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THE NENANA
The Nenana Daily News First
DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA. ALASKA. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1918.
WHOLE NUMBER 214
< RADICALS DOWNED AT BERLIN MEETING
PRESIDENT GRANTS EXTENSION TO LOT OWNERS
BRITISH WARSHIPS PUT BOLSHEVIKI FORCES TO ROUT
CONFERENCE NOT
10 START BEFORE
JANUARY FIRST
Getting American Mission Settled
Is Long Job; tbe Informal
Conferences Continue.
(Associated Press)
PARIS.—President Wilson now
thoroughly understands the reason
why the peace conference cannot
start before January 1, as the mere
physical proposition of getting the
-American Peace Mission settled is
proving to be a tremendous job.
Informal conferences for laying
the ground work for the peace con
ference are to continue and during
these conferences President Wilson
is seeking to get more closely ac
quainted with the men with whom
he is to deal. His object is to de
velop the value of personal equation.
The President thinks that many
things must be said plainly and he
wants to avoid antagonisms. He is
confident that an agreement accept
able to all will be reached at the
inter-Allied conference.
Pvade of Boys and Girls Held In
Berlin to Demand Votes and
Other Reforms.
Associated Press
BERLIN.—Several hundred boys
and girls held a big parade in this
city today. The paraders marched;
to the Reichstag building, where the |
delegates of the various Soldiers’
and Workmen’s Council were assem
bled in congress, and demanded
votes for persons eighteeen years
old, abolition of corporeal punish
ment and the participation of schools
through the scholars in the adminis
tration of the government
The school children carried red
flags and incendiary banners and
placards. A seventeen-year-old lad
made an address before the congress
and warned the committee of the
terrible consequencs to follow if
the juvenile program is not carried i
out.
CONGRESSOPENS
IN GERMAN CITY
BERLIN.—The Central Congress,
composed of the delegates of the
Soldiers’ and Workmen’s Councils
opened in this city today. Among
the fifty-four delegates in congress
assembled there were four women.
The radical Socialists, known as
the Spartacus group, attempted to
pass a resolution inviting Dr. Lieb
knecht to congress, but they were
overwhelmed.
None of the important govern
ment positions were given to any of
the radical Spartacus delegates.
We use the word Lusitania often
and glibly. And yet how many of
us know that this was the nami
of what is now Portugal?
COAST PAPER PREDICTS
BRIGHT ALASKAN FUTURE
I JUNEAU.—Alaska is looking for
I ward to an influx of returned sol
diers seeking the great outdoors.
An editorial in the Juneau Dispatch
on the coming of peace says: “On
every hand there is a feeling Alaska
will now come into her own- We
expect this Northland will receive
thousands of young soldiers look
ing for the big outdoors.”
EXECUTIVE ORDER
EXTENDS TIME OF
LOT PAYMENTS
Good news for the owners of Ne
nana townsite lots is contained in
the latest executive order issued by
President Wilson, October 25th last,
and which has just been received at
the I.and office at Fairbanks. The
executive order has a direct bearing
on the payments due on the pur
chase price of townsite lots and ex
tends the time limit for one year
on all payments on this account
falling due subsequent to August
1918. The text of the executive
order referred to as received over
the telephone late yesterday even
ing is as follows:
“President Wilson on October 25,
1918, signed Executive Order No.
2982, through Congress.
Executive Order No. 2982.
"In and by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Act of Congress
of March 12, 1914 (38. Stat. 305)
entitled An Act to Authorize the
1‘resident of the United States to
locate, construct and operate a rail
road in the Territory of Alaska and
for other purposes, I do hereby order
and direct that all lot payments
falling due ubsequent to August,
1918, in the towns of Anchorage,
Matanuska, Nenana and Wasilla,
and in any addition thereto, be and
the same are hereby extended for
the period of one year from the time
when same became or becomes due
Lot payments in said towns falling
due prior to August 1, 1918 are
not hereby extended.
“Executive Order No. 2214, is
sued June 19, 1918 and all other
orders conflicting herewtih are here
by modified to conform with this
order.
Hungary™
GERMAN GENERAL
Request of the Allies Is Honored;
General Mackensen Is Now
Interned.
(Associated Press)
COPENHAGEN.—According to a
report received in this city today
the Hungarian government, comply
ing with a request made by the
Allies, have formally interned Gen
eral Mackensen, one of the most
famous German commanders..
Mackensen commanded the Ger
man forces who invaded Rumania
and captured Bucharest.
As a general thing, father would
rather do without fruit salad than
help peel it.
ALASKA HEADS LIST
IN BOND PURCHASES
The following statement, issued
by the General Publicity committee
of the Twelfth Federal Reserve dis
trict regarding the Fourth Liberty
Loan will be read with interest by
Nenanaites. Nenana has more than
contributed her share to the success
of the Liberty Loan, and citizens
will be gratified to know that
Alaska has once again come to the
forefront in matters of patriotic
endeavor:
The Twelfth Federal Reserve Dis
trict subscribed $459,000,000 to the
Fourth Liberty Loan, or 114.2 per
cent of the quota of $402,000,000,
State
Alaska
Arizona .
Washington
Nevada
Idaho .
California
Oregon .
Utah .
Hawaii .
Grand total
Quota
$1,369,400
6,231,200
58,215,800
.5,033,850
.14,549,400
257,556,400
. 33,708,100
.18,570,800
.6,765,050
$402,000,000
, G. K. Weeks, general campaign
manager, says that the final settle
ment of adjustment accounts, includ
ing subscriptions by railroad em
ployees in the Twelfth Federal Re
serve District which were actually
AVERS MARQUIS
Government*, and Not Jurists Should
• Bring Kaiser and Associates
to Bar of Justice.
(Associat'd Press)
LONDON’—The Marquis of Crewe
former British secretary of state
for the colonies, in a widely pub
lished letter, says that the responsi
bility for punishing the farmer Ger
man kaiser and the other German
officials for the crimes committed
during the war, must rest with the
governments, and not the jurists.
Legal technicalities must not be
alowed to interfere with and divert
the hands of justice, he says, and
these criminals can be put away
where they will have no further
chance of creating mischief and
bringing sorrow and desolation to
the world’s peoples.
FIRE DAMAGES
CAIMAN UN
Tourist Coach In Canadian Train
Is Destroyed By Fire; Thirteen
Passengers Missing.
i Associate,! Press)
WINNEPEG.—Fire completely de
stroyed a tourist coach attached to
a Canadian Pacific train while trav
eling between Winnepeg and To
ronto, and thirteen passengers are
reported to be missing. ••
The fire originated in a berth
occupied by a family.
according to official figures just
announced by the Federal Reserve
I Bank. This district ranks seventh
I in the United States.
i i
Alaska leads in percentage of j
subscriptions in the district, as com- j
pared quota with 156 per cent;!
Arizona i ssecond with 148 per cent;!
and the state of Washington third!
with 120 per cent. Northern Cali-!
fornia subscriptions have not yet
been segregated but will be an
nounced soon.
Following is the showing made
by the states and territories of the
1 district:
Per cent of Quota
Subscribed Subscribed
$2,132,550. 156%
9.225.350 . 1489r
70.108.150 . 1209<
5.996.150 . 1199c
16,804,450 .115%
289.804.650 .113%
38.244.350 .113%
19,603,700 .106%
7.080.650 . 105%
$549,000,00.
entered in other districts, subject
1
to credit back to the treasury de
partment, is expected to increase
the final figure of this district to
more than $461,000,000.
10 DISCRIMINATE
AGAINST ENEMY
PARIS.—A syndicate of French
hotel men has been formed and
announcement is made by this syn
dicate that an agreement has been
arrived at in terms of which natives
of enemy countries wil not be re
ceived in any of the hotels con
trolled by the syndicate, either as
customers or employees, for a period
of ten years to come.
BRITISH BOMBARD
T
Bolshevik) Positions on Gulf of j *
Finland Subjected to Fire j '
From Naval Squadron. j *
(Associated Press)
STOCKHOLM.—A powerful Brit- j
ish squadron bombarded the Tol-1
sheviki positions today and did con- j *
siderable damage, The Bolsheviki *
shore batteries replied to the fire,
but the warships had the range
accurately and the heavy fire they j
poured in silenced the batteries. (
The Bolsheviki positions which (
were subjected to the bombardment
were on the southwestern coast of (
the Gulf of Finland. s
The love of money may be the; *
root of all evil, but a man has to
marry it to have this brought home.
to him. ! j
Silence is golden. Still, money!
talks, but there is such a thing as ■1
hush money.
KAISER BILL’S NAME
IS CAUSE OF CONTEST
REDWOOD CITY. Cal.—Ballots
with the name of William Hohen
zollern written in are made the
basis of an election contest filed
here by Justice of the Peace George
R. Seeley, who was defeated for
re-election, 928 to 925, by Ray
Griffin. Seeley charged there were
several ballots in which votes for
Mr. Hohenzollern were recorded and
that those ballots also carried
Griffin’s name.
George W. Pennington, the local
head of the Council of Defense, re
ceived the following telegram this
morning from W. A. Clark, the ter
ritorial chairman of the Council of
Defense* transmitting the contents
of a telegraphic message received at
Juneau from the National Council
of Defense:
“Reappearing, epidemic influenza
now threatened in many parts of
country. Surgeon General of United
States Public Health Service has is
sued warning. Original epidemic
persists widely. Everywhere epi
demic and other abnormal conditions
created by war has left millions of
people particularly susceptible to the
disease. Risks are aggravated by
the fact that medical and sanitary
facilities have been depleted to meet
war needs and cannot be restored to
lormal for some time nor without
roncerted effort. In view of emer
gency we recommend that entire
forces of state division of the
women’s committee be thrown back
sf public health authorities. In
:ensive work locally wdth individuals
especially called to guard population
luring coming winter. All your
oranch councils should therefore be
nstrueted to bring together under
i definite working arrangement rep
resentatives of all local agencies
:ouching health and to put at their
ioint disposal facilities for each en
;ire community.”
Unusual watchfulness and care of j
lealth is urged for each individual.
Every precaution to prevent the
ntroduction of the epidemic into j
senana has been taken by the local ■
loard of Health and the Alaskan i
Engineering commission, and the
luarantine measures taken are felt
o be just and adequate. It is up
oeach individual Nenanaite to be
igilant and prevent any infraction ’
o each individual Nenanaite to be j
;eep the authorities posted of any- J
hing that may tend to leave the ‘
loor open for the introduction of;
he disease. ,
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lerr Himmelhoch has fled this land.
In secret he has helped the Hun;
VTe tried to get him on the stand,
That’s how we got him on the run.
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Formal Ceremonies In Connection
With Visit of President Wilson
Are Brought to Close.
PARIS.—President Wilson’s offi
cial visit to Paris ended yesterday
and he has already begun the busi
ness that brought him across the
ocean. The magnificent reception
aeorded him by the French people
has made a deep and lasting im
pression on the President and the
American delegates to the peace
conference.
The London Daily Mail, Paris edi
tion, commenting on the arrival of
President Wilson in France, says
that he has had one of the most re
markable receptions ever accorded
a guest of the French nation, and
lays great stress on the fact that
in his speeches the President was
very careful to say that in honoring
him in person, the French people
were conferring a great honor on
the American nation.
The President said that he felt
that the French people were sincere
in their acceptance of his principles
as a basis for the peace negotiations
to follow and that he firmly believed
that Premier Clemenceau of France
was heartily in accord and thor
oughly in sympathy with his ideas.
Versailles, a suburb of Paris,
which has been selected as the meet
ing place of the inter-Allied peace
conference, w'as visited by the Presi
dent informally today. Tonight he
will attend the reception given in
his honor by Ambassador Sharp.
The king and queen of Italy will
visit President and Mrs. Wilson at
their residence on Thursday, and
the President has arranged to meet
Premier Lloyd George of Great
Britain soon.
Hitt HUS
NEW PRESIDENT
(Associated Press)
LISBON.—Admiral Canta Castro,
commanding the navy of Portugal,
has been elected president of the
republic of Portugal to succeed the
late President Paes, who was assass
inated yesterday
ANOTHER NENANA1TE
INFLUENZA VICTIM
In a letter received on the last
mail locally, the sad news is con
tained of the death of Elvin John
son of influenza at Camp Lewis
ton of influenza at Camp Lewis. The
date of his death is not mentioned.
Elven was well known in Nenana,
where he has a host of friends who
will be very sorry to hear of his
death.
Prior to joining the army, Elven
worked at the Terminal and the
Tanana Sheet Metal Works and fin
ally as a brakeman on the govern
ment railroad, relinquishing the posi
tion to enter the service.
He was possessed of a sunny dis
position and was well liked by all
who knew him.