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THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA. ALASKA. THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1923
NUMBER 482
HIRAM JOHNSON OPPOSES WORLD COURT
NEW MINNESOTA SENA TOR TALKS REVOLUTION
PRESIDENT DISCUSSES FRIENDSHIP—U S.. AND CANADA
HARDING TELLS CANADIANS
FRIENDSHIP BEST SECURITY
VANCOUVER, B. C. July 26—
President Harding, in an address de
livered here today—the first visit
ever made by an American president
to Canada—pointed to the century
old friendship between the people of
Canada and the people of the Unit
ed States as proof to the nations of
Europe that public will, rather than
public force, is the key to interna
tional peace, "and is it not a grat
ifying circumstance that it has fal
len to the lot of us North Ameri
cans. living amicably for more than
a century under different flags, to
present the most striking example
yet produced of that basic fact. If
only the European councries would
heed the lesson conveyed by Canada
and the United States, they would
strike at the root of their disagree
ments and, in their own prosperity,
forget to inveigh the constancy that
fa ours.”
In conclusion, the President advis
ed the people of the Dominion to
guard against giving encouragement
“to any end looking to Canada's
annexation by the United States.”
INSANE SQUAD FREE
CHESTER 111., July 26—Fifteen
of forty-one insane convicts, who
escaped from the state hospital for
the criminal insane here have been
recaptured. One insane patient was
killed and two guards wounded in
the break from the hospital yester
day.
MORE GERMAN MARKS
BERLIN. July 26—Berman mon
ey presses are reeling off notes to
tie amount of more than two trillion
marks daily, the output having been
speeded up to enable the Reiehsbank
to supply the demand for notes of
large denominations. Marks are as
plentiful now in Germany as phony
bills at a Pioneer ’98 reproduction.
STEAMER ALASKA COMING
WITH FEW FOR INTERIOR
The steamship Alaska sailed from
Seattle on July 21 with 258 passeng
ers including 112 round trip. Those
enroute to Seward and Interior
points are: J. A. Hanthwav, Mrs.
R. A. Erickson, S. K. Capps, Mrs.
B. M. Stone, A.A. Larch, Mrs.
Larch, J. Cassford, H. C. Palmer,
Worf Simson, G. S. Millette.I. W.
Biesdiengsley, Mrs. I. Scandlett,
Mrs. H. Utermark. A. Livingston,
Cora Aldrich, Miss I. Casper, Mrs.
H. Kilruff, Mrs. I. Smith, J. G. Os
mundson, Mrs. C. T. Beltner, Mrs.
S. H. Drummond, O. Borgseth, Mrs.
F. Blain, Mrs. R. S. Wilson, the
Misses Wilson, Miss Lucas, Miss
Chamun, Tom Maki W. Head, P. N.
Lablent, J. T. Haynes and 21 steer
age.
EVANS ENROUTE
With 225 passengers, including
20 laborers for the Alaska Anthrac
ite Railroad, and about 50 excur
sionists. mainly from Iowa, the Ad
miral Evans sailed for Seward on
July 19. The following are for Se
ward and Interior points: Mrs. J. R.
Cobb, Emily Protz. Mrs W. H.
Howard, Master Howard, J. R.
Plegeley.
Frank Stacey was a guest at the
Southern this afternoon from Eska.
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CALIFORNIA SENATOR AVERS
PEOPLE SHOULD DECIDE POLICY
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AMERICAN GUNBOAT TARGE 1
FOR CHINK SHARPSHOOTER
CANTON, July, 26.—Previous
the recent capture of Wuehow 1
the Constitutionalists, the Unrt<
States gunboat Pampanga, whi
patrolling the West river protectir
Amarican interests, was fired on l
Chinese artillery and rifles at D
sing, 27 miles below Wuehow, no
withstanding the fact that the sh
was flying quite large America
flags. It was the first time in the
history of West river that an Amei
can boat was fired on.
The Pampanga, in self defene
returned the fire and the actic
lasted ten minutes, following whi<
Liut. Lelan Lovett, commander <
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the gunboat, demanded and receive
an apology from the Chinks. The:
were no American casualties.
The American steamer Alice Dc
lar and a British vessel escorted l
:the American gunboat Monocac
also -were fired upon near Chun:
1 king. The gunboat returned the fii
and did considerable damage.
SAYS RUSSIAS' FUTURE NOW
RESTS WITH SPECULATOR
PETROGRAD. (By Mail)—“On
two profitable careers are open 1
Russia’s bright young men toda
' and they are speculation or banditi
a bearded old civil engineer told t!
writer while riding on the train fro:
Moscow to Petrograd recently.
This engineer, who accupies a
important post with the state rai
way administration, said that 1
earned a salary which is the equi’
alent of about $15.00 a month. H
son, who is a speculator and ai
mittedly not over scrupulous in tt
way he turns his profits, make
fifty times that amount.
“Our salaries are so low in tl
state service that no ambitious your
man, particularly if be is marriei
can reconcile himself to acceptin
them. There fore to win a fortur
or live comfortably, he must bi
come one of that hated class i
Russia and elsewhere, a speculate
The only other lucrative professio
is that of a bandit, or hold-up ma:
“People who blame the speculi
tors forget that it probably will t
they, with their quickly secured pro
its and faculty of taking lor
chances, who will ultimately bail
up Russia. It is not a long c>
from speculating in merchandise 1
taking a chance on building a rai
road or developing a mine. The
are the pioneers, breaking away
from old Russian traditions and b
coming men of business. Exactly tl
same kind of pioneers or speculi
tors in your Wall Street helped buil
up America.”
FIRE THREATENS WYNARD
WYNARD, Sask.. July 26—Fii
iwhich last night threatened the bu
iness section of this city, was e:
anguished early today after seve
business houses had been burned.
-1 NEW YORK, July 26—Senator;
Hiram Johnson, of California, who
S returned from Europe this week,
has taken issue with President Hard
0 ing on the world court proposition.
'> At a dinner given in his honor last
^ night by a committee composed
'e largely of men who supported Roose
£ velt for President in his third party
Y campaign of 1912 declared that
America should stay out of the
world court and League of Nations,
P and that the foreign policy of the
n United States should be decided at
the polls in 1924.
*■ The senator said: “Nobody in
Europe cares a rap about an inter
e, national court but many care very
n much whether we get into it. No
h body expects a world court to solve
>f any provocation international prob
d lems but many expect that if the
■e United States can be lured into k,
the United States is on the way.
1- not only to the League of Nations
y but to full participation in European
y affairs.-’
!- Johnson said further that a!
though the question had been set-,
tied in 1920, it had recurred, and
that he agreed with former Justice
Clark and Hamilton Holt, league
! advocates, that the question of for
;eign policy should “come frankly
j and fairly and honestly” before the
i people so that they might decide
; “whether they wish to pai :icipate
in the European political mess or fol
low a policy that thus far has been
ours—that has brought us our fate,
our prosperity, our happiness, our
glory.”
In the opinion of Senator John-'
son, an international court will not i
stop war or even have the slightest
effect upon wars.
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Ha* One Supporter
CONCORD, N. H. July 26—Unit
ed States Sena or George H. Moses,
Republican, has telegraphed Senator
Johnson as follows: “You said it.
There are two of us anyway.” He
referred to the Californian's denun
ciation of the world court and
League of Nations.
W. C. T. U. TO CELEBRATE
50 YEARS OF ENDEAVOR
s COLUMBUS, iBy Mail)—All the
surviving members of the crusades
y of 1874 in the field of temperance
0 or their nearest relatives, will be
7 present at the fiftfeth annuel con
y vention of the National Women’s
e Temperance Union here September
n 4 to 14, and arrangements are al
ready on foot to make the event
one of historic interest,
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, The premier spectacle intended to
call to mind the fact that fifty
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years of temperance endeavor have
passed, and the success that has a:
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1 tended these efforts, will be the
“March of Allegiance to the Con
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strtution,” to be held September 8.
The early temperance crusades, the
growth of the organization and the
development of its work will be pic
s tured in this parade with floats and
’ banners.
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dred leading women has been formed
to arrange for the convention,
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WALES WEARS MANY SUITS
HARROW, (By Mail)—The
: Prince of Wales is in the front ranks
i when it comes to quick change ar
. tists, as was witnessed during a re
cent five-hour visit to the famous
Harrow school.
The prince arrived at noon dress
ed in the uniform of a colonel of
the Welsh guards and inspected the
Officers Training Corps. He changed
into morning clothes to lunch with
the headmaster, and then put on
flannels for an hour at rackets.
Afterwards he donned a lounge
suit for tea, but he kept this on
when he drove back to the palace.
McGILL GOES TO MARTIN
The Jimmy McGill Bridge gang
e has been moved to Martin where
(- there are several small bridges to
c- drive. The driver and entire camp
n outfit passed through Nenana this
morning enroute to Martin.
GERMAN GIRL STUDENTS
ARE MAKING BRAVE FIGHT
DRESDEN (By Mai])—Ringing
church bells is the occupation a
girl student in one of the German
universities has adopted as a means
of piecing out her inadequate in
come. She also did fac:ory work and
mending until a gift from the stu
dents of Vassar College provided her
with money enough to buy meal
tickets for the student's mess. Now
she is able to devote more time to
her studies. The students’ n \-scs
give two hot meals a day at a cost
in American money of two cents,
but many of the women students
cannot afford even this small sum.
Many girls are trying to live on
only one hot meal a day, and conse
quently the number forced to leave
the university and high schools be
cause of illness is very large. Even
the two ho: meals provided in the
messes fall far short of providing
adequate nourishment They contain
no meat or fats of any sort, and are
chieftly boiled vegetables and cereals
SAYS MEXICO NEEDS ARTISANS
MEXICO cm’, (By Mail)—
Storming of executive offices by
office-seekers at a ratio of 100
applicants for every government post
has prompted General Calles, sec-1
retary of government and a presi
dential possibility for 1924, to de
clare for more manuel training and
less arts and science schools in
Mexico.
“Mexico should create practical
men, not social parasites,” he is
quoted as asserting. “The tendency
to attempt to create professional
men is a mistake. Of every 100
students hardly 20 secure degrees,
and the remaining 80 dedicate them
selves to securing public office,”
J. H. Irving, well known Seattle '
tailor, is paying Nenana a brief
visit, having come down from Fair
banks on the last train.
AIR FLIVVER DOES 65 MILES
AN HOUR AT HIGH ALTITUDE
LONDON, (By Mail)—Last years
dream of aerial flivvers has come
true. An experimental glider fitted
with twin engines of five horsepow
er and two tiny propellors has, in
its first test flight, hit up a speed of
65 miles an hour and attained a
height of 8,500 feet. The flight was
made from the airdrome at Yympne,
within :wo hours after the little
plane had been unpacked from a
motor lory.
It seemed easy to assemble the
many parts and not at all difficult
from a financial standpoint, to keep
it in the air, the gasoline consump
tion being much less than for a
small automobile.
The propellors, each a yard in
length, are at the back of the
front plane, where a chain connects
them with the engine. The pilot
sits in front. The span of the front
wings measures only 33 feet, and
the length from head to tail is 12
feet. There is hardly any undercar
riage, the landing wheels being at
tached to the body itself. ,
The new glider will be entered in
the various European gliding con- <
tests this sumer. They are sure
to produce even greater sensations
than those of a year ago, since the <
interim use of small powered engines ;
in airplanes has made distinct pro- ]
gress. i
CANADA HAS HOLDUP
TORONTO, July 26—Provincial
police are scouring Ontario for six
bandits who yesterday fought a pis
tol battle with a dozen bank mes
sengers in Toronto’s financial dis
trict and escaped with $130,000 af
ter wounding three of the bank em
ployes. Word was received here to
day that the ashes of a car in
which the bandits are believed to
lave escaped, were found, still
•mouldering, on the garrison road
between Buffalo and Port Erie.
Ontario.
CONDEMN REFORMERS
VANCOUVER B. C. July 26— '
rhe maudlin sentiment of would
le reformers came in for a round
i
if condemnation at last night’s ses
sion of the Northwest Association of
Sheriffs and Police convention. The
aw enforcement officers were a unit'
n declaring that the laxity ^iown in
he punishment of criminals in thou
sands of courts is hindering the
work of the police and making it
difficult for them to give protection 1
STEEL TRUST ACTING
NEW YORK, July 26—Presidents ‘
>f corporations and manufacturing
subsidiaries of the United States
dteel corporation are in session here i
oday for the purpose of discussing <
he elimination of the twelve-hour i
lay in the steel industry. The meet- 1
ng was called by Judge Gary, head i
>f the big corporation. i
MAGNUS JOHNSON WARNS
NATION ACTION NEEDED
ST. PAUL. July 26—Revolution
—political, industrial or even re
sort to arms—faces the United
States “if conditions confronting
the laboring man and the farmer
are not changed," in the opinion of
Magnus Johnson, who was recently
elected to the United States senate
on the Farmer-Labor ticket in this
'tate.
“We only think the same thine
that happened in Russia cannot
happen in this country’’, he said to
day in a statement given to a re
presentative of The Associated Press
‘But don’t fool yourself.” he con
cluded. “it could happen here be
fore you knew what was going on.’’
WOMEN MAKE EXCELLENT
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
LONDON, (By Mail)—English
women are turning their at.ention
to professional vocations formerly
confined exclusively to men. A
lumber of them in London are en
raged in civil mechanical and elec
trical engineering, and there are at
east half a dozen firms of women
constructors who have completed
arge building contracts.
Electric lighting is a branch of
lomestie engineering which seems to
ittract many women. They perform
heir work more from a housewife's
ooint of view than do men. One
irm of women electricians has -uc
•essfully completed several contracts
'or lighting country houses with
dectricity.
In Hertfordshire three women are
awyers, three are tinsmiths, two aie
lentists, four are doctors, twelve
ire moving picture or circus pro
irietors, one is a wireless operator
hree window-dres-ers, one is a sad
ller and one an undertaker.
ELSIE FERUGSON FREE
PARIS, July 26—Elsie Ferguson.
American actress has been granted
i divorce from Thomas Benedict
31arke, to whom she was married >n
<ew York in 1916. The decree was
'ranted on the grounds of extreme
ndifference, desertion and failure to
irovide.
INDICTMENTS QUASHED
NEW YORK. July 26—Indict
nents charging George Maxwell
vith foregry and the mailing of
‘poison pen” letters to Allen F.
Ryan arid others, a tacking the
character of Mrs. Ryan and half a
lozen other women, were dismissed
oday by General Sessions Judge
dclnty.
CR1QUI FIGHTS TONIGHT
EW YORK, July 26—Eugene
Iriqui, Champion featherweight of
he world, and Johnny Dundee will
neet at the Polo grounds tonight
n a 15-round battle for the cham
lionship. Boxing experts are all
ure who the winner of tfoe bout will
>e but they are sure in opposite
lirections. Both of the fighters
re confident of winning.
SOLON ON TRIAL
COMANCHE, Texas. July 26—
iix jurors in the county court today
re preparing to hear the testimony
n the case against Congressman
Slanton, who is charged with libel
ng former Congressman Oscar Call
way, who opposed Blanton in 1922.