'_CORDOVA, ALASKA" SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11,1919_ PRICE TEN CENJS
TRANSCONTINENTAL FLYERS TO
COMPLETE FIRST HALF OF RACE
* TONIGHT-STORMS DELAY THEM
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SAX FRANCISCO, Oct. 11 (by As
sociated Press).—Lieutenant Maynard,
leader in the transcontinental airplane
race, has arrived here. He arrived at
Reno yesterday and left at noon for
Sacramento.
Hundred and Nine Miles an Hour
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—Maynard’s actual flying
time from Mineola to Sacramento was
24 hours, 5 minutes and 4Sy2 seconds.
He made an average speed of 109
miles an hour.
The return trips to both coasts will
start October 20. The planes will be
^ repaired and overhauled at the coast
stations.
Spatz Leads Westerners
MINEOLA, N. Y., Oct. 11 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Spatz arrived here to
day, leading Kiel by a few miles.
Troubled by Storms
BUFFALO, Oct. 11 (by Associated
Press).—Kiel arrived here this morn
ing. leading the east-bound fliers.
Spatz was two minutes behind Kiel.
Smith left Bryan, Ohio, with Kiel, and
Spatz lost his way in a heavy rain
storm and broke his propellor. He I
will continue later. Kiel and Spatz
expect to reach Mineola today.
Another Fatality
BUFFALO, N. Y„ Oct. 11 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The fifth fatality of the
transcontinental air race occurred yes
terday, when an observer with Major
Sneed was killed when the plane
crashed on Curtiss field.
Spatz and Kiel left here today for
Rochester.
Reports from Chicago
CHICAGO, Oct. 11 (by Associated
Press).—Captain Smith was overtaken
by Lieutenant Kiel and Major Spats
at Bryan, Ohio, yesterday in the air
race, east-bound. He still has a chance
to finish first at Mineola.
Maynard is still leading the west
bound flyers. He reached Salduro,
Utah, last night, spending the night
there, and will make a final dash for
San Francisco today.
Rain is holding many of the fliers
in the Middle West. It is expected
that both the east-bound and west
bound fliers will complete the first half
of the race tonight.
. JOHNSON WILL
CONCLUDE HIS
TRIP SUNDAY
41 BUTTE, Oct. 11 (by Associated
Press).—Senator Johnson, addressing
an enthusiastic meeting here last
night, charged that the administration
has not made plain what obligations
the United States would assume if it
adopted the League of Nations cov
enant. He said: “They want to ad
minister our burden in homeopathic
doses.”
Speaks in Spokane
SPOKANE, Oct. 11 (by Associated
Press).—In his speech here Senator
Johnson said that under the League of
Nations the United States would be
inextricably mixed up with every quar
rel in Europe until 1950. He said that
to join the league would be “to guar
antee the other fellow’s game.”
A crowd of four thousand persons,
which filled the Armory, heard the
California senator.
It is announced that Senator John
* son will conclude his tour at Salt Lake
*■ Sunday.
PRESIDENT OF CENTRAL
TRUST COMPANY IS DEAD
NYACK, N. Y., Oct. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—James N. Wallace, presi
dent of the Central Trust Company,
died here last night.
Great Britain Has
Ratified Treaty
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LONDON, Oct. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—King George yes
terday completed Great Britain’s
ratification of the peace treaty
^by signifying the royal assent.
The document has been sent to
Paris.
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REBUT AT
RAPID RATE
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PARIS, Oct. 11 (by Associated
Press).—Captain Andrieu Tardieu yes
terday told the French-American Club
of the remarkable progress of recon
struction work in France since the
signing of the armistice.
Sixty thousand of the 550,000 Houses
in the battle area have been rebuilt,
he said; 2,016 kilometers of the 3,246
kilometers of railway have been re
paired; 700 kilometers of the 1.675
kilometers of canals made useless are
again in commission; 588 of the 1,160
plants destroyed have been repaired,
and a vast area of land has been re
turned to the farmers in suitable con
dition for seeding.
KING ALBERT GUEST
OF HERBERT HOOVER
SANTA BARBARA, Oct. 11 (by As
sociated Press).—King Albert of Bel
gium and his party arrived here yes
terday, and will be the guests of Her
bert Hoover for three days, enjoying
the motoring and swimming.
Cheering throngs met the royal
train at every California town through
which it passed.
At Truckee the king and the crown
prince mounted into the cab of the en
gine and ate luncheon there.
King Albert decorated the engineer
the Second.
VILLA PREPARING FOR
BIG OFFENSIVE MONDAY
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—A report is current here
to the effect that General Villa is plan
ning to begin a major offensive opera
tion on Monday next with the largest
force he has ever assembled.
GERMAN ATTACK NEAR RIGA
REPULSED BY LETTS-REPORTED
CAPTURE OF KIEV BY BOLSHE VIKI
LONDON, Oct. 11 (by Associated
Press).—The Germans and Russians
yesterday attacked Riga with the Ger
man big guns and forced the Letts to
evacuate the city.
Fighting in Petrograd
COPENHAGEN, Oct. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—A Helsingfors dispatch
says that serious fighting is in prog
ress at Petrograd between the adher
ents and opponents of the Bolsheviki.
The counter revolutionaries, says the
dispatch, have captured several im
portant buildings and government in
stitutior s.
Attack Was Repulsed
COPENHAGEN, Oct. 10 (by Associ
ated Press).—The Letts report that
lie Germans under Von der Goltz, with
the Russians, attacked the Letts near
Riga, occupying Shtotsk, outside the
demarcation line. The attack was re
pulsed with sanguinary losses.
Kiev the Storm Center
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—A newspaper here prints
an unconfirmed report which says that
the Bolsheviki have retaken Kiev.
Kolchak's Army Advancing
OMSK, Siberia, Oct. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—The army of Admiral
Kolchak is advancing westward, hav
ing regained the line on the Tobolsk
river along a front of twenty-seven j
miles north of the city of Kurgan.
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CLEVELAND, Oct. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—Six robbers today held
up the Samuel Emerson Company’s
paymaster in the lobby of the build
ing occupied by that firm.
Throwing pepper into the eyes of
their victim, the robbers made their
escape with $11,000 which was in the
paymaster’s bag.
PENNSYLVANIA
SHOPEMPLOYES
OUT ON STRIKE
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FIUME, Oct. 11 (by Associated
Press). The crew of the steamship
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Persia, en route from Genoa for the >
Far East, mutinied and brought the
vessel into Fiume.
The Persia carries thirty thousand
rifles, ten million cartridges and
twenty batteries of machine guns, with
two heavy guns, for the troops oper
ating against the Bolsheviki.
WAGE DISPUTE
TERMINATES IN
TWO KILLINGS
ALTOONA, Pa., Oct. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—More than seven thou
sand members of the mechanical force
of the Pennsylvania railroad shops
here struck yesterday in sympathy
with the engine house force, who are
seeking to enforce the seniority rule.
JAPANESE ARE SENDING
BIG DELEGATION TO
LABOR CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—Japan will send the
largest delegation of any nation to the
international labor conference to be
held here. The party, comprising
sixty-one persons, will sail for the
United States today.
RECOMMEND MORE MONEY
FOR ARMY AIRCRAFT
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (by Associ
ated Pres?).—The senate committee
on military affairs has voted nnuni
mously to recommend an additional
appropriation of $15,000,000 for army
aircraft construction, to carry out air
service plans of establishing routes to
Panama, Alaska, and probably to Asia. ‘
BOZEMAN, Mont., Oct. 11 (by As
sociated Press).—After killing a dep
uty sheriff and another man, and
wounding a third, Buford Webb barri
caded himself in a cabin, which is now
surrounded by a posse of a hundred
men. The fight originated in a dis
pute over wages.
VERNON IS MAKING
GOOD SHOWING FOR
MINOR CHAMPIONSHIP
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—Vernon defeated St.
Paul by a score of 2 to 1 in yester
day’s game of the minor league cham
pionship series.
A fist fight was indulged in in the
sixth inning between Umpire Murray
and members of the Vernon team. The
fight was stopped by officers.
The fight was the result of a close
decision at first base.
PROHIBITION BILL IS
NOW UP TO PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—The house today com
pleted the enactment of the prohibi
tion enforcement bill, and the measure
now goes to the President for his sig
nature.
NEW YORK LONGSHOREMEN
REFUSE TO UNLOAD VESSELS
-COAL MINERS TO STRIKE
NEW YORK, Oct. 11 (by Associated
Press).—A committee of the striking
longshoremen has flatly refused the
utimatum of the war department, that
they handle four freighters and six
passenger ships now en route to New
York.
The strike has virtually stopped all
harbor activity, and it is^ feared that
it may extend to all Atlantic ports.
The strikers demand an increase
from 65 cents to $1 per hour.
To Use Soldiers as Strike-Breakers
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—Secretary of War Baker
announces that he will use soldiers
in loading and unloading ships at New
York if the longshoremen's strike pre
vents their being handled.
Coal Miners to Strike
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 11 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The conference of the
bituminous coal miners and operators,
which has been considering, the en
forcement of the demands for a 60
per cent increase in wages and shorter
hours for miners, has disagreed, and
will adjourn today.
The miners’ leaders say a strike
will be called for November 1.
The operators say they can not grant
the demands of the men.
Three hundred thousand miners in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illi
nois are affected.
Refuse to Handle War Munitions
SEATTLE, Oct. 11 (by Associated
Press).—The union longshoremen
here have ignored the water front em
ployers’ demand that they load rifles
on board the steamship Delight.
The longshoremen recently refused
to load the vessel because the rifles
were intended for the forces operating
against the Bolsheviki in Siberia.
The employers say the longshore
men’s action breaks the agreement,
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and that they will employ non-union
ists.
To Secure Constitutional Guarantees
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—The State Federation of
Labor has called a special session to
meet here to consider the securing for
the steel strikers and all labor bodies
of their constitutional guarantees.
Representatives of the steel strikers
told the senate investigators today
that the right to free assemblage and
free speech had been denied in the
steel districts. William Feeney, a
union organized, alleged that the
policemen had acted with brutality.
Chairman Kenyon says he is seeking
an eye-witness of the alleged bru
tality.
Steel Plants Resuming
YOUNGSTOWN. Ohio, Oct. 11 (by
Associated Press).—The first iron
manufactured in the Mahoning valley
since the strike was poured from a
blast furnace this morning, according
to an observer outside the plant of the
Youngstown Sheet Tube Company.
Other platits here also are attempt
ing to resume.
Shopmen’s Strike Settled
TUCSON. Ariz., Oct. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—The walkout of the
Southern Pacific shopmen h is been
settled.
Shortage of Material Causes Shutdown
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, Oct. 11 (by
Associated Press).—All departments
of the Whitaker-Glessner steel plant
except the blast furnace will be idle
after tonight on account of a shortage
of material. The plant employes 5,000
men.
Oakland Strike at an End
OAKLAND, Cal., Oct. 11 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The street car men.
who have been on strike since October
1, returned to work today pending ar
bitration.
REPORTED LOSS
OF TRANSPORT
IS DISCREDITED
ARCHANGEL, Oct. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—A Helsingfors dispatch1
says that two thousand lives were lost
in the wreck of an unnamed British
ship off the Norwegian coast.
Report Discredited
LONDON, Oct. 11 (by Associated
Press).—Both Lloyd’s and the British
admiralty discredit the above report.
It is probable that the wrecked ship
was a transport carrying British troops
from Archangel. If the report should
prove to be true it will mark the
greatest loss of life in any single
wreck in the annals of the seas.
ALASKA SAILS TODAY
WITH FEW PASSENGERS
SEATTLE, Oct. 11 (by Associated
Press).—The steamship Alaska sailed
for the North at 9 o’clock this morn
ing, carrying forty-one passengers.
Those bound for Cordova are: E.
C. Thisted, J. J. Chisholm, Mrs. G. W.
Weir, Cyril Meyers, V. Radowich, J. B.
Bell, J J. Murray, Mrs. John H Jeslin,
and four steerage.
WAN T TOm
POLICE FROM
PORTLAND, Ore.. Oct. 11 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The city of Portland
has filed an injunction suit to restrain
the officers of the State Federation of
Labor from granting a union charter
to th& organization of the city police,
which would permit their affiliation
with the American Federation of La
bor.
The police have presented a petition
to the city authorities asking a salary
increase of $20 per month for all mem
bers.
German Activities
Regarded Seriously
LONDON, Oct. 11 (by Asso
ciated Press).—It is reported
that the peace conference in
tends to demand that Berlin
withdraw the German troops
from the Baltic provinces on
pain of coercive measures from
the allies. The allies regard
Germany’s capture of Riga se
riously.