v Celebrate the Glorious Fourth with Nenana
THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1923
NUMBER 469
• HARDING SAYS DRY LAW MUST PREVAIL
COAL OPERA TORS BLAMED FOR LABOR TROUBLES
STORMS CAUSE SCORE OF FATALITIES IN THE STATES
FORD IS CHANGING MIND;
MIGHT ACCEPT POSITION
DETP.OIT. June 26—According'
to announcement made today by Hen
ry Ford’s secretary, the auto maker
■would give serious consideration to
the offer of the presidential nomina
tion if tendered by any responsible
persons or party. No such offer has
been made as yet, however.
The statement was made in con
nection with the receipt of a peti
tion yesterday, signed by citizens of
Savannah, indorsing Ford for Pres-!
idem. In replying to the petition.
Ford's secretary informed the citi
zens of Savannah that “in view of
the interest displayed. Mr. Ford
can not have no objection to their
further activities in this direction."
ELEVATED TRAIN JUMPS;
SEVEN REPORTED KILLED
;•) NEW YORK. June 26—At least
$even persons including four women
▼ere killed yesterday when a two
car train plunged from the Brooklyn
Manhattan Transit Elevated system
at Fifth and Flatbush avenues,
Brooklyn. About forty other passen
gers were injured and it is believ
ed five of them at least will die.
The cars were smashed to splinters.
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Chicago Cart Bump
CHICAGO. June 26—More than j
sixty passengers were bruised and
shaken when an elevated train smash
ed into the rear end on another j
train.,
CHURCHMEN COMING NORTH j
TO STUDY MISSION NEEDS
SEATTLE. June 26—A party of
108 ministers, laymen and church
workers will sail for Alaska on the
steamer Jefferson tomorrow to make
a study of the needs of Presbyterian
missions in the North. Rev. S. Hall
Young in charge of the missions in
Alaska, will arrive from the North;
today and will return with the party,
which is under the direction of Rev. j
Paul G. Stevens, of Los Angeles.
Dr. Stevens is quoted as saying!
“the purpose of the tour is to in-!
terest the church in our Alaska mis- <
sions and the necessity for increas- I
ing the scope of the work being done !
and report back to their local eon- j
gregations.
The delegation will visit the mis-1
sions at Ketchikan, Metlakatla, Taku i -
Skagway, Hoonah, Sitka and other j
points.
HAGUE COURT INTREFERES I
IN WIRELESS NEWS DISPUTE
THE HAGUE, June 26—Property
rights in news distributed by wire
less is a subject now engaging the
Dutch courts. One Dutch news ag- i
eney sued another for intercepting j
and sending to its newspaper sub-1
scribers news sent to the first ag-I
ency in Berlin, each of the dispatch
es bearing as a prefix a notice that
they -were the copyright in Holland
of the plaintiff agency which claim- 1
h
ed payment at a specified rate for j
each message thus intercepted and j I
distributed.
The President of the Hague Court i
has ordered the defendant agency 1
immediately to cease intercepting
the wireless messages which the
plaintiffs claimed as their property.
untill it has been judicially decided
whether such interceptions is illegal
or not.
PRESIDENT TAKES LABOR’S SIDE
IN DISCUSSION OF LATE STRIKES
DENVER, June 26—In n ad
dress delivered here yesterday,
President Harding served notiee
that the federal government is de
termined to enforie prohibition, ev
en should the burden of enforce
ment continue to be thrown in
creasingly upon the Government by
the various states. Moreover he
voiced the conviction that not only
with the prohibition amendment
not repealed but whatever changes
may be made in the Volstead act,
"will represent a sincere effort to
make enforcement effective rather
than a moderation of the general
policy.”
Striking out straight at those
who violate the law. the President
said the issue is fast becoming one
not between the wets and drys,
but rather whether the laws of the
country “can and will be enforced”.
He said: “So far as the federal
government is concerned and. I am
also sure, so far as concerns a
very great majority of state gov
ernments and local governments, it
will be enforced. Gratifying and
amazing progress has been made
during the last few years toward
better enforcement.”
While the President made no dir
ect reference to the situation in
Mew York, he said “the spectacle
of a state nullify its own auth
ority and asking national sover
eignty to take over an important
part of its powers is new and when
the implications of this strange pro
posal are fully understood by the
people and arties devoted to the
preservation of state rights, the new
nullificationists, I venture to say.
CONVICTS NOT WANTED
LISBON, Portugal, June 26—
Portugal today sends its convicts to
the penal colony at Loanda, on the
ivest coast of Africa, but the pre
"enc-e of these undesirables is re
cue i ui anu ior
Hgners resident there who have
letitioned the government to re
nove the convicts to one of the is
ands of the Cape Verde archi
laelago.
Loanda is prospering these days,
ind its people declare the presence
>f the convicts hampers their de
velopment.
SMELTER EXPLODES
TACOMA, June 23—One man
^as blinded, possibly fatally, and
vwo others were seriously burned
yesterday when the furnaces of the
racoma Smelting Comapny a\ Rus
an exploded. A dozen workers were
lightly hurt.
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’REDICTS PICTURES BY RADIO
LONDON, June 26—A British
nventor has produced what he calls
he “Television,” an apparatus
I’hich, he claims, will transmit
ounds and images simultaneously
i-ithout the use of wires. One can
ee the singer at the same time
me hears his voice. He predicts the
iroadcasting of films by radio.
will discover they have perpetrated
management.”
In conclusion, the President said:
: “I don’t see how any citizen who
cherishes protection of the law in
organized society may feel himself
secure when he, himself, is an ex
ample for contempt for the law.
Clearly there is a call for awaken
ed conscience, awakened realization
of true self interest on the part
of the few who will themselves
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suffer most when reverence for the
' law is forgotten. Passion is express
i ed in destructive lawlessness. Ours
must be a law abiding republic and
; reverence and obedience must spring
: from influential leaders of men as
well as from the humbler citizen,
else the temple will collapse. When
ever satisfaction may be indulgence,
whatever objection there is to ao
called invasion of personal liberty,
neither counts when supremacy of
law and stability of institutions are
menaced. With all good intention a
majority of sentiment in the 'Unit
ed States has sought by law to re
move strong drink as a curse upon
the American citizen, but ours is
a larger problem—to remove lawless
drinking as a menace to the repub
lic itself.”
Governor Supports Court
Governor Sweet aroused applause
by declaring: "The time for Amer
ican membership in a world court
has come” and the people of this na
tion are glad you are anxious to
put this question of partisanship a
side and rest it upon the finer foun
dation of justice and humanity.
The address of the President was
SAYS JAPAN’S NEED OF LAND
MAY BRING DISASTROUS WAR
LONDON, June 26—Unless some
of the western nations are awaken
ed to their mistaken attitude toward
the eastern nations the struggle be
tween east and west will involve the
whole of humanity in the most dis
astrous war the world has ever seen
These frank words were spoken by
Professor Hishinhuman, a Japanese
at a recent dinner in London of the
Japanese Society. The limited area
of Japan, the professor explained,
was a cause of great anxiety to her
statesmen. With only 16. percent of
her territory available for agricul
ture, and a population of 360 to the
square mile, Japan looked with long- i
ing eyes to North and South Ameri
ca, Canada, Siberia and Australia i
;
where there is so much land avail
able for development. She wants to !
send her surpuls population to these
empty acres.
SEATTLE CLAIMS GAIN
SEATTLE, June 23—The popu
lation of this city is 349,525, based
on the latest edition of the Polk
directory, this is an increase of
15,000 over the estimate of last
year, and 30,000 more than the
last census figures.
accorded more applause than anj
; previously delivered. When he step
ped upon the platform in the Munici
pal auditorium at noon, the audience
cheered until the great pipe orgar
began “The Star Spangled Banner”
The audience sang two verses oi
“America.” The President was in
troduced by Governor Sweet, whc
i
; extended a welcome on behalf of
the state of Colorado.
Encouragement For Farmer*
! HUTCHINSON, June 26—In an
address delivered here on Saturday
afternoon, President Harding
brought to the agricultural Middle
West a message of optimism, with
the prediction that the worst of the
post-war depression has passed and
that gradual improvement may be
reasonably expected.
The President reviewed measures
taken by the Govemaen: to aid the
farmer, placing as most important,
the farm credits legislation of last
year. “I confess frank pride in
the Government’s part in bettering
a situation against which you justly
complained and which all of the
people of the nation deplored, Co
operation of all Government agen
cies and.»with them, the cooperation
of the fine forces of leadership
which the great national farm or
ganizations have developed, have
made it possible to secure a measure
of helpful results. Moreover, it
found DromDt reflection in the im
proved status of every agricultural
concern. We have been offically in
formed that owing to improved con
ditions, the farm products of the
country last year were worth two
FRANCE NOW PLANS GREAT
ELECTRICAL DEVELOPMENT
PARIS, June 26—Electrification
in France, held back by the war,
its devastation and the upward swing
of prices, is now being furthered in
many ways by the government, and
within a few years many preten
tious plans should be completed.
The greatest progress is being
made in the devastated regions, for
there villages and towns must be
built from the ground up and an
electric installation frequently pre
cedes gas. The government, in re
imbursing owners for destroyed fac
tories, urged from the first that
manufactures motorize their plant
Water-power development in the
southeastern mountainous region is
well under way, and power soon will
be available for the first stretches
of electrified railroads. In Britainy
on the Atlantic coast, the tide as a
source of power soon will be tested
in an experimental installation.
Electricity appliances for cooking
and cleaning which came formerly
almost entirely from America and
Italy, are now being made in France
Electric stoves recently appeared,
bu tthe French cook still sticks to
her hard coal stove..
A stout heart crushes ill luck.
' billion dollars more than the pre
j ceding' year.
Blames Coal Barron*
CHEYENNE, June 26—-Addres
sing the people of this city from the
rear platform of :he Presidential
special. President Harding expressed
1 the opinion today that some of the
‘ operators were as much to blame for
j the coal strike last year as were
the men who struck. He said the
operators had promised to produce
all the coal needed if the law was
j enforced, adding, “law enforcement
•was provided but no coal was pro
duced. There can be no coal mining
j in free America under force of
' arms.”
Back* Sugar Tariff
In a five-minute talk at Greeley
Colo., the President defended hi
course in refusing to lower tb
sugar tariff, explaining that in-e
gation had persuaded him that such
action “would have little to do with
decrease in price to the American
'consumer, but might destroy the
l American sugar inudstry itself, to
J which the American consumer must
look for stabilized prices in the fu
ture.”
SALT LAKE CITY, June 26—
"President Harding and the member
of his party arrived here shortly be
fore noon today for a 12-hour visit
here after an auto ride from Og
den. The President was given an
almost continuous ovation during
the 40-mile ride, hundreds of admir
ers being gathered at every small
town and all along the roadside. The
President was cheered lustily, flags
were waved and the road at many
' points was strewn with flowers.
! UNCLE SAM TO RESCUE
TACOMA, June 23—Secretary of
State Hughes has notified the Phoe
nix N orthern Trading Company.'
owner of the schooner Iskum, that
the coast guard cutter Bear has
been ordered to proceed to East
j Cape to use its good offices in se
curing the release of the four tr-.d
ing vessels held by the soviet auth
orities.
WOMEN PREACHERS IN U. S.
CHICAGO, June 26—There are
178 women preachers of various de-1
nominations in the United States, all
of whom are members of the Inter
national Association of Women
preachers, according to the list of
members recently made public here.
Six women preachers of foreign
lands also belong to the association,
three in China, two in India and one
in Africa.
Illinois leads in the number of wo
men preachers with 33, 17 of them
being in the city of Chicago. Kansas l
ranks second with 30 women minist-1
ers,seven of whom are at Wichita.
Nebraska is third in numbers with
18. !,
An American soda fountain has :
been introduced into Syria at Bei- [ ]
rut. !l
STORMS TAKE HEAVY TOLL;
iHROUGHGLT I HE STATES
ST. PAUL, June 26—Wind and
rain .'toims swept sections of :ne
Central and Northwest states un
Sunday and yesterday. causa g a to
tal of twenty or more deatns and
extensive property damage, accord
ing to reports which have reached
this city.
Tornado Kill* Several
FARGO, N. D., June 26—A dis
patch to the Forum says five are
known to have lost their lives yes
terday hen a tornado swept across
the east end of Adam- county. Four
persons were injured.
len add'ional deaths are reported
from the farming -ection in the vici
nity ot Reeder and Hettinger. A
stretch of country forty miles in ex
tent was laid waste.
Storm Hits Ontario
TORONTO. June 26—The pro
vince of Ontario, from "Ioror.to west
ward was swept by a severe storm
last night, the gale lea . .ng a trad
of wrecked buildings, broken tele
gi-aph poles and leveed trees behind
it. Lines of communeation were
broken at many points, u.th the re
su!t that details of the damage
done are slow in reaching .his city.
It believed the damage will reach
into the millions, but the los- of life
if any, will be small.
PRINCE DOES NOT PINE
TO BE CALLED ROYAL
LONDON, June 26—Lady Astor
likes to bring people together at
her dinner's. At one of her recent
entertainments she had among her
guests the Prince of Wales and
Wil Thorne, the socialist labor lead
er and member of Parliament.
Thorne now tells this story;
“I said to the Prince 1 would
doubtless be unplea-antly criticised
by some of my constituents tor
putting my feet under the table
with royalty.
“The prince smilingly replied; 1
object to royalty, Mr. Thorne, but
1 don’t mind being called the Prince
of Wales.”
THIRD WOMAN ^lOW SEEKS
A SEAT IN PARLIAMENT
LONDON, June 26—English wo
men are outdistancing their Amer
ican sisters in political activty. Two
of their number are members of
the House of Commons, end a third
is now seeking that honor.
Old time English politicians ex
perienced something of a shock re
cently when they learned that Miss
Mabel Russell a musical comedy
actress had deserted the theatrical
stage for the political arena, *nd
had become an aspirant for a seat
in the august English Parliament.
Miss Russell, who has starred here
in a number of American produc
tions has been put forward for a
seat in the Commons with Lady As
:or and Mrs. Wintringham by Con
servative admirers in the Berwick
iistrict, which was held by Sir Ed
vard Grey as a Liberal stronghold
’or a generation. The constituents
hink Miss Russell’s histrionic abili
;ies, as well as her winning person
ilily, will more than offset the or
itorical and argumentative skill of
dr. Lloyd George, Mr. Asquith and
tamsey MacDonald.