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. 1879.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth.Editor and Manager
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HAVE BAD III A1DISM CAMP
IB IDE ARCTIC MEN ARE INJURED
I
With the American Forces In
Northern Russia.—-One night spent
in field headquarters of the Ameri
can command holding the Emtsa
river front near Kadish (since
abandoned) illustrates the difficult
ies which the troops faced in this
desolate region in an Arctic winter.
Field headquarters were in a tiny
rough hewn log cabin, thatched
with a roof of spruce boughs and
heated by a home made stove. Out
side, in the forest, the troops, shelt
ered only by lean-to’s of boughs,
shivered around camp fires in the
snow. Inside the hut were a few
cots, a rough table and a field tele
phone.
The cold wind whistled through
the chinks in the logs, and came
up through the cracks in the floor.
The officers “turned in” early,
wrapped in all the blankets and
overcoats they could get.
Down along the banks of the ice
filled Emsta river, a hundred yards
from the Bolshevik lines American
outpost patrols stamped their boots
on the frozen swamp ground in the
brush, unable to build fires for fear
of snipers. ,
“Bzz-bzz-bzz,” went the field
telephone in headquarters hut.
The orderly called the machine
gun officer. From the conversation
it appea'red that the water in the
cooling chambers of the “emma
gees” (the soldier's pet name for
machine-guns l in the front line had
frozen and that the recoil would
not work. Because there was no
alcohol or glycerine handy, rum had
been mixed as an anti-freezing
fluid, with the water in the cooling
chambers. The officer said he
would send down some new guns.
He went out to find that every gun
in the place was in the same fix.
A long row of them was brought in
the hut and stacked near the stove
to thaw out.
“Hereafter,” ordered the machine
gun officer, “sleep with the guns.
Wrap them up in the same blankets
with yourselves.”
Meanwhile, someone filled up the
stove to hasten the thawing out
process of the guns nearby. The
but got so hot, that an officer
turned and tossed nervously in his
sleep. Then a soldier rushed in to
shout that the hut had been set on
fire from the overheated chimney.
All turned out in the snow to
empty canteens—the only unfrozen
water on hand-—on the roof of the
hut to extinguish the fire.
Then the officers went back into
the hut to shiver, for in saving the
hut, the fire in the stove had been
extinguished.
MAIL DUE IN FAIRBANKS
ON STAGE THIS EVENING
Advices received from Fairbanks
today state that the mail stage
which had been held up by a bad
overflow between McCallum’s and
Donnelv’s, oii the Chitina trail,
managed to get over the bad spot
It is expected to arrive in Fair
banks tonight or early tomorrow
morning.
frank Kogers and Uscar Lank.
members of the crew of the pile
driver working on a bridge near
the Lignite roadhouse, were acci
dentally injured yesterday or. their
way home to camp from their work
and were brought into town for
treatment. The train stationed at
the end of steel, which was used
to bring the men in, arrived in
town at about 11 o’clock last night.
Dr. de la Vergne, who examined
the men immediately after their ar
rival at the hospital, stated that
Frank Rogers has sustained aseve-;
bruise of the chest, but that he
was not in a position to tell anything
about his internal injuries, if any,
until after an X-ray picture had
been taken Oscar Link, he said,
had a nasty wound on his forehead,
over the left eye, which had got
inflamed and closed that member.
He will probably be alright in a
few days.
* The accident occurred at about
5 o’clock yesterday evening, near
camp 367, situated near the end
of steel south of towm. The men
working the piledriver, which is
driving a bridge about two miles
ahead of the camp, were returning
home to camp in a double ender.
When near camp, the horses taking*
fright at something, speeded up
some. Oscar Link, who was driv
ing the team, said that the sled
was at the time on the trail on
the right of way at a place which
was thickly studded with stumps
and that ere he had time to check
hci team, the sled bumped off a
couple of stumps and tipped over
shooting its passengers among the
stumps.
Frank Rogers would appear to
have landed rather heavily on his
chest on one of the stumps and wras
the worst hurt of the six occu
pants of the sled. He spat out some
blood shortly after he was picked
up, and the head office was imme
diately notified by phone of his
condition. Oscar Link suffered the
injury described, while nearly all
the rest of the men sustained minor
injuries.
The train which pulled in with
the injured men pulled out again
shortly after midnight for the end
of steel. Sam Beatty, timekeeper
of camp 367, and the other men
who helped to bring their injured
comrades to the hospital, returning
on the train.
The lun on longer days will make
you feel like throwing away your
old hat and suit. Certainly those
old spots do not improve your ap
pearance, but fo- a trifling sum you
can have them pressed, mended and
; cleaned at Mrs. D’Orsay’s Tailor
Shop, Third and A streets.
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At Union Hnll on Tuesday*and
Friday nights, commencing*at^9:30
and ending at Midnight.
Fox Trotting a Specialty. Rates
on application at Union Hall.
Mrs. Belle Campbell
BELGIANS KEPI
BRUSSELS.—Stories of heroism,
patriotism and devotion of Bel
gians during the German occupation
are continually coming ^o the sur
face of the miasmal pool of intrigue,
treachery and selfishness which the
Germans left behind in Belgium.
How two men gave up their lives
and went to prison for a period
which would have lasted twenty
years had the Germans been vic
torious, that the man “higher up”
might live and continue managing
the underground organization which
was sending valuable information
out of the occupied country, has
now been related to the Associated
Press correspondent by the man
whose life was saved by their sac
rifice.
Adolphe Buyl, liberal member of
the Belgian Parliament, alderman
of Ielles in the city of Brussels, is
the man for whom the two men
died and who for four years con
ducted the organization and lived
continually in the fear of execution
by Germans.
Late in 1914 the Germans had
not organized the Dutch frontier
with that murderous efficiency which
sent to their graves many young
Belgians attempting to cross into
Holland. Buyl had access to the
seals of the municipality and every
evening in various out of the way
?afes, twenty, thirty, sometimes as
many as fifty young men would
issemble. reaching the place singly
ind by devious ways. The seal of
:he municipality was there in the
land of a different man every
light. Passports and identification
blanks were there, and the young
men would emerge from the cafes
supplied with proper, or rather
mproper identification and make
:heir way to Holland and thence
ioin the Belgian army battling on
:he Yser. More than one thousand
men were sent out between October
1914, and February, 1915.
Then the Germans became aware
if the leak and the frontier was
lermetically, electrically sealed and
the work became more dangerous
and difficult. Guides had to be pro
vided—generally smugglers of gaso
line and other commodities across
the Dutch border—who for a con
sideration averaging fifty francs for
each man would pilot them across
the frontier- Rubber gloves and
wire cutters were necessary tools of
their trade and many a German
sentry was found by his relief with
a knife deeply sunk in his throat
and lying alongside a break in the
wire fence.
At no time were there less than
one hundred men engaged in the
work. They included railroad sta
tion masters, crossing tenders, mail
carriers, cafe keepers and many
others in humble walks of life, all
volunteers desirous of serving their
country even at the risk of being
stood against the wall and shot,
and as a mater of fact, many of
them were. But at no time did
more than two or three men en
gaged in the work know that Buyl
was the “man higher up.”
The first member of the organ
ization to be taken by the Germans
was Phillipe Baucq, whose arrest
was simultaneous with that of Edith
Gavel, the English nurse whose exe
cution by Germans sent a thrill of
horror throughout the world. Baucq
was shot on October 12, 1915, with
the brave English nurse. Miss
Cavell, however, was never charged
by the Germans with espionage, but
with aiding Belgians and others to
escape from Belgium.
Baucq was succeeded as Buyl’s
right-hand man by another man
named Dubois. On June 1, 1916,
Dubois, with 60 others was arrested
and imprisoned at Hasselt. The
Germans boasted that they had
smashed the Belgian organization
which had evaded them for two
years. Dubois and three others
were shot on September 25, 1916,
and sentences aggregating 220 years
were imposed upon others accused
of acting with them.
Both Baucq and Dubois knew that
)
Alderman Buyl was head of the
organization and both took their
orders from him. For days before
the execution the Germans endeav
ored by offering to spare their
lives to induce them to denounce
their leader, but they refused and
were shot. Nevertheless the work
went on.
In 1917, Buyl’s secretary was ar
rested and Buyl went into hiding.
“For nights I could not sleep,”
Buyl told the Associated Press, “the
slightest noise would make me
start, I could not eat and there
were moments of depression when
I would gladly have faced a ma
chine-gun at the edge of a little
wood to escape the mental torture
of those long endless days and in
terminable nights.” His secretary
escaped with a short sentence. Buyl
emerged from his hiding place and
went on about his work.
“Two days before the armistice,
I sent out a courier to Holland,"
he said with a tinge of pride.
“Heroism is the work of an in
stant. but what I have gone thru
during those last four years is not
heroism, it is hell,” said Buyl. Be
fore the war he was a florid, happy
jovial man but he is now emaciated
and haggard, but the shadow of his
former self.
And we fell to talking of Du
bois and Baucq and tears welled
up into his eyes as he said: "Great
er love hath no man than he who
gives up his life for a fellow man.”
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ington automatic shot gun, almost
new, $40. Inquire at News office. “
Kissing is not the world’s lan
guage, since in China and Japan it
is never practiced. It is considered
unsanitary!
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
NOTICE
Passengers leaving on the train
for any point on the line south of
town are required to purchase
tickets before entering the train.
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is
in the employment office, on the
ground floor of the genera! office
building, Alaskan Engineering com
mission.
Tickets will be on sale at any
lime during office hours, and can
be purchased in sufficient time be
fore the departure of the trains.
Regular trains leave the foot of
A street on Mondays, Wednesdays
and Saturdays.
A number of Cordovans who
bought stock in the Merchant Cal
culating Machine company are now
being informed that the capitaliza
t;on of the company has been in
creased. When bought they paid
$3 a share, and many of them now
realize that they paid too much
for it.
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
SIMSON’S
Don’t Leave
ALASKIA
Men wanting employment can
obtain work at good wages at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latouche.
If you go out you will only
come back “Butted” 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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Yukon Stoves and Drums
Air Tight heaters
Any Thing in the Sheet Meted, Plumb
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Tanana Sheet Metal Works
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POOL CANDIES CIGARS
AND TOBACCOS
WARM COMFORTABLE ROOMS
PRICES REASONABLE
Ratei By the Week or Month
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Membership List
Nenana
Commercial Club
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, I. B
Brown, Erie
Burns, R. E.
Coutts, \V I '
Calderhead, R. W
Campbell, N. J.
Coghill, W. A.
Cooney, M. J.
Doner, 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. — 1
Irvine, A. J.
Johnson, A. G.
Jones, Frank
Julian, W. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter
Joseph. H. E
Koland, Knut
Ketooroky, John A
Laughlin, E. I..
Lund, E. E.
Lehr, Q. F. 1
Markus, George
Mortensen, Peter
Myers, R R
Moore, Frank B
Miles, J. H.
McDonald, R. S.
Martin, G. S.
Morris, R. C.
Nash, 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 i
Shaw, Harry N.
Stol, Nels
Schmidt, Carl
Schaeffer, M. A. i
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.
Waechter, R. I.