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I have also a new stock of groceries, guaranteed to
be strictly fresh and at most reasonable prices.
Your Patronage Solicited.
R.L.H. MARSHAL!
WAR DEPARTMENT
PROVES RUMORS FALSE
Some time ago persistent ru
mors were rife all over this sec
tion that the germs of the influ
enza epedemic were being spread
through the American training
camps by U. S. doctors and
n uraes.
Wishing to ascertain the truth
of the stories, we wrote to the
Committee on Public Informat
ion Washington D. C. and have
just received their reply which
is of such importance that we re
produce it.
War Department.
Office of the
Chief of Staff.
Washington D. C.
December, 19th. 18
Manager,
McCarthy Weekly News.
McCarthy, Alaska.
Dear Sir,
Your inquiry address
ed to the Committee on Public
Information on November 26th,
relative to the reported execut
ion of physicians and nurses, by
the military authorities, was re
lerred to this office.
In reply we would advise that
all sentences of courts-martial
imposing the death penalty are
reviewed by the President of the
United States, and made public
at or before the time of execut
ion.
There h ive nob been any such
cases as those to which your in
formant referred.
To refute s:mTi" minors ]>ut
in circulation i ist October when
the influenza epidemic spread
through army cam >s, Bug
adier General Charles Richard.
Acting Surgeon General, issued
on October 1^, the following of
ficial statement:
“There have been ro more ir
sidiously false reports come t.>
my alter,tion than those recent
ly widely spread, to the effect
that nurses or medical officers
have been exucutod at the stage
hour of sunrise, for spreading
influenza and pneumonia germs
among soldiers.
There have been no medic.ll
officers, nurses, or any one else1
executed at any camp in the Un
ited States or abroad for any
such cause.
The reports are ridiculous
and without the slightest found
a tion on fact.
They have taken many forms
but through them all has run
such a significant likeness of tex
ture that it is not unlikely that
they all originated from the
same source- the German prop
agandists.
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the McCarthy meat & grocery co
Warren Nelson. Louis Widing.
Unfortunately as is so fre
quently the case, those behind
the b iseless reports have .been
and are being aided in the ne
fariois disseminatio 1 of them
by m iny thoughtless persons
who have not ta.sen the time to
investigate the reports before
passing them on.
Very Truly Yours
John M. Dunn.
Colonel, General Staff,
Acting Director of Military
Intelligence,
By: R. Hughes,
Major, U. S. A.
U. S. Food Administration.
Jist ez de buckwheat cake sot
flop over on his face, Br’er Bacon
rin’ dance ’roun’ en say, sezee:—
“One good tu’n desarves en nuth
er,” sezee.—Meanin’ dat ef de
sojer boys go en do de flghtin’ fer
us, de leas' we alls kin do is ter
sen’ ’em all de wheat—en eat
buckwheat instid. Co’n meal, rye
en barley flour fer ub will he p a
lot too.