The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-05-31
Control Fires, Conserve Food.

| ply already on hand by reducing nre
/ hazards to the minimum. Increased
effort also is to be made TO conserve
and protect all things necessary and
useful in the war.
! To accomplish this purpose the Ma
| tiOnal Fire Insurance Underwriters
association pledged the governor and
state council of defense that it will
I Immediately put its 200 inspectors at
work in the state making rigid in
! speCtions of grain elevators, grain and
! food storage houses and -four mills.
recommendations made by these in
| spectors for making storage houses
and elevators more safe will be turned
over to the state fire marshal, who
will in turn issue orders that they be
carried out.
State Fire Marshal T. Alfred Flem-
mig and Gov. Cox promised that all
orders will be carried out Immediate
| ly, and that those refusing to comply
will be sent to jail.
The insurance men told the govern
or that an average of one grain ele-
vator day is being burned in the
! United States. Many have burned in
Ohio. There are more than 900 ele-
vators and 800 grain storage houses
in the state.
AViators Training in Ohio.
The race course through the air in
which flyers are to be trained for duty
abroad will be between Columbus and
! ~
vided at intervals along this route.
Twenty-Five prospective army aVia-
tors from various sections of the coun~
try have just begun to get their first
taste of ground work" instruction at
Ohio State university, where they villa
be drilled in theory for two month";
preparatory to actual flying lessons
at the new government field near Day
ton.
Two airplanes, several engines and
other mechanical parts have been sent
here by the war department for study
purposes. Recruits will not take any
trips in the air while IN Columbus
however.
For three weeks they will devote an
their time to military drill. A regular
army officer, Lieut.. George TulsifeI'
of the aviation corps, stationed at San
Diego, will act as their instructor,
Then study will commence.
Twenty-Five trained aviators are At
present stationed at Ohio State univSr-
sity campus to assist Prof. William T. ,
Magruder, department Of mechan-
ical engineering; Prof Henry c.
Lord, department of astronomy, and
William A. Knight, industrial arts pro-
fessor in teaching the recruits, whose
ages range from 10 to rs years. These
three professors just have returned
from Toronto, Can, where they stud
led the curriculum and methods of in
struction at the Canadian Aviation
Preparatory school. The same meth
DDS will be used here.
Engine mechanism, theory Of fight,
reading of instruments and methods
of aerial fighting will be drilled into
the men here. They will be shown
how to control their machines while
in flight and how best to note military
positions and movements.
New men will arrive at the rate OF
rs week, thus making the school
here continuous. At least 200 will re-
ceive instruction in Columbus by Sept,
l, it is expected.
After their two months here, it Is.
planned to train them at the $500
acre government grounds northeast
of Dayton. for another eight weeks.
Won't Have Own Division.
Ohio will not have division of fts,
own, according to news received from
the war department at Washington.
In final effort to make it possible
for Ohio to proceed with the organi-
zation of division made up entirely
Of the troops from within its own state
line, Adjt. Gen. George H. Wood Of the
Ohio national guard conferred with
Brig. Gen. Mann, chief of the bureau
of militia affairs, and later with Sec--
retary of War Baker in the national
capital. BY both he was informed that.
the plan merging the Ohio and West
Virginia guardsmen into a division
was irrevocable and would not be
} changed.
Instead of having division of it's
own, procedure officially authorized
by the war department 10 days ago
and now definitely rescinded, the Ohio
national guard is to be split. An entire
brigade of Ohio infantry will be trans
ferred to the coast artillery defense
These Ohio troops, approximately
5000, are to be- used to furnish the
infantry support always provided for
the coast defenses in time of war and
: will be stationed somewhere along the
Atlantic seaboard.
Rigid Economy.
No more chair cars and taxis for
| travelling state employees. State Au-
ditor Vic Donahey has just issued this
warning edict: "The states estimated
income this year Of $21 100000 means
rigid economy is practiced.' Donahey
said.
All Ohio saloons will be closed on
June S, registration day, according to
an order just issued by the state
| liquor license commission. The sa-
looms will be forced to close from
a. m. to p. M, the hours during
I which the registration booths will be
open.
Sale OF Liquor to Soldiers.
! Besides subjecting themselves to a
years Imprisonment in federal peni-
; tentiary for selling liquor to a soldier
: in uniform, saloonkeepers may also