The Cordova Daily Times
(MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS) Jr
VOL, 5, NO. 222_CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1920 . PRICE TEN CENTS
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TEN THOUSAND PRISONERS AND MUCH AMMON CAPTURED
SOVIET PEACE CONDITIONS
-REPUDIATED BY POLES UNLESS
RUSSIANS WILL ALSO DISARM
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WARSAW, Aug. 20 (by Associated
Press).—The Polish offensive is m
full swing. More than 10,000 prison
ers, 300 machine guns, 30 cannon and
other supplies have been captured, j
and the Warsaw sector is being rap
idly cleared, the Reds being shoved
back north and northeast of the capi
tal.
The right wing of the Polish army
^s continuing its successful march to
Brest-Litovsk. The left wing has
taken a number of towns and is con
tinuing its march.
The Soviet forces have abandoned
Lukow and other important points
southeast of Warsaw.
POLES REFUSE TO DISARM
LONDON, Aug. 20 (by Associated
Press).—A Berlin wireless, quoting a
report from the Minsk conference, sa\vs
Polish delegates refused to accept the
peace conditions advanced by the
Soviets for disarmament of the Polish
^ army unless the Russians also dis
arm.
POLISH INTEGRITY ASSURED
MINSK, Aug. 20 (by Associated
Press).—A Bolsheviki representative,
advising the Polish delegates, said the
Russia-German peace with Poland does
no.-e^ire to interfere with Polish in
tegrity^
TO HEAD OF SHOCK TROOPS
BERLIN, Aug. 20 (by Associated
Press).—A large force has been sent
to Upper Salesia to intercept the Pol
ish shock troops, according to a dis
patch received here.
WRANGEL RECOGNIZED AS HEAD
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (by Associ
ated Press).—The American war com
mission at Warsaw reports that the
Poles have taken Brest-Litovsk.
General Wrangel has been recog
^zed by the tribes in southern Russia
as^iead of the Russian government,
an official report received here states.
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TROTZKY ON QUIET MISSION
LONDON, Aug. 20 (by Associated
Press).—The London Times claims
Leon Trotzky, Bolsheviki minister of
war, has arrived secretly in Posen to
negotiate political and strategic ques
tion with German staff officers.
BELGIUM TO REMAIN NEUTRAL
BRUSSELS, Aug. 20 (by Associated
Press).—The coucil of ministers has
decided that Belgium will remain neu
tral in the Russo-Polish conflict until
the Minsk peace negotiations are con
cluded.
SEATTLE, Aug. 20.—(Special to the
Times).—Quotations at noon Aug. 19:
Halibut, 19c; chicken, 10c; sable fish,
Sc; red and ling cod. 2c.
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SHOULD REMEMBER
NAPOLEON’S FATE
TOKIO, Aug. 20 (by Associ
ated Press).—Japan should re
member the tragic experience
of Napoleon in Russia, is the
statment credited to President
Vinogradov of the Anti-Socialist
League in a speech before the
national assembly at Vladivos
tok. The speaker was comment
ing upon the Japanese decision
to occupy Nikolaievsk and the
northern portion of Saghalien
island as a result of the massa
cres of Japanese at Nikolaievsk.
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RUTH AGAIN SWATS
OUT HOME-RUN HIT
NEW YORK, Aug. 20 (by Associated
Press).—Babe Ruth knocked out his
forty-third home-run yesterday. A
fan at the game died of heart disease
during the excitement.
TO BE ISSUE
SPOKANE, Aug. 20 (by Associated
Press).—Senator Miles Poindexter of
Washington has issued a statement to
the voters declaring that the whole
future police of the United States will
be determined by the senatorial elec
tions this fall, saying the issue is
Americanism against internationalism,
and urging support for 'Republican
senators as the true exponents of
Americanism.
POLICE COURT CLERK
SUSPECTED OF ROBBERY
LOS ANELES, Aug. 20 (by Associ
ated Press).—Clyde C. Johnston, po
lice court clerk, who reported that the
safe in the court room had been
broken open and $24,000 taken, was
arrested yesterday charged with em
bezzlement.
RIOTERS ARE QUIETED
BY STEAM AND WATER
BALTIMORE, Aug. 20 (by Associ
ated Press).—More than 50 hunger
strikers who started a riot yesterday
in the state penitentiary were 'luieted
with steam and water.
ARIONA AND NEVADA
TO HAVE GEOLOGIST
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (by Asso
ciated Press).—To meet the many re
quests received by the geological sur
very for examination and report of
geological questions, J. M. Hill has
been transferred from Washington to
San Francisco as resident geologist.
His field will cover the Pacific coast
states and to some extent Arizona and
Nevada. It was found impossible to
send geologists across the continent
whenever requests were receved for
examination and report.
MEMBER JAPANESE DIET
SUSPENDED FIVE DAYS
HONOLULU, Aug. 20 (by Associ
ated Press).-—Ryutara Nagai, an oppo
sition member of the Japanese diet,
was suspended from that body recent
ly for calling Premier Hara the
“Lenine of the Orient” and using
other “violent expressions” in an at
tack on the Hara ministry, according
to the Tokio correspondent of the
Nippu Jiji, a Japanese newspaper here.
Under the order of suspension Nagai
was barred from the diet for five days.
STEAMER NORTHWESTERN |
LEAVES SEATTLE TODAY
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SEATTLE, Aug. 20 (by Associated!
Press).—The steamer Northwestern!
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will sail for Alaska this afternoon at;
5 o’clock with 128 passengers. Cor
dova passengers are Miss Helen
Brown, Jack Howard, C. Hinckley and
wife, Irish Hinckley and two steerage. \
AIR SQUADRON |
LANDS SAFELY
AT FAIRBANKS
FAIRBANKS, Aug. 20 (by Associ
ated Press).—The army planes in the:
flight to Nome from New York arrived]
here at noon yesterday after making
the trip from Dawson in two hours.
Great crowds watched the aviators at
Nenana, according to a message re
ceived from there.
COX STARTS TOUR OF
WEST SEPTEMBER 2
NEW YORK, Aug. 20 (by Associated |
Press).—Governor Cox will begin his!
western trip September 2, speaking in
every state west of the Mississippi
river. The chairman of the Demo
cratic speakers’ bureau declares Cox’s
will be the most extensive campaign
tour of any presidential candidate.
PRESIDENT REGAINS
HIS NORMAL WEIGHT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (by Asso-j
ciated Press). — The Washington'
Times, quoting Admiral Grayson, says j
President .Wilson has recovered his
full weight of 178 pounds.
HUNGER STRIKERS OF
CORK ARE DEPORTED
CORK, Aug. 20 (by Associated J
Press).—Eight hundred hunger strik-j
ers were deported yesterday to an un
i known destination.
NAME OF PICKFORD
SOUGHT BY MOTHER
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 (by Associ
ated Press).—Mrs. Charlotte Smith,
mother of Mary Pickford, today filed
a petition in court here asking that]
her name be changed to Pickford.
PERMANENTCREWSTO
FIGHT FOREST FIRES
LIVINGSTON, Mont., Aug. 20 (by
Associated Press).—Supervisor E. W.
Shaw of this district of the federal
forest service has received notifica
tion that small, permanent crews of
fire fighters are to be hirded in fu
ture, instead of large emergency
crews. This nucleus will be expand
ed, when need be, by emergency
men.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 20 (by
Associated Press).—A New York
trust company has leased a building
in the Galata' section of Constanti
noplt and will open up a general
banking business here next fall with
a view to meeting the needs of Amer
ican shipping lines and commercial
concerns which have entered the
Black Sea and the Mediterranean
' trade.
SAYS SKY IS LIMIT
FOR CAMPAIGN FUNDS
SOUTH BEND., Ind., Aug. 20 (by
Associated — Governor Cox charges
that at least $15,000,000 has been con
tributed to the Republican campaign
by selfish interests, and says this esti
mate is a low one, the sky apparently
being the limit.
TAKES HONORS
AT ANTWERP
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ANTWERP, Aug. 20 (by Associated
Press).—Allen Woodring of Philadel
phia won the 100-meter dash in the
finals in the Olympia games. Charles
Haddock of Los Angeles was second.
England took third place and America
fourth.
Rudd of South Africa won the 400
meter final, with America placed.
F. K. Foss of Chicago won the pole
vault in the finals, establishing a new
record of 13 feet. 214 inches.
Nurmi of Finland won the 10,000
meter run.
CAVALRY VETERAN
ASKS TO BE JAILED;
REQUEST REFUSED
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LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Aug. 20 (by
Associated Press).—Samuel T. Ding,
a cavalry war veteran who was twice
convicted during the civil war of de
sertion, appeared at the dispiclinary
barracks here yesterday and asked to
be locked up or his record cleared.
He was refused admittance. Army of
ficers say that if he is cleared of the
charge he will be entitled to more
than $20,000 in pensions.
SUBMITTING REPORT
ON WRANGELL HARROWS
SEATTLE, Aug. 20 (by Associated
Press).—At the request of army engi
neers. Alaska steamship companies
are submitting reports on the condi
tion of Wrangell narrows, in support
of their request for deeping of that
channel.
STRIKERS DECIDE NOT
TO RETURN TO WORK
DENVER, Aug. 20 (by Associated
Press).—Striking trainmen voted to
day to destroy their applications for
reemployment of the street cars of
Denver and remain on strike.
FORMERSECRETARY
OF AGRICULTURE ILL
TRAER, la., Aug. 20 (by Associated
Press).—Former Secretary of Agricul
ture James Wilson is reported critical
ly ill at his home here. He was 86
years old Monday.
EXPLODED BALLOON
STARTS SERIOUS FIRE
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 (by Asso
ciated Press).—An army balloon ex
ploded near here yesterday, seriously
wounding the pilot and starting a
stubble fire vrhich swept a tract six
miles long amd half a mile wide, threat
ing the town of Delair.
TOKIO REPORT !
IS DECLARED
FABRICATION
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Kiusic Kimm, chair-j
man of the Korean commission to the j
United States, today characterized the ]
Tokio report that plots had been un-J
earthed in Korea to hold the Ameri
can congressional party, as “another
groundless Japanese fabrication.” He
said Koreans were planning to present j
a memorial to the p-arty.
FLOODS SWEEP
JAP ISLANDS
WITH BIG LOSS
HONOLULU, Aug. 20 (by Associ
ated Press).—Tremendous floods are
sweeping the islands of Kyushu and
Shokoku of the Japanese group, over-’
whelming many of the towns and caus- j
ing an enormous loss of life, according
to a dispatch received here today by
a Japanese paper.
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FUNERAL OF CHAPMAN
IS LARGELY ATTENDED
CLEVELAND. O., Aug. 20 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Thousands attended j
services today for Ray Chapman, star
shortstop of the Cleveland American
league baseball club, who was killed
by a pitched ball in a game in New
York. Thousands were unable to en
ter the church and stood outside bare-!
headed, while tears were in many
eyes.
PONZIE BACK IN JAIL
IN DEFAULT OF BAIL
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BOSTON, Aug. 20 (by Associated
Press).—Charles Ponzi waived exam
ination yesterday before a federal com
missioner on charges of using the
mails to defraud. He was taken back
to jail in default of $25,000 bonds. The
trial has been set for the September
term of court.
JAPS WHO ENTERED
OREGON APPARENTLY
DID SO ILLEGALLY
SALEM, Ore., Aug. 20 (by Associ
ated Press).—Frank Davy, a special
investigator for the governor, reported
today that Oregon’s adult Japanese
population has not increased greatly
in 10 years, although there has been
a noticeable increase in the birth rate.
The reports credits American officers
with the view that what Japanese have
entered the state apparently have en
tered the United States illegally.
ALCOHOL MOTOR OIL IS
PINEAPPLE BY-PRODUCT
HONOLULU, Aug. 20 (by Associ
ated Press).—Alcohol for motor fuel
is being manufactured here from ma
terial left from pineapples after the
packing companies have canned the
choicest parts. From every 350
pounds of waste from the pineapples,
two gallons of alcohol are extracted.
MAY RECONSIDER
RATIFICATION
OF AMENDMENT
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 20 (by
Associated Press). — Speaker Walker
of the Tennessee house claimed last
night that forty-seven members had
signed a pledge to vote for a reconsid
eration of the suffrage ratification res
olution and declared the vote will be
reconsidered.
The house adjourned today until
Saturday without any attempt to force
reconsideration on suffrage, and this
action is taken as an indication that
the antis have not secured enough
pledged votes to rescind the former
action.
MANY RANCHERS ARE
HOMELESS THROUGH
RAGING FOREST FIRES
KAMLOOPS, Aug. 20 (by Associ
ated Press).—Latest reports show that
30 ranchers and their families are
homeless from the forest fires and
that the flames are still burning.
Refugees are still arriving from tha
North Thompson district.
ARCHBISHOP URGED
TO BE MODERATE
LONDON, Aug. 20 (by Associated
Press).—The Rome consistory has
issued a strong appeal to Archbishop
Mannix urging moderation in the treat
ment of British political questions.
AUSTRIAN WOMAN IS
JAILED FOR SMUGGLING
GENEVA, Aug. 20 (by Associated
Press). — Madame Bella Hartmann,
young woman of an Austrian officer,
has been senetnced at Lindau to pay
a fine of 50.000 marks and serve one
month in jail, for smuggling. It is
said she defrauded the Berlin and
Vienna authorities out of more than
$3,000,000 by means of a small army
of employes at Lake Constance who
used six automobiles, three motorboats
and other paraphernalia in their illicit
business.
INDUSTRIAL FAIR TO
STIMULATE PROGRESS
TOKIO. Aug. 20 (by Associated
Press).—A proposal to hold a big in
dustrial fair for the purpose of stimu
lating Japan’s industrial progress has
been adopted by the chamber of com
merce.
NOT VERY PRETTY
BUT- UH! LA-LA!
GEVENA, Switzerland, Aug.
20 (by Associated Press).—
Mademoiselle Legarde. who is
not even termed “pretty” by her
girl friend^ in Chambery. Savoy,
France, has been awarded the
annual prize of $5,000 as being
the nearest approach to the
Venus de Milo type of physical
beauty. The prize, from a fund
left by an eccentric French mil
lionaire of Chambery, Mr. Car
ret, was not awarded during the
war. Mile. Legarde is 24.