owers Depend PINCH OF COAL DUST Spl : CAN BE THY CAUSE On Battleships OF A MINE EXPLOSION AY Washington — MA pitie oh of cos! dust p #30 . Monster Fi hin Vessels that could be hald belwesn the thumb "i 4 2.) Jo £ : & snd forefinger ould ster! an explo. So oy Made Less Vulnerable sion which would claire lives g thousands of men, the Bureau 4 APA : Te Air Attacks. Mines declared the olher day “ p 1 : Cc h ) of i S t mn WA % -~ It explained ihe dust--tmuch jess pei 3 5 WASHINGTON .— Despite the new | gould fit into the bowl ) ; estar re velioved hed rips pipe mind hs I 3 Cua v4 5 Practical Gifts for Less Money—Shon at s " Y= oof of sir about a hucket full aid ’ ‘ a : - to be the backbone of the névy I | furen an ir lammably mixture We 0 this Popular Store snd Profit by the Low prions every “big navy” country of the Tn explode.” the leresu said : ES world A survey shows that al report on collection of dust in CHR 5 " : . though Grest Britain has the larg: | mines “coal dust mull be mixed with REGIE | Every Dept. brim- ert ot her shipyards are Sug air in a comparatively dense ¢loud £ 4 k fal of Christmas ing ni asd day to increase the The coal dust-aie mixture whe: ar We Gifts — hi number of her capital ghips by about | in contact with an open flame | ignited “ y x Ye Jet? hing 50 per etal. The same is true of | with a viclence pragortional lo Uw “~~ ; : ’ amily France, gstept that France seeks to | volative combustible mailer In th fy “ i | Natiozmily known | add evel fhore, about 88 per cent. | coal as well ss in pheportion to coal SP ¢ foods for your table. lini italy's shipyards ace found to be | Lineness ness andl freedom i. working #0 double the number of | Impurities Althougly there mis her battleships. The German navy |# dense cloud at ihe point of ignition seeks to add sbout half again as | there need not be Wny considerable many as that country now has | quantity of dust by Weight or) VOIGme Loss Vulnerable to Altadks. | to bring about & dust ignition and ex- Mombaon. , Er | ’ : b+ : The greal strides that have been | ’ *By experiment it has been found ) i 4 A a C H R 1 ST MAS : Baily 34. i. sh - made in recent years to make such | og. ot ‘ala comparatively ! TEs : s Wy ® iat, Doe. 2-168 (Open ° that 3 dust cloud of -) ships less vulnerable to attacks | pure. fairly high voltage. finely divid- a | 1 ® Thurs, snd Fri, Dee rho from the alr are believed 3 prime "4 bituminous co the amount of p41 i : 4 : od bituminous coal 8 W fh 22 (Open 0 tig 9 reason for this situation, Repr Ad- | ome foricth of an ougice of coud dust : ; Vo Fe Ours. © hee : 8p miral Willian C. Watts, new com | 10 cubic foot of nlir is about the mandant of the Grest Lakes Naval | ..0 dense coal dust cloud that will Training station, asserts. | propagate or extend an explosion This surge of reliance on the larg- | This is less than Two ounces of - coal est of the fighting sips is even [dust to the linear fool of prdinary more significant when the rising cost | coal mine entry There of these great floating fortresses is ny coal mine entries, r considered | workings in which {Here According tv Capt. Jonas Ingram y of the United States navy, “Of all combatant ships the battleship is the only one designed to stay and "take it." Nothing else is tough enough For thet reason. battleships must keep pace win tha increasing of. fe fiveness of wilfire ami 83 MmMuny parame Fils gnsinkabiiv Steadily. £7, ita 4 cost is steadily mounting. The to | machine loading Gr undercutting ellhtr BOYS “BRAVEMAN" tél wana gr . OR \ ¢ latest type of | wercat!d ng i nerally Basuling by o * : 5 WM Ad KIN AV - Americen battleship under constr a horse produces greater alr Gostinens ae Bg : thu ely tion is 45.000 tons. lis main bats | does Mauling hy either Jooomo v JF All weal plaids, water repel series will carry 16-inch guns. and | oF. 2 , emi, A practitul gilt for your Cite motiaircralt guns have beer H re h " b sui, gad as reiterated : > yy ins 18 8. $4 95 He) Bassin Bloat) » a upped in caliber from three inches | yeBrs ¢ rock dusting or stering to five inches. i practices hculd be sed to allay dust It his been predicted by military | concluded is wmedy with the state stities thot naval sction would | ment thet both methids should be us bly decide 8 war in which Ger. | od for full effectiveiims. and fialy opposed Britain, | 1 said A 106 5 0 EBERT RE NN EE MONE EE TE NE NY RE NE EN Th Th J TR IER TN NT | SUCRE TRE I TG i A TN VR A Rv “Rock dusting aley has failed in| some instances. even in mines that | have done mace thu ordinarily well | rock dusted where thie work Bas Deen Sia sd, ] v 3 done inadequately if some places or | . | = am | - A —_—T3 ote bait ny sot kept in effect nt same places or | v J ¥ : " i a” (Third floor. ' urnder ome conditions | The Italian navy ranks third in der i " a Baroy #30 Fence neither pack dusting nor vie ah R17 pn. Germany, watering alone will prevent mine ex- Baild the a time to re plisioni Howeter JERper@nse iD he Worid rn — or sagt after the United States indicus thal a nbn the ernpire - 4 jams. This | ation of the te unguestionably gives to 1 Tority svar I Mlihost 8 1 ihe best protection now Known again Ww Wiaor the advurrence § widesnread EXD | : ges in toenzze Even if Russia | 0 disasters Cy A Bi add Ber 0380 fons 10 the {= oo nH pens : PLAID COATS rmas-italian side, the Brita | r sand Sra > 3 . ee 3% ox woolen Warm geod rani conbination would be sy TALK ON YOUR HEALTH bet! looking coal with sipper boud, by newly two 1 one. enn ASE Wines greems tod plaids, shes § - is Some Sound Advien by Medical Ass- : E tem $5.95 : scigtion on Wear Murmery in : 3 { Swccndl Dissit. 3 oF Art Is Good, Small Clijdren. | : Heart rrr in children, when | | seported, often give parents an agon- | § ) ne fing pain in Ghedr hearts ig 7 | @ ‘ARE a A large pivventage of 0 catied | BB a Nr ALL KINDS Beart murmers are i" no special sige SE ad EVE \ MEN'S JAC KETS 1 Many sre of only ininor Importance. But a comparativily few are mrious Jest surest i) shdren eur TE are cases i with which the bent is fo “ = = 3197 Bw
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