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THE NENANA NEWS
' bandits threaten death--win point
SCHOOL FIRE TAKES TOLL OFSEVENTYFIVE LIVES
CONGRESSIONAL PARTY AT SAN DIEGO ON WAYNORTH
SCHOOL FIRE CAUSES LOSS
OF MANY LIVES IN SOUTH
CAMDEN, N. C. May 19—Seven
ty-five dead and many injured is the
brief story of a fire which occurred
at Cleveland Thursday night, the
deadly flames enveloping the school
house while commencement exer
cises were in progress. The fire was
caused by the explosion of an oil
lamp, which was overturned on the
stage on the second floor of the
building, where the crowd was as
sembled.
Immediately following the acci
dent on the stage there was a wild
rash for the only exit and the nar
row wooden stairway leading from
the second story collapsed under
the unusual weight and many of
the fire victims were crushed to
death beneath the debris. The major
ity of those remaining on the se
cond floor after the collapse of the
* stairs were burned to death be
fore outside aid could reach them.
The building, which was a two
story frame structure burned with
great rapidity and by the time as
sistance arrived on the scene all
that could be done was to collect
the dead ajid give medical aid to
the tu^ared.
The death list reads like a roster
♦ of families of the little community.!
several being virtually exterminated.
In almost every instance where par
ents are listed among the dead, from
one to four children perished also.
The dead included forty-three chil
dren, seventeen men and fifteen
women.
More than three hundred were
crowded in the room when the
A fire started and little effort was
made to put the fire out, all be
ing intent on escaping from the
building. A number of women and
babies were trampled to death be
neath the feet of the panic-stricken
crowd.
Funeral services for all the vic
tims were held yesterday afternoon.
400,000 USED CARS IN STOCK
ST. LOUIS, May 19—Automobiles
dealers in the United States had
400,000 used cars in stock March
15, with a capital investment of
$152,206,340, according to figure;
announced here of the National Au
tomobile Dealer’s Association. The
estimated losses the dealers will ab
sorb on this stock and investment
total $23,591,982 for the first three
months of 1923, it was added.
MAIL LAUNCHES SAIL
The N. C. mail launches Sibilla
and Tanana, with several barge? in
tow. sailed for the lower Yukon riv
er shortly before midnight Thursday,
carrying a number of passengers, a
large consignment of mail and con
siderable freight. The launches will
operate between Holy Cross and St.
Michael, connecting with the Gov
ernment steamers Jacobs and Davis.
Among those leaving were G. V.
Goss, who will direct the operation
of launches; J. H. Kelly, represen
tative of the old N. C. company,
who is enroute to St. Michael on a
tour of inspection; Mrs. A1 Rowe,,
for Hot Springs; C. W. Felch, De
puty Marshal William Hartwig, Jer
ry Courtney, E. R. Anderson, Al
Knobs, T. W. Buchholz and several
others. Captain Will Sherwin is in
charge of the Tanana and Captain
Polte has command of the Sibilla.
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BRITISH MISSION READY
TO QUIT SOVIET' RUSSIA!
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MOSCOW. May 19—The British
mission has begun packing' prepara
tory to leaving for Riga, in antici
pation of a break' in relations be
tween England and Soviet Russia.
British subjects were warned yes
terday to prepare to leave on short
notice and it is expected there will
be a general exodus within the next
day or two.
Soviet Blamei Swiss
The soviet government has dis
pached a note to Switzerland blam
ing the Swiss government for the
recent assissination of Vorovsky
through failure of Swiss officials to
provide him with proper protection.
IGNORANCE KILLS SCORE
MEXICO CITY. May 19—An ignor
ant peon who forgot which was his
left hand was the real cause of a
water famine in Mexico City recent
ly- which culminated in rioting in the
main plaza in wrhich 20 persons were
killed and several hundred injured.
This workman, an employee af the
local water and light company, was
told to go to a small pumping station
on the outskirts of the city and to
turn a certain valve to the left. By
the time he reached the station he
forgot which way was left, and turn
ed the valve to the right. The result
was a flooded engine, disabled pumps
and Mexico City without water for
ten days.
GERMAN ROBBERS ACTIVE
BERLIN, May 19—A number of
irreplacable' treasures from the
Oriental section of the Kaiser Fred
, eric-k Museum have been stolen with
; in the last month, and the police
seem quite pow-erless to cope with
the bands of robbers which today
infest Berlin.
A bronze bust was taken recently
, from the office of the Ministry of
j defense, and the home of the Chinese
Ambassador was looted in broad day
; light.
ESPERANTO CONGRESS MEET
NUREN'BERG. Ger. May 19—
Thirty-five different countries are
represented by the 2.500 delegates
so far registered for the internation
al Esperanto congress to be held
I here August 2 to 8. A number of
! governments have indicated they
j will send representatives. A feature
i of the week’s program will be the
| presentation in Esperanto of Less
I ing’s “Nathan the Wise” and a vocal
! selection from Mozart, also in Es
peranto.
TRIAL BY JURY WINS IN JAPAN
TOKIO. May 19—Both houses of
the diet have passed a bill for the
introduction of trial by jury thru
out Japan. The system however, will
not come into effect until 1928. The
. lower house unanimously supported
ithe measure, but the peers had a
prolonged debate before passing on
it, a number of the members declar
I ing that Japan was not yet ripe
j for trial by jury.
SHANGHAI, May 19—The Am-jt
eriean and British captives who are ''!
held by the Lincheng train bandits '
will be put to death next Thursday •
if Chinese government troops are 1
not withdrawn immediately. This is ] i
the final ultimatum issued by the
bandits, brought from their strong
hold yesterday by Marcel Berube,
a Frenchman, who was released for
the purpose of conveying the mes
sage.
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Demands Extravagant
PEKING, May 19—Telegrams re-j
ceived by the Chinese government!
from Thaoshwang indicate that the
government representatives are at;
a point of abandoning negotiations
for the release of foreign prisoners
because of the extravagant demands
of the bandits. Among other things,
the bandits demand the withdrawal
of all troops throughout the entire
province of Shantung, in place of
which the bandits are to be consti
tuted a provincial militia.
More Hopeful
WASHINGTON, D. C. May 19
Minister Schurman has advised the
state department that negotiations
with the bandits are progressing and
AMERICAN SHIPS GO AFTER
CHINESE RIVER BUSINESS
SHANGHAI. May 19—The first
company to be registered in China
as an American federal corporation
under the China Trade Act, which
recently was passed by the American
congress, is the China Coast Trans
portation Company, Ltd., which is
to operate ships on the Yangtze riv
er. The organizers are Carl Seitz,
Hugo Reiss, Captain W. I. Eisler.
E. Evenson and E. H. Grooms. This
company registered has been named
registrar under the act. j
The China Coast Transportation
Company is the second company to j
register under the new act, though
first to register in China.
SUB DIVES 207 FEET
SAX FRANCISCO, CALIF., Mai
ls—A dive of 207 feet in San
Francisco Bay was recently achiev
ed during a test of the new San
Francisco-built submarine S-38.
The test was conducted in a
“hole” near Belvedere Island. The
boat struck silt and bottom at 168
feet, groping her way along the
slope of this until she had passed
the 201-foot mark.
The new craft is one of a series
of S-boats now being completed in
local yards.
The new eagle bounty law just,
enacted by the present session of
the Legislature and which raises the
bounty to $1.00 on each eagle killed
does not become effective until 90
days after the pasage of the bill.
This means that all eagles killed be
fore July 11, 1923, will be paid for
at the rate of 50 cents; after that
date $1 will be paid.
Mrs. M. J. Sweeney went to Anch
orage yesterday on a brief visit. ‘
hat the release of the captives may '
>e expected ■within a few days.
Bandits Win Point
PEKING, May 19—The American
egation was informed late this af
ernoon that officials of the Chinese
■overnment had dispatched messen
rers to the bandits stronghold with
irmy commissions for the leaders of
he bandit army, and an agreement
or the incorporation of the entire
>andit force into a Shantung army.
Americans express the hope that
he captives will be released shortly.
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Chink Captive* Ignored
SHANGHAI, May 19—In a plain
ive message to the Outside world,
i group of Chinese who were cap
ured by the bandits and later es
■aped or were released, deplore the
ack of interest in the fate of Chin
?se captives still in the hands of
:he bandits, while every effort is,
aeing made to secure the release of
foreign captives.
Father Lenfers. aged priest, who ■
las made two visits to the bandit 1
stronghold on behalf of the captives.
:old an Associated Press correspon
dent today that he saw little chance
for the release of the captives for
some time.
NEW DEVICE MAY INCREASE
LIFTING POWER OF AIRPLANES
LONDON. May 19—An improve
ment of at least 10 percent in the
lifting efficiency of aeroplane wings
is expected to be made by an inven
tion which has been patented by a
young ex-officer of the flying corps.
He claims to have discovered the
method by which crows and other
birds glide at fine angles, and exper
iments which have been made with
gliding models suggest that the wing
tip feathers are not merely for bal
ancing purposes but contribute
largely to the lifting capacity.
MONK PREDICTS WORLD’S END
MEXICO CITY May 19—Con
siderable anxiety is being shown by
the Indian population of the village
of Mixcoac. near Mexico City, fol
lowing the recent declarations of
Father Genaro Rivera, a Carmelite
monk residing there that the end
of the world will come on December
12. 1954.
The monk bases his prediction on
highly complex astronomical obser
vations he has been conducting for
years, and he asserts that the mil
lenium is a certainty on the date
mentioned. Inasmuch as he is a
highly respected man of tihe village,
his assertions have caused great ex
citement among the credulous In
dians. Local newspapers have given
much prominence to the predictions.
Products of Alaska shopped from
the -Territory in March of this year
totaled in value $1,055,493, compar
ed with $1,504,000 last month.
John Wahlgren returned to Xe
nana yesterday from Fairbanks
where he spent several days on
business.
SOCIALISTS SEEK. REMOVAL
OF TAFT FROM HIGH COURT
NEW YORK. May 19—A resolu
tion was introducted today at the
annual convention of the Socialist
party demanding the impeachment
of Chief Justice Taft because of
his alleged acceptance of a $10.
000 annuity from the Andrew Car
negie estate, which the resolution
describes as "obviously for services
rendered.*’
Abraham Cahan, editor of the
Jewish daily. “Forward” in an ad
dress delivered before the conven
tion today denounced Lenine as a
"moral and physical failure" and
Trotsky as a “great bombastic wind
bag.”
WOULD POPULARIZE FISH
BOULOGNE. France. May 19—
A “Fish Week” will be held iu
Boulogne next September, when a
fishing exposition will be opened in
this seaport. There will be demon
strations of various ways of cook
ing fish, and visitors will be served
free with fish dishes they have nev
er before tasted.
BRITISH INVENTOR REWARDED
LONDON, May 19—The R >ya!
Commission on Awards to Invent or
and the American Commission for
the Adjustment of Foreign Claims,
awarded 1,250 pounds “in respect
to the future use by the American
Government, of a direction finding
system for airplanes” invented by
Major James Robinson R. A. F.. Al
so 100 pounds was awarded to Ma
jor Robinson in respect to the “use
of the invention on the airplane
which made the American Trans-At
lantic flight to Europe, via the Az
ores in May, 1919.”
NORWAY HAS LOST HARPOON
BERGEN. May 19—In the carcase
of a whale caught in the Davis
Strait, Greenland, and recently
brought into a Norwegian port, the
head of an old harpoon has been
found deeply embedded in the blub
ber.
Experts declare that the whale
must have carried the harpoon in its
body for some 50 years, since it is
of a pattern used by American whal
ers when they fished the Greenland
coasts half a century ago.
LIMITS RETAILER’S PROFITS
LISBON. May 19—In an ..endeav
or to reduce the cost of living, a
new law provides that wholesale
dealers in foodstuffs may take a pro
fit of only ten percent, and retailers
15 percent. Heavy penalties will be
imposed upon transgressors.
The steamer Admiral Evans which
sailed south on her last trip loaded
' 25,000 pounds of fresh halibut and
30 boxes of shrimps at Petersburg.
Mrs. A1 Rowe, who arrived from
Wasilla recently, left for her Hot
| Springs home Thursday night aboard
.the N. C. mail launch.
WEEKS PAftTY IS ENROUTE
DUE AT SEWARD JUNE 10
SAN DIEGO, May 19—Escorted
by a squadron of army planes,
headed by the famous T-2, piloted
by Lieutenants Macready and Kelly,
the transport Grant, with the Sec
retary Weeks party of senators and
congressmen aboard, entered the
harbor shortly after noon today,
eight hours ahead of schedule time.
After a brief stay here, the party
will proceed to San Francisco,
thence to Seattle and Alaska, being
scheduled to reach Seward on June
10.
The party includes more than a
score of lawmakers, most of them
being accompanied by their wives.
Harding Plans Perfected
WASHINGTON, D. C. May 19—
Chairman Lasker, of the shipping
board, has perfected plans for Pres
ident Harding to make the return
trip from Alaska by water. Trans
fer will be made at San Francisco
to the steamer President Harrison.
Transfer to another snipping board
vessel will be made at Panama and
a brief stop will be made at Porto
Rico enroute to Washington.
JAPANESE STEAMSHIP LINE
ORDERS OIL-BURNING SHIPS
—
YOKOHOMA. May 19—The Nip
pon Yusen Kaisha is planning to
build two 10,000 ton frieghters, each
equipped with Diesel oil engines.
An order for the construction of
these vessels already has been given
in England and they are to be com
pleted within one year.
Another frieghter of 5.000 tons
is to be constructed in Japan. The
former will be used for the New
York service and the latter on the
Shanghai run.
GOOD NEWS FOR ANCHORAGE
ANCHORAGE, May 19—The land
office and field service headquarters
long held by Juneau have been or
dered transferred to Anchorage by
the first of July, accoring to official
orders received by George A. Parks
chief of the first division.
; HANGMAN HANGS HIMSELF
LONDON. May 19—A telegram re
ceived here from Moscow states that
.the hangman Ioukoff, who has been
i
, in the service of the political secret
police for the last two years and is
said to have hanged 2,000 persons,
"has committed suicide by hanging
him=elf in his room at Moscow.
BRITISH RAILWAYS PROSPER
LONDON, May 19—The railways
of Britain carried 1,186,470,000 pas
sengers, 301,418,000 tons of goods
and minerals and 16,706,000 live
stock during 1922 showing gross re
' ceipts of 237,800,000 pounds and
an expenditure of 190,600,000
pounds.
BASEBALL MEETING
Everyone interested in baseball
is invited to attend a meeting to be
held in the fire hall building, on
Market street, tonight at nine o’
clock, for the purpose of discussing
plans for the coming season and
stimulating interest in the great
American game.
The steamer Northwestern sailed
from Cordova for the westward this
t morning at eight o’clock.
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