Interior Alaska Must Have Low Freight Rates
THE NENANA NEWS
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME IV
NENAN.A ALASKA, SATURDAY. APRIL 1, 1922
NUMBER 177
HALF MILLION COAL MINERS QUIT POSTS
SENATE COMPLETES RATIFICATION OF TREATIES
Al ASKA Ol F1CIAI S REACH PORTLAND ON WAY HOME
PORTUGUESE AIRMEN WILL
ATTEMPT HAXARDOUS TRIP
LISBON, April 1—The attempted :
flight from Lisbon to Pernambuco,
Brazil, was commenced yesterday,
when Naval Captains Sacadura and
Coutinhe took tihe air at an early
hour this morning. They expect to
make the Trans-Atlantic passage of
more than 4,000 miles in less than
sixty hours.
The flyers will make their first
srtop at the Canary Islands and from
that point they will shape a course
which will take them by way of the
Cape de Verde Islands to Fernando
Norhana. Leaving that place they
will enter on the last lap of the
flight, which is considerably the
most dangerous, as there are only
three Portuguese cruisers stationed
along the way.
DRY SQUAD TAKES CUTTER
ON HUNT FOR SMUGGLERS
NEW YORK, April 1—A party of
12 men, including seven of the lead
ing customs officials of this city,
made a trip to Bayville this week
to apprehend an elleged whisky
smuggling yacht. The revenue cut
ter Surveyor was used for the ex
pedition and nearly came to grief
in a storm off shore. Considerable
uneasiness was felt for the safetj
of the party until word was re
ceived late yesterday that the cut
ter had made port without wetting
of the dry's. The yacht was no1
found, owing to the storm.
DEPUTIES CALL FOR HELP
SEATTLE. April 1—Answering ;
call from Hayward, where deput'.e
engaged three bandits, believed t<
be the Sequim robbers, in battli
last night, Sheriff Starwich left fo
the scene by airplane at an earl;
hour this morning, to take up tb
search. He has two bloodhound
with him. Fourteen shots were firei
in last night’s battle but it is be
lieved that all of them went wid
of the mark.
BIG ISLAND RESORT BURNS
MIAMI, Fla., April 1—The famou
Colonial Hotel, at Nassau, Baham
Islands, was destroyed by a fir
yesterday which threatened for
time to destroy most of the cit>
Tne fire was finally controlled ai
ter property valuaed at several mi.
lions of dollars had been destroyec
The report of the fire was flashe
to this city by radio.
NURSE TALKS FOR DEFENSE
SAN FRANCISCO, April 1—Mr
Virginia Warren, a witness for th
defense in the Arbuckle case, wh
testified that she attended Miss Vi:
ginia Rappe in 1910 when the ac
ress became the mother of a chili
was cross examined closely yeste'
day. She said that she graduate
from a nurses' school in Cincinnat
in 1899.
BANKER KILLS HIMSELF
CHICAGO, April 1—W. T. Fe
ton, vice president of the Nation
Bank of the Republic, coromitU
suicide yesterday. The authorru
have been unable to discover at
reason for the rash act.
According to advices receivi
from Anchorage today, Willia
Rodigkert, proprietor of the Tave:
Cafe, has purchased the Frisco Cai
in the coast town. Fred Stanle
who has been in charge of the Ta
ern during the absence of Mr. Ro<
keit, will leave for Anchorage 1
morrow to take charge of the Fris
Cafe, which has long enjoyed t
reputation of being the leading ca
in Anchorage.
Sam E. Ivey is a guest at t
Cooney Hotel, having recently ;
rived in town from the Kantish
* district, where he has been prospei
ing.
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COAL MINERS IN STATES OUT;
FUEL SHORTAGE THREATENS
LABOR BOARD OFFICIAL IS
AROUSED BY FAKE REPORT t
CHICAGO. April 1—Intimations 2
! that President Hardin? and the c
members of his cabinet have been c
! instrumental in bringing the present t
i railroad fight for a lowering of r
wages to the Railroad Labor Board,
have brought a strong denial from c
Vice Chairman Hooper, who declares t
in a statement given to the papers t
yesterday, that President Harding t
has never given the slightest intima- ;
tion as to what policy he expected s
• tihe board to pursue. ' 1
COPPER COMPANIES RESUME; ,
WILL WORK AT HALF SPEED ,
NEW YORK. April 1—According
• to announcement made in this city (
i yesterday, operations were to be re
• sumed today* at the Utah, Ray, Chi
| no, Nevade and Consolidated copper
1 mines.
. The announcement says that the
production will be small at first, but
that operations will be increased
steadily until the mines are work
ing at about fifty per cent of their
norma! capacity.
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FRENCH GOVERNMENT SAYS
AMERICA CAN GET MONEY
’ I WASHINGTON. D. C.. April 1
1 j The state department has received a.
' note from the French government,
in reply to an American note re
- garding occupation costs, in which
s it is stated that the French govern
' i ment “never had any intention of
'; contesting the right of the United
5 States to be as completely reim
bursed for army costs as any other
I government with troops on the
! Rhine.”
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i Casey Moran, early day news
paperman of tie Dawson country
and later a resident if Fairbanks
'when last heard from, his address
i being Tampico. But h? writes that
the oil boom down there has bust
g! ed, so it is probable he will not be
n: in that locality long. While news
.. editor on the Yukon Sun. Casey
; g-ave Dawson the first story of the
I discovery of gold in the Fairbanks
/ district, obtained from Wada, the
-j Jap Marathon racer.
" ' Jack Sutherland was arrested at
Hyder recently on a warrant charg
ing him with criminal libel. He is
alleged to have written letters un
der an assumed name, charging
^ that a certain Hyder druggist was
not a fit person to run such an es
:S tablishment and accusing him of be
^; ing a drug addict. About a year
j ago Sutherland was the victim of a
' tar and feather party and he claims
that Druggist Orin Hill was one of
m i the leaders of the attacking party,
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e’ i Surveyor General Karl Thiele and
y’ Miss Mary Conly, both formerly of
v~ Akiak, are to be united in marriage
this month at Juneau.
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:o! Miss Jessie Johnston has reported
ie her safe arrival in New Jersey,
fe where she will spend several weeks
I visiting with relatives before start
! ing on the return trip to Alaska.
ie Returning, she probably will ac
,r- company her sister, Mrs. William
ia Taylor, who will start for Nenana
:t- soon with little daughter Merne and
the new baby.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 1— 1
ot the first time in the history of
le coal mining industry in the :
nited States, both the bituminous .
nd anthracite coal fields are practi- j ■
ally idle today as a result of the t
essation of work by six hundred
aousand miners, effective at mid
ight last night.
Union officials estimate that fully t
ne hundred thousand non-union
liners are included in the nation s
otal of strikers. It is also claimed
hat six thousand of the seven thous- j
,nd coal mines in the country are
hut down today as a result of the |
>ig walkout.
Senator Borah issued a statement
arly today urging Government op
ration of the coal mines. He ex
dained. after a conference with
•epreseniatives of the miners and
>perators, that Government opera
ion is the only solution unless the
ndustry is reorganized.
The administration has decided on
i policy of non-intervention at this
stage of the coal strike, but the pro
seotion of the public’s supply of
oal is viewed as of uppermost con-,
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At a final White House discussion
if the situation, the administration •
made it plain that it regarded im-,
mediate intervention as futile and
unnecessary.
Trainmen To Diicuw Plans
CINCINNATI!, April 1—E. H.
Fitzgerald, grand president of the
Royal Steamship Clerks, freight
Handlers, Station and Express Em
ployes. said today that it is possible
the" heads of the sixteen rail brother
hoods will take united action at the
conference scheduled to be held to
morrow at Chicago. And it is sug
gested that this action may be fol
lowed immeditely by a nation-wide
strike in connection with the walk
out of coal miners.
Strike Talk I* Denied
CHICAGO, April 1—Persons in
close touch with the rail brother
hoods deny that the trainmen con
template any action in connection
with the coal mine strike. The con
ference has been called, it is said
largely for the purpose of discuss
ing the selection of a successor of
Albert Phillip, as a member of the
Railway Labor Board.
Open Shop In South
WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 1—
Mine operators in the Morgantown
district of West Virginia plan to
reopen their mines on Monday on
an open shop basis in some of trie
fields.
Railroad* Cutting Force*
WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 1—
Several of the railroads serving coal
: mine districts have laid off large
j numbers of employes, pending a re*
sumption of coal mining activities.
WASHINGTON MINERS QUIT
j SEATTLE, April 1—Twentv-si?
[undred coal miners in the state of -
Vashington quit work last night, I
naking a total of nearly five thous
ind on strike now. The walkout,
lowever, has little effect on the
■ommereial coal situation as the i
commercial mines are being operat- •
?d on a non-union basis. .
Union officials called out the mine
Maintenance men yesterday, follow
ng their failure to reach an agree- 1
ment with operators regarding the j
scale to be paid the men during the '
progress of the strike.
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Nation’s Coal Supply
WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 1—
It is estimated by the Geological
Survey that the coal stocks on hand :
will hold out 51 days if the con
sumption rate of the nation for
January and February continues in
April and May.
The coal stocks on the Pacific
coast are the largest accumulated
at any time since the armistice, and 1
will last anywhere from a few days j
to months, according to eonsump- j
tiotv. i
Mine union officials claim that thei
strike has tied up the coal mining
industry in a score of states.
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Vancouver Island Safe
VICTORIA, April 1—The miners
of Vancouver Island are not affiliat
ed with the unions and the strike,
in consequence, has not disturbed
conditions there. The union miners
in the Crows Nest and Pass fields j
went out at midnight.
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DEPUTIES ON THE JOB
SEATTLE. April 1—Although lit-1
tie trouble- is expected in Washing-}
ton in consequence of the strike,
the authorities have taken the pre
caution to send deputies to the
various coal fields to insure the pre
servation of order during the strike, j
The railroads are said to have coal
on hand sufficient to last them sev-1
eral months.
Kamat Court Makes Bluff
TOPEKA, April 1—The Kansas
Court of Industrial Relations issued
an order yesterday extending the
! present wage agreement between
miners and operators, for a period
of 30 days, but it did not have the
desired effect. The men walked out
without taking any notice of the
court’s action.
Seamen Will Not Join
WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 1 —
Andrew Furuseth, president of the
International Seamens Union, has
characterized as a fairy tale, the re
; port that the seamen are preparing
to stage a sympathy strike.
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Trouble 1s Reported
BENTON, 111-, April 1—Spasmod
ic shooting is reported to have oc
curred in various sections of South
ern Illinois, where the coal mine
strike is said to be 100 per cent
(effective. Two are reported to have
. been wounded.
j GOVERNOR’S CHARGES FAIL
j JACKSON, Miss., April 1-Thi
i special committee of the house oi
j representatives the recent charge:
! made by Governor Russell to the ef
l
: feet that a certain fire insuranci
j company had been guilty of per
j nicious lobbying, has reported tha
j the inquiry failed to substantial:
the charges.
It is reported that the bridge a
' Nenana Crossing (Mile 371) wil
be ready for traffic by April 1C
BAD MILK FATAL TO SIX
PORTLAND, April 3—Septic poi
soning attributed to germs distribut
ed from a local dairy, has resulted
I in the death of six persons here,
! the last death having occurred this
! morning. The health bureau has
| taken charge of the suspected dairy
for the purpose of making an in
vestigation.*
FORMER EMPEROR IS DEAD
FUNCHAL, Madeira, April 1—
I Former Emperor Charles, of Aus
. tria, died here today.
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IANDITS ARE CAPTURED;
STOLEN JEWELS RECOV'ERED
PORT TOWNSEND, April 1—
:heriff Case, of Jefferson county,
.nd a posse captured two bandits
oday, one of them being badly
rounded. The men, who have ad
nitted they robbed the Sequim
>ank, were stopped by the posse
it a bridge near Maynard. They
started to draw their revolvers but
he posse opened lire and shot one
>f them, following which both sur
rendered. The pockets of the two
jandits were filled with diamonds
ind jewelry and they had consider
able cash on them also.
BUNK HOUSE FIRE KILLS TWC
FRESNO. April 1—Two men wert
burned to death last night in a fire
which destroyed a bunk house be
longing to the Alfalfa Valley Lane
Company, near Tulare.
HIGH COST OF LOVING
LOS ANGELES. April 1—Accord
ing to an accounting made of thf
estate of the late William De-mom
Taylor, late moving picture magnate
the sum of $50,000 a year was ex
pended by him, leaving a residue o:
only $24,001. Investigation disclose,
the fact that had spent very larg
sums for presents for his favorite
among the movie stars.
CAMBRIDGE WINS
PUTNEY, Eng.. April 1—Cam
bridge won the annual crew rac
from Oxford today, crossing th
line five boat lengths ahead of th
Oxford oarsmen.
Tom Colling went to Fairbank
yesterday on a brief business trip
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Orders have been issued from Ar
chorage for the use of the r.am<
"The Alaska Railroad”, on all A. I
C. forms now in use or which hen
after may be printed.
Billy Mellish, former resident c
Xenana, will return to the Interic
shortly to accept a position wit
the Alaskan Engineering Commissio
as timekeeper at the new camp t
be established here.
Charles E. Bergman has been ei
gaged this week in putting in
side exit at the new Orpheum the:
ter, it being the desire of the mai
i agement to give patrons every po
i sible protection. The theater no
i has four exits, which are regarde
ample for any emergency.
In anticipation of a busy summe
| George Tanaka, of the Northei
; Restaurant, is enlarging his kitcht
i and otherwise improving his esta
I liniment. Theo. Thompson is doir
the work.
Thos. Markuson, well known ol
timer of the Fairbanks district, wi
, a returning passenger on the Thur
| day train from the coast, and we:
j to Fairbanks yesterday on a co
| train. He spent the winter in tl
States.
j O. J. Murie, of the Biolologic
! bureau, who has been in the Kusk
kwim district during the last foi
months, was in Xenana on Thai
day enroute to his headquarters
i Fairbanks.
BONE AND MEARS REACH
PORTLAND ON WAY NORTH
PORTLAND, April 1—Governor
Bone and Colonel Mears, who arriv
ed in this city today from '.he East,
on their way back to Alaska from
the national capital, will be guests
of honor at a public reception and.
banquet scheduled for tonight.
In a statement uiade today. Gov
emor Bone said that President
Harding intended to arrange his.
Alaska trip so that he would have
fully three weeks in the Territory.
But he admitted that all of the
President’s plans depend upon what
action may be taken by Congress
with regard to adjournment.
SENATE COMPLETES ACTION
ON CONFERENCE TREATIES
WASHINGTON. D C., April 1
The Senate has completed its part
of the Arms Conference program
having given its approval to all
seven of the treaties which were
submitted for ratification.
The last two treaties of the group
were approved on Thursday night
The Far Eastern treaty, guarantee
ing a new bill of rights to China,
was ratified without a single oppos
ing vote, and there was only vote
cast against the Chinese Tariff Re
vision pact.
The momentum with which the
! program reach its conclusion exceed
ed the expectations of senate lead
ers and is highly satisfactory to.
President Harding.
Other power* Notified
The state department has dispatch
ed notes to the eight nations par
tieipating in the Arms conference,
expressing readiness on the part of
the United States, to exchange rati
fications of all conference treatie
. IRISH LEADERS PREPARING
TO BRING PEACE TO ERIV
' LONDON, April 1—Represent
lives of the Irish provisional gov
ernment and the Northern parlia
ment have attached their signature
to an agreement which is designed
to restore peace and order in Ire
land, through the reorganization of
the police and constabulary force
> Demobilization Begins
» BELFAST, April 1—The demobif
, ization of police in all Ulster count
ies. under the new peace agreement,
is scheduled to begin today.
' KING APPROVES IRISH BILL
-; LONDON, April I—The Irish Fre •
(State bill became a law yesterday,
. when King George gave his form;.
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i assent to the measure.
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MAY BE HE WAS LOADED
SAN FRANCISCO, April 1— Fred
Fischbach. who was rooming- with
Arbuckle in San Francisco at the
time of the notorious St- Franci
party, testified at the. Arbuvkle trial
today that he did not hear the crie
of “I'm dying” and "He hurt me",
which prosecution witnesses -wore
they had heard. He also told the
court that he did not remember
that Arbuckle later said that he ap
plied ice to the body of the actress.
nj SAYS FRANCE CAN DO IT
n PARIS, April 1—Louis Dubois.
president of the reparations com
% mission, in a speech made at a din
ner given by the Commerce and I.n
j. dustry Union today, said “France
is i is powerful enough to act alone t<>
s_ i enforce the execution of the Ver
,t sailles treaty, with cannon and bay
al onet, if need be.”
lCj MARCH WAS BLACK MONTH
BELFAST, April 1—The roll of
al | fatalities resulting from factional
o-j disorders, reached a total of 64 in
lr j this city during the month of March,
s- which has been set down as the
in blackest month in the history of
Belfast.
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