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THE NENANA
The Nenana Daily News First
DAILY NEWS
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VOLUME ONE
NENANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1918
WHOLE NUMBER 205
ENGLAND WOULD RETAIN SEA POWER
AUSTRIANS ARE MAKING BOLSHEVISM CAMPAIGN
PEACH PARLEY PROMPTS PROHIBITIVE PRICES IN PARIS
:
President Has Busy Day At Sea the
First Day of Trip; Also
Receives Calls.
(Associated Press)
Aboard the Steamer George
Washington—A wireless massage re
ceived from the steamer George
Washington, enroute to France with
President Wilson and party on board
indicated that the President spent
most of the first day out working in,
the office fitted up for his use on
board the boat.
After acknowledging from the
bridge of the vessel the greetings
given him by the crowds on the
dock, as the steamer headed to
wards the open sea, he turned to the
pile of letters and telegrams awaiting
his attention and spent several hours
with his stenographer.
In the afternoon, on account of
a slight cold, he laid down and
took a little rest, and a little while
afterwards he received calls from
the officials on board' including the
Italian and French ambassadors,
and later he walked the deck with
his wife.
At dinner the President’s party
was served by a waiter who claimed
that he had performed the same
service for the former kaiser and
the German empress in the same
suite during the trial trip of the
steamer George Washington.
The steamer George Washington
has a very powerful escort and
every precaution is taken for the
safety of the vessel. Mine sweepers
are running some distance ahead of
the steamer’s bow and destroyers
surround her.
NAVY TO REDUCE
WAIT III FORCES
Naval Force to Be Cut Down By
20 Per Cent of Youths Joining
For Duration of War.
(Associated Press;
WASHINGTON, D. C.—One hun
dred thousand men, representing 20
per cent of the war time strength
of the United States navy are to be
released immediately and be per
mitted to return to civil life.
Only youths who have joined for
the duration of the war will be re
leased; those who joined for the
full term will be required to serve
out the full term of four years.
Mrs. C. H. Hall was down with
an attack of Spanish influenza re
cently at Colorado Springs. She
has quite recovered now.
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CHURCHILL SAYS
ENGLAND INSISTS
ON NAVAL POWER
Minister of Munitions Defines the
British Position As Regards
Sea Supremacy.
(Associated Press'*
LONDON.—Minister of Munitions
Churchill, of the British cabinet, de
clared today that England enters
the peace conference with an ab
solute decision arrived at that no
limitations will be allowed to be
imposed on England's right to main
tain her naval defense.
"We do not intend," he said, "to
lend ourselves to any fettering re
strictions to prevent the British navy
maintaining its well tried and well
deserved supremacy.”
Austiran High Official* With Lot*
of Money Join Movement to
Spread Bohheviki.
(Associated Press)
PARIS.—Several former promin
ent Austrian officials have arrived
in Switzerland with much money,
for the avowed purpose of further
ing the cause of Bolsheviki every
where.
It is reported that the plans of
the Bolsheviki call for the spread
of their doctrine in Alsace-Lorraine.
The former grand admiral of the
Austrian navy and the former Aus
trian foreign minister are in the
party that arrived in Switzerland.
NAVAll$TiAlE$
GREATLY REDUCED
Building Program of Navy for the
Coming Year Will Not Be
a Large One.
(Associated Press i
WASHINGTON. D. C— A state
ment made by Secretary of the Navy
Daniels today disclosed the fact that
the naval estimates for the coming
year have been reduced by over a
billion dollars.
The original plans of the naval
program on which the estimates were
based originally, demanded an ex
penditure of two billion, six hundred
million dollars.
For towing damaged autos to
garages a low, four-wheeled truck
that picks up a car bodily has been
invented in this country.
Italy has joined other European
nations in prohibiting the manu
facture o^ sale of absinthe.
A clip that holds a piece of chalk
on a door at any height desired
forms a new skirt gauge for dress
t makers.
VISITORS FLOCK
TO FRENCH CITY;
PRICES SOARING
All Roads Lead to Paris Now and
City Is Filled to Overflowing
the Living Cost High
(Associated Press>
PARIS.—Visitors from all parts
of the world are flocking to Paris
and the city is filled to overflowing,
while the stream of visitors show
no signs of diminution.
With the arrival of President Wil
son and party of American delegates
it is thought that the stream of
visitors flowing into the gay city
j will increase greatly, and the prob
1 lem of caring for the vast numbers
that will gather there is causing
some uneasiness.
Twenty-five large hotels of the
I city have been requisitioned by the
| government for the accommodation
i o fnewspaper men who will attend
I the peace conference.
The prices of rooms and meals
! have tripf;d and are still rising,
j Breakfast, consisting of coffee and
; bread and butter costs between a
| dollar and a dollar and a half;
j lunch costs from three to four
! dollars.
I
WOMAN LEADER
OF SLAV REVOLT
TO VISIT STATES
(Associated Press)
TOKIO. — Catherine Breshkov
skaya, known widely as the grand
mother of the Russian revolution,
arrived in this city today from Vlad
ivostock.
She is on her way to the United
States and expects to tell President
Wilson of the conditions in Russia
and the needs of the Russian people
thelinTnroute
TO UPPER TOWN
Thelin’s stage left at 7 o’clock
this morning for the first time this
season, with the mail and four pass
engers. The stage expects to make
I the Ohio roadhouse for the night
and reach Fairbanks tomorrow even
| mg.
In view of the quarantine restric
tions in force in Nenana, travel is
expected to be very light and Thelir
does not expect to make the returr
'trip; he will, however, do so, if suffi
\ cient inducements in the way oi
freight offers.
If he should manage to get a loac
i of freight and the freight move
' ment justifies the establsihment ol
a regular stage line, Thelin says
i that he will run and, of course, wil
| bring us our mail also.
Russian peasants make moccasins
that are said to well wear for two 01
more years from the bark of your?
linden trees.
IS SILENT NOW
^ Ex-Kaiser Does Not Like to Be
Interviewed and Declines to
Make Statement.
(Associated Press)
AMERONGEN, Holland.—In an
interview accorded to an Associated
j Press correspondent today, the for
j mer German kaiser said “I am a
j private citizen while I remain in
| Holland, and can make no statement
i for publication.”
j Continuing, the fallen monarch
said: “You must realize my position,
; I am threatened on all sides with
. cri/iinal prosecution and therefore
must reserve any statement I can
j make until the charges have been
; brought against me.
I
I
“I owe loyalty to the present Ger
man ogvernment and cannot make
any declaration which might com
promise others.”
FROM SEATTLE
(Associated Press)
SEATTLE.—If the weather keeps
fine tomorrow, Lieutenant Hogland
who arrived here from Sacramento
yesterday in an aeroplane, will com
mence his return journey.
On the trip from Sacramento,
which was made for the purpose of
finding a mail route, Lieutenant
Hogland carried the mail, and con
sumed one hundred gallons of gaso
line in making the flight.
RAILWAYS 10 BE
S NATIONALIZED IN
GREAT BRITAIN
(Associated Press)
LONDON.—The control, by the
government, of the railroads in the
United Kingdom has been a ques
I tion that has long exercised the
> minds of the government officials
land Minister of Munitions Churchill
; said today that a decision has been
' arrived at whereby the government
| had decided to nationalize the rail
; ways of the country.
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j ANCHORAGE.—The Red Moun
j tain iron deposits, seven miles from
■ tide water, in the Pc\t Chatham
! country, at the head of Cook Inlet,
, are the best in the United States,
■ according to the expressed opinion
! of a United States geologist- who
, passed two months this season in
making an investigation.
Whitney & Lass, who have been
mining chrome ore the past season,
are operating a property on tide
water at Port Chatham, and are
installing a ten-stamp mill, which
they expect to have in operation
within sixty days. They are em
ploying thirty men.
MACHINE GUNS
USED 10 QUELL
Food Riots In Rhine City Occasion
Use of Machine Guns; the
Casualties Are Heavy
(Associated Press'
COPENHAGEN. — Serious food
riots broke out in Cologne last Tues
day, when the people, driven to des
peration by the highly unsatisfactory
food conditions, and the restrictions
placed by the government on the
' food supplies, began to plunder the
■ stores in the city.
: The civil authorities were quite
unable to control the ever-growing
number of rioters, and machine
guns were brought into action to
! quell the disturbance. There were
many casualties in the ranks of the
demonstrants.
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NO! FAVOR PLAN
10 ATTEND MEET
Foreign Relations Committee Rejects
Resolution to Send Senate
Committee Abroad.
(Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Sen
j at Foreign Relations committee has
1 unanimously disapproved of the re
J solution introduced by Senator Al
; bert Cummings, of Iowa, proposing:
' that a Senate committee composed
of four Democrats and four Repub
licans, be sent to the peace confer
ence for the purpose of keeping the
Senate informed of all of the dis
cussions entered into at that con
ference.
Senator Cummings’ resolution was
also introduced in the House of Rep
resentatives by Rodenburg, of Illi
nois.
MAIL WILL LEAVE
FAIRBANKS TOMORROW
A telephone communication re
ceived late this afternoon from Fair
banks contains the intimation that
Roy Lund will leave the upper town
tomorow morning with the mail
for Nenana.
The statement is made by the
News with all due reserve in view
of the many postponements and de
lays in the mail schedule which have
taken place in the past.
First class mail is reported to
have reached Fairbanks this after
noon and three other shipments are
reported as being on the way in
on the trail which may occasion an
other postponement in the departure
of the mail stage from Fairbanks.
Announcement will be made when
the mail definitely leaves the upper
town for Nenana.
Dick Ward was until recently at
the Officers’ training school at Camp
Humphreys’ Virginia, writing to a
friend in Nenana mentions that he
met Jimy Momb there. Jimmy, he
says, is an instructor at the camp.
Wilson Nominates Representative
Class of Virginia to Fill the
Vacancy In Cabinet.
(Associat'd Pres*-»
WASHINGTON, D. C.—President
Wilson, before sailing for Kurope,
nominated Representative Cartel
Glass, of Virginia, to be secretary
of the treasury, to succeed William
Gibbs McAdoo, who resigned his
position recently.
' _
Carter Glass, (Democrat) of
Luchbury, Virginia, was born in that
city. He was educated in private
and public schools and in the news
paper business, and owns the Daily
News, the morning paper, anil the
Daily Advance, the afternoon paper
of that city. He was a member of
the Virginia state senate 1899-1903,
and the Virginia constitutional con
vention in 1901-0. For eight years
he was a member of the board of
visitors to the University of Vir
ginia ,was elected to the 57th and
all succeeedi-rr congresses, including
the 65th.
Under agreement with Secretary
of the Treasury McAdoo, who re
linquishes office, Representative
Carter Glass, of Virginia, who suc
ceeds him- will assume his new duties
on December 16th.
HUNS 10 RETAIN
I HEiGOLAND BASE
———
Germany Will Not Be Called Upon
to Return Fortified Island
to England.
(■Associated Press >
LONDON.—The British nuval au
thorities after a conference during
which they entered into a lengthy
discussion regarding the naval base
on the Island of Helgoland, have
finally, decided that it will he un
necessary to demand that Germany
return the island to England, from
whom she purchased it some time
ago.
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ONE MAN LEFT IN
QUARANTINE CAMP
Walter Forrest- a traveler from
Fairbanks to Nenana, is the only
man now awaiting release at the
quarantine camp No. 1.
Forest arrived on Roy Lund's
stage and will have completed the
third day in quarantine this evening.
He will be detained two days more
and will be medically examined be
fore being released.
J. Russell Walle, bookkeeper of
I the store department of the A. E.C.,
left this morning for Fairbanks on
a business trip. He expects to be
back in quarantine in a few days.
eorge Palme)- returned to town
today after having completed some
grading work for the A. E. C., near
Lignite.
I Pedals with which an automobile
can be steered to give a driver's
hands a rest have been patented by
a Texan.