IRST TIME IN AUSKA AERIAL CIRCUS HEHAHA-JILY FIFTH
THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA. THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1923
NUMBER, 470
HARDING MAKING FRIENDS FOR COURT
SENATOR BORAH READY TOBACK THE PRESIDENT
ST. PAUL READY TO TAKE BIG BOUT IF SHELBY FLUNKS
SHELBY MUST PUT UP
TO HOLD BIB BATTLE
£T. PAUL, June 28—Manager
Jack Kearns has received an offer
of $200,000 flat guarantee and fif
ty per cent of the gate receipts
for the Dempsey-Gibbons fight, to be
held here in case the Shelby promo
ters find themselves unable to carry
out the terms of their contract.
Fighters are Ready
SHELBY, June 28—Both Demp
sey and Gibbons claim to be in the
pink of condition for their forth
coming "ring battle, and both have
started cutting on their heavy train
ing. By the first of the week their
activities will be confined largely to
road work and bag punching.
Sunny weather arrived yesterday
after nearly two weeks of rain, and
the city has taken on the appearance
of unusual’ activity, with many new
arrivals on the streets. Large crowds
gather daily at the Gibbons train
ing quarters to see the challenger at
work. He played ball yesterday, oc
cupying third base on one of the
teams.
Promoters Hopeful
The men who are promoting the
fight held out the hope this after
noon that they would be successful
in their efforts to raise the third
instalment of $100,000 by next
Tuesday, on which day it must be
paid to Kearns if the fight is to be
held here.
President Budd. of the Great Nor
thern, has made formal denial of
the report that his company will
guarantee the necessary funds. He
6ays promoting of fights is not a
function of the Great Northern.
MAKING TEST FLIGHT
SAN DIEGO, June 28—Captain
Lowell Smith and Lieut. J. B.
Richter, who spent six hours in the
air yesterday in an effort to estab
lish new endurance records and who
were compelled to come down at
the end of that time on account of
mechanical trouble, took off again
this morning. They will try to re
main in the air four days and nights
SYRACUSE WINS
POUGHKEEPSIE. June 28—The
Syracuse junior varsity crew won
the junior event this afternoon, fin
ishing a length and a half ahead of
Cornell, with Columbia and l ent syl
vania following in the order named.
POLAND HAS 30,000 PEOPLE
WARSAW, June 25—Repatria
tion and immigration together with
natural growth have added to the
population of Poland, in recent
years until today th# republic counts
over 30,000,000 inhabitants.
Earl Durgin, former associate edi
tor of the Seward Gateway, will
take a position as editor of the
Hyder Miner. At present he is in
Seattle where he is being treated
for an injured leg, strained while
playing ball early in the season.
Durgin left Seward for Honolulu
but has changed his plans since ar
riving at Seattle.
Construction of a first class trail
to Turner Lake, near Juneau, will
be started soon by the Forest Serv
ice. A survey has been made and it
is estimated the work will cost a
. bout $1500.
PRESIDENT URGES STATE ACTION
TO CUT ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS
POCATELLO, Idaho, June 28—
Declaring the American people
“ought to give their influence to
direct the world to a place where
there will be less of war". Presi
dent Harding carried today into
Idaho, the home state of Senator
William E. Borah, an appeal for
membership in the international
court of justice. He declared he
would “a thousand times rather en
trust the adjustment of disputes,
in which America might be interest
ed, to a permanent court of inter
national justice, with American re
presentation, than to any arbitra
tion body set up in the history of
the world."
Borah Outline* View*
Senator Borah, who has. from
time to time, criticised the adminis
tration’s world court proposal as pre
sented in the senate last February,
met the Presdent at Cache Junction.
Utah, and accomapnied the party in
to Idaho. In a statement given to
newspapermen, the senator said he
felt the position of the President,
as set forth in his St. Louis speech,:
was generally agreeable to the peo
ple of the country as well as to the
Republican party. “As I understand
the position of the President.” he
said, “he believes the League of Na
tions dead insofar as participation
by the United States is concerned.
1 am in entire agreement with Mr.
Harding’s conclusion that any world
:ourt in which the United States
nay join, cannot be connected with
»ny league of nations in any way
whatsoever.”
Visit Zion Park
The President and Mrs. Harding
said a visit to Zion National Park
.•esterday and appeared greatly im
pressed by what they saw. Zion park
was the first of the three national
playgrounds which the President
plans to visit on his present trip.
Salt Lake City Speech
SALT LAKE -CITY. June 28—
In his speech delivered in this city
President Harding outlined what the
federal government has accomplished
n decreasing taxes and the public
iebt. and pleaded for similar action
by state, county and municipal ad
ministrations. He declared that the
federal government is “diligently
seeking to prove itself a helpful
;sample” by removing the menace
pf mounting taxes and the growing
public debt, adding that this is not
alone a federal problem but "im
proved order must come into the
jnits of the government into which
the federal government will never
intrude.”
The President said the federal
government is working under a
program which “involves reduction
by half a billion of the public debt
each year,” and he asserted the pay
ments which the Brtish government
I will make under the debt settlement •
agreement "will correspondingly re
! lieve the burden upon American tax
. payers.” He asserted that no coun-;
: try in the world had been able to
make such a showing in reducing its
;
debt as the United States had done
and he pointed to the reduction by
more than half in federal taxes dur
ing the last two years, compared
with the war load peak of 1920.
: He declared that this is a “record
: of business administration to which '
. the party now in control of the
administration feels justified in re
1 ferring with no small satisfaction.”
The President gave much credit
to the budget bureau for that had
been accomplished, and asserted that
j the cost of state and local govern
| ment is going up yearly while the
! federal cost of government is being
; reduced. He said he had been in
formed that state revenues had in
I
j creased to 959 million dollars in
1 1921 from 368 million in 1913 and
that "every dollar of that increase
j had to come, some way or other,
from the public,” He said the ex
penditures of the state aggregated
383 million in 1913 and more than
a billion in 1921. He expressed the
opinion that the budget system might
not help the states much, but "a
resolute commitment to strike at all
extravagance as one would for him
self in personal and business affairs
will accomplish wonders..”
Party Saddened by Deaths
Member? of the Presidential party
were much saddened this week by
the death of three of their number,
who were killed when their auto
plunged over an embankment in
Pear creek canyon. The victims were
rhos. F. Dawson, Colorado state his
torian and a nationally known news
paperman ; Sumner Curtis, repre
sentative of the Republican National
tommitlee; Tommy French, driver
pf the automobile.
Alaska Itinerary
SEATTLE. June 28—The Alaska
bureau of the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce, has been officially ad
vised regarding the Alaska itinerary
pf the Presidential party. Leaving
Tacoma on July 5, aboard the steam
ship Henedrson, the party will spend
part of the seventh at Ketchikan,
reach Wrangell July 8 and Juneau
July 9. where the first night will be
spent ashore. On July 10 they will
start across the Gulf of Alaska, ar
riving at Seward July 13, Anchorage
July 14 and Nenana July 15. After
a stay of an hour and a half at Ne- ,
Nenana, the party will continue to
Fairbanks, arriving there on the
night of July 15. FYom there they
will retrun to the coast by way of
the Richardson highway. Going south
from Cordova, the Henedrson will
stop at Sitka. Julv 21 and, if time
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permits, at Annette Island July 22,
Sle'.lakatla July 23. The party is
due at Vancouver on July 26.
TO RESTORE POLISH YOUTH ,
WARSAW, June 28—Poland’s!
greatest loss of recent years has beer,
not' in devastated regions, but in;
young men. Therefore physical ed
ucation was stressed at a recent J
meeting of school matters in this
city, and the government was urged !
to allot more money for the build-,
ing of playgrounds and otherwise
to assist in the building up of Po-!
lish youths.
James Mattatal. blacksmith for
| the Wilson & Sylvester Mill Com
! pany, had between three and four
j hundred dollars stolen from him
i last week. A man named Robertson,
who came to W’rangell recently from 1
Seattle, was suspected and upon be- i
ing arrested, $60 of the stolen mon
ey was found on his person, but he
denied having taken more than this
sum. The theft of the money was
fastened onto Robertson by a cor
ner torn from a $20 bill, the frag
ment being left in the pocket of
the victim. A watch was kept for the
torn bill and it was passed a few
days later, the corner fitting per
fectly. It was then that Robertson
was arrested.
Sidney Charles, a well known
j newspaper man of Alaska, recently
purchased the gas boat Belle, and
left Juneau for Skagway, where he
will take charge of .he Tri-Weekly
Alaskan. The boat is to be used by
i
Mr. Charles for pleasure purposes
and also fishing parties..
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WORLD'S SMALLEST STATE
UNITES WITH SWITZERLAND
GENEVA, June 28—Situated be
tween Switzerland and Austria is
the little Principality of Liechten
stein, which enjoys an idyllic existe
nce and is the smallest state in
the world. With its 11,000 inhab
itants, this tiny territory and the
little Austrian province of Vor
arlberg have now entered into a
L-ustoms union with the Swiss Re
public.
Prior to the war Leichtenstein, in
spite of the strong antipathy of its
people toward the Hapsburg, was
united with the Austrian monarchy
by union of customs, post and cur
rency.
The Austrian crown was replaced
by the Swiss franc, so that the e
conomic fusion of Leichtenstein into
Switzerland is now complete.
Dr. Virginia Leweaux of Portland
and Miss Cecil Leweaux, of New
York York City, mother and daught
er, arrived in Nenana yesterday
from the coast. Miss Leweaux is a
singer of note and during her stay
here will be featured as a special
attraction at the Coliseum theatre.
She will make her first appearance
next week. Miss Winifred Worrel of
Portland, accompanist also arrived
and is a guest at the Cooney hotel.
Mrs. G. L. Schooling went to
Fairbanks yesterday for a brief
visit.
GERMAN POLICE LIFT BAN
ON OPEN AIR GATHERINGS
BERLLN. June 28—Once more,
after a ban of nearly six months,
the Germans are permitted to hold
open air demonstrations in Berlin
without special permission.
The chief of police issued an or
der early this month lifting the
prohibition he instituted late last
November. It was then decided to
forbid out-door meeting and proces
sions because plundering of shops
w-as regarded as a likely result of
the hard times facing the populace
durng the winter.
A few open-air meeting have
since been specially authorized,
such as a demonstration against
the occupation of the Ruhr district
and the labor assemblies staged in
celebration in May.
One license and three prelimin
ary water power developments have
been issued by the Federal Pow
er Commission to small sites in Al
aska. One was issued to develop
100 horsepower on a creek near
Kanatak; two for sites near Hyder‘
, one for Thumb creek and one for
Soule’s Glacier River. The third
preliminary permit wa issued to
the Home Power Company at Skag
way.
Henry Martella and Harry Brink
i will operate a dog camp about fif
teen miles down the Kuskokwim
from McGrath this summer. They
have more than 70 dogs under their
care.
TO ALTER SECULAR CALENDAR
CONSTANTINOPLE, June 28—
An Orthodox congress to examine
the proposal to alter the ecclesias
tical calendar so as to bring it in
harmony with the western calendar
is in session here.
The Western system was adopted
in secular matters this spring, great
ly to the relief of foreign firms,
to whom the double dates were
very annoying.
The Epicopal Church has closed
St. John’s Indian School at Ketchi-'
kan, and abandoned the work after
i
25 years of service. The school was
closed by Bishop P. T. Rowe. I: was'
started a quarter of a century ago
when Ketchikan was a straggling
village. It has provided the means
for the Indian children to get a
grammar school education and has
carried on instruction in domestic ,
science, sanitation and other branch
es of health work. It is believed by
the church that now the enrollment
has increased so that larger quart-.
ers and more equipment are needed
the government should do the work. ^
William Butler, special agent of
the Alaska Railroad, arrived from
the south on yesterday’s train.
Frank Tondro was a through pas- j
senger on yesterday’ train from
the south, enroute to Fairbanks
from MeKinley Park. It is rumored
he is thinking seriously of joining |
the ranks of the benedicts.
ELECTRICAL STORM SHOCKS
NEW YORK,—KILLS SEVERAL
NEW YORK. June 28—An elec
trical storm swept this district last
night causing several deaths and
considerable property loss. Among
those who lost their lives were Bert
Savoy, famous burlesquer and fe
male impersonator, and Jack Gross
man, of vaudeville fame. Both were
killed by a bolt of lightening at
Long Beach. A woman and a boy
met death near Yonkers, where trees
were uprooted and telephone poles
knocked over.
The storm caused heavy damage
throughout Brooklyn and portions
of Long Island but Manhattan es
caped.
Million Lost in Ontario
TORONTO, June 28—The storm
which swept Western Ontario this
week caused a total of five deaths
and property damage estimated at
a million dollars.
JAFET LINDEBERG MUST PAY
CREDITORS OF BUSTED BANK
SAN FRANCISCO. June 28—The
supreme court of California has a
warded the creditors of the defunct
Scandinavian American Bank of Ta
coma a judgement for $223,615 a
gainst Jafet Lindeberg, and he is
quoted as stating the judgment will
be settled shortly.
Counsel for Lindeberg admitted
that he had signed the four notes up
on which the suit was brought, but
it is claimed Lindeberg used only a
small portion of the money. himself,
the remainder having been loaned to
other persons.
REALTORS TO DISCUSS THE
MODE OF MODERN FINANCING
CHICAGO, June 28—Six thou
sand real estate men from 475 cities
are making plans to cruise motor or
go by special train to Cleveland for
the sixteenth annual convention of
the National Association of Real
Estate Boards June 28-30. Govern
mental, legislative, financial, arch
itectural and other questions of im
portance in real estate development
and especially fullest utilization of
modern financing possibiities to
meet the present business accelera
tion in real estate are to be dis
cussed.
What is known as the “Indiana
plan” of checking extravagance and
preventing possible graft in official
expenditures will be explained by
Judge William A. Hough, chairman
of the Indiana state board of tax
Commissioners, which has been given
power to review all tax levies and
bond issues in Indiana upon com
plaint of ten taxpayers.
A proposal for a national land
policy, covering utilization of lands
in every state according to sound
economic prineipes will be outlined
by Dr. Richard T. Ely, director of
the Bureau of economic research of
the University of Wisconsin.
The Pennsylvania law authorizing
building and loan associations to
lend on second mortages will be
discussed by Samuel A. Stern of
Philadelphia.
Brig. Gen. H. M. Lord, director
of the federal budget, will speak on
how the federal government handles
its finances and real estate.
Conscience cannot be compeled.