THE KUSKO TIMES
VOL. II. NO. 89
McGRATH, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY,. NOVEMBER 29, 1922.
PRICE; 25 CENTS
SENTENCED
TO DEATH
' Court Martial Declares
Greek Officials Guilty
of High Treason.
Athens, Nov, 27.—All but two
. ot the former cabinet officers and
army officials accused of .high
treason in connection with; the
s Greek debacle in tAsia Minor
, have been sentenced, to. death by
the military courtumartial that
heard the charges. iThe sentence
, of life,imprisonment and degrad
ation was imposed-upon General
, Stratigos and Admiral Goudas.
London.—There is * strongest
probability that .Britain will
break off diplomatic -relations
with Greece if the.death-sen
tences imposed on former Greek
< cabinet officers are-carried, out,
it was said in official, circles to
day.
General-Gonatas, one of the
. leaders of the revolt that result
ed in overthrowing Constantine,
formed a military cabinet today
■1. to replace the Haimis ministry,
which resigned last night.
COLLISION
OF LINERS
- May Mean Loss of 2000
Orphans From Asia
Minor.
CoastantinopJe^Nov. 27.—The
American Near , East relief
steamship Balgravian, carrying
« over two thousand orphans from
Asia Minor, collided with a
trans-Atlantic liner at the junc
tion of the Bosporus and.the Sea
of Marmora, this morning. A
number of allied ships have gone
i to their assistance.
Bandits Get $200,000
From Missouri Bank
•Gallatin, Mo.—Robbers who looted
the First National "Bank here last night
escaped with two hundred thousand
dollars in bonds and other securities,
in addition to ten thousand dollars id
cash. The operations of the bandits
are rivaling those of the notorirus,
James brothers, many vears ago.
.Mail Carrier Brink, after taking the
third batch of outbound mail as far as
Big river on Saturday, returned here
on Sunday, and left the following morn
ing to connect with the mail coming
from Flat, upon which he will again
return to. Big river.
Owen Gray arrived Sunday, and left
i, Again for Nixon this morning.
LAUSANNE
POW-WOW
United States Asks for
Open-Door Policy
in Turkey.
Lansaune, Nov. 27.—Richard
Washburn Child, chief American
spokesman at the Near East con
ference, amazed the other dele
gations at the session todav by
reiterating insistence of the
United States upon the open
door policy in Turkey.
Lausanne, Nov„27.-*-Lord Cur
zon today authorized the odicial
statement that England supports
the American open-door policy
in Turkey and regards 1>he San
Remo agreement for division of
the Mosul oil district as null and
void.
. Ottoman demands at Lausanne
are that Turkey’s complete inde
pendence is necessary for the
country’s national development
and -that every judicial and finan
cial restriction imposed from
without be opposed.
APPEAL BY
POINCAIRE
Asks France io Rally
Around Govt, as in
Time of War.
Paris, Nov. 28.—Premier Poin
caire appealed tonight for all of
France.to rally around the gov
ernment as it did in the time of
the late war. The appeal is „re
garded as of great significance,
indicating that Near Eastern
matters have assumed such pro
portions as to mean a grave
crisis in the life of France.
The sentiment is also growing
that the French government will
soon be in a position whe»e it
will be forced to take independ
ent measures agaiust Germany.
Tacotna Tinklings.
TacoVaa, Nov. 28.—A most, enjoyable
social dance was held last evening at
Herb Kearney’s. Several old-timers,
on their way to the coast, were present
and when compelled by the wee sma’
hours to adjourn, all voted to renew
the occasion on Thanksgiving evening.
Tom Shallow, of the Shallow Trans
portation Company, Ltd., is reported
to have.met with a more or less serious
mishap on a recent trip here. These
accidents are so unusual with the effi
cient head of this transportation con
cern ithat he failed to receive the gen
eral sympathy which should have been
accorded him.
Mysterious ‘Matrimo
nial*'Affair, in Which
‘Poisoning’ Is Alleged
Los Angeles.—A well-dressed young
man, believed to be Vaden Boge, a
University of California student, and
the son of Fred Bogs, wealthy Hills
boro resident, staggered from a room
in the fashionable Alexandria Hotel to
night, exclaiming that be bad been
poisoned. He explained that he had
just registered with a woman as his
wife, the latter disappearing immedi
ately after the two had partaken of a
bottle of wine.
E
OLD EARTH
Cause Property Damage
and Consternation
in Four Sfcates
-St. 'Louis, Nov 27.—Consider
able property damage was
caused by earth tremors in East
ern Missouri, Southern Illinois,
Western Indiana and Northwest
ern Kentucky lact night. The
tremors shook buildings and
homes, toppled chimneys from
many residences, broke windows,
knocked chiuaware frofia shelves,
and frightened residents in por
tions of four states.
Santiago—Another earthquake
today shook the same regions of
tiie Chilean coast as did the one
of two weeks ago.
Telegraphic Ticks.
Boston.— Clemeoeeau left today for
j New Haven to see the Yale-Harvard
football game. _
| Philadelphia.—The A puny .defeated
the Navy football team Saturday after
noon, 17 to 14. ___
Paris.—France will probably ratify
the disarmament treaty, it-Avaa, semi
officially announced today.
Washington.—Hitchcock, m the Sen
late today, renewed his attack on Cle
meneeau’s views as expressed in his
American speeches.
Beattie.—Joseph Gonzales, 18, who is
wanted at N&touche for robbing the
jewelry store of Healy & Gelineau, was
placed under arrest here today.
Sau Francisco.—Mrs. Mae Nolan,
widow of the late Congressman Nolan,
I will be a candidate at the special elec
tion to choose a successor to hec hus
band. _
Washington.—The Senate, on Mon
day, authorized the retirement of Ac
sistant Justice Pitney from the supreme
court, within two months, -because of
illuess. _____
Boston.—Clomenceau kissed Nellie
Skinner, 75, who waa a French pupil of
his in Now York fifty seven years ago,
and at New. Haven saw Harvard detent
Yale at football, 10 to 3,
Berlin.--The reichstag today voted
approval of the motion made by Ger
man democrats indorsing tba govern
ment’s declaration of policy-' Dr. Her
man Mueller, food controller, ic the
new cabinet of Chancellor Cuno- «e
algned today
EXECUTIONS
AT ATHENS
Former Cabinet Officials
Guilty of Treason Pay
the Extreme penalty.
- *
Athens, Nov. 2S.—Sentences
of death imposed on , former
cabinet officials, 'convicted by
court martial of high treason in
connection with the Greek mili
tary ..disasters, in Asia Minor,
were carried, out today. Those
executed vincluded former Pre
miers Copnaris, Protopapadikm
and-Thectckis,. former War Min
ister iBaltazzis, the holder, oi
portfolios in several former cab
inets, and General I^ad’anestic.
commander o£ the Greek forces
at the time of the Asia Minor
military disaster.
-Sentences of life imprisonment
and degradation were imposed
on Admiral Goudas and General
Strati^os. *
Pinec ranging from 200,000 tc
| 1,000,000 drachms were also.im
I posed on each.
MILLIONS
Td Prosecute Profiteers
Who Constructed 4
War Cantonments,
Washington, Nqv. 2c>-r-Actior
to recover twenty million dol
-lars, alleged to have been ob
tained fraudulently from the
Government iu the construction
of four army cantonments dur
ing the war, was instituted today
by Attorney General -Daogtxerty
as the fix'st step in the far-reach
ing prosecution of those whc
held contracts for building war
camps. The suits involve charges
of fraud in connection, with the
construction of Camps Upton,
Jackson, Sherman atjd Funston0
Britain Takes Exc ept
tion to One of Cle
. menceau’s Statements
WashiBirton—The British embassy,
in a formal-statement, hes taken excep
tion to the recent declaration ef Cle
meuceau that Britain bad received a
guarantee of national oafety bv letting
the surrendered German fleet sink in
Scapa Flow.
•Dan Nicholson was a Sunday arrival,
again, loavlcg for -Ophir-yesterday
morning. _
Charlie Kanitskeo, .of Tacot^tt-.^.e r
Sunday a-Rciva’.