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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MOTOR TRANSPORT CORPS
The recent c”eation of the Motor
Transport Corps to take over from
all other corps control of all motor
vehicles in the army will entail the
execution of plans of great size
ami scope, says a war department
statement, issued recently.
The Motor Transport Corps’ per
sonnel and equipment with each
American army will comprise nearly
as many men and officers as were
engaged on both 3ides of the battle
of Waterloo—enough motor trucks
to stretch in an unbroken line across
the state of Ohio if they were
parked end to end with 5-foot spaces
between them and enough motor
cycles and other vehicles to stagger
by their mere numbers the masters
of warfare in any other times than
these.
The actual number of men and
officers provided by the Motor
Transport Corps to each American
army, according to the personnel
chart of the corps, is to be 154,747.
The army motor trucks with this
unit will number 40,803; there will
be 24,250 motorcycles, 7,005 pass
enger-carrying motor cars, and
6,598 ambulances, with a total of
approximately 100,000 drivers and
riders. The officers will number
4,298 and the noncommissioned offi
cers 30,090.
The headquarters or executive
organization for this service will
consist of 3,122 men and 679 offi
cers, and the total repair personnel
in the 273 service parks provided
for the upkeep of the army of motor
vehicles consists of 34,319 men, a
large percentage of them trained
mechanics. Each additional Ameri
can army will, of course, require a
similar motor transport corps per
sonnel. By the time, therefore, that
the United States has 4,000,000
troops in France, nearly half a mil
lion of them will be engaged in
motor transport work.
These are a few indications of
the scope of the Motor Transport
Corps. The service has already ac
complished a great work, according
to military authorities, in facilitating
the rapid movement of troops and
supplies of the American army in
France, and army motor trucks
throughout the United States are
day by day helping in a no less
important way.
ShelJon-Gibson Stage Line
Carrying U. S, Mail*
For CHITINA and WAV POINTS
Every Tuesday Morning
Special Auto for parties of four
or more any time.
C. Ha'-ry Woodward, agent
Fairbanks
AMERICANS AND THE WAR
America’s vast shipbuilding pro
gram has opened the eyes of the
world to her tremendous possibili
ties, recently declared Peter O.
Knight, vice-president and general
counsel of the American Interna
tional Shipbuilding Corporation,
which operates the big plant at
Hog Island.
“It is the best possible evidence
that we intend to stick,” he said.
The Japanese visitors counted the
50 ways, one by one and exclaimed:
“Why, we have only ten more ways
in our whole country than you have
in this one yard.’ And Lord Read
ing, of England, declared that it
typified the limitlessness of America.
“Others ask how we can do such
! things, and they learn that at the
| beginning of the war the wealth of
1 the United Sates was $250,000,000,
000. compared with $85,000,000,000
as the wealth of Great Britain, $80,
000,000,000, for Germany and $55,
000,000,000 for France.
“We have half the total banking
resources of the world. Since the
war began we have bought back
i $4,000,000,000 of securities, loaned
$7,000,000,000 to the Allies and ex
tended credit to the Allies and busi
ness concern's to the amount of
$7,000,000,000 more. We have car
! ried on the enlarged business of the
| country and a war costing us $50,
000,000 a day.
“And America’s wealth has in
! creased since August, 1914. It has
| one-fourth of the commerce of the
, globe and has accumulated a third
of the gold supply of the world.
So great is the nation’s wealth that
even this war cannot deplete it. In
formed German citizens of other
nations cannot think Germany can
win with America against her.”
i
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Men wanting employment can
| obtain work at good wage* at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latouche.
If you go out you will only
come back “Butted” in the spring
TAKE EMPLOYMENT FOR THE
WINTER.
I Two hundred men wanted at
I Juneau and vicinity; one hundred
and fifty at Latouche and
Kennecott.
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GROCERS
SPANISH INFLUENZA;
CAUSE AND EFFECTS
The recent outbreak of a disease
known as Spanish influenza through
out the United States, the evil ef
fects of which has been brought
home to Nenana in a startling man
ner, and the stringent measure
taken in the States to curb the rav
ages of the disease, seems to have
aroused a desire for a closer know
ledge of this disease locally.
The following notes on this
epidemic disease .taken from the
latest copy of the Public Health
Reports issued by the United States
Public Health Service, is published
for the benefit of readers of the
I Nenana News:
“Recent reports from Spain, Aus
j tria, Germany, Switzerland, France.
| Great Britain, Hawaii, and elsewhere
! indicate the presence of another
; pandemic of influenza similar in ex
tent to others which have been
i reported since the sixteenth century
j There have been four pandemics'
! succeded by epidemics during • the
j last century, the last one occurring
I 1889-1892.
i “No other communicable disease
which assumes epidemic proportions
j spreads so rapidly or attacks indis
Icriminately so large a proportion of
: the population; therefore while the
: statements in the press that eight
million persons have been attacked
in Spain alone may be an exaggera
tion, it is probably nevertheless true
that there has been a wide preval
ence of the disease.
: “Past epidemics have been char
acterized by a profound prostra
tion out of all proportion to the
intensity of the disease; hence it is
not improbable that the disease has
impaired for a time the efficiency
ot the enemy’s army, as has been
reported.
i Most of the cases reported to the
Public Health Service have been
from France, England, Norway and
Switzerland, although a mild form
has been reported in Canton, China.
It has appeared at Prince Edward
Island, Canada, and in the Island
of Guadeloupe in the West Indies,
probably an extension from Euro
pean ports.
In view of this pandemic pre
valence of influenza, the following
report on the disease .prepared by
the Division of Sanitation, Bureau
of Medicin and Surgery, Navy De
partment, is published as a matter
of interest in connection with meas
ures for the prevention of the intro
duction of the disease into this coun
try:
“The present outbreak appears to
be characterized by a peculiarly
sudden onset, the victim being struck
down with dizziness, weakness and
pains in various parts of the body
while on duty or in the street.
“There is a sharp rise in the tem
perature to 103 or 104 degrees, com
plaint of headache, pain in the back
and photophobia. The throat feels
sore; there is congestion in the
pharnyx, and in some instances
laryngitis and bronchitis. Lateral
nystagmus with suffused conjuct
ivae, a sign to which Maj. Morris,
R. A. M. C., has drawn attention in
trench fever, is not rarely found
in the influenza patient.
“In many cases the fever falls in
three or four days, a/.d the patient
recovers rapidly; in others there is
an irregular pyrexia, which may
be accounted for by bronchitis; in
rare cases by bronchiolitis, broncho
pneumonia, or by the presence of
influenza bacillus in the blood. The
usual mode .of death has been bron
chiolitis, with increasing cyanosis
, and terminal failure of the right
1 heart.
i
“Incubation—Osier give- th’ in
[ cubation period of influenza as from
one to four days, with fever and
associated phenomena.
“During the present epidemic the
period, as determined from bed to
bed onset in hospitals, has oeen 48
! hours or less.
“Mode of transmission—Despite
popular opinion that ‘grippe’ spreads
over the world in some mysteriously
rapid manner, it never spreads, as
Osier points out, more rapidly than
methods of transportation. It is
true, however, that the influenza
bacillus is probably constantly pres
ent in the respiratory passages. The
disease is highly communicable and
during epidemics it spreads with re
markable rapidity. Just what con
ditions or combination of circum
stances are necessary to start one
of the periodic world-wide outbreaks
is as unknown in this as in other
communicable diseases, like plague,
which are prone to become pandemic.
The sources of infection are un
doubtedly the secretions from the
nose, throat and lungs of cases or
carriers, and the mode of trans
mission is by direct or indirect con
veyance of those secretions by drop
let infection or by means of hand
kerchiefs, towels, eating utensils,
etc. That the disease may be con
trolled under suitable conditions was
shown by many instances of institu
tional isolation in the height of the
epidemics of 1889-1892.
“Control in the Navy— Quarantine
tand isolation are impracticable oi
account of the wide distribution ol
the organism in healthy persons anr
the number of unrecognizable cases
Patients, however, should be put tc
bed at once, and bed isolation, pre
vention of droplet infection, anti
prompt disinfection of mess gear
handkerchiefs, etc., practiced as in
measles. Where sick bays or wards
are not available for isolation, the
use of sheet screens between patients
is to be recommended.
“Treatment—Rest in bed, warmth,
fresh air, abundant food, with
Dover’s powder for the relief of
pain. Every case with fever should
be regared as serious and kept in
bed at least until defervescence of
the fever. Convalescense requires
careful management to avoid serious
sequelae.
“During the present outbreak a
broad the salts of quinine and as
pirin have been most generally usee
during the acute attack, the lattei
apparently with much success in the
relief of symptoms.
“Methods for the control of the
disease may be summarized as fol
lows :
“Infectious agent—'The Bacillus
influenzae of Pfeiffer."
“Sources of infection—-The secre.
tions from the nose, throat and res.
piratory passages of cases or ol
carriers.
“Incubation period—One to fouj
days—generally two.
“Mode of transmission—By direc’
contact or indirect contact througl
the use of handerehiefs, commor
towels, cups, mess gear, or othei
objects contaminated with fresh se
cretions. Droplet infection plays ar
important part.
Period of communicability—A:
long as the person harbors the causa
) t>ve organism in the respirator;
tract.
“Methods of control—The infecte<
i individual and his environment,
i “Recognition of the disease—B;
j clinical manifestations and bacterio
i logical findings.
"Isolation—Bed isolation of in
feeted individuals during the coursi
of the disease. Screens betweel
beds are to be recommended.
‘Immunization—Vaccines are use<
with only partial success.
“Quarantine—None; impracticabl
“Concurrent disinfection—The dis
charges from the mouth, throat
nose, and other respiratory passages
“Terminal disinfection—Thorougl
cleansing, airing, and sunning. Thi
causative organism is short live<
outside of the host.
General measures—The attendan
; on the case should wear a gauzi
mask. During epidemics person:
should avoid crowded assemblages
street cars and the like. Educatioi
as regards the danger of promis
cuous coughing and spitting. Pa
tients, because of the tendency t(
the development of broncho-pneu
monia, should be treated in well
ventilated, warm rooms."
A NATION’S iTREWGTl
IS IN ITS FOOD SUPPU
Fat Iess —Tfafa nothinri
Create a Reserve
AMBZICA MUST FEED
1*10,000. OOO AIMES
NOTICE
Nenana townsite lots will be
offered for sale at the townsite
office at 11 a. m., October 26th.
28th and 29th, 1918, at public auc
tion.
Anyone desiring a particular lot
put up for sale please notify the
Townsite Manager on or before the
dates named.
H. B. JOSEPH,
Townsite Manager.
FOR RENT—Four-room unfurnished
cabin, hot and cold water con-|
nections. Inquire VVaechter Bros.
Market. I
l\ S. Food Administration.
Jist ez de buckwheat cake got
flop over on his face, Br'er Bacon
rin' dance ’roun' en say, sezee:—
‘‘One good tu’n desarves en nuth
er," sezee.—Meanin’ dat ef de
sojer boys go en do de fightin' fer
us, de leas’ we alls kin do is ter
sen' ’em all de wheat—en eat
buckwheat instid. Co'n meal, rye
en barley flour fer us will he'p a
I lot too.
WANT ADS
CABIN FOR SALE—Cost ~$:iOO;
will sell for $50. Inquire News
office.
WANTED—Two or Three con
genial fellows to occupy 4-room
residence with me. Kitchen fa
cilities if desired. See Slippern
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.
FOR SALE, C1IF1AP—Large tank
heater and pipe drum; flush toilet,
good as new; also sink. Inquire
Simson’s.
WANTED—Woodchoppers to cut
four-foot wood at Vachon’s, Tolo
vana. 0-19
FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
PIANOS F’or Rent and Sale. Sim
son’s.
WANTED Reliable party to rent
or manage Central Lodging House.
Inquire on premises. 0-21
F'OR SALE—Small heater. Cheap.
Inquire News office.
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A Thoroughly Modern Hotel
The Southern
_
Tom Smith, Prop.
Phone 84 Front Between C and D
Johnson’s Store
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
PRICES REASONABLE LOUIS JOHNSON, Prop.
COLES AIR TIGHT
HEATERS
RANGES
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS
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Air Tight Heaters
Any Thing in the Sheet Metal, Plumb
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SUBMERGED.
The Army Wrist Watch
That Lights In the Dark—Not a Novelty, But a Necessity
Our $3 Radium Treated Alarm Clocks
JUST THE THING FOR DARK NIGHTS
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