CELEBRATE THE FOURTH IN NENANA
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. III.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1920.
NO. 73
DEMS MAY CHOOSE LEADER TOMORROW
OKLAHOMA SENATOR IS FIRST MAN NOMINA TED
RIOLOG1CAL SURVEY CHIEF SAYS REINDEER BIG ASSET
ADVANCE AGENT
I ARMY FIVERS
GOING TO NOME
Enroute through Alaska to inspect
the various landing fields which will
be used by the army planes in the
pioneer flight from New York to
Nome, scheduled to leave Mineola
field this month, Captain Douglas is
a passenger on the steamer Alaska,
enroute from Dawson to Nome.
Captain Douglas went to Fair
banks yesterday to look over the
landing place in the upper town, and
reports that, with very little addi
tional work, it will make an ideal
field for the planes, being easily the
best he has seen thus far in the
Territory.
Four deHaviland planes are sched
uled to start from Mineola field on
July 15, each carrying two men, ane
they should reach Fairbanks in frorr
five to ten days. They will flj
direct to Fargo, then into Canadf
to Hazelton, thence to Wrangell
back across the line to Whitehorse
thence down the Yukon to Dawson
from which point they will fly direc'
to Fairbanks, without stopping a
Eagle as originally planned. Fron
Fairbanks the planes will go to Rubj
and thence to Nome, following tin
same course on the return flight
They will not stop at Tanana.
Fairbanks, Captain Douglas says
will be the chief repair station ii
Alaska, and it is probable that thi
machines will be there a day o
more. Extra motors and repai
parts are now enroute to Fairbank
on the Government steamer Jacobs
which is at Dawson loading.
The planes are equipped with 400
horsepower Liberty motors.
Mrs. Ed Berlin arrived in Nenan;
today from Fairbanks.
Start
Right
Boost your
home town
industries
by spending
your money
at home.
Help The
News help
Nenana by
becoming a
regular i
subscriber
to your
home town
paper.
SEND IN YOUR
NAME TODAY
THE PRICE IS
j $2 a month;
| $9 for six months.
1 ■
BIG QUESTIONS DELAY WORK
OF CONVENTION COMMITTEES
I
SAN FRANCISCO, June 30.—
When the Democratic national eon
Ivention assembled at 11:30 this
morning for the nomination of can
! didates for the presidency, the dom
inating feature was the receipt of |
'word from the East forbidding the j
i formal presentation of McAdoo’s j
| name, whereupon announcement was
made that the Jenkins program
would be held in abeyance. Plans
respecting the other candidates, how
i
ever, are unchanged, and the pros
pects are that the delegates will re
main in session continuously until
the numerous nominating speeches
are out of the way, in order that
i the balloting may start at an early
hour tomorrow.
1
| AUGUSTA, Ga., June 30.—An
' express car attached to a Charleston
& Western Carolina train is report
ed to have been looted today by
| bandits, who bound and gagged the
' messenger and train guards and
1, made a successful getaway with
$60,000, leaving no clew as to their
identity.
I The money stolen represented the
! payroll of the marines at Paris Is
’ land station.
COMPANY ORGANIZED
TO PACK ALASKA CRAB
i The Oregon-Alaska Packing com
pany, organized in Portland, Ore.,
■ 1 by A. H. Range of that city, for
merly with the American Can com
pany, is soon to open a crab can
nery in the vicinity of Wrangell.
The company, it is stated, will be
| incorporated in Portland with $25,
; 000 in common stock and $15,000
preferred stock.
An article appearing in the May
issue of the Pacific Fisherman says
Mr. Range has patented a machine
| for removing crab meat from the
j shells by compressed air, at the
jsame time buying out patents cov
jering an earlier machine designed
by C. T. Greiner. He does not in
tend to put his own machine on the
market, but will use it in the opera
tion of the proposed Wrangell plant.
This plant, at the beginning, will
have installed two double seamers,
two upright _ retorts and twelve of
the crab cleaning machines. It was
Mr. Ranges plan to begin work or
the plant during the month of June
Territorial Commissioner of Edu
cation L. D. Henderson, who arrived
from the coast on the steamer Yu
kon, came down from Fairbanks to
day and left for Tanana on the
steamer Alaska this afternoon. He
will make stops at Ruby and othei
points along the lower river where
schools are established, and will re
turn to Juneau from Uoire.
Wo-k on Platform.
Although many of the minor1
planks have been disposed of by the 1
platform committee, it is claimed by j
Carter Glass that most of the trou- \
blesome questions were still unsolved |
when the committee took an ad- j
journment at two o’clock this morn
ing. It is hoped, however, that the '
platform, which is being framed by
a sub-committee, can be brought be
fore the entire committee by late
afternoon or night, and before the
convention early tomorrow.
Prohibition and the League of Na
tions are the big barriers confront
ing the committeemen, although the
latter question, it is believed, is
close to settlement. The sub-com
mittee, by a vote of six to three,
rejected a proposal to put a wet
plank in the platform, but it is pre
dicted that the platform, as finally
approved, will be somewhat “moist.”
The committeemen are said to have
agreed upon a plan that will shut
out Bryan’s bone dry plank. The
prediction is also made that the
League of Nations plank, as finally
presented, will be “just as the Presi
dent wants, without crossing a ‘t’
or dotting an ‘i’.”
Owen First Up.
The name of Senator Robert L.
Owen of Oklahoma was first of the
many aspirants to be placed in nom
ination this afternoon. The nomin
ating speech was made by Haden
Linburgh of, Muskogee. Gerard
came next, followed by Cummins,
Hitchcock, and Palmer in rapid suc
cession, with the usual demonstra
I
EXPERTS ENROUTE
TO HELP HERDERS
SEATTLE, June 30.—Millions of
reindeer, raised by natives and white
herders of the Northland, will soon
convert Alaska into a vast meat-pro
ducing territory, in the opinion of
! Edward W. Nelson, chief of the bio
logical survey, who has arrived in
this city from the East, enroute to
Nome to make a special study of
the reindeer industry and to organ
ize a staff of wardens for the pro
tection of the animals.
A. M. Bailey of Juneau will be
chief of the wardens, and, with Dr.
L. Hadwin, pathologist of the bio
logical survey, a naturalist and two
HAMBURG RIOT FATAL
TO FOOD DISTURBERS
LONDON, June 30.—Two persons
were killed and 80 injured during
food riots which occurred in the
city of Hamburg this week, accord
ing to advices just received in this
city.
DEVELOPMENT OF OIL
PROMISED IN ALASKA
The development of an entirely
new oil district in Western Alasks
i is revealed in the filing of applica
jtion for oil permits with Frank A
I Boyle, register of the United State'
land office at Juneau, totaling mor<
than 12,000 acres of land. The nev
district is situated on the westers
shore of Cook inlet around Iniskii
bay, and between there and Oil bay
Six applicants have made forma
application for leasing and develop
ment permits. Evan Rickteroff ap
plied for a permit covering 1,28<
acres, situated on Iniskin bay; Har
old Foss for 2,560 acers on thi
same bay; Hans Severson, 2,561
acres located between Oil bay am
Iniskin bay'; Fred Phillips, 1,921
acres similarly located; Marith Red
myer, 1'280 acres, and William B
Regan, 2,560 acres near Iniskin bay
luut, Alaska’s latsrtsr Tu«l Bsyot
other experts, will accompany Chief
Nelson to Seward peninsula, where
they will spend the summer.
Dr. Hadwin will be stationed at
L'nalakleet, and Donald Stevenson
{roes to the Aleutian islands to pro
mote sheep raising and to grade up
fine reindeer stock for breeding pur
poses. z
Nelson says that he understands
two ice plants, with a capacity of
100 carcasses daily, will be built in
Alaska this summer, but he does not
know where. He reports that the
Hudson Bay company has leased ex
tensive tracts for reindeer pasture.
GENERALS TO RETURN
TO PRE-WAR RANK
! -
I WASHINGTON, D. C., June 30.—
Formal announcement has been made
'here that Generals Peyton C. March,
| Hunter Liggett and Robert L. Bul
; lard will return to the permanent
! rank of major-general on the first
of July. They were elevated during
the war.
AUDIENCE IS GIVEN
TO IRISH DELEGATES
ROME, June 30.—Diplomatic del
egates extraordinary of the new
: Irish republic were received today
, in a private capacity by the pope.
SUES ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY FOR LOST GOODS
i _
Mrs. N. Howell of Ketchikan has
' brought suit against the Alaska
Steamship company for failure to
' deliver certain household goods ship
1 ped to Petersburg about a year ago.
' The plaintiff alleges that she deliv
‘ ered 15 boxes of household goods
1 and that only 14 boxes were re
1 ceived, the missing box being valued
1 at more than a thousand dollars.
A Gibson stage with mail is sched
- uled to leave Chitina late this after
noon or tomorrow morning.
tions, each of which subsided quick
ly
Nominating speeches are limited to
20 minutes and seconding speeches
to five minutes, with not more than
three for each candidate.
Who They Are.
Members of the platform com
mittee favoring a wet plank are
said to be Secretary of State Colby,
who advocates a beer and wine pro
vision; M. M. Crane of Texas and
W. R. Pattingall, while Carter Glass,
Senator Walsh of Montana, Vance
McCormick, Senator Keller, Horace
Hawkins of Colorado, and George
H. Hodges of Kansas are opposing
the movement. The attitude of Col
by is regarded as significant in view
of his recent conference with the
President.
EL PASO, Tex., June 30.—Fol
lowers of Bandit Leader Villa yes
terday dynamited a passenger train
near Armendariz and executed a
number of Mexican federal officers
who were found on board. Further'
deviltry was in prospect when re
lief came to the marooned train and
the bandits were driven" off.
The civilian passengers escaped in
jury.
TRAINMEN TO HAVE
CO-OPERATIVE BANK
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 30.—
According to announcement made
jhere today, the comptroller of the
I currency has approved the chartei
jfor a co-operative bank which the
| Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi
neers plans to establish in Cleve
land.
The new institution is capitalized
at one million dollars and will be
conducted by a board of director;
selected by the members of the
| brotherhood.
_
Sixteen of the tourists who ar
rived yesterday on the steamer Alas
ka will leave Fairbanks for the coas
tomorrow, by way of the Richard
son trail. They will travel in foui
of the Gibson cars, three of whicl
will make the through trip, and the
fourth will connect with an incom
ing rig.
Asserting that there is no “Ree
menace” or Bolsheviki sentiment ii
Alaska, so far as their organizatioi
is aware, a telegram was sent t<
the Alaska bureau of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce by the boar<
of directors of the Juneau Commer
cial club, asking that the Seattle
Times make a general denial tha
there is any necessity of sendini
warships to the Territory.
1
The first gun of the territorial
campaign was fired at the Coliseum
theater last evening, when Hon. Dan
Sutherland, Republican candidate
for delegate to Congress from Alas
ka, and Ernest B. Collins, candidate
l for territorial senator from the
Fourth division, addressed a large
and attentive audience on questions
| of general interest to Alaskans.
| The theater was well filled when
R. C. Morris introduced the speak
ers of the evening, and the crowd
Uvas attentive throughout. Mr. Mor
ris put the audience in a good hu
mor, and Messrs. Sutherland and
’Collins followed with a forceful dis
cussion of live campaign issues.
Mr. Sutherland outlined a num
jber of reforms needed bv Alaska,
and gave the assurance that he
j would endeavor to do something
Iwoith while for the Territory if
elected to Congress. He referred
I
• especially to the cause of labor,
■ which, ho said, has been without
representation at the national capi
jtal.
Mr. Collins reviewed his work as
,a member of the lower branch of
the territorial legislature, and ex
i
i pressed the belief that he would be
■able to serve his district and the
(Territory much more effectively as
a member of the senate. He con
ivineed the audience of his familiari
ty with local and general require
jments and outlined reforms that will
|be undertaken by him should he be
jelected in November.
Both speakers talked straight,
without effort to evade issues and
jwithout mud-slinging, which added
jconsiderably to the enjoyment of
!the meeting.
j Mr. Sutherland is a veteran mem
ber of the senate and has the lis
itinction of having been the only
'member, during one of the early
sessions, to refuse ^to attach his
name to a memorial to Congress
^seeking to discourage the building
of the Government railroad.
Mr. Collins is also an oldtimer
iamong the territorial lawmakers, in
:the lower house, and has been a live
| member in every session attended by
'him. He is generally regarded as
!the best speaker the legislature has
i
had thus far.
The two candidates left town to
day, enroute to Dunbars, where they
will address the railroad workers in
that locality tonight. Mr. Collins
j will return to Fairbanks tomorrow
and Mr. Sutherland will come back
to Nenana, enroute to the coast by
way of the road Pass trail. He plans
■ to talk at Healy and other camps
along the right-of-way.
i
t
i
i
;
M
•t TEMPERATURE
•t As reported by the government
*t observation station, Nenana
« -
H Wednesday, June 30.
*t Maximum .3 above
•t Minimum .50 above
It