FIRST TIME IN ALASKA AEKIAL UKLUS NtNANA—JULY FIFTH
THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1923
NUMBER 473
DEMPSEY BEATS GIBBONS IN SHELBY BOUT
PRESIDENT HARDING IS STARTING NORTH TODA Y
■NENANA
PRESIDENT NOW ENROUTE
TO NORTHERN TERRITORY
TACOMA, July 5—The Presides
tial party, which spent yesterday at
Portland, where they participated in
a typical Fourth of July celebra
tion, consisting of a parade, speech
es and fireworks, arrived here short
ly before ten o’clock this morning,
marking the end of the long traij
over which they have been travel
* ing during the last fifteen days,
covering fourteen states stretching
fro* teh Atlantic to the Pacific
The city welcomed the party in
a drizzling rain which, however,
did not seem to dampen the enthu
siasm of the reception. The crowds
lined the sidewalks four deep and
cheered President Harding lustily
as he drove to his hotel, apparently
unmindful of the rain, the first
encountered since leaving Washing
ton.
The President and Mrs. Harding
will spend the day quietly and early
this afternoon will board the Pres
idential steamship Henderson, on
which they and the orther members oi
their party will make the trip to
Alaska and return.
Presidential Locomotive Wrecked
* TACOMA, July 5—The monster
locomotive, Number 3219, which
was one of four which drew the
Presidential train into Portland, hit
a slide as it approached Nelson Ben
nett point at Defiance tunnel and
wrecked the Union Pacific’s Ow;
train. Edward Rodney, of Seattle
the engineer, was pinned under the
. engine and scalded to death, and his
fireman was badly hurt. A number
of passengers were slightly injured.
Visits Cemeteries
CENTRA LI A July 5—Directing
that the train be stopped, President
Harding drove through the drizzling
rain early today to visit two local
cemeteries, where he laid wreaths
on the graves of the four American
legion men who were killed by
Wobblies on Armistice Day 1919.
The President was accompanied by
military and naval aides, and by
Representative Albert Johnson
while the other member of the
party breakfasted aboard the tiam
or still slumbered. In placing the
wreaths the President said: “The
world was horrified by what occur
red here about three years ago.
Those guilty were striking at fthe
very bulwark of the repubhc—at
the men who saved it and also men
who must be counted upon to pre
serve ift.
Talk* Americanism
PORTLAND, July 5—In his
Fourth of July address delivered in
this city yesterday, President Hard
ing declared the nation should de
mand that “every man wearing the
habiliments of an American citizen
must be American heart and soul.”
He dealt particularly with thorough
American people. He also discussed
a variety of other topics, including
immigration and :ransportation
which he contended, should be ap
proached and solved only from the
national standpoint. “I would like
to acclaim the day” he said, there
is no room in America for those
who defy the law and those whe
seek our hospitality for the pur
pose of destroying our institutions.
These should be deported or held
CELEBRATES FOURTH WITH GOOD P
GIBBONS SURPRISES FIGHT FANS; i
PROMOTERS BOOK LARGE LOSS
: securely behind prison ■walls. This
land of ours has little to fear
from those who attack from outside
! our borders, but we must guard
; very zealously against those who
| work from within our borders to
j destroy the very institutions which
I give that hospitality. A republic
j worth defending is worth our patri
jotic vigilance.”
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British Establish Precedent
PORTLAND, July 5—As the
Presidential train crossed the Wil
lamette river yesterday the British
cruiser Curlew, which was anchored
near the bridge, fired the Presiden
tial salute, setting a new preeerent.
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At Ketchikan Sunday
j TACOMA, July 5—President
i Harding is due to arrive at Ketchi
: kan on Sunday and a week later he
will drive the golden spike at Ke
nans.
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POSTAL CLERKS MAY ASK
FOR AN INCREASE IN WAGES
! EL PASO, July 3—Dust stirred
by Don Juan Onate on his way
! to settle Senta Fe more than three
' centuries ago will be on the heels
of delegates here to attend the Na
tional Federation of Postoffice
Clerks’ convention September 3 to 7
i Every state in the union will be
represented.
Congress may be asked to in
crease the pay of postoffice clerks
! if the high cost of living does not
; go down in the meantime, according
1 to officials of the federation who
' are here making arrangements for
! the convention. Other legislation
I which will come up for endorsement
, includes:
Credit for one hour for each
45 minutes worked at night.
Double time for Sundays and hol
j idays.
An annual vacation of 30 days.
( Although the federation now has
seven vice-presidents, it is claimed
| the rapid growth of the organiza
tion demands the addition of from
I four to eight more, and this ques
! tion will be voted on. Under the
present rules the large cities, such
as New York and Chicago, are en
j titled to a maximum of five dele
! gates and as many voteE, while a
, postoffice with half a dozen men
may have one delegate and one
j vote. The larger cities are asking
i for a different basis of repre^enta
i tion.
BERLIN AIDS NEEDY RUSSIANS
BERLIN. July 5—Three millitary
j barracks in Berlin have been con
j verted into dormitories for needy
! Russian students. The German Red
' Cross, the Russian section of the
. League of Nations the Young Men’s
| Christian Association, and the Euro
, pean Students Relief each contribut
1 ed to the undertaking.
This effort is typical of what is
being done throughout central Eur
ope to make more endurable the lot
of self supporting students.
SHELBY, July 5—Jack Demp
sey long holder of the heavy-weight
championship of the world, retain
ed his title yesterday in a fifteen
round ring battle with Mike Gibbons
the decision being given to Demp
sey at te end of the fifteenth round
that number of rounds having been
agreed upon as the limit for the
match. Gibbons was still on his
feet and holding on desperately
when the gong ended one of the
most surprising upeets seen in
heavyweight circles in recent year.
The result was a distinct surprise
as Dempsey was overwhelming the
favorite when the men entered the
ring, and it was generally expected
that he would win by a knockout
in «the sixth or seventh round. Gib
bons astonished even his most ar
dent admirers by carrying the fight
to Dempsey in some of the rounds
and he even outboxed the champion
at times. Dempsey, however, out
slugged his opponent, landing hard
er punches and everlastingly trying
for a knockout which he did not de
liver.
In the final moments Gibbons was
fading rapidly from the cruel pun
ishment, chiefly around the body.
It was apparent that he could not
have lated many more rounds.
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Newspaper experts give Gibbon?
a shade the better of the fifth,
eleventh and thirteenth rounds,
while Dempsey won all the rest.
When the fight ended, Referee
Dougherty did not hesitate a mo
ment to raise Dempsey’s hand as
the signal that he had been declar
ed winner of the bout.
WTien the gong sounded the
crowd surged into the ring, in spite
of the presence of scores of police
men, and pounded Gibbons on the
back by way of congratulating him
upon the splendid showing made,
and he replied with a broad smile
at the friendly demonstration.
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Betting Light
There was very little betting on the
fight, due to the scarcity of Gibbons
money. The different fight pools
unanimously favored Dempsey. In
the principal pool the speculators
picked Dempsey to win by a knock
out in ithe fourth, fifth or &ixth
rounds. One sporting man announc
ed shortly before the fight that one
$500 Gibbons money had made its
appearance up to that time, out
side of the pools, and that was plac
ed at three to one on Dempsey.
Although there was little specu
lative interest taken in the fight,
residents of Shelby ardently hoped
that Gibbons would win.
The Rules
The fight was held under straight
The little steamer Pioneer, Cap
tain Geore Black, arrived in port
last night from the Kantishna dis
trict -with a cargo of nine tons of
galena ore from the Lake & Big
lowe mine. Bert Beythe was the on- j
ly passenger.
Marquis of Queensbury rules, with
both boxers under injunction “to
protect yourselves at all times.”
G)bbons appeared in top form af
ter his three weeks of hard training
and was confident of victory. He de
clared that he would have no alibi
if be lost.
Dempsey came over from Great
Falls yesterday morning by special
train and entered the ring full of
confidence. His manager, however,
had little to say as the hour of the
fight approached.
Losing Proposition
In casting up receipts and ex
penditures. the Montana cow town
finds that it must write down a
deficit of approximately $100,000.
the chief items of expense being
$210,000 to Dempsey. $20,000 for
promotion and $85,000 for the ar
ena, of which amount probably
$25000 will be recovered in salvage
of the amphitheater. 'v
The receipts were considerably
lessened by ,the action of ticket
bootleggers, who sold ringside seats
for $10 and up, notwithstanding
the fact that the regtlar price had
been fixed at $50. This cut heavily
into the regular ticket sales upon
which Kearns had agreed to depend
for his third installment of $100,
000.
The Preliminaries
In the first preliminary, Jack
McDonald, of Seattle knocked out
Ernie Sayles. of Rochester, in the
second round of their scheduled
eight round bout.
At two o’clock Mike Collins an
nounced that the remaining prelim
inaries would not be fought unless
the sum of $8000 would be guar
anteed. He stated that the promo
ters could not be found. All the
while the crowd was growing impa
tient and yelled for action. The
trouble was finally settled when
Manager Kearns announced that he
would pay Bud Gorman and Harry
Drake if they would go on and
the second preliminary followed.
Gorman, who was one of Gibbons
sparring partners, easily defeated
Drake, who was attached to the
Dempsey training camp. The fight
went eight rounds, Gorman winning
all of them, but he was not able
to land a knockout.
The semi-final, considered the star
preliminary, between Jimmy Delan
ey and Jack Burke, was called off
shortly before three o’clock because
there was no money to pay the box
ers.
The money to pay Dougherty to
referee the main event was not ob
tained until the big fellows were al
most ready to go into the ring. A
local bank put up the cash and sav
ed the day.
Stanley Chernaef. section fore
man at Cantwell, took advantage
of the fair weather to spend a brief
holiday in town. He and his men
were in the thick of the battle
against the elements recently in the
Canyon district.
OLD TYPE OF FRENCH
PEASANT NOW PASSING AWAY
PARIS, July 5—Movies in farm
ing centers to teach the French pea
sants new methods in cultivation j
have made the people of the cities ;
realize with something of a shock1
that the peasant is changing his'
ways.
The policy of keeping land hold
ings small has made the French a
nation of proprietors, so far as
such a condition can exist. The
French inheritance laws tend to
ward the equal treatment of children
I in wills, so that in most cases the!
farm is actually divided into small j
tracts rather than old and the pro-!
ceeds distributed.
This love of the land, and a se
cretiveness born of living to himself
is said by sociologists to be chang
ing. The farmer of today looks upon
i his land as the instrument of for-i
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tune building. He will sell it at a
i
profit for he can buy more.
Fifty years ago the French farm
er kepit a' a secret the return from
his crops and the kind and quantity
of fertilizer he used. If he needed
money he reearded borrowing with
such dismay that he went to a money
lender in another district, often at
night, and paid usurious interest i
to escape publicity.
The modem farmer, although still
perhaps in the minority, joins coop- ;
,erative buying and selling organiza
tions, discusses the best methods of
cultivation with his neighobrs, and .
is proud ito tell what good bargains
he has made.
This, however, is the rosy view of
; country progress. There still re
mains the old type of suspicious ,
peasant guarding jealously his bit
of land and the secrets of his sav
ings, hidden in the house or buried
under the floor. This method of j
hoarding, known as the wooden sock
is believed by financiers to explain
the rapid disappearance in France of
gold and silver, and even of a great
mass of banknotes. The French have
learned to subscribe to bond issues,
as a matter of patriotism, but the
police records of big hauls by thieves
in apparently poor homes show that
many Frenchmen still have no use
for banks.
FIND SKELETON OF CROCODILE
LIVED 2,000,000 YEARS AGO
LONDON, July 5—The complete
skeleton of a crodile which is es-'
timated to have lived more than two
million years ago, has been unearth
ed from the Oxford clay of Peters-!
borough brick yards by P. J. Phillips
a noted English geologist.
The skeleton is 16 feet long anj
is identical with the skeleton of the
present day crocodile. The monster'
was, however, a sea going creature
belonging to the middle geological
period.
In a spot where the stomach
would be founi a fossilized mass
containing traces of organic marine
matter, the remains of the reptiles
last and evidently too hearty meal.
ROGRAM
TO DETERMINE THE ACTUAL
HORSEPOWER OF A HORSE
DESMOIXES, July 5—Owners
and users of grade and pure bred
horses will have an opportunity at
this year’s Iowa State Fair to de
termine how much a team can pul!
through a series of scientific tests
to be conducted under controlled
conditions. The Horse Association of
America, with headquarter sat Chica
go, will cooperate in the tests.
A specially constructed wagon has
been designed for the tests by the
engineering department of Iowa
State college. By means of gears and
a hydraulic- pump, driven from the
wheels, it will be possible to put on
any predetermined load and main
tain uniform load resistance from
the test wagon whether it travels on
a level or up or downhill. The teams
probably will be required to pull a
six horsepower load to enter, the
load to be increased by two horse
power on each successive trial until
the maximum is reached.
Whipping or shouting will dis
qualify an entry all horses will be
given a veterinary examination, and
representatives of humane agencies
will be present to forestall any
charge by abuse.
"Horsepower has been a standard
of power measurement for centuries
but little research orlc on the pulling
powers of horses and mules has bten
carried on scientifically, because of
the difficulty in providing uniform
tractive resistance,” said the man
agement.
NEW DREDGE MAY SAVE
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
CINCINNATI, July 5—When the
new government owned hydraulic
dredge, now under construction at
Charleston, W. Va., glides down the
skids into the Ohio river, some five
months hence, a large government
project will have started on its way
This dredge is designed to elimin
ate a number of proposed dams in
the Ohio river, which are now a
part of the 54 government river
dam projects on that stream. If it
does what government engineers
confidently expect of it a saving of
many millions of dollars will be
realized.
This boat is the realization of the
dream of C. B. Harris, a govern
ment engineer who recently died at
his home here. He supervised the
drawing of the plans.
The dredge, named after Mr. Har
ris will be 175 feet long and 50
fee: wide. The suction and discharge
pipe will be 24 inches in diameter
and operated by a Diesel engine of
1,000 horsepower. The pipe will run
fore and aft. and the sand gTavel
and other material sucked from the
bottom of the river will be emtied
into barges at the stern.
Misses Mabel Bangham and Lu
cille Greenwood, teachers in the
public schools at Aberdeen, Wash.,
arrived in Nenana on Tuesday on a
tour of Alaska. -They are oldtime
friends of Mrs. William Rodigkeit
and are in Nenana at her invita
tion. The young ladies plan to visit
Fairbanks before returning to the
coast.
In a new thermometer a flag auto
matically points the degrees of tem
perature on a circular horizontal
scale.
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