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VOL. V. NO. 115 _._CORDON/A, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1920 PRICE TEN CENTS
Reports from various sections of the
■country to the Associated Press show
^hat the strikers are returning to work
and that there is much improvement
the situation. Freight moven|ents
are increasing.
Thousands of switchmen have re- j
turned to work at Chicago, and ten
thousand workers have resumed their
tasks at Gary.
No further arrests by federal offi
cials are indicated. Conditions on the
Pacific coast are practically normal, j
Big breaks in the ranks of the
strikers are reported at Toledo, Pitts
burgh and elsewhere. Switchmen on
the Florida & East Coast railroad have j
struck.
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ULTIMATUM ISSUED
CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 16 (by
Associated Press).—The Brotherhoods
of Trainmen, Enginemen and Firemen
have replied to the ultimatum of the
general managers, to get the strikers
back to work by Saturday noon.
The nature of the reply has not yet
been divulged.
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DENIES FOMENTING STRIKE
PITTSBURGH, April 16 (by Associ
ated Press).—W. Z. Foster, who was
the leader in the recent steel strike,
denied yesterday that he had fomented
the present railroad strike.
Whoever had made the charges was
a deliberate falsifier, said Foster, and
he declared that Attorney General
Palmer was “making a grandstand play
for the presidential nomination.”
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HAYWOOD ALSO DENIES IT
CHICAGO, April- 16 (by Associated
Press).—William D. Haywood, head of
the I. W. W., denies any connection
with the insurgent railroad strike. He
said, however, that efforts were being
made to institute industrial unionism
among the railroad workers, and that
the propaganda for “one big union”
would be continued. ^
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WILL DISREGARD STRIKE
LOS ANGELES, April 16 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The conductors of the
Southern Pacific railroad have voted
to respond to calls to run trains re
gardless of strike conditions.
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AFTER SCALP j
WASHINGTON, April 16 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Representative Hock
(Republican) of Kansas has introduced
a resolution directing the house judi
ciary committee to investigate the
charges against Assistant Secretary of
Labor Post made by Chairman John
son of the immigration committee and
others, because of his attitude toward
the deportation of aliens.
* If the evidence warrants it, the res
olution directs the committee to re
port an impeachment resolution.
LONGSHOREMEN’S STRIKE
AT NEW YORK AT AN END
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NEW YORK, April 16 (by Associated j
Press).—It was announced yesterday
that the strike of four thousand long
shoremen against the United Fruit
Company had b^en settled.
FISH QUOTATIONS '
KETCHIKAN, April 16.—Prices for
fish yesterday were: Halibut, firsts,
11c; seconds,1 8c.
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WASHINGTON, April 16 (by Asso-1
ciat-ed Press).—The navy has officially
recognized the “overall club,” permit
ting civilian employes of the Norfolk
yard and at Hampton Roads to buy
denim garments from the navy at cost.
The movement is spreading to all
parts of the country, and judges, law
yers,* merchants, professors and stu
dent# are wearing denim.
„ In scores of cities women in calico
and gingham are a common sight
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SMALLER ARMY
PROVIDED FOE
BY
WASHINGTON, April 16 (by Asso
ciated Press).—T^e house of repre
sentatives yesterday approved sections
of the military appropriation bill pro-j
viding for an army of 175,000 men and i
16,000 officers, with no attempt to pro-i
vide larger pay appropriations, al
though the army reorganization bill ,
recently passed by the house calls for
an army of 300,000 men.
MORE EVIDENCE
AGAINST MAN
OF MANY WIVES
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LOS ANGELES, April 16 (by Asso
ciated Press).—James R. Huirt, the al
leged bigamist, who is believed to
have married twenty-seven women, is
greatly improved, and will probably re
cover from the effect of his attempt at
suicide. He is still shacked to his cot
to prevent suicide. The officials expect
to be able to interview him soon con
cerning the disappearance of his nu
merous alleged wives. '
The authorities continue to pile up
evidence of his numerous marriages,
iand there is a suspicion that many of
his victims met with foul play.
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WANTS AMERICA TO
REQUEST QUICK TRIAL
FOR IRISH PRISONERS
WASHINGTON, April 16 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Representative Teague
(Democrat) of Texas lias introduced
in the house a resolution requesting
the secretary of state, with the ap
proval of t^e senate, to request Great
Britain to grant immediate trials to
Irishmen held in connection with the
fight “on behalf of freedom and inde
pendence.” #
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WORD OF WARNING SOUNDED
BY SEATTLE ALASKA UREAU
AS TO NORTHERN CONDITIONS
SEATTLE* April 16 (by Associated Press).—The memorial to con
gress formulated yesterday by the executive board of the Alaska bu
reau of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, urging the enactment of
the law creating the Alaska development board, says:
“Such a federal board, resilent in Alaska, is necessary to effi
ciently administer the federa^ affairs of the territory. The population
has actually decreased during -the last ten years, and a continuation
of present conditions will resul: in Alaska’s becoming a national
weakness.”
OFFICIALS ARE
TO BLAME FOR
SEATTLE, April 16 ‘ ^^^psociated |
Press).—The coroner’s v has
been -investigating the re^^jHf' oln
hotel fire, which resulted inseveralj
fatalities, has found that the laxity of
:he city departments in enforcing the
state and municipal laws was respon
sible for the disaster. |
The jury recommended revision of
fhe city building code. The jury de~
dared the Lincoln hotel was a fire trap.
Mayor Caldwell will place the mat*
;er before the council immediately.
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PARIS, April 16 (by Associated
Press).—Berlin advices say that the
German government has decided to
place guards around public buildings,
and for this purpose has sent for fif
teen tanks and, twenty armored cars.
The action of the government is be
ing taken because of rumors of a new
attempt at revolution and the forma
tion of an alliance with soviet Russia
to declare war on France.
VON LUETTWITZ ARRESTED -
BERLIN, April 16 (by Associated
Press).—The Wolf News Bureau an
nounces that the government has ar
rested General Von Luettwitz, who
commanded the rebel forces during the
recent Kapp revolt.
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CIVIL WAR ON BALTIC
LONDON, April 16 (by Associated
Press).—A Berlin dispatch to the
Daily Mail says that every appearance
indicates that civil war is imminent
in the Baltic provinces. The troops
have hoisted the flag of the former
German kaiser.
Russian reactionaries are reported to
be raiding the German and Russian
letachments in Silesia and West
Prussia.
CORDOVA WAS
LUCKY TO GET
ITS BOOKLET
NEW’ YORK, April 16 (by Associated
Press).—The scarcity of book paper,
due to the railroad strike, has caused
publishers of periodicals to combine
two issues in one, reducing the number
of pages and curtailing advertising.
NEWSPAPERS REDUCE
CINCINNATI, Oct. 16 (by Associ
ated Press).—Afternoon newspapers in
this city have cut down to eight pages
on account of the shortage of print
paper.
PITTSBURG, Kan., April 16 (by As
sociated Press).—One thousand union
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laborers assembled at Girard yester
day to protest against the imprison
ment of President Howatt of the coal
miners ’organization.
Judge Curran has overruler a mo
tion for a new trial in the case of the
convicted official.
The sheriff who permitted Howat
to speak from the balcony of the
Girard jail has resigned.
STEVEDORES’ STRIKE
TIES UP MANY VESSELS
YOKOHAMA, A]Jril 16 (by Associ
ated Press).—All vessels in this har
bor have been tied up by a strike of
the stevedores.
GOV. ELWARDS SIGNS
JERSEY BOXING BILL
JTRENTON, N. J„ April 16 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Governor Edwards has
signed the boxing bill, which permits
bouts of twelve refunds.
INFLUENTIAL CONGRESSMAN
EXPRESSES HIMSELF AS TO
WHAT IS NEEDED BY ALASKA
WASHINGTON, April 16 (by Associated Press).—Congressman
Curry of California, chairman of the house committee on territories,
made a statement in the house today in which hq said:
"We have got to amend the laws sp far as they apply to Alaska
so as to make ifc possible for a man to go to Alaska with an opportunity
of bettering his condition. Long-range government never has been a
success, and Alaska is no exception.”
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THEODORE N. VAIL ANSWERS
LAST CALL ON THIS EARTH
WAS BIG FINANCIAL FACTOR
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• NEW YORK, April 16 (by Associ
ated Press).—Theodore N. Vail, the
telephone magnate, died at his home
here today. Mr. Vail, who had been
in feeble health for some time, was
nearly 75 years of age.
A MARVELOUS CAREER
As president of the American Tele
phone and Telegram Company, Theo
dore Newton Vail was the head of the
largest telephone system in the world.
He was not only its nominal head, but
he was from the first the genius that
promoted the popular use of the tele
phone, the first man to establish long
distance communication by telephone,
and, when past 70 years of age, he
was still the initiative head of a ays'
tem that numbered nine million tele
phone subscribers and represented an
investment of a billion and a half dol
lars.
Mr. Vail was 31 years old when Alex
ander Graham Bell invented the tele
phone, and, notwithstanding his age,
he was filling the responsible %ost of
general superintendent of the railway;
mail service. Still earlier, however,:
he had been a telegraph operator, and,
interested in the possibilities of elec
trical communication, he had visions
that Bell’s “toy” would some day be
a great factor" in American life. Bell
and his associates had equal faith in
Mr. Vail’s organizing genius, for he
had already made a name for himself
as an organizer in the promotion of
the railway mail service, and he was
easily indeed to resign his govern
ment post to become the general man
ager, in 1878, of the first American
Bell Telephone Company.
Telephone Development
Even the most optimistic backers of
the telephone then thought that the
invention would serve only for local
communication, but Mr. Vail had vi
sions of its long-distance use. It was
he who inaugurated successive steps
of inter-city communication. The first
line, from Boston to Providence, was
ridiculed as “Vail’s side-show,” but
some of the persons who indulged in
the ridicule at that time lived to sea
Mr. Vail telephone, not only from'Bos
ton to Providence, but from New York
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STRIKE FORCES ]
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NEW YORK, April 16 (by Associ-i
ated Press).—Seventeen thousand!
union elevator operators struck today!
for more pay and shorter hours.
Thousands of persons were forced
to climb the stairs in the skyscrapers
today. Women who operated elevators
during the war are being sought as
strike-breakers.
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TEXAS WOMAN
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EL PASO, Texas, April 16 (by As- i
sociated Press).—Mrs.*R. L. Stanford,!
aged 25 years, wife of a horseshoer in
the Eighth cavalry at Fort Bliss, was
kidnaped near the park entrance in
this city by two bandits and taken to
Juarez, where she was mistreated by
fifteen Mexicans and abandoned in the
street late at night.
The woman was seized by the police
and taken to jail.- She was released
yesterday and returned to El Paso and
told her story.
MEXICO WANTS LEAVE
FOR TROOPS TO CROSS
AMERICAN BOUNDARY
WASHINGTON, April 16 (by Asso- j
ciated Press).—The Mexican govern
ment has asked permission to move
troops through American territory to
attack the rebel forces of Sonora from
the north- No action has yet been
:aken on the request.
Carranza plans to move his forces
an the Mexican Central to El Paso,
whence across Texas 1,0 Douglas, Ariz., ;
and south to Agua Prieta, whence i
hey will march on Hermosillo.
SITKA
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SEATTLE, April 16 (by Associated
Press).—The navy department has au
thorized the construction of a coal
dock at Si flea by day labor, on account
of the fact that no bids for contracts
were made on the work. Work is to
start soon under the direction of the
public works department of the Brem
erton navy yard.
BOARD APPOINTMENTS
CONFIRMED BY SENATE
WASHINGTON, April 16 (by Asso-1
dated Press).—The appointments of
the members of the new railroad labor
board were confirmed by the senate
yesterday.
Six of the nine members of the
board attended the first meeting here'
today. '
Henry Hunt was elected chairman
and G. W. Hanger secretary. Both are
from the public group.
The railroad wage dispute, as it
stood when the bipartisan conference
broke up, a fortnight ago, was submit
ted and will be given immediate con
sideration.
HEATING UNIT
OF NEW FIE
‘ EXCEED COAL
ST. LOUIS, April 16 (by Associated
Press).—It was announced at the clos
ing session of the American Chemical
Society yesterday that a new fluid had
been discovered which posseesed
greater heat value than coal or the
present fuel oils.
It to asserted that the new fluid will
Drove valuable in navigation. It is
said to be made of coal waste and
'heap tars.
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