THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for enzry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G, Southworth.Editor and Manager
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INVENTORS AND THE WAR
If the dreams of numerous British
amateur inventors who have been
besieging the Ministry of Munitions
could be realized, the war would
have been over long since and little
would be left of the German army.
Recent proposals include the follow
ing, says an Associated Press cor
respondent, writing from London:
Freeze the clouds and mount ar
tillery thereon.
Train cormorants to fly to Essen
to pick the mortar from Krupp’s
walls so that they will crumble.
Trail from balloons monster mag
nets that would snatch rifles from
the hands of the German soldiers.
Perch men on shells to steer them.
A suggestion often submitted is
to attach a searchlight to an anti
aircraft gun, project the light on
a Gotha and shoot along the beam.
Unfortunately, shells will not follow
a path of light.
Other schemes of dealing with
hostile aircraft are to suspend heavy
guns from captive ballons; to arm
defense airplanes with scythes; to
provide heat rays for setting Zeppe
lins on fire, and to cover the moon
with a black balloon. To prevent
polished rails shining at night and
acting as a guide to enemy air
craft, the last coach of the last
train is to drop blacking on them.
A shell containing gravel is to
lay a pathway over mud, and an
other, containing an irritant powder
of a sticky substance is to hamper
machine guns.
The “relay shell” is a favorite
proposal, the plan being for a shell
at the height of its flight to expel
a smaller inner shell. As a shell
does not point directly along its
trajectory, it would be impossible
to secure accuracy of aim for the
second shell.
Among the more miscellaneous
projects are:
To petrify German soldiers by
squirting cement over them.
To throw snakes by pneumatic
! propulsion into the enemy trenches.
To penetrate and attack Germany
itself via a “tube” built “all the.
way” from England.
It is said that about one sugges
tion in ten that reach the Ministry
! of Munitions is novel and possible.
The Air Ministry announces that
! its air inventions committee formed
j about nine months ago, has ex
| amined more than 5,000 inventions
■ and suggestions.
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WAR OF CONQUEST
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Germany is waging a “war of
! conquest” and its victims “have
been enslaved and exploited,” Dep
uty Geyer, Independent Socialist,
asserted recently in a Reichstag
speech, according to the Cologne,
i Gazette.
“This has never been a defensive
| war, Geyer said; “it was and is a
j war of conquest!
“The Imperial government”, he
j continued, “is favoring the annexa
tionists. Russia and Rumania have
| been forced to sign a peace of
1 force. The peoples which were to
: be freed have been enslaved and
! exploited.
“The government thus far has
1 not submitted any cleai ,,eace pro
gram and has not proclaimed the
right of Belgium to independence,
and political, military and economic
in I grity.
“Thus the war goes on and the
end is not in sight. Profiteering
and lust of conquest are holding
nauseating orgies while the people
are suffering from want of food.
More than ever it is imperative
that all peoples free themselves
i from the forced domination of mili
j tarism.
“Proletarians of all countries
j unite! Down with the war!”
JAPANESE WORKERS
TO GET SMALL PAY
HONOLULU—Three hundred and
five Japanese passed through here
recently on their way to Peru, where
they are under contract to work
in Peruvian cane fields for one year.
They will be paid seventy-five cents
a day.
J. Tanaka, representing the Mori
oka Immigration Company of Tokio,
has charge of the distribution of
the immigrants to the various sugar
plantations of Peru. He said while
here that Mexico and South America
republics are the only countries
open for Japanese immigration and
added that there are now 15,000
Japanese in Brazil, 2,000 in Argen
tine, 400 in Chli, 800 in Bolivia and
7,000 in Peru.
BASEBALL POPULAR
IN JAPANESE TOWNS
KARUIZAWA, Japan.—Celebrat
ing the growing bonds of amity be
tween the United States and Japan,
an All-American nine met the crack
Waseda Univeristy baseball team at
the dedication of a new diamond
laid out in front of the new villa
of Marquis Okuma, founder of
Waseda.
The Americans gave a fine ac
count of themselves but were de
feated 3 to 0. A large crowd of
Americans and Japanese witnessed
the game. Among the spectators
were Viscount Kato, former minister
of foreign affairs, and Dr. Osaki,
former minister of state. Marquis
Okuma pitched the first ball.
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AMSTERDAM.— Marie Feodor
; ovna, former dowager empress of
I Russia and mother of the late Em
peror Nicholas, not long ago com
! plained to Darachuk, leader of the
i Bolshevik Soviet at Yalta that her
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allowance of 100 rubles a week was
| insufficient.
“The Soviet wants a clerk," re
I torted Darachuk jeeringly. “If you
I want to supplement your income the
i position is open to you.”
Evidently the former dowager era
1 press disdained to reply. This in
i
I formation comes from Dr. Leo Led
i erer, who was sent to Yalta by the
' Berlin Tageblatt to ascertain the
i condition of the members of the
: formerly royal families of Russia.
! The colony at Yalta consists of fif
' teen persons including the former
! Grand Dukes Nicholas and Peter,
their wives who are daughters of the
king of Montenegro, and the former
Grand Duke Alexander Michailo
j vitch and his family.
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They are living in Duelber Castle,
near Livadia in the Crimea. Their
lives were made extremely miserable
when the extremist Soviet at Yalta
early this year assumed control of
the palace and ignored directions
from Petrograd.
All were in constant fear of their
lives .reports being rife that the
Yalta soviet was planning to murder
all Romanoffs. Attempts actually
were made, it is said, to kill various
members of the colony, but all were
frustrated by the watchfulness of
the loyal sailor guards.
Great relief was experienced when
the Germans took control. They at
any rate had no designs on the
lives of the exiles .
“Neither the dowager empress nor
the grand dukes,” Dr. Lederer writes,
“are regarded as prisoners, and their
desire to live in the Crimea as priv
ate persons is fully respected. Only,
like all other private persons, they
may not leave the Crimea without
the special consent of the German
conmmander.
Lite at the castle is, it is true,
freer and quieter but not more lively
than in the time of the Bolsheviki
rule. Reading among the castle in
mates is restricted to Russian news
papers which arrive daily, and their
intercourse to occasional visits of the
Yussupoffs or the Princess Wais
zinski. The young grand dukes, who
amuse themselves with cricket and
ball in the park, alone bring a little
life into the solitary palace. Some
of the grand dukes are moving to
Aitodor.”
The dowager is said to have aged
considerably but she continues to
hold herself proudly erect. Nicholas
also has turned very gray and his
face is deeply wrinkled. Neither
Dr. Lederer says, has lost any anti
pathy to Germany. All the inmates
of the castle appear to believe in
the restoration of the monarchy, al
though in a democratic, constitu.
tional form. They do not regard
as impossible the return of a Roman
off to the throne.
A domiciliary visit to the castle
by the Sebastapol Soviet last yeart
resulted in the theft of a number
of valuables. One member of the.
visiting party, a ragged sailor, stole
the Grand Duke Nicholas’ boots,
leaving his own worn out ones in
exchange.
Nicholas’ morganatic daughter has
been married to the Polish Count
Tyszvitch. The wedding was quietly
celebrated in a little local Catholic
church, whither the party proceeded
in hired cabs. Nicholas insisted on
donning his brilliant white field mar
shal’s uniform, and he decorated
himself with all his orders.
The sub chaser patrol system will
be withdrawn in the near future, as
the canneries have all finished their
packs, and most of the fish have
been taken Outside. It is stated
that the presence of the subchasers
has had the effect of keeping down
agitation among the workmen.
LANDLORDS ARE
HELD IN CHECK
BY DEPARTMENT
CAMP CODY, N. M.—The head
quarters at Camp Cody has a hand
in the regulation of rentals paid by
army officers whose families live
in Deming, close to the camp, under
an order issued a short time ago.
The order explains that it was
“designed to protect the owners and
landlords as well as the military
personnell.”
“Its primary object,” the ex
planation continues,” is to promote
the efficiency of military service by
avoiding the many embarrassments
and anxieties that inevitably attend
a sudden and unregulated demand
upon a small community for living
accommodations far beyond its nor
mal capacity.”
The order prohibits officers and
enlisted men from bringing their
families to the vicinity of the camp
without having obtained permission
from the camp commander on pen
alty of being deprived of the priv
ilege of absenting themselves from
the camp to visit their families. This
of course, applied only to those who
contemplated bringing their families
to the vicinity of the camp for resi
dence.
Permission, the order added, would
be subject to the condition that the
officers or enlisted men could get
quarters for their families in ad
vance of their arrival “at a reason
able rental, and under a written
legal agreement satisfactory to the
camp commander covering a period
of at least six months.” These
agreements, the order specified,
must contain a provision that if the.
station of the renter was changed
by proper military orders before the
expiration of the period covered by
the agreement, the arrangement
might be terminated upon one week’s
notice \y the tenant to the landlord,
accompanied by a copy of the order
transferring him from the camp.
The order provided for the ap
pointment by the camp commander
of a board of officers charged with
the duty of maintaining a record of
rentals and for the co-operation of
the board with the Deming Chamber
of Commerce “to regulate rentals
to a fair and just return upon the
proper investment, based upon a
reasonable advance over the normal
ante-war rentals in Deming.
C-Ar !—• U 1 1 IV11
SUSPENDED FOR YEAR
PHILADELPHIA—The announce
ment is made by the University of
Pennsylvania Museum that the Eck
ley B. Coxe, Jr., Expedition to Egypt
has been suspended for at least one
year. Dr. Clarence S. Fisher, leader
of the expedition, has accepted a
commission in the British army, and
his assistant has joined a Red Cross
unit. The natives who have been
excavating at Memphis and Den
derah for four years have been paid
off and discharged. Many thou
sands of specimens which have been
accumulated will be held at Cairo
until the end of the war.
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Skof House
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
Mrs Norman Campbell
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Highest Cash
Prices Paid for
RAW
FURS
SIMSON’S
If you have saved a slice a day.
?at cornbread and save a loaf.
HAWAIIAN EXPORTS
ARE ON INCREASE
HONOLULU.—Hawaii’s exports
of molasses have increased from IOC
gallons worth $7, in 1910, to eleven
million gallons, worth S392.000 in
the year ending June 30, 1917.
Molasses, a by-product of sugar, is
rapidly becoming an industry of
importance in the territory and the
great sugar interests are now plan
ning to further increase the output.
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Hugh P. Gallagher, former Ju
neau agent of the Pacific Steamship
company, has been transferred tc
New York as the foreign representa
tive of his company, succeeding
Roger D. Pinneo, who has been made
Asiatic representative of the com
pany with headquarters in Japan.
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SUGAR MUST BE
A teaspoonful mm
nothing). You. say, Yet a.
heaping teaspoon fid
saved each meal for
170 dtws for each of the
loo.ooo.ooo persons
in. the United States
makes a pile at at the
Vxjhvirth buiVWaenogh
to supplv tfo came armed
forces of the nation.
WANT ADS
CABIN FOR SALE—Cost ~$3mT;
will sell for $50. Inquire News
office.
WANTED—Two or Three con
penial fellows to occupy 4-room
residence with me. Kitchen fa
cilities if desired. See Slippern- f
FOR SALE—Panoramic views of
, the town of Nenana in 1916 and
1917; taken by Johnson, of Fair
banks, from hill overlookinp the
town. Apply at News office.
FOR SALE, CHEAP—I.arpe tank
heater and pipe drum; flush toilet,
pood as new; also sink. Inquire
Simson’s.
jFOR SALE—Beaver Board, in plain
j and oak finish. Doors and win
dows, sash stock and mouldinps.
Inquire Simson’s.
| FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
PIANOS—For Rent and Sale. Sim
son’s.
F'OR SALE—Small heater. Cheap. ^
Inquire News office.
We carry all kinds of hardwood,
furniture and rugs. Ande-son Bros.
& Nerland.
A Thoroughly Modern Hotel
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
Yukon Stoves and Drums
Air Tight Heaters
Any Thing in the Sheet Metal, Plumb
ing or Heating Line
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That Lights In the Dark—Not a Novelty, But a Necessity
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