
planed to raise a fund of $15,000,000.”
Moore introduced a signed article
taken from the Brooklyn Eagle of
January 11 which gave Chairman Hays
and Treasurer Thompson of the Repub
lican committee as authorty for a sim
ilar statement. He suggested that the
writer of the article be subpoenaed,
and was told this had already been
done.
Moore introduced a telegram from
a Lynn, Mass., publisher saying $30,000
had been raised there at a dinner ad
dressed by Senator Lodge.
Moore repeated • before the commit
tee Cox’s charges that a quota of $50,
000 was given to Spokane and cited
this as “information that the quota for
the state is $224,000.” Moore said he
would produce a letter later from
the chairman of the Republican state
committee confirming this information.
The first evidence supporting Cox’s
charges that large quotas have been
assigned to the principal cities of the
country was introduced today when
Dudley S. Blossom, who helped raise
Cleveland’s total, told the committee
that Cox’s figures of $400,000 for that
city were correct.
Senator Reed called the attention
of the witness to the quota sheet sub
mitted by Treasurer Uppam last week
which stated that the total for all of
Ohio was $400,000. Blossom said A. A.
Protzman, a paid agent of the national
committee, was with him when the
quota was announced. Protzman
helped direct the raising of the money.
Blossom said that when he left
Cleveland on Labor day $74,000 was
pledged and the work was still going
on, Protzman directing the workers
trying to reach the goal.
Senator Reed then took the witness
through form 101, which Republican
witnesses had asserted 'never was is
sued. Almost every step of the organ
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ization was described in the plan and
Blossom nodded, expressing his assent.
A prospect list of 3,000 names outlined
in the plan was identified by Blossom
is existing in Cleveland as the “cream
list” assigned to the executive commit
tee.
C. W. McClure of Atlanta said Up
pam sent C. F. Taylor, a paid worker,
to Georgia to raise money. He quoted
Dr. J. C. Stockbridge of Atlanta as
saying Taylor wanted to raise $25,000
in Atlanta alone. Earlier testimony
was to the effect that the quota of the
entire stae was $25,000.
H. G. Garrett of Winchester, Ky.,
chairman of the Republican state ways
md means committee, denied that a
luota of $50,000 had been assigned to
Louisville.
MOORE GOES TO U. S. ATTORNEY
CHICAGO, Sept. 8 (by Associated
Press).—United States District Attor
ney Clyne announced today that E. H.
Moore, personal representative of
Governor Cox, had placed before him
information concerning presidential
campaign expenses. Cylne said he
was not ready to announce what ac
tion would be taken but said the ques
tion of perjury of witnesses before the
senatorial committee will be taken up
with department of justice representa
tives who attended the committee
hearings.
LL0YDGE0RGERETURNS
FROM LUCERNE TRIP
LONDON, Sept. 8 (by Associated
Press).—Premier Lloyd George re
turned here unexpectedly last night
from Lucerne.
sevenImeasresult
DRINKING ALCOHOL
BALTIMORE, Sept. 8 (by Associ
ated Press).—Seven civilian employes
of Edgewood died today as a result
of drinking poisoned alcohol. Another
of the victims is expected to recover.
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Daughter Rescued From Ledge of
Rock by Quick Action of Father
HELENA, Mont., Sept. 8 (by Associated Press).—There used to
be a play about a man who stood at a telephone and heard his wife,
50 miles away, describe how burglars had broken into the house and
were murdering the children in cold blood and meant to kill her,
afterward. A Helena man recently had an experience almost as
nerve wracking, though in this case no crime was concerned. To
the south of this city is a high butte and on the very edge of it
is an almost perpendicular ledge of rocks. Wild flowers crow there.
Casually glancing up at* this hill recently, Burke Clements of Helena
saw his four-year-old daughter half way up the rocky ledge, gathering
flowers. To attempt to reach her himself was hopeless. He dashed
to a telephone and called his wife, at their residence, half a mile
from the ledge. The mother managed to reach the child in time.
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SENATOR MOSES LEADS
RACE FOR RENOMINATION
MANCHESTER, N. H„ Sept. S (by
Associated Press).—United States Sen
ator George H. Moses has a 2 to 1 lead,
over Huntley M. Paulding, former
state food administrator, for renom
ination in the Republican primaries.
BIG OIL STRIKE
IS REPORTED
IN CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The Standard Oil Com
pany has reported one of the most im
portant oil discoveries in the history
of the state. Three wells, with a total
initial daily production of 18,000 bar
reds, have been opened on the com
pany's holdings in the Elk Hills dis
trict near Taft, Cal.
AERIAL MAIL SERVICE
SEATTLE-VANCOUVER
SEATTLE, Sept. 8 (by Associated
Press).—Postmaster General Burleson
has advised the local postal officials
that the Seattle-Victoria aerial mail
service will begin October 15.
N.Y. TO FRISCO
AIR SERVICE IS
AUGURATED
NEW YORK, Sept. 8 (by Associated
Press). — A transcontinental air mail
service between New York and San
Francisco was inaugurated today when
Pilot Page started west, carrying 400
pounds of mail.
The schedule calls for arrival at San
Francisco 42 hours in advance of the
time of regular mail trains. The flight
mapped out covers 2,651 miles and
places at the disposal of the military
forces the greatest system of regularly
maintained landing fields and facilities
in the world.
The second plane carrying letters,
including letters from Senator Harding
to friends in San Francisco, hopped off
an hour later.
STARTS FRIDAY FROM 'FRISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The air mail service
will start from here Friday, it was an
nounced today.
ARRIVES AT CLEVELAND
CLEVELAND, Sept. 8 (by Associ
ated Press).—The mail airplane ar
rived here this afternoon, completing
the first leg of the journey, and ex
pects to make the entire trip in three
days.
The second plane arrived from New
York late today.
CIRCUIT COURT DECIDES
VISITING FISHING CREWS IN
ALASKA MUST PAY POLL TAX
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The right of the
Alaska territorial government to im
pose a poll tax upon crews of ships
visiting fishing waters was upheld by
a decision of the circuit court here
yesterday in the case of John Heden
skoy, a fisherman of the Alaska Pack
ers’ Association, who sued to recover
the tax in his own name and that of
a score of his shipmates.
The decision disapproved of the col
lection of the tax through employers.
However, the court held the law to be
constitutional and ordered a reversal
of the district court decision.
UNIVERSAL DISARMAMENT
PROGRESS TO BE PROBED
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The government has
started an informal investigation of
the progress being made by the na
tions of the world in the movement for
universal disarmament.
IRISH POLICY
OF ENGLAND
IS CONDEMNED
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 8 (by As
sociated Press).—Several thousand
persons attended a mass meeting here
last night to protest against England’s
Irish policy. Senator Phelan sent a
telegram declaring that he joined in
the protest against the treatment ac
corded MacSaweeney.
TIGHTEN REGULATIONS
ON SALE OF LIQUOR
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (by Asso
ciated Press).—In an effort to end il
licit distilling of liquor, treasury of
ficials have decided to tighten the reg
ulations for the sale of stills and add
another checks as a means of tracing
down the owners.
FIX MINIMUM
PRICE WHEAT
$3 A BUSHEL
SALINA, Kan., Sept. 8 (by Associ
ated Press).—Wheat growers of four
states met here yesterday and adopted
resolutions urging a minimum price
of $3 per bushel for wheat and con
demning profiteers. The resolutions
declare a survey in seven states
shows the cost of producing a bushel
of wheat to be $2.75.
FISH QUOTATIONS
ESATTLE, Sept. 8.—(Special to the
Daily Times).—Prices at noon Sept. 7:
Halibut, 16c; chickens, 8c; sablefish,
6^c; red and ling cod, 2c.