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VOL. IV. NO. 189 CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1919_PRICE TEN CENTS
BULGARIAN PEACE DELEGATES ARE DUE IN PARIS THIS MONTH
| FRANCE PROPOSES HEROIC MEANS
I TO PUT END TO FOOD PROFITEERING |
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jjjj The bill provides imprisonment for from two months ijij
jiji to two years and a fine of from 5,000 to 50,000 francs for ijij
ijij anyone convicted of speculation in food, drinks, heat or jjjj
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jjjj Proprietors of restaurants and others engaged in ijij
jiji selling food are compelled to post prices. ijij
PARIS, July 17 (by Associated Press).—The Bulgarian
peace delegation will arrive here on July 25. The delegation in
cludes thirty-five members, with General Theodoreoff, foreign
minister, as president.
The allied council has asked Greece and Italy to agree upon
a line in Asia Minor from which the armies of both countries
shall be withdrawn.
The council has agreed to insert a clause in the Austrian
treaty giving Italy the right within five years to have,the Aus
trians build railways to Italian seaports through Resehen and
Predie passes, the profits of the traffic carried to go to Italy.
The Austrian peace delegation has requested the supreme
allied council to resume the revictualling of Austria, which was
interrupted July 7, and to continue it during August and Sep
tember.
Cabinet Minister Denies Rumor
LONDON, July 17 (by Associated Press).—Chancellor A.
Bonar Law, in the house of commons last night, denied a report
to the effect that Great Britain and the United States had en
tered into an agreement relative to their respective military
establishments.
Germans Dickering with Bolshevists
LONDON, July 17 (by Associated Press).—Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs Harmsworth told the house of com
mons last night that Germany is believed to be trying to estab
fish trade relations with soviet Russia, and that a German mis
sion already had visited Russia, or was about to do so.
ALL COUNTRIES
LOOK TO 11. S.
FOR FINANCES
NEW YORK, July 17 (by Associated
Press).—Negotiations for a loan of
from thirty to forty millions of dollars
to Switzerland, through the sale of
bonds in the United States, are nearly
completed.
Denrv ^rk is to get a credit of $130,
000,00f | soon, in order to finance the
purch Je of goods in the United
States.
Officials of the Deutsche Bank of
Berlin also have begun negotiations
with New York banks for the establish
ment of credits of from thirty to fifty
millions of dollars here for the benefit
of German interests.
ROME, July 17 (by Associated
Press).—The Popolo Romano in its
issue of today urges a policy of close
understanding between the govern
ments of Italy and the United States,
^ in order to obtain large credits in
the United States, American loans and
the investment of American capital in
Italian industries.
ALL BOSTON IS
COMPELLED TO
WALK TODAY
BOSTON, July 17 (by Associated
Press).—A strike of eight thousand
employes of the Boston elevated rail
way system has tied up the street
car, subway and elevated service here
and in twelve adjacent cities and
towns.
The strikers demand an eight-hour
day and 73(£ cents an hour.
WOUNDED 63 TIMES
BUT STILL ON DECK
NEW YORK, July 17 (by Associated
Press).—Sergeant John White of the
Twenty-eighth infantry, First division,
who was wounded sixty-three times,
today led a detachment of convales
cent soldiers from six army hospitals
on a campaign of pleasure, which in
cluded a luncheon at the Yale Club
and a baseball game.
REPUBLICAN SENATORS CONFER
WITH PRESIDENT ON TREATY -
SHERMAN TAKES SLAP AT JAPS
WASHINGTON, July 17 (by Associated Press).—Presi
dent Wilson began his series of conferences with Republican
senators on the treaty of peace and League of Nations covenant
today, Senator McCumber of North Dakota being the first to
call. Senator McCumber is a supporter of the league.
Senator Colt, Republican, of Rhode Island, was the first
o make a declaration in the senate regarding his position on
the League of Nations. He said he supported the principles of
the covenant, but withheld his judgment regarding certain res
ervations. He believed, he said, that the Monroe doctrine
should be clearly safeguarded, and that domestic questions
should be left to national action.
After conferring with President- Wilson today, Senator
Colt intimated that the President might make an open state-,
mont regarding Shantung.
Intemperate Language of Sherman
Senator Sherman of Illinois told the senate that the Shan
tung settlement crowned the League of Nations covenant as the
most superlative act of modern treachery. He said it would aid
Japan at the proper time, when she might try for world empire,
and endangered the future safety of the Philippines.
Sherman said the Japanese emperor commanded the army
and navy, made war and peace, arm negotiated treaties. His
government would, he said, add Chinese province upon prov
ince to his dominions, until the Asiatic kaiser dominated the af
fairs of Asia and the Pacific ocean.
In every instance where Japan had pledged herself to tem
porary occupancy in Asia, said Sherman, she had made that
occupancy permanent, and the harshness of Japanese occupa
tion reminded one of Germany’s conduct.
Senate Adopts Borah Resolution
The senate today adopted Senator Borah’s resolution ask
ing the President to send to the senate a copy of the protest
made by members of the American peace delegation against the
Shantung settlement.
Evasive Remarks by Jones
SEATTLE, July 17 (by Associated Press).—Senator Jones
of this state, defining his position on the League of Nations
covenant in a newspaper interview published today, said the
compact was wonderfully made. He did not fear, he said, the
dangers that many had foreseen, nor did he expect the good
others bad promised. He believed the President should state
his position on the Monroe doctrine, and also on the provision
that any nation can withdraw from the league without reserva
tion after two years.
Senator Jones suggested that the American representa
tives on the council of the League of Nations should be chosen
at popular elections.
Senator Jones also said that before the American repre
sentatives in the league council consent to a proposition in
volving war they should submit it to a declaration of congress.
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SPAIN IS URGED TO
JOIN LEAGUE OF NATIONS
.
MADRID, July 17 (by Associated
Press),—Foreign Minister Hontoria
told the senate today that Spain must
join the League of Nations, and that
her foreign policy must tend toward
the allied powers.
strikeofseameF
BECOMING SERIOUS
NEW YORK, July 17 (by Associated
Press).—An embargo on freight re
ceipts is threatened here, due to the
congestion at the docks by reason of
the strike of the firemen, oilers and
seamen on ocean-going vessels, which
is spreading.
FISH QUOTATIONS
SEATTLE, July 17.—Prices for fish
at noon today were: Halibut, ll%c;
sablefish, 5c; ling and red cod, 4c.
GENERAL PERSHING IS
DUE HOME IN AUGUST
WASHINGTON, July 17 (by Associ
ated Press).—Congressman Caldwell
of New York today informed the com
mittee on rules of the house that Gen.
Pershing would return to the United
States in August.
CABLE CENSORSHIP
SOON TO BE ABOLISHED
LONDON, July 17 (by Associated
Press).—The British cable censorship
will be abolished on July 23.
KOREANSCONVICTED OF
REVOLUTIONARY ACTS
SEOUL, Korea, July 17 (by Associ
ated Press).—The number of Koreans
arrested in connection with the revo
lutionary uprising has reached 13,981,
of whom 3,967 have been convicted.
| UNITED STATES SENATOR JONES
| LEARNS SOMETHING ABOUT ALASKA I
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Si *n Alaska with the executive committee of the Alaska Si
Si bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. The need Si
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| lector of customs for Alaska, also spoke. He ascribed the |
•i;i lack of development in Alaska to the conservation laws ijij
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HUNGARIAN SOVIET ARMY NOW
DESERTING - PLAN OVERTHROW
__ NT OF AUSTRIA
BUDAPEST, July 17 (by Associated Press).—Officers of
the Hungarian soviet army are deserting, the armed forces are
disintegrating, and almost the entire personnel of the air corps
has deserted from the army.
Bela Kun, the premier, has broken with most of the Social
ist leaders, and says he is “tired of riding Socialist and Com
munist horses at the same time.”
For Overthrow of Austrian Government
PARIS, July 17 (by Associated Press).—A Vienna dispatch
to Le Temps says the Communists there are preparing to repeat
on July 21 their previous efforts to overthrow the government.
Bavarian Bolshevists Go to Prison
MUNICH, July 17 (by Associated Press).—Erich Toller,
the last of the Bavarian soviet officials to be tried on charges
resulting from recent political disorders, has been sentenced
o five years ’ confinement in a fortress.
Pomeranians Tainted with Bolshevism
BERLIN, July 17 (by Associated Press).—Martial law has
been proclaimed in Pomerania and the workmen have been pro
hibited from striking. The workmen are aroused and insist
upon recognition of the workmen’s councils.
British Repulse Bolshevik Attack
LONDON, July 17 (by Associated Press).—Five hundred
Bolsheviki were defeated in an attack on the British garrison
at Tivdiya, on the Murmansk front, on July 14, with heavy
losses to the enemy. The British found twenty-six dead. There
were no British casualties.
OF GUARD IS
BAKER’S PLAN
WASHINGTON, July 17 (by Associ
ated Press).—Secretary of War Baker
has approved the plan of reorganiza
tion of the National Guard, under
which sixteen divisions would be con
stituted. The states of Washington,
Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, North Da
kota, South Dakota and Montana would
be included in the Sixteenth division.
RAYNHAM AIRPLANE IS
SMASHED IN WRECK
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ST. JOHNS, N. F., July 17 (by As
sociated Press).—Raynham failed
again today to start on his trans
Atlantic flight, when his machine rose
thirty feet and then crashed to the
ground, completely wrecked. No one
was injured.
JACK DEMPSEY
IS TO BECOME
MOVIE ACTOR
LOS ANGELES, July 17 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Jack Dempsey, winner
of the heavyweight pugilistic cham
pionship by the defeat of Jess Willard
on July 4, is here today, and will be
the guest of honor at a luncheon. He
is gonig to Salt Lake to see his mother
and will then return here for movie
work.
RUSH “OF^BUSTnESS
FOR GERMAN PORTS
NEW YORK, July 17 (by Associated
Press).—A flood of business to the
steamship companies running vessels
to German ports has followed the re
sumption of trade relations with Ger
many and the restoration of the mail
service.