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Newspaper
Cordova Daily Times
Location
Cordova, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1921
Page
1
Seven new diphtheria cases were reported among 30,000 flood victims in refugee camps in Pueblo. As waters receded, six more bodies were recovered, bringing total deaths to 11.
A Pueblo meeting decided to send a committee to Washington to appeal directly to President Harding and Congress for permanent flood relief in the Pueblo area. The group aims to secure long term aid for the flooded section surrounding the city.
Great Bend Kansas residents deal with heavy flooding as the Arkansas River overflows, submerging the southern part of town and forcing indefinite suspension of Santa Fe service.
Mayor Baker wired 1500 from the community chest to Pueblo for fire and flood relief assistance.
Copenhagen June 11 police in Stockholm uncovered documents showing plans to start simultaneous Bolshevik revolutions in Sweden Norway and Finland. The papers implicate 400 Bolsheviki in Sweden who would be arrested and expelled from the country.
Washington June 11 Rear Admiral Sims is branded an undesirable alien by a resolution introduced by Representative Gallivan. It seeks to deny readmittance to any American port.
Vladivostok telegram reports the new government repudiating General Seminoff as an anti Bolshevik leader and denying he is commander in chief of the anti Bolshevik forces.
President Harding was the guest of the Columbia Commandery of Knights Templar in Washington on June 11 and received honorary membership in the order.
Secretary of the Navy Denby revoked rear admiral Sims’s leave of absence in England and ordered him to report immediately in Washington. Denby acted without awaiting Sims’s reply to a quote about his Irish question speech as Sims had announced plans to sail home June 15.
London June 11 resumption of work in British coal mines on June 20 is expected from today's miners ballot. It is believed there will not be the two-thirds majority needed to continue the strike. Mines have been closed for ten weeks and miners' funds are exhausted.
In Peru Illinois on June 11 trapped miners in the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railroad mine car were freed after a fire broke out. They escaped through the emergency shuttle with no reported injuries.
June 11 Rear Admiral Sims and Ambassador Harvey were attacked in the Senate by Senator Harrison of Mississippi who demanded recalls of both from England.
Dr. James Burton Cambrell, retired president of the Southern Baptist conference and prominent preacher and educator, died in Dallas today at age 80. His leadership and work within the Baptist community were widely noted nationwide.
June 11 in Denver the metal trades department of the American Federation of Labor defeated by a large majority the proposal to organize a single large metal trades union in the United States, signaling a split in union consolidation efforts.
Virgil Decker, 19, a farm boy from Warsaw, Ind, was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment for the slaying of Le Roy Lovett. The verdict came after testimony in a case that drew local attention and ended with a severe penalty. The decision reflects a high-stakes courtroom outcome for a young defendant in a rural community.
Associated Press reports Guy L Smith appointed postmaster at Douglas Alaska. Army orders assign Lieut John P Pentz of the signal corps to Fort Gibson to command the second section of the cable outfit, relieving Maj Charles A Lewis.
Paris June 11 deputies backed the government naval plan to build six light cruisers twelve destroyers twelve torpedo boats and thirty six submarines at a cost of 1 016 000 000 francs
The House yesterday passed the Sweet bill consolidating agencies serving veterans. It creates a veterans bureau in the treasury with the war risk bureau and vocational training, to handle claims, hospital and medical aid, with four regional offices and about 140 field offices for relief.
Thousands attended the funeral of Colonel Galbraith president of the American Legion at Music Hall Cincinnati amid rain. The body to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Marshal Foch sent a message of regret.
Delegates from the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners representing over 325000 workers drew from the convention of the building trades department of the AFL today. A resolution suspended any International union for failing to comply with national board jurisdictional awards.
New York June 11 Fear of overtraining haunts Carpentier and manager Deschamps as he pushes for top form for his bout with Dempsey. Observers note bag punching and body exercises show fatigue disproportionate to energy expended signaling possible overtraining.
Babe Ruth hit his eighteenth home run of the season today for New York in a game against Detroit driving in two runners and adding to his lead in the national league standings.
Philadelphia reports Laur ence Brown of Seattle captain of the University of Portnsylvania team set a 1000 yard world record with a time of 2 minutes 01.25 seconds, beating Melvin Sheppard by a fifth of a second in a historic track event.
Belmont Park clocked a new American track record as Goaler, a 10 to 1 shot, lowered Man o War’s mile and a furlong mark by a fifth of a second with a time of 1 49 yesterday.
Johnnie Dundee won the decision over Knockout Chaney of Baltimore after a 10 round bout in New York. Chaney fought hard but Dundee edged ahead on points to take the victory.
The American freighter Charlotte arrived at St Johns with decks awash after colliding with an iceberg 200 miles out. Boats were swung for launching and the bow remained caved in from the impact.
Thomas Payne confessed in Yakima that he stole mail sacks from Toppenish last month and guided officers to the cache where about $6,000 was hidden. The Daily Mail reports the British government instructed authorities in Ireland to halt reprisals.
Dallas report says a soldier arrested for harming a girl began digging a deep trench yesterday and will fill it with dirt using a tablespoon as punishment when finished. The oddly described penalty highlights a crime-related incident in the city.
Topeka Kans June 11 The Supreme Court today affirmed a district court ruling sentencing Alexander Howat president of the Kansas branch of the United Mine Workers to 2 000 years in jail for contempt The court held the Kansas industrial court law valid addressing the merits of the case and issues raised
June 11 report notes three thousand tons of Mayo district silver ore from Yukon will be shipped to Selby California for smelting as Canadian smelters are ready to receive the ore.
Three masked bandits overpowered a telegraph operator at Arion seven miles west of the city and escaped with six mail pouches in a June 11 heist. The incident disrupted mail service as authorities search for the culprits.
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized freight rate reductions from 8 to 33 cents per hundred pounds on vegetables and melons from the Pacific coast to territory east of Chicago. The changes take effect in one day by notice to carriers.
A boy named Stiles drowned yesterday in flood waters at Suttas Prairie as the Fraser River rose to 21 feet near Mission. The flood situation remains unchanged with the river just 2% feet under last July's peak.
Castle Rock Wash June report says la Roy Gardner the mail robber formerly convicted in San Francisco and sentenced to McNeil Island escaped while being transported. He overpowered two U S deputy marshals, stole cash and guns, and freed his shackled handcuffs before jumping from a Lavatory window of the Shasta Limited train with accomplice Frank Pyron. Five posses pursue near the hills as a battle is expected.
Roy Gardner has been twice sentenced to McNeil Island and twice escaped while being transported to the penitentiary. He escaped in April 1920 and remained at large until recently when apprehended for robbery of a Southern Pacific train on May 20.
SAN FRANCISCO June 11 The air service of the army authorizes airplanes to search for Roy Gardner the mail bandit who escaped today from officers while being taken to the penitentiary on McNeil Island by Southern Pacific train.
Three gunmen abducted Clarence Ostrum cashier of Associated Washington State Bank and his wife after midnight. They robbed the bank vault of 4500 dollars and escaped in an automobile, releasing the couple near Valley, Washington.
Petrograd papers report a Kamchatka Bolshevik commissioner asked Moscow for an armed ship to block American merchants from taking gold and furs, saying Americans prevent him from claiming Kamchatkan wealth.
Cairo June 11. Tremendous rains swamp the Nile delta destroying thirty thousand acres in Dakalyeh province and wiping out about eighty percent of the cotton yield, according to dispatched reports reaching here.
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