The Cordova Times
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VOL? V No759 ~ CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1920 . PRICE TEN CENTS
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MURDER OF WHITE GIRL BY NEGRO RESULTS IN SERIOUS RIOTING
MANY KILLED AND WOUNDED
IN ATTEMPT TO LYNCH NEGRO
WHO MURDERED LITTLE GIRL
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LEXINGTON, Ky., Feb. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Four men were killed
and several injured here today when
a*mob charged the court house in an
attempt to lynch William Lockett, a
negro who confessed to the killing of
10-year-old Geneva Hardman. Lockett
was on trial in the court room.
The police and state troops fired on
the mob, and it is reported that two
women were among those shot. The
mob yas held at bay while the officers
slipped the negro to a place of safety.
The ringleaders of the mob carried
La rope.
While the mob was charging the
doors of the court house the jury
found Lockett guilty and he was sen
tenced to be electrocuted on March 11.
City and Country in Turmoil
Four hundred troops have been or
dered from Camp Taylor to prevent
more trouble. The farmers from the
surrounding country have crowded
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into the city,, and the streets were
roped to prevent the crowd from get
ting the negro when the officers took
him to the court house.
The police have stripped the pawn
shops and hardware stores of guns to
kefep them from the crowd.
Trouble Was Anticipated
Three hundred armed militiamen
were on duty at the court house when
court opened this morning, having
been brought here S^urday .in anti
cipation of trouble.
Quiet was restored at noon. The
mob looted the pawnshops and hard
ware stores for arms.
ALBERS MUST
PAY FINE AND
* GO TO PRISON
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SA$f FRANCISCO,- Feb. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The circuit court of
appeals here has affirmed the deci
sion of * the federal district court at
Portland imposing a fine of $10,000
and three years’ imprisonment on
Henry Albers, the wealthy miller, for
violating the espionage act.
During the war Albers declared he
was a German sympathizer.
1 An Unpleasant Surprise!
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PORTLAND, Feb. 9 (by Associated
Press).—Henry Albers expressed sur
prise today when informed of the de
cision of the circuit court at San Fran
cisco. He said he would carry the
ease to the United States supreme
court.
BOLSHEVIKI
TAKE ODESSA
* J I LOOT IT
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LONDON, Feb. 9 (by Associated
Press).—A Moscow wireless message
states that the Bolshevist troops have
victoriously entered Odessa.
It is reported that the Bolsheviki
took enormous booty when they occu
pied the city. British warships are
bombarding the “reds” from the har
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Foreigners Leaving
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 9 (by As
sociated Press).—Messages from
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Odessa state that the foreign elements
began evacuating the city when the
British ships fired over the city.
Two hundred sick were taken on
board the American ship Navahoe.
DESTROYER AND FOOD
> SEIZED BY D’ANNUNZIO
TRIESTE, Feb. 9 (by Associated
^ Press).—D’Annunzio’s forces have
seized a destroyer, and also a train of
foodstuffs.
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KOREANS RISE
I IDRIVEJAPS
OUT OF KIRIN
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—It is officially reported
that two thousand Koreans, armed
principally with equipment furnished
by the Bolsheviki, have entered
Northern Kirin and killed three hun
dred and routed the remainder of the
Japanese force there.
The dispatches say the attack is
the initiation of an active rebellion
in Korea, and is said to be the be
ginning of a tremendous affair.
Population in Revolt
LONDON, Feb. 9 (by Associated
Press).—Moscow dispatches say the
Japanese have evacuated Northern
Korea. The population, the dispatches
say, rose to the aid of the Korean
forces from China.
IRISH MOVIE
SCENES CAUSE
ROUGH HOUSE
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Following the showing
of a motion picture of Irish scenes in
a down-town theater here last night a
score of men broke into the project
ing room, tore up' two films, damaged
the machines and smashed seats. A
panic followed during which several
women fainted.
It is believed that the anger of the
men was aroused because the movie
pictured Ireland as poverty-stricken,
with pigs in the parlors and chickens
in the homes.
VICTIMS OF TURKS WERE
TWO Y. M. C. A. WORKERS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—The state department
has been advised that James Herry
and Frank Johnson, representatives of
the Y. M. C. A., were the two Ameri
cans killed in the recently-reported
attack by a Turkish brigade on an
American convoy. .
HERBERT HOOVER CEASES TO FLIRT
WITH POLITICIANS OF TWO PARTIES
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NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—In a formal statement made public here
yesterday Herbert Hoover declares that he is not a candidate for
President, and that no one is authorized to speak for him politically.
Mr. Hoover says that if the League of Nations is made an issue
in the election he will vote for the party standing for the league.
COUNSEL FOR “WOBBUES” IN
MURDER TRIAL EXONERATES
AMERICAN LEGION FOR RAD)
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MONTESANO, Wash., Feb. 9 (by As
sociated Press).—Attorney Vander
veer, for the defense, made the open
ing statement? for the accused before
the jury this morning in the trial of
the eleven alleged I. W. W. for the
murder of Warren Grimm and other
ex-soldiers at Centralia on Armistice
day.
Counsel said he exonerated the
American Legion from any part in
planning the alleged plot to raid the
“wobblies’ ” hall at Centralia. Any
American Legion men who might have
participated in what he alleged was a
prearranged affair, he said, were but
catspaws of the Centralia commercial
organization.
Vanderveer declared that the de
fense intended to show that the Cen
tralia commercial organizations had
planned to raid the hall, and said it
had been discussed at meetings of the
Commercial Club and the Elks’ Club,
j The “wobblies,” he said, shot in self
defense.
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WOOD IS INDORSED BY
SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS
JACKSON, Miss., Feb. 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—The executive commit
ted of the state Republican committee
has indorsed the candidacy of Major
General Leonard Wood for the presi
dency.
ALASKACABLE
WILL SHORTLY
BE REPLACED
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SEATTLE, Feb. 9 (by Associated
Press).—A special to the Times today
from Washington says that approxi
mately one hundred miles of the Se
attle-Alaska cable is to be replaced as
soon as the army deficiency bill be
comes law.
The cable lies in two miles of water
and is in bad shape.
PART OF CREW
OF FREIGHTER
ARE MISSING
ROCKLAND, Me., Feb. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Ten members of the
crew of the freighter Polias who left
the wreck Friday night in defiance of
the orders of the captain are believed
to have been lost when their lifeboat
was swamped.
The captain and twenty-eight of the
crew were saved.
UNIVERSITY COACH
DIES OF INFLUENZA
SEATTLE, Feb. 9 (by Associated
Press).—James F. Clark, former
pitcher and coach of the University
of Washington baseball team, died of
influenza yesterday. He had played
with the Vancouver, Seattle and Ab
erdeen teams, and was once under con
tract to the White Sox.
ANOTHER STRIKE CALLED
BY RAILROAD WORKERS
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DETROIT, Feb. 9 (by Associated
Press).—The Brotherhood of Mainte
nance of Way Employes and Railroad
Shop Laborers has called a strike of
its three hundred thousand members
for February 17.
L W.W. MINERS
IN UTAH WANT
PAY INCREASE
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SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Two thousand copper
miners employed at Bingham, and
holding membership in the Metal Mine
Workers’ Union of the I. W. W.,
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threaten to strike Tuesday unless
their demand for a flat increase in
wages of one dollar a day and the bet
terment of working conditions is
granted.
TWO BRITISH
STEAMERS ARE
LOST AT SEA
„ HALIFAX, N. S., Feb. 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—The British steamship
Bradboyne is believed to have foun
dered in mid-Atlantic with some loss
of life. Other vessels report having
picked up some of the crew.
The second officer and five men of
the British steamship Oxonian per
ished while attempting to save the
crew of the steamship Bradboyne
when she was abandoned, off the
coast of Newfoundland.
FOUR DEATHS RESULT
FROM EATING OLIVES
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Four persons are
dead here and two are critically ill
from eating ripe olives.
SPOKANE MILLING COMPANIES
AND RETAIL FIRMS CHARGED
• BY JURY WITH PROFITEERING
SPOKANE, Feb. 9 (by Associated
Press).—The report of the grand jury,
submitted to the court Saturday,
charges wholesale speculation in
grain by the milling companies of the
Northwest, including three iij which
Max Houser, vice president of the
Grain Corporation of the Northwest,
is alleged to be interested.
It is declared that through manipu
lation of the markets the price of
wheat was advanced a dollar above
the government price.
A Sensational Allegation
• It is declared that the plan to ap
propriate money for European famine
relief, which is being urged by Her
bert Hoover, is really for the pur
chase of wheat now owned by specu
lators, and in some instances by in
terests with i which officials of the
Grain Corporation are interested.
Retail Firms Indicted
The federal grand jury also has
returned indictments against the Spo
kane Dry Goods Company, the Cul
bertson-Grote-Rankin Company and
the Hill Bros.’ Shoe Company, charging
them with profiteering.
These are three of the largest stores
in town.
Denial by Official
PORTLAND, Feb. 9 (by Associated
Press).—Max Houser, vice president
of the Grain Corporation of the North
west, who is among those charged by
the Spokane grand jury with being
concerned in the alleged manipulation
of the grain markets, declared yester
day that there was no basis for the
allegations. He promised a complete
statement of the case later. ,
Mr. Houser declared that there was
animus back of the allegation of the
i federal grand jury at Spokane, that he
with others had been instrumental in
manipulating wTheat deals to their
own advantage. He says that in the
public statement which he intends to
publish he will give the names of the
men whom he thinks are back of the
plot.
WOMANBURNS
TO DEATH IN
APARTMENT
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The fashionable Berk
shire apartments, at Sutter and Jones
streets, were destroyed by fire last
night. One woman was killed and a
score of persons were more or less
severely burned.
Mrs. Marie Donohoe, secretary of
the local Rebekah lodge, was burned
to death. Thirty-two lodgers, firemen
and policemen were injured.
Many persons jumped from the win
dows of the buttling building into nets
held by firemen, or slid down ropes
made of sheets. Tenants cried from
the windows for help.
MIDDLE CLASS
FORMS UNION
OF ITS OWN
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NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (by Associated i
Press).—Articles of incorporation
have been granted to the “Middle
Class Union,” which, according to one
of the signers of the articles, is com
posed of “that host of refined and in
telligent but hitherto unorganized in
dividuals who are neither labor union
ists, politicians nor capitalists.”
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ADVISES DEMOCRATS NOT
TO OPPOSE UNIVERSAL
MILITARY TRAINING
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—President Wilson has
written to Representative Caldwell, a
member of the house military commit
tee, that it would be inadvisable for
the house Democrats, at their caucus
tonight, to declare their opposition to
universal military training.
TRADE UiONS
TO TAKE HAND
IN CAMPAIGN
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—Vigorously denouncing
congress for its attitude on recent
legislation, the American Federation
of Labor, in a statement issued on
Saturday last, announces the appoint
ment of a national non-partisan politi-*
cal campaign committee to mobilize
“trades-unionists and all lovers of
freedom in an effort to defeat candi
dates who are indifferent to or hostile
to labor,” and to elect only true and
tried friends.
The trades union movement cam
paign will start immediately.
TRAIN WRECK
KILLS Of AND
INJURES TEN
FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 9 (by
Associated Press).—A deliberate at
tempt to wreck a Texas & Pacific train,
by throwing a switch in front of aa.
approaching passenger train is
charged by Engineer Newton Smith,
whose train was wrecked near Ranger,
Texas, on Saturday last.
Smith says he saw a man turn the
switch eight hundred yards ahead of
the train.
One man was killed and ten were
injured in the wrreck.
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NEVADA RATIFIES
SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT
RENO, Nev., Feb. 9 (by Associated
Press).—The Nevada legislature on
Saturday last ratified the -woman suf
frage amendment to the federal con
stitution.