The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-04-22
THOUSANDS VISIT
THE TROPHY TRAIN
ROUSING SPEECHES DELIVERED
BY WAR VETERANS HELP THE
VICTOR YLOAN

Over the top they went and won;
Home they are coming today.
Safe from the foe they made you here
OVER THE TOP AND PAY
Hungry and cold and wet they
fought
All in the work of the day.
Little you know of the carnage
| fierce!
OVER THE TOP AND PAY!
Some of them blinded, gassed and
lame;
Brand of the bloody fray
Heroes, with wound stripes earned for
you;
OVER THE TOP AND PAY!
Here and abroad they are watching
you;
Soldiers of u. S. A.
They draft YOU now for the Victory
loan!
OVER THE TOP AND PAY!
The call went out to several thou
sand citizens of Moscow and vicinity
last night by men who had fought and
bled on the battle fields of France and
Belgium to do their duty in support
ing the Victory Loan as the speakers
and their comrades, $4,000 of whom
will never return, had done their duty
to secure the victory. Despite the
fact that the train was more than an
hour late there were thousands of
men, women and children from Mos
COW and surrounding country awaiting
it's arrival and When it came at last
they greeted it with enthusiasm. The
train came from PalOuse and had been
delayed on the route. 1t had come
from St. Maries to Tekoa, been
shunted to the O.-W. R. C N. at Plum
mer, and to the Northern Pacific at
Garfield, and these changes made
delays. There we're officials of three
railroad systems with the train which
was in charge of G. e. Arney of the
Northern Pacific while it was on that
road,
1t was like the former trophy train
that visited Moscow, carrying captur-
ed cannon, howitzers, e-throwers,
trench mortars and many relics of the
battle fields including French
'Whippet' tank that had seen hard
usage and had the steel "snout'' shot
off, but is still able to do some fight
ing. There were 16-inch sells weigh
ing 23OO pounds that can be fired IL
miles into the air and dropped on an
object located by mathematical cal
culation. There were every kind OF
trophies from the front, many of them
taken from the Germans. The great
"French rs" that was regarded as the
most successful gun used by any ma
ton, was shown. This gun was cap
able of firing % shots minute when
handled by the French, but the Amer
leans got 33 shots a minute from it.
The Germans tried to make one like
it but the best they could get was IL
shots a minute.
Private Bates of Roseburg, Oregon,
who bore wound stripes on his sleeve
and had gone through the hardest bat
ties of the war, was the first and most
speaker. He explained the
larger trophies, told what they were,
how used and from whom and where
taken, if they had belonged to the en-
envy. His talk was full of interest
and inspiration.
Lieutenant Hawley, of the aviation
corps, an Idaho young man, also made
an interesting talk as did Captain
Connor, former speaker OF the lower
house Of the Idaho legislature and a
candidate for United States senator,
and the Rev. Mr.. Martin, known as
''The Fighting Parson," who was with
the Y. NJ C. A. and went through the
thick Of the fighting.
Robert o. Jones, secretary of state,
was announcer for the train. Monti B.
Gwinn, state chairman of the Victory
Loan drive, and Joseph Priest, OF the
Oregon Short Line, were with the
train. Mr.. Priest stopped off in Mos
COW to visit his son, who is in the
University here.
Private Bates paid high compli-
ment to Moscow Camp of Great War
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