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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEMAN A, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1920.
NO. 45
WOOD SAYS PRIMARY LAW IS FAILURE
HOUSE UNABLE TO PASS RESOLUTION OVER VETO
CANADIANS CURB PULP SHIPMENTS AND BOOST PRICES
GOVERNMENT HAS
PLANS READY TO
' POSH PULP WOW
SEATTLE, May 28.—The Wash
ington correspondent of the Seattle
Times states, in a wire received in
this city today, that the department
of agriculture has announced that
the Government is now ready to
enter into 30-year contracts for the
use of Alaska pulp wood, with defi
nite maximum prices for the first
ten years, the department fixing the
price thereafter.
The announcement says that there
are now 100,000,000 cords of pulp
wood available for disposal through
the contract plans. Eastern stump
age is selling at the present time at
$4 per cord, while a recent circular
of the department quoted spruce at
50 cents and hemlock at half that
amount per cord.
Canada’s 50-year leases have hith
erto attracted paper makers, but it
is believed the liberal terms offered
by the department will result in cre
ating interest in the Alaska forests.
The exports of pulp wood from
Canada to the United States for
the eleven months ending with Feb
ruary were only 790,828 cords, as
against 1,499,109 during the same
period preceding. The value of the
pulp and paper exports, however,
during the same period increased
from 874,000,000 to $92,000,000
The decline of exports is the re
suit of the embargo established by
the Canadian government.
Mrs. J. E. Pegues, who will be a
passenger on the steamer Tanana
when that boat sails for Dawson to
morrow, is enroute to Juneau, where
Mr. Pegues is city editor of the
Alaska Daily Empire, Alaska's larg
est newspaper.
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M’ADOO CAMPAIGN FINANCES
DISCUSSED AT SENATE PROBE
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FUR PRICES ARE
LOWER NOW 1HAN
EARLIER IN YEAR
ST. LOUIS,. May 28.—Fur sales
'made today at the annual spring
! auction, now in progress in this city,
showed a further decline in prices.
as compared with the prices obtain
ed during the February sales. Gray
fox and wolf were the principal of
ferings today, the top price for the
former being So and for the latter
$2. The sales for the day totaled
$650,000 and the prices ranged
'from 25 to 50 percent lower than
'those of February.
* Yesterday’s sales totaled over a
jmillion dollars, and the principal of
ferings for the day were coneys,
iwhich ranged from $20 for domes
Itic fur to $61 for foreign. Four
'hundred thousand skins were sold
during the day at prices from 20 to
40 percent lower than in February.
OBREGON PEDDLES;
I MEXICO CITY, May 28.—Reply
ing to felicitations received from
many quarters, congratulating him
'upon the success of the revolution
!ary movement in Mexico, General
jObregon declares that, if he is elect
■ ed president of the Mexican repub
lic, one of his first official acts will
be an attempt to establish friendly
relations with other countries.
He says that he is especially de
.sirous of being on neighborly terms
■with those countries adjoining Mex
ico.
Assistant Territorial Health Com
missioner J. A. Sutherland came
l
down from Fairbanks today and left
jearly this afternoon for Minto to
i investigate flu conditions among the
I natives in that locality. He is mak
l.
ung the trip with Billy Ford in the
launch Dan Patch, and expects to
I be back in Nenana not later than
110 o’clock tomorrow morning. Had
.he known it, Dr. Sutherland could
jhave obtained all the information
: desired without leaving N'enana, but
he left for the lower river without
learning of the arrival, a few hours
earlier, of Rev. Frederick B. Drane.
J. H. Steele returned from Fair
banks today and will leave for the
Outside tomorrow, his destination
being Lancaster, Pa., where he and
his deceased wife were married 25
years ago. He is taking the body
of Mrs. Steele to Lancaster for
burial and may decide to locate, in
that locality permanently.
WASHINGTON7, D. C., May 28.—
Disclosures made at the hearing of
the senate presidential campaign ex
pense investigating committee today
indicate that the backers of William
G. McAdoo are prepared to go the
limit in order to secure the Demo-j
cratic nomination for the former
secretary of the treasury.
Loius J. Lang, a reporter in the
employ of the New York American,
testified this afternoon that he had
learned from a member of the Deni- j
ocratic national committee that the!
sum of five million dollars had been ;
pledged to the support of McAdoo. j
He refused to divulge the name of!
the committeeman, but declared that j
the information had -come to him j
straight and that he had reason to j
believe it was true.
Lang discussed the meeting of j
the Democratic committee held at}
Atlantic City last September and '
said that plans had then been made ;
to raise ten million dollars for the !
national campaign. He stated fur :
ther that he had been informed that:
a member of the national commit-!
tee had stated that Frederick A.
Wallace, a deputy police commis-;
sioner of New York, had been j
named to act as representative of j
Bernard Baruch in collecting ten
nillion to secure the nomination of
HcAdoo. This statement, Lang as
sured the senators, had been cor
•oborated later by members of the
-■ommittee. Both Baruch and Thom
»s A. Chadbourne were present and
ieard the testimony of Lang.
Another witness testified that the
Ohio State Journal and the Colum
bus Dispatch, which had originally
supported Harding, had later switch
ed to General Wood, because the
heavy demands for advertising were
too expensive for Harding.
PRIMARY FAILURE
BOSTON, Mass., May 28.—-Gen
eral Wood, in a statement made in
this city today, says that it is a
question in his mind if the direct
contact with the people afforded by
the primaries is worth the expense
involved. There is no question about
the presidential primaries being ex
pensive, and he doubts if the re
sults obtained are better than the
old system, where nobody knew how
much was spent or where it was
circulated through underground
channels. He also doubts if the pri
mary is better than the state con
vention and the old system of state
bosses.
VETO OF WILSON STANDS
WASHINGTON', D. C., May 28.—
As was feared at the time of the
adoption of the joint resolution de
claring the war with Germany at
an end, it has been found impossi
ble to secure sufficient support in
the lower house to override the veto
of President Wilson.
The peace resolution was returned
to the lawmakers yesterday with a
message explaining why the execu
SHIyST
WIRELESS TELEPHONE
LOS ANGELES, May 28.—The
city of Avalon has been granted
permission to establish a wireless
telephone exchange, which will be
the first commercially operated wire
t less system of that character in the
country.
The system will give direct con
nection between Catalina island and
the mainland, covering a distance
of 30 miles, and no difficulty is an
ticipated in maintaining communica
tion at all timfes and under all con
ditions of weather.
BAN ON SUGAR EXPORT
REPORTED FAVORABLY
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 28—
The senate agriculture committee
has ordered a favorable report on
the McNary bill, providing for an
embargo on the exportation of sugar
from the United States.
| tive had refused to approve it, and
'today an effort was made to pass
j the measure over the veto. The vote
jstood 219 for adoption and 152
against. The supporters of the mea
Isure lacked 29 votes of the required
two-thirds majority.
; Seventeen Democrats voted with
the Republicans for adoption, and
two Republicans voted with the op
1 position.
WAS NON-POLITICAL
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 28—
■In a statement made today before
'the senate primary campaign inves
I titrating committee, Angus W. Mc
(Lean of North Carolina, director
j of the war finance corporation, de
nied that former Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo made use of the
I Liberty bond campaign organization
ito further his political campaign.
(Beyond that, he said, he could give
I the committee no information rela
; tive to the campaign of McAdoo.
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LIGHTS ARE USELESS;
ARE BEING DISMANTLED
VICTORIA. B. C., May 28—The
|-work of dismantling the Triangle
j lighthouse, on the West coast of
Vancouver island, will be started by
the government next week. The
| government also plans to abandon
'the Rocky Promontory light.
I
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GARY SAYS REDS
PLAN OVERTHROW !
I OF GOVERNMENT
NEW YORK, May 28.—In an ad
:dress delivered in this city today at
.the annual meeting ot‘ the American
Iron and Steel institute. Judge El
bert II. Gary, head of the United
i States Steel corporation and bitter
[opponent of the closed shop, de
Idared that the employers of Ameri
'ca, referred to as the capitalistic
[group, have Hitherto been backward
I in proclaiming their rights and in
sisting upon the proper c-onsidera
jtion of present-dsv so-called strikes,
I which are instigated as part of a
I campaign to democratize social and
[economic conditions.
A small minority, he explained,
adopt the word “labor” with the
concealed design of finally attract-;
ing the majority and obtaining the
adoption of legislation designed to;
destroy the constitution.
WATER POWER BIEL
! GOES TO PRESIDENT
i
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 28.— !
The conference report on the long- i
pending water power bill, which was
approved by the lower branch of
I „
Congress some time ago, was passed
by the senate this afternoon and
has been sent to the White House;
for the consideration of the Presi
dent.
FALL FROM AIRPLANE
IN CANADA IS FATAL
VANCOUVER, B. C.. May 28.—
, E. II. Beaseley, managing director
of the Union Steamship company,
was instantly killed near here today.
and Major A. Baker was seriously
injured as the result of the fall of
the airplane in which they were
making a flight. The machine feil
from a height of 2,500 feet.
F. C. Irons came down on the
train from Fairbanks today, enroute
to the Circle country to superin
tend the road work which will be
[done there this summer. Mr. Irons
I is a welcome visitor in N'enana,
[where he recently rendered valuable
service as a volunteer nurse from
, the upper town.
The closing exercises of the Fair- ,
I banks public school were held in
the upper town this morning. The
[graduates from the high school were’
.Margaret Wilson, Russell Bellerby,
, Eva Delaney, Esther Bailey, Thomas
. Tonseth, and Lloyd Pinkerton, the
; three last named having completed
?the high school course in three years.
WORKERS REFUSE
TO ACCEPT RULE
There was a general suspension
nf railroad work on the N'enuna
Fairbanks today as a result of the
issuance of the circular announcing
the discontinuance of Sunday work
in the Northern division. The men
employed at the various camps
along the line object to the proposed
curtailment, and the majority of
them left their jobs today, some of
them coming to Nenana and some
going to Fairbanks. It is estimated
that nearly 30 quit, and reports
received from the deserted camps
indicate that there are just enough
men left to stand watch over the
camp property, pending an adjust
ment of the trouble.
The men who have left their
places declare that they lose too
much time as it is during the course
of a season, due to weather condi
tions which frequently cause inter
ruptions, and they do not look with
favor upon the proposal to further
reduce the length of the season by
eliminating- Sunday work.
It was not possible for The News
to ascertain this afternoon whether
or not any action had been taken
by commission employes along the
line south of Nenana, but the re
ports received yesterday indicated
that the circular was not at all
popular.
COMMERCIAL CLUB
10 MEET TONIGHT
There will be a regular meeting
of the Nenana Commercial club to
night at the quarters of the organ
ization in the Union building, com
mencing promptly at eight o’clock,
and the indications that there will
be much important business placed
before the members for considera
tion.
The meetings of the club wen
discontinued when the Hu made its
appearance in Nenana, the only
gathering held during the epidemic
being a special meeting called for
the purpose of considering the ques
tion of requesting Assistant Terri
torial Health Commissioner J. A.
Sutherland to come to Nenana and
to act on other matters in connec
tion with the epidemic.
One of the matters brought to
the attention of the club tonighi
will be the circular issued by Engi
neer in Charge Fred’k 1). Browne,
prohibiting Sunday work on the rail
road.
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