WHERE, RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. III.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1920.
NO. 29
WORKERS DEMAND INCREASED WAGES
DANIELS NAMES COMMISSION TO DEVELOP COAL
, SUPREME COURT RECESSES WITHOUT LIQUOR DECISION
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TACOMA, May 4.—Six baseball
clubs, representing Tacoma, Spo
kane, Seattle, Yakima, Victoria, and
Vancouver, B. 0., will start tomor
row in the 1020 season of the new
Pacific International league.
Opening games will be played as
follows: Yakima at Spokane, Vic
toria at Tacoma, Seattle at Van
couver.
Seattle and Yakima will play their
first games at home during the week 1
beginning May 10 with Spokane and
Victoria opposing, respectively. The
first game at Victoria has been set
for May 17, against Vancouver. I
4 Victoria’s new park will be com-.
pleted then, it is believed.
No Sunday games will be played
in the Canadian cities of Victoria
and Vancouver, according to present
plans. The Sunday games sched
uled for the Northern teams will be
transferred across the international I
boundary.
Eighteen weeks of baseball are
planned. The last game will be
played September 6.
GLASGOW, May 4.—The estab
lishment of a co-operative republic
is demanded in resolutions adopted
at a monster mass meeting held in
this city yesterday, the attendance
at the meeting being estimated at
more than 40,000.
The resolutions also contain a j
greeting to the Russian soviet.
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SEVERAL STRIKES ORDERED
THROUGHOUT NATION TODAY
TO RESUME POSTS
CHICAGO, May 4.—John Grunau,
president of the Chicago Yardmen's
association, is authority for the
statement that the 19,000 switch
men who went out on strike in
sympathy with the yardmen are now
ready to return to their places if
the companies will agree to restore
seniority rights to the strikers. Oth
erwise, they will remain out indefi
nitely.
Twenty of the 42 defendants who
were indicted on the charge of con
spiracy in connection with the strike
have quit railroading and are now
engaged in other work.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 4 —
Postmasrter General Burleson has
submitted a report to Congress in
which he shows that the operation
of the telegraph and telephone sys
tems of the country under Govern
ment supervision during the war
resulted in a deficit of $14,005,565.
The report is accompanied by a
request for an immediate appropria
tion sufficient to cover the losses.
COMPANIES FINED
6Y OREGON COURT
PORTLAND, Ore., May -i._Fed
eral Judge Bean has fined the North
west Steel company and the Colum
bia River Shipbulding company the
sum of $2,500 each, and ordered
the arrest of J. R. Bowles and Al
fred Smith, heads of the two com
panies, who are charged with cop
tempt of court.
The action of the court is the re
sult of the refusal of the company
officials to produce their books for
a federal grand jury investigation.
WILSON SIGNS BILL
INCREASING PENSIONS
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 4.—
President Wilson has attached his
signature to the bill increasing the
pensions of Civil war veterans, their
widows and dependents.
UTAH REPUBLICANS
ARE UNINSTRUCTED
PRICE, Utah, May 4.—-The Re
publican state convention has named
eight delegates to the Chicago con
vention, including two women. Tho
delegates are uninstructed.
CHICAGO, May 4. — Fourteen
thousand lumber mill workers went
out on strike today, following a re
ifusal of the lumber barons to grant
an increase in wages. The men are
demanding an increase from 85
cents an hour to $1.10.
MINNESOTA TIED UP.
ST. PAUL, May 4.—Practically
every lumber mill in Northern Min
nesota is idle today as the result of
a sttike among the lumber mill op
j eratives and timber workers, who
jare demanding an eight-hour day.
LABORERS STRIKE.
| BUTTE, May 4.—The Workmen’s
{Union of Laborers has voted to call
ja strike in an efFort to enforce a
■demand for a dollar a day increase
i in wages. The men have refused an
offer of an increase of 50 cents.
WEAVERS QUIT.
NEW BEDFORD. Mass., May 4.
—Twenty thousand cloth mill work
ers are on strike in this district, I
the walkout being in the nature of i
a protest against a new rule requir- !
ing mill workers to operate more
looms than formerly, without addi
tional pay.
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RAILROADS REFUSE.
CHICAGO. May 4—Railroad offi
cials announced this afternoon that
they would not agree to the propo
sition of the striking swtchmen to
restore seniority to the strikers. It
is admitted that there 19,000 switch
men still out.
SECRETARY DANIELS
WILL DEVELOP COAL
SEATTLE, May 4.—The Wash
ington correspondent of the Seattle
| Post-Intelligencer reports today that
: Secretary of the Navy Daniels, in
i anticipation of the early passage by
.Congress of the naval appropriation
bill, with a mollion-dollar item for
ithe development of naval coal in the
Matanuska field, has appointed a
i commission of five, with instructions
to leave for Alaska at an early date
to begin preparations for large-scale
development.
MUST HAVE COAL.
The correspondent wires that Sec
retary of the Interior John Barton
Payne is quoted as saying that coal
must be developed and that Alaska
is a potential source of fuel for the
fighting ships of the nation.
I
LOSES ON APPEAL
I SAN' FRANCISCO, May 4.—'The
: United States court of appeals hand
led down a decision today in which i:
i i
’ the Marconi company is denied the]
■right to collect the sum of $3,000,- j
] 000 in damages from the Kilbourne j
i
& Clark company of Seattle.
I The action instituted by the Mar-1
coni people was based on alleged I
, patent infringements. ,
VANDERVEER GUILTY
OF VIOLATING RULES
VANCOUVER, Wash., May 4.—A
, jury in the superior court has found
; George F. Vanderveer, I. W. W. at
; torney, guilty of violating the law
] prohibiting persons from talking
1 with prisoners in jail without per
mission.
MAJOR TEAM BREAKS
LONG GAME RECORD
i BOSTON, May 4. — All major
! league records for long games were
i broken here on Saturday when the
; Boton and Brooklyn Nationals play
- ed 26 innings, darkness finally end
jing the game with the score 1 to 1.
Cadore and Oeschger pitched thru
] the game and the playing of both
| teams was brilliant thruout.
| Kenans, Where Bails and Blears Meet
PUBLISHERS GIVE
VIEWS 10 S0L0NS
WASHINGTON', D. C., May 4.—
[n a statement made before the
;enate newsprint investigating com
nittee today, Publisher Frank Mun
■ey made the prediction that the
United States would soon witness
:he introduction of five and ten-eent
lailies as a result of the increased
ost of publication.
William Randolph Hearst, who
clso appeared before the committee,
idvocated a general reduction in
he size of big dailies as a means
>f reducing the consumption of
tewsprint. He called attention to
:he fact that his own reductions had
tot affected his revenues.
PRINCETON OARSMEN
BEAT HARVARD EIGHT
CAMBRIDGGE, May 4. — The
Princeton eight defeated Harvard
yesterday in the Pennsylvania Henly
regatta.
\BERDEEN IS GROWING,
ACCORDING TO CENSUS
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 3.—
Census returns made public today
ihow the population of Aberdeen.
Washington, to be 15,337, a gain of
12 percent.
Wtnaaa, tv« »atawar to MeXlnlaj
WaMoaal tut.
PAYNE FEARS OIL
SHORTAGE COMING
WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 4.—
Secretary of the Interior John Bar
ton Payne has issued a public state
ment in which he points out the
great need of conserving the oil
supply of the nation and urges the
more general use of coal as fuel.
It is also urged by the secretary
that all merchant marine and naval
vessels be designed to burn coal in
case the supply of oil should ne
cessitate its elimination as fuel in
the near future.
LAWMAKER CLAIMS
PROHIBITION DEAR
WASHINGTON, D. May 4.—
In a speech made on the floor of
the lower house of Congress this
afternoon, Representative Gillivan,
Democrat, of Massachusetts, de
clared that prohibition will cost the
Government fully $80,000,000 an
nually, and, in his opinion, it will
be impossible to keep the question
out of politics and the attempt to
enforce the dry law will result in
wholesale grafting in every section
of the country.
JOHNSON DEFEATED
IN MARYLAND VOTE
BALTIMORE, Md„ May 4.—Gen
eral Wood defeated Senator John
i-on, two to one, in the state pri
maries held in this state yesterday.
The vote, was a very light one. The
Democratic delegates will go to the
San Francisco convention uninstruct
ed.
ROOSEVELT COINAGE
APPROVED BY SENATE
WASHINGTON, D. C., May L—
The senate has given its approval
to the measure authorizing the mint
ing of Roosevelt two-cent coins.
PHONE SUBSBCRIBERS
PAY TAX IN BERLIN
BERLIN. — The German govern
ment hopes to raise 1,000,000,000
marks by unusual levy on telephone
subscribers. It is announced that
they will be assessed a special one
time tax of 1,000 marks, which will
bear interest and be returned when
the subscription is canceled. Charges
for the use of telephones will be
more than doubled and postage rates
increased 100 percent. Telegraph
rates will be heavily advanced.
SUPREME COURT
SUSPENDS WORK;
WASHINGTON, I). 0 , May 4.—
The United States supreme court
recessed yesterday until May 17,
without reaching a decision relative
to the constitutionality of the pro
hibition amendment or the Volstead
enforcement act.
One of the decisions rendered by
the court before recessing was a
jdenial of the Government's request
for a rehearing of the anti-trust
jsuit against the United States Steel
corporation.
i Three attacks have been made on
the prohibition law and the enforce
I ment act. The state of Kentucky
■questions the method by which the
prohibition amendment was ratified.
and the complaint also claims that
j
the Volstead act is unconstitutional
land unenforceable.
t
j The state of Massochusetts, in its
■complaint, asserts that, under the
i
I eighteenth amendment, each state
must have an enforcement act ex
. actly like the national law. In oth
er words, the Volstead act must be
adopted by every state or Congress
must amend it to correspond with
the state laws.
Rhode Island questions the consti
tutionality of the Volstead act.
HUT ESCORTS
COURT PARTY TO
GRAVE OF WIFE
LOS ANGELES, May 4. For the
t purpose of substantiating his con
fession of murder, made to the local
authorities several days ago, James
K. Huirt, alias Walter Andrew Wat
son. alleged murdered and polyga
mist, was taken to Imperial valley
today by several deputies and there
pointed out the trrave of Nina Lee
Deloney, one of the murdered wives
for whom the authorities have been
searching. Huirt told the officers
that he had killed the Deloney
I woman with a hammer and then
i buried her where she had fallen.
The trrave is near Dixieland.
The authorities have discovered
two more possible victims of Huirt,
making a total of more than thirty
^ wives possessed by the confessed
murderer, who now claims that he
is insane and should be pitied. H<*
has told the officers a long hard
luck story of his life, and admits
the killing; of live wives, but says he
'cannot remember all the occasions
or the details.
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MORSE IS INDICTED BY
FEDERAL GRAND JURORS
NEW YORK, May 4.---Charles W.
Morse has been indinted by the fed
eral grand jury on the charge of
violating the shipping board act
which prohibits the sale of Ameri
can registered vessels to foreigners.