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VOL. 5, NO. 203_CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1920 PRICE TEN CENTS
ALL IS NOT HARMONY IN THE RANKS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
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MEXICAN ARCH BANDIT GIVES
^ HIMSELF UP BECAUSE OF NEED
FOR PEACE IN HIS COUNTRY
EAGLE PASS, Tex., July 29 (by
^isociated Press).—Francisco Villa
has surrendered unconditionally after
an all night conference with General
Eugenio Martinez, commanding the
Torreon zone, according to advices re
ceived by the Mexican consul here.
There is much rejoicing throughout
Mexico over the surrender, and a cel
ebration is being arranged.
Carl Haeglin, an American held by
Villa for ransom, was released.
SURRENDER CONFIRMED
WASHINGTON, July 29 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Official confirmation
of Villa’s surrender was received today
at the state department from the
American consul at Piedras Negras.
COUNTRY NEEDS PEACE
MEXICO CITY, July 29 (by Associ
ated Press).—“I am surrendering un
conditionally because the country
needs peace,” said Villa to General
Martinez. Villa will make his resi
dence at Nieves Zacatas after disban
doning his troops at Torreon. His
men will march from Sabinas to Tor
reon, and each soldier with him will
receive a year’s pay to start life anew.
INVASION IS THREATENED
MEXICALI, July 29 (by Associated
Press).—Governor Cantu of Lower
California has issued a statement as
suring Americans and other foreign
ers protection in the event the re
ported invasion of this part of Mexico
by Mexican federal troops takes place.
The recruiting of an army of 4,000
men by Governor Cantu to resist “by
force of arms an invasion by Obregon
and de la Huerta is continuing today.
It is expected that federal troops will
land at Ensenada within a week and
nia?*%an attack there, and also attack
from some Colorado river point in a
%?w days. The governor’s troops will
be amply equipped, according to of
ficials here.
Governor Cantu is awaiting a reply
to the message to President de la
Huerta protesting against the inva
sion.
Governor Cantu announced the re
ceipt of telegrams from all parts of
Lower California pledging support in
resisting occupation by the federals.
Drilling has begun, and aerial bombs
are being manufactured by the hun
dreds.
HELP PREVENT CONFLICT
CALEXICO, Cal., July 29 (by Asso
ciated Press).—United States Consul
Bqyle announced today that he had
%?legraphed the state department urg
ing that the United States offer its
gopd services in an effort to prevent
hostilities between federal troops and
the forces of Governor Cantu of Lower
California, which might result in an
invasion of the southern part of Cali
fornia.
AMERICANS WIN TRAP
EVENTS AT ANTWERP
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ANTWERP, July 29 (by Associated
Press).—The American trap shooters
made a clean sweep of the trap events.
Nqrway led the running match, with
America third. The American polo
team outclassed the Belgians.
FISH QUOTATIONS
^ KETCHIKAN, July 29— (Special to
the Daily Times)—Halibut—Firsts,
4 Sc; seconds, 5c.
NEW TRIALS DENIED TO
PROMINENT MEMBERS OF
NON-PARTISAN LEAGUE
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FAIRMONT, Minn., July 29 (by As
sociated Press).—A. C. Townley, pres
ident of the Non-Partisan League, and
Joseph Gilbert, former league organ
izer, were denied new trials on
charges of conspiracy to enoourage
disloyalty during the war. They are
under 90-day jail sentence, having
been convicted a year ago on charges
growing out of speeches made in Jack
son.
GREAT BRITAIN
AND FRANCE IN
OIL AGREEMENT
WASHINGTON, July 29 (by Asso
ciated Press).—France and Great Bri
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tain have concluded an agreement on
oil supplies designed to secure inter
national co-operation and eliminate
competition which might cause fric
tion between them, according to au
thoritative information received here.
The provisions of the agreement are
understood to extend to all countries
where the interests of the two nations
might be united or might conflict.
GENERAL STRIKE IS
DECLARED IN CHILE
BUENOS AIRES, July 29 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A revolutionary gen
eral strike has been declared in Puntas
Arenas, Chile. The strikers are re
ported to have entrenched themselves
in the labor federation headquarters,
which later was taken by an assault
of the police and soldiers, a number
of the strikers being killed.
AUTOMOBILE BANDITS
MAKE RAID ON BANK
JACKSON, Mich., July 29 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Three armed bandits
locked the cashier and assistant cash
ier of the Farmers’ State Bank at
Grass Lake in a cage today escaffed
in an automobile with $10,000.
NEW WORLD’S RECORD
FOR PACING HORSES
COLUMBUS, O., July 29 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Rifle Grenade, three
year-old pacing gelding, made a new
world’s record of 2:04% in the second
heat here yesterday, lowering his own
record by 1V2 seconds.
FORCE OF AR0RIGINES
IN REVOLT WITH JAPAN
TOKIO, July 29 (by Associated
Press).—A native revolt has broken
out in Formosa and advices say a
strong force of Aborigines has risen
against the Japanese, who are prepar
ing to put down the rebellion.
LOCK OFFICIALS IN
VAULT AND ROB BANK
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July
29 (by Associated Press).—The State;
Bank of Payton, seventeen miles east'
of here, was robbed yesterday of i
$8,000. The assistant cashier and a
customer were locked in the vault by
two masked bandits, who then made
good their escape with the money.
ARREST ORDERED OF
ANFU MINISTERS
PEKING, July 29 (by Associated
Press).—President Hsu Shih Chang
has accepted the resignation of Tuah
Chi Jui, prompted by the failing for
tunes of the Anfu party. The presi
dent is reported to have ordered the
arrest of retiring Anfu ministers for
responsibility in recent disturbances.
! CAPTAIN AMUNDSEN ARRIVES
: AT NOME AFTER HIS VESSEL IS
ICE-BOUND OFF SLEDGE ISLAND
NOME, July 29 (by Associated
Press).—Captain Amundsen has ar
rived here on the tug Genevieve from
j Sledge island, where his vessel, the
Maude, has been storm bound for ten
days. He reports all well with the
expedition. The Genevieve reported
the wreck of the little trading
schooner Kolyma, owner by the Hib
bard-Swrenson Company of Seattle, in
the storm off Sledge island.
Amundsen will remain here two
weeks, provisioning for a five-year
polar expedition. He will resume the
voyage with only three in the crew
besides himself. Hundreds of tele
grams from the world over awaited
him upon his arrival.
By making the trip to Nome from
Norway, Captain Amundsen has added
to his record as an explorer the dis
tinction of having traversed the
Northeast passage as well as the
Northwest passage, thereby becoming
the first man to practically circum
navigate the globe north of the Arctic
circle.
On leaving Nome, Amundsen will
enter the Arctic ice pack around
Wrangell island, where the Karluk sur
vivors were found by the Hibbard
Swensen trading schooner King and
Wing in 1915, and will then drift
across the Polar sea. In the event of
success attending the enterprise he
will emerge somewhere in the North
Atlantic. The feasibility of his^project
has been practically demonstrated by
means of experiments which indicate
that the ice pack is continually drift
ing across the pole from a westerly
direction. Amundsen expects to be
at least five years reachin£~the pole.
FOR RETURN OF
POSEN GERMANY
WILL FIGHT BOLS
PARIS, July 29 (by Associated
Press).—General Ludendorff is re
ported, in a Berlin dispatch to the
Journal, to have offered the British
charge at Berlin to raise an army
of a million and a half to fight the
Bolsheviki in exchange for a return to
Germany of Posen and the annullment
of certain clauses of the Versailles
treaty.
FORMER MAYOR SALT
LAKE UNDER ARREST
SALT LAKE CITY, July 29 (by As
sociated Press).—Seventeen com
plaints charging misappropriation of
public funds were filed today against
E. A. Charles, former mayor. It is al
i leged false warrants were forged to
the extent of $12,000.
ELIHU ROOT MAKES
PRESENT TO BRITISH
LONDON, July 29 (by Associated
Press).—Elihu Root today presented
the British people with St. Cuadin’s
Lincoln statue, at the unveiling here.
MAC WILL DO SOME '
SPEAKING FOR COX
NEW YORK, July 29 (by Associated
Press).—Wm. G. McAdoo announced
today that he had consented to de
liver speeches for Governor Cox dur
ing what he said would be a vigorous
and aggressive campaign. The people
will not stand for a “purchased presi
dency,” McAdoo said, and he urged
that the spotlight of pitiless publicity
be turned on campaign expenses.
WICKERSHAM
COMES NORTH
TO LOCATE
SEATTLE, July 29 (by Associated
Press).—Judge James Wickersham,
who will leave here for Alaska the
latter part of the week, announces he
will withdraw from politics and en
gage in the practice of law in one of
the Alaskan towns. Regardless of the
outcome of the contest with George
Grigsby over who is entitled to a seat
in the house of representatives from
Alaska. Judge Wickersham says he
will not return to Fairbanks, but will
locate in some coast town.
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GASOLINE JUMPS UP TO
TWO-BITS A GALLON
SAN FRANCISCO. July 29 (by As
sociated Press).—Announcement by
the Associated Oil Company that it
would be compelled to consider raising
the price of gasoline, was followed by
the publication today of a price of
25 cents a gallon by the Union Oil
Company, a raise of IV2 cents. The
Standard Oil Company announced it
was not contemplatyig a raise at pres
ent.
FLOUR TAKES DROP
OF 75 CENTS BARREL
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MINNEAPOLIS, July 29 (byAssoci
ated Press).—Reflecting the slump in
''Wheat prices, flour today dropped 75
I cents a barrel.
REICHSTAG APPROVES
SPA AGREEMENT
BERLIN, July 29 (by Associated
Press). — The reichstag has over
whelmingly approved the recent Spa
agreement with the allies.
NEW DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN
AT OUTS WITH WILSON AND
FOUGHT ALASKA RAIL BILL
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AMERICA REFUSES TO
RECOGNIZE JAPANESE
OCCUPATION SAGAHLAN
TOKIO, July 29 (by Associated
Press).—The government has received
a communication from the United
States pointing out that America is
unable to recognize Japan’s occupation
of the northern half of Sagahlan. The
newspaper Nich Nich says the impres
sion prevails that the communication
is not really a protest, but rather an
expression of the American viewpoint.
FIRST MAIL
LONG ISLAND
TO ’FRISCO
NEW YORK, July 29 (by Associated
Press).—Three all-metal monoplanes
carrying the first transcontinental mail
by aerial route left Long Island at
10:08 o’clock this morning for San
Francisco.. The trip is for the pur
pose of mapping out a regular aerial
mail service starting the first of Sep
tember. On the return, an effort will
be made to make the trip with only
one stop, at Omaha.
DONEGAL SUFFERING
FROM LACK OF FOOD
BELFAST, July 29 (by Associated
Press).—Donegal is grantically appeal
ing to Londonderry for food which,
however, has not been delivered, be
cause crews have refused to move
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trains for the military abroad.
MUST KEEP OUT OF
POLITICS, SAYS BAKER
WASHINGTON, July 29 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Secretary of War
Baker has issued an order prohibiting
officers and others connected with the
army from taking “any active part in
management of political campaigns or
using their official positions to influ
ence the elections.”
INCOME TAX BILL
ADOPTED BY JAPAN
TOKIO, July 29 (by Associated
Press).—The house of peers has
adopted the income tax bill, providing
increased taxes to permit army and
navy extensions.
DEALERS ARE FORCED
TO DELIVER MILK
KANSAS CITY, July 29 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Milk deliveries were
resumed yesterday following the ar
rest of four of the largest dealers who
had withheld their supplies because
they objected to the milk grading
ordinance. The dealers were charged
with conspiracy to injure the public
health. ^
SEATTLE, July 29 (by Associated
Press).—A Post-Intelligencer special
dispatch from Washington says:
“Alaska, the Klondike and the
Alaska railroad all figure in a row on
in the Democratic organization over
the selection of George White of Ohio
as chairman of the national commit
tee. President Wilson dislikes White,
who is an old sourdough from Bonanza
creek, and White dislikes Wilson, and
openly criticized the president for ad
vocating the election of Democrats
only in 1918.
“Wilson sent for Cummings Monday
and as a result Cummings will go into
the campaign as the voice of the pres
ident.
“When the Alaska railroad bill was
before congress in 1914 White took a
vigorous stands against the measure.
He wanted private capital to develop
Alaska. Wilson summoned him to the
White House and told him where to
get off, but White refused and con
tinued his fight.
“White is known as the angel of
the Cox pre-convention campaign, and
is five times a millionaire. He grad
uated from Princeton in 1895 and
joined in the Klondike rush in 1898,
remaining in the north for three
years.”
ALASKA PURCHASE OF
EGGS SHOOTS UP PRICE
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SEATTLE, July 29 (by Associated
Press).—The purchased of 600 cases
of fresh ranch eggs for the Alaska
engineering commission today sent the
Seattle egg market up 5 cents, averag
ing 60 cents.
ARRESTED FOR MAKING
FRENCH FRANC NOTES
LOS ANGELES, July 29 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Five men were in
dicted here today, charged with coun
terfeiting French franc notes for mo
tion picture uses.
LOS ANGELES STILL
BEING SHAKEN UP
LOS ANGELES, July 29 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A light earthquake
was felt in 11:26 last night.
ALLIES IN COMPLETE
ACCORD REGARDING
DEAL WITH SOVIETS
LONDON, July 29 (by Associated
Press).—France, Italy and Great Bri
tain are in complete accord regarding
negotiations with the Russian Soviets,
despite statements to the contrary by
sensational and inaccurate press re
ports, Lloyd George declared today in
the house of commons, replying to
questions concerning the Bolougne
conference.
BODY FOUND IN TRUNK
AGAIN IDENTIFIED
NEW YORK, July 29 (by Associated
Press).—Mrs. Leo Trumbull of De
troit today Identified the body of the
woman found in the trunk shipped
here from Detroit as Mrs. Eugene
Leroy.
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