The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1917-11-29

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shot fred machine gun operation will bale IN
three minutes in naval battle like the off utand over
1000 pounds minute consumed by each active warshp
more than 10000 bales needed to provide absorb
cotton for the Of the nured change apparel
for all the troops engaged in the represents more than
million bales.
Promise of Thrills Flame and Cas- Service Brings Many
Recruits.
boy just out of school, feeling himself qualified by special
study Of gas engineering rode bicycle zoo miles TO JOIN the
pioneer flame and battalion number OF chemists cleo
trcans and mechanics well known in civil life among
the first to respond to the call for this service.
American soldiers largely recruited from professions and
trades, such chemical and mechanical engineering plumb
ing and carpentry being trained in this service to meet
enemy fire and fumes with flame and deadly gas There
pounty for limited number of enlstments OF with me-
chanica knowledge gas experts carpenters clerks and mus
cular quick thinking between the of Is and 40
Men possessing the necessary qualifications volunteer
any recruiting station by asking join the Thirteh Bat
TALON flame and gas, forming at Washington, D. O.
Even Food Administration Men Cant Get Their Sugar
Members of the Food Administration at Washington D. c.,
have added for urging conservation
of sugar
Of Of the city showed that Of
% Is had sugar Three had only small supply of
sugar packages Every had less than 100 pounds
and had prospect of immediate supply Of three
wholesalers and obber, two had sugar One had
three-day supply.
No relief promised at least six weeks and Washington
will be short sugar ration until after Christmas at least
In middle west and the Pacific coast where
stocks heavier dealers generally responding to the
cry for help by placing the limit sales the
hardht Eastern districts pounds to customer providing
other purchases are made
Germans Held in the United States Number Nearly $500
Two classes of German detained in this
country comprised of sailors taken into custody when
the United States entered the the other consists of fallen
civilians who have been arrested and being
held under regulations for various
The principal detention camp is at Fort Mcpherson, Ca
where approximately $50 prisoners held; at Fort
Ogethorpe Ga 165 alien enemies Fort Douglas
Of
Small detachments temporarily quarered at Army
posts throughout the country but their number is relatively
small
Altogether there are 1884 actual prisoners of war the
custody Of the War department and about 400 need aliens
held at the request Of the Department Of Justice.
IT estimated that Germany is holding $50 sailors
taken from American ships BY commerce raiders and Other
German vessels
Each Infantyman Gets 81 Ounces of Brass His Ordnance
Equipment.
Included in the equipment furnished nfanryman by
the Ordnance Bureau of the War Department 627
of brass This exclusive of the uniform equipment provided
by the Quartermaster Corps
in the haversack LIZ of BRASS the bayone
scabbard 05 the canteen or cartridges
O0) ounces; cartridge belt ounces; gun sling
oer and thong 5 pouch for rsaid packet o.
ounce
Equipment from the ordnance department bureau for 100
1000 infantrymen contains almost 1876 tons of brass
Percentage Of Sick at Army Camps Than Per Cent
Returning from inspection hips to 10 Army and aviation
camps Col Weston p Chamberlain of the Surgeon Generai
Office reports that the per of sick ranges from below
per cent to slightly below per cent.
Among the conditions leading to treatment in hospital ar
severe colds tonsts slight INJURIES and other comparatively
slight ailments About the only serious disease found
camp pneumonia.
Each national Army camp has thousand-bed hospital
equipped in accordance with most approved modern practice
American Engineers Install Entire Railways in French
War Theater
The Corps Of Engineers of the American Army since Apr
has not only been supplying the Engineer equipment for NOR
than 100000 men, but the members Of the railway section
undertaken install oneratiol