Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-03-07
nine PAIRS SHOES
F0Rf|. .PFiERsH|NG MEN
GENERAL ASKS FOR LARGE
FooTGEAR SUPPLY FOR SOL.
DfERs IN FRANCE.
AlRPLANEs MIsHAPs ARE: FEW
With Hundreds of Men Learning to
Fly, War Department Records Show
Number Of Accidents at Military. Avl.
alton Fields Comparatively Small.


Fly, War Department Records Show
Number of Accidents at Military Avl.
alton Fields Comparatively Small.
Washington.-Gen Pershing :, has
requested shipment of 1880 pairs Of
shoes for each $4,000 men monthly,
which is approximately nine pairs Of
SHOES per man per year. This guam
tfty is in excess of actual consumption
and is being used to build up re-
serve for all troops in France. When
such a supply is accumulated, the
quantities per man will be reduced.
The quartermaster generals de-
partment now has on hand and due
on outstanding contracts. 7,564,OOO
field shoes and 7,S73OOO marching
shoes. 1t will be necessary to secure
more than million additional shoes
during the year.
Records of the war department. show
that from the beginning of training in
June, 1917, to, February %, 1918, the
fatalities at military aviation fields
In this country have been 81; 10 Of
ficers and 30 cadets killed in training
flights, and 10 men killed in unauthor-t
lied flights and ground accidents.
Since the training began in the
United States, student aviators have
flown considerably more than 100000
miles. Hundreds of hitherto ineN3
perienced men have been learning to-
fiy.. Their early flights are under the
guidance OF instructors, and prior to-
these flights two or more months are,
spent IN preliminary ground work.,
There comes IL time, however, when
every student aviator must take his
machine M alone, and every precau-:
tion has been taken to reduce the
number of accidents and safeguard
the aviator in his solo flights.
The fuel administration is carrying
on a series of conferences covering all
industries Which use large quantities.
of fHel With view TO learning the re-
quirelnents of each line during 1913,
The industries themselves are playing
leading part in these discussions.
The aim of the fuel administration Isl
10 arrive at a percentage of produce
tion which. under the circumstances,
will be satisfactory to the manufac-
turers and their worllmen, but which
will not represent consumption of
fuel for the manufacture of supplies
not needed during the current year.
The order which has been issued
limiting the use of fuel for the pro-
0nctinn M window er1a fo
of the amount manufactured in 1917!
is the result of one of these confer
ences. A survey of the field indicated.
that while not more that 5,O00000i
boxes of window glass would be used
In 1918, competitive conditions We're
likely to result in an overmanufacturel
of. at least 100000 boxes.
1t is through this system of limita-
ton, together with large economy in
the methods of using fuel, that the
fuel administration expects to supple
ment the production of coal this year.
tits hoped, as the railroads strengthen
their facilities, that it will be possible
to mine and transport larger guam
ttty OF coal this year than last. but it
is through these methods of reducing
consumption that repetition of this
years shortage is expected to be pre-
vented.
Rifle and cartridge production in the
United States has developed in volume
and in Quality on scale assuring the
satisfactory equipment of the army,
according to a statement authorized by
the secretary of war.
To achieve the rifle and ammunition
production program the government
has expended or has obligated itself to
eXpend during 10 months of war,
S400,000,000, and 200 officers, $4,000
men, and 10000 women have been en-
gagged exclusively in the manufacture
of rifles and cartridges. Two govern
ment plants and three privately owned
plants are engaged in making rifles
and one government plant and nine
privately owned plants are engaged in
cartridge manufacture. Ordnance ex-
perts in this country and in Europe.
are in agreement that the United
States army is being equipped with
two Of the best three rifles in tine
world.
"Stars and Stripes" is the name of
the weekly newspaper being published
\ in France for American troops. under
Nthe direction of the intelligence sec
ihon, Practically the entire paper is
devoted to American news, including.
a daily radio report of about 1,400
words supplied by the committee on
public information to. the French gov
ernnent.
Exports of corn to Canada for feed
ing and manufacturing purposes have
been limited to those varieties and
grades which are not suitable for seed
purposes. "a
Divisional athletic directors who
have received commissions will accom-
pany their contingents to France, ac-
cording to the war department COM
mission on training camp activities.
Boxing instructors will not be sent
with the troops, as at present the need
for these men Is considered greater
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