One Hundred Years Ago

[WhiteCrow]

I'll let my $100.00 winning ride Rix. Double or nothing and I'll even give you first pick on a future match of your choice.

You in boy?

[Rix Gins]

I'll let my $100.00 winning ride Rix. Double or nothing and I'll even give you first pick on a future match of your choice.

You in boy?

I always bet on these long ago Tonopahan sporting events, usually to no one in particular.  Believe it or not, I did travel back in time to Tonopah and sat in the crowded Airdome where I watched my man Ajax get his ass handed to him in a handbasket.  I looked for you after the match but couldn't find you anywhere.  (You would have been wearing the WC hoodie, right?)  I left five original 1917 series twenty dollar bills with the watch repairman, Emil Merman.  Look him up the next time you are in town.  He has a small shop set up at Roberts' grocery store.  If you can't make it there, no biggie.  I'll take advantage of your kind offer and go double or nothing on the next big sporting event.  Have you noticed that Henry's younger brother Nick has been noticeable by his absence?  I think that something is in the works.  Say, a tag team event.  The two Greeks going up against Ajax and his pal The Masked Marvel.   

[WhiteCrow]

Birth Certificate or it didn't happen. 

LoL

[WhiteCrow]

I always bet on these long ago Tonopahan sporting events, usually to no one in particular.  Believe it or not, I did travel back in time to Tonopah and sat in the crowded Airdome where I watched my man Ajax get his ass handed to him in a handbasket.  I looked for you after the match but couldn't find you anywhere.  (You would have been wearing the WC hoodie, right?)  I left five original 1917 series twenty dollar bills with the watch repairman, Emil Merman.  Look him up the next time you are in town.  He has a small shop set up at Roberts' grocery store.  If you can't make it there, no biggie.  I'll take advantage of your kind offer and go double or nothing on the next big sporting event.  Have you noticed that Henry's younger brother Nick has been noticeable by his absence?  I think that something is in the works.  Say, a tag team event.  The two Greeks going up against Ajax and his pal The Masked Marvel.

LMAO...

Dear Rix, Mrs Crow doesn't like my gambling so I must maintain a low profile. I do enjoy these old timie sporting events too. You can smoke cigs or just enjoy the blue cloud of tobacco smoke. Look for me, I'm the only one smoking "filter tip" cigarettes while trying to blend in wearing designer jeans and no hat.

[Rix Gins]

LMAO...

Dear Rix, Mrs Crow doesn't like my gambling so I must maintain a low profile. I do enjoy these old timie sporting events too. You can smoke cigs or just enjoy the blue cloud of tobacco smoke. Look for me, I'm the only one smoking "filter tip" cigarettes while trying to blend in wearing designer jeans and no hat.

Ha, yes, I think I'll be able to spot you in the crowd.  I smoke too when I go into the past, but if I'm between cigs look for the guy with a disgruntled look on his face.  I won't be wearing a hat either.  How else can I show off my shiny black toupee?

[ShayP]

THAT is really frigging cool and I never have had heard of that.

It's always tickled me that the agreement, as important as it was, was done in a Moose Lodge. 

[Rix Gins]

From the Imperial War Museum, March 26, 1918.

A battery of 18-pounder guns of the Royal Field Artillery passing through Mailly-Maillet to meet the German advance, 26 March 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244472 © IWM (Q 8632)

Battle of Rosières (Operation Michael). A 6-inch Mark VII gun of the Royal Garrison Artillery in action near Hedauville, 26 March 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244470 © IWM (Q 8629)

Whippet Tanks of the 3rd Battalion at Maillet-Mailly,some of which had been in action earlier in the day and were the first Whippet Tanks to be used, 26th March 1918. The advancing infantry are of the New Zealand Division which later in the day filled the gap in the line.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213132 © IWM (Q 9821)

Battle of Rosières (Operation Michael). Concentration of the 17th Division at Hénencourt as the V Corps reserve after evacuation. 26 March 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244462 © IWM (Q 8621)

Weary men of the 17th Division resting in Henencourt, where the Division was concentrated as the V Corps reserve, 26 March 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205216093 © IWM (Q 8635)

[Rix Gins]

From the Library of Congress.  The Seattle Star, March 26, 1918.

[Rix Gins]

German A7V tank in Roye, Somme, 26 March 1918.
By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-P1013-316 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5367736


British artillery in action on the Ancre, 26 March 1918.
By British Government - Scanned from "The Times History of the War" Volume XVIII, page 76, published 1919., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2869853

[Rix Gins]

From the Imperial War Museum, March 27, 1918.

The 2/14th (County of London) Battalion (London Scottish) marching through Es Salt on their way back to El Howeij Bridge, 27th March 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205067235 © IWM (Q 12610)

Royal Engineers officer fixing an explosive charge to a tree to cause it to fall across a road near Roye, 27 March 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205247158 © IWM (Q 11573)

Eight typical British prisoners taken in the fighting which resulted in the capture of Albert on the 27 March 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205265714 © IWM (Q 55248)

[Rix Gins]

REST IN PEACE (From the Imperial War Museum.)

Lieutenant Harold Burn Hindle. Unit: Royal Field Artillery, attached to the "G" Battery, Royal Horse Artillery. Death: 27 March 1918, killed in action, Western Front. Commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205301270 © IWM (HU 115653)

[Rix Gins]

From the Library of Congress.  The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, March 27, 1918.


RENDERS DECISION IN GENDEL CASE  (http://bellgab.com/index.php?topic=9331.msg1163821#msg1163821)
 
  In the fifth Judicial district court Judge M. R. Averlll rendered the following decision yesterday in the case of Philip Gendel, plaintiff, vs. Chelsea Gendel, or Cherna Gendel, defendant;

  The above-entitled cause having been tried by the court when sitting without a jury, the decision thereof is hereby rendered by the judge who tried the cause, who briefly states in his opinion the facts found and the conclusions of law reached.

  Facts found: The facts are as stated in the complaint and the amendment to the complaint except as otherwise indicated by the opinion attached hereto, filed herewith and made a part hereof.

  Conclusions of law reached: That a divorce should be granted in accordance with the prayer of the complaint, except that the granting of said divorce is conditioned upon the payment by the plaintiff to the defendant of the sum of $50 and the further payment of the allowance of $25 for the daughter and $15 for the defendant in advance for the period from March 21 to April 21, 1918.

  That an order should be entered, which is hereby entered, that the plaintiff pay for the support of the minor child of plaintiff and defendant the sum of $25 per month and for the support of the defendant $15 per month, on or before the fifteenth day of each month, beginning with the month of April, 1918, said allowance covering the period from the 21st of each month to the 21st of the next.

  That the plaintiff pay all court costs now due. Wherefore, let judgment be entered accordingly. Counsel for plaintiff is hereby directed to prepare findings of fact and conclusions of law consistent I herewith and to submit the same for approval. The formal findings should by reference thereto adopt the opinion filed herewith to the extent that the same passes upon the facts of the case and the formal conclusions should in the same manner adopt the said opinion to the extent that it contains conclusions of law.

  Dated March 25, 1918.


GOLDFIELD MINING PRESIDENT INJURED

  Charles O. Whlttemore, millionaire railroad builder and attorney, and promoter of several of the West's big mining and oil corporations, is at the St. Francis hospital, San Francisco, in a critical condition as the result of a fall in his room at the Hotel St. Francis late Saturday night, when a fainting spell overtook him at the telephone.

  Hospital authorities say his condition may become dangerous if complications set in. Three long gashes were cut at the base of his skull where his head hit the door-jam of his bathroom. An X-ray examination by Dr. Arthur Beardslee, Hotel St. Francis physician, failed to disclose a fracture or the presence of any undue pressure on the brain, but the case is being watched constantly to forestall unfavorable developments.

  Whittemore fell as he took the telephone receiver from the hook. Being more than six feet tall, he fell with great force. His plight was discovered about ten minutes later, when a bellboy opened the room after the telephone operator failed to receive an answer to her queries, although the telephone receiver was still off the hook.

  After several years as city and county attorney of Salt Lake City, Utah, Whittemore was the prime mover in the organization of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake railroad. Later he became associated with the Las Vegas and Tonopah railroad, of which he is now vice president and general counsel. He is also president of the Goldfield Merger Mines company, a $5,000,000 corporation; vice-president of the Goldfield Deep Mines company, and president of the Las Vegas Land and Water company.


From the Seattle Star, March 27, 1918.

[Rix Gins]

Day Seven of the German's Operation Michael.  March 27, 1918.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Michael

Day 7, 27 March
The town of Albert was relinquished during the night of 26/27 March.

With the choice of holding the old position on the heights east of Albert, on the left bank of the Ancre, or the high ground west of the devastated town, it had been decided to adopt the latter course. The ruins of Albert were therefore abandoned to the enemy.

The town was then occupied by German troops who looted writing paper, wine and other items they found. 27 March saw a series of continuous complex actions and movements during the defensive battle of XIX Corps against incessant German attacks from the north, east and north-west around Rosières, less than 30 kilometers (20 mi) east of Amiens. This was a consequence of the precipitate abandonment of Bray and the winding line of the Somme river, with its important bridgeheads westwards towards Sailly-le-Sec, by the Third Army on the afternoon of 26 March.  The important communications center of Montdidier was lost by the French on 27 March.

The 1/1st Herts war diary reads,

The Bn who were in trenches on both sides of the road were ordered to move forward in support of the 118th Bde, being temporarily attached to the 4/5th Black Watch Regt. Soon after moving forward British troops were seen retiring to the left in large numbers. Consequently the Bn was ordered to move forward to the left and cover their withdrawal. After having skillfully carried this out the Bn conformed to the general withdrawal to a line between MORCOURT and the FOUCACOURTâ€"LAMOTTE road. The Bn collected and assembled, then counter attacked the enemy, driving him back to within a few hundred yards of the village of MORCOURT.(27 March 1918)

[WhiteCrow]

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205265714 © IWM (Q 55248)

Wow those "Huns" were giants.

Staged photo..eh?

[Rix Gins]

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205265714 © IWM (Q 55248)

Wow those "Huns" were giants.

Staged photo..eh?

Yes, those Germans are big aren't they?  I think they are members of an ersatz reserve.  Ersatz is a German word literally meaning substitute or replacement and the German high command utilized these reservists to guard prisoners and patrol towns that had fallen into German hands.  They were usually older soldiers who weren't quite fit to do battle.  If anything, the photo might be staged to tell us that the Germans treat their prisoners well.  Notice the guards don't have their rifles drawn.  Or the prisoners were granted a temporary parole.  The Germans would actually allow their prisoners to wander about freely as long as they would accept the parole and give their word of honor that they wouldn't try to escape.

[Rix Gins]

From the Imperial War Museum, March 28, 1918.

60-pounder battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery in position near Albert, 28 March 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205091080 © IWM (Q 8645)

60-pounder battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery firing near Albert, 28 March 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244484 © IWM (Q 8647)

60-pounder gun of the Royal Garrison Artillery at full recoil after firing. Near Albert, 28 March 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244485 © IWM (Q 8649)


Whippet tanks of the 3rd Battalion, Tank Corps on the move. Near Albert, 28 March 1918.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244619 © IWM (Q 8811)

60-pounder battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery retreating in Albert area, 28 March 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244480 © IWM (Q 8642)

[Rix Gins]

REST IN PEACE (From the Imperial War Museum.)

Corporal Arthur James Bartlett 304097. Unit: 1st/5th Battalion, London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade). Death: 28 March 1918. Son of Mr. Bartlett and Mrs. M. A. Bartlett, of 49, Spencer Rd., Kentish Town, London. He served in the Arras Sector of the Western Front. He was posted missing, aged 20, during the German Spring Offensive on 28 March 1918. Corporal Bartlett is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205025959 © IWM (HU 96612)

[Rix Gins]

Day Eight of the German's Operation Michael.  March 28, 1918.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Michael

The focus of the German attack changed again on 28 March. The Third Army, around Arras, that would be the target of Operation Mars. Twenty-nine divisions attacked the Third Army and were repulsed. German troops advancing against the Fifth Army, from the original front at St. Quentin, had penetrated some 60 km (40 mi) by this time, reaching Montdidier. Rawlinson replaced Gough, who was "Stellenbosched" (sacked) despite having organized a long and reasonably successful retreat given the conditions.

The offensive saw a great wrong perpetrated on a distinguished British commander that was not righted for many years. Gough's Fifth Army had been spread thin on a 42-mile [68 km] front lately taken over from the exhausted and demoralized French. The reason why the Germans did not break through to Paris, as by all the laws of strategy they ought to have done, was the heroism of the Fifth Army and its utter refusal to break. They fought a 38-mile [61 km] rearguard action, contesting every village, field and, on occasion, yard ... With no reserves and no strongly defended line to its rear, and with eighty German divisions against fifteen British, the Fifth Army fought the Somme offensive to a standstill on the Ancre, not retreating beyond Villers-Bretonneux.

The German attack against the Third Army was less successful than that against the Fifth Army. The German 17th Army east of Arras advanced only 3 km (2 mi) during the offensive, largely due to the British bastion of Vimy Ridge, the northern anchor of the British defenses. Although Below made more progress south of Arras, his troops posed less of a threat to the stronger Third Army than the Fifth Army, because the British defenses to the north were superior and because of the obstacle of the old Somme battlefield. Ludendorff expected that his troops would advance 8 km (5 mi) on the first day and capture the Allied field artillery, "We chop a hole. The rest follows." Ludendorff's dilemma was that the parts of the Allied line that he needed to break most, were also the best defended. Much of the German advance was achieved quickly but in the wrong direction, on the southern flank where the Fifth Army defences were weakest. Operation Mars was hastily prepared, to try to widen the breach in the Third Army lines but was repulsed, achieving little but German casualties.
The Herts war diary reads,

The position gained was held stubbornly against all enemy attempts to retake it. On the morning of the 28th orders were received for a speedy evacuation of this line. The enemy at this point was well in our rear in possession of LAMOTTE so that the withdrawal had to be done quickly. The Bn showed the utmost resource during this dangerous maneuver, loosing [sic] very few men. The retirement took place in daylight through HARBONNIERS & CAIX. At the latter place the Bn attacked the enemy successfully but thereafter had orders to retire on COYEUX where it again assembled in a counter attack in which the acting Commanding Officer was wounded. During the day rearguard actions took place along the river bed to IGNAUCOURT. In the evening the Bn went into trenches in front of AUBERCOURT.(28 March 1918)

Soldiers help man-handle horse-drawn German 77mm field gun forward over shell-torn ground, March 1918.
By Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1974-054-18 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5418973

[Rix Gins]

From the Library of Congress. The Free Trader-Journal., March 28, 1918.

[Rix Gins]

From the Imperial War Museum, March 29, 1918.

Pilots of the Royal Air Force being presented to HM King George V near Doullens.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205077367 © IWM (Q 305)

King George V inspecting a Sopwith Camel of No. 56 Squadron RAF at Valheureux, near Doullens, 29th March 1918. With the King are Lord Stamfordham and Lieutenant Colonel Clive Wigram. The Squadron, under Major Brown, had been obliged to evacuate its aerodrome at the Front, owing to the German Offensive, and was establishing a new one.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205247398 © IWM (Q 11843)

HM King George V talking to a soldier in a hospital train, wounded in the German Spring Offensive. An Ambulance Train, full of wounded under Captain Ackland RAMC was inspected at Doullens Station.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205077366 © IWM (Q 304)

[Rix Gins]

R.I.P.  (From the Imperial War Museum.)

Private A E Jeanes. Unit: Army Service Corps, Mechanical Transport. Death: 29 March 1918.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205302010 © IWM (HU 116342)

[Rix Gins]

Day nine of Germany's Operation Michael.  March 29, 1918.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Michael

The Herts war diary reads, The enemy remained fairly quiet except for machine gun fire. (29 March 1918)

[Rix Gins]

From the Library of Congress.  The Free Trader-Journal., March 29, 1918.

[Rix Gins]

Singer Pearl Bailey was born on March 29, 1918.

Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Bailey

Some interesting facts about Pearl Bailey:

1. She started her show business career by appearing in vaudeville.
2. She had a brother named Bill.
3. She was a big fan of the New York Mets and got to sing The National Anthem at a world series game.
4. She was a Republican.
5. Pearl was married to jazz drummer Louie Bellson.
6. One of her closest friends was actress Joan Crawford.  After Crawford's death, Pearl sang a song at her funeral.
7. Pearl died of heart related problems on August 17, 1990.  She was buried at Rolling Green Memorial Park in West   
    Chester,  Pennsylvania.  Her brother, entertainer Bill Bailey, singer William Franklin “Bill” Horton and soul singer Ron 
    Kersey are some other notables that are at rest there.


Publicity photo of Pearl Bailey.
By William Morris Agency - ebay, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28343387 

[Rix Gins]

From the Imperial War Museum, March 30, 1918.

Female workers at work on munitions in a large factory, working over the Easter holiday - finishing and assembling bullets.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205077093 © IWM (Q 110357)

Female workers working on machines which make indentations in cartridge cases.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205077089 © IWM (Q 110354)

Female workers semi-annealing ammunition cartridges at Woolwich Arsenal factory. This is done on revolving machines which pass them through a flame at the back.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205077092 © IWM (Q 110356)

Female workers in the examination room where cartridges and bullets are given their final inspection.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205077090 © IWM (Q 110355)

[Rix Gins]

R.I.P. (From the Imperial War Museum.)

Lieutenant Philip Charles Gratwicke. Unit: IX Corps Cyclist Battalion, Army Cyclist Corps. Death: 30 March 1918, Hamel, Somme, Western Front. Lieutenant Gratwicke enlisted in May 1915 and received his commission the following November. He was posted to the Western Front in February 1917 and fought in the Battle of Messines. Son of Charles J. and Mary Gratwicke, of 76, Ballater Rd., Brixton, London.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205023771 © IWM (HU 93419)

[Rix Gins]

Day ten of Germany's Operation Michael.  March 30, 1918.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Michael

The last general German attack came on 30 March. Von Hutier renewed his assault on the French, south of the new Somme salient, while von der Marwitz launched an attack towards Amiens (First Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, 30 March â€" 5 April). Some British ground was lost but the German attack was rapidly losing strength. The Germans had suffered massive casualties during the battle, many to their best units and in some areas the advance slowed, when German troops looted Allied supply depots.

The Herts war diary reads:
Today (March 30) saw the enemy advancing on the right flank on the other side of the river de LUCE. He very soon enfiladed our positions both with artillery and machine guns. This was followed by a strong enemy bombardment and attack on our front. After a stubborn resistance the Bn fell back to the BOIS DE HANGARD, making two counter attacks en route. (Comment: Lt John William CHURCH died from his wounds and Lt Angier Percy HURD was killed on 30-3-18).(30 March 1918) 


Soldiers help man-handle horse-drawn German 77mm field gun forward over shell-torn ground, March 1918.
By Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1974-054-18 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5418973

[Rix Gins]

Architect Paul J. Pelz passed away on March 30, 1918.  His biggest claim to fame in building design was the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_J._Pelz


The Library of Congress.  Photo by William Henry Jackson.  This media file is in the public domain in the United States.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Library_of_Congress,_Washington,_D.C._-_c._1902.jpg


Library of Congress, Great Hall.  Photo by Carol M. Highsmith.  Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20332411

[Rix Gins]

From the Library of Congress, March 30, 1918.


The Tonopah Daily Bonanza.




The Seattle Star.

[Lord Grantham]

Take your hat off.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zePIkXSB1kA