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VOL, IV. NO. 235_CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1919 PRICeTTEN CENTS
PRESIDENT RECEIVES GREAT OVATIONS IN NORTHWEST (MS
EXTREMISTS MAY BE INDUCED
. TO GET TOGETHER ON PROGRAM
Realize That Concessions Must Be Made to Oppo
sition Senators if Document Is to Receive
Constitutional Sanction of Senate—
Meeting of League to Be Postponed
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (by Associated Press).—Advo
cates of tlie ratification of the peace treaty without amendment
or reservations are reported to feel that some sort of conces
sions to those senators who favor amendments and reserva
tions will be necessary.
Certain senators are endeavoring to get the extremists of
both sides to agree to mild reservation clauses.
Meeting of League to Be Postponed
It is virtually certain that the first meeting of the
League of Nations will not be held here in October, as had been
planned. The date of the meeting will depend upon the ratifi
cation of the treaty. It may be held in November if the treaty
has been ratified at that time.
Date Set for French Ratification
PARIS, Sept. 9 (by Associated Press).—The Echo do Paris
says that the chamber of deputies in all likelihood will ratify
the treaty of peace on September 10 and the senate on the 20th.
y Rumania Rejects Austrian Treaty
The Rumanian peace delegation has refused to sign the
treaty of peace as recently presented to Austria.
BIG GATHERING
" OF VETERANS OF
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 9 (by As
sociated Press).—The housing facil
ities of this city are taxed to the ut
most to accommodate the hundred
thousand delegates and visitors in at
tendance upon the national encamp
ment of the Grand Army of the Re
public and the convention of the
Woman’s Relief Corps.
Both the Grand Army and the Re
lief Corps show increased member
ship during the past year. This was
C attributed by the commander in chief
to the effect of the war, and also to
the fact that veterans who had not
previously joined were now joining.
€ET-RICH-QUICK PLAN
NIPPED IN THE BUD
BY ALERT OFFICIALS
CHICAGO, Sept. 9 (by Associated
Press).—Seven members of an al
leged band of counterfeiters operat
ing throughout the country have been
arrested here. The gang planned to
float a million dollars in worthless
Splendid Tribute
To Hero of War
NEW YORK, Sept. 9 (by As
sociated Press).—General Per
shing almost broke up the Hip
podrome show last night when
he appeared in a box in the
middle of the first act. The
audience cheered and the band
played “The Star-Spangled
Banner.”
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securities, but their plans were
nipped in the bud.
It is believed that hundreds of per
sons in all parts of the country are
involved in the alleged forged Lib
erty bond swindling scheme. Eight
already have confessed and there will
be more arrests.
The coming meeting of senators,
governors and bankers, to be held
here, was to have been used to
further the schemes of the swindlers.
EXPLOSION OF GAS
ON BUSY STREETS
OF BIG METROPOLIS
NEW YORK, Sept. 9 (by Associat
ed Press).—The police reserves were
called out today when gases under
the pavement of Third avenue and
Forty-second street exploded, hurling
the manhole covers into the air and
causing a panic in the neighborhood.
Hundreds of windows in the vicinity
were broken by the explosion.
NO GEMAN NEED LACK
FOR EMBLEM OF VALOR
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COBLENZ, Sept. 9 (by Associated
Press).—The German government has
arranged for a new issue of Iron
Crosses for returned prisoners of >var.
Some of the crosses are to be award
ed to the new volunteers now se wing
on rbe eastern frcnt.
GREATEST EAMSHIP
TO BE RETURNED
TO PASSENGER RUN
NEW YORK, Sept. 9 (by Associat
ed Press).—The steamship Leviathan,
formerly the Vaterland, after carry
ing 185,000 soldiers to and from
Europe, has been retired as a trans
port and will be refitted as a passen
ger ship and returned to the United
States Shipping Board.
RADICAL PROGRAM OUTLINED
BY INTERNATIONAL COAL MINERS
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CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 9 (by Associated Press). j
—Two thousand delegates are in attendance here todav
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on the international convention of the United Miners of I
America and the English coal miners’ organizations.
It is expected that the convention will support the
claims of the miners for a six-hour day, a thirty-hour
week, and the nationalization of the coal mines.
Consideration will be given also to the demands for
higher wages together with the shorter hours.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 9 (by Associated
Press).—Special assistants of the at
torney general of the United States
here have announced that within two
weeks they will present evidence
against five big packing concerns to
the federal court, charging them with
violation of the Sherman anti-trust
law.
The first attack on these concerns
i tn be made here, but there will be
prosecutions also in other cities.
Swift & Co. have wired to Attorney
General Palmer offering to co-operate
with him. They say they want to
clear up the suspicion under which
the packers have been held.
STRIKERS IN
BATTLE WITH
LAW OFFICES
HAMMOND, Ind., Sept. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A battle between the
striking employes of the Standard
Steel Car Company and the police
here yesterday resulted in the killing
of five of the strikers and the wound
ing of ten.
Hub Policemen to Strike
BOSTON, Sept 9 (by Associated
Press).—The Boston policemen’s
union has voted to strike tomorrow.
For a Minimum Wage
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9 (by As
sociated Press).—The National Fed
eration of Federal Employes, at its
convention here yesterday, voted to
press the passage of the Nolan bill,
now before congress, which provides
a minimum daily wage of $3 per day
for all federal employes.
More Railroad Demands
DETROIT, Sept. 9 (by Associated
Press).—The maintenance of way
and shop laborers of the railroads,
in convention here, state that they
expect an increase of $1 per day in
wages, and that unless it is granted
a strike involving railroads through
out the United States and Canada is
possible. N
Sympathetic Strike
SCRANTON, Pa., Sept. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Fourteen thousand
miners of the Lackawanna Company’s
coal mines struck today in sympathy
with the miners of Archibald, Pa.
Thirty thousand miners of the dis
trict have voted to strike.
strikeTn tokio
TOKIO, Sept. 9 (by Associated
Press).—Sixty-five hundred arsenal
operatives here have gone on strike.
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ciated Press).—Secretary of the j
Navy Daniels, on board the battleship
Arkansas, entered the harbor here
yesterday. He was met here by Gov
ernor Olcott. and informed that of-j
ficial that the famous old warship
Oregon would be assigned permanent
ly to Oregon waters, the government
defraying half of her annual upkeep |
and- the State of Oregon to pay the
balance.
Plans for the Fleet
ON BOARD THE NEW MEXICO, 1
Sept. 9 (by xXssociated Press).—Ad-1
miral Rodman announced yesterday
that the entire fleet would assemble
at Tacoma on September 15 for re
view by Secretary of the Navy Dan
iels. Later the vessels will proceed
to Everett and Bremerton, and thence
to California.
Admiral Rodman will go to Van
couver, B. C., on September 22 to
greet the prince of Wales.
Good News for Portland
PORTLAND, Sept. 9 (by Associated
Press).—Secretary of Navy Daniels
arrived here this morning. He says
the Columbia river must be deepened
from a commercial standpoint as well
as for naval purposes.
San Francisco’s Farewell
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9 (by -As
sociated Press).—Thousands of per
sons attending the Admission day
celebration here waved farewell to
the vessels of the Pacific fleet as they
started toward the Golden Gate on
their way north today.
MEMBERS OF BOARD
WERE REMOVED FOR
EXCELLENT REASON
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Oswald West, former
governor of Oregon, assumed respon
sibility for causing the removal of
George Long of Tacoma and Russell
Hawkins of Portland from the spruce
production board because of their
connection with large timber inter
ests, in his testimony before the con
gressional investigating committee
here yesterday.
UNCLE SAM WAS GOAT
IN MONSTROUS FRAUD
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—At the opening ses
sion of the house committee to inves
tigate fiscal deals concerning the
manufacture of ammunitions for Rus
sia, held here yesterday, it developed
that two hundred thousand pounds of
gunpowder originally sold to Great
WORLD WILL REMAIN UNSETTLED
WHAT UNITED STATES WILL DO
High Cost of Living Due to Uncertainty as to What
Kind of Peace Will Prevail—Pro-Germanism
Again Holding Up Its Head, Declares
President—Borah Follows Wilson
ST. PAI L, Sept. 9 (by Associated Press).—Governor
Burnquist and the mayors of St. Paul and Minneapolis wel
comed President Wilson here, and tj^> chief executive re
ceived an ovation as lie left his train.
The President addressed the state legislature today, say
ing that the high cost of living was due largely to the world
situation resulting from the war’s sacrifices and waste. The
world, he said, had not yet learned what the peace status was
to be.
The President said the world was not going to settle down
until it learned what part America was going to play in the
bringing about of peace. The l nited States was tlie only na
tion with enough free capital to rehabilitate the world econom
ically, he said. I
Principle of Self-Determination Is Sound
SlOl X FALLS, S. l)ak., Sept. 9 (by Associated Dress).—
Pro-Germanism 1ms again lifted its head in this country, de
clared President Wilson here yesterday, speaking- before eight
thousand persons at tin* Coliseum.
The President said that every element of chaos was hoping
that there would be no steadying hand placed on hte affairs of
the world. He called the peace treaty a laboring man’s treaty,
as it was drawn up for the benefit of the common people.
The political settlements made for the peoples concerned
laid down flu* principle, he said, that no territory was to be
governed except as the people there wanted it to be governed.
Borah Following President s Trail
FORT DODGE, Iowa, Sept. 9 (by Associated Press).—
Senator Borah of Idaho will speak here September l‘» in oppo
sition to the ratification of the League of Nations covenant,
making answer to President Wilson’s arguments on his present
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Britain, and then to Russia, and then
resold to the United States, was
worthless.
TURBULENT ALBANIA
DESIRES AUTONOMY
PARIS. Sept. 9 (by Associated
Press). — Anti-Italian disturbances
continue in Albania, where it is te
ported that three hundred Italian
soldiers recently were annihilated by
the Albanians. ,
The Albanians are planning on
sending a peace delegation to Paris
to demand autonomy for their
country.
GALLANT POLISH TROOPS
AT GRIPS WITH REDS
LONDON", Sept. 9 (by Associated
Press).—A Polish official statement
reports that the Poles are advancing
and are engaged in heavy fighting
with the Bolsheviki on the River
Dvina.
Bolsheviki Warily Peace
PARIS, Sept. 9 (by Associated
Press).—The Bolsheviki have pro
posed peace to the Lithuanians, who
have surrounded the Bolsheviki.
SUBS ON EXHIBITION
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TOKIO, Aug. 2 (by mail).—German
submarines allotted to Japan have
safely arrived at Yokahama, xwhere
they are open to public inspection.
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OIL INTERESTS
TO SEEK
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The senate committee
on foreign relations has learned of
the existence of an organized propa
ganda in the United States to pre
vent an armed invasion of Mexico.
The “League of Free Nations Asso
ciation” is said to be sending out lit
erature against intervention, claim
ing that the oil companies are seeking
intervention for selfish purposes.
HOARDED MEAT PRODUCTS
ARE QUICKLY DISPOSED OF
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 9 (by As
sociated Press).—Three thousand
pounds of pork seized from food
hoarders was sold here today to the
public within twenty-five minutes.
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Germans to Restore
Ravaged Country
BERLIN, Sept. 9 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The Vorwaerts
reports that four hundred
thousand Germans have vol
unteered for the restoration
work in Northern France.