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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-09
IN
ARMY AND Navy
ARE SUSPENDED
Baker Also'Suspends Civilian
Enlistments for Officers
Training-Protect Industry

WASHINGTON, Aug. s.-Vo!untary
enlistments in the army and navy were
suspended completely Thursday to pre-
vent disruption of industry pending
disposition Of the bill proposing to ex-
tend draft ages to include all men be-
tween Is and As years. Orders were
issued by Secretaries Baker and Dan
iels directing that no voluntary enlist
ments be accepted after today until
further notice.
An order suspending further civilian
volunteering for officers training
camps were signed by the secretary OF
war. No more applications from
civilians for admission to the camps
will be accepted by the War Depart
ment, the order says, until the legls-
lation affecting draft ages now before
congress is disposed of.
The orders were issued after a con-
ference between Secretary Baker and
Secretary Daniels and were made pub
lie after President Wilson had visited
the offices of both secretaries late IN
the day 1t is not known whether his
visit had to do with the enlistment
situation, but just before he conferred
with the cabinet officers there was no
1nd1CatlOn tnat step Oh SuCH uidsliS
nature was anticipated.
The War Departments action was
announced in the following statement
issued by Secretary Baker:
"The War Department today has sus-
pended further volunteering and the
receipt of candidates for officers train
ing camps from civil life. This sus-
pension will remain in force until the
gress is disposed of and suitable regu-
lations drawn up to cover the opera
ton of the selective system under the
new law.
This action is taken in order to pre-
vent the disruption of the industry Of
the country and the impairment OF
the efficiency of the various govern
mental agencies which would follow
the indiscriminate enlistment of men
up to the age of As"
Will Take Applications.
Orders received at the Navy Recruit
ing Office Friday morning in regard to
voluntary enlistment, state that all
men who applied for enlistment, and
were examined prior to Friday, August
Q. can be sent in for final examination
and transfer to duty. 1t is desired that
all those who applied at the local sta
tion report at once, as these orders
may be changed at any time, thereby
preventing them from entering the
service.
The recruiting office will continue to
be open from s a. m. until p. m.
each day for the purpose of taking
applications and making examinations.
All men accepted from this date will
Re placed on waiting orders until the
new draft is enacted. when waivers
will be secured from the draft boards
and the men ordered in to duty. Prac-
tically all branches are open for enlist
ment under the new ruling, this giving
men an opportunity to volunteer for
their own choice OF military service.
Those who are on waiting orders
will no doubt be called into service in
few weeks, the stopping of enlist
ments giving them a chance to make
room for new recruits at the training
stations.
Army Recruited Wright stated Fri
day that he had received no orGer yet
concerning the order suspending en-
listments.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-09
ARMED YACHT SINKS
GERMAN SUBMARINE
IN ENGLISH CHANNEL
(Ry kssocieled Press.)

LONDON. Aug "Details Of the
sinking of German submarine by
British armed yacht in the English
channel are now available.
Just after sunset one day call for
help was picked up by the yacht which
Immediately headed the direction in
dicated, diverting several steamers as
she went. Half an hour later the
lookout sighted the periscope OF
submarine which was apparently pre-
pairing to attack merchantmen ap-
preaching from the opposite direction.
The periscope was barely 100 feet
from the port bow of the yacht. Full
speed was at once ordered, and the
yacht drove right over the submarine,
just as the periscope disappeared. A
distinct jar throughout the yacht
pointed to the probability that she
had rammed the enemy's coming
towers. Two depth charges were
dropped almost Immediately after
wards.
While bringing his vessel to pass
over the spot again, the captain of the
yacht observed a disturbance in the
water and as he approached there ap-
peared in the center of the disturb
ance a bubbling rush of water. evil
IDENTIFY caused by volumes of air es-
Gaping to the surface. A third depth
charge was dropped in the center of
the disturbance, which presently died
away.
One survivor covered with a thick
coating of oil, was picked up. Every
thing possible was done for him, on
board the Yacht but it soon hoca., .
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-09

President and Mrs. Wilson after at
tending launching of first ship
built at the Hog Island shipyard.
Ship is christened Quistconck by
Mrs. Wilson. In photo of launch
ing the president is indicated by
an arrow.
With the launching of the 1900
ton ship Quistconcy at the Hog
Island shipyard, the first vessel con-
structed there, the quantity produc-
ton of ships by the U. S. was reach
ed. From now on ships will be pro-
duced fast enough, not only to make
up for the sinkings by U-boats, but
to decrease the deficiency in world
tonnage. President and Mrs. Will
son attended the launching. Mrs.
Wilson christened the ship, naming
1t Quistconck, the Indian name for
Hog Island
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-09
ALLIES WILL HOLD
ECONOMIC CONTROL
by Associated Press)

LONDON, Aug. S.-Earl Curzon, of
kedleston, government leader in the
house of lords, in a speech today said
the imperial war cabinet had not yet
discussed the subject of imperial pref
erences The government, he added,
would act in the matter in concert
with it's allies, and especially the
United States.
At the end of the war the British
empire and the United States would
control the greater part of the raw
material Of the world. Earl CurZon
continued, and if it were necessary
to use this lower against the enemy.
it could only be done to advantage by
a general agreement among the allies.
When parliament reassembled, the
speaker said, a full statement would
be made In the meantime he said
there would be no final discussion
with the dominions and still less with
the allies.
Probably it isn't important but
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-09

Red Cross Notes

The surgical dressing department
will be open until further notice ev-
cry Tuesday and Thursday evening.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-09
MARRIAGE LICENSE

A marriage license was issued to
Guy Marvin Baxter, farmer, and Miss
Vivian Ruth Drake.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-09
WOMAN is INJURED.

EATON. O., Aug. 9.-While in the
act of alighting from an automobile
in front of her home Tuesday evening,
Mrs. T. V. Gould fell and fractured
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-09

dent he had suffered serious inter
nal injuries. He died about three
hours later.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-09

War Savings Stamps are not only
for the other fellow" They are for
you, too.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-26

And this brings me to the potash in the Pacific ocean, which Uncle sam proposes to gather by means of plant, This is a seaweed that grows wild in the ocean. It is he largest plant known, and it attaches itself to rock by a root or holdfast It goes from this anchorage in a flexible hollow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-26

This valuable stuff is an element which is scattered through almost
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-26
Tea Rationing in England
 Is Proving a Success

London. April 20.-Seventeen million people in England are now rationed for tea, and steps are being taken by the food controller to make the rationing oi tea uniform throughout the country
 The rationng scheme has been so sue cessful that it has caused the London queues te fade away as if by magic. The only ones that remain are the agntseniebt qiHsets. 1nd 9 rGNV lard and one or two eats meat queues.
 Until few weeks ago there were tea queues every day in front of big mer- chants store in Fleet street. and that store reduced it's business hours to q minimum. Now there is no queue ana rhe store ;s open an gaf, The explana- ton of the manager is that the tea was not distributed to the small stores whose customers then came to the bis stores and formed queues.
 The margarine shops, whose queues used TO reach round the block, are now aueues-iess and have big displays in their windows The meat markets seem fun of food and everyone seems moderately satisfied
 Commenting on the transformation made kv rationing in the appearance or the city, one paper suggests; 1t would be good if those organs of publicity which made d big business of queue photos that were afterward reproduced in German papers and made good Ger man propaganda would now publish photos of the queueiess cities and the stocked shops"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-26

At a word of command they stop in- stantly whatever they are doing and fit the masl- into position. These drills are continued until a whole company can protect itself in few seconds
 They are then exercised in carrying out more complicated drills, including prolonged double-quick marching, with the apparatus in place, until they are fully accustomed to working under the inconvenience caused thereby.
 Each man is given respirator that fits him perfectly and which thence forth becomes his personal property. The lit is tested by placing each man for several minutes in a chamber heavily charged with gas If he exhibits any symptoms of discomfort at the end ot the test he must be fitted with a new mask. In order to inspire confidence he is later put through the most exact ing tests in rooms filled with the most deadly gases. from which he suffers no III effects whatever.
 A later step in the gas school is train ing in methods of declaring gas out of dugouts, and methods of preventing gas getting into dugouts. The gas, being heavier than air, collects in such places if allowed to, and the methods of con structing impervious doors, impervious blanket curtains, and similar devices are shown. The recruit is shown the princi- pies ot ventilation, WhereDy gas can De blown out of dugouts by the use of fans or by lighting fires at favorable points near the entrance Actual experiments along these lines are carried out in the school and are studied by the mel.
 The most essential thing to be done Tn case of gas attack, the instructor tells his pupils. IS to warn everybody within reach The men are shown how to con- struct gas gongs out of any material at hand, such as lengths of railway iron or artillery cartridge cases, and where Ito place such alarms So that they may best be heard The use f,the 'Strombas horn," a special form of motor horn worked by cylinder of compressed air, is also explained
 A study is also made of the means em- ployed for ascertaining the direction and strength of the wind, so that in the trenches the men may know when gas attack is likely.
 The whole system of training" said tine officer in charge, lis devised to pro duce in the men a personal interest in the subject, so that they may keep their leads in a special emergency. If they tan GO this, they need have no fear of this latest weapon of war"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-26

British officer who showed the ASso- ciated Press correspondent through one of these schools, ''are to familiar1ze the soldiers with the various anti-gas ap- paratus, and to fix firmly in his mind the two chief axioms to be learned in the use of gas the first being that care lessness may mean sudden death; the second that a proper procedure gives ab- solute immunity from any ill-effect.
 The gases employed by the enemy are Of two kinds, lethal and non-lethal The first-class will produce death if breathed in sufficient quantities. The second-class include lachrymatory or tear gas, and a number of similar gases used to produce merely temporary effects. The gases are employed in two ways, by release from cylinders when favorable winds are blow ing, or by inclosing them in shells fired from guns and trench mortars.
 At the gas school the men are taught to protect themselves against both forms Two appliances are used in the British army. The box reSprator," which IS tho newest and most important of these, consists of a flexible mask that fits over the face This mask is fitted with glass windows for the eyes, clip to cover the nostris to prevent the wearer breathing through the nose and speciai mouthpiece fitted with a valve. The mouthpiece admits of free exhalation, but forces inhalation to take place through tir box, connected to the mouthpiece by flexible tube, and containing the chem icals that absorb the gas allowing only pure air to pass into the lungs. The whole device is carried by every soldier in satchel slung over the chest.
 The men trained to put the appll- ance into use in minimum time. As soon as they are expert in the details or fitting the mask they are put through various drills. carrying the apparatus
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-26
England Will Adopt
 Standard Suit of Clothes
 for Duration of War

London. April 9.-(Correspondence ot the Associated Press)-England's war time standard shoes for men are to re followed soon, it is announced, by ready made standard suits of clothes. These are to he in serges and tweeds and Will be sold at the equivalent of about SD for the first grade of material and at less than sl5 for the second.
 Serge both black and blue, will also be available for the making of suits to measure No standard tweed suits Will be made to measure.
 From 150 000 to 100000 suits are ex pected to be on sale during June, July and August. Cloths and clothing. apart rom the standardized materials, Will continue to be available at the regular prices, just as other shoes. besides the war-times shoes, are to be had
 The plan of supplying clothing to civilians at moderate prices has been worked out by a department of the war
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-26
Chicagoans Are Repairing Their Watches Since New
 Order of Telephone Co.,.

Chicago, May 25-Watch repairing m Chicago has more than doubled as the result of the telephone company's re- fusal> to give the correct time of day to subscribers on and after May l. accord ing to jewery house ana department stores heads here The order also has increased considerably the sale of new watches and alarm clocks 10 persons who hitherto have depended largely on the telephone company for the time oi day
 AccoI ding to the manager of one ot the largest department stores in the city the watch repairing by his estao- lishment increased more than 50 per ceiit almost before the order became effec- tive, and the sale of watches, especially the cheaper kind and alarm clocKs leaped forward rapidly.
 Figures compiled by telephone experts showed that more than 250,OC0 persons in Chicago called the operator daily and asked 'the correct time, please. Re peal of the -honored custom, tele- phone experts declafed was due to the burdens imposed upon facilities of the company by the war, and several other causes Children. some of whom were unable to tell the time, it is said, were the chief offenders. Wh,.e ,,sts wisn .hg to show that they could use the telephone always demonstrated by asking for the correct time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-26

potash is blasted down with dynamite carried on electric cars to the shafts and taken to the surface Some of Il is shipped as kainit or raw salt as 1t comes from the mine; the rest is boiled and evaporates, forming the concen- trated salts and also the pure potash, such as is used in medicines, dyestuffs, etc. The processes of mining and re- duction are so cheap that we shall prob ably have to put tariff on potash or give bounties to our manufacturers for sometime before they will be able to compete with the Germans
 And now let me show you what we are doing to create potash supply of our own. We had none when the war broke out. We began to produce in 1916 anc during the first six months of last year we made more potash than in the entire year preceding. The amount pro- duced in 1917 was about one-tenth of what we were importing from Germany before the war began and the produc- ton from every principal source is rap- idly increasing
 Take first the potash we are getting from salt lakes where the mineral is be- ing formed in much the same way that the great deposits of Germany were laid down. Away out in the Mojave desert of California is Searles lake, where q com pany of capitalists has already invested more than two and one-half million dol lars to get out the potash which lies in the brine under a bed of mud and crystalline salt. They have put up an evaporator house, made of steel, which is more than one hundred feet high, has boilers of 2000 horsepower, and a con- crete chimney which is about one-third as tall as the Washington monument and nine feet in diameter at the top. Searles lake has millions of tons of potash The lake covers an area of almost 5000 acres, and its depth is not known. The top is all salt and mud, but under this GOV ering is brine whose solids are about ' per cent potash. They will soon be reducing this brine at the rate of 20,000. 0o0 gallons a day, and from that the potash output will be in the neighbor- hood of 800 tons. The chief trouble is the large percentage of other salts which are mixed with the potash. These must be refined. This is to be done at San Pedro, not far from Los Angeles. Future additions to the works will probably in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-26

one of them is losing thousands Of pounds of potash q day, and that many have losses which amount to f. om five to 15 tons every A hours
 have seen the CottreH process work ing at Uncle Sam's experimental labo- ratory on the Arlington farm The by product plant consists of a series of concrete pipes which extend to the height of five or siX-story house and end in great closed box or hopper. Into thls hopper the dust from the cement flues is drawn. It is now almost gas and many of the particles are so fine they cannot be seen. They go from the hopper into the pipes and are there precpitated by means of an intense electric current, which is carried through each pipe by wire as fine as sewing thread It costs something like Sl000o0 to equip the average cement factory with the process and all the plants of the country might be supplied at a cost of $l0,000,O0O. If the installation of such a system would fur nish half of our potash supply, and make us independent of Germany, it might pay
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-26
ALL RECRUITS ARE WE'LL SCHOOLED
 IN GAS METHODS
Men Are Drilled in Use of Appliances for Protection Before Going Into the
 Trenches

Behind British Lines in France, May 24. Correspondence of the Associated Press.) One of the most essential parts of a re- cruit's training is that which teaches him to protect himself against gas attack. It has been proved that practically com plete security can be obtained against this latest weapon, but that such security is dependent upon previous training. This special training is provided for ev- cry British recruit by the special gas schools established at convenient points behind the front. Every recruit must complete a course of instruction here be- fore he is allowed to take his place in the front line.
 "The objects of our training" said the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-26

the government to give material assist anee toward it's installation.
 Since the war the CottrelI process has been applied also to saving the potash in the flue dust from the iron blast fur- naces. The Bethlehem Steel company was the first to experiment as to this saving, It has found that it could get S0c00 per annum from the potash from one furnace and that the saving from it's 24 furnaces would equal S150,0e0 a year.
 1t is estimated that 10 pounds of potash can be saved from every ton of iron that comes from the furnaces. If this is cor rect the 25,00000a tons we annually smelt would mean a saving of 250,o00000 pounds or 125,0oo tons of potash, which added to the 100000 tons that might he had from our cement mills would make us practically independent of Germany This is by the saving only of what until now has floated away on the air. 1 am told that even at the normal prices of potash this could be done at q profit. (Copyrighted 1918. by Frank c. Car
 penter1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-26

office, known as the board of control ot wool textile production.
 Provisions is also made for the cloth- ing of millions of men, now in their countrys service, who will return to civil life at the end of the war.
 What is called double purpose cloth is being produced in an undyed state. It will be dyed khaki for military unI- forms, or in .colors suitable for civilian wear, according to requirements
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-26

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 so. They believe that their potash mines are the key to the food supply of the world and that when the war is over they can dictate which of the na- tions shall have plenty of food and which will go starving. Dr. Wilhelm Ostwald of the University of Leipzig and one of the Kaisers privy councillors. recently warned the United States that America had gone into this war ike a man with a rope about his neck. He said that rope was the potash in the hands of the Kali ser, and that 1t would surely be frightened after peace came.
 This threat might have created some consternation four years ago. At the time the war broke out Germany had mines which were supposed to be the only cheap supply of potash on earth She had a monopoly of the worlds potash, and she kept oae-half of all that she mined for her own farmers. We took more than half of the balance, and our imports amounted to several hundred thousand tons of pure potash a year. We bought more than million tons of the raw material as it came from the mines, and this annually cost our farm CTS about $2o,0O0, 600.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-26

crease the total investment to more than $4,0OO,00o
 At Owens lake, California, they are preparing to get out potash by a new method, without the employment of artificial heat. This lake has water as bitter as that of the Dead sea. IL contains salt, soda, borax and other salines in solution It is estimated to hold about 3,000ooo tons of potash. and la large part of this will be gotten out by evaporating the water in vats by the heat of the sun. The lake has an area of 100 square miles and it is about 50 feet deep.
 There are salt lakes in the sandhills of northwestern Nebraska in which the pot ash from the great prairie and forest fires of the past are supposed to have drined The largest of these is Jesse lake, which covers about 240 acres. The waters of this lake are a brine. It's bottom is dark green mud. under which is a layer of sand about 70 feet thick This sand is charged with brine; it has more salts than the waters of the lake itself and the brine, when evaporated, gives a product containing from 70 to 30 per cent of potash There are several companies working in Ne braska, and they are now producing a large part or our potdSH SuPPiS-
 We expect to get potash out of the Great Salt lake One company is all ready erecting a plant there and an other of large capital is expected 10 do likewise. These companies will ex- tract the potash salts from the liquor left after the common salt has been sep arated They are working on the same principle IS the Spaniards, who are try ing to get potash out of the sea. 1heS first take out the salt and then run the liquor which is left into tanks for further evaporation, The final salts con tain. about F per cent of potash This comes from the waters of the Mediter- ranean, which have more salts Tn them than the oceans themselves.