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HONOLULU.—J. Kuhio Kalan- j
ianaole, delegate to Congress from j
Hawaii, has formulated an extensive
X- program of legislation for Hawaii
which will be presented at the pres
ent session.
Among other things, he will ask
Congress for:
Statehood for Hawaii.
An additional appropriation of
$500,000 for the new federal build-1
ing in Honolulu.
An appropriation of $25,000 for
t" a concrete observatory for Profes- j
sor Thomas A. Jaggar, Jr., in
charge of the weather bureau’s sta-;
tion at the volcano of. Kilauea,
Hawaii.
An act to give Hawaii a share
of the $200,000,000 federal fund;
for good roads.
Educational fund for illiterate;
aliens in Hawaii.
Legislation to benefit Hawaiian j
homesteaders.
Harbor improvements for Hilo, j
Hawaii.
Old age pension for federal em
ployes.
Adequate duty on coffee, to en
courage its cultivation in Hawaii, i
Action against the custom of,
designating Hawaii as an insular
possession, and a publicity cam- j
paign to educate government offi-1
cials and congressmen as to the
real status of Hawaii as a terri
tory.
Reservation of certain districts
of Hawaii for national parks.
Battleship to be named Hawaii.
Continued suspension of coast
wise shipping laws to permit relief
of congested passenger traffic by
foreign vessels.
Increased salaries for judges and
other federal officials in the terri
tory.
Election of governor and terri
torial secretary by direct vote. The
President now appoints the gover
nor. I
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“SHELL SHOCK” NOT
PROPER TERM, SAY
BRITISH PHYSICIANS
LONDON, Eng.—According to
speakers at a recent meeting of the
British Medical Association, “shell
shock” is an “unfortunate” and un
scientific term for which “shell
shy” might better be used.
Sir J. Purves Stewart, senior
physician of Westminister hospital,
said it really was “molecular oh
normality of the nervous system
characterized by abnormal reactions
to ordinary stimuli.”
Dr. F. W. Mott said the war had
produced no new nervous disease,
and that the varied hysterical mani
festations impromperly called “shell
shock” were emotional disorders and
were curable by counter suggestion.
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Achievements of Army
Engineer Corps Told of
In Official Publication
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The war
rtory of the engineer corps at home
and in France is told officially for
the first time in chapters of the
war department’s brief history of
American war efforts, which has
been made public in advance sheets.
Many of the recorded accomplish
ments of the engineers have been
published before as isolated inci
dents, but this is the first complete
and connected story which gives any
idea of the extraordinary scope of
the duties modern warfare has laid
upon engineering troops.
Probably the best illustration of
this so far as the troops in France
are concerned is the technical organ
ization of the units of the engineers
which reached the other side. There
were seven regiments and two bat
talions of railway construction en
gineers; five battalions for main
tenance of way, two battalions for
maintenance of railway euipment;
four regiments and one battalion
to operate the main American rail
ways in France; three regiments to
operate light railways and their re
pair shops; two regiments to oper
ate the regular railway repair shops;
two regiments and six separate bat-'
talions on general construction work;
two regiments for storing and trans
porting engineer supplies; a forestry
regiment; a light railway construe-!
tion regiment; a road building reg;
ment; a water supply regiment; a
mining regiment; a quarrying regi
ment; a technical regiment for sur-'
veying and sound ranging; three
survey and printing battalions; two
railway transportation battalions;
an electrical and mechanical regi
ment; several separate companies to
operate cranes; a camouflage serv
ice; five inland waterway companies
to operate canal boats and the like;
five pontoon trains and a pontoon
park; a railway transportation and
stores battalion and a searchlight
regiment.
These special units, all composed
of men trained in civil life in the
United States for the work they did
in France, were in addition to the
fighting engineers with each divi
sion, the sappers, who formed about
eight per cent of all the combatant
troops in France.
One section of the report is de
voted to the development of Ameri
can railways in France and to the
production of railway equipment in
the United States to mee.t the call
from the front. There were shipped
to France 1,303 locomotives before
the armistice was signed of which
908 were in service at that time.
In addition, 18,313 freight cars
were shipped abroad, both engines
and cars having been produced
specially for service in France.
These were employed upon the 937
miles of standard gauge track laid
in France by the engineers with
equipment shipped from this coun
try and the rolling stock was in
addition to great quantities of light
railway equipment for front line
work that was also sent abroad.
Hospital trains were obtained in
England, 19 of them with a total of
304 cars having been completed by
December, -1918 with 29 additional
trains under construction. They
cost more than $18,000 per car,
but it is estimated that to have pro
duced them in the United States
and shipped them would have cost
$40,000 per car.
The report lays streess on the fact
that great progress was made dur
ing the war in the development of
road building, railway and other
engineering equipment which will be
of value commercially in peace time.
The motorized machine shops alone,
it is stated, are practically certain
to bring about in this country the
use of moving shops of this char
acter in agricultural communities as
farming machinery increases.
“The day may come,” the report
says, “when the traveling machine
shop will be a familiar sight upon
our rural highways.”
Among the motorized shops created
were the photolithographic press
trucks, which were able to reproduce
maps from original sketches within
12 hours as compared with four
days required by similar French anil
British units.
A special chapter is devoted to
listening instruments developed dur
ing the war to locate hidden guns.
Improving upon Allied designs, the
engineer corps produced machines
for this purpose which operated
with “uncanny accuracy,” one of
them having spotted 117 German
gun positions in a single day. Sub
sequently these were followed by
instruments of even greater power
and at the close of the war there
were 12 complete outfits, each cov
ering a five mile stretch of front,
at work on the American lines.
Similar development of instru
ments for locating hostile airplanes
w'ere carried out until it was possible
to determine the location of a raider
at night within an angle of three
degrees. The American types pro
duced were easily portable and
quickly set up to aid the search
lights. A hint at the scientific de
, velopments which were in sight in
connection with these sound ranging
devices is contained in the follow
ing paragraph:
“When the fighting stopped our
military scientists and others co
operating with them were working
on the development of a sound
ranging apparatus intended to give
troops warning of shells fired by
the enemy in their direction. The
preliminary experiments found tha-:
at 4.1 miles these machines could
detect the firing of the gun as long
as 19 seconds before the shell ar
rived, thus giving the troops ample
time to get under cover. Such a
1 development was possible because
of the far greater speed with which
earth vibrations travel than those
of sound in the air.
] “Except for lack of time in the
brief seconds between the firing
, of the gun and the arrival of the
shell, it would be quite possible
|with this proposed apparatus to eal
| culate almost exactly where the
I shell would land,”
The corps produced also a new
form of searchlight more powerful
than any that had preceded it in
any army and with which the second
J field army had been partially
I equipped.
It weighed, the report says,
“one-eighth as much as lights of
former design, cost only one-third
as much, was about one-fourth as
j large in bulk and threw a light 10
per cent stronger than any othei
portable projector in existence.”
i The engineers were at work when
the fighting ended upon a mechanism
which would enable them to control
searchilights from a distance.
' The chapter devoted to the work
of the engineer corps in France
draws a vivid picture of the duties
of the combat engineers who played
their full part in the fighting from
the beginning to the end. It also
tells in detail of the building of
the railways; the cutting down of
French forests to convert them into
barracks for American troops; of
the miles of highways built and
constantly rebuilt as shell fire tore
them to pieces; of cement mills
taken over in France by American
troops to provide trench materials;
of the great map printing plant
where the engineers finally were
able to produce not only all maps
needed for the American army, but
even supplied the French Seventh
and Eighth army with base maps
for their fronts. In this huge plant
at Langres. in November, over
1,900,000 lithographic prints were
made and.over a million sheets of
type work done. There is told the
story of a camouflage factory at
Dijon where material to blind
enemy airplanes’ eyes and to con
fuse the enemy pickets was turned
out in vast quantities.
1 “Utilizing and applying the new
knowledge and scientific achieve
ments of recent years,” the repori
says in concluding that portion de
voted to the engineers, “drawing
upon the fund of experience ac
quired by the regular army in its
theoretical studies and past wars,
making available the vast amount
of technical skill which has assislti
this nation to its present commercial
and industrial status, the eng'neers
of the United States army worked
and fought, planned, and accom
plished in France a work wnich in
magnitude exceeds any sim;,ar un
dertaking recorded in American his
tory. From base port to first
waves of assault upon the enemy’s
positions, engineer troops have been
constantly in action to the last
and have ‘carried on’ always with
the high ideals of the profession
and with the motto of the corps of
engineers’ Essayons’ before them.”
A Brill'ent Thought.
A thrifty old lady of Hull,
Whose intellect seemed 'rather dull.
When reading at night,
j To economize light,
^Fut luminous paint on her skull.
—Punch.
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port. j
Seattle 3—At Kotlik 3:30 p. m.,j
2nd, waiting for ice to leave St.
Michael.
Kelley and Benchley—At Tolo
vana.
Carl White—Up Chena for Fair
banks during night.
Launch Nita—Down Kokrines 10
p. m., 2nd.
Shusana—At Nenana this a. in
Tanana and barge—Down Eagle
6 a. m., date.
Sibilla—Up Circle 11:30 p. m.,
1st, last report.
MEMORIAL TREES WILL
BE DEDICATED TONIGHT
The four trees planted recently
in the Fairbanks school grounds will
be dedicated at 8:30 o’clock this
evening, to the memory of the four
former pupils of the Fairbanks
school who died in the service of
their country.
The Fairbanks band will be in at
tendance at the dedication cere
monies. The trees have been planted
to perpetuate the memory of Dor- \
man Baker, Lawrence Morency,
Percy Blanchfield, and Lawrence
Auten.
Genuine Buhach at Fowler Sc
Morris.
ADVERTISED LETTERS.
To the Public:
The following letters in the Ne
nana postoltice uncalled for, month
ending May 31, 1919.
Mention letter being advertised
when you call for same.
, r. s. McDonald,
Postmaster.
Bainbridge, Henry, Esq.
Berg, Carl.
McConaghy, Mr. James (2).
Parker, A. M.
Persson, Herr 0. A.
Plissy, Mr. Chns.
DELAYED BROWER STAGE
IN FAIRBANKS YESTERDAY
A delayed Brower stage, which
had broken down on the trail some
time ago, pulled in Fairbanks last
night with Messrs. McCrea and Page
as passengers.
The mails carried on this stage
had been transferred to a stage
which passed it when the break oc
curred.
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