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_THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY, 10, 1923
NUMBER 449
BRITAIN SENDS WARSHIP TO MURMANSK
SFI7.URE OF TRAWLER GETS SOVIET IN TROUBLE
|(T. MOVEIS AT NENANA—$ 10,000.00 ICE POOL IS DlviDED
CAPTIVES NOT WORRYING;
EXPECT RELEASE SHORTLY
SHANGHAI, May 10—All of the
foreigners who are held captive by
the Chinese bandits at Suchow are
“having a wonderful time" and ex
pect to be released soon, according j
to written messages from four of j
them by the relief workers near
Lincheng.
Troop* Are Quieted
WASHINGTON, D. C. May 10—j
The attack by Chinese troops on the
bandits who captured a number of
foreigners this week has been or
dered stopped by the Peling govern
ment.
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Rotary Club Protest*
SHANGHAI. May 10—TheShang
hai Rotary club has cabled to the
international headquarters of the
Association of Rotary Clubs at Chi
cago, asking that it broadcast an ap-!
peal to the 1,300 rotary clubs to
unite in a demand that foreign
governments make further banditry
impossible in China.
FAITHFUL FOUR GUARDING
FLAG AT TIP OF WORLD
OTTAWA, Ont., May 10—Four
lonely Canadians, marooned on
Wrangell Island at the top of the
map. have been waiting since 1921
to have that bleak Arctic region:
proclaimed Canadian soil. The four
are the members of a landing party
left by Vilhjaimur Stefansson, the
explorer, on his visit to the island
several years ago. While the former
members of his expedition possess
their souls in patience and hunt
r muskox and seal for a living. Stef
fansson is negotiating with the Can
adian Government to reimburse him
for the expense of his polar voyage
and accept sovereignty over Wran
gell Island in payment.
When members of the Stefansson
party raised the Canadian flag on
Wrangell Island in 1921, there was
I some discussion as to the propriety
of the action. The flag has remained
with three men and a boy to guard
it, but no step has been taken here
to assert formal sovereignty over the
northern area. Stefansson, who fit
ted out his own expedition at a cost
* of $25,000, when he failed to in
terest the Canadian Government in
his plans, now argues that his ad
dition to the Canadian domain
should be worth at least that much
money.
The main value of the island at
* present, according to Stefansson,
is trategic. He says that it is dir
ectly in the path of an ideal trans
polar air route across the world.
BRASS THIEVES ACTIVE
BERLIN May, 10—Doorknob
thieves are causing Berlin house
holders much annoyance. Hotels,
IT apartment houses, office buildings
and private dwellings are all prey
to the searchers for second-hand
brass.
In one of Berlin’s leading hotels
all the brass nozzles on the fire
hose in the corridors disappeared
one night together with many other
brass fixtures.
Tony Goessman, pioneer hard
rock miner of the Fairbanks district,
passed through Nenana this week
enroute to the upper town from the
Outside, where he spent the winter.
RUSSIANS CLAIM RIGHT TO FIX
WATER LIMIT 12 MILES AT SEA
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BLIND SOLDIERS OF GERMANY
ARE SELF-SUPPORTING
BERLIN, May 10—Only 20 per
cent of Germany’s 2,547 completely (
blinded war veterans are without j
vocations, the federal minister of
labor announces. Sixty per cent
have taken up other careers than
what they followed before being
blinded; 12.5 per cent remained at
their former employment, and 7.5
per cent are occupied a part of the,
time. Statistics of the year 1900 j
show that only 21.5 per cent of the
completely blinded at that time,
wrere in employment.
DANCER EXACTS INSURANCE
AGAINST HER SPECTATORS
VIENNA, May 10—A dancer at
a local theater appeared in such
scant attire recently that a group j
of students, in protest, threw a gas
bomb at her.
She has now compelled the theat-'
er to insure her person for 2,000,
000,000 crowns, or $30,000.
GREEK ARMY AND NAVY
DISMISS FOREIGN TUTORS
ATHENS. May 10—Greece's
army, navy and police will no long
er be under foreign tutelage. For
reasons of economy the government
has decided to abrogate its con
tracts -with the British naval mis
sion, the French military mission,
and the Italian police, granting
their members six months’ pay in
lieu of notice.
The only mission remaining in
Greece now is the British police
mission, under Sir Frederick Halli
dav, which has been here since 1919
and has done good work in reorgan
izing the Greek police on the lines
of the London police force. The
government's decision will be a
severe blow to the foreign naval
and military missions, whose mem
bers drew not only salaries from
their own countries, but from the
Greek government as well.
FAIR ATTRACTS FOREIGNERS
LEIPZIG, May 10—Official sta
tistics on the attendance at the an
nual Leipzig spring fair show there
was a total of 166,000 visitors, sur
passing the record figure of last
year. Approximately 23,500 of the
visitors were foreigners.
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NEW YORKER SHUNS MOVIES
NEW YORK, May 10—A new
Yorker has been found who, al
though spending his whole life in
the city, has never attended a mo
vie, has been to ithe theatre only
once in 27 years and has not seen
a ball game in 40.
He is Charles J. Foy, an employe
of the elevated railroad system for
45 years.
“I have a small garden”, says Foy
“but I like best a good book or
pipe. If I could have only one of
them, I should be perfectly happy
with my pipe.”.
LONDON. May 10—Replying to
the British note protesting against
the seizure of the British trawler.
James Johnson, this week, the Rus
sian Soviet claims the right to fix
the limit of her territorial waters
twelve miles from shore, and con
tends that the seizue of the traw
ler was clearly w’ithin the scope of
soviet authority.
The soviet offers to submit the
question to arbitration providing the
sovereignty and independence of
Russia is not questioned.
Averts Breal with Japan
Tokio. May 10—After having al
most caused a break with Japan as
the result of refusing permission to
Japanese fishermen to operate in'
Sibeian waters, the Soviet govern
ment has averted complications by
granting the desired permission.
Britain On The Alert
LONDON, May 10—The British
warship Bare Bell has been ordered
to proceed to the Murmansk coast
to prevent further interference by
the soviet government with British
fishing vessels operating outside the
three-mile limit. The commander of
the warship has been instructed to
use force if necessary to protect
British rights. Action of the govern
ment was made known to the house
of commons today by Ronald McNeil
under secretary of foreign affairs.
TANANA ICE MOVES;
BREAKUP STARTING
Hie movement of ice in the Ta- f
nana river in front of Nenana, §
which every year is becoming a t
greater sporting event occurred at a
two o’clock yesterday afternoon, b
May 9, as officially recorded by the o
chronometer in the Nenana power
house. The great ice sheet moved k
quietly down stream just enough v
to close the open place opposite the
mouth jOf the Nenana river, but c
more than enough to set the mach- n
inery of the official time registering s
apparatus in motion, by which j
means the winners of the big ice s
pool were determined. v
The blowing of the power plant 1
whistle, to announce the breakup, k
was followed by a rush to the riv- t
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er from all directions, but by the I
time the crowd reached the river,
bank the ice had stopped moving c
and the real breakup is not yet in j c
progress, although apparently very ; j
1 near at hand. 1 f
As was to have been expected, in ! c
| view of the fact that May 9 is al- i a
ways a popular day among gues- , (
sers, the ice pool, which reached the c
substantial sum of $10,000 this 11
year, is shared by a number of' r
guessers, there being six tickets
marked with the exact minute and
two of the tickets representing ad
ditional divisions.
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The winners, as announced by, i
the Ice Pool Committee last night, t
after going over the tickets care
fully a second time, are as follows: t
Tanana Sporting Club, Tanana. j1
Axel Carlson, Suntrana. ] <
Ralph E. Bigney, Fairbanks, 1
Brakeman on Alaska Railroad.
Mrs. McPhail, Fairbanks. Employ- (
ed as nurse at the Detention hos- <
pital. 1
j Farrell & Company, Nenana. <
Maurice Farrell, employed as sec- 1
! tion foreman on Alaska Railroad. 1
1 George Sarantis, employed at Ter- !
minal Cigar Store.
Carlo Giacchero, Nenana, member i
of construction on Alaska Railroad.
The bolder of e£»h lucky ticket <
will receive or has already received i
■om the committee the sum of
1.666. representing one-sixth of the
)tal amount of the pool. Maurice
nd Sarantis will divide their share
etween them and there will be an
ther division in the case of the
anana Sporting Club, it not being
nown to the committee how many
ill participate in that share.
Carlo Giacchero is said to have
ome from the Koyukuk several
ionths ago to earn another grub
take working on the railroad. Mrs.
IcPhail is also said to be in a po
ition to make immediate use of her
'innings and, in fact, all of the
leky ones are hard working Alas
ans who will be materially benefit
ed by their divisions of the Ice
’ool money.
The arrangements made by the
ommittee for registering the offi
ia! time, worked splendidly to the
ist detail. The movement of the
lag on the river ice stopped the
hronometer at exactly 13 seconds
fter two o’clock. As it happened,
iscar Rothenburg who was in
harge at the power plant at the
ime, had been advised that he
light expect to hear^ the alarm at
ny time during the afternoon, and
e was standing near the chronom
ter when it stopped and sounded
he alarm automatically. He immed
ately sprang to the whisle and gave
he general alarm.
As a matter of precaution the
ommittee had several watches set
L'ith the chronometer early yester
iay morning, and all agreed on the
ime.
As usual, there were a lot of
lose guesses. Had the ice moved
>ne minute earlier or a minute
ater, there would have been consid
rable division of the money. In
act, the entire day was thickly
ilastered with guesses and the ice
carcely could have moved at all
vithout hitting one or more of the
piessers.
A noteworthy feature of the big
lassie is the fact that the heavy
nvestors in guesses did not share
in the pool. A number of local men
have $100 or more in tickets and
several had 700 or more chances to
win, counting combinations and in
dividual guesses.
Among the winners of minute
pools, E. V. Wilson, a brakeman on
the Alaska Railroad, carried off
first honors, winning a total of
$800. He won the $5 pools at the
Portland and Terminal and two $1
pools at the Terminal. Mike Ereig.
Fairbanks drill man, wen a $1 min
ute pool at the Terminal, Ross Love
lace won the Baseball consolaltion j
pool, Fritz Nagel won the Healy
$1 minute pool and the N. C. pool
which was not complete, was di
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Reports from Fairbanks state that c
the slough at that point is running jr
full of water, with most of the ;
ice gone. There was threat of a r
flood yesterday, with a jam a short j.
distance below town, but there was a
a lowering of water during the j
night, indicating a general move- t
ment of ice down the slough. ! t
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BLOODED HORSES FIND FEW <
BUYERS IN GERMANY ;
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BERLIN, May 10—High cost of
upkeep and the general economic
depression have put the German
market for blooded horses in the
doldrums. Eighty animals were
registered for sale recently at the
close of the annual fashionable
horse show in Berlin, but only seven
of them found buyers. A stallion
Westphalian Association for breed
ing of Cold-Blooded Stock went for
19,500,000 marks (or nearly $1,
000), the highest sale of the
auction.
EXPERT GODFATHER RESIGNS
LONDON, May 10—After 33
years' service, a verger at Isle
worth Parish Church has retired.
He has attended 1,117 weddings
and has been god-father to 2,000 ba
bies.Absent-minded bridegrooms who
have on occasion forgot the wed
ding ring have been provided with
his church-door key as subsitute.
CUSTER SURVIVOR FOUND
WASHINGTON, May 10—One,
I more survivor of the Custer
| Massacre has been unearthed by the
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| Pension Bureau.
j He is Shuh-shee-ahsh, a Crown
Indian, now living on the Crow,
reservation in Montana, and is |
drawing a pension for services in,
the Indian Campaigns of 1876 and j
1877. Recent investigation of his,
case resulted in a pension certificate !
being issued. He escaped by mingl
ing with the Sioux and Cheyennes.
Dave Dunbar and Harry Madland,
pioneer salesman, arrived from the j
coast on the Tuesday train, enroute j
to Fairbanks. They will return to j
Nenana shortly and prepare for
their summer cruise along the Yu- j
kon river in their new power boat
which was built for them in the
States during the winter.
DUNCIL DICUSSES PLANS
FOR CONGRESSIONAL VISIT
The city council of Nenana has
tsumed the responsibility of see
g that Xenana is properly repre
■nted on the occasion of the pro
ved visit of a Congressional del
nation this summer. The matter
as brought to the attention of the
Idermen by a telegram from the
nchorage Chamber of Commerce,
•questing co-operation in receiv
lg the visitors when they reach
le coast and in escorting them o
er the railroad, and it was decided
y the council to inform the Anch
rage chamber that N’enana will eo
perate in every way possible. It is
le plan of the Anchorage chamber
) unite the Seward, Anchorage, Ne
ana and Fairbanks commercial
odies in a common movement for
le general benefit of the railroad
elt, the object being to arrive at
n understanding regarding the pro
er presentation of the important
eeds of the railroad belt.
Chief Engineer Frank Robinson,
f the public utilities, advised the
ouncil that it probably would be
ecessary to employ additional help
n the power plant in order that he
light have more time to devote to
is outside work. The council con
idered the advisability of employ
ig a licensed engineer to have gen
ral charge of the work in the pow
r house, but after considerable
iscussion the matter w'as left to
'hief Robinson for solution and fur
her recommendation.
Chief Robinson also called the
ttention of the council to the need
f a quantity of high grade coal, for
ise in case of fire, and he was in
truded to get the necessary fuel
nd provide storage for it, conven
ent to the boilers. The city is now
ising a very low-priced coal, suit
ble for ordinary use in the plant,
put it is thought a better quality
pill give better results for emergen
y firing.
Mrs. Pete Anderson appeared be
bre the council with a request for
treet improvement on upper Front
street, and the matter was referred
0 the street committee.
Chief of Police Alexander was in
truded to encourage property own
>rs to put their premises in order
ind he reported the spring clean-up
ileady well under way, with the
promise that the city will present
1 neat appearance by the time all
he frost is out of the ground.
The council ratified the action of
;he old council authorizing the final
idvertising of the delinquent tax
ist and the property will ultimately
pe sold under authority from the
listrict court, the order already
raving been issued.
Chief Alexander reported re
pairs to the water main satisfactor
ly made and the system now in
food working condition.
HOOK’S DIARY BRINGS BIG SUM
LONDON, May 10—The auto
graphed manuscript of the diary
Haptain Cook kept during his first
/oyage to the South Seas in 1760,
ras been sold at auction for 5,000
pounds to W. H. Ifould, librarian
»t the public library, Sydney, New
South Wales. The manuscript is to
pe sent to the Mitchell Library,
Sydney.