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DOG KENNELS NENANA, ALASKA
COAST VETERANS
TG JOIN LEGION
ft Returned soldiers and sailors of
Anchorage have taken steps to
organize the first auxiliary to the
American Legion in Alaska. The
organization will be perfected and
put on a national basis as soon as
further information is received
from national headquarters. Nec
essary telegrams asking for the
detailed information have been for
•A -warded. It is estimated that there
are about sixty returned soldiers
and sailors living in Anchorage and
vicinity at the present time. As
the idea has been received favor
ably throughout the States, it is
thought that the entire number
will sign the honored roll and
affiliate with the organization. Sol
diers Dieber, Swetmann, Blanton,
and Private Jack have taken the
initiative in the matter that found
ready response. The following re
turned soldiers and sailors signed
the roll at the initial meeting:
George Baker, George Vlahos, El
I wyn Swetmann, Joseph Dean, Nick
I Spearry, Angelus Karaskos, Ros
co C. Banman, Tom Costacos, Wal
ter Blanton, C. B. Fell, Stewart
1 Gordon, V. B. Plackus, C. P. Maf
son, Gus Tasacos, Ed. Kryger, D.
Turcette John Wirum, Gus Grad
I son, A. H. Dieber, Jack Suther
land, John Theson, Robert Romig,
Dan McGinnis Edward Bittner, John
Sultan, J. J. Delaney and W. H.
! Rager. _
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STATEMENT FROM THE LOCAL
JONES CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
The committee in charge of J. L. Jones' candidacy for dele
gate to Congress desires to say to the Nenana voters that Mr.
Jones is a resident of Ketchikan, a carpenter by occupation, and
formally principal of the Ketchikan school. Some years ago, the
people of Alaska, by an overwhelming majority at the polls, voiced
their desire for a general eight-hour law. The recent act of the
Alaska Legislature in ignoring that just expression of the people's
will is the immediate cause of the present labor candidate being
placed in the field; and by casting a solid vote for him we will
register a solemn protest against machine-controlled politics in
Alaska. When Mr. Jones was requested to make the run, all
party prejudice was swept to one side and twelve hundred voters of
all political faiths subscribed to the petition in Southeastern
Alaska.
During the Cleveland administration, the income tax law was
enacted by Congress and later declared unconstitutional by the
supreme court of the United States. The people, however, willed
that the law should stand, so the sixteenth amendment was added
to the constitiution, and the law is operating today.
The seventeenth amendment made election of United States
senators by direct vote constitutional, and the eighteenth amend
ment will make prohibition throughout the nation constitutional,
so the constitution, after all, is only the will of the people. If,
when the general eight-hour law is enacted, the supreme court
should declare it unconstitutional, then the constitution must make
room for another amendment. The Congress of the United States
enacted an anti-child labor law, and last January the supreme
court declared that law' to be unconstitutional. Investigation since
then by the National Child Labor Committee shows that child labor
has increased vastly throughout the United States in mills, mines
and factories.
The National Child Labor Committee has appealed to the
people of the United States to observe Januray 25th, 26th and
27th as days of protest against child labor in this country.
The endorsement of these days as a protest met the hearty
co-operation of Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the interior; so
here is a chance for another amendment to the constitution
These amendments, however, require time; so we would ask the
women of Nenana to bear in mind that it is their children now
going to school that will be benefitted or injured by the vote they
may cast tomorrow. It is but a few years until these children
are called upon to take the burdens that this generation must then
lay down. It is our duty to smooth the rugged road that they
must travel. This reasonable demand for an eight-hour day is
the expressed will of a great majority of the people of Alaska and
today it is demanded by the people of the civilized wrorld.
The opening gun for a general eight-hour law throughout the
United States has been fired by President Wilson from far across
the sea, and the echo shall not die until its object is attained.
Mothers and fathers of Nenana, here is a chance to vote in behalf
of yourself, as well as your children.
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Official Publication Tells of
Work of Chemical Warfare
Division of the U. S. Army
WASHINGTON, D. C.—An offi
cial narrative of the part Ameri
can industry played in providing
munitions for the American army
in the great war is unfolded in a
book being prepared under the di-:'
rection of Assistant Secretary Crow- ■
ell of the war department, who j
was director of munitions up to;
the close of hostilities, when he!
was specially assigned by the Presi-j:
dent to direct the demobilization J
of material. i
Advance pages of two sections
of the book, those dealing with the
chemical warfare material, offensive!
and defensive, and with the equip-'
ment for the signal corps, have!
been made available, telling for the j
first time officially and completely'
not only of the stupendous scope of j
the projects, but of the difficulties
and delays encountered and of the;
patriotic support of the war pro-,
gram given by American business
generally.
The chemical warfare section tells
of the original work done by the;
ordnance department toward obtain-'
ing toxic gases and anti-gas devices
for the use of American troops.:
Subsequently this service became a
separate branch of the army under;
the direction of Major-General W.
L. Sibert.
Among other secrets disclosed is
the basis of frequent statements
that, at the time of the signing of
the armistice, the United States1
alone was producing gases for mili
tary use at a rate ten times in ex
cess of the best production Germany
could obtain. The Germans pro
duced with all their facilities about |
six tons of mustard gas per day,
while the United States was pro
ducing more than 60 tons a day
and employing methods of produc-:
tion far more modern and efficient
than anything attained by the ene
my.
The chemical name of this com
pound is dichoretylsurplide, and its
popular name of mustard gas comes
from its odor.
Another element of the program
was the production of tear gases,
not deadly under ordinary circum
stances, but designed to produce
blindness, thus forcing the troops
to use masks extensively, impairing
their military efficiency. The found
ation of these gases was bromine,
the main supply of which is ob
tained from subterranean solutions
found chiefly in the vicinity of Mid
land, Mich., where the government
financed the sinking of 17 brine
wells under direction of the Dow
Chemical company, which was pre- j
pared to supply 650,000 tons a
year.
The other chief gases are the
so-called “killers,” the gases so
deadly as to bring death unless safe
guards are provided, chlorine and
chlorpicrin and phosgene. The only
one of these produced commercially
in the United States was chlorine,
and even with that the supply was
utterly inadequate to the demand.
A statistical table shows that
1,488 tons of chlorine in liquid
form; 1,903 tons of chlorpicrin;
420 tons of phosgene and 190 tons
of musatrd oil were actually ship
ped overseas from January to No
vember, 1918. In addition, 300,000
75-mm. shells loaded with chlor
picrin and 150,000 loaded with mus-;
tard oil went abroad, the ship
ments including 224,000 phosphoru
grenades as smoke bombs and 18,
600 phosgene bombs for Livens mor
tars. The capacity for filling shells
and bombs on the day of the sign
ing of the armistice exceeded 4,-1
800,000 a month. At that time
the practice of shipping gases abroad j
in bulk to be loaded into nrojec
tiles on the other side had been !
abandoned.
"We therefore shipped to Eurone
in bulk,” the report states, “3.662
tons of gas or its equivalent, which
was largely loaded into shells and
used by the United States troops
or those of the Allies. This quan
tity was sufficient to load 1,600,000
shells, tw'o-thirds of them being of
the 75-mm. caliber, and the other j
one-third 155-mm., the total num- ;
ber being thought to be at least
equal to the total number of gas,
shell fired by American troops in j
action.
“Thus, while American gas was
not actually fired in American
shells against the Germans, Ameri
can gas was used against the en
emy and America furnished at least
as much gas as she fired.
“In addition to this, we shipped
18,600 Livens drums loaded with;
phosgene. These contained 279 tons
of gas, and some of them were fired
at the enemy.” A table of casual
ties at the Edgewood arsenal shows i
that while only four men lost their
lives from gas at this plant, 925 ,
were injured, the bulk of them, 674,1
in mustard gas accidents.
Taking up the defensive side of j
gas warfare material, the report j
shows that the American troops had ;
“the best and most protective gas j
masks the world had seen; and
they brought these with them by
the millions.” A total of 5,250,000 j
masks were produced, of which 4,-1
000.000 were sent overseas, and the j
report states that these masks “gave |
20 times the protection afforded j
by the best German gas masks.” |
“No American soldier was ever
gassed due to the failure of an
American gas mask,” the report
says, “and such gas casualties as
did occur were due to the fact
that the masks were not quickly
enough utilized when the gas was
thrown over, or because the soldier
was unaware of the presence of
gas."
The original order from the de
partment was for 25,000 masks to
go with Pershing's first expedi
tion, and the report tells in detail
of the frantic efforts necessary to
procure them, efforts which actu
ally counted for little, since the
masks were not used for many
months. At the time the expedition
sailed, however, the British and
French were not thoroughly ac
quainted with the gas warfare that
was developing, nor had completed
effective protection been worked
out. In speaking of the first Ger
man gas attack upon Canadian
troops at Ypres, the report says
chlorine was used, and while pro
tection of the troops from it later
became an easy matter, “it was only
lack of faith in their new weapon
that prevented the Germans from
winning the war with it then and
there.
“Had they brought into the fight
ing a sufficient supply of this chlor
ine,” the report continues, “they
might have gassed their way to
Paris in short order. As it was,
they brought to the line an almost
negligible supply, and they them
selves were insufficiently protected
to go through their own gas and
follow up the attack. By the time
they were able to renew gas war
fare the French and British had
equipped themselves with masks
which were sufficient to protect men
against chlorine.”
ine report tells ot tne develop
ment of gas masks from the original
gauze pads soaked in chemicals to
the “box respirator” which came
into general use. The Americans
and British employed a double pro
tection mask, the face-piece being
gas tight, but, to insure against
leaks, a mouthpiece and nose-clip
being supplied also, insuring protec
tion even in a torn mask. The first
order was for 1,100,000 of these
masks for the American forces.
Subsequently, to provide greater
comfort for the men, it was de
cided abroad that a single protec
tion mask would be sufficient, the
risk of leaky masks being regarded
as preferable to the discomfort of
the double protection type. When
this decision was received, however,
on this side, it was decided to carry
forward experiments with new types
of masks which would give both
comfort and security. This was car
ried forward to a point where a
squad of 150 men in the field test
ing section almost lived in their gas
masks, working, playing baseball,
j digging trenches, fighting sham bat
'tles day and night, in which actual
I gas grenades were employed, and
exposing themselves to the heaviest
! concentrations of the deadly gases
under all conditions.
“The work of this section,” the
[ report says, “even went so far in
:the case of the later designs as to
! incldue a test where six men work
1 ed, played and slept in the masks
| for an entire week, only taking
| them off for thirty minutes at each
i meal time, and each day entering
ihigh concentration of the most dead
ily gases without injury to the wear
I ers.”
I The chief ingredient of the pro
tection against gases is carbon,
which absorbs the gas instantane
ously. Cocoanut shells formed the
best supply of carbon that could be
found,' and the known world was
raked by American representatives
to secure what was needed. In ad
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ICE CREAM
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SOFT DRINKS
(INCLUDING THE WAR TAX)
THE PORTLAND |
JACKSON & EKELAND, Prop..
dition, enormous quantities of fruit
pits and other nut shells were se
cured, and the national campaign
to increase the supply of these in
gredients met with great success.
The slogan. “Eat More Cocoanut,”
the report states, increased the con
sumption in the country more than
100 per cent in a very brief period,
and in October, 1918, the govern
ment was obtaining from all sources
about 150 tons per day of cocoa
nut shells. The fruit canneries of
Sthe Pacific coast supplied 100 tons
ja day of apricot, peach and cherry
‘ pits and walnut shells, and the cam
paign led by the American Red
Cross to induce the public to con
tribute fruit pits and nut shells was
! in full swing when the armistice was
j signed. It is estimated that 4,000
: tons of material was collected by
i this means.
Among the masks designed and
produced were 377,881 horse masks,
'which were easier of manufacture,
j as a horse breathes always through
I his nose and is not as liable to gas
| poisoning as man. Other defensive
| equipment produced in large quan
jtitie included dugout blankets to
jseal the doors of underground shel
ters from gas, and oiled clothing,
i underclothing and gloves to protect
from mustard oil. There were ship
ped also 45,906 special signal horns
to give warning of gas, and more
than 50.000 fans to blow the vapor
out of trenches and dugouts.
The Cascade Laundry has plenty
of hot soft water at all times. New
i bath rooms, fully equipped and san
i itary, with special rooms for ladies.
| You get rebate with $2.50 laund,»*y,
; which applies on bath, or pay 50c
I per bath.
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| Tanana—Scheduled to leave
i Dawson 4 p. m., date,
j Sibilla—Up Circle 11:30 p m.
the 1st.
Washburn—At Iditarod, last re
port.
Seattle 3—Down Marshall 7 a.
m., May 28th.
Kelley and Benchley—At Toio
vana.
Eclipse—Up Chena 7:45 p. m.,
yesterday.
Genuine Buhach at Fowler &
Morris.
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