WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. II. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1919.
NO. 128
SECRETARY DANIELS WELCOMES FLEET
RED GUARDS SLAUGHTER MANY IN SIBERIAN CITY
EASTERN parades hard hit by high cost of suits
SLAV BUTCHERS
DECIMATE TOWN
EASTOF OMSK
OMSK, Siberia, Sept. 1.—Chinese
and Hungarian detachments of the
Bolsheviki Red Guards are responsi
ble for the death of more than 20,
000 persons during the .past sev
eral days in^ this region, the means
of slaughter being most cruel and
inhuman.
Practically the entire population
of the town of Yekaterinburg is
said to have been wiped out, the
number of victims in that locality
including many refugees who had
sought shelter in the town
Bolsheviki armies are now ap
proaching this city from several di
rections, and in such force as to
seriously threaten the positions of
the Kolchak troops.
OMSK EVACUATED.
LONDON, Sept. 1.—Advices re
ceived in this city this afternoon
state that the Kolchaks have been
forced to evacuate the city of
Omsk, which is being hard pressed
by the Bolsheviki forces.
The Kolchaks are establishing
headquarters at Nikloyevak. .
PERSHING ENROUTE
TO AMERICAN HOME
BREST, Sep. 1. — General Per
shing took passage for the United
States today, being a passenger on
the steamship Leviathan, on which
• there are many American soldiers
enroute to their homes in the United
States.
The genera! will be met by Presi
dent Wilson soon after his arrival
in the States, the date of the meet
ing already having been arranged.
A big reception also has been
arranged by the people of New York
in honor of the homecoming of the
popular army man.
OLD CLEM IS NOT
TO BE CANDIDATE
PARIS, Sept. 1.—It is not be
lieved here that Premier Clemenceau
will consent to become a candidate
for the presidency to succeed Presi
dent Poincare. The premier has
stated that it is his intention to
retire from public life at the con
clusion of pending questions hinging
, on the peace treaty, and it is con
sidered doubtful if he can be pre
vailed upon to reconsider his de
t cision.
It is also claimed that President
Poincare will not be a candidate to
succeed himself, despite the pres
sure which has been brought to
bear upon him to consent to a re
nomination.
The only candidate in sight at
the present time is Paul Des
Chanet, president of the chamber of
deputies.
PETITION GOES
TO UPPER TOWN
TO ALTER NAME
When the members of the Fair
banks city council gather again in
regular session, there will be pre
sented for their consideration a pe
tition from Nenana requesting that
the name “Easy,” which in some
mysterious manner has attached
itself to Fairbanks’ newest thorough
fare, be officially changed to “Ne
nana.” The idea originated with
j O. M. Jackson and Alf Ekeland, of
i the Portland, and received hearty
approval among the people of Ne
nana, about 170 residents having
attached their names to the petition,
which was forwarded to the upper
town yesterday.
■ The arrival of the petition will
[not be a surprise to Fairbanksans,
[announcement already having been
made there to the effect that such
i a movement had been started here.
|And reports received from the up
|per town indicate that the sugges
tion is regarded favorably in many
[quarters, the only opposition thus
ifar recorded, in fact, being that of
I Editor Thompson, of the News-Min
[ er, who devoted over a column on
Friday to a defense of the name
"Easy.”
The idea of a Nenana petition
J suggested itself as a result of an
! item which appeared in The Nenana
News last Wednesday, stating that
jthe matter of changing the name of
the new Fairbanks street had been
taken under advisement by the city
council, following the presentation
of objections to the name “Easy.”
ROME, Sept. 1.—Forty thousand
Italian soldiers, sentenced during the
war to terms varying from a few
to many years, have been granted
| amnesty by the king of Italy, and
j a considerable number of them will
jbe restored to their civil rights im
! mediately.
The action of the king, which has
been under consideration for some
time, has been received with accla
mation throughout the country, the
belief prevailing that many of the
j prisoners were condemned unjustly.
The baseball funeral, staged at
Fairbanks a week ago today, is said
to have been suggested by a real
fight, which occurred on the boat,
enroute up river. One of the com
batants !s said to have been about
half strangled when the two men
were separated.
SECRETARY DANIELS
REVIEWS NEW FLEET
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1.—San j
Francisco bay was the scene yes- j
terday of one of the greatest naval j
ceremonies ever witnessed in this!
I
country—by far the greatest in the ;
history of the Pacific coast, and an
event of much importance to the i
Western states. The shores of the |
bay and the hills overlooking the
harbor were thronged with thou-!
sands of people, gathered to wel-1
come the new Pacific fleet, which
arrived from Monterey to pass in:
review before Secretary Daniels, just
returned from Honolulu.
The secretary occupied a position .
on board the old battleship Oregon,
where each vessel was formally wel
comed as it passed through the Gold
en Gate, into the harbor. Fifty-six
vessels, from largest to smallest
naval units, were in the big parade,
and their presence in the harbor
today marks the successful culmina
tion of a hard-fought campaign, on
the part of the people of this and
other Pacific coast cities, to have
a fleet of -war vessels stationed per
manently in Western waters.
The officers and men of the fleet
will be the guests of the city for
several days before proceeding on
their way to Puget Sound.
E
i
SEATTLE, Sept. 1.—According: to |
statements made here by members
of the congressional investigating
committee, the Government soon will
start criminal proceedings against
certain Puget Sound shipbuilders, in
connection with the misapplication
of federal war funds which were
spent on shipyards during the early j
stages of the shipbuilding campaign, j
Sufficient evidence has been obtain- J
ed, it is intimated, to land some of j
the grafters in the penitentiary.
^ The committeemen have concluded
their hearings here and will con
tinue their investigations at Taco
ma, Olympia and Portland.
JONES BILL PUIS ;
COSTS ON RECORD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 1 —
Senator Wesley L. Jones, Republi
can, of Washington, has introduced i
a bill compelling merchants to mark
the cost of all goods sold in fig
ures which may be understood by
purchasers.
The marking of merchandise in j
that manner was suggested by Presi
dent Wilson as a means of helping J
to reduce the cost of living, by pre- j
venting merchants from charging'
excessive profits.
LITTLE LUMPKIN BOYS
HAVE POISON TROUBLE
. According to information received
at Fairbanks, the two sons of Rev.
H. H. Lumpkin were taken ill while
enroute to the States and are now
confined in the hospital at Ketchi
kan, where they are being treated
for ptomaine poisoning. The mess
age received at Fairbanks says that
the boys are recovering and will be
able to resume their voyage when
the next boat arrives.
jrenaaa—The Gateway to XcXinloy
>>Uoul ful.
GERMANS START
TROUBLE GRAVE
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 1.—
According to information received
in this city today, trouble of such
a serious character has occurred at
Munich, among rival factions, that
it has been found necessary to place
the city under martial law.
Troops are now stationed in .all
the principal streets, armed with
machine guns, ready to open fire
on the threatening mobs, and addi
tional soldiers are held in reserve,
ready for instant call in case of
further disorders.
Street fighting of the past several
days is said to have resulted in the
death of many persons.
PERSHING EXPLAINS
REASON EOR ACTION
PARIS, Sept. 1.— The reason giv
en by General Pershing for refusing
to give testimony in this city be
fore the congressional committee
which is investigating war depart
ment expenditures, is that his rec
ords are not available. He explained
to the investigators that he had
forwarded most of his papers to
Washington, where they may be seen
by anyone authorized to examine
them.
It is understood that the general
will be questioned later in the Unit
ed States.
MIN OFFERS TO
TURN RADIOS OVER
The Fairbanks Commercial Club
has been advised by Delegate Grigs
by that the chief signal corps officer
has approved the proposition made
by Falcon Joslin, who has offered to
turn his radio stations over to the
Government without cost, if the
signal corps will continue to operate
them and divide the profits, if there
are any, with the owner.
The approval will reach the gen
eral staff on Wednesday.
OF GREAT WAR
WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES
IN GERMANY.—The Buck Privates
society, organized at Montabaur by
members of the First division, an
nounced recently that headquarters
in the United States would be open
ed in Chicago this summer, with
Edward M. McGuire, national field
representative, in charge. Branches
are to be established in every state
in the Union, according to present
plans.
I Private Paul F. Collins, Battery
| D, 6th field artillery, of Los An
|geles, Cal., is president of the so
'ciety, which has several thousand
'members. All headquarters of the
! society in the different states will
I be known technically as “dugouts."
A women’s auxiliary is also planned,
i which will include its membership
!
all women who served with the Am
erican Expeditionary Force, such as
| welfare workers, telephone opera
tors, and nurses.
As its platform the society has
adopted these planks: “Broader edu
cational work; cleaner politics; com
: pulsory schooling for all boys under
i
!16 years of age; to make bigger
' and better Americans, and to in
terest ourselves in industry, com
Jmerce and labor.”
j The society is characterized as a
j “great monument for the heroic
j dead of the A. E. F.,” and it is
I planned to make fathers and moth
jers of men who died in action in
I France honorary members. One of
the duties of members of the society
will be to make aq annual visit to
the homes of soldiers who died on
the battlefields of the world war.
Membership in the society is re
stricted to privates.
FRANCE RECEIVES
PARIS, Sept. 1.—The sum of one j
million francs has been paid into j
the treasury of France by Germany |
for the murder of Sergeant Paul j
Manniahn, a member of the French j
army, who was killed in Berlin dur j
ing July by a Hun mob.
When the death of the sergeant
became known to the French au
thorities. an immediate demand was
made for indemnity, with the result
that the Germans finally were com
pelled to consent to the settlement.
The money has been turned over
by France to the Red Cross.
Genera] Storekeeper C-eorge Mar
kus and Robert E. Burns spent Sun
day with Johnny Campbell at Minto,
returning to Nenana last evening.
NEW \ ORK, Sept. 1.—Labor Day
was not observed in the usual man
ner in this city today, the reason
given by workers being that the
high cost of costumes has resulted
in a loss of interest in the pictur
esque side of parading. The work
ers also feel keenly the cost of
maintaining strikes, which have
been numerous in this city during
the past few months.
The day was generally observed
by the closing of shops and facto
ries, but there has been no parading.
The workers of Brooklyn held a
big parade this morning, but it was
a very tame affair by comparison
with parades of previous years.
Similar reports have been re
ceived from a number of other East
ern cities, where parades were dis
pensed with entirely or arranged on
jan unpretentious scale.
LITTLE VICTIM OF
SOPHIA IS BURIED
SEATTLE, Sept. 1. Little Helen
Virginia Markus, daughter of George
Markus, of Nenana, who, with her
mother, went down on the steamship
Sophia last fall, was laid at rest in
Mount Pleasant cemetery yesterday
afternoon. The funeral was ar
ranged by relatives of the little girl
in Seattle and by members of the
Order of the Eastern Star, of which
the mother was a member, and
there were a number of Alaskans
also present to witness the last sad
rites.
Little Virginia was known to
nearly everyone in Fairbanks, where
she lived the greater part of her
life, and to many residents of Ne
nana, where she spent some time
just prior to starting on the fateful
voyage to the States. She had'a
way, all her own, of getting ac
quainted with people, and she pos
sessed a rare faculty of remember
ing names and faces, accounting for
her large circle of friends—unusu
ally large for one so young. At
the time the Sophia -went down, Vir
ginia was four years and four
months of age, a native daughter of
*
the Golden North, having been born
at Fairbanks.
The body of the little girl was
found on July 3 and was held at
Juneau in the hope that the body
of the mother also would be recov
ered. It was sent to Seattle, how
ever, on August 22, where, after
another delay, it was decided finally
to lay the little body at rest.
Joe Heacock, oldtime resident of
Fairbanks, and formerly in the em
ploy of the Alaskan Engineering
commission in the Nenana offices,
was a returning passenger on the
steamer Yukon, from a seven
months’ visit in the States.
Banana, Ttirt Balls asd Blvers Xsst