Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 282, Decatur, Adams County, 27 November 1929 — Page 6

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FRANCE HUNTED FOR BODIES OF 1,200 DOUGHBOYS Efforts Contine To Identify Americans In Unmarked Graves By Ralph Helnzen VP Staff Correspondent Purls. Nov. 27 -(UP —Twelve Inin- <)*'<! American doughboys still lie In unmarked graves scattered across the cold hills of France from the Channel to the Vosges. Identification parlies are still searching these lost graves and hardly a week passes without one or more bodies being found. Os the 130.265 men in ithe armed forces of the United States who died daring the World War, 30,794 are now buried in the American military cemeteries abroad. Twenty-seven bodies found in lost graves during the summer by searching parties, have been transferred to the war cemeteries for burial in ithe alignment of white crosses. In the eight war cemeteries, the number of American soldiers dead buried today follows: Meuse-Argonne, Romagne . 14.151 Oise-Aines, Seringes . ... 6,010 St. Miheel. Thiaucourt 4.151 Aisne-Marne, Belleau 2.270 Somme. Bony . . 1.829 Sureanes. Paris ... 1,534 Brookwood. England 453 Flanders Field, Belgium ... 366 Every Grave Marked Every grave is marked now with a permanent marker, either a cross or a star of David in white Carrara marble. The graves of unidentified soldiers, numbering about one half of' nne per cent of the total burials, are I marked with stones bearing the in-1 scription: “Here lies in honored glorv an American soldier known but to God.” The work of finding lost graves is growing more difficult with time. In the first few years after the war, bodies were found in woods or turn- . ed up by plows of farmers as they teclaimed the battlefields for their crops. Searching parties continue their work, however, except during the harvest season. These workers possess complete charts which enable them to identify bodies even though they have been buried for more than eleven years. Information relatives to unlocated dead is generally received voluntarily , through some comrade in arms who recalls perhaps from a magazine or' newspai < articles after several j years, ti proximate spot at which i a soldier . s killed or where he was ‘ buried. This work is carried out under the Investigation and Research Branch of this service, which obtains all information possible from relatives and | from other sources, generally send- , ing to the person giving the information a contour map and requesting that the location and a diligent search is made, generally with success. No definite identification is made unless it is positive and this is done finally! from the office of the quartermaster i general in Washington. Tooth Charts Identify A complete system of forms and charts is kept, both in this office and in Washington, and positive, identification (after preliminary identification by means of parts of uniform, personal belongings, identification tag and so forth) is generally made from tooth charts or from certain peculiarities known to have existed, such as broken or fractured bones and so forth. Identification and searching parties are working at present, principally in the Meuse Argonne sector and in the Chateau Thierry-Soissons sector, but are moved to other sectors whenever information is received. Helpful information is received from French, British and German authorities. The bodies of unidentified soldiers when 1 found are kept in the morgue at the nearest military cemetery until every means of identification has been exhausted. If identification is finally unsuccessful, the body is buried as an unknown soldier. No cases are known to exist where itliere has been I any doubt as to identification as an ' American soldier.

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Special Lutheran Church Announcement Thanksgiving day will lie observed| at the local Lutheran church with special services in the morning. The 1 special service is scheduled at 10 a.m. A cordial invitation is extended to i anyone who may be Interested. The i collection will be special, which is intended for the Indigent student fund of this district. A Thanksgiving Prayer () Lord, whose bounteous hand again Hath poured Thy gifts iti plenty down, Who all creation dost sustain And all the earth with goodness crown: Lord of the harvest, here we own Our joy Thy gift, and Thine alone. O may we ne'er with thankless heart Forget from whom our blessings flow: Still. Ixird, Thy heavenly grace impart Still teach us what to Thee we owe. Lord, may our lives with fruit divine Return Thy care, and prove us Thine. Q Decatur Girls Will Meet Garrett Friday Decatur high school girls, basketball team will play Garrett high school here Friday night, it was announced today. The preliminary game will start at 7 o'clock and the big game wiH get underway at 8 o'clock. The public is invited. o Frisco the Older City Denver was settled by miners It 1858. The first settlement on the sit of San Francisco began on October '■ 1774, - - - —o WANTED —Local and long d'etance trucking of all kinds. Fay Guilder. Phone 690-K. 282t3x

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, NOYEMBER 27, 1929

PROGRAMS ARE ANNOUNCED BY MANY CONCERNS (CONTINUED FROM PAGK OXKI is listed as the largest spender, the company stating the Bell system authorize a total of $700,009,000 for constr.uction throughout the country. The state of New York, it is estimated, will spend 3250,000,000, the Pennsylvania railroad $200,000,000, and the federal government not far under $1,000,000,000. The state of Illinois will spend $114,000,000. The following table shows prospective expenditures by some of the country's leading corporations and railroads: American Telephone & Telegraph $700,000,000 Pennsylvania Railroad 200.000,000 Commonwealth & Southern 77.500,000 U. S. Steel Corp 75,000,000 New York Central 75,000,000

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Chicago ,<■ Northwestern 70,000,000 L Standard Gas Ai Electric 63.700,000 Utilities Power and Light 60,000,000 Union Pacific 60.000,000 Chicago, Rock Wand & Pacific 59.000,000 Southern Pacific .. 50,000,000 All others 3.259,800.000 Total industrial and It.ulrond ■ $4,750,000,000 Most of tlie industrial and railroad budgets have been obtained from official estimates by the companies them- ' selves, although a few of the larger companys budgets, not reported, have been based on last year's expenditures, giving a conservative estimate. ', In most cases, next year's construction programs eclipse and others on record. Since publication of President 1 ' Hoover's message to various goverI nors. the following states have esti--1; mated their 1930 budget. Those not 'reporting actual figures expressed I I their willingness to co-operate with

the government. New York $750,009,000 Pennsylvania 155.000.000 Illinois 114,000,000 Missouri 87,500,000 New Jersey . ... 35,000,000 Minnesota 35,000,000 Tciiik'ssim' uno.mm | (>wa ::|,iiim.min Arkansas M,W0,000 Kentucky .. 28.000.000 Ohio 25.000.000

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South Carolina 23,000,000 . Virginia 18.000.000 , ' Nebraska 16,500,000 , 1 New Mexico .... 15,300,000 ' Maryland 9.500.000 1 New Hampshire ... 6.500.000 ' Montana. 6.000,000 ' ' Ni'Viulii 1,500,000 ' All others 500,000,000 ' Total $1,021,800,000 ;l - 1 Dr. Burt Mangold, Miss Helen <!ray<

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