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VOL. V. NO. 132 _ __CORDOVA, ALASKA; THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1920_ _PRICE TEN CENTS
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, FOR OBSERVATION ON GROUND
SEATTLE, May 6 (by Associated
Frees).—The Alaska and transporta
tion bureaus of the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce have prepared a report
for submission to the Alaska advisory
committee, which will hold hearings
here tomorrow, urging that Alaska is
the proper place to study Alaska con
ditions, and recommending that hear
be held there.
The report urges that adequate and
low-cost water transportation be pro
vided, pleads that the mail be carried
■as mail, and not as freight; suggests
coast surveys and reimbursement by
the government to steamship lines for
the increased insurance rates demand
ed because of the perils of Northern
waters; urges development of Alaska
with careful attention to transporta
tion problems and local freight and
passenger service for outlying locali
ties.
The bureaus’ report also recom
mends the use of Alaska coal for
Alaska steamships and industries, in
stead of California fuel oil, and
strongly urges the committee to go
North and investigate conditions on
the ground.
JOHNSON WINS
’ IN CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO, May 6 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Reports from two
thirds of the precincts of the state
give Hiram W. Johnson a plurality of
130,000 over Herbert Hoover in Tues
day's primary, and later returns are
increasing his lead.
* The contest between the adherents
of United States Senator Johnson and
Herbert Hoover, former United States
food administrator, both Californians,
for the state’s delegation to the Re
publican national convention held the
chief interest in the primary. The
two other party tickets voted upon,
the Democratic and Prohibitionist, pre
sented no contest, the delegates being
^ unopposed. The Prohibition delegates
are pledged to Henry Clay Needham
of Los Angeles.
WOOD WINS IN INDIANA
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 6 (by As
sociated Press).—Complete returns
from twro-thirds of the precincts of
the state of the results of Tuesday’s
primary election give General Wood
155.000, Johnson 49,000 and Lowden
25.000.
KENTUCKY FOR COX
LOUISVILLE, Ky„ May 6 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The Democratic state
convention, held on Tuesday, pledged
the entire Kentuck delegation of
twenty-six votes in the national con
vention to Governor Cox of Ohio as
nominee for President.
VICTORIA TO HOLD *
REGATTA IN JULY
VICTORIA, B. C. May 6 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Canadian and Ameri
can boat owners will compete here on
July 4-5-6 in an international sailing
and power boat regetta. Vancouver,
Victoria and Seattle boats already
are entered. Efforts are bing made
to bring several California boats
north for the events.
REWARD IS OFFERED
FOR SLAYER OF BANKER
4 LOS ANGELES, May 6 (by Associ
ated Press).—The family of H. J. Rob
bins, a wealthy banker of Shelton
Mo., who was found murdered here
yesterday, have offered a substantial
reward for the capture of the mur
derers.
The police are puzzled by the case.
Robbins was beaten and choked with
a rope.
NEW MINES DIRECTOR
HAS BEEN NOMINATED
WASHINGTON, May 6 (by Associ
ated Press).—Frederick G. Coetterill
of California has been nominated by
President Wilson to be director of the
bureau of mines, succeeding Van H.
Waaning.
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IS CURTAILED
BAKERSFIELD. Cal., May 6 (by
Associated Press).—In a comprehen
sive statement made here today, R.
B. Robb, of Los Angeles, secretary
treasurer of the Independent Oil Pro
ducers Agency, a non-profit concern,
explained the resolution passed by the
Agency at its session here recently
urging co-operation.
“With the exception of the- recent
increase of 25 cents per barrel in the
price of crude oil at the well, the price
has been stationary since May 1917,
when the increase of 25 cents per bar
rel was posted at the request of the
Oil Division of the Fuel Administra
tion,” said Robb.
“The absence of an increase in
price to cover the increased expense
has had the effect of discouraging the
development work and, with the ex
ception of the activities of the larger
marketing concerns, has totally ar
rested exploitation work, with the re
sult that the production of oil has net
kept pace with the demand.
“Sufficient crude oil to supply the
requirements of the Pacific coast
trade for fuel oil and gasoline is not
being produced, and were it not for an
accumulated reserve tanked during
the time of excess production, the
present supply would not satisfcr the
existing demands. These reserves
are rapidly being exhausted, and un
less the development and production
is soon resumed, the use of crude
oil and gasoline must shortly
be restricted to essential usuage. This
will mean in the case of fuel oil that
all consumers thereof who can secure
some other fuel will be compelled to
do so, regardless of cost or inconven
ience. In the case of gasoline, it will
mean the curtailment of the use
thereof to business and industry, thus
depriving the owners of pleasure cars
of the enjoyment of these facilities.
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NEW YORK, May 6 (by Associated
Press).—Former Secretary of the
Treasury W. G. McAdoo, in a letter
to the Metal Trades Council of Brook
lyn, says that he is not interested in
the political fortunes of any man, and
least of all of himself. The welfare of
the people, he declares, alone should
determine the choice of the next Presi
dent. •
The office of President, says Mr. Mc
Adoo, demands the highest order of
statesmanship and other qualifications
which he doubts whether he posses
ses. He advises labor to assert it
self against reaction.
A crew of men left today for the
Chilkat Oil Company’s plant, where
they will be employed. Several drill
ers are expected to arrive shotly from
the States to work for this company.
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EXPLORER NANSEN TO
REPATRIATE PRISONERS
WASHINGTON, May 6 (by Associ
ated Pt;ess).—Explorer Nansen will
head a League of Nations organization
charged with the task of repatriating
two hundred thousand German, Aus
trian and other war pisoners now held
in custody.
FUMIGATIONS
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| SACRAMENTO, Cal., May 6 (by As
sociated Press).—Declaring that recent
revelations indicated that deplorable
and corrupt conditions in certain
courts in San Francisco, ’ Governor
Stephens has authorized the attorney
! general to co-operate with the district
| attorney in a clean-up campaign, tak
| ing over the duties of the district at
! torney if necessary.
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DANISH OFFICIALS ARE
WELCOMED TO SCHLESWIG
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COPENHAGEN, May 6 (by Associ
i ated Press).—Huge crowds welcomed
| the Danish transports carrying the
j new Daaiish officials to Schleswig, the
j province which has been returned to
j Danish sovereignty after being under
| German rule for fifty-three years.
PRICE OF SUGAR GIVEN
| ANOTHER TILT UPWARD
SAN FRANCISCO, May 6 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Another increase of 2(4
| cents in the wholesale price of sugar
j is announced here.
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CANADIAN PACIFIC
EARNINGS REDUCED
MONTREAL, May 6 (by Associated
Press).—The net earnings of the Ca
nadian Pacific railway were a million
and a half dollars less than those of
last year, though the gross earnings
were nineteen and a half millions
more, according to the anhual report
of that company, made public today.
RUSSIANSOVIET
PROPOSITION IS
NOT APP
SEATTLE, May 6 (by Associated
Press).—The Seattle Chamber of Com
merce, at a meeting held Tuesday,
expressed its opposition to the pro
posal that Americans trading with Si
beria must do so through the Russian
soviet. Notification has been sent to
the National Civic Federation thatHhe
Seattle body is opposed to any com
promise between Russian Bolshevism
and American democracy.
ADDITIONAL LOAN IS
WANTED BY RAILROADS
WASHINGTON, May 6 (by Associ
ated Press).—An additional loan of>
$500,0d0,000 during this year to finance
the construction of freight cars has
been asked of congress by the execu
| fives of the railroads.
NAMES NEW MEMBER OF
COMMERCE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, May 6 (by Associ
ated Press).—Mark W. Potter of New
York, president of the Carolina,
Clinchfield & Ohio railroad, has been
nominated by President Wilson to fill
a vacanc} in the membership of the
interstate commerce commission.
INTERESTING SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE
CONTRIBUTED TO MAGAZINE BY
i YOUNG RESIDENT OF CORDOVA
W. Norman Bratton, son of our
townsman, C. S. Bratton, who is gain
ing national prominence as a metal
lurgical and mining engineer, contrib
utes an interesting article in a recent
issue of the Scientific American on
“The Latest Word in Steel: How
Molybdenum Has Gained a Place
Among the Foremost of Alloying
Agents,” which follows:
Developed in the stress of war, a
practical, new alloy steel has come
into commercial being, possessed of
qualities that forecast sweeping
changes in many industries where a
steel combining lightness and strength
is required.
Molybdenum steel, known to Ameri
can metallurgists for some years, is
making its appearance on the market
in commercial quantities. Several
grades for various purposes have been
! developed after successful use employ
ing scores of thousands of tons. These
are today being marketed by three of
the largest steel manufacturers in the
country, and more than a dozen others
are starting to deal in them.
Makers of automobiles, trucks, trac
tors, airplanes and parts used in auto
motive industries, makers of forgings
of all kinds, of springs and of gears,
are most directly concerned in the
development of molybdenum steel.
Such manufacturers are hailing molyb
denum steel with real interest. To
them, because it has the greatest avail
able strength of any alloy steel, its
use means a reduction in the weight
of machines through the possible de
crease in the size of machine parts
without loss of strength.
The greatest significance of molyb
denum steel to American manufactur
ers, however, is that the discovery of
the molybdenum ore deposits in Cli
max, Colo., and the use of this ore in
producing a new steel alloy on a com
mercial scale, assures the United
States of world independence in the
production of high-grade alloy steels.
The Colorado deposits of molybdenum
represent from 60 to 80 per cent of
the world’s supply. The mines there,
tapping the proverbial “mountain of
ore,” are already developed to 1,000
tons of ore a dfcv, and have not at
tained as yet anything like maximum
production.
This is the age of steel alloys, and
in this age steel manufacturers are
dependent on five alloying elements—
nickel, chromium, tungsten, vanadium
and molybdenum. They are the chief
alloys that have been proved commer
cially practical. And only now are
manufacturers learning what the war
has taught of the tremendous possi
bilities of molybdenum steel.
The United States is compelled to
import practically all of its nickel,
vanadium and chromium used in the
steel industry. Chromium and tung
sten, while mined in this country, are
far from plentiful here; before long
tungsten, too, must be imported. Thus
far four of the five alloying elements
the United States is dependent on for
eign supply. But of molybdenum ore
we have a practical monopoly. If
American manufacturers are ever shut
off from their imported supply of
nickel, chromium, vanadium or tung
sten, they will still be in a position to
manufacture alloy steel that will not
only compare well with steel of other
manufacture, but even surpass it in
many respects. %
Great stimulus to the development
of molybdenum steel was given by the
need of a light, tough steel for use as
armor plate for fighting tanks, for
helmets, and for gun shields, as well
as for crank shafts and connecting
rods for airplanes. Previous to the
rise of these military exigencies, ex
periments with molybdenum as an al
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REVOLUTIONARY LEADERS ARE
DESIROUS OF ESTABLISHING ERA
OF COMITY WITH UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON, May 6 (by Associ
ated Press).—Official interest in the
sweeping revolution in Mexico has
been stimulated by reports of the in
tention of the revolutionists to bring
about a better understanding with the
United States.
The leaders of the revolutionists an
nounce that Obregon will be selected
president within sixty days, and that a
friendly attitude toward foreigners will
be adopted immediately.
NAVY IN READINESS
WASHINGTON, May 6 (by Associ
ated Press).—Secretary of the Navy
Daniels has ordered a divisioh of de
stroyers now with the Atlantic fleet
to sail immediateley for Key West, to
be held for possible duty in Mexican
waters.
No reports of serious disturbances
have yet been received. Carranza is
reported to be using airplanes against
the rebel strongholds in the neighbor
hood of Mexico City. The bombard
ments are reported to have resulted
in Pablo Gonzales, an ardent supporter
of Carranza, deserting the president.
The federals are reported to have
turned back in their march north
through Jalisco to check the advance
of the revolutionists from Sonora.
TO MOVE ON CAPITAL
EL PASO, Texas, May 6 (by Asso
ciated Press).—General E. S. Cobar,
commander of the former federal
forces which joined the revolution on
Monday last, says that the next effort
will be against Mexico City.
Governor Huerta of Sonora invites
foreign capital to enter Mexico.
GUNBOAT JOINS REVOLUTION
AGUA PRIETA, May 6 (by Associ
ated Press).—The Mexican gunboat
Blanco has joined the revolutionists.
MEXICAN CONSUL DESERTS
NEW YORK, May 6 (by Associated
Press).—Ramon Denegri, until recently
Mexican consul general here, has ac
cepted an appointment as commercial
agent of the Mexican revolutionary
party, and has gone to Sonora for a
conference.
FOR CONQUEST OF CAPITAL
JUAREZ, May 6 (by Associated
Press).—An army of not less than ten
thousand men is being prepared for
the march on Mexico City, it is an
nounced by the revolutionists.
LEGALLY VED
HALF-BREED
GETS LAND
SAN FRANCISCO, May 6 (by Asso
ciated Press).'—Elizabeth Harkrader
was awarded title to a parcel of land
in Juneau by a decision handed down
by the United States circuit court of
appeals yesterday, sustaining the de
cision of the Alaska court, that her
mother, Lilly Clark, was a halfbreed,
and legally married to George Hark
rader.
The territorial law prohibits the in
termarriage of whites and Indians.
WANT DEATH PENALTY
IMPOSED IN CASE OF
ALLEGED BLUEBEARD
LOS ANGELES, May 6 (by Associ
ated Press).—Indignant protests are
being received by the authorities here
against anything short of the death
penalty for the alleged bigamist, Wat
son, or Huirt.
The case may be taken to another
court, where no clemency has been
promised.
SAYS OFFICIALS
ARE SPREADING
PROPAGANDA
•WASHINGTON, May 6 (by Associ
ated Press).—Assailing what he de
scribed as a “despicable propaganda
against labor,” Timothy Shea, presi
dent of the Brotherhood of Stationary
Firemen and Oilers, charged before
the railroad labor board today that
“high officials of the government had
been used to deceive the people into
believing that if a man works for a
living he is an enemy of the govern
ment.”
The names of the officials were not
given, but much of Shea’s statement
dealt with the announcement by the
department of justice regarding the
threatened May day troubles.
WASHINGTON, May 6 (by Associ
ated Press).—The department of labor
made public statistics yesterday show
ing that the family food budget for
February last was exactly double that
for February, 1913.
RALPH STEWART
DIES IN SEATTLE
FROM DIABETES
Ralph R. Stewart, for several years
manager of the old Arctic Lumber
Company at Cordova, died at the
Providence hospital in Seattle on
Wednesday, April 28. He was 42
years old.
Mr. Stewart’s last illness was of
about two weeks’ duration. He had
been a sufferer from diabetes for
nearly three years but remained at
work the greater part of the time.
He was connected with the A. C.
Dutton Lumber company, of Portland,
as a buyer up to the time of his last
illness.
Mr. Stewart was born in Denver,
Col., and educated in the public
schools there. He came to the north
west in 1904 and after a short period
in Seattle came to Cordova, where he
was manager of the Arctic Lumber
company. He remained here a num
ber of ye^rs and was prominently
identified with the progress of Cordo
va during that time. About four
years ago he returned to Seattle and
became connected with the Stimson
Mill company and later with the
Puget Sound Mills and Timber com
pany.
Mr. Stewart was a son of a wealthy
pioneer family of Denver. His par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Stewart,
survive him. His father before his
retirement a number of years ago was
I one of the leading lumber men of the
Southwest states. In addition to his
parents, Mr. Stewart is survived by
a widow, Mrs. Leora Conn Stewart,
society editor o fthe Post-Intelligen
cer; a son, Ralph Conn Stewart, 4
i years old; a brother, James A. Ste
wart, Covina, Cal.; three sisters, Mrs.
Armistead Carper, of Goldfield. Nev.;
Miss Kathleen Stewart, Denver, and
Mrs, William Grier, of Cheyenne.
Wyo. A brother, E. M. Stewart, a
mining engineer, was killed in an
automobile accident about a month
ago at Glendoro. Cal.
ALASKA DOG MUSHER
LOCATES AT WINNIPEG
WINNIPEG, May 6 (by Associat
ed Press).—Walter Goyne, “The Go
ing Kid,” whose dog team recently
won the Hudson’s Bay Dog Derby
race here, is to locate here and work
his team carrying mail and passen
gers between The Pas, Manitoba, and
a copper mine eighty miles away.
Goyne formerly lived in Alaska, wher©
he won several races.