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Show p WEEKLY WAR NEWS l I V. s. Duputment of Publicity. I Mnn Opportunities Open for Specialists in War Department There is a list of 187 occupations where the demand for men in the War Department (.instantly exceeds the apply. A pressing need exists in the Army for m-'n experienced in handling mules and before .all future needs are met. a recruiting campaign may be nec- sesary. No difficulty has been axper lenced in getting men who can buy and handle horses, but blacksmiths are I a ice. There is a constant demand for butchers, and cooks are greatly needed, need-ed, in several technical branches, particularly the Engineers, men for the higher positions are plentiful but the workers for the ranks are senrt e. Experienced mechanics, especially those familiar with the automobile, are always in demand. Mole interpreters than can be used bav applied for positions with the War Department, and applications for commissions its army chaplains are also in excess of the need. The I totals thousands in each case. Clerks for general work are plentiful hut there is demand for specialists. At present there is a surplus of deti lists ami pharmacists. Troops Are Being Equipped With P.rnwniii!. Machine Guns. Knough heavy Browning machine guns for instruction purposes have been shipped to every National Guard training camp and National Army cantonment in the counUy where the troops ure training. Heavy Brown-inns Brown-inns for overseas training have been shipped. Light Browning rifles in sufficient number to equip the machine-gun units un-its of more than four Army divisions have been manufactured, and overseas over-seas shipment of one-half has begun. The other half of the output goes to Army divisions in this country. American Infantryman Has Advantage in Ammunition Equipment The American infantryman in the expeditionary forces carries two hundred hun-dred rounds of ammunition in the pockets of his light canvas Webb belt and his bandoleers. The Gorman soldier sol-dier has only 120 rounds, and 110 of these are in his knapsack. To secure them it a critical moment he must lose valuable time. The American webb belts, according to the War Department, arc far superior su-perior to the German bandoleers. They are not affected by prolonged rains nor torrid weather. The manufacture of these belts is one of the most intricate in-tricate of the operations in the textile tex-tile field. U. S. Army belts are made 'almost entirely of cotton. The exact weight of the 220 rounds carried by the American soldier in Prance is 12 pounds. With the Springfield Spring-field rifle 2:t aimed shots can be fired each minute. Firing from the hip, 10 shots can be fired a minute. The new United States model 1917 (modi-fled (modi-fled Unfit Id) does even better. Finger Prists to be taken in Registration of German Alien PoWaloc The legist rati I of German alien females, to begin Monday, June 17, and end Wednesday, June 2t, will, be Conducted in cities or municipalities havinc .nun nonulation or ,.v,o bv the police officials, In communities having a population of less than f,-000 f,-000 the registration will be handled by postmasters. In general the plan of registration is the same as that followed in the registration in February of German alien males, Kach person who must register will he required to register her linger prints. This method of identification is also used in the military mili-tary ami naval servnes of the I'yited States. Men Who Leave Ciiuntry to It el.- Military Service Will be Watched. Men of s icctive service SgS who .e the United States to evade military mil-itary duty v. ill have to stand trial on i barges of violation of the Selective rice act when they return to the country, according to the Department of Justice, even though they do not return until after the war. The department has at hand information infor-mation from which complete lists may lbs prepared of .'ill men who have left the country to avoid service, says ti rot out statement authorized by the Attorney General. The two picric add plants to be built, at Little Rock, Ark., and Brunswick, Bruns-wick, Ga., contracts for which have 1 "ii completed by the war department) depart-ment) will cost approximately $7,ooo,- ooo, Production of honey will he greatly iru reused during 1918 in many localities, locali-ties, according to the department of I agriculture. The increase in Colorado, Colora-do, it is said, will probably be 100 per cent. The Pood Administration has sent out through all state administrations a warning to corn, barley and oats millers and to wholesale and retail dealers in the products that at the I present prices of these grains corn meal and oat meal should be .selling Bt least 20 per cent below the price of wheat flour and that corn flour and barley flour should be selling at least 10 DOT cent below wheat flour. Deliveries of the 8,000 motor trucks recently ordered by the Motor Transport Trans-port Service of the War Department are to be made between August 1 and December 1. These trucks, known as "Class B Standard," will have a capacity ca-pacity of from :i to 5 tons, and will be distributed as needed through the various branches of the Army. Ten thousand of these class B. standard ized trucks have previously been ordered or-dered and are now in process of manufacture man-ufacture and delivery. Women between the BgOS of 21 and :!" who have had a high school education edu-cation or its equivalent, will be eligible elig-ible for admission to the Army School i of Nursing, arrangements for which were recently made by the War Department. De-partment. It is intended to start several sev-eral schools in selected military hospitals. hos-pitals. Unless otherwise specified, application.-, should be sent directly to the Army School of Nursing, office of the Surgeon General of the Army, Washington, D. C. Under a new agreement the At my will handle all mail for the expeditionary expedition-ary forces after it loaves the United States ports. The l'ost Office Department Depart-ment will deliver the mail to military authorities at the port of embarkation embarka-tion in this country and receive it from them at a port in Prance for i Ispatch to the United States. The domestic money-order service to the troops will, for the present nt least, continue under the direction of the l'ost Office Department in France. Boa Scout organisations are active in locating black walnut trees. Black 'walnut lumber Is needed by the War I Department lor use in making air- plane propellers and gunstocks. |