Y $7,955.25 Last Year-WHERE THE ICE POOL GROWS--#/0,000 This Year
THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS NENANA, ALASKA. SATURDAY, MAY, 26, 1923 NUMBER 456
' COMMUNIST STRIKE GROWS IN GERMANY
|. MINING MAN DEPLORES SPREAD BOLSHEVISM U. S.
POWERS URGED TO SEND MORE SOLDIERS TO CHINA
CHRISTENSEN PREDICTS BIG
1924 FARMER-LABOR VOTE
SYDNEY. N\ S W. May 26—
The Farmer-Labor party, -which
came into being during the Ameri
can presidential campaign of 1920
is expected to take an active part in
the 1924 elections, according to Par
ley P. Chirstensen, the party presi
dential nominee 1920, who is here,
on a world tour.
He said that elections in the Uni
ted States since 1920 “showed how
the wind is blowing and. when 1924
comes along, you watch our smoke.-’
He said that his visit to Russia
had convinced him that that coun
try should be allowed to take her
place in the world again.
WHITE PASS INVESTIGATES
PLAN TO RAISE RIVER LEVEL
V
f
Herbert Wheeler. general man
ager of the White Pass & Yukon
Route Company, passed through
Juneau recently returning to his
summer headquarters at Skagway
for the open season. Accompanying
Mr. Wheeler. says The Stroller’s
Weekly, was J- P- Forde, an engin
eer of Victoria, B. C., who came
North for the purpose of investigat
ing the feasibility of constructing
a dam across a narrow neck of
water that connects Lake Tagish
and lower Lake Marsh at a point
about half way between Carcross
and Whitehorse.
• The matter of devising a plan for
storing water as an aid to upper
Yukon river navigation has been
under consideration for several
years and every spring and fall sees
the need of such reserve water, as
there are usually about three weeks
every spring and fail when naviga
tion is very difficult if not wholly
impossible owing to the low stage
of the water. Years age there was
strong talk of constructing a dam
at the head of Miles Canyon, which
is five miles south of Whitehorse,
but nothing was ever done in the
matter. The movement now to con
struct the dam at the foot of Lake
Marsh would result in materially!
raising the waters of Bennett and
Nares lakes, of both Big and Little
W’indy Arm and of Lake Marsh,
which water would be released when
the water of Lake Lebarge and of
the Thirty- mile river is too shallow i
for other than light draught steam
ers. the larger steamers usually j
making the first trips of the season
between Whitehorse and Dawsor. •
with less than half cargo capacities.
The same conditions prevail every
fall when, owing to shallow water,
heavy monetary losses have been
many times sustained by the operat
ing company through the wrecking
of the steamers.
Had the dam now under contem
plation been constructed 2n years
age it would have been of inestim
able benefit and would have paid for
itself many times over and even yet
the proposition smacks of good bus
iness sense as well as faith in the
future of the vast expanse of coun
try to which the upper Yukon river
is the natural gateway. A month or
six weeks added to the period of
navigation on the upper Yukon
would materially assist in further
ing the interests of a mighty inland
empire.
_ •
R. J. Buford is getting his boat
ready for departue for the Koyu
kuk.
STEEL WORKERS JOIN MINERS
IN RED UPHEAVAL IN GERMANY
FRENCH CLERKS DENIUNCE
INCREASING COST OF FOOD
PARIS. May 26—The employes
of the epartment stores in Paris
are today making loud demands for
more pay. They say the cost of liv
ing has advanced three-fold since
1919. Their main complaint is in
the matter of food, and the gov
ernment has intervened by trying
to regulate the price of bread.
The department stores had a les
son not long ago when they ad
vanced the price of clothing. French
women simply did not buy dresses
when prices soared beyond their
reach. The store proprietors be
ban to lose money, and thus were
compelled to scale down their pric
es.
But it is easier for the people
to dispense with new clothes than
with food, so the violent protests
of today against the cost of sus
tenance are not surprising.
FIRST SAIL BOAT PASSES '
THROUGH PANAMA CANAL
BALBOA HEIGHTS. Canal Zone.
May 26—An 18-foo: canoe flying
a main sail and a jib, enjoys the
distinction of being the first sail
ing craft of any description to pass
through the Panama Canal under
the power of her canvas.
The little vessel, manned by Lieut
enant Miller, of the U. S. Navy, and
H. J. Grieser. a swimming instructor
who had previously rowed, paddled
and piloted a motor boat through
the canal, started at Cristobal, on
the Atlantic side of the cut. at 6 a.
m.. and docked the same evening at
Balboa, on the Pacific, at S:45.
The frail craft squeezed her way
into the great locks alongside of
huge steel freighters was raised or
lowered to the level of the next
lock, and passed on to repeat the
process until she had negotiated the
entire system. The tolls were 72
cents.
SPAIN WANTS 28,000 TEACHERS
MADRID, May 26—The Span
ish nation finds extreme difficulty
in obtaining elementary school tea
chers, of -whom 3. further 28.O00
are required in order to provide
the millions of illiterate children
with education.
The reason for the shortage is
the small salary offered to elemen
tary educators, who beg:n with inly
2,000 pesetas yearly, and may with
great good luck reach 2,500 after
25 years service. There are natural
ly some posts in the profession
which are better paid, but these
are few and far between, number
ing only 142. The highest paid is
remunerated with 8,000 pesetas
yearly.
Fred Major and three children.
Robert, Frank and Francis left for
the Outside yesterday, enroute to
Pennsylvania to make their future
home. There was quite a delega
tion at the depot to bid farewell
to the popular children.
j ESSEN, May 26—The Commun
| ist strike in tae Ruhr district is
staining steadily in numbers and
now includes many thousand iron
and steel workers in additions to
i
the miners who quit their posts
earlier in the week. Twenty thou
sand employes of the stee! workers
at Elberfeld joined the striker..-, to
day when their demand for fifty
per cent increase in wages was rc
■ jected.'
The Communists are still holding
tie police headquarters at Gel
senkirchen which they captured this
week.
Communiiti Hoot Poincare
PARIS. May 26—Premier Poin
care. who withdrew his resignation
yesterday at the request of Pre i
dent Millerand, was given a great
oration when he entered the cham
ber of deputies this morning. The
Communists hooted him but this
seemed only to increase the en
thusiasm of the other members.
Say» Religion I* Cured
NEW YORK. May 26—In an ad
dress delivered before the American
Iron and Steel institute yesterday,
chairman of the .'board of directors
of the United States Steel Cor
poration, suggested that Secretary
Hughes be named impartial arbi
trator to settle the Ruhr difficulty.
He also pleaded for a greater turn
PARIS THEATRICAL NEWSPAPER
PROPOSES BERNHARDT TRIBUTE
PARIS, May 26—The Par-s daily
newspaper Comoedia, which deoigs
its columns exclusively to matter®
theatrical, hr.; started a public sub
scription for the erection of a mon
ument to Sarah Bernhardt.
Thus is added another tribute to
the memory of the grear dramatic
artist, others including a project
to rename the Place Chatelet in her
honor. Comoedia is also distributing
a drawing in color by Vertes show
ing the great artist reposing on her
death bed.
INDIA HONORS AMERICANS
CALCUTTA. May 26—Miss Jose
phine Macleod American member of
the Ramkrishna Mission, has been
appointed Commissioner of the Muni
cipality of Bally in the Hawroa Dis
trict of the government. Miss Mac
leod is the first woman municipal
commissioner in Bengal and her
appointment is taken not only as
a tribute to her country, but to her
ability and impartiality as an ad
ministrator.
TEDDY H. SAILS
The steamer Teddy H. sailed for
the Koyukuk yesterday with a full
cargo of merchandise and general
supplies and several passengers.
Mrs. Frank O. Robinson and baby
are on a vacation trip to Anchorage
where Mrs. Robinson is visiting with
her mother.
Sam Sanderson came down from
Fairbanks yesterday.
' ing toward Chirstian religion as <
cure of the world’s ills.
Deplores Rad Cross Conditions
SPOKANE, May 26—J. R. Gal
braith. secretary of the Americar
Mining Congress, in an address de
livered at a dinner given by the
members of the Northwest Mining
association, deplored the general
movement in all parts of the coun
.ry toward bolshevism, parlor and
: organized. He also deplored the
movement to" limit the powers of
the supreme court.
First One Executed
DUSSELDORF. May 26—Albert
I Schiageter, convicted of sabotage a
aainst railroads and other charges,
was executed by French soldiers
:his morning. This is the first ex
ecution recorded since the arrival
| of the French troops.
Explosion Blocks Canal
ESSEN. May 26—The explosion
of a large mine in Ruhrport harbor
last night seriously damaged the
Rnine-Herne canal, greatly affect
ing the transportation of coal barg
es for the French.
Essen Is Upset
ESSEN. May 26—Bands of Com
munits are attacking and looting
warehouses here and overrunning
the market place. Most of the stores
of the city have been closed pend
ing the restoration of order.
DEFI WRITTEN IN BLOOD
OPENS STUDENT’S STRIKE
TOK-IO. May 26—Because a few
of their fellow students in a Tokio
school were “plucked” at the recent
annua] examination, 40 successful
candidates went on a strike, an
nouncing their decision to the dir
ectors in a letter written in blood,
the writers declared: “It was the
fault of the students of the whole
class that these unfortunate stu
dents did not pass the examination,
and out of sympathy they refuse to
attend school until the school au
thorities reconsider their decision
and declare their friends passed.”
MILLIONS OF AMERICAN TREES
SENT TO FRENCH BATTLEFIELD
NEW YORK. May 26—Millions of
“good will” delegates sailed from
this port recently for France. These
“good will” delegates are American
tree seeds presented to the Ameri
can government for reforesting bat
tle areas by Charles Lathrop Pack,
president of the American Tree As
sociation. A similar shipment was
turned over to the British Embassy
at Washington a few' days ago.
The shipment had been presented
to Ambassador Jusserand in Wash
ington and here M. Barret, the act
ing consul genera! received them.
The seeds will be turned over to ]
the French Commisioner of Agricul- j
ture in Paris and will placed in
nursies until ready for transplant
ing as seedlins.
Be it ever so homely there’s no
face like one’s own.
RIVER DAM SAVES YEARLY
ITS COST OF CONSTRUCTION
KEOKUK. La., May 26—Six mil
lion tons of coal are saved annually
by the operation of the Keokuk
dam in the Mississippi river here,
according to an estimate by the op
erators of the dam.
Power hidden under the surface
of the Mississippi and harnessed by
the dam is lighting stores and run
ning street cars in St. Louis and a
great many smaller towns in Iowa.
Illinois and Missouri. Miles upon
miles of cables and eonduits run out
, from the dam in almost every di
rection.
Accepting the average price of
coal, it can readily be seen that the !
saving in one year of this fuel would
more than pay for the entire cost.
of the dam, which was placed at
$29,000,000 in 1913, when it was
completed.
IRISH EMIGRATION INCREASES
BELFAST, May 26—Emigration
from Northern Ireland to the Uni
ted States has been on the increase.
During the three months ended
March 31. 1,612 emigrants bound
for America had their passports
vised at the Belfast consulate. Sim
ilar vises during the corresponding
period last year .totalled 552.
The majority of the emigrants
are from the countries bordering
the six county area. Consulate offi
rials described them as of a high
er type than had in the past been
the case with Irish irr migrants.
CHIROPRACTOR BILL DEAD;
GOVERNOR FAILED TO SIGN
Lacking the signature o' Gov
ernor Bone. Senate Bill No. 98,
after living for three days as an
incipient law. died without issue. -
With it perished the proposed re
gulation licensing and recognition of
chiropracty and Board of Chiroprac
tic Examiners.
■
The bill passed the Senate with
out opposition although its support
was never more than luke-warm.
In the House rt wa= met with some
opposition, but was put through by
the efforts of Representative Frank
H. Foster, of Cordova. Dr. H. C.
DeVeighne, Territorial Commission
er appeared in opposition to the
measure in a House hearing.
The measure was sent to the
Governor shortly before the ad
journment of the legislature. Under
the provisions of the Organic Act,
when he had not signed it three
days after it reached him, it be
came noneffective. With the loss of
House Bill No. 6, of w'hich no trace
has been found since it went to the
enrolling and engrossing committee t
of the Senate, and the failure of,]
this bill to gain approval, the laws *
passed by the Legislature is cut to,
102.
The steamer Pioneer came down
from Fairbanks yesterday and will 1
leave for the Kantishna shortly.
HARDING CABINET EASIER
ON SITUATION IN ORIENT
WASHINGTON, D. C. May 26—
There is a feeling of lessened anx»
lety in administration circles re
garding the Chinese situation. The
matter was discussed at a meet
ing of the cabinet this morning and
it is understood Secretary Hughes
presented the latest reports from
Minister Schurman indicating that
the captives in tne hands of the
bandits are not in any immediate
danger, although strong measures
are needed to effect then releases.
President Harding has resolved to
give Schurman and associates full
rein for the present, at least.
More Troop* Needed
TIENTSIN. May 26—There are
barely three thousand foreign troups
exclusive of Japanese, available in
this neighborhood, which is the for
eign military headquarters of Nor
thern China. This force is consid
ered inadequate for a move against
the ten thouand bandits in Shan
tung province and no action will
be taken except in case of an em
ergency. The foreign soldiers in
clude 1,000 Americans, 500 Bri
tish soldiers. 1.000 French and small
detainments of foreign marines ard
volunteers. It is the concensus of
opinion that it would be inadvisable
to use this force against the ban
dits except as a last resort. Mili
tary action may be taken, however,
by tne foreign authorities of the
problem of the release of the cap
fives is reduced to a choice be
tween death of the prisoners by
disease or death at the hands of
the bandits.
It is held in foreign quarters that
the powers should immediately rein
force the local detachments in pre
paration for possible future devel
opments.
One Soldier Killed
A telegram received here this
morning says one soldier was kill
ed and two captured during :h*
fighting yesterday between govern
ment troops and the Shantung ban
dits.
NEW PARTY IN JAPAN
OSAKA, May 26—Sanji Muto, a
prominent business man of Osaka
and president of the Kanegafuchi
fotton mill company, has organized
a new political party representing
:he interests of the commercial and
ndustrial community.
It is the first party in Japan to
-epresent the commercial and in
iustrial classes, and will partiei
aate in the general elections next
rear.
STAMPS SOLD FOR CHARITY
VIENNA, May 26—The issuance
>f postage stamps for charity, hav
ng proved successful, is to be tried
igain.
The postal department has
irought out a limited set of charity
tamps, in denominations from 100
o 1,000 crowns, printed on Japan
laper, signed by the designer ami
ngraver, mounted in a handsome
Ibum, and for sale to collectors
,t six times their face value.
Mrs. C. W. Tibbetts will leave
or Fairbanks this afternoon on
short visit.