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.
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WOMEN MASK MAKERS
Thousands of women are employ
ed in the United States gas mask
plant. They are acting as inspect
ors and are engagedt throughou
the entire process of manufacture,
according to a statement from the
Gas Defense Service. Hundreds of
girls have been trained in the spe
cial art of sewing the face pieces.
Each separate step in the assem
bling of the mask is done by women
workers, until the mask is completed
the last inspection is made and the
final product is ready for shipment.
“After the esablishment of a plant
entirely within the control of the
Gas Defense Service as a part of
the office of the sergeon general
of the United States army a con
certed drive was organized to se
cure the support and asistance of
women of more than average intelli
gence and education to be utilized
in the more important service of
process and inspection,” the state-^
ment says: “It soon be came ap
parent that the type of women
needed could not be secured through
the ordinary channels of employ
ment, so men were sent to investi
gate localities displaying service
flags in an effort to secure the
services of mothers, wives and
sisters of men who had been called
to the colors. In gathering the
necessary force in this manner,
women thus vitally interested will
in all eases be most loyal in their
work and extremely anxious to
send out perfect gas masks.
“Thousands of women have been
employed and the plant is running
full speed. Schools have been es
• tablished' to train these selected
minds for the minute perfection in
an inspection system so complete
that no defect of any nature will
be passe ' These women are organ
ized along military dines. Each
woman has been given a course of
instructions and intensive training
on defective materials before actu
ally being'assigned'to work ip either
the operating or inspection division.
“The work was diylded into eight
divisons under, the direction of a
general staff. The divisions were
then subdivided into companies in
charge of company -officers- The
company officer" was given three
platoon officers and :six squad'lead
ers. This method of management
constantly has kept the military
idea before the workers and has
accomplished unusual -results, both
in discipline and in the control of
production. Friendly rivalry as to
quantity and quality of total output
is carried on between the differ
ent companies. ,.
“Every attention is given to the
comfort of the workers. A hospital
with its corps of attendants is es
tablished in the plant and the health
of the workers considered of para
mount importance. A women wel
fare worker has been secured and
she is actively at work establishing
glee clubs, preparing patriotic meet
ings, etc. Space in the building
bas been set aside for this purpose.
During the noon hour employes are
privileged to spend a short time in
relaxation and recreation. Various
methods are used to stimulate pro
duction and constant appeal is made
to enliven patriotic impulse by spe
cial war posters, placed throughout
the plant and changed from time
to time. Lectures are given some
times by soldiers who have but re
cently experienced the horrors of
actual gas warfare. Motion pictures
I loaned by the Allied governments,
showing how the Hun used the
| deadly gas fumes and the troops
actually in action during a gas at
tack, are shown each week. No op
portunities are lost to impress these
women with the extreme value of
the work to the life and fighting
power of our forces.”
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"PERSHING’S CRUSADERS”
Pershing’s Crusaders,” the first of
a series of moving pictures prepared
by the film department of the Com
mittee of Public Information to
show what the United States is do
ing to win the war, is now making
the rounds of the big cities of the
States.
This picture, which is tax-free
and the net proceeds of which are
devoted to war charities, has already
‘been shown in several of the larger
cities, including New York. Chicago
and Washington, D. C., with great
success. The first half of the pic
ture shows what our civilian armv
is doing on this side—in the can
tonments, the shipyards, and the
ordnance manufactories. The second
half follows the Flag to France and
accompanies our fighting men to
the firing line. They are seen in
winter quarters marching cross
country, guarding their German
captives, and under review by Sec
reary of War Baker and Gen. Per
shing.
The pitcures are strictly up-to
date and entirely authentic. In the
lobby of Poli’s at the national capi
tal, where the .pictur ran a-, week, a
collection of American war trophies
including five, captured German
trench mortars and 25 packing cases
of other material were on 'exhibi
tion, for the first time in the United
States, This, collection is accom
panying “Pershing’s Crusader’s” on
its tour of the conutry. *
BIC POWER sVsfEM
fifOte SdytH BAVARIA
AMSTJEJtDAMv—'The -largest- hy
draulic pd^reir system in .Europe is
to be tfuilt'-in- Bavaria and ■ operated
as a public utility, according U the
plans- recently completed. The pow
[er is to be obtained from Walchen
Laioe, -in South Bavaria, and will be
transmitted by cable from Koechel
'to all towns and villages throughout
Bavaria.
i A commission which has been
studying the undertaking for two
jsehrs has submitted a detailed
i memorial to the Bavarian Diet, esti
| mating the cost of the enterprise
at 78,000,000 marks. The cost of
the system is to be borne propor
tionally by the Bavaraien govern
ment and the municipalities bene
fiting by this great electrical plant.
SINGING CLASSES STARTED
AS DIVERSION FOR FLYERS
LONDON.—Dr. Walford Davies,
one of the best known "London or
ganists and choir leaders, has been
commissioned a major and assigned
to duty as chief singing-master of
the Royal Flying Corps. He is es
tablishing singing classes in the
larger flying camps as a means of
diversion and entertainment for the
men. Work of the same sort is be
ing done also in France.
CAMP OFFICERS
PUT AN END TO
TRAFFIC EVIL!
Soldie-* in Training At Camp Lewi
Protected Against Soaring
But Rates.
CAMP LEWIS.—The visitor t
Camp Lewis, whose impressions o
camp were obtained last fall in th
early days of the cantonment, woul
be surprised today at the ehang
in the handling of transportatioi
of men to and from camp. Las
fall outside of the railroad t
American Lake, there was no regu
lar service. Automobile driver
were reaping a rich harvest, charg
ing exhorbitant rates to carry sol
diers into town and back again
| There always was a mad scrambl
I for busses and the huskiest of thi
! men were first to get rides to town
I Then came the miltary police or
j ganization. An officer was place<
I in charge of the motor traffic. P
j bus station was established and mei
were required to await their turi
in a well conducted line for thi
busses. A fifty-cent fare was es
tablished and any driver charginf
in excess of that does so at thi
risk of having his permit revoked
Legally the military police hav<
i no authority over the bus drivers
I Their control extends to the limit:
i of the reservation, but through thi
j issuance of permits to those driver:
j entering camp, the military polici
j have the situation well in hand
There is no bothering with the law
| If a driver exceeds the speed limii
: or charges excessive fare his permil
is taken away without ceremony
Military police on motor-cycles pat
rol the road between Tacoma and
camp and whenever a driver vio
lates any of the cantonment traffic
rules, even if he is not on the can
tonment at the time, his name is
reported and if the cause is suffi
cient his permit is revoked.
It is a wholesale regulation and
has resulted in eliminating the dis
order of the early days and pre
venting accidents. Few serious ac
cidents have occurred on the camp
highway in spite of the heavy traffic,
from five to ten thousand men have
been moved from camp to town on
a Saturday afternoon.
GULF HOTELS LIRE
EAT SPECIALISTS
NEW ORLEANS.—Scores o]
! young men, informed by army and
i-navy doctors that they were under
weight have hied themselves to the
Gulf coast and explained to hotel
or boarding-house proprietors that
the duration of the war depended
upon their gaining so many pounds
in a certain length of time.
At first some of the boarding
house and hotel proprietors were
unenthusiastic over the prospects of
a disappointed would-be soldier or
sailor and loss of patronage to their
establishment. Later, according to
those who have returned, whenever
a youth, rather pale and slim ap
plied for board he was greeted with
the question, “How much do you
i have to gain and when must you
report?”
“It’s easy when you know how,”
I one boarding-house proprietor ex
plained. “They go out and swim
in the salt water, get an enormuon
appetite and we feed them coarse*
nourishing food, nothing fancy.
They gain several pounds a day,
some of them.”
—
SWISS TO WARN AIRMEN
WHO INVADE FRONTIERS
AMSTERDAM.—According to the
German newspapers, the Swiss gov
ernment has arranged that the Swiss
frontier guards shall send up special
rockets whenever a belligerent air
man by mistak invades Swiss terri
tory. Airmen thus warned are sup
posed to turn back without delay.
DRAFT PLAN
i EMERALD ISLE
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i Irish Women Took An Iron-Bounc
Pledge to Prevent Conscription
of Their Men.
> J DUBLIN.-—Irish women were or
f ganized for participation in the anti
, conscription campaign in Ireland as
: never before in the history of poli
tical agitation in Ireland.
I Much is heard of the “Woman’s
I ! Pledge.” which was the leading fea
II ture of the women’s side of the
,! anti-conscription campaign. The
| pledge reads as follows:
i “Because the enforcement of con
scription on any people without
! their consent is tyranny, we arc
I resolved to resist the conscription
, i of Irishmen. We will not fill the
places of men deprived of their work
through refusing enforced military
j service. We will do all in our power
I j to help families of men who suffer
through enforced military service.”
The occasion chosen for the uni
versal signing of this pledge by the
women of Ireland was the festival
of St. Columbeille, a national saint
much talked about at the present
' time on account of some war pro
phecies attributed to him, including
one in which he is said to have
predicted conscription.
The woman’s pledge was part of
j a scheme with which conscription
I was resisted. Wherever possible,
| the signing was accompanied by
I floral demonstrations and organi
zations taking part carried wreaths,
I crosses and other symbols to de
| corate the place of signing. The
! ceremony also was accompanied by
j pilgrimages and processions to some
place of veneration such as a church,
holy well, site of altar in penal days
I or some local memorial of national
i history.
! MOUSE KILLING CLUBS
NEW MOVE IN ENGLAND
j LONDON.—A movement to form
mouse killing clubs in Great Britain
| as one means of grain conservation
i is well under way', men, women and
i children being urged to take part,
j A club has already been organized
, in Sissinghurst, Kent, and it was
announced recently that in one day
one member alone had killed 650
mice. It has been estimated by per
sons interested in the campaign that
a mouse will eat a spoonful of corn
j each day.
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r.s. McDonald
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72 Cases Over-the-Ice Eggs
3 Cases Fresh Lemons
10 Head Young Draft Horses.
3 Wagons.
4 Sleds.
50 Tarpaulins. All Sizes.
House and Barn.
RANCH-40 acres under cul
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FOR SALE—Beaver Board, in plain
and oak finish. Doors and win- (
dows, sash stock and mouldings
Inquire Simson’s.
PIANOS—For sale or rent. Inquire
Simson’s.
FOR SALE—Two tents, 18x30 and
20x40. Inquire Simsons.
FOR SALE—Extra fine panel c’or.rs.
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Julia B.—Up Kotlik 7 p. m.. 18th
Sarah—Up Melozi, 1:30 a. m.
Reliance—Up Koyukuk river 17th
Jacobs—At Gibbon.
Davis—Up Louden, 5 a. m.
Washburn—Up Holy Cross for '
Dikeman, 15th.
Sibilla—Up Circle 8 p. m., 18th ,
Alaska—Up Circle 5:15 p. m.
the 18th.
Carl White—Up Tolovana for |
Fairbanks midnight.
Shusana—Leave Chena down
bound this p. m.
BRITISH SAILORS HAVE
SPECIAL UNIFORM NOW
LONDON.—A national standard
uniform for the sailors of the Brit
ish merchant marine has been ap
proved by the government com
mittee. The officers’ cap is of dark
blue cloth, with a central medallion
bearing an anchor and naval crown.
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