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THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA. TUESDAY. JULY 26. 192J
NUMBER 48
PAPERS DISAPPEAR IN BASEBALL CASE
NOR THERNERS MAKE GOOD SHO WING ON INCOME
COPPER OUTPUT BOOSTS ALASKA’S 1920 PRODUCTION
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1920 MINERAL PRODUCTION
OF ALASKA SHOWS GAIN
WASHINGTON, D C., July 26—
The mineral production of Alaska
for the year 1920, amounting to
$23,303,000, showed an advance of
more than $3,500,000 over the pre
ceding year, according to a Geologi
cal Survey summary.
The gain was due entirely to an
Increase in the copper output, which
advanced from $8,783,000 to $12,
960,000, although only eight copper
mines were operated during the
year as against eleven the year be
fore.
Gold production fell off more than
a million for the year.
The following figures are given
for the year: Gold, $8,365,000; cop
per, $12,960,000; silver, $1,039,999
coal, $355,000; tin, $16,000; lead,
$140,000; platinum minerals. $160,
000; petroleum, marble, gypsum and
other minerals, $266,000.
The total value of the mineral
output of Alaska during the forty
years of mining is $461,474,789.
YELLOW FEVER AT TAMPICO
*► GALVESTON, July 26—As a re
suit of the development of yellow
fever at Tampico, Mexico, all ships
from that port are to be detained
in quarantine for a period of sii
days after fumigation.
STEAMER GROUNDS
MONTREAL, July 26—The steam
er St. Louis grounded on the rocks
in the St. Lawrence river yesterday
1 and is in a perilous position. Th<
passengers were taken ashore ir
lifeboats.
YANK WINS BIG AUTO RACE
LEMANS, France, July 26—Jim
my Murphy, of America, -won thf
Grand Prize automobile race inert
yesterday, -with Ralph Depalma, ir
second place, and Goux, of France
third.
CLAIRE HUNT GETS POST
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 26
President Harding has nominated
Claire Hunt, former Indian agent, ol
Colville, to be surveyof general ol
the state of Washington, succeeding
A. P. Fitzhenry.
KING OF THE COWBOYS
CHICAGO, July 26—Tommy Kir
man, of ElPaso, has won the title
of best all-around cowboy in Ameri
ca. as the result of his splendid
showing during the second annua
cowboy gathering here.
TRAIN GOES OVER THE BANK
ST. JOSEFH, Mo, July 26—A
locomotive and e-ght cars, part ol
£ a B. & Q. stock train, plunged ovei
an embankment and into the Mis
souri river yesterday, north of Kan
sas City. Three members of th<
train crew were drowned.
SHIPPING BOARD LOSES
NEW YORK, July 26—A tempo
rary injunction was issued yesterday
by the state sujreme court, re
straining the United States Shipping
Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation
and the United Ame :can Line front
interfering with the < deration seized
on Friday from the United States
Mail Steamship company for alleged
arrearages in rentals.
U. Banana, the uatewey to KcXinJey
Rational Park.
PLAYERS’ CONFESSIONS GONE;
NEW SCANDALS DEVELOPING
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SECRETARY FALL HAS PLAN
FOR ALASKA DEVELOPMENT
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SEATTLE, July 26—The Wash
ington correspondent of the Seattle
j Post-Intelligencer is authority for
| the statement that there are at pres
■ ent three bills, embodying separate
! and distinct plans for the govern
! ment of Alaska, pending before the
senate and house committees on ter
ritories.
The correspondent states that Sec
retary of the Interior is the latest to
send a tentative measure to the
committee, his plan being to vest in
his department all functions pertain
ing to the “cause of development
and the use of natural resources in
Alaska, and construction work for
the benefit of the territory where the
major portions of such functions are
fixed by law.”
Secretary Fall is willing that func
tions of a scientific or technical
I nature remain in the departments
i of commerce and agriculture and
| other departments charged with the
j administration of such matters.
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DIPLOMAT SAYS EUROPE
GETTING BACK TO PEACE
TACOMA, July 26—Europe is ex
tinguishing the firebrands of war
rapidly and is now ready to grap
ple with the problems of peace, ac
cording to a statement made here
yesterday by former Ambassador
Wallace, who has just arrived from
the other side of the Atlantic.
The diplomat says that France is
already down to hard work and s
in the best condition of any of the
continental nations.
Referring to Germany, he stated
that German workers receive as
wages only a tenth of that of Ameri
can workers, and Germany, there
fore, can undersell American manu
facturers.
MANY ARE NATURALIZED
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 26—
A total of 29,201 aliens were nd
j mitted to citizenship during the
| month of June, according to figures
! which have Just been made public,
i Germans head the list with a total
I of 6,453, Austrians are second with
14,000; Italians, 3,500; British sub
! jects, 3,300.
PRESIDENT TAKES OUTING
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 26
President Harding spent Sunday in
the woods, with Harvey Firestone,
j Henry Ford and Thomas Edison. He
J joined the camping party on Satur
day and returned to the capital
early yesterday.
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ALBERTA COUPLE DISAPPEAR
BANFF, Alberta, July 26—Dr. W.
H. Stone, president of the Purdue
university, and Mrs. Stone are be
lieved to have lost their way in the
nearby mountains. They left here
for a hike on July 17 and have not
yet returned. A searching party has
taken the trail to ascertain what has
become of them.
CHICAGO. July 26—A new base
: ball scandal is taking form as the
attorneys for the state and agents
' continue their frantic efforts to
i find important papers in connection !
with the trial of those implicated in ■
I the baseball trials now in progress!
here. The papers, which have disap
peared completely, include the im
munity waivers and confessions
j which were signed before the grand
■ jury by Cicotte, Williams and Jack
| son.
Information in the hands of the
state’s attorney indicate that a New
tYork gambler paid $10,000 for the
papers shortly after they had been
stolen, and another development is
, the announcement that a signed
j statement made by’ Williams before
S Alfred Austrian, attorney for the
White Sox club, has disappeared
I from the home of the attorney.
( Judge Hugo Friend has ruled that j
the confessions made by the in- !
HOOVER IS TRYING TO HELP
STARVING OF RED RUSSIA
RIGA, July 26—The letter of Sec
1 retary of Commerce Hoover explain
ing the terms and conditions under
which American relief will be pro
vided for the starving and sick of
Soviet Russia, has been forwarded
to Moscow, and the opinion is ex
pressed that the offer will be ac
cepted on the conditions named. It
is not known here what the plans.
or terms are.
WORKER BRAVES DANGERS
OF FIRE TO TURN VALVE
MEXICO CITY, July 26—Protect
ed by a shield made of asbestos, a
laborer in the Amatlan oil fields
approached within a few yards of a
blazing well yesterday and almost
succeeded in closing a valve control
ling the flow of oil. The well has
been on fire for more than a week.
CHINA OUTLINES DESIRES
FOR FUTURE GUIDANCE
PEKING, July 26—Foreign Min
ister Yen, in a discussion of the pro- i
posed disarmament conference, said
j today that “China does not plan to
j enter the conference with the pri
! mary intention of bringing up any
j questions involving her relations
j with individual nations, but will seek
to have worked out general prin
ciples which can be applied to in-1
dividual problems in the future
course of Pacific affairs.’’
TEXAS MAN FOUND DEAD
KINGMAN, Texas, July 26—The
body of Lem Smith, of Brownwood,
Texas, was found on the road near1
here this morning, with a bullet hole
in the back of his head. He passed
through town yesterday in an auto
mobile with a man named West,;
and said he was enroute to Tacoma.
He had $55 when he left here but
no money was found in his clothes
when he was found on the road.
West is missing.
Xcm.ua, Alaska's Interior Fuel l'epst
dieted ball players before the grand '
jury are admissable as evidence. He
informed the state’s attorney, how
ever, that if further evidence is pre
sented to show that the confessions
were not made voluntarily, the jury
will be instructed to disregard them
as evidence.
Cicotte, Williams and Jackson
were called yesterday and told how
how they had confessed to the spe
cial grand jury. Each declared that
his confession had been made only
after he had been promised that
the confessions would never be used
against them, that they were wanted
only so that the “gamblers might1
be trampled under foot.”
Say« Zork Started It
Harry Redmon, of East St. Louis,
testified yesterday that Cary Zork
had declared, during the 1919 World
series that he started the alleged
gamble.
DOCTOR DISCOVERS SERUM
TO RESTORE SlGhT TO BLIND ;
NEW YORK, July 26- -Dr Eras ^
mus Pond, a Brooklyn specialist,
claims to have di-stovered a serum
which will cure blindness caused by
atrophy. He claims to have cured
nine such cases and will demonstrate
its use before the Academy of Medi- j
cine and the American Medical As- i
sociation shortly, and he plans later
to make the formula public.
The doctor says the serum can-;
not cure blindness caused by acci-1
dent and it is necessary for success-;
ful treatment that there be slight1
sight left the patient.
BERGDOLL HEARING HALTED
WHEN WITNESS PASSES LIE
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 26—'
The Bergdoll case was halted sud-.
denly on Saturday when Charles
Braun, a witness, called Represent
ative Johnson, of Kentucky, a liar.'
The Southern Congressman, who is
a member of the investigating com
mittee, resented the insult and made
for the witness, whereupon others
stepped in and the hearing came to
an end for the time being.
Braun is a brother of the Berg
doll boy, having changed his name
after the family had become un
popular.
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NEW DRY OFFICER NAMED
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 26—
The internal revenue bureau h3s •
announced the appointment of Roy
C. Lyle to be federal prohibition di
rector for Washington and Alaska, i
succeeding McDonald.
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HARDING TAKES VACATION
WASHINGTON, D. C , July 26
President Harding plans to take a
vacation trip of several days in the
White mountains of New Hamp- j
shire, following his attendance on!
Monday at the Pilgrim Tercenten-i
ary celebration. He will be a guest
of Secretary Weeks.
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Sanaa*, Where Kalla and Unn Meet
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GOVERNOR OF WASHINGTON
EXPLAINS AUTO PURCHASE
OLYMPIA, July 26—-In an ad- l
dress delivered before the state bar!
association yesterday, Governor Hart1
took cognizance of the newspaper j
criticisms which are said to have ;
current for weeks concerning his ad
ministration. I
Replying to the charge that he 1
purchased an automobile at state
expense, after he had pledged him-1
self to a program of economy, the
governor declared that the legisla-1
ture had provided the funds for the
purchase as an economic factor in
carrying on the business of the
state.
WHITE HANGED IN SOUTH
HATTIESBURG, July 26—Casey
Jones, a white man who was recent
ly convicted on the charge of kill-!
ing a white woman but whose case
was pending on appeal, was taken
from the local jail by a mob on
Saturday and hrnged.
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GRANGER SAYS CAPITALISTS
ARE IN CONTROL OF NATION
FREDOXIA, N. Y., July 26—S. J
Lowell, master of the National
Grange, has suspended President
William Bouck, of the Washington
State Grange, for alleged radical
utterances at the state convention
held at Coleville in June.
Bouck is said to have declared,
in an address delivered by him, that
“the farmers are in politics until
they are emancipated.” He is also
quoted as saying “the shops and
mines are a shambles”, and that the
“United States is in the control of
dollar-ocracy, more relentless than
any autocracy the world has ever
known.”
JAPANESE CABINET DECIDES
TO ACCEPT U. S. INVITATION
TOKIO, July 26—The Japanes
cabinet has decided to accept the in
vitation of the United States to par
ticipate in the proposed Far East
ern conference, according to infor
mation obtained this afternoon by a
representative of The Associated
Press.
May Object To Washington
LONDON, July 26—It is expect
ed that Great Britain and Japan will
express a desire to hold the Far
Eastern conference in some other
city than Washington, or in a Can
adian city.
It has been learned here that an-'
Bouncement of Japan’s acceptance of
the American invitation can be ex- j
peeted this week, and it expected
that the suggestion -will be made that
the conference be held on the Pacific
coast.
KELL'V BATTING STRONG
PITTSBURG, July 26 -George
Kelly, of the Giants, made his 17‘h
home run htr_> today, in the seventh
inning against Pittsburg.
ALASKANS AVERAGE HIGH
IN MONEY DISTRIBUTION
SEATTLE. July 26—A Washing
ton special to the Seattle Times says
that individual wealth is more evenly
distributed in Alaska than in any
part of the United States and, with
the exception of the District of Col
umbia, Alaskans had a larger income
income last year than the residents
of any other section of the country.
These facts have been disclosed
in the preliminary report on income
statistics compiled by the bureau of
internal revenue. With a record of
17.17 per cent of the population
filing returns and with an average
net income of $343.58, Alaskans
did better on the whole than the
people of any other setion of the
United States with the exception of
the District of Columbia.
The state of Washington shows an
average net income of $240 ami
Oregon $212.00
FIRE THREATENS LINER
LONDON, July 26—A fire which
is believed to be of a threatening
character, has broken out aboard the
Cunard liner Mauretania, which is
docked at Southampton.
IRISH CABINET CONSIDERING
DUBLIN, July 26—President De
valera and the members of his cabi
net have begun the consideration of
the British peace proposals, the first
session having been held yesterday.
AMERICAN STEAMER SINKS
LONDON, July 26—The Ameri
can steamer Parthian, enroute from
Alexandria to Hamburg, was sunk
in the port of Oran, on the west
coast of Algeria, recently, as a result
of fire. The crew escaped.
HARDING ASKS CONGRESS
TO EXTEND AUTHORITY
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 26—
Addressing the members of Congress
in a special message which was read
to tile lawmakers this afternoon.
President Harding requests an ex
tension of authority for the war
finance corporation to purchase se
surities probably up to five hundred
million dollars, now in the hands of
the railway administration, so that
the proceeds may be used for the
purpose of making settlement with
the railroads.
This action, the President said,
would open the way to the early ad
justment for the relief of tine rail
way problem. He said that he had
no thought of asking Congress for
additional money.
Railroad Want* A Loan
The Great Northern Railroad com
pany, throught the Interstate Com
merce Commission, has asked for a
Government loan of $15,000,000 to
repay a similar loan made at the
close of Government control of the
railroads of the country.
WOOD MAY RECONSIDER
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 26—
Intimation have reached the admin
istration that General Leonard Wood
might be willing to reconsider his
previous decision against acceptance
af the governor generalship of the
Philippines. He is said to be in a re
ceptive mood now.
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