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The Cordova Daily Times
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VOL. 5, NO. 183 CORDOVA. ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1920 PRICE TEN CENTS
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SELECTION ON T
DEMOCRATIC BOSS OF OHIO
BEATS M’ADOO IN FIGHT FOR
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6 (by Associated Press).—
James Middleton Cox, governor of Ohio, was nominated
for president by the Democratic national convention this
morning at 1:40 o’clock at the conclusion of a forty-four
ballot struggle in which he had steadily beaten down
the McAdoo forces.
When voting on the forty-fourth ballot had arrived
at a point where Cox had 702 votes and was rapidly
approaching the necessary two-thirds majority, Sam B.
Amidon, McAdoo floor manager, took the platform and
moved to make Cox’s nomination unanimous.
Immediately there was a roar from the tired dele
gates lasting four minutes, and when it was quiet enough
to be heard a motion to nomination Cox by acclamation
was carried with a chorus of yeas, amid the crashing of
bands as state standards surged back and forth. The con
vention then adjourned until noon.
The Cox landslide started late Monday afternoon.
During recess both sides desperately sought Tammany
aid. Soon after recess the votes began flopping to Cox.
When Palmer released the delegates pledged to him, the
Cox and McAdoo forces fought like tigers for possession of
the disbanded army. The convention floor resembled a stock
exchange on a panicky day. In vain the McAdoo men tried
^to force an adjournment.
The Cox tide in full flow swept everything before it,
and when Georgia was reached Clark Howell jumped to his
feet and cast the solid ballot of the delegation for “our next
president.”
Step by step Cox moved toward the goal. When Cox
passed the 700 mark, Sam B. Amidon, a McAdoo chief, moved
to make the nomination unanimous and balloting ceased with
a roar of ayes. Changes in the voting were never recorded,
and the convention adjourned in confusion with everybody
apparently happy.
After twenty-two fruitless ballots the convention ad
journed just before midnight Saturday until Monday morning.
President \\ ilson wired Chairman Cummings his heart-*
felt congratulations on the action of the convention on the
League of Nations question.
A A touch of humor was given to the twenty-third ballot
when Missouri gave Bing Lardner half a vote, while Irving
Cobb got one from A\ ashington and half a vote from Ken
tucky.
SENATOR TELLS
WHY HE WAS
REFUSED SEAT
KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 6 (by
Associated Press).—Senator Reed, ad
dressing a mass meeting here yester
^day, denounced the League of Na
tions as “a league of treason,” and
thaT' the covenant would cause na
tional death. He declared he had
been privately assured while his case
was being heard in San Francisco by
the credentials committee that he
would be given a seat if he agreed
to keep silent on the league ques
tion, and his refusal was responsible
for the denial of a seat in the con
vention.
IRISH CONNAUGHT
RAIDERS IN MUTINY
LONDON, July 6 (by Associated
Press). — Three-fourths of the bat
talion of Irish Connaught rangers sta
tioned at Jullender, in the Punjab,
India, mutinied following news of re
cent events in England, according to
Reuter’s dispatch. Although re
maining loyal to their officers, the
^men expressed their sympathies with
friends in Ireland.
JAP TROOPS
TO REMAIN AT
VLADIVOSTOK
WASHINGTON, July 6 (by Asso
j dated Press).—Japan has decided to
j occupy such supply points in the pro
| vince of Saghalien, Siberia, as it
deems necessary for policing and the
forcing of establishment there of a
legitimate government and satisfac
tory settlement for the massacre of
seven hundred Japanese at Nikolsvak.
Japanese troops will be withdrawn
immediately from those districts of
i Siberia where their presence is not
i needed, according to Premier Hara.
The troops will not be removed from
the Vladivostok region, as Korea can
be menaced from that direction.
WEALTHY WOMAN IS
GAGGED AND ROBBED
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6 (by As
sociated Press).—Mrs. C. E. Moeller,
friend and traveling companion of
Mrs. John F. Hylan. wife of the
mayor of New York City, was found
bound and gagged in her room in a
prominent hotel here yesterday. The
room had been looted by burglars.
PLANE CRASHES TO
EARTH; ONE KILLED
SEATTLE, July 6 (by Associated
Press).—E. M. Walsh of Seattle, an
aeroplane mechanic, was killed, and
Frank B. Miller of Seattle slightly
injured when a plane crashed from
a height of 150 feet at Snoqualmie
on Sunday. Hundreds of visitors at
f
the Fourth of July celebration wit
nessed the accident.
TRANSPORT
ROUTE ALAS
IS AGROUND
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SEATTLE, July 6 (by Associated
Press).—The army transport South
Bend, with 280 men and supplies for
the Alaska engineering commission,
grounded off Point Angeles this morn
ing while endeavoring to make Port
Angeles harbor in a heavy fog to pick
up a pilot. The transport is reported:
to be resting easy on sand and is
expected to float at high tide this
afternoon.
SERIOUS TRAIN
WRECK GREAT
NORTHERN RY.
SEATTLE, July 6 (by Associated
Press).—Otto Vige of Everett, engi
neer, and A. H. Warner of Leaven
worth, fireman, were killed, and Her
man Chafer, express messenger, and
C. E. Wilkinson, brakeman, both of
Seattle, seriously injured on Sunday
when the Great Northern fast mail
train was wrecked at Halford, fifty
miles from Seattle. The engine left
the track and rolled over and six
cars were demolished. There were
no passengers on the train.
LAFOLLETTE LEADS
FOR EMPTY HONOR
NEW YORK, July 6 (by Associated
Press).—The committee of forty-eight
announced yesterday that 30,000 re
plies to questionnaires from members
gave Senator LaFollette the lead for
the presidential nomination of the
new party to be organized in Chicago
on July 10. The committee declares,
the Labor party is in fa.vor of LaFol-|
lette and also that he is the choice
of Northwest farmers.
GOMPERS SAYS
PLATFORM WILL
BE REVIEWED
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 6 (by As
sociated Press).—Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federa
tion of Labor, yesterday denied hav
ing commented adversely on the Dem
ocratic platform. He declared it was
too early to announce- his views and
that the convention will be judged
by . what it has declared and the
standard bearer selected. He said
a delegation from the federation will
shortly issue a statement of labor’s
attitue toward both platforms.
THREE ORGANIZERS
KILLED BY GUARDS
CHARLESTON, W. Va., July 6 (by
Associated Press).—Three organizers
of the United Mine Workers of
America were killed in a fight with
mine guards at Roderfield, McDowell
county, yesterday, according to a tel
egram received by Chief Kenny, dis
trict president here of the mine work
ers.
BIG COUP OF
BOLSHEVIK! BY
GEN. WRANGEL
LONDON, July 6 (by Associated
Press).—The war office announced
today that General Wrangel, anti
Bolsheviki commander of the south
erly portion of Russia, encircled and
captured an entire Bolshevik cavalry
corps of eighteen regiments, together
with forty guns. The battlefield was
covered with dead. A second Bol
shevik cavalry corps with the entire
staff was also captured by Wran
gell’s army.
CARS TELESCOPE
AND EIGHTEEN
ARE KILLED
SCRANTON, Pa., July 6 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Eighteen people were
killed and over 100 injured in a
wreck on the Lackawanna & Wyo
ming Valley Electric Railroad near
South Pittson station.
The accident occurred when light
ning hit a telegraph pole, throwing
it on the track in front of a car
bound for Scranton. When the train,
composed of three cars, hit the ob
struction, the second and third cars
telescoped, all three being piled up.
ATTORNEY FOR I.W.W.
ARRESTED AT ASTORIA
ASTORIA, Ore., July 6 (by Asso
ciated Press).—George F. Vanderveer
of Seattle, the attorney who defended
the I. W. W’s. at Centralia following
the massacre of soldiers in the Armis
tice day parade, was arrested here
yesterday on a charge of resisting
an officer, when he attempted to ad
dress a workingmen’s picnic where
it is alleged I. W. W. literature was
being distributed.
SPEED RECORD
ON DIRT TRACK
AT TACOMA
TACOMA, July 6 (by Associated
Press).—Tommy Milton, driving 225
miles in 2 hours, 23 minutes and
8 seconds, won the ninth annual
Speedway $10,000 purse here yester
day. Mulford was second and Hearne
third, and Klein, Sarles, Murphy,
Chevrolet and O’Donnell finished in
the order named. Milton averaged
95 miles an hour, the fastest record
for a dirt track. DePalma, Durant,
Thomas and Boyer were forced out
of the race, but there was no serious
accident. ,
MANY NAMES SUGGESTED FOR
THE VICE PRESIDENCY BUT NO
NOMINATIONHAS BEEN MADE
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6 (by Associated Press).—The
convention was very slow in reassembling today, and there
were thousands of empty seats in the galleries. Scores of
delegates and alternates had left the city and somebody sug
gested that it would be better to take a pole of outgoing
trains.
At 1 o’clock Judge E. H. Moore of Youngstown, Ohio,
floor leader for Governor Cox, was still trying to get the
nominee by long distance telephone to ask if he had any
choice of a running mate.
Names most prominently mentioned for vice president are
Franklin B. Roosevelt, Joseph AY. Davis of AYisconsin, Gov
ernor Samuel V. Stewart of Montana, James Hamilton Lewis,
Secretary of Agriculture Meredith, Major General Tyson of
Tennessee, Ambassador John AY. Davis and David R. Francis.
SEATTLE, July 6 (by Associated Press).—A special to
the Times from San Francisco savs the Alaska delegation
slipped in one solid ballot for James Hamilton Lewis when
Palmer released his delegates. Erwin went to Cox, while
Grigsby and Riggs supported McAdoo. Grigsby had a tacit
understanding with Troy that they would support the high
man in the race between McAdoo and Cox. AY hen Cox took
the lead on the thirty-ninth ballot, Grigsby and Troy went
over to him, and on the forty-fourth ballot the solid delega
tion voted foY Cox.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6 (by Associated Press).—The
Alaska delegation yesterday re-elected Mrs. John W. Troy
of Juneau as the new member of the women’s national com
mittee. The delegation, tired of the deadlock during which
they had been giving Palmer 3, McAdoo 2 and Cox 1, decided
to give all six votes to James Hamilton Lewis on the next
ballot, but when recalled they announced their vote the same
as usual.
DAYTON, O., July 6 (by Associated Press).—Governor
Cox received news of his nomination in the office of the
Dayton News, his newspaper here. He also received many
messages of congratulation, among them from President Wil
son and Judge Davis.
MARION, ()., July 6 (by Associated Press).—Senator
Harding in a statement today said Governor Cox deserved
the nomination, but added that his selection would not change
Republican campaign plans in Ohio.
ARMY PLANES
TO FLY FROM
N. Y. TO NOME
WASHINGTON, July 6 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Four army Dehavi-;
land aeroplanes will undertake a
flight from New York to Nome July
15, it was announced today. The pur
pose of the flight is to demonstrate
the practicability of commercial air
lines in Alaska. Department officials
expect the voyage will result in aero
plane mail routes in Alaska and pro
vide photographs of hitherto inacces
sible portions of the territory for en
gineering purposes. The planes will
cross ten state borders until North
Dakota is reached, when they will
proceed northwest through Canada.
The personnel of the aerial fleet will
compose Captain Staiair, fleet com
mander, Lieuts. Clifford C. Nutt, Eric
H. Nelson. C. H. Cnimerine, Ross
Kirkpatrick, Sergeants Edmund Hen
riquez, Albert T. Vierra and Master
Engineer Joseph W. English.
The launch Rolfe returned yester
day from a trip to southeastern
Alaska.
HOW ALLIES
WILL DIVIDE
WAR SPOILS
BRUSSELS, July 6 (by Associated
Press).—Agreement has virtually
arrived at by the allied premiers that
France will receive 52 per cent of
the German reparations, Great Britain
22, Italy 10, Belgium 8, and Serbia 5.
The remaining 3 per cent it is be
lieved will be divided among other
allies, insluding Roumania, Portugal
and Japan.
Italy will also receive certain eco
nomic financial advantage.
The conference received alarming
news regarding the Bolshevik offen
sive against Poland, and will consider
the military situation of the new re
public. Commander-in-Chief Foch
and Field Marshal Wilson of the
British army have been consulted.
HUMBOLDT, Iowa, July 6 (by As
sociated Press).—Seven persons were
killed and a number injured wrhen
Minneapolis-St. Louis passenger train
No. 1 went through a bridge six.
miles north of here Sunday.