Nenana — The Gateway To Mount McKinley National Park — Nenana
THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1921
UMBER 62
PRESIDENT TAKES HAND IN MINGO ROW
IRISH RESUME FIGHTING IN STREETS OF BELFAST
TECHNICAL STATE OF WAR IS ENDED BY SIGNATURES
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HUNGARIANS SIGN TREATY;
STATE OF WAR IS ENDED
BUDAPEST, Aug. 30—The peace
treaty between the United States
and Hungary was signed here yes
terday by Foreign Minister Banfry,
representing the Hungarian govern
ment, and Grant Smith, United
States commissioner.
The treaty signed at Budapest
ends the technical state of war be
tween the United States and those
countries formerly constituting the !
Central empires of Europe.
Details regarding the Austrian |
treaty, which was signed last week, j
have not been made public yet.
Grave Situation In Germany
BERLIN. Aug. 30—Political con
ditions in Germany have assumed a
grave aspect and it is believed the
cabinet finds itself in a serious pre
dicament. Developments of the past
week appeared to set a match to the |
piled-up combutibles which have been j
smoldering for some time past.
Following a meeting of the cabi- j
net on Saturday, to consider the
situation, President Ebert issued a
decree prohibiting meetings and pro
cessions, and the publication of
periodicals and papers likely to en
courage seditious movements.
Treaty To Be Considered
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 30— :
The German peace treaty which ha?
been signed by all of the Central i
empires, will be sent to the senate ,
on September 21, on the day Con- j
gress reassembles, for ratification,
r according to information given out j
at the WTiite House today.
Hungarian Pot Boiling
PARIS, Aug. 30—The Hungarian
insurrectionist movement in Burgen-1
land is not regarded serious in
French official circles, and it is be
lieved that there will be no occasion
to send Allied troops into that dis
trict to preserve order.
BUILDING TIEUP ENDS
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30—The ,
four months’ tieup in the building!
trades industry in this city, ended !
yesterday when union craftsmen re
turned to work on the terms offered
by the employers, open shop basis
and a wage reduction of seven and !
one-half per cent.
MORE TROUBLE IN MOROCCO
MADRID, Aug. 30—Reports from j
Morocco indicate that trouble has
occurred among the native and
Spanish auxiliaries, in Elaraish, to
the south of Tangier.
DRY OFFICERS ARE KILLED
PAINTSVILLE, Ky., Aug. 30—
John R. Reynolds, aged 42, prohibi
tion agent, and James Melvin, town
marshal of Paintsville, are dead, and :
Deputy Sheriff Manuel Fitzpatrick;
and Hugh McKenzie are seriously i
injured as a result of a clash be
tween the officers and moonshiners.
HIGH RENT WOULDN’T DO IT
ALAMEDA, Aug. 30—Mrs. Cath
erine Zapada has confessed to the
police that she burned her residence j
as a means of forcing her tenants I
to move out of the house, after all
’■ other means had failed. She has
been held to answer.
MINGO MINERS THREATENING;
HARDING ISSUES ULTIMATUM
PRESIDENT WILL CONSIDER
UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 30
Plans for President Harding’s na
tional unemployment conference, it j
i is expected, will be completed in :
-time to permit the gathering to be j
! held here by the middle of Septem
ber.
Secretary Hoover says that it is
expected that the membership will
be limited to 15 or 25, a small:
number being necessary to permit of
! constructive work and the avoidance ,
of “debating society” controversies.
Many Idle In New York
NEW YORK, Aug. 30—It is es-j
timated that there are half a mil
lion unemployed in this city, and j
jthe number is said to be growing
steadily.
i Committees are at work making
plans to stave off the threatened
critical situation during the com- ]
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I The J. H. Russell family reached
[Anchorage yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Oscar Rothenburg, who made
the trip to the coast by way of the
Broad Pass trail, caught the steam
er No thwestern at Seward on Sun
day, for Seattle.
Engineer in Charge and Mrs. F.
D. Browne arrived in town from
Healy on Sunday, by special train,
and Mrs. Browne left for the Out
side aboard the steamer Tanana yes
terday morning. She is going to
Berkeley, California, where Dorwin
' Brown is attending school. Mr.
1 Browne went to Fairbanks veste -
day on the gascar.
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Mrs. T. A. Parsons, wife of Agent
Parsons, of the N. C. store at Ruby,
arrived in Nenana on the steamer
Reliance, enroute to Fairbanks for
the winter. She was accompanied
by her three child en, Ethel. Carle
and Lawrence, who will attend
school in the upper tStro.
Willard Hanson, who has been in
the employ of the Alaskan En
gineering Commission during the
past two or three years, attached to
i the T. & T. department, left for
i the Outside on the steamer Tanana
! yesterday. He is headed for his old
[home in Irma, Wisconsin and is not
sure how soon he will return to
Alaska.
Woodbury Abbey, head of the
Mount McKinley National Park
boundary survey party, came in from
; Healy on Sunday and went to Fair
banks yesterday on business.
George Huhte~, who arrived from
the coast on Saturday, left for his
headquarters in Fairbanks on yes
terday's gascar.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 30—
I The sending of federal troops into
West Virginia to restore order, as
the result of trouble originating in
the Mingo coal region, entered real
possibiliity today, when military
officers were called to the WThite
House to confer with President
Harding regarding the situation.
Many Armed Men Aieembled
CHARLESTON, Aug. 30—Accord
ing to reports received in this city
today, there are between 2,000 and
3,000 armed men assembled near
Jeffery, in Boone county, close to
the Logan county line. The advices
! state that the men are within easy
striking distance of the disturbed
' section of Logan county, where four
men were killed on Sunday in a
j fight with state troopers and depu
ties.
All I» Serene Today
LOGAN, W. Va., Aug. 30—The
Boone and Logan county border,
where Captain Brockus and a detail
of state police battled with a party
of armed men early Sunday morn
ing, is quiet today. The captain anil
a large force of men are now pa
trolling the district in the vicinity
of Ethel and Sharpies.
Governor Want* Soldier*
CHARLESTON, Aug. 30—In a
joinft communication, addressed to
President Harding and Secretary of
War Weeks, Governor Morgan asks!
for the immediate dispatch of feder
al troops to takes charge of the
situation in West Virginia. The;
governor says “we have information |
that several hundred men from the
coal fields of other states have join- ’
ed the insurrectionists in the Little i
Coal River section, where they are
maintaining armed patrols on the j
roads, and where they have seizedj
passenger trains on the C. & O.l
railroad to transport reinforcements;
to their camps. They have cut wires j
and refuse to permit their repair,!
and continue to defy the constituted i
authority. The men assembled to j
resist invasion are utterly unable;
to repel an attack and there is im
minent danger of great loss of life
in case of a clash. We ask for
troops for the purpose of quelling •
the insurrection and disarming those
engaged in it.”
Must Return To Homes
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 30
President Harding signed a procla
mation this afternoon calling upon
the disorderly elements in West
Virginia to disband and return to
their homes before noon on the first
of September.
Should the request of the Presi
dent be not heeded, it is understood •
orders will be issued for the dis-'
patch of federal troops to clear up
the situation, which is becoming |
hourly more grave.
! MEXICANS EAGER TO MAKE
PEACE WITH UNITED STATES
MEXICO CITY, AUg. 30—Petro
leum, in all its vexatious phases,
embracing taxation and alleged con
fiscation of properties, will be dis
cussed this week by the Mexican
got eminent, with a view to he re
moval of the stumbling block to the
resumption of diplomatic relations
with the United States.
The action of the government is
regarded as a most important step
and is attracting much interest in
| all quarters.
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SOVIET GRANTS CONCESSION
MOSCOW, Aug. 30—Leo Kamen
eff, head of the Russian famine re
lief commission, is authority for the
statement that Soviet Russia has
virtually completed the terms of a
concession in Siberia t' be granted
to Lestle Urqipart, of London. The;
grant will permit Urqipart to oper
ate extensive mining properties in
Siberia which were formerly owned
by him.
BANDIT PAYS PENALTY
COLVMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 36—j
Prank Otto, aged 25, who was con-1
victed and sentenced to death for
his part in the holdup and murder
of C. W. Sly and George K. Fan-:
ner, Cleveland manufacturers, last
December, paid the extreme penalty !
for his offense yesterday at the j
state penitentiary.
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INTEREST ON P. O. SAVINGS j
MAY BE INCREASED SOON
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 30—'
Recommendations that the interest j
rate on postal savings be increased!
from two per cent to three percent, j
and that the maximum allowed de-'
positors be raised to $3,000, have j
been agTeed upon by bankers, mem- ■
bers of the federal reserve board
and officials of the Government who
joined with the postoffice department
for the purpose of investigating the
postal savings policy.
FRENCH BOUND OVER
CHICAGO, Aug. 30—Charles W.
French and eight associates, who'
are alleged to have been involved ]
in a fifty-million dollar swindle,!
waived examination before the fed
eral commissioner and have been
bound over to the grand jury The
bonds of French were placed at j
$15,000 and the others at $5,0001
each.
PLANE FALLS IN CHANNEL
LONDON, Aug. 30—An airplane
carrying mail to Brussels, fell into
the English channel yesterday, the j
result of the explosion of the fuel •
tank. The loss of life has not been |
ascertained.
FIRST WHITE CHILD PASSES
MADISON, Wis., Aug. 30—Miss ;
May Edgren, aged 28, who is said
to have been the first white person
born in the Klondike, died here to
day.
PINCHOT PUBLICLY ATTACKS
HENRY FORD NITRATE PLAN
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Aug. 30—
The term? of Henry Ford for taking
over the Government’s Muscle Shoal
power and nitrate plant have been
assailed publicly by Gifford Pinchot,
who claims that Ford’s offer is
equivalent to interest of only three
and six-tenths per cent on the in
vestment, with no payment for the
water power.
Pinchot also says that certain
machiner is worth more than Ford
has offered for it, and that it took
too little into account the produc
tion of fertilizer.
SAW HIS MONEY STOLEN
DETROIT, Aug. 30—The paymas
ter of the Rickenbacker Motor Co.,
was held up by a lone bandit yester
day and relieved of $6,500. Eddie
Rickenbacker saw the holdup from
the window of a nearby office.
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Victor Brown, of the Fairbanks
and Anchorage jewelry firm of
Avakoff & Brown, arrived in Xe
nana from Anchorage yesterday and
went to Fairbanks today. His part
ner will go to Anchorage to look
after the coast end of the business.
Jack Mathews, well known old
timer of the Hot Springs district,
came up river on the steamer Re
liance, headed for Fairbanks on a
short visit.
Mrs. Cora Hamilton retu ned to
Fairbanks yesterday, after a visit
of several days in the Canyon dis
trict.
Rev. Fred Scherer, of Fairbanks,
who occupied the pulpit at Grace
church on Sunday evening, returned
to his headquarters in the upper
town yesterday.
A. Wittins was an outgoing pass
enger on the steamer Tanana yes
terday. He booked for Gibbon.
Ole Hjelvik left for the Outside
yesterday aboard the Tanana.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Kellum were
outgoing passengers on yesterday's
train, Mrs. Kellum returning to her
duties at Healy and Mr. Kellum to
his at Eska. Mrs. Kellum came down
from Fairbanks on the steamer
Tanana, arriving hare at an early
hour.
F. H. Barnett, well known old
timer of the Interior, is back in
town again, after a visit to Anchor
age. The Interior looks better to
him than the coast.
Bertram Moody, until recently in
the employ of the A. E. C., in the
Northern division, is in Anchorage
at present, according to late arriv
als from the coast.
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IRISH PEACE IS IN DANGER;
BELFAST SCENE OF TROUBLE
BELFAST. Aug. 30—Street fight
ing. which has been in progress in
this city since yesterday, became
particularly violent after one o’clock
today, which is the dinner hour it
90 factories radiating from Duncairn
Gardens and North Queen street.
During the fighting of yesterday
and last night, two persons were
killed and six wounded.
At one time this afternoon the
patter of bullets resembled a hail
storm, and the police and military
were engaged all last night in sub
duing gunmen and snipers who oper
arted from windows and roofs. The
city remained in total darkness all
night, except for the light from
several houses which were fired.
Two more deaths occurred this af
ternoon and a total of 48 persons
were taken to the hospitals for
wound treatment.
Irish Reply Delayed
DUBLIN, Aug. 30—The Irish re
ply to Lloyd George's latest note
will not be dispatched to London
| tonight as previously intended. Pres
I ident Devalera conferred with the
members of the Republican cabinet
i this afternoon, but nothing has been
j given out regarding the decisions
| reached, beyond announcement that
the reply would not be sent at this
' time.
Failure to dispatch the note has
| aroused much curiousity here and
many suggested explanations are
heard, the most common being that
(the cabinet does not care to be
rushed by the British premier.
OLDTIMER TRIES THE STATES
AND COMES BACK TO STICK
Like many other Alaskans who
have ventured from the Northland
to have a fling at Outside life, with
visions of settling down. Frank Estes
j is back again and ready to cor
I roborate all that has been said of
| late regarding unfavorable condi
tions in the States. He says times
Outside are not only as bad as they
have been pictured by returning
Alaskans, but also that they ara
I actually getting worse, especially on
: the Pacific coast. He found things
! particularly tough in Seattle, more
i so upon his return to the coast than
| when he first went Outside. There
; are a lot of idle people and much
[Uncertainty regarding the future,
j Several of the big hotels are for
! lease,, takers being sought by means
| of great signs across the tops of
! the buildings.
j Mr. Estes spent some time in Kan
! sas and other states in that section
of the country. The crops this year
are said to be unusually good and
the farmers would be very prosper
ous were it not for the fact that
there is no market for anything.
They are all crop poor.
Mr. Estes arrived in Nenana from
the Outside last week on the steam
er Tanana, and went out the line
yesterday to re-enter the employ of
the Alaskan Engineering Commis
sion.
EDITOR GETS A POST
WASHINGTON, D. C Au'. 30
President Harding has selicol J.
W. Pughley, a Nebraska editor, to
be assistant secretary of agriculture.