Cordova Daily Times
_ (Member of Associated Press) _ :
VOL. V. NO. 98 " ~~~ CORDOVA, ALASKA. SATURDAY. MARCH 27. 1920 PRICE TEN CENTS
m BILL IS DOOMED
CONGRESS TO REFUSE BOND ISSUE TO ALASKA SHIPPING BOARD
FRENCH WRITER IS ALARMED AT
MILITARY STRENGTH OF GERMANY
PARIS, March 27 (by Associated Press). Henry Didou. a fam
ous French war correspondent, in a dispatch to the Journal, says that
Germany, in the event of mohiUzation, can place three million and
a half men in the field. He says she has secretly reinforced her fam
ous war machine.
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FIGHTING IS
• INTENSE ON
* WIDE FRONT
WARSAW. Match 27 (by Associated
Press). The Bolshoviki. in attempting
to smash the Polish right wing, have
captured villages along the Stuteh
river, hut are unable to cross.
lighting is in progress along a 250
mile front. The Poles are inflicting
heavy losses upon tho “reds."
The Polish government has moved
from Warsaw to Bromberg, in Polish
Posen.
HOTEL THIEVES
ARE NOW BUSY
SOUND CITY
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SEATTLE, AI arch 27 (by Associated
Press' Seven guests of the Washing
ton hotel reported yesterday that their
rooms had been entered during Thurs
day night, and that jewelry and cash
had been taken. Each complained of
headache, and it is believed that the
thieves drugged their victims.
About $7f)0 was the amount of the
property reported missing.
FIGHTING FOR
LARGE SUM FOR
' ALASKA ROADS
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WASHINGTON. March 27 (by As
sociated Press). Governor Thomas
Riggs. Jr., of Alaska, and Brigadier
General Wilds P. Richardson,
formerly chairman of the Alaska
road commission, appeared before the
house committee on military affairs
Today and explained the request of the
war department for a $4112.000 item in
the army appropriation bill for Alaska
roads, trails and bridges.
Governor Riggs urged appropriations
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for five new army radio stations, to
be located at Hyder, Seldovia, Bethel,
Betties and Nushagak.
General Richardson told the com
mittee of the great need for roads,
bridges and trails.
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FULTON IN FAST TIME
PUTS HECTOR TO SLEEP
SEATTLE, March 27 (by Associated
Press).—Fred Fulton knocked out
Young Hector of Bremerton last night
with a left-handed Jolt within two
minutes after the first round opened.
Hector was out for ten mlnutea.
Fulton’s punch traveled less than a
foot.
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GREAT STEAL
ATTEMPTED BY
RAILWAY MEN
SEATTLE. March 27 (by Associated
Press). Thomas Jones, Edwin Hour
dell Creed Lane and Joe Teague, em
ployes of the Northern Pacific railroad
at Auburn, were arrested yesterday on
federal indictments charging them
with conspiracy to steal goods valued
at $50,000 from railroad freight cars.
The men were held under $5,000
| bail.
CAMBRIDGE AND
AGAIN COMPETE
LONDON, March -7 (by Associated
Dress). Oxford today won the track
and tleld meet from Cambridge. The
eight oared boat race was won by Cam
bridge.
Several American Rhodes students
were on the teams.
This was the first time the two uni
versities had met in athletic contests
since 1914.
AMERICAN SHIP
PHILADELPHIA
IS IN FLAMES
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SOUTHAMPTON. March 27 (by As
sociated Press'). The American liner
Philadelphia has abandoned her sail
ing on account of two tires in her hold.
! Her sister ship, the New York, was
burned hero recently.
The manage]; of the line believes the'
tires to have been incendiary.
TAFT IS INVITED TO
ADDRESS ASSEMBLY OF
STATE UNIVERSITY
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SEATTLE. March 27 (by Associated
Press'). The University of Washing
ton is endeavoring to get former Presi
dent W. H. Taft to address the univer
sity assembly. Mr. Taft will speak
at Salem, Ore., in May.
FREE SEEDS CUT FROM
APPROPRIATION BILL
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WASHINGTON. March 27 (by Asso
ciated Press). The senate yesterday
passed the agricultural appropriation
bill, carrying $33,000,000. The item of
$250,000 for free seeds was cut out by
the senate, but it is expected to be
| replaced in conference.
SEATTLE, March 117 (by Associated
Press). A special to the Post Iptelli
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gencer from Washington says that
Maurice Leehey, special counsel for
the Alaska territorial shipping hoard,
and K. M. Semmes, truffle adviser to
the hoard, who are in Washington in
tins interest of Alaska transportation
matters, have found that the United
States Shipping Hoard Is not enthusi
astic over the bill introduced bv Sen
ator Chamberlain to reorganize Alaska
water transportation.
It is understood that opposition to
the hill exists, although no opposition
has yet appeared.
Secretary of the Interior Payne is1
of the opinion that the government
can aid Alaska by operating steam
ship lines in connection with the gov
ernment railroad. Mr Semmes ob
jects to this unless the line could han
dle traffic to all districts.
WORSE OFF THAN IRELAND
Mr Semmes told the senate commit
tee on commerce yesterday that1
Alaska needs home rule wo file than
IrolanUp He urged the passage of the
Chamberlain bill, to give the terri j
torinl shipping hoard control over |
ships operating in Alaska waters. He'
said the Canadian shipping interests j
wore using sinister influences to get
control of transportation between!
Alaska and the States.
The private carriers generally, said
Mr. Semmes. had embarked upon a
course which would sap the resources
of the territory.
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Mr. Semmes said the fish packers
were opposed to tin' territorial ship
ping hoard because it would hurt their
private transportation lines. The Can
adian companies, he said, had wrest
ed business from the American lines.
Senator Chamberlain asked Mr.
Semmes if the Canadians had destroy
ed Ketchikan’s business to help
l'rince Rupert.
Mr. Semmes replied affirmatively,
and said that by various cuts and lit
tle tricks the Canadians had moved
the fish industry to Prince Rupert.
Now, he said, they wanted to move
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the canned salmon industry in the
same way.
The Canadian government subsi
dized the Canadian lines and helped
them to connect rail and water trans
portation in order to get business.
Mr. Leehey also addressed the com
mittee in favor of the passage of the
Chamberlain bill.
WICK WAS THERE
Mr. Leehey told the committee that !
he understood that former Delegate
James Wickersham and John Hallaine
had told Secretary of the Interior
Payne that he (Leehey! represented
the Cuggenheims.
Mr. Wickersham, who was in the'
committee room, denied having made
the statement, and he also denied that j
he represented any Canadian interests j
REPORT OF MR. SEMMES
Governor Riggs, Mr. Leehey and Mr.1
Semmes have been in attendance on
the hearings of the senate committee J
on commerce for some time post, and
they have just completed a nine
months’ detailed study of the Alaska
traffic situation. They are fortified
with several hundred pages of statis
tics, operating costs and other data,
which the United States Shipping
Board officials say is the most com
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pteto ami carefully detailed traffic
statement ever submitted to that body.
Mr. Seminos made the rather star
tling declaration recently that a sav
ing of one million dollars per annum
could he made in the operating costs
of the Alaska steamship lines if the
traffic were properly co-ordinated on
definite routes and handled on regular
schedules. He says this is impossible
however, so long as so per cent of
the Alaska ship tonnage is in private
service and handles the cream of the
traffic for the larger interests in the
territory, who thereby contribute •prac
tically nothing to the year-round serv
ice for the common benefit.
Mr. Semmes produced an Alaska cus
toms statement showing that the ships
of more than 20 tons which entered
Alaska during 1010 registered 157,552
net tons. This does not include any
boats operating exclusively in Alaska
waters, but only those which came
from the Outside. The Canadian lines
operated 4.070 net tons, and the regu
lar American lines operated ;*2,444 net
tons. The remaining 120,13S uet tons
represent ships exclusively in private
service, practically all of them cither
owned or chartered by the larger in
terests of the territory. These ships
operate much more cheaply than the
regular lines, being free from the re
quirements imposed on passenger
ships. They pay much lower wages
than the regular lines, and practically
no overtime. The result is that they
operate so much more cheaply that
they can well afford to pay a $.'> per
annum license tax on net tonnage,
which, according to Mr. Semmes’ fig
ures, would mean an average of about
50 cents per actual ton of freight han
dled by those ships. The net tonnage
of a ship is computed on the basis of
100 cubic feet, while freight is charged
by weight or by measurement ton of
40 cubic feet, which really makes (he
tax lower than would appear from the
Mr. Setnmes explained that it was
not planned to prevent the use of pri
vate ships, but simply to require the
larger interests who use them to make
a fair contribution to the year-round
service for the benefit of the entire
territory. In this way, Mr. Semmes
stated the Territorial Shipping Board
would be provided with a fund which
it would be authorized to disburse on
contracts to support regular service
upon specified mutes. The purpose
is to keep the passenger ships on
regular schedule. This would elimi
nate the evils which result from send
ing the best ships into isolated places,
disregarding routes and interrupted
schedules, so that mi dependence can
he placed upon the arrival or depart
ure of a ship at even the larger ports.
Regular schedules would also mean
complanee with the post office re
quirements so the ships would get
the additional benefit of mail con
tracts.
Another saving would l>e in marine
insurance which now averages about
l,r> per cent because of the practice
of sending the best ships into the
most dangerous waters where the
b ilk of the marine losses occur. The
steamship companies now pay nearly
a million dollars in marine insurance
premiums on the ships, while the in
surance rates on freight are corre
spondingly high.
When these sayings are effected,
both the- freight and passenger rates
can be substantially lowered to all
parts of Alaska. But the situation is
very serious, for unless these evils are
corrected the steamship companies
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EVIDENCE TENDS TO SHOW THAT
WILHELM WAS BEHIND REVOLUTION
DEN EVA, March 27 (by Associated l’rcss). It has been learned
here that the former Dorman kaiser withdrew deposits amounting to
a quarter of a million dollars from a Zurich bank early iu March, and
that the money was sent to Berlin just before the Kapp revolution
broke out.
FRENCH CHAMP
IS TRAVELING IN
GRAND STYLE
NEW YORK. March 27 (by Associ
ated Press). Georges Carpentier, the
French pugilist, who arrived here re
cently with his young bride, is gaining
a reputation as a “prizefighter de
luxe." He is occupying the best six
room suite in a prominent down-town
| hotel, and brought with him thirty
five trunks, containing one hundred
silk shirts, twenty overcoats, seventy*
five suits, seventy-five pairs of shoes
and two hundred neckties.
Detroit promoters have offered Cur*
pentier $20,000 to meet Battling Le
vinsky there.
DISOBEDIENCE
OF ORDERS WAS
CAUSE OF LOSS
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WASHINGTON, March U7 (by Asso
dated Press'). Roar Admiral Fletcher,
who was on the witness stand before
the naval inquiry board yesterday,
said his orders directing escort for the
convoy which included the transport
Antilles were not obeyed by Lieutenant
Communder F. N. Freiman, command
ing the escort.
The rear admiral said ' he had no
knowledge that the convoy had put
to sea until the escort signals to the
effect that the Antilles had been sunk
were received.
The Antilles was sunk in 1917.
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POLITICAL POT
IS BOILING IN
MANY STATES
NFW YORK. March 27 (by Associ-1
lilted Press). Congressman Norman J.
Gould and former Congressman Thos.
W. Miller. Fastern campaign man
agers for General Leonard Wood, de- j
dared last night that the charges of.
Senator Borah, to the effect that Wood
was trying to dominate the Repub-j
lican national convention, were ridic
ulous.
They said they were trying to bring
Wood's character, personality and
achievements before the public.
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NEW MEXICO FOR WOOD
SANTA FW. N. M., March 27 (by As
sociated Press). New Mexico’s dels
gation to the national Republican con
vention were instructed to vote for
General Leonard Wood for President
at the state convention hen* yesterday.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS THE ISSUE
BUFFALO. N. Y.. March 27 (by As
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WANT SULTAN
TO BE REMOVED
FROM EUROPE
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NEW YORK. March L'T (by Associ
ated Press). The presiding bishop of
the council of the Protestant Episeo
pa 1 church has announced that a reso
lution signed by more than two hun
dred clergymen has been forwarded
to President Wilson asking him to ox
ercise all possible influence in remov r
ing the sultan of Turkey from Europe.
Sociated Press). Senator Johnson
opened his New York campaign with
a speech here last night declaring that
the League of Nations must be the
dominant issue in the presidential con
test.
Senator Johnson declared that the
United State,s was the only country
which received nothing out of the war
He said that Lloyd tleorge and Ulem
eneeau had “bamboozled” President
Wilson.
GERMAN CABINET HAS RESIGNED
-TROOPS GO TO RUHR DISTRICT
WEISEL SIEGE HAS BEEN RAISED
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HEltLlN. March 27 (by Associated
Press). The entire cabinet, including
Premier Hauer, has resigned. Herman
Mueller, termer foreign minister, has
been authorised to form a new cabi
net.
The resignation of Hauer and his
cabinet is said to he due to pressure
from the Labor Federation. It is be
lieved that labor will have a strong
voice in the new cabinet.
TO FIGHT THE “REDS"
A Cologne dispatch says the allies
have decided to permit Germany to
send one hundred thousand troop* to
the Ruhr district to tight the “reds.”
and that if these are insufficient to
maintain law and order, fifty thousand
British. French and Italian troops will
reinforce them.
Mueller will endeavor to reorganize
the new cabinet on the basis of the old
coalition, and will make important con
cessions to labor.
SIEGE OF WEISEL RAISED
Government troops have driven the
besieging workers from the posts,
shelled the "reds" and raised the siege
l of Weisel on the east and southeast.