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THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11. 1921
NUMBER 80
• GIANTS WIN TODAY; SCORE TIED AGAIN
BABE RUTH KNOCKS HOMER THEN QUITS SERIES
SENATE LEADERS REACH AGREEMENT ON TAX BILL
COMMITTEE MEMBERS AGREE
TO CHANGES IN TAX LISTS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 11—
The majority members of the sen
ate finance committee have given j
their approval to proposed amend
ments to the revenue bill, providing
for the repeal of transportation
taxes, including oil pipe lines, fixing
a maximum surtax of fifty per cent
and increasing estate taxes. The'
committeemen also have approved
the retention of the corporation
capital stock tax and the repeal of
the $2,000 exemption allowed cor
porations having net incomes of
more than $25,000.
Under another proposed amend
ment approved by the committee, the
following excise taxes are repealed:
sporting goods, chewing gum, elec
tric fans, thermos bottles, smoking
and hunting equipment, films, toilet
soaps and powders, photographs, ap
paratus and accessories, furs, per
fumes and cosmetics. The tax on
works of art is to be reduced from
ten to five er cent and the candy.
tax made three per cent.
NOTED SCIENTIST IS COMING I
TO STUDY LIF£ IN DEPTHS
COPENHAGEN', Oct. 11—Dr. J.
Schmidt, famous Danish scientist
who discovered the migrations of
the eei, is about to start on a new
expedition to American waters to
study life in the depths of the ocean;
He will be accompanied by a
group of young scientists. His pur
pose is said to be to demonstrate
another new theory in oceanography
The former British mine trawler,
Dana, will be used by the expedition.
It will be recalled that Schmidt
ascertainted that eels annually ren
devous in the fall for spawning at
a place in the ocean 500 fathoms
deep off the coast of the Virgin Is
lands, in the West Indies. There the
mature eels die. The young ones to
whom they give birth go not to
America, the nearest continent, butj
to Europe, seeking the fresh waters
whence came their ancesters.
NEW ORGANIZATION PLANS
WORLD PEACE CAMPAIGN
NEW YORK, Oct. 11—The World
^ Federation of Engineer? is the name
of a new organization which came
' into in this city last night at a din
ner gived by the Federated Ameri
can Engineering Societies.
The purpose of the new organiza
tion is to further international
peace.
ROW ENDS IN DOUBLE DEATH
PRAIRIETOWN. 111.. Oct. 8—Al
bert Wieneke. aged 45. and his wife.
Mae, aged 38. were shot and killed
last night by Harry Lohse, as the
result of an argument between the
two men over Mrs. Weineke. Lohse
is under arrest.
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GIANTS CATCH UP IN SERIES;
EACH TEAM HAS THREE NOW
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WOOD DEPRECATES TALK
OF WAR WITH JAPANESE
TOKYO, Oot. 11—In an address
delivered before the American-Jap
anese Society, in this city on Sat
urday, Genera] Leonard Wood de
precated talk of trouble between
the United States and Japan. He in-;
sisted that “there is. no reason why
our country should not arrive at
an understanding on all points at
issue between the two nations.’’
The general characterized talk of
trouble as "loose and foolish.”
OFFICERS DREAMED AIRSHIP
WAS DOOMED TO COLLAPSE
HL’LL. England. Oct. 11—Those
who believe in dreams will find
subject for reflection in several re
markable visions forecasting the de
struction of the airship, ZR-2 which ’
came to two American officers at- 1
tached to the Howden air force and.
to Chief Rigger Shields’ wife who1
is m America.
Three times in the six weeks pre- j
ceding the ZR-2’s fatal trial trip, :
Lieut William R. Taylor of the'
medical corps, dreamed that the air-!
ship was wrecked, and one of the!
dreams vividly pictured almost the.
exact circumstances attending the
actual disaster. Taylor, by the way,
was in Hull on the day of the catas
trophe and saw the ZR-2 meet her.
fate. In his dream, he saw her split |
in two and hurtle down just as a j
few days later it actually happened, j
Lieut. J. B. Lawrence also dream-j
ed that the ZR-2 was wrecked.
Shields was one of those selected
to take the trial trip on the big air
ship but was taken ill after boarding
her, owing to an earlier accident, j
and Norman O. Walker took his j
place, the latter being the only I
American survivor after the wreck. J
Mrs. Shields wrote to her husband
from the United States shortly be- ;
fore the airship’s trials saying that i
she dreamed that the ZR-2 was'
wrecked, and imploring her husband
not to make the trip.
CUESTS OF PORTLAND HOTEL
DRIVEN FROM ROOMS BL FIRE
PORTLAND, Oet. 11—A fire on
the top floor of the Benson hotel i
stampede many of the guests to the
street on Sunday night, some of j
them being very scantil attired.
The blaze was gotten under con
trol quickly and without serious |
damage, the entire loss being es-;
timated at $10,000.
GRAND STAND COLLAPSES
DECATUR, El., Oct. 11—Forty- ;
five persons were injured, five of!
them seriously, when ten sections i
of grand stand seats collapsed dur
ing the parade of Elinois V eterans
in attendance at the state conven
tion of the American Legion. The
accident occurred just before the
procession passed the stand. There
were no fatalities.
WAGE REDUCTION CONTINUED
MONTREAL, Oct. 11—The wage
reduction of from ten to twelve
per cent, which was made by the
Canadian railroads last July, has
been continued tentatively, under
the provisions of the ol ’ agreement,
pending final action.
OHIO LAWYER MURDERED
DAYTON, Ohio, Oct. 11—Lucien
Howard,' a prominent attorney of
this city, was musteriously murdered
j in his office shortly after noon yes
terday. There is no clue to the
. identity of the murderer.
FLASH—GIANTS WIN TODAY.
Score 8 to 5. Giants 13 hits, no er
rors. Yanks, seven h'.ti, two errors.
Batteries-Giants: Toney, Barnes
and Snyder. Yanks: Harper, Shawky
Pierce and Schang.
The Giants made three runs in the
second inning, four in the fourth
and one in the sixth.
The Yankees made three in the
first inning and two in the second.
Babe Ruth has been compelled to
withdraw from the series, doctors
having advised that further play
might cause him to lose his arm.
POLO GROUNDS, Oct. 10—(De
layed)—The American league pen
nant winners are again leading in
the battle for the World series, a3
the result of defeating the Giants
in the fifth game of the series. As
the score now stands, the Yankees
have three games to their credit and
the Giants two.
The series was interrupted on
Saturday by rain, so that the fourth
game- of the series could not be
played until Sunday, on which oc
casion the Giants evened up the
series by hammering Mays hard in
the eighth inning and defeating the
Yanks by a score of four to two.
In this game. Babe Ruth, playing
with a bandaged elbow, touched off
his first homer of the series. His
elbow became infected as the result
of a bruise received more than a
week ago. An abeess formed and
had to be lanced. Had the game
taken place on Saturday, as schedul
ed, Ruth would not have played,
but he had recovered sufficiently by
Sunday to bold his position.
In addition to their four runs,
the Giants made nine hits and one
error on Sunday. The Yanks, with
two runs, were also credited with
seven hits and one error.
Douglas pitched for the Giants,
with Snyder behind the bat. The
Yankees pitched Mays, with Schang
catching.
The Giants made three of their
runs in the eighth inning and one
in the last inning The Yanks made
or.e in the fifth and one in the final.
Yesterday'* Game
In the fifth meeting of the pen
nant-winning teams, which took
place this (Monday > afternoon, the
Yanks stabbed the barb of defeat
in the sides of their rivals and
walked off the field with their third
victory of the series. The score was
three to one and the Yankee heroes
of the day were yound Waite Hoyt,
who pitched his second winning
game of the series, and Bob Meusel,
whose steel whip broke up two of
the Giants’ batting rallies with two
lightning throws.
The Yanks made one run in the
' third inning and two in the fourth.
The Giants made their only run in
the first inning. The Yanks made
six hits and one error, while the
Giants landed for ten hits, and also
made one error.
The batteries were Hoyt and
Schang. for the Yankees; Nehf and
Smith for the Giants.
Weather Threatening
Wet weather for a time threatened
i to prevent the Monday game, but
! toward noon there was improvement,
with sunshine and cool, crisp air,
making the spectators shiver.
The Yankees went into the game
promising a hitting rally, declaring
that they could not expect their
pitchers to carry them further. The
Giants went into the game confident
that Nehf could put them across to
victory. The crowd was late in
arriving but the stands were filled
by the time the game started.
The ineffective pitching of three
Yankee twirlers in Friday's game
was responsible for smashing several
world's records to smithereens. Eight
hits in the seventh inning set a
new record, as did the eight runs,
and the 12 men who batted that in
ning also set a new record. The
time required to play the game was
two hours and forty minutes, hither
to unequalled, and the 20 hits by
one team was never recorded before
in a World series.
STOCKHOLDERS MUST PAY
SEATTLE BANK DEPOSITORS
SEATTLE, Oct. 11—John P. Duke
state supervisor of banking, has filed
the first of a series of suits to col
lect a million dollars from the stock
holders of the defunct Scandinavian
American bank. One hundred per
cent of the par value of stock -will
be demanded.
PERSHING GOING TO LONDON
LONDON, Oct. 11—The British
foreign office has announced that
General Pershing will come to Lon
don this month to lay the medal of
honor on the tomb of British un
known soldiers.
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DISARMAMENT TOMORROW
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 11
Secretary of State Hughes has issued
a call for the first meeting of the
disarmament conference for tomor
row.
AMUNDSEN TO USE PLANES
IN EXPLORATION OF NORTH
SEATTLE. Oct. 11—It has been
announced that Explorer Amundsen
■will use two planes in his Polar dash,
beginning next May, when he will re
some his attempt to drift across
the Pole. He has already engaged
two Norwegian aviators for the ex
pedition.
Ask the Moose
what the
J. J. Davis Class
means
v.
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AUSTRALIAN RAPS STATES;
LONDON TIMES EXPLAINS
LONDON, Oct. 11—Commenting:
on the statement of Premier Hughes
before the Australian house of rep
resentatives, that efforts to secure
i dominion representation at the dis
armament and Far Eastern con
i ferences stopped when “the United
States slammed the door in our
face’’, the London Times declares
editorially that the United States
never rejected any proposal for such
representation.
The paper brands the Hughes
statement as an “entire misconcep
tion.”
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I SPIRITUALIST LACK PROOFS;
t SCIENTISTS DISAPPOINTED
COPENHAGEN, Oct. 11—Return
ing from a visit to Hamlet’s grave,
one of the American delegates to
the International Psychic Congress
just held here said with. evident re
gret that the 40 delegates saw
neither Hamlet’s ghost nor the ghost
of Hamlet's father stalking the his
torical ramparts of old Elsinore
Castle.
The president of the Congress, Dr.
i Kort Kortsen, declared that he was
I disappointed at the outcome of th*
gathering.
“We scientists." he said, “proposed
to give spiritualists a fair trial to
demonstrate the scientific basis of
[ their cult. They have done nothing
to convince anybody. They arrived
without their mediums, bringing
photographs only of their material
izations. We demanded proofs but
only got statements. That is not
science, therefore we scientists must
protest.”
WEEKS SAYS AIR RACING
IS NOT FOR ARMY PLANES
WASHINGTON', D. C., Oct. 11—,
Secretary of War Week? has re
affirmed his decision not to permit'
army airplanes to participate in
exhibition competitions, basing- his j
objection on lack of personnel and
material and the general uselessness;
of such competitive contests from
a military standpoint. He says there
is nothing to be gained from tests
of speed in races.
BANK ROBBED; CASHIER SHOT
—
KANSAS CITW, Oct. 11—The,
State Bank of Muncie, Kansas, is j
reported to have been robbed yes-,
terday, and the cashier shot by the
bandits. Details of the holdup can j
not be learned because of the fact
that all wires between this city and
Muncie have been cut, presumably
| by the robbers.
ST. LOUIS SCENE OF BIG THEFT
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 11—A messenger;
of the Grand Avenue Bank was,
held up by bandits yesterday and1
relieved of a sachel containing the
sum of $17,000 in cash and non
negotiable paper valued at $51,000.
The bandits escaped.
LEDS WEDS A PRINCESS
PARIS, Oct. 11—William B. Leds,
Jr., son of the tin plate king and
Princess Anastasia, of Greece, has
followed in the footsteps of his am
bitious sire by wedding Princess
Xena, niece of King Constantine. j
SCIENTIST GETTING READY
FOR FLIGHT ACROSS POLE
SEATTLE. Oct. 11—A Washing
ton special to the Seattle Times re
ports that Edward Fairfax N'aulty,
the scientist who plans to visit the
North Pole in an airplane, is ar
ranging to leave Washington in a
land plane, for the flight to Seattle,
on November first. Upon arrival
here, he will pick up a seaplane
and leave shortly after for Point
Barrow.
At Point Barrow, the plane will
be carefully groomed and provision
ed for a straight flight for North
Cape, Sweden, it being the plan of
the scientist to touch at the Pols
enroute, for the purpose of making
careful observation of the region
NEW INVENTION HELPS
PATRONS TO FIND SEATS
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11—By
means of a new invention patrons
of a large local motion picture
theater may stand in the lobby and
know at a glance the exact location
of an vacant seat in the house.
A masterelectrical board situat
ed in the lobby contain? a small light
bulb for every seat in the auditorium
arranged according to rows. Each of
these bulbs is connected with its
corresponding seat with a wire, and
when a pressure greater than 30
pounds is brought to bear on the
seat, the electrical contact is broken
and the light on the board goes out.
The device makes it possible to
ferret out vacant seats in the semi
darkness.
BOOTLEGGERS START DRIVE
BY KILLING UNDER-SHERIFF
SHERIDAN, Oct. II—A drive is
being made on alleged bootleggers
and moonshiners in this locality as
the result of the killing yesterday of
Under Sheriff W. S. McPherson by
a couple of whiskey runners, both
of whom were later wounded and
placed under arrest. A heavy guard
has been placed over the men to
prevent lynching.
The killing of McPherson occurred
during a battle near the Monarch
coal camp.
FREE TOLLS FOR U. S BOATS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 11 —
The senate has passed the Borah
bill providing for the free transit
of American coastwise ships through
Panama canal, the vote on the bill
having been 47 to 37. Previous to
the passage of the measure, the
senate rejected Senator King'-' pro
posal to authorize the President to
negotiate the arbitration of the toll
dispute.
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