WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. II.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22. 1920.
NO. 248
SPECIAL GRAND JURY GETS MILLIONAIRE
BAKER APPROVES SENA TE PLANS FOR U. S. ARMY
SALE OF DISTILLATE IS DISCONTINUED IN NORTHWEST
DISTILLATE HAS
BEEN WITHDRAWN
TO SUPPLY GAS
SEATTLE, Jan. 22.—The sale of
distillate throughout the Northwest
has been discontinued by the Stan
dard Oil and Union Oil companies,
according to announcement made,
here this week by local represents- !
tives of the two companies.
This action has been taken, it is
explained, because of the greatly
increased demand for gasoline. The
companies claim that they cannot
continue the sale of distillate and
also keep up with the demand for
gasoline.
The suspension of distillate sales,!
it is believed, will work a hardship
on owners of boats engaged in the
Alaska fishing trade, a considerable
number of them depending upon dis
tillate for fuel.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 22.—The
convention of bishops and laymen
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
North and South, which has been in
session during the past several days,
adopted a resolution today advocat
ing that the branches be united un
der one name. The action is in
line with the general endeavor
among churchmen to eliminate a
duplication of church work, but the
chief aim is to bring the two
branches together for the general
good of the church. If the action
of the convention is approved, the
new name will be simply Methodist
church.
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MILLIONAIRE SOCIALIST IS
INDICTED BY FEDERAL JURY
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LAND CABLE CUT
NEAR VALDEZ BY
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The restoration of telegraph com- j
munication between Interior Alaska
and the Outside was given a further j
setback yesterday by the wreck of
a portion of the land cable near j
Valdez by a big snowslide. The ex
tent of the damage had not been '
ascertained at the time the message j
was sent, but the character of the
country in that section of Alaska
is such that it probably will require
- considerable, work to repair the
r
I cable.
| The other break in the line, upon
I which a force is now engaged in
j repair work, should be ready for
'service before the end of the week
—perhaps is repaired now. But an
other several days undoubtedly will
elapse before through communica
tion can be resumed.
In the meantime, Government ra
dio stations are handling the busi
ness, by relay, a substitute that re
quires considerable more time and
also is more costly and less efficient.
But it is better than no substitute
at all and Alaskans are fortunate
1 in having such a service available
for use in such an emergency.
i WINNIPEG, Man., Jan. 2..—Ac-j
'cording to announcement made here
I today, the membership of local un-:
iions is strongly in favor of a general
Canadian strike as a protest against
jthe conviction and sentence of La-1
! bor Leader Russell, who was ac- j
jcused of agitating and directing the
| Winnipeg strike last year.
Action in the matter has been
! deferred pending a consultation with
English labor leaders.
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SILVER DOLLARS ARE
BEING REMELTED NOW'
PHILADELPHIA, Pa —Ten mill
ions of dollars, all in silver, are
;being melted into silver bars at the
| United States mint here. Later the
bars are turned into dimes, quar
ters and half-dollars. The Govern
iment finds it cheaper to melt the
'dollars than to go into the market
!any buy silver, now selling at the
■highest price in many years.
| Hyder is probably the only town
of its size in the world where all the
residents are old enough to vote.
•There isn’t a kid in town yet.— ■
Hyder Miner.
CHICAGO, Jan. 22.—William S.
Lloyd, millionaire parlor socialist of
this city, has been indicted by a
special grand jury which is now en
gaged in an investigation of radical
activities in Cook county.
In addition to Lloyd, the jury has
returned true bills against 77 other
Cook county agitators of more or
less prominent-, including three wom
en and the members of the execu
tive committee of the Communist
party, against whom much dam
aging evidence is said to have been
obtained. All of the indictments
allege conspiracy to overthrow the
Government.
The investigation, it is believed,
will result in the arrest of many
others before the probe is conclud
ed, and the Federal authorities who
have charge of the prosecutions
have announced that they will leave
no stone unturned to rid the county
of undesirables. Wholesale deporta
tions are planned.
SECRETARY BAKER
LIKES ARMY PLAN
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 22.—
Secretary of Wrar Baker has given
his approval to the senate’s army
reorganization bill, which provides
for a regular army of 280,000 men.
The secretary told the senate mili
tary committee that the bill is the
most statesmanlike attempt ever
made in this country to reorganize!
the army.
The secretary also told the com-1
mittce that he did not want Gen
eral Pershing as chief of staff, a
post that is , not wanted by the
general.
The department is wondering
where it can place Pershing.
CHICAGO REPORTS
DECREASE IN FLU
CHICAGO, Jan. 22.—It is th«*.
opinion of local medical observers
that the peak of the flu epidemic
has been passed in this city, the
opinion beintr based on the fact that
the number of new cases reported
is decreasing daily.
The disease is of a much milder,
type than was experienced during '
the first epidemic. )
GENERAL PERSHING
IS NOT CANDIDATE
SEATTLE, Jan. 22. — General j
John J. Pershing, who is making a
tour of the country inspecting army '
posts and camps, stated positively
in an address delivered in this city
this week that he is not a candidate
for the presidency and has no in
tention of running for the place.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22.—Rep-!
resentatives of the International j
Seamen’s union are authority for
the statement that it is the inten-,
tion of the organization to demand;
new trials for Thomas Mooney and
Orville Billings, convicted bomb
throwers.
The union has a total member- !
ship of approximately 75,000.
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ROME, Jan. 23.—Italian aviators ;
who are planning a flight to Japan j
from Italy may decide to proceed j
to America from the Orient. And [
in case such a flight is decided |
upon they likely will make* the trip j
across the Pacific by way of Alaska,
the opinion prevailing amonu the
birdmen that the Alaska route is
the best of the several suggested.
PARALYTIC STROKE
DISABLES TRAPPER
Edward Anderson, trapper, who
has a trapline about 140 miles
above Munson's roadhouse, was
brought into Fairbanks yesterday
with his entire left side paralyzed.
The stroke came on him while he
was at the cabin of (Jus Hague, !
near one end of the Anderson trap
line, and Hague brought the crip
pled man to Munson's by dog team,
from which point he was taken to
Fairbanks by George Hillar, by auto.
The patient is under the care of
Dr. de la Verpne.
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10 GIVE RELIEF
HALIFAX, N. S., .Ian. 22—Eight
persons were drowned yesterday as
the result of the capsizing of a
small boat from the transport Great
Northern, which was engaged in an
attempt to transfer passengers from
the disabled transport Powhatan.
The accident occurred at a point
about 200 miles south of Halifax.
The Canadian steamship Lady
Laurier is now towing the Pow
hatan to this port.
The Powhatan sprang aleak sev
eral days ago, the water getting
into the boiler-room and putting out
the tires, leaving the vessel in a
helpless condition, with many pass
engers aboard, a number of whom
have since been taken off by steam
ers which responded to the wireless
calls for assistance.
WHEN CHENS
PLACED ON IRIAL
TOMBSTONE, Ariz., .Ian. 22.
Two hundred and six citizens of
the Warren mining district were
arraigned in this city today on the
charge of kidnaping 1,100 Wobblies
two years .ago, and all of them en
tered pleas of not guilty.
The Wobblies in question were
herded aboard cars and moved from
Bisbee to Columbus, because of their
activities.
FIGHT IS STOPPED
TO AVERT BEATING
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2d.—After
Tow Cowler, English aspirant to
heavyweight honors, hail boon knock
ed down four times by Fred Fulton,
Minnesota heavyweight, the referee
put a stop to the slaughter to save
the Englishman from further pun
ishment.
The fight went only three rounds
and it was clearly demonstrated in
that time that Cowler was no match
for the lengthy plasterer.
Cordova papers report that Dr.
George Haxby, former physician and
surgeon for the Kennecott Corpora
tion at Latouche, has gone to the
States to reside.
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RICHMOND, Jan. 22. — William
jJennings Bryan is much put out
because of what he terms the in
discretion of Chairman Cummings
of the Democratic national commit
tee, who is reported to have attend
ed the inaugural dinner arranged
in honor of Governor Edwards, Dem
ocrat, of New Jersey, who was
elected to office on an anti-prohi
bition platform.
j In an address delivered in this
Icitv, Bvvan denounced the action of
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Chairman Cummings as indicative
of Democratic approval of the ac
tion of New Jersey voters. The
Democrats, Bryan declared, cannot
line up with the wets in the forth
j coming or any campaign, and tho
; apparent acquiescence of Cummings
in the election of a wet governor
| in New Jersey should not be re
|garded as reflecting the general at
Ititude of the party.
HOCKEY TFAMS TIED
FOR COAST HONORS
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| SEATTLE, Jan. 22. The three
j teams composing the Pacific Coast
hackey league were tied last night,
lwhen Seattle defeated Victoria here
with a score of 2 to 1. Each team
now has four games to its credit
and each has lost four games.
The teams composing the league
are Seattle, Victoria, and Van
couver, and the race for the cham
pionship is growing more exciting
with each game.
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BOSTON, .Jan. 22. Mike O’Dowd,
middleweight champion, put Tommy
Murphy, of Chicago, out of com
mission in this city this week in
the third round of what was to
have been a twelve-round bout.
, O’Jlowd’s superior ring generalship
and hitting ability was apparent
from the start, but few of the
spectators expected to see Murphy
take the count so early in the tight.
BERMUDANS OPPOSED
TO USE OF GAS CARS
HAMILTON, Bermuda.—A vigor
ous effort to raise the ban on motor
cars has failed. The house of as
sembly voted 17 to 15 against it.
For at least another year, Ber
mudans and visiting tourists will
continue to walk, ride a bicycle or
drive a horse as of yore,
i Since little Nantucket capitulated
to the forces of progress this col- ■
ony has held an almost unique po
sition in its opposition to the use of
.automobiles.