- Nenana — The Gateway To Mount McKinley National Park — Nenana
THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEK ANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 23. 1921
NUMBER 47
• COAL BARONS ORDER HOMES VACATED
GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS RESISTS ARREST ORDER
FOUR THOUSAND MEN FIGHTING MEXICAN OIL BLAZE
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FOUR THOUSAND WORKERS
TRYING TO EXTINGUISH FIRE
PITTSBURG, July 23—Accordinp
ing to private advices received in
this city from the Amatlan oil field
in Mexico, where the most dis
astrous fire in the history of the
oil industry has been raging during
the past several days, four thous
and men, -working in six-hour relays,
are striving to prevent the further
spread of the flames.
The advices indicate that the fire
is now partially under control but J
details are not contained in the dis
patches. It is estimated that the
damage will amount to several mil
lions.
TRAIN IS HELD UP
MEMPHIS, July 23—A Missouri
Pacific passenger train, enroute from \
Memphis to St. Louis, was held up
near Vandaie.' Ark., last night and
the express messenger was forced to
throw out a safe containing money
and other securities. The mail car
was also robbed, but the amount:
obtained by the bandits has not
been ascertained.
WOMAN WROTE DEMPSEY
IN EFFORT TO WIN SMILE I
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PAWHUSKA, Okla., July 23—
Defending the suit wherein Champ
ion Jack Dempsey is named corre
spondent, Mrs. Helen Boullanger.
wife of a wealthy Osage Indian,
testified today that she had written
letters to Dempsey, whom she had
, known in a show company. In one
of her letters to the champion, she
wrote: “I am crazy to see you be
fore you go to Europe. I am going
to leave my husband.”
Received Many Letter*
LOS ANGELES, July 23—Demy
sey. in commenting on the testimony,
given at the Oklahoma trial, said to
day that he is in the habit of get
+ ting letters at the rate of 500 a
day, mostly from women, and that
all of such correspondence is taken
care of by his managers and assist
ants. He insists that he has never
met Mrs. Boullanger and never even
heard of her before the present
case started.
^ NOME POSTMASTER NAMED
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 23
President Harding has named John
Hegness to be postmaster of Nome.
EASTERN TRAIN DERAILED
SCRANTON, Pa., July 23—Fully
a score of men were injured, some
of them seriously, when a Deleware,
Lackawanna & WTestern express,
enroute from New York to Buffalo,
was derailed and plunged over an
^ embankment at Glenburg this morn
ing, The engineer is reported to
have been fatally injured.
CAPTAIN IS SUSPENDED
SEATTLE, July 23—Supervising
Inspector Fisher, of the Steamboat
Inspection service, has announced
that the license of Captain John
Alwin, who was in command of the
Shipping Board steamer West Hart
land when that vessel rammed the
steamer Governor, has been suspend
ed for a period of two years. Alwin
is held guilty of negligence and un
skillfulness. He will appeal. Pilot
Harden, of the Governor, upon
whom the blame was originally plac
^ ed, died on W’ednesday.
OPEN SHOP CAMPAIGN STARTS;
EFFORT TO END STRIKE FAILS
GAMBLERS PLACED BETS
AFTER BRIBING PLAYERS
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CHICAGO. July 24—John Hays,
secretary of the Chicago Nationals,
testified at the baseball hearing yes
terday that Louis Levi, one of the
defendants on trial, and Abe Attell
placed bets totaling $2,500 on Cin
cinnati on the night before the first
game of the World series, giving
odds of six to five. He also testi
fied that Attell did not bet on the
third game.
BUILDING INDUSTRY LOSING
HEAVILY THROUGH WASTE
NEW YORK. July 23—The Amer-1
ican Engineering Council’s committee
on waste in industry has made pub- i
lie its report in which it is declared i
that half a billion dollars is lost an- ,
nually in the United States in the I
building industry through unemploy
ment.
The chief sources of waste, as as
certained by the committee, are
irregular employment, inefficiency in •
management, and wasteful labor con- ;
ditions.
CROPS FAIL; HUNGER RESULTS
NEW YORK. July 23—The Vic
toria newspaper Pravia, under date
of June 25, a copy of which has just j
reached this city, says “as a result ;
of the crop failure famine is raging j
in five provinces, populated by 25.
000,000 people."
EXPLOSION KILLS TWENTY
BERNE, July 23—Twenty persons
were killed yesterday and 100 in
jured as the result of an explosion
in a nitrate factory at Bodio.
EXCURSION FERRY TO LEAVE
DOCK AT 7:30 TOMORROW
All arrangements for the baseball
excursion to Fairbanks tomorrow
have been completed and announce
ment is made that the ferry will
leave for North Nenana promptly
at 7:30, to connect with the ex
cursion train, which is scheduled to
get away for Fairbanks about eight
o’clock.
There is reason to believe a big ■
crowd will take advantage of the I
opportunity to visit the upper town
at reduced rates, and Manager Tom
Mathews, of the local baseball team,
predicts that his boys will give a
good account of themselves. He
does not know what the Fairbanks
lineup will be, but he is not worry
ing about the result of the gapae.
It is understood that quite a i
number of Healyites are coming in ;
today to take in the excursion, in j
which event there will be more j
than the required number required
for the train.
The start home from Fairbanks
is schedu’ed for about seven o’clock
tomorrow evening, in which ever .
the crowd will arrived home about j
midnight.
A single fare will be charged for
the round trip.
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SEATTLE. July 23—Hope of set
tlement of the coal strike contro
versy has been practically abandon
ed as the result of the action yes
terday of the operators, who have
begun sending out notices to the
miners to quit premises owned by
the companies by the end of next
month.
It is declared by mine officials
that the action is the first step in
the open shop campaign and it is
announced that the strikers will re
taliate by withdrawing all main
tenance men who were left in the
mines when the strike was called.
The strike affected 2,800 men but
it is not known how many will be
affected by the dispossession order.
It seems likely today that the
railway coal miners of Kittitas •
county will strike as a result of the
action of the operators, and this
has added to the fears of a complete
deadlock in the coal situation.
It is unofficially stated that the
operators are planning to resume
mining on the first of September on
an open shop basis, but this has not
been officially confirmed.
Mine Officials To Operate Pump*
Announcement was made this af
ternoon that the mine officials would
personally carry the maintenance
work at the mines, such as keeping
the pumps going pending a re
sumption of work.
Both operators and union officials ;
are reticent regarding the next move !
contemplated. |
HOUSE WILL STUDY POINTS
OF JAPANESE IMMIGRATION
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 23—
The house immigration committee
will investigate the 1908 understand
ing with Japan relative to the immi
gration question.
A resolution was adopted in the
house yesterday asking the state
department to furnish the committee
with the correspondence leading up
to the agreement.
UNDERTOW DROWNS EIGHT
BATHERS ON GULF BEACH
HOUSTON, July 23—Eight per
sons, most of them youthful dele
gates to the Baptist Young Peoples
Union, were drowned in the gulf
yesterday as the result of being
drawn into deep water by an under
tow, while bathing. A number of
others were swept out but succeeded
in saving themselves.
Three of the bodies were recover
ed during the afternoon. The oc
currence was witnessed by a large
number of bathers and others on the
beach.
MASTER OF TRADING BOAT
SECURES FUR CONCESSIONS
NOME, July 23—Captain Sigurd
Audmundsen, master of the Polar
Bear, has just returned to Nome
from Siberia and reports that he has
been given a fur trading concession
for the entire Kolyma district and
has been tendered a eimilar con
cession in Jackuska.
The captain says the Siberian
authorities are anxious to establish
proper trade relations with the
United States.
CARPENTIER GIVEN OVATION
PARIS, July 23—Georges Carpen
tier was given a hero’s reception
here today upon his .rrivel from
the United States. Ti e great crowd
which turred out to welcome the
soldier-box ?r s« pt the police from
their feet in eagerness to get a
glimp~» of the hero and it was not
until Cai oentkr had disappeared in
a taxi -1 at order was res ored
Ibuu. the Gateway to McKlaJey
Vattoaal Park.
TARIFF BILL PASSES HOUSE; j
NOW IN HANDS OF SENATE
WASHINGTON, D C., July 23—
The Fordney permanent tariff bill
■was. approved by the lower house of
Congress yesterday and is now in
the hands of the senate finance
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committee. ,
It is expected that the senate
hearings on the measure will be
brief and that final action will come
at an early date.
BUILDING TRADES OF FRISCO
AGITATING GENERAL STRIKE
SAN FRANCISCO, July 23—The
Building Trades council, adopting
the suggestion of its membership'
committee, passed resolutions yes
terday favoring a general striks of
all San Francisco affiliated organ
izations, and appointed a committee
to go before the General Labor
council for the purpose of urging
a strike among all crafts in the city
connected with the American Feder
aion.
CANTONMENTS TO GO
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 23
Secretary of War Weeks has an
nounced that six army cantonments,
which he does not name, are to be
abandoned shortly, presumably as a
matter of retrenchment. Two of
the cantonments, it has been learn
ed, are in the East.
FARRAGUT FIREMAN DIES
SAN FRANCISCO, July 23
Clarence Riggs, a fireman on the
disabled steamer Farragut, wno was
scalded when the main steam pipe'
bursted, died late this afternoon.!
GREEKS GET TURKISH GOAT i
ATHENS, July 23—Unconfirmed!
reports reaching this city from Greek
sources state that Angora, capital
of the Turkish Nationalists, is being
evacuated, presumably on account of
pressure by the Greek forces.
Mrs. Lipman Simson and child
ren were returning passengers on
the steamer Tanana yesterday, after
an absence of a year in the States,
the greater part of which time was
spent at Reno, Nevada, with rela
tives of Mrs. Simson.
MAJOR CAMPBELL REFUTES
CHARGES IN BERGDOLL CASE
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 23J
Major Bruce Campbell, who waf ac
cused by Mrs. Bergdoll of accepting
a $5,000 bride to aid her son to es
cape, appeared before the house in
vestigating committee yesterday and
made denial of the charge.
He declared that he desired the
fullest publicity but asked that he
first be permitted to present secretly
the names of witnesses whom he de
sired to testify in his behalf.
KLAN TAKES EXCEPTION
TO CRIMES IN ITS NAME
FORT WORTH, July 23—Colonel
William Simmons, imperial wizard of
the Ku Kiux Klan, has addressed a
communication to a local newspaper
ui which he announces that action is
to be taken to purify the klan from
within in Texas and Oklahoma, an 1
also to combat the forces seeking
to shield crimes under the cloak of
the klan.
CLAIMED HE WAS KIDNAPED
BUT GAME FAILED TO WORK
SHAROX, Pa., July 23—Thos. D.
Randolph, business man who report
ed to ihis wife several days ago that
he had been kidnaped and was be
ing held for a ransom of $50,000,
was taken into custody yesterday by
the police on four charges, to all
of which he has entered pleas of
not guilty. It is charged that he
“attempted to obtain money under
false pretenses, attempted to black
mail and attempted to extort money'"’
There is also a statutory charge
against him and the police are now
looking for a woman who is said to
have left with the defendant when
he ‘disappeared’
S. S. FARRAGUT DISABLED;
MEMBERS OF CREW INJURED
SAX FRANCISCO, July 23—The
steamer Admiral Farragut. enroute
to Seattle with passengers and a
cargo of freight, was towed into
port yesterday morning in a disabled
condition as the result of the burst
ing of the main feed pipe. Twelve
members of the engine crew were
severely injured and it feared that
at least one of them will die, hav
ing been badly scalded by the es
caping steam.
The steamer was adrift in a
dense fog after the accident, and
there was considerable alarm among
the passengers before the vessel was
taken in tow
TEXANS VOTING TODAY
DALLAS, July 23—Texans are
voting today on a proposed amend
ment to the state constitution, pro
viding for the exclusion of all un
naturalized foreigners from voting,
and granting equal suffrage to mea
and women, conforming to the feder
al amendment.
Inut, Where BrOa and Kirere Meet
GOVERNOR SMALL RESISTS
ARREST ON GRAFT CHARGE
SPRINGFIELD, July 23—Govern
or Len Small, who is under indict
ment on graft charges, has refused
to submit to arrest, acting on an
opinion rendered by his counsel,
: and the warrant has been held up
j temporarily in consequence. The raat
| ter will come up for a hearing on
Tuesday, at which time the court
| will decide whether or not a gov
i ernor can be taken into custody
! under the conditions prevailing.
WANT FORD TO RUN ROADS
HART, Michigan, July 23—Four
hundred fruit growers of this sec
tion, have attached their names to
a petition addressed to President
Harding, in which it is urged that
the railroads of the country be
turned over to Henry Ford for op
eration. The petition sets forth
that freight rates are taking most
of the profits of shippers and the
fact is cited that Ford recently re
duced rates on his railway, the De
troit, Toledo & Ironton. The petition
ers believes that rates could and
would be reduced on other roads
if Ford was in charge o* them.
REVIEW OF YEAR DISCLOSES
SMALL PRICE REDUCTIONS
NEW YORK, July 23—According
to statistics gathered by the Nation
al Industrial Conference Board,
clothing, with an average increase
in price of one-tenth of one per
cent, was the only necessity which
advanced in price in June.
The report also shows that food
was the only item which went down
during the month, other items re
maining stationary.
The statistics show that living
costs decreased 21 per cent during
the year ending July 1, but they
are still 61 per cent higher than
the July, 1914, level.
HOPE COMES TO IRELAND
AS RESULT OF CONFERENCE
DUBLIN, July 23—The impres
sion is growing that the Lloyd
George peace offer will work out
in the settlement of peace. The
terms o the proposed agreement,
however, are being withheld from
the public.
It is reported from London, how
ever, that the outstanding feature
of the Government's terms is the
concession of fiscal autonomy and
it is also stated that the position of
Ulster is amply secured.
NORTHCL1FFE ARRIVES
NEW YORK. July 23—L o r d
Northchffe, noted British publisher,
arrived from England today on the
first leg of his journey to the Pacific
to make an extensive study of the
Pacific problems.
LONDON, July 23—Private ad
vices received in this city from Mad
rid today indicate a critical situa
tion on the Barbary coast in conse
quence of Spanish disaster in a
battle with the rebels at Melilla
Morocco.
Jack Raymond, oidtime laundry
man of Fairbanks, arrived from
the coast this week, by way of
Broad Pass, and went to Fairbanks
yesterday.