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NENANA, ALASKA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17. 1921
NUMBER 197
COAST SENATOR TO URGE OIL DRILLING
SUSPECTED NAVY PLOT TAKES LUDICROUS TURN
GERMAN ADMIRAL SAYS BRITISH NAVY SAVED Al I IKS
VON TIRPITZ SAYS WARSHIPS
WILL WIN THE NEXT WAR
BADEN, Feb. 17—In an inter
view granted a correspondent of The
Associated Press, Admiral von Tir
pitz declared here today that battle
ships won the world war and will
win the next big war and all future
big conflicts.
He declared that owing to the
peculiarities of the late conflict, the
submarines have been given greater
importance than the facts warranted.
He credits the victory of the Allies
to the surface fleet of the British
navy.
COAST TONGS START FIGHT;
SEVERAL FALL IN BATTLE
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17—War
has broken out among the rival
tongs of coast Chinatowns, and a
number of deaths have been re
ported. Outbreaks occurred in this
city, in Stockton and in Los An
geles and it feared that hostilities
will involve the entire Pacific coast.
Three have been killed thus far, and
five wounded. The dead belonged to
the Hop Sings.
Police Take Precautions
SEATTLE, Feb. 17—Extra pre
cautions have been taken in this
city and in Portland to prevent a
spread of the tong war from Calif
ornia. Very few Chinese are mak
ing their appearance on the streets
of either city, and the members of
one of the Portland tongs have ap
pealed to the police of that city for
protection. Special details of police
are guarding the Chinese district.
FRIEND OF IRELAND LOSES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 17—
The house foreign affairs committee
has refused to grant the request of
Representative Burk, of Pennsly
vania, for a public hearing on his
resolution proposing recognition of
the Irish republic.
Gus Utberg, who came from the
coast several months ago to accept
a position with W. A. Coghill, has
severed bis connection with the Cog
hill establishment and will return
to the coast shortly unless he can
place himself satisfactorily in the In
terior.
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ARMY GUNNERS ESTABLISH
NEW RECORD AT PRACTICE
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17—Big
gun coast defenses of San Fran
cisco recently took world leadership
when, official service reports claim,
for the first time in history, twelve
inch riflles were fired entirely by
directions from the air. Experiments
have been conducted since last April
on cooperation between the army
air service balloons and the various
coast artillery and heavy artillery
posts along the Pacific coast.
The 14th. and 24 th. Balloon
companies sent here from Fort
Omaha, Nebraska, conducted these
experiments. So far as known, this
kind, undertaken in 1919 at Sandy
Hook, resulted in failure. Special in
struments were devised in the Pa
cific coast experiments, which finally
resulted in success.
Battery Mendell, one of San Fran
cisco’s big coast defense disappear
ing batteries, claims the honor of
the first battery functioning accur
ately from aerial control. Twenty
two shots at a pyramidical target,
moving at a range of 14,000 yards,
included fire direct “ship” hits.
This demonstrated that fog ori
haze making low visibility hereafter
will not cripple San Francisco’s
coast defenses. Balloons at an alti
tude of 15,000 to 20,000 feet getj
over the fog, locate the enemy ob
ject at sea, and direct the fog-hid
den battery’s deadly work against
the attacker.
Following the big rifle experi
ments, the balloon companies work
ed out mortar firing problems from
the air, as well as night firing by
flares, and tests of new instruments.
The balloon companies will be per
manently stationed at Roos Field as
a part of the Pacific coast defense.
EMPLOYES OF HEALTH SHOP
VICTIMS OF POISONED FOOD
LANSING, Feb. 17—Several em
ployes of the Battle Creek sanitar
ium have died recently under cir
cumstances indicating that death re
sulted from eating preserved spin
ach which had spoiled in the con
tainers.
The case is being investigated by
the authorities.
NEWSPAPER DYNAMITED
ROCK ISLAND, Feb. 17—The
plant of the Rock Island News, a
weekly publication of this city, was
partially wrecked by dynamite last
night, and the editor, who was in
bed on the second floor, was slight
ly injured. The editor was recently
convicted on a charge of criminal
libel and sentenced to jail, but is
out on bonds pending the final dis
position of his case.
CORNELL RETAINS DOZIER
ITHACA, Feb. 17—Coach Dozier,
former Washington University grid
ron mentor, has signed a new con
:ract a3 Cornell coach, for a period
>f five years.
f SEATTLE, Feb. 17—Territorial
j Senator Chamberlain, of Seward,
who is on a visit to the States for
the first time in fourteen years, is
enthusiastic over the oil possibilities
of Alaska, but he believes that it is
up to the federal government to
take the initiative in the develop
ment of the Northern fields, for the
reason that practically all the oil
lands are owned by Uncle Sam.
The senator says that one of the
first official acts of the legislature,
which will convene at Juneau early j
next month, will be the considera
tion of a memorial to Congress, ask
ing the federal government to sink
a test well in each of the various
Alaskan oil fields, on land owned by
MURPHY SAYS TERRITORY
NOW AS DRY AS SAHARA
“People in the United States wfyo |
protest against the strict terms of
the Volstead act should make a trip
to Alaska,” declared Territorial At
torney General Jerry C. Murphy,
in an interview given to a reporter
in his old home town, Minot, North
Dakota, while enroute to Washing
ton, D. C., recently.
Continuing, Murphy said: “Our
territorial legislature in 1914 enact
ed a bone dry law that sounded the
death knell of intoxicating liquors
in Alaska, and the people up there
who like a drink of whiskey would
be perfectly content to have the
territorial law removed from the
statutes, and be prosecuted under
the Volstead act. One or two fel
lows in the territory attempted to
operate stills, but one man could
carry all the whiskey to be found
in Alaska, in a suit case..”
TOLEDO POSTOFFICE ROBBED
TOLEDO, Feb. 17—Four employes
of the main postoffice of this city
were held up today by five bandits
and the postoffice robbed of nine
sacks of mail containing nearly half
a million in currency. The bandits
made their escape in an automobile.
IMMIGRATION IS SUSPENDED
TRIESTE, Feb. 17—Immigration ;
from Central Europe to the United
States has been suspended and the
eastern frontiers of Italy closed
pending the cleaning up of the san- 1
itary situation existing in the ban- !
ned region. i
BOLSHEVIKI INVADE ASIA
LONDON, Feb. 17—An armed in
vasion of Central Asia was begun
by the Bolsheviki last October, ac
cording to an official statement is- '
sued this week by the Indian office. 1
The present status of the invasion, ^
however, has not been revealed. The '
invaded region is the threshold to 1
Indo China.
Deputy Marshal James Hagan ar
rived home this afternoon from the i
Kantishna, where he distributed a t
lumber of subpoenas, summoning 1
witnesses to attend the coming ses
sion of court at Fairbanks.
Mike Goonen arrived in town this 1
iftemoon from the end of steel. »
the Government. The senator be
lieves that the greatest oil fields in
the world will be developed in the1
North, and that it is up to the Gov- i
ernment to prospect its own land,
just as individual owners and per
mit holders are expected to develop
the land they occupy. The outlay
thus involved, the senator points out,
will be directly returned to the Gov
ernment in royalties and rents, and
Alaska will reap immeasurable bene
fit.
Senator Chamberlain is visiting
friends in this city for a few days
before starting for the territorial
capital to launch his campaign for
federal aid for the oil fields.
COMMITTEEMAN M’BRIDE IS '
ENROUTE TO WASHINGTON
KETCHIKAN, Feb. 17—National
Committeeman J. C. McBride has
left for Washington to attend a Re
publican national committee meeting
to be held at the national capital on
March 3. And after the inauguration
he intends to have a conference with
President Harding relative to the
appointment of Alaskans to Alaska
otftces.
The friends of Judge Wickersham
have evidently given up all hope of
his securing the appointment as gov
ernor, their slogan now being “Any
thing to beat Hazelet”. Charles Her
ron’s Juneau Capital, official organ
of Wickersham, scents defeats for
its candidate, and is trotting out
alleged candidates from the States
in the hope that if the fight can be
made bitter enough against Hazelet,
sne of them will be named. The Cap
ital, in a four-column editorial, in
timates that Scott Bone, former ed
itor of the Post-Intelligencer, may
t>e named governor and, in the same
editorial, it is urged that if Bone
will not accept, another newspaper
man of the Pacific coast, be selected.
These statements from the Wick
ersham paper, are regarded as an
icknowledment that Wick is out of
;he running. The suggestion of the
ippointment of an Outsider, in the
svent that Wickersham is not given
;he office, are mu cib opposed by
Uaskans, who resent the attempt of
he Juneau paper to cloud the issue
•o as to make possible the advent
if carpetbaggers into the territory.
H. G. STEEL
ROCK TO BE REMOVED
VANCOUVER Feb. 15—The de
•artment of public works is prepar
ng to push the work of removing
tipple Rock, a danger spot in Sey
aour Narrows. Dynamite will be
ised to blow the rock to pieces.
FIVE DIE IN HOME FIRE
MOCENCO, N. B., Feb. 17—C. A.
itevens had the misfortune to lose
ive children here yesterday when
is home was destroyed by fire.
Charles Stanford was a return
ng passenger on the train this after
oon.
AdV3>i DNI1X3D H3a03dX3
FOR ARCTIC EXPEDITION ]
EAST BOOTHBAY, Me., Feb. 17
—Work is almost completed on the
lull of The Bowdoin in which Dr.
Donald B. McMillan, explorer, will
make his next dash into the Arctic
regions. The launching of the craft
Krill take place in the early spring
ind the schooner will be in shape
to set sail by the first of May.
Dr. McMillan is perfecting plans
for an expedition to begin next
iummer, which will include an at
tempt to circumnavigate Baffin Land
ind penetrate its western coast,
me thousand miles in length, said
o be the longest stretch of un
known coast line in the world. He
s a frequent visitor here and keeps
:areful watch over the construction
>f his ship.
The Bowdoin, which is being built
in the sturdy lines needed in an ex
iloration vessel to withstand the ice
rrind, is of the knockabout fishing
ichooner type. It will be 88 feet in
ength, over all, 20 feet wide and
:quipped with 45 horsepower oil
lurning engines. Three inch oak
dank material is being used for the
LUll.
| Before his departure for the far
north1 Dr. McMillan will make an ex
hibition cruise along the coast dur
ing May and June. About July
with a party of six men, the ex
plorer will sail from Boston for the
Polar regions.
Under favorable weather condi
tions The Bowdoin should reach
Fury and Hecla Strait early in Sep
tember. There the ship will be froz
en in.
Leaving their vessel under a lone
guard the party will push forward
on a 200-mile trip on sleds drawn
by dogs. Five Eskimo dog mushers
will accompany the party across the
rugged, ice-bound country which
abounds in perils. Establishing of a
camp 700 miles south of Etah in the
northwestern part of Greenland is
one of the main objectives.
Within the last 12 years, Dr. Mc
Millan has made six trips into the
land of the midnight sun. Most'
famous of these was his expedition
by which he disproved the theory
that a Crocker Land existed in the
extreme north. At that time he dis
covered nine new islands.
A number of local mariners have
urged the explorer to take them
along on the expedition, and the
townspeople are preparing to pre
sent a flag to fly from the fore peax
of The Bowdoin.
PROHIBITIONIST IS DEFEATED
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17—Walter
Lineberger, Republican, was elected
to Congress from the Ninth Califor
nia district, at a special election
held this week to select a successor
to the late Charles Vandwater, who
was killed in an auto accident The
Prohibitionist candidate who opposed
the election of Lineberger, was de
feated by a substantial margin.
BOMB PLOT IS EXPLODED;
MYSTERY PARCEL WAS RYE
WASHINGTON, D C., Feb. 17—
The nation, which was led to be
lieve on Tuesday, that the entire
navy was marked for destruction by
conspiring sailors, is breathing eas
-r'*' today, in consequence of the
announcement that there was really
nothing to the plot beyond the alarm
of a few frightened secret service
men and naval officials who talked
for publication before they had in
vestigated the cause of their alarm.
Investigation has disclosed the
fact that the mysterious package
which sailors tried to get aboard the
presidential yacht Mayflower, and
which was the cause of all the ex
citement, contained nothing more
harmful than a bottle of rye whiskey
which the sailors were trying to
smuggle aboard the ship.
ITALIANS ARE LOYAL
ROME, Feb. 17—Reports received
in this city state that it was neces
sary this week for the police to in
tervene at Metters, in Southern
Italy, to save Socialists from harm
at the hands of the populace, fol
lowing the arrival from Russia of
a Bolshevik emissary. The Socialist,
members of the town council, who
sought to welcome the unpopular ar
rival, were driven from the town
lall and would have been roughly
jsed but for the intervention of th -
police. The national flag was raised
ibove the hall to show the loyalty
>f the townspeople to their govern -
nent.
WHITE IS GETTING BUSY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 17
Chairman White, of the Democratic
national committee, has announced
that a program relating to the fn
ture activities of the Democratic
organization will be submitted to
the executive committee tomorrow,
after which it is possible that the
plans of the leaders will be disclosed
to the public.
CUTS HIS OWN APPENDIX
KANE, Pa., Feb. 17—I>r. E. O
Kane, chief surgeon of the local
hospital, operated upon himself here
yesterday for appendicitis, assisted
only by one of the hospital nurses,
who propped the doctor’s head Up
on the pillows. A local anaesthetic
was applied.
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