BUY A VICTORY BOND — THERE’S A REASON
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME TWO
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1919
NUMBER 27
BUSINESSMEN ASK FOR EARLY SESSION
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO DEPORT AGITATORS
• WORKERS OF FRANCE STRIKE FOR" LABOR REFORMS
LEAGUE IS NO!
N PARTY QUESTION
AVER SENATORS
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WASHINGTON, May 1.—Several
Progressive Republican senators are
opposed to the Republican confer
ence which is to be called to con
sider the covenant of the League of
Nations, for the purpose of deter
mining the Republican party’s at- j
titude in the matter.
Senators Johnson of California,
Jones of Washington, McNary of
Oregon, and Borah of Idaho, have
declared that the League of Nations i
is not a party question.
BIG RETIREMENT
OF BOL FORCES:
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LONDON, May 1.—According to !
reports received in this city today, J
the Allied forces in North Russia, I
operating along the Murmansk rail-!
road, have forced the Bolsheviki
forces to withdraw along the west
ern bank of Lake Onega for a dis
tance of about thirty miles.
The reports also indicate that the1
Bolshevik army has made a slight
advance northward, in the region
to the south of the city of Arch
angel.
1
, HUNS AND ALLIES
WILL MEET SOON
VERSAILLES,, May 1.—The rep
resentatives of the German govern
ment and those of the Allied gov-!
ernments are to meet at Hotel,
Trianon, around green covered horse
shoe shaped tables, in the prelimin-j
aries necessary ere the final peace!
treaty is signed.
The German delegates, who are
housed in three of the hotels of this i
city, excite but little curiosity.
ball Wat
> FAIRBANKS TO
SELECT TEAM
A ball game has been arranged
and will be played at Fairbanks on
Sunday, between the oldtimers and
a team picked from the players of
the high school and the signal corps.
Among those who will play for
the oldtimers are Johnny Bidwell,
Charles Fowler, lack Buckley, Tom
Carr, George Parks and Ed Durgin.
The game is being played for
the purpose of selecting a team to
represent Fairbanks in the game'
to bd played between Fairbanks \
and Nenana.
Robert E. Bums, who had been1
on a business visit to Fairbanks, re
turned to town last night. He
walked in from the upper town.
NAVAL
NATIONS’ LEAGUE
LONDON, May 1.—At luncheoi
with the king of England today
Secretary of the Navy Daniels dis
cussed informally, the naval need:
of the League of Nations.
King George is said to have ex
pressed his belief that the inter
national naval police force, at thi
disposal of the League of Nations
should be powerful enough to in
stantly dampen the desire of con
quest some nations may hold.
ONCE POWERFUL
OLD WARSHIPS
TO ffi JUNKEC
WASHINGTON, May 1.—The ol.
battleships, Indiana, Massachusett
and Iowa, which, under the com
mand of Rear Admiral Schley am
assisted by the battleship Oregoi
and the armored cruiser Brooklyn
destroyed the Spanish fleet unde
Admiral Cervera, off the Cubai
coast, in 1898, are now to be takei
out of commission and will eithe
be junked or used as target ships
Of this fleet of old warships, th<
Oregon alone is to retain her nam<
and remain in commission.
The names of the three old battle
ships will be reassigned to moderi
superdreadnaughts which will sooi
be launched.
The Indiana, Massachusettes am
Oregon are sister ships and wen
launched in 1893; the two forme
at Philadelphia and the latter a
San Francisco. They are each 341
feet in length, 69-foot beam, 24
foot draft and of 10,288 tons witl
a speed of 17 knots. The Iowa
also launched in Philadelphia ii
1893, is of a different type and i
of 11,340 tons displacement.
Twenty years ago these ship
were considered the most powerfu
in the world.
/HUES RECEIVE
HUN CREDENIIALS
VERSAILLES, May 1. — Th<
American and Allied committee ol
the Inter-Allied Peace Conferenc<
will receive the credentials of th<
German delegats to the peace con
mention today.
FAIRBANKS CITIZENS
CLEAR BURNED ARE/
Reports received from the uppei
town today indicate that the prop
erty owners are now busy clearing
up the burned area on Cushmar
Front and Second streets.
The N. C. company are putting
up new poles to replace the char
red one at the Fairbanks comei
and the Farmers bank corner, anc
a commencemet has been made wit!
the actual costruction of the Litsej
building, where the old Farmer!
banks used to be.
Vsaaaa, Alaska’s laterior Vast Bspot
; CLEVELAND, O., May 1.—In
censed at the sight of a man wear
ing the regulation United States
' army uniform marching in a Social
! ist May Day parade this morning
1 and carrying a red flag, a returned
' soldier knocked the marcher down
and took away the red flag he was
carrying.
This action precipitated a general
fight in which scores of police,
soldiers and civilians mixed indis
criminately with the paraders. Re
inforcements for the soldiers and
police rushed to the scene on hear
ing of the fight.
MUNICH MAY FALL
' 10 GOVT. TROOPS
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, COPENHAGEN, May 1—Accord
, ing to reports received in this city
• today, the German government
i troops, gradually tightening the
i ring around the city of Munich,
• have captured villages forty miles
. northwest of the city.
I
UIILL IvllUUIMUf
MAY BE LOST
! The Malamute Kid, who left Fair
■ banks early last Friday morning
i with a shipment of first class mail
, and a little freight for Nenana,
i has not showed up yet, and it would
i appear to be about time that some
steps were taken to definitely ascer
> i tain the fate of the mail at least.
I j The ice was not any too safe at
; the time he left Fairbanks, and just
| before reaching Chena his sled hap
| pened to leave the trail and break
; through the ice, with the result that |
; the mail and freight and passengers
j he was carrying at the time got a
j soaking. Fortunately for all con-1
; cerned, the place where he broke
j through was shallow,
i Dan Stacey, who arrived in town
ion Monday, reported that he came;
i down as far as “Eat-em-up” Frank’s!
place with him, but took the land
; trail from that point, as the river
trail did" not look good to him.
| When last seen, the Malamute Kid j
! was about a mile below “Eat-em-up” j
I Frank’s place, testing the river ice 1
i with a pole. This was on the morn
i ing of Sunday last.
It was rumored around town to
; day that some of the Malamute
Kid’s dogs had come into town from
! up river and that two men who had
: reached Fairbanks yesterday from
j the neighborhood of “Eat-em-up”
I Frank’s place, reported that they
! had seen nothing of the kid- This
j was reported to Deputy Marshal
, Hagen this .morning by Andy Hoey.
j It will be a week tomorrow that
:the first class mail left Fairbanks
j for Nenana, and efforts may be
{made to locate H.
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BELGIUM KICKS
AT PEACE TERMS,
ALLIES PROPOSE
BRUSSELS, May 1.—The Belgian
papers express great dissatisfaction
at the terms of peace for Belgium
which President Wilson and the
premiers desire to impose on her,
and all of them state positively that
Belgium will not accept those terms.
Belgium wants to be restored to
full political and economic inde
pendence, such as she enjoyed be
fore the war broke out, with full
and complete indemnity for the
damages done.
HELSINFORS, Finland, May 1—
According to a report received in
this city today, as a result of the
recent successes of the Allied
forces in the region of Lake Onega,
in the government of 01onetz, the
Bolsheviki forces are evacuating
Petrograd.
Many people are reported to have
been sent away from the city. The
Bolsheviki are trying to suppress
the news of their evacuation.
MRS. NICELHS
CALLED BY DEATH;
HEART FAILURE
At about two o’clock this after
noon, Mrs. Margart Nicely, who
owns and manages the Nicely
House, on upper “A” street, was
found dead in bed by her son
Willis, who went to call her.
The authorities were notified of'
the sad occurrence and Commis
sioner McDonald, accompanied by
Dr. Mote and Deputy Marshal
Hagen, proceeded to the Nicely
House to investigate matters.
Willis Nicely, tWS deceased wo
man’s son, who recently returned
from service in the army, told
Dr. More that about two years ago,
Dr. McCallum, of Fairbanks, told
his mother that she would pass away
in her sleep some time, and that
she was apparently resinged to her
impending fate. She was, to all
intents and purposes, well and
hearty when she retired to bed last
night.
Dr. More stated this afternoon
that ^death was undoubtedly due to
heart trouble, from which she was
a sufferer. The doctor viewed the
body at about half past two o’clock
this afternoon and stated that shej
had been dead several hours when
he examined the body.
The authorities are satisfied as
to the cause of her death and no
further action is therefore con
sidered necessary.
The funeral arrangements will
probably be made shortly, but just
what they will be cannot be ascer
tained at the present time.
LENIENCY 10 END
TOWARD RADICALS
NEW YORK, May 1—As a direct
result of the recent bomb plots, the
goverment officials have decided to
bring to an end the leniency ex
ercised hitherto in dealing with
anarchists and radicals in this coun
try.
Tentative plans have been made
whereby the haunts of the Reds will
be invaded regularly by officers of
the law, and radicals will probably
be deported to the lands from
where they came without any com
punction.
COMMERCIAL BODY
URGE CONVENING
OF U. SJONGRESS
ST. LOUIS, May 1.—The Cham
ber of Commerce of the United
States, representing half a million
businessmen of, the country, at a
meeting held in this city today
adopted a resolution urging the re
turn of President Wilson and the
early convening of congress, so
that urgent legislation necessary to
safeguard the soeial and business
structure of the country may be
enacted.
The chamber later, decided to
eliminate the reference to the re
turn of President Wilson from the
resolution.
FRANCE IN GRIP
GENERAL STRIKE
PARIS, May 1.—The greater part
of France is practically tied up to
day as the result of labor’s twenty
four hour May Day strike for bet
ter working conditions. No dis
orders of any kind have been re
ported so far, and the strike seems
to be a well conducted one.
Street ears are not running, nor
are taxis, carriages or newspapers
obtainable today. The peace dele
gates were obliged to walk to the
meeting place from their residences
ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL
PRESIDENTS NAMED
WASHINGTON, May 1—William
H. Taft and Charles Evans Hughes
have been elected honorary presi
dents of the Roosevelt Permanent
Memorial National committee.
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•t Minimum . 27 above
•t Forecast: Fair tomorrow
Banana, Whan Bails and Bl-rara Kill
PARIS, May 1.—-In accordance
with the decision arrived at by the
Inter-Allied Peace Conference, all
geenral rights at Kiau Chau and
the Shantung province, are to be
transferred, without reserve, to
Japan.
The conference has also decided
that China gets the sovereignty
over the Shantung province, but
Japan retains Germany's economic
privilege in that region with the
right to establish a settlement at
Tsing Sac, south of Kiau Chau.
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SENI THRU MAIL
i WASHINGTON, May 1.—The
postmaster at Salisbury, North Caro
lina telegraphed to the department
today that a bomb had been re
ceived at that office addressed to
, Senator Overman, and that the
package containing the bomb was
being held pending instructions re
garding its disposal.
Senator Overman is the chairman
of the Special Senate committee,
which is engaged in conducting an
investigation into pro-German and
other radical propaganda.
STILL THEY COME
NEW YORK, May 1.—Thirty-six
bombs have been intercepted in
various cities, according to reports
made by the various postmasters.
It is believed that the senders
intended that the bombs reach the
addresses on May 1, which is ob
served as a holiday by the radical
element.
TWO MORE REMAILED
NEW YORK. May 1—Two bombs,
one of which was addressed to
Senator Smoot and the other to an
unknown addressee were returned
to Gimbal’s store for additional
postage.
They were innocently remailed
Tuesday by the firm’s shipping
clerk.
IMPORTANT BILL
PASSED BT HOUSE
In the House of Representatives
of the territorial legislature the
bill was passed which carries an ap
propriation of $43,000 for the Ag
ricultural College and School of
Mines, recently built near Ester
Siding. It is believed that the bill
will also be passed by the Senate.
The trustees of the Agricultural
College and School of Mines say
that the school will be opened next
fall.
Arthur G. Bell arrived in Nenana
this afternoon from Fairbanks,
where he arrived recently from the
States. He joins the staff of the
Nenana News.