Show WAR DEPARTMENT HALTS DELIVERY OF HAND BOMBS Grenades Were to Be Given I Away as Souvenirs to I Stamp Buyers j Delivery of or hand grenades grenade j to the Treasury Department to be converted converted con into savings sa Ings banks s for tor the stirn of or thrift and sales of ot War Sav Say tugs Ings Stamps has bas been held up b by the t War Department and contracts which the he War Department had with the tile I Ithe Treasury Department for tor supplying the he grenades were cancelled accord i ing ng to a telegram received from Wash 1 I ington b by C C. A A. A Farnsworth associate i director of ot the War Loan Organization In n the Twelfth Federal Reserve Dis Dig j tract No reason was given for cancellation cancellation can can- of or contract beyond the tact fact I that hat the tile War Val Department has determined deter j i mined that the distribution of ot hand grenades as as souvenirs should be dIscon dis- dis dIsI I con continued ir i The The grenades In question known as Mills 1 bombs No 11 were ready for shipment to the American forces In Fr France nce when the armistice was signed At the request of the Treasury Department Department Depart Depart- ment the War Department agreed to turn these banks over o to the Treasury Department for tor conversion Into savings banks and immediately upon announcement an an- that they would be distributed dis to the purchasers of War ar Say Sav Savings ings jugs Stamps an and Treasury Savings r. r Certificates millions of of orders flooded in In tn In the Twelfth Federal Reserve District alone banks banis and trust com com- panics through which hi h the grenades I were ere to be a aa awarded a HIed had ordered nearly nearl i of or the souvenirs sou These an and I all other orders throughout th the nation I will have to b be cancelled In iu Its telegram to Farnsworth I arn the the Tr Treasury Department Derailment staled stated that I ItI tI 0 of r Achievement ic signed by by Secretary Glass will be awarded Instead Instead In In- I stead of the grenades to all school schoolchildren children who worked during the vaca 1 tion to obtain oMain a bank and aud who bought j t I enough War Sa Savings Stamps to entitle I Ithem i ithem them to grenades 1 j jP i I P I H i |