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THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA.
NUMBER
437
THURSDAY, APRIL. 12, 1923
VETERANS VICTIMS OF VICIOUS VILLAINY
HERRING PACKERS DECLARE TAX IS HANDICAP
SEATTLE APPEALS TO HARDING TO VISIT TERRITORY
?
HOUSE APPROVES PENSION
BILL FOR MEN AND WOMEI
JUNEAU, April 12—The Shepare
pension bill was approved by th
lower house of the territorial legis
lature yesterday without a dissent
ing vote. Features of the bill ar
a maximum allowance of $25 month
ly for men, and $45 monthly fo
women, and provision for the pay
ment of pensions after they leav
the territory regardless of the lengt
of their stay outside the territory
providing the allowance started pri
or to their departure.
The women’s jury bill, with th
sex exemption clause elimated, wa
passed by the house this morning
by a vote of nine to seven, and sen
back to the senate for final approv
at. It is expected, however, that th
senate will refuse to concurr i
the house amendment and the prc
diction is made that the two brat
ches of the legislature will be ur
able to agree, in which event th
bill will fail to final adoption.
Representative Frank Foster, o
Cordova has introduced a bill prc
viding for the appropriation of $45
000 for the Alaska Agriculture
College and School of Mines, to co\
er the next two y«ars.
Representative Polly, of the Firs
Division has introduced a stringer
narcotics bill.
A protest against the propose
herring tax has been received froi
fifteen packers, mostly of Princ
William Sound and the Westware
in which it is declared that the pn
sent condition of that industry :
intolerable, with large stocks o
hand which cannot be disposed c
even at a loss. The protest saj
further that the territory shoul
abolish the present tax and coul
well afford to subsidize the indu:
■try.”
The Cordova Chamber of Con
raerce has protested against the pr<
posed increase in salmon taxes.
It is expected the senate wi
take favorable action on the Hut
resolution authorizing Attorney Gei
eral Rustgard to test the legality c
recently created fish reserves and t
expend not more than $10,000 fc
that purpose.
The house has passed the Decks
ship ubsidy bill providing for
subsidy for the route between Nom
and Kotzebue sound, and the rout
between Nome and St. Michael. Th
subsidy for the firs: named rout
is not to exceed $5,000 and that fc
the other is not to exceed $3,500 ai
nually.
The general deficiency measut
carrying a total of $19,000 and co'
ering shortages in the school, fis
commission, dependent children ar
College funds, was approved t
the house yesterday.
Representative Daly, of the Se
ond Division, has introduced tl
federal highway act. The same mer
ber also has introduced a bill pr
viding for the creation of a boai
for the development of the an
mal industry, and carrying an a
propriation of $100,000 for the e:
couragement of the reindeer, mus
ox, yak and fur bearing anima
industry.
The house yesterday passed s
minor senate measures and the se:
ate has tackled its first length
measure in the form of a bill
mending the municipal code.
PROBE OF VETERANS’ BUREAU
! DISCLOSES WHOLESALE GRAFT
CHEAP LIVING IN GERMANY
STILL LURES AMERICANS
The cheap living in this part of
the Rhine country continues to at
tract many American? abroad many
of whom came here originally to
visit the American occupation zone.
The occupied territories all along
the Rhine enjoy the advantage of
having prices regulated in a manner
not possible in unoccupied Germany
where Americans and other strangers
sometimes complain they are over
charged. or else compelled to pay |
higher prices than Germans. The liv
ing is cheap because of the relative
worthlessness of the mark when ex- j
changed for the dollar or the pound
sterling.
How it works out for the Germans
is another matter. What is cheap to
the foreigner is dear to him.
In the ease of automobile drivers
the American may use a taxi for a
day and the entire bill will not be
more than three or four dollars, out
of which sum the driver get? the e
^ quivalent of 25 cents.
n In other words, the average daily
e ' pay of the skilled workman is 3,000
‘•I to 4,000 marks. This also applies to
~ j railway workers of all classes.
E i When is it noted that a man’s
3 : shirt costs 15,000 to 20,000 marks
^ and a pair of shoes 30,000 to 60.000
? marks and both articles of second
; grade quality, it may be inferred
! how high the depreciated mark
" i has put the cost of living for the
, Germans.
" j One of these skilled laborers now
• j driving an automobile for hire, was
' an infantry captain during the war.
After the war. he worked for the
British army of occupation, and by
great good luck made some money
when the reduced British forces be
gan selling off supplies. He accumu
lated a capital of mark? the equiva
lent of $10,000.
With this sum he decided to buy a
farm and take his wife and children
to the country. He bought a 300
acre farm near Coblenz and went to
work. His surpuls he' inverted in
farm equipment, horses, stock, and
seeds.
i-! By the summer of 1920 he had a
i fine harvest, but the -Mminished val
e! ue of the mark cut his crop and
i land values in two. This process con
h ! tinued until he failed,
d' He sold most of his land and is
y j now obliged to work for a few
i thousand marks a day, with
mark depreciating in value
e prices going higher. He and
i-' family now
| wear rags.
d i
eat black bread
the
and
his
and
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DEVALERA ON RUN
DUBLIN, April 12—A central
I News dispatch says Devalera has
I been captured but the Free State
government declares the report has
no foundation.
x| EL PASO, April 12—It is report
l- ed that O. W. Krull, an American
y citizen, was seized by bandits yes
i-, terday near Torreon, and carried
. away. He is an engineer.
WASHINGTON, D. C. April 12—
John F. O’Ryan, counsel for the
senate committee which is conduct
ing an investigation in connection
with the Veterans’ Bureau has made
the prediction, based on information
gathered in a preliminary survey
of conditions, that “dishonesty on
a pretty big scale will be found
here and there” in connection with
the conduct of the bureau’s affairs.
O’Ryan declined to go in detail
regarding his findings, but expessed
the belief that, to a great degree,
the very method of handling the
large funds entrusted to the bureau
had encouraged irregularities. He
explained that wherever evidence of
criminal acts are uncovered it will
be laid before the department of
justice.
Owsley After Grafter*
NEW ORLEANS, April 12—In
an address delivered before the U
nited Confederate Veterans, gather
ed here in their thirty-third annual
reunion. National Commander Ows
ley, of the American Legion, de
clared that an end must be put to j
the corrupt explointation of the Vet
erans’ Bure.au. He expressed the be
lief that the “American people will
no longer tolerate political ineffi
ciency in connection with that bur
eau.-’
NEW FREIGHT CARS TOO WIDE
TO GO THROUGH OLD TUNNELS
NORTH ADAMS, April 12
All the delays in freight shipmet
tfliis winter have not been doe en_
tirely to blizzards and embargoes.
Western grain shippers have found
that some of their trouble arose
from the fact that the large modern
freight cars can not travel thru
the Hoosac tunnel.
When this tunnel was construct i
it was believed to be large enough
to accommodate any railroad equip
ment, but the car builders have out
stripped it. While the oversize cars
are not yet very numerous, there
are enough in service to necessitate
frequent detours. WTien one is
found in a train arriving at the
tunnel’s western portal it is nec
essary to cut it out and send it to
Bellows Falls, Vt., a detour of 35
miles, and then back to Deerfield
Mass.
Another problem occasionally fac
ed by the Boston and Maine Rail
road is the arrival of flat cars load
ed with huge pieces of machinery
that tower too high to pass beneath
some of the bridges on the road.
This necessitates careful calculation
to find a circuitous route that will
avoid the low bridges, and involves
considerable delay.
SCHOONER IS ASHORE
SEATTLE, April 12—The schoon
er Robert Lewers, enroute from
Honolulu to Port Gamble, is re
ported ashore near Pachena point,
Vancouver island. The members of
the crew have been rescued but the
vessel is in danger of going to
pieces on the rocks.
IMPERIAL PRECEDENT BROKEN
TOKIO, April 12th—Another im
perial precedent of Japan has gone
by the boards. Prince Jujimaro
Yamashina, third son of Prince
Kikumaro Yamashina, has decided
to enter the Imperial University at
Tokio as a student of literature
Heretofore imperial princes by
custom have entered either the mil
itary or naval service, hence
Prince Yamashina is the first of the
royall family to attend a university.
He is a graduate of the Peer’s
i school.
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MORAL WAVE IN BELFAST
ASCRIBED TO EVANGELIST
BELFAST. April 12.—This city
is becoming so moral that one
wonders if a policeman will be sure
of a job in the future, says the
Evening News correspondent, who
1 records that: “Pettythieving is on
the decline. Many employers have
received back stolen goods. Dozens;
of bags of tools ‘borrowed’ from j
shipyards have been returned. A
grocer was paid 5 pounds that a j
women customer had owed him for j
20 years. For over an hour an ex- '
sailor tried to persuade the local
pensions staff that he was not en
titled to a weekly disablement grant
he had been drawing.”
All this moral “uplift” is ascribed j
to the great religious revival con- .
ducted by Paston Nicholson, who
is escorted everywhere by a band of
Converts. It is necessary to go |
to church two hours before time to .
hear him preach, and men forego ]
•their supper and march direct from I
their shipyard work in the evening'
to listen to him.
COAL SITUATION BAD
SEATTLE. April 12—Little hope
is entertained that the striking coal
miners and operators will be able
to reach an agreement on a wage
scale. It is believed the negotiations
to end the strike in the Roslyn and
Cle Elum field, which have been
under way during the last three
days will be suspended indefinitely
without having come to any under
standing.
GUNMAN GUNNED
SEATTLE. April 12—K. Inaphita
a gunman was shot and killed last
night by M. Murakami, a restaur
ant owner, who told the police his
victim tried to extort money from j
him, under pain of death. The shoot-,
ing, he says was done in self de- !
fense.
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HEAVY RAIN IN TEXAS
FORT WORTH, April 12—The ;
business section of Desdemona, near
this city, is buried beneath several
feet of water, as a result of a heavy
fall of rain this week. Rising Star
was hit by a cyclone yesterday, the
damage being considerable.
DECLARES SUNDAY SCHOOLS
fEACH CHILDREN SEDITION
LONDON, April 12th —A peti
tion with more than 1,000 signa
tures has been presented to the
present parliament asking that the
House of Commons explore the
existance and growth of what are
known as “proletarian Sunday
schools,” which, in the opinion of
the petitioners, are “fast becoming
a menance to the stability of this
country, as well as to our national
character, moral standards and
home life.”
The petition charges that these
Sunday schools are engaged in the
teaching of Communist principles,
sedition and blasphemous ideas
on all religion.
MEXICO SUPPLIES LABOR
FOR ALASKA FISH TRUST
CALEXICO. Cal., April 12—The
Alaska fisheries are drawing upon
Mexico for laborers for the ap
proaching season. This was learned
today when a party of fifty Mex
icans left for the northern terri
tory to remain through the fishing
seasori.
It is understood here that many
more Mexicans are to start North
within a few days.
CADETS TO GO TO SEA
NEW YORK, April 12—Junior
Naval Reserve cadets are to have
opportunity this summer to gain
sea experience in a practical way.
Arrangements have been made with
a steamship line crossing the Pacific
to accept cadets for training, and
the young men will be paid regular
wages while at sea.
The Admiral Oriental Line, of
Seattle, Washington, will carry
three cadets in the engineering de
partment on each of its five pas
senger steamers. One cadet will be
selected from New York; the other
14 from Reserve Units on the Pa
cific coast. The Merchants and Min
ers Transportation Line, of Phil
adelphia has taken on Naval Re
serve cadets in the past and will do
so again this summer. It prefers
the cadets to boys who have had
no training.
WANT MOONEY RELEASED
WARREN, Ohio, April 12—The
Amalgamated Association of Iron
Steel and Tin workers has ordered
a telegram sent to Governor Rich
ardson of California, asking for the
release of Tom Mooney and Warren
Billings.
CYCLONE WRECKS TOWN
ALEXANDRIA, La.. April 12
Several persons were injured, fif
teen houses wrecked and other dam
age done yesterday when a cyclone
hit the town of Meridan, thirty
miles south of here.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Date will
leave for Fairbanks tomorrow to
take up their permanent residence
in that town.
SEATTLE URGING HARDING
TO MAKE TRIP TO ALASKA
SEATTLE, April 12—The Seattle
Chamber of Commerce has unani
mously adopted a resolution auth
orizing the board of directors to
send a telegram to President Hard
ing requesting him to carry out his
plans to visit Alaska and telling
him the “people of Seattle feel that
the President owes it to the Ter
ritory to make an investigation.”
Reports which have reached the
Chamber from Washington indicate
that the President is thinking of cal
ling the trip off because his poli
tical opponents view the proposed
outing as a campaign tour.
The chamber also has asked Sec
retary Hoover not to give up his
proposed trip to Alaska, and the
house and senate fisheries commit
tees are requested to make the trip
also.
It is reported here that Asa Cur
tis plans to visit Alaska and to take
more than eight hundred flights
so that views of resources indus
tries and scenery may be made a
vaiiable for distribution among news
papers and magazines.
It has been proposed that San
Francisco, Portland and Seattle and
Tacoma business men charter the
steamer Buford and make a trade
excursion and travel tour to Alaska
and Siberia in July.
WET SENATOR DECLARES
DRY LAW IS DAMNABLE
NEW YORK, April 12—Senator
Edwards, of New Jersey, in a speech
delivered in this city, branded the
prohibition law as “damnable and
impracticable.’’ He declared that he
had enlisted in a war to stop the
"eternal hyprocacy’’ in connection
with the dry law.
CHINK NAVY REVOLTLING
SHANGHAI, April 12—The first
squadron of the Chinese navy, con
sisting of one cruiser and four gun
boats, has joined Sun Yat Sen and
called upon the entire navy to join
the revolt.
SCHOOLS PAY $3.25 PER DAY
Every day spent in school pays
‘the child $9.00. Here is the proof,
! based on the wage scale of 1913:
Uneducated laborers earn on the
! average of $500 per year for forty
i
. years a total of $20,000.
High schools graduates earn on
the average of $1,000 per year for
: forty years, a total of $40,000.
This education required twelve
years of school of 180 days each,
a total of 2,160 days in school.
If, 2,160 days at school add $20.
| 000 to the income for life, then
| each day at school adds $9.25.
' The child that stays out of school
to earn less than $9.00 per day is
losing money—not making money.
These figures are based on an in
vestigation made by Dr. A. Caswell
Ellis of the University of Texas, at
the request of the U. S. Bureau of
Education.
GERMANY INCREASES RELIEF
BERLIN, April 12—The number
of unemployed in receipt of relief
‘ in Germany increased in January
from 85,000 persons to 144,000,
according to an official announce
ment.