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The Broad Pass Route Is The Short-Cut Route — Saves Mushers Miles and Money
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1919.
WHOLE NUMBER 285
BOLSHEVIKI PLANNING WORLD REVOLT
GOTHAM BANKER SEES EUROPEAN CRISIS NEAR
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STRIKERS STOP TRAFFIC ON NEW YORK CAR FINES
KOREANS TIRE OF
JAP INTOLERANCE
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SEOUL, Korea. Mar. 13.—Groan
ing under a most unjust usurpation
of her sovereign rights, and being
utterly tired of the caprices of the
Japanese rules of the land, Korea
which is also known as the Hermit
Kingdom, which was arbitrarily an
nexed by Japan many years ago,
driven to extremities, has ' brown
off the Japanese yoke and will prob
ably enter upon a bitter straggle
to regain her independence.
The declaration of independence
from Japan, issued by Korea, says
that it represents the sentiments -f
twenty million people, speaking tn
the name of justice and humanity,
with forty centuries of history as a
distinct, self-governing people.
It states also that Korea, at a
time when she was powerless to help
herself, ten years ago. put on the
yoke of another nation and that
she has. since that time, been made
the victim of the most imperialistic
form of imperialism the world has
ever known.
The Korean national spirit is be
ing ruthlessly supressed by Japan's
unjust regime and the time has ar
rived when the Koreans must fight
for the preservation of" their liber
ties and rights.
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SEATTI.E, Mar. 13.—Jack Bell,
of Fairbanks and Nenana, who was
only 15 years oid at the time of
his enlistment, and probably the
youngest soldier in the army during
the wav returned to Seattle today
with the 63rd Coast Artillery from
France
Jack B°!l is a membe.- of Batterv
A, 63rd Coast Artillery, which was
on active service overseas.
Jack Bell is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur G. Bell of Fairbanks, and
attended the public school there for
some time. In the summer of 1916
he came to Nenana and sought work
with the Alaskan Engineering com
mission. In partnership with Carl
Kahleen, who is now in the U. S
cavalry, he was given a contract to
cut cordwood, which the boys suc
cessfully accomplished. During the
life of the contract they lived in
the woods near Nenana, in a cabin
which they repaired and fixed up.
He afterwards was employed in
various capacities with the A. E. C.,
going Outside and enlisting volun
tarily shortly after the entrance of
the United States into the war.
During his period of training for
the artillery he was stationed at
Fort Lawton, on Puget Sound.
His father Arthur G. Bell is very
well known in the In“:er cr. lie was
part owner of the Fairbanks Daily
Times for years.
A dock will be built at Katalla
early this spring at which large
ocean going steamers can land.
The Copper River railway lost
its pump house at Tiekel. the build
ing having burned down.
Canada sent eight thousand avi
ator officers overseas during the
war.
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CAMPAIGN SOON
WASHINGTON, Mar. 13—Official
nnouncement is made that the Vie
orv Loan campaign opens on April
1 and will close May 10.
The announcement further states
hat short term notes, of not over
ive years' duration, wall be issued,
ut no statement is made as to the
mounts these notes will cover It
; intimated also that the rate of
tterest may exceed four and a
uarter per cent.
TOLEDO, Ohio, Mar. 13.—Eu
ene V. Debs, the convicted Social
?t leader, in a speech made here
oday, which, in all probability will
e his last speech before going to
he penitentiary to serve out the
entence imposed on him, declared
hat Lenine and Trotsky, who are
t the head of the Russian Bolshe
iki movement, are the foremost
tatesmen of the age. He warmly
pheld the Bolsheviki rule in Russia
s an example of their statesman
hip.
In concluding his speech, he took
ccasion to score severely, the
udges of the supreme court of the
Inited States, referring to them in
neering terms, as ‘‘bewhiskered and
epowdered old fossils, who never
ecided anything.”
Debs was tried for a violation >.f
f the espionage law, for attempting
o block enlistments, which resulted
n a conviction and a sentence to
term of ten years in the peni
entiary. He appealed against the
lecision and the supreme court un
nimously upheld and confirmed the
lecision of the lower court.
There are more “Union” post
ffices in the country than any other
00—this counting in “Uniontown”
,nd “Unionville.” Of postoffices
lamed for prominent men, Franklin
eads with 31, Clinton next with 30,
Vashington third with 28- There
ire 23 named after Lincoln and 15
if ter Roosevelt.
PARIS. Mar. 13.—Frank Yander
lip. a well known and prominent
New York banker, who is investigat
ing- conditions in Europe at present,
said today that European production
had ceased and that unless it be
speedily resumed, it would be im
possible to comprehend the chaos
that may ensue.
He declared further that America
does not comprehend the serious
ness of the European situation.
AVIATION FIELDS '
10 BE RETAINED
FOR FUTURE USE
WASHINGTON, Mar. 13.—Acting
Secretary of War Cromwell an
nounced today that the war depart
ment has decided to retain sixteen
flying fields and three balloon fields
as part of the permanent military
establishment of the United States
There will be several hundred ele
mentary and advanced training
planes as well as a large number
of observation balloons for the use
of the men who will be given a
training in aviation methods at the
! various camps.
EDES PUTS DAMPER
ON ALASKA TRAVEL
According to telegraphic advices
received from Seattle today by the
Fairbanks News-Miner, Chairman
W. C. Edes, of the Alaskan Engin
eering commission, who is now at
Washington, D. C., has instructed
Seattle newspapers to warn Out
siders against making the trip to
Alaska in the hope of securing work
on the government railroad. His
reason for taking this step as ex
plained by the Seattle papers, is
that funds are not now avalible to
continue construction work on a
comprehensive scale, thereby' lim't
ing the number of men who can be
given employment
The Fairbanks Commercial club
takes the view that such a state
ment. coming from Chairman Edes.
will create the impression among
Outsiders that there is no work
of any kind to be had in Alaska,
and may' result in influencing a
large number of desirable people to
abandon the trip North and thereby
delay the resumption of develop
ment in Interior and other sections
of Alaska which lost heavily in
population during the progress of
the war.
It was expected that the Fair
banks urbanization would call ' a
special meeting this afternoon for
the purpose of giving consideration
to the Edes statement, and wires
probably will be dispatched at once
to Seattle and other coast towns
for the purpose of correcting the
wrong impression which it is feared
the chairman has created.
Travel toward the North has in
creased greatly during the past sev
eral weeks, all steamers making the
trip now being loaded to capacity,
and all reservations for sailings
scheduled for the next several
weeks at least, are said to have
been taken. This travel is made up
of returning soldiers and oldtimers.
and those who have come in con
tact with Alaskans and have heard
of the possibilities of America’s last
frontier. The Alaskan Engineering
commission has not advertised for
workers, and Fairbanksans feel that
there is no occasion for the chair
man to issue a statement which may
have the effect of checking the flow
of travel in this direction.
HOIST 10
N'orvin Smith and his crew of i
men with the Brown hoist, will go
out on the line tomorrow morning
to load stringers for the use of the
big bridges ahead of steel
The stringers which had been cut
under contract, have been hauled
to the main line and quantities of
them are alongside the track at j
Bridge 5, Camp 15 and near the
Jap roadhouse, (30-mile).
The Brown hoist will be used to
load this material onto the cars and
after leaving the loaded cars on a
siding ahead to be picked up by the
work train, NTorvin Smith and his
men will return to town.
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The steamship Despatch, recently
purchased by the Pacific Steamship
company, has been renrim d the
Admiral Rodman, in honor of the j
admiral representing the American
navy at the surrender of the Ger
^ man fleet.
MOORING PILES
ARE BEING DRIVEN
Piledriver No. 1, which has been
used in the construction of the
elevated track in the yards, was
moved down to the waterfront and
commenced driving the mooring
piles along the waterfront today.
The mooring piles occur all along
the waterfront, commencing from
the downstream end of the dock
and right up to the end of the
rip-rapping with a space of sixtv
feet intervening between them. The
mooring piles protrude about four
feet above the level of the capping.
FRIDAY BRIDGE CLUB
MEETS AT RUSSELL HOME
The next meeting of the Friday
Bridge club will take place tomorrow
night at the Russell home, on upper
A street.
Play will be commenced at eight
o’clock, and members who are un
able to be present are requested
to arrange for a substitute.
NEW YORK STRIKE
IS VERY SERIOUS
NEW YORK—The strike of
the harbor workers and street
railroad men. which went into ef
fect here today, has resulted in a
complete tie-up of the city’s rail
way systems. Trains on the sub
ways, elevated and surface lines
have stopped running and traffic is
completely paralyzed.
The shipping in the harbor is
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seriously threatened by the strike
of the harbor workers, which cur
tails the delivery of coal, and a
great many vessels which are ready
for sea cannot put out as they
have no means of filling their bunk
ers with fuel for the voyage.
A great many other outbound
vessels which are only partly loaded,
and incoming vessels partly di.~
charged, are lying idle at the dock-.
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EASiERN BERLIN
CLEAR OF REBLES
COPENHAGEN, Mar. 13.—Ac
cording to reports received in this
S city today, the German government
forces, after much lively fighting in
the streets of Berlin, have suc
ceeded in clearing the eastern sec
: tion of Berlin from Spartacans.
The section cleared of the rebels
included Lichtenberg, which was one
of the Spartacan strongholds. The
fighting around this point is re
ported to have been particularly
heavy and bitter: many being killed
on both sides.
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WASHINGTON, .Mar. 13.—Much
comment has been caused in official
circles on the receipt of a wire
from President Wilson requesting
the Civil Service commission to ask
for the resignation of Commissioner
Gallaway.
Announcement is made that Com
missioner Galloway will resign in a
few days and that the real reasons
for the President’s request will then
be made known.
LIGNITE COAL 10
BE TESTED SOON
Billy Butler and A1 Sutton ar
rived from Fairbanks this morning,
bringing the apparatus and ehimicals
that will be used in making a
chemical test of the coal from
various parts of the Lignite fields.
Billy Butler has the contract for
; hauling the apparatus, and as it was
too much for one dog team, he en
^ listed A! Sutton’s aid and hired his
team to haul part of it.
Butler will leave tomorrow for
Fairbanks and will return to Ne
nana probably on Sunday, with John
A. Davis, of the Bureau of Mines,
who will personally make the test,
of the coal.
The Pioneer Packing company
has a force of about thirty men at
work repairing its boats and get
jting in readiness for the coming
clam and salmon season.
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HAVANA. Cuba, Mar. Id.—Jack
Johnson, the former colored heavy
weight vhantpion. told an Associat d
Pres.-1 correspondent today, that his
fight for the championship with
Jess Willard, which took place o
Havana in 131.1, was a frame-up:
and that Willard was allowed ; >
win 'hit fight for a considerati i
f $30,000 and the moving picture
rights.
He says that Willard also prom:
ed to help him straighten out affair-,
with the federal authorities, who
were after him on a white slavery
(barge.
WILLARD DENIES STORY
LAWRENCE, Kansas— Jess Wil
lard, on being told of the state
ment made by Jack Johnson today,
stated that there is nothing to
Johnson’s statement.
Johnson, he says, is broke, and
needs the money and he is merely
trying to force Willard into an
other match.
FIGHT ON THE SQUARE
CHICAGO, Mar. 13—Jack Cur
ley, who promoted the Johnson
Willard fight at Havana, and Tom
Jones, W'illard’s former manage
declared that the Johnson-Willard
fight was on the square.
BREST, Mar. 13.—Ambassador
Jusserand and Colonel House ar
rived this morning to meet Presi
dent Wilson, who is due to arrive
soon.
The town has again been gaily
decorated in honor of the President,
and everything is in readiness to
accord him a fitting welcome.
PMllO
HUN DELEGAliON
PARIS, Mar. 13.—The German
peace delegates who will arrive
shortly for the purpose of signing
the final peace treaty are to be
housed at Versailles.
They will not be allowed to come
to Paris.