WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. II.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10. 1920.
NO. 288
SOLONS SEE NEED OF AID FOR NORTH
AIRPLANES TO CARRY ORE FROM MINES TO DOCK
FEDERATION ST ARTS FIGFTT ON UNFRIENDLY MEMBERS
EMUS SCORES
pFORCEINI LAW
AS FOOL MEASURE
NEW YORK, March 10.—In an
address delivered before the Tam
many Osceola club in this city last
night, Governor Edward 1. Edwards
of New Jersey discussed the liquor
question and explained his reasons
for instituting proceedings before
the supreme court of the United
States in an effort to have the pro
hibition amendment and the Vol
stead enforcement act declared un
constitutional.
Referring to the Volstead act, the
governor declared that it is the big
gest fool bill ever approved by an
American Congress. He predicted
that the Democrats would include
a wet plank in their plaitform.
The speaker was given a great
ovatio^ at the conclusion of his ad
dress and hailed as the next Presi
dent of the United States.
ON MICHIGAN TICKET.
LANSING, Mich., March 10.—Pe
titions have been filed in this city
placing the name of Governor Ed
wards, Democrat, of New Jersey, on
the presidential primary ballot.
ILLINOIS, ALSO.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., March 10.—
Governor Edwards, New Jersey's
Democratic wet presidential candi
date. has filed for the Illinois pri
maries, his petition containing the
names of 4,900 residents of Chi
cago.
Jake Lawick, Fairbanks grocer,
who recently left for the Outside
by way of the Chitina trail, has ad
vised friends that he was 23 days
on the road between Fairbanks and
Chitina. He traveled in a private
rig.
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STEPS WILL BE TAKEN SOON
TO SPEED ALASKA PROGRESS
SEATTLE, March 10.—According
to information received today by
the Post-Intelligencer from its cor
respondent at Washington, members
of Congress, who are displaying an
increasing interest in Alaska, rea
lize that no law exists for aiding
and developing traffic and coloniza
tion along the Government railroad
in the Northern territory, such as
is usually found along pioneer rail
roads. This condition, the corre
spondent says, was responsible yes
terday for the passage by the senate
of the \Jones resolution requesting
the secretary of the interior to sup
ply the senate with three sets of
facts relative to the activities of the
Alaskan Engineering commission.
The senators want to know: first,
what steps have been taken to de
velop the country along the Gov
ernment railroad; second, what steps
have been taken for the development
of traffic, and third, has any or
ganization been created to settle
and develop the district traversed
by and tributary to the railroad.
And if not, why not?
It is believed, wires the corre
spondent, that the department will
answer all three questions in the
negative, in view of the fact that
the department is already on record
as having declared that it has no au
thority to do more than construct
(railroads.
It is regarded as possible that de
velopment legislation will be sought
through a rider attached to the
pending sundry civil bill, which car
ries the last of the money author
ized for railroad construction.
—
MEARS COMING HOME.
SEATTLE, March 10. — Special
advices received in this city tjiis
afternoon from the national capital
state that Colonel Mears has left
Washington and is now enroute
back to Alaska.
Mears, McPherson and John W.
Hallowed attended the hearings of
Jthe house appropriations sub-com
jmittee for the purpose of inform
ins the members of the progress of
railroad construction. They insisted
that an appropriation of eight mill
ion dollars would be necessary to
insure the completion of the rail
road, and urged that the money be
made available at the earliest pos
sible date, in order that there might
be no delay in contracting for sup
plies and material for future de
livery.
The members of the committee
are friendly toward the railroad pro
ject and appear to recognize the im
portance of early completion. Mr.
McPherson will remain in Washing
ton to render such further assist
ance as may be needed to get the
appropriation.
COUSIN Or KAISER
IS AFIER FORTUNE
SEATTLE, March 10.—Alvo von
Alvansleben, who is said to be a
cousin of the former German em
peror, has arrived in this city en
route to Canada to make a fight for
the recovery of property valued at
six million dollars which was held
by him in Canada before the war.
Von Alvansleben was recently re
leased from the internment camp at
Fort Douglas, Utah, where he was
held during the war as ar. alien en
emy. He says 't is his intention to
make his residence here in future.
TITUS ASKS PRESIDENT
TO WITHDRAW HIS NAME
WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 10.
—Louis Titus, an official of the
Skinner & Eddy Shipbuilding cor
poration, whose name was sent to
the senate recently for confirmation
as a member of the United States
Shipping board, has asked President
Wilson to withdraw the nomination.
He says he is an oil producer, and
might find it embarrassing to be a
member of the board while con
tracting for oil.
It is rumored that Japanese in
terests have acquired one of the
Skinner & Eddy yards in Seattle
from the Shipping board.
NO MORE YANKEE CASH
FOR ALLIED COUNTRIES
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 10.
!—Announcement has been made by
the secretary of the treasury that
the American Government will not
. make any more loans to the Allies.
j ASSOCIATE FORESTER
QUITS HIS POSITION
WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 10
—Albert F. Potter, associate for
ester, has tendered his resignation
to the department. His retirement
is attributed to the recent resigna
tion of Chief Forester Graves.
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Xtnana, the Gateway to McKinley
national Park.
LABOR FIGHTS CANDIDATES
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 10.
—The first gun of the campaign
against unfriendly congressmen has
been fired in this state by the Am
erican Federation of Labor, with
the issuance of a bulletin advising
workers throughout the state to vote
against 25 of Pennsylvania’s repre
sentatives who voted for the pass
’ age of the railroad bill.
The federation also is making a
fight in New Jersey against seven
: representatives. of that state.
Officials of the organization de
clare that they will carry the cam
paign into every state in the Union
jin an effort to eliminate those mem
■ bers of Congress whom the federa
tion considers unfriendly to labor.
AIRPLANE COMPANY
TO TRANSPORT ORE
VANCOUVER. B. C„ March 10.
—The Boeing Airplane company, of
Seattle, is preparing to built! a
number of specially designed air
planes for carrying ore in the North,
in accordance with plans formulated
by Lieut- E. O. Hall, of Vancouver,
and four other airmen of experi
ence.
The planes will be used to trans
port ore from the Granby mine to
tidewater at Stewart, a distance of
12 miles. Each plane, it is esti
i mated, will have a carrying capaci
ty of one thousand pounds and
will be capable of making many
round trips daily.
This form of transportation, it is
believed, will reduce freight charges
fully 50 percent, and it is predicted
that all the mines in that locality
.will contract for aerial transport of
their ore within a short time after
the new service is inaugurated.
Work on the new planes will
.start at an early date, it is an
nounced.
VANCOUVER WILL TAKE
POSITION IN LEAGUE
VANCOUVER, Wash., March 10
— The opening in the Pacific Inter
national Baseball league, made by
the withdrawal of Astoria, will be
filled by this city.
POINDEXTER TO STAR l
CAMPAIGN ON FRIDAY
WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 10.
—Senator Miles Poindexter will
leave the capital on Friday on a
speaking tour which will take him
over the greater part of South Da
kota.
Jim Noble, who has been visiting
in Nenana during the past several
days, returned to his station out the
line this morning.
! SENATORS TO SPEAK
FOR HIRAM JOHNSON
SIOUX FALLS, March 10.—Ray
mond Robbins and Senators Xorris,
Kenyon, and Borah are planning a
speaking tour of South Dakota in
j the interests of the candidacy of
Senator Johnson for the Republican
nomination for President.
SPANISH WAR VETERAN
OUSTED FROM LEGION
BELLINGHAM, Wash., March 10.
—A. C. Durham, veteran of the
Spanish war, has been expelled from
the local post of the American Le
gion because of his defense of In
dustrial Workers of the World.
Deputy Marshal James Hagan
went to Fairbanks yesterday on
court business.
BRYAN IS MAKING -
FIGHI ON LEADER
LINCOLN, Neb., March 10.—
: William Jennings Bryan has issued
a -statement in which he vigorously
opposes the candidacy of Senator
Hitchcock as a Democratic presi
dential possibility. The statement
points out that Hitchcock toted
against submitting the prohibition
and suffrage amendments to the
various states, and, in the opinion
of Bryan, it would be an insult to
the dry states to place such a man
in nomination.
ROSE PASTOR STOKES
WILL GEL NEW TRIAL
ST. LOUIS, Ma., March 10.—The
circuit court of appeals has re
versed the conviction of Mrs. Rose
Pastor Stokes, wealthy Chicago So
cialist, who is jnder sentence of ten
years’ imprisonment for violation of
the espionage act.
The circuit court has ordered a
new trial of the case.
SEATTLE NIGHT LIFE
IS FULL OF HAZARDS
Cliff O’Brion, well-known former
resident of Interior Alaska, who
is now in the States, writes from
Seattle that one’s life is in constant
peril in that city after the sun
goes down. The city is full of des
peradoes, he says, who do not hesi
tate to deal violently with their vic
tims. Holdups are as common there
as dog fights are in Alaska.
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R Minimum . .14 below- R
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MOXTESANO, March 10. — Dr.
William House of Portland and Dr.
R. Ahlman of Hoquiam, who have
been investigating the Roberts ease,
testified for the state yesterday to
the effect that the defendant, who
has been acting queerly since his
arrest in connection with the Cen
tralia shooting, has full possession
of his mental faculties. The doc
tors observed Roberts closely in his
cell, conversed with him and watch
ed him secretly, and it is their
opinion that the apparently inco
herent answers of the defendant
could easily have been faked.
! •!. R. Cooper, and Roy lnmon.
'jailers, testified that the defendant.
(Roberts, appears normally rational,
i In so far as they could see, he has
! acted much the same as the other
(prisoners, except that he is not
(talkative. His appetite is good.
j Neither of the jailers had heard
| Roberts speak of Attorney Van
j deveer as Di.sque, as several of the
iwitnesses for the defense had testi
fied.
. Other witnesses for the state, tes
tifying in rebuttal, declared that
jthe shooting at Centralia began
i before the paraders broke ranks.
Several of the witnesses participated
in the parade and were able to re
■call accurately when the shooting'
started. Postmaster McCleary, who
carried a rftpc during part of the
(parade, testified that he had picked
the rope up on the street, and that
it belonged to a passing automo
l bile. He declared that none of
the marchers was armed.
r.ugene Pmtzer testified that he
was. among the first of the march
ers to reach the wobbly hall, ami
was wounded by one of the shots
fired by the wobblies. None of the
witnesses could recall seeing I>r.
Bickford, who claimed on the stand
that he was among the first to
reach the hall.
Town Startled.
Considerable excitement was oc
casioned here last n’ght by several
shots fired by someone whose identi
ty has not been isseertained by tin
authorities. The shooting took place
shortly after midnight and created
the belief that trouble had oc
curred at the jail where the wobbly
defendants are being held. Hasty
inquiry showed, however, that all
was quiet at the ieil, and officers
of the federal .raops stationed here •
declared that the shots were not
fired by any of the soldiers.
KING WEARING PANTS
j CREASED ON THE SIDE
_____
i LONDON, March 10.—The latest
pictures of the king of England
, show his trousers creased on the
sides instead of in front as is the
| existing style throughout the world
at present.
I It is the opinion here, however,
that the king’s example will not be
generally followed.
Nenana. tf-e Rateway to McKinley
1 National Park.