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VOL. 5, NO. 1 44_CORDOVA, ALASKA THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1920. _ PRICE TEN CENTS
MANY KILLED AND INJURED IN WEST VIRGINIA MINING VILLAGE
MASSACRE RESULTS FROM
ATTEMPT OF DETECTIVES TO
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MATEWAN, W. Va., May 20 (by As
sociated Press). — Twelve persons
were killed here yesterday in a con
flict between private detectives and
former employes of the mining com
panies, following attempts by the de
tectives to evict from the companies’
houses the families of miners who had
^ been discharged from their employ
ment.
Mayor Testerman, who questioned
the authority of the detectives, was
shot and badly wounded by the leader
of the detectives, Albert Feltz, who
was in turn killed by the chief of
police of Matewan. The shooting then
became general, and resulted in the
death of twelve persons.
To companies of state militia ar
rived here at daybreak, and also one
hundred deputy sheriffs from William
son.
QUIET AGAIN PREVAILS
One hundred armed deputy sheriffs
are patrolling the city, since last,
night’s battle, which resulted in the
killing of seven private dectectives,
four coal miners and the mayor of
Matewan, following the attempt by
the detectives to evict the miners’
from the company’s houses.
WAS IN LUDLOW MASSACRE
The authorities say that the first
shot was fired by Detective Albert
Feltz, who killed Mayor Testerman.
Feltz was killed by Chief of Police
Cox.
Albert Feltz was prominent in the
Ludlow troubles in Colorado in 1913,
in which many miners, their wives
and children were shot by the hired
detectives of the coal company.
Quiet prevails today.
A NOTH ER*~ACCOUNT
CHARLESTON, W. Va., May 20 (by
Associated Press). — Seven persons
were killed yesterday in a pistol bat
tle between private detectives and
coal miners at>he railroad station of
Matewan, Mingo county. The mayor
of Matewan is reported to have been
shot, and Samuel T. Feltz, the head
of a private detective agency, was
killed.
TEN DEARTHS RESULT
CHARLESTON, W. Va., May 20 (by
Associated Press).—Ten were killed
and many injured in a battle at Mate
wan. The dead include seven detec
tives, the mayor of Matewan, one coal
miner and an unidentified boy.
BONUS PLAN
INDORSED BY
REPUBLICANS
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WASHINGTON, May 20 (by Associ
ated Press).—Chairman Fordney of
the ways and means committee of the
house laid before the caucus of the
house Republicans last night on sol
dier relief legislation the letter of Sec
retary of the Treasury Houston, in
which the latter flatly opposed any
proposal for a bonus, in whatever man
f ner financed.
The caucus came out squarely tor
the enactment of soldier relief legis
lation as advocated by the American
Legion, after refusing by a vote of
142 to 49 to postpone indefinitely all
action.
The plan proposed authorizes each
veteran to choose a cash bonus, a
home and farm aid,,paid-up insurance
* or vocational training.
CANDIDATES’ EXPENSES
A senate investigation of the ex
peises of presidential candidates was
ordered today, when the resolution of
Senator Borah of Idaho, was adopted
adopted without a record vote and
with little discussion.
The hearings will begin late this
week. It is proposed to request the
* appearance before the committe of
all presidential candidates, together
with their campaign managers and
their books and vouchers.
RETROACTIVE TAXATION
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A 10 per cent stock dividend tax,
retroactive to March 15 last, wa£ ap
proved by the ways and means com
mittee of the house today as part of
the tax to be levied for soldier relief.
This plan was adopted after a hard
fight in the committee, which refused
to accept the 80 per cent retroactive
war profits tax proposed by the Dem
ocrats.
A favorable report on the relief
bill, with the 10 per cent stock divi
dend tax, was ordered, and the Repub
licaa leaders have tentatively agreed
to bring the measure before the house
on Saturday next.
ARMY BILL IN CONFERENCE
The senate today voted to insist
upon the provisions for the federaliza
tion of the national guard, but re
turned the army bill to conference.
SHIPPING BILL
The senate today voted to retain in
the house marine bill the provision
inserted by the senate committee,
exempting from the excess profits
tax the net earnings of American
owned ships engaged in foreign trade,
provided a similar amount is reinvest
ed in new ships.
FEDERAL NATIONAL GUARD
The house yesterday refused to ap
prove the compromise agreement with
the senate permitting the states to
federalize their national guard.
SEEKING PREFERENTIAL
TREATMENT IN CARS
AFTER ’ BLOCKADE
WASHINGTON, May 20 (by Associ
ated Press).—There is a wild scram
ble among individual lines of indus
try for preferential treatment in the
car movement, when the interstate
commerce commission appears to be
nearing definite conclusions in its
plans to break the freight blockade. •
NEW YORK PASSES
ANTI-SEDITION BILLS
ALBANY, N. Y., May 20 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Six anti-sedition bills
recently passed by the legislature,
largely as the result of the trial and
unseating of the Socialist assembly
men, were vetoed yesterday by Gov
ernor Smith.
WATCH TACOMA GROW
WASHINGTON, May 20 (by Associ
ated Press). — The census returns
show the population of Tacoma to be
96,965.
MICHIGAN DEMOCRATS
SHOW THEIR LOYALTY
TO PRESIDENT WILSON
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., May 20 (by.
Associated Press). — The Democratic
state convention, in session here yes-|
terday, adopted resolutions pledging!
support to the League of Nations cov-^
enant and to President Wilson, “Whoj
has given all but life itself in thej
service of his country and of the
world.”
WE’RE GLAD WE
ARE ABLE TO
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CHICAGO, May 20 (by Associated
Press).—Seven hundred daily and
weekly newspapers have been put out
of business during the past year on
account of a shortage of print paper,
according to a statement at a confer
ence of the members of the Inland
Daily Press Association. Editor Mc
Cormick of the Chicago Tribune de
clares that the best remedy is to sit
tight and eliminate non-essentials.
ALASKA COAL
ONLY SOURCE
FUELSUPPLY
SEATTLE, May 20 (by Associated
Press).—Fully equipped and organiz
ed for mining operations the navy
coal commission sailed for Alaska to
day on the steamship Alameda, ready
to begin the first actual attempt to
mine Alaska coal for the navy.
Commander Dowling, head of the
commission, said he had every as
surance that the million-dollar appro
priation would be available by July
1, and that it would be sufficient to
meet the needs of the commission.
Strategically, said the naval officer,
the situation had shifted from the
Atlantic to the Pacific coast. Alaska,
he said, was the only source of sup
ply.
lieutenant weiss, anotner member
of the commission, said that all its
members were volunteers and had
their hearts in the work.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
MUCH EXERCISED OVER
VALUE LIBERTY BONDS
WASHINGTON, May 20 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The treasury depart
ment has issued an appeal to the
press of the country to aid in im
proving the Liberty bond situation by
carrying a statement as to the intrin
sic value of the bonds and their pres
ent prices.
The statement explains the reasons
for the present bond prices and sug
gests methods of improvement.
RUSSIA MUST RELEASE
DETAINED AMERICANS
WASHINGTON, May 20 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The state department
has informed the United States com
missioner at Vienna that the Hun
garian communists held by Austria
must not be transferred to the Rus
sians without the reciprocal release
of all Americans now detained by the
soviet
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FORMER ALASKAN IS j
OUSTED FROM OFFICE j
OF CHIEF OF POLICE
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SEATTLE, May 20 (by Associated
Press).—Captain William Searing, i;or ;
•twenty years a member of |he Seattle !
department, was appointed chief of'
police, as the culmination of three!
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weeks of strained relations between j
Mayor Hugh M. Caldwell and Chief;
of Police Joel F. Warren.
Warren says he has “just begun to
fight.”
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TO CONSTRUCT
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PORTLAND, Ore., May 20 (by As-'
sociated Press).—The Pacific Steam
ship Company is planning to build im
mediately two palatial passenger
steamships for service between San j
Francisco and Puget sound, which will j
release the steamships President and |
Governor for the Portland-San Fran
cisco run, according to Frank O’Con
nor, the company’s Portland manager, :
after a conference with the company’s
officials at San Francisco.
MEXICAN REFUGEES
ARE ABOARD GUNBOAT:
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EL PASO,, Texas, May 20 (by Asso-1
ciated Press).,—The Times today,
quotes a refugee Carranza official as !
saying that he has been advised by
other Carranzistas that Candidao
Aguilir, the son-in-law of the deposed
president, is with other refugees on
board the Mexican gunboat Progresso.
BIG DECREASE NOTED
IN SHIPPING CIRCLES
WASHINGTON, May 20 (by Asso
ciated Press).—April exports from the
United States decreased $135,000,000
and imports $35,000,000, compared
with March.
POLES DRIVEN BACK
BY RUSSIAN “REDS”
WARSAW, May 20 (by Associated
Press).—The Bolsheviki have launched
an attack on the northern front be
tween the rivers Dvina and Borisoff.
The Poles have been compelled to sur
render ground.
MISSING MAN FOUND
AFTER LONG SEARCH
SAN FRANCISCO, May 20 (by As
sociated Press). — Dr. Arthur Lach
man, a, chemist and scientific author
of this city, who hysteriously disap
peared last December, was found on
a train near Chico yesterday, after a
nation-wide search for^ him which
last five months.
BOLSHEVIKI INVADE
AND SEIZE INSULI
LONDON, May 20 (by Associated
Press).—The invasion of Persia by
the Bolsheviki, with the seizure of
Insuli and its evacuation by the
British troops, has created a great
stir here, and the situation is con
sidered grave. The government’s at
titude is being generally criticized.
MARSHALL’S PRESIDENTIAL
ROOM GOES A-GL1MMERING
REPUBLICANS ALL AT SEA
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 20 (by
Associated Press).—Equal and exact
justice to all as the remedy for the
prevailing unrest was prescribed by
Vice President Thomas C. Marshall in
the keynote address to the Democratic
state convention here today.
The vice president expressed the
hope that the president and senate
would reconcile their treaty differ
ences and bring about ratification.
“This was an American war,” he
said, “and the peace achieved should
be an American peace.” Discussing
the prohibition question, he said that
while prohibition remained it must be
enforced, and that if public sentiment
was not behind it the people would
find a lawful means of lessening its
rigors,
Mr. Marshall urged the restoration
of the freedom of the press and of
speech. He advocated punishment for
those seeking to overthrow the gov
ernment. .He said the soldiers could
obtain almost anything from congress,
and gave his unqualified indorsement
to “the altruistic views of President
Wilson.”
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MARSHALL NOT A CANDIDATE
Vice President Marshall has nipped
in the bud his boom for president.
VIRGINIANS* FOR GLASS
ROANOKE, Va., May 20 (by Asso
ciated Press3.—The Democratic state
convention today instructed its eight
delegates to the national convention
for Carter Glass, former secretary of
the treasury, and now senator from
Virginia, The platform adopted ad
vocates the signing of the peace treaty
without reservations, and opposes the
soldier bonus.
CHICAGO, May 20 (by Associated
Press).—With the Republican national
convention but eighteen days distant
and eight hundred and ninety-one of
the nine hundred and eight-four dele
gate selected, none of the announced
candidates for the presidential nom
ination has any decided advantage.
Forty-seven of the fifty-three state*
and territories will send five hundred
and thirty instructed delegates; on*
hundred and forty-five are pledged for
Wood; one hundred for Johnson;
seventy-eight for Lowden, and thirty
nine for Harding. The contests in
volve thirty-five delegates for Wood,
six for Lowden and sixty-eight unin
structed. Campaign managers say
there is no chance of a nomination
being made on the first ballot and as
to what will be the final outcome no
one seems able to even hazard a guess.
GOVERNOR REFUSES
TO SIGN REPEAL OF
DAYLIGHT SAVING
ALBANY, N. Y., May 20 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The governor of New
York has vetoed the bill designed to
repeal the daylight saving law.
CHICAGO MERCHANTS
ARE PESSIMISTIC ON
CONTINUED LOW PRICES;
CHICAGO, May 20 (by Associated
Press).—While the wave of price-cut
ting on wearing apparel is sweeping
the country, merchants here claim that
the movement will prove futile and
short-lived, and that it will result in
increased prices later.
HIGHWAY PROJECTS
ARE BEING PLANNED
THROUGH MIDDLE WEST
MISSOULA, Mont., May 20 (by As- '
sociated Press).—Plans for two im
portant highway projects which are
to be undertaken this year were an
nounced here recently by George
Lautz, forest service district engi
neer. The first will provide a direct
highway from Missoula south by way
of the Bitter Root valley into the Sal
mon City country in Idaho; and the
second will give direct communica*
tion between Hamilton, at the upper
end of the Bitter Root, and Anaconda.
According to Mr. Lautz, the forest
service will undertake the building of
a road seven miles long from the
Montana-Idaho state line north to the
Bitter Root-Big Hole highway, while
the state of Idaho will construct a
road connecting Gibbon’s pass, of the
state line, with Gibbonsville and Sal
mon City, Idaho.
Members of the junior Red Cross
of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Wash
ington made many toys for the chil
dren of eastern Europe.
ALAMEDA SAILS
FROM SEATTLE
FOR CORDOVA
SEATTLE. May 20 (by Associated
Press).—The steamship Alameda sail
ed from here this morning, with two
hundred and sixty-nine passengers.
Those booked for Cordova are: Mr.
and Mrs. Caleb Corser, Mr. and Mrs.
C. E. Brainerd and son Jack, Thos.
Vevig and wife, Mrs. C. O. Dali and
baby, Mrs. S. Milleion, T. Chaffery
and wife, E. Goodron and wife. Fannie
Sullivan, Emma Klegberg, H. L. Raid,
Edward Warated, J. B. Steven, M. L.
Teilferre, Peter Seraghan. and twenty
two steerage.
JAM MANUFACTURERS
TO STAY OUT MARKET
UNTIL SUGAR DROPS
NEW YORK, May 20 (by Associat
ed Press).—The National Preservers’
and Fruit Products Association, repre
senting 85 per cent of the jam, jelly
and preserves manufacturers of the
country, announced today that mem
bers of the association would stay
out of the sugar market until prices
fall.
UNCLE SAM CAUTIOUS
ABOUT RECOGNIZING
ANY MEXICAN FACTION
WASHINGTON, May 20 (by Associ
ated Press).—Caution in extending
recognition to any Mexican faction
instrumental in the overthrow of the
Carranza government is being urged
on the state department by represent
atives of industrial groups having in
terests in Mexico.