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THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA. SATURDAY. MAR. 10. 1923
NUMBER 423
CRISIS IS NEARING IN OCCUPIED DISTRICTS
LAWMAKERS PLAN HOME RULE MOVE AT JUNEAU
STANDARD Oil. COMPANY STARTS DRILLING MARCH 15
BONE URGES LAWMAKERS
TO AGREE ON FISHERIES1
JUNEAU, Mar. 10—The direct
auggestion was made to the Terri
torial legislature this week by Gov- ^
ernor Scott C. Bone that all fac-1
tions agree on a fisheries measdre j
f«ir alike to the Territory, the fish- j
ermen and the canners. The gov- j
emor promised that such a measure j
would be supported by the adminis-'
tration, explaining that “in this j
connection I am authorized by Sec
retary Hoover to state that the de
partment of commerce will welcome .
a measure prepared here for the j
protection of the fisheries, safeguard
ing the interests of the Territory
and the rights of all Alaskans, and j
fair to those having investments in
the industry. If the legislature will;
prepare such a measure I can pro
mise you the support of Secretary;
Hoover and the administration.”
It is predicted by Aldrich and'
others that a fisheries bill will be'
passed after the arrival of Dele- ;
gate Sutherland.
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Pension Bill Introduced
Senator Aldrich introduced a bill
yesterday concerning old age pen
sions and regulation of the Pioneers’
Home. The measure is designed to
replace the three acts now on the
iterritorial statute books. It opens
the home to women as well as men,
and increases the maximum allow
ance to male pensioners to $25, and
provides a maximum of $30 month
ly for destitute persons.
A significant feature of the bill
is the fact that it reveals the inten
tion of a coterie of membe-s of the
treasurer, whom it is proposed to
elect hereafter, the comptroller and
a third member, probably the at
torney general. The bill creating
the elective office of territorial
comptroller and making the office
of treasurer elective is reported to
have been drafted bui; has not yet
been introduced. It is understood
that the main purpose of the mea
sure is to take over all purely ter
ritorial administrative functions
from the governor's office and ter
ritorial secretary.
MURDERER MUST HANG
SALEM, Mar. 10—Governor
Pierce has refused to commute the
sentence of Husted A. Walters, sen
tenced to hang tomorrow for the
murder of Jerome Palmer, Portland
patrolman.
* FEDERATION BACKS THEM
GREAT FALLS. Mar. 10—The
Montana State Federation of Labor,
which is in annual convention here,
has adopted a resolution indorsing
the conduct of the striking coal min
ers of Illinois during the Herrin
riots, and extending sympathy and
wishes for a speedy acquittal of the
F defendants on trial for murder. The
resolution was signed by the officials
of the federation.
CLOAK MAKERS STRIKE
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 10
Four hundred members of the Cloak
and Suit Makers union have gone
on strike as the result of the failure
of their employers to sign an ag
reement submitted by the union.
CHINK CABINET QUITS
PEKING, Mar. 10—The Chinese
cabinet resigned today.
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BREAKING POINT APPROACHES
AS INDUSTRIES BECOME IDLE
MRS. BARNETTE SCORES
IN OLD BANK CONTEST
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 10—Mrs. j
Isabelle Barnette, former wife of
Captain E. T. Barnetee, head of the
defunct Washington-Alaska Bank,
which failed in Fairbanks a number
of years ago, has obtained an order
from Federal Judge Frank B. Det
rick directing Fred G Noyes former
receiver, to show what amounts
comprise the $47,000 which he as
serts was expended to collect $58,
000 which he is holding in a San j
Francisco bank and which Mr?.
Barnette is seeking to recover.
BALFOUR MAKES REPLY
TO HEAVY STATEMENT
LONDON, Mar. 10—Speaking in
the house of lords today, Earl
Balfour, secretary of foreign affairs
during the Lloyd George administra
tion, declared that his circular note
to the Allies on the subject of inter*
allied debts does not deserve the j
strictures placed upon it by Am
bassador Harvey in his recent speech
“From a strictly commercial
viewpoint,” he admitted “Harvey’s
statements might be correct, but I.
for one, think less of the commercial
side of the deal.”
MEDFORD TRIAL DRAGS
MEDFORD, Ore., Mar 10—In
the trial of the night riders case j
the defendants continued its efforts
today to impeach the tesimony of
witnesses for the prosecution but
most of the questions were ruled t
by the court as immaterial.
HELD FOR BIG THEFT
ST. PAUL, Mar. 10—A warrant
has been issued for the arrest of
James M. Lindsay, former treasur
er of the St. Paul Union Stockyards,
on the charge of appropriating $100
000 of the company’s funds to his
own use.
WILL RETAIN GUARD
MADISON, Mar. 10—The Hirsch
bill, providing for the abolition of
the National guard, was overwhelm*
1 ingly defeated by the state senate
! yesterday.
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VETERAN LEAPS TO DEATH
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 10—
1A man believed to be Bernie Seip,
war veteran, leaped to hi3 death yes
terday from the observation tower
of Washington monument
SKI JUMPER WINS TITLE
| REVELSTOKE, Mar. 10—Nels
Nelson, former world champion am
ateur ski jumper, won a special con
test here yesterday from Anders
Haugen, American champion, the
score being 394 points to 367.
WASHINGTON SOLONS QUIT
OLYMPLA, Wash., Mar. 10—The
state legislature adjourned at three
o’clock yesterday morning, the clos
ing hours being a confusion of mer
riment and oratory.
LONDON. Mar. 10—British cor
respondents in the Ruhr district as
sert there is a tendency there to
ward peace. Both sides are wearying
of the struggle. Both the German
industrialists and the workers are
hard pressed, the former feeling
the lost business while the latter
see no hope of winning, and their
suffering augmented daily. The
French are reported to be suffering
also as a result of the genera! sus
pension of industrial activity and
they are far from realizing what
they planned from occupation.
French industries are being serious
ly hampered as a result of the cur
tailment of the coal supply. The
reports state that it will be im
possible for the present conditions
to continue much longer.
Coal Mine* Closing
ESSEN. Mar. 10—The German
coal mines of the Ruhr district are
closing one after the other as the
result of the dismissal of German
miners, which is part of the German
plan to gradually reduce the coal
output to a minimum in passive
resistence to French occupation of
German territory.
Meetings of employes are being
held at various points and protests
are loud against the German system
of paying strike funds. There is
much unrest among the thousands
of unemployed. Essen and Duis
berg have been cut off from the
rest of Ruhr by the suspension of
rail transportation.
Sending Children Aw»y
BOCHUM. Mar. 10—The Ger
mans have begun the transfer of
several thousand children from the
trouble zone. They are being sent
to Bremen on special trains and will
be cared for by private families
. there until the trouble is over.
DARING AVIATORS ACHIEVE
NEW FEAT AT MINEOLA
MINE OLA. Mar. 10—Lieutenants
Clyde Finter and Lawrence Sperry
have the distinction of having:
achieved, for the first time in the
history of aviation, contacts at will
between two planes, while flying at
reduced speed, so that messages and
food could be exchanged.
Sperry, who piloted the messenger
plane, attached a ladder to Finter’s
plane and mounted to it and then
returned to his own plane and re
sumed his flight independently. This
feat was accomplished eight times
under unfavorable weather condi
tions
SAM GOMPERS VERY ILL
NEW YORK. Mar 10—Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, who is ser
iously ill in this city as the result
of an attack of influenza, bronchi
tis and pneumonia, is resting easily
today and his condition is improved.
His physians say if the present
steady improvement continues the
veteran labor leader will be out of
danger within 48 hours.
YOUTH HELD ON BAD CHARGE
VANCOUVER, Wash.. Mar. 10—
Edward Whitehead, aged 20, nephew
of a farmer living at Battleground,
is being held at the county jail in
connection with the murder this
week of Anna Nosko, whose mutilat
ed body was found hidden under
some brush on a farm near Battle
ground.
MURDERER PAYS PENALTY
SALEM, Mar. 10—Husted A.
Walters, sentenced to death for the
murder of Jerome Palmer, Portland
patrolman, was hanged at the state
penitentiary yesterday morning.
BROKER IS FREED
SEATTLE. Mar. 10—M. E Tilton
prominent investment broker, was
acquitted yesterday on a charge of
grand larceny of $300 from Mrs.
Anna Helms. Tilton’s firm recently
was declared bankrupt.
PRESIDENT THINKS HISTORY
NEEDS GENERAL REVISION i
BRUNSWICK. Me., Mar. 10—;
The teaching of history should be
changed to take a broader view that
would consider the nations of the
Western world in their relations to
one another instead of considering
them separately, accoring to the be
lief of President Harding, expressed
in a letter addressed to President
Hills, of Bowdoin College.
The President congratulated the
college on its plans for the institute
of modern history, to be held here,
and said: “Our point of view re
garding history has been shifted
greatly by.events of the last decade”
TAXES THREATENS NATION
SAYS CONFERENCE REPORT
NEW YORK. Mar. 10—Taxation
is rapidly becoming unbearable and
the federal income tax threatens
economic progress, according to the
report of the National Industrial
conference, which is in session here.
The statement, which was in the
nature of a warning, pointed out
that approximately fourteen cents
of every dollar earned by the nation
last year, had to be paid out in the
form of taxes.
PAYNE IS TAKEN ILL
MIAMI, Mar. 10—John Barton
Payne, former secretary of the in
terior, who left Washington as a
member of the President Harding
party, was taken to a local hotel
today and placed under the care of
a physician. His condition is not ser
ious. Attorney General Daugherty
also a member of the party, is also
under the care of a doctor at the
same hotel. He is improving rapidly.
FAMOUS COOK PASSES
MILFORD, N. H.. Mar. 10—Mrs.
Anna F Remich, who invented the
porterhouse steak while working as
a cook at the Porter House at
Cambridge, Mass., shortly after the
Civil war, died here yesterday, aged
87 years.
RECKLESS DRIVER LOSES
LIFE IN BIG OIL BLAZE
ST. PAUL, Mar. 10—An unident
ified man is thought to have been
burned to death in a fire which des
troyed a number of houses in the
dairy district today. The fire, caus
ed by a break in an oil pipe line
near Artesia, swept an area more
than a quarter of a mile in length.
The missing man, driving an auto
mobile, disregarded warnings and
attempted to drive through the
flames. His car was found later des
troyed by the fire, but no trace of
the driver has been found.
FORMER SEATTLE POLICEMEN
TRY BOOTLEGGING—JAILED
SEATTLE, Mar 10—Edward Pie
low and Ed Hagen, former members
of the Seattle police department,
and C. A. Givins and Shris Brown
were arrested yesterday on secret
indictments returned by the federal
grand jury, charging conspiracy to
violate the prohibition act.
Prohibitionists are reported to
have seized a quantity of whiskey
and books showing the four men
were engaged in the bootlegging
business The records showed that
they had a thounsand dollar turn
over daily.
M'ADOO FOR PRESIDENT
AUSTIN, Texas, Mar. 10—One
hundred members of the state legis
lature and others have organized a
“McAdoo For President” club and
steps will be taken to extend the
movement throughout the state.
LA FOLLETTE WHITEWASHED
MADISON. Wis., Mar. 10—The
state assembly has passed the senate
resolution condemning the action of
members of the faculty of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin in signing a
round robin denouncing the war
record of Senator La Follette.
WAR HERO HONOURED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar 10
General John F. O’Ryan, of New
York, who commanded the 27th
division in France, has been re
tained as counsel by the special
commission appointed to investigate
the affairs of the Veterans’ bureau.
Work will be begun immediately
making a preliminary survey of the
charges filed by the American legion
and the counsel will recommend
which of the charges require spe
cial treatment during the investiga
tion.
BRITISH SAILORS KILLED
GIBRALTER, Mar. 10—The ex
plosion of a torpedo aboard the
British cruiser Sovernty yesterday
resulted in the instant death of
two sailors and the injury of four
others, two of whom probably will
die.
NORTHWESTERN ENROUTE
The steamer Northwestern sailed
north from Ketchikan yesterday af
ternoon at four o’clock.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
STARTS WORK MARCH 15
SEATTLE, Mar. 10—A radio me;*
sage received by the Standard Oil
Company at San Francisco and re
peated in a kttter to A. S. Kerry, of
Seattle, head of the Westward De
velopment Company which negotiat
ed the leases between property own
ers and the Standard and Associated
Oil Companies, says the Standard
Oil Company will start drilling in
the Cold Bay district on March lo.
W. H. Beerg, head of the field
division of the Standard Oil, says,
in the letter, that '‘once we start
there will be nothing like rock to
cause us to shut down. We have set
up in Alaska the most powerful
drilling plant itver erecte' in the
world in the search for oil.
THIRD DEGREE IS USED
ON SAN DIEGO SUSPECT
SAN DIEGO, Mar. 10—Jame<
Wadham, attorney for Dr. Louis
Jacobs, who is charged with the
murder of Fritzie Mann, dancer,
whose body was found on the beach
recently, declares that the local
officers are using third degree me
thods in an effort to force an admis
i sion of guilt from the doctor.
District Attorney Kempley and
members of the police department
deny emphatically that wrong me
thods have been used in connection
with Jacobs.
DRILLER TELLS OF MISHAP
TO OUTFIT AT COLD BAY
SEATTLE, Mar. 10—C M. Dav,
member of the Associated Oil Com
pany’s drilling crew, is authority
for the statement that the company
began drilling on its Cold Bay
holdings on .January 8 and hud
reached a depth of 197 feet by
February 18, when all of the bits
were broken on hard rock at that
depth. Operations were suspended
on that date to await the arrival of
new machinery.
Day says the Standard Oil Com
: pany expected to begin drilling on
the first of March,
j One hundred persons wintered at
Kanatak and several of the cabins
were demolished during the winter
j bv wind.
DEPARTMENT STORE BURNS
PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Mar. 10—
The Sheppard Company department
i store, in the heart of the business
! district, was swept by tire yester
day, with a loss estimated at be
; tween a million and a half and twu
rrfillion dollars.
CARUSO EFFECTS SOLD
NEW YORK. Mar. 10—Personal
things belonging to the Caruso
household were sold at auction yes
terday, the list including art relics,
paintings, bronzes, costumes and
statues. The amount realized aggre
| gated $151,000.
BABE RUTH AT WORK
NEW YORK, Mar. 10—Babe Ruth
made his first appearance in uniform
ait the 'Yankee training camp yester
day. He began batting with several
j popups but finally settled down to
: heavy hitting, sending several bails
near the outer fence, but none ovei
| it. Critics say Ruth is still weak
from his recent attack of flu.