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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-06-14

The gas defense service is now manu-
featuring about 5000 horse gas masks
per day. These are being sent to
France, and it is expected that within
a short time every horse connected
with the American expeditionary
forces will be equipped with the new
masks.
The gas defense service has a com
pletely equipped factory for the manu-
facture of the masks. In less than
three weeks a building was selected
and the factory was producing masks.
The Introduction of riveting machinery
has done away with the heavy hand
sewing of the frame which supports
the masks on the faces of the horses.
The masks are so constructed that no
metal or chemically impregnated parts
can chafe the horse,
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-06-14

The restriction en the Importation of
crude rubber has been followed by re-
strictions on importation of four com.
modities possessing some of the char
acteristics of rubber, and capable UNI
der some circumstances of being used
as substitutes for natural rubber.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-06-14

''As the latest wonder of the world
London has taken to baseball" says
a committee on public information
representative in London. THE Eng
lish never before had much use for
our great game. They called it an ex-
aggerated form of FOUNDERS and Won
dered what the noise was all about,
but the American and Canadian sol
diers in England have been educating
them.
"A regular league of eight teams has
started summer schedule, and the
English public is learning what it has
missed. Big crowds witness the game
which is played every Saturday, and
the sport bids fair to become widely
popular Here is the way Thomas
Burke, the short-story writer, reports
game in the London Star of May
81.
Last week l discovered baseball.
The match between the Army and
Navy teams was my first glimpse of a
pastime that has captivated a CONT
nent, and can well understand it's APP
peal to modern temperament. Be
lieve me, it's good goods. And the
crowd l had heard and read much of
baseball fans and their method of root
ing, but my conceptions were nothing
near the real thing. The grandstands,
crowded with army and navy fans,
bristling with megaphones and tossing
hats and demoniac faces, would have
made superb subject for Autograph
by Sir Frank Bragwyn.
The game got hold of me before
the first pitched ball. The players in
their hybrid costumes and huge gloves,
the catcher in his gas mask, and the
movements of the teams as they prac-
ticed runs shook me with excitement.
Then the game began and the roofing
began. In past years | have attended
various football matches in mining dis
tricts where the players came in for a
certain amount of Raging, but they
were church services compared with
the furious abuse and hazing handed
to any unfortunate who failed to play
ball.
Ihere was, Tor example, an expo
sive, reverberating "A-h-h-h-h-h' which
l have been practicing in my back yard
ever since, but without once catching;
its true quality. You should have
heard Admiral Sims, as college yell
leader, when the Navy made home,
run hit, with his Alta boy; oh, alta
way to play ball. and when they got
an error he sure handed the Navy
theirs.
Eyes; I've got it. From now on I'M
a fan. I'm going to see every baseball
match played anywhere near London
| shall never be able TO watch with ex'
element cricket or football match
after this; it'd be like tortoise race
Come along with me to the next match
and join me in roofing and in killing
the umpire"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-06-14

The army ordnance department has
negotiated approximately 1900 con.
tracts since this country entered the
war, involving within $175,00o,O0O of
the total funds directly available for
the department for the present fiscal
year--$3,3S3, 2S6045. Additional con-
tracts totaling $1,503. 703. TAI have been
entered into on the authority of con-
gress pending appropriation of an
amount aggregating $1,671 .466. $50.
khe magnitude of the task of the
ordnance department financially is evil
denced by the disbursement recently in
a single day of more than S25. 600 900
on ordinary contract vouchers. Dis
bursements for the month of April,
1918, ran to $3.50, 1884, 1863, an interesting
amount as compared with the $685.
264 disbursed by the ordnance depart
ment in April, 1917. These disburse-
ments were made at the ordnance Of
flee in Washington. Amounts dis
bursed at government arsenals are not
included.
One check recently drawn by the ord
nance disbursing officer for ordnance
material was for $1S,75O,00O. One re-
QUESTION made recently by this same
officer on the treasury was for $780,
100000. This is the largest single requi
sition ever made by any United States
disbursing officer.
Prior to two months ago, before the
ordnance department established its IL
district offices which zoned the country
to expedite payments to contractors
and relieve the strain upon the main
Office in Washington, the disbursing
officer at Washington signed from 500
to 5000 checks day.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-06-14

In Bavaria the monthly meat ration
has been cut 20 per cent-from 1000
to 800 grams-according to German
newspapers. The monthly meat ration
in Saxony has been reduced from 500
to 700 grams. Public officials are re-
ported in the Prussian press as discus
sing the possibility of further reduc-
ton of the bread ration in Prussia.
A Munich paper reports that from
the beginning of the war TO March /,
1918, Bavarian hog stocks have de-
creased from 2,106,312 to 766,391 head.
The Danish hog census shows a de-
crease from 1851 900 hogs July u,
1917, to $4,000 December 5, 1917, or a
decrease of one-third the number at
the beginning of the war.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-06-14

Because of the instruction of gas Of
ficers who have been at the various
camps for the last six months. the
troops which are going forward to
France are well posted on methods of
combating gas attacks, says a state
ment authorized by the war depart
ment. A group of British gas officers
has been in this country since last
summer. One of these men has been
at each of the training camps, advising
and assisting the division gas officer.
All the men going overseas are sup
piled with gas helmets. Under the di-
vision gas officers and their assistants,
the men are drilled in the use of
masks, taught how to detect the pres
ence of gas, and given actual expert
ence with different sorts of gases.
Mimic gas shells and cloud attacks,
used often at night in connection with
high explosives, help to make the train
ing realistic.
The United States has been able to
build on the experience of the British
and French, to whom gas attacks were
unknown when they entered the war.
No American troops have been sent to
the front without practical experience
in defending themselves against gas.
The training of instructors in gas de-
Tense includes course of about one
commissioned first lieutenants.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-06-14

One of the interesting developments
of the war, according to a statement
authorized by the war department, is
the rapid expansion of the various bu-
reaus of the war department AT the
outbreak of the war there were less
than 5000 employees on duty. The
number now is approximately $4,000,
an increase of 800 per cent. While this
represents a tremendous expansion,
the increase in the army itself has been
more than 1,500 per cent.
Only four out of every 100 officers
in the service were in the army at the
time the war began.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-20
AWFUL STORY OF
HUN BARBARITY-
BY SURVIVOR

London, Aug. 20.-Nine sailors, four
Of whom were dying of wounds, left
by a German submarine commander
to perish on a ramshackle raft in the
North Sea where eight of them died
is the story of Hun barbarity told by
Haakon Gibson, the sole survivors Of
the Norwegian bark Eglinton, now re-
covering in a British naval hospital.
When near death, Ohlson was rescued
by a British motor boat patrolling in
Heligoland blight.
The Eglinton was carrying coal to
Norway when attacked by the subma-
rine firing shrapnel. The captain s
right arm was shattered, the stew
ard was badly wounded in the leg, a
seaman was shot through the BODY,
by splinters.
The ship filled rar4dIy but the crew
put out a raft made of five planks
and supported by barrels A barrel
of water and a case of biscuits were
placed ON the raft; The submarine
came up, fired into the sinking bark
and passed within twenty feet of the
unfortunates as it circled about the
raft.
mot a word did the Huns say to
u.s." said Ohlson, although they
could see our wounded and the plight
we were in. There was a stiff breeze
blowing and I expected the raft to
break up. The submarine steamed
away.
The wounded seaman died soon af-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-20
EMPIRE

The story Of "A Dolls House."
which is featured at the Empire the
atre today, deals with the fortunes OF
q thoughtless young woman reared
by an indulgent father as a doll girl
She weds Eoor lawyer who becomes
ILL To save his life money Is re-
Quired, and the young wife heedlessly
iforges her fathers name to note.
This act subsequently threatens he's
with ruin, and when her husband, on
discovering her guilt, reviles her, her
character undergoes a strange trans
formation and she sees things with
wonderful clarity of vision. When
the husband later seeks to make
amends for his conduct, she realizes
that he has shattered her dreams and
she leaves his house forever. The
psychological emotions attending the
development Of this theme are pfctur-
lied with unusual fidelity to truth, so
that this play in many respects is one
of the most remarkable screen pro-
auctions of the current season.
Tomorrow: Jewel Carmen in 1.-The
Fallen Angel"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-20
ONLY nine SHIPS
HAVE Been SUNK
BY SUBMARINES

Washington, Aug. 20-only nine
ships operated by the Shipping Board
have been sunk by submarines and
their loss with that of all others due
to ordinary marine perils is but frac-
ton OF the total premiums paid for
marine and war risk insurance.
Estimated losses of all kinds suffer-
ed by the Emergency Fleet corpora
ton, which conducts the insurance
bureau amount to about $13,500,00o,
while approximately $30,00O,0o0 in
premiums had been set aside up to
July 20 last
-Four former German vessels, val
ued at s6,750,0oO and five comman-
deered ships, worth $2,850,000 fell
by the sting of the German sea wasp.
Strange events have marked the
submarine warfare and the marine in
surance that helps block it's aims. The
Orleans braved the submarine zone a
short time after the Germans had de-
clared ruthless warfare against all YES
sells entering the ,so-called barred
zones. The vessel was unmarked by
the ridiculous striped effect Germany
ordered American vessels to wear.
This vessel and another freighter, the
Rochester, were the first to show the
Germans, with whom the United
States was not then at war, that the
American merchant marine would
continue to sail under the American
flag in the face Of threats to sink
without warning.
For year both vessels successfully
evaded submarine attacks, although
both were pursued several times.
Within the last six months the enemy
got both, but due to war risk and ma
rine insurance their owners were en-
abled for year to operate without
risk of financial loss.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-20
WHAT'S GOING ON I'm THE WORLD
or THEATRES AND AMUSEMENT
PLAZA

The army, the navy ana the civil
public of Bridgeport sat aghast at the
Plaza theatre last night when for the
first time they were able to witness
an official government review Of what
America has done towArds entering
the great World War. In a master
film taken by the U. s. Signal Corps
and Navy photographers, and also
by the French General Staff, the en-
tire mobilization of Americas forces
is seen in "Pershing's Crusaders"
From the incipient step where the
raw Drawn of America is taken into
the training camps, in the munitions
plants where the first shells were be-
gun and the fires that shrink the
castings on the field pieces burn hot,
to the finished product actually
marching upon the Hun, are shown
with all that vivid elearness of real
ity.
Although there was great difficulty
in procuring this official print, and
audiences last night were kept wait
ing while telephone and telegraph
wires were kept hot between Boston,
New York and Washington, under the
control of the Plaza management and
the courtesy of s. 2. Poll. this master
film finally was shown.
When the Liberty bond preparation
at Washington, that backs Pershing's
army in No Mans Land was shown,
and also the draft organization at
Washington was displayed upon the
film, the enthusiasm of the audience
was unbounded. When however
Pershjng's dough-boys were actually
seen entering the trenches and the air.
plane of Uncle Sam were seen over
head, the audience literally stood up
in their admiration.
The picture, shown at the Plaza
theatre in eight full reels, is one OF
the greatest undertakings ever
known to photoplay. It is para
mount with the government effort and
witnessed last night by many naval
and military men is highly commend
ed as the full review of what now
has been accomplished in every
branch of the military department
An allied war review also appears.
| Besides this big double review
three vaudeville acts appear upon the
stage. Jackson, Walsh and jackson
give comedy song anad dance delights
The Astor Sisters, are novel in a pro
gram of song and talk, and Amanda
Gray in classic and popular song will
a modish wardrobe appeals to al
classes Of audiences.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-20
POLI'S

Lola Fatirna, favorite dancer Of
Sultan Abul Hamid II. of Turkey,
showed her deft skill in Bridgeport
yesterday, at the Poll theatre where
she Is booked for a limited engage
ment. Appearing in the The Sh1ek
with a. big company of oriental dan
GERS, her art was most perfect. None
of the barbaric gestures of the so
eAdIed Turkish dance escaped from
her perfect rhythm of motion. The
wealth of arm symphony and dexter
AtY of her feet gave that charm Wh1ch
All admired. With Ell Dawson, popv
Iular comedian of Canary Cottage,
and a cast of characters suited to the
Itravesty THE S11iek'' proves one OF
the biggest successes of big vaude-
willie season,
On the screen In condensation to
the dancing festival, Hearst Pathe
News shows in quick succession the
handing of the Allies at Vladtvostok.
The Red Cross activities in China, and
other interesting features of the pres
ant war released through official gov
ernment program. As a super-fea-
|ture, the Poh bill offers 1.-The IN
nlaastened Woman" with Grace val
leftlne and Frank Wells, with gal
laxy of stars in the various roles The
Ioffering Is one which will attract
widespread attention throughout the
ranks Of photoplay lovers, 1t IS q
vivid tale of modern life with several
startling cl1maxes.
Lady Tsuda Noy, a charming eno
delicate bit Of OT1entalism, offers
amidst a wealth Of scenic and cos
tune effect some quaint songs in
Different way. =.
Howard and Ross, versatile oanJc
artists, have departed from the usua'
routine of instrumentality. The rem
thine member sings some classics WITT
excellent voice and the voca1ity II
blended by means OF illusion effects
that make the ensemble perfect.
Dutiel and Covey, a pair OF takers
give the machine gun fire Of metro
poiitan novelty and collect applause
Novellan Brothers in a daring ex
hfbttion Of acrobatics high in the al
are breath-teking in their splendid
death defiance.
Hearts Of the World" Griffith
great war drama, taken in the battl
area, is$advert1sed for September l
at Polls,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-20
AMERICA IS
TRUMP CARD
FOR RECRUITS

Dublin, Aug. 20. - Americas par
ticipation in the war is the trump card
used by the Irish Recruiting Council
formed to put into effect the govern
ment's offer to accept $4,000 voIun-
tary recruits from Ireland in place
of three or four times that number of
conscripts.
They are publishing widely the dec
larations of American Cardinals,
Archbishops and Bishops and evil
dence of cordial participation in the
war by Irish Catholic Americans
They point out that the war is as
much Americas and Frances as it is
England's and urge ITishmen to take
a fair share in it.
So far, they seem to have made on
ly a slight impression. Nationalist
declare that if Ireland Is to take an
active part in the war it must first
have home rule.
The Ulster party is willing to ac-
cept conscription.
According to the latest announce
ment of the Government policy the
result may be three months hence, the
forcible application of CONSUMPTION ev-
erywhere in Ireland outside Northeast
Ulster. 1t has been decided to d.
vide Ireland into ten areas and to ap-
portion to each the share of the fifty
thousand recruits it ought to furnish
Any area which furnishes its quota
will be held to have satisfied the claim
upon it, and will be thenceforth free
from the application of CONSUMPTION
1t is regarded as certain that Belfast
and the Northeast area will readily
provide it's share of the voluntary re.
cruits, and doubted whether any othel
part Of Ireland will do So
The result would be that the onl,
part Of Ireland which now declare
its willingness to accept CONSUMPTION
would be the only part free from il
The rest Of Ireland would be a chao
of violent opposition and resistance.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-20
LITTLE BENNY'S
NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE
iIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIlIIHIIIiIIIIIIIIIITIH

I wasent allowed to go out last mite
: on account of not having bin exter
good, and I was setting in the setting
room watching pop adding up num-
bers at dis desk, and all of suddin
] cawffed away down in my throat
like a persin starting to cawff and ony
getting half way.
And I did it about s more times,
and pop kepp on adding up numbers
with his forehed all rinkeled as If he
wasApt having a very good time doing
1t, and I did it about 5 more times,
and pop looked up and unrinkeled his
1orehed and rinkled it agen, saying,
For the love of Pete and his brother
Mike, If you're going to cawff, cawff
amt going to cawff, pop, sed.
Well then wy all this rehearsal? sed
pop. And he started to add up num-
bers agen, and after a vile made
about 3 more little noises in my throat
and pritty soon I made about more
and pritty soon L made about more.
This is more than flesh and bludd
can stand. sed pop, you either cawf
and relieve the sispents or elts cleel
out til bed time.
But you sed I coodent go out, pop
4 sed.
You can tell a CRATE man by thu
ease with wich he changes his mind
sed pop. Meaning I Good go out
WITCH did and Pubs S1mkins AM
Leroy Shooster was setting on Pudse
frunt steps, and sat there with then
and Pubs took little peece of chew
ing gum out of his -pockit not bi
enuff for one to chew on and broa
it into 8 peeces and we all chewe
on It.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-20

terward and we threw his body over.
board. The next morning, after q
sleepless night for all, ne steward died
and then the second mate. We shov.
ed their bodies into the water also.
On the third day the captain died.
Then I must have lost count Of TINA,
for on the afternoon Of the fourth
day I found myself alone with the
chief mate.
81 did my best to cheer him up,
but he only said, I am going down In
to the cabin to get my pipe and
knew his mine '1as goins. He died
that afternoon, and managed to get
the body clear Of the raft
One of the barrel buoys had leak
ed and that end of the raft settled
low in the water. Brine got into the
biscuits and into the barrel of fresh
water.
II was alone one the raft for five
days" Ohlson went on. II didn't see
single ship all that tinlo, must have
been a little delirious, because ia lose
count of the hours. was wet through
At night I'd hear the water swish
ing round me and then would sleep"
On the ninth day he heard distant
firing. He managed to get to his
knees to look about him. There was
the British patrol boat. When Obi
son was taken aboard he collapsed.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-20

Shipments of anthracite were the
highest recorded 0S4.775 tons.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-20

some speak English well, others hes
itatingly, a few not at all.
After this all the Fairgrounds will
take part in playing representative
games. This will be followed by a
flag drill in which all Fairgrounds will
participate, closing with the Star
Spangled Banner.
Prizes will be awarded at 400
o'clock by P. V. Gahan, Supt. of the
Board of Recreation under which or
ganization the above programme is
being carried out
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-20

Mothers Demonstration under the
supervision Of Miss Hazel Coley Hay
man who has had charge of the Moth
ers and Babies Picnics America as
the Melting Pot of the Nations" will
be given in tableaux and prose by
the Mothers and the Babies. Each
nation making up the cosmopolitan
life of Bridgeport will be represented
by grown ups and juniors of that par
ticular nation. In most instances
the mothers will be those who have
spent their girlhood in European
homes. The children in all cases are
American born. Among the mothers
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-20
WEST END

Harry Morey and Betty Blythe in
Tangled Lives" five act vitagraph
feature by James Oliver Curwood is
the feature picture tonight
Fatty ArbuckIe in "Moonshine,"
two reel Paramount cQAnedy will also
be shown.
Tomorrow: Mae Marsh in "All
Woman" five act Goldwyn feature
and "a Battle Royal" two reel Mack
Sennett comedy scream.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-20

All Liberty Bonds Of the first issue
owned by the New York Stock Elk
change have been sold to make way
for the next issue.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-20

Contracts for the construction of
seven steel cargo vessels under the
Dominion governments shipping pro-
gram were approved.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-20

General Humbert, commander of
the French third army, in an inter-
view declared Americans fight with
an ardor unsurpassed"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-20

issued a call for 10000 white men for
limited service.
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