Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-08-21
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WORLD WAR T

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plan Of payment of allotments to sol
dierS' dependents. For instance if a
sergeant receiving $48 allots his fam
lily So the money will be paid direct
by his department. Then the war
risk department will send another
check for the same amount. The
government meets the moun allotted
by the soldier with a minimum of
Sl5 and a maximum of half a months
pay. Should the sergeant allot his
dependents $24 monthly the govern
ment will allot a like sun.
Because of shipments OF so many
articles that spoiled enroute or were
Impractical to the soldiers. needs the
government has allowed shipment on
only such articles as are requested
by the soldier and the request been
approved by his company command
er.
Manufacturers of passenger auto
mobiles have been advised to convert
their plants to 100 per cent war work
by Jan LIST, 1919. The letter was in
response to an offer made by Hugh
Chalmers to place the factories on a
SO per cent basis of consumption. The
war industries board declared that
the present situation regarding steel
and other material needed for war
work gave little assurance for the
supply of material required for the
manufacture of passenger automo-
biles. BY getting on a wal basis the
plants a be assured of a continual
ton of their industry.
The war department. will drop all
insignia and all regulations which up
to the present time have led to the
consideration Of the American army
being composed of regulars, national
army men and national guard units.
In the future all forces will be des-
ignated solely as numerical units of
"the army Of the United States" The
new plan, worked out by Secretary
Baker and the general staff, will in
sure greater solidarity in the admin
~istration of the nations fighting fore
es. In the future, it is said, uniform
ly all men in the army will wear the
simple letters "U. S." 1t is said the
change will greatly aid the officers
and men abroad who have felt that
members of the old regular army
were often inclined to distrust the
ability of the army's newer men.
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The body of an American aviator
shot down beyond the Marine was
completely stripped of all clothing by
the Germans. Even the identifica-
ton tag was removed. The identi-
fication was completed by the advanc-
ing Americans by means of the mans
cap which was found in the wreck
age of the machine nearby.
A monster heavy gun plant and re-
clamation equipment base, costing
from $25, 0OO, 900 to $4,000, 900, com
parable to the Krupps at Essen, Ger
many, is to be built in France for the
American expeditionary forces, the
war department announced recently.
The plant when finished will refine
and re-align heavy railroad guns,
which will save several times the val
ue of the guns themselves. The prin-
cipal equipment will be a monster
lathe, 500 feet long, or about the
length of the Washington monument,
or the battleship North Dakota, and
will be the largest in existence. It's
length will be so great, announces
the war department, that in drawing
the plans allowance had to be made
for the curvature of the earth in or
der to keep the alignment.
Christian Science camp welfare
work is now being carried on in forty
five army and navy camps in the
United States under direction of the
Christian Science war relief and
camp welfare committee of the First
Church of Christ, Scientist, in Bos-
ton. There are at present about sew
enty men and fifteen women engaged
in the work, the women serving main
ly as welfare DON attendants. Con-
Quoted at first independently, the
camp welfare work has been merged
with the war relief work which the
Christian Scientists were doing in
foreign countries before the United
States entered the war. For both of
these purposes about one million boil
lars have been raised. The aim of
the Christian Science camp workers
is to be as helpful as possible to all
the men in the camps whether or
not they are Christian Scientists, and
particularly to give assistance which
may not be available at he tine or
place through any of the other camp
welfare agencies. A feature of this
phase of the. work is an arrangement
for keeping soldiers and sailors in
close touch with their relatives.
Carload after carload of Wiscon-
sins dairy cattle has gone to south
ern and western farmers, and the de-
mand still continues. An Arkansas
farmer who recently bought 100 head
of Wisconsin cattle has returned to
the state for Is carloads. One South
Carolina farm is soon to be supplied
with Wisconsin grade Holsteins.
The long black blister beetles are
again menacing the potato crop in
the southwestern part of the state,
according to DR.. E. d. Ball, state en-
tomologist of the Wisconsin depart
ment of agriculture. He states that
people from districts near Madison
are complaining that this beetle is
causing much damage. These bugs
always follow a year in which grass
hoppers are abundant as the larvae