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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1919
WHOLE NUMBER 250
SENATORS FIGHT WILSON COLONY PLAN
ALLIED TROOPS WILL BE SENT TO CURB TURKS
BRITISH COMMITTEE SAYS GOLD BONUS PLAN WRONG
WILSON’S PUNS
G. O. P. Senators Sharply Attack
President’s Plan For Dealing
Wtih Hun Colonies.
WASHINGTON, D. Jan. 31.
—President Wilson’s plans for deal
ing with the late German colonies
and occupied Turkish territories,
as outlined in his remarks before
the supreme council of the Inter
Allied peace conference, came in
for a sharp attack by the Republi
cans in the Senate today.
Senatov Henry Cabot Lodge (Re
publican) of Massachussetts, said
that the plan as reported would
commit America to co-operate in
maintaining order in the occupied
territories and thereby create a
state of affairs which was abso
lutely unbelievable.
Senator Philander C. Knox (Re
publican) of Pennsylvania, said
that the proposed obligations which
the United tSates would assume
according to President Wilson’s
plans, would involve the. most stu
pendous and preposterous obliga
tions.
Senators Thomas J. Walsh (Dem
ocrat) of Montana, and James Ham
ilton Lewis (Democrat) of Illinois,
both expressed grave doubts as to
the accuracy of the press reports
regarding the President's plan.
Senator Lewis said that the plan,
as reported by the press, would
violate one of the fundamental
principles laid down by the Presi
dent himself, and which are ac
cepted by the nations as a basis
for the conclusion of a lasting
peace- The senator referred to the
fifth article in America’s peace
terms as laid down by President
Wilson and which is as follows:
“5. A free, %open minded, and
absolutely impartial adjustment of
all colonial claims, based upon a
strict observance of the principle
that in determining all such ques
tions of sovereignty the interests
of the populations concerned must
have equal weight with the equit
able claims of the government
whose title is to be determined.
Sepator Lewis also said that he
believed, that the agreement ar
rived at at the peace conference,
on the President’s plan was only of
a temporary nature.
CHICAGO TANK MEN
HAVE ORGANIZATION
CHARLOTTE, N. C.—The “Tank
Cats", an organization of Chicago
Tank Corps men, was formally
launched at a meeting held recently
at Camp Green, near this city- The
movement to organize members of
the Tank Corps into a permanent
body is expected to spread over the
whole country, as almost every .large
city is represented in its personnel.
Qualification for membership is
based on service in the Tank Corps
during the war:
The purpose of the organization
is to promote and maintain public
interest in the tanks as an arm of
the service and to form a bond
between its members by means of
social and fraternal societies.
Similar meetings have been called
of men representing the cities of
New York, Philadelphia, Boston,
San Francisco and others. When all
these separate chapters have been
perfected it is planned to call a
general meeting of delegates from
each for the purpose of forming a
national organization.
DYE FACTORY IS
BADLY WRECKED
(Associated Press)
NYACK, N. Y-, Jan. 31.—As the
result of an explosion which took
place today, the plant of the Ani
line Products company was com
pletely wrecked and several build
ings adjoining were badly damaged.
Three of the workers of the Ani
line factory are missing, and
twenty of them have been injured,
more or less badly, by the ex
plosion; the cause of which is un
known at present.
ARGENTINA WILE
SUPPRESS REVOLT
(Associated Press)
P.UENNOS AIRES, Jan 31.—
Argentine troops, advancing against
the revolutionists, have now reach
ed the Rio Gallegos.
They will proceed inland, from
this point, against the Maximillists.
ALLIES PLAN TO
GARRISON TURKEY
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Reports of Fresh Outrages Against
Armenians Urge Allies to
Protective Measures.
(Associated I’ressl
PARIS, Jan. 31.—The military
representatives of the Allied na
tions, at the supreme council of the
peace conference are making pre
parations for the distribution of
troops throughout Turkey.
These measures are being taken
as a result of the receipt of re
l ports from Turkey recently, which
| indicate that there has been a
recurrence of maladministration
of the Armenians and other sub
jects races.
American troops will be sent
only if it is deemed absolutely
necessary.
The feeblest children come from
parents younger than 20 years of
age; the strongest children from
parents between 25 and 40; after
40, the children are 10 per cent
| weaker. The time for a mother to
j have the healthiest children is be
tween 25 and 35.
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FUNDAMENTALLY
GOLD
(Associated Press >
LONDON, Jan. 31.—Lord Inch
cape, Sir Thomas Elliot amt Sir
Charles Addis, members of the
British Gold Production committee,
have submitted their report on the
question of the gold subsidy.
The report states that the sub
sidy for cold production appears
to be unsound fundamentally. De
jcreaseed labor efficiency caused by
the war is stated to be responsible
| for the much decreased cold pro
duction.
The return of normal conditions
will, it is believed, adjust the
1 matter.
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i Reduction in the Number of Capital
! Ships Is Mad~ in the Naval
Estimates.
(Assnrtii t<-d l»roKK)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. III.
'-—The House Naval committee has
i unanimously approved the three
: year naval building program,
i The number of capital ships
(battleships and battle cruisers)
which the original estimates called
for, have been reduced from six
teen to ten.
The reduction made in the num
ber of this class of ships is due
to the differences of opinion of
the experts over the value of battle
| cruisers.
The armament of battleships and
! battle cruisers are practically the
same. In some cases the battle
| cruisers are more heavily armed;
of ships being that the battle
cruiser has a much greater speed
and a wider radius of action, a
sacrifice in the armor being made
for the gain in speed. The battle
ships are heavier in armor and
slower in speed.
EDITOR IN BAD
MEXICO ‘ CITY—The membership
committee of the Chamber of Depu
| ties has refused to accept the cre
Identials of Rafael Alducin, editor
iof Excelsior, a leading pro-Ally
j paper of the capital, who was
i thought to have been elected to the
| twenty-eighth congress from the
federal district.
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MANY NATIVE SCHOOLS
MAINTAINED IN NORTH
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NOME.—Sixty-eight schools for
natives are maintained in Alaska by
the United States Alaska Bureau of
Education, according to The Eskimo,
a native school paper issued here
jThe total enrollment is 3666.
Samuel Flower, aged 43 years,
employed by the Alaska Copper
Corporation at Strelna, was acci
dently killed on January 8. Ac
cording to Superintendent McLeod,
Flower went back too soon after
ROSS GOVERNMENT
REFUSES TO MEET
Formal Motif'cation Is Received
By Conference That Meeting
Is Not Possible.
Associated Press
PARIS, Jan. 31.—The North
Russian government has formally
I notified the peace conference of
their refusal to meet the Bolshe
viki representatives at the confer
ence proposed by the peace con
gress. They, however, have no ob
jections to offer to such a confer
ence if the Bolsheviki are not rep
i resented.
The Omsk Russian government
' expresses a strong reverse to the
invitation from the Allies, although
they .ire less categoric in their
| reply.
The Russian Soviet government
have maintained a silence so far, as
I no reply has been received from
jthem yet.
m GOODWIN IS
CALLED BY DEATH
i
M»ch Married Actor Dead At His
Home In New Yo'-k At the
Age of Sixty-One.
(Assoolal -d l*Z'cxs>
NEW YORK, Jan. 31.—Nat
.Goodwin, the famous actor, died at
his home today at the acre of sixty
one years.
The cause of death was a genera]
breakdown in health, which he suff
ered following an operation per
formed on him several months ago.
for the removal of an eye.
The late Nat Goodwin was a
familiar stage figure for many
years, and will be missed by the
majority of theater-goers. He was
' married no less than five times,
and had planned to take a sixth
wife, Georgia Gardner of Gas An
geles, soon.
JAPS SHOULD PATTERN
i AFTER UNITED STATES
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TOKIO.— If Japan desires to be
come industrially strong she should
shape her future policy in accord
ance with that of the United States
declares E. Uehara, a former mem
ber of parliament, in an article in
a Japanese magazine. Mr. Uehara
attempts to explode the theory that
Japan must acquire territory in
order to develop herself from an
[ industrial standpoint. Instead, he
jproposes industrial co-operation with
“■ the United States,
i “I have no doubt,” he writes,
“that the conclusion of peace will
find the United tSates in a position
to lead the world in the matter of
thought as well as in economics. It
, would therefore be the height of
, unwisdom for Japan to shape her
I future policy otherwise than in ae
| cordance with the policy of the
United States. Not only the Pa
| cific question but almost all of
1 Japan’s international questions such
] ar those regardirv China, Rnss:a,
[Canada, Australia, South America,
and India are impossible of solution
without the support of the United
States.”
CONTRACT RENEWED
TOKIO—Represetatives of Japan
ese ship owners have agreed to com
ply with an American request for
j the renewal of the contract for
| the chartering of 150,000 ton> of
j shipping secured in Japan last year
for war work.
FOR ESTIMATES
NOW ARRANGED
(Associated l*ress)
WASHINGTON, I>. (’., Jan. 31.
I
The House Military committee
| has decided upon an army of half a
million men as a basis for deter
mining the pay of the army for the
j year beginning next July.
| NAVAL HANGARS
Associated Pivsh
j NEW YORK, Jan. 31. Two
| hangars, each containing six aero
I planes, were destroyed by fire to
I day at the naval station at Roek
Iaway point.
Eight other hangars in close
I proximity to those destroyed were
| seriously’ threatened at the same
time, but by dint of hard work
on the part of the fire fighters,
they were saved.
j The aeroplanes which were in
j the threatened hangars, were re
| moved to a safe place when the
fire first broke out.
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MANY INJURED
! CLYDE S1RIKE
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Associated Press
! GLASGOW, Jan. 31.-—Demon
j strations made by the shipyards
workers on the Clyde necessitated
' action by the police and when they
! charged the crowd today, several
of the strikers were injured,
j The crowd became too large for
the police to handle and in con
to be called out. Many arrests
have been made.
SWEDES MAKE PROTEST
AGAINST HUN PAPERS
! STOCKHOLM.—Several import
i ant Swedish industrial organizations
| have published a protest in dis
approval of unneutral publications
] here such as the Aftonbladet’s re
peated articles denouncing the En
tente, America and President Wil
son. The protest is signed by the
I Swedish Industrial Association, Ex
port Association, Stockholm Cham
i ber of Commerce, Bankers’ Club and
I several associations of manufactur
ers of paper, iron, chemicals and
; electrical apparatus.
I —Tha Oatowtjr to KcXlnl*;
1 Xtttoul rut
US!
Wilson Speaks Plainly and Frankly
to Council Reifardin^ German
Colonies.
Associated Press
PARIS, Jan. 31.—in the di
cussions regarding the final dis
position of the late German col
onies, in the Inter-Allied peace eon
ference, the crisis was reached to
day, and would appear to have been
passed momentarily, at least.
President Wilson took a firm
stand in the views he had already
expressed in regard to the disposi
tion of the colonies, anil it is too
early to state definitely whether his
views, in their entirety, prevailed
It is believed that a compromise has
been accepted by the powers i >t\
cerned.
; The reports of the discussions on
this subject which took place last
Wednesday, indicate that President
■ Wilson told the supreme council
in conclave assembled, frankly,
plainly and in unmistakcnble lan
guage, that the United States would
not he a party to the division of
Germany's colonial possessions,
among the powers who are now
holding them; and then become a
party to the league of nations, which
in effect, would guarantee their
title.
It is inferreii that President Wil
son, in the course of his remarks,
before the supreme council, re
fered to the German colonies as
loot.
ASSAYER BERAUD IS
TELLING ’EM ABOUT IT
CORDOVA—G. K. Beraud, of
Fairbanks, now on his way to Paris,
: is believed to hold the distinction
'of having individually handled more
, raw gold than any other in the his
: tory of Alaska- During the eleven
| years he has spent in work as assay
I or for the First National Bank of
; Fairbanks, Beraud has assayed $45,
1000,000 worth of the precious yel -
low metal for which men have yield
i ed up their lives in the silent places.
The aggregate weight of this metal
was 88 tons. After a visit to Paris,
he says, he will come back to work
in the gold dust once more.
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KNITTING CLUB MET AT
MRS NOVIN SMITH’S
The Nenana Kn’ttin? club held a
: very successful meeting yesterday
i afternoon at. the home of Mrs.
Norvin Smith, . on the Commission
i reserve, and did much knitting in
aid of the good cause.
I Dainty refreshments were served
by the hostees during the course
of the meeting which came to an
end about five o’clock.
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Charles M. Preston, chief elec
trician for the Treadwell and Alas
ka-Juneau Gold Mining Companies,
, was killed recently while doing re
pair work in the power plant. He
was doing some work in the upper
i part of the plant' and his ankle
I came in contact with a switch, 2300
| volts passing through his body. He
| lived some time after the accident.