The Broad Pass Route Is The Short-Cut Route — Saves Mushers Miles and Money
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1919.
WHOLE NUMBER 291
FRANCE AND ENGLAND CURB IMPORTS
JAPS WANT EQUAL TREATMENT IN ALL LANDS
BOLSHEVIK1 FORCES NOW IN CONTROL
UKRAINE
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
UNDER DISCUSSION
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PARIS, Mar. 20.—The representa
tives of the neutral countries have
arranged to hold a meeting for the
purpose of expressing their views
and to propose amendments to the
terms of the League of Nations.
Lord Robert Cecil has been selected
to act as chairman at the meeting of
the neutral nations.
The three Scandinavian countries.
Norway, Sweden and Denmark, are
to present identical proposals, favor
ing the League of Nations, and ask
ing that neutral nations be admitted
to the league.
JAPANESE AMENDMENT
PARIS. Mar. 20.—The govern
ment of Japan will submit an amend
ment to the League of Nations cov
enant, which will provide that the
contracting parties shall agree to
grant equal and just treatment to
all aliens within their borders who
are nationals of the other nations
in the league.
The government of Japan believ.-s
^that citizens of nations who are
1 deemed sufficiently advanced to be
come members of the league should
have equal rights and privileges
when traveling or living in foreign
countries.
COMMISSION TO DECIDE
PARIS. Mar. 20— The League of
Nations commission, of which body
President Wilson will be the chair
man, will hold a meeting on Sun
day, March 23.
The several amendments proposed
by the nations interested in the
league will be discussed and con
sidered at this meeting.
LETTISH
COPENHAGEN, Mar. 20.—Ac
cording to reports received in this
city today, the Lettish soldiers oper
ating against the Bolsheviki. have
succeeded in capturing the town f
Mitau today.
Mitau is an important railroad
junction in the government of Cour
iand, southwest of the city of Riga.
The Bolsheviki forces are reported
to be ’ etiring along the whole front.
. YANKS DEFEATED
SEATTLE, Mar. 20.—The Seattle
4 hockey team defeated the Montreal
team by a score of 7 to 0, in the
first game of the world’s hockey
championship series.
The speed shown by the Seattle
players dazzled the visitors, who
played on strange ice and under
the new Western rules of the (game,
instead of Eastern rules, to which
they were more accustomed.
The next game of the series will
be played on Saturday under the
Eastern rules. A much closer game
is expected to result as the visitors
will be given an opportunity to
practice up and get used to the rink.
PORTO RICANS RETURN
TO TROPICAL HOME
^ SAN JUAN, Porto Rico.—More
than 1,100 Porto Rican war workers
in the United States have just re
turned to the island well dressed,
prosperous, and in high spirits. Most
of them confessed they had real
money in their pockets, some quite
comfortable amounts and they seem
ed to enjoy their free trip to the
United States. Most of them ap
% peared to have become quite metro
politan in dress and bearing. Some
left the steamship pier to go to
their homes in automobiles.
One war-worker gave his impres
sions of New York by saying it was
“too cold and there was no rice
and beans, Porto Rican style ” The
men had been working in places
4 from New York to New Orleans.
Many of them said the only reason
they returned was that they could
not stand the cold weather.
Virtually all the Porto Rican
workers now have returned from
the United States.
Vnut—Tlx Oitmr to KcXinloy
■attoaal Park
TACOMA, Mar. 20.—Thirty-five
men and three officers of a trench
mortar battery, that had seen active
service overseas, arrived here to
day, enroute to Camp Lewis.
This battery is the first unit of
the Ninety-first army division, which
received its trainng here, to return
to Camp Lews.
The battery consisted of two
hundred and forty members when it
left Camp Lewis for service over
seas. The others were either killed,
wounded or have been transferred
to other army units.
TOWSON, Missouri, Mar. 20.—
Doctor Norbu Ishida, a Japanese
alienist, who was convicted on the
charge of murdering his associate,
Doctor George B. Wolff, was today
senteneced to life imprisonment.
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MEXICAN COMMANDER
HAS RICH EQUIPMENT
JUAREZ, Mex.—A leopard skin
saddle blanket with a golden eagle
and snake worked in the corners,
gold mounted bridle and English
saddle made up the riding equip
ment used by General Jasus Agustin
Castro, commander of the north
west when he reviewed the border
troops here. His saddle horse is a
beautiful, thoroughbred roan and,
in his heavily ornamented full dress
uniform. General Castro made a
strikng picture.
Hank Hinckley, barn boss at camp
367, arrived in town last night.
He will probably be stationed at one
of the camps on the Nenana-Fair
i banks line in the future.
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BOLS IN CONTROL
IN THE UKRAINE;
ALLIES RETIRE
LONDON, Mar. 20.—According
to reports received in this city to
day, the Bolsheviki forces control
virtually all of the Ukraine country.
In the fighting which took place
at Nikolaiev to the northwest of
Odessa today, the Bolsheviki last j
between five and eight thousand'
men.
The fighting is reported to have
been of a very fierce character, the1
troops on both sides, neither asking
nor giving any quarter.
Despite the heavy losses sustained j
by the Bolsheviki, they were able j
to force the French garrison of:
Nikolaiev to retire to Odessa.
SEATTLE, Mar. 20.—Ruth Gar
rision, a Seattle society girl, niece
of W. D. Esary, president of the
Island Transportation company, who
was arrested yesterday on the sus
picion of having adminsitered poison'
to Mrs. Grace Storrs, confessed her(
guilt today. J
She stated that she acted on the!
impulse because she loved Storrs
The girl, who was very calm under j
examination by the police officers, j
shed but a few tears during the
ordeal. She repeatedly said that]
she lofed Storrs and wondered:
whether he still loves her. She ex-j
pressed a wish to see Storrs He is |
now enroute to Seattle from Okan-!
ogan.
Under the questioning of the polite
Miss Garrison preserved a wonderful
calm and told of having bought the
poison on her way to the luncheon,
at which Mrs. Grace Storrs was n.Tj
guest. She said that she mixed the j
poison in the fruit cocktail before ’
Mrs. Storrs arrived.
YANKEES HUNT BOARS
ON GERMAN PRESERVES
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REMAGEN, Germany.—Wild boar
hunting has become a popular spo-i j
among officers of the American'
Army of Occupation in the hills along!
the Rhine in the region of Remagen.
Several hunting parties have been
held and several boars were bagged
bv each party. A number of hunt
ing preserves are owned by wealthy
Germans in the vicinity of Remagen
and it was within these reservations!
that the hunts have been taken by
permission of the owners . The or-;
dinary army rifle was used by the
Americans in the wild boar drives.
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K TEMPERATURE
* As reported by the government
•t observation station, Nenar.a
m -—
< Thursday, March 20
*t Maximum .35 above
*t Minimum .1 above
BONO ISSUE MAY !
BE FLOATED FOR
USE
WASHINGTON, Mar 20.—The
War Finance Corporation, which had
been created during the war to see
that adequate funds were provided
for the proper management and oper
ation of industries, etc., taken over
by the government as a war measure
is now considering the proposition
of floating a bond issue, probably
of two hundred million dollars.
The amount derived from the bond
issue, which will probably be floated
in a few weeks, will be used to pro
vide funds for the operation of the
railroads and to meet the other de
mands of the corporation
This action by the War Finance
Corporation has been renedered nec
essary by the failure of the last
Congress to pass the bills carrying
appropriations for the purpose.
EXPERTS ARRIVE
ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, Mar.
20.—English airmen and meteor
logical experts arrived in this city
today, where they will conduct ob
servations of the air conditions in
connection with the proposed trans
Atlantic flight.
The machine chosen to make the
flight in crossing the Atlantic has
already been received from England.
It is now being thoroughly over
hauled and put into the best possible
condition for the flight.
VILLA FALLS FOR
WRIS1 WHICH FAD
EL PASO, Mex—Mrs. Luz Cor
ral de Villa, wife of Francisco Villa,
says she is neither very rich nor
very poor. A local paper recently;
printed a story that Mrs. Villa, who
is making her home in San An
tonio, Texas, was in destitute cir
cumstances because Villa was unable
to send money to her from Mexico.
In a letter to the paper Mrs. Villa
denied the report and said she was
living in moderate but comfortable
circumstances in San Antonio and
was taking no part in border poli i
cal affairs.
Francisco Villa has joined the
army of wrist watch wearers. When
Jose Haurrieta, his secretary, re
turned to Villas camp after a con
fidential mission to the Villa junta
here, he wore a large, square silver
wrist watch with the initials “F. V.”;
engraved on the back. It was a
present to Villa from an American
friend.
J. B. Brown, piledriver foreman,
arrived in town from camp 367 last
night, the work in which he was
engaged near that camp having been
completed.
FRENCH AND BRITISH
ESTABLISH EMBARGO
WASHINGTON, Mar. 20—France
has imposed an import embargo
along similar lines to the embargo
on imports imposed by the British
recently.
Officals believe that the Allies
have been compelled to take this
action for the purpose of protecting
their own home industries during
the period of reconstruction. The
embargo will probably be lifted as
soon as the industries in both
France and England are again in
running shape, as in normal peace
times.
The plans laid for the industrial
reconstruction of France and Eng
land call for the establishment of a
pool in America, where joint pur
chases will be made by the repre
sentatives of the two nations.
Both England and France are
planning to do without importing
any finished products from the
United States, until such time as
they are enabled to manufacture
them in their own factories. Thev
are. however, planning to obtain
raw materials in large quantity from
the United States.
GENEVA, Mar. 20.—According
to a report received in this city
today, French troops have occupied
the cities of Karlsruhe, in the king
dom of Wurtemburg; and Mann
heim. in the. duchy of Baden.
Spartacan outbreaks which ap
peared to be beyond control of the
German government troops, caused
the French government to take this
action.
HUGE DIRIGIBLES
LONDON, Mar. 20.--The British
government has ordered the con
struction of two enormous dirigibles
Each of these monster airships
will be 800 feet long, will be driven
by power generated by six engines
and will have a lifting capacity of
80 tons.
GRATIS BY SWISS
BERNE.—The Swiss federal mails
have carried gratuitously, during
the war, over 530,000,000 letters.
92,000,000 parcels and 150,000,000
francs in money orders for the
prisoners of war; and 12,500,000
kilograms (2.20 pounds) of bread
destined for the prisoner camps in
Germany and Austria. The postage
on all this matter would have aggre
gated over 63,000,000 francs.
Since January 1, of this year, the
federal authorities have been in
receipt of a small compensation
from Great Britain, France, Ger
many and Austria, amounting to
about 2,500,00 francs, for postal
parcels, but this sum, it is declared,
hardly covers the cost of handling
this traffic.
Four hundred and ninety still
views and 5,600 feet of film for
motion pictures were taken to de
pict scenes on the Anchorage and
Seward divisions of the government
railroad last year by the govern
ment official photographer.
Volney Richmond, superintendent
of the Northern Commercial com
pany. in a telegram to the Fair
bank manager of the company, tells
him : ■ inform Mr. Senefi, whose
son was one of the Sophia victms,
that Captain George Green and other
interested parties say. that they do
not believe that there is any chance
to collect any damages from the
Canadian Pacific R. R. Co., the
owners of the Princess Sophia.
LEROY 10ZIER IS
According to a telephone message
received from Fairbanks this after
noon, Leroy Tozier, the well known
Fairbanks attorney,was married at
Seattle yesterday to Mrs Carol Bell,
formerly of Fairbaks.
Mrs. Bel! left Fairbanks for the
States on one of the early boats of
last season, and has been residing
near Seattle.
Mr. Tozier left Fairbanks only
very recently, going out immediately
after the big fire in Fairbanks, in
w-hich his offices were completely
destroyed.
Both parties to the marriage con
tract are well known in the Tanana
valley, and their many friends will
be glad to hear of the happy event.
CLERK OF COURT ON
FURLOUGH TO STATES
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Clark expect
to leave Fairbanks for the States
on the stage leaving Monday morn
ing
Mr. Clark is the clerk of the court
and is going out on furlough. He
will probably be back in Fairbanks
sometime next summer.
During his absence from Fair
banks, Chief Deputy Clerk Frank
B. Hall will be in charge of the
office of the clerk of the court.
A physical culture club has been
organized at Wrangell and the mem
bers, who are of both sexes, meet
twice a week to go through the
various stunts that go with the or
ganization.