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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. III.
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NENANA. ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1920.
NO. I
SEVEN HUNDRED JAPS KILLED BY REDS
NOR THERNERS WASTE TIME WITH ACC US A TIONS
EBERT SENDS ULTIMATUM TO REBEL GERMAN WORKERS
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WASHINGTON, D. C., April 1.—
Following an investigation of the
recent alleged supreme court leak,
in advance of the court’s decision
in the Southern Pacific oil land cases,
the federal grand jury has returned
indictments against four men of
more or less prominence in the East,
and sensational developments are
anticipated when the suspects are
brought to trial.
The indicted men are James Har
wood Graves, former assistant at
torney in the department of jus
tice; Ashton Embry, former secre
tary to Associate Justice McKenna;
Barnette Moses, a Washington law
yer, and Millard Mayer, a stock
broker.
The information given out by the
suspects is reported to have en
* 'rivfred them to the extent of. ?’,oU0.
FIVE MILLION ALLOWED
FOR ROADS ON ISLAND
HONOLULU, T. H.—Expenditure
of $5,000,000 by the United States
army for military roads on the
Island of Oahu has been recom
mended to the war department by
Major-Generl C. G. Morton, com
manding the Hawaiian department,
according to the general’s announce
ment at a recent Chamber of Com
merce dinner. In confirmation of
recent reports, he said, it was the
intention of the department to sta
tion a full division of soldiers on
the island.
“It is for your protection, for the
protection of the United States,”
said General Morton, “that we are
devoting so much thought and money
to strengthening this far outpost of
our country.”
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SIBERIAN BOLSHEVIKI FIGHT
TWO-DAY BATTLE WITH JAPS
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j five Socialist members of the lower!
; house of the New York state leg-1
■ islature, against whom charges were j
{preferred some time ago, were ex
I pelled from the assembly at- a late
{hour last night, the lawmakers be
, ing in session nearly all night de
I bating the question. Each one of
the unpopular members was voted
jon separately, and each case the
_ • jte stood nearly four to one '"xl
expulsion. The galleries were crowd
ed with spectators throughout the
jday and many of them remained
■ until the final vote was taken.
Assemblyman Roosevelt took an
^active part in the defense of the
j Socialists. In his address to the
| lawmakers he protested strongly
'against expulsion. He conceded that
the assembly had the right to expel
any member, but declared that the
expulsion of the five Socialist mem
bers would be condemning the So
; cialist party as a conspiracy. “If
we expel these members,” he ar
gued, “we must expel Socialists
, from every office they hold in the
nation, and must take the ballot
, from all Socialists as well.”
! The majority report of the as
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. sembly judiciary committee, which
. recommended the expulsion, branded
the Socialist party as composed-en
tirely of political traitors. The mi
nority report of the committee dis
sented.
Majority Leader Alder supported
Roosevelt in the fight against expul
sion.
ARGENTINE WHEAT IS
GREAT WORLD FACTOR
BUENOS AIRES.—The value of
Argentine wheat exported during
the last year rose to the unprece
dented figure equivalent to about
8182,500,000, according to statis
tics made public recently by the
ministry of agriculture. The ton
nage exported amounted to 3,068,r
295.
La Epoca says the average ship
board quotation for the cereal for
1919—based on the price on the
dates of exportation—was $5.93 a
100 kilograms (of 2.20 pounds
each).
Richard Chinnyah, of Fort Yukon,
who was indicted by the late grand
jury on the charge of attempted
rape, was permitted this morning to
plead guilty to a charge of simple
j assault and was to have been sen
I fenced at Fairbanks by Judge Bun
j nell this afternoon. The change will
| save the Government considerable
expense and will enable the defend
ant to get off with a light fine.
HONOLULU, April 1.—Cable ad
vices received in this city today
from Tokio report the death of 700
Japanese troops and civilians as the
result of a two-day battle with the
Bolsheviki at Nikolaifsk, at the
mouth of the Amur river, north of
Vladivostok.
When it was seen that the troops
could not hold their own against
the Reds, Japanese residents of the
city organized volunteer forces and
rendered valuable assistance to the
soldiers. The Japanese consulate
was burned to the ground during
the battle and Japanese Consul E.
Ishida was still missing when the
report cf the encounter was sent to
Tokio.
MORE TROUBLE.
VLADIVOSTOK, April 1. — The
battle at Nikolaifsk, between Jap
anese troops and the Bolsheviki, be-!
gan on March 13, and resulted in!
the death of 40 Russians, with 80
wounded.
The belief is general here that
guerrilla warfare will result thru
out Eastern Siberia if the Japanese
troops do not soon evacuate the
Northern country.
ELECTION CONTEST
, HEARINGS STARTED
SEATTLE, April 1.—Special ad
vices received in this city today
from the national capital state that
Judge Wickersham has conluded his
arguments before the house elec
tions committee, in the Alaska dele
gate election contest case, and Dele
gate Grigsby will commence his ar
gument tonight, the committee hav
ing decided to hold night sessions so
as to avoid interruptions.
The house commerce committee
held another hearing today on the
Alaska shipping bill and, as on pre
vious occasions, there was much
wrangling among the Alaskans pres
ent. The dispatches say the two
hearings have been characterized by
fighting language without a lighting
case.
John E. Ballaine testified today
that Maurice D. Leehey, legal mem
ber of the Alaska Territorial Ship
ping board, had been employed by
Falcon Joslin and the Bering River
Coal company, hence, by implica
tion, accusing Leehey of being in
the employ of the Guggenheims.
Leehey promptly branded Bal
laine’s statement as a lie.
Ballainc then said that Leehey
had lobbied to secure the repeal of
the Alaska coal land leasing bill,
and Leehey branded that statement
as a lie ulso.
Wiekersham referred to Semmes
as “Sherlock, the deep sea lawyer.”
Riggs Coining Home.
A special dispatch to the Post
Intelligencer says that Governor
Riggs is planning to start for the
North on April 6. Before leaving,
the Governor will confer with Sen
ator Harry S. New on the terri
torial development bill, and he also
expects to appear before the house
appropriations committee in support
of the $80,000 item in the next
deficiency bill, to recompense the
Territory for money expended in
fighting the flu in Alaska.
EBERT ISSUES ULTIMATUM
PARIS, April 1.—Leaders of the
rebellious German, workers in the
Ruhr district must give themselves
up within 48 hours, or they and
their followers will be wiped out
by Government troops, according to
an ultimatum issued yesterday by
President Ebert as a final move in
the negotiations with the revolu
tionists.
The leaders were to have sur
rendered yesterday, but an exten
sion of time was granted for rea
sons which have not been disclosed.
W. E. Kenyon, former employe of
the A. E. C. in N'enana, now has
a good position in Connecticut,
where he is office manager for the
Baldwin Stuart Electrical company, ]
with headquarters at Hartford. He j
receives a salary of $175 a month, j
Deputy Marshal John Powers, of
Eagle, who had been in Fairbanks
on official business, left the upper!
town for his station on this morn-!
ing’s train for Ghatanika. He will j
make the trip to Circle with Mail
Carrier Johnny Palm and will J
mush up the Yukon alone from Cir- '
cle to Eagle.
Track Foreman and Mrs. Louis
Lee arrived in town last evening
from the end of steel, and will leave
for Camp 432 tomorrow, where Mr.
Lee will be stationed in future. He
will have charge of the work be
tween Xorth Nenana and Happy.
Captain C. W. Adams advise;
Mrs. Adams that he has taker a
course in photography in New York
since his discharge from' the Mayo '
hospital. He sent a number of j
proofs on the last mail which indi- ■
cate that he has acquired considera- j
ble skill in his new profession.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 1.—
Mary Pickford, who was divorced
recently in Nevada from Owen
Moore, and who declared upon her
return to Los Angeles that she
would never, never get into an
other matrimonial mess, was mar
ried quietly on Sunday to Douglas
Fairbanks, the movie adonis with
the million-dollar smile. Mary gave
her age as 26, and Doug confessed
that he had experienced 36 winters,
some of tntm tough ones.
Marjorie Daw participated as
bridesmaid. Both of the principals
will continue in pictures.
INSPECT DIVORCE.
RENO, April 1.—Robert Richards,
deputy attorney-general, is investi
gating the divorce proceedings of
Mary Pickford to determi’.»> if the
case was regular. Should any ir
regularities be discovered, an at
tempt will be made to set the decree
aside.
PERSONAL
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Mrs. Jay Kelly and two children,
who recently arrived at Fairbanks
from a winter in the States, started
for the Circle district this morn
ins;, where Mr. Kelly is mining.
They will make the trip with Mail
Carrier Palm.
Bob Sheldon is reported to have
crossed the Delta' overflow on the
Fairbanks-Chitina trail, and is now
hastening to Chitina to pick up 21
passengers who reached C ordova
this week.
A. Bredlic. proprietor of the
Bredlie shoe store in Fairbanks, who
has been in the States during the
past winter, expects to start North
within the next few weeks, accord
ing to a letter received in Nenana
on the last mail.
Mail advices received at Fair
banks this week state that Steve
Lovejoy, former head clerk in the
Peoples establishment, and later in
the employ of the Northern Com
mercial company, is now a member
of a Seattle concern known as the
Indiana Investment company. He
writes that he has purchased an in
terest.
Captain George Green, Alex Ham
ilton, Sam Godfrey, and Chief Depu
ty Marshal Joe Miller are among
the Interior-bound passengers who
reached Cordova this week on the
Northwestern.
COMMITTEE HAS
URGED PASSAGE
OF PEACE BILE
WASHINGTON, I). €., April 1.
The house foreign affairs committee
has submitted a favorable report on
the Republican resolution elec la ring
war with Germany at an end. The
resolution, which was prepared by
Republican leaders, received strictly
party support, the vote being 12
for recommendation and t> against.
In addition to declaring the war
at an end, the resolution provides
for the repeal of the more import
ant wartime acts and powers, in
eluding wartime prohibition, the
Lever food control act, the espionage
act, the selective service law, and
laws providing for loans to the Al
lies.
| After deliberating only about long
enough to express their disgust and
to take •- vote, t!i>- jurors in the
Thomas Coling case, which was aired
jin the district court this week be
fore Judge Bunnell, reported to
the court that they had found the
defendant not guilty, whereupon
Coling was discharged.
Those who heard the evidence dc
elare that the Government had no
ease against Coling, and it is un
derstood the prosecuting attorney
would not have pressed the action
had he known more about the case
before it started. The case was one
of the dirtiest heard in the district
court, in several terms.
CHINK MERCHANTS KICK;
WANT CHANCE TO VOTE
SHANGHAI. Chinese lc.-idents of
the International Settlement hero
have suffered defeat in an attempt
to insist upon no taxation without
representation. Chinese merchants
refused to pay taxes unless they
were permitted to elect members of
the municipal council, which is com
posed entirely of foreigners—six
British, two Americans, and on ■
Japanese. The population of the set
tlement numbers about .SO,000 for
eigners and 680,000 Chinese.
The merchants resisted payment
of tax, but were compelled to cap
itulate when the tax collectors seized
property in the Chinese stores and
carted it to police headquarters.
The municipal council has offered
to refer the question to the vote of
the taxpayers in April.
A former Nenanaite, writing from
Washington, D. C., tells of having
called on Howard P. Curtis, former
general storekeeper here, who is
now a member of the official staff
of the United States Shipping board,
with a salary of $6,000 a year. The
letter states that Curtis has not
changed any in appearance since he
left Nenana, and seemed pleased to
see someone from the North.