Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 183, 15 May 1919 — Page 20
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM THURSDAY, MAY 15, 19i9.
MILLIONS SPENT ON PHONE WIRES FOR USE IN WAR
20,000 Miles a Month of Special Wire Turned Out in United States. (Br Associated Press) . WASHINGTON. May 15. Official reports on Signal Corps equipment for the war show that one special form of telephone wire, unknown to commercial use before the war, was being turned out at the rate of 20,000 miles a month at a cost of nearly $3,000,000 when the armistice was signed. The American telegraph and telephone system in France totaled 96,000 miles when the fighting ended, this being the- semi-permanent Installations. When fighting was at its peak the corps was approximating the use of 68,000 miles of outpost wire a month In addition, one development of the war being the necessity for two wire circuits for front line operations to
prevent the enemy from "listening" In
on the old style single wire equipment. "Wire wastage - was enormous, as it had to be abandoned whenever an advance was made.
Indiana News Brevities
BICKNEIXr After mourctng for his
three sons whom he believed killed in the fighting in France, Robert Mo
Swan has received a letter from one of the three, John McEwan. The three boys enlisted with England's first con
tingent la 1914. COLUMBUS OrvUle Brown. 11, threw a bucket of grease into a fire In a garage and his clothes caught fire from the resulting explosion. Before bystanders could put out the blaze, he was seriously burned. LAWRENCEB URQ The first distinctively vocational agricultural and home economic school In the state will be established at Moo res Hill following the gift of the Moores Hill college buildings to the county. Two-thirds of the expense of the school will be paid by the United States department of agriculture. MUNCTE Fire destroyed the Big Four freight Btation here with a loss estimated at from $50,000 to $75,000. The flames are thought to have originated from spontaneous combustion. ANDERSON Pleading guilty to assault and battery upon Sparks L. Brooks, former city attorney, J. H. Mettet, former mayor, was fined $150 and costs In city court. The trouble arose over a business transaction. EVAN S VTLLE Joe Kissinger, 53 years old, who says he has served long prison sentences, gave himself up at police headquarters here, saying he was wanted for robberies in Cincinnati and Indianapolis.
JEFFERSONVILLE Jacob Schllct
er, well-to-do farmer, Is held to circuit, court under $1,000 bond for the alleged stealing of a box of merchandise "planted" by officers in the mailbox of a neighbor, following a number of mail-box thefts in the neighborhood.
BLOOMINGTON Len S. Field, 69 years old, president of the Field Glove
companies of this city and Blooming-
ton, died at his home here. He is sur
vived by the widow and by a son and
daughter.
LINTON Linton is without tele
phone service following a strike of
the operators for higher wages and
shorter hours. It is said that the
company offered higher wages, but not
enough to meet demand. -
ANDERSON Despondency over illness is thought to have caused the
suicide of Joseph Llneberry, 50 years
old, who took poison. He is survived
by a widow and a family.
MINERS KILLED BY EXPLOSION
(By Asoclated Press)
BRUSSELS, May 15. An explosion
and fire damp in a mine at Hyon-Ciply,
rear Mons, yesterday, resulted in death and injury to a number of miners. Five dead and seventeen severely Injured have already been taken out of the mine.
BACK TO THE SIMPLE LIFE
QUIET COURAGE OF U. S. DOUGHBOY PRAISED BY K. OF C. SECRETARY
J. L. Pender, who has been a Knights
of Columbus secretary in France and I
Belgium lor seven - months, has re
turned to his borne in this city. Mr.
Fender was attached to the 161st regi
ment. 91st division. In the whole di
vision there were six secretaries.
He met the 361st division when they
came out of the Argonne. They were
In a terrible condition, he said, and in relating Incidents he said one man
came out with his first aid box com
pletely snaixerea Dy sneii. He saia that was the only thing that saved him. Another man came out In a uni
form sizes too small for him. Pender said he asked why he did not have a uniform that fitted him and he replied he had stolen the one he had on. The boy went on to explain that he had
been in a hospital and in order to get back to his own outfit had stolen the
uniform.
Mr. Pender was in two offensives at
Lys-Scheldt with the regiment. He was In France, then In Belgium, and was with the first American armies in
Belgium after the Germans had evacu
ated and the treatment of the Belgi
ans, Mr. Jender described as wonder
ful. He said they even brought chairs
out for the boys to sit on, baskets of
apples and wine for them.
Pender said he acted as a lalson be
tween the folks back home and the
boys. Everything that the Knights of
Columbus gave the boys was free.
the German-Austrian government introduces R 81 L L. N fRRUlhENT to rlter the Austrian: escutcheon - the. eagle will be sjn6le herded bearn& r crown - 17 iNlt HOLD R SCYTHE N ONE CLRIN' THE EH16LEHI OF R&RICULTURE -V THE
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PEACE TERMS UPHELD
fBy Associated Press BERNE, May 15 Rumania considers
the peace terms given to Germany to be severe, but just, and less severe than Germany imposed upon Rumania a year ago, the Rumanian press bureau announced here. It is recalled that
the German plenipotentiaries made this remark to the Rumanians: "The conditions Imposed upon you are mild
compared to those we intend to im
pose upon the allies."
A new mouse trap la a glass tube so balanced that when a rodent enters it Is turned to prevent the animal's
escape.
Introducing a happy man to a pessimist la like shaking a red rag at a
bulL
Many a deluded man who thinks he is marrying a woman discovers later that the woman married him.
Miss Albertine Marlowe. Six American show girls hav been chosen to pro to England and be featured in a monster revu known as "American beauties." Ona of the six is Albertine Marlowe, known on the stage as "Babe.'
It's always advisable for a poor liar to tell the truth.
FELTMAN'S
White Shoes and Oxfords White RelanskTn Boot Military or leather Louis heel made of solid white Polar leather $5.50
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While they were on the front lines the boys were supplies with cigar
ettes, tobacco, pipes and chocolate. When they were stationed at any one place for a few hours they were given magazines and the Paris edition of the
New York Herald, both of which the boys were glad to get. When on the lines the boys were
not excited, he said. They were tired.
so tired at times that their eyes sunk in and yet they hiked on. They were not very demonstrative, and were nervous and irritable at times, but the only time they were really excited was when they went over the top. Mr. Pender said that the K. of C did not cater to the officers but first looked after the doughboys. When
the officers noticed that the enlisted men were those who received the attention of the K. of C. secretaries they showed their admiration for them, which made the secretaries popular among both the men and the officers. The air raids were terrifying to the men, Pender said. He said that they were so new and thrlllng for him that at first he was not afraid but after he got used to them and saw just what they did he suffered the same fear that the others felt.
Sheriff Takes Bouquet ' (Dandelions) To Sick FrienL
Sheriff Clement V. Carr is & con- ; siderate man. always interested In the welfare of a sick friend. j Harry Ryder, 41 North Fifth street,? was slightly Injured in a motorcycle accident Tuesday, and the sheriffs dressed his wounds and took him' home. Then he went away. An hour later he came back with a huge bunchy
or nowers ror the lnviud. " But the "flowers" were dandelion blossoms, intermingled with the fluffy seed-bearing heads, from the courthouse yard, and, according to court-,, house attaches, they were neatly done up witn bailing wire. Yes, a considerate man is the sheriff. .
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The good business man and the business man who Is good are not necessarily synonymous.
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Dr. William H. Wekh. Dr. William H. Welch, professor e-f pathology at John Hopkins University Baltimore, Md.t is one of the specialists who are on their way to Paris to attend the Red Cross congress. A preliminary conference will be held this month to prepare the program for the congress of aO the Red" Cross societies, which will be held in Geneva thirty days after peace has been declared.
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