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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1917
Page
3
Reports from the Royal Flying Corps recount daring actions over French and Belgian fronts. British pilots survive close battles, bomb Helio aerodromes, and engage infantry under heavy fire with expert maneuvers and risky landings behind German lines.
In the DeSautles case, experts note thyroid gland affections are often fatal to husbands, suggesting a deadly link between thyroid conditions and male fatalities in such stories.
Camp Sevier Greenville BC Bee reports no officers training school will be held there as announced. The Officers’ Training for the Thirtieth Division moves to Leon Springs Texas with the same enrollment. Civilians may enter if exceptional qualifications are met, but numbers will be limited. About four hundred men from Camp Sevier were to be selected.
London reports England has become more sober as war nears end. Official returns show drunkenness convictions last year at 84,391, down from 135,828 in 1915, the lowest in fifty years. Insane persons under care in January dropped to 194,020, a fifty year low.
Three American lake freighters are held up by ice in the Lacine canal. Two tugs try to keep water open for freighters arriving, but ice and frost on the Great Lakes will trap all five vessels until spring.
United States army officers in charge began a probe into reports that the embargo on carload shipments to Newport News is dodged by billing freight to the quartermaster's department and shifting it before government checkers inspect it.
Twelve men were enlisted yesterday at Camp Sevier recruiting, with assignments to 113th and 114th Field Artillery, 115th Machine Battalion, 119th Field Hospital, 105th Supply Train, and depot detachments. One death was reported, Grover G. Clayton of Battery D, 114th Field Artillery, from Buchanan Tennessee. Captain Elmer A. Klein of the Medical Reserve Corps arrived at Camp Sevier and joined the base hospital.
Grantland Rice, famed sport writer and former syndicated Sportlight columnist, has joined the 15th Field Artillery at Camp Sevier Greenville S C. An exclusive article by Rice will appear in the Camp Bevier publication Trench and Camp issued by the Army Y M C A. rice adapts quickly to camp life and adds a notable feature for the magazine.
Washington December 14 Camp Albert TH Mills on Long Island where the Rainbow division of the national guard was organized will not be used again this winter. The process of abandoning the camp has virtually been completed.
The 30th division trains in trench occupation at Camp Sevier Greenville D C with each infantry regiment taking a turn practicing moving through trenches while an imagined enemy fires artillery. Gas defense training begins for officers and 100 NCOs per regiment with gas mask tests in a gas chamber to complete the program.
Anderson D. C. December 14. State Fuel Administrator Gossett characterized the coal situation as most acute and issued a call for colleges, schools and other institutions to suspend two weeks or more if practicable during the Christmas holidays.
Two soldiers died from pneumonia within 24 hours ending at noon, announced by Camp Beauregard base hospital tonight. The deaths bring the camp total to six since November 17.
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