VOI 5 NO. 144 CORDOVA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1920 PRICE TEN CENTS
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EPIDEMIC OF BIG ROBBERIES REPORTED IN ALL PARTS COUNTRY
JBANDHS ARE
SUCCESSFUL IN
BIG ROBBERY
Two Hold-ups in Which Ban
dits Secure Several Thou
sand Dollars in Cash
MAKE CLEAN GET-AWAYS
Epidemic of Holdups in the
States.—Bandits Escape in
an Automobile Which Be
longed to Officer.
SPOKANE, Sept. 25 (by Associated
Press).—A gang of burglars in a bold
night robbery, secured sixteen thou
sand dollars in cash and three hundred
in Liberty bonds from the cash store
owned and operated by V. C. Banks,
at Quincy, Washington, near this city.
The burglars made a clean get-away
and left no trace behind. There is
not much hope expressed here in their
capture.
ANOTHER HAUL
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 25
(by Associated Press).—It was an
nounced here last, night that bandits
. had held up the bank at Sugar House,
a suburb of this city, and secured
six thousand dollars in cash. The
bandits escaped in an automobile
to which they helped themselves and
disappeared with their booty.
CASHIER IS ROBBED
SOUTH RADLEY, Kan., Sept. 25 (by
Associated Press).—'W. C. Ferguson,
cashier for the Katy Coal company
was held up and seriously beaten by
footpads who robbed him of eleven
thousand dollars belonging to the pay
roll of the company.
LIMITED IS HELD UP
CHICAGO, Sept. 25 (by Associated
Press).—The northbound New Or
* leans limited on the Illinois Central
was held up last night and registered
mail valued at one hundred thousand
dollars was taken.
Two men have been arrested in this
city as suspects.
RACEHORSES
TO RUN FOR
A BIG PURSE
HAVRE DE GRACE, Maryland, Sep
tember 25 (by Associated Press).—
Man-o-war and Sir Barton, famous
race horses will run a mile and a
^nuarter race at Windsor, Ontario on
^October 12, for a purse of twelve
thousand dollars and a gold cup val
ued at five thousand.
FAMOUS SHIP
RAINBOW SOLD
SEATTLE FIRM
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VICTORIA, Sept. 25 (by Associated
Press).—The famous cruiser Rainbow,
which has been idle for years in the
Esquimalt shipyards here was sold to
Neider & Marcus of Seattle.
The Rainbow came to the Pacific
in 1910 to form the basis of the Can
adian navy.
COSMOPOLITAN TRUST CO.
IS CLOSED IN NEW YORK
BOSTON, Sept. 25 (by Associated
Press).—Bank Commissioner Allen
closed the Cosmopolitan Trust Com
pany with bank and savings depart
ments abroad making the fifth bank
to be closed within five weeks, begin
ing with the Hanover Trust Company,
which collapsed on account of the
Ponzie schemes.
SOVIETS SAY
DEMANDS BE
MET AT ONCE
RIGA, Sept. 25 (by Associated
Press).—Colonel Joffe, head of the
Bolsheviki peace mission being held
here issued an ultimatum to the Poles
of a renewal of the winter campaign
unless an armstice is not arranged in
ten days.
OFFENSIVE IN PROGRESS
WARSAW, Sept. 25 (by Associated
Press).—An official communication
received here states that the Poles
have undertaken an offensive as the
result of the Lithunian aggression in
occupying Kohuciow.
One thousand prisoners have al
ready been captured.
TAKES PRISONERS
SEBASTAPOOL, Sept. 25 (by Asso
ciated Press).—General Wrangell has
taken more than ten thousand prison
ers in six days. His cavalry are sur
rounding the Bolsheviki on a front of
over one hundred miles. It is also re
ported that the Reds have been out
flanked on the Kneiper river.
STRIKE IS NOW
THREATENED
IF TROOPS USED
CHARLESTON, Sept. 25 (by Associ
ated Press).—Six hundred and twenty
six thousand workers here will call a
general strike if the state uses troops
as a strike breaking agency instead of
protecting property was a statement
made by C. V. Keeney, president of
district seventeen of the United Mine
Workers of America.
MORE STRIKES
ROCHESTER, Sept. 25.—The exec
tive comittee of the national Associ
ation of Machinists called a general
strike against the American Can
company involving fifty-six plants,
which includes five thousand machin
ists of San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The strike is the direct result of dis
sension in the Newark plant.
BIG MEXICAN STRIKE
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 25 (by Associ
ated Press).—The “Communist Fed
I eration of the Mexican Proletariat,”
voted yesterday to call a general
strike in Mexico unless all disputes
between employers and workers were
settled by September 30.
QUOTATIONS
SEATTLE Sept. 25 (by Associated
Press).—The prices on fish were quot
ed here today as follows: Halibut,
24 cents; chickens, 12 cents, and red
and ling cod, two cents.
DYNAMITE IS
DISCOVERED
AT CASSLAKE
Another Dynamite Plot Foiled
and Building is Saved By
Pure Luck
CASS LAKE, Minn., Sept. 25 (by As
sociated Press).—An attempt to wreck
the Times building in this city last
night by party or parties unknown was
frustrated by a defective cap on a
three and one-half pound dynamite
bomb that had been placed near the
entrance of the building. It was found
early this morning with the fuse
burned down to the cap.
LEAGUEBALL
PLAYERS ML
BE OUT OF JOF
White Sox Owner is Mad all
Through and Makes Sev
eral Statements
CHICAGO, Sept. 25 (by Associated
Press).—Comiskey, owner of White
Sox, on the stand here yesterday be
fore the grand jury investigating the
charges of gambling on the world ser
ies baseball games of last year told
the jury that “If any of my players are
not honest I will fire them no matter
who they are and if I can’t get honest
players I will close the gates of the
park and go out of the game.”
MORE CROOKED WORK ,
CHICAGO, Sept. 25 (by Associated
Press).—Sufficient evidence of more
“crooked work” has been unearthed by
the Cook county grand jury investigat
ing gambling charges in connection
with the world series baseball games
to warrant them in continuing in the
special session being held here, in
stead of adjourning on September 30,
as was originally planned.
The foreman of the jury said there
was sufficient evidence to support
claim that a ring of gamblers were j
seeking to “pollute” baseball and to
injure the game. Only a few of the
players are involved.
APPEAL FOR
PARTY FIDS
SPOKANE, Sept. 25 (by Associated
Press).—James Durkee of this city
j is the first man to respond to the re
quest of President Wilson for dona
tions of $500 to the Democratic na
tional campaign fund. He said that he
would “match” the president in his
attempt at raising cash.
WIFE OF LORD MAYOR
HAS A NARROW ESCAPE
CORK, Ireland, Sept. 25 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Mrs. Thomas McCur
tin, wife of the assassinated lord may
or was fired at in the streets this
morning, the shot going wide of the
mark. -
RAILROAD BE
SOLD RESULT
COURT ORDER
Stockholders Don’t Like it
But Road Win be Sold to
Pay the Bills
DENVER, Colorado, Sept. 25 (by As
i sociated Press).—Judge Walter San
born of the Colorado federal court has
signed an order for the sale of the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad as the
result of action which was brought
against the company by the Equitable
Trust company of New York.
The stockholders of the road made
a motion of postponement but it was
rejected by the court.
HEFFERNAN IS
ON STAND AND
STILL TALKIT
Claims Both Organs of Great
War Veterans Controlled
By Leading Parties
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Joseph L. Heffernan,
secretary treasurer of the Stars and
Stripes, a paper devoted to the inter
ests of the American soldiers, testi
fied before the senate investigation
committee here today. Heffernan as
serted that his paper was controlled
by the Democratic national committee
and that the American Legion weekly
was controlled by the Republican na
tional committee.
ROSS MAKES STATEMENT
NEW YORK, Sept. 25 (by Associat
ed Press).—Harold W. Ross, editor of
the American Legion weekly in a
statement here today denied charges
made by Heffernan that the American
Legion Weekly was controlled by the
Republican national committee.
Chairmen White of the Democratic
national committee declared that “the
Democratic national committee will
not be investigated on account of the
Stars and Stripes controversy.”
Scott Bone, publicity director for
the Republican national committee in
a statement here today denied that
the committee had ever controlled the
weekly.
MRS. PARKS’ STATEMENT
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Mrs. E. M. Parks, sec
retary to W. D. Jamieson, director of
finances for the Democratic national
committee testified before the senate
investigating committee hearing to
day. Mrs. Parks said she had under
taken to underwrite forty-eight thou
sand dollars in contracts for the Stars
and Stripes company.
She had succeeded in getting ten
thousand but as to the remainder of
the funds she declared the “Democra
tic national committee nor any mem
ber of same has ever contributed a
dollar to the paper or loaned me a
cent.’’ She refused to give any in
formation as to the source of the funds
already collected.
Mrs. Parks said she was given fifty
one per cent of the stock of -the com
pany.
DENVER, Sept. 25 (by Associated
Press).—Governor Cox visited the
hospital here and shook hands with a
number of former soldiers who are
bedridden patients.
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CONFIDENCE IS EXPRESSED
IN NEW FR CH PREMIER
PARIS, Sept. 25 (by Associated
Press).—The chamber of deputies
held an extensive debate on the in
terpellations concerning the foreign
and domestic policies to be followed by
France in the future. The chamber is
sued a vote of confidence to Premier
Levgeus who was recently elected to
the premiership, succeeding President
Deschanel. This session was adjudged
by the chamber as the session extraor
dinary of parliament.
GRASSHOPPERS
DOING DAMAGE
WINTER WHEAT
FAIRBURY, Neb., Sept. 25 (by As
sociated Press).—Immense swarms of
grasshoppers are working great havoc
in the winter wheat fields throughout
this state. Many fields have been
cleaned by the pests who have ap
peared for the first time in years.
SEN. HARDING PROMISES
BIG BUSINESS FUTURE
MARION, Sept. 25 (by Associated
Press).—Senator Harding addressed a
gathering of several thousand commer
cial travelers here yesterday. He pro
mised them an era of business stabil
ity. Like the government outlined
policy, Harding said, which was “com
mon counsel,” opposed to “one meet
ing.”
The senator pledged himself to
“idealism” based on sense and not
treating the nation’s business with
suspicion and contempt.
FLOUR PRICES
TOBOGGANING
IN NEW YORK
FLOUR MAKES BREAK
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 25 (by Associ
ated Press).—Flour prices here broke
this morning twenty to twenty five
cents a barrel. The break, it is as
serted, is due to a weak wheat mar
ekt.
COTTON COMES DOWN
NEW YORK, Sept. 25 (by Associated
Press).—Cotton broke at more than
$5.00 a bale for November this morn
ing. Delivery for other months regis
tered big losses and went between
forty and forty-points under the price
at yesterday’s opening.
PREDICTS GOOD BUSINESS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The committee on sta
tistics published a report predicting
good business for the rest of the year
in spite of disturbing industrial fac
tors in the commercial world, accord
ing to the chamber of commerce of the
United States.
The commercial outlook will be good
in this country, says the committe, for
the reason that buying is now more
liberal and on a sane and sober basis
as contrasted with the speculative
buying of a few months ago.
RUTH IS A BEAR
NEW YORK, Sept. 25 (by Associa
ted Press).—Babe Ruth made his
fifty-first home run In the first inning
of the second same here yesterday.
EXPRESS RATES
ADVANCE TO
20 PER CENT
Interstate Commerce Commis
sion Has Agreed to Further ..
Increase of Rates
ADVANCED 26 PER CENT
Is Second Increase in Last Few
Months.—Big- Companies Al
so Asking- Advance on all
Other Commodities.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A further increase in
the express rates demanded by the
companies has been granted by the in
terstate commerce commission.
Races average thirteen per cent ad
i vance over the old charges were sanc
tioned making the total increases in
the last few months twenty-six per
! cent that the public will be asked to
pay.
The companies are now asking per
mission to advance all classes of com
modity rates to fifteen per cent over
the present rate.
BOTH EXPORTS
AND IMPORTS
DECREASING
WASHINGGTON, Sept. 25 (by As
; sociated Press).—According to the fig
ures of the department of commerce
of the United States made public here
recently, both exports and imports are
on the down grade.
A decided decrease was noted dur
ing the month of August falling sixty
seven millon dollars below that of the
month previous.
Eighteen million dollars in gold was
imported in July and fifteen million in
August.
AUTOMOBILES
ARE COMING
DOWN IN PRICE
ELKHART, Ind., Sept. 25 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The Crow-Elkhart Mot
er Corporation made an announce
ment today that they would return to
prewar prices.
SUIT ISFILED
AGAINST RICH
MAN’S ESTATE
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 25 (by
Associated Press).—A suit was filed
here today in the United States Dis
trict court for $1,700,000 against the
estate of the late Henry Miller, for
mer wealthy California cattleman.
The government claims the amount
is due in income tax and interest that
remained unpaid for some time.