WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. III.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1920
NO. 130
GIRLS POTLATCH TO CAMPAIGN FUND
ITALIAN QUAKES CAUSE DEATH OF THOUSANDS
PEACE DELEGATIONS WILL RESUME CONFAB AT RIGA
WARSAW, Sept. 11.—The Polish
war office is authority for the state
ment that the Polish armies on the
Northeastern front have delivered a
series of successful attacks against
the Russians and have taken 3,400
prisoners during the past several
days. The Poles are reported to
have also captured four large guns
and two armored trains.
The Poles also are credited with
successes south of Brest Litovsk,
where they have crossed to the east
ern bank of the River Bug, where
they have crushed the enemy. Se
vere fighting is reported from the
Lemberg sector.
TO MEET AT RIGA.
WARSAW, Sept. 11.—It is an
nounced that Letvia has given the
required guarantees to the Russian
soviet government and the Bolshe
vik peace delegation is now enroute
to Riga to meet the Poles for a fur
ther consideration of peace terms.
The Polish delegation has been au
thorized to leave for Riga on Mon
day.
LITHUANIANS READY.
BERLIN', Sept. 11.—Advices re
ceived in this city from Kovno state
that the Lithuanians will defend
themselves with all the means at J
their disposal against the invasion of
Polish troops to prevent a further
violation of Lithuanian territory. It
is claimed that the Poles attacked
the Lithuanians while boundary ne
gotiations were pending.
ENGLISH PAPER GETS
LONDON, Sept. 11.—The Herald.
English labor organ, admits having
received £75,000, Bolsheviki gold,
and says the money is being held
pending a decision of the sharehold- j
ers of the publication as to whether
or not the money shall be used.
The paper refers to the soviet as
a “magnificent demonstration of real
working class solidarity, and of what
the Russians mean by international
ism.”
RIVERSIDE IS SCENE
OF ALARMING QUAKES
RIVERSIDE, Cal., Sept, n.—
This city was rocked by a violent
earthquake yesterday afternoon, fol
lowed by several less severe shocks,
the disturbances causing great alarm
but very little damage.
COX REACHES SPOKANE;
TALKS CAMPAIGN QUIZ
SPOKANE, Sept. 11.—Governor
Cox arrived here yesterday and de
livered his first Washington cam
paign speech at a voters’ depot meet
ing, which was largely attended.
The governor devoted much atten
tion to the campaign investigation
now in progress in Chicago and re
ferred particularly to the denials
SENATE INVESTIGATORS GET
INSIDE DOPE ON CAMPAIGNS
CHICAGO, Sept. 11.—The senate
investigating committee, which has
been actively engaged during the
past week in the examination of
witnesses in connection with the
presidential campaign inquiry, com
pleted its work here at noon today
and recessed to September 22, when
the inquiry will be resumed at New
York city. Four of the witnesses,
who failed to appear during the
Chicago hearing, will be examined
when the investigation is rj|sumed.
Girl* Contribute.
One of the chief witnesses before
the committee this morning was
Eunice Coyne, a reporter in the
employ of the Daily News, Repub
lican, of Aberdeen, South Dakota.
The yonug lady told the senators
that girl workers in the internal
revenue office at Aberdeen had been
solicited to contribute to the Demo
cratic campaign fund by E. M. Wa
terbury, of Centerville, who de
scribed himself as the agent of
Clarence Mee,^ father of J. Walter
Mee, revenue collector at Aberdeen.
The witness stated that the girls
also had been told that Mee was
chairman of the state organization
for the collection of Democratic
funds. •
An alleged attempt by Charles S.
Boeschestein, Democratic national
committeeman of Illinois, to solicit
campaign funds from Joseph Coff
man, postmaster at Augusta, was
laid before the committee, the evi
dence consisting of five letters in
which it was emphasized that con
tributions "must be voluntary.” One
of the letters was stamped “For de
livery at home only.”
Democratic Evidence.
The first evidence supporting the
charge of Governor Cox. relative to
the assignment of large quotas to
the principal cities of the country
by the Republican committee, was
introduced when Dudley C. Blossom,
who helped raise the Cleveland quo
ta, told the committee that Cox’s
estimate of $400,000 for Cleveland
was correct. Senator Reed called
the attention of the witness to the
quota sheet submitted by Upham
last week, showing the entire quota
of Ohio to be $400,000, and Blos
som replied that A. A. Protzman.
paid agent of the national commit
tee, was with him when the Cleve
land quota was announced and had
helped raise the money.
C. W. McClure testified that Trea
surer Upham of the Republican com
mittee had sent C. F. Taylor, a paid
worker, into Georgia to raise money, I
and quoted J. C. Stockbridge, of At
lanta, as saying that Taylor had
stated that he wanted to raise $25,
000 in Atlanta alone. Earlier tes
timony introduced tended to show
that the quota of the entire state
did not exceed that amount.
H. G. Garrett, of Winchester,
Ky.. chairman of the Republican
state ways and means committee,
denied that a quota of $50,000 had
been assigned to Louisville.
Criticises Committee.
E. H. Moore, who appeared be
fore the committee as the personal
representative of Governor Cox, told
the investigators that, in his opinion.
: they had not sought the best evi
j dence obtainable to prove the eharg
; es of Governor Cox. He told Sen
! ator Kenyon that better men than
1 he and Governor Cox could be found
to tell the committee of Republican
plans, and he asked why William B.
Thompson, of New York, chairman
of the Republican ways and means
| committee, and "sixty paid organ
ization workers” had not been called.
Referring to denials made by
Treasurer Upham, Moore said he
j was sure the treasurer would not
testify to untruths, but he felt
equally sure that Upham was the
[ victim of cither mistakes or bad
bookkeeping when he testified con
cerning the quotas assigned to the
various states.
Takes the Blame.
Treasurer Upham told the commit
j tee that he accepted full responsi
i bility for the proposal to raise the
limit of Republican contributions to
$10,000, but he declared that he
had been voted down by a large
majority at the New York meeting
before which the proposal was con
sidered. He said that Form 101,
the so-called Blair plan, had been
brought about by his advocacy of a
larger contribution limit, but had
been canceled when the meeting re
jected the idea. He denied that a
substitute for the form had been
submitted at the meeting.
Replying to the Cox charge that
an attempt had been made to levy a
Republican assessment of $80,000 on
certain coal operators, and describ
ing an alleged meeting of opera
tors, J. K. Dering, named by Cox
as one of the principals, informed
the committee that no such meeting
had been held. He admitted, how
ever, that a committee had met and
raised the sum of $18,000 or $20,
000, which was later turned over to
Treasurer Upham.
made by Chairman Will Hays and
other Republicans to the campaign
fund charges. In conclusion, he de
clared that “in order to put a stop
to corruption, it is time to send
somebody to the penitentiary,”
—
NEGROES HEAR HARDING
IN FRONT PORCH TALK j
MARION, Ohio, Sept. 11.—Back
from a three-days’ trip to Indiana,
Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota,
Senator Harding has resumed his
front porch campaign with a heavy!
j list cf engagements. Several dele
gations of negroes were on hand to
day to hear the senator discuss pub
lic questions of particular interest to
them.
OLDTIMER IS MISSING;
BELIEVED TO BE DEAD
Deputy Marshal Anders, wiring to
Fairbanks from Hot Springs, reports
that H. L. Myers, an oldtimer of
the Yukon, has been missing for a
number of days and is thought to
have been drowned in the Yukon.
He left Stephen’s Village about ten
days ago to go to Rampart, and the
discovery of his empty boat several
days later, at a point about 25 miles
above Rampart, lends color to the
belief that he met with a mishap
while enroute down the river.
Myers was about fifty years of
age and was very well known along
the river. He has a sister living in
Illinois.
Delegate George B. Grigsby, Rep
resentative William Burns and Rob
ert E. Sheldon arrived from Fair
banks today and were met at the
dock by a delegation of local Demo
crats. They are here in the inter
est of their respective campaigns.
THOUSANDS KILLED
BY ITALIAN QUAKE
FLORENCE, Italy, Sept. 11— Re
ports received from the several dis
tricts which were disturbed by Tues
day’s earthquake indicate that the
number of fatalities will reach into
thousands, the upheaval having been
much more severe than was at first
supposed. Nearly 500 persons lost
th*ir lives in Fivizzanno alone, and
there were more than sixty towns
and villages either wholly or par
tially wrecked by the quake.
QUAKE ON THURSDAY.
ROME, Sept. 11.—There was a
second earthquake in the Emilia dis
trict late Thursday, causing consid
erable loss of life and much damage
to property.
The Emilia district lies between
: the Appenines and the River Po,
embracing eight provinces, and has
a population of approximately 2,
; 500,000.
Thursday’s shock was more vio
lent than that of Tuesday. Many
: are reported to have lost their lives
| through the collapse of a church at
' Marina, where hundreds had gather
, ed for prayer. Five towns in that
! region suffered heavily.
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CRATER OPENED.
| ROME, Sept. 11. — A volcanic
; crater is reported to have suddenly
| opened at the top of Pizzi Ducello
mountain, in the northwest corner
of the earthquake district. Sci
entists attribute the appearance of
the crater to the earthquake.
BUENOS AYRES, Sept. 11.—The
Tacna-Arica dispute, considered the
most serious menace to South Am
erican peace, has been settled, ac
cording to advices received in this
city from Santiago, from a diplo
matic source.
The agreement, it is stated, hinds
Chile to pay to Peru the sum of six
million pounds, for which Peru
agrees to release all claim to the
disputed land.
ITALIAN WORKMEN
ARE NOW AT HELM
LEGHORN, Italy, Sept. 11 —
Workmen who occupied the Orlan
do shipyards have launched a de
stroyer built for the Italian gov
ernment and are hastening plans for
the completion of the vessel. When
the destroyer left the ways, deco
rated with black .. d red flags, there
arose a deafening shout of “Viva
Socialism!”
ROME, Sept 11.—Strong efforts
are being made to bring about a
solution of the situation which has
arisen as a result of the movement
of metal workers to occupy indus
trial plants. It is understood, how
ever, that the government will take
no action pending a solution of the
problem, unless there should be dis
orders. It is claimed that the ma
jority of the workers are controlled
by the extremists among the Social
ists. There have been no disorders
thus far.
COX SAYS AMERICANS
SHOULD JOIN LEAGUE
HELENA, Mont., Sept. 11.—In
an address delivered in this city, en
route' to the Pacific coast, Governor
Cox declared that “the United States
is looked upon as a nation of quit
ters, self-prosperous, self-satisfied,
while our associates, as well as ene
mies, in Europe are starving to
death,” because of the failure of
America to become a member of the
League of Nations.
Cox outlined what he declared to
be the material benefits flowing from
a membership in the league. The
reduction of armaments, he pointed
out, would release immense sums for |
the reclamation of arid lands, which
in turn would solve the housing
problem and increase production.
HOME RUN CHAMPION
STILL GOING STRONG
—
CLEVELAND, Sept. 11. — Two
more home runs were scored in this
city this week by Champion Babe
Ruth, bringing his total for the sea
son to 48, the greatest record ever
made by a major leaguer for a sin
gle season. One of the runs was
made in Thursday’s game, and the
other yesterday.
SEATTLE, Sept. 11.—Major L. B.
Douglas, secretary of the Associa
tion of Pacific Fisheries, has an
nounced that the season’s pack of
Alaska red and pink salmon will
aggregate three and a quarter mill
ion cases, having a value of thirty
million dollars. The pack is slightly
j under that of last year, but the
major reports that many districts
have exceeded expectations. The
pack of Columbia and Rogue rivers
is reported to have been the largest
in history.
The value of fish, including all
species, taken from Alaska waters
since the purchase of the Territory
from Russia has reached the billion
mark this year, according to Major
Douglas.
ALASKA PACKERS LOSE.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11—The
first of the Alaska Packers associa
tion fleet, the Star of Lapland, has
arrived from the North and reports
that the entire Bristol bay fleet is
homeward bound. It is claimed that
the season’s catch is almost as light
as the record light catch of last
year.
PLANES SEPARATE;
ONE AT WRANGELL
WRANGELL, Sept. 10. — Plane
No. 4, of the Black Wolf Alaska
•-auadron, with Pilot Kiikpatrick at
the wheel, arrived at the Sergief
island landing held yesterday aft
ernoon from Whitehorse, on the
homeward flight from Nome to New
York.
The other .three planes hopped
from Whitehorse to Telegraph Creek
and will meet Kirkpatiick at Hazel
ton, the next stop.
AMERICAN BOY SHOT
DURIUH RIOI
TACOMA, Sept. 11.—James K.
Maloney, a merchant of this city,
has reecived a cablegram announc
ing the death of his son as a result
of a gunshot wound received during
a clash between rival Irish factions
in Watertown, Ireland. The boy
was nine years old and was on a
visit to Ireland with his mother.
The cable states that the wound
was inflicted by a British soldier,
and Maloney has asked Congressman
Albert Johnson to lay the matter
before the state department.
SUSPECTED SMUGGLER
ARRESTED ON BORDER
EL PASO, Tex., Sept. 11.—A. S.
Sharlin, a wealthy curio dealer of
Vancouver and Montreal, has been
arrested here, charged with con
spiring to smuggle a huge amount
of narcotics from Mexico.