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.
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Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth.Editor and Manager
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THE SUGAR SITUATION
America, which made exports of
140.000. 000 bushels of wheat in the
closing crop year, where less than
20.000. 000 bushels surplus appear
ed, is called upon now to exercise
like virtue with sugar.
The burden of maintaining Al
lied supplies falls on our resources.
No sugar comes from Central Eu
dope, none from Java; from Hawaii
and West Indies less than usual.
French sugar territory is over
run by German armies; French su
gar mills are taken and destroyed. |
Submarine sinkings and losses by
battle have cost us great stores;!
labor shortage makes inroads on |
production.
For England the allowance is two
pounds of sugar a month; for
France, one pound; for Italy, one
pound. America seeks to share
equally with all who sit at the com
mon table, joined in the common
defense.
The sugar card ration plan is1
working well in Southeastern and!
Westward Alaska. With but few
exceptions the system is meeting ap- j
proval and individual consumers are1
keeping well within their monthly
allowance of two pounds per person
and doing it cheefully and willingly.
Now and then someone complains,
about having to come down town
to get a card; that he or she can
not live on two pounds per month ;j
that they think it strange the gov
• ernment doesn't give them all the
sugar they want. Thank God that
these unpatriotic individuals are in
the minority.
Sugar must go to the soldiers and
the Allies and the people of the
United States must show' the same
spirit of voluntary sacrifice which
they displayed during the wheat
saving campaign.
THE UNPRINTED DEEDS
Twelve pilots stood in a semi
circle around a desk on w’hich was
spread a large map.
“The push starts tomorrow.” said
the colonel. "We have allotted to
us this zone. It is our job to wreck
stations, trains and bridges in there.”
The pilots saluted and filed out.
By nine o’clock the next morning,
two enemy trains had been derailed,
one ammunition train was on fire
and still exploding, and twm railway
stations lay in ruins. The infantry,
thanks, in part, to the work of the
airmen in hampering the movements
I
of the German reserves, had ad
vanced a mile on a ten-mile front.
The official aviation report for
the day said: “One of our machines
is missing; two German machines
were destroyed.”
JULY EXPORTS INCREASED
Exports of American goods in
creased slightly in July as com
pared with June, while imports fell
off slightly, according to an an
nouncement recently by the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
of the Department of Commerce.
Exports increased from $485,000,
000 in June to $508,000,000 in July.
For the seven months ended with
July, the foreign sales totaled $3,
483.000. 000, as compared with $3,
661.000. 000 for the corresponding
period of the previous year.
July imports were $241,000,000,
whereas in June they reached a
total of $260-000,000. For the first
seven months of the year the im
ports were valued at $1,787,000,000
as against $1,779,000,000 for a sim
ilar period in 1917.
The gold movement in 1918 has
been of much less importance than
in 1917. For the first seven months
of this year $52,000,000 represents
the imports of gold; in 1917 the im
ports for the seven-months period
was $505,000,000. Exports amount
ed to $29,000,000 this year, as
against $272,000,000 last year.
The silver movement has increas
ed in importance, the total imports
being $40,000,000 for the first seven
months this year, as against $22,
000,000 last year, and exports reach
ing a total of $135,000,000 as com
pared with $44,000,000 for the first
seven months of last year.
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Behind the British Lines in France
•—Aerial bombing is today for more
of an exact science than was sup
posed possible a year and a half
ago. In the early days of the war,
dropping bombs was largely a mat
ter of luck, and the straight eye
of the aviator was the only factor
relied upon for success.
Today, however, matters are en
tirely different. Accurate bomb
sites have been produced, which,
carefully used, are a guarantee of
the bomb falling on the object aimed
at, within a very small margin of
error- Of course, in tlje case of
all such instruments, the human
element is sometimes responsible
for errors of calculation, and a small
error on a bomb-sight at 15,000
feet will send a bomb far out of
its course. In the words of an
America airman who has done some
splendid raiding work in France:
“It is wonderful what you can
miss with a bomb.”
From this it must not be thought
that the majority of Allied bombs
do not reach their billets in Ger
many or in the German lines; for
aerial photographs taken after raids
have shown that they do. But em
phasis is laid on the importance of
the personal factor in bombing. In
the excitement of work of this kind
—often in the midst of heavy shell
fire—a very cool head is required
to manipulate an instrument as deli
cate as a bomb-sight. British air
men for example, receive a very
thorough training in bombing be
fore they are allowed to proceed
overseas, and must obtain a certain
number of hits before they can
graduate.
It is thought that quite a lot of
the wanton and useless destruction
of private property in England by
German raiders is due to sheer bad
bombing. Undoubtedly the Central
Powers are behind the Allies in
regard to bombing gear, for on a
large German twin-engined bombing
airplane recently captured was found
a crude copy of an English bomb
sight which was introduced more
than two yearii ago.
Aerial bombs range in size from
ten ponuds up to fifty or sixty
times that weight and are roughly
of two kinds, incendiary and high
explosive. They are generally laid
on their sides in racks underneath
the airplane; but sometimes they
are carried in cells specially fitted
in the fuselage (or body) of the
machine. In either case they are
fused and released by levers placed
convenient to the pilot or observer,
the bombs themselves being far out
of reach.
When a bomb is released it does
not fall directly downwards, but
takes a forward path as it drops,
in the direction in which the ma
chine is traveling. This is due to
the momentum imparted to it by
the speed of the aircraft.
A factor of great importance in
bombing is the time-length of the
fuse. For example, if a railway
junction was being attacked, a bomb
which exploded on contact would
do far more damage than one with
a delay fuse; for the former would
have a wide, low radius of action—
smashing up the railway lines—
while the latter would during the
delay bury itself in the ground and
merely make a deep crater of a
small area.
The reverse, however, would ap
ply in the case of a munition fac
tory. A bomb exploding on contact
would go off as soon as it touched
the roof, doing little or no damage
to the remainder of the building;
but an appropriately timed delay
fuse would give the bomb time to
crash through to the middle or
ground floors, where it would be
infinately more destructive.
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GERMANS FORGE
CASH DEMANDS
WITHOUT HONOR
PARIS.—Germany has exacted
war contributions from Belgium
I during the first four years of the
I war amounting to a total of $446,- ■
i 000,000. This is in addition to the
i vast amount of machinery, materials
1 and men taken from Belgium to;
! sustain Germany.
In this fifth year of war it is
i interesting to review the “financial
activities” of the Germans in Bel
I gium since that fateful day in Bel
igium's history, August 20, 1914,
1 when the German hordes entered
Brussels.
During that month, as the Ger
man armies were hacking their way
through the little kingdom numerous
towns and cities were “fined" and
war contributions were levied from
each province as the Germans pro
gressed southwestward.
The first move of the German
staff when entering a town was to
proceed to the city hall and an- ]
nouce to the burgomaster that for
resisting the advance of Emperor
William’s armiees. his city or town j
had been fined so many thousand j
or million francs, as the case might j
be. When the burgomaster would
remonstrate, Uhlans and Death’s
Head Hussars would covort inno
cently in City Hall Square or the
burgomaster would be taken pris
oner.
In one instance in the Province I
of Liege the German commander,
of the company entering the town j
informed the burgomaster that a |
war contribution of 100,000 francs I
would have to be forthcoming within
two hours. The burgmaster de-'■
murred. Never in the history of
the little town had there been so
| much money in the city treasury.
At the present moment, there was
only a little over three thousand
francs in the strong box.
“Well, we’ll take that” calmly
responded the German.
More than 200,000,000 francs
were thus levied between August
'and November, 1914.
Then Field Marshal Baron von
' der Goltz-Pasha decreed that Bel
j gium would have to pay a monthly
contribution of 40,000-000 francs
during one year and it would not be
I increased and that it would not be
renewed. The Pasha's decree, how
ever, proved to be but another
scrap of paper.
In November 1915, Boron von
j Bissing called upon the councils of
; the nine Belgian provinces to meet
and informed them that the promise
made by his predecessor had been
made in good faith but with the
implied condition that war would
be ended within the year, and that
he saw no alternative but that to
renew the monthly contribution of
40,000,000 francs for another year.
On the 20th of November, 1910,
instead of abolishing the enormous
tax on Belgium von Bissing de
cided that, owing to the duration
of the war, the increase in prices—
high cost of living—he would have ,
to increase the monthly payments
to 50,000,000 francs. He added i
ominously, “temporarily.”
It proved to be so. indeed, for, .
on the 21st of May, 1917, the con-1
tribution was further raised to t‘0,-!
000,000 francs.
The flow of francs into the cof
fers of the “War Lord' was too
small to satisfy the gargantuan ap
petites of the miltary men however, j
and on the 12th of September, 1916
they “seized” 430,000,000 marks,!
constituting all the deposits in Ger
man bills of the Banque National"
and the Societe Generate de Bel-!
gique, the two largest banks in Bel- |
gium. When one of the directors i
of the Societe Generale refused to ^
divulge that part of the combination i
of the vaults which he alone knew i
and without which the vaults could
not be opened, the Germans said
that they would blow them open
with high explosives. The director
rather than have the vaults of the
institution wrecked, decided to ac
quiesce. Thus, what will probably
go down as the greatest burglary of
modern times was perpetrated.
K. Hinodo, a Japanese employed
at the Ketchikan cannery, nearly
started a riot at the plant by open
ing: one of the doors of the retorts,
against which there is a pressure
of 13 pounds to the square inch,
without having turned off the steam.
The door burst open with an awful
roar, throwing the startled Jap
about 20 feet and badly scalding his
arm with steam. The other Japs
in the vicinity thi/lg*nt the plant
had been bombed and made for the
door like the Taku wind. The in
jured Jap was taken to the hospital.
About 240,000,000 tungsten fila
ment electric lamps were sold in
the United States last year, of which
75,000,000 were miniature lamps.
Dr. J. R. BOWEN
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Prices Paid for
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FOR RENT—Cabin, furnished or
unfurnished. Apply at Carter
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LOST—Large red baseball sweater
with grey stripes on arm Finder
please return to News office.
j FOR SALE— Panoramic views of
the town of Nenana in 1916 and
1917; taken by Johnson, of Fair
| banks, from hill overlooking the
; town. Apply at News office.
1 FOR SALE—Steamer trunks, trav
eling bags, suit cases A large
variety to choose from. Simson's.
FOR SALE. CHEAP—Large tank
heater and pipe drum; flush toilet,
good as new; also sink. Inquire
f Simson's.
i FOR SALE.—Mrs. W. F. Lyons is
leaving for the Outside soon and
offers shop, fixtures and business
in cleaning: and pressing: clothes,
for sale. N’o reasonable offer re
fused Shop is on A street, near
I blacksmith shop.
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i FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN—Sew
ing machine, phonograph, launch
Bunny, with 2*6 h. p. Ferro en
gine, shot gun, rifle, etc. Inquire
of J. A. Slippern.
FOR SALE—Beaver Board, in plain
and oak finish. Doors and win
dows, sash stock and mouldings.
Inquire Simson’s.
FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
PIANOS -For Rent and Sale. Sim
son’s.
FOR SALE CHEAP—Cook stove in
good condition. Inquire News
office.
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