THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for eriwi’y ■ < second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1819.
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RECOGNIZING SERVICE
A service flan' for returned sol
diers and sailors generally is being
adopted by employers of Montana
to be displayed by business houses
to show the number of the nation’s
former fighters each establishment
has provided with positions.
The plan has been heartily en
dorsed by Scott Leavitt, federal
director of employment in Montana.
A design being used consists of
a flag with a blue field on which
is shown a large, six-pointed white
star. In the center of the star
is a large numeral indicating the
number of discharged soldiers or
sailors employed. Around the uurn
era) are placed small five-pointed
red stars corresponding in number
with the numeral. Below are the
words, “Returned soldier (or sol
diers) employed here.”
“When the boys marched away,”
points out the employment directo*',
“parades and brass bands were
common. Now the boys are coming
home. Whether from camp or
battlefield, all of them should be
paid the expression of gratitude due
to those who have offered their lives
in the time of their country’s
emergency. The American people
should be quick to greet the re
turning soldier and sailor with the
same spirit of patriotism as was
manifested when they entrained.
The boys should be met with a real
reception in the form of being of
fered a return of the positions they
vacated to answer their country’s
call, or the place to which they
would have been entitled had they
remained at home, and for those
who have no prior employment to
which they may return every effort
should be made to secure a profit
able position.
“Kach community should take a
special pride in caring for the re
turning soldier or sailor. As fast
as the boys are released they
naturally will return to those com
munities in which their families and
friends reside, and what is left of
the boy’s pay of thirty dollars per
month after allotments, government
insurance, laundry, post exchange
and company collection are deduct
ed is not large enough to carry hin
for more than a few' days. The
necessity for the attention of the
American people to their obliga
tion cannot be over-emphasized—
nicy iiium iii'ip uicsc uwyn in it
establishing themselves.
“It should be as much a matter
of pride to give a soldier or sailor
a job now as it was to display the
fact that an employee had gone to
war.”
THE WINNERS
Names of the 10 cities of the
Twelfth Federal Reserve District
whose splendid records in the Fourth
Liberty Loan bring them the honor
of naming U. S. ships have been
made public by Governor James
K. Lynch, of the Federal Reserve
Bank. In addition to choosing the
name of the ships the cities will
be asked to name sponsors.
In Class A, Los Angeles wins the
ship honor over San Francisco in
percentage of oversubscription, al
though San Francisco leads all cit
ies of the district in amount of
subscriptions, with a total of $110,
836,150, which is two and one
third times the sise of the Los
Angeles total.
Seattle wins from Portland and
^Oakland in Class B.
Spokane wins in Class C with
Salt Lake, Tacoma and Honolulu
finishing in the order named.
Berkeley and Pasadena win the
honors in Class D with San .Jose,
San Diego', Ogden and Sacramento
standing as named.
The highest percentage of over
subscription made by any of the
cities in the five classes was that
made by Bakersfield, with sub
scriptions amounting to 254 per
cent of its quota.
Los Angeles led in the total num
ber of subscribers with a total of
240,001, which was 4,7.'!5 more than
San Francisco.
OPTIMISTIC
An extensive development of
shipbuilding and a wide expansion
of maritime industry- in all of its
branches is looked for by shipping
interests of the Pacific coast with
the return to the world of normal
peace conditions. This expenditure,
says a correspondent of the Asso
ciated I’ress, is based in a great
measure on the fact that the Pa
cific coast suffered comparatively
little by the demands of war, while
at the same time its immense na
tural resources were extensively de
veloped by the government for in
creased tonnage. The coast is now
equipped with more than a score
of modern shipbulding plants, some
of them among the largest in the
country. These yards were equipped
with every facility for turning out
tonnage at the highest speed, and
now that the war is over, these
facilities will not be allowed to
go to waste.
In San Francisco, the harbor
board recently announced plans for
extensive reconstruction of piers
and warehouses. Plans for an ab
sorbtion of usual port charges by
division of overhead expense brings
to the front the 'free port ' move
ment, a subject which now looms
large in relation to the commerce
of all ports.
According to Robert Dollar, a
shipping authority. Pacific shipping
by America will come into keen
competition with Japan. “Japan
ese ship owners," he said, “have
made enormous profits during the
war, therefore that competition will
be backed with plenty of money,
supported by subsidies for ship
building, and for carrying of mails.
advantages which Americans will
be forced to combat.”
With the recently announced re
lease by the United States Shipping
Board of all requistioned ships,
and the turning over to private in
terests of government owned ves
sels, many of the larger lines en
gaged in Pacific coast and Panama
Canal trade are planning early re
sumption of interrupted service.
OFFICES ARE TAKEN
BY PROFESSIONAL MEN
In the Red Cross Block in Fair
banks, fronting on Cushman street,
ofices have been taken by Dr. de
la Vergne, and the rooms are now
being fixed up for early occupancy.
Thomas Marquam, lawyer, who
recently was burned out, has also
engaged offices in this building and
expects to move in immediately.
Morton E. Stevens, another Fair
bank lawyer, who was also burned
out in the recent \«ig fire, has taken
offices in the Barnette Block, op
posite the old Fairbanks linking
company building.
t
I IS FILED .
MUST C. P. i
Suit for $50,900 was filed in th<
superior court at Seattle recentlj
against the Canadian Pacific Rail
way company by Katherine *Somer
set, as administratrix of thi^ estati
of Henry Albert Somerset, wh<
lost his life in the wreck "of the
defendant company's steamship, the
Princess Sophia, on October 20
This is the first suit filed there
growing out the wreck, in which
more than 340 persons lost theii
lives, and from which not a sou
was saved. The action is brought
through Attorney William Martir
and the law firm of Myers & John
stone. A second complaint, drawn
at the request of Mrs. Bessie T
Kendall, widow of Alexander W.
Kendall, who lost his life in the
same wreck, was drawn, but not
filed. This complaint asks $20,000.
The complaint charges that the
Princess Sophia left Skagway for
Vancouver on October 23 at 10
o’clock p. m., during a blinding
snowstorm and blizzard, and con
tinued on her journey until October
24, when she struck the Vanderbilt
reef, in Lynn Canal. The danger
of Lynn Canal and the presence
of the rock were both well known
to the defendant company, accord
ing to the complaint.
It is charged that after the Prin
cess Sophia struck the rock, and
during the time that she hung there
for forty hours before she was
swept off, and all on board per
ished, the passengers were pre
vented by Captain Loche, master of
the vessel, from attempting to save
themselves in the lifeboats.
Other boats came to the rescue,
the complaint charges, some coming
ns near as fifty feet, but when
passengers attempted to get into
the lifeboats and make their way
to safety on the rescuing craft they
were driven below decks by Captain
Locke and his officers. The com
plaint states that many passengers
insisted that an attempt be made
to remove them.
According to the allegations of
the complaint, Captain Locke com
muicated by wireless with the de
fendant company at Vancouver and
Victoria, B. C„ and that the com
pany ordered the steamship Prin
cess Alice to proceed from Victoria
to the rescue of the stranded ship.
Though the journey was full sixty
hours, it is charged that the. com
pany instructed Captain Locke to
keep his passengers aboard until
the arriv’d of the Princess Alice.
The rescue ship sent out bv the
company arrived after the Princess
Sophia had foundered and sunk.
In their attempts to escape, which
were frustrated by the action ot
the ship’s officers, according tc
the complaint, many of the pass
engers were bruised, cut and in
jured, and either in this mannei
or by drowning when the • vesse
foundered, the plaintiff alleges, hei
husband lost his life.
The sum of $50,000 is asked foi
the los; of the life of her husbam
Mtv VJnivwirv/iI urwl $001
is the amount of money which she
alleges he had on his person.
Henry Somerset was a well known
mining man of the Circle district,
where he had worked for a number
of years prior to his departure for
the Outside last fall. Both he and
his wife formerly resided in Fair
banks, where they were married.
STEAMER BURNS CARGO
WHEN OIL GIVES OUT
HONOLULU.—When the little
steamer Kestrel, from Fanning is
land to Honolulu, ran out of fuel
oil 240 miles south of Hawaii re
cently, her engineers, working the
limited materials found on the ship,
converted her furnaces so the wood
could be burned. All articles of
wood on the vessel, doors, spare
spars, planks and frame work were
cut up and used and then the fire
men went to the cargo of copra
for fuel, burning $11,000 worth of
that valuable product of the cocoa
nut before reaching Honolulu. The
Kestrel arrived eleven days over
due.
PRICES NORMAL
ATHENS.—Pew large cities of
the country that were engaged in
the war have neen less affected by
it than the ancient capital of Greece.
Free entirely from the menace of
air raids and hostile bombardment,
and participating actively in the
war for comparatively only a short
time, Athens is today in all essential
features exactly as it was in pre
war days.
There is scarcely any outward
sign that the country ever was in
the great world conflict. During
the entire progress of the war, all
the stores, theaters, cafes, museums
and places of amusement in the
Greek metropolis were doing busi
ness as usual and the inhabitants
felt only remotely the effects of
the war. Prices of food and cloth
ing were much higher than in peace
times, but the people suffered from
no such scarcity of these and other
necessaries of life as did the popu
lations of London, Paris and other
continental cities.
The tourist, who at one time was
one of the most abundant sources
of revenue, however, disappeared
entirely during the war.
The passing years appear on the
whole to have made little change
in the Anthenian capital. If the
visitor who knew' Athens well in
days long ago could pay another
pilgrimage tothe historic city, he
would see still the same quaint
sights that have always made Athens
appear to the foreigner rustic and
unsophisticated, in the midst of all
its cosmopolitanism. He would see
a number of milch goats roaming
down one of the main streets, pick
ing up orange peel and paper bags
in the gutter, while their owner
drew the sweet warm milk from
them to fill the bottles and pitchers
of the busy Greek housewives who
emerged from their homes in rc
spono to the tinkle of the goats’
bells and th| hawking cry of the
fustanella-clad hersman. He would
see also the countless little Greek
gamins,, dirty and ragged, that are
so much a part of the life of the
capital and who shine shoes and
sell lottery tickets.
Another familiar sight would be
the old women, thin, tanned, and
bent with years, with black hand
kerchiefs tied under their chins, and
carrying on their backs dilapidated
hampers of wild herbs and salad
leaves, which they dispose of to the
abstemious Greek householders of
the neighborhood for about 25 lepta
(5 cents) a quart. Greek funeral
processions, in which the body of
the deceased is carried In an open
hearse, fulljc^ exposed and without
coffin or covering, are familiar
sights.
Other cities change with times,
but Athens seems as immutable to
day as it was in the centuries that
have gone. Three wars within a
decade have altered only slightly
the life, characteristics and institu
tions of the ancient city of Hellas.
WANT ADS
FOR SALE—A new 7mm Mauser
| rifle with 40 rounds of ammu
nition, $50; also a 12-gauge Rem
ington automatic shot gun, almost
j new, $40. Inquire at News office.
WANTED TO~BUY^A^three
four-room house. Must be
reasonable. Inquire News office.
FOR SALE—-Sled and 13 dogs with
long, in good shape. Malamutes
and huskies form the team. Ar
rived in Nenana recently from
St. Michael. $160 for the outfit
Apply George Hanoff, Cooney
Hotel.
PRELATE GIVES VIEW,
GENTLEMAN STANDARD
LONDON.—The Rev. William
Ralph Inge, dean of St. Paul's, de
voted a large part of a speech re
cently to answering the question,
“What is an English gentleman?”
He quoted Bernard Shaw as say
ing: “A gentleman is a man who
tries not to take out of life more
than he puts in.” “That, said the
dean, “is the revolutionary defini
tion, but it is strictly true of what
at heart we all feel to be the char
acter of a gentleman, and it is a
saying which cannot be rubbed in
too vigorously in training the young
gentleman.
“According to the English school
of thought, the usual qualities of a
gentleman are truthfulness, courage
justice and fair play, the abhor
rence of meanness and crooked
dealing, and respect for the person
ality of human beings as such.”
We are in the Fur Manu
facturing Business, therefore
CAN and WILL pay you more
for your furs than any other
fur buyer In town
SI|M SON’S
Don’t Leave
ALASKA
Men wanting employment can
obtain work at good wages at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latouche.
If you go out you will only
come back “Busted” in the spring
TAKE EMPLOYMENT FOR THE
WINTER.
Two hundred men wanted at
Juneau and vicinity; one hundred
and fifty at Latouche and
Kennecott.
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POOL CANDIES CIGARS
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WARM COMFORTABLE ROOMS
PRICES REASONABLE
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Nenana—The Gateway to McXinloy
national Park.
Membership List
Nenana
Commercial Club
Anderson, Herman
Allred, Mrs. Clara
Brown, Jess
Berggren, Ernst
Browne, F. D.
Bresnahan, E. D.
Blankfield, D.
Bowen, J. R.
Blair, Roy
Brooker, Ed
Bennett, J. F.
Ball, I. B.
Brown, Erie
Burns, R. E.
Coutts, W ,T.
Calderhead, K. W.
Campbell, N. J.
Coghill, W. A.
Cooney, M. J.
Doner, Frank
Diven, R. J.
Douse, Fred
Davis, Harry
Ekeland, Alf
Funk, A. B. :
Fisher, Joe
Flower, J. H.
Foster, Steve
Gagnon, Wm.
Head, E. A.
Haslem, H. G.
Hagan, James
Hill, L. W.
Hagen, Hans
Hoey, Andy
Gray, E. B.
Gileher, YV. H.
Hyland, Mike
Isabel, L. C. *
Irvine, A. J.
Johnson, A. G. *
Jones, Frank
Julian, YV. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter
Joseph, H. B.
Koland, Knut
Ketooroky, John A.
Laughlin, E. I..
Lund, E. E.
Lehr, Q. F.
Markus, George
Mortensen, Peter g
Myers, R. R.
Moore, Frank B.
Miles, J. H.
McDonald, R. S.
Martin, G. S.
Morris, R. C. ? 1
Nash, Martin
Owen, Harry
O’Keefe, Larry
Parks, S. E.
Pennington, G. YV.
Palfy, Paul
Packer, YV. I..
Ryan, YV. A.
Rosburg, Herman " «•
Roth, Andy
Rodigkeit, YV’m.
Sborgia, YVilliam
Shaxv, 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.
Southworth, R. G.
Spira, Frank
Taylor, Frank
Tunison, B.
Thompson, Theodore
Toussaint, J G. K
Tyler, M. V.
Taylor, YVm. J.
Verhaeghe, Cyriele
Van Orsdel, J. C.
YVoods, Geo. YV.
YVilliams, E. A.
YVaechter, R. I.
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