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ATTRACTIVE LOBBY
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THE MOUSE OE COM TORT POR ALL
DOG KENNELS NENANA, ALASKA
ARMY OFFICER
HAS BROKEN NECK
BUT STILL LIVES
CAMP SHERMAN, Chillicothe.—
Lieutenant John A. Logran, U. S. A.,
of Cleveland, is one of the few men
who have sustained broken necks
F and is still alive to tell the story
of how it happened. The lieutenant
is in the base hospital here, and at
tending surgeons say that he will
enjoy life for many years to come,
despite Hie broken neck.
Lieutenant Logan, an aviatoy, sus
tained the injury while on duty in
France. He went up one day over
l the Vosges sector, and engaged sev
eral German planes. A piece of
shell from one of the enemy's guns
put his motor out of commission,
and the officer was forced to vol
plane. He lost control, and had
the preference of diving on a house
or landing on the ground. He chose
the later, and when he was dragged
from the wrecked machine, it was
found that he had received only a
few slight scratches. He rejoined
his squadron, being able to walk,
but that night his right side became
paralyzed. Surgeons made an exam
1 ination, and it was found that
Logan’s neck was broken. This was
the fourth accident in which Lieu
tenant Logan figured, for, previous
to going into active service, he was
injured in three training accidents.
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In an effort to obtain unbiased •
statements as to the labor situation |
in the Western states, the Associated!
Press instructed its correspondents j
to interview the heads of the various j
federal employment bureaus. As a
result, several articles dealing withI
this subject have been prepared, and !
The N'enana News will publish one
each day until the series has been j
exhausted. The first article, dealing!
with conditions in Eastern Washing- j
ton and Northern Idaho, follows: |
SPOKANE, Wash.—With wages]
from 65 to 70 per cent higher than j
before the war. the labor situation j
in Eastern Washington and Northern j
Idaho is in excellent condition, with ,
the supply about equal to the de
mand, it is declared by B. A. Hun-1
ter, superintendent of the federal j
employment service here. Mr. Hun-1
ter, whose office here supplies tim-1
ber workers for the camps and mills
in this section, miners for the Coeur j
d’Alent mines, farm laborers for^
the wheat ranches and workers for j
construction work and miscellaneous j
activities, has it as part of his daties j
to keep in touch with the pulse .of
the labor market and inform the
government of conditions.
1 It is only in the woods that there
is any disarrangement in the labor
market, Mr. Hunter said, and this
is due, not to a shortage of labor
nor a surplus of workers, but rather
to the constant 'strife among rival
organizations of mill and timber
men. For this reason the “turn-1
over” of labor is far in excess of
what the conditions in this field
justify, he declared.
The problem of the returning sol
dier is not now proving to be any
problem at all in this section. Mr.
Hunter declared. The worst of this
difficulty presented itself several
months ago. he said, shortly after
the signing «f the armistice,, and
now has readjusted itself.
“We are having no trouble now
in placing all the returning soldiers
who are seeking employment.” he
said. “The fact is, few of them
are hunting for work. Shortly after
the signing of the armistice, we were
receiving, on the cards we sent
to the men from this section re
quests for jobs, with two or three
preferences marked. Now these
cards are coming back, some of
them from France, with the nota
tion across their face, ‘Don't need
any help in getting a job,’ or ‘Have
a job waiting for me.’
“The fact is. that most of the
men who are now returning had
worked themselves into business
somewhere or were skilled in some
trade. The man who has a regu
lar trade or occupation is never long
out of a job. It was the high school
students ar.d graduates, discharged
.from the officers’ training camps
shortly after the armistice was sign
ed. who presented the problems.
Few of these had ever had practical
experience of any sort, and yet they
expected to get desirable employ
ment at good Wages.
"Returning soldiers are being ab
sorbed by the labor market as fast
as they get back. For instance,
during a recent week we had appli
cations in this office from 35 sol
diers for jobs, and placed 32 of
them. The week before that, we
had 37 applications and placed all
of them, besides four others from
the preceding week. That, I be
I lieve, represents the general labor
situation as well.”
The absence of war industries in
this section and the fact that women
are giving up their war time jobs to
| returning soldiers are believed by
I Mr. Hunter to be responsible in part
! for the lack of a surplus of labor
here.
While there is a big demand for
mine labor from the Coeur d’Alene
district of Idaho that cannot be sup
plied, Mr. Hunter said this is due
to the low wages being offered.
When common labor receives $4 a
day for outside work, men will not
work in the mines for S4.25 a day.
he said. He predicted that wages
in this district will be advanced
shortly to $5.25 a day for miners,
[ and said that then the men who
have been working on roads or at I
other employment will return to j
the mines, and the demand will be
satisfied.
Another instance of labor wai'ing;
for the sort of work it wants is
offered in the case of contemplated
road construction work, Mr. Hun
ter said. An immense amount of
road construction will be done this
summer by the county, state and
federal governments, he predicted,
and said there are 600 to 700 men
now in this city, waiting for this
work to open to get the sort of
employment they desire.
Aside from the big program of
road building, there is little con
struction work in sight, the em
ployment superintendent said. Few
buildings are going up and reclama
tion projects are still in so pre
lanir.ary a state that they afford
little prospect of offering employ
ment soon, he declared.
Goauiac Bukack at Fowler Jk
Morris.
[7-YEAR-OLD BOY
SAN -JOSE. Cal.—California has
a prodigy in 7-year-old Dale Parks,
(rated and recognized as a botanist
in California. He specializes in
mushrooms and other fungi. His
(work is represented in the New York
and St. Louis botanical gardens, and
the University of California's col
lections are the richer on account
of him.
*
One of the boy's proudest posses- \
sions is a letter from a professor j
in the University of California, ac
knowledging receipt of some rare i
specimens, commending and encour
aging him and predicting that he
soon will become as expert as his
father, H. E. Parks, of this city,
a recognized authority, who is
credited with the discovery of many
I new varieties of mushrooms in Cali
fornia.
“This is the craterellus cornu
copides, a non-edible mushroom,”
said Dale to the Associated Press
i correspondent, to whom he was ex
hibiting his collection. "And this is
the amanita, a poisonous mushroom.
You will notice it has a death cup
around the root, and this is the
hypboloma, and this the edible puff
1 ball, and this the campestris. this
the coprinus, this the clavaria and
, this the polyoporus, which grows on
wood. The caprinus is edible.”
"Hold on a minute,” said the
breathless correspondent who was
trying to make notes of the names
which fell glibly from the lad's
tongue, "are you sure you're not
making fun of me?”
The boy’s mother, who had been
'listening to the conversation, smiled
as Dale put down his microscope
,and specimen box and walked into
jibe next room. He returned with
several ponderous volumes. Turn
, ins over the pages, the boy ident
ified every one of the mushroom?
he had mentioned.
Dale accompanies his father on all
his trips afield. He has his owr.
bag and trowel and his eyes be
come “as big as saucers,” his mothei
says, when he occasionally chances
on a rare specimen.
FAMOUS BARNEGAT
LIGHT IN DANGER
FROM HEAVY STORMS
T03IS RIVER, N. J.—The fam
ous light at Barnegat inlet is in
danger of being undermined by the
Atlantic ocean, engineers report.
During the recent heavy storms the
sea encroached to within 75 feet of
the lighthouse.
The terrific current at the inlet,
backed by a powerful sea, has cut
into the beach for a considerable
distance,, and unless breakwaters or
jetties are constructed, the light
house surely will go down in a
heavy storm, engineers say.
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Billy Cruikshank is among the
arrivals in town from Fairbanks,
having made the trip down river
today with the Joe Johnson launch.1
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The Carl White launch was re
ported at Tolovana this morning,
enruote up the Tanana rive’
, -
Mails which left Fairbanks on j
May 25 and 28 reached Seattle on,
June 14.
The band dance held at Fairbanks
on Saturday night is reported to |
have been a very successful affair.
The baseball game which was
played at Fairbanks yesterday be-;
tween the Kids and the Regulars1
was won by the former aggrega
tion. the score being 21 to 8.
Mrs. Chas. Beam came down from
her home in Fairbanks on the last
trip of the Douse launch to spend
a few days with friends in Xenana.
She is the guest of Mrs. Jas. T. Old
field.
A Gibson auto mail stage reached
Fairbanks yesterday afternoon with
H. J. Amend and a consignment of
mail. Amend U a former T. V.
R. R. brakeman, who went Outside
last fall with the draft boys.
Mrs. Thomas B. Wright, wife o'
the U. S. commissioner in the Koy
ukuk precinct, arrived in X'enana
late on Saturday night. She will
remain in Xenana for some time.
William Papadopolus, who was
j discharged from the army recently,
[arrived in Xenana from Fort Gib
bon Saturday night.
Eir.ar Tonseth, who had been
j discharged from the army recently,
jarrived in Xenana on the launch
iMutt Saturday night and left for
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Fairbanks yesterday morn inf: on the
Douse launch Victory.
J. A. Slippern left yesterda/
morning on the Douse launch for
Fairbanks, on a brief business visit.N
Among the passengers arriving
on the launch Mutt Saturday night
from Tanana was Mrs. Johnson, of
Ruby, who is on a brief visit to
Nenana.'
AMERICAN SOLDIERS
MAKE BUSINESS GOOD
FOR ‘SNIPE-SHOOTERS
PARIS.—By no one will the de
parture of the American soldier*
from Paris be more keenly felt than
by the humble “megottiers”—the
pickers-up of cigar stubs and cigar
ette ends. This has been a golden
time for them, and “Papa Cin
quante.” who is the recognized boss
of the trade and employs some
thirty pickers, replies disdainfully
when folks grumble to him about
the scarcity of tobacco.
“There’s always tobacco where
Americans are," he says. “My men
follow them up. Fine fellows. They
smoke good stuff, and, what’s bet
ter, they just chew their cigars and
throw away half of them. That’s
.where we gather in our little har
vest. The quality of ’mv tobacco’
has gone up several degrees," and
he grinned.
“Just now business 13 fine.” he
went on. “People are beginning
to sit outside the cafes again, and
my men pick up all the fag ends
on the sidewalk. Another squad
cleans up the music hall lounges
early in the morning. People
3moke more than ever.”
Out in the Latin quarter. Papa
Cinquante has a drying and sorting
shed, where the cigar stubs are cut
up and made into pipe mixture, and
the cigarette ends are sifted and
turned into new smokes. He pays
from 85 cents to $1.25 a pound
for the raw material, “according to
i quality,” he says.
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THE METROPOLITAN GRAND OPERA STAR
GERALDINE FARRAR
IN
“TEMPTATION”
Produced by Cecil B. DeMille
A Picture of Intense Beauty with Rare Heart Interest and
Romance
IN SIX POWERFUL ACTS
MUSIC-VIOLIN, PIANO AND DRUMS
ADMISSION 50c RESERVED SEATS 75c
Soldiers and Children, 25 cents
THE SHOW STARTS AT EIGHT O’CLOCK