THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918. at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for en-ry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”_
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Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. C. Southworth ...Editor and Manager
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JERICHO
Allied soldiers in the valley of
the Jordan have learned how really
unkind were persons who, in pre
war times, “wished them in Jericho."
To these fighting men, Jericho and
its dust-ocevered environs mean heat,
flies, mosquitoes and snakes, mildly
advertised by the Turks in this
message set up opposite the British
lines: “Don’t fear an offensive
from us; we will come over later
when you are all dead."
During the past summer, day after
day, army thermometers along the
Jordan registered from 105 to 125.
yet with scarcely a breeze, and
these dust-laden, the Australian and
New Zealand horsemen holding these
lines bringing from a temperate
climate a reserve of health and
vigor lacking in the natives, with
stood the ordeal. It is the second
or third summer that tells.
The flies and mosquitoes of the
valley know no pity, declares an
Associated Press correspondent,
writing from Jerusalem. In th«
early days of the fighting, when it
was impossible to take the necessar\
sanitary precautions, they bred ir
myriads, but later pools of stagnant
water were eliminated and largi
tracts of scrub burned As a re
suit, the number of malaria case!
were materially reduced.
Of the minor evils, the snake:
are the worst, but due to the pre
cautions taken by officers and men
easualites from snake-bites have beei
comparatively insignificant, despiti
the number of the reptiles and thei
venomous species.
One captured Turk had been at
tacked and bitten by a serpent fou
feet long, and as he lay on his co
in a British hospital, he told hoi
he had strangled the reptile an
then fainted. His nerves were shat
terod by the incident, and medica
officers said it would be years be
fore they were again normal.
WORTHLESS IN DEFEAT
Germaf prisoners captured in th
recent fighting, upon arrival in Enf
land, showed a surprising depreeit
tion of the once coveted Iron Cros:
One of them traded his decoratio
Tor a cigarette and an America
officer who accompanied the caj
fives from France said several c
them spoke slightingly of the wa
token bestowed upon them by Err
peror William.
A marked change in the demeanor
of the new prisoners was also notice
able. Instead of the arrogant and
almost insolent manner which char
' acterized their predecessors, when
the Germans were sweeping every
thing before them, the latest con
: tingent seemed humble and crest
fallen. Almost every officer and
! one in ten of the men wore the
j ribbon of the Iron Cross.
The tobacco famine existing
. among the prisoners made it easy
for American soldiers to collect
' souvenirs. The Germans parted
i with almost any of their belongings
i for a package of cigarettes.
DECREASED BIRTH RATE
The war has caused the belliger
| ent countries of Europe the loss
| of not less than 12,500,000 poten
! tial lives because of the decrease
i in the number of births resulting
! from the war. says Sir Bernard Mal
i let, registrar general of Great Bri
i tain. England, he asserts, has lost
; in these potential lives, 650,000
' children. He believes that other
! belligerent countries have suffered
! in this respect more than has Great
Britain.
Sir Bernard estimated that every
day of the war meant a loss of 7,000
potential lives of children to the
.United Kingdom, France, Italy and
the Central Powers. Dealing with
■ the decline in the birth rate ir
England he said the births regis
,:tered in England and Wales in 191?
i numbered 881,000- In 1915 the;
• j fell to 814,614; in 1916 there wa:
• a further fall to 780,520, and ii
1917 to 668,346; a decline of 2
•j per cent compared with 1913.
t ■ While Gov. Thos. Riggs and wifi
/ were at Nome recently a banqu'e
1 ■ was given in their honor at thi
- ■ Log Cabin by the Chamber of Com
1: meree. Luxuries were provided ii
-: plenty, such as ducks, salmon, trout
: fish of all descriptions, duck, gam
. birds, reindeer, etc., were served
; while local orators added a wealtl
J of eloquence to the occasion. Bisho;
L' j Rowe was one of the principa
"* speakers of the evening. The gov
" i ernor delivered an eloquent addres
i stating his policy for the better
11; ment of Alaska. The occasion wa
1j a great success and the governo
' blade a good impression upon al
f who met him.
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IN JEWISH LAND
JERUSALEM.—Restoration of the
Parchment Scrolls of the Law to
the various synagogues in Tel Aviv
and Jaffa was one of the interesting
ceremonies which followed the Brit
ish occupation.
These scrolls of the Law of Moses
which are all written by hand and
are preserved in magnificently orna
mented cases, some of them in solid
silver are the most sacred and holy
possessions of every Jewish com
munity. So when Dyemal Pasha in
his hostility to the Zionists, carried
out the tyrannical evacuation of tht
bulk of the Jewish population of
Jaffa in April 1917, the Jews car
ried w-ith them these sacred Torah
into exile, lest they should fall into
the hands of the Turks.
These sacred scrolls had been care
fully guarded by the Jews at Petaeh
Tikvah (Mulebbis) and were brought
back in solemn procession to Jaffa.
A triumphal arch was erected at the
northern confines of Tel Aviv, every
house was decorated with flowers
and bunting and the whole of the
Jewish population turned out en fete
to meet, the return of their sacred
possessions. Jews came not merely
from Jaffa, but also from Richon
le-Zion and other neighboring col
onies and other neighboring col
. onies.
The young men and the girls of
the Maccabee Athletic association
dressed in white clothes, with blue
! sashes and ties, maintained order
and kept a pathway clear for the
procession through the crowds. The
procession was headed by the Aus
tralian military band and the cere
mony at the Triumphal Arch was at
tended by officers representing the
military governor and by Dr. Weiz
mann and the members and officers
, of the Zionist Commission.
The Haham Bashi (chief rabbi) of
Jaffa mounted a small dais near the
Triumphal Arch and delivered an
eloquent Hebrew address in which he
recounted the hardships of the evac
uation. He thanked and invoked
blessings upon the British govern
ment and the British army and ex
pressed the hope that success would
i crown the efforts of the Zionist
commissioners. The Jews desired
to regenerate and build up Palestine,
not merely for their own benefit
but for that of all its inhabitants
> whose friendship and help ne in
: vited. The re-establishmont of 'he
s Jewish people in their ancient home
- in Palestine, he said, would be tor
i the good of all humanity.
, Then the Shofar or Ram’s born
; was blown and the scrolls were ear
, ivied under canopies by Chief Rabbi
1 j Dr. Weizmann and others to the
) various synagogues to which they
1, belonged.
- In the afternoon the town of Tel
< Aviv remained en fete- There were
- i processions of school children crown
5' ed and decorated with flowers, the
r j Yemenites carrying small lambs anil
1 j goats on their shoulders and bearing
palms in their hands. Children soli!
| flowers and confetti in the streets
■, the proceeds of which go to a fund
! started recently by the Zionist
■ j teachers for translating into Hebrew
> i and publishing in Hebrew, English
( books and literature. In the even
’ ing the Maccabees gave an athletic
| demonstration in the Public Gardens.
’ and the proceedings closed at sunset
I with the singing of “God Save the
I King” and the Zionist national an
! them “Hatikvah,” the Song of Hope.
I i Hendrick and partner hift-e almost
| completed the work of dismantling
« the old Johnson dredge hull that
I has stood so long at the bend of
' Snake river near its mouth. The
- timbers used in the construction of
! this hull were perfect pieces of
| clear fir and the wood is as sound
| as the day it went in. The timbers
■ will be used for building work, as
; they are as good as "the day they
[ w-ere first used, except that they
; are tougher from seasoning. A good
j many thousand feet of first class
j lumber is being secured from them
\ OLD PAPERS FOR SALE—Ai
[ New* Office.
PHOENIX, Ariz.—The Phoenix
Indian school has (riven 62 of its
finest younsr men for service in the
American army, it was recently an-1
nounced here.
Those tribesmen left behind also j
are doing their share and although i
the hoe is their chief weapon, the ^
pupils of the school have subscribed l
$27,200 in Liberty Bonds, nearly j
$2,000 in war savings stamps and i
all have contributed to the Red |
Cross war funds. A Red Cross!
society was formed to which boys j
donate money for material to keep
the girl pupils busy in their spare
time making hospital supplies,
clothes for refugees of Belgium and
France and comfort kits for sol
diers.
COMO SKULL i
INTERESTS MANY
PALISADES, Colo—Archaeologi
cal researchers are expected here in
considerable number following the
discovery of a human skull, the fea
tures of which are in a wonderful
state of preservation. It was found
in a vein of coal, where it had been
imbedded for centuries, on Virginia
Mesa, three miles east of here. The
skull was uncovered in a .seventy
foot prospect mine being opened by
Dr. A. E. De Beque.
The features show the skull was
that of a man and express a high
intelligence, by those who have ex-1
amined it: Nose, eye sockets, ears
and the skull itself indicate ossifi
cation instead of decay. The whole
is covered by some dark substance
which evidently led to ifs preserva
tion.
It is estimated that the skull is
thousands and not hundreds of years
old and it is believed the man fell
from some cliff to ttis death, lodg
ing in the coal strata when it was
in the process of formation. An
other surmise is the man was a vic
! tim of an avalanche of dirt or stonc.r
and was buried, the coal forming
later and from almost the moment
1 of death the elements which sur
rounded the body keeping it away
from it and saving the skull from
' destruction.
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| Liberty Loan Bond is due on or
! before noon on November 21st.
: Payments can be made any time be
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| special disbursing agent of the
j Alaskan Engineering commission at
' the general office building.
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Minimum . 16 above 4
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and fifty at Latoucbe and
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