The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-02-02
SECURE MUNITIONS SITE
BIG POWDER MILL WILL BE
ERECTED AT HADLEVs BEND.
ON CUMBERLAND RIVER.
Gen. croxier Closes Options on site
and Places D. G. Jacklins, Of Call.
fornia, in Charge Of Work, With
Orders to Rush.

Nashville blishment of a gov.
eminent powder plant at Hadley's
Bend of the Cumberland river near
Nashville, was announced at Wash.
ington. d. O., by Gen. Crozier, chief
of the ordnance bureau of the war
department. Construction will be
started Immediately on the plant,
which will cost about $60,000,000, and
will employ about $4,000 men.
A preliminary force of workers al
ready has been ordered to Nashville
and the plant will be put on a pro.
duction basis at the earliest possible
moment.
The government has taken over OPP
lions obtained on the property in No
vember by a representative of the
Dupont Powder company.
Secretary Baker announced last
month that the war department had
decided ON the establishment of a
number of powder plants to supple
ment the output of private manufac-
turers Daniel G. lacking, of San
Francisco, who was named at that
time as general director of the prof.
ect, will take charge personally of the
construction Of the plant in Tennes-
| see.
Plans of the war department to
rush the big Hadley's Bend ordnance
powder plant to the earliest possible
completion are well under way, and
within the next month no doubt a
large force of workmen will be put
| to work.
Daniel G.. Jackling, prominent cop
| per king and construction expert, who
has offered his services to the gov
eminent in the present war emer-
gency, will have charge of the enor.
nous task of building the largest sim
gle powder plant ever constructed at
one time in this country.
Sends New Rules for Hotels.
The federal food administration de-
partment has sent to the county adj
ministrators copies of the govern.
ment regulations governing hotels,
restaurants, clubs, dining cars and
other eating establishments of the
state, and also a general plan Of how
the United States food administra,
tion proposes to handle the food sit
uation.
| The state administrator says that
| many ~hoteis AMI pablsc+ eating places
are not observing the request Of the
federal food administration. A letter
sent out to the various county ad
ministrators yesterday requested that
they ascertain the names of those
public eating places, hotels, restau
rants, ETC., which are loyalty support
ing the food administration by OBJ
serving in good faith its requests. To
each will be sent attractive signs
both for outside and inside use. The
federal administrator also desires to
get list of the places where the re
i quests of the food administration are
alphabetically ignored.
Young Soldier Asks Relief.
| ]. H. Walling, son of r. S.. Wall
ing, of McMinnville, has appealed tc
the Tennessee members of congress
to extricate him from what he con
siders an undesirable predicament In
the army He enlisted in the avia
ton branch of the service and was
told that he would be sent to Q
training camp at Detroit. Instead he
received orders and railroad pass
to Camp Meade, Md, where he was
assigned to one of the companies te
drill in the infantry arm of the
service.