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THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS NENANA, ALASKA. TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1923.
NUMBER 472
FRANCE IS TIGHTENING SCREWS IN RUHR
President starts for Alaska on thursda y
HEAVYWEIGHTS READY FOR BIG BATTLE TOMORROW
PRESIDENTIAL STEAMER
READY TO START NORTH
BREMERTON, July 3—Brilliant
■with fresh paint and glittering bras?
the Presidential steamship Hender
son sailed for Tacoma today and
will start from that city for Alaska
en Thursday, with the President’s
party aboard. The vessell is luxur
iously equipped and a glass inclos
ed observation deck has been built
hack of tthe bridge. President Hard
ing will occupy a simply furnish
ed room designed for the use of a
conolel of the marines.
The Henderson carries a comple
ment of 19 officers and 460 men.
and will be commanded by Captain
Allen Buchannan, who commanded
a destroyer division during the
World War and won a Congressional
medal of honor. The executive of- j
ficer is Lieut. Com. S. L. Hender
son, recently port captain at Balboa.
The Presidents honor guard will
be a detachment of two officers and
72 marines under the command of
Captain F. T. Steele.
Harding at Spokane
SPOKANE, July 3—President
Harding delivered one of his impor
tant prepared addresses here yester
day, his audience being an over
flowing crowd at the armory, which
kas a seating capacity of 3,000. He
was introduced by Governor Hart and
was greeted by enthusiastic cheer
ing.
The President advocated the grad-1
uai development of 'he nation’s na
tural resources rather than preserv
ing them in their original state. He
declared that locking up the pub
lic domain as a “treasure house
of potential worth” would prevent
it from being ready for use when
needed. He urged the use of water
for both irrigation and power, and
advocated a policy of reforestration
that would preserve the national
forests while permitting the use of'
the timber as needed. He did not
outline any specific reclamation •
plan.
This was the first address made |
by the President on the Pacific
slope, and it concluded a nine-hour
visit in Spokane during which he,
visited the dam site of the Columbia
river irrigation project.
The president is at Meacham to
day, attending the Oregon trail i
celebration. Meacham has a popula- ]
tion of only 51, but there are thou- ’
sands of visitors there from all sec- j
tions of the Northwest. The pro
pram includes a horseshoe pitching;
tournament for the championship!
of the world, band concerts, patrio- j
tic exercises, an address by the|
President, a sham Indian attack ]
and troop maneuvers.
WILL RESCUE EXPLORERS
SEATTLE, July 3—Harold Moice,
arctic explorer and former member
of the Stefansson expedition has ar
rived here enroute from Toronto to
Nome where he hopes to charter a
vessell for a voyage to Wrangell
island for the purpose of rescuing
Che marooned members of the Stef
ansson expedition.
Len Heacock returned to town
^ *
t on the Jacobs last week and has
been busily engaged in getting ac
quainted with the new baby who
^.arrived at his house while he was
down river.
HARDING URGES DEVELOPMENT
OF NATION’S NATURAL WEALTH
MANY PROMISING ENTRIES
FOR WESTERN GOLF MEET
CLEVELAND. July 3—When
Chick Evans comes here to defend
his title in the western amateur goli
championship, to be played over the
Mayfield Country Club course July
23-28, his stiffest competition pro
bably' will come from Ruddy Knep
per of Sioux City. Bobby Jones, oi
Atlanta, has announced he will nol
be a participant, while Francis
Ouimet is considered a doubtfu'
starter.
Other promising entrants are
Harrison Johnson of St. Paul
Godchaux of New Orleans and Boyd
of Knoxville.
Indications, according to golf ex
perts here, are that Knepper will
be at his best this year. They poin'
out that he struck his stride for the
first time last year and easily was
one of the ranking players of the
season. His work in the national
amateur at Brookline was not many
strokes below the best form shown
by Sweetser, Evans and Jones.
SWEDISH IRON CONCERN PAYS
FIFTEEN PERCENT DIVIDENDS
STOCKHOLM, July 3—Sweden’s
biggest corporation, the Granges
berg Iron Mining and Traffic Com
pany, whose activity is looked upon
as a barometer of industrial con
ditions, shows in its report for 1922
a net profit of about $3, 860,00(
on a total capital of about $32,000,
000. The board of directors propos
ed a dividend of 15 percent. The
quantity of iron ore shipped out
during the year rose to more than
5,000,000 tons.
It is reported that prices of iron
ore have been steadily sinking hnd
are now only 25 percent above
those of normal peace times before
the war.
The sale of Swedish ore to the
United States for delivery during
1923 has been particularly brisk,
and the quantity ordered is already
five times as great as the total ship
ments to America during 1922. The
company now has thirteen of tcs
own oresteamers carrying iron to
the United States on a regular
schedule, and many of these vessels
bring back American coal to
Sweden.
A number of narrow gauge coal
dump cars were brought over from
the coast on one of the last trains,
for delivery at Fairbanks for use
on the Chatanika branch line. It
is stated that nearly all the im
portant mining operations of the
Fairbanks district will use coal for
fuel next winter and the railroad is
preparing for the increased tonnage.
J. W. McCord, prominent in oil
development and other Alaska acti
vities, plans to go into fox farm
ing with ten pairs of blue foxes,
to be followed later on by on order
for 20 pair more.
PARIS, July 3—It is stated on
good authority that the French
government is preparing to change
the character of the Ruhr occupa
tion to cope with any emergency
that might arise in case the Ger
mans decide to abandon their “pas
sive” resistance which even now
is more active than passive.
The recent crop of time bombs
which developed in Ruhr has streng
thened the decision of France not
to make the slightest concession un
, til the German government gives a
i solmn promise to bend all efforts to
: stop the outrages which are occur
ring with steadily increasing fre
quency. France also will insist that
EDITOR OFFERS BIG PURSE
TO ADJUST FOREIGN ISSUE
I NEW YORK, July 3—Announce
ment is made here that Edward W.
Bok, of Philadelphia, former editor
of the Ladies Home Journal, has
donated the sum of $100,000 to be
given as a prize to the American
offering the best practicable plan
j for the cooperation of the United
; States with other nations for the at
tainment and preservation of world
peace.
The award is to be made in two
parts, the first $50,000 to be given
for the best idea itself and the
second $50,000 to be paid when the
practicability of the idea is prov
ed, either through adoption by the
senate or through popular approval.
ISOLATED VILLAGES FACE
SHORTAGE FOOD SUPPLIES
NOME, July 3—It is learned
from reliable sources that isolated
trading villages on the Siberian
coast are threatened with a short
age of food and ammunition as a
result of the unfriendly attitude
of the soviet authorities toward for
eign traders. The matter has been
taken up with the higher officials
in the hope of reaching a speedy
settlement of the trading question.
TRAIN INJURES FORTY
i BUFFALO, July 3—Forty persons
were injured yesterday when a two
caT train on the Niagara Falls line
, ran into an open swatch at Tona
wanda ditching both cars. Several
of the injured will die.
YUKON, ARRIVES AND GOES;
BROUGHT BIG ORE CARGO
The White Pass steamer Yukon
arrived in port early Sunday morn
ing from the upper Yukon and de
parted on the return trip to Dawr
son at an early hour yesterday
morning. The Yukon brought ano
ther cargo of silver ore from 'he
Mayo district, the largest shipment
• thus far received at Nenana this
season. There were only three thru
passengers on the boat, other eager
travelers having been discouraged
from making the trip to Nenana.
Light work of more than a dozen
machine tools can be done with a
new electric drill
the new German reparations pro
posals be underwritten by neutral
countries or by the Allied powers.
Occupy Krupp Works
LONDON, July 3—A Central
News dispatch says the French mil
, itary forces have entirely occupied
I the Krupp works at Essen, and all
j wo.rk there has ceased.
Frankfort Cut Off
LONDON, July 3—Advices re
ceivevd in this city yesterday state
that the French forces have com
pletely surrounded Frankfort, and
that district is now completely cut
off from unoccupied Germany.
BOXING COMMISSION TELLS
RICKARD TO REPAIR STAND
JERSEY CITY’. July 3—The box
j ing arena which has been set up in
j Boyle’s Thirty Acres must be streng
! thened before the Willard-Firpo
battle is staged on July 12, ac
i cording to statements made by lo
j cal authorities today. The state box
ing commission has informed Rickard
I that the fight will not be permitted
unless steps are taken immediately
to make the stands safe, and Rick
ard has assured the commission he
iwill start work immediately to safe
guard the lives of those attending
the fight.
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MOTORSHIP BRINGS GOLD
FROM KUSKOKWIM REGION
SEATTLE, July 3—The motor
I ship Carolin Frances, the first ves
sel to arrive here this season from
the Kuskokwim, reached port today
with fourteen passengers and $40,
| 000 in gold bullion.
it is the intention of Prof. Carl
B. Eilson to make a flight from
Fairbanks to Nenana in his new
| plane sometime tomorrow, and it
is reported that R. C. Wood, Fair
banks banker will make the trip
with him. The exhibition flight, dur
, ing which Prof Eilesori will do all
' the aerial stunts on the calendar,
; being in the air fully an hour, is
scheduled for Thursday afternoon
at the park, at which time Jane
; Bernoudy, champion woman rope
twirier also will appear.
1 The second ball game between
Nenana and Fairbanks is scheduled
for Thursday evening, at the con
clusion of which the visiting team
and the Fairbanks excursionists, who
will arrive tomorrow, will return
home.
Reports received from Fairbanks
today indicate that a considerable
number will make the trip to Nenana
swelling the crowd of visitors who
are coming in from all the camps
along the line, as far south as Cur
ry. Quite a delegation, it is reported
will come in from Healy and Sun
; trana.
j Miss Mary Patton, trained nurse
. who came down from Fairbanks
' several days ago to attend Mrs.
| Johnson, will return to Fairbanks
i this afternoon.
IRELAND PREPARES REDEEM
BONDS SOLD IN AMERICA
; DUBLIN. July 3—A bill is to be in
troduced into the Dail this session
| to carry into effect the pledge made
by Michael Collins that the Irish
government would redeem all the
Irish Republican bonds.
These bonds, to the amount of
about $10,000,000. were floated in
the United States, in Ireland and
elsewhere, and contain an under
taking that they would be redeem
ed six months after :he establish
ment of an Irish Republic Michael
• Collins claimed that the treaty, a
t part from its form, effectively es
tablished Irish freedom, and \hat
; the condition on which the bonds i
I were issued had been practically
i realized.
| Despite the difficult Irish finaci- ‘
; al position, president Cosgrave, as
finance mini
JTes
er.
has decided that al!
tire bonds shall be paid off.
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REFORMER UNDER FIRE
NEW YORK, July 3—District
Attomey Banton, whose office re
, cently dropped the investigation of
] charges against William H. Ander
son, state superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon league, announced yes
terday that new evidence had been
gathered of such damaging c-harac
jter that rhe grand jury would be
asked next Monday to indict the re
former on charges of grand larceny
extortion and forgery.
BUFORD HAS GOOD TRIP
SEATTLE. July 3—The steam
ship Buford, which entered the Ber
ing sea this spring in opposition to
^he Alaska Steamship Company, re
turned to Seattle from Nome last
night and reorts having had a par- 1
iticularly successful trip.
CELEBRATION WILL START
WITH BIG DANCE TONIGHT
!
What gives promise of being the
biggest Fourth of July celebration ’
in the history of Nenana, will start
this evening with a variety of track
events on A street, followed by a
big dance at Union hall, which is
being given by the Nenana baseball
boys, and for which elaborate pre
parations have been made to insure !
. an enjoyable evening. The music;
will be provided by the best talent
available.
The baseball boys had intended
playing the opening game of the
celebration series this afternoon, but
the Fairbanks team could not get j
away for the three days, so the
first game, in consequence, will be j
played tomorrow afternoon, start
ing at two o’clock.
, The patriotic exercises, which
were arranged by Mrs. A. B. Phil
lips, and Mrs. W. C. Steinmetz, will
take place on A street tomorrow
morning, starting at 10:30. There
will be more track events tomorrow ^
afternoon, starting at one, at the,
ball park, and tomorrow night there *
will be another dance.
STAGE SET FOR BIG BOUT
FINAL AGREEMENT REACHED
GREAT FALLS, July 3—After
having been definitely called off
la?t night by Kearns, as a result of
the failure of the Shelby promoters
to make their final payment, the
Dempsey-Gibbons battle for the
heavyweaght championship of the
world will take place tomorrow as
originally advertised. It' was not
known until 2:45 this morning, how
ever, that the men would enter the
ring, Kearns having bee * persuaded
to change his mind after he had
called the fight off.
Gibbons worked at Sheiby yes
terday before a j 'cold crowd. He
pummeled four rring partner?
furiously for eight rounds and ap
pears to be in the pink of condi
tion.
Dempsey finished his sparring
program yesterday, boxing four fast
rounds with his trainers. He declar
ed today that he never wa» in bet
ter condition.
ISLANDERS ACCUSE WOOD
OF MEDDLING TOO MUCH
MANILA. July 3—Manuel Que
zon, president of the Philippine sen
ate has issued a statement here in
which he charges Governor Leonard
Wood with interfering in domestic
affairs. He predicts that a split
between the legislature and Wood
will result if the present policy
of the governor continues.
DRY FUNDS RUNNING LOW
HAYNES CUTTING FORCES
NEW YORK, July 3—Eighteen
federal prohibition enforcement ag
ents. stationed for the most part in
Manhattan and Brooklyn, have been
dropped from the staff of the divi
sional chief for New York and
Northern New Jersey, thus action
having been made necessary by a
shortage of enforcement funds.
The state dry squad has been cut
more than 25,000 as a result of
the recent repeal of the state en
forcement act.
U. OF C. HAS NEW HEAD
BERKELEY, Cal.. July 3—Dr.
W. W. Campbell, director of Lick
observatory, took over the presi
dency of the University of Califor
nia yesterday from Dr. David P.
Barrows who, after a trip abroad,
will return to re-enter college work,
making a specialty of political sci
ence.
BANKS MUST REPORT
WASHINGTON, D. C. July 3—
The comptroller of currency has
issued a call for reports of condi
tions of banks at the close of busi
ness June 30. <
SEATTLE PIONEER DIES
SEATTLE, July 3—William Bar
ber, aged 89 years, one of Seattle’s
oldest pioneers and first police chief
of the city, died yesterday at his
home at Lauelhurst, which he built
in 1859.
It is expected that Einer Ton
seth and his bride will be among the
passengers passing through Nenana
this afternoon on their way :o Fair
banks from the States. They came
North on the Northwestern.