Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 259, 11 September 1918 — Page 3

WAYNE COUNTY SOLDIER WRITES THRILLING STORY "We were on the front five days and surely did make some drive." writes Clayburn McNutt, serving in France with an Infantry company, in a letter to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harmon McNutt. "Tell the boys." he adds, "that the last thing I saw of the Germans they were running toward Berlin, and the next time we go, we will go there too." The letter follows: ' August 3, 1918. Dear Folks at Home: It has been some time since I have got a letter from home, have only got one since I have been in France, so you may know I am anxious to hear from you, and find out how everything Is at home. We have been moving around bo much it is hard for letters to find us. Well, they didn't hold us boys long after we got over here, we were at the front in less than a month after we got here. We just got back, and I tell you I am lucky to be able to write you this letter. We were on the front Ave days and sure did make some drive. I wish I could tell you all about it, but you know that is impossible. There isn't any of the home boys in the same company with me, so 1 don't know whether they got through all right or not. I expect you have been looking for leters every -day; I wish I could write and get letters often, but you know we don't ajways have the chance. I expect I have a lot of letters on the way, but they may never find me. We are at a rst camp now and we pure enjoy resting, and being back where we can't hear those big guns. My experience since I have been in France is worth a lot, but some of it was anything but pleasant, but I do not mind that, if I ever get back. I have a lot of souvenirs which I got off the Dutchmen, I want to bring home with me. They haven't sot the sand to face us Americans. We would wade right through the machine gun fire when the bullets were coming like hall, and when we got within fifty yards of them you ought to see them run. I don't think there is very many of us who got back but what had bullet holes through his clothes some place. I got my helmet caved in once, and if It hadn't been for it. I wouldn t have been writing this letter, and I had a hole shot through my pack. It hit my mess kit and glanced off. Outside of a couple of blisters on my feet I am as good as ever and hope to return home some day and tell you all .'about it. and believe me, I will have something to tell. I hope this letter finds every one well, and I hope to stay here long enough to hear from you, for I sure would be glad to get a letter and hear some news from old Indiana once more. We haven't.been paid for three months but they issue us smoking so I don't need any money. I expect to get paid soon, thougn. I expect they are threshing the wheat around there now. There Is an awful lot of wheat and rye raised over here, but not any corn. The wheat isn't cut yet. The weather is fine over here; I don't expect it Is quite so hot as it is in Indiana. Tell the boys the last I saw of the Germans they were running toward Berlin, and the next time we go, we will go there too. I am sending in this letter a piece of German money I got from a harmless Dutchman. He was dead, though. I don't expect you can read this letter. I am siting on a wheelbarrow writing it." CKAYBURN G. McNUTT. Company K, 16th Infantry. A. E. F., France. Miss Shera Called to Teach in War School Miss Grace Shera, kindergarten teacher in this city, has been called to Nashville, Tenn., to teach in a kindergarten war school. Kindergartens are being established by the government near munition factories, so that children' may be taught while their parents are at work. Superintendent Giles received a call from the government for one teacher from here and Miss Shera was recommended for the position. She will take up her work at once. Alex Arch, South Bepd, Fired First U. S. Shot NEW YORK. Sept. 11. A letter to the Associated Press from Captain McLendon. Battery C. 6th Field Artillery, gives credit to Alex Arch, of South Bend. Ind., a sergeant In this unit, for firing the first shot fired by the American Expeditionary forces. Into the German lines, October 3. 1917. Under normal conditions Italy's perfi'me manufacturers annually consume 1.860 tons of orange blossoms and 1.000 tons cf roses. Arter each meal YOU eat one ATONSC rrorvauTStOMACHs sakO and get full food value and real stomach comfort. Instantly relieves heart barn, bloated, gassy faaliag, STOPS acidity, food repeating; and stomach misery. AIDS digestion; keeps the stomach sweet and pure. EATONIC la the bost rarnodr nd only emto cent or two m day to uh it. You will b oelishtad with reauh. Satisfaction guaiastaad wr uooty tack. F!aaM call and try it. A. G. Luken & Co., Distributors, FJchmcefi. led. .

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Christmas Spirit, But No Christmas Presents For U.S. Soldiers This Year

Unless present plans are greatly changed, no Christmas boxes can be sent to the American soldiers in France from home. One year must go by without the usual white tissue paper packages tied in red and green ribbons, because, from Wayne county alone more than 2,500 men will be in service by Christmas time, and allowing even as low a minimum as five pounds to each, it would amount at least to 12,500 pounds, or over six tons, from this one community. Multiplying that by thousands over this country one readily can see how shopping could become impossible by the congestion and the whole machinery, of military manoever would become clogged. Last year when there was a small number In France compared to this year, the Christmas shipping of nonessentials was even then so heavy that more than one hundred carloads of Christmas presents from America were In the depots and railroad yards as late as May of this year. But this does not mean that the American soldiers are to have no Christmas from home. Nothing means i as much to the boys as cheering Christmas letters. And besides letters, photographs, magazines, home-made joke books, money orders, and even such small articles as handkerchiefs enclosed in letters can be sent. Provision for sending actual gifts has been made by resourceful business men. Several of tho large stores in the cities have made arrangements with French business firms to fill mail orders in France and send the articles to the boys from Paris. In that way the danger of losses by submarines is eliminated, and the expense of shipping from America is saved. In sending papers and magazines, Soldier -Mechanics Supplies in U. (By Associated Press) AMERICAN PORT, Western France, Sept. 11. There is the crash and bang of a great cannonade, like a battery of trench mortars in action. But thi3 is not the cannonade of the battle front one hears here, but another kind of cannonade, almost as fierce and earsplitting, of trip-hammers, giant sledges and electric rivetters In the gigantic construction camp which has suddenly sprung into existence here. Standing in the vast workshops, about the dimensions of the capitol in Washington, with the throb of a great work going on inside and miles of activity stretching away outside in railway yards, warehouses, docks and camps, one feels this is after all quite as essential a part in the winning of the war as the struggle going on further forward, for here is the very fountain head of material for winning the war. There aiw great 320 millimetre cannon like the 12-inch monsters on American battleships, with all their ponderous mountings and trucks, huge 90-ton locomotives which are turned out with the incredible speed of six to ten a day, exceeding the output of the great establishments in America, and flat cars, freight cars, box cars, tank cars, and all the other forms of railway transortation turned out bv scores and hundreds daily as a udaer iuiuh uui taAro nuiu ius v.u. What has been most'astonlshing to the European observer is that all this vast storehouse of American energy and production could be created In a few months out ol practically nothing. Last fall the site of this present plant was a vast marsh with tho sea water over it at high tide. It was necessary first to raise the level of the ground five to nine feet. This was a huge undertaking in itself. When it was done, instead of a marsh with the sea lapping it, the astonished townspeople saw a high and level plane adjacent to the city, with big ocean piers beginning to stretch out seaward for the incoming migration of American men snd materials. Soon thereafter rose like magic the huge buildings to carry on the infinite diversity of activities of this hive of war Industry. 1,400 Men at Work. . Under the escort of Baron Domes, one of the chief French officials connected with the institution, The Associated Press correspondent had an opportunity today to see the huge enterprise in full swing. It was like going through the Bethlehem or Carnegie works, with the same roar of production on a giant scale, with furnaces glowing, hammers and riveters beating, and armies of workmen enlisted American soldiers in their blue jeans and overalls in their many branches Ul . . n, VI. mrnna of work. Inside the main building was like being inside the Pennsylvania station in New York, enlarged several times over. "There are 1,400 men at work here," explained the Baron, "all of them skilled American' mechanics enlisted aa soldiers, working in three shifts continuously for 24 hours." To the left big trench mortars, weighing a hundred tons each were being picked up by the giant fingers of a derrick and landed on their train cf trucks ready to be moved forward to the front. To the right another huge crane was bodily picking up a locomotive and passing It around to its proper place. These locomotives come from the United States in part racked in crates. Looking at the long rows of these giant crates, they seemed to be streets of cottages or shacks, and one wondered how they could ever be brought across the ocean with all the shifts and storing between docks. We watched one of these locomotives as It was taken from its seven giant boxes, and gradually grew into a massive engine. Soon thereafter this locomotive was moving through the yards on its own steam, and soon after that it was on its way to re-equip the State Railway of France, which is one of the vital links of the war game. First of all the American double track road up to the front was equipped, and then the French state railway took its turn, for they are all a part of the network of feeders for the allied war service.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM.

Postmaster Beck asks that citizens do not put more than two papers In a bundle, or one magazine, as the wrapping is so much harder to keep from tearing when large rolls are sent. General Harbord, commanding general of S. O. S., confirms the report that Christmas shipping from the United States cannot be allowed, for he says: "We will require all available tonnage for troops and war essentials. Much confusion and interruption of traffic ensued last winter because of the great number of Christmas packages. While the spirit back home is understood and appreciated, it is obvious that we must not add to the burdens that will be placed on 'shipping and transportation lines this winter." In view of this fact, the American boys in France are beginning already to plan for their Christmases on this basis, and instead of looking forward to having presents from home, are planning to turn into American Santa Clauses themselves and give the French people the most glorious Christmas they ever have known. Y. M. C. A. workers are arranging to have community Christmas tees in the little French villages and town nearest the camps in which they are stationed, and all the churches and even the city arks will be turned into American Santa Claus sub-statlcns. In the sections where there are large numbers of refugees - from Belgium, the American soldiers are planning to Joad the Christmas trees with useful presents for the unfortunate people, and- it will be safe to say that many an American Santa ' Claus in France will be happier in giving a Christmas to the French children than in sitting around camp wondering what he would ever do with that manicure set from Mabel. Turn Out S. Camps Overseas "We turn out six to ten complete locomotives a day," said the Baron, "and by September it will be twenty a day, the largest construction of the kind in the world." Now the Baron led the way to some of the detailed processes of the huge plant. Here was the boiler-testing plant. Steam was up and the big boilers were being tested after their voyage across the ocean to see if the sea water had opened any joints or loosened rivets. It was surprising, said the Baron, how well they stood the voyage with no loosening of parts, and practically perfect when they arrive. City Has Sprung Up. Besides the industry of such a huge concern, there is besides, the equipment of living quarters for the army of workmen-soldiers. Thus a goodsized sity has sprung up, with avenues and streets lined with barracks ,mess rooms, canteens, barber shops, dentists' offices, baths, and all activities of a flourishing frontier town. Beyond the shops and barracks are the great stretches of railway tracks and sidings, for this is the first step in the intricate system of transportation by which American troops and supplies "are moved to the front. When the Americans came here there were two tracks; now there is a network of 21 tracks. Hundreds of American engines and cars were moving over these lines as we went through the yards today, and some 40 newly completed locomotives just turned out at the near-by shops were starting on their way. And as these went out, long trains were bringing in more of the huge crates with the bodies and wheels and boilers, soon to be put together in this steady stream of vast war construction. Passing headquarters, word had just come by telephone that the German offensive had begun on an 80-kilometre front. Soon it passed from shop to shop, and the whole establishment was stirred and stimulated. Officers and men beamed at the thought that the fight was on, with a feling of confidence that knew no such thing as failure, and a feeling also that these soldier-workmen in their overalls were doing their part in winning the fight. Roland Walls Improving After Gas Attack Mrs. Mary Walls, mother of Frivate Roland Walls who was recently brought to a New York hospital following a gas attack, has returned to Richmond with the news that her son is much improved. Mrs. Walls wishes to extend thanks to those of the Starr Piano company, Mrs. Bowman, and others who made it possible for her to visit her son at the eastern hospital. TWiCE-TOLD TESTIMONY Richmond People Are Doing All They Can for Fellow Sufferers. Richmond testimony has been published to prove the merit of Doan's Kidney Pills to others in Richmond who suffer from bad backs and kidnev ills. Lest any sufferer doubt this evidence of merit, we produce confirmed proof statements from Richmond people who again endorse Doan's Kidney Pills confirm their former testimony. Here's a Richmond case: J. A. Williams, lumber mail, 221 S. Ninth St., gave the following endorsement in July, 1912: "Doan's Kidney Pills have done a lot of good in our family and we are glad to recommend them. I used Doan's when mv HH were weak and when my back was aching. They strengthened my kidneys and stopped the pains." On November 22, 1917, Mr. Williams eaid: "Doan's Kidney Pills are the best kidney rememdy I ever used. I know thev are worth a. trial hv nnvnna wno neeaa a good Kidney medicine. Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills the same that Mr. Williams had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfgrs.. Buffalo. N. Y. , ,

WITH THOSE 111 ARMY AND NAVY

This column, containing news of Richmond and Wayne county soldiers and sailors, will appear dally In the Palladium. Contributions will be welcomed. ' Perry C. Cox, a brother of Mrs. Russell Northcott of theis city, is .now stationed at a Naval Aviation Repair Base in England. "I never saw so many children in my life," writes Sergeant Leo Boyd to his wife in Greensfork. He Is - now encamped in France in a position from which ' the big guns -can be easily heard. He spoke of the industry of the women and girls in the shops and in the fields. "Well, I have no kick coming at all for I can buy cigarettes cheaper here than in the JJ. S. A." he said. "I am glad to say that I am with Company I, one of the best in France," said Perry Mass in a letter to his pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. William Mass, of 800 North G street. Mass stated that he was in the best of health, and said that he had just returned from church. "We have been having some rainy weather the last couple of days, but it is trying to clear up today. "I was away on a pass last Saturday. That was the first one I have had since I Joined this company. "Perhaps you have read of the good work being done by this company. We are now back from the front for a rest and only hope it a long one. I have been over the top three times, and am still able to go again if necessary." Mrs. Ozro Baldwin of 300 North Eighteenth street has been notified of the transferral of her son from the 16 Infantry Co., First A. E. F. to head quarters company, Classification camp. A. P. O. No. 727. Since the first of July he has been in different hospitals suffering from the effects of a gas at tack, but has now been assigned to work in the office of the headquarters company. Mrs. Carl Wickemeyer has received word that her brother, Ora Carter has reached the "other side" safely. He was formerly with the Adams Express Company In Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cully received word Wednesday that their son, Pri vate Darrell B. Cully, has arrived safe ly overseas. Cully enlisted in the medical corps two months ago and had been located at Allentown, Pa. Kenneth Davis, son of the Rev. and Mrs. E. E. Davis, has arrived safely overseas, according to a card received today by his parents. He is located at Base Hospital, 63. Eugene Hay has arrived safely overseas, according to information re ceived by his father and. mother, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hay. He is in a Field Artillery company. RoilpflONOR Army casualties issued in two sec tlons Wednesday show: Missing in action, 112; wounded severely, 236; died of wounds, 72; died in accident, 2; died of disease, 12; wounded, 36; total, 642. Marine corpB casualties show: Killed in action, S; died of wounds, 5; died of disease, 1; wounded severely, 4; wounded in action, 6; total, 24. Indiana men named are: Frank Lichtenfels, Richmond; John Elmer Jackson Indianapolis; Alva Robbins, Laurel, Alvin LaVelle, Indianapolis; Jacob C. Fox, Charlestown, killed in action; Sam Chambers, Sanders, Lawrence Mulvey, Hammond; Henry Herman Obermeyer, Lafayette, died of I wounds; Andrew J. Goodman, English, George Phillips, Terre Haute; James Potesta, Indiana Harbor, Rex Boyer, Edwardsport, Herbert A. Strupp, Evansvllle, Theodore Riley, Newcastle, Americans Know a Good Thing Trust the People to Find Out What Is Good for Them All over the country folks are learning that after the long hard winter's pull, lack of green food and fresh air, they are usually run down,- have no appetite, are nervous and in bad shape generally. Spring to them is a season to be dreaded, their thin, watery, poisoned, clogged blood and weak nerves robs them of all ambition or desire to work and takes the pleasure out of life. For such men and women doctors are recommending Phosphated Iron which goes to the very roots of all blood impurities and nervous troubles. They claim it helps purify the blood by making it over anew, while the way it relieves tired, fagged out nerves is almost too good to be true. The confidence that the American people and prominent doctors have shown in Phosphated Iron, while remarkable, is not surprising, as it is one of those honest preparations that never disappoints. As a man said in recommending to his neighbor, "It's results that count, and you can bank on Phosphated Iron, it is the 'goods,' everyone that tries it is a booster, it sure did put me on my feet when I was almost down and out." Every man, woman and child that has thin, watery, impure blood, no strength, or appetite,, weak nerves and is all played out generally, . can. come back strong, be a live one once again, enjoy restful sleep and get up facing the world with a smile if they will try Phosphated Iron, the red blood and nerve builder. To insure physicians and their patients getting the genuine Phosphated Iron we have put in capsules only; do not take pills or tablets. Insist on capsules. Conkey Drug Co. and leading druggists everywhere. Adv.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 11, 1918.

"I Want to Pay My Debt to This Country," Writes Polish Soldier

Appreciation of a cheering letter. even when it is sent by a stranger, is expressed by . the soldiers who are serving with the American forces. Many of the men of foreign birth, who are giving their services cheerfully to their adopted country, have no rela tives and few friends lot America, and are therefore all the more pleased to receive a letter -from some kindly American mother. The following letter was received by a Richmond mother from a Polish soldier who enlisted in the American army, "to pay his debt to this country." as he states it: "I received your letter and was more than glad to know that somebody, although a total stranger to me, cares and is willing to cheer me up. You . probably have learned what a letter from home or friend means to a soldier in camp and especially in France, but there are many boys like myself that have nobody to write to them, for they come from Europe and the United States 13 their adopted country. " I will give you now in short my life story. I am a Pole, born in Poland under the Austrian government. Some people think that Poles from that part of Poland are Austrlans, but but it is not so. Polish people like liberty, which was not granted to them under the German and Austrian governments, and that is the principal reason why myself and others immigrate to the country where the government's slogan is "of the people, by the people, for the people." I came to this country in July, 1912, at the age of 17 and landed in the harbor of New York. I did not know anybody. I got an address to a Polish family in New York, and was shown the way to their home by some agent. In a few days I was able to get work in a New York Department store unpacking boxes. A few months later I obtained a position in a Polish newspaper office and Tony Raskewici, LaPorte, George McGill Fort Wayne, Shirrell Morris, Dublin, Alfred R. Roesener, Bremen, Walter Ohneck, Fort Wayne, wounded severely; Howard P. Burton (marine corps) Vevay, John F. Talley, Kentland, wounded: Ora L. Adams, Dana, John Minch, Matthews. Ray B. Hinchman, North Vernon, James R. Nees, Poland, William E. Nevins, Rockville, Robert Newlin, Bloomingdale William A. Ratliff, Martinsville, missing in action. Ohio men named are: Charlie Pletraszak, Toledo. Seamon P. Whealon, 1 Cleveland, Clare Kent Eggleston, Aurora, killed in action; Harold E. Crawford, Cleveland, Charles E. Slocum, Toledo, James H. Merritt, Camp, died of wounds;. John B. Hazeltlne, Conneaut, died of disease; Carl Johnson, Cleveland, Irvin A. Sukep, Bucyrus, Isaac Finley Bates, Caldwell, Anghll Gligarla, Chicago Junction, Howard H. Nelson (marine corps) Cleveland, wounded severely; Lieut. Oscar I. Strickland, Portsmouth; Earl C. Elliott, Coshochton, Lieut. A. L. Simms, Groveport (marine corps), Allen P. Darby, Vermillion, (marine corpB), wounded ; Joseph C. Bixler. Navarre, George Austin McGee, Cleveland, Ernest Schilling, Cleveland, missing in action.

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was employed there until the American declaration of war against Germany. I enlisted July 28, 1917 in New York City, and was sent to the Field Rakerv Co. 15. at Gettysburg, - Pa.

From there I was assigned to Camp Shelby for training and am still here with my company awaiting orders to go 'over there.' "I am nroud to be an American citi zen and a member of the most brave and democratic army in ' the world. Enlisting in the army,' I want to pay my debts to this country, because in mv oninion the only way to that is to offer myself and be together with the Americans, who are so willingly and nobly sacrificing themselves for the cause that is understood only by free people. "I'd like to tell you that I appreciate very much your interest and sympathy for the boys in khaki. I assure von that I shall always have in mem ory that somebody back home is think ing about us. Very sincerely. Sergeant A. Komusinskl. Bakery Co. 303, Camp Selby, Miss. Mints of the United States are located at Philadelphia, Pa., San Francisco, Cal., and Denver, Colo. Ud ad at 'em boys and girls! Buy your War Savings Stamps now!

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ENEMY OWNED PLANT GOES ON THE BLOCK (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Sept 11 The German owned machinery manufacturing . plant of the Orenstein-Arthur Koppel company of Koppel, 1a.. taken over some months ago by the alien property custodian, will be sold at public auction tomorrow and the proceeds invested in Liberty bonds. It is the fipst plant taken over by the government to be put on the auction block. The company operated as a branch of a Berlin corporation. Only American citizens will be allowed to buy the Orestein-Arthur Koppel company, said the announcement by Alien Property Custodian Palmer, and when the sale is formally consummated it will mark its transformation from a 100 per cent German owned concern, into 100 per cent American business corporation. For Dvsoebsia. Indigestion Heartburn. Belchins. Sour Acid Stomach. Gaa In Stomach, etc., take a teaspoonful of Blsurated Masmesla In a half g-laas of hot water after eating:. Is safe, pleasant and harmless to us and Rives almost Instant relief. It neutralizes stomach acidity and sweetens the food contents so that digestion is easy and painless. Sold by druggists everywhere. Adv. A Nmm Stmrr EJmim Bahmt -Author '!$ 17"