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VOL. 5. NO.J6Q__CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1920 • PRICE TEN CENTS
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HAZELET ON RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE
VETO OF WATER
POWER BILL IS
■ A CALAMITY
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WASHINGTON, June 8 (by Associ
ated Press).—Senator Jones, of Wash
ington, issued a statement today de
claring the President Wilson’s veto
of the water power measure was al
most a national calamity. The ex
cuse given by the president for the
veto was that he had not had time
^to properly consider the measure, but
Senator Jones said the bill had been
sent to the president May 31, giving
a full wreek, and Jones considered that
ample time to consider a measure so
vital to the interests of the people.
AVENUES FOR
APPEAL ARE
ALL CLOSED
CHICAGO, June 8 (by Associated
Press).—Levy Myer, who argued the
prohibition cases for the distillers be
fore the supreme court, said today:
“I advanced every possible legal argu
ment, and all avenues to the courts
are now exhausted.”
LIQUOR AS DEAD AS SLAVERY
CHICAGO, June 8 (by Associated
Press).—The supreme court decision
in the prohibition cases kills the
liquor traffic as dead as slavery,
Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel for the
Anti-Saloon League, said in a state
ment today, in which he also said that
the fight of the prohibitionists now
must be against any amendment to
the Volstad act permitting the sale
of beer or wines,
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OPINION WAS BRIEF
WASHINGTON, June 8 (by Associ
ated Press).—Justice Vandevanter’s
opinion in upholding the prohibition
act and the Volstad law was very
brief, simply setting forth the court’s
conclusions. The chief justice ren
dered a supplemental opinion in con
curring, going more fully into details.
Permission to file motions for re
hearing was given by the court at the
request of attorneys in the cases.
LOUISIANA SENATE
I RATIFIES SUFFRAGE
BATON ROUGE, June 8 ( by Asso
ciated Press).—The senate today
passed the suffrage ratification bill on
third reading and it will be given final
consideration Thursday.
SEIZED WITH MURDEROUS
* MANIA FATHER KILLS SON
JBERKELEY, Cal., June 8 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Suddenly seized with
a murderous mania, Robert D. Rich
ards killed his young son with an axe
and wounded his wife and daughter so
severely that they are not expetced
to live.
TURKISH NATIONALISTS
- WIN VICTORY AT ISMID
PARIS, June 8 (by Associated
Press).—Turkish nationalists defeated
the government troops and advanced
within five miles of Ismid. according
to Constantinople dispatches received
by newspapers here.
GRAFT RIDDEN
SEATTLE WILL
BE SHAKEN UP
|* SEATTLE, June 8 (by Associated
I Press).—The city council yesterday
j passed an ordinance appropriating
I $10,000 and directing Mayor Caldwell
to conduct a searching inquiry into
! the purchase of the municipal street
car system from the Puget Sound
' Traction, Light & Power Company last
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! year. The council also approved the
| draft of an ordinance raising street
car fares from five to seven cents
and it will probably be passed next
week. It is said the system is being
operated at a loss of $100,000 monthly.
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PERSHING ASKS
TO BE RETIRED
FROM ARMY
WASHINGTON, June 8 (by Associ
ated Press).—General John J. Persh
ing has written to Secretary of War
Baker asking to be retired within the
next few months. He said that after
completing the work entailed by the
recently enacted army reorganization
bill his formal duties would require
only a portion of his time, and hej
wishes to be free to engage in more
active work.
FREIGHT EMBARGO TO
PRINCE RUPERT RESULT |
LONGSHOREMEN STRIKE
VANCOUVER, B. C., June 8 (by As
sociated Press).—The Grand Trunk
Steamship Company has announced a
freight embargo to Prince Rupert be
cause of the longshoremen’s strike
there.
PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD
AGAINST SECRET ORDERS
GREELEY, Colo., June 8 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The national synod of
the Reformed Presbyterians adopted a
committee report condemning secret
societies.
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JAP IMMIGRATION
TO BE INVESTIGATED
WASHINGTON, June 8 (by Associ
ated Press).—An investigation of the
Japanese immigration question is to
be made during the summer on the
Pacific coast by members of the house
committee on immigration.
NORTH CAROLINA STILL
VOTING AT PRIMARY
RALEIGH, N. C., June 8 (by Asso
ciated Press).—According to latest re
turns, Johnson leads Wood by five to
one in the presidential primary.
FISH QUOTATIONS
KETCHIKAN, June 8—(Special to
the Daily Times).—Prices for halibut:
' Firsts, 13c; seconds, 7c.
TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN LODGE
DENOUNCES WILSON’S THEORY
[ GOVERNMENT AS UNAMERICAN
CHICAGO, June 8 (by Associated Press).—
Chairman Hays, of the Republican national com
mittee, called the Republican national convention
to order to day at 1 1 :34, and at the conclusion of
a long opening prayer by Bishop Charles Wood
cock, of Louisville, Ky., the audience broke into
The Star Spangled Banner. ’
Contrary to custom, the front seats were oc
cupied by the delegations from California, North
Dakota, Arkansas, Connecticut, Colorado and Vir
ginia. A few oldtimers were present and had seats
of prominence, including Chatmcey M. Depew.
The country must drive Wilson and his dvnasty from
power and must defeat the League of Nations,” said Senator
Lodge, temporary chairman, in the keynote speech. Defend
ing the senate opposition to the peace treaty, he said:
A\ e will make the issue. We ask approbation for what
we have done, and the people will now tell us what they think
of Wilson’s league and his sacrifice of America.”
He said the time had come to take a firm hand in Mexico
and end the disgraceful occurrences there during the last seven
years. Our primary duty is to deal with Mexico under the
Monroe doctrine, yet we are asked to tak a mandate for
Armenia.
He denounced the administration for failure to deal with
the profiteers, condemned government ownership of railroads
and was especially bitter on the administration’s Mexican
policy The peace treaty and the League of Nations, he said,
should receive the most attention as the biggest campaign
issues.
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spuae irom manu
script, and riotous applause greeted
his reference to the Wilson dynasty.
The defeat of the present adminis
tration transcends every other ques
tion at this period,” he said. “With
the ground thus cleared it will become
our duty to reinstate several funda
mental principles which have been
both shocked and invaded.”
William J. Bryan sat in the press
box and with a poker face listened
to the excoriation of the Democratic
administration by the temporary chair
man.
Another wave of applause greeted
Lodge’s reference to Wilson as “a
Democratic free trader with Socialistic
proclivities.”
“They must be driven out,” said
Lodge, “not because they are Demo
crats, but because Wilson’s theory of
government is not American.”
The convention adjourned after a
two hours’ session until 11 o’clock to
morrow morning.
The confusion and uncertainty and
lack of leadership was still pro
nounced, all the candidates waiting for
the first ballot to see how they stand.
Hazelet, of Alaska, is a member of
the committee on resolutions.
DELEGATES MILLING AROUND
CHICAGO, June 8 (by Associated
Press).—Thousands crowded around
the Coliseum today hours before the
convention opened. Scalpers asked
fabulous prices for admission tickets,
but few were bought.
No change has come in the conven
tion lineup and none is expected, but
there is some talk of making the
temporary organization permanent.
Confusion from the muss and mud
dle was added to by the blistering
heat, while the continued absence of
leadership added to the discomfort
and bewilderment.
The bewildered delegates were mill
ing around the hotel lobbies last night
bewailing the absence of leadership.
Real leaders of bygone days find grim
satiscfaetion in referring to charges
of bossism so often hurled in former
conventions, asking if it would not be
better to be led than lost.
The situation presents an oppor
tunity for some shrewd leader to step
forward at the psychological moment
and invite a stampede.
Nobody has any idea of the strength
any of the candidates will develop on
the first ballot, and none of the cam
paign managers has been able to so
strengthen his lines to approach the
test vote with confidence. *
Dark horse talk is still in the back
ground, and the suggestion recurs
that it might be wiser to put up
some man not involved in the cam
paign expenses, with the names of
Hughes and Coolidge most promin
nently advanced. Senator Borah said
he would regard Hughes as very for
midable if the dark horse stage was
reached.
Henry Lincoln Johnson, the Atlanta
negro leader and a Lowden delegate
was elected national committeeman
from Georgia. Wood delegates an
nounced they would carry the fight to
the credentials committee and the
convention, but Johnson told the na
held that Ballaine’s testimony to the
hopes of being committeeman if the
Lowden delegates were seated.
The refusal of Judge Wallace Mc
Cament, one of Oregon’s ten delegates,
to vote for Johnson in accordance with
the primary vote, has developed an un
precedented problem involving adher
ence to or freedom from instructions
of all primary chosen delegates. It
is expected this problem will be the
cause of a spirited and protracted fight
on the first ballot. McCammant gave
notice he was a Wood supporter be
fore the primary, and says he is not
bound by the result of the vote, John
son said he will fight for the solid
Oregon vote, asserting that a viola
tion of the primary instruction would
be dishonorable.
ALASKA COURT
| IS REVERSED
SEWARD CASE
SAN FRANCISCO, June 8 (by As
sociated Press).—The circuit court of
appeals yesterday reversed the judg
ment of the district court of Alaska
by which J. E. Ballaine was given
$30,000 damages against W. J. Boland,
W. A. Stavert and F. C. Emmett for
alleged malicious prosecution of title
in a suit over land comprising the
townsite of Seward. The circuit court
title suit brought against him in the
effect that the property declined 50
per cent in value as a result of the
the vault and looted the bank. They
name of the Alaska Northern Railway
Company was speculative, and that he
must establish actual damages.
WANTS TROOPS
TO SUPPRESS
SOLUTION
LOS ANGELES, June 8 (by Associ
ated Press).—Baldomoro Almada, re
cently appointed governor for the
northern district of Lower California,
says the district is in a state of revol
lution against the provisional Mexican
government, and has asked the govern
ment to send five thousand troops to
assist in suppressing the revolution
ists. •
GALVESTON IS PEEVED
WITH GOVERNOR FOR
CALLING MARTIAL LAW
GALVESTON, Tex., June 8 (by As
sociated Press).—The city commission
of Galveston has protested against
the governor’s action in declaring mar
tial law here as the greatest outrage
ever ' perpetrated against a peaceful
community.
BAR SILVER DROPS IN
PRICE ON N. Y. MARKET
NEW YORK, June 8 (by Associated
Press).—Bar silver fell abopt 10 cents
an ounce today to 84 cents, due to
reports from London of another de
cline of 6 pence 10 owing to heavy
selling by East India and Chinese in
terests.
JOHNSON SPEAKS AT MEETING
CHICAGO, June 8 (by Associated
Press).—Senator Hiram Johnson, ad
dressing a mass meeting last night
attended by many delegates to the
convention, pleaded for what he called
the “head up and eyes open” policy
defining the two big issues. He said
the first was the cost of living, which
had to be coped with not only by a
new law but by an unshrinking admin
istration. The second was the League
of Nations, and he emphasized his
stand against the Versailles covenant,
' saying “the Republican party must
take a stand against it and there can
be no hiding or skulking behind an
issue of this magnitude.”
Johnson rapped as “servile press”
profiteers those who would make the
Republican party the party of the few
who paid tribute to them. Borah, who
also spoke later, referred to John
son as the next president.
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FEDERATION OF
LABOR ADOPTS
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MONTREAL, June 8 (by Associated
Press).—Resolutions covering polit
ical and economic conditions in the
; United States and the demands of
labor were before the American Fed
eration of Labor convention here to
day. They demand a hands-off policy
in Mexico, home rule for Ireland, pub
lic ownership of railroads, lifting the
Russian blockade and recognition of
the Russian soviet government, the
impeachment of Attorney General Pal
mer, condemn Postmaster General
Burleson and the recently enacted
railroad legislation enforcing compul
sory arbitration. Indications are that
Samuel Gompers will be unopposed
for re-election.
DEMPSEY TRIAL
COMMENCES AT
TRISCO TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO, June 8 (by As
sociated Press).—The trial of Jack
Dempsey, heavyweight boxer, charged
with draft evasion, was opened here
today before Judge Dooling. Many
members of the American Legion were
present.
The draft evasion charges against
William H. (Jack) Dempsey, heavy
weight champion boxer of the world,
and Jack Kearns, his manager, were
filed here in the United States district
court. The statute covering them
carries a maximum sentence of three
years and a $2,000 fine in Dempsey’s
case of a conviction. There are two
charges resting against him, one ac
tual draft evasion and the other con
spiracy to effect such evasion. The
Kearns case is covered only by the
latter charge.
On the direct evasion charge Demp
sey can be given one and on the con
spiracy charge two years and a $2,000
fine.
The indictments were returned Feb
ruary 27 following statements made
to the federal grand jury by Maxine
Wayne Dempsey, divorced wife of the
| pugilist, that he sought her sworn tes
timony as to her dependency on him
in order to avoid military service, and
had given such testimony against her
i will. Subsequently she retracted her
charges in a signed affidavit submitted
to the United States district attor
ney’s office here, but despite such re
traction the grand jury returned the
indictments.
The Dempseys were married in Salt
j Lake City, Utah. Following the di
j vorce Mrs. Dempsey was employed in
, a dance hall in Wells, Nevada, and
1 made her charges from that place.
Dempsey was charged with having
falsely sworn that his father, mother,
widowed sister and her two children
were dependent upon him and that he
had contributed $20 a month each to
their support during 1917 and that he
had lived with his wife for 18 months
before being called up before the draft
board.
Kearns’ part was alleged to have
been the coaching of Dempsey in his
supposed act of draft evasion. Both
denied emphatically that they sought
such evasion and introduced state
ments from draft board officials to
substantiate their claims.