The Nenana daily news., 1919-04-01
DICK MORRIS |S HAVING TROUBLE
 ID REACH WALES

P. I. of March 1, containing an
 account of the difficulties met with
 by Dick Morris, our local townsman,
 in getting a passport to go to Wales
 to claim his bride. The article,
 which is also embellished with Dicks
 photograph, is as follows:
 "Is marriage a necessity, and is
 it an urgent piece of business.
 "This question has been put squarely up to the state depart
 ment by R. c. Morris, merchant
 of Nenana, Alaska, and former
 champion bicycle rider of the Pa cific coast and he is anXiously awaiting the decision of the gov ernment upon it, for upon the an- swer depends his life's happiness and that of Miss Luned Lewis, of Merionetshire, Wales, he says.
 "On Friady perhaps an unlucky day-Mr. Morris appeared before F. M. Harschberger, clerk of the United States district court, and made application for passport to permit him to go to Wales to claim a bride. The regulations of the government provide that no one shall be permitted to go to Europe except on necessary and urgent" business, and the clerk of the court could not say whether marriage is necessary and urgent" business. 'There is no doubt in the mind of the applicant that it is necessary and very urgent business, he says, because the tying of the nupital knot has already been delayed four years because of the war and un- less a ruling is made in his favor, Mir. Morris intends to start a small sized war of his own. Any time he is ready to make trip of some 1 18,000 miles to Wales and back to Interior Alaska to get married, he urges there should be no doubt in the mind of any one as to the need or urgency of the trip.
 Another reason why he believes it is imperative to go at this time is that he has not seen his bride-to- be for thirteen years when he last made trip to Wales. During those years of waiting he has been in Alaska building up his fortune, which, he says is now taking on substantial proportions.
 Armed with letters of introduc- tion to Congressman John F. Miller and others at Washington he will leave for the East on Monday, and intends to camp there steadily until his application for passport is granted.
 "The Alaskan and his fiance had intended to marry several years ago, but, believing that Morris might be wanted for military service they postponed the date He offered to enlist in the army but could not get in, and then when he tried to secure permission for the young lady of his choice to come to Amesica she could not secure pass age on any of the boats Then he determined to go to Wales to bring her back with him.
 Starting from his home in Me- mana on February 5, he arrived in Seattle Thursday, having made the trip by dog team rail and water, consuming a month on the way. This is but the first lap of the long journey; the second of 5000 miles, to Washington will be started Mon- day, and the final lap of 5000 miles across the Atlantic will com mence as soon as the state depart ment says that marriage is a "nec- essary and urgent" business says the Alaskan.
 Twenty years ago Mr. Morris came to Seattle when a boy He re- sided here several years at time, holding the short-distance bicycle racing record for the Pacific coast.
 "He recalls those good old days and some of the men with whom he