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VOL. IV. NO. 179___CORDOVA. ALASKA. SATURDAY. JULY 5, 1919 PRICE TEN CENTS
AGITATION RENEWED TO RE-ESTABLISH MONARCHY IN GERMANY
WORLD’S BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP
IS WON BY DEMPSEY IN THREE
FAST AND FURIOUS ROUNDS
TOLEDO, Ohio, July f> (by Associated Press).—Jack
Dempsey, in three bloody rounds yesterday, in which the issue
never was in doubt, attained the pugilistic world’s champion
ship. In the first round Dempsey sent home body blows i rom
which Willard never recovered. The gong saved him from de
feat in the first round. Dempsey knocked him down and help
less against the ropes seven times. Dempsey thought he had
won when the gong sounded, and had to be brought back into
the ring.
Willard towered above Dempsey like a lighthouse over a
tug, but his relentless antagonist hammered home blows like a
great riveting machine. Finally the crowd cried, “Stop it- It s
murder. ’ ’
Willard acted like a sick man. He swung wildly and feebly
viiid just managed to last our. the bird round, when he sank into
* Iris corner. He was given spirits of ammonia and revived. IP
tried to smile. Then his seconds surrendered the match.
A majority of the fight fans already have left the city. The
Je' remaining ones still are arguing over the decision. Dempsey’s
^victory is claimed to be the quickest in recent heavyweight ring
History. Oldtimers declared that never before had a champion
admitted defeat without leaving his chair.
Both Willard and Dempsey are here. Dempsey is unde
cided as to the future, there being no worthy opponent for him
in sight. Dempsey already has become a popular idol.
The fight by rounds:
Round 1
Willard landed the first blow, which
was a left to the head. The champion
landed right and left to head. Demp
sey broke to Willard’s stomach and
missed a right to the head. Willard
snapped a left and Dempsey knocked
Willard down with a right to jaw
twice. Willard took the count of six
each time. When he got up Dempsey
km iked him down with a left and
rijm to jaw. Willard tore into his
opponent and Dempsey knocked him
down for the third time, flooring him
with right and left to chin.
Round 2
Dempsey rushed Willard in his cor
ner, pounding Willard’s jaw with
rights and lefts, closing Willard’s
right eye. Dempsey walked around
Willard, measuring nun with rights
and lefts to face. Willard seemed
dazed. Dempsey put three lefts to
Willard’s bad eye. Willard landed a
feeble uppercut. Willard staggered to
his corner at the end of the round.
Round 3
Dempsey hit Willard twice with
lefts to jaw. Dempsey sent right to
jaw and left to body. Dempsey pep
pered lefts to Willard’s jaw without
return. Dempsey backed Willard to
the ropes and hammered him with
I lefts and rights to jaw and body. The
| blood streamed from Willard’s mouth.
, Willard landed a stinging uppercut to
| Dempsey’s jaw and Dempsey retali
ated with left to jaw. Dempsey hit
the champion with rights and lefts to
jaw. As the hell rang Willard quit.
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Dempsey weighed 187 pounds and AN lllard tipped tue
scales at 243 pounds yesterday.
A vaudeville circuit has offered Dempsey $10,000 weekly
for twelve weeks.
I Willard Took a Terrible Beating
Dempsey says he is going to try to be a popular champion.
He believes the public wants a champion who will defend the
title frequently. “I intend to be that kind of champion,” he
said, and continued:
“I believe that I will take a rest of six or eight months^ but
1 will fight when a contender is found.”
Willard says he has definitely retired from the ring and
will devote his attention to his oil interests. He is not injured
seriously. His mouth and eye are cut, but he lost no teeth.
( Dempsey said he admired NVillard, as the latter had proved
himself square and game. He took an awful beating, said the
new champion, and proved his gameness.
When Dempsey and Willard shook hands at the end of the
fight Dempsey said: “Weil, Jess, it’s all over. I am sorry I
Und to cut you up so much.”
The Inevitable Vaudeville Tour
TOLEDO, July 5 (by Associated
press).—Dempsey, the new world’s
champion pugilist, will begin a vaude
ville tour next week.
SALT LAKE, July 5 (by Associated
press).—Mrs. Cecilia Dempsey, the
new champion’s mother, said she was
overjoyed when she heard that her
g0n had won.
Notes of the Fight
^fter the fight Willard said:
“in the first round, when Dempsey
,,jt me with a left hook. I tried hard
t ) col#'"pie, but I was rapidly losing
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of the third round, i admit aeieai,
but Dempsey was the hardest puncher
I ever faced.”
Kearns, Dempsey’s manager, said:
“Jack is the real champion. He
knocked Willard out twice. They gave
us the fight in the first round and
then brought us back with the bell,
but Jack dropped him again in the
third. Dempsey will be a popular
champion.”
A California blind man who paid $60
for a seat was the prize spectator.
Dempsey said: “I told you I
knocked him out in the first round.
To all intents and purposes that’s
what I did. He took lots of punish
ment in the next two rounds, but was
so feeble that I hated to hit him.”
At the ringside the temperature was
120 degrees at 12:45. Dempsey pre
dicted that he would knock Willard
out. Willard was a favorite in the
betting.
Many women were in attendance at
the fight.
The band attempted to play, but the
brass horns became so hot that the
musicians’ hands were burned. There
was no shade, and the arena walls
kept the breeze out.
Willard’s seconds threw up the
sponge at the end of the third round.
Willard’s wife witnessed the fight,
and she now says she is glad Jess lost,
because he can now become “a private
citizen.”
At the end of the first round the
gong sounded when the referee was
counting seven over Willard. The
gong was weak and none heard it.
The gong was weak and none heard
The referee declared Dempsey the
winner and Dempsey left the ring. He
was called back when the referee dis
covered that the gong had saved Wil
lard for the time being.
STILL HOPEFUL OF SECURING
NECESSARY APPROPRIATION TO
COMPLETE ALASKA RAILROAD
SEATTLE, July 5 (by Associated Press).—A Post-Intelli
gencer special from Washington says that Secretary of the In- .
terior Lane and the Alaskan engineering commission are not
discouraged by the failure of congress to grant tin1 appropria
tion of $12,000,000 asked for to complete the Alaska govern
ment railroad. A new campaign is being started to carry out
the plan to finish the road by 1921. The plan is to endeavor to
obtain legislation authorizing an increase in the original cost of
the road by approximately sixteen million dollars.
PARIS, July 5 (by Associated
Press).—The council of five has ap
pointed three commissions to con
tinue the peace conference’s work.
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The. commission for the execution of
the German treaty consists of John
j Poster Fuller, for the United States;
Sir Eyre Crowe, for Great Britain;
Captain Andre Tardieu, for France,
and Vittorio Scialcia, for Italy.
A commission for the organization j
of the Bulgarian frontiers also has
been named.
ITALIANS ARE EXCITED
BY STARTLING REPORT
ROME, July 5 (by Associated
Press).—Considerable excitement has
been caused here by reports from
Fiume to the effect that French sol
diers have passed through Fiume
shouting “Vive Jugo-Slavia! Vive
France! Death to Italy!”
Will Address Senate
WASHINGTON, July 5 (by Associ
ated Press).—President Wilson will
address the United States senate on
Thursday next.
LIMA, Peru, July 5 (by Associated
Press).—Augusto B. Leguia has as
sumed office as provisional president
as the result of the successful over
throw yesterday of President Pardo.
Several ministers and other high of
ficials have been imprisoned.
Virtually no fighting marked the
overthrow of Pardo, who is to be
placed on trial for violating the con
stitution.
MOONEY STRIKE
NOT GENERAKLY
I OPERATION
SAN FRANCISCO, July 5 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The International
Workers’ Defense League announced
Thursday that a million workers
throughout the United States would
begin a five-day strike on July 4 as a
protest against the California deci
sion not to grant Thomas Mooney a
new trial.
The league announced that it ex
pected the strike would be most evi
dent in Seattle, Tacoma, Detroit, Chi
cago, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Butte and
Great Falls. Several Canadian cities
also were to have strikes.
Employers are unable to estimate
the number of strikers who went out
on the Mooney strike yesterday, as
most of the men are observing a holi
day today also.
Several Out at Portland
PORTLAND, July 5 (by Associated
Press).—Several shipbuilders here
observed the Mooney strike order.
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PRESIDENT ADDRESSES
RETURNING SOLDIERS
ON BOARD THE GEORGE WASH
INGTON, July 5 (by Associated
Press).—President Wilson delivered a
Fourth of July address yesterday to
the returning soldiers and members
of the crew of the transport, in which
he said this was the most tremendous
Fourth ever imagined, for we had
opened its franchise to the whole
world.
The Washington will arrive at Ho
boken tonight.
The bulletins of the Willard-Deinp
sey fight were bulletined in front of
the grand stand by the Daily Times,
and were eagerly read by the crowd.
ECONOMIC EXPERTS TO MEET
NEXT WEE AND FIX TEMS
REGARDING HUNS’REARAT10N
PARIS, July 5 (by Associated Press).—Germany has indi
cated a desire to immediately comply with the terms regarding
reparation. German and allied economic experts are expected
Lo meet for oral conferences soon ,probably next week.
Von Hindenburg Also Would Shield Kaiser
LONDON, July 5 (by Associated Press).—Reports from
Copenhagen are to the effect that Marshal Yon Hindenburg is
now in Hanover, and that he has informed President Ebert that
lie was responsible for the acts of German headquarters since
August, 1916, and also for the proclamation of the kaiser con
cerning unlimited submarine warfare.
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Attempt to Re-establish Monarchy
It is reported that the German Conservative party, in a
proclamation just issued, has declared war on tin* government
mid intends to use its whole strength for the re-establishment
of the monarchy.
LOS ANGELES, July 5 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Harry New of Glen
dale, aged 30, walked into police head
quarters yesterday and said that
Frieda J. Lesser, aged 21 years, was
lying dead in his automobile outside.
He said he shot her when she refused
to marry him.
The police found the girl’s body in
the machine and arrested New.
May Be Son of Senator New
New claimed to the police that he
was the son of United States Senator
Harry S. New of Indiana.
Senator Won’t Talk
WASHINGTON, July 5 (by Associ
ated Press).—Senator New, when told
that New claimed to be his son, said
“That is a matter I don’t care to dis
cuss at all.”
AMERICAN IN
OIL DISTRICT
WASHINGTON, July 5 (by Associ
ated Press).—The state department
has been informed that Leroy Moye,
an American employed in the Tampico
oil fields, has been killed by Mexican
bandits.
The department has cabled to the
American embassy at Mexico City de
manding full and immediate punish
ment of the guilty ones and the pi
tection of other Americans in the T
pico district.
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NEED OF FUEL
FOR JOURNEY
WASHINGTON. July 5 (by Associ
ated Press).—The British dirigible
which is making the flight across the
Atlantic has wirelessed a request for
destroyers to meet her in the Bay of
Fundy, as her fuel supply is low.
Two destroyers left Boston immedi
ately on receipt of the message.
HALIFAX. N. S.. July 5 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The admiralty reports
that the dirigible R-34 is off the Nova
Scotian coast and proceeding slowly
on account of fog.
Is in Difficulties
BOSTON. July 5 (by Associated
Press).—A message from the dirigible
to the navy department asked if a de
stroyer could proceed if required to
the southern end of the Bay of Fundy
to take his majesty’s airship R-34 in
tow. Later it reported that the diri
gible was fighting strong head winds
and was short of fuel.
A second message from the dirigi
ble asked if destroyers were coming,
saying her fuel was almost gone a'
that she was hindered by the fo
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