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DAILY NEWS
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NENANA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1919
WHOLE NUMBER 253
SEATTLE FAILS TO STOP STRIKE MOVE
GERMANS WANT COLONIES RESTORED TO THEM
WILSON INSISTS ON CARRYING OUT NAVAL PROGRAM
WILSON RECEIVES i
HEAR1Y WELCOME!
FROM SOCIALISES;
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Socialists of Chamber of Deputies
Are Unusually Warm In
Greeting Wilson.
(Associated Press)
PARIS, Feb. 4.—President Wil
son was given a great reception at
the French Chamber of Deputies
today, a vertible storm of applause j
greeting him as he made his en
trance into ?he hall.
His reception, by the Socialist
members of the Chamber of Depu
ties was unusually fervid, and the
applause from them fairly drowned
out all other applause. The So
cialists tried in every possible way
to show President Wilson that they
held ideas whch were the same as
his. .
The cry of the Socialists of the
chamber was “Down with war,
long live society of nations ”
bolshetoImy
JOIN IHE ALLIES
Associated P^sss
PARIS, Feb. 4.—According to re
ports received in this city today,
the Russian Bolsheviki have signi
fied their willingness to take all
possible measures to bring about a
friendly agreement with the En
tente Allies.
A despatch from Moscow indi
cates that the Bolsheviki received
no formal invitation to the con
ference arranged for by the Allies,
at Princes Island.
IRISH REES
BREAK PRISON
Sinn Fein Leaders Confined In
English Prison, Manage to
Make Their Get-Away.
(Associated Press)
LONDON, Feb. 4.—Professor Ed
ward De Valera, one of the leaders
of the Sinn Fein movement, and
Milroy and McGarry, Sinn Fein
members of parliament, managed to
make theis escape from the prison
in which they were confined.
The men were arrested shortly
after the outbreak of the Sinn Fein
rebellion in Ireland, were tried, con
victed and given heavy jail sen
tences.
CONVICT RELEASED;
INSANE MAN DEAD
A notice received by the authori
ties in Fairbanks on the last mail
told of the release from McNeil’s
Island of William Clark.
Clark had a barber shop at Ester
City and was' convicted of theft,
along with George Smith, some time
ago. Smith and Clark drugged
their victim before robbing him.
Paul Hoppe, who was adjudged
insane and sent to Morningside In
sane Asylum some time back, died
at that institution recently.
EAST UKRAINE IS
UNDER BOL GRIP
Associated Press
LONDON, Feb. 4.—According to j
reports received in this city today,
from reliable Russian sources, the
Bolsheviki are now in control of
nearly the entire Eastern part of
Ukraine.
PRINCIPLES FOR
PROMOTION OF
BUS LEAGUE
French Advocate Forward* Some
Recommendation* to Committee
of Society of Nation*
(Associated Press} '
PARIS, Feb. 4.—Leon Bourgeois,
French advocate of the league of!
nations, transmitted today to the j
committee of the society of na-1
tions, certain recommendations re-|
garding the principles which Were
submitted to him by the Inter-j
Allied Association for the promotion i
of a league of nations.
One of these recommendations t
urged the establishment, by the (
society of nations, of an inter-1
national committee on education- |
Another recommendation sought!
to prohibit the sale of arms to j
States outside the league of na- j
tions, and another to prohibit the j
manufacture of all arms and muni-,
tions of war by private establish-'
ments.
It is also recommended that the j
league of nations fix the number j
of men to be enrolled in the mill-1
tary and naval forces of each:
member nation of the league.
PIONEER MEETING i
HELD LAST NIGHT i
Nenana Igloo No. 17, Pioneers j
fof Alaska held a very largely at- j
tended meeting last night at the
Union Hall. I
D. L. Carolan and Dan Kinally f
were duly initiated into the mys- ^
teries of the order, and were en
rolled as members of the local igloo.:
The recent reduction of forces j
on the railroad was discussed at ^
some length, and a committee was
appointed to send a wire of pro-,
test to Secretary Lane and Dele- j
gate Wickersham and to demand
immediate relief.
A committee was also appointed
to act in conjunction with the;
committee of the Moose lodge and
to make arrangements for exhum-!
ing the body of W. F. Carpenter:
I for removal and burial in the Ne
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nana cemetery.
Carpenter’s decomposed body was*
found in a slough about a mile j
above town, and was buried where |
found because removal at that time i
was impossible as it was in a very!
advanced stage of decomposition, j
He was a member of the Moose j
and Pioneer lodges, and the burial j
of the body is being attended to
by both fraternities.
Much other business of import
ance was transacted and the meet
ing was concluded at a late hour.
VemUma, Alaska’s Interior Vast Depot]
STRIKE SITUATION
IS VERY SERIOUS
A ssoc iated Press
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SEATTLE, Fob. 4.—The strike]
situation here has reached serious j
proportions and the hope expressed
earlier for some chance of a settle-j
ment has now been practically '■
abandoned.
The trouble was launched on:
January 21, when in obedience to j
orders issued by the Metal Trades
Council, between 25,000 and 30,000
shipyard workers went out on j
strike, and all the shipyards and ]
contract shops were shut down as I
a consequence.
The strikers demanded a wage l
scale of one dollar an hour for |
mechanics, and from six to seven j
dollars a day for apprentices, lab-!
orers and helpers.
The Metal Trades Council, which'
called the strike, also called upon1
all the electricians and engineers
working in the yards to strike.
The general strike will become j
effective on Thursday morning,]
February 6, when almost everyone
will be out on strike, and the street
cars will run into the barns to
await the settlement of the strike.
In order that those who have)
been depending on the restaurants
may not suffer, the unions have
arranged for the establishing of
soup kitchens in various parts of
the city.
The members of the Typographi
cal and Stereotypers unions have j
also ag'eed to strike on Thursday, j
and it is quite probable that the
Seattle newspapers will be com
pelled to suspend publication, pend
ing a settlement of the difficulty.
COLOSSAL BLUNDER
SEATTLE. Kelt. 4.—Charles Pier,!
j direeetor general of the Federal j
I Shipping Board, in a full-page ad-1
j vertisement, says that the shipyard i
i strike is a colossal business blunder.
I He advises the men to return to
j work. <]nl get together with the em- j
, ployers to see what could be done j
! to remedy the existing state of;
I affairs.
He urges that the shipyards be
| put it shape as soon as possible
| so that this country may be en
| abled to compete successfully with
(the world in shipbuilding.
HOUSE APPROVES i
NAVAL PROGRAM
FOR iFREE YEARS:
Proident Cablet Danielt There
It No Caute For Changing
Naval Program.
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(Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—The,
House Naval committee has unani- i
mously approved the administra
tion's three year naval building
policy.
They have now under considera
tion the transportation bill, which
carries with it an appropriaton of
seven hundred and fifty million
dollars, and it is expected that this
will also be approved without a dis
senting voice.
President Wilson has cabled to
Secretary of the Navy Daniels, in
sisting up on the three year naval
program. He said, in his telegram
that nothing has occurred in Ku
rope to cause him to change the
recommendations he had made in
his annual message to Congress, re
garding the building up of the navy.
IMPORTANT MEETING OF
NENANA CLUB TONIGHT
All members of the Nenana club
are urged to attend a meeting of
the club which will be held at the
chambers of the Nenana Commer
cial club in the Union Building,
commencing at 8 o’clock tonight.
Matters of great importance to
the members 'will come up for dis
cussion and the rehabilitation of
the club in quarters of its own
will probably be decided on at this
meeting.
Every member should make a
special effort to be present tonight.
Rmu. AlMka'i zatotor Turt Bapot
■attraal Ink.
GERMANS RESENT
ALLIED PLANS 10 I
| RETAIN COLONIES:
(Associated Press)
j BASEL, Switzerland, Feb. 4.
; According to reports received in j
i this city today, German Armistice
! Commissoner Erzberger, speaking
before the Berlin Colonial Society,
protested strongly against Ger
many’s loss of her colonies.
He said that President Wilson's
i program regarding the disposition
| of territory captured * during the
war, gives Germany inviolable right
to her colonies.
If the Allies intend to interna
tionalize Germany’s colonies, he
said, they should also internation
alize their own, under President
1 Wilson’s ruling.
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SELLENDER LEAVING
VIA BROAD PASS TRAIL
Charles Sellender, who had been
connected with the A. E. C. for
some time past, in the mechanical
engineering department, leaves to
morrow morning for the coast via
the Broad Pass trail.
He is making a short business
visit to Oakland, California, and
expects to be back in the North
next spring. Mr. Sellender will
travel with his own dog team.
ELDORADO MINER
RECEIVES INJURY
Ole Larson, a Little Eldorado
miner was brought to the Fair
banks hospital today, suffering from
severe bruises on his side and head.
The injuries were sustained when
a frozen slab of earth fell on him
while he was at work.
The doctor in attendance stated
that he would be all right in a
week or ao.
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WiRELESS MEN
GEI INCREASE
. (Associated Press)
VANCOUVER, B. (\, Feb. 4.— ]
Wireless operators serving on board '
steamships struck recently for high
er wages. The employers have
granted the increase demanded and
the difficulty has now been smoothed ■
over.
NATION HONORS
THE MEMORY OF
CARTER L..K00N
The Late Carter Koon’s Memory
Is Honored By Award of the
Distinguished Service Cross.
In a telephone message from
Fairbanks this afternoon, the first
details of how Carter Koon met his
death were made publie to his many
friends in Nenana. The wire was
sent by Senator Dan Sutherland, of
Ruby, now in Juneau, and forwarded
to the News. Carter Koon, one
of the first of Nenana's boys to
volunteer for overseas service, en
listed in Co. B,, 1st Engineers, and
left Nenana shortly after the war
broke out.
According to the officer in charge
of Koon’s company, he was killed
in action at Soissons on July 20,
1918, after displaying such bravery
under fire as would bring to even
war hardened troopers a feeling
of intense admiration. From the
description it appears that under
the heaviest of shell fire before
|Soissons, Koon’s company, as a unit
of the division, was forced to fall
! back to a more sheltered position,
but not before many of the boys
had fallen. It was in rescuing
these that Carter Koon met his
i death. A call was made for vol
[ unteers to return under the with
ering fire and bring in the wounded.
Koon volunteered and had made
: two trips, each time bringing in on
his back one of his comrades. It
was on the third trip that he fell
mortally wounded. He died shortly
after being taken to the rear and
while his wound was being dressed
He was buried with military honors
on the battlefield.
For this signal bravery, the Dis
tinguished Service Cross was award
ed to Carter and has since been
■sent to his brother, John J. Koon,
; Fredonia, Ky.
AUTO ARRIVED
FROM FAIRBANKS
Harry Karsten’s auto arrived in
town this evening from Fairbanks
with a few express packages and
Miss Ferretti, Tommy Carr and .1.
W. Pratt as passengers. He had no
! mail aboard this trip.
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NOW IN DISPUTE
Conference Ends Conflict Between
Poles and Czechs, Pending
Settlement of Dispute.
Associated Press
PARIS, Feb. 4.—The peace con
ference announced today that ow
ing; to a conflict between the Poles
and the Czechs, resulting; in the oc
cupation of the Ostrau Karwin
mining; district, and the railroad be
tween Oderburg, Teschen and
Jabunkau, by the Czecho-Slovak
forces; the great powers who are
members of the Inter-Allied peace
conference have declared it neces
sary, to remind the nationalities
who have agreed to submit terri
torial questions to the peace con
ference for arbitration, that they
must refrain from occupying con
tested territory.
SENATE DEBATES
LEAGUE PROBLEIVI
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—During
the course of a lengthy debate in
the Senate on the proposed forma
tion of a league of nations, Senator
Gilbert M. Hitchcock (Democrat)
: of Nebraska, said that he felt sure,
that at the proper time and before
committing the American govern
ment to a definite policy regarding
its relations with other nations,
President Wilson would advise the
Senate fully regarding the agree
ment arrived at for the formation
of the league of nations.
enator Hitchcock is the chairman
of the Senate Foreign Relations
1 committee,
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MAIL IS ENROUTE
FROM FAIRBANKS
According to advices received
today from the postmaster at Fair
bunks, Postmastter McDonald an
nounces that a shipment of mail
j left Fairbanks on the Malumute
Kid’s dog sled, and may be ex
pected to arrive in Nenana some
time tomorrow afternoon.
FAIRBANKS KIDDIES
HELP FRENCH FARMERS
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I All the school children of Fair
banks are on the hunt for ten-ccnt
pieces, and it is estimated that the
supply in the town has almost been
exhausted to satisfy the craving
of the kiddies.
■ The plan of the kids is t<? send
out the money collected next Fri
day to the States, where it is to be
used in the purchase of fresh eggs,
which in turn are to be sent to the
farmers in France, so that they
may be able to raise poultry to
stock their depleted farms with.
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i A small box of wild grass bet
: ter known to Alaskan mushers as
j “wild cotton” was recently brought
! to the office of the Industrial
Worker at Nome. The fibers are
reported to be long and silky, and
the paper says in time this fibre
will be spun into fine robes.
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