Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-03-08
mine PAIRS SHOES
FOR PERSH|NG MEN
GENERAL ASKS FOR LARGE
FooTcEAR SUPPLY FOR SOL
piERs IN FRANCE.
AIRPLANE MIsHAPs ARE FEW
With Hundreds Of Men Learning to
Fly, War Department Records Show
Number Of Accidents at Military AvI-
alton Fields Comparatively Small.

Washington.-Gen. Pershing has
requested shipment of 1880 pairs of
shoes for each 25.00O men monthly,
which Is approximately nine pairs of
shoes per man per year. This guam
rFty Is in excess of actual consumption
and is being used to build up a re-
sssrve for all troops In France. When
ssYs,h supply is accumulated. the
quantities per man will be reduced
The quartermaster generals de-
Isartment now has on hand and due
on outstanding contracts, 100000
Geld shoes and 7,S73,000 marching
shoes It will he necessary to secure
~sAore than a million additional shoes
during the year.
Records of the war department show
chat from the beginning of training in
June, 1917, to February %, 1918, the
fatalities at military aviation fields
Su this country have been 81; 10 Of
Bcers and 20 cadets killed In training
flights. and IL men killed in unauthor-
tied flights and ground accidents.
Since the training began In the
Cuited States. student aviators have
flown considerably more than 100000
miles. Hundreds of hitherto inexs
Nerienced men have been learning to
sIy. 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 a time, however, when
every student aviator must take his
sHachine up alone. and every precau-
zion 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
AHstustries which use large quantities
sssf fuel, with view to learning the re-
'quirements of zach line during 1918.
The industries themselves are playing
n leading part in these discussions.
The aim of the fuel administration Is
10 arrive at percentage of produc-
ton which, under the circumstances,
will be satisfactory to the manufac-
sTIrers and their workmen. 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
7frHiting the use of fuel for the pro-
tiuction OF window glass to so per cent
OF the amount manufactured in 1917
Is the result OK one of these confer
ences. A survey of the field indicated
that while not more that 100000
tsoxes of window glass would be used
IN 1918. competitive conditions were
atkesy to result in an overmanufacture
of at least 100000 boxes.
II is through this system of linita-
'tien, together with large economy in
the methods Of using fuel, that the
fuel administration expects r, supple
'nsent the production of coal this year.
III is hoped, as the railroads strengthen
their facilities, that it will be possible
TO mine and transport larger guam
fifty Of coal this year than last, but 1t
SIS through these methods of reducing
consumption that repetition of this
years shortage is expected to be pre-
vented.
Rifle and cartridge production in the
Unified States has developed in volume
and in quality on scale assuring the
satisfactory equipment of the army,
according TO statement authorized by |
fine <ocretnrv Of war