WHERE, RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. 111.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 12, 1920.
NO. 82
NOT QUESTION OF “WHETHER” BUT “HOW”
SECRETARIES LEAVE SEATTLE ON ALASKA TOUR
POLISH ARMIES UNABLE TO CHECK BOLSHEVIK! DRIVE
LONDON, July 12.—ThS^ Polish
armies are making heroic efforts to
stem the Bolsheviki advance along
the Southern front, having launched
an offensive near Rovno as a final
counter movement against the Rus
sian army of invasion. An official
report from Moscow states that far
ther south the Soviet forces are con
tinuing their successful drive.
VICTORIES FOR POLES
WARSAW, July 12. — Victories
for the Polish forces in the Pripet
region and near Volhynia are re
ported in advices received here late
today. The reports state that Bu
denny, the Bolshevik cavalry leader,
has been defeated and is now flee
ing to Rovno. The Polish victories
are described as complete, with the
capture of enormous quantir:«s of
supplies and many prisoners.
MAY QUIT WARSAW.
LONDON, July 12.—It is report
ed from Berlin that it is the in
tention of Poland to move the seat
of government from Warsaw to a
place of greater security.
POLAND’S POSITION.
WARSAW, July 12—The Polish
foreign office announces that the
Polish government has informed the
Spa conference that Poland, now,
as before and always, is willing to
make peace based upon the principle
of the self-determination of nations.
OREGON AUTO WRECK
CAUSE OF INJURIES
PORTLAND, July 12. — R. B.
Brown* wealthy Seattle lumberman,
was gravely injured, and several
others severely hurt yesterday when
an automobile stage, enroute to
Hillsboro, crashed down an embank
ment a distance of 70 feet, on Ter
williger boulevard.
Mr. and Mrs. Perkins arrived in
Fairbanks on an auto stage on Sat
urday. They are strangers in the
Interior.
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NEW PARTY LEADERS TRYING
TO HOLD FACTIONS IN LINE
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WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 12.—
J. F. Townsend, who represents
■ more than a score of steel manu
facturers, informed the interstate
commerce commission today that
many steel plants may find it neces
sary to suspend operations because
! of the shortage of cars to handle
material. Should such action be
come necessary, he warned, thou
sands of workers would be thrown
out of employment.
BIG BUSINESS
NEW YORK, July 12.—Unfilled
orders of the United States Steel
corporation for the month ended
June 30 total almost eleven million
tons, according to a statement is
| sued today. This is the biggest
i showing since July, 1917.
STEAMSHIP WRECKED;
THREE ARE MISSING
NEW YORK, July 12. — The
steamship Lake Frampton, a freight
er owned by the United States Ship
ping board, bound from New York
to Norfolk, was sent to the bottom
yesterday as the result of a col
'lision with the steamship Comus, off
Atlantic City.
Three members of the crew of
the Frampton are missing and it is
feared that they have lost their
lives. The remainder of the crew
were rescued by the Comus.
Engineer in Charge Fred’k D.
Browne, Mrs. Browne and Dorwin
Browne, who arrived from the end
of steel Saturday evening, will go
to Fairbanks on tomorrow’s train.
I Dorwin will leave the upper town
ifor the States on Thursday, to enter
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j school. He is going out over the
trail.
Russell Bellerby came down from
I Fairbanks today on the speeder to
| bid farewell to his parents. He ex
I pects to leave Fairbanks for the
States on Thursday to begin his
studies at Annapolis. He will go
out by way of the Richardson trail.
Andrew Nerland, Fairbanks mem
ber of the firm of Anderson Bros.
& Nerland, arrived in Nenana yes
terday on the steamer Tanana and
returned to the upper town this
afternoon on the speeder.
The body of George M. Arbuckle,
deceased Iditarod publisher, is -to
be shipped to the States for burial.
He died early this summer.
J CHICAGO, July 12.—In present
ing the first report of the confer
ence committee this morning, Chair
man Arthur A. Hayes informed the
committee of forty-eight that the
formation of a third party is no
longer a question of “whether,'’ but
“how.” It is generally agreed
among the various elements, he said,
that a new party is necessary, but
the difficulty seems to be to arrive
at a plan of organization satisfac
tory to those interested in the move
ment.
The discussion is continuing, he
said, between representatives of the
commttee of forty-eight, the Na
tional Labor party, the Xon-Par
tisan league, World War Veterans,
American Constitutional committee,
Single Tax party, and the rank and
file of Veterans, and the assurance
is given in the report that all the
groups mentioned have signified a I
willingness to join in one big con-!
vention, to be held just as soon as j
an agreement can be reached on
the plan of procedure.
The chairman says that it will
take a lot of work to harmonize
the various groups, but he believes
it can be done and that the new
•party, when finally formed, will have
sufficient strength to sweep all op
position aside.
SPA, July 12.—It seems probable
I today that it will be necessary to
prolong the conference between the
i Allies and the Germans because of
.the inability of the conferees to1
■reach an agreement on the question
| of coal deliveries and on the repara
tion plan in general. The German
! delegates have offered vigorous ob
jection to a number of suggestions1
made by the Allies and there ap
pears to be little prospect of an
1 early agreement.
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LEAGUE ASSEMBLY TO
MEET NEXT NOVEMBER
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 12.— j
The state department has announc
ed that the first meeting of the
assembly of the League of Nations,
called by President Wilson, will be
held on November 15.
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LOCAL POST TO MEET
ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT |
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, A call has been issued for a meet-;
jing of Harold Anderson post of the
American Legion, the gathering to
Itake place on Wednesday evening in
the Union building. The meetings
'of the post were'interrupted by the
j recent flu epidemic, and the loss of ,
i the chief officer of the post will ne
cessitate an early election, perhaps
1
ia general reorganization. Steps are
I also to be taken immediately to get^
(a charter.
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! The machinery belonging to the
i Fairbanks Citizen plant, which was
j wrecked by fire some time ago, was j
! shipped to the States on the steamer!
jTanana and will be disposed of thru
| a Seattle second-hand goods dealer.
jThe shipment included two typeset
1 ting machines, two cylinder presses,
two job presses, all badly‘damaged,
an'd one cylinder press in fair con
dition.
First class mail, which reached
Fairbanks Saturday evening, was
sent to Nenana yesterday on the
steamer Tanana, arriving here dur
ing the morning.
CROP OUTLOOK IS
VERY PROMISING
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 12.—
The crop report for the month of
July, which has just been issued by
the department of agriculture, shows
an increase of 28 million bushels in
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the country’s wheat crop, as com
pared with last month, with a total
forecast of 909 million bushels for
the season.
The report also predicts a corn
crop larger than that of last year,
and larger crops of oats, barley,
flax, potatoes, tobacco, and rice.
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SENATOR NEW TO HEAD
REPUBLICAN SPEAKERS
CHICAGO, July 12. — Senator
Harry S. New has been selected as
head of the Republican speakers'
bureau, according to announcement
made at Republican headquarters
today.
HEAD OF CLIFF MINE
SAYS WORK TO START
—
Writing from Seattle to friends in
Valdez, Superintendent Mudgett of
the Cliff Gold Mining company states
that he will return to Valdez some-,
time this month and will start workj
in earnest on the property,
j The 300-foot level will be pumped
out and bulkheaded, and the tunnel i
on the east vein extended. The ma
chinery has been placed in good
shape and it is believed that some
50 men will be placed at work be
fore the middle of August.
The company is meeting with
great success in financing the propo
jsition and has ample funds to carry
(the work on.
COMMITTEE TO MEET
TO CLEAN UP BILLS
The various committees in charge
of Nenana’s Fourth of July celebra
tion will hold a meeting tonight for
the purpose of winding up the af
fairs of the celebration, and all
persons having bills against the com
;mittee are requested to present the
accounts to Chairman Thomas J.
McCrosky before the meetng.
TRAIL TOO SOFT
TO MOVE OUTFIT;
DELAY RESULTS
Through failure of the Alaska
and territorial road commissions to
consent to the expenditure of funds
for the repair of the only road in
the Kantishna district, the com
mencement of large-scale hydraulic
operations on moose creek, which
were to have been undertaken this
summer by Dr. J. A. Sutherland.
Sylvester Howell and others, have
been delayed practically an entire
season. Dr. Sutherland, who went
to Roosevelt by launch several weeks
ago, accompanied by Mrs. Suther
land, returned to Xenana on Satur
day, and reports that it was neces
sary to cache the supplies ar.d
equipment at Roosevelt, where they
will be left until cold weather
makes the trail sufficiently hard to
permit of freighting.
The George Black steamer, upon
which the supplies were shipped to
Roosevelt, also returned Saturday,
and left yesterday for Fairbanks.
HAS SEVERE LOSS
i WILLOWS, Cal., July 12.—Prop
erty valued at a million dollars was
destroyed in this city fire yesterday.
. the flames sweeping the district op
posite the Southern Pacific station.
:The heaviest losers were Colonel
Hockheimer, owner of a large de
partment store, and Mrs. I’. G.
Crawford, part owner with Hock
heimer in the Hockheimer hotel.
Both structures were completely de
stroyed..
i Tom McKinnon, who came down
from Fairbanks last week in his
launch, left for the Tolovana this
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morning. He expects to be gone
from Nenana about a week. Little
George Bergman went along as
: pilot.
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| P. A. Duffy, an oldtimer of the
Iditarod district, died there during
the early part of June.
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TEMPERATURE *
As reported by the government R
observation station, Nenana *
Sunday, July 11. £
Maximum .69 above •*
Minimum .53 above **
Monday, July 12. ^
Maximum .67 above It
Minimum .49 above *
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SECRETARIES ARE
ON WAV IIP COAST
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SEATTLE, July KL—The fleet of
destroyers on which Secretaries
Payne and Daniels, Governor Kiggs,
Alfred H. Brooks and others are
making the voyage to Alaska, sailed
from this city shortly after seven
o'clock Saturday evening, and the
vessels were scheduled to reach
Ketchikan at eight this morning.
After a brief stop at the “first city,"
they will proceed through Wrangell
Inarrows, reaching Juneau Tuesday
morning, beyond which the plans of
the party are not known here.
A radio from the destroyer Sin
clair. on which Secretary Payne is
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1 making the voyage, states that he
j is busy going over Alaskan reports
land discussing problems in connec
tion with the development of the
J coal fields and the completion of the
Government railroad,
j Both Secretary Payne and Secre
tary Daniels were greatly impressed
| with the exhibit of Alaskan re
sources which had been prepared for
•them by the Alaska bureau of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
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CANADIAN RAILROADS
| MAY INCREASE RATES
I OTTAWA. July 12.—The Cumuli
■ an Railway association, represent
ing: all lines in Canada, has made
(application to the railway commis
sion, seeking; permission to boost
! freight rates SO percent.
(census report shows
NOME HAS LOST SOME
; SEATTLE, July 12.—The bureau
•of education has announced that the
;present population of Nome is Xo4,
|a decrease of about 1,046, or 67
j percent. The Eskimo population of
iNome is given as 2d.‘5.
A number of the tourists who are
Jenroute up river on the steamer
i Yukon have arranged to return to
ithe coast by auto from Fairbanks.
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SHORT NOTICE
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