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The Cordova Daily Times
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VOl.. V. NO. 79 “ CORDOVA, ALASKa7‘THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1920_ PRICE TEN CENTS
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FIGHT AGAINST
PROHIBITION IS
BEGUN TODAY
WASHINGTON. March 4 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The state of New Jer
sey, through its attorney general,
Thomas McCrane, has filed in the su
preme court a suit seeking to have the
^federal prohibition amendment de
clared unconstitutional, and also to
prevent the enforcement of the Vol
stad prohibition-enforcement act.
It is charged that the amendment
was improperly drawn, and says that
congress has no power to propose an
amendment to the constitution regu
lating the habits and customs of the
people.
The amendment is declared to be in
violation of the people’s sovereign
rights.
Straw Vote in Vermont
RUTLAND, Vt., March 4 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Returns received up
to yesterday indicate that virtually all
the large towns and many of the
smaller ones in this state have voted
for licensing the liquor traffic, as com
pared with thirty which voted for
license last year.
The “drys” say the returns indicate
nothing except that they made no ef
fort to register sentiment.
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No Retrogression in House
* WASHINGTON, March 4 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The house of repre
sentatives today overwhelmingly re
fused to repeal the prohibition-en
forcement act.
RAILROADS IN
MIDDLE WEST
ARE CRIPPLED
CHICAGO, March 4 (by Associated
Press).—The worst blizzard of the
winter is raging today throughout the
8 Middle West, with heavy snow and
beIo-4--zero temperatures. Telegraph
wires and railroads are crippled in
many places.
Colorado and Nebraska many
towns have been isolated by the storm,
and temperature of 45 degrees below
zero is reported.
Storm warnings have been ordered
to be displayed on the North Pacific
coast.
SUBJECTS TO
COME BEFORE
LEGISLATURE
SEATTLE, March 4 (by Associated
^ Press).—Members of the state legis
lature, which has been called in spe
cial session by Governor Hart, are at
tempting to reach an agreement to
limit action by the special session to
the woman suffrage amendment, and
appropriations. Others are planning
to introduce other measures than
these.
' Representative Gellatley of We
natchee intends to ask the adoption
of a constitutional amendment
changing the tax laws so as to bring
under taxation many lands not now
taxed.
Senator Lamping expects to intro
duce a bill to provide a cash bonus
for former service men.
DEPENDENT
STATESCARVED
FROM TURKEY
WASHINGTON, March 4 (by Asso
ciated Press).—In the senate yester
day Senator King of Utah introduced
a resolution declaring in favor of the
expulsion of the Ottoman government
from Constantinople.
The resolution, which was referred
to the committee on foreign affairs,
declared for the creation of three
independent states from the Turkish
empire, under the League of Nations.
CONSUL DENIES
PARTICIPATING
IN CONSPIRACY
WASHINGTON, March 4 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Former Senator Hard
wick of Georgia, counsel for the Bol
shevik “ambassador,” Martens, be
fore the senate sub-committee which
is investigating his activities in this
country, continued his efforts today
to show that the United States gov
ernment, through its diplomatic
agents, aided the revolutionary at
tempts to upset the Russian soviet
government.
D. C. Poole, formerly American con
sul at Moscow, was on the stand, and
his testimony was a direct denial of
the charges of Mr. Hardwick, that he
participated in conspiracies under the
American flag to blow up bridges.
SHORTAGE OF PAPER
FELT IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, March 4 (by Associated
Press).—The University of \yasking
ton Daily is facing a shut-down, due
to the failure of shipments of news
print to arrive from Canada.
TIRES OF LIFE AND JOB
SO COMMITS SUICIDE
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TOMBSTONE, Ariz., March 4 (by
Associated Press).—Chief Burnett, a
juryman in the trial of the famous
Bisbee kidnaping case here, commit
ted suicide today.
LOS ANGELES
TIES WRITER
IS IN DUTCH
LAREDO, Texas, March 4 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Gerald Brandon, the
Mexico City correspondent of the Los
Angeles Times,- has been expelled
from Mexico as a perhicious foreigner.
Two policemen escorted him from
Mexico City to Neuvo Laredo, where
he crossed the line to Laredo. He was
charged with having meddled in Mexi
can politics.
STATE DEPARTMENT
SOLICITOR RESIGNS
WASHINGTON, March 4 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Lester Woolsey, so
licitor for the state department, has
tendered his resignation.
FORMER KLONDIKER
DIES AT HONOLULU
VANCOUVER, B. C„ March 4 (by
Associated Press).—Major Fitz Horri
gan, superintendent of the mounted
police here, died yesterday in Hono
lulu. He served in the Yukon during
the great rush to the Klondike.
SEATTLEMAN
AND HIS WAD
ARE MISSING
SEATTLE, March 4 (by Associated
Press).—The police of this city are
searching for Edward Logsdon, a mill
wright, who left home Friday with a
thousand dollars to buy a homestead
on Hodd canal.
Logsdon’s wife fears that her hus
band has been slain. A stranger
named Wilson was with him, and
neither has been seen since.
COAST FREIGHT
SERVICE FOR
BUENOS AIRES
SAN FRANCISCO. March 4 (by As
sociated Press).—The United States
Shipping Board announced today that
the regular freight service from coast
points to Buenos Aires and Monte
video will commence this spring. The
first vessel, leaving Puget sound in
May, will carry a lumber cargo, and
will go via the Strait of Magellan,
which will cut more than a thousand
miles from the present route via the
Panama canal.
THOUSANDS OF
EMPLOYES CUT
FROM PAYROLL
WASHINGTON, March 4 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The house yesterday
completed the legislative, executive
and judicial appropriation bill, but a
vote on the measure was blocked by
Representative Blanton of Texas.
The war bonus of $240 to civilian
employes of the government was
stricken from the bill, but members
declared that the senate would put it
back in the bill.
The bill cut from the government
payroll forty thousand civil employes,
with a flat reduction of $24,000,000
from the estimates.
readingTro'n CO.’S
PRESIDENT IS DEAD
READING, Pa., March 4 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Frank C. Smink, a
leader in the iron trade, and president
of the Reading Iron Company, died
at his home here last night.
WILDE WINSFROM
WALLACE ON POINTS
PHILADELPHIA, March 4 (by As
sociated Press).—Jimmy Wilde, the
British flyweight, last night outpointed
Patsy Wallace of Philadelphia.
FLIGHT IS POSTPONED
BECAUSE OF WEATHER
SEATTLE, March 4 (by Associated
Press).—Clouds and rain prevented
Major Smith from starting on his at
tempted one-day flight from Camp
Lewis to San Diego today. He will
leave on the first clear day.
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TO MAX GORKY
STOCKHOLM, March 4 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Maxim Gorky, the
noted Russian author, has just pub
lished newspaper articles stating that
he was disappointed with Bolshevism.
Gorky says that no spiritual revival
has followed the revolution, and that
the men in power now are just as
brutal as those in authority under the
emperor.
DEMPSEY WILL
FIGHT KELLER
DURING MARCH
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LOS ANGELES, March 4 (by Asso
ciated Press*.—Jack Dempsey will
meet Terry Keller of New York for a
j four-round exhibition boxing contest
here on Friday next. Keller recently
won a decision over Beckett.
The federal marshal has received
telegraphic warrants ordering Demp
sey and his manager, Kearns, to ap
pear at noon today and give bail on
charges of evading the draft.
COURT DECIDES
CHARGESMADE
WERE ILLEGAL
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TACOMA, March 4 (by Associated
Press).—The state supreme court to
day handed down a decision declar
ing that the state public service com
mission acted without authority in
putting into effect in Washington the
war-time charges ordered by Postmas
ter General Burleson.
It is believed that the city attorneys
of Seattle and Tacoma will endeavor
to make the telephone and gas com
panies refund the increases made ef
fective last summer.
SWISS CONSULATE IN
GENEVA IS BOMBED
ZURICH, March 4 (by Associated
Press).—A bomb which exploded un
der the porch of the American con
sulate yesterday wrought considerable
damage to the building. No one was
injured.
The police state that they have sev
eral clues to the perpetrators.
TWO CABLES BROKEN
BY OCEAN QUAKE
WASHINGTON, March 4 (by Asso
ciated Press).—It is learned that the
earthquakes in the South Pacific last
week resulted in the breaking of both
the South American cables.
OUIJA BOARD
DEVOTEES ARE
UNDERARREST
MARTINEZ, Cal., March 4 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The city marshal ar
rested three men and two women last
night in a house at El Cerrito, near
here, while conducting strange rites
over a ouija board.
The prisoners are being detained on
charges of insanity. The officers said
they had clipped the hair of small
children and burned it as an offering
to spirits. Also they had burned $700
in currency.
NEWBERRY TO
STAND TRIAL
ON CHARGES
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 4
(hy Associated Press).—In the elec
tions frauds case in which Senator
Newberry and others are on trial here,
the judge today overruled all motions
for further dismissals. He said that
Newberry’s conviction or acquittal
would not necessarily mean that a
deadlock would come as to the eighty
four other defendants. He held the
prosecution had made out a prima
facie case, with ample evidence to
warrant a verdict of guilty.
The defense will commence the in
troduction of testimony this after
noon.
MEXICAN BANDIT LEADER
IS KILLED BY REGULARS
MEXICO CITY, March 4 (by Asso
ciated Press).—It is semi-offificially
announced that government troops
have killed Manual Gonzales, the
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leader of the bandits who killed for
mer American Consul Morrill. Several
of Gonzales’ band were killed also.
AIRPLANES CONVERTED
INTO AIR AMBULANCES
WASHINGTON, March 4 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Several army airplanes
have been converted into air ambu
lances, with basket litters.
WILL DELIVER
TURK TREATY
THIS MONTH
LONDON, March 4 (by Associated
Press).—The peace conference ended
its London session yesterday, after
preparing the Turkish treaty, which
will be handed to the Turkish commis
sioners at Paris on March 22.
The Standard says that at the ses
sion of the allied supreme council just
ended it was decided to allow Ger
many to launch an international loan,
because it was feared that Germany’s
ruin would mean a weak and danger
ous spot in Europe.
The loan is to take precedence over
indemnity payments.
The treaty of peace for Turkey ar
ranged by the conference of foreign
ministers strips Turkey of virtually all
European Turkey. Turkey retains only
the holy places.
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MURDER TRIAL,
OF“WOBBLIES”
MONTESANO, Wash., March 4 (by
Associated Press).—John Patterson of
Centralia, a witness for the defense
in the Centralia murder trial, testified
yesterday that he saw the dead body
of McElaresh carried from the door
way of the “wobbly” hall. This was
in contradiction of the testimony
introduced by the state, to the effect
that McElaresh had been slain at a
distance from the hall.
Patterson said he heard the door
broken in and then heard shots.
Mrs. A. Martin she she had a view
of the parade from Tower avenue, and
that the head of the Centralia contin
gent was not in sight when the firing
began. She admitted that her hus
band, a coal miner, was on strike at
the time. Her two daughters corrobo
rated her testimony.
Six other witnesses were called.
Case Nearing an End
Elmer Smith, the lawyer-defendant,
was on the stand today. He testified
that he went to the “wobbly” hall on
the day of the shooting, with Britt
Smith, secretaray of the I. W. W„ and
also one of the defendants, with whom
he discussed the possibility of a raid
on the hall. He said he did not know
the men in the hall were armed.
He advised Britt, he said, of the law
of self-defense and of the defense of
property. He said he did not advise
Britt against using guns in repelling
the threatened raid.
It is believed the trial is nearing an
end. Judge Wilson probably will de
clare a recess next week to give time
to prepare instructions to the jury.
ELIMINATION OF
WASTE IS URGED
BY GOV. LOWDEN
ST. PAUL, March 4 (by Associated
Press).—Governor Lowden of Illinois,
in an address here last night, declared
that the reorganization of the govern
ment at Washington on a business
basis was imperative. He declared
there was too much duplication of
effort, too much waste, too much tax
ation. The party in power, he said,
was responsible for the high cost of
living.
Wood’s Active Campaign
CHICAGO, March 4 (by Associated
Phess).—It is announced that peti
tions will be filed in every state where
presidential primaries are to be held,
with the possible exception of Cali
fornia, for the nomination of General
Leonard Wood as Republican candi
date for the presidency. '
Plans of Palmer
WASHINGTON, March 4 (by Aaao-.
ciated Press).—Attorney General A.
Mitchell Palmer said yesterday that he
planned to speak in Georgia and Mich
igan in the campaign for the presiden
tial nomination.
SENATE CONFIRMS
PHILLIPS’ NOMINATION
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WASHINGTON, March 4 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The senate yesterday
confirmed the nomination of William
Phillips, assistant secretary of state,
to be minister to the Netherlands and
Luxemburg.