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THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
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NENANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOV. 2, 1922
NUMBER 369
BORAH PREDICTS BIRTH OF NEW PARTY
VE TER AN SENATOR SAYS VOTERS WANT ACTION
■ NORWAY REPORTS CHANGE IN CLIMATIC CONDITIONS
ARCTIC OCEAN IS WARMING;
CLIMATIC CONDITIONS ALTER
WASHINGTON', D. C., Nov. 2—
The Arctic ocean is growing warm
er. icebergs are getting scarcer and
in some places even the seals are
finding the northern waters too
warm tor comfort, according to a
report received by the department
* of commerce from Consul Ifft, of
Bergen, Norway.
The consul says that reports re
ceived from fishermen, sea! hunters
and explorers all point to a radical
change in climatic conditions, with
temperatures higher than were ever
heard of before. Exploration expedi
tions report that very little ice has
been encountered this year as far
^ north as 81 degrees and 29 minutes.
Soundings roadie at a depth of 3.10J
meters showed the gulf streams still
very warm.
Great masses of ice have been re
placed by moraines at many points,
and well known glaciers have dis
appeared entirely. Few seals and no
whitefish are being found now in
the Eastern Arctic, while great
shoals of herring and smelt which
never before ventured that far into
northern waters, are being encount
ered.
BEGGARS MAY GET HOMES
TOKIO. Nov. 2—A local philan
thropist has offered the government
a tract of land in Kyushu on which
he proposes to build homes for 700
former beggars whom he has rescued
from the streets of Tokio and other!
cities of Japan. The philanthropist
has devoted his life to restoring
beggars to self-respecting and in
dustrious citizens and he desires to
* found a colony where they can
spend their declining years.
ISLANDERS VOTE FOR FREEDOM
MANILA, Nov. 2—The Philippine
senate has unanimously adopted the
joint resolution asking the Congress
of the United States to authorize
the Philippine legislature to call a
constitutional convention for the
purpose of arranging for the in
dependence of the islands and de
termining what relation the pro
posed republic should bear to the
American government. The resolu-,
tion has been sent to the lower house
for final approval.
MINISTER FOUND GUILTY
STATESBORO, Nov. 2—Elliot
Patrick, youthful minister, who was
tried here on a charge of first de
gree murder for the killing of his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Mamie Dixon,
last June, was found guilty today
by a jury. The verdict earned a ’
recommendation for life imprison- j
meat.
LODGE QUITS SPEAKING TOUR |
BOSTON’, Nov. 2—Senator Lodge '
has been compelled by illness to j
cancel all of his speaking engage-;
ments in connection with his cam-!
paign for re-election. The hope is
expressed at Republican headquart-1
ers, however, that he will be well
enough to speak at a* final rally to j
be held on Saturday.
CUSTOMS JUDGE RESIGNS
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Nov. 2—
Marion DeVries, presiding judge of
the court of customs appeals, has
resigned his position after a service
of twelve years, and his resignation
has been accepted by the President.
He has announced that he will re
* suae the practice of law. He came;
from Stockton, Cal.
CARNIVAL TRAIN WRECKED
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 2—Three1
persons w<*re killed, four seriously
injured and two slightly hurt yes- >
terday when the Sunset Limited j
tore into the rear end of the Wort- j
i. ham Carnival special. All of the
dead and injured belonged to the
carnival outfit ^id the conductor
and brakeman of the carnival train
are missing.
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GOVERNMENT FACES DEFICIT;
EXPENSES OUTRUN REVENUES
NAVAL FUEL PROBLEM HAS
BECOME SERIOUS IN JAPAN
TOKIO. Nov. 2—With all the
; drastic military and naval reductions
;hat may be realized, the question
! of naval fuel pending before before
•be government will remain as far
from solution as before, according
to information obtained from high,
: officials. The government king has,
been striving for the realizing of j
self-sufficiency but what with the
gradual dimisbment of tne annual
output in this country and with the!
] waning prospects of the oil pos- ‘
i sibilities now under experimental
I exploitation, the government will for;
! a long time yet have to cling to
j the old policy of hoarding imported
| oil.
The domestic output amounted a
j few years ago to about 450,000
! tons per annum, but the amount
| has dropped to less than 300,000
tons. So considerable a portion of
j this output is refined into lighting
| oil that very little fuel can be ob-'
i tained out of this limited domestic.
product. The repeated experimental!
boring in the oil fields in Formosa
has completely failed and the simi-!
! iar attempt in Saghalien has so far
1 been attended with no more reas
suring result. Under these circum
; stances the government has decided
| to employ several additional special
service vessels for the import of fuel
1 oil, mostly from Borneo. The import
' from America this year amounts al
: ready to 100.000 tons and from
Borneo to 350.000 tons.
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SISTER OF ROOSEVELT ASKS
SUPPORT FOR REPUBLICANS
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Nov. 2—
Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson,
sister of the late Theodore Roose
velt, has made an appeal to the
women of the country, tnrough the
Republican headquarters, to give
their support on Tu -i-.y to Repub
lican nominees for the senate and
house.
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F. B. Giles is a guest at the Coon
ey hotel, having arrived from the
Kantishna last night.
Ed Jem is a guest at the Cooney j
hotel. He came in from the Kan-:
tishr.a last night.
William Rodigkeit, proprietor of j
the Tavern Cafe, left for the coast )
Tuesday night to meet Mrs. Rodig- ]
keit, who is returning from a trip j
to the States, and to look after |
some business matters in Anchorage. |
Tom Smith, O. M. Jackson and
Charles L. Thompson returned to
town last night from a visit to the
Healy River coal mine at Sun
trana.
Guy Burch arrived from the
south last night with four horses
which will be used by the Alaska
Road Commission in connection with
the building of a winter trail be
tween Kobe station and the Kan
tishna district.
A number of claims in the vicinity
of Healy have been recorded in Ne
nana during the. last several days,
as the result of the report of the
finding of gold in a prospect hole
in that locality.
SPOKANE, Nov. 2—The predic-,
tion that "a third party movement
will sweep the country in 1924" un-1
less there is a complete change of
program on the part of the Republi
can party by the adoption of a liber-1
al, constructive policy, was made by
Senator Borah today upon his ar
rival here enroute to Lewiston, on
a speaking tour.
“That man is totally blind to
political conditions in this country”,
■the senator declared, “who does not
understand that there is practically
a political revolution on.”
Senator Borah said further, in a
newspaper interview, that “people]
are going to have relief and if they
cannot get it through the old parties
they wil get :t through a new one”.
Treasury Faces Deficit
WASHINGTON'. D C-, Nov. 2—
Treasury officials express the belief
that the federal government’s deficit
of $670 million dollars for the pres
ent fiscal year cannot be wiped out
by economies in currept expendi
tures. notwithstanding the fact that
it was indicated at the White House
recently that a deficit could be
avoided by retrenchment.
Officials of the treasury depart
ment declare that some government
borrowing wil! be necessary to make,
both ends meet when the final yearly
balances are cast on dune 30.
PHILIPPINE AUTOS COLLIDE;
GAS EXPLODES—FIVE KILLED
MANILA. Nov. 2—Five persons
were burned to death and nine
others fatally injured in a night
fire which followed the e
gasoline tanks caused by a head n
collision between a mail truck 3t>d
a private automobile. AH of the
victims were Filipinos, nine being
teachers and public school pupils.
The accident happened near Ba ! ;
MRS. HARDING IMPROVING
WASHINGTON'. D. C-, Nov. 2—
A White House bulletin says that
Mrs. Harding L= again on the road
to recovery after a slight setback
which was caused by a cold a few
days ago. She is again able to sit
up at intervals, for brief periods.
BRADLEY IS OPTIMISTIC
J’resident Fred W. Bradley, of
the Alaska Juneau and Treadwell
Gold Mining companies, who ar
rived in Juneau recently, is very
optimistic concerning the futuie
operations of the Alaska Juneau,
which is showing better returns
now than a: any period since opera
tions began: The future of the
Alaska Juneau, he is quoted as say
ing, is absolutely assured, with a
probable monthly output of a quart
er of a million tons per month.
The mine is now being operated at
a profit, he says and the indications
are the profit will increase stadily.
NEW TANKS ABOUT FINISHED
WASHINGTON*, D. C., Nov. 2—
The two large oil tanks of the U. S.
Shipping board, which are being
erected at Pagopago. American Sa
moa, are rapidly nearing comple
tion. Six of the island laborers are
reported to have been injured re
cently while at work on the con
struction. A large beam, hanging to
the roof, and supporting a platform
on. which the workmen stood, gave
way and all fell to the floor below.
One of the workmen died later as a
result of the injuries received.
R. R. PRESIDENT PASSES
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 2—Thos.
DeWitt Cuyler, director of the
Pennsylvania Railroad and chairman
of the Railway Executives Associa
tion, was found dead today in his
private car, at the Broad street sta
tion of the Pennsylvania railroad.
A second shift will be put on at
the plant of the Alaska Pulp and
Paper Company, at Speel river, af
which the mill will have a capacity
of twenty tons of pulp a day. There
are about fifty men employed now
and the company is putting in a dam
at the lake, where a number of men
are at work on construction. The
company has enough contracts al
ready signed to keep the mill run
ning steadily for a year.
NEW PREMIER HOPES U. S.
WILL VIEW LEAGUE KINDLY
LONDON. Xov. 2—Addressing a
meeting of women at Dory Lane
theater today, Premier Bonar Law
said he “ventured to express the
hope that America may gradually
take an interest in the League of
Nations, in some form or other, and
may gradually fee! it her duty to
help the chaos in which the war
left the world”.
THOS. NELSON PAGE PASSES
RICHMOND. .Nov. 2—Thomas N
Page, former ambassador to Italy,
died yesterday at the home of re
latives in Hanover county,. Virginia,
according to advktes received by
the News-Leader.
GEORGE OTIS SMITH RESIGNS
TO TAKE UP NEW DUTIES
WASHINGTON. D. C . Nov. 2—;
Dr. George Otis Smith, director of;
the Geological Survey. ha> resigned |
from that position in order to de-i
vote his entire time to his new j
work as a member of the Federal'
Coal Fact Finding commission.
The hope is expressed at the
White House that the doctor will
be able to resume his duties as'
head of the survey when the work
of the commission >mpleted.
HORSE STILL HAS VALUE
CHICAGO. Nov. 2—The horse is
still a vital factor in American com
mercial life. This is shown in the
statement of the secretary of the
Horse Association of America, that
the number of horses in use in New
York City has increased one hun
dred per cent in five years. More
than 15.000 horses are in commer
cial UEe throughout the United States
by one company alone. The Ameri
can Railway Express Company,
credited with being the largest com
mercial user of horses in the world,
still is finding the horse an import
ant factor in its work. On July 31,
this year, the company had in its
service 15,254 horses. The average
number of horses kept .jumped al-j
most a thousand between 1917 and
1921. The average length of life
for horses still active in express
service is nearly six years, and have
a value of 23 per cent of their
original cost after havjng been used
by the express companies five years.
These horses, discarded because un
able longer to maintain the harder
work and faster pace required in ex
press service, j^re placed in other
work where th* hauling is .slow and
the work easier.
Wilfred Taylor, who has been
operating a small board around
Cordova, went to Seattle recently
to try to get a new boat to operate
between Cordova and Katalla. to
handle the increasing oil business.
UNDERWOOD SAYS ALASKA
IS HAMPERED LIKE RUSSIA
HONOLULU, Nov. 2—Alaska is
suffering- from the same complaint
as Russia, with regard to the na
tionalization of resources and land \
areas, according to Jack Underwood,
representative of the Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce, who addressed the
Pan-Pacific Commercial congress in
this city yesterday.
Underwood, who has written a
great deal about Alaska in recent j
years, declared that the decrease in
the territory's population started
with the initial effort at “national
ization’’ and that now t)5 per cent
of the territory is in the hands of
the United States government, with
thirty different bureaus, each in
conflict with the other, trying to
administer it.
“Alaska”, he said, “is an autocra
cy within a republic and development
has been throttled by a bureauracy
established at Washington—a bu-1
reaucracy more desperate than was
the government of Russia under the
Romanoffs. To cure the e\i) geiersl
supervision, control and authority
should be vested in one depart
ment.”
FORD BUYING COAL LAND
PITTSBURG, Nov. 2—More than
30,000 acres of coal land, contain
ing approximately 180,000,000 tons
of bituminous coal, is involved in a
deal which is said to be in process
of negotiation between Henry Ford
and the Wayne Coal Company. Coal
men place the price of the land in
excess of $15,000,000.
CANAL TOLLS INCREASING
PANAMA, Nos 2—The number
of ships passing through Panama
canal during the month of October
established a new high mark, the
total being 313. The amount of
tolls collected has not been made
public.
The steamer Admiral Watson, due
at Anchorage on November 5, sail
ed north from Ketchikan at three
o’clock this afternoon.
-HOSPITAL NOTES
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Rev. Fr. Jette. who underwent a
major operation at the hospital this
week, following his arrival from
Tanana, showed a slight improve
ment today, but his condition is ■
very critical.
Montor Ohrbeck, an oldtimer from
the Koyukuk district, underwent an
operation this morning for varicose.
Tony Letray continues to im-,
prove and if no complications set
in, he will soon be well.
Thomas Hoover came down from
Fairbanks this week to have his
hand looked after by Dr. Romig1.
Andy Roth underwent rn operation
for appendicitis this morning and
went through the ordeal in fine
form.
F. N. Martin, chef on the business
car of the Alaska Railroad, was
taken to the hospital last light, up
on arrival of the ear from the south.
Andrew Anderson was operated [
on yesterday afternoon by Dr. J. II.
Romig, for appendicitis.
CHURCHES PLAN CAMPAIGN
TO FIGHT WET ADVOCATES
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Nov. 2—
An appeal to “all Christian people
4o exert every influence to secure
the impartial enforcement of all
laws” has been issued by the federal
council of the Churches of Christ
in America.
The appeal declares that the an
nouncement of the program of the
forces opposed to prohibition is a
direct challenge to the churches and
to the friends of orderly govern
mcnt, “because they propose to
support those candidates at the com
ing election who will vote for the
legalizing of the manufacture anil
sale of beer and wine”.
AS BAD AS POSTOFFICE
HAVRE, Nov. 2—Unless there
are “unexpected developments" in
the Christler case, no further action
by the authorities is probable, ac
cording to city and county officers.
The mystery of the double tragedy,
in which a minister and a woman
companion met'death, remains un
solved.
EXPLOSION KILLS THREE
MONROE. La., Nov. 2—Three
i men lost their lives yesterday when
tthe gasoline extraction plant of the
Atlas Oil Company, near Swartz,
was wrecked by an explosion. All
three of the men were employes of
the company. The loss is estimated
at .? 100,000.
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REBEL LEADER EXECUTED;
ARCH ENEMY Oh OBREGON
MEXICO CITY. Nov. 2—General
j Francisco Murguia, arch enemy of
; President Obregon and one • of the
l.men who took part :n the tight that
I brought death to former President
| Carranza, fell into the hands of
; federal troops this week and was
; brought to this city under heavy
I guard, to await the passing of
| sentence.
Murguia. with a little band of fol
lowers, was surprised and surround
ed near Durango City.
Executed By Firing Squad
EL PASO. Nov. 2—A telegram re
ceived at the custom house at
Juarez yesterday from Mexico' City
stated that General Murguia hail;
been executed at ;he capital by ;t
firing squad at nine o’clock yester-i
I day morning. An earlier message
said that it was not known whether
! he would be taken to Durango City
i for trial, or to Mexico City for
! public execution.
KNOWS NOTHING OF MURDER
.NEW BRUNSWICK. Nov. -
Breaking her silence fbr the first
time. Mrs. Frances Noel Hall made
a statement to newspapermen yes
terday in which she declared that
she was ignorant of how her hus
band came to his death, with Mr
Mills. She said she had absolutely
no knowledge of the 'hooting, wa
not present on the night of the
shooting and had no knowledge of
any love letter.-. She also said -hi
bore no enmity toward either her
husband or Mrs. Mills.
ALASKA VOLCANOES ACTIVE
Mt. Ka.mai and neighboring vol
canoes in Western Alaska are send
ing up ashes and smoke again, ac
cording to officers of the sailing
schooner Azalea, which arrived in
Seattle recently after five month
spent in Western Alaska \\ater
The schooner made her headquart
ers in Uyak bay, Kodiak island,
but cruised the waters of Shelikof
Strait. She called at Kubugakf.
near the famous Valley of Ten
Thousand Smokes, ad at times the
air was tilled with ashes.
Pat O’Connor, Tom McKinnon an .
Sam Drukola returned to town to
day from a hurried trip to the
Chatanika river.