WHERE. RAILS AND RIVERS MEET
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOL. III.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA. ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 5. 1920.
NO. 52
WILSON SAYS CONGRESS WAS FAILURE
LEADERS EXPECT OLDTIME BATTLE AT CHICAGO
LAWMAKERS POSTPONE DELEGATE CONTEST DECISION
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LAWMAKERS PUT
CONIES! ACTION
IN HOUSE SAFE
SEATTLE, June 5.—The Wash-,
ington correspondent of the Seattle j
Post-Intelligencer reports today that
the house elections committee has
announced the postponement of the
Wickert-nam-Grigsby election contest
decision until the December session
of Congress. This action was taken,
the correspondent states, in spite of
vigorous protest on the part of both
Delegate Grigsby and Judge Wick
ersham, who expressed genuine
eagerness to have the matter dis
posed o* before the adjournment of
the present session.
Delegate Grigsby is hopeful of
getting his -10-rod repeal bill through
the senate today, and plans to leave
for home tonight, stopping at Chi
cago and San Francisco enroute to
take in the big conventions.
Merchant Marine.
The report from Washington
states further that additional am
endments have been attached to the
merchant marine bill, to thg provi
sions designed to bar Canadian rail
and steamship lines from partici
pating in commerce between Alaska
and the States. One of the amend
ments provides that the objection
able sections shall not apply to
vessels operating on the -Yukon river
until after the completion of the
Government railroad and until the
shipping board finds that proper fa
cilities are furnished by citizens of
the United States for handling the
traffic.
Another amendment limits the
sections exclusively to Alaska traf
fic.
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ard is to receive $100 a year for
his services.
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PRESIDENT TELLS TRAINMEN
SESSION WAS DISAPPOINTING
NEW YORK, June 5.—The bis;;
jewelry store of the Schonfield;
Manufacturing company was the1
scene of a diamond robbery today, j
the theft being one of the largest
recorded in this city in many months.;
The stolen diamonds are valued at!
$100,000.
The robbery was committed by
two men, who entered the store on j
the pretence of making large pur
chases of jewels. When a large i
wallet had been taken from the
vault in order that the supposed
purchasers might be shown a larger
assortment of stones, one of the men
threw pepper into the eyes of the
proprietor, grabbed the wallet and
escaped from the store before the;
other proprietor, who was in an
other part of the store, could come
to his partner’s assistance or stop j
the robbers.
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The store is on Nassau street, in
the heart of the business district,
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i Earl Wallace, former Fairbanksan,
is now employed at Skagway as a
machinist by the White Pass com
pany.
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Inspector Cat Townsend, of the
I fisheries service, has been informed
(that hearings will be held in Seac
i tie late in November for the purpose
■ of airing: the views of Alaskans on
the question of permitting: the con
. tinued operation of canneries on the
; Yukon and Kuskokwim river*. The
Yukon hearing will be held on No
vember 23 and the Kuskokwim hear
ing on November 30.
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| Miss Audrey Rose, who arrived in
:Nenana on the steamer Washburn,
enroute to her home in Fairbanks,
had charge of the territorial school
at Eagle during the winter, and has
been requested to return there for
| another term, provided there are
'enough children left, after the sum
mer exodus, to keep the school open.
There is a movement on foot in
Fairbanks to form a woman’s aux
iliary of the American Legion, the
membership to include the mothers,
wives and other female relatives of
■ ex-service men.
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j F. C. Camp, known as the soldier
jpoet, was recently at Seward on
his way to the Kuskokwim country,
j He is to look that country over and
j prepare twenty articles for Ameri
can newspapers.
The city of Seward claims to be
tthe logical place for the capital of
' i Alaska.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 5.—
[n a telegram addressed to officials
the railway brotherhoods, who J
tad requested presidential interven-j
don to prevent the adjournment of
Congress until certain important leg
slation had been acted upon, Presi- j
lent Wilson expressed keenest dis-!
appointment and criticised the mem- J
bers of Congress severely for their.
failure to take action on the high j
tost of living problem, the conclu- j
?ion of peace, and important domes-1
tic legislation.
“I have no reason whatever to
hope that its continuance in ses-,
sion,” the President said in his wire,!
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“would result in constructive mea-i
sures for the betterment of the eco
nomic conditions to which you call
attention. It must be evident to all
that the dominating motive which
actuated Congress was political ex
pediency rather than the lofty pur
pose to serve the public welfare.”
The President stated further that
le had accepted some of the lepris- ?
lation of this Congress because he.
despaired of anything better.
Committee Quit*.
The campaign fund investigating
committee of the senate, which has
been engaged in inquiring into the
expense accounts of the various pres- j
idential candidates, adjourned today
until July 9.
Budget Paste*.
After affixing amendments to meet j
objections raised by the President,
the lower house of Congress thi« |
afternoon repassed the national
budget bill and sent it to the senate
for final consideration.
Deportation.
A bill making membership in any
organization advocating the over
throw of organized government, or
sabotage, a sufficient ground for de
portation or the exclusion of aliens,
was approved by the house today
and sent to the President for his
signature.
CLUB URGES NEED
OF WORK ON ROAD
The unsafe condition of the grade
of the Government railroad between
Xonth Nenana and Fairbanks, which
has been a matter of common dis
cussion in Nenana and along the line
since the early spring, was consid
ered at some length by- the Nenana
Commercial club at the regular
weekly meeting last night, the dis
cussion culminating in the adoption
of a motion placing the club on
record as cognizant of the danger
to travels over the road, and urging
that adequate steps be taken imme
diately by the Alaskan Engineering
commission to make the grade safe
for traffic.
As is well known to nearly all
Xenanaites, the grade between the
Tatiana river and Happy station is
composed very largely of muck,
which was hastily thrown into place
from borrow pits as the work was
rushed to completion last fall, in
I order that communication might be
! established between Nenana and
‘Fairbanks. There was very little
ballasting done before cold weather
;=et in, and the fact that the grade
held together during the winter was
due chiefly to frost conditions.
With the coming of spring and
■warm weather, the rails began to
;sink into the soft grade rapidly, and
are still sinking. In fact, the only
i way that the line could be kept open
was by raising the track, where it
; threatened to disappear, and placing
jlogs beneath the ties, similar to the
(manner in which the D line was con
structed across the swamps south of
Nenana.
The club found no fault with the
manner in which the work was done
last summer and fall. The members
recognize that ballasting operations
were not possible or even necessary
to keep the line open during the
winter, so long as the grade re
mained frozen. But with the com
ing of spring, they believe, adequate
steps should have been taken to in
sure uninterrupted and safe traffic.
It was called to the attention of
the club that several derailments
already have occurred recently on
the Xenana-Fairbanks line, and it
was suggested that the escape of
passengers thus far has beeu due
more to good luck than to preventive
steps on the part of the commission.
The action of the club was
prompted largely by the promise of
unusually heavy traffic over the roa 1
this summer, and especially during
the approaching holiday season.
FAIRBANKS PLAYERS
TO CLASH TOMORROW
The first regular ball game of the
season will be played at Fairbanks
tomorrow afternoon, at which time
'■ Captain Vic Brown will make ten
tative selections for the regular team
| which will represent the upper town
in the summer’s meetings with Ne
] nana and other Interior towns.
There are not enough players in
: Fairbanks for two good teams, but
it is believed that one strong ag
gregation will emerge from tomor
row’s tryout.
The members of the rifle club also
will practice tomorrow in prepara
tion for the forthcoming meeting
with a Gibbon team. The club thus
far has been able to secure only five
riflemen, and an effort is now being
made to pick a sixth man to fill out
the team.
Cordova restaurants are not serv
ing potatoes with regular orders.
BUNNELL SAYS MORE
PEOPLE APE NEEDED
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SEATTLE, June 5. — District!
Judge Charles E. Bunnell, of the
Fourth judicial division of Alaska,
with headquarters at Fairbanks, ar
rived here today from the North,
having made the trip out by way of
the Richardson trail.
He reports that the paramount
need of Alaska at the present time
is increased population. The out
look for the Interior country, he
says, is not encouraging, for the
reason that too many people are
leaving.
He says that he believes the Val
dez trail will be opened in time for
the benefit of tourists who desire to
auto to the Interior from Valdez.
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Frank Cook, agent of the Ameri
can Yukon Navigation company at
Dikeman, is a passenger on the
steamer Washburn, enroute to his
station from the States, where he
spent the winter. He was formerly
attached to the Fairbanks office ui.'
the company.
Miss Wilson, of Mexico City, the
young lady globe-trotter who made
a trip to Nome during the winter
with Leonard Seppala, of Nome dog
racing fame, came back up the Yu
kon as far as Ruby on the last snow,
and is now awaiting a steamer to
bring her back to Fairbanks.
The army launch Kelly, enroute
from Fort Giboon to the upper Tan
ana on a telegraph line inspection
anil repair trip, docked at Nenana
this afternoon for a brief stop here.
Corporal Fitzwilliams is in charge
of the party, which includes Pri
vates W. E. Lequatte, Kelly, and
Kaiser. They report that the army
town was still under quarantine
when they left, but they are of the
^opinion that restrictions on travel
to and from the post have been re
moved by this time, or will be with
. in a few days, as the flu wave in
the Interior country appears to have
run its course.
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I Mail is due at Fairbanks today,
the rig having reported at Salcba
at an early hour this morning. It is
not known whether it is first or
second class.
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CHICAGO, .June 5.—Several ele
ments contribute to the support of
the prediction that the forthcoming
Republican national convention,
which will begin its deliberations in
this city next week, will develop into
a regular oldtime convention battle,
with an array of conflicting factions
the equal of which has not been re
corded in many years.
It is generally admitted that many
of the steadying influences are ab
sent. while there are many features
present which make for confusion.
Leaders who ordinarily exercise
considerable control appear impotent
on this occasion, and the vast num
ber of uninstructed delegates adds
materially to the confusion. There
are apparently no band-wagons this
year, and the several vehicles which
are leady to be used as such appear
not to have the necessary horse
| power to start them on their way.
| There is just one thing about the
'convention that appears to be rea
sonably certain, and that is, that it
iwill take more than one ballot to
secure a nomination. And there aro
many who believe that it will take
several days of balloting to reach a
decision.
The feeling has been repeatedly
expressed by governors, chairmen ot
state delegations and others that the
members of Congress and federal of
ficials have too much to say rela
tive to convention pians and deci
sions. General Wood, however, ex
presses confidence in Chairman Will
Hays and in his lack of sympathy
for steam-roller methods followed by
the national committee. Wood and
Lowden each received one district
delegate from Georgia today, leav
ing three more contests to be de
cided by the committee.
The weather is cold and cloudy
today, hut interest in the convention
is warming rapidly.
The convention will be attended
by a total of 982 delegates.
NAVAL BOARD MEMBER
6lES IN WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 5.
Rear- Admiral Albert Winterhalter,
member of the general naval boartl
land former commander of the As
iatic fleet, died here today, following
, a brief illness. His death was quite
unexpected.
SWITCHMEN HELPING
MOVEMENT OF FREIGHT
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i GALVESTON, Tex., June 5.—Un
’ ion switchmen of this city have
jagreed to handle freight assembled
lby non-union longshoremen, the con
i cession having been made in an
! effort to relieve the freight eonges
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jtion.
Mrs. John Metzgar and children
I returned to Fox on yesterday’s train,
[after a several-day visit with Mrs.
i.T. Hampton Miles and Mrs. Lowella
Rosburg, mother and sister, respec
tively, of Mrs. Metzgar.