The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-10-11
RED CROSS WORK
AMONG REFUGEES
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF
UNFoRTuNATES IN ITALY
WELL CARED EOR.
SCENE IN BOLOGNA STATION

SCENE IN BOLOGNA STATION
Allen Enemy Females Put Under the
Permit Rules-Great Plans for the
Further Relief of Belgians and
French.
(From Committee on Public Information)
Neutrality-suspicious. the hundreds of
thousands of unfortunateS driven from
their homes In the course of the Aus
trian invasions of Italy were safely
plotted to their destinations is related
in report received from an American
Red Cross worker who has been look
ing after refugees in Bologna.
"An arrival of emigrants from Eu
rope would give but a faint idea of an
exodus of refugees" the report says.
Many of them are taking their first
journey on railway. In most cases
1t Is impossible to make themselves I'M
derstoOd. They pour into the Bologna
station, dragging behind them unwieldy
packages, TASKS. bottles, babies, sew
ing machines, hens (refugees have
cats, dogs, canaries, bullfinches, pig
cons, turkeys-in fact, our rest home
has seen every variety of winged and
four-footed live stock). There they
stand, stupefied by the noise and con-
fusion of the arrival utterly unable to
move, while maybe their train Is about
to depart.
However, we are there, looking
for just such as they. The willing
soldiers who are assigned to help the
Red Cross take their difficult bundles,
the huge sacks and few of the ba-
bies. We take the eldest child, leading
the way as sort of decOy; and away
we go, in and out of passenger trains,
troop trains Ono bridges or subways
here), until we arrive at the train de-
sired, hidden away behind all these
obstacles, absolutely unattainable if
not for our Intervention.
''The train is damned. They always
are. Everyone on board cries to us
there is not another inch of room. We
pay no attention to them. Our latest
soldier enters car and opens a pas
sage for the family. When all the men,
bers and their endless belongings are
squeezed in we go back and pick up
another family"
Seven thousand men at Kelly field,
| division of military aeronautics, last
month saved articles which in other
| times would be regarded as junk, but
| which brought the government $4,000.
Some of this refuse was old paper, oil
and metals.
In addition, great piles of old cloth
| ing, tents, motorcycle parts, airplane
fittings, engine parts, rubber tires and
| the like were saved. Don't throw it
away" is the slogan which is prompt
| ing the, accumulation and sale Of
masses of materials at this and other
camps.
The fruit and milk cans that the
Kitchen police" smash every day, for
| example, bring considerable money to
| the government. They sell at $16 a
ton. Kelly field ships them by the car
load to copper refineries, where they
are thrown into fumes and serve to
| collect millions of molecules of copper
| that would otherwise be washed away.
| The cans are then heated, the copper
| separated from the tin and marketed.
How to conserve clothing and shoes,
| lumber and equipment is taught the
soldier, who is not slow to see the ad-
| vantage in dollars to himself as well
| as to the government. 1t is intended
| soon to open shoe repair shops and
tailor shops at Kelly field to make the
work of reclamation of still greater
| value to the government.
| Midnight of October 5, 1918, has been
| fixed by the United States attorney
general as the time when regulations
establishing one-mile prohibited area
around federal or state forts, camps
arsenals, aircraft stations, government
or naval vessels, navy yards, factories
or workshops for the manufacture OF
| munitions of war, ETC., shall be effec
tive as to German alien females. This
date is fixed by the attorney. general
under authority granted to him in the
presidents proclamation of April 10
1918.
| The effect of the attorney generals
act in fixing this date is to make il
unlawful for any German alien female
of fourteen years of age and upwards
to be found within one-half mile Of
any Of the places mentioned (except
on public carriers) without a permi
from the United States marshal. Per
mits to reside in or to enter the pro
hibited area must be obtained, and ap
plications for these must be made II
the same manner as for similar per
mits in the case Of German alien en-
envy males.
i Salt producers have agreed with thu
| United States food administration tt
pack their product in only few stand
ard sacks and when packed in woot
the barrels where possible will b.
hoped with wood instead of steel
When packed in cotton, salt will here
after be obtainable il only five, ten ant
twenty-five pound or larger sacks. Pro
portionately, one-pound sack vii
contain so per cent more cotton thai
five-pound sack. The new arrange
nent is expected to save large guam
titles of cotton and steel and reduc
the drain on labor.