The News Wishes Everyone A Prosperous New Year
• THE NENANA NEWS
VOLUME IV
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DEC. 31, 1921
NUMBER 113
FRANCE OBJECTS TO YANKEE CARTOON
EASTERN BANKERS PREDICT PROSPERITY AHEAD
COPPER COMPANIES WILL RESUME OPERATIONS SOON
1 NEW SCALE
BUTTE. Dec. 31—Announcement
has been made that the mines and
reduction plants at Butte, Great i
Falls and Anaconda will resume op- '
erations on the morning of Janu-;
ary 16. Announcement is also made
that a wage reduction of fifty cents
a shift will become effective on the
same day.
The companies involved are the;
Anaconda Copper, Butite & Superior, i
Tuolomne Copper, Davis & Daly:
Copper. North Butte Mining and
several others.
The Anaconda Copper Company j
has announced that arrangements
have been completed for the pur
chase of zinc concentrates in such
quantity as to produce six or seven 1
million pounds of zinc monthly at
Great Falls and that men will be
put to work as fast as they apply
far employment.
SAYS DIVISION BLUNDERED
DURING ARGONNE FIGHTING
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 31—Addressing
the annual convention of the Ameri
can Historial Society yesterday, Col.
C. H. Lar.za declared that “every- i
body blundered” in the Thirty-fourth
division during the Argonne fighting '
on September 29, and that the divi
sion had to be withdrawn for re
organization.
The colonel explained that he had
based his conclusions on an ex
haustive research of the official re
cords.
The division referred to Missouri
and Kansas guardsmen.
MARINES GET TEN YEARS
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec. 31—
The American marines who were
tried before a naval tribunal com
posed of officers from the cruiser
Galveston, in connection with the
recent clash here between the Amer
icans and Nicaraguan police, which
resulted in the death of three po
licemen and wounding of a number
of civilians, have been found gir.lty
and sentenced to ten years imprison-,
ment- The names of the marines
have not been made public.
HALIFAX IS SNOWBOUND
HALIFAX, Dec. 31—A fierce bliz
zard is sweeping the coast and snow
has reached such a depth here that
it has been found necessary to sus
pend all traffic. The steamer Canadi
an Voyager was driven aground dur
ing the storm.
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BREATH INSPECTOR IS LATEST'
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Dec. 31—
Mayor-elect George Oles has an-j
nounced that he will appoint a!
"breath inspector” as a member of i
the police force, whose duty will be I
to spy on the other members of the j
force for evidence of drinking.
INTERURBAN TIPS—50 HURT j
DETROIT, Dec. 31—About fifty |
persons were hurt, some of them
seriously, when a southbound De
troibUnited Railway Limited Inter
urban capsized yesterday as rt
rounded a curve near Lake Odion,
40 miles north-west of this city. Am
bulances were rushed to the scene
of the accident from Flint, Mich.
BANKER IS MURDER VICTIM
MUSTANG, Okla., Dec. 31—A
posse of armed men are seeking
the sdayer of E. W. Brindley, presi
dent of the Mustang State Bank,
who was called into his yard last
night and murdered by an unknown
man.
CONFERENCE AGREES ON BAN
AGAINST RUTHLESS WARFARE
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GOVERNOR HAS
! PUT ONE OVER
ON IHE STATE
WAUKEGAN, II!., Dec. 31—The
i state has dismissed Che embezzle
' ment charges against Governor Len
‘ Small and the only charge remain
. ing now is one of con-oiracv t > de
I fraud the state.
I The dismissal of the embezzle
ment charges came when Attorney
; Laforge, for the defense, demanded
: that the governor be placed on
j trial. Judge Edwards entering a
! nolle prosequi.
1 The state has been directed to
furnish the defense with a bill of
, particulars.
BURCH DEFENSE RESTS;
INSANITY PLEA URGED
LOS ANGELES. Dec. 31—The de
fense in the trial of Arthur Burch
rested yesterday, following the call-!
I ing of Dr. Ross Moore, mental spe
cialist, who testified that Burch was
"unsane", meaning that he w*as un-'
able to use sound judgment.
Other alienists testified that the:
i defendant was suffering from delu-j
stons due to an abnormal mental
, condition.
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SYMPATHIZERS ARRESTED
SIOUX CITY. Dec. 31—Fifty
three alleged strike sympathizers
were placed under arrest here yes
terday, following a packing strike
demonstration. One man was shot
: and slightly wounded during the dis
i turbance.
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WANT CONTRACT EXECUTED
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Dec. 31—
The Ship Construction & Trading
Company has brought suit against
the emergency fleet corporation to
compel that organization to execute;
a contract for (the sale of 285 wood- i
en ships which the Government has
been trying to dispose of since the;
close of the war.
NEGROES DERAIL TRAIN
SHREVEPORT, Dec. 31—Three I
| negToes, who were placed under ar-1
rest by the local police today, are,
alleged to have admitted they de
railed a Texas & Pacific passenger
train last night “just to see the
train wrecked”.
COLLISION FATAL TO SHIP
LONDON, Dec. 31—A Stockholm
Exchange Telegraph dispatch says
the Esthonian ship Sarena was sunk
without warning this week in a col- i
| lision with the soviet icebreaker
Wing. Twenty-three of those on
board the Sarena are reported toj
have lost their lives.
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Reports received by The News;
recently, indicate that all sections j
of A laska are being swept clean by j
the new administration broom. The :
result has been a general exodus
of undesirables to (the States from .
the Alaska coast towns.
Judge Holsheimer, recently re- j
tired from the Nome bench, has an
nounced that he will open law of
fices either at Juneau or Ketchikan 1
He is at present in Seattle.
WASHINGTON’, D. C., Dec. 31—
The full naval committee of the
Arms conference has adopted in
principle the resolution presented by
Elihu Root, providing for the op
eration of submarines under certain
well recognized principles of inter
national law. The resolution, which
prohibits entirely the use of sub
marines against merchant shifts, has
been submitted to the drafting com
mittee for changes in minor detail..
The introduction of the resolu
tion has raised the direct issue as
to whether or not future submarine
war shall be conducted under civil
ized rules. The British have given
their support to the proposals, but
the French, Japanese and Italian
delegations have recommended that ;
the whole matter be submitted to a
commission of experts.
The naval committee has reached
an agreement on the question of
limitation of naval aircraft carriers,
giving the United States and Great
Britain 135,000 tons. Japan 81.000,
and France and Italy 60,000 each.
The maximum tonnage of any one
carrier is to be limited to 27,000
tons, which allows five for the Unit
ed States and Great Britain, three
for Japan and two each for France
and Italy,
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French Give Assent
PARIS, Dec. 31—It is understood
l in official quarters that the French
. delegation at Washington has al
; ready given hearty assent to the ap
plication of international law to the
| operation of submarines which, ac
; cording to the French interpretation
satisfies tine demand of Great Brit
ain that submarines be prohibited
from torpedoing merchantmen.
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Object To Cartoon,
WASHINGTON. D. C., Dec. 31—
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! Albert Sarraut, head of the French |
delegation, told the naval committee '
yesterday that France is beginning
to be regarded with suspicion by
the other powers represented at the
conference. He went on to say that,
according to reports, France’s posi
tion had become very uncomfortable
and he referred to a cartoon which
had appeared in a New York news
paper, picturing France as a woman
adjusting to her head a German
helmet representing military imper
ialism. He declared that this had
injured the sensibilities of his
, country.
Harding Say* Report 1* Silly
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 31—
i President Harding has character
ized as “silly" the reports to the
effect that relations between him
self and Hughes have become
strained as the result of develop
ments during the arms negotiations.
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Jap* Going Home Soon
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Dec. 31—
The members of the Japanese dele
gation plan to sail for home, from
San Francisco, on January 13.
Balfour and Lord Lee have made
arrangements to sail for England
on January 14, leaving Geddes to
wind up any remaining conference
matters.
It is understood that the naval
committee has virtually accepted the
American proposal that auxiliary
craft be limited to 10,000 tons. All
of the delegations have accepted the
plan with the exception of France,
but it is stated that the approval of
that nation is expected. All of the
delegations have accepted the ad
ditional proposal to limit guns on
auxiliary craft to eight inch.
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
GOOD SAY BANKERS
NEW YORK, Dec. 31—The busi
ness outlook for tfce coming year,
in general, is hopeful, according to
statements made today by prominent
bankers, before the annual gather
ing of the American Bankers Asso
ciation.
Thomas B. McAdams, president
of the association, is quoted as say
ing “the future of business and
finance in the United States is en-;
couraging”.
John C. Lonsdale, president of the
National Bank of Commerce, of St.
Louis, declared that “the tame for
anxiety seems to be entirely past.
and the middle of the new year will
see recovery well established".
J. A. House, president of the,
Guardian Savings & Trust Company,
of Cleveland, asserted that prosper
ity among farmers, merchants and
manufacturers in this country is,
directly affected by unsettled con
ditions of finance and policies in
Europe which, he pointed out, must
be remedied. He also declared that)
strikes for higher wages "are not'
in keeping with the present order of
things”. He argued that labor must
bear its fair share of future defla
tion.
MEXICANS FACTIONS CLASH;
SOLDIERS RESTORE ORDER
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 31—It was!
found necessary yesterday to call •
armed ibroops to quell a disturbance
in the galleries of the Mexican'
chamber of deputies, the result of a j
clash between Liberal Constitutional-!
ists and Social Democrats.
Scores of the combatants were1
carried from the building, injured,!
and many of the others were placed
under arredt
WOOD ALCOHOL TAKES TOLL
NEW YORK, Dec. 31—The death
of a woman and a boy yesterday
brought New York’s holiday death
list, from drinking liquor contain
ing wood alcohol, to a total of 14.,
CHURCH DIRECTORS OUST
SCIENCE PAPER TRUSTEES
—
BOSTON, Dec. 31—The board of
directors of the First Church of j
Christ, Scientist, have announced the'
! removal of the board of trustees of;
the Christian Science Publishing
! Society.
The publishing trustees also have j
issued a statement in which they in-.
sist that they are still in possession
of their offices and will remain in
possession until the supreme court
accepts their resignations.
BANK ROBBED—THIRD TIME
PALO ALTO, CaL, Dec. 31—The:
Bank of Los Altos was robbed last
night for the third time in eighteen ;
months. The robbers escaped with
j *2,000 this time.
IN SPIRIT CITY
SEATTLE. Dec. 31—Prohibition
Director Roy Lyle has announced
the discovery of evidence showing;
that thousands of gallons of alcohol
have been obtained fraudulently by I
an organized ring monthly through j
permits issued by local prohibition j
officers.
The alcohol thus obtained, the,
director says, has been transformed,)
through the use of a clever chemi- j
cal formula, into synthetic wines. |
gin and whiskies which have passed
critical inspection.
Prominent business and profess
ional men of this city are said to
have been clients of the bootlegger*,
and a number of arrests are ex
pected shortly.
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NEW YORK SOLONS TO TRY
TO COMPEL ARBITRATION
NEW YORK. Dec. 31—A bill is
to be introduced in the state legis-j
iature providing for the compulsory
arbitration of industrial disputes.
The measure authorizes the su
preme court justice and state in
dustrial commissioner to hand all
disputes that may arise after the i
passage of the bill.
MISSION SCENE OF MURDER
BALTIMORE, Dec. 31—An un
known person entered the Gospel j
Mission in this cry early yesterday j
morning, while 70 lodgers were
occupying quarters there and shot an
unidentified lodger, after which he'
made his escape. Mystery surrounds '
the Tragedy.
BATTLESHIP ADRIFT
C H ERBOURGH. Dec 31—The,
British battleship Vengeance, with a
small crew aboard, is running adrift1
before the storm which is sweeping
the English channel. It is feared the
great ship will collide with other
vessels or pile up on the shore.
RELATIONS RESTORED
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 31—
Diplomatic relations between the
United States and Germany were
officially resumed today when Carl
Lande, German charge d’affairs. j
presented his credentials to Secre
tary of State Hughes.
LENINE RETAINS HIS POST
RIGA, Dec. 31—Lenine retains
his position as executive head of t
the Russian soviet government as a
result of the unanimous action of j
the all-Russian congress. The action j
was taken just before the session j
was completed on Wednesday.
TURKS CAPTURE AMERICANS
ATHENS, Dec. 31—Several Amer
ican professors, attached to the or
phanage at Derindja, near Con
stntinople, are reported to have been
carried off by Turkish Nationalists.
The report from Constantinople,
says the fate of the educators is
noit known.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 31—!
The British schooner Messenger < i
Peace has been seized oil the coas* j
of North Carolina with a cat go of j
liquor.
MEN REMAIN
AlOFI FOR DAI
MIN'EOLA, Dec. 31—E d w a r l
Stinson, pilot and Lloyd Bertrand,
mechanician, flying in an all-metal
monoplane, established a new world
record this week for continuous fly
ing, beating the record made in
France by Lucien Boussotrut last
year, of 24 hours, 19 minutes, 7
! seconds.
The two Americans went aloft at
8:58 Thursday morning and came
back to earth at 11:15 yesterday
morn ing.
Both men suffered terribly from
the cold and when they elfr
their plane rt was found that four
of Stinson’s fingers were frozen.
Neither of them slept while they
were in the air and all they had in
the way of food was a cup of coffee
which they took along in a thermos
bottle.
They reached a maximum a*"
tude of 4,700 feet and had 70
Ions of gasoline left when they
dawn. They were forced to
by faulty oil feed.
STATE BANKS WITHDF
FROM PROTECTIVE
OLYMPIA, Dec. 31—PraeO
all of the Washington state b<S
have withdrawn from the State 1 •
po-sitors Fund, to escape further a -
sessment as the result of the failure
of the Scandinavian American Bar?*
of Seattle," according to announce
ment made yesterday at the office
of the director of taxation and ex
amination.
The fund has become inoperative
as a result of the action of the sup
porting banks.
POPULATION OF FRANCE
SHOWS SUBSTANTIAL LOSS
PARIS. Dec. 31—This year’s cen
sus, which was recently completed,
Fives France a population of 39,
400, of which number 1,500,000
are foreigners. The returns include
Alsace Lorraine
The 1911 census showed a total
population of .39,600,000.
SCORE HAVE CLOSE CALL
ROCHESTER, Dec. 31—Twentj
one occupants of a tenement house
in this city had a narrow escape
from death last night when the
building became enveloped in flame
following a mysterious explosion. It
is believed by (the police that th -
explosion was caused by a bomb.
MANILA AUTO KILLS OFFICERS
MANILA, Dec. 31—Captain Am
ery and Lieut. C. Davis, of the Fif
teenth Coast Artillery, were in
stantly killed near this city yester
day, when their auto plunged over a
cliff.
NEW PREMIER TAKES POST
OTTAWA, Dec. 31—William Lyon
MacKenzie-King, who was elected
premier of Canada recently, has
taken over his duties, the transfer
of power from Arthur Meighan,
Conservative, have taken place in
the presence of Governor General
Lord Byng.
FIVE TRAINS STORM BOUND
MONCTON, N. B., Dec. 31—Five
Canadian National trains are snow
bound in the Folleigh mountain re
gion as a result of the severe
storm which has swept that section.
Arrivals from Anchorage report
that “Crooked Neck” John and Chas.
Swanson are planning to relturn to
the Interior at an early date.