CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 9, 1920_ PRICE TEN CENTS
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POLES CROSS
BUG RIVER AND
CRUSH EN MY
WARSAW, Sept. 9 fby Associated
Press).—The official statement today.
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reports further Polish success south of
Brest-Litovsk. The Poles have crossed
to the eastern bank of the Bug river,
crushing the enemy and taking many
^ prisoners. Stubborn fighting continues
in the Lemberg sector.
Letvia has given the necessary guar
antee to the Russian Soviet govern
ment and the Bolsheviki peace dele
gates will go to Riga to meet the Poles.
The Polish delegation had an audience
here today with the cabinet and will
leave Monday for Riga.
LITHUANIA THREATENS POLAND
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Official reports in dip
lomatic circles declare the commander
of the Lithuanian army has served
notice on the Polish military delegates
at Kovno that unless Lithuanian terri
torial claims are accepted, Lithuania
will co-operate with the Russian Bol
sheviki and eventually with Germany
^against Poland.
COMPERS CONTINUES
ATTACK ON COURT
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—Renewing the attack on
the Kansas law establishing a court
of industrial relations begun by labor
organizations, Samuel Gompers, presi
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, yesterday gave out copies of
letters sent out by central labor bodies
of that state tendering aid to the fed
eration of labor in its efforts to get
the measure repealed.
•LONE BANDIT HOLDS
UP BANK IN TEXAS
* SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Sept. 9 (by
Associated Press).—A lone bandit
held up the First State Bank at
Uvalde yesterday, escaping with
$6,500.
forty-seventhTlong .
SWAT FOR BABE RUTH
CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Babe Ruth knocked
out his forty-seventh home run in the
game here today between Cleveland
and New York.
ESCH DEFEATED
' PRIMARY FOR
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 9 (by As
sociated Press). —Congressman J. J.
Esch, one of the authors of the rail
way bill, was defeated for renomina
tion in Tuesday’s primary in the
Seventh district by Joseph E. Beck,
former state commissioner of labor.
Lafollette supported Beck.
SENATOR CRANE IS
GROWING WEAKER
PITTSFIELD, Mass., Sept. 9 (by
Associated Press).-The condition of
former Senator Murray Crane, who
is suffering from heart weakness, was
^ very serious last night, the patient
growing gradually weaker.
JURY DRAWN I
SEATTLE TRIAL
SHIP OFFICIALS
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SEATTLE, Sept. 9 (by Associated
Press).—Nine jurors were tentatively
accepted yesterday in the trial of
seven officials of the Grays Harbor
Motorship Corporation, charged with
conspiracy to defraud the government.
It is claimed they presented false
claims and received advance bonuses
for the delivery of hulls to the Emer
gency Fleet Corporation. The case is
expecetd to occupy several days and
will be followed by similar cases
against the Seaborn Shipyards Com
pany of Tacoma, and Captain John
BJain, former manager of the North
west Fleet Corporation, a Grays Har
bor company. Other defendants in
clude Albert Schubach, Bruce Shorts,
Monty Ward, A. B. Shay, A. S. Hoonan,
W. A. Magee and A. B. Hunt.
ONLY ROUTINE
BUSINESS AT
COUNCIL MEET
The city Jeouncil met last night
in adjourned session and transacted
considerable routine business.
The sewer running in the alley be
tween B and C and First and Second
streets was reported as having caved
in in back of the Clayson building,
and that the same had been dug up
and repaired for a distance of 30
feet; that the condition of the sewer
seemed to be very bad as the wood
appeared to be rotten all of the way
and there was a possibility of its
giving way and causing a serious
damage.
The A street sewer was reported
as completed with the exception of
a Y to be put in which would be
done later.
The question of the overflow from
the auxiliary dam was discussed at
length and the council agreed to go
in a body Thursday afternoon and see
if it would be feasible to turn the
water above the dam so that it
would run towards the lake, by
building a flume.
The city dock question was again
deferred until Mr. Hazelet’s return
to the city.
The committee reported that they
were working on the system of tax
ation and that the clerk would order
a new tax roll on one of the next
boats.
The street committee were in
structed to examine all the profiles
and maps by the next meeting of
the council so that the council could
consider the adoption of grades for
streets which have no official grade.
The city attorney was instructed to
draw up an dordinance covering the
question and present it at the same
meeting. .
The cemetery question wras again
laid over as the city attorney, who
has this question in hand was out of
the city.
In the monthly report of the fire
chief he called the council’s atten
tion to the needed repairs to the
roof of the fire station on C street.
The chief was given authority to get
the necessary material and have the
repairs made.
The report of the auditor of the
town clerk’s and town treasurer’s
book was read, accepted and ordered
filed.
A letter was read from the Cordo
va school board requesting the sum
of $4500.00 to defray the expenses
for the first part of the school year,
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i as well as the expense incurred for
repairs and alterations ^during the
summer and a warrant was drawn
for the amount requested.
The question of stock runing at
j large on the public streets in vio
ilation of the ordinance was discuss
ed at length and the chief of police
was instructed to see that the ordi
nance wa»«enforced.
NOME PLANES REACH
WHITEHORSE ON RETURN
WHITEHORSE, Sept. 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—The Nome airplanes on
their return journey expect to leave
for Telegraph Creek this afternoon
and go on to Hazelton tomorrow or1
Saturday.
ROOSEVELT ENCOUNTERS
FIERCE ELECTRIC STORM
TULSA, Okla., Sept. 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—Theodore Roosevelt had
! a thrilling experience yesterday when
a plane he was traveling in from Oka
mulgee to Tulsa encountered a severe
electrical storm, the pilot being com
pelled to fly aimlessly about until the
storm subsided.
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CAGO MAYOR SUES
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
CHICAGO,N Sept. 9 (by Associated
Press').—Mayor Thompson has sued
Lieutenant Governor John A. Oglesby
of Illinois for $100,000 because of let
ters alleged to have been mailed to
soldiers under the signature of Ogles
by attacking the mayor as seditious
and unpatriotic.
Radio compasses, which enable ships
at sea to gain accurate bearings in
spite of bad weather, are to be in
stalled along the Alaskan coast from
Dixon’s entrance to Unimak pass in
the Aleutian islands, also the erection
of a radio telegraph station at Cold
Bay. Lieutenant Commander Frank
Luckel, district superintendent of com
munication, who was in Cordova the
other day aboard the U. S. S. Swallow,
is visiting the proposed sites and mak
ing all arrangements for these im
provements.
Few, if any, of the present commer
cial radio plants on the coast can be
used in connection with the radio com
pass work, as they are not properly
located. It is said that the Cordova
station is so surrounded by mountains
and hills that it would probably be im
possible to give* accurate directions.
Present plans call for the installation
of ten new radio stations along the
coast. These will probably not be used
for commercial business, it is said.
The operation of the radio compass
is simple. Several years ago a system
was devised whereby the direction
from which a radio message is sent
can be determined at a receiving sta
tion, and this device is the basis of
the compass. If a ship at sea desires
to know its position, it flashes a mes
sage to two different land stations,
both of which are equipped with a
direction finder. The stations deter
mine the direction the ship is from
them and report their findings to the
ship. It is then a comparatively sim
ple matter to determine the ship’s
exact location.
The new stations will be installed at
the principal entrances to Alaskan
waters.
Capes Muzon and Chacon will havej
stations to guide vessels into Dixon’s
entrance.
Cape Omany will be the next station
up the coast, guarding the entrance to
Clarence straits.
Cape Spencer station, with the as
sistance of Omany or the station to
be erected at Cape St. Elfhs, will guide
boats bound to Icy straits from the
westward.
The entrance to Prince William
sound will be guarded by stations at
Capes Hinchinbrook and St. Elias.
The entrance to Cook inlet will be
marked by a station on the northeast
shore of Afognak island and some
point on the short of Cook inlet.
Unimak pass through the Aleutian
chain will be marked by stations at
Cape Sarichef on the Bering sea side
and Scotch cape at the Pacific en
trance.
LEASE SIGNED
FOR COAL LAND
ON COOK INLET
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A coal mining lease
covering 1,400 acres in the Cook inlet
coal fields, Alaska, was signed today
by Secretary of the Interior Payne and
Edward T. McNally of Anchorage.
The lease calls for an investment of
$140,000 in mining operations by the
,lessee.
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MINERS GIVEN
INCREASED PAY
BY OPERATORS
BILLINGS, Mont., Sept. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Montana and Northern
Wyoming coal miners scored a victory
yesterday when after three days’ con
ference with representatives of the
coal operators they gained an increase
of $1.50 a day for men and 82 cents
for boys, retroactive to August 16.
LOOKING INTO DEATH
OF ARSENAL WORKERS
BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 9 (by As
sociated Press).—The department of
justice has started an investigation
into the death of nine men at the
Edgewood arsenal hospital, following
the drinking of poisoned liquor, the
chief ingredient of which apparently
was wood alcohol... Four others are
critically ill from the effects of drink
ing the same liquor.
ANOTHER TEXAS VICTIM
OF BUBONIC PLAGUE
GALVESTON, Tex., Sept. 9 (by As
sociated Press').—The ninth death and
the twelfth victim of Bubonic plague
developed here yesterday.
MINNESOTANS
GIVE HARDING
ST. PAUL, Sept. 9 (by Associated
Press).—Senator Harding visited the
Minnesota state fair yesterday and in
an address there outlined an agricul
tural program designed to keep the na
tion self-sustaining and improve the
condition of the farmer. He specifical
ly urged the following policies: Larger
representation of farmers in public af
fairs; scientific study of the world
markets; an estimate system by co
operative associations for marketing;
curtailment of unnecessary price fix
ing; administration of the farm loan
act so as to increase tenancy; restora
tion of railroads to a state of highest
efficiency; revision of the tariff to
protect American agriculture from un
fair competition.
POPE APPEALS
FOR MERCY TO
LORD MAYOR
LONDON, Sept. 9 (by Associated
Press).—Following his statement yes
terday on the release of Irish hunger
strikers, Premier Lloyd George de
clared he will accept a guarantee from
Sinn Fein headquarters that the police
murders will cease in Ireland, and will
not require a personal guarantee from
Lord Mayor MacSaweeney of Cork.
SAYS POPE HAS INTERCEDED
ROME, Sept. 9 (by Associated
Press).—Italian papers announced to
day that the pope has interceded in
behalf of Lord Mayor MacSaweeney
of Cork.
WATSONAHEAD IN
GEORGIA PRIMARY
ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 9 (by Associ
ated Press).—Thomas E. Watson is
leading for the Democratic nominatior
for United States senator in the face
of incomplete returns.
WATSON CONSIDERED CERTAIN
MACON, Ga., Sept. 9 (by Associated
Press).—The nomination of Thomas
E. Watson for the United States sen
ate by the Democrats is considered
certain. Watson defeated Governm
Dorsey and Senator Hoke Smith.
GERMAN AN HUNGARIAN
AID GIVEN TO SOVIETS
HARBIN, Manchuria, Sept. 9 (by As
sociatecl Press).—German and Hun
garian war prisoners are aiding th(
Soviet forces which recaptured Omsk
where peasants recently overthrew th(
Soviets. The Bolsheviki also hold the
northern portion of the railway, bui
are isolated without food. Altai pro
vince has been cleared of Reds.
CROSS-COUNTRY MAIL
PLANE MAKES GOOD TIME
CHICAGO, Sept. 9 (by Associated
Press).—The first airplane carrying
mail from New York to San Franciscc
arrived here at 3:30 yesterday, leaving
half an hour later for Omaha, witl
the expectation of reaching Salt Lake
City tonight.
FOUR HUNDRED
KNOWN DEAD IN
EARTHQUAKE
ROME, Sept. 9 (by Associated
Press).—The extent of the earthquake
is not yet measured, but 400 are
known to be dead and thousands in
jured. Many localities are suffering
from lack of food, medicine and shel
ter.
Another violent earthquake occurred
in the Emilia district this morning,
causing the loss of many lives and
great damage to property.
The Emilia district between Ap
penines river and Po embraces eight
provinces and has a population of ap
proximately 2,500,000.
Rome was shaken today with a more
violent shock than that of Tuesday.
Many were killed by falling walls.
Five other towns suffered heavily.
THREE HUNDRED DEAD BODIES
FLORENCE, Sept. 9 (by Associated
Press).—A dozen additional earth
quake shocks have been felt in this
section of Italy, increasing the terror
of the populace. More than 300 bodies
have already been removed and many
others are under the ruins of wrecked
buildings.
The death list from the earthquake
is steadily growing. The total dead at
Fivizzanno is now said to reach near
ly 500. Hundreds of deaths are re
ported from other towns and the lists
will wount into the thousands. Three
score towns and villages have been
damaged.
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KING EMMANUEL VISITS SCENE
PIZZA, Italy, Sept. 9 (by Associated
Press).—King Victor Emmanuel, who ,
came here immediately after the
earthquake, went on a visit to the
affected districts of Tuscany.
CALIFORNIA ALSO SHAKEN
SAN JOSE, Cal., Sept. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The heaviest earth
quake experienced here in years shook
the city early this morning.
FISH QUOTATIONS
SEATTLE, Sept. 9.—(Special to the
Daily Times).—Prices at noon Sept. 8:
Halibut, 1414c; cable fish, 6c; red and
ling cod, 2c.
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COX LAUNCHES
NEW ASSAULT
ON HARDING
GREAT FALLS, Mont., Sept. 9 (by
| Associated Press). — Governor Cox
launched a new assault on Senator
Harding’s international policies in
■ his address here yesterday, declaring
• Harding had taken eight different
' position which he enumerated in de
. tail, calling Harding’s attitude “vacil
1 lating and inconsistent.”
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URGES LEAGUE AT HELENA
HELENA, Mont., Sept. 9 '(by Asso
ciated Press).—Governor Cox outlined
what he declared to be practical and
material benefits flowing from the
League of Nations. He declared that
1 reduction of armaments means im
1 mense sums available for the reclama
tion of arid lands and solution of the
. huge problems of production. Urging
; endorsement of the league, the nom
i inee said the “United States is looked
; upon as a nation of quitters, self-pros
, perous, self-satisfied, while our asso
i ciates as well as our enemies in Eu
rope are starving to death.”