CELEBRATE THE FOURTH IN NENANA
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. Ill
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1920.
NO. 76
NAVAL OFFICERS THREATEN FUEL RAID
MANY VISITORS COMING TONENANA CELEBRATION
TELEGRAPH LINE DOWN; CONVENTION NEWS DELAYED
MAI IS MADE
TO TAKE OIL FOR
PACIFIC VESSELS
LOS ANGELES, July 3.—Officers
of the Pacific fleet have threatened
to seize a quantity of oil belonging
to the General Petroleum company,
in Los Angeles harbor, unless it is
sold to the navy at $1.11 per tank,
which is the price fixed by the navy
department. The officers declare
that they will take the oil by force
if such action should become neces
sary'.
The threatened action of the fleet
officers was made known by Attor
ney Oscar Lawler, who has obtained
a temporary restraining order against
Commander Mele. Lawler says that
the fleet officers notified the com
pany that they would need a certain
amount of oil and that they would
pay $1.11 for it. He also declares
that Mele threatened to land marines
when the company refused t- sell
the oil at the price stipulated.'
HEARINGS SHOWED
10 CONSIOEH SALMON
Circulars received by the Nenana
Commercial club in a recent mail
state that hearings are to be held
in Seattle in November for the pur
pose of “determining the advisabili
ty of limiting or prohibiting fishery
operations” in the waters of the Yu
kon and Kuskokwini rivers.
The hearings will be held in the
office of the Bureau of Fisheries,
in the L. C. Smith building, “at
which place all interested persons
will be heard, and all persons having
pertinent information are particu
larly invited to be present and to
impart such information.”
The Yukon hearing will start on
November 23 and the Kuskokwim
hearing is set for November 30.
BLOODSTAINS POINT
TO BANDIT’S INJURY
SACRAMENTO, Cal., July 3.—
Bloodstains found on the Southern
Pacific tracks two miles west of this
city indicate close shooting on the
part of passengers who were held
up by a bandit shortly after leaving
this city last night. The bloodstains
were found near where the bandit
alighted from the train. A number
of shots were fired at him as he dis
appeared in the darkness.
FACTORY EXPLOSION
FATAL TO OFFICERS
POTTERTOWN, aP., July 3—An
explosion in the drying plant of the
Vulcwell Tire & Rubber company of
this city resulted yesterday in the
death of William C. Walsh, aged 33,
president and general manager of
the company, and General Superin
tendent James A. Madey, aged 32.
Frank Walsh, brother of the presi
dent, lost an arm in the explosion.
John H. Richards, who arrived
from the Poorman country this week,
was an outgoing passenger on this
morning’s train, headed for the
coast.
CELEBRATION PROGRAM READY;
HOLIDAY VISITORS ARRIVING
Nenanas fourth annual Independ
ence Day celebration, which prom
ises to be the biggest ever, will have
its formal start this afternoon at
six o’clock, at which time appropri
ate exercises will be held at the
Coliseum theater under the direc
tion of a committee consisting of
Robert Joseph Diven, Miss Luella
Shaffer, and J. A. Slippern. A splen
did patriotic program has been ar
ranged.
It is expected that the first out
of-town visitors will have arrived in
time to attend the exercises, and
before that feature of the celebra
tion program is concluded the Fair
| banks excursion train probably will
| be in with the baseball players and
I the other visitors from the ur*
town and along the line to the north
of Nenana. By the time the celebra
tion is well under way, the town will
be filled with visitors, and the well
balanced program arranged by the
sports committee insures that they
will be kept busy until the conclu
sion of the festivities.
The patriotic exercises at the Col- j
iseum will be followed promptly by
the first heat of tihe motorboat race,
this event being scheduled to start
at seven o’clock. After that is
over, the crowd will return to the
Coliseum to witness Ivan Abramson’s
masterday drama, “Enlighten Thy
Daughter,” augmented by Mrs. Leon
Kellum and Miss Leota Scott in spe
cialty numbers. The show is sched
uled to start at eight o’clock.
The first day of the celebration
will be concluded witih a grand ball
at Union hall, which promises to be
one of the most enjoyable features
of the celebration. The dance is
scheduled to start at 10:30, and will
last until the crowd wearies of trip
ping the light fantastic.
Tomorrow morning at ten the first
baseball game of the series between
Nenana and Fairbanks will start at
♦he ball park. The track events,
which will be held on A street, are
scheduled to start at 1:30, and at
four o’clock the baseball teams will
cross bats in their second game. The
second heat of the motorboat race
will start at seven, followed by an
other feature at the Coliseum, en
titled “Polly of the Circus,” with
Mae Marsh in the title role.
At the end of tomorrow’s pro
gram, the Fairbanks visitors will
start on the return trip to the upper
town, the excursion train being
scheduled to leave North Nenana at
about eight, o’clock. They will be
accompanied on the return trip by
the Nenana ball players and a num
ber of fans.
The celebration will be concluded
on Monday, with track events for
the children, starting at 11 o'clock,
and with a tug-ofwar and the last
heat of the motorboat race, should
a final heat be necessary to deter
mine the winner of the cup and
prize money.
Interest in the track events indi-!
cates that there will be a number j
of entries for nearly all of the
events, and some good exhibitions
are promised. This applies to both
grown-ups and children, and to the
villagers as well, reports from the
mission indicating that the native
village will send quite a delegation
to town to compete for the prizes, j
At the hour of going to press it j
is not definitely known how many j
boats will enter the river event, but j
it is possible that there will be four
or five entries by the time the race j
starts. It is certain that there will
be two—the Anderson Kid anil the
Hill hydroplane.
The celebration will be brought
to a close on Monday night with
"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,-'
a five-reel feature of exceptional
merit, which will be shown at the
Coliseum, with a Burton Holmes
travelogue as a curtain raiser.
The following committee have had
charge of the arrangements for the
celebration.
General Committee: Chairman, T.
.1. McCrosky; secretary, Norvin
Smith; treasurer, Martin Nash.
Sports: Joe Fischer, William Thom
as, Allan A. Johnson, Burdette Tun
ison, Thomas A. Mathews, Dr. J. R.
Bowen, W. C. Gagnon. Robert S
Donaldson, Sergeant Feehley, R. S.
McDonald, Dan Leech. Frank Sager,
S. N. Beatty, W. L. Packer, Norvin
Smith, ijr: V. Lehr, Louis Johnson,
Alex Fowler.
Finance: Martin Nash, O. M. Jack
son, M. J. Cooney.
Exercises: Robert Joseph Diven,
Miss Luella Shaffer, J. A. Slippern.
Advertising: Arthur G. Bell, Her
man Anderson.
The celebration program follows:
JULiI 6
PATRIOTIC EXERCISES
Coliseum—6:00 P. M.
MOTOR BOAT RACE—FIRST HEAT—7:00 P. M.
“ENLIGHTEN THY DAUGHTER”
Special Seven-Reel Feature, with Pathe News
COLISEUM —8:00 P. M.
GRAND BALL AT UNION HALL—10:30 P. M.
JULY 4
BASEBALL GAME—10:00 A. M.
NENANA VS. FAIRBANKS
TRACK EVENTS — 1:30 P. M.
First.
50-yard Dash, Open .$10.00
Sack Race for Men . 7.50
Running Broad Jump . 7.50
100-yard Dash, Open . 15.00
Running High Jump . 7.50
220-yard Dash, Open . 15.00
Pack-a-Back Race . 10.00
Second.
$5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
BASEBALL GAME — 4:00 P. M.
NENANA VS. FAIRBANKS
MOTOR BOAT RACE—SECOND HEAT—7:00 P. M.
FULLY OF 1 Hfc UKCUS, with MAh JVlAKbn
COLISEUM — 8:30 P. M.
JULY 5
TRACK EVENTS — 11:00 A. M.
First.
3-Legged Race, 50 yards, Boys under 14.$ 6.00
100-yard Dash, Boys under 17.. 7.50
Sack Race, Boys under 12 . 5.00
Ladies’ Ball-Throwing Contest, Open. 7.50
50-yard Race, Girls under 18 . 7.50
Ladies’ Race, Open ... 7.50
One-Mile Race, Open . 25.00
Squaw Footrace, 75 yards. 5.00
Children’s Race, under 7 years, Boys. 3.00
j Children’s Race, under 7 years, Girls. 3.00
Equipment Race . 7.50
Doughnut Eating Contest. 3.00
Bicycle Race, 300 yards, under 18. 7.50
Finding Shoe Race, Girls under 12. 3.00
Finding Shoe Race, Boys under 14. 3.00
75-yard Dash, Boys under 10. 5.00
High Jump, Boys under 18. 5.00
Running Broad Jump, Boys under 18. 5.00
Pie Eating Contest . 3.00
Canoe Race, Squaws and Men, start across
river . 7.50
TUG-OF-WAR
Second.
$2.00
5.00
2.00
2.50
2.50
2.50
7.50
2.50
2.00
2.00
5.00
2.00
5.00
2.00
2.00
2.50
2.50
2.50
2.00
2.50
MOTOR BOAT RACE —LAST HEAT
MIN MINE MAY
FILL BOAST NEED
SEATTLE, July 3.—The construc
tion of a motor-truck road from the
coal mine of the Bering River Coal
company to Bering lake, where the
fuel will be placed on seagoing
barges and towed to local Alaskan
markets, will drive British Columbia
coal from the Alaska coast, in the
opinion of those familiar with fuel
conditions in the North.
Information received by the Alas
ka bureau of the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce states that the com
pany has expended $200,000 already
in development work and has opened
a number of beds of high-grade coal
with which it will be possible to com
pete successfully with imported fuel.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY
LEFT POST THIS WEEK
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 3.—
Benedict Crowell, assistant secretary
of war, left the service of the Gov
ernment on Thursday to engage in
private business. The name of his
successor has not yet been made
known.
CENSUS COUNT SHOWS
WALLA WALLA LOSING
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 3.—
The population of Walla Walla, Wn.,
has decreased 3,861 during the last
ten years, according to figures made
public by the census bureau. The
present population of the city is 15,
503.
EL CENTRO, Cal., July 3.—Frank
Vails, axed CO, a native of Mexico,
became a father for the thirty-fifth
time today, when his second wife,
whom he married in 1900, gave
birth to an 11-pound boy, her sev
enteenth child.
Wtaasa. Alaska's latsrisr »«•! Bsyot
SEATTLE, July 3.—The Wash
ington correspondent of the Seattle
Times is authority for the statement
that one of the first measures Con
gress will be asked to consider when
the lawmakers reconvene next win
ter will be a proposal to authorize
the construction of a Pacific cable,
from some point on the Pacific coast
to the Orient.
The correspondent believes it al
most certain that the northern route
across the Pacific will be selected,
probably from Seattle to Seward,
thence a series of short cables con
nectin'; the Aleutian ^-roup as far as
Attu island, thence to the coast of
Japan.
In addition to a considerable
saving in cost, this .route, it is point
ed out, would help materially to
.develop that section of Alaska
through " b"■ the cable would )>ass.
MEXICO IS SAFER
WASHINGTON, I). July :i.—
jThe state department is in receipt
of advices from the American con
sul at Nogales which indicate that
jthe success of the recent revolution
has had the effect of quieting con
tentions in the Southern republic.
American mining interests in the
tstates of Sonora and Sinaloa, the
consul writes, are already showing
increased activity, demonstrating
that they have confidence in the new
government, which has given the as
surance that American and other
foreign interests will receive protec
tion.
Communication between Nenana
and the Outside is interrupted to
day, as the result of a break in the
land wire south of Fairbanks, 'den
were sent out early this morning to
make repairs, but up to the time of
going to press the bleak had not
been mended, and there is less than
the usual amount of telegraphic
news in the paper today in conse
quence.
VOLSTEAD DEFEATED
FOR RENOMINATION
ST. PAUL, July 3.—Congressman
'A. J. Volstead, framer of the famous
Volstead prohibition enforcement
act, has been defeated for renomin
ation in the Seventh district by Rev.
C. J. Evals, Non-Partisan league
candidate, • who entered the race
against Volstead as a Republican.
The H. B. Madland launch, which
is to take a number of traveling
men to the lower river, will not
leave Nenana until after the celebra
tion.