WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. III.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA. ALASKA, SATURDAY. JULY 17. 1920.
NO. 87
TURKS MUST ACCEPT OR QUIT EUROPE
YACHTS UNABLE TO F]N1SI± /iVS/Df OFTIME UMIT
ALLIES TO HELP GERMANY RAISE MONEY FOR EXPENSES
RESOLUTE LEADS
SANDY HOOK, July 17—The
second heat of the international cup
race, which started this afternoon,
was called off when it was seen that
the two yachts would be unable to
finish inside the time limit. The
race was advertised to start this
morning, but adverse wind condi
tions caused a postponement until
this afternoon.
At sixteen minutes after one the
committee hoisted the signal for the
triangular course of thirty miles,
ten miles to each leg, and at 1:45
the Shamrock IV and the Resolute
started, the American yacht leading
over the line.
At 2:35 the Resolute was leading
by a quarter of a mile, with the
wind freshening. The defender was
clearly outsailing the challenger,
with head higher and sailing on the
very edge of the wind.
The Resolute rounded the first
mark at 4:33:42, and the Shamrock
at 4:51:05, just 17 minutes and 23
seconds behind the American craft.
The Resolute led the Shamrock by
30 minutes and 23. seconds around
the first turn. The Shamrock made
five unsuccessful attempts to make
•the turn, in a freshened wind, and
at 5:45 was two miles astern of
the Resolute, but coming fast.
At 6:30, with the Resolute more
than a mile off the second mark, it
seemed fqirly certain that neither
boat would finish within the time
limit.
It has not been announced when
another try will be made.
NENANA TO WELCOME
VISITORS ON JACOBS
A committee of the Nenana Com
mercial club will be on hand to
morrow to welcome Lieut.-Gen.
Hunter Liggett, Maj.-Gen. Jameson,
commander of the Western depart
ment, and other distinguished visi
tors who are enroute up the river
on the government steamer General
Jacobs. It is understood that the
party includes Col. Gotwals, of the
Alaska Road commission; Col. Wilds
P. Richardson, former head of the
federal road building organization,
and possibly Territorial Secretary j
Robert J. Sommers.
The steamer will be met at Fair
banks by members of the American
Legion, the Commercial club and
the city council.
Lieut.-Gen. Liggett, it is under
stood, will return to the coast by
way of the Richardson trail.
The steamship Northwestern is
I due to arrive at Seward tonight and
it is presumed that Commissioner
R. S. McDonald and August Peter
son are on board, enroute to An
chorage to confer with Secretary
Payne. Nothing has been heard
from the two delegates, however,
since they reached Chitina.
A special mail stage is scheduled
to leave Chitina tonight for Fair
► banks. The mail came up on the
ateamship Northwestern.
ALLIES WILL COMPEL TURKS
TO ACCEPT TERMS OF PEACE
II IS SMED
10 KNOCK VETO
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 17.—
Harry A. McCartney, a Chicago law
yer, has started suit in the supreme
court of the District of Columbia to
compel Secretary of State Colby to
promulgate immediately the joint
resolution of Congress declaring
peace with Germany. The suit is
based on the claim that the Presi
dent has no veto power over joint
! resolutions.
J The joint resolution was approved
' by both branches of Congress to
Iward the end of the late session,
land later vetoed by President Wil
son.
‘HARDING GOOD FRIEND
OF NORTHERN COUNTRY
I William D. Coppernoll was the
first Alaskan to return to Seattle
from the Chicago convention, which
he attended on a ticket furnished
by the Alaska delegation, says the
Seattle Alaska Dispatch. He said
the Alaska delegation was on the
job all the time, and every courtesy
in the way of admission tickets was
extended by both George C. Hazelet
and Judge Reed.
| Coppernoll is returning to Seward
to practice law and he says he feels
confident the ticket named at Chi
cago will sweep the nation. He
says the Alaskans now in the East
'are particularly pleased with the
selection of Senator Harding, on ac
■ count of his friendliness toward
Alaska.
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Arrivals from Fairbanks state that
the two special agents of the de
partment of justice who arrived
from the States several days ago
are still shrouding their mission in
mystery. Mr. Kelleher plans to
leave for Valdez soon by way of
the train, while his assistant, Mr.
Darling, will remain in Fairbanks,
stationed there permanently.
I Dr. Phillip Smith, geologist, who
arrived in Fairbanks on the steamer
, Yukon, is preparing to leave for
the Goodpaster country, to spend
the summer in the hills. He is send
ing his outfit up the river with
Packer Skelly and three pack-horses
and will himself follow by stage,
leaving Fairbanks probably tomor
row. There will be several men in
the party.
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William Plackas returned to the
canyon this morning after having
j spent ten days in the Government
hospital, where he underwent an op
eration.
The Warrack Construction com
pany of Ketchikan is advertising
for building laborers at $6 per day
and for muckers at $5.50 per day
of eight hours. Steady work is
promised.
LONDON, July 17.—A threat to :
drive the Turk from Europe once'
[and for all is contained in the
[Allied reply to the Turkish objec- j
jtions to the peace treaty, according’
'to information given out today by
^officials of the foreign office. Such
.action, it is suggested, might follow;
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| a refusal of Turkey to sign the ■
: treaty or failure to carry out its
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(provisions.
TURKS ALARMED.
j COPENHAGEN, July 17.—Infor
(mation received in this city indi
cates that the Turks are beginning
to realize the critical situation cre
mated by the triumphant Greek ad
vances into Anatolia, and .what they
regard as the complete rupture of
the peace negotiations. Turkish
newspapers lament the departure of
the Turkish peace delegates from
Paris and are urging the discon
tinuance of Kemal Pasha’s military
operations in Asia Minor.
ITALIANS KILLED.
j SPALATO, July 17.—The com
mander of an Italian cruiser, and
another officer and three Italian
sailors and a boy were killed during
the outbreak against the Italians
on Sunday last.
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VILNA FALLS.
! LONDON, July 17.—A special
dispatch to the Times says that Bol
sheviki forces have occupied Vilna,
the capture of the city having taken
place on Wednesday.
j Polish women have been assigned
to duty along an eight-mile front
for the defense of the city, equip
ped with American booths and fed
partly by the Y. M. C. A. Madame
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Goerez has strong factory girls in
command, capable of handling their
own transports, rolling kitchens and
all fighting equipment except ar
tillery. Additional detachments are
now forming to assist in checking
the advance of the Soviet troops.
FLYER MISSING.
WARSAW, July 17. — Captain
Marion Cooper, a member of the
Kosciusko flying squadron, has been
missing for several days. Alex
ander Ucziwek of Chicago, a Y. M.
C. A. Worker, is reported to have
been shot and killed by a Bolshevik
disguised in a Polish uniform.
NO ANSWER YET.
SPA, July 17.—British officials to
day denied that any report had been
received from the Russian Soviet
government relative to the armis
tice between Russia and Poland. It
had been reported earlier that the
Bolsheviki had accepted the Allied
proposals for a suspension of hos
tilities.
AFGHAN ASPIRANT.
j CONSTANTINOPLE, July 17.—
Afghanistan is claiming to be the
greatest Moslem country in the
jworld and the emir is working to
'succeed the sultan of Turkey as
j commander of the faithful, accord
ling to rumors which have reached
this city from Angola, where a se
ries of Pan-Islamic conferences have
been in progress during the past
several months. Syria, Afghanis
tan, Turkey, Arabia, India, Persia,
Azerbaijan, Crimea, Egypt, and
Tripoli were represented at the con
ferences, the purpose of the meet
lings being to unify the Moslem
world.
MEXICAN GENERAL
HELD AS TRAITOR
i MEXICO CITY, July 17.—Gen
eral Pablo Gonzales, a former can
didate for the presidency, whose
capture is reported today, will be
tried on the charge of treason, ac
cording to announcement made to
day by officials of the government.
Gonzales is accused of foment
ing rebellion and refusal to de
nounce and discourage uprising
against the government engineered
by his personal friends.
Ten men were sent out the line
yesterday to join the wagon road
gangs which are working south from
the end of steel, one in the neigh
borhood of the Canyon roadhouse
and the other beyond the Hersh
berger residency. There are now
more than thirty men engaged in
road building operations.
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WOMEN REQUEST COX
TO SPEED SUFFRAGE
COLUMBUS, July 17—Governor
Cox met a delegation from the
National Women’s party .today and
listened to requests that he use his
influence to have the Tennessee
legislature ratify the suffrage am
endment.
WRITER IS GRANTED
DIVORCE FROM WIFE
TUCSO, Ariz., July 17—Harold
Bell Wright, author, has been grant
ed a divorce on the ground of de
sertion.
JUNEAU USING ROCK
TO IMPROVE STREETS
The first rock work on the Juneau
city streets was started recently
when A. F. McKinnon, hauling con
tractor, started delivering by motor
truck the first of the thousand yards
of rock that he has contracted for.
The rock is being dumped at Fifth
and Gold streets and the work will
go on from there down hill. The
rock, which is waste from the Alas
ka Juneau mill, is taken from the
rock bunkers construeted by the city
just above lower Front street, near
the sawmill.
I The plans of Secretary Payne
and the members of his party were
changed this morning, after the
•visitors had reached Talkeetna on
! their way to Gold creek, according
[•to information received in Nenana
over the commission telegraph wires.
The party reached the end of steel
;at 9:30 this morning, and there de
cided to return to Anchorage with
out making the river voyage to
• Gold creek.
! How long they will remain in
| Anchorage and what other sections
| of the coast country, if any, will be
visited before leaving for Seattle,
is not known. They probably will
be back in Anchorage before to
I night.
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The steamer Carl White reached
Fairbanks during the night and is
scheduled to start back down river
sometime tomorrow.
Peter Grandison, attached to the
general store office force in N'enanu
during the past two years, went out
the line this morning to fill a cler
ical position at Mile 344, where a
branch store has been established.
Fred Struthers, general manager
for Waechter Bros., came down
from Fairbanks today, and will be
here probably several days.
The speeder brought a number of
men down from Fairbanks today
for the piledriver outfit on Gold
stream.
Major G. D. Byrne and J. 1.
Scott,, of the U. S. army, arrived
in Xenana yesterday from Fair
banks. Major Byrne is a dentist
'on a tour of inspection, having ar
rived over the trail from the coast
this week. They are registered at
;the Southern.
Deputy Marshal James Hagan re
turned today from a brief official
visit in Fairbanks.
Engineer in Charge Fred’k D.
Browne returned to Xenana ?oday,
after a stay of several days in the
Fairbanks district.
Game Warden L. F. Protzman
came down from Fairbanks yester
day. He now has supervision over
the Xenana district, in addition to
his regular territory, as the result
of the transfer of Game Warden
Burrows to the Kantishna and Kus
kokwim districts. Mr. Burrows will
leave for his new headquarters in
the Kantishna at the first oppor
tunity. i
ALLIES 10 HELP
GERMANS SECURE
CASH FOR DEBTS
SPA, July 17.—According to an
agreement which was reached by
the Allied nations on Friday, the
Allied governments will take appro
priate measures to assist Germany
in floating loans to meet her inter
national requirements, and assist
her in the prompt discharge of her
|debt to the Allies. The agreement
j was signed by representatives of
I Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan,
Belgium, and Portugal.
Belgium is to be given priority
! in the payment of 2,500,000,00(1
; francs.
The cost of occupation by the
| forces of the Allies will not be
(fixed until after the question has
;been considered by a joint confer
ence in which the United States will
I take part
COMMUNISTS ESCAPE.
BERLIN', July 17.—Bela Kun and
ja number of other Communists, who
(were being transported from Vienna
]to Russia by way of Germany, es
caped from the train near Oder
burg, according to a dispatch re
ireived by the Berliner Zeitung from
j Breslau.
GERMANS ACCEPT.
j SPA, July 17.—It has been offi
cially announced that the Germans
jhave accepted the Allied demand for
,the delivery of two million tons of
German coal monthly.
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j CHICAGO, July 17.—E. H. Fitz
gerald, grand president of the
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, will
confer here next Monday with two
heuidred general chairmen for the
purpose of perfecting plans for call
ing a general strike in the event the
award of the federal wage boani
proves unsatisfactory,
j The clerks, to the number of
375,000, have demanded a wage in
!crease of 20 cents an hour, retro
lactive to January first.
INCREASE GRANTED.
NEW YORK, July 17.—Employes
of the New York Railway company,
| which operates several surface lines
■in Manhattan, Harlem and the
Bronx, have been granted a wage
increase of 10 percent.
AWARD ON TUESDAY.
j CHICAGO, July 16. — G. W.
j Hanger, member of the federal
I wage board, is authority for the
!statement that an officials announce
ment will be made by the board on
Tuesday. The alleged announce
ment credited to the board, he said,
is premature and incorrect.
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