The Cordova Daily Times
(Member of Associated Press)
VOL. IV. NO. 114 CORDOVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1919 PRICE TEN CENTS
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* Inspiring Sight $
l Spread Before *
* Navy Secretary *
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* COBLENZ, April 18 (by As- *
* sociated Press).—From a para- >(•
pet of the fortress of Ehren- ¥
¥ breitstein, more than four hun- >(•
>(• dred feet above the Rhine, >(•
>(• the American secretary of the V
>(• navy, Josephus Daniels, had ¥
^ his first glimpse of American %•
V- marines on foreign duty. Pa- >{■
trol boats carrying American •¥
>(• flags dotted the river. >f
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WICKERSHAM
WILL CONTEST
DELEGATESHIP
JUNEAU, April 18 (Special to the
Daily Times).—Governor Riggs will
call a special election immediately fol
lowing the adjournment of the legis
lature, to choose a successor to the
late Charles A. Sulzer as delegate to
congress.
Attorneys for James Wickersham,
who was defeated by Sulzer by 33
votes, according to the report of the
canvassing board, state that a contest
will be filed at the special session of
congress. It is the belief here that
he will be successful.
The situation is peculiar, there be
ing absolutely no precedent. It is
generally agreed that in the event
that Wickersham fails to win his con
test he will be eliminated from terri
torial politics.
Representative Collins of the
Fourth division probably will be the
choice of the Republicans for dele
gate at the special election, but it is
felt that much depends on the con
tested election case. Opinion in cer
tain quarters here is that it is unnec
essary to call a special election until
the contest is decided.
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JAP TROOPS
DETAILED FOR
DUTY INKOREA
SAN FRANCISCO, April 18 (by As
sociated Press).—A Japanese news
paper published here has received a
cable from Toklo stating that two di
visions of Japanese troops have been
ordered to Korea to suppress the revo
lution there.
A cable from Fusan, Korea, says
that six thousand Japanese troops
have landed there.
NEW ENGLAND HAS
SERIOUS WIRE STRIKE
BOSTON, April IS (by Associated
Press).—Twelve thousand male and
eight thousand girl telegraph and
telephone employes in New England
are on strike for higher wages and
the privilege of collective bargaining.
Only emergency messages and a few
local calls are being handled.
Wants State to Operate Lines
BOSTON, April 18 (by Associated
Press).—Governor Coolidge has asked
Postmaster General Burleson if there
would be objection on the part of the
federal government to the state's tak
ing over the operation of-the New Eng
land telephones during the disability
of the government to furnish service.
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SEVEN GERMAN SUBS
ARE LOST IN STORM
CHERBOURG, France, April 18 (by
Associated Press).—Seven-' German
submarines of a convoy of eight which
were being towed here from England
were lost in a storm at aea. When
the convoy arrived it had only one
submarine left.
GERMANS WILL BE PERMITIED
TO ASK QUESTIONS BUT NOT TO
DISCUSS TREATY PROVISION!
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ASSOCIATED PRESS SUMMARY.—The conflict^
claims of Italy and Jugo-Slavia to Eiuine and the Dalmatiai
coast soon will be decided by the peace conference. The Ger
man delegates probably will learn the details of the peao
treaty one week from Monday. They will be permitted to as!
questions in order that obscure points may be elucidated, bu
they will not be allowed to discuss the provisions of the docu
ment.
What Will Happen if They Fail to Sign
PARIS, April 18 (by Associated Press).—-It is intimatei
that if Germany refuses to sign the peace treaty the allies ma
occupy more German territory, renew the blockade of Germai
ports, and stop sending food to Germany.
OUR LOANS TO ALLIES ARE
NOW NEARLY TEN BILLION!
AVASHINGTON, April 18 (by Associated Press).—Th
treasury department announced today additional loans o
$100,000,000 to Great Britain, $5,000,000 to Rumania, $G8;
000,000 to Serbia and $1,000,000 to Belgium. The total loans t
all the allies now are $9,138,829,000, of which Great Britain ha
received $4,23(5,000,000.
CRUEL TRICK
OF ICE PACK
INJRCTTC
SEATTLE, April 17 (by Associated
Press).—Arctic ice packs, in their
driftings up around the top of the
world, follow no sea schedule and no
particular route, according to Martin
Kilian, a Seattle boy who was a mem
ber of Storker Storkerson’s explora
tion expedition which landed on the
northern ice off Alaska last spring in
the hope that it would be carried west
toward Siberia.
Northern drifts played a cruel trick
on the Storkerson party. Instead of
carrying their ice pack west they
moved the ice north, then east, and
finally south, eventually landing the
explorers but a comparatively short
distance from Barter island, near
their starting place.
Kilian’s sister, Miss Gudrin Kilian,
of Seattle, recently received a letter
from her brother. The letter was writ
ten from Bartert island December 11
and was brought out by a Royal
Northwest Mounted Police patrol sent
north to the Arctic ocean from
Dawson, Y. T.
While on the ice, the members of
the Storkerson expedition lived in a
tent and depended altogether on their
rifles for food. ‘Plenty of polar bear
and seals were found,” Kilian said.
At times the heat bothered them.
“Probably it sounds strange but it got
so warm on that ice up beyond the
Arctic circle that it was uncomfort
able in the tent,” the letter said.
Vilhjamur Stefansson, returned
Canadian Arctic explorer, planned
the Storkerson ice drift. Stefansson
hoped the . ice would drift west to
Siberia along a route that Stefans
son’s boat, the Karluk, was carried by
the ice pack in 1914. Stefansson hoped
to make the float himself but he be
came ill and turned the leadership
over to Storkerson, his lieutenant.
The Storkerson party landed on the
ice pack in February 1918. All sum
mer long they drifted about under the
midnight sun and Anally landed No
vember 7, defeated but alive. Authori
ties describe the trip one of the most
spectacular and perilous ventures in
tragic history of Arctic exploration.
Storkerson had four men with him.
They were Kilian, Gus Masik and two
men named Knight and Gumaer.
Masik recently arrived at Fairbanks,
Alaska on his way to the outside
world. Storkerson is believed to be
on his way to Ottawa to report to the
Canadian government, which financed
the expedition.
SUCCESSOR TO
MYERASHEAD
OF RAAROA1
WASHINGTON, April 18 (by Asst
eiated Press).—John W. Hallowell c
Massachusetts, formerly food adminh
trator of that state, has been ai
pointed successor to Myer as Secre
tary of the Interior Lane’s assistan
in the handling of the Alaska goverr
ment railroad work.
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LONDON TIMES
AT OUTS WITH
LLOYD GEORGI
LONDON, April 18 (by Associate
Press).—Open warfare has broke
out between Premier Lloyd Georg
and Lord Northcliffe, publisher of th
London Times, who supported Lloy
George throughout the war.
The premier told the house of con
mons Tuesday that Northcliffe wa
disappointed because he was nc
named one of Great Britain’s peac
delegates.
The Times says that Paris co
leagues of Lloyd George say that th
British premier “can read and writ*
but that he does neither.”
AGRICULTURAL CRISIS
IN SOUTHERN REPUBLII
BUENOS AYRES, April 18 (by Asst
dated Press).—The strike of agrlcu
turists in Argentina is reaching alarn
ing proportions, according to report
from the interior.
HI NOT GIVE
'• SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, April 18 (by
f Associated Press).—Seventeen Ameri
- can congressmen, including Claud
• Kitchin, Joseph G. Cannon and Senator
• Gore, have arrived here to make a
t tour of the island. Senator Kenyon,
■ one of the visitors, said today that
“the American flag will never be low
ered here.”
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MEN UNWILLING
, TOGOTOWORK
• AS FARM HANDS
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1 WASHINGTON, April IS (by Asso
3 mated Press).—The department of
3 labor is meeting with failure in Its
1 efforts to secure men to work on the
farms, despite the surplus labor in
■ many parts of the country.
3 Fifty-nine cities report an improve
t ment in the unemployment situation,
3 although a surplus of labor still exists.
Sixteen cities report equality of sup
■ ply and demand. Improvement in Pa
3 cific coast conditions h^s been rapid.
ADDS A FEW*MILLIONS
TO FORTUNE OF HEARST
' SAN FRANCISCO, April 18 (by As
* sociated Press).—William Randolph
i- Hearst has been named as chief bene
- fieiary under the will of his mother,
- the late Mrs. Phoebe Hearst. The
3 estate is estimated to be worth be
tween five and ten millions.
ATTEMPT IS MADE TO CAPTURE
AUSTRIAN PARLIAMENT HOUSE
i| BY BOLSHEVIK SYMPATHIZERS
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? VIENNA, April 18 (by Associated Press).—Government
i forces have dispersed Bolshevik sympathizers who attempted
- to storm the Austrian parliament building. A few persons were
? i wounded. Quiet has been restored in the city.
t Lettish Government Overthrown by Germans
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 18 (by Associated Press).—
Advices received here say that the German Baltic troops have
j forcibly seized the city of Libau and overthrown the Lettish
■ 11 Provisional government.
; PRESIDENT IS APPRECIATIVE
OF INDORSEMENT OF IDS LABORS
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? WASHINGTON, April 18 (by Associated Press).—Presi
| dent Wilson lias cabled to Senator Hitchcock, retiring cliair
ttian of the senate committee on foreign relations, his thanks
for the senator’s message stating that the entire country favors
_ the league of nations. Senator Hitchcock’s message was sent
i after the revised covenant was made pnblie. President Wilson’s
- message was as follows:
! “I am warmly obliged for your message. It cheers an en
3 courages me. I am delighted to know that what has been done
lias so brightened the league’s prospects.”
MARKED INCREASE IS SHOWN
IN AMERICAN FOREIGN TRADE
WASHINGTON, April48 (by Associated Press).—The bu
reau of foreign and domestic commerce, in a statement issued
today, shows that American foreign trade is increasing continu
ally. March exports were $605,000,000, compared with exports
for February of $588,000,000. During March of last year the ex
ports were $523,000,000.
Imports for March were worth $268,000,000. Those for
February totaled $235,000,000. In March one year ago the im
ports were $242,000,000.
IRISHMEN TALK
TO PRESIDENT
ON ERIN’S AIMS
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PARIS, April 18 (by Associated
Press).—Frank P. Walsh of Kansas
City, former chairman of the national
war labor board; former Governor
Dunne of Illinois and Michael Ryan
of Philadelphia, the delegation sent
by the American Irish societies to
plead Ireland’s cause here, conferred
with President Wilson and the Ameri
can peace delegates today.
The American delegation refused to
receive Sean Scallaigh and George
Duffy, representing the Irish provi
sional government.
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CAPT. M’CONEY SUICIDES
TODAY AT CAMP TRAVIS
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April 18 (by
Associated Press).—Lieut. Col. Clyde
McConey, stationed at Camp Travis,
committed suicide here this morning.
He was unmarried and lived in Min
nesota. He had been with the Ameri
can forces overseas.
SON OF FAMOUS SAILOR
COMMANDS GERMAN SHIP
NEW YORK, April 18 (by Associ
ated Press).—The steamship Kaiserin
Augusta Victoria, one of the first Ger
man vessels turned over to the allies
under the agreement by which Ger
many was to be furnished with food,
has arrived here. She brings 2,319
American troops.
The Kaiserin Augusta Victoria is
commanded by Captain Frank Taylor
Evans, son of the late Admiral Robley
T. Evans.
NORTH SEA IS BEING
CLEARED OF ITS MINES
LONDON, March 18 (by mail).—
The seas are being cleared of mines
at the rate of about 100 a day, ac
cording to the British Admiralty.
Operations are chiefly confined to the
North Sea where great mine fields
were laid during the war and which
will be a menace to navigation until
they are removed. If a sufficient force
can be obtained to carry on the work,
fishing grounds and trade routes, it
is officially expected, will be cleared
by the early autumn.
* High Honors *
* To Memory of *
t Martyr Nurse *
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if- LONDON, April 18 (by Asso- if
>f ciated Press).—A warship has if
if been detailed to bring the body if
>f of Nurse Edith Cavell to Eng- if
if land on May 15. Interment if
if will take place at her home in if
if Norwich, after imposing cere- if
if monies. if
; if Edith Cavell, an English if
1 if nurse, was executed by the if
if Germans in Belgium in 1916. if
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SULZER ESTATE
WILL BENEFIT
BY DECISION
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' JUNEAU, April IS (Special to the
i Daily Times).—The territorial can
| vassing board yesterday issued a cer
: tificate of election as delegate in con
gress to Charles A. Sulzer, and for
i warded it to the clerk of the house
of representatives at Washington. It
is announced that the estate of the
, deceased delegate will receive $7,500,
; or a year’s salary, under the procedure
of congress.
Condolences from Statesmen
Secretary of the Interior Lane, in a
message received here yesterday,
: says:
“Mr. Sulzer’s death moves me
greatly. Alaska has suffered a great
| loss.”
Chairman Curry of the committee
j on territories of the next house of rep
■ resentatives wired:
j “Nothing has affected me so much in
| a long time. Mr. Sulzer was of tbo
| highest type of the country's moral
! forces. Alaska and the nation suffer
a great loss in his death.”
Te Be Buried in Family Plot
The body of the dead delegate will
be buried in the family plot at Passaic,
N. J. Mrs. Sulzer and her son have
gone to the home of the former's
mother at Elizabeth. N. J.
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GEN. RICHARDSON ASKS
TROOPS AT ARCHANGE
TO MAINTAIN MORALE
ARCHANGEL, April 18 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The first act of Gen.
W. P. Richardson, recently appointed
to command of the American troops
here, after his arrival, was to make
public a message from General Per
shing to the troops, calling upon them
to maintain their morale.
PUGILIST FULTON CLAIMS
I S NOW A BANKRUPT
MINNEAPOLIS, April 18 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Fred Fulton, heavy
i weight pugilist, has filed a petition in
bankruptcy here. His liabilities con
sist mostly of court judgments and
promissory notes.
CRANE MADE MINISTER
TO NEW GOVERNMENT
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WASHINGTON, April 18 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Richard Crane, private
secretary to Secretary of State Lan
sing, has been named as American
minister to the new government of
Czechoslovakia. Mr. Crane Is a resi
dent of Ohicago, and 37 years old.
EXPLOSIVES TO BE USED
IN ROAD CONSTRUCTION
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WASHINGTON, April 18 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Surplus TNT and
other explosives have been turned
over by the war department to the
department of the Interior, to be used
In road-building operations.