WHERE RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. II.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1920.
NO. 28‘>
CONGRESSMEN MAY PAY ALASKA VISIT
HITCHCOCK TR YING TO HOLD DEMOCRA TS IN LINE
SIMS SAYS HOOVER CAN TELL ABOUT DELAY OF NAVY
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KETCHIKAN, March 11. —Nick
Demmar, a Greek passenger on the
steamship Admiral Evans, ran amuck
shortly before the vessel reached
this port, and shot six persons, none
of them, however, fatally. He raced
over the boat, shooting at everyone
he saw, and finally turned the gun
on himself, the bullet hitting a vital
spot.
Those who were shot by the Greek
were A. Larson, Butler Larson, Sam
Baker,, R. Sinclair, passengers, and
L. B. Drury, purser, and Anton
Lenger, ship’s barber.
UNDER LEVER LAW
WASHINGTON. D. C., March 11. j
—Attorney-General Palmer has an
nounced that 1,046 cases have been
prosecuted by the Government un
der the Lever food act, in an effort
to check profiteering in the United
States. Convictions have been se
cured in many cases, the results
having been sufficiently satisfactory
to encourage continued effort.
Palmer also announces that it is
the intention of his department to
cominue trust prosecutions, notwith
standing the recent decision of the
supreme court in the steel trust
case.
Otto Wehner, of Little Eldorado
creek, was taken to the Fairbanks
hospital yesterday in a critical con
dition as the result of a stroke of
paralysis.
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ABOUT NORTHERN RED TAPE
SEATTLE, March 11.—The Wash
ington correspondent of the Seattle
Times is authority for the state
ment that several members of the
house committee on territories are
considering the advisability of visit
ing Alaska at an early date for the
purpose of gathering first-hand in
formation relative to the activities
of the various bureaus which share
in the control of Alaskan affairs.
The head of each bureau and de
partment concerned in the regula
tion of Alaskan affairs will be asked
to report to the house on its ac
tivities in the Northern territory, in
order that the lawmakers may ob
tain a complete survey of the Alas
kan situation. These reports will
be prepared for submission to the
congressmen before the considera
tion of bills intended to center
Alaskan authority in Alaska. And
should members of the house com
mittee on territories decide to visit
Alaska, the consideration of pend
ing legislation probably will be de
ferred until their return to the
capital.
Chairman Curry, of the house
committee on territories, who is dis
playing a friendly interest in Alas
kan affairs, has requested J. L. Mc
Pherson to assist the committee in
gathering the desired data, showing
the scope of federal authority in
the North, and McPherson is re
ported to have accepted the pro
posal, tentatively. In assigning the
task to McPherson, the chairman
said that he was the best equipped
! man available for such a job. Mc
i
iPherson has resigned as consulting
| engineer with the Alaskan Engineer
ing committee.
It has been learned at Washing
ton that Franklin K. Lane, on the
eve of his retirement as secretary
of the interior, asked Senator Jones
to introduce the resolution asking
| the interior department to submit a
i general report on its activities in
{Alaska.
Fight in Prospect.
| The correspondent says that Alas
; ka may be the center of a congres
sional controversy. The first fight,
it is believed, will center about the
salmon industry', and opposition is
also expected to the proposal to
| abolish bureau control in the North
;as provided for in the Curry bill.
The Railroad Storm.
The final storm will break, the
| special says, when the lawmakers
' learn that fifty millions have been
'expended in the construction of n
j Government railroad in Alaska, with
jno freight to haul, because no ef
fort has been made by those* in
■ charge to create traffic.
The Salmon Fight.
i Delegate Grigsby is said to op
■ pose one section of the Alexander
fisheries plan, which provides for
the creation of a board of which
two members shall be persons en
gaged in the fishing industry. Grigs
by believes the fishing industry can
not long survive under the control
of a board so constituted.
YUKON CANNERY
WILL NOI CEASE
ARRIVAL AVERS
Regardless of the vigorous pro
tests of Interior Alaskans against
the continued operation of the Car
lisle cannery at the mouth of the
Yukon river, to which is attributed
the present shortage of salmon
throughout the districts tributary
to the river, the cannery will re
sume operations as usual this sea
son, as soon after the opening of
navigation as conditions will permit.
This information, which will prove
a decided disappointment to those
aware of the harm done by the
cannery, was brought to Nenana by
Walter Scott, who arrived from the
States several days ago, and who
says that contracts have been let
for supplies and all arrangements
made for an early start.
The company, as usual, will send
in a large part of the force neces
sary to operate the cannery, and a
number of Outside fishermen also
will come in, as was the case last
summer, when the contract men
were given all the best of it by the
company.
SEATTLE, March 11.—The Wash
ington National guard has been as
signed one of the twelve light tank
corps authorized for the militia.
Washington will get Company L and
eventually will receive 24 light fight
ing tanks of modern type and one
light signal tank.
The Fairbanks land office has re
ceived official notification of the
passage of the coal, oil and gas land
leasing bill.
HOOVER IS CALLED
IN NAVAL INQUIRY
WASHINGTON, D. C. March 11. j
—Herbert Hoover will be summoned i
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jto appear before the senate com
mittee which is investigating the
! Sims charges of naval misconduct
(during the war. Admiral Sims in
| formed the committeemen this morn
ing that Hoover has intimate knowl
edge of the European situation at
the time America entered the war,.
and requested that he be called as j
a witness before the investigators.:
iSims believes that Hoover’s state
; ments will substantiate his own
statements regarding the gravity of <
the Allied position.
Sims told the committee yester
day that the failure of the Ameri
can navy fully to co-operate in the
war during the first six months aft-;
er the United States became in-1
volved, cost half a million lives, fif-;
teen billion dollars, and two and
one-half million tons of shipping.'
The delay, he said, prevented a vie- j
tory for the Allies in July, 1918. j
Continuing, he declared that if the j
tonnage lost in 1917 had been saved
by the United States navy’s prompt j
co-operation with the Allies, Ameri
ca could have had a million men in
France at the beginning of 1918, in
stead of having only three hundred |
thousand overseass. And he de- I
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dared also that the German of
fensive of 1918 probably never
would have been started if America
had had a million men on European *
soil.
For several months, the admiral I
said. President Wilson apd Secre- i
tary Lansing- did not heed the cable
sent by Ambassador Page in April,
1917, declaring that reasons existed'
for the greatest alarm about the
war — issues caused by increasing j
German submarine successes. Page |
urged the immediate assignment of j
every available American destroyer
and submarine chaser to British wa
ters.
Secretary Daniels, according to
Sims, opposed the convoy system
for a time.
SENATE PREPARING !
FOR TREATY FIGHT
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 11.
|—Senatorial action on Article X of
the League of Nations covenant,
■ which was scheduled for this week,
jhas been deferred in order to give
the leaders of the opposing factions
opportunity to reorganize their
forces for the final contest. Hie
I decision to defer action was reached
hastily yesterday, after several sen
ators had jumped the traces.
Republican leaders have announc
ed that they may accept the sub
! Article X reservation urged by the
I mild reservationists. Democratic
| compromise advocates also favor the
mild reservationists’ reservation and
I claim that they can swing thirty
: votes for it if the Republicans will j
j assent.
Senator Hitchcock, who is con- I
ducting the fight for the ratification ,
of the treaty as originally present
ed to the senate, is working hard
to hold the weakening administra
tion forces together for a solid vote
against the suggested substitute for
Article X.
Bobby Sheldon, who left Fairbanks 1
several days ago for Chitina with i
a number of passengers, reports that
he is making slow progress, owing'
to unusually heavy trails.
KANO CASE
MONTESANO, March U. — The
trial of Centralia wobblier on the
charge of murder in connection with
the Armistice day massacre is draw
ing to a close rapidly now and
should reach the jury not later than
tomorrow night. Judge Wilson is
preparing his instructions to the
jury today, and there remains only
one witness to be produced by the
defense in re-rebuttal, after which
the arguments will commence. They
probably will consume the greater
part of tomorrow.
Spectators are betting all kinds
of ways on the outcome—on the
verdict, on the length of time the
jury will be out. and on the attitude
of various of the jurymen. The
general belief is that the decision
of the jury will be a quick one or
that there will be a long tight in
the jurvroom.
Three witnesses, testifying for the
slate yesterday in rebuttal, declared
that the paraders w'ere resting when
the shooting started and that the
ranks were not brokei) until the
marchers had been fired upon.
WOMAN SUFFERS LOSS
OF VALUED MEMENTO
LOS ANGELES, March 11.—Mr.
and Mrs. Muldoon, who arrived in
this city yesterday afternoon from
Akron, stopped unpacking furniture
to attend prayer meeting, and dur
ing their absence robbers entered
the house and broke into their
trunks, getting away with stocks,
bonds, jewelry and cash aggregating
$20,000. Mrs. Muldoon bore the
loss calmly until she discovered that
the visitors also had taken three
British coins, her only mementoes
of a son killed in France. Then
she fainted.
Nennna. the Gateway to McKinley
WASHINGTON'. D. C., March 11
—The coal commission appointed
by President Wilson to adjust tin
differences between the bituminous
coal miners and their employers,
have concluded their deliberations
and submitted majority and minori
ty reports to the President. The
majority report recommends a gen
eral wage advance of 25 percent
for bituminous miners, but says
nothing regarding the chance in the
number of hours demanded by tin
men.
John P. White, who represents
the miners on the commission, has
submitted a minority report in
which he contends that the wage
increase recommended by his co'
leagues is not sufficient.
Increased production, it is con
tended, wall absorb the 14 percent
increase granted at the time the
men returned to work.
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WASHINGTON. D. t\, March II.
—The state department has been
officially advised of the release of
^ Williams, American war veteran,
who was taken prisoner by Villa
this week. .
The bandit leader has written i
letter in which he announces it as
his intention to capture Americans
from time to time for the purpose
of talking: with them, to tret outside
news of America’s viewpoint, and to
tell them of his ideals for the Mcx
ican government. After he has ob
tained all the information he de
sires, he will release them unharmei
and without ransom.
NMHTH IS HUD
ON LIQUOR CHARGE
SEATTLE, March 11.—Hart Ander
son; master of the speed launch
June G.. was placed under arrest
today by federal officers and the
launch raided for booze. Anderson
has been under suspicion for some
time, the officers believing that he
has been operating his craft as a
booze carrier between Canada and
the United States. Federal agents
at Port Williams recently reported
the ^launch grounded there while
making a run with a liquor cargo.
When searched today, the officers
found only a few empty liquor cases
on board.
MISSOURI TOWN HIT
BY PASSING STORM
JOPLIN, Mo.. March 11.—The
town of Nevada, this state, was par
tially wrecked today by a tornado.
[A number of buildings were razed
and several persons were killed.