The Mena weekly star., 1919-04-24

'.~-~-~~~~->,~~-~-~-~-~~-~ -~~~-~~-~>~~-~-~-~-~~~ ed the admiring populace they hadn't 1 forgotten the step.
 Shortly before o'clock the special train pulled out for DeQueen, where the tank will be shown next.
 Tank Helps Bond Sales.
 The coming of the tank to Mena is one of the features of the Victory Bond campaign, which will be opened officially next Monday. It is one of eleven such tanks sent to different parts of the Eighth Federal Reserve l district, in aid of the bond campaign. 1 Speakers and military men accompa- ny the tank, which travels in a special train.
 The tank that is here saw some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and it's steel plates show plainly the marks made by machine gun bullets which tried vainly to stop it's course in battle Machine guns, infantry fire and shrapnel have little effect against these tanks, tho larger calibre shot, if they score square hit, make the crew of the tank lose all their luck.
 The tank is real war veteran. It was brought to this country from France after the armistice was sign ed, with scores of it's sister war ma- chimes. It is what is known as the l light or whippet tank, weighing about six tons, being of the Renault de- sign, originated by the French and 1 first used by them. The whippet tank, as matter of fact, were used ex- clusively by the French and Ameri- can forces during the latter stages of the war, the British in the northern sectors using the large tanks, weigh ing about 40 tons, and each with a crew of eleven men.
 Men With the Tank.
 In charge of the tank is Captain lR. J. R. Farrar of the 20th Field Artillery, 9th Divisionfi Regular Ar my, who saw active service in France, beginning with the St. Mihiel drive. Captain Farrar is type of the Amer ican officer who took 2,500,000 raw Americans and transformed them in- to a victorious army of soldiers in less than year. He is tall, heavily built, a college man and with that combination of cool calculating dar- ing and tenderness which marks the American soldier and gentleman
 Sergeant Clarence A. Brown and Private E. j. Smith actually operate the tank and they operated a tank of this same model and size in all the fighting from September 26 until the armistice was signed
 James H. Bawden, president of the St. Louis Distributing Company, and who has been Four Minute Man since the very inception of the gov ernment's war activities, is a ember of the party, and is the principle speaker. MT. Bawden has been mak- ing speeches for one or another Lib. erty Loan issue or War Savings Stamps for some many months. He is a clever speaker, who makes { strong point, and makes it clear 1T convincing manner to all his hearers ] l.. R. Weleh, widely known railroad : man of the southwest and who has been with the Missouri Pacific system ; for years, with headquarters at Kan sas City, is in charge of the transpor tation and the movement of the spe : cial train. for the federal railroad ad ministration
 Wounded in F'rance-Meet in Mena
 Two men who were comrades on tn, battle fields of France met in Menl Thursday morning for the first tim, since they helped whip the Hun. Their : meeting was a joyous reunion for al their last time together one wa. wounded, fate the other soon met The men were Waldo G. Austin anC Capt John p Woods, both member: of Go B, 35Sth Infantry. The for. mer was bugler in the company : and was wounded at St. Mihiel or September 14, receiving a rifle bullet thru the left shoulder At this time Captain Woods was only a lieutenant and he never knew the final fate oi the young bugler until they met 1T Mena Bugler Austin, who lives al Heavener, was here to visit relatives and Captain Woods was the principal speaker with the tank exhibit.
 Speaker Has Mena Relative.
 Capt John P Woods, who was the principal speaker during the visit oi the tank to Mena, is an attorney al Fort Smith, member of the firm of ] Daley & Woods. He is a nephew oi Judge R. T. Powell of Mena. Captain Woods was first lieutenant in Go. B