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ARMY SUPPLIES IN CHAIN OF CITIES DOES STARTLING STUNTS Three Towns Behind the Lines ami rolls ut ^rWkWt And si/p in France Hold Great In the city Itself the American^ found one of the largest-refrigerating and meat storage . warehouses in France, and absorbed it last July, ‘ though it was then many times larger than their ueeds. Its capacity is close to two million pounds/ qnd while it has at times been-nearly full, the sup ply' is never permitted to fall below half a million pounds. There are iiiore than GOO,(XX) pounds there now. ^ Direct failroud lines lead nbt only from the bakery and the refrigerating plant to the. crimps but also from the s«*«iports and the city. ; ! Several mjles #vestward, at the* low- : $C apex of the triangle, lies another French "town which has been all but bodily taken over by the Americans as a storage center. Here non-perish able foods—Canned goods, salt, Xhgar and vegetables other than those bought fre.'ih from the French: petuanL^a re stored. Ohe of the largest buildings which the Americans have taken over iB de voted to equipment. Here are stored many thousands of uniforms and ev- ! cry article of clothing-from shoes nnd caps to buttons and handkerchiefs. I The needs -of;-the troops is estimated at several pairs of shoes a year and three or four uniforms. Stores Forty Shipments of White Bread Made Daily—All Facilities Being En- larged—One Town .Is Stor- : age Center. V'X?. Behind the American Front In France.—Less spectacular than the continued arrival of American troops and their occupation of a definite front sector, yet in its way 'quite as impor tant for their success, has been the steady development of tlie systeiu of keeping them in , t he myriad supplies they must have. Keeping jpuce \vith "the increasing irattling camps the/*e has grown up a storage, transportation and distribu tion system that not only accurately anil- efficiently supplies the needs Of all our soldiers but is continually be ing, enlarged against future ueeds. Neither troops nor supplies can cqme too fast for it. The various functions of the system* -bakery, refrigerating plant, ware houses for clothing, non-perishable fooifc and similar supplies, and the ^Hair-raising stunts” -,b>.. Ktmlciij aviators may seem foolhardy t<» tin average civilian, hut the knowledge of them will save many lives in aeTinl battle, according to I'ieut. Col. (!(iarle> E. Lee of the British Koval Flying coVps, who has been startling Wash ington for several days with seemingly impossible feats ip the air. Colonel Lee’s demonstrations have done much to lessen the criticism in official Wash ington that student flyers have been a* lo help keep back the Aiistro-Germans 1 Italian heavy naval gun mounted on a concrete barge in. tin 2—New portable laundry being tested j»t ('amp.Meade for the gbvei men a w eek. 3—Lieut. Mills Kltchin, son of Congressman Kltchin, special instructor'In bayonet practice at one of the National army camps. / k i 1 led—because of— foolhardy AMERICAN RED CROSS STATION IN MILAN rather than in straight living at Ainer ican training fields. "The so-called danger'of flying lies not with those who.do stunts in ijie air/' says Colonel Lee, “hut with those who 'cannot dep thdiK. Unless a pilot can turn his ma chine'any way and every wy^r"at any TThVe in order rrrTitarndTyfnrfnrposttbotr all the straight flyiqg in the world will not help him when hie has a tight.’ giu distributing plant—-arc located i convenience sake . In thre»s~iawus. citips .situated respectively at the fee corners, of am obtuse triangle, | id near Chough to tin* training camps id front-so that supplies can reach e furthest points in 24 liours. * Bakgry_ls Great Industry. No link in the cliain fiytueen'“a port France - ’ and-the American trout is, chaps, more interesting than (lie bak- Woman HonorecTby French. Ciitcimvati; O.^-An Ohio woman. Miss Jeanne Emma Morlmrd, has Re ceived the badge of the/Legion of Hotiqr from the French government in recognition of her work as betid of I he - Franco-Belglim' relieT fund in Cin cinnati. For 23 years Miss Morhnrd taught French at Hughes High school. RODE THREE TIMES THROUGH BARRAGE The ^applying o£ the American lroops in Fro/ice with white bread has become a great industry and is growing all the Tune. The few bakers origi nally 'here have grown into companies; (lie relatively small daily quantity of br/ad turned out in July lias increased to scores of tlioiisamls of pounds, and entire shiploads of ikpir are arriving j London.—Lieut, .Gobind Hingli has deekly and are being stored away in | the\ Victoria Cross and lie earned it. warehouses with, capacity of auililons j He U a Itajput from India and he Is a VX\ ly as his trained h*gs could carry him His colleagues cheered him as he drop ped into the- friendly trench and all pf. pounds as u jvswvu aguiust .the brave mail. Three times hq. dashed feed that lie led a charmed life, arrival of still more troops* The American army first took pos session (>f u lyjgo bakery in a ceutrul c rryii'h city, Vormcfiy operated by. a German. and having a' capacity for storing l.fiOnjXX) pounds of flour,.in ad dition to a hot incunsiderable daily output of bread from jts coke ovens. ^ Those making the ' arrangements knew that the time would soon come when the city bakery would be ifttld- j-qiiate^ so they went outside of the city and leased from tin* French a tract of land consisting of several thousand acres, upon whiCh the conventional lnll- itary wood.etushacks t»oou sprang up nnd where then* is boom for an In- , into what seemed almost certain death 1 and lie escaped without a 'scrutvh. al- j though tlie horses were shot from un- dei him. A in I furthermore he deliv- , ered messages w hich perhaps saved a battalion from extermination. There Ls no prouder Indian in Great Britain or France than Lieutenant Singh. It is nothing ynttsual to see a soldier sa int** when he pusses-*-just out of ad- * But bis task wins not finished. His officer found Hint if One more message could be sent to the stuff the battalion might lie rescued. Singh said iu* would go a third time. The officers offered him his choice of horses and he selPVt ed a splendid animal, which he ea rossed before undertaking the lasFnml most dangerous dash of all. The dis tance he hod to go was a mile and a half. He covered almost half tin* dis tance and heard not a shot. But-in stantly a barrage started from Hit* Ger man guns. A British sentinel in a shell hole warned him to pause, saying n«» human being could get through the curtain of slit'll tin* alive. But Singh ignored the warning, .lie spurred bK horse to new speed. A slit'll struck tbe^nimnl nnd almost tore It to pieces. Singh dropped to the ground nnd half crawling and half (fragging himself he finished his perilous .journey without receiving a bullet wound. To the as tonishment of the officers who had watched with breathless excitement his plunge through the shadqjv of death the Indian asked if In* were to make a return trip. He was told It was not necessary; A short flfne later, tine to tin* order he had delivered, his battalion was-rescued from a most dan gerous position. gener al/staff. and volunteers were asked (or. There was no other way to eonimunl- ente. Lieutenant Singh offered his • services. He mounted a horse and fared*forth into No Man's Land. Five others had volunteered and been killed { In tbo rain of machine gun bullets from tin* German lines, but a few hundred yards away. Singh galloped at full -j-spettd IntofHvo region of death. He is , a skillful ridrY and bis charger was ex perienced. A short distance away hli. i horse fell under him. The Indian fin ished bis trip of GoO yards afoot. Tlie message required a reply nnd he volunteered to deliver it. He sallied I forth on another horse and with tils (fives, eon- body glued to that animal lie plunged shipments , ahead with the machine gun fire again lin. motor playing on him. A second time his IT WILL- NOT TAKE SLUGS TIMBER SALVED FROM HUN DUGOUTS Springfield, III.—John Danis. a Springfield coal miner, has his second set of naturalization papers. They were issued after he proved the first Ones were*eaten up by a mouse. stitutes about fdrtvvHcpui - that art' made daily^by Tisietc and hnrsc'dnrwn A The bread is suppled! hors** u#s kilb*d. He finished this 1 journey also on foot running as swift* BRITISH GIRLS STUDY RADIO NEW AIRPLANE BULLET To Be Used on Lar.d Stations When Efficient, Later in Coastwise as well as in dark allow tlie aim of tip i* corrected, was in Washington.- The war department authorizes tin' following; The present' war brought forth n new kino of -jirr. munition for.airplane use in the form of special oirtridges containing bullets for . armor-piercing, tracing, and inrerttlTTify purposes. With the progress of the war the mmv vital parts of tip* airplane were protected with -light armor, so that -it b(*eamt* nebossaryMo introduce the ar mor-piercing bullet. A> iln* gasoline tanks wert' partieu- larly. susceptible to incendiary explo sion, It was necessary to procure a bullet -tbntnlrilng an Inflaminablg'»ubr stance, Ignited upon discharge, which would carry *TTSfe" spark of Ha me Into the lank upon piercing K. • r As the target, the enemy airplane, was witlin fighting range for only brief mdfuehts at a time, and os there were no mentis of determining the fire effect as on land, a tracer bullet con taining a bright-burning composition, which would indicate the path of the ipping This photograph ill* wireless telegraphy. The Marconi shows timber salved from German dugoutX that lias been cut up in the saw- company lias-started a special sohoor*" mills of the Nevv Zealand Tunnelling company to .be used in the construction for train Hut women in wireless jele- ofwlugouta. for .tlie.lamps, - . . . ’— ^—£4 graidiy at its North Wales RTaVlbb. At prt*scnl the, epmpanv is tnkttur nnlv : XV zrr ; ! GOVERNOR BEATS MAYOR IN PLOWING rapliy, but this Is only a temporary ro- i strictlon. - .\* a . , 4' '^ The course deals with slip rending W _ I1ILL y?. y _ ■ puneldng. record,reading and the gen- ernl duties 'of » wireless station. The I ’['TjflpPPHp ' ^\ ik'* % girls will be draftt*d lo land stations I when efficient and will go on night duty I // > - In rotation.— — . 1 I \JaPL J It ls not proposed to extend the & L*l ' to the |,ut I if nils to be 1 ^ni '-V" T ' Photo b» 'At yne outbreak of the war, further infonniHion was projniitly gather«*d from-TlnKnttfi^Yr nnd tbfsxnbjeet was studied hy\thbst> rt'sponsjble for this work in the United Suites. Of course, on account of\the difficulties of the problem, none of tin' special bullets possessed by any country'Is entirely satisfactory or whaKniigbt be termed “■perfect", ip operatlon\ . The bullets developed by the United States ordnance department bave been tested on land and from aihplancs to see If there is any difference In their performance when fired from a quickly moving airplane in the - upper atmos phere and when fired on land. \ • These tests indicate that the Unlted\ States has developed a class of special cartridges with a performance fully equal to or surpassing that attained abroad. . - ^ A new postage stamp muehlue has just been installed In the Boston post office. • All slugs and poor coins are returned to tin* cup in the bottom of the machine without discharging stumps. The only other machine of this Type is iu Washington. After the Ball It was 3 a. m. before Harold could tear himself away .from Mildred’s •sweet presence. "I think",” she whis pered. “I hud better let you out the buck way—the front door squeaks so dreadfully.” ' _ , As Harold wifs slipping down the back steps his foot slipped! A win dow above went up and g stern voice called dow n from the gloom: "Leave an extra quart this morning, and don’t forget them empties 1“ r~ Harold’s heart turned a somersault. Rapid cooling'of a liquid pnxlu fink crystals; the slower 4t chan; form the larger the crystals. LIBRARY SUPS HUN KULTUR Angeles public library has banished German books from Its shelves. Henceforth, for the duration of the war, HQ child In this city will be al lowed to study German, and no person, child or adult, will be able to read Ger man boosts and, through their pages, to absorb any of the viewpoints of Germany. English , books that may prov* »o expound German ' philosophy will also be banned. ' Town Haa Chopping Bee. Lawrenceburg, Ind.—In order, to save coal, more than 000 bankers, lawyers, physicians.*, laborers and tramps spent a whole day chopping wood at three camps established on the river bank here. They cut 60C cords of wood. then he beat it away from there. Boston Post. " > • German Booka Are Banished From the 8helves of the Los Angelos Almost Spoiled It. “It doesn't seem* possible that yoa cap have a daughter who Is old enougfi to go to college.’’ ’Thank you." she replied. T vu married very young." > "Oh,-that’s It! I bava often won dered huw you ever happened to L pick out sudra man a* yon—Lsn’t that one of the moat spKmHd sonajta you eYar «wX-r-Spriagfield (O.) Newt. ~*V Public Library. Los Angeles, Cal.—Los Angeles has made a sweeping drive on German kul- tnr as her bit In the pfjchologlcal war with which civilians are backing .up tfie American army. ‘ , - Following closely on the actlop of the board -of education banning Ger man from the public schools, the Los Athrnta. Ga.. recently had a war-garden parade In which Governor Dorsey plowed the best furrow in the shortest time. The photogriph shows Governor Dorsey (on'extreme right) and.Mayor- Asa G. Candler of Atlanta (next to Gqveruor Dorsey), the rivals. The president of the Atlantic Advertising Men’s dub, 5*. Q. Ht'stitigs. Is presenting rhe wftmer with • Imuqaet made of Georgia-frowa 1 *vegetables. * 1, , Liberty. Llberty*4r a alow fruit. It U nevei cheap; U is made difficult because free dom ls the accomplishment and per -G'Ctness of man. No man- can make money as S' pir ate and give It away as a Christian. Emerson. * - ~'v~i - J ' .. . * * ‘ " - - ,. ... ,-^i