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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1918)
THfci OMAHA SUAUAX flfctt; AUGUST 25, ma - iii , ,,,- - 1 win a TIN HAT WORN BY YANKEES PROVES ITS REAL WORTH Lives Are Saved by the Pecu liar Steel of Which They , 1 Are Made; Soldier Swal lows 3ul!et. m j Correspondence of Associated Press. 1 . Paris, July 30. The case of one ' American marine who went throuRh a hail of shrapnel and machine gun fire at Cantigny and is now convalesc ing from a wound in the srreat Ameri cas military hospital at Ncuilly, in the Paris suburbs, seems to have demonstrated that the American field helmet, commonly called by soidiers the "tin hat," is s thoroughly reliable article when put to the supreme test This marine owed his life to hi "tin hat," and the peculiar qualities of its tee! in giving slightly without shat tering. In the midst of the action he went down with a ball strikiiw the top of the helmet and pressing down to the skull. He was brought back, along with the helmet, which showed , a deep indentation about the size of half a base balL It was this indenta tion which had pressed down to the acalp, making a wound which required trepaning. But there it stopped, and the metal of the tin hat after giving to the missila until its force was spent, had stopped it in its deadly flight straight toward the brain. The tre paning operation was only alight and the marine was well on the way to recovery. Helmet Preserved, The Indented helmet was preserved, aot as a souvenir, but to be forwarded to the ordnance experts at Washing ton to show them the Rood qualities ef their helmets. It is said that a hard and brittle steel, which would have resisted without giving, would have been shattered to bits by the impact and the ball would have gone straight through the brain. In an adjoining ward a stalwart nn tnarin whn had been in the y same Cantigny fight stood at atten tion with no apparent sign of a wound. But the surgeon, feeling at the boy's throat, nodded approvingly, and then remarked that this was one of the most remarkable cases that had ever some under his observation, and prob ably the only case of the kind on record. A built had struck the sol dier in the left side of the neck and had gone through to the gullet, where it stopped, snd had then descended or keen swallowed into the stomach. - Swallowed Bullet s An X-ray examination clearly showed the hall in the intestines. But instead of removing it by an opera tion, the surgeons decided -to await the course of nature and see If the soldier would digest the rifle ball. And this he did. One of the surgeons re marked that the chances of such a thing happening were less than one in a million, but a colleague dded that the chances were far less than that, as he could not recall any like ease in the whole range of military ""jfany of the French poilus under American care were in tne waras or the Daughters of the American Con federacy, with the beds marked with . the names of the well known southern figures, such as Stonewall Jackson, Senator Zebulon Vance, Gen. Joseph Wheeler of Alabama. ... When the big dietary kitchen was inspected later there was savory smell of American dishes and dain ' ties being prepared for the wounded men, and one of the sufgeons cheer ed the cooks with -the remark "Your dishes do more good than all our medicines." And this is literally true, lor these American wounded do not want foreign foods, but long for the simple old-fashioned dishes of home, like boiled custard, malted milk, egg nog and milk. So that even in the food American cooks are doing their share, and' down to the last detail 1 va AmrrinUm nt the bis1 military hospital is proving a blessing to the ' American maimea ana wounaca wno - . f .i - . nave come oaca irom mc iront. Many Omaha Homes Already Have Winter Coal in Bins Under normal conditions home owners and managers of apartment houses in Omaha would be storing winter coal in their cellars at the present time and from now on until the latter part of October would be the time of activity in the delivering of supplies of fuel for winter use. Omaha heeded the advice of the fuel administration and the coal deal ers to lay in an early supply of coal as a result of war conditions and there are many homes in the city that have ben prepared to combat the blasts of old Boreas since last April. ?. . . Interpreters Are Wanted by Draft Boards of Omaha Exemption boards want interpre ters to help them with the big regis- tration scheduled for September 7. Italians, Mexicans. Danes, roles, Swedes and Germans will be needed. Local board No. 4, which contains a tirge part of the Italian settlements of the city, will need Italian interpre ters.. Men who know different languages and will help out in this work are asked to consult , draft board members. 0..E. Berg Not Interested in Berg Potash Company O. E. Berg, proprietor f the Berg Clothing company, asks The Bee to state that he is not the Berg of the William. Berg Potash company, nor is he any relation to that Berg. Berg says that so many of his thousands of friends and acquaintances around the country are writing him concern ing potash that he' has to keep two secretaries to handle the correspond ence. Some are even wiring. Cheap Pre-War Prices', of Clothes Gone; Never Again London, Aug. 24. Gone, never to return, are the cheap pre-war prices of clothes. That is the view, of an expert writing in a British trade pub' lication, and he predicts another rise soon, . : 'J Every shot ed from a 12-inch gun, he says, uses up half a bale of cotton, and in three minutes a ma chine-gun will squander a full bale. i uU it K s a Bear ! The Grant Six conquered the Summit of the Cascades May 22, at 2:40 P. M., through and on top of snow banks ten to eleven feet high and two and a half to three miles long. First and Alone- Over the Summit rant Six aMHIiMP iWW, U OVER THOUMMIT i M , rTTTTTTTJ-Tt Vf sVf 11 un tlujfi tiZZr vKJr V X. X v$&&j w $$ W ' jffiffl J - t-rtMl it M f I A ' WJ Jfc.. N W POWER rAmm 4ml lt w durability- The price of thew Grant Six Touring Car or Roadster is $1,245 F. 0. B. Factory We fortunately are able to make deliveries now. So get your Grant Six while the "get ting is good." N Note to dealers: We have a limited amount of Ne- tev.vi! braska and Iowa territory open. Ask for our agency proposition. LUNGER IMPLEMENT CO.-OMAHA, NEB. 6TH and PACIFIC STS. See tfie GRANT at the State Fair if