The Cordova Daily Times
Member of The Associated Press
VOL. IV. NO. 3fj CORDOVA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1010 • PRICK TKX C,TINTS
GERMAN LEADER REPORTED KILLED IN RIOT
POLES AND BOLSHEVIK! ENGAGE HUNS BITTER FIGHTS
LOYAL TROOPS ARE REINFORCED
BY VOLUNTEERS IN HUN CAPITAL
('(iPH.MlA(iK.\, .Inn. II (I>y Associated Press). Il is re
ported that the Spartacan leader, i>r. Karl Bicbkneeht, was
killed in the street litrhtiipr in Berlin Thursday.
Very serious rioting occurred Thursday also at Dresden,
Hamburg. Ausluii'n and DusseldortT. The fiyditimr was most
severe at Hamburg, and is still in progress.
The Spartaeans still hold Berlin’s “ Newspaper row.”
Flame throwers are be inn used, causing many fatalities.
London Receives No Word of It
1,(>.\ I )< >.\, Jail. 11 ( bv Associated Press ).— -Several Asso
ciated Press Berlin dispatches tiled Friday contained no men
tmn of Iacbkiiocht’s death.
Friday’s happeniims in Berlin are not known here. Fri
day's dispatches chronicled riots in the outlying districts. It
is believed that the o-ovi Turnout is <till in control ol the situ
ation in Berlin. The loyal'troops have been reinforced by vol
unteers. The Spartaeans have occupied several mm plants,
electric power houses and water works.
ITALY'S ADRIATIC CLAIMS ARE
FAVORED BY PRESIDENT WILSON
PARIS, .Jan. II ( by Associated Press). President Wilson,
while awaiting the opening conversations with the allied pre
miers, has devoted himself to a close study ot the food situation
and demobilization problems.
It is expected that the President will support Italy's Adri
atic claims at the peace conference, but that he will not approve
of Italian domination of the Adriatic sea. He will probably
support Italy’s demands that her eastern coast be made sate
from military threats.
The demobilization problem has become so acute and deli
cate that it is not now openly discussed. British soldiers have
recently shown an unwillingness to return to the continent,
it is possible that this may be the forerunner of grave events.
Premier Clemenceau is prominently mentioned for presi
dent of the inter allied peace conference.
Will Have Painful Memories for Germans
The peace conference will be opened in the clonk room
of the French foreign office at the Quai d’Orsay. The French
delegates hope that the treaty will be signed in the Hall of
Hirrors at Versailles, where Germany dictated the peace terms
to France at the end of the Franco Prussian war in 1S71.
British Peace Delegates Leave for Paris
I,()N1)()X, dan. 11 (by Associated Press).—-Andrew Bonar
I aw, one of the British delegates to the peace conference, left
for Paris by airplane today. Premier Floyd George and other
delegates left by steamer.
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WRECK OF PRINCESS SOPHIA IS
NOW UNDERJNVESTIGATION
VICTORIA, Jan. II (by Associated Press).—Tin* Canadian
government inquiry into the Princess Sophia disaster, by which
1)53 persons lost their lives last October, began here today.
Captain Miller of the gas boat King and Wing was the first
witness.
Captain Miller said that it was impossible to save the pas
sengers of the Princess Sophia. Their only chance would have
been to leap overboard and risk being picked up. He told of
the heavy storm prevailing.
Miller said he was unloadinig fish at Juneau on October
24 when the Canadian Pacific agent asked him to go to the help
of the stranded Princess Sophia. He got within lialaf a mile of
the Sophia, and later anchored in the lee of Sentinel island,
where, he said, he spoke* the Cedar. The Cedar and the King
and Winge, he said, were both anchored in the lee of the island
during the terrific storm that sent the Sophia down.
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REPUBS AFTER
CANDIDATEFOR
PRESIDENCY
CHICAGO. Jan 11 (by Asaoclat#!
Press). Many Republican lenders
who have been in the city attending
the meeting of the Republican na
tional committee have remained here
for conferences which may possibly
have an important bearing on the
nomination for President in 1020.
The national committee has named
January 10 as the date for national
memorial services in honor of tin* Ute
( olonel Roijsevelt
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COL ROOSEVELT
LEAVES ESTATE
HALF MILLION
MINEOLA, N. y„ Jan. 11
■ociated Press).—The will of Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt was filed for pro
bate hero yesterday. The estate is
estimated to be worth $500,000.
The will divides trust funds of $6,
100(1 into equal shares for each of the
testator children, and gives his daugh
ter Alice i .Mrs Nicholas I.ongworth )
the wedding presents given at his
marriage with his first, wife.
NARROW ESCAPE OF
BRIG. GEN. HARRIS
i -
BKUL1N. Jan. 11 (by Associated
I Pressi. A bullet 11 red today struck
the casing of th»* room occupied by
Brigadier General Harris, head of the
! American commission.
PRESIDENT TO
RETURN HOME
FEBRUARY 19
WASHINGTON. Jan. 11 (by Asso
ciated Press). President Wilson will
be given an official welcome by the
city of Washington upon his return
from Europe next month.
The District of Columbia commis
sioners plan to have the President lead
a parade of returned soldiers down
Pennsylvania avenue.
The President is expected home on
February 19.
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STEAMSHIP CASTALLA
GOING TO BOTTOM
HALIFAX. N S . Jan. 11 thy A -«>
« dated Press i. 'Pin American <Jr**;it
Lakes steamship (’astalla ha ; wir*
leased that she is sinking fast near
here. Boats have been sent to her
rescue.
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iffEW DIRECTOR OF
RAILROADS IS NAMED
LOS ANGELES, Jim. 11 (by Asso
ciated Press I. President Wilson has
named Walker I). Hines, assistant di
rector general of railroads, to succeed
Director General W. G McAdoo.
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CALIFORNIA’S BIG LIST
OF INFLUENZA DEATHS
SACRAMENTO. Jan 11 (by Asso
ciated Press). Slate statistics show
that 6.4t)2 death from influenza and
pneumonia occurred in California dur
ing November, as against 5.3S1 in Oc
tober.
RADIO TELEGRAPHIC INVENTION
GREAT AID TO WAR AVIATORS
XK\\ 'l()KK, •lull. II (by Associated Press). Tin* mar
ve 1 s of aviat ion developed in America during t he war read more
like a fairy tale than a statement of hard facts, as described
•by Major General George Nquier, chief signal service officer
I of the army.
General Nquier said that the radio telephone, the invention
j of which enabled the air squadrons to talk directly with land
I batteries, was one of the greatest devices of the war.
General Nquier also said that fourteen thousand Liberty
motors had been produced up to November 14, and that the
motor was an accomplishment in constructive imagination.
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THOUSAND PERSONS KILLED OR
WOUNDED AT BUENOS AIRES
BUENOS AIItES, .Jan. 11 (by Associated Press).—Sev
enty-two persons wore killed, eighty-one seriously injured, and
eight hundred slightly injured us a result of the lighting here
yesterday as a result of the general strike. The government
force's used machine guns.
The mobs attacked the Congressional palace and the Palace
of Justice.
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FORCE GERMANS TO ABANDON "
KOMAR-ROLES CONTROL POSEN
BKK 1,1 \. ,1 jiii. 11 (Iiy Associated Press). Heavy fighting
between the (ieriuans and Boles in the [trovinee of Posen is re
ported. The (ieriuans stunned and captured (V.arikau. As
the result ol the arrival of Polish reinforcements the (remains
laive abandoned Kolmar. The lighting at Wissenhoeho and
\\ issek is 'till in progress.
I he Polish council at Posen has issuer] a proclamation
iermally assuming control of tin- entire province.
Teutons Experiencing Bolshevik Savagery
It i' reported that the Bolshcviki are slaughtering the
Hermans in those sections of tin- Baltic provinces which tii• • \
< i at ml.
< 111* A* i* I, Jan. II I b\ Associated F ‘ re — ). ' 1' 1 n ■ mtol(*r
aide specter of guilt -eer.-hM for years Hayed Millard II. (’ut
ter, a millionaire, into a confession that lie had forged a half
million dollars’ worth of bonds. I util Christmas even his wife
did not know that their ease had been paid for by Her hus
band ’s honor.
At that time be told his wife and together tliev planned
that she should return to her former work as an art teacher
and that lie would surrender himself to the police.
( utter, oecuping a cell in the city jail, said lie was nearer
I appiness than lie had been for lour years. “Yesterday," In;
said, "I was a millionaire. 'Today I am a happy pauper."
FORM AMERICAN LABOR PARTY
TO PARTICIPATE IN POLITICS
XKW \ Oh’K, .Ian. II (I<\ Associated Press).- The Aincri
enn Labor party is to be formed at a convention now in session
here under the auspices of a .joint committee of the Brooklyn
Central Labor l nion, the New \ ork Federated I nions and
the Women’s 'l'rade Lnion League.
rI lie aim ol tin- new party will be to prepare workmen by
organization and education to co operate in politics as they do
in the workshops, to the end that the producers may obtain
equal opportunities in the struggle for existence by owning
and controlling the country’s fundamental industries.
BRITISH TROOPS NOT BEING
WITHDRAWN FROM ARCHANGEL
\\ ASlUX(iT( >\\ .Ian. II (In Associated Press). General
March, chief of stall' of the army, in his regular weekly talk to
newspaper men today, said that the reports from Archangel
say that tin* operations in northern Russia are highly satisfae
tory, both from a military and sanitary standpoint, lb* said
the reports that the British were withdrawing their troops
from that locality were absolutely without confirmation.
The demobilization of the American forces, said General
March, was proceeding twice as fast as that of the British
forces. American discharges to January 10 totaled (>00,880, la*
said.
It was announced today that the Red Cross had established
a bast* hospital of one hundred beds at Archangel.
Americans in Heavy Fighting
ARCHANGEL, Jan. 11 (by Associated Press).—The new
American positions on the River Onega were subjected to
heavy machine gun fin* by the Bolsheviki on Thursday. The
allies retired eight miles during the week in order to give the
troops good billets. Snow is falling.