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THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY. OCTOBER I, 1921
NUMBER 76
KANSAS MINERS QUIT JOBS AS PROTEST
COMMUNITIES TO BE URGED TO HELP WORKERS
JUDGE- RULES OWNERS OF SOPHIA MUST PAY CLAIMS
•INEMPLOYMENT PROBLEMS
PASSED ON TO COMMUNITIES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 1—
Tentative recommendations for the
emergency relief of unemployment
were completed yesterday, ready for
submission to the National Unem
ployment conference. The plan is
said to be based on the principle
that unemployment is a problem for
solution by individual communities,
with the aid of federal and state
governments, and the establishment
of representative emergency com
mittees in communities to co-operate
in finding jobs for the involuntary
idle and for the registration of all
unemployed
Other recommendations include es
tablishment of part time work by
manufacturers, thus increasing the
number of workers; also the opera
tion of factories and mills in the
making up of stock where possible
and the continuation of repair work
on a normal scale; the doing of re
pair and alteration work on office
buildings, hotels and homes during
the winter months instead of wait
ing until spring; the establishment
of part time work by municipalities,
the speeding of road building and
similar construction and the enact
ment by Congress of the pending
railway funding bill with the ex
penditure of funds conditioned on in
creased employment.
Methods for initiating emergency
measures for unemployment relief
are being studied by Secretary Herb
Hoover and the executive officers of
the conference today.
One plan under consideration con
templates a message to the govern
ors of the country and the mayors
of all towns with a population of
25,000 or more, asking their immed
iate co-operation to put the con
ference recommendations into effect.
FORTUNE FOUND IN FIELD
BLOOMINGTON, 111., Oct. 1—
While plowing a field this week on
his ranch near this city, Charles
Anderson unearthed bills, coin and
bonds having an aggregate value of
$35,000. The bonds have been ident
ified as part of the loot stolen from
the Farmers Bank at Benson, on
October 8, 1920.
DOUBTS WOMAN’S RIGHTS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 1—
Oscar Leser has filed a petition in
the supreme court questioning the
constitutionality of the woman suf
frage amendment. He has taken an
appeal from the decision of the state
court of Maryland, which upheld
the validity of the amendment.
New York Lands Pennant
NEW YORK, Oct. 1—The New
York club captured the American
league pennant here today, by de
feating the Philadelphia Americans,
five to three, before 25,000 fans.
The victory of the Yankees, which
is their first, ended the hardest
fought race in the history of major
league baseball.
GARDNER ABANDONS AUTO
PORTLAND, Oct. 1—The auto re
ported to have been stoled at Ray
mond, Washington, several days ago
by a man answering the description
of Roy Gardner, escaped California
mail bandit, has been recognized at
JfaacoHver, Washington. The police
say the car has been abandoned for
several days.
BANKER IN TROUBLE
SPRINGFIELD, Md., Opt. 1—R.
E. Melton, former cashier of the
Bank of Charity, in Dallas county,
has been placed under arrest on the
charge of robbing the bank and
then setting fire to the building,
which was destroyed on July 31.
U. S. Vote October 15
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 1—
The senate has reached an agree
ment to take the final vote on the
peace treaties on October 15
ALEXANDER HOWAT IN JAIL;
UNION MINERS QUIT PLACES
WITNESS SWEARS HE SAW
BRIDE AFTER APRIL 16
SEATTLE, Oct. 1—J. C. Deveny.j
a local contractor, took the stand
yesterday for the defense, in the
Mahoney murder trial, and swore
that he saw Mrs. Mahoney on May
31, six weeks after the date on
which the state alleges the aged
bride was murdered. The witness
said that he had not said anything
about it before because he would
have been “ridiculed too much."
Not Body of Mr*. Mahoney
E. T. Frsaw. a fireman, also testi
fying for the defense, declared that
the body found in the trunk in
Lake Union was not that of Mrs.
Mahoney. He explained that he had
met Mrs. Mahoney several times
and “knew her well.”
Si»ter Trie* To Help Him
Mrs. Delores Johnson, sister of
Mahoney, testified that she saw Mrs.
Mahoney on the night of April 16,
at ten o’clock, and that she talked
with her over the phone the follow
ing day. The cross examination of
this witness precipitated a tilt which
reached a climax when Mrs. Johnson
refused to answer the question as
to whether or not she had signed
the name of Kate Mahoney to an
alleged power of attorney. She re
fused to answer on the ground that
it might tend to incriminate her.
Defense Rests
The defense rested its case yes
terday afternoon, following which
rebuttay commensed.
HARD TO GET A JURY
TWIN FALLS, Oct. 1—With 11
men in the jury box, the trial of!
Mrs. Lyda Southard was again in- i
terrupted today when the talemen
were exhausted. Forty more pros
pects will be brought into court on
Monday.
HARDING ASKS FOR PRAYER
WASHINGTON', D. C., Oct. 1—
President Harding has issued a pro
clamation calling upon the Ameri-1
can people to devote two minutes to ;
silent prayer on Armistice Day, at!
noon, at which time the body of an
unknown soldier will be laid at rest i
in Arlington cemetery.
ERTLE COMES BACK
DES MOINES, Oct. 1—Kewpie.
Ertle, of St. Paul, former bantam
weight champion of the world,:
staged a come-back here last night
when he put Johnny Ritchie, of
Chicago, to sleep in the third round.
The men were scheduled to go ten
rounds.
LONGSHOREMEN ACCEPT CUT
NEW YORK, Oct. 1—The Interna-!
tional Longshoremen’s Association
has announced the acceptance of
wage cuts approximating 23 per \
cent.
' cent, effective yesterday, along the
Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
WAGE ACTION POSTPONED
j INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 1—The re
' commendation of President Lewis,
for the postponement until Febru
ary of the formulation of demands
to be included in the new wage
agreements, has been overwhelming
ly adopted by the convention of the
United Mine Workers.
DENVER, Oct. 1—Charley White,
of Chicago, lightweight, landed a
! knockout here last night in the fifth
I round of what was to have been a
j ten-round bout. Bob Ward, of St.
I Paul, was the victim.
PITTSBURG, Kan., Oct. 1—All
of the coal miners in the Kansas
district are idle today as a result
of the appearance of Alexander
Howat and August Dorchy, mine
union officials, to begin serving six
months sentences imposed upon them
for calling a strike last February in
defiance of the Industrial Court law
of Kansas.
The convention of the United
Mine Workers voted to direct How
at to instruct the men to return to
their posts, which was considered a
victory for the convention forces
under President Lewis. But it did
GRAND JURY READY TO PUT
SKIDS UNDER U. S. ATTORNEY
LOS ANGELES. Oct. 1—The
county grand jury, after an investi
gation extending over a period of
three months, is now “ready to take
action against District Attorney Tom
Lee Woolvine’’, it has been announc
ed by Foreman Chas. L. Elmenoorf,
who adds that “we have completed
our investigation and will ask the
attorney general to send a special
deputy to aid us in handling the
case, which may be the trial of
Woolvine on charges of misuse of
funds, although we can not say just
what course may be decided upon.’’
The grand jury has delivered a
partial report, asking for a special
prosecutor because Woolvine is an
“interested party.”
KLAN LEADER SAYS ORDER
WILL UPHOLD THE LAW
CLEVELAND, Oct. 1—C. W.
Love, of Indianapolis, grand goblin
of the Ku Klux Klan, has made a
statement to the local police in
which he says the organization has
700,000 members throughout the
country. He also says that any mem
ber caught night riding or taking
part in tar and feather parties, will
be handed over to the police by the
officers of the klan. Offending mem
bers, he said, also would be expelled
from the organization.
CLEVELAND HAS A CHANCE
CHICAGO, Oct. 1—The Cleveland
Americans defeated Chicago here
yesterday, thus retaining their place
in the scramble for the American
league pennant.
POSSE RIDDLES NEGRO
ALLENDALE, S. C., Oct. 1—M.
Priester, a negro, accused of the
murder of two negro women, was
shot to death yesterday by a posse.
Priester fired on his pursuers from a
thicket, whereupon the searchers rid
dled him with bullets.
QUAKE ALARMS UTAH
SALT LAKE, Oct. 1—All of the
brick buildings at Elsinore, 160
miles south of this city, were vacated
today, following three severe earth
quake shocks. Considerable damage
is reported.
V—
not work, for Howat replied that he
would not obey the convention order.
In a statement issued by him yester
day, he said “the only way we will
advise our men to return to work is
under the same custom and con
ditions and privileges existing be
fore the strike.”
In consequence of the voluntary
walkout of the union miners, as a
demonstration against the imprison
ment of Howat and Dorchy, practi
cally all the mines in the state are
closed. The strikers declare they will
not return to work until their presi
dent is released.
SMOOT WOULD ELIMINATE
MANY BRANDS OF TAXES
WASHINGTON D. C., Oct. 1—
Senator Smoot has prosped an
amendment to the revenue bill, now
under consideration, providing for
a sales tax of three per cent. He
explains that this would be in sub
stitution for “all the various war
taxes, excise, luxury, stamp, capital
stock, transportation, telegraph, in
surance, soft drink, ice cream, cos
metic, amusement and all of the
other 57 varieties of obnoxious, dis
criminatory forms of taxation”.
Under this plan the corporation
and income tax would remain at
ten per cent but there would be no
change in tobacco, liquor and inheri
tance taxes.
SANITY LEAGUE ADVOCATES
RETURN TO MILD BEVERAGES
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 1—The Min
nesota Sanity League, a new organ
ization just launched in this city,
has announced as its policy the dis
couragement of “white mule” drink
ing.
The league “invites the coopera
tion of all good citizens who oppose
moonshine as a national drink and
favor, in its place, the sale of beer
and wine.”
EUROPE IS MAKING PLANS
TO OPPOSE DRY INVASION
LONDON, Oct. 1—The anti-pro
hibition congress, which is now in
session at Lousanne, has oppointed a
commission to oppose the proposed
invasion of Europe by the interna
tional dry movement originating in
the United States.
TIPPERARY SCENE OF FIGHT
DUBLIN, Oct. 1—A conflict be
tween the police and civilians at
Tipperary last night resulted in the
death of one civilian and the wound
ing of two civilians and two police
men.
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 1—The ex
plosion of 1,000 pounds of powder
at the plant of the Excelsior Powder
Company, resulted yesterday in the
death of one workman and the in
jury of four others.
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Ask the Moose
what the
J. J. Davis Class
means
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TRAINMEN VOTE TO STRIKE;
UP TO COMMITTEEMEN NOW
CHICAGO. Oct. 1—President VV.
j G. Lee, of the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen, has dispatched the
| general chairmen of the unions,
numbering 57, to their homes with
written instructions to call their re
; spective grievance committees to
; gether for the purpose of acting on
| the strike vote recently taken,
i In announcing his action, President
; Lee said “if the 186,000 members of
j the organization, of whom more
i than 90 per cent voted to strike,
! are supported by the grievance com
' mittees, the strike will be called.”
j Notwithstanding the result of the
! vote, however, the impression con
tinues to prevail that the strike,
even if ordered, never will take
I place. The question at issue is
! whether or not the organization will
accept the 12 per cent wage cut
. ordered by the Federal Labor Board
PARAMOUNT CAMERAMAN
HERE TO GET MATERIAL
W. G. Stoeser, representative of
i the Paramount moving picture com
pany, is a recent arrival in Xenana,
having come to the Interior for the
purpose of filming the country along
the Government railroad in connec
tion with a campaign of publicity
which the Paramount people will
I inaugurate as soon as the necessary
pictures can be arranged in the form
of travalogues. Mr. Stoeser was ac
companied by his wife, over the
railroad and Broad Pass trail, and
will be in the Interior a week or
more getting the pictures desired,
and information to go with them and
with a number of syndicated news
paper articles on Alaska. The plan
of the cameraman is to start his
work in the Fairbanks district and
work back toward the coast.
| Mr. and Mrs. Stoeser already have
spent some time on the Alaska
i coast and figure that the present
| trip will occupy their time until near
the end of the year. The films will
be ready for the screen in February
and they are calculated to give Out
siders a real insight into life and
I industries of a land with which they
: are at present very unfamiliar, not
■ withstanding the many articles which
have heen written on Alaska.
Particular attention will be given
to the Government railroad, at the
reqirest*%’f Chairman Mears, of the
; Alaskan Engineering Commission,
1 and should prove interesting as well
! as instructive to theater-goers in
other parts of the world.
Mr. Stoeser says that he has been
very cordially received in all parts
of the territory, Alaskans being
| quick to recognize the possibilities
of advertising through the medium
of moving pictures. Only once on the
trip was he refused permission to
operate his camera and that was at
the big copper properties of the
Guggenheims at Kennecott. They did
not want the mines filmed, and Mr.
Stoeser was comelled to come away
] very much disappointed.
IRISH PLAN DRIVE FOR FUNDS
CHICAGO, Oct. 1—Steve Omara,
representative of Dale Eireann, has.
announced that the collection of
funds in the United States for use
in Ireland, has been stopped, pend
ing completion of plans for a $20,
000,000 Irish loan campaign to be
, launched in November.
OWNERS OF SOPHIA MUST
PAY CLAIMS SAYS COURT
SEATTLE, Oct. 1—The Canadian
Pacific Steamship Company may not
be limited in liability for the wreck
of its steamship, the Princess Sophia
as to claims of dependents for the
lives of passengers and baggage, but
may be limited in liability for the
cargo loss, according to a decision
rendered this week by Federal Judge
Jeremiah Neterer. The decision cov
ered 25 pages.
This opens the way for awards of
several million dollars to dependents
of the 349 passengers who lost their
lives in the wreck of the vessel in
Lynn Canal several years ago. The
claims already filed total two and a
half million dollars and it is ex
pected that claims aggregating an
other million will be filed immed
iately. The court held his “conclu
sion unavoidable, that a proper look
out was not maintained and that the
vessel was going at excessive speed
and either one or both these omis
sions and commissions was the prox
imate cause of the foundering of the
ship and death of the passengers.
There is less excuse for colliding
w'ith a fixed object than with a mov
ing vessel. With ordinary care on
the part of the lookout and moder
ate speed the catastrophe would have
been prevented.”
Two hundred and fifty claims now
on file are for 110,000 each and are
death claims and not for baggage.
The attorneys of the company
have given notice of appeal.
MOUNTED SCAFFOLD SINGING
CHICAGO, Oct. 1—Carl Wanderer
condemned to death for the muder
of the wife and unborn child of the
“ragged stranger”, went to the scaf
fold yesterday singing “Old Pal, why
don’t you answer me?” He continued
to sing while the noose was been
placed in position and was still
singing the popular song when the
trap was sprung.
SLEUTH IN THE TOILS
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 1-^J, H.
Dunlay, private detective, who re
cently swore to a complaint charging
David Bender, fugitive Maryland
convict, with the murder of Father
Hestlin, was placed under arrest
by the local police yesterday and
formally charged with perjury in
connection with his murder com
plaint.
R. R. OFFICER KILLS TWO
VISALIA, Oct. 1—Two men who
were riding a freight tram, were
shot and killed yesterday by a spe
cial officer. The men were requested
to get off the train and, when they
attacked the officer, he opened fire
on them and killed both.
FOUR SUSPECTED ARRESTED
SACRAMENTO, Oct. 1—Four -sus
pects have been placed under arrest
in this city in connection with the
murder of E. E. Moorehead, an S. P.
brakeman, who was killed on Thurs
day night near Stockton.
IRISH ACCEPT INVITATION
LONDON, Oct. 1—According to
information received in this city yes
terday, President Devalera has whit
ten a reply to the latest and final
note of Premier Lloyd Gorge, in
which the Irish leader accepts the
invitation to attend the conference
on October 11, upon the conditions
laid down by the British premier.
REICHSTAG APPROVES TREATY
BERLIN, Oct. 1 —The reichstag
has passed a bill ratifying the peace
treaty between Germany and the
United States. Communists were the
only members opposing the action.
LEAGUE ASKED TO HELP
GENEVA, Oct. 1—The republics
of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan
have appealed to the League of Na
tions for assistance in checking the
Bolshevik movement.