Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-12-13
WEEKLY WAR NEWS.
Alien Enemies Receive
Fair Treatment and
Paw for Their I.ahnr

prisoners of war. They comprise
officers and crews of the German
merchant vessels which were in tht
United States at the time of The dec
laration of war.
These aliens receive no funds from
the Government except compensa,
ton for labor actually performed
Those engaged in construction work
get $40 a month, with an additional
50 to foremen. Interned officers
have not been permitted to receive
from any source more than $40 8
month and crewmen not more. than
IS. Receipts in excess of these a.
mounts are placed to the credit OF
the aliens in banks.
Three plain but substantial meals
are prepared each day. There is no
waste, the same measures OF econo-
ny and conservation which are be-
ing urged upon every American
housewife being practiced at Hot
Springs.
New Foodstuffs
Are Recommended for
Use in Germany
Concentrated straw fodder and
round grape pips are suggested for
able use in Germany. In publish
ID list of new foodstuffs, with de-
;criptions of use, the following are
also found: j
Rheubarb leaves, seaweed, straw
neal, crushed and ground maize ears
heather stalks, ground sugar-beet
seeds, parsley seed, wild radish
lusks, bran, wine yeast, beechnut
cake, fish meal, and various mixed
foods.
Attempts have recently been made
in England to establish the use Of
hubarb leaves as green's, but it APP
'ears that such food is dangerous.
english newspapers have reported
several cases of illness following the
.sating, Of rhubarb leaf blades. ~ss
A (,
Army Medical School
Safeguards Millions by
Culture and Use of Vaccines
The laboratory at the Army and
Medical School has shipped since
April 1 sufficient typhoid and para
typhoid vaccines to inoculate every
nan in the Army.
Throughout the process of max
ing the vaccine is guarded against
my contamination. 1t is then stored
II sealed vessels in locked refrigera-
ors, to which only the two officers
n charge have keys, and. none of
these vessels is ever moved, except
in company of one of the officers.
n more than six months of large
scale production not trace of con-
animation has been found.
One of the tests of the vaccines
includes the inoculation of mouse,
guinea pig, and a rabbit. If too
much tricreasol "a coal-tar product
lsed as prsservative and to kill
he bacilli) had been added, the
mouse would be killed. Should teta-
lus germs be present both the mouse
and the guinea pig would be killed.
With the emulsion correct, as it
must be to be used, no animal is kill
ID, and the guinea pig and rabbit
ire not visibly affected by the in
oculation.
Southern California
Dill Workers Get
81 for Eight Hours
The Presidents mediation commits
sion in fixing the basis of settlement
If the oil situation in southern Cali
rornia fixed the minimum wage for
oil workers at S4 for eight hours
work. The decision affects all re-
fineries and pipe lines of southern
California, except those of the Stan
lard Oil Co.
A provision states that no man
shall be intimidated or Disseminated
against because of membership in
any union affiliated with the Ameri-
.an Federation of Labor, and neith-
,r the officers nor members of such
lnion are to intimidate or discrimi-
nate against any nonunion worker.
Alcoholic Content of Beer
- No I;uifod IN
Per Cent Maximum
There is in the country from two
to three years supply of whisky,
brandy, and gin which, may be COM
nandeered by the Government if re-
Iuired for purposes of manufacture
of alcohol for munitions. The re-
luirements for industrial alcohol,
however, in addition to the normal
output from sawdust and other
waste products, is negligible. The
desirability of saving all the grain
used in brewing from the standpoint
of food conservation is therefore
limited by the social question involv-