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U.S. GOVERNMENT AGAIN URGES
PEOPLE TO SAVE NUT SHELLS
NEW YORK, Nov. 4. — Every
boy and girl in this country is again
asked by the United States govern
ment to save American soldiers
from the horrors of German gas.
The chemical warfare division of
the army has urged them to gather
every walnut, hickory nut and but
ter nut in the woods about their
homes this fall to help make gas
masks for the American troops In
France. It is from the shells of
these nuts that the charcoal for gas
masks must come for the next six
months or more.
There is said to be a ready and
profitable market for the nut meats,
making it practicable to turn the
shells into the government imme
diately. Whole nuts ctfn also be
used. For collection purposes the
Red Cross has arranged 160 collec
tion centers through the country
for the concentration of shells. They
will be shipped from these points in
carload lots to the government car
bon plants at New York and San
Francisco.
The Boy Scouts have enlisted the
aid of their 442,000 young members
in this work, as have the Camp Fire
ARMY DEMOBILIZATION
WILL TAKE TWO YEARS
NEW YORK, No/. 2. — Demob
ilization of American _ forces in
France will require a period of two
years after peace is declared, ac
cording to General T. Coleman Du
pont, just back from a two months’
visit on the western front. In urg- j
ing the people to support generous
ly the campaign of the seven war
work agencies, he declared that,'
"statesmanlike plans” are being laid j
for the trying period following
peace. “Every hut in France,” he J
said, ‘will become a university class
room on the day peace is signed.
Boys will be given every educational
advantage under leading educators
and business men from the United
States.”
COXVICTS WILL no WAR
WORK IX WEST VIRGINIA
CHARLESTON, \V. Va., Nov. 1.—
It is likely that West Virginia will
be one of the first states to utilize
her idle convicts on essential war
labor. Announcement has been
made by Charles M. Browne, labor
supervisor for the railroad adminis
tration, that male prisoners in
Moundsville state penitentiary prob
abl ywill be put on track work be
ing done by the government, per
mission to take convicts from the
cells for this purpose having been
granted by the state board of pub
lic works.
Look Only to the Future.
No man has a right to make of his
past life a stumbling block, an obstruc
tion in his way of going forward to a
new and higher life.—H. W. Beecher.
TRAVV GAS HERE; NOVEL MOTOR
FUEL USED TO SAVE GASOLINE
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Catua-d-a-V Grrd-in^
“Use a straw stack to run your|
automobile and save gasoline,” say j
sot ^J progressive Saskatchewan j
farmers—who are doing it. Here is
balm for the gasless Sunday.
“How’s your straw?”
The first straw gas car astonished
folks in Saskatoon, bowling along
with a miniature Zeppelin overhead
for the gas. At the university there,
in that progressive province, from
efforts to uti<f re straw, which now is
Girls. Through the department of
agriculture all county agents of
that department will organize nut
ting parties. In addition every
school is urged to arouse the inter
est of its pupils and to encourage
nut gathering in every spare mo
ment of the pupils’ time.
The aid of the young people will
be absolutely necessary to supply
the 1,000,000 pounds of shells and
fruit stones that the government
production schedule calls for. The
government cannot buy more than
one-third the necessary shells at
present. In fact, they declare, the
shells of all the cocoanuts grown in
the West Indies and Central Ameri
ca. if they „-ouId be obtained, would
not fill <he needs. They are mak
ing arrangements to get the shell
from the West Indies, but it will be
months before this plan can be put
into operation. In the meantime
they must mix the available shell
charcoal with wood charcoal. This
is not to the best interest of the
men because the wood charcoal set
tles. making breathing difficult, and
it has not the absorptive qualities
of shell charcoal.
ED RYAN DIES Of
“FLU” IN CARSON
Ed Ryan, for the past four years
assayer in charge of the United
S'tates mint at Carson, died shortly
before noon today at Carson, ac
cording to a telegram received by
John Dunn. Death is supposed to
have been from influenza.
Ryan was a miner and deputy
sheriff under Sheriff Ingalls in the
early days of Goldfield and was ap
pointed deputy mine inspector when
the office was first created. He
was also a resident of this county
when he became the first elected
mine inspector.
His daughter, Mrs. Millard, died
eight days ago of influenza and at
that time her father was too ill to
attend the funeral.
Ryan was raised at Silver Cliff,
Colo., and followed mining all his
life.
SERGEANT CRONIN WOUNDED
Sergeant John B. Cronin, with
the American infantry forces in
France, is in a hospital suffering
from a bullet wound in the foot,
according to a telegram received
from his sister, Mrs. Mat Murphy.
The wounded soldier is a member
of the Goldfield lodge of Elks and
is widely known here. He par
ticipated in several battles before
being wounded.
jf\©aiming S’irdw yfac^
burned In piant pyres, it was fougf
that straw, when heated in a retort,
Rives off more and better gas, ton
for ton, than coal. The tractor on
the university farm is driven with it.
Motor cars with overhead gas, are
run fifteen miles on one charge.
The apparatus has been sufficient
ly simplified so that it can be in
stalled on the farm, and gives neat
promise of becoming a practical and
widely-used pigee farm equip
ment. _ _
BIG FORESTS IB
SOUTH FELLED
, EOR SHIPS
I GALVESTON. Tex.. Nov. 1 —
Pine trees in which birds were
. building nests at sowing time last
spring are now made into ships
ready for cargoes of grain destined
for Europe and the forests of the
south everywhere show the results
of the great shipbuilding drive.
Construction of a single ship of
the Ferris type, calling for nearly
2,000,000 feet of lumber, necessi
tates the clearing of nearly 1000
acres of pine trees. The Daugher
ty type ship requires 1,500,000 feet
of lumber. While the pine forests
1 of Louisiana and Texas produce
from 10,000 to 20,000 feet of lum
. er an acre, only a small percentage
l of this is available for shipbuilding.
Two score vessels already have
been launched at Beaumont, Orange
and Houston, and the consumption
of lumber at Orange alone will de
nude more than 100,000 acres of
forest. Shipyards at Beaumont and
Houston will take as much more.
The yards at Lake Charles, Morgan
City, New Orleans, Slidell, Pasca
goula. Gulfport, Pensacola and Mo- j
bile likewise are drawing on the j
forests of the south, and the wood- ,
land cleared will total millions of
acres wheft the shipbuilding cam
paign is over.
The emergency fleet corporation ;
has contracted for all available ship j
timber and would use more if it t
could be produced. At Beaumont
the fleet corporation has built one
o* the largest lumber yards of the
country on 50 acres of land pre
sented by the city.
bodyITinfluenza
victim honored
IN GOLDFIELD
Today Goldfield paid tribute to
the first of its soldier dead when
the body of John Morrison was re
turned here from Hoboken, N. J.,
where he died from pneumonia fol
lowing influenza as he was about to
leave for France.
The Home Guard led a long line
of citizens on foot and in automo
biles to the depot. The Red Cross
and the Fraternal Order of Eagles
also turned out to pay homage to
i the young soldier and the American
| colors and flags of the allied na
I tions were unfurled to lead the pro
cession that escorted the body to
Dunn’s undertaking parlors.
The body was accompanied to
! Goldfield by Sergeant \t. C. Hare
' of the army transport service, sta
tioned in New York. Sergeant
Hare’s home is in San Francisco
and he will leave for there tomor
row morning for a short visit be
fore returning east.
, Following services at 2:30 this
afternoon in front of Dunn’s under
taking parlors, presided over by
Father O’Sullivan of Sacred Heart
church , the Eagles held the servic
es of their order. A beautiful trib
ute was paid the young soldier by
Father O’Sullivan.
Speaking for the state, Maurice
J. Sullivasj, lieutenant governor
and adjutant general, delivered an
eloquent address at the services.
Tomorrow morning, accompanied
| by Dean Morrison, a brother of the
deceased, the body will start for
Chicago, where interment will be
made beside the bodies of a brother
and sister. The Home Guard and
other organizations will escort the
the remains to the train.
The Tonopah & Goldfield train
will not leave tomorrow morning
until S: 30 and the Home Guard will
meet at 7:45 at Dunn’s undertak
i ing parlors.
WOMAN’S OLl'B TO AID
Mrs. Thomas Davis has been ap
pointed chairman of charity for
the Goldfield Woman’s club. Any
one in need may call on her; also
those who wish to contribute to
this cause. The club will gladly
help anyone to the best of its abil
ity.
WALTER RICHARDSON’S
INFANT SON DIES IN RENO
Walter Don Richardson, infant
son of Walter F. Richardson, died
yesterday in Reno. The child will
l>e buried there. This is sad news
; to the many friends of Mr. and Mrs.
I Richardson in Goldfield.
NO DUCK HOLIDAY
THIS YEAR IN
OAKIANO
OAKLAND, Nov. 1. — It is going
; to be a grainless winter for the
i thousands of wild ducks which year
ly flock to Lake Merritt, in the
heart of this city. The Oakland
! chamber of commerce has abandon
ed its annual pageant of welcome
to the fowl, and food conservation
orders have prohibited the feeding
of barley and other grain to them,
as has been the custom in the past.
W. W. Richards, a hunter of big
and little game all over the North
American continent, who has made
a yearly study of the duck flight to
Lake Merritt, thinks there will be
as many this season as formerly,
but they will not stay as long. He
says:
“The first ducks to reach Lake
: Merritt are the sprig or pintails.
They begin to arrive the latter part
of August. Most of them come
from the Klammath reservation
near the California-Oregon line.
“The next flight consists of pin
tail, wigeon, preen wing, teal, shov- |
elers, gadwell and mallard. They
aj/ive about the middle of October
“The last flight comes from the
Yukon delta and Saskatchewan and
consists of canvasbacks and red
heads.
“I have hunted ducks all over the
country, but on no other body of
water have 1 seen so many birds,
of so many different varieties,
all dwelling in peace with each oth
er and with mankind, in the heart
of a city of 285,000 inhabitants
within a few minutes’ walk of the
city hall and surrounded by the
constant activity of a great metrop
olis."
louts HERD WEARS
MANY DECOtAIlOHSi
PARIS, Oct. 30. — The only dec
orations worn by Private Duke
Thayer, Jr., of the United States
marines up to two years ago were
those received about his optics when
he settled his disputes in the
good old Yankee way.
Today Luke, who is a trifle over
19 years old, wears three campaign
ribbons, a croix de guerre with a
palm, two wound stripes and two
other stripes indicating a year’s
service in Prance.
Incidentally he is wearing half a
dozen stars from Boche shrapnel
and bullets.
Within a few months after Luke
| enlisted he earned his first cam
i paign ribbon by helping to impress
! the might of Uncle Sam on some of
' the natives of San Domingo. A
jaunt to Haiti was next in order,
where he acquired another ribbon.
It was at Belleau woods that
Luke earned the right to wear the
war cross with a palm. A detach
ment of the marines was with a
French regiment at the time.
On a little hillock well camouflag
ed by a clump of bushes, two Ger
; man machine guns were spitting
death into the ranks of the French
and the marines. Twelve volun
teers were called for to storm the
two nests and Luke was one of the
twelve.
The twelve divided into two bod
ies, but of the five with Luke only
one got as far as the objective with
him. The others were either killed
or wounded. Three grenades well
placed by the boy from Pennsylvan
ia finished up the crew of the gun
he was after.
Over on the other part of the hil
lock Luke noticed his “pals” were
having a tough time. He turned
the gun he had captured on the
Germans still righting with the oth
er “bullet spitter, ’ and not only
finished them quickly, but routed a
counter attack made by about 30
of the Boche. Aid arrived a little
later, but before that time frag
ments of shell had put Thayer out
of action temporarily.
I
OXK CASE OF “FLU”
IX GOLDFIELD NOW
Bernard Hughes, a well-known
Goldfield man, is seriously ill here
with double pneumonia following
influenza. Hughes had been work
ing at the Consolidated mill and his
critical condition at present is said
to be due to the fact that he con
tinued at work for several days
despite symptoms of Influenza.
CONGRESS MAY AT LAST MAKE
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov; 4. —been a valid objection advanced
Congress seems at last about toagajnst it," declares Secretary Lane
make the Grand Canyon of Arizona^ a 8tatement favoring the project.
a national park. For years the can- .
. ,, "Nor can such an objection be
yon has been quite generally re
garded as a park, but officially it isur*ed. because the Grand Canyon
a sort of two national forests, a belongs to the federal government
game refuge and a national monu-and any attempt to thwart a change
ment. in its status, which would distinct
“It has never been managed as aly redound to Its advantage, must
part of the park system, and hasbe of some private interest,
never been susceptible of develop- Private resources have accomp
ment as such,” says the house pub-lished limited development. Thou
lic lands committee in reporting sands of tourists visit the canyon
favorably a senate bill that would annually, but due to the lack of
dedicate 950 square miles, 600,000roads, trails and side-trip destina
acres, in northern Arizona as thetions the throngs have little oppor
Grand Canyon national park. ‘Thlstunity to enjoy in full measure the
maginlficent gorge should now take marvelous grandeur of the region,
its place as a link in the national Less than 400 of the 600,000
park chain which already includes acres that the proposed legislation
most of the nation’s wonderful and would place in the park are now in
extraordinary natural features.” privatd ownership, these being held
It was 32 years ago last January in small parcels near the rim. The
that the first bill to make the Grand greater part of the land lies within
Canyon a national park was intro-the enormous gulf, measuring at
duced in the senate by the late ex-some points 20 miles across the top.
President Benjamin Harrison, thenSufficient land is to be included
a senator from Indiana. Since thenback of the north and south rims to
the proposal has been presented tomake possible road development
congress from time to time. and to care for camping and hotel
“It appears that there never has facilities.
NEPHEW OP C. S. SPRAGUE
WAS U. S. NAVAL AVIATOR
A telegram was received here
yesterday by Ben Gill from Charles
S. Sprague, announcing the death
of the latter’s nephew “off the coast
of France.’’ This morning the fol
lowing telegram was received from
Mr. Sprague:
“My only nephew, William G.
Sprague, solo officer and cadet in
the naval aviation corps, made the
supreme sacrifice fighting off the
coast of France. He was like a
son to us. We have received no
particulars yet."
RODY OP YOUNG SOLDIER
IS ESCORTED TO TRAIN
The body of John Morrison, after
being escorted to the depot by the
Home Guard, Eagles and Red Cross,
was started for Chicago this morn
ing, accompanied by Dean Morrison,
.a brother of the deceased.
' THREE POUND SUGAR
RULE IS RESTORED
The sugar allowance for homes
: and also for public eating places is
' now at the old rate of three pounds
per person, or per 90 meals served,
per month, says a telegraphic ruling
received today from the United
i States food administration. The
| change does not affect manufactur
| ers, however, and sugar certificates
| will be required from these as here
| tofore. Bakeries, retail merchants,
j saloons and soda fountains will be
j rationed as announced some time
J ago. Any head of a family may
purchase his full month's allotment
at the rate of three pounds for each
person to be fed, but grocers will
j continue to keep a strict record of
l all sales, and users of sugar who ex
j ceed their allowance will be penal
ized.
THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER
' Oh, say, can you see by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last
gleaming,
Whose stripes and bright stars, through the peril
ous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly
streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in
air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was
still there!
Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the
brave?
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the
deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence re
poses,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering
steep
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first
beam
In full glory reflected, now shines in the stream.
Oh. say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave.
O’er the land of the free and the home of the
bravp?
And whore is that band who so vauntingly swore.
’Mid the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion.
A home and a country they’d leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footstep’s
pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the
grave;
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth
wove
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desola
tion:
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the heaven-res
cued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us
a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just.
And this be our motto. “In God Is Our Trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall
wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the
hrave!