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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-10-06
ORGANIZATIONS
j. S. INFANTRY
MUCH CHANGED
Scenes From the Officers Training Camp at the Presidio
Forty Men in Each Company
Given Heavy Knives Worn
Strapped to Arm

WASHINGTON. ID. c., Sept o.
The hand-to.hand character OF MOD
erp trench warfare Is sharply Illus
trated in detailed tables Of organiza'
ton for American overseas infantry
units, made public today by the war
department. hi
Included in the equipment OF Amer
lean regiments which enter the
trenches are trench knives, one OF
the most up-to-date developments OF
European battlefields. In addition,
each infantry division will have 40
machine guns, Less than two years
ago the American army had not more
than 1900 Of these weapons tor It's
entire active and reserve stock.
Allies Lesson Learned
American troops will enter the
trenches equipped and organized in a
way that no other army engaged In
the war has been able to provide.
Every lesson learned by the allies has
been adapted promptly and the over
seas units will be supplied with every
weapon found useful
The tables published today fixed an
infantry platoon as the operating
unit. il will be composed of 81 en-
listed men under a lieutenant. In
each platoon there will be section
of % bombers and rifle grenadiers,
two sections of "a riflemen-a1l OF
them trained marksnlan, and the only
survival of the old infantrymen-and
bne section of IL auto-riflemen, who
win handle the light machine suns or
the automatic shoulder rifles that
may be developed.
This means that there Will be four
light machine guns in the line for
every so men, backed by the regi.
mental and divisional machine gun
hattalions and companies armed with
the heavy water-cooled weapon that
are the real first line Of defense IN
trench warfare.
Trench Knives Supplied
The use of trench knives supplants
the old rifle and bayonet for 40 men
in each company Of ESQ. These ter
r1ble weapons are long. keen knives,
with heavy metal hits. worn strap
ned to the left arm, and are made
for use in trench raids by men who
cannot be encountered with rifles and
oayonets because Of their special du-
ties.
Each company of an infantry regi.
ment Will have four OF these typical
platoons, and each regiment will have
i03 officers and 1862 men, one sec
ton OF the headquarters company be-
ing armed with three one-pounder
guns. Each regimental machine gun
company viii carry IL heavy guns and
four reserve weapons.
The headquarters company will be
the largest unit in the regiment. har-
ing seven officers and 294 men. In
addition to the one-ppunder section.
there will be signal platoon with
q special trench telephone tetach-
ment, q sappers' and bonbers' section
and a platoon of pioneers for regi-
mental engineering work.
The strength Of the tactical unit.
the infantry division, has Undergone
q change. having been increased from
lgDo0--tle old typical Europeon di.
vision--to 2T,157 men of all arms. Its
structure remains the same.
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Two men on the official list of the
famous Lafayette Escadrille, COM
posed of American ayiators in
France. are known in Honolulu. They
are Adjutant Didier Mason and Lieut..
Bert Hall. ~'.:.> f.
Mason will be remembered as a
professional aviator who few into Ho-
nolulu from Schofield Barracks early
one morning and who was to make a
fight at Kapiolani park during the
day but was prevented by strong
winds. r. ~ i
When here Mason had a Bleriot
nionoplane, and owing 10 the fact that
it was not in proper condition be had
te lean to one side % Keep * bal.
anced in the air. After leaving here
he went to the Mexican border for
Uncle Sam and later to France.
Hail came through mere a few
months ago on the W.; home from
Rimalia Were he han been crirg,
and was here while his boat was in
port for day or so. He Joined in
1915 and holds the French military
ihCNdl- clIl CIOoS VI =Ndl...- E1Ao LiStAO
is at Galveston, Texas. Mason lived
in New York and joined in April.
1916. He holds the military medal
and cross of war. Others are: '~~
Lieut.. VIM. Thaw, Pittsburg, legion
of honor and cross of war with three
palms. joined March. 1916. former
member of the foreign legion. /,
Lieut. Raoul Lufbery Wallingford,
Connecticut, legion OF honor, military
medal, cross Of war with three palms
and English military medal, Joined
April, 1916, formerly aviation me.
chanic.
Adjutant c. Choteau Johnson. st.
Louis, Mo-, cross of war with palm,
joined May. 1916, formerly in ambu.
lance service. - 49,. ..
Adjutant Willis Haviland, Mime.
apolis. Mimi, cross of war with palm.
joined October, 1916, formerly in am.
bulance service -
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canvas in a quadrangle 500 feet
square in a district in which there
are many similar institutions and Is
unmistakable as a hospital. At the
time the German aviator flew over
1t most of the surgical staff was en-.
gagged in making the rounds of the
wards. Lieut.. Fitzsimmons, however,
was standing at the door flap of his
tent. There had been a brief warn
ing OF the presence of bombing air.
planes in the neighborhood because a
quarter of a minute before the sound
Of exploding bombs was heard from
point perhaps 200 yards from the
hospital. This warning sufficed to
cause all lights In the tents to be ex-
tinguished Immediately and those who
had been under firesth themselves
face downward on the ground. Then
came five explosions in rapid success
sion in the hospital itself. The first
two were directly in front of Lieut..
Fitzsimmons' tent; he probably never
knew what happened to him as his
body was torn to shreds. - -1..
Scattered Coin
The next two fell hundred feet be.
yond in Five MARQUES ward, in
which there were many patients, and
the last struck the reception tent.
Overhead there was no sound. The
German aviator flew too high to be
heard, but he left his identity behind
but in the derisive handful of pfennigs
he scattered upon the hospital as
he Whirred away. A number of these
were found when light came. Lieut..
Mcclure, who was in a tent adjoin-
ing that of Lieut.. F'itzsimmons, was
struck by three bomb fragments, but
was not seriously wounded Lieut..
Smith was struck in the knee and
Lieut. Whidden in the chest, while
in their tents, the officers section
of the quadrangle ".s r..
orderiies Injured
81 The private soldiers injured were
on duty as ordePiies in the reception
tent and the bomb fell almost upon
them. So severely was Pvt. Aubrey
Mcleod injured that-It was necessary
to amputate both his legs that night.
Although the exploding bombs ere
ated horror in the hospital there was
not the slightest sign Of panic and
the work of discovering the wounded
and collecting them was begun imme-
diately. ~ -. .-.-.
Many OF the injured had been
blown from their cots, some even out.
side their tents, where they were
found tangled up in the tent ropes.
The American nurse, although struck
in the. face by a fragment of the
bomb, refused to be relieved and re-
manned at her task. In the operating
room Capt. Horace Binney and Ell.
lott, with their assistants, worked all
night long. .~........
Murphy reported all OF the injured
were doing well.
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TWO NAMED IN OFFICIAL LIST OF !:
ESCADRIlLE KNOWN IN HONOLULU

Sgt. Dudley Hill. Peekskill, N. Y,
Joined May, 1916, formerly ! with
French medical corps .
Sgt. Robert Soubiron, New York,
Joined October, 1916, formerly with
the foreign legion. - 9<....v-~ = -
Sgt. Edwin G. Parsons, Springfield.
Mass. joined December, 1916, from
the ambulance service. ..... -. -. =
Sgt. Stephen Bigelow. Boston,
joined February, 1917, entered Esca.
drille from college. -. :. :
Sgt. Walter Lowell, Concord, Mass,
cross of war with palm, Joined March,
1917, formerly served with ambulance.
Sgt. Kenneth MARI, San Francisco,
joined March. 1917, formerly with am
bulance. :. !:
Sgt. William Dugan, Rochester, y.
V, cross of war and foreign legion
decorations, Joined March, 1917, for
merly with foreign legion; now in
America on leave. ~. =. - =.
Sgt. Ray Bridgman, Lake Forest,
H.. joined April, 1917, entered squad
ron from college. T..
Sgt. Henry S., Jones, Herford, Pa.
joined April. 1917, formerly in am
bulance service. - ~ =.
Sgt. David Petersen. Honesdale, Pa,
Joined May, 1917, entered service from
college. II .= r.
Sgt. Andrew C., Campbell, Chicago,
cross. of war with star, joined April,
1917, formerly professional dancer.
Sgt. Douglass MacMonagle, San
Francisco, cross of war. joined June,
1917, from ambulance service (since
killed). '.-..s.s.
Cpl. Charles Dolan. Boston, joined
May. 1917. formerly with Sperry Sta
blizer Co.
Cpl. Ralph Doolittle. Chicago. cross
of war with palm and English mill
tary medal, Joined July, 1917, former
Ey in ambulance service. !, ri
Cpl James \. Hall, Colfax, Iowa,
now in hospital with wounds, French
military medal and cross of war.
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Joined with the English army. -
Eliot Cowdin, military medal and
cross of war with two palms, resigned
TWO Are Prisoners !. -. =
Two members 'of - the squadron
James Bach and Harold Willis, are
prisoners of Germany. Willis Z had
previously won the cross Of war with
one palm. -
Memhers--who have heen- killed in
action: Sgt. Robert Rockwell, -Cincin'
matt, Ohio, joined October 1914 for.
merly with the French medical corps.
Victor Chapman, cross of war with
two palms. :. - - -.' ~,-
Norman Prince, legion of honor,
French military and cross of war WITH
two palms and one star ...-.........
James Mcconnell, cress, of war with
one palm. .... 49,. .-.:>
Ronald Hoskier, cross of war with
one palm. =
Edmond Genet, cross of war with
one palm = -. -. -
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Now that the government wants
the people to eat more fish it will
be harder than ever to keep father
from taking a day off, We only
hope that he wont neglect putting
the wheat in to do so.
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Death Dealing Bolts Instantly.
Kill Lieut.. Simmons and
-. Wound Patients

= WASHINGTON, d. C., Sept. 10
How German airplanes attacked the
Harvard university hospital unit, in
France, dropped bombs among the
wounded and sick men, lis told in a
message received today by the Red
Cross war council from Maj. Gray
son u. P. Murphy, Red Gross commits.
sioner in Europe. The message was
made public by Henry p. Dawson,
chairman of the, Red Cross war cotn-
ell, and gives the detailed story of
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To think meanly of ones self is to. sink
sometimes TO descend a precipice at the bottom
of which is infamy.-Samuel Smiles.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-31
NOT REIMBURSED
Firm From Whom, King Stole JeweIry Has Had No Offer to Make Good Their Losses.

That any wrong impression regard ing his firm having been reimbursed or having received a guarantee of be- Ing reimbursed, for losses it has sus- tained through thefts of diamonds and other valuables, Henry A. McEwen of McEwene and Chapin said Tuesday that no reimbursement has been made to the firm and no guarantee of any has been received. The firms net losses, as near as can be ascertained, are in excess of $500.
 Some of the yaluabies that have dis appeared have never been recovered. The firm has not been compensated, as many have come to believe, even in the amount of the heavy expense it was put to in recovering rings and oher valuable that were placed in pawn shops by Clarence A. King and Albert Talnose, the firm being called upon to redeem it's property by paying the sums that were allowed on them when pawned.
 MT. McEwene says his firm never received an offer of compensation, the nearest approach to such 8 proposition being suggestion in behalf of King that if the firm would seek to have him placed on probation, such net loss- es as he had caused the firm would be made good. This suggestion Mr. Mo- Ewen says was made at Wi1Hmantic before the court proceedings Monday morning.
 The firm stands today without pledge of compensation for the losses It has suffered and it is not even in possession of information that might help reduce these losses.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-31
COURSE OF ENTERTAINMENT
Provided for Winter Through Business
 Mems Associations.

Entering new field of activity, the Oan1elson Business Mems association through action of it's board of direct DTS decided Tuesday morning to pro V1de a lyceum course of entertain ments here during the fall and wint- IT,
 A course of five entertainments was 1ecldeu upon and a contract signed with a lyceum bureau. The directors pr the association believe that such a course will prove an attra ctive di- version for hundreds who have had their minds keenIy eentered on war work and war activities for months past and that the entertainments will hetp to re-establish a more normal equilibrium. . The course Is not intended as a money-mak1ng enterprise, but as a CIVIC movement intended to advance culture and social intercourse. The supPort or local organizations is all ready pledged to the business roen,z in carrying out plans for the course.
 Advance arrangements for the
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-31

course were made during Tuesday. President F. E. Cunneen of the Busi = ness Mems association presided at Tuesday mornings meeting of the di- rectors. The committee that was nam - ed to have charge of the arrangements is made up of H. A. McEwen. A. w. Williams, D. E. Jette and A. V. Wood worth, working with the president, secretary and treasurer.
 Team Captains Appointed.
 Canvassing for pledges to conserve food was held up by the storm of Tuesday. but it will be resumed to- day and with the success that marked Mondays work.
 Mrs. Rienzi Robinson, who is direct ing the work, has divided the town in to districts and appointed team cap tains as follows:
 Attawagan and BallouviIfe, Rev. w. p. Woodward; Dayville, Rev. Ignatius Kost; Miss Bernice Cogswell; Good ingly, Rev. L. Hartig; East Killingly, Mrs. Burlington: Danielson, Mrs. Isa- belle Waldo. Mrs, Esther Jacobs, Miss Grace Spalding. Mrs. E. R. Warren Mrs. Gharies Hyde. Mrs. W. K. Pike Mrs. F. E. Withee, Miss Ruth Arnold, Mrs. Frank Gilbert, Mrs, A. F. Wood These captains will be assisted by a number of team workers. The can vass Is to be completed this week.
 Netes.
 On Furnace street cement blocks have been set in the wall along the property of the General Supply com pany, preparatory to the erection of a fence that is to replace one removed some time since.
 The Ladies' Home Journal patterns on sale at The Keystone Store.-adv.
 Mrs A. H. Huntingdon will be hostess at the November meeting of the Ladies Art club. Current Events will be discussed by Mrs. Rienzi Robinson. There will be a book review by Mrs. John E. Young.
 Name of Store Changed
 George E. Berris changed the name of his establishment to the Berris Confectionery company from the style New England Fruit Store.
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Birthdny Dinner for ]. Carl Wittsr---
 Bishop Aeheson to Preach at Old
 Trinity Serviee.-Tstree Attawauean
 Runaway Boys Brought Home
 Firm From Whom King Stole Not
 Reimbursed.
 At his home on Furnace street Tuesday evening. friends of J. Carl witter- were entertained at a birthday dinner in his honor, the party arrang- ed by friends.
 On account of the storm. there was Tuesday afternoon, the no-session signal being sounded at 11:S0.
 Mrs Rienzi Robinson is recovering from an indisposition Drought about by over-actfvity in connection with war work by wozaen's organizations.
 John C. Bendict of Worcester was q visitor recently with friends in Dan-
 MT. and Mrs. c. W. F1agg of South bridge have been visitors with fela
 With the exceeding scarcity of 1u- gar and the greatly advanced price of gas soda manufacturers are having their troubles.
 New consignment Georgette crepes just arrived, in white and navy blue; price $1.50 yard; sGarantee saving of at least 50 cents yard on any retail price. O1aee River Weaving Co.,,
 
 Remember that. beginning Friday. 3-eent postage on letters will be the rule, and letters not carrying the proper amount of postage will be held from delivery. There's no chance to beat Uncle Sam.
 Bishop Aeheson to Perach.
 Right Rev. Edward Campion Ache son suffragan bishop of Connecticut. is to preach at he annual All Saints day service at Old Trinity church, Church street, Thursday.
 Runaways Brought Home.
 Constable M. H. Grimshaw of Alta waugan was in Camden. N. J., Tues day to bring back to their homes in Attawaugan three boys who had run away and were picked up at Camden to await the coming of the Killingly officer.
 Reel of Home Guards at Mystic.
 A regular weekly drill of the Home Guard company was held at the state armory Tuesday evening. Captain Huntingdon has arranged to have shown here a reel of motion pictures of Home Guards on parade taken at Mystic a few weeks ago. Along with the development of In dustrial place as a residential section, plans have been made for the con- struction of buildings there that are to that section is rapidly developing to the point where it is going to have its business houses.
 Mrs. Rienzi Robinson has been nam- ed a member of the State Council of Defence for the town of killingly and will be head of the woman's commit tee in this town.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-31
CENTRAL VILLAGE
Edward Bouazue Home on FurIough From Fort Terry = Many Attend Dance-Green Hollow School Re-. opens-John Baton in Automobile Accident.

Edward Bourque, who is at Plum island has been at the home of his parents, MT. and Mrs. Feter Bourque, having a four days furlough. the first he has had since he left for training last summer.
 Mrs. Lillian Bugbee of Providence has been a visitor at Frederick Til- linghast's.
 Mrs. Abby Hopkins, night telephone operator, in Daniels n was at her home Sunday.
 Joseph Farland, although knocked down by an automobile Thursday ev- ening, as he started to cross the road while coming from his home, was not injured, but got up and continued his down town trip.
 Mrs. George Loring was in Norwich Friday.
 Dance at Town Hall.
 A dance was held at the Town hall Friday evening. The Colonial orches- tra furnished music. Some of the dancers left for their homes on the first trolleys. Mrs. Leroy Greene and Mrs. Ella Baker were the patronesses
 School Re-Opens.
 The school at the Green Hollow district opened Monday morning. It has been closed as pupils at the school
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-31
FRED WEBSTER ARRESTED.
Drew Butcher Knife: Across the Fac, of White Man Employed at Rail. read Yards.

Fred Webster, 1e, colored. will be presented in the city court this morn famed a butcher knife across the face of a white man who is employed in the railroad yards here, a member of a gang of Wofl<men brought here from Boston by the railroad company.
 Webster was arrested Tuesday aft erno on, at the railroad station, where, he said he was waiting for g. train to to New Haven to get some things for the shack.
 Captain Ryan said during the after noon that a complaint relative to Webster came to him from Officer John Murray, of the railroad police. Webster and a white man. whose name the. officers had not secured Tuesday afternoon, had had some little diff f1culty prior to Tuesday noon. At noon when the white man came into dinner in the building where the railroad company is feeding some of Webster got gay with the butcher knife, drawing the back of the blade across the white mans face while he WAS seated at the table.
 Webster is little known here, but it is said he is from Boston. He has been acting as a helper in the kitchen at the place where the truckers are being fed.
 There will be a number of delegates from this city at Danielson Friday to represent Putnam churches at the missionary conferences to be held at the missionary conferences to be held at the Danielson Baptist church.
 Will Reeeive x. of c. Degrees.
 Cargil1 council, K. of C., is organ izing another large class to receive de- grees during the fall season and the third degree probably during Janu- ry.
 Food Conservation Pledges.
 Hundreds of pledges to conserve food are being taken by canvassers in this city. The work was greatly re- tarded Tuesday by the storm. A great majority of the housewives so far approached have signif1ed their willingness to help save food
Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-31

have had scarlet fever.
 George Jelly has moved to the Grover tenement, on Main street, re- gently vacated by John Hirst.
 Miss Alice Kendall. who attends the business college in Norwich, spent Sunday at her home.
 Janitor Recoverins.
 Eba Huntington, janitor at the school buildings. is recovering from scarlet fever. No new cases have yet developed.
 State Policeman Bridgham of Hart ford made a business trip here the past week.
 Miss Florence Hughes of Pawtucl1et, R. l., where she is telephone opera tor, spent Sunday at Alfred Hilrs. spent Sunday at Mrs. Mary F. Lor- ing's
 William Jewett of southbridge. Mass, has been visiting his son, Will liam Jowett.
 Lawyer Arthur M. Brown of Jewett City was a Saturday visitor.
 Miss Clarinda Benway of Putnam visited local relatives Saturday. Miriam Vaughn and Stanley Vaughn of Norwich motored here Sunday to spend the day with Mrs. Vaughn's parents, MT. and Mrs. William Sim mons.
 Miss Lucille Stetson of Jewett City spent Sunday at the home of her brother, Mortimer Stetson.
 Mir. and Mrs. George Baker of Put nam spent Sunday with Mrs. Bakers mother Mrs. Ellen Torrey. Miss Marjorie Baker of Worcester was al- SO a guest at the TorreY home.
 Foster Burgess, who is training at Newport, R. l.. spent Sunday at his home.
 Moves to Norwich.
 Mrs. Peto, who formerly had charge of the Plainf1eld Woolen Co.'s board ing house, has moved to Norwich.
 James Watrous was a visitor Sun day in New London. where his oldest son Leon, who has been ill with nervous trouble. has been staying for a few days.
 Miss Odna Seguin of Providence spent Sunday at her home.
 Mrs. John l.. Chapman has gone to R. l.. to recover her health at a sanatorium.
 Automobile Struck by Car.
 John Baton of wauregan was near Ladd's corner at the trolley crossing Saturday afternoon when the 1.45 troll ley from Danielson struck his auto mobile, as he was crossing on his way to Kennedy City from Shepard Hill road. His car: was damaged. One of the wheels was torn off. MT. Baton
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and thereby contribute toward the defeat of the enemy.

and thereby contribute towards the defeat of the enemy.
 Local people who are making sweat CTS and other warm Woolen garments for the men from this vicinity who were sent to Camp Devens are having difficulty in keeping track of the men, for, being in the depot brigade, they have been sent from Aver to different camps throughout the country.
 Tax on theatre and railroad tickets becGn'es effective tomorrow, Thursday and Scent postage goes into effect on Friday. These, with the tobacco and liquor taxes, make real the fact that the people are beginning to pay the special taxes of war.
 Rain Was Needed.
 Manufa acturers who want to develop some of the power used at their plants will appreciate Tuesdays heavy rain, for the winter in the Quinebaug has been particularly low for the past few weeks.