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THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA ALASKA. TUESDAY, JULY 19. 1921
NUMBER 45
* DEADLOCK MENACES IRISH CONFERENCE
AMERICAN LEGION TAKES ISSUE WITH PRESIDENT
SECRET ORGANIZATION CAUSING TROUBLE IN SOUTH
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NEW ORGANIZATION GIVING
TROUBLE IN THE SOUTH
DALLAS, Texas, July 19—The j
authorities in widely separated sec- j
tions in the Southern states are tak- ;
ing cognizance of a series of at- j
tacks in which the victims have been j
tarred and fearthered, apparently !
by widely organized societies. The
cases number more than a score
-4 within the last few months, and in-j
dicate the existence of a secret or-!
ganization similar to that of recon
struction days, following the Civil,
war.
The motives for the attacks are
cleverly concealed, but appear to be
for “moral reasons.”
The latest attack reported oc
curred at Tenaha, Texas, on Sun
day, the victim being Mrs. Buelah
Johnson, who is charged with bigamy
This is the first attack against a
woman.
Prelate Given a Coat
MIAMI, Fla., July 19—Phillip S.
Irwin, archdeacon of the English
Episcopal church, who is in charge
of the work of that church among
the Florida negroes, was waylaid by
a party of masked men on Sunday.
He was carried into the woods
and whipped, after which he was
given a coat of tar and feathers
and then carried by automobile to
the business section of the city and
dumped into the street.
TOM GIBBONS IS MATCHED
TO BOX WITH FRENCHMAN
NEW YORK, July 3 9—Promoter
“Tex” Rickard announces that arti
cles have been signed for a fight
between Tom Gibbons, of St. Paul,
and Georges Carpentier, for the
world’s light heavyweight title. The
bout will be staged in October, at
Jersey City or Madison Square Gar
den, in this city. The men will fight
at 175 pounds or under, but other
-4 details remain to be arranged.
MURDER MYSTERY THICKENS
EL PASO. July 19—Charles F.
Robinson, fireman on the train on
which William Bohlman. engineer,
was mysteriously killed on July 8,
rear Sanderson, Texas, committed
suicide yesterday morning. The fire
■% man, who was slightly injured when
the train was wTecked, after the
engineer had been killed, was ar
rested in connection with the affair,
and was been held pending an in
vestigation.
AVIATORS PLANNING FLIGHT
ACROSS BERING FROM NOME
SAN FRANCISCO. July 19—L. M.
Bachery and Clarence O. Prest, ar
4 rived here by airplane yesterday
from Venice, Cal., on their way to
Siberia. After a brief stop here
they left for Lasvegas, Nenada.
They plan to take a mining man
from Nome, across Bering sea, into
Siberia.
HOUSE WANTS FREE OIL
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 19—
The house has struck from the
tariff bill the proposed duty on
crude oil, the action having been
determined by a vote of 187 to 79.
There will be another vote on the
oil schedule, however, prior to the
, final passage of the bill.
Jfsaana, Where malls and mivers Meet
LONDON CONFERENCES HALTED;
TROUBLE CONTINUES AT BELFAST
PITTSBURG PRISONERS SET
FIRE TO BIG PENITENTIARY
TITTSBURG, July 19—Fire and'
riot alarms were turned into the
police departments from the West-,
ern penitentiary yesterday, shortly
after noon, the reports from the j
prison stating that the prisoners had
revolted and set fire to the institu-,
tion.
Nine fire companies responded to
the call, and police reserves were
rushed to the scene. A cordon of
police was immediately thrown about
the prison, which contains between
1,200 and 1.500 inmates.
Great volumes of smoke were
pouring from the buildings when the
fire companies arrived and a peep
through the prison gates revealed
a detachment of Pittsburg detect
ives, with drawn revolvers, facing a
great crowd of prisoners, who ap
peared to be in great terror. Many
of the prisoners broke the windows
in the upper stories and called for
help as the flames crept along the
cells toward them.
Persons in the streets nearby dis
tinctly heard shrieks and groans
issuing from the burning buildings.
All wire communication between
this city and the prison was cut
yesterday before the riot calls came
in.
AUTHORITIES GOING AFTER
I. W. W. IN SOUTH DAKOTA
PIERRE, S. D., July 19—Assist
ant Attorney General Sickle has in
formed Sheriff Getchild, of Hand
county, that the lawless bands of
I. W. W., who are charged with two
murders within the past three days,
must be broken up at all costs as
soon as possible.
BEER BILL GETS A SETBACK
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jluy 19—
The Campbell anti-beer bill was
given a setback yesterday when
the senate refused to give the bill
the right of way over the Norris
farmers’ relief measure.
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TWO FISHERMEN LOSE LIVES
VANCOUVER, B. C., July 19
Two unidentified white fishermen
were drowned at Schooner passage
last Friday when their boat col
; lided with the Vancouver steamer
; Celtic, of the Coast Steamship Co.
M MILLAN EXPEDITION STARTS
WISCASSET, Me., July 19—D.
B. McMillan and six other adven
turers sailed from this place on Sai
, urday, enroute to Baffinland. They
j were given a great sendoff by over
2,000 admirers.
MARY BAKER EDDY HONORED
1 CONCORD, July 19—A group of
Christian Scientists pilgrimaged on
' Saturday to the birthplace of Mary
Baker Eddy, in commemoration of
the one hundredth anniversary of
her birth.
| Mrs. C. D. McCauley returned to
i her home in Fairbanks today.
LONDON. July 19—It is declared
in responsible quarters that the
Irish situation has developed into a
deadlock between Lloyd George and
Premier Craig, of Ulster. It is under
stood the Ulster premier has beer
given the opportunity to go to Bel
fast to see if anything can be done
to smooth the way for further con
ferences.
All Peaceful Except Belfatt
DUBLIN, July 19—Reports re
ceived at Dublin Castle indicate
that quite prevails throughout rural
Ireland, the only disorders having
occurred in the Belfast, where there |
is a feeling of uncertainty. Several ;
, i
riots have occurred in the city of
Belfast since the commencement of :
peace negotiations, but the trouble
appears to be confined to that part I
of Ireland. •
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Conferred YeetercUy
LOXDOX, July 19—The third
conference between Lloyd George {
and President Devalera took ■ place
yesterday, but the result of the •
meeting has been withheld from the
public.
ATTITUDE OF WILSON SHOWN :
IN LETTER TO LLOYD GEORGE
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 19—
A letter written by former Presi
dent to Lloyd George, in which the
American executive declared that the
United States could not consider
proposals to eancel or exchange the
debt of Great Britain, was ordered
placed in the Congressional Record
yesterday at the request of Senator
Lodge.
The • letter was dated October,
1920, and was apparently a reply
to a letter from the British premier
seeking delay, which was made pub
lic last week.
BIG COWBOY SHOW STARTS;
MANY RIDERS WILL COMPETE
CHICAGO, July 19—More than
100 cowboys and cowgirls from all
parts of the West, arrived here on
Saturday to participate in the
world’s championship cowboy con
tests, at Grant Park.
The contests will continue over
| a period of nine days and more than
- $20,000 will be distributed in prizes.
SPOKANE TAXICAB DRIVER
VICTIM OF MURDER PLOT
—
SPOKANE. July 19—A body,
! which has been identified as that of
[ Lee Slater, taxicab driver who has
I been missing since last Thursday,
i was taken from the Spokane river
I yesterday, bound and gagged.
A brother of the dead man was
1 murdered in Los Angeles sever il
i years ago under very similar eircum
j stances.
GOTHAM HAS COSTLY FIRE
NEW YORK, July 19—Fifty fire
men were overcome yesterday while
fighting a million dollar fire in the
building occupied by the Phoenix
Chinese Company, on Lower Man
hattan. Fumes from the refrigerat
ing plant compelled the firemen to
work in relays.
CANADIAN SOLDIERS FAVOR
PLANS FOR DISARMAMENT
OTTAWA, July 19—Prominent
former soldiers have suggested to
Field Marshal Haig that he clearly
place before the British represent
atives at the disarmament confer
ence the fact that f^'-mer sen-ice
men generally favor disarmament,
Jconsistent with proper defense.
NEW BANK WILL BE STARTED
TO CARRY ON OLD BUSINESS
SEATTLE, July 19—At a meet
ing of more than 100 members of
the Washington Depositors’ Guaranty
Fund, held in this city yesterday, it
■was decided to organize a new bank,
with a capital of a million and a
quarter, to take over the deposits
and liabilities of the defunct Scandi
navian American Bank of Seattle.
The new bank, as soon as the or
ganization has been perfected, will
pay in full all deposits of the old
bank, of less than $100, and 75
per cent on all larger accounts. The
balance will be paid at a later date,
from the profits of the new insti
tution.
ORGANIZER UNDER ARREST
FOR DEFRAUDING PUBLIC
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa, July 19—
H. H. Hanson, secretary of the Na
tional Organization of Good Fellows
of America, was arrested here yes-!
terday on a charge of using the;
mails to defraud.
It is charged that Hanson secured ■
$62,500 in 25-cent memberships
from a quarter of a million persons j
throughout the United States.
TRIAL FARCE CONTINUES;
TWO MORE FOUND GUILTY
LEIPSIC, July 19—lieutenants'
Dittmef and Boldt, charged with i
murder in the first degree for firing
on lifeboats after the Canadian
hospital ship, Landover Castle, had
been topedoed in 1918, were found
guilty yesterday, and each was given ,
a sentence of four years.
The sentences did not even carry
hard labor.
PROMINENT CITIZEN WHIPPED
DICKINSON, Texas, July 19—
G. C. Benson, a prominent citizen
of this city, was seized by three
. masked men last night, taken half
a mile from town and whipped with
a leather. Before releasing him, the
men warned Benson, unde: thieit A
death, to maintain strict silence re
garding the affair.
MAN SURVIVES HEART THRUST
NLW YORK, July 19—Frank Par
mo, of this city, is rapid: ’ recover
ing from a knife thrus .i the heart.
The operating surgeons took foui
i stitchi s in the heart muscles.
OFFICIALS COMING NORTH
FOR VISIT IN SEPTEMBER
SAN DIEGO, July 19—Announce
ment was made here today that the j
destroyers Parrott, Edsall, Macleish.
Simpson, Bulmer and McCormick, of
the Thirty-eighth division, have beer
assigned to make a cruise of Al- j
askan waters early in September
Secretaries Denby and Fall and j
other prominent officials will make
the trip North ’ on the destroyer*
and. after an inspection of Alaska
mine fields, will board the battleship
New York, for a trip to Honolulu.
The destroyers will start iof Seat
tle during the coming month, and
will there await the arrival of the
two secretaries.
FAITH IN LENINE HOLDS
RUSSIAN SOVIET INTACT
RIGA, Latvia, July 1—l.enine’s
personality and the faith that most
Russian peasants and workingmen
have in him, despite their dissatis
faction with conditions under which
they are forced to live, is perhaps
the one big factor that holds "the
Bolshevik regime in power, accord
ing to Captain M. C. Cooper, of
Jacksonville, Fla., who escaped from
a prison camp near Moscow. He
was flying for the Polish army when
made prisoner in July, last year.
“Lenine is still the most popular
man in Russia,” declares Captain
Cooper. "Much more so than Leon
Trotsky. I found that the majority
of peasants and workingmen, even
those in prison, believed in him.
They are terrorized by the ‘Teheka’,
or Counter Revolutionary Committee
which really is running things in
Russia. But I believe that if the
‘Teheka’ were abolished, practically
everybody would ,be for Lenine.”
This, said the captain, is not hard
to understand, for Lenine's pictures
have been distributed everywhere.
Travelers in Russia will see two of
his pictures for every one of Leon
T rotsky.
Regarding the ‘Tcheka , which,
with its manifold branches and sub
divisions that stretch out like the
tentacles of an octopus into every
village, forming a combined supreme
court, detective department and spy
system, which has powers of life
and death to “eombat counter revol
ution”, Captain Cooper says:
“The Tcheka has every one ter
rorized. The saying is that one in
every four persons is a member of
it or some other sort of a spy. One
of the Russian officers with whom I
was imprisoned and who has been
informed that he was to be re
leased, told me he was afraid to
go home, as he had four children,
and was afraid one of them might
be a spy.”
E. M. E'idle, of Philadelphia,
was registered at.the Southern this
week, having arrived on the steam
er Tanana on Sunday.
Bcaana, Alaska’* Interior met t'cpot
COMMANDER SAYS HARDING
IS WRONG ON BONUS ISSUE
CHICAGO. July ID—The fight of
the American Legion for the soldier
bonus will be continued with re
newed vigor, according to National
Commander Emery, who declared, in
a statement made yesterday, that
“if the war had continued another
30 days, it would have cost the Gov
ernment as much as the proposed
compensation program. We consider
President Harding all wrong in his
attitude, as the senate finance com
mittee declared in its report on the
bonus bill that the program would
not bankrupt the treasury."
FORMER PITCHER TESTIFIES
REGARDING CROOKED DEAL
CHICAGO, July 19—Bill Furth,
former major league pitcher and
one of the original World’s serie*
scandal defendants, was called by
the state today to testify, first hand,
regarding the alleged conspiracy. He
has been given immunity.
COLLISION IS FATAL
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Col., July
19—Earl Dittman, fireman, was kill
ed, and two others injuied today
when a Denver & Rio Grande east
bound passenger crashed into a
westbound freight.
FIREMAN WAS CRAZY
EL PASO, July 19—An autopsy
performed on the body of Charles
F. Robinson, fireman, who committed
suicide, indicated that he had been
insane since July 8, the date on
which Engineer William Bohlman
was murdered. The autopsy revealed
pressure on the dead man’s brain.
DANIELS IS DENOUNCED
FOR WARTIME WHITEWASH
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 19—
The majority report of the senate
sub-committee denounces former Sec
retary Daniels and his assistant.
Franklin Roosevelt, for the methods
used by them in investigating war
time scandal among enlisted men at
the Newport training station. The
report declares that the charges
made by Newport clergymen and
the Providence Journal have been
proven.
Roosevelt has issued a statement
in which he claims the Republican
members of the committee issueJ
their findings without giving him
a hearing, as they had promised to
do.
MRS. BERGDOLL TELLS STORY
OF ESCAPE OF HER SON
WASHINGTON, D. C , July 19—
Mrs. Emma Bergdoll told the house
investigating committee today that
she paid $5,000 to Major Bruce
Campbell, an army officer at Gov
ernor’s Island, ‘‘for use among
high officials at Washington to help
obtain the freedom of her son,
Grover.”
Campbell Says The Lady Lies
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., July 19
Major Campbell says the story of
Mrs. Bergdoll, regarding his con
nection with the escape of her son,
is a “lie made out of whole cloth.”
Marshal L. T. Ervin came down
from Fairbanks today.