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THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA. SATURDAY, MAR. 31, 1923.
NUMBER 432
NEW BILL SEEKS CONTROL OF FISHERIES
LENINE NEAR PEA TH - TROTSK Y PLANNING COUP
RUSSIA HEEDS APPEAL-DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED
ANCHORAGE PAPER TELLS
ABOUT CHAMBER MEETING
The following account of the
Chamber of Commerce meeting held
at Anchorage this week, at which
a Col F. Mears and Col. J. G.
Steese addressed the members, and
refernce to which was made in dis
patches received by the News on
Thursday, appeared in the Anchor
age Times on the day following
the meeting:
In a few well chosen words Col.
Steese paid a tribute to the genius
of Colonel Mears in relation to his
labors in constructing the Alaska
railroad, saying that in obeying the
mandate of the higher powers at
Washington he was fortunate in hav
ing placed at the head of a first
class railroad that would be a mon
ument to Colonel Mears. Colonel
Steese reiterated his statements as
published in The Times to the ef
v feet that his first attention, in con
sonance with the routine of the rail
road would be to extend road feed
ers, and take whatever steps pre
sented themselves, or making the
road a self-sustaining institution;
that already the road was earning a
part of its operating expenses and
tht it was hoped to increase this
business as well as secure other
f business from outside, inferentially
referring to the tourist traffic.
Colonel Mean Speak*
Rising on request of President
Spaulding for a few words. Colonel
Means surprised the assembled guests
by announcing that the first inti
mation he had of his successor be
ing chosen came through reading
the newspaper dispatches from
▼ Washington. In this connection he
said he felt that he should have
been allowed, under any circumstan
ces, to remain until the final touches
were given to the railroad project,
and intimated that Secretary Fall
had not acted in full good faith. He
said he had been in Washington for
some time and in touch with the de
partments and was surprised that he
was not apprised of the change.
However, he, as an army officer,
must bow to the mandate of orders.
Colonel Mears then paid a merited
tribute to the loyalty and efficiency
of the great organization he had
* built up in the Alaskan Engineering
commission, saying that in view of
■this efficiency and loyalty, had he
exercised a choice he would have
named one of his assistants as chief
to succeed him. He pointed out the
difference betwen maintaining loyal
ty and discipline in a citizen army
of industry as against the regular
army, and expressed it as his be
lief that the great organization he
had built up was actually by loyalty
rather than through methods ordin
arily employed in the army.
Reviewing his experiences as a
^ railroad engineer Colonel Mears said
he believed he was capable of judg
ing efficiency and in the staff and
employes of the Alaskan Engineer
ing commission he envisioned all
that was calculated to express these
qualities.
CARTOONIST WINS PRIZE
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 31—Miss
Delora Angell, heiress to forty mil
lion and Lester Norris, newspaper
* cartoonist, were married at Pase
t dena this morning. The bride is the
niece of John W. (Beta Million)
Gates, whose fortune she inherits.
FOSTER INTRODUCES MEASURE
TO SETTLE FISHERIES DISPUTE
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LENINE ON DEATH BED;
TROTSKY PLANS FUTURE
LONDON, Mar. 31—A report re
ceived in this city says that confi
dential advices received at Helsing
fors from Moscow report Lenine dy
ing. The sroke of paralysis which
deadened his right arm is now
spreading to his body; it is thought
he cannot long survive.
The report also says that Trotsky
as soon as Lenine is dead, will es
tablish a military dictatorship, head
ed by himself and four or five as
sistants.
LANSING TREATY ANNULLED
IN FAVOR NEW AGREEMENT
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WASHINGTON, D. C. Mar. 31—
-The celebrated Lansing—Ishii agree
j ment by which the United States in
: 1917 recognized Japanese “special
; interests” in China, has been can
celled by mutual agreement of both
governments. A new understanding
has been reached, based primarily or
the Nine Power Pact, written by the
Arms conference, and regarded a:
more effectively applying the “prin
ciples of the open door or equality
of opportunity in China."
SOUTHERN TONGUES STILLED
MOB VICTIMS FEAR BEATING
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1 BIRMINGHAM, Mar. 31—Flog
i ging mobs have imlanted such feat
into the hearts of their victims ir
this part of the country that it is
next impossible to induce them tc
appear in court to testify regarding
the activities of their aggressors
according to the report of the Jef
ferson County.
NEW ALASKA CABLE WILL
HAVE LATE ATTACHMENTS
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SEATTLE, Mar. 31—The Wash
ington correspondent of the Seattlt
Times reports that Genera! Squiers
chief of the Signal Corps who has
been working on problems of cable
transmissin, has worked out a num
ber of devices which will be applied
to the new Alaska cable ns soon as
it is installed, and which will make
it four times as fast as any now in
I use.
AUTO—TRAIN—FIVE DIE
j COLUMBUS, Mar. 31—Five per
! sons were killed and a number ser
lously injured yesterday when z
fast Big Four passenger train hi!
an automobile at a grade crossing
near this city. The engine left th«
track and turned over, with foui
pulmans on top of it.
EASTER—FAIR AND COLD
WASHINGTON, D. C. Mar. 31—
The weather bureau has issued z
bulletin in which the prediction i;
made that Easter, in the whols
j country east of the Rockies wil
j be fair and cold, Cold wave warn
! mgs have been posted in Ohio, Ken
1 tucky and West Virginia. The fore
; cast in other states indicates contin
ued cold weather.
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is to be the duty of the Territorial
legislature to adopt the suggestions
made by Governor Scot; C. Bone
in his biennial message to the law
makers, relative to action on the
fisheries question. Representative
Frank Foster of the Third division,
has introduced a fisheries measure
similar to the memorial drafted and
introduced by Senator Britt in 1921
and approved by the senate during
that session, but which failed of ad
option in the house. The bill pro
vides for absolute territorial control
of the fisheries through an appoin
tive commission and sets up a sys
tem of fees and licenses. Represen
tative Foster, in introducing the
I measure said he did not expect that
: it would pass without amendment
but he expected that it would pro
i vide the legislature with a concrete
basis for building a suitable code.
The suggestion of Governor Bone,
referred to by Foster, was that the
legislature formulate legislation equi
table to all interests and the law
makers were assured that such a
measure would have the indorsement
of the administration and the sup
port of Secretary Hoover.
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APARTMENT HOUSE EQUIPPED
WITH RADIO OUTFIT
ST. LOUIS, Mar. 31—Probably
the most startling indication f the
great interest being manifested in
radio was given here this week when
a large advertisement appeared in
the local papers of a 54 apartment
building just being completed in
wihich every apartment is supplied
with comlete radio equipment.
! In the same issue of the news
paper there were two full columns
, of advertisements of different radio
sets both new and old and parts
for sale and exchange, a small num
ber of advertisements of radio re
pair shops and a few requests for
second hand radio sets. The volume
of radio want advertisements equal
ed about one-third of the volume
of automobile want ads in these
papers.
SEATTLE BROKER’S FAIL
SEATTLE, Mar. 31—The Jordan
i
, Wentworth Company, stock brokers,
with offices in Portland and Tacoma
;have gone voluntarily into the hands
• of a receiver. N'o statement is avail
able regarding the assets and lia
bilities.
BANDIT KILLS PAYMASTER
i NEW YORK. Mar. 31—A pay
master in the employ of the Dun
can Construction Company, was shot
I and killed yesterday by a bandit
! and his companion was rendered
helpless by a handfull of pepper
: which was thrown in his eyes. The
bandits escaped with the payroll
: amounting to $4,000.
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DAYTON, Mar. 31—Lieut. Les
ter Maitland, aviator, yesterday at
tained a speed of 281.4 miles an
hour. The previous record for speed
was held by Sadi Lecoint, who drove
his plane at the rate of 233.01 miles
| an hour.
The literacy bill, which has been
approved by the house, will be con
sidered at a special hearing in the
senate on Monday. Petitions have
been received from a number of
Alaska towns urging the senate to
pass the bill.
The senate was halted in :ts effort
to pass a fishermens labor lein law
when Senator Dimond. of the Third
division pointed out that the mea
sure contained a grave menace to
the small packers and might des
troy the important local packing in
dustry The bill was sent back to
the committee for further consid
eration.
A bill has been introduced which
aims to strengthen the cooperative
principl in road building and pro
vides a means of bringing Alaska
under the federal highway act when
Congress extends the operation of
the law to the Territory.
Seward i* Honored
Seward Day was observed by the
lawmakers yesterday, both houses
having aljourned in order that mem
j bers of the legislature might give
; proper recognition to the day.
1 IN SNOW. 15 BELOW
WITH BROKEN LEG
BUTTE Mont. Mar. 31—Spending
i 36 hours in the open with the ther
l mometer hovering between ten and
fifteen degrees below zero, with a
broken leg, and later one frozen
, and one badly frosted foot, to say
nothing of the prospect which faced
him continually of freezing to death,
was the experience of Jens B. Jen
sen, 31. a rancher of the Medicine
Lodge valley, about 50 miles south
west of here.
After Mr. Jensen finally succeed
ed in reaching the nearest inhabi
tants, some sheepherders about ten
miles distant at Armstead, he was
taken to Dillon in a truck and from
there by train to this city. He is
being treated at a local hospital
where it is thought it will be nec
essary to amputate all of the toes
and possibly the leg.
While chasing horses his own
mount stepped into a ditch covered
with drifted snow and went down.
The rider was dragged several rods
before he finally freed his foot
from the stirrup. The horse, fright
ened, departed and left Mr. Jen
sen lying in the snow his leg bro
gen in several places.
CHICAGO BANKER DEAD
CHICAGO, Mar. 31—Edmund De
Hurlburt, president of the Allied
Merchants Banks, who aided Presi
dent Wilson in planning the federal
reserve system, died here yesterday.
The Pioneers will hold public
memorial services at the Coliseum
theater tomorrow7 morning, com
mencing at ten o’clock The visiting
Grand Officers and delegates will go
to Fairbanks during the afternoon
and will return to the coast on
Tuesday.
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UNIVERSITY STUDENTS USE
PRESIDENT’S HOME AS SCHOOL
MITCHELL, S. D. Mar. 31
Eight young women students of the
home economics department of Da
kota Wesleyan university here have
been “running” the home of Presi
dent E. D. Kohlstedt for two months
as a part of their regular training
One of the requirements of the
state law giving state aid to high
schools with home economics courses
is several months experience on the
part of college graduates looking
to positions in these high schools
in the actual conduct of a home.
Dakota Wesleyan has no home
pratice cottage, so President Kohi
stedt offered the use of his home foi
the two-month period.
Everything in connection with
management of a home is handled
by woung women. They handle the
financial end. contributing their owr
I share for board and room, as wel
i as “assessing” President Kohlsted'
'for maintenance of himself and fam
! ily
RUM INSURANCE
LATEST POLICY
SAN FRANCISCO. Mar. 31—You
may now be insured against the los:
of sight, damage to stomach lining
and loss of time through drinkinj
“hootch,” according to the term:
of an “accidental hootch” insurance
policy found by S. F. Rutter, fed
era! prohibition director of Californ
ia in a recent raid here.
Compensation, not to exceec
$1,000, was provided for the follow
ing accidents, as the result of drink
ing: Blinded in one eye; blinded ir
both eyes, damage to stomach lin
| ing; loss of time when under in
i fluence; coin lost by paying "bond
ed" prices for moonshine and per
sonal injuries while inebriated.
However, Mr. Rutter says he has
ben advised that the insurance is il
, legal because rt contravenes pub
• lie pohey
CHINA SORE AT JAPAN
PEKING, Mar. 31—A wave oi
opposition to Japan, following tht
recent refusal of that govemmen'
to release ports of Dalny and Por
Arthur and surrounding territory
I in China, is rolling into great de
: monstrations, according to officia
! telegraphic advices.
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FIRST UNCLE TOM DEAD
RIVERSIDE, Cal., Mar. 31—J. ,1
Burrow, who had the distinction o1
being the first actor to play the pan
of Uncle Tom in “Uncle Tom’:
Cabin,” was burned to death yes
terday in a bunkhouse fire at tai«
plant of the Arlington Heights Fruit
Company. Two more men perishec
with him.
NEW YORK, Mar. 31—Two fire
|
men were killed yesterday while
fighting a spectacular fire which
swept two factories and four tene
ments. For a time the flames threat
ened Bellevue hospital, with twe
thousand patients.
RUSSIANS HEED APPEALS
TO SPARE PRIEST S LIFE
MOSCOW. Mar. 31—The Central
I Executive Council has commuaed
! the sentence of death imposed on
. Archbishop Zeiplac and ten others
j to imprisonment under strict isoi
! ation.
| The appeal for clemency in the
case of Vicar General Butchkavitch
who was also sentented to death,
! has been denied.
AVIATORS COVERED BY
DESERT SANDS IS VERDICT
SAN DIEGO. Cal., Mar. 31 —
“Covered by the shifting sands of
Che desert,” is the official verdict
of the fate of Col. Francis Mar
shal and Lieut. Charles Webber,
army aviators who have been miss
ing since December 7, 1922, accord
ing to members of a searching party
headed by Major Theodore Macauley
of Rockwell Field here, who have
just ended a fruitless search for
the two men.
Major Macauley says that since
Jan. 12, he and his party have
thoroughly explored the mountain
fastnesses and desert wastes of
northern Sonora, Mexico, and south
western Arizona. No trace of the
army aviators was found by the
government party.
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FOSTER PLANNED RADICAL
UNION OF COPPER MINERS
ST. JOSEPH. Mar. 31—William
I.
Z. Foster, who is on trial here on
a charge of criminal syndicalism, ad
mitted yesterday, under cross exam
nation, that he had planned a rad
ical union of copper miners employ
led in the Montana. Minnesota and
Michigan mines last summer.
Questioned about the strength of
the Communist party which estab
lished the present dictatorship in
Russia, he admitted that Russia has
a population of one hundred and
forty million, while the Communi“r
party in 1918. had only 172, 000
members.
Foster admitted that he had been
a member of the I. W. W., Sea
| men's union and other organization*
1 and said he quit the “wobblies" be
I cause he no longer agreed with
! their policies and program. He de
clared that he was not a member of
j the Communist party in August lac
| year and that he was never a mem
ber of the Worker’s party
MOUNTAIN ROAD PLANNED
BUTTE Mont. Mar. 31—When a
plan which is now being fostered
by the Rotary Club here, is carried
out, Butte will have a feature equal
. in interest to the scenic highway
i up Mount Tamalpais in San Fran
J cisco or the great waterfall of Nia
' gra Falls.
i The plan of the club is to build
; a roadway to the summit of Big
Butte, a mountain in the west end
of the city which overlooks the en
tire valley. The road is suggested
with the idea of giving a scenic
drive in or near Butte for tourists
and to give them an opportunity :o
see the city in panorama.
Butte is built on a hill. The road
will lift sightseers about 600 feet
! above the level of the business
' section.
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I R. S. Donaldson came down from
( Fairbanks yesterday.