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BUY A VICTORY BOND — THERE’S A REASON
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME TWO
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATFO PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1919.
NUMBER 24
REVISED COVENANT TERMS GIVEN OUT
INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL TO TRY HUN RULER
' EVENTFUL WEEK PREDICTED FOR PEACE WORKERS
INDIANA PAPERS
« TAKE STAW VOTE
ON PRESIDENT
FORT WAYNE, Ind.. Apr. 28.—
The Indiana newspaper straw vote
gives the Republican nomination
for president to General Wood, with
Hughes second, Governor Watson
third. Senator Borah fourth, Gen
eral Pershing fifth, Senator Lodge
sixth, and former President Taft
tenth.
For the Democratic nomination,
the straw vote chose Vice-President
Thomas Marshal; President Wrilson,
W. J. Bryan, Senator Clark, and
former Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo in the order named.
eventfuiTweek,
x PEACECONGRESS
Associated Press Summary. Apr
28.—It is expected that the week
begun yesterday will be the most
eventful o,ne in the annals of the
Inter-Allied Peace Conference.
The conference holds a plenary
session today at which the covenant
of the League of Nations, in its re
vised form, will be given consider
ation.
There is a possibility of the final
peace treaty being given to the
German delegation on Saturday.
The Italian senators and depu
ties, as well as members of the
^ peace delegation, are to form a
committee for the purpose of draft
ing resolutions expressing its sup
port of the government in the mat
ter of the claims to Fiume and the
Dalmatian coast.
FORMER KAISER
WILL BE TRIED
PARIS. Apr. 28.—The final
peace treaty as formulated by the j
Allied powers and which is to be
presented soon to the Germans, corn
tains a clause to the effect that
the former kaiser is to be tried
by an international tribunal, for
the supreme offense against inter
national morality and the sanctity J
of treaties.
TRIAL JUDGES
WASHINGTON, Apr. 28.—The
treaty proposes that the former
kaiser be tried by a tribunal of
five judges to be composed of one
each from America, England, Italy,
France and Japan.
PROMINENn/HNER
CALLED BY DEATH
—
SEATTLE, Apr. 28. — Harry
Faust, a prominent mining man and
well known in Northwest mining
circles, died in this city today.
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Jtcaaaa—Tta htnnj to McKiaUy j
ailUnl Park.
! NEW YORK, Apr. 28.—Samuel
Gompers, the veteran head of the
American Federation of Labor, was
injured in a collision between the
automobile he was riding in and
another machine.
His condition is reported to be
much improved today.
NATIONS’lEAGlIE
i COVENANTS ARE
WASHINGTON, Apr. 28—The
state department has released for
publication the revised covenant of
the League of Nations.
The covenant contains amend
ments exempting national and do
mestic questions from the jurisdic
state is left entirely free to decide
what armed forces, if any, each
| will contribute to the league.
The league also provides that
'mandatories will be given only to
such states of the league as are
willing to accept them.
The Monroe Doctrine is entirely
: exempted from any action by the
! league.
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DEMOCRATS VOTE
FOR DELEGATES
i
The polls opened at 8 o’clock this
morning: at the city fire hail for
the election of twelve delegates for
j the Democratic convention to be
held at Juneau on May 2, for the
: purpose of nominating a fit and
proper person to represent Alaska
at the national House of Repre
, sentatives.
! The nomineee of the Democrats
, in convention assembled at Juneau
will run on the Democratic ticket
at the special election to be held
in June for the selection of a dele
gate to Congress to succeed the late
i Delegate Charles A. Sulzer.
There are seventeen names on the
■ ballot in today's election of the dele
gates to the convention, and each
Democratic voter is entitled to vote
for twelve of them only.
Up to 3:30 this afternoon, 45
votes were cast, and it is expected
that a great many more will be cast
after the close of business this _even
ing, when the voters will be free
to go to the polls. The polls will
close at 7 o’clock.
SHIPPING BOARD
; HEAD 10 RETIRE
WASHINGTON, Apr. 28—Gen
eral Manager Piez of the United
States Shipping^ Board, retires from '
active service on May 1. j
MASONIC DANCE IS
BRILLIANT AFFAIR
The Masonic Fraternity, known
throughout the world as peerless
entertainers lived fully up to their
reputation on Saturday night, when
the Nenana Masonic club entertained
their friends at a dance at the
Union hall, which was the most bril
liant and enjoyable function ever
held in the town of Xenana;and was
also, from every point of view, an
unqualified success. .
The dance, as is customary with
all Masonic affairs of a like nature,
was an invitational affair, each
Mason being entitled to the right to
invite one of his gentleman friends
and their ladies, and the attendance
was limited to the invited guests.
The hall was, however, comfortably
crowded, the beautiful gowns worn
by the wo lien offering a pleasing
contrast to the decorations.
The hall was most beautifully
decorated for the occasion by Mes
dames Fred'k D. Browne, R. G.
Southworth, Erie R Brown, and W.
H. Gilcher, woo deserve great praise
for the transformation effected—it
was a veritable fairyland and con
tributed largely to the enjoyment
of the evening.
The front end of the hall, over
the stage, was canopied with a great
net, the meshes of which were inter
twined with tender spruce boughs,
electric lights studding it at regular
intervals most effectively. . An
aperture in the net canopy over
looking the hall was converted into
an almost correct replica of the
moon, a powerful electric bulb sup
plying the light, which, coming thru
the paper shading, cast its soft ef
fulgence on the happy dancers,
Leading from the sides and ends of
the main ceiling of the hall, broad
streamers were brought together in
the center in a bow, in the center
of which was a powerful light; the
streamers which hung in graceful
festoons were in sky blue and
white, symbolic of the colors of the
• Blue Lodge.
j The windows on either side of the
hall were centered with the Ameri
can flag with a tastefully finished
bordering of greenery; the windows
at the rear end of the hall being
decorated with bars of alternate sky
blue and white ribbons, twisted
corkscrew fashion.
At the rear end of the hall the
Masonic emblem hung suspended
from the ceiling, flanked on either
side by streamers and other decora
tions in the Masonic colors. Here
• also was located the refreshment
buffet, where refreshments, bote
liquid and solid, were dispensed lav
ishly throughout the dance.
All the lights suspended from the
celling of the main hall were cov
, ered with pretty Japanese lanterns,
heightening the effect of the beauti
ful decorations.
i The dance was commenced at
10:30 o’clock, with the grand march
led by Mr. George Markus and
Miss Luella Shaffer, immediately
following whicn programs were sup
plied to the dancers; the music was
furnished by the Coliseum orchestra,
and from the time of the opening
dance until 4 a. m., when the strains
of “Home, Sweet Home'’ intimated
to the guests that the dance was
over, there was never a dull moment.
The guests of the Masonic Club
were Mesdames Allred, Baatz, Bag
ley. Bowen, f. D. Browne, Erie
Brown, Brooker, R. E. Burns, Cal
derhead, Cooney, Diven, Dwyer, Fos
ter, Fowler, Flower, Gilcher, Hill,
Ivey, Kellum, Kestlv, Lund, Mc
Donald, More, Myers, Moyer,
O’Keefe, O'Bryan. Russell, Schaeffer,
Schmidt, Scott, Norvin Smith, Geo.
Smith, Southwortn, Sweeney, Ike
Taylor, Wm. Taylor, Tunison, Tyler,
Williams, Misses Mildred Anderson,
* Valentine Anderson, Diven. Ferretti,
Foster. McRae, McKenzie, Queenie,
Alta, Vera, and Muriel Russell,
Luella Shaffer, Margaret South
worth. Messrs Ball, Bowen, Edgar
Brooker. Dorwin Browne, Mike
Cooney, Melville Cooney, Cronin,
R. J. Diven, Kenneth Diven, Frank
Doner, Finlayson, Foster, Flower,
Fowler, Gallagher, Gilcher, Sam
Ivey Joseph, Julian, Kellum, Kestly,
Lowe, McDonald. Mortenson, Moyer,
More, O’Keefe, Packer, Rogers,
Ronan, Rutherford, Schmidt, Walter
Scott, Shaw, Geo. Smith, N'orvin
Smith, Southworth, Sweeney, Ike
Taylor, Teufel, Ed Williams.
The hosts of the evening were
Messrs Anderson, Baatz, Bresnahan,
Erie Browne, F. D. Browne, Ed
Brooker, R. E. Burns, Christophers,
Dahl, Edmunds, Funk, Graham,
Grandison, James Hagen, Hill, Hall,
Jacobsen. Kellen, Ed Lund, Mc
Donald, Markus, Myers, Reabum,
Ross. Rothenburg, Schaeffer, Scott,
Singleton, Stewart, Wm. Taylor,
Thelin, Tunison.
The dance was arranged and di
rected by a committee of Masons,
composed of Messrs Geo. Markus,
M. A. Schaeffer, Louis Anderson
and Peter Grandison.
SEA EXPERIENCE
FOR APPRENTICES
SEATTLE, Apr. 28.—The Fed
eral Shipping1 Board’s training vessel
Brookdale will leave this port within
;the next sixty days for either the
| Hawaiian Islands or Alaska.
There will be about three hun
1 dred merchant marine apprentices
i on board, and the cruise of the
Oakdale is undertaken for the pur
‘ pose of giving these apprentices the
| necessary experience at sea.
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LOCAL RED CROSS
Mrs. F. D. Browne, chairman of
the local Red Cross branch, an.
nounces that a special meeting of
the local branch will be held at
the Bowen building at two o’clock
tomorrow afternoon.
As matters of much importance,
will be up for discussion, a full
attendance of the membs-s, both
men and women, is desired.
Austin Oars, who has a logging
contract up the Tanana river, ar
rived in town on business today. (
FEDERAL RESERVE
I
SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. 28—
James Kennedy Lynch, governor
of the United States Twelfth Fed
eral Reserve district, with head
quarters in this city, died sud
denly today
His successor for the office has
not been named as yet.
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BOMBlsli
SEATTLE MAYOR
THROUGH MAIL
SEATTLE, Apr. 28.—A broken
bomb, which failed to explode while
being handled, was received at the
mayor’s office today in the mail.
Its contents were spilled on the
mayor's desk by .gne of the clerks
who opened the package containing
the bomb.
Mayor Hansen is away in Colo
rado at the present time. He is
on a speaking tour in behalf of
the Victory Loan.
SWISS PRESIDENT
MAY ARBITRATE
ITAUAN CLAIM
GENEVA, Switzerland, Apr. 28.
—President Gustave Adol, of the
Swiss Federation, left for Paris this
morning in response to an urgent
message which he received from
the Inter-Allied Peace Conference.
The newspapers here state that
President Adol has been invited by
the Allies to act as arbitrator on
the question of the Italian claims
to Fiume and the Dalmatian coast.
alliesTask
SURRENDER OF
FORMER KAISER
WASHINGTON, Apr. 28—The
final peace treaty to be presented
to German contains a clause to the
effect that the Allies will demand
the surrender of the kaiser by the
government of the Netherlands.
The treaty also provides for the
surrender, by Germany, of all per
sons accused of committing acts in
violation of the laws, customs and
usages of war. The defendants,
who are permitted to choose their
own counsel, if found guilty will
be sentenced to punishments pre
scribed by military law.
Little Miss Ethel Morrison was
taken to the hospital this afternoon
suffering from appendicitis. She
will be operated on this evening.
Dr. More stated that it was an
ordinary case of appendicitis and .
was not of a serious nature.
KETCHIKAN MAYOR
MAY FACE CHARGE
OF GRAVE NAIURE
According to advices received :n
Fairbanks this afternoon, Mayor
Petty, of Ketchikan, and the union
labor leaders there sent the fol
lowing telegram recently to the
territorial senate at Juneau: "If
\ ietory Loan is to be success, Dunn
Pennington bill must pass without
restrictions. Political suicide for
senators opposing it.”
Immediately after the receipt of
the above message, the senate passed
a resolution requesting the federal
authorities to investigate the mat
ter and wanting to know whether
or not the actiefi of the Ketchikan
mayor and the labor leaders re
garding the Victory Loan is treason.
The Commercial club of Ketchi
kan and about a dozen of the prom
inent citizens of that town have
wired to the senate, repudiating the
moyor’s action.
ROME, Apr. 28.—The train con
veying Foreign Minister Sonnino,
his staff and the other member?
of the Italian delegation to the
Peace Conference, from Paris to
Rome, was literally besieged by the
vast throngs assembled at the stop
ping places enroute.
Yesterday, when the train stop
ped at Genoa. Minister Sonnino.
who presented the Italian claims
to the Peace Conference, addressed
the assembled concourse of people.
He stated that the Italian govern
ment is determined to obtain what
is due to Italy, and that the Italian
claim? will be pressed unrelentingly
until a settlement satisfactory to
Italy is arrived at.
Salvatore Barzilai, a member of
the Italian peace delegation, stated
positively that he does not intend
to return to Paris.
WASHINGTON, Apr. 28.—It is
unofficially reported today that the
subscriptions to the Victory Loan
to date amounts to one billion
dollars.
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