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LONDON FIRE LADDIES
TAUGHT USE OF MASKS
. LONDON'.—AH the officers and
men of the London fire department
are undergoing a course of instruc
tion in the use of gas-masks. Masks
■of the regulation army pattern have
already been issued to about 1,500
firemen. They are intended for
emergency use in air raids.
SlitHon-Silisiin Stage Line
Carrying U. S. Mail*
For CHITINA and WAY POINTS
Every Tue*day Morning
Special Auto for parties of four
or more any time.
C. Harry Woodward, agent
Fairbanks
THE BELMONT HOTEL
AND
POOL ROOM
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
EVERYTHING NEW
BASOFF Sc. SOGURA, Props.
Union Hall Club Rooms
HALL FOR RENT
See Erick Nelson for Terms
PUBLIC LAND SURVEYS
ARE EXTENDED RAPIDLY
The public land survey parties,
Abbey, assisted by U. S. Transitman
E. C. Guerin, have now finished up
all the work on both sides of the
Tanana river east of town as far as
Wood river, the survey parties hav
ing their headquarters and operating
out of the camp at the old telegraph
station about seventeen miles up
river from Nenana.
Early next week the camp will
be moved to “Eat-em-up” Frank
Lemberg's roadhouse and endeavors
will be put forth to extend the sur
vey to meet the previously com
pleted lines at Chena.
If this work is completed as ex
pected, the public land surveys will
extend uninterruptedly all the way
along both sides of the Tanana
river up to Nenana and on to the
coal fields at Lignite, and will be
of great help to the settlers in filing
i on their claims.
CREDIT GIVEN TO
THE ALLIED POWERS
WASHINGTON, D. C—With the
extension of a credit of one hnudred
million dollars to Italy, and of nine
million dollars to Belgium, the total
amount loaned by the United States
to the Allied powers up to date
reaches the huge total of six billion
three hundred and eighty millior
and forty thousand dollars.
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YANKEE FLYERS
THRILL TEXANS
WITH STUNTS
DALLAS. — The aviators have
given Texas another spectacle- For
mation flying, which is now being
practiced in all the aviation camps,
is so “different”, so impressive and
so thrilling to witness that it has
overcome the ennui with which the
average citizen has viewed a sky
flecked with individual aviators, and
the epidemic of “arched neck”, that
was common when the aviato s first
came South to practice, again threat
ens to become contagious.
There is something about the ap
pearance of airplanes in formation,
each flyer rigidly keeping an exact
distance from the others, that im
pressed one with the feeling that
these men actually have control of
the air. The single airplane may
respond to conditions in the air,
rising and falling to take advantage
of the atmospheric conditions, but
in formation flying each must main
tain his proper place, and the sight
of a fleet of machines, flying in a
triangle or in a square, causes the
realization that conquest of the air
had advanced to a point heretofore
unrealized.
The formation flying usually starts
in the evening, at about the civilian
dinner hour, when the air is gener
ally quiet. This adds to the worries
of the housewife because when there
is a fleet of war planes just over
the house, dipping, turning, rising
and soaring in perfect unison, no
normal son, daughter nor husband
or father is going to “come to din
ner ” The total number of cold
meals eaten in Dallas alone since
this new development in the process
of developing American aviators,
would startle statisticians, house
wives say.
Most of those who are now per
fecting their skill in formation fly
ing are “bombers.” Aviators on
this duty must travel in groups,
guards flying at the side, before
behind and above the planes which
carry explosives to be dropped upon
the enemy. The leader usually flies
much higher than the others in the
party, not only for the advantage
of the additional vision his height
will give, but also so as to dart
down upon an enemy plane which
undertakes to break up the party
The scout planes travel alone and
the aviators who will adhere to this
branch of the service are not so
much in need of skill at formation
flying. Neither is the artillery con
trol branch nor the contact patrol
which latter branch must perfect it
self in flying low to report the posi
tion of its own and enemy troops
during the progress of a battle.
Training in all branches of the
flying service is highly specialized
now and the concentration school al
Camp Dick is filled with men whc
have completed their ground schoo
training and are awaiting to be as
signed to a flying school as soor
as there is room for them.
* The student aviators have beconu
a part of the community life it
many Texas cities and are muci
liked.
BRITISHER GIVES ACCOUNT
OF STRUGGLE OVER THERI
LONDON—In a letter received re
cently, a lieutenant in a Londoi
regiment says, according to the Dail;
News:
“To give you some idea of ou
last seven days, we were gassed am
shelled and attacked every night am
morning. Although we sufferei
casualties, I am proud to say w
never gave an inch, and the casual
ties we inflicted on the enemy wer
enormous. In parts of our fron
they lie eight and nine deep o
wounded and dead. I’ve seen mor
fighting during the last month thai
during the rest of my previous fil
teen months’ actual experience in th
line put together. One day we fir
ished up with our fists, and, as yoi
may guess, in that art we had Frit
beaten to a frazzle. We are no\
enjoying a few days rest.
J. C. VAN ORSDEL
IEFI THIS MORN
FOR KANTISHNA
Commissioner (o' the Kantishna
District Returned to His Post
Today.
At an early hour this morning
Commissioner Joseph C. Van Orsdel
started out on his journey to the
Kantishna country, after having
spent some time in Xenana on busi- (
ness. He was accompanied by L.
W. Hill.
The men left in the launch Vanity,
which was recently purchased by
Commissioner Van Orsde The boat ■
is in good trim and they expect to
make the journey in record time.
Mr. Von Orsdel will resume his'
duties as U. S. commissioner and
postmaster as soon as he arrives and
will also look after his mining in- j
terests in the district. Mr. Hill.
goes into the country to have a look <
around and may probably interest
himself in the mining game later on. j
They did not take much of an out
fit or grubstake as the launch will ^
return to Xenana before the freeze
up, when a big grubstake will be
taken in.
BARBED WIRE DISEASE
GETS GOATS OF TURKS
LOXDOX—“Barbed-wire disease"
is British army slang for nervous
breakdown. Turkish officials who
heard the expression translate it
literally. Wherefore the Turkish
government in ratifying an agree
ment with the British for and ex
change of prisoners, stipulated that
plain wire should be substituted for
barbed wire around prison camps
for Turks in English territory.
The Turks, it is aid. consented
to the exchange because there was
one important prisoner they wanted
to get back. The swap was negoti
ated on the basis of 1000 English
prisoners for 1500 Turks.
In Freedom’s Name—Use corn,
oats, potatoes, barley. Eat poultry,
fish. eggs. game, beans. Eat honey,
syrup, jam. molasses. Eat vege-‘
table fats—margarine, corn oil, cot
ton oil, peanut butter, and the like.
And so give your wheat, meat and
butter to Our Boys and the Allies.
COONEY MOTEL
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But Better than the Rest
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APPLES - .75 ”
LEMONS - - .75 ”
ORANGES - 1.25 ”
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AGENT SCOTT PURCHASES
THE BREVIG HOUSE
By a deal in reality recently put
through, John H. Scott, the genial
local agent of the American Yukon
Navigation company, became the
owner of the Brevig house, situated
near the Rust House.
Mr. Scott is now making arrange
ments to have his lot on the water
front, near the lumber mill, cleared
and prepared so that he could move
his house on it and expects to have
all this done in a few days.
The house in its new location
will be right handy to the A Y. N.
office, and as it commands a clear
view up and down the river, the
agent will be Johnny on the spot
at whatever time a steamboat takes
a notion to shove her nose around
the bend in either direction.
It is expected that, later on. Mrs.
cott and two children will arrive :n
tVina to take up their residence
ere and become real Nenanaites
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