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Buy Your Outfit in Nenana--8ave Time, Money, Trouble
THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEB. 17, 1923
NUMBER 41S
TENSION BECOMING ACUTE IN GERMANY
BOMBS ARE BEING USED AGAINST FRENCH FORCES
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SECRETARY WEEKS PLANS' SEND SOLONS TO ALASKA
..SECRETARY WEEKS PLANS
ALASKA JUNKETING TRIP 1
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WASHINGTON, D. C Feb 17—j
Secretary Weeks has extended an j
invitation to the hold-over members j
of the senate and house military and !
appropriation committees to make
a trip from New York via Panama
canal to the Pacific Coast and Al
aska, sailing from New York about j
the middle of April. The purpose of ■
the trip is that the lawmakers may i
see for themselves the nature of J
the public works in progress along
the route.
The trip will be made on the
army transport St. Michael and the I
vessel will carry freight to San
Francisco and Alaska. The guests
of the secretary will pay their own
subsistence so their trip will not in
volve the government in any ad
ditional expense.
Returning from Alaska the party
will leave the ship at Seattle and
proceed to their homes by rail.
The secretary hopes to be able to j
make the trip himself but is not sure
that he will be able to get away. [
The outing will consume about sixty ’
days.
Many of the men who will con
tinue as members of Congress and
who are connected with public work j
appropriations, have never seen the '
construction work undertaken at
Panama canal, San Diego, San Fran
. cisco, Seattle and other Puget sound
points and Alaska. The Alaska Rail- j
road will be inspected on the trip'
and the transport also will call at
St. Michael.
It is said the proposed trip has
no connection with the plans of
President Harding to visit Alaska, j
WOMEN VOTE FOR SERVICE
ON JURIES IN TERRITORY
The women of Alaska, in the No-!
vember election voted by a little :
more than two to one in favor of ■
g the coming- Territorial Legislature,
passing a law requiring women to
serve as jurors, according to the of
ficial election returns made public
at Juneau recently by the Canvass
ing Board. The vote for the preposi
tion was 1,164, against it, 579, a
majority of 585 votes.
The total woman vote was 1,743,
or a little more than 22 per cent
of the vote cast in the delegate el
ection. The women of the First
Division east 44 per cent of the
total woman vote or 765 out of
1.743. This was a little more than
25 per cent of the entire vote for
the First Division. The Second Di
vision woman vote, 142, was a little
in excess of 20 per cent of the |
total for the Division. In this Di
vision the issue was close, 79 voting
for it and 63 against. The Third
Division vote on the proposition
was 359 for and 156 against, a to
tal of 515. This was just under 22
per cent of the total Third Division
showed the smallest percentage^ of
Women voting, the woman vote
, being about 17 3-4 per c,ent of
the entire vote for the Division.
The total woman vote for the Divi
sion was 321, 233 voting for and
88 against the proposition. t
The First Division led in the num
ber of votes cast, with 3,002 votes.
The Third Division was second with
2,347; Fourth Division, 1,805, and
Second Division 704.
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FRENCH IMPOSE HEAVY FINES
TO COMPEL RESPECT IN RUHR
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REORGANIZATION PLANS
ARE BEING CONSIDERED
WASHINGTON. D. C. Feb. 17—
Details of the proposed reorgani
zation of government departments
have been forwarded to a joint
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committee which is expected to use
them for at lease a basis for fur
ther study of the plan.
One of the outstanding features
of the proposals is the suggested
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consolidation of the war and navy
: departments under a department of
national defense, with three under
j secretaries in charge of the army na
vy and national resources respective
j ly. The plan includes the establish
i ment and disposition of a national
\ welfare.
Other proposals incl i le tb» Irens
| fer of all non-military fuictions:
I from the war and navy departments ;
to civilian departments, d it fW the ;
| departments of interior and com- j
merce; the elimination of all non-fis- :
, cal functions from the treasury de-:
; partment, and the change of the'
| names of the postoffice department
| to communications, which will be
expected to develop telegraph and
telephone communications, including
i wireless, for the public benefit; the
transfer of the bureau of insular
affairs from the war to the state
j department. Numerous changes of;
j bureaus are suggested but the con
i trol of the forest lands would re
i main under the control of the de
i partment of agriculture.
GOVERNOR? WILL BE ASKED
TO CONSIDER PROHIBITION
WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 17
President Harding will issue a call
shortly for another conference of
governors of the various states
to discuss prohibition. The confer-'
ence will be held here at a date to
be announced later.
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CORDOVA GAME CLUB WILL
STOCK SOUND WITH GAME
Plans for the stocking certain
' areas in the Prince William Sound
: district with elk, deer, moose and
other animals have been adopted by
the Cordova Game Club, according
to L. C. Pratt, Secretary- of the
i club. The club’s plans have been
| approved by the Biological Survey
| which has promised to co-operate
i in the undertaking.
Among the places to be stocked
will be islands in Prince William
Sound waters and portions of the
' mainland, distribution of animals be
ing planned for as far west as Ko
diak. It is expected that the club
will seek Territorial co-operation.
The Cordova organization is ac
tively interested in all matters per
taining to game, said Mr. Pratt. It
has 112 members in good standing
) with a membership that touches al
j most the entire district. It aided the
Territorial game wardens and Bio
j logical Survey and also the Bureau
of Fisheries during the past season.
DUSSELDORF Feb. 17—Bomb :
throwing and serious cases of sabot
age have occurred in the Ruhr dis
trict during the last couple of
days. A bomb was thro-wn in the
street in Essen last night near the
headquarters of the French engin
eers, where the chief engineer and
a score or more of civil engineers
lodge. The bomb exploded but very
little damage resulted.
Germans On Trial
ESSEN, Feb. 17—A French court
martial at Bredenry is engaged in
I trying various German officials who
I are charged with resisting the forces
of occupation. One Burgomaster was
sentenced yesterday to a .term of
three years in prison, and the direc
tor of the Rhenish electrical works
' was fined five million marks for a
similiar offense.
Officials of a German prison were
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tried by a Belgian court for refus-J
ing to accept prisoners and were
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sentenced to six months and fined
fifty thousand marks.
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Soldier* Wounded
ESSEX, Feb. 17—Two French;
soldiers were wounded last night i
by German police who interfered in j
a cafe altercation. The tension, al-j
ready high, has been increased trem
endously by the incident and the
Frepch have moved tanks into the
city to cope with anv t tation that
may arise.
Trouble In Poland
WARSAW, Feb. 17—Clashes are
reported between Polish troops and
Lithuanian irregulars at several in
tervals during the occupation of the
neutral zone allocated to Poland by
the council of the League of Nations ,
COLD WAVE GENERAL
CHICAGO, Feb. 17—While Ne
: nana and other Alaskan towns are
I enjoying the warmest February
i weather ever recorded in the North
i a cold wave carrying new records
for low temperatures is sweeping
don into the Upper Mississippi val
! ley from the Rockies and Canadian
Northwest. Heavy snow storms are
; reported from a number of section
RESERVOIR CAVES IN
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An area of 2# by 60 feet of the
roof on the north side of the main
water reservoir of the Juneau Wa
ter Company at the top of Gold
Street recently caved in from the
pressure of snow which covered it.
The roof, which is flat, was covered
with two and one-half feet cf tnr w
That part of the reservoir where
the cave-in occurred is the reserve
tank, the water in it is not supply
l ing the city at the present time.
Immediately after the cave-in Mr.
Reck had a crew of men at work
shoveling the snow from the re
mainder of the roof, the work be
ing finished in short order.
The rain which fell during the
day, soaking into the snow, and ad
ding to its weight, is the evident
cause of the cave-in, Mr. Reck
said. How it could cave in under a
pressure of two and one-half feet
i of snow, he cannot yet understand,
he said, as it was strongly braced
for heavy pressure.
Repair work on the reservoir will
be started at oned.
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Acting Chief Engineer Wm. Gerig
and Engineer Maintenance and Con
struction F. A. Hansen were in
town this week on business connect
ed with the railroad. They returned
to the coast last night.
Jimmy Sizeland returned to town
today from a trip to the Toklat.
The Pioneers will meet in regular
session at Union hall on Monday
night.
J. H. Jerome and Emil Hansen
are guests at the Cooney Hotel.
EXPPRESS OFFICE HELD UP
EUREKA, Ca!. Feb. 17—The lo
cal office of the American Express
Company was held up today by
three bandits, who made their es
cape with $1,200 in coin and cur-(
rency.
COLD KILLS FIVE CHI
CHICAGO. Feb. 17—S-Five persons
are dead in this city as the result of
the recent cold snap.
FORD TO BUILD ROAD
ST. PAUL, Feb 17—Henry Ford,
contemplates the construction of a;
freight carrying only, between Du-!
luth and Twin Cities.
BOOZE PROBE COMING
WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 17—j
The lower house of Congress, by a ;
vote of 189 to 113, has ordered an
investigation of the reports that for-;
eipn embassies are importing more
liquor than they should have. The
inquiry is directed to Secretary Mel- \
Ion who has already informed the
house judiciary committee that he
could not “properly” give out the
information which the house now
asks for.
WOMAN FREEZES
MINXEAWAUKE, X. C. Feb. 17
The body of Mrs. C. B. Erickson
wife, of a farmer near Maddock,
was found frozen last night a mile
from home. She was caught in
Tuesday’s blizzard.
FORBES WILL GO
! WASHINGTON', D. C Feb 17
President Harding has accepted the
resignation *>f Forbes, effective
February 28 Forbes says ill health
compelled him to quit.
M. F McDonnell, Alaska repres- >
entative of the American Paper j
Company and Swift & Company, j
passed through Xenana yesterday on i
his way to his Juneau headquarters
after a business trip to the Interior.
He says Juneau is coming back
strong with the assurance of the
early establishment of a large pulp
and paper plant at the territorial
capital.
CREW OF DISABLED SHIP
TAKEN FROM BLEAK ROCK
VANCOUVER, B. C. Feb. 17—
Almost dead from cold and suffering*
greatly from exposure during yes
terday and today, the members of
the crew of the Furness Line steam
er Tuscan Prince were rescued late
today from their perilous position
on a bleak, desolute island at the
entrance to Barclay sound. Their
rescue was effected by a life saving
crew from Samfield, assisted by
seine boats, and they are now on
their way to Port Angeles.
The rescue was effected by a
breeches buoy shot on the island
by the life saving boat, which could
not land on "Hie island’s rocky shore.
Fourteen were taken off yesterday
and the others today.
Unable to locate the entrance to
the Straits of Juan de Fuca in the
howing blizzard, the Tuscan sent
out an S. O. S., and a moment later
crashed on the rocks. The officers
and crew clung to the wreck all
night and finally reached shore, al
though how they did it none are at
present able to tell, in their dazed
condition. They took some ships
stores with them, found some fresh
water on the island and remained
there, huddled about a tiny fire un
til help arrived.
ASSOCIATED OIL DRILLING;
SHORTAGE OF FUEL DELAYS
The Association Oil Company was
30 feet down in its well on the
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Pearl Dome on Pear! Creek in the
Cold Bay field on January 23rd,
and the Standard Oil was virtually
ready to begin drilling, according
to advices received at Juneau by
Frank. A. Boyle, Register of the
local U. S. Land Office. Stormy
weather in January handicapped op
erations to a considerable extent.
The Associated Oil was entirely
out of fuel at the well and had
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shut down its drill on the above
date, it was stated. However, it had
placed contracts with private indi
viduals for hauling the fuel and it
was expected would be in position
to renew drilling not later chan
February 1st. It was expected that
the Standard Oil would also let
contracts for fuel supplies. The oil
saturated peat which abounds in
the region is being used by both
companies for fuel.
A third big outfit will put a drill
on the Alaska Peninsula this sum
mer, Mr. Boyle was advised. This
will be sent in by a Texas produc
ing company which has apparently
secured holdings in the Salmon
Creek field in the eastern section of
the Cold Bay field. It recently wir
ed H. W. Vance, former Juneau and
Haines man, offering him a con
tract to transport the machinery and
camp supplies from the coast to
the scene of the proposed operations
This is understood to be five or six j
miles from Kanatak and it is be- j
lieved the company will make Kan
atak the base of its operations.
CANVASSING BOARD MAKES
CLEANUP OF LATE RETURNS
Complete official returns of tha
November election announced by
Gov. Scott C. Bone, chairman of
the Territorial Canvasing Board,
show the election of Raelson of
Nome over Mrs. Katheryn Kittlison
for representative by three votes,
and Harry Staeer of Anchorage, by
j 76 votes over E. E. Ray, of Cordova
. for the fourth place in the House
Srom the Third Division. These two
‘places were the only ones left in
, viously reported.
j The total vote cast in the election
I it was stated could not be deter
1 mined exactly as many of the pre
cincts failed to show other than the
vote for the several candidates. Sutn
{erland received 6,125 and White
; 1,733 votes for Delegate, making the
^ total cast for that -office 7,858.
which is probably ai little less than
the total vote. It is also 1.8U5 vote
.less than was cast in the general
election of 1920 when 9.663 vote-:
were polled.
i Personnel Of Senate
The upper chamber of the next
Legislature will be composed of:
Senators Hum, Chamberlain, hold
overs: Brown, and Ayer, Second Di
vision; Dimond, Third Division.
Dunn and Snodgrass, Fourth Di\i
sion. ar.d Aldrich. First Division.
Senator Hunt is senior senator of
this Division and Chamberlain of the
Third Division. Fred Ayer is the
^ long-term Senator from the Second
■ defeating O. D. Cochran, member
.of the 1921 House by 23 votes.
Charlie Brown defeated E. L. Holt
for the Senate short term by 16t‘
votes. The Senate will be made up
of six Republicans, one Independent
J. W. Dunn of the Fourth and one
Democrat, A. J. Dimod, of the
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! Third. Dunn was a member of the
,1919 House, being elected as a De
mocrat. He was high man on the
legislative ticket In his Division
last November receiving 1,061 votes
while Andrew Nerland his Repub
lican opponent, got only 790. Ner
. land was speaker of the 1921 House
; and a member of the House in 1917
House Memberships
Members of the House will be
Cash Cole. W. D. Grant. E. M. Pol
ley and H. R. Shepard, First Div
. sion; Wilson, Decker, Daly an<i
Raelson, Second Division; Stacer
Third Division; Callahan, Keys
Johnson and Ross Fourth Division.
Cole, First; Daly, Second; Murray
and Price, Third and Ross, of the
• Fourth Division, have all had ex
perience in previous legislatures
Cole and Ross were members of the
1921 House, of which Daly- was
Clerk, and the last named was mem
ber of the 1919 House. Murray was
also member of the 1921 House and
also of the 1917 session Price was
Senator from the Third Division in
the 1919 and 1921 sessions, and was
a member of every House up to 19
19.
The House, like the Senate will
be controlled by the Republicans, of
which there will be 10, Independents
will have 5 and the remaining mem
ber is a Democrat.
Mrs. Coutts, of the local hospital
staff, was called to Fairbanks yes
terday on court business.