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THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DEC. 14, 1922
NUMBER 387
' FEDERAL REORGANIZATION PLAN LOOMS
ARMY AND NAVY MAY BE MADE ONE UNDER PLAN
ASTORIA'PROFITEERS BOOST PR1CES-COUNCILMEN ACT
ASTORIA PROFITEERS TAKE
ADVANTAGE OF FIRE LOSS
ASTORIA. Dec. 14—The city has j
taken action to curb the profiteer- i
ing ■which has made its appearance
here since the great fire of several ;
days ago. The council has passed an j
r ordinance providing for the punish
ment of those who seek to charge
higher prices than were in force be-1
fore the fire.
The council also has approved a
plan for widening the streets.
All persons doing business of any J
kind, or practicing any profession,
trade or calling, are to be licensed.
Snow Complicate* Relief
I A cold east wind, accompanied by
snow, has complicated the problem
of providing relief for victims of '■
the fire. Many additional calls were
received today for clothing and fuel.
Insurance adjusters have estimat-1
ed that the property loss is between j
ten and twelve million dollars, with ■
about forty per cent of the losses!
covered by insurance.
Congre** May Help
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Dec. 14—
Representative Hawley has introduc-1
ed a bill providing for the appropria
* tion of a million dollars for the im
mediate relief of Astoria.
NAVAL BILL IS REPORTED;
WANT NAVAL PACT BROADER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 14—
The house appropriations committee
has reported the annua! naval bill,
which includes a request that Presi
dent Harding seek a broader scope
k of Che naval limitation agreement
so as to include limitation of the
construction of smaller types of
war vessels and military and naval
aircraft. It is suggested that the
President open negotiations along
this line with Great Britain. France.
Italy and Japan.
The naval budget reported to the
house carries a total of nearly 29?
millions, which is approximately half
a million less than last year. The
bill provides for an enlisted person
nel of 86,000. which is the same as
last year.
W Chairman Kelly, of the house ap
propriations sub-committee, explain
ed that the reason the President
had been requested to urge the
other powers to limit the construc
tion of smaller warships was that the
navy department had recommended
a naval construction program re
presenting an outlay of 331 million
dollars.
CLERGYMEN OPPOSE MAYOR
SEATTLE. Dec. 14—Rev. Chaun
cey J. Hawkins and Rev. H. J.
Chatterbox, who recently attacked
the administration of Mayor Brown
on the grounds of slack law enforce
ment. nave been summoned to ap
pear as witnesses before the grand
jury, which has started an investi
gation of vice conditions.
PIERCE BUTLER IS CLEARED
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Dec. 14—
The hearing on the nomination of
Pierce Butler to be associate justice
of the supreme court, has been con
cluded by the senate judiciary com
mittee. The committeemen cast a
solid vote in favor of recommending
confirmation of the nomination.
BUYS CLAIMS NEAR HYDER
SEATTLE. Dec. 14—Grant May
hood. president of the American
Mining & Milling Company, of Van
couver, B. C., has purchased the
property of the Fish Creek Mining
Company in the Portland Canal dis
trict. near Hyder. The purchase
price is said to have been half a
million dollars, and that the pur
chasers will be ready to ship 800
tons of ore by January.
ANCHORAGE, Dec. 14—It is es
timated that the Cache creek district
produced a quarter of a million dol
lars during the last season.
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OPPOSITION IS TAKING FORM;
PORK BARREL BIG OBSTACLE
THIRD PARTY SUGGESTION
REJECTED BY CONFERENCE
CLEVELAND. Dec. 14—A sugges
tion to organize a new political
party was rejected during the closing
session of the Conference for Pro- j
gressive Political Action, which ad-1
journed on Tuesday night.
The delegates are now enroute to :
their homes to perfect state organ-!
izations for the nomination and!
election of candidates of their choice
either through the "primaries of the ;
old parties” or by “independent
political action.”
MARION HEARING STARTING;
MURDER CHARGE ONLY ISSUE
MARION. 111.. Dec. 14—In his
opening statement for the prosecu
tion in the Herrin cases, the at
torney for the state declared that
the only question before the jury
| is one of murder. There is no is
sue, he said, resulting from warfare
i between capital and labor.
Counsel for the defense stated
that testimony would be introduced
showing that the five men on trial
did not take any part in the Herrin
riot, being elsewhere at the time the
alleged murders were committed. He
also declared that the killing of
| non-union miners resulted from the
. “armed invasion" of Williamson
'county by armed guards and “many
: acts of brutality, culminating in the
; ruthless murder of three union
miners."
SECOND BIG SUPPLY BILL
APPROVED BY THE SENATE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 14—
The second big supply bill to be
taken up for consideration by the
senate during the present session,
providing funds for the state and
justice departments during the nerrt
fiscal year, was approved this after
j noon, after an hour's consideration,
i The bill carries a total of thirty
i tree and one-half million dollars.
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PRESIDENT INFORMS FARMERS
THEY ARE ON RIGHT TRACK
, WASHINGTON, D. C Dec. 14—
j President Harding, in a letter read
j at the opening session of the Nation
al Council of the Fanners Cooperat
| ive Marketing association, said that
; he knew of “no single movement
| that promises more help toward
j present relief and permanent better
| ment of agricultural conditions’'
i than a cooperative organization of
j farmers to market their products.
MIGHT HELP NEWSPAPERS
WASHINGTON. D. C., Dec. 14
Senator Brookhart, of Iowa, has in
troduced an amendment to the ship
subsidy bill providing for the pay
! ment of a subsidy to American pro
j dueers, both industrial and agricul
I tural.
FRANCE TO CONSIDER PACT
PARIS. Dec. 14—M. Raiborti,
| minister of marine, has informed
parliament that the Washington
naval agreements will be submitted
for ratification after the chamber re
convenes early in January.
COLD SNAP CONTINUES
SEATTLE. Dec. 14—There has
been little, if any moderation of the
cold snap in the Northwest, sub
zero temperatures continuing to pre
vail at many Eastern Washington
and Oregon points, while Western
Washington continues to shiver, with
additional snow falling.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 14—
Walter F. Brown, head of the com
mission appointed to prepare a plan
for the reorganization of the feder
al government, has definitely recom
mended to President Harding the
consolidation of the war and navy
departments in a department of na
tional defense, to be under the di
rection of a cabinet officer with as
sistants in charge of the army and
navy respectively.
It is stated that the President is
giving serious consideration to this
and other recommendations and may
lay them before Congress within a
fortnight, with expressions of the
opinions of the administration on
each of the suggested changes.
It was announced late this after
noon that President Harding had
met with the joint commission on
departmental reorganization, prepar
atory to the submission of the com
pleted report to Congress, rceom
mending: sweeping re-alignments of
departments and bureaus. There are
some differences to be ironed out
to meet the objections of cabinet
officers whose departments are affect
ed, but considerable progress has
been made toward the completion
of the report.
One of the chief obstacles to be
overcome is the question of the con
solidation of the war and navy de
partments, and another is the un
reconciled difference in connection
with the proposed transfer of the
forestry service to the department
of the interior. It is indicated that
the opposition to this plan may be
such as to necessitate a division of
the service into two parts, leaving
the care and conservation of for
ests in the hands of the department
of agriculture and placing mineral
questions under the jurisdiction of
the department of the interior.
DAUGHERTY KEPT TRACK OF
MOVEMENTS OF LAWMAKERS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 14—
It was charged, at the hearing on
the Daugherty impeachment investi
gation today that the department of
justice detailed agents to shadow
the movements of members of Con
gress who had shown themselves un
friendly to the attorney general. As
fast as the charges were made, how
ever. they were promptly denied by
the defense.
Samuel Gompers appeared before
the house judiciary committee yes
terday in connection with the in
vestigation. He frankly told the
committee that the executive com
mittee of the American Federation
of Labor had authorized the em
ployment of counsel for the Illinois
United Mine Workers, in connection
with the Herrin trials.
J. H. Ralston, attorney for Repre
sentative Keller, asserted this af
ternoon that secret service agents
had shadowed Senator Caraway, of
Arkansas, and Representatives Wood
ruf, of Michigan, ar.d Johnson, of
South Dakota. The charge was de
nied by Paul Howland, who is repre
senting Daugherty at the hearing.
PRISONERS START A RIOT
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14—A call
1 was received at the Central Police
I station late this afternoon from the
■ East Side jail, requesting help to
quell a riot among the prisoners.
Shotgun squads were immediately
dispatched to the scene. About 100
i prisoners are confined in the jail,
i the list being made up largely of
jauto speeders.
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GOLD CONTRACT LET
ANCHORAGE, Dec. 14—The con
tract has been let for transportating
a million and a half in gold bullion
from Iditarod to the .Alaska Rail
road, by dog team.
ORTERIC BREAKS IN TWO
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14—The
tramp steamer Orteric, which went
aground on Fish rock early this
week, has broken in two and will
be a total loss, according to a radio
gram received here today. The mem
bers of the crew were taken off the
vessel shortly after she grounded.
TRAINS BUMP—ONE DEAD
THORPE, Wis., Dec. 14—A Soo
Line passenger train collided with
a freight train near this city last
night, with the result that one per
son was killed and several injured.
PAPERS SPENT LARGE SUM
TO COVER MURDER MYSTERY
NEW BRUNSWICK, Dee. 14—It
is estimated that Canadian and U. S.
newsjjapers spent more than one
hundred thousand dollars in connec
tion with the investigation of the
Hall and Mills murder cases. About
eighty reporters and feature writ
ers were maintained on the ground
for a period of three months.
It is estimated at the telegraph
offices that the number of words
sent over the wires in connection
with the investigation was in excess
of one million.
SEATTLE IS MAKING EFFORT
TO ERDUCE RATES ON GOLD
SEATTLE. Dec. 14—The Wash
ington correspondent of the Seattle
Times reports that Senators Jones
and Poindexter and the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce have made
representation to the interstate com
merce commission regarding alleged
unsatisfactory express rates on the
transportation of gold from Alaska
to San Francisco.
Chairman McChord has advised
that the subject will be presented
at length at hearings to be held at
Tacoma, commencing on March 9,
which will be one of a number of
hearings covering a large section of
the country for the purpose of ob
taining information for use in a
complete readjustment of rates.
J. W. McCord, oil promoter, who
passed through Juneau recently on
his way to Seattle from the Cold
Bay district. He was three weeks in
reaching Juneau and, upon arrival
there, expressed the belief that oil
drilling had started on Pearl Dome.
Preparations were almost complet
ed when he left Kanatak and he ex
pects to find drilling operations go
ing at full speed when he returns
to the oil district toward the end
of this month. “When I left Pearl
Dome,” he told a representative of
(the Juneau Empire, it was expected
that drilling would start the first
week in December. There had been
a freezeup and supplies and mater
ial were being assembled at Pearl
Dome ready for drilling.”
M. B. Sommers, government mete
orologist who was in the Interior
recently for the purpose of estab
1 listing a weather station at McKin
j ley Park, sailed Bouth on the last
i Victoria.
Advices from Nome state that the
federal officials of the Second divi
j sion claim to have the driest divi*
1 sion in the Territory.
CLEMENCEAU RETURNS HOME
SATISFIED WITH WORK DONE
NEW YORK, Dec. 14—Satisfied
that he had accomplished the mis
sion which brought him to America,
Clemenceau sailed for France yes
terday aboard the liner Paris. The
Tiger declared that he vyould re
turn to America again, “but only as
a ghost.”
The thousands on the pier, in
cluding many persons of prominence
cheered the departing visitor as the
big ship pulled out, with the band
playing “The Star Spangled Ban
ner.” Clemenceau waved bis old
gray hat in parting salute.
BOILER EXPLOSION CAUSES
DEATH OF ELEVEN CUBANS
CAMAGUEY, Cuba, Dec. 14—A
boiler explosion at the Estrella
sugar refining plant yesterday is
believed to have caused the death
of nearly a score of workers. The
bodies of eleven victims have been
recovered from the ruins of the
wrecked building and a search is
being made for six others who are
still missing. Fifty other- were in
jured.
ATTEMPT MADE TO POISON
BRITISH HOME SECRETARY
LONDON*. Dec-. 13-—An attempt
! was made this week to assassinate
W. C. Bridgemar, home secretary,
by means of poisoned chocolates
which were sent through the mail
The candy arrived at the home office
yesterday and was turned over to
the police for inspection. A test
showed that the candy contained
arsenic sufficient to cause death.
No trace of the sender has been
found.
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ENGLAND CAN’T PAY U. S.
UNTIL OTHERS PAY TO HER
LONDON, Dee. 14—In a discus
sion of England’s war obligations
to the United States, Premier Law
argued in the house of commons
today that it would be impossible
for Great Britain to pay the Ameri
can debt while receiving nothing
from Germany, France and Italy.
He declared his conviction that the
payment of the American debt un
der existing circumstances would re
duce standards of living in England
for generations to come.
SPANGLER HEADS EXCHANGE;
CLOUDS OF FUR WAR APPEAR
SEATTLE, Dec. 14—The directors
of the recently organized Seattle
Fur Excange have elected. J. W.
Spangler president of the exchange
and plans are now being formulated
to make Seattle the marketing
j center for the $3,000,000 worth of
furs which now pass through the
city annually to other markets.
Charles D. Garfield, manager tf
the Alaska departm ;.’t «.f the Cham
ber of Commerce, is quoted as say
ing that the monopoly of the Fouke
Fur Company, which has a ten
year contract for Pribilof seal skins,
must be smashed. Senator Jones, it
is reported, has promised to give
his support to a bill introduced by
Hiram Johnson to abrogate the
Fouke contract.
COAST MAN SUICIDES
ANCHORAGE, Dec. 14—Ole San
don, aged 38 years, was found dead
in a cabin here this week, shot
through the head. It was a case of
suicide.
NATION PAYS TRIBUTE TO
MEMORY OF WANAMAKER
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 14—One
of the many tributes to the memory
of John Wanamaker, received from
all parts of the country, was: "He
was always at work on time." These
were the words of George W. Stull,
first office boy of the merchant
prince, and summarized the secret
of Wanamaker's success. Stull is
now superintendent of the Wana
maker store.
The body of the internationally
famous merchant lay in state from
ten o’clock until noon today, at the
Bethany Presbyterian church, of
which he was one of the founders.
The burial took place *his afternoon.
LAW TELLS COMMONS FALL
OF GERMANY NEAR AT HAND
LONDON Dec. 14—Premier, Law.
addressing the house of commons
today, informed the lawmakers that
Germany is at present on the verge
of complete collapse. He said that
this was the only information he
could give on the subject of repara
tions, and is regarded as partly ex
plaining the unwillingness of the
government to give support to the
| French desire to use aims in an
I effort to force the payment of
| reparation money.
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NEAJtLY SCORE LOSE LIVES
IN TEXAS RAILWAY WRECK
HOUSTON, Dec. 14-—Fourteen
were killed outright, three fatally
injured and many others slightly in
jured last night as the result of
the wreck of a Southern Pacific
train, near Humble, 17 miles from
this city. Most of the dead and in
jured were negroes, and county
peace officer' and railroad officials
have begun a searching investiga
tion on suspicion that the wreck wa
deliberately planned.
Three of the injured died today.
CUT IN BUDGET MAY STOP
PAY OF ALASKA DRY SQUAD
That tlie failure of the budget to
include in its Alaska items the cus
tomary funds for maintenance of
the force now assigned to the sup
pression of Kquor traffic among the
Indians, will probably result in the
discontinuance of that service after
June 30, 1923, was indicated by
Governor Bone recently, according
to the Juneau Empire. The govern
or’s office is in charge of the service
and appropriations for it heretofore
have been made through the depart
ment of the interior.
Four special agents comprise the
force, one for each judicial division
in the Territory. The present officer.-,
are Jack Wilson. First division;
Charles Brown, Sr., Second division;
J. I.indley Green, Third division;
Edgar Seneff, Fourth division. The
j service was consolidated several
months ago by Governor Bone, un
i der the U. S. marshals’ offices in
the several divisions, and the special
agents have been working under the
marshals and with them since that
time.
The service is provided with funds
to maintain it up to the end of the
fiscal year. If the budget recom
mendations are followed by Con
gress in making appropriations, the
special force to prevent liquor traf
fic among the Indians will be wiped
out.
TURKISH PEACE IN SIGHT;
TURKS WILL JOIN LEAGUE
LAUSANNE, Dec. 14—According
to announcement today by those in
attendance at the Near East con
ference, Turkey will become a mem
ber of the League of Nations after
Ismet Pasha has attached his signa
ture to the pending peace treaty.
The announcement is interpreted
as meaning that the Turks will ac
cept the league's supervision over
the Christian people in Turkey.