Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-06-30
southern Lumbermen Fcalled Upon to Provide ! Quantities Material.
FELLOWS WILL BE EXPENDED
||r.v Aviation Schools, Great CantOn- nonts Munitions and Other Ware-
 houses and Emergency HOspit- als Are All Planned

New Orleans, La., June 29.-Exten-
 dye deefnse works along the Atlantic
 RI Gulf coasts to guard against pos
 bIe enemy attacks by sea or air are
 areshadowed here today.
 Plans have been drawn for twenty
 oastal air stations to be established
 t various unannounced points, and hmber for their construction will be hipped at an early date, according bJ. E. Rhodes, secretary-manager of he Southern Pine association. who
 as just returned from Washington, shere he has been in consultation with kads of the war and navy depart nents and other high officials.
 In addition, says Mrs. Rhodes, humber of power houses, which are in salty to be ammunition stations, will
 slocated at strategical places on the
 astern seaboard.
 Coastal air stations will each be
 hall city, built somewhat along the nes of cantonments, except that tim ess used will be heavier and the form construction more permanent. Be- ides living apartments for the men, here will be .hangars for the air
 snes and seaplanes, mess and cook
 E quarters and outbuildings. Ap-
 tximately 10,000,0O0 feet of lumber
 Il be needed for each of these sta
 ans.
 Powder houses will call for about
 0OOO feet of lumber, each including hbers for ships and wharves.
 Storage Places Planned.
 The committee on storage of the puncil of national defense, it is also lanounced, is devising plans for se- d9 of immense warehouses for the lmy, to be built both in this country nd in Europe.
 A warehouse 100 feet by 1000 feet, uficient in size for the storage of eod for 32,000 men, will be establish
 in connection with each cantonment
 the United States. Other store 1uses. constructed of heavy timbers
 built as to be of service over a eriod of years if needed, are to be ut up at convenient places, for the |storage of supplies for shipment abroad, chiefly food. Specifications are also being pre- |Nred, Mir. Rhodes states. for great |soncrete or cement houses for the stor- |age Of ammunition and other material ||,xnch 1t IS necessary shall be abso- |ntely protected from fire.
 More Aviation Schools. 4 number of new aviation stations, |M addition to those already under ssonn,s't1ructlon. n,'1 are planned, so that it xlli be possible for recruits learning E|0 ny to go from one camp to another M a circuit. Aviation stations are |c in process of building at Mt. ''DUeiaents, 'U Mich., Dayton, Ohio, and |Rantoul, III.
 n this connection, it is said to be $ |EssPofted in Washington that the aer- Y service may shortly be made sep ;s nv department of the government, ;Ee tne war department and the navy sspartment, the head of the new de- MIsrnent to be member of the cabi- x narracks for the mobilization of the ..l. .slaucnal guard are to be erected at |sne following places: |urt Fort Worth, Texas: Waco, Texas; ,vuston; ;su Texas; Fort Sill, Okla; Dem.- |s:H |s;x. N; M; Linda Vista, Cal; Green .srss NY, 5. t.; Spartanburg, s. C.; Au- 'st.s.!n Ga;; Montgomery, Ala; Fay ETSsAe, N. c., and Anniston, Ala. |LSlss s other. sites are yet to be se-
 oE.snergency Hospitals for South. Rhoar h.ner war activities reported by MT. "nodes, include:
 e,... . number of marine and other em- {, iency hospitals are contemplated cat;nsS n % actual course of construction. To- psssa p..'s selected include: New Orleans, N sacola s and Norfolk. Va, the lat nc.;t; N Hn the site of the Jamestown ex- tks WoLk 0, has been begun on some of bshs;Mt s;;xteen complete cantonments to
 Maat Tor the new national army. is ,s. government has let contracts mo,s sssrly 100 wooden ships, and many 3 ,n lmna1ar.es gre in prospect.
 |u,,a ,plements manufacturers are fig
 'rx % on 5O,O00 army wagons. ||nlssas war department has already for se oaa an order with manufacturers 'ooo automobile trucks. Esa 1--