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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL II.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA. ALASKA. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 21, 1919.
NO. 171
SENATE APPROVES BIG RAILROAD ITEM
SENATOR DECLARES UNIONS THREATEN COUNTRY
DEMOCRATS GETTING READY TO ACCEPT COMPROMISE
WILSON WRITES
LETTER IN OLD
10 CONFERENCE
W ASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21.—
The condition of President Wilson
is considerably improved today, so
much so, in fact, that the White
House doctors are permitting him
to receive and consider letters bear
ing on the threatened coal strike,
industrial conference, and treaty
questions. He was also permitted
to dictate a 600-word letter to Sec
retary of the Interior Lane this
afternoon, outlining his views on
the conference situation, in an en
deavor to prevent a break in the
conference over the collective bar
gaining issue. The President signed
the letter with pencil, his hand be
ing quite shaky. He is still in bed.
It is believed that the letter will
not be used by Secretary Lane un
less all other means to hold the
conference together fail.
NEW YORK. Oct. 21.—Forty ves
sels belonging to the International
Merchant Marine, which were tied
up by the longshoremen’s strike, are
being moved by strikebreakers, a
large force of men having been se
cured to work on the docks, under
the protection of troops.
Transport cargoes are being han
dled by soldiers, a force of 500 hav
ing reached the city yesterday to
help relieve the congestion of
freight.
SOUTHERNERS STARTING
CAMPAIGN FOR WOOD
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.. Oct. 21.—
Headquarters have been opened in
this city for the purpose of promot
ing the candidacy of General Leon
ard Wood for president.
DEMOCRATS TALKING
OF COMPROMISE NOW
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21 —
As a result of the refusal of the
Republican members of the senate
to recede from their stand on the
treaty question, with regard to res
ervations, Democratic leaders are
now seriously considering compro
mise plans.
This change of front, on the part
of the Democrats, is the result of
the action of Senator Lodge, who
has issued a call for a meeting of
the senate foreign relations com
mittee tomorrow to consider new
reservations and modifications.
Senator McCumber, of North Da
kota. leader of the mild or conserva
tive wing of the reservationists, has
introduced a number of compromise
reservations which are said to rep
SENATORS VOTE $17,000,000 !
FOR ALASKA RAILROAD WORK
FIRS! 10 ARRIVE
SAX FRANCISCO. Oct. 21.—Avi
ator Smith reached this city today
from Mineola. being: first of the
transcontinental fivers, starting from
the Pacific coast, to complete the
round trip flight. Smith was de
layed somewhat at Buffalo by the
loss of his plane by fire, and com
pleted the flight across country in
the Spatz machine, Spatz having
quit the race.
ALASKA MAKES PORI;
YUKON STILL GOINS'
According to information received
;from the upper Yukon river today,
ithe steamer Alaska is now safe in
port at Whitehorse, where she will
jgo into winter quarters. The boat
'arrived there yesterday, after a
tedious voyage bucking the heavy
Yukon ice.
The steamers Yukon and Wash
. burn, last reported at Dawson, were
at Coffee creek yesterday, with con
ditions favorable for the completion
j of their voyage to Whitehorse.
One of the independent steamers
i of the upper Yukon has been placed
at the service of the A. Y X. com
pany. to assist the two boats up
[stream, but it is not known whether
lor not the offer will be accepted.
FORMER JAP PREMIER
COUNT TERAUCHI DEAD
| TOKIO, Oct. 21.—Field Marshal
[Count Seiki Terauchi, former pre
imier of Japan, died here today.
! resent the efforts of the Republicans
desiring to reach an agreement on
the question of reservations. These
reservations concern the question of
withdrawal from the League of Na
tions, Article X, domestic affairs,
Monroe doctrine. Shantung, and the
inequality of voting strength among
the nations forming the league.
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WASHINGTON, D. C.. Oct. 21 —
The .Jones amendment to the urgent
deficiency bill, providing for the
appropriation of $17,000,000 for the
completion of the Government rail
road in Alaska, was approved by
the upper house of Congress this
morning.
The amendment was attached to
the urgent deficiency bill by the
senate committee on annronriations
ind the entire measure reported for j
jassage late yesterday afternoon, at ■
vhieh time Senator Francis E. War-1
•en. Republican, of Wyoming, chair- j
nan of the committee, announced
hat he would ask for the early!
•onsideration of the bill.
The urgent deficiency bill carries j
ippropriations aggregating $41,000,-!
100, needed immediately to carry j
>n the work of the various depart- j
■nents.
NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—Official?
of the J. P. Morgan company have
announced a proposed loan of two
hundred and fifty million dollars
for the British government, w take
the form of three and ten year
securities. Part of the money will
be used by England to retire out
standing bonds, issued during the
war.
The proposed loan is the biggest
financial project undertaken by Am
erican bankers since the war.
•tUSSIAN WOMEN
ADOPT COSTUME
OF MOTHER EVE
PARIS.— Women in some of the
villages of Southern Russia are
wearing dresses made of leaves ot
grass sewn together with bamboo
fiber, owing to the difficulty in ob
taining cloth, say? Major G. M.
Towse. who is in charge of the Red
Cross activities along the shores of
the Black sea.
“It is an ideal costume for the
summer, when Southern Russia has
a temperature like that of the Gar
den of Eden." said Major Towse,
“but I shiver when I think of what
will happen to those little girls
when the snow begins to fly ”
The Red Cross is expected to dis
tribute a shipment of clothing in
Southern Russia before winter sets
in.
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| MEXICO CITY, Oct. 21—Ger
man bankers of this city are giving !
i financial backing to an enterprise
which proposes the irrigation of a ;
I i>ie tract of land in Sinaloa, upon
jwhich it is expected thousands of
: German immigrants will settle. i
The plan is to bring the Germans
I over as soon as the land can be
made ready for occupancy, and in
volves the expenditure of a large
sum of money.
NEW DIAMOND FIELD
IS FOUND IN AFRICA
AMSTERDAM. — Information has
I reached here that a new African j
diamond field has been discovered
by officers of the British geological
!survey in the Gold Coast. The
'stones are found in shallow quart/
gravel 65 miles northwest of Accra,
capital of the colony. About 600
gems have been found by panning
i during the preliminary operations.
RECOMMEND PENSIONS
FOR BLIND WORKERS
j LONDON'.—Of the 30.000 blind
j persons in England and Wales, only
jSo are beggars, according to the
1 advisory committee of the Welfare
of the Blind. The committee rec
ommends that $3.50 a week be giv
en to all blind persons who are
employed and earning up to $1.23
a week.
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SOLDIERS RELIEVE I
TENSION AT GARY
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Oct. 21.—
Strike Leader Fitzpatrick is au
:hority for the statement that the
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■tee! workers' unions are pleased i
vith the manner in which the fed-'
:ral troops are handlin'; the strike
ituation at Gary. The troops, he
■ays. have relieved the tension there '
ly guaranteeing the strikers the
■ i Sr Ft of free speech, which was de
■lied them by the local authorities.
RIOTS AT BRADOCK
PITTSUBURG, Oct. 21.—Serious
rioting: occurred today in the Brad
Jock steel district, a mob of more 1
than a thousand persons, including!
strikers and their sympathizers, j
.■lashing with the state troops A
lumber on both sides were injured .
before order was restored.
MILITARY 10 FIX
DALE FOR TREATY
PARIS. Oct. 21.—According to j
announcement made here today, the
Allied military authorities will de
cide upon the date for depositing
ratifications of the German treaty,
which will mark the forma! com- ■
mencement of the observance of the j
treaty provisions.
There has been no intimation as;
to what date will be named.
ITeaaaa—The Gateway to McKinley
Matlenal park.
MENACE IN UNIONS,
SENATOR DECLARES
WASHINGTON, P. C-, Oct. 21— i
t'nionism as it is conducted under
ts present leadership is a menace
o the peace and prosperity of the
ration, in the opinion of Senator
loseph S. Frelinghuysen, Republi
can,, of New Jersey, who is now en
raged in conducting an investigation
>f the coal strike situation, as chair
nan of a committee of senators.
In a statement made today, Sen
itor Frelinghuysen attacked union
sm as a new autocracy, tending to
ward Bolshevism, and appealed to
American public opinion to stop the
novement, which, he feared, would
[iring trouble to the Government.
Referring to the threatened strike
jf the coal miners, the senator criti
cised their demands for a five-day
tveek and increased wages, which hej
characterized as inordinate, and said
the granting of such a demand would
decrease the coal production of the
country and increase the cost to the
consumer.
He referred to the steel strike,
the Boston police strike, and th"
New York longshoremen's strike,
and wanted to know where “this
striking frenzy will stop." Unless
it is stopped, he said, a state of
anarchy will be reached in this coun
try worse than German autocracy.
GOVERNORS CALLED'
DES MOINES, la.. Oct. til.—Gov
ernor Harding has telegraphed to
the governors of coal producing
states, urging them to #ttend a
meeting which will be held for the j
purpose of considering the threat
ened coal strike, with a view to ar
bitration.
TO OCCUPY CITY
LONDON, Oct 21.—Wireless ad
vices received from Russia today in
dicate that the Bolsheviki forces de
fending Petrograd will soon be
forced to evacuate. The dispatches
=tate that the city would have been
taken earlier in the week but for
the fact that General Yudenditch
halted his advance seven miles south
of the city, pending the arrival of
reinforcements. The Bolsheviki de
fense grew stronger as the Yuden
ditch army advanced, and it is pre
sumed here that reinforcements
were brought up to make the cap
ture of the city doubly certain.
A report from Amsterdam states
that the chief Bolsheviki representa
tive in Petrograd has withdrawn to
Moscow, accompanied by many men.
MAY FALL TODAY
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 21.—The Am
erican minister is in receipt of a
message from General Yudenditch,
requesting that food supplies be
sent to Petrograd. which he expects
to occupy today.
KRONSTADT HOLDING
LONDON. Oct. 21. -A report re
ceived in this city from Finland
states that Kronstadt, which was re
ported captured by anti-Bolsheviki
forces on Friday, was still in the
hands of the Bolsheviki as late as
Sunday.
GERMANS ESTABLISH
COLONY IN MEXICO
MEXICO CITY.—The territory of
Quintano Roo appears to be the
main objective for German colonists
coming to Mexico, newspapers here
asserting that a eonoly known :i
Santa Maria already has been es
tablished there and will engage
largely in the exportation of ma
hogany and other woods, in which
the country abounds.