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VOL. III. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED *»RESS
NENANA. ALASKA. SATURDAY. JANUARY 22, 1921
NUMBER 186
WASTED MILLIONS MAY BE RECOVERED
labor secretary backs policy of assistant
OREGON LAWMAKERS CONSIDERING ALIEN LAND BILL
* OREGON LAWMAKERS START
ANTI-JAPANESE LEGISLATION j
SALEM, Jan. 22—jA stringent j
anti-Japanese land bill, modeled
after the California statute, has been
introduced in the Oregon legislature
and is backed by a strong sentiment
in favor of passage.
State Attorney General Van
Winkle, to whom the measure was
i, submitted before introduction, has
made an announcement to the effe-.t
that the provisions of the bill are
fully within the legislative powers l
of the legislature.
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ALASKA MAIL BOAT FOUND; j
MUCH DAMAGED BY STORM
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22—The
mail boat Pulitzer, for the safety of
* which fears were entertained, was
located this week at Chignik, and j
so badly damaged by recent Alaska
storms, that it was found necessary
to transfer its mail and cargo to
the supply boat Ida, ■which is now
enroute to Unalaska.
The Pulitzer was last heard from ;
about the middle of December and it
was feared that she had come to
- grief in a coast gale.
STOLEN MAIL RECOVERED;
FORMER RECTOR ARRESTED
MT. VERNON, Jan. 22—Nearly
all of the $185,000 contained in
registered mail sacks which were
stolen last Friday, has been recover
ed by postoffice inspectors, and four
men are under arrest, charged with
y the theft. The money was recover
ed in a series of raids- cleverly ex
ecuted by the inspectors. One of
the men under arrest is Rev. Guy
Kyle, former rector of a local
church.
ITALIAN RADICALS READY
TO LAUNCH RED CAMPAIGN
LEHORN, Jan. 22—The commun
ist factions of the Italian socialist
party, defeated in their attempt to
secure the party’s indorsement of
the third international of Moscow,
bolted the socialist convention yes
terday and have since formed the
Italian communist party.
The new organization advocates
violence, if necessary, to attain its
aims.
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SENATORS ARE TOLD SCHWAB
HELPED LOOT U. S. TREASURY
ARMENIANS START REVOLT;
MANY KILLED BY SOVIETS
BAKU, Transcaucasia, Jan. 22— ,
Rebelling against the wheat requisi
tion imposed upon them by their
Bolshevik rulers, Armenians of the
Alexandropol district staged an up
rising recently, according to inform
ation received in this city. Bolshevik
troops were rushed to the scene and
quickly subdued the malcontents,
a large number of them being killed
during the brief but sanguinary
struggle.
SAILORS ARE RESCUED AS
BOAT SINKS BENEATH THEM
NEWPORT NEWS, Jan. 22—The
captain and his crew of five men,
of the British schooner Newton Lake
arrived here yesterday aboard the
steamer Bournemouth, by which they
were rescued.
The survivors say they were res
cued by a miracle from a watery
grave, the steamer arriving on the
scene when they had abandoned all
hope of escape. The schooner was
sinking beneath them, and none of
the schooner’s boats remained. They
had been torn from the davits by the
heavy seas which caused the schoon
er to founder.
Just as the schooner was about
to go to the bottom the steamer
came alongside, risking disaster in
the heavy seas. Ropes were thrown
to the schooner’s crew and all of
them clambored to safety.
SENATOR JONES ATTACKS
GREAT SHIPPING COMPANY
WASHINGTON, D. C.,—Senator
Wesley L. Jones, of Washington',
father of the .merchant marine bill,
made an attack on the Mercantile
Marine company, an American cor
poration, in an address delivered
here yesterday before the National
Merchant Marine association. He
charged that an agreement entered
into by the company with Great
Britain, in 1803, had never been
abrogated, and the company, there
fore would never pursue a policy
injurious to the British marine.
The Jones statement brought a
sharp rejoinder from A. S. Frank
lin, president of the International
Mercantil Marine company, who de
clared that the “company is Ameri
can, with none but Americans on
the board of directors and with
Americans holding 99 per cent ol
the stock”.
LOCAL DRY LAWS STAND
RICHMOND, Jan. 22—The su
preme court has overruled the con
tention of counsel for Edward Aller
that the Volstead prohibition en
forcement act is superceded bj
state prohibition acts.
SOVIET CHANCELLOR BANNEC
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 22
Secretary of Labor Wilson has is
sued orders for the deporataion o
Gregory Weinstein, chancellor of tin
> Russian soviet in America.
NEW YORK, Jan. 22- -At least
one hundred million dollars was im
properly paid to shipbuilders by the
Shipping board, declared S. R. ila
badie, former comptroller gtn-i il
of the board, in a statement made
yesterday before the congressional
committee which has resumed its
investigation of Shipping board ex
penditures. Habadie said that an
audit of the board's accounts would
disclose irregularities aggregating a
vast sum, and he referred particular
ly to the dealings between the board
and the Bethlehem Steel corpora
tion, made possible through the con
nection of Charles Schwab with both
organizations.
Habadie estimated that an audit
would cost the Government about
two million dollars, but predicted
that it would form the basis for
action looking to the recovery of
vast sums from the over-paid ship
builders.
Charles Schwab appeared before
the committee yesterday afternoon
for the purpose of denying the
charges made against him, especially
the statement of Col. Abadie to the
effect that the steel magnate had
held the Shipping board up for the
sum of $200,000, to cover his per
sonal expenses during the month f
October, 1918.
Schwab branded the colonel’s
statement as “maliciously and un
quolifiedly false,” H declared that
he had paid his own expenses dur
ing the entire time that he was a
director of the emergency fleet cor
poration, not even accepting the
dollar a year, offered to him by the
Government, and for which many of
the nation’s big men gave their
services during the war.
HOSTAGES TO BE CARRIED
TO SAFEGUARD CONSTABLES
DUBLIN, Jan. 22—Announcement
has been made that in future all
motor cars carrying constables will
also carry Sinn Feiners as hostages,
the object being to discourage at
tacks from ambush and otherwise.
It is believed that the Sinn Feiners
will not fire on the officers because
of the danger of hitting their own
comrades.
Eight men, including seven con
stables we^ killed during engage
ments between the officers and Sinn
Feiners yesterday.
SURVIVORS ARE FOUND
MANILA, Jan. 22—Two Ameri
can survivors of the shipwrecked
British steamer Isabel, bound for
this port, have been found on the
island of Tamate, according to ad
vices received in this city yester
day.
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| LABOR COURT FOR TEXAS
j AUSTIN, Jan. 22—A bill has been
introduced in the Texas senate pro
; viding for the establishment of a
! court of industrial ^relations, similar
j to the one provided for by the Kan
I sas law.
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WRECK NEAR NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Jan. 22—Nine men
are reported to have lost their lives
yesterday as the result of the wreck
of a tug and barge, which wer«
blown up near the Statue of Liber
ty. A police report 3ays the passen
gers on a ferry saw the boats sin!
with all on board. The cause of the
accident is unexplained.
SENATE COMMITTEE FAVORS
DISARMAMENT CONFERENCI
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 22
The senate foreign relations com
i mittee has favorably reported tb
. Borah resolution proposing the com
. mencement of negotiations with Eng
: land and Japan with a view t
i reaching an agreement on the ques
tion of reduced naval armament.
WOMEN MESSENGERS TRAVEL |
TO CAPITAL IN AIRPLANES
LINCOLN, Jan. 22—Mrs. H. H. j
Wheeler, who has been delegated by
the legislature to deliver the Ne
braska electoral vote at Washing-1
ton, hopped off yesterday in an air
plane on the first leg of the journey.
The first stop will be made at Oma
ha, where Mrs. Draper Smith, alter-,
j nate, will join Mrs. Wheeler, in
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FORMER ALASKAN PASSES
SEATTLE, Jan. 22—William N.
Armstrong, a pioneer Alaska miner
who operated on Chicagoff, Seward
peninsla and in other sections of
the territory, and along the Siber
ian coast for a score of years, died
here yesterday, at the end of a
brief illness.
BUTTE WAGES ARE LOWERED
BUTTE, Jan. 22—A new scale of
wages, to be adopted by all the
copper mines in this district, was
announced yesterday, to go into
effect at an early date. The scale
provides for an* average reduction
of 75 cents a day.
NEW TRIAL IS DENIED
CHICAGO, Jan. 22—Motions for
new trials, in the cases of William
B. Ross-Loyd, millionaire member of
the communist-labor party, and 19
others, have been overruled. The de
fendents were found guilty of viola
tion of the Illinois law prohibiting
anti-American activities.
RUSSIANS RELEASE REPORTER
BALTIMORE, Jan. 22—According
! to a letter received in this city from
Russia, Mrs. Margaret Harrison,
newspaper correspondent of this city
who was imprisoned at Moscow as
; a spy, has been released, having
convinced the soviet authorities of
• her real mission to Russia.
ATLANTIC FLEET ENROUTE
COLON, Jan. 22—The Atlantic
. fleet, with seaplane division attached,
> arrived here on Thursday, enroul
- through the canal to join the Pacific
fleet.
:rown forces destroy
TWO BUILDINGS IN CORK
CORK, Jan. 22—The first official
destruction of property in Ireland
since the proclaiming of martial
law, took place in this city on
Thursday when the crown forces
wrecked two houses on Washington
street, from which members of the
constabulary were attacked last Sat
urday.
The destruction was in accordance j
with warnings issued at the time j
martial law was proclaimed.
TOLEDO IS SERVING SOUP
TO ARMY OF UNEMPLOYED
TOLEDO, Jan. 22—Preparations
for the installation of soup kitchens
in this city to feed the thousands
of unemployed, were completed this ^
week, and food is now being served j
daily to a steadily increasing num
ber.
Two thousand men presented
themselves at the headquarters of
the Social Service Federation head
quarters on Thursday and said they
had not had breakfast. They made a
plea for immediate relief in the
form of work. Some of the appli
cants had as many as eleven child
ren unable to contribute to their
own support.
More than 1,200 hungry men re
ceived free meals yesterday, and
many of them were given food to
take home to their families.
BUYERS’ STRIKE EFFECTIVE,
DECLARES FRISCO BANKER
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22—In a
public address delivered in this city
yesterday, Governor John Calkins,
of the federal reserve bank of the
Twelfth district, declared that the
buyers’ strike, which was organized
throughout the nation as a means of
combatting high prices, will not end
until an equitable relation has been
established between the prices of
producers and consumers’ prices. He
said the strike had been tremendous
ly effective as a factor in the pres
ent curtailment of business. He also
said the public is ready to resume
buying whenever prices become satis
factory.
MURDER HEARING STARTS;
COURT ROOM IS TRONGED
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22—When
the trial of Mrs. Louise Peete, on
ithe charge of murdering Jaeob
Denton, started in this city on
Thursday, there was a wild stam
pede for seats in the court room
and the special detail of officers
was wholly inadequate, being unable
to preserve anything like order in
the building. It is estimated that
more than a thousand men and
women were at the doors, seeking
admission, at the commencement ol
the trial, and interest is still keen.
The jury was impaneled on Thurs
day and the introduction of testi
mony began yesterday morning.
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HAS MUCH STILL ON HAND
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 22—
Approximately $117,000,000 worth
of property taken over by the alien
property custodian during the war
has been returned to the American
born wives of Germans, Austrians
and others, according to a report
made public th;s week.
There is still a very laige amount
of property still in custody, the total
value of enemy property seized be
ing about $534,000,000, exclusive of
the interned ships seized.
COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT
SQUELCHED BY ENGLAND
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Jan. 22
Miss Louise Rennett, secretary of
the Irish Women’s International
league, read a statement before the
Committee of One Hundred today,
declaring that information received
from Sir Horace Plunkett's cooper
ative movement showed that Eng
land had destroyed the Irish Cooper
ative Meat league, which had been
organized to “prevent America’s
beef trust from controlling the in
dustry in Ireland.”
FORESTER V£.j WARNING
OF BIG TIMBER PROBLEMS
MONTREAL, Jan. 22—In an ad
dress delivered in this city Thurs
day before the Canadian Forestry
association, R. S. Kellogg, of New
York, chairmxm of the National For
estry Program committee, declared
that both Canada and the United
States must tackle forestry prob
lems in a more thorough manner
than heretofore if the great in
dustry of the two countries is to be
maintained. There must be greater
cooperation, he warned, in order to
make the forests continue to pro
duce the raw materials required of
them.
SPANISH SHIP FOUNDERS;
HUNDRED BELIEVED LOST
BALTIMORE, Jan. 22—It is be
lieved in shipping circles here that
the Spanish ship Yute, enroute from
Baltimore to Dunkirk with a cargo
of coal, has foundered 240 miles
off Cape May. The vessel carried a
crew of more than 100 men and it
is considered doubtful if any of
them escaped.
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