Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-09-14
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DICTIONARIES
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Forceful Facts Concerning the In
terests of Former soldiers,
Sailors and Marines.

A captain in the French army
gets $50 francs ($190) month.
Many Indians of the United
States enlisted in the infantry, and
served as guides and snipers.
Approximately $4,000 men who
served in the United States navy
will be awarded a special Victory
medal.
Forty-six per cent of the war
risk insurance policies were taken
out for the benefit of mothers of
soldiers.
The term, "hoosegow," much
used by the soldiers in the world
war is derived from Juzgado, Mex
lean for Jail.
Men who served in the world
war are given preference in selee-
ton for the mounted squad of po-
licemen in Philadelphia.
Ninety-three per cent OF the rev.
enue received by the United States
government will be spent this year
on past and possible future wars.
In France, in less than two years
after the cessation of hostilities 43
per cent Of the churned-up, desc
lated farming land is producing
crops.
Several thousand former mem
bers of the A. e. f. are acting as
guides in France in conducting
American tourists over the his
toric battlefields.
The biggest mascot In the Unit
ed States navy is a 2-year-old New
foundland dog, weighing 276
pounds, owned by Lieut.. f. f. Sale,
on the Y. S. S. Pyro.
There were 1880 men named
Brown in the American forces dur
ing the world war; the name of
White numbered 1920. and
Greens followed with 8,575.
OF the 1920 chaplains who
on duty with the United States
army, five were killed in battle,
twenty-one died of disease or acct
dent and many more were gassed
In Texas nearly $4,000 was
loaned during the past year toI
service men through the
students fund for educa-
tional work in the University of
Texas.
The United states marines have
a university at Quantico, Va.
entirely voluntary, it is a
notable educational enterprise
which succeeds in enrolling every
body.
The British army on the western
front expended 100000 tons of ar
tillery ammunition from the COM
of the British often
sive in 1918 to the conclusion of
the armiStice.
Claims for allotments and allow
ances by the war risk insurance
bureau covered 2,090,S9S cases and |
involved payment of $555,S15,551.-
"a during the year ending June 30,
1920.
The mammoth air garage under
at Lakehurst, n. j.
BY the United States navy will be
he largest hangar in the world. |
rhe structure will be 1000 feet
ong, 31S feet wide and zoo feet
high.
Hiking parties are being formed |
~ former service men of the A. q.
e.. who are again returning to
France to renew old acquaintance.
The lads are footing over the old
marches they made as in wartime.
Bodies of American soldiers
buried in Belgium will be removed
liter October /. Some of the
bodies will be returned to the
United States, while others will be
placed in permanent cemeteries in
france. /
The real losses of the following
European belligerents resulted
rom the world war. Germany,
s43,500, 100000; Fradce $S1, 250,-
10000; the United Kingdom, $26,-
100, 100000; Italy, s1O,5OO, 1000, 1000;
Belgium, $2.750,00 900.
Claims of the family fortune of
he Hohenzollerns in Germany rep
esent 1000, 100000 marks. and
no less than twenty large
oval imperial palaces in various
titles besides fifty smaller castles,
country seats and other real estate.
Men from the Middle West, Kan
as. Missouri, Arkansas and Okla
iona were considered the smallest
n the United States army. Men
rom North and South pakotassI