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CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, [ 919__PRICE TEN CENTS
GIGANTIC STRIKE OF STEEL WORKERS ON MONDAY IS INEVITABLE
MUST MAKE LARGE REPARATION
• AND GIVE UP WAR MACHINERY
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The Bulgarian peace
treaty, a summary of which has been
cabled here, shows that Bulgaria must
pay two and a quarter billions oi
francs in gold during a period of thirty
seven years, as reparation.
Demobilization of the army must
be completed in three months, and
volunteer enlistments must be substi
tuted for conscription. The army is to
be reduced to 20,000 men.
But one establishment for the man
ufacture of war materials will be al
lowed, and the Bulgarians must sur
render their warships, submarines and
airplanes.
Bulgarians Did Not Approve War
PARIS. Sept. 19 (by Associated
Press).—When the Bulgarian peace
treaty was given to the Bulgarian mis
sion today, General Theoforff, head of
the mission, declared that the Bui
ORGANIZATION
Of EMPLOYES
< OF NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (by Associ
ated Press).—Fifteen unions of city
employes of this city have approved
a proposal to form a central council
and to affiliate with the American
^Federation of Labor.
The unionists are endeavoring to or
ganize all the New York city employes,
including policemen and firemen, into
one union, to be called the Central
Union, and to be affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor. They
all seek wage increases, some of them
to the extent of 65 per cent.
No Raise for Government Employes
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The United States
Fleet Corporation and the navy de
partment have decided not to grant
wage increases to navy employes or
government shipyard workmen.
Corpus Christi
» Fatality Lists
Still Growing
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas,
Sept. 19 (by Associated Press).
—The rapid growth of the death
list of victims of last Sunday’s
hurricane indicates a possible
total of five hundred.
The business men of this city
estimate the money loss here
alone at twenty million dollars,
with only $350,000 insurance.
Two hundred and eighty-four
bodies have been buried at nme
places in the district.
Fifteen hundred homes along
twenty-three blocks on the
beach front were crushed and
carried away by the tidal wave
created by the hurricane on
Sunday, which in some places
was fifteen feet in height.
Under Martial Law
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 19 (by
Associated Press).—The gov
ernor has placed Corpus Christi
and three adjoining counties un
der martial law. Four hundred
state troops are maintaining or
der.
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garians were not responsible for the
war.
He said the Bulgarian government
threw the country into the struggle,
but he realized that the people must
share the responsibility.
He blamed King Ferdinand and For
eign Minister Radoslavoff for Bul
garia’s entry into the war, and said
the Bulgarian people did not approve
the Bulgarian alliance, which came to
them as a catyclysm.
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 19 (by As
sociated Press).—The first of a series
of state conferences in the northwest
preliminary to the national campaign
in October to raise a Theodore Roose
velt memorial fund of $5,000,000, was
held at Portland yesterday.
A state conference of Montana citi
zens interested in the movement to
erect a memorial building at Wash
ington, D. C., was held at Helena also
yesterday. Similar conferences will
be held at Moscow, Pocatello and
Boise, Idaho, on September 25, and
on September 20 conferences will be
held at Seattle and Spokane.
The movement is non-partisan in
character and has for its object the
preservation of Roosevelt ideals.
Proposents of the plan expect to erect
a memorial building at the national
capital and to purchase and main
tain a park at Oyster Bay. The ac
tual campaign will be held from Oc
tober 20 to 27.
DECISION OF WILSON
AWAITED BY PREMIERS
IN MATTER OF FIUME
ROME, Sept. 19 (by Associated
Press).—The Messagero says that
Lloyd George, Clemenceau and Tittoni
are in perfect accord over the definite
solution of the Fiume question, and
that they are awaiting the decision of
President Wilson.
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR
CORDOVA BACHELORS
NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (by Associ
ated Press).—Mrs. S. C. Seymour of
Camden, just home from Europe, says
that five thousand well-to-do British
women, determined to obtain Ameri
can husbands, will soon arrive in the
United States.
Mrs. Seymour was employed by the
army authorities to supervise the
transportation of war brides from
Europe. She said that 3,500 war
brides and 257 children had come to
America within the last eight months.
americanavTatoT
CLAIMS ALTITUDE RECORD
MINEOLA, N. Y., Sept. 19 (by As
sociated Press).—Roland Rohlfs yes
terday reached an altitude of 34,500
feet in an airplane. This is believed
to be the world’s record.
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GRIGSBY BRINGS CHEERING NEWS
OF CERTAINTY OF DEVELOPMENT
OF COAL LANDS OF TERRITORY
SEATTLE, Sept. 19 (by Ass xuated Press).—George Grigsby, dele
gate from Alaska in congress, who left this morning for the North to
take testimony in the contested election case, in which James Wick
ersham is endeavoring to unseat him, gave an interview to news
paper men here yesterday in w hich he discussed Alaska legislation
now before congress.
He said the development of the coal fields of Southern and South
western Alaska was now assured because of the presence of the
naval fleet in the Pacific.
The bill modifying the leasing terms so as to permit prospecting
upon claims is now ready for submission to congress, he said, and
its passage seems assured. The public favors the release of the coal
fields for development, he said.
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 19 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The conference of
steel workers adjourned last night,
after making announcement that the
plans were effective for a strike to
take place next Monday.
Out of deference to President Wil
son the committee voted on the post
ponement of the strike, but the mo
tion was defeated.
The committee sent a letter to the
President giving eleven reasons why
the strike could not now be postponed.
Delay, it was stated, would mean the
surrender of the workers’ hopes.
Preparing for Strike
The iron and steel mill employes in
all parts of the country, who are now
working under union agreements, are
preparing to go on strike Monday.
William Z. Foster, secretary-treasurer
of the national committee, is direct
ing the strikers’ headquarters.
Open Shop the Issue
NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (by Associ
ated Press).—One hundred of the lead
ing steel producers of the country, as
sembled here, have adopted a resolu
] tion approving the stand of President
| Gary of the United States Steel Cor
poration in refusing to waive the prin
| ciple of the open shop in the plants
i of the Steel Corporation.
For “Open Shop”
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Sept. 19 (by
Associated Press).—The big indepen
! dent steel companies here have issued
a statement announcing that they in
tend to maintain the “open shop” prin
ciple, and calling upon their employes
to remain loyal and to continue at
work next Monday, when the strike is
called.
Sailors Will Strike in Sympathy
DETROIT, Sept. 19 (by Associated
Press).—The Sailors’ Union here has
voted to strike in sympathy with the
steel workers, and to tie up more than
one hundred ore vessels of the Pitts
burgh Steel Company.
Enormous Army of Strikers
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 19 (by As
sociated Press).—Forty-two thousand
steel workers in the Cleveland district
will go out on strike Monday.
CASE AGAINST KAISER
AWAITS EXTRADITION
AND NAMING OF COURT
LONDON, Sept. 19 (by Associated
Press).—Attorney General Sir George
Stewart has completed the case for the
prosecution against the former Ger
man kaiser. The place of trial has not
yet been selected.
ITALIAN SAILING SHIP
MEETS WITH DISASTER
PENSACOLA, Fla., Sept. 19 (by As
sociated Press).—The City of Biloxi,
an Italian barkentine, blew up today
twenty miles off the Mobile bar. It is
believed that four members of her
crew were killed.
The captain and twenty men took
to the boats and were rescued.
OPPOSITION TO PEACE TREATY
IS READY FOR COING BATTLE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (By Asso
dated Press).—The Republican lead
ers are ready for the first voting test
next week on the treaty of peace and
League of Nations covenant.
Senator Johnson of California has
been asked to return to the capital
immediately, as his amendment equal
izing the voting power of the United
States and Great Britain will be the
first of the numerous amendments to
come up for consideration.
Will Abandon Trip to Coast
LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 19 (by Asso
dated Press).—Senator Johnson said
last night that he would probably
abandon his proposed Pacifiic coast
speaking tour for the present, in or
der to return to Washington at once
He will speak before the Minnesota
legislature at St. Paul today, and at
Minneapolis on Saturday night.
Hiram's Pitiless Logic
ST. PAUL, Sept. 19 (by Associated
Press).—Senator Hiram Johnson of
California addressed the state legis
lature here today in opposition to the
League of Nations.
If action on the League of Nations
covenant were delayed sixty days, he
said, the people would speak in posi
tive terms and insist upon its defeat
in order to protect the country’s inter
ests.
Public sentiment was against the
league, said the speaker, and it was
growing daily and rapidly assuming
the proportions of a revolution.
Pitiless logic was gradually dispel
ling the halo around the so-called
league, said the senator, and he stated
that President Wilson had abandoned
his “fourteen points.”
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| ACCEPTANCE OF PEACE TREATY
IS URGED BY PRESIDENT WILSON
AS GOOD BUSINESS PROPOSITION
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19 (by As
sociated Press).—Speaking before
fifteen hundred business men of the
city’s commercial organizations at a
luncheon here yesterday. President
Wilson urged the acceptance of the
peace treaty as a good business prop
osition.
Before his departure the President
received a petition from the Chinese
National Welfare Society, represent
ing ten thousand Chinese in the Unit
ed States, asking the President to use
SEATTLE, Sept. 19 (by Associated
Press).—A robber boarded a Great
Northern train at 8 o’clock this morn
i ing, bound and gagged Mail Clerk
S Harry Mero, and escaped with several '
! registered mail packages, one of which
contained $25,000. It is not known how
much the other packages contained.
The robbery was discovered at
Kanasket, when station employes
broke down the door to enter the mail
car.
Mero said the robber was well
armed and masked, and was hidden
in a locker of the car.
GRIGSBY A PASSENGER
FOR NORTHLAND ON
STEAMSHIP ALASKA
SEATTLE. Sept. 19 (by Associated
Press).—The steamship Alaska sailed
for Northern ports at 9 oclock this
morning, carrying eighty-one passen
gers.
George Grigsby, delegate in con
gress from Alaska, is a passenger for
Juneau. The Cordova passengers are:
Dr. L. W. Wolff, F. B. Gillespie,
Miss Mable Douglas, Mrs. Norting
ham, Miss E. M. Loggins, S. Ido, A.
Hagan, James McGavook, F. Strimple,
T. O. Tarrell, Dr. J. H. Condit Mrs.
Edith Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. M.
Brock, W. L. Furs man, T. W. Dono
hoe, R. F. Snyder. Miss B. Armstrong,
L. J. Russell, G. Barleigh, C. A. Reed,
L. F. Laucher, E. R. Uderl, H. New
ton, Mrs. J. H. Stafford, H. T. Edeler,
S. L. Whitfield, Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Russel and child, Mrs. John Pegues
and two children, and M. Wiley.
JAPANESE AMBASSADOR
TO UNITED STATES
TOKIO, Sept. 19 (by Associated
Press).—Kijuro Shidehara, former
Japanese foreign minister, has been
appointed ambassador to the United
States.
FISH QUOTATIONS
SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 19.—Seat
tle prices for fish at noon today were:
Halibut, 14c; small halibut, 8%c;
ling and red cod, 4c.
MEMBER OF CONGRESS
EXPIRES ON TRAIN
MARTINSBURG, W. Va., Sept. 19
(by Associated Press).—Congressman
J. B. Thompson of Oklahoma died of
heart trouble on a train approaching
this city.
his influence to readjust the Shantung
award.
Addresses University Students
BERKELEY, Cal., Sept. 19 (by As
sociated Press).—President Wilson,
addressing the faculty and students of
the University of California here yes
terday, said he did not object to the
treaty of peace being debated, but
that he did object to the manner in
which it had been attacked by some
of its opponents.
People Have Been Misled
OAKLAND, Cal., Sept. 19 (by Asso
ciated Press).—“The people have been
singularly, and 1 fear deliberately,
misled as to the contents of the peace
treaty,” President Wilson told an au
dience of thirteen thousand at the
Auditorium here last night.
For the first time a woman intro
duced the President. She was Mrs.
Amelia Reinhardt, president of Mills
College.
Great Audience Expected
SAN DIEGO. Cal., Sept. 19 (by As
sociated Press).—It is expected that
forty thousand persons will hear Presi
dent Wilson when he speaks here in
the Stadium, probably the greatest
audience addressed during his tour.
Mechanical devices have been set
up to carry the voice of the President
to the farthest limits of the Stadium.
He will speak from a specially-built
glass inclosure in the center of the
field.
POLES DRIVE
BOLSHEVIKI
NORTHWARD
LONDON, Sept. 19 (by Associated
Press).—The Poles in Russia have
driven the Bolsheviki to the northern
bank of the Dvina as far as Disna. and
are reported to have made an advance
| northward of one hundred miles since
! September 16.
On the Ukrainian front the Bolshe
viki have forced Petlura from Rad
omiel, but have not yet attempted to
recapture Kiev.
Russian Capital Besieged
HELSINGFORS. Sept. 19 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A Petrograd news
paper says that Moscow is in a state
of siege as the result of operations
between the Cossacks and the Reds.
Loyal Legion
Meets Welcome
In Sound City
SEATTLE, Sept. 19 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Five thousand
enthusiastic people heard Col.
Roosevelt speak here last night
in support of the American Le
gion.
The colonel said the legion in
tends to assist in crushing the
Bolsheviki, and intends to crys
tallize for the future all the pa
triotic impulses generated by
the war. and to urge the depor
tation of slackers.
Cheers frequently interrupted
the speech.