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The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1917-03-23
NOTICE of CONTEST
Contest No. o57s.

Contest No. o573.
Department of the Interior. U. g. Land
Office, a; Roswell. New Mexico, Mar II. 1917
TO Geor e II. Sturdvent. OF Eaglehin. N NJ
Contestee:
Nou are hereby notified that Henry c. Carroll,
wllo Gives Eaglehill. New Mexico. as his post
q Il e address, did un January 18th. 1917. fc in
tlis ONCE his duly coroborated application to
contest and secure the canctla ION cf your
no nestead entry, Serial No. 034o3s made April
%. 1915. for SWA Sec. 10. and the NWA sec
Is. Township s., llange 80 f. N. MP Meridian,
I'd as grounds for his contest he alleges flat
you have wholly Obanfo ned said land for more
tiaa six months last past; that You have new
er established rrsideno on the land. that your
'sence from the land is not duetoyour employ
m mt in military services rendered in connec-
ton with operations in Mexico. or along the
borders thereof; or in mobiiizn ion camps else
where. in the military or naval organizations
OF the Emitted States or the National Guard OF
any of the several states.
You are. therefore. further notified that the
said allegations viii be taken by this ONCE as
having been confessed by ycu and your said
entry will be cancelled Hereunder without
your further right to he heard therein either
before this ONCE or on appeal if You fail to
Ai iH -4Ai" otNNN W itnlll tlhAs Nllef the
FOURTH publication of this notice. as shown
below. your answer. under oath, specifically
meeting and responding to these allegations Of
contest. or If YOU fail within that time to file
inthis ofice due proof that you have served
n copy of your answer on the snid contestan
either In person or by registered mail II this
service is made by the delivery OF copy Of
your answer TO the &C ntestant in person. proof
Of such service must be either the said con-
testants written acknowledgment Of his re-
ceipt OF the copy. showing the date OF its
receipt or the anidayit OF the person. By whom
the delivery was made stating when ana
where the copy was delivered II made by
registered mai. proof OF such service must
consist of the afiidayit Of the person by whom
the COPY was mailed stating when and the
post office to which ID was mailed. and this
affidavit must be accompanied by the post,
masters receipt for the letter You should
state 10 your answer The name OF The post
ONCE TO which you desire future notices 70
be sent 20 you. Emmett Patton. Register
Datoo first publication March23. 1917
second . March CO. 1917
IN third April z. 1917
fourth April IS. 1917
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an offer of The Youths Companion and
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for only s. 10, including a Mccall Dress
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copy and IS cents ycar--so that the offer
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Until March 81 our readers ave the priv
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The amount of reading, information and
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This two-at-one price offer Includes.
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Notice for PubIIcntlon.


Noncoal Ole2s
Oil27a
Department of the Interior. U.
Land ONCE At f. Sumner, N. NJ, Mar 5.ioi7.
Notice is hereby given that Mildred +. Boone
Of KennR, N NJ. who on March 3. 1914 maze
HID E. Serial No, 0l1ses. for EhNElf Sec 80.
W7SNWA Sec. 80. and April l. 1914 made d.,
H.E.,oii272 for sHsEN sWHsE4 sec. 29.
and NW'lNEN section 3s. Township s..
Range 30 h. ~ NJ. p. Merdisn, has filed DO
uce of Intention TO make fnal three year
proof, TO establish claim to the land above dc
scrlbed. before Dan c. Savage. q S. Commits
sioner. in his Office, az Kenno. N. NJ. on The 2sth
day Of April, 1917
Claimant names as witnesses:
Thomas j. Boyd, George E. Chavers. John II.
Mckee. andrew j. Smith. al OF Kenna. N. NJ
Al. Kvans, Register.
Mob. ss-Aprn 20
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The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1917-03-23
Every intelligent Person
Should Learn How
to Write.

More than a million people are employed
in the publishing business in the United
States, and all of them had to begin. "
They are dropping out every day, and some
one must take their place. There must be
writers for
The Washington times., 1917-01-15
Bids on Battle Cruisers.

The policy of the Navy Department seems to
embody an effort to discourage private enterprise
government plants. The situation with refer
ence to battle cruisers is an example in point.
The Bethlehem Steel Corporation controls
shipbuilding companies which build perhaps 40
per cent of the tonnage of the United States.
Knowing the purpose of the Government to en-
large its navy, we deliberately reserved large
part of our facilities-at the sacrifice of mer-
chant contracts carrying with them large profits
that it might be available to aid in carrying out
the naval program.
We bid on the new battle cruisers sums
which Navy Department experts, after examina-
ton of our books and records, found would
yield profit of less than ten per cent. Indeed,
we agreed to assume risks for increased costs of
The Washington times., 1917-01-15

HOUGH, since the war began, Europe has
been willing to pay almost any price we
= chose to ask for our products, we have ad-
hered in our charges to the United States Gov
ernment to the basis of prices established before
the war began.
There was agitation last year for the build
ing of Government armor-plant. Certain of
our statesmen at Washington declared that we
had been 'robbing" the Government, although
the figures showed that our Navy had, for twen-
ty years past, paid less for armor than the navy
of any of the other great powers.
We did not concede that our prices for armor
were too high, but we did agree-if the Govern
ment would abandon its plans for Federal
plant-to make armor for our Navy at any price
the Government itself might consider fair.
Does anybody imagine for moment that we
would have made such an offer if it would show
that our previous prices had been exorbitant?
In the development of our Navy now being
pushed forward, larger ships are to be built and
greater guns are called for than ever before
One of the special needs is sixteen-nch guns
guns sixty feet long and capable of hurtling
2,O00-pound shell with such power and accuracy
as to hit 5O-foot square target fifteen miles
away. Such guns call for the highest skill and
experience of the gun-makers art. Upon such
guns may depend, indeed, the safety Of the ma
tion.
Iniview of this need and realizing that our
own experience was probably unique, we have
undertaken voluntarily to construct, at cost of
S4,5oo,00O, plant fitted to build sixteen-inch
guns.
Under no conceivable circumstances can or
ders which we may receive for this plant pay
even fair return on the investment. But we
are devoting to this purpose profits received
from other business. We felt that we must do
this as part of DIR patriotic obligation.
The Washington times., 1917-01-15
Government Munition Factories.

Inquiries are being made as to whether it
may be necessary or desirable for the Govern
ment to build plants to make munitions of war
Agents of the Government have been to Bethle-
hem to see what facilities we had.
We have developed at Bethlehem an ord
nance plant greater than Krupps. Before the
war we employed 5000 men at Bethlehem; now
we have more than $4,000 at that point alone.
We have stated to agents of the Government
we have stated to Committees of Congress
that our ordnance plants are at the disposal of
the nation at fair operating cost, plus small
margin, thus saving the Government the cost of
investment and depreciation we have al
ready amortized these items out of European
orders.
Our belief is that the wisest government pol
icy-is to encourage establishment of the maxi
mum private ordnance manufacturing capacity.
IT the Government goes into munition manufac-
ture upon large scale, private plants will un-
doubtedly be diverted to other uses, and in time
of emergency the capacity of the Government
plants, necessarily limited would be the nations
sole reliance for munitions upon which its very
existence might depend.
The prices charged the Government should.
OF course, be reasonable, and the Government
has ample ways of satisfying itself that prices
c. M. SCHWAB, Chairman.
EUGENE G. GRACE, President.
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Future Policy.

In 1915 we employed $1,000 men; now we
have some 10000 men on our pay rolls.
In 1915 our total pay roll was $22, 500, 900; in
1917 1t is at the rate of $72,0O0,OOO year, or
100000 month.
The average earnings of each wage-earner
were little over 5000 in 1915 whereas our fig
ures for 1916 show average earnings of nearly
$1,000 per man, an.increase of more than 80 per
cent.
Bethlehem's policy is to prepare for peace
rather than increase its ordnance-making facili-
ties. We are now working on construction pro-
gram involving an outlay in the next few years
of more than 500, 1000, oOO-probably the largest
construction program ever undertaken by Sil-
gle industrial corporation.
When that program is completed, instead of
Bethlehem being primarily and largely an ord
nance company as it is today our twenty-five
component parts will consist of twenty parts
commercial manufacture, four parts shipbuild-
ing, and only one part ordnance-making
The Washington times., 1917-01-15

materials and labor, that made it possible that
these contracts might yield no profit whatever.
The price for these vessels is indeed high, for
the design calls for size and speed beyond any
thing ever before demanded.
Now it so happens that the costs run beyond
the amount actually appropriated by Congress
on the basis of the cost estimates made year
ago by the Navy Department.
Finding this to be so, and because shipbuild-
ers could not alter the inexorable cost facts and
reduce their bids to point within the early esti-
mates of the Navy Department the prices are
called 'exorbitant;;" the Secretary of the Navy
writes letter to the Chairman of the House
: Committee on Naval Affairs scoring the ship
builders and Congress is asked to appropriate
$l2O00,00o with which to equip the Government
navy yards to build these ships
This request is made without any assurance
whatever that the Government can build these
ships any more cheaply than the. private ship
builders.
One newspaper, few days ago, noting that
the price of these ships might, If built within
certain time, be something over $4,000, ,O0o-
stated that it was "inconceivable that that could
not be unreasonably high.
Why 'inconceiyable?"
The fact that the figure is large is not con-
elusive.
1t would be real advantage to Bethlehem
Steel shipyards to be relieved of any obligation
to enter upon this naval construction. The profit
from it cannot. possibly amount to much, and the
responsibility is enormous But we do feel
patriotic obligation in the matter, and we realize
that it is our duty to do everything we can to
make our plant and experience available for the
use of the American Government.
After careful consideration, therefore we
have determined to make this offer to the Ameri-
can Government:
If you will build two of the battle
cruisers IN Government navy yards, we viii
build the other two at the ascertained cost
of building the ships in the Government
yards, without additional expense or com
missions of any kind. We win also contract
to have our ships ready for service ahead of
fhe Govevnunav,k sh;ns
The Washington times., 1917-01-15
Bids on Sixteen-Inch Shells.

Considerable comment has been made upon
the fact that British manufacturer recently
bid less than American manufacturers for six
teen and fourteen inch shells for the navy.
We are unable to state the basis upon which
the English bid was made 1t should be remem-
: bered, however, that this bid was for specific
shell, samples of which are being sent over for
test-a test not yet made. 1t should be remem-
bered also that though there has been an enor-
nous consumption of shells on land, the British
navy has been in action but little since the war
started
II is entirely conceivable that there is con-
siderable surplus of naval shells on hand which
the British government might be willing, even
in time OF war, to have its munitions. makers
dump" on our market and turn the proceeds
into shells for use on the battlefield.
Now, as to the bids made by American man.
ufacturers, particularly ourselves:
All bids for any work must be based upon
actual experience. Certain experience Bethle-
hem has had with the making of naval shells will
illustrate this.
Two years ago we took an order for 24OO
fourteen-inch armor-piercng shells at contract
price of $768,OO0.
These shells were to be delivered within
certain time or we had TO pay large penalty.
The part of our plant used for the manufac-
ture of these shells was in no demand for Euro
pean work nor for any other purpose; and if we
could not use it successfully on this contract it
was all lost effort.
The only specifications which the Navy De-
partment gives for the guidance of manufacture
ers in making these shells is that they shall be of
a certain size and that they must pierce armor-
plate at certain velocity on impact. The quality
of the armor-plate is not standardized, and il is
impossible for manufacturer to foretell the
exact conditions of the tests to which his sh5ils
will be subjected.
We had made large quantities of shells in the
past which had been accepted by the Navy De-
partment. But in placing the particular order
referred to for fourteen-inch shells, the Navy
Department altered the angle at which the tested
shells must pierce armor-plate. The proposition
was new but we were assured by officers of the
Department that the shells then being produced
would meet the Governments new tests. The
result, however, has been absolute inability on
our part, or of any other manufacturers to pro-
duce in any quantity, shells which will meet
these novel tests. In fact, we know of no proc
ess OF projectile-making through which it is pos
sble to produce in quantities shells which will
conform to the Navy Departments require
mentS.
The result is that up to now on that contract
OF 5000, we have put into actual operating
expense SAT, $751;, and have been penalized for
non-delvery $4e5, 744., total of $943, ,625, with
no receipts whatever.
Before we realized what was to be our ex-
perience with the contract for 2,4OO shells we
took subsequent contract for 1900 shells at
$4,000. Having been unable to produce any
shells which would pass the test on the first or
The Washington times., 1917-01-15

der, we have, Of course, not yet begun the second
order; and we are already confronted with pen
alties of $182,3ol on that account.
We have devoted all our ingenuity and re-
sources to meet the demands of the Navy De-
partment, and with every motive both of patriot
ism and of business TO fulfill the contract But
the fact is that the requirements of the Depart
ment on these contracts have been in our judg-
ment absolutely beyond the development of the
art of projectile manufacture.
Such was the experience in the light of which
we were called upon recently to bid for fourteen
and sixteen inch shells.
Having been unable-after incurring liabili-
ties of more than $1,000, ,OO0-to deliver shells
on previous orders which would satisfy the De-
partment, we saw no good purpose to be served
by bidding at all on more fourteen-nch shells.
The sixteen-inch SHE'LL however, was some
thing new, and we thought it possible that We
might be able to meet the requirements
The problem being absolutely novel, we had
no basis, of course, upon which to make an in
telligent bid. Ii your customer demands some
thing beyond your power to deliver, no price for
the article is too high. But we felt that we
should bid on the assumption that we could meet
the specifications and deliver the goods.
We, therefore, bid on these shells, at approxi-
mately the same rate per pound as that of four
teen-inch shell contract Of one year ago upon
which the Navy Department actually awarded
CONTRACTS. ~
That is the whole story We have not the
slightest idea what profit there will be in the
making of these shells. We do not know that
there will be any profit. Indeed, there is no GER
tainty that eveu if we receive the contract, 1t
would be possible for us to deliver shell that
will meet the test: we cannot know what the ma
ture of these tests will be.
But we are taking all the chances, and stand
ready to do our part.
For officers in the Navy Department to as
sumo that any bid made under such conditions is
"exorbitant' is, as we see it, utterly unfair
If, however, the Navy Department will
make its tests within the known capacity of
the projectile-making art, and if these tests
shall be standardized, we will undertake to
manufacture shells under conditions both as
to price and as to time, which will equal if
not be better than those of any other man
-, Al. ,.a.lI
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are reasonable. The fact however, that price
is high does not indicate that it is unreasonable.
Nor does the fact that fair profit is asked in
dicate greed on the part of the manufacturer.
The Washington times., 1917-01-15
Bethlehem Steel Copanys Bid for Government Contracts
TO THE PUBLIC:

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New Britain herald., 1917-07-16
PLUMBERS ELECT
OFFICERS; ADJOURN
Second and Final Day of Session Of
State Association Observed
Here Yesterday.

The two days convention of the
State Association of Journeymen
Plumbers and Gas and Steam Filters
of Connecticut, came to a close yester-
day afternoon with a session in the
Central Labor Union headquarters at
"a Church street. The following of
flcers werc elected: President, Peter S.
Smith of New Haven; vice presiden
Charles Smith of New London; secre-
tary-treasurer, Edward Gaffney of An
sonia; executive board, Henry Baney
Of Bridgeport and William Wilson of
Manchester.
During the final days discussion rel
alive to the outlook for the plumber RS
In the future and present conditions,
it was reported that at present fine
wages are being paid throughout the
state for good men, and all seem to be
satisfied with conditions. While the
various branches of the association has
contributed handsomely to purchase of
Liberty Bonds to date, it was arranged
that on the issuance Of the second
portion of the bonds, the association
as body be represented with a substan-
tial subscription. The association will
10 represented at the national conven-
ton which will be held in Toledo, o.,
August 10 and IA. Excellent reports
wire received from the secretaries and
treasurers Of the various branches rel
ative to the financial status.
New Britain herald., 1917-07-16

Iowa, frontiersman and Civil war
scout.
Camp Doniphan, Fort Sill, Okla
For troops from Missouri and Kansas;
after Col. A. w. Doniphan First Mis-
souri, Cavalry.
Camp Bowie, Fort Worth. Tex
For troops from Texas and Oklahoma
after Col James Bowie, killed in the
defence of the Alamo.
Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Ala
For troops from Ohio and West Vir-
ginia; after Gen. P. H. Sheridan, U. S..
A, distinguished especially for his
campaign in the Shenandoah Valley.
Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Miss
For troops from Indiana and Ken
lucky; after Col. Isaac Shelby, first
Governor of Kentucky.
Camp Beauregard, Alexandria, La
For troops from Louisiana, Mississippi
and Arkansas: after Gen. P. G. T.
Beauregard, c. S. A, born in Louisi-
ana.
Camp Kearny. Linda Vista, CAL
For troops from California, Nevada,
Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New
Mexico; after Brig.-Gen. Stephen
/, Watts Kearny. U. S. A, commander az
New Britain herald., 1917-07-16
AN 80 FOR OUIMET.

Chicago. July 16.-Francis Ouimet
initiated the London cab driver today.
After SIX days Of strenuous effort at
Midlothian Ouimet "rested up today
by playing over the course at Floss
moor. He declared he merely wanted
to see a course about which he had
heard much, but couldn't resist the
temptation to try round. A four
some was arranged with Tom Logan,
of Lynn, Mass, who came west with
Ouimet and the Misses Dorothy and
Helen Higbie as the other participants.
In order that there might be no sug-
gestion of real competition the men
changed partners after the first nine
holes. The only score kept was on
Ouimet, who went out in 80 and came
back in Al for an 80. Ouimet left for
Boston tonight.