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THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA. THURSDAY. FEB. 15, 1923.
NUMBER 414
STORM AND COLD WAVE SWEEP STATES
TURKS INSIST ALLIED SHIPS MUST QUIT SMYRNA
FRENCH SOLDIERS WILL DISARM ALL GERMAN POLICE
ALEXANDER HOLDS PLACE
AS HEAD OF DEPARTMENT
Fire and Police Chief C. W •
Alexander, who has been serving
the city temporarily during the ab-!
sence of Allen A. Johnson was given i
the permanent appointment by the!
council at the regular meeting of |
the aldermen on Tuesday night. ;
Johnson applied for and was gTant- :
ed a leave of absence covering a
period of sixty days and. the leave
having expired with no word from
khn. the dual office was declared
vacant and Mr. Alexander duly en
rolled as a permanent official of the
city. During the two months that
the new chief has been on the job
he has demonstrated his ability to
handle the difficult and varied dut
ies in a manner satisfactory to both
council and public.
Considerable routine business was
transacted by the council, including
the approval of the regular month
ly city and utilities bills, and there
was further discussion regarding the
efforts which are being made by
the council to prevent the closing |
of the Government hospital. The |
matter will be taken up directly j
with Col. Mears at the first oppor-j
tunity.
Superintendent of Public Utili-J
ties Henshaw reported a decrease
in revenues resulting from the low- j
ering of electric energy rates on.
the first of the year, but there re-:
mained notwithstanding a substan- j
tial balance to the credit of the de- j
partment after all expenses had ;
been paid. The superintendent also j
reported the receipt of the new;
grates which were ordered some time
ago in the East, and by the use of j
which in the boilers of the power
plant it is hoped to make a sub-;
•tantial reduction in fuel costs. The j
grates are designated for the use
of fine coal.
Fire and Police Chief Alexander
presented the council with a de- i
tailed report covering all of his j
activities since assuming his office.
After the business of the even- j
ing had been disposed of, the alder
men discussed the c-oming city elec
tion and decided to take the initia
tive in rounding up candidates to
succeed the present board. It is not
the intention of the council to try j
to dictate to the voters who shall
be elected, but efforts will be made
to induce desirable men to permit,
the use of their names as candidates ]
It is possible that two or three!
members of the present board will
consent to continue in office in or
der to facilitate the work of the
new board, but most of the aider
men have expressed a desire to re
tire from office at the end of the
present term.
Among those whose names have
been mentioned as candidates are:;
William Rodigkeit, Alfred Ghezzi,
Harry Davis, C. N. Christensen, A.
D. Thompson, Frank Teufel, Wil
liam Thomas, Oscar Rothenberg.
SCHOOL ENTERTAINS
Valentines Day was observed at
Franklin K. Lane School yesterday
with the customary exchange of
Valentines among the pupils, and
with a special program of recita
tions and song in the primary' grades
presided over by Mrs. A. B. Phil
lips. Quite a number of parents
were in attendance and the enter
tainment greatly enjoyed by them.
SEVERAL VESSELS GO ON ROCKS; !
LOW TEMPERATURES PREVAIL!
SEATTLE, Feb. 15—A heavy]
eastern gale is blowing fall strength
off the coast of Washington, and it
is feared a number of vessels have
been blown on the rocks, with the
loss of many lives. Meager radio
messages tell of four vessels in dis
tress and in immediate danger of
detraction. The steamer N'ika, which
last night was reported rudderless
off the dangerous Umatilla reef, was
burned to the water’s edge early
today, but the members of the crew
escaped.
The British freighter Tuscan
Prince went ashore yesterday near
East Evan. Vancouver Island, and
a radio message received from the
ship this afternoon said: “The ship
is breaking up and we are going to
drown” The tug Sea Monarch wa
dispatched to the scene in the hope
that the members of the crew might
be saved.
The motorship Cooieha is aground
in dangerous waters near Victoria
and it is said cannot be salvaged.
Three vessels are steaming full
speed to the rescue.
The weather is moderating some
what today with the wind shifting
to the southeast. During the 241
hours ending at five o’clock this
morning nearly five inches of rain
fell at Latoosh, making navigation t
especially difficult and hazardous. |
Storm Take* Sev«» Lives
SEATTLE, Feb. 15—The seventh;
death resulting from the storm oc
curred this morning when Charles
Ross aged 56 years, director of the
Seaboard Xational Bank and pres
ident of the Miners and Merchants
Bank, of Iditarod, dropped dead i
while shoveling snow. He leaves a j
wife and three children to mourn
his loss.
The city is digging itself out of1
the worst snow recorded in seven ;
years. The trolley service is res- j
uming today but the schools are
! still closed. A “silver thaw’’ is mak-'
! ing the work of clearing the streets i
especially difficul Hundreds of bu-1
1 siness men spent the night down j
town last night, having been uabie j
to reach their glomes.
I. F. Shipman, aged 71, was
[found dying in Che snow this morn-j
ing and died while being taken to a!
hospital Willis Hardy and an un-;
identified man dropped dead of
heart fealure yesterday their deaths
resulting from exposure.
Snow At Tacoma
TACOMA, Feb. 15—The heaviest
snowfall in the history of the local
weather bureau has closed the
schools of this city ar,d tied up the!
car system. It also has caused a
number of accidents and caused the j
delay of numerous funerals.
Cold Wave Hitt Ea»t
CHICAGO, Feb. 15—The most se
vere storms of the winters, which
came down from Canada yesterday,
is increasing in intensity today, and
spreading rapidly over the upper
Mississippi valley and the plains
states. The mercury has dropped
throughout the East, except in Flor
ida. St. Paul reports 20 below zero
and in Central Wisconsin the tem
perature has dropped from 15 to
25 below. The cold wave is due in
Texas tonight.
Prince** Alice Hit* Rock
VANCOUVER. B. C. Feb. 15—
The Canadian Pacific passenger:
steamer Princess Alice, enroute I
from Victoria to Vancouver, hit a,
rock near Moresby island yesterday, i
during a snowstorm, and was com
pelled to return to Victoria where
it was discovered that a forward j
plate had been punctured. Other C.
P. R. boats have taken to shelter
while the storm lasts and the com
pany has cancelled the sailing of
the Princess Royal for Prince Rupert;
The stTeet car service of this -
city is demoralized by the snow, j
which has reached a depth of more .
than a foot.
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Bad At St. Paul
ST. PAUL, Feb. 15—The storm
in this section is said to be the
worst experienced here in a quarter
of a century. All trains are stalled
except on those lines leading East
and South.
I
Portland Snowbound
PORTLAND. Feb. 15—This city
is virtually snowbound as the re
sult of the blizzard which is sweep- j
ing this section. The mercury drop-1
ped to 14 above last night but the :
weather is moderating today.
TURKS ASSERT ULTIMATUM
AGAINST ALLIES IS FINAL
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 15—
A telegram received in this city
from the Turkish Nationalist head
quarters in Angora says the decision
of the Turkish government to close
the ports of Smyrna and Ismid to
the Allies is irrevocable and that
the warships must leave the harbor
without further parley.
The telegram also states that the
entry of Greek merchant vessels at
| Turkish ports has been forbidden.
Harbor Mined
MARCEILLES. Feb. 15—Accord
ing to the captain of a steamer
which has just arrived in port,
Smyrna harbor has been thoroughly
mined the mines extending out to
sea for a considerable distance. He
says the forts signalled to him that
he would enter the harbor at his
own peril.
U. S. Destroyer Reported Sunk
LONDON, Feb. 15—Rumors were
current yesterday to the eflect that
an American destroyer had been
sunk by the Turks. Nothing can be
[ learned here regarding the report,
however, and advices from France
state that the report cannot be ver
! ified there.
Residents to the westward are
: well pleased with the service the
staunch little steamer Starr is af
I fording, according to Miss Fuller,
; Delano Red Cross nurse, who re
| cently returned from a trip to the
| far west. The vessel has never
i missed a trip the entire year and is
j giving a good mail and freight
service to the district.
O. J. Anderson, O. M. Poindexter,
Dick Callahan, J. J. Johnson, Dick
Rice, and L. F. Nash are among the
recent arrivals at the Southern ho
tel.
MEARS TO QUIT R. R.
STEESE TO BE CHIEF
SEATTLE. Feb. 15—The Wash
ington correspondent of the Seattle
Times reports this afternoon that
“plans have been worked out be
tween the Interior and War depart
ments to combine the duties of
operating the Alaska Railroad with
the construction of roads and trails
in the Territory. Col. F. Mears.
chairman and chief engineer of
the Alaskan Engineering Commis
sion. is relieved of his duties, ef
I
fective May 1, and Col. Gordon
Steese, chairman of the Alaska
Road Commission, is directed to
take over the work.
Col. Means has been assigned to
duty with the Engineers. Ninth.
Corps area.”
There is nothing in the change
except ordinary routine and a de
sire to save money, according to
Secretary Fall, who says: “We ask-j
ed President Harding to allow Col. |
Mears to remain on duty for anoth
er year but the positions should
be co-ordinated so as to work in j
together and create traffic for the'
railroad.”
The two activities probably will
remain under one control until;
some disposition is made of the
railroad property. By combining the
two propositions the Government has ,
eliminated considerable overhead,
with the saving of about $25,000;
yearly.
Political observers who have been
watching the Alaska situation dur
ing the last several months see in
the change the initiation on the
part of the administration, a move
to obtain a large appropriation for
wagon road construction in Alaska.
During the last year Col Steese has
been endeavoring to obtain the ad
option of a plan under which ten
million dollars would be made avail
able for this purpose, to be accom
plished by either of two methods—
by direct appropriation or by in
cluding Alaska under the provisions'
of the Federal Highway act. Under
this, one hundred millions will be
available for road construction in
the States within two years, allo
cated to the states on a basis of
one third for population, one third
for roads already constructed and
one third for area.
NO MORNING TRAIN
There will be no train from the
coast tomorrow morning, bat there
will be the usual departure for the
coast tomorrow night. The train
which arrived yesterday has been
held over for a resumption of sched
ules tomorrow night. A freight train
will arrive from the south tonight.
Bert Thorenson is a guest at the
| Cooney hotel from the Kantishna
i district. He is enroute to the coast.
ARMOURS HAVE FIRE
OMAHA. Feb. 15—Fire in the
plant of Armour & Company caused
damage estimated at half a million
and a hard wind handicapped the
score of fire companies which were
engaged in fighting the blaze.
Thomas Wade is registered at the
Cooney hotel.
L. E. Appele is a recent arrival
I at the Cooney hotel from the Kan
tishna district.
GERMAN SECURITY POLICE
MUST GIVE UP THEIR ARMS
DUSSELDORF. Feb. 15—Ten
thousand German security police j
throughout the occupied area are to j
be disarmed by order of General ^
Degoutte, who explains that the
action is deemed advisable because
of the general attitude toward the
, . i
forces oi occupation.
Belgians Extend Area
Belgian forces have occupied the
towns of Emmerich and Wesel, on j
the right bank of the Rhine. This
move has been made, it is announc
ed, to give France and Belgium sup- |
ervision and control over exports
and imports along the line into
Ruhr and Holland.
Decline To Pal Fine
BERLIN. Feb. 15—The municip
ality of Gelsenkirchen has declined
to pay a fine of one hundred mil
lion marks demanded by the French
as a penalty for the clash between
German police and French soldiers j
on Monday.
May Stabilize Exchange
PARIS, Feb. 15—The German !
government has asked the reichbank ,
to throw 35,000,000 gold marks on
i
the market for the purpose of stab-1
ilizing German exchange. The re-,
ports states that the "governors of
the bank, convinced of the futility
of the plan have resigned, but the
government is persisting in its de
mand.
ITALIAN BOAT SINKING
NEW YORK, Feb. 15—The Ital-;
ian freighter Moncensio, enroute
from Norfolk, Virginia to Marseil-j
les, is sinking 500 miles east of
Cape Henry, Virginia. The steamer
Carplaka picked up the distress
call 77 miles from the disabled
ship and is rushing to her aid.
HARDING APPROVES PLAN
TO JOIN ARMY AND NAVY
WASHINGTON*. D. C. Feb. Id—
President Harding has approved the
plan for the reorganization of the
army and navy departments in a
single portfolio to be desigated as
the department of defense. Those
responsible for the announcement
say the derails of the plan have
been sent to the printer preparatory
to submission to a joint congression
al committee which has the change*
under consideration.
GOTHAM BUILDING BURNS
JEWELS SHOPS ARE DEBRIS
NEW YORK, Feb. 15—A fortunu
in gems and gold and silver jew
elry and plate, estimated to be
worth $2,000,000 lies buried in safes
in the smouldering wreckage of a
six-story office building on Maiden
More than sixty jewelers occupied
quarters in the building and when
the walls of the structure collapsed
the safes tumbled into the base
ment.
Experts claim the contents of the
safes will be recovered practically
intact.
MONTREAL CHURCH BURNS
MONTREAL Feb. 15—Trinity
church, said to be the oldest angli
eal church in Canada, was destroyed
by fire last night, cause unknown.
The church recently passed into the
hands of Syrian Catholics.
BOOTLEGGER PAROLED
TACOMA, Feb. 15—Harry Broi
aski, of San Francisco, known a*
the “king of bootleggers,” who wa*
sent to McNeil Island for a term of
two years, for conspiracy to violate
the Volstead act. has been paroled
and left for his home yesterday
He has been sutfering from cancer
since his arrival at the prison las'
April.
WASHINGTON. D. C. Feb. 15
Objection on the part of Senator
Reed. Democrat had blocked the ef
forts of Senate republicans to ar
range a vote on the debt funding
bill tomorrew.
MINSTREL MEN ARE READY
TO STAGE HIT OF SEASON
Those who have been privileged
to attend the rehearsals of the Pioi.
eer Minstrels declare that the pre
sentation of the black face enter
tainment at the Coliseum on Sat
urday night will take the town by
storm, although doubt is expressed
if some of the funny men will liv ■
to appear in another show. All of
the jokes are said to be knockouts,
and some of them are knockier than
others, and that’s where the trouble
may come in. The Pioneer commit
tee is hopeful, however, that the
trouble, if there is any. will be de
ferred until after the show. The
jokes are good if the victims will
only view them in that light.
But the jokes are only part of
the show. There will be a lot of
singing of high order, solos and
choruses; there will be vaudeville
of class and a one-act skit is said
to be the real stuff.
The sale of seats has been very
gratifying to the committee and it
is expected that all of the reserves
will be taken long before the hour
of the entertainment. It is pre
dicted there will not be room en
ough i.i the Coliseum to accomodate
the crowd.