THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for eniry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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THE ARMY STORE
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The quartermaster corps is operat
ing in France a huge general store
that is supplying merchandise to the
men of the American Expeditionary
forces at prices lower than retail
prices in effect in this country.
There is scarcely a need or desire
that can not be filled from the large
stocks which are constantly being
replenished.
Although the men are issued ample
rations the quartermaster stores are
opened to enlisted men for the pur
pose of permitting them to add to
their menu or to satisfy individual
desires for dainties or delicacies.
The highest grade of merchandise
only is carried in stock so that the
men may be sure of having the best,
whether in rations of extra supplies.
Meats, groceries, fish, vegetables,
notions, toilet articles, smokers’ ar
ticles, and scores of miscellaneous
items are included in the published
price lists- These lists are made
available to each company and pur
chases may be made either for cash
or credit.
Among the staples to be found
in these chain stores are: Fresh beef,
ham, bacon, turkey, potatoes, rice,
hominy, beans, onions, coffee tea,
sugar, cheese, cocoa, butter, and
evaporated fruits. The canned
fruits and vegetables include: Apri
cots, apples, peaches, pears, cher
ries, currants, pineapp’es, prunes,
asparagus, sweet corn, tomatoes,
mushrooms, sweet potatoes, spinach,
squash, turnips and beans. Included
in the list of canned meats and fish
are: Lobsters, oysters, salmon, mack
erel, cod, sardines, shrimps, herring,
deviled crabs, sausages, tongue, tur
key, deviled ham, corned beef, corn
ed beef hash, roast beef and mince
meat. f
For the man with a sweet tooth
there are: Jams, jellies, preserves,
raisins, apple butter, maples yrup,
molasses, cranberry sauce, citron,
nuts, candy, etc. The smoker may
purchase smoking and chewing to
baccos, cigars, cigarettes, cigarette
papers, pipes, and matches. The in
cidental needs of all men are sup
plied with razors, combs, brushes for
all purposes, buttons, soap, shaving
sticks, shaving mugs, mirrors, razor
strops, shoe polish, shoe laces, tal
cum powder, toilet water, tooth pow
der, witch hazel, towels, handker
chiefs, pocketknives, needles, thread
candles and playing cards.
The prices quoted for June show
that the men of our amy can buj
supplies cheaper than they are sold
here and that there is little or nc
need for the families and friends
of the men to send them delicacies
or other trifles which they can gel
when they want them. According
to recent orders no articles may be
sent to men in over-seas service ex
cept on their own request and these
requests must first be approved bj
the regimental commander. Post
masters and express companies will
mot accept packages for shipmenl
unless accompanied by duly author
ized requests.
June quotations are: Half pounc
package chocolate, 11 cents; can oi
cherries, 24 cents; can of cocoa, \4
cents; pocket combs, 6 cents; can oi
corn 10 cents; shaving brushes, 1,'
cents; toothbrushes 12 cents; can ol
stringless beans, 10 cents; bottle oi
ginger ale, 9 cents; can plum pud
•ding, 32 cents; standard $5 safetj
razors, $1.75; pair shoe laces, 3
cents; can talcum powder, 5 cents;
pound cut-loaf sugar, 10 cents;
spool cotton threat, 4 cents; 2-oz
package smoking tobacco, 7 cents;
hand soap, 4 cents; bottle Worcest
ershire sauce, 20 cents; linen hand
kerchiefs, 16 cents; pint bottle of
olives, 23 cents; can green peas, 10
cents, shoe polish, 9 cents.
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VOCATIONAL FIGHTING
Latest figures show that nearly
240,000 transfers of men from one
unit to another have taken place
in army camps in the United States
as the result of occupational quali
fications ascertained through the
committtee on classification of per
sonnel of the adjutant general’s
office.
The speeding up of preparations
for over-seas service dur'ng the past
few months has meant a great in
crease in the work of the committee.
About 40,000 transfers have taken
place each week recently.
Through the medium of the com
mittee an organization has been built
up in all army camps by which en
listed men and commissioned offi
cers are classified according to oc
cupational qualifications. In sorm
of the camps, where as many as
2,500 men are received daily, £
force of 200 trained interviewers n
employed to ascertain full informa
tion regarding the men’s occupa
tions, education, experience ant
special qualifications.
The central personnel bureau a
Washington receives reports sooi
after the arrival at camp of eacl
draft increment, showing the num
ber of skilled and semi-skilled mei
I in different occupations. The Sig
nal orps, Ordnance, Quartermaster
and other corps are constantly mak
ing requests for skilled men neede<
by their specail troops. By mean
of the occupational classificatioi
the transfers are promptly made.
A general order which has jus
been issued requires that every en
listed man leaving the States shal
(have made out an occupatioal card
This enables officers on the othe
side to place men where they cai
be most useful.
Among men now being trans
ferred because of occupational quali
fications are mechanics, chauffers
chemists for gas defense work, phy
sicists and meteorologists for avia
tion purposes, surgical instrumen
repairers, bacterioMgists, map drafts
men, refrigeration experts, cran
operators, foresters, railroad build
ers, railway shop workmen, account
ants, gunsmiths, and other ordnanc
specialists and workmen for engin
| eer regiments.
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NOTED GERMAN SCIENTIST
LOSES LIFE IN BATTL1
AMSTERDAM.—One of Gei
| many’s foremost scientists, Dr. Rob
! ert Marck, chief professor of chera
istry at Jena Univeristy, has bee:
i killed in the fighting in front o
! Amiens. He was serving as an in
i fantry lieutenant.
One ounce less of meat each da
! for everyone means a saving o
' 4,400,00 meat animals a year. Sav
1 your ounce. The sacrifice is smal
but the result for your country i
large.
CLUMSY- EFFORTS 1
OF GERMANS DO
NOT WORK OOF
Germans Fail to Corrupt Belgians
of Flemish Extraction, to
German Ways.
WASHINGTON, D. C— From a
J
Belgian who has escaped into Eng
land after three years of captivity
in German prison camps, the Bel
gian legation here has received in
teresting details of the clumsy ef
forts of the German conquerors to
alienate the Belgians of Flemish ex
traction from their countrymen of
Walloon descent, as practiced among
Belgian prisoners in Germany.
The project, which has been de
scribed as stupidly conceived and
| executed had its birth, the advices
I say, in the dreams of the Pan-Ger
manists who would set up in nor
i them Belgium a Flemish state that
would assume the status of a Ger
man protectorate. .,
i The first advances were made to
I ward the Belgians of Flemish ex
traction confined in the prison camps
They were segregated and forward
ed to other prison centers, where
they were treated with some degree
! of kindness in an effort to win their
| support in establishing the new
, state. All measures calculated to
j win over the prisoners failed miser
I ably, said the legation’s informant,
and the groups remained indissolu
' bly Belgian. ,
| Parts of the letter describing the
i German intrigue follow:
j “The plan of the Germans was to
I concentrate all the Flemings in the
' camp at Gottingen, to give them
privileged treatment under the sup
! ervision of a civilian, Professor
i Stange, of the Gottingen University
and to induce them to join the acti
vist movement aiming at the separa
tion of Belgium into two political
states, Flanders falling under Ger
man direct or indirect control. ,
“In the course of July, I decided
with a few companions, to volun
! teer for Gottingen in order to coun
teract the enemy’s intrigues. We
found there Professor Stange and 2
few of his activist disciples hard at
i work. Stange was practically the
commander of the camp. We were
treated with great consideration bj
' the sentries, the system of blow;
• and threats was suspended and we
1 were much surprised to be addressee
1 as “Herrschaften.”
“The ‘converted’ men were onl;
1 a very small minority, includinj
'jSome students and artists. Happib
’. the new regime allowed the patriot:
" f to speak out and to unmask the
'; traitors. Our work was made con
’; siderably easier through the inter
1; ference of two members of the
j ‘Council of Flanders,’’ Borms ane
-jWeert- Their interference stampee
' j Stange’s Flemish activity as a purel;
1 j German manoeuver and one by one
• the prisoners ceased to attend the
Club ‘Fursorge.’
1 “At the same time the regime ii
camp changed entirely. The “Herr
schaften” were again “Schwein
hunde” and a new commander wa
’ sent to the camp The civilian ha(
failed in his mission and the mili
tary exerted its former power wit!
• a vengeance.
“Most of the Flemings at Got
! tingen, (nearly 10,000 passed thn
the camp) were sent to various kom
mandos. The number of Stange’
conversions among the Flemish pris
oners might be almost a hundred
Even the fear of being sent to :
salt mine did not induce more thai
. one man in a hundred to lend i
patient ear to separatist propa
ganda.” *
- BRITISH LIFE SAVERS
ARE DOING GREAT WORI
1 -
f LONDON.—Since the foundatioi
. °f the Royal National Lifeboat Insti
tution in 1834, its lifeboats, accord
ing to the annual report just made
t have saved 56,000 lives. Last yea
f 1,348 were saved, a record.
1 It was announced that the princ
, of Wales would become presiden
3 of the institution after the war. Th
position has been held by the Kinf
IN [RIAL TESTS
Carrier* Demonstrate Reliability In
Series of Flights In Southern
California.
CAMP KEARNEY. San Diego.—
Pigeon communication was main
tained with this camp for 19 con
secutive days by the 144th field ar
tillery (California Grizzlies) on its
recent field maneuver, without the
loss of a bird or any material delaj
in delivery of the message any biri
carried. Often a number of birds
would be despatched from the regi
ment's headquarters each day. Thi:
is disclosed by a compilation of th<
birds’ records made publie here re
cently.
The longest flight made by a pig
eon from the artillery camp to head
quarters here was about 41 miles
from Oceanside. The best time re
corded for the trip was 45 minutes
made by bird A31.
Mileages and times made by som
of the birds used on this series o
. messages include:
I Bird 13922—98 miles—102 minute
i Bird 239—61 miles— 72 minute
Bird 78 —86 miles— 96 minute
I Bird CM 65—42 miles—45 minute
i Bird JM.1097—61 miles 86 minute
Bird 172 —86 miles—98 minute
:Bird A 31—88 miles—93 minute
| By arrangement with the com
manding officer of the 144th fiel
: artillery, The Associated Press wa
permitted to file daily news dis
i patches from the-' regiment’s head
quarters to Camp Kearney for th
; last week of their regiment’s fiel
maneuver. This is believed to b
the first regular news service b
carrier pigeon established in thi
country.
! The messages carried ranged froi
personal notes exchanged by th
men in charge of the pigeons i
each station to official reports t
: Major Frederick S. Strong, con
mander of the 40th division. Th
, birds used were six months old i
June, received for training la
January, within a few days of the
hatching.
GOVERNMENT IS MAKING
JAM FOR SOLDIER
LONDON.—The capacity of tl
factories in which the governme;
makes jam for the army and nai
is to be trebled this year. The go
ernment started jam making la
year with ten factories, which co
verted 10,000 tons of fruit into jai
A few months hence thirty factori
will dispose of 30,000 tons of fru
The principal fruits handled are so
apples and plums. Strawberrie
raspberries and gooseberries are al
used but to a smaller extent
K.o.IVl cUUINALLI
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For Sale
72 Cases Over-the-Ice Eggs
3 Cases Fresh Lemons
10 Head Young Draft Horses.
3 Wagons.
4 Sleds.
50 Tarpaulins. All Sixes.
House and Bern.
RANCH—40 acres under cul
tivation; all necessary farm
ing implements; ground fall
plowed; hay enough to put
! in crop with.
■I W.E. Terrill
I CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
POSITIONS WANTED—There are
three women cooks in Fairbanks
looking for positions as camp
cooks; also one man cook. All
highly recommended. Address
Nenana News office.
FOR SALE—Beaver Board, in plain
and oak finish. Doors and win
dows, sash stock and mouldings
Inquire Simson’s.
PIANOS—For sale or rent. Inquire
j Simson's.
i FOR SALE—Two tents, 18x30 and
20x40. Inquire Simsons.
FOR SALE—Extra fine panel ('oors.
1 % inches thick, $5. Simson’s.
If you have a sweet-tooth, pull it
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« MARINE NEWS
• >.
Seatlle No. 3—At St. Michael.
Julia B.—Up Kotlik.
. Sarah—Up Birches 11:30 p .m
Reliance—Up Koyukuk river, 17tl
» Washburn—Up Holy Cross fo
Dikeman, 15th.
■ Shusana—Down Chena 7 p. m
f the 19th.
Yukon—Leaves Fairbanks fo
s Dawson this p. m.
* Alaska—Up Circle 5:15 p. m. 18tl
s Sibilla—Up Circle 8 p. m., 18tl
s Davis—Up Kokrines last night.
3 Line to Dawson interrupted.
• contented with simple foo ’, simple
pleasures, simple clothes. Work
i hard, pray hard, play hard. Work,
i eat, recreat, sleep. Do it all cour
ageously. We have a victory to
win.
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