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The Cordova Daily Times
Member of The Associated Press
VOL.lv, NO. 84 CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1919 PRICE TEN CENTS
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BRITISH CLAIM CAPTURED OCEAN CABLES
RIVER RHINE AND KIEL CANAL
TO BE OPEN TO ALL NATIONS
PARIS, March 12 (by Associated Press).—A commission
of the peace conference lias recommended that the Rhine shall
be opened to the navigation of all nations. It also suggests that
while the Kiel canal shall continue under German ownership it
shall be used by all nations during peace times.
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SPARTANS DRIVEN FROM BERLIN
TO FIND REFUGE IN BRUNSWICK
LONDON, March 12 (by Associated Press).—The Berlin
government troops have been greatly reinforced, and have com
pelled the Spartacans to evacuate the police headquarters and
the postoffice. It is reported that the Spartacans intend to es
tablish an independent state of Brunswick as a refuge for rad
icals driven from other sections of Germany.
TURN OVER MERCHANT FLEET
IN ORDER TO PROCURE FOOD
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COPENHAGEN, March 12 (by Associated Press).—The
German delegates to the peace conference will start for Brus
sels Thursday to learn the decision of the allies concerning the
turning over of the German mercantile fleet and the conditions
under which food supplies will be given to Germany in return.
MILLIONS DIE
OF INFLUENZA
MHDKTAN
LONDON, March 12 (by Associated
Press).—An official statement by the
Indian office says that five million
persons died of influenza in British
India in 1918. Eighteen millions addi
tional died in other Indian states, it
is said.
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FORMER ALL-HIGHEST
WANTS PERMISSION TO
TRAVEL FOR HEALTH
GENEVA, March 12 (by Associated
Press).—It Is reported that the former
German kaiser wants to go io the
Riviera or to Egypt for his health. He
may as kpermission of the allies to
make the journey.
COMES TO WORK FOR
FORMER EMPLOYER
H. W. Hutchins, who was recently
discharged from the war service of
Uncle Sam, will arrive from the States
tomorrow to accept a position as book
keeper with the Alaska Transfer
Company. Mr. Hutchins held a simi
lar position with Mr. Galen several
years ago, when the latter was super
intendent of the Glacier National Park
in Montana.
WELCOME HOME
OF BOYS FROM
FOREIGN PARTS
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SEATTLE, March 12 (by Associated
Press).—The Sixty-third artillory, for
merly a Washington national guard
regiment, arrived here today from
France, and were given a rousing wel
come.
NARROW ESCAPE OF
LOCAL POWER CRAFT
The launch -Swan was towed into 1
port last night by the Pioneer, having 1
broken her pump at Deep Bay where
she had gone (or a cargo of piling
for the Pioneer Packing Company.
She was towing power boat No. 5, and
while disabled came near going on the
rocks.
GERMAN ARMY REACHES
“CONTEMPTIBLE” STAGE
PARIS, March 12.—Captain Walter
Gherardi of the United States navy,
who has been In Germany studying
economic and general conditions, has
returned to Paris and reports that
he found unemployment throughout
the country.
He says Germany’s food supplies <
are limited to. nearly exhausted re- j
serves, which can not last; much ,
longer. (
The German army, Captain Gher
ardi says, has shrunk to insignificant
figures. ■
CHINESE SOLDIERS IN MOSCOW
SELL HUMAN FLESH FOR FOOD
-EPIDEMICS TAKING VAST TOLL
WASHINGTON, March 12 (by Associated Press).—The
state department has received reports to the effect that human
lesli lias been sold for food lo the famine-stricken population
if Moscow by Chinese soldiers. They were later arrested.
Deaths in Petrograd and Moscow from typhoid and small
pox number four thousand daily.
The Swiss, Danish, Swedish, Dutch and British embassies
iave been looted.
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BRITISH RETENTION OF CABLES
WOULD GIVE THEM JONOPOLY
INIMICAL TO UNITED STATES
PARIS, March 12 (by Associated Press).—The American
delegates to the peace conference have protested against Eng
and’s claim to the captured German ocean cables. It is claimed
hat to allow England to retain these means of communication
would give her a virtual monopoly of all cables.
The British claim the cables as prizes of war. The cables
n both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans were seized by the Brit
sh. The American delegates claim that Great Britain cut the
■ables unlawfully.
Allies Will Not Share France’s War Debts
France has abandoned for the present all hope that the
lilies will share the war debt. The British and American dele
gates claim that their people would be slow to indorse the plan.
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WASHINGTON STATE REVIVES
DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER
OLYMPIA, Wash., March 12 (by Associated Press).—The
•estoration of capital punishment is embodied in a bill passed
>y both houses of the state legislature today, aifd it is expected
hat Acting Governor Hart will sign the measure.
The last legal hanging in the state of Washington was on
February 25,1911.
WARNING SOUNDED BY LANSING
OF THREAT OF BOLSHEVIKISM
PARIS, March 12 (by Associated Press).—The American
lecretary of state, Robert Lansing, speaking here last night,
leclared that a world crisis had been reached, and that the
dlies must feed Germany and give the Germans an opportunity
,o sell their products in foreign markets, in order to avoid the
langer of Bolshevikism.
“We must not act out of pity for Germany,” he said, “but
a order to stop the spread of Bolshevikism.”
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WELL-KNOWN DAWSON OPERATOR
HONORED BYRUMANIAN QUEEN
SEATTLE, March .12 (by Associated Press).—The Post
Intelligencer today says that Queen Marie of Rumania has writ
ten to the father of Colonel Joe Boyle of Dawson thanking him
because of the help which his son rendered to Rumania in the
time of her distress.
It is rumored that Colonel Boyle will be made a Rumanian
count.
May Visit United States
PARIS, March 12 (by Associated Press).—Queen Marie
of Rumania hopes to visit America in the near future.
Joe Boyle is a well-known figure in the Klondike. Soon
after the war broke out, in 1914, he personally organized and
quipped a machine-gun company made up of Klondikers, which
was attached to the Canadian forces and gained distinction at
the front. When the armistice was signed Colonel Boyle won
fame by making an airplane trip to Bucharest, the Rumanian
capital, over the enemy lines, on a mission from the allied com
mander in the Balkans. He remained at the Rumanian capital
superintending the distribution of relief to the hard-preasad
Rumanians.
Queen Marie, who is a granddaughter of the late Queen
Victoria, and cousin of King George, was reported in recent
dispatches to be a fugitive from her adopted country because
of the revolution there, and that she was on her way to England.
NEW MUSICAL
STUDIO HAS
BEENOPENED
Donald C. Fairman, a recent arriva
in Cordova, who is in charge of tin
music at the local theater, and wil
preside over the magnificent pipi
organ Captain A. E. Lathrop will in
stall in his $100,000 concrete play
house, has opened a studio in th<
Empress building and will accept i
limited number of pupils for piano in
struction. Mr. Fairman is a musiciai
of exceptional ability, which fact has
been satisfactorily demonstrated dur
ing his short residence here. He is 5
master of technique and harmony
having graduated from the Torontc
Conservatory of Music.
Mr. Fairman also took a post gradu
ate course on the piano from Dr. A. S
Vogt, a pedagogue of Toronto, musica
director of the Toronto Conservatory
and the world’s famous Mendellshon’s
choir. He studied the pipe orgar
under A. E. Tattersal, who was for e
number of years private organist t’oi
Andrew Carnegie at his Skibae castle
In theory and harmony he was a pupil
under Dr. Humphrey Auger of To
rontq.
In 1910 Mr. Fairman bad the distinc
tion of being awarded a beautifully
engraved solid gold medal in the Earl
Grey musical and dramatic trophy
competition, an honor of which any
pianist might well feel proud.
This musical event was held in
the Royal Alexander theater, Toronto,
and was attended personally by Hie
Excellency, the Governor-General
Earl Grey. Practically every city in
the Dominion was represented by com
peting students, and the judges were
from New York and Boston and the
atyard was strictly one of merit. Mr.
Fairman was the successful competi
tor and this fact in itself Is sufficient
recommendation of ability, but Cor
dovans have also had a practical dem
onstration of the fact that Mr. Fair
AUSTRALIAN
METROPOLIS
| IS FLOODED
! MELBOURNE, Australia, March 12
! (bv Associated Press).—Ti'e heaviest
I rains in fifty years have caused disas
i trous floods in the city and in near-by
- sections. Hundreds of houses have
■ been destroyed.
ALIEN PROPERTY IS i
SEIZED BY GOVERNMENT
The first case of the seizure of prop
erty by the alien property custodian
was made public today when the
deeds were filed and money confis
cated from the estate of M. K. Pank
coff, a Bulgarian, and Bill Orozugula,
a Greek. They, together with three
other foreigners, were drowned last
spring while engaged in digging clams
for the Pioneer Packing Company. F.
E. McConaghy was appointed adminis
trator of the estates and ho was re
lieved of the duty of settling them by
the government stepping in and claim
ing the holdings, which consisted of
some real estate at Anchorage and a
cash balance in the First Bank of
Cordova.
WILL LEAVE FOR STATES
FOR SURGICAL OPERATION
Matt Rockendorff, who has been an
inmate at the general hospital for sev
eral months past, will leave on the
steamer Alaska for Mayo Brother's in
stitute at Rochester, Minn., to have an
operation performed on his leg.
man is an accomplished pianist and
therefore we bespeak for him as many
pupils as he cares to take, believing
that he will be able to attain results.