WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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Volume Two
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1919.
Number 84
GERMAN ASSEMBLY RATIFIES TREATY
PRESIDENT TAKES UP WORK AT WASHINGTON
'PARIS PROMOTER OFFERS DEMPSEY LARGE PURSE
10 SI0P SALES
PITTSBURG, Pa., July 9—The
government’s drive against the sale i
of beer containing two and three-!
„ quarters per cent alcohol has been \
started in this city by the filing of j
an action against a local brewing j
company. The federal attorney who .
has undertaken the prosecution |
charges in his complaint that the j
offending brewery has violated war-1
time prohibition by manufacturing
an intoxicating beverage.
Efforts will be made to bring the j
y suit to an early trial, in order that
the prohibition question may be dis
posed of promptly, it being under
stood that the liquor interests back
ing the brewery will carry the case
to the United States supreme court
for a final decision.
' WORKERS OPPOSE
PLANSOF ALLIES
PARIS, July 9.—The Genera! Fed- ,
eration of Labor is planning mon
ster labor demonstrations in this .
^ country and in England and Italy, ,
as a protest against Allied inter- ]
vention in Russia. Labor leaders £
take the stand that the Russians
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should be permitted to work out T
■* their own destiny, without interfer- ^
ence on the part of the Allied na- s
tions. j
The demonstrations are scheduled r
to take place on July 21. s
MIN'EOLA, N. Y., July 9.—The
departure of the British dirigible h
R-34 on the return flight to Eu- li
rope, which was scheduled for to- b
day, has again been postponed on o
account of stormy weather. High b
winds have pervaded almost con- a
tinuously since the arrival of the t'
balloon early in the week. i 1
It is now considered likely that !q
a start will be made within the next
24 hours, the navigators being *1
ready to take to the air at the first n
approach of calm weather. r
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SEATTLE, July 9.—Logan Bill-' ^
ingsley, who recently completed a1 ^
> term of imprisonment at the state g
penitentary, on the charge of boot- •;
legging, and who was brought to ••
this city to serve an additional sen- m
tence of 60 days in the county jail,
made his escape from the county I •»
HUNS RATIFY TREATY
BY SUBSTANTIAL VOTE
farm today and is now in hiding.
Within a few days he would have
completed his 60-day sentence, but
it is believed he fled to escape ser
vice of a warrant from Oklahoma,
where he is very much wanted by
the authorities of that state on a
bootlegging charge.
MAKER ASKS
SOLONS10 PUT
STOP TO TRIPS
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 9.—
Representative Philip P. Campbell,
Republican, of Kansas, has intro
iuced a bill in the lower house of
fongress prohibiting the President
>f the United States from leaving
he country over which he presides,
rhe bill also provides that the Presi
lent must perform his official duties
it the national capital and not at a
listance, as has been done since
’resident Wilson went to Europe to
ttend the peace conference.
Representative Campbell accompa- j
ied the presentation of his measure ;
rith a lengthy speech, in which he j
harply criticized President Wilson
or going to Europe and for re
taining away from the capital for
o long a time.
Special Disbursing Agent Doner
as requested the News to remind
>ca! purchasers of Victory Liberty
onds of the approach of the date
n which the second instalment will
e due. As most bond owners are
ware, ten per cent of the value of ■
le bonds will be payable on July1
5th, where bonds have been ac-1
aired on the instalment plan.
This money must be paid prompt- ■
■ to Mr. Doner, in order that he |
lay not be delayed in making his
fturn to the federal reserve bank.
Those desiring to do so, may !
iake full payment on the instal
ent date or at any time after that
ite. The money is payable at the1,
isbursing office of the Alaskan En- '
neering commission. !
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PARIS, July 9.—Official advices >
received in this city late this after-;'
noon from Weimar announce the!'
ratification of the peace treaty by
the German national assembly, which j<
:has had the treaty under considera-.i
tion during the past several days. i
The advices state that the resolu
ion providing for the ratification
vas adopted fay the assembly by a
•ote of 208 to 115, following a
pirited debate in which many of
he members bitterly opposed the
atifieation.
WASHINGTON GIVES
PRESIDENT OVATION
j WASHINGTON, D. C., July 9.—
The greatest presidential welcome
ever recorded in this city was ac
corded to President Wilson last
night upon the arrival of the presi
dential party from Europe. It is
estimated that fully 100,000 people
thronged the depot and streets near
by, waiting for the train to arrive
from New York, and the President
was given a tremendous ovation
when he stepped from his coach,
and again when he entered the auto
awaiting him.
Busy Day.
The President was at his desk in
the White House early this morn
ing and has spent a busy day sign
ing important measures awaiting his
approval, chief among which are the
big appropriation bills passed re
cently by Congress. The President
also has received numerous callers
and conferred with congressmen and
cabinet members. It is possible he
will find time late this afternoon to
receive the members of the senate
foreign relations committee for a
conference regarding the peace
treaty.
The President has expressed him
self as believing the American peo
ple favor the League of Nations
proposition and will give their sup
port to the action of the Paris
peace conference.
To Visit Coast.
President Wilson expects to start
on his speaking tour within two
weeks, and will time his journey so
as to reach the Pacific coast at
about the time the fleet arrives
there. He planned to leave the cap
ital sooner, but matters of state
make it impossible for him to absent
himself immediately.
AVIATORS MUST
FOLLOW COURSE
FIXED BY CLUB
LOS ANGELES, July 9.—Officials
if the Pacific Aero club, under the
ausoices of which the proposed
transpacific flight for the Thomas
Ince piize of $50,000 will be con
lucted, have announced that avia
:ors entering the contest must fol
ow tl o course fixed by the club.
1’hey declare that the rules of the
dub forbid deviations for increased
arize money.
The A6ro club announcement was
nade this morning after it had been
itated in press dispatches from Vic
oria that a seaplane entered by the
3. D. White Aviation company
vould fly from this city to San
•"rancisco, thence to Victoria, Sitka,
Jnalaska, and across to Shanghi, 1
>y way of Petropavlovsk and Yoko- :
lama.
Commissioner Reed Heilig, of
Fairbanks, has received a number j;
f checks for pensioners of the
erritory. Included among them is
check for Max Seluga, who has
iot called for his pension money ji
or three years. Quite a sim 1
waits him.
Ml HARBOR
SELECTED FOR
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 9.—
According to information given out
today by officials of the navy de-1
parturient, it is the intention of Sec-1
retary Daniels to station many of'
the warships of the new Pacific fleet'
at a base to be established at Pearl'
harbor, an inlet on the southern'
coast of the island of Oahu, where
extensive improvements are planned 1
for the accommodation of the ves- i
sels. Secretary Daniels probably
will accompany the fleet to Hawaii
in September.
The new Pacific fleet is scheduled
to leave Hampton Roads for the
western coast on July 19.
PEARL HARBOR.
Pearl harbor is a landlocked inlet, j
with a depth of from 50 to 60 feet.!
out before it can be used as a base, j
t will be necessary to . do consider- j
ible dredging where a bar blocks
:he entrance. In 1884 the United!
States obtained from the Hawaiian j
ling the exclusive right to establish .
i coaling and repair station at this ;
larbor. Surveys were made in 1887 i
ind 1897 and the removal of the i
obstructing bar at the entrance pro
posed; but the plan was abandoned
when the United States took posses
sion of the islands in 1898, and ac
quired a suitable harbor at Hono
lulu.
CINCINNATI, July 9.—Promoter
Cochran, of Paris, has cabled Jack
Dempsey an offer of $125,000 for a
fight with the winner of the Car
pentier-Beckett bout which is sched
uled to take place in England this
month.
Dempsey has taken the offer un
der advisement, but it is under
stood that he plans to accept it,
and is willing to fight either in this
country or in Europe, in case the
; winner of the London contest re
fuses to come to the United States.
I Local fight fans who saw the Wil
. lard-Dempsey battle declare that
Carpentier is not in a class with
Dempsey, and express doubt if the
Frenchman will consent to a match
with the knockout champion. Beck
ett, they think, in case he defeats
Carpentier, is a more likely match.
UNIVERSITY PROF j
WILLSTUOY FISHi
SEATTLE, July 9.—Prof. H. B. ‘
Ward, of the University of Illinois, j
has reached this city from the East,j
enroute to the Copper River delta, j
where he will make a study of fish j
conditions for the United States bu- j
reau of fisheries. The professor ex
pects to spend the greater part of
the season at the mouth of the,
Copper river and at other points
along the coast of Alaska.
Prof. Ward already knows some
thing of the Alaska fishing indus
try, and declares that the fish of
the North will prove a greater
source of revenue than the gold 1
mines of the territory. 1
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VACHON MUST ANSWER '
ON FORTY FUR COUNTS 1
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Peter Vachon, who will appear
jefore Commissioner Heilig at Fair- i
Janks, tomorrow, to answer to the 1
charge of violating the beaver law 1
>f the territory, is held on forty-odd c
rounts, each of which, in case of c
ronviction, may cost him $200, or j
i total of more than $8,000, with 1
osts, and the loss of furs valued e
it more than $6,000 added. *t
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CHICAGO, July 9. — Scores of
'candy factories of this city, includ
ing some of the biggest concerns in
the country', are practically closed
today as the result of a general
strike among their employes, who
walked out this morning, following
a refusal of their demands for high
er pay. The workers also have made
a demand for improved working
conditions.
| Crowds of the strikers gathered
about the plants, and when an at
tempt was made by the police to
disperse some of them from the
street in front of the National
Candy company's factory, the strik
ers fired several shots at the of
ficers, none of them taking effect.
The police replied to the shots, but
fired in the air, as a warning. One
of the strikers was placed under
arrest.
| There are several thousand on
strike, including men. women, and
girls.
IIH DEMAND
LEAGUE FOR ALL
NEW YORK, July y.—With the
delegates of ten countries in at
tendance at the first annual con
gress, the Pan-American Federation
of Labor adopted a resolution today,
without a dissenting vote, demand
ing that all nations of the world be
eligible to membership in the Pro
posed League of Nations.
Copies of the resolution will be
forwarded to Washington and to the
other countries composing the
league.
JOSLINlSSHORT
Reports received from the Circle
iistrict indicate that John Joslin,
A'ho is directing road work in that
oeality for the Alaska Road com
nission, is having a hard time se
.uring sufficient men, on account of
he scarcity of labor in the district,
iis force includes both whites and
latives.
Joslin is' engaged at present in
naking extensive repairs to the gov
ernment post road which connects
he creeks of the Circle district with
Circle City, and, at the time the re
>orts were sent out, he was working
lear Miller and toward Circle.
The Circle road is one of the
nost important in Centra! Alaska,
arge quantities of supplies being
auled over it every season to the
reeks, where there are a number
f large outfits engaged in mining.
Lnd it frequently happens that
eavy machinery and other mining
quipment must be transported over
he road.