Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-01-25

men passed for military service by To-
cal boards and then rejected by camp
surgeons show that nearly % per cent
Of the final reflections were caused by
defective eyes.
Teeth were responsible for $50 per
cent; hernia, TAT per cent; ear, 5.94
per cent; heart disease, 5.87 per cent;
tuberculosis, 5.37 per cent.
Attempts to evade military duty by
deception regarding physical condition
were very few.
Men With Trades Have Chance for AID.
mission Into Signal Corps
Men qualified along certain lines, al
though registered under the selective-
|service law, may be indicted into the
land division of the signal corps, which
is in need of men for the following du-
ties:
Chauffeurs, motorcycle drivers, and
gas engine repairmen for duty in field
and telegraph battalions; telegraphers,
both wire and radio; telephone men, in
Guiding switchboard operators, tele.
phone repairmen, and men skilled in
testing and repairing telephone lines;
telephone and telegraph linemen; pho
tographers, still and moving; homing-
pigeon men; radio men who are fami-
liar with installing radio apparatus;
men qualified as cooks, clerks, steno-
graphers, blacksmiths, metorologists,
cobblers, cable men, etc.
Men indicted for this division, un-
less otherwise requested by the Chief
Signal Officer of the Army, are sent to
Fort Leavenworth, Kans.
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Manufacture of Shoes in Italy Stand
>ardized by Government
The largest shoe factories in Italy
have started manufacturing the nation
al standard shoes, using leather sup
piled by the ministry of industry, com
merce, and labor. The standard types
were established by the central shoe
committee in Rome, but every factory
is making little notifications, accord
ing to it's means and system Of manu-
featuring.
The government is organizing systems
of sale Of shoes to the public. They
provide for the opening of stores in
the principal italian cities, to be en-
gagged exclusively in the sale Of nation
government authorities. It is likely
that buyers will have to obtain cards.
The private shoe stores will be sup
piled with an adequate number of shoes
and will be granted reasonable com
mission.
$4,000 Colored Men Called Into Army
by Selective-service Law
Eight per cent Of the 9,586,508 men
registered under the selective-service
law are colored. Of these near 2O9,-
600 have been called and more than
10000 have been certified for service.
Out OF every 100 colored men called,
36 were certified for service and 81
were rejected, exempted, or discharged,
while out of every 100 white citizens
called, rs were certified for service.
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German Newspapers Criticizes Punish
ment Of Soldiers Wife
The Committee on Public Informal
ton has made the following translation
of an article appearing in the Bremen
Buerger-Zeitung
"a soldiers wife who had gathered
wood in the common forest Of VALID
kirch, near Freiburg in Breisgau, was
sentenced for the offence in the follow
ing terms:
"'Mrs. Clara Ganter, on June 13,
1917, has removed from the common
forest Of Waldkirch, Sec. I %, one ia
got of dry fir twigs of the value Of 10
pfenning. In punishment thereof she
is sentenced to a fine of l mark and
and one days imprisonment
''The husband of the culp rit has
been for three years at the front, she
herself has four small children to sup
port in the direst poverty. Similar
reports Of punishment should be re-
ported in greater numbers. Our bureau
cracy understands how to employ this
period Of shortage of wood and coal
on large scale for the benefit of the
treasury.'
Color of Cord on Hat Denotes Service
Of Wearer
Just as the sleeve chevrons and bars,
stars, and eagles on the shoulder pro-
claim ranking officers, the hat cord de-
notes the branch of service each pri-
vite has entered.
Light blue signifies Infantry; scarlet,
artillery; yellow, Cavalry buff, quar-
CerWdSCefS corps; scarlet and Wn1Ce,
engineers corps; orange and white, sig
nal corps; scarlet and black, ordnance;
black and white, field clerk; maroon,
medical CORPS: black ad gold, officers;
silver and black, adjutant general q
clerk; green, instructor home guards;
green and white, home guards. These
cords are worn only on service hats.
Cadet aviators wear as hat bands
inch and half white ribbons and on
coat collars insignia representing the
AVIATION branch Of the signal corps,
propeller blades.
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The 16 environments built for the
training of soldiers cost $134,OO0,0 900,
with a net profit to contractors of 2.9S
per cent.
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Government estimates Of the produce