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Newspaper
The Daily Alaska Empire
Location
Juneau, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1920
Page
1
March 18 news reports the Allied forces under Sir John Milne occupying Constantinople. British fleets command the Bosporus forts. resistance arose at the war office with exchanges between Punjabi troops and Turkish forces. Casualties occurred on both sides, but the city was quiet by nightfall.
The Allied High Commission announced that Allies will not destroy the Sultan's authority and occupy Constantinople to strengthen his power. Turks are assured Allies will not deprive the city but may modify the decision if massacres and disorders continue.
Seattle March 18 Col Frederick Mears chief of construction on the government railroad work in Alaska sailed for Seward aboard the Alameda He says grading on the road between Seward and Nenana will be completed next year and tracklaying by the end of 1922 The Commission has contracted to move twenty thousand tons of freight from Seattle to Seward and Anchorage this summer.
In Portland Willie Meehan of San Francisco and Hugh Walker of Kansas City fought ten final rounds to a draw last night. Earlier Canton saw Jack Britton outpoint Jack Derry in twelve rounds. St Paul housed Mike O Dowd who defeated Angie Ratner in ten rounds.
The Pacific Aero Club announced a non stop race from San Francisco to Del Monte and back, a total of about 200 miles, to occur on April 1 each year. The first event happens this year with prizes in the thousands of dollars and several army officers already entered.
Roanoke March 18 Virginia Republicans chose four instructed delegates for the Chicago Republican National Convention to back Gov. Frank Lowden of Illinois. Opponents pressed for uninstructed delegates. Will C. Hays urged unity with the South, praised a business administration, and urged support for Henry Anderson of Richmond for vice president.
Representatives from eleven states meet in Chicago to organize a western and midwestern drive for Herbert Hoover’s presidential nomination. Headquarters will be opened in Chicago soon, officials announce.
Herbert C. Hoover declares in a statement that he has changed his view since last spring. He now favors a representative reparation commission to protect U S interests, reversing a prior letter to President Wilson. Hoover complains the April letter was published in breach of good faith and notes it did not come from the White House.
Hoover supporters open campaign headquarters in San Francisco and Los Angeles as petitions are prepared to place Hoover on the Republican ballot. The push marks an intensified effort to secure presidential nomination in California.
New York March 18. William Harrison Lippincott a renowned portrait and scenic painter is dead. Born in Philadelphia in 1849 he built an international reputation through a long active career.
Seattle March 18 The lightering of the Libby McNeil Libby fishing fleet barge Dashing Wave began after it ran aground waiting for the tide at Seymour Narrows. Work aims to have her afloat on one of the first tides.
A federal grand jury in San Francisco acquitted John Snyder, former editor of the Oakland World, a socialist paper, who faced charges of violating the Espionage Act. The case drew attention to press activism and wartime sedition concerns from the era.
American Red Cross workers locate Grand Duchess Olga, sister of former Czar Nicholas, in a box car near Novorossiysk in southern Russia. She lives among Romanoff refugees, clad in rags, gratefully receiving food and clothing.
Chehalis Washington clash ends as striking high school students force lifting of a ban imposed after an unauthorized dance. Faculty had canceled athletic events, halted the school paper, and barred social activities until the conflict was resolved.
Seattle in training at Hanford Springs California will meet the Chicago Cubs next week. Experts who have seen the Seattle players expect a strong season and consider them one of the league’s best.
A special message from Washington says the Navy Department promised Gov. Thomas Riggs that two subchasers and one Eagle boat will be sent to patrol Alaska waters to prevent fish piracy.
Washington dispatch reports that Republican irreconcilables and Democrats joined to defeat Senator Lodge's compromise on Article X, which sought a general declaration of American international policy. Only two Democrats backed it, while two reservations were also defeated, including withholding assent to a British protectorate over Egypt and maintaining terms of the armistice.
Palmer Washington March 18. Senator David J. Walsh of Massachusetts is among possible candidates for the Democratic Presidential nomination. His supporters press him to allow his name to appear at the San Francisco convention.
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company will construct a million dollar ten story office building at Third Avenue and Seneca Street in Seattle. Also announced the Pacific Mail Steamship Company will run a Seattle to Baltimore line with Portland and San Francisco ports via the Panama Canal. In Vancouver a reporter spoke by wireless telephone with the master of the Princess Victoria at sea, the first wireless phone used in the West.
Somer Myers, newly elected Exalted Ruler of the Seattle Elks Lodge, lies in critical condition in a local hospital after surgery. A prominent Seattle businessman active in fraternal circles and the automobile trade, he remains under medical care.
Seattle March 18 report from Washington states shipbuilder David Rodgers is closing a deal with the Shipping Board to acquire Skinner & Eddy Yard No 2. He holds contracts totaling over forty million dollars and will hire about six thousand workers. The Board has tentatively accepted a bid of three million four hundred thousand dollars for the plant, including twenty five steel steamers.
Washington march 18 secretary john b payne of the department of the interior says the maximum one third oil land royalties applies to all wells producing over two hundred barrels of oil daily of oil described as thirty degrees baume or over. The royalties are graduated downward according to the production of the wells to twelve and one half percent of the product which is the minimum for wells producing under twenty barrels of oil per day. The royalty is twenty five percent for oil below thirty degrees baume.
San Francisco March 18 News that Columbia has lowered its high tariff on American canned foods to meet demand in the republic has encouraged Pacific coast producers that similar action might occur in other South American countries where prohibitive tariffs have kept these American products out. Commercial organizations are leading a drive to show South American representatives in the United States the desirability of lowering food prices by this means.
In Coblenz on March 18, President Ebert resumes headship of government as Noske had briefly led. Von Kapp resigns, troops withdraw, and Ebert’s coalition moves to restore order. Two hundred Americans at Leipsic request aid from General Allen, who plans a special train to protect them.
Secretary Houston of the Treasury writes to the House Committee asserting that the excess profits tax cannot be cut before 1923. He proposes a flat rate on gross profits and warns that government finances cannot tolerate revenue reductions from income tax cuts.
Mil dred Harris Chaplin wife of Charles Chaplin asks for legal separation if he does not return to home. She says she has not seen Charlie for two weeks and is tired of neglect. Chaplin’s secretary says no trouble and that Chaplin is away on business.
Advices from Harbin report that China and Japan have agreed to cooperate in the Far East to curb Bolshevik disturbances. The Chinese contingent comprises four divisions and the Japanese three divisions are ready to deploy.
Washington reports the European war cost the United States 37 billion dollars with 10 billion in loans to the Allies. Secretary Houston says over a billion will be saved by sales of materials for the 1919 campaign. The total costs exceed federal government expenses since its inception.
In Oakland on March 18 police probe the death of Miss Ula Carlson aged nineteen a domestic found strangled in a fashionable street area. The coroner says she was killed hours before her body was dumped and police expect sensational disclosures as several crews work the case.
President Ebert arrives in Berlin and resumes command as revolutionary forces retreat. Loyal regular troops move to restore order, stabilizing the capital after upheaval.
Berlin March 18 semi official notice says a majority of the German National party and the People's Party have agreed to hold Reichstag elections in June to reorganize the government and provide for the President to be elected by the people.
March 18 report says Dr Kapp fled Berlin after arrest ordered by Minister Noske of the Ebert government. KApp troops who toppled the Ebert regime are said to have departed, with loyal regulars poised to assume control. Communists reportedly erect barriers in the northern suburbs.
London March 18 A Berlin special to the London Times reports Dr. Kapp resigned after the Reichbank refused to grant funds demanded to pay his troops.
Berlin March 18 official announcement confirms the resignation of Chancellor Kapp and top officials of the new government. Major General Von Seeckt named chief of staff to run state affairs until President Ebert's government is restored.
Geneva dispatches from March 18 report Gen. Von Buerow commanding Saxony forces and Gen. Moeble commanding Bavarian forces have placed their troops at the disposal of President Ebert. The situation underscores the political turmoil in Germany following the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Berlin reports say Dr. Kapp possibly killed himself when his request to overthrow the Ebert government failed to gain mass support. The movement's tremors frightened him as Noske, head of National Defense, flew to Berlin to take control. Kapp resigned before the controversy continued on the next page.
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