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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-09
PLAN B|ll|0N-OOllAR
/. PROGRAM FOR BUILDING
OF MERCHANT FLEET
Congress Win BE Asked to Authorixe
Greatest Shipbuildinx Pro-
gram in History
SIX MILLION TONS TO MEET
SUBMARINE MENACE,
Would Mean Diverting OF All Steel
Products to Use of Shipbuildins
Until Program Shall Have Been
Completed.

Washington. May S-President
Wilson will ask congress to appro-
pirate Immediately $1,000 100000 for
the construction of 100000 tonnage
of American ships to defeat Ger
many's submarine blockade. This
was learned in official circles here to-
day.
The administration bill. providing
for this colossal program and vesting
| in government heads sweeping powers
TO make merchant shipping the most
powerful factor III winning the war.
Will be introduced tomorrow in both
houses of congress, and will speedily
be rushed through.
I With this appropriation great
fleet of steel and wooden vessels will
be put into the steamer lanes within
t a comparatively short time to rush
a steady stream of supplies Of all
kinds to the nations allies. The en-
tire program outlined by the shipping
board in the proposed legislation will
be completed within eighteen months.
or two years at the most. The legis-
iation would authorize the president to
divert to government use the products
of every steel plant in the country
and would provide for the cancella-
I ton of existing contracts between
these plants and private consumers.
/ II was explained that perhaps part
of the iilon-dollar appropriation
will be used to indemnify fully par
ties whose contracts are cancelled.
/ Only those steel manufacturers will
| be exempt from the provision of the
proposed law who are needed in other
ways for national defense work Steel
mills also will be permitted to~suppiy
the railroads with the, minimum
amount of steel products which ara
shawn tn he abgOlptely necessary III
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-09
Seized Ships Will Be Used In
Transporting Men Now Held
In Entente Countries
MAY BE USED TO WORK
ON AMERICAN FARMS
Russia. Italy and Japan May
Soon Land Missions In This
Country to Consult as to CO.
operation In War

Washington, May s-Pian@
have been practically completed
ny the British mission with off,
Gals of this government for the
United States to act as the prison
for the entente allies. II was
learned here. t1sias. The plan
.ccntemplates the transportation
10 this country of all prisoners
Of war captured by the entente.
including ihosc now held ~ well
as those captured In the future.
The first prisoners are expected
10 arrive in the United States
within twenty days.
Because Of the shortage of SUD
plies in Europe, the entente allie
would be relieved OF vast hurder
by sending the captured soldiers Il
this country. where supplies are com
plentiful, and could b.
spared easily.
To BE- Brought I'm German ships
senator Hale. Of Maine. held ,
long conference with Arthur Jane
Balfonr this afternoon cencerniut
the transfer Of German prisoners
Senator Hale has already introduced
a resolution in congress providin.
that the prisoners he brought her,
Continued on Fifth Page.)
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-09
BANKERS PLEDGE
THEIR SUPPORT

Brtar Cliff, Y Y, May s-Resolu-
tions were adopted by the American
Bankers association executive com
mittee today assuring Secretary OF the
Treasury McAdoo OF the undivided
support of the country's bankers in
making a. success of iha liberty loan,
Some dfssasisfaciion was expressed,
however. at the dearh OF information
about the loans important details.
A real fight is promised before n
ma iority Of the 10 600 state banks in
the country apply for membership in
the federal reserve system. The rebel
leader ls F.. c. McDouga1 president OF
the Bank of RuTalo
No recommendation were made by
the executive committee OF the savings
hank section rs 10 T}1e attitude Of those
mutual institutions toward the liberty
loan
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-09
'INTERNED GERMANS
TO co TO MOUNTAINS

Washington. May Sit looks like
la fine summer vacation for the sail
ors of the informed German ships who
were taken over by the United States
following President Wilson's war mes
Usage to congress.
About three thousand OF the Ger
mans will spend the summer at a
former summer hotel in North Caro-
lima mountains. with fine facilities
for swimming. boating and fishing
Secretary of Labor Wilson announced
this afternoon. The new concentra-
ton camp is located between Ashe-
vile and Hendersonvilie, y. G. The
first detail of one hundred and fifty
men Will leave Ellis Island, n. Y, for
the North Carolina camp this week,
The men will be used to cultivate
1.-THE camp property of several hun
idred acres.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-09
START MOVE FOR
SIX-CENT FARES

New York, May "a movement
was started today in Wall street ~
increase trolley fares to six cents
The six-cent fare. brokers ex-
planned has become necessary
Through the increase OF wages TO
street railway employees and the rise
in the cost Of equipment 1t is eX-
pccted to bring some relief 10 the
low prices for local traction securities.
The public service commission In
both districts IN tins state, II was pre-
dicted. may take action 10 increase
the fve-cent fare which has been a
standard for years.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-09

perform the duties which called by the
voice of the nation.
Virginia is of the units upon which, the
tiGna government relies for the execution OF the
military program under which army OF de-
frnsp nc raised and the camp and to
the field. The work entrusted to her must be done
hy the use of state and local governmental ma
tbuery. acting agencies of the national gov
ernmeut Tho zeal, fidelity and efficiency of these
state agencies will measure the value OF our first
contribution 10 the cause of our country.
The president the United states has given to
mankind Il statement OF case = a nation, in
words that have caught the OF the world, and
now constitute the accepted creed only of
every household in own land, but of all gov
crnmcnts and ali peoples everywhere which
.fres, or desire 10 he free Let rs therefore an
proatb task in the spirit of this great
remembering that this Is no war of wantonness or
aggression. We chung earnestly to peace until
honor even national existence. The price of
peace was the abandonment of cur transatlantic
commerce AMI the Punishment of ships,
people and our flag from the high seas.
To pay such price would have meant only
the leaving of the blood of slaughtered
trymen UNDECIDED and unaycnged. but would have
meant also the closing of the markets of the
world against products in violation of every
sonable interpretation of established interna-
tional law, and thus death blow trade
and commerce. The wheels of industry would
cease TO turn and the products of field. mine and
factory would he without foreign outlet or
profitable market. Our workingmeu and wage
carriers would he left without rcmunerative
nioynenf or rhe means of support, and ruin and
hunger would stalk abroad in orr land. hand In
hand with national shame and dshonor.
Ii Is cxionlatic that no nation can live Or dc
to live that abandons tho obligation To pro-
the life, liberty and property or it's citizens
on land and on sea, at home and abroad Surely
in the days of our power and strength 8 a ma
ton we are able and willing to fight for the
principle of the freedom of the which was
for by forefafhers in their poverty and
weakness. If We fail to maintain these rights
when the ether free nations of the~ssart are
standing with shoulder o shoulder how may
expect 10 maintain them single handed in
future struggle confronted by a ptsssby victorious
people trained to from the cradle. holding
above the stern menace OF n power fnvincihIc?
The struggle upon which we called enter
appeals not only to the patriotic passion. but to
the direct material interest of every class of
citizens and should therefore. he fought by every
class of citizens With this view the army
will be made up of men drafted from civil life
by process or selection. in which will taken
those men of suitable age who may be best shared
from the various fields of useful production
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-09
GOVERNOR \, c, STUART
ISSUES ADDRESS To
PEOPLE Of VIRGINIA
Emphasizes Duty to All People to
Respond TO Country's Call in
Hour of National Peril.
CLERK. SHERIFF AND HEALTH
BOARD MEMBER TO BIZ NAMED
These Officials in Each County VIII
Conduct Registration-E1e~cn Men
Enlisted in Navy at Local Recruit
ing Station Yesterday.

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~ 'tN' - . >
Xrir~in,a amnhasizipp +he a,ttv Of tho
naonle Of fine state 10 rally Ia the
ca,,se If tho natton i, tho war against
the prussian autoeracv
Tho address naves tho WAY. FOR III a
set,irr np foo. tho rnarhinery. NJ tho
selertire draft of which tho Governor
ia tho active agent for tho federal
.o,.orn,,ren,
,rhs aovnrror will desierats Tho
.he,.iff ,ha no,,,,3 r,or,, "a ano
,1,a,,, h,,,. - nc co,in,v hoard ~ haaItb
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-09
REVOLUTION BREAKS
OUT IN BOLIVIA

BueTsos Aires, May S.--Reyoiu-
ton has broken out i'll Bolivia,
according To dispatches tonight to
the Argentine foreign relations
department. Pho disturbance. has
been caused by the refusal of the
president to abide by the results
of the election Sunday, in which
his srictxxrsor was chosen.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-09

Washington. May s---The senate to-
day continued to fight out I'm executive
session the question of whether the
president be given authority TO declare
an embargo upon exports TO neutral
nations At adjournment tonight the
question was still undecided
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-09
Peace Possfh,. Before chr,s,m..

Omaha. Neh.. MAY S.r-'Peaes- Is pos
sibie before Christmas IL won Beth
mann Holiweg lays down reasonable
terms" Senator Hitchcock declared to-
day on hts return from Washington.
Hitchcock. one of the three senate con-
ferees on the draft bill. favors permit
ting Colonel Roosevelt TO so to France.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-09
France Gets sIoo. 600 900.

Washington, May S,-The United
States made its first material repay
TFent for the inealculable assistant Civ
en- this country by the French az L.
fsyette's day when Secretary 0S m
Treasury McAdoo today turned oxor N
Ambassador Jules JusssrAnd. OF FrAn<nSi
$l0G zoe, 0ee. az an initial loan. 4A4'
loan In made at three per cant tn1nf9o&
and II due June -. when Il viii -
Iveytad int longstakn ho6o 8
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-09
RESERVE COMMISSIONS
ISSUED NORFOLK MEN

Washington. May S.--Commissions
jim the officers reserve of the United
States army have been issued to
Charles j. -Calrow. of Norfolk. as cap
tain OF engineers. and 10 DIR. r. S.
Epilman. OF Norfolk. as captain in
Aha uaadical corps
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-09

Governor Henry Carter Stuart last night gave
out the following:
To the People Of Virginia:
In this most solemn hour of national his
tory. when onr destiny n free people hangs in
the balance, il Is well that Nirgnans. he
fore entering upon thr serious work that lies just
ahead of US. should take counsel OF the obii2a
tons that resi- upon Us as people. in order that
we better understand and more efficiently
perform the duties to which we are called by the
,.,ic.1 ~ ion
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lr.-Al-..-A an Second Paxao
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CONTINUED on second Page,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-05-09

JUST WHAT YOU W16R
THE VIM
GINIAN WANT PAGE--IT
PAYS.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-01-11

to advantage; it is quite possible
that additional desks may be needed
for the high school in the near flu
ture; addition to the library must
be made.
Of the above items, the improve
ments to the First Ward building,
toilet and approach to the high
school will demand immediate at
tention. There is available for COM
pletion of this work bonds to the
amount $10,500, not yet disposed
of, and which were provided for the
First Ward building with the inten-
ton of adding two additional rooms.
1t it believed, however, that to be
possible, that with the consent of
the proper authorities to use as
much of this fund as may be neces-
sary for the completion of the above,
or some comprehensive plan to put
our school facilities in excellent con-
dition.
Mr.. Hayhurst said that the above
plan would provide one additional
room, if necessary in the near fu-
ture, and that will be all that will
be needed for a long time. If at
some future time it is desired to in
troduce domestic science and man.
ual training in the high school ii
will be necessary to take out of that
building the seventh and eighth
grades, and when that becomes
necessary, provision can be made fol
the additional rooms in the FRS
Ward. He says that his plan is no
one that is final and conclusive, bu
may be made to serve as basis fo
a comprehensive plan to reach tn
best conditions for the school prop
critics before mourning further ex
pense.
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NEW HOPE EVENTS--continued.

day at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
Bernard Refill, in Doylestown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Tettermer,
of Lambertville, formerly of New
Hope announce the marriage of their
daughter Grace to Luther Gresham
of Lansdale on Thursday, December
20, at Elkton, Maryland.
George w. Johnson, who has ac-
copied a position as travelling sales
man with the Lambertville Rubber
Company, left Saturday to enter on
his new duties. Mrs. johnson will
close the home for a while and visit
her parents in Pennington.
John benson, aged SO years, died
at the home of his son, John benson,
Jr., Monday morning of cancer of
the stomach. The funeral was held
on Thursday afternoone.at 2 o'clock.
Rev. H. A. Sawyer conducted the
services. Interment was made at
Riverview cemetery.
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Miss Elsie Pew is on the sick list
this week.
Mrs. R. C. Foulke has been one
of the la grip victims.
Miss Elsie Slaughter has been on
the sick list this week.
Mrs. Joseph Knowles has severe
attack of the la grippe.
Mrs. Charles Schermerhorn was a
Trenton visitor on Tuesday.
Mrs. Alice Hague is critically i'll
at her home near New Hope.
Mrs. Charles Tebo was business
visitor in Trenton on Monday.
Mrs. Hanna Gaddis is quite ill at
her home on South Main street.
John Parsons is quite i'll at his
home with heart trouble and pleurisy.
William Jaeger, Sr, has been
suffering from an attack of la gripp.
Frank Kelley spent Sunday with
his son and daughter il Philadelphia.
DR.. and Mrs. John Flood of Tren-
ton, spent Sunday with relatives
here.
Alfred Britton of Philadelphia,
spent Wednesday with Mrs. Thomas
Magill.
The M. E. church will hold re-
vival services commencing Sunday,
January 81.
Mrs. P. R. Slack and Mrs. Her
bert A. Sawyer spent Monday in
Philadelphia.
5. Catelle Van Pelt of Trenton,
spent Saturday with Isaac Van Pelt
and family.
Mrs. Andrew Wiley entertained a
number of friends at supper on
Wednesday evening.
Miss Margaret Ely has returned
home from an extended visit with
friends in Bryn Mawr.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-01-11
WEEKS DOINCS
IN new HOPE
JACOB HOOKER.

The funeral of Jacob Hooker will
be held at his late home near Aque-
tong on Saturday morning at II
o'clock, and interment will be in the
Canada Hill cemetery. MIR. HOOK
er, who was 70 years of age, died
Tuesday after an illness of more
than two years from stomache
trouble, although he had been con-
fined to his home but short time.
He was the son of Henry and Eliza
beth (Strouse) Hooker, and was born
September IL, 1916, in Buckingham
township. At the age 20 he taught
school, but later engaged in farm
ing but for time conducted the
general store at Holicong, prior to
removing to Solebury township. He
dealt extensively in horses and cattle
a n d owned carriage works in
Doylestown at one time.
Mr.. Hooker was married Deem
br II, 1867. to Martha Naylor,
daughter of Reeder and Elizabeth
Naylor, who has been dead some
years. They ha d four children,
Annie, who married Ellsworth Lip
pincott, of New Hope, and has been
dead several years; Mrs. Spencer
Roberts, of Montgomery county;
Mrs. Herbert Keiser, of Aquetong,
and Edgar S. Hooker, of Philadel-
phia. One brother and two sisters,
John w. Hooker, Mrs. Charles S.
Roberts and Mrs. Mary Booz, all of
this borough, survive.
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HAPPENINGS

Miss Dora Smith has been confined
to her home, Is Coryell street, by
an attack of la grippe.
Mrs. Torbert Coryell has as a
guest her sister, Mrs. Sylvanus
Ayers, of Bound Brook.
Miss Sybilla Hunt, of PhiladeI-
phia,s was the Sunday guest of Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel A. Finger.
Former Prosecutor of the Pleas
Walter F. Hayhurst has been con-
fined to his home by an attack of
la grippe.
Mrs. Louis c. Williams, of Bridge
street, is spending a few days with
her sister, Mrs. F. S. Brink, at
Elizabeth.
Kensyl c. Reading and son Will
liam G. Reading and Miss Lizzie
Green, of Sergeantsville, spent Sat-
urday in this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Mclaughlin,
of Trenton, were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph P. Martin, 10 Coryell
street, yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry N. Rickard,
of Bordentown, were recent guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Beatty,
Is North Union street.
Miss Mary Mcclure, of Al Bruins
wick avenue, has gone to Long Is
land City. where she will take up a
, course in nursing in st. Johns hos
pital.
: Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Rynear-
son, of Ringoes vicinity, were Sun
day guests of the latter's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. o. R. Gordon, on Elm
street.
Mrs. R. P. VanSelous, of Brook
field, near Trenton, spent yesterday
with her sisters-in-law, the Misses
Martha and Sara VanSelous, on
Church street.
The engagement of Miss Anne
E. Bowers, daughter of Mrs. Martha
Bowers, of Perry street, and Wal
lace Wheatley, of Wilmington, Del,
is announced.
Fred Schaible, of Florence, spent
Sunday with Mrs. Schaible, who has
been spending several weeks with
her mother, Mrs. Joseph G. Moore,
Union and Delevan streets.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Tettemer
announce the marriage of their
daughter, Grace, to Luther Cress-
man, of Lansdale, which event took
place at Elkton, Maryland, a few
days ago.
Mrs. E. c. Thompson, of Kenneth,
California, has been visiting her par
ents, City Clerk and Mrs. Samuel
A. Finger, on Delaware avenue.
Mrs. Thompson was formerly Miss
Blanche Finger.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Newton Curtis,
who have been spending some time
with their son-in-law and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles W. Bair, Jr.,
on North Union street, have re-
turned to Sergeantsville.
The next meeting of the local w.
C. T. U. will be held in the KaImia
clubhouse on York street on Thurs
day, January IS, instead of on Tues
day. Mrs. j. H. Robertson, presi-
dent of the Passaic County w. c,
T. U. is expected to be present and
address the meeting.
! Continued on inside pages.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-01-11
THE NEEDS OF
The SCHOOLS

the building committee of the Lam
bertville board of education, pre-
sented detailed report on the re-
modelling of the school buildings at
the last meeting, He says that the
work is practically complete, and the
expenditures, when the bills are ad-
justed, will be approximately as fol-
lows: Cost of high school altera-
tons, $12,651; Third Ward school,
S34, APO; furniture and equipment,
$3.50; balance of appropriations.
1898; total, $4,000.
Mr.. Hayhurst makes the follow
ing suggestions, as things necessary
in order that the school properties
should be in complete and satisfac-
tory condition:
First Ward school: The building
must be thoroughly improved and
repaired; corridor over boiler and
stairway made of concrete; windows
should be enlarged and each pro-
vided with glass windshield and
screened; the main girders through
the building must be replaced either
with iron or solid walls; the cellar
should have concrete floor and a
portion enclosed for coal cellar, the
balance might be used for exercise
in stormy weather; the Mushroom in
rear of stairway on first floor may
be enlarged and divided to provide
inside toilet accommodations if it is
found that dry wells north and
south of the building will provide
necessary sewage; electric lights
should be introduced.
For the Third Ward school he
suggests: A stairway to the attic
should be provided so that it may
be used for storage and a classroom
now used for that purpose vacated
lit may be that this room will be
absolutely necessary in the near flu
ture on account of the congestion in
the higher grades; one of the class
: rooms may be divided in half, which
will make a room large enough for
ungraded class, which will not eX-
coed fifteen pupils, and the other
half of the room divided and used
for inside toilets Git is believed that
with the dry wells already provided
the sewage can be taken care of;
it would seem that the roof already
needs thorough repairing and i'm
provement; additional electric lights
required in the coal cellar.
The high school recommendations
are: The inside stairway to the Gel
lar should be completed; the two
coat rooms in front on the ground
floor may be used for inside toilets.
1t has been demonstrated that addi-
tional dry we'll or wells to care for
sewage are practical; but it has not
yet been determined whether the
present water supply will be avail
able for this additional purpose, and
if not, it will be necessary and prac-
tical to introduce water from the
city mains; the approach to the
building must be improved by grad
ing and road cross-walks; windows
in old part of building provided
with glass windshields and screens.
For the furniture and equipment:
About twelve rooms are without
clocks; on account of the grade
schools not being provided with an
assembly room several additional
musical instruments could be used