THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for eniry 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. South worth___Editor and Manager
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THE NAVAL BASE.
Affirmation received from the
Government that a naval base will
be established in Alaska, at a site
near the coal fields, means that if
an accurate and unbiased survey of
harbors of the Third division is
made, Valdez stands an equal chance
with other towns to get the war, j
ships, believed the Valdez Miner.
The port of Valdez is one of the
best in the world. It is approached
by a narrow entrance several miles
long, opening into a landlocked har
bor ten miles long by five wide.
carrying a depth of water of from |
35 to 136 fathoms. The bottom.;
for the most part, is soft mud or;
glacial silt, carried in by the swift
flowing rivers into the bay from all
sides. Warships should have no.
difficulty in laving moorings any
where in the bay, although the best
anchorage is inside a line from the
Valdez Dock company’s wharf to
Fort Liscum, where about 35 fath
oms is found with a soft mud bot-;
tom. While the bay in general is;
too deep for anchorage, moorings j
could be placed with little difficulty. '
The prevailing gales are from the'
northeast in winter, which would j
place the vessels under the lee of i
the land. Good water can be piped
from many points to the base, and
wharves can be built at slight ex
pense to deep water.
If politics are left out of the se
lection of the base and it is estab
lished on its merits. Valdez bay will
not be overlooked. The establish
ment of coal bunkers at Portage
bay, which is sure to follow the
building of the Government railroad,
would make fuel accessible. The
big wireless planned for this port
would keep the vessels in touch with
the world. As a strategic point the j
harbor is without a peer.
If Valdez will get busy and call
the attention of the secretary of
war to the importance of Valdez.
bay as a naval base, before the
other towns get the start of us, we
have a good chance to land it, as
the only other harbor worthy of
consideration is Seward.
A BIG PROBLEM.
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The Massachusetts bureau of im
migration is authority for the state
ment that one-third of our popula
tion is foreign-born, and comes!
mainly from non-English speaking
countries. There are 346,354 per
sons ten years of age and over who
are unable to read and write Eng
lish, and there are more than 300,
000 alien males over 21 that have
not been naturalized. A high per-1
tentage of these are illiterate even
in their native tongue. Taking the
state as a whole, the percentage of
illiteracy is 11.6. In Springfield
there are 7,653 persons who can
not read and write English. Holyoke
has 7,570, and Chicopee 6,081.
Here is a real problem in Ameri
canization, says the Springfield Un
ion, a condition that must be cor
rected if this commonwealth is to
maintain her proud position in the
sisterhood of states. In education
lies the safety of our institutions j
and the continued success of popu
lar government.
ENGLAND PROSPEROUS.
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More money than ever before is
now in circulation in English vil
lages, and its easy expenditure is
apparent even to the casual passer
by. Extra wages earned by work
men. housemaids, and farm laborers
have brought about an astonishing
social change.
One evidence of this, says a Lon-;
dan report, is seen in the great in- ^
crease in the number of bicycles:
and motorcycles, which has necessi-!
tated the establishment of countless t
garages and repair shops throughout
the country. Dancing and other
clubs are springing up everywhere.
Whist clubs are favorites, and the
costliness of the prizes for which
the members play would, a few
years ago, have constituted almost a
s"rr.dal. The sense of wellbeing and
the demand for a more comfortable
life is assigned as the cause for
this last development. It is taken
by sociologists as a permanent thirg
which is more likely to increase than
to diminish.
Wennna. Where Rail* and River* Meet
SAX FRANCISCO—The heroism
of the late Lieutenant Arnold Mar- j
cus, of the United States navy, in j
navigating to safety the explosion
torn submarine A-7 at Manila in
July, 1917, while he himself was
sufering from fatal burns, was
commemorated here in the launch
ing of the United States destroyer
Marcus. The craft’s sponsor was i
Mrs. Arnold Marcus, of San Fran
cisco, widow of the young officer. 1
Burned and otherwise badly in
jured by an explosion of gasoline ,
vapor in the hold of the A-7, Lieu-;
tenant Marcus refused aid for him
self until he had insured the safety
of the crew and beached the sub
marine. In a letter to Mrs. Marcus,
who is the only daughter of Paul
Cowles, of Chicago, superintendent
of the Central division of The As
sociated Press, Secretary of the
iNavy Daniels recently wrote:
“The conduct of your husband
was that of a most gallant officer,
who, though fatally injured, without
regard to self, devoted every action
and thought to the care of his ves
sel and men.”
Lieutenant Marcus was a gradu
ate of the Annapolis naval academy
with the class of 1913. He had
served in Mexican waters ar.d was
attached to the Asiatic fleet when
he met his death. He was the son
of Lady Young, wife of Lieutenant
Colonel Sir Popham Young, an t>ffi-<
cial of the government of India.:
Lady Young attended the launching ;
of the destroyer Marcus.
The Marcus is a 35-knot, 30,000-1
horsepower, flush-deck destroyer of
the most powerful build. It is 330
feet long and 30 feet beam.
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Calling Card* printed to order on
sho't notice at the News Office.
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i As already announced in the col
; umns of The News, the municipal
! clerk of the town of Fairbanks was
instructed this week to address a
(letter to the people of Xenana, ex
plaining the action of the Fair
banks council relative to the nam
ing of Fairbanks' newest street,
which local petitioners sought to
have christened “Xenana.”
The letter of explanation reached
rXenana yesterday afternoon and
reads as follows:
“Editor Xenana Xews—Dear Sir:
“Will you please inform the good
people of Xenana, through the medi
um of your paper—The Xenana
Daily Xews—that their petition to
name the new street was duly con
sidered by the council; but it was
decided to name it Blanchfield street,
to remind us of the little red-1
headed bov who used to deliver1
:
papers to us, who was the first boy
to graduate from the Fairbanks
high school, grew to manhood in
our town, in the early part of the j
war enlisted in the Canadian Expe- i
ditionarv Forces, was wounded and
honorably discharged, and when our
country entered the war he prompt-,
ly volunteered and was killed in
action ‘somewhere in France.’
“I am directed by the council to
inform you of the action taken and
to express the hope that it meets
with the approval of the signers
I
of your petition.
“Sincerely,
“E. L. SAXDERLIX,
“City Clerk.”
MUNITIONS ARE
U. S. FOR VILLA
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EL PASO, Tex.—Francisco Villa
has obtained his ammunition for
equipping his men for his bandit
raids by smuggling across the Unit
ed States border or by capture of
Carranza troops. It is believed that,
in the past, millions of rounds of
ammunition have been smuggled into
Mexico for Villa from Texas, New
Mexico, and Arizona. Small for
tunes are said to have been gained
| by the smugglers.
The United States has stopped the
smuggling by wholesale, by com
pelling ammunition dealers to obtain
permits from the army intelligence
department and by requiring them
to make reports of sales, showing
who receives the ammunition and
the use to which it is to be put.
Nevertheless, it is claimed, small
quantities of ammunition still are
being smuggled over the border.
Villa has often boasted that he
obtained a large part of his am
munition and many rifles from Car
ranza troops. He captured 40,000
'rounds of ammunition intended for
I Carranza at Parral last spring. Prior
to Villa’s last attack on Juarez, a
Carranza customs official was dis
covered delivering ammunition to
| Villa's spies in Juarez.
Villa finances his revolutionary
movement by compelling foreign
mining and cattle companies to make
: “forced loans” in return for pro
tection and by seizing and selling
.cattle, silver and other property.
Instances in which he has forced
“loans” have been reported within
a few months. When Villa was
encamped near Juarez he carried a
traveling bag filled with American
gold and currency obtained from
I companies in Northern Mexico.
It is known that he has captured
some of the horses sold by the
United States army remount depot
at Fort Bliss to the Carranza gov
ernment.
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Inquire a: News office.
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FOR SALE — Showcase, 5tj feet
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Inquire Mrs. Herman Rosburg.
New Puritam and Premium Hams
and Bacon. Fowler & Morris.
Couldn't Catch Bobby.
Papa: Bobby, if you had a little i
more spunk, you would stand better
in your class. Now, do you know
what spunk is?
Bobby: Yes, sir; it’s the past par
ticiple of spank.—Chicago News. i
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NOTICE
Passengers leaving on the train
for any point on the line south of
town are required to purchase
tickets before entering the train.
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is
in the employment office, on the
ground floor of the general office
Pudding. Alaskan Engineering com
mission.
Tickets will be on sale at any
time during office hours, and can
be purchased in sufficient time be
fore the departure of the trains.
Regular trains leave the foot of
jA street on Wednesdays and Satur- •
| days at 8 a. m.
On and after july 15th the freigh*
i on the Xorth side of the river at
iCamp 415 dock will be shipped out
Tuesday and Fridav of each week,
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leaving: at 8 a. m.. until further
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