4 HUGE WEAPONS WERE BEING FORGED WHEN THE FIGHTING WAS STOPPED American Artillery Program Alone Was Sufficient to Bring Victory to Allies, War D epartment Report Indicates Washington, May 14.—Behind the armies in France which smashed a road to victory through the German defenses last fall, the United States was forging, before the armistice was signed, weapons gigantic and powerful, counted upon to make ul timate victory certain. In the Amer ican artillery program alone, the full fruition of which could not have been reached before 1920, there was in creation an agency believed bv Army men here to be of itself able to bring the victory. An official and detailed account of that program is contained in the chapters made public to-day of "America's Munitions," the histor ical report prepared under the di rection of Assistant Secretary Crow ell, who was director of munitions during the war. 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Through it all runs the same spirit of partnership in the war en terprise between industry and the Government that made possible such an undertaking. The chapters devoted to guns are so extensive as to make up a con siderable volume in themselves. Thcv contain the names and the may be wonderfully benefited by the use of this prescription. Go to any active drug store and get a bottle of Bon-Opto tablets. Drop one Bon- Opto tablet in a fourth of a glass of water and let it dissolve. With this liquid bathe the eyes two to four times daily. You should notice your eyes clear up perceptibly right from the start and inflammation and red ness will quickly disappear. If your eyes bother you even a little it is your duty to take steps to save them now before it is too late. Many hope lessly blind might have saved their sight if they had cared for their eyes in time. Note: Another prominent Physician to whom the above article was sub mitted, said: "Yes, the Bon-Opto pre scription is truly a wonderful eye remedy. Its constituent Ingredients are well known to eminent eye spe cialists and widely prescribed by them. I have used it very successful ly in my own practice on patients whose eyes were strained through overwork or misfit glasses. I can highly recommend it in case of weak, watery, aching, smarting, itching, burning eyes, red lids, blurred vision or for eyes Inflamed from exposure to smoke, sun. dust or wind. It is one of the very few preparations I feel should be kept on hand for regular use in almost every family." Bon- Opto, referred to above, is not a pat ent medicine or a secret remedy. It is an ehtical preparation, the formula being printed on the package. The manufacturers guarantee it to strengthen eyesight 50 per cent, in one week's time in many instances or refund the money. It can be ob tained from any good druggist and is sold in this city by H. C. Kennedy. Croll Keller. J. Nelson Clark and other leading druggists. statistical records of achievement of all the Arms that worked on guns or ammunition and this official commentary will have a place in the records of those Arms in the years to come. Among the many interesting things in the report is the account now officially given of the reasons that impelled the War Department to cast aside except for training purposes all of the 3-inch Aeld ar tillery with which the American Army was equipped when the United States entered the war, and to substitute for these weapons three types of guns Atted to take ammunition of the 75mm type em ployed by the French light pieces. French 75 Problem Solved There has been much controversy because of the alleged failure to adopt at the outset of the war the French 75, famous for its perform ances in the war, as the standard American piece of this type. The report shows that the gun was adopted for combat purposes, but that its production in quantity in the United States proved to be even more of a problem than the Gov ernment's experts had anticipated. For that reason the American 3-inch gun. redesigned for 75 am munition, and the British 3.3-inch Aeld gun, similarly rechambered, were both put into production in order to make use of every facility for manufacture. The American and British typos were intended primarily for training work and were so employed. But the wis dom of putting these guns into pro duction on a quantity scale is em phasized in the following para graph: "In the year and one-half of our war experience the manufacturing production problems were all prac tically and completely solved, with one exception—that of building French hydropneumatic recupera tors for the 75mm guns. This, per haps the hardest manufacturing job in the whole range of war industrial enterprises and naturally the last one to come through, had not been solved when the armistice was signed. However, it is only fair to state that the solution of this re cuperator problem was imminent on November 11, 1918." French Secret The recuperator is the recoil de vice which makes these French guns what they are. Their con struction was a French secret and to build them there is required a degree of precision comparable only, the report states, to that nec essary in building as delicate an in strument as a sextant. It was with difficulty that any American manu facturer was persuaded to undertake it, yet on April 25, 1919, sixty seven of these recuperators had been completed and fifty-three of these passed by French experts and accepted by the Government. They were the first of these devices built out of France or by other than the skilled French workmen. Construction of these guns them selves and their carriages went for ward swiftly. Under the agree ments, the French and British were to supply the first American jinnies with all of their field artillery and intermediate batteries, with the ex "FAKE" ASPIRIN WAS TALCUM Therefore Insist Upon Gen uine "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" Millions of fraudulent Aspirin Tablets were sold by a Brooklyn manufacturer which later proved to be composed mainly of Talcum Powder. "Bayer Tablets of As pirin," the true, genuine, American made and American owned Tablets, are marked with the safety "Bayer Cross." Ask for and then insist upon "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" and always buy them in the original Bayer package, which contains proper directions and dosage. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid. LOST HIS FALSE TEETH IN BUSY BROADWAY Man in Fur Coat Creates a Sen sation at Forty-Third Street Comer People in the vicinity of Broadway and 43d street this noon were perplex ed when they saw a well-dressed man, weighing about 350 pounds, wearing an expensive fur overcoat on his hands and knees in the middle of the uptown car track. Patrolman Patrick McDonald el bowed his way through the crowd and grabbing the man by the shoulder, ask ed what was the matter with him. The man got np and, pointing to his mouth, muttered in a semi-intelligible manner that he had lost his falae teeth. He ■aid he believed they were lost in the ■lot of the car track. Search by po licemen, chauffeurs, bystanders, motor men and conductors failed to reveal the missing piece, and with great dis gust the unknown man hailed a pass ing taxi. Hia breadth being bigger than the entrance of the taxi, he final ly secured a large limousine and de parted, giving instructions to drive anywhere north.—N. Y. Eve. 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She end 11.50 bottles at drug or front 1 vSEMJdI UCBORATpBT, Philadelphia, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ceptlon of the powerful American 4.7 rifle and howitzer, which was taken over by the troops and which proved highly effective against Ger man field guns. The American Ex peditionary Force received from the French before the armistice was signed 1,828 75mm guns and 772 155 mm howitzers. They had also received from the French 216 155 mm rifles and from the British 123 8-inch howitzers with forty 9.2-inch howitzers completed and ready for delivery. Additional con tracts were made with the British for 302 howitzers of 6-lnch caliber for delivery by April, 1919. Draw on United States To fill their own factories with forgings for guns, both French and British were drawing heavily on American industry when the United States entered the war. These or ders were not interfered with, but. on the contrary, were stimulated and expanded in order that the United States might furnish forgings in trade for completed guns and at the same time create a wholly new source of supply for the bulk of its own artillery program. The report shows that between April. 1917, and the conclusion of hostilities there were supplied to the Allies forgings for 1,102 guns of calibers ranging from 3-inch to 9.5-inch; additional gun tube forgings to the extent of 14.623, and shell forging totaling 5.018,451. There were only four gunmakers in the United States when the coun try entered the contest, but by Oc tober, 1918, there were nineteen factories engaged on this work. During that month, with three of the nineteen factories still lacking their complete eciuipment, there were produced 2,031 gun forgings of calibers up to 9.5-inch or at a .rate of 24,000 guns a year, as compared to the capacity for flfty-flve finished weapons a year in the spring of 1917. Sonic Figures The actual production of complet ed guns up to December, 1919, was 4,039, including 1,813 of 75mm cal iber, 230 of the 3-inch antiaircraft type, 218 of the 4.7-inch type, 1,456 of thd 155 mm howitzers 129 of the 155 mm rifles, 191 8-inch howitzers and two of the monster French 2 40mm howitzers, which would have supplanted the smaller British guns of this type in 1919. Over the same period the number of gun forgings produced totaled 8,440. The report points out that the gun program in reality depended upon the ability to produce the recoil mechanisms. picture of what such mechanisms are called upon to do is drawn: "Not long ago a touring car, weighing two tons, traveled at a rate of 120 miles an hour along a Florida beach. Conceive of such a car going 337 miles an hour, which is much faster than any man ever traveled; then conceive of a mecha nism which would stop this car, going nearly six miles a minute, stop it in forty-five inches of space and half a second of time, without the slightest injury to the automo bile. That is precisely the equiva lent of the feat performed by a re cuperator by a 240 mm howitzer aft er a shot." Summarizing the production of guns by the United States as com pared with France and Great Brit ain, the report says that between April. 1917, and November, 1918, the United States produced 2,008 complete artillery units, as against 11,056 by France and 8,065 by Great Britain, and during those nineteen months turned out 4,275 gun bodies, as against 19,492 by France and 11,852 by Great Britain. "And our artillery capacity," it adds, "was then, in the autumn of 1918, only getting under way." Coast Gnus For France Big guns are dealt with separate ly. A survey of the country imme diately after the war declaration lo cated 464 weapons ranging from 7-inch to 14-inch caliber which could be spared from coast defenses or by the Navy to be placed on railway mounts for use in France. There was also available one giant 16-inch howitzer built by the Army before 1917. From the seacoast defenses were taken ninety-six 8-inch, 129 10-inch, forty-nine 12-inch rifles and 150 12-inch mor tars, while the Navy supnlicd twelve 7-inch rifles and twenty-one 14- inch and six high-power 12-inch rifles building for the Chilean gov ernment were commandeered. Prac tically all of these were intended for the railway mounts of various types and the great majority of them, together with new guns of these sizes, would have reached France in time for the campaigns of 1919 and 1920 had the war con tinued. In all, there were in process projects to support the American Army with 300 of these tremendous guns, -all of which were well ad vanced when the fighting ended. In addition to the Navy's contribu tion of 14-inch rifles on railway mounts, three Army 8-inch units went overseas. By the end of 1918 twenty-four units had been com pleted and the guns and mounts fully demonstrated. An interesting feature of the mount was that it had trucks which would permit it to operate over either standard rail roads or the narrow-gauge lines at the front. Railway mounts for thirty-six 10-inch rifles from the coast de fenses also were ordered in co-op eration with the French, machine work and assembly to be done in France. They were to be delivered at General Pershing's request by March, 1919. One of the projects embarked upon was the mounting of forty of the 12-inch mortars for use in the 1919 campaign. This proved to be the largest job of the whole artil lery program and required the con struction by the Government of a wholly new plant, which was com pleted on June 1, 1918. The first mount was finished in August of that year and passed all tests, and when the armistice was signed the castings, forgings and x structural parts for ninety-one mounts were on hand. In April of this year forty-five complete units had been delivered and the whole nHlety-one guns could have been mounted by June. The department ordered sixteen mounts for 14-inch rifles, deliveries to begin in February. 1919. These were in addition to the five guns of this size manned in France by the Navy. The armistice served to cancel the contract. The 16-inch howitzer, largest of the whole gun family, was success fully mounted upon a ratlway car riage and, following its passage of severe tests, General Pershing called for twelve of these weapons as soon as they could be produced. Orders were placed for sixty-one additional guns of this size, but none had been turned out by the time the armistice was signed and the work of mounting them was never undertaken. The chapters of the report given out to-day deal also with artillery ammunition, with the powder pro duction "and with the plans that were beyond the experimental stage for mounting heavy guns on cater pillar tractors, which was an Amer ican development of the war. It promises now to revolutionize the handling of artillery for the entire world. While numerous experi mental types were produced and successfully tried out. however, this motorization had not reached the point of production before the ar mistice ended hostilities. | Business Houses in Every Line Are Buying These are some of the concerns that have bought Autocar Motor Trucks in ths past two weeks —Their increasing business demands greater transportation facilities. * / Star () Indicates Repeat Order A l Co * Ha in bcrkamp, Jolm L., Building Pittsburgh Oil Refining Co. American Agricultural Chemical Material l ossldentc, Vito, Trucking Co. -. 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'Zellerbaek Paper Co. •H & P Coal Co Peterman, H., Paints Zemesky Bros., Cream and Eggs Hail, Barnard, Hauling 'Phillips Brothers, Bottlers | Ziim, Simon, Inc., Metal Specialties The Autocar Co., Ardmore, Pa. Established 1897 Represented in Harrisburg by EUREKA WAGON WORKS 616 North Street. Autocar A) , j 1 ' d 11 IT i - - - -*- I MAY 14, 1919.
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