THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for entry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 18<9.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET"
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Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
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AMERICANS AT SEA
The United States had 374 ves
sels on duty in European waters
and a personnel of 80,711 afloat,
at bases or headquarters when the
armistice was signed, according to
a summary of United States naval
activities prepared at headquarters
in London. Numerically the sub
marine chasers headed the list with
id", then came the destroyers with
70, while the third class was the
unheralded 55 colliers that assisted
in keeping a st.ady stream of coal
moving from Cardiff to maintain
the Allied armies and prevent
France from freezing.
Of the fifteen classes of ships
enumerated in the report the work
of the destroyers stands first in
dramatic interest. The twenty that
were at London on July 1. 1917,
immediately became active in the
war game and that activity con
stantly increased as the number
of boats gradually swelled until it
reached the maximum number on
November 11, 1918.
With 25 converted yachts and a
few other vessels they escorted
900.000 troops of the United States
Expeditionary Force to Europe
without the loss of a man from
enemy action, and they escorted 27
per cent of all United States,
allied and neutral shipping to France
and England from April 6, 1917 to
Nov. 9, 1919. In this and other
work they steamed approximately
275.000 miles every thirty days.
The convoy system was not
adopted until shortly after the
United States entered the war. but
in the year and seven months from
then until the end. 18.653 ships
were brought over in 1,474 convoys
that numbered from one ship to
as many as forty. United States
destroyers based at Queenstown
Brest escorted more than 600 singlt
ships through the danger zone and
in this work encountered some of
their greatest hazards. Only the
largest, fastest ships were sent
across alone, and in rough weather
the destroyers were considerably
battered when forced to maintain
high speed against heavy seas.
Reports of contact with the
enemy by American vessels total
256, and the most of them came
from destroyer commanders. A sub
marine was actually in the vicinity
in 183 of these cases but the others
have been listed as false alarms.
Methods of determining the pres
ence of a submarine are varied, but
usually are based upon charts which
show with surprising accuracy the
day to day movements of the under
water craft.
The report gives a list of 22 en
counters, the majority of which re
sulted in the submarine being "prob
ably slightly damaged” or "possibly
sunk” three as sunk and one cap
tured The accuracy of informa
tion of the movements of sub
marines in the case of the yacht
Lydonia in command of Commande:
R. P. McCullough who was credited
with sinking a submarine although
he never saw it. The Lydonia
dropped depth charges after a tor
pedo had been fired at a convoyed
ship. The submarine had been re
ported in that vicinity and as it did
not return to its base it was con
sidered sunk in that engagement.
It is known three American fight
ing ships were lost through enemy
action—the destroyer Jacob Jones
and the armed yacht Alcedo and the
yacht 0wasco which was used on
patrol work. Three were sunk as
the result of collisions, and the
revenue cutter Tampa was sunk
by an explosion, the cause of which
has never been ascertained.
A RENT STRIKE
The city of Havana is threatened
■with one of the most unique strikes
ever called. Unlike the usual strike,
the movement will not e for shorter
hours or higher wages. Thousands
of persons in every walk of life,
who are occupants of rented houses
and rooms may ‘'strike” against
their being literally “locked out"
of their homes by property owners
who are charging exorbitant and il
legal rents.
Rent In Havana during the iast
two years has increased about 50
per cent, and in some cases is re
ported to have more than doubled,
especially in the poorer quarters.
According to the law, a property
owner must file with the city au
thorities a sworn statement of the
cost of construction of any building'
owned or erected by him, from
which figures not only the taxes-'
to be collected, but the rent which I
may legally be charged, are fixed.
The property owners having greatly
increased rents, but without cor
respondingly augmented their tax
payments, the renting public is
loudly protesting and there is be
ing formed an organization which
has for its object the calling of a
strike by renters to force the re
duction of rates to something like
normal.
If the strike is really called
those taking part will not actually
refuse to pay rent whatsoever, but
will decline to pay more than the
municipal records call for.
ABSTINENCE AND GLOOM
French Commissioner Tardieu
said the other day in New York:
“France, since the war began,
has abolished absinthe. We have
not gone further. We French be
lieve in the moderate drinking of
pure wines rather than in teetotal
ism.
“W e like to tell the story of the
town drunkard who signed the total
abstinence pledge. At a total ab
stinence meeting the reformed
d’.unkard was called on for a speech.
He mounted to the platform and
said:
“Dear friends: I never thought
to stand on this platform with Dr.
Forthly on one side of me and
Father Brannigan on the other. I
never thought to tell you that
since August I haven’t touched
anything stronger than tea. I’ve
saved enough in a month, dear
friends, to buy a hardwood coffin
with silver-plated handles, and I tell
you, if I keep the pledge another
month. I’ll be wanting it.”
P. D McKenzie, one of the best
known of the old time miners of
the Southeastern part of Alaska,
died recently from apoplexy. He
had not been well for some time,
but was not believed he was seriously
ill “Pete” McKenzie, as he was
generally known, was of the old
bunch of men that worked in the
Treadwell glory hole many years
ago. He was 60 years of age and
a native of Canada He is survived
by a wife and two little girls.
PENSIONS GIVE
BRITISH SOEONS
LOIS OF WORRY
LONDON.—Seated in a chair in
the House of Commons recently,
because he had lost both legs in
action while fighting in France,
Major Cohen, a member from Liver
pool, delivered an impassioned ad
dress in which he pleaded for hon
esty on the part of the government
in dealing with disabled officers
and men of the army and navy.
It was the first debate on the
pension question which promises
to become one of the most stirring
features of the session One speak
er charged that preparing disabled
men to meet the realities of life
had not been carried very far, be
cause only ninety officers and less
than 8.000 men of the hundreds
and thousands of wounded had un
to this time been given technical
training. Another charged that the
discharged man who was physically
fit was in much better situation
than the sick, as tubercular soldiers
were being charged Si.75 a week
for treatment at sanitariums, al
though they had already paid for
this in their national insurance.
These and other charges brought
from Major Cohen the flat state
ment that it was not training so
much as work after they were train
ed that disabled soldiers desired.
In fact, he was opposed to the
n-hole government plan of training
men m certain centers, because oniv
i limited number of trades could
>e taught ar.d there was no assur
»nce of subsequent employment
vhen the government turned the
nen out. He believed that disabled
nen should be apprenticed to re
iabie firms who, when the men
lad mastered trades would be only
oo glad to retain them in their
lositions, as they would know just
vhat they could do, and could
ruage their wages accordingly.
These men would have their per.
■ions, which Major Cohen said he
toped would be enough to enable
hem to live comfortably. But
ivery man wanted something else.
Millions of men had ben wounded,
ind now they were back in civil
ife they wanted something other
han thinking of the war and its
effects. They wanted something to
To, something to look forward to.
Ihe totally disabled men, he con
eluded, were worthy of something
other than being observed as in
curables.
During the debate it was brought
out that an officer, leading his bat
tery from the line, had been thrown
from his horse and killed. The ap
plication of his widow for a pen
sion had been refused on the ground
that he had not been killed in
action.
Total pensions and allowances
granted to January 1 last was given
as 1,780,000, and to these figures
fresh awards numbering 15,000 to
20,000 were added weekly. The
current financial year will show a
total pension expenditure approxi
mating $250,000,000, it was stated,
with some 42,000 soldiers still under
treatment by the medical corps.
AUTOMOBILE SERVICE
NOW DISCONTINUED
W ith the departure this morning
of Karstens’ auto for Fairbanks, the
service maintained between Fair
banks and Nenana by the Burgess
Karstens auto stage line, comes to
an end for the season.
The reason for the early discon
tinuance of the service is because
the trail is in very poor condition
and the crossing on the river oppo
site town is rapidly becoming dan
gerous.
It is expected, however, that the
river trail will be used by dog teams
to pack the mails back and forth
for some little time to come.
The passengers leaving on the
auto this morning were Tommy
Thompson, Dutch Blankfield and
Harry Niska.
Grayling and Salmon Nets, all
sizes, at Anderson Bros Sl Norland
GERMANS REAP ;
HARVEST FROM
SALE OF JUNK^
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COBLENZ.—A factory at Pforz
heim, near Karlsruhe has been
working day and night recently
turning out iron crosses to be sold
to American soldiers and other
troops eager for souvenirs of the
war, according to travelers from
Germany who arrived in Coblenz
late in January. While the Ber
lin authorities have discouraged the
idea of the Germans selling iron
crosses and other war decorations
to soldiers of the Allies quite a
business has been built up in this '
line in tne zones occupied by the
British, French and Americans. In
Coblenz and other cities* the burgo
masters have appealed to the self
respect of the trades people in en
deavors to stamp out the business
of selling the various German medals
and officers' insignia.
But the souvenir business thrives /
nevertheless, the merchants in the
neutral areas reporting that they
can purchase ail the iron crosses
and other decorations in any
quantity desired These are all.
brought from unoccupied Germany, -
the supply in the occupied part of1 "
the Rhineland having been ex
hausted soon after the Allies took
up their positions at the three
bridgeheads.
Owing to the fact that the au
thorities will not issue permits for
the shipment of honor medals into
the occupied zones, travelers say
that iron crosses by the hundred
and other relics of the war are be
ing smuggled across the border in
great numbers.
In Coblenz during the latter part
of January, iron crosses sold in
the stores for from nine to twelve
marks each. When the Americans
first came to Coblenz the crosses
were valued at from five to nine
marks During the war, around
the prisoner stockades, iron crosses
were sold to the Americans at
prices ranging from fifty francs
to two hundred francs.
The factory at Pforzheim which
has been manufacturing the crosses
for the souvenir hunters is the same
one which had a contract from the
German government for years for
the making of the iron crosses given
to the German soldiers for acts of
bravery on the battlefield.
DISTANCE TABLe'""
NENANA TO TALKEETNA
Talkeetna is the end of steel on j
the coast division.
From Nenana to No. Miles j
Nenana Crossing (by rail).43 i
Lignite . 52 ;
Riley Creek .70
Jack River ......................90 1
Broad Pass Summit...110
Sullivan's ._. .128
Indian River . 162 |
Dead Horse .. 182 :
Talkeetna .. 202 !
The distances given are approxi- j
mate.
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Anderson, Herman
Allred, Mrs. Clara
Bergman, Charles
Brown, Jess
Berggren, Ernst
Browne, F. D.
Bresnahan, E. D.
Blankfield, D.
Bowen, J. R.
Blair, Roy
Brooker, Ed
Bennett, J F.
Ball, J. B.
Brown, Erie
Burns, R. E.
Coutts, W. J
Calderhead, R. W
Campbell, j.
Coghiil, W. A.
Cooney, M. J.
Boner, Frank
Diven, R J.
Douse, Fred
Davis, Harry
Ekeland, Alf
Funk, A B.
Finlayson, K A.
Fisher. Joe
Flower. J. H.
Foster, Steve
Gagnon, Wm
Ghezzi, Alfred
Head, E. A.
Haslem, H. G.
Hagan, James
Hill, L. W.
Hagen, Hans
Hoey. Andy
Gray, E. B.
Gilcher, W. H.
Hyland, Mike
Isabel, L. C.
Irvine, A. J.
Johnson, A. G.
Jones, Frank
Julian, W. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter
Joseph, H. B.
Koland, Knut
Ketooroky. John A
Laughlin, E. L.
Lund, E. E.
Lehr, Q. F.
Markus, George
Mortensen, Peter
Myers, R R.
Moore, Frank B
Miles, J. H.
McDonald, R. S.
Martin, G. S.
Morris, R. c.
^’ash, Martin
Owen, Harry
O’Keefe, Larry
Parks, S. E.
Pennington, G. W
Palfy, Paul
Packer, W. L.
Ryan, W. A.
Rosburg, Herman
Roth, Andy
Rodigkeit, Wm
Sborgia, William
Shaw, Harry N\
Stol, Nels
Schmidt, Carl
Schaeffer, M. A.
Slippern, J. A.
Simson, Lipman
Scott, J. H.
Sellander, C. J.
Stone, A J.
Schmidt, Pete
Smith, Chas.
Smith, George A.
Southworth, R. G.
Spira, Frank
Taylor, Frank
Tunison, B.
Thompson, Theodore
Toussaint, J G. K
Tyler, M. V.
Taylor, Wm. J.
Verhaeghe, Cyriele
Van Orsdel, J. C.
Woods, Geo. W.
Williams, E. A.
Wraeehter, R. I.
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