Interior Alaska Must Have Low Freight Rates
THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA. THURSDAY. MARCH 9, 1922.
NUMBER
167
SUTHERLAND BILL TO DEVELOP ALASKA
FEDERAL GRAND JURY WILL PROBE ARMY FRAUDS
ALASKA CONTROVERSY REACHES ACUTE STAGE
ILLEGAL COMPENSATION
OF RETIRED EMPLOYEES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 9.—
In reply to a query of the secre
tary of the interior. Attorney Gen
eral Daugherty said today that ap
proximately eighty thousand govern
ment employees holding positions by
Presidential order, are not entitled
to benefits under the retirement act.
Secretary Fall, announcing the
above opinion of the attorney gen
eral, said that out of eight thous
and employees retired under the
act, sixty-four hundred of them had
been receiving compensation illegal
ly
An order was issued directing
that no more certificates of pay
ment be issued to these retired em
ployees.
LODGE IS STRONG FOR
TREATY RATIFICATIONS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 9.—
In an address delivered in the sen
ate today Senator Lodge of Massa
chussetts asid that the termination
of the Anglo-Japanese alliance and
the substitution of a political sys
tem actuated by peace in the Pa
cific is “the main purpose’’ of the
four power treaty.
The American delegation, the sen
ator said, regarded the Anglo-Jap
anese alliance as the “most danger
ous element” in the government’s
relations with the Far East; adding
that if the four power treaty failed
the naval agreement will also b«
endangered resulting in the “faull
of the conference.”
PSEUDO KU KLUX KLAN
TO GET HOT RECEPTION
FRESNO, Cal., ^larch 9.—Thoro
ly aroused by the recent activities
of an armed gang of men, appar
ently garbed in the regalia of thf
Ku Klux Klan, who visited the horns
of Reverend Vandyke Tedds, min
minister of the Baptist Tabernacle
at Fellowes; the residents of Mari
copa have organized a shotgun squac
which is composed of many of the
leading citizens.
The squad is ready to receive
any hooded nightriders with buck
shot, on sight, and ask question;
later.
It is understood that local inter
ests plan on employing detective;
to fully investigate Klan activities.
PRESIDENT ENLIGHTENS
THE SENATE ON TREATY
WASHINGTON, D. C-, Mar. 9—
President Harding informed the sen
ate today that the Lansing-Ishii
agrement has been completely su
perseded by the nine power treaty
relating to China which is now be
fore the senate for ratification.
In answer to the Borah resolution
he said that the four power treaty
does not effect China aad that it
does not bear directly on the Lans
ing-Ishii notes.
RIVER ON RAMPAGE
WARNINGS SENT OUT
MACON, Ga., March 9. — After
the heaviest rains experienced in this
section of the country in twenty
years, the Ocmalgee river overflow
ed her banks today.
Flood warning were sent out bj
the authorities to the dwellers in
the valley.
TROUBLE IN SPAIN
MADRID, March 7.—The Span
ish cabinet resigned today. No rea
son is assigned for this action.
REPUBLICANS DEMAND THE
SURRENDER OF LIMERICK
DUBLIN, Ireland, March 9.—Re
ports current here today to the ef
fect that the Republican mutineers
have given the forces of the Irish
Free State two days' notice to sur
render the Limerick police barracks,
is causing intense anxiety.
DELEGATE INTRODUCES BILL
FOR ALASKA’S DEVELOPMENT
LANDIS FIXES SCALE
FOR BUILDING TRADES
! CHICAGO, March 9.—Federal
Judge Landis, arbiter in the dispute |
between building trades unions and \
contractors, announced a scale of.
wages for building trades employees i
practically the same as that prevail I
j ing for the last four months. The!
new scale becomes effective June!
1, and remains in effect one year
if accepted by the unions and con- j
tractors.
The contractors had previously j
agreed to abide by the award and
most of the unions incicated they,
would accept.
Awards for some of the principal!
unions follows:
i Plumbers, 95 cents; bricklayers,;
SI.10; boilermakers, SI; steamfit
ters, 95 cents; electricians, $1.10;
gasfitters, 95 cents; common labor
ers, 72 cents.
.
POWDER PLANT EXPLODES
DEMOLISH MIXING HOUSE!
TACOMA, March 9.—Fred Paul
son. Dan Marks and Alvin Larson.
! all three unmarried, were instantly
killed today when a terrific explo
sion demolished number three mix
ing house of the E. L. Dupont Done
i mours Powder company at Dupont:
' near Camp Lewis.
The buildings at Camp Lewis and
south Tacoma were jarred to their
foundations by tfie explosion.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN THINKS
MIMIC DOES NOT FLATTER
LOS ANGELES, March 9.—Char-’
lie Chaplin, the famous movie star,
filed suit against the Western Fea
tures Production company today
| seeking to restrain the latter from
i producing two pictures, which Chap
| lin aleges contain a character like
him.
He says that Charles Amader.
: billed as Charles Aplin makes use
I of manr.eri=ms which are peculiarly
'his own.
KU KLUX KLAN CAUSES
ARRESTS OF MURDERESS
DELAND, Fla., March 9.—Acting
on information furnished by the Ku
Klux Klan, the authorities arrested
Mrs. Alice R. Shields at St. Cloud
' today for the murder of her hus
band, William A. Shields formerly!
j of Moline. Illinois, who was killed
. here on February 6th, last.
IRISH RIOTS NECESSITATE
DRASTIC MILITARY ACTION
BELFAST, Ireland, March 9.—;
Serious rioting at Hanover today!
resulted in the military being call
| ed out to quell it.
i The soldiers opened fire on the i
: rioters killing two women and
wounding several others.
The Lord Mayor of Belfast an
i nounced that the proclamation of j
I martial law is imminent.
—
MILITARY FORCE USED
TO PREVENT PICKETING
PROVIDENCE. March 9.—Heavy
forceB of the National Guard cav- J
| airy and artillery details are stand-:
ing guard over the Hope Company’s j
mill at Hope in expectation of trou- j
ble in case the striking textile work-1
ers carry out their announced plans'
ar.d attempt to picket the plant with J
i strikers, against the orders of the j
authorities.
WASHINGTON. D. C., Mar. 9.—
Delegate Dan Sutherland of Alaska
introduced in the house today, a
bill which provide* for the develop
ment of oil and other ainer il re
sources of Alaska.
It also authorises the ippropria
tion of five million lollars to begin
development work.
The measure would uirect the sec
retary of the interior, thru *uch
agencies as he might select, to ar
range for drilling for oil and min
ing for other minerals on the pub
lic lands in Alaska; and, in the event
of a discovery being made, to dis
pose of the projects thru competi
tive bidding or other suitable means,
broad powers being conferred for
this purpose, as well as in the mat
ter of incidental expenditures in the
general work of carrying out ex
ploring undertakings which may
prove valuable.
The bill also would direct that the
NO EMBARGO ON ARMS
SHIPPED INTO MEXICO
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 9—
The state department made the an
nouncement today that the United
States government will not re-es
tablish the embargo on the expor
tation of arms and munitions, from
the United States to Mexico.
The embargo which had been in
force terminated on January 31,
last.
SENATE COMMITTEE FAVORS
M'NARY IRRIGATION BILL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 9.—
The senate irrigation committee re
ported favorably on the McNary bill
today.
The measure carries an appropria
tion of three hundred and fifty
million dollars for development, ir
rigation and reclamation work, in
cluding the reclamation of swamp
lands.
MEXICAN AT TAMPICO
KILL MANY AMERICANS
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 9.
—Despatches to the local newspapers
received in this city today state
that several Americans have been
assassinated recently in the Tampico
Oil region. They were reported to
have been killed by a band of reb
els operating in that section of the
country.
The despatches added further th3t
the Mexican government had order
ed a gunboat to proceed to Tampico.
REFUNDING COMMISSION
MEMBERS CREDENTIALS
WASHINGTON. D. C., Mar. 9—
President Harding has requested At
torney General Daugherty to give
him an opinion to the right Sen
ator Reed Smoot of Utah and Rep
resentative Theodore E. Burton of
Ohio, have to sit on the allied debt
refunding commission.
AGRICULTURAL PROBLEMS
ARE BEING DISSIPATED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 9—
President Harding in a letter to Eu
gene Meyer, managing director- of
the war finance corporation today
declared “we are making splendid
progress toward dissipating our agri
cultural difficulties.”
Mr. R. J. Suratt, Pathe News rep
resentative is back in Nenana after
spending 2 weeks in the Tolovana
country taking pictures for his firm
1 federal shipping board allocate such
vessels as the secretary of the in
terior might direct, to operate be
tween the terminal of the Alaska
railroad and other points in the ter
ritory, and would authorize him to
co-operate with the territorial and
municipal authorities and “private
individuals or corporations where
1 the results sought may be econom
ically and expeditiously accomplish
ed thru such co-operation."
Coincident with the introduction
of the Sutherland bill in the house
! today, Secretary Fall discussing the
conflict which has arisen between
. the departments of the interior ar.d
agriculture, as to jurisdiction over
Alaska and other forest reserves.
! declared that if in the reorganiza
tion of governmental departments,
the forest service is transferred from
the agricultural to the interior de
; partment, the policy of “conserva
: tion of timber” will be continued.
ELECTION COMMITTEE’S
PRIVILEGES QUESTIONED
, Senator T. H. Caraway, Democrat
i of Arkansas, introduced a resolu
I tion in the senate today providing
! for an investigation of Senator Miles
Poindexter’s charges that undue in
! fiuences had been exerted to force
the senators to vote against the
1 seating of Newberry.
The resolution also referred to
■ the privileges of the elections com
: mittee.
CHINKS IN SQUABBLE
DEAD AND WOUNDED
CHICAGO, March 9— One dead
and two badly wounded Chinamen
were found beside an overturned
' idol in an incense-filled subterran
ean chamber in the heart of China
town last night.
Joe Wing a Seattle Chinaman is
sought by the authorities in connec
i tion with the killing.
BRITISH POLITICAL
STORM IS PENDING
LONDON, March 9.—In a stirring
| speech delivered in this city today,
Sir Arthur Balfour pleaded for a
continuance of the coalition govern
ment of which Lloyd George is the
head, but, in almost the unanimous
j opinion of political correspondents
and editorial writers the plea did
I nothing to improve existing condi
j tions for the coalition.
In the opinion of the Westmins
ter Gazette a storm is working up
while the Sketch thinks there will
be immediate developments.
PIONEER SEATTLEITE
IS CALLED BY DEATH
SPOKANE, March 9.—Samuel C.
Hyde, Seattle pioneer of 1877,
former congressman from the State
of Washington and until recently
justice of the peace here, died to
day aged eighty.
WAREHOUSE SMASHED
MUCH WHISKY STOLEN
FREDERICKTMdT March 9.—Af
ter overpowering three guards and
smashing in the doors, a gang of
thirty liquor robbers made their es
cape with 2100 gallons of whisky,
valued at thirty-five thousand dol
lars, from the Outbridge Hersey Dis
tillery Company’s warehouse at
Bucketsville today.
Deputy U. S. Marshal James Ha
gan returned to Nenana from Fair
banks yesterday afternoon.
TORNADO DEMOLISHES
SOUTHERN VILLAGES
AUGUSTA, Ga„ March 9—The
tornado which struck three villages
and Graniteville today, spread de
vastation in its wake. All of the
effected places are in Horsecreek
valley. The tornado struck with
such suddenness as to make it ab
solutely impossible for the people
to seek safety in time and many
victims were caught under their
fallen homes.
In Warrensville every house but
one, in a row of twelve houses, were
razed to the ground. Four liouses
were destroyed at Stifleton.
Trees were uprooted and tele
phone poles swept away leavin r the
storm swept section in absolut" cark
ness and without telephone or other
means of communication.
HOUSE REPUBLICANS REACH
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 9.—
The Republican members of the
house ways and means committee
reached a final agreement today on
all the details of the Soldier Bonus
bill.
DEMOCRATTTO PASS ON IT
Chairman Fordney of the house
ways and means committee announc
ed that the Democratic members of
the committee will be called upon
to pass on the bill on Saturday.
As finally drawn the measure car
ries four options with an added pro
vision for an immediate cash pay
ment to those entitled to it of not
more than fifty dollars.
No important changes have been
made in the beneficial plan provi
sion. The other three options are,
cocational training, home and farm
aid and land settlement.
Chairman Fordney predicted that
the house would pass the measure.
THE WAY OF SUFFRAGETTES
BUENOS AIRES, March 9.—Riv
al women jobseekers endeavoring to
interview President Irigoyen in his
office the other day came to blows
and attacked with hat pins and with
finger nails a muscular janitor who
sought to separate the infuriated
seekers of government preferment
The janitor was rescued by a po
liceman.
Women seeking government pos
itions who try to get an audience
with the president of Argentina are
so numerous that one day of the
week has been set aside to attend
to them.
UNITED STATES WILL NOT
ATTEND GENOA CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 9 —
The government of the United States
has definitely declined the invita
tion to send representatives to the
League of Nations conference to be
held shortly at Genoa.
The above decision wa3 transmit
ted to Senator Ricci of Italy thru
the Italian ambassador at Washing- j
ton today.
Senator Ricci acting for Italy and
also indirectly for the Allied Su
preme Council extended the invita
tion to the United States to partici-1
pate in the conference to be held
at Genoa.
Frank Wiessel left yesterday j
morning for Eureka in the Kan
tirbna country, traveling by way of
Kobe and the Toklat trail. He has
take" a l*>v o" toe Peon's r’C""'11
on Eureka creek which he expects
to work during ’he coming summer.
SENATE BLOCK JOiNS IN
CABINET OFFICERS' ROW
SEATTLE, March 9.—The Wash
ington correspondent of the Seattle
Times says “to add to the complex
ities of the controversy between the
department of agriculture *nd .he
department of the interior over Al
aska. the agricultural hlo-k n the
senate has projectel itself into the
situation, lining up entirely 1. hind
the department of agriculture.
“It announces that it will never
permit the transfer of the forest
service into the control of the in
terior department, nor will it per
mit the transfer of any forest s. rv
ice activities in Alaska, to that de
partment”
Senator Arthur Capper of Kan
sas, chairman of the farm block in
the senate, and representative J. N.
Tincher of Kansas have prepared
practically identical bills proposing
to transfer from the department of
the interior to the department of
agriculture, all government bureaus
having anything to do with the
public domain, including general land
office, national park, reclamation and
Indian services, bureau of mines,
and geological survey; also the trans
fer of tfrfe fisheries bureau from the
department of commerce.
These bills, drawn by the freind
of the forest service, are offered ire
the hope that they will serve to
block the proposal made by the
c<" ngressional committee n reorgan
ization.
They are supported by the farm
block, however, for another reason,
and that is, because the members o£
the block are opposed to the open
ing of any more lands for agricul
tural development
ARMY AUCTION SALES
CREATING SUSPICION
LOS ANGELES. March 9—1: was
announced here today that evidence
concerning alleged frauds, in con
nection with the auctioning of army
goods by the quartermaster’s de
partment at Camp Kearny ia»t
month, which resulted in orders be
ing issued halting the delivery.- of
the goods after the auction, will be
presented to the federal grand jury
on Friday.
It is understood that ager.ts of
the department of justice have sign
ed confessions which will be pre
sented to the jury.
SALVATION ARMY HEAD
WILL RESUME LECTURES
LONG BEACH, Cal., March 9
Evageline Booth the command- : in
chief of the Salvation Army who had
been seriously ill for some tim*
past, has now recovered sufficient
ly to attend to business matters.
She announced today that she
plans on resuming her lecturing an
inspection tour on the 16th of the
present month.
SASKATCHEWAN TO STAGE
FIRST ANNUAL DOG DERBY
BIGRIVER. Sask., March 9
Ten teams were lined up for a star*
this afternoon in the first annual
Saskatchewan dog derby over u
course of 200 miles.
All of the teams entered appear
ed to be in first class condition for
the long race.
MEXICANS ON WAR PATH
COMMA, Texas, March 9.9—Ten
armed and mounted men crossed the
Rio Grande to San Pedro, Mexico,
today, captured the customs guard*
and relieved them of their arms and
•horses. They next captured a citi
zen named Antonio Cortez from
whom they demanded five thousand
dollars. The men finally proceed
ed toward Camarge.
Messrs Joe Fischer and Mike
Cooney are passengers to Fairbanks
today. They are both witnesses o.u
the Amestoy case.