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The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-02-08
WASHINGTON, D. C.--Secretary Of the In
terror Lane today asked Congress for an appropriation
Of S $780, 900 to complete the Government Railroad
in Alaska within the next year. 1t is the intention of
the Secretary to rush the work of construction as soon
as the needed funds are made available
FLIGHT PLANNED
ACROSS ATLANTIC
ASSOCIATED Press>

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-Avia-
ton experts of the United States
navy have laid plans for a flight
across the Atlantic ocean.
They believe the plan is feasible
one and it is expected that it will
be put into effect almost imme-
diately.
The details of the proposed flight
have not been made public, but it
is believed that the naval flyers
have perfected special type of
high powered flying machine and
that the trip will be from a point
on the Atlantic coast to the coast
of Ireland. The points of departure
and arrival are unknown at the
present time.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-02-08
PORTLAND LABOR
URGED TO STRIKE
BY |NOUS1R|ALS
(Associated Press)

PORTLAND, Ore, Feb. Sin
dustrial Workers of the World in
this city are busy distributing hand
bills among the workiHgmen, urging
upon them to start a general strike
in sympathy with the strikers in
Seattle.
One of the l. W VS. has been
arrested and it is expected that
many more will be arrested later
for violations of the law in their
efforts to sow discord among the
Portland workers. ...
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-02-08
FAIRBANkSANS MOVE
TO NEW QUARTERS

According to the reports re-
ceived over the phone this after
noon, some Of the Fairbanks mer-
chants who have been driven out
by the recent fire have already ar
ranged to move to new quarters, in
which they will reopen.
j. R. Fowle, of the Fairbanks
Clothing Co., has rented the War
Board office, next door to the First
National Bank, and will move there
in few days.
julius Hoffman expects to open
his barbershop in the lobby of the
Fairview hotel
Newton and Evans, of the Eagle
Barbershop, moved into the old
stand occupied by Evans on Turner
street, opposite the back entrance
to the postoffice.
The Model Cafe is preparing to
open in the Nordale Cafe quarters.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-02-08
QUICK TRIP MADE
BROADPASS TRAIL

A telegram received yesterda,
evening by F. D. Browne from An
chorage contains the news that A
j. Hewitt, former chief accountant
of this division of the A. E. C. had
reached Deadhorse on Thursday
afternoon, February 6.
Deadhorse is twenty miles be.
yond Talkeetna, the end of steel
on the coast division of the govern
ment railroad.
Mr.. Hewitt left Nenana on the
train leaving on the morning of
Saturday, February 1, and spent
the night at the A. E. C. camp
at 43-mile (Nenana Crossing). He
left the Crossing with Charlie
Smiths dog team at $50 a. m. on
Sunday, February 2, and has made
good time in reaching Deadhorse
in four and one-half days.
The twenty-mile stretch between
Deadhorse and Talkeetna is said to
be good trail by parties that pre-
coded Hewitt; the Pennington party
the distance in three
and one-half hours.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-02-08
BOARD OUTLINES
DEVELOPMENT Of
GOLD EXCHANGE
(Associated Press)

t-aSSutidleu fTSSSJ
WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-The
Federal Reserve Board has sub
mitted its report for the past year,
and has expressed therein, its will
ingness to undertake the develop
ment of an international gold ex-
change fund.
This fund, as outlined by the
Federal Reserve Board is for the
purpose of facilitating financial
transactions between nations, with
out making an actual shipment of
gold.
Gold is to be deposited in trust,
in a government bank, to guarantee
the national exchange obligations.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-02-08
NEW YORK LABOR
THREATEN STRIKE
Associated Press


NEW YORK, Feb. 8.-All union
bricklayers and hosting engineers
employed in the various cities, and
engaged on contracts held by the
members of the Local Building
Trades Employers Association, will
be called out on strike on Monday
This action has been taken for
the purpose of enforcing the de-
mands made by the carpenters for
dollar day increase, and follows
the lockout declared by the emp
ployers, who refused to accede to
the request made by the carpenters.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-02-08
! RUINS OF FIRE TO
BE CLEANED UP LATER

The mass of ruins left by the
recent fire at Fairbanks is now
coated with thick crust of ice,
and it has been decided that no
attempt at cleaning up the mess
will be made, until spring.
1t was 'rumored in town this
morning that a proposal is enter
tanned in Fairbanks to build a
road from first to Second avenue,
at about the middle of the de-
stroyed block which will afford
better fire protection when the
block is rebuilt.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-02-08
BOYS RETURNING
SAIL ON CONVOY
FROM OVER THERE
tAssociated PrAss)

WASHINGTON, Feb. s.-The
United States battleship Kansas,
conveying five transports laden with
homeward bound troops, sailed from
France today.
On board the transports forming
the convoy there are $500 officers
and men of the United States army
returning home from active service.
Included among the returning SOL
diers are one hundred members of
the 10th Engineers, which formed
part of the 91st army division.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-02-08
BICKFORD LEAVES
FOR THE STATES

j. B. Bickford, former chief clerk
of the Alaskan Engineering COM
mission, with headquarters at Fair
banks, left the upper town this
morning on Ed Bartlett's stage, en-
route to San Francisco.
Mr.. Bickford resigned his position
with the A. E. C. recently, and goes
out to join Mrs. Bickford, who
went Outside on the last boat last
summer.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-02-08
BUTTE DISTRICT
WORK SUSPENDED
(Associated PreSs)

BUTTE, Feb. 8.-Following the
plans outlined and adopted at a
mass meeting of the I. w. WIS
held in this city last night, hundreds
of the striking mine workers, some
of whom were armed, turned back
all of the men who started out to
work in the mines and plants this
morning.
AS result of this action by the
striking miners, the whole mining
district has suspended operations.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-02-08
RIOTS REPORTED
FROM SALVADOR

SALVADOR, Feb. Sit is re-
ported that serious rioting has oc-
cured in Tegucigalpa, the capital
of the republic of Honduras, today.
Minister of the Interior Majia, of
the Honduras cabinet, is reported to
have been killed by the rioters.
The dispatches do not assign any
reason for the existence of unrest
in the republic of Honduras.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-02-08
ENGLISH RAILWAY
STRIKE SETTLED

LONDON, Feb, 8.-Announcc.
ment is made that the railway strike
which tied up traffic for some time
has now been settled, the dispute
between employer and employee
being satisfactorily arbitrated.
1t is also announced that regular
train service will be resumed soon.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-02-08

A Juneau Italian by the name of
Leonard Louis was arrested with a
suitcase full of whisky as he was
about to board the ferryboat at the
capital city. He was fined 5000
and costs amounting to $14. Leon
ard said he bought the liquor from
a man he met on the street for SS4
and intended to use it for his own
consumption this winter.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-02-08
TOCOMA STRIKE
MIGHT END SOON
Associated Press


TACOMA, Feb. S.-The. striking
street car men returned to work
today and street car service on all
city lines has been resumed I'M
molested.
The barbershops and. restaurants
which were closed yesterday have
been opened today.
The lonshoremen will hold meet
ing tonight and the reconsideration
of their strike vote will be dis
cussed.
The shipyard workers are still
out on strike,
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-02-08
SEATTLE STRIKERS FORCE MA YOR TO RUN CARS
INDUSTRIALS TRYING TO START TROUBLE IN OREGON
GENERALIZATION
ON HOME STRETCH

WASHINGTON, Feb. S-General
March, chief of staff of the Ameri-
can army, said that rehabilitation
in the United States is now on the
home stretch.
Up to yesterday $1,000 officers
and 1,033,812 men were actually
discharged from the American army.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-02-08
summer.

Seward has reorganized its Cham
Der of Commerce, with twenty
boosters enrolled as members, and
they will contribute monthly to a
fund for publicity purposes.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-02-08
GERMAN ASSEMBLY
HEAD IS ELECTED
Associated Press

Associated Press
WIENER, Feb. 8-Carl Kautsky,
the under secretary of the state in
the Eebert cabinet, has been I'M
animously elected president of the
German National Assembly, which
is to hold it's meeting in this city.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-02-08

Miss Jane Anderson and Mrs. ].
Kestly went out to the end of
track on the train this morning.
They will probably return tonight.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-02-08
BRITISH DEPORT
ALL BOLSHtWK|
ASSOCIATED Press1

LONDON, Feb. 8.-According to
articles appearing in the newspapers
of the country, the government is
taking steps to deport all undesir-
able aliens who are believed to be
emissaries of the Bolsheviki.
Several of them have already
been deported.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-02-08

Fairbanks and Nenana, the Twin
Cities of Interior ALASKA
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-02-08
SEATTLE MAYOR
WILL ESTABLISH
J|INEY SERVICE
Associated Press

SEATTLE, Feb. S.-Mayor Han
son, of Seattle, has issued orders
for the running of a jitney bus
service to all parts of the city. The
mayor also stated that he will run
the city cars on private owned
lines if they DO not soon resume
street car service
So far, the strike committee has
taken no action on the mayors de
mand that the sympathetic strike
be called off at eight O'Clock this
morning.
Late last night the strike com
mittee held a somewhat protracted
meeting, but failed to reach any
definite agreement, and it is ex-
pected that the committee will re-
sumo its meeting today.
Mayor Hanson also stated that
he had ordered all union exem1tion
signs on motor trucks used for
freighting and passenger service,
removed; and that he will operate
them without the consent of any
labor union.
The city is virtually under mar
tial law now and it is thought that
the military will take full control
of the situation if a radical change
does not take place soon.
SEATTLE, Feb. 8.-Announce-
ment was made this morning bv
the city officials that the municipal
street cars will be started running
Immediately
The privately owned street car
lines are still undecided regarding
the operation of the cars owned
by them.
1t is reported that few Of tie
restaurants have reopened for bust
ness today. ".. .-...
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-02-08
TEMPERATURE

Saturday, February 8
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-02-08

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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-14
Roosevelt and Leaque

Concerning a league of nations
Theodore Roosevelt wrote this less
than year ago:
Without question there is a gen
eral desire for some kind of inter-
national agreement or union or
league which will tend to prevent
the recurrence, or at least to mini
mize the scope and the horrors of
such hideous disaster to humanity
as the world war which is now
closing.
'If the League of Nations is built
on document as high-sounding
and as meaningless as the speech in
which Mr.. Wilson laid down his
Fourteen Points, it will simply add
one more scrap to the diplomatic
waste paper basket.
Let us begin by including in the
League only the present Allies.
Let us explicitly reserve GER
tain rights-to our territorial pos
sessions, to our control of immigra-
ton and citizenship, to our fiscal
policy and to our handling of our
domestic questions generally - as
not to be questioned and not to be
brought before any international
tribunal. Let us absolutely decline
any disarmament proposition that
would leave us helpless to defend
ourselves.
Let us absolutely refuse to abol-
ish nationalism."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-14
DID YOU KNOW THAT:
By MAJOR FRANK c. MAHIN
0f the Army Recruiting Station

When war was declared the Army
had on hand nearly 100000 Spring
field rifles. Their manufacture was
continued, and the American Enfield
rifle designed and put into produc-
tion.
The total production of Springfield
and Enfield rifles up to the signing
o. the armistice was over 2.5O0,O0O.
The use of machine guns on large
scale il a development of the Euro
pean War. In the American Army
the allowance in 1912 was four ma
chine guns per regiment. In 1919 the
new Army plans provide for an equip
ment of 336 guns per regiment or
ST times as many.
The entire number of American
machine guns produced to the end
OF 1918 was 227.000.
During the war the Browning au-
tomato rifle and the Browning ma
chine gun were developed, put into
quantity production, and used in
large numbers in the final battle in
France.
The Browning machine guns are
believed to be more effective than the
corresponding weapons used in any
other army.
American production of rifle am
munition amounted to approximately
3.5O0.000.0 900 of which 100000, 600
were shipped overseas.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-14
Loses 10000 in Population

[From the New York Tribunel
New York state has sustained a
potential loss of ninety thousand in
population during the last twenty
months. due to a remarkably low
birth rate and the ravages of infIu-
enZa last year, according to DIR. Her
man NJ. Biggs, state commits issioner
of health.
The death rate has declined stead
lily since the epidemic, and the
present rate, 10.4, is the lowest re-
corded for many years. The birth
rate, at the same time, is the lowest
ever recorded, the rates for July
and August having been 1877 and
1873 a thousand population, or about
20 per cent. lower than for the cor
responding months of 1918.
'Tn each month of 1919" says
Doctor Biggs, "the birth rates for
the entire state have been lower
than the rates for the corresponding
months of last year.
THE marked decline in the birth
rate, due largely to war conditions,
represents a loss of potential popu-
lation of more than $4,000 since the
beginning of the year 1918, and II
there is added to this the excess
mortality of more than fifty-one
thousand due to the influenza cpl
demic, we find the total loss since
January l., 1918, is almost 10000
without figuring the loss of men In
military service"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-14
Albert OF The BeLgiauS

ed them just long enough to give
both countries time to rally all their
strength; and that finally those
countries at awful cost held the
line of civilization against barbar-
ism just long enough to give sloth-
full and dilatory America time to
awake to her duty and to hurl her
determining weight into the scale.
But 1t all began with Belgium. And
il is commenSurately true that the
ineffable moral and spiritual uplift
which reused humanity against the
Beast, had its initial impulse in King
Albert's heroic decision to save his
soul, though he should lose all the
world.
We have welcomed home our own
returning heroes and their gallant
chief. We have welcomed the
Princely Priest who proved to the
world that the spirit of Elijah at
Carmel, and of Paul at Ephesus still
lived and triumphed. And they were
worthy of all that an appreciatlve
people could offer them. But no
warmth of welcome, no splendor of
pageantry, no blaze of banners and
blaring of massed bands, not noisy
acclaim of multitudinous tongues
nor silent tribute of grateful hearts,
can be too great for the desserts of
this later guest who now revisits
these shores. Not only a King but
also a man, the sternest democrat
will honor himself by honoring him /:
and the Red, White and Blue of
America will win new luster throug h
being entwined with the Branters'
black, gold and red.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-14
HoW Germany Thinks
By RUPERT HUGHES

To run down and disarm a maniac
who has burned and slain is wisdom
that requires no argument. To
overpower him and let him up again
with a stolen weapon in his possess
sion and a greater rage than ever
in his heart is folly that will undo
the courage and the wisdom of his
first defeat.
Germany has suffered from para
noiac delusions of persecution and
from megalomaniac delusions of
grandeur. She believed and pro-
claimed that it was her sacred duty
to Gott and to Man to make Kultur
supreme in the whole world. She
tried to do it. She failed.
If anyone doubts that she still
hopes to accomplish her divine mis-
sion it must be because he doubts
the word of the Germans them
selves. And there is no German
more German than old Won Hinden-
burg.
And here is what he said a few
months ago at secret meeting of
German mine owners at Oppeln, in
Upper Silesia. He spoke at n re-
union of n society called, for short,
the Hilfsschutzenverein fur Ober-
schlesien," or Upper Silesian Rifle
Club Auxiliary.
Copies of his address were con-
fidentially distributed among the
German mine owners, but one of
them fell into the hands of a Pole,
who transmitted it to Paris. I trans
late a part of it as an eloquent ex-
ample of German eloquence, a sin
cere expression of German opinion
for German consumption, not for
export. Supply your own italics.
I'VE Germans, we are not con-
quered. We have been thrown to
one shoulder but we are not whip
ped. In a little while our enemies
will have occasion to realize what
the force of the German soul
amounts to, how invincible the Ger
man muscles and fists are, what
might of toll and what resistance to
all weaknesses animate the brains
and hearts of Germans.
"Our enemies will learn that the
idea of vanquishing us was folly.
Blood will flow in great streams to
expiate h e crimes committed
against the industrious people of
Germany.
ut is then that we shall see who
enjoys the favor of Providence, and
who grasps at the laurel of victory.
Inc Ilme is near when the sac
rilegious hands of those who have
, dared to raise them against us will
! fall helpless. And then in the
midst of the crawling of decrepit
, nations, we shall see the mighty fist
of Germany rise and strike, to chas-
| tise, and to assure to our country,
once for all, happiness, expansion,
| and supremacy.
"Only then, and only on founda-
tions of German order and of our
secular civilization, and under the
pinions of steel of our great Ger
man nation, will it be possible to
establish the edifice of a true world
peace"
There speaks the Germany of to-
day, as of yesterday, and of to-
| morrow.
And to think that there are peo-
, pie who feel it wise not to strength
en- oppressed nations by weakening
| Germany lest Germany should de-
| sire revenge! AS if any settlement
on earth would ever satisfy that
people except a triumph that should
efface their defeat! AS If there were
any hope of keeping Germany at
peace except by keeping strong
| guard about heri
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-14
BEATING OLD H. G.. l..

-AILURE to produce goods in
quantities Sufficient to meet the
needs of the country is the
main cause of the high cost of living,
according to the findings of the
United States Council of National
Defense in a statement just issued.
The way to cheaper prices lies
mainly in producing more goods, the
Commission believes.
There are other causes, of course,
like the waste of war and protiteer-
ing, but failure to produce stands
first.
The waste of war never can he
replaced. Profiteering, to q large
degree, can be prevented by proper
laws, now being formulated. But
the remedy that all of MS can help
apply lies in the Commissions ad-
vice-.work and save
We might have all the money in
the world, but if there were no goods
to buy we would starve to death or
freeze lof laNh VI 'iotHiHS' AHd
unless we work and save we will
have neither goods nor money.
Robinson Crusoe survived on a
desert island because he worked and
saved. When he was rescued he had
more of the necessities of life than
when he was cast away He had
no money and he needed none. All
of us have been thinking in terms of
dollars instead of the things money
will buy. We have been working
less and spending more. That means
We have been producing less and
using more. So the supply has been
going down, and, as always happens
IN such case, prices have been stead
lily advancing. And law or no law.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-14
The South'S TlUo Reunions

IFrom the Atlanta Constitution
This week Atlanta is hostess to
the Confederate veterans, who so
valiantly defended the cause of the
South in the eos.
Next week the delegates of the
Georgia posts of the American
Legion, representing the third gem
Grafton of the Civil War heroes, will
be the visitors to the city.
In these two reunions-the first
of the gray clad, white-haired old
men who were the backbone of the
South sixty years ago; the latter of
the recently khaki clad, stalwart
young men, who during the past few
tumultuous years were the bone and
snew of the South and of America
the Constitution sees a lesson.
From Appomattox to Chateau
Thierry they present themselves as
the builders of the new South-the
men who, "foot-sore and weary"
beat their swords into plowshares'
the indomitable souls, who van
quished in war, set themselves
wholeheartedly to the stupendous
task of resurrecting the PROSTATE
and crushed Southland from the
chaos and destruction of war to the
pinnacle of prosperity and success.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-14
EXAMPLE OF ROYALTY

T He King and Queen of Belgium
have planted number of trees
since their arrival in America.
notably in Central Park. New York.
and on the Pacific Coast. Gradually
the people everywhe"e are becom-
ing Interested in tree planting and it
is hoped the coming Arbor Day in
Pennsylvania will mark new era
throughout the State. Here in HIar-
risburg City Commissioner Gross.
head of the Department of Parks.
has arranged a most appropriate fea-
ture for the official program of the
day. lie will plant in grove on
high point in Reservoir Park one
white pine for every Harrisburg boy
who died in the war. This will make,
considerable grove and a suitable
memorial, inasmuch as these trees
are long-lived and each Will contain
the name of the soldier for which it
stands in memory.
But Commissioner Gross will also
plant many other trees out of the
Island Park nursery along the river
and in other sections of the park
system. He will set the example for
the whole community and the school
authorities and other organizations
should Immediately provide for their
part in the practical Observance of
the day.
But the tree planting must not
stop with the official activities. Every
property owner ought to provide for
at least one tree either on his lawn
or sidewalk. If YOU have not yet
ordered that tree. do it at once and
see to it that it is of the proper size
and species. ON another page this
evening will he found list of trees
suitable for this climate and for
planting this fall.