Evening Star Newspaper, November 11, 1936, Page 6

A6 2 TRNERS PRESS FRALA.CIR : Farm Bureau Federation iMay Raise Ghost and :Embarrass New Deal. ‘The representatives of several hun- dred thousand farmers thioughout the United States today planned a Nation- Wwide campaign for. re-enactment into law of the production control features of the agricultural adjustment act, de- gpite New Deal coolness toward & re< vival of the outlawed farm aid pro- grdm. + This embarrassment to the admin- tration is expected to come to a head fing the California convention early in *December of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Its president, Ed- Ward A. O’'Neal, told Secretary Wallace and President Roosevelt he preferred the old benefit payment plan, with the processing tax, to the proposal of orop insurance. ! * No Assurance of Old A. A. A. President Roosevelt, however, told His press conference that demands of ferm leaders for a Federal production coitrol program did not mean the ariginal agricultural adjustment act would be re-enacted, nor that farmers Were opposed to crop insurance. * He satd also he had discussed the farm tenancy problem with Rexford G. ‘Tugwell, head of the Resettlement Ad- ministration. Tugwell has expressed Hi< hope the New Deal agency could be:made a permanent part of the Agticulture Department and help tenants toward farm ownership. Mr. Roosevelt said Secretary Wal- lhce, head of the special Crop Insur- anee Committee, informed him that farm leaders, called to discuss insur- ance, were interested in avoiding crop surpluses that wrecked prices, . A few hours prior to the President’s press conference, a group of farm spokesmen from the Great Plains area, | which was hard hit by recent doughts, asked Wallace and the Insurance Com- mittee “to work out a practical plan of “crop Jnsurance,” with a start on wheat in 1937. ““For the Great Plains farmer,” the dought area farmers said, crop insur- diice is “of equal importance” with re- vival of the original A. A. A. Demand Quick Action. The Farm Bureau, nevertheless; seems in the mood to demand that Congress iy directly in the face of the Supreme Cpurt and pass a new crop-control | law, rather than wait the long months | ar years which would be necessary for | the passage of a constitutional amend- | ment giving the Federal Government the right to dictate the acreage which could be devoted to any crop. " The Court concluded in the Hoosac | | va y ! fore dawn: on that eventful| Mills case that the system of benefit | tR€r® Was no hatred any more, no | Just bel payments and pmflz‘ng taxes con- | desire for more killing. The mud- |day the orders were to move forward, A THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1936. “Two Minutes to 11” Battlefront Account by a District Ex-Captain of the Hell Our Troops Passed Through on Morning of November 11, 1918. )*#MM Ezcerpts from Capt. John L. Vandegrift’s Armistice day letter is reproduced above. Below: Capt. Vandegrift from a photo made i Germany after the war. —Star Staff Photo. AR, like a mad dog writhing and dying, snapped most viciously in its last mo- ments. November 11, 1918, dawned frosty and bright. All the way from Luxem- bourg to the sea everybody on both sides knew that the armistice was | to be signed that day, that there was | no excuse for further bloodshed since there was nothing anybody in the fighting forces could do which any longer could affect the outcome. What happened constitutés one of the strangest perversions of human behavior in the grip of war psychology —some of the fiercest fighting the Western Front had known when everybody knew that it was useless. War's maddest outburst was its last— in the final two minutes before 11 am. The liberty to kill each other which men had enjoyed for four years was coming to an end—and as if it was | a precious human right of which they | were to be deprived men made the most of the last fleeting seconds. And then the mad dog died—and | o making huge holes in the air and noises like express trains. Peace it is, and as such is it realized, more| here than elsewhere. Three Days of Firing. Eleven oclock on the 1ltn came | just in time, and until firing had actually ceased it was a doubtful question that it would ever stop. Fir-| ing had been quite intense for three days and nights, and the battery had moved into as many new posi- | tions in that time. They were any- thing but comfortable' ones, either. stituted compulsory control of agricul- | SPlashed millions of Germans and up with the infantry; dawn found us| tural production and as such was not | countenanced by the Constitution. A cotton crop plante ce this decision | removed restriction on cotton acreage | is estimated at 12,400,000 acres, which | is more than the country needs and ! which drives down the market. | ‘While the farmers prepared to battle | for a renewal of the bigger benefits | of 1933, 1934 and 1935, the agricul- tural experts of the administration | toyed with these possible plans of effectively controlling agricultural | commodities and granting subsidies | without directly flouting the Supreme | Court: | 1. Establishment of the pro-rate two-price system, whereby every farmer has a share in the domestic market at a fixed price and is free to sell his surplus in foreign markets at | the world price. - 2. Open up bigger foreign markets | either by lending $500,000,000 abroad for the purchase of American agricui- tural commodities or by lowering the | tariff level enough to permit $500,- | 000,000 increase by foreign purchasers. | Relies on Two Main Phases. ! ‘The chief reliance, however, will be | the crop insurance and the soil con- | servation which, it is indicated, Presi- | Allies passed through the waters of an unearthly silence and their souls | were born again out of this baptism | into a new world of peace where kill- ing was a crime rather than a virtue, | Letter From Front. Edwin F. Hill, information director of the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- phone Co., dug out of his desk the other day a letter already beginning | to show the yellowing of age. It was from John L. Vandegrift, one of his | former employes, who now is secretary of the Employes’ Benefit Committee of the telephone company. On November 14, 1918, when the letter was written, he was a captain in the 341st Field Artillery in the Meuse Argonne area, and seldom has there appeared a more vivid account | of this weird ending of the struggle. Mr. Vandegrift's letter follows: “At the Front,” Nov, 14, '18, Dear Boss: It seems so strange to write in ab-| solute security, free from danger of air bombs, shells or deadly gas and| the new sensations are as hard to get accustomed to, and even .nore so0, than those of the opposite sense. No more gas sentries to awaken sleep- ing soldiers, no more light guards to dent Roosevelt regards as the corner- stone of his permanent agricultural | at night, no“more ducking, instinc- deadly barrage—a curtain of fire, then 3 tively, for there are no whiz bangs the missles rained. A bit of mustard Order changed to put only one bat- | railway jobs paying $2.62 a week. see that the T’S foolish to spend good money for a bargain just because it's cheap. But it’s still to miss something really good be- cause it costs less than you'reused to paying! - Clever honsewives kriow they are getting a real bargain when they buy Chase & Sanborn Dated Coffee in the bag. It's low tastes high priced, made from the choicest coffees in the world. » Every pound is rushed fresh to up there, but as it happened there was a heavy fog, so heavy that it was difficult to select a good place for the guns and impossible for the Hun to| spy us. The guns were placed and | the limbers moved to the road when the Boche opened up on the road with machine guns. Then occurred a lively, the kind you read about,! scene. Shouted orders, galloping horses, riders bent low on their hacks | and empty calssons hurling along the | road to safety. At the guns, the bus-| tle of getting “layed”; men hastily digging shallow shelter trenches for themselves and their ammunition, the | “detail” “beating it” across the ter-f rain running the telephone wires. A pretty snappy sight, especially since | there were many shells fllling—"im-l ports.” It was merley the enemy’s searching fire, for the battery could not be seen. By this time we were in action and firing at a dangerously fast rate, at least dangerous to the enemy, | who though we could not see him, we | knew where he was by the map; that's all one needs to know these days. A few more minutes and every piece of | artillery, allied and enemy, on the entire front was in action, from the sound of things, and the earth fairly rocked. All was going well with the more foolish flavor. priced, but it because it's discovering! | why talk of love— gas; orders to withdraw the men; safety in friendly shell holes—this was the sequence during the next hour—and to the shell holes we stuck, for it was suicide to even crawl over the ground. The particular shell hole 1 was in was as big as an office building. I wished at that time that it were as deep as the ocean. Had it been struck the only nec- essary ceremony would have been to have stuck six little wooden crosses in the ground where we were. There were four consecutive duds that hit within & few feet of the hole, any one of which would have done the work had they exploded. Each one in its turn brought forth a fervent “good old dud,” and when three more duds afterward struck just as close, I felt sure that we were spared for further work. This awful “straf- fing” continued for two more hours and for that length of time we didn’t venture far from safety. The hole was even comfortable, with a good supply of cigars which I thoughtfully or by chance had with me, and except for an occasional sniff of “gas.” Just before communication with the rear had broken off I had been informed that all firing would cease at 11. At 10 minutes of 11 business picked up considerably and at 2 of—all hell broke loose—it was then I had my doubts and as I followed the second hand of my watch through those two centuries of minutes, I suspected that Foch had forgotten to notify the Kaiser. But at 11—agd the signatory powers must have synchronized their watches—all firing ceased and the silence was painful. It was a dramatic, almost a tragic, end to a horrible bombardment and incidentally to the war. For the war is only an incident when one is being shelled out of a position. I've often admired the elk- | toothed charm of an “Elk” and have seen the clock's face thereon. I do not know the time it tells whether it | i 5 of 12 or 11 o'clock, but if it’s set at 11, I want to be a brother Elk and | wear & clock, for that holy hour saved my battery from destruction. Saw French Lorraine. ‘The burning questions with us now are will we return to the States im- mediately, will we go into Germany as troops of occupation, or remain in France to police up the “duds” and fill in the shell holes? My striker says he saw enough of France the first week, he now thinks that this country wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t that there are so many foreigners here. I've seen a bit of French Lorraine—it is wonderful country—more so than the lowlands of the Southern France, but Southern France, like most south- ern countries, raises (and supports) beautiful women, so much in its favor, and we don't care much for scenic beauty “no how.” Then there are the wines of the southern districts—but The new territory taken over puts an added burden on J. F. C. and Billy, eh? And to think that they will | have development well under way up there before I return, that is rather | rough. It has been my experience | that much good can be discovered in | what they overlook. I derive conso- lation from that fact. Have moved twice since starting this letter, the first time back into a dense woods into a dugout, safe and com- fortable. I am now back at the bat- tery echelon, where the combat train and horses are located. It is on the | horses that we will now concentrate, for it is on them that much depends if we are to move. My big sorrel was killed last week; in a pinch he was attached /to a ecaisson to haul ammunition to the guns. A “big one” hit the road nearby, killing few horses and wounding several men. The driver riding this particular horse had his leg punctured by the shell frag- ment which killed the horse. We have had several narrow escapes like that. Sincerely yours, VAN. Log of 1st Battalion. The November 11 log of the 1st Battalion, 341st Field Artillery fol- lows: | “B"” reports mustard gas and ordered tery on, as other two were on road. Barrage; lift at H plus 1. Progress at rate of 50 meters per minute till last line and stand there until H plus H to H pus 2; 1 rpg.pm.; to H plus 4, 2 rpg.pm.; H plus 4 to H plus 18, 1 rpgpm.; H plus 18 to H plus 30, % rpgp.m. H hour, 5:45. 5:15—Above gi sonally to Capt. Tanner for . 5:16—2nd phase, concentra- 359.460-250.800, “B” 359.- 800-250.920. 3rd phase; keep contact with the Infantry advancing on Hage- ville and fire as they desire. 6:48— Lieut. Lane reports communication established with “B” through Louis- ville Farme. Col. Davis visited. 7:30—“B"” telephone both concentra- tions under phase 2, in case communi- cation not established with “C.” One platoon on each concentration. 7:45— “B" reports agent on way to battalion headquarters. 8:00—“B” reports Lieut. Allen on road with caisson for am- munition. Instructed to hold loaded limbers at Louisville Farme. 8:20— Order. comes to cease firing at 11. 8:21—“B” ordered to fire on La Chaussee at 8:30 for 15 minutes as fast as guns can stand. Armistice will be declared at 7—Tele- phoned above to “C. reports by runner location of battery at cross- roads 223.100, approximate co-ordi- nates of right gun 359.750-246.500. OP at Marimbois Farme, CP at 359.800-246,500. Any position to the north unapproachable on account of wire on road. Minimum range, 2,500 meters. 8:35—Capt. Pugh, re- ports the battery caught in barrage and gun flashes under direct observa- | tion. Ordered to cease firing and | withdraw men. 8:57—Col. Davis in- quired for Brig. Hq., where blrrne;‘ was falling. Advised over and short | of Battery “C.” 9:03—Capt. Tanner reports enemy fire on Infantry. Or- dered to open on Hageville. 9:10— “B” reports road in rear enfiladed by machine gun fire, “C” reports they have abandoned two guns; three wounded; can find no Infantry in front of them. 9:39—“C” agent re- ports. 9:55—Harassing fire at rate of 50 pounds per gun per hour till 10:59 on sensitive points between Chambley and Dampoitaux road and La Chaussee. 9:57—“B” line out. 10:25—"“C"” re) battery position 360.250-246.850. 10:27—Capt. Vande- grift telephones everything ok. No losses that he knows of. Reports mus- tard gas, so is ordered to pull out. Infantry reports fire wanted on Bois Bonseil. 10:30—Ordered to shoot up | Bois Bonseil. Message from Imme- morial 1: All batteries % cease fire at 10:55; open fire all batteries 10:59 to 10:59.50 on Bois Bonseil, then cease firing. 10:39—"B"” ordered as above. 10:41—"“A"” ordered as above. 10:43— to withdraw from position if gas con- tinues. Send all affected men back for treatment. 10:52—Immemorial 11 | advises C. O. to make inspection of | all pistols. 10:57—Gas shell falls 300 | yards east of our P. C. 11—Cease | firing; war over. 11:06—Immemorial | advised that Batteries “B” and “C" would have to be withdrawn on ac- | count of gas. “C.” 60 men sent to rear on account of mustard gas. LUNCHEON TO HONOR LEGION’S COMMANDER B: a 5t Correspondent of The Star. | ALEXANDRIA, Va, November 11. | —Harry W. Colmery of Topeka,| | Kans., national commander of the| American Legion, was to be the guest | of honor at an Armistice day lunch- leon of the Alexandria American |Legion Post in historic Gadsby's Tavern this afternoon. Comdr. Colmery was to come here after his participation in Armistice day exercises at the Tomb of ihe Unknown Soldier in Arlington Na- tional Cemetery. Other guests were to be Mrs. Mollie First Battalion History, 341st Field Artillery, November 11—Move two batteries forward at once to occupy positions in the vicinity of Marimbois Farme. Open warfare position Immemorial 1. “B" and “C"” ordered forward. 4:52— | Averill of Washington, Charles W.| Crush of Christiansburg, Virginia | | American Legion commander; Mrs. | | Charles McKinney, Clifton ~Forge, | | president of the State American | Legion Auxiliary, and Department | ! Adjutant Glenn Elliott of Richmona. | Regimental order as follows: Three batteries to barrage on line 360.300- i i d| batterv when it was caught in a | 249.000, 360.680-248.530, ending on | P ey daclow it : 1 line 361.000-249.600, 361.400-249.120. | been received in India for temporary . 9,000 Seek Temporary Jobs. Nine thousand applications have THERES ONE EXCEPTION- DATED COFFEE IN THE INEXPEN- SIVE BAG.IT HAS GRAND FLAVOR AND A LOW PRICE . your grocer, marked with the date hegetsit, Nonestayson hisshelves more than 10 days. 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It's the one you don't hear that gets you. « « . Creep a little further. . . . A quick. . . . Jerry's spotted a rustling in the underbrush and again that machine gun barks. . . . Dangerously close now—the twigs spatter your face, , . . Your heart seems to be beating louder than the echoing of rapid fire. . . . There's cover just a few feet ahead. . .. A fallen tree. . . . Only a few feet to safety. . . . Then, a quick glance at your wrist watch. . . . The hands point to 10:15 and you wonder if you'll ever make it. .. . Danger Behind Fallen Tree. Just beyond that fallen tree lies the | his thinking you yellow . . . gives you . That hidden sniper who's | foolish bravado . . . A lunge and with | in, danger. 1.10 COTY’S AIRSPUN FACE POWDER TOOTH PASTES 50c TUBE IPANA __27¢ 50¢ TUBE IODENT__2@¢ 25¢ TUBE DR. 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Another push of your knees and you can almost reach out and touch . That tree, why couldn't it have fallen 2 feet nearer r burst and bees whirl over your head . .. Where's the rest your objeciive . . . Anothe: of the trio that came out with you? if you can stop his music any other way. . . . It's armistice for him, too, and he might be a family beads of sweat rolling in your eyes you realize you're behind a 2-foote thick tree trunk. Now along the ground till you reach the end of the trunk . .. Then walt for the next burst of fire ., ., Observe where it came from . . . Grenade out . . . Careful not to smack that firing pin . , , There you are , ., It's 10:20 now . . . Only 40 minutes to €0 and again you can walk like a man instead of crawling. Rat-a-tat-a-tat sings the machine gunners’ song of death . . . Eyes trained to notice any unnatural phenomena., Shoe Sighted in Tree. You see an opering in the lower limos of a tall linden tree ... Hanging there is a shoe . . . It moves . . . No grenade shot there . . . Can't miss now .. . Don't kill if you can help it, but stop that sniping! . . . Carefully take aim . .. The rifle beaded on the ankle . . . Up, up, just a little more and squeeze the trigger ... Wait now for the next burst so your own position won't be known . . . Now . . . The shoe makes an unnatural turn, a crash . . , Ripping branches and then .. . silence. ‘The trip back to position . . . Slowly, slowly, can't"take chances now . . . Another glance at the watch . . . 10:45 it. 't 3 Minutes Like Year. Another hour’s passed, you think . . . Glance again at the watch . . . Only 10:18 . . . You must have lived & year in 3 minutes . . . A low bush moves over at your right . .. Per- haps it's Jerry! Lie deadly still and| almost force your eyes around to the ears to see what you can . . . It's one | of the boys who came out with you. | He motions you ahead and fear of . « . and only 15 minutes to go . . . 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