General Outfitting Headquarters Fur Depot Gateway to Upper Yukon
THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1923
NUMBER 479
PRESIDENT’S PARTY AT VALDEZ TODAY
SENATOR BROOKHART DEMANDS EXTRA SESSION
MINNESOTA ELECTION THREATENS REPUBLICAN PLANS
BROOKHART BELIEVES FORD
COULD SWAMP OLD PARTIES
NEW YORK, July 19—Senator
Brookhart. Republican, of Iowa, who
returned from Europe this week,
says he read President Harding’s
first three speeches while on the
trip across the Atlantic and added:
“I should think about three more
speeches like these would elect Hen
ry Ford by about ten million ma
jority if President Harding is a can
didate.”
Senator Brookhart said further
that “the Soviet government is se
cond only to that of the United
States, and Russia will soon be
* making inroads upon tne grain mar
kets of America. The senator de
clared that an extra session of Con
gress should be called to consider
the agricultural situation.
Threatens Action
WASHINGTON, D. C. July 19
Senator Brookhart, who returned
to his office yesterday, announces
that unless President Harding calls
an extra session of Congress to help
the farmers of the country, the
“Independents will see that the re
actionaries are relived of charge
committees at the regular session of
• Congress beginning in December.
Department Condemned
OLYMPIA, July 19—The refusal
of the federal department of agri
cultural to open the case in which
R. C. Snyder, chief grain inspector
of the state department of agricul
ture, was censured for his failure
to follow instructions of the federal
supervisor in grading a cargo
* of wheat on a Japanese liner at
Seattle last October, has provoked a
statement by E. L. French, director
of the state department, in which
he declares the action is “likely to
cost the wheat growers of the state
hundreds of thousands of dollars
• in the matter of inspecting and
grading wheat for export.’’
PITTMAN TURNED DOWN
WASHINGTON, D. C. July 17
Acting Secretary of the Treasury
Gillbert has denied the request of
Senator Pittman for a rehearing on
the question of silver allocation un
der the Pittman act. Gilbert declar
es, in a letter, that Pittman has not
presented any new facts in the case,
. and reiterates statements made in
June to the effect that to follow
the suggection of Pittman would
mean a loss of five million dollars
to the treasury.
CAPTAIN MAYO DEAD
FAIRBANKS, July 19—A special
dispatch to the News-Miner from
Rampart records the death of Cap
tain Alfred H. Mayo, after whom
the Mayo district, city and river
were named. He had been in the
. Northland since 1873, or long be
fore the discovery of gold. He leaves
a wife and eight children and more
than a score of grandchildren. If
Aviator Eileson will chance the
long flight, with unknown landing
places, Editor WT. F. Thompson of
the News-Miner will attend the fun
eral of the oldtimer and, from above
during the burial, indicate the only
northern trail Captain Mayo has
never traveled, and pointing the
way the popular sourdough has
gone.
HARDING WORKS ON SPEECHES
AS TRANSPOT RSTEAMS SOUTH
EGYPT NEEDS BUILDING TO
HOLD PHARAOH S TREASURES
CAIRO, July 19—The Egyptian
| Ministry of Finance has been asked
i for a special credit amounting to
| about $175,000 for the purpose of
erecting an annex to the Cairo Mu
seum, the building of which has
been rendered necessary by the dis
covery of King Tutankhamun’s
tomb.
The work is expected to be com
menced without delay, though the
exhibition of the objects discovered
will not be possible for some time
owing to the careful and expert
treatment they will require.
MRS. KARL THEILE PASSES
JUNEAU, July 19—Mrs. Karl
Theile, wife of the secretary of Al
aska died yesterday morning half an
hour after having given birth to
a nine-pound boy baby, which lives.
Mrs. Thiele was a well known nurse
of Seattle before coming to Alaska
; to devote herself to Government
. work in the Kuskokwim district,
where she met Mr. Theile, becoming
| his wife later at Juneau.
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NEGRO SUSPECTS HELD
SPOKANE, July 19—Two negroes
: were arrested here yesterday as they
J stepped from an Idaho train, and
j are being held by the police in con
nection with a shooting affray and
j robbery in a pool hall at Hope, Ida
ho. Postmaster J. L. Campbell, of
| Hope, and W. A. Crist, proprietor of
the pool hall were shot, the latter
! dying here today.
MUST PRODUCE RECORDS
LUMBERTON, July 19—The
| grand klaliff of the North Carolina
Ku Kluz Klan and head of the
Fairmont klavern. has been sub
poenaed and ordered to produce the
membership records of the Fair
mont organization at the trial here
of three men on charges growing out
of the flogging of two women near
Procterville last April.
HIBERNIANS ATTENTION
MONTREAL. Mont., July 19—
The important task for the Ancient
Order of Hibernians to engage in is
the wide exposure of the Ku Klux
Klan, according to a statement con
tained in the annual report of Pres
ident James Deery, made public at
the Hibernian convention here this
week.
Dave T. Creanor, well known old
timer of the Tolovana district, came
down from Fairbanks yesterday af
ternoon and left for the Tolovana
this afternoon aboard the A1 Lein
launch. He was accompanied by Sam
Godfrey and Pat O’Connor, both
of whom are old time mining men
of the Tolovana. This was Dave’s
first visit in Nenana.
Earl Crutcher, a widely known
Alaska sourdough, is visiting in
Los Angeles at the present time.
He is engaged in mining on an ex
tensive scale near Lima, Peru.
' SEWARD, July 19—The trans-'
port Henderson, with the President
and Mrs. Harding and their party a
board, steamed out of Resurrection
bay early today, through the re
cently christened Harding Gateway
and, for the first time in two
weeks, turned her bow southward. |
Although the chief executive will
visit three more Alaska towns—
: Valdez, Cordova and Sitka—he is.
I for the first time, enroute back to
the United States.
Valdez is to be visited today, with
the Henderson due to arrive there
shortly after noon. While there the
party will be taken out over the
Richardson road to view the scenic
beauties of Keystone canyon.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace.
Speaker Gillett and Chief Forester
Greeley, who left Fairbanks on Mon
day over the trail, are expected to
rejoin the party before their de
parture late in the day for Cordova,
i where they will spend part of Fri
day.
The President and Mrs. Harding,
as well as the other members of the
party, took things easy yesterday
while the Henderson lay at anchor
here, resting after their rail trip
into the Interior. Mrs Harding, much*
refreshed by her night on the boat
walked about the deck late in the
day and seemed to have regained
her strength.
The President spent the afternoon
working on the speeches he will
make on the Pacific coast, follow
ing his return to the United States
on July 27, and it has become known
he will discuss foreign relations in
his San Francisco address, his re
port on that accomplishment, hav
ing scarcely referred to the work of
that meeting of the principal powers
in his previous addresses.
Undoubtedly in California, the
home state of Senator Johnson, he
FRANCE WOULD EXTEND TRADE
DUNKIRK France, July 19—The
French government is about to send
a vessel on a trip to South Amer
ican ports loaded with an exhibit
of French products. This business
builder is the former German steam- •
er Elkab, but her name ha3 been
changed to La Belle France.
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WRECKED AND ROBBED
TACOMA, July 19—Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Jensen, of Seattle, were
robbed of all their valuables yester
day while they lay unconscious in
a pasture, near Auburn, following
the WTeck of their automobile. Their'
loss included a gold watch, vanity
case, $12.50 in money and some
other things.
Admiral and Mrs. Hugh Rodman,
of the Presidential party, were the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Rod
man during their brief stay in Ne
nana. Mr. Rodman is a nephew of
both the admiral and Mrs. Rodman.
Admiral Rodman is retired but was
recalled to active service for the
special purpose of accompanying the
President on his Alaska trip.
will again ask support for his prt
posal that the United States join th
world court.
President Harding is also undei
stood to have drafted in a tentativ
way, some portions of the addres
he will deliver at Seattle, dealin
with Alaska. Insofar as he has re
vealed his policy for Alaska, as ba«
ed on 3 study of the problems a
short range, he belives the Goverr
ment should give greater aid to th
Territory but that development, i
the main, is dependent upon the pec
pie living in the northern empire
and that it will be steady and sub
stantial, although somewhat slow.
The people of Seward regrette'
the departure of the Henderso;
greatly, for Seward, since last Fri
day, has been having the time of it
young life. Never even in its rosie
days has the town been as livel;
as during the last five days, wit!
more than a thousand officers am
men from the Henderson and thi
destroyers Hull and Corry in port
While the Presidential party visitei
the Interior, as many sailors as pos
sible were granted shore leave am
there were daily drills by the mar
ine detachment, concerts by the nav
al band, boxing bouts in an areni
erected on the main street, dances
picnics and ball games between ;
nine from the Henderson and a loea
team augmented by several member
of the President’s party who did no
take the rail trip to Xenana.
The naval officers attached to th<
three ships have been impressed b;
Seward harbor, set in among th<
mountains, with room for almost th<
whole Pacific fleet to ride at anchor
safe from storms, and easily de
fended from possible enemy attack
The only disadvantage seen by thes<
officers is the extreme depth of som<
portions of the harbor, where tin
water is 100 fathoms or more deep
ADMIRAL B1GSBEE PASSES
NEW YORK. July 19—Rear Ad
miral Charles D. Bigsbee, retired
who was captain of the ill-fatet
battleship Maine, died suddenly a'
his home in this city.
During the time President Hard
ing was in Nenana he was present
id w-ith a copy of the resolutions
idopted by the grand igloo, Pioneer:
of Alaska, at the session held ir
S’enana last March. The presentatior
was made by Grand Secretary Al
fred J. Ghezzi.
SPECIAL OFFICERS
Dominic Grilli, A. B. Phillips and
Charles E. Bergman participated ir
Jie Presidential reception in the
rapacity of special officers, detailed
oy the city to assist the Ladies’ com
mittee at the reception at the depot
for Mrs. Harding, and to co-operate
with the general committee at the
oridge during the driving of the
rolden spike. Their duties kept them
rlose to the President and Mrs.
Warding virtually all the time the
iistinguished visitors were in Ne
lana.
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e TRAIN CUTS HUSBAND’S LEGS
THUGS BEAT WIFE TO DEATH
B! PITTSBURG, July 19—The dead
s body of Mrs. Patrick Coyle, eighteen
z years old and a bride of only a few
months, was found at her home yes
terday by John Conroy, father of
t. the woman, who had called to sum
mon her to the bedside of her hus
; band, a railroad brakeman, who had
1 lost both legs in an accident and t
who was then battling for life in
i a pittsburg hospital.
Mrs. Coyle had been beaten to
death as she lay in bed.
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, SKY WRITER KILLED
SACREMENTO. July 19-Jack B.
? Gregory, of Charlotte, X. C., one of
r the aviators who has been “writing I
f in the sky” at Los Angeles and San
, Francisco, was killed late yesterday
] near Lake Tahoe when his plane
, crashed, according to word brought
to this city by Harry Turner, a fel-.
I low aviator.
FLOOD DANGER PASSES
DENVER. July 19—The danger
. of serious floods in Colorado, which
i appeared great earlier in the week,
appears to have passed. Reports i
, from Florence and Portland indicate
; a lowering of the water level in
. those districts.
TRAIL BLAZER PASSES
LAKEPORT. Cal., July 19—Mor
gan E. Payne, aged 83 years, who
started and operated the first ferry
boat across Snake river on the ov
erland trail between Elko, Nevada
and Boise, died on Monday on a
ranch near this city. The oldtimer
crossed the plains with an ox team
in 1851.
AUTO PARK ATTRACTS
TL'CSON, Ariz., July 17—Since
the establishment of Tucson’s auto
camp park, two years ago, an aver
, age of twenty-one motorists per day
have camped here, while a tabulation
of all registrations indicate that
14,837 tourists spent one day at
the park, according to a report
just issued by the chamber of com
merce. The total number of cars
stopping at the park reached 4,716
Of these, 479 came from points
within the state, while the remaining
4,237 were from outside Arizona.
Car-days spent at the camp totalled
6,849.
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Deputy Mar-hal James Hagan, of |
Ntnana accompanied the Presiden- (
tial party to Fairbanks and was on .'
duty at the Nordale hotel during;:
the time President and Mrs. Hard
, ing were guests there. He returned
to Xenana with the party on Mon
day. .
Lieut. William Hutt. U. S. A., is i'
a recent arival in Nenana from
Anchorage, enroute to Fort Gibbon
to direct the work of completing the
abandonment of the former army i
post there. He will go down river, 1
on the Government steamer Davis, j i
JOHNSON WINS SEAT EASILY
NOT DISTURBED BY VICTORY
ST. PALL, July 19—.Magnus
Johnson, Farmer-Labor candidate
for the United States senate to suc
ceed the late Senator Knute Nelson,
has a plurality, of 85,000, according
to a tabulation of unofficial returns
from the special election held this
week through Wisconsin.
Although jubilant over the vic
tory for a “real dirt’’ member of
the upper house of Congress, John
son is more concerned this week
with .he problem of getting his hay
ing done than he is with things pol
itical. He has let drop a few re
marks, however, indicating that he
is opposed to a world court, the
League of Nations and “other for
eign entanglements.’’ For the pre
sent, he prefers not to discuss the
recognition of Russia although "be
tween you and me, I am for recogni
tion right away.
Johnson would not talk prohibi
tion, but said he was for a soldier’s
bonus to be paid from excess prof
its.
Charles R. Adams, chairman of
the Republican state committee, at
tributes the defeat of Governor
Preus to the failure of the best ef
forts of Republican workers to ov
ercome “the evident feeling of un
rest and dissatisfaction with econ
omic conditions which had found
vent in a protest vote against the
party in power.’’
Hylan Congratulates Johnson
NE1\ ^ ORK, July 19—The vic
tory of Magnus Johnson has given
“official Washington an inkling of
the temper of the people which bid*
fair to sweep the remainder into the
political discard” says a message of
congratulation sent to Minnesota by
Mayor Hyland of this city.
Old Lincoln Spirit
MADISON, July 19—Commenting
on the election of Magnus Johnson
Senator LaFollette declared yester
day tna. “the old Lincoln spirit is
again sweeping the West.”
Cuts Senate Majority
BOSTON, July 19—The election
of Magnnc Johnson leaves the Re
publicans with a nominal majority
of five in the senate, and it is gen
erally believed here that the Ver
mont vacancy, caused by the death
of Senator Dillingham, will be filled
oy the appointment of a Republican,
which will increase the m tjority to
six. It is conceded by Republican
eaders, however, that even with a
majority of six they may have some
iiffieuhy, on some occasions, in
tolding sufficient strength in line
:o put administration measures thru.
Machine Smashed
OMAHA, July 19—W. H. Green,
rice chairman of the Federated
•’armer-Labor party, declares the
dection of Johnson will help to
moash the “machine” that has
‘cleaned” American farmers.
Victory for People
MADISON, July 19—"Isn’t that a
ine, magnificant victory in behalf
if the people,” is the way Senator
.aFollette regards the election of
ohnson.
Miss Helen Cairns is a recent
rrival in Nenana, enroute to the
Coyukuk district to take charge of
he school at Coldfoot.