* Celebrate The Fourth In Nenana
THE NENANA
The BIG Show Of The Interior'
DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE member of associated press NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1918. a NUMBER 64
GERMANS OUTFOUGHT BY AMERICANS
SERIOUS DISORDERS REPORTED FROM AUSTRIA
AMERICA TO HAVE MILLION MEN IN FRANCE BY JULY
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BAR 10 DRAFf
Provoit Marshal General Directs
Boards to Go Over Lists With
Fine Comb, •
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Provost
Marshal General Crowder has issued
an order in which he rules that
registrants who have married since
the enactment of the draft law will
not herafter be exempted on those
grounds, except in cases of men who
have reached their majority since
June 5, of last year, who may be
exempted by the local boards if the
marriages were recorded before
Januray 15, last.
Drastic amendments have been
announced by the provost marshal
general requiring local boards to go
over their lists for the purpose of
eliminating exemptions hitherto
granted for certain reasons, especi
ally in the case of marriage.
The marriage ruling will add many
men to the fighting ranks, and in
cludes a number of former Alaskans.
WILSON’S REPLY
IS TRANSMUTED
TO FRENCH RULER
President Wilson Replies to Poin
caire’s Message Eulogizing
Yankee Troops.
WASHINGTON, D. C—Replying
to the message of President Poin
caire, of France, received Wednes
day, in which he eulogized the brav
ery of the American troops and paid
high tribute to their conduct under
fire, President Wilson said that it
is the purpose of America to s ?nii
men and materials to France until
any temporary inequality of force
is entirely overcome.
STEAMER ADMIRAL EVANS
HAS BEEN REFLOATED
SEATTLE—The steamer Admiral
Evans, which recently ran on some
rocks while on a voyage between
Alaskan ports and Seattle, has now
been refloated and will be drydoeked
for extensive repairs.
At the time the Admiral Evans
ran on the rocks it was thought
that, owing to the dangerous posi
tion in which she lay, she would be
a total loss.
The salvage operations under
taken shortly afterwards were suc
cessfully concluded and the vessel
will soon be able to resume her rur
in the Northern trade.
VESSEL UNDAMAGED
ATLANTIC PORT.—The Britisl
steamer Keemun, which was attacked
by a submarine off the Virgins
coast and reported in a sinking con
dition, and which later arrived ir
port, is apparently undamaged as
the result of the attack. '
Luther Hess, vice-president of the
First National bank is on his waj
down to Tolovana on the Washburn
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DATE IS FIXED
FI ALASKANS !
10 SIGN ILL
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Northern Boys Who Here Reached
Majority, Must Put Names on
Rolls This Summer.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—A special
order issued by Provost Marshal
General Crowder today contains in
structions to Northern boys, who
have reached the age of 21 since
last June, to comply with the regis
tration regulation of the selective
service law. Residents of Alaska
must register between July 2 and
September 3.
This period, it is believed by the
provost marshal general, will give
Northerners ample time to comply
with the regulations, the fact having
been taken into consideration that
the difficulties of travel in Alaska
render registration slower and more
difficult than in the States.
ALASKAN STEAMER
BINS ON WAY UP
Vestel Bound Fo” Alaska Catches
Fire and Burns to Water’s
Edge; Total Loss.
PACIFIC PORT.—Reports receiv
ed today by the Pacific Steamship
company officials indicate that the
Steamer Revalli, bound for Alaskan
ports with a large cargo and forty
nine pasengers, caught fire and was
! beached to prevent sinking.
The fire was discovered when the
vessel was in Lowe Inlet, Greenville
Channel, and all efforts to control
it proved of no avail. She was then
‘ immediately beached and burned to
' the water’s edge. All of the forty
I nine passengers and the entire crew
' escaped safely. A part of her cargo
^ and all of the baggage was also
saved.
The origin of the fire has not yet
been ascertained.
SOLDIER BOYS AT NENANA
TO BE RELIEVED SOON
News f eceived here recently from
Fort Gibbon indicates that the trans
port Jacobs is expected to be in
Nenana very shortly on her way
with summer supplies to the military
posts at Salcha, Richardson and Mc
Carty, and that she will land the
reliefs for the boys stationed here
on her arrival at Nenana on the up
river trip.
On her return from McCarty she
will go to Fairbanks and pick up
the men of the draft awaiting trans
portation there and come c\ to Ne
nana for our quota, arriving here
about the 29th of June.
The following will be relieved and
will go down to Tanana on a com
mercial boat: Sergeants Sm/h and
Drury, Privates Fury, Gallagher
Miller, Turk, Songer and Phillips.
It is not knowm at the presen*
time who will replace Sergean*
Smith in the command of the do
tachment stationed in Nenana.
Make your home service reach
the firing line.
GERMANS ARE QUIET;
NEXT MOVE AWAITED
LONDON.—Advices received to
day from Northern France indicate
that the German drive toward Paris
from the Mondidier-Noyon line has
come to a full stop, no apparent
effort having been made during the
past twenty-four hours to engage
the Allied forces. German artillery
continues active in several sectors,
but there is no infantry action and
it is the belief of Allied military
observers that offensive operations
on a large scale have been aband
oned for the time being, as a result
of the inability of the kaiser’s troops
to break through the French and
American lines, which are guarding
the road to Paris
The maneuvers of the German
commanders during the recent hos
tilities appear to have brought noth
ing more than the obliteration of
the Noyon salient and the capture
of a few positions of small strate
gic value. Less than three days
were required for the Allies to bring
the enemy to a full stop.
Notwithstanding the apparent ease
with which the forward movement
was checked, Allied observers insist
that the Germans have not yet put
forth their greatest effort to reach
the French capital and that battles
of much greater magnitude than anj
thus far recorded are still to be
. fought before it safely can be said
that the Germans have been shorn
of their offensive strength.
There is much speculation as tc
where and when the next blow wil
be struck. Some observers express
the belief that another attack wil
be launched against the British or
the Northern front, while others lool
for the Arras sector to be selectee
as the next point of attack. Stil
i others insist that the Germans hav<
not yet definitely abandoned the
hope of reaching Paris and will short
ly resume their offensive from ths
1 Aisne line.
GAS FOR GERMANS
] WITH THE AMERICANS.—Th<
! American batteries were engagec
I last night in hurling gas hells int<
the German positions along ths
Marne front. Thousands of th(
missiles were thrown from the Yan
kee guns, the attack being in re
: taliation for a similar attack launch
i ed by the Germans earlier in th<
! week.
LINER BATLES WITH SUB
NEW YORK.—The British line:
Author arrived in port today ant
OUTBREAK SHAKES
AUSTRIAN EMPIRE
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Accord-1
ing to advices received in this city
late this afternoon from Amsterdam,
serious disturbances are taking place
at Vienna and other cities in Aus
tria, the result of increasing^unrest
in that country and unsatisfactory
Mrs. Leon Kellum is a passenger
for Nenana on the steamer Yukon.
She went Outside to visit her
mother last fall.
food conditions. The details received
are of the most meagre sort, the
dispatches stating merely that se
rious fighting is taking place in the
streets of the Austrian capital, Ac
companied by a general outbreak
throughout Austria, which is assum
ing the proportions of a revolution.
Bob Vining is making his annual
pilgrimage to the North. He is a
Fairbanks bound passenger on the
steamer Yukon.
^ reports having engaged an enemy
submarine in a running fight which
lasted an entire day, the attacking
, submarine giving up the fight when
only seventy miles off the Virginia
Capes. The gunners working the
batteries on the liner made good
: practice and it is thought that the
i
enemy craft had sustained some
damage as she did not submerge when
1 she drew away from the liner.
The Author is a large vessel and
i
is owned by the Harrison Line, of
Liverpool, England.
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Associated Press Summary.—The
situation on the Western front today
j is decidedly favorable to the Allied
cause on all of the battle salients.
' The allied troops, by the strategic
! measures adopted and the tenacity
with which they held on to positions
gained and repelling the oft-re
peated enemy attempts to recapture
checkmated the Germans. The Ger
mans appear to have definitely
i abandoned their drive on the Aisne
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salient without having seriously af
fected the general situation.
The Germans are now reported to
be resting and reforming their dis
! organized forces with the evident
intention of striking their heaviest
j blow on the Picardy sector, in a re
i newed desperate effort to reach the
Channel ports.
The Germans have gained one
hundred and eighty-seven square
miles of territory since the launch-1
ing of their great drive on the Aisne
sector. This is the poorest showing
of any of the drives launched by the
' enemy on the West front.
SUBMARINE SUNK
ATLANTIC PORT. Passengers ar
; riving today on an American steam
ship from a South American port
declare that the vessel they were
on picked up a wireless message
while off the Florida coast to the ef
fect that a German submarine had
been sunk. The message, the pass
enegers declare, stated that a Ger
man submarine had commenced an
attack on an inbound merchantman,
using her rapid-fire batteries. The
wireless calls sent by the merchant
man immediately after sighting the
periscope of the enemy boat were
received by a patrolling flotilla of
American destroyers. One of these
I speedy boats responded instantly to
the signals of distress and sent the
■ submarine to the bottom in a very
short sharp engagement.
IN FRANCE NOW
NEARLY MILLION
Chief of Staff Say* That Number
Now In Eacett of Eight
Hundred Thousand.
WASHINGTON, D. C—Chief of
Staff General Marsh is authority
for the statement, given publicity
today, that there are now more
than eight hundred thousand Ameri
can soldiers in France.
He says that the men are being
rushed to Europe just as fast as
ships can be procured to transport
them, the number transported being
limited only by the capacity of the
vessels available. He says, further
that the war department will con
tinue to send men across the At
lantic at top speed and intimates
that the appearance of submarines
close to the American coast has not
caused any material change in the
plans of the department or slowed
down the movement of troops. The
new phase of sub menace has
merely resulted in increased vig
ilance. '
General March further saic
that it is expected that there wil
be one million United States troops
in France by July 1. The obvious
objects of the German offensive
he said, are the capture of Paris
which is of immense strategic value
to the enemy and of great senti
mental importance; and the capture
of the Channel ports, which if ac
complished, would compel the Brit
ish, in shipping troops to France
to go farther up sea and thus ex
pose the transports to attack anc
possible destruction by the Germar
under-sea boats.
A. Y.N. STEAMER
' ARRIVES IN PORI
FROM FAIRBANKS
The American Yukon Navigatior
Company’s steamer Washburn whicl
sail from Fairbanks at 10 o’clocl
this morning arrived in Nenana this
eevning with five sacks of mail anc:
the following passengers for Nenant
J. W. Pratt, H. P. Curtis, F. d<
Journal, Dr. R. H. Myers, and E. P
Allard.
The pasengers in transit were
L. K. Pratt, Mrs. Haggren, Petei
McMullen, E. T. Wolcott, C. E
Bunnell, J. H. Miller, F. B. Hall
R. F. Roth, Leroy Tozier, H. H
Ross and Miss Grace Fisher foi
Dikeman. Mrs. E. A. Suter, anc
Dan Rose for Ruby. Mrs. C. D
McCauley for Hot Springs, E. B
Barteau for Tanana, and J. A. Fair
born for Tolovana.
She also had about 12 tons oi
freight for various consignees, whicl
Included 10 horses for Allard anc
O’Farrel.
She sailed for her destinatior
about six p. m.
Tom Cox, L. E. Heald and Knutc
Koland, who are all interested it
grading contracts out on the line
left this morning with their horse:
for the camping grounds
UP BETTER THAN
BOCHE FIGHTERS
Reuters’ Observers Declare That the
Yankees Are More Than a
Match for Germans.
LONDON. — Reuters dispatches
I from the battlefront declare that
I the American soldiers are more than
1 a match for the Germans. Where
I ever the Germans have met Ameri
cans, correspondents of the news
agency say, they have been defeated
j The American soldiers, ordinarily
; full of tenderness, have resolved to
; avenge the death of their comrades,
who have been slain by treachery.
I The Yankees will have no mercy
i on enemy soldiers who refuse to
fight straight.
i The achievements of the Ameri
cans on the French front arc- being
given wide publicity in this country,
and their presence on the firing
line in increasing numbers is hav
ing the effect of strengthening con
, fidence throughout the British Isles
1 and stiffening the resistance of the
Allied troops,
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10 AERIAL TOP
Sergeant David Putnam Takes Place
At Head of American List
As Ace of the Aces.
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PARIS.—Sergeant David Putnam,
of Brookline, Mass., is reported to
have downed five German planes on
June 10, bringing the total number
of his victories up to thirteen,
j Three of the five victories credit
ed to the American aviator in June
• are official and the other three are
being investigated. Should all five
; be credited as official, Putman’s
! record will supplant that of Lieut.
Frank Bayliss, of New Bedford,
Mass., who now ranks first among
the American aerial heroes. Put
nam will be the ace of American
aces.
HAWLEY STERLING TO
COME TO NENANA SOON
Hawley W. Sterling, who has been
the engineer in charge of the work
ion the Fairbanks-Nenana line of the
Government railroad since the de
parture of Assistant Engineer F. J.).
! Hayden last October, will arrive in
N'enana probably today on the
j steamer Washburn.
Hawley Sterling comes here on
promotion and his services will be
utilized somewhere on the newly
located railroad line.
He will probably go back when
conditions will permit of the re
opening of camp 102, which has
been closed temporarily on account
of the flooded condition of the Gold
stream valley and the shortage of
iron for drift bolts.
Fur Warden Cal Townsend is in
town on his way to Fairbanks. He
got in at an early hour this morning.
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