The Corpus Christi caller. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1918-1987, 1919-01-05

BIG PROBLEM
FOR AN ARMY
THOUSANDS or MILES or LINES
ron COMMUNICATIONS or The
AMERICAN FORCES WERE
NECESSARY IN FRANCE ~ Or
DER TO HANDLE BUSINESS FOR
ARMY OF TWO MILLION
ny rhe AssoeIassd rlsss.

ny Ine Associated ftNhh
headquarters. American Expedition.
ary Force. France. Ian In 90 army
lho sire of This scattered thtoushout
the length and breadth NJ France from
iho feacoasi 90 me swiss border Uho
problem " communication iH second
onlY II NOT ~ equal Importance 90 that
" sunNllfH
When Che American forces c1me io
France it VHs one nf ihe flrsi efforts
to- which American lnaoniIit and 10.
,eniion wns dirociea and tho signal
rnips under which communications
fniln met 10 aa have fho other organ
lt1tirua of fho America eNpodiiionHit
fufro Eslstins fifneh telegraph and
telephone .setems we've orerhurdcneG
There wHs ilifo lrf fnf us and iirir
I Gen D. iuaaeil ,hitf signal officer.
tfi n.t staff 90 exports tackled fno
iDN
what thD, have dome 10 construction
lf shown in SOME .inuuiDs furnished
fn fhf AeHocinifd rfoer The slnnai
uurpH nna huiu approximately 1850
miles 0f poles uu which DO hha strung
+ tlla milrs ~ wire Dos addition ahuuf
ONN mites ul American WlfO hns been
/ FtrNng Dn eslstiug atttefus for Our use
md f has leased and operates more
I than @ Geo mlirH Df r3eath nlie. EN-
change lines 90 the extent ~ % ESQ
Z miles have been hHiii and ~ operate
I those linps 10 htf 1fi feicn huuse. H9i
Telephone stnrons lnd iol telegraph
/ Officers.
an lnroueh France. ffom tho base
lorte Geo ihe front lincs 0ernnied hv fho
American forces, throughout uur tf0l..
I lnr areas. BOP fact ntnny everywhere.
Ulr shining cupper wires on American
Cruas bias poles. ao different from the
I European system. Gre new feature
I uf Che landscape and frequently one
/ heard newly arrived American soldiers
J fNclHiu That's American" pn main
I nur sHirms with MANY wires the
! French cuHfomafilp use twn poles fide
/ bV slide ANA the Wires nfo strung ON
cross b1H between. and others on
snelo insu'a'ors fastened direct 90 the
pole.
The Iona distance telegraph and teln-
phone system constructed hv me sig
/ nll corps De- entirely maintained hy i's
/ own personnel and in addition some
I 3ou0 miles of leased wires are ninin-
tanned ny a.
AN this construction has been made
/ nlem'rts and material from the United
States with the single exception OF the
police MOST 81 which were obtained in
/ Frame IN construction. maintenance
4 and operation the standard practice
I of me United Sutes have heon tot.
lowed and Tho American ENpeditionuy
f0rco has been given .o,g.co equal
i to the best ahtninalle In the CONNER
cnl world and 'dinitedly unrlvaliod in
my army 90 men have followc0 the
I troops wherever troops went. down a.
fhr fr0ai line trenches over shell swept
ana machine gun ragged areas to iay
ana keep their wires ao that commuui-
cations might be- maintained The Sig
nal Corps has lufr iist of brave dead
ard bray" wounded. more hnuorrd por-
] hops. because they could not fight
back
The telephone service az the Corps
waa opened on June a. i9i7 and since
/ then thtre have boon handled nearly
nineteen million local calls and more
! than ono million long distance calls
/ Since the SIGNAL corps 1eicarnph sys-
iem began to function on August ~
oi last wear more than five and ono
I hall million messages have been handi.
od. arnreRailng more than one third
~ q hiluon words.
Aanniis these wires are many form
or members nf thr Traffic Department
~ Tho Associated Press graduates N
the koy ana tho wires in thc world
Among them age Sergeant y T. Bel
deu formerly ~ Da.lns. Texas who
has charge 81 ihe base signal office al
Bordeaux Among Inc fifty men under
his direction arc Percy Hall formerly
at ~ Louis and " T.. Ryan 80 hur
nngton In
Sergeant Ron Yon formerly IN the
Sew Nors offlcu Of The Associated
Press d in charge of the base signal
office nt rour ami several Associat
rrrss "riHfs aiau arc attached io that
office Corporal A. a. iharca. of Fort
Worth Texas 81 stationed Rt Nar .ic-
due other former Associated i'resg
mru scattered IS me tines al COM
muul,ailnn include "a A 1osthc. 81
4 Duluth W d noddy of Indianapolis.
81 a kaAmareh Of Houston o. A.
RnAtuauDf uf Detroit. E 81. IruNtun.
iof Michigan and Montana. T.. j Nor
is ana nen Hsu ~ rhllbdelphias
Frank o. Johnson and Z, johnson
OF Kansas City. "a 70 Fisher of cham
. pnipn. ms aud a. g. Madison ~ KAN
sas city.
when the corps az newspaper cor-
respondent wac moved 500 to ihc front
lllnpa wlth tho heennina az lhe Amef
liam action in thr AlEonnc certain
Nirra were turned over Tor their use
.npa one da, there walked ln Corporal
TO- g. Wilson whn was Ions stationed
'at Sau Lake gitN and other Western
inivlslnn stations ~ The Associated
lrress he bronrlr hs side sender cl
lyns n operators parianc quietly
put X n ga % table N thr French
tslceraph ofnec ana began business
lTht second nisht whom the tfonch on.
emtars mad Watched COPY melt i
ifhnps code 90 relcivtr ~ equal
traming they escnimcd'
"Ifr les che ace ~ operators