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WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
f Volume Two
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA. THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1919.
Number 103
RAILROAD RILL IS FAVORABLY REPORTED
• CONGRESSIONAL PARTY COMING NORTH
AERIAL NA VIGA TORS PLANNING ALASKA INVASION
■ PRESIDENT STUDYING HIGH COST OF LIVING PROBLEM
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CHICAGO, July 31.—In response
to the appeal of the city authorities
for state aid in restoring order here,
the governor last night authorized
the use of state troops, and 8,000
soldiers are now patroling the col
9 ored belt. When the troops first
made their appearance on the
streets, colored rioters fired several
shots at them, but without hitting
any of them. Since then there
have been no attempts to interfere
with the soldiers and normal condi
tions throughout the city are being
restored rapidly.
Clashes between whites and blacks
last night added three more victims
to the list of dead, bringing the total
to 30 since the commencement of
the trouble. This number probably
will be further increased by the
death of some of the injured now
under treatment at various hospitals.
Nearly a thousand have been hurt
^ since the rioting started.
It was learned this afternoon that
the troops were ordered out when
it was learned that white rioters
planned to set fire to a large section
^ of the negro quarter of the city.
Mayor Thompson is authority for
the statement that the city is com
paratively quiet this afternoon, for
the first time since Sunday. The
soldiers, it is understood, will remain
on duty until order has been fully
restored.
PARIS, July 31. — Official an
nouncement made today states that
postal communication between Ger-'
many and France has been resumed,
& after an interruption of more than
four years. The service is not yet
running smoothly and is subject to j
CONGRESSMEN COMING
TO INSPECT RAILWAY;
FAVOR APPROPRIATION
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 31.—
At a late hour this afternoon the
house committee on territories sub
mitted a favorable report on the
i Alaska railroad bill authorizing an
'appropriation of seventeen million
dollars for the completion of the
Government railroad.
SEATTLE, July 31.—A special
Washington dispatch received by the
Post-Intelligencer this morning dis
1 closes the fact that a committee of
i congressmen, including eight and
possibly nine members of the house
committee on territories, has decided
to visit Alaska for the purpose of
[gathering first-hand information re
garding the Government railroad.
[The trip will be made under the
auspices of the department of the
[Interior, and it is possible that Sec
retary Lane will accompany the par
ity. If he does not, he will be rep
resented by his assistant, John Hol
The details of the trip are being
arranged by J. L. McPhrson, man
ager of the Alaska Bureau of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce and
Comercial Club, who is acting as
special representative of Alaska in
connection with pending railroad leg
islation, and by W. A. Ryan, who
was in Alaska last year as special
representative of Secretary Lane.
The congressional party will leave
Washington on Saturday of this
week, and will sail from Seattle for
the North a week from today, going
first to Seward, thence to Anchor
age and over the right-of-way to
N'enana and Fairbanks. The return
to the coast will be made by ^ay
of the Richardson highway and
Chitina.
The names of ail the congressmen
who will make the trip have not yet
been made public, but it is known
that Representatives Albert Johnson,
ilewell.
Republican, of Washington; Edward
S. Brooks, Republican, of Pennsyl
vania; J. C. Strong, Republican, of
Kansas; Walter A. Watson, Demo
crat, of Virginia, and M. L. Davey.
Democrat, of Ohio, will be members
of the party.
App-opriation Waits.
The proposed visit of committee
men to Alaska is regarded here is
meaning that nothing further will
be done with the pending railroad
appropriation until after the return
of the congressmen from their
Northern inspection.
The bill now pending before the
territorial committee, which was in
troduced by Representative Curry of
California, chairman of the com
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mittee that will visit Alaska, is an
amendment to the Act of CongTess
of March 12. 1914. “authorizing the
President of the United States to
ilocate, construct, and operate rail-1
road? in the Territory of Alaska,
and for other purpose?," and reads
a? follows:
The bill approved today by the
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Con
gress assembled, That for the pur
poses of continuing the construction
of railroads in the Territory of
Alaska, and of completing those on
which construction is now under way
as authorized under the Act of Con
gress approved March 12, 1914, en
titled 'An Act to authorize the,
President of the United States to
locate, construct, and operate rail- '
roads in the Territory of Alaska,
and for other purposes,' there is ■
hereby authorized to be appropri-'
ated in the fiscal years beginning
July 1, 1919, 1920. and 1921, in ad
dition to the moneys heretofore ap
propriated, or authorized to be ap
propriated by said Act, the sum of
$17,000,000."
'certain restrictions, but it is ex
jpected that improvement will follow
‘rapidly and that the service will be
on a pre-war basis within a short
!time.
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M. V. Tyler, local photographer,
i'nas returned from a view-taking ex
pedition along the Nenana-Fairbanks
line.
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AIRPLANE COMPANY
• MAY INVADE NORTH
SEATTLE, July 31.—The Alaska
Aerial Transportation Company, in
corporated for half a million dollars,
is the name of a new concern which
is making plans to establish a regu
lar airplane passenger and freight
service in Alaska, with planes oper
ating between Valdez and Fairbanks,
and eventually to Nome and Siberia.
The company is now building
three deHaviland biplanes, at a cost
of S50.000 each, and two smaller
service planes. Each of the larger
machines will have a carrying ca
pacity of six tons of freight and
room for twenty passengers.
The first of the planes is sched
uled to be shipped North in Oc
tober, but the others will not be
placed in commission until sometime
next year. The main operations will
be between Valdez and Fairbanks.
Each of the larger planes will
be equipped with four Liberty mo
tors and have a speed of 100 miles
an hour.
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j WASHINGTON, D. C., July 31.— ,
The telegraph, telephone, marine ea
| ble and radio systems of the United
| States, which were taken over by
| the government last year under the
I provisions of a proclamation issued
j by President Wilson, will be restored
to their owners at midnight tonight,
just one year after the systems
were actually taken over by Post
master General Burleson, acting as
federal supervisor.
The proclamation taking the wires
from their owners was issued by
President Wilson on July 22, last
year, under authority granted him
by Congress in a resolution ap
proved July 16.
MAY BE FREED
PARIS. July 31.—In the opinion
of General Pershing, the 48,000
German prisoners held by the Ameri
cans can be released as soon as the I
peace treaty has been ratified by
three of the great powers. It will j
not be necessary, according to his j
understanding of the situation, to
hold the prisoners in custody until
the United States government ha=
approved the treaty.
The prisoners are a source of
I I
considerable expense and trouble to
the Allies, and their release will be
highly pleasing to the American
military authorities, it is understood.
RANSDELL SAYS
LEAGUE OFFERS
, PEACE PROMISE
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 31—
Senator Joseph E. Ransdell, Demo
crat, of Louisiana, addressed the
senate today in favor of the imme
diate and unreserved ratification of
the German peace treaty, with the
League of Nations covenant in the
form in which it now stands.
He argued that the covenant met
the ends of universal peace as close
ly as any human agency could, and
should at least be given a chance'
to demonstrate its usefulness in pre
venting future wars.
Regarding the opposition which
has developed in the senate, Rans
: dell declared that the enemies of
the proposition had submitted many
j objections, but had proposed noth
‘ ing as a substitute.
ARMY AIRPLANES WILL
BE USED BY FORESTERS
CAMP LEWIS, Wash., July 31.—
Two army airplanes have been des
patched to Portland for use in Ore
gon in assisting to locate forest
fires.
AUSTRIAN CABINET
RESIGNS IN BODY
VIENNA, July 31.—The members
of the Austrian cabinet tendered
their resignations today and retired ‘
from office.
HIS ATTENTION
10 HIGH COSI
WASHINGTON, D. C July hi —
According to information giv*-n out
at the White House this morning,
President Wilson is giving deep r.nJ
thoughtful consideration to the high
cost of living in the United States,
and hopes soon to be able to offer
suggestions which will help in the
solution of the perplexing problem.
The statement also contains the
reassuring announcement that all
branches of the government that
might aid in bringing relief to Am
erican consumers, are hard at work
on the prohlem, spurred to greatest
effort by instructions issued by the
Ptesiaent
The President is in daily teceipt
of hundreds of appeals for relief
from existing conditions cttnbutab'e
to rising costs. Some of the letters
also contain suggestions of violent
opposition to the price fixers of the
country unless steps are taken soon
by the government to put a stop to
price manipulation.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 31.—
Senator Keyes. Republican, of New
Hampshire, a new member of the
upper house of Congress, and an
opponent of the League of Nations
in the form in which the senate has
been asked to consider it, conferred
with President Wilson this morning
regarding the treaty, but was unable
to reach an agreement w:th the ex
ecutive. When the senator came
from the White House, he was "of
the same opinion still,” and inform
ed a newspaperman that his back
was “stiffer than ever for ratifica
tion with reservations.”
RAILROAD WORKERS
DEMANDING ACTION
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 31 —
It is up to the railroad administra
tion to reduce the cost of living in
the United States by October first
or increase the wages of railroad
employes. This attitude on the part
of the trainmen was made clear
today in a statement issued by Pres
ident Lee of the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen, who declares that
railroad workmen cannot continue |
to work for the present wages if;
; living costs are not lowered. Lee
says that steps looking toward the
enforcement of the demands of the
trainmen will be taken soon unless
there are assurances that relief will
be forthcoming one way or the
other.
President Wilson, it is understood,
has been deeply impressed by the
trainmen’s declaration that unrest is
sweeping the country on account -of
the decreased purchasing power of
the dollar.