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\ NOVEMBER 8. 1923. NAVY TO STAGE 1 BIG MANEUVERS Combined Fleets to Meot at Panama for Training in Strategical Problems. Los Angeles. Cut?Details of a plun ox operation for l'Jli-i. ctooprisiiwhat vvs described as "the creates! s???L>e f activity by lii*.- Amerit ;u navy s.nce the World war/" were revealed aboard lb? ;lug>Seattle by Admiral Robert Ju. ouuu. ommaiidcr-in chief of the United S ires fleet now at San Pedro. The plan centers around a Caribbean cruise on which more than lix) war?:hip - ..: i :h-?-rs t?:i ?n Vasn ; /. sound, i*ort<> Rico, wiu be engaged i'?r more than three months in a corn; .!. n- vp program o? v. ratcgi ctl problems, tactual exercise** uud battle maneuvers. The I n.ted States battle fleet, In * command of Admiral Samuel S. Robinson, will leave San Pedro January 4 next for the first rendezvous at Panama. It will be accompanied bjr the fleet base force under Rear-Adumal John V. Chase, both forces caching Balboa January lt5. after carry fug out two battle programs oa the way. To Attack Canal Defense*. Z>estroyers, submarines ar.d air sraf; will accompany the fleet on the a/K)C mile voyage to the Panama caStal. op-rating directly with the dread MMghts. The wonting fleet operating in the Atlantic, In command of Vtce-Admlrai 9. A. McCnlly, will leave Hampton Boa-Is for the canal January 4. The maat coast dreadnanghts, destroyers nod aubmarln**i* will b?* accompanied t le octroi force under Reur-Admlr&1 Montgomery M Taylor. This fleet is due to reach Colon January 14. The first hie strategical problem of tt? cruise will be staged at I'niiama. Tbo scouting fleet and control force, Dttc'abled at the eastern entrance to the anal, will defend it against the **oc?''alight" of the great armada of flrer lnaughts, aircraft, destroyers and { submarines sweeping in from the Pacific. "Liberty Cruise" Planned. The entire United States lleet will then assemble olT the Colon break water and there will follow weeks of fueling. machinery overhauling and liberty for the 33,000 men. The combined fleets, under the dl- j Met command of Admiral Oconto will . leave Colon .launary 23 for Vasquet aound, arriving about January 20. , flEher. will follow another strategical . problem. battle conferences, more fuel- j teg and inspection of machinery. Tactical exercises, wtth the fleets I engaged under what will approximate j battle conditions, will take placo be I ytlUH-n February 11 and March 3 On the latter date ti?e fleet will tart on i two weeks' "liberty cruise," > Tlklf in if every port ;o the West Indies and :th?ng the gulf and Soutlt Atlantic atat<->. This will he the first time In ' four years that the drcadnaughts of the battle fleet will he in Atlantic water*. Ileal exercises and mnn^urere will be resumed March 17 sn?l continue into April. Early in that month also, athletes of the navy, 12.900 in number, it is stated, will hold their annual all fleet competitions. Battle to Be Staged. On April i4 tlie combined forces will atand out from Culehra hay. breaking up into two "hostile" forces for hattie maneuvers to continue throughout the run to Colon. Upon completion of the problem the coutlng fleet and control forces will proceed to Cuantanauio, Cuba, arriving April 21. The battle fleet and the base force will reach the Panama canal April 19. and leave Balboa for the homeward voyage tip the west coait April 25. The east coast forces will leave Quantnnano May 1 for Hampton Roads and New York. The Pacific forces will return to San Pedro May 5. the same \ date those in the Atlantic reach their bases. Several new and powerful vessels will be added to the forces on the west roast It Is announced. The battle fleet will engage in gunnery practice on the drill grounds off San Pedro until late in .Tune, when it will visit San Francisco and the Paget 1 eonnd. New Logging Record Set by Big Michigan Mill Tron Mountain, Mich.?A new record for logging and manufacturing lumber in the upper peninsula was set by the >* J. W. Wells Lumber company for the 1 ^ fiscal year ending September 1, when 50,000,00o feet of timber was logged, *12,000,000 of which was made into lumber. The other 10.000,000 wae sold to an automobile plant here. It required 50,000 care to handle the output. The freight charges on the logs to the sawmills amounted to $250,000. In nMLklng this great record 1,200 men and 200 horbes were employed. Bqulpment used Included five locomotives, three steam loaders, steam skldders, tractors, several gasoline log load ere and other mechanical contrivance*. The company's big aawmtll at Me. nominee was run night and day for lit mouths. , Soft for Maude. PUjna, Ohfo.?Maude, a thirty-yearold mare belonging to Sam K. Robinson, of near Tippecanoe City, is dead, j During her entire life. It is said that that she had been hitched to a wagon but once. She has spent the past 27 years on pasture in absolute Idleaesg. ! VANDERBiLT KIN GETS JOB DRIVING TAXICAB Francis 0. French Quits Wail Street tor Steady Income. New York-?F~?ncls O. French, oldest Am- Tuck French and cousin of William H. Vaiiderbdt. started work recently driving a taxi cab. Julia French, who astonished Newport society Xt?l I when she eloped with the family <hauffeur, Jack CJeragluy. si.jj of a Newport eabtiiuu. is a lister of the new taxi driver. Whet: French went t?? the cab com ji.iny !o??k:ng for a job, h" said that he wanted employment until he could get back on his feet financially. He said he was living in si furnished room h* IS West Sev.-ni> a J street although tils family has houses in .New York, Tuxedo, Newport md I'nris. After having applied In vaiu for a job at banks, brokerage bouses, hote's jind other places, French went to the laxioab ompany and, like the hunlreds i?t other applicants, was asked cab. Thomas Ferrian, assistant manager of r.be trntll*- dt'partmttt. said that French "went down the lino" and at every turn showed hi* ekill. If French h--us day work he will receive 3o per cent of what ho tnas^e up to $TiO a week and Lf he works at night he will receive toiie same per<*enta^e of receipts up to *90. French was quoted a* having said trfiht he worked in tho financial diatrict for ten yearn and that he is no better off thun a hen he began; that one year a man might make a eleunup In Wall street and the next year find himself ruined; that there is alack business there now and that ho la anxious to establish himself with a fixed Income so he will knov just where he stands. French calls for his mall at the Harvard club and belongs to the Knickerbocker and Tuxedo clubs. He was graduated with an A. B. degree, frmn Harvard in 1912. and had desk room In a brokerage house at 20 Exchange place .;.til u year ago. 28-Year-Ofd Kentuckian Marries Woman of 63 Washington C. 11., Ohio.?Youth married age here, the groom being t wentysovetl years old and tho grandmother bride sixty-three year* of age. They are Mr. and Mrs. Bryson Gibson. The bride wa.? Mrs. Rachol llllzabeth Car mean, whose husband was kilted in an accident In Greeaiiold four years ago. She Ima eiglu sons and daughters, all married. When the covpie, who La re l>oejj making tbaic homo with Lira. Howard Reed, tb? bride's daughter. on a farm near this city since coming from Plks county a f?w month* ago, appeared at the probata judge's office, thu License was Issued. Then Rut. B. Alexander of Grace M N. church was summoned and. after closely questioning the pair, he performed the ceremony in the presence of a few spectator*. including the bride's daughter, apparently forty years of age. T*tC ^TC.r; 'M ? ncutactlaa, i?Ul IW years he has lived In Pike county, Ohio, and the hrtdo e'.eo came from I'lke county. The honeymoon of this struiigolymated couple will be spent at the home of the bride'a daughter, and within a short time all will move to Fruitdnle, in Rose county, where the uten will work on adjoining farms. According to the son-in-law. Howard Reed, the couple flr?t met a short time ago at his home and developed a marked liking for each ether. Airdrome in London la Like tiusy Kail Depot London.?ijondon'a groat airport at Croydon is very like a main-line rullway station. There is a Jevei crossing near the entrance where a flagman holds up the road traffic while big Handley-I'age and other planes roar across the roadWhy prior to leaving earth for Paris, Rotterdam. Cologne or Hamburg. Once past the flagman, the visitor comes to a compact village in which headquarters of various nlr services are situated round an up-to-date hotel, adjacent to a post office, meteorological headquarters and customs establishment. Enormous charts are set up on which the progress of various ser\ Ices are flagged by an official who is in constant wireless touch with planes on their way to and from various capitals. On the ground there is a rush of porters and Interpreters to meet incoming and outgoing planes. J<KXH5<KH300<KKJOOOIJOOOO O OO O 0 Hour-Old Infant Takes Air Trip g g Norfolk, Va.?Brought here In $J 6 a senplane within an hour after A g bis birth, baby O'Neil, son of z ? Mr. and Mrs. John O'Neil, of o g Cape Hatteras Village, N. C\, a d was reported by nurses at Prot- 5 x est ant hospital, to be "a robust, X 5 lusty youngster." ? A radio message to the naval a 6 air station hero sent IJeutenant g g Varlni and Dr. A. C. Smith, in ? g the F-5-L speeding down the g Carolina const. But the stork 5 j 5 won the race. Mrs. O'Neil and g | ft the new baby and Mr. O'Neil o g came to Norfolk, 130 miles dis- g ft taut. The mother and child a THF. WATAlft PAY WIDOWS OF " "VETS" OF 1812 U. S. Still Gives Pensscns to Widows of Men Who Foujhi 111 Years Ago. *.Y . ington. Flov. lonvr :? li- iM-rsistF '.iiit-r war is over is shown in . striking aiannvr by the roIN of the . im.jiI for Hie Wiir ??f 1?I*J ntH t? r the M? xi? Jin war There is not i \ ?>tcr?n of the War ??f 1SVJ ?!l\e. yot ii ?*o- the irovernutvat $lS,Oh> for of that war vlurin_' the pa ft on .lutv* 30 In-*! there '." <*v?- 'is wldami "lepeU'Ient da?i;;ht<-r of m -i-H'-is < bl2 on the j ?ns u U?L The seventy-fifth anniversary o'." the . I** -VJ'Kirnn wst ; s brut : i>p M:>y .'JO lost, and vet during tin : -? a I jrear IS v23 there were *'- vetwan. nad l.ti'JG widows of veteruns who fought In tl?at war receiving 3717.847 Lc pensions from the government. It is a curious 1h?h t1?at n?H one of tbo p*t)si.?"rs nf the War of 1812 was born when cin? w?r was concluded. The ohkwil m one hundred and folic 4 >?vtn? old, while the youngest Ls sixtythree. tine other Is over the one hundred mark. The rest range between nighty and one hundred years. The explanation to that the veterans married wtAiiott u)u?l: younger (bun themmelrea. In the ruse of the widow penhushy sixty-three years old her Iiuh hand must have beer, from forty five to fifty-live years older. Mex?can "Vets'* Over Ninety. AH of the veterans of the Mexican war hre over ninety years of age. the ddeet ?4ie being Urbntn < "han leur of Son KrHnels?si, who passed 'he ns hniidr?vlth milestone ??n June 0, 11)28. A unique Mexieun viir ease Is that of Willlata llrosu of t'm?dcn N who at the tender ugu ??i eight years enlisted it) the marine corps and fought throughout the war. War ls a costly business. n??t only from the point of view of actual lighting expenses hut also thai of paying pensions to the old and disabled veterans and thrJr dependent widows and children. officials of the bureau of pensions assert. Back In 1S7T there were 282,104 person* or. the pension rolls of uk<a government. Involving an annual disbursement of $28,182,821.7*2. This way when the largest number <*f War of 1812 and Mexican war pensioners were on the roils. A few jeans later CtvD war veteran* began to take , advantage of the pension privilege and the expense Jumped much higher. Pension. Total $283^)12,600. While there are no separate figures j available as to Just what the dlsI Lur?eai<?ta were to War of 1812 and | Mexican war pen an a i era for those { ytara, tt la Icwown that they figured i very heavily to Cbe total. In 188b ! (he pension disbursement amounted to $05,171,087.12 with 845,128 persons ?ua | the rolls. From then on It gradually ' Increased until ivlv, when the cost i was 1222490^82. with 024,427 persona on the roils. For 1923 the total amount of pensions paid out was $288,012,500. Moat of this amount, of course, was paid to Oleil war and Spanish war 1 l-iu, rliun <{1 IkWllXVt n# l? Koing to p?>nsIoners of the War of 1811! and Mexican war. There are no longer any soldiers who actually fought In the War of j 1812 on the pension rolls, the last one being Hiram Cronk. who died In Ava, N. Y., in 1905, at the age of one hundred and five. Th.* last soldier pensioner of the Revolutionary war was Daniel F. Bake man. who died at Freedom. N. Y.. In 1860, at the age of one hundred and nine years, while the la3t pensioner of the Revolutionary wax was Esther S. Damon, widow of Noah Damon, who died at Plymouth Union, Vt, In 1006, at the age of ninety-six years. 35,000 Widows Pensioned. AH told, approximately 35.Uk) widows of soldiers of the War of 1S12 were granted service pensions, the high water mark being reached In 1879. when there were 18.177 on the rolls. The original 35,000 widows of soldiers o? the War of 1812 who were granted pensions had shrunk to only 40 on June MO. Since that time death hag claimed one of them, reducing the figure to 39. Of the many thousands of v*?fpr?:rw rind wid.. > .?t" of the Mexican war who were grunted pensions only 49 veterans .ind 1,636 widows of veterans remain. An idea of how fast the number is decreasing can be gained by the figures for the last fiscal year. On June 30, 1922, there were 49 pensioners of rhe War of 1812, compared tp only 44) one year later, on June 30, 1922, there were 1,951 Mexican war pensioners on the rolls, compared to only 1.085 one year | later The amount paid to pensioners of ! the War of 1812 ranges anywhere from ' $10 to $100 a month. But most of thein receive not over $50 a month. It all depends on the extent of their disability, and the amount necessary to Insure tliem proper medical attention. German Art Thieves Busy. Munich.?Burglars recently rifled the villa of the late Fran* von Lenbach, painter of the well-known Bismarck pictures who has been dead for 20 years, and stole a number of valuable masterpieces. These included a picture by Franz Hals called "The Laughing Boys," two pictures by Tellers, an original sketch by Kuhens. and a number of paintings by Lucas Crannucta and other celebrated artists. A DEMOCRAT ; RED CROSS SUNDAY MARKS THF BEGINNING OF THE RED CROSS ROLL CALL * VAS ,.,ro\. ko\. Im the* t;ir< tugboat the Iand ivoii-vivpe' ?>f every faith v/ili oKe?v<? . i- : ' - u.-.} (>o>> Si-:;.lav. }v;>! k v ' '* ((>Y I*; yi'itlY. kiK*\al I. IilV -!TV? ' r' - ; u wvrk 01' the He-i l.'ros> Mod < that n-.-moers y:? hi renf v: th? ? :il!*-?taxii. ?o t : i bf ai nuur *cro ' the II the Cna rnur tr ? <! Cross*: ay Armistice 1'ay. It i?j; :.t:ng ,:,i :h < ?>< >pu <:f the United . their honvv. i the cher-l !v\i.r they may foregather { r rail at day five years ago which I v rke he < ".d of the greatest eon-' i diet t'K* w ??M has ever known. it i - -joally fitting that the Am- j ?-rican j?-. pie should use this day to; ' -* dedicate themselves tc service in ^j^jg|ug?gfUEjjr?U^giCTJ^Jc Hi I : (J 50 c=TC SR. i&B m sJE ilii. ^^faSr H lp snj / m ( I AT OU la Kg A A representative Isril from November ? 81 M i? 1 i lag Lr?-r?it jjUjj; i f vas ^ ^ [ He will show p-'ft to this wonder! beautiful cooku splendid service everyone who bi DO JNOT FA3 TIC? THE BEf UNBREAKAEI fuel and repair t an We also have Be Cook Stoves the special offer wit: DO! QUAL1 I that Great Region of Mercy which <!;?! so m .i'h to aliuviate the rings .S??rc:v <_ can pay : > yrea*'-* t iSfe - ' the mi? v.it?? went . he with the o' jranizKtK'i-' thtat -c< v i ~ho>!jlSSv '"-Al'in The TOIut.t;' with ve- i%cor? inueh heip it u-iil rot wore : country'^ uniform during even n : v thai; ibey die v i.i j war v, n i?rot re--. !hev v?- -! tirtie ?-.i ..f : i:- r . . yt-arv to Sine. Th* Ryd hj- - Inn- 1 -? ' t'r.lilP : ; *1 V.ii; It is tvj only vreduxpi tferoi'^li %\ hie?.- mest : us i'uv. i \-pr*,?iis our loyalty to .utd' sympathy for the men who ar:* .-ufTer-j iti?T today because they fougb;. for u i five year? too. *'The American Red Cross invites J a!! to -hare it; its inspiring vesper si-: bRitics. It needs strength in numbers j In order to be truly American it must enESEi; i*2n?3u3iH ^fenferferoifetE: >NE WEE! NOVEMBER 12 to 17th) trio TII nv l \LL^ riLM> . : e from the Majestic facto 12th to 17th. If 3 C MAJESTIC you the many new impvc ul Majestic Range. He wi tg ware, either polished st able set of Lnamel and L jys a Majestic Range Sale IL TO SEE THE NEW Ml sT RANGE IN AMERIC .E MALLEABLE IRON :xpenses. a well selected line of otl it are Splendid Values. V h them Sale Week. MOT MISS THIS WEEK HDW. S r3'i Jpp r=Vt F3"1 F3-i Tr=?n c-=!" -rap rr=?r r="~ PACE THREE have your n ruber- hip?yeur ever loy;il support. It> ivcord <?i the past i> secure; its record for the future. Si tie.* better one -anr.-r i\>r m*'-. ivc to humanday ami 5on an* jrivcrj the vuporttjHJiy to I iWHl orahip ill the j- Wife Seeks Divorce fl From Silent Husband r K 7* W;ijh. *Bw:iOS? her husband i.. us beer, .l n "silence >7 | strike" for tvrerfy years. Mrs. ?! g Nettie If. I imam iy f this [<;-. g U Ls suinyr fa divorce. $ Mr. ;uu *- Hriiitnierly wer? ? ? married 1SS9 ami have ten g children. K'-r the last tiffs* <?f ?2 u entoij til! their conversation jt z* h&B been earcl?*l on through the ? g <-hi:<lreu, the wife declared. $ Subscribe For Your Country Paper. rjrt K: 1 3ffl Kg ^ jj vD MH n n t?j 4! 'c* m )ke i a ? j *?lli UJ. J IL 1 L- Ci J I jjg FREE 1 A . ? Ml 01 | COOKING Hid| WARE | Wild The 1 Horrent LIU&aiH I Range I I * ivements added m ill uive a set of r >licl copper or a opper Ware to week. sg 3DEL MAJES\ MADE OF ft It saves vou e? Sf IP ier Ranges and H Qj2 /e will make a ^ AT fl TORE J jp"1. ^ rri' r "jp" ~ j=p 7;T_- * licit !ksi ticii uc-J titii jcd *c=j Ucai!i
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