Many Instruments Required to Equip Fighting Planes
The article explains that a military aircraft needs at least nine delicate instruments for safe operation including altitude and direction indicators, airspeed, propeller speed, fuel, water temperature, oiling system control, and oxygen supply. For combat planes additional gear such as machine guns, bomb racks, bomb sights, radio and photo gear, heated clothing, lights, and flares are required, bringing total equipment cost to several thousand dollars per aircraft.
Standard locomotive and freight car order marks broad modernization
The Railroad Administration will start delivering 1,025 locomotives from July with monthly shipments through year end. Six standard types, weight 290 000 to 540 000 pounds, cost about 60 million dollars. An order for 100 000 standard freight cars—costing 250 to 300 million—is placed, with negotiations for more steel cars pending.
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Railroad Administration
Red Cross Fund Drive Notice in Mojave River Valley Chapter
R. Layman appointed chairman to oversee the local Red Cross fund drive. Town divided into districts with captains. solicitors must report to the chairman, learn territory and captain. Three prizes offered by the national committee. Mojave River Valley Chapter with branches at Atolia Borosolvey Trona Johannes burg and Yermo aims for first prize. Roundhouse workers have subscribed $220, with many giving $20 each.
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Red Cross
National Committee
Mojave River Valley
Atolia
Borosolvey
Trona
Johannesburg
Yermo
Roundhouse
German U boats suffer defeat amid fresh war fronts
A Zurich report dated May 1 indicates a squadron of new German U boats failed to return after a cruise. Paris dispatch on May 14 notes Pershing’s American sector at Mont Didier has yielded 200 prisoners and pushed German forces back. London reports rain flooding the Ypres front reducing German offensive chances, with a vast air battle featuring about 8000 aircraft and five German planes downed by Americans in two days.
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Zurich
Paris
Mont Didier
Pershing
France
Courtemarehe
London
Ypres
North Sea
Popesinghe
Hinderburg
Picardy
Klanders
Daggett festival and local events on May 17
Daggett hosts a strawberry festival followed by an old fashioned spelling bee and dance on Friday evening May 17 at seven. Barstow will be well represented. The Atolia tungsten mine pays miners four dollars seventy five cents daily and a mucker four dollars twenty five cents. Company and employes donate to the Red Cross treasury. London reports British and French gains near Hindeburg on the Preardy front with a wood taken west of Haikes and heavy German losses after counterattacks.
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Daggett
Barstow
Atolia Tungsten
Red Cross Treasury
London
Hinderburg
Haikes
Amiens
California Industry and War Shipyard Expansion Forecast
Industrial development in Long Beach plans 500 rooms at 20000 dollars each for a bath house. San Pedro shipyards expect 10000 workers within a year and national parks will graze 137000 sheep. California to build two concrete ships and Congress funds 1509000 for San Diego Marine station base. Pacific Electric expands service Wilmington to Long Beach and spurs harbor traffic with 200000 spent. San Pedro annexes land for housing shipyard workers while a new 300000 hotel project starts. California lumber production in 1917 set records with redwood and western pine leading the cuts.
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Long Beach Bath House Company
San Pedro
Los Angeles
National Parks
Congress
Marine Station Corps Base
San Diego
Pacific Electric
Wilmington
Long Beach
Martenaz
Pacific Electric Railway Co
Los Angeles Harbor
California
Memorial Day Proclaimed by President Wilson
President Wilson designates May 30 as National Memorial Day a day of humiliation prayer and fasting. The public is urged to gather in places of worship and pray for the victory of the American army and a peace founded on mercy justice and goodwill.
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Washington
Wilson
Women at Home Front urged to carry food burden during war
A wartime appeal urges all American women to intensify home production and conserve wheat. It frames food as a global front line, notes France’s view of bread and ovens, and calls for disciplined, self sacrificing effort to keep food flowing and support Allied needs.
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America
Food Administration
The
South
New England
France
Farmers Steadfast in War Effort Across No Man's Land
A wartime proclamation from Governor Bickett calls on North Carolina to mobilize all state resources to feed the nation. The speech urges woman, boy, and girl power to man the bread line while Russian and German actions in Europe are cited. The piece emphasizes total national exertion and unity in food production.
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No Man's Land
Herbert Quick
Bickett
North Carolina
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T. W. Duckworth
San Bernardino County
Ingersoll Waterbury
White's Drug Store
L. L. Fanning Barstow
S. Becker von Grisbil
Vernon Spincer
DR. A. Grimes
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Sixth Street
Orphone
B. C. Anderson
Santa Fe
H.C. Haul, M. D
UN Hotel
Melrose
Lubin J. Henderson
Henderson
Eeera
A. P. Ring
Arstow
BEST
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E. R. Waite
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Santa Fe Ave
Trinity
Grand
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