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CARRIER PIGEONS
ARE VALUABLE
• IN ENTENTE
WARFARE
QUICKLY BECOME ACCUSTOMED
TO SHELL FIRE AND
GAS
BEHIND BRITISH LINES IN
FRANCE, Sept. 16.—For the Amer
ican soldier newly arrived in the
lines in France there is always a
great interest attaching to the now
widespread use of carrier pigeons.
Little crates of the birds are
found In many a front-line dugout,
and they become great pets of the
men, who watch their work with
close interest.
Normally information in war
time is transmitted by wire, but
sometimes occasions arise when the
wires prove insufficient or break
down altogether. Every front line
unit must be prepared for such an
emergency . So the pigeons are al
ways kept handy, and from time to
time are tried out to be sure that
they are ready for their work.
me piegons quicaiy uetuuie ac
customed to shell fire and they will
carry important messages through a
heavy artillery barrage and through
gas clouds when no other method
of communication is practicable.
Pigeons were first employed by
the British army in October, 1914,
when an experimental shipment of
50 birds was brought to France.
Their value was immediately rec
ognized and the service rapidly
grew to enormous proportions.
Under present war conditions, the
pigeons are most largely employed
for two purposes: To bring back
information from the front-line
trenches and, during an advance, to
bring messages from the advancing
tanks and infantry. Generally
speaking, a 100-mile flight is the
outside limit for military purposes,
even when messages are sent in
duplicate. For distances of 10
miles, single birds are relied on
constantly and there are few fail
ures.
In war. mobile lofts must take
Wtp place of stationary ones. These
are usually small automobile trucks
and contain from GO to 70 birds. An
important feature of the truck is a
good "lookout cage” on top so that
the birds can easily learn the topog
t raphy of the neighborhood before
being liberated for their work.
In the battle of the Somme in
1916 about 4 500 operation messag
es were brought in by carrier
pigeons over a period of three
months.
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CHARLES $. SPRAGUE
RETURNS FROM COAST
SPEAKS WITH ENTHUSIASM OF
WORK OF RED
CROSS
Charles S. Sprague has returned
to Goldfield after an absence of
two months. When Mr. Sprague
left early in July with Mrs. Sprague,
it was only for a 10-day visit to his
daughter, Mrs. S. A. McCandless,
then at La Jolla, near Camp Kear
ny, where her husband was sta
tioned. but Mrs. McCandless was
taken seriously ill and was in a crit
ical condition for many weeks.
Mr Sprague says she is now re
L covering and gaining strength rap
^ idly, although Mrs. Sprague will
remain with her daughter another
month. Meanwhile Mr. McCandless
has gone to France with his regi
ment. the 144th field artillery,
known as the “Grizstfies.”
Mr. Sprague visited Camp Kear
ny several times, where there are
36,000 soldiers; they are now doub
ling the size of the camp and ex
pect to take care of about 70,000
men. making it the largest canton
ment in the country. He says
Camp Kearny is one of the model
camps of the country and that ev
erything possible is done to ‘allevi
ate the rigors of camp life. He
met a number of acquaintances
there from various parts of the
country and twice addressed large
aAferoblies at Y. M. C. A. and
l^Rrhts of Columbus cantonment
houses, where frequent entertain
ments were held, more especially
for the new recruits, or “develop
Ament companies,” as they are
known, the object being to keep the
men from homesickness and low
spirits while they are getting used
to camp and army life. Mr. Sprague
FRENCH WILL CHANGE
METHODS OF BUYING
FOLLOWING WML
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Sept. 13.—
American manufacturers who plan
to supply materials for the indus
trial reconstruction of France should
prepare for co-operative selling, for
a revolutionary change in French
i methods of buying is to follow the
war.
A small number of central pur
chasing agencies, representing
groups of French manufacturers en
gaged in related industries and as
! sisted by the credit of the French
government, will deal with those
supplying the material.
Scattered American selling ef
forts will not be able to meet the
requirements of the huge buying
power of several thousand French
consumers, in the opinion of Pierce
C. Williams, American commercial
attache at Paris, who reports that
! unless American manufacturers pre
pare for co-operative selling that
they will be laboring under a seri
ous handicap.
The central bureau for industrial
purchases for the invaded regions,
a French stock company composed
of many manufacturers, has empha
sized in a report that the task of
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ItJSlUiiiife tut; ucoiiujcu iiiuiiouioo
Is too large for individual and com
petitive buying. Its directors are
reported as equally certain that it
will be out of the question for iso
lated« American firms, no matter
j how large or well equipped, to meet
| the demand.
It is with groups of American j
manufacturers, each group being
! able to supply a certain industry
I with all materials and special equip
ment for the restoration, that the
j central bureau wishes to establish
j relations.
Although the French manufactur
; er in the past has been regarded as
j more individualistic among business
j men, the size and complexity of the
I task of reconstruction has caused
j him to accept such a radical
change in his business methods as
I collecive buying.
! The industrial reconstruction in
j France alone is more than one na
! tion can properly attend to, so the
! pooling of American interests in
! volves solution of the question of
! whether American manufacturers
will be able to hold their own in
■ competition with other nations
FRED P. MOORE
1$ KILLED ON
WEST FRONT
—
I A recent issue of the San Fran
J cisco Bulletin says: “News has
I been received here that Captain
, Fred P. Moore was killed in action
I on the western front July 16. Cap
tain Moore was the son of Fred P.
j Moore of Pittsburgh and was u min
ing engineer by profession. He was
educated at Cornell university and
at the university of California.’’
Captain Fred P. Moore formerly
i was widely known in Goldfield,
where he made his home for several
years. After leaving here he went
to the Atlantic coast and, after en
tering the army and for several
months before leaving for France,
was stationed in North Carolina
with an infantry unit in the regu
lar army. He enlisted shortly after
war was declared by the l nited
States.
During the period he was in
Goldfield he was employed for a
time in the office of the secretary
for the Consolidated Mines com
pany and later in the engineering
department. He was a brother of
Edward McC. Moore. purchasing
agent for the Consolidated Mines
company and the Aurora Consoli
dated company and manager of the
mercantile department of the Con
solidated company in Goldfield.
FIRE THIS AFTERNOON’
Fire this afternoon in the garage
of Joseph Bruder in the rear of his
; residence on North Fifth avenue
damaged two automobiles and de
stroyed the garage and a number
of other small buildings nearby.
! The property loss is not known, but
the two cars were badly scorched.
also had a chance to ob
serve the work of the Red Cross in
the cantonments and speaks of it
with enthusiasm.
GOVERNOR OF ALASKA
STARTS ON LOMJ
TRIP THROUGH
TERRITORY
JUNEAU, Alaska, Sept. 14.—Gov-I
ernors who can traverse their com
monwealths in a few hours probably
would enjoy a trip which Thomas
Riggs, Jr., governor of Alaska, Is
now taking from Juneau, the capi- •
tal, across the territory to Nome, j
not far from Siberia’s east coast.
Governor Riggs will travel, in all,
about 5000 miles by ocean steam
er, railroad, automobile stage, river
steamboat and probably launch. It
is not believed he will have to
"mush” any of the trip on foot. He
will touch nearly every one of the i
larger cities and towns of the
northern territory.
The first lap is an easy steamboat
journey nearly 1000 mijes across ,
the gulf of Alaska and up Cook’s
Inlet to Anchorage. At Fairbanks I
he will strike the Tanana river and j
board a stern-wheel river steamboat :
for St. Michael, on the Bering Sea,
about 1000 miles away. Thence an [
ocean steamer or a launch will car- >
ry the executive across Norton j
sound to Nome.
Mrs. Riggs is accompanying her |
husband. Governor Riggs has gone
on the trip with the object of learn- j
ing Alaska’s needs and meeting the
people.
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SI Hi HHIE
Diplomat From Former Russian
Province Says Country Is An
other Itclgium
1IUT GERMANY IS ONLY
“POLICING” COUNTRY
Private Enterprise Is Paralyzed and
Ranks Refuse to Make
Payments
LONDON, Sept. 14. — Estlionia,
the former Baltic province of Rus
sia, now dominated by the Germans,
is another Belgium, asserts Profes
sor Antonious Pup, an Esthonian
diplomatic representative in this
country. Esthonians, he declares,
are maintaining a resolute struggle
against pro-German plans to unite
Esthonia with Germany and stand- j
ing firm in defense of Esthonian I
independence.
ZMiiiiiiutnziiiK liuui uiittiuu iiuui|
what he described as his “unhappy
country,” Professor Pup said:
“The position of Esthonia is in-1
tolerable. Arbitrary rule is the or- j
der of the day. The press of all
the Esthonian parties has been !
crushed. All political life is sup-1
pressed, all meetings forbidden. |
Many of tlie politicians and ordinary j
citizens are arrested and shot. The
German barons and the pan-Ger
mans are ruling the country.
• “Democratic self-government has
been dissolved. In place of it
new German bodies are created.
The German language is the official
one. It Is compulsorily introduc
ed in schools. Russian is absolute
ly forbidden, as also is correspond
ence in Esthonian.
Of the town councils those in
which the majority before the rev
olution was German have been re
stored. In Reval a German town
council and mayor have been nomi
nated, and they have sent an un- j
authorized telegram to Berlin in the
name of the population.
“The Esthonian troops have been ]
broken up. The post does not
work. Every sort of passenger
traffic has been curtailed. There
are no law courts. Crime is in
creasing, especially on account of
the general lack of work. The Ger- j
man barons have received the mo
nopoly of judicature and censorship. |
The factories are closed.
“All private enterprise is paralyz-1
ed. The banks refuse to make pay-1
ments, having no money. In the
rural districts the authorities who '
were in office before the revolution
have been restored.
“People out of work turn their
steps to the countryside, where,
however, it is impossible to get land
because the land owners are wait
ing for the Germans to buy up land
at a high price for colonizing Sup
LEAGUE UE ARTISTS
TO PROVIDE TOR
THOSE INJURED
INSERVICE
NEW YORK, Sept. 14. — An or
ganization called the artists’ war
service league is being founded here
/or the benefit of artists of all pro
fessions, who have been wounded
or incapacitated during the war.
Mark Twain’s home in Redding,
Conn., has been offered by his
daughter, Madame Clara Clemens
Gabrilowitsch, for the use of the
artist-soldiers as a convalescent
home and President Wilson has
given his approval to the plan.
One of the principal aims of the
league is to help artists to regain
positions lost through the vicissi
tudes of the war, and for that pur
pose an office will be established in
New York city. The initial mem
bership committee is composed of
such artists as Rudyard Kipling,
representing literature; Enrico Ca
ruso, representing music; Daniel C.
French, representing sculpture, and
John Drew, representing the drama.
Membership in the artists’ war
service league will be open not only
to professional people, but to all
lovers of tl\,e arts. There will also
be charter members.
OF BUFFER AND
FANCY SIEAKS
ONLY THING SCARCE IN EMER
ALD ISLE IS
SUGAR
LONDON, Sept. 17. — Although
only a three-hour boat trip separ
ates England and Ireland there is
as much difference as between day
and night in the two islands as far
as food is concerned.
For the person who has lived in
England for a time and whose hab
its have led him to believe his sys
tem needs more than the number of
food calories science prescribes, Ire
land is a wonderful place to dine in.
It does not follow that sufficient
food is not available in England,
for there is sufficient to healthily
maintain the system, but there is a
difference between that and eating
a large steak properly decorated.
That can be accomplished in Ire
land at reasonable cost, but not in
England at any price.
Ireland is not rationed voluntar
ily or otherwise, and there is plenty
of everything with the exception of
sugar. in respect to iooti it is
more pleasantly situated than the
United States or England because
prices have not advanced as they
have in America and are no higher
than in England where the ministry
of food not only rations but con
trols prices. Ireland always has
sent quantities of meat and dairy
products to England and still is
doing so.
Americans who have been in Eng
land and tried to become accustom
ed to the four ounces of meat at a
meal and an absence of fat in cook
ing wherever possible, on arriving
in Ireland fairly gorge themselves
for a few days on meat, drink quan
tities of milk and do not spare the
butter. They had not been getting
milk at all except with a physician’s
prescription and butter was limited
to less than an ounce a day.
plies of provisions, scanty as they
are, are rapidly growing less.
“There are no imports; need is
growing from day to day. Requisi
tions are very harsh.
“In Reval there have been in
stances of school children being
carried home unconscious through
hunger. The Esthonian educated
people are also out of work, be
cause all the places are filled with
Germans. All classes of the popu
ation are in absolute despondency.
“The Germans treat the Eston
ians as enemies in conquered land,
while really they are in the coun
try only as a ‘policing force.’
“What will the imperial chancel
lory, Hertling, say to this? What
will the reichstag say? Where is
the right of the Esthonian people to
self-determination, which was guar
anteed by the peace treaty The
Esthonians ask in vain.’’
ALLIED AVIATORS ARE
EXPERT IR USE OF
NAME GURS
SOMEWHERE.IN FRANCE, Sept. \
13. — Accurate machine-gun fire
is the chief requirement of the suc
cessful combat aviator, allied avia
tion experts agree. Fortunately for
the allies that is one department in
which their aviators excel.
It is interesting to note the prog
ress made in the weapons used by
aviators. At the opening of hostili
ties airplanes were used mainly for
observation work. Their pilots were
armed generally with carbines and
sometimes only with an automatic
revolver. Then came the fighting
airplane and the single and double
machine gun.
But these newer and more deadly
weapons are useless unless properly
aimed, and this is no small task,
as the pilot must aim not his gun,
but his whole machine. He must
use his airplane as a gun mount.
It is easy to conjure some of the
pilot’s difficulties when the gun
mount Is maneuvering and traveling
twice as fast as any express train, |
while its target is in similar action.^
The successful air fighter must
he a good pilot: hut even the most ]
brilliant trick flyer, the “stunter” \
who can throw his machine about in
the air and make it a supremely j
difficult target for his adversary, is
nevertheless incompletely equipped
as a fighter unless he can combine
brilliant flying with brilliant gun
nery. Foch’s rule that “offense is
the best defense” applies even more
in the air than on land, and it is
by following that rule that the al
lied fighters have won their ascend
ancy over the Germans.
' It is important that no ammuni
i tion shall be carried which is not
absolutely reliable and all is select
| ed and tested. Guns are rigorously
* inspected, for a jam at a critical
i moment might prove fatal. In
training, on the other hand, ammu
nition is carefully selected for its
business: the object being, by
means of frequent gun jams, to
make the clearing of a stoppage
automatically simple to the pilot.
AMERICA STARTS
WARFARE IN
BELGIUM
PHOTOGRAPHS OF NORTHERN
FRANCK WANTED BY WAR
DEPARTMENT
NEW YORK, Sept. 1<S. — Old j
picture post cards and photographs ;
of France or Belgium of any of the j
territory now. occupied hy the (Jer- j
mans are needed by the war depart- ,
ment, according to an open letter j
written today by William Guggen
heim, chairman of the army and
navy committee of the American de- i
fense society to the American peo
ple. This letter, which ia written at
the request of Major A. G. Camp
| bell of the military incJligence
I branch of the war department,
reads:
“I urge patriotic Americans to
forward any picture post cards, pho
tographs and prints of any of the
towns and of the country now oc
cupied by the Germans in Belgium
and northern France to the Ameri
can defense society at '44 East 23d
street, New York city, from where
they will be sent to the war depart
ment, as they will be of value to
our officers abroad who can famil
iarize themselves with the appear
ance of localities toward which they
are advancing which will undoubt
edly be a distinct aid in military op
1 erations.
“I especially urge people who
have traveled abroad and who have
collected postal cards to carefully
sort them with a view to their be
ing used by the war department.
Written descriptions of the terri
tory already mentioned will be of
; considerable value ”
TO STABILIZE BO.NI> MARKET
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 13.—
Administration measures designed
to stabilize the Liberty bond market
by making larger amounts held by
individuals and corporations exempt
. from income sur-taxeB were ordered
reported favorably by the house
i w'ays and means committee.
TUBERCULOSIS TO
BE SUBJECT OF
MEETING IN
SPOKANE
PROBLEM OF THOUSANDS RE
JK< TED AT CAMUS TO HE
CONSIDERED
NEW YORK. Sept. 16. — How to
solve the problem presented by
thousands of men rejected by the
draft boards or at camp or dis
charged from the army on account
of tuberculosis, will be the chief
question taken up at the northwest
ern tuberculosis conference to be
held in Spokane. Wash., on Sept.
2 7 and 2X. That announcement was
made today by the national tuber
culosis association, under whose
auspices the conference will be held.
The seven states of Washington.
Oregon. Montana, Wyoming, Idaho,
1'tah and Nevada will be represent
ed at this gathering, at which army
officers, federal, state and local of
ficials and tuberculosis and Red
Cross workers will lay out the con
crete measures needed to restore
these rejected and discharged men
to health, self-support and useful
ness.
The northwestern states, me an
nouncement points out, must as
sume responsibility for tho condi
tion of large numbers of these men.
At present, boards of health, tuber
culosis associations and the civilian
division of the Red Cross in these
states are receiving from the sur
geon-general of the army, through
the medium of the national tuber
culosis association, the names and
addresses of all men rejected or
discharged at camp as tubercular.
Following a co-operative plan,
these several agencies are endeav
oring to get into touch with all
such men and to provide treatment
for those who need it.
Though substantial progress is
being made, this tier of states, the
association declares, is still some
what backward in attacking this
problem, so far as the tuberculosis
societies are concerned. At the
Spokane conference the difficulties
in the way will be considered and
practical means of obtaining maxi
mum results in future will be work
ed out.
.1. K. V VItOAMAX RRTVRNS
John F. Vardanian, one of the
pioneer stock brokers of Goldfield,
returned here this morning from a
10-months’ trip through the south
and east and expects to remain in
Goldfield.
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ANNE MARTIN SPEAKS AT
OPEN-AIR MEETING HERE
Miss Anne Martin, independent
candidate for United States senator
from Nevada, spoke at an open-air
meeting in Goldfield last night.
Miss Martin explained her plat
form in detail. She declared her
self to be in favor of the develop
ment of the mining industry and
said she believed the government
should fix low rates for shipments
of ore and should reduce smelter
charges.
The candidate said she was in
favor of a basic eight-hour day in
all industries and concluded her
speech by saying: “If the labor
ing people and the women of the
country would exercise as much
care in the election of representa
tives to protect their interests as
the corporations exercise in electing
to represent them we would have
better laws.”
An informal tea was given in the
Goldfield hotel yesetrday afternoon
for Miss Martin.
FRANK MALONEY IS NOW IN
OFFICERS’ TRAINING CAM I*
Frank Maloney, who left here
July 22 with a draft contingent, is
now in training at the field artil
lery officers’ training camp at
Camp Zachary Taylor. Kentucky.
Maloney went from Goldfield to
Fort Riley, Kansas. Having been
trained in an engineering school, it
was almost a certainty that he
would quickly reach an officers'
training camp and predictions made
by his friends here that he would
rise rapidly in the army apparently
are coming true.
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