THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for i jury as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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SPEEDING THE MAILS
"Within a very reasonable period
wt■ shall find all principal mail
liners fitted with -enplanes," asserts
|). 11. Bernard, editor of the Mer
chant Service Review. “Consider
able time will he saved iri the tran
sit of mails. A liner leaving New,
York with urgent and important
letters will tie able to discharge
them by seaplane "00 to 400 miles
west of the Irish coast; within a
few hours they can be delivered in
London, thus effecting a saving
of 24 hours.
“The same procedure can be car
ried out by a vessel bound to New
York weather of course being an
important factor—for in fine and
settled weather a well-equipped sea- ,
plane could travel at an enormous
speed over a cosiderable distance.
It is quite within the bounds id'
possibility that letters posted in
London can be delivered in Now
York within four days.”
Mr. Bernard thinks the service
will at first be subsidized by the
governments of, the two countries.
Similarly, he says letters could be
expedited from South America to
the European continent by sea
planes leaving the liners 300 miles
off Lisbon or Gibraltar.
THE CANADIAN PLAN
Th financial resources of West
ern Canada are being placed at the
disposal of farmers in the prairie
provinces of Manitoba, Saskatche
wan and Alberta, where grain farm
ing will more than ever be the chief
industry when the eighty thousand
soldiers of the three provinces re
turn from overseas.
Mortgage companies and chart
ered banks never were more able
to finance stable industries in this
stretch of country, and about $ 100,
000,000 being available for imme
diate use through such institutions.
Besides, the federal anil provincial
governments are making extensive
plans for extending finanical aid.
The immense possibilities of the
prairies as a Tood-growing country
have been carefully considered by
government officials. Not only will
vast tracts be made available to
the soldiers on a homestead basis,
but the federal and provincial gov
ernments will give financial assist
ance in equipping the new farms
with proper machinery. Long term
loans will be provided through rural
credits systems.
Extension of manufactures, as
well as agriculture, in Western
Canada is anticipated. One of the
first questions taken up by the
Inter-Provincial conference which
has been in progress at Ottawa was
the transfer of control of natural
resources of the prairie provinces
from federal provincial govern
ments. It is urged that the trans
fer, for years an unsettled matter,
would make it possible for indi
vidual provinces to develop mining
and other industries on their own
in' iative.
A) Estevan, Sak , for instance,
there are huge deposits of soft
eor.t and a movement is already
under wi to establish several big
factories in ibe district for the pur
pose of i. Mixing the coal.
A gold ■? hat been reported
on 'li.ti’-U’-' creek, in the Chisana,
whet" Ta>lor, Brown and Ms-Get
tigai have built new cabins.
J
SAX JUAN, P. R. —Many towns
on the island are without a single
bag of rice and the shortage in
many localities has brought about
a condition described by those in
a position to know as bordering
on famine.
This food shortage is adding very
greatly to the seriousness of the in
fluenza epidemic and many death*
are attributed not so much to the
disease itself as to the cor.tplica
Itions brought about by l.iek of
food.
Shipments of rice from New
Orleans and other Gulf ports vh.ch
are now from four to six weeks
weeks overdue, probably will bring
some relief but in the meantime the
• island authorities anticipate much
■ suffering and hardship that a', pres*
: ent they seem powerless ’o prevent.
According to Albert R. i.ue, fed
eral food commissioner and chair
man of the Porto Rico 7 >od < om
: mission, the question now is wholly
| one of transportaion and 'he e m
1 mission has considered the local
j situation so serious that it has urged
upon the United States Shipping
1 Board the necessity of immediate
relief. Help has been promised bv
i the Shipping Board but so far the
local food commission has not been
advised of the sailing of any ships
bringing rice.
| f*’or the first time in a year and
a half the food commission has no
I reserve stock of rice on hand, all
of its stock having been released
as needed and in anticipation of the
'arrival of the new crop. In order
to provide the Red Cross with rice
needed for the relief of earthquake
sufferers the commission was forced
' to pick up small lots of rice here
and there.
Many sugar centrals in the is
land employing large quantities of
labor have been scouring the island
for rice at any price in order to
! provide food for the sick on their
plantations. In many instances
[ they have not been able to buy
a single bag.
hour ships, each one of which
was to have brought rice to Porto
Rico, have been delnyod in sailing
by strikes or other causes or else
have been rushed t.o Kurope with
food supplies which are badly needed
there. Whether other ships to take
their place will be directed here
promptly is a question that is giv
ing many people familiar with the
food situation on the island very
serious concern.
, The average consumption of rice
on the^island is in the neighborhood
of 121),000 bags per month. Not
to exceed 25,000 bags of new crop
, rice have so far been delivered in
; Porto Rico.
’ Wenana—TUe Gateway to KcXlnley
..Hatton* l Park.
r The guards tnat were placed at
. the Ocean dock at Cordova nearly
a year ago, to prevent people from
j having access there unless fortified
IJ with a pass issued by the United
, | States marsha’, have all been dis
.!charged as a result of peace being
j declared.
LOCOMOTIVES OF
1 AMERICAN BUILD
| MAKE FASI TIME
NEW YORK.—The shipment of
American built steam locomotives,
weighing each 73 tons and assem
bled all but the smoke stack and
the tender so that they could move
under their own steam within a few
hours after their arrival in France
was among the accomplishments of
the United States Army Transport
Force under stress of war and has
since been continued.
More than four hundred of these
locomotives were so shipped from
New York in a few months, it was
learned here with the lifting of the
war censorship regulations , and
these were in addition to 1,200
which were shipped in sections—
nine to a locomotive packed in cases
The ships used to transport the
locomotives, complete, were of a
special type with three holds, each
hold measuring 60 by 102 feet en
tered by hatches .‘10 feet wide and
42 feet long.
Into each of the three holds was
placed twelve locomotives—thirty
six to a ship. For a bed or floor
ing on which they rested for the
voyage, was used more than 3,000
tons of steel rails. The locomotives
when in position were braced with
heavy wooden beams and the space
between the boilers to the level of
the top of the steam dome packed
solid with highly compressed hay.
On this hay another flooring was
laid, and on this floor was placed
the tenders—the smoke stack, with
more baled hay or other light cargo '
packed in the space where coal is1
to be carried. On top of the tend- ■
ers was packed still more cargo to ‘
the deck level, and during the “rush ,
days” the above deck space filled \
with crated airplanes. When com- i
pletely loaded with the 36 loco
motives and other cargo, each' ves
sel was carrying a dead weight of
14,000 tons in addition to ship ma
chinery, bunker coal and crew sup
plies.
Thi* loading of tho locomotives is'
an interesting sijrht. Steel-railroad |
barges, carrying fourteen of the !
ste<d monsters are made fast along- j
side a 100-ton capacity floating!
derrick barge, in turn made fast j
to the ship. An ordinary sling of <
steel wire is placed around the for-j
ward end of the boilers, another j
under the supports to the cab, the I
signal given and the locomotive!
lifted forty to fifty feet in the j
air, swung over and gently loaded i
into the ship’s hold. The whole oper-!
ation required but twenty minutes.!
it was accomplished with the same!
ease and with the same lack of ex-1
citement as prevailed on a steamer
at an adjoining dock which was!
taking on board 500-pound bales of!
cotton.
The idea of shipping locomotives
complete was conceived when army!
transport officers were informed j
that England was shipping them!
across the channel ready to move
away on arrival.
“It England can do it, so can:
America,” an officer said, and he
straightway commandeered a fleet
of ore carrying vessels which were
constructed with hatches large'
enough to permit the handling of
such freight.
When the movement was at its
height the following time was re
corded for the movement of a loco
motive from its builders to its base
of action behind the battle lines.
Shops to New Jersey terminals 24
hours; from rail to barge 0 hours;
from terminals to ship side 6 hours;
barge to ship 20 minutes; New
York to France nine days; ship to
army rail lines and hooked to a
transport train bound for the front
six hours; a total of less than
twelve days.
Handling* of 73-ton locomotives as
if they were but one-tenth of their
weight, is only a small part of the
tremendous work that has been
under .way at the army transport
piers since the United States trans
port service attained full swing.
Major Dan O’Brien, marine di
rector, an officer who has won his
rank by more than twenty years’
—- ?
service in every big port of the
United States, Cuba, Mexico, the
Philippines, where transport facili
ties of the army were centered, is
the man who handled the loco
motives.
RED CROSS TEACHES
IRELAND TO LOVE lj S.
DUBIN.—During the past year,
thousands of Irish people Hava
learned to know America better,
through the work in Ireland of the
Home Service department of the
American Red Cross.
About a third of the cases w'th
which Home Service deals in Eu
rope are those of people in Ireland
who are dependents of Amer can
soldiers.
To deal with these cases, Ameri
can Red Cross committees were es
tablished in Londonderry, Belfast
and Dublin, with “visitors” at
Queenstown and Cork.
tTenana. Alaska's Interior Fuel Depot
Membership List
Nenana
Commercial Club
Anderson, Herman
Allred, Mrs. Clara
Budow, A1
Browne, F. D.
Bresnahan, F-. D.
Blankfield, D.
Bowen, J. R.
Blair, Roy
Brooker, Ed
Bennett, J. F.
Ball, I. B.
Brown, Erie
i
Burns, R. E.
Coutts, w r.
Calderhead, R. W.
Campbell, N. J.
Coghill, W. A.
Cooney, M. .1.
Doner, Frank
Diven, R. J.
Douse, Fred
Davis, Harry
Ekeland, Alf
Funk, A. B.
Fisher, Joe
Flower, J. H.
Foster, Steve
Gagnon, Wm.
Haslem, H. G.
Hagan, James
Hill, L. W.
Hagen, Hans
Hoey, Andy n
Gray, E. B.
Gilcher, W. H.
Hyland, Mike
Isabel, L. C.
Irvine, A. J. . ' r
Johnson, A. G. '\IV.
Jones, Frank
Jacobsen, J. C.
Julian, W. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter
Joseph, H. B.
Koland, Knut
Ketooroky, John A.
l^iughlin, E. I,.
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, Larry
Parks, S. E.
Pennington, G. W
Palfy, Paul
Packer, W. L.
Ryan, W. A.
Kosburg, Herman
Roth, Andy
Rodigkeit, Wm.
Schmidt, Curl
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.
Van Orsdel, J. C.
Williams, E. A.
Waechter, R. I.
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YANKEE FILMS SHOWN
TO ENLIGHTEN DUTCH
THE HAGUE.—Under the aus-j
pices of the American Committee i
of Public Information, the first ex
hibition of the American war film
entitled, “America's Answer”, was '
given here recently to a select audi
ence composed of chief officers
of the general staff of the Dutch
army and navy, invited by Ameri
can military and naval attaches.1
The film consisted of eight reels
showing the American fleet in Euro
pean waters, transport and hospital!
services and other aspects of
America’s achievements in the war.
A feature of interest proved to
be the series of pictures of Ameri
can aviation. The whole display
was greeted with warm enthusiasm
while views showing President Wil
son and General Pershing drew (
spontaneous cheers.
The musical accompaniment was
patriotically American and included
famous songs of the Civil and :
Spanish-American wars as well as
Southern melodies, many of which
were heard for the first time. The'
film will be shown throughout
Holland.
MYRTLE STEDMAN WILL
STAR TOMORROW NIGHT
The Oliver Morosco feature “Wild :
Olive”, with Myrtle Stedman in the I
title role, will be the attraction!
i
at the Coliseum tomorrow night,!
the show being in the nature of a:
mid-week special at popular prices. !
The screen production is taken from j
■ the novel of the same name by j
Basil King, and under the clever:
dramatization by Oliver Morosco j
| and Elmer Harris, the story has lost
i none of its fascination.
! The story is woven about a moun
! tain girl, who saves an innocent
man from imprisonment on a false
charge first by hiding him in her
mountain shack and later by the
j noble sacrifice of her love. The
j story culminates in a dramatic
courtroom scene, during which the
I innocence of the hero is established.
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