Nenana — The Gateway To Mount McKinley National Park — Nenana
THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1921
NUMBER 26
’ COLORADO FLOODS COVER LARGE AREA
SEMMES OBJECTS TO TEST CASE OF LEGISLATORS
DAWSON REPORTS STEAMERS READY TO CROSS LAKE
DAWSON REPORTS STEAMERS
WAITING FOR LAKE OPEN INC
DAWSON, June 4—According t<
advices received in this city fron
the upper river, navigators are ex
pecting Lake Labarge to be opei
to navigation not later than Monday
The first steamer for Whitehorse
is scheduled to leave here tomorro\
and the first boats for the coast
with passengers and gold, -will ge
away on Monday.
A shipment of 230 tons of silve
ore, valued at $50,000, has arrivei
from Keno Hill, in the Mayo dis
trict, this being the first of 2,50
tons awaiting shipment. The winte
output of the district will approxi
mate $750,000 in value, it is be
lieved.
JURY ACQUITS SUSPECT;
WAS ACCUSED OF MURDEI
KANSAS CITY, June 4—Denst
Chester, accused of the murder o
Miss Florence Barton, a wealth
society girl, was aquitted by a jur
today after a deliberation of onl
20 minutes.
► Chester was taken into custod
after a sensational chase, and late
escaped from his guards at Broke
Bow, Nebraska, by jumping throug
a train window, after which ar
other chase followed, terminating i
his recapture.
Chester told the court that th
officers beat him and threw him fro;
the train.
NEGOTIATIONS BROKEN OFF
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 4
W. S. Brown, president of the Mi
rine Engineers Beneficial assocu
tion, is authority for the statemei
that negotiations between the ei
gineers and the Shipping Board, fc
a settlement of the marine strik
have been broken - off, due to tl
refusal of the steamship ownei
and the board to include a claus
providing for the reinstatement c
the strikers.
DEMPSEY IS CONFIDENT
ATLANTIC CITY, June 4—Ai
nouncement has been made by Mai
ager Kearns, he and Dempsey wri
consider the sale of their share c
the movie rights of the fight. New
writers take this to mean that tl
champion intends to win the batt
as quickly as possible. A short boi
would have less value as a pictui
than a long one.
NENANA
is
HEADQUARTERS
for
GOOD PRINTING
at
PRE-WAR PRICES
BOOKS
BRIEFS
BILLHEADS
BINGLES
THE NENANA DAILY
NEWS
MANY TOWNS ARE INUNDATED;
LIFE AND PROPERTY LOSS BIG
i
, AMERICAN WOMAN ESCAPES;
t SAYS BOLSHEVISM IS BAD
r
l
)
r
1
f
y
y
y
r
i
i
i
I
e
n
L
t
t
r
ei
•3
e
f
II
r
e
e
it
CONSTANTINOPLE, June 4—
Mrs. Anna Reiser, of Philadelphia,
who recently arrived here after
having been allowed to leave Odessa
as a British subject, says that in
leaving that city she felt as if she
were escaping from a madhouse.
Odessa now is ruled by the Bolshe
viki. Mrs. Reiser is the widow of
Eli Reiser, formerly of Philadelphia,
who died in Odessa, and she is the
daughter of Mrs B. Wilier, of Chi
cago, to whose home she hopes to
return.
“I want to spend the rest of my I
time until Bolshevism falls telling
what terrible people they are,” she
says. “It is a crime in Soviet Russia
to criticise. If any of us complained
of being hungry we were taken be
fore brutal and illiterate officers who
are trying to do away with intelli
gent people and were then thrown,
into prison to die of typhus and
hunger.
“I got along partly because I
wasn’t afraid. After my husbana
died I didn’t much care what be
came of me. I lived by giving les
sons in English. Once, when women
without working papers, mostly wi
dows and daughters of well-to-do
families were being gathered to
gether and sent to the farms and
garrisons to clean up for the sol
diers, the guards tried to take me.
I said, ‘you can shoot me right now,
, but go I won’t’. So they let me
pass.
“I had to leave as a British sub
ject because I was always told the
Americans had not been asked for,
as was the case of the British, Ital
ians or French.”
Describing the marriage laws of
Soviet Russia, Mrs. Reiser says;
“Officials ask, ‘for how long do you
wish to be married—one month,
two months?’ A couple can even be
married for a day and get a di
vorce on the minute by appearing
together and asking for it”.
Mrs. Reiser says that Henry Pot
ter, an American who used to be
employed in the American consul
ate as a courier or servant and who
was left there to take care of the
effects of the consulate, was exe
cuted in Odessa a year ago because
papers addressed to the American
state department and complaining of
the soviet system were found in
' his possession. He had a list of
papers, files and furniture missing
from the American consulates at
Petrograd and Odessa. He tried to
help Mrs. Reiser escape before they
threw him in prison.
GERMAN OFFICER ACQUITTED
LEIFSIC, June 4—Announcement
has been made of the formal acquit
tal of Lieut. Karl Neumann, who
was tried on a charge of sinking the
hospital ship Dover Castle. The ac
quittal was on the grounds that the
officer, in sinking the ship, had
merely obeyed orders issued by his
i superiors.
DENVER, June 4—With the lat
est reports from Pueblo, which, how
ever, remain unconfirmed, indicating
that the death roll there may possi
bly reach reach more than 100, de
tails of the terrible flood havoc i:
the eastern half of Colorado, bega:
coming over the wires from variou
points at noon today Most of th
reports were dispatched by round
about courses, and in some cases b
couriers, because of the breaking o
the regular lines of communicatior
And late this afternoon it was r<
ported that Pueblo had been core
pletely isolated by the flood water:
The reports state that homes hav
been washed away by the score an
that hundreds of residents of the ir
undated area have been compelled t
seek safety on the highlands. Th
loss of livestock is said to hav
been particularly heavy, and th
total loss to date is estimated at b<
tween <6,000,000 and $10,000,00<
Shortly before noon a correspon<
ent of The Associated Press left fc
Pueblo to obtain detailed inform!
tion of the situation there and i
nearby districts.
Among the towns flooded are Li
fayette, Longmont, Berthoud, Lov<
land, Marshall, Superior and Frede:
TULSA WHITES ARRESTED;
MARTIAL LAW ENDS TODAY
TULSA, Okla., June 4—Thirty
white residents of this city have
been placed under arrest in connec
tion with the race rioting of this
week, and will be held pending an
investigation of their movements. It
is announced by the chief of police
that one of the suspects will be
formally charged with inciting the
riot.
A civilian relief committee is at
work on plans for the rebuilding of
the destroyed negro quarter of the
city. The business interests of the
city are pledged to build as many
homes as may be needed, and in the
shortest possible time.
Martial law was terminated at
three o’clock this afternoon. Com
plete order has been restored and
no further trouble is anticipated.
COMMITTEE SAYS INDUSTRY
HURT BY BAD MANAGEMENT
ST. LOUIS, June 4—The Ameri
can Engineer Council’s committee
on waste in industry, appointed by
Secretary Hoover, is reported to
have declared that responsibility for
more than 50 per cent of the waste
in industrial processes can be traced
at the door of the management, and
less than 23 per cent at the door
of labor.
The report shows that the margin
of unemployment amounted to more
than a million men, with billions of
dollars tied up in idle equipment.
The high labor turnover is said
to be one of the commonest wastes,
and that waste of time and energy
through duplications and estimates
in the building trades runs into mil
lions annually.
1
SENATE APPROVES REQUEST ,
FOR SHIPPING DEFICIENCY (
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 4— ,
j In spite of vigorous protest on the
] part of numerous members, the
; senate has finally approved the com
! mittee amendments to the deficiency 1
bill, granting $75,000,000 to the 1
Shipping Board. One of the amend
ments directs the board to sell all 1
wooden ships before October 1. '•
Senator King, of Utah, In op- !
posing the granting of the Shipping '
Board deficiency, charged that the ;
affairs of the board are in incompe
tent hands, in the hands of men
“who are hostile to the sale of the
Government ships because the sale
would put their jobs out of exist
ence.” In five years, he said, the
fleet corporation had spent $3,700,
000,000 and has to show for it
“some 300 useless wooden ships,
seven useless concrete ships, 1,400
steel ships of doubtful value.”
The appropriation was opposed by
Senator Kenyon and a number of
others, on the grounds of extrava
gance and poor management.
REPLACING UNION MEN
TOPEKA, June 4—C. E. Freeman,
president of the Kansas Federation
of Labor, has telegraphed President
Samuel Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor, charging that
the Santa Fe railroad company is
laying off union workers in an effort
to replace them with non-union
labor.
GERMAN GOVERNMENT SAFE
BERLIN, June 4—The reichstag
has voted confidence in the new Ger
man government, headed by Chan
cellor Wirth.
s
- ick. The water ranges in depth from
- three to ten feet.
» A late message from Pueblo, dis
• patched by courier by a round-about
■ course, asks that the Colorado state
1 Rangers be rushed to the inundated
1 city to assist in saving the lives of
5 the hundreds of residents who are
s in danger there.
The high water was caused by
f torrential rains extending to the
^ northern part of the state and in
" the mountains, swelling rivers to
torrents and filling reservoirs to the
danger point.
CITY UNDER WATER
PUEBLO, June 4—At an early
hour today the flood level reached
o
the streets of this city, filling every
e basement in the city, and with no
indication of recession. The flood
e
is the worst in the recolection of
, pioneer residents of Pueblo, with a
damage estimate at more than four
_ million dollars.
n
t
Boats were in operation on the
streets at noon, rescuing people
from their homes. Many were ma
rooned in the federal building, hav
ing taken refuge there to escape
the rising waters.
a
t
1
I
I
l
1
«
1
<
t
1
e
t
1
l
i
c
:
i
I
EATTLE AWAITING ARRIVAL
OF GOVERNOR SCOTT BONE
SEATTLE, June 4—Great prepar
tions are being made for the recep
ion of Governor Scott Bone, upon
is arrival in this city from the
last enroute to Alaska. It is ex
ected that he will start for the
Vest within the next week or two.
Reports received here today from
few York state that the new gov
mor is to be the guest of John H.
’erry, president of the P-I company,
t a banquet to be held at the Wal
orf-Astoria on June 17, and at
;hich more than 100 Alaskans and
ormer residents of Seattle and the
iorthwest will be present. The gov
rnor will leave New York within
, few days after the banquet.
'RAINMEN NOT SATISFIED
WITH WAGE NEGOTIATIONS
CHICAGO, June 4—B. M. Jewell,
lead of the railway employes de
lartment of the American Federa
ion of Labor says that the status
>f the negotiations over working
greements between the employes of
ndividual railroads “is anything but,
atisfactory.” He says that ten of
he roads have refused to negotiate j
lew agreements and are now at-1
empting to return to the ten-hourj
lay.
—
:hinks want back pay;
GUARDS DRIVE THEM AWAY
PEKING, June 4—The director of
he National Medical school and
•ther prominent educators were hurt j
,oday when a crowd of several
lundred teachers and others sought
in interview with the premier re
garding arrearages in pay due them
‘rom the government. When they
ipproached the cabinet grounds, the
soldier guards at the gates attacked
;hem and drove them away, many
>eing seriously injured.
ATTACK NON-UNION CREW
OLD POINT COMFORT, June 4—
\ party of masked men boarded the
Shipping Board steamer Mitchell, at
Hampton Roads today, and attacked
she members of the crew, several of
whom were badly beaten. A naval
ietachment was dispatched to the
scene but arrived too late to catch
the attacking party.
TRAITOR IS EXECUTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 4—
Lieut. I. Wanicki, aviator who was
:onvicted of high treason for dis
posing military secrets to British
igents, was executed today.
LEADER AT VLADIVOSTOK
VLADIVOSTOK, June 4—Gener
al Semenoff, leader of the anti-Bol
shevik forces, arrived here today.
Alex Hanolf, grading contractor,
is paying the town a business visit.
He expects to leave for Riley creek
within the next day or two.
Prof. R. F. Wolf arrived from the
Canyon district on the train this
ifternoon.
SEMMES BLAMES ALASKANS
FOR FIGHTING SHIP TRUST
SEATTLE, June 4—R. M. Sem
mes, formerly employed by Governor
Riggs in connection with the oper
ation of the Alaska Shipping board,
and now district head of the United
States Shipping Board operating de
partment, in an interview published
in this city, denounces the action of
the Alaska legislature in authoriz
ing the commencement of a test
case to ascertain the validity of
Section 27, of the Jones act.
“The purpose of 27, of the Mer
chant Marine act,” declares Semmes,
“is to conserve to American rail
roads and American ships, employing
American citizens and paying Ameri
can wages, the carriage of traffic
which is consumed in the United
States. There is no more reason
why the people of Alaska should
be privileged to enjoy transporta
tion based on foreign costs and
foreign working conditions than
there would be for permitting for
eign ships to operate between Seat
tle and San Francisco. He says
further that to allow foreign lines
to engage in domestic commerce of
Alaska is no more justifiable than
to suspend the customs regulations
to permit foreign products to go
into Alaska free of duty.
“Regardless of what is said to
the contrary,” Semmes concludes,
the markets of Alaska are in the
United States.”
BRITISH MINERS REJECT PLAN
LONDON, June 4—The executive
body of the striking British coal
miners has finally rejected the gov
ernment proposals for the settlement
of the strike.
PAPER STRIKE SETTLED
GREEN BAY, June 4—The strike
of paper mill workers in this dis
trict has been settled, the strikers
having decided to accept a wage
reduction of 16 per cent.
GREEKS ARE MASSACRED
LONDON, June 4—The Athens
Exchange Telegraph is authority for
the statement that frightful mas
sacres of Christians have occurred
at Trebizond and elsewhere in Ar
menia, on the Black sea. The re
ports state that the streets are
strewn with the bodies of Greeks.
i "■*
THE
EASIEST WAY
to keep
| OUTSIDE FRIENDS j
POSTED
on
INSIDE
HAPPENINGS
is to
HAVE THE
HOME TOWN
PAPER MAILED
TO THEM_
THE NENANA DAILY
NEWS