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NENANA, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 7, J920.
NO. 53
SUPREME COURT SAYS DRY LAW VAUD
SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL IS SIGNED
DELEGATES WARMING FOR BIG STRUGGLE AT CHICAGO
Sim YUKON
10 START DOWN
ABOUT JUNE 12
According to information receiv
ed today at the Fairbanks office of
the White Pass company, the steam
er Yukon will be the first boat out
of Whitehorse this season for Nc
nana. being scheduled to leave
Whitehorse on June 12, by which
time it is believed the ice in Lake
Labarge will have disappeared.
The message, which was sent by
Superintendent Gordon, states fur
ther that very little freight will be
carried by the first boat or two, be
cause of the unusually low water j
on the upper Yukon. The boats, it I
is feared, will have considerable ■
difficulty negotiating the river bars!
unless there is a considerable rise in j
the upper Yukon.
There is considerable freight at |
Whitehorse now. awaiting shipment.
to the lower river, and more is |
coming on every train from Skag- j
way. The congestion is not such, j
however, as to cause any particular ■
uneasiness, as it can be moved.
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speedily as soon as river conditions
will permit of heavy loads being;
carried by the steamers.
BELLINGHAM FIGURES
SHOW SOME INCREASE
WASHINGTON, D. C\, June 7.— j
According to figures made public j
today by the census bureau, the!
present population of Bellingham.
Washington, is 25,570, an increase!
of 1.272 during the past ten vears, ■
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or 5.2 percent.
M’HARTLAND ELECTED
TYPOGRAPHICAL HEAD
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JURISTS SAY LAW IS SOUND;
DISMISS ACTIONS OF STATES
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7.
In a decision handed down today,
the supreme court of the United
States upholds the constitutionality
of the federal prohibition amend
ment and the Volstead enforcement
act, the legality of which was ques
tioned in actions brought some time
ago by the states of New Jersey
and Rhode Island.
The court has dismissed the peti
tion of Rhode Island to enjoin fed
eral officials from enforcing pro
hibition in that state, and the in
junction proceedings brought by the
state of New Jersey, to prevent the
enforcement of the dry law, have
met a similar fate.
The vote of the jurisis on the
main decision has not been dis
closed. but it is known that at least
McKenna dissented.
HISTORY OF THE CASE.
Validity of the prohibition amend
quarters of the International Typo
graphical union, John McHartland
has been elected president of the
organization, defeating Marsden G.
Scott for re-election.
ARE ENROUTE HOME
VANCOUVER, B. C., June 7.—
Three thousand Czecho-Slovak sol
diers who fought in the army of
Admiral Kolchak in Siberia arrived
here from Vladivostok yesterday and
started immediately for Montreal,
enroute to Trieste.
Another 3,000 are now on their
way across the Pacific and should
arrive here within a fortnight.
The soldiers have the appearance [
of having gone through a severe
struggle. Their uniforms are in
rags and the men themselves are
emaciated and war-worn.
OLDTIMERS WILL HOLD
BIG MEETING TONIGHT j
As announced in these columns!
on Saturday, the local igloo of Pio
neers will hpld an important meet
ing at Union hall this evening, com
mencing at eight o’clock. Consid
erable business has accumulated
sine the last gathering and there
are a large number of new members
to be introduced to the mysteries.
of the popular organization.
The meeting tonight will be the
first one held since the appearance
of the flu in N'enana.
WORKERS OF ENGLAND
WANT TO SETTLE ROW j
LONDON’, June 7.—The executive
body of the National Saiiway union
will ask for the calling of a special
congress of Irish and British trade
unions to consider the Irish ques
tion, with a view to making an ef
fort to bridge the gulf betwe;n the
Irish people and the government.
ment and portions of the enforce-!
ment act was involved in seven sep-1
j
arate proceedings before the su
preme court. Two of these were;
original suits brought by Rhode Is- •
iland and New .Jersey as sovereign!
states to enjoin enforcement in;
their jurisdictions upon the grounds
that both enactments were uncon
!
: stitutional. The other cases were i
! direct appeals from lower court de
crees.
Steps to institute the suits were |
taken immediately after the amend
ment became effective on January
16, and on motion of counsel their
consideration was expedited.
In both the Rhode Island and
New Jersey suits the validity of the
Eighteenth amendment was attacked,
but the New Jersey case also al
i
leged that even if the amendment1
were valid, the enforcement act was i
unconstitutional, because it had not
been concurred in by New Jersey
under provisions of the amendment
giving the federal and state govern
ments concurrent power to enforce
prohibition. New Jersey also con
tended that if the entire enforce
ment act were not unconstitutional,
the portions of it limiting the alco
holic content of beverages to less
than one-half of one percent and
relating to the dispensing of liquors
for medicinal purposes were invalid.
The cases reaching the court on
appeal were those of the Kentucky
Distilleries & Warehouse company;
Christian Feigenspan. a Newark, X.
J., brewer; the St. Louis Brewing
association, and George C. Demp
sey, a wholesale liquor dealer of
Boston. Mass., who lost injunction
proceedings in the lower court. The
other case before the court wa* an
appeal by the Government from a
CONGRESS ADJOURNS
FOR CAMPAIGN WORK
WASHINGTON. D. C., June 7.—
With the closing hours filled with '
much excitement and confusion re
sulting from the rush to get mea-,
sures through before the conclusion
of the session. Congress adjourned '
at two o’clock Saturday afternoon, i
to reassemble in December unless |
called earlier by the President.
Among the bills passed by the
lawmakers and already signed by
the President are: merchant marine,
annual sundry civil, naval, diplo
matic, consular and District of Co
lumbia appropriation bills, indus
trial and vocational rehabilitaton
measure, bill permitting Government
10 LOWER MIRY
The light draft steamer Wash
burn, which reached Xenana on
Thursday evening from Dawson and
which continued to Fairbanks on
Friday, returned from the upper
town early yesterday morning, en
route to Dikeman on the first voy
age of the season to that remote
district. The Washburn, in addi-,
tion to bringing the first of the sea
son’s perishables to Interior Alaska, j
also has on board a number of resi-1
dents of the Iditarod district, who
are returning to their homes from a 1
winter in the States.
The Washburn, according to the;
present plans, will operate this sum •
mer on the Innoko and Koyukuk
rivers/ carrying supplies to Iditarod '
and upper Koyukuk points
Sergeant Moulder ind two other;
members of the local guard took
passage on the Washburn for Gib
bon, but there were no other de
partures from Nenana
radios to handle private and press
business, amendment to the national
defense act, army appropriation bill.
The national budget bill, which j
had been before Congress for two;
years, died in the senate when the;
lawmakers adjourned.
While the dispatches make no i
special mention of the Alaska rail-'
road item of $7,000,000 in connec-'
tion with the sundry civil bill, it is
presumed that the general appropri-;
ation bill included the railroad mon-;
ey, which represents practically all:
that remains of the $17,000,000 au-i
thorized some time ago.
WORK IS ASSIGNED i
BY ROAD OFFICIALS
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—
Among the passengers who board
ed the steamer Washburn at Fair
banks was John Joslin, oldtime em
ploye of the Alaska Road commis-1
don, who is enroute to the Ruby
Jistrict to look after needed re
pairs to the Ruby-Long road. He
will spend several weeks in that dis-!
trict and then return up river to
ranana to make preparations for
Che commencement of work on a ‘
road that is to be opened up be-!
tween the Yukon river and the 1
Kovukuk district.
Abe McKinnon, another veteran j
road builder, has been assigned to
work in the Kuskokwim district,'
where a road will be built to con- i
iect Ophir and Tacotna.
Considerable work is also planned
For the Fairbanks end of the Rich-;
irdson highway, and supplies are
low being distributed along the
trail for the use of the workers who
will be employed. A gang of 15 i
decision of Federal Judge Geiger
enjoining- federal officials fr«M» in
terfering with the Manitowoc Prod
ucts company, a Wisconsin corpora
tion. in the manufacture of beer
[containing 2.5 percent alcohol.
In all the cases a general attack
'on the amendment was made on
I the grounds that it was revolution
ary and constituted legislation in
the guise of a constitutional am
endment designed to regulate tho
private habits of individuals; that it
interfered with the states' police
powers; that it was invalid because
[adopted by two-thirds of the mem
bers of Congress present when the
vote was taken and not by two
j thirds of the membership, and that
the amendment was not ratified by
three-fourths of the states, owing
to provisions in many state consti
tutions requiring that amendments
be submitted to a referendum.
men will be started out on Wednes
day. A Case tractor will be used
to pull the grader.
MOB IS AllOMO
FOR i R. EQUIPMENT
WASHINGTON', D. C„ June 7—
According to information given out
this morning, the interstate com
merce commission has made provi
sion for the immediate appropria
tion of $125,000,000 for the use of
the railroads of the country in the
purchase of new and much-needed
rolling stock.
Rush orders will be placed imme
diately for the equipment.
SECRETARY OF STATE
SQUARES FLAG INSULT
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7.—
Secretary of State Colby has made
formal apology to the British gov- ,
ernment for the flag-burning inci- :
dent of last week in front of the j
embassy building. The secretary 1
visited the British embassy in per
son and verbally expressed regret
that such a thing should happen in,
this country.
The outrage was committed by an j
Irish woman.
5LACKER IS TRYING
TO CROSS BOUNDARY
PHOENIX, Ariz., June 7.—Berg
Joll, the slacker, whose escape re- ,
tently is to be investigated by a
tongressional committee, is trying
to reach the Mexican line in an
tuto, in which he is racing across
:he country with a companion and
i chauffeur, according to informa- L
don obtained today by the depart
ment of justice. Orders have been I
ssued to keep a sharp lookout
dong the border for the runaway, j
CANDIDA] ES ARE
I WORKING TO GEI
CONVENTION AID
CHICAGO, June 7.—There ha.*
been no change in the Republican
! national convention lineup since
I Saturday, and none is now expected.
The big gathering is viewed with
considerable foreboding by the can
didates and with ill-concealed dread
the leaders of the various factions
are milling around the hotel lobbies,
i bewailing the absence of leadership
jof the real leaders of bygone days.
| They find grim satisfaction in re
ferring to the charges of bossism
hurled so often at former conven
tions, and some are asking if it is
i not better to be thus led than to be
j lost. As things stand, there is no
campaign manager with sufficient
lability to strengthen the lines
: enough to approach the test vote
■ with confidence, and talk of a dark
.horse is strong, with a stiff under
current of Hughes sentiment.
In a discussion of the situation
j today, Senator Borah said that he
jwould regard Hughes as very for
midable if the dark horse stage is
! reached.
, The reflex from the campaign in
'vestigation is apparently very strong
‘and many of the delegates are ex
pressing the view that it will be
well for the convention to find a
candidate whose name was not as
sociated vvitii the inquiry. The
names of Hughes and Coolidge are
frequently mentioned.
The Wood, Johnson, and Lowden
supporters are driving hard on the
uninstructed delegates, and each is
claiming gains. But the best
claims of any amount to little more
than a quarter of the total strength
on the first ballot, and it takes a
majority to nominate. The pros
pect of a deadlock becomes more
likely hourly.
McCormick anil Beveridge are the
most prominent among those men
tioned for permanent chairman. The
Wood forces favor Beveridge, while
Johnson is for Borah.
The peace treaty plank continues
to be a bone of contention. The
Johnson group has a plank, but :t
has been indicated that an open
break need not be feared if the
plank is not accepted. The mild
reservationists are disappointed with
both of the planks proposed.
The Fairbanks Commercial club
will meet tonight to talk over
Fourth of July plans.
Engineer in Charge Fred’k D.
Browne will arrive in town on this
afternoon’s train from the Crossing.
R K
R TEMPERATURE R
R As reported by the government R
R observation station, Xenana R
R - R
R Sunday, June 6. R
R Maximum .57 above R
R Minimum j.42 above R
R Monday, June 7. R
R Maximum .59 above R
R Minimum .49 above R