The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 14, 1918, Page 6

; SOORES OF AMERICAN ARTILLERY “TRACTORS T0.AID SPRING DRIVE Maxwell and Reo Motor Companies Now Produc- ing 5-Ton. Machines in, Quantity to. Replace! Horses on Battlefield. By FREDERICK M. KERBY secured. Twenty-ve hundred men are (N. E. A. Stat Correspondent.) ~ |at work prodicing the motors and (Passed by U. 8S. “Censor.) © |parts and assembling the machines. Detroit, Mich., Sept. 13.—That this|This force ig being increased ds fast ds a war of machinery has become a/as machinery comes in. At full pro; commonplace, but how completely this |duction, between 5,000 and 6,000 men is the fact can be best realized by a/ will be erfgaged. . look at the motive power of our new The Reo Co.,-at Lansing, Mich., the field artillery. . onl. yother company building five-ton Inspiring pictures of artillery dash- | tractors, has completed the firsé of its ing into action, withthe riders lash- | machines and will begin quantity pro- ing their horses into a gallop, are out j duction at once. of date. | Every unit going into the produc- No horses will be attached to the | tion of the tractor is inspected and ac- greater part of our new field artillery. | cepted before assembly begins, so that Instead, there will be tractors—-eqyip-|the final test. is merely a check-up ped with Liberty truck engines and on previous inspections. protected by armor plate, capable of; . Does Incredible Stunts. dragging the heavier pieces over the}; This tractor is required to go up roughest roads, or no roads at all,{a 100 per cent grade—that is to sal, where the going would be impossible /a hill running at an angle of 4 de- for horses. ~ |grees. As a matter of fact, it will “At ‘the Maxwell Motor Co.'s plant | go up a 60-degree hill easil: The here, I have spent. the day watching | carburetors in the motor are designed the production ef the five-ton tractor,!so as to run when the machine is at and seeing it perform, The Maxwell | inclination of 70 degrees; the ofl plant is also making the transmissions | tem is such that tipping the tractor for the ten-ton tractors, which are ze-/on end does not affect the proper feed. ing built by the Holt Tractor Co., at|One of these tractors has been tipped Peorial, and the Cleveland. The: Procuetion Re It was the miidle of last > falling over. The center of gravity ovember almost incredible things when the Ordnance Department be- of climbing steep places. gan the work of designing the five-ton| Besides hauling batteries of guns tractor. The Maxwell plant had the|and caissons, these tractors are also first experimental model running 31! intended for ling other material in days after the patterns for the parts'an emergenc: Several sizes of spe; were started. This model was sub-'cial trailers are being built—a three- jected to all kinds of tests; it was re-|ton, five-ton and ten-ton—oar whi quired to do about everything except | will be mounted guns out of commi: Tun upside down—every weak spot/sion to be hauled back to the gase was checked up an dcorrections made. | repair shops. { Finally came the order to “go; It takes one mani to operate a tract- “ahead” with production, the model or, instead of three, four or five artil- having been worked out completely.|lery drivers for ix, eight or ten In the last week of June the first/horses. When the allied spring drive tractor was accepted by the govern-|starts next r, American-built tract- ment. Since then, the Maxwell plant /ors in quanti hould be on the front | has-been. warming up to the job as!to bring the supporting field guns up| fast as the necessary machinetfy could {to the advancing line—and they won't | be assembled,~and the raw materials|ask for roads to.bring them over. FROM LLOYD HARMON. {cs ; a peach} Aug. 10, 1918. jthough, and worth tlie money. Most = A. P.O. 714. |Teed and wood-wind instruments over Dear Sick: ‘here are boehm system and everything | Landed’ back (home?) a few days|!°w Pitch. Have heard some good | he | bands and some rotten ones during ago, from Aux Les Bains, one of the famous summer resorts where we went to spend our first leave of. sev- en long, wonderful days. We were entitled to it some months ago, but true to army red tape and slowness as regards things of this nature, we just got it and were probably mighty lucky to get it.at all. Not kicking a bit, un- derstand, but when such a thing is to be had and being entitled to it, we naturally didn’t see fit to turn it down, when we finally got things lined up at our end and got the necessary documents from the other end. There was swimming, fishing, boating, moun- tain climbing,.music of all kinds from a tin whistle to a symphony, fancy drinks, good eats, fine big featherbeds to sleep on, didn’t have to get up, didn’t have to go to bed, no orders of any kind, your own boss absolutely for a week. Saw some great sights and by the time.I get home will have | Dear Mother. - souvenirs enough to start a curio shop.| 1 really do not know if T owe you of all the “Oui Oui Oui,” merci beau-|@ letter or you owe one to me, but} caup,” Tovt sweet,” etc., etc! etc! Ye|Nevertheless will take the initiative. Gods! for a real American girl, one, But I haven't had a letter from you you can talk to, be understood and |for nearly seven weeks. H our travels and of course see and hear jsome very funny things. Well Mick, | you can eall off the war anyti as I for one would just as |for home right away. Feel liké a vet- jeran now. Won't be long till we put jon our second six months’ service; \chevron. .Hope we can be home or |at least on the way before we get the third one. Things look very favorable for the big blow up very soon. Will | close now with best regards to all my friends and of course more love for, the ladies. : Write real soon. Yours, “PETE.” Lloyd F. Harmon, Mus., 164 Ind Band, -A. P. O. 714, ‘ Amex. E. F. France. | FROM GEORGE SMITH. | Aug. 10, 1918. | Chandler, Co., at|on end to nearly 90 degrees without’ 5 jis so lok that the machine can dd} in the way; {sound of the expl Hor the white puif-balls of shrapnel oe The first American military lospital in Italy has Just been epened by the Americun Red Cro: which took over, this beautiful building for the purpose, ‘ This hospital, of course, which is for the of the wounded of all aruiles aa Italian soil. is lorated-conyenlently for United States Army Camps. a ER PONE EN ILO I< OO BIG GUNS ROAR OVER... HERE, 100--AT-GREAT ~NEW PROVING GROUND . were still toiling to.get barracks up and the grounds ready for lise. So pressing was the need that guns were Aberdeen, Md., Sept. 13.—The near- sent before there was any adequate est approach to real, war in America' means for testing them. Now, how- today is here/at the great new army j ever, the grounds ara laid out, a rail- ordnance proving ground on Chesa-| road line runs to‘tte main line of the peake, Bay, 20 miles north of Balti-;Pennsylvania at Aberdeen station, fir- more. ing towers are built, telephones, con- Standing behind the main proof hat-' crete roads, barracks, mess halls gqnd tery, and watching the sweating gun] executive offices are installed, and crews feed the big guns; iting fox{the work still to be done is of less the captain’s whistle that signals us pressing character. to put fingers to ears to muffle the The reservation is laid out with the ion, and looking barracks and executive offices at the {northern end. South are the proving grounds. There is 4 dead line across | which no man may go except on duty, jand beyond which no lighted match or Y } Dr s the cigarette igpermiited. Here are the jareest in the Y nite utes It eee aman )tion shi Hae filled yyith, ery miles long and 7 miles wide at_tHe | type of shell useg.by-eur army. Here widest point, containing some.35,000 /is a tompordtures hougé with. refriger- acrés, a : i f aa {ation plant to maintain powder at an Last December it was farm land,!even temperature before test. South dotted with houses and barns. Today, ot these biuldings is a concrete plat- under Colonel Wm.’ A. Phillips, - the |form, about the width.of a city street, commanding officer, 350 officers and/served.by a-railroad line and cranes 3500enlisted men ore soiling nightand | for lifting off the big guns. Along the day testing guns, Mshells, powder,|edge of this slots are cut in which bombs, grenades, mortars and every ‘the gun. carriages rest. This f¥ the kind of ordnance before it ‘goes over-; main proof battery. ;\°~ » seas. And while’ the big and little} guns roar all day, 3500 civilians are laboring at construction work, some om, CK M. KERBY | Correspondent.) By FREDERI N. E. if (Passed. by U.S, Censor.) * smoke breaking down the 7500-yard range, gave me some idea.of the ar+ tilleryman’s job “over there.” The Aberdeen proving ground is the The central- observation tower be- hind the guns condwvts the firings, ,and receives reports of the résult of of which cannot be finished for ‘two;shots by telephone from “the towers, years. |down the range. At least five shots, . Besides the main proof battery; ending with an excess charge, are fir- range, there is a wate rrange, guarded by -patrol boats far out in the ba: over which are tested heavy gun railway mounts, -and coast defense|gun that comesfrom a manufacturer guns and mortars; three detonating j ofa ‘particular .series! or’#ew: type— ranges for exploditig shrapnel: arid j ig,fred. until jit.is hot ta. Mieces or testing fuses; a trench warfare range, |stands at least (20,000) rounds-+much where trench mortars, hand and rifle! more than a gun is expected to do in grenades and anti-air craft guns. are aif ‘ed from each gun before it goes over- seas. In addition, a “pilot gun”—the first: actual service. the “pilot gun” CKDAILY. TRIBUNE Western Sales Co. tested, and an aviation and bomb- passes this test, the “go ahead” order droppitg, field. is sent to the manufacturer. Every day some 4,000 rounds of am- In the case of high etplosive shell munition are fired. In addition, shells !an observer in a homb proof, covered are exploded underground in a pack-|with boiler plate, looks through a ing of earth to determine the degree ‘slit, and checks the performance of. can understand what she says. About; I recently heard the news about | nine-fourths of the time over here, you don’tknowwhether they say “Shut up” or “How do you like my new hat.” Oh! it is “ze grande adventure” no mis- take about that. At that, tho, we have lots of good times, after our du- tjes are done and we are free a whole | | |plaining it more in detail ind might] i Paul and read some of it in the Trib-| une with much regret. I know there is a letter,on the way for me, ex- eceive one most any time from you. also read about North Dakota offi- cials rendering their individual help in the harvest field, and that the name | of “fragmentation;” fuses are tested; powder is tested; and all sorts of freak types of fanks, gun mounts, and so-on, are tried out. The first guns were fired at Aber- deen, on Jan. 2, while gangs of men, Italy; France and Switzerland meet. the shell as it-bursts in front af him, Black or;dark,colored smoke indicates jincomplete combustion of the powder just as the character of exhaust from an automobile indicates the same] hing. they are made. Have I also told ydu BUSINESS TRAINING You Can Enroll at This MODEL OFFICE PRACTICE school: under, guarantee. of: 4 Bat- isfactory, position 98. soon a competent or your, tuition re funded. Send’ for particulars. BISMARCK EESABES: attend, Write, AUTOMOBILES, ACCESSORIES AND. SUPPLIES . MISSOURI VALLEY MOTOR CO. - _ Distributors of _APectory Distributors of MAXWELL AND OLDSMOBILE CHEVROLET AUTQMOBILES AUTOMOBILES r . Smith, Form-s-' ~Smith Tractors Kelly:Springfeld and. 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Orders Filled. ” I stayed back and watched things and jthat I saw “Ted”: Schnecktr, young Bie ¢ ayia intend to go very soon and will write | Stebbins ‘atid one’ of ‘the Olson boys, pas } +} 5 * . you from there and send souvenfrs.|a brother of Fred, who worked far ||: Mr. Business Man— ‘ Also remember you some time later 2 f al we s . with a photo, because I must have it ges f . : done in a large city in. order to get 4 “ a good one, as they aren't very good of Bisnfurck and similar German! names are to be changed. Received a letter from Jessie Frol- ing, who remembered me to you, but} gat big. hour and a half, usually from “$30 p.m. after the evening concert “8 finished, to 10.00 p. m. when we Thust be in camp, in bed, lights out andy quiet!! el E ‘Am sending you, under separate cov-|I guess she now back in Fargo. er, a newspaper, put out by and for | Thanks, muchly. We received a nice the Amex. E. F. Have sent you two ;assortment of music from Néw York before, but. you did not mention re-|and Boston and have the Yatest, sojaround here. ceiving them. It is sure a clever little ;Harmon and I are in our glory. They I saw Austin Reta, Herman Brocopp, paper and we look forward to it al-|are the very latest. The whole pand| Norman Flow and, Harold. Semling went and are back from a 10-day va-fand will soon have to give them the most as much asvpay day. It is print- n ir f i ed in Paris, weekly, and contains all|cation to Aix-les-Bains, a summer re-|salute. .I am a musician and do not Homan on the bread .wagon., i N Considerable fruit ig now.’ getting “ : ‘gathered in| |‘. NS St Z < 4 _Are you aware that you and your : business, are judged by the kind of ~~ oe: stationery you use? . If it is printed in The Tribune's... : ripe and already have some for a mess. Well, haw is every little thing at home, Bismarck and the capitol? hat do you think of us boys-over here now And besides, ‘we haven't hardly begun. I really believe another year Will see it over with, at the news of the week .and dwells at|Sort. jt is near Mt. Blanc. east of|really desire to follow in their foot-;the .latest.. The ‘homecoming would MRS. M. “ Rat length on the humorous happenings in|Lyons and south of Geneva, where ‘steps, but I/sure will be glad when -bé a great thing, long to. be remem- up-to-date Job Department you-need sete. 114 Bro MC. HUNT the course of army routine, some of i Bs ia baad ; have no fear of the judgment. oh a roadway. One : OT gal 20d abs not in the able of bai This esiabah ‘ Ing us‘do yow work, drop in, and let. ment. is, run) un, / "| us, talk the thatter. over with you. der “stéict.“unfon™ the best coming from the trenches where the fight is the hottest. Our boys are sure giving ’em hell and ALL MEMBERS OF THIS CLUB! . here’s hoping there will be no stop till; = a they get clear past Berlin. | ie 2 é conditioi 3 Wwe have been playing our heads off Estimatés cheerfully given-on all bye Tein oe lately as we received a big bunch of printing from a business card to a ee new popular and classical music from catalog, and, our, prices are right. day, 7 <New York. All the late songs, etc., ,and the fellows are crazy about them. Have a big white megaphone that I “holler” the chorys throuch, after) which I make for a.dugout, “safety first,” you know. Saw Opie Reed and Harold Semiling yester say. They are both fat and in best of Spirits. Wish I could have been there to; 3 play with you for the movies of us taken at home. We get lots of good reels of all kinds over here and might (by accident) get to see ourselves on the screen. Sure would be nice. I stilt have the instrument buying bug. Just ‘bought a new Boehm system clarinet hoe Man Geet ee ‘urnitur. Cy Repaired, saehed tad bered, but will also be a sad one for. often, as it wilt be lonesome here, as many whose son§ will never réturn) there is nobody here that I know., I Saw Cordner and our major, whom 1} 10 send me money send P.O. money had not seen for/many months. : Supper is ready and must go eat, |order, as I-can cash it at a Y. M. C. Love t6 all, - ~ and -am closing with the sincerest love to you and’Grandma and Ralph. ’ %_RALPH MOORE. | Corp. Ralph Moofte, f Yours, ~ GEORGE SMITH. Co. M, 26th Inf, ADE. F. : ‘Base Hospital\No. 9. ‘Dearest , Mother: ! s I wish I could evaporate and~go where this letter is going and crawl july. 28, 1918, f-” I: euppose you! are. wondering what 3 into the ‘envelope and ‘come. 7 Ws L i hecame of me. I.stre have been coy- ’ . Tee Dear Mother: - ering France pretty well. I am tow % 2 FROM RALPH, MOORE. ‘WiIP try and-write you a few ‘lines down near Bordeaux, but expect. to A * July 2¥, 1918. | today, as it is ‘Sunday. I am getting | leave any. time now for the front. I ' along. fine. . They sewéd ‘my arm-up |®M feeling pretty. well now. and want the 25th. “It ached continually for}t0 get:back. I have not.had any -mail two. days, but, has : alm stopped! for: two. months, so do. not: know bow now—only hurts st night. re were; You_ate. I-expect to have lots of: mail no bones broken, but there are a few | by the time I get back. Pete small places if. my arm_yet, but don’t |" About. two weeks ago I visited Joan think it will bother me much. of Arc’s birthplace and about a Tt is’ awfully: nice and*sunshiny. to-]dozen cathedrals.” Y sure. wish 4 . day. I. wonder if it/is as nice there. }could have seen then. _ - Quite a few of the-boys are going out{ I-will_write; you a nice, long letter 1 for . om ae afternoon.’ I: could | when I get back up. go. along cared to, but I think 1|! ws # « PA at »*Hdqs. 161st F. A. eee ——0rw. ss Only Way ‘He Could ‘Ro. et some pretty soon, when they find ut at the@onipany where I am. Will close for this time. * Write often. ‘Love to all, ‘ . * RALPH. FROM SERGT, PAUL JEWELL. + - » - ,-Aug. 12, 1918. ri Loves ,Her Cows - and Chickens Again i “{ have had~ stomach trouble for 2B _ “twenty years and for the past year ae have eaten nothing, but stale bread and drank hot water. Was too weak to do any king ot-work. “Six weeks ago 1 took the fitst dose of Mayr's rtu} Remedy and am now doing Dear Mother: - MPA aS Yor few lines today. 1 ched. by, destination this morning, after a long, tiresome ride of two ‘days and. nights. Am feeling pretty good today; my drm-has not become painful yet, bit I suppose it\ will hurt pretty bad: after. awhile, but at that Ne it is’ very light to what it might have “This is a pretty nice place where I am now, a regular: heaven to. where Eve been the past seven months. If : you, can, I would like to: havé ‘you = PES, Wap 5 ; cg Se a 5 =e mate send me a little money, about fifteen For the, “1 time i Mhistory, ee, States and British marines ate serving together ofthe dauacesii asd wincuee ext aay tleship. This is the first ph otograph ‘yhowing marines of. both nations on a vessel of the| day. till Kget back to the compan: ay * oF ae - ES ewes ug eee i? ‘ See ich tawe, mot techtend ny pact transferred. age 2 POOPY Well; will; quit this timel ‘Write, about. three weeks, bat suppase t ~