The Cordova Daily Times
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VOL. 1v7~NO. 271_CORDOVA^ ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1919_PRICE TEN CENTS
MAY COMPROMISE TREATY RESERVATIONS
WILSON TRANSACTS BUSINESS IN BED
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PRESIDENTS HEALTH IMPROVES
AND HE DICTATES LETTER GIVING
VIEWS ON INDUSTRIAL SITUATION
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (by Associ
ated Press).—President Wilson, de
spite his illness, is understood to be
preparing an endeavor to prevent the
break which is threatened in the in
dustrial conference on account of its
inability to reach an agreement on
collective bargaining.
President Wilson is so improved in
health as to be able to receive letters
regarding the coal strike, the indus
trial conference and the treaty situa
, lion.
An Important Communication
Prom his bed President Wilson to
day dictated a six hundred-word letter
to Secretary of the Interior Lane,
chairman of the industrial conference,
in which he outlined his views on the
conference situation.
The President signed the letter with
a shaky hand with a pencil.
It is believed that Secretary Lane
may not use the letter unless the
conference shows signs of breaking up.
Wants Work Accomplished
It is understood that President Wil
son’s letter declares it to be impera
tive that the conference remain in ses
sion until it has accomplished the pur
pose for which it was called.
Those who have read the letter say
it is an extremely powerful document.
The conference may take a recess
for a week in order to work out a new
program.
President Wilson has .appointed O.
D. Young of Schenectady a member of
the public group at the industrial con
ference, on account of the illness of
Fuller Callaway.
EF FORT BEING
MADE AVERT
• COAL STRIKE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (by Associ
ated Press).—Representatives of the
miners and operators in the bitumi
nous coal fields met today with Secre
tary of Labor Wilson in an effort to
*• avert the strike which is scheduled to
occur November 1.
Secretary Wilson urged that the dif
ferences be adjusted in some way in
order to save the country from the
distress of closing the mines in the
face of approaching winter.
The miners and operators are stand
ing firm in their respective positions.
The meeting is secret.
IDAHO JUDGE COMMITS
SUICIDE IN PORTLAND
BY SHOOTING HIMSELF
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 21 (by Asso
ciated Press).—J. J. Cuheen, formerly
circuit judge at Pocatello, Idaho, and
prominent in Idaho politics, committed
suicide here today. He shot himself
^ through the heart while walking on
the street.
STEVEDORES RETURN
TO WORK FOR JAPANESE
LINE AT SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21 (by Asso
ciated Press).—After a month’s strike,
approximately five hundred stevedores
have returned to work for the Toyo
Kaisen Kaisha line. Other docks re
main idle.
BRITISH TO FURNISH
^AIRPLANES FOR CHINA
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (by Associ
ated Press).—A British company has
obtained a contract involving $40,000,
000 for. furnishing airplanes and equip
^ ment for the Chinese government.
RIVER BOATS
ARE PLOWING
DAWSON, Y. T„ Oct. 21 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The river steamer Yu
kon arrived here on the ISth and the
Washburn the day following. The
Dawson and Alaska were due at
Whitehorse on the 19th.
The Independent company offers to
send the steamer Thistle from White
horse this week.
ACTION TROOPS
AT GARY VERY
SATISFACTORY
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (by Associ
ated Press).—Chairman Fitzpatrick of
the steel workers’ committee says the
unions are pleased with the conduct of
the federal troops at Gary, Ind. He
says that the tension has been relieved
by the guaranteeing of the rights of
| free speech.
Rioting in Pennsylvania
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 21 (by Associ
ated Press).—Rioting has broken out
in the Braddock steel district, where
a mob of a thousand persons has gath
ered. The fighting has resulted in
several of the rioters being injured,
and the state troops have suffered to
some extent.
BRIGADIER GENERAL REED
PASSES AWAY AT BOSTON
BOSTON, Oct. 21 (by Associated
Press).—Brigadier General Philip
Reed, retired, died here today.
portugaTexpended
BIG SUM IN FRANCE
LISBON, Oct. 21 (by Associated
| Press).—Portuguese army expendi
j tures in France are announced to have
i been £28,000,000.
SENATE ADOPTS AMENDMENT
TO URGENT DEFICIENCY MEASURE ■
PROVIDING FUNDS FOR RAILROAD
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (by Associated Press):—The senate to
day adopted the committee amendment to the urgent deficiency ap
propriation bill, providing that $17,000,000 be made immediately avail
able for the completion of the Alaska government railroad.
The bill was reported today by Chairman Warren of the commit
tee, and he will ask for an early vote on the measure.
The urgent deficiency bill is the first appropriation bill of the ses
sion, and carries a total of $42,4)00,000.
FAMOUS JAPANESE COUNT
AND FORMER PREMIER DIES
AFTER A BRILLIANT CAREER
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TOKIO, Oct. 21 (by Associated '
Press).—Field Marshal Count Seiki |
Terauchi, former premier, died here
last night.
One of the foremost warrior-states
men of modern Japan, Field Marshal
Count Seiki Terauchi's notable j
achievements included his solution of
the problem of national defense for
Japan and his success in annexing Ko
rea and the assimilation of the Korean
people into the Japanese empire dur
ing his administration as governor gen
eral of that colony. The results he
attained in Korea had marked him as
a commanding figure and one to be
reckoned with in shaping the destinies
of the Japanese empire.
Called by the emperor to become
premier in the course of a passionate
struggle between the forces of rep
resentative government and those of
the Japanese bureaucracy, his eleva
tion to the leading post in the Japa
nese government in 1916 brought the
clash between these opposing forces
to issue, with Count Terauchi as the
focus.
As the champion and one' of the
leading exponents of the ultra-conser
vative bureaucracy, Count Terauchi’s
appointment as premier was attacked
by the adherents of representative
government on the ground that he was
virtually selected as premier by the
Japanese elder statesmen, and that
this little group of men exercised alto
gether too powerful an influence over
the destinies and government of Japan.
Representing only a minority of the
house of representatives, Count Terau
chi faced defeat in his measures to be
submitted to that house. The conflict
came to issue when the opposition in
troduced a resolution of lack of confi
dence, but apparently at the advice of
the premier the emperor forestalled
the vote by dissolving the house. New
elections were ordred in April, 1917,
and these were accompanied by vigor
ous attacks upon the premier, who
was credited with the intention of
again dissolving the house should the
election be adverse to him.
Count Terauchi was a member of
the famous Choshu clan, from which
sprang renowned leaders of the Japa
nese army. He was born February 5,
1852, at Nagato, and was the son of a
samurai. He distinguished himself as
a young soldier of the Imperial Guards
regiment in putting down the Saigos
rebellion, in which service he was
wounded in the right arm, as a result
of which that arm thereafter was use
less.
Although outdone by more brilliant
soldiers, Count Terauchi won distinc-1
tion as a military administrator and j
won promotion as major general and j
appointment as the president of the j
Japanese military staff college.
While minister of war, in 1902, his
executive qualities and unremitting
diligence won the confidence of the
elder statesmen. He became absolute
master of the war department, and
eventually a war councillor.
The achievement with which his
name will ever be associated is the
annexation of Korea. Appointed gov
ernor general in 1910. his aim was to
win the Korean people near to the
Japanese. He ruled the Koreans with
a firm hand, took over the police pow
ers of the government, and stationed
Japanese soldiers in every province.
Within a few months after assuming
the office of governor his work of an
nexation was complete, and the fact
was announced to the treaty powers.
The emperor of Korea was reduced to
the rank of a prince, and the rule of
Terauchi was supreme. Under his di
rection Japan spent vast sums of
money in improving and developing
the province. His constructive abil
ity, as manifested in its rebuilding,
won for him the admiration of the
Japanese people.
Small in stature and modest in ap
pearance. Count Terauchi combined
with keen military knowledge a large
capacity for statesmanship and power
of leadership. His aversion to politi
cians cost him many friends.
As premier he announced that his
aim would be to promote friendly ties
between Japan and the United States,
that he had no intention of ‘‘waving
the sword” at America, and that he ac
cepted the office “as a statesman seek
ing the lasting interests of his people
—not as a militarist seeking glorifica
tion by the sword.”
MANY SPURIOUS BONDS
ARE BEING CIRCULATED
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 21 (by Associated
Press).—Speakers at the convention
of investment bankers, now in session
here, yesterday warned the public that
thousands of salesmen are dispensing
spurious stocks and bonds over the
country, and that the wave of specula
tion is spreading.
CHINESE LABOR BEING
DRIVEN FROM MEXICO
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (by Associ
ated Press).-—The people of Mexico
are driving out Chinese labor. Ap
proximately a thousand Chinese who
have been driven into Guatemala are
asking the Washington government to
arrange for their transportation to
China.
COMPROMISE MAY BE REACHED
BY LEADERS OF SENATE ON
PEACE TREATY RESERVATIONS
A.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (by Asso
ciated Press).—It is possible that a
compromise may be reached between
the advocates and opponents of treaty
reservations. The matter is being
seriously considered by the Demo
cratic leaders, following a call by Sen
ator Lodge for a meeting of the for
eign relations committee of the senate
tomorrow to consider new reservations
end modifications.
Senator McCumber, leader of the
“mild reservationists,” has introduced
a number of compromise reservations.
He said they represented the efforts
of Republicans desirous of reaching an
agreement on reservations.
Senator McCunrber’s reservations j
concern the questions of withdrawal j
Article 10, domestic affairs, the Mon
roe doctrine, Shantung and inequality
of voting strength in the League ot
Nations.
Will Not Wait for United States
PARIS, Oct. 21 (by Associated
Press).—The supreme council of the
first meeting of the council of the
peace council may fix a date for the
League of Nations on Thursday next.
It is considered impossible to wait
for the ratification of the treaty by
the United States before the ratifica
tions are formally announced.
The allied military authorities will
fix the date for depositing the ratifi
cations of the treaty by the various
nations, which will bring the peace
treaty into effect.
TRADES UNIONS
ARE ATTACKED
BY SENATOR
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (by Associ
ated Press).—Senator Frelifighuysen
of New Jersey, chairman of the senate
committee which is investigating the
coal strike, in a speech in the senate
today attacked trades unionism under
its present leadership as “a new au
tocracy tending toward Bolshevikisin.”
The senator urged American public
opinion to stop the movement, which
he feared would bring class govern
ment.
Senator Frelinghuysen criticized
the demands of the miners for a five
day week and increased wages, and
said the demands wlere exorbitant,
and if granted they would decrease
production.
The senator referred to the steel
strike, to the Boston police strike,
and to the strike of the New York
longshoremen, and asked, “Where
will this striking frenzy stop?” Un
less it be stopped, he said, “we will
reach a state of anarchy worse than
the German autocracy.”
RIOT CAUSED
OVER BANNED
HUN OPERA
NEW YORK, Oct. 21 (by Associated
Press).—Mounted police last night
charged three hundred service men
who had gathered in front of the Lex
ington theater to prevent the produc
tion of a German opera which had
been banned by Mayor Hylan.
The service men were dispersed,
but they recruited a thousand civilians
and attacked the police with a barrage
of bricks and stones.
RUMANIANPATROr
FIRES ON BRITISH BOAT
BUDAPEST, Oct. 21 (by Associated
Press).—A British river boat on the
Danube has exchanged shots with a
Rumanian patrol which opened fire
on it.
PETROGRAD IS
STILL HELD BY
LONDON, Oct. 21 (by Associated
Press).—The indications are that the
Bolsheviki are defending Petrograd
stubbornly. Helsingfors dispatches
say that Yudenich has halted his ad
vance to await reinforcements, and
that he has encountered strong Bol
shevik resistance seven miles south of
Petrograd.
Amsterdam dispatches say that Com
missary Sienovieff, the chief Bolshe
vik representative in Petrograd, has
withdrawn to Moscow with many of
his men.
Reports from Finland state that the
Bolsheviki still held Kronstadt Sun
day, and that the red flag has been
raised on the battleship Petropav
lovsk, which was raised by the Bol
i sheviki after being sunk in Kronstadt
harbor by the British.
Yudenich Wants Supplies
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 21 (by Associ
ated Press).—General Yudenich has
asked tie American minister here to
send food to Petrograd, which he ex
pects to take today.
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LOS ANGELES COMPANY
GETS CON' 1CT BUILD
TEN LARi FREIGHTERS
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21 (by Associ
ated Press).—The Southwestern Ship
building Company announced today
that it has obtained a $20,000,000 con
tract from the American Fleet Cor
poration, for the construction of ten
freighters of the coastwise fleet of the
Boston Pacific Company.
PRINCE OF BAVARIA
TO BE TRIED FOR
COMMON LAW CRIMES
PARIS. Oct. 21 (by Associated
Press).—The name of Prince Rup
precht of Bavaria is on the list of six
hundred German officers whose sur
render for trial for common law crimes
in France and Belgium will be de
manded, according to La Liberta.