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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06
ITALIANS VISITING
HOME COUNTRY
IN THOUSANDS
so. ZOO REACH NAPLES SINCE
JANUARY I, But FEW
WILL REMAIN

ANAPLES. Nov. 29,-About $4,000
immigrants have returned to Italy
from the United States through the
port of Naples since January 1.
The number is increasing month by
month. and with the recent release
OF ships hitherto requisitioned by
the allies, 1t is estimated that TO-
900 Italians will greet vesuvius
again every month.
The fortunes brought by the re-
turning Italians are gladly welcomed
by their relatives, made needy by
the war. The prosperous appear
ance of the passengers is generally
commented on, being probably the
result of five years of savings at
wartime wages in America, and their
we'll made clothes and substantial
baggage form a striking contrast to
the bags and rags in evidence when
emigrants leave for America.
Emigration of Italians to the
United States by way of Naples, the
most important embarkation point
of emigrants in southern Europe. is
still very far from pre-war levels.
Data from the Italian emigration Of
flee in this city indicate that, aside
from returning ~reservists, 3217 Ital-
ians sailed to the United States from
Naples during the first eight and a
half months of 1919. The great ma
jority of these we're wives, children
and other near relatives of Italians
already in the United States, who
have hitherto been prevented from
joining their families because of
conditions incident to the world war.
The number of actual emigrants as
the word is ordinarily used, is prac-
tically negligible.
In contrast with this condition. it
may be noted that. in 1913, the last
year before the war, 19S,664 emf
grants left Naples for the United
States. The difference between the
two totals is ascribed to the results
of the operation of the literacy law
of 1917, dearth of ships and alb
normally high passenger rates. and
the continuance of American pass
port restrictions.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06

planning and carrying out the work
an organization known al the air
nitrates corporation vas formed to
act as agent of the ordnance depart
ment. This corporation provided the
general designs, supervised all the
work, and operated the camp, the
town and the plant. It also in
stalled all equipment in the chemi-
cal plant. The various other Sec
tions of the work were sublet to
organizations that were specialists
in the directions in which they were
asked to help.
1t was necessary to build a new
town to house the laborers. For
this job Westinghouse Church Kerr
company was called in as contractor.
This company also built the build
ings of the chemical plant. Within
four months, $4,000 workmen had
been assembled and a city capable
of accommodating $4,000 inhabi-
tants had been completed, with lodg-
ing, restaurants, stores, offices, po-
lice headquarters, schools. fire de-
partments, hospitals, motion picture
theaters, electric light and sewer
age systems.
The construction of the plant
proper was begun on February 16,
1918, and as stated above, a COM
pleted just eight months and eight
days later, and began a steady out
put of ammonium nitrate. The plant
contains 113 permanent buildings
with a roof area of i've &c acres.
To provide the electric current it
was necessary to build a steam
power electric plant, for it would
have taken three years or more to
complete the dam and h%ydro-elec-
trio station now under way. This
plant built by the j. G. White COR
poration, is. n of the largest steam
plants for developing electrical en-
ergy in the world.
The output of the plant is eco
tons of ammonium nitrate a day,
and this IAN be produced at Muscle
Shoals at a cost of less than one-half
the standard fixed price paid by
the government for ammonium nj
trate produced by other methods
and one-fourth to one1fifth the cost
of other high explosives of equal
strength. Compared with the older
process of making ammonium nj
trate, the savings made by this
plant would have paid the $60,000.-
900 cost of the entire plant in about
one and one-half years of opera
ton.
AS a military weapon, it is II
of the wisest and most economical
expenditures that the ordnance de-
partment has undertaken. AS an
agent in stopping the war and as a
future protection to the country, it's
value is in~calculable.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06
WAR LEFT NO
SCARS ON
FOOTBALL
BACK STRONG THIS
SEASON

NEW YORK, Dec. with the
first p~ost-bellum football season a
thing of history, followers of the
game are agreed that 1919 devel-
oped a successful comeback for the
gridiron sport.
The season just closed saw the re-
turn to football of college and uni
versity teams throughout the coun-
try in general, and the renewal OF
all of the time.honored contests be-
tween the elevens, great and small.
in every section of the country.
The war left no glaring scars on
the hide of Old King Football. The
football careers of many promising
players Just breaking into the lime
light as members of the big uni
versity elevens were interrupted, of
course, and football contributed her
share of those who fell ON the field
of battle. But the comeback of the
game has been entirely satisfactory.
1t was as great as could have been
expected.
A mejority of the critics who have
seen the best elevens in action, both
in the east and the west, are unant
nous in the opinion that the one
outstanding mark left by the long
Iay-off during the war was a tend
ency on the part of teams and play
ers to be erratic at the most unex-
pected times. The Yale-Harvard
game for instance, developed nearly
a dozen fumbles by the contesting
tkeams, and there was a tendency
among football field generals to
play safe in many of the most i'm
portant games.
But all in all the 1919 season was
a bowling success. 1t developed
It's brilliant stars just as other sea-
sons have done. 1t saw the out
pouring of some Of the greatest
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From explosives to fertilizers ia
not a very big jump in industrial ex-
p%ansion; and Of course high ex-
plosives was the prompting reason
for the Muscle Shoals project " hen
the United States entered the war
1t was providing the enemies of
Germany with explosives, and vith
four million of our own men added
to the fray it became necessary 10
get quick action for enormously in
creased production. The principal
raw material for explosives was nj
trate of soda, and this had to be
brought from Chile, four thousand
miles away. Ship bottoms were so
scarce that the allied countries and
the United States decided to sweeten
themselves without sugar from Java,
and that was only a thousand miles
farther off than Chile. But nitrate
of soda had to be brought in at any
cost and at any sacrifice. And after
1t was brought here the necessary
time had to elapse to permit treat
ing it with sulphuric acid to produce
nitric acid, which is an essential
of ammonium nitrate. The sulphuric
acid supply was reaching it's limit
and new methods of delivering
the goods"-or explosives, were de-
manded. The coke ovens were do
ing their level best all over the
country, in producing ammonia, but
even at that their capacity was only
a quarter of the demand. The ord
nance department came forward
with the solution of the difficulty
and it showed that cyanid, a COM
mercial fertilizer, had for some
years been successfully manufac-
tured at Niagara Falls under a Ger
mar process, which hail been Sc
cured by Frank Sherman Washburn,
head of the American Cyanamid
company. Muscle Shoals was Sc
lected as the most available spot in
the United States to put the war
industry to work. How well the
plan succeeded is shown by the
foregoing.
In the belief that the process of
Extracting nitrogen from the air"
should become more than a mere
phrase in the minds of newspaper
readers. it is explained that cyana-
mid is produced by extracting nitro
gen from the air and combining it
with calcium obtained from lime
stone rock and carbon from coke.
By additional processes cyanamid
becomes the basis for creating both
ammonia and nitric acid and COM
bining them into the explosive. am
monium nitrate. Mr.. Washburn of
the American Cyanamid company,
made the contract with the govern
ment for building the ammonium nj
trate plant at Muscle Shoals, Ala,
in November, 1917.
To have general SuperyiSion of
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06
TEACHINGS Of CHRIST
ADVOCATED TO SOLVE
INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS
| PROMINENT PRESBYTERIAN
SAYS SOLUTION IS CON-
TANNED IN THE BIBLE

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-Ninety-
six hundred Presbyterian churches
in the United States were advised
today that the teachings of Jesus
Christ would solve the whole indus
trial problem. These churches were
urged by DR.. John Mcdowell, di-
rector of the social service division
of the Presbyterian New Era move
ment, to apply the teaching of Jesus
Understandings to the solution OF
Industrial questions.
DIR. Mcdowell declared that the
18th verse of the 18th chapter of
Matthew constituted 'the law of
brotherhood, conciliation and arbi-
tration," and he urged its applica-
ton to present day Industrial moves.
The Bible reference reads:
Moreover, IL thy brother shall
trespass against thee, go and tell
him his fault between thee and him
alone: If he shall hear thee. thou
hast gained thy brother"
DR.. Mcdowell urged the church
members and pastors to get in touch
with outstanding groups Of their
communities. such as employers and
employees, boards of education and
teachers. political, ~recreational.
press, health, official. social and dis
turbing groups, learn their points of
view and side with them when right.
81 believe" he said, that eventu-
ally there will be industrial courts,
similar to city, state and federal
courts, in which labor disputes can
be solved. These courts would be
graded as are the present local
courts with the right of appeal"
DIR. Mcdowell called attention to
the following social creed adopted by
the Presbyterian general assembly
in 1910:
Acknowledgement of the obi
cations of wealth; application of
Christian principles to the conduct
of industrial organizations: more
equitable distribution OF wealth.;
abatement of poverty; abolition of
child labor; regulation of the condi-
lions of the Industrial occupation of
women; release of every worker
from work one day in seven; con-
Citation in industrial disputes and
development of a Christian spirit in
the attitude of society toward of
tenders against the law"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06
MAN IS BURNED TO
DEATH IN HOME :.
IN COLUMBIA
WOMAN, 90, ATTEMPTS TO RES
CUE HUSBAND, ~ YEARS
OF AGE

J. F. Teter, ~ years of age,
father-in-law of Jack Witt of the
old Witt-Brandon lease on the Flor
ence, was burned to death in his
home in Columbia in a fire that oc-
Cured shortly before s o'clock this
morning.
Mr.. Teter and his wife, 50 years
of age, lived in a three-room house
near the Consolidated railroad trestle.
His wife arose and started a fire in
a stove in the bedroom. the front
room in the house, while her hus-
band was in bed. She then went to
a shed in the real of the house to
feed the chickens and had been gone
but a few moments when she heard
her husband yell. The front part of
Teter smashed in a window of the
room in an attempt to gain en-
trance which she found impossible.
The body was found at the front
door, close to which the bed was.
Mr.. Teter evidently having been
overcome while attempting to es-
cape. The remains we're burned to
a crisp.
The dead man had lived here with
HIS wife for II years. He vas "a
native of Ohio.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06
AND NAVY MEET
IN FOOTBALL CLASSIC
TODAY IN new YORK
FORTY-FIvE THOUSAND SEE THE
GAME PLAYED AT THE
POLO GROUNDS

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-Football's
finale for the season of 1919 was
staged. here this afternoon with the
playing of the Army-Navy game at
the Polo grounds. In every way the
contest fulfills the characters as
signed to it in the gridiron drama.
Entirely aside from the dashing
type of play developed by the SOL
diers and sailors the contest en-
bodies features found in no other
football match of the year
The marching battalions of uni
formed cadets and middies prior to
the game; the rally round the colors
by the winning academy after the
contest; the military music by the
West Point and Annapolis bands.
the siren yells and the torpedo
cheers all form a background diff
fering in every respect from the foot
ball classics of the eastern and
western colleges. Even the thous-
ands of spectators take OF an as
pect foreign to a big varsity match
for uniformed generals, and adj
mirals rub shoulders with distin-
guished diplomats. giving an atmos-
phere which is unknown at other
football games.
These conditions form a pecu-
liar attraction which makes the
Army-Navy match stand alone and
causes the demand for tickets to far
exceed the supply. The game to-
day is no exception to this rule and
the situation is more acute in view
of the fact that this is the first
meeting of the two academy elevens
since 1916, due to the world war.
While the Polo grounds stands will
seal close to $4,000 spectators, APP
plications for fully half that number
of tickets have been returned owing
to inability to accommodate all that
desire to witness the play.
The series while not so long es-
tablished as the Yale-Princeton or
Harvard-Yale games has produced
many examples of unusual football
since the initial meeting in 1890.
The play has been exceedingly even
for since hat date 81 games have
been played with the Army winning
II; Navy 8. and one resulting in a
| 6 to 6 tie. The cadets lead in total
| points scored with Psi to the Mid
dies LAG.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06

crowds that have ever witnessed
football duels in this country. and it
demonstrated once again that the
open game as it is now played leaves
little to be asked for from the stand
point of either player or spectator.
The many upsets of the 1919 a
son had an exhilarating effect on
football in general, rather than
spreading a cloud of depression. The
better elevens of both east and west
were more evenly matched than ever
before, and the surprising ability of
a majority of teams at unexpected
times helped make the season one
OF a thousand thrills.
The small college team has come
into it's own. This much has been
proven by the season recently closed.
1t was forecasted in 1916 by the
showing of many of the smaller col
lege elevens against opponents of
higher rating, and it is due to the
new style game.
The fact that the 1918 season
failed to develop the woodworking
football machinery of pre-war days
is no slam at the comeback of the
game. Football coaches everywhere
had new material to work with.
They were forced to start building
for their elevens of 1920 and 1921,
and the process is necessarily a slow
one. Yet the spirit of the 1919
teams gave promise of big things for
next year, and the coaches will open
the 1920 training season with more
confidence.
AS a result of the scheduling Of
many new opponents by teams
throughout the country, and a grow
ing tendency on the part Of eastern
and western football managers to
seek i~nter-sectional contests, the
coming year is bright with promises.
The season in the east left the
question of supremacy unsettled
among both large and small college
teams. Harvard, it Is true, went
through the season without a defeat,
but her tie game with Princeton
blotted out any hope she had of lay
ing claim to the championship of the
Big Three. Colgate, Syracuse,
Brown, Rutgers. Dartmouth, Cornell.
Pennsylvania. Pitt, Army, Navy and
all other eastern teams met defeat.
and in many cases these teams were
beaten by elevens which they had
felt confident Of conquering. SO the
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06
GOVERNMENT IS URGED TO CONVERT EXPLOSIVES PLANT
AT MUSCLE SHOALS INTO GREAT FERTILIZER FACTORY

WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. "a
How the ordnance bureau of the
war department broke all speed
records in the building of a young
city and created probably the larg-
est plant in the world to manufac-
ture ammonium nitrate from the
air, has been proving most interest
ing to congressman in Washing
ton who have been holding a sort of
post mortem on war efforts trying
to determine how big government
undertakings created for defense,
may be best turned into peace time
industry. All the world knew of
Hopewell, Va, as a city of $4,000
people, built by the DuPonts in 1914
to manufacture explosives; but the
lid of secrecy was 81 carefully
calked that the building of another
city equally large, at the instance
of our w government, attracted
very little attention. Just how Ger
many "snooped" out so many things
not intended for her to know about
is hard to understand; but u is cer-
tain that the enemy was astounded
when it found it's own fine-spun
plans for taking hydrogen from the
air, completely surpassed by the
United States, which it knew to be
a novice at the game. The Ger
mans stood paralyzed with fear as
they confronted the Aladdin-like
methods of Uncle Sam in pouring
soldiers in upon their frontier,
while at Muscle Shoals, Ala, a plant
had suddenly sprung out of the
earth capable of producing 13 per
cent of all the high explosives
needed by the allied armies on all
the fronts in the expected drive Of
the following spring.
Ground was broken for a perma-
nent plant building at Muscle Shoals
on February 16, 1918, and on the
26th of the following October, or
eight months and eight days later,
the wheels of manufacture started
revolving in the production of ann
monium nitrate. The great plant
that was completed, and which
stands today as a monument to
American enterprise and brains, Is
fitted to become one of the great
sources, of fertilizers for the land
of the United States. 1t is this fea-
lure of the problem as to what to do
with the big plant that is appealing
strongly to the congressman and
in their belief that it should be put
in operation along these lines they
are supported by every Interest in
the agricultural department Of the
government that has long been
looking for a solution of the farm
ing question in the south, where fer
tilizers and industry are needed TO
complete the setting made By na-
ture, and to turf vast Idle acres into
productive agricultural areas.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06

ORDERS TAKEN
For engraved cards and invitations
at Tribune Book q Stationery Store.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06
SAND DIGGER UNEARTHS
SMALL FORTUNE; QUITS JOB

PITTSBURG, Pa, Dec. 3.-For-
tune laughed right out loud in the
face of a humble sand digger here
recently.
Thirteen hundred and fifty dol
lars thoroughly wet from long i'm
mersion on the bottom Of the Ohio
river, but still good spandable
money. was scooped up ir his
bucket.
AS no owners name appeared in
the wallet the finder claimed the
coin by right OF discovery and i'm
mediately quit his job by right CT
%affluence.
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To have general supervision of
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06
LET'S AND GERMANS
ARE FORMALLY AT WAR

BERLIN, Nov. '2S.-The Lettish
government has recalled its diplo-
matte representative from Berlin and
in view of the attack of Colonel
Avalon Bermondt's troops Letvia
regards herself in a state of war
with Germany, according to semi
official sources here.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06
GOLDFIEID COUPLE MARRY

George A. Jarvis, who returned
here several months ago after a long
period of service with the British
forces in Africa, and Miss Clara
Anne Durnez, a well known Gold
field girl, we're married Wednesday
night by Justice OF the Peace Adams
F. Brown at the residence of the
groom on Sixth street.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06
..PRIvATE Bob VISITS HERE

Sergeant Dwight HI. Robinson. bet
ter known as Private Bob" passed
through here last night en- route
from the Sylvania district, where he
has been mining, to San Francisco,
where he will undergo an operation
for an enlarged neck gland before
"going into Mexico with the boys"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06
5000 OUT OF WORK FROM
COAL SHORTAGE IN GARY

GARY, Ind, Dec. Slight thou
sand steel workers were made idle
today when the American sheet and
tin plate company, the largest manu-
featuring concern of it's kind in the
world. was forced to close on ac-
count of coal shortage.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-12-06
WASHINGTON L. w. W.
!. STILL GOING HUNGRY

TACOMA, Wash, Nov. 29.-The
22 alleged Industrial Workers in
the city Jail continued their hun
ger and silence strike today and re-
fused a breakfast of the regular
Jail fare.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-12-20

pense. Of course you know that he proposed to Muriel a week ago"
 'I didn't know it, but suspected it would come to that.''
 "Muriel asked him to give her few days to think it over, so she would be sure she knew her own mind. Then this storm. came along and the tele- phone wires have been down until this morning"
 But that very day Boyd Wisner heard from the prudent maiden who sought to make no mistake in solving lffe's greatest problem-marriage His Quickened heart throbs were a series of thrills as he was called to the phone at his office, and more alluring than the soft cooing of a dove were the futtering words, "Is that you, Boyd?"
 "Yes, darl- mean Miss Lane."
 Don't be silly, Boyd. We are snow bound, but I wanted to tell you that I am sure of my mind now. The chill Sssa are cryina for last years Santa
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-12-20
IN HIGH PLACES
By Walt Mason

have bought 8 grand piano and sumptuous sedan, and a lot of oth- CT doodads, on the monthly payment plan. On each thing I paid dollar, and I'll pay monthly bone, till I'm laid away and sleeping underneath a sagging stone. It is true I didn't need them, and I haven't coin to burn, but see my neighbors blow ing every kopeck that they earn, and if they can have pianos and fine motors and such stuff, I will go as far as they do, though it makes the sledding tough. Every month I'll pay a dollar on the junk I do not need, till I limp around on crutches and my. whiskers go to seed; and when I have crossed the river to the shining golden shore, will still be owing money to the Jinx install ment store. And I fear the recollec- ton will destroy my peace of mind, when have a harp before me and a pair of wings behind. But my neighbors, they keep blowing every roubIe, every red, and I'd be a sort of piker if I let them get ahead ; so I'm buying circus wagons. and Pm buying costly gems, and my wife is weaf1ng sables and has diamond dia- dems, and I bought the whole ca- poodle on the monthly plan, and I'm riding to the poorhouse in a super eight sedan.-Coypright 1919. (By special permission to Savings DiTis- ion. Treasury DepaTtment.l