Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-05-03
WEEKLY WAR NEWS DIGEST
Experts i'm Shooting Train Men at the
Camps In Use of Rifles

and in the operation and care of the
ton from these men gave deminstra-
ton in dlsmOunting and assembling the
rife while blindfolded. the record time
being minutes for dismounting and
sc parts to the rifle. These officers in
turn instruct mechanics classes, the
mechanics being trained to make re-
pairs to rifles in the field. Frequently
they will have to do their work at
night, when they will not be allowed to
use lights, and therefore they must be
thoroughly trained in taking down the
rifle and putting in new parts by sense
Motor Truck Companies Get Training
I'm Driving Mt Night
Night driving of motor-truck supply
trains from the west to the seaboard
has been started by the Quartermas-
ter 8 Department as a step toward final
training to fit men for service in
according to the Council of National
cross-country convoy work has made
the truck companies able to travel en-
tirely Independent of the countryside.
Camps are made at the regular hour, no
matter where the company is located,
except that open country is given pref
erence over cities.
Communal Kitchens Save Food In Great
Britain
:, Communal kitchens are being estab-
lished throughout Great Britain and
are proving successful in saving food
and fuel. according to reports to the
Department of Commerce. An article
from recent issue of an English
newspaper is quoted:
The war has brought home to the
public that the communal or national
kitchen is a necessity and can be made
a success. Within a comparatively
stalled many hundreds of these estab-
lishments throughout the country. The
national kitchen was originally intend
ed to supply the poor people with nour-
at low prices, but there. is considerable
prospect-certainty, in fact-that the
more prosperous will form a fair pro-
portion of the customers.
peoples kitchen that at Hammersmith
dondon) may be taken as model;
This supplies about 5000 customers a
week, which probably represents $4,000
commonly purchases for his or her
family
Councils Of Defense VIII Advise War;
Risk Claimants
The Council of National Defense has
urged the state councils to provide VOL
untary aid for dependents of men in
the service in collecting allotments of
pay, travel pay. extra pay, or other
money due estates of deceased soldiers
and sailors
Allotments and allowances under the
War-risk insurance law are paid di-
rectly by the Treasury Department to
the persons entitled thereto; claims for
insurance taken out under the law
Risk Insurance, Treasury Department,
Washington, D. c.; claims for arrears
Of pay, extra pay and travel pay Of
DECEASED soldiers and sailors and all
Auditor for the War Department,
Washington D. {:
Food for Soldiers Is Carefully Inspect
ed by Quartermaster Corps
The Quartermaster Corps, charged
with the responsibility Of feeding and
clothing the soldiers, is rigidly inspect
ing the food purchased for the troops
to see that only pure articles are sup
piled. AS an indication of the amount
of food that must be obtained, says
statement authorz zed by by the Quarter
daily 100000 pounds of beef, 225. 900.
pounds of bacon, 10000 pounds of
ham, $4,000 cans of tomatoes, and 225,-
900 cans Of jam-with other articles
assresat'ns s'79 g. g g. pounds
Men Are Wanted by the Government
for Export Trade Offices
The United States government is
of branch offices of the Bureau of For
eign and Domestic Commerce, Depart
ment OF Commerce, and men to act as
assistants in these offices. Branches
cities. The salaries range from $1,000
to $4,000 for managers and from $1,000
to $1,000 for assistants.
A noncompetitive examination will
be held May 16 in various parts of the
country. Applicants will be examined
in export trade technique, promotion Of
commerce, and economic geography,
and credit will be given for knowledge
of foreigns languages. The examina-
lions will be under the direction of the
Civil Service.
swindlers' Trick Takes Money Sent to
=. Relatives and friends of several SOL
diers in army camps have been vic
timized by swindlers who wired or
In each instance it was requested that
money be sent by wire waving inden-
tiffcation, or by mail to- general deliv-
cry, the customary explanation being
and would have no way of securing
Identification. nor of getting mail ad-
dressed to his company. F.< H.
The following is q typical telegram,
Have been discharged. Coming
home. Going to Atlanta through coun-
Try tOIlSnC. fledSo wire me sou at AT
lanta so I may pay for uniform and
come home direct: Wave Identification
as l am not known in Atlanta. Wire
cash quick so I can get it tomorrow
morning.
Before. being complied with, any re-
quest for money to be sent under such
conditions should be verified by letter
or telegram to the commanding officer
of the camp in which the man whose
name, is signed to the request is sta
toned.
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Optical Glass Is Now Manufactured in
the United States
Optical glass equaling the product Of
European manufacturers, from whom
only it formerly could be obtained, is
now being produced for military use by
the Bureau of Standards of the United
States Department of Commerce and
several privately owner factories. One
shipment from the glass factory in
Pittsburgh, for use by the Navy de-
partment, contained $50 pounds of high
grade optical glass-enough to provide
lenses for probably $50 binoculars.
Development in glass manufacturing
in the United States has been similar
to that of dye making. Before the war
manufacturers of optical goods in this
country were content to import all
their glass from Europe, themselves
doing only the grinding, polishing, and
mounting. European glass factories,
one of the three largest being located
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