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The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-04
COAL ARBITRATION
 COMMISSION NAMED

WASHINGTON, June 4.-Presi- dent Wilson today appointed a com mission of three to settle the wage controversy between the anthracite coal operators and the miners. The commissioners are: William l.. Con- nell Scranton, Pa, representing the operators; Neal J. Perry, of McAdoo, Pa, representing the miners; an't William o. Thompson, President If teh Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
 Both operators and miners pre- viously signified to the President, tehir willingness to abide by the findings of the commission.
 The commissions award is ex. pected to be made within sixty days and will be retroactive to April l. 1920.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-04
Vera Cruz Forbidden City While Epidemic Rages;
 Houses Burned

MEXICO CITY, June 4-With the bubonic plague raging fiercely ill Vera Cruz despite quarantining of all suspected cases and an abundance of physicians and nurses and medical supplies, some of them sent in by the United States Government, cordon of troops was thrown around the city to prevent the entry or departure of anyone.
 More than twenty deaths have oc- cured in three days since the plague was first reported and an nouncement was made yesterday that a third of the dwellings in the city will be burned in desperate eff fort to eradicate the scourge.
 Buildings on the municipal dock and nearby structures were fired to- day as a start toward wiping out possible centers of infection.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-04
MILLIONAIRE LAND PROMOTER
 0FSEATTLE ACCUSED OF FRAUD

SAN FRANCISCO, June 4.-Suit to recover approximately $9OO.000. alleged to have been secured from them by illegal conspiracy of three Seattle and San Francisco land pro- moters in a fictitious land deal was filed in the Superior Court here to- day by Edward Wineman and wife. an aged couple of San Luis GDispo, California. The suit followed a statement to the Grand Jury here by Kay Mckay. one of the three promoters, that Clarence D. Hillman. millionaire Seattle real estate man, D. J. Walsh and himself had swim died the couple out of the bulk Of their estate.
 Hillman was arrested and later released on $15.000 bond instead of the $50,000 bail originally set. Walsh has disappeared and Mckay is held here under bond.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-04
VETERANS HOSPITALS
 URGED BY COMMITTEE

: WASHINGTON, June 4--Construc- ton of five great hospitals, costing approximately $10,OOO.OOO, for use of war veterans, is authorized in a bill unanimously reported out by the House Building Committee late yes terday.
 One Of the proposed hospitals would be located in the Pacific Northwest and another in Southern California. The remaining three would go to the Atlantic Coast, Rocky Mountain States and Great Lakes region.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-04
Lowden Denies Improper
 Expenditures in Campaign

CHICAGO, June 4.-Gov. Frank o. Lowden today issued a statement de- nying on behalf of l.. l.. Emerson, Secretary of State of Illinois and Lowden's campaign manager, and himself, any illegitemate expenditures in connection with the pre-conven. tion Presidential campaign.
 Emerson. testifying last week be- fore the Senate committee investi- gating campaign expenses, admitted that the Lowden organization had I;pended $4O4,964 and that $379.OO0 of this amount was contributed by the governor personally.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-04
LEAGUE RESULTS UP
 TO WORLDS PEOPLES

TOPEKA, Kans., June 4. - Non Partisan League speakers today re- ported to the Attorney General that they had been 'egged' from several towns in Western Kansas and re- fused permission to hold scheduled meetings The matter was referred to local peace officers for investi- gation.
 ABERDEEN, Wash, June 4.-Con- servative members of the Washing ton State Grange repudiated recom- mendations for utilization with the Partisan League, Triple Al liance or any other political organ zation after a bitter fight yester- day.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-04
Prohibition Party Will
 Quit If Dry Planks Rule

CHICAGO, June 4-Virgil J. Hin shaw, Chairman of the Prohibition National Committee, who has an nounced his intention of obtaining from each Republican Presidential candidate a statement regarding his stand on the prohibition question, today said the Prohibition party probably would cease to exist if both parties come out strongly for the Eighteenth Amendment but ttat the Prohibitionists would fight to finish if either party nominates a wet candidate.
 Hinshaw declared Maj. Gen. Wood told him that prohibition did more for the army than any other one thing but that the General seemed in- clined to leave determination of the question to the platform cosrLlittee.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-04
Doubles New Roadwork
 To Be Done, Says A. R. (.

"That is the most welcome and best news I have heard since the signing of the Armistice," exclaimed Col. J. c. Gotwals, Chairman of the Al aska Road Commission, when shown the dispatch regarding the army appropriation bill and the item of $350.000 for road building in Alaska during the present fiscal year. While we would like to have had the full amount called for by Oar estimates, the sum appropriated is much greater than the $150.G00 or iginally granted by the House of Representatives that we are highly gratified with the success of the efforts made in our behalf"
 You may state." declared Col. Gotwals, that the sum made avail. able through this act assures the opening of the Valdez end of the Richardson Highway during the pres ent summer. That has been deter. mined on. A reconnaissance of the approach to the Kantishna district for the purpose of building a road opening up that country at an early date is likewise assured.
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The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-04
POLES IN FULL FLIGHT BEFORE SOVIET LECI0NS Brusiloff's Forces Win Great Victory After Fierce
 Fighting KIEV BELIEVED TAKEN
KIEV BELIEVED TAKEN
Ukrainian Capital Center of Desperate Struggle, Con-
 stantinople Says

coNsTANTINoPLE, June 1.-The Polish army in southwestern Russia is In full flight before the Russian BoIsheviki forces, according to dis patches received here today from the front.
 After weeks of desperate fighting along a front 200 miles long, stretch ing from the Dvina River on the north to the Pripet on the south, the Pollsh-Ukranian .;ne buckIed under the furious onslaughts of Gen. Brusiioff's Iegions, the advices stated, and general retreat, which soon turned into a rout, was ordered.
 Kiev, capital of the Ukranian re- public, which was captured by the Poles early in May, Is believed to have changed hands again the main battle lines in the present engage ment being located only few miles east.
 Details of the past two days fight ing have been lacking but the char acter and extent of the battle makes certain that casualties have been enormous. Each of the contending armies were plentifully supplied with heavy artillery and machine guns and it is assumed here that many guns and huge stores of munitions were captured by the Bolsheviki when the Poles took flight
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-04
OF WAR
 LEGISLATION IS
 VOTED BY HOUSE
Trading With Enemy and Lever Acts Are Excepted
 From Measure Adopted
LAST MINUTE RUSH IS ON
With Adjournment Scheduled Tomorrow, Many Bills
 damned Through

WASHINGTON, June 4. - The Senate Judiciary Committee toda, reported without amendment thu House joint resolution for repeal O. all wartime legislation except tht Trading with the Enemy Act, ant Lever Act, under which the Govern ment's action to check profiteerine and stoppage of essential industries have been brought.
 The resolution was adopted in the House late yesterday by a vote oi 323 to 3. Action by the Senate is expected today or tomorrow.
 Sixty laws comforting broad dis criminatory powers on the Presi- dent are included among those re moved from the Federal statutes if the resolution becomes law.
 Adjournment Tomorrow
 With adjournment slated for to- morrow last minute rush to trans act necessary btrsiiiess developed to- day in both branches of Congress In the House Speaker Frederick H. Gillett refused to grant the floor to any member for the purpose of call ing up the resolution expressing sympathy with Ireland because of the brief time at the disposal of the House. The resolution was fa- vorably reported by the House For eign Affairs Committee last month.
 The House passed without record vote Senator Oscar w. Underwood s resolution requesting the President to appoint a commission to confer with the Canadian government re- garding cancellation of restrictive orders on exportation of pulp wood, newsprint and other paper from Canada to the United States. The proposed commission would report before December.
 Veterans Given Pension
 The House also accepted the con ference report on a bill giving vet erans of the Spanish War who are suffering from disabilities not resulting from war service pen sions of from SIP to $30 month.
 The senate today adopted the con- ference report on the merchant mar inc bill and sent it to the House. The House yesterday returned the bill to conference, Speaker Gillette ruling that the conference had ex- ceeded their authority in making cer- tain changes.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-04
Allen To Offer Plank On
 Industrial Settlements

CHICAGO, June 4.-Gov. Henry J. Allen of Kansas, who will nominate Maj. Gen. Wood for President before the Republican National Convention next week, today announced that he will offer a plank in the party platform declaring for judicial set clement of industrial disputes as paramount issue.
 The American Federation of Labor has announced that it will send rep resentatives to the convention to present the views of organized labor
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-04
Latest Bulletins
 BySbecial Gable

~ M -tb -
 VERSAILLES, tune 4.-Represen- tatives of Great Britain, France, Italy and Hungary today affixed their signatures to the Allies peace treaty with Hungary. The ceremony took place in the Peace Palace at Versailles.
 SEATTLE, June 4.-Edward Bour- dell, one of the fourteen defendants on trial charged with conspirins to steal merchandise from railway box cars, shot and killed himself today after entering a plea of guilty.
 WASHINGTON, June 4.-Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia today in- troduced a bill in the Senate to reduce the Presidents salary from $75,ooo to $5o,ooo per annum and to limit service to one term of six years duration.
 BATON ROUGE, La, June 4.-The Senate Judiciary committee of the kouisiana Legislature today reported out bill to ratify the woman suf- fage amendment.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-04
WOMEN'S MINIMUM
 WAGE FIXED AT $16

SAN FRANCISCO, June "A min imum wage of sixteen dollars per week and board for all women em- ployed in agricultural occupations, such as fruit and berry picking was set today by the California Industrial Welfare Commission.
 The commission also announced that an eight hour day had been ordered with twenty five per cent extra pay for overtime and Sunday work
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-04
U. s. TIMBER NEARLY
 GONE, SAYS MEREDITH

WASHINGTON, June 4. Three ffths of the nations timber has been exhausted and present consumption is four times greater than growth. Edwin T. Meredith, Secretary Of Agriculture. told the Senate yester- day.
 The Secretary said the high price of timber and of newsprint was due largely to decimation of eastern for ests.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-04
New Mexico Democrats
 Oppose "Wet" Platform

ROSWELL, N. M., June 4.-The New Mexico State Democratic Con vention today elected six delegates to the Democratic National Convention at San Francisco, opening June 28 They will go uninstructed.
 The convention passed resolutions indorsing the administration of Pres ident Wilson and opposing incorpora- tion of a wet" plank in the Demo cratic platform.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-04
BURNING OF BRITISH
 FLAG INVESTIGATED

WASHINGTON. June f. - The State Department today asked the District of Columbia Commissioners for a statement of the facts regard ing the burning of the British flag Wednesday afternoon in front of the Treasury Building by women sym pathizers with the cause if Irish freedom.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-04
NOMINATION OPEN RACE
Leading Camhdates Begin Final Dy1ve
 For Delegates

CHICAGO June 4Canddates for the Republican President today opened their final drive the 493 spell victory the National Convention opening here Tuesday
 MajorGeneral Leonard Wood show will the Convention with instructed delegates than other candidate his total necessary win the nomination
 Senator Hiram Johnson of California cowdng him closely with 112 delegates pledged his candidacy while Gov Frank O. Low len of Illinois is third 89 instructed delegates
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-04
U. s. WILL TAKE PART
 IN KRASSIN CONFAB

WASHINGTON. June 4. The United States will be unofficially represented at the forthcoming con ference in London between Gregory Krassin, Russian Bolsheviki Minister of Trade and Commerce, and repre- sentatives of the Supreme Economic Council, officials here stated today.
 LONDON, June 4.-Following meeting between Gregory Krassin. Bolsheviki Minister of Trade and Commerce, Premier David Lloyd George and members of the British Cabinet, the Russian Soviet Govern ment has been given permission to open a central trading office in London, according to the Evening Standard.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-04

BAKER CITY. Ores Junes4 = Three persons were severely burned and damage. estimated at more than s100 900, caused by fire which ragged several hours in Half way. a small town near here. late yesterday.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-04
LAB0RERS COMING NORTH

SAN FRANCISCO. June 4 - Tie transport South Bend will leave here June Is for Seward, Alaska. with 100 laborers who will work on the Government railroad now under con- struction from Seward to Anchor age. sa.s,t -4F
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-04


 dates with delegates pledged to sup port them until released include:
 Senator WarrenG. Harding, Ohio, 39;
 Gov William G. Sproule, Penn sylvania 76;
 Senator Niles Poindexter, Wash ington, IA;
 Senator Howard Sutherland, West Virginia, 16;
 Judge J. c. Pritchard, North Car olina, 22
 422 Delegates Uninstructed
 Four hundred and twenty-two delegates are uninstructed and sew enty-seven are involved in contests which have not been decided yet by the National Committee. It is prin- cipally among these that the sue cessful candidate must find his sup port.
 Lowden gained twenty-three votes today when the committee seated the Mulvihill faction of eleven from Mississippi and the Tolbert regulars of South Carolina (twelve.l This marked the first important defeat for Wood, contests previously decided by the committee having gone in his favor
 The committee split in its decis- ion on the Florida contest, seating the delegates at large of both fac tions, each with half a vote. Half of hA 1aIa Nnnd and the other for Johnson.
 The Florida district delegate con- test was abandoned and the regulars were seated.
 "Favorite Sons" Too Strong
 The decision of strength among the large field of "favorite sons" practically precludes any possibility of nomination on the first ballot, Even the most optimistic campaign managers here are not claiming the more conservative party leaders victory before the third ballot and predict the break will not come be- fore the fifth or sixth at the ear Hest.
 Campaign managers here of the three leading candidates, all claim victory in statements issued Friday The Wood and Johnson camps make definite predictions as to their first ballot vote, the supporters of the General claiming 385 votes and those of the Senator 236 The Low den forces, while protesting their confidence, are not prepared to quote exact figures.
 Leonard Wood" says a state ment from his headquarters, has so increased his votes in the last week that a first ballot prediction of 385 votes was made today at Wood headquarters here. This is more than the combined instructed vote of all other candidates. On the first ballot, he will be big leader and this total will increase steadily until nomination is assured"
 Johnson's Son Is Confident
 The Johnson headquarters which are now in charge of Hiram John son, Jr., the Senator's son. an- nounced with equal positiveness that:
 Senator Hiram w. Johnson all ready has 236 pledged delegates who will vote for him on the first ballot and will stick with him to the last ditch. His vote on the first ballot will be equal if not greater than that of any other candidate and by the fifth or sixth ballot he will be nominated"
 We are going to win," said the statement from the Lowden camp. We have had no time to sum up and figures therefore are unavail- able. but we are going to win and the situation looks even better than it did last week"
 Senator Johnson arrived here to- day and was given a noisy welcome. Thousands crowded the streets. way ing flags and cheering as the can didate and large committee. which had met him at the station. paraded through Michigan Avenue and tho
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-04

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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-15
POINTED OUT BRIGHT SIDE
optimist's Brave Effort to Convince
Afflicted Man That the Cloud Had
Silver Lining.

Mr.. Juergins had been suddenly af-
ficted with a stiff neck. Not only
was it painful stiffness, but it
caused him to twist his head around
until he seemed to be trying to look be-
hind him over his left shoulder, and
his head was rigid in that pose.
"Of all the COMPOUNDED trials a man
was ever subjected to-" he said, this
is the limit. They say to look on
the bright side of our Affections, but
I'd like to know how I could make use
of this stiff neck"
my dear friend" said the optimist,
think what Il golden opportunity this
is to sit for your picture without hav-
ing to allow the photographer to twist
your head around that way and jab
those ice-cold tongs into the back of
your neck!''
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-15

public anxiety for Garfield
Il through his long battle with
death was deepened by a general dread
OF the vice presidents succeeding to
the presidency. The people as = whole
knew nothing Of Chester Alan Arthur,
except thar he had been only lately
removed from the collectorship of the
port of New York as a machine pol
itician, and that he had been nomi-
mated for the vice presidency as a
henchman of Roscoe Conkling.
After Arthur had been sitting in the
vice presidents chair only a little
more than two weeks, he opened a big
White House envelope one day and
flushed as he glanced at the unexpect-
ed cOntents-the nomination of hated
"Half-Breed' to the coIlectOrship of
the port of New York. With an ex-
cited gesture, he summoned Senators
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-15

COnkling and Platt, and the three
the challenge to them from the new
administration. When the New York
senators resigned thir seats and ap-
pealed to the legislature of their stare
to re-elect them as a protest against
the administration the spectacle of
the vice president descending to that
melee lent color to the already I'M
favorable impression of him in the
public mind.
When in the midst of the fight and
a losing fight, Garfield was shot, the
American people revolted at the
thought that Arthur and the "StaI-
warts" should profit by the assassina-
ton. The public mind revolted also
at the prospect of political boss en-
throned in the White House. with his
motley following about him.
That popular picture of Arthur, as
a city politician out of the pages Of
Puck, was distorted and untrue, simply
because the background was omitted
from it, The real, the native character
of the man had been shaped il sur
roundings very different from those in
which the country found him when he
first came under its attention. Born
in Vermont to a Baptist minister, Il
man Of education and high principles.
who had come over from Ireland and
who soon afterwerd settled in New
York state, Arthur had grown up in
village parsonages, where the living
was plain and the thinking high.
When the great test came and he
stood silently for three months in the
shadow of the high Office. Arthur found
himself, and he left petty politics and
factions behind him as he entered the
White House. The public was incred-
uIous at first, but was convinced at
last that he honestly meant to be pres
fdent of all the people.
Some of his old associates in ma
chine politics were as astonished at
the change that had come over their
"Chet" as Falstaff and his cronies
were when Prince Hal became King
Henry V. Not that the new president
coldly repealed the claims of friend
ship. He simply put first his obliga-
tions TO the whole country, though it
cost him dear in the regard of men
like Grant and Conkling, who set him
down as an migrate.
"Why, general, if you were still
president of the New York County
committee, you would be
here right now asking for this very
rning.n protested the head of that or
ganization.
"As president of the New York
County Republican committee" Ar
thur frankly admitted with smile, i
certainly would; but since came here
j have learned that Chester A. Ar
thur Is one man and the president OF
The United States is another.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-15
WHAT THE TEACHER THOUGHT
Comment That Took Whole Lot Of
Conceit Out of One Small Boys
Daddy.

THE world is full of fault finders"
remarked Professor Pritchard at din"
ner recently, land one of the most
common targets is the modern educa-
tiOnal system. No more common e1-
preston than, We'll, they used to real
ly teach US something when went to
school,
Il have a friend like that, but the
other day he told me he was through.
1t came about in this way. He used
to help his little son with his homo.
studies. One evening, as they were
about to begin, he asked the little chap.
what his teacher said regarding his,
home work.
"'She says Tn getting stupider eV-
cry day replied the lad, and from
then on he had to do his home lessons.
alone"