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The Cordova Daily Times
VOL. ^ 89. _CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1921 PRICE TEN CENTS
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Trade Relations Established
Between English and Russ
Thru Agreement Reached
LONDON, March 17 (by Associated
Press).—The British and Russian
trade agreement, restoring the trade
relations between the two countries,
was signed by representatives of both
countries yesterday.
The agreement provides that each
party refrain from hostile acts or
propaganda outside its borders
against the other’s institutions or giv
ing assistance or encouragement to
■any propaganda outside its borders.
The Soviet government agrees par
ticularly to refrain from encouraging
Asiatics against British interests.
A renewal of telegraphic and postal
facilities are provided and blockades
are prohibited.
REQUEST DANCER TO TAKE
CHARGE OF REVOLUTION
NEW YORK, March 17 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Ivan Nojnarody, Rus
sian dance master and author, has
been invited to go immediately to
Kronstadt and take charge of the anti
Belsheviki rebellion. He was leader
of the Kronstadt rebellion against the
czar in 1905, later escaping to the
United States with Maxim Gorky.
FIFTY THOUSAND MEAN
DEFENDING KRONSTADT
COPENHAGEN, March 17 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A Helsingfors dis
patch quoting an American Red Cross
worker says 50,000 men are gathered
at Kranstandt and the number is in
creasing daily. The dispatch says the
fortress is receiving necessary provi
sions and has a ten years’ supply of
^ ammunition.
BOLSHEVIKI INVADERS
3WEPT FROM ARMENIA
NEW YORK, March 17 (by Associ
ated Press).—Armenia has been vir
teally cleared of Bolsheviki invaders
and a new coalition government sit
ting at Erivan has control of a wide
area of country, according to mes
sages from the Constantinople head
quarters of the Near East relief.
TROTZKY SAYS REPORTS OF
UPRISING ARE SILLY
LONDON, March 17 (by Associated
Press).—Leon Trotzky, in an inter
view at Moscow, is said to have called
“all talk of an uprising at Petrograd
and the bombardment of the town, is
silly fiction.”
BLUE SKY LAW IS
VETOED BY GOV. HART
OLYMPIA, Wash., March 17 (hy
Associated Press). — Governor Hart
tdday vetoed the blue sky law bill for
the regulation and sale of securities
in the state.
PLANMEMORIAL
I HONOR OF
EX PRESIDENT
NEW YORK, March 17 (by Asso
ciated Press). — A movement was
launched last night to establish a
perpetual memorial in honor of Wood
row Wilson. After listening to an
eulogy by John Drinkwater, the Eng
lish poet, to 500 men and women, a
temporary committee was appoint
ed to formulate details with Frank
lin Roosevelt as chairman and Henry
Morgantheau as treasurer. It is pro
posed to railse a half million dollars,
the proceeds of which are to be
awarded yearly to the person who
made the greatest contribution to
International amity.
CANNOT PARTICIPATE
AVIATION DAY PARADE
l
BOSTON, March 17 (by Associated
] Press).—Secretary of the Navy Denby
and Secretary of War Weeks have
both sustained the action of army of
ficers in refusing to permit members
of the regulars and reserves to march
in uniform in an aviation day parade
because societies of Irish sympathiz
ers are to participate in the parade.
LEADERS TONG WARS
ARRESTED IN FRISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, March 17 (by
Associated Prss).—Seven leaders of
the Sing tong and Bing tong have
been indicted as a measure to pre
vent tong wars. The arrested China
men may be deported.
ELECTION BILL
IS PASSED BY
LEGISLATURE
JUNEAU, March 17.—(Special to
the Daily Times).—The senate passed
the special election bill as amended
and the house concurred in the amend
ments yesterday. The bill was sent
to the governor and it is expected
that he will sign it and hat an elec
tion will be called at once in the Sec
ond division to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Representative Bur
roughs. T. M. Reed, J. A. Daly and
Victor A. Julian are possible candi
dates. Julien is now in Seattle.
Hunt introduced a resolution recom
mending the appointment of a joint
legislative committee of two senators
and three representatives to inspect
the Pioneers’ Home at Sitka, asking
that the forestry service furnish a
boat for the trip.
In the house, Getchell presented a
memorial favoring a soldiers’ land
bonus, asking that congress enact leg
islation to enable the territory to be
stow title in fee simple to 160 acres
of land to ex-service men.
The Frame memorial seeking the
creation of a land district in south
western Alaska passed the house.
WORKS ON WOODPILE
TO STUDY CONDITIONS
BOSTON, March 17 (by Associated
Press).—‘Mayor Andrew J. Peters, dis
guised himself and slept at the Way
fare Lodge for unemployed last night
to learn conditions at first hand. The
mayor slept with forty unfortunates
on a municipal bed and was routed
out at five this morning to the wood
pile to earn his breakfast.
FLOODS DO DAMAGE
AT WALLA WALLA
WALLA WALLA, March 17 (by
Associated Press).—Floods are doing
great damage following the heaviest
rains of the seasons, and many farm
ers will be forced to replace their
crop on the account of washouts. The
militia has been called out to guard
the danger points.
ALL TESTIMONY
ARDMORE, Okla., March 17 (by As
sociated Press).—The introduction of
testimony in the trial of Clara Hamon,
c harged with the murder of Trite Hn
mon, was completed yesterday, and
arguments were begun in the after
noon.
The defense waived its right to ar
gument and asked that the case be
submitted to the jury. The court
would not order a ruling because of
the absence of the attorney general.
COAL SHORTAGE
AS RESULT OF
HRS’STRIKE
SEATTLE, March 17 (by Associat
ed Press).—Ninety per cent of the
production of commercial coal in
Washington has ceased as a result
of the miners’ refusal to accept wage
reduction. It is expected Seattle,
Tacoma and Spokane will feel a
I shortage, but not seriously as Brit
ish Columbia and other outside coal
will be available. The operators have
declared the present cost of opera
tion of the mines prohibits a continu
ation under the present wage scale.
Meat Packers Strike May
Be Averted by Conference
CHICAGO, March 17 (hy Associated
Press).—Representatives of unions in
ten national packing plants have
pledged support to the meat butters
and butchers in caBe of a strike. In
dications today are that none of the
organizations will strike until after a
conference next Monday at Washing
ton between representatives of the
packers and their employes with Sec
retary of Labor Davis. It was decided
not to resort to legal proceedings at
present and no injunctions will be
sought until after the conference in
Washington.
VOTE FOR WALKOUT
ALMOST UNANMIOUS
KANSAS CITY, March 17 (by As
j sociated Press).—Officials of packing
j house unions said today that the vote
I
by the unions was almost unanimous
ly in favor of a walkout in the three
big plants here rather than accept a
10-hour day.
CUDAHY EMPLOYES
ACCEPT REDUCTION
MILWAUKEE, March 17 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The Cudahy Packing
Company announced today that its
employes had voluntarily accepted a
15 per cent wage cut, with a continua
tion of the present eight-hour day.
DENVER EMPLOYES VOTE
TO STRIKE AS PROTEST
DENVER, March 17 (by Associated
Press).—Employes of packing houses
here voted, 551 to 18, to strike as a
protest against wage reductions rang
ing from 8 to 12 1-2 per cent.
TO SCHOONERS
DAMAGED EY
FIRE AT SEA
SAN FRANCISCO, March 17 (by
Associated Press). The codfishing
schooners City of Papeete and City of
Gleendale, owned by the Alaska Cod
fish Company, were damaged by fire,
and a third ship, the City of Bangor,
is still burning, at Redwood slough,
near here, with a heavy loss. The
cause of the fires is unknown.
The company recently had a contro
versy with its fishermen and was con
ducting an investigation into the
cause of their strike.
There is strong evidence of incen
diarism, as a quantity of bedding
soaked in gasoline was found on one
of the ships.
CHESS CHAMPIONS
PLAY A TIE GAME
HAVANA, Cuba, March 17 (by As
sociated Press).—Jose R. Capablancy
of Cuba, and Dr. Emmanuel Laske,
played a tie game after fifty moves
in the first game of the world chess
championship.
SUSPENDED PAPERS
RESUME PUBLICATION
BINGHAMTON. March 17 (by As
sociated Press). — All newspapers
which suspended publication eight
days ago because of the strike of
union printers have resumed on the
open shop basis.
IN TROUBLE
SAN FRANCISCO. March 17 (by
Associated Press). — Authorities here
have been advised that a warrant is
en rcutte from Tacoma for the arrest
of Jafet Lindeberg in connection with
the financial troubles of the defunct
Scandinavian-American bank at Taco
ma. According to Lindeberg’s attor
neys, he was indicted in connection
with allegations that while he was a
director, the bank loaned amounts in
excess of the legal amount. He de
nied all the charges.
DITCH STOCG HOLDERS BRING
SUIT AGAINST LINDEBERG
SAN FRANCISCO, March 17 (by
Associated Press). — Stockholders of
the Pioneer Ditch Company in San
Francisco have filed suits against
Jafet Lindeberg seeking to recover
the Seward Peninsula railroad, valued
at $10,100, which it is alleged he
bought for the company and refused
to turn over, and for $100,000 which
the company advanced him when he
was president of the company.
ASSASSINA’ PASHA
ACCOUNT OLD GRUDGE
♦
BERLIN, March 17 (by Associated
Press).—Salamon Teiliran, the Arme
nian who assassinated Talaat Pasha,
former grand vizier and minister to
France from Turkey, said he sought
vengeance because of Talaat’s perse
cution of the Armenians and for the
murder of Teiliran’s parents.
Katalla and Yakataga
Oil Fields to Be Developed
By a California Syndicate
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ADMIRAL WATSON IS
ON WAY TO CORDOVA
SEATTLE, March 17 (by Associated
Press).—The steamer Watson sailed
for Cordova and way ports at 10
o'clock yesterday morning, carrying
162 passenger. The following passen
gers were booked for Cordova: M. O.
Love, R. Robertson, T. Thompson,
J. Johnson, P. A. Walden, N. Hawk
inson, Harry Nelson and wife, Miss
May Holm and eight steerage.
HARVEY APPOINTMENT
APPROVED BY BRITISH
LONDON, March 17 (by Associated
Press).—The British government has
formally approvel the appointment
of Colonel Harvey, American ambas
sador to England.
MAIL ROUTES
ARE SOON TO
BE CHANGED
SEATTLE, March 17 (by Associat
ed Press). — The postal authorities
have announced new mail routes in
Alaska, the changes being contingent
on the seasonal conditions and the
opening of navigation in rivers and
the Bering sea. Mails for Fair
banks and other points on the Yukon
district will be sent via Seward over
the government railroad for distribu
tion until April 1, after which only
first class mail and newspapers will
be sect to those points. Other
classes of mail will be held in Seat
tle until May 5, when all mail will
be routed via Sltagway and down the
Yukon immediately after the ice
ice breaks. The officials have stated
that only half of the usual amount of
mail will be held here, as the aver
age has been 25,000 pounds, but this
year it will only be 12,000 pounds
due to increased mail facilities. The
mail for Bethel and Kuskokwim river
points will go via Fairbanks and the
Yukon and will be dispatched by di
rect steamer from Seattle to Skagway
after May 15, while the mail for
Nome, St. Michael and Seward pen
insula points will leave Seattle by
boat about May 10.
SLEEPING SICKNESS
MICROBE AT STOCKHOLM
STOCKHOLM, March 17 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Dr. Kling of the state
gacteriological laboratory, has an
nounced the discovery of a sleeping
sickness microbe and has established
the fact that the decease is infec
tious.
DISORDERS IN CHICAGO
OVER IRISH QUESTION
CHICAGO, March 17 (by Associat
ed Press).—The police reserve was
called out to quiet disorders during
a speech by Sir Phillip Gibbs an
English author and war corresponde
ent, on the Irish question Sinn Fein
sympathizers heckled and leered him.
The Alaska Consolidated Oil Fields
Company, a California corporation
composed of Barth Thane and asso
ciates, have arranged a deal whereby
they will operate sixteen claims in
the Katalla and Yakataga fields this
summer, the negotiations having been
made in. San Francisco by Attorney
F. H. Foster, on behalf of the Cor
dova owners of this property.
The claims are to be worked on a
royalty basis on production work.
Three wells are to be drilled at Yaka
taga within three months. This
means big development work in the
fields adjacent to Cordova, this year,
as the syndicate has plenty of money.
The Cordova owners of the property
which is to be worked are Jack Dus
tin, J. E. Currier, J. B. Carlyle ami
wife, Link Wain, Chas. Ross, Jos.
Ibach, Edward Tuerk, George Wolfe,
Ben Watson, Chas, Auer and Elmer
Games.
MEMORIAL IN LEGISLATURE
FOR AID FROM CONGRESS
JUNEAU, March 17.—(Special to
the Daily Times).—Senator E. E.
Chamberlain of Seward yesterday In
troduced a joint memorial in the sen
ate urging congress to appropriate
money for drilling such test wells in
Alaska oil districts as may be recom
mended by the geological survey.
BONAR LAW GIVES UP
PLACE IN CABINET
LONDON, March 17 (by Associated
Press).—Andrew Bonar Law, lord of
the privy seal, has resigned his seat
in the cabinet giving ill health as
the cause and has also resigned gov
ernment leadership in the house of
commons.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC TO
MAKE BIG WAGE CUT
PHOUNIX, Ariz., March 17 (by As
sociated Press).—The Southern Paci
fic has posted a notice of reduction of
wages of employes effective April 16,
with a minimum wage of 30 cents an
hour.
ALFONSO ELECTED
PRESIDENT OF CUBA
HAVANA, March 17 (by Associated
Press).—Dr. Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso,
former vice president and candidate
of the conservative popular coalition
party, made a clean sweep for the
presidency at Tuesday’s election.
GERMANY CAN
NOT HOLD OUT
PARIS, March 17 -(by Associated
Press).—Premier Briand told the
chamber of deputies yesterday that If
the allies remain firm and united, the
Germans will break, as they have as
tonishing resources. “Germany has
been vanquished, but unfortunately
this is not sufficiently apparent to the
German people,” the premier said.
GERMANY MUST MAKE
BIG PAYMENT IN GOLD
PARIS, March 17 . (by Associated
Press).—The allied reparations com
mittee has notified Germany that it
must pay one billion gold marks by
March 23.