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ALASKA SET THE I
THE NENANA
ACE FOR VICTORY
DAILY NEWS
Volume Two
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 26. 1919.
Number 47
M'PHERSON HELPING LANE GET MONEY
AVIATOR HAWKER RESCUED BY DANISH STEAMER
VICTORY LOAN LARGELY OVERSUBSCRIBED BY NATION
PLENTY OF FOOD
IN POLAR AREA,
SAYS EXPLORER
SAX FRANCISCO.—A residence
on sea ice for an indefinite number
of months, or even of years, is
quite safe and feasible, according
to Vilhajalmar Stefansson, the
Arctic explorer. Storker Storker
sen's recent drift about the Arctic
on an ice field he looks upon as an
incident devoid of any particular
danger or difficulties. Speaking
recently of some of the results of
Storkersen’s drift, as indicated by
the partial reports which have
reached him, Stefansson said:
“His drift and his soundings show
clearly the absence of Keenan Land,
if Keenan Land is taken to be as
shown on the latest maps pub
lished by the American Geographi
cal Society. However, Captain
Keenan’s report of the sighting of
Keenan Land was so indefinite that
there always has been doubt of just
where it would be charted.
“This last journey of the Cana
dian Arctic expedition also shows
afresh what all the journeys have
shown—that the carrying of food
in sledge exploration in the north
polar area is not only unnecessary
but actually a disadvantage, as the
heavy loads of food interfere with
the ease and speed of travel. Seals
and bears are available as food.
“It has also shown that the west
ward current, known to exist in the
vicinity of the Alaska coast, does
not exist, or at least is not pro
nounced, two hundred miles from
land.
“They have confronted the sound
ings taken in other parts of the
Beaufort Sea on the previous jour
neys of the expedition, showing
gTeat depths of the ocean, averag
ing probably about two miles. I
make this last statement tentatively,
for we have not as yet Storkersen’s
complete soundings, but on the
general report that he found deep
water.
“Thse repeated journeys of the
Canadian Arctic expedition show
that every part of the polar area
is now easily accessible by sledge
travel, if only you have with you
a party of young men, who are
not homesick, and are willing to
spend enough time in their work.
For we have shown that you can
travel anywhere on the sea ice in
summer and live safely on it at
periods when you do not care to
travel, resuming your journeys
again when the season becomes
favorable.
SALT LAKE COUNTRY IS
VISITED BY SALT STORM
SALT LAKE CITY.—Towns in
the vicinity of Great Salt (Lake
were visited by one of their in
frequent "freak'' storms recently,
a white dust, said by some to be
salt, falling over the entire Salt
Lake valley in conjunction with a
light rainfall. Some of the older
inhabitants call them “salt storms ’
and maintain that salt is rained
upon the earth.
According to the local weather
bureau, however, the fall of salt
or sand, comes only when there is
a high wind which whips the salt or
sand from the salt beds in the vicin
ity of Great Salt Lake and drops
it several miles away. It is said
that most of the substance which
gives everything a white coat is
sand and not salt, but this is dis
puted by those who have tasted the
substance and pronounced it salt.
Newly washed windows and auto
mobiles -were coated during the re
' cent storm, bringing a harvest of
work for the window-cleaners and
automobile washers.
BRYAN OPPOSES
LIFTING BAN ON
BEER AND WINE
—
CHICAGO. May 26.—If the
Chicago drys have their way about
it. Congress will not lift the ban
on beer and wines, as recommended
by President Wilson in his recent
message from Paris. A big prohi
bition meeting was held in this city
last night, there being five thousand
present who rose to vote against
the Wilson proposal.
The meeting was addressed by a
number of prominent dry advocates,
chief among whom was William Jen
nings Bryan, who stoutly argued
against the proposed modification
of the war-time prohibition pro
clamation. In conclusion, he ven
tured the prediction that Congress
coud be depended upon to refuse
to heed the President’s recommend
ation.
SHAPING COURSE
FOR 1920 RACE
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 26.—
Senator Albert S. Cummins, Demo
cratic chairman, is in almost daily
conference with other leaders of
the party, outlining plans for the
coming presidential campaign, and
announcement is made that he will
make an extensive tour of the
States this summer for the purpose
of organizing the Democrats for the
big race.
Considerable of the senator’s
time, it is stated, will be spent in
the West, it being his intention to
visit all of the important cities on
| the Pacific coast. He expects to
reach Seattle on July 2.
LIB liifl;
I TWELVE ARE DEAD
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BALTIMORE. May 26.—Twelve
persons are believed to have lost
their lives as the result of the de
struction of the liner Virginia,
which was burned to the water’s
edge on Saturday, off the mouth of
'the Potomac, while enroute from
Norfolk to this city,
j The vessel carried a total of 156
passengers, nearly all of whom have
been accounted for. Details of the
disaster have* not yet reached this
city.
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TEMPERATURE
As reported by the government
observation station, Nenana
Sunday, May 25
Maximum . 57 above
Minimum . 36 above
Monday, May 26
Maximum . 58 above
Minimum .43 above
LANE ASKS CONGRESS
FOR RAILROAD MONEY
SEATTLE. May 24.— (Delayed).
'—A special dispatch to the Post
Intelligencer from Washington says
that Secretary of the Interior Lane
has requested Congress to appro
priate the sum of $1,964,351 imme
diately to tide the Alaskan Engin
eering Commission over until June
30, the end of the fiscal year.
The failure of the Sixty-fifth
Congress to act on the Alaska rail
road appropriation, he says, has
seriously curtailed the work on the
government project, causing many
laborers to quit Alaska and com
pelling those -who remained in the
employ of the Alaskan Engineering
Commission to work on a half-pay
basis, the bala :e to be paid to
them when additional funds become
available.
At the present rate, the secre
tary informed the lawmakers, tnc
commission will have a deficit on
June 30 of $878,863, but more than
that amount is needed to prosecute
the work vigorously during the
month of June, which is a good
month for construction. To ask fur
I an appropriation covering merely
\ the deficit, points out the secretary,
i would have the effect of delaying
i construction and increasing costs.
The sundry civil bill, which must
j be acted on by Congress before
the end of June, will include the
regular yearly appropriation for the
; Alaska railroad, to carry on the
work after the first of July.
Whether this appropriation will be
limited to the amount remaining:
of the original thirty-five million
or whether the secretary will make
an effort, at this time, to get suffi
cient funds to complete the road,
has not been announced.
To get more than the original
amount provided for in the rail
road act, it is claimed, it will be
necessary to amend the act so as
to eliminate the $35,000,000 limita
tion, thereby leaving Congress free,
under the terms of the bill, to ap
propriate all the money that may be
needed to complete the railroad.
Such an amendment was offered by
Delegate Wickersham during the
last session of Congress, but no
action was taken upon it.
M’PHERSON HELPING
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 26.—
J. L. McPherson, manager of the
Alaska bureau of the Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce, who has been re
tained by the interior department
to piepare data to assist in convinc
ing Congress of the importance of
provi ling funds for the continua
tion ^cf railroad work in Alaska,
appeared before the house appro
priations committee on Saturday and
presented an array of figures and
arguments in support of Secretary
Lane’s request for an immediate
appropriation.
His statements were listened to
attentively and it is believed that
he made a favorable impression on
the committeemen.
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WARM WELCOME
AI WASHINGTON
j WASHINGTON*, D. C., May 26.—
'This city has had the honor, during
the past several days, of entertain
ing the greatest hero of the war,
Sergeant Alvin C. York of Ten
nessee. Secretary Baker received
: the noted warrior at his office in
jthe war department building, where
j he was given a cordial wsleome.
; The secretary clasped his hand
! warmly, saying, “Y’ou are a btave
man.” At the White House he was
! received by Secretary Tumulty and
; informed that “America owes you
'a debt of gratitude.” General Foch
referred to York, in France, as
! “the greatest of ’em all.”
York has been decorated with a
congressional medal for the great -
jest single achievement of the war,
his record showing that he killed
20 Germans, took 132 prisoners,
and put 36 machine guns out of
commission.
At the time the United States
entered the war, York was second
.elder of the Pall Mall, Tennessee,
church, and later was entered on
the war department records as a
I conscientious objector. He over
jcame his objections to war, how
ever, and became a model soldier,
being rapidly promoted until he at
tained the rank of sergeant.
; E. C. Green, who came into town
a few days ago on business, left for
his ranch, about six miles up the
river, this afternoon.
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Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Calderhead
l left on the steamer Washburn today
for Hot Springs. Mr. CalderheaJ
, is ranching in the Hot Springs
country.
PARIS WARNED
AGAINSI PACIFIC
HUN INVASION
PARIS.—Warnings are being
heard on all sides that the Ger
mans will exert all their ingenuity
to make true the prediction attrib
uted to Dr. Richard Von Kuehl
mann, (former German foreign
secretary* that “in less than five
years time, the Germans will be
back in Paris (pacifically, that is
to say) and in favorable condi
tions.’’
Evidence is accumulating that
the preliminaries of the kind of
pacific penetration at which the
Germans seem to be particularly
adept, already have commenced.
German merchants with pre-war
business connections in France are
J endeavoring to “pick up the threads’’
again, and the papers now and then
. publish obsequiously worded mis
sives to French firms, inviting them
[to “resume our pleasant relations”
j More dangerous in the eyes of
the French are the attempts that
| are being made by German serv
ants, now posing as Alsatians or
Swiss, to slip quietly back into their
old places with French families. In
some cases, their Teutonic accent
: betrays them; in others suspicious
j employers have detected minute
flaws in otherwise irreproachable
legitimation papers. Registry offi
ces, although exercising the most
scrupulous care in weeding out
[suspects, are not infallible.
In a case cited by La Liberte,
a factory owner near Paris who
had advertised for a foreman re
ceived an applicant who came
j “highly recommended” and whose
papers were in seemingly perfect
order. Still the employer had some
vague misgivings and consulted 3
I
detective, with the result that the
would-be foreman was unmasked
as a German who had escaped from
an internment camp in Brittany
in May, last year. His papers were
forgeries.
VICTORY SALES
EXCEED QUOTAS
BY LARGE SUM
WASHINGTON', D. C., May 26.—
The sales of Victory Liberty bond*
throughout the country during the
recent drive for funds, were most
gratifying, according to an an
nouncement issued today by Sec
retary of the Treasury Glass. The
'subscriptions exceeded the amount
j asked for by almost three-quarters
of a billion dollars, a remarkable
showing, considering unsettled con
j ditions resulting from the genera!
j readjustment to peace conditions
1 throughout the nation.
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The total amount subscribed, ac
! cording to the treasury statement,
| is S5,249,908,300, nearly all the
j federal reserve districts having ex
I eeeded their quotas.
ARE
LONDON, May 26.—Information
which reached this city on Saturday
indicates that the Bolshevik forces
holding the city of Petrograd ar
being hart! pressed by the advanc
ing Esthonians and are preparing
to evacuate the city. The reports
state that portions .of the city are
in flames and that great explosions
indicate that the Bolsheviki are de
stroying their munitions stores so
j as to prevent the Esthonians from
j coming into possession of them.
Another report states that the
! population of Petrograd, reduced
to direst straits by Bolshevik rule,
has risen against the Red Guard
and threatens their extermination
before the arrival of the Esthonians.
Street fighting is said to have
become general throughout the city.
The sound of machine gun firing
was heard at a considerable dis
tance from the city.
WILLARD READY NOW
10 BEGIN TRAINING
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—
j LOS ANGELES, May 26.—Cham
pion Jess Willard, who will defend
ihis title at Toledo on July 4, in a
match with Jack Dempsey, expects
to leave for the East this after
noon, and upon his arrival at To
; ledo will go into training immedi
ately.
Willard tips the scales at 259 at
present, but he expects to train
! down to 248 before entering the
^ing. The big fellow expresses con
fidence in his ability to retain the
championship.
Department of agriculture experts
have been experimenting with the
semi-arid farms of mountainous re
gions of the southern states to
learn how to increase their pro
ductiveness.
DANISH VESSEL
RESCUES HAWKER
AT LEWIS BUTT
LONDON’. May 25.— (Delayed) —
The rescue of Lieut. Hawker and
Navigator Grieve, who were be
lieved to have been lost while en
! route across the Atlantic in an air
plane, is announced in advices re
ceived in this city by Lloyd's. The
missing men were discovered at
i Butt of Lewis, the northernmost
I point of Lewis island, of the Heb
rides group, by the Danish steamer
Mary, which went to their rescue
in response to a signal of distress.
The air ministry announces this
afternoon that the destroyer Wool
son has since intercepted the Mary
and will take the rescued men to
Burso, Scotland, whence they will
make their way overland to Eng
land.
Details of the rescue and of the
flight of Hawker and his com
panion which terminated at a point
several hundred miles to the north
of the course they should have
i followed, have not yet reached this
etiy, but are awaited with eagerness.
The Hebrides islands lie off the
west coast of Scotland.
NEWS BRIGHTENS HOME
LONDON. May 26.—The gloom
which overhang the Hawker home
has been turned into jov, and the
young wife of the daring aviator
has been kept busy since the re-y
, ceipt of the glad news, receiving
congratulations of friends.
On Saturday the king telegraphed
Mrs. Hawker, advising her that he
feared her husband had been lost.
She refused to believe that he was
dead, however, declaring that to
morrow would bring her good th
ings, as Sunday was her lucky lay.
And sure enough, before Sunday
had passed, news of the finding of
her husband was flashed over the
wires.
Consolation Prize
The management of the Dai'y
Mail has announced that Hawker
will be awarded a consolation prize
of five thousand pounds, as a re
ward for his splendid effort to
•cross the ocean.
Advices received late this after
noon state that the airplane in
which the flight w»as made, was lost.
VICTIM OF CRASH
DEAD IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, May 26.—Carl Chil
berg, son of J. E. Chilberg, promin
ent Seattle banker, who was in
jured, with a number of others, in
an early morning auto crash on the
Seattle-Everett highway, died today
of his injuries. Two of the joy
riders were killed at the time of
the accident, two others, including
young Chilberg, were seriously in
jured and several more were slightly
injured. It was believed for a time
that Chilberg would recover, but his
injuries proved more serious than
was thought when he was first ex
amined.
Mrs. J. Hampton Miles returned
to Nenana today on the steamer
Washburn after a lengthy stay in
the upper town.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Burns
returned to Nenana on the steamer
Washburn today from a sojourn in
Fairbanks.