Nenana — The Gateway To Mount McKinley National Park — Nenana
THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1921
NUMBER 84
SHOP CRAFT WORKERS BLOCKING STRIKE
TEXAS TRAINMEN DEFY ORDER OF R. R. BOARD
STEAMER AL AMEDA GOES ON ROCKS NEAR SEWARD
fOSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT
TRYING TO GET MAIL BOAT
SEATTLE. Oct. 25—A Washing
ton special to the Seattle Times
says the postoffice department is
trying to make arrangements for
the regular dispatch of mail to
Western Alaska. In the meantime,
authority has been granted for the
employment of a ship to make a
special trip from Juneau this month
to Yakutat, via Soapstone Harbor.
Hoonah and Dundas Bay.
FRIENDS FOR KEEPS
YORKTOWN, Oct. 25—In an ad
dress delivered here last week in
connection with ceremonies com
memorating the final surrender of
the British forces in the Revolu
tionary War, President Harding ex
pressed the belief that an endur
ing friendship has been built up be
tween the United States and Eng
land and said it is “unthinkable”
that either country now would lift
the sword against the other.
SEATTLE SHERIFF ARRESTED
SEATTLE, Oct. 25—John String
er, who last January completed his
second term as sheriff of King
county, has been placed under arrest
on a charge of grand larceny in
connection with an elleged shortage
of $ 5,962.84 in the i'unds paid by
the Government to the sheriff’s
office for the board of federal pris
ons in the county jail. Stringer is
out on bonds in the sum of $1,500.
BLUE NOSE WINS FIRST RACE
HALIFAX. Oct. 26-Blue Nose,
the Canadian challenger, won the
first race here Saturday for the In
ternational Fsihermen’s cup. crossing
the line well in advance of the Elsie,
rival entry, whose top mast was
carried away when the race was half
finished.
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Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bellerby left
for Fairbanks today and will winter
in the upper town, Mr. Bellerby
having completed his labors for the
season as wharfinger for the White
Pass company.
The members of Nenana Lodge.
No. 1193, Loyal Order of Moose,
had a busy session last night, con
siderable business of a routine
nature being disposed of during the
meeting. The Moose are now en
gaged in making a drive for member
ship and plans are being made to
take in a big class shortly.
J. H. Flower went to Healy yes
terday and probably will return to
town tomorrow.
Several small boats were in oper
ation on the river today, ferrying
passengers between Nenana and the
shore opposite town. Tolls ranged j
from fifty cents to a dollar a pass
enger.
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Marshal Bert Stevens is reported
to have arrived at Healy on his way
from Washington to Fairbanks to
assume h is official duties.
The News has been advised by
Chairman F. Mears, of the Alaskan
Engineering Commission, that “an
extra shipment of mail left Anchor
age on Sunday for the North, the
consignment weighing 13,169 pounds
and including 44 sacks for Nenana.
This in addition to the regular de
liveries.”
Dick Morris shot a ptarmigan on
the waterfront yesterday and Billy
Taylor nearly shot one that perched
on the roof of the Coliseum today.
The birds are becoming quite numer
ous hereabouts.
LABOR BOARD CITES LEADERS
FOR FINAL CONFAB ON STRIKE
BABE RUTH CANCELS TRIP
AT REQUEST OF OFFICIALS
NEW YORK. Oct. 25—Babe Ruth
has abandoned his barnstorming trip
and expresses regret that he violated
the rules of organized baseball by
engaging in post-season exhibitions.
Abandonment of the trip is an
nounced by Cole L. Huston, part
owners of the Yankees, who has
just arrived here from Scranton.
The announcement has been con
firmed by Ruth, according to press
dispatches received from Scranton.
GENERAL PASSES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 25
Major General William M. Wother
spoon, retired, former chief of staff
and head of the war college, died
here on Saturday, victim of heart
trouble.
SAND JOINS HIGH COURT
SALEM, Ore., Oct. 25—Govern
or Olcott has appointed John L.
Sand, of Bayer, a member of the
i Oregon state supreme court, suc
ceeding Justice Harry L. Benson,
deceased.
TRAIN HITS AUTO—FOUR DIE
CHICAGO. Oct. 22—Four Uni
versity of Chicago students who
were motoring to Princeton for the
Chicago-Princeton football game to
day. met death yesterday when their
car was struck by a train.
CHICAGO. Oct. 22— C. J. Hjy-»o
president f the VmalgiiateJ ’ eat
Cutters & Butchers oisoti tior an
nounced this afternoon tlat the or
ganization has voted to strike. The
vote showed 35,000 in favor the
the walkout, with only 3.000 opposed
to it.
ALASKAN INVENTS NEW
STREET CAR APPROACH
Louis Dufek, formerly of Belling
ham and resident of Alaska for the
past lf» months, and now in Ketchi
kan recently received the sixth pat
ent of an invention of his. an im
provement on the approaehways to
street car platforms.
Probably inspired by the latest
styles, Mr. Dufek conceived the idea
of a sort of gangway to take the
place of those two or three extreme
ly long steps by which passengers
enter street cars. The gangway or
approach can be let down to the!
street and access to the platform is
much easier for passengers, especial
ly fat people and ladies encumbered
with packages or a bird cage, or
wearing a hobble skirt.
It is said that wherever used, the
new invention will greatly increase
the numbers riding on street cars,
even in this day of the jitney bus.
the short skirt and the rolled stock
ings.
The Moody Mining company
dredge in the Casadepaga section,
has been purchased by the Walters
and O’Brien Mining company* and
will be operated by that concern in
the future. $
J. S. Barker, a representative of
the new owners, arrived at Nome re
cently on the Victoria from Marys
ville, California, and will carry* on
development work on the properties
controlled by* the company* in the
Casa section during the present sea
son. Considerable systematic drill
ing has already been done with a
view to extensive dredging opera
tions next summer.
CHICAGO, Oct. 25—With the ex-|
ecutives of the five big brotherhoods
cited to appear before the Railroad!
Labor Board, for a further confer-:
ence, and with the members of the,
Federated Shop Craftes, numbering
600,000, standing solidly against the
proposed strike, the railroad situa-;
tion apears to be somewhat relieved ‘
today.
The decision reached by the shop J
crafts workers is that they remain
at work pending the decision of the
railroad board on the question of i
wages and working rules. The shop
crafts is officially known as the rail
way department of the American
Federation of Labor and is said to
control more workers than any other
individual union.
The action of this organization,
! is said to bind the American Federa
i tion against any action in support
1 of the strike, should one develop.
Southern Trains Tied Up
SAN TOXIO, Oct. 25—Without
waiting for the big brotherhoods to
get into action, and in spite of the
| order of the Railroad Labor Board
| directing the unions to preserve
status quo pending the outcome of
! this week's conference, two hundred
and fifty switchmen in the employ of
: the International & Great Northern
railroad went- out on strike late last
| week and are still out. They have j
WORLD'S LARGEST STEAMSHIP 1
READY SOON FOR SERVICE {
NEW YORK—Oct. 1.—Announce-1
ment that the world’s largest ship, J
the Majestic, will be ready for serv
ice between New York and South
ampton next spring directs attention
to the facilities for docking the j
great ship at her pier on her ar
rival at New Yo rk and the methods i
to be employed in doing so.
When the largest of the present i
ocean liners came out. just before
the war, it was necessary to extend
the piers at New York where they
are docked, to protect their long i
hulls from traffic passing up and;
down the Hudson river. The extend
ed piers will be a very tight fit in
deed for the Majestic, while the task
of getting her into her berth will
present as big a job as the docking !
experts employed by the steamship
companies at New York ha ve yet
encountered.
New Y’ork is perhaps the hardest
port in the world in whi ch to dock
a great ocean liner, from the fact
that it is the only one where thej
docks are at right angles to a river j
in which strong tides flow regularly.
A ship's captain is usually pic
tured as experiencing his greatest
worries when his vessel is at sea i
buffeted by wind and storm. As a
matter of fact on modern liners i
storms are small concern compared
to his anxiety when he enters a port i
and finds his ship hampered by lack!
of sea room—of space to navigate, i
In harbor he is confined to a1
since been joined by 150 brother-1
hood trainmen at Houston, and (
armed guards are now on duty at'
the yards there to protect the prop
erty of the company in case of
trouble.
Officials of the company have an
nouncde that it is not their inten
tion to employ strikebreakers, but
they intend to employ other means
to keep their passenger trains in
motion. Xo freight is being handled.
Union leaders declared today that
the tie-up now is 100 per cent effect
ive. and that no trouble of any sort
has occurred between the strikers
and railroad offiicials.
Telegraphers Ready To Strike
CHICAGO. Oct. 25—The Railroad
Telegraphers have voted to go out
with the brotherhoods in case the
strike takes place.
Brotherhood officials, in answer to
questions relative t o the causes
leading up to the strike vote, an
nounced today that the action of
the railroad workers was provoked
by a desire on the pan of the raib
roads, not only to reduce wages, but
also to change working rules and
conditions in such a manner as to
put the workers back where they
were years ago. It is also claimed
that the railroad board has discrim
inated in favor of the railroads in
most of its decisions.
channel, oftitnes one in which he
could not turn around. His speed
is limited to bare steerage way. He
must avoid striking passing craft or
getting too far to one side from the
deepened channel.
Opposite his dock, which in New
York appears like openings between
the teeth of a huge comb, he must
come to a stop and swing *he bulk
beneath him crosswise to the flowing
tide, hold it there, and nose his way
into one of the openings.
Not daring to make use of the
ship’s own tremendous power by rea
son of lack of room, from a dozen
to as high as 20 tugs are use 1 in
swinging into their docks such big
vessels as the Olympic, the Maure
tania. or the big 912-foot, 56,000
ton Majestic.
Indicating what damage might re
sult if one of the big liners should
bump into a pier or a passing craft,
a marine engineer recently estimat
ed that when moving at the rate of
five miles an hour, about as fast
as a man would walk, a blow equal j
to that of 14,400 runabout automo-1
biles acting simultaneously would be
inflicted. Those who have seen the |
results of a crash of a single car
can visualize the collective result.
The technically inclined are in
formed by the engineer that the
measure of actual energy required!
to stop the ship at a five-mile speed j
in one second is 158,867,360 foot j
pounds, or a force equal to 288,52
horsepower acting thru one second.
As soon as the ship is within
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heaving-line distance of the pier,
hawsers, or big ropes measuring 12
inches in circumference and tested
to a strain of 131,000 pounds are
made fast. Attached to the ship’s
winches a slow careful strain is put
upon them. The strain is carefully
watched for if the tensile strength
be exceeded they would snap like
a thread. If the tide pressure too
great ofttimes the ship will swing
up broadside to a pier head then
with aid of tug power, winch power
pulling on lines and an occasional
turn of the ships screw, the long
hull will be swung around slid eased
into the berth by inches.
Once within the slip the vessel is
eased along the dock with the a d of
spring lines, or hawsers running
from forward and aft plavir.g over
strong clutches or butts on the pier
amidship the vessel. When one of
the 900-footers is docked her bow is
so close to the pier head that it can
almost be touched. Her stern is nro
tected from passing river craft by
the bulkheads built cut into the
river.
“All fast sir.” th_- mates forward
and aft and the officers amidship re
port.
The bell in the engine room
jingles to advise the force below
that the anxious moment is ended.
A sharp quick blast of the > histle
which seems to echo th? captain’s . r
pilot's involuntary sigh of elief, the
gangway is run up. and . i other coy
age is ended.
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ENGLAND DENIES REPORT
LONDON, Oct. 25—Officials of
the British admiralty have branded
as “pure imagination” reports to
the effect that Great Britain is
planning the establishment of naval
bases in the Bermudas. Singapore
or elsewhere.
RICH COPPER GLANCE
FIND IS REPORTED
J. E. Barrett, who for a number
of years has been operating the
Green Group of copper claims which
lie across the canyon of McCarthy
creek from the famous Mother Lode
mine, has struck the pay streak,
says the Cordova Times. Fur a num
ber of years M. Barrett has been
running tunnels and drifts on the
limestone-greenstone contact in the
endeavor to locate the extension
of the rich glance deposits known
to exist on the Mother Lode. Re
cently a small stringer of high grade
which was being followed, opened
up into a lens of solid glance and
azuriae of such size as to warrant
the expectation that the Green
Group will soon be placed in the
class of shippers. Mr. Barrett’s dis
covery is especially fortunate in that
it will undoubtedly result in a re
newed activity in a argearea hith
erto undeveloped.
Altho not finding a big body of
coal for which they were seeking,
Lockie MacKinnon and J. W. Wil
liams had a fine trip to the west
side of Admiralty Island on the gas
boat Tillieum, Captain Charles Ben
der, says a recent issue of the Ju
neau Empire.
In speaking of the prospects of
finding coal on Admiralty Island,
Mr. ’Williams, who is a coal expert,
said that no large veins would ever
be found there as the formation is
not right. He and Mr. MacKinnon
found many small veins, but none •
large enough for developing.
It was very wet in the woods all
the time the men were out, they
■laid, with but one clear day. They
daimed to have enjoyed themselves
looking over the country
STEAMER ALAMEDA AGROUND
CN VOYAGE SOUTH SATURDAY
SEWARD, Oct. 25—The steamer
Alameda, of the Alaska Steamship
Company, which left here on Sat
urday for Seattle, is reported to
have pone on the rocks a short dis
tance southeast of this city.
The extent of the damage is not
known here, but all of the passen
gers are said to be safe.
MINISTER IS ACQUITTED
OF CHARGE OF MURDER
BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 25—Rev H.
R. Stephenson. Methodist minister
who was tried on a charge of second
degTee murder in connection with
the killing of Father J. W. Coyle,
was found not guilty on Saturday
The killing occurred during a
quarrel between the two men of
cloth over a marriage ceremony
performed by the priest., between
Stephenson's daughter and an al
leged Porto Rican. Self defense was
claimed.
COST OF LIVING RECEDING
BUT PROGRESS IS SLOW
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Oct. 25—
Based on statistics received from 32
cities in all parts of the country,
a statement has been issued by the
Bureau of Statistics which shows
the cost of living has decreased 1.7
per cent from last May to Septem
ber, and 18.1 from the first of July
last year to September. 1921
Living costs are still abnormal,
however, for the figures show that
prices are now 77.3 per cent higher
than the average for 1913.
TRYING TO SAVE ITALIANS
HAVRE. Oct. 25—After having
called a meeting for the purpose of
protesting against the conviction of
Sacco and Vanzetti, in the United
States, local communists tried to
organize a demonstration in front
of the American consulate. But at
about that time the police appeared
on the scene and scattered the mob.
A number of the communists and
peace officers were injured while
the scattering was in progress.
GET OUT THE OLDEST ONES;
HARD TIMES DANCE COMING
It is not often that hard times
and good times go arm in arm, but
just tftat little thing is going to
happen on Saturday night. at Union
hall, but on that evening the danc
ers of Nenana are promised an un
usually good time at a Hard Time=
dance. At any rate, those responsible
for the affair say those attending
will not have a hard time haying .
good time.
To insure the success of the hop.
everyone is urged to make it look
like a hard times gathering, even if
it is not. Dancers are also reminded
that Hallowe'en is only a day or
two aw-ay from the dar.ee—close
enough to add materially to the
enjoyment of the evening.
Music for the dance will be pro
vided by the Berggren orchestra.
BOB SOMMERS LEASES HOTEL;
WILL JOIN BENEDICTS SOON
Robert J. Sommers, who recently
retired as surveyor genera! of the
lerntory and who, prior to moving
:o Juneau, was attached to the
Alaska Road Commission with head
juarters at Fairbanks, has leased
he popular Gastinau hotel, at Jun
■au, for a term of years, and wall
eside permanently in the territorial
apital.
Of additional interest to the many
riends of Mr. Sommers in Interior
Vlaska is the announcement that he
dans shortly to join the ranks of
he benedicts, his bride-to-be being
diss Esther Nixon, sister of Mrs.
K. B. Phillips, of Xenana. The mar
iage will take place at the home
if Miss Xixon, in Minnesota.