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_CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDY, MAY 4, 1920 PRICE TEN CENTS
OF MEXICO
LONGSHOREMEN
TIE UP SHIPPING
AT SOUND PORT
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SEATTLE, May 4 (by Associated'
Press).—All sbiploading is tied up here!
as the result of the refusal of the long
shoremen to return to work following
rejection by the employers of the list
system in the selection of crews. But
two vessels are being loaded.
BAKERS ON STRIKE
Nearly four hundred journeymen
takers and salesmen are strike here,
demanding a dollar a day increase in
wages. The master bakers have de
clared for the open shop. But four of
the twrenty-seven large bakeries are
reported to be operating. There is no
bread shortage here but shipments to
outlying districts have been cut.
The master bakers worked at the
ovens all day yesterday in an effort to
keep up the bread supply.
TO RELIEVE SUGAR FAMINE
^ Three million pounds df sugar have
been unloaded here or will be unloaded
shortly, to prevent the threatened fam
ine. The longshoremen’s strike may
prevent its distribution.
ANOTHER BIG THRONG
OF PASSENGERS FOR
* CORDOVA ARRIVES
The steamship Alameda arrived at
11 oclock this morning from Seattle,
having made a remarkable fast trip.
She brought 121 passengers for Cor
dova, as follows:
Ole Berg and wife, W. Bowman,
Mrs. G. W. Bowman, Carl Dahlberg,
E. M. Bates and wife, John Collins,
John Barrett, Paul Reveile, Carl Stobr
and wife, Caroline Stobr, Gertrude
Cawker, Mrs. D. A. Jacobson, D. Dick
erson, J. H. Gillett, J. Walum, W. A.
Bowdey, O. Schneider, H. T. Walker,
H. J. Eschwig, T. E. Marrier, D. W.
Armstrong, A. E. Mowre, O. Cook, W.
C. Schaffer, C. E. Paine, F. D. Walk
er, H. B. Waldron, A. R. Huntsinger,
W. E. Newner, W. W. Cheonowth, L.
H. Sessions, E. Houmoller, Mrs. S.
Jtooth, Mrs. H. Lamoureaux, W. D.
Cheney, Geo. Barrett, Will Clayson
E. J. Moore, R. T. Berry, E. P. Kildall,
Col. J. C. Gotwals and 76 steerage.
NOME REPUBLICANS
ARE DISGUSTED AT
BEING IMPOSED UPON
NOME, May 3—The McBride land
slide in the Republican primary elec
tion has had an interesting effect here
upon the Republican leaders and the
rank and file. At first there was aston
ishment, disappointment and chagrin,
and this has been followed by disgust
and indignation. There is a disposi
tion to blame Dan Sutherland for giv
ing the people the wrong steer, and
local leaders say that the leaders of
the Republican organization at Juneau
are wholly unreliable. The Repub
licans here expected a sweeping Her
ron victory, and feel that they have
had misinformation and were imposed
upon.
HUNGER STRIKERS AT
BELFAST RELEASED
BELFAST, May 4 (by Associated
Press).—Thirty-five more hunger
strikers have been removed from jail
to the hospital, making sixty-nine who
have been released in the past two
days. There are now no hunger
strikers in the prison.
EDWARD i. EDWARDS
Edward I. Edwards, the new gov
ernor of New Jersey, was eiected on
i “wet" ticket and does not conceal
lis intention to permit constitutional
prohibition to be circumvented in his
state if it can be done without techni
cally violating the law.
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Applications to the number of thirty-'
three have been received by Frank A. I
Boyle, registrar and receiver of the
United States land office at Juneau,
for oil claims under the new law tak
ing effect April 1.
Seventeen of the applications come
from the Cold Bay district, five from'
Katalla, and eleven are from Kootz
nahoo, in Southeastern Alaska. The
average acreage of the claims is 2,560,
making the total of 84,480 acres ap
plied for. »
The'claims at the Kootznahoo are at
the inlet of that name, which is near
Killisnoo. For many years there have
been patented coal claims near there.
The claimants have six months in
which to perfect their right to pros
pecting leases to the lands applied for.
REHEARING IS REFUSED
IN STEEL TRUST CASE
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WASHINGTON, May 4 (by Associ
ated Press).—The supreme court has
refused the government’s request for
a rehearing in the anti-trust suit
against the United States Steel Cor
poration.
TWO MEET DEATH IN
FALL OF AIRPLANE
VALLEJO, Cal., May 4 (by Associ
ated Press).—Charles Stoffer and
Josephine Silver, aged eight years,
were killed Sunday when an airplane
in which they were riding went into
a nose dive and fell three hundred
feet. Charles Stoffer. Jr., the pilot of
the machine, was seriously injured.
MAY DAY RIOTING
IN PARIS WAS SERIOUS
PARIS, May 4 (by Associated
Press).—The official casualty list of
the May day rioting shows that three
are dead and one hundred and two
were wounded, two of them danger
ously.
The arrests numbered one hundred
and three. The foreigners among
those arrested will be deported.
POLES NOT YET
IN POSSESSION
OFCITYOFKIEV
LONDON, May 4 (by Associated
Press).—A Warsaw dispatch to the
Times says the report that the Poles
have occupied Kiev is unfounded. They
have taken Pastov, four miles west,
and continue their advance,
RIOTING IN MOSCOW
WARSAW, May 4 (by Associated
Press).—Serious riots and an uprising
among the soldiers are reported to
have occurred in Moscow on receipt
of the news of the Polish successes.
The reports say there is an increasing
demand for a change in government.
ATTEMPTS LIFE
OF WIFE, THEN
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YAKIMA, Wash., May 4 (by Associ
ate^ Press).—Frank Kappert, a res
taurant owner here, is dead, and his ,
wife and babe are lying at the point
of death as the result of bullet wounds
inflicted by Kappert at the home of
Mrs. Kappert’s parents, near the city.
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Kappert is alleged to have fired five
bullets into his wife's body, two of
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them also passing through the body j
of the baby, who was clasped in the
mother’s arms.
The couple had been estranged.
FIGHTING FOR
MORE MONEY
FOR ROADS
WASHINGTON, May 4.—General W.
P. Richardson and Delegate George B.
Grigsby yesterday appeared before the
senate committee on military affairs
and urged an increase in the appro
priation for Alaska roads to be ex
pended under the direction of the
Ylaska board of road commissioners.
Delegate Grigsby said that he was
confident that they would be able to
get a considerable increase from the
senate committee. The appropriation
bill as passed by the house of repre
sentatives called for $150,000. The
war department had asked for $422,000.
TACOMA MILL PLANT
DESTROYED BY FIRE
TACOMA, May 4 (by Associated
Press).—Fire of unknown origin last
night destroyed the plant of the City
Mill Works Company, on the water
front. The loss is $100,000.
PIONEER MARINER
DIES AT SEATTLE
SEATTLE, May 4 (by Associated
Press).—Captain Rodney Church, a
prominent pioneer Northwest mariner,
died here today.
COMPANIES
| GREAT MERGER
MONTREAL, May 4 (by Associated
* Press).—The consolidation is an
nounced of nine Canadian steel, coal
and transportation companies into the
British Steel Corporation, with a cap
ital of $500,000,000.
This will constitute the largest mer
ger ever effected in the British em
pire and ranks second only to that of
the United States Steel Corporation.
The consolidation will associate the
iron and coal deposits of the Domin
ion’s Atlantic seaboard with the steel
making experience and financial re
sources of Great Britain.
TO ORGANIZE
LEGION POST
IN THIS CITY!
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The John Jones Post, American Le
gion. named in honor of a popular
Cordovan who lost his life in France,
ifter a distinguished record for
iravery in the recent world war, will
3e organized at the city hall onj
Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock.
Judge Noaks has received the charter;
’or the local post, and he urges all
dlgibles to be present and affiliate j
with the new organization. At this
meeting a constitution and by-laws'
will be adapted and an election of of
ficers held.
Territorial Compensation
The Department of Alaska of the
American Legion, which met in con
vention at Juneau last week, adopted
the following resolution with refer-j
ence to the proposal for territorial
compensation:
“Whereas, It has come to our knowl
edge that a number of states have en
acted legislation for the material bene
fit of their returned ex-service men
and women; and
“Whereas, Some three thousand
men, representing the flower of Alas
ka’s manhood, laid down their pur
suits and various vocations overnight
to answer their country’s call in the
preservation of its integrity as a na
uuii etna tut; upiiuiuiiig ul n» piiuai
pies of liberty and democracy; and
“Whereas, Many of the men going
into the service from Alaska, both on
entering and returning therefrom, in- i
curred expenses incident to travel
which was not the case with the men
entering the service from the States.
In many instances these men were
obliged to personally defray such trav
eling expenses over a distance of one
to five thousand miles, for which ex
penditure no reimbursement has been
made by the federal government to
date; and
“Whereas, A large percentage of ex-;
service men, in addition to time spent
in the service, were at a material loss
on account of losing a part of the
whole of at least one season’s work,
due to the conditions of the territory
of Alaska which necessarily confine
the working season to the short sum
mer months: Now, therefore, be it
unanimously
“Resolved, by the Department of
Alaska of the American Legion, in con
vention assembled, That it is the duty
of the territorial legislature at its reg
ular session to take action and provide
3ome adequate legislation to equitably
compensate the ex-service men and
women of the territory of Alaska.”
MISS ALICE DEAL 1
Miss Alice Deal of Washington is ^
president of the High School Teach- „
ers’ union and was a delegate to the
annual convention of the American
Fedetation of Teachers held at Chi. t
cago. i
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SIBERIAN FUR ■
BUYERS MUST j,
SEE SOVIETS
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NOME, May 4.—The soviet govern- <
ment which has been established at
Anadir, on Anadir bay, Siberia, near
Nome, has notified citizens of the
United States that all trading for furs I
by vessels is permitted only through
the soviet government store, and per
sons wishing to trade merchandise for :
furs are requested to call at Anadir j
and receive information concerning ^
conditions in Siberia.
The central soviet of Siberia has
also asked the United States govern
ment, through messengers to Nome,
if she could provide the population
of Kolyma with supplies, and urgently
requests an answer.
Deputy Collector R. W. J. Reed, with
whom the soviet has taken these ques
tions up, has presented the matter to
the Nome Chamber of Commerce,
which has presented the case to Dele- j
gate George B. Grigsby at Washing
ton, with the suggestion that permis
sion be secured from the war depart
ment to communicate through the
Nome wireless station with Anadir
and learn the status of our traders on
that coast.
HI NOT WILLING TO
PUNGLE UP FOR RECOUNT
NEWARK, N. J., May 4 (by Associ-1
ated Press).—Senator Hiram W. John-j
son has refused to put up $25,000, with
a similar amount by General Leonard
WTood, to defray the cost of a recount
of the ballots in the recent New Jer
sey primary election.
ACCUSES UNION OF
CENSORING' PRESS
WASHINGTON, May 4 (by Associ
ated Press).—E. J. McCone, general ,
manager of the Buffalo Commercial, ;
told the senate committee which is in- .
vestigating the news print situation ■
yesterday that the International Typo
graphical Union exercised a censor
ship over part of the American press. *
He declared that articles unfavorable i
to labor were kept out of the news- ;
papers. i
REBELS ARE
IN CONTROL OF
JUAREZ CITY
EL PASO, Texas, May 4 (by Asso
rted Press).—Juarez is now in full
ossession of the revolutionists. The
ort has been closed and communica
ion across the international bridge
as been stopped. No fighting has
een reported.
PLAN DRIVE ON MEXICO CITY
AGUA PRIETA, May 4 (by Associ
ted Press).—Troops from Sonora and
[inaloa are reported to be converging
n Torreau, which also is menaced by
roops that rebelled against Carranza
n Chihuahua.
The military leaders of the revolu
ionists are planning a quick drive on
Aexico City.
The Juarez revolt gives the revolu
ionists control of Chihuahua, Mex
co’s largest state. Only one smalt
;arrison, at Casas Grandes, remains
oyal to the Carranza government.
The movement against Mexico City
ias begun.
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LABOR AIDS REVOLUTION
Confirmation has been received of
he reports of a widespread anti-Car
anza movement throughout Mexico,
ind the declaration is made that the
American Federation of Labor is ex
acted to participate in the movement
iy the secretary of the executive board
if the Mexican Labor party.
METHODIST BISHOPS
DECLARE DEVOTION TO
ORDERLY GOVERNMENT
DES MOINES, Iowa, May 4 (by As
lociated Press).—Declarations against
awlessness, confusion and anarchy,
md devotion to orderly government,
,vere expressed at the Methodist
luadrennial conference in the address
)f the thirty-four bishops, delivered by
3ishop William F. McDowell of Wash
ngton, setting forth the principles for
vhich the church should stand.
ONLY FEDERAL BUILDING
AUTHORIZED THIS YEAR
MAY BE ONE AT CORDOVA
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Alaska probably will get the only
public building legislation of this ses
sion of congress if a bill which the
louse committee on public buildings
las reported favorably is passed. This
measure. introduced by Delegate
Grigsby, permits the existing appro
priation of $100,000 for a postoffice,
court house and jail at Cordova to be
spent for a court house and jail only,
leaving the matter of a postoffice
building open for later consideration,
tt is impossible to build for $100,0(\)
in adequate building to take care of
ill three federal activities, and, more
over, the site chosen, while satisfac
:ory for a court house and jail, is not
satisfactory for postoffice purposes.
FIVE PERSONS KILLED
IN OKLAHOMA TORNADO
MUSKOGEE, Okla., May '4 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Five persons are
mown to be dead and eight badly hurt
is the result of the recent tornado
lorth of Chelsea.
FATAL KANSAS STORM
WICHITA, Kan., May 4 (by Associ
ited Press).—Six persons were in
ured, two perhaps fatally, by a tor
tado which swept Eureka today.