Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-31 | Page 25 | Women Police Given Protection Steel Helmets Issued to Them

Women Police Given Protection S 3 J Steel Helmets Issued to Them I WOMEN POLICE WEAR "SAFETY" HEADGEAR n. , in.,, , , , if ,. -ffK.j Will Be Worn During Fu- ture Air Raids in the j Metropolis. LONDON, March 30. In order to give the women police of L-ondon greater! protection, the authorities have issued is-sued steel helmets to the corps. The j women will wear the helmets while; on duty during future air raids. The women are highly pleased over the action of the authorities In thus giv-ing giv-ing them greater protection and are also proud of the new headgear. BOYS OF ROME TO ' ASSIST IN GARDENS Us8 of American Tractors Throughout Country Also Will Increase Production. By 0. CIAKFARRA, International Now Service Staff Correspondent. ROME, March 10. (By mall.) Thanks to the enthusiasm with which the students stu-dents of the classic schools and the boys enrolled In the boy scout organizations have responded to the municipality's appeal ap-peal to volunteer for agricultural work, the project of making Rome agriculturally agricultur-ally self-supporting Is no longer considered consid-ered a chimerical scheme destined to be a complete failure. The movement to increase the agricultural agricul-tural production in and around the city begajl several weeks ago. when Mayor Prince Colonna informed the minlstrv of agriculture that he would place at the disposal of practical farmers all the green lawns of the public gardens and parks of the city, provided they would turn them into potato and bean fields. This announcement was Immediately followed by an appeal to the nobility pnd wealthy class in general to sow potatoes and beans in every available square foot of land in their vlll&s and large gardons. Agriculture Minister Mlliani, speaking of what the government ha-i so far accomplished, ac-complished, said that, notwithstanding the intensified submarine warfare, Italy has imported from North Amerl'-a 2600 tractors, which are working night and day wherever they can be successfully employed. "These tractors arrived In Italy dismounted," dis-mounted," Minister Miliani said, "and tiie parts were assembled asain at the port of discharge by mechanics furnished by the army and working under the direction direc-tion of American experts. "In order to obtain the bast of results, re-sults, I then asked the army to rurnlsh me with the necessary crews to run the tractors. General Diaz readily compiled and the crews were aJso trained by the American experts. "Next year," the minister concluded, "Italy will havo'7 0 00 tractors. Of these, 5000 will be stationed on the continent and UOOO in the Islands."