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VOLUME IV
NENANA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOV. 21, 1922
NUMBER 377
HARDING URGES SHIPS SUBSIDY ACTION
CHINESE BANDIT ARMY LA YING WASTE TO CITIES
OBREGON RESENTS INTERFERENCE BY UNITED STATES
CHINESE BANDITS WRECKING
CITIES IN HONAN PROVINCE
SHANGHAI, Nov. 21—The band!:'
army, -thirty thousand strong, which j
is holding sway in Honan province,,
and which already has taken a num
1 her of foreigners captive, has laid ,
* waste to a path six miles wide, all
the way across the province.
Every town, city and dwelling in
the line of march has been burned,;
according ;to a letter received from
E. E. Ledgard, missionary who re
cently made his escape from the
bandits.
Bolshevism Rampant In China
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov 21—
* Bolshevicm is rampant in China and
seeks control in the East as a wea
pon against the West, according to
reports received by agencies of the
Government.
Under the program, as reported.
China and Korea would provide the
seeding grounds for communistic
thought institutions. After later de
velopments a social revolution would
be launched in Japan and, finally,
after the collapse of Japanese im
perialism, a Bolshevik Asia would
be founded, aimed at the oblitera
v tion of the ‘‘capitalistic civilization
of the Occident.”
AIRCRAFT BUSINESS BOON
SAY SPEAKERS AT MEETING
DETROIT, Nov. 21—The impor
tance of aeronautical development
from the standpoint of the nation’s
bankers, the United States postal
service, and the business men of
the country was stressed here today
* by speakers at the First National j
Air Institute. The institute was pre-1
liminary to the Pulitzer races and
Aero Congress.
The institute was participated in
by the Aeronautical Chamber of i
Commerce, the American Society!
of Mechanical Engineers and Socie- j
ty of Automobile Engineers, the;
American Bar Association and Na
tional Aircraft Underwriters Assoc
iation.
Commercial banks of the country
need aviation because development
m of this science would be a spur to
business, Lewis E. Pierson, chair
man of the board of directors of
the Irving National bank of New
York City, told the institute. The
continent soon will be spanned by
mail planes in from 28 to 30 hours,
Paul Henderson second assastant
postmaster general, told the insti
tute.
“I see in the airplane a means of
transportation destined to be equal
* ly as important in the future life
of our country as is the steam lo
comotive and automobile,” he said.
“The people are entitled to the ad
vantages of additional speed in hand
ling :he mails in the advantage now
offered in the form of improved
airplanes.”
The speaker said his department
hoped soon to move mail by airplane
continuously from New York to San
Francisco.
The business men of the nation
♦ are demanding speed and for thi3
reason the air transport is challeng
ing the attention of commerce and
industry as a uew factor in the
national business problem, declared
J. Rowland Bibbins, manager of the
department of transportation and
communication of the U. S. Cham
ber of ( ommerce.
* Edmund Ely of New York, pres
ident of the National Aircraft Un
derwriters’ Association, another
declared the country’s insurance
companies welcomed elimination of
stunt flying, declaring such thrills
have resulted in accidents that re
terded development of American
aviation.
BERLIN, Nov. 21—Cuno is re
ported to have told President Ebert
that he has found it impossible to
complete the business of the cabinet.
He has been asked to persevere, how
» ever.
CONGRESSMEN ARE IN SESSINO;
SENATOR NEWBERRY RESIGNS
WASHINGTON BEATS STANFORD
IN HARD FOUGHT GRID BATTUE
SEATTLE, Nov. 21—In what is
described as the best football con
test seen here this season, Washing
ton defeated Stanford on Saturday,
twelve to eight. Ziel, of Washington,
place kicked and Cuddebackf of
Stanford, 'tied the score with the
same kind of a play, and followed
it with another, whereupon Ziel
place kicked again for a tie. Wash
ington intercepted a forward pass
and, after some hard line work. Ziel
made a touchdown.
Brown Defeats Harvard
CAMBRIDGE. Nov. 21—Brown
defeated Harvard here on Saturday,
three to nothing, by a field goal.
The score was made by Adams, full
back, in the first play of the fourth
period. Harvard used very fe sub
stitutes.
Nevada Love* To California
BERKELEY, Nov. 21—Nevada
lost to California here on Satur
day. 61 to 13. MeCorkie, of Nevada,
blocked a drop kick, recovered the
ball and ran 55 yards for a touch
down. Nevada got the ball on a
bad kick, forward passed twice and
bucked one yard for two scores in
the second period. Coach Smith
sent nearly all of the first string
men back in the fourth period.
Princeton Defeat* Yale
PRINCETON, Nov. 21—Kenneth
Smith, of Princeton, right end,
drop kicked in the third period, de
feating Yale three to nothing.
Southern California 14; Idaho 0.
Gonzales 77 • Wyoming 0.
Oregon Aggies 0; Oregon 10.
Chicgo 9; Illinois 0.
Penn U. 7; Penn State 6.
Columbia 7; Dartmouth 29.
Michigan 13; Wisconsin 6.
Ohio State 9; Iowa 12.
Auburn 6; Center 0.
FORMER CONVICT MAKES USE
OF PRISON IDEA FOR LOCK
WALLA WALLA, Wash. Nov.21
A former inmate of the state pen
tentiary here has gone fiction wri
:ers one better. He has not only
-eformed and turned his experience
ilong useful channels, but has de
eded to employ the knowledge of
ocks that he gained behind prison
jars in making his fortune in an
lonest way, now that his sentence
las been served.
Recently a letter was received
iere from this former inmate stat
ing that he was having great success
selling burglar proof locks. So fast
ire his locks selling that he believes
within a short time he will be roll
ing in wealth.
An inquiry resulted which
brought forth that while this parti
cular man was not sent to the pen
itentiary for safe picking, he man
iged in his association with other
men while here to gain information
ibout safes and locks that enabled
lim to manufacture a lock which
las so far proved an obstacle to
safe crackers.
LIQUOR APPEAL JANUAR 2
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 21—
Fhe appeal of foreign steamship
companies from the decision of
ludge Hand, in which the ruling of
Attorney General Daugherty on the
liquor question was upheld, has
been advanced by the supreme court
to January 2.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Nov 21—|
Congress convened at noon yester-'
day in special session, called by
President Harding for the consider
ation of the ship subsidy bill. This
session, which is the fourth of the
Sixty-seventh Congress, establishes a
new record, being the first Con
gress of the United States to meet
more than three times. Another
precedent may be broken if Mrs.
Wellon, of Georgia, the first woman
senator, is seated during the ses-!
sion.
The special session will last two ■
weeks, and will be followed almost j
immediately by the convening of the
Sixty-eighth Congress, in regular ses- j
sion.
Following the usual formalities,
both the senate and house adjourn-1
ed yesterday afternoon as a mark
of respect to the late Senator Wat- i
son, of Georgia, and Representative
Nolan, of California.
The senate was in session only
thirteen minutes, and none of the
new senators were given the op
portunity to be sworn in.
The usual harvest of new bills
and resolutions were introduced in
the house, and all were promptly
referred. Six new members, elected
to fill vacancies, were sworn in.
President Reads Message
Appearing personally before Con
gress today. President Harding ap
pealed to the lawmakers for the
enactment of the administration's
merchant marine ship subsidy bill,
as necessary to relieve the Govern
ment of the present “staggering
loss" in the operation of the war
built merchant fleet, and establish
a program of assured shipping ser
vice to the nation. The service cre
ated during the war gave assurance
of commercial independence in time
of peace.
The President declared that actual
monetary saving to the Government
would result from the proposed law.
He declared that the legislation au
tomatically guarded against the en
richment of the few at the expense
of the public treasury. “If success
attends our efforts, as we hope it
will,” the President said, “the Gov
ernment outlay will be returned."
The President declared that for
eign nations are “in complete ac
cord with the opposition here to the
pending measure.” These nations,
he said, had a perfect right to such
an attitude but stressed the Ameri
can viewpoint which, he said, should
be the viewpoint from which “one
sees American carriers at sea the
dependence of American commerce
and American vessels for American
reliance in the event of war."
Just before the President appear
ed in the house, the merchant ma
rine committee formally reported
the ship subsidy bill, with amend
ments agreed to yesterday.
WIFE DESERTS HUSBAND AND
TAKES FURNITURE WITH HER
YAKIMA. Wash. Nov. 21—W’hat,
would you do if you came home
some night and found both your
wife and your furniture gone?
Jack Krutwig, a cook' of this city,
was faced by this question recent
ly. He answered it by borrowing a
bed from neighbors and spent the
remainder of the night in slumber
Meanwhile police officers sought for
his furniture and his wife.
Krurwig came home from his
day’s work to find his home barren
of all furnishings. He immediately
called the police station informed
the officers of his loss and inquir
ed if they knew where he could
borrow a bed.
When pressed for more details
Krutwig said, “Everything was all
right when I left the wife this morn
ing. When I came home tonight
I found every stick of furniture in
the huose gone. My wife was gone
too.”
Inquiries of neighbors led to in
formation that two white men and
a stalwart, piano-moving negro had
worked industriously all day mov
ing the Krutwig household goods j
away in a truck.
“They even took my coat han-;
gars,” complained Krutwig, “I nev- j
er thought that of Florence.”
And with a sigh, Krutwig bent!
his efforts to erecting the bed he j
had borrowed and soon was peace-1
fully asleep. The officers scratched i
their heads in perplexity and con- j
tinued their search.
GERMAN EXPORTS HELD UP
BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 21—Dr.;
Walter Simons, former German min
ister for Forgein Affairs who is in
Buenos Aires in connection with J
the Intemation Law Conferrence,
declares that the commercial rela
tion between Germany and Argent-,
ina have come almost to a stand-1
still. The reason is, he explains, that
Germany has no money with which
to do business, all her cash supplies j
having been turned over to the ^
Reparations Commission.
SWEDEN IS HOLDING EVEN
ON IMMIGRATION QUESTION
STOCKHOLM. Nov. 21—Sweden
broke almost even on emigration
and immigration during the past
year, according to figures published
by the Central Bureau of Statistics.
The number of emigrants was
8950, or about 1300 lese than in
1920, while 8551 Swedes returned
to their home country and 562 for
eigners became naturalized. Of the
entire number of Swedish emigrants
about 65 per cent went to the Uni
ted States. There were about twenty
per cent more women than men a
mong those who left their native
country. Most of these women were
single, and between fifteen and
twenty-five years of age.
In view of the fact there were
about 50,000 more births than
deaths in Sweden during 1921, it
is evident that the resident popula
tion of the country is increasing.
Sweden is exercising increasing
restrictions upon her immigration,
which has never been large. Thus,
In 1921, one half of the Russian ap
plicants and nearly one-fifth of all
the German applicants were refused
citizenship.
FAMOUS BULL PASSES
BUNEOS AIRES. Nov. 21—
“Faithful,” the shorthorn bull that
took the championship at the 1920
show of the Argentine Rural socie
ty— the leading exposition of its
kind in the world— and which was
sold a few years ago for 110,000
pesos, has died suddenly.
The bull was out of action for
the greater part of the last two
years, but it is believed that he
left about 21 calves behind, while
there are still more than a score of
shorthorn matrons to calve to his
service. “Faithful” was insured for
70,000 pesos.
MOSCOW, Nov. 21—The Soviet
government is manufacturing beer,
and using posters in Moscow to ad
vertise it. These are among the first
advertising signs to appear in Russia
since the revolution.
O'MALLEY STARTS HEARINGS
ON NEW FISHERIES RESERVE
SETTLE, N'ov. 21—Steps toward
the protection of Alaska's red sal
mon supply were taken today when
Commissioner O’Malley began a
hearing to determine the regulation?
for the new Southwestern Alaska
fisheries reserve created by presi
dential proclamation, and which em
braces Bristol bay. Cook inlet and
the waters adjacent to Kodiak and
Afognak islands.
Under the terms of the proclama
tion, O’Malley is authorized to fix
the conditions under which fishing
may be conducted.
Another hearing will be held next
week at San Francisco.
MOONSHINE WHISKY RAISES
DEATH RATE IN MONTANA
BUTTE, MONT. Nov.21— Moon
shine whiskey is raising the death
mark in Butte at an alarming rate
and unnatural causes have joined
with illicit liquor in sending 19
more local people to their graves
during the first nine months of this
year than during the same period
in 1921, according to figures com
piled by the city health office.
During last July. August and Sep
tember, five men and one woman
died fom alcoholism, according to
the deaths certificates received at
he office, and at least 12 more
j deaths recorded were indirectly at
; tributable to the same cause.
In the same months 180 deaths
j were reported in Butte, 121 being
males. Accidents brought 20 people
to their deaths, leading the causes
listed on the report.
GARFIELD SAYS MUCH FISH
IS WASTED BY COMPANIES
SEATTLE, WASH. Nov.21—
Three fourths of the herring caught
in Alaskan waters are washed, ac
cording to Charles D. Garfield, for
mer superintendent of hatcheries in
Alaska, who estimates that three
herring are thrown away for every
one that is pickled. This is due to
a lack of proper facilities in the nor
thern packing plants for taking care
of :he surplus fish, says Mr. Gar
field.
The waste is the result of a de
mand of the eastern trade for her
ring of a certain size, all fish a
bove or below a standard size of
approximately eight inches being
thrown back into the water. One
concern operating in northern wat
ers has a modern plant equipped
for making fish oil and fertilizer
out of surplus.but the others, Mr.
Garfield said, are wasting the fish
that cannot be canned. Visitors
returning from the North say this
waste will involve millions of tons
of herring this year, because the
pack will be three or four times as
large as in past years.
Mr. Garfield estimates the herring
pack for this year as 125,000 bar
rels, and says that this industry is
rapidly taking the place of the sal
mon industry because of the de
crease of salmon in Alaska waters,
due to over-fishing.
POTATO PRICES SLUMP
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 21
Potato prices reaceh bedrock today,
producers being offered as low as
twenty and thirty cents a bushel.
Many of the Western farmers have
refused to dig their crops, claiming
they cannot market them at the
price quoted.
LATIN REPUBLICS SUPPORT
INDEPENDENCE OF MEXICAN
i MEXICO CITY, Nov. 21—The re
publics of South and Central Ameri
ca have informed the Mexican gov
emment that they resent the censor
ship of its legislation by the United
States or other powers and that the
independent stand taken by Presi
dent Obregon in the matter had
won for him virtually a vote of
confidence.
American Charge Summerlin ex
plains that he has merely offered
' suggestions regarding the pending
\ petroleum act.
SENATOR NEWBERRY QUITS;
RESIGNATION IS HANDED IN
WASHINGTON, D C., Nov. 21 —
Shortly after the convening of Con
gress yesterday, a letter was read
in the senate, containing the resig
nation of Senator Newberry, con
; ceming whose occupancy of a seat
jin Congress there has been much
unfavorable criticism. The resigna
tion became effective with the read
ing of the letter.
—
FORESTER CLAIMS FARMING
ON INCREASE IN THE NORTH
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA. Nov21
; Increasing interest in farming in
(southeastern Alaska is indicated by
j the records of erttries on agricul
tural land in the Tongass National
Forest, according to District For
; ester Charles D. Florry. who said
recently that since the close of the
<1921 field season, 28 application*
for homesteads on land within the
forest have been filed with the sup
ervisor.
Forest rangers nave been detail
ed to classify, survey and examine
the land covered by these applica
tions, said Mr Florry, and the for
estry service probably will be in a
j position to act on them in No
vember. The areas are not confined
j to any one section of the forest
I but are well distributed, it is said.
1 The purpose of these iand cla*
| sificationsurveys, according to Mr
! Florry, is to determine the relative
! values of the various sections,
j whether they are more suitable for
j agritulture or timber growing pur
• poses.
BURNS FINDS WHITE HOPE
LONDON', Nov. 21—Tom Bums
I claims to have found a new ‘‘white
hope” in Robert Read, a gigantic
Irish youth who has lived in Scot
land since he was 12 years old.
Read is now 21. He is 6 feet 4Vj.
j inches tall, weighs nearly 200 poun
land has a reach of 81 l~ inches.
17 % inches more than Dempsey’s.
In a photograph -ent to The Daily
Mail the British veteran’s find tow
ers above him; Burns head reaches
! only to Read’s shoulders. Reed ha*
■ a good appearance, an athletic
[build, and is gaining Tight experi
ence in the rough and tumble life
of the English travelling boxing
show, a familiar sight at any small
town carnival or country fair.
Burns says that he has tried Read
out and that he is not disappointed
in him. “Last year Read won the
amateur western district champion
ship in Scotland,“ said Burns, “He
is a quiet, gentlemanly boy, and of
course he needs a lot of experience.
Only time can tell whether he will
develop into a real champion. The
experience with the travelling box
ing show, which he joined after
winning the amateur championship
certainly won’t do him any harm
MOTORSHIP IS SAFE
SEATTLE, Nov. 21—The motor
ship Anvil, which was damaged in a
gale while enroute from the North,
arrived here safely yesterday, con
voyed by the cutter Haida.
CONGRESSMAN NOLAN DEAD
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21—Con
gressman John I. olan, of this city,
died here yesterday.