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THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
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NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOV. 11, 1922
NUMBER 373
EARTHQUAKE ROCKS SOUTH AMERICA
CHINESE RIVER STEAMER BURNS^200 LOSE UVES
: UNKNOWN SOLDIER GIVEN SILENT TRIBUTE FOR VALOR
FIRE ON CHINK RIVER BOAT
CAUSES BIG LOSS OF LIFE
SHANGHAI, Nov. 11—Fully two
kundred persons lost their lives yes
terday as the result of a fire on j
board the river boat Ta Shing, en
gaged in carrying passengers and
products between Shanghai and the
island of Tsuanming. off the mouth
of the Yangtsze river. It is believed
r that all were Chinese.
The panic-stricken passengers and i
crew made a rush in the single life
boat and many were swept over
boaTYi. Others jumped into the river
later to escape the flames and the
steamer drifted unmanned and blaz
ing, down the river, finally running
on to a bar opposite the industrial
section of Shanghai.
The disaster has been dismissed
* officially by the filing of brief police ‘
reports. There will be no investi
gation and it probably never will
be known definitely how many lost
their lives, but it is considered cer
tain the number will exceed 200.
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CHINESE BANDITS CAPTURE
AMERICAN MISSIONARIES
SHANGHAI. Nov. 11—Madame
Soderstrom, of the Lutheran mission
who was taken captive by Chinese
bandits and later released, reports
a that two American missionaries are
still prisoners in the hands of the
bandits, in Sonan province. Their
names are Forsberg and Lundeen.
American Minister Schurman has
been directed by Washington to
ask the Chinese government to se
cure the release of the captives.
CLEMENCEAU COMING TO U. S.
TO ARRANGE ENTENTE PACT
HAVRE. Nov. 11—Former Prime
Minister Clemenceau sailed for the
United States today on a self-ap
pointed mission to further an en
tente between the United States
and France.
BUBONIS PLAGUE AT HAVANA
HAVANA. Nov. 11—The discovery
of a case of bubonic plague aboard
the Spanish trans-Atlantic liner
Barcelona has resulted in placing the !
vessel in quarantine for seven days i
at Marcel greatly to the annoyance j
^ of the 264 passengers.
FORMER JUDGE SUICIDES
HONOLULU, Nov. 11—Horace
Worth Vaughn, former federal judge1
and a former member of Congress
from Texas, was found dead at his
home here yesterday, with a bullet
hole in his neck and a revolver by
his side. He had been ill for six
i
weeks prior to his death, with a
nervous breakdown.
WIRES ARE WORKING
NEW YORK, Nov. 11—Federal
Commissioner Hitchcock has post
poned until November 24 the hear
ing on the application for a warrant
for the removal of Captain Rosen
bluth to Tacoma, to stand trial for
the murder of Major Cronkhite. If
the commissioner issues the war
rant, Rosenbluth will be taken be
for a federal judge with a request
that his removal be ordered.
ARGUMENT IN PROGRESS
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 11—Argu
ments in the trial of Mrs. Clara'
Phillips, who is charged with the j
murder of Mrs. Meadows, opened
yesterday when Maxwell Duke, dep
uty district attorney, began a plea
♦ for the conviction of the defendant.
FREIGHT STEAMER BURNING
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 11—Wire
less messages received yesterday
stated that the freight steamer Nola
was afire in the Gulf of Mexico, 40
miles off the mouth of the Mississ
ippi river. Several steamers went to
the rescue.
Frank Spira went to Fairbanks
yesterday on a brief visit.
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MANY HOUSES RAZED IN CHILE;
TIDAL WAVE SWEEPS COAST
SUTHERLAND GAINING VOTES
AS RETURNS ARE REPORTED
JUNEAU, Nov. 11—Incomplete
returns from the four judicial di
visions of Alaska indicate that Dan
Sutherland has won a four to one
victory over his Democratic op
ponent.
Incomplete returns from the Sew
ard peninsula district indicate that
the legislative race is so close that
the winners will not be known until
all the votes have been reported.
Nome City, Cape Nome and Solo
mon give Fred Ayre. Republican
candidate for the senate, long term.
236, and Cochran, Independent. 210.
Brown, Independent candidate for
the senate short term, 230, and
Holt. Republican, 195. Wilson, Deck
er. Raelson and Nylan are the four
high candidates for representatives.
NATIVES TO MEET RIVALS
ON WASHINGTON GRIDIRON
SEATTLE, Nov. 11—Cool weather
and a dry field are promised for
the gridiron battle between the
University of Washington and Uni
versity of California elevens.
Experts hold out little hope for
a Washington victory but it is very
generally agreed that the Northern
boys will give the Golden Bear a
real fight.
Harvard aand Princetin Meet
CAMBRIDGE. Nov. 11—Harvard
and Princeton football teams will
meet here today, and the game is
the big feature of Eastern play
for the week. Princeton has never
won a game in the Harvard stadium
and Harvard has never won a de
cision over Princeton during the
time . that Fisher has been coaching
the Tigers. Harvard was defeated
last year at Princeton and in 1919
and 1920 the two teams battled to
a tie.
GAS EXPLOSION KILLS TWO
CHESTER. Pa., Nov. 11—Two
workmen were killed here today and
two injured in an explosion aboard
the tanker J. N. Pew, which was
undergoing repairs. The vessel was
wrecked, with a loss of half a mil
lion dollars. It is believed the ex
plosion was caused by gas.
JUDGE DIES SUDDENLY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 11 —
John Emmet Garland, judge of the
United States circuit court of ap
peals, Eighth judicial circuit, com
prising Western and Northwestern
states, died suddenly today at his
home here.
NATIVES STRONG FOR WET
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 11—The
majority against prohibition in this
state is growing steadily, as delayed
returns arrive. The wets now have
a majority of 24,627 votes.
SALVATION ARMY HAS FIRE
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 11—The
lives of the 100 inmates of the Sal
vation Army home in this city were
endangered yesterday by an early
morning fire, which damaged the
building to the extent of $10,000.
STULTZ PAYS PENALTY
FREDERICK. Md., Nov. 11—W.
A. Stukz, condemned to death for
the murder of John Adams, a police
man, on August 8, was hanged yes
terday. Stultz shot and woun '
deputy sheriffs who attempted to
seize an automobile in which he
was attempting to make his escape.
SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 11—Un
usually severe earthquake shocks
were felt in various parts of Chile
during the night. Reports state that
many houses were shaken down in
Cenral Chile and that other damage
resulted from the disturbances. It
is believed, however, that the loss
of live was small.
Tidal Ware On Coast
The earthquake was followed by
a tidal wave shortly after midnight
and many small vessels are reported
wrecked. Considerable damage was
done at the fishing settlement of
Antofagasta, north of Valparaiso.
Felt At Buenos Aires
BUENOS AIRES. Nov. 11—This
city was rocked by an earthquake
shortly after midnight last night
but the damage was nominal. It is
feared, however, that much damage
resulted in Central Chile.
Cablet Are Broken
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 11— Dis
patches received here today by cable
report a serious earthquake in the
vicinity of Iquique, Chile. Many
cables are reported to have been
broken by the disturbance and com
munication with South American to
day is much interrupted in conse
quence.
Five Hundred House* Down
SANTIAGO, Nov. llFive hundred
houses are reported to have beer.'
wrecked by last night's earthquake,
at Coquimbo. between Valparaiso
and Antofagasta. A number of lives
are reported to have been lost but
the extent of the damaee has not
yet been ascertained.
ALASKA PRODUCTS READY
FOR SEATTLE PRESS DINNER
SEATTLE, Nov. 11—Practically
every section of Alaska has advised
the eattle Chamber of Commerce
that native products requested will
be ready for the big: banquet which
will be held here on January 20
[ by the State Press association. The
committee has extended an invita
tion to attend to Governor Scott
C. Bone.
DUBLIN SCENE OF ATTACK;
TWO CIVILIANS ARE KILLED
DUBLIN', Xov. 11—There was
heavy firing in various parts of the
city last night, following a renewal
of the attack upon the barracks
by Irregulars. Two civilians were
killed and two soldiers wounded.
LIQUOR SHIPS ARE RELEASED
! WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 11
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon
has ordered the release of all for
eign vessels which have been seized
by American prohibition officers out
side the three mile limit, execept
in case where there was evidence
of communication with shore.
BANDITS TAKE PAYROLL
TRINIDAD. Col , Nov. 11—Two
masked bandits held up an automo
bile yesterday and captured a pay
roll of the .American Smelting & Re
fining Company, amounting to $14.
000.
BUILDING BOOM IN TOKIO
TOKIO, Nov. 11—Although Japan
is suffering from economic and
trade depression, Tokio is now un
dergoing an era of extensive build
ing construction. Several large busi
ness buildings are under way in
Marunouchi, the big business center
situated between the Imperial the
ater and the Tokio station, facing
the Imperial palace. Scores of resi
dences in foreign style also are be
ing built all over the city and su
burbs. The new Imperial hotel is al
most completed and another hand
some building, the Palace hotel, is
a four-story structure in native
white stone, trimmed in marble
and quartz.
NOTED WOMAN PASSES
PLYMOUTH. Mass.. Nov. 11—
Mrs. Mary Smith Lockw-ood, founder
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, died here on Thursday,
at the advanced age of 91 years.
The Juneau Empire claims that
sentiment in Southeastern Alaska
is not favorable to Delegate Suther
land's game bill.
HEARINGS WILL BE HELD
TO TALK FISH PROTECTION
SEATTLE, Nov. 11-—Announce
has been made by Henry O’Malley,
federal fish corrun:ss:oner, that a
hearing will be held here on Novem
ber 21 for the purpose of discussing
the restrictions to be established
under the Harding fisheries reserva
tion in Alaska. A hearing also will
be held in San Francisco before the
regulations are formulated.
It is claimed that ther ■ will be
little decrease in the pack of Alaska
canneries because the restrictions
are to be applied giaduallv.
RETURNS SHOW STANDING
OF THE 68th CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, D C.. No-. 11 -{
Unofficial but practically complete
returns from all sections of the
country show the exact lineup of
the Sixty-eighth Congress, insofar as
the house of representatives .5 con
cerned. The Republicans will have
225 members, the Democrat'- ?i 7,
Socialists one. Farm-Labo’ ore and
one Independent.
HUDSON BAY SHIP RETURNS
FROM FAR NORTH VOYAGE
Returning from the long trip to
Hersehel Island, the Hudson Bay
schooner Lady Kindersley arrived at
Ketchikan recently enroute to Van
couver. The captain, August Foel
mar, reported, says the Ketchikan
Chronicle, that he had not been
able to go as far east in the Arctic
as he had hoped because of the
heavy ice which did not move out,
and the consequent difficulty of
navigation.
The schooner went North with a
thousand tons of stores and pro
visions for the Hudson Bay sta
tions. Hersc-hel Island was reached
on August 30 and when it was seen
that further progress could not be
made to the east, with certainty of
getting back, or saving the ship. i‘
was decided to turn about and. on
September 11, the vessel arrived at
Point Barrow.
The fur catch in the far .North
has been good during the last year.
The schooner returned with a good
cargo of white fox skins, the chief
catch in the Arctic for the season.
While in the North the schooner
learned of the killing of a Hudson
Bay factor at one of the company’s
stations, and also of the murder of
a mounted policeman. Mounted police
were on the trail of the slayer.
The schooner left Vancouver for
the North last June.
The city council will meet in
regular session next Tuesday.
TESTIMONY AGAINST I. W. W.
DISCOUNTED BY AUTHORITIES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 11—
The department of commerce has
issued a statement in which denial
is made of charges made by W. E.
Townsend, in testimony given at
the trial of alleged I. W. W’s. at
Sacramento recently. Townsend de
clared that Wobblies employed in
the big packing plants during the
war, testing canned goods, deliber
ately passed condemned cans so as
to poison the soldiers in France.
The department of commerce de
nies that any such goods reached
France for the reason that Govern
ment inspection during the war
made it impossible for condemned
stock to reach the soldiers.
AUSTRALIANS MAKE PLANS
TO COMBAT GAMING MANIA
SYDNEY, N. S. W„ Nov. 11
Several aspects of gambling have
come before the states of the Aus
tralian Commonwealth and the New
South Wales government has out
lined proposals to combat the gam
ing mania, especially promiscuous
raffles and lotteries.
The new act calls for restrictions
of the Tattersalls Sweeps and the
Golden Casket, by which the Queens
land government obtains money for
the upkeep of its hospitals. It will
be made an offense for newspapers
to publish the result of these sweeps
punishable by a fine of -J00 pounds,
and the display upon any premises
of any information regarding a lot
tery will be punishable by the same
sentence.
The new act will restrict the sale
of tickets to the bazaar or fair
with which the lottery- is connected,
and provides that any person con
cerned in a raffle or lottery who
converts to his own use any of the
prizes of money raised shall be
liable to five years’ imprisonment.
ALASKA LEGION DELEGATE
RETURNS FROM BIG MEETING
Siler Hansen, who went to New
Orleans from Sitka to represent
ex-service men of Alaska at the an
nual convention of the American
legion at New Orleans, has return
ed to his home in the North, and
reports having had a most enjoyable
outing. He is connected with the
Government experiment station at
Sitka.
Hapsen joined the Washington
delegation at Seattle and went South
with them, but he was joined by
another Alaskan at New Orleans
and the two marched together in
the big parade, carrying the Alaska
banner, attached to a seven-foot
pole. It was some job, he declares,
carrying the big flag what seemed
to be scores of miles in the broil
ing sun of the tropical convention
city.
He heard General Pershing speak
at the convention and witnessed the
hasty departure of Colonel Forbes,
under fire of the delegates. Samuel
Gompers and Judge Landis also ad
dressed the convention.
When the vote was taken for a
continuation of the fight for adjust
ed compensation, the response of
the “ayes" was so heavy the build
ing fairly rocked.
Hansen presented a gavel, the gift
of the Valdez post, to the national
headquarters. The gavel was made
from the tusk of a walrus and the
horn of a mountain sheep.
UNKNOWN IS GIVEN WREATH;
BIG STATUE FOR PERSHING
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Nov. 11_
America’s tribute to her Unknown
Soldier, as paid through President
Harding:, was marked with simplicity
strikingly at variance with the splen
did ritual honors which marked his
homecoming a year ago today.
There was no spoken word today
to stir the echoes of solemn chords
and expressions of high resolve of
a year ago. There was only the dis
tant thudding of cannon, low com
mand and stilled flourish of trump
ets as the President, accompanied
by Secretary of War Weeks and
Secretary of the Navy Denby, placed
a -wreath upon the tomb of the
sleeping hero, and then silently de
parted.
California Honors Pershing
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 11—The
crowning feature of the Armistice
Day celebration here was the un
veiling, in Golden Gate park, of a
statue of General Pershing, carved
in heroic proportions. In attendance
at the unveiling was a guard of
, honor, made up of troops, bluejack
ets and marines.
Harding Sends Telegram
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 11—A
telegram was received from Presi
dent Harding today, congratulating
the people of San Francisco upon
their acquisition of the Pershing
statue. He declared that the statue
is a “deserving recognition of the
j services of a great soldier and
splendid citizen”.
I
M ADOO SAYS GOVERNMENT
CAN BEAR BURDEN OF BONUS
FULLERTON, Cal., Nov 11—In
fan Armistice Day address deliver
I here today, William McAdoo urged
'the payment of adjusted eompensa
jtion to former soldiers at the ex
; pense of the beneficiaries of the
Fordney-McCutnber tariff bill.
Assailing those who fought the
soldier bonus on the ground that it
would be a burden upon the nation,
| the former secretary of the U. S.
'treasury declared that it is “sheer
j hypocrisy" to say the country can
j not bear this relatively insignificant
burden when great subsidies are
! granted to private interests at the
I expense of the people. The purposes
j of the tariff cannot be successfully
j defended."
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BRITAIN DRAWS COLOR LINE:
WILL NOT LET SIKI APPEAR
PARIS, Nov. II—The Briti-h
home office ha<- announced that the
scheduled batiie between Siki and
Beckett will not be permitted to
take place on British soil Action is
taken on the ground tha Siki, be
ing a negro, and Beckett white,
their appearance in the ring would
j "arouse all sorts of passions’ .
HAWAIIANS DENOUNCE HULA
HONOLULU, Nov 11—Two an
cient and forgotten laws on the
statute books of Hawaii which still
are effective could be invoked to
suppress the hula-hula dance of
Hawaii, which is usually performed
j by a grass-skirted woman, according
i to an announcement made by John
1 A. Mathewman, territorial attorney
general, in connection with recent
efforts to abolish the hula exhibi
tions, now given mainly for the
entertainment of tourists. The an
nouncement followed the adoption
of a resolution by the Hawaiian
Civic club, composed of leading
Hawaiians, denouncing the hula as
a "libel upon the Hawaiian race
and its customs”. In connection
with the campaign against the hula,
the superintendent of schools, in a
recent address, declared that the
“so-called high society dancing is
not more immoral than the hula.”
The Nenana school board will
noid a meeting tonight.