WHERE, RAIES AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. III. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, TUESDAY .OCTOBER 5, 1920
NO. 140
CLEVELAND TEAM WINS FIRST OF SERIES
HA Y WOOD AND ASSOCIA TES MUST STA YIN PRISON
GOVERNOR COX URGES WOMEN TO VOTE FOR LEAGUE
JURISTS END VACATION;
MUCH BUSINESS AWAITS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 5—
When the supreme court of the
United States reconvened yesterday
the jurists found the docket piled
high with important cases awaiting
final decisions. There are anti-trust
suits, further attacks on the validity
of the prohibition amendment, ac
tions contesting the anti-profiteering
section of the food control act and
appeals in the Newberry election
cases. It is expected that actions
also will be filed in an effort to set
the suffrage amendment aside.
MARY PICKFORD DIVORCE
WILL BE REVIEWED SOON
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5—Argu
ment on the action filed by the at
torney general of Nevada to dis
solve the divorce obtained by Mary
Pickford from Owen Moore, will be
heard on November 6, at Minder,
according to a statement made to
day by attorneys representing the
popular movie actress, who is now
Mrs. Doug. Fairbanks.
EDISON COMPANY CHARGED
WITH COAL PROFITEERING
NEW YORK, Oct. 5—The federal!
grand jury has returned a batch of
indictments sharging the Brooklyn
Edison company with profiteering in |
coal. It is claimed that the coal j
was obtained last winter ostensibly
for public utility purposes and then j
exported at a substantial profit.
EUROPEAN GOODS COMING
TO FORCE PRICES DOWN
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 5
The flow of European goods into
the United States continued during
the month of August, while exports
showed a further material increase,
according to information made pub
lic today by the department of com
merce. The favorable trade balance
for the month was anly $179,000,
000.
RICH DINERS FRISKED
IN BIG GOTHAM CAFE
' NEW YORK, Oct. 5—Six masked
bandits entered a swell Lenox avenue
cafe late yesterday afternoon and
took $5,000 in cash and jewels away
from the 45 patrons who were in the
place at the time. The diner^ and
employes were lined up against the
wall and forced to unload their val
uables, after which the bandits es
caped in a waiting auto.
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GOVERNOR COX IS HOME
FROM TRIP TO COAST
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MARION, Oct. 5—Governor Cox
is at home again after a trip of
more than 11,000 miles. He tookj
in every state west of the Mississippi
and throughout his tour he pressed
the plea for the adoption of the
League of Nations, as the paramount
issue of the campaign.
Addressing a body of women upon
his arrival in this ity, the governor
pointed out that it lay within the
power of women to abolish warfare
as a result of the ratification of the
suffrage amendment, and he urged
them to give their support to the
party favoring the league plan of
abolishing war.
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BROOKLYN PLAYERS UNABLE
TO FIND CLELELAND TWIRLER
BORAH LETTER PUBLISHED;
SHOWS STAND OF SENATOR
MARION, Oct. 5—The local Hard- j
ing headquarters has caused the pub-:
lication of a letter written by Sen- j
ator Borah to Senator Harding, in
which Borah says “I want to see
you win and the league scheme de
feated”. It is also announced at the
headquarters that Borah will speak
at Concord, as originally announced.
The letter was made public to
set at rest certain reports in circu
lation to the effect that Borah had
bolted.
JUDGES RECEIVED
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Oct. 5—
For the first time since 1918 Presi
dent Wilson received the justices of
the supreme court, when they pre
sented themselves at the presiden
tial mansion yesterday, on their an
nual visit. The formality was dis
pensed with last year because of the
illness of the President.
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A freight train consisting of seven
box cars and one flat reached Fair
banks at 11 o’clock last night and
started on the return trip to North
Nenana at seven this morning, just
ahead of the regular train.
Owing to the presence of ice in
the river, in front of Nenana, the
Alaskan Engineering commission is
not accepting any freight at Fair
banks for delivery at Nenana.
A Karstens auto stage left Fair
banks for the coast with the follow
ing passengers: H. E. St. George,
Miss Stanley, Miss Goss, and Mrs.
Mike O’Brion.
Tony Tate, who is operating an
auto stage between Fairbanks and
Chitina, left Fairbanks early today
with three passeugers—Ben Dahl,
John Lee and Winfield Oler.
Among the passengers arriving on
today’s train from Fairbanks were:
W. J. Keffer, Harold Graham, W. H.
McPhee, H. C. Hanson, Val Diebold,
Thomas Brown, Hane Junes, Her
man Bindles, Jack Lucy.
W. J. Keffer and Harold Graham,
j recent arrivals from the coast, where
they are employed on the C. R. &
N. railway, came down from Fair
banks on today’s train for a look
^ over the Nenana district.
Special Liquor Officer John Moe
went to Fairbanks on Sunday after
a brief stop in Nenana, enroute
from an inspection trip to the up
per Yukon.
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Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Howell, who
arrived from the Hot Springs dis
trict last week, have rented the Joe
Burns residence on Fourth street
and will spend the winter in Ne
nana.
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BROOKLYN. Oct. 5—In the op
ening game of the 19:20 world’s
baseball series, which was played
here this afternoon in the presence
of nearly 24,000 fans, the Cleve
land Americans carried off the
honors, defeating the Brooklyn Na
tionals three to one. The next two
games will be played here and the
next three at Cleveland.
In this afternoon’s game, the
Brooklyn batsmen were helpless be
fore the wonderful Coveleskie, who
was given splendid support, especial
ly by Speaker, who robbed the help
less Brooklyns of many seeming
hits.
O’Neill started at bat with two
doubles.
The Cleveland team played an
errorless frame and feathered in five
hits. Brooklyn also made five hits
and had an error charged against
them at the end of the game. The
batteries were: Cleveland—Coveles
kie and O’Neill. Brooklyn—Mar
quard, Mamaux, Cadore and Krue
ger.
Demand For Seat* Big
NEW YORK, Oct. 5—The advance
demand for eats for the opening
game and the seies far exceeded the
capacity of the park and thousands
of applications for today’s were re
turned, which is regarded as a very
favorable indication for heavy at
tendance throughout the series.
GOVERNOR OF TEXAS PUTS
NAME TO REFORM BILL !
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AUSTIN, Oct. 5—Governor Hob- j
by has attached his signature to a
reform measure which was designed '
to put an end to labor troubles in j
this state. The bill, which was passed ;
by the legislature last week, pro- j
vides for the creation of a state |
board to investigate questions aris- 1
ing in labor disputes.
CONVENTION IS HALTED
WHEN BUILDING BURNS
TOKYO, Oct. 5—The building in j
which the world’s Sunday school!
convention was being held in this j
city, was totally destroyed by fire i
soon after the session started this j
morning. The building was crowded !
with delegates when the fire started
but it is believed all of them made
their escape.
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HOTEL FIRE FATAL
Huntington, Ore., Oct. 5—Two
men lost their lives in a fire which j
destroyed a hotel at Robinette, this j
state, last night, the victims being |
William Travers, an engineer on the ;
Oregon Short line, and Roy Corn- j
elius, a machinist.
FRENCH WORKERS REJECT
RUSSIAN INTERNATIONALE
ORLEANS, FRANCE, Oct. 5—It
has been decided by the French Fed
eration of Labor not to affiliate with
the third intemationale. The pro
posal to join was vot?d down by a
large majority of the workers.
OFFICIALS HAVE CLUE
TO WALL STREET PLOT
PITTSBURG, Oct. 5—Informa
tion obtained from Floren Zelenaka,
who was placed under arrest last
night with a small quantity of ex
plosive in his possession, may lead
to a solution of the recent Wall
street explosion, according to fed
eral agents instrumental in se
curing the apprehension of Zelenaka.
Zelenaka was arrested in his room
in a second rate hotel in this city,
following a fight in which several
shots were fired, and it is under
stood that scores of other arrests
may follow in New York and Brook
lyn.
PITTSBURG MOB SEEKS
DEATH OF PRISONERS
PITTSBURG, Oct. 5—Police re
serves and city firemen were called
out last night to resist a mob of
more than a thousand, which raided
the police station in an effort to
secure the release of four prisoners
during a clash between whites and
negroes. Three policemen were in
jured during the fighting.
DEPARTMENT DISCOVERS
COMMUNISTS IN U. S. A.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 5—
Officials of the department of justice
claim to have discovered in America
the existence of a communist party
“tightly connected” with the Russian
third internationale. The discovery
was made during the examination of
Witty Shackman, former secretary
to Lenine, who was placed under ar
rest recently in this country.
DEBS SAYS SOCIALISTS
CAN’T JOIN COMMUNISTS
ATLANTA, GA., Oct. 5—Eugene
Debs, Socialist candidate for the
presidency, who is serving time in
the federal penitentiary here on a
charge of violating the espoinage act
has issued a statement in which he
declares that the Socialist party
cannot join the third Internationale
at present.
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First class mail reported at Rich
ardson this morning and was ex
pected in Fairbanks this afternoon.
The train arriving from Fairbanks
today brought only local mail for
Nenana.
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The next mail for the States
will leave Nenana on the south
bound train tomorrow morning. All
Nenana mail is now going out by
way of Broad Pass.
Arthur G. Bell, of The News,
left for the States on the steamer
Alaska on Saturday night. He is
going Outside for the benefit of his
health.
HARDING PRAISES MEN
WHO DIED FOR NATION
MARION, Oct. 5—Senator Hard
ing delivered the principal address
at the dedication exercises held at
Fremont yesterday, the occasion be
ing the unveiling of a tablet on
which were engraved the names of
Fremont men who died in service
during the late war. The senator
praised the heroism of the American
expeditionary forces and asked that
their services be made the example
for American citizens in time of
peace. Political issues were not ■
mentioned by the senator.
The trip to Fremont was made by
auto.
STEAMER FOUNDERS
j NORFOLK, Oct. 5—The American
j steamer Thomas H. Pollard, loaded
iwith coal from Norfolk to Boston,
foundered near Cape Henry and, it
is feared, will be a complete loss,
i The members of the crew were
rescued.
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i A Karstens auto stage arrived in
, Fairbanks on Saturday night, only
three days from Chitina. There were
no passengers aboard. I
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A special train, carrying freight
| and passengers, left North N'enana j
Sunday afternoon and reached the.
'upper town about 11 o’clock. The
[ engine and seven empty cars re
! turned to North Xenana yesterday
! morning for another Ioa-’ of freight
: and will be thus engaged probably
during the next several days.
The appearance of slush ice in
Chena slough has speeded the small
boats to winter quarters at Fair
banks. Launches belonging to Harry !
de Young, Dick Wood and the Carl j
White mail boat were taken out of
the water yesterday and the others
will follow probobly within the next
day or two.
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Charles McGonigle, who went to
Fairbanks several days ago to get
his launch in readiness for a late
trip to the Kantishna, has abandon
ed the voyage because of the cold
weather. Bill McPhee and several
others planned to make the trip on
the launch.
Agent J. A. Fairborn, of the Fair
banks office of the White Pass, re
turned to his headquarters on Sun
day after a brief visit in Nenana on
business matters.
W. R. Taylor, Kantishna mining
man, arrived in town on Sunday on
the steamer Tanana. He made the
trip down the Kantishna river on
the steamer Carl White and says
that boat is now enroute back to
the Bearpaw with the last of the
hydraulic outfit for the Mt. McKin
ley Placers.
FRANCE IS PREPARING TO
MAKE TREATY TERMS HOLD
PARIS, Oct. 5—The French for
eign office is authority for the
statement that important steps are
being taken to enforce the treaty
terms which have been imposed up
on Germany and Austria and to pre
vent the union of those countries
in case Austrians vote in favor of
such a step. The question of join
ing Germany is now being voted
upon in Austria, the plebescite hav
ing started on the first of this month
BISHOP ROWE HONORED
AT SEATTLE MEETING
SEATTLE, Oct. 5—Bishop Peter
Trimble Rowe, who completed ois
twenty-fifth year of service last
week, has been honored by the crea
tion of the Bishop Rowe Foundation
fund of $ 100,000, the income from
which is to be used in Alaska. The
fund will be presented to the bishop
next month and may be used by him
in any manner desired during the
remainder of his episcopate. After
that the income is to be used in car
rying on the bishop’s work under
the direction of the president of the
synod and the governing council.
Action creating the fund was tak
en at a synod meeting held here on
Saturday. The bishop has been at
work in Alaska since 1895.
UNCLE SAM IS CURIOUS;
GOLD SHIPMENTS CAUSE
WASHINGTON, I). C., Oct. o—
An inquiry has been ordered for the
purpose of ascertaining the source
of recent gold shipments to the
United States. It is believed by de
partment of justice officials that the
gold was sent to this country as
part of a Russian propoganda fund.
CHILDREN ARE BURNED
IN WISCONSIN BLAZE
IRMA, WIS„ Oct. 5—Five child
ren were burned to death here yes
terday by a tire which destroyed the
home of Ed. Nelson. Six other
children were painfully burned but
it is thought they will recover.
HAYWOOD MUST SERVE
SENTENCE COURT SAYS
CHICAGO, Oct. 5—The federal
circuit court of appeals has handed
down a decision in which it upholds
the conviction of William D. Hay
wood and 03 other Industrial Work
ers convicted on the charge of ob
structing the draft during the war
The men were sentenced to imprison
ment at Leavenworth, but Haywood
and most of the others have been out
on bonds for some time.
Mrs. Stella Madole spent the
week end in Nenana.
Mrs. Stella Madole came down
from Fairbanks on the Saturday
special and retured to the upper
town Sunday afternoon.
Caribou hunters are still active
in the Fairbanks district, a con
siderable number of carcasses hav
ing arrived in town during the past
couple of days. Quite a lot of fat
caribou meat also has found its
way to Nenana, where it is being
cached for winter use.
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Vitinsl rut.