VOL IV NcT792 _CORDOVA, ALASKA. MONDAY, JULY 2L 1919 _PRICE TEN CENTS
BERLIN, July 21 (by Associated Press).—A new reign of
terror exists in Budapest, and the “red terror” in its worst
form is anticipated. Tlie terrorist troops are now masters of
the capital, having stormed the garrison and disarmed the
troops of the Bela Kun government and distributed arms to the
ragged proletariat.
Bela Kim’s Government Deposed
VIENNA, July 21 (by Associated Press).—Newspaper re
ports are to the effect that Bela Kun’s government at Budapest
lias been deposed by a triumvirate of radicals, the men compos
ing the new government being Varga Moses, Alpary Tibor and
and Szamvely.
The new government has ordered the moderate commander
of Budapest to turn the city over to them, and have asked for
volunteers for the terror troops. Bela Kim’s red army is break
ing up and money is depreciating.
More Russian Bolshevik Outrages
STOCKHOLM, July 21 (by Associated Press).—The Bol
shevik government at Petrograd has refused to release five
members of the Swedish legation who were recently arrested.
An official of the Swedish foreign office says he believes repre
sentatives of other nations are to be arrested also.
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RIOTS CAUSED
BY ATTACKS ON
/ WASHINGTON, July 21 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Scores of negroes were
• injured last night in clashes with
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whites. More than a dozen are being
treated at the hospitals. Negroes
were pulled from street cars and
beaten unconscious by the mobs,
which were composed partly of sol
diers, sailors and marines. Many ar
rests have been made.
The riots were the result of at
tempted attacks by negroes on white
women.
Four negroes in an automobile to
day drove to the navy hospital in Po
tomac park and fired four shots at the
sentry at the door. They then drove
around the street corner and fired four
more shots at the inmates of the hos
pital grounds. The shots went wild.
The party made their escape.
BRITISH CLASH
WITH AFGHANS
' NEAR KHYBER
SIMLA, British India, July 21 (by
Associated Press).—Four thousand
Afghans have renewed their attacks
in the region of Khyber pass. They
have captured a British convoy and
two guns.
Four British officers have been
killed and two wounded, and there
have been a hundred casualties among
the Indian troops.
■ AM B ASS ADORM ORRIS
ON VISIT TO OMSK
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VLADIVOSTOK, July 21 (by Asso
ciated Press).—General Graves and
Ambassador Morris left for Omsk,
ifre capital of the Kolchak all-Russian
government, on July 11.
WAR SAVINGS
SEATTLE, July 21 (by Associated
Press).—Robert E. Smith is reported
to be hurrying to Seattle with one mil
lion dollars’ worth of war-savings
stamps to ship by boat to Alaska. He
had not reached Seattle at 10 o’clock
last night.
Smith arrived in Portland by air
plane at noon yesterday and trans
ferred the securities to a waiting auto
mobile.
RETIRES FROM
REGULAR ARMY
WASHINGTON, July 21 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Secretary of War
Baker has accepted the resignation of
Colonel Samuel Anzell, former acting
judge advocate general of the army.
Colonel Ansell has been for some
time engaged in a controversy with
high army officials over the court-mar
tial system of the army. He announces
that he will continue his fight for the
revision of the system.
FIRE FIGHTERS USE
WIRELESS TELEPHONE
MISSOULA, Mont., July 21 (by As
sociated Press).—Cool weather is en
abling the fire fighters to gain on the
serious forest fines. Wireless tele
phones are being used to help the fire
fighters.
FISH QUOTATIONS
KETCHIKAN, July 21.—Saturday’s
fish prices were: Halibut, firsts, 8%c:
seconds, 5c; sable, 3c; red rock, l^c.
| TANGIBLE RESULTS OF SUCCESS OF ALLIED ARMS j
jjjj BRUSSELS, July 21 (by Associated Press).—Three ijij
ijij thousand tons of stolen Belgian machinery are being ijij
ijij shipped back weekly to their original owners by German jjij
jiji industrial firms. jiji
WASHINGTON, July 21 (by Associated Press).—Speak
ing in the senate today, Pomerene of Ohio urged the prompt and
unreserved ratification of the treaty of peace and League of Na
tions covenant. He said the covenant could he amended as ex
perience dictated, and that it would tend to prevent wars.
Senator Harrison, Democrat, of Mississippi, arraigned the
Republican leaders in the senate in a speech in which he
charged that the opposition to the League of Nations was
founded upon partisanship and personal dislike of a particular
individual.
Conferences with Senators Postponed
President WilSon, on his return from a week-end cruise to
Hampton Roads, was ordered to bed by his physicians, suffer
ing from dysentery. Dr. Grayson said the President’s condi
tion was not serious, but he would be unable to receive callers
before the end of the week. All his engagements have been can
celed, including those with Republican senators for discussion
of the peace treaty.
WANTS AMERICAN MEMBER ON
HUN REPARATIONS COMISSION
AND BARUCH IS SLATED FOR JOB
WASHINGTON, July 21 (by Associated Press).—Presi
dent AYilson lias asked the senate committee on foreign rela
lions to approve the appointment of an American member on
the German reparations commission, because he considers it
ef the highest importance to the business interests of the coun
try.
It is understood that the President intends to appoint Ber
nard Baruch as a member of the reparations committee. Mr.
Baruch aided at Paris in the working out of the reparations
and economic clauses of the peace treaty.
The committee discussed the reuest of the President, but
took no action.
AUSTRIAN REPARATION TERMS
SIMILAR TO THOSE OFFERED TO
GERMANY - TEN DAYS TO REPLY
PARIS, July 21 (by Associated Press).—The remaining
sections of the Austrian peace treaty were given to Dr. Karl
Renner, head of the Austrian peace delegation, at St. Germain
yesterday, and Austria is given ten days in which to reply.
Fifteen days are given to the Austrians to make final ob
servations on the completed treaty.
The reparation terms are similar to those contained in the
German treaty. The Austrian pre-war debt is apportioned
among the former parts of the country. The army is to be re
duced to a volunteer force of thirty thousand' men within three
months for the maintenance of internal order and control of the
frontiers. One factory is allowed to be maintained for the
manufacture of war material, and the importation of munitions
is forbidden.
TEXAS ASKS CONGRESS FOR
RIGHT TO PROTECT CITIZENS
FROM GUERRILLA WARFARE
| WASHINGTON, July 21 (by Associated Press).—The
I state department’s urgent representations to Mexico as the re
sult of the bandits’ attack on sailors from the monitor Chev
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enne are expected to bring prompt Mexican action.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels said that none of the vessels
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I of the fleet now en route to the Pacific coast would be diverted
II o Mexican waters.
The senate foreign relations committee has asked full in
formation regarding depredations by Mexicans against Ameri
cans in recent vears.
A full report on the bandit incident at Tampico has been
received. Commander Finney of the cruiser Topeka, who made
I the report, said that three Mexicans in civilian clothes and two
armed with rifles made up the party of bandits that attacked
the Cheyenne’s men.
Texans Becoming Impatient
AUSTIN, Texas, July 21 (by Associated Press).—The
jTexas senate has adopted a concurrent resolution calling the
’attention of the President and congress to the guerrilla war
fare which has prevailed along the Mexican border since ls7b,
jand asking the federal government, if it can not protect the -
border, to give Texas that liberty of action in protecting its
citizens that it enjoyed prior to the time that it entered the
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 21 (by As
sociated Press).—Nineteen of the
jcoast telephone employes’ unions have
I decided to remain on strike. Ten
have voted to return. The members of
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; he Oakland union are still out, but the
Portland operators have returned to
|work, and the Tacoma union is hold
ing a meeting to decide on what action
jto take. It is expected they will re
turn to work tomorrow.
The telephone workers and wiremen
at Seattle, Spokane and Tacoma have
returned to work. The San Francisco
and Sacramento union members still
jremain out in defiance of the orders of
|the international union officers. The
jLos Angeles strikers also have re
turned to work.
Important Wage Conference
SAN FRANCISCO, July 21 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The officers of the in
ternational unions of shipworkers and
the shipyard operators of the Pacific
coast began a series of conferences
here today to fix a new wage agree
ment for the 125,000 shipworkers of
the coast, to be effective October 1.
Packers to Arbitrate
CHICAGO, July 21 (by Associated
Press).—Ten thousand striking pack
ing house employes returned to work
oday, pending arbitration of their de
mands by Federal Judge Alschuler.
The men demanded an increase of 30
per cent in wages. Eighty thousand
men are involved in the wage demand.
CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE
MEETING AT SPOKANE
SPOKANE, July 21 (by Associated
Press).—Representatives of eighteen
chambers of commerce of the state of
Washington are represented at the
annual convention of the Washington
State Chamber of Commerce, which
[began its sessions here today.
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TWO VESSELS
ARE LAUNCHED
IN SEATTLE
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SEATTLE. July 21 (by Associated
Press).—The steamship Stanley was
launched at the Skinner & Eddy plant
here today in honor of Fort Pierre,
S. Dak., for the record made by that
[ city in the Fourth Liberty loan drive.
'Miss Josephine Malloy of Seattle acted
as sponsor.
Skinner & Eddy also launched tho
steamship Elkridge at noon today in
honor of the sixteenth triennial assem
bly of the general grand chapter of
the Order of the Eastern Star, which
[convenes formally on Thursday in this
[city. Mrs. Emma C. Ocobock, most
[worthy grand matron of the order,
acted as sponsor.
GROCERY FIRM
BUYS INTEREST
IN CANNERIES
NEW YORK. July 21 (by Associated
iPress).—Austin Nichols & Co., a whole
sale grocery concern, has bought the
grocery business of Wilson & Co„
packers, and also a controlling interest
in the Wilson Fisheries Company’s
plants on the Pacific coast and in
Alaska. The Nichols firms is capital
ized at $6,000,000, and does a buying
and selling business in nearly every
country in the world.
PERSONAL USE OF LIQUOR
FAVORED BY HOUSE
WASHINGTON, July 21 (by Associ
ated Press).—The house of representa
tives today defeated a motion to strike
from the prohibition enforcement bill
[a provision permitting the storage of
[liquor in the home for personal use.
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