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NENANA, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1920.
MARTENS BOASTS OF SOVET STREN
FL U EPIDEMIC HAS SPREAD TO
AST
MISSOURI SENATOR LAUNCHES ATTACK ON HOOVER
MONTESANO, Wash., Jan. 26.—
With every hotel and rooming-house
in town crowded to capacity with
■witnesses and those otherwise inter
ested in the proceedings, the trial
of Centralia Wobblics began here
this morning. George Vandeveer.
the Seattle attorney, who is acting
as counsel for the defendants, re
quested a change of venue, which
was promptly denied by the court.
The lawyer exhibited a number of
Northwest newspaper clippings indi
cating prejudice against the men on
trial.
The courtroom was guarded by
deputy sheriffs throughout the pro
ceedings today to prevent a possible
outbreak, but nothing occurred to
interrupt the trial.
Over three hundred witnesses will
be examined during the proceed
ings. V *4 %
atiemptTs made
10 KILL MINISTER
BERLIN, Jan. 26.—Mathias Erz
berger, minister of finance, was shot
and painfully wounded today by a
would-be assassin as he was leaving
the criminal courts building.
CARRANZA APPOINTS
CHARGE FOR STATES
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Jan. 26.—
According to reports received in
this city, Hilario Medina, Mexican
sub-secretary of foreign relations,
has been appointed charge d’affaires
at Washington.
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PREVENT ACTION
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 24.—
(Delayed.)—In urging the enact
ment of pending anti-sedition legis
lation, Representative Blanton, Dem
i ocral, of Texas, attacked Samuel
(Gompers, president of the American
! Federation of Labor, for his opposi
jtion to the measure. The congress
iman declared that the department
of labor is honeycombed with an
■archy, and declared that Gompers
had failed in his duty as an Ameri
can citizen during the wtrf
| he threatened to call a revolution
| because of the issuance of Crowd
er's famous work or fight order.
In further support of his claim
'that Gompers was not patriotic dur
ing the time the country was en
gaged in war, Blanton produced fig
ures showing that 6,000 strikes oo
!curred in America while the nation
was engaged in assembling forces
and material for the overseas strug
i
gle, many of which, Blanton inti
mated, might have been prevented
had Gompers remained truly loyal to
the flag.
Gompers' Side.
Blanton’s attack was provoked by
!a statement made by Gompers last
week, while the hearings on the
Graham anti-sedition bill were in
i progress. The vetran labor leader
declared that the passage of tihe bill
would make all free men slaves, and
I he objected particularly to the pro
vision prohibiting the circulation of
periodicals and literature of interest
to workers.
BILLY WRIGHT KNOCKS
MASON OUT IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 26.—Billy
Wright, Pacific coast welterweight
champion, put Frankie Mason, of
Chicago, to sleep in the first round
of a fight which was staged here on
Saturday. The bout was to have
gone four rounds.
The funeral of Mrs. Thomas H.
White, which was to have been held
at Fairbanks vesterday afternoon,
was postponed for a week, owing
to the illness of Mr. White.
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WASHINGTON, D. C\, Jan. 2C>.—
In a statement made before the
senate committee this morning. Bol
sheviki Ambassador Martens made
the astounding announcement that
the Kussian soviet government has
become strongh enough to light the
world. The soviet government now
has, he said, between four hundred
and fifty and five hundred million
dollars in the public treasury, and
it is the government’s desire to
make purchases of necessities in
foreign countries. None of the Rus
sian banks or citizens have any of
the gold.
CRIMEA IS CUT OFF.
LONDON, Jan. 24.—(Delayed.) —
Wireless advices received in this city
state that the Bolsheviki forces have
virtually cut off the Crimean pen
insula from the mainland. It is
also reported that Sergius Sazatoff,
former Russian minister of foreign
affairs, has arrived at Warsaw to
take the lield against the Bolsheviki
at the head of one of the Polish
armies.
KOLCHAK SURRENDERED.
LONDON, Jan. 24.—(Delayed.)—
A report from Harbin states that
the Czechs have surrendered Ad
miral Kolchak to the Irkutsk revo
iutionary forces.
REACH CHINK FRONTIER.
LONDON, Jan. 26. — Bolsheviki
peasant corps are reported to have
advanced to the Chinese frontier
near Kobdov, on the Western bor
|der of Mongolia.
FLU IS SPREADING
TO PACIFIC COAST
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 2(5.—The in
fluenza epidemic made its appear
ance in California last week and
the number of eases is increasing
steadily, according to reports re
ceived from various sections of the
state. One thousand cases had been
reported up to Saturday night.
SCHOOLS CLOSED.
; MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 2(>.—-The
flu epidemic has reached such pro
portions in this city that it has been
I deemed necessary to close theaters
and schools and to prohibit all pub
lic jtatheriiiKS, as a means of check
intr the further spread of the dis
ease.
SEATTLE, Ian. 26.—A meeting 1
will be held in this city this week
for the purpose of reorganizing the
Northwestern Baseball league, and
it is expected that at least five cities
will be represented at the meeting. ‘
The cities that probably will com
pose the league are Seattle, Port
land, Vancouver, Tacoma, and Yaki
ma.
JOHNNY KILBANE GETS
DECISION OVER MURRAY
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 26.—John-,
ny Kilbane, featherweight champion,
was awarded a decision over John- '
ny Murray, of .New York, in a six
round exhibition bout which took
place in this city on Saturday night, j
FEARS FOR JEFFERSON
SET AT REST BY NEWS f
SEATTLE, Jan.. 26.—Fears fori
the safety of the steamship Jeffer-j
son, 20 hours overdue from Alaska,!
were set at rest today when a wire-1
less message was received from the
vessel stating that all was well.
When the steamship failed to re
port yesterday, it was feared that
something had happened.
Second class mail will arrive
from Fairbanks on tomorrow’s train.
NOME, .Ian. 26.—Wireless ad)
I
vices received in this city today!
from Kotzebue state that the gen |
oral store at Kaina, the only source '■
of supplies in the Kobuk district, [
was recently destroyed by tire.
The destruction of the food sup
ply, it is feared, will cause suffer
ing among the whites and natives
of that region.
GUNBOAT SMITH GETS
DECISION OVER MORRIS I
FRESNO, Cal., Jan. 26—In ai
four-round tight which took place j
in this city on Saturday night, Gun-!
boat Smith was given a decision over j
Carl Morris.
BILL IS INTRODUCED
FOR TWO-CENT COINS !
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 26—
A bill was introduced in the senate
on Saturday providing- for the coin
age of two-cent pieces bearing the
likeness of Theodore Roosevelt in
relief.
The Jack L’Heureux bathhouse, in
Fairbanks, is said to have been raid
?d on Saturday night by Deputies
Pete McMullen and Jack Buckley.
The reports are to the effect that
nothing was found.
ARRIVES IONIGHT
I
IN IOW Or TOGS
HALIFAX, N. S., Jan. 26.—The
disabled transport Powhatan, which
wirelessed for assistance last week,
is being towed into port by two
American tuns and is due here
sometime tonight.
DROWNING DENIED.
NEW YORK, Jan. 'ill. —Officers
of the transport Northern Pacific
deny that eight men were lost while
passengers of the Powhatan were
being transferred to the Northern
' Pacific. Tney also say that
women passengers »>f the disabled j
“hip displayed great bravery while
awaiting the arrival of rescue boats.
The weather was stormy and the
great vessel rolled heavily.
REWARD OFFERED.
HALIFAX, Jan. 26.—The United ,
States Shipping board has offered a
reward of SI50,000 for the safe1
delivery of the Powhatan.
LAST OF TROOPS.
NKW YORK, Jan. 26.- The trans
port Northern Pacific, which has
just arrived from Europe, brought
the last of the American expcdi
tionary forces. The vessel also land
ed 271 of the Powhatan’s pass
engers.
SEPPELA ENROUTE
FROM MG SEA
Leonard Seppela, of Nome do;
racing fame, is enroute to Nenana
with his speedy team, having left
the Seward peninsula town last Fri
day with Thorlf Lehmann as a pass
enger. Lehmann is president of the
Nome Chamber of Commerce and
it is understood he is coming with
important messages from his section
of the country. He is on his way
to the States, hut will visit in both
Nenana and Fairbanks enroute..
Seppela, it is believed, will return
to Nomt immediately with one or
two passengers whom he expects to
meet here or at Fairbanks. His
team is entered in a race whiyh is
scheduled to take place during the
spring.
SEATTLE BASKETBALL
TEAM DEFEATS OREGON
SEATTLE, Jan. 26.—The Uni-j
versity of Washington basketball
team defeated an Oregon aggrega-1
tion in this city on Saturday. The
score was 38 to 26.
Wsnaaa, Alaska's Interior rust Bspot ‘
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 24.—
(Delayed.)—-In an address deliver
ed on the floor of the senate this
afternoon, Senator James A. Reed,
Democrat, of "Missouri, launched i
vigorous attack against what he
termed “Herbert Hoover’s self-pro
moted boom for the presidency.”
The senator charged that Hoover
acted as one of the go-betweens for
Colonel House and high British of
ficials during the negotiations which
preceded the entry of the United
States into the world war. Hoover,
he declared, was a convenient con
necting link because of the fact that
he was close to the British govern
ment.
In conclusion, Reed challenged
any member of the senate who
doubted his statements to introduce
a resolution calling for an investi
gation of Hoover's activities.
NEW YOKE. Jan. 20.—An ost.i
maU> of the world’s debts at the
present time, compiled by the Na
tional city bank of this city, shows
that the nations of the universe
owe approximately two hundred
billions, as compared with forty bill
ions in 1914. Paper currency
throughout the world, the report
tays, has increased about six hun
dred percent since the war started,
and the gold reserve has been in
■reased about forty percent.
FORMER ALASKA BOY
IS KILLED BY AUIft
BERKELEY, Cal., Jan. 24.—(De
layed.)- Lloyd Fish, son of Jam
Fish, former Government mail coo
tractor with headquarters at Val
dez, died here today as the result
>f injuries received when his motor
’yele was run down by an automo
oile. Young: Fish and his brother
,vcre on the motorcycle when the
accident occurred, but the brother
escaped with less serious injuries.
The authorities are looking' for
bhe driver of the automobile.
POINDEXTER HOPEFUL;
CAMPAIGN GOING GOOD
SEATTLE, Jan. 26.—It is report
ed here that Senator Miles Poin
dexter plans to tour Washington
during the coming month in the in
terest of his presidential candidacy.
Poindexter men say that his cum
naign is going good in the East.
Thomas .1. Donahoe, of Valdez,
has'filed as a candidate for I)emo
.■ratic national co.mmitteeman from
\laska. Donahoe is committeeman
at present and it is believed there
will be no opposition to his election.