TIME
VOL. II. NO. G5.
McGRATH, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1922.
PRICE 25 CENTS
FIGHTING
IN DUBLIN
Irregulars Attack Posi
tions of State Troops
All Over City.
U ir ?
Condon. Sept. 4.—Dublin last
night passed through its worst
night of fighting since the sur
render of irregulars early in
July, says an Evening News
dispatch from Dublin this after
noon. Strong detachments of
irregulars attacked the positions
of Free State troops all over the
city, the firing continuing until
today. __
Dublin.-—A British destroyer
today turned over to the Free
State government a steamer cap
tured off the harbor of Cork
laden with arms and ammuni
tion. The vessel, headed for the
west coast, was consigned from
Hamburg, Germany, with arms
intended for Irish insurgents.
(BURNED
TO DEATH
[n Mysterious Fire in
Railroad Building,
Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh, Sept. 4.—Seven
persons were burned to death
and ten others injured last night
in a fire which destroyed the
commissary storage house in the
yards of the Pennsylvania rail
road. Sixty men, all employed
since the beginning of the shop
men’s strike, were housed in the
commissary._ City, county, state
and federal authorities and Penn
sylvania railway heads are con
ducting investigations, the the
ory being that the fire was ma
liciously started.
Station At Bethel
Ready for Business
The station at Bethel was opened to
public service today, with transmission
rates the same as those to Nome.
The signal corps telegraph stations
at Birches, Galena, Mhlezi - and Kok
rines have been closed. All messages
for these points will now be mailed
from Gibbon. This is a result of the
abolishment of land line telegraph be -
tween Gibbon and Nulato. which is re
placed by radio control between these
two points. It is understood, however,
that a new signal 43orps radio station is
to be established at Melozi or Buoy in
order to permit communication with
those two points.
DOINGS OF
LABOR DAY
5,000 Deputy Marshals
On Alert to Enforce
Injunction.
Chicago, Sept. 3.—An army of
five thousand United States dep
uty marshals were on the alert
today to enforce the Daugherty
injunction. Labor Day demon
strations. parades and addresses
scheduled in scores of cities and
towns were watched close’y by
federal authorities.
I Washington.—That all work
ers of the country should organ
ise a war for honorable indus
trial peace was sounded by na
tional union leaders in Labor
Dav messagesj today. Samuel
Gompers, in his address here,
urged labor to rally to the stand
of the unions and end this anti
labor war.
Peking.—Recognition of the soviet
government will be insisted upon by
the Russian delegates, according to
Adolph Jolfe, envov of the Moscow
government, who, with other dele
gates, will leave Peking Saturday for
Chang Chun Fu, Manchuria, where
Russo-Japanese negotiations will open
Tuesday. _
Mine Leader, Herrin,
Ills., Refused Bail
Marion, 111.—Rail has been refused
Otis Clark, president of the miners’
local union at Weaver, and the first
person indicted by the grand jury in
vestigation of the Herrin massacre.
3 KILLED,
SEATTLE
When Auto Is Hit by
N. P. Train Backing
Into Station.
! _
Seattle, Sept.—J.H. Peterson,
proprietor of the Queen City
Garage; James P. Sweeney,
bookkeeper for the Borden Milk
Company, and Miss Jessie Bur
nett were killed this morning
when a Northern Pacific passen
ger train, backing into the sta
tion at Auburn, ran down the
auto in which the trio were rid
ing, _
Recognition of Soviet
Government to Be In
sisted On By Moscow
—
La Follette Believed
Sure of Nomination,
Wisconsin Primaries
Milwaukee.—Wisconsin is holding
its primaries today, with two complete
Republican tickets in the contest. Sen
ator La Follette and Governor John
Blaine, who is a candidate for renomi
nation, headed the progressive slate,
while Ganlield, college president, had
William Morgan, present State attor
ney general, as a running mate for the
gubernatorial nomination.
Washington. — Republican leaders
are advised that the renomination of
Senator La Follette in the Wisconsin
primaries today is a certainty.
N. Y. Mayor Has Gi
gantic Subway Scheme
New York.—The abolition of elevat
ed and surface lines and the construc
tion of thirty-five new subway routes,
to cost six hundred million dollars, all
to be operated by the city on the basis
of live-cent, fares, is proposed in plans
announced today by New York’s mayor.
Telegraphic Ticks.
Washington.- Mrs. Frances McDon
alrl has been appointed postmaster at
Candle, Alaska.
Geneva.—The third assembly of the
Leage of Nations was called to ordei
today by Chairman Domicio Dagaru, ol
Brazil- _
.. Vienna.—Reports of concentration of
Hungarian forces on the western bor
a,.. fAustria are. officially confirmed
, today. _____
Prescott, Ariz.—Ralph E. Williams,
I a former Alaska mining engineer, was
killed in an automobile accident here,
. today __
Rio de Janeiro.—United States Sec
! retary of States Hughes, paying ad otti
! aial visit to Brazil, arrived here this
j afternoon. _
; Canton, O.—Two women and a man
were murdered here today by an uni
dentified man, who struck them down
as they entered their home.
Washington.—Tne Pomerene bill,
regulating the campaign expenses of
candidates for election to the Senate
and House, was passed today by the
Senate. _______
Mexico City.—Prospects of civil war
flared op in Mexico today when the
secretary of war dispatched federal
troops after the rebel band commanded
by Francisco Murgula.
Berlin.—Considerable rioting took
place in Charlotte, a suburb of Berlin,
after the arrest of a communist leader,
when bands of young communists at
tacked the police station in endeavors
to liberate him.
San Francisco. — The four-power
treaty has cleared the atmosphere in
the Far East, Secretary of the Navy
Deuby said today, on his arrival from
his visit to China, Japan, the Philip
pines and Hawaii.
Washington—Report on the soldiers’
bonus bill will not be submitted to
Congress by the House and Senate con
ferees until after the tariff bill is dis
posed of, the Joint conference commit
tee decided today._
Owen Gray, from the Nixon mine,
arrived Monday evening, coming down
on the Shakespear from Gerry Land
ing.
GREEK ARMY
REVERSES
Likely to Be Driven Out
of Asia Minor by
Turks.
Adan, Asia Minor, Sept. 5.—
Three Greek army corps in tho
Eskishehr section of theGrawro
Turkish front have been dis
persed and almost annihilated by
Turkish nationalists. The Greeks
are retiring in disorder, and the
Turks have advanced to within
; twelve miles of Brusa.
London.—New successes and
reverses suffered by the Greeks
at the hands of Turkish nation
alists in Asia Minor is believed
here to forecast the early evacu
ation of the entire area by the
Greek army.
Albino.—Orders were issued today
! for the concentration of the entire
Southern Greek army od the Uchak
line in Asia Minor, to make a delinite
stand against the advancing1 Turkish
1 nationalists.
May Be Charged With
i Defying R. R. Strikes
Injunction.
Washington, Sept. 1.—Samuel
Gompers, president of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, will
be charged with aiding and abet
ting railway strikers in an agita
tion against which the Govern
ment has already proceeded by
injunction if he persists with the
threat to bring about a general
sympathetic strike.
Union leaders are maintaining
the utmost secrecy regarding the
whereabouts of Jewell, head of
the striking shopmen, who dis
appeared from Chicago immedi
ately after the issuance of the
injunction.
—
Ford Plant Switches
in One Day From
Coal to Oil Burners
Detroit.—Owing to coal shortage, the
plant of the Ford Motor Company has
been switched from the use of coal to
oil burners, the change being made in
one day. The first order for fuel oil
amounted to twalve million gallons.
Forty-two thousand men are employed
in the plant.
Dan McGlnty and Charlie OTlal
loran were Sunday arrivals, returning
to Candle vesf.erdav