$7,955.25 Last yeor-WRERE ERE ICE HER GROWS-$10,000 This Year
THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS NENANA. VlASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE, 5, 1923.
NUMBER 460
SHRINERS ARE MEETING AT WASHINGTON
SOVIET REGIME IN
SIBERIA SELLING
BONDS BY LOTTERY
VLADIVOSTOK. June 6—The
commissar of the people’s finances
has permitted the issue of 20,000.
000 roubles in new bank notes.
The face value of the bank notes
will be 1,000, 2,500, and 5,000
roubles. These notes will be guar
anteed by the gold reserve of the
district, and it is hoped that in this
way the circulation of the Japan
ese yen will be curtailed.
The government is trying to raise
a new internal loan in gold rubles
but so far it has not been met with
much success. The loan is in the
form of a lottery, and prizes will
be given from the accumulated in
terest of the bonds, which bear
6 percent. In order (to sell these
bonds the government is offering
them on the instalment plan.
COAL SHORTAGE IN RUHR
BENEFITS CARDIFF DEALERS
CARDIFF, Wales, June 2—Car
diff has profited enormously by the
stoppage of coal shipments in the
Ruhr Valley. Hundreds of thousands
of tons of coal have been sent to
French and other European ports
which might otherwise have been
sent from the Ruhr mines.
Some British coal merchants have
proved that it is practicable to ship
coal from Cardiff to Eastern Canada
and undershell there coal from Pen
sylvania. This is a new avenue of
trade which Cardiff’s thrifty coal
traders are developing. The fore
sight behind it is emphasized by the
fact that those directing the opera
tions have bought large timber
tracks in Canada so as to ship crops
for coal mines as return cargoes.
Wood pulp and grain are also be
ing carried on the homeward journ
ey, thus avoiding any profitless voy
ages in uneconomic ballast.
DANZIG REPORTS PROSPERITY
Danzig June 2—Unlimited free
dom of trade and a favorable geo
praphical location are spelling pros
perity for the Free State of Dan
zig says the first annual report of
the Danzig Credit Bank. This in
stitution, founded 15 months ago,
already records a total turn-over
of 64,500,000,000 German marks
and a net profit of 48,400,000 out
of which a 40 percent dividend has
been declared.
SWISS PEOPLE TO VOTE
ON PROHIBITION QUESTION
LAUSANNE, June 2—Inspired by
American prohibition, the prohibi
tionists of Switzerland are engaged
in a campaign to reduce the con
sumption of strong alcholic drinks,
and on June 3 the people them
selves by a referendum will decide
the issue. — •
The private distilling of alcohol
has increased so rapidly in recent
years and the drinking of pure
dregs of distilled liquor, which is
given the popular name of
“Sehnaps” has become so wide
spread among the masses that the
authorities have become alarmed.
The medical profession has launched
a movement for federal intervention
and control.
The consumption of alcoholic
drinks in Switzerland has reached
■the figure of a billion francs an
' nually for a population of four
millions. The 1919 federation of
I Swiss physicians urged the govern
! ment to interdict the manufacture
! importation and sale of all dis
tilled beverages. This was held to
be too radical, but the campaign
now has been vigorously reopened
in order to obtain at least partial
prohibition.
The manufacture of alcohol is a
state monopoly in Switzerland, and
j the government leases the right of
i distillation, to private companies.
The proposed law. which parlia
' ment has already adopted, aims at a
j double object, the protection of the
monopoly by the curbing of private
! distilling, and the reduction of op
jportunities for the consumption of
i
1 alcohol. The local crusaders are col
! iecting statistics of the good effects
I of prohibition in America to induce
! voter to suppport the bill.
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LONDON, June 5—Gre-at Britain
is building- a super-power airplane
of 600 horsepower which will at
tempt to break the world’s record
this summer. It will be capable of
a speed of 250 miles an hour, and
! will take part in the Aerial Derby
and the race round Britain for the
, King’s Cup. Later it will go to
France and contend for the Gordon
Bennett Cup. It will be christened
Mars XIV. i
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At the same time British design
ers are completing one of the larg
i est flying-boats in the world. It is
fitted with four engines of a com
i bined horspower of 2,800. The new
, flying-boat has a hull of triple thick
. ness and is capable of cruising as a
surface craft for long distances
UNCLE SAM MAKES MONEY
ON OLD SHIP BARGAIN SALE
MANILA. June 2—The United
States army made more than $22,
000 on the sale of four army ves
sels during the week by refusing
first bids and advertising a second
time.
The old transport, Liscum. which
was sold to a lumber company,
brought $43,792, while the first bid 1
was only $30,170. The tugs General
Weeks and General Lawton and a
quartermaster scow brought a total
of $28,000, as a result of the se
cond advertisement for bids, which
brought approximately $10,000
more than the first bids. The sale
of these vessels was a final clean
up of salvaged materia! in the Phil
ipines department.
Final approval of the sale must
be made by the war department at
Washington, but officers of the sal
vage division here believe the fig
ures will be accepted.
MATCH IN CHILD’S HANDS
LAYS WASTE TO VILLAGE
—
CAANAN, N. H., June 5—The
fire which swept this town on Satur
day with the destruction of 42
buildings, two deaths and a pro
perty loss of half a million dollars
was started by a four-year-old boy
playing with mfatches in a barn.
FARM LABOR FOR FRANCE
PRAGUE, June 5—Czechoslo
vakia will send this summer 15,000
field laborers to France to work on
French farms.
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WASHINGTON, June 5—Wash
ington is ready for the Shrine Con- i
vention which will commence here
today and continue until Thursday.
With the cooperation of the Gov- <
ernment, housing and feeding ac
comodations for four hundred thou
sand guests are provided. The city
is elaborately decorated; Pennsyl
vania Avenue is a veritable bower 1
of fifty thousand electric lights. The 1
“Garden of Allah,” that stretch of !
wide street in front of the White
House between Fifteenth and Seven
teenth Streets, is filled with stands,
with huge pillars, with sphinxes,
with gay colors, with electriot lights
Parking arrangements for thousands
of Pullman cars and any quantity
of utomobiles have been made. Hun
dreds of guides have been assigned '
the various Shrine units which have ‘
come. The three massive parades
are planned to the last details. Hun
dreds of band concerts have been
scheduled, with especial reference to j
the Government’s Hospitals, that j
soldiers and sailors who can not! '
come to see the “big doings,” can j
yet hear something of the music of i
the convention.
Washington, accustomed to being
host to great throngs from her four
yearly inauguration display, looks |
confidently forward to providing
fun, frolic, and hospitality <to the
greatest throng of Americans which 1
ever visited her at one time, and ;
hopes to show them not only a good ,
time but to provide all with such <
knowledge of the Government math- <
inery and such appreciation of the .
real working of “Uncle Sam” as ,
will make all the visitors better in- «
formed, and therefore, more enthu- ;
siascie Americans.
President Delivers Addresses
President Harding delivered two
addresses yesterday at ceremonies
incident to the opening of .the con
vention. Speaking at the dedication
of the “Zero Milestone,” the Presi
dent declared that the nation, hav
ing developed a system of main
roads, “must now recognize its ob
ligation to modernizing the more re
mote sections of the country by e
conomic conditions.”
In the second address, delivered
at the dedication of the reproduc
tion of the boyhood home of John
Barton Payne, author of “Home,
Sweet Home,” at Patomic Park,
said: “We are going to have such
advance in machanical appurtances
F1RPO-WILLARD CONTEST
POSTPONED TO JULY 12
NEW YORK, June 5—The Firpo
Willard fight, which was originally
scheduled for July 7, has been post-'
poned to July 12, on whch date it
will be staged on Boyles Thirty
Acres, New Jersey. The date -was
changed for the reason that many
fans plan to see the Dempsey-Gib
bons battle at Shelby on July 4,
also desire to see the Firpoo-Willaro
bout.
Jack McAuliffe and Floyd John
son will appear in a semi-final.
BANDIT SITUATION SAME
FOREIGNERS STILL HELD
TSOACHW'ANG June 5—The ne
gotiations for the release of the!
eight foriegners still held by the
Chinese bandits are being hampreed
bydissensions both among the outlaw
leaders and Chinese Government re
presentativse. Bandits showed tru
culence by ordering Father Pottee
the medcal missionary who has been
attending bandits to leave Paotzuku
The internal military commission
which has been examining the sit
uation are returning to Peking to-1
day. i
EMPLOYES WANT HOSPITAL
MAY TALK TO CONGRESSMEN
Local employes of the Alaska
Railroad who feel that they have
been exposed to needless risk by
the closing of the Nenana hospital
and the transfer of Dr. Romig to
Fairbanks, are considering the ad
visability of placing the hospital
matter before the members of the
Congressional party upon the arrival
of the special train from the coast
this week. The movement has not
yet taken definite form, but there
is considerable talk going on and
seentimnt is strongly in favor of
formulatng some sort of an appeal
for the reopeing of the hospital.
ARBUCKLE COMES BACK
CHICAGO, June 5—Roscoe “Fat
ty” Arbuckle made his first public
appearance since his trial here to
night. The Summer Garden was
packed to the doors and he was giv
en a tremendous reception. The
aisles and foyer of the theatre were
lined with flowers from friends and
telegrams of congratulations from
all parts of the world were tacked
on the bulletin board for all to
read.
n die home as will represent real
“mancipation for women.” He ad
led that with emancipation women
vould be seen “taking a new, larg
•r and vastly more significant part”
n the great activities of life.
President is Member
The Shrine includes among its
nembership, President Harding, two
nembers of his cabinet, several
renerals and admirals, twenty-nine
Jnited States senators and Ninety
wo Congressmeen.
Nearly a hundred temples have
irought their bands and among the
mique features of the celebration
will be a massed band concert by
l total of over six thousand instru
nents, under the baton of Noble
rohn Philip Sousa and Noble Wil
iam C. White, head of -the Army
>chool of Music. Both of these
lobles have written marches dedi
ated to the occasion.
James S. McCandless, of Honolu
u, is imperial potentate of the
shrine and he will be succeeded
lutomatically by Imperial Deputy
’otentate Conrad V. Dykeman, of
Irooklyn. By advancement in this
nanner the contest at the annual
invention centers on the lower of
ice.
Fraternity is Safeguard
Addressing the imperial council
oday, Presideent Harding declared
hat justice alone entitles a frater
lal organization to survive. “A se
ret frternity is one thing”, he
aid. “and a secret conspiracy is
nother.” I like the highly purpose
d fraternity because it is our as
urance against menacing organi
ations. So long as twenty million
imercans are teaching loyalty to
he flag, eherishment of our inher
ted institutions and due regard for
onstitutional authority and love of
iberty under the law, we may be as
ured the future is secure.”
Shrinen Hold Big Parade
Twenty thousand Shriners march
d down over “Golden Sands” Pen
ylvania avenue to Washington cir
le passed thro “Garden of Allah”
n front of White House. They were
eviewed by President Harding. Im
erial Potentate McCandless headed
h parade whch was one of the main
eatures of the 49th annual con
ention which opened today.
The weather was unusually ho:
nd quite a number of heat prostra
ions were reported.
4-Ll-JL
schools, public and private, with an
approximate enrollment of 1.160,
000, according to the bureau of edu
cation and the superintendent of
private schools. It is estimated that
the Philippines have a population
of 2,500.000 children of school age
Public schools alone number 7,
641 and attendance reached a total
of 1,094,472 during the last year
while private schools number 532 ami
have an enrollment of 64,835.
Eighty-five percent of the private
schools in the Philippines are reli
gious institutions, and only 15 per
cent secular. Seventy-seven percent
of the religious private schools are
Catholic, while the remaining eight
percent are Protestant.
I The public school system, in
which English is taught, includes
! 24,878 teachers, 341 of whom arc
Americans
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i LONDON, June 5-—More persons
are killed by traffic accidents in
; the streets of London in a year than
passengers on the whole of the rail
ways in Great Britain in a similar
| period. During the last year 505
persons in London were killed by
automobiles and motor trucks 63
by motor omnibuses, 59 by horse
power vehicles, 35 by trolley cars,
and 22 by bicyles.
The major number of accidents
J do not occur at congested points.
! such as Trafalgar Spuare, Oxford
j Circus, or the Bank, where traffic
; is specially regulated.
They take place more frequently
in the main arteries toward the
' outer suburbs, where motor drivers
! are inclined to be less careful in
| negotiating crossings and corners,
and where pedestrians, particularly
children, are less vigilant in cross
ing roads.
U. S. SMOKED 173,317,000
PHILIPPINE CIGARS IN 1922
Manila, June 2—Total exports of
■ tobacca from the Philippine Islands
,during the year 1922 amounted to
| S8,670.000, compared with $8,282,
! 000 in 1921. according to figures
‘obtained from the bureau of cus
] toms..
The great bulk of the tobacco ex
ports were in the form of cigars,
which numbered 300,484,824, and
were valued at $5,800,000. Of the
cigar exports, the ^United States
| took 173,317,045, or more than
j fifty percent of the total.
ALASKANS STAKE IN MEXICO
CLAIM PROSPECTS ARE GOOD
William Bartholf, Byron Bar
tholf, Harry Shough and Mrs.
Shough returned to Seattle recently
from a trip into Mexico, lead there
by reports of a rich gold quartz
discovery. Enroute heie they were
joined at Los Angeles by Eugene
Bartholf and Mrs. Bantholf, mak
ing up a party that went into the
Yaqui country in the state of Son- <
ora, Mexico. Mr. and Mrs. Shough
were the only members of the party
making locations. Mr. Srough ttlls
The Alaska Weekly that he got hold
of some good-looking copper and
silver-lead propositions.
The Bartholf brothers are pio
! neers in the Willow Creek gold'
quartz camp, in Alaska.
A beetle has been known to dis-;
pense with food of any kind forj
three years.
BASEBALL’S MOST
PI BAT BOY IS
NOW SNORT STOP
ST LOUIS, June 6—The deveL
opment of Howard Freigau as the
St. Louis National’s regular short
stop is one of the ehief topics of
discussion in fandom. Freigau, who
served as a bat boy part of last
season, is regarded as one of the
most promising recruits to come up
in the majors here in years.
He is but 20 years old. His hiting
has been timely, and his defensive
play has been described as spectacu
lar.
He was bom at Dayton O., and
signed by the Cardinals while at
tending college. He was turned o
ver to the Syracuse Internationals
but was recalled late last season.
Not beeing in the line-up. he volun
tarily handled the bats and was
referred to as the "highest paid
bat-boy" in baseball.
This season he has been placed
regularly art short because of the
incapacitation of John Lavm by ill
ness.
ENGLISH JAIL OPEN FOR
ALL DELINQUENT TAXPAYERS
LONDON, June 2—What happen
ed to the people in England who do
not pay their income tax, has been
told by an official of the Inland
Revenue, who declares there are a
bout 1,000 such delinquents now’ in
jail compared with 1,162 two year"
ago.
Plenty of time is given by the
authorities for payment, said this of
ficial and in cases where it can be
shown that funds are not available
.easy methods are devised. In other
cases after a certain interval, a
notice is sent to the defaulter that
the tax must be remitted by a cer
tain date—usually ten days time.
If that is disregarded a more ur
gent notice is sent, and three days
grace given. After that a distress
warrant against the defaulter’s
goods is obtained. Those who are
imprisoned for default are generally
single, or have no seizable property
of their own.
AGED NEGRO GIVES CASH
TO COLORED INSTITUTION
OAKLAND, June 2—Will T.
Ewing, 68-years-old negro who died
at his Hayward ranch home recently
left his entire estate, valued at ap
proximately $150,000, to the Booker
T. Washington institution, Tuskegee
Alabama, according to the terms of
his will, on file at the Aalmeda
superior court for probate.
As a young man he engaged in
the insurance business in Iowa, la
ter moved to Chicago and came '/est
to make his home, arriving in Taco
ma, Wash., in 1887. He took up a
homestead in Tacoma and later be
came a member of the police force.
In 1896 Ewing left for Alaska
and was on the ground when gold
was discovered. He was one of ’.he
first to stake out a claim in the
Klondyke, and was well on his way
to fortune before the stampede rush
of gold hunters from the United
States arrived.
NEARLY HALF OF PHILIPPINE
CHILDREN NOW GO TO SCHOOL
MANILA, June 2—The Philip
pine Islands have a total of 8,174