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THE DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1918. 12 USED BALLOONS A CENTURY AGO and of hostile submarines are thus discovered. A boat cruising on the surface becomes plainly visible to the aerial observer at a distance of several miles, while the foamy streak of the periscope's wake cannot remain unnoticed for any length of time. only a few minutes, after a strange sail is reported on the horizon, to bring the Kite balloon out of its attach the end of its cable to the stein of the towing vessel, place on board of he latter the aeronautical detachment assigned to duty with that balloon, and dispatch tht observor on his aerial Saturday the Last Day of the VERDUN BELLE FINDS MASTER AFTER BATTLE l'erll to the Boat The kite balloon, by its mere August Oearin' presence, therefore, causes the en The ttudent of naval tactics will search the books on the subject in vain for references to the use of kite balloons in major operation at sea; yet this ungainly creature Sale GARBAGE CAN IS This." sars The Stars and Stripes, the daily newspaper pub if HELP FOR WAR! PHILADELPHIA Save the un-i edible scraps from the table for; lished in France by the American expeditionary force, "Is the Btory of Verdun Belle, a trench dog who adopted a younc, leatherneck, of emy's commerce raiders to seek the protection of the ocean's depths. In this way the submarine's offensive powers are curtailed almost immediately from the moment that it comes within the "zone" of the kite balloon.

This prevents the German commander from coming to the surface to use his deck guns, and this factor alone' is an extremely important one. If. on the other hand, the enemy persists in coming nearer in order to use his torpedoes, he can carry out his "approach" only beneath the Value giving is the outstanding feature of this important clearing sale. When you consider the quality and price of these special items, together with the ever-increasing cost of merchandise your own good judgment will insist that you invest in some of these extraordinary savings. making explosive charges for seventy-five-millimeter guns.

The food administration here has issued this appeal to housewives for increased efficiency. Kitchen and table refuse, it is urged, should be kept in a separate container that sits tailwise in mmair can hardly be said to be the product of the present war, says the Scientific American. The French used war balloons as early at 1794 in their operations against the Austrians, to the discomfiture Df the latter, who denounced them as "an insidious form of attack" and declared that all balloonists who fell into their hands would be treated the same as spies. During the Franco-Prussian war the French had recourse to the use of balloons after the investment of their capital, for the communicating with the outside world, and these balloon from other house refuse and free from foreign matter. surface and here again the aerial observer has the advantage.

While running submerged, the submarine must come to the surface occa Statistics furnished by the food administration show that one ton of garbage supplies enough glycerine to make the explosive charge for fourteen seventy-five sorties so vexed the Prussian mil Women's Parasols, One-third Off how she followed him to the edge of the battle around Chateau-Thierry and was waiting for him when they carried him out. It is a true story." "Belle is a setter," the Stars and Stripes goes on, "shabby white, with great splotches of chocolate brown in her coat. Her ears are brown and silken. Her ancestry is dubious. She is undersize and would not stand a chance among ihe haughtier breeds they show in splendor at Madison Square -Garden back home.

But the marines think there never was a dog like ber." The story tells how Belle bobbed up out of nowhere in a sector near Verdun, sfngled out a young private of marines and attached herself to hira. "Belle was as used to war as the most weather-beaten poilu. Women's Parasols' One-third Off itary commanders that they sought by every means possible to invent guns for use against the "blockade rAMUUS FOR COATS AND SUITS The Busy Store on Fifth Avenue runners. It Had Many Defect millimeter shells, enough "fatty-' acid" to manufacture seventy-five pounds of soap, fertilizer to grow eight bushels of wheat and scores of other materials essential in the manufacture of munitions. The garbage wasted in twenty-four large cities not utilizing gar MOLINE The old fashioned spherical gas balloon, however, had many defects even when, anchored as a station ary observation platform.

The chief drawback was its natural instami sionally in order to take a sight with its periscope. This maneuver, however, instantly betrays the submarine's movements to the observer and permits him to warn the patrol boat either by signal or telephone of each change in course, or of the direction from which a torpedo has been fired (in case the submarine commander decides to strike by launching one of his subsurface missiles) long before the captain on the man-o'-war's bridge can himself see the threatened move. Useful as Mine Sweepers The kite balloons have been found useful in connection with the all important operations of mine sweeping and of guiding the convoys and merchant vessels through navigable waters. Naturally the usefulness of the kite balloon de ity. In a dead calm it would re volve continually owing to the tendency on the part of the cable The tremble of the ground did not Though many items have been closed out we are continually adding others which are of equal interest and which afford just as important savings It's just as important, from a money-saving standpoint that vou attend during the closing day, Saturday, of this great Clearing Sale bage is estimated to be equal to about four and a half millions of pounds of nitro-glyeerine in a year, or about $5,00000.

LOVELACE GIVEN WATERWAYS JOB ST. LOUIS. Thomas II. Lovelace, a member of the chamber of commerce here has been appointed secretary of the Mississippi Valley Waterways Association, to succeed Sidney J. Roy, resigned.

Lovelace is well-known to waterways advocates, having served as secretary of the Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterway Association for three years. He was active in the movement that resulted in the government appropriating $8, 000,00 for revival of transportation on the Mississippi river on a large scale as a war measure. disturb her and the winning whirr of the shells overhead only made her twitch and wrinkle her nose in her sleep. She was You could have put. a plate of savory pork chops on the parapet and nothing would have induced her to go after them." Belle's Mne I'nppfes She actually learned to race for the spot where an improvised gas mask contrived by har master could be put over her nose whenever the signal warning of a gas attack was sounded.

Before long Belle became the mother of nine brown and white puppies. They had hardly opened their eyes before the marines' regiment got orders to "hike" for another sector. Some might have thought the dog and her pups holding it to untwist itself, while in a breeze the balloon oscillated backward and forward so violently that it rendered any satisfactory observation work practically impossible. During the siege of Tort Arthur the Japanese for the first time made use of an elongated type of kite balloon manufactured out of the remains of an unsuccessful airship, but, while the new model gave good results, it was evident that much still remained to be done before the observation balloon could be depended upon as a reliable arm of the military and naval service. Kite Balloon Is Superior Before the outbreak of the European war the kite balloon was not looked upon with favor by any of the military or naval powers ex-cent Germany and Austria.

The COOL SUMMER DRESSES pends upon the continuance of daylight and upon the very essential atmospheric conditions as regards visibility. The British navy solved the problem of housing its kite balloons at sea by the creation of "balloon transports" such as were first used during the naval operations in the Dardaneeles, In the coastwise op Of Voiles, Lawns, Nets and Linens Special Reduction for Saturday Entire Stock at erations, such as have characterized the anti-submarine war of recent years, the French have found themselves confronted with a different problem, which they met with their the multitude You may reach trough the Wants. would be left behind, but this never occurred to her master. He commandeered a market basket usual ingenuity by basing their somewhere, put the pups into it and let Verdun Belle trot behind. naval balloons on the various shore stations that dot their coast.

At ime-tilinip In spite of the fact that the each of these "centers" fully equipped aerodromes were organ amount of equipment which each marine carries on the march is To Peters for Glasses 3rd Floor-Security Bldg. ized with hangars containing the inflated balloons ready for instant service, and depots fitted with the supposed to be all that a man can possibly carry, this marine somehow found strength to carry the necessary machinery and personnel for inflating and repairing the extra weight of the basket. Forty miles he carried his burden along fragile silken envelopes. It takes Silk dress skirts of poplin and taffeta, an excellent assortment of colors in plain, checks and stripes. Saturday special, each "Georgette blouse special.

An elegant assortment in 3 shades and white, embroidery and beaded effect. Saturday sale, $5.98 blouses French army in 1914 had a number of spherical balloons, but "there could not compete with the more stable "drachen balloon" with which the invading forces were equipped. Fortunately for he allies, the Belgian government had a specimen "drachen" which it had purchased from Germany some time previous, and this, as soon as it became apparent how greatly superior the kite balloon really was, was copied by the various allied services until they themselves could devise something better. It was in this way that the French after experiments held at the front under actual war conditions, produced their famous Cacquot balloon. Thanks to the ingenuity of the French inventors, the allies thereby obtained the service of a kite balloon which not only embodied the good qualities the parched French highway.

But then came an order to march even further and reluctantly the marine was forced to give up the basket. Mournfully he killed four of the puppies, but the other three he slipped Into his shirt front. $5.00 3.98 Then he trudged on ma way, carrying these three, pouched in forest green, as a kangaroo carries its young, while the mother dog trotted trustingly behind." Verdun Bell Is Lost Another of the pups died on the long march and somewhere in the 0ff 5 Maribous, LinqerieWaists, Children's Gingham Dresses, White Wash Skirts, Childrenls Rompers, Plain Navy and Black Taffeta Dress Skirts tremendous procession of marching men and the endless lines of trucks and wagons Verdun Belle herself Used Ford Gars of the "drachen balloon, but in i addition proved capable of being) used in a high wind besides offer- ing greater facilities for observation. ow Use at Sea At sea the use of the kite balloons was unknown until the year of 1916, when the constantly increas-1 ing activities of the German sub-i marines caused the allied navies to resort to novel measures for i got lost. The marine was at his wits end to keep the two puppies alive.

Finally he hailed the crew of an ambulance passing back from the front, turned the pups over to Your Last Opportunity them and disappeared with his comrades. The ambulance men Muslin gowns, 2 groups, lace and embroidery trimmed, square and round neck Two lots of muslin petticoats of extra quality, fine embroidery flounce, special sale price or isaie were unable to induce the pups to eat canned beet and they had no combating this new pest of the seas. The British naval airmen were the first to venture experiments in this new field, and the trials were so satisfactory, nota All of our $5.98 Bathing Suits reduced to $3.98 fresh milk. They chased a couple of cows vainly. "Next morning the problem was $1.75 and $2.00 $1.25 and $1.50 bly in the case or me sausage, which spotted for the Queen Eli Articles at Clearing Sale Prices Extra quality, heavy silk ribbons, plain shades, checks, plaids, stripes, very special values, Saturday, lJr 50c and 75c silk and cotton voiles, satin stripe, prints.

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Fast to Boat On the. water the role of the kite balloon was the same, only instead of being anchored on terra firma. the end of the cable would be made fast to the deck of some trawler or I fast steaming patrol vessel cruising on the surface of the sea. In this way the range of vision of the mast- head lookout on the warship could be trebled or quadrupled, depend-! ing upon the condition of the at- i Odd lot of corduroy silk coats, $5.00 stiU unsolved. But it was solved that evening.

"For a fresh contingent of marines trooped by the farm and in their -wake tired, anxious, but undiscouraged was Verdun Belle. Ten kilometers bark, two days before she had loet her master, and until she found him again she evidently had thought any marine was better than one. "The troops-did not halt at the farm, but Belle did. At the gates she stopped dead in her tracks, drew in her lolling tongue, sniffed inquiringly the evening air and like a Hash a white streak along the drive- she raced to the distant tree, where, on a pile of discarded dressings in the Bhade, the pups were sleeping. "AH the corps men stopped work and marveled.

It was such a family reunion as warms the heart. For the worried mess sergeant it was a great relief. For the pups it was mess call, clear and unmistakable." Belle Finds Her Maxtor So, with only one worry left in her mind. Verdun Belle settled down with her puppies at the field hospital. In a day or two the wounded began coming in, a steady stream.

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"The first consciousness he had of his new surroundings was the feel of her rough pink tongue licking the dust from his face. And those who passed that way last Sunday found two cots shoved together in the kindly shade of a spreading tree. On one the mother dog lay with her puppies. Fast asleep on the other, his arm thrown out po that one grimy hand could clutch one silken ear, lay the young marine." It perplexed some of the hospital 81x99 Inch bleached sheets, ex 1 1 nor Emergency Courses are designed especially for you. You can be business-trained In a few months and at very little expense.

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a yard, per yard workers to know what could be i Yard wide unbleached 1 0 muslin, yard lOv liiigyilCGUi Commercial Savings Bank CwvtT Third aad Mali sts. done when the time came to send i the marine on to the base hospital, "But they knew in their hearts they could Fafcly leave the answer to pome on else. They could leave: p. to Verdun Belle." II. II.

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