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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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NENANA, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1920.
NO. 280
roads returned to private owners
LANE MAKES PLEA FOR NORTH IN LAST REPORT
JURISTS DISMISS GOVERNMENT SUIT AGAINST BIG TRUST
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 1.
_The state of Rhode Island has
filed a brief with the supreme court
of the United States attacking the
h constitutionality of the national pro
hibition amendment.
The brief sets forth that the
amendment is a direct invasion of
the jurisdiction and powers of indi
vidual states and the rights of the
people. It claims further that the
courts should keep congressional am
* endments to the national constitu
tion within the scope and jurisdic
tion of federal authority.
The brief is a voluminous docu
ment, containing many arguments in
support of the contention that the
adoption of the amendment is an in
fringement upon state rights.
ONE iULMES;
- URGE ONE IS DUE
The shipment of mail which has
the record for delays enroute from
Chitina to Fairbanks reached the
upper town late Saturday, more
than fourteen days on the road. It
transpired, however, that % the ship
ment was all second class, instead
of first class as was believed before
the stage arrived.
A shipment of first class mail is
expected tomorrow, when a con
signment of 5,000 pounds of mail
matter is scheduled to arrive.
Lieut.-Col. Lewis, head of the
second section of the signal corps,
extending from Chena to Nome, ar
rived from his headquarters at Gib
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WILSON SIGNS RAILWAY BILL
OVER PROTESTS OF WORKERS
oon shortly after noon today, on a
tour of inspection. He is making
the trip with the signal corps’ crack
dog team and is accompanied by
Corporal Swensen. They are head
ed for Chena and will return from
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that point to the lower river.
FANS TO GATHER
TOMORROW NIGHT j
TO START PLANS
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A call has been issued for a gath
ering of all Nenanaites who are in
terested in baseball. A meeting of
fans will be held at the office of
Commissioner R. S. McDonald to-;
morrow night, immediately after the
basketball game, and everyone in
town who is desirous of seeing Ne-;
nana make a creditable showing
during the coming season is urged
to be on hand.
It is too early to play baseball,
but those who are behind the move
ment do not believe it is too early
■ to begin preparations for the com
1 ing season, which should be the most
I active in the history of the town,
I because of the improved transporta
tion conditions between Nenana and
i Fairbanks.
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IN SEAM COURT
SEATTLE, March 1.—Judge Jere
miah Neterer has dismissed one of
the indictments against Blain, for
mer shipping board official, who is
charged with accepting fees from
contractors engaged in furnishing
supplies during the war. The in
dictment ,was dismissed on the plea
of Blain's attorney that the two
remaining indictments cover the
same charges.
The judge now has under advise
ment the arguments of the attorneys
for a dismissal of the remaining
indictments.
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Billy Butler arrived in Nenann
yesterday afternoon from Fairbanks
with his speedy dog team. He is
enroute to Talkeetna to meet John
A. Davis, head of the bureau ol
mines station at Fairbanks.
John Gross will arrive tomorrow
from the bureau of mines station ai
Fairbanks to make tests of the coa
now being supplied to the commis
sion by the Broad Pass Coal & De
velopment company and the Healj
River Coal corporation.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., March l.j
—The great land transportation sys-j
;ems of the United States, which j
vere placed under Government con-1
;rol by an executive proclamation i
ssued by President Wilson Decern- j
jer 28, 1917, under authority grant-j
sd by a rider attached to the ap- j
propriation aft of August, 1916, j
were returned to private control at j
midnight Saturday, in accordance
with the provisions of the railroad
control bill, which was signed by
President Wilson on Saturday after
noon.
Announcement of the signing ot
the bill was accompanied by a
proclamation vesting practically all
the powers given the executive by
the bill in Walker D. Hines, who
remains director-general under the
new arrangement.
Replying to the request of the
railway brotherhoods that a new
commission be appointed to adjust
pending wafft differences, the Presi
dent informed the employes that the
bill provides for such adjustments.
Without Inci<ient.
The operating railroad adminis
tration, which has controlled the
railroads of the country during the
past two years, relinquished its hold
upon the roads without incident and
the organization has ceased to exist,
with the exception of Director-Gen
eral Walker D. Hines, who alone
remains to clear up the thousands
of claims which have accumulated
since the Government took the road*
over.
The bill which restores the roads
to their owners insures the roads s
fixed percentage of profit and cre
ates a fund from which the roads
may obtain loans.
RED TAPE CAUSING
TROUBLE IN NORTH'
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 1.
—In his final report to Congress,
Secretary of the Interior Franklin
K. Lane made a final appeal to the
lawmakers for remedial legislation
for Alaska, reiterating his belief that
too much red tape in Washington
is hampering the development of
the Northern territory. The secre
tary expresses the belief that a
federal board, resident in Alaska,
should govern the Territory, instead
of scattered bureaus thousands of
miles away.
The secretary also suggests that
a constabulary, like the mounted
police of Caada, should police Alas
ka, and he urges the encouragement
of the muskoxen industry and im
mediate steps to make the Alaska
coast safe for navigation.
The message contains an appeal
for the termination of bureaucratic
control of Alaska, and is accom
panied by letters of Representatives
Curry and New, enclosing a copy
of lane's old bill creating an Alas
kan development board, which Sen
ator Chamberlain introduced in
1914, and tiring the congressmen (
to try to secure the early passage (
of the measure. “The time has ar- i
rived,” the letter says, “to remove' ■
some of the reservations from Alas-*,
kan resources.” !,
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Secretary Lane retired from of-1
fice today to accept a $50,000 a;;
year position with an ’oil company,!'
and is succeeded by John Barton |
Payne, a Chicago lawyer of note. |
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Secretary Lane entered the cabi- j
net of President Wilson March 5,:
1913, previous to which time he
was chairman of the interstate com
merce commission. He joined the
commission in 1905 and became
chairman in Tanu&ry, 1913.
The new secretary is a Southern
er, having been born in Virginia in
1855. He was educated in private
schools in Virginia and was admit
ted to the oar in 1876 and prac
ticed law for a number of years in
West Virginia, moving to Chicago
in 1883 and becoming judge of the
superior court of Cook county ten
years later.
TRUST WHITEWASHED
BY SUPREME COURT
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 1.
—In a decision handed down today,
the supreme court of the United
States upholds the formation of the
United States Steel corporation and
its subsidiary organizations engaged
; in the iron and steel industry. The
decision is a dismissal of the Gov
ernment’s action, under the Sherman
anti-trust law, to dissolve the steel
■ trust.
A minority ruling of the tribunal,
giving the views of the dissenting i
(jurists, was read by Justice Day. it
holds that the decision rendered by
the majority virtually annuls the
| Sherman act, inasmuch as the steel
j trust, in the opinion of the minority,
is operating in violation of the law.
The, majority ruling says that the
Standard Oil and the tobacco eases
are unlike the steel trust case. They
are violators of the law, the jurists
claim, while the steel corporation
appears to have obeyed the law
j since 1911.
j The decision of the majority af- '
'firms the ruling of the New Jersey 1
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I federal court, and the suit of the,1
i Government to hreak up the alleged
■combine is dismissed without preju
dice, thus permitting another action,
'should the Government desire to
start another suit in case the cor
poration resorts to illegal practice*.
jThe assets of the steel trust exceed
: two billion dollars.
'KS IS TRYING
i 10 RAISE LICENSE
SEATTLE, March 1.—The Wash
ngton correspondent of the Seattle
’ost-Intelligencer, in a special mess
tge from the national capital today,
ays that Governor Thomas Riggs, j
f r., and Maurice I). Leehy have
>repared a bill for introduction in
,'ongress today which will revolt! -
ionize Alaska steamship transporta
ion, if approved by the lawmakers.
The essential feature of the bill
s an increase in the license tax on
ihips in Alaska waters from one
lollar per net registered ton to
;hree dollars, to apply on every
ihip of more than 20 tons register,
rhe revenue thus derived is to be
ilaced in the territorial maritime
?und and used for the improvement
>f Alaska transportation conditions.
The Governor says the plan for
■eimbursement is the same as that
jse by the Canadians in Alaska
waters, to recompense vessels for
taking unprofitable voyages.
BASKtlBALLBOYS
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There will be another game of
basketball at Union hall tomorrow
night, between the Taylor and Blak
ey teams, and a lively clash is an
ticipated. as the teams probably will
be more evenly matched than they
were last week, when one of the
regular players was out of the
game.
The game will start at 8:30 and
spectators will be charged the usual
amount.
BODY OF BENSON WILL
BE SHIPPED TO STATES
The body of Howard Benson, old
timer who died in Fairbanks last
week, will be embalmed and shipped
to the States on the first outward
bound boat. Instructions to prepare
the body for shipment were received
from a brother of the deceased, who
resides at Brown Valley, Minnesota,
to which place shipment will be
made.
NOGALES, Ariz., March 1. - J. A
■'razor, American, storekeeper an>l
>ostmaster at Ruby, this state, died
*>day of wounds received on Friday
vhen Mexican bandits crossed the
jorder and raided the Frazer store
Alexander Frazer, a brother, was
ilmost instantly killed during the
raid.
Search Abandoned.
Sheritf Barhert, with deputies and
logs, who erossed to the Mexican
side in an effort to track the ban
dits, returned today and reports
that his search was unsuccessful.
Soldiers of Company A, Tenth cav
alry, also engaged in the search, but
they too have returned unsuccessful.
Colonel Carnahan, commanding of
ficer of the Nogales military dis
trict, says he is convinced the Mex
ican authorities of Sonora are doing
their utmost to find the bandits.
BANDITS HANGED.
WASHINGTON, D. (’., March 1.
—The state department was advised
late this afternoon- of the finding
of the body of a Mexican bandit
hanging near the spot where August
Morrill was killed last week. Re
ports from Manzanillo state that the
bandit was executed by order of
Bandit Leader Cipriano Corona as
the probable slayer of Morrill.
Morrill was American consul at
Manzanillo in 1880 and was aged 80
years at the time of his death. His
murder was reported by the consul
at Manzanillo and the American
embassy at Mexico City was in
structed to ask the Mexican govern
ment to punish the murderers.
AT HAIL TONIGHT
Members of Nenana Igloo, No.
17, Pioneers of Alaska, will gather
at Union hall tonight in regular
session for the transaction of rou
tine business and the consideration
of special business in connection
with the Pioneers’ home. The lat
ter question is an important one
and it is the desire of the officers
of the igloo to have a large turn
out of members.
, The meeting will start at eight
o’clock, and members of other igloos
are cordially invited to atttnd.
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i Nenana. the Gateway to McKinley
MaUomal Park.