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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”
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Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
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MODERN WARFARE
In the old wars, reinforcing troops ^
‘marched in the direction of the fir- (1
ing.” Today, when a two-hundred
mile front may be ablaze, the sound j
of the firing is too continuous and
widespread to afford much indica-'
tion as to where the reinforcements ,
are required.
In the ordinary way, writes a (
correspondent of The Associated
Press, relief in trenches are carried
out according to a carefully ar
ranged time table and on a formal
plan. The business of “taking over”
a line of trenches from the outgoing
battalion has long since been re
duced to an exact formula. But
when the fighting is in open coun
try and the line only partially dug
in, it is more difficult, and great
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care has to be exercised lest ad
vanced patrols and contact sections
blunder into the enemy's positions.
The reliefs are met by guides,
usually men of their own battalion '
sent up previously to get familiar (
with the new positions. Even with:
this assistance it is often a difficult i
business. The relief takes place at
night and in dark and ba-’ weather!
the way can be easily missed among
the maze of strange trenches.
When moving up to open fighting!
positions, it is harder still, for there |
are no trenches to give the direc- j
tion. The- open line on which the j
day's fighting comes to an end may
run unevenly, perhaps along a hedge-1
row. a bit of wood, some ruined j
farm buildings, or undulations of the
ground.
Beyond this line lies an indeter
minate area of No-Man's Land. Out
there lie scouts and hidden snipers.
Little groups of men, the “contact
patrols of both sides, watch one
another’s positions ceaselessly for
signs of attack or any movement
that may betray the enemy’s inten
tions. Just before dawn these
watchmen of the night come in and
new men are posted.
Each side of course is constantly
on the look-out to harass in-coming
hostile reliefs. Therefore, complete
silence and great caution must be
observed. As a rule, movement up
to or from an open line in daylight
is impossible.
Every evening reliefs are taking
place somewhere along the battle
line, and, in addition to the move
ments of battalions and brigades,
whole divisions are withdrawn at
longer intervals, and have a six
weeks’ rest and training spell in
areas some miles behind the front.!
These periods of ‘rest’ however, are
quite distinct from the usual rout
ine of reliefs.
SOLDIER INSURANCE
Secretary McAdoo has called upon ■
ill local draft boards to acquaint
Irafted men with the provisions of
he soldier-insurance law and to
lrge every drafted man to take out
his insurance. The boards have'
>een furnished with literature to
lid them in this educatioal work.
The law affording insurance to
>ur fighting forces has well been
•ailed the most just and humane'
irovision ever made by a nation
\>r its soldiers and sailors. The
jovernment and the American
>eople recognize the justice of af
fording this protection to the men
vho risk their lives for their coun
:ry and to their families and de
pendents that our fighting men
ivail themselves of this opportunity.
Every American enlisting should
ake out— this insurance and carry
vith him into danger the hearten
ng knowledge that whatevr happens,1
limself and his dependents are pre
lected by his Government.
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ALIENS
There are enemy aliens and there
ire native aliens. The American
who does not do his part toward
winning the war. who neither fights
lor works nor lends for victory is
is much an alien to America’s prog
•ess as much an alien to America’s
Purposes and America’s cause as the
rankest Prussian interned in this
country.
This is a war of the peoples as
well as of nations, and each indi
vidual has a place and a duty.
LADIES ORGANIZE
CLUB OMRS
Following the Doings at the Red
Cross Meeting Yesterday, a
Knitting Club Is Formed.
After the regular meeeting of the
Red Cross yesterday and the fare
well demonstration to Mrs. J. A.
51ippern, the formation of a knitting
-lub was informally discussed with
:he result that twenty-four of the
adies present voluntarily subscribed
:heir names to the membership roll
if the newly formed knitting club.
The dues of the club have been
fixed at 25 cents a week, the money
;o collected to be turned over for
:he benefit of the French Orphan
’und.
The club will meet every Thurs
lay at the home of one of the
nembers, the place of meeting to be
lesignated at each meeting.
JOSLIN MAKING
PLANS 10 OPEN
OP NEW FIELDS
The development of the famous i
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Bering river coal fields in Alaska j
on the biggest scale ever attempted i
in the North is about to be started,
according to Falcon Joslin, promin- !
ent Alaska mining and railroad man. J
who stated in Seattle recently, upon
his return from the East, that he1
had just obtained coal and land
leases from the Government- The
former Fairbanks railroad man has
organized a company for that pur
pose, secured the necessary capital
and he states that development work
will begin at once.
In order to get the coal to tide
water he proposes to construct a
railway from the mine to the Cop
per River & Northwestern Railroad,
sixty-five miles distant, to move the
coal to tidewater at Cordova. The
Government requires that $250 000
be spent in development work under
the lease.
Mr. Joslin reports that this is
the first lease to be granted in this
district. The Federal grant consists
of six leasing units, containing up
ward of 2,400 acres and covers
what is known as the old English
Company coal ground, lying in the
western part of the field between
Shepard creek and Lake Kushtaka.
A considerable sum of money was
spent on the development of the
ground before the titles under the
old law were canceled. The lease
is for fifty years.
Mr. Joslin reports that he has or
ganized a company under the name
of the Bering River Coal Company,
Of which he is president, to take
over the lease. He says the com
pany has secured the necessary capi
tal to develop the properties and
that a crew of men will be put to
work immediately on the property.
F. R. Van Campen, a well known
Alaska mining man, will be appoint
ed superintendent and recently left
Seattle for Alaska to begin the work.
While in the East, Mr. Joslin also
organized a company under the name
of the Chilkat Oil Company to de
velop oil lands at Katalla, Alaska.
He states that a drill crew was put
on the ground in May and that
drilling is proceeding with one well
down at least 900 feet at last re
ports.
Mr. Joslin is personally supervis
ing the work on the two projects.
The company’s oil operations, ac
cording to Mr. Joslin. are limited to
one claim, to which title has been
perfected. After the passage of th^
oil lease law, now before Congress,
the company can enlarge its opera
tions materially.
Speaking of the present status of
the oil lease act, Mr. Joslin stated
that the measure had passed both
houses, but in an entirely different
form, and it was referred to a con
ference committee, which had been
working for two months on a meas
ure that would be acecptable to both
houses. No action is expected until
after the recess of Congress.
JUNEAU MAN PROMOTES
HIMSELF INTO COOLER
Peter Schramen, formerly em
ployed in the grocery department
of B. M. Behrend's store at Juneau,
but more recently promoter of
various schemes, including the pump
ing out of the Treadwell mine, or
ganizing a glass factory, establish
ing a blueberry cannery and starting
a pulp mill, has been arrested on
a warrant charging him to be in
sane.
MOTHER SENDS MONEY
WITH NOTE INSCRIBED
EL PASO.—When M. J. Baron
ient his stenographer to the bank
:o get some change she returned
with a number of bank notes. Writ
:en across the face of one of the
jills was the following: “To my;
larling boy in camp. Mother” Mr. j
Baron is keeping the bill and in- j
rends to have it framed as a me-!
nento of the war.
MAKE BIG MONEY
ON SHELL WORK
MANCHESTER, England. — The
women of England are making the
shells with which the British army
is beating back the enemy, and are
doing the work at an average pay
equivalent to $10 a week.
The managing director of a big
naval construction works here is un
able to employ domestic servants
because all the women formerly em
ployed as servants have gone to
work in shell factories.
When the factory men were called
to the colors, women quietly stepped
into their places. The vast majority
of the women had neither skill nor
training in munitions work, but the
factory engineers by installing what
is known as single-process machines
made ft possible for the women to
do the complicated work that pre
viously only skilled men had been
able to accomplish.
in a week or ten days a woman
learns how to operate a single-pro
cess machine. She does her work
efficiently and faithfully. Recently
in one factory the women made
31,000 4.5 inch shells in 18 weeks
and not a flaw could be found in
any shell.
Many of the women workers be
fore the war were operatives in
plants for textile manufacture, the
chief industry in this region. In
peace time their wages averaged
about the equivalent of five dollars
a week. Now the average is well
over ten dollars, and in exceptional
cases, fifteen and more.
In some factories women work
three shifts of eight hours each,
rotating each week. Their em
ployers say that they are not af
fected by the strain of night work
A large number of the women are
doing the hardest kind of manual
1 work.
Piece work is the system used in
most of the shell factories, and the
managers say that the introduction
of piece work increased the output
to an amazing degree,
h ‘‘Women,” one of the managers
! commented, “are more competitive
than men workers. Men will work
up to a certain point and stop,
either because they are indifferent
I of their earnings or because their
' mates would protest. On the other
hand, women do not seem to care
what their mates think or say. Each
is out for herself.”
He pointed to a machine where
a girl was working at a great rate
of speed. “That young woman,” he
went on, “doubtless wants a new
ribbon for her hair, and she is go
ing tb make the shop pay for it.”
The minimum wage paid to wo
men in shell factories where the
piecework system is in effect is
about $7.50 a week, but unless a
girl proves herself capable of mak
ing at least $9 a week, she is not
t regarded as a good worker. It Is
not uncommon for a particularly in
telligent and energetit! woman to
[draw each week from $17 to $20.
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SWEDEN HAS ORDERED
ONE-MAN LOCOMOTIVE
STOCKHOLM. — Swedish State
Railways have been recently trying
a new type of locomotive which is
so constructed that it only requires
one man to look after it. As the
result of the tests the railway au
thorities have placed an order for
one of these oil burning locomotives.
COAST (OWN IS
MAKING BARRELS
FOR FISH TRADE
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AXHORAGE. — To manufacture
barrels to supply the needs of the
fish packing industry on Cook Inlet,
cooperage plants soon will be es
tablished at Anchorage and Port
Chatham, which is on the east side
of Cook Inlet near its entrance. In
conjunction with the copperage
plant at Port Chatham, a sawmill
will be erected there.
The Anchorage cooperage plant
will be owned and operated by Harry
Cribb. of Anchorage. It will have
a capacity of 3000 barrels a month
and the owner expects to turn out
10,000 barrels before the end of
this year's fishing season. The fac
tory's machinery will be run by
electricity supplied by the power
house of the Alaskan Engineering
Commission.
uie barrel staves will be made
from birch, spruce and cottonwood
timber from along the line of the
government railroad. The timber
first will be cut into cordwood
lengths, and then transported on the
railroad to the plant in Anchorage.
The Port Chatham cooperage plant
and sawmill will be owned and oper
ated by R. G Doherty, of Anchor
age. The cooperage factory will have
a monthly output of 5,000 barrels
and will employ fifteeen men. The
sawmill will have a daily capacity
of 15,000 board feet. Spruce tim
ber will furnish the lumber for the
barrel staves and heads.
The fishermen on Cook Inlet are
experiencing difficulty in getting
from Seattle a sufficient quantity
, of barrels in which to pack this
i season’s cat'ch. The plants at An
chorage and Port Chatham, accord
, >ng to E. T. Lindner, acting head
j of the Land and Industrial Depart
ment of the Alaskan Engineering
Commission, will accomplish a two
, fold purpose.
j “First,” he said, “they will en
able fishermen to obtain locally a
large number of barrels required
j by them; and, second, to that ex
j tent, the cargo space, now much
: in demand on northbound voyages
i of steamships, will be made avail
able for other freight.”
Fish may not be a brain food,
but brainy men. are eating more
fish.
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WANTED TO BUY—Steamer trunk
Inuire News office.
FOR RENT—Large well-built un
furnished cabin, across from the
Rust House. For terms apply on
premises.
FOR SALE—-Beaver Board, in plain
and oak finish. Doors and win
dows, sash stock and mouldings.
Inquire Simson’s.
FOUND—A “Sleeper" in the Tavern
Cafe. Owner can have same by
identifying and paying for ail,
otherwise it will be donated to
the Red Cross fund.
PIANOS—For sale or rent. Inquire
Simson's.
FOR SALE—Two tents, 18x30 and
20x40. Inquire Simsons.
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