WHERE, RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL- III. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA. THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1920.
NO. 7
EBERT PUTS REDS TO DEATH IN RUHR
VANDERLIP SCORES DEPARTMENT FOR POLICIES
INSURGENT STRIKE SPREADING THROUGHOUT NATION
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SEATTLE EDITOR
IS ACQUITTED BY
ORDER OF COURT
SEATTLE, April 8.—Editor Ault,
of the Union Record, who was;
placed on trial in this city on Mon-1
day on the charge of criminally
libeling the memories of the Cen- j
tralia Armistice day victims, was
found not guilty yesterday after- i
noon, the action of the jury being
the result of instructions issued by,
Superior Judge Ronald, ordering a
directed verdict of acquittal.
The action against Ault resulted!
from the publication of editorials
and other articles in the Union Rec-1
ord after the Centralia shooting.
The Record office was raided by
the authorities and the paper com
pelled to suspend for several days
as a result of the seizure of the
plant and the arrest of the editor
and several other employe# of the
r>aper.
Attorney Vanderveer conducted
the defense for the union editor.
SUSPECTS ARRESTED
BY PORTLAND POLICE
PORTLAND. April 8. — Thomas
Young and George Brown have been
placed under arrest in this city on
suspicion that they were implicated
in the murder of Deputy Sheriff
Scott in Seattle last week, in con
nection with one of Seattle's nu
merous auto holdups. Brown is said
to answer the description of one
of the bandits.
ENGLISH POUND GOES
ABOVE FOUR DOLLARS
NEW YORK. April 8.—For the
first time in a number of months,
the English pound sterling is quoted
in this city at more than 84. the
price being 84.04 on demand.
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COMMUNISTS ARE SHOT DOWN
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WOMEN ARRESTED
UK FREEDOM
WASHINGTON', D. C., April 8.—
Three women were placed under ar
rest today for picketing: the British
embassy and urging freedom for
Ireland. They declined the oppor
tunity to secure their release on
bail bonds and will remain in jail
until they are haled before the
court for a hearing, which probably
wili be on Monday.
Two pickets also were arrested
on Monday, and two women who in
terfered with the pickets. The pick
ets taken in on Monday were Miss
Molly Carroll, of New York, and
Mrs. Harry Walker, of Astoria,
Long Island. About an hour before
the police intervened, two Wash
ington women who were passinc
along Connecticut avenue attacked
the two pickets who were then on
duty before the embassy and drove
one of them away after her banner
had been destroyed. The other pick
et held her ground.
AMERICAN DESTROYERS
COLLIDE IN MIDOCEAN
HONOLULU, April 8.—The de
stroyer Aaron Ward rammed a hole
in the stern of the destroyer Chaun
cey while the two vessels were en
route from San Diego to this port.
The fuelship Cuyama helped the
Chauncey into Honolulu.
EMINENT JAP DOCTOR
ON TRAIL OF FEVER
MEXICO CITY —Doctor Nidez •
Noguchi, of Japan, for two years
engaged in research work with the
Rockefeller institute in New York,
ha? set up extensive laboratories in
the state of Yucatan for the purpose
of studying the origin, prevention,
and cure of yellow fever. The Mex
ican Academy of Medicine ha? made
him an honorary member of the in
stitution.
MOORING TOWER WILL
TAKE PLACE OF SHEDS
LONDON. -— The leading British
constructors of dirigible airships are
considering favorably a proposal by
the British air ministry that tkey
should combine so far as the line of
development is concerned, according
to the American Chamber of Com
merce in London.
It is anticipated, says the cham
ber, that the current year will se?
progress in replacing the enormous
airsheds now in use with mooring
| towers to be erected throughout the
• country.
A number of steamboatmen, who
■recently arrived in Fairbanks from
I the States, will start down river to
: morrow to put their boats in con
Idition for summer.
PARIS, April 8.—According to
the stories told by refugees, the sol
diers sent to the neutral Ruhr basin
by the Ebert government arc re
pressing the Communists of that dis
trict mercilessly. It is claimed that
the government troops, upon arrival
in Westphalia, ordered the surren
der of all arms in the possession
of the rebels, and then, after the
order had been complied with, de
liberately shoe: the Westphalians. It
is also charged that the soldiers are
bombarding Dusseldorf with gas
shells.
PATROLS CLASH.
PARIS, April 8.—war office
is in receipt of information to the
effect that French and German pa
trols clashed yesterday north of
Hamburg. Several shots were ex
changed and one German officer was
.'wounded.
GERMANS KILLED.
I PARIS, April 8.—The first seri- j
;ous trouble resulting from the oc
; cupation of German cities by French j
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: soldiers is reported from Frankfort,
j where the French are said to have
fired into a jeering crowd of Ger
mans who refused to disperse when
ordered to do so by a French of
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:ficer. Six of the Germans were
killed and fully forty were wounded.
The Germans are said to be in
an ugly mood in consequence of the
:severe measures employed by the
French to establish their authority,
[and further trouble is feared.
BONUS DISCUSSION
STIRS CONVENTION
SEATTLE, April 8.-Delegates
to the annua! convention of the In
ternational Mining congress, who be
gan their deliberations in this city
yesterday, are giving their attention
today to a discussion of the decline
in the production of new gold thru
out the Northwest and in Alaska
which has resulted from increased
cost of operations.
The convention is considering the
McEadden bill, now pending before
Congress, which provides for the
payment of a #10 bonus on every
ounce of new gold produced, and
the payment of an excuse tax of an
equal amount on every ounce- of
gold used in the arts and manufac
turing. the excise to provide the
money for the payment of the
bonus.
President Granville Collins assured
the delegates that the production
of gold would be stimulated greatly
by the passage of the bonus bill,
for the reason that gold could then
be produced at a profit in mines
that are now inoperable on account
of excessive operation costs.
The consideration of the gold
quest-ion will continue until tomor
row night.
George T. Jackson, B. F. Millard
and Secretary J. L. McPherson have
been selected by the chairman to
represent Alaska on the resolutions
committee. Governor Boyle of Ne
vada is also a member of the com
mittee.
Scores Department.
Frank A. Vanderlip, who is here
from the East for the purpose of
addressing the mining congress con
vention on the gold problem now
confronting the nation, delivered an
address at Portland last night in
which he blamed the treasury de
partment for the inflation of fin
ances and credits. He explained
that the department insisted on
keeping discount rates low so that
American borrow at low interest
rates.
METHODIST BISHOP IS
VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA
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CLEVELAND, April 8. — Bishop
Matthew Simpson Hughes, of Port
land. Oregon, died at his hotel here
this week of pneumonia, following
a brief illness. He had been on a
lecture tour since last October.
The deceased was a bishop of the
Methodist church, orgained in 1916.
SWISS WOMEN ADVANCE;
ENTERING PROFESSIONS
GENEVA, Switzerland.—The first
woman to sign her name to bank
notes in Switzerland is Miss Marie
• Prodham, who has been appointed
director of the Banque de Geneve,
and will in future sign the notes
and scrip issued by the bank.
There are now in Switzerland
women practicing as >udges. bar
risters, engineers, doctors and uni
versity professors.
DISABLED STEAMER WILL
BE FLOATED BY OWNERS
VICTORIA, B. C„ April 8.—Ar.
attempt is to be marie today to
float the disabled steamer Prince
John, which was beached several
days ago following a collision with
a sister ship during a snowstorm.
The salvage steamer Algerine,
which was sent to the rescue of the
Prince John, reports that temporary
patches have been put in place and
pumps installed ready to pump the
water from the hold.
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As evidence of their confidence
in the future of Nenana and the
N'enana district generally, Council
man Ed Parks and Ed Thompson1
have invested in a team of horses
and are preparing to go into the j
farming business on a large scale |
on a homestead which is already
under partial cultivation south of
town, near the powder-house.
About six acres of the land were
plowed last season and as much or
more will be turned over this spring,
as soon as plowing can be under
taken.
The land also has been improved
by the erection of a dwelling house,
and a barn and other needed build- -
ings probably will be built this
year.
The team of horses was purchased
from William Sommers.
PERSONAL
Bob Sheldon, who is enroute from
Chitina with a number of passeii- j
gers, reported from Gulkana this!
morning.
The Fairbanks Commercial club is I
making inquiry for James A. York.
The Fairbanks News-Miner is |
making vigorous opposition to the
Alaska development board plan ad- ■
vocated by Representative Curry
and Senator New.
A number of witnesses in the
McCarthy case are enroute from the
Tolovana to Fairbank- and will meet .
the train at Dunbar station tomor
row. The trial is set for Saturday. ■,
Considerable activity is reported
from the upper Chatanika river,
where King & Zimmerman are mak
ing preparations for extensive sum
mer operations. Their ground is
about twelve miles above Faith
creek. They are now freighting six
tons of supplies from Chatanika, us-:
ing five horses and seven double-j
enders, and Ed Bartlett will follow
later with w-hat remains of the
freight.
N. R. Hudson and wife, who re
cently returned to the Interior from
a winter in the States, were pass
engers on Tuesday’s train from Fair
banks, enroute to the Tolovana dis
trict, where Mr. Hudson is engaged
in mining operations.
Homer Amend, a brakeman in the
employ of the Tanana Valley rail
road, was painfully injured yester
day on Garden island as the result
of falling while working with a \
switch.
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CHICAGO, April S.—In spite >,t'
the efforts of brotherhood official- to
break the unauthorized walkout of
local switchmen, the strikers a i -
Bathering strength daily and leaders
of the movement make the predic
tion today that the strike will soon
become a nation-wide contest.
The strikers were reinforced yes
terday by firemen and enginemen
working in the local yards, and to
day the strike has spread to outside
cities, extending as far west as the
Pacific coast. The cities involved
already include Kansas City, To
ledo, Los Angeles, Buffalo, Gary.
Decatur, and St. Louis.
The extension of the strike ha
had the effect of hampering the
movement of transcontinental freight
and will stop shipments altogether
if the strikers do not soon return
to their places.
GUNBOAT SMITH LOSES
IN BOUT WITH FULTON
PORTLAND, Ore., April *. The
Fnlton-Smith bout, which was sched
uled to go six rounds, came to an
abrupt finish in the second round,
when Fulton landed a knockout
blow.
The ring dope is that Gunboat
Smith was frightened when he er.
tere-d the ring, and did not make a
good a showing as he might have
done otherwise.
TRAWLER ABANDONED;
SAILORS ARE MISSING
HALIFAX, N. S., April H. The
sU’am trawler M. F. li was aban
doned on Tuesday at a considerable
distance from shore, and the mem
bers of the crew started for land
in three of the -hip’s boats. Tw ■
of the boats landed safely, hut th •
third is stiil missinp and fears arc
entertained for the safety of it
occupants.
The abandonment of the trawler
was necessitated by a leak which
developed at sea.
BRAZIL TO MAINTAIN
BIG FIGHTING FORCE
RIO DE JANEIRO—Conpress ha
appropriated $27,500,000 for tin
support of the Brazilian army for
the current year.
Under a plan of reorganization it
will number 3,620 officers and from
25,000 to 29,000 men, in addition
to 10.000 reservists.
Conscription is universal, the
term of service beinp 1H months
with the colors. In addition to the
repulars and reservists, the country
has a second line of defense in the
national puard.
The arpuments in the Lindproii
case, on trial at Fairbanks before
Judpe Bunnell, were beinp made
this morninp, and it was expected
that the case would po to the jury
about noon.
Wenana. ts* ftatewa-r to McXintoy
■atloul rtrk.