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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE member of associated press
NENANA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 19*9.
WHOLE NUMBER 239
AMERICANS OPPOSE SECRET CONCLAVE
PACIFIC COAST METAL WORKERS CALL STRIKE
LEADER OF SPARTACANS IS SHOT BY HUN SOLDIERS
SPARTACAN LEADERS
MEET TRAGIC FATE
BERLIN, Jan. 17.—Dr. Karl
Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg,
leaders of the extreme radical
Socialist party, commonly known as
the Spartacus group, were killed
yesterday.
The two were arrested by the
loyal Ebert troops yesterday and
taken to a hotel from which place
they were to be. ’taken, under a
strong escort, to a properly guarded
prison. While the small detach
ment of troops were awaiting the
arrival of more of their number,
the crowd who had learned of the
arrests, made a rush and easily
overpowering the handful of troops,
took Rosa Luxemburg from them.
They beat the woman into insensi
bility and after firing a few shots
into her inert body, threw it into
>. a nearby canal.
In the meantime fresh troops had
arrived and under a proper guard,
Karl Liebknecht started in an auto
mobile for Moabit prison- On the
way to the prison the machine
suffered a punctured tire, and it
became necessary for those on
board to step out so that repairs
could be effected. Liebknecht at
tempted to escape shortly after
alighting and was shot dead by the
soldiers, who anticipated and were
i well prepared for just such a move.
Dr. Karl Liebknecht visited Amer
ica in 1910, and lectured in New
’York; his lectures always drawing
large crowds, mostly of Socialists.
I Shortly after his return to Ger
many from the States he was elect
ed to a seat in the Reichstag. Later
on, he caused a furore in Germany
| by bringing charges, in the Reich
stag, against the Krupps, implicat
ing the kaiser, crown prince and
other high officials of the country.
He was arrested for making in
cendiary speeches during the war,
tried, found guilty and sentenced
J to. four years’ imprisonment; two
of which he served.
Associated Press
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 17.—Accord
ing to a report received in this city
today, the Allied powers have ex
tended the armistice ' between them
selves and Germany.
MEM
SHE CM1ED
f 1
Recent Action of Federal Board In
Wage Award U Cause of
Serious Strike.
Associated Press
SEATTLE, Jan. 17.—The Metal
Trades Council has ordered a strike
wihch will affect twenty-five thous
which will affect twenty-five thous
and shipyard workers. The strike
commences Tuesday.
It is expected that similar action
will be taken in Tacoma and Port
land- '
The strike has been caused by
dissatisfaction with the .Federal
Machinery Board’s recent action in
the matter of the wage award. The
men demand a basic wage of a
dollar an hour.
It is reported that the employers
will hold a meeting today.
ROY LUND’S DOG STAGE
LEFT FOR FAIRBANKS TODAY
Roy Lund’s dog stage pulled out
this morning with the mail, bound
for Fairbanks, via the river trail.
He expects to be back in Nenana
in a few days and will bring an
other shipment of mail for us.
AUTO BRINGS FOUR
FkoM UPPER TOWN
A Karsten’s auto left Fairbanks
this morning with four passengers
for Nenana, they being Q. F. Lehr,
Tom Armstrong, Mi'/, Louise Lohr
and Miss Lena Brown.
(Associated Press)
! MADISON, Wis., Jan. 17.—The
! state of Wisconsin ratified the
] Federal Prohibition Amendment to
I day.
(Associated Press!
MADRID, Jan. 17.—Premier
Lenine of the Russian Bolsheviki,
government,, landed at Barcelona
today.
His vist to Spain is undoubtedly
for the purpose of spreading the
Bolsheviski doctrine among the
Spanish people.
CZECHOSLOVAKS
OCCUPY FRONTIER
, „ (Associated Press;
AMSTERDAM, Jan. , 17.—Des
patches received in this city today
from Bohemia state that the Czecho
slovak forces ■ have occupied the
Bavarian frontier.
Strong pickets have been placed
within hearing distance of each
other along the entire length of the
Bohemian-Bavarian boundary line
A number of mechanics, wage
workers and other laborers met at
the union hall in Anchorage recently
for the purpose of organizing a
local for membership in the Ameri
can Federattion of Labor. This or
ganization does not in any way con
flict with the Alaska Labor Union,
which at one time had several thous
and members, but split on the rock
of politics and 4he exodus to the
States.
HURLEY DEVISES
FUN 10 ASSISI
AMERICAN SOIPSI
New" Shipping Policy Will Alio*
American Ships to Compete
Successfully In Trade.
Associated Press
PARIS, Jan. 17.—According to
the Associated Press despatches,1
American shipping will now be able
to make rates in successful com
petition with other nations.
Director Hurley, of the Federal
Shipping Hoard, who is now on a
visit to this city, devised the plan
which will aid American shipping
PADERWSK! Will
Aged Pianist May Represent New
Nation at the InterAllied Peace
Conference. 1
(A ssoi'ia led Press) .
PARIS, Jan.. 17.—It is expected
that Paderwski, the world famous
pianist, will soon be elected the
head of the Polish ministry, which
is now in course of formation.
It is also announced that Paderw
ski has reached an agreement with
General Pilsudski, the Polish mili
tary dictator, and M. Demoski, the
president of Poland, to represent
the .new nation at the peace con
ference.
SIEEl NOW LAID
BEYONDJROSSING
Steel was today laid commencing
kfrom* the southern end of the big
bridge ■ across the Nenana river at
j 43-mile and will be rushed .with all
possible speed towards the Burns
mine and- the Lignite coal fields.
As stated before in these columns
the Burns mine is approximately
[six miles from the southern end of
the bridge at the Crossing, and
from the main line a spur track
approximately 1000 feet long runs
to the tipple at the mine. A short
trestle from the mine pit leads to
the bunker, which is so constructed
that the coal cars could be run
under it and loaded very rapidly.
The bunker, which will have a
capacity of 300 tons, is almost com
pleted and the trestle approach
from the mine pit is rapidly taking
shape: ' 1
From station No. 17640 to station
No. 17663, a distance of 1300 feet,
there is a piece of unfinished grade
on which the contractors Alick Kal
isoff & Co. are now working.
It is expected that the gap in
the grade .will be finished by the
time the steel reaches it and the
extension of the road will. not be
held back any on this account.
A large plate glass window #was
recently broken at Valdez by a
gale of wind.
L
EAVE DAWSON
FOR THE ARCTIC
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Send a Patrol On Annual
Pilgrimage.
i. Asso Press)
DAWSON, .Ian. 17.—A detach
ment of the Royal Northwest Mount
ed Police left Dawson today on the
annual trip to the post at Herschel
Island.
They carried a quantity of in
fluenza serum and to prevent it
freezing enroute, the packages con
taining the serum were carried in
belts which the men of the patrol
wore next to their skins.
AIR MAIL SERVICE
FOR ALASKA WILL
S RATTLE. .Tan, 17—r-Jaek- Under
wood, the assistant to the Times'
correspondent at Washington, D. (' ,
wires that Second Assistant Post
master General Praeger said that
there will be no aerial mail service
between Seattle and Alaska for
three years, unless someone is will
ing to make a contract with the
government involving the expendi
ture of about fifty thousand dollars,
at least, for equipment.
Praeger also says that Juneau
may be on the Canadian Vancouver,
Dawson aerial route.
NEW BOYS ARE
IN NORTH YAKIMA
A letter received on the last mail
from Ralph Darling, formerly a
transitman in the employ of the
A. E. C., tells of his employment
in the Reclamation Service, near
his home town. Kenneth Case, for
mer resident engineer at Nenana
Crossing, is also in the same service,
he says.
Both these young men were re
cently discharged from the army
and only recently reached North
Yakima, where they intendcfl to in
dulge in some holidaying together.
Ralph says they put in their ap
plications with the Reclamation
Service, but did not expect to be
placed for some time. The Re
clamation Service acted promptly
on their applications, and conse
quently their proposed vacation was
cut short.
Five cars of concentrate from the
Venus mine, and two cars of ore
from the Engineer mine at White
hprse, were shipped out recently.
This makes a very valuable ship
ment, as both of these properties
carry high grade ores. Four car
loads of machinery were also
brought out from ldayo, on the
Stewart river.
SECRECY CONDEMNED
AT PEACE COUNCILS
i PARIS, .Ian. 17.—At the first
j c onference of the supreme inter
| Allied council, at which President
Wilson was present, it was decided
| to hold in abeyance, the proposed
rule for virtual secrecy regarding
the deliberations of the members
representing the Allied nations.
It was decided to ask the Ameri
can, British and Italian corres
pondents present at this first con
ference, to present some plan for
reporting the meeting, and in re
sponse to the request of the mem
bers of the council, the British cor
respondents stated that they want
one correspondent admitted to the
deliberations, while the Americans
claimed the right to be given free
access to all of the deliberations
of the inter-Allied conference.
The American claim was based
on the fact that the nations of Eu
rope, both .allied and ehemy nations,
had accepted the terms laid down
by President Wilson, and these
terms were to be the foundation On
which a lasting peace was to lx* con
cluded.
The first article in America’s
peace terms; as laid down by Presi
dent Wilson before a joint session
of Congress on January 8. 1018,
reads as follows:
“l. Open covenants of peace,
openly arrived at, after which there
shall be no private international
understandings of any kind, but
diplomacy shall proceed always
frankly and in the public view.”
The acceptance o,' the American
peace terms by Germany led to
the signing of the armistice and
the cessation of hostilities.
Thi- American correspondents take
the stand that a secret conference
is quite unnecessary, in view of the
fact that the foundation principles
of the peace to come, which have
been acquiesed in by the nations
of the world, specifically condemns
such a course of action.
SENATE BACKS WILSON
WASHINGTON, D. 0., Jan. 17
Senator William E Borah of Idaho
(Republican), addressing the Senate
today regarding the inter-Allied
peace conference, made a very pow
erful protest a pa inst secrecy at such
conference.
In the course of a lengthy speech,
which was in whole a condemnation
of secrecy at the council of nations,
the senator said that the question
which presented itself to the nation
was, whether President Wilson’s
claim for open diplomacy, hacked by
the entire American people, was to
be discarded entirely; and declared
that publicity was one of the most
vital propositions before the con
ference, and that it oupht to be.
made known widely that the Senate
was in entire sympathy with com
missioners sitting; in the peace con
ference who are opposing secrecy
in its deliberations.
Senator John Sharp Williams of
Mississippi (Democrat),warmly sup
ported Senator Borah and heartily
joined him in a demand for open
proceedings at the inter-Allied peace
conference.
He said that he was glad to see
that the Republicans were whole
heartedly backing President Wilson
in his fight for “Open covenants of
peace, openly arrived at.”
MEED VESSEL
| ARRIVES SflFELV
British Trooper With Canadian
Troops Aboard, Reaches
Vladivostok Unassisted.
Asumiia tf-il 1 'tvss
Vladivostock, .Tan. 17. — Two
thousand Canadian troops arrived;
hero today on board the transport
Protsilaus.
* This transport met with an acei
ident while at sea and Wednesday
sent a wireless call for uid, inti
mating that her propellors were
disabled and that she was drifting.
The British cruiser Kent was rushed
to her assistance, but it would ap
1 pear that her crew were able to
affect temporary repairs which en- j
abled her to proceed to her des
tination under her own steam.
A magazine has been patented
for carrying an extra load of to
! bacco along the stem of a pipe.
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Stray Contact Mine in Mediterranean
Sea Sends Large French Boat
to the Bottom.
Associated 1’ress
ROME, Jan. 17—The French
steamer Chapori struck a contact
mine today, near Messina and sank
immediately after the explosion.
Five hundred of those on board
the vessel, consisting mostly of
Greeks, Serbians and Russians,
were drowned.
A passing steamer, which happen
ed to be near by at the time of
the uccident, rushed to the rescue,
and succeeded in saving one hund
red and fifty lives.
COMlfiT&UB
MEETING TONIGHT
The regular meeting of the Ne
nana Commercial club will be hold
at the chambers of the Commercial
club, in the Union Building at X
o’clock tonight.
A1 members are cordially invited
to be present and to offer such
suggestions as they think may tend
to the betterment of conditions in
this district.