The Cordova Daily Times
Member of The Associated Press
VOL. IV. NO, 72_CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1919 ' PRICE TEN CENTS
CZECHO SLOVAKS EVACUATING
MINING DISTRICTS IN DISPUTE
ANDOFFERTOFjXNEUTRALZONE
WARSAW, Feb. 26 (by Associated Press).—Under the
auspices of the inter-allied mission to Poland, the Czeclio-Slovak
troops are evacuating the Teschen mining districts, which are
in dispute between Poland and Czecho slovakia. The Czecho
slovak commander in Silesia has offered to fix a neutral zone
to prevent possible clashes between the nations.
Supreme Council to Urge Payment
PARIS, Feb. 26 (by Associated Press).—The supreme
council of the peace congress has decided to ask the government
at Vienna to pay the interest coupons of the Austro-Hungarian
debt, falling due March 1.
Friction Develops in Siberia
VLADIVOSTOK, Feb. 26 (by Associated Press).—The
work of the economic commission here appears to have been
nullified by the British action in giving exclusive trade rights
to Siberian supply companies, the privilege also covering goods
purchased in the British dominions. The British and Canadian
trade commissioneres have protested
For South African Republic
CAPETOWN, Feb. 26 (by Associated Press).—The Na
tionalist members of parliament have accepted the offer of a
warship to convey a deputation to England and Paris, where
they will present arguments in favor of establishinig a South
African republic.
CHINA DEPORTS
ALL GERMANS
FROMCOUNTRY
• PARIS, Feb. 26 (by Associated
Press).—The German armistice com
missioners at Spa have protested
against the deportation of Germans
from China, which country sent twc
shiploads of Teutons to Austria dur
ing January, and is preparing to sene
others direct to the central powers.
China to Deport Alt Germans
LONDON, Feb. 26 (by Associated
Press).—Reuter’s Agency is informet
that four ships have been chartered
for a voyage from China to Europe
bringing all the Germans now in Chins
except a few missionaries.
Twenty-five hundred Germans arc
involved in the deportations.
SflIPWORKERS
VOTING TODAY
T0ENDS1ME
SEATTLE, Feb. 26 (by Associates
Press).—The forty thousand strikinf
shipyard workers today are taking i
referendum vote on a proposition ts
end the strikes at Seattle, Tacoma
Aberdeen and Anacortes if assurancei
are given that a conference to adjus
wage demands, scheduled to be hel(
at Washington not later than Marcl
17, will be transferred to the Pacifls
coast.
Butchers Return to Work
CHICAGO, Feb. 26 (by Associates
Press).—The strike of the employei
of the slaughter houses ended today
the men being satisfied with the meas
ures taken to remedy the conditloni
complained of.
English Miners Threaten to Strike
LONDON, Feb. 26 (by Associates
Dress).—Strong forces are working ts
secure a postponement of the threat
ftHI strike of miners, in order to an
able the government commissioners ts
complete their inquiry.
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Nels McCreary has entered into at
arrangement with Joseph Ibach when
fey he will take charge of the latter1!
fjgx farm on Wooded island.
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DEMOCRATS ARE
ORGANIZING TO
GIVE BATHE
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Homer S. Cummings
today was elected chairman of the na
tional Democratic committee to suc
ceed Vance McCormick, lately re
signed. Two vice chairman were
named from Western states—J. Bruce
Kramer of Butte, Mont., and Samuel
B. Amidon of Wichita, Kan. The other
officers elected were as follows:
E. G. Hoffman, Fort Wayne, Ind„
secretary; W. R. Hollister, JefTerson
City, Mo., executive secretary; W. D.
Jamieson of Shenandoah, Iowa, direc
tor of finance; Mrs. George Bass, Chi
cago, chairman of the national wom
an’s bureau.
Mrs. Bass is the first woman who
ever participated in the proceedings
of the committee. She was present
as the holder of a proxy.
The committee voted for a complete
reorganization and determined upon
an aggressive campaign in 1920.
FRENCH SENATE SHOWS
1 CONFIDEN N PREMIER
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; PARIS, Feb. 26 (by Associated
i Press).—The senate yesterday adopt
, ed a vote of confidence in the Clem
enceau government.
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SUSPECTED ANARCHISTS
RELEASED BY COURT
NEW YORK, Feb. 26 (by Associated
I Press).—Seven of the fourteen Span
t lards who were arrested last Sunday
on suspicion of their connection with
’ a national terrorist plot have been re
t leased on habeas corpus proceedings.
WILL PRAY FOR RECOVERY
OF GOVERNOR LISTER
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, SPOKANE, Feb. 26 (by Associated
Press).—The Ministerial Association
of Spokane announces the holding of
l prayer services on Sunday, March 2,
■ lor the recovery ot Governor Lister,
i who is ill in the state hospital at
Steilacoom.
i Would-Be Slayer
J of Clemenceau
l Is Questioned
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♦ PARIS, Feb. 26.—Cottin, the
♦ anarchist who attempted to as
♦ sassinate Premier Clemenceau
♦ a few days ago, was placed on
♦ the grill yesterday in an at
♦ tempt to learn whether he had
♦ confederates.
♦ Cottin told his inquisitors
♦ that he was solely responsible
♦ for his act, and that he acted
♦ under no influence other than
♦ his own.
♦ The prisoner accused Clem
♦ enceau of showing tacit oppo
♦ sition to anarchists. He said
♦ he first became an anarchist
♦ through the influence of a Span
♦ iard whom he met at Lyons.
♦ He declared that he had spent
♦ considerable money for anar
♦ chistic literature.
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! I Bokheviki Are J
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4 BASEL, Feb. 26 (by Associ- 4
4 a ted Press).—Seventy-six com- 4
4 munlsts have been arrested on 4
4 charges of rebellion aganist the 4
4 Hungarian republic at Buda- 4
4 pest. 4
4 During their examination by 4
4 the authorities they admitted 4
4 that money to establish an 4
4 anti-republican government had 4
4 come from Russia, and that the 4
4 expenses of the movement dur- 4
4 ing the past month, reaching 4
4 three hundred thousand crowns, 4
4 had been furnished by the 4
4 Bolshevist leaders in Russia. 4
4 It is likely that more ar- 4
4 rests will follow, as there is a 4
4 growing sentiment against the 4
4 radicals throughout the Hun- 4
4 garian republic. 4
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ALLIED FORCES ARE DRIVING
BOLSHEVIKI ALONG DNE1STER
IEAVE DEAD AND WOUNDED
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>. ATHENS, Feb. 26 (by Associated Press).—Greek troops
'with the French and Rumanians have advanced north of Odessa
and are pursuing the Bolsheviki along the Dneister river to
lOmad, a fortified town, and Tiraspol,- fifty-three miles from
\Odessa. The retreating Bolsheviki have abandoned many
/of their dead and wounded, together with ^nns and munitions.
■ Bolshevik Outrages
PARIS, Feb. 26 (by Associated Press).-—The German lega
tion at Libau reports tlmt the Bolsheviki have captured the
island of Oessel, and have assassinated three members of the
Gennan legation there.
Baltic Cities Rescued from Bolsheviki
i COPENHAGEN, Feb. 26 (by Associated Press).—The
ports of Libau and Windau, in Courland, on the Baltic, which
•the Bolsheviki took in January, have been recaptured.
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WILL REGRET
LOSING HIM,
SAYS KAISER
LONDON, Feb. 26 (by Associated
Press).—The Daily Mail’B Copenha
gen correspondent quotes the former
kaiser as saying to Count Von Brock
dorff Rentzau, the German foreign
minister, that Germany soon will re
pent of having overthrown the mon
archy.
The correspondent further says that
the kaiser said "there still were good
patriots in Germany who would not
allow her to become bankrupt.”
MAILS ARE AGAIN BEING
DISPATCHED FROM NOME
By private advices it was learned
that the quarantine at Nome was
raised last Wednesday, the public be
ing allowed to come and go at will.
This would Indicate that the epidemic
of Influenza has passed in that section.
The mails, which were held up on
account of the wide area covered by
the influenza, are once more on the
move. Tons have been stored on the
lower Yukon awaiting the lifting of
the quarantine that it may be taken
into Nome.
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Alto Lubbe, pioneer hay and grain
merchant of McCarthy, died yester
day after a long illness. Hts‘ spn,
Charlie Lubbe, recently discharged
from the army» will leave Cordova tor
McCarthy tomorrow to attend tne
funeral.
OUTBREAK IN
UNION RESULTS
IN SHOOTINGS
CHICAGO, Feb. 26 (by Associated
Press).—Two men were shot and fa
tally wounded and one slightly
wounded during an outbreak of in
surgency at a meeting of the Plumb
ers’ Union in this city last night.
The police are holding all the other
members of the union who attended
the meeting pending an Investigation.
JAPS ARE BESTED IN
BATTLE WITH BOLSHEVIKI
VLADIVOSTOK, Feb. 26 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The Japanese lost two
officers and eighteen men killed and
twenty wounded in an engagement
with Bolshevikl east of Blagoviesst
chensk. the capital of the province of
Amur. The Bolshevikl force was esti
mated at three thousand.
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BRITISH PRISONERS
BELIEVED TO BE DEAD
LONDON, Feb. 2« (by Associated
Press).—Captain Ouest of the British
army, addressing the house of com
mons today, said three thousand Brit
ish troops were unaccounted for
among the war prisoners. It is not
expected that many of them remain
alive.
MANNHEIM IN STATE OF REVOLT
AND SOVIET GOVERNMENT WILL
ABOLISH RULE BY MILITARY
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COPENHAGEN, Feb. 26 (by Associated Press).—^ fresit
^revolt broke out in Mannheim yesterday. The reports state
that the Spartacides have occupied the postoffice. The major
ity or independent Socialists have agreed to rescind the procla
mation of a Soviet government and abolish martial law and the
communists have consented to evacuate the public buildings
and surrender their arms on the promise of immunity.
Trouble in Outlying Districts Also
BERLIN, Feb. 26 (by Associated Press).—A Mannheim
dispatch reports that the peasants are in revolt in various dis
tricts in Baden, as the result of friction between the workmen’s
councils and the peasants.
Attempt to Overthrow Saxon Government
i The Spartacides and radical Socialists have launched a
movement to overthrow the government of Saxony, where a
neAv diet has been assembled. A general strike has been pro
claimed and the railway connecting with Halle, one of the prin
cipal junction points, has been broken. Plauen and other in
dustrial centers have been seized.
VICTORY LOAN
BILL PASSES
THE SENATE
WASHINGTON. Feb. 26 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The senate committee
on naval affairs has favorably report
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000,000 for naval purposes.
The Republican members of the
committee reserved the right to op
pose the provision empowering the
President to suspend the naval pro
gram at his discretion.
"Victory” Loan
The house today passed the “Vic
tory” loan bill.
TWO OFFICERS
KILLED WHILE
QUELUNGRIOT
RAHWAY, N. J„ Feb. 26 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Patrolmen James
Lynch and Jacob Krause were shot
dead today while attempting to arrest
a number of men engaged in a street
fight.
One man was arrested after being
forced to abandon a house which he
had barricaded, and he confessed to
firing the fatal shots.
GERMAN WANTS USE
OF SECURITIES FOR FOOD
BERLIN, Feb. 26 (by Associated
Press).—The German government
soon will ask all holders of foreign
securities to turn them in for use
in paying for food importations, says
the Neue Berlin Zeitung.
The government, it is said, will buy
the securities on the basis of current
quotations.
ALASKA MINING STOCKS
NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—Alaska Gold.
3%; Alaska Juneau, 1%.
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PENNSYLVANIA IS IN LINE
ON PROHIBITION QUESTION
HARRIBBUKO, Penn., Feb. 26 (by
Associated Press).—The legislature to
day ratified the federal prohibition
amendment, making the forty-fifth
state that has taken this action.
WILL PROVIDE
JOBS FOR BOYS
MG HOME
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The senate committee
on public lands by. repotted favorably
the bill aptvnpilattng *1 in;, OOO.Cw* .
make reclamed public lands svailaM* '
to settlement by discharged soldMra
and sailors. A similar bill has been
reported to the house.
Secretary of the Interior Lane de
clares that under the provisions of
this measure jobs can be assured for
a hundred thousand persons within
sixty days.
ALASKASALMON
CASES ARE SET
forbearing
SEATTLE, Feb. 26 (by Associated
Press).—Federal Judge Neterer has
set May 8 as the date for hearing the
case of the federal government against
52,400 cases of Alaska salmon, worth
$210,000, which have been declared
by the authorities to be unfit for food.
Six separate cases of seizures are
involved.
BAN ON IMPORTED MEATS
LIFTED IN ENGLAND
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LONDON, Feb. 26 (by Associated
Press).—The food controller today an
nounced that government control of
prices and distribution of imported
bacon, hams and lard would be sus
pended beginning with March 31.
Control of domestic products would
still be maintained, said the controller.
STRIKE SITUATION IS
SERIOUS AT BARCELONA
MADRID, Feb. 26 (by Associated
Press).—Report* from Barcelona show
that the strike situation is becoming
aggravated.
FISH QUOTATIONS
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KETCHIKAN, Feb. 26 —Yesterday'*
fish price* were: Halibut. ISo; sable
fish, 4c; red rock, 2c.
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