WHERE, RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. II.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA. SATURDAY. MARCH 20, 1920.
NO. 29 7
SOLONS MAY MAKE TREATYLESS PEACE
NEWBERRY GVILTY, BUT WJaL JUDGE AS LENIENT
ALLJESMAY INVADE GERMANY IF DISORDERS CONTINUE
' MUNICIPAL LINES
LOST LARGE SUM
EM REPORTS
SEATTLE, March 20. — City
Comptroller Carroll has submitted a
statement to Mayor Caldwell in
which he estimate* that the city's
municipal railway system lost over
$500,000 last year. The loss in
January alone was $108,000, and in
February the loss was even greater.
The report says that nothing was
saved to pay $833,000 due as prin
4 oipal on some railway bonds two
years hence. The report states fur
ther that it was impossible for the
comptroller to get a financial state
ment from those in charge of the
system, so it was impossibje to
compute the profit and loss.
The comptroller was asked by the
mayor to investigate and report or
the condition of the railway fin
ances. The former head of the sys
tem has been discharged by the
mayor.
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SEATTLE. March 20.—The can
nery steamer San Juan anti barg'
Dashing: Wave, of the Libby fleet
grounded yesterday on Shelter poin
beach. Seymour narrows, while wait
ing for the tide. Tne steamer wa
floated later, but the barge, it i
believed, will be a total loss. Thi
last reports received stated that th<
barge was leaking badly.
The Dashing Wave was former!;
the fastest clipper ship operating ou
of Seattle.
EFFORT TO RATIFY FAILURE;
TREATY SENT TO PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 20.
:—The document embracing the Ger
many peace treaty and League of
Nations covenant, which have re
; ceived the endorsement of practical
ly all the nations engaged in the
late war, with the exception of the
United States, was returned to Pres
ident Wilson this morning with a
■note attached, in which it was ex
plained that the United States sen
! ate had refused its consent to rati
' fication.
I The papers were handed to Sec
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retary Tumulty, who promptly an
nounced that the President had no
statement to make regarding the
failure of the senators to act as he
had requested them to do.
If the usual procedure is fol
lowed, the treaty will be sent to
the state department for formal
burial in the archives of that branch
of the Government.
MAY DECLARE PEACE.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 20
Senator Knox has introduced a reso
lution in the senate declaring peace
with Germany, and Representative
. Tinkham has offered a joint resolu
tion in the lov.-er chamber for the
same purpose. Under the provi
sions of the joint resolution, Ger
many would recognize all the rights
that America might have had under
; the teams of the rejected treaty.
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JAPS TO SETTLE.
TOKIO, March 20.—-The Japanese
; government has instructed Yukichi
Obata, Japanese minister at Peking,
to negotiate immediately for a
I speedy settlement of the Shantung
question. The views of the Jap
anese and Chinese commissioners
appointed to investigate have been
found to concur in the main points,
and it is understood that Japan is
ready to make large concessions
toward an amicable solution of the
problem.
LATIN AMERICA.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 120.
—The state department has des
! patched urgent notes to Bolivia re
i questing that there be no breach of
• peace in South America. The notes
jwere sent at the request of Peru,
■as a result of an attack by Bolivians
1 on the Peruvian legation at La Paz
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I OF RACE TROUBLE
j BALTIMORE. Md., March 20.—A
white dentist of this city was at
j tacked by a colored mob yesterday,
1 the negroes believing the dentist
guilty of trying to abduct members
of their race for dissecting pur
poses.
I A riot call brought police re
. serves to the scene and a serious
clash occurred, followed by a pitch
ed battle between the police and
one of the rioters, who took refuge
in a house nearby. A score of shots
were exchanged and Scott, the col
jored refugee, received wounds which
: probably will prove fatal. Two of
• the policemen also were wounded
! during the fight.
The office of the suspected den
tist was wrecked by the mob.
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SCHOONER ABANDONED;
j CREW SUFFER GREATLY
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j NEW YORK, March 20.—Seven
| members of the crew of the Ameri
|can schooner Jeremiah Smith were
j picked up today after they had
jbeen adrift four days in an open
boat. They report that their ship
was abandoned because of leaks and
that it sank soon after they had left
; it. The schooner was enroute tc
j Cuba.
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i JAILER IS MURDERED
BY INSANITY SUSPFX1
i SPOKANE. March 20.—Williare
j Nelson, city’ jailer, was choked ti
; death yesterday by Steve Potasky
| an insanity suspect, who was bein^
iheld in the city jail pending an ex
lamination as to his mental condi
:tion. The jailer was attacked in tht
| corridor and was dead before as
isistance arrived.
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Prospectors arriving in Fairbank:
from the Little Delta district re
port a scarcity of snow in tha
region. They express the belief tha'
it will be difficult to obtain suffi
cient water during the coming sea
ison to do any w’ork on the Hes:
i ground on Portage creek, where ar
jrangements had been made to d<
I considerable prospecting as soon a:
P;the season opened.
ALLIES ASSEMBLING
: FOR GERMAN RAIDS
j LONDON, March JO.—Informa
tion received in this city today in
dicate that the Allies are preparing
' for troop concentration along the
edge of the occupied areas and else
where on the German frontier, and
| it is expected that Allied armies
j will press forward into German ter
ritory unless order is restored quiek
jly by the Germans.
It is estimated that fully 2,000
ipersons have been killed in Germany
as a result of the recent distu.rb
!
ances following the occupation of
Berlin by the Kapp government and
its subsequent -etirement.
CLEARING LEIPSIC.
COPPENHAGEN, March 20.—
Regular army troops are engaged to
day in driving the Reds from the
citv of Leipsic. The losses among
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the workers are said to have been
heavy.
STRIKE ENDS.
LONDON, March 20.—The gen
eral strike which was called be
President Ebert at the time of his
evacuation of Berlin, came to an
end today and the entire Ebert gov
ernment, including Noske, will leave
for Berlin tonight in a special train
from Stuttgart. Premier Bauer pre
ceded Ebert for the purpose of
opening negotiations with the unions.
Spartacans Take Essen.
The Spartacan army, numbering
100,000 men, occupied Essen yes
terday and proclaimed a soviet re
public there. They had 77 guns
with them and were otherwise
equipped with modern machinery.
The Spartacans also have captured
Dusseldorf, on the Rhine.
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NEWBERRY ESCAPES
WITH MODEST TERM
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March
20.—-Senator Truman Handy New
berry, secretary of the navy in the
cabinet of President Roosevelt, vet
eran of the Spanish-American war,
officer and director of a score of
big Michigan corporations, who was
indicted by a federal grand jury on
February 29 on charges relating to
the illegal expenditure of iarge sums
of money in the primary and regu
lar election campaigns of 1918. was
found guilty today, together with
84 other defendants who were active
in the campaign against Henry
. Ford.
The trial of Newberry and his co
defendants began eight weeks ago
; with 123 defendants, a number of
. whom were released as the trial
. progressed.
■ The charge against Newberry was.
criminal conspiracy.
i Two Years. ,
Senator Newberry, Fred Cody,
who was Newberry’s New York leg
islative agent, and Paul King, New
berry’s campaign manager, were
each sentenced to two years in the
federal penitentiary at Leavenworth
and to pay a tine of $10,000.
Charles Floyd, another defendant,
was given two years and ordered
to pay a fine of $5,000. John S.
Newberry, brother of the senator,
was lined $10,000. Templeton, An
drews and Oakman were each given
a year and a half, Hopkins and Chi!
son a year and a day each, and
Fletcher a year and a quarter.
All of the defendants were re
leased on bonds for ninety days
pending an appeal.
Senator to Stick.
Newberry’s wife, brother and son
were with him in the courtroom
when the verdict was rendered.
Later, Newberry declared it as his
intention to represent, in the United
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ALASKAN HER
GROUNDS ENROL!
SEATTLE, March L’O.—The Ad
miral Evans, which left here for th>
North yesterday with 154 pass
engers. mostly cannery employes,
ran aground on a mudflat between
Seymour narrows and Mudge point
at an early hour this morning.
The Seattle office of the company
expected that the steamer would be
boated at high tide at three o'clock
this afternoon.
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Resident Engineer Ilaslem an 1
Timekeeper Lei’n Russell were pass
engers tEvis morning for the end of
steel, enroute ;o their -fation in th»
canyon.
Resident Engineers Huston D
Mills and Roy Hershberger, who
spent St. Patrick's day in Fairbanks,
- returned to their posts out the line
on this morning’s train.
Mrs. .1. .1. Kestly was an outgoing
passenger on this morning’s train,
enroute to her home in the canyon.
Mrs. Kestly returned yesterday ‘loin
a several-day visit in Fairbanks
General Storekeeper R. S. Don
aldson went out the line this morn
ing on business.
Mrs. F. D. Browne was a pass
enger on this morning’s train for
the end of steel.
Mrs. Fmma Duke has been quite
ill at her home on upper A .-treet
during the past several days.
Fire Chief Alla A. Johnson re
turned yesterday from a several
day visit in Fairbanks and will be
formally installed in his new posi
tion at midnight tonight.
Dr. T. O. I.ake arrived in town
last evening from his first aid es
tablishment at the end of steel.
Mrs. Leon Kellum went to Fair
i banks yesterday on a several-day
visit.
CLUB SENDS WIRE
10 CONGRESSMAN
Two telegrams were ordered sen'
by the Nenana Commercial club a*.
! the regular weekly meeting last
(night. One of them is to be ad
dressed to Delegate Grigsby and
will contain a request for informa
tion as to how the local club can
| further assist in securing the aid’
[urged in letters already written.
I The chief points mentioned will be
I the gold bonus proposition, the wage
question and the bridge question.
Another wire is to be sent to
Representative Albert S. Currv.
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chairman of tihie house committee on
j territories, who recently expressed
|a desire to know what the interior
department has done and ts doing
.to expedite the development of the
; country tributary to the Govern
ment railroad. The wire will call
attention to the letter recently for
warded to Washington, pertaining
' to reforms needed to prevent the
further depopulation of the Interior
countrv. The aids will be listed in
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the telegram in the order of their
importance and the chairman will
be urged to give his support to the
plea contained in the letters.
There was a general discussion of
wages, the bridge question and other
matters of importance to the dis
trict. and it was evident that the
e’ub has no intention of giving up
the tight until the reforms sough:
have been obtained.
CHIP! ENTERS
PLEA OFNOT GUiLTY
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SAN FRANCISCO. March L'n.
Champion Jack Dempsey and his
manager. Jack Kearns, indicted cm
the charge ot’ evading the draft,
were arraigned today and each en
tered a plea of not guilty. They
were released on bonds supply by
the champion. 1
Both of the men were nattily
dressed and chewed gum through
out the proceedings. . 1/
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MODEL BONSPIEL ENDS;
HEILIG TEAM WINNERS
The Model bonspiel. which had
been in progress on the Fairbanks
curling rink for several weeks, ended
last night in a victory for the Reed
Heilig team, which has the distinc
tion of having won nine straight
games. Individual medals will be
awarded to the members of the win
ning team, which is composed of
Reeil Heilig, K. 0. Wood, Frank R.
Clark, and Fred Ohlsen.
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