THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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IKE AMERICAN NAVY
One month before the armistice
with Germany ended the war, the
American navy was operating a
total of 1,059 vessels of all descrip
tions, of which 2(54 carrying 42,000
men, were actively participating in
the war in European waters.
These figures appear in the an
nual report of Rear Admiral Griffin,
chief of the bureau of steam en
gineering. Gaily expenditures of the
bureau during the war year covered
by the report exceeded $777,
000,000.
Admiral Griffin said the regular
navy on the date of his report con
sisted of 570 ships, supplemented
by OS vessels from the Coast Guard,
Lighthouse Service, Coast and Geo
detic Survey and Fish commission.
In addition the navy was then oper
ating 0S7 converted merchant craft,
yachts and the like, and the Naval
Overseas Transport service, consist
ing of 247 Shipping Board and other
supply vessels, with 112 more about
to he commissioned. Construction
under way for the regular navy
at that time included 47G new ships
of all kinds and 52 tugs.
“Since the United States became
a belligerent,” the report states,
“the magnitude of the engineering
work of the navy, both mechanical
and electrical, not only in its actual
amount but in the rapid develop
ment of facilities for its execution
has been without parallel for the
same period of time in the history
of the world’s navies.’’
To keep up the fleet abroad,
three repair bases were established
in France, one in Great Britain, one
at Gibraltor and two in the Medi
terranean. These were supplemented
by six repair ships which achieved
remarkable results in repairing
vessels at sea.
The report makes the first offi
eial announcement regarding: de
velopment of the submarine detec
tion devices and shows that Ameri
can equipment for this purpose has
been placed aboard both British and
French naval craft. Details are not
disclosed, however, the report in
this connection confining: itself to
the following paragraph:
“Previous to duly I, lit 17. there
were two devices for submarine de
tection in service. One was the
Fessenden oscillator, primarily in
tended for sending and receiving
underwater signals; the other was
a device developed by the General
Kleetrie company. Since then eight
other devices for submarine detec
tion have been developed and mnde
in quantity, not only for our own
navy, but for the British admiralty
and the French ministry of marine.
Modified forms of these devices
have also been designed for use in
protection of the Atlantic coast of
the United States.
Taking up naval radio develop
ment, Admiral Taylor shows that
through the new high power plant
at .-tmapolis and the station built
b. the navy in France and nearing
c y.iiplotl m, provision had been made
vvh.ch would have kent the United
Sta s government in touch with its
forces .a F ope constantly even
if evt. y sul n.arine cable had been
cut. he r» 'io communication sys
i 'm I as bee extended vastly, 84
additloral r uin stations having been
built '’ -ring the war.
Striking achievements are noted
ir development of radio outfits for
navnl air reft. Communication
from machines in flight to shore
! stations is now possible at a dis
tance of 2(H) miles, the report says,
1 while the land station can communi
1 cate with a machine in air 50 miles
away. Through the radio telephone
the aircraft can tall; to stations 15
miles distant. Both systems have
been employed with the coastal
patrol maintained by aircraft.
Tables annexed to the report show
I that the battleship Mississippi, 12
destroyers, H of which are 25-knot
boats, and 1-1 submarines had been
delivered prior to the first of last
July. At that time destroyers No.
70 to 244 inclusive were under con
'struction, all but the first two be
ing 25-knot craft. The chief diffi
culty to be overcome in carrying
' out the huge destroyer project was
building the engines, yet on July 1
^ the driving plants of the 275 boats
then building were well advanced.
Many of the vessels since have been
| delivered.
Of the big ships, engines for five
lout of eight new battleships had
passed the 20 per cent mark. No
work beyond preparation of plans
I apparently had been dotty on cri
Igines for the six authoriztjd battle
! cruisers and work had not much
j more than started on plans for three
! of the six authorized scout cruisers.
Submarines building on July 1
I numbered 100, and the tables show
; the engines for 28 were more than
| (10 per cent ready; fourteen of them
i being well past 90 per cent.
STAGES HIVE
| OHIO ROADHOUSE
At half past eight last night
jThelin’s stage pulled in to the Ohio
: roadhouse with Webber, Lydell and
; Ortlid as way passengers bound to
Bank’s tie camp, between the Ohio
and Dunbar roadhouses; three sacks
of first, three sacks of second class
i mail, some freight and express for
Nenana. He pulled out this morn
ing and arrived here this afternoon.
Koland arrived at the Ohio road
. house about half an hour after
i Thelin did, and left again in an
hour’s time with one passenger and
arrived in town at an early hour
this morning.
THREE. SONS BLINDED;
VICTIMS OF ACCIDENTS
I EUREKA, Cal.—The three sons
' of Mrs. Charles Shepherd, living
near here, all have lost their eye
sight, either wholly or in part, as
the result of accidents.
William Shepherd is in a local
hospital recovering from the affects
of the removal of an eye which
, was injured when struck by a fly
ing piece of board in a mill where
he was working.
James Shepherd, his small brother
lost an eye several years ago when
struck by a jackknife while at play.
The other eye became affected and
the boy is totally blind.
Grover Shepherd, another brother,
lost an eye in a dynamite explosion,
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I FRANCE COMES
•j BACK 10 LIFE;
: GAIE1Y REIGNS
i _
. Behind the Lines In France— This
" land of recent bailies is a queer
land now. Over the shell torn vil
| lages and blasted woods, the pitted
! fields and the ruin of all that once
i was, in a strange quiet. The winter
sky is lacking in airplanes and
great flocks of crows have taken
1 their place.
A few villagers have crept back
to sue what remains of their homes
and holdings, but they are few and
probably the winter will have pass
i ed before reclamation and recon
struction are undertaken on a large
scale.
Along the roads repaired and re
bridged for the Allies advance into
German territory, long camion
trains move slowly and always
southward. They travel leisurely
now, for the need of hurry is gone.
They bring back the salvage of
battlefields, all the things that, go
to make war, abandoned or cap
i tured.
Truck load after truck load of
rifles and shells, of water bottles
and haversacks, cartridges, machine
guns, bayonets and trench knives
and pistols, mess kits, overcoats,
caps, and endless catalogue of para
phernalia are brought in. The bat
tle zone is still full of it all, in
heaps and racks, waiting salvage.
Xow and then come trains of air
plane camions, burdended with dis
mantled flying machines of every
type and every nation, engine and
fusilage and running gear on the
truck and the great wings on its
.specially designed trailer. Some of
them are unharmed, but many show
bullet holes through the frail fab
rit; or the ruins of a crash. A fair
proportion of them bear the Mal
tese cross that marks them Boche.
There are trains of captured
, enemy artillery, particularly of;
motor batteries, driven and man
, ned by Frenchman, and these are;
happy outfits. Often the guns are ■
decorated with evergreens and al- j
' ways the French soldiers laugh and 1
wave a greeting. As they creep ‘
through the villages the populace;
flocks out to view the cannon that |
for four years sent death and de-1
vastation into their land, and the j
children clamor on the carriages'
and out on the grim barrels.
But it is the troops on the way j
back that arc most interesting, re
turning to resa areas or to their
ports of. embarkation for home
French or American, their behavior
i is the same. Always they are
laughing or sinking-, always they
greet everyone cheerily or boister-1
ously and always the French offi-1
ers salute with a smile when they,
meet an American car, while the!
men wave and shout “La guerre est^
tinic” or a simliar greeting. Even i
the children cry “finis, finis”, to the
passing car.
Strangest of all are the lights at!
night, in the hamlets and villages!
or shining friendily from the isolat-'
ed farm house, in regions farther;
back. For so long France seemed
a deserted land to the traveler by'
night. Hour after hour the Asso
ciated Press correspondent has1
traveled at night without a glimmer
to be seen in the countryside, and j
now from every hill and vale the'
cherry windows shine and the vil
lages are ablaze. The papers de
vote columns to the illumination
of Paris, but it is here in the re
mote part of France where war has
been, that lights at night seem most
wondrful, even if they are but
candle or little lamp. Where once
camions or staff ears loomed light
less in the roads to the imminent
threat of collision, and often its
accomplishment, the brilliant head
lights stab the night.
There is no village now but where
the traveling stranger can obtain
food, not in variety perhaps, but
enough and very hospitality. The
deprecatory polite and necessary
refusal to requests for refreshments
that usually were received in little
hamlets or single farms has given
way to a. chceful .offering of what
there is, for the farmers know now
that the speetor of a winter of
short rations has disappeared. The
rationing of certain foodstuffs is
still in efefct. Bread tickets are
necessary in public eating places,
no matter how unpretentious, butter
and milk are seldom to be had and
c'v eese is scarce, but of plain vege
tables and certain meats, there is
plenty, and the carefully hoarded
stores of the light red and white
wines of the country are forth
coming when asked for.
At this season there is game in
the small town markets, hares and
rabbits, venison, red-legged part
ridges and the large French quail
and wild boar. It is high, but not
so high as it always is at home.
FAIRBANKS.—An alarm turned
in at about 9 o’clock this morning
from the residence of Professor C.
S. Hahn on Sixth and Cowles, sent
the fire department scurrying
thither.
It was found to be only a small
blaze caused by an overheated
stove pipe and was quickly extin
guished. No damage whatever was
sustained.
Membership List
Nenana
Commercial Club
Anderson, Herman
Allred, Mrs. Clara
Budow, A1
Browne, F. I).
Bresnahan, E. I).
Blankfield, I).
Bowen, .E R.
Blair, Roy
Brooker, Ed
Bennett, J F.
Ball, r. B.
Brown, Erie
Burns, R. E.
Calderhead, R. W.
Campbell, N. J.
Cophill, W. A.
Cooney, M. .T.
Doner, Frank
Diven, R. J»
Douse, Fred
Davis, Harry
Kkeland, A If
Funk, A. B. ■' .
Fisher, Joe
Flower, J. H.
Foster, Steve
Gapnon, Wm.
Haslem, II. O. i
Hapan, James
Hill. L. W.
Hapen, liana
Hoey, Andy
Gray, E. B.
Gilcher, W. H.
Hyland, Mike
. Isabel, L. C.
Irvine, A. J. • ?■
Johnson, A. G.
Jones, Frank
Jacobsen, J. C.
Julian, W. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter
Joseph, H. B.
Roland, Knut
Ketooroky. John A.
Lauphlin, E. I,.
Lund, F,. E.
Lehr, Q. F.
Myers, R. R.
Moore, F’rank B.
Miles. J. II.
McDonald, R. S.
Martin, G. S.
Morris, R. C.
Nash, Martin
O’Keefe, Larry
Parks, S. E.
Pcnninpton, G. W
Palfy, Paul
Packer. W. L.
Ryan, W. A.
Rosburp, Herman
Roth, Andy
Rodipkeit, Wm.
Schaeffer, M. A.
Slippern, J. A.
Simson. I.ipman
Scott, J. H.
Sellander, C. J.
Stone, A. J.
Schmidt, Pete
Smith, Chas.
Southworth, R. G.
Spira, Frank
Thompson, Theodore
Toussalnt, J G. K
Tyler, M. V.
Taylor, Wm. J.
Van Orsdel, J. C.
Williams, E. A.
Waechter, R. I.
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LONDON.—One of the treasured j
possesions of the British Admiralty;
is a German drawing showing a U-j
boat in the Thames before London,
with the famous inscription “Esj
Kommt ein Tag” (There fames a
day). It was obtained by a member
of the Admiralty intelligence from
a source and by a method which
British naval officers are still keep
ing secret.
The picture shows a London sky
line with the houses of Parliament
and the dome of St. Paul’s cathed
ral. In the foreground is the Ger
man submarine flying a large im
perial ensign. On the conning,
tower are three sailors facing the
sky-line with their clenched fists'
menacingly raised above their heads.;
On the deck is another sailor in the I
same pose.
One line under the picture is [
“Untcrseeboot vor London” (sub-j
marine before London) to which the |
officer who got the picture could j
not refrain from adding “Ich denke I
nicht” (I don’t think). It is an-!
nounced the picture, inscriptions!
and all, but with the imperial en
sign replaced by the British white
ensign will be reproduced and fur
nished to any ^he^v5j>apjy-( that de
sires to publish it.
Conductor John Moore, in the
employ of the government in the
Anchorage division, who was in a
train wreck about fourteen years
ago while working on a railroad
Outside, received a small cut on the
cheek from being thrown through
or against a window. One day re
cently the scar began to itch and
after being scratched considerably,
Mr. Moore felt some rough object.
He tried to get it out, and finally
went to Dr. Beeson, who removed
a small, three-cornered piece of
glass the size of a pea- This had
been imbeded in his face for four
teen years.
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