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DOG KENNELS NFNANA, ALASKA
NORDALE DECLINES
TO DISCUSS FLUNK
Representative A. J. Nordale, who
arrived at Fairbanks several days
ago, has declined to take part in
the controversy resulting from the
failure of the late legislature to
provide funds for the Agricultural
College and School of Mines near
Fairbanks. He says the record of
house proceedings will show who
was on the job and who was not,
during the final hours of the session,
and he is willing to let it .go at that.
He says, further, that had the bill
passed he would not have contested
for honors for the success of the
measure. The satisfaction of know
ing that favorable action had been
; taken and that he had contribute
! to its success would have been amp:
reward for him.
Heimberger's Cascade Laundry hi
just been renovated. Has sanitar
baths and furnishings. Shampooin
and electric drying a specialty
Terms reasonable.
LAUNCH VICTORY IS
EXPECTED TONIGH
The launch Victory. Captain Fre
Douse, is reported to have left Fail
banks at 11 o'clock this morning
and may be expected to arrive her
at about 5 o'clock this evening. Sh
is bringing the mail and H. I
Joseph and J. Lewis as passengei
for Nenana.
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Electrical Goods
Stoves and Ranges
Water Pipes and
Fittings
Bath Fixtures
Sheet Metal Work of All Kinds
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
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Fresh Eggs
Oranges, Lemons
Apples, Grapefruit
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Strange War Devices
To Be Exhibited By
Interior Department
WASHINGTON.—Strang devices
used in the war, and how American
ingenuity is turning some of them
to peace-time uses will be a part
of an educational exposition of the
inferior department that will be
held in Washington. The exposition
however, will not be confined to
these exhibits, but it is planned to
include a display of the depart
ment’s ramifications into the life,
safety and progress of the country
resulting from the haphazard addi
tion of bureaus from time to time.
The various exhibits will make the
exposition of national scope.
How a number of the bureaus
of the non-miiliary department did
their bit in the war will be shown
by the displays revealing the de
velopment of a machine to detect
the presence of the enemy and spoil
his plans, the recovery of hidden
mineral treasures needed to forge
war engines, and the improvement
of super-poisons. Along with these
achievements, the exposition will
disclose inventions of private Amer
ican citizens, some of which were
regarded of such importance that
the issuance of patents was withheld
under the ban of secrecy until the
signing of the armistice.
The patent office, a bureau of
the department, also will exhibit
historical models of epoch-making
American inventions, and from its
cob-webbed recesses as secret as the
grave, will resurrect certain foibles
or fancies of famous men. Abra
ham Lincoln, for instance, designed
a contrivance to facilitate the pass
age of vessels over shallow waters,
and his invention will be shown
at the exposition.
During the war. the bureau of
mines, another wing of the depart
ment, devoted almost its entire at
tention to war problems. The geo
phone, a listening device invented
by the French to detect enemy tun
neling and turned over to America
for further development, will be
a part of the bureau’s display. This
device is to be used in locating
entombed miners, and a further de
velopment in the making is a pro
posed international code of rappings
to enable entombed men to talk
through solid earth. The gas masks,
the making of shrapnel shells, and
the methods of American oil drillers,
which kept a continuous stream of
liquid fuel flowing into the war
zone, will be shown by working
models.
The geological survey already is
using the airplane in making topo
graphic maps, and this new method
will be illustrated at the exposition.
Models also will show undeveloped
regions investigated by geologists,
topographers and engineers and the
same regions after they have com
pleted their work and shown the
natural resources and the possible
development of the territory.
How America has shown its grati
tude to its war heroes and their
dependents will be demonstrated in
the pension bureau display. In line
with Secretary Lane’s farms-for
soldiers plan, the bureau will show
that the country in the past ha?
always advocated such rewards, this
bureau having adjudicated claims
for lands and issued land warrants
to soldiers for more than 68,000,000
acres. Lincoln, Grant Sherman.
Sheridan and Farragut were granted
land for service through the bureau,
and the applications signed by them
will be on exhibition. Important
historical papers signed by Wash
ington, Jefferson, Hancock, Frank
lin, and by Lafayette and Rocham
beau also will be on display.
The general land office of the
department conducts the largest
realty concern in the world, and its
notable history, including the pic
turesque part of opening townsites
and Indian reservations, disposal of
millions of acres of land and ac
counting of millions of dollars will
be depicted. The nation’s play
grounds of national parks, under the
jurisdiction of the department, will
not be overlooked, an exhibit being
a working model of a Yellowstone
geyser in action, with another show
ing the rugged character of the
t proposed Roosevelt national park.
The government railroad that is
being built in Alaska will by model
show something of the progress be
ing made in the penetration of that
pioneer country by the Alaskan En
gineering Commission, as an ad
vance agent of civilization and pros
perity. Engineering achievements
of the reclamation service will dem
onstrate how arid lands have been
engineering into providing full din
ner pails for more than a quarter
of a million people. The depart
ment's efforts, by its bureau of edu
cation, to stamp out illiteracy will
be shown by another exhibit.
PRESIDENT'S WIFE
IS INTERESTED IN
WELFARE OE YANKS
PARIS.—Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
is showing much interest in the
welfare and comfort of American
soldiers on leave in Paris. RecentV
she visited the American Red Cross
tent city on the Champs de Mars
where accommodations have been es
tablished for 1.600 of them.
The wife of the President made a
thorough tour of the Red Cross
camp, making inquiries of the Red
Cross women concerning the pre
paration of the food and the meth
ods of serving. When a camion
loaded with fresh, warm apple pies
arrived from a Red Cross kitchen
Mrs. Wilson sampled the pastry.
During her tour a bouquet of
flowers tied with the French na
tional colors was presented to Mrs.
Wilson. A French soldier with ar,
armless sleeve but a happy smile,
made the presentation speech. Mrs.
Wilson carried the flowers in her
arms du> mg the remainder of ner
visit. She showed an enthusiastic
interest in everything, giving spe
cial praise and commendation to
the recreation huts, where dances
are held, the reading and writing
rooms, and the arrangement of the
fifty large canvas dormitories.
She was received by Major Fran
cis Boyer, of the Northeastern I'.one
of the Red Cross. Miss Ethel Burnet,
directriee of the tent city, and Miss
Lila McClellan of Texas.
Noticing the number of men gath
ered to salute her as she left. Mrs.
Wilson expresed the wish to greet
them personally. An informal re
ception was held in front of the
camp, the soldiers forming in line
and shaking hands with the Presi
dent's wife as they filed past.
“THREEPENNY JAZZ
LATEST INNOVATION
FOR LONDON DANCERS
LONDON':—The American “Nickel
Dance” is to be introduced here for
the first time. If the name the
London newspapers give it sticks
it will be known as the “Three
penny Jazz.”
The old American roller skating
rink in Hammersmith has been ac
quired as the home of the new
dance temple, where the “Pay-As
You-Rag” innovation as it is called,
is to be tried out. When completed
the pavilion will be one of the
largest in Europe. In its gold and
rose ballroom, 3,000 persons will be
able to dance simultaneously with
comfort.
Seating accommodations will be
provided for 1,600. Including two
50-piece bands, the pavilion's staff
will number 236.
There will be six masters of cere
monies. If a man wishes to dance •
with a woman he has never met,j
he may secure an introduction by j
one of the six. There will also be!
half a dozen attendants on the floor i
clad in white flannel suits. All em
ployes are to be former British or
American soldiers and sailors.
Taxes Him With 'Em.
“Pa what's an inheritance tax?”
“It’s when your mother blames
all your faults on me.”—Boston
Transcript
Starting Him With a Feed.
“Carter Glass of Virginia was
sworn in as secretary of the trea
sury. The oats was administered by
Judge James Hay.” — Milwaukee
Journal.
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(INCL UDING THE WAR TAX)
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RETURN OF PEACE
CAUSES DISCHARGE
OF MANY WORKERS
PARIS.—Nearly all the French
manufacturing: establishments which
were converted into plants for the
making of war materials at the out
break of hostilities have already
returned to their peace time work.
Many others which were created es
pecially for war industries have
either been transformed, or are in
the process of being transformed
for employment in peace pursuits.
Generally speaking, there has been
a reduction in the personnel em
ployed in all these plants, pending
the completion of the alterations
necessary in the equipment. Some
of the peace-time manufactories
which were adapted to war work
will need comparatively few changes,
but those establishments which were
born of the war, such as aviation
works, will have to make important
alterations. Throughout the latter
class of manufactories there has
been a reduction in the number of
employes. Some of the war plants,
whose contracts have not yet ex
pired. have kept part of their per
sonnel busy by reducing the working
day to nine, eight and seven hours.
The effect on labor of the cessa
tion of hostilities may be seen from
the figures of employment in some
of the great French industrial cen
ters. In ten of these districts from
which reports have been received
the total number of plants engaged
in war work was 9-52. They em
ployed before the armistice 261,924
men and 109,775 women. The total
number of employes has been re
duced now to 194.648 men and
48,768 women.
Mercy
She's worried, and she is a sight.
The poor girl wears a frown;
Her hobble skirt is so blame tight,
That she cannot sit down.
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PERSONAL K
P.esident Engineer Kestley has
moved to camp 415, opposite Xe
nana. for a few days, to look after
some work on the south end of the
residency. He is working out from
the river toward Fairbanks.
John Wahlgren, who has been un
der the care of Dr. More, at the
government hospital, during the past
couple of days, is somewhat im
proved today and the hope is enter
tained that he will be able to leave
the institution very soon.
I Jack Singleton, who has been in
Xenana during the past several days
receiving treatment for a severe cut
in the leg, hopes to be able to re
turn to his roadhouse at the end
’ of steel tomorrow.
Ike P. Taylor, assistant to the en
gineer in charge of this division,
left this morning for 35-mile on an
inspection trip. He was accompanied
by M. C. Edmunds, draftsman of
■the A. E. C.
Mrs. Leroy Moyer has taken the
! Eames cabin, on upper A street
and will reside there until her de
parture for the States sometime next
month.
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