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.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
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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BAD NEWS FOR BERLIN
The war news from the Western
front these days is bad news for the
German people. Quotations from
German newspapers portray the
gloom that overhangs the people in
the large cities. That the people
in the small towns and country are
equally depressed is not to he
doubted.
The Liberty Loan bond buyers
of the preceding loans have their
share in the success of the Entente
Allies. They furnished the sinews
of war, not only to fight the U
boats and to build ships, not only
to raise, equip, and send our sol- j
diers over, not only to supply them
and our allies with food and muni
tions, but more than $6,000,000,000
of their money has been loaned to
our allies so that they may prose
cute the war with vigor and strength.
W'e here at home have an oppor
tunity to send the Germans some
more bad news. The Germans have
great respect for money; they know
its vital value in waging war- They
know, too, that the support the
united American people give a
Government loan measures largely
the support they give their Govern
ment, the moral as well as the finan
cial support they give their armies
in the field.
A tremendous subscription to the
Fourth Liberty Loan will be as dis
tressing to the German people as
a defeat for them on the battle field,
and it will mean as much. It spells
their defeat; it breaks their morale;
it means power to their enemies.
A subscription to the loan is a con
tribution to German defeat and
American victory.
BEATS THE ORIGINAL
Marshal Foch is credited by some
ci" the German newspapers with
adopting a “new method of defense
learned from Hindenburg.” The
Allied commander is said by the
German correspondent of the Berlin
Vorwaerts to have applied the
method to the defensive fighting
just before the great Allied offens
ive began at the Marne salient. in
July.
The method is described as a
withdrawal of troops from the first
line and placing the main force on
the second line. This weakened the
effect of the German artillery.
“Enemy batteries were in such
deep formation,” writes the Vor
waerts’ correspondent, “that their
barrage struck the German attack
not in front of the first line but
only in front of the second line.
This defensive action, learned from
Hindenburg, naturally demands a
new method of attack which will
not be long in coming.”
RELIANCE IN PORI
FROM UPPER TOWN
The steamer Reliance, under the
command of Captain George Green,
arrived in Nenana at 2 o’clock yes
terday afternoon from Fairbanks
with the barge Trahey in tow. She
will utilize this barge to relay
the Fairbanks freight brought by
the steamers arriving from Dawson
and the lower Yukon.
The passengers landing at Nenana
were W. R. Sherwin, R. H. Mine
hart, Mrs. M. Bishop, Marshal Erwin,
Dr. and Mrs. David H. More, Charles
More, J. R. Smith.
She had about twenty tons of
freight for Nenana which included
about five tons of meat consigned
to the A. E. C., ten tons of vege
tables for the N. C. Co., and five
tons of general goods for local
merchants.
Shortly after the arrival of the
steamer Tanana she ranged up
alongside and commenced the trans
fer of freight consigned to Fair
banks from the barge Arizona The
Arizona has about 20 tons for the
upper town, most of which will be
taken up by the Reliance.
She sailed early this afternoon
taking away the passengers ar
riving on the Tanana and the fol
I lowing from Nenana: Mrs. L. J
| McCarty and son, Charles Johnson
TWO CHOICE
BUSINESS LOTS
FOR SALE
CORNER OF MARKET AND SECOND
BLOCK 14 LOTS 1 AND 2
NEW PRICE TODAY
Lot No. 1 - $573.52
Lot No. 2 - $246.52
These Lots are centrally located, being
only a few steps from the Postoffice and
office of U. S. Commissioner and across
the street from the Telegraph office and
Federal Reserve.
The Lots origionally sold for $1200.00
and $500.00 respectively. For further in
formation see Dr. J. R. Bowen, the dentist
Bowen Building, Nenana.
DRAFTEES PASS
MEDICAL TESTS
AT RAPID RATE
CAJF KEARNEY, San Diego,
Sept. 7.—More than 70 physicians
and surgeons and perhaps twice
that number of enlisted men acting
as clerks and assistants operate the
medical examination machine here,
through which draft recruits began
to pour today at a rapid rate- Tho
organization so far has not “struck
its pace” but the corps which ex
amined the California June draft
quotas, sent here for training, ex
amined more than 700 men in eight
hours and the present unit is ex
pected to do at least as well es
pecially as many of its members
served in the former corps.
The examination was carried on in
a series of five buildings connected
with tents or canvas passages, and
in several tents opening off these
passages. Except for vital per
sonnel work nothing else was done
in these buildings. The examina
tion work went on until an early
hour tonight, and tomorrow will
start early and continue late. No
rehearsals were held as was the
case with the former machine but
notwithstanding this, every portion
of the organization functioned well
and today’s work went forward
rapidly.
The first step toward the examin
ation was a bath which the recruits
took under the showers in their
company wash-houses. Then they
were lined up in single file at the
entrance to the examination build
ings to wait their turn. Each man
carried with him all the papers he
needed during the examination,
clipped together in the order in
which they were required.
The long line of recruits was fed
into the examination machine like
wire into a nail-making apparatus,
! and after about an hour, the com
| pleted product began to click forth
| at the other end. Occasionally a
j man who failed to meet some stand
| ard was thrust out at some stage
i of the procedure.
The first section of the machine
was devoted to finger prints. In a
i tent set aside of them, eight men
trained in taking finger prints,
operated at as many stands. Print
er’s ink was usei'|
Then the recruit washed his fi
ger tips with gasoline, fastened tl
tag bearing the camp serial numb
assigned to him around his ne<
and stripped. Enlisted men d
tailed to that duty tied his cloth
into a bundle and tagged it wi
his name.
In a small section next to this
room groups of enlisted men at
scales and height-measuring stands
took the weight and height of each
recruit which other enlisted men
entered on a blank from the re
cruit’s bunch of papers. Here also
all tattoos, scars and other bodily
marks were entered on a peculiar
form which showed their exact loca
tion. Each recruit was measured
for chest expansion and then he
passed on to the skin examiners.
An optical board tested the re
cruits ability to read letter charts
at varying distances. One specialist
examined all the recruit’s ears. He
: worked rapidly, closing one of the
I man’s ears at a time and whispering
different numbers or phrases at
varying distances from the open ear.
If the man repeated these correctly
he passed; if not, he was recorded
as having defective hearing. Often
a few questions would reveal the
cause of the trouble and show the
ailment either curable or incurable.
Then appropriate notes would be
made so that he might have proper
medical attention later on
The orthopedic board examined
each recruit’s feet and joints care
fully, noting minor defects which
might be cured by simple treat
ments and paying much attention
to his knees. This board also meas
ured the recruit’s feet, having him
stand with a 40-pound weight in
his arms while doing so. This was
to determine how much his foot
would spread when he was carrying
the regulation pack, so he might
' have shoes that would fit under
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actual service conditions. The shoe
size so found was entered on one
of his papers and while he remains j
in the army that will be the only
size shoe he can obtain.
Twelve officers made up the heart
: and lung examination board, which
' had a large room to itself. Exam
; inations here were made with min
j ute care. If any examiner found
| evidence of a defect in a recruit,
that man had to submit to a second
DRAFT BOYS ARE i
110 GO WEDNESDAY:
:
Transport Jacobs Will Take Nenana
Draft to Fort Gibbon On
Wednesday Morning.
-.
Ed Cronin, chairman of the Ne-;
nana Local Board, received the fob!
lowing telegram from Lieutenant de
Wolf today, relative to the third
draft which is to leave Nenana1
soon. The telegram wras from Chena
and as follows:
“Impossible to get draft men
from Fairbanks until Tuesday after
noon. Have your men ready at 5
a. tn. Wednesday.”
Arrangements have accordingly
been made to send the men away
on the transport Jacobs, the time of
embarkation being fixed tentatively
for 9 a. m., Wednesday morning. !
Registrants who have been called
will answer the roll at 9 o’clock
tomorrow morning at A. E. C. ware
house No. 1.
The registrants who will go on the
Jacobs are as follows: Ole Halvor,
Boen, John A. R. Larson, Sam Ger
J off, Jack Hohoff, Harry Gasaloff,
j Sam Gasoff, Alek Kozoff, Andro
j Gibson, Kyuzabura Saito, Sam Gat
! off, Jakov Lucich, Karl Gutnoff,
j M. D. McCambridge, Daniel J. Gal
| lagher, E. Amelahanoff.
Men of other local boards, but
, who are at present in Nenana, will
! also answer the roll tomorrow morn
jing: j
I Fairbanks Board—Hazarat Min
| zalf, Harryton Aldatoff, Gabriel
| Bozovieh. Daniel Kudzasoff, John
j Romanoff, Gambol Revazoff, Milo
Soulich.
Eagle Board—Dwight Fox.
: Anchorage Board—Oscar Dahl.
San Jose Board—Elven Johnson.
| Jackson, Mich Board—Thos. Lake
! Ishpeming, Mich Board Albert F.
i Johnson.
Tacoma Board—Charles Amos
Wheeler.
Burlington, Kansas Board—Wil
liam N. Thomas.
! San Francisco Board —Archie A.
| Myre.
I E. C. McCreary has been reclassi
; fied and placed in Class 1. He is
! in Fairbanks and will join the trans
! port at the upper town as a Nenana
! draft man.
Ole Halvor Boen and Jahn A.
j R. Larson are subjects of /.lutral
j countries in Class 1 and were not
i subject to the present ca/., but they
1 have voluntarily offered their serv
i ices, waiving the right to exemption
from the draft under certain con
i
ditions.
! M. D. McCambridge, Daniel J.
■ Gallagher, E. Amelahanoff and Karl
i Gutnoff are inducted for limited
: service only.
HOME ECONOMIC CLUB
TO HOLD MEETING1
The regular monthly meeting of
the Home Economic club will be held
at half past two o’clock on Wed
nesday afternoon at the Nenana
Club rooms.
The subject up for discussion will !
be the use of cornmeal and hominy ;
in the conservation of food.
Everybody is cordially invited to '
be present at the meeting and should
anyone have any Hoover recipes,
they are asked to bring them along.
_
It is expected at Nome that not.
more than 250 people will be left in j
that city this winter, so great has!
been the rush of inhabitants to the
Outside. There are so many empty
buildings in the city that town
people talk seriously of tearing some
of them down and using the lumber
as firewood, for with coal over $30
per ton it would be cheaper to burn
a building than buy a few tons of
coal.
COW SCORES HIE
IN BROADWAY JONES
George M. Cohan, in “Broadway
Jones,” is without doubt the most
pleasing comedy thus far seen at the
Coliseum and was enjoyed to the
utmost by the large crowd which
witnessed the production last night.
“Broadway Jones" in pictures is
George Cohan from beginning to
end, and those who know this cele
brated stage star know what that
means.
In the opinion of a prominent
New York critic,writing in the Jour
nal, “George M. Cohan in “Broad
way Jones” is the greatest comedy
six-reel feature that has ever been
produced in front of any audience.
George Cohan is George Cohan,
whether he is on the stage, on the
street, or on the screen, and this
moving picture has stamped him the
greatest artist in the world.”
The comedy is agreeably free from
slap-stick stuff. It is brim full of
unadulterated, honest-to-goodness
fun of the higher order and rune
with a smoothness seldom found in
the comedy productions of the day.
It is a high class performance in
every respect and is deserving of
the best that Nenana has in the way
of support. At fifty cents for general
admission, it is one of the biggest
bargains ever offered local theater
goers.
The show will be repeated to
night, commencing at eight o’clock.
The Moore Packing company locat
ed near Cordova has packed 21,00(1
cases of salmon this year, which
is 9500 more than the total pack
last year.
Union Hall Club Rooms
HALL FOR RENT
See Erick Nelson for Term*
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WANT ADS
FOR SALE—At a great war sacri
fice, 43-Mile Roadhouse, fully
equipped. Apply at Fowler &
Morris.
FOR SALE.—Dining room table,
small rug, child's bed, and various
cooking utensils. Apply to Mrs
C. H. Hall, Commission cottage.
FOR REXT—Cabin, furnished or
unfurnished. Apply at Carter
House.
LOST—Large red baseball sweater
j with grey stripes on arm Finder
please return to News office.
FOR SALE—Panoramic views of
the town of X'enana in 1916 and
1917; taken by Johnson, of Fair
banks, from hill overlooking the
town. Apply at News office.
FOR SALE—Steamer trunks, trav
eling bags, suit cases- A large
i variety to choose from. Simson's.
, FOR SALE, CHEAP—Large tank
heater and pipe drum; flush toilet,
good as new; also sink. Inquire
Simson’s.
FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN—Sew
ing machine, phonograph, launch
Bunny, with 2% 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.
FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
COLES AIR TIGHT
HEATERS
RANGES
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS
Yukon Stoves and Drums
Air Tight Heaters
Any Thing in the Sheet Metal, Plumb
ing or Heating Line
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
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