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VOlTy. NO. 56 _CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1920 _PRICE TEN CENTS
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REPORTED DEMOCRATS HAD ADVANCE INFORMATION THAT BRITISH WOULD
ACCEPT RESERVATIONS, BUT KNOWLEDGE WAS WITHHELD FROM U. S. SENATE
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ILLNESS OF ONE OF DEFENDANTS
HALTS PROCEEDINGS IN TRIAL
OF CENTRAUA MURDER CASE
^ MONTESANO, Wash., Feb. 5 (by
Associated Press).—The illness of
John Lamb, one of the defendants, of
heart failure, delayed the trial of the
Centralia murder case yesterday aft
ernoon, and the session was ad
journed. It is believed that the sick
man will be able to be in court today.
Tfce state has used five of its six
peremptory challenges, and the de
fense eight of the twelve allowed by
law.
It is predicted that the jury will not
be procured before Saturday. There
are now twelve men in the box.
Three deaths from influenza were
reported in this county yesterday, and
a number of the veniremen are ill
from the disease.
Today Lamb is reported to be much
improved, and it is believed he wil
rally.
Becker, another of the defendants
who is ill, is a son of a Chicago Lu
theran minister. A local Lutherar
minister is taking an interest in him
The examination of talesmen was
resumed this afternoon, and it is ex
pected that the selection of the jurj
will be completed tonight.
It is expected that the jury wil
visit the scene of the shooting at Cen
tralia before witnesses are called.
Nine permanent jurors have beei
selected. Two alternate jurors wil
be named after the twelve have beei
' selected.
BOLSHEVIKI ARE
FLEEING BEFORE
RUSSIAN ARMY
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ARCHANGEL, Feb. 5 (by Associat
ed Press).—A wireless message from
Odessa conveys the news of a great
victory by the Russian volunteer army
over the Bolshevik army, which has
been driven across the Don. The dis
patch says that the finest cavalry of
The “reds” is fleeing in disorder.
“Reds” Routed at Irkutsk
- LONDON, Feb. 5 (by Associated
Press).—A Vladivostok dispatch says
the Czechs have retaken Irkutsk from
the revolutionists.
Withdrawal of Americans
^WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (by Associ
ated Press).—Half of the eight thou
sand American soldiers in Siberia
hare been withdrawn, it was an
nounced by the war department yes
terday.
PARTY ISSUES
BEING FRAMED
BY COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (by Associ
ated Press).—Plans for the work o1
the Republican platform committee
are to be taken up with the return oi
Chairman Will Hays of the Republicar
national committee from the West.
The immediate work to be under
taken is the collection of opinion or
more than twenty matters of domestic
concern. Foreign relations will be
passed over for the present.
The Republican platform committee
consisting of 171 members, will meel
to draft recommendations for the
party’s national program. The planks
to be considered include business re
habilitation, tariff changes, readjust
ment of foreign and domestic com
merce, postal reform and labor condi
tions. It will not touch foreign rela
tions until the senate acts on the
treaty.
GOLD BULLION
IS STOLEN BY
MINT EMPLOYE
DENVER Feb. 5 (by Associated
Press).—Orville Harrington, a skilled
worker in the United States mint in
this city, has been arrested and
is held under a charge of having
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robbed the mint of gold bullion valued
at more than one hundred thousand
dollars. The stolen gold was found
buried around his home.
MARKED DECREASE
IN COMMODITIES IS
REPORTED IN EAST
d CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 5 (by As
sociated Press).—Financial experts
here announced today that they be
lieved the inflated costs of clothing
and food had already ended. A marked
decrease in the price of many basic
commodities is reported.
BATTLESHIP IS
AFIRE BUT NO
DAMAGE DONE
BREMERTON, Wash., Feb. 5 (b}
Associated Press).—Fire which start
ed from oil drippings in the engine
room of the battleship Wyoming to
day threatened to reach the maga
zines. The crews of other ships a
the navy yard • were called and rai
lines of hose from the docks and fron
other vessels and drowned out th<
fire.
ACTOR MEETSDEATH
IN FALL FROM PLANE
WHILE MAKING FILM
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5 (by Associ
ated Press).—Earl Burgess, a motioi
picture actor, was instantly killed to
day on the Beverly hills when he fel
seven hundred feet from an airplam
on which he was performing-^ in th<
making of a comedy film.
JENKINS TO BE ASKED
TO LEAVE MEXICO
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 5 (by Ass ,Ci
ated Press).—The government has
canceled the exequateur of United
States Consular Agent Jenkins, at Pu
ebla, under date of February 1, and
probably will ask him to leave the
country.
AMERICAN AVIATOR
WIRES THAT HE IS SAFE
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ATTICA, Ohio, Feb. 5 (by Associ
ated Press).—A message received by
Mrs. Wolfe, mother of the American
aviator held at Nacozari, Mexico,
states that he has been released. No
other confirmation has been received
from Nacozari.
ALLIES’ EXTRADITION DEMANDS
CAUSE FLURRY I GERMANY AND
ARE OPPOSED BY ALL CLASSES
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PARIS, Feb. 5 (by Associated
Press).—The relations between the
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allies^ and Germany seem to have ar
lived at a crisis as the result of the
refusal of Von Lersner to forward the
names of the Germans whom the al
lies demand shall be extradited foi
trial.
The German minister, De Noske, is
quoted as saying that Germany car
not secure the men, saying that the
allied demand/is “revenge worse than
Shylock’s.”
Germans Unanimously Oppose It
I LONDON, Feb. 5 (by Associated
Press).—A Berlin dispatch says the
German cabinet will send to the allied
governments and to President Wilson
i a note stating that fatal consequences
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probably would follow the extradition
of the men demanded for trial by the
allies.
It is said that the German ministry
is unanimous in declaring that the
extradition is an utter physical im
possibility.
De Noske declares that the train
bearing the extradited men would
never be permitted to leave Germany,
even if he should arrst the men.
Would Thraten Very Existence
BERLIN, Feb. 5 (by Associated
Press).—It is reported that Von Lers
ner threw the extradition note back at
Premier Millerand.
The newspapers here say that Ger
many’s very existence depends upon
the outcome of the extradition demand
of the allies.
SEATTLE LEADS
IN TOURNAMENT
HOCKEY GAMES
SEATTLE, Feb. 5 (by Associated
Press).—Seattle won last night’s
hockey game against Victoria by a
score of 3 to 0. Seattle now leads the
association by two games.
“Spider” Gets Quiitus
SALT LAKE, Feb. 5 (by Associated
Press).—Kid Davis of Salt Lake las1
night knocked out “Spider” Moffatt, a
San Francisco featherweight.
American Bests Frenchman
PARIS, Feb. 5 (by Associated
I Press).—Johnnie Griffith, an Ameri
can welterweight, last night techni
I cally knocked out Marcel Thomas o:
France in the tenth round.
SEATTLE YOUNG LADY
EDITS DAILY NEWSPAPER
AT STANFORD VARSITY
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l STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Feb. i
j (by Associated Press).—Ellen Cal
houn of Seattle has been elected edi
tor of the Daily Palo Alto, the univer
sity newspaper. Ellen is the daugh
ter of Scott Calhoun of Seattle, onf
of the first editors of the same paper
[ SHIPPING BOARD HAS
SOLD MANY VESSELS
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (by Associ
l ated Press).—The United States Ship
> pin<r iRnnrtf. up to .Tapuarv 24. had sol^
s ships to the number 163, of a tota
tonnage of 610,000, for $82,424,000.
PROMISES MADE
FOR ELECTION
OFSENATOR
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb. 5 (by
Associated Press).—James Sweinhart,
head of the New York bureau of a
Detroit newspaper, testifying in the
Newberry election fraud conspiracy
trial yesterday, declared that Freder
ick Cody, one of the defendants, told
him that “the lid was off” in Michigan.
Another witness testified that he
had been solicited by another of the
defendants to become a county chair
man in the Newberry campaign for
the senatorship. He was told, he
. said, that “the freight would be paid.”
THIEF STEALS STOVE
AND FURNITURE WHILE
FAMILY IS ASLEEP
r COMPTON, Cal., Feb. 5 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A thief with an auto
mobile truck stole a sink, stove, light
; fixtures and furniture on the first floor
- of a big ranch house while the
- owners of the ranch were asleep in
- an upstairs room.
SCHOOLS AND THEATERS
AT BERKELEY CLOSED
ON ACCOUNT OF FLU
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BERKELEY, Cal., Feb. 5 (by Asso
• ciated Press).—The public schools
■ and motion picture theaters here have
been closed on account of the epidemic
[ of influenza. Seven hundred cases
have been reported.
CHARGE PRESIDENT WILSON
VITH ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE
OF VISCOUNT GREY’S LETTER
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 5 (by Associ
ated Press).—In a speech here last
night Senator Poindexter of Washing
ton attacked the letter of Viscount
Grey to the London Times, in which
the British statesman indicated that
Great Britain would accept the Lodge
reservations to the Versailles peace
treaty.
Poindexter said the incident was an
eivdence of the growth of interna
tionalism, directly begotten by the
League of Nations idea.
Had No Previous Knowledge of It
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Administration lead
ers say there is no truth in the re
ports that President Wilson knew of
Viscount Grey’s letter in advance of
its publication. Friends of the Presi
dent were said to have known of the
letter beforehand.
WIFE ON TRIAL
AS ACCESSORY
TO HOMICIDE
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Mrs. Alice Woodcock,
charged with murder in connection
with the killing of Edward Kelly, a
newspaper employe here, faced trial
in the superior court today.
The defendant’s husband, Edgar
Woodcock, who shot Kelly, was ac
quitted several weeks ago on a plea
of temporary insanity. Subsequently
the grand jury was said to have start
ed an investigation when intimations
of irregularities in the conduct of the
trial were published in the local news
papers.
Testimony was presented at Wood
cock’s trial to show that his wife told
him she could not go out at night with
out being accosted by mashers. Wood
cock followed her one evening, accord
ing to witnesses, and when Kelly
raised his hat to her the husband shot
him.
STRIKERS MUST
GO TO WORK
OR LOSE JOBS
BUTTE, Feb. 5 (by Associated
Press).—The substation men on the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail
road are out on strike, and the com
pany has been forced to abandon the
use of electricity and to resort to the
use of steam between Harlowtown,
Mont., and Avery, Idaho.
The company is replacing the
strikers and expects to resume the
use of electric trains tonight.
The railroad administration has in
formed the men that' they will lose
their jobs if the strike is not called off
tonight.
SOCIALIST CHARGED
WITH MAKING BROAD
BOAST FOR TRAITORS
ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 5 (by Associ
ated Press).—In the trial of the live
suspended Socialist assemblymen yes
terday William Hart of Brooklyn tes
tified that Solomon, one of the sus
pended members, predicted that the
four million ex-soldiers would be un
able to check the Socialist revolu
tion.
LABOR FEUDIST
IS MURDERED
WITH DUMDUMS
CHICAGO, Feb. 5 (by Associated
Pre3s).—Maurice Enright, a labor
feudist, and the last of four notorious
gunmen, was murdered last night with
dumdum bullets fired from a sawed-off
shotgun. More than forty suspects
have been taken, but no clue has been
obtained to the slayer.
Enright was the twenty-third to die
in the labor wars of the last ten
years in this city.
STORMS ARE RAGING
IN EASTERN STATES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (by Associ
ated Press).—The Eastern state*,
from New England to Virginia, ar*
experiencing the worst snowstorm of
the year. The storm is accompanied
by sleet and heavy winds.
EXONERATE 1
CONTINUES TO
CAUSE ANXIETY
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J LONDON, Feb. 5 (by Associated
Press).—The market for continental
exchange is feverish. Belgian and
French exchange dropped overnight.
New York exchange opened at $8.22
for the pound.
British officials are encouraging th*
export to America of gold to steady
exchange, and it is also urged that
the importation of luxuries from the
United States be stopped during the
prevalence of the low rates of ex
change.
A Disastrous Day
NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (by Associated
Press).—The English popnd closed at
$3.19 yesterday, and French, Belgian
and Italian exchange at discounts of
from 68 to 77 per cent of normal. The
dav’s collapse was the most disastrous
in the history of the foreign exchange
market.
Discount on Canadian Money
SPOKANE, Feb. 5 (by Associated
Press).—Canadian currency is being
discounted 20 per cent in this city,
while Canadian silver passes at par.