Cordova Daily Times
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VOL. V. NO. 76 CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH j, 1920_PRICE TEN CENTS
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SECRETARY LANE RETIRES
AND IN REPORT TO PRESIDENT
MAKES PLEA FOR ALASKA
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WASHINGTON, ^arch 1 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Franklin K. Lane, who
retired yesterday as secretary of the
interior, in a parting report to Presi
dent Wilson, declares that official
^Washington is a combination of politi
cal caucus, drawing room and civil
service bureau, containing statesmen
who are politicians and politicians who
are not statesmen, and that it is
poorly organized for its task, which
fewer men of larger capacity would do
better.
Discusses Alaska
The construction of the government
railway in Alaska, and the opening of
Alaska lands to development by the
leasing system are among the aims
and accomplishments of his adminis
tration enumerated.
Alaska, says Mr. Lane, has been
hampered by too much red tape in
Washington, which is a static policy
in many government bureaus.
Alaska, he says, should be admin
istered by a federal board located in
the territory, and should be policed
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by constabulary similar to that of
Northwestern Canada.
Coasts Should Be Made Safe
The coasts of Alaska, continues Mr.
Lane, should be made safe for navi
gation. He also recommends that Ca
nadian musk ox, crossed with the na
tive reindeer, should be propagated,
to furnish a new supply of meat to the
Pacific coast.
Mr. Lane’s message concluded with
an appeal for the termination of bu
reaucratic control of Alaska.
Time for Action
The retiring secretary also sent a
letter to Representative Curry of Cali
fornia, chairman of the house com
mittee of territories, inclosing a copy
of his old bill creating an “Alaska
development board,” which was intro
duced in congress by Senator Cham
berlain of Oregon in 1914.
The letter to Congressman Curry
urged the early passage of the bill,
and said the time had arrived to leave
some reservations from Alaska’s re
sources.
ARMED CHINESE ARE
BEING ROUNDED UP
SEATTLE, March 1 (by Associated
Press).—Chief of Police Warren has
ordered a round-up and search of sus
picious-looking Chinese for firearms.
The chief fears a tong war, as it is
reported that the Chinese are arming.
Recently two Chinese were arrested
for carrying concealed arms.
BLAINEFREED
ON ONE GRAFT
INDICTMENT
SEATTLE, March 1 (by Associated
Press).—Judge Jere Neterer, in the
federal district court here today, dis
missed one indictment against John
F. Blaine, charged with irregularities
in handling shipyard purchases, on
the plea of Blaine’s attorneys.
Two other indictments, covering the
same charges, were taken under ad
ivcement by the court. The attorneys
submitted arguments for the quash
ing of the two remaining indictments.
LINER BOHEMIAN IS
AGROUND IN STORM
BOSTON, March 1 (by Associated
Press).—The Leyland liner Bohemian,
carrying sixty-three passengers and a
crew of 130 men, is grounded off Cape
Sambro, Nova Scotia. She was en
route from Boston to Liverpool.
Tugs from Halifax took the passen
gers off in a blinding snowstorm with
out mishap.
RHODE ISLAND
STARTS FIGHT
FOR WHISKEY
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WASHINGTON, March 1 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The state of Rhode
Island has filed a brief in the su
preme court attacking the prohibition
amendment to the federal constitu
tion, saying the amendment is a di
rect invasion of the jurisdictional
powers of the states and the rights of
the people.
The contention is made that the
courts should keep congressional
amendments to the constitution within
the scope and jurisdiction of federal
authority.
GOVERNMENT RETURNS ALL
RAILROADS TO OWNERS AND
PRESIDENT SIGNS NEW LAW
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WASHINGTON, March 1 (by Asso
ciated. Press).—The operating division
of the railroad administration, which
has controlled the railroads of the
country for two years, ceased to exist
at midnight last night.
Two hundred and thirty lines were
returned to their owners without in
cident. Director Hines alone remains
to clear up the thousands of claims
against the government.
The new law under which the rail
roads will operates insures to the rail
roads a fixed percentage of profit, and
creates a fund from which the roads
may obtain loans.
Brotherhoods’ Request Denied
President Wilson signed the rail
road bill Saturday, and at the same
time issued a proclamation vesting
practically all of the powers conferred
by the new law in the chief executive
in Mr. Hines, who will remain as di
rector general.
The President, replying to the re
quest of the railroad brotherhoods that
he name a new commission to adjust
wage differences, said that was pro
vided for in the new law.
FUEL ADMINISTRATION
IS TO BE CONTINUED
WASHINGTON, March 1 (by Asso
ciated Press).—President Wilson has
ordered the fuel administration to be
continued under a committee of four.
SENATE CONFIRMS
NEW CABINET OFFICER
WASHINGTON, March 1 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The senate on Satur
day last confirmed the nomination of
Mr. Payne to be secretary of the in
terior.
-SPRING RUSH
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FORCORDOVA
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SEATTLE, March 1 (by Associated
Press).—The steamship Alameda
sailed for Alaska ports at 9 o’clock
Sunday mornipg, carrying 180 passen
gers. Those bound for Cordova were:
John Segness, Griff Ellis and wife,
Miss Bertha Lewis, Miss Ollie Audett,
C. B. Frank, I, W. Erwin, Miss C. L.
Smith, D. Blankfield, Mrs. B. O. Gra
ham, Dr. W> W. Council, Harry I.
O'Neill, John Harris, Ivan Suphellin,
Miss Ellen Fraisure, Walter Admi and
♦wife, Robert Admi, E. S. Hays, J. T.
Gardner, Edward Berry, Carl Carlson,
George Warmliold, T. K. Blakey, Miss
Minnie Blakey, Clyde Coombs, F.
Bu^ch and wife, John Sherman, JacK
Vrick, Mrs. Mw E. Jones, Miss K. Leek,
S. B. Chambers, R. W. Simons, Albert
Ohman, K. B, Green, W. R. Stevenson,
Mrs. R. H. L. Noakes, and eight steer
age.
LAND-LEASING
BETOREDUCE
LIVING COSTS
WASHINGTON, March 1 (by Asso
icated Press).—In an interview today
♦Franklin K. Lane, late secretary of
the interior, says the recently-enacted
%il-leasing bill should help to reduce
the cost of living by reducing the
prices of oil, coal, gas and phosphate
for fertilizer. The new law, he says,
will increase the production of these
raw materials.
Mr. Lane says the royalty from the
lands opened under the new law is ex
pected to reach about ten million dol
lars annually.
The act, says Mr. Lane, is a radical
departure from the old mining laws,
as it retains the title to the lands in
the government and enables prospec
tors to work without the heavy initial
cost of buying the lands.
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STEAMSHIP TRANSPORTATION
TO BE REVOLUTIONIZED HERE
UNDER PROPOSED NEW STATUTE
SEATTLE, March 1( by Associated
Press).—A special from Washington to
the Post-Intelligencer today says that
Governor Riggs of Alaska, Maurice
Leehey and William Semmes have pre
pared a bill which will be introduced
in congress today, revolutionizing the
steamship transportation of Alaska.
The essential features of the pro
posed measure are increases in the
annual license tax on ships in Alaska
waters, from the present rate of $1
per net registered ton to $3. This
would be applicable to every ship of
more than twenty tons.
The revenue thus produced would be
placed in a “territorial maritime fund,”
to be used to improve Alaska trans
portation conditions.
Governor Riggs says the plan for
the disbursement of this fund is the
same as that followed by the Canadian
government with reference to navi
gation in Alaska waters. The money
would be used to recompense vessels
for taking unprofitable routes.
BANDIT RAD)
RESULTS IN
TWO DEATHS
NOGALES, Ariz., March 1 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Alexander Frazier
and his brother, J. A. Frazier, Ameri
cans, and the latter the storekeeper
and postmaster at Ruby, Ariz., a town
on the border, are dead as the result
of a battle with bandits who raided
the Frazier store on Friday last.
Alexander Frazier died on Friday
last and J. A. Frazier died from his
wounds today.
Sheriff Barhertw with dogs and dep
uties, who crossed the border in
search of the bandits, has given up
the search. Troops A of the Tenth
cavalry has taken up the search.
Colonel Carnahan, commanding of
ficer of the Nogales military district,
says he is convinced that the Mexican
authorities in Sonora are doing their
utmost to find the culprits.
The sheriff and his posse said they
followed a hot trail to the border,
where all traces of the bandits were
lost. The band of raiders is supposed
to have been headed by Ezekiel Lara.
The commander of the troops in the
Nogales oil district denied that the
troops had crossed the border in pur
suit of the bandits.
SENATORS ARE
JUGGLING WITH
PEACE TREATY
WASHINGTON, March 1 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Fearing that the Re
publican leaders in the senate would
be unable to obtain enough votes to
ratify the peace treaty with reserva
tions unchanged, and might consent to
some modification of Article 10 of the
League of Nations covenant, the Re
publican senatorial irreconciliables
have served notice through Senator
Borah that unless the reservation is
kept as it stands in the Lodge com
mittee report they will reserve liberty
of action when consideration of the
treaty is resumed.
MEXICAN BANDIT IS
HANGED FOR MURDER
WASHINGTON, March 1 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The state department
has been advised that a Mexican ban
dit has been found hanged near where
former American Consul Morrill was
killed, in Manzanillo.
It is reported that the bandit was
executed as Morrill’s slayer, possibly
by order of Cipriano Coreona, the ban
dit leader.
TESTIMONY AT MURDER TRIAL
TENDING TO SHOW CONSPIRACY
BY SOLDIERS IS RULED OUT
MONTESANO, Wash.. March 1 (by
Associated Press).—Saturday’s pro
ceedings in the trial of the alleged
“wobblies” for the Centralia murders
was marked by a ruling of the court
to the effect that the defeuse had
failed to show that Warren Grimm,
a victim of the shooting, was guilty of
an overt act in the raid on the hall
of the I. W. W., and had also failed
to show that he had any part in an al
leged conspiracy to make such a raid.
He therefore ruled out all testimony
relative to such a conspiracy.
Vanderveer, attorney for the de
fense, will again attempt to prove the
existence of the alleged conspiracy
next Wednesday.
Walter Morrille, a witness who was
a marcher in the parade, partly cor
roborated the state’s contention that
Grimm was at the head of the con
tingent when he was shot. He said he
saw Grimm clasp his stomach when at
a considerable distance from the hall
of the “wobblies.” He also said he
saw a man at a window of the Avalon
hotel with what he thought was a
gun.
Frank Forbush said he saw the sol
diers rushing toward the hall, but did
not know whether that was before or
after the shooting.
Mike Sheehan, one of the defend
ants. aged 60, testified that he did
not participate in the shooting. He
said he hid in an ice box. The Cen
tralia police, he declared, had to knock
the soldiers down to protect the pris
oners.
DAMAGE SUITS
FILED AGAINST
U.P. RAILROAD
OMAHA, March 1 (by Associated
Press).—Forty-five suits in behalf of
former service men and women,
backed by the American Legion, have
been filed against the Union Pacific
Railway Company. The plaintiffs de
mand a total of $15,000 damages on
the grounds of misleading statements
intended to induce them to invest in
an Idaho colonization project.
SEATTLE, March 1 (by Associated
Press).—C. P. Brown and Merritt
Higby, overseas veterans, were ar
rested here yesterday, charged with
the theft recently of $20,000 worth of
jewels from C. C. Cohen. All the
jewels were finally recovered.
The men have confessed to the
crime, and deputies say that Myrtle
Zembauer, an actress who is being
held as a witness, begged to be sent
to prison in Higby’s place.
ATTEMPT TO
ASSASSINATE
LORD ACTON
LONDON, March 1 (by Associated
Press).—Shots were fired at Lord Ac
ton, the British minister to Finland,
Helsingfors, as he was driving to mar
ket today. Lord Acton was not hit,
and no arrests have been made. The
motive for the attack is unknown.
FORMER MECHANICWINS
BIG AUTOMOBILE EVENT
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LOS ANGELES, March 1 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Jimmy Murphy, for
mer mechanic, wron the 250-mile open
ing event at the automobile speedway
here on Saturday last, together \yith
a purse of $30,000; Ira Vail won sec
ond money, $6,000, and Joe Thomas
third, $3,000.
There were no serious accidents.
Murphy averaged 103 miles an hour.
STEEL TRUST
IS HELD LEGAL
BY U.S. COURT
! WASHINGTON, March 1 (by Asso
I dated Press).—The supreme court of
the United States today upheld the
formation of the United States Steel
Corporation and its subsidiary cor
porations in the iron and steel indus
try, and dismissed the suit brought
by the Government under the Sher
man anti-trust law to dissolve the
steel trust.
The assets of the United State*
Steel Corporation exceed two billions
of dollars.
The court affirmed the action of
the federal court of New Jersey iu
dismissing the suit of the government
to break up the combination.
The court dismissed the suit with
out prejudice, thus permitting the gov
ernment to sue again if the corpora
tion resorts illegal practices. The
court declared the belief that the trust
had followed the law since 1911.
The majority opinion said the
Standard Oil and Tobacco cases dif
fered essentially from the case at bur,
as in the former cases there was a
violation of the law.
A minority dissenting opinion, by
Justice Day, declares that the deci
sion virtually annuls the Sherman act.
and holds that the steel trust violated
the law.
PEOPLE OFFER ‘
FOR SERVICE ON
FRENCH ROADS
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PARIS, March 1 (by Associated
Press).—The General Federation of
Labor has given its support to the
striking railway men.
Five thousand men have volunteered
for service on the French railroads
during the general railway strike.
Airplanes are carrying mail and
passengers to near-by cities. The gov
ernment is using automobiles to trans
port foods.