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Show THE HELPER TIMES, HELPER. UTAH dnenuensill IPeipsIMinigj9 nfi tttticB i&o EEo IF. By Gen John PersMng Stapy sent I r i (LmS) (AiU V2'"'SL ! CuMKf t r tiii4 . TaA'V Vit J A " im. TfPA" fit wren mum' I B A AMERICAN DIVISIONS IN THE REDUCTION OF THE' MARNE SALIENT CHAPTER LI I Continued. Grasse, were putting every energy Marshal tlaig gave his views and Into the service. Certain engineer troops were kept at this central plans, which agreed with the general outline suggested, as did Gen- point for railway work, ready to eral retain, who wanted further to respond to calls from any direcAs far tion. The camp of consider the possibilities. as these preliminary operations ap- German prisoners, uuder Colonel plied to the Americans, they were Groonie of the military police, consimply a restatement of the plans tained several hundred men used we had been leading up to ever as laborers. A number of British women, since our entry Into the war. I, therefore, advised thnt details of known as the Women's Auxiliary organization and supply were re- Aid corps, were lent to us by their ceiving every consideration In the government to assist In clerical preparation of the American army work. The 250 women located at Tours occupied neat and comfortto do its part. While at General Foch's head- able temporary barracks and prequarters, I arranged with General sented a very military appearance Fetain for the expansion of the on parade. Some fifty of them First corps, then operating in the were 111 In quarters at the time Maine sector, by which four Amer- and I gave Instructions that they ican divisions were to be placed should be transferred to our hosIn the line with two in reserve. It pital. Besides officially, these fine was my hope that this would be women, under the proper restricthe basis for the preliminary for- tions that prevailed, became a valmation of an American army on ued addition to the social side of this front En route to Chauraont life where they were stationed. I stopped to call on Liggett and This force with us eventually numapprise him of the possibility of bered about 5.000. additional American divisions for Speaks to Men In Hospital. The base hospital at Tours was his corps. then filled with men wounded In Expedition to Russia. The supreme war council was the recent engagements. They receiving the best of care unlrone to listen to suggestions for wereCol. effM. A. and Smith his the use of allied troops at various der places other than the western icient group of medical officers and front One of these, on which the nurses. British seemed to be especially Inthrough the various Passing sistent was to send troops to help wards of this hospital I spoke to a white army In Russia, young soldier who was the to keep open the communication .sitting up In bed, and asked him where he was wounded, meaning through Murmansk In the to inquire the nature of his wound. I was opposed to any such Idea, In reply he said : "Do you rememas It would simply mean scattering ber, sir, Just where the road skirts our reso'urces, all of which were a small grove and turns to the left needed on the western front But across a wheat field and then leads President Wilson was prevailed up over the brow of the hill? Well, upon to help and I was directed to right there, sir." He was clearly describing the end a regiment provided General Foch had no objections. As ap- advance south of Solssons which Chateau-Thierrsaliparently he had already considered pierced the the question, he gave his approval ent. Of course, I was not there and a regiment was accordingly at the time, but It touched me that sent The Three Hundred and Thirty-n- he should feel that I must have inth infantry, Lieut Col. George been very close to him. At the base hospital In Bordeaux, E. Stewart commanding, together with one battalion of engineers and then under the efficient supervision of Col. H. A. Shaw, chief surgeon one field hospital, were designated of the base section, we found about for this service. In 'ew of the prospect for the 500 of our wounded, most of them early assembly of corps and dlvl-- r soon to be sent home. No matter eious to form our army, It became how severely wounded they were urgent that the organization be I never beard a word of complaint hastened with all possible speed. from any of our men. There could The outlines had been determined not have been found In the hosand members of the First army pitals of any army a more cheerful lot It was a lesson In fortitude, staff were at work on the details. My formal order creating the an Inspiration, to see their fine First field army was Issued July courage. We arrived at Brest August 2 24, to take effect August 10, with and found the commanding generheadquarters at La al, G. H. Harries, and staff at the Immediate consideration was station to meet us. Base section No. 5 was built around Brest, our given the Improvement of the general supply system. Although the recent reorganization had helped. It had been my purpose for some time to make changes In personnel d ' g Arch-ange- r r it things generally and they carry out my orders. I can wear my uniform now that I have won the right to wear it." "Well," I said, "O'Neil, you're Just the man I have been looking for, and I am going to send you to every port we use to show them your secret." CHAPTER Intermountain Hews (Copyright, 1931, In mil by tbt coaatrle LIV The French government had expressed a desire to bestow their decorations on American officers and men, and asked if I would accept an appointment In the Legion of Honor with the grade of grand officer. As cotijiress had recently granted permission for members of our forces to receive foreign decorations, the French government was advised accordingly, and It was to confer this honor upon me that -- i particularly In the position of chief, which demanded great administrative ability. After much thought the choice fell to General Harbord. In -- r" m the S. O. S., CHAPTER Llll Early In August WIS, I made an Inspection tour of I he service of supply, to note the progress and acquaint myself, .the chief of staff and General Harbord, by actual observations, with conditions. The tour was made also with a view to such changes In personnel and Improvements In methods as would Insure the complete fulfillment of the Increased obligations of sup-- " Imposed npon the sen-Icply by the tremendous task of receiving, storing and transporting the enlarged troop and supply ship- ments. , . Our first stop was Tours, which, being the location of the headquarters of the 8. O. S., with a huge American military garrison of 2,4i0 otlleers and 4,300 men, had become a beehive of activity. We visited every activity at Tours, beginning with the central records ntllce, a branch of the adjutant general's otlice of large where the personal ree-ords of every man In the A. E. F. were kept. We found thnt the thou- railway operators, numbering situated sands, comfortably portuble barracks at Camp in 2e rBy Jeiuen North American Newpaper Alliance. World right rt TO BOLD NEW ROAD MARRIED MEN FIRST WOOL GROWERS MEET IRON MEN ARE HIKED FAMOUS LADY ON TOUR erved, including the Scandinavian. Re- production In whole or In part prohibited.) -- WNU Service SALT LAKE CIT5T, LT. The annual convention of the National association will be Woolgrowers held in this city on January 12, 13 and 14, it Is announced by the secretary of the association. The convention will attract hundreds of woolgrowers from most parts of the United States and Canada. I motored to Sarcus August 9, and after discussing with Marshal Foch the changed situation in the Marne sector and the practical stabilization of the front on the Vesle, I suggested the transfer of the First army headquarters to the St Mihiel region, where It could begin Immediate preparations for the proposed offensive. We considered the outline of my plans and without hesitation Marshal Foch acquiesced In the transfer. Returning to Paris the same afternoon I went to Provins to talk the matter over further with General Petaln. We took stock of available divisions for the St. Mihiel operation, and he said I could count on hira definitely to do everything in his power to furnish whatever we might require. Having thus reached a general understanding regarding the preliminary details of the move, I drove the following morning to La to take formal command of the First army and to give Instructions to my staff regarding the movement of headquarters to Neufchateau. CEDAR The con-tra- sible. EPHRAIM, UT. The date for the annual Sanpete county poultry day has been set for September 11 at Manti. This will take the place of the, Sanpete county fair which has been discontinued for this year, due to the extreme drouth In this iter pmm Industry is like a game of pushball. It takes many good local helpers to keep the "ball rolling and to push Industrial success. These Brands Are Intermountain Made And Deserve Your Support section. LOGAN, UT. Work on the Installation of 6ix new automatic stokers In schools of the Cache county school system Is under way. The schools so equipped are located at North Logan, Richmond, Hyde Park, Wellsville, Providence and Fourth and the French First armies In the Montdidier-Alber- t sector began August 8. The division was in front line training with the British Fourth army and was attached to the British Third corps for the operation, the One Hundred and Thirty-firs- t regiment of infantrv being assigned to the division. This British Fifty-eight- h regiment Joined In the attack August 9 against the Morlancourt-Chlplll- y spur north of the Somme. It reached Its objectives In splendid fashion and occupied a line on the western edge of Gressaire wood, extending southward along the river. August 10, It continued to progress against decided opposition, gaining the eastern edge of the forests of Fosse and Marcon. During the following three days, the command having been shifted, the One Hundred and Thirty-firs- t infantry under the Australian Fourth division attained a line Just west of The three other regiments were In reserve during the operations. The One Hundred and Thirty-firs- t Infantry was relieved August 20, having advanced over three miles and suffereel heavy casualties. I motored to the British front Sunday to be present at Thirty-thir- d division headquarters, near Molliens-aux-Boion the occasion of the visit of King George, who was then visiting his armies. General Bliss had preceded me and we both spent the night there. Thnt evening General Bell, relating the details of the participation of his troops with the British, said their services had been urgently requested and that they had acquitted Ask Your UTAH Newton. permitted to act as caddies on the Municipal Golf course, it has been decided by the city commissioc. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Ac- SCHOOL HIGH BEAUTY-CULTUR- OGDEX, UT. Only unemployed married men with families will be OF E "Phony" Affliction The ''phony" disease of peaches gets its name because the diseased trees are dwarfed and thus came to be called pony trees, later corrupted to phony. Packed With Power d Og-de- n, L that were considered In negotiating sales to Germany and China. The loan would be repaid at the time the wheat was sold. SILVER CITY, IDA. The fair association Is said to be planning a best "Owyhee fair ever county held" for this year. The fair Is to be held on September 18 and a rodeo will be featured. riAGERMAX, IDA. At the recent watermelon day a serving of twenty-fivtons of watermelons was the big feature. Three thousand persons consumed the melons. e SALT LAKE CITY, UT. By the value of the output, Utah ranks 8tb among the mining states of the Union, according to a government re- port recently issued. Utah was the second among weslern states In the metal field. BRIGHAM i ; ' CITY, UT.-Pi- ach trees which are heavy producers are marked for a portion of the supply needed for "Peach Day," on September 11. Huiyreds of bushels of fine peaches and many tons of watermelons are to be given to visitors free on the big day. nmggist K-HAN- LOTION D For AN 3rd Floor, Clift Bide. Salt Lake City, Vt. It jna arc Planning a Pay i nit Businea Future, Investigate Our Flan Write For Catalogue cording to information received here Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, former Governor of Wyoming, now of the Democratic National Committee, will be In UtInsist on ah during the early part of SeptemWool Blankets Pure Virgin will In and visit and speak ber, Made In the several counties of the State, beIntermountain West s sides holding a public meeting In Salt Lake City. ORIGINAL UTAH WOOLEN MILLS Salt Lake City UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, MOSCOW, IDA. The southern Idaho Be True to Principle University of Idaho special, one of Let U3 cling to our principles as the unusual trains In the mariner clings to his last plank the United States, will leave Poca-tellwhen night and tempest close at 1 p. m., September 12 and around him. Adam Woolever. arrive at Moscow at 2 o'clock the following afternoon, according to the schedule Just announced. PROVO, UT. Moving pictures are to be taken of the opening of GASOLINE school at Brigham Young University, September 25, according to Professor II. R. Merrill, Professor of Journalism. The University reLargest European Bird cently acquired possession, at a Tha great bustard is the largest sacrifice sale, of a, very valuable bird, being over a yard European motion picture camera formerly in with a wingspread of length, owned by Buck Jones, movie actor. from feet tip to tip. eight The Office of Information, accordto Professor is anxious Merrill, ing CLAUDE NEON LIGHTS to record In motion pictures, as Products Corporation 0pLECTmcAL many aspects of the University life Salt Lake City as possible, and with that In view, 104B So. Wain It has been decided to make a picLocusts' Long Life ture of the opening day of school. Cicadas, or true locusts, have OGDEX, UT. Chairman Harvey the longest life cycle of any insect, P. Randall, of the Weber county with the seventeen-yea- r locusts commission says that the unemholding the record. ployment situation is causing great BLUE SEAL CLEANSER concern with the summer months Wonderful Sanitary Household passing and practically no prospect Cleanwr and Water Softener of Improvement In labor conditions. SOLE DISTRIBUTORS Randall states, according to reports, that In cooperation with Tku IHCiVllI IVUhU plans are being considered to rllanlMflfcCo. perfect an organization through ASK YOUR DEALER which the problem may be partially solved. It Is expected that de- FOREST DALE POTATO CHIPS finite plans will be worked out beNo Equal For Crlspnrse and Quality fore cold weather sets In. Factory 47 Kensington Ave. Salt Lake Cily Tel. Hy 1741 WALLA WALLA, WASH. The wheat growers of the Pacific northAnacondas sometimes have as west are prepared to present to the many as 64 young in one litter, federal farm board a new relief while pythons deposit from 50 to and crop control plan. The plan is 100 eggs at a time. said to reduce effectively acreage and remove a surplus from the ARTIFICIAL LIMB CO. market. The farmers would agree Trusses Braces Artificial Limbs Arch Supports Crutches to purchase 250,000,000 bushel of Elastic Hoisery Extension Shoes the farm board's present holdings, Established In Snlt Lake In 1908 and consider It as next year's crop, Ph. Was. 6264 Satisfaction Guaranteed 13S W. Third 80. 1 Bait Lake City. Ut. letting land He Idle that ordinarily would be planted. The farmers will ask the federal farm board to finance the sale on the same terms themselves well. King George Bestows Decorations. The king arrived, August 12, to President Poincare paid his first present decorations to selected division, brief visit to Chaumont, August 0, men of the Thirty-thirwho had participated In the recent 1918. Soon I met him at the station with a attacks of the British army. Invited arrival the king his after him escort and conducted military to my headquarters, where the General Bliss and me to his room, he presented me with the officers senior of the staff were where Grand Cross of the Order of the presented. After that formality Bath and bestowed the Order of we repaired to the small area of on St. Michael and barracks, where the headquarters General Bliss. TheSt George presentations troop and band were drawn up In were informal, as the king simply line for the ceremony. handed the decorations to us In Meanwhile, the entire headquarat the same time expressing ters personnel, several hundred turn, his appreciation of American asmen and women, had turned out to sistance. witness the proceedings. Both naWe then accompanied the king tional airs were played and the to the place where the men were troops were presented to the Pres- assembled for the ceremony. He ident after which he addressed me was gracious In his compliments as briefly in perfect English and he pinned the decorations on our pinned on the decoration. men, and the recipients were ex"I am specially pleased," he tremely proud. As soon as the klug departed I said, "at this opportunity to thank General Pershing and the brave left with Boyd for Sir Douglas army under his orders for the very Haig's advance headquarters to gallant work they did during the ask the relief of some of the Amerlast weeks on the field of battle." ican divisions then with the BritI replied, thanking him for the ish armies. Marshal Ilnlg said he had unhonor, and saying: "I value this decoration as a derstood that the American dimark of recognition by France of visions had been sent there to he the services of the American army trained and to serve on the British and of friendship for the American front and that now, Just as they had become useful, it was proposed people." to withdraw them. He had hoped, Kissing Causes Embarrassment. Then, according to the French he said, that these divisions would custom, President Poincare kissed remain, and was disappointed to have them removed. me on both cheeks, but not withI gave Marshal Haig my assurout some difficulty, as he was not so tall as I, and It was necessary ance that his desire was fully apfor him to rise on tiptoe and for preciated and that I regretted the necessity which Impelled me to me to lean somewhat forward. I was not Insensible 'to the high make this request Just at this moIn personal honor, but regarded It ment, but I accordance onwith our must Insist having mainly as an appreciation on the agreement the unpart of the French government of them. He acknowledged the assistance America had al- derstanding and said that although to he needed our troops he realized 5fc given to the cause. ' ' j' ready Without Implying the slightest my position and my reasons for of the form of salutation their withdrawal. He then said, in - '. criticism used In the ceremony, I cannot re- his frank, straightforward way: "Pershing, of course you shall frain from confessing my embarrassment, especially ns I could have them ; there can never be any Serving a Field (iun. hear a hushed laughter from the difference between ns." (TO BB CONTINUED.) leading port of debarkation. The Irreverent Americans In the area section included four French ter- who witnessed my situation, no Marveloui Jaw Power ritorial departments. Another land- doubt with sympathy. I thought thnt M. Poincare himA fighting lion caught In a noose ing port for troops was Cherbourg. A large locomotive terminal and self was probably quite as much has been known to bite the thick repair shop were located at Itennes embarrassed as I was. Moreover, rope In an Instant and make away. and a coal port at Granville. be must have heard the suppressed Whales have been known to crush mirth as plain as I. a heavy boat In Its Jaws. An In Major O'Nell't Secret. After an Inspection of the storeAs the American army was now furiated tiger bit clean through the houses and the new construction an accomplished fuct, It seemed ad- shoulder of a man, crushing all the for additional storage on the piers, visable to begin preparations Im- bones to splinters. The hyena has I asked for the chief stevedore. mediately to carry out the plan of the most powerful Jaw muscles of A Major O'N'ell, who came up ap- campaign adopted July 21, provid- any warm blooded creature. parently quite embarrassed. To ing for a distinctive American op- hyena can bite through the thigh I him him at took ease the by eration against the St Mibiol put bone of an os In order to extract arm and w walked together to the niurrow. UT. CITY, has been signed with the state road commission by the Iron County commissioners for the construction of a $55,000 highway extending south from the Beaver county line C.3 miles to Jluckhorn flat This will be a standard federal aid gravel road and eliminates several bad turns In the old road. It is expected to complete this road before December 15 and as much of the labor will be local men as pos- y . ) Briefly Told by Busy Readers Bell's Division In Action. The Third division (Bell) was still with the British when the combined attack of the British where some lighters were being As the port had made unloaded. the record of handling 42,000 arriving troops and their baggage In one day, May 24, entirely with lighters, I asked him to tell me about By this time he had overcome his fright, and pointing to two officers, each down in the bottom of a lighter directing the work, he said : "Sir, do you see those two captains down there in their shirt sleeves? Well, that's the secret. I say to them : 'Don't stand off somewhere and puff yourselves up In your uniforms, but take off Sam Brownes and your coats and get down close to your men.' "Of course, those captains have I did the now become experts. same thing when I started, but since they are trained I manage Sally Sez INTERMOUNTAIN PRODUCT Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom that weaves huckaback why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber. Emerson. HELP UTAH -H- ELP YOT By always asking your dealer for Intermountain Made Brooms By Nam Black Beauty Blue Ribbon Gold Crown THIS WEEK'S PRIZE STORY In the intermountain region, Mid the goodly valleys fair, You'll find bargains Prices low beyond compare. With metal in the mountains, Flocks on every hill, With chrystal flowing fountains To turn the Electric Mill, With population growing And factories rising high. Here you'll find right prices You and I. 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