THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for en;ry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879. I
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WEALTH OF THE BALKANS
“The mineral deposits in the Bal
kans are of such extent that the
Serbs, Bulgarians, Greeks, and Ru
manians may make the peninsula im
mensely rich after the war if they
quit fighting and settle down to
business,” said the Rev. Francis
Jager, of Minneapolis, who spent
eight months with the Allied armies
doing American Red Cross work.
“Why, the principal pastime of a
lot of French soldiers there was
washing out the gold from the river
bottoms. The mountains are rich in
coal, zinc, lead, gold, iron and oil.
This is particularly true of the terri
tory claimed by the Serbs. Last
winter the soldiers about Monastir
kept themselves warm by digging
coal. I saw one group of soldiers
dig holes two feet down and strike
a six-inch vein of coal, and on dig
ging further clown they struck a
vein which did not give out after
a depth of eighteen feet.
“In going about among the poor
familes o*‘ the country I frequently
found thein in possession of pieces
of almost pure gold. They told me
they had picked it up out of the
beds of nearby streams.
Austria and Germany expected to
open up the East by their Bagdad
railway, and pick up the Balkan
wealth as they went along.
“The only way to settle the Bal
kan question seems to me along
racial lines, making the Serbs an
independent state. I am of Serb
origin myself and have studied the
question. The Serb state ought to
have its boundaries determined by
a neutral commission speaking the
language and going carefully over
the ground. If this is not done, if
the boundaries are determined ar
bitrarily, there will be more trouble
“The Serbs have not yet lost their
spirit, despite all their war troubles.
During the last advance on the Bul
gars and Germans the Serb soldiers
fought savagely, and when wounded
let the surgeons operate on them
without flinching, despite the ab
solute lack of ether or chloroform.
All the wounded asked was a cigar
ette during the operations”
JAP WORKERS AWAKEN
The recent food riots in Japan
are dangerous symptoms of a wid
ening social cleavage, in the opinion
of Toshio Fujiwara, a leading busi
ness man of Tokio, and an authority
on social questions. He contrasts
the conditions under which the
working class of Japan live with the
enormous profits of great enter
prises, and sees in the ostentation
of the countless war millionaires a
social irritant which is causing the
theories of western agitators to work
on the minds of the Japanese wage
earners.
Mr. Fujiwara thinks that Japan
ese skilled workmen have already
acquired the ideas of the working
people of western countries. He
adds: “These ideas, unfortunately
mostly in a wrong sense, are steadily
working upon the minds of our
working people, especially those in
big cities like Tokio, Osaka, etc.”
He continues: t
“Lead- ’■s of the nation are there
fore strc .gly urged to adopt some
measures for relief of the general
discontent so that disaster may be
avoid'd. Should this general dis
content of the working class be left
without reme..y, we may have more
serious outbursts and these may
bring about a catastrophe to the em
pire.”
Mr. Fujiwara urges that Japanese
statesmen learn a lesson from
American and British statesmen in
the handling of national problems,
especially food problems. Improve
ment of the living conditions of the
working classes in Japan, he be
lieved to be urgently imperative,
and this reform should be inaugu
rated in the big cities of Tokio and
Osaka.
PIGEONS PROVE VALUE
A carier pigeon was one of the
heroes of the most striking episodes
of the battle of Verdun. During the
siege of the fort of Vaux, Command
ant Raynal had no means of com
municating with the exterior. Dur
ing the fierce fighting around the
Thiaumont farm, contradictory re
ports reached the rear as to the oc
cupation of the position. The car
rier pigeon was the only means by
which officers in command could
learn the exact situation.
While the Germans were making
one of their strongest attacks, all
the telephone lines were destroyed
and the enemy’s curtain fire made
the use of couriers impossible. Re
inforcements were required to hold
a position with no means of com
municating with the rear until Lieu
tenant Colonel Girardin sent several
pigeons, back to the headquarters
where they arrived in twenty to
twenty-five minutes, and the rein
forcements were propmptly sent up.
When the Germans made a violent
effort to take the position of Froid
terre, Captain Dartiges, in command
there, was cut off from the rear.
At nine o'clock in the morning he
sent a pigeon back to announce that
the enemy was within 500 yards of
the works. At ten o’clock he an
nounced by the same means that
the position was surrounded by the
enemy. At eleven he informed the
staff that the situation was critical
but that the garrison would fight
to the last man. Thus kept in touch
with the situation, the staff was able
to take steps that resulted in the
breaking of the line around the posi
' tion.
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CONSUMPTION OF RICE
BOOSTED BY THE WAR
DALLAS, Tex.—The war resulted
in increased production and increas
ed consumption of rice in Texas dur
in the last year. An extensive cam
paign in the South for greater acre
age, and for use of rice as a sub
stitute for wheat was largely re
sponsible.
Big producers in Texas, where
3,000,000 sacks of rough rice is
grown annually, believe that the war
has taught housewives the value of
rice as food and that the increase
in consumption will continue. It is
estimated that thirty-eight per cent
of the country’s annual production
of rice is grown on the 300,000 acres
under cultivation in Texas. The
product of the large rice mills in
southern Texas, where extensive
crops have been put in, is valued at
$6,000,000 producers say.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Sunday school will be held in the
office building opposite the post
office, Sunday at 1 p. m.
The regular service will be held
at the same place at 2 p. m., the
subject will be: “God, the Preserver
of Man.”
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JUAREZ, Mexico—Graves plowed
like furrows in open fields, zerapas
used as shrouds and wood wagons
for hearses were made necessary by
the influenza epidemic which swept
over northern Mexico following the,
appearance of the disease on the
American border.
All efforts to have funeral services
were abandoned when the churches
were forced to close because of the :
spread of the disease.
Medical attention was out of the
question for there were only a few
doctors in the small settlements and
many of these were victims of the
disease. The supply of drugs was
soon exhausted and urgent requests
were sent to the border from Chi
huahua City, Parral and Durango
City for medical supplies. These
were permited to be sent by the
United States war trade board in
spite of the fact they appeared on
the conservation list of prohibited
articles for export. One shipment
contained 300 pounds of epsom salts
and large quantities of other drugs.
Medical students were taken from
the hospitals in Mexico City to care
for the sick and volunteer nurses
recruited from the best families in
the large cities for service in the
small towns under the White Cross,
the national relief organization in
Mexico, similar to the Red Cross.
Nenana, Where Bail* and Blvere Meet
NEWS IsImD
OF BOYS IN ARMY
Ill a letter to a friend from Des
Moines, Iowa, under date <Tf Nov
ember 10, Robert Swe, one of the
Nenana draftees, tells of the move
ments of the boys and of the life in
the city near the camp.
He was enjoying a short fur
lough at Des Moines, which is close
to Camp Dodge, at the time the
letter was written, and from all
accounts was having a good time.
He makes no reference to the in
fluenza epidemic and it is believed
that the disease has been stamped
out in that camp.
While at DesMoines he met Glen
Dickinson, formerly attached to the
local Signal Corps. Glen is a ser
geant now, and was on furlough
when Swe met him. Lester Earhart,
who was reported dead some time
ago, also happened to be in town
at the same time as Swe.
He says that nine boys from Camp
Dodge were transferred to the
officers’ training school at Camp
Pike, among whom were Grady Sum
merlin, Kenneth Case. Ralph Darl
ing, William Fury, Jack Miller and
Sam Songer, all of whom were of
the Nenana bunch. Fury, Miller
and Songer being- of the regulars
from Fort Gibbon, and were doing
guard duty here.
Swe says that almost all of them
intend hitting the trail for the North
just as soon as they are discharged.
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NEWS OFFICE
AT ST MICHAEL
FROM THE ARMY
Telegrams received locally by
friends of some of the boys who
were drafted into the service of the
country and who are, at present,
with the troops stationed at St.
Michael, indicate that several of
them have been discharged from the
service, and lends color to the be* j
lief that all of the boys of the last
draft quota have been discharged.
The telegrams stating that they
had been discharged from the army
and were about to start for Nenana
were from Bob Sabanoff, Jack Bat
off and Zambaek Tamaeff, the first
two are Nenana registrants, and the j
last a Fairbanks registrant, but was
called to the colors at Nenana.
The message from Bob Sabanoff
states that he will be leaving for!
Nenana in three days from date and j
that seven others are coring in with j
him. He does not slate who the
seven are, but it is t/iken to mean 1
that they are also discharged sol
diers of the Alaska draft contingent.
DISCHARGES SOON FOR
BOYS AT CAMP DODGE!
Fowler & Morris received a tele
gram today from Leo Roderique
from Camp Dodge, to the effect that
the Alaskans there expect to ue dis
charged at the end of the year, afid
that they are all planning to come
North immediately.
Roderique formerly ran a road
house in the Hot Springs district
and joined the service by voluntary
enlistment.
Herb Miller, locomotive engineer
on engine No. 272, leaves for Fair
banks on Roland’s stage on Monday
for a vacation.
CHOP SUEY
Chicken Noodles
at the
Northern Cafe
Sheldon-Gibson Stage line
Carrying U. S. Mails
For CHITINA and WAV POINTS
Every Tuesday Morning
Special Auto for parties of four
or more any time.
C. Ha^ry Woodwr.rd, agent
Fairbanks
r.s. McDonald
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Highest Cash
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RAW
FURS
SIMSON’S
STOP AT THT
Jones Bunk House
Comfortable Warm Place
SPRING BUNKS, 50c
CANVAS BUNKS
By the Week $1.75
MRS. J. F. LYTLE, Proprietress
According to advices received
from the coast, T. J. Gorman, an
old-time Alaskan canneryman, died j
from diabetes at New Orleans, where
he had gone some time ago.
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CLEAN WARM ROOMS
Mrs Norman Campbell
Wenana—Tlia Gateway to McKinloy
National Park.
WANT ADS
FOR SALE—New lineoleum ma
hopany phonograph, child’s bed,
and Persian eat. Inquire of Mrs.
Mellish.
LOST—Bunch of Keys; five flat
Yale keys and two round keys.
Finder please return to News
Office. Reward.
business Opportunity—North
Star—Mike’s Place. For rent,
ready for business—on most reas
onable terms. Apply R. S. Mc
Donald
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Soft Drinks — Pool
Furnished Rooms For Rent
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