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THE NENANA
The Nenana Daily News First
DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1918.
NUMBER 134
HAIG BELIEVES DARK DAYS GONE
allied advance Alarms Austrians
CROWDER ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR NEW DRAFT
BRITISH GENERAL IS
CERTAIN OF VICTORY
LONDON.—Field Marshal Haig
announced today that during the
fighting of the past four weeks,
the British forces have captured
seventy-five thousand prisoners and
seven hundred and fifty guns of
large caliber. The Allies, he said,
have passed through many dark days
and he thanks God that these days
will never return again, as it is now
thought that the enemy has spent
his strength and will never again
be in a position to give the Allies
much anxiety.
GERMAN COUNTERS FAIL
LONDON.—Field Marshal Haig
announced today that strong Germas
counter attacks against the posi
tions recently won by the British to
the west of Gouseacourt were com
pletely repulsed. In ' the Havrin
court sector and to the south of the
town of Havrincourt, the British
have advanced their line for a con
siderable distance, compelling a re
tirement of the enemy. In Flanders
the British forces have made much
progress in the region to the north
east of Neuve Chapelle and to the
north of the town of Armentiers,
which is on the Hindenburg line.
FRENCH PROGRESS
PARIS.—According to reports re
ceived today by the war office, the
French forces have made important
progress toward the southern end
of the Hindenburg line in the La
fere region and succeeded in captur
ing the line to the northeast of the
fortified town of Liez, which is con
sidered a very important position.
Town Captured.
The French forces operating in
the region to the north of Lafere
attacking vigorously, have compelled,
a retirement of the enemy forces
on a large scale and have captured
the towns of Rezgnny, Montescourt,
Bizerelles, Clastres, Servincourt, Le
grandes, Roupy and Etreillers- The
two last mentioned towns are within
three and one-half miles of St.
Quentin.
FARM OCCUPIED
PARIS.—The victorious French
troops, advancing from the recently
captured the town of Clastres, have
driven the enemy farther back and
occupied Lamotte farm.
GERMAN REPORT
BERLIN.—According to official
reports received by the war office
today, the French troops, attacking
on the line between the Ailette and
the Aisne, were repulsed with san
guinary losses.
FURTHER CAPTURES MADE
PARIS.—According to official re-j
ports received by the war office
today from the French field head
quarters, the operations conducted
by the French troops in the region
to the south of St. Quentin have
been very successful. The enemy I
forces were routed at every en
gagement and the French forces
were enabled to capture the town
of Gibecourt and continue their
progress toward Hixucourt and Es
signy Legrande.
SUMMARY
Associated Press Summary.—In
the operations conducted yesterday
the French troops progressed ex
tremely rapidly in closing in upon
the important towns of St. Quentin
and Lafere, along the southern sec
tor of the Hindenburg line. The
fighting carried the troops to with
in two miles of Lafere, and three and
one-half miles of St. Quentin. Near
Lafere the French troops are push
ing steadily forward and are making
good progress toward the north of
the St. Gobian bastion. This bastion
or fortress is one of the strongest
outpost forts guarding the important
fortified town of Laon.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Accord
ing to an apparently reliable report
received by the navy department
this morning, an American tank
steamer carrying rapid fire defense
guns and a well trained naval gun
crew encountered a German sub
marine recently off the Atlantic
coast and immediately opened fire
on the diver.
A sharp fight is reported to have
ensued. Every shot fired by the
naval gun crew of the tanker was
well directed with the result that
the submarine was riddled with
shot and sunk.
The report of the occurrence is
now being investigated by the navy
department
Roy Rutherford of the Independ
ent Lumber Co., returned to Fair
banks this morning.
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BRITISH HEN
DAMAGE DOCKS
LONDON-—During the first week
in September the British naval air
forces made four successful attacks
on the German submarine shelters
and workshops situated on the
Bruges docks.
They also attacked the docks at
Ostend and the motor boat depot at
Blankenburg and scored good re
sults.
In every case the attacking planes
returned safely to the ships of the
fleet off the coast from which they
sailed forth to the attack.
George Palmer completed his
grading contract near Lignite and
returned to Nenana last night for
settlement. He has been awarded
another contract and expects to
leave Nenana tomorrow.
The only legitimate “con game”
is the con-servation game.
ALLIED SUCCESS
ALARMS PEOPLE
DUALJONARCHY
Dual Monarchy I* Scene of Riotous
Acts When Troops Leave for
Western Front.
LONDON.—According to a des
patch received in this city today
from Zurich, the continued victor
ious advance of the Allies has caused
a profound impression throughout
Austria-Hungary.
Riotous scenes were enacted in
Vienna recently during the depar
ture of a large body of Austrian
troops who were being sent to re
inforce the Germans on the Western
front.
CUE SHARES OF
SERIES PLAYERS
Players Who Staged World Series
Are Asked to Accept Big Cut
In Earnings.
BOSTON.—Members of the local
and Chicago baseball clubs now en
gaged in playing the world series,
have gone on the warpath as the
result of an attempt on the part
of the major league management to
cut the players’ shares in the world
series receipts to $1200 each to
the winners and $800 each to the
losers.
The members of the two clubs
have named a committee to wait on
the magnates, with a demand that
the players be paid the full amounts
guaranteed them prior to the com
mencement of the series, $2000 to
the winners and $1400 to the losers.
The decision to reduce the
amounts was reached when it was
seen that the receipts of the series
were running below normal , at
tributable to war conditions.
The players of both clubs declare
that they will not take the field
today unless their demands are
granted by the managers.
Yesterday’s game was won by
Boston, the score being three to
two. The Chicago players made
seven hits and one error, and Bos
ton made four hits, without an
error during the entire game. The
batteries were Tyler, Douglas, Kil
lifer and Barber, for the Windy
City, and Ruth, Bush Agnew and
Schang for the locals.
Later Report.
In the final score in today’s game
Chicago is credited with three runs,
seven hits snd no errors, and Boston
with no runs, five hiV* and no errors
The game was resumed after a two
hour strike at the end of which the
National Commission refused to ac
cede to the demands of the players
who sportingly announced that they
would conduct the remaining games
for the sake of the public, the good
name of baseball and for the sake
of the soldiers and sailors present.
GOVERNMENT TO
WITHDRAW GOLD
FOR WAR NEEDS
Issuance of Gold Bullion From Gov
ernment Mints and Assay
Office is Forbidden.
Issuance of Gold bullion from
Government mints and Assay office
For the purpose of conserving the
Gold in the United States for essent
ial monetary purposes, the govern
ment has issued an order forbid
ding the issuance of gold bullion
from the mints at Philadelphia, Den
ver and San Francisco, and the New
York Assay office.
Gold bullion, according to the
order, may only be issued from the
War Industries board, the Federal
Reserve Board and secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo.
DEATH OF JOHN;
WASHINGTON, D. C.—War time
prohibition moved a step nearer to
realization when the House Agricul
tural committee decided today to re
turn a favorable report on the food
production bill, which includes the
Senate amendment making prohibi
tion effective July 1, 1919.
The Senate amendment to the
agricultural bill provided for pro
hibition as a means of untilizing
all grain for food purposes only
and met with considerable opposi
tion from the Shipping Board when
first introduced, the Shipping Board
holding that the taking away of the
workmen’s beer will impair his effi
ciency.
The decision arrived at by the
House Agricultural committee has
been the result of mature delibera
ture, extending over a number of
weeks.
KNITTING CLUB
Announcement is made that the
next meeting of the Nenana Knitting
club will be held at two o’clock on
the afternoon of Thursday, Sep
tember 12th, and all members as
well as those wishing to join are
urged to attend.
The meeting will take place at
the home of Mrs. Diven, at the
Presbyterian manse.
John Vachon, the Tolovana mer
chant, arrived this morning on the
launch owned by George Alam. He
expects to return to the trading
post at Tolovana on the Carl White
launch, due from Fa:rbanks today.
“There is no half way house be
tween victory and defeat.”—Lloyd
George.
CROWDER IS READY
FOR NEW DRAFTEES
WASHINGTON—The first de
finite announcement relative to the
intentions of the government with
regard to the carrying out of the
terms of the new man-power act,
was issued this morning from the
office of Provst Marshal General
Crowder, and sets forth in some de
tail how the new draft is to be car
ried out, following the registration
which will take place throughout
the States on Thursday.
The first call to the colors of
the new registrants will include men
of nineteen and twenty years of
age and those between the ages of
thirty-two and thirty-six. The
questionnaires are to be sent out
immediately following the registra
tion and the calls will begin in
October.
Many of the younger men will
enter the students army training
corps.
No announcement has been made
as yet regarding the date of regis
tration in Hawaii and Alaska. All
that is known definitely is that local
boards in Alaska have been asked to
suggest the time, most suitable in
their opinion, and it is believed that
the date will be fixed after it has
been determined when the regis
tration can be held to best ad
vantage.
COAL MINE CAGE
FOOLS IN SHAFT;
SIXTEEN KILLED
Unfortunate Nanaimo Miners Drop
To Their Death While Coming
to the Surface.
NANAIMO, B. C.—This city is in
mourning today over the probable
death of sixteen coal miners, who
dropped a distance of three hund
red feet in the mine cage while
they were being hoisted to the sur
face. It is believed by the mine
officials that all of the men were
killed when the cage struck the
bottom of the shaft.
The accident was the result of
the cage becoming stuck in the shaft
on the way to the surface. When
the cage caught, the cable parted
and the cage fell to the bottom
of the shaft with its load.
Rescue parties were immediately
organized, but it was impossible to
send relief promptly, owing to the
lack of facilities for sending the
men below until repairs could be
made.
WESTERN YARDS '
WIN PENNANTS
Shipbuilders of the West Are Given
Pennants fo- Speedy Ship
Construction.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Five of
the six pennants awarded by the:
Emergency Fleet Corporation in a
speed-up shipbuilding competition, [
were won by Western shipyards. |
The other pennant was awarded to i
a New Jersey shipyard.
Skinner & Eddy, of Seattle'-made |
the best record in the building of |
steel vessels, and the Grant-Smith
Porter yard made the best record
in the building of wooden vessels.
Earl Foster left for his home in
Fairbanks this morning, after a
visit of several days in Nenana.
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REVOLUTIONISTS
IN RUSSIA SHOT
BY BOL REGIME
Participant* In Counter Plot*
Executed As Reprisals For
Killing of Uritsky
AMSTERDAM.—According to ad
vices which have just reached this
city from Russia, five hundred and
twleve alleged counter revolutionists
were recently shot by the dominent
faction as a reprisal for the mur
der of Moses Uritsky, chairman of
the Petrograd commission for the
suppression of the counter revolu
tion.
Wholesale arrests of the counter
plotters were made in a number of
cities, following the killing of
Uritsky, and the drastic measures
adopted are said to have been taken
with a view to putting a stop to
further activities of a counter re
volutionary nature. Unrest, as the
•result of the executions, is spread
ing rapidly, and more bloodshed is
expected.
MANY MM
OF EUGENE DEBS
Socialist Is Charged With Violation
of Espionage Act During State
Convention.
CLEVELAND.—The trial of Eu
gene V. Debs on the charge of vio
lation of the espoinage act. now in
progress in this city, is being very
largely attended by Socialists and
sympathizers of the Socialist leader,
who is accused of having made un
American remarks in an address de
livered before the Ohio state con
vention of Socialists last June.
Debs is the recognized leader of
the Socialists in this country, hav
ing been the candidate of the So
cialists for the presidency on four
occasions.