WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. II. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 24, 1920.
NO. 301
NEW SUBMITS PLAN FOR ALASKA BOARD
FAILURE TO AID SOLDIERS STReMWMM^ REDS
GENERAL WOOD LEADS IN SOUTH DAKOTA PRIMARIES
EBERT SOLDIERS
OUTNUMBERED BY
LONDON, March 24.—According
to information received in this city
today from Rhenish Prussia, Com
% munist troops have besieged the
constitutional army in the Wesel
district, where they have the Ebert
forces nearly surrounded. The Com
munists are reported to have a large,
•well-trained army of war veterans.
CLASH IS FATAL.
k WESEL, March 24. — Sixty-two
are reported to have fallen during
an engagement near here yesterday
between loyal German troops, num
bering 6,000 men, and Communist
guards, numbering 15,000.
RUSSIANS ARE FROZEN.
LONDON, March 24.—The Brit
ish foreign office is in receipt of
information from Moscow stating
that more than 16.000 anti-BoIshe
viki soldiers have been frozen to
death lately on the Southeastern
Russian steppes, where extremely
cold weather found them without
shelter of any kind.
MRS. HUMPHREY WARD
IS DEAD IN LONDON
LONDON, March 24.—Mrs. Hum
phrey Ward, novelist, died here to
day, her demise being ascribed tc
heart disease.
HEART STROKE FATAL
TO NEW JERSEY SOLOIS
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 24
—Representative William J. Brown
intr, Republican, of New Jersey
dropped dead in a local barber shot
today, death being the result oi
heart trouble.
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SENATOR NEW PREPARES PUN
FOR CONCENTRATING CONTROL
SOUKS ADJOURN
HEATED SESSION;
PEOPLE 10 VOTE
OLYMPIA, March 24.—The spe
cial session of the Washington state
legislature was adjourned at 4:3fl
this morning, following the passage
of the soldier bonus bill, with a
referendum clause submitting the
; question to the voters of the state
'at the November election. The sen
I ate opposed the clause and substi
tuted an emergency provision mak
ing the bill effective immediately
The substitute provision had the
backing of the American Legion
but the lower house refused to a a
icept the change and the senator
| were finally forced to let the matte;
go to the people for final settle
ment.
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I SEATTLE, March 24.—James H
i Wilkins, a special writer, who ha
jjust returned from Mexico, say
I that he obtained positive proof
; while in the South, that Ambrose
. noted artist, was killed by a Villist;
firms: squad several years afro.
Ambrose disappeared mysterious!
land nothing was ever learned b
!
(the Government to account for hi
! disappearance.
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Bob Sheldon wires that he is en
j route to Fairbanks with the follow
jing passengers: Mrs. E. W. Cari
'Mrs. Jay Kelly and two childrer
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| Ernest Peterson and wife, Tedd
(Hudson and wife, O. P. Gaustat
; G. A. McQuarrie, M. Aleisini, Cha
Johnson, Robert Swanson, Tom Me
Kinnon, Frank Fontas, J. A. Fail
born and three children.
Dick Callahan, wThose ankle wra
i badly bruised out the line severs
i days ago as the result of a wago
being capsized by the wind, wa
released from the hospital yestei
jday and he returned to his statio
;on today’s train.
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I A letter received at Fairbanl<
this morning tells of the death i
Seattle recently of Joe McName
former Fairbanks ball player an
fireman. He was a member of th
Seattle fire department at the tiir
of his death, which resulted fro:
an attack of the flu.
Mrs. Jack Irvine, who recent]
reached Fairbanks from the State
was a passenger on yesterday’s trai
•for Dunbar’s, enroute to join h<
), husband in the Tolovana district.
, SEATTLE, March 24.—A Wash
ington special to the Seattle Times
says that Senator Harry S.' New,
Republican, of Indiana, is planning
to submit to the new secretary of
the interior a bill which he has pre
pared for the creation of a resident
commission to transact all Govern
ment business in Alaska.
In discussing the bill today. Sen
ator New expressed the hope that
hearings on the bill will start at
an early date, so that the plan he
advocates may be put in operation
without needless delay. The bill
provides for the appointment of
three members, but Senator New
says that he would just as soon
have one resident commissioner,
vested with full authority to trans
act all of the Government’s business
in Alaska—business that is now
'MSOEMRnF'through many
and bureaus at Washington. The
present duplication in the control
. of Alaskan affairs, he declares, is
something awful.
The senator, who. on many occa
sions in the past, has shown a dis
position to assist Alaska, says that
his bill is subject to modification^
and alteration. It wras prepared,
he says, in order to get thing?
^ started.
THE NEW BILL.
The bill prepared by Senatoi
New provides for an Alaskan de
velopment board of three members
to be named by the President, and
to serve for a period of seven years
The chairman of the board is to re
ceive a salary of $8,500, and the
i
other two members $8,000 each.
The board is to have broad juris
diction over the resources of tht
Territory and over transportatioi
lines. The bill 'also gives the Alas
kan Engineering commission author
j ity to develop business along the
I Government railroad, as pioneer
railroads did in the States. The
bill carries with it an appropriation
of money for such development pur
poses.
GOVERNMENT BOATS.
SEATTLE, March 24. — Another
special message received by the
Times this afternoon states that it
is the intention of the new secre
tary of the interior, John Barton
Payne, to establish a line of Gov
ernment boats between Seattle and
Seward and Anchorage during the
coming summer. Secretary Payne
■ says that he favors any action that
will assist in the development of
the country along the new Alaska
railroad.
MUST BE DEVELOPED.
SEATTLE, March 24.—J. L. Mc
Pherson, manager of the Alaska bu
reau of the Seattle Chamber of
; Commerce and special representa
tive of the interior department in
matters pertaining to the Alaska
| railroad, says that Congress has
’come to a realization of the fact
that Alaska must be developed to
Intake the Government railroad a
success, and member's of the con
igressional territorial committees in
j tend to make an exhaustive study
of Alaska’s affairs with a view to
i assisting territorial development.
McPherson predicts that rails will
connect Seward and Fairbanks, with
the exception of the Tanana rivet
; crossing, h\' the end of 1921 oi
early in 1922. He says the com
I mission now has five million dollar?
: available for immediate work.
ADJUTANT DECLARES
REDS ARE MENACING
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 24.
- —In a statement made today before
"[the house ways and means commit
tee, J. E. Holden, Utah state adju
tant of the American Legion, de
i dared that the failure of the Gov
1
ernment to come to the relief of
ex-service men has resulted in a
drive being made by the Industrial
workers of the World- to get such
men into their organization.
The wobblies, the adjutant said
s further, are now engaged in spread
i ing organized propaganda wdth the
object of discrediting the Govern
I ment and undermining the American
Legion, and many unintelligent for
mer soldiers are joining the ranks
of the Reds. In a concluding state
ment, Holden gave it as his belief
that the wobblies are planning to
overthrow the Government.
Men Discontented.
J. G. Strugham, a member of the
American Legion executive commit
tee, who also appeared before the
congressional investigators, testitic'.
that ex-service men are discontent
ed, many of them entertaining th<
belief that they have not had i
square deal. They are chafing wit!
unrest.
CANADIAN DOLLAR HAS
RECOVERED IN VALUI
NEW YORK, March 24. — Th.
Canadian dollar is quoted today a
90 cents, the highest point ye
reached since the recent slump ii
foreign exchange.
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PIONEERS WILL
! STAGE BENEFIT
II
An entertainment for the benefit
1 of Allen Crane, oldtime Alaskan,
who froze both his feet on the trail
this winter, is being arranged by
the relief committee of Nenana
igloo. No. 17, Pinocers of Alaska,
to be given at the Coliseum on the
night of April 10. The program
will consist of a comedy sketch by
local talent, vocal and instrumental
music and dancing by the leading
artists of Nenana, and motion pic
tures.
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Crane was taken to the hospital
at Fort Yukon on January G with
both feet so badly frozen that it
was found necessary to amputate
one foot at the instep and the other
at the ball of the foot. Several
years ago the unfortunate oldtimer
lost his left arm, so that now he is
in a most pitiable condition.
Crane worked for the Alaskan
Engineering commission in 11M7
1!)18 and, notwithstanding the loss
of his arm, was a good and earnest
worker. He was also very patri
otic, being one of the first in Ne
nana to buy a life membership in
the Red Cross. His case is ex
tremely sad and should receive the
sympathy of all Alaskans, which it
undoubtedly will.
Tickets for the entertainment will
be placed on sale within the next
few' days, and the program will be
published in detail later in The Ne
nana News.
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| A Brower stage reached Fair
banks this morning with a larg
shipment of first class mail and
four passengers. The passengers
were .James McIntosh, .John Mihal
!cik, Georgie Lang, and Tom Hickey
| Deputy Marshal Ed Heppenstal
arrived at Tanana this week front
t
!the Koyukuk with Iver Cradold, at
1 old timer of the Koyukuk district
who is suffering from a stroke oi
paralysis. The condition of the pa
jtient is such that he cannot b<
; moved farther at this time.
Mrs. Larry O’Keefe and baby lef
the hospital yesterday' and are nov
comfortably established at thi
O’Keefe home ;n the N. C. building
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: C. B. Frank, Hot Springs old
timer, who arrived at Fairbanks re
ticently from the Outside, started fo
his lower river home yesterday.
t; Charles Fowler and wife, whi
j i are wintering in the Beaver dis
t trict, arrived in Fairbanks this weel
• for supplies. They expect to star
• I on the return trip to their cam]
• I within a few days. Fowler was i
{ member of the Fairbanks ball tean
tiwhihc visited Nenana last summer
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SOUTH DAKOTANS
FAVOR WOOD FOR
HEAD OF TICKET
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., March 24.
—Partial returns from the Repub
lican presidential preferential pri
j rr.ary held throughout South Dakota
yesterday give General Leonard
Wood a lead of nearly five thousand
over his nearest competitor, the
vote received by each of the sev
eral aspirants being as follows:
General Wood, 22,10(1; Governor
Lowden, 17,437; Senator Hiram
Johnson, 15,90(1. Senator Poindex
ter polled a small vote.
Poindexter made his best show
ing: in Pierre county, where he re
ceived 04 votes out of a total of
1,100 cast. Most of the counties
grave him from five to 15 votes,
and a total of 35 counties gave him
only 700 votes. Wood is ahead in
.31 counties, Lowden has the lead
in II counties, and Johnson claims
11 counties.
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PRIZE IN ORIENT
! ABERDEEN, Wash., March 24.
| Charles Richard, well-known Hoqui
am grocer, who recently returned
from a tour of the Orient, has ju.-t
received a Chinese draft for $ 1
000, accompanied by the explana
tion that the money was won by
him in a Shanghai lottery.
Richard paid five dollars for the
ticket and started home with little
expectation of drawing one of the
many prizes described to him.
WEALTHY HAWAIIAN IS
DEAD AT ISLAND HOME
SAN FRANCISCO, March 24 -
Colonel Samuel Parker, former
prime minister in the cabinet ol
Queen Lilioukalani, died in Hono
lulu this week, leaving an estate
valued at several millions. He was
one of the most widely known men
in Hawaii.
SEATTLE SAILINGS.
Agent F. B. Tracy announces the
following sailings of Alaska Steam
ship company boats from Seattle:
March 25, Northwestern; April 1.
Alaska; April 8, Alameda; April 15,
Northwestern; April 22, Alaska;
April 29, Alameda.
“Little Joe” Malkeivetich is en
route to the coast, having left town
on this morning’s train for the end
of steel.
; Chief Stewart Jesse Brown went
out the line on official business to
1 day.
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: i At a recent meeting of the Sew
, ard Chamber of Commerce, Dr. J.
> H. Romig was elected president;
i Erich Lucas, vice-president, and
i Harry Ellsworth, secretary and trea
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. surer.