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Newspaper
Cordova Daily Times
Location
Cordova, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1922
Page
1
Chicago authorities report hundreds fled in panic as Dear Dorn Street railway station burned, eight lines left without shelter. The blaze caused near total destruction, with replacement costs pegged at about one million dollars. One woman fainted and was trampled amid crowd rush. 150 tons of holiday mail saved by motor trucks.
Seattle December address to the Young Men's Republican Club drew critics of his administration. Brown defended his record by citing statistics claiming more arrests for vice under his term than under his predecessor and stated his intention to run for a second term.
Washington December 22 diplomats of major powers discussed how American aid could help Europe solve its economic issues. A plan emerged for an American Commission with power to determine reparations Germany would pay the Allies. Informal talks suggest US Britain and Germany would agree to creating such a Commission.
New York city theater owners say Fatty Arbuckle should be given a chance to return to films with the public’s response deciding the outcome. Chicago branch of the Illinois Motion Picture Owners’ Association also recommends individual owners allow Arbuckle to return to the screen.
The conference report on the Bursum Bill which raises veterans pensions from fifty to seventy two dollars a month was adopted by the House. The Senate version remains pending.
The charred bodies of Col. Francis Marshall and Lieut. Charles Webber, missing Army aviators sought for two weeks, were found on the Pablo Indian reservation seventy five miles west of Tucson. Cowboys reported the discovery. further details were not released.
Five bandits held up a policeman and two employees of Stix Baer Fuller in St Louis yesterday. They seized a satchel containing about $4,980 being taken from the bank to the store and escaped into the street crowd.
General Charles G. Dawes released a balance sheet showing a Post Office Department deficit of 16,198,000 for the first three months. Assets were listed at 124,648,590 while liabilities reached 140,846,590.
An explosion of salvaged shells near the Government arsenal in Benicia California injures three men, with one believed fatally hurt. Authorities investigate the blast and its cause as workers salvage materials at the site.
Paris December 22 Premier Poincare told the Senate that France will take independent action to secure German reparations and will not wait for America to resolve inter allied debts. He linked reparations with the broader debt issue as central to the solution.
Washington December 22 Col N G Nutt chief of the Narcotic Division says there has been a marked decrease in drug addicts in the United States in recent years. He spoke on returning from an official Westward trip to discuss prohibition effects.
In Marion on December 22 defense attorneys in the Herrin massacre trial moved to dismiss all state evidence and seek a directed not guilty verdict for the five defendants charged with murder.
Washington December 22. Chief Justice Taft underwent a minor operation last Sunday to remove gravel from the bladder. The procedure was performed without surgery and he has virtually recovered. He was receiving visitors and transacting court business as usual yesterday.
Washington December 22 The nomination of Pierce Butler of Minnesota as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court was confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 1 to 8.
Emile Aniston, formerly of Shreveport, Louisiana, an assistant to the superintendent of the pipeline for the Mexican Gulf Oil Company, was shot and killed from ambush in Vera Cruz state yesterday, according to information received here.
Sentenced Canadian John Carl from Alaska to imprisonment in the federal penitentiary for second degree murder has been commuted by President Harding. Carl will be released on Christmas Day along with two other prisoners whose sentences were similarly commuted.
Washington December 22 The Department of the Interior budget plan passed House Appropriations favorably proposing 294 216 00 dollars, 299 695 less than last year and 114 395 less than the President's estimate. Alaska allocations include 15 000 for liquor suppression, 1 000 000 for Alaska Railroad operations over revenues, and 889 140 for railroad construction and equipment with additional funds for steamships barges education medical relief reindeer propagation insane care and game protection.
Los Angeles police arrested three men for narcotics possession. Officers found notebooks on them listing names of prominent figures, including Wallace Reid the film star.
At Ada Ohio three children in a buggy were killed when trapped between railway crossing gates and struck by a passenger train yesterday.
Paris December 22 Premier Poincare told the Foreign Relations Committee that the Washington Naval Agreements should be ratified at the earliest date. Former Premier Briand supported the position in the Chamber of Deputies session.
San Diego December 22 Raymond Carter Chief Petty Officer at North Island Air Station and a Fox Film Company representative are missing since Tuesday after taking off for Los Angeles. Los Angeles police were notified.
In Sydney on December 22 authorities note the Australian transcontinental railway offers 38 parlor cars with elaborate traveling comforts including pianos for guests. The feature, part of an effort to attract long distance travelers, highlights the railway’s luxury amenities.
Denver reports a party of unknown men seen at a cabin near the city suspected as mint robbers. The posse followed toward Fort Collins but the men disappeared. Racine police chase a Alaska linked stranger in the Joanum murder inquiry.
Decomposed bodies of two men believed to be Watt Daniels and Thomas Richards, Klan kidnapping victims from Moorehouse in August, were found near Fourche. Limbs bound by wire. surface brought up after dynamite charge set off by searchers.
Manila December 22 Congressman Leonidas Dyer on a Far East tour said he believes independence for the Philippines will be favored by the next House of Representatives. He added that the next Senate is likely to share the view.
Ford Motor Company closes a deal for seventy acres along the Nickel Plate Railway and Calumet River in Detroit. A mobile auto factory costing six million dollars will be built, employing about sixteen thousand workers, with construction to start soon.
Kennecott Copper Corporation leads Friday trading with gains as Utah Copper and Mother Lode Coalition inconda copper names appear among notable movers. The list highlights key players in the sector and tracks Friday session performance.
Anchorage Dec 22 Fourteen convictions have been found in eighteen cases tried in the U S District Court for liquor law violations. Heavy sentences have been imposed in each case.
Sir Keith Smith announced near completion of plans for a 23000 mile round the world journey. He will depart London in April, fly Europe and Asia, cross the Pacific from Siberia to Alaska, follow the Canadian Pacific line to New York from Toronto, return to Halifax and then fly the Atlantic back to England.
General Charles G. Dawes former Director of the Budget charges that bureaucrats are throttling reforms by submerging the Post Office Department balance sheet. He cites entrenched bureaus in government departments resisting routine business in their vast organizations.
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