Where the Ice Pool Grows— Nenana— $7,955.25 Last Year
THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL, 24, 1923.
NUMBER 442
HOOVER COMING WITH HARDING PARTY
NEW CARS WILL CARRY PRESIDENT OVER ROAD
HENDERSON RE-ELECTED HEAD OF ALASKA SCHOOLS
HENDERSON IS RE-ELECTED
COMMISSIONER EDUCATION
JUNEAU. April 24—Lester D.
Henderson has been re-elected ter
ritorial commissioner of education,
his retention in office having been
•decided upon at a meeting of the
territorial board of education held
on Saturday. His term expired on
March 31.
Some opposition to Henderson had
developed among the members of
the board but his retention had the
indorsement of school boards
throughout the territory. The oppo
sition, which was somewhat unex
pected, became manifest about ten
days ago, at which time it was
claimed three members of the board
were lined up to oust him. TTie first
ballot at Saturday’s meeting showed
the governor, Chamberlain and
Snodgrass in favor of Henderson s
re-election. Brown of Nome, voted
for H. L. Rowley, a teacher in the
Douglas school, and Hunt, of Ketch
ikan. voted for a member of the
Juneau teaching staff. On the second
ballot the re-election of Hender
son was made unanimous.
Echos ^of the mixup over the re
election of Henderson were heard
in the senate yesterday when Sen
ator Dunn introduced a bill pro
viding for a referendum on the
question of making the office of
commissioner of education elective
by popular vote or continued under
the present arrangement of ap
pointment by the board. The refer
endum is to be submitted at the
next general election.
The Dimond jury bill, which was
passed by the senate yesterday,
provides for changes in the methods
of drawing juries in district and
commissioner courts and eliminates
open venires selected by marshals.
The Dunn resolution directing the
attorney general to continue his
investigation of the transportation
question has been approved by the
senate and also his bill empowering
Indian villages to incorporate, with
all the powers of towns of the se
cond class.
The outlook for the passage of
the women jury bill is brighter to
day, it having been indicated that
the conference committee will reach
an agreement shortly. The house has
instructed its committee to ask for
an amendment allowing exemption
on account of sex, providing claim
for exemption is made not less than
20 days before the time set for the
jury to appear in court.
Representative Dan Callahan, who
has been a member of the confer
ence committee since it was first
appointed, withdrew yesterday when
the house so instructed the commit
tee. He declared that he was elected
as an independent and would not
be bound by instructions from either
Democrats or Republicans.
Senate Bill 107, depriving the
president of the Fairbanks college
of the power to appoint but allowing
him to nominate members of the
faculty, was passed by the senate
yesterday by a vote of five to three,
Ayer, Dunn and Dimond opposing
the measure.
The Snodgrass bill making the
office of commissioner of education
elective was tabled in the senate
on motion of Snodgrass.
Senate Bill 50, providing for the
protection of the blue fox industry
ITINERARY OF WEEKS PARTY
INCLUDES BRIEF SEWARD STOP
has passed the Senate. It provide;
for the registration of brands anc
the branding of all animals anc
pelts by farmers, and the tagginf
of legally caught skins by trapper
before a U. S. Commissioner.
The house has approved the sen
ate bill providing a labor lein fo;
fishermen; also the Foster bill pro
viding for a refund by the terri
tory of $30 to incorporate town
for each non-resident pupil attend
ing school; also a bill imposing i
tax of one dollar on each residen
fishermen and $15 on non-residen
fishermen.
AMUR MINES LACK CAPITAL
VLADIVOSTOK. April 24— Th
government still is inseareh of for
eign capital to work the natural pric
es of the Priamur region, and for
eigners may take up concessions o:
advantageous terms.
A significant fact is that ther
are more Japanese coming into thi
port than are leaving. Some Amer
ican miners from Alaska also hav
come to Vladivostok with monej
and intend to take up gold minin;
in the Okhostk and other district
where gold in known to exist.'
COMMITTEE BUSY LISTIN^G
GUESSES IN ANNUAL POOl
"
i The work of listing guesses i
; the annual Nenana ice pool is prc
| greasing steadily under the direc
i tion of the Ice Pool committee an
’ it is expected that all of the ticket
; will have been properly registere
| within the next few days, afte
j which the lists will be ready for th
' breakup.
As is usually the case, a numbe
} of the tickets were deposited i
j the boxes minus the names of th
i guessers and some were marked a
impossible times. One guesser mart
ed April 1 on his ticket and anothe
picked April 31 for the breakui
Up to the present time it has bee
necessary to eliminate about 2
tickets and more probably will b
thrown out before the listing i
completed.
Of the 13,000 tickets printec
; 10,735 were disposed of as follows
' Nenana, 5,807; Fairbanks 1465
| Anchorage 800; Eska 749; Suntran
|656; Tanana 500; William Hamme
| 170; McKinley Park 115; Sewar
i 110; R. J. Eames 100; J. M. Reite
100; Harry Lane 89; A. St. J. M<
Auley 50; miscellaneous 25.
The following sale of tickets wa
recorded in Nenana: Terminal 3,44£
Portland 806; Railroad Cigar Stoi
i 729; Club 387, A. J. Ghezzi 343
Cooney hotel 76; miscellaneous 2<
The committee reports that a
arrangements have been made for r<
gistering the time of the breakui
j The flag has been placed in pos
jtion, with wires leading to th
[ clock in the power house. When th
' ice moves the clock will be stopi
I ed automatically and the whistle £
the power house will sound the gei
J eral alarm.
SEATTLE. April 24—Major Dole
purchasing agent of the Alaska
Engineering Commission, has se
cured two palatial observation cars
for use on the Alaska Railroad and
the new equipment, which was pur
chased from the Great Northern,
will be shipped to Seward on Sat
urday on the freighter Oduna. Each
car contains four compartments
with drawing rooms, and it is plan
ned to use the cars on the occa
sion of the Alaskan visit of Presi
dent Harding and party during the
summer.
Week* Announce* Itinerary
WASHINGTON, D. C. April 24
; The itinerary of the two trans-j
ports which will convey Secretary
of War Weeks and the Congression-;
. al party on their summer outing to
; Honolulu and Alaska has been an- j
nounced by the war department,
j The transport Grant will leave
j New York on April 27 and is
scheduled to reach San Fiancisco
■ on May 24. Prom San Francisco the
transport will go to Honolulu, ar
riving there June 3 and returning1
to San Francisco June 12.
Upon arrival at San Francisco
from the East, the party will be i
! divided, the Grant taking some of
:he travelers to Honolulu and the I
:ransport Cambria taking the rest,
:o Alaska, leaving San Francisco
May 27 and arriving at Seattle j
May 30, Fort Seward June 5. and
Seward June 10, returning to Seat-,
tie June 17 and San Francisco
June 22.
Among those who will accompany
Secretary Weeks on the last part
of the trip will be forty senators
and representatives, including Sen
ators Jones, of New Mexico; Phipps,
af Colorado; Warren of Wyoming;
Oddie of Nevada; McKinley of Illin- \
ois; Cameron of Arizona; Robinson
of Arkansas; Howell of Nebraska;
Ladd of North Dakota; Representa
tives Anthony of Kansas; Madden
of Illinois; Abernathy of North Car
olina; Johnson of Washington; Al
mon of Alabama.
Hoover 1» Coming
WASHINGTON, D. C. April 24
Secretary of Commerce Herbert!
Hoover , has decided to accompany1
President Harding on his trip tot
Alaska leaving Washington about !
June 15. He will not cross the
country with the President but will j
join his party on the Pacific coast
and go North with the President. '
While in the Territory he 'will in
quire into the fisheries situation.
' SAHARA DESERT WAS GARDEN
OF EDEN, SCIENTIST DECLARES
l
, LONDON, April 24—In the pas:
there have been many guesses and
speculations as to the location of
the Garden of Eden. Professor Sir
Arthur Keith, lecturing before the
r Royal Society, treated a scientific
audience to some original ideas of
his own on the subject.
r i He said that in the “far distant
1 past’’ the Sahara and the vast deserts
of Arabia and the area stretching to
1 Mongolia were “blooming.”
r i “That large tract was really the
Garden of Eden, man was driven
from it not by a flaming sword but
. by a flaming sun. Every type of
man could be found round that
?
Garden of Eden.
i “It is possible to go far beyond
the days of Abraham and Tubal
’ Cain and his smithy. It should be re
alized that Egypt and Babylonia
’ | were only remnants of a past civil
* ization. Civilized man, I am convinc
r|ed, is far older than is at present
generally believed.”
| BULGARY COINING MONEY
; VIENNA, March 24.— The Austri
s an Mint has recieved an order from
’ the Bulgarian Government for the
e coining on its behalf of 40 million
» one leva and 20 million 2 leva
'• pieces. The execution of this ordei
1 will keep the mint fully employed
- for the space of nine months.
,. j
Lieutenants Kitson and Ungen
e thene, of Comcany B, came ovei
e from Anchorage this morning en
>- route to Fairbanks cn a sight see
t ing trip. They will leave for the
- States shortly with their companj
which has been ordered from Alaska
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MINNEAPOLIS HOTEL TO HAVE
RADIO PLUGS IN EACH ROOM
MINNEAPOLIS. April 24—In
keeping with the rapid progress of
the radio movement, it will soon be
possible to “listen in” from rooms
of a large hotel here, which has
contracted for the connecting of
each of several hundred rooms with
radio plugs. The guest will have to
invest' in a receiving set, as head
phones may be rented for a small
fee from the clerk’s office.
According to the plan of engin
eers who have worked on the
scheme for several weeks, a mas
sive aerial and three power receiv
ing stations will be equipped in one
of the top floors of the hotel. Each
room will have a radio plug con
nected to one of the three re
ceiving sets. Feasibility of the plan
was proved recently when more
than 100 rooms listened in on one
concert.
The guest who wishes radio en- :
tertainment may call the office and
j a set of phones will be sent to him.
Once connected in the plug, the
set cannot be removed until re-'
! leased by a hotel employe, thus in-'
suring against theft by any unscru- j
pulous guest. A small fee is added
! to the hotel bill for the use of the
■>
receiving phones.
Mrs. Hattie D’Orsay has return-;
ed to Nenana from an outing of i
several weeks at Circle Hot Springs,
and has reopened her tailor shop j
on upper A street. She reports hav-,
ing had a most enjoyable stay at
the popular resort and speak3 in j
t
terms of highest praise of the hos
pitality of Manager Otter Meyer. J
i I
SENATOR HANNA'S YACHT
DRAFTED BY CHINESE NAVY
MANILA. P. I.. April 24—The
yacht El Aguila, formerly owned by
the late Senator Mark Hanna, of I
Ohio, is soon to be seen in action
is a Chinese gunboat on the Yangt
ze river, according to Chau Chiaco,
i local Chinese firm which has just
purchased the craft from the Philip-1
pine department of the Lfnited
States army for $6,025 .
The yacht was built in 1892 and
was named the “Commanehe.” It
was taken over by the navy during
the war and the name changed to
the “Frolic.” Later it passed to the
army, and again became El Aguila.
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SWEDES YEARN FOR AMERICA
STOCKHOLM, April 24
“America fever” again has broken
out in various parts of Sweden, ac
cording to statistical reports. This
term is applied by the opponents of
emigration to the yearnings of
young men and women to seek their 1
fortunes in the United States.
More than one thousand persons
left Sweden for America during
January and February of this year
as against fewer than three hundred
for the same period last year. Vir
tually all of these emigrants are
well supplied with funds to cover
their traveling expense, and most of
them have relatives who will help
them out when they arrive.
Sweden’s quota under the United
States immigration law is about
20,000 per year.
PURCHASING AGENTS TO MEET
CLEVELAND, April 24. — A
huge display of merchandice and
materials will be held in connection
with the eighth annual meeting of
the National Association of Pur
chasing Agents here on May 15 to
18. Practically all of the 4,200
members are expected to attend.
NORTHWESTERN COMING
The steamer Northwestern which
sailed from Seattle on April 18,
is due at Seward tomorrow with the
following passengers for points a
long the railroad.
J. P. Frisby, Joe Rasmussen, Mrs.
E. Buckholz, O. Miller, wife and
baby and two boys, Sam Dubin and
wife, H. K. Carlisle, W. L. Downie
and wife, Charles Hardin, R. J.
Johnson, C. K. Davis, E. E. White,
A. Darbie, O. Wimmler, Mrs. M.
Clarkem. Mrs. J. F. Clarkem, N.
Brake, Mrs. E. Marburg, J. Murphy,
O. Anderson, H. Lucas, A. F. Hazel,
G. F. Courtney, C. A. Bartholf, C.
Bartholf, W. Bergman, Walter John
son, K. Wr. Davison, D. Crane, F.
Basham, C. Anderson, A. Anderson,
G. Barnes, L. Bystad, H. S. Palmer,
A. Hanot, R. Strom, A. F. Ellum,
C. Polte, H. R. Miller, F. R. Bigford
D. T. Kennedy, A. T. Lord, E. H.
Elder, T. J. Fitzgerald, B. Durch,
L. Westervik, F. A. Hadstrom, C.
F. Thorlou, F. Giles, F. B. Depue,
Capt. S. E. Lancaster, G. M. Kyre,
Ed Holbrook and wife. Miss M.
Gibbins and forty steerage.
ITALIAN QUEEN PREPARES TO
ENTERTAIN BRITISH RULERS
ROME, Apnl 24— Queen Helena
of Italy is dividing her time be
tween the preparations for the
wedding of her daughter, Yolanda,
ar.d the preparations for the visit
of the king and queen of Great
Britain, which is to take place next
May.
The royal visitors are to be the
guests of the Italian sovereign and
will occupy the entire south wing of
the Quirinal palace.
As the queen of England has
never visited Italy before, not even
as a princess, special arrangements
are planned to make her stay here
interesting and enjoyable. Queen
Mary’s desire to have two or three
days entirely devoted to sightseeing
will be respected.
PHILATELISTS PLANNING TO
HOLD STAMP CONTEST
LONDON, March 22— Hundreds
of entries have been received from
all over the world, especially from
America, for the world’s stamp
collecting championship which will
be decided here in May.
Many of the collections of single
countries are valued at from 20,000
to 50,000 pounds, while one exhibit
or’s entries amount to 100,000
pounds.
The exhibition is the first of its
kind held since before the war. The
"junior” championship for philatel
ists under 21 will also be contested
for the first time since 1912, when
Captain Victor Cazalet, then an
Eton boy of 15 secured it.
QUAKE REPORTS CONTINUE
TO COME FROM KAMCHATKA
WASHINGTON. D. C. April 24
The tremendous earth and sea dis
turbances which have taken place
recently in the Arctic regions may
still be in progress according to
advices received from Chita, giving
details of the shock recently felt
at Petropavlosk and which carried
a number of buildings into the sea.
The total number of casualties i.»
not known but the loss of more than
a score of lives has been definitely
established.
When the last word was received
from Petropavlosk, on April 15.
shocks were occurring at intervals
of six minutes. The radio station
had been destroyed and many people
had been rendered homeless. All the
warehouses containing food were
destroyed and famine threatened.
TREASURER INDICTED
CHICAGO. April 24—The federal
grand jury has indicted for viola
tion of the dry law John A. Car
venka, who was installed as city
treasurer last week, and several
others, including Barney Grogan,
former saloon keeper.
CLARA IN TOILS
WASHINGTON, D. C. April 24 —
The state department that a woman
thought to be Clara Phillips is un
der arrest and will be held until re
ceipt of extradition papers.
Roadmaster C. G. Jones returned
to Nenana late yesterday afternoon
from an official trip out the line,
south of town.
M. Singelton was among this
morning’s arrivals in town.