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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1. 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for emry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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HECKMAN’S POLICY.
“I have been sincerely urged for
the past several months by my
friends throughout the Territory to
announce my candidacy for the. of
fice of national committeeman on
the Republican ticket," said Senator
I. R. Heckman, of Ketchikan, re
cently, in consenting to the use of
his name in the forthcoming primary
election. “I have heretofore told
my friends that I have no political
aspirations and desire no office, but
preferred to serve in the ranks of
the party. My ambitions do not
tie in this channel, and in accepting
I am really sacrificing my policy.
My desire is always to further the
interests of the Republican party,
and I believe that m,v efforts in this
respect will bear me out. How
ever, the pressure, coming as it
does from every division in the Ter
ritory, makes it practically impossi
hie for me to refuse. In fact, my
friends have taken the matter out
of my hands and demand that 1
allow my name to be entered as a
landidate in the coming primaries.
I am going into the race reluctantly'
and with the distinct understanding
that 1 am bound by no promises,
nor am I under obligations to any
individual or set of individuals, ex
cept to use my influence always for
the best interests of the party, if
elected to the office of national com
mitteeman, representing the Terri
tory of Alaska, 1 will endeavor to
secure the appointment of men to
office best suited for tile position,
regardless of personal feelings; at
the same time recognising the wishes
and expressed opinions of the Re
publican organizations from the par
ticular districts. My plan is to
work in harmony with such organi
zations with the idea in view of
ever strengthening the party in the
Territory. I will devote my time
and attention to the duties of the
office and sincerely believe that
throughout the Territory the Re
publican organizations should be
careful in the selections of candi
dates for the legislature and other
elective offices.
“I will co-operate with my con
stituents in all matters pertaining to
the party's good and use my influ
ence to secure the election of the
candidates nominated at the Repub
lican primaries.”
AMERICAN MARINE.
The American flat? has been re
stortd to 41 of the world’s great
ocean trade routes, the Shipping
Board records in its annual report
to Congress. Most of the ships are
plying transatlantic and South Am
erican lanes, the report said; but
some of them are in waters where
the Stars and Stripes has not been
seen on commercial vessels for more
than a generation.
Distribution of bhe Government
fleet of 1,230 vessels, aggregating
€,791,080 tons, shows 236 vessels
in the Northern Europe trade. The
transatlantic trade was next with
197 ships of 1,204,963 tons, en
gaged in the food relief service,
and 176 ships with a tonnage of
\
11,175,614 were still in use by the
|army on June 30 last.
Another 188 vessels were en
|craped in the South American trade;
j 73 plying to Brazil, 02 to La Plata,
and 23 to the West coast of South
America. Sixty vessels were mak
ing: regular sailings to Southern
European ports, 14 to Africa, G to
India, 77 in the transpacific, 143 to
the West Ildies, and 44 in the
coastwise and New England coal
trade.
The total gross revenues for the
| year were approximately $500,000,
'000 as compared with $80,000,000
for 1918, hut no comprehensive
statement showing the profit or loss
was available.
Expenditures totaled $2,512,692,
002, compared with $770,694,057
for 1918, $1,971,367,078 being for
ship construction. Next heaviest
was for inventory of materials
amounting to $177,734,648, and
plant and property expenses were
placed ut $167,786,559.
It cost $62,065,935 to furnish
adequate housing accommodations
for the employes of 24 shipyards
and one turbine plant, 8,644 houses,
94 dormitories, 3 hotels, 6 boarding
'houses, 849 apartment houses, stores
|and other structures having been
| built, the report said.
I Loans to utility companies on
i housing projects aggregated over
| $955,000.
When the armistice was signed
the United States had become the
leading shipbuilding nation of the
world in tonnage capacity and rap
idity of construction, the report
said. During the second quarter of
1919, 48 percent of the world ton
nage under construction was in Am
erican yards, including 44 M- percent
of the world’s steel ship construc
tion.
Vessels of the 10,000, 12,500 and
! 15,000 deadweight ton classes will
j be the most efficient to meet modern
jtrade requirements, the report said,
and provision for steaming radius of
13,000 nautical miles has been made
jin new American ships. The pro
igram for the establishment of oil
'fuel stations calls for tank facili
ties at St. Thomas, Virgin Island;
Honolulu, Manila, I’onta Delgada,
Azores; Bizertu, Tunis, and Constan
tinople,
i
KETCHIKAN RESIDENT
ORDERED OUT OF TOWN
T. A. Anderson of Ketchikan was
: recently ordered to leave the- city
]by a committee from the One Hun
jdred Per Cent American club, who
: refused to give him a hearing or
| tell him why he was ordered to
I leave. Mr. Anderson showed papers
| proving that he had served through
.the war although over draft age,
iand that he w'orked four years pre
vious to that time in the employ of
the Government as a school teacher.
He has an honorable discharge from
the U. S. army with excellent char
acter. Mr. Anderson is curious to
know just what it takes to consti
tute an American citizen in Ketchi
kan.
Birtt Announcement Cards at the
Newt Office.
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PRISON REFORM
10 COUNTERACT
NEW YORK.—Thomas Mott Os
borne’s nation-wide campaign to
“humanize” the prisons of the Unit
j ed States, according to a friend of
; Mr. Osborne who served ten years
in Sing Sing, has for its real object
the counteracting of anarchy, for,
jhe said, “of the 500,000 convicts,
men and women, who annually
emerge from American prisons, fully
190 percent are potential Bolshe
vists.”
This man, a product of the New
York slums, who not only redeemed
his own life, but saved two younger
brothers from criminal careers, all
I as the result of Osborne’s work at
jSing Sing, declared that American
’ penal institutions are being surrep
titiously flooded with radical litera
ture, with leaflets of “hope to the
oppressed,” and that the secret
movement to Bolshevize the nation’s
prisons is being combated from the
inside.
Supported by the efforts of 18,000
members of the Gray Brotherhood,
an organization of ex-convicts who
“made good" under the Osbornej
system known as the Mutual Wei-j
fare league, the former warden of j
Sing Sing, it was said, hopes to
make prison reform a plank in the
platform of one of the big political
parties in the coming presidential
campaign. A leading member of the
first named body, a wealthy ex
convict known only to the public as
the Gray Brother, was said to be
financing Ohbome. He is reputed
to be a man of great influence in
Washington and to be the intimate
of several senators. He started the
Joliet, 111., prison inquiry, intended
to be the first of a national prison
! reform program.
If the Gray Brother should come
in here now and tell me to jump
out of that window (a four-story
: leap), I’d do it at once,” confided^
the former ten-year inmate of Sing
Sinn. “We all would trust him with
our lives, and, believe me, this Os
! borne prison investigation backed by
him is going to be a thorough job.
The people outside haven’t any idea
of how Bolshevism is spreading in
'the prisons. A few days ago four
I Reds, it was discovered by our men,
actually had themselves convicted so
they could work behind the bars.
“The Reds have their literature
in the public libraries, some teach- ]
ers in the public schools are ‘sym
pathetic,’ and for some time they
have been distributing their doc- j
trines in prisons, jails and work
j houses to win over to their side the
jarmy of discontented malefactors
jwho have an alleged grievance
against society. The Gray Brother
, hood is alive to their propaganda,
however, and is helping Mr. Os
j borne to abolish it. One of the
| best ways to stop it is to treat con
victs like human beings instead of |
j beasts and give them a chance to j
i redeem themselves. The state is
j breeding anarchists by turning at
; large men and women who have
! been brutally treated and who leave
'prison with hearts filled with the
I desire for retaliation and revenge.
“Under the old system a kind
I !
hearted warden is engaged in mak- I
ing healthy burglars and porch
climbers of first offenders. The
prison experience did a man no
good and he had no conception of
right and wrong, no sense of re
sponsibility to society, when he came
out. With the Osborne method it is
different. As an illustration, there
are 1,600 ex-convicts and members
of the Welfare league in New York
city. All of them are ‘making
good.’ Most of them are young and
of the 1,600 more than 400 were in
the army or navy during the war.
They include former burglars (box
men) and similar so-called ‘slick’
thieves.
“Since Mr. Osborne took charge
of the naval prison at Portsmouth,
WANT ADS
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suitable for light housekeeping,
with heat and light and hot- and
cold water in connection. Also
office rooms, at The Arctic.
FOR SALE — Furnished two-room
caDin. Assessments all paid. Phone
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FOR SALE — Large second-hand
heater, good as new. Cheap. In
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,FOR SALE-—-Two-room house, part
ly furnished, wdth lot. Desirable
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| FOR SALE—Rug, Linoleum, Offiqe
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j Mirror, Leather Couch, Electric
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I FOR RENT—Cascade laundry. Fully
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WANTED—Position as cook, town
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| LOST—Pair of glasses in black case.
Reward for return to News office.
|N. II., three years ago, he has been
instrumental in returning 10,000
former inmates, men ‘made over’ in
[character, to the United States.navy,
[enough to man three battleships.
The present ‘crime wave’ in Chi
i
cago is due to bad prison treat- J
ment and the desire of ex-convicts
to ‘get even.’ If it had not been |
for Osborne’s administration in New
York prisons. New York would be
suffering from the same evil.”
PACKING COMPANY IS
LOSER IN DEATH SUIT j
Mrs. Margaret Becker was award
ed $12,500 damages by a jury in
Judge Frater’s court in Seattle on
December 3, in a suit against the
Karheen Packing company, charging
gross negligence on the part of the
company, as a result of which her
I husband, C. F. Becker, was killed.
Mr. Becker was killed by an explo
sion of a retort at the Karheen
company’s plant at Karheen, Alaska,
[last summer. Mrs. Becker and three
I little children were left to mourn
Shis loss.
GLYCERINE MIXTURE
FOR APPENDICITIS
Nenana people can prevent appen
idicitis with simple buckthorn bark,
glycerine, etc., as mixed in Adler
i-ka. ONE SPOOONFUL flushes the
ENTIRE bowel tract so completely
it relieves ANY CASE sour stomach,
gas or constipation and prevents ap
pendicitis. The INSTANT, pleasant
action of Adler-i-ka surprises both
doctors and patients. Leaves stom
ach clean and strong. A. D. Thomp
son, druggist.
Dr. J. R. 80WEN
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Second and Fourth Mondays
At 8:00 P. M.
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Secretary Dictator.
Department of dm iateriar
Alaskan Engineering Commission
NOTICE
Passengers are required to par
ohase tickets before entering trains.
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is in
the employment office, on the ground
floor of the General Office Building,
Alaskan Engineering Commission, or
at Camp 415 (North Nenana).
Tickets will be on sale at any
time during office hours, and can be
purchased in sufficient time before
the departure of the trains.
Regular trains for the south ieave
the foot of A street on Wednesdays
and Saturdays at H a. m„ and from
Camp 415 (North Nenana), tor
Fairbanks, Tuesdays and Fn'days, at
1 p. m.
The following is the schedule be
tween North Nenana and Fairbanks,
subject to change without notice:
Leave Fairbanks at 7:00 a. m.;
arrive North Nenana, 11:30 a. m.
Leave North Nenana 1:00 p. *»,;
arrive Fairbanks, 5:8# p. m.
No tickets will be sold crossing
the river. Those intending to trav
el to Fairbanks must make their
own arrangements for reaching
North Nenana.
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Trappers and Traders of Alaska
SELL YOUR FURS TO A HOME INDUSTRY. WE GUARANTEE
; YOU HIGHER PRICES THAN OUTSIDE
CONCERNS WILL PAY.
i During the last season we conducted an advertising campaign
j throughout the North and are prepared to send you the names of
people in all sections of Alaska and the Yukon who will verify our
statements.
Our excellent Eastern connections, and the tremendous amount
of mail order business we are receiving from all parts of the
States for furs made to order enables us to turn our stock quickly
at a reasonable profit, but we must have fur, for which we guar
antee top prices.
Make us a trial shipment. If our price does not suit you, the
goods will be returned charges prepaid.
WE MAKE FURS TO ORDER
at more reasonable rates than can be obtained Outside. At present
we are working three operators, and need others. If you are an
operator and finisher, and want a good year-around job, com
municate with us.
CHAS. GOLDSTEIN & CO.
JUNEAU, ALASKA