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.
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth.Editor and Manager
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HOT AIR-OPLANING
Quesitoned regarding the possi
bilities of trans-Atlantic flights, F.
Handley Page, inventor of a type of
airplane which bears his name, re
cently declared, says an Associated
Press correspondent, that “airplane
trips from England to America are
quite feasible by use of a machine
traveling night and day at a rate of
one hundred miles an hour.” He
said further that he had received
a cablegram from Canada congratu
lating him on the construction of a
machine to travel to and from
America, but explained that he had
no such machine on hand.
“The trip would be from Ireland
to New York, via Newfoundland, a
distance of 1700 miles,” explained
the inventor. “An alternative jour
ney to America would be via the
Azores. On the steady hundred
mile-an-hour basis you can compute
all the long-distance runs that occur
to you, including week-end trips to
China and Peru.
“For short distances,” he con
tinued, “such as London to Man
chester, I am not inclined to think
that planes will take the places of
railways unless in case of pressing
urgency. A comfortable first-class
carriage of a fast train will con
tinue to be a more usual course ot
travel. The airplane has a great
advantage of speed, but it has severe
handicaps in the way of wind and
fog and other adverse climatic con
ditions.
“I do not think after the war
wealthy men will take up private
motorcars. Few people can afford
private yachts, and a pleasure air
plane would be as expensive as a
yacht.
“There is no such thing as per
petual safety in the air, and this
is bound to have an effect on the
average man. I am speaking of
course of the immediate future only.
In the ‘long run results of time’
there are infinite possibilities in the
evolution of aviation.
“There is an immense future for
aircraft as aids to the world’s pros
perity, but what I call the tourist
idea of ‘round the world in forty
hours’ leads nowhere and means
nothing.
“In the course of time bigger ma
chines will be built with more power
erful engines to direct them, but I
can see no immediate prospect of
turning out airplanes that will carry
as many passengers as ocean liners.
We must continue to beware of hot
air in airplane prophecies.”
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NIP AND TUCK
It is now nip and tuck with the
world’s food supply. Only a steady
and constant program 'f conserva
tion on the part of America will
enable her to sustain the fo--d flow
to her associates in this war.
Germany is not only keeping her
people fed, but she is still inter
fering with the normal flow of food
shipment to her enemies. She is
now directing her submarine at
tacks especially on the larger boats
and those with the most valuable
cargoes. Perhaps ten per cent of
the actual shipments sunk have beer
grain and other food supplies.
The only way to repair this dam
age is to set about saving more food
to send in its place. There should
always be food enough on the docks
for speedy shipping as fast as ships
are available. The only way to
make this possible is by steady
saving.
The sending of wheat during 1917
was made easier because of the sur
plus on hand during 1916.
When the time for cutting the
1918 crop come there will be no
surplus from 1917 to draw on.
America had already used up her
surplus by December of last year,
and what has been sent since repre
sents the savings of the people
throughout the country. The aver
age total export of wheat and wheat
flour to the three principal Allies
has been about 110,000,000 bushels
per year since 1914.
Ceareals are the most vital of the
food needs abroad. They not only
yield the most protein but they
also furnish more than twice the
calories of any other food product.
It is difficult for Americans to
understand the part that bread plays
in the diet of the French people.
More than one-half of the money
that is spent on foodstuffs in France
goes for bread and flour while with
us only 9 per cent of the average
income goes in this way. Naturally
it would be infinitely easier then,
for us to cut down on our h?ead j
diet than for them. One way of j
doing this is to eat less bread— j
non«J ^at all, if possible, and more
of those vegetables that have pro
; tern ana calorie value.
; The wheat situation in E;iglan<
, is becoming worse constantly. Eng
land now imports four-fifths of he:
cereals.
The burden of the cereal suppi
: rests with America. War canno
! last beyond the time when produc
I tion and saving fail to keep pact
with consumption and destruction
It is nip and tuck. The saving ant
j production of food has become s
direct military contribution to th«
winning of the war.
DISTANCE TABLE
Dawson to Eagle .100 miles
Eagle to Circle .180 miles
Circle to Fort Yukon.90 miles
Ft. Yukon to Rampart.300 miles
Rampart to Tanana-... ...80 miles
Tanana to Hot Springs ......75 miles
Hot Springs to Tolovana.60 miles
Tolovana to NENANA.60 miles
Nenana to Chena . 60 miles
Chena to Fairbanks .12 miles
We have to put every ounce of
effort behind the men behind the
guns.
Save food or go on short rations.
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NEWS OFFICE
ENGLAND TAKES
UNMALTED GRAIN
FROM BREWERIES
NEW YORK.—The amount of
materials annually used in the
; United Kingdom of Great Britain
i for the manufacture of alcoholic
j beverages has been reduced from
j 1,856,000 tons before the beginning
of the war to 512,000 tons at pres
ent, according to a statement issued
here by the British Pictorial Service.
All the materials new being used
for this purpose, it is stated, are
I utilized in brewing beer. “During
| the past year,” the memorandum
says, “no manufacture of spirits for
| human consumption has been per
mitted and no further manufacture
i
is at present contemplated.”
It is pointed out that about ono
I third of the materials used are
; not of a kind that could be used
1 as human food and that about ore
quarter to one-third of the weight
| of the original materials is recov
ered in the form of brewer’s and
'distillers’ grains, malt comb'ngs fer
! cattle food and in the form of yeast
for preparing human food.
“No unmalted barley is now in the
j hands of the brewers or malsters,”
j says the statement- “The whole of
the existing stocks of unmalted
grain were requisitioned for bread
stuffs on Februray 23 last.”
Rations compulsorily imposed in
the United Kingdom are enumerated
as follows:
“Meat, including chicken, all kinds
of game, etc., not exceeding 1V*
pounds per week. There will be
supplementary rations for those en
gaged in hard labor.
“Butter and margarine, one
fourth pound of either, not both,
per week.
“Sugar, one-half pound per week.
“There are many other restric
tions, such as the restrictions of
wheat in bread, of feeding cereals
to livestock, in the uses of milk,etc.”
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* TOLOVANA NOTES H
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| The outlook for the mining in
dustry this eason is good and it is
■ • expected that the actual yield at
the end of the working season will
be quite as much as that of last
;season.
j Sluicing was delayed considerably
owing to the lateness of the season
. and the lack of water on the creeks,
j The first sluicing was commenced
j early last week and alf indications
| point to the fact that there will be
an ample supply of water for min
i inS purposes until the freezep, so
that the work of sluicing will be
| continued through the season.
| All of the outfits working here
! last season are again on the job
and some of them are working extra
i men, and the gold output will not
J suffer on this account,
i Mr. Luther C. Hess estimates that
, the total gold which will be taken
j out of the Tolovana country this
i season will amount to a little over
j a million dollars. His figures for
! each creek separately are as follows:
I Amy creek . about $200,000
j Livengood ..about 800,000
i Lillian .about 50,000
Olive .about 50,000
Ruth .. . ..about 10,000
| These are conservative estimates
and is just $100,000 less than the
j output of last season,
j A few men are leaving the dis
| trict, including those drafted, and t
! is rather quiet in Brooks since the
, dry law went into effect.
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The steamer Alaska sailed at 8
a. m. sharp with twenty passengers.
The transport Jacobs, which ar
rived in port from McCarty two days
ago, is scheduled to sail with the
drafted boys at 12:30 a. m. on
Saturday.
Bob Sheldon with a party of three
left Chitna this afternoon for Fair
banks. The wire received from
Sheldon states that Mr. Edes and
his secretary and another passenger
comprise the party, and it is thought
that the other passenger referred
to is Mr. Christensen.
Felix Donatelli, who has been ar
rested on the charge of having a
lot of booze in his possession and
who was remanded to jail pending
a hearing of his case, has been re
leased on bail.
Charley Pyne is now on trial on
a charge of making seditious utter
ances.
A large quantity of piling and
material for the repair work to be
undertaken along the waterfront
has been assembled here. The city
dads, who will have the work done
are now in search of the hammer
of the piledriver.
It was rumored in town that
Charley Dittmer had received a sent
ence of 30 years in the penitentiary
after being convicted on the charge
of smuggling goods into Mexico.
The rumor has been proved to be
false, according to a letter received
from him by a local man.
The big entertainment and dance
given in honor of the drafted boys,
was pulled off last night and was
a great success. The event took
place at the Armory, which was
crowded.
A wire received from Lieutenant
Smith, commandintr the nt P’nrt
Gibbon, advises the boys of the
draft to bring at least one pair of
old trousers. Uniforms, he says,
will be issued as far as practicable.
Gus Vedin has thrown open the
Natatorium for the use of the boys
of the draft from 7 a. m. until mid
night today.
THURSDAY
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rooms. Fourth and A. Inquire
News. 5-6-25
FOR SALE CHEAP—Log Cabin and
Lot on F street, between First and
Second, heavy malthoid roofing,
double floor, two large windows,
glass door, cellar and well. Lot j
50x140, fenced in and plowed. |
Owner leaving town.
.FOR SALE—Electric Piano, either
current, fumed oak, practicallyi
new, with 125 records. Terms, if j
desired. Inquire this office.
FOR SALE—Full size Iron Bed with
springs and Ostermoor mattress,
$25. Extension dining-room table,
$20; Victor phonograph with 23
good records, $20. Mrs. Adams.
FOR SALE CHEAP—Log Cabin,
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Inquire Thompson’s Drug Store or I
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FOR RENT—Four Room House.1
All conveniences. Partly fur
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News office.
FOR SALE OR ENT—National Cash
Register. Simson’3.
HR COMPANIES
IB m KICKS
CAMP KEARNEY, San Diego—
Utilizing the materials at hand and
taking advantage of existing condi
tions were two points of the train
ing of engineer troops brought out
plainly on a recent field march of
the 115th engineers here
The engineers cut much timber
for bridge building near Cuyamaca
Lake, but cut all of it on the moun
tainsides above the bridges, where
it would be easy to bring it to the
site of the work. One company,
lacking peavies, use^ picks instead
to handle the big logs. Another
company, lacking mules, rolled its
logs downhill, directing their course
by hand. A third, whose crosscut
saws became gummy in cutting the
pitchy pine trees, obtained coal oil
to clean them from the side lamps
of a passing automobile.
Do not help the Hun at meal time
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72 Cases Over-the-Ice Eggs
3 Cases Fresh Lemons .
10 Head Young Draft Horses.
| 3 Wagons. j
4 Sleds.
50 Tarpaulins. All Sires.
House and Barn.
RANCH—-40 acres under cul
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J >ng implements; ground fall
| plowed; hay enough to put
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"WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
ISSUED BY THE
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT
Salvage from
the battlefields —
The Allied armies find it very profitable
to salvage scrap from the battlefields. Great
Britain is saving millions every year from
this thrifty parctice.
If we could extend this practice to the
United States—if we saved only the waste
and needless spending of every day and put
the saving into War Savings Stamps, it
would help to win the war.
Your every saving helps the Government.
Put the small savings into U. S. Thrift
Stamps at 25 cents each; when you have
16 of them, exchange them with a few extra
pennies for a $5 War Savings Stamp.
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THEY EARN MONEY
THEY SAVE LIFE AT THE
FRONT, BY HELPING UNCLE
SAM WIN THE WAR.
BUV THEM AT THE
POSTOFFICE
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