WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
Volume Two
NENANA, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1919.
TRAINMEN UNITED ON WAGE DEMAND
RUMANIANS MAKE PEACE DEMANDS ON HUNGARY
WORKERS MAY TAKE ACTION TO PUT PRICKS DOWN
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All ARE IAKING
BIG PROFITS IN
SALE# SHOES
WASHINGTON', P. C., Aug. 6 —
No one factor is responsible for
the- prevailing high price of shoes
> in the United States, according to
a statement made today by members
of the federal trade commission.,
Every factor concerned with the
manufacture and sale of shoes is
guilty of taking excessive profits,
with the result that the consumer
is compelled to pay a sum greatly
in excess of the value of shoes pur
chased. The list of profiteers in
^ eludes packers, tanners, manufactur
ers, and retailers.
The only remedy, says the state
ment, is to find some means of regu
lating profits, which investigation
has shown to be out of all reason
under existing conditions.
• ALLIES WILL TRY
EX-KAISER SOON
LONDON, Aug. 6.—The Allies
have not abandoned their decision
to place the former German kaiser
on trial in this city for the many
^ crimes charged against him, accord
ing to a statement made before the
house of commons this afternoon
by Sir Bonar Law.
Nothing can be done, however, he
explained, until the treaty has *>een
ratified by a sufficient number of
nations to give it force.
WICK TO START NORTH
FROM SOUND TOMORROW
SEATTLE, Aug. 6.—Judge James
Wiekersham, who arrived from the
East this week, will sail for the
North tomorrow to gather evidence
in connection with his election con
test.
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FAIRBANKS TO HAVE
CLEANUP DAY SOON
The Fairbanks city council has
designated August 15 as Cleanup
Day and the mayor will issue a
proclamation calling upon all resi
dents of the upper town to put their
premises in order so that the town
may present a neat appearance
when the congressional committee
men arrive there.
RAILROAD UNIONS ASK
FOR INCREASED WAGE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 6.— !]
iln a statement made before the;
senate foreign relations committee ;i
| today, Secretary of War Baker ad-■,
Imitted that the American plan for
a League of Nations had not been
pressed by the American representa
tives at Versailles and was never
presented to the conference when
| all of the peace representatives were
i present
1 Asked what had become of the j
pian, the secretary said that he did
not know if a copy of the draft was -
■ still in existence, although he pre- j
sumed Presdent Wilson had retained!,
a copy.
I The committeemen expressed a
desire to see a copy of the plan, in1
order that comparisons might be
made with the league plan submit- j
ted to the senate, but it is not j
known whether or not an effort will j
, be made to secure the copy the
^President is supposed to have
; brought back with him.
AUTO STAGES RETURN
FROM TRIP OUT ROAD j
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I Four auto stages returned to j
Fairbanks last night from points j
i along the Richardson highway. The |
machines belonged to the Burgess-j
| Karstens line, one of them having |
I taken Dr. Hall to Shaw creek, about!
jforty miles beyond Richardson, and |
1 the others having delivered a party
of tourists at Chitina.
The machines returned light.
VICTORY STARTED FOR
NENANA THIS MORNING
, The Douse /launch Victory left i
Fairbanks for Nenana at 11 o’clock |
this morning, carrying express, local!
jmail and several passengers.
Kesui—The Gateway to XcXinlejr
1 Watlone: Part.
• WORKERS THREATEN
PROFITEERING GANG
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 6.— ;
In a statement made this afternoon;
before the house interstate com
merce committee, Warren Stone,
chief of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, declared that or
ganized labor would insist upon a
more thorough investigation of liv
ing costs than any yet conducted by
Congress.
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The workers may recommend a
firing squad, he said, for those per
sons responsible for the profiteering
wave which now seems to be sweep
ing the country.
It is the intention of the workers
also, he said, to create a senti
ment, in and out of Congress, in
favor of the government ownership
(of railroads.
W ASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 6.—j
■representatives of fourteen different
-aihvay unions, with an aggregate
nembership of two million men,
lave forwarded a joint communica- j
don to Federal Railroad Director1
Sines, asking for an immediate in
:rease in wages for employes of the j
railroads of the country, on the
grounds that existing wage scales
ire considerably below the cost of
living.
This is the first time that all j
the railway unions have acted as a ,
unit in wage questions, but the com- 1
munication does not come as a sur
prise to Director Hines, who stated
that the action seemed to him to
be merely a forma! presentation of
the wage demands of the trainmen
already given publicity.
The director declined to discuss ■
the situation beyond stating that
the question has already been taken
up by President Wilson and others
o fthe administration, by whom the
demands of the trainmen were re
ceiving serious consideration.
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DANIELS READY
FOR NEW FLEE!
A! COAST CITY
—
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 6.—Secretary ;
of the Navy Daniels has arrived
here from the East to review the
new Pacific fleet when it arrives i
from the South tomorrow. The sec -!
retary and the members of the of
fical welcoming party will meet the I
warships five miles from the boun- i
dary, where the fleet will pass in !
review. They will then board the'
flagship for a ride into the harbor.
Every vessel of the fleet will be i
opened for inspection at every port j
visited by the warships, it being
the intention of the navy depart- j
ment to give the public every op-1
portunity to inspect the vessels |
which helped to keep the Germans !
from American shores. The fleet is i
assembled in rendezvous today, off
the Mexican coast, seven miles south j
of this city.
Restaurant men of San Pedro i
have promised not to boost the(
price of meals during the stay of
the fleet in Southern waters.
COAST LEAGUE MAGNATE
THROWS UP THE SPONGE
SEATTLE. Aug. 6.—Bill Clymer,
manager of the local Pacific Coast
league ball team, has resigned his
.position because of his inability to
j pull the club out of the cellar.
COUNTER PROPOSALS
HANDED TO ALLIES
PARIS, Aug. 6. — The Austrian
.counter proposals to the Allied peace
terms were handed to the Allied rep
resentatives today.
LECTURER TO LEAVE
FAIRBANKS FRIDAY
—
Charles I. Ohrenstein, Christian
! Science lecturer, will leave Fair
banks for the coast on Friday mom
ting.. accompanied by his wife, going
> out by way of the overland trail.
' Mr. Ohrenstein will lecture at
; Thorne’s movie theater after the
lshow tomorrow night.
John Baloash was placed under |
arrest at Fairbanks yesterday aft-!
ernoon in connection with the cut
ting affray which occurred on En- j
gineer creek Sunday night, and will j
be held in custody by the marshal,
pending the outcome of the injuries j
inflicted upon Obiad Berieh, who is,
now under treatment at St. Joseph's
hospital for two knife slashes on the
head and a bad cut in the back.
The cutting resulted from a fight j
in which the men are reported to j
have engaged during a visit to the
| cabin of Peter Poinoish. The en-j
counter was the culmination of a
; long-standing feud, dating back two j
: years.
Should Berich die, a charge of!
murder probably will be lodged
■against Baloaash, and if the injured
man recovers, the charge probably
|
; will be assault with intent to kill,
i The condition of Berich this morn
ing was serious, but not necessarily
critical. His injuries consist of a
cut on each side of the head, one
'of the slashes having severed an
artery. The cut in the back is the
worst of the three, the knife blade
which caused all the trouble hav
ing penetrated one of Berich’s lungs.
The knife supposed to have been
used during the fight was found on
Baloash when he was taken into cus
tody in a pool-hall on Garden island
yesterday. The blade is about three
: inches long.
Ole Hjelvig came down from Fair
banks yesterday on the Johnson
launch Peerless.
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JAPAN TO LOSE !
TREATY GRANT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 6.— j
Senator James E. Watson, Repub-j
lican, of Indiana, believes that
Japan should be prevented from ae- !
quirrag Shan-tung, notwithstanding
the action of the Paris peace con
ference. In an address delivered
before the senate yesterday after
noon, Senator Watson appealed to.
his colleagues to reject that portion
of the Versailles treaty which gives
Japan control of the Chinese terri
tory.
The senator declared, in support
of his request, that the history of
German and Japanese acquisitions i
on the Shan-tung peninsula had j
been one wrong upon another. He
also called attention to the fact that
President Wilson had said that
Japan intends to return Shan-tung,
to China, and asked why such a
clause had not been written into the
treaty.
The claims of good faith on the
part of .Japan, he said, were unbe
lievable.
EBNER MINE ACTIVITY
TO BE INCREASED SOON
That the United States Smelting
& Refining company is planning to
operate on a more extensive scale
is the news reaching Juneau. There
is one report that the company is
planning to draw the Ebner ore
through a tunnel to the beach at
Salmon creek, where mills for treat
ing the ore will be located. It is
believed locally the company will
start active operations on the Eb
ner as soon as labor conditions are
more stable.
Kenans—The Gateway to McKinley
Katlonal Park.
LABOR PLEASED;
TO STAND FIRM
FOR SIMS BILL
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Aug. 6.—
The members of the interstate com
merce committee of the house were
informed today by Frank Morrison,
secretary of the American Federa
tion of Labor, that the big labor or
ganization can be depended upon to
stand firmly behind the Sims bill,
which embodies labor's plan for the
reorganization of the railroads of
the country. The bill, he pointed
out, re-establishes the theory that
the railroads should be operated for
the benefit of the public instead of
for private profit.
The bill will squeeze all fictitious
profits from the operating compa
nies and at the same time will re
duce rates.
The bill provides for public own
ership of the roads anil for private
operation. "
The steamer Yukon, now enroute
up the Yukon river from Nenana,
is scheduled to meet the steamer
Selkirk at Eagle and to start on the
return trip to Nenana and Fair
banks from that point, according to
information received at the local
office of the American-Yukon Navi
gation company. The Yukon should
reach Eagle today, and may be ex
pected here about next Monday.
Making connections with the upper
Yukon river boats at Eagle enables
Fairbanks-Dawson steamers to cut
their traveling distance 100 miles
each way, which results in a con
siderable saving in time.
CARL WHITE ON WAY
ON TOLOVANA VOYAGE
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The steamer Carl White left Fair
banks for the logjam at 10 o’clock
i this morning, and should reach Ne
nana sometime this afternoon. The
boat has several passengers for the
Tolovana and a considerable quan
tity of freight.
Dr. R. R. Myers and Max Love
Jare among those on board, both be
j ing bound for Brooks.
RUMANIANS DEMAND
MUCH OF BULGARIA
| PARIS, Aug. 6.—The victorious.
Rumanians, who now occupy the city
j of Budapest, have served an ulti
matum on the Bulgarian govern
ment, demanding concessions far in
! excess of the armistice terms, and
; it is feared that the action will re
i suit in the collapse of the new
Hungarian government.
The Rumanian army refuses flatly
to accept Foch’s order, and assert
j their intention of dealing with the
• Bulgarians independently of the Al
lies.
The Rumanians demand that the
Hungarian army be reduced to a
force of 15,000 men and that 50
per cent of the Bulgarian harvest
animals and railroad supplies be
surrendered to the Rumanian troops
occupying Rumanian territory.
The Rumanians did not partici
ipate in the peace negotiations to
i'.vard the end of the session.