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BUY A VICTORY BOND — THERE’S A REASON
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
*• VOLUME TWO MEMBER OF ASSOCIATFO PRESS • NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1919. NUMBER 29
GRIGSBY IS CANDIDATE OF DEMOCRATS
CHAIRMAN EDES LIFTS BAN ON CONTRACT WORK
• TANANA RIVER ICE MOVED THIS AFTERNOON—2:23
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RAILROAD BUILDING
TO BE CONTINUED
Mr. Frederick D. Browne, en-1
gineer in charge of this division of
the Government Railroad, received
a telegram from Chairman Edes i
this morning, intimating that grad- j
ing and other contracts may be let
£ now on the strict understanding
that those who are willing to take
up contracts on the railroad also
agree to await a settlement of same
until after the bil carrying the ap
propriation for railroad purposes
has been passed and the money be
comes available.
According to the latest advices,
the Congress of the United States
will be convened by the President
about June first at the latest, pos
sibly sooner; but of this no defi
nite statement can be made at the
present time. An Associated Press
dispatch received by the Xenana
News this morning from Washing
ton, D. C., indicates that confiden
tial advices received at Washington
this morning fram Paris intimate
to the officials at the capital that
President Wilson will call Congress
about June first, and that if the
Paris situation develops rapidly, a
call for the convening of Congress
may be cabled earlier. This is the
latest word on the situation.
, FIRST PARADE
OF WOUNDED MEN
* WAS HELD TODAY
CHICAGO. May 3.—For the first
time in the history of the nation,
a parade of men wounded in bat
tle was held here today, to boost
the sale of Victory Liberty Loan
bonds.
There were two thousand men in
the parade, most of whom were
Chicagoans, and a great many of
them had to be wheeled in chairs.
The division consisted of men who
^ may never walk again. Some of
them wore two and three wound
stripes, signifying the number of
times they had been wounded in
action.
The route of the parade was
thronged with people, who cheered
^ themselves hoarse, while the emo
tions of a great many were touched
to the quick at the sight of the
maimed heroes.
WILSON TO CALL
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 3.—
Confidential advices from Paris, re
ceived today, intimate that Presi
dent Wilson will call Congress about
June first.
Should the Paris situation devel
op rapidly, the call for the con
s. vening of Congress may be cabled
earlier.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 3.—
President Wilson is confident that
he will be in a position to return to
America before the end of May. j
Mr. Browne stated that grading
contracts will be immediately let to
those who may wish to make con
tracts with the A. E. C. on the
terms indicated above.
There are many miles of grad
ing work to be done between Fair
banks and N'enana, and contracts
for this work in varying roadbed
lengths may now be obtained The
contractors will be treated exactly
the same as heretofore, and may
draw such supplies as they may
need, from time to time,' as ,4s cus
tomary. Settlement of the contracts
will be made on completion of the
work, provided the appropriation is
available at that time; otherwise,
the contractor will be required to
await the time when the money
will become available. This stipu
lation will be inserted in the terms
of the contract.
In a day or two it will be pos
sible to commence active construc
tion work on any part of the right
of way. Material and supplies have
been distributed along the line and
the engineering parties who will
lock after 'he work have been es
tablished in the stations. Contracts
can be entered into immediately
and an entire summer's work is
assured.
YANKEE AIRMEN
PREPARE 10 ELY
ACROSS ATLANTIC
ST. JOHNS, N. F., May 3.—
American naval flyers arrived here
today to complete their arrange
ments and commence their flight
across the Atlantic ocean.
The two British army aviators
who also planned on making the
transatlantic flight are still here,
awaiting good weather to make the
start.
It is expected that the American
flyers will make land in the Azores
in eighteen and one-half hours
from the time of starting.
A flotilla of sixty destroyers has
been told off to patrol the course
and will be strung along it at a
distance of fifty miles apart from
each other. The boats of the flo
tilla have been fitted with very
powerful searchlights, which will be
played into the heavens at night to
serve as beacon lights to the air
men.
BONO SALES ARE
NOE VERY HEAVY
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 3—
Subscriptions to the Victory Liberty
Bonds to date have passed the one'
billion seven hundred and seventy
five million dollar mark.
The Treasury Department has,
ur<red the committees in charge of
bond sales throughout the country to
conduct a house to house canvass,
next week, which is the last week i
of the Victory Liberty Loan cam-'
paign.
GERMAN GENERAL '
QUITS ARMY LIFE
COBLENZ. May 3—General von J
Hindenburg. who is retiring from j
the army, stated today that German
militarism is broken forever.
General Groener, chief of staff of j
the German army, will take com
mand of such of the German army :
as remains today.
italiaFissue
STILL UNSETTLED;
SOLUTION SOUGHT
PARIS, May 3.—The Italian
problem, which is still far from
being settled, is causing uneasiness
among the peace delegates of the
Allied powers.
American Ambassador Page and
French Ambassador Barrere are
now at Rome and in close confer
ence with Premier Orlando of Italy,
in an effort to find a solution to
the problem which will be accent? -
ble to all parties concerned.
Premier Orlando is disposed to
resume relations with the peace con
ference, but thinks that the dele
gates at Paris should make the first
overtures.
Orlando has written a letter for
publication, in which he deprecates
the anti-American demonstrations
which took place recently in almost
all of the more important Italian
towns.
COLLISION FATAL
TO YANK TROOPS
ORLEANS, France. May 3.—A (
swiftly moving train struck an Am
erican army truck at a crossing
near this city today
There were many American sol
diers on board the truck at the
time. Three of them were instant-;
iy killed and eight others were in
jured, some seriously.
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GERMANY TO GET
ALLIED TERMS i
MAY SEVENTH:
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VERSAILLES, May 3.—It was
indicated today that the Allied
peace terms will be given to Ger
many, officially, on May 7th.
The German delegates to the
peace convention almost equal in l
number the delegates of the Allied
nations combined.
Time seems to hang very heavily
on the hands of the German dele
gation and their staff, which in
cludes many girl stenographers, and
they all show an inclination to
wander away beyond the limits of
their reservation and go to Paris to 1
see the sights, but the authorities
are keeping them strictly within the
allotted bounds. Most of the dele
gates are passing the time away
playing cards or billiards, while
some loaf around aimlessly.
LEGISLATURE ENDS
IMPORTANT SESSION
The territorial legislature ad
journed sine die at 12:15 p. m. yes
terday, after a continuous session of
thirty-three hours, without passing ;
such important measures as the i
eight-hour law and the appropria- j
tions for the Agricultural College
and School of Mines. The senate
also was responsible for cutting
down the territorial road commis
sion appropriation for the first time
in the history of the legislature.
The house bill introduced jointly
by Dunn and Pennington was de
feated in the senate. This is known
as the eight-hour bill. A substi
tute for this bill was sent to the
house by the senate on the last day
of the session, which was consid
ered to be worse than a farce. The
house absolutely refused to concur
in the substitute for the Dunn
Pennington bill,
Dunn, Pennington and Bogan, of
the house, and "Honan, Frawley and
Sutherland, of the senate, were ap
pointed a committee on conference.
At the meeting of this commit
tee, Pennington, as spokesman for
the house, said that the senate bill
was the worst fraud ever attempted
to be perpetrated upon the people
of Alaska, as the bill covered only
agriculture, berry picking and do
mestic service.
Pennington said, “You must pass!
our bill; we will not yield one .
word of it, nor one comma.” Rep
resentative Dunn, in support of
Pennington, said. “We intend to
send you back to your constituents
responsible for this unspeakable
jutrage at the last moment.
The bill carrying appropriation
for the Fairbanks Agricultural Col
ege and School of Mines was de
feated in the house, Dunn, Pen
lington and Nordale supporting it
:o the last.
The bill carrying the territorial
-oad appropriation was reduced
from four to three hundred thou
sand dollars, and each division will
>e allotted $75,000 for road build
ng purposes, instead of $100,000 as
leretofore.
At the moment of adjournment.
»hen the membes of the senate had
iescended to the balcony of the
louse. Representative Pennington,
n a few words, expressed the keen
:st disappointment over the failure
>f the senate to pass the eight-hour
aw. He denounced those who op
posed it in the strongest terms and
>aid that civic bodies refusing to
pass such constructive legislation
irere responsible for the growing
menace of Bolshevism in America.
Among the bills passed were the
reneral appropriation bill and a bill
for local self-government, whereby
Kenana will have an advisory board
>f seven members.
ICE MOVED TODAY
SEASON NOW OPEN
The cake of ice on which the
dake bearing- a flag was fixed,
noved 100 feet today and regis
:ered the official time of the break
ip, which was 2:23 p. m. The
went was heralded by the blasts of
:he Commission whistle, an 1 a gen
eral movement to the waterfront
mmediately ensued.
The committee in charge of the
lig ice pool, composed ot Messrs
H. B. Joseph, Harry Davis, and G.
[.. Hall, who had examined the
.•lock daily, satisfied themselves as
to the time of the occurrence, and
mmediately set about the task of
scrutinizing the tickets in the locked
box,, to determine who gets the
money, amounting to the substan
tial sum of SI,799.
The scrutinizing of the tickets
sold will take up the greater part
of the afternoon, and the name of
the winner may not be determined
before the Xenana News goes to
press.
The consolation pool, amounting
to' $425.90, was won by Larry
GRIGSBY ELECTED
DEM. CANDIDATE
FOR^DELEGATE
Territorial Attorney Genera!
George Grigsby was nominated the
Democratic candidate for delegate
to congress, at the Democratic con
vention held in Juneau for the pur
pose of selecting a candidate.
A count of the votes cast a: the
convention showed that Grigsby re
ceived 183, Xoon 58. and Hess 17.
After the ballots had been count
ed, Senator Xoon moved to make
the nomination of Grigsby unani
mous. The motion was carried.
Representative Pennington of Xe
nana was appointed president of
the convention. Senator Price nom
inated Grigsby. The nomination was
seconded by Representatives Bogan
if the Second division and Connors
if the First division.
The Second division was repre
sented at the convention by Bogan
and Sikes, the Third by Price, Ron
in, Xoon, Patterson, Ray and Dor.
ihue, and the Fourth by Hess, Xor-i
iale, Dunn, and Pennington. Rob
ert Summers, territorial mine in
spector, also attended the conven
iion.
RUSSIAN CAPITAL
TAKEN By FINNS
PARIS, May 3.—According to a
•eport received in this city today,
:he city of Petrograd, which had
jeen the headquarters of the Bol
:heviki, was captured today by the
Finnish forces.
W. F. Rock, a Denver mining
■nan, has purchased a controlling
interest in the Talkeetna property
in the Willow Creek mining dis
trict.
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O'Keefe, of the X. C. store, who
ivill fittingly celebrate the event
iater on.
The $300 minute pool at the Ter
minal was won by Charlie Swanson,
and the three other minute pools
if $60 each were won by Dr Bow
?n. Carl Bernhardt, and Frank
Teufel, respectively.
The big ice sheet moved down
river and filled in the space of
clear water from the mouth of the
N'enana and for a little distance
below, where it came to a stop.
The ice above town has not moved
down yet, but such a movement is
momentarily expected.
Re-sult of Big Pool.
A. J. Ghezzi was declared the
winner of the big ice pool and gets
the money. He guessed the exact
minute of the breakup. Those whose
guesses came closest are as fol
lows: E J. Cronin and M. A.
Schaeffer, 2:19 p. m.; P. J. Lynch.
2:21 p. m.; A. Johnson and A. Fow
ler, 2:25 p. m., and Mrs. Belle
Campbell. 2:26 p. m.
WASHINGTON', D. C., May 3 —
Senator Hiram Johnson .f Califor
nia issued a statement today in
which he openly charges President
Wilson with reversing his stand
upon the question of secret treaties.
The senator points out. in his
statement, that the dispute between
the Italians and the Jugo Slavs, re
garding Fiume and the Dalmatian
coast, resulted from a secret treaty
between the Allies and Italy, and
that similar conditions governed the
Japanese claims to the Shantung
peninsula and the late German pos
sessions in the Far East.
He charges President Wilson with
surrendering to Japan without .»
contest in the matter of the secret
treaty between England and Japan,
while taking a firm stand in the
matter of the Fiume dispute.
The first clause in the American
peace terms, as laid down by Presi
dent Wilson before a joint session
iff Congress, on January 8, 1918, is
as follows:
"Open covenants of peace, open
ly arrived at, after which there
shall be no private international un
derstandings of any kind, but diplo
macy shall proceed always frankly
and in the public view.”
This and the other thirteen ar
ticles of the American peace terms
were accepted by all the warring
nations, and, Senator Johnson says,
it is hard to reconcile Wilson’s ac
tion in giving in to the Japs and
denying the Italians.
TEMPERATURE *!
As reported by the government
observation station, Nenara
Maximum .59 above
Minimum ..37 above
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