The Cordova Daily Times
VOL. 5, NO / CORDOVA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBEBR I I, 1920 PRICE TEN CENTS
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GIRL CLE
-NOME FLYER TO
CARRY ORE ON
RETURN TRIP
WRANGELL, Sept. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—Unfavorable weather
prevented plane No. 4 from leaving
for Hazelton this morning.
Lieutenant Kirkpatrick, pilot of the
plane, will take to New York in his
plane the first shipment of ore from
a new mine near here.
Kirkpatrick will also make a trip
up the Unuk river to seek signs of a
party of 12 men missing from the inter
national boundary survey crew. The
men are two weeks overdue.
EASTBOUND PLANE
IS FORCED TO LAND
RENO. Nev., Sept. 11 (by Associated
Press).—Aerial mail plane No. 51,
which left Salt Lake at 11:50 yester
day morning for Reno, was forced to
land at Lovelock, 100 miles east of
here, at 6 o’clock last night.
* VANCOUVER MERCHANT
ARRESTED AS SMUGGLER
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EL PASO, Tex., Sept. 11 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Abe Shareli, a wealthy
curio dealer of Vancouver and Mon
treal, was placed under arrest here
yesterday, charged with conspiring to
smuggle a huge amount of narcotics
from Mexico.
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CONTINUE IN POLITICS
TILL SUFFRAGE ASSURED
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NEW YORK, Sept. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—Continuance of the Na
tional Women’s party in politics until
all legal actions against suffrage have
ended, was decided upon today at a
meeting of the national executive com
mittee.
DYNAMITE EXPLOSION
KILLS MANY IN PERU
LIMA, Peru, Sept. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—Thirty men were killed
or wounded and damage of $250,000
caused by an explosion of dynamite at
Callao bay yesterday. Negligence in
handling the explosive is believed to
have been responsible.
CAN BE SEIZED
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NEW YORK, Sept. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—Federal Judge Garvin
vesterday upheld the federal commis
sioners’ decision that seizure of liquors
without a search warrant “was a clear
violation of the fourth amendment to
the constitution.”
SAME OPINION IN CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11 (by As
sociated Press).—Holding that the
liquor had been seized without war
rant or other authority, Federal Judge
Dooling yesterday ordered that 350
cases of whiskey, valued at $75,000, be
returned to the cellar of B. W. Sloan
of this elty.
ESCAPES ONE DAY BUT
IS RECAPTURED NEXT
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 11 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Bertie C. Johnson, the
British subject who recently escaped
from the bandit Zamora and was re
ported to be on his way here under
guard of federal troops, has been re
captured by the bandit, the war depart
ment announced today.
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MILAN, Sept. 11 (by Associated
Press). — Workmen today occupied
the plants of more than 200 chemical
works and hoisted the red flag above
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them. The seizure was ordered by
the labor chamber, which declared it
the most simple means of securing
the guarantees asked. Workers in
the chemical workers were recently
granted increases of 60 to 70 cents.
LEONARD WINS BOUT
WITH KNOCKOUT BLOW
CAMDEN, N. J.. Sept. 11 (by Asso
ciated Press). — Benny Leonard last
night knocked out K. O’Loughlin of
Bethlehem, Pa., in the ninth round of
a scheduled 12-round bout.
SWEDES AREADVISED
TO STAY OUT OF RUSSIA
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (by As
sociated Press). — Swedish workers
are advised against emigrating to Rus
sia by a committee representing the
Swedish metal trades which went to
Russia last May to investigation labor
conditions, with a view to the emigra
tion of 6.000 skilled Swedish work
men.
M USED CANS MADE
INTO CHRISTMAS TOYS
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11 (by As
sociated Press).—Christmas toys re
ceived here from Japan are said to
include novelties- made from tin cans
which have crossed the Pacific
ocean four times. The cans, origin
ally used in shippinig case oil to
China, were refilled there with soy
bean and other vegetable oils and
reshipped to the United States; they
were purchased by the Japanese and
sent back across the Pacific to Jap
an where they were made into toys
for American children.
POINCARE’S ADVICE IS
TO “LEARN GERMAN”
PARIS, Sept. 11 (by Associated
Press).—“Learn German is the ad
advice former President Poincare has
given the French through the Asso
ciation of language professoross. He
said:
“To dominate German science we
must understand it. And to maintain
the independence or the superiority of
our literature we must not close our
eyes to foreign literatures, not even
that of Germany.”
M. Poincare said German must be
known by those who undertake the
administration of the occupied regions
and also to restore French to its pro
per place in Alsace Lorraine.
Army officers were recently urged
to learn German. The government
has reinstated that language in the
officers training schools.
APPEALING FOR
ASSISTANCE IN
STOCK RAISING
CHICAGO, Sept. 11 (by Associated
Press).—More than a hundred bank
i
ers, packers and grain men, at a meet
ing here today to discuss the livestock
•situation throughout the country, ap
pealed to the government for aid to
preserve the livestock industry.
Louis Swift, packer, predicted lower
food prices.
A. E. De Ricqles of Denver declared
loans of a quarter of a billion dollars
were necessary to avert a crisis in the
livestock situation.
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DEFENSE HAS INNING
IN SHIPBUILDING TRIAL
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SEATTLE, Sept. 11 (by Associated
Press).—The government has con
cluded its case against the seven offi
cers of the Gray Harbor Motorship
Corporation and the defense will be
gin its testimony today.
LONDON LABOR PAPER !
HAS BOLSHEVIK! COIN
LONDON, Sept. 11 (by Associated
Press).—The Herald, the organ of
English labor, admitted in its issue
yesterday that it had in its possession
£75,000 of Bolsheviki gold money,
which was being held pending a de
cision by the shareholders as to how
it should be used. The newspaper
refers to the Soviet as a “magnificent;
demonstration of real working class;
solidarity and what the Russians mean
by internationalism.”
POLICE CALLED
TO QUIET LABOR
DEMONSTRATION
NEW YORK, Sept. 11 (by Associ-j
ated Press).—Police reserves were
called to the Central opera house at
midnight to suppress a disturbance
following the announcement by Sam
uel Gompers, president of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, of a com
mittee to draft a constitution for the
newly organized Central Trades and
Labor Council of Greater New York.
AUTO TRUCKS HAVE NOT
SUPPLANTED BUFFALO.
IN PHILIPPINE TRAFFIC
MANILA, Sept. 11 (by Associated
Press).—Automobile trucks have not
yet replaced the carabao, or water
buffalo, as the principal means of
transporting heavy loads in the Phil
lippines.
Trucks have become numerous in
cities, however, and have also, in a
small degree taken the place of the
animals in cultivation of rice fields
in the islands.
Prices of the carabao have risen
from $20 a head five years ago to
$225 a head today. Owing to inroads
made on the herds by a disease, it
has been necessary to import the
animals from other Malay countries,
alone, during 1919, 3,000 head of car
aboa were imported.
COX HURRYING
ON THROUGH
WALLA WALLA, Sept. 11 (by As
sociated Press).—Governor Cox de
fended the League of Nations and dis
cussed the Republican campaign funds
here last night, asserting that the
League of Nations was not a “British
league nor a Wilson leargue, but a
product of no le3s than 500 of the
best minds of all civilized nations.”
He declared several leaders of the Re
publican party had an active part in
its formation and mentioned Taft and
Hughes. The governor’s roster of
speeches yesterday included Spokane
and Pascoe. He left here late last
night for Bellingham via Seattle.
TOLD BOYS TO STAY ON FARMS
SPOKANE, Sept. 11 (by Associated
Press).—Governor Cox spent 20 min
utes yesterday inspecting blue ribbon
cattle and horses at the Interstate
fair here. He shook hands with many
boys and told them to “stick to the
farm.”
COX AT BELLINGHAM
BELLINGHAM, Sept. 11 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Further information
about' Republican contributions in
Washington were presented by Gov
ernor Cox here today, when he read
a letter purporting to be from H. F.
Alexander, chairman of the finance
committee, reporting an over-subscrip
tion of the allotments. Cox also dis
cussed the League of Nations, radical
ism and progressiveism.
Governor Cox urged the develop
ment of Alaska and the audience ap
plauded when he declared the straight
jackt should be removed from the ter
ritory.
FIRST WOMAN
HEAD DISTRICT
IS APPOINTED
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (by As
sociated Press).—President Wilson
has appointed Mabel T. Boardman, for
many years a member of the execu
tive committee of the Red Cross, to
be commissioner of the District of
Columbia, effective next Wednesday.
The appointment marks the first
woman member to direct the govern
ment district.
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STREET CARS COLLIDE
DURING BASEBALL RUSH
N jW YORK, Sept. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—Another serious accident
occurred today on the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit street car system, whose em
ployes are on strike, when two trolley
cars collided during the rush to the
baseball party. Thirty passengers on
the cars were injured.
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VOLSTAD AND KAVALE
ARE BOTH D QUALIFIED
ST. PAUL, Sept. 11 (by Associated
Press).—The Minnesota supreme court
today affirmed the disqualification of
Rev. O. J. Kavale as the Republican
nominee for congress in the Seventh
district, but also eliminated Congress
man Volstead, who was declared nom
inated by the district court.
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OIL COMPANIES CHARGED
WITH ACCEPTING REBATE
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 11 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The federal grand jury
yesetrday returned indictments against
the General Petroleum Corporation of
California and the Utah Oil and Refin
ing Compny of Salt Lake, on charges
of accepting rebates on freight ship
ments.
HAVE SPEAKING
MARION, O., Sept. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—Senator Harding’s cam
paign plans, now under serious dis
cussion, contemplate a speaking trip
to the Pacific coast and addresses in
western states, where he says he will
be elected.
Harding may make four or five
speeches in the east late in October.
The western trip probably will start
the last week in September, including
Spokane, Seattle, Portland, San Fran
cisco and other coast cities.
SOCIALIST REVOLT IS
VERY SHORT LIVED
TRIEST, Sept.. 11 (by Associated
Press).—A Socialist revolt in which
barricades have been erected, and ar
tillery, rifles, machine guns and bombs
freely used, broke out here yesterday,
but order was restored after sharp
fighting.
PORTLAND BOOTLEGGER
SHOT IN BOO RAID
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 11 (by As
sociated Press).—Bert Hedderlee, an
alleged bootlegger, was shot and prob
ably fatally wounded l^t night when
he endeavored to escape from a house
which federal officers were raiding.
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SIGHTSEEING BUS IS
WRECKED BY TRAIN
NEW YORK. Sept. 11 (by Associ
ated Press).—Thirty-five persons were
injured, fifteen seriously, when a sight
seeing bus collided with a trolley car
yesterday.
COINS FROM PORCELAIN
• ABANDONED IN GERMANY
BERLIN, Sept. 11 (by Associated
Press).—The proposal to manufac
ture porcelain coin to the amount of
60,000,000 marks for the German re
public has been abandoned. Some al
ready had been produced at the
Meissen manufactory and were disks
of terra cotta color unglazed and un
milled but of faultless artistic im
print. Experts of the Rechsbanks,
however, advised the government
against their adoption, mainly on the
ground that they were unwieldly in
the pocket or purse, could not be
easily distinguished by touch and
could not be counted with existing
counting machinery.
One of the most important points
raised in opposition to their use was
that they might be imitated without
particular difficulty except for a de
gree of hardness which could only be
ascertained by tests by experts in
porcelain.
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NON-PARTISANS
SOLICIT HUGE
CHICAGO, Sept. 11 (by Associated
Press).—Charles W. Lee of South
Beach, Conn., divisional director of
the Republican campaign fund drive,
told the senate investigating commit
tee at yesterday afternoon’s session
that he had heard a rumor that the
Non-Partisan Leaue had raised a Cam
paign fund of $4,000,000 in the north
west.
Eunice Coyne, a reporter of the
Daily In ews-American of South Da
kota, told the committee today now
girl workers in the internal revenue
office at Aberdeen solicited contribu
tions to the Democratic campaign
fund.
Miss Coyne said girls who were re
ceiving $120 month were asked for $40
contributions.
E. M. Waterbury of Centerville who
ence Mee, father of J. Waiter Mee,
described himself as an agent for Clar
revenue collector at Amerdeen, said
the girls aFo told Mee the chairman
of the state organization collected
Democratic funds.
The committee completed its iiiouiry
here a noon today and took a vrmss,,
to meet in New York on Septemom' 24.
Four witnesses who failed to appear
today will be heard in the east.
FORMER KAISER BILL
HAS HALLUCINATION
BERLIN, Sept. 11 (by Associated
Press).—A report from Droon says for
mer Emperor William remarked, as
the chips flew while he was cutting
wood: “This is the way heads will
fly to the right and left when I return
to Germany.”
PARIS POLICE PROBE
DEATH OF ACTRESS
PARIS*, Sept. 11 (by Associated
Press).-—French police have begun an
investigation into the death of Olive
Thomas, the movie actress. They will
investigate rumors of drug orgies and
champagne dinners among the Amer
ican colony and habitues of the French
cinema world.
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FISH QUOTATIONS AT SEATTLE
SEATTLE. Sept. 11:— (Special to the
Daily Times).—Prices at noon Septem
ber 10: Halibut, 1434c; chickens, 8c;
sable fish, 5%c; red and ling cod, 2c.
INVOKE LAW TO
STOP FRAUDS
AT PRIMARY
SPOKANE, Sept. 11 (by Associated
Press).—Ben H. Rice, manager for
Congressman Stanley Webster, who is
seeking renomination in the Repub
lican primaries, announced a plan to
day to challenge voters in the pri
maries Tuesday who are known to be
in sympathy with the Non-Partisan
League-Farmer-Labor party who ask
fof Republican ballots. Rice said the
election laws will be invoked to pre
vent the entry of such voters in the
Republican primary.
Thomas Corkery, who received the
endorsement of the farmer groups, is
; contesting with Webster for the nom
ination.
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