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NENANA. ALASKA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 27. 1921
NUMBER IftS
AMBASSADORS AGREE ON JAP PROBLEM
WITNESS BLAMES SOPHIA CAPTAIN FOR DISASTER
MANY REFUGEES FROM CRIMEA FACING STARVATION
REFUGEES FROM CRIMEA
ARE MUCH IN NEED OF AID
SALONIKI, Jan. 27—Fully thirty
thousand refugees from the Crimea,
who sought safety in the Caucasus,
are in dire straits, according to re
ports received in this city, and many
of them will perish of hunger unless
relief is given them.
Thousands of the unfortunates, as
a result of insufficient nourishment
and unsanitary conditions in the
camps where they are. crowded to- ,
gether, are now ill and many of
them will die from that cause. Ty- .
phus and other diseases are rampant.
LOPP SAYS NEWSPAPERS
HANDICAP BUREAU WORK
SEATTLE, Jan. 27—Upon his ar
rival in this city from Washington
last week, Chief Lopp, of the bureau
of education, said that Alaska fac
tional disputes and attacks on Gov
ernment bureaus by certain Alaska
newspapers have added difficulties
to the work of securing funds from
Congress for bureau activities.
Lopp went to Washington in Dec
ember to assist in obtaining appro
priations for the care and education
of Indians and for the reindeer in
dustry. While he was there a copy
of a paper was received containing
an editorial in which the bureau
was accused of employing teachers
with Bolshevik tendencies. The at
tack was not taken seriously by
the members of Congress who saw
the paper, but it did not help the
work for which the chief went to
the capital. When he left for the
West it was not known what would
be the attitude of the senate finance
committee toward the bureau items.
CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL
URGES TRADE WITH SOVIET
SPOKANE, Jan. 27—The Central
Labor council has adopted resolu
tons urging Secretary of State Colby
and President Wilson to permit
trade relations with soviet Russia.
The argument is made that there
are many workers idle in the United
States who might be employed on
Russian contracts were it possible
for American manufacturers to fill
orders for the soviet government.
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NEGOTIATIONS ARE CONCLUDED
ON VEXING JAPANESE ISSUES
GERMANY HAS RED ARMY;
BERLIN IS HEADQUARTERS
BERLIN, Jan. 27—A semi-official
itatement issued in this city yester
lay says that evidence has been ob
tained showing the existence of a
Serman communist red arm, which
ias its headquarters in this city,
rhe evidence was obtained, it is
stated, through a number of raids
jn private houses in several German
rities. One report says that a red
general has been placed under ar
rest.
It is claimed that the army is
veil organized and well equipped
for a campaign, With heavy and
light guns and vast quantities of
war materials.
1AUZE LEFT IN ABDOMEN
IS FATAL TO SERVICE MAN
FREDERICKTON, Neb., Jan. 27
—Harry L. Larelee, veteran of the
vorld war, died here this week at
;he Soldiers’ Civil Re-establishment
lospital, where he had been under
;reatment since his return from the
var zone. His death is attributed to
he presence of 34 inches of surgical
?auze in his abdomen, left there by
i surgeon who operated on him for
ippendicitis, at Portland, Oregon, a
/ear ago.
TOLEDO BANDITS GET GEMS;
MAKE GETAWAY IN AUTO
TOLEDO, Jan. 27—Four bandits
intered a jewelry store in this city
yesterday, bound the proprietor and
several customers hand and foot, and
hen helped themselves to the jewels,
rhey made their escape without
lifficulty in an automobile and took
lewels with them valued at $30,000.
PORTLAND CREDITORS MAY
COME OUT ALMOST EVEN
PORTLAND, Jan. 27—Receiver
(V. D. Whitcome, who was appoint
ed to wind up the affairs of the de
funct Morris Brothers brokerage con
:em, has announced that the credit
ors may expect to receive anywhere
from 54 to 96 cents on the dollar,
rhe firm went to the wall about a
month ago.
OUTSIDERS ARE APPLYING
FOR ALASKA WATER POWER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27—
rhe federal power comihissioner re
ports the receipt of a number of
application for water power permits
In Alaska. The applicants include N.
L. Weeks, of Los Angelas; L. J.
Vogler, of Tacoma; Aiaska-Athericah
Paper corporation, of New York; W.
E. Apperson, of Seattle; Paul But
ler, of Chicago.
LENINE IS ILL
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 27—It is
reported in this city that Lenine is
ill and has been ordered to take a
long rest. Advices received from
Helsingfom state that he has been
ill for several weeks.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—State
department officials have announced
‘that negotiations between Ambassa
dor Morris and the Japanese ambas
sador relative to the settlement of
the California land question and a
definition of the rights of Japanese
in America, have been successfully
concluded, and all that now remains
to be done is for the two govern
ments to approve the agreement.
The negotiations must be approved
before any definite action can be
taken toward arranging a new
treaty.
Insist Upon Rights
TOKYO, Jan. 27—An opposition
party mass meeting held in this city
this week adopted resolutions de
manding universal sultrage, the im
mediate evacuation of Siberia, in
sistence upon Japan’s rights in con
nection with the California ques
tion, and urged that maintenance
of friendship with the United States
NORTH CAROLINA MOB PUTS
ROPE ON NECKS OF NEGROES
WARRENTON, N. C., Jan. 27—
Alfred Williams and Plummer Bul
lock, colored, were taken from the
local jail this week by a mob and
lynched. The members of the mob
were masked and armed, but it was
not necessary to use force to secure
the two men. Recognizing the futil
ity of resistance, the officers made
no serious effort to protect their
charges.
CALDER SAYS COAL BARONS
HELD UP AMERICAN PUBLIC
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27
Appearing as a witness before the
senate committee which is consider
ing has bill providing for federal j
regulation of the coal industry,
Senator Calder expressed the belief
yesterday that Americans paid the
coal barons last year, in excessive1
profits, the enormous sum of a bil
lion and a half dollars.
GETTING CLOSE TO HARbING
MARION, Jan. 27—Two bandits
entered the office of the county |
treasurer today, knocked the trees-,
ured in the head, and escaped with
$14,000 in county cash. The treas
urer received a painful wound on j
the head, but is otherwise uninjur
ed.
ASTRONOMER SAYS BABIES
WILL COME IN BUNCHES
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 27—Charles
Kirschner, the astronomer, predicts
that the country (rill be flooded with
twins, triplets and quadruplets dur
ing the next six years, his predic
tion being based on the conjunction
of certain stars with the moon.
SPANISH CABINET OUT
MADRID, Jan. 27—The members
of the Spanish cabinet have resign
ed.
be made the basis of the policy of
the nation. The meeting also went
on record as approving the League
of Nations.
Wireless Plans Opposed
TOKYO, Jan. 27—Japanese news
papers say the people of this nation
will protest vigorously against the
construction, with American capital,
of the proposed large wireless sta
tion at Shanghai, with Chinese
branches. It is claimed that the work
will interfere with concessions al
ready granted to Japan for wireless
stations at various points in Inter
ior China.
Ncrsde Falling in Line
CARSON CITY, Ja- 27—The up
per house of the state legislature
has approved, by unanimous vote,
the resolution providing for the
amendment of the constitution so
as to provide that foreigners in
eligible to citizenship may not hold
agricultural, grazing or mining prop
erty in the state.
FIRES CAUSE HUGE LOSSES
IN THE UNITED STATES
NEW YORK, Jan. 27—Losses ag
gregating about $416,000,000 were
sustained by property owners in the
United States between 1915 and
1919, as the result of fires, accord
ing ■to figures compiled by the Na
tional Board of Underwriters.
Electricity led among the causes
of fires, with a total loss of $84,000,
000 and matches and smoking came
second with, a total of $73,000,000.
COLORADO IS SNOWBOUND;
STORM WORST OF SEASON
DENVER, Jan. 27—A blanket of
snow, eight inches deep, covers Den
ver and the larger part of Eastern
Colorado, resulting in the almost
complete paralysis of telephone and
telegraph communication during the
early hours of the storm, which was
the worst recorded thus far this
winter.
LUDWIG MARTENS DEPORTED
NEW YORK, Jan. 27—Ludwig
Martens, Bolshevik ambassador to
the United States, who has been in
this country two years try to secure
recognition for has government, is
enroute back to Russia, having been
deported this week. He will be taken
to Sweden. Hundreds; of personal
friends and admirers were at the
dock to see him depart.
YANKEE SOLDIERS RETURNING
COBLENZ, Jan. 27—Fourteen
hundred Americans, members of the
demobilized Polish army, are to be
taken home on the transport Presi
dent Grant, scheduled to aail from
Danzig today.
LOAN COMPANY ROBBED
SALT LAKE, Jan. 27—Thieves
used a pass key to enter the prem
ises of the Western Loan associa
tion last night and escaped with
$7,000 in gold and $500 in currency.
NEW YORK BANDITS TAKE
LIVES OF THREE FOR LOOT
NEW YORK^ jin. 27—Three
dead and two dying1 of injuries re
ceived at the hands of highwaymen,
is the record of the past week in
this city, which does not include the
many smaller operations of crimi
nals. One of the victims was killed
on a crowded steet in broad daylight,
another mat death while attempting
to prevent a store robbery and the
third victim was found dead on a
railroad track.
Another feature of the week’s op
erations was a series of holdups
near Tarrytown, where a number of
armed bandits secured loot valued
at 910,000 from auto parties and
milk wagon drivers.
ANOTHER GANGSTER GOES
TO PEN FROM BAY CITY
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27—Al
len McDonald, gangster. found guilty
on a charge of attacking Jessie
Montgomery, has been Sentenced to
a term of from one to fifty years
in the penitentiary, and will leave
immediately to join his comrades in
the Howard street outrage who are
already serving time.
McDonald, who admits that he i3
a veteran of the world war and was
wounded twice in the Argonne bat
tle, says he is going to study law
when he goes to the penitentiary.
HURLEY WILL MAKE FIGHT
TO ESCAPE EXTRADITION
CARSON, Nev., Jan. 27—C. J.
Hurley, former president of the
American Bank, at Fairbanks, who
is wanted for trial on a charge of
accepting deposits when he knew
the bank to be insolvent, will resist
the effort that is being made to ex
tradite him. His attorney says they
are prepared to go the limit to
beat the case.
Governor Boyle has set the hear
ing for tomorrow.
SIZE OF ARMY FIXED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27—
The lower house of Congress has
approved the senate resolution fix
ing the peace strength of the army
at. 175,000. The measure has been
referred to Secretary Baker and it
is understood that he will recom
mend to President Wilson that it be
signed.
CHESTER ROWELL QUITS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27—
Chester Rowell haa tendered his
resignation as a member of the
shipping board, to take effect im
mediately. He will become a mem
ber of Hie California railroad com
mission.
COAL MINERS KILLED
BERLIN, Jan. 27—An explosion
of fire damp in a Saxony coal mine
caused the death of six miners and J
the injury of 40 others.
WITNESS DECLARES SOPHIA
WAS NOT PROPERLY MANNED
SEATTLE, Jan. 27—Evidence in
dicating that the steamship Princes
Sophia was not properly manned
when she went down with all on
board in Lynn canal, was intrv
duced here yesterday at a hearing
on the motion to limit the liability
of the company owning the vessel.
A. D. Dickenson, who was em
ployed as steward on the Sophia on
trips prior to the disaster, testified
that Captain Locke had made u
practice of spending a considerable
portion of his time in his cabin,
entertaining women passengers. Ho
also declared that only on one oc
casion, while he was on the boat,
had he received lifeboat instruc
tion.
Frank Sinnott, a former member
;of the Sophia’s crew, testified that.
!he had never received lifeboat in
structions.
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SOVIET SOLDIERS REVOLT;
POT SEVERAL COMMISSARIES
LONDON, Jan. 27—Advices re
ceived in this city yesterday front
Copenhagen, quoting a Riga dis
patch, tell of a mutiny among the
soviet troops on the Lettish frontier
and the murder of several commis
saries.
The report is generally credited
here for the reason that it was
previously known that the soldier-,
were hungry and poorly clad, and
forced to live upon the villages
These conditions were the cause of
discontent and rioting, reports of
which reached this city some time
ago.
SHIPPING BOARD PROB1NC
STEEL TRUST CONTRACT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27
The shipping board has started an
investigation of the contract between
the International Mercantile Marine
and the British government. The in
vestigation was ordered as a result
of the declaration of Senator Jones
to the effect that the contract fav
ors British rather than American
trade.
Frederick Thompson, vice chair
man of the board, says there is no
issue of larger moment affecting
the American Merchant marine and
he declares the question will re
ceive a thorough investigation.
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