VOL. III. NO. 63
TOKOTNA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1923.
PRICE 25 CENTS
3-Hour Air Mail Serv
ice, Nenana to McGrath
Seattle, Dec. 21.— A three
hour air mail service, to supple
ment a twelve day dog team in
land haul, is promised the ait
postal service in Alaska, accord
ing to negotiations now in pro
gress in the postal department.
As announced by the superin
tendent of railway mails, ne
gotiatione are already under
way with C. B. Eilson, of Fair
DENOiiHC
n
BY JOHNSS^
Republican Committee
to Give South Full
Representation.
Washington, Dec. 17.—The re
publican national convention n 11
assemble in Cleveland on Ju
10th, and its delegate strength,
when apportioned, will be virtu
ally on the old time basis of fuli
representation for the South as
well as the North, the parties to
the national committee meeting
here today decided.
Washington, Dec 18.—Senator
Hiram Johnson today denounced
the action of the republican na
tiohal committee in enlarging
the apportionment of delegates
from the Southern states as re
pudiation of the instructions
given by the last national con
tention. He declared the pro
cedDre marks the opening of the
campaign between himself and
Coolidge for nomination, and the
campaign commences with an
act repugnant to every sense of
‘ fair dealing and just rajjresenta
tion. the Senator said, in a for
mal statement.
President Orders Re
lease of Imprisoned
War Law Violators
Washington.—President Coolitfge to
day ordered the release of all remain
** log imprisoned violators of war laws.
About thirty persons will gain their
liberty as a result of the order, most oi
whom were convicted in various cases
at Chicago, Kansas City and Sacra
ruento. _
Miss Ruth Muskrat
Presents Strong Case
Washington.—Appeals for govern
roent help, through more schools, in
. leading Indians back to their rightful
heritage of nobility and greatness,
were presented to President Cool idg€
this afternoon with sueh force by Miss
Rutb Muskrat, a-Cherokee Indian girl,
that the Obfef Executive invited het
to take lunch with Mrs. Coo'.idge ant
hiihself.
banks, to carry mails from the
Alaska Railway, at Nenana, to
McGrath, in the month of Feb
ruary. Transportation of mail
will be accomplished by a. lie
Haviland Four plane, which will
be supplied by the Postal De
partment. Upon approval of the
plan by the Postoffice Depart
men- the plane wiil be flown
f: * m Chicago to Seattle, and
from here will be shipped by
freight to Nenana in January.
Washington Notes
I Washrmr 'on—Blotai nations seat to
j the Senate induce Cof. Ci t ies Sales
man, to succeed Squter as Kef Signal
otlicer. with the rank of major. The
nomination af Walter 1 Cohen, negro,
as collector of customs In the Gulf
! States, is being bitterly opposed by
! Senators Broussard and Uausdell, of
I Louisiana. _
Washington.—Frank B. Kellogg, of
Minnesota, Thursday, was con firmed as
ambassador to Great Britain. Senators
Johnson atid Shipstead, of Minnesota,
Brook heart, Frazier. Norris, Copeland,
Dill, Ferns and Wheeler voted against
' Kellogg’s confirmation.
j. Astoria, Ore. — Burned and otherwise
i injured*- and having lain for twelve
; hours under an overturned auto along
| side the Columbia river highway. Mrs.
I George L> Memers, wife of a Seattle
: merchant, lies in a critical condition in
a hospital here.
Washington. —The United States
government is willing to have Amer
ica*n bankers participate in the floating
of an international loan to Germany, it
was announced at tlie White House
j Thursday afternoon.
Washington.—Comptroller of Cur
rency I iwt's. in his annual report, sub
mitted Monday, niade an open appeal
to the country for i be preservation and
protection of national bunas.
Washington.—The Mellon tax re
duction plan iias been put in form to be
proposed us an act of Congress and is
now in the hands e>f the House ways
and means commiitee.
Washington, dame * W. Good, for
mer member of the House from Iowa,
has been selected to organize the cam
paign in the Middle West for the nom -
ination of Coolidge
Washington.—Senator Curtis today
introduced the same soldiers’ adjusted
compensation bill that was passed by
Congress last year, but which was ve
toed by Hat ding.
Washington.—The direct election of
president and vice president is pro
posed in a constitutional amendment
introduced in the Senate by Elorris.
Washington —The Senate has been
notified of the signature oi> arbitration
treaties between United States and
Great Urltain, Japan and France.
Washington.—‘J am not a candidate
for presidential nomination at the
hands of any .party,” Senator Borah
declared last night.
Frank Rigbini. from Flat, who ar
rived Tuesday, left, Thursday for .Mc
Grath, headed for iSenana, and possi
bly Anchorage.
American Experts
Wili Be On Hand at
Economic Conference
Washington.—American experts, as
private citizens, and not as official rep
resentatives. will co-operate with the
economic aut horities of Europe, notablv
Britain and France, in efforts to find a
solution of the reparations problem,
the White House announced today.
The selection of Owen D Young and
Charles G. Dawes to serve on the com
mittee investigating the German bud-j
get was reported to Washington offi
cially today bv James A. Logan, Amer
ican observer with the reparations
commission
Navy Busy With Plans
for Next Summer’s
Polar Flight.
Washington, It c. 18. — Possi
bilities that Nome will he select
ed as the jumping-off base for
the navy’s polar flight next sum
mer developed to lay at the ses
sion of the special planning
I board, which is preparing rec
! ommendations for Secretary of
Navy Denby.
Information at hand indicated
that a flight from Nome could l e
attempted three months earlier
than from Point .Barrow which
remains ice bound until August.
Captain Henderson, of the coast
guard, also advised tin* preval
ence of much ice and log earlier
than August.
Britain Make.1 First
Payment on Her Big
Debt to United States
Washington.—Britain made her lirst
payment on the principal of her four
j Pillion six hundred million dehit to the
1 Ui ited States, todav. Twenty-three
! million dollars applies on debit, and
1 sixty million dollars on interest, in a
semi-annual payment.
T. F. Aitken. of Caudle, traveling
i with Kd Johnson, left McGrath recent
ly on iiis way to Anchorage, whither
■ he goes to have consultation with and
receive treatment from Dr. J. Li.
Beeson. _
Mail Carrier Jadk Lamonf, with the
outgoing mail, arrived Thursday, pro
ceeding yesterday to McGrath.
William Gibbs was aim tig those who
recently left' Nixon for tin Outside.
Mike Thompson returned Thursday
from a trip to Onhir.
Chris Dahl returned yesterday from
a trip to McGrath.
G. W. C. Glass was a Thursday ar
rival from Ganes.
(kev Daves left Thursday for a brief
visit at McGrath.
i Bob Hart, of McGrath, was a Thurs
I day arrival.
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Says No Relief
dens Through Repub
lican Policies.
Los Angp/ - 1 -W i ..
G. McAdoo so
Demooro'
House his ; 1.'■ ..‘if of tl: ■
platform of iL- 8 . i 1!
proi ns t! cot. nt; 1:
‘ vVe shall , l no r< li*;' tr<
the burdens no.', o; p • • - os ;■ \. ;
nor s|)io I \vi. pi. L i t ; 1 : 11
reef ion tlirou r»>? • > i • o. oli
Cil Of slit!).. Iti v '
ing for th- ; o' i. >
themselves. Democr sp i ^
for progress un ' p »j 1 • rights,
and it wrlcon • up; r .
do baHit's for i .
Telegra .hic Tides.
Chicago—Joseph Sakt , of tbi
Fillmore Hotel, San 1 ra n< - eon
iessed here today that hs i immured
the crime for which Gem li 1 N-t rt
otis, a Greek hank i\ served thirty
three mouths iu a federal p* n'"eotia :-v.
Palo Alta, Cal. — Dr. John Stillman,
vice president. a of Stanford
University, and'for went*- -nine years
the head of its che .listrv depart a at,
drypped dead this . • rnoou with he
was doing his Christmas shopping.
Peking.—Speaker V\v ( 'hi' g. in par
liament, was serin ■■ ■ injured to
when he was hit on the head by a
ilower pot, thrown during h.md-to hand
fighting, which broke up the session of
the assembly.
London.—Lord A1fi&l Douglas, ed
itor of the Academy and Plain Kng
land, was today sentenced to .<•
months’ imprisonne at. following l.;».
conviction of having lit . d Winston!
Churchill.
Seattle. -Mayor Drown Wednesday i
charged that Prosccu; ing Attorney
Douglas is using the h ug county graud
jury, now in session ! v ; • lttW.it ptn
poses.
.Toledo.--Mayor Ui et and twenty
four other residents i'.ti ■<, Ohio,
were indicted today t t! giui, jury,
charged withcopsnii 11« ih< tuanu
factoring and sellit . oi i qu
Sttn Antonio.— Lie er uit Karl D,
Willis and Private P.-arand were i
burned to deatii w!• • 11 the plane in
which they were tiy .. i>. i. to earth, i
yesterday.
El Paso.—Revolts ... .iinsL the Ob !
regon government ;n in progress .
throughout eight stat<according to
advices receivetl In
Seattle.—JuV t i. Seattle
pioneer, a kios-vn o natu Lloyd
Garrison, renowne nisi, died
at her home he e t<
Philadelphia—-C<• . I-.*iward Theodore
Noble, a ve teran of t! world war. sui
cided today by shoot uj himself.
Vera Or :Tli. i t r- ■ tjs have
forced retirement « f federal iron is
from the Tampico oil fields.
_ i
Helena, Mom. — t, m i me I>xon is
being boomed as a candidate for vice
i president.
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Ani.'iuncement was
•sr ’. ■ the national
.i., •' -*] itlise pro coo*
w;. be located at
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1w . ip. i *. u. ut;-t. u ' ll and
;.! i.u ■ ki; i 1. . c 1.-.L, who is
;,-c i 1 ■ io the first time.
. •, f, .. ':i with Henry
M.o . i. . h (' • ■ Blink, return*
u c 11'1 m Notiii' a. i i iii—. 'a ry I o 1' 1 at.
Pmm Fiat e rne 2t.hu F. Keller, well
Known M. cif'(.k : o .r, who is
Ml l.i- wit, to the 1) .'.-due. traveling:
team; and Sam Appel
11.m, !>'!< it il bv I! i A : • IT, also on
i;i> win to the Oui- 'i Incidentally,
hi:- v. !i ti. Mr. Appelha.mi's first trip
oil;, i in! hi- in ti..' t v "i e years.
Tried to ‘Reach’ Of
ficial With $150,000
Mi>i!i•, Ai i. — The
ii - *‘f i. 5':
ctliltit:-, in the oitv
hiin a in h" i f Si50.0
'.a n
u'jf • th at rep
ratlio slot m:i
Miliile . life red
! ' i slow up the
i v. • • ■ nil■ in a public
inr issued b\ i . detail District.
la II s,
.. Alaskil 1 »•'ad
(utnuiis'sion, who for the past three
months hi- bf.-u ... tu atteution to
I)l i« reti.i i rs and I id improvements
in . v.im :v i f t , arrived here
Mn . ;. _v, .mi left l’u - .i> for MoGraih,
or • > vi a in : ho coast.
J ( ;i i_ of i i • t: uinan
A _\ .. 'S l): '-it a i ii„ ■ u p nail mil, was a
i'hur day ariavai from Guies. Mr.
Guinan is sob doled So leave a wist im
inodi * v 111r r iiv* O'u 1 sinu, 0 , < xpeels
to retut’u here over i he hue trail.
t or.' ina so ,i i on! d tnee,
Morni v ■ veiuu., .) i r 21 1U23. at
Pinto i f • 111, McGrath. la very body's ‘
invited.
a ,i i'airir Pia-U .;Uat), with the
inuoi. i . uj.ui. arm. i yo ornay aud
,v.' • 00 his way to O . liG muruiujr.
0 ai , • . o ie t t e.uiued Sunday
from a vis ; ,o dt'iir, and left Tuesday
for Met j rath on no way to Nixon.