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VOL. V. NO. 16 CORDOVA, ALASKA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1919_ PRICE TEN CENTS
ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE IRISH VICEROY
' TERMINATION OF COAL STRIKE
WAS VICTORY FOR GOVERNMENT,
DECLARES ATTORNEY GENERAL
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Testifying before a
committee of the senate today, Attor
ney General Palmer said the termina
tion of the coal strike was a victory
for the government. He said the
miners made no settlement, but sim
ply complied with the government’s
terms and returned to work.
1 Mr. Palmer said that the miners
obeyed orders, but that the injunc
tion was not successful in getting the
men to return to work. He said the
injunction was intended to separate
the strikers from their leaders and
funds.
The officials of the United Mine
Workers, said Mr. Palmer, wanted an
’* increase of 31 per cent in wages, but
the government stuck to the 14 per
cent increase offered.
To Be Named on Wage Commission
John P. White, former president of
the United Mine Workers, and Rem
brant Peale, an independent operator
of Pennsylvania, will be named on
the presidential commission to inves
tigate coal prices and wages.
Convention to Hear Details
Secretary Green of the United
Mine Workers announced today that
a general convention of the Mine
Workers would be held at Columbus,
Ohio, during the week of January 5.
to hear the details of the agreement
which resulted in the termination of
the strike.
Production Increasing
The production of soft coal on Dec.
1G had reached 7!) per cent of normal.
ELLENSBURG, Wash., Dec. 18 (by
Associated Press).—The Cle Elum and
Roslyn coal strikers refuse to believe
that the strike is over, and decline to
return to work.
CLAIMS PROSECUTION
IS SOLDIERS’ FRAME-UP
NEW YORK, Dec. 19 (by Associ
ated Press).—It is expected that the
government will rest its case in the
,-4-ourt-martial of Captain Detzer,
charged with cruel treatment of mili
tary prisoners, today. The defense
will allege that Captain Detzer is the
victim of a “frame-up” on the part of
’* a group of soldiers.
WILL TRY TO
CURTAIL COST
OF CLOTHING
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (by Asso
ciated Press).—-The department of
justice has called a meeting
of clothiers to convene here in
January to discuss steps to check the
rising cost of clothing. It is hoped
to effect economy in the operation of
woolen mills, and a plan will be pro
posed to provide for the production of
a standard quality of cloth for gar
ments to be sold at a reasonable
price, as an inducement to the public
to check extravagance.
Assistant Attorney General Figg
says that some of the clothing manu
facturers believe that men’s suits now
selling for $55 can be sold for $25 at
a profit if the mills, the jobbers, the
manufacturers and the public can
agree upon a -standard quality of
goods.
It is not intended to sell uniforms,
but goods standard in quality instead
of in pattern.
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES
RE-ELECTS PRESIDENT
PARIS, Dec. 19 (by Associated
Press).—Paul Deschanel was yester
1 day re-elected president of the cham
ber of deputies without opposition.
PREMIER BORDEN TO
TA LONG VACATION
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OTTAWA, Dec. 19 (by Associated
Press).—It is announced that Sir Ar
thur Borden will retain the position of
premier, but that he will take a long
rest.
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ANTI-JAP AGITATION
IN CHINA ON INCREASE
TOKIO, Dec. 19 (by Associated
Press).—The spread of the anti-Jap
I anese agitation in China was dis
| cussed at a cabinet meeting yester
! day, and it was decided to send a
| protest.
It is reported that men, women and
children are being molested.
“REDS" FROM
COAST REACH
ELLIS ISLAND
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 1!) (by Asso
ciated Press).—Twenty-seven of the
“wobblies” recently found guilty of
violating the espionage act were yes
terday sentenced to serve terms in
the federal penitentiary at Leaven
worth, Kan., ranging from three and
one-half to nine and one-half years.
RAILROADS MAY NOT BE
RETURNED TO OWNERS
ON FIRST OF JANUARY
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (by Asso
ciated Press).^-It is unofficially ru
mored that President Wilson has de
termined to postpone the return of
the railroads to their owners until
after the first of the year. Originally
it was planned to return the roads
on January 1.
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GOVERNOR OF ALSACE
TO SUCCEED CLEMENCEAU
PARIS, Dec. 19 (by Associated
Press).—The Echo de Paris says that
Alexandre Millerand, former minister
of war, and present governor of Al
sace, will succeed Clemenceau as pre
mier.
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OPERA COMPANY DEAD
CHICAGO, Dec. 19 (by Associated
Press).—Cleonfonte Camanini, direc
tor general of the Chicago Grand Op
era Company, died here today of pneu
monia.
NO HOPE FOR ENACTMENT OF
OIL LAND LEASING BILL THIS YEAR
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (by Associated Press).—Action has been
postponed on the coal, oil and phosphate land leasing bill until next
month, it was announced today.
The bill was expected to be agreed to before the adjournment
of congress for the Christmas holidays. It has been in conference for
several weeks.
VISCOUNT FRENCH IS OBJECT
OF FIERCE ATTACK IN DUBLIN
HAND GRENADES AND GUNS USED
DUBLIN, Dec. It) (by Associated
Press).—A shot was fired at Viscount
French, lord lieutenant of Ireland, to
d.ay, as he was driving between Phoe
nix park and the vice-regal lodge.
• A civilian was killed by the Shot
and a policeman was wounded.. The
lord lieutenant was unhurt.
It is reported that Lord French’s
assailants fired several shots, and
that soldiers returned their fire. One
of the assailants was killed. Ambu
lances were rushed to the spot the
assailants fired from, and field tanks
were dispatched to the scene.
Serious Upheaval Prevails
The would-be assassin who was
killed carried a bomb and two re
volvers.
The attempt on the life of Field
Marshal French comes in the midst of
the most serious and threatening up
heaval experienced in Ireland in
many years. The Sinn Feiners have
been increasing rapidly in numbers
during the past year.
A Determined Attempt
LONDON. Dec. 19 (by Associated
Press).—It is learned that four hand
grenades were thrown at Lord French.
WOMAN LOST
FROM DECK OF
COAST VESSEL
SEATTLE, Dec. 19 (by Associated
Press).—Mrs. Helen Louise Ferrera,
a well-known guitar player and vaude
ville artist, is believed to have been
swept from the deck of, the steamship
President off the California coast last
Friday during a gale. The body has
not been recovered.
Mrs. Ferrera played for phonograph
records as Helen Louise. She was
the daughter of Albert Greenus of Se
attle.
PORTLAND FIRM
BUYS BIG BATCH
OF EQUIPMENT
PORTLAND, Dec. 19 (by Associ
ated Press).—M. Bearde & Sons, a
wholesale machinery firm, have
bought at public auction at Philadel
phia all the steel plates, anchors, bars,
chains and other equipment left over
from the steel shipbuilding campaign
throughout the country. The price
paid was somewhere between eleven
and twenty-one million dollars.
UKRAINIAN GENERAL
HAS FLED TO POLAND
LONDON, Dec. 19 (by Associated
Press). — General Petluras, the
Ukrainian commander, has fled into
Poland, according to a Moscow wire
less message. The greater part of
his troops has been dispersed.
CHINESE COOLIES
ARE RETURNING HOME
VICTORIA, B. C„ Dec. 19 (by Asso
ciated Press). — Fifteen hundred
Chinese coolies from the west front
left for home today on board the
steamship Empress of Japan.
PRISON TERMS
AREMETEDOUT
TO “WOBBLIES”
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SEATTLE. Dec. 19 (by Associated
Press).—Leo C. Martin, a Russian,
believed to be an emissary of the
Bolshevik government, and Albert
Emil Heitmiller, a German who con
fessed to participating in I. W. W.
plans for the overthrow of the gov
ernment, two of the seven Seattle rad
icals sent to New York for deporta
tion, arrived at Ellis island yesterday.
Other Pacific coast “reds” wrere in the
party.
RESTAURANTS
OF GAY BERLIN
ARE CLOSED
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BERLIN, Dec. 19 (by Associated
Press).—Every restaurant, cafe and
bar, and even the kosher kitchens,
have been closed in retaliation against
the new regulations imposed by the
food ministry, for the suppression of
illicit trading in foodstuffs.
The new regulations are denounced
as more drastic than any law of the
old regime. Hospitals are the only
public places where food is served.
SNOWSTORMS RAGING
• ON ATLANTIC COAST
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (by Asso
dated Press).—Snowstorms are in
progress in the Middle Atlantic states,
in Ohio, and in the upper Mississippi ^
valley. Temperatures have moder
ated. .
SEATTLE BALL TEAM
TO TRAIN IN SOUTH
SEATTLE, Dec. 19 (by Associated
Press).—The Seattle team of the Pa- <
eifle Coast Baseball League will train s
at Hanford, Cal., next spring.
SENATE REFUSES TO CUT OUT
ANTI-STRIKE PROVISION OF
CUMMINS RAILROAD MEASURE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1ft (by Asso
ciated Press).—By a vote of 46 to 25,
the senate yesterday refused to strike
out the labor provision, including the
anti-strike section, of the Cum mins
railroad bill.
Senator McCormick of Illinois of
fered as a substitute for the anti-1
strike section the Canadian plan of
prohibiting strikes for sixty days after
a decision by the arbitration board,
and requiring decisions from the
board within ninety days. The amend
ment was rejected on a tie vote.
Censure for Housing Corporation
The subcommittee of the senate
committee on military affairs has sub
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mitted a report in which the housing
corporation, organized by the war de
partment during the war, is charged
with inefficiency, carelessness and
disregard of the provisions of the act
under which it was created.
Urgent Deficiency Bill
The house yesterday passed the
first urgent deficiency appropriation
bill of the session, carrying more than
three million dollars, to meet the re
quirements of the employes’ compen
sation commission for the care of war
risk insurance patients. Two million
dollars of the six millions asked is
granted to the public health service.
CUBAN VESSEL
TURNS TURTLE
AND IS LOST
NORFOLK, Va„ Dec. 19 (by Asso
ciated Press).—It is believed that the
crew of five Chinese, together with
fifteen stowaways, were lost when the
Cuban schooner Sunbeam turned tur
tle off the Virginia capes yesterday.
The cutter Manning brought the
captain and two of the crew to Nor
folk.
MANY VICTIMS
OF BOLSHEVIKI
SUFFER DEATH
HELSINGFORS, Dec. 19 (by Asso
ciated Press).—It is reported that an
inti-Bolsheviki plot has been discov
ered in Petrograd. Five hundred per
sons have been arrested, including
French and English. Three hundred
ind fifty have been executed.
LODGE WILL PRESIDE AT
NATIONAL CONVENTION
OF REPUBLICANS IN JUNE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 Gay Associ
ited Press).—Tentative plans have
aeen made to have Senator Lodge of
Massachusetts act as temporary and
jermanent chairman of the Repub
ican national convention next July.
WILSON WANTS FUNDS
TO DEFRAY EXPENSES OF
INDUSTRIAL MEETING
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (by Asso
rted Press).—President Wilson has
isked congress to appropriate $25,000
o defray the expenses of the second
ndustrial conference, now in session.
BRITISH COLUMBIA’S
NEW LIEUT. GOVERNOR
VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 19 (by Asso
rted Press).—Colonel Pryor was
worn in as lieutenant governor of
Iritish Columbia today.
! WANTS ARMY
DEMOBILIZED
IMMEDIATELY
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1!) (by Asso
ciated Press).—Representative Rich
ard Olney of Massachusetts called at
the White House today and urged
President Wilson to proclaim demo
bilization of the army immediately, in
order to lift the war time prohibition.
Former Senator James Hamilton
Lewis says he intends asking the
same thing*of the President.
JAPANESENOT
NEGOTIATING
WITH MEXICO
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Dr. Shidtra, Japanese
ambassador, has informed the state
department that his country has not
entered into negotiations with Mexico
looking toward the acquisition of spe
cial privileges or territory in Mexico.
HEAVY VOTE BEING
CAST IN WISCONSIN
MILWAUKEE. Dec. 19 (by Associ
ated Press).—The early vote In the
Berger-Bodenstab election is the heav
iest in the history of the district. The
votes cast averaged one per minute
in some precincts.
JUDGE WILSON WILL
TRY “WOBBLY” CASES
TACOMA, Dec. 19 (by Associated
Press).—Governor Hart has appointed
Judge John Wilson of Thurston and
Mason counties to preside at the trial
of the “wobblies” charged with the
Armistice day murders at Centralia.
TWO AMERICANS ARE
IN JAIL IN SINALOA
NOGALES, Ariz., Dec. 19 (by Asso
ciated Press).—H. V. Leonard and H.
O. Martin, members of the crew of the
American, submarine tender Pocko
moke, have been in jail at Mazatlan.
Sinaloa, since November 12. according
to Americans arriving at the border.