The Cordova Daily Times
_(MemKpr nf Associated Press)__________
VOL IV NO 193 CORDOVA. ALASKA. TUKSDAY. JL’l.V 22. 1919 PRICE TEN CENTS
RACE RIOTING IN WASHINGTON IS BECOMING SERIOUS MENACE
* LEAGUE OF NATIONS COVENANT
STILL BONE OF CONTENTION
IN UNITED STATES SENATE
WASHINGTON, July 22 (by Associated Press).—Senator
McNary of Oregon, in a speech in the senate today, urged the
acceptance of the League of Nations covenant without amend
ments which would alter its purposes. He said the league was
the greatest step ever taken toward peace. He particularly
m-.'-ed the retention of Article 10 as involving no legal obliga
tion which would force the United States to go to war, but only
a moral obligation, which, he said, would do much to chill the
ambitions of other nations seeking cruel wars.
Looked in Vain for Fourteen Points
Senator Moses of New Hampshire, Republican member of
the committee on foreign relations, said that if the treaty were
accepted the United States would embroil itself for many years
in the future in the troubles of Europe. He said the treaty
' gave responsibility to the “big five,” not to the League ot
Nations. . ,, , ,,
Senator Moses said he had looked m vain through m
treatv for the elusive “fourteen points.” The peace treaty, lie
said,'was as menacing to the world as the treaty of Berlin ot
forty years ago.
President’s Request turned Uown
The senate foreign relations committee, replying to the
request of President Wilson for the provisional appointment of
an American on the reparations commission, passed a resolution
to the effect that “until the treaty had been ratified no power
exists to carry out its provisions.”
President Resumes Conferences
President Wilson has sufficiently recovered from lus in
disposition to resume his conferences with the Republican sen
ators on the peace treaty and League of Nations.
Prompt Ratification by Great Britain
LONDON, July 22 (by Associated Press).—The house of
commons last night ratified the German peace treaty and the
An glo-Fr eneli t re at v.
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RECOVER MORE
JUNEAU, July 22 (Special to the
Daily Times).—The Deep Sea Salvage
Company’s boat arrived here today
from the scene of the wreck of the
steamship Princess Sophia with eleven
additional bodies, making seventy-six
in all recovered by this company, and
a grand total of 273 bodies recovered
since the disaster. All but one of the
last lot of bodies have been identified,
* as follows:
Sam Brown of Hot Springs, Alaska.
Henry Wurgler of Livengood, Alaska.
Angus F. Munroe, member of the
crew of the Sophia.
Edgar Soole Doughty, member of
the crew of the Sophia.
Thomas Hennesy of Flat, Alaska.
Narcisse Dube of Dawson.
Marion Moyer of Keyport, Wash.
William Staples of Circle, Alaska.
John Kelly of Seattle and Long City,
Alaska.
Charles Guy of Seattle, a river
steamer cook.
The unidentified body is that of a
fireman.
TELEPHONE STRIKE
HAS BEEN CALLED OFF
SAN FRANCISCO, July 22 (by As
sociated Press).—The telephone strike
in California cities has been called off.
WANT TROOPS
TO HELP FIGHT
FOREST FIRES
SPOKANE, July 22 (by Associated
Press).—The forest fire situation ir
Northern Idaho is somewhat improved
Fires in the Pack river valley are still
burning over a front of eight miles
and advancing four to eight miles
daily. It has covered an area of fiftj
square miles and destroyed several
million feet of timber.
Wants Troops to Fight Fire
PORTLAND, July 22 (by Associated
Press).—George Cornwall, editor oi
the Pacific Coast Timberman, has ap
pealed to President Wilson to send
troops to the Northwest to help fight
the forest fires.
BIG BONUS OFFERED
IF CLUB WINS PENNANT
SALT LAKE, July 22 (by , Associ
ated Press).—The directors of the Salt
Lake City Baseball Club of the Pacific
Coast league announced today that
$10,000 would be divided among the
players if they win the championship
pennant.
ALASKA MINING STOCKS
NEW YORK, July 22.—Alaska Gold,
3; Alaska Juneau, 2%.
NEGRO ASSAULTS ON WHITE
WOMEN RESULT IN RACIAL
RIOTS AT NATIONAL CAPITAL
; WASHINGTON, July 22 (by Associated Press).—Martial
law may be necessary to end the race rioting in this city, which
[resulted last night in the killing of five persons and the injury
of fifty.
Two hundred rioters have been arrested. Four negroes
are among the killed, and one detective sergeant.
Negroes late last night raced through the streets in auto
[mobiles, pumping bullets at all whites within range. It is be
llieved that numerous casualties are not yet reported.
Officials said the riots were more serious than any since the
riots resulting from certain legislation at the close of the Civil
[war.
The first police report today told of the seventh assault on
white women within two weeks.
Heavy reinforcements have been ordered from Camp Meade
to assist the police and the provost guard in preventing a repe
tition of the race riots*.
CHICAGO, July 22 (by Associated Press).—State’s Attor
ney Hoyne lias begun an inquiry to fix the responsibility for
the explosion and collapse of a dirigible balloon which yester
day fell through the roof of the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank,
killing eleven persons and injuring twenty-six others.
The accident happened at 5 o’clock last evening. The bal
loon, with five passengers, was making her maiden trip in the
interest of an amusement park. Four men jumped with the aid
of parachutes when the fire appeared. One man was burned tc
death.
Another victim died at noon today, making the list of dead
twelve.
Federal and city officials also are investigating the acci
dent. Seventeen employes of the Goodyear Tire and Rubbei
Company, owners of the airship, are held pending a decision as
I to whether charges of carelessness can be filed against them.
The balloon fell blazing into the bank. Five of the killed
were women employes of the bank.
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PHILADELPHIA, July 22 (by Asso
rted Press).—Ralph Moyer, cashier
f the North Pennsylvania Bank, has
urrendered to the district attorney
ere. It is alleged that a shortage of
900,000 in Moyer’s accounts has been
iscovered. Moyer is said to have
onfessed.
PROHIBITION BILL IS
PASSED BY CONGRESS
I WASHINGTON, July 22 (by Asso
rted • Press).—The house today
■ passed the prohibition enforcement
|bill. Opponents of the measure said
it was so drastic that it invited the
presidential veto.
SCORE OF MACHINES ,
ENTERED AT DENVER
DENVER. July 22 (by Associated
(Press).—Twenty machines are sched
uled to start in the annual Denver
flimes road race to Cheyenne. This
is the largest field ever entered The
'course is 110 miles. ,
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TULSA, Okla., July 22 (by Associ
ated Press).—An angry mob of a thou
sand strikers removed armed guards
motormen and conductors from threi
interurban cars of the Oklahoma LTnioi
Railway Company, disarmed them am
tore up the track. Trolley posts wen
also cut down by the mob.
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MILITARY PRISONERS
WANT SHORTER HOURS
LEAVENWORTH, Kan., July 22 (bj
Associated Press).—Twenty-five hun
dred military prisoners here struct
today and resisted the attempts of th<
guards to force them to ■work.
The prisoners asked for shortei
hours and more to eat.
FISH QUOTATIONS
SEATTLE, July 22.—Prices for fish
at noon today were: Halibut, lie;
ling and red cod, 4c.
ARMY TO INVADE BUDAPEST -
BOLSHEVIKI MAKING DRIVE -
BERLIN IS SCENE OF TURMOIL
VIENNA, July 22 (by Associated Press).—General d’Es
peray, commanding the allied forces in the near East, made an
nouncement today that he is preparing to advance upon Buda
pest with one hundred and fifty thousand troops. This army
will be composed of French colonials, Rumanians, Jugoslavs,
Italians and Hungarians.
Denekine Compelled to Retire
LONDON, July 22 (by Associated Press).—Owing to the
further landing from the Caspian sea of strong Bolshevik re
inforcements in the rear of Denekine’s troops, the latter have
been obliged to retire again.
Anarchy Again Shows Its Head in Berlin
PARIS, July 22 (by Associated Press).—Firing broke out
yesterday in Berlin between troops and processions of -trikers
carrying red flags.
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WASHINGTON, July 22 (by Associated Press).—Ambas
sador Fletcher, address in the house committee on rules today,
said that since his appointment to the post at Mexico City three
years ago, fifty Americans had been killed in Mexico, without
a single Mexican prosecution.
The ambassador said the withdrawal of recognition from
the Carranza government would only increase the turmoil in
Mexico. He declared that he did not know of any revolutionary
leader capable of establishing a permanent government.
He had not noticed, he said, that there was any special
anti-American feeling in Mexico, and explained that the pres
ence of more Americans there than any other foreigners prob
ably accounted for the greater number of outrages against
Americans.
COPPER RIVER
GOLD WORTH
r
WASHINGTON, July 22 (by Associ
ated Press).—A Geological Survey re
port by Theodore Capin, just published,
- says that systematic gold prospecting
in the region about the headwaters of
the Copper, Matanuska and Susitna
’ rivers may be warranted when the
5 jrailway to the Matanuska coal fields
i makes the region accessible.
I The geology of the region does not
' encourage the hope of finding placer
gold, the report says.
A report of G. C. Martin of the Geo
logical Survey, also just published,
says lignite coal of a good grade is o
i be found in the Nenana field, which
I could be used for fuel for the locomo
tives on the government railway and
. for generating power and thawing at
the gold mines. It could also be used
by the river steamboats.
EASTERN TOURISTS
VISIT MOUNT RAINIER
TACOMA, July 21 (by Associated
Press).—Seventy-eight tourists, half
of them from the Massachusetts For
estry Association, arrived here today
and proceeded to the Mount Rainier
national park.
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BERLIN, July 22 (by Associated
Press).—Frederich Von Berg, chief of
the former kaiser's civil cabinet, writ
[
ing in the Aufrechte, gives an inti
mate view of the former emperor at
!Amerongen. He says that Wilhelm’s
features have become sharp, but that
,he bears his lot like a Christian. The
fatherland’s fate depresses him more
heavily than his own.
The writer says the former kaiser
has not complained over the extradi
tion clause of the peace treaty, but
hat it has brought the former em
press to a condition threatening col
lapse.
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SEATTLE AND TACOMA
HONOR EASTERN STAR
SEATTLE, July 22 (by Associated
Press).—The delegates to the national
assembly of the Order of Eastern Star
today are visiting the Tacoma parks.
American lake and Camp Lewis, leav
ing here on a special steamer this
morning.
The streets of Seattle are decorated
with incandescent stars in the colors
of the order.