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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-03
WOMAN WILL CAPTAIN
ITALIAN MERCHANT ship
Miss Elise Belluomini Passes Nauti-
cal Examination and Awaits
Hcr Assignment.
CREW MUST BE SAVED FIRST
II Vessel Is Torpcdoed, Feminine
Captain Announces She Will Fol-
low Traditional Policy OF Seals
Ready to Sacrifice Her Life.

Correspondence OF Associated Press.)
PARIS, January 2o.-Italy claims the
first woman to qualify as captain OF
merchant vessel in the ocean-going
trade. She Is Miss Elise Belluomini,
young woman OF Viareggio, Italy,
who has just passed her final exam
nations, and is awaiting an assign
ment to active service.
Born and reared among seafaring
folk. Miss Belluomini developed in
early life an ardent desire to follow
the sea for a career. She communi-
Gated her ambition to her relatives and
friends but they laughed at her. A
woman sailor! 1t was impossible, they
told her.
The young woman was not to be
swayed from her purpose, however, and
she finally found 4 sympathetic friend
in retired sea captain. who told her
OF having seen women navfgators in
the coastwise trade OF the Hawaiian
Islands The girls remarkable knowl-
edge of the sea surprised the old cap
tain. who gave her every encourage
ment, and finally recommended her to
the maritime authorities OF Livournc.
Some months later Miss Belluomini
was, by special decree. allowed to take
a course In the Nautical Institute at
Viareggio. Her progress was nstonlsh-
ing. Tho ease and facility with which
she mastered the difficult nautical
problems submitted 10 her won the
admiration and respect Of her profess
sors and fellow-students. who aided
her in every way possible.
New difficulties presented them
selves. however. after she had passed
the required examinations at the In
stitute. The Mariners Union refuse ed
ut first to break its traditional policy
by admitting woman into It's mem
hership The girls perseverance final
~ triumphed over all obstacles. ana
she received the coveted masters
license In the ocean-going trade. Con-
corning her plans, Miss Bclluomini
said:
II enter sea service at troubled
period. when each day one risks his
life at sea, but I will attempt to
demonstrate to my sailors that a
woman may be just as courageous as a
man. II should be unfortunate
enough to have my boat torpedoed. I
shall follow the traditional policy OF
the sea and see that the crew is saved
first l shall be the last to leave the
boat that has been confided In my
care. My life! 1 am ready to sacrifice
1t. I am to-day at the service Of my
country and of her dear and noble
sisters France. America and England"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-03
ART GIFTS TO SOUTH AFRICA
Paintings. EtchinEs, PorceIains and
Librnry, Valued at s10,00O,0OO
Prevented to Government.
IBy Associated press.1

by Associated Press.
CAPE TOWN, December 3o-South
Africa received in 1917 three art gifts
OF a total value of s10,000,000.
The first was a great collection OF
seventeenth century Dutch art pre-
scented to the government by Max
AIichaelis. 1t will be housed in the
old Town Hall at Cape Town.
There followed the presentation by
Sidney Mendelssohn. one of tho dia-
mond kings, of his valuable South
African library, including practically
every book ever published relating to
South Africa.
The third gift of the year is a mis-
cellaneous art collection, including
paintings, etchings, water colors and
porcelains. which are to be divided
between the galleries OF Cape Town
and Pretoria. The donor remains
anonymous.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-03
noxnlty stores n. r1otorn.
IBy Associated Press.

LONDON, January 2o.-;To avoid tho
use OF gasoline needed for war work,
the Queen and other members of the
royal family have stored their motor
cars and are using horse-drawn
vehicles.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-03
English Paper in Am.terdam.

IBy Associated Press
AMSTERDAM. January 20.-This
city ia to have an English morning
newspaper called the British News.
The first number will appear in few
days.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-09
SALUTES PHOTO OF PREMIER
Instructive Action of Officer Reveals
Respect of French for
M. Clemenceau.

Paris.-Little unconscious acts often
reveal the real measure of the popu-
larity of great leader.
In the photographers showcase not
far from the fashionable Pare Mon
ceau there is among other pictures an
excellent almost life-siZe head of Nj.
Clemenceau. a young French officer
who was passing the shop the other
day glanced casually at the showcase.
Perceiving the picture of his chief he
instinctively raised his hand to a sa-
lutte and passed on unaware that his
spontaneous tribute had been observed
In the early days of the long-range
gun bOmbardment of Paris, says the
Matin. it was stated that the shells
were made from new type of steel
alleged with vanadium. which gave II
exceptional properties. But analysis
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-09
THAT BOLO KNIFE
SURE CAME HANDY

latter Is practically Il short sword.
comparable to the principal weapon
of the old Roman DICTIONARIES. Ii is
two feet long and weighs between
three and four pounds. OF course, be-
ing Issued only TO artillerymen who
axe at ordinarily actually at grips
With the enemy, il is intended mainly
rs :, sort of underbrush cutter. But
in the hands of a desperate man fight
ing for his life Il is terrible per-
suader.
The bolO is in no sense a trench
knife. That is issued to every man
I'm the ranks and is special tool not
meant for fighting save at the last
gasp. But the 14-inch bolo knife is
essentially weapon. 1t is issued TO
not regularly TO every seventeenth
man, but as occasion may require or
the immediate commanding officer may
direct. Henry Johnson was given his
because he was assigned to particular
ly dangerous duty in Il listening post.
Others may be equipped with bolo
knives-fOr instance. as members OF
Il special detachment to accompany
raiding forces within the enemy lines.
Their work must be quick. silent ana
thorough. From Luneville to Cantigny
the Germans have found it so.
The small arms division of the Unit
ed States ordnance department be.
lieves that the bOlo knife has Gonts OF
superiority over any knife in use on
the European battlefield. else it would
not have been adopted for our use.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-09

vent the landing of large forces in France. But
by its foul methods of warfare it has already
sunk many millions Of tons of ships. Not only
has that world loss to he more than made up. but
we have to provide large further tonnage to
keep sending our soldiers abroad and sup
plying them adequately We have the unprece-
dented job of not only feeding our own army but
other armies and other populations Also
But the ships required for those purposes are
only part of what need Later on those ships
will be necessary in bringing back our victorious
soldiers from Europe. But at present and for
some time to come the movement is one of full
ships to Europe and fairly empty ones back.
The United States is now the great reservoir
from which supplies must be drawn. The enOr-
nous gain in our exports shows how other
tions are increasingly looking to us to sustain
them
Although our exports may occasionally decline.
still on the whole there is every probability Of
their increasing, not only during the war but
after the war. Large areas Of Europe are depOp-
ulated and devastated. Many of the rich wheat
growing sections including almost all Of the win
terwheat producing areas of Russia, in the
Germans possession. Conditions In Russia
chaotic The western European allies produced
in 1917 about 300 600 900 bushels less than the
nual pre-war average. There great drop
also in the wheat production of other European
countries. Argentina. Australia and India
producing good crops But there Is no shipping
to move II properly.
While the is on there is big enough de-
rnand from our allies In Europe for materials Of
all kinds. We have to supply coal, steel. oil. cot
ton, lumber, rails. locomotives and a great guam
tity of other products. After the war when the
lob Of rehabtating Europe is put through, the
demand upon this country for raw and manufac-
tured material Of all kinds will be enormous. We
shall also have to replenish the depleted herds Of
Europe from our own cattle. Ours. in fact will
be the task of supplying most of the world.
So IL is clear that be- ides the millions of tons Of
shipping urgently needed for the army and navy.
we shall need great permanent merchant ma
rine In 1914 only s166OOO.OOO of the more than
$1,000 COO of our exports was carried In Ameri-
can vessels Even now great part Of the cargo
and passenger ships we are using are seized enemy
vessels or requisitioned or chartered allied or
neutral vessels.
Not only on the Atlantic but on all oceans we
must have an abundance Of American ships.
Since the opening of the Panama canal. the At
lnntic and Pacific oceans have been linked by the
short route.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-09

on would not hesitate to use 1t. Altman
believes.
"The beauty Of my idea is that the
rattler can live five or six months In
captivity without either food or water
and they will be just as effective dur
Ing that time" says Altman. Il have
an antidOte for rattlesnake bite that
could be supplied to anyone that ham
dies them. but the Germans would
not know what stung them.
my idea would be to catch them
and then soak their tails In warm wa
ter. Then the shell that rattles and
gives warning could be removed with
out injury to the snake. Their fangs
are so sharp that unless the warning is
given with the rattles person would
hardly know what bit him. Side wind
ers range in size from four to twelve
feet.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-09
SAYS FLUSHING IS HUMAN
Brooklyn Court Rules Il Does Not
Constitute Cruel and Inhu-
man Treatment.

Brooklyn. n. Y.-Squabbles, wordy
alterations. unklnd and exnsperatinx
or even Insulting words used In the
heat of passion aroused by chickering's
do not constitute cruel and inhunan
treatment. according to n recent f.
vorce case decision by the appellate
division. The court added:
Unfortunately for our weak 10
ture. these things constitute condset
which renders 1t unsafe or improper
to live together"
Testimony went to show that tho
wife, who sought divorce and all,ntny,
objected to The presence Of n stepson
and chased the male members OF thu
fnmily from the house.
"In these squabbles she (the pl ain
TIM seems to have been ollie to holi
her own" said the court. I'VE do At
think any law requires Iones;.. ..
exile to support a wife while liviax
apart from her own family"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-09

as hard as steel itself. And for an
erstwhile civilians muscles to become
sufficiently hardened takes time and
training.
The daily work. the fresh air. plen-
ty Of sleep and the excellent daily ra-
tons are doing wonders In producing
as fine bunch Of real fighting men as
can be found anywhere. The officers
school will he continued indefinitely.
As fast as men complete the prescribed
course, others will take their places.
From now on. all commissioned off,
GERS will be selected from the ranks.
The tank corps Is progressive
unit. Every once In a while q bat
TALON will disappear overnight, bound
for somewhere" Recruits will I'LL
their places and the work Of training
will move right along. New officers.
trained simultaneously with the men.
will command the disappearing bat
TALON.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-09
TANK CORPS GROWING
Recruits Arrive Daily at Gettys.
burg Camp.
Long Hikes In Heavy Marching Order
Fit Men for Duty With PERISH
ino's Army.

Camp Colt. Gettysburg. Pa.-The
American tank corps continues to grow
and develop. Recruits are still COM
ing in and the men already here are
being drilled to within an inch Of their
lives. This Is the preliminary discip-
line and the physical drill which will
fit the men for the strenuous life Of a
tanker" overseas. Twenty-mile hikes
In heavy marching order are almost
daily occurrences.
Although the work is hard, the men
like 1t. They realize their need Of this
heavy drill and exercise. NegOtiat-
Ing the gray steel monsters over No
Mans Land is distinctly not Job for
man whose muscles are not almost
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-09
BEAT OUT FATHER
Young Georgia Couple Run of in sE3
Automobile and Arc
Married,

Nashville. Ga.-Foster Monk ard
Miss Maurine Moore Of Douglas, t3u.,
were married here ut midnight rec snt.
ly, after sensational automobile ,aix,
from Douglas.
Monk and his bride-to-be left D.)ltz-
las ostensibly for ride In Monn's
"big SIX"
Shortly after their departure lie
father Of the young woman be, NE
suspicious. The father and win
sister Of the bride brought an stt-
cylinder car into Ttay. giving 81 sse.
Cupid was the first to make the ,s,e
stretch.
Daddy, you are too late-we are
married." was the daughters gree u,g
as the father came up.
The father accepted the sl.uni s,,n,
extended his blessing and congrut ulit-
ed the bridegroom on his skill ~
driver.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-09
BY CUSTAvUS MYERS.
Noted Historian and Research
Writer.

-ITH a probable bumper crop of Mt
IE- | least 9OOOW,OOO bushels Of bread
AA/ grains expected from our farms
w this year. the American farmer
is showing what his contribution
IS3SE2L%J0 Is to the war for human free
dom. Remote as he may be froh
the actual scene of conflict. he knows that he is
a big part Of the world battle line. Upon his
productive efforts largely depend the supply
ing of the allied armed forces and populations
with food.
To the appeal. "Food will win the war; the
American farmer has responded with splendid
results But Of course that appeal has its quail
ifcations One proviso is that food will go
long way toward insuring victory If we have
plenty of ships to convey 1t where 1t Is needed.
Great fleets OF ships have been or are being Gre
ated by the United States shipping board. They
are being produced at record pace. But to
carry out our vast necessary shipping program
with the fullest adequacy ii Is vital that the
earnest interest of every part Of our great coun-
try should he increasingly enlisted.
Far away from the seabOard many Of our
farms are. they joined with the ocean to
degree they never were before. The ships sup
plement the pillow and the harvester. Day and
night the farmer has been thinking Of how he
could make his land more productive. 1t is
subject that never leaves him. The indica-
lions that well has he thought it out that
this years crop of winter wheat alone will he
l54.OOOOOO bushels more than last years, large
rs that And this Is only one part of the
immense crops coming from American farms.
True. there is always the gamble of weather con-
dftions and the menace of insect depredatiOns.
But the present promise is high production
from our farms.
OF itself this fact does not alarm the Huns.
They know that big food supply is of
danger to them IL we cannot get it across. But
what does fill them with dread and forebodng
Is the knowledge that we are rapidly getting to-
gether the ships that will transport it the
ocean to feed our troops and those of the allies
and the peoples Of the countries banded to defeat
Hun aggression. What will further make the
Huns quake is the fact that our millions of farm
ers are as determined to support the program
for vast fleets of ships they set upon rails
ing vast crops.
The Hun submarine murder campaign was
undertaken with the express view of starving
out certain countries. and terrorizing the rest.
1t aimed ut destroying the ships that could
carry our supplies tn Europe. II didn't succeed
any in that design than in the effort to pre-
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-09
FAILS TO LOCATE BRAINS
Correspondence Course in Occult Sci
ence of No Help to
This Man.

San Francisco.-Rushlng M to Po-
liceman J. Connell in the city hall,
Sam Sanko announced with hectic
tones that some unprincipled thief had
gone and stolen his brains. Sanko,
who is an Austrian, declared that the
robbery had taken place four years
ago and that he had taken a CORE
spondence course in occult science in
the hope of regaining the missing
parts, but of no avail. Policeman Com
nell concluded that SankO had dag
nosed his own case very well, and so
escorted him to the detention hos
pital.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-09

serve China, Japan, the Philippines,
Russia and Australia. All of these countries as
well as Central and South America. have materials
or products which need just as they need ours.
Australia recently had surplus stated to be
800 900 600 bushels of wheat and another big sur
plus in process of gathering. There was enough.
In fact to feed England and France for a year
But il of practical use to the allies. There
were no vessels to be spared for the long haul
which takes eight or ten weeks from Australia TO
England.
Last year there was surplus in Java of 1000.
600 tons of sugar which other parts Of the world
needing badly could not get because of lack of
ships.
Great heaps of coffee were spelling on the East
Indian wharves. There was shipping to move
it to other countries.
Pyrites, which was badly needed here. could not
be brought from Spain because Of the want OF
ships.
These are but a few examples Of what ship
famine means.
Resides the many millions Of tons of shipping
needed for the purposes already described there
is also the pressing necessity for multiplying
the number of ships. tugs and barges for dOmes-
tic coastwiSe, lake and inland waterway trans
portation. These Of the most vital impor-
lance to the farmer. Our inland, lake and coast
Waterways can be used to transport vast guam
titles Of wheat and other products. and freight
of all kinds can be sent back on the return
trip. This transportation will be cheaper to
the farmer and greatly tends to relieve railway
congestion.
In less than n years time the accomplish.
ments of the United States shipping board have
been on an unprecedented scale. Where In 1917
there only 81 shipyard plants in the United
States. there now 15S, and more are be-
ing constantly established The United States
shipping board has given out contracts for S,1S3-
600 lightweight tons Of ships. and has already
put in service S31.1l1 lightweight tons of new
shipping. This in addition to 2.O13,S26 dead
weight tons OF neutral and allied ships under
charter. German and Austrian ships seized. and
Dutch ships reQuisitOned 1t is launching new
ships rapidly. and is beginning to make prOri
sion for Tugs and barges for inland and coast
wise water traffic From the small number OF
i492G men employed in American shipyards or
April !, 1917, the force Of shipbuilders in oul
Yards has now increased to 3OO,OOO.
With this progress American farmers can lool
forward to the certainty of great merchant ma
rne. built in American shipyards and carryin.
Their products the world and afte
the war
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-09
USE SNAKES IN war
California Man Has Scheme to
Kill Off Huns.
Lonesome Jack" Says Side Winders
Would Extermlnate Whole
Boche Army.

Los Angeles, Cal.-"LonesOme JACK
Altman, king Of all rattlesnake catch
ers. offers to gather 10000 side winders
or hornet rattlesnakes If the govern
ment Will let him. dump them INTO
trenches vacated to the Germans Dy
the Americans and let the snakes 90
the rest. The side winder Is death
Gealer extraordinary, strikes three
times as fast as any other RATHER. and'
unlike others, does not act on the heart
but paralyzes the nerves within ~
minutes.
Altman would have no trouble In
gathering them in Arizona and the I'm
periaI valley. he says. The Germans
Z they possessed such deadly weap-
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-09

curious jars and vases which they
nodded. one of these pieces of pot
terry. ornamented with the figures Of
two monkeys. possessed positively I'M
canny properties. When water was
poured into the vessel or ont of it,
sounds like the Screeching of monkeys
were heard. Another vessel was deco
rated with The figure Of a bird that
uttered appropriate notes when water
was poured into il. Another was orna-
n,ented with a cat that meowed; an
other with snakes that Missed. An in
genious water jar bore the form of an
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-09
Henry Johnson, CoIored Soldier,
Split a Lot of Hun Skulls
With the Weapon.
WAS ADOPTED FROM MOROS
War Department Now Issues the Ter
ribls cIeaver to Some of Our
Troops, and the Germans
hnn't Like 1t at All.

Washington.-A year ago Henry
Johnson, q cOlOred citizen of Albany,
n. u, was peddling ice, coal and WOOD
in cOntented Obscurity. Today Henry
Johnson, a soldier of the United States.
is wearing the coveted French war
cross with palms, because he proved
himself brave man, and because at
the critical moment he got his hands
on a bOlO knife.
The cable has told of Henry's ex-
ploit-how on night duty with COM
paniOn in an American listening post
he took on" "a marauding Germans
i'm swift rough-and-tumble, killed
some of them with his rifle, bombed
others from his basket of grenades.
and then, even after he had been
wounded. split so many skulls with his
bOlO that all the enemy left on their
feet after meeting Henry became sud-
denly and violently hOmesick.
The bolO knife which Henry welded
so well weighs one pound and three
ounces without its scabbard, and has
Il broad 1i-inch blade. 1t is sharpened
to razor edge, and near the end
runs abruptly to thrusting point. But
is its cleaving power. Most of the
weight of the knife is distributed along
the back of the blade.
Americans first ran up against the
bOlo in the Philippines. Over there 1t
was originally an agricultural tool, just
as the machete was in Cuba, and
blacksmiths at country crossroads ham
mered it out infinitely and in all sorts
Of forms. The kris" with its curly
blade is form of bOlO, and the cam
plan" is a bigger bOlO.
Was Weapon of the Moros.
1t was up among the MOrOs that II
was developed for war purposes. In
the underbrush it proved very ter
rible weapon, as many trooper found
to his cost. A stroke in the trOpica
night-just One-cOunted for major
American casualty. After while Oul
soldiers found there was no particu
lar knack In the Malay use of the bOlt
they could not master. Then they be
gan to capture bolOs. And so, afte
the war ended, bOlOs kept coming bacl
to the United States as souvenirs.
But 1t was not until 1910 that tn
war department tried the experiment
Of issuing the bolO knife as regula
| mart of the American equipment.
was used and tested by our men 4
Mexico, but there it was employee
chiefly as a tool rather than q weapon
1t was not until our khaki-garbed boy
went down into the French trenche
that the bOlO knife proved its right t
be considered "the last line of defense
and a life-saver to the man who uI
sheathed it.
Our cOlOred troops display a speeds
aptitude and affection for this weapon
The white fighter is inclined to rel
upon his automatic pistol In an emeI
gency at close quarters, but the co
Ored man In uniform takes as natura
" to the bOlO knife as he does to-
well, as he does to the name Of M
Johnson"
Issued to U. s. Troops.
The bolO knife Is issued to on
troops in two sizes-the smaller siz
of the type which Henry Johnson use'
and a larger knife employed exclusive
ly by field artillery batteries. Til
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-08-09
IDENTIFICATION TAG

There has been good deal Of I'M
favorable comment in the navy on the
prescribed method of wearing the
Identification tag on account of the be-
hayior of the woven wire necklace.
which rides UP on the neck and incon-
veniences the wearer in various ways.
These features have been overcome at
the naval training station. San Fran
cisco. by lengthening the wire so AS
10 permit of its being worn bandoleer