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. Cl. South worth .Editor and Manager
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SECRETS OF- THE WAK
Secrets of the war work of the i
British Secret Service now re- j
vealed show that German spies or j
agents of the German government
were making.' active preparations, |
even before the beginning of hos
tilities, to use I he Isle of Wight,
as a landing place for German fore-1
es arid for the bombardment of
Portsmouth. One of the first pre- j
cautions taken in August, 1014, was
to place close restrictions on per
son.^ trying to land upon or leave
the island. From Harwich to Hamp-1
shire, along the south and south
east coasts of England, nests of 1
German spies and agents were en- J
patted in desperate missions, in the
early days of the war. One of the
urgent tasks of the British Secret
Service was to stamp out the oper-1
ations of these men.
For a long time, says an Asso
eiated Press correspondent, writing
from London, the authorities were
unahle to discover the origin of
Morse signals that were being flash-1
ed out to German submarines front
the seafront at I’evensey. Special;
watch was kept on a certain cot- j
tage and. although no lights were
shown, the patient observers finally |
solved the mystery. They learned
that after dusk several persons I
near an upper window manipulated \
what appeared to he the dial of an .
ordinary clock. A raid on the cot-j
tnge disclosed that the clock dial,
was fitted with a dark prism. By
focusing the prism on the strong
headlight of a fishing smack an-1
ehored off shore it was possible
to send forth signal flashes. These
flashes were not visible to a person
standing on the beach, but out in
the channel they could lie read
easily.
Between the coast and Tunbridge
Wells, which was the headquarters
of a British army corps, a band of
gypsies made the rounds of villages
undisturbed until an officer made1
the significant discovery that none j
of them could converse in Romany, \
the gypsy tongue. Investigation |
by secret service men proved con
clusively that the masqueraders,
while pretending to trade with the
country folk and tell fortunes, se
cured important information as to
the movement of troops in the j
Southern command. Prompt and
drastic action followed these re
relations.
At the beginning of the war num
erous instances came to light of
aliens attempting to enlist under
false pretenses. If the recruiting
officers were dissatisfied with a
man’s appearance or accent, he was
taken aside and the oath was ad
ministered to him separately. It is
practically impossible for a foreign
er to repeat the unusual phrasing
of the oath without betraying his
origin, and in that way many dan
gerous spies were captured.
About Christmas, 1014, a foreign
diplo-nat in London received an
: ’onymous gift of pate de foie
.’ins. Suspicion was aroused and
a. elysis showed the pre.sence of a
<le; lly 'oiso.o. Secret service men
were called n and they proceeded
to wo -k on me theory that the pate
de fo' gras had come from one of
three a'iens hen under surveillance.
According1 ', to each of them was
•eat 'nonymously a can of fote
gras exactly similar in appearance
to the can containing the poisoned
stu r f.
The landlady of one of the trio
opened and served it for his supper,
and it was not until late in the
evening that she told him that the
can had been addressed to him.
Thinking that he had eaten his own
poison, the man actually became ill.
lie was promptly arrested.
CRITICISM
It was not necessary, says the
Cincinnati Knquirer, to have lived
very long or to have grown over
wise, to know that the moment the
war was closed the floodgates of
criticism would be opened. And
so, indeed, they have been. It would
seem, when reading; the current de
nunciation of men and measures, as
if nothing about the conduct of the
war had been either wise or right.
One writer declares that the Presi
lent is only going to Kurope to re
ceive the adulations of a subser
vient world. This one suspected
the government having possessed
he knowledge of the Russian situ
ltion which it withheld from the
teople. That one derides the selee
ion of the delegates to the peace
conference and grumbles because
lis favorites have not been chosen.
I’wo reporters for American papers
lave now the publicity they craved
ay spreading before the readers of
metropolitan, journals the sensa
tional stories of bitter unquench
tble antagonisms among the Allies,
dere is a furious denunciation of
he taking over of the cable lines,
md there of the appointment of a
iress eommittte to give us the news
'bout the doings of the congress
which will settle the terms of
peace.
This is a state of affairs as dis
agreeable as it is inevitable. Wo
lave been experiencing the unusual
ioy of national unanimity. All
minor offenses were sunk in the
dngle purpose of winning the war.
Kverybody was in agreement with
everybody else. We were absolutely
certain when we met with strangers
friends or enemies, even, that upon
one question at least there would
not be the slightest disputation.
With regard to the war, our hearts
would certainly beat as one.
It will all be different now. We
have entered upon a period of
criticism; or divided and hostile
opinion; of bitter and antagonistic
judgments, and it is a curious and
disagreeable paradox that war should
have brought us an intellectual
peace, while peace is about to ex
cite an intellectual war. We be
lieve in the mission of criticism, if
it is constructive. Few other lessons
have been carved more deeply on
our minds than that which Michael
Angelo taught a group of friends
who saw him give to a defective
drawing of Raphael’s a juster pro
portion by quietly enlarging a
human head with a crayon. “I criti
cize by creation; not by finding
fault,” he said.
A HOOVER WOODPILE
That thy pupils of the Chitina
school. Miss Genova Sheets, teacher,
are inspired fully by the spirit of
conservation is evidenced by the
fact that, during: the month of
October they collected stray pieces
of boards' and wood and built a
Hoover woodpile, the material so
collected being used to supply fire
wood for the schoolroom stove, thus
saving coal and at the same time
reducing the general expenses of
the school district.
DURING ILLNESS
ANCHORAGE.—More than $2,
000 in food, medicine and service
was expended by the Alaskan En
gineering commission to aid Indians
along: the line of the jrovernment
railroad in the Anchorage division
during the recent epidemic of the
Spanish influenza- Thirty-one of
the natives died of the disease. At
times, all the Indians in some of
the villages were down with the
illness, and the sick were cared for
and the dead buried by Commis
sion employees.
At Susitna, which is thirty-five
miles west of Wasilla, a station on
the government railroad, forty-five
miles north of Anchorage, twenty
of the natives died. With the An
chorage Red Cross chapter, the
Commission co-operated in sending
food, clothing, medicine and nurses
to the stricken village.
At Chickaloon, which is on a
branch of the government railroad,
seventy-four miles northeast of An
chorage, the natives underwent a
siege of influenza and were looked
if ter by employees of the Com
mission. None of the patients died.
Montana, a station on the gov
ernment railroad, ninety-five miles
north of Anchorage, is the home
if two Indian families. These were
ifflicted with the epidemic. The ;
condition of three of the natives *
,vas so serious that they were sent
0 Anchorage. They were past im-1
movement. One died on the way
md the other two succumbed soon j
ifter their arrival at the hospital
hat had been established for ailing
latives in Anchorage.
At Question, a railroad station
1 Oil miles north of Anchorage, the '
■ntire Indian colony was taken ;
lown with the disease. Two of the j
■hildren died. Commission employ- j
■es had to cut wood, furnish and j
■ook food and act as nurses for;
he natives.
At Talkeetna, which is on the
•oute of the government railroad;
112 miles north of Anchorage, Nick
»li. the aged chief of the Talkeetna
ribe of Indiuns, died; also one of
lis wives, one of his brothers and '
m infant. The destitution of the:
uirvivors was so deplorable that
intil they fully recovered they had I
:o be taken care of by (railroad I
workers.
At the request of Thomas Riggs,
lt\, governor of Alaska, in an ef
fort to relieve the residents at
Kodiak, where the influenza raged
with great violence and where there
was no physician, the Commission
organized a relief party consisting
of Dr. H. 1’. Palmer, captain in
the medical corps of the United '
States army, stationed at Anchor
age; C. H. Thompson, steward at
the government hospital in Anchor
age; and VV. C. Hunt, marine en
gineer, who worked for the Com
mission. The party, furnished with
medical supplies by the Commission,
was taken over the railroad from
Anchorage to Seward. At Seward,
it was thought that arrangements
had been made to take the mem
bers of the party in a cannery
tender boat to Kodiak, but after
having waited in vain for the boat
at Seward for eleven days, the
party returned to Anchorage.
In Anchorage, the Commission
supplied the stoves, cooking utensils
and other necessary articles to fit
up a vacant hotel building into a
hospital for the treatment of In
dians ill with influenza. Not only
were Indians living in and near
Anchorage admitted to the hospital
but natives from other towns along
the line of the railroad were brought
to Anchorage for treatment. Many
natives were treated in the hos
pital. Only four die!!.
The Kennecott Copper Corpora
tion has donated $2,500 towards
the erection of the new Hawkins
Memorial Episcopal church at Cor
dova. The church is named after
the wife of one of the men who
did much toward the building of
the Copper River rnilrond.
IRED CROSS MEETING
FRIDAY AFTERNOON
The regular meeting of the local
Red Cross branch will be held at
the Nenana club rooms on Friday,
January 31, commencing at 1:30
o'clock.
All those who are interested in
i tile work are cordially invited to
l be present. The manufacture of
garments for the relief of the Bel
gians will be continued at the meet
ing.
I
The Kennecott Copper Corpora
tion has notified the proper offi
cials that of the 300 men in their
employ who volunteered or had
been drafted, they could use im
mediately all of their former em
ployees at Fort Liscum and the re
mainder by the time they could
be released from France anil the
Eastern camps.
Membership List
Nenana
Commercial Club
Anderson, Herman
Allred, Mrs. Clara
Berggren, Krnst
Budow, A1
Browne, F. 1).
Bresnahan, E. I).
Blankfield, I>.
Bowen, J. R.
Blair, Roy
Brooker, Eld
Bennett, .1. F.
Ball, I. B.
Brown, Erie
Burns, R. E.
Ooutts, w r.
Calderhead, R. W.
Campbell, N. J.
Coghill, W. A.
Cooney, M. .T.
Doner, Frank
Diven, R J.
Douse, Fred
Davis, Harry
Ekeland, Alf
Funk, A. B.
Fisher, Joe
Flower, J. II.
Foster, Steve
Gagnon, VVm.
Haslem, II. G.
Hagan, James
Hill, L. W.
Hagen, Hans
Hoey, Andy
Gray, E. B.
Gilcher, W. II.
Hyland, Mike
Isabel, L. C.
Irvine, A. J.
Johnson, A. G.
Jones, Frank
Julian, W. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter
Joseph, H. B.
Kolund, Knut
Ketooroky, John A.
l.aughlin, E. L.
Lund, E. E.
Lehr, Q. F.
Myers, R. R.
Moore, Frank B.
Miles, J. H.
McDonald, R. S.
Martin, G. S.
Morris, R. C.
Nash, Martin
O’Keefe, I.arry
Parks, S. E.
Pennington, G. W
Palfy, Paul
Packer, W. L.
Ryan, VV. A.
Rosburg, Herman
Roth, Andy
Rodigkeit, Wm.
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
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.
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The final payment on Fourth
Liberty Loan bonds on the install
ment plan is due on or before
January 30. This is a payment of
the remaining unpaid 30 per eent i
of the purchase price of the bond, j
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ALASKA
Men wanting employment can
obtain work at good wage* at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latouche.
If you go out you will only
come back "Busted” in the spring
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and fifty at Latouche and
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able for two. Phony 93 Red.
Gentlemen** Suits cleaned and
pressed. Fur Coats lined and reno
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