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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-09
MEN Between AGES
1920 AND 1926 TO
BE TAKEN IN MARINE

In future. men between the
ages OF ~ and 20. SO and IS will
be permitted TO enlist In tho mer.
chant marine. train for period
ON training ships. and qualify az
sailors. cooks. and stewards Men
within the new drstft ages will not
be allowed TO enlist In the mer.
chant marine under new gov.
ernment restriction. Men with
two years sea experience. who
can qualify as officers or fircmcn.
VIII h. accepted. however. even II
within tho draft ages.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-09

cvery one looking att
II don't know" said the other. IL
stopped to see what were my chances
In tho barber shop over there. and
people have been stopping beside me
ever since"
Mlnncwatha club WIN give dance
Friday night at Jesehi pavilion. Sol
diers and sailors will be guests of
tho club.
Company a auxiliary. i6ist 4. v.
Infantry. will hold regular monthly
meeting at Swedish club hall. sth
ave. between Pine and Olive streets.
at s p. m. There will be a concert
and dancing.
OLYMPIA.--frvd w. Lewis has
received word that his son. Lieut..
Leo c. Lewis. Of Olympia. has been
appointed adjutant and private sec.
rotary TO the major general corn
handing American troops In the
scissors sector.
Signal CORPS of army IL I'm nc~si
OF 20 civilian production experts 20
supervise. distribute and expedite
manufacture and delivery OF war
equipment. Salaries range from
5000 to $4,000. Applications should
be- made TO the u. &. civil rorvic.
secretary. 3oa Poatnffieo building.
Seattle.
Committee Of Mooney Defense
league reported ti.Ies.3o RAISED BY
s,i. OF tags and by mass meeting.
Expenses totai.d S9Ti.sT. leaving
halanc. OF sTs4s1.
Z. X. Willis enjoy I'd the relief from
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-09
Far and Near
News by Telegraph
and Telephone

SAN DlEGO.-Maising tho trip
from the North by airpiane. Mai.
Gen. William l.. keniy arrived Mt
Rockwell field. North Island. Thurs
day afternoon.
The labor committee ~ the war
house building drive In Seattle needs
the assistance OF building carpen.
tcrs for house construction. Union
wages win be paid.
Edmund l.. Burke saw cruvvtl
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-09
"Amiens" Launched
in Yard at Tacoma

TACOMA. Aug. s.--Tho Amiens.
tenth ship launched at the Founda'
ton comps,ny's yard for the French
government. slid into the water nj
T:so Thursday evening. Representa-
tlvcs Of the allied governments at.
tended tho launching. the effect OF
which was enhanced by n rainbow.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-09
Everett Shipyard
Being Rushed Now

EVERETT. Aug. s.-rrogrcss is
reported on tho plant OF the Norway
Pacific Shipbuiiding company.
Dredging and pile driving are rapid
iy rounding the future shipyard into
shape. officials announce Admins
tration building plling has been
driven. and work on tho fabrication
shop piilng begun.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-09

gathering at n
curb and staring
across the street.
so he gathered
with them. Bu,
he couldn't sec
anything in par
ticular. SO he
said 10 n man be
side him, w hats
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-09
Aberdeen Launches
Another II. S. Shin

Aug. s.-The Brook
fA twin-scrcw steamer. was
6nchcd Thursday at p. m. max.
Ing Abcrdccn's fifteenth eontribu.
ton to the emergency fleet corpora
ton
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-09

or. as master of the new steamship
Western Scout. Tho Western Scout
Is an s.soo.ton steel ship. govern
ment regulation size. built by the
Northwest Steel company at Port
land
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-09
BRITAIN HAS 15.0OO,0 900
TONS SHIPPING NOW

LONDON. Aug. AT the begin
ming Of tho war. Grcnt nrstain had
1880. 900 gross merchant tons OF
shipping. while now shc has but Is.
600. 900. This announcement was
made by SIR Leo q. Chioxxa Money.
parliamentary secretary to tho min
istry OF shipping.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-09

ard training
when his regi.
rnent was put
aboard tro op
trains and start.
ed for tho At
ianuc.
AN We have
80 40 % 80 x.rWufA
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-09
CANADIANS BuY BOAT HERE

VICTORIA. Aug. e.--The provis-
sonai government r. to purchase n
sea tugboat In Seattle In the near fu.
TURF for tho Pacific Great Eastern
service from Vancouver TO Sauam-
lsh. The consideration will be ss5.-
900.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-09

X. Ishil. II. Ishii. III. Hashimoto
and X. Kawagoye. japanese COM
mercial students. visited the Seattle
Chamber OF Commerce Thursdays
After visiting the chief Pacific portQ
they are to return to japan.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-09
APPOINT NEW SHIP CAPTAIN

y. J. Griffith. head OF the SEA
service bureau Of the shipping
board. Thursday appointed Capt
Charles @. Conrad. veteran navigat.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-09
6hipyard and
: Waterfront
News & Notes
Says Entire Pack
of Salmon Will Go
to Government

The entire 1918 aockcye salmon
pack Is 60 be reserved for tho gov.
eminent. according 10 instructions
issued by T.. II peming. president
OF the Pacific American Fisheries
company and chief OF the salmon
branch Of tho food administration.
with headquarters at Beilingham.
Wash.
According 20 DeminE. the govern
ment will require IS per cent OF the
entire pink salmon pack on the
Sound this year.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-12
DEPARTMENT CLERKS
BUY MANY STAMPS
Uncle Sans Securities Are Favor
ite Investment with Employees.

An intensive campaign carried on
in the Postofice Department. accord
ing to a letter from Ruskin McArdle,
chief clerk, to Director d. J. Gala
han, resulted in a total amount in
war savings and thrift stamps being
sold Of $s.s20.30. This total was the
result OF a three weeks campaign.
and a new drive will be made in
this department in the near future.
Director Callahan has expressed
great pleasure at the splendid results
which the various government de-
partments have achieved in the war
savings work. The Department Of
Justice, during the period from the
beginning OF the campaign up to
February q. sold a total Of S7,SS6 g
in both kinds OF stamps. For this
same period the Department of La
Dor reports total sales amounting to
ss4S.50.
Sales continue 70 show up with
good figures at the war savings booth
at the Treasury Department. The
sales at this agency reached total
Of $31. .754. Al during the week OF March
4 to 9. OF this amount the employees
Of the Treasury purchased stamps TO
the total of S1.6O9.22.
The boys at St Johns College be-
heve they have the per capita rec
ord among the schools OF the District
OF Columbia. They have sold stamps
amounting to $2,400 This makes the
per capita $12. "If any other school
can beat this record" said one of
the boys. I'VE gant to know, for we
will surely go right ahead"
The Washington herald., 1918-03-12
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
FOR NATIONS PRODUCE

The Secretary of Agriculture and
the Food Administration have form.
ed an advisory committee OF repre-
sentative producers of farm products
and live stock. The members OF the
committee have been selected with
reference not only to the larger ag-
ricultural interests but also to geo.
graphical consideration. The commit
tee will be called into conference by
the two departments from time TO
time to discuss national agricultural
problems.
The complete list OF the names of
the members of the committee will be-
announced in a few days. The fol-
lowing already have accepted: L. S.
Brigham, st. Adams, Vermont; Da-
vid R. Coker. Hartsville, S. c.; W. R.
Dodson, Baton Rouge. La; F. ]. Ha-
genbarth. Spencer, Idaho; c. w.
Logan. Iowa; W. H. Jeffers. Plains
boro, N. J.; d. o. Mahoney, Viroqua,
WiseS Davis p Massie, ChiIGcothe,
Ohio; William F. Pratt, Batavia. N.
Y; George c. Roeding, Fresno, Cal.
Marion SAMSON, Forth Worth, Texas;
Henry c. Steuart. Elk Garden, Va.
c. J. Tyson, Floradale, Pa; Oliver
Wilson, Peoria, Ill.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-12
WILL TRY To CURB
SEED PROHITEERNi
High Prices Tend to Disoourase
Planting of Gardens

Alarmed by the possibility Of cur
tailed production OF food crops this
year because Of profiteerinE In seeds.
particularly by small seedsmen who
are not operating under Licenses from
the Federal Food Administration, tho
Department Of Agriculture, Cooperate
ing with Federal Food Administratou
is considering steps TO curb
thess activities.
Information is coming constantly 20
the department and TO the Food Ad-
ministration that sbnOrmally high
prices for seeds are being charged ia
many sections of the nation. This.
added 10 the existing shortage in
many kinds OF seeds. may result in
the use OF seeds OF poor quality and
in lessened acreage, the Department
OF Agriculture fears.
All wholesale seed dealers and re-
tail dealers doing an annual business
Of $4,000 or more. are operating Un-
der licenses from the Food Admins
tration. Most instB noes of profiteer-
ing in seeds brought to the attention
Of the department are OF small Un-
licensed retail dealers
The Washington herald., 1918-03-12
FRANK GODCOL
DENIES AIDING
GERMAN CAUSE
Says Germany Has Robbed
Him of Half Million
: Dollars.

Frank J. Godsol, under arrest here
on a charge of larceny brought by the
French government In connection with
the purchase of millions OF dollars
worth Of war trucks, issued a state
ment last night denying that he was
In any way implicated in German
propaganda. He says he knows moth
ing of the Germanic War Films. Inc.
and that Alfred L. Becker. deputy as
sistant attorney general Of New York.
Is prejudicing him In the eyes Of the
public by saying he does.
THE morning papers quote him as
stating that my connection with the
spreading OF German propaganda is
being investigated, and refers TO the
finding of papers relating to con-
cern known as the Germanic War
Films, Inc. If there Is now or ever
was such an organization, know
nothing Of IT, Certainly no docu-
ments in any way connecting me with
such o concern were found in my Of
fees. Benjamin Blumenthal. who is
mentioned in connection with these
films, Is. not employed by me nor as
ISOLATED with me, although ! know
him. My only connection with Ger
man propaganda has been to fight 1t
by serving in the French army from
the first day of mobilization. August 2.
1914, until August 30, 1915, and after
wards by organizing and subscribing
TO war charities and buying the war
bonds of the allied governments The
fact that the German government was
responsible for taking from me prop
erty worth approximately 10000
would hardly influence me to assist
the German cause in any way"
The Washington herald., 1918-03-12
BY j. II. DUCKWORTH.
Especial Stan Dispatch.)

New York; March lis the long
predicted pitched battle between
gigantic fleets OF American and
allied airmen on one side and Ger
man fighting flyers on the other
imminent?
viii we this spring see over the
western front mighty charges of
cavalry of the air?
Alan R. Hawley. president OF the
Aero Club Of America answers YES"
to both questions.
There are many indications that
this year will see a marked increase in
fighting In the air." said Hawley to-
day. Il expect to see heavy fighting
in fleets in desperate efforts Of both
sides to win absolute supremacy in
the air. The last four years OF air
fighting has been but a tame prelimi-
nary to the 1918 struggle.
I'VE have excellent reason for be-
heving that the Germans have all win
ter been preparing to send against the
Allies large air fleets of aviators who
will fly. in formation, and maneuver as
IL VIII Dt dDsOlulcly
necessary for the allies to send forth
large squAdrons to meet them.
First deliveries of the 1000 aero
planes Of our $40, 900, 900 air program
are now being made in France.
Germany knows she is in for some
hot times from the flying squadrons
of England and France, reinforced
by the Yankees. She has already tried
out some of her 1918 model battle
planes on the western front.
Air fighting has passed through its
first stage-the individual combat,
when, like knight-errants of old the
individual air fighter sought but a
single enemy and engaged in single
handed combat.
"At the beginning Of this war there
was no such thing as aero tactics.
Air fighting was a matter Of the in
dividual skill, initiative, nerve and
technical ability OF the AVIATOR. The
best aviators became aces.
This years air heroes will be the
successful fleet commanders.
Just as the individual fighter with
The Washington herald., 1918-03-12
War Garden Scrapbook

The Washington Herald has
opened q War Garden Depart
ment I'm charge Of expert agri-
eulturists, who will assist the
readers of this paper I'm every
possible way to raise bumper
war crops this summer.
The Herald is publishing daily
garden lessons and hints, which
viii appear I'm every issue of this
paper until crops are harvested.
Why not be q systematIc and
scientific war gardener this sea-
con and follow these articles
dailyf
Would II not be an excellent
suggestion to start n WAR GAR
DEN sCRAPBOOKf Clip out
daily hints, paste them In a book
and you viii soon have a COM
plete garden guide, arranged
daily, I'm the order I'm which you
will be most apt TO need ID.
Begin WAR G AR DE N
sCRAPB00k TODAY.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-12
CINCINNATI OUT FOR RECORD In VACANT LOT
CULTIVATION! COMMITTEE WORKING ALL WINTER
Special star Dispatch.


Cincinnati. Ohio, March II. They
work all winter on the war garden
campaign in Cincinnati and they do
it on a business basis.
The war gardens committee of Gin
cinnati has offices in the Chamber of
Commerce Building and Mrs. Clara
q. Drewry is in charge.
The committee engineered the
planting Of 22S acres of vacant lots
last year. not home gardens or any
like that, but absolutely virgin soil
was turned into money.
The food situation is one Of the
deciding factors in winning this war,
said Mrs. Drewry. The value of war
garden crops last year is estimated
TO be $S5o,0oo,o0O. and 1t is very prob
able that this amount-wilI be doubled
the present year.
War gardens have resulted in the
use Of waste lands; in the employ
ment Of persons, who hitherto have
been. non-producers of foodstuffs; in
scientific instruction given the gar
deners in cultivation, canning, dry
ing and marketing their crops.
The gardens having been placed
on a self-sustaining basis, there will
practically be no cost. A fund is
used for preparation work, but is re-
turned to the committee by the gar
deners when they take their lots in
the spring, thereby having the same
fund to start the work another year.
In summing up the good accom-
plished in war garden work, may be
mentioned-the employment of time in
useful labor that would be spent in
idle amusement; the community spirit
aroused by the democratic nature of
the work. and the impetus given to
the back-to-the-soiP movement, by
creating an interest in agriculture"
The Washington herald., 1918-03-12
GENERAL WOOD
MAY COMMAND
FIELD ARMY
Promotion by Baker Ex-
ected-Americans Pour
Into Trenches.

MAI. Gen. Leonard Wood may
command an army corps or field
army on the French battlefront a.
lieutenant general This is one Of the
results expected from the visit of
Secretary Baker to France. General
Wood is .convalescing in Paris from
the effects of q wounded arm which
German shell fragments gave him on
one of his trips to the front. Secre-
tary Baker has said that Gen. Wood
Is one of the men with whom he hopes
to confer while on his trip.
Gen. Wood Is detailed in command
Of the national army division at Camp
Funston, Kansas. His wounds were
of such slight character that he could
long ago have returned to duty there.
II Is believed that he is being held
In France for an important assign
ment. f..
The selection of one and possibly
three other lieutenants general may
also be made as the result or
the trip of the Secretary Of War.
The American army Is apparently
not to take over single sections Of
the front and expand them as new
troops are prepared to take their
places in the trenches. As each part
Of line taken over expands to the size
which would warrant the assignment
Of Q full army corps or a field army
to its protection. a commanding off,
Ger OF suitable rank will have to be
named.
The War Department but recently
announced the organization Of the
forces into corps and armies. Under
the plan as announced a senior major
general will probably command each
corps. A field army will call for a
lieutenant general.
There Is every indication that Am
erican troops are being poured into
the battle line rapidly. French off,
GERS both here and abroad have ex-
pressed their warm approval of the
way in which the men have taken
to their duties. They could not have
done SO without training of the most
effective sort
A French officer said here yester-
day: 1T is one thing to learn the
principles Of combat and another
thing to apply them. Operations on
the present front are carried out un-
der every difficulty that can be i'm
agined. Generally in perfect darkness.
The ground is a wallow of mud, torn
into the widest disorder by shell
fire. Barbed wire is encountered at
the most unexpected places. Enemy
parties and concealed weapons are
always bobbing up. For soldiers tu
conduct themselves with calmness
| and resolution under such circum-
stances requires the highest training.
| Apparently every American unit has
| had such training
The Washington herald., 1918-03-12
SPEAKING CONTEST
At &. v. j. april 9
Date of Davis Prize Competition
Announced by Dean.

The annual Davis prize speaking
contest at George Washington Uni
sity will be held Tuesday night, April
9. at S o'clock in the assembly hall of
the Arts and Sciences Department
building. 2O23 G street northwest, ac-
cording to an announcement by Dean
william Allen Wilbur. OF Columbia
College.
The contest is open to members of
the senior classes Of the Arts and
Sciences Department Three prizes, of
SIS. $40, and S each, will be awarded
on the basis Of composition and de-
livery. The orations may be on any
subject but must be original. Dean
Wilbur. who is head OF the English
Department. Is in charge of arrange
ments for the contest, and manu-
scripts should be given to him. The
prizes will be awarded by three jrdg-
es whose names will be announced
within a few weeks.
The contest was originated in lS47.
Isaac Davis. who gave the university
an endowment of $500. interest from
which is utilized in the awarding OF
prizes.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-12
$500 MEN IN GYM
CLASSES AT MEIGS
Y. M. c. A. Physical Culture Much
Patronized by Soldiers.

More than $500 men now are drilling
daily in the gymnasium classes at
Camp Meigs. organized by Y. NJ. c.
A. secretaries stationed there.
Besides the FIVE gym" classes last
evening there were French classes in
session, group singing by Henri Beau
gard, and motion pictures.
All these features, with a Red Cross
lecture and Bible class conducted by
]. c. Miller, are on the program this
evening. Tomorrow evening there will
be boxing bouts and a vaudeville en-
tertainment provided by the District
War Service Commission.
An extensive program of activities
at Camp American University last
evening included motion pictures,
wrestling between "Curley';; Davis and
7. McAlduff, both professionals now
attached to the Twentieth Engineers,
and musical program by, ladies from
tthe Luther Place Memorial Church.
This evening there will be a con-
cert by the Y. NJ. c. A. orchestra and
and tomorrow evening S.
IS. Mcclure, magazine publisher and
author, will talk on why we are in
the war;
At Washington Barracks there was
vaudeville last evening, band con-
cert and movies are scheduled for
this evening and tomorrow evening
there will be religious services in
which the Salvation Army will take
part
At Fort Myer there are nightly
classes in French, and classes in Eng
lish for non-English speaking soldiers
stationed there. This evening there
will be a boxing bout. Tomorrow af-
ternoon there will be an athletic field
day. - r..
The Washington herald., 1918-03-12

lance and sword on his charger has
given place to the modern organiza-
ton OF cavalry, with each man in his
place, the whole body acting as a unit;
so now the tactics of aerial fighting
are being evolved, and we may expect
to see the fleets of the air maneuver-
ing in solid formation, obeying the or
ders Of the fleet commander, sur
rounded by a screen of air scouts.
and diving, rising and enveloping a
wing of the enemy fieet~and destory-
ing it by force of numbers just as
modern cavalry, or a modern fleet on
the sea would do.
Instead of horses the aerial COM
batants will ride 150-mile an hour
battleplanss and slay each other with
Lewis mschine guns. 1t is interest
ing to note that at the end of 1917
the Germans were recruiting their
air forces from the cavalry.
Great work Is ahead for our avia-
tors"
The Washington herald., 1918-03-12
MOVING COTTON
TO NEW ENGLAND

Approximately 10000 additional bales
of cotton will be concentrated at South
Atlantic ports to facilitate their ship
ment to New England ports. Director
General McAdoo yesterday announced
that c. H. Markham. regional director
at Atlanta, had arranged for the con-
centration which will make a total OF
$4,000 bales now en- route or at port.
Special steamer service Is being ar
ranged. vessels having been sent to
Galveston, New Orleans, Brunswick,
Savannah and Wilmington for direct
service TO New England. The delayed
cotton on cars in st. Louis and Chicago
districts is'being moved to New Eng
land at the rate Of 80 cars a day. About
800 cars already have been moved.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-12
Two Naval Airmen Killed
By Accident in France

Deaths Of Leo shott Harvie, boats
Wain's mate, first class, and Andrew
Donnie Skaggs, landsman for quar-
termaster. U. s. N, IN an aeropiane
accident in the naval aviation service
In France, were reported yesterday by
the Navy Department No details of
the accident were given.
Harvie. whose home was In Cincin-
natl Ohio, enlisted at New York, Jan.
5 lsB. Skaggs enlisted at Dallas, Tex.
March 2. 1911. His mother lives in
NswburE, Tspns
The Washington herald., 1918-03-12
CLAIMS COURT GIVES
JUDGMENT FOR P. O.

The Court OF Claims has decided two
classes Of cases OF great Importance to
the Postoffice Department. The affirm
ance Of Judgment for the government
in the divisor cases by an even division
of the Supreme Court enabled the rail-
roads to renew their contention before
the lower court in other cases not
heard.
That court now reaffirms its former
decision for the government. The
amount involved is over $4,000 600. In
the other class of cases the govern
ment wins where the New England
railroads sued to recover on the theory
that they were not under contract to
carry parcel post mail and that their
services were taken for public use
without just compensation. These IN
volved vast sums of money.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-12

the drug store. Place some moist
soil from the garden on it. II it
turns the paper red, your soil needs
little lime. Sprinkle >air-slaked
lines over it. just a bare covering
will be enough for most soils.
The best soil is in the garden which
has been worked several years, and
manured each year.
With your plans laid and your soil
tested, you are ready for the seed
problem in the next lesson.
Cut this out and save it for fu-
ture reference. ..-
(Another garden lesson tomorrow)
The Washington herald., 1918-03-12
QUICK FORETOLD BATTLES
BETWEEN HUGE AIR FLEETS

-Four years Herbert Quick now member of the United
States farm loan board predicted battles the
between aerial fleets numbering hundreds of air craft.
His story, When Glory Ceased" printed in this
at that time, excited interest all the world but
including noted aviation doubted that the day
OF battle aerial fleets a hand.
In his story Quick painted word pictures of engagements
where nnumerbe aeroplanes daened the skies opposing
fleets into battle which of aviators
killed and their machines crushed earth heapng wreckage
That four years ago-and wise said: at
happen lives"