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ErUz RE5zlzES',li7l li7ll ,f
 E. N E:'''' '

you served in the Army, Navy or the Marine Corps of the United States during the period between April 1917 and November IT, 19lS both dates inclusive you o( it to yourself and your friends to join the American Legion.
 The chapter of Isaac Evans Post No: ,, Department of Alaska Seward will be held open until frday niSn Feb, 9th. 1920.
 By joining on or before Friday night you become charter member.
 The American Legion is nonpotical and 100 per cent American.
 Applications for membership will be received at the Cable office by w. O. Perry J. O. Sherlock, and at the Seward Drug Company, by Otto Poehlmann 4*++*+*******
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SQUAT FAT WINDNILLS
 OF HOLLAND ABANDONED:
 ELECTRICITY TAKING PLACE

AMSTERDAM, Fcb., 5-- Holland is slowly but surely losing the onc characteristic of its landscape ma '" famous in art and known to every ssAoolboy -- the squat fat lHz.' looking windnills that for centuries have stood out all over the countrY'& flat surface.
 These quaint structures are gradT- ally giving way to highly practical but ugly steam and electric plants. Dutch technical men say the windmill is doomed.
 Now and then, a large group oi them is replaced by one electric plan and. in the course of each year, a number are destroyed by fire 2r' .. sonting a spectacular blaze with the big burning wings wheeling around like fiery arms. They are never re- constructed.
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SEWARD SNAPSHOTS.

Steamer Alaska arrived at Co.doyl at midnight aud was billed to sail from Cordoya tor Seward at noon Co. day. The Alaska could arrive in Scw. ard tomorrow afte. noon.
 Howard l.. Long is iu from out the line and registered ay the Hotel So%. ard
 Campaign plans for tho Roosevelt memorial drive will be perfected tu- day. The two lady solicitors, Nis~'. Jane McNa'ly and Emily Borgcu, aa' Copt. Mooney and Tom Hainrs w'i probably have the down town section. It is possible that the Boy Scouts will have that section north of the Giac.rr stream and east of Fifth avenue.
 The boys of the cable office have received word that the Senate ha- passed the house bin giving officers of the army ten per cent increase in wages and noncomS an increase Of 20 per cent. Privates received their in crease of 100 per cent at the start Q! the war.
 They need coal at Anchorage u"- doubtedly, because men arc cra,inr the large lump of coal which An '"
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Ice Creepers and Skates Gracfs
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Fishermen's Supplies at Graefs,
FLASH LIGHTS and batteries at J. l.. Grsefs.

Christiausen gave to Seward several years ago, ana winch haS been n l?c exhibition room m the cOmm,ss on building. The lump Is gong Co be @en. pack to Anchorage where 1t will un. doubtcd.y be broken up and gInges~ sold, because coal is short at Anchor age. pobably as 1t IS in Seward.
 The Womans club of Seward wli meet tomorrow afternoon with Ms. Sloan at her residence on Third Ave.
 The Gateway City limited left An ,hotage on time th.S morning w.ta 21 passengers bound for Seward. Tn. train is expected to arrive late h,S afternoon or early evening. Many of the passengers will go outside on the Alaska on business or pleasure trips.
 Mrs. Charles F. Davidson, wife ot tho fo mcr secretary of Alaska, haS disposed of her property at Juneau ana gone to san Diego to make h1 future home.
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OPENS THE KEY
 AT MILE 52

Claude MathiSou Is branching ou,. The key nas opened a branch l, Mile 52, the branch k m charga O., none other than the popular Ii. L.. Lein. rmIroadcr and tuc man wh, spu.s tuc home p.~tn ws,l tbr sAu ball none have seemed able to hit. "The Key" at Mile 52 will carry soj drinks. cigars and tobacco and "on- cral outfitting supplies.
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MANY WOMEN USE
 GLYCERINE MIXTURE

Seward women will be surprised at the INSTANT pleasant action of simple glycerine, buckthorn bark, etc, as mixed in Adler-i-ka. One spoon ful relieves ANY CASE gas on stom- ach or sour stomach. Because Adler-i- ka acts on BOTH upper and lower bowel it often cures constipation and prevents appendicitis. One lady re- ports herself CURED of bad case of bowel trouble and constipation.
 SEWARD DRUG co.
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The existing type of Dutch win l. mill, of course, is it's absolute dep2uo- ence on weather cnditonS. For tAiN reason, they are being replaced, when possible, by modern machinery.
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WEATHER REPORT

The following is the weather Irpo' for the 2l hours ending M ' O'clo'l this morning.
 SEWARD 36 Cloudy Calm. SulivanS 12 showing Calm. lIurrican 20 showing Calm. DcadhorSc 30 Snowing Calm. Wasilla 30 showing Calm. Takeetna 34 showing Calm. Noosccrccl; 2S Cloudy Calm. MatanusIia 20 Cloudy Calm. Anchorage 2I showing South.
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BANDS OF KIDNAPPERS
 ARE STEALING CHINESE

TENCHOWFU, Shantung, Feb, 5 - Bands of kidnappels recently have caused much alalm in this district. Operating in groups of from 30 to 90 they have carried away and held fer ransom wealthy Chinese for whose release they have obtained as mu'n as S5OOOO in some cases.
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U. S. Marshal and Mrs. F. R. Bren ncman are rejoicing over the arr'vaI of a bouncing baby girl, born at Valdez. This is the third daughter to grace the home of Mir. and Mrs. Brenneman.
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Will Help lou Build

C.rC,-rlrts Catalogue to5,.- 5',me buuier no' ooN ti.r, ycu p-cry irors. windows hulsu' 'nn' hafd- ,-. apt p,iu b., iut1,,cs you ideas. coVy Josi' ,rcr Rodc c'sg lN AZ. S, Scauls, br'Jeg Mil'- work sash anJ DJor."
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-24
CUMMINGS MAY
Be ALLOWED TO
PRESIDE TO END
Senator Glass and Boss
Murphy, of Tammany,
Reach Frisco

SAN FRANCISCO, June 24-Pre-
liminaries to the Democratic conven-
vention got into the inevitable period
of hurry and scramble today with the
appearance of one after another of
the men who will play leading parts
in the big drama.
Two newly arrived figures who at
tracted particular attention were
Senator Glass, fresh from Washing
ton and generally supposed to have
brought President Wilson's own draft
of the platform, and Charles N. Muir
ply, Tammany leader, direct from
the widely-heralded conference of old
line strategists at French Lick, Ind,
Both were busy in conferences, but
both were silent respecting policies.
Final preparations at the conven-
tion hall were completed today with
the perfection of the elect ii. mega
phone system.
The suggestion that National
Chairman Cummings, who will be
temporary chairman, be continued as
permanent presiding officer was put
forward today as means of short
ening the convention proceedings by
dispensing with the formalities of
a second convention organization,
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COX NOT NEARLY
SO WET AS PAINTED

DAYTON, o., June 24.-It can be
stated on high authority that if Gov.
Cox of Ohio and his managers have
their way there will be no mention
of prohibition in the Democratic
platform. They hold that if mention
of the liberalization of the Volstead
act were left out the governor would
still be able to swing the bulk of the
wet vote on his Ohio reputation and
at the same time draw to him num-
erous non-militant prohibitionists to
whom an appeal could be made on the
basis of his law and enforcement
record.
The governor personally takes the
stand that it would be his duty to
enforce the law however he may find
it, and that if the people as a whole
really desire liberalization of the pro-
hibition law they would so express
themselves in the election of a wet
congress, thus carrying their mandate
to the executive.
Inquiry into Cox's record would
indicate that he is not nearly as wet
as he is made out to be by the Anti
Saloon League and the Republicans.
When he came into Office he found
a Sunday closing law which, with the
help of new license measure. he en-
forced. Even his enemies concede
this. His whole idea, as he has ex-
pressed himself recently has been to
give the people what they want.
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GEORGIA NEGRO
c. 0. p. CHOICE
FOR GOVERNOR

FORREST CITY, Ark, June %.
Il -(By Associated Press)-J.
H. Blount, who is the first negro
to be nominated for governor of
Arkansas, received his nomination
at the hands of a faction Of the
Republican party in this state.
Blount is about so years old and
has made his home in this city for
the past At years.
The nominee was born in Jones
county Georgia, and received his
elementary training in the schools
of Atlanta and higher education
in Nashville and Chicago. He is at
present principal of the negro
schools of Helena and has been
connected with schools in several
Arkansas towns, including Hot
Springs, Texarkana and Forrest
City.
Blount is said to be in independ-
ent financial circumstances, own
ing over 600 acres of farm land
and to teach mere ly for the love
of the work. He is active in many
fraternal orders.
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Democrats Outline Planks;
Seek Solution Of Dry Issue
League Endorsed and Irish Given Pledge of Presen-
tation of Cause To World
Tribunal

SAN FRANCISCO, June 24-
Here is the democratic national plat
form in its scantling state. The ver-
bal two-by-fours, it will be observed
have still to be sheathed and painted,
and some of the architects have not
even approved the design. But it rep
resents the structure in it's present
into competition with the Virginia
platform which Carter Glass has just
brought.
The one feature on which the two
tentative drafts agree is the League
of Nations plank, which has been bor-
rowed from the Virginia platform.
President Wilson having approved
this, it is the one plank of the whole
that is likely to go through unchang-
ed.
Actually the text which follows is
officially only a collection of sug-
gestions. The Democrats have no ad-
visory committee, like that which,
under the Craftsmanship of Ogden
Mills, produced a similar draft for
the Republican Resolutions Commit
ISS, Dut GuS No1uHI0SL dACll1GeCtS VI
the San Francisco gathering perform
the same office.
cts only something to fight over"
said one of the group. '"There will
be aslot of other planks that have as
yet not even been reduced to writ
ing"
1t will be NOTED that there is no
prohibition plank in the collection
The explanation of the omission is
another story, and one that is likely
to produce the most spectacular bat
tie of the occasion.
Busy on Dry Problem
A volunteer construction corps of
platform builders were busy yester-
day and today whiting out planks
which they believe would meet the
needs of the convention in expressing
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its views as to prohibition enforce
ment.
Informal discussion by delegates
shows several schools Of thought
among the anti-bone dry advocates
as to how the question should be ap-
preached. They vary from the States
Rights stand taken by Governor Ed
wards of New Jersey to proposals
that congress be urged to proceed
directly toward modifying the one
half of one per cent alcoholic content
restriction of the Volstead enforce
ment act so as to lift the ban from
beers and light wines.
The most pronounced movement at
the moment, however, and the one
which appeared to have taken the
most definite shape that originating
in Washington and designed to offer
a basis on which anti-bone dry forces
could concentrate. Personal liberty
will be the slogan of advocates of this
compromise plank. Mr.. Cummings
was emphatic in defining the ques-
ton to be solved as not prohibition
issue but merely expression of the
party's attitude as to the Volstead
enforcement act.
Here are the platform suggestions
beginning with the one outside of
prohibition that is calculated to pro-
woke the greatest discussion.
ireland
eve express our profound sympa-
thy for the rights and inspirations of
small nations, and Of races, subject
to alien domination. The striving of
these for self-government appeals to
the sense of justice of the world.
"The centuries-old struggle of Ire
land for self-government is today
one of the unhappy problems disturb
ing mankind. To her the League of
Nations offers, for the first time in
history, an international tribunal
Continued on last ,page)
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COALCARS HAUL
LUXURIES With
U.S.NEAR FAMINE
so Per Cent. of Equip
ment Diverted or
Tied Up
ALL INDUSTRIES HIT
BY CAR CONGESTION.

Impending coal faminine and
protiteering form the high-spot
of the nationwide car congestion,
but all industries are affected.
Grain elevators in the middle
west hold large quantities of last
years crop, not yet moved. There
are 100,000,000 bushels in Ili-
nois and Iowa elevators. The
new crop is coming in soon. with
no place to store it and few cars
to transport it.
The country has abundant food
stuffs, says E. D. McDougal, Chi
cago Board of Trade, but prices
cannot drop because railroads ar
not moving the food.
Building trades are slowed
down, greatly increasing the hous-
ing problem.
Banks with crop loans are un-
easy. Farmers can't pay until
the new crop is moved. Financ-
ing the new harvest will be diff
ficult, says W. S. McLucas, presi-
dent Kansas City Chamber of
Commerce. kansas City is get
ting 700 to 800 cars a week for
grain. Instead we ought to be
receiving 700 to 800 cars a day."
Meanwhile, some soft coal op-
orators are profiteering on the
country's calamity and will have
opportunity to tax consumers
$4,000, 100000 if relief is delay
ed
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y [ G cOnVenIlOr
committee just
now. Everybody is
tied up with inn
porta..t and un-
bl eaFable engage
ments.
The nature of
these engagements
is usually not spec
fled; and it is not
convention eti
quette to inquire
into them too close
ly
| know what
they are, however
d I don't mind tell,
ino
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WASHINGTON, June 24-(Spe-
cial) Government officials estimate
that the railroads have s75,O00 cars
in good repair
But about $3.50 of them are not
delivering the goods, for the supply
of cars to the mines is only 40 per
cent of normal.
That is the big cause of the pres
ent sky-rocketing prices of soft coal,
threatening famine this fall and an
added tax of S3,000,O0O,000 on con-
sumers' pocketbooks.
The so per cent of cars that should
be hauling coal, but are not, are Ell
ther in use transporting other things
like automobiles and building ma
terials, or are standing on side tracks
full of coal or ore that cannot be un
loaded. Congress caused that.
Not of the cars that are availa-
h!a are hauling coal for the railroads.
This rs q very ecess&ry function but
it reacts doublv on the public right
now.
FIRST-It leaves very few cars to
meet the need for summer transpor-
tation via the Great Lakes TO the
northwest;
SECOND-It gives a few jnnes,
hich the railroads permit to have
cars, a wide-open opportunity for
profiteering.
Monopolize Coal Cars
The Black Diamond coal journal,
says editorially:
'The only mines able to obtain
cars with any degree of regularity
are those furnishing railroad fuel.
In many instances, in self-defense,
mines are compelled to accept rail
road fuel orders to get cars at all
At a time when car supply averages
little more than 35 per cent this ere,
ates a scarcity of coal for commercial
shipping. The railroads have mo-
nopoly on the coal supply"
Saward's s Journal, another coal
publication, says: oo
eve are now running about 40O,-
900 tons day below 1918 figures
The assigned car practice is enabling
the railroads to get their coal at
much below the market price, at the
expense of other classes of consum-
ers."
John Moore, president of the Ohio
miners, says:
"Tens Of thousands of miners are
out of work because the railroads
refuse to supply cars to the mines
on an EQUITABLE basis. This is the time
of wear when every miner should be
working. That is the only way to pre-
vent suffering next winter.
Interstate Commerce Commission
figures show that when the switch
mems strike began car congestlor
was $4,000 cars. By April "a it ha!t
risen to the highest point IN Amer
can railroading history, with 269,OOC
cars tied up at terminals, junction
points and way sidings. By June
f was reduced to 10000 cars bu
since then conditions have beer
steadily getting worse again.
Reports from all over the countr!
show that coal cars are being uset
to 81 o automobiles, building materla
| ard machinery. Concerning this thu
New York Times, June 8, said.
"About 80 per cent of the cars
received here are open flat-bottom
cars. These can be loaded without
extra expense. The other 70 per
cent are saw-tooth or drop-bottom
cars. These have to be floored
with lumber (Which costs $65 per
1000 square feet) and there is an
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DEATH AND ILLNESS IN WILL ROGERS
FAMILY MAKE 1T IMPOSSIBLE FOR
HIM TO WRITE AT SAN FRANCISCO

WITH dead from dphther another death and
" other children dangerously ILL., Will Rogers wires that will
be impossible for him write for The Times Recorder the Dem
dren.
1t with the deepest and sincere hope for the rapid
of his fam that The mesRecorder makes this
We feel confident that Rogers will have aso the
sympathy and good wishes of the hosts of reader friends who
joyed his paragraphs the Chicago convention
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Railway Wage Board
To Expedite Award

WASHINGTON, June 24.-Presi
dent Wilson has received reply from
the railroad labor board in Chicago
promising to expedite the award In
the railroad wage controversy. The
message was in reply to one sent by
President Wilson.
Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-24

The Democrats are out sightsee-
ing. They are wandering up and
down the streets, that somehow don't
look like the streets of any other
city. They are motoring through the
brown hill in the sun and wind. They
are riding on the bay and prowling
through Chinatown and climbing
Tamalpais and trying out all the
restaurants and in general, having
the time of their lives.
| climbed into rubber neck wag-
on yesterday. 1t was loaded to the
gunwales. They all are.
On one side of me was Mrs. E. B.
Towl of Omaha, a Bryan worker.
On the other was Miss Charles o.
Williams of Memphis, delegate
national committee woman.
The morning fog touched our
cheeks like a cool, soft hand; the
breeze smelled of eucalyptus and salt
air and the flower stands on the cor
ners. We knew we wouldn't get
back until l o'clock and we didn't
care.
No other national convention, prob
ably, has had so beautiful setting
as this one.
San Franciscians like to sigh over
the irrevocable 'atmosphere' of the
old city before the earthquake
excuse me I mean before the fire
But the new city has atmosphere
too.
The women beside me had travel
ed, and they talked of Mexico and
of Rome and of Alaska. But as the
bus waddled slowly through the love
" canyons of the downtown section.
and the megaphone bawled the in
formation that all this had been re
built since 1906, they fell silent.
Mrs. Towl spoke frst. "It's good
thing the fire happened before the
war and labor trouble" said she.
"It couldn't have been done since"
Typical of that city is the civic
center, with its gray white stone
buildings around a square of trees
and grass and statues. The mega
phone waved at one of them.
"In this building" announced the
lecturer, "the Democrats are soon to
select the next president.of the Unit,
ed States" The applause made II
perfectly clear that he had a con
vention crowd on board.
Across the fire line we trundled
Through streets of old frame build
ings-all that remain of the Sar
Francisco of the sixties. Along the
winding roads of the golden gate til
the Pacific opened before.
Conventions must be principally
politics, of course, but the Democrats
have been wise enough to recognize
that politics can be played just as
well in a pleasant place and in a few
there will be many Democrat wht
will forget politics for an instant
to remember vision of wet rock
with seals writhing on them, ant
gray gulls wheeling above a blue
ocean, and brown, windy hills and ;
beautiful and joyous city.
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me To-Day.
at was commit
ted in all probab-
ility by a woman,
and by a woman
who had spent the
greater part of the
night in ElwelPs
home pleading with
him not to cast her
off"
In making this
statement B urn S
took sharp issue
with the authorities
Investigating t h e
case, who insist the
actual a shooting was
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Greeks Start Drive on
Turk Bolshevik Arrnv

SMYRNA June 23 wednesday,
The Greek army has begun an often
ave against the forces of Mustapha
kemal Pasha, the Turkish national
list leader, according to an Official
statement by Greek army headquar.
ters.
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WASHINGTON, June 24.-The
Herrera government in Guatemala,
which succeeded that of Estrada Ca
brera, has been recognized bv the
United States, the State Department
today announced.
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VOTERS SESSION
FOR TENNESSEE
Governor to Comply
With Wire Request
of Wilson

NASHVILLE, Tenn, June ID
Suffrage hopes rallied today when it
was learned that Governor Roberts
planned to call a special session of
the legislature to act on the federal
suffrage amendment, following the
receipt of a telegram from President
Wilson urging such action in the in
terest of ''real service to the party
and to the nation"
WASHINGTON, June 24.-Assis.
tant Attorney General Frierson has
advised Governor Roberts, of Ten
nessee, that the legislature of that
state could ratify the suffrage amend
ment without submitting the issue to
the people
WASHINGTON, jane 24-Pres-
ident Wilson last night sent tele-
gram to Governor Roberts of Tennes-
see urging that a special session of
the Tennessee legislature be cal'Id
to act on the federal suffrage amend
ment.
The president in his telegram said !:
ut would be real service to the
party and to the nation if it is pos
sible for you under the peculiar pro-
visions of your state constitution,
having in mind the recent decision of
the supreme court in the Ohio case,
to call special session Of the legis-
lature of Tennessee to consider the
suffrage amendment. Allow me to
urge this very earnestly"
The state constitution of Tennes-
see has a provision prohibiting ac-
tion by the state legislature on fed
eral constitutional amendment except
when the legislature taking the ac-
tion has been chosen at an election
in which the proposed amendment
was an issue. Some legal authorities
have been quoted as holding that
such provision was invalidated by
the supreme courts decision. in the
Ohio referendum case.
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WILSON NOT TO ADDRESS
CONVENTION BY PHONE.

WASHINGTON, June 24.-Re-
ports from San Francisco that Pres
ident Wilson would address the Dem
ocratic convention over long dis
tance telephone were denied today at
White House.
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League Council to Hold
Next Meeting in Spain

MADRID, June 24.-The next
meeting Of the council of the league
of nations will be held at San Sebas-
tian on July 27, it was announced
here yesterday
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extra charge of $25 per car for
flooring them. In addition to this
charge the cars have to be pro-
tected by waterproof tarpaulins
for which a charge of $1C0 each is
made to the consignee, and when
returned in good condition re-
bate of $40 is allowed. Tarpaulins
average six trips before they are
unfit for further use. Furthermore
the extra cost of loading is S25
per car over and above all ex-
penses."
Mere than month has passed
since the car congestion became
acute.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission has issued various orders,
including the rushing of solid trains
of empty cars from congested points
to districts needing them.
So far, however, there has been
practically no mass breaking Of car
congestion. In the matter of coal
and grain shipments, matters have
gotten worse and are steadily getting
more so.