The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-01-18
SECURE MUNITIONS SITE
BIG POWDER MILL WILL BE
ERECTED AT HADLEYs BEND,
ON CUMBERLAND RIVER.
Gen. Croker Closes Options on Site
and Places D. C. Jaekllns, Of Call
fornia, In Charge OF Work, With
Orders to Rush.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF a gov
eminent powder plant at Hadley's
Bend OF the Cumberland river, near
Nashville, was announced at Wash.
ington, d. c., by Gen. Crozier, chief
Of the ordnance bureau of the war
department. Construction will be
started Immediately on the plant,
which will cost about 100000, 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 pro.
duction basis at the earliest possible
moment.
The government has taken over op-
tons obtained on the property in No
vember by 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 c. Jackling, 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 Tonnes
see.
Plans of the war department to
rush the big Hadleys Bend ordnance
powder plant to the earliest possible
completion are we'll under way, and
within the next month no doubt
large force of workmen will be put
TO work.
Daniel c. 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 d.
partment. has sent to the county ad.
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.
ton proposes to handle the food sit
uation.
The state administrator says that
many hotels anil public eating places
are not observing the request of the
federal food administration. A letter
sent out to the various county ad.
illustrators 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 a list of the places where the re-
quests OF the food administration are
alphabetically ignored.
Young Soldier Asks Relief.
]. Fl. Walling, a son OF r. S. Wall |
ing, of McMinnville, has appealed to |
the Tennessee members OF congress |
TO extricate him from what he con-
siders an undesirable predieament in |
the army. He enlisted in the avia.
ton branch of the service and was
told that he would be sent to a
training camp at Detroit Instead he
received orders and railroad pass
10 Camp Meade. Md, where he was
assigned to one OF the companies to
drill in the infantry arm of the
service.