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Show THE GRANTSVILLE NEWS, GRANTSVILLE, UTAH. PLANES TO NEW WAR CARRY 19 HER HOW UNCLE SAH . Britain Sends Us Plans Giants of Air to Be Built Here. Affable Strangers Got Savings of Seven Years WILL at Riverside park with two newly cost Christ Juck, thirty-fiv- e years old, a Serbian living In the foreign quarter on South West street, $1,800, his savings of seven years. Jack reported the swindle to the police after he had taken a bundle, which he supposed contained $15,000, Intrusted to him by his friends, to a bunk to have It deposited in a safety vault. When a clerk opened the bundle Jack found that it contained only INDIANAPOLIS. Seeing the white lights a wad of newspaper. Jack told the police that he returned from Warren, Fn., where he had been employed in a steel mill for eight months, and was carrying his money In a suitcase. At Washington and West streets he met another foreigner, who struck up" with him and was most agreeable niter he pressed a few questions to learn whether Jack had any money. The pair went to Camp Sullivan park, where they met another man, and the trio decided to visit Riverside park. One of the men lind a bundle and confided to Jack that it contained $15,000, and after they reached the park be asked bis Intended victim if he would permit him to place the bundle of money In the suitcase. Jack agreed and they proceeded to enjoy the evening riding on all the racers and coasters and drinking "pop." Jack declared in broken English that he never met more companionable men. As the night wore on' they returned to the city and Jack obtained a room after bidding the men good-b- y and having an understanding that he would meet them again on Friday. In the morning he opened his suitcase and discovered that his purse and $1,800 were gone, but was consoled when he saw She Could Have More Fun as a TRAINS FLYERS developing not 100, but Every newspaper reader in the United States has been well informed of the plans for building airplanes, but It Is doubtful if one in a thousand can picture the size of some of the planes PARALYZE THE ENEMY that eventually will be loaded on trans- Aviators at Mineola Field Learn to Worry the Germans. Student ports at the Atlantic piers. The correspondent has had an opportunity In Great Number of These Craft to Make the Inst few weeks of Inspecting the ef Gernewest type of aircraft ; the type that SOME TESTS OF SKILL SHOWN Impossible will be turned out In vast numbers by man Lines Engines Very America, and it is bigger in every way Powerful. and more powerful than laymen. Im- Men Go Up About Half Mile, Then Slide Down at Sharp Angle London. American airplane manu- agine. To begin with, the body of the new And, Say, This Is No Job facturers are in possession of working models and blueprints of aero motors mnchlne resembles In many ways a big . for Nervous Man. Is launch. under motor Its part durnnd France developed by England Mineola, L. I. While hundreds of ing three years of warfare. The Unit- rounded and beautifully constructed thousands of men In America are ed States airplane factories have re- of finely grained wood. It is so big to Jab bayonets through how a must clamber one to It enter learning up ceived gratis the secrets of new alloys that and improvements In construction ladder and go down through a hatch- German soldiers In a leisurely manner, which previous to America's entry Into way as big as the cabin door of a some, of the most promising embryo are the war could not be bought at any motor yacht It is of the blplnne type officers of the American forcesRoche to how destroy here to each and from of there learning wing tip tip price secrets that were guarded with mens lives and were never mentioned is room enough for a dozen men to lie birdmeni To Judge by their training, both efficiently and beyond the doors of certain offices. out full length. Its two motors will they will do the Job Fersonal messengers have left England develop COO horsepower and their com- quickly. Under the direct supervision of Bert by every departing steamship; mnll bined weight Is so little compared to one of America's most successwould actual the the Acosta, that figures power with have been filled hags priceless civilian ful look the Where in untruthful aviators, scores of candiprint. blueprints and cable lines have been In the aviation commissions Jammed with messages, all bearing on old types could carry hundredweights, dates for of corps are the tons. section machine Signal carries this Army the development of the American air themselves to extricate Men. Can Nineteen being taught Carry squadron. This new plane is manned by n pilot, from the most dangerous positions The governments of France and two or three observers, a forward gun- imaginable while several thousand feet efGreat Britain know that upon the a mechanic and, from the ground. forts made on the other side of the At- ner, a For military reasons It Is forbidden a dozen If denecessary, passengers. It lantic within the next six months electrical-lightefor details of the fighting instruction hns an passageway afield. the armies the of fate pends to be made public. Here anfor to aviators one from compartment Important above everything else In the leading The flooring of one compart- however, Is an illustration of the danother. Is for the struggle airplane, victory are bewhich must be produced In myriads, ment Is a strongly constructed grating gerous situations the aviators view can ing put through: and the task now falls squarely to through which the occupants the earth below. The sides of two of While about two thousand feet nbove Uncle Sam. the compartments are built to open and ground, with the machine going nearly Doubters Are In Minority. backThere are doubting Thomases on afford a view of the surrounding straight .up, let her quietly slip 75 this side of the water who sneer at the clouds, or, In case of combat, of the ward nnd downward, tall first, for unWhen machine leviathan the the 100 then enemy or plnnes. get feet, grandiose statements coming from New aweder control again, go up still higher, York and Washington and who assert motors are started their roar is lhat even If the United States organ- inspiring, and the wind from the pro- nnd try It once more. Its quite easy tlint is. It is easy izes for the aerial construction pro- pellers sends backward a blast In front difffind would man of which a to strong wntch Bert Acosta or Edward gram the product will be so inferior his first assistant, pull It off. that It will be useless for actual fight- iculty In remaining erect. mnImHie must Is which a This All picture you have to do Is to ldt the ing. Fortunately these doubters are In the minority. Officials nnd men In pressed upon the public mind If the chlne drop bnckwnrd and downward realize until you feel that you have gone far :i position to know what already hns great mass of the people Is to been done arc highly optimistic. They what the United States Is going to enough, then pick up speed nnd make I believe that American methods applied do. ' The task set for the American her go upward again. Simple To fly around putting the mnchlne lo the mnnufuctnre of air craft will re- workers Is not that of turning out light, at nil kinds of angles nnd going mit In just ns good a product an 4s hurriedly built scouting machines to now coining from factories organized the number of tens of thousands, but to through all the manipulations may apconstruct carefully with the last de- pear silly nnd dangerous, Acosta said. here shortly after the wnr started. gree of Ingenuity the highly developed As a matter of fact. It is the only safe Despite all the lurid prophecies war needed modern battles. craft in thing to do when you are nbove an the great fleet of airplanes of her enemy's battlefield. Is That what expects England lint eventually will lay waste the prin- nowes't ally and wlmt she has Btrlven Infantry officers In our training cipal German cities, the experienced across camps are telling their men tligt Igto authorities teach valiantly airmen on this side only hope for the Atlantic. The yast technical detail norance courts death, In a battle with thousands of machines with which to developed by continuous fighting In the bayonets. In the aviation service IgIn field. the fight the German armies hns been nlr over entire so tlint norance Is certain death. The success which America's efforts the United turned States the work with begins High In the ranks of the men seekare to Insure will come only when the most favorable chances of success. ing commissions In the aviation corps the allied armies in France have sufficient The invention of some new fighting stands Cnpt. Cushman A. Rice, veteran airplanes to retain mastery of the air machine after the. manner of the tank of half a dozen wars on the American nnd to pntrol every mile of the terriIs all what Europe expects of America, continent nnd a former member of the tory immediately behind the German and they expect to see the new ma- general staffs of three brigadier genlines. When the day finally arrives, chines, airplanes or walking seaplanes erals of the American army. n move to able not he Germany will Captain Rice, The Cubnn Milliontrain bnck of the lines and to move or flying torpedo boats come to France nlcknnincd and made a fortune In Cuba followmanned, fully prepared aire, will will reserves be impossible. She to throw new Into terrors henrt the his resignation ns a captain of Ining be unable to feed the men who are In an of who terrorism. Invented In enemy Her fantry the regular army In 11102. He the first lines. heavy artillery New York Sun. Is temporarily a sergeant in the corps will be silenced nnd In the end her enof men slated to receive commissions. made useless. The forces tire fighting on Meatless Diners. When Mr. Holtermah, who was Days way will then become one of moveon Ore. meals Mcutless the machine, nnd myself were Portland, aldriving chances for with the ment, victory now about 1,200 feet up, for are served and along Mondays Fridays gliding together, on the side of the allies. I felt a There are various types of airplanes on the dining cars of the Spokane, some unaccountable reason seat and leave to a my Seattle and Portland desire railroad, part strong which will be manufactured in America that are ulrendy being used in of the nill system. In addition, chefs wnlk out on one of the wings to learn know France. Engines of unbelievable pow- have been cautioned to waste as little how It felt out there. I dont so er are being put into the newest type food as possible. Passengers are why It was, but I felt that desire Inditen I minutes that about small cards handed for suggestion strongly of plnne. The average American is more or less familiar with automobile cating ways by which waste may be almost had to go. cut down. All this comes as the reReally you feel quite safe and seengines and hns some idea of what adfrom food an the of sult cure, no mntter how high you go, weight of engine will develop 100 ministration appeal railut the when you have confidence In the man Washington, horsepower. .If this average American driving the airplane or when you are were to look at some of the newest air road officials announce. driving it yourself, If you really unmotors he probably would judge them a been A has Detroit derstand running It Everything is so patent granted In fact, to be ten or u holds screw hook a and different way up there that woman new that for unof the engines he could lift some time to think of being aided and would probably be astound- plate above It and a cup below It at you do not have same afraid. time. the was mnchlne a such ed to learn that bomb-droppe- r, d that the paper bundle remained. Believed for capable of Boy no fun in the world for a girl," declared GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. There's Dorothy Scheidel at the Jail here, where she was placed army uniform and hiking most of the 200 miles from Fetoskey, where her mother liveB. She had ent off most of her hair and was on her way to Flint to see her father, who was separated from his wife more than a year ago. When she reached here she got a real haircut and went on toward Flint. At Caledonia she let out her secret and somebody told the officers. They brought her bnck here. I'd like to be a boy, she told reRoys con wear torn pants porters. and nobody laughs at them. But a girl has to primp and powder and look pretty or folks laugh. Gee, I had to laugh, she went on, as she recounted The officers an experience at Cadillac, where she worked part of a day. there talked about the missing girl from Fetoskey, and they didnt dream that I was that girl. I could have gone through with the whole thing if I hadn't Just had to tell It to somebody in Caledonia. Then somebody snitched, and it was all off. I get along fine with my dad, but I can't get along with my mother. My mother cant make me mind, but dud can. He don't use a whip, but ma does. Id like to go nnd live with him." . . Hol-termn- n, 9 Youthful Hero the Victim of Base Ingratitude Two fighting dogs, n boy nnd a policemnn were nctors in a melodrama which ended in tragedy. There were ingratitude and heroism in It. Ralph lrottn, nine years old, scaled the fence bnck of Ids home, 245 East One Hundred and Fiftieth street, nnd leaped into the adjoining yard. He went to the rescue of a black dog, with which he had often played. The blnck dog was engaged in combat with a large NEW red-lmlre- YORK. e, dog. d Rut when Ralph tried to separate the dogs both turned on him. The boy cried in vain for mercy to the dog he had thought was his friend. Those who had been brought to their windows by the commotion turned away from the sight. Women and children screamed and men shouted. Policeman Flannagan responded to the neighborhood hubbub. He entered the yard with Ills pistol In one hand and his club In the other. The two dogs were finishing their work. They turned nnd made for the policeman. Rut he did not budge from his position by the gate. lie fired a shot The bullet penetrated the brain of the blnck dog. Then, with the club, the policeman beat the red dog until the animal cringed at his feet. Ralph Protta died In the ambulance on the way to the hospltnL Probably more painful to the boy than the suffering he endured before his death was the knowledge Ills playmnte, whom he sought to help, turned on him and aided in Inflicting his mortal hurts. Housemaid Proved Herself Terror in a Scrap A stubborn housemaid who refused to be fired" gave policemen nnd a husky apartment house janitor before she was loaded Into a patrol wagon at the Satterlee apartment and hauled to cell In the police station. For a half hour she battled with Policeman Pren-dergaand narry Stillman, the Janitor, In the basement of the apartment house before Prendergast summoned three cops to help him. She rolled the cop around on the floor, tore Ills hair, scratched his face nnd landed several man-size- d punches with a stiff right arm. Just before the patrol arrived, Prendergnst got her under control and started to lead her to the wagon. The sight of the three other cops Infuriated the woman, and she started all over again. She broke away from Prendergnsts grasp, dodged Into the arms of another policeman, fought, scratched, and struggled. It took ten minutes more of strenuous work'on the part of the four cops before she was finally loaded into the PHILADELPHIA. st wagon. Stubborn to the lost, she refused to give any name when she was slated" at the police station and placed in a cell. At the apartment house it was explained that the woman came there three months ago as a servant Her employers had discharged her. Then tjie Janitor found her, he said, in the basement of the apartment house trying to open a locker, lie ordered her to leave, but when she showed , fight he called a policeman. . told the Fort Myer reserve UNCLE SAM AT PEACE TABLE War Baker officers on the day of tlieir graduation. That Issue Is settled for the AmeriThis' Government Will Be In Position can pfenple. Our task now Is to plan to Dictate Terms When Time for . for victory. Negotiation Comes. In these words Secretary Baker resummed up the attitude of all WashWashington. President Wilson's officials. There are others, howproposal ington Benedicts pence to Pope ply who believe the reasons for Amerever, the widespread has temporarily halted demand for a definite statement of the icas entrance Into the war have a very Important bearing on peace and on the war alms of the United States. The purposes of the United States future history of the world. Just as there were underlying causes in this war are known to the wliole world to every people to whom the of the European conflict that never truth has been permitted to come, have been mentioned in the official docthe president said in his reply to the uments, so there were causes fur AmerThey do not need to be stated icas entrance into the wnr tlint were pope. slighted In the presidents address. again. One of these causes is generally beIn his Flag day address the presito have been that France was lieved America's reasons for the said dent bled white and that the allies were entrance Into the war must be apparent to every thinking man. Still, there In danger of defeat Many Ainericnns Is confusion in the minds of many find the best Justification for AmerThe attempt of the com- icas entering into the conflict In the Americans. mittee on public information to clear statement that we went in to save up this confusion with its pamphlet, France. This notion was given a severe Jolt How the War Came to America, was when Andre Tardieu, the French pursuccessfuL only partly I shell not discuss here how Amer- chasing commissioner in the United ica came into this war, Secretary of States, made public his letter to Sec retary Baker giving statistics on the present military strength of the French republic. With facts and figures supplied by the French war office, Tardieu disproved the theory that France was bled white. One of the highest officials of the United States government said it was not true that the allies were in danger of defeat just before America entered France and England both the wnr. could hare held out for yeurs and it was very doubtful, he said, that the German war machine could ever have achieved a military decision. The United States, the president believed, would be in no position to assert its views at the peace conference if It remained a neutral. It was the avowed intention of leaving matters Buch as disarmament and an International organization to prevent future wars to a congress that would follow the peace conference. The president believed that guarantees for the future would be the only results tliat would make the three years of fighting worth while,- - and that they should be made an integral part of the peace treaties. |