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The Washington times., 1918-03-12
BACK TO COMMITTEE.

The nations aviation and ship
ping programs today got a setback
when the Senate recommitted to the
Military Affairs Committee the bill
giving President Wilson control OF
the nations lumber supply. This
measure was designed to enable the
President to speed up aircraft and
ship production by taking charge OF
timber lands. and increasing produc-
ton of the kinds OF timber needed.
The Washington times., 1918-03-12
SUIT FOR $4O,OOO,OOO
LOST BY RAILROADS

In a decision just handed down By
the Court OF Claims, the Government
will not have to pay S4o,oOO.Ooa
which the railroads claimed was due
them under the old system Of weight
compensation for. transporting mailA
A former decision in favor Of the
Government was reaffirmed. The Pc
tition OF the railroads for comper
sation fer the handling OF parcel post
In New England. was also denied
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PRESIDENT RENOMIVATES
JUDGE STRASBURGER

Judge Milton strasburger. OF the
municipal court. has been nominated
by President Wilson for another term
as Judge Of that court Judge Stras-
burgers work on the municipal court
bench has been OF a high-grade char
acter, attracting the attention of At
torney General Gregory, who prompt
ly recommended that he be continued
in his present position
Besides. his judicial work Judge
Strasburger is active in phiIanthroplc
work in Washington, giving all his
spare time to serving others.
The Washington times., 1918-03-12
ToDAY'S
CASUALTY LIST

The following names are contaIne
the latest casualty list received b
10 War Department from Generl
ershing:
KILLED IN ACTION.
Lieut.. John II. David.
Corporal Ralph r.. Flora
Corporal Edward r. Sullivan.
Private George Adkins.
Private Michael Ahern-
Private Oscar AmmOn-
Private Thomas c. Bragg.
Private Patrick Britt.
Privnte joe ID. Brnkefleld.
Private Arthur ChristfuIly.
PriVate Frank T. COekrolL
Private william Drain.
Private Philip Finn.
Private Edwin L. Fitch.
Private John ,. HaspeL
Private Arthur v. Hegney.
Private George h HOVey.
Private Edward ,. Kearney.
Private James d. Kennedy.
PriVate Peter Laffey.
Private Fred n MeGIII.
Private Frank A. MOagheR.
Private WILLIAM A. HOyIah.
Private James e. MulVehIIL
Private WILLIAM N. Sage.
PsIVate Walter W. Sanders.
Private Robert Snyder.
DIED OF WOUNDS.
Sergeant Theodore Peterson.
Private Hugh I. Hunt.
Private Lawrence WenelL
Private Henry ,. Sweeney.
Private jim +. Edgar.
WOUNDED SEVERELY.
Private Herman ID. Gentry.
WOUNDED SLIGHTLY.
Lieut.. Ralph N. Davenport.
Lieut.. Stephen c. MarkOe.
(Continued from First Page.)
Corporal Charles Staraee.
Corporal Charles C. Carter.
Private John X. Benton.
Private Gust Z. Olson
Private John 0DenHhaw.
OTHER DEATHS.
Died DneumOnIa-PrfVa VIII
Ham Rhodes
Died fractured skuII-waEOner
John c. Collins.
Died menIngItis-PriVate Fell
Hall.
Died ACKNOWLEDGMENT c.
Howard Peck, jr.
Died aeeIdent-First Lieut.. Ar
thur J. PeFrault.
Died paeumOnIa-PriVnte james
MaEee.
Died Observation-Disclosures VIII
linn r. Taylor.
Killed In acknowledgements
Marshall Jones.
Killed I'm aecldent-PriVate
Z. PieDer.
Killed I'm aeeident-PriVateJ John
UhIlanlnk.
Died emphyns-PriVate Carl
8. Burgett.
Died enlnEitlS-PriVate James
c. FIOwers-
Died menlngitis-PriVate John
X. Horton
Died pneumOnia-PriVate CIar-
anee v. Legal
Died pneumOnlR-PriVat Abram
PhlIbOweF.
Died pneumOnia-Prva Her
man PaDe.
Died DneumonIa-PrIVate Thom-
n }. Cute.
Died pneumonia Private
George Glenn
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SUBMARINE SINKS
UNARMED VESSEL;
SHELLS RESCUERS

LONDON. March 1.-THE unarmed
Irish schooner Nanny Wignall, was
torpedoed and sunk by a submarine, It
was announced today.
The submarine shelled survivors
who were picking up their comrades
from the sea
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SURVEY AIR PROGRAM.

The War Department this afternoon
named q committee to make a survey
Of the Governments aeronautIcaI pro-
gram. The committee iS composed Of
Snowden Marshall, of New York: Ed
ward Wells, OF the Babcock & Wilcox
Co and a third whose name will be
announced later.
The Washington times., 1918-03-12

walked about the town for forty min
utes before boarding q train-for Paris.
Arriving In Paris. Baker, accom-
panied by General Pershing, began
round Of formal calls, concluding with
Ambassador Sharp. who will present
him, formally TO President PoincsTe.
Baker issued q statement in which
he declared HIS intention Of visiting
ali the communication lines OF the
army, after. which he would confer
thoroughly with Pershing, in order
to support more effectively the Amer.
ican and allied armies.
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HANGING FOR SPIES
PROVIDED BY BILL

German spies convicted in American
courts would be hanged by the provisions
OF a resolution Introduced in the House
today by Congressman Kelly Of Penn
sylvania.
IT'S time to quit internIng German
agents and riv'nr ~ three square
meals q day." Kelly said
The Washington times., 1918-03-12
SUBMARINE ALARMS
SOUNDED As BAKER
NEARED FRENCH COAST

: PARIS, March 12-NeWton D.
Baker. American Secretary OF War,
came to France on a cruiser. convoy
ing. 10000 troops. OF which a portion
were aboard q former German liner,
It was learned today.
The voyage was enliVened in mid
ocean by = submarine alarm, accord
ing to further information There
was considerable cannonading before
It was discovered that the ''periscope"
was only q floating spar.
warned NJ wireless.
Before the cruiser entered port Sun
day morning, an alarm was wirelessed
from the port that a submarine was
lurking near by. The French sent out
. Considerable convoy OF hydroplanes
and dirgibleS. Baker was visibly i'm
pressed by the thoroughnsss OF these
precautions
After landing the Secretary of War
returned the calls Of officials and
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RUGBY BANK IN
RECEIVERS HANDS

It is reported that the Security
Bank of Knox has gone "up the
spout, and it's owner, D. H. Ugland,
gone to parts unknown. We don't
know whether this report is true or
not, but there seem to be no question
but that the institution is closed and
sbroke." It is understood that the
bank was closed by the state depart
ment. Dave has been rather "up
against it" according to reports, for
the past year, when he lost heavily in
options in the wheat market, and is
likely that he has found it impossible
to recuperate. In addition, he was a
heavy loser in the late hail storm,
having had a good many hundred
acres hailed out completely, which
probably convinced him that there was
no use hanging on any longer. Dawes
bank was one of the best known bank
ing institutions in the western part Of
the state, made So through the good
fellowship Of it's owner. Dave was a
good fellow and always ready to help a
fellow with loan, when all other
avenues were closed against them, but
it appears that those are the kind Of
bankers that always go broke. No
doubt many of the business men and
farmers in that vicinity will be heavy
losers in the catastrophe that has ov-
ertaken Knox's pioneer banking insti-
tuition. Rugby Tribune
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CHINA TO BUILD
MERCHANT SHIPS
FOR UNCLE SAM

Washington, July 15.-China has
been added to the list of nations build
ing merchant ships to help defeat Ger
many. The shipping board today
awarded to the Chinese government
yard at Shanghai four cargo vessels
of 10000 tons each and took option
for the building of $4,000 more tons.
The entire program will involve the
expenditure of perhaps $50, 900.
Approximately $4,000 tons of steel
will be shipped from this country, but
the engines and other equipment will
be built in China. Deliveries are to
begin six months after the steel is re-
|ceived.
China has been eager to take a
greater part in The war, having felt
the weight of German tyrany in Ger
many's efforts to expand in the. fal
east. Chairman Hurley in his search
Of the world for tonnage found that
the country was well equipped to
make a substantial industrial contri.
button by building ships.
The Chinese Government yard
known as the Kiangnan dock and en-,
gine works, was established in. 1865
and ranks as one Of the best fitted and
most efficient yards of the world.
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MARATOR|uM RULE
WORRIES DAkOTANS
DEFENSE COUNCIL ORDER PRO-
TECTS FARMERS FROM FORE
CLOSURES.

Fargo, July 14.-The order. of the
North Dakota Council of Defense, de-
claring moratorium against the en-
forcement of chattel mortgage claims
by foreclosure when farm machinery
or livestock used in the production of
foodstuffs is involved, has caused a
furore throughout the Northwest.
Especially in banking circles and
among machine companies has the de-
velopment been regarded with special
interest, because the measure affects
them particularly.
The chattel mortgage moratorium
is similar to the moratorium as ap-
piled to the interests Of men in the
service. 1t makes it mandatory upon
the holder of such mortgage claim to
appear in court and secure permission
to begin foreclosure.
Announcement of the passage of
the moratorium resolution by the
council of defense was greeted in Far
go with the declaration that test suit
is almost certain to follow in an effort
to estop the council from enforcing its
measure, which is declared outside Of
it's own power.
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1918-07-17
GRAND FORKS
VS.. LOCALS

Baseball fans in the Lake Region
are anticipating a great game next
Sunday when the fast Grand Forks
team comes to this city to play the To-
Gals to decide which team has the
right to championship honors. The
local team has met all the strong
teams in this section of the state and
during. the whole season has lost but
three games. Grand Forks has done
equally as well having defeated all
the teams on the east side of the state,
and not satisfied with that has invad-
ed the northern Minnesota territory,
where they won theirssemes. The To-
cal players have enjoyed a@s4week Of
rest after their strenuous schedule
following July 4th, during which time
they won every game they played, and
are now in shape to put up a great
game. The strongest men in the local
squad will be marshalled for this con-
test in an endeavor to administer d
defeat to the down-state visitors. This
game is played for the benefit of the
Red Cross and large attendance is
expected from the neighboring towns,
for already inquiries regarding it are
being received from the fans over the
county.
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FARM BUREAU TO
. HELP WIN THE war.

The Farm Bureau is the Govern
ment's recognized agency for speeding
up food production and food conser-
vation. It is a farmers county organ
ization in which the farmers get to-
gether and lay out a program and lay
plans for carrying it through, fl,
The Farm Bureau is in way the
organization through which the farm
ers act just as the army is the organ
ization through which the soldiers act,
and it may be compared with the Red
Cross which gives aid to the army.
The Farm Bureau bears the same re-,
ton to farming.
Food is one of the fundamentals in
winning the war. The Farm Bureau
can help increase the food supply. It
is a patriotic duty to join the Farm
Bureau, to thus become more effective
in forwarding the country's war pro-
gram.
President Wilson, Mr.. Hoover and
Secretary of Agriculture Houston are
all back Of the Farm Bureau, and they
are counting on. the splendid results
that are being secured thru this or
ganization all over the United States,
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NURSES
ENTER CAMP !; SCHOOLS

Three hundred applicants for stu
dent nurses to enter training schools
in the base hospitals at cantonements
were accepted recently. There have
been more than thousand applica-
tions for entrance to these Army
schools of nursing since the Govern
ment sent out its call for student
nurses.
The majority of those offering their
services have been college women, or
women with complete high school
education. The training units will be
assigned, it is expected, during the
present month. Each unit will num-
ber Is or 80 student nurses and will be
supervised by an accredited and COM
petent nursing instructor, and by q
trained woman, who will be response
bic for the physical welfare and re-
creation.
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.ROuMAN|AN CROPS
FAILURE THIS YEAR
GERMAN WILL NOT GET MUCH
FOOD FROM THIS TERRITORY.

Paris, July 14.-Rouman1a's peasant
population is in a more precarious
condition from lack of food and cloth
ing than at any time since Roumania
entered the war. Reports reaching
the Associated Press from authorita-
tive sources indicate that all crops
this Year are failures.
The crop of corn, which in norman
times is the great national staple,
probably will yield less than one twen-
ty-fifth of the usual annual yield. OF
wheat and other cereals there is only
sufficient to feed one-tenth of the pop
ulation.
What little food there was has been
requistioned by the Germans. The
bread ration has been reduced furthe,
and amounts to less than half a pound
daily.
The crops in Bessarabia are uncer.
tain and are in almost as poor a con.
dition as in Roumania.
If the Germans expect any food from
this waste territory, the reports con.
clude, they have only the slender hope
Of better crops next year. For the
present Germany will get only {
MOUTH full.
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TO tQ|'|U||||A||||L||..||'zi!'||||:: ] |. !! !
- x q. =. 4 :, K $40 tass
SUGAR PRICES !

Washington, July 13.-Prices of
sugar to the consumer will be equal
lied and the distribution bettered des-
pite the threatened shortage, food ad-
stration officials predicteo today, by
the operations of the sugar equaliza-
tion board created by President Will
son upon recommendation Of admins
TRAITOR Hoover. The new organization
lis also expected to facilitate joint
dealing with the allies in foreign SUI
gar and aid in adjustments of differ
entails in over seas freight rates.
The board will have authority to ac-
quire sugar produced at factories
where the cost Of beets and by reason
of other factors will not permit the
product to be sold at a reasonable
price. It will be possible thru the op-
erations of the board, says the food
administration announcement, to work
e.'outa price for the public upwards of
one gent pound less than would be
the case if the price Of sugar were ad-
vanced to price that will cover the
high peaks in cost from all quarters. y
Application for Incorporation of the
board with a capital of $4,000, 900 has
been made in New Jersey. The capi-
tai will be supplied by the president
from his special war fund. a Officers
of the board will be established here
with Hoover as cheirman and George
Rolph, sugar director in the, food ad-
ministrator, president.
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DISCOVERED 4 !.
: ...... RELIC / nc Of / !. 1857 ID

While bathing in the Pembina on
Wednesday, Cecil McMurray found a
bottle with wooden cork, which re-
quired the breaking of Of the neck be-
fore it could be got into. There was a
paper in the bottle on which were the
following words:
st. Joe, 'Dak., Ter,
Aug. 16, 1857.
"Party surrounded by enemy
Indians. If no word is received
from us soon we viii likely be in
tehir hands. Good bye friends.
Commodore Kittson.
From the appearances then, this bot
tie had laid in the Pembian for sixty
one years. Of course, Commodore Kit
son was able to get away from his en-
emies, as he was living last spring at
his home in st. Paul. and the bottle
failed to give it's message when it was
most needed.
The writer is taking measures to
prove the authenticity of the paper
and will have more to say about it
later on. But it is evidently not q
joke Of any kind as there is no reason
for any such thing.-Walhalla
Mountaineer.
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YOUTH STEALS BLANK
CHECKS FROM ARMY -
OFFICE, is ALLEGED

Washington, July 15.-The most i'm
portant public forgery case growing
out Of the war came to light today
through the announcement of w. T..
Moran, chief of the secret service, that
James Benjamin Vaughan, youth un-
der arrest at Seattle, has confessed to
stealing 100 blank government checks
from the quartermaster's office at
Camp Upton, N. Y, and passing %
for amounts aggregating more than
$4,000. The checks were cashed BY
merchants and. hotels in New York,
Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle.
They bore the forged signature of Ma
jor Willis B. Hayes, acting quarter
master at Camp. Upton, the secret
service charlie. .-s ...s .g.. ;, a.. !:
5 Vaughansis "a years old, native Of
Spartanburg, S. c., and until May g.
was employed as clerk in the camp
Upton quartermaster's office. He was
to have married Chicago girl this
week. He is awaiting extradition to
New York for trial.
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SIZE OF ARMY CAMPS AND
CANTONMENTS INCREASED

More than $22, 900, 900 have been ex-
pended during the past six months un-
der the direction of the Construction
vision of the Army in making addi-
tions and improvements to camps and
cantonments. This sum does not in
clude the cost of additions to the hos
pital equipments made at otehr Army
stations. 80
The improvement work consisted of
additional buildings for housing ths
men and providing for their comforts
needs. Among buildings erected were
quarters for officers and nurses, re-
pair shops, additional barracks, coffee
roasting plants, kitchens, and bakeries,
and theatres. New roads were laid
and sanitation works improved and ex-
tended.
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M|NOT REPORTS
GOOD CROPS

Today's Minot Daily News reports
that a recent rain done a lot toward
giving the farmers at least part
crop. For the four weeks previous to
this rain they had been having dry
hot winds which rapidly took up the
moisture which they had received
from the early spring rains, with the
result that they had almost given Up
hope of having anything at all. Fol-
lowing is the News article:
Reports gathered during the last
two or three days by the Daily News
from farmers through the Minot Sec
tion indicate that the crop prospects
are far better than they were before
the splendid rain last week. There
will not be a bumper crop, but the
yield will be half of an average crop
at the least. Wheat is filling out
plump which but for the rain would
have been swiveled and shrunken.
Some fields of rye will be as good as
last year and one farmer states that
his rye will be better than it was last
year. The dampness of today is ad-
ding to the improved conditions of the
wheat and except for unforeseen condi-
tions nothing can destroy the pros
poets which have come from the rains
of the, last few days.
There are some farmers who are
still doubtful about the results
There are some pieces Of grain which
will not be worth much. There art
fields of rye which will eb worth moth
ing more than feed. But on the whole
the conditions are so improved thai
with the present price Of wheat, the
vast majority of farmers will be able
to make good on their crops.
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HUNGER CAUSES MALADY
WHICH SWEEPS ENEMY
LACK OF FOOD AND CONsE-
QUENT EXHAUSTION RESPON-
SIBLE FOR ATTACKS TERMED
INFLUENZA, es

Amsterdam, July l5,-The illness
from which thousands of persons in
German industrial districts are suf-
fering and which has been describ-
ed as Spanish influenza, is really an
illness due to hunger and consequent
exhaustion, the Telegraaf says it has
learned.
In various industrial towns in West
phalia and the Rhine. provinces, the
newspaper reports, many deaths are
occurring daily and the hospitals are
full of patients suffering with this
malady.
The German potato ration, the news
paper adds,, has been reduced to be-
tween one and one-half and two kilo-
grams weekly per person, and the new
potato crop has not yet been distribut-
ed.
AS result of the situation brought
about by under riourishment and sick.
ness, it is stated, various branches Of
German industry are being consider
ably hampered in their work.
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AUSTRIA BARELY KEEPS
PEOPLE FROM STARVING

Paris, July 15.-The food shortage
in Austria is growing more acute, ac-
cording to Herbert Mayer, of Chicago,
secretary to Charles J. Vepicka, the
American Minister to Rumania. Mr..
Mayer has just returned from Jassy,
by way of Austria and Switzerland.
I At Vienna his train stopped in the
railroad yard and crowd of hungry
and ragged men and women employed
in the yard scrambled aboard and
begged for food.
All looked emanciated and underfed.
When the passengers threw out scraps
of food the Austrians devoured it
ravenously. They declared the Gov
ernment was giving them only food
to keep them from actual starvation.
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German BONDS
HELD BY MANY
PURCHASED BY OVER 10000 PER-
SONS IN THE UNITED STATES.
ISSUED IN THIS COUNTRY TO
EVADE BRITISH SEA BLOCK
ADE.

Washington, July ia fairly COM
plete list of the holders of German
government bonds in the United
States is among the assets Of the Sc
c'ret service men fighting German pro-
poganda, it was said today by officials,
discussing the disclosure Of the large
holdings of the Busch family made
yesterday by Alfred L. Becker, New
York assistant attorney general.
Names of nearly 10000 individuals
are on the list, which has been built
up during the course of secret inves-
LEGATIONS made during the last two
years. A wide distribution was given
to the securities and they were issued
in denominations of as small as $50.
Six Different Issues.
Approximately six different issues
of the bonds were made in the United
States in order to evade the English
blockade, and to make the bonds val
useless if seized a provision was in
corporated on the face of most of
them that they should be considered
invalid unless countersigned by Count
Won Bernstorff, former ambassador to
the United States. They were under
written in good sized blocks by var
ious banking houses and syndicate,
the Transatlantic Trust company, Of
ficers Of whom were arrested yester-
day for internment, bein an active
agent.
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BETTER SHIP LOADING
HELPS OUR ALLIES

Economics of approximately 20 per
cent in shipping weight and so per
cent in shipping space have resulted
from improved methods of packing
merchandise for overseas ptacticed by
the Army Quarter9aster Corps. This
is equivalent to about $500 tons per
month of space.
For the shipment of clothing ana
equipage, including such items as
blankets, barrack bags, shelter tents
halves, bedding, and other dry goods,
in addition to wearing apparel, baling
has been substituted for boxing, and
the weight of the lumber has been
saved. The bales average 80 Is x
is inches and weight 80 pounds. They
are bound with not less than four cold
rolled unannealed steel bands. Bur-
lap. over waterproofed heavy paper is
used to cover the bales, and there are
two "ears" on either ends of the bale
for handling.
Women are stevedores on the docks
in France. There is law they shall
not be required to carry packages
weighing more than 70 pounds.
Packages shipped to the American
Expeditionary Forces are standardiz-
ed so they will not weigh more than
70 pounds for handling by one woman
carrier or more than 14O pounds by
two women carriers. Men handle the
heavier packages and the boxes that
must be used instead of bales.
The Quartermaster Corps recon-
mends to manufacturers supplying the
Army many similar economies in
packing and shipping which will re-
suit in even more pronounced space
land weight saving. Round cans ana
containers entail waste in space Of
l23 per cent. Square containers are
Iurged. It is estimated that every
inch saved through bale compression
is worth 65 cents in ship space.