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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1918
Page
6
In Zurich neutral countries rationing expands to fats with a fat card alongside bread and meat. The Neue Zurcher Zeitung urges thrift, promotes peanut and fruit stone oil, sunflower planting, and roadside depots to conserve fats and avert malnutrition.
Article praises canal zone pasturage development enabling beef and milk production for 150 000 people. Highlights R K Morris as key driver, compares his work to Gorgas and Hoover, noting war needs and tropical agriculture advances in Panama.
British reports recount a moonlit naval encounter where a patrol boat rammed a U boat after it submerged. Six depth charges and a shell produced oil and distress cries with one survivor. A British submarine reportedly rammed and became embedded with the German sub, both sinking after the struggle.
London reports a rush of young men from northern districts to enlist in the Guards. Recruiting authorities work around the clock as vacancies in commission and ranks attract applicants of strong physique. Most seek full army terms not merely wartime service.
Mrs. Clara Nitz, 54, sues Arthur R. Nitz, 58, for divorce in Milwaukee alleging cruel and inhuman treatment and citing a remark about needing a shave as a key incident.
Spencertown New York Joseph Satriale a radio operator on the President Lincoln sunk by a German U boat survived adrift for hours and fell ill on furlough He and ship mates drifted 18 hours before a destroyer picked them up He says U boats will have little effect on shipping while American destroyers and chasers operate and boats rush to any floatwood on the water.
The West Virginia state board of education voted unanimously to eliminate the German language from all school curricula in Charlestown. The resolution directs removal from courses statewide.
A North Carolina draft board sent a man with one eye to Camp Lee Virginia amid a wartime draft push. Peg-legged men and others on crutches had previously been routed to the camp, highlighting unusual disability in the selection process.
Arthur Guy Empey, an American in Jersey City, travels to England to enlist in the British army. He serves in France, learns trench life, witnesses death, and takes part in fronts and posts before returning to rest billets and staging a play.
A wartime memoir describes field punishments such as crucifixion on a limber wheel and confinement in the clink, then moves to machine gun drills and ruses to locate Fritz's gun. The narrator details deceptive tactics, tune swapping with an enemy gunner, and methods to mislead German gunners with synchronized fire and camouflage.
In a WWI trench narrative three days after silence, German gas rolls toward Allied lines as wind assists the attack. A new periscope operator spots a greenish yellow cloud, causing alarms and quick donning of respirators within about twenty seconds.
Empey moves to the intelligence department and discovers the role is tougher than expected. The following installment chronicles his inexperience and early challenges in this new spy catching assignment.
The Carnegie hero fund commission, at its fourteenth annual meeting, awarded silver medals in seven cases and bronze in 17. Ten heroes died, and nine dependents receive pensions totaling 4 560 dollars annually. Two cases receive 2 100 dollars for education, and 11 awards totaling 8 000 dollars go to other worthy purposes, with payments delayed until commission approval.
Consul Walter F. Boyle reports an American firm has imported and erected the first cornmeal mill in San Pedro Sula Honduras. The small mill, purchased in the United States, signals government and private war time efforts to boost cereal production and the start of a new local industry.
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