THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application aiade April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for eniry 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.
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OUR BOYS UNDER FIRE
Under the increasing pouding oi
German artillery, the ever-recurring
gas-attacks, and the raids in force
by German shock troops. General
Pershing’s men in the front-line
trenches in France remain “calm,
confident, and implacably resolute,”
acocrding to a French official who
visited them with Premier Clemen
ceau recently, just after they had
brilliantly repelled the heaviest at
tack that had just been hurled
against them. This unshaken spirit
is dramatically exemplified in the
dying words of the first West Pointer
to fall fighting against Germany:
“Steady, boys, though they out
number us ten to one, we can lick
’em.” On his return from France
our Chief of Staff, Major-Gen. Pey
ton C. March, declared our soldiers
ready to meet the enemy on his own
terms. “There is no pessimism at
the front,” he said; “the boys in the
trenches are not worrying.” And
almost while he spoke German shock
troops, attacking our line northwest
of Toul after a furious gas and ar
tillery preparation, were being driven
back to their trenches with heavy
losses. Although this trench raid
will not even have a name in the
history of this stupendous war, re
marks the New York Tribune, “it
will not remain uncelebrated, nor is
it without deep military significance
both in France and at home.” For—
“Before the Prussians attacked,
our Americans, despite their training
and the shadowy patrol encounters
of No Man’s Land, were raw un
tried troops. Today they are masters
of an elaborate and difficult tech
mque, and by tne outcome of the
fighting prepared by the enemy to
his own advantage, superior to him
in his own field.”
If this litt.e victory on the St.
Mihiel salient means anything, notes
the Philadelphia Press, “it means
that the American fighter has adapt
ed himself to the modern style of
warfare as quickly and as thoroughly
as any patriot could hope.” “The
boys from the United States have
been given their first substantial
baptLm of fire,” remarks the Pitts
burg Sun, “and they came through
the ordeal so valiantly that they
have more than justifed the faith
placed in them by a proud nation.”
Premier Clemenceau officially de
scribes it as “a very fine success, re
flecting great honor on the tenacity
of the American infantry and the
accuracy of the artillery fire, which
have thus shown they are capable
of attaining the maximum effect
from the French material which they
have adopted.”
Our losses in repulsing this Ger
man raid of March 1 are reported
as twenty killed and thirty-one
wound“d. The Germans also cap
tured most of a patrol of thirteen
which was operating in No Man’s
Land when the raid began, but they
obtained no prisoners from the
American trenches. “Some of the
American dead,” we read, “were
buried in a cemetery back of the
lines during the night while friendly
and hostile shells roared overhead.”
In the accounts of this raid cer
tain illuminating incidents etch them
selves on the memory. Thus is an
Associated Press dispatch we read:
“During the bombardment, which
hardly could have been more terri
fic, two men who were concealed in
a shell-hole were buried by dirt
thrown by another exploding pro
jectile. They shouted for help, and
it came quickly. Their comrades left
the shelters, from which they were
ready to leap into action the moment
the attacking infantry appeared, and
exhumed the buried soldiers, while
1 stones, mud, earth pieces of trees,
and shell splinters spattered about
them.
“Despite the fierceness of the
fight at close quarters, not more
than one bayonet was used, and this
one on a German. The Americans,
using their automatic pistols, sent
bullets into the German attacked
with good aim. despite the excite
ment. Rifle bullets accounted for
i
many more.
Two days after this attack Pre
mier Clemenceau went to the Ameri
can front and decorated six Ameri
can soldiers with the Croix de Guerre
with the palm. These men are Lieut
I enants Joseph Ganby, of Brooklyn,
X. Y., and William Coleman, of
Charlestown, S. C., Sergeants Patrick
Walsh and William Norton; and Pri
vates Buddy Pittman, of Brooklyn,
X. Y., and Alvin Smiley, of St. Louis.
Lieutenants Canby and Coleman went
into No Man’s Land in daylight and
each brought back a German pris
oner. Sergeant Norton killed a Ger
man lieutenant and two soldiers. He
was challenged by the lieutenant to
leave his dugout, and led out his
men fighting. Sergeant Walsh took
command of a detachment in front
of the wire when his captain was
killed and continued to fight. Pri
vates Pittman and Smiley showed
heroism in carrying important mess
ages through the barrage. An ac
count of the bestowal of the crosses
runs thus:
“The names of the men to be
decorated were called, and they
stepped up, the French premier pin
ning the decoration on them and
saying a word to each. One he patted
on tne shoulder and said, mats the
way to do it.’ The American blushed
and retired to the lanks.
“One of the French generals said
to a lieutenant newly decorated: ‘We
have got the Boches down and we
shall put them down deeper if we
. keep working as \Ce have.’
“At the end of the ceremony a
young private came running along
hurriedly. He spoke for a moment
with his captain, fearing apparently
that he was going to lose his medal.
The captain directed him to proceed
to Mr. Clemenceau’s automobile,
| which he did. The premier stepped
! out and slapped him on the back,
I handing him his war-cross. One of
the generals remarked laughingly:
“ ‘Never mind about being late.
You \ \ e on time the other morning.
That is enough.’
"The soldier forgot to salute in
the excitement and glory of the mo
ment, but an American general came
to his rescue, whispering:
“ Salute, salute.’ .
“None of the men decorated can
wear their honors until authorized
by congress.”
The spirit of the troops on the
American sector is further exem
plified by a sign reading: “There’s
no more No Man's Land. This is
Yankeeland.” And in this incident
told by Thomas M. Johnson, corres
pondent of the New York Evening
Sun:
“On a visit to the hospital at
Soissons I saw the wounded. One
man with his leg cut off and part
of his chin and shoulder gone, lay
swathed in bandages with his eyes
alert. The general officer accom
panying me spoke to the man, who
replied: I hope, sir, you’ll let me
back, because my eyes and arms are j
all right and I could handle a ma- j
chine gun.’ ”
“When Americans learn how many
men we have on the fighting line
in all sectors,” says a Washington
I dispatch, “ they will discover that
the ratio of casualties to forces en
gaged is gratifying small.”
RED CROSS SALE
OF GARMENTS IN
ITALY POPULAR
I _
j PADAU, Italy.—There was a stir
ring scene in the central square of
, the city on a recent Sunday, when
the American Red Cross began its
sale of garments made by the wives
j and daughters of Italian soldiers at
the front. The great square of
United Italy was crowded with
peasant women for miles around,
j eager to obtain some of the gar
j ments, for besides giving employ
j ment to the women, the Red Cross
] sells the product at a small nominal
\ price to the families of soldiers. A
(file of Carbinieri was required to
> keep back the throng, and the rush
i for the sales counters was so great
j that Captain Thwaits, the American
j official in charge, was obliged to
adopt the plan of issuing numbers
i to the buyers.
The work-rooms where several
hudnred women are employed during
: the week, was cleared for the sale
and long counters were piled high
with dresses, blouses, children’s suits
and undergarments, and all the
miscellaneous articles of any ex
tensive woman’s furnishing estab
lishment. The sales-women were
drawn from the best known families
of Padua, with Countess Papapava
and other titled women adjusting
pinafores on peasant children and
meeting the demands of the anxious
buyers.
In the two hours of the opening
sale the peasant women had bought
3,000 lire worth of garments, a
large sum for people ot scan* means.
The goods were worth two or three J
t:mes that amount and represented j
several thousand lire paid in wages j
by the Red Cross it the hundreds!
of c rl v orkers. Ever" worker and'
every buyer must show a card es
tablishing relationship with a sol-1
dier, and thus the work is kept as
one of military untilitv.
Later in the day the results of
the sale were apparent on the main
streets as the peasant women and !
their children went by proudly wear- j
ir.g their Red Cross garments, which [
in a way, have transformed the ap
pearance of many of these people.'
giving them an air of cleanliness and !
comfort.
AT GRACE CHURCH
ON SUNDAY EVENING
“Wars of the Gods” will be Doctor
Diven’s theme Sunday evening. In
this lecture the speaker will endeavoi
to give a clear answer to the ques
tion handed in some time ago in
reference to Dr. Charles W. Eliot’s
appraisement of Christianity of to
day and the religion of the future.
Music begins at 7:15. Lecture at
7:30. Everybody welcome.
10 BE SCREENED
Dustin Farnum, the favorite Am
erican actor, will be seen at the Col
iseum tomorrow night, as the lead
ing character in "The Virginian”,
a play too well known to repuire
elaborate comment. Suffice it to
say that the story is one of the best
American plays written, and nothing
has been lost in the picturization.
The play is in five parts, with -100
scenes. There is a lot of good
comedy, some original love making
and many tense dramatic situations
well acted by Farnum and a strong
supporting company.
The usual Sunday prices of ad
mission will prevail, fifty cents for
general admission and a quarter ex
tra for reserved seats. The show
will start at 8:30.
The Virginian will be repeated on
Monday night.
Hotels and restaurants in Massa
chusetts have saved in excess of
8,478 tons of essential food stuffs.
Savings of 3,430.080 pounds of
meats, 1,351,827 pounds of wheat
flour, and 1,113,264 pounds of sugar
were effected the month of January.
Better than money, because the>
earn money.’ Buy a WAR-SAVINGS
STAMP TODAY!
MAN-POWER OF
UNITED STATES IS
EXTRA STRONG
CHICAGO, May 31.—The nation’s
industrial manpower has not suffered
any serious depletion as a result of
the United States’s first year in the
world war, so far as indicated in re
cent surveys of the general labor
situation conducted by the United
States Employment Service and the
Illinois Free Employment Bureau.
Except in certain skilled trades these
bureaus find there is no marked
shortage of labor, the chief problem
at present being distribution.
The labor turnover so far this
year has been greater than in pre
vious years. This is attributed to
some extent to unusual opportuni
ties for individual betterment offered
by plants working on war contracts.
On an average 100,000 persons
are obtaining employment through
the Chicago district office of the
federal bureau as compared with a
total of 495,000 during the last
fiscal year. This huge increase is
accounted for by the recent re-or
ganization of the bureau for service
as the national machinery for the
mobilization and distribution of the
country’s labor. As such it has
handled the applications of hundreds
of thousands of workers registering
with the Public Service Reserve, in
cluding more than 260,000 mechan
ics for shipbuilding.
A system of daily surveys shows
the bureaus where the greatest
shortages or surpluses exist and with
this information it is able to make
economic distribution. Manufac
turers are being urged to use the
government agency as far as possible
in order to reduce the labor turn
over and uneconomic competition be
tween industries essential to the war.
At the state employment bureau
6,000 persons sought work in March
and there too the demand is in about
equal balance with the supply, ex
cept in a few trades. Positions were
found for nearly all the applicants.
The demand for women workers
is said to be about normal. Only
in a few isolated cases have they
replaced men called to the colors.
A few plants engaged in war con
tracts have employed large numbers
of women without difficulty.
j Many woman teaeners are said to
: be leaving the school rooms for
■ more remunerative employment and
• the draft has drawn so heavily upon
! the already scant supply of men
j teachers that several states report
i the situation alarming for next year,
i A survey cf thirty-seven states just
I completed by the Professiona1 Ser
vise Division of the federal bureau
shows that during the present school
; year West Virginia was forced to j
close between 150 and 200 schools,
because of the scarcity of teachers j
| In Montana ^nd Wyoming. North |
I Carolina, Deleware, Mississipi, Ala-1
I bama, New Mexico, South Dakota,
! Wisconsin and Indiana report a
marked shortage. The bureau has,
800 teachers’ applications and 600
| vacancies listed, but a large per-!
j centage of those seeking positions, it
is pointed out, are not qualified for .
: work in the departments where the ;
greatest deficiency exists.
| To cope with what is expected to |
be an unprecedented railroad labor
shortage later in the year, a new de-1
|partment of the United States Em-'
j ployment Service has been organized 1
i to handle railroad labor. for the
I western regional district. By order
jof Director-General McAdoo the rail
, roads have abolished their labor
j bureaus and the government agency
will recruit their men as well, p.s
direct the distribution. In evept
of an acute shortage of workers in,
maintainance of way departments,, it
j is planned to suspend work not ab
j solutely necessary and send men j
i from these locations to points where j
they are more urgently needed. A j
great number of laborers are said i
to have left the roads because of,
the higher wages they can obtain
in mines or factories.
So far the farmers of the Central
est and Northwest have had little
difficulty in finding enough help.j
Most of them d°mand experienced '
hands but are being urged by em
ployment officials to accept more
men from the Public Service Reserve
which consists for the most part of
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NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE YOUR HOME COMFORTABLE
AND ATTRACTIVE
We Have In Stock A Complete Line of
WALL PAPERS AND INTERIOR DECORATIONS
In the Latest Design*
BEAVER BOARD—CRETONNES—SHEETING AND ROOFING
PAPER — FURNITURE—MIRRORS — GLASS—WINDOWS
DOORS — PAINTS — OILS AND VARNISHES
GUNS AND AMMUNITION 2
ALSO A COMPLETE LINE OF HARDWARE, INCLUDING THE 2
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students. In a few western states!
the harvest labor question is being I
taken up by communities, each com- j
munity mobilizing emergency work
ers to help nearbly farmers. Mobile
forces of harvesters are also being
organized to begin with the Kans/;[
winter wheat harvest and move I
northward through the Dakotas and
other northwestern states, where the
wheat is ready for cutting after the I
Kansas harvest is over. These men,
with the hands available from the
Public Service Reserve, are expected
to furnish ample farm labor.
OLD PAPERS FOR SALE—Inquire
New* Office.
FOR SALE
LINOufilJM, 12 x :i
21 YARDS RUG BORDER
1 PA»R PORTIERES
* 1 COUCH COVER
ALL NEW
ALSO 1 BRASS BED
6-Qt. ICE CREAM FREEZER
INQUIRE
JONES BUNK HOUSE
SglBs
THE BELMONT HOTEL
AND
POOL ROOM
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
EVERYTHING NEW
BASOFF & SOGURA. Prop..
Saddle and Driving
ea
FOR RENT
See Koland 3d. and C
Try One uf Oar
COCKTAILS
Shrimp, Clam and Oyster
.Martin's Pool Hall
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UNITED STATES
GCYERNMEN r
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.
THEY EARN MONEY
THEY SAVE LIFE AT THE
FRONT, BY HELPING UNCLE
SAM WIN THE WAR.
1 BUI THEM AT THE
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