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, 18 <9.
“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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INVENTORS AND THE WAR
If the dreams of numerous British
amateur inventors who have been
besieging the Ministry of Munitions
could be realized, the war would
have been over long since and little
would be left of the German army.
Recent proposals include the follow
ing, says an Associated Press cor
respondent, writing from London:
Freeze the clouds and mount ar
tillery thereon.
Train cormorants to fly to Essen
to pick the mortar from Krupp’s
walls so that they will crumble.
Trail from balloons monster mag
nets that would snatch rifles from
the hands of the German soldiers.
Perch men on shells to steer them.
A suggestion often submitted is
to attach a searchlight to an anti
aircraft gun, project the light on
a Gotha and shoot along the beam.
Unfortunately, shells will not follow
a path of light.
Other schemes of dealing with
hostile aircraft are to suspend heavy
guns from captive ballons; to arm
defense airplanes with scythes: to
provide heat rays for setting Zeppe
lins on fire, and to cover the moon
with a black balloon. To prevent
polished rails shining at night and
acting as a guide to enemy air
craft, the last coach of the last
train is to drop blacking on them.
A shell containing gravel is to
lay a pathway over mud. and an
other. containing an irritant powder
of a sticky substance is to hamper
machine guns.
The "relay shell" is a favorite
proposal, the plan being for a shell
at the height of its flight to expel
a smaller inner shell. As a shell
does not point directly along its
trajectory, it would be impossible
to secure accuracy of aim for the
second shell.
Among the more miscellaneous
projects are:
JAPANESE WORKERS
TO GET SMALL PAY
HONOLULU—Three hundred and
five Japanese passed through here
recently on their way to Peru, where
they are under contract to work
in Peruvian cane fields for one year.
They will be paid seventy-five cents
a day.
J. Tanaka, representing the Mori
oka Immigration Company of Tokio,
has charge of the distribution of
the immigrants to the various sugar
plantations of Peru. He said while
here that Mexico and South America
republics are the only countries
open for Japanese immigration and
added that there are now 15,000
Japanese in Brazil, 2,000 in Argen
tine, 400 in Chli, 800 in Bolivia and
7,000 in Peru.
To petrify German soldiers by
squirting cement over them.
To throw snakes by pneumatic
propulsion into the enemy trenches.
To penetrate and attack Germany
itself via a “tube” built “all the.
way" from England.
It is said that about one sugges
tion in ten that reach the Ministry
of Munitions is novel and possible.
The Air Ministry announces that
its air inventions committee formed
about nine months ago, has ex*
amined more than 5,000 inventions
and suggestions.
WAR OF CONQUEST
Germany is waging a “war of
conquest” and its victims “have
been enslaved and exploited,” Dep
uty Geyer, Independent Socialist,
asserted recently in a Reichstag
speech, according to the Cologne.
Gazette.
“This has never been a defensive
war, Geyer said; “it was and is a
war of conquest”
“The Imperial government”, he
continued, “is favoring the annexa
tionists. Russia and Rumania have
been forced to sign a peace of
force. The peoples which were to
be freed have been enslaved and
exploited.
“The government thus far has
not submitted any cleat ,;eace pro
gram and has not proclaimed the
right of Belgium to independence,
and political, military and economic
in I grity.
“Thus the war goes on and the
end is not in sight. Profiteering
and lust of conquest are holding
nauseating orgies while the people
are suffering from want of food.
More than ever it is imperative
that all peoples free themselves
from the forced domination of mili
tarism.
“Proletarians of all countries
unite! Down with the war!”
BASEBALL POPULAR
IN JAPANESE TOWNS
KARUIZAW A. Japan.—Celebrat
ing the growing bonds of amity be
tween the LTnited States and Japan,
an All-American nine met the crack
Waseda Univeristy baseball team at
the dedication of a new diamond
laid out in front of the new villa
of Marquis Okuma, founder of
Waseda.
The Americans gave a fine ac
count of themselves but were de
feated 3 to 0. A large crowd of
Americans and Japanese witnessed
the game. Among the spectators
were Viscount Kato, former minister
of foreign affairs, and Dr. Osaki,
former minister of state. Marquis
Okuma pitched the first ball.
Grub and the Kaiser
MUST BE KEPT DOWN
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AMSTERDAM.— Marie Feodor-,
ovna. former dowager empress of
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Russia and mother of the late Em-1
peror Nicholas, not long ago com
plained to Darachuk, leader of the
Bolshevik Soviet at Yalta that her ■
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allowance of 100 rubles a week was
insufficient.
“The Soviet wants a clerk,” re
torted Darachuk jeeringly. “If you
want to supplement your income the
position is open to you.”
Evidently the former dowager em
press disdained to reply. This in
formation comes from Dr. Leo Led
erer, who was sent to Yalta by the
Berlin Tageblatt to ascertain the
condition of the members of the
formerly royal families of Russia.'
The colony at Yalta consists of fif- j
teen persons including the former;
Grand Dukes Nicholas and Peter,!
their wives who are daughters of the i
king of Montenegro, and the former j
Grand Duke Alexander Michailo-1
vitch and his family.
They are living in Duelber Castle,j
near Livadia in the Crimea. Their!
lives were made extremely miserable
when the extremist Soviet at Yalta
early this year assumed control of ^
the palace and ignored directions
from Petrograd.
All were in constant fear of their
lives .reports being rife that the j
Yalta soviet was planning to murder
all Romanoffs. Attempts actually
were made, it is said, to kill various !
members of the colony, but all were
frustrated by the watchfulness of
the loyal sailor guards.
<jreai renei was experienceil wnen
the Germans took control. They at
any rate had no designs on the
lives of the exiles .
“Neither the dowager empress nor
the grand dukes.” Dr. Lederer writes, I
"are regarded as prisoners, and their
desire to live in the Crimea as priv
ate persons is fully respected. Only,
like all other private persons, they
may not leave the Crimea without
the special consent of the German
conmmander.
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“Life at the castle is, it is true, i
freer and quieter but not more lively
than in the time of the Bolshevik:1
rule. Reading among the castle in-:
mates is restricted to Russian news
papers which arrive daily, and their
intercourse to occasional visits of the !
\ussupoffs or the Princess Wais-j
zinski. The young grand dukes, who
amuse themselves with cricket and
ball in the park, alone bring a little j
life into the solitary palace. Some
of the grand dukes are moving to'
Aitodor.”
The dowager is said to have aged!
considerably but she continues to
hold herself proudly erect. Nicholas
also has turned very gray and his
face is deeply wrinkled. Neither
Dr. Lederer says, has lost any anti- j
pathy to Germany. All the inmates I
of the castle appear to believe in
the restoration of the monarchy, al
though in a democratic, constitu.
tional form. They do not regard
as impossible the return of a Roman
off to the throne.
A domiciliary visit to the castle j
by the Sebastapol Soviet last year
resulted in the theft of a number
of valuables. One member of the.
visiting party, a ragged sailor, stole
the Grand Duke Nicholas’ boots,
leaving his own worn out ones in
exchange.
Nicholas’ morganatic daughter has
been married to the Polish Count
Tyszvitch. The wedding was quietly
celebrated in a little local Catholic
church, whither the party proceeded
in hired cabs. Nicholas insisted on
donning his brilliant white field mar
shal’s uniform, and he decorated
himself with all his orders.
The sub chaser patrol system will
be withdrawn in the near future, as
Ihe canneries have all finished their
packs, and most of the fish have
been taken Outside. It is stated
■hat the presence of the subchasers
las had the effect of keeping down
jgitation among the workmen. <
HELD IN CHECK
CAMP COD\, X. M.—The head
quarters at Camp Cody has a hand
in the regulation of rentals paid by
army officers whose families live
in Denting, close to the camp, under
an order issued a short time ago.
The order explains that it was
“designed to protect the owners and
landlords as well as the military
personneil.”
“Its primary object.” the ex
planation continues," is to promote
the efficiency of military service by
avoiding the many embarrassments
and anxieties that inevitably attend
a sudden and unregulated demand
upon a small community for living
accommodations far beyond its nor
mal capacity."
The order prohibits olficers and
enlisted men from bringing their
families to the vicinity of the camp
without having obtained permission
f’.Vm the camp commander on pen
alty of being deprived of the priv
ilege of absenting themselves from
the camp to visit their families. This
of course, applied only to those who
contemplated bringing their families
to the vicinity of the camp for resi
dence.
Permission, the order added, would
be subject to the condition that the
officers or enlisted men could get
quarters for their families in ad
vance of their arrival “at a reason
able rental, and under a written
legal agreement satisfactory to the
camp commander covering a period
of at least six months.” These
agreements, the order specified,
must contain a provision that if the
station of the renter was changed
by proper military orders before the
expiration of the period covered by
the agreement, the arrangement
might be terminated upon one week’s
notice \y the tenant to the landlord,
accompanied by a copy of the order
transferring him from the camp.
The order provided for the ap
pointment by the camp commander
of a board of officers charged with
the duty of maintaining a record of
rentals and for the co-operation of
the board with the Doming Chamber
of Commerce “to regulate rentals
to a fair and just return upon the
proper investment, based upon a
reasonable advance over the normal
ante-war rentals in Denting.
EGYPTIAN EXPEDITION
SUSPENDED FOR YEAR
PHILADELPHIA—The announce
ment is made by the University of
Pennsylvania Museum that the Eck
ley B. Coxe. Jr., Expedition to Egypt
has been suspended for at least one
year. Dr. Clarence S. Fisher, leader
of the expedition, has accepted a
commission in the British army, and
his assistant has joined a Red Cross
unit. The natives who have been
excavating at Memphis and Den
derah for four years have been paid
off and discharged. Many thou
sands of specimens which have been
accumulated will be held at Cairo
until the end of the war.
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Skof House
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
Mrs Norman Campbell
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Highest Cash
Prices Paid for
RAW
FURS
SIMSON’S
If you have saved a slice a day.
at cornbread and save a loaf.
'HAWAIIAN EXPORTS
ARE ON INCREASE
HONOLULU.—Hawaii's exports
j of molasses have increased from IOC
gallons worth $7, in 1910, to eleven
million gallons, worth $392,000 in
; the year ending June 30, 1917
j Molasses, a by-product of sugar, is
1 rapidly becoming an industry oi
importance in the territory and tht
great sugar interests are now plan
ning to further increase the output
Hugh P. Gallagher, former Ju
' neau agent of the Pacific Steamship
I company, has been transferred to
; New York as the foreign representa
i tive of his company, succeeding
Roger D. Pinneo, who has been madt
Asiatic representative of the com
pany with headquarters in Japan.
SUGAR MUST BE
A teaspoonful mb
nothincl.Ybusayi'Vfct a
heaping tcaspoonful
saved, each, meal for
no days for each, of the
ioo ooo-ooo persons
in the United States
males a pile at bijl at the
Wrobonh bulling.enot^fc
to supply tkt entire armed
iatxaus ufc the nation.
WANT ADS
CABIN’ FOR SAI.E—Cost $300;
"'ll sell for $.r>0. Inquire News
office.
WANTED—Two or Three con
genial fellows to occupy 4-room
residence with me. Kitchen fa
cilities if desired. See Slippern
FOR SALE—Panoramic views of
the town of Nenana in 1916 and
1917; taken by Johnson, of Fair
banks, from hill overlooking the
town. Apply at News office.
FOR SALE, CHEAP—Large tank
heater and pipe drum; flush toilet,
good as new; also sink. Inquire
Simson’s.
FOR SALE—Beaver Board, in plain
and oak finish. Doors and win
i dows, sash stock and mouldings.
Inquire Simson's.
FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
PIANOS—For Rent and Sale. Sim
son’s.
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FOR SALE—Small heater. Cheap.
Inquire News office.
We carry all kinds of hardwood,
furniture and rugs. Ande-son Bros.
& Norland.
1 A Thoroughly Modern Hotel
Tom Smith, Prop.
Phone 84 Front Between C and D
Johnson’s Store
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
PRICES REASONABLE LOUIS JOHNSON, Prop.
COLES AIR TIGHT
HEATERS
RANGES
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS
Yukon Stoves and Drums
Air Tight Heaters
Any Thing in the Sheet Metal, Plumb
ing or Heating Line
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
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ONE HITS THE MARK, AS OUR PRICES ARE
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The Army Wrist Watch
That Lights In the Dark—Not a Novelty, But a Necessity
Our $3 Radium Treated Alarm ClocKs
JUST THE THING FOR DARK NIGHTS
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