WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. II.
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MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1919.
NO. 113
LODGE REFUSES TO ACCEPT COVENANT
NAVY MAY ESTABLISH COAL BASE IN THE NORTH
CZECHOSLOVAKS MAKE PROTEST AGAINST ARCHDUKE
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COAST UNIONS MAY
LOSE MEMBERSHIPS
TACOMA, Aug. 12.—Voting on
the question of “One Big Union”
may cost the locals forming the
Washington State Federation of La
bor their membership in the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, according
to information received by federa
tion officials in this city today. The
information comes in the form of
an ultimatum from Secretary Frank
Morrison of the American Federa
tion, -who declares that the State
Federation will lose its charter if
its affiliated unions insist on a ref
erendum on the one big union plan,
along lines similar to the Industrial
Workers of the World.
The referendum objected to by
Secretary Morrison was to have been
held this week, and President Will
iam Short of the State Federation
will take steps immediately to call
the voting off.
The “One Big Union” plan, which
has received considerable favorable
support in this state, was condemn
ed by the American Federation of
Labor, at its recent annual conven
tion.
PRINCE OF WALES
REACHES CANADA
ST. JOHN'S, N. F., Aug. 12.—
The Prince of Wales arrived here
v this afternoon from England, aboard
the British battleship Renown, and
■was given a tremendous ovation by
the populace. From the dock he
was driven through two miles of:
streets, gaily decorated in honor of
the occasion, and lined with admir
ing crowds.
WILSON EXPRESSES
SYMPATHY IN WIRE!
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug .12.— .
President Wilson has forwarded a
message of sympathy to Mrs. An- j
drew Carnegie, expressing his keen
regret over the loss of one of Am- j
erica’s greatest men. “The death of
Mr. Carnegie,” the message read,
“constitutes a serious loss to the
forces of humanity and enlightened
public service.”
IS
ON HONOLULU TRIP!
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12.— As
part of the plan for the temporary
separation of the Pacific fleet, or-1
ders have been issued by the navy j
department for the departure of the,
( dreadnaught New York and four de- j
stroyers for Hawaii. The vessels
are to sail immediately, it is under
stood.
Secretary Daniels will make the
voyage to the islands.
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CZECHS OPPOSE
JOSEPH AS WAD
OF NEW REGME
PRAGUE, Aug. 12. — There is
much opposition to Archduke Joseph
as head of the new Hungarian gov
j ernment and it is feared serious
| trouble will follow an attempt on
the part of the Allies to bring about
jthe election of the unpopular mem
! ber of the former royal family as
permanent head of Hungary.
As a means for making known
their distaste for the archduke, the
Social Democrats are staging big
demonstrations here and in other
cities throughout Hungary, and the
Czecho-Slovaks express the hope
that the United States will prevent
Joseph from retaining the leadership
which he has assumed. They be
lieve that Joseph, being a Hapsburg,
does not represent the true senti
ment of the Hungarian common peo
ple, notwithstanding his claims to
the contrary.
KELLOGG PLANS
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 12.— j
Senator William S. Kellogg, Re-'
publican, of Minnesota, has pro-,
posed legislation for the federal
,
control of large corporations through ,
a system of licensing.
His plan is to license corpora
tions having a capital or assets in
excess of ten million dollars, and
engaged in interstate commerce.
This, the senator explains, would
give the federal government super
vision over the issuance of stocks
and securities, insuring greater pro
tection to the public and providing
additional funds for the federal I
treasury.
IROOP WITHDRAWALS
ALARMING RUSSIANS!
ARCHANGEL, Aug. 12. — The
withdrawal of the Allied troops from ■
North Russia is the cause of grave
apprehension in this section, the *
fear being expressed that the loyal
Russian soldiers will be unable to
fight off the Bolsheviki unassisted.
The Archangel municipality is now
preparing an appeal to the Allies to
leave a sufficient force here to in
sure protection against Bolshevik
aggression.
Wenaaa, Alaska's Interior Fnsl Depot
NAVAL VESSELS
MAY HAVE BASE
IN THE NORTH
LOS ANEGLES, Aug. 12—Ac
cording to naval officers attached
to the Pacific fleet, the plans of
the navy department include the es
I tablishment of at least one base in*
J Alaskan praters, close to the coal
jand oil fields of the Northern ter
jritory. The navy board, it is un
jderstood, has applied for a survey
| of base sites, and this fall will
,make recommendations for the need
led work.
Officers of the fleet say that the
| coming of the warships to the Pa-!
j cific coast and the establishment of |
a base somewhere in the North \
means that Alaskan waterways will
receive much needed attention from j
! the Government, especially in the
I
way of the establishment of safe-;
: guards to shipping,
j The permanent detail of the ves
sels of the fleet will be made known
at an early date.
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DIVER MYSTERY
! CLEARED AFTER
YEARS OF WAR
BERLIN, Aug. 12.—The mystery i
surrounding the disappearance of
ithe German submarine freighter;
jBremen, which dropped out of sight'
jsuddenly during the early days of;
the war, while enroute to the Unit-!
ed States for a cargo of medicines,
ihas been solved by the arrival here
jof the entire crew of the craft, ac
cording to the Vossiehe Zeitung.
The paper says that the under
sea sailors came from a British port,
'where the Bremen has been held in
[captivity since its capture by the
British three years ago.
The belief prevailed both in this
country and in the United States
that the submarine had been de
stroyed by British war vessels.
MARY PICKFORD WILL
GIVE FLAG TO TEXAS
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12.—Pop
ular Mary Pickford, of movie fame,
will make the presentation of the
George Washington pennant to the
battleship Texas this afternoon, the •
flag having been awarded to the :
Texas for a record sale of Victorv,1
bonds during the last drive. j1
The presentation will be witnessed J1
by Secretary Daniels, Admiral Rod-’i
man, and a large gathering of spe- 1
cially invited guests of the fleet. 1
Mr. and Mrs. John Strom and <
three daughters left for Fairbanks <
on the launch Peerless this morning
and will travel from that town !i
overland to the coast. They may ^ ■<
locate at Valdez. N
WASHINGTON, D C., Aug. 12.—
In a letter addressed to Senator
Lodge, in reply to a reouest for
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information relative to the proceed
ing of the Paris peace conference,
President Wilson has informed the
senator that it ■will be impossible
for him to comply with the request
,of the foreign relations committee
Tor documents used by the Ameri
ican commissioners at Paris. The
i President's excuse for refusing to
! produce the documents desired is
That the commission’s files contain
| many papers the publication of
'which would be unwise.
| The President, however, has
j turned over to Senator Lodge the
■informal draft of the American plan
for a League of Nations, which he
presented at Paris for the consid- j
eration of the peacemakers, but not i
I urged for adoption.
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LEGAL ADVISER
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Aug. 12.—,
In a statement made today before
the senate committee on foreign re
lations, David Hunter Miller, legal j
adviser to the League of Nations i
commissions at Versailles, declared
that the senators had been misin
formed regarding the manner in
which the League of Nations coven
ant had been arrived at. He brand
ed as untrue the report that the
British plan, drafted by Genera!
Smutz, had been used as a basis of
consideration. I
The league plan used as a basis
for the discussion at Versailles, he
said, was a combination of the
drafts of America, England, France,
and Italy, the finished draft repre
senting the work of one nation as
much as another.
PRESIDENT CALLS I
LABORITE CONFAB
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 12
President Wilson has issued a call
for an international labor confer- \
ence, to be held in this city com
mencing October 29. Representa
tives of many foreign labor organ
izations will be asked to attend the
meeting for the purpose of taking
part in the discussion of labor
problems which have arisen in this
country and in Europe since the
conclusion of the war.
The conference will be the most,
important labor gathering ever held .
and it is expected that it will be
very largely attended.
LODGE DENOUNCES
LEAGUE COVENANT
OUTSIDERS MAH
BE ALLOWED 10
CACHE LIQUORS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 12.—
The senate judiciary committee now
has under consideration the prohibi
tion enforcement bill which was
I passed by the lower house of Con
gress several weeks ago, and there
is reason to believe that the mea
sure will be shorn of numerous of
its objectionable features before it
is reported for passage by the sen
ate.
The senate judiciary sub-commit
tee, to which the bill was first re
ferred, eliminated several drastic
| provisions, but did not alter the
house definition of intoxicating
liquors as those containing more
than one-half of one per cent al
cohol.
The senate committeemen do not
favor interference with the storage
of liquors for persona! use or the
manufacture of light wines for per
sonal consumption.
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BAN IS LIFTED
] LONDON, Aug. 12—Official dis
t patches received at the foreign of
fice today from Vienna state that
the Rumanians are widening the
sphere of their activities in Hun
gary, having assumed the responsi
bility of suppressing Bolshevik ac
tivities in West Hungary. The op
erations of the invading troops are
now being conducted with less show
of opposition on the part of Hun
garians, who appear to recognize
that the presence of the Rumanian
soldiers will help to restore the
country to a peace basis.
The Vienna dispatches also an
nounce that the Allies have formal-1
ly notified the Hungarian govern
ment of the lifting of the blockade i
which was established early in the
■war by the Entente.
COMMITTEE FAVORABLE
TO A. MITCHELL PALMER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 12—
The senate judiciary sub-committee
has recommended the confirmation
of the nomination of A. Mitchell
Palmer as attorney-general of the
United States.
Commissioner A. J. Griffin, peram
bulating commissioner of the Fourth
division, left Fairbanks this morn
ing for his headquarters at Rich
ardson.
] WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 12.— »
In a speech delivered before the
i United States senate this afternoon,
| in opposition to the League of Na
tions, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
Republican, of Massachusetts, brand
led the league as an experiment
upon a noble purpose. He declared
Ithat, as an American, he could
never bring himself to accept cer
tain features of the covenant, as
agreed upon by the peace confer
ence.
The league, he said, would kill the
Monroe Doctrine, for which Ameri
cans had stood ready to fight for
generations. It would also nullify
any possibility of withdrawal from
membership and impair America's
sovereign power of deciding domes
tic questions.
And worst of all, he concluded,
it would plunge America into every
controversy and conflict on the
globe.
i The senator explained that he
had studied the covenant from ev
i ery angle and tried to see the bene
fits as President Wilson pictured
'them, but the more he studied the
I document, the more convinced he
became that it would be a grave
mistake to accept the covenant in
j the form in which it had been pre
sented to the senate for ratification.
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CHICAGO, Auk. 12.—Officials of
,the federal food administration have
announced the establishment of a
j price of 12 cents a pound for sugar.
This is a cut of four cents under
the price charged by many grocers
in this and other cities throughout
(the country.
i
l The price of flour has been fixed
at $10 per barrel.
FOUNDATION STONE
IS LAID AT MARNE
I C'HATEAU-THIERRY, Aug. 12 —
The work of erecting a new bridge
, to span the Marne river, to replace
the structure destroyed during the
war, was begun here yesterday, with
appropriate exercises, under the aus
pices of the American Society for
the Relief of Devastated France.
The first stone in the bridge was
laid by Major-General Howsee.
The old bridge was blown up by
the American Third division to cheek
the advance of the Germans toward
Paris.
FLEET DUE AT SOUND
EARLY IN SEPTEMBER
SEATTLE, Aug. 12.—The Pacific
fleet is scheduled to arrive here on
September 7, accompanied by Sec
retary Daniels. After a short stay
here, the warships will proceed to
Tacoma, and later to Portland.