Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 175, 6 May 1919 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND 'PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM - TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1919.

MAJOR MARKLEY DESCRIBES HAVOC CAUSED BY BIG SHELLS 111 FRAIIGE

I HE after-war appearance of

certain devastated districts ot France .Is described In a recent letter from Major Stephen S. Markley in a letter to Mrs. Markley of this city. Major Markley now has charge of a large

medical division in mutilated western France. He visits the military hospitals of that district." "I started last Tuesday morning In a large ambulance to innoculate against typhoid the military police in several towns, and Just got back at noon today. I took Lieut. Makay with me; the -driver and an orderly. We took our bedrolls, besides some rations. Went to St. Menehold. Chalons, and on to Epernay. Near Epexnay we had an accident. . Just as we approached a place where a Jot of Indo-French Chinamen were they kicked a small thirteen-gallon tank of gasoline right out in front .of our car. The driver could not. stop soon enough and we tan over It, throwing the car off tha road, and almost upsetting It. We finally jammed up against a French truck and found our radiator smashed, the steering gear bent and other parts injured. ; The car was useless. -Shell Hole In Bed Room

"On Friday night I stayed at Epr

nay. and on Wednesday night at Cha

teau-Thierry. The hotel there was full and we got a room with a private family; slept in a room a German shell

.had come through. The wall was .broken and the shell had passed directly through a panel of the door. The Germans had also occupied the . house later, and we were shown some . picture frames in the parlor which the . oil paintings had been cut from, and the painting taken. Two big mirrors had also been broken. "Next morning we went to Belleau Woods where you will remember, our marines stopped the German advance : early in the war. and where they put up such a heroic battle. There aro 162 marines buried there on one Bide of the woods. Probably there are more on the other side, but we did not go there. The trees are full of bullets and some have been cut off by bursting shells. '. v Visits Paris

V "We then continued our trip on to Paris, arriving there about noon. In j -the afternoon we went sight-seeing in "end about Paris and then went to Versailles which is a very beautiful place. There is a wonderful palace and garden, but one must see it to appreciate the beauty. A word of description could not convey the proper idea. That night we went to a theater in Paris and then the next morning started on our journey again. "I went to Beuvais, about eightylive kilometers northweBt of Paris. After finishing my work there, we continued northeast to Amiens. There are about 300 American troops there, Ibut the town Is mostly occupied by the English. This is in their area. We stayed all night there. Amiens has a splendid cathedral, one of the .largest and most famous in France. The town was shelled badly by the Germans but most of the windows were taken out of this cathedral and secreted before this took place. The Sommer river flows : through this town and is broken up into several channels which find their way through the middle of the town. In some places the houses are built up close to ' the stream on one side, and the street is on the other side. - Each family goes into the house from the street over a little footbridge. In peace times, Amiens had about 80.000 or 90,00 Inhabitants. Next morning, we

continued east and reached Perronne. It evidently used to be a nice town, but not now. It is Bhot to pieces. We next reached Roisel where we atae dinner. Roisel has no houses. A few people live in temporary wooden structures. "We had taken with us bread, canned beans, canned weinners. sardines and cheese and drinking water. It is a good thing we did for we did not see a restaurant or hotel during the whole day's travel. "Next we reached St. Quentln, a

o bad as' some farther north. The famous cathedral here was damaged badly. I was In this cathedral and saw where the big shells had come through. Rheims In peace times had about 110,000. Now there axe only about 9,000 here. The inhabitants are

moving back as fast as they can get houses fixed up. We stayed all night there and arrived back home Sunday

noon.

"You note that Mr. Griest who mar

ried Miss Hutton, was operating In the Verdun sector, and that she ifas with her husband over there. I Inspected all over this area. Maybe I can find them, and be able to see some Rich mond people. The Quakers are build

ing houses and helping the French farmers plow their fields In this part

ot the country. We also have labor battalions of our own troops working all over this area, reconstructing the

army officers. .. " "I have just heard that this hospl

tal Is expecting to close In about three

weeks and orders have been received

not to accept any more patients.

When this hospital finally, closes out and Is disbanded, I wonder what will be In store for me? How I wish that this would be my last station, and after finishing here, I could come

home. - . But there are . so many

U. S. troops over here yet, and they

will need doctors, that I may not be

so fortunate as to come home so early.

but I do hope it will be within the

next few months, at least."

Victory Gardens

Neff Describes Difficulties in

Getting Rail Supplies For A., E. F.

' Lieutenant Colonel Nettleton Neff,, formerly a resident of Richmond, in -a letter to John L. Rupe tells of expert-

ences encountered in France, where he

took a large part In the management of. the railroads for the American Expeditionary Forces.- He has been highly praised for the work he did - in France as a member of the Sixteenth Engineers. ' Lieutenant Colonel Neff was an engineer before coming ' to Richmond. He came here as superintendent of the Pennsylvania railroad, and later went to Cincinnati. He is now living in Chicago. ' The letter In part is as follows: "We sailed from New York August 1, 1917. Upon landing at Liverpool, another captain and myself, with a detail of sixty enlisted men," were assigned to travel separated from the regiment to our unknown destination In France, Is-sur-Tille. north of Dijon, via Southampton, Havre, Rouen, Chaumont and Langres, to care for and handle the regimental supplies. camp and motor equipment and engineering material and tools. - As our regiment, the 16th

Engineers (Ry.) was Intended for railroad construction and maintenance, this was no cinecure, but Involved much hard work. Interest, however, was not lacking. "With the 16th Engineers my job? were that of engineer officer of material and tools, disbursing officer and purchasing officer for the large majority of the lumber, nails, tools, forges steel, etc. This brought me Into intimate touch with the French business men of the building supply trade and I had with them some strange experiences. For instance, one lumber dealer attempted to form a combination against me; another sold me tongued and grooved pine which much to my surprise had come from Arkansas. It was necessary to play hido and seek with the French minister of materials who promptly stopped my further purchases from any firm without previous permission, whenever such Individual purchases were too large in his estimation. The way around this was to have a sufficient number - of supply firms for each material needed, and take from each every day, sucri amount as would not attract any attention, but still fill in tho aggregate our requirements. "My last experience with the regiment was to initiate the organization and operation of the Is-sur-TIlle De-

;-i(j!W,H-; pot for army supplies and materials lor Colonel Jackson of the Engineers' line of communications, "and operate it until his own organization could be perfected.. In November the railway transportation corps was being organized and tho army then in France was combed to secure men with ex

perience. Two officers of our regi

ment were selected and received promotions and I was one of the lucky ones. ' - - Locate Camp Sites.

."In the railroad transportation corps

my first alignment after two days at headquarters in Paris and ten days inspecting and observing the work at Nantes and St. Nazaire, was that of representing the general manager of transportation at and in the vicinity of Bordeaux, where it was necessary to establish and maintain a thorough and active liason between' the Americans

and French, especially while our own railway yards and docks were under construction. Colonel Clavel of the French service of Pons and Chasses

proved himself -a wonderful diplomat in his management of us all and of the entire port at Bordeaux. After getting this situation well in hand I was assigned in January, 1918 to the preparation of estimates for our railroad operating personnel to be enlisted on this side and sent over to JYance. . In February I assisted in establishing the car record bureau in Tours, which was to cover not only our own car lines, but all the strategic railway centers in west central France, and also the locations oi American activity. Next in latter February and March came the selection of camp sites by a committee of three, representing the chief engineers and our motive power and transportation departments, I representing the latter. The camp sites were for our railway

operating troops. .

"In March I was assigned to my U'g job of organising and putting into effect, pur train operations between Bon deaux and Cercy-la-Tour. east of Neyers. The central section was almost entirely of one per cent gradients and crossed two important water sheds, Limoges river and the river Vienne in the middle. This- kept me busy for six months, and. was absorbing because .of the comparatively strange methods of train operation to which we must "accommodate ourselves, and the-consequent condition of not being

caught up with the requirements, since everything everywhere habitually exceeded our growing anticipations. "Our personnel on the Bordeaux Bourses line began in March with One captain, two stenographers and myself and ended in October with about 3,(00

men ana omoers. French Contradictory "After October spent a month doing special work of investigation on the P. L. M. railway line between Dijon, southward to Caraeilles and Toulin, through Macon, Lyons, Valence, Avignon, and Miramas which we Intended to operate over under trackage rights and were about ready to begin

when the armistice was signed. But it was a great pleasure to me in that it gave me something ot an entirely different part of France, quite as charming .in its own way down the valleys of the rivers Saone and Rhone and along the Mediterranean between Toulon and the Spanish border, where we were receiving much material by water and rail from America and from points In Spain. "Finally after the armistice came a month in Paris and when Paris is mentioned nothing more need be said. It was simply delightful. I shall not attempt any dissertation on the French character or French characteristics both are too complicated. I was there too short a time and the times were unusual to say the least. The French

were to us, working as we were among and with them, at times extremely Irritating and almost maddening (doubtless we impressed them the same way) and at other times the reverse was true. They showed us their great ability, abounding joy of life and gracious charm. .They exhibited atrange qualities and seeming contradictions, and many of their points of view we never succeeded in grasping entirely

and some not at all. The Frencn uve deeply. " move In ' a atmosphere of

pleasure, and enjoy- substantial .quiet and content." - ,

Richmond Man Leader Of G.A, R. Encampment George Mathews, of Richmond, commander of the division of Indiana Sons' of Veterans, wil be one of the leaders at the annual encampment of

the Indiana department of the Grand Army of the Republic and all allied organizations to be held at Elkhart, Indiana, this week. . Hundreds of visitors are expected to attend Many persons from Richmond went Tuesday morning. THUGS WEAR ARMY UNIFORM CHICAGO. May 6. Four youths in army uniforms held up the Austin Savings bank today and escaped with 8,-

518. They overlooked 14.000 in cash and an equal amount In Liberty bonds. -

IF HAIR IS TURNING GRAY, USE SAGE TEA Don't look Id! Try Grandmother's recipe to darken and beautify faded, streaked hair.

A GAKDEN'LL FIX YOU Take the doctor's tip and get into the garden says the National War Garden Commission, of Washington. "Here's how to increase the size of that pay envelope" this is virtually what one manufacturing concern says to its workers every time it gives them their wages. One message which this company, the Berkshire Knitting Mills, ot Reading. Penna., has printed on its pay' envelopes urges the men to plant gardens and thus help to knock out the H. C of L. The company which is cooperating with the National War Garden Commission of Washington in encouraging Victory Garden planting this year, says to its employes f "The war . is wonbut gardening Is not done I Everywhere you look the high cost ot living greets you. Don't forget that the vegetables you raise yourself will taste much better than those you buy at a high price. Hundreds of manufacturing concerns throughout tho United States have discovered the value of aiding their men in home and community gardening! and as one report to the National War Garden Commission said It has been the means ot "turning good workmen into better workmen." Factory gardening has been one ot the biggest phases of the commission's patriotic work. Any workman or any other person in the United States can get one of the Commission's free garden booklets by simply writing for it, enclosing two-cent stamp for postage.

A MISTAKE MADE BY MANY Don't wait for rheumatism to indi

cate diseased kidneys. When you suffer pains and aches by day and sleep disturbing bladder weakness by night, feel tired, nervous and run down, the

kidneys and bladder should be re

stored to healthy, strong and regular

action. It is a mistake to DostDone

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kidneys in sound healthy condition and keep them active and sfong. Be

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nice town but shot, to pieces like the

rest On the way here we passed the i f n .pni:rv fn pnr;Hr fammi Hlndenbur line. In fact we jaP 'OllCy III rOCHIC

famous Hindenburg line. In fact we

paralleled this line for quite a distance. He used the natural defenses of the country along this line and heavily fortified them. His boast waa that the allied armies would never be able to break it. They did break it, however, and now old 'Hindy' and the kaiser are out of a job. are exiles and

I hope will get the just punishment that is due them. "When one passes through this wasted desolate country, it does not seem like the world, but like some sort of inferno; towns gone, no people there: no cattle in the fields, or horses along the roads; no wheat fields showing green at this time of the year. The trees have been cut down or shot to pieces. Ammunition boxes are strewn along the roads. Piles of unused shells, big and little, everywhere. Helmets and rusty rifles are seen so often that they hardly cause comment Another sight that is very familiar is the greaffTumber of white crosses along the roads and In the fields marking the places where so many brave men fell and are buried. The fields are full ot shell holes apd tangled barbed wire. fWe next came to Rheims. This town is quite badly shot up but not

Alarms New Zealander

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, May

6. Sir J. Allen, the acting premier,

in a statement as quoted by Reuter's

correspondent declared that he view

ed developments In the Pacific with

some alarm. It was difficult, he said

to discover why Japan wanted the Marshall islands, unless she wished to

dominate the Pacific.

It is impossible to indicate New

Zealand's naval policy, added the act

ing premier, until Admiral Jellicoes

advice was received on his approaching visit. It would be insufficient in his opinion, for New Zealand to pay a yearly subsidy. She must train men

for the British navy.

LEMON JUICE FOR FRECKLES

Girls! Make beauty lotion for a few cents Try Itt

Squeeze the Juice of two lemoni Into a bottle containing three ouncei 3f orchard white, shake well, and you have a quarter pint of the best freckle

una tan lotion, and complexion beautifler, at very, very small cost. Your grocer has the lemons and my drug store or toilet counter will supply three ounces of orchard white for a few cents. Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion into the face, neck, r.rms and hands each day and see how freckles and blemishes disappear and how clear, soft and roBy-white the skin becomes. Yes! It Is harmless tnd never irritates. Adv.

GROWING DEAF WITH HEAD NOISES? TRY THIS

DON'T BE BALD

If you are growing hard of hearing and fear Catarrhal Deafness, or if you have roaring, rumbling, hissing noises in your ears go to your druggist and get 1 ounce of Parmint "double strength) and add to it pint of hot water and a little granulated sugar. Take 1 tablespoonful tour times a day. This will often bring quick relief from the distressing head noises. Clogged nostrils should , open, breathing become easy and the mucus stop dropping into the throat It is easy to prepare, costs little and is pleasant to take. Anyone who is threatened with Catarrhal Deafness, or who has head noises, should give this prescription a trial. Adv.

That beautiful, even shade of dark, glossy hair can only be had by brewing a mixture ot Sage Tea and Sulphur. Your hair Is your charm. It makes or mars the face. When, it fades, turns gray or streaked, just an application or two of Sage and Sulphur enhances its appearance a hundredfold. Don't bother to prepare the mixture ; you can -get this famous old recipe improved by the addition of other ingredients at a small cost all ready for use. It Is called Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound. This can always be depended upon to bring back the natural color and lustre of your hair. Everybody uses "Wyeth's" Sage and Sulphur Compound now because it darkens so naturally and evenly that nobody can tell it has been applied. You simply dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through the hair, taking one small strand at a time; by morning the gray hair has disappeared, and after another application it becomes beautifully dark and appears glossy and lustrous. Adv.

How to Make Hair Grow Strong,

: Thick and Lustrous. Few of us get bald in a day and we all have ample warning when our hair is thinning out. . Parisian sage is a most efficient hair invigorator, but to Immediately stop any further loss of hair and quickly start a new. growth it must be rubbed into the scalp so the starved hair roots can really absorb it and get the" vital' stimulation so badly needed. You will surely be delighted with the first application, for- your hair and scalp should look and feel 100 per cent better. ' Parisian cage is not expensive. It's a scientific preparation that supplies all hair needs a clean, non-sticky, antiseptlc liquid that is Bold at drug and toilet counters everywhere with guarantee to give you perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Good looking hair is half the battle in any man's or woman's personal appearance. Neglect means dull, thin, lifeless hair and finally baldness while a little attention now insures thick

and lustrous hair for years to come, t

KO matter wnai your aair irouDie3 try a Parisian sage massage tonight you will not be disappointed. Adv.

"MOTHER'S DAY" We are bountifully supplied with lovely and beautiful flowers of many kinds for Mother's Day. There are thousands of White Carnations, sacred to the memory of a departed Mother. Beautiful Columbia Roses and Premiers, Sweet Peas, Calendulas, etc., are all appropriate for your Mother. Another thing you must not forget: "Say it with Flowers." Quick delivery all over the continent by the F. T. D. LEMON'S FLOWER SHOP

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DECIDES TO BE A LIVE ONE

Young Man Gomes Back

One of our young men sure has come to the front in short order and nil friends are at a loss to understand his untiring- -enerry and ability to work

and get results, where only a few

weeks before he seemed to be all run

down and almost a nervous wreck.

Questioned by a curious friend as to the cause of the sudden change, he said: "I sure was In bad shape and no one knew it better than I did. It had my roat for fair. I was all In and my nerves shot to pieces with worriment

ana sleepless ntg-nts. one nay I overheard a customer tellina what Phos-

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could not get a. supply quick, enough. "That's the whole story. Just Phosphated Iron. My poor tired overworked nerves just seemed to be Phosphatehungry, the way they took hold of it, and aay what a relief. I felt like a new man. Could sleep at night, and get up In the morning feeling like a two-year-old. Believe me, I had some appetite too. my weight increased rapidly, my face filled out and had the color of perfect health that only goes with pure

oiooa, weu lea wun iron. "You can bet I am strong for Thornphated Iron. Everyone who tries It ia a booster. "Do you know even the doctors are prescribing It; trust them to get next to a good thing". ,

Special Notice: To Insure doctors and

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