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VOL. 5, NO. 212 _V_CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUG. 9, 1920 PRICE TEN CENTS
SOVIET CAVALRY MOVEMENT
CIRCLES POLISH FRONT AND
„ WARSAW DEFENSES CRUMBLE
„ (By Associated Press)
Bolslieviki attacks apparently liave broken tlie Polish
lines near the East Prussian frontier. Soviet cavalry patrols
have swept forward in a great encircling movement north of
Warsaw in the center Polish front and seem to have torn a
great gap in the Warsaw defenses. Polsli lines to the south are
also reported to have been forced back.
HYTHE, Aug. 9 (by Associated
Press).—The Bolsheviki government
has refused the proposition contained
in the British government’s last note
to conclude a ten days’ truce with
Poland.
Great Britain and France are eon
evinced the Bolsheviki intend to cap
ture Warsaw .and set up a Soviet gov
ernment in Poland, according to an
announcement today following a con
ference of the premiers of the two
countries.
The allies will give Poland military,
inaval and economic assistance, for
which plans are being drawn by Gen
eral Foch and Sir Henry Wilson.
It is reliably reported that a block
ade of Russia will be reimposed im
mediately. It is admitted the situa
tion has brought about a crisis second
gravity only to that of 1914.
The allied conference reached a
complete agreement on plans for deal
ing with the Russo-Polish crisis. The
plans include the reimposition of the
blockade against Russia, but on ad
vice of experts no allied troops will
be employed.
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LONDON, Aug. 9 (by Associated
Press).—Warsaw will be evacuated to
day, according to a Times dispatch
received yesterday from Berlin. The
government is to retire to Cracow'.
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MOSCOW, Aug. 9 (by Associated
Press).—A Moscow'' wireless says the
Polish government is leaving Warsaw'.
WARSAW, Aug. 9 by Associated
Press).—Premier Witesina told news
paper men yesterday that the govern
ment will remain at Warsaw indefinite
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Octrolenko, northeast of Warsaw',
has been captured by the Bolsheviki
after two days’ fighting. The Bolshe
viki are now' 70 kilometers north of
Warsaw.
BUDAPEST, Aug. 9 (by Associated
Press).—Preparations are being made
to resist the Bolsheviki invasion of
Hungary, Premier Telkey told the na
tional assembly today. “Hungary is
willing to fight for civilization sup
ported by France,” he said.
LONDON, Aug. 9 (by Associated
Press).—The Moscow government has
notified the British that arrangements
have been made for the Polish dele
gates to cross the Russian frontier
th*s evening, and armistice and peace
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negotiations are to begin at Hindi on
August 11.
The outer forts at Warsaw have
been under bombardment since Friday,
according to a wireless dispatch from
Berlin.
PARIS, Aug. 9 (by Associated
Press).'—The Polish general staff has
rejected the offer of General Weygand
of the French army to take supreme
command of the Polish forces if
granted full authority.
LONDON, Aug. 9 (by Associated
I Press).—Gen. Focli said Poland is
| still far from being beaten, according
; to an Exchange Telegraph Company
, interview at Hvthe. Providing ample
i forces and material are quickly organ
ized, Poland may yet be successfully
able to defend its frontiers, he said.
LONDON, Aug. 9 (by Associated
Press).—Bolsheviki military authori
ties have established Soviets in oc
cupied parts of East Galicia, an au
thoritative dispatch today says.
WARSAW, Aug. 9 (by Associated
Press).—The American legation has
removed its records from Warsaw and
a general exodus of the people con
tinues. The American Relief Associa
tion will remain in operation.
COX’S SPEECH
IS ASSAILED
BY HARDING
MARIAN, O., Aug. 9 (by Associated
Press).—Senator Harding’s headquar
ters assailed Cox’s acceptance speech
in a statement issued today, declaring
it a curious mixture of errors and mis
statements. Replying to the charge
that congress made no effort to reduce
war tax burdens, the statment declares
that by opposing Democratic appro
priation proposals, congress had saved
more than $2,000,000,000 in govern
ment expenditures.
WENATCHEE, Wash., Aug. 9 (by
Associated Press) —The river steamer
Douglas, en route to Portland, struck
a hidden rock in Priest rapids on the
Columbia river yesterday and sunk.
They crew escaped in a small boat.
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' Four-Year-Old Has Three Narrow
Escapes from Death and Is Given
Nickname of the ‘Dare-Devil Baby’
FRESNO, Cal., Aug. 9 (by Associated Press).—Lloyd Raulston,
four years old, has won the title of Fresno’s “Dare-Devil Baby’’ as the
result of three miraculous escapes from death during the last
\ month.
He recently drank coal oil, but suffered no ill effects. A week
later he jumped from a moving automobile and struck his head on
the pavement. He sustained only a slight laceration.
Two weeks later he had his narrowest escape when he was per
i forming as a clown on bed springs in a second story room for his play
mate, Regina Nestrom. He first turned some somersaults on the
springs, then remembering an act he had seen in the circus he began
to bounce high in the air and finally bounced out of the window to
the pavement in the alley.
When Regina ran, to his rescue, Lloyd was brushing the dirt from
his clothes. No bones were broken.
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AVIATOR MEETS DEATH
WHEN PLANE BURNS
TOPEKA, Kan., Aug. 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—U. F. Nadeau, a Kansas
City aviator, was burned to death yes
terday when his plane crashed down
50 feet at the landing field and burst
into flames. Nadeau was pinned under
the engine.
ARCHBISHOP MANNIX
ARRIVES IN ENGLAND
PENZANCE, Eng., Aug. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Archbishop Mannix
landed here today from a destroyer.
He stated that he intended to proceed
to London.
Cardinal Mannix refused to make
any statement.
HYDE PARK, N. Y., Aug. 9 (by As
sociated Press).—Franklin D. Roose
velt, accepting the Democratic nomin
ation for vice president today, joined
with Governor Cox in accepting the
challenge of the Republicans to make
the League of Nations one of the prin
cipal issue of the campaign.
“The Democratic party has offered
this nation a treaty of peace when
to make a real treaty must include a
League of Nations,” he said.
He declared that the two great prob
lems which will confront the next ad
ministration will be our relations with
the world and the pressing need or
organized progress at home.
Among the national needs, he said,
were extension of teaching to illiter
ates; strengthening of immigration
| laws to exclude those physically and
morally unfit; improvement of work
ing condition; extension of communi
cations to make rural life more at
tractive; further protection for women
and children in industry. He also
urged reorganization of governmental
machinery.
Homer Cummings, in the formal
notification speech, said Americanism
was suffering the staggering penalty
of Republican victorv in 1918.
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DAYTON GIVES
CANDIDATES
f BIG OVATION
DAYTON, O., Aug. 9 (by Associated
Press).—Senator Robinson of Arkan
sas delivered the address Saturday
notifying Governor James M. Cox of
his nomination for the presidency. He
hailed Cox as an “experienced and
progressive-minded leader,” with a
long record of accomplishments.
The notification ceremonies were
preceded by a parade with many thou
sands in line, headed by Cox and
Roosevelt. On reaching the review
ing stand, the candidates dropped out
of line and reviewed the marchers.
CANADIAN BANDITS
KILL TWO OFFICERS
FERNIE, B. C-, Aug. 9 (by Associat
[ ed Press).—Provincial Policeman
Usher, Policeman Bailey and an un
identified bandit were killed in a re
volver duel Saturday afternoon at Al
berta. The men engaged in battle
with the offers are believed to have
been the bandits who help up a Cana
dian Pacific train at Sentinel last Mon
day.
BLOODHOUNDS TAKE TRAIL
VANCOUVER, Aug. 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—Bloodhounds are scour
ing the Crows’ Nest pass district for
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traces of the bandits who fought a
revolver duel with police Saturday at
Bellevue, Alberta, in which two offi
cers and one bandit were killed. The
bandits are believed to be heading for
the American line.
CAMP LEWIS SOLDIERS
ORDERED TO HAWAII
SEATTLE, Aug. 9 (by Associated
Press).—The Thirty-fifth regiment at
Camp Lewis and the Forty-fourth at
Fort Lawton, Vancouver Barracks and
Presidio, have been ordered to Hawaii
|where a permanent station of the
army will be maintained. The orders
came from Washington Saturday.
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug 9 (by Asso-!
ciaterl Press).—Miss M. Evans, who
jumped from the fourth story of the
! Elton Court apartments when the
j building was on fire Saturday, died
; Saturday night from her injuries.
Miss Edith Bogue died at a hospital
late Saturday night of burns.
The list of fatalities in the Elton
Court apartment fire was increased to
four by the death Sunday of John
Jenny, who was burned while escap
ing from the structure.
TRANSPORT ARRIVES
WITH SOLDIER DEAD
NEW YORK, Aug. 9 (by Associated
Press).—The army transport Antigone
arrived from Danzier, Antwerp, Brest
and Bordeaux Saturday with 1,575 sol
dier dead in charge of 52 soldiers as
guards.
Approximately 45,000 bodies are to
be returned from France and England.
VILLA’S SURRENDER
TO COST PRETTY SUM
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 9 (by Associated
Press).—Villa’s surrender terms in
cludes a huge estate at Canutilla, Du
rango, where he will be guarded by
50 of his own followers, retained as
life guards and paid by the govern
ment. His “unconditional surrender”
will cost the government $2,000,000
in gold, it is announced here.
FOREST FIRES UNDER
CONTROL IN MONTANA
HELENA, Mont., Aug. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Conditions are improv
ing in the forest fire area, due to rains
in some sections. The fire in the
Blackfoot forest is reported to be
in hand.
DENVER STREET CAR STRIKERS
CONCEDE DEFEAT AND AGREE
TO GO BACK UNCONDITIONALLY
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TRANSCONTINENTAL
FLYERS REACH ’FRISCO
OAKLAND, Cal., Aug. 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—The two all-metal mono
planes which left New York July 29
to blaze a trail for a transcontinental
air mail service, landed here safely.
DELAYED AT RENO
RENO, Nev., Aug. 9 (by Associated
Ppess). An accident to the landing
gear delayed air mail flight from New
York to San Francisco at Dry Lake,
10 miles north of here.
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TENNESSEE TO
VOTE WOMAN
SUFFRAGE LAW
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 9 (by As
sociated Press).—Governor Roberts on,
Saturday issued a formal call for a'
special session of the Tennessee legis
lature to convene today for consider
ation of the woman’s suffrage amend
ment.
A poll of the legislature indicates re
jection of the suffrage amendment, ac
cording to Parley Christensen, Far
mer-Labor candidate for president,
who is in Nashville. Christensen has j
notified Cox and Harding, placing the;
responsibility on them.
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ENGLISH FLAN
GREAT OUTLAY
FOR VETERANS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—Great Britain is plan
ning to spend nearly $600,000,000 on
war veterans in the next year, accord
ing to a memorandum submitted to
parliament, copies of which have been
received here. More than $450,000,000
will be spent on war pensions, $33,
000,000 on out of work donation, train
ing and education, and an overseas set
tlement of nearly $107,000,000.
PARIS, Aug. 9 (by Associated
Pi’ess).—The peace treaty with Bul
garia was made formally effective to
day by an exchange of ratifications.
j DENVER, Aug. 9 (by Associated
[ Press).—The officials of the street car
company announced yesterday that
the system Avould be in full operation
1 today. The striking street car men
who called off the strike will be
treated as individuals and only such
men re-employed as were needed,
while the strikebreakers will not be
discharged.
The strikers at a mass meeting yes
terday declared they will not return
to work until tre traction company of
ficials meet the demand that they be
allowed to resume their duties in a
body and discharge the strikebreakers.
The company refuses to treat with the
union and cars are being run under
the protection of federal troops.
The executive committee of the
tramway workers decided today to in
form the company the men are willing
to return to work without restrictions,
abandoning the demand that they be
allowed to return in a body and the
strikebreakers be discharged.
The death toll in the rioting was
raised to seven today by the death of
L. A. Temmac, who was shot Thursday
night. A grand jury will probably be
called to investigate.
FIRE BREAKS OUT IN
ILLINOIS PENITENTIARY
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JOLIET. 111., Aug. 9 (by Associated
Press).—Fire is raging in the Illinois
penitentiary, with the convict firemen
and the Joliet department fighting the
blaze. There was no disorder when
the men marched from their cells.
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DESERTER RECEIVES
15-YEAR SENTENCE
WRIGHTSVILLE, N. J., Aug. 9 (by
Associated Press).—Edw. J. Ressler
of New York was convicted Saturday
of desertion from the army in war
time and sentenced to 15 years in
federal prison at hard labor. The con
viction is the first one by the special
court martial board.
WON’T PERMIT LAYING
OF BARBADOES CABLE
MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 9 (by Associated
Press).—The British embassay at
Washington has refused to permit the
British cable ship Colonia to begin
laying the cable outside the three-mile
limit on the proposed cable from
Miami to Barbadoes. The vessel has
aboard 1,600 miles of cable valued at
$5,000,000.
Early Morning Calisthenics on
Seashore Sands in California
Cause Birds to Gaze at Bather
SANTA MONICA, Cal., Aug. 9 (by Associated Press).—The stare
of a group of palicans which gather every morning on the beach to
watch H. L. Wright of Denver, Colo., go through his daily calisthenic
exercises has caused the Denver visitor to apply to the police for
permission to carry firearms as a means of teaching the sea birds
politeness. He declared that no matter what section of the beach
he chooses for his exercises, the gulls and pelicans congregate in a
semi-circle and stare him out of countenance.
“I go down early in the morning so that I can exercise before
bathers begin to come,” he told the police, “but as soon as I begin
my calisthenics all the sea gulls of the Pacific, it seems to me, float
down, settle on the sand and watch me from a safe distance.
“Some of them screech at me and one old pelican gazes at me in
fascinated silence. I came here to get well, but that pelican is making
a nervous wreck of me.”
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