Cordova Times
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* VOL. V. NO. 31 ■ ~ CORDOVa7aLASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1920 ' PRICE TEN CENTS
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ALSO FRAMED COMMUNIST PLATFORM
COMMUNIST LABOR PARTY PLANS
OVERTHROW OF GOVERNMENT
UNDER BOLSHEVIK DIRECTION
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A WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (by Associ
ated Press).—S. Nuortva, who is said
to be the secretary of Martens, the
• self-styled “ambassador” of the Rus
sian soviet to the United States, has
written a statement to the press in
which he says that agents of the de
partment of justice actively partici
j^ited in the formulation of the Com
munist party platform, planks from
which now form the basis of the prose
cution being conducted by the depart
ment of justice against radicals.
Nuortva says can can prove that
the chief figures in the celebrated
bomb plots and activities of a similar
' nature ascribed to radicals were in
fc spired and managed by secret service
H agents.
Warrant Out for Martens
^ A warrant was issued today for the
PU^arrest of Ludwig Marten, the Bol
shevik “ambassador,” who is be
lieved to be the leader of the Com
munist party in America.
Movement Directed from Russia
NEW YORK, Jan. 7 (by Associated
Press).—Senator Clayton Lusk chair
man o£ the state legislative comiHit
tee which is investigating radical ac
tivities, said last night that there
were more than twenty thousand alien
enemies in the Communist party in
New York alone, openly organized for
the violent overthrow of the govern
ment, under the direction of Bolshevik
leaders in Russia.
May Be Charged with Treason
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 7 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The prosecuting attor
ney’s office intimates that, charges of
treason may be filed against alleged
American “reds” arrested as princi
pals of a group of the Communist
Labor party, as a result of investiga
tions made since the recent raids,
which netted forty citizens and eleven
aliens, who are being held awaiting
advices from Washington.
CARPENTIER IS
IN HUMOR TO
MEET DEMPSEY
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PARIS, Jan. 7 (by Associated
Press).—Georges Carpentier, the
French champion pugilist, has accept
ed the offer of James Coffroth of a
^jurse of $400,000 for a fight with Jack
Dempsey, the American champion.
Descamps, Carpentier’s manager,
wants an even break with Dempsey.
He says that Carpentier is as big a
drawing card as is Dempsey. Car
p«^er wants the fight to be of ten or
fiftWn rounds instead of forty-five, as
proposed by Coffroth.
Descamps says that neither man
would be worthy of the championship
if it could not be settled in fifteen
rounds.
General Satisfaction
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7 (by Associ
ated Press).—Dempsey, Kearns and
“Coffroth expressed satisfaction today
with Carpentier’s acceptance of the
offer made to him, and favor July 4
as the date. They approve the fifteen
round limit, and expect to induce Car
pentier to take a “gambler’s chance”
on getting $300,000 if he wins or $100,
000 if he loses.
Jack Kearns. Dempsey’s manager,
says Carpentier’s acceptance means
that the fight will be staged at Tia
Juana, Mexico, near San Diego.
EUmpsey and Carpentier are to
split fifty-fifty on the movie rights,
which can be everywhere expected to
“go big,” especially in Paris and Lon
don.
FEDERAL PRISONER
MAKES ESCAPE FROM
ALCATRAZ BARRACKS
«|AN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Disguised as a woman,
'Virgil Tolliver, a federal prisoner at
the disciplinary barracks on Alcatraz
island, today walked past the guards
and came to the mainland on a gov
ernment tug, and made his escape.
Tolliver is one of very few who
h j^e ever escaped from the island.
ARMY SUPPLIES
LEFT IN FRANCE
HAVEBEENSOLD
ANTWERP. Jan. 7 (by Associated
Press). — American supplies and
stocks remaining in France after the
departure of the army have been sold
for $750,000,000. France took $400,
000,000 worth of this.
Army officials deny the rumors that
France made the Americans pay for
the trenches.
VICTOR BERGER
IS DRIVEN OUT
OF JERSEY CITY
JERSEY CITY, Jan. 7 (by Associ
ated Press).—Victor Berger and Os^
car Ameringer, his lieutenant,, were
escorted out of the city by Chief of
Police Battersby last night, following
his arrival here to address a meeting
of the Socialist Educational Club.
The delivery of the speech was pro
hibited.
Date Set for Hearing
CHICAGO, Jan. 7 (by Associated
Press).—The hearing in the Berger
appeal case ha| been set for Feb. 19.
CANUCK HOCKEYTEAM
WINS FROM SEATTLE
VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan. 7 (by As
sociated Press).—The Vancouver
hockey team won from Seattle last
night by a score of 4 to 3.
LUEDENDORFF FIGURES
IN GERMAN POLITICS
PARIS, Jan. 7 (by Associated
Press).—Von Luedendorff is to be an
active participant in the new German
political campaign^
RUSSIAN SOVIET GOVERNMENT
MAKES PEACE OFFERS TO BRITAIN
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 7 (by Associated Press).—Lenine is sending
Colonel Tallente, the British representative in the Baltic provinces,
to London with new Bolshevik peace offers, in which promises are
made to abolish terrorism and the revolutionary tribunals.
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TROOPS NOW ON
GERMAN SOIL
ILL REMAIN
PARIS, Jan. 7 (by Associated
Press).—A note handed to the Ger
man delegation to the peace confer
ence yesterday by,the allies refused
to reduce the number of troops sta
tioned in the areas in which plebi
scites are to be held.
It was held that the non-participa
tion of the United States had reduced
the number of troops by one-fourth,
and that the expenses of Germany had
been correspondingly reduced thereby.
VILLA IS SURROUNDED,
ACCORDING TO REPORT
I GALVESTON, Jan. 7 (by Associated
| Press).—The Mexican consul general
here learns that federal troops have
surrounded Villa in the desert be
tween the states of Chihuahua and
Coahuila.
RATIFY ACTION
OF OFFICIALS
IN COAL STRIKE
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COLUMBUS. Ohio, Jan. 7 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The convention of the
United Mine Workers today ratified
the action of its international officers
in accepting the proposal of President
Wilson for the ending of the recent
coal strike.
The ratification by the convention
of the action of the officers was only
made after President Lewis had
pleaded earnestly for the ratification
of the settlement.
BIG RECEPTION FOR
PRINCESS PAT BOYS
LONDON, Ontario, Jan. 7 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Thousands of people
gathered here yesterday to welcome
home three hundred members of the
famous “Princess Pat’s” regiment, led
by Colonel Willets.
BRYANLEAGUE
IS BOOSTING
FOR GERARD
NEW YORK, Jan. 7 (by Associat
ed Press).—The Bryan League, it is
announced, has swung to the support
of Gerard for the Democratic presi
dential nomination.,
It is announced that Secretary of
the Navy Daniels will be the speaker
at a dinner to be given by Augustus
Thomas, at which the boom of
Gerard will be formally launched.
TWO KILLED
WHEN AUTO
STRIKES POLE
SEATTLE, Jan. 7 (by Associated
Press).—D. C. Parsons, aged 25, a
printer employed on the Post-Intelli
genebr, and Lucille Corbett, aged 20
were killed when Parsons’ car failed
to make a turn on the Everett road
at Silver lake at midnight last night
The car struck a telephone pole.
C. J. Erfckson, president of the Se
attle and North Pacific Shipbuilding
Company, was struck by an auto to
day and seriously injured.
SOVIET CENTERS ARE
ESTABLISHED IN GLASGOW
LONDON, Jan. 7 (by Associated
Press).—Soviet centers, backed bj
American Communists, have been es
tablished in Glasgow.
WANTS CANADA
TO TAKE OVER
ALL FISHERIES
VICTORIA, B. C., Jan. 7 (by Asso
ciated Press).—William Sloan, pro
vincial minister of marine and com
missioner of fisheries, proposes that
the Dominion government take over
all the Pacific coast fishing as a means
of protecting the fish and eliminating
unnecessary competition and waste,
and reducing the cost of fish to the
public.
INTER-CHURCH
WORKERS MEET
INCONVENTION
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Jan. 7 (by
Associated Press).—Nearly twenty
Protestant denominations were repre
sented at the opening session today of
the co-ordination conference of the
inter-church workers’ movement. A
thousand delegates were present.
Dr. John Mott, who is presiding at
the conference, hopes to avoid waste
by the overlapping of effort among
Protestants.
PREMIER CLEMENCEAU
SLATED FOR PRESIDENT
PARIS, Jan. 7 (by Associated
Press).—The newspapers here gener
■ ally agree that Premier Clemenceau
will be elected president on Jan. 17.
DEMOCRATS AWAIT MESSAGE
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A disposition is in
evidence among all the factions of
the senate to await President Wil
son’s Jackson day message bofore
taking further action on the peace
treaty.
Little can be done under the circum
stances, though the Democrats and
mild reservationists have informally
discussed the reservation modifica
tions.
Resolutions indorsing President
Wilson’s stand on the treaty will be
laid before the Democratic national
committee at its meeting tomorrow,
with the backing of the committee of
ficials. Chairman Cummins said to
day:
“We are behind the Wilson resolu
tion, and will leave no doubt about our
position.”
It is generally believed that the com
mittee will adopt the resolution, and
that the treaty probably will become
a campaign issue.
MORE MURDERS
OF AMERICANS
BY MEXICANS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (by Associ
ated Press).—Following the receipt of
•advices of the murder of Earl Bowles
and C. J. Reney by Mexicans in the
Tampico district, the state department
yesterday instructed the embassy at
Mexico City to urge the Mexican gov
ernment to take all necessary steps to
bring about the punishment of the
murderers.
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Another Murder Reported
The United States consul at Tam
pico reports that a Mexican federal
army officer shot and killed Gabriel
Porter, an American citizen, on Dec.
21. The Mexican government has
been asked to punish his murderer,
as well as those of Reney, Bowles and
other American oil men killed in
Tampico.*
AMERICA NEEDS
NO FOREIGNERS
TO POINT WAY
NEW YORK, Jan. 7 (by Associated
Press).—Senator Harding of Ohio
Republican presidential candidate, in
an address delivered here last night
on “Americanism/' said the ultimate
and helpful part played by the United
States in the war would be a source
of pride to Americans.
“We choose no isolation, we shun
no duty; but no council of foreign na
tions is required to point the way oi
American duty,” he said.
The plea for ratification of the
peace treaty to bring about normal
conditions, he declared, was “the plea
of the patent medicine faker, whose
one remedy was a cure-all.”
Nicholas Murray Butler, president
of Columbia University, and also a can
didate for President, also delivered ar
address on “Americanism.”
A letter from General Wood was
received and read to the meeting.
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WOMANlUFFRAGElS
RATIFIED IN KENTUCKY
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 7 (by Asso
elated Press).—The state legislature
yesterday ratified the federal woman
suffrage amendment.
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QUEER TURN
OF POLITICS
AT JUNEAU
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JUNEAU, Jan. 7 (Special to the
Daily Times).—Finding themselves in
a majority at a meting of the Juneau
Republican Club last night, at which
there were only fifty-five persons pres
ent, the anti-Heckman Republicans,
with the co-operation of Valentine and
Rustgard. both Wickersham leaders,
by a vote of 34 to 21 removed J. C.
McBride as president and Harry Lu
cas as secretary, and elected Earl L.
Hunter president; Dr. L. P. Dawes,
vice president; James Barragar. sec
retary, and John Reck, treasurer.
The constitution and by-laws report
ed by a former committee were laid
on the table and a new committee, of
which John Rustgard is chairman, was
appointed to report a new constitution
and by-laws.
Coup Planned in Advance
H. L. Faulkner and R. E. Robertson
led the Heckman supporters at the
meeting which indorsed Heckman,
and there were 125 persons present.
The coup of the Wickershamites was
planned in advance, and the program
was* prepared without the knowledge
of the supporters of Heckman, who
were caught napping. Most of this
element, including leading business
men of the town, were absent.
Whether the Heckman supporters
will endeavor to undo the work of last
night at the next meeting has not been
decided. The opinion prevails, how
ever, that a large majority of the Ju
neau Republicans are for Heckman
and against the Wickershamites.
COAST WELTERWEIGHT
CHAMPIONSHIP SETTLED
SEATTLE, Jan. 7 (by Associated
Press).—Billy Wright of Seattle, by a
decision against Travie Davis of Ev
erett last night, won the coast welter
weight championship. The bout went
six rounds.
SINN FEIN MEMBER OF
PARLIAMENT ARRESTED
DUBLIN, Jan. 7 (by Associated
Press).—Police and soldiers last
night raided the Sinn Fein headquar ^
ters and the headquarters of the Irish
parliament, and arrested Michael
Staines, a Sinn Fein member of par
liament.