CLAIM RELINQUISHED
A young American officer from the
middle West, after three days of sea
sickness, while enroute here produces
this: “Don’t talk to me about fight
ing for freedom of the seas. Anybody
that wants the d-ocean is welcome
to my part.”
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Letters from soldiers, both at the
front and ’n training camps, are read
with the greatest interest these days, I
and the following extracts from a let
ter written by Sergeant Earl Byers to
I kicked the pyrene extinguisher
terest because of the fact that Byers
is an Alaskan. Mr. Byers went to
Seattle early last fall with an appoint
ment to the officers’ reserve corps
training camp, but because the camp
would not start until January, and
he was anxious to get into the fray at
the earliest possible moment, he en
listed in the aviation section. So far
he has made good, having been made
a sergeant two weeks after enlist
ment, and he hopes soon to be in line
for a commission. He says:
“I was sent to San Antonio and
trained there for two months. I was
then sent to Taliafero field, near Fort
Worth. This is the British winter fly
ing field. 1 am a cadet in the aero
gunnery school, and am learning aero
battle practice. The instructors are
all men who have seen actual fighting,
in France, and who have been sent
home because of wounds received in
service.
To sit in a plane traveling izu
miles per hour and hit the pilot of an
enemy plane traveling at the same
speed—to figure the angle and line of
flight—is some problem. An aerial
combat usually lasts not more than
six seconds, so you see one must be
nimble-witted.
"I was up a short time since with
Lieutenant Gish, one of our crack
fliers. He told me when we were
‘tuning up’ that he was going to pull
off some ‘stunts.’ We left the ground
and went into two vertical banks be
fore we were fifty feet in the air.
We then climbed to 6,000 feet. With
out warning Gish turned the nose of
the machine down and we started for
the ground, the motor running full
speed. N
A Sudden Drop Into Space
“I was in the front seat with nothing ;
between me and the earth save a roar- j
ing propeller. When we started down '
I kicked the pyrene evtinguisher,'
which is fastened to the floor of the
plane. It came floating up past me
and I caught it in the air over my
head. We were dropping so fast that
the steel cylinder filled with w'ater
would not fall fast enough to stay
with us, unsecured.
“We looped the loop and then went!
into a spinning nose dive. To do this 1
you drop the nose down and spin
round and round as you descend. It
is a very fine maneuver to w'atch from
the ground, but is very dangerous for
the aviator.
“I was very seasick when I landed,
and will never forget my first flight
with a crazy pilot.
“We have some pilots here who can
do anything with their machines.
When Uncle Sam turns our birds loose
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in Germany Kaiser Bill will think
merry h-loose in the land.
“There are ten flying fields in
Texas. At one field alone one day
'“.st week the planes traveled more
than 75,000 miles. This may sound in
credible to you, but is a matter of
record.
“My squadron is posted for overseas
service, and we may leave any min
ute. We will complete our training in
England. I am very glad to be going
across, but will head for the North as
soon as we are through trouncing Bill.”
Thoughts Turn Northward
Sergeant Byers says of the “sunny
south” that it sounds very fine when
you live in the “frozen North,” but “it
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is a delusion, and is no j ^ce for a
sourdough.”
Byers is an electrician by trade, but
for several years has be*i running
a gasboat on Interior Alaska streams.
He was noted throughout the Interior
for his hardihood, which so®e prefer
red to designate under thfe head of
‘‘daredevilism." One of his feats will
long be remembered in the Iditarod
country. Some five years ago there
was a late freeze-up in the Interior.
The Iditarod usually fredjes solid
early in October, but in the year in
question, after having frozen, a thaw
set in which cleared the river of ice,
A party of miners were awaiting the
freeze-up to start over the tra.il for the
Outside, but the continued open sea
son determined them to endeavor to
make St. Michael by boat in time to
catch the last ocean liner from that
port, sailing about the last of October.
Byers was the owner of a light, flat
bottomed launch with a powerful en
gine, and he was easily induced to
make the trip, which would be a race
with the elements. They left Iditarod
on October 22, a date in ordinary years
when even the Yukon is beginning to
tighten ud.
Darting through ice floes, breaking
through thin ice in smooth sections of
the river, and beating across the
eighty miles of open sea between the
mouth of the Yukon and the port of
St. Michael, the flimsy craft arrived
in that port just in time for the pass
engers to catch the steamship, and the
very same day ice formed in the bay
of St. Michael to such an extent that
a few hours’ delay would have ren
dered the trip futile.
Byers and his helper laid their crazy
craft up and plodded back over the
two hundred and fifty miles of tundra
to Iditarod, arriving there in time to
eat Thanksgiving turkey.
It is safe to say that not another
individual in the Interior would have
undertaken such a venture.
Those who know Byers say that the
aviation section of Uncle Sam’s forces
has secured a valuable asset, as he is
absolutely fearless, a good mechanic,
resourceful with all that the word im
plies after a long residence in Alas
kan wilds, and withal a most ardent
believer in his country’s cause.
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BY FOOD ADMINISim
- Hon. Newton D. Baker, secretary of
war, before sailing for Europe, cabled
General Pershing, urging that the
American forces in Europe aid in the
conservation of foodstuffs. The sec
retary has already taken steps to have
the army on mAerican shores elimi
nate food wastage and practice true
food economy.
West Pointers Conserving
Future officers of the United States
army, who are now receiving their
training in the United States military
academy at West Point, are helping to
conserve this country’s food. At the
same time, the health of the cadet
corps is better than ever, according to
(’apt. B. A. Dixon, treasurer of the U.
S. military academy. /
American Troops Saving Food
United States troops en route to
France are now following the conser
vation program of the U. S. food ad
ministration. The war department has
1. rued a general order that all vessels
transporting troops shall comply as
far as practicable with the requests
of the food administration.
Gun Factory Regulations
The lunch room committee of Amer
ica’s big naval gun factory at Wash
ington has advised the food adminis
tration of the adoption of a resolution
complying with all of the food regula
tions.
American Steamships in Line
Operators of more than 600 Ameri
can steamships have already come
Into line with the United States food
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administration’s plans for wheat am
| meat saving aboard vessels plying ii
the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. The;
have adopted menus mapped out b;
the food administration.
Canada to Have Less Bread
Canada is faced with a wheat situ
ation that is even more difficult thai
the American problem. After a care
fill survey of the needs for livestock
Canada finds she has no surplus o
grains generally used as wheat sul
j stitutes. There are not sufficient suj
j plies of barley, rye and oats in th
i Dominion to justify a regulation com
j pelling the bakers to produce a ntixei
! cereal bread. For Canada, victor
j must come through “less bread” it
I stead of “Victory bread.”
Situation in France is Grave
In France the supply of breadstuff
is causing grave anxiety. Imports ar
| very short. The bread card machiner;
has been completed but the presen
lack of cereals will not permit of it
application. Sugar stocks are equa
to the present sugar card allowance o
one-half kilogramme per head pe
j month (11-10 pounds). There is ;
| great shortage of farinaceous fooc
| stuffs such as macaroni. The consumr
tion of meat has been restricted b;
high prices to within the limits of th
J available and greatly depleted stocks
Butter is very scarce and milk evei
mhre difficult to obtain. Oils and fat
are practically unobtainable.
11 Allies Short of Foodstuffs
i A recent telegram received from
' the British ministry of food indicates
' that the food situation in Great Brit
ain, France and Italy is much more
serious than is realized by the people
of this country. The message states
( that the import supplies are low and
j an increase is urgently needed. The
! ration which the ministry has intended
j to put into force will have to be re
duced because of the inadequacy of
! supplies.
J! Propaganda ‘‘Made in Germany”
^ I Information secured by the U. S.
food administration indicates a well-,
| planned German propaganda intended j
to magnify the distress of the central'
| powers with respect to their food sup
! plv. By painting conditions worse
5 than they are, the enemy hopes to lull 1
; the American mind into the belief that;
■; we are fighting a people on the verge
t of collapse, and that early peace is
* certain. Fake letters have been found
I on German prisoners that were writ
f, ten with the express purpose of giv
r ing the impression that conditions at
II home were exceedingly serious.
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