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THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAR. 24, 1923.
NUMMBER 429
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GREAT ICE GORGE THREATENS DAMAGE
. SETTLERS FLEE FROM LOWLANDS ALONG MISSOURI
PENSION FIGURI-S DELAY ACTION ON BILL AT JUNEAU
WEATHER BUREAU DIRECTOR
TO MAKE TRIP TO ALASKA
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SEATTLE, Mar. 24—Dr. E. B. :
Carvart, head of the U. S. weather’
* bureau, who is now enroute to
Seattle, plans an extensive study of
the North Pacific coast and Alaska
conditions affecting weather predic
tions. The visit of the chief, it is
hoped, will bring about the estab
lishment of additional wireless sta
tions in Alaska, including one at
Point Barrow, which, in addition to
regular business, will handle weather
reports
PIUTE RENEGADES READY
TO ABANDON HOSTILITIES
SALT LAKE, Mar. 24—The first
peace proposals from the beleagured
Piute renegades were taken to
Blanding yesterday by two friendly
4 Navajos, Realizing that there is no
chance for them to escape from the
white posse which has them sur
rounded in the mountains, the red
skins express willingness to sur
render on condition their lives are
spared. They want a guarantee of
protection.
Word has also been received here
to the effffect that the posse en
gaged the Indians in battle late yes
terday afternoon, with the result
that one Indian was killed and five
bucks and four squaws captured.
Only three of the original band of
renegades are still at large and the !
end of the minature uprising is at j
hand.
United States Marshal Ward ar- <
rived at Blanding yesterday and is1
now in charge of the situation.
GERMAN REVOLT NIPPED
LONDON, Mar. 24—A Central
News report from Berlin says the i
German minister of the interior in- ,
formed the Prussian diet this week :
that Lieut Rossbach, who was placed j
under arrest recently at Berlin, wras
• the moving spirit in a plot to start
a revolution after the style of the
Kapp revolt. The uprising was set
March 31.
SEMMES RESIGNS POST
SEATTLE, Mar. 24—R. M
Semmes director of operations of ^
the Shipping Board in the North
Pacific district, and former ^advisor ■
to Governor Tom Riggs regarding
shipping problems, has announced
his resignation, it being his inten
tion to enter private business. His |
* successor has not been named.
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VETERAN ABBOT PASSES
CONCEPTION, Mo., Mar. 24—
The Right Rev. Abbot Frowin Con
rad, aged 89 years, and the oldest
Benedictine abbot in the world, died
here today.
SUGAR PRICES TOO HIGH
WASHINGTON, D. C. Mar. 24—
It is charged, as a result of the pre
liminary inquiry conducted by the
department of commerce that a
conspiracy exists in the sugar trade
to boost prices, and the matter has
been laid before the department of
justice. A conference is now being
arranged between Acting Attor?ny
General Seymore and Secretary
Hoover with a view to joint action
in the matter.
F. Plaskeat is a guest at the
Cooney hotel.
RIVER FLOODING LARGE AREA;
BOMBING PLANE ATTACKS ICE
FRENCH MUST MOVE OUT
BEFORE TALK OF PEACE
MUNICH, Mar. 24—The uncon-,
ditional evacuation of Ruhr is the j
fundamental promise from which
any discussion aiming: to end the.
present conflict must proceed, ac
cording to Cuno, as expressed in a
speech made by him yesterday. He
declared that the German people are
stoutly opposed to the suggestion
that a buffer state be created, front
ing the Rhine, and pointed out that
the world by this time realizes that j
disarmed and impotent Germany re- \
quires security rather than France,
who commands the world’s greatest
land forces and the most powerful
air fleet.
WOMAN ASSISTED BANDIT;
REFUSES TO DISCLOSE NAMES
DENVER. Mar. 24—Pearl Cock
drill, of Alburque, New Mexico, has
confessed that she nursed one of
the bandits who was wounded at
the time of the mint robbery, ac
cording to Chief of Police Williams_
The woman admits that she knows
all of the bandits involved in the
robbery but has refused to divulge
their names or where they are now
living.
EXPLORER HONORED
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 24—Ernest
Dekoven Leffingwell, Arctic explor
er. of Pasedena, has received the
American Geographical Society’s
Charles P. Daly medal, given an
nually for valuable contributions to
the study of geography. LefTingwells
studies along the Alaska coast won
the honor for him.
MeTIGUE TO MEET CARP
DUBLIN, Mar. 24—McTigue, w'na
won a decision 'over Battling Siki
here several days ago, has announc
ed his acceptance of an offer to
fight Georges Carpentier. It is not
decided whether the bout will take
place in the United States or in
Ireland.
PLANES HOMEWARD BOUND
SAN JUAN, Mar. 24—The six
army planes which arrived here re
cently from San Arrtonio, hopped
off yesterday on the return trip.
WOMAN LOST IN PARK
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 24—The
local police are making an intensive
search for Mrs. Edward A. Bradene,
wife of Colonel Bradene, retired,
, who disappeared on Wednesday in
Golden Gate Park. She is 38 years
; old, attractive and prominent social
ly and was in good health and spir
j its when she was lost from sight,
j The Boy Scouts may be enlisted
in the search.
WELL CAVE IN FATAL
| SNYDER, Col., Mar. 24—Three
j were killed here yesterday and a
: fourth injured as the result of the
caving of the walls of a well which
! was being dug.
SIOUX CITY, Mar. 24—The
great ice gorge which formed in
the Missouri river several days ago,
is still holding and the flood peril
to residents of the lowlands is grow
ing hourly, Mafty of the residential
sections of this city are flooded as
a result of the steady rise in the
back water level of Floyd river.
Unless the jam is broken it is fear
ed there will a rephition of the
disastrous flood of 1881 when the
town of Vermillion was wiped out.
Reports received in this city to
day state that a new gorge has
formed several miles north of Ser- ^
gaent Bluffs, materially increasing,
the dager to settlers in the lowlands,
the majority of whom have fled to
higher ground, leaving all their ef-;
fets behind them.
There was a fourteen-inch rise
in the river level last night and the
lowlands south of this city are un
der water today.
An airplane member made an at
tempt yesterday to break up the ice
yesterday with dynamite, but was
unsuccessful. Another attempt will
be made today and an appeal has
been sent to the war department to
send additional aerial equipment
to help in the work of dislodging
the gorge which is eleven miles
long.
Old rivermen express the belief
that the Missouri river will leave
its present channel and cut a new
one around the gorge if the ice
holds a few days longer
ARMY OFFICER IS ACCUSED
OF TRYING TO DISRUPT HOME
SAN ANTONIO, Mar. 24—Mrs.
Agnes Kanes Randle, who has been
reunited with her husband. Captain
Edwin H. Randle, of the Twentieth
infantry, has started suit against
Colonel Arthur Conger for $100,000
damages, alleging that Conger at
tempted to break up their home by
trying to force Randle to secure a
divorce. It is charged that the
colonel threatened Randle that if
he did not get a divorce he would
force him to resign from the army.
FORREST PREDICTS REVIVAL
COMING SOON IN THE NORTH
SEATTLE, Mar. 24—George T.
Forrest, Juneau businessman and
prominent Elk, addressed a meeting
of the Alaska committee of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce last
night. He deplored the lack of a
capital building at Juneau, and ask
ed Seattle to continue her effort to
secure an appropriation from Con
gress for such a structure. In the
course of his remarks he pointed out
that there is one federal official in
Alaska for every fifty white citizens
He told the committee he felt op
timistic over the outlook in all sec
tions of the territory and predicted
that the coming summer would see
many important developments.
George T. Jaskson, of Hyder, dis
cussed the mining outlook in the
north, and Ernest Kirberger, fox
farmer, said that industry is becom
ing established in Alaska.
BANK BOARD LOSES MEMBER
WASHINGTON’, D. C. Mar. 24—
Milo D. Campbell, of Michigan, who
recently became the first “dirt far
mer” member of the federal reserve
board, dropped dead this week while
playing golf.
SENATOR CANNOT LIVE
DENVER, Mar. 24—At noon to
day a statement was issued by
physicians in attendance on Senator
Nicholson to the effect that the
senator, who returned from the
Mayo clinic this week, is sinking
rapidly. He has tumor of the stom
ach and is also suffering from heart
attacks. It is thought his end is
near.
FOSTER ATTACKS WITNESS
OF JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
ST. JOSEPH. Mar. 24—William
Z. Foster, who is on trial here on
a charge of criminal syndicalism, is
trying: to establish a defense by
opening: an attack on the reputation
of Francis Morrow, agent of the de
partment of Justice, who is the
principal witness for the prosecution
Depositions taken at Camden and
Philadelphia were introduced yester
day in an effort to show that Mor
row has a bad reputation for verac
ity and that he made attempts to
stir up riots at Socialist street meet
ing:?.
BANK TELLER HELP UP;
BANDITS GET *40,000
EAST ST. LOUIS. Mar. 24—
Samuel Barker, teller of the South
ern Illinois National Bank, accom
panied by an armed guard, was
held up yesterday at the east ap
proach to the Municipal free bridge
and robbed of $40,000. the bandits
making their escape with the loot.
METER RECEIPTS WANTED
E. M. McLain, of the Anchorage
offices of the Alaskan Engineering
Commission, is a visitor in Nenana
for the purpose of taking up all
meter receipts held by patrons of
the public utilities. These receipts,
when surrendered, will be transferr
ed to the superintendent of the ut
ilities, together with the deposits
held by the commission, so that, in
future, no delay will be involved
in receiving deposits when meters
are turned back to the city.
Mr. McLain is here at the re
quest of the city council and it is
urged that receipts be turned in
promptly at the office of Superin
tendent Henshaw in order that the
transfer may be completed without
delay. Those failing to surrender
their receipts at this time will find
the recovery of their deposits later
on accompanied by much difficulty
and long delay.
Rev and Mrs. Fred G. Scherer
and baby came down from Fair
banks yesterday and Mr. Scherer
will conduct services at Grace
church tomorrow.
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AMERICAN BANKER SUGGESTS
REPARATIONS SETT-EMINT
WASHINGTON D. C. Mar. 24—
The proposal that European business
men work out a plan for the settle
ment of the reparations question
based on American financial cooper
ation, was laid before the delegates
at yesterday’s meeting of the Inter- i
national Chamber of Commerce by
Fred I. Kent, New York banker and
member of the American delegation.
The summary of his address, pub
lished here, contained the sugges
tion that a portion of the Allied ■
indebtedness to the United States
be exchanged for “positive assur- ‘
ances" between the Allies and Ger
many on reparations that will in
clude the “amount and terms of
payment that can and will be lived t
up to.” Another plan suggested is
a loan to Germany of sufficient size
to restore the economic situation to
a sound basis.
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BORAH AND THIRD PARTY
DO NOT WORRY PRESIDENT
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DAYTON, Fla.. Mar. 24—The re-|
cent assertion of Senator Borah
that the formation of a third political
party appears not improbable, ap
parently has not disturbed the
serenity of the President’s vacation
cruise. The politically inclined mem
bers of the party read the reports
of Borah’s statement with interest
but they are not making any com
ments for publication. In fact, the
question of golf is of more import
ance to the President and hi? friends j
just now than politics.
OIL TANKS BURN
PONCA CITY Okla.. Mar. 24—
I
Many thousand barrels of oil were
destroyed by fire today as a result .
of the burning of a batery of 17 j
storage tanks belonging to the Co-'
mar Oil Company, in the heart of i
the Tonkaw field. The fire, the
cause of which is unexplained, was
still burning late this afternoon. The
Comar company is the largest pro
ducer in what is known as the
greatest light oil producing center
of the world.
DEATH SUMMONS PROMOTER
ON EVE OF INVESTIGATION
TOLEDO. Mar. 24—Leonard R.
Steel, head of the L. R. Steel Cor
poration which went into the hands
of a receiver on March 8, died on
a train yesterday while enroute to
Chicago. Death came on the eve of
an investigation into stock selling
and other financial methods of his
corporation, in which stockholders
all over the country invested $20,
000,000.
Father Eline was among those
arriving from Fairbanks yesterday,
he will hold services at the Catholic
church tomorrow morning.
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Mrs. J. A. Lawson, is a recent
arrival in Nenana from Los Angeles, j
left for Tanana this morning on the j
mail stage.
SENATE PROVIDES FUNDS
TO ENTERTAIN PRESIDENT
JUNEAU, Mar. 24,—The house
bill providing for Che appropriation
of $3,000 to defray the cost of en
tertaining President Harding and
the members of his party on the
occasion of their visit to Alaska
during the coming summer, was ap
proved by the senate yesterday. The
legislature already has extended an
invitation to the President to visit
the Territory and reports from the
East indicate that plans are shap
ing satisfactorily for the outing.
The senate also has approved a
deficiency approapnation of $4,000
for the Pioneers’ home at Sitka.
The soldiers’ land bonus memorial
asking Congress to grant 160 acres
of land in Alaska to veterans with
out residence and cultivation re
quirements and making the right
to select and locate such land as
signable and transferable, will pass
the house today, it is thought.
The women's jury bill and the
so-called blue sky bill reached the
house yesterday and were referred
to the judiciary committee.
Both branches of the legislature
are busy clearing away technical
bills amending the code, and im
portant measures including the re
organization bill, revamped pen
sions bill, industrial insurance and
their measures are bing held in abey
ance until the minor matters are dis
posed of
The senate has confirmed the ap
pointment of W G. Smith as terri
torial treasurer; Robert Bloom, Rob
ert Lavery and Morton E. Stevens,
as trustees of the Alaska Agricul
tural Colege and School of Mines;
John A. Clark as commissioner of
uniform laws; H. E. Ellsworth, of
Seward, J, R. Heckman, of Ketchi
kan. Calvin Hazelet, of Cordova and
B. A. Roselle, of Juneau, as mem
bers of the territorial fish com
mission. the terms expiring at th ■
end of this month.
Representative Foster estimates
that $88,000 biennially will be the
amount required to meet pension
demands if the maximum monthly
allowance is placed at $25. It is
probable no action will be taken on
this bill urttil after the estimates
are prepared.
OFFERS REWARD FOR SCALP
SALT LAKE, Mar. 24—Acting
Governor Crockett has offered a
reward of $100 for the capture,
dead or alive, of old Chief Posey,
reputed leader of the renegade
Piutes. The reward is offered in the
hope that the Navajos will be tempt
ed to join the white posse in the
hunt for the outlaws who are
thought to have made their way to
the Dry Wash section, which is prac
tically inaccessible.
MASONS ACQUIRE QUARTERS
The Nenana Masonic Club has ta
gen a long term lease of the Bowen
biulding, with an option to purchase
the property, the object of the deal
being to provide quarters for the
rapidly growing organization. They
will take possession immediately..
Dr. and Mrs. J. R Bowen left
for the Outside last night, their de
parture being the occasion of a
large gathering of friends at the
depot to bid them farewell. They
are going almost direct to Los Ange
les.