THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for emry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
Published every afternoon except Sunday, by the Nenana Printing
Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. Southworth..Editor and Manager
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HUN AIR LOSSES
Steady increase of German air
plane losses is admitted by Captain
Otto Lehman, in an article published
in the Berlin Tageblatt, reviewing
the progress of aerial warfare dur
ing the year 1917-1918. Captain
Lehman attributes the growing
losses to two causes: Development of
the fighting airplane as a weapon
against enemy infantry, and the
enhancement of the number of fight
ing machines due to the transfer of
those on the Eastern or Russian
front, to the West front.
“It will be noticed that since Janu
ary and February, 1918, our figures
for losses show a steady increase,”
Captain Lehman writes. “The reason
for that, however, is the increased
participation of airplanes resulting
from the fact that the German fly
ers who have been operating on the
Eastern front migrated to the West
ern front when fighting ceased in
the Russian theater. The increased
participation, of course, resulted
logically in larger total loss.
“The Eastern flyer, who had been
accustomed to quite different fight
ing conditions, in the beginning, un
doubtedly had to pay a bloody ap
prenticeship in fighting with French
and British. The Russian as an
aerial opponent is nowise to be com
pared with the Frenchman and Eng
lishman.
“It would be fundamentally wrong
to draw the conclusion from the
rise in German losses at the begin
ning of 1918, that our superiority
had waned. Still another factor ex
plains our higher losses. As an in
fantry plane the aerial weapon is
taking part in a considerably increas
ed measure in fighting the attackers
on land. Entire squadrons of battle
planes, so called infantry flyers, ac
company the storming of the never
failing infantry and by taking full j
advantage of their speed, attack the j
enemy reserves at low altitudes with '
bombs and machine guns.
These attacks are made often at
the ridiculously low altitudes of 100
metres and even 10 metres. It is
therefore, at first glance clear, that
these new tasks expose the airplanes
to every shot fired from the earth,
and must increase our loss account.” <
POSTCARDS WANTED
Old picture post cards and photo- j
j graphs of France and Belgium of any !
i of the territory now occupied by the
| Germans are needed by the war de-1
I partment, according to an open let-1
I ter writen recently by William Gug- i
| genheim, chairman of the Army and
! Navy Committee of the American
Defense Society to the American
j people. This letter which is written
! at the request of Major A. G. Camp
bell, of the Military Intelligence
; Branch of the war department reads:
! ‘‘I urge patriotic Americans to for
I ward any picture post cards, photo
| graphs and prints of any of the
| towns and of the country now occu
j pied by the Germans in Belgium and
I Northern France to the American De
j fense Society at 4l East 23rd Street,
| New York City, from where they
! will be sent to the war department,
I as they will be of value to our offi
! cers, abroad who can familiarize
i
themselves with the appearance of
localities toward which they are ad
j vancing, which will undoubtedly be
a distinct aid in military operations.
“I especially urge the people who
j have travelled abroad and who have
collected postal cards to carefully
' sort these with a view to their being
used by the war department. Writ
ten description of the territory al
ready mentioned will be of consider
able value.”
UNDESIRABLE CITIZENS
Knute Berkeland is a Cordova reg
istrant who requests exemption from
military service because he has taken
out first citizenship papers, but not
the final papers. He is the second
Cordova registrant to take advantage
of the Scandivnavian treaty rights
to escape fighting for the country
he is making his living in. Valdez
also has a number of these alien
slackers, says the Valdez Miner, and
the blush of shame caused by their
presence is sufficient to warm the
city without using any fuel for the
purpose. Their presence in Valdez
is as undesirable as an overcoat in
Hades.
ZONE FARE SYSTEM
PLAN OF COMPANY
PHILADELPHIA.—A zone sys
tem of fares upon the street rail
way lines of Philadelphia is pro
posed by the Philadelphia Rapid
Transit company in a statement to
the Public Service Commission. The
company controls all the lines in the
city.
Under this system five-cent fares
will be in force for rides in a cer
tain portion of the city, and addi
tional fares will be charged for
longer rides. For some months the
company has been endeavoring to
secure from the Service Commission
and city councils permission to raise
fares to six cents, but this has hung
fire. Now the traction officials
propose to put the zone system in
force January 1.
NEW HELLO GIRL
ASSUMES DUTIES
Mrs. Leon Kellum, who was re
cently appointed to fill the vacancy
in the staff of telephone girls caused
by the resignation of Miss Grace
Ralston, assumed her new duties to
day.
Previous to accepting the position
in the electrical department of the
A. E. C., Mrs. Kellum was employed
as a clerk, temporarily, in the gen
eral office of the A. E. C.
Twenty-five young men of Cor
dova recently became 21 years of
age and appeared before the local
board for registration and induction
into the army.
The Nellie Juan Packing company
at Port Nellie Juan, finished the .
season with 58,000 cases of salmon,
according to E. B. Hanley, president ,
of the company. Last year the com- j
pany packed about 35,00 cases. ,
SKARMSTBE
a
WIRES
THRUOUI FRANCE
SPEEDJDFFENSIVE
TOURS, Central France.—Along
the railway routes and the great
national highways of France one
sees mile after mile of the new tele
graph and telephone lines set up by
the American army, with squads of
linemen in khaki stringing the wires
and laying out new lines. The tele
graph officers all through the war
zones are crowded with khaki- uni
formed operators and a personnel
of American officers and enlisted
men.
It is one of the extensive sys
tems suddenly installed on a huge
scale with the coming of the Ameri
cans, spreading a vast wire network
over all France and realizing gov
ernment operation of telegraph and
telephones on foreign soil even be
fore it was under way on home
soil.
This military nerve system is not
alone telegraph and telephone lines,
but cable lines across the channel
so that American headquarters in
France can be in immediate inter
course with American officials in
London; wireless receiving and send
ing plants for detecting enemy ex
changes and carrying on our own
radio work; couriers and dispatch
riders; .weather observers to warn
when storms may impede military
operations, and all those modern
methods of rapid communication
which have become indispensable to
warfare.
It is a complete linking together
of the army, front and rear, head-1
quarters, staff and line, keeping the j
commanding officers in constant j
touch with every division and every
branch in the huge field of oper
ations. The movement of troops
and the actual fighting of battles
are largely dependent on this highly j
developed army communication, that
not only joins our own army, but
keeps up the liason of a vast united
command.
It is somethin}? over 500 miles
from the French coast to the battle
line in Eastern France and through
out this distance there is a complete
system of 10 and 20 wire American
telegraph lines, linking the seaports
with the front and also spreading!
through the vast ramification of |
warehouses, camps, hospitals, con-j
struction shops and military estab-'
lishments of all sort extending from j
the ports inland to the firing line, j
There is another multiple line •
running southward toward the Medi-1
terranean and over to the Spanish!
frontier.
There are the trunk lines, ex-;
tending clear hcross France and, be
sides these main arteries, every di
vision and branch of the army has
its own telegraph and telephone
dnes, keeping up constant inter
rourse with headquarters. In every
rrea occupied by. the army along
the front a complete system of
lines runs back to switchboard cen
tral stations—from regiment back
to the brigade, brigade to division,
Jivision to corps, corps to head
luarters.
On the first day of the big battle
»bove Chateau-Thierry, when the
\mericans began their famous drive,
there were 27,000 messages aver
ting over 60 words each—all the
vay from an extended report on an
iperation to a short sharp order
or some move in the swiftly-mov
ng drama. Within six weeks, since
he Americans had got into action,
he communication between front
nd rear had quadrupled, and six
veeks ago had quadrupled over the
ervice on April 1, when the Ameri
an activities were beginning to get
l motion.
The culmination of the great bat
le late in July stirred into intense
ctivity every branch of communica
on, with orders flying to hospitals,
rpply centers, ordnance works, and
) the training and rest camps for
le steady movement forward of
resh troops.
In England “His Majesty the
ing” and the humblest subject have
duplicate ration card. e
BRITISH USING
MARINES ALONG
LONDON.—British Marines have
taken over a section of the front
line trenches in France, the British
admiralty has officially announced.
With British and American Ma
rines now in the line it is interest
ing to recall that this is not the
first time that the two forces have
fought side by side.
One of the has relifs of the splen
did memorial to the Royal Marine
Light Infantry in St. Jame’s Park,
tells the story. It shows an Ameri
can officer leading a party of Brit
ish Marines in a gallant attack. The
text explains that the charge took
place on the night of July 2-3, 1900,
during the defense of Pekin.
Official records tell more. They
relate that the Chinese had dug
a sap leading to within twenty-five
yards of a barricade held by the
Allies and at the end of the sap
had built a tower from which they
could fire at the defenders. It was
necessary to capture the tower and
the sap and the forces available
were twenty-five British Marines
under Sergeant Murphy .fifteen
American Marines commanded by
Captain (now Colonel) Myers, and
fifteen Russian Marines under Cap
tain Vroubleffsky.
Captain Myers took command of
the whole force and decided that
the Anglo-American party should
attack the tower. A flank attack j
was to be made on the barricade by j
the Russians.
At a given signal, the party j
swarmed over the American barri- j
cade. The English and Americans, |
with Captain Myers at their head, I
entered the tower, to find it unoccu-1
pied. They followed along the sap. I
where Captain Myers was severely
wounded in the knee and was dis
abled. Sergeant Murphy at once
assumed command. After a hard
hand to hand fight, in which the
email body of Russian Marines play
ed a gallant part, the enemy retired,
leaving twenty-five of their dead.
With very natural pride, the sculp
tor responsible for the memorial
proposed to depict a British officer
leading the attack, but Royal Marine
Light Infantry would not hear of
this and for a twofold reason; they
insisted that the memorial should
be historically accurate and at the
same time they wished to show their
admiration for Captain Myers.
Roy Sowers, of Juneau, recently1
sold his laundry business and en-'
listed in the U. S. army to get in;
the game before the kaiser’s goat I
is penned up for keeps. He had a!
prosperous business, but his patriot- j
ism would not allow him to remain |
out of the game.
U. 8. Food AdiuinUtration.
Jist ez de buckwheat* cake got
flop over on his face, Br’er Bacon
rin’ dance 'roun' en say, sezee:—
"One good tu’n deserves en nuth
er,” sezee.—Meanin’ dat ef de
sojer boys go en do de flghtin’ fer
us, de leas’ we alls kin do is ter
sen' ’em all de wheat—en eat
buckwheat instid. Co’n meal, rye
en barley flour fer us will he’p a
lot too.
Highest Cash
Prices Paid for
RAW
FURS
SIMSON’S
If you have saved a slice a day.
at cornbread and save a loaf.
WEEKLY FORCE REPORT
There were 629 employees on the
Commission pay roll, and 272 sta
tionmen and 64 stationmen laborers
for the week ending October 5th. |
This force was distributed as fol
lows :
Camp 1, general
Camp 1, construction.
Camp 1, electric.
Camp 1, corral
Camp 1 store ....
Hospital ..
Townsite .
Camp No. 9.
Surfacing camp
Tracklaying camp
Dragline camp .
Section No. 1.
Section No. 2.
Camp No. 368.
Camp No. 373.
Camp No. 385.
Camp No. 400.
Camp 415 .
Clear creek (ditcher).
Inventory No. 2.
Nenana total .
Fairbanks office .
Tanana Valley Railroad
Camp No. 454.
.54
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.16
•8;
.41
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6
16
91 1
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7'
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.. 7
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.36
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.12
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.530 |
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Fairbanks total .99
Division total .629 j
There were also 272 stationmen ]
(contractors) and 64 stationmen
laborers employed on the division
during the same period, 171 station
men and 57 stationmen laborers be
WANT ADS
CABIN FOR SALE—Cost" $300;
will sell for $50. Inquire News
office.
WANTED—Two or Three con
genial fellows to occupy 4-room
residence with me. Kitchen fa
cilities if desired. See Slippern
FOR SALE—Panoramic views of
the town of Nenana in 1916 and
1917; taken by Johnson, of Fair
banks, from hill overlooking the
town. Apply at News office.
FOR SALE, CHEAP—Large tank
heater and pipe drum; flush toilet,
good as new; also sink. Inquire
Simson’s.
FOR SALE—Beaver Board, in plain
and oak finish. Doors and win
dows, sash stock and mouldings.
Inquire Simson's.
FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
ing on the Nenana end, and 101
stationmen and 7 stationmen labor
ers on the Fairbanks end f the di
vision.
901 feet of track was in use, and
8,197 feet idle; 108 head of horses
were used during the period under
review.
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
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
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ONE HITS THE MARK, AS OUR PRICES ARE j
SUBMERGED.
The Army Wrist Watch
That Light* In the Dark—Not a Novelty, But a Nece*»ity
t Our $3 Radium Treated Alarm ClocKs
JUST THE THING FOR DARK NIGHTS
WM. TAYLOR
WATCHMAKER JEWELER ENGRAVER