Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-04-12
WEEKLY WAl KEW9 DIGEST

New Card Record to Expedite Pay of
Men i'm Service
There is being prepared in the Adju-
tant Generals office new "pay card"
which will be kept by the personnel Of
ticer and will show the pay. status of
transferred or detached from his COM
pany he will carry his card with him.
This is expected to eliminate the many
causes for delayed payments of men so
transferred, and to do away with many
existed.
Raw Cotton from United States Goes
to Spain
The War Trade board has granted Ii
censes for raw cotton to Spain in guam
tity SUFFICIENT Gle to load several Spanish
necessary to fill the normal require
ments of the Spanish mills.
Under the agreement with Spain that
nation permits free export to the allies
which the United States permits, so far
as consistent with it's conservation pol
icies, the export to Spain of necessary
supplies of cotton and other commodi-
ties to cover genuine Spanish require
ments.
A national school poster competition
has been put under way by the National
War Savings committee. Prizes of war;
lavings stamps are to be awarded for
the oest posters dealing with warsaw
by pupils of public schools and art
schools The contest % x " will close May IS:
The Norwegian government has ap-
propriated $I,OUO,OOO to assist intensive
agricultural development. Of this
amount $4,5O0,000 is to maintain low
maximum prices for cattle feed and fer
tilizer
New Japanese concerns numbering
over 100 are reported as having entered
business business at shanghai during 1911? The
creasing, now being about $4,000.
1.-THE. following notes are from the
Official Review of the War; issued by
the Committee on Public Information.]
The !, annual an AL Pay Pay Of the army now ex-
Production of 10000 new automobile
trucks is in progress for the army.
The navy ration in 1917 cost $O.43S,
as against $0.37tS4 in 1916.
Our l4-inch guns weigh nearly IS
tons and are over So feet long, costing
Sis, 600.
Our 35,OOO-ton cruiser, capable of IS
knots, will be the fastest in the world.
About 10000 officers and men are en-
gagged in coast patrol work of the navy.
American troops permanently took
over a part of the firing line as an AM
erican sector in january, 1918.
The navy now has in its possession a
stock Of supplies sufficient for average
requirements for one year.
More than 10000 acres Of land in this
country has been planted with castor
bean plants to produce oil for aircraft.
During Il months the army hospitals
increased from to 60 in number and
from 5000 to $500 beds; $4,000 more
beds are being added.
The disbursements and outstanding
obligations Of the navy dulins the first
year of the war are estimated at ST.
881,O00,000. The total naval api,roplia-
tions, real and pending are $3,333, Ill.,
665.
There are now four times as many
vessels in naval service as a year ago.
The estimated pay of Officers and men
in the navy for the first \year of war
was 100000
The air personnel in the first year of
war increased from IS officers and 1,12O
men to one hundred times that number
Eleven kinds Of schools have been in
stalled.
Several hundred submarine chasers,
built since the war, have been delivered
to the navy by 81 private concerns and
navy yards; many of these boats have