New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 17, 1918, Page 5

84,300 U. 5. AIRMEN § ARE NOW IN FRANCE Present Program Provides for Training of 30,000 Aviators ,Washington, Oct. 17.—The present my avidtion program contemplates raining 30,000 aviators. This be- e known vesterday when testi- mony by Colonel H. H. Arnold,, as #iven to the house appropriations ®ommitte was made public Col. Arnold, Who appeared before the ocommittee toBether with Major General Kenly, chief of the army air division, told the | jcommittee that 11,000 fliers have al ready been trained. During the testi- | mony it came out that there are 8,390 American fliers in France and 6,210 in this countr Revelations of a ‘‘scandal” in .the purchase of cameras for the airplanes were made when it was testified that ome one in the aviation department ( ad been connected with a camera hmpany which obtained centracts. It 5 implied that Charles E. Hughes looking into the matter. It was shown that General Pershing has such faith in the value of the mili- tary balloon that he doubled his orders'for them. It also developed that Bandy Hook probably will be used ) for a repair dcpot for coast defe"scl airplanes. airman Sherley of the committee acked Colonel Arnold if there was any difficylty in obtaining candidates for fijers’ commission The officet an- swersd that every time a need- for cadets came up more appeared than could be taken caro of. He said that \one, except o few men from the {ranks, had beén taken in since last Deeember:. Colonel Arnold said that the army lan was, as far as possible, to get university men, and this was a recent vuling of the war department. En- listed men were allowed to enter, and 1,500 of them had qualified, he said. Testifying on the Division of Mili- tary Aeronauties Colonel Arnold said that there are now 39 balloon com- panies orzanized, and that 329 bal- loons had been produced to date. These, he said, would “take care” of 1862 companies. Jle said there were twW balloons to a company. "The disclocures concerning the came came out when Colonel Ar- nold zave the following testimony: lought Not the Best. the photographic section first sthrted in operation there was competition between three different firms, but for some reason or other here was rome breath of scandal and that ecaused great delay in re- ceiving equipment for several months. The Motlau Camera Com- pany, the Eastman Company, and o e there was a third camera company, the name of which I have forgotten, bid on the cameras. It appears now that the camera which was accepted was not the most suitable for aerial photography. “However, a certain number of them were purchased, and they are being used, but thay are probably not | as good as some other camera which might have been obtained at that time. The~” scandal part that came about was that a. man in the aviation section was connected with the firm that was making the camera.” The aviation section purchased the Matlan camera, but at present so the testimony ran, is buying a foreign made camera and rebuilding it in this country. At present there are in the army air service 33 squadrons, and 450 are contemplated, according to Col- onel Arnold. He said 9,000 enl!s?(‘d] men would be obtained in September, and these would supply about sixty squadrons. “Just what proportion depends on what General Pershing asks for,"” he said. “In all probability it will be about fifteen or twenty squadrons | more this month, and increased un- til by the end of November we ex- pect to have them all.” Extra pay for the flying cadets was asked for during the hearings. When they first went into the se vice, candidates for commissions re- ceived extra pay, first of $100 month- Iy, and then $75, because of the haz- ard. This was' eliminated, but the aviation authorities asked that the extra $75 be restored. MEN WANTED FOR NEW ARMY SERVICE. New Haven, Oect. 17 An appeal for men to train for various branches of the electrical communication serv- ice of the army was 1ssued today by H. V. Bozel, supervisor of all com- munication schools of the Students’ Army Training Corps. He pointed out that draft registrants have until Oc- tober 21 to be voluntarily inducted into these schools of the 8. A. T. C,, where they can qualify as officer can- didates in three months. The signal corps, field artillery, coast artiller and engineers all need men of th type of training. Advanced training in electrical | communication is provided in the S.; A.T. C. at Yale university, 12 colleges in the country have schools for radio electricians, and ten colleges have sections for training telephone elec- tricians. Men inducted into this branch of the 8. A. T, C. receive army pay, uniforms and mess from the gov- ernment as in other sections of the corps. MEMORIAL TO AMERICA. Bordeaux, Oct. 16.—The municipal council has voted a subscription of 100,000 francs toward a fund being raised to erect a memorial in honor of America at the mouth of the Garonne river. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1918, CITY ARRANGES 70 CARE FOR THE SICK Emergency Relief Committee Ready o Begin Its Work The recently organized Emergenc Relief committee, appointed by Mayor | G. A. Quigley to co-operate with the health department in caring for the many sick people about the eity, is about to begin its work and before an- other 24 hours have passed this body will be in full operation. The city will be divided into nursing districts, all available nurses will be organized | for their most eflicient service and the | entire matter of caring for the sick will be so thoroughly systematized that the greatest possible good can be obtained with the more or less limited means at hand. The Emergency Relief committee is composed of E. Allen Moore, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Brooks, Dr. H. F. Moore, Dr. T. E. Reeks, Earl Kisselbrack, George P. Spear, Mrs. James F. son, Mrs. R. N. Peck, Mrs. I. D. Rus sell, Miss Dorman, W. W. Leland, M. H. Camp, H. V. Camp, Jeseph Lamb, H. C. M. Thomson, Mrs. A. J. Sloper, Mrs. A. G. Kimball, Mrs. Rufus Heminway, Mrs. Frank Traut, Charles Parsens, Mrs. Charles FParsons and several other: The executive eom- mittee appointed consists of Allen Moore, chairman, and H. C. M. Thom- son, secretary. Other members of the general committee have taken charge of detailed sub-committee work. At a meeting this morning Mr., Parsons reported that he is having a canvass made at each of the factories to ascertain just how many men and women there are who are trained nurses or-who have had any experi- ence in nursing and who will be will- ing to work in this emergency. These workers will be given regular salaries. This report will be ready tonight. Mrs. Parsons will also see that a can- vass is made of the city to ascertain { how many volunteer nurses can be obtained. Mrs. A. J. Sloper is to be in charge of the general nursing com- mittee and will select her nurses, to be sent around as occasion demands, | from the lists given her by Mr. and Mrs. Parsons. E£pecail telephone wires are to be installed in the health department of- fie which is to be open day and night, and here all calls for doctors and nurses will be received, investi- gated and praper action taken. The eity is to be divided into 10 districts by Thomas Crowley and nurses will be will be apportioned to these dis- tricts. The plan calls for a trained nurse to be in charge, day nad night, of each district and the practical nurses will be assigned to individual . cases. The nurses will do individual investigating in an attempt to un- i M&lg of {Mah }‘{nd 5 ‘a Busted Cigar =~ By Briggs| HAS BEEN SAVING A 254 STRAIGHTER UNTIL AFTER DINNER - AND 1S, NOW READY To ESJovy T DECIDES T TAKE OFF PART OF LOOCSENED WRAPPER LIGHTS oOnNCE MORE cover new cases of Influenza or pneu- | dress with the monia. that sick people can receive | telephone 1606. treatment early and before the dis- ease gets firmly wstablished in their Mrs. Kimball, in charge of the motor service, askes that any- body wha can promise to give thelr use of their motor car and a driver nurse to be in charge, day and night, particular hours arany ticular day leave thir name and ad- DISCOVERS WRAPPER is TOoRN AND \s JAGGED department, While the influenza epidemic is im- There are be- growing rapidly worse. tween 100 and 150 cases in opinion that before the epidemic has passed there may be between 40 cases of this dread disease. It was olso decided this par- (ctose up of a CIEAR THAT HAS BEEn m™ VEST POCKET ALL DAY) PULLS AT CIGAR BUT SMOKE DossnT Come THROUGH. SEEMS Too MuUCH VENTILATION oR YMETHENG BLows on T INDIFFERENT TOPYRIGHT 1913, that the duty of caring for the citizens in this emergency rests on the city of New Britain, rather than upon on the Red Cross or any other agency or vol- untary subscriptions. It was th fore decided to relieve the Red Cro: of further expenses in caring for the sick, hungry and needy and the mat- ter will be taken care of and paid for by thecit DONT QUIT NOW TRIeS To PASTE WRAPPER BACK WT® PLACE BY WETTING MITH ToNGUTE REMoOVES Some MORE WRAFPER NEW YORK TRIBUNE meC MRS. ARTHUR REILLY ILD. Mrs. Arthur E. J. Reilly is 11l with pneumonia at her home on Camp street. Mrs. Reilly volunteered last week for home service work and ~Nhi'n ministering ta stricken famil- fes became infected with influenza, wuicn uas developed into a mild case of pneumonia. Although she is very weak, Mrs. Reilly’s condition is not considered critical. News Dispatches Indicate that the Kaiser’s Castle of Dreams is About to Tumble Down and Crush Him. From the North Sea to Verdun, the German Armies are Making Desperate Efforts to Withdraw to Their Own Contry. Allied Flags are Everywhere Waving Victoriously and Time is Preparing the Doom of the Central Powers. But Germany and Her Associates are Not Defeated. Military Experts Say They May Hold Out for Months. America and Her Allies Will be Satisfied With Only One Conclusion---Unconditional Surrender. You can Help to Make that Unconditional Surrender an Established Fact. BUY LIBERTY BONDS----THEN BUY MORE CONTRIBUTED BY TEE NEW BRITAIN HERALD