WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. II. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1919.
NO. 119
MAINE SENATOR STANDS BY PACKERS
LANE IS HELPING IN EFFORT TO GET COAL BASE
' AMERICAN AND FRENCH SAILORS MIX WITH GERMANS
LAWMAKERS ARE
URGED 10 HELP
«
SEATTLE, Aug. 21.—A special
dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer
from Washington states that Secre
tary of the Interior Lane, Franklin
* Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the
navy, Senator Miles Poindexter and
Special Agent J. L. McPherson are
now endeavoring to get action on
the new naval fund for the investi
gation of coal in Alaska, which was
recently discovered in the deficiency
bill passed by Congress in February.
It has been learned that the un
expended portion of the million
% dollar appropriation for Alaska coal
investigation and development, pass
ed a year ago, is no longer avail
able, because of congressional re
peal.
The money is desired to carry on
the work of developing a coal base
on the Alaska coast, made necessary
^ by the creation of the new Pacific
fleet.
NO PEACE UNTIL
SENAHTIFIES
> WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 21
In answer to a direct question re
lating to his authority in the matter
of restoring the country to a peace
basis, President Wilson informed
y
members of the senate today that it
is not within the power of the Presi
dent of the United States to declare
peace by proclamation before the
ratification of the treaty by the sen
ate.
^ The President also expressed the
belief that the ratification of the
treaty by three powers would not
be sufficient for the creation of the
proposed League of Nations.
f AMENDMENTSWILL
CURB PRUFITEER5
% WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 21 —
The house agricultural committee
has submitted a favorable report on
important amendments to the food
control act, intended to put a stop
to profiteering. .
The amendments provide ft>r the
imposition of a fine of $5,000 on
^ those found guilty of charging ex
cessive prices, and they also may be
imprisoned for a period not exceed
ing two years.
MINING AUTHORITY
DIES jN CALIFORNIA
VALLEJO, Cal., Aug. 21.—Elisha
Penrose, one of the foremost min
ing authorities in California, lost his
life in this city today as the result
Jt»
of an automobile accident, death
being almost instantaneous.
The deceased was formerly as
sociated with the Alaska Treadwell
company, in Alaska, having been in
the employ of that concern for a
number of years.
WESTERN MEN
ARE WANTED FOR '
| PACIFIC FLEET
SAN FRANCISCO. — ‘Man the
! Pacific fleet with Western men,” is
jthe slogan of the intenshe recruit
| ing campaign launched on the coast
| since the arrival of the new Pacific
: fleet.
Men will be enlisted at war-time
i pay for two, three, or four-year
j terms. The shorter term is expect
I ed to be especially attractive to
i
<j young boys just completing their
jschooling. To these and all others;
| who enlist will be given opportuni-;
tv, it has been announced, to choose
the ship they wish to join. Cruises
to many joints in the Pacific at
! frequent intervals also are expected
i
! to lure many.
Manning the ships with Western |
'men, it is said, will tend to keep
.individual ships permanently sta
tioned in Western waters, as the
! desire of the men and officers will
be to have their ships based at
home ports.
In this connection, some navy men
, look to see some ships almost com
pletely manned by officers and
jcrew from an individual city or dis
trict at which it would have its
base. In the East, many times ships
have been transferred from one
i base to another because a prepon
! deranee of crew and officers lived
j at a certain port or base.
BANDITS TAKE MAIL;
PASSENGERS ESCAPE
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 21.—
A passenger train, enroute from
Cincinnati to Montgomery, Alabama,
, was held up near this city today by
I four masked bandits, and the mail
: coach looted.
Xo attempt was made to disturb
the passengers, of whom ®here were
many on board the train. Thev
jWere prevented from leaving their
cars, but otherwise were not mo
i lested.
A posse has been despatched in
pursuit of the bandits.
MANY JAPS SETTLE IN
LOWER CALIFORNIA)
MEXICO CITY—Three thousand
Japanese have arrived in Lower
California with the evident inten
tion of settling there, say Mexican
: newspapers, which add that it is
i believed many' of these immigrant
‘Japanese crossed the international
boundary and made secret entrance
to the United States.
><uu—The Gateway to XeKtaley
Vattoaal Park.
MAINE SENATOR IS
DEFENDING PACKERS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 21
In an address delivered on the floor
of the senate this afternoon, Sen
ator Bert M. Fernald, Republican, of
Maine, attacked the governmental
tendency toward assuming control
of private enterprises. He referred
to the proposed legislation for the
supervision of the packing industry,
and declared that the Kenyon and
Kendrick bills, which provide for
the regulation of the packers, are
examples of stifling legislation which
threatens to throttle private busi
ness.
The speech was a strong defense
of the packers, and an effort was
made by Fernald to convince his col
leagues that the packing house peo
ipie had not conducted their busi- j
|ness in such a manner as to warrant j
interference on the part of Con-,
gress.
ACTION WILL LOWER COSTS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 21.—
In a letter addressed to Senator
Fall, Republican, of New Mexico,
President Wilson expresses the be
lief that the immediate ratification
of the peace treaty will have the
effect of lowering the cost of living
at an early date in the United
States, through the restoration of
production and commerce to a nor
mal basis.
BASEBALL EXCURSIBN
COMING ON SATURBAY
BN STEAMER TANANA
Encouraging news comes from
Fairbanks today regarding the pro
posed excursion from the upper
town to Nenana. In a wire to Man
ager Fischer, George Kennedy states
that an effort is being made to
secure either the steamer Xanana
or the Reliance for the run down
river and return, and that the hope
is entertained that definite arrange
ments will be made before the day
is over.
The News also has been informed
of the new plans, and it seems now
to be entirely up to the American
Yukon Navigation company to make
a proposition that can be accepted
by the excursionists. Lack of suita
ble transportation has been the chief
difficulty experienced in arranging
trips up and down the river in the
past, and it is regarded as almost a
certainty that a big crowd will avail
themselves of the opportunity to
travel in comfort on a steamer if
(suitable fare arrangements can be
j made.
| Fairbanks, it is understood, has
I already taken the matter up with;
: officials of the transportation com
i puny, and the crowd will come or \
not, according to the company de-!
; cision.
| It is presumed, of course, that
!the baseball boys will come down if i
the excursion plans work out all i
aright, but it is not known whether
or not the team will include Mills,
the star pitcher of the Fairbanks j
aggregation, who was scheduled to j
leave for the States this week. This
is one of the details, however, that
the Fairbanksans will arrange satis
factorily to themselves if the trip
is definitely decided upon.
If it is possible to secure the j
Tanana or the Reliance, it will mean
the postponement of the Reliance’s
(Continued on Page Three)
THREE ARE AFIER
DAVIDSON’S PLACE
SEATTLE, Aug. 21.—The Post
Intelligencer is in receipt of a spe
cial dispatch from Washington which
states that there are three Alaskans
in the field for the position of
surveyor general and secretary ex
officio of the territory of Alaska, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death
recently of Charles E. Davidson.
The candidates are Robert I.
Sommers, territorial mine inspector,
of Fairbanks; B. D. Stewart, of Ju
neau, and William A. Hess, of Cor
dova.
LOS ANGELES HAS
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21.—The
movement of streetcars in this city
iv.as temporarily irterrupted this aft
ernoon by sympathizers of the strife
jing streetcar platform men. Traffic j
was blocked by a crowd of four;
hundred of the sympathizers, and !
the strike-breakers employed to nil
the places of the carmen were sub
jected to all manner tf insults, in
cluding the hurling of stones.
After some difficulty, the mob,
was dispersed by the police, and no
further trouble is anticipated. It
!was necessary for the police to use
; their clubs freely, but there was no
i shooting.
MEXICANS WAN!
YANKEE TROOPS
RETRACE STEPS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Au?. 21.—
The Carranza government has in
'structed the Mexican ambassador to
make formal protest against the
| despatch of American troops across
^the Mexican border in search of the
! bandits responsible for the capture
land detention of American army
| aviators. The ambassador also has
jbeen instructed to request that the
| invading troops be withdrawn imme
diately.
TWO BANDITS TAKEN.
| MARFA, Tex., Aug. 21.—Captain
| Leonard Matlack, of the Eighth cav
alry, has reported the capture of
I two Mexicans who are believed to
jhave been implicated in the aviator
outrage.
MEXICANS HELPING.
A detachment of Carranza sol
diers are engaged in the hunt for
;the bandits, assisted by American
javiators, who are carrying messages
| between the troops and the Carran
jza consul at Presidio. The Mexican
[forces are commanded by General
i Pruneda.
AVIATORS IN DANGER.
The work of the aviators in Mex
ico is attended with considerable
risk, owing to the fact that there
are few landing places south of the
border, and to the further fact that
they are compelled to fly close to
the ground to accomplish their work,
thus placing themselves within
range of bandit bullets.
SERBIANS GRATEFUL
FOR RED CROSS HELP
PIROT, Serbia. — One street in
Pirot has been named “America
street,” out of gratitude for the
work of the American Red Cross in
j bringing food into this place for
jthe thousands of Serbian refugees
who have returned here from Bul
garia.
I
I
|
1
Forty thousand of the sixty thou
sand Serbians who were interned
in Bulgaria during the war have
passed through here to their former
homes. Ten thousand others have
settled in or near Pirot, close to
the Bulgarian border, either through
sheer exhaustion or from news that
their old homes in Central Serbia
have been destroyed.
One Red Cross major and an
American army sergeant brought
enough food into a hundred vil
lages of the Pirot district to feed
150,000 people.
The McGowan house, on Fourth
avenue, Fairbanks, now occupied by
Bob Menzie, was the scene of a
small blaze early last evening, the1
result of a spark falling on the log
wall. Aside from a few scorched i
logs, the house was undamaged.
Seaana, Where Sails and Steers Xeetj
COPENHAGEN', Aug. 21.—Infor
mation has just reached this city of
| a clash between American and Ger
I man sailors at Nefahrwasser, the
'mixup resulting in the injury of
several civilians and one sailor. The
fight started in a dance hall and
was finished in the street, where
numerous civilians attempted to as
sist the Germans.
The trouble started on Monday,
when the Germans, backed by civ
ilians, attacked the Yankees. The
following day, French sailors joined
! forces with the Americans, and to
gether they cleaned up the place,
charging the crowd and putting the
| German sailors to flight.
Several shots were fired, but most
of the fighting was done after the
manner of Champion Jack Dempsey.
SEATTLE. Aug. 21.—The Post
Intelligencer has been advised from
Washington that Delegate George
B. Grigsby has put off his trip to
Alaska in connection with the con
test filed by Judge Wickersham,
pending the consideration of the
$17,000,000 Alaska railroad appro
priation by the house.
When that matter has been dis
posed of, Grigsby will start for the
North to take testimony.
NO TIME IS SET
I FOR LEAGUE ACT
I WASHINGTON, D. C„ Aug. 21.—
No time has been' set for the vote
on the Pittman resolution. intro
duced yesterday, proposing reserva
tions to the League of Nations cov
enant in line with the suggestion
; of President Wilson, that the res~
ervations be considered in" a sep*
arate measure.
Senator McNary of Oregon is
heading the Republican movement
for the consideration of the reserva
tions as part of the resolution rati
fying the treaty.
!
!
!
Dan McCabe, who had been in
Fairbanks for a number of days, re
turned to his work out the line,
south of Nenana, last night. He is
stationed at Section 3.
X XXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX K
X m
X TEMPERATURE X
X As reported by the government X
X observation station, Nenana X
* X
X Thursday, August 21. X
X Maximum .67 above X
;X Minimum ..46 above X
b *
[xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx