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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-23
GREAT SHIPPING PROBLEM.


To look after the shipping of thousands OF
things measured by carloads and trainloads ar
tic&s of every description and every size from
a vest pocket package to solid trains loaded to
capacity with Steel is not nerve-resting occupa-
ton. Especially is this true when the success of
one of our great interchangeable building of
ships-depends upon their prompt delivery.
Ship supplies are handled by the supply 'dvis-
ion of the United States Shipping Board Emer-
gency Fleet Corporation, directly under the sup
ervision of the transportation department of this
division. This transportation department, of
which F. c. Joubert is manager must not only
keep track of all shipments, but must be
thoroughly posted to every available channel
or resource for shipping.
is sn1 Wedge of the situation must be more
man IS applied by the word comprehensive, for
Sd involves minute detail. This includes not only
fall knowledge of all railroads and their connec-
tions, but the number of cars arriving, departing
or awaiting unloading at each of the $50, or more
shipyards on our two ocean fronts; the Gulf Coast
and the Great Lakes region. The department
must be equally well informed as to the move
ment of all trains carrying the things consigned
to its care-when each leaves station or siding
and when it arrives at destination It must keep
track of single cars and single items carried i'm
cars.
AS to the volume of it's business, the transport
tation department receives daily from 800 to 500
shipping instructions. A single shipping instruc-
ton may many articles article but
rule it means several. The list includes
lumber, STEEL boilers, engines, turb mes anchors
and ships stores, in a word ship nlchiner- and
equipment of all descriptions and cons of
thousands of items.
To systematic and expedite ship IS the
country has been divided into fifteen eat dis
tricts or zones designated by letters, some of
them covering four or five states and each in
charge of a member of the field staff. The heads
of the field organization are stationed in the
large cities constituting the important gateways
to the fifteen traffic zones, Chicago being the
most important center outlet.
The heads of the field staff and their subordi-
mates, the latter numbering from six to twenty
men to district, work in closest cooperation
5es ice supervision of the home office in Pha-
a5s. When demand for equipment is suf-
tcisE argent to require expediting, the field
renrAsAr-stive in whose district the shipment |
originates notifies the representative in the adj
joining district that the car or train has passed
into his territory and the latter communicates
with the man in the next district and so on clear
across the United States. By this means the To- |
cation of the or train carrying the equipment
can be Gscertained by the home office at any
hour.
From Chicago west the transportation service /
of the United States Shipping Board Emergency
Fleet Corporation has seldom been equalled Solid /
trains move from Chicago to the Pacific Coast. /
They carry everything that can be moved in car
load lots.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-23
HOW A SALESMAN SUFFERED

r. ]. Porter, Sterling, Col, writes: For
SIX months I suffered with painful weak
back. As a travelling salesman 1 had to
stoop frequently to pick up my grips,
which grew to dread the pain when
remedies failed to reach my case was
induced to try Foley Kidney Pills Relief
was immediate. Say, they are great, Any
Une afflicted as ] was should try a bottle
or two OF Foley PILE" Good for pain in
the back. rheumatic pains. aching joints,
sore muscles. Sold ever.Ywhere.-adv.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-23

In the priceless collection of swords possessed
by King George is straight, one-edged blade,
bearing the holy letters l. H. S. Jesus, Savior of
Sa which is said to have been carried to the
Grttsade by Godfrey de Bouillon, and to have
Narn Is hin when he proclaimed King
81 4E aiea eiShE centuries ago.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-23

The Chinese have method of preserving
eggs in somewhat the same manner milk is
preserved in cheese. Ducks eggs are most used
for the purpose. The eggs are placed in solution
of black tea, salt, lime and wood ashes for nearly
six months. They are then drained, coated with
rice hulls and placed upon the market.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-23

The preseIt as..3 shortage of sugar has again
raised sorghum fro1 the ranks. The largest
sorghum producing States are Florida, Alabama,
Georgia and Mississippi, each O. 9.oh annually
produces cane syrup to the value Sc Bat1 cen one
and two million dollars.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-04

Two four story brick buildings in the group which makes up the plant of the Driver Harris Wire Co.,. at liar ,rison, N, J., were burned with a loss estimated at $700,000.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-04
GERMANS OPEN BARRAFE
 FIRE ON AMERICANS
They Ceased Firing For Red Cross Men to Remove Wounded American.

With the American Army in France, Feb. 3.-(By The Associated Press.) "A German barrage fire at sundown last night opened the heaviest bonn bardment of. many days along the American sector, the American artil- leTy replying shell for shell as the fir ing of the heavy guns spread along several kilometres of front.
 Two Americans were killed and nine wounded during the Lombard ment, and one suffered shell shock.
 It was ascertained today that the American grrnners wrecked several of the enemy dugouts and so badly dam aged the first line positions that at one point the Germans were unable to occupy them Sunday.
 When the bombardment had reach ed it's greatest intensity the Germans suddenly concentrated their fire at two points, throwing about 250 shells in- to town in which the headquarters of a certain regiment are located and which heretofore had been immune to enemy fire.
 After the bombardment wounded American soldier was discovered in a position where it was necessary to carry him over trench top to- a field dressing station. A medical rpan displayed the Red Cross and the Ger mans ceased firing until the man was removed.
 Early in the day an American was wounded by Snper.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-04
PLAN TO SPEED UP s.:
 CONGRESS THIS WEEK
important Railroad and Fianancial
 Measures to Be Acted Upon.

Washington, Feb. 3.-Little of the known and growing programme of the war legislation has Aeen, enacted since congress convened tow months ago today and capitol leaders plan att tempts to speed up this week. I'm .partant railroad and financial meas ures are to be brought before both senate and house during the week with the prospect that they will occupy the center of interest for many days to come. -
 Contention over the senate military committee bills for a war cabinet. and munitions director. which President Wilson is vigorously opposing. will be renewed in the senate tomorrow when advocates of the legislation will begin what they call campaign of educa< tion. Senator Hitchcock democrat, will speak tomorrow in support of the bills and will be followed on Tuesday by Senator Wadworth, republican mem- Der of the military committee. Replies are planned by administration leaders. Tuesday, Secretary Baker will be re- called before the senate committee for cross examination regarding his re- cent statement of army achievements, Later in the week he will appear be- fore the house committee. Aftrward administration leaders hope to mini mize agitation for, the bills and they are confident of preventing their con- sideration in either house.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-04
RUSSIAN CONVENTION TO
 BE HELD IN NEW YORK
By Followers of kerensIsy, the De-
 posed Russian Premier.

New York, Feb. 3.-CoDsternation spread among the B0shevik delegates to the self-styled Russian Colonial Congress in this cty when news was disseminated today that another Rus sian convention is to be held here February to il by the followers of Alexander P. Kerensky, the deposed Russian premier. The new conven- ton, it was said, will be national in scope and will have delegations from all the important cities in the United States.
 It could not be learned who is at tho head of the movement in opposi- ticn to the Bolshevild, but Alexander Stoklitzl1y, in calling today's session Of the congress to order. said that vain efforts had been made to "get this wing of the Russian colony in line with tEe conference"
 Although the Bolshevik are in charge of the present assemblage, a persistent minority has created so much confusion that virtually nothing of a constructive character has been accomplished since the opening ses- gion Friday.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-04
E, HALL, HARVARD,
 DESTROYED BY FIRE.
It Was One of the Oldest Buildings
 of the Quadrangle.

Cambridge, Mass, Feb. 3.-Dane hall, one of the oldest buildings of the quadrangle in the Harvard yard, was burned today. Thirty thousand rounds of ammunition in the basement were removed by men of the naval radio and ensigns' school under the direction of their officers. Valuable records be- longing to the university and the gov ernment schools also were saved.
 The building contained the bursar's office of the university and the execu- tive offices of the ensigns' school. It was of red brick, two and a half stories in height, with a frontage of forty feet on Massachusetts avenue.
 The fire started in the basement near the furnace, apparently had worked it's way upward inside the walls, and was bursting through the roof when it was discovered by a naval officer. Students of the naval school who are quartered in nearby buildings were immediately mobiliZed and working in squads went into the part of the basement where the am- intuition used in rife practice was stored. The flames were very close and the smoke was stif1ing, but with handkerchiefs tied ever their noses the sailors groped their way to the shell poxeS and brought them all out with out accident. Books and furnishings of the bursar's office and records of the Harvard departments of econom- ics and English, as well as papers of a final examination taken by some of the sailors yesterday were saved in the same way. President A. Lawrence Lowell said that he believed virtually all documents of importance were re- moved 1.
 Meanwhile the firemen found that the flames were making such head way in the wooden interior of the structure that it was impossible to save it.
 Dane Hall was built in 1882, the gift of the late Nathan Dane, an at torney of Boston. 4t was the first building of the Harvard Law School but was used for this purpose only a short time. There were several reel tation rooms in it. At the outbreak of the war part of the building was turned over to the government for use as headquarters of the ensigns' school As the fire completely destroyed the interior, the university win now be quired to surrender rooms in another building in order that the course oi naval instruction may be carried on.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-04
DESIGNER OF PRUSSIAN MONEY UNDER ARREST
For RidicuIing Germany on the Mar
 gin of Fifty Pfennings.

Amsterdam, Feb. a.-The artist who designed paper money of the denom- ination of fifty pfennigs which is now being circulated in several rural towns of Prussia has been arrested at Nie- beriatmstein on the charge of. holding up the Fatherland to ridicule. His offense lay, according to the Maas- bode, of Rotterdam, in the orname1ta- ton on the margin of the bills.
 }, After the money had been in cir culation for some time it was discov- cred that the marginal decorations consisted mostly. of drawings of arfi ' cles of food. Above a picture of ham the artist inscribed in microscopic let ters: "A tender memory and a fond hope" Over the design of three. tur- nips he wrote: This is how the Ger mans live"
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-04
WOMAN TRIED TO GET HER
 BROTHER-lN-LAW IN TROUBLE.
Kidnapped Infant, Believing That He
 Would Be Suspected.

New York, Feb. N3.-Snuggled in her mothers arms, three year old Lillian Rosner, who disappeared from Lenox avenue in front, or her home, last Tuesday, listened tonight in open-eyed wonder while Mrs. Sophia Berg related to w J. Lahey, second deputy police commissioner, how she had stolen the child in the hope that tAe crime might be laid to Nathan Shapiro, her brother law, with whom she had quarreled. been centered on the search for the girl since the disappearance, but no cew had been obtained until this af- ternoon, when a young woman who gave her name as Marie Fay called at the Rosner home and said she believed the child was at the home of her aunt, with whom she lived in Brooklyn. De- tectives accompanied by the child's father hurried to the house and found the youngster. They arrested Mrs. Berg. who was taken to police head quarters. Mrs Rosner also hastened Ito the deputy commissioners office, and there Mrs. Berg was interrogated. Mrs. Berg said she came to New York from San Francisco last October and was employed in the clothing store
 
 with whom she seuarreied, and who, she said put her out Of the place. Soon afterward, Mrs. Berg said, she dropped her purse in the street and I a woman who found it became so in- l terested in her. that she told her of her 1 troubles and, according to Mrs. Berg, the woman suggested that she kidnap a child and blaine it on her brother in-law. The woman, she said, told dler she represented society and the child she had in mind was an orphan who needed care.
 Acting on this suggestion, Mrs. Berg said, shes again met the woman, who pointed out little Lillian Rosner. The child readily accepted her invitatics 1 to go into store for candy and tl,en she took it to the subway and later by accident, she said. met man who directed her to the house in Brooklyn Her plan was to support the child by her work and both of them would live at the Brooklyn house. Mrs. Berg was charged with kidnapping.
 It was understood that, the police were not altogether satisfied with Mrs Berg's story and are working on the theory that the kidna pping was part ot a plan to discredit the new administra ton. Soon after this became, knowr it was announced that MT. and Mrs Sidney Hirsch, who live near the Ros ner family, had been taken to police headquarters to be questioned in con. nection with the case. Mrs. Hirsci according to Mrs. Berg, was the wo- man who suggested the kidnapping.
 Lillian Kosher, who iS unusual, intelligent. denied Mrs. Berg's story the police asserted, in a number O important particulars.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-04

and evidently was intended to convey to the strikers the intimation that the government at the present moment re- qu1reS the full efforts. of workers for the further prosecution of the war.
 ."Employes failing to resume work, 1" said this order, twill be tried by court martial, which is authorized to i'm pose sentence of death, execution to take place within twenty four hours of the time the sentence Is omposed.' g
 Notwithstanding the fact that the shipyard workers in Hamburg m large numbers returned to their duties, the latest reports are to the effect that the dissatisfaction was so great that they again were to have been caled out on Saturday. The lack of information from German sources, however, caves impossible of verifcation whether or not these men again threw down their tools.
 Social Unrest in Austria Spreading.
 The social unrest now has spread to Iriest, Austria's principal seaport on the Adriatic sea. Here also a strike among the ship yard and other work CTS was declared, the main point of in sfstence by the men. as in Germany, being peace and better food. On beins
 
 in which Austria's dsire for a cessa- tion of hostilities was emphasized, the strikers resumed work. M
 White Guard Suecessfui h FinIand. f In Finland the White Guard. which is backing the new guvernnnent, is still reported to be maax3nE progress in putting down tho iifsxffectior among the revolutionaries headed by | the Red Guard. although in HeAsing. fors serious situation continues t. exist. Here the Red Guard. whfcl controls the capital, aided by Russians are reported to be carrying out a reig1 of terror, mmdering and pfunderfng. | Apparently the peace conference q Brest Litovsk has not as yet agail | approached the point at which tn Russians and the Teutcnic aieg wer reported to have reached an fnrpass at the previous session. Lest account of the deliberations show that the del egates were engaged mainly in a dis cussion of the status of the Ukrafuta, and Finnish representatives concern ing whose right to participation in tn pourparlers some doubt exists anor, the Russians and the spokesmen o the Central Powers.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-04
PROPERTY OF FORMER GEAR
 SEIZED IN BROOKLYN
In Action Brought by Marine Trans
 portation Service Co.

New York. Feb. 3.-Property g. in a Brooklyn warehouse, said to belong to Nicholas Romanoff, farmer emperor of Russia, was seized today by deputy sheriffs under a writ of attachment issued by the supreme court of Brooklyn. The court decided last Fri day that as long as Mir. Romanoff was emperor no action could be brought against him in New York, but since he had lost the position he could be sued as any other private citizen.
 The attachment was to protect the claim of the Marine Transportation Service Company on a claim of s. 615,762 for alleged breach of contract for the shipment of supplies to Rus sia- The property. which is said to be worth s20, ,009, 900, consists of au- tomobiles, rifies,l barbed wire and other war material.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-04
GERMANS FIRING ON
 AMERICAN TRENCHES
Enemy Snipers Wounded Two Amer
 ieans Slightly.

With the American Army in France. Saturday, Feb. 2--(By The Associated Press).-The whole American sector 's resounding with the boom of guns. Anmen became exceedingly active along the American front on Saturday. Enemy snipers wounded two Ameri- cans slightly early this morning.
 A shift of the wind today cleared away the mist, which has hindered aerial operations and other activities for several days. A number of the battles in the air were fought by patrolling planes early this afternoon. In one instance the French aviators defeated an attempt of German fliers to cross behind the American trenches
 The artillery and snipers also have become increasingly active. America n IDS are harassing traffic behind the enemy trenches. The Germans are confining their fire largely to the American trenches.
 Throughout Friday night machine guns rattled ceaseiessly from German positions.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-04
MAJOR GENERAL WOOD
 ABLE TO LEAVE BED.
The Wound is Still Painful, But He
 Expects to Leave Hospital This Week.

Paris, Feb. '3-Major General Leon ard Wood, United States army, who was wounded recently while on,a visit to the French front, was able today to leave his bed in the hospital here. where he is being treated. He re- ceived number, of visitors.
 General Woods arm is in a sling. The wound is still painful, but he ex poets to leave the hospital this week
 Lieutenant Colonel Charles B. Kill bourne, chief of General Woods staff who was wounded in the face, is to be brought te Paris from. a hospital near the front. The attending sur geons report that they expect to save his right eye, which it was feared at first would be lost.
 Major Kenyon A. Joyce, the. third American officer wounde, is still in a hospital near the front with a painful wound in the arm.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-04
PRISONERS 6RuTALLY r: s TREATED BY GERMANS Story Told by Belgian Who Escaped
 From the German Military Zone.

Ottawa, Ont, Feb. 3.-A London des- patch to the Ottawa agency of Reu- ter's Limited says it has received from a trustworthy Belgian citizen who has just reached London from the German military zone at Valenciennes, an acz count of terrible conditions existing in the occupied districts of France, from which virtually no news ever reached England. For obvious reas- ons it could not be, stated how this man escaped. He still bore traces of heavy blow on the jaw, and show ed Reuters representative handful of natural teeth which had been knocked out by, the butt end of Ger man guards rife. He said:
 "The Germans have organized slavery army in the zone of northern France. When left St. Amand, a few weeks ago. conditions were unbeara- ble All the men between the ages of 17 and 50 had been taken away. Un- married women under 40 are obliged to work in the fields while girls from 12 to 14 must collect acorns and net 1 ties.
 "Fverywhere you meet civilians working under armed guards. Every one wears a ,brassard showing the l town he comes from. Some wear brassard around the leg showing they | tried to escape. I saw ar old man l with a large cross painted on his back I knew what that sjgnified. If you refuse to work you are fined:. if you refuse to pay the fine you are 1 imprisoned; if you refuse second | time you are sent to Germany, from which one seldom comes back alive | Besides civilian prisoners the Ger 1 mans have great numbers Of war pe-1s- oners behind the lines. working under ! terrible conditions. The English are especially badly treated. All want | food, but the sufferings of the Rus-
 sians owing to lack of food are awful.
 It was while was endeavorfng to give a starving Russian little of my own small supply of food that the guard knocked out my teeth" | The informant told how domestic clocks and lamps are broken up for copper mattresses are ripped for wool and sacks and eothes are seized. Far
 mers and peasants must decare ev- lerything.
 sT have. seen peope dragged to pris- on," said the refugee. "fors hiding a pound of potatoes. Hiding an egg in- wolves fine of five marks. One wo- man was deported to Germany for keeping three pigeons. Another was Isentenced to fourteen months for hid- Hing an Alsatian refugee. The refugee was immediately killed by non
 commissioned officer who struck an
 other woman with such violence that she became deaf ., A little girl was shot dead without warning because she crossed the Franco Belgian from tier for bread"
 The Belgian exhibited dates and the
 names of the people in all cases.
 "Whenever you turn your eyes the same tragedy is everywhere-starva- tion, slavery and untold brutality he iconcluded.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-04

-. Production this week is expected to be considerably greater than last Danger of foods still looms large, however, and the railroads will work hard early this week to accumulate small reserve stocks of coal at con sumption cAnters in anticipation of later interruption of traffic by high waters and ice jams against bridges.
 The railroad administration will not begin to lift the general freight en- bargoes on eastern trunk lines, nor the local restrictions in effect else- where east of the Mississippi until the coal movement improves consid- erably.
 Fuel Administrators Meet Today.
 Tomorrow state fuel administrators will be here for conference with pr. Garfield on the general situation. and 10 report on the results of the heat less Mondays and the five day shut | down.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-04
GENERALS BARRY AND HODGES
 HAVE RETURNED FROM FRANCE
They Are Optimistic Regarding the
 Situation Abroad.

An Atlantic Port, Feb. s.--Major Generals Thomas H. Barry and M. Hodges of the. United States army, who have been making tour of in spection along the section of the French front held by American forces, returned today on an American steam ship.
 They expressed optimism regarding the general situation abroad and said their mission had been an enlighten ing one, but declined further to dis cuss their visit abroad.