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CHAIRMAN READY
TO START SOUTH
Announcement is made that Col
onel Frederick Mears, chairman of
the Alaskan Engineering commis
sion, who has been in Xenana con
ferring with Engineer in Charge
Fred’k D. Browne during the past
two days, will be through with his
work here by tonight and ready to
start on his return trip to the coast
early tomorrow morning. He will
be accompanied by Mr. Browne to
the end of steel.
Before leaving Xenana, Chairman
Mears will prepare a statement for
publication in The X'enana X'ews,
relative to the plans of the Com
mission for future activities in this
division. This statement probably
will be released for publication to
morrow.
During the time the chairman has
been here, he has been closeted with
Mr. Browne almost continuously,
and when he leaves for his head
quarters on the coast end, he will
take with him a thorough knowledge
of local conditions, obtained first
hand, on the ground.
New Puritani and Premium Hams
and Bacon. Fowler dc Morris.
Melvin B. Summers, meteorolo
gist in charge of the Alaska section
of the weather bureau, left for
Fairbanks this morning, after a stay
of several days in Xenana. He is
enroute to his headquarters at Ju
neau.
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SELECT NAMES
A mass meeting of the voters of
: N'enana has been called for Satur
jday night for the purpose of choos
jing candidates for the board of
itown trustees, to be elected at Ne
jnana’s first official townsite election,
j scheduled for next Tuesday. The
i meeting will be held at the Colise
ium immediately following the pic
ture show.
The election was called by Com
jinissioner McDonald, at the request
of a large number of property own
ers, in order that trustees might be
selected to take the place of the
advisory board, which ceased to ex
ist when the terms of the members
expired last month.
The election of such a board a«
it is proposed to name was provided
for by special act of the territorial
legislature, and the trustees thus
] elected will have power to pass or
dinances and otherwise regulate the
affairs of the town in so far as
their activities do not conflict with
the townsite regulations.
The members of the advisory
: board, elected a little more than a
I year ago, performed their duties in
a manner eminently satisfactory to
J the town, contributing ii no small
I measure to the efficient management
'of the town, in co-operation with
I Townsite Manager Schmidt. And it
j is argued by those in favor of Tues
day's election that a regularly elect
! ed board of trustees will prove of
,even greater benefit to the town be
i cause of their greater authority.
A! A. [. HOSPITAL
An illness extending over a peri
;od of several years, which reached
an acute stage in Nenana, caused
!the death, this morning, of Timothy
Jf. Murpny, an employe of the Alas
jkan Engineering commission, who
iwas admitted to the Government
: hospital on August 21st. Death was
the result of a complication of
trouDles.
The deceased is well known in
Interior Alaska, where he has re
sided during the past six or seven
I years. He came to X’enana from
I Gibbon.
Arrangements for the funeral will
:not be made until word has been
• received from relatives of the de
ceased. There is one brother, James
P. Murphy, residing at Sumner,
'Washington, and another, Dennis,
| resident of Oak Harbor, Washing
ton.
i The deceased was born in Ireland,
j November 1, 1868.
LET ALBERT DO IT
Launch Margaret ready to ferry
you across or take you up or down
the river. Special rates to berry pick
ers. Leave word at Fowler Sc Morris.
ROTCH RELATES
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The following account of the
homeward voyage of Frank Rotch,
former skipper of the Commission
powerboat Midnight Sun, who was
among the first of the Nenana boys
to answer the call to the colors, is
taken from the Seattle Times:
“We managed to hit the Azores,
but somehow or other we missed
the Bermudas and had to go back
and look for them. At that it
tvasn’t so much to miss. The Ber
mudas are only some twenty-eight
miles across, and out there in all
that water twenty-eight miles were
n’t such a lot.”
Home from Frnce, Lieut. Francis
(“Beany”) Rotch of Seattle, who
'was awarded the Distinguished Serv
ice Cross and Certificate of Merit,
the decoration of the British Mili
tary Order, the French Medaille de
Sauvete and the French Verdun
medal, but who contents himself
with wearing a wound stripe, two
gold sendee stripes and campaign
ribbons that would do credit to the
most grizzled veteran, today told
the story of how he and twenty oth
er soldiers brought the good ship
“O. D.” across the Atlantic. So far
as is known, this was the only ves
sel navigated and manned entirely
by soldiers to make or undertake
such a voyage. Lieutenant Rotch is
the son of the late Francis Rotch,
twice a member of the state legis
lature and one of the most widely
known pioneers of Seattle.
Lieut. Rotch was the skipper, and
his experience with small boats in j
the Philippines, on Puget Sound and
in Alaska waters, after service in •
the navy, constituted his license to,
undertake the transatlantic voyage, j
None of his men, with the exception i
of a quartermaster corps soldier j
who acted as chief engineer, had
done like duty before. Grit, adap
tability and ability to solve prob- j
lems as they came up, on the part i
of skipper and crewr, pulled them j
through without a mishap.
Misses Bermuda Islands.
The good ship O. D. was known
previously as the Gwalia and was
one of several large and powerful j
tugs in use on the other side by the !
service of supply. Lieut. Rotch, who j
went to France with the 57th en-1
gineers, was detached and was doing j
duty at St. Nazaire as assistant ma- j
rine officer when the plan came up j
to send the Gwalia* back to America j
with a soldier crew. Lieut. Rotch 1
was asked to select the crew. Lieut. J
Rotch knew that his commanding
officer desired to keep him for sev
eral months longer. After the crew
had been selected, the lieutenant’s
superior asked him if he knew of
any officer qualified to command the
tug. According to the story told
by a friend, wrhich the lieutenant'
declined either to affirm or deny, j
'Rotch answered that he knew of'
only one officer qualified to com- j
mand a transatlantic voyage, and;
that, unfortunately, this officer's su
perior would object to his being de
tailed for such a journey.
“I’ll arrange that all right,” the
higher officer replied. “I’ll fix it
with his superior. Now, who is this
officer of whom you speak?”
“Who?—Me!” Lient. Rotch, ac
cording to the story, replied.
There were some exclamations,
adjectives and remarks, the story
igoes, but, anyway, Lieut. Rotch
commanded the Gwalia, which, for
the purposes of the journey, was
| rechristened the O. D.
1 The Gwalia went to the Azores,
then headed for the Bermudas, and
in a heavy fog had some little diffi
culty finding the latter" islands.
^ And There Wa» New York.
“But we sailed plunk into New
York,” Lieut. Rotch said. “I heard
something toooting and tooting and
made,#o^ it, and as it turned out
'it was the lightship, and there we
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The story of how Lieut. R -ten
won the Distinguished Service Cross
already has been told. During the
last German air raid on fans, in
August, 1918, a low-flying plane
dropped bombs on a river scow
loaded with gasoline. The exploding
drums threatened to destroy a big
bridge and menaced an ammunition
depot in the vicinity. Lieut. Rotch
leaped into the water, swam through
burning gasoline, attached a rope
to the scow, and by his heroism
made it possible for the scow to be
pulled into midstream and away
from points of danger. He was se
verely burned. The American and
Allied decorations and the wound
stripe came to him as a result.
“Some fireworks when those drum*
*ere being hurled into the air and
exploding up there,” was all the
iieutenant would say about the in
cident.
Lieut. Rotch served in the navy
during the Spanish-American war
and was wounded during the China
campaign. Later he was in the
signal corps of the Washington
National Guard, and was the first
top-sergeant of the old First com
pany of the Washington coast ar-1
tillery. He has been ordered to
duty at Camp Lewis, but is hopeful
of obtaming his discharge within
a few days.
PRINTING, DEVELOPING AND
ENLARGING. MRS. C. W. ADAMS.
G. C. Martin, of the United States
: geological survey, is conducting in
vestigations in the district back of
j Eagle.
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