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The Washington herald., 1918-10-12
Motor Transport Service.

Some conception of the marvellous
growth of the motor transport serv-
ice In the United States Army may
be gained from the following COM
parative figures, recently given out
by Col. Drake. of the newly organ
lied corps: In March, 1916, the army
had 100 trucks; In March, 1917, 1900;
in March. 1918, 1000, and In March
of 1919 1t is predicted there will be
300, 900 trucks in service, with a per-
sonnel of 10000 officers and men.
There has recently been sent out a
call for teachers and lawyers. to be
trained for duty as instructors. The
response to this call has already
brought a large number of appli-
cants, and at the rate they are COM
ing in the demand will soon be fully
met. There exists a still greater
demand for men possessing tech
nical knowledge, who can be utilized
in training the personnel for driv-
ers and repairmen. Col. Drake in
sists that no man shall be sent over
seas who does not have the qualifi-
cations for all-around duty as driv-
er, capable of making minor re-
pairs. The teachers and lawyers
who are brought into the service
will instruct the men in their nom
technical duties, such as paper worA.
military etiquette and the routine
army regulations, or in other words
the ethical side OF being a soldier.
Twelve or fifteen of such instructors
will bek detailed to each camp.
Schools have already been estab-
lished at Jacksonville. Fla, and at
Fort Sheridan. near Chicago, for
the training of both officers and
men, and numerous other schools
will be established throughout the
country in the near future. A sta
ton for spare parts and repairs is
located at Camp Holabird. near Bal
timore, and bases have been estab-
lished in France. The newcomers
will receive a three-weeks' course of
instruction in camp in this country
and the best men will be selected
as drivers with rank of corporal A
second driver will be assigned to
each truck, a necessary precaution.
The Washington herald., 1918-10-12
War Service Recognition for
NAVY.

At last the officers and men of the
navy are to have a mark of recog-
milton for actual service in the war
zone, and for wounds received at
at the hands OF the enemy. This
paper commented some months ago
upon the unjust discrimination
which permitted members of the
army to wear a foreign service or
wound chevron, while the naval
personnel incurring the same. or
perhaps greater, risks in running
the gauntlet OF the Hun submarines,
had nothing to distinguish them
from those who remained ashore in
this country. A board Of naval
officers recently considered this
question, which is somewhat more
involved than the plan adopted for
foreign service in the army. since
1t was necessary to provide the limi-
tations of service afioat within which
the chevrons were to be awarded.
The order issued by Secretary Dan
iels this week settles the matter by
fixing the geographic limits within
which service must have been per-
formed for a period of three months.
The order is retroactive to include all
service in the war zone since April
The Washington herald., 1918-10-12
Army and Navy News

s, 1917: and further provides recog-
milton for those who have incurred
the risk Of the enemy submarines
In home waters since May of this
year. The war service chevron in
cludes also members of the Aviation
Corps who have made flights In
search Of enemy vessels In home
waters. The chevron, which Is iden-
tical for both war service and for
wounds. consists OF an inverted "
shaped bar. OF gold braid for blue
and yellow silk lace or braid for
white uniforms. and rs worn on the
lower half of the sleeve, on the left
sleeve for war service, and on
the right sleeve for wounds. A
wound chevron may be worn for
any wound in action requiring
treatment by a medical officer, and
includes disablement by being gas
sed, providing medical treatment is
necessary.
The Washington herald., 1918-10-12
Increased Pay for Army Officers.

Senator Penrose on Thursday in
troduced a bill Is. 1889 providing
that hereafter the current yearly
pay of officers Of the army OF the
several grades herein mentioned, ex-
elusive of longevity pay. shall be as
follows: Colonel, $500; lieutenant
colonel. 1900; major. $3.50; captain,
$500; first lieutenant, $500; second
lieutenant, s2,2Oo: Provided, That in
no case shall the pay of a colonel
exceed $500; the pay of lieutenant
colonel exceed 5000, or the pay of
major exceed $500.
The Washington herald., 1918-10-12
ORDNANCE DEMONSTRATION
GIVES REAL, WAR THRILLS
All Kinds of Guns, Shells and Bombs Tested
in Maryland Yesterday Before Awed
Munition Makers

Bombs, air bombs of high expIo-
sives, weighing from fifty to 500
pounds, penetrating demolition bombs,
shrapnel bombs, incendiary bombs
mat pierce or scatter continuing flame
at surface contact-America has
them, in thousands, in such numbers
that there are not enough airpIanes
to drop them as fast as they are
produced, and the Ordnance Depart-
ment Is waiting on the airplane pro-
gram now to begin the hail of ex-
plosives over Germany for the final
pyrotechnics of the war.
Ire manufacturers who make these
bombs, at least about seyenty-five
OF them from the Bomb Manufacture
ers' Association, in company with
ordnance and aviation officers of the
United States and Great Britain saw
just how their messages to the Kaiser
were proof-read yesterday at the
great proving grounds of the Ord
nance Department at Aberdeen, Nd.
Shoot Up Old Farm.
Here, with $500 acres Of old farm
land to shoot around in, some 10 OdO
men to shift the scenes, the air full
OF planes to drop the bombs and
watch the projectile flight from can
non, howiezers and trench motars
all decked in streaky comaufla sue
the day was one long assortment of
vying noises, from the swish of the
flying pig out of the Stokes-Newton
mortars to the growing of the large
shells through the outraged
air to the point of burst.
Most of it was technical, to show
10 the manufacturers how defects
were discovered by the tests.
But almost everything on the
Western front was there. Just about
Is 1t is on the battle line, for the
conditions of test are battle condi-
ions and worse. There are more
han twenty types of heavy ord
rance there in addition to the drop
and artillery is tested as
Yell as explosives and projectiIes,
observation Of the high explo-
i've shells and the aerial bombing,
The Washington herald., 1918-10-12
THEATERS IN
GOTHAM OPEN
Amusement Places Not Dis
ease Spreaders, New
York Decides.

New York. Oct. u.-CIosing New
York theaters to combat the spread
of Spanish influenza would be a use
less action and highly injurious TO
the public comfort, DR.. Copeland,
commissioner of health. decided yes
terday, following a conference at his
offices with the leading theatrical
managers Of the city.
DIR. Copeland declared there was no
occasion for panic at this time and
said the closely packed street cars
offered more serious menace than
did the well-ventilated theaters and
motion picture houses. Let our peo-
pie preserve their Poise.'' he urged.
"and go forward in calrnness."
While the theater is an important
part Of American life" declared the
commissioner after the conference,
''and while ii is playing a conspicu-
Gus part in the promotion of the Lib
erty Loan, / am sure no one will
complain, player or manager, thea
trical employee or theater-goer. II the
safety of some part of our public de-
mands the closing of all piayhouses.
However. l cannot believe a people
capable Of resisting diseases in spite
Of transportation crowding and the
impossthility of escaping the neces-
Iary congregations OF our great cItv's
activities, suffer materially from or
derly assemblages in the ordinary
theater.
Proof of Resistance.
Unfortunately, there are manv
moving picture places housed in
The Washington herald., 1918-10-12
R0YALGALAXY
TO ASSEMBLE
Kaiser Will Head Thirteen
Royal Personages at
Berlin Meeting.

Wilhelmstrasse will see many of
their royal majesties" as a result
of the Kaiser's call for a conference
of the sovereigns of all German
states.
Wilhelm himself will be there. of
course. as considerable sovereign.
acting on behalf of the entire en-
pire, the kingdom of Prussia and
the kingdom of Wurtemburg. Prus-
sia has a population of about 4O,-
100000 persons and an area of 1884,
$50 square miles. while wurtem-
burg's population is 2.437,O00 and
the area 5,7S7 square miles. Then
will come all the other puppet prin-
ces, as follows:
Ludwig III. representing Bavaria.
with population of 6.Ss7.291, and
an area of $4,000 square miles;
Friedrich August III, from Saxony,
The Washington herald., 1918-10-12

with various types Of bombs, were
made from tower about sixty feet
high, and the one big thrill of the
day came when, after almost getting
used to seeing the huge black mis-
sles come wabbling down from
point apparently over the tower it
self, the aviators at a thousand feet.
allowing for the momentum of the
bomb to carry 1t within a few hun
dred yards of the tower, one st. rted
directly overhead and burst with
high explosive within a hundred and
fifty yards.
The tower shuddered. So did the
hundred or so persons on it. Even
at that distance and at that height
caps were lifted by the conclusion
and CO staggered against it. Such
tremendous force had shattered the
earth in deep. wide crater that
finely pulverized dirt sifted down
two minutes or more afterward.
The Washington herald., 1918-10-12
Motors and Vehicles Division

Brig. Gen. r. E. Wood, acting
Quartermaster General, announces
the, organization of a motors and
vehicles division in the office Of the
director of purchase. The motors
and vehicles division, of which Col.
Fred Glover is in charge, has re-
sponsibility for and authority over
the procurement of all motor pro-
PEELED vehicles. The motors branch
of the new division will be in charge
OF Col. Edwin S. George. and the We
hicles branch in charge of Col R.
w. Lea. The personnel. records and
equipment of the vehicles and ad-
ministrative branches of the vehicles
and harness division of the Quar-
termaster Corps have been trans
ferred to the motor and vehicle di-
vision.
The Washington herald., 1918-10-12
GOVERNMENT TO STOP
PHONE OVERCHARGES
Nickel Grabbing at All Booths Will
Be Forbidden.

The United States government Is
planning to put a crimp in the
nickel grabbing at hotel and cigar
store telephone pay stations. IT is
prevalent in every city in the conn
try, and scores OF complaints have
been lodged, but the Wire Adminis-
tration OF the Post Ofice Depart-
ment had already taken notice of
the situation and had referred the
matter to its committee on uniform
rates, of which David ]. Lewis is
chairman.
The practice has been for opera
tors running switchboards at public
pay stations to charge twice the
franchise rate for city calls. II the
established rate is cents the
charge has been 10 cents; and il
the rate has been 10 cents, the
charge has been 20 cents.
In some few States the public
service commissions have regulated
this abuse, as in Ohio where the paw
stations in hotels are restricted to a
S-cent charge on city calls.
The Washington herald., 1918-10-12

President Wilson and Gen. Per-
shing will receive emblem pins as
members of the Watchmen of Amer
lea, the jewelers. organization that
Is promoting a nationwide cam
paiGn for punctuality in industry
and every department of civil life
as an effective aid to the nation in
winning the war. The pins repre-
sent watch dial enclosing the ma
tional shield of arms, with a scroll
drawn diagonally across the Stars
and Stripes bearing the slogan of the
Watchmen's campaign. "On Time
in War Time"
The Washington herald., 1918-10-12
BRITISH AIR MINISTRY
FOR LIBERTY MOTORS
American Engine Wins Out in 100.
Hour Test FLIGHT.

The British Air Ministry has ofn-
cially gone on record in praise of the
Liberty motor and American-made
De Haviland airplanes. william c.
Potter. acting derector of aircraft
production, last night made public
the following cablegram from the
British Air Ministry. which was re-
ceived by the British Air Mission in
Washington:
After 100 hours flying, one engine
Liberty was stripped and found to
pc IN very good condition. Tests
have been made in the air IN ne
Haviland ga, and De HayiIand 10
machines. Engines have performed
uniformly and satisfactorily in these
tests Information officially expressed
-FOUR months ago to effect that engine
would prove satisfactory In service
fully confirmed"
The Washington herald., 1918-10-12
MEASURE AIMED AT
STACKER OFFICERS
Bill Entered to Have Senate Confirm
All Commissions.

The Senate Committee on Military
Affairs yesterday agreed to report a
bill by Senator McKellar to require
confirmation by the Senate of all
appointments of commissioned off,
GERS in the army. The present law
provides for confirmation only Of
those above the rank Of lieutenant
colonel. The bill seeks to repeal
this law and substitute the follow
ing:
That all commissioned officers
shall be appointed by the President
by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate"
Senators who advocated the passage
of the bill contended that If the bill
were now the law great many
young men of draft age who have
succeeded in getting so-called slack
err commissions would have failed
to secure confirmation by the Sem
ate. They expressed the belief that
If all the appointments to commits
sions were subjected to the scrutiny
of the Senate the service would be
kept free from many unworthy of
being officers and the corresponding
diminution in the ranks of the
draftees would be met
The Washington herald., 1918-10-12
Watch the Little Pimples
They are Natures Warning

ders- And the one remedy which has
no equal as a purifier is S. S. s., the
purely vegetable blood medicine,
which has been on the market for
more than fifty years. 1t is sold by
druggists everywhere.
II you are afflicted with any form
Of skin disease, do not expect TO be
cured by lotions, ointments, salves
and other local remedies, as they
cannot possibly reach the source of
the trouble. which is IN the blood.
Begin taking S. S. S. today, and
write a complete history of your
case to our chief medical adviser who
will give you special instructions.
without charge. Write at once to
Swift Specific Co., AL Swift Lebora-
tory, Atlanta. Ga--Adv.
The Washington herald., 1918-10-12
with its 10000 nersons and 5.7s7

with its 4,SO6,000 persons and 5,7s7
square miles; Frederick II. from the
grand duchy OF Baden, 2.l42,OO0 per-
sons, 6,S1s square miles; Ernst Louis,
from the grand duchy Of Hesse,
l,2S2,000 persons. 2,96S square miles:
Frederick Francis ", from the
grand duchy OF Mecklenburg-S Sch
werin, 6S9,95S persons, 5.O6S square
miles; Adolph Friedrich VI. from
the grand duchy Of Mecklenburg-
Strelitz; Frederick August, from the
Ernst, from SAKE Weimar, $4,000
persons, 2,4S2 square miles; William
Ernst, from SAKE wejmer, $4,000
persons, 1887 square miles; FIied-
rich II from the duchy of Aahalt,
$4,000 persons, SIS square miles;
The Washington herald., 1918-10-12
Unsishtiy and Disfiguring Signals
of Bad Blood,

Don't close your eyes to the warn
ing which nature gives, when un-
slightly pimples appear on your face
and other parts of the body.
Not only are these pimples and
splotches disfiguring. but they lead to
serious skin diseases that spread and
cause the most discomforting irri-
tation and pain. Sometimes they fore
tell Eczema, boils, blisters. scaly
eruptions and other annoyances that
burn like flames Of fire, and make
You feel that your skin is ablaze.
When these symptoms appear on
any part of the body, take prompt
steps 70 rid the blood OF these disor-
The Washington herald., 1918-10-12

Ernest Augustus, from the duchy
Of Brunswick. $4,000 persons. 1.424
square miles; Ernst II, from fhe
duchy OF Saxe-AltenburE, 2l6.0OO
persons and 5ll square miles.
Charles Edward. from the dUchy-of
Saxe-CoburK-Gotha. $4,000 persons
and 762 square miles; and BernErd.
from the dUchy OF SaNe-NIeiningen
with 27S,oOO persons and S53 square
miles.
This makes thirteen OF their
majesties," excepting the Kaiser.
The Washington herald., 1918-10-12
Increased Pay for West Pointers.

The House Military Committee has
favorably reported the bill providing
for an increase in the pay OF cadets
at the Military Academy from $500
to $500 per annum. The bill is made
retroactive to apply from July /, 1915.
The Washington herald., 1918-10-12

London-AleNander KerenslCy IL to
have a good position in England and
remain in this country, ii Is an
nounced.
The Washington herald., 1918-10-12

AS result OF Australian govern
ments plan to supply retail butchers
with frozen meat prices on the Syd-
ney market have dropped consider
The Washington herald., 1918-10-12
Proof of Resistance.

Unfortunately, there are many
moving picture places housed in
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-08-15
Rogers-Green.

Thursday evening of last week
Lawrence R. Green, of four miles
south of this city and Miss Dora
Rogers, of this city, were united in
marriage at the first Baptist church,
Rev. J. w. Alexander officiating.
They were attended by Miss Marie
Deweese and Mr.. Oscar Scifers. Al
ter the ceremony dainty three
course luncheon was served at the
home of the BRIDES mother, Mrs. J. o..
Rogers, on East Fit Scott street.
The happy couple left on the train
that night for Kansas City, where
they spent a short honeymoon. At
ter the first of September they will be
at home to their friends on the farm
of the groom four miles southeast of
the city.
The bride is the youngest daughter
of Mrs. J. O. Rogers, of this city and
is a very charming and accomplished
young lady. She attended the Butler
High School and was graduate OF
the Warrensburg Normal school and
for the last few years had been
teacher in the Washington school OF
this city.
The groom is young man OF the
most exemplary habits. He is all in
dustrious farmer of Lone Oak town
ship, where he has leased good farm
and where the happy couple will be
at home after the first of September.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-08-15
NUMBER A.

thought best to save what little there
was left for emergencies. Old wells
that have been shut up for years are
being opened and the water used for
washing and for stock water.
One OF the most serious results
following the shutting off of the
water will be the effect it will have
on the ice situation. Manager Let
ton, of the Home Produce company,
informs us that the water in their
we'll will last but few days longer
and at the end of that time they will
be forced to close the plant. Every
effort has been made to have ice
shipped in from the outside, but it
was impossible to get but one car and
that was soon gone. The company
has small amount of ice on hand
and that will be saved for sick per-
sons and babies and for the meat
markets.
A good big soaking rain for about
- hours is about the only remedy
for the situation.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-08-15
Notice Of Meeting of Congressional
Committee.

A meeting of the Democratic Con-
gressional Committee of the Sixth
Missouri Congressional District is
hereby called to meet at the law Of
flee of Parks & Son in Clinton, Mis-
souri,, on Tuesday, August the Goth, at
o'clock p. m., as required by law and
for the purposes of organization un-
der the Statute as we'll as to transact
any other business which may prop
erly come before said committee.
Payton A. Parks,
Chairman Dem. Cong. Com.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-08-15
SHOT HIMSELF
L. c. Weeks Dead From Self Inflct-
ed Bullet Wound.

Leonard c. Weeks, aged IS, stock
salesman of Kansas City committed
suicide a; his room in The Inn in this
city early Tuesday morning, ~
shooting himself in the head with a
80 Colt automatic pistol. For the
past year Mr.. Weeks had at intervals
been the victim OF hallucinations and
shortly before shooting himself
imagined he saw two strange men at
the windows OF his room. According
to his wife, Mr.. Weeks father died,
the victim OF insanity About one
year ago Mr.. Weeks became the vic
tim of hallucinations and was for a
time confined in sanitarium at To-
peka, Kansas, on that account.
MIR. and Mrs. Weeks drove to this
city from, Kansas City Monday night
in their car arriving here at about
2:3o o'clock Tuesday morning and be-
ing unable to secure a double room
took separate rooms and retired.
Mrs. Weeks testified at the coroner's
inquest that being exhausted from the
trip and taking care of Mr.. Weeks.
who had been suffering from stomach
trouble, she went to sleep almost i'm
mcdiately and was awakened about
an hour later by Mr.. Weeks COM
planning that he heard voices outside
his room and that people were look
ing in his windows Mrs. Weeks
tried to soothe him and urged him to
20 to bed, but he insisted that men
were outside his windows and rang
for night clerk Clay Broaddus, who
assured him that no one was there.
After Mr. Broaddus LETT the room
he continued to complain OF people
watching him and told his wife that
if he was again having hallucinations
she had better be prepared for it. tie
also mentioned some of their friends
here and told her repeatedly that
neither she nor he would ever see
them again. AT about $50 he drank
some wine thinking it would quiet his
nerves and let him sleep but was TN
able to keep it on his stomach
Finally he laid down upon the bed
and asked Mrs. Weeks to lie down
beside him. This she started to do,
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-08-15
The Water Situation.

The water situation in Butler is
about as bad as it we'll could be.
Tuesday the standpipe was filled and
is being held for fires and the supply
to the city shut off. The long con-
tinued dry weather caused the springs
and small streams that feed the
Miami river above the pumping sta
ton to go dry and the supply of water
above the dam was soon exhausted,
or so nearly exhausted that it was
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-08-15
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE
ORGANIZES
Officers Elected and Executive Com
mittee Appointed.

The Bates County Democratic Cen
trail Committee met in Butler Tues.
day afternoon, August 13, and per
fccted all organization by the cleo
tion OF w. G.. Dillon, chairman A. 3
Burlington, secretary; and +. )
Grimsley. treasurer.
An executive committee of seven
members was appointed to consist OF
the chairman, secretary and treasurer
and w. p. Miller, Dan Crabb, Fred
Cecil and Fred Gilbert.
Every township was represented
The members of the committee are:
Mingo-Walter Staley
Grand Rivcr-H. A. Harrison
Deer Creek-T. L. Askew
East Boone--H. d. Chambers
West Boone-Edmond Bayse
West Pointed Miller
Elkhart-A. A. Ferguson
Mound-W. G. Dillon
Shawnee-H. P. Cox
Spruce-A. B. Burlington
Summit--W. P. Miller
Deepwater-J. NJ. kasll
Mt. Pleasant-W. X. Morrison
Charlotte-T. S. Grimsley
Homcr-D. A. Bean
Walnut. F. Cecil
New Home-W. A. Woods
Lone Oak-l'rcd Gilbert
Pleasant Gap-V. ]. COMPTON q
Hudson-II. I. Pratt
kockvillc-I.. NJ. Bowen
Prairie-W. O. Griffith
Osagc--Danicl Crabb
Howard-fIarry Curtis