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The Nenana news., 1923-05-17

road work in 1879, in a capacity which Who's Who" does not dis close. It is stated that he was em- ployed on a number of roads in various capacities for 20 years, when he went to the B. & o. Ro- bert s. Lovett, Chairman of the Union Pacific, also in the S75,O00 class, began his career as a lawyer and entered the railroad service in 1884, with the Houston, East and West Texas, since which time he has been at the head of the legal department of eyeral roads, grad ually working up to his present po- sition.
 It will be noted that out of these nine railroad men drawing s75,O00 or more, seven worked their way through the operating repartment and two through the legal depart ment. The legal end of railroading evidently offered opportunity for quicker rise, but the operating de- partment brought the greater num- Der of men to the high-salaied DO sitionS.
The Nenana news., 1923-05-17
BARUCH'S VIEW

Mr. Bernard Baruch believes that reparations solution has been ex- pedited by the French occupation of the Ruhr. MT. Baruch is an en- iRent financier and his opinions are entitled to more than ordinary attention on that account. But he is also associated with international bankers and is an ardent league of nations advocate. The bankers and leaguers as a whole have severely condemned France for her Ruhr in vasion, and the fact that MT. Bar uch takes a different view adds weight to his conclusions. He holds that American economists have been vindicated in holding the United States aloof from mixing in the re- parations dispute, and believes the controversy will adjust itself if left alone.
The Nenana news., 1923-05-17
BILL OF SALE blanks for sale at The News Office.
LOCAL TRAIN SCHEDULE I H E A L A SKA RAILROAD

Trans leave and arrive Nenana a, follows:
 8:00 p. m, Tuesday and Friday for Seward and intermediate points. Returning arrives Nenana 6:45 a m., same days. 80 p. m, Tuesday and Friday for Dunbar, Fairbanks and Chatanika Arrives Nenana 12:3O D. n., Tues day and Friday. Pullman sleeper charges: Lower berth, S4.5o; upper berth, S3.50. Tickets entitle holders ts privi- leges Observation car.
The Nenana news., 1923-05-17
PER ASPERA AID ASTRA

According 10 reports recently fll- ed with the Interstate Commerce Commission there are nine railroad
 executives in the United States who
 receive compensation at the rate of s75,000 or more per year. The re- ports show that all these men have attained their present salaries thru advancement in the railroad service. Changes in employment from one road to another indicate that rail roads have engaged in competitive bidding for successful managers. just
 as baseball cluss bid for pitchers. When 9 railroad man has demonstra-
 ted unusual ability some road tries
 to get him by paying bigger sal ary, and does get him unless the road for which he is working meets
 the offer. It is interesting to note
 the records of a few Of the high
 salaried men.
 The list is headed by Julius
 kruttschnitt, chairman of the South
 ern Pacific, who receives s1oO,O00
 a year. He started his career teach
 ing school near Baltimore in 1873
 but having studied civil engineering
 took job in railroad construction
 work on small road in the South
 west in 1878 and has spent the
 succeeding Il years in working up to his present salary. 4. H. Smith,
 of the New York Central comes
 next with salary of S92,580. He
 began railroading as a messenger
 boy on the Lake Shore in 1879, ! worked into the construction de- partment and passed from one road i to another until 1902 when he en- tered the service of the New York Central in a minor position from which he climbed to the head office. He has been climbing the railroad ladder for 43 years. The next man on the salary list is Carl R. Gray of the Union Pacific, who started as a telegraph operator on the St. Louis & San Francisco in 1883, since which time he has worked for half dozen different railroad sys- tems. His climb thus far has taken 39 years. Next comes c. H. Markam, of the Illinois Central, who, like Gray, is in the s75,O00 class. Mar kam began as g section laborer in 1881, on the Santa Fe, and has helped build up number of roads since. It has been fl years since he began by pulling out rotten ties and putting in good ones. E. Pennington of the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault St. Marie is also in the s75,- poo class, He began as a warehouse man with the C. M. & St. P. in 1869 and has been in the employ of two other roads in the 53 years since that time. William Sproule, President of the Southern Pacifis another railroader in the s75,000 list, began as freight clerk in 18- S2 and has been with the Southern Pacific ever since, except for four years when he had charge of traffic for smeltering company Hale Hol- len, of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, entered the railroad service through the legal department in 1907, and has spent his 15 years of railroading with the one company and it's associated lines. Daniel Will ard, of the Baltimore and Ohio, al 50 in the s75,00O class, began rail-
The Nenana news., 1923-05-17
GEORGE J. GOULD

George Jay Gould, fiAancier and
 railroad man whose death is an-
 nounced in today's relegraphic dis
 patches succeeded to the leadership
 of the famous Gould family upon
 the death of his father, Jay Gould,
 December ?, 1892.
 In addition to assuming respon-
 sibility, as trustee and executor,
 for the sSo,000,OOO es-ate left by
 his father, he carried on and ex- banded the great railroad holdings
 of his father, and within a few years during which he applied the lessons learned from the elder
 Gould, he became one of Anerica's foremost railroad fi1anciers. The
 5000 miles of road left by Jay
 Gould grew into more than 10000 miles under the management of his son, while the many investments in other huge enterprises. including the Western Union Telegraph Co.,, also were largely managed by the principal heir.
 George Jay Gould was born in New York City February 6, 1864, the sixth in line of descent from Major Nathan Gould. or Gold, the original ancestor, who came from the south of England in 1646 and settled in Fairfield. Conn. While many of Nathan Gould's descend ants attained eminence in colonial affairs and through service in the Revolutionary War, it remained for Jay Gould to become the first fin ancier.
 The Gould family fortune dates from 1860, when Jay Gould g part ner in his fathers hardware store in Delaware county New York bought for ten cents on the dollar 9 controlling interest in the Rutland and Washington railroad, a little bankrupt line running between Troy New York, and Rutland. Vt. Young Gould, in addition to selling hard ware, had, studied surveying in his spare time, and took an interest in railroad building as a result of these studies.
 Two years after purchasing the { road, Jay Gould had succeeded in extricating it from financial diff culties, whereupon he sold at l20I the interest originally acquired at ten. This was the first feat of that generalship which, over and over in later life made him the foremost railroad developer of has time.
 George Jay Gould, even when quite young, showed an inclination 10 follow in the footsteps of his father. He received thorough edu- cation from private instructors, and subsequently, entered Columbia Uni versity, but was no1 graduated.
 After a tour of Europe, he be- came a clerk in the Western Union office, where he developed such an aptitude for detail that he soon be- came the assistant of his father, George Gould was at his desk ten hours day, and often remained long into the night, learning the business which, when he became it's vice-president few years later, op- erated more than a million miles of telegraph wire.
 This apprenticeship prepared him for the responsibility devolving up- on him when Jay Gould died. Soon after he obtained full charge of his fathers interests, he called J. Pier pont Morgan in regard to the pur- chase of the New York and North ern railway by the Manhattan FL
The Nenana news., 1923-05-17

|
 vowed never to enter the Morgan of
 fees again.
 Fearing, however, that he had
 made powerful enemy he deter
 mined to neutralize its effect by an
 alliance with the financial interests
 of the world. He called upon John
 D. Rockefeller. outlined his plans.
 and asked the oil magnate's advice.
 There was something in young
 Gould's manner that won the friend
 ship of Mir. Rockefeller, and a plan
 for harmoniuos operation of the
 Rockefeller and Gould railroad inter-
 ests was arranged.
 Next, Mir. Gould seized upon
 circumstance which brought him
 close 10 Andrew Carnegie. who was engaged in controversy with the
 Pennsylvania railroad at the time.
 The Ironmaster offered Gould a lib-
 eral contract in exchange for bring ing the Wabash road into Pitts
 burgh on its way to the Atlantic coast. and through these conces- sions the railroad builder secured another powerful friend.
 For two decades after the death of his father, George Gould contin- ued to manage the vast properties and many financiers and railroad men have declared that he frequent Y surpassed his famous mentor ;nI his ca3ac'r.' b weave ar indefin- ite tumble of railroads into a de- finite system.
 He was 3 director of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company, the Rio Grande Southern Railroad, the Utah Fuel Company and of the Manhattan Railway Company. Dur ing his career he had been presi- dent of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railway; president and chair man of the board of directors of the Missouri Pacific Railway; pres ident of the Texas and Pacific Rail- way; president of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Rail- way; president of the International and Great Northern Railway; dir ector of the Wabash International and vice president of the Western | Union Telegraph Company.
 Dissatisfaction among other of the heirs of Jay Gould over Georges handling of the estate, however, had [ been growing for some time, and in July, 1919, he was removed as exc cutor and trustee by court order Mr. Gould's first marriage was in 1886 to Edith Kingdom, who dropped dead while playing golf on the Gould estate at Lakewood, N. J., in November, 1921. From this union there were five children. |
 In May, 1922, MT. Gould married Jeanne Sinclair, a former actress, 30 years his junior. The second i, was regarded as almost as much Of an elopement as the mar riages of three of his children, Edith \ George Jr., and Kindon. The first news of 1t came from Paris, where the couple were spending their honeymoon, but 1t later transpired that the ceremony was performed in Lakewood. AS a consequence of this second marriage, MT. Gould lost property valued at s3,000,0OO left by his wife, which reverted to a trust fund for her children.
 While Mr. Gould apparently en- ioyed good health during the years he spent as a railroad builder, it de- yeloped during lawsuit in 1923 that he suffered a breakdown, and
The Nenana news., 1923-05-17
WANT ADS
MINING GROUND FOR SALE

Group of three claims (placer) on Glacier Creek, Kantishna district. Nos. 17,18 and 19. (No. IT worked out.) Shallow ground, from six inches to five feet to bedrock. Coarse gold. Automatic dam. boxes, tools, complete camp outfit. For furthers particulars inquire at News Office. :..
The Nenana news., 1923-05-17

EVERYBODY can buy groceries. feed and supplies WHOLESALE Write for free pricelist. Peoples Grocery, 701 Olive St. Seattle" PEOPLES GROCERY COMPANY
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-24
NARCOTIC RING IS EXPOSED BY
 LEADERS WIFE
Police Arrest Man on Charges Made by
 Woman SEIZE DRUGS AND LIQUOR
Leader s House Guarded by Dogs and Trained
 Bear

SEATTLE, Feb. 24. - On charges proffered by Charles J. Clark, for. mer member of the police force, Clar- ence Schively was arrested yester- day for complicity in a plot for snug gling liquor and narcotics into Se- attle in wholesale quantities. The op- erations of the ring of which Schively is alleged to be member, were ex- posed by Mrs. Schively and Jack Kelly, who declared that a smuggling business on a large scale was being carried on. On information given by them the police made a search of four speed-boats and three automobiles in which the traffic was declared to be conducted, and seized a quantity of liquor and narcotics found concealed in them. A houseboat occupied by Schively was found to be guarded by three dogs and trained bear.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-24
JURISTS FORM ASSOCIATION TO
 BETTER LAWS
National Body Plans to Simplify Code of
 Country

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-The Law Institute" an association formed of the foremost jurors and lawyers of the country, was formally organized at a meeting held here yesterday. The new legal organization is the direct out growth of proposals made at the last meeting of the National Bar Associa- tion in San Francisco, when the ne cessity for reforms in the laws of the country was emphasized by many prominent iurists. The efforts of the new Institute will be directed toward Clarifying and simplifying" the laws in order to secure a better admins tration of justice. The carrying on of scientific legal wark will also be one of the Associations activities.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-24
LeqisIdt0r Asks
 Western States Co
 EdUOr Extension

OLYMPIA, Feb. 24.-In a speech with which he introduced in the State Senate today a memorial ask ing that the benefits of the Federal w. w. Connors, of Seattle, declared that in the critical situation which has arisen in Alaska as to road-build ing, the funds of the Highway Act should be made to include the north westernmost Territory. Senator Con- nors declared that in asking Con gross for assistance in the road-build- ing program in the West, he was anxious to have the Legislatures of Washington, California and Montana go on record as favoring the inclusion of Alaska in the omnibus apprOpri- ation. There is no reason why the Federal Highway Act should not have been extended to include Alaska years ago." said Senator Connors. ''The people there pay taxes to the Federal Government on preclSelN the same basis as do the people of the States" The memorial on which the Washington Legislature is asked to act further points out that the Government has just completed at a cost of fifty million dollars a rail road which cannot serve the purpose of development unless dependable feeders in the form of wagon-road" and trails are provided. The i'm portance of interior development in the creation of traffic for maint"~ ance of the road, thus relieving the : Government of a heavy expenditure was also emphasized by the speak
 action on whose resolution was ur- gently requested.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-24
MAIL ROUTE PLANNED BY HYDROpLANE FOR
 BERING SEA COAST

SEATTLE, Feb. 24.-Mail sevice by hydroplane for all Government sta tions north of Nome and bordering lished next summer, if a proposal from private company is accepted plan for such a service has just been submitted to w. c. Wander voort, superintendent of the Thirteeth Division of the Railway Mail Service, by B. J. Matthews, representing the Alaska Air Ways Company, who pro- poses to establish such deliveries along the Boring Sea coast, accord ing to Vandervoort.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-24
S0L0N URGES ROAD ACT INCLUDE ALASKA
Former EhU0y Is Dead After
 Short Illness

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 24-Charle- magne Tower, former United States to Germany, died at his home here last night following an illness of several days from pneumon- ia. One of the most popular diplo- matic figures in Berlin during his under the Roosevelt administration, Charlemagne Tower was an especial favorite of the Kaiser. Born in Philadelphia in 1848, he began his diplomatic career in 1897 when he was named Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Austria. Made Ambassador to Russia two years later he served in that capacity until 1902, when he was sent to Berelin. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society and of the American Institute of Mining Berlin. He was a member of the insignia of the Legion of Honor of France and of the Grand Gordon of the Order of St. Alexander of Rus sia. He was the author of two volume history of the services of Lafayette in the American Revolu- tion, and of political and historical assays. He was married in 1888 to Miss Helen Smith, of Oakland, by whom he had three sons.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-24
BLACK TROOPS ARE CHARTERED IN HOMES,
 ACCUSE GERMANS

DUSSELDORF, Feb. 24-Reports emanating from German sources to the effect that black troops were recently sent by the French into Kuperdrei, Velbrot and Woerden, have been officially denied by the French. The reports alleged that the soldiers were being quartered in private dwellings, and that Colon ial patrols had appeared on the streets of these towns. German sta tistics also show that nine civilians have been killed and thirteen wound ed since the beginning of the French occupation, and that several hundred have been arrested and deported.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-24
LIGHT BRIGADE HERO SURVIVES BATTLE TO
 NINETY-TWO YEARS

LONDON, Ont, Feb. 24.-Thomas w. Shaw, who claims to be the last survivor of the famous Light Brigade who fought the Battle of Balaklava in the Crimean War, was said last night to be dying at his home here. The veteran hero of the charge in which of scientific legal work will also be ficed because "someone had blun- dered," has reached the ripe old age of ninety-two.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-24
NOMINATION BLOCKED BY OPPONENTS IN
 SENATE COMMITTEE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24-An at tempt to reach decision on the nomination of James McNary, of New Mexico, whom President Hard ing recently named as Comptroller of the Currency, failed today when the Senate Committee on Banking adjourned over the weekend. Another meeting of the Committee will be held next week, when the nomina- tion will come up again for a thresh- ing out, but with only week re- maining before the adjournment of Congress the chances of the nomin ation being confirmed at this ses- sion are regarded as dubious.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-24
RUSH
 FOR C0RD0VA
 STARTST0DAY
Alameda on Way With 55 Passenqers for
 Local Port

SEATTLE, Feb. 24-The steamship Alameda departed this morning at 9 o'clock for Southwestern Alaska with 191 passengers, and the indi- cations are that for the next few months all boats sailing north will contain banner lists. There are, 51 booked for Cordova on the Alameda, as follows:
 s. F. Cagouett J. D. Esary, Gus F. Johnson, John Henry, J. c. Leen, Mrs. l.. V. Gupill, c. c. Carlson, Charles Auer, Mike Tierney, A. Larson, P. Renden and thirty-nine steerage.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-24
PHOi,EY SALESMEN ARE NABBED ON
 START FOR WEST

NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-The discov- cry of a grip full of corporation stocks and bonds, believed to be spuri- ous, in the possession of two men who were about to start for the West on a selling campaign, led last night to the arrest of Nicky Arnstein and Edward Fuller, together with four other men and one woman. The papers are under investigation today by the police, who believe that they have uncovered a well-organized plot to fleece credulous investors.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-24
FUNDS ASKED FOR HOSPITALS
 BY MELLON
Seattle Named for Big Marine Edifice With
 Others

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-For con- the gallant Six Hundred were sacri- tals and quarantine stations at vari- ous points in the country Secretary Mellon yesterday sent request to Congress for an appropriation of SS,700,000. Included in the plans were proposals for new hospitals at Seattle, New Orleans, San Francisco and Gal weston, Texas. The structure proposed for Seattle is estimated to cost one million dollars.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-24
POLICE SEEKING
 SOURCE OF FUNDS
 USED BY PROMOT0R

CHICAGO, Feb. 24. - Investigation of the financial operations of Joseph Marcino, wanted by the police on charges of embezzlement in connec- tion with fraudulent schemes, were shifted yesterday to Italy. Authori- ties there have been asked to investi- sums of money with which he returned from there and with which he pro- noted some of his frenzied operations here.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-24
BANDITS SCORN MASKS IN BOLD HOLDUP OF
 EXPRESS co. OFFICE

OMAHA, Feb. 24-While the office force of the Merchants Express and Transfer Company were busy at their tasks yesterday afternoon, two young and unmasked bandits entered the office, and lining the employees up against the wall, proceeded to loot the office safe of its contents. The robbers took nine hundred dollars, and backed out, leaping into a wait ing automobile in which they made their escape.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-24
NO DECISION MADE ON QUESTION SHIPMENTS
 BY RUSSIAN RELIEF

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-Despite published reports to the contrary the American Relief Administration has reached no decision on the ques tion of cutting off further relief shipments to Russia. This state ment was made today by Secretary Hoover, denying announcement to that effect, which had declared that the A. R. R. is now exporting grain to Germany and Turkey.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-24
FORD GETS BOUQUET BUT NO ENDORSEMENT
 FROM CONVENTION

DETROIT, Feb. "A. - Recognizing the efforts of Henry Ford in awaken ing the conscience of the American people to the menace to Democracy in elections" a resolu- tion was unanimously adopted yester- day by the Democratic State conven- tion in session here. The resolution however, carried no endorsement CT Ford as a possible candidate for Pres ident.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-24
FARM COMMITTEE
 TABLES PROPOSAL ON
 WALLACE'S OBJECTION

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. - The Voight resolution proposing that an inquiry be made by the Federal Trade Commission inte the proposed merger of five big packing corpora tions of Chicago, was tabled last night by the House Agricultural Con- mittee.
 Secretary Wallace is quoted as having told the Committee that he is opposed to the suggested purchase of Morris and Company, packers, by Armour and Company.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-24
GOVT. 70 OWN POSTAL BLDCS.
 IS PLANNED

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-A recom- mendation was presented to Congress yesterday by the joint commission of the Postal Service, with reference to the construction of Government-oWned postoffice buildings. The recommen- dations call for a program of con- struction of postoffice buildings, for which an appropriation of $20,000,O0O is advocated, until all the principal postoffices of the country are owned by the Government
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-24
SIX ROBBERS
 BIND GUARD,
 LOOT FACTORY

PETERSBURG, Va, Feb. 24.-The Seward Trunk and Bag Factory Of this city was the scene of we'll planned holdup last night, when SIX robbers forced an entrance to the establishment. Binding and gagglng the watchman on duty, they proceed ed to loot tills and safes, before making their escape. The plight of the watchman was not discovered until morning when employees Of the store came to work. The police have no clues as to the perpetrators of the crime.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-24
COUNCIL DISSOLVED
 FOR DISOBEDIENCE
 BY FRENCH TROOPS

BERLIN, Feb. 24. - The French forces of occupation yesterday dis solved a meeting of the Municipal Council of Bochum, arresting the burgomaster of Bochum and twenty two members of the Council on the ground that they had refused to carry out the French orders regard were stationed outside the hall while the arrests were being made.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-24
TROOPS BOARD TRAIN
 SEIZE GERMAN FUNDS

BERLIN, Feb. 24.-A consignment of twelve billion marks belonging to the Reichsbank, was forcibly confis- cated today when French troops boarded the Berlin Cologne express on which the coin was being trans ported, and seized the shipment.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-24
HOUSE OPPOSED TO RETURN ALL PROPERTY
 TO ENEMY ALIENS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-By a vote fused to declare itself in favor of a resolution declaring that it should be the policy of Congress ultimately to return to the former owners all prop erty of enemy aliens seized during the war
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-24
LETTER THREAT LEADS
 TO GUARDING CHURCH

VICTORIA, Feb. 24.-As the result of an anonymous letter bearing a Portland stamp and threatening to burn the edifice, police are today guarding St. Andrews Catholic Ca- thedral and the Bishops palace.