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THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, TUESDAY. JAN. 16, 1923.
NUMBER 401
I
GERMANS REFUSE TO TURN COAL OVER
FRENCH AND GERMAN TROOPS THREATEN CLASH
DISEASE SWEEPS REFUGEE CAMPS GREEKS STOP INFLUX
FOREST SERVICE MAKES
TIMBER SURVEY ON COAST
During the past season a total of |
249,000 acres of forest land inside i
the Tongass National Forest was;
cruised and mapped, according to I
figures announced recently at dis
trict headquarters of the U. S. For
* est Service. The stand of merchan
table timber on that area totaled ap
proximately 2.150.000,000 board
feet.
The cruises were carried out. as
a part of the program of the Fores;
Service to allocate units of accessi
ble timber to water power sites that
can be developed in the establish
ment of the paper and pulp manu
facturing industry. Three such units
or parts thereof, were covered in the
season's work, which was performed
by two field parties one under the
■ direction of Robert A. Zellar. and
the second under J. P- Williams.
The first unit to be cruised lies
on the north end of Prince of Wales
Island, where 74,000 acres were
cruised and mapped. Out of the tots;
. acreage there. 47,000 acres were
found to contain merchantable tim
ber. the remainder, muskeg swamps
high and barren mountain tops and
similar country was listed a3 bearing
non-merchantable timber. The totai
of merchantable timber on the tract
was listed at 800.000,000 board feet
* This unit is designed to be used in
connection with power sites located
on the Bradfield Canal. There are
two of these sites, one held under a
temporary development by the Al
aska Mineral and Development Com
pany, a Guggenheim subsidary and
the other applied for by Wrangell
people.
A second unit to be allocated to
the same sites was also cruised. This
is located on land adjacent to Brad
field Canal the tract containing
132,000 cres. Of that amount 75.00
was found to contain merchantable
. timber amounting to 900.000,000
board feet.
A start was made on a third unit
for use in the development of the
Thomas Bay power site, held under
temporary permit by Hutton. McNair
and Daugherty. In the 43,000 acres
were cruised and mapped on a tract
of land lying between Horn Cliffs
and the south side of Thomas Bay
on the mainland. Merchantable tim
ber to the extent of 450,000.000
board feet was found on 25.000 a
* cres of this tract.
FIND OIL IN PHILIPPINES
MANILLA. P. I. Jan. 16—Di^
eovery of oil seepage along- the
bed of the Montalban river, about
thirty miles east of Manila, has led.
to the filing of a number of appli-1
cations for exploratory leases with j
the bureau of lands. The discovery i
-was made by Dr. Roy E. Dickerson,'
representing a California Petroleum
Company.
The bureau of lands is expected:
to begin soon the -work of making
preliminary surveys which are ne
cessary before the applications for,
lease can be approved. The appli
cation made by the California com
pany covers nearly one-half of the
province of Rizal. These applications
if approved, -will allow the appli
cants to make geological surveys
within the areas applied for but
will not involve any property rights.
ANCHORAGE’S FIRE LOSSES.
To give the Anchorage public a
brief idea of losses from fire. Fire
Chief Greene has compiled figures
or 1921 and 1922 showing the total
amount of damages caused by fire
in Anchorage. The amounts are stag
gering for a town of this size, com
ments the Anchorage Times. In 1921
fires totaled a property loss of
$125,690. In 1922 the amount was
smaller, approximately $50,155. For
tunately no lives were lost in these
two years.
F. H. Barnett went to Fairbanks
this afternoon.
FRANCE CONSIDERS MEASURES
TO FORCE GERMANS TO TERMS
LEADER OF MINT BANDITS
FOUND FROZEN IN DENVER
DENVER, Jan. 15,—The daring
bandit who stood on the running
board of the automobile while his
accomplices robbed a federal reserve
bank truck of $200,000 in front f
the Denver mint on December 18,
and who sped away amid a rain of
bullets, was found dead in a private
garage Sunday night in the fashion
able Capital Hill residence district.
His body was frozen but a wound
near his heart told how he had met
his death. He is believed to have
been the leader of the bandit gang
and the theory of the police is
.hat he was deserted by his com
rades and left to die in the lonely
garage.
j The garage was rented a week be
fore the robbery was staged and
'■ when the new tenant failed to pay
j his rent on Sunday, the owner of the
; place investigated and found the
1 bandit stretched out on the front
iseat of the auto, his body frozen
stiff.
CLARA IS ACQUITTED
SEATTLE. Jan. 15,—Clara Skarin
i tried on the charge of murder in
i connection with the death of Hoch
i brunn, wealthy real estate dealer,
was acquitted Saturday afternoon,
i the jury being out a little more than
, two hours and a half. Three votes
were taken before a verdict could
be reached. The first vote was nine
to three for acquittal, the second
j eleven to one and the third was
unanimous for acquittal. Four of the
i women members of the jury were
■ for acquittal throughout the delib
erations.
ONLY ONE TRIAL IN ALASKA
FOR VIOLATION DRY LAW
Persons tried in Alaska under the
Alaska bone dry act are not thereaf
ter liable for prosecution under the
Volstead enforcement act for the
same offense, in the opinion of the
department of justice, according to
advices received from it by U. S.
Attorney A. G. Shoup. This opinion1
says tne Juneau Empire, upholds the
position formerly taken by the dis
trict attorney in the prosecution of
alleged violations of the prohibition
laws.
In this respect said Mr. Shoup, the
recent decision of the supreme court
which was to the effect Mat persons
convicted under federal statutes in:
federal courts for violating the na
tional prohibition amendment could
also be tried in state courts under
state enforcement acts for the same
offence, does not apply to Alaska.
This attitude, he added, had been
held by his office all along. Recently
however, there was raised by prohi
j bition enforcement officials con
j nected whh the Washington dis
trict a question of proceeding a
eainst offenders under both the A
i la ska bone dry law and the Vol
! stead enforcenment act. At the
time the matter was referred by
Mr. Shoup to the attorney general
: with statement of the position ta
| ken by the local officers and the
! reasons therefor.
In a ruling upholding the local of
fice, Mary Walker Willbrandt, as
sistant to the attorney general, said
“This department is inclined to
! think that a plea of former jeo
! pardy to a second indictment would
| be sustained as a matter of law,
j since both laws which were violated
emanate from the same sovereignty.
DORTMUND, Jan. 16—The
French general headquarters has
been informed that 25,000 men of
the German reichwehr have con
centrated south of Muenster, less!
than 25 miles north of Luenen. to'
the north of Dortmund. The French !
have advanced both the Dortmund j
and Luenen outposts, and the \
French and German forces at some |
points are only eight to ten miles j
apart.
Soldier* Clash
PARIS, Jan. 16—Order has been
restored at Bochum, where German j
demonstrators and French troops,
of occupation clashed last night.!
In Wilful Default
PARIS. Jan. 16—The reparations
commission has decided that Ger
many wilfully defaulted in her de
liveries scheduled for the first of
the year. France, Belgium and Italy
voted, Kimball Cook representing
Great Britain, declined to go on
record one way or the other.
French Occupy Bochum
BOCHUM, Jan. 16—French
troops have occupied Bochum, in the
heart of the great Stinnes <teel
works.
Work Stop*
ESSEN, Jan. 16—All work was
suspended here for half an hour
on Sunday as a protest against
French iJccupation. A large crowd
staged an anti-French demonstration
outside the French quarters with
speeches and songs.
Industrial* On Strike ,
PARIS, Jan. 16—The German
government has sent instructions j
to German industrials not to coop-1
erate with France in the delivery •
of coal.
France Takes Action
DUSSELDORF. Jan. 16—The re-;
fusal of German mine owners to j
make delivery of coal on any terms
has been answered by France by an
extension of the zone of occupation.
Originally it was intended to cov-!
er only the Bochum region but now
the zor* of occupation will take in
the great industrial city of Dort
mund.
Break 1* Complete
LONDON, Jan. 16—A dispatch
received in this city says the break ,
between the Pranco-Belgian control ■
commission and German industrial-;
ists is complete. It is stated furth ;r:
that military penalties more se-1
vere and extensive than originally;
intended, and now contemplated^
and the advance into Germany will
be carried out on a greater mag
nitude.
Plan Submitted
PARIS Jan. 16—Royland Boyden
American representative on the
reparations commission, told the
Associated Press today that he had
submitted a plan for the examini
tion of the reparations problem,
which had been approved by Se
cretary Hughes after the rettwn of
the commission from Berlin early
in November.
UNION PACIFIC TO USE
BIGGEST LOCOMOTIVES
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan, 16
Fifty five of the largest locomotives
in the world will shortly be put into
passenger operation by the Union
Pacific System, according to local
officials of the road. The order, said
to be one pan of one of the largest
motive power improvement programs
ever planned by an American rail
road, came as the result of the suc
cess of a “sample” locomotive of
the same 300-ton type in pulling
the San Francisco Overland Limited
over the Continental Divide in Wy
oming.
Despite their tremendous size, the
relative weight of the new locomo
tive is only 98 1-2 pounds per
horsepower about equal to the aver
age automobile.
Forty of the locomotives will be
used between Denevr and Ogden,
the fifteen others being on the Cal
ifornia portion of the system.
GIRL SURVIVOR WELL;
WILL RESUME STUDIES
RED BLUFF, CAL. Jan. 16—Miss
Opal MeNaughton, 16, sole survivor
of fifteen high school students killed
when an autobus was struck by a
Southern Pacific train at Proberta,
November 30, 1921, has recovered
from her injuries and is nearly ready
to re-enter Red Bluff High School.
Miss MeNaughton, who has been
bedridden in a hospital for thir
teen months, returned to her home
here for the holidays. She plans to
enter college after leaving high
school.
All of Miss McNaughton’s school
companions in the autobus were
killed outright and her legs were
1 both crushed from her ankles to
her hips. Her recovery is complete,
and according to physicians, she
will regain the use of her limbs.
SWEDISH COAL MINERS ARE
TOILING IN ARCTIC CIRCLE
GOTHENBURG, Jan. 15,—One
hundred and eighty-five Swedish
j coal miners are now cu: off from
| the world digging coal in a mine
seven hundred miles north of the
1 Arctic Circle. They are on the is
land of Spitsbergen, north of Swed
! en in the Sea of Greenland, and the
sun will not again appear above
i horizon until next April. They have
; plenty of supplies .and plenty of
I fuel, andtheir camps and mines will
be lighted by electricity through the
long Arctic night. One of their prin
cipal diversions is the phonograph
and when they get tired of reading
I last year's newspapers, they can re
jceive the condensed news of the
world through their own radio sta
; tion.
The Swedish company for which
these men work shipped 72,000 tons
! of coal into Sweden from Spitzberg
en during last summer. But now
nothing can be moved until naviga
i tion opens again in the spring.
Sweden’s coal supply is linyted
but to offset this deficiency she has
her “white coal,” the countless num
i ber of waterfalls and rapids which
are harnessed to produce electric
power. And in face, upward of half
of the area of the kingdom is now
^ electrified, the power being applied
| to a variety of purposes all the way
from the building of ships to the
milking of cows. The fuels in com
mon use are wood, eharcoal and
peat. »
But King Coal still commands a
i corner of the fuel markets, and it
is a unique tribute to him that the
'185 miners are toiling in their iee
| bound out-post through the Arctic
night.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Quigley came
in from the Kantishna last night
! and left for Fairbanks today. They
j will return to Nenana on the next
jtrain.
SECRETARY FALL EXPLAINS
ACTION TO RESERVE LANDS
YAKIMA Jan. 16—In a letter ad
dressed to the American legion Sec
retary of the Interior Fall explains
with regard to his ruling that Jap
anese will not be allowed to lease
lands of Indian reservations, that
his action is not anti-Japanese but
a measure taken to safeguard what
remains of the nation’s public lands
for its own citizens, particularly
for former soldiers. He says the
action is in line with the policy of
the Harding administration.
TEXAS AFTER KLUXERS
HOUSTON, Jan. 16—Criminal
Judge Robinson has instructed the
district grand jury to devote its
entire time to an investigation of
the flogging of Mr*. B. H. Harrison
and Oxra Armand, at Goose creek
recently.
SEATTLE HEARS ABOUT IT
SEATTLE Jan. 16—The chamber
of Commerce has been advised from
Washington that the Alaskan Engin
eering Commission. in order to pro
vide better water transportation in
Interior Alaska, plans the establish
ment of a steamship service between
Nenana and St. Michael in the spring
COURT FIXES BOUNDARY
WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 16
The supreme court has decided the
famous Red river case, making the
south cut bank of the Red river
the boundary between Texas and
Oklahoma. The decision of the court
is a compromise of the conflicting
contentions of the United States
and the state of Texas.
ALASKA GETS INVITATION
TO SHOW AT EXPOSITION
An invitation to participate in the
National Travel and Outdoor Life
Exposition, to be staged in Chicago
early next spring, has been extended
to the Terrirorv, according to an
announcement by Gov. Scott C. Bone
It is suggested that Alaska arrange
for an exhibit representative of the
fishing game, scenic and other at
tractions for persons desiring to
spend their summer vacations in the
outdoor world.
All sections of the country it wa*
stated in a letter received by Gov
ernor Bone from Maine to California
and from Washington state to Flor
ida. will be represented in the ex
hibits. The big show will be held in
the famous Chicago Coliseum from
May 7 to 12.
The purpose of the exposition
the Governor explained to the Jun
eau Empire, is to further the cam
paign of inducing American tour
ists to “See America First.” Many
new tourist regions have been open
ed up through publicity ^gained in
former similar shows, it is claimed.
If necessary financial arrange
ments can be made, it is possible
that an Alaskan exhibit wnll be sent
the Governor intimated. The Terri
tory has no fund for such purposes
and Alaskan participation is largely
dependent on financial and other as
sistance from independent source3.
The Governor now has the matter
under consideration and hopes to
find a way in which to take advan
tage of the opportunity thus offered
to advertise Alaska’s outdoor life
and tourist possibilties.
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Coyle, re
cent arrivals from the Ruby dis
trict went to Fairbanks today.
REFUGEES CAMPS CAUSING
BIG LtFE LOSS IN GREECE
ATHENS Jan. ltj—Epidemics of
typhus, smallpox and cholera have
regched such alarming proporations
at refugee centers throughout
Greece that the government has
been forced to call a halt to the ad
mission of unfortunates from Asia
Jlinor. Xo more refugees from that
direction •will be permitted to en
ter Greek territory until the dis
ease situation has been gotten un
der control.
Deaths are occurring in great
numbers in the refugee camps and
the spread of disease has reached
such proporations as to ta^ the
capacity of Greek medical forces.
JUNEAU LEADS TERRITORY
IN SCHOOL TAX COLLECTED
In the payment of annual school
taxes for the year 1922, Juneau
leads all the other incorporated
towns in the Territory in the amount
paid, according to figures made pub
lic by Walstein G. Smith. Territorial
Treasurer. The total collected for
the entire Territory last year in
school taxes was S75.491.08, as com
pared to $72,189.17 collected in
1921. The former figure is incom
plete as additional returns are to be
received while the 1921 figure is
complete.
The net collections in Juneau a
mounted to approximately $3,700.
j which was $700 in excess of the
[.Anchorage return* which were se
Icond largest. The Juneau collection*
, exceeded those of the entire Anchor
age district. The 1922 collections in
.he channel community exceeded
those of 1921 by $400. Ketchikan
i showed a marked decrease dropping
; $1,500 below the 1921 figures.
Two divisions, the First and Third
showed increases over 1921 collec
’ tions and the other two, Second ai >1
Fourth declined. The collections by
division were:
First Division $21 111.6?
Second Division 2,577.00
Third Division 47.496.50
Four*'- Division 4,305.95
Total . $75,491.08
For 1921 school tax collections re
ipoi'.ed were: Fir?t Division, 17,662;
.Second, $3,447; Third $45,554:
Fourth $5,534.17; total, $72,189.17.
; As in former years the Bristol
, Bay district of the Third Division
I was the most productive in the Ter
! ritory, collections there and at Un
, alaska :otaling in excess of $24,000.
; Other heavy districts :n the Third
| Division were Prince William Sound
| Kodiak and the Kennecott mining
section.
The principal towns in the Terri
j tory reported as follows:
Juneau $3,700
Anchorage 3,000
| Cordova 1,800
Ketchikan 1,00"
Fairbanks 1,000
Of these community only Juneau
and Cordova showed any increase on
| the amouncs paid in 1921.
FACTORY SHUT DOWN CAUSES
CITY TO TAKE CARE OF POOR
OSAKA, Jan. 16—Authorities
have taken steps to ameliorate the
condition of the poor of this eitv.
aggravated by the closing of the fac
tories. Several public markets have
been opened to supply the general
public with provision? at cheap
prices, while municipal dining room
have been started. About 800 per
sons dine here daily, their meal
costing 12 yen or about 6 eent
George F. Forest the Alaska dis
trict deputy of tfie B. P. O. Elks, ar
rived in Anchorage from the Juneau
headquarters on the last boat. Mr.
Forest is in Anchorage on official
business connected with the order
and will make the trip to Fairbanks
with the Elks’ excursion Friday,
January 18.