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WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. II.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA. THURSDAY. JANUARY S. 1920.
NO. 236
SAN FRANCISCO LANDS BIG CONVENTION
BOLSHEVIKI FORCES PLA Y HA VOC WITH DEMKINE
AMERICA TO SEND SHIPS TO SIBERIA TO AID ANTI-REDS
RADICALS WILL 1
RAISE CASH 10
LIBERATE PALS
NEW YORK. Jan. S.—Funds are
being raised in tins and other Am
erican cities, among the parlo:' Bol
shevik;. for the liberation of Reds
who are being held at Ellis island
pending deportation.
Thus far the officials at the island
have declined to accept cash bail, on
the ground that they have no safe
place to keep the money. They
cannot refuse, however, to do bus;
ness with security companies, thru
which the friends of the detained
Reds hope to secure their release.
One security company has refused
to stand sponsor for the undesira
bles. explaining that such action
would be lending aid to enemies of
the country; but other companies
can be found, it is believed, who
will stand good for the radicals if
the monetary inducement is suffi
cient.
GLASGOW INVADED.
LONDON. Jan. 8.—Soviet centers,
backed by American communists, are
said to have been established in
Glasgow.
PLANES STARTING
AERIAL MAIL ROUTE
CHICAGO. Jan. 8.—The Omaha
Chicago aerial mail service was in
augurated today, planes having been
despatched from both ends of the
new route with consignments of let
ters and parcel post.
One of the mail pouches despatch
ed from the local office container
a package of sweetbreads weighing
ten p unds. the first meat snipmenl
ever sent through the mails by aero
plane. The sweetbreads are ad
dressed to General Pershing and wil
be served at the banquet to be held
at Omaha tonight in honor of th<
general.
OCCUPANTS KILLEE
SEATTLE, Jar. 8—D. C. Par
sons, aged 25, a printer in th'
employ of the Post-Intelligencer, am
Lucille Corbett, aged 20, were in
stantly killed last night while auto
ing on the Everett road near Silve
lake.
The road turns abruptly where th
accident occurred and the car skid
ded in making the turn, crashin
heavily against a telephone pole.
CENTRAL1A WOBBLIES
TO GET HEARING SOOl
MONTES A NO, Wash.. Jan. 8.
The trial of the Centralia Reds, wh
are accused of massacreing severs
ex-service men on Armistice dat
has been set for January 26.
COMMITTEE GIVES SUPPORT
TO WILSON PEACE PROGRAM
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Tan. 8.—
As ■was predicted by Chairman Cum
min? early this week, the Democrat
ic national committee ha? griven its
endorsement to the peace treaty
and Leagrue of Nation? proposition
as submitted to the senate by Presi
dent Wilson. The resolution of en
dorsement. prepared by members of
the committee in advance of today’s
gathering, received the unanimous
support of the member?. am:d the
greatest enthusiasm.
The resolution denounces as un
patriotic the action of those sena
i tors "who aim to defeat the treaty
directly or by nullifying reserva
tions. " The resolution charges fur
: there that the arrogant Republican
t leadership of the Senate has earned
1 the world’s contempt by throttling
; the treaty for seven months. The
senate is urged to quit playing poli
tics with the ratification of the docu
ment.
Senator James Hamilton Lew is ^ex
pressed the belief that foreign af
fairs will be one of the big issues
of the forthcoming campaign.
San Francisco Wins.
In what is said to have been one
of the hardest fought contests of
.the kind recorded in recent years.
tSan Francisco was selected for the
Democratic convention. A number
of cities fought hard for the hip
meeting and twenty votes were tak
en without reaching a decision. Aft
er the twentieth vote, however. Kan
sas City withdrew from the contest,
followed soon after by other con
testants, and the California me
tropolis was finally declared the win
ner.
The convention will open on
June 28.
SELLS SUPPLIES
i ANTWERP. Jan. 8. — Ame: ican
iarmy supplies which remained in
France after the departure of the
expeditionary forces have heen dis
posed of by the war department,
the receipts from sales aggregating
$750,000,000. More than half of
the supplies were sold to the French
government for $400,000,000.
Officials of the American army
are authority for the statement that
negotiations with the French gov
ernment for the sale of supplies and
equipment and of property in France
secured during the war have been
carried on in a very satisfactory
manner, the French having evi
denced a desire to treat their Am
erican ally with fairness. Emphatic
denial is made of the rumor that
the French compelled America to
pay for trenches dug in France.
REBELLIOUS CLUBS
ARE BACK IN LINE
SAX FRANCISCO, Jan. 28.—The
return of Portland and Seattle to
the rank? of the Pacific Coast base
ball league is announced today by
officials of the organization. who
explain that the two clubs withdrew
because the directors wanted the
opening games to be played in the
North regardless of weather eondi
’ "turns.
The spitball will be barred during
‘ the coming season.
■ FUR SEAL EXPERT IS
r SUMMONED BY REAPER
? OTTAWA, Jan. 8.—James Mac
- councer. member of the geological
r survey and a fur seal expert of
note, died here today.
CLEMENCEAU SLATED
I* TO SUCCEED POINCARE
I
PARIS. Jan. 8.—It is generally
i
3 agreed by the newspapers of thi=
1 country that Premier Clemenceat
■, will be elected president of France
jon January 17.
PEACE DUE ON SATURDAY
PARIS, Jan. 8.—Final arrange
ments have been made for the for
mal exchange of treaty Ratification.
between the Allies and Germany, the
eeremonv being scheduled to take
.. ... ' —
place on Saturday. The exchange
i will take place at the French for
eign office in the presence of repre
sentatives of the various nation?
that have ratified the treaty.
AMERICA TO RESCUE
SOLDIERS IN SIBERIA
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Jan. 8.— ;
Officials of the United State- Ship-!
pinjr board are authority- for the ,
statement that American ship* will
be furnished to repatriate strustrlin^ j
rzec-ho-Slovak, Polish. Jujro-Slav and1
P,umanian troops in Siberia, where
they have been trying to check the
advance of the Bolshevik! armies.
The liners President Grant anti
America will he despatched to
Vladivostok at an early date .o
rescue the first ten thousand, and
these vessels will be followed later
by others on a similar mission.
The refugees will be carried to
their home lands, where there is
much work awaitinjr them.
DEN1KINE IS LOSING;
SITUATION IS GRAVE
LONDON', Jan. 8.—The anti-Bol
I
sheviki situation in Russia is ex- •
tremely grave, according to advices
received in this city today by the
Brtish war office. The Bolsheviki ad
vance toward the sea of Azov, the
| I
‘dispatches state, has severed the
Denikine army, cutting off the sup-1
ply lines and capturing much ant,-1
Bolsheviki material and supplies sent
to Denikine by the Allies.
The Bolsheviki claim to have cap
tured Krasnovodsk, a town on the
’ Caspian sea, and the fear is ex
pressed that the forces of Lenine
and Trotzkv will overrun Northern
Persia and gain control of the Cas
pian sea.
Nothing has been heard from Gen
eral Denikine, but war office offi
cials see no reason to doubt the
reports of Bolsheviki gains, inas
much as the information comes from
what is regarded as a fairly reliable
i
. source.
I The repKirts received here during
the past several weeks have com
: pletelv altered the opinion of Brit
ish military experts who believed,
'in October, that the Russian Bol
sheviki could not withstand the on
slaughts of the% enemies longer
than two months. They predicted
that something; definite would hap
pen in the Russian campaign by De
cember first.
It was pointed out that the Boi
sheviki had employed German tac
tics in moving men from one front
to another with more or less suc
cess at first, but that more recent
events had indicated that the tactic'
would break down in the end. It
was shown that when the Bolshe
viki centered against Admiral Koi
chak and drove him back 700 miles
the Southern front was left weal
and exposed to the offensive whicl
was promptly launched by Genera
Denikine.
The complete collapse of the Koi
chak operations, the defeat of th<
anti-Bolsheviki campaign in the Pe
trograd region, and now the seven
blow that has been dealt to Deni
kine, lead the experts to believi
that the Bolsheviki are much strong
er than was at first supposed, an<
they are wondering what the en
will be.
■•uni—Til* Gateway to Kclitlo;
WaUonal Park.
PROTESTANTS OF
WORLD 10 CHECK
LOSS OF EFFORT
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.. .Ian. S.
—Nearly ^i! Protestant denomina
tions were represented at the open
ing session of the co-ordinate con
ference of the inter-church work!
movement, which began here yester
day with a thousand delegate- in at
tendance. Dr. John R. Mott wa:
selected as presidin'? officer.
The object of the conference
to co-ordinate the work of FYotest
ant churches throughout the work
so as to eliminate waste and over
lapping of effort, which now con
stitutes a needless drain upon th.
purses of parishioners who are calle»
upon to support a multiplicity oi
churches.
The conference is regarded as on<
of the most important Protestan’
gatherings held in this country ir
many years and much good, it e
believed, will come of the meeting
IRANSPORT BllFORD
REPORTS AT CANAI
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8.—
The American transport Buford
■which was despatched from Nev
York recently with a load of deport
ed Reds, arrived at the Kiel cana
today and is awaiting an opportuni
tv to enter the short-cut to th>
Baltic.
The belief is general here nov
that the transport is enroute to Riga
from which point the Reds will b
transported overland to Soviet Rus
sia.
NERVOUS STRAIN KILLS
CELEBRATED VIOLINIS
j UNIONTOWN, Pa.. Jan. 8
Maude Powell, noted violinist, whos
. music is known to nearly even,' phc
. nograph owner in the country, die
. here today, her demise being th
result of a nervous breakdown. Sh
I was bom in Peru, Illinois, in 1861
| ;and had the distinction of bein
responsible for the introduction o
more violin music to the America
’ public than any other artist.
WIEN MEETING
10 STUDY C0S1S;
! SEATTLE. -Ian. th—A number .f
women, representing the housewives
of the state of Washington, are in
this city conferring with the fed
eral district attorney with n view ;o
| arriving at some plan to batter down
ithe high cost of living, which is
mounting steadily throughout the
,state. The women are being given
a respectful hearing', but numerous
of the delegates expressed them
selves this afternoon as entertain
i.ng small hope of relief through the
federal agency to which they have
I
appealed.
| Thomas Kinsey, secretary of the
Retail Grocers’ association, who is
taking an active part in the cam
paign, declares that the Govern
iment’s campaign against high prices
is based on politics and will result
in little real relief.
B. t\ Beck, of the Bon Marche,
’makes the prediction that prices will
go still higher.
PICTURE MONEY
10 BE CUT EVEN
BY RING STARS
i
LOS AXGGELES, Jan. 8.-- Demp
sey ami Carpcntier have agreed
upon an equal division of royalties
from the moving pictures which will
be taken during the championship
battle. It is believed that the pic
tures ca.j be shown everywhere and
that they will go big in Paris and
London because of the fact that
Cafpentier is a European.
SIXTY AND FORTY.
PARIS, Jan. — Manager de.
Camps has announced that Carpen
tier l.s willing to meet Dempsey on
, a 60-40 basis, instead of 75-25 as
suggested by Cotfroth. • arpentier.
the manager -ays, i- also willing to
concede 25 pounds weight to the
. American champion. In fact, he
says, it is Carpentier’s desire to give
I American sportsmen a real cham
pionship battle.
ISON IS URGED
TU DEBATE ISSUE
PIERRE, S. D„ Jac. 8.—Jamc
r Monroe, of Chicago, who filed in
this state as an independent Demo
- cratic candidate for the presidential
* nomination, has issued a challenge
to President Wilson, under the
1 Richards primary law, to come to
■- South Dakota for the purpose of
? . debating the issues of the campaign.
. ; The President has not yet re
i plied, but it is considered certain
flthat the condition of his health will
l not permit him to leave the national
capital on such a mission.