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1 THE MORNING STAB, WILMINGTON, N." a,lf3 FRIDAY, PECEjIBER 27, 1918. TWO 2 4 lMERS$81 Tl Stores Will Be Distributed Same )As Last Year. County Aent Will Aid la Work of Distribution and Department of, Affriculture Will-SuperviseIt. v Wilmington Stores. CM "HOBBY" BAKER KILLED IN ACCIDENT Was Famous Princeton Athlete Before the War. Famous Princeton Athlete, Captain in Aviation, Loses Life in France. Plane Crashed Down, - His Record. 11-MNSP0RTS;0I WAY WITH SOLDIERS ftected tozreacheiy Tork January 2, itetaked on -the' Hudson. and ,tnyirsiraanjj If ewj o.rt fews Jan- uij 4o, Jvarry- .sroa4c.i;ii.-ii.. . -! The transport -Princess Matoika, which will dock at Newport New Jan uary 2, has oi board - the 2nd and : 3rd hattUonsf jthe-Jrdregrinienti: Coast artillery; instaad Jof' :the-37th regriment, as first announced.. LMauretania Bringing: 3427 87th Division. ' of - By S. R. WINTERS, Washington, Dec. 26. Secretary o Agriculture David F. Houston author ixed the announcement today that the department of agriculture would dis tribute nitrate of soda' to the farmers the farmer will be $81 a short ton, free on board cars at the loading point or port! The port of Wilmington is the distributing agency for North Carolina, and already much nitrate is stored at this Seaport town for sale to farmers. v Additional to the price of $81 a ton, the farmer will have to pay the freight charges to unloading point and any in cidental expenses that he may himself Incur in connection with the delivery of the nitrate. Judging by the ultimate cost figures to the farmers. Senator Simmons and other southern senators failed to make effective their conten tions for an unrestricted market. The highest figure heretofore placed by -the war department for its supplies was ?90 a ton, whereas the department of agriculture -stated that in a free mar ket the farmer ought to be able to se cure the nitrate for 75 a ton. The distribution by the department jof agriculture is empoyered under the authority of Section 27 of the food act and subsequent legislation relating thereto. The plans employed in the sale and distribution of the nitrate last year will be essentially duplicated the coming season. State directors of the agricultural extension service, eounty. agricultural agents, and nitrate committees, composed of local business men will direct the farmers in filing , their applications. Application blanks to be used by farmers will be sent to county agents and the m embers of local committees at an early dato. Under the law, the nitrate will be sold only for cash and the farmer will be required to deposit the money cover ing the cost of the nitrate for which he applies with the local bank, association or Individual to be designated by the department of agriculture. In practi cally all counties distribution of the nitrate will be made through county distributors. If the quantity of nitrate that can be secured will fill all orders, each farmer will be allotted the amount ap plied for; otherwise, It will be .neces sary to allpt the nitrate proportionately to those applying for it so that all may participate on equal terms in its dis tribution. Arrangements have been made to secure a large quantity of nitrate and unless the demands should prove very much greater than anticipa , ted. there will' be enough nitrate to supply all reasonable requirements. The V distribution will be' handler as last year, through the but-eau of markets as the-central agency. New York, -Dec. 26. Qapt. Hobart A HI" Baker, famous Princeton athlete known In his college days as "Hobey? Baker, an aviator in the American army in France, has been killed in the fall of his plane. News or ma death to was received here today by his friend, Percy Pine. Mr. Pine received a' cable message from Paris signed "Inglehart" a mem ber of Baker's air squadron, which said that Captain Baker had been killed in an aeroplane accident requested that his family be notifiea. No details were given. - WILSON'S HEART HAS ALWAYS BEEN 'WITH ALSACE-LORRAINE Paris, Dec. 26.-rAt a meeting held today in the Sorbonne in honor of the liberation of Alsace-Lorraine a letter from President Wilson was read in which he thanked the Alsace-Lorraine society for an artistically fcouffd mes sage sent him just before he left the United States. Large Numb era r Returning: Warriors Will Land at New York and New- -port News Early tn the New Year Units Named, Washington, Dec.' 2---Departure from Franse of 11 transports, including the Fauretania, witlr more than 3,000 men of the 347th infantry of the 87th divis ion, was announced today by the war department. The Mauretanla sailed 0n Christmas eve, will reach New Y,ir,k. Monday and most of the men aboard Will be sent to Cariip Dix for demobi lization. Eight . hundred'; sick and wounded are on the Henderson, due -at New York January 1, but the other vessels are bringingj?nly a- small nuni ber of men. The transport Antigone, due at New port News January 4, is bringing home 11 officers and 85 inon of th 76th (New Engiand) division, which has been used as a depot division and which has J been reduced to SKeiiion propornono. They will be sent to Camp Devens, Massachusetts. The 52nd coast artil lery regiment, . with a number of cas uals and sick and wounded, also are on the Antigone. .The transport Espagne, which is ex- MIGHTIEST FLEET U IS WELCOMED HOME - (Continued from Page One.-. flower mada run of nearly ten "miles before" she --"finally dropped anchor St the berth she had left 'in the morn ing. " ' . ,. - V; '- , A touching scene was. .enacted in the main salon of. the Mayflower where Mr. Daniels welcomed his 'guests, the,' high pificfirs.U Among' those 'iirvj ted to wit ness 'the - review from the presidential yacht were the wives of naval officers home at last after 18 months' service in 'foreign waters. " If the officers de voted no more time than courtesy de manded to paying their respects to the secretary .before greeting, their f- wives, Mr. . Dan led s showed ho disposi tion tochide them., The reception ended. Mr. Daniela and Admiral Mayo" landed, entered a; ma chine and drove to the head pflthe long column of sailors forming- on Broadway. Rear Admiral Rodman led the line on foot. With a detachment of marines at its head,, the column moved down Broadway to 59th street, crossed to Fifth avenue and then swung down -that historic thorough fare. " Following' the-matin e3 were platoon after platoon of sailors from each of the ten shipq which-came home, t6day. Fully ten thousand men. were "line and in many instances dogs taken aboard In England as mascots, scam pered along.with their shipmates. aily decorated wth American and British Tonight a remarkable spectacle' was Each ship was brilliantly illuminated with, electric lights ' mjtkJng-ha - river a . sea of fire for" -more- tlran: six Hiiles. The -New York shore was ablaze with . Roman candles, .set iii place, by the city's ..committee of welcotne tna overnead burst thousands of ;T0Ckets. . . -& Hardjy had . the battle fleet which rested last night off - Sandy Hook weighed, anchor and began Its triumph ant entry Into the -harbor, then the presidential ;yacht , Mayflower moved downstream from its' 'anchorage in the Hudson to take its station for the re view near the giant lady of liberty. Aboard her were Secretary Daniels and Baker, acting secretary of state Polk," American army", and navalV of ficers of high rank and naval repres entatives -to the " alied governments. Mrs. George Dewey, widow' : of Am erica's naval hero was the honored guest, of Mr. and" Mrs. Daniel. - WARRIORS ASSXIKED ; FRUIT OF VICTORY (Continued from Page One.) men bean to move, marching" in com pany, front formation, wheeling past the reviewing stand, eyes right. - First came men of the Sixth divis ion, veterans of the Meuse and Ar gonrie offensives; then infantry and machine guns of the Twenty-sixth, veterans of " the Chemin des Dames, Chateau Thierry and the Argonne. The men of the-Twenty-ninth, also in the Argonne oxensive, -were next, ' and a composite battalion of the Seventy seventh. Detachments of the Eight ieth, who were In: ihe fighting at Ver dun last October and "detachments of the Eighty-aecond followed. The review was" brought to an end by a long train of ammunition wagons, dragged through the mire by the in evitable army mule and a company of 15 whippet tanks, which slewed and skidded about in the mud and made Making Sure j TO be absolutely certain when purchasing As Din Tablets or Capsules, look for the Bayer Cross on 12 labels then on the tablet itself. It is placed there .your additional protection, so that you may be sure vT TIMIMeMTle "Aina" CRer. U.S. Vat. OS.) b nuaatam tbmt &. , a mil mi nu iuu.. . . la .4 nlUM. 'r00" " -ww TlTMTtnrtil. Tha bttyer Cross everyone wonder how the men inside must' feel in battle. At -the. close of the review, General Alexander stepped up to the stand and presented Mr. Wilson with one of the little Bllken etatues of Liberty which the men. of the 77thT wear on their shoulders to denote their division. The president and party then re-entered the motor cars, going to Christmas dinner with the officers of.the 26th di vision, .composed entirely of New Eng land troops. Dinner was served in one. of the eiripty wards of an old French hospital. It had been the Pi themsejves, wish LTid nln n tn rlin ... -- .-'"o wua the t,. but m ine crush . raneements o-methincr ... 1 w 0 out. the Tilan was not Varri 5a( To Relieve Gas In the Stomack rv uiv-u uioiuiuo j j ui sieeo. lust uvv ukj , v j i. juiXA.JT Uo WITH' SIN. . A Liquid Digestive Laxativ. I to take. Now made and recommend. py the manufacturers of Grove's tJ. i ot. ,hn rvin ,5,. J-asti CHRISTMAS SPEECH ATTRACTS COMMENT , (Continued from Page One.) the great achievements of the armies or the united States and the allies. "It is difficult, very difficult, men, in any normal speech like this to show you my real heart. lou men probably do not realize with what anxious at tention and care we have followed every step you have advanced and how proud we are that every step was in advance, and not in retreat; t2at every time you set your face in any direction rou kept your face In that direction. "A thrijl has gone through my heart, as.it has gone through the hearts of every American with almost every gun that was fired and every stroke that waB struck in the gallant fighting that you have done, and there has been only ' ene regret In America and that - was the regret that every man there felt mat ne was not mere in a ranee, too. "It was a hard thing to perform the tasks in the United States; i. has been a hard thing to take part in directing what you did without coming over and helping you to do it. It has taken up a lot of moral courage to stay at home. But we are proud to back you up. every where that it was possible to back you up. And now, I am happy to find what splendid names you have made, for yourselves among the civilian popu lation of France as well as among your comrades in the armies of the French, and it is a fine testimony to you men that these people like you and love you and trust you, and the fineet part of it ill is that you deserve- their trust. "I feel a comradeship with you today, which Is delightful as I look down up- tm these undisturbed fields and think lf the terrible sceftes through which you have gone and realize how the quiet of peace, the tranquility of set tled hopes had descended upon us. And," while it is hard far away from home confidentially to bid you a.- Merry Christmas, I can, I think, confidentially, promise you a Happy New Year, and I can from the bottom of my heart say God bless you." GERMANS HAD LEAN CHRISTMAS DINNER (Continued From Pire One.J marks one becomes hungry, ravenously hungry, within two or three hours. "When I get my weekly allowance-of 60 grammes of bujtter," said one wo man in discussing the food question, "I spread it all on one slice of bread so as to have one real rheal every week. It is the normal state of every Ger man, at leaet In the greater cities, to be continuously hungry. ..A keen .po litical observer said to the 'Associated Press: "If I had 60,000 tons of fat I eould everlastingly squelch bolsbevjsm in uennanjr. ana n i. naa some Cpn- flensed milk, too, I could set up almost any kind of a government except the one we used to have." It is not only that food is eo dear as- to be out of reach of the poorer classes almost completely, but. all arti cles of clothing are correspondingly near. Tne correspondent was offered 100 marks for an overcoat which was purchased in Berlin in 1916 for, 178 marks. IS mi 4& 0 ervio bled on. o HE driver of Truck No; 149-1 jB-9 won the first pikf Class A by piling up a record of 952 points out of 1.000 in the Packard Truck Efficiency Test. Following the prnodern business ; methods taught by the Packard , Freight Transportation Department, vestment oif tllfe B'o The trans- he doubled the service of his truck, portation ptindple responsible for These trucks represent a capital investment of 1 dpse:pb?iOhe Thou sand Million! The possible a dividend of 14jget cnta yeaur on the owhers truck investtnnt woi write it Tke Strong Withstand the Winter Cold Better Than, the Weak. Old people who are feeble and younger people who, are weak. Will be strength ened - and . enabled to go through the cold weatMtr ' by .taking GROVE'S ply IRON and iriN5;sueBn(.ltti syrup. so pieasant even cmiaren like It Tou can soon feel Its Strengthening:, and showed some startling economies Ibis truck operates over a routeof about 33 miles, in and aroimd a New England town. Country is hilly. Roads are good. The job is a pick-up pr9position--thetiuck stasg'te'lbM is therefore a returh-load. Frequent stops The truck has no starter and tendency has been to let the engine run to save trouble of cranking. ? Out to win the prize, the driver was willing to shut off his . engine arid crank up agaia fter every stop. Gasoline Economy was increased 3J& miles per gallon. Load carried was doubled. Transportation cost. was cut Scper ton mile, which means a saving of $689 per mpntii--r $823 per year Industrial America emplbys 400,000 moto Irivestigation-:.shows that on the average each truck can effect a'slltii1 of at least $350 a year-a grarld totkl of $140,000,000 dollars a yeatv ) J' the savmg woid the life and sercifi2sip.: '. . . Put to public uses, it wpuld build 7000 miles of concrete roads at $20000 which means easier truck ing,, further saving in costs per ton- mile, fewer repairs, longer life to his truck It can be done The FfeightTransportationDepart ment of your local Packard Branch or Packard' Dealer will show you how - with youif present make of trucks and in your business. How to get more work out of your trucks at less cost How. to fit the truck to the 'Job.' v One of the greatest diflSiculties the business world is laboig under today l is the fact that most trucks are bought with,Httle dr ho expert advice as to whether they will fit the work or not. Whetii6r you are a Packard user or not feel perfectly free to call on the Freight Transportation Department. vIts counsel is yours for the asking -and, without charge Some Results of Packard 100 War Work The 5000th Liberty Motor built by the Packard Company was shipped on November 21, a week after its final assembly in the Packard shops, and a week ahead of the first anniversary of the completion of the first Lib erty Engine ever made from standard tools. v It was on Thanksgiving Day; 1917, that the first Liberty Motor to come from an organized pro duction line came from thelpro duction line of the Packard. Wrapped in an American flag, it was shipped the same day to the American aircraft forces. Between Thanksgiving and the following March, the process of the new war engine's develop ment was that of the accommo dation of tool to design and design to tool, always necessary in the preparation for quantity produc tion of a quality motor. The work of pioneering this develop ment was either given by the government to the Packard or assumed by the Packard for the Government. Consequently, as late as February 25, Packard had produced the only Liberty En gines in operation, and to date Packard has built more Liberty Motors than any other manu facturer has made. The great results of that de velopment period are measurable by the ; fact that the improve ments effected raised the horse power of the Liberty Motor from 367, at which the government had accepted it for production, to morer than 450. Another rev suit was that large scale produc tion rapidly followed final stand ardization of tools and design; so that by the end of the war, eight months later, "Uncle Sam had more than 15,000 Liberty Engines. 1 w Y .- ' :.?;:---..v-.x;-H . : - Lull InvigoTaUnf Effect- JPrifid 60c. ady. . 3 1, V
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