i VOL. IV. NO. 182 _CORDOVA, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY. JL'L.Y 9. 1919__ PRICE TEN CENTS
PRESIDENT WILSON RECEIVES BIG OVATION IN WASHINGTON
* I WAVE OF SUICIDE PREVAILS AMONG OFFICERS
| OF GERMAN ARMY, INDUCED BY DESPAIR }
| GENEVA, July 9 (by Associated Press).—Munich |
jiji newspapers say that suicides among officers of the Ger- j:!;
man army are increasing at an alarming rate, especially i:;:
j§ in Prussia, where they average 38 per cent more than be- |
:| fore it became known that the former kaiser would be ::j:
1;!; brought to trial. The wives of officers are also commit
ting suicide. jij:
§ The increase in the number of suicides is attributed |
| to patriotic despair and to the loss of social position. g
SEATTLE, July 9 (by Associated
; Press).—Logan Billingsley, one of the
notorious Billingsley brothers, who
V? serving a sixty-day sentence at
tire county farm for bootlegging, has
made his escape.
Billingsley would have completed
his sentence and been released within
a few days.
It is believed that he fled to escape
the service of a warrant from Okla
homa, where he is also wanted for
bootlegging.
CHAMP READY
TO TAKE ON
, ALLCOMERS
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CINCINNATI. July 9 (by Associated
Press).—Promoter Cochran of Paris
has offered Jack Dempsey, the new
pugilistic champion, $125,000 to fight
the winner of the Georges Carpentier
John Beckett bout in England this
month.
Dempsey expects to accept, and will
go to Europe if the winner will not
come to America.
WELL-KNOWN ALASKA
’ WORKERS TO BE RETIRED
AT THEIR OWN REQUEST
After thirty years’ active service,
much of which was spent in Alaska
waters, Commodore E. P. Bertholf and
Captain C. A. McAllister, engineer in
chief of the coast guard, are to be re
tired on their own application. Both
will become officials of the American
Bureau of Shipping of New York, an
organization for the classification and
registration of ships in the American
merchant marine, which has its Brit
ish counterpart in Lloyd’s of London.
Efforts were made by the Shipping
Board to obtain their services for this
organization eighteen months ago, but
Secretary Daniels of the navy, to
which the coast guard had been trans
ferred, refused to release them during
the period of the war. The request
for their release at this time was in
dorsed by the American Bureau of
Shipping, the United States Shipping
Board and the secretary of the treas
ury and the secretary of commerce.
Commodore Bertholf and Captain
McAllister were largely instrumental
in the amalgamation of the revenue
cutter and life-saving services, into
what has become the coast guard.
Commodore Bertlhof was a member
of the international conference on
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WASHINGTON, July 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—Many of the ships of
the new Pacific fleet will make their
base at Pearl Harbor, and extensive
improvements will be made at the
Hawaiian station for the handling of
ships.
Secretary Daniels probably will go
to Honolulu with the fleet in Sep
tember.
The Pacific fleet .will leave Hamp
ton Roads for the Pacific July 19.
ON STRIKE IN
WINDY CITY
CHICAGO, July 9 (by Associated
Press).—Several thousand men and
women candy factory workers have
struck for higher wages and better
working conditions. A crowd of the
strikers congregated at the plant of
the National Candy Company, and
when a striker fired a shot the police
fired several shots in the air.
No one was injured, and but one
person was arrested.
FLY TRAPS FURNISH
FOOD AT HATCHERY
REDLANDS, Cal., July 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—There’s nothing wast
ed in Redlands, according to city of
ficials who recently announced that
thousands of dead flies, captured in
municipal fly traps in the interests
of sanitation, had been sold as food
for trout at a trout hatchery in the
mountains near here.
safety at sea during the war, and was
also chairman of the Anchorage board
Commodore Bertholf first came tc
Alaska in 1897, when he was placed in
command of an expedition sent out
from the United States revenue cutter
Bear at St. Michael to the relief of
several hundred starving whalers
whose ships had been caught in the
Arctic ice.
Guided by W. T. Lopp, now chief oi
the reindeer service, and accompanied
by Dr. S. J. Call and Lieutenant D. L
Jarvis, both now dead, Commodore
Bertholf drove a number of reindeer
from Cape Prince of Wales to Her
schell island, where the animals were
slaughtered for food. Commodore
Bertholf later spent eighteen months
in Siberia, where he purchased the
reindeer that formed the nucleus oi
the present Alaskan herds.
WILSON BELIEVES RECEPTION
GIVEN HIM IS INDORSEMENT
OF IE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
WASHINGTON, July 9 (by Associated Press).—About
one hundred thousand persons; greeted President Wilson on his
arrival in this city last night. (Ifficials said it was one of the
largest crowds that had ever greeted a returning President.
Addressing the crowd at the depot, the President said his
welcome was particularly pleasing because it was an immediate
assurance of the people's attitude toward the League of Na
tions.
President Wilson is spending a busy day today, signing ap
propriation bills and conferring with congressmen and cabinet
members. He may receive the senate foreign relations com
mittee for a conference regarding the t reaty of peace.
The President says he believes the American people favor
the League of Nations. He expects to start on a tour of the
Country within two weeks, and to arrive on the Pacific coast
when the fleet arrives there.
“Cynical Indifference’* to American Rights
BOSTON, July 9 (by Associated Press).—'Senator Hiram
(Johnson of California, speaking last night in opposition to the
League of Nations, declared the covenant was a document
| ‘born of secrecy and presented to us with cynical indifference
jto our rights and knowledge.”
IS FIRST ELECTIVE BODY TO
RATIFY VERSAILLES TREATY
WEIMAR, July 2 (by Associated Press).—The German
national assembly today, by a vote of 208 to 115, adopted the
resolution ratifying the treaty of peace.
The ratification of the treaty removes all doubt of the ac
ceptance of the peace terms by Germany. The ratification also
makes possible the lifting of the allied blockade. Official noti
fication was sent to the Germans on June 29 that the blockade
would be raised when the treaty was ratified.
The German national assembly is the first elective body of
anv country whose representatives signed the treaty which has
adorned a ratifying resolution. The treaty will be laid before
the British, French and Belgian parliaments, and will be placed
before the United States senate tomorrow by President Wilson.
Interned Aliens to Be Released
WASHINGTON, July 9 (by Associated Press).—The de
partment of justice has ruled that as the peace treaty has been
signed, a great majority of the German and Austrian enemy
aliens now on parole may safely be released from all parole ob
ligations.
NOTED AUTHOR
DIES AT HOME
IN TENNESSEE
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 9 (by As
sociated Press),—John Fox, Jr„ a
popular author, died here last night.
In 1898 Fox was married to Mme.
Fritzie Scheff, the operatic star, and
was divorced from her in 1912.
Fox was born in Kentucky, and was
best known for his composition, “The
Trail of the Lonesome Pine.”
FISH QUOTATIONS
SEATTLE, July 9.—Prices for fish
at noon today were as follows: Hali
but, 12c; sablefish, 5c; ling and red
cod, 4c.
BOLSHEVIKI ARE ROUTED
BY DENEKINE’S TROOPS
LONDON, July 9 (by Associated
Press).—The advance of Denekine’s
troops west of the Dnieper river has
entirely cleared the Crimea of Bol
sheviki.
AMERICAN ACE AVIATOR
RECEIVES FINE PRESENT
LOS ANGELES, July 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—A diamond ring, set in
a square mounting, the sides of which
were miniature replicas of “aces” in
a deck of playing cards, was present
ed to Captain Eddie Rickenbacker,
“ace” American aviator, by the city
of Los Angeles when Captain Ricken
backer visited here recently. The gift,
the nature of which had been kept
secret from the doughty airman, was
presented on behalf of the city by
Mayor F. T. Woodman.
1 AGENT OF UNITED STATES FISHERIES BUREAU
| TO MAKE STUDY OF COPPER RIVER CONDITIONS |
g SEATTLE, July 9 (by Associated Press).—Prof, g
g H. B. Ward of the University of Illinois is here, en route g
g to the Copper river, Alaska, for the purpose of studying g
i| fish conditions for the United States bureau of fisheries, g
| Professor Ward says that Alaska’s fish resources will be g
g a larger source of profit than the mines of the territory, g
g Professor Ward is accompanied by J. R. Russell, g
g superintendent of the Bird’s View hatchery, Washington g
g state, and Professor W. Qldfather, the assistant of Prof, g
g Ward at the University of Illinois.
WASHINGTON. July 9 (by Associat
ed Press).—Representative Campbell
of Kansas, Republican, has introduced
a bill prohibiting the President from
leaving the country or performing any
duties except at Washington.
Campbell had prepared a lengthy
address in which he sharply criticized
President Wilson for going to Europe.
LEAGUE FOR ALL
NATIONS URGED
NEW YORK. July 9 (by Associated
Press).—Delegates from ten countries
are here in attendance at the first an
nual congress of the Pan-American
Federation of Labor.
The convention today unanimously
adopted a resolution demanding that
all nations be eligible to membership
in the League of Nations.
SECRETARY LANSING TO
LEAVE PARIS FRIDAY
WASHINGTON, July 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—Secretary of State Lan
sing will leave Paris for home on Fri
day. General Bliss, Colonel House
and former Ambassador White will re
main in attendance at the peace con
ference.
NATIONAL LABOR PARTY
FAVORED BY TRAINMEN
DENVER, July 9 (by Associated
Press).—The annual convention of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen, in session in this city,
today passed resolutions favoring co
operation with the three other rail
road brotherhoods for the creation of
a national labor party.
HUNDRED ARIZONANS
CHARGED WITH CRIME
DOUGLAS, Ai*iz., July 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—More than one hundred
Criminal complaints alleging kidnap
ing in the Bisbee deportations of two
years ago have been placed in the
hands of a justice of the peace, who
left for Bisbee today. His court will
issue warrants for the persons named.
PITTSBURGH, July 0 (by Associ
ated Press).—The government’s drive
against the sale of beer containing 2%
per cent alcohol was started here to
day when the federal district attorney
sued a local brewing company, charg
ing it with violation of the war-time
prohibition act.
SEAPLANES ARE
BARRED FROM
COAST ROUTE
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VICTORIA, B. C.. July 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—It is reported here
that the G. D. White Aviation Com
pany will enter a seaplane in the com
petition for a flight across the Pacific.
for which Thomas Ince has offered a.
prize of $50,000.
The route to be followed would be
from Los Angeles to San Francisco,
Victoria, Sitka, Unalaska, Petropav
losk, Yokohama and Shanghai.
Would Not Be Allowed
LOS ANGELES. July 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—The rules of the Pacific
Aero Club forbid transpacific aviators
trying for the Ince prize to skirt the
Alaskan and Japanese coasts in cross
ing, as reported from Victoria.
BRITISH DIRIGIBLE IS
HELD UP BY WEATHER
MINEOLA, N. Y., July 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Unfavorable weather
is holding the British dirigible here.
She will probably start within four
hours.
Later it was announced that the
dirigible wTould start on its homeward
trip before daybreak tomorrow.
LABOR AGAINST ALLIED
INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA
PARIS, July 9 (by Associated
Press).—The General Federation of
Labor is planning demonstrations in
France, England and Italy for July
21, as a protest against allied inter
vention in Russia.
ALASKA MINING STOCKS
NEW YORK, July 9.—Alaska Gold,
2%; Alaska Juneau, 2%.