CELEBRATE THE FOURTH IN NENANA
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Volume Two member of associated press
NENANA, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1919.
Number 71
GERMANS AGREE TO SIGN PEACE PACT
MINNESOTA TOWN WIPED OUT BY BIG TORNADO
MANY SHIPS ARE SCUTTLED BY TRICKY BOCHE CREWS
LOCATING PARTY :
10 LEAVE TOWN !
For the purpose of locating a
section of the railroad south of
town, from Dry creek, near the
Lignite country, to the Nenana can
yon ,an engineering party, which
will be known as Locating Party No.
5, is being formed. The section of
the road to be located runs for a
distance of about five miles between
the points named.
Mr. H. Mills, who arrived in Ne
nana from the States on the steamer
Alaska, will have charge of the lo
cating party, and it is expected that
all arrangements as regards mess
and camp equipment, etc., will have
been made so that the party can
leave on Saturday night and take
the field as soon as possible there
after.
The personnel of the party is now
being recruited, and with the mess
house force will comprise about 12
all told.
SEATTLE, June 23.—The Seattle
Congregational c-hureh was the scene
yesterday of the marriage of Miss
Gudrun Anderson, daughter of Mrs.
Mary Anderson, former Fairbanks
businesswoman, to Edward Emil
Hurja, for several years city edit >r
of the Fairbanks Times. The uni-1
versity chimes played the wedding
march as the young couple ap
proached the altar, surrounded by
their many friends.
The romance began when both
were freshmen at the University of
Washington. Miss Anderson later
became society editor of the Post
Intelligencer, on which paper Hurja
also was employed for a time, after 1
he had left Fairbanks. Hurja was j
a member of the Ford peace mission
to Europe and later went to Wash- j
ington as secretary to Delegate Sul
aer, giving up that place to join the j
eolors.
The bride spent several years in
Dawson, when a little girl and was
also a resident of Fairbanks for a ‘
time.
TROPHY OF WAR
REACHES NENANA
On the mail from the States re
, ceived in Nenana recently, Miss Mil
dred Anderson received a package
containing a German helmet, sent
_ her by Governor Riggs for the
splendid showing she made in the
recent Victory loan drive.
The helmet is a new one and is
such as is worn by German infantry-;
men. It is of leather and the front j
of it contains a dull metal shield
composed of the German eagle with
• a scroll bearing the inscription in
German “With God for King and
Fatherland.”
Miss Anderson has not quite de-1
GERMANS ACCEPT PACT;
WILL SIGN THIS WEEK
PARIS, June 23.—Announcement
was made this morning by officials of j
the French foreign office of the re
ceipt of a formal communication
from the German government at
Weimar, announcing the willingness
of the Germans to sign the Allied.
peace terms unconditionally. The ex
act date and hour of the signing is :
uncertain, but it is expected that
the signatures will be attached to
the pact either tomorrow or Wed
nesday.
GERMANS KNOW IT.
WEIMAR, June 23.—Official an
nouncement has been made here of
the agreement reached to sign the
treaty, and it is expected that the
formal acceptance of the terms will
take place early this week.
PEACE OF VIOLENCE.
PARIS, June 23.—The German
note of acceptance, which reached
the peace conference this morning,
claims that the peace conditions im
posed by the Allies form a peace
of violence.
Reports received late today indi
cate that there is a possibility that
the German national assembly will
adopt a resolution declaring that
Germany signed the treaty under
compulsion. The resolution also may
contend that the German people are
not morally responsible for the war
ITALY WILL SIGN.
PARIS, June 23.—Official advices |
received from Rome today state thatj
ti^ Italian delegates have been in
structed to sign the peace treaty,
thus eliminating a question which
threatened to delay the forma! con- j
elusion of the peace arrangements, i
EXTENSION DENIED.
PARIS, June 23.—The request of j
the German government for an ad- i
ditional forty-six hours for the con- j
sideration of the peace terms was j
promptly denied by the peace con
feience. Whereupon the Germans j
informed the conference of their de
cision to sign the treaty.
PRESIDENT COMING.
PARIS,June 23.—The presidential!
ship George Washington, on which,
President Wilson and the members i
of his party will return to the Unit- j
ed States, is being made ready for
the return voyage, and it is ex
pected that the President will be
ready to start home on Wednesday.
FRENCH WILL CELEBRATE.
PARIS, June 23.—Elaborate prep
arations are being made in this city
for the celebration of the Fourth \
of July, which will take on special:
significance as the result of the
German acceptance of the peace
terms. A monster demonstration is ’
planned.
The municipality will receive Gen
eral Pershing and President Poin
care will review a parade composed
largely of American troops, which
will be invited to the city for the
celebration.
cided as to what disposition she *1!
finally make of this interesting, al
beit grim souvenir of the great war
DAYLIGHT SAVING
10 BE REPEALED
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 23—
The daylight saving law, which was
passed as a war emergency measure
by the Sixty-fifth Congress, will be
stricken from the statute books by
the present .Congress, if the action
of the conference committee, to
which the question was referred, may
be regarded as an indication of the
attitude of the lawmakers toward
the bill.
The committee agreed today to
submit a favorable report on the bill
repealing the saving law next Oc
tober, when the clocks of the coun
try will be set back one hour, to
^correct time.
LOW WAGES ENABLE
JAPS TO UNDERSELL
ALL COMPETITORS
GLASGOW. — Japanese manufac
turers in almost every line of trade
are aple to undersell their British
and American competitors by as
much as 33 1-3 per cent and still
gain a profit, according to the Jour
nal of the Glasgow Chamber of
Commerce. The trade paper at
tributes Japan’s advantage to low
er wages and facilities for trans
portation.
In 1917, the Journal adds, Japan
made a very marked advance in im
portation of raw materials and the
conversion of them into finished
goods * for export. The cost of
labor, says the paper, is the crucial
question in the problem of how far
Great Britain can hold her own
against Japanese competition. In
the Japanese weaving factories, 14
women or girls are employed to one
J man or boy, while the proportion in
i the great English textile industry in
Lancashire is two women to one
man.
_
; Sid Barrington, former Yukon
| river captain, is now operating a
I steamer on the Stikine.
MINNESOTA TOWN IS
WRECKED BY STORM
FERGUS FALLS, Minn., June 23.1
—The business section of this city j
was tom to shreds last night by a \
tornado which swept through the j
town with great velocity. It is be- j
lieved that fully sixty people have I
been killed.
DAMAGE GREAT
EVANSVILLE, June 23—The city
of Fergus Falls, was almost de- j
molished last night by a terrific j
wind storm. Early estimates of the
! property damage place the financial j
| loss at six million dollars. The;
; number of deaths has not yet been ;
! ascertained because of the fact that
many of the bodies are still in the!
| ruins. The number of injured will J
exceed one hundred and sixty. It j
is believed fully a score perished
in the Grand hotel, a three story
building which was completely de
molished by the storm.
Doctors and nurses are being
rushed to the scene of the disaster
from this city.
MANY BUILDINGS DOWN
ST. PAUL, June 23.—The Fergus
Falls tornado resulted in the de
struction of three hundred buildings,
nearly all of which were in the busi
ness district. The destroyed build
ings include the Grand hotel, couit
house, county jail and the sheriff’s
residence. A train standing on a
siding at Fergus Falls was blown
bodily from the track.
County Seat
Fergus Falls is the county seat
of Otter Tail county. It is a city
of more than seven thousand popu
lation, in the heart of the "park”
section of the state, being sur
rounded by prairie land and forests
of pine and hardwood.
HUNS TRICK ALLIES
AS PEACE ARRIVES
WEIMAR, June 23.—According to ■
reports received in this city, at least
a dozen German war vessels, be
| sides a number of destroyers, have
i been sunk by the German sailors off
Kiel, Wilhelmshaven and other ports
since the signing of the armistice
None of these vessels, it is stated,
had been surrendered to the Allies
and their destruction was not de- ‘
jcided upon until it had become cer
tain that the Germans would not be
given the opportunity to make use
' of them.
JUST REWARD
LONDON, June 23.—Officials of
| the British admiralty are authority
for the statement that six Germans'
1 gave up their lives in the effort
io destroy the German war vessels
at Scarpa Flow, which had been sur
rendered to the Allies by Admiral
von Reuter and which, were scuttled
by his orders. In addition to the
six who met death when the vessels
went down, about a dozen others
were injured and were saved witn
difficulty by their comrades when
they took to the small boats.
The admiralty admits that about
fifty destroyers were sunk, together
with several warships, but it is ex
pected that many of them will be
salved. Several, in fact, were beach
ed before they could sink.
One of the German officers re- i
sponsible for the sinkings is re- j
ported to have shouted exultantly,.
as the ships went to the bottom:
“See how the German navy goes
down, with flags flying.” The flags
referred to were German flags which
had been hoisted by the Hun crews
as the holds filled with water.
SEATTLE, June 23.—The Beaux
Arts moving picture company has
despatched a company of actors to
Alaska to procure special pictures
of the Northland. The party sailed
on the steamship Admiral Watson
and will go direct to Kodiak, a re
gion which has received much pub
licity of late in connection with
Mt. Katmai and the “Valley of Ten
Thousand Smokes.’’
NEW SOUTH WALES
TAKES GOOD CARE OF
RETURNED SOLDIERS
SYDNEY.—The state of New!
South Wales, of Australia, in settling i
its returned soldiers on the land,;
not only provides them with a farm 1
on easy payments, but makes sure'
of the repatriated Anzae’s welfare
by paying him an allowance up to
|10 a week for sustenance during1
the unproductive period of his tenure.!
Describing the work of the state i
repatriation department, C. C. Ash
ford, minister for lands, in a recent j
statement, said:
“In addition to the $2,500 ad- i
vanced to each settler for the ac-!
quirement of his property, those in
circumstances warranting further as
sistance during the unproductive:
period of their holdings are entitled !
to and receive for six months a
sustenance allowance, inclusive of!
pension, on the following basis: Mar
ried men $7.50 a week; for each
child up to four in number and not i
over 16 years of age, an additional
62 cents a week; single men $5 a
week. The maximum rate of sus
tenance paid to any one settler dur
ing the unproductive period of his i
farm is $10 a week.” !
Further, each settler if he wishes |
to raise mutton and wool is provided ,
with sheep under a share-farming j
agreement. j
Inui—TU Gateway to XcXloley
littoul Park.
HELSINGFORS, Finland, June 23.
—The Bolsheviki cruiser Slava, one
of the Russian Red fleet operating
in the Gulf of Finland, is reported
to have been sent to the bottom by
a British torpedo, fired by warships
of the imperial navy.
Another Russian cruiser, the Olga,
is reported to have been sunk by
a British submarine.
The loss of these two boats, it is
stated in reports received from the
scene of attack, will greatly cripple
the Bolsheviki fleet in these waters,
but it is understood to be the in
tention of the British to continue
operations against the Red vessels
until the entire fleet has been put
out of commission.
The destruction of the Slava and
Olga resulted in the loss of many
lives.
TRUCE IS REACHED
IN SENATE BATHE
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 23.
—Leaders of the opposing senate
forces who have been directing the
stormy debate on the Knox resolu
tion, to the exclusion of other im
portant matters, have suspended hos*
tilities temporarily, a truce having
been announced early today.
Both sides are realigning their
forces for the struggle over the pro
posed ratification of the League of
Nations covenant, and another bit
ter struggle is in prospect.
LABOR DELEGATES
ATLANTIC CITY, June 23.—
Resolutions were adopted during the
closing hours of the annual conven
tion of the American Federation of
Labor, putting the federation on
record as favoring a forty-four hour
week for labor generally throughout
the country.
MOODY LAUNCH RETURNS
FROM TRIP ALONG YUKON
The Moody launch, with George
Moody at the wheel and Special
Liquor Investigator John Moe a3
passenger, reached port during Ihe
night, enroute back to Fairbanks
from a voyage along the Yukon
in search of evaders of the terri
torial dry law.
The launch was scheduled to !ea\e
for the upper town during the after
noon.
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