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SEATTLE, May 8 (by Associated
Press).—Surprising exhibits will be
shown today to the inter-departmental
committee appointed to inquire into
the Alaska transportation problem and
questions affecting the development
of the terriory, at its first meeting
here today.
These exhibits will comprise prod
uct^ of Alaska which will include
strawberries of superior flavor, toma
toes, several varieties of spring wheat,
barley, oats and other grains, fruits
and vegetables gathered by C. C.
Georgeson, in charge of the agricul
tural stations of Alaska.
Mr. Georgeson declares that Alaska
is ahle to support a population of three
millions on home products and have
a surplus left for export. He will de
scribe to the committee agricultural
conditions actually existing in Alaska
Jnd the possibilities for future devel- j
opment.
HEARINGS OPENED
Lieutenant Colonel Alfred H. Brooks
of the Geological Survey, Otto Praeger,
second assistant postmaster general,
and . .Harry Y, Sain, member of the
Shipping Board, comprising the com
mittee, opened the hearings on
Alaska’s claims this morning. The
committee had brought data on re
sources, improvements desired and
reports of previous committees.
Colonel Brooks said the committee
wanted concrete suggestions on the
means of accomplishing improvements.
WILL NOT COME NORTH
The committee will not make the
trip to Alaska. “What little informa
tion we could get by making the trip
to Alaska already is in hand, fourfold,
in complete reports,” said Colonel
Brooks. He continued:
“Our purpose in coming here is to
confer with government officials, in
cluding the Alaskan engineering com
mission, and officials of the postal and
forestry services. We will be glad to
hear also from individuals connected
wi^h the fishing and mining indus
tries.”
SHIPPING “EXPERTS” AGAIN
R. M. Semmes, traffic advisor to the
Alaska territorial shipping board, and
Maurice D. Leehey, special council of
that board, will represent Governor
Riggs at the hearings.
Colonel Brooks said that one of the
plans submitted was to tax all ships
entering Alaskan waters and to use
the money thus obtained in subsidiz
ing certain ships for the covering of
remote routes.
ALIENS IN HAWAII
ARE LISTED BY
. AMERICAN LEGION |
HONOLULU, May 8 (by Associated
Press).—Territorial headquarters of
the American Legion has opened a
drive to list all aliens employed in
the Hawaiian islands, and to this end
has sent a questionnaire to employ
ers, according to J. T. Phillips, chair
man of the Legion’s citizen employ
ment committee.
Aliens are to be asked through their
employers for the following informa
tion: Full name,'* age, birthplace,
length of residence in territory, length
of time in present employment .occu
pation, war record, whether a declara
tion of intention to become a citizen
has been filed.
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FIFTY COMING
TO CORDOVA
ON NEXT BOAT
SEATTLE, May 8 (by Associated
Press).—The steamship Northwestern
sailed for Alaska ports .at 9 o’clock
yesterday morning; carrying one hun
dred and thirty-six passengers, of
whom the following were for Cordova:
D. E. Campbell, Charles Marmeek,
P. E. Hamon, Mrs. M. Matson, J. Eng,
P. O. Fink, M. Faber, J. Hanlies, H. F.
Sutter, M. Matterman, C. Anderson,
E. A. Holbrook, J. H. Hanson, F. Bas
aham, W. Bohelnon, M. Casey, Mrs. F.
Basaham, F. M. Vance, F. Braydon, E.
Ahlquist, M. J. Anderson and wife,
Miss Anderson, G. L. Richards and
wife, Frances Richards, Mrs. A. Bohell,
Gussie Bohell, Elizabeth Bohell,
George Weir, and twenty steerage.
TON
BURY LARGE
ISLAN
HILO, Island of Hawaii, May 8 (by
Associated Press).—Millions of tons of
lava which have been pouring from
the great volcano of Kilauea during
the past three months have buried
approximately twenty-five square
miles of country under a coating aver
aging one hundred feet in thickness.
The great flows, streaming in every
direction from their source in the old
rift of 1868, still as moving slowly
forward, and at one point are within
two miles of the sea and twelve miles
from the fountainhead.
The glittering floods of crimson
lava are coming from the southern
flank of Kilauea. What was formerly
a quiet expanse of sandy waste, dotted
with green oases, now is a smoking
tract of ruin and desolation. A few
charred fragments mark the sites of
former forests buried deep beneath the
torrents of molten stone ejected by
the volcano.
The scene by night is described as
one never to be forgotten. Great crev
asses, small cracks and the living
streams pushing forward all glow vivid
crimson. Blazing trees, caught in the
flows, add their lurid glare to a pic
ture whose background is masses of
smoke and steam clouds.
With intense activity within the in
ner crater of Kilauea, volcano observ-j
ers say that it appears unlikely that
the present eruption will come to an
end until late in the summei
PRIZES TO BE OFFERED
FOR ATTRACTIVE GARDENS
A. J. McConnell, of the Alaska Pub
lic Utilities, is starting a much-need
ed civic improvement project. His
plan is to encourage the cleaning-up
and planting of yards and garden
plots, by offering prizes for the neatest
and most attractive ones. He offers
as one of the prizes a very handsome
coffee percolator in loving-cup style.
Mr McConnell’s proposition, regard
ing which will be announced later,
deserves the hearty support of every
public-spirited Cordovan. Cordova’s
youth is no reason or excuse for her
being a stumpy, scraggy, tin-canny
town. The little village of Ocean
Falls, on the rugged, forested coast
of British Columbia, is a delight to
the eye with its velvety green door
yards, neat walks and vine-wreathed
cottages which recall old England.
We can make Cordova just as at
tractive. Let’s begin.
REVOLUTIONISTS OF SONORA
CAPTURE FEDERAL CAPITAL
—CARRANZA MAY HAVE FLED
EL PASO, Texas, May 8 (by Associated
Press).—The revolutionary forces under Gen.
Benjamin Hill have taken Mexico City. The
news has been confirmed by a report from Chi
huahua City received by the revolutionary
leaders here.
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RALPH R. STEWART
Former Cordovan who died in Seattle last week
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PRICE OF WOOL
HEADS LIST IN
UPWARD JUMP
WASHINGTON, May 8 (by Associ
ated Press).—A comparison of the av
erage prices received March 1, 1914,
and March 1, 1920, by producers in
the United States of eight important
agricultural products, made by the
bureau of crop estimates of the depart
ment of agriculture, shows the fol
lowing increases: Cotton, 200 per
cent; wheat, 173 per cent; corn, 116
per cent; potatoes, 244 per cent; hay,
91 per cent; eggs, 96 per cent; butter,
115 per cent; wool, 231 per cent.
KIEV OCCUPIED
BY POLES AND
UKRAINIANS
LONDON, May 8 (by Associated
Press).—Warsaw advices state that it
is officially announced that the Polish
and Ukrainian troops occupied Kiev
Thursday night. Half of the three
hundred and sixty officers who sur
rendered were Germans.
FOOD PRODUCTS ARE
STILL SOARING IN
CHICAGO MARKETS
CHICAGO, May 8 (by Associated
Press).—Famine prices have been
reached here this week on food prod
ucts. The quotations today are from
5 to 13% cents higher than last Sat
urday's. Oats were 2% to 5% cents
higher, and provisions were 60 cents
higher.
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AUTOCARAVAN
FROM SEATTLE
TO CALIFORNIA
SEATTLE, May 8 (by Associated
Press).—The Pacific Northwest auto
mobile caravan, by means of which
. scores of advertising members will
journey to the annual convention at
Stockton, Cal., will leave Seattle Mon
day, May 17.
Plans for the caravan will provide
for every comfort and convenience foi
tourists, and cities along the route
are plannin gto entertain the ad met
and their families.
The control sheet for operation ovei
the entire route from Vancouver, B
C., has been arranged as follows:
Leave Vancouver, B. C., 8 a. m
Sunday, May 16; noon control, Mounl
Vernon, Wash.; distance, 35 miles;
night control, Seattle; day’s run, 171
miles.
Leave Seattle 8 a. m. Monday, Maj
17; noon control, Chehalis, Wash., 10£
miles; night control, Portland; day’s
run, 209 miles.
Leave Portland 1 p. m. Tuesday
May 18; night control, Corvallis, Ore.;
day’s run, 93 miles.
Leave Corvallis 8 a. m. Wednesday
May 19; night control, Roseburg, Ore.;
day’s run, 118 miles.
Leave Roseburg 8 a. m. Thursday
May 20; noon control, Glendale, dis
tance 52 miles; night control, Med
ford; day’s run, 115 miles.
Leave Medford 7 a. m. Friday, Maj
21; breakfast, Lithia Park, Ashland
15 miles; Sissons, 35 miles, anc
Shasta Springs, 91 miles; night con
trol, Corning, Cal.; day’s run, 225
miles.
Leave Corning 8 a. m. Saturday
May 22; noon control, Chico, 41 miles;
The grand jury at Valdez yesterdaj
returned not a true bill against Fran!
Cunningham, charged with violating
the “bone-dry” law, and he returned
home this morning completely exon
erated.
OPEN MARKET
FOR WHEAT TO
BE DISCUSSED
CHICAGO, May 8 (by Associated
Press).—United States Wheat Director
Barnes yesterday met with represen
tatives of boards of trade through
out the country, terminal and elevator
associations, grain buyers and export
ers and bankers to discuss plans f&r
the re-establishment of an open mar
ket in wheat.
The board of trade are anxious to
resume trading in futures, and want
the government to safeguard the mar
ket against foreign pools.
The grain dealers want the inter
state commerce commission to use its
power to furnish grain cars.
QUAKER CITY
TOWAGEWAR
ON HIGH RENT
PHILADELPHIA, May 8 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A campaign for the
building of homes is Philadelphia’s
answer to the question of how to keep
rents down to a reasonable basis. The
tenant population is in desperate
straits, for rents have been going
higher and higher and no end seems
to be in sight. The scramble for
homes in the suburbs is so acute that
when one woman moved some of the
furniture out of her home the other
day, in order to clean the house, twen
ty-five persons tried to rent it from
her within a few hours.
To stop the profiteering in rents and
homes, several organizations are at
tempting to unite on a program of
house-building, to continue for at least
six months, or until the shortage has
been relieved. These organizations in
clude associations of tenants, trade
unions, representatives of the build
ing trades and mortgagin gcompanies.
They have been asked to undertake
this work by the department of public
welfare.
j LARGEST HOTEL
IN WORLD FOR
WINDY CITY
CHICAGO, May 8 (by Associated
Press).—Plans for the largest hote:
in the world, to be erected here, were
, made public today. The structure will
contain five units, will occupy three
blocks of ground, and will have foui
, thousand rooms, a theater with a seat
ing capacity of 2,500, and 400 kitchen
ettes for guests desiring to cook theii
own meals.
A feature of the enterprise will be
, a sixteen-story unit for bachelors.
The cost of the building will be $15,'
■ 000,000.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 7 (by Asso
, ciated Press).—“Jaywalking” is under
the ban in San Francisco and boy
scouts are assisting the police in a
campaign to prevent pedestrians from
' swarming across the streets in unreg
’ ulated crowds. Jaywalking is held
to be particularly dangerous on Mar
ket street, on which there are four
sets of surface street car tracks.
PASTOR LEAVES
ON MONDAY FOR
HIS NEW CHARGE
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A reception was held at the Pres
byterian Church Tuesday evening in
honor of Rev. and Mrs. A. G. Shriver,
who after four years’ of work here,
are leaving for their new home at
Cle Elum, Washington. The Presby
terian Church is fortunate in having
among its members some of Cordova’s
most skilful musicians, consequently
music played the leading part of the
evening’s program. The church or
chestra, composed of David Czerwen
ka, leader and violinist, Tad Matson
and Wm. Smith, violinists, Frank
Burns, cornetist, and Mrs. Roy Walk
er, pianist, played four beautiful selec
tions. Mrs. Thos. Hubbert sang
“Love, Here’s My Heart:” Mr. Smith
played “Old Folks at Home” with var
iations; Mrs. Roy Walker sang “When
the Dew is Falling;” Mr. Matson
played a violin solo; Mrs. O’Brien
sang “The Swallow,” a brilliant color
atura composition. A reading was
also given by Mrs. Chester Mellison.
j Then Mr. Jas. Fraisure spoke briefly
| in appreciation of Mr. Shriver’s ener
! getic work here, and presented him
with a substantial proof of his re
marks in the form of a well-filled
purse. Mr. Shriver accepted the purse
with a few’ words of thanks and fare
well. Rev. E. P. Ziegler also spoke
of Mr. Shriver’s work here. During
his stay here, the Sunday School Roll
has grown from 30 to 175; branch
Sunday Schools have been established
at Chitina, McCarthy and Kennecott,
and the church has been put on a
sound financial basis. At the conclu
sion of the program, the crowd en
joyed cake, coffee, and some of Mrs.
Currier’s famous ice-cream.
Boxes and trunks on the porch of
the manse next door to the church
are waiting to be taken to the dock,
for the minister and his family are
; intending to leave on the Alameda
on Monday. Mrs. Shriver may possi
bly go on to Tiffon, Ohio, for a visit
with her parents. A new Presbyter
ian church,and manse are being erect
ed in Cle Elum to replace the former
one, w’hich were destroyed by a fire
two years ago. In connection with
the church will be held an American
ization school for foreigners, who
make up about 70 per cent of the pop
ulation of the town. Mr. Shriver is
greatly interested in this branch of
work. While a student at the McCor
mack Theological Seminary at Chi
cago several years ago he did work
of this kind in the Christopher Social
Settlement House. He intends to era
i ploy all possible modern helps, such
| as newspaper advertising, teaching by
' moving pictures, etc. The energy and
I perseverance which he has shown dur
ing in his stay in Cordova promise well
1 for the success of his work in Cle
! Elum.
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LARGE SUM RAISED
FOR NEW DORMITORIES
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HELENA, Mont., May 8 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Bishop J. P. Carroll of
the Roman Catholic diocese of St.
Helena, has announced success of the
plan to raise $226,000 for two dormi
tories at Mount St. Charles college
conducted here by the diocese.
FRISeOPUTSMNON
MOONBEAM DANCING
SAN FRANCISCO, May 8 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The police of this city
have opened war on “moonbeam
dancing,” which Chief White says “ap
pears to be done to very low lights and
any kind of music.”
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