fHE FULTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURG. PA. . m SUPPLY 5 ASSURED PACKERS FOOD PRODUCTS MANUFACTUR ERS ADVISED THEY WILL BE ABLF. TO OBTAIN NECES SARY REQUIREMENTS. EQUIPMENT OF WAR PLANES Each Aircraft Needs Extra Materlnl and Staff of Skilled Men Removal f Officer From Medical Reserve Corps. Washington. Manufacturers of es sential fool products liuvc been ad vised liy th rood administration that tkey will be eblc to obtain their full requirement of sugar for manufactur ing purposes during the coming year. Tills applies iiurtleularly to puckers C fruit, condensed milk, such vege tables for the preservation of which sugar may be necessary, as well us to tbe housewives for usage In preserv tug purposes. As soon ns the enr nhortage Is relieved, according to the food administration statement, up plica of sugar will be avullablc for these purposes. .Shipments from Cuba sira steadily Increasing. All ennners have been advised to kold for war purposes such quantities of canned corn, peus, tomatoes, string beans, and salmon us they may have oa hand. Such quantities ns are not wanted will be released within a few days after receipt of reports showing stocks on hand, which must be sub- laitted to the food administration be fore March IS. After three yenrs of warfare the to tal number of airplanes able to take the air at any one time on either side f the western front has not been over 2.M0. Euch plane In the air requires a force of 46 men, two re placement planes on the ground, and one training plane for every pilot who eventually reaches the front, with an extra engine for each plane. The life of a plan Is not more than two months, and the engine, must he enrerhnuled after eah 75 hours. Now that American battle planes are going overseas, the great problem Is to se enre the thousands f skilled mechan ics, englnemen, motor repair men, wood and metal workers needed to keep the planes In perfect condition. This engineering and mechanical force at the ulrdromes, the flying fields, and repair depots, both here and behind the lines In France, Is a vital industrial link in the chain to nlr supremacy. From the declaration of war to February 23, the surgeon genernl of the army has removed l.OfiO officers of the Medical Reserve corps. In the following table the reason assigned for l!whnrge does not Isolate under 'ii aptitude for the service" all those whose dismissal was In considerable degree due to Inefficiency or Incompe tency, since these reasons had weight tn many cases otherwise classified. Discharged for physical disability, 411; Inaptitude for the service, 1M; to Join other branches, .KK3; domestic difficulties, 59; resignation, 88; need d by communities, hospitals, schools, S2. During the same period there have een 2.2G5 promotions, Including some 31cers promoted more than once. linns hnve been announced for the ftrgunizatlon of "Junior Four-Minute Men" In every school In the country. According to the division of Four Minute Men of the committee of pub lic Information, bulletins especially prepared for school children will be sent during the third Liberty loan cam paign for distribution by superintend ets to all schools In the United States. Addresses will be prepared from the materlnl In these bulletins Just as regular Fonr-Mlnute spenkers In motion-picture houses prepare their own speeches from bulletins supplied hy the government. In each school the children submit ting the best speeches are to deliver them In public. According to plans the boy or girl awarded first prize Is to Ret a certificate from the United Stutes government as n Junior Four Minute Man. Packages containing dutiable gifts ent to memliers of the expeditionary forees temporarily serving in Eng land will be delivered free of duty, provided the contents contain bona Arte gifts, the quantity Is not beyond the personal requirements of the od tirswee, and that the parcels are ad dressed for delivery to the reglmentul Address of the recipient. A navy bnse hospital with n capacity of fifitt beds hns reached the war zone. It will take care of navy personnel, pnth ashore and afloat. and If accom modations exist will nlsn he available for army und allied sick and wounded. AH persons or firms engaged In Im porting, manufacturing, storing, or dis tributing fertilizers of fertilizer In gredients must secure licenses on or efore March 20. Application must be xoade to the Law Department, License Division, United States food adminis tration. Washington, D. C. It Is reported from Germany that wood Is being largely used In place of celluloid. Ivory, and other substances for the manufacture of combs. Ex cellent toilet combs are made from thinly cut birch and beechwood. A Canadian order In council provides for the free admission Into Canada of meat rattle until February 7. 1010, when Imported by bona fide residents of Canada under regulations by the minister of customs. Cattle, except for breeding pnriHiscs, are ordinarily hftlable at S2 per cent. Only the 12-cyllnder type of Liberty motor for airplanes Is now being built, ft having been thought best in view of ilerelopments nbroad to concent rate n the high-powered engine Instead of she elfcbt-cylindcr. A memorandum made public by the war department concerning the use of armed guards about industrial plants contnins the following; . "The soldier In training who has of fered his life for the deti-nse of coun try should not sacrifice his effective ness by performing police duty In the protection of property back of the lines. This Is the duty of the eitiawn at home. "The theater for operations for armed soldiers Is the battlefield of Europe. Kuch civilian should eld his country by acting as a guard for the detection and prevention of Intrigue, deceit, and all the familiar stealthy op erations of the enemy. In our midst. Knch soldier unnecessarily detailed as a guard in this country ulds and abets the enemy In Europe. "Often a guard may be needed for the safety of a factory. When It Is, It should be supplied by the owner of the factory, by the municipality, or by the state. "These measures apply hot only to manufacturing plants, hut are equally applicable to shipyards, grain elcvai tors, and stores of supplies." The necrsslty for thorough and cor." tinuous training of troops In gas de fense Is shown by a statement proved by captured German documents: The Germans at a certain position on the western front knew the British were planning to deliver a gas at tack on a German division equipped with masks, but poorly trained In their use. In spite of the fact that they had several days to drill before condi tions were suitable for the British at tack, when It was finally made hun dreds of German casualties resulted. Mnny kinds of gases are used In modern warfare. Some merely affect the eyes temporarily, and are more Inconvenient than serious. Other gases are terrible In their effect unless prop er protection Is available. They ore employed In clouds, or In shells, bombs, and hand grenndes. It Is the work of the field training section of the gas defense service to bring home to the American soldier the Importance of his gas mask, to thoroughly drill him In Its use and to Inspire confidence In Its efficiency. According to an announcement by the war trade board a special license has been Issued covering shipments made by persons In the United States tn, and for the personal use of. Individ uals serving In the United States army or navy or the American Red Cross abroad. This license does not permit ship ments by persons In this country to American prisoners of war, "but has been Issued to facilitate small personal shipments to soldiers and sailors and Red Cross workers by doing away with the necessity of securing nn Indi vidual export license In each case. Shipments by mall under this license must be made In accordance with the regulations of the post office depart' ment. If It becomes necessary later to limit this license to certuln speci fied commodities notice will be given through the press. The United States rifle, model of 1017, commonly called the modified Enfield, has now been tested In the service of the army a sufficient time to warrant the assertion that It more than Justifies the claims made for It, according to a statement authorized by the secretnry of war. The new rifle takes a ,10-caliber car trldge, which has the advantage over the British Enfield of being rimless. It has been found that unless rim car tridges are fed through the magazine uniformly with the rim of the top cartridge ahead of the rim of the one Immediately below, Juins are likely to occur. The model of 1017 hns an over all length of 40.3 Inches; a total weight Including oiler and thong case und bayonet of ten pounds and five ounces, The breech mechanism Is of the bolt type. In the new school opened at Roches ter, N. Y to train photographers for the Signal corps, the primary train ing will cover four weeks along high ly specialized developments brought out in the war. At Its close the suc cessful graduates will be sent on for a month's advanced training, after which they will be organized Into units nnd sent overseas. Men with the highest grndes will be given still further training for commis sions as photographic Intelligence of ficers, first at a school nnd then In ac tual flights t the flying fields. During the month of January $11, 787,ril7 were paid out to farmers of the United States by the federal land banks on long-time first-mortgage loans, according to a statement by the federal farm loan board. On February 1 the total amount of money paid out to farmers since the establishment of the federal land banks was $50,782.4:12. covering 21,020 loans closed. The total amount of lonns applied for up to February . 1 wns $2Or.r,G,801, representing 112,140 applications. Near beer and temperance drinks coming within the designation of malt liquor nre Included In the President's proclamation limiting brewers of beer to 70 per cent of the amounts of grains and other food materials that were used last year. Massachusetts and Michigan chap ters of the Daughters of the Revolu tion are establishing "mending rooms" In cantonments. These departments are opened for hospitals, where hun dreds of gnnhents are mended each week. In spite of unsettled conditions, the totnl American trade with Russln imountcd to l.'IS.OOO.OOO In 1017. a decrease of only $.'10,000,000 as coin- red with 1010. This decrease wns .he trade with Asiatic Russia nnd Is attributed to congestion nnd Import strletlons at Madlvostott. The campaign to raise a second $100,000,000 has been announced by the American Red Cross for the week beginning May 0. To date nearly $00, OOO.OOO has been appropriated for war relief work. TAKING CONGRESS 10 CONFIDENCE War Council Meets Senate Committeemen. THINGS NOW MORE SMOOTH 6uperlor War Council Lays Its Cards Upon the Table and Exchanges Views With Members of Senate Committee. Washington. Direct contact be tween Congress and the Administra tion in the conduct of the war was established when the Senate Military Affairs Committee conferred with the Superior War Council at the War De partment. This meeting was at the request of the Acting Secretary of War. The House Military Affairs Com mittee will have a similar session. This marks the first of a series of general conferences to be conducted weekly throughout the war, so Con dress may know every step taken. It will represent the first tangible move to bring the efforts of Congress and of the Administration together for a successful prosecution of the war. The harmonious co-operation of the civil and military forces will meet more than half way those critics of the admlnlstrh'lon who have been ac tive in demand. ng a congressional committee for the supervision of the war. Frankly the Superior War Council laid its cards on the table. The mem bers told where the army was ahead, where it was behind, and just (he re quirements In the field In France td day. They freely admitted that the country was far behind in Its aviation program. They showed thai It was making satisfactory progress in Its shipping program, although that had been somewhat delayed In the start Secretary Crowell and the other members of the Superior War Coun cil, except General Crozler, were pres ent, Including Generals Marsh, chief of staff; Goethals, Weaver, Crowdcr and Sharpe and Edward R. Stettlnius, who recently has been given the task of purchasing for the Army. Senator Chamberlain, chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, wag not present, owing to Illness. Senator Hitchcock acted as chairman, and with him were Senators Myers, Thomas, McKellar, Warren, Wadsworth, Suth erland, New and Frellnghuysen. Charts, diagrams and plans were spread out on the large conference table, showing the status of the troops In France. Informal talks were given by the generals and by the senators, both sides saying frankly what they thought of the conditions of the var ious branches of the service. Cable grams from General Pershing were read to make clearer to the senators the various points brought out In the conference. Various phases of the problems to be. met in this country were presented and neither the senators nor members of the council stinted themselves In criticism. Senator Hitchcock after the confer ence said: "The whole situation . Is coming along satisfactorily. The war situa tion was visualized splendidly. We received full knowledge of the whole general situation. They showed where our Army was behind and where ahead. "The shipping situation is In satis factory shape, but the aviation pro gram Is bad; It is far behind. Tliey told us that frankly and bluntly so we could take measures to see Just how far behind we were and where the fault lay. A committee of which H. Snowden Marshall Ih chairman, will go over the whole aviation situa tion to speed It up and find where the fault lies. The committee was ap pointed by the President. AMERICANS ROUT HUNS. U. S. Troops In Luncville Sector Now Holding German Trenches. American Army In France. Amer ican troops In the Luncville sector have occupied and are holding enemy trenches northeast of Badonvlllcrs, which they forced the Germans to abandon through recent raids and con centrated artillery fire. The trenches have been consolidated with ours. This, though a small forward move ment, marks the first permanent ad vance by the American Army In France. The consolidation of the trenches enables the Americans and French to operate from higher ground than heretofore. The Germans made only feeble at tempts to retake the position, but each lime were repulsed. BOLO PASHA MUST DIE. Paris Court Rejects Appeal From Sentence On Treason Charge. rarTs. The appeal of nolo Pasha from the sentence of death Imposed by court-martial lor treason was re jected by the Court of Revision, which confirmed the original Judgment. The same action was taken by the court n the case of Darius Perchere, who was tried with Bolo Pasha and sen tenced to three years' Imprisonment. WAR NEWS TO CONGRESSMEN. War Office To Give Synopsis Of Week's Reports. Washington. An Innovation In per sonal relations between the War De partment and Congress was proposed when Benedict Crowell, assistant see retary of war, .Invited members of the military committee of the Semite and House to meet In his olUce next Fri day afternoon to hear "a synopsis of war news" for the week, Mombers will acnept the Invitation. American MM' .-?m .fwinffiinrj, m NEW SEAPLANE STANDS TEST Now Being Delivered to Naval Air Service. ANOTHER NEW FIGHTINGTYPE British And French Take Lively In terest In New American Motor Which Is Considered The Most Speedy Of Ail. Washington. America's first fight ing seaplane equipped with Liberty motors has been tried out and ac cepted, and a number of the craft are now being delivered for the use of the naval air service. They are the advance guard of a big fleet which will be added to the forces engaged In submarine hunting In the war zone. A second type of fighting plane for the American Army, known as the Bristol model, also has now reached the production stage, and a consider able number will become available during the present month. Still an other type, a two-seated machine, also Is being manufactured. Construction details of these planes have never been published. It Is known, however, that the seaplanes are substantially similar to the Dritlsh flying boats and are equipped with two Liberty motors, which provide appro Imately 700-horsepower to drive the ship. This Is understood to be much In excess of the jiower used In similar British craft, and their performance is expected to be proportionately bet ter. In this connection It was learned that engineers of the aircraft board now have overcome the last minor defect of the Liberty motors, having to do with the lubrication system. Olliclals In close touch with prog ress being made on production of fighting planes In this country are still satisfied that the output will tax shipping facilities before July, when delivery In quantities In France ha been scheduled. Already a problem of caring for the planes on the other side is one to which General Persh ing's staff Is giving serious thought. Those produced In the United States are In addition to the fighting aviation equlpmetn to be provided under con tract through the French and -British Government. There are Indications thnt these foreign contracts also are not up to the original schedule of de livery. No details are available, how ever, as to the actual number of ma chines that will be turned over to General Pershing during the svnmor. The success of the Liberty motor is known to have attracted the atten tion of both French and British air service officials and both governments have had experts In this country studying its construction and methods of quantity production employed. It Is anticipated that a large number of foreign planes, particularly British, will be using Liberty motors during tho present year. Steps were taken here recently to expedite the delivery of motors for British use. Meanwhile American engineers aio devoting themselves to a study of the motor to be used next year, which un doubtedly will show a very consider able Increase In horsepower over the present 12-cylinder model. There Is now time for a very careful study of the various types of motors, both of foreign and domestic design, and a decision as to the machine to be made the standard for 1919 will not be nec essary before July. More powerful motors will bo need ed for machines to carry such an armament . as General Pershing has proposed. In response to an Inquiry some time ago as to the gun-power of American fighting plans, General Pershing recommended at least two heavy and two light machine guns, adding: "We should anticipate the use of three Vlckers synchronized guns and three Lewis unsynchronlzed gu.js on every airplane." To carry out such a program larger planes would be necessary and It Is the Judgment of officials here that fighting aircraft will Increase con stantly In size and armament. A. C. TOWNLEY INDICTED. Head Of Nonpartisan League Is Charged With Sedition. Fairmont, Minn. A. C. Townlcy, president of the National Non partisan league, and Joseph II. Gilbert, a State olllcer of the organization, were In dicted on two counts by the Martin county grand Jury charged with "Issu ing and circulating a seditions pam phlet tending to dlscomape enlist ments.". The two counts are based on the distribution of two pamphlets. Barrage 800,000 TO BE CALLED THIS YEAR 95,000 Will Be Mobiiized March 29. AMPLE SUPPLIES FOR ALL 800,000 Of Early Call Will Complete First Draft And Will Be Used To Fill Up Units Scheduled For Early Departure. Washington.-Eight hundred thou sand men are to be called to the colors gradually during tho present year, un der the second army draft, which be gins on March 29. An announcement by Provost Mar shal-General C'rowder of the number to be called was followed closely by" an order for the mobilization of 95,- 0(K) men during the five-day period be ginning March 29, some 15,000 of them to be assembled under the second draft Eighty thousand will be men of the first draft of 687,000 not yet summoned Into service. Details of how the second draft is to be applied will be made public later after Congress has acted upon proposed legislation providing for the registration of youths attaining the age of 21 years and for basing state and district quotas on the number of registrants in Class 1. In his first ofllclul statement on the subject, how ever, General Crowder nssures the country that no sweeping withdrawals of large number of men at one time Is contemplated and that rare will be taken to avoid Interference with har vesting. The 95,000 men now railed, It Is un derstood, are needed at once to fill up early departure or to take the place of men transferred from other divisions to make up such deficiencies. Newly organized regular divisions are partic ularly short of men and heavy drafts on National Army divisions to make these good have been necessary, seri ously interfering with the training work of the National Army divisions drawn upon. The call for new men makes It probable that no further transfers will be necessary. The 800,0(10 men to be summoned this yer represent the number neces Fary to fill up all existing divisions, to create all the army corps nnd field army troops to fill out the war ma chine for which the framework al ready exists, and to provide a quarter of a million replacement troops. When they hate been mobilized, which will not be completed before the first of next year, there will be more than 40 full Infantry divisions of 27.700 men each, ai.d all the additional units nec essary. No additional divisions of the National Army or National Guard will be crcnled this jear, although the pro gram for the regular army, now com posed of eight infantry and one cav alry division, may be enlarged. The men to be called out beginning March 29 are apportioned by slates as follows : Alabama, 2,634: Arizona, 148; Ark ansas, 1,541; California, 1.71': Colo rado, 323; Connecticut, 903; Iieleware, 308; District of Columbia, 102; Florida, 2,506; Georgia, 5,925; Idaho, 212; Illinois, l.ftfil; Indiana, 2,977; Kansas, 587: Kentucky, 1.651; Louisi ana, 3 573; Maine, 340; Maryland, 382; Massachusetts, 2,069; Michigan, 5,558; Mississippi, 2,220; Missouri, 1.170; Montana, 521; Nebraskn, 459; Nevada, 72; New Hampshire, 212; New Jersey, 4,275; New Mexico. 127; New York, 12,288; North Carolina. 5,174; North Dakota. 2,647; Oiilo, 6.955; Oklahoma, 98- Pennsylvania, 7,828; Rhode Is land, 301; South Carolina, 343; South Dakota, 226; Tennessee, 2,753; Texas, 3,943; Utah, 247; Vermont, 156; Vir ginia, 2,178; Washington, 638; West Virginia, 1,514; Wisconsin, 2,214; Wyoming, 134; Oregon, 369. While General Crowder sets no time In his statement for the second draft, It has been stated previously that sup plies and equipment for the men of the second draft would become avail able In April and action on the de signed legislation Is expected before that time, the first calls are expected soon afterward. U. S. SHIPS BEAT OFF U-BOAT. Vessel Reaches French Port With Scars Of Battle. A French Port. An American steamship formerly a German vessel, arrived here with Its bridge smashed and a shell hole through a smokestack as a result of an encounter with a submarine. Tho steamship dcfenled Itself with Its guns on being attacked by the submarine. A stoiui was en countered during which the cargo shifted. WILSON GALLS SCHOOL PUPILS President Wants Every School To Have "Regiment" In 'Afar Garden Army. ' Washington. President Wilson, In a letter to Secretary Lane, expresses the hope that "every school will have a regiment in the volunteer war gar den army" the army of school chil dren that it Is estimated may raise this year produce valued at $500,000 000. The President's letter said: I sincerely hope that you may be successful through the Bureau of Education In arousing the Inter est of teachers and children In the schools of the United States In the cultivation of home gardens. Ev ery boy and girl who really sees what the home garden may mean will, I am sure, enter Into the pur pose with high spirits, because I am sure they would all like to feel that they are in fact fighting in France by joining the home gar den army. They know that Amer. lea has undertaken to send meat and flour and wheat and other foods for the support of the sol diers who are doing the fighting for the men and women who are making the munitions and for the boys and girls of Western Europe and, that we must also feed our selves while we are carrying on this war. The movement to establish gar dens, therefore, and to have the children work in them is just as real and patriotic an effort as the building of ships or the firing of cannon. I hope that this spring every school will have a regiment In the volunteer war garden army. It is Secretary Lane's Idea that is being worked out through Commis sloner Claxton, of the Bureau of Edu cation, to have 5,000,000 boys and girls of the schools in every city, town and village in the country, captained by 40,000 teachers, produce as nearly as possible all of the vegetables, sinal fruits and eggs for their home con sumption. BIGGEST CONCRETE SHIP. New-Type Craft Of 7,900 Tons Dis placement Launched. A Pacific Port. The largest concrete fchlp In Uie world was launched here. If the vessel stands all tests the build ers hope this will help to solve the nation's need for, ships. She Is 820 feet between perpendiculars, 44.6 feet wide and 30 feet deep, and when load ed will draw 24 feet of water. Her displacement will be 7,900 tons, and she will have a carrying capacity ol 6,000 tons and make 10 or 11 knots an hour with triple expansion engines furnishing 1,700 horsepower. WANT COMBINATION BREAD. Food Administration Suggests Rice And Corn As Wheat Substitutes. Washington. The Food Admlnlstia. tlon has suggested to bakers that a combination of wheat substitutes in stead of a single substitute be used In Ictory bread. A combination oT sub titutes, the Administration says, has been found to make a higher quality of bread. Experiments have shown that a mixture of corn nnd rice works better than corn alone, and that pota oes with cereal substitutes makes a better bread than potatoes alone as a substitute. ARCHES FOR TROOPS. Strewn Along Route To Hoboken Transport Dock. Hoboken, N. J. Military street, ded icated to the soldiers whose feet tread ts pavement as the last bit of Amer ican soil they touch before leaving for France, came into being Wednesday. It was formerly known as First street. The city commissioners appropriated 4,000 to build arches and otherwise fittingly' decorate the thoroughfare. PACIFIST PAINTED YELLOW. High School Instructor Suspected Of Disloyalty. . Ottumwa. Ia. Leon Battle, an In structor in the high school at Albla, suspected of disloyalty, was dragged to the court house steps and there given a cont of yellow paint. Battlg said war wns against his religion, and had refused to push the sale of Thrift Stamps. MISS CLEVELAND WEDS. , Daughter Of Late President Bride Of British Officer. London. Esther Clevelund, daugh ter of the late Grover Cleveland. Pres ident of the U. S., was married Thurs day in Westminster Abbey to Capt: W. S. Bosanquet, D. S. Q , of the Cold stream Guards, and son of Sir Albert Bosanquet, according to the Dally Graphic. BRITISH GAIN IN PALESTINE. Advance Of Three Miles Is Made On An Eleven-Mile Front. London. Attacking over an ll mlle Tront on the costal sector in Palestine, East Anglian, South Anglian and Indian troops have advanced to an average depth of three miles, accord ing to an official statement Issued by the War Office. SCHUMANN-HEINK PATRIOTIC. Going To France To Sing For Amer. lean Soldiers. St. Louis, Mo. Mudame Schumann- lleink, the contralto, announced here that at tho close of her present concert season Bhe will go to France to sing to the American soldiers. She has Ix-cn singing In the training camps in the United States. New crutches fasten to the belt and leave the) arms of the wearer free. IN Sammies Consolidate and Forti fy Positions ON THE LUNEVILLE FRONT Teh More Decorated With French WiP Cross Col. Douglas MacArthur, Who Led Troops Over The Top, Among Those Honored. American .Army in France. Amer ican troops are now occupying their first German trenches. They consist of two kilometre (1742 miles) of front-line positions is the Badonvlller region, on the Lime- llle front. The positions were occupied In broad daylight by the Americans aft er German evacuation. A German barrage later forced a withdrawal, but the Sammies returned and now flrmlj hold the positions. The trenches have been conanii. dated. automatic rifles have been mounted and they are fully defended. They were so smashed by Yank artillery as to be untenable for ths booties, but the salient forms an pi cellent addition to our lines. Tht Americans found the trenches sup ported by strong timbers. Tho broken ones have been replaced. The bodies are playing a safe, de fensive game on all fronts where the? are confronting Americans, it has been made apparent by recent raids. In expectation of these raids the enemy simply evacuates all front positions and retires to the safety of the rear lines. The Americans are alert and active and the Germans are unable to tell when to expect something. Considerable sniping Is develonlnt especially on the Luneville front The 5ammies are becoming proficient In this art. There is also grenading back and forth. Aerial activity Is Increa. ing. It Is now permissible to state that the troops in the Luneville region who made a raid without opposition are from Ohio. Volunteers were called for to participate In the raid. So many wanted to go that only a few wers selected from each company. The participants included bovs from Cincinnati, Marlon, CIrcleville, Cleve land, London, Marysville. Columbu and Dayton. The former famous athlete, whos name was deleted In Sunday's dis patches, is a former baseball catcher. He is different looklne in a eau mi and tin hat than be was behind a wire mask and a baseball cap. (The former catcher referred to un doubtedly is "Hank" Gowdy, former Boston Brave backstop and hero f the 1914 world's series. Ho was the first big leaguer to volunteer for ac tive service. He enlisted with an Ohio regiment. . A German dog Is now the mascot of an American company on the Toul rront. He deserted the boche trenches at night and came over to the Amer ican lines with his tall wagelne. He I being fed and petted and the Sammies are teaching him English. Cpl. Douglas MacArthur. Cantaln Thomas Handy and eight American enlisted men have been decorated with the French Croix de Guerre fnr gallantry In action. Capt. Archie Roosevelt, son of Cnl Theodore Roosevelt, received the, French war cross Tuesday for eallan- try In action while lying on an operat ing table in an evacuation hosnital. It is permissible to announce today. LIBERTY TRENCHES FOR LOAN. Reproduction Of Earthworks In France Will Be Built. New York. "Liberty trenches" a reproduction of a sector of the trenches occup1m1 by the Americas troops in France probably will be set up on a Central Park meadow here, with the cooperation of the United States and French Governments, as s stimulus to the third Ubertv Loan. The loan workers of the second Fed eral Reserve district announced that the plan had received the tentative approval of Mayor Hylan. The Board of Estimate, upon being asked permis sion for the use of one of the meadows for the duration of the war, appro priated a sum not to exceed $25,000 for the reproduction of the trenches. POISON KILLS ARMY HORSES. Fifty Dead And Many Others May Be Lost. Covington, Ky. Fifty horses are dead of poisoning In Covington and many more are expected to die out of Government shipment of 726 horses from Camp Grant, Rockford, 111., con signed to Newport News, Va. Pr. L. E. Crlsler, veterinary surgeon. Covington, pronounced the death of the animals to be due to bellandona and croton oil poisoning. The consignment of horses reached Covington Thursday night at 6 o'clock in charge of Lieut. Frank Lllley and 16 soldiers. Dr. Crlsler said he believed the poison had been placed In water given to the horses In Covington. EXPECTS BLOW AT ENGLAND. Sir Auckland Geddes Tells Of German Preparations. Bristol. Sir Auckland Geddes. Min ister of National Service, speaking here, declared the disposition of the German armies on the British front was most remarkable. "Thev have placed mass unon mass." hp Mfllri. "and nprmunv' nillltjirv nh- Ject will be tostrlkr at England. I have no doubt Germany will strike not only at our forces in France, but. also. V ate can, at the heart of England. AMERICANS GERMAN TRENCHES
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