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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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VOL. III.
NENANA. ALASKA, THURSDAY. AUGUST 12, 1920
NO. 109.
RUSSIANS FACE WINTER OF PRIVATIONS
LENINE OBJECTS TO FORMATION OF NEW STATE
ALASKA SQUADRON MAY RESUME FLIGHT TOMORROW
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TOKYO. Aug. 12—The
massacre of Japanese at Nik
olaieveK, Siberia, on May 12,
the details of which are com
ing to light, appears to be
causing great excitement in
all sections of Japan.
Newspapers which are de
voting columns to the affair
daily declare that there is t
divergence of views between
the military ciroles and the
foreign office, the army au
thorities incisting on taking
strong retaliatory measures
against the Bolsheviki.
The navy department is
certain that all the Japanese
troops, numbering 301, after
a desperate resistance, met
their death by fighting, the
morning of the 13th.
It has also been ascertain
ed that the Bolsheviki, be
fore leaving Nikolaievsk,
massacred the surviving Jap
anese prisoners, numbering
about a hundred.
The government has be
gun investigations into the
the reports that guns from
a Chinese gunboat were
trained on the Japanese gar
rison at Nikolaievsk at the
time of the massacre. Should
these reports prove true it
is probable that they will be
made the basis of diplomatic
representations to the Chi
nese government.
SUFFRAGE GAINING
NASHVILLE, Aug. 12.—
Suffrage advocates scored a
point today when the lower
house of the state legislature
rejected a resolution provid
ing for the postponement of
the suffrage question until
after August 21. The resolu
tion was tabled after a
lengthy debate, and the
house, in consequence will
proceed with the considera
tion of the joint resolution
providing for ratification of
the sufferage amendment.
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FOOD SHORTAGE THREATENS
AS ARMIES PRESS FORWARD
MANIPULATOR PUTS
BANKERS IN DUTCH
BOSTON, Aug. 12—Bank
Commissioner Allen has tak
en charge of the affairs ol
the Hanover Trust company
'claiming that investigation
!shows the bank to have been
| operating in an unsafe man
jner, chiefly, it is believed, in
•connection with the transac
tions of Charles Ponzi, whc
is alleged to have made mil
lions in the manipulation o;
| international exchange.
Ponzi has admitted to the
authorities that while he wa:
ja member of a banking firm
: in Montreal, he was convict
led on a charge of forgery
'and obtaining money undei
false pretenses. And the
records at Atlanta show thai
Ponzi served two years in
I the federal penitentiary
:there. He was convicted ai
!Buffalo on a charge of smug
gling aliens into the country
FIRES SPREADING;
CAN T STOP THEM
ELLENSBURG. Aug. 12
!—Forest fires in the Waptns
lake district in the Wenat
chee national forest, in the
Cascades, are spreading very
I rapidly in spite of the eflo ts
iof an army of fire-figr.teis
Large tracts of valuable fim
;ber already have been burn
ed and the loss os mounting
steadily.
One of the fire-fighters is
reported to have lost his life
battling the flames.
MASQUERADER WILL
ANSWER FOR ACTS
; SAN FRANCISCO, Aug.
12.—The military authorities
have caused the arrest of
Private Arthur K. LeGrand
on the charge of desertion.
The army intelligence of
ficer of the German army
who masqueraded as an Am
erican soldier in Europe
while in the German service.
He came into possession of
papers belonging to an Am
erican lieutenant and later
joined the American army
under the lieutenant’s name.
Still later he enlisted as a
private.
BANDIT CAPTURED
CALGARY, Aug. 12.—
Basoff, alleged bandit whc
iwas engaged in a gun duel
near Bellevue on Saturday,
and for whom officers have
been combing the country
since that time, was captured
;this morning, the bandit sur
rendering without a fight.
Kkaana, the Gateway to KoKiiJey
National Park.
VIBORG, Finland, Aug.
12.—Flushed with success
and confident of defeating
Poland in the present strug
gle, Russia faces the ap
proaching winter with the
jgrim problem of food as the
supreme test of power. From
the Far East to the Finnish
frontier, a distance of four
thousand miles, the specter
of starvation stops threaten
ly.
An Associated Press cor
respondent, who has just ar
rived here, saw these condi
tions in crossing Russia,
i Everywhere, he says, the cry
for food and clothing is
heard, and an acepted report
from Moscow quotes Premier
iLenine as saying that Russia
jcannot pass through another
Swinter like last winter.
! The correspondent states
further that stories are being
circulated in Russia to the
effect that even Lenine is
suffering the pangs of hung
jer.
With starvation threaten
ing and an ever-increasing
spirit of unrest and revolt to
contend with, the military
authorities are finding it dif
ficult to carry out orders.
POLAND WANTS HELP
1 WASHINGTON. Aug. 12.
Count Lube Mirski, Polish
|minister, has anounced that
j Poland will ask immediate
aid of the United States in
j the battle of that country
against the Bolsheviki. The
appeal will be based upon the
American note to Italy,
which contained the assur
ance that the United States
will insist upon the main
tance of the political and ter
ritorial integrity of Poland.
The appeal probably will be
confined to a request for ad
ditional credits for the pur
chase of war materials.
COUNTER STROKE
WARSAW, Aug. 12.—
Local newspapers report that
concentration and regroup
ing of Polish forces for an
extensive counter stroke a
long the entire Warsaw
front. It is expected that the
Poles will be ready for their
supreme effort within a few
days.
RAILROAD GONE
PARIS, Aug. 12.—The
Russians are now occupying
a stretch of twenty-four
miles of the direct railway
between Danzig and Warsaw
and a large force of Bol
shevik troops is now pushing
across the Danzig border to
cut the remaining rail con
nections.
LETVIA SIGNS
LONDON. Aug. 12.—A
Riga dispatch says that the;
Letvia-Russian peace treaty i
has been signed and that'
Russia and Finland havej
agreed to the armistice con
ditions at Dorpat,
■DOLIER DECLARES
AMERICA IS SAFE
SEATTLE, Aug. 12.—Ra
dicalism will never gain a
foothold in the United States
in the opinion of Franklin
Dolier, national commander
of the American legion, who
arrived here from Centralia
this morning. “The Reds,"
i he said, “recognize the bar to
their efforts created by the
organization of hundreds of
thousands of men in the
American legion."
Dolier went to Centralia
for the purpose of heading
the pilgrimage to the graves
of the legion members who
jwere killed during the Ar
;mistice day parade a year
ago. In his cemetery address
he said: “Centralia will mean
to the American legion, what
Bunker Hill, Gettysberg and
Chateau Thierry mean to the
nation. At those places the
spirit of America met the
the enemy and triumphed.
Here the snirit of the Ameri
can legion likewise met the
enemy and triumphed.”
Ernest T^terson returned
from Fairbanks today.
JONES AND CASEY
DRAW AT SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Wash. Aug. 12
—Frankie Jones, of San
Francisco, and Harry Casey,
a local boxer, went four
rounds to a draw here last
night. Jones was to have:
met Travis Davis, who claims I
the coast welterweight title,
but at the last moment Davis
refused to go on and Casey
was substituted.
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COAST LEAGUE CLUB
IS CAUSING TROUBLE
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12.1;
—The Los Angeles Express i
has sent a telegram to Presi-'
dent McCarty, of the Pacific^
Coast baseball league, de
manding an investigation of
the Vernon club. The action
of the Express was prompt-,
ed by charges made by Babe
Borton, former Vernon first
baseman, who says that a
fund of $2,000 was raised by;
Vernon players to make cer
tain of the pennant for Ver-j
non.
A mail stage is due in,
Fairbanks on Saturday, i
ALASKA SQUADRON
TO HOP TOMORROW
PRINCE GEORGE, Aug
12.—The repair parts foi
Captain Street's damaged
plane have arrived from San
Francisco and the work ol
putting the machine in shape
to resume the flight to Nome
is being rushed with all pos
sible speed.
Captain Street says that ii
is posibe the planes will at
tempt the flight to Hazelton
tomorrow.
But, as Neighbor Thomp
son would put it, you nevei
can tell.
RODMAN SAYS COAL
OF NORTH IS GOOL
VICTORIA, Aug. 12.—P
an interview given to a loca
newspaper upon his arriva
here from Alaska, Admira
Rodman said that the in
vestigation of the Matanus
ka field by the navy had dis
closed the presence of an in
exhaustible supply of fue
suitable for use by the navy
The mining of the
coal, however, he said, wili
probably be more difficuh
than that of the Pocahonta'
field because of the fact thai
the Matanuska veins are in
clined perpendicularly.
PROHIBS NOTIFIED
GERMANTOWN, Ohio
Aug. 12.—Dr. Aaron S. Wat
kins and D. Leigh Colvin,
Prohibition candidates re
spectively for the presidency
and vice presidency, were
formally notified last even
ing of their nomination at
the recent Prohibition con
vention.
YANKEE BOAT WINS
COWES, Aug. 12.—The
American motorboat Miss
America has captured the
Harmsworth motorboat tro
phy as the result of having
ivon the second and final
race of the series here to
day.
DEMOCRATIC POLICY
OUTLINED BY WHITE
NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—
Chairman White, of the
Democratic national commit
tee, issued a statement today
in which he declared “the
Democratic party is not go
ing to base its campaign on a
beer and light wines policy,
rhe party will stand squarely
an the national platform for
law enforsement and the
Wets can interpret this plat
form any way they chose.”
aiuu, Alaaka’i Interior Pnel Depot
SOVIET LEADERS
OBJECT 10 MOVE
| WARSAW, Aug. 12—A
: strong movement designed
• to create a large Mohome
jdan state in trans-Caucasia,
'extending from the Caspian
jsea to Erzerum, has been
I started recently, according
!to word received here. It is
I designed to make the new
state a satellite of Turkey.
A purely national idea is
I said to be behind this move
:ment and which has nothing
jin common with Bolshevism,
I according to reports, excepT
jing dislike for the Allies.
'j It is said Lenine, the Rus
;sian premier, and Mustapha
|Kernel Pasha, Turkish Na
tionalist leader, both have
I the same aim—to attack
i Great Britain. But while
Kernel cannot admit Mos
cow’s supremacy over Arme
jiiia and the Mahomedau
.Caucasus, Lenine does not
wish to see creation of a
■ large Turkish state in the
• .Caucasus.
■ I Consequently, though al
jlied, the two ieaders are in
■reality rivals.
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REBEL PAYDAY
SAN PEDRO. Aug. 12.—
Approximately 900 former
‘followers of Francisco Villa
have entrained for the state
of Durango, where they will
'give up their arms to the
jHuerta authorities, and re
jceive the back pay which was
(promised them on condition
.that they would abandon
warfare.
The Tanana Valley work
train crew, which was laid
joff several days ago, is on
'the job again today, having
left Fairbanks this morning
to resume work,
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