THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for eiury 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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Washington.—The sea is calilng
to American youth.
As the new ships of the merchant
marine glide down the ways, the
need for men grows more pressing.
Abundant opportunity to aid in win
ning the war is offered the crews
of the new vessels, with the certain
ty that when peace comes there will
be further adventure and good pay
in carrying American commerce
throughout the world.
Recruiting of the boys and men
who must go down to the sea if
America is to regain her old place
among the maritime nations is in
the hands of the Shipping Board’s
enlistment service, headed by Henry
Howard, with headquarters at Bos
ton, who has outlined to union men
and steamship companies what al
ready has been accomplished.
“About a year ago we realized
the shortage that was going to arise
when the new fleet was finished,”
Mr. Howard said, *and we started
the training of officers, both deck
and engineer. We established a
train of schools extending along
the Atlantic coast, the Gulf of
Mexico, the Pacific coast and the
Great Lakes, to enable us to get
hold of the men who had experience
at sea- We then got the co-opera
tion of the steamboat inspection
service. No man was admitted to
our schools for officers unless he
could first qualify for experience
required by the rules of the steanV
boat inspection service. That obvi
ates the training of any dead ma
terial. After men get their licenses
we place them, as far as possible,
on board steamships as junior offi-;
cers, to get actual bridge experience j
for thirty to sixty days. During
that period they get $75 a month,
with no bonus, paid by the Emerg
ency Fleet Corporation, so that the
only expense to the steamship com
panies taking these men is the food
they eat.
“We have turned out officers so
fast that a great many have not
been finding positions in the mer
chant marine, and have gone into
the navy. It has been to certain ex
tent, a short cut to a commission
in the navy, going through our
schools, owing to lack of co-oper-,
ation in many of the steamship lines]
in taking these men on. We be-1
lieve, however, in view of the ac-!
tion that was taken by the Ameri- i
can Steamship Association some'
weeks ago that this will now be!
straightened out, and that we will
get the places.
“There have been licensed since:
the first of last June, something
over 6,000 officers, both deck and
engineer.
“Engineers have been given train- j
ing in various technical institutions,1
the Massaschusetts Institute of Tech- i
nology, in Boston; the John Hop
kins, in Baltimore; Case School jf ■
'{ Applied Science, in Cleveland the
I Tulane University of Washington;
in Seattle. Then outside of those
institutions we have been giving
special engineering courses in Phila
delphia, in connection with the ice
breaking steamer, the Governor
Weaver, loaned to us by the city of
Philadelphia, for that purpose. We j
are also giving some courses at the j
Seamen’s Institute in New York. I
We are starting an additional school ]
in Berkeley, California.
“We have been in touch with the j
Officer’s Association in England, i
and if any shortage develops here, i
we will bring officers over to fill i
the places. We have an offer if
co-operation from the English Offi-!
eers’ Association. We have felt I
from the very beginning that we j
ought to develop our own material I
here to the utmost before we call
on any foreign officers, but it looks
now as if it might be necessary
to call on the foreign officers, to
have a reserve force on hand to
meet any emergency that may arise.
We have started training ships for
training sailors, firemen, cooks and
stewards, oilers and water tenders.
We have in operation the Governor
Dingley at Galveston and the Gov
ernor Cobb is at sea. Our program
calls for giving these ships five days
out of the seven each week at sea,
so as to give the men their sea
legs. The old army transport Meade
is being used as a receiving ship.
“We divide the men into squads
of ten each, under an able seaman
as instructor. One of the principal1
things is to teach them lifeboat j
work, with training every day for!
thirty days we feel that those men
are probably as good in handling a
lifeboat as the average sailor on
board a steamer.
“One rather interesting incident
demonstrated that fact. A training
ship was being towed, boilers and
engines out of commission, to Bos- .
ton by a navy tug in a heavy gale, j
The tug ran short of coal and was j
obliged to put to port. They felt j
that there was danger of the ship
going ashore during the night, so the
captain ordered the men to abandon
the ship. It was getting along to
wards dark, but they launched their
lifeboats, with the wind blowing 60
miles an hour, took nearly 60 men
off and transferred them to the
navy tug. All of this work was done !
by our recruits, who had only had 1
about five weeks’ training, without 1
any casualty of any kind, which was
a pretty good demonstration as to
what that training means.
‘The fleet that I have outlined
will hold 3,000 men. We plan to
put that number through each month, j
We have a receiving ship now in
New York harbor, the Dorothy Brad
ford, to keep a reserve number of
men there all the time to meet any
emergency. We also hope to have i
a similar ship at San Franciso, and
a similar station at Seattle. The i
demand for men would appear to be j
about 18,000 men on the West coast!
in the next eighteen months. We
j also have under consideration a re- I
eeiving ship at New Orleans.
J “For getting men, we have made J
: use of a chain of drug stores through- j
: out the country. The drug store,1
j especially in a country town, is a j
! sort of a social center, open every:
i day, and every evening, which makes '
! them an ideal enrolling station, i
These stores have given us nearly j
,7,000 enrolling stations. The cost
I to the Shipping Board has been al- i
i most nothing.
“As to the special training of fire- j
. men, in the district around Chicago, :
including Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, !
Ohio, and Michigan, we are making t
a special drive to get men who have !
at least six months’ experience in !
firing stationary boilers, feeling that |
men with experience would make
exceedingly good material from
which to develop firemen at sea.
We will, of course, put those men
on board our training ships and give
them actual firing experience there.
“We have established an advisory
committee to the recruiting service,
made up of the president of every;
association or union that has any
thing to do with the manning of the ;
merchant marine. We have had' the
heartiest co-operation from them, so
that the men that we have been put
ting on board ships have been well j
received by their fellow workers, and
the unions have vouched for the
fact that they will continue to be
well received.”
'NEW CARD SERIES
i BEGINSJEXI WEEK
Series of Card Parties in Connection
With Red Cross Ya,*n Fund
Is Planned.
Mrs. J. C. Kellum, who has charge
of the series of card games to De
held in connection with the Red
Cross yarn fund wishes to announce
| that committees have been named
to look after the various assortment
of card games and other details of
the series to be held soon.
The games, which will consist of
auction bridge, pan and hearts, will
be held at the Adams building on
A street, and will be open to every
body. Tickets of two denominations
j will be on sale in a day or two. A
j ticket for the entire series, costing
| only two dollars, entitles the holder
of it to enter the tournaments, while
a ticket for the day’s play will cost
fifty cents, but will bar the holder
from the tournaments. Prizes are
offered to the winners in the tour
, naments only.
Details of the plan with names
of the several committees and dates
| chosen for play will be announced
in these columns shortly.
The elaborate plans which are now
under way, assure everyone of a
rattling good time with a choice of
the game of Pan, Bridge or Hearts.
:
COLIEGE GIVES
STUDENTS TIME
Young Men and Women Will Be I
Given Opportunity to Work in
Fields This Fall.
BERKELEY, Cal.—Mindful of!
the “imperative need for supplying
labor during the ‘peak load’ of the
harvest season in California” the
University of California will not re
sume its exercises next fall until
October first. In the past the uni
versity has opened during the third
week in August.
This radical war action was taken
recently by a unanimous vote of the
Academic Senate on the recom
mendation of President Benjamin
Ide Wheeler. By this means hund-1
reds of young men and women will
be enabled to offer their services
in aid of th nation by working iiT
fields and orchards.
It is expected that large numbers
of students will avail themselves of
the opportunity to help with the
harvests, and also to enter various
other fields of war endeavor during
the five months period of vacation !
now at hand.
The war emergency has necessi
tated a complete rearrangement of
the schedule, including a redistribu
tion of the vacatkn periods occur
ring during the University year and
a new plan for examinations. The
Christmas vacation period will ex
tend only from Monday, December
23 to Wednesday, January 1, in
clusive, instead of the three weeks
hereofore allowed.
KEEP if COMING
We must not only
feed our Soldiers
at the front but
the millions of*
women 6- children
behind our lines”
GmJoAnJ.Pifsfcng
WASTE NOTHING
FOR FAIRBANKS
FAST WARM, COMFORTABLE
LAUNCH VICTORY'
LEAVES NENANA
TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND
SATURDAY AT 8 A. M.
i
SOLDIERS SAVE
OLD PAPER NOW
IN ARMY CAMPS
Campaign Is Started Among Can
tonments to Reduce National
Waste.
CAMP KEARNEY, San Diego.—
Keep the waste paper clean and save
it, for sale by the reclamation de
partment of the quartermaster’s de
partment, is the request of that or
ganization to all officers in this
camp. “It is understood that other
camps throughout the United States
are baling and shipping carloads of
saleable paper every month” says
the request, “and there is no reason
why we cannot do the same.”
A record is being kept of the
amount of paper and condition of
same turned in by each organization.
Any organization not turning in this
paper and taking proper steps for
care for same will be reported. This
office has had a man out through
the camp for the last ten days en
deavoring to have the different or
ganizations take proper care of and
turn in their waste paper and up to
the present time five loads of paper
were delivered to the reclamation
house, all of which was dirty and
unfit for baling.
“Some of the organizations are
still hauling their waste paper to
the dumps, where it is being burnej'..
Every pound of paper burned is
throwing away so much money.
“The twins—U-boats and Waste
fulness, are a menace to the Allies."
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Washburn—Up Hot Springs, 0
a. m. date.
Peerless— With mail up Nenana
8 a. m.
Dixie Queen—Down Nenana, 12th.
Shusana—At Fairbanks.
Julia B.—At Kotlik.
Seattle No. 3—At Kotlik.
Ice still holding in bay at Kotlik.
Sibilla—-Down Nulato. 6:45 a. m.
Davis—Up Rampart 3 a. m. 11th.
Reliance—At Nulato.
Casca and Barge—Down White
horse 7 p. m., 11th.
Yukon—Down Whitehorse, 9 p. m.
the eleventh.
Nasutlin—At Whitehorse.
Tanana—Up Big Salmon, 4 a.m.
HUNGER.
For three years America has
sought Starvation in Belgium
Will you Eat less — wheat
meat —fats and sugar
that we may still send
food in ship loads ?
MMITSD STATS • 9000 AOMINIITSUTlOir
For Your
WAR GARDEN
Get One of Our
VICTORY GARDEN
COMBINATIONS
Continuous Bloomers
A SURE WINNER
$2.50
WINDOW AND PORCH BOXES
Made, Filled and Planted
$2.50, up.
CEASSIEIED ADVERTISEMENTS
FOR SALE—Electric Piano, practi
cally new, with 125 Records, terms
if desired. For particulars, in
quire at this office. tf
LOST—Black Malamute, answers to
the name of Chub. Owner will
be glad to hear of his whereabouts.
Notify Steve Foster, gamewarden.
FOR SALE OR ENT—National Cash
Register. Simson’s.
FOR SALE—Show Cases. Simson’s l
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FOR SALE—Dining Room Tables
and Chairs, Dressers, Rocking
Chairs. Upholstered Couches. At
Simson’s.
VICTOR PHONOGRAPHS and
Records, at Outside prices. At
Simsons.
SKOF HOUSE for rent. Inquire on
premises. tf
FOR SALE—Two tents, one 18x30,
one 20x40. Inquire Simsons.
Flood and lea Postal* for sale at
The Portland, The Arctic and at
Slippern’s 5-28
FOR RENT—PIANOS.. Simson’s
WANTED TO BUY—An ice box.
Inquire Simson’s.
FOR SALE—On easy installments,
Player and Plain Pianos. Simson’s
Assistant District Attorney Harry
'Pratt was a passenger for Fairbanks
on the launch Peerless this morning.
Mr. Frederick D. Browne, who
had been with the location survey
party near Fish creek for the past
few days, came into town today, j
He will probably leave for the scene
of activities again in a short time.1
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COCKTAILS
Shrimp, Clam and Oyster
Martin’s Pool hall
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BAKERY
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NOTARIAL WORK
LIFE INSURANCE
Local Agent of
Whitely-Woodward Company
Home Inturance Co., New York
National Fire, of Hartford
Hartford Fire Insurance Co.
Norwich Union Fire Insurance Co.
Law Union and Rock, London
Look Them Up In Best’s
Union Insurance Society, London
OLD PAPERS FOR SALE—Inquire
News Office.
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CIGARS POOL CONFECTIONERY
SOFT DRINKS ICE CREAM
FRESH LEMONS, ORANGES, GRAPEFRUIT AND APPLES
WS.S.
"WaR savings stamps
ISSUED BY TH2
■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.
THEY EARN MONEY
THEY SAVE LIFE AT THE
FRONT, BY HELPING UNCLE
SAM WIN THE WAR.
BUT THEM AT THE
POSTOFFICE