REPUBLIC _ OLUTION DECLARING PEACE
ALASKANS AT WASHINGTON
IN BITTER CONTROVERSIES
STIRRED UP BY WICKERSHAM
8RATTL.E, April 1 (by Associated
Press).—A special to a local news
paper from Washington says that fight:
ing language, from which no fighting
resulted, characterized the two con
gressional hearings in which Alaskans I
are interested at yesterday’s sessions.
J^mes Wickersham concluded his ar
v
guments before the house elections
comm|^ipe in the delegateship contest,
and Delegate Grigsby will start his. ar
gument tonight. The committee is
sitting nights in order to avoid inter
im ptions.
The senate committee on commerce
is still hearing arguments on the
Alaska shipping bill.
THE LIE PASSED
John F. Ballaine testified that Maur
ice Leehey, the attorney of the
Alaska shipping commission, was em
ployed also by Falcon Joslin and the j
Bering River Coal Company, hence
by implication he was employed by
the Guggenheims.
Leehey declared Ballaine’s state
ment was a lie. „ ,*■ ;
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Ballaine said Leehey had lobbied for
the repeal of the Alaska coal-land
leasing bill, and Leehey characterized
that also as a lie.
WICK PLAYS A STACK
Former Delegate Wickersham, in
a statement to the committee, desig
nated Semmes, the traffic adviser of
the Alaska shipping commission, as
“Sherlock, the deep-sea lawyer.”
RIGGS COMING HOME
A Post-Intelligencer special from
Washington says that Governor
Thomas Riggs, Jr., will leave for
Alaska about April 6, and that he is
planning for a conference with Sen
ator New, chairman of the senate com
mittee on territories, on the territorial
government bill before he leaves.
Governor Riggs also expects to ap
pear before the house committee on
appropriations regarding the $80,000 in
the next deficiency bill to recompense
the territory for the money spent in
stamping out the influenza epidemic
in 1918.
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GO ON STRI
CHICAGO, April 1 (by Associated
Press).—Five hundred firemen voted
yesterday to resign on April 7 as a
protest against the increase in wages
granted yesterday, of $190 per month.
Fifteen hundred city employes are
now out on strike. ^
The city council granted the firemen
an increase of 10 per cent, but the
firemen wanted $300 a year increase.
LITTLE MARY FEARS
JO TROUBLE FROM
i ; HER DIVORCE ACTION
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LOS ANGELES, April 1 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Mary Pickford, the mo
tion picture actress, said yesterday
that there had been no collusion or
arrangement between herself and
Owen Moore to enable her to secure
a decree of divorce at Reno. She said
the Nevada authorities would find
everything right, and that she had
nothing to fear from an investigation.
BODIES OF SOLDIERS
INTERRED IN FRANCE
ARE BEING EXHUMED
BREST, April 1 (by Associated
Press).—The exhumation of the bodies
oft American soldiers buried in France
began yesterday. One hundred bodies
are^to be ready for transportation by
April 5.
JACK JOHNSON IS
TO FIGHT FULTON
MEXICALA, April 1 (by Associated
Press).—Jack Johnson, the colored ex
champion pugilist, has signed articles
for a finish flght~with Fred Fulton or
Carl Morris. Johnson will give an ex
hibition bull fight here Sunday.
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NEW YORK, April 1 (by Associated
Press).—The general scale committees
of the coal miners and operators of
the Central field yesterday ratified the
new wage agreement, involving the 27
per cent increase in wages awarded
by the President’s commission.
The new scale goes into effect today
and is operative for two years.
AMERICAN SOLDIERS"
ON RHINE ARE NOT
CONTROLLED BY FOCH
WASHINGTON, April 1 (by Associ
ated Press).—In response to a resolu
tion of inquiry, President Wilson to
day transmitted to the house a state
ment to the effect that the American
troops on the Rhine were subject only
to the President’s orders, and that
Marshal Foch has no authority over
the troops.
FRANK VAN CAMPEN .
ASKS DIVORCE DECREE
ALLEGING DESERTION
SEATTLE, April 1 (by Associated
Press).—Frank R. Van Campen, for
merly superintendent of the Kennecott
Copper Company’s mines at Latouche,
Alaska, has filed suit for divorce j
against Helen Green Van Campen, a!
| writer Desertion is alleged. The!
couple have been married eleven |
years.
DENVERPLASTERERS
GET WAGE INCREASE
DENVER, April 1 (by Associated
Press).—The plasterers of this city
have been granted an increase in
wages to $10 per day. The carpenter*
have been denied an increase to $9,
and are planning to strike.
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NEW YORK LEGISLATURE
EXPELS SOCIALIST MEMBERS
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ALBANY, N. Y., April 1 (by Associated Press).—After debating
all night the report of the special committee appointed to try the five
Socialist members of the legislature, the lower house early this morn
ing adopted the report of the committee in detail. The vote for ex
pulsion in nearly all of the five cases was 116 to 28.
Many spectators remained ail night in the galleries listening to
the debate.
IRISH TROUBLE
IS CHARGEABLE
TO AMERICANS
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LONDON, April 1 dy Associated
Press).—In the debate in the house
of commons last night on the Irish
home rule bill, Premier Lloyd George
said that action such as was taken by
the United States senate, in adopting
a resolution expressing sympathy and
a hope for Irish independence, was re
sponsible for fostering the secession
movement.
The premier said that Do Yalera
was using the same view's as those
expressed by Jefferson Davis, “We
VMt,
ed 5*Stntel claimed for themselves,” he
said. r
Sir Edward Carson, the Ulster
leader, said he believed that the re
cent murders committed in Ireland
w'ere the acts of ill-conditioned Amer
icans, misled by propaganda.
JAPAN BOWS
TO WORD OF
BIG POWERS
SAN FRANCISCO, April 1 (by As
sociated Press).—Tokio cablegrams to
Japanese newspapers here say that
Japan has notified the United States,
Great Britain and France that she is
ready to give up certain concessions
n Mongolia and Manchuria in response
to the pressure of those powers.
The claims are not specified, but it
is said that negotiations will be
opened soon with China to determine
the extent of the privileges to be
given up.
BASIS OF NEGOTIATIONS
TOKIO, Aprli 1 (by Associated
Press).—Unofficial exchanges regard
ing the Shantung controversy between
China and Japan show that an agree
ment has been reached on several
questions, including the opening of
Kiaochau as an open Chinese port, the
organization of the railroads as joint
Chinese and Japanese enterprises, and
the establishment of mining rights as
joint enterprises.
It is expected that the first direct
official negotiations will start soon.
CARGO OF FOOTWEAR
EXPORTED TO SIBERIA
RETURNED TO STATES
SEATTLE, April 1 (by Associated
Press).—A quarter of a million pairs
of men shoes, shipped to Siberia two
years ago, and for which the agents
were unable to pay, have been re
turned here.
Since their exportation their value
has increased greatly, and they are
being shipped from Vladivostok to
New York at a profit.
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JAP TROOPS
ARE KILLED
IN SIB
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HONOLULU, April 1 (by Associated
Press).—Tokio dispatches say that
seven hundred Japanese troops and
civilians have been killed in a
two days’ battle against the Bolsheviki
at Nikoiaevsk, Siberia.
The Japanese consulate was burned
and. the Japanese residents organized
a volunteer force to aid the soldiers.
Consul E. Ishida is still missing.
Nikoiaevsk la at the month of th®'
Amhr river.
J ©UERRiLL/T WARFARE
^'^ImHVOST'PK April 1 (hv
ated Press).—The Nikoiaevsk battle
started on March 30. Forty Russians
were* killed and eighty wounded.
It is believed that guerrilla warfare
throughout Eastern Siberia will follow!
if the Japanese do not evacuate the j
country. I
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FOUR INDICTED
FOR LEAK ON
OIL
WASHINGTON, April 1 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Jas. Harwood Graves,
former assistant attorney in the de
partment of justice; Ashton Embry,
formerly secretary to Associate Jus
tice McKenna of the United States .su
preme court; Barnette Moses, a Wash
ington lawyer, and Millard Mayer, a
stock broker, were indicted today by
a grand jury which has been investi
gating the alleged “leak” of the su
preme court’s decision in the Southern
Pacific oil land cases.
The four men are said to have prof
| ited to the extent of $1,500.
! DRIFTED IN SEAPLANE
UNTIL PICKED UP BY
PASSING STEAMSHIP
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BALTIMORE, April 1 (by Associ
ated Press).—Major Sidney E. Parker
and Mass Blanche Frazier drifted in a
seaplane off the Florida coast for six
teen hours without food or water,
while en route to Florida. They took
dinner on the Bahama islands.
The steamship Hilton found and res
cued them.
FORMER ARMY PILOT
MEETS DEATH BY FALL
MINEOLA, N. Y., April 1 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Captain John Foot of
Chicago, an army pilot during the war,
was killed here yesterday when his
airplane fell a thousand feet at Roose
velt field.
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PEACE WITH GERMANY IS
DECLARED IN RESOLUTION
INTRODUCED IN CONGRESS
WASHINGTON/April 1 (by Associ
ated Press).—A joint resolution was
introduced in the house of representa
tives yesterday declaring the war be
tween the United States and Germany
to be ended. It was referred to the
committee on foreign relations. It is
expected that the resolution will "be
coftsidered in the house Friday.
The measure was approved by a con
ference of Republican leaders.
The peace resolution provides for
the termination of the state of war
as soon as the resolution becomes ef-r
feetive, and also provides for recip
rocal trading with Germany under cer
tain restrictions and the repeal of the
war-time powers of the President.
Germany is to be allowed forty-five
days in which to notify the President
that it had declared the war termi
nated and waived all claims against
the United States that she would not
have the right to make under the
treaty of Versailles.
RECEIVES FAVORABLE REPORT
The house committee on foreign af
fairs this afternoon favorably reported
the resolution declaring the wrar be
tween the United States and Germany
ended.
The committee divided on a strict
party vote, 12 to 16, and the Repub
lican leaders are pressing the adop
tion of the measure.
The resolution provides for the re
peal of the more important war-time
acts and powers, including war-time
prohibition, the Lever food control act,
the espionage act, the selective serv
ice law,, and the laws enacted for the
authorization of loans to the allies.
SUFFRAGE FOR
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DOVER, Del., April 1 (by Associated
Press).—The lower house of the legis
lature today defeated the resolution
for the ratification ’of the woman suf
frage amendment to the federal con
stitution by a vote of 23 to 9.
Mississippi having also defeated
the ratification proposal, the amend
ment still lacks the ratification of one
state. Vermont may vote upon the
question next.
MISSISSIPPI’S ACTION
JACKSON, Miss., April 1 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The lower house of the
state legislature yesterday refused to
ratify the federal suffrage amendment
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SIGNAL CORPS MAN
DIES AT JUNEAU
JUNEAU, April 1 (Special to the
Daily Times).—Durwood M. Hocker,
formerly of the signal corps office at
Fairbanks, arrived here on the steam
ship Alameda in an unconscious con
dition, with brain fever. He died yes
terday evening. He was unconscious
all the time he was here.
He came to Juneau to work on the
Empire.
SAYSHOOVER
IS STIRRED
WITH WINDS
NEW YORK, April 1 (by Associated
Press).—'Senator Hiram Johnson of
California, in a campaign speech de
livered here today, said that one of
his opponents “stirred with the winds”
on certain questions.” Later he told
the reporters that he referred to Her
bert Hoover.
The speaker said he held in utter
contempt certain persons who were
first on one side of the League of Na
tions question and then on the other.
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WASHINGTON, April 1 (by Associ
ated Press).—Robert Lansing, former
secretary of state, has wired request
ing that his name be taken off the
ballot at the Georgia presidential
primaries. He said he was not a can
didate.
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1 HE WILL NOT BE PRESSED
MOULTRIE, Ga., April 1 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Senator Reed of Mis
souri, in an interview here yesterday,
said he would not be a candidate for
the Democratic nomination for the
presidency.
M’ADOO’S ATTITUDE
WASHINGTON, April 1 (by Associ
ated Press).—Former Secretary of
the Treasury W. G. McAdoo, replying
to a labor questionnaire concerning
campaign expenses, said he was not
a candidate, and therefore had no cam
paign expenses.
WILSON’S NAME TO APPEAR
WASHINGTON, April 1 (by Associ
ated Press).—At the White House to
day it was said that President Wilson
had taken no steps to prevent the ap
pearance of his name on the Georgia
presidential primary ballot.
CALDWELL IS "
AFTER CROOKS
AND GAMBLERS
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SEATTLE, April 1 (by Associated
Press).—In the course of a trip of
personal inspection of the lower part,
of the city today Mayor Caldwell found
underground passageways, secret
doors and heavy walls, and rooms that
had evidently been fitted up for gam
bling purposes.
The mayor has ordered three police
men of the district transferred, and
may order the arrest of the owners
of the buildings.