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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-19
HOW MANY ARE
100000 MEN?

The government Is now planning to
have a minimum army OF 100000 in
the field by next summer, according to
Washington dispatches.
How many are 100000 men?
This will give you an idea:
T. Standing shoulder to shoulde
they would stretch from New York to
Tampa, Fla, or from Seattle to San
Diego.
2. At the rate of quart OF coffee a
day each they would drink 1890 bar
rels a day.
g. Shoe strings they'd use II stretch
ed out would cover 2,s40 miles, almost
long enough to reach across the ocean
q. Attacking in waves of no men, 25
yards apart, such an army would reach
from Paris to Berlin.
If an American army OF 5000, 900 were
to take the places Of their allies on the
western front of 300 miles. there would
be soldiers to every yard Of that
front. II they were to concentrate
their forces on a front OF only so miles
they would have So men every yard.
Appropriations for such an army calls
for an estimate OF $4,000, 900 900 an
nually each soldier costing the army
5000 a year, including munitions, food
clothing, etc.
II the blankets used by these SOL
diers were tied end to end they would
stretch from New York City to Salt
Lake City, Utah. and then come all the
way back again.
To equip such an army alone for SER
vice in France would cost s468. 600, O00
This only including the soldiers orig
inal clothing, fighting equipment, eat
ing utensils, etc.
The pay OF such an army would
amount to more than billion dollars
year.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-19

some witticism which caused laugh
Then some one else's guns to the left
opened fire. In a few seconds l picked
up the target, blue-gray shadow al
vancing in apparent silence over the
top of crest two thousand yards
away.
II gave the order to join in the
chorus OF guns. The rounds were
bursting beautifully, and ! picked up
range quickly and well, but / noticed
Boche shells beginning to fall on and
about the road, bursting with marvel
lous precision.
II glanced behind at my guns pust as
| a shell burst one hundred yards in
rear Of them and another one hundred
yards In front-a beautiful ''braket.'
positively uneanny, as the guns were
| in a splendid position and certainly
could not be seen.
IT knew what that bracket meant,
and longed to give the take cover order
to my gunners but only for one mo-
ment Our job was to carry on. So we
fired away as rapidly as we could. for.
after all, we do not often have the
luck 10 shoot at moving masses of
Boches.
"A few minutes later / received the
message: Both guns out. of action, SIR
gazed round with a jerk, and there
below me, sure enough, both guns
were knocked out.
The Boches had begun another de-
liberate shoot at the other guns, and |
could see at a glance he was somehow
observing his rounds, and correcting
them for line and range, and yet there
were no Hun airplanes up aloft to do
1T. A marvellous mystery ! deter
mined to go to my guns and do my best
to get them into action again, so off
moved lodging arUInd the ancient
shell-holes Of 1916, jumping across old
German trenches.
II had hardly gone twenty yarus
when l heard a buzz quite close the
buzz of field telephone buzzer.
came up behind two men In khaki with
the familiar blue-and-white band of the
British signalling corps on their arms
evidently the men I had seen befor
one gazing out towards the batterie
on the left, the other buzzing. Quietly
approached. Then l grasped the sit
uation.
With a running jump leaped plump
on the instrument, yelled, and hfti on
with one fist under one jaw and an
other on the back of a square, hard
head.
"'Gott in Himmelr came from the
hardheaded man and a cultural groan
from the other whose jaw I had hit,
who lay apparently stunned.
"Then in a moment / was kicked in
the back which sent me Keeling.
Il picked myself up, to find botf
Boches tearing away towards the roaS
They had some yards start, but INgav
chase. One stumbled and fell. / mad
rush, and before he could rise
kicked as I never had Kicked before
regular. proper punt. That settle,
him. and on I went
THE other ran on when suddenly h
disappeared in cloud of smoke and
a deafening roar. We had run in
front of one of our batteries Fate
decreed the fate Of one, but the other
II had settled-with hob-nailed
boot
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-19
ENGLAND HAVING
.MUCHTROUDLEW|TH
THE GERMAN SPY

LONDON, May is-(Correspondenc
OF the Associated Press. German spies
have been a continual source of annoy
ance throughout the recent British re-
tirements in France. Sfany OF these
spies have been detected in British
uniforms, presumably stolen from the
bodies OF the slain. A British officer
in a letter to the Daily Express, tells
Of an encounter with two such spies
Il had been ordered to take up po-
sition with the two guns of my section
as our Infantry were being forced
back" he said II was on a crest just
in front OF my guns ready and waiting
to open fire and observe the rounds.
but the specified time had not ar
rived.
"On the right OF me was the road
along which few minutes before r
had managed to get my guns. Ii was
packed with infantry, transport, guns
prisoners, and stretcher bearers strug
Cling along with wounded. Something
or other called my attention to two
signallers striving to lay out wire
from the road towards my observation
post. / could hear a gibe made to them.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-19
RESENTED THE
ORATORS SPEECH

Axel Allander, who claims to be a
Swede, was bound over to the United
States authorities for investigation
from the city court yesterday. The
night before, 1t was related, Allander
is reputed to have taken exceptions to
a speech made at the Seamen's church.
on South Palafox street, by an enlisted
man, who attempted to show the value
of Liberty Bonds and to show, 1t is
said. the danger which an enemy alien
could and was doing in this country.
The trouble is said to have started
after the meeting, when Allander spoke
to the speaker and attempted to force
an argument with him.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-19
CHARGED WITH BREAKING
AND ENTERING HOUSE

Blanche Palmer, colored women
was bound over to the county autnorl-
ties from the city court yesterday upon
her admission that she had entered the
home of a negro man and had helped
herself to a number of articles about
which the complaining loser had regis
tered a kick at the police station she
is charged with breaking and enter
ing. there having been given no author
ity for her to go into the negro's house.
according to his sworn statement.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-19
SALES WAR STAMPS
THROUGHOUT STATE

Sales for the first eleven days of
May show a total of sii0. 492.i3, worth
OF War Saving Stamps were disposed
OF, while the total sales, from Deem
Der Bird. including May 18th. We're
81. i09. 5i4,57, according to a statement
Just issued from the State Directors
office.
This is record sales and indicates to
what proportions the sale of stamps
has grown in Florida, but as large as
it seems, it is far from sufficient to
guarantee the state absorbing the re-
mainder of it this year. Sale of stamps
up to date should have been about
Sc, 100000, and 1t is for this purpose of
adding a great deal OF stimulus that
the Drive will be made during the
month of June, eliminating in a big
pledge day on June 18th, when meet
ings will be held in every town and
hamlet, not only in Florida, but in the
United States.
Figures of sales for the total sales
up to May Ia, including bank sales is
appended below:
The sun., 1918-12-11
NINE MEN TAKEN IN RAIDS.
Detectives HRuls Include Two
Homicide Suspects,

Detective raids on two East side
tenements early yesterday morning
yielded nine men. two charged with
homicide, and the other seven with
suspicion of having had something TO
Go with a series OF robberios.
The first raid was at Spring street.
where five men We're found sleeping
on the floor. They were held in CON
neCtion with the robheries.
From Spring street the detectives
went TO 1875 East Tenth street, and in
another room took four more prisoners
Among these were Peter Nazzaro of
224 Sullivan street and Alfred F'aroco
l54 Thompson street They are
charged with homicide. the police
alleging they had hand in the street
fight in which Ettore Ochinoeri, 37e
Bleecker street, was killed on No
vember 90.
The other arrests are the result of
an investigation OF holdups OF the
cashier of the Empire Paper Box
Company at Bethune and Washington
streets, when $1,000 was stolen; the
attack on Frederick Pabst, ca shier for
Brokaw Bros, at 237 LAFAYETTE
street, who fought the robbers of and
saved 81 800 of his employers money.
and two other holdups which netted a
total of $1,000 in the robbery Of n
restaurant and n saloon.
The sun., 1918-12-11
AETNA SUIT COMPROMISED.
by Judges Plan stock VIII BE
CHANGED to Bonds.

After a committee OF six lawyers
representing conflicting interests
among the security holders OF the
Aetna Explosives Company had failed
TO reach an agreement necessary to
the discontinuance OF the receivership,
Judge Julius NJ. Mayer yesterday In
the Federal District Court fixed the
terms of an adjustment. His terms
practically split the difference be-
tween the claims Of the preferred and
common stock holders.
Judge Mayer requested the lawyers
to convey his compromise figures 70
their clients and report to him next
Thursday that an agreement had been
reached. He pledged each of the law
yers to use his influence in favor Of
the plan. Julius Strassbourger and
Henry Woodman. representing two Of
the largest blocks OF common stock.
declared themselves in favor of the
compromise and their attitude was
looked upon as insuring its success.
A preferred stock issue Of $5322,-
900 is to be converted into an issue of
per cent. bonds, payable in twenty
five years.
The court fixed the value at which
shares OF preferred stock are TO be
converted into bonds at so. The pre-
ferred stock holders asked that the
figure be So; the common stock hold
ers that II be rs. The preferred stock
holders will receive back dividends
which in January will amount 10 l5I
per cent.
The sun., 1918-12-11
EVENTS TODAY.

Address By Major Eric A. Lancaster on
War and After monthly meeting of the
Ohio Society Of Ne" York waidorfAstoria
Meeting of the Taxpayers Alliance OF the
Borough of the Bronx, address by Comp.
troller Charles L. Craig Borough Hall,
Stated meeting OF the Board of Education.
Park avenue and Fiity. ninth street I p VI
Hearing on proposed ordnance in relation
p p n si,N'' ''ecu''''0"' N0ArH OF Aldermen
by the Commissioned officers OF the cruis-r
T And tT pa: 4r,, tSree q Me Atlantic fleet
Lecture by Rev; Joseph II, Mcmahon on
American Catholics and Social Work After
the War" Delmonico's, =. NJ
Free lecture by Agnes L, Vaughan on The
p n metropolitan" ND'ea" of Art $3.50
clety. Waldorf Astoria p. NJ
Forty fourth street, +. VI.
Luncheon of the members council OF the
Merchants Association of New York ROtcl
New Jersey auspices OF the Manufacturer
Council OF the State OF New Jersey, Robert
Treat Hotel, Newark, 10 a. NJ
National Auxiliary No i4S of the National
War savings Committee. Floral Gardens,
l'Sh street and broadway Z. NJ.
., JAIL lo'e4 ST. George,
LeCtnre by James Waldo Fawcrtt on "Rs.
conjunction. % East Fourteenth street S
p. NJ.
Travel talk by r. NJ Newman on war.
time England" Music Hall and SIS p. NJ.
Brooklyn Institute eva
New York Browning Society. mee,inY
waldorf. oria, +. NJ.
Eclectic Club. meeting and luncheon Wal
dorf Astoria 10 A. NJ
National League OF Professional Roscbau
Clubs meeting, Waldorf Astoria all dny
Eastern Bar iron Institute meeting. Wal.
dorf. Astoria, all day
Wrapping Paper Manufacturers. service
bureau meeting 10 A, NJ luncheon p NJ
ktiaric Cat Show Hotc, McAlrin. all d,y
Me,ropolitAn Life Insurance dinner. Hotel
x ESSS Drivers Association meeting, Hotel
New York optometrical Society. meeting
Hotel McAlpin, =, NJ
Greater New York Music Publishers
lurcheon Hotel McAlDin. 70 80 p NJ
Emma willard Association, meeting. Hotel
Zionist Organization. meeting, Hotel Ne.
Amin. p. NJ
Regular meeting Of the New York Ho,,a
OF Trade and Transport alton address Inv
Maurice Francis Egan, 9O3 Broadway. io,is
= VI "
Business meeting OF the Witty Leather
and Allied Metal Council of America aIy<f
forum Rush Terminal Sales Building p NJ
Address by Dr. Robert II McElroy on
"saie Rebuilding" Cosmonclitan Club
luncheon. Ia, East Fortieth street. p. N.
The sun., 1918-12-11
CHICACO-N.Y. ALRMAIL
WILL START MONDAY
Three Stops to Be Made in 8
Hour Trio.

The first mail airplane to leave
Chicago for New York will start from
Ashburn field there at o'clock next
Monday morning, according to an
announcement, yesterday, by John ].
Jordan. construction engineer Of the
Air Mall Department. Stops will be
made at Bryan and Cleveland, o., and
Bedford. Pa. The trip will take about
eight hours. Mr.. Jordan said that
$500 aviators, recently discharged
from the army and navy have filed
applications for positions as pilots In
the air mail service.
Otto Praeger, second assistant post
master general. yesterday made public
details Of the November aerial mail
service between New York, Philadel-
phia and Washington. OF the 100
flights only one-that on November Is
was interrupted. On that day the
air mail arrived here on scheduled
time but was six hours late in reach
ing Washington. Almost clock work
regularity was observed on all other
days.
The New York terminal was moved
during the month from Belmont Park,
L. l., to the flying field near the plant
Of the Standard Aircraft Corporation
at Elizabeth, N. j. 1t is expected the
proximity OF the terminal to the
Standard shopR where prompt re-
pairs and service canbe secured, will
have a good effect in keeping the ser
vice up to a high state OF efficiency.
The sun., 1918-12-11
WHITMAN LOSES BOTH SUITS.
Decisions Mean He Cannot Exam
inc Ballots Until Dec. rs.

In decisions handed down by the
Court Of Appeals in Albany yesterday
Gov. Whitman lost in both proceedings
brought by him to test the validity OF
the count for Governor in the recent
election. This means that the certifi-
cate OF election will be issued TO Alfred
f. Smith on the face OF the returns
Mr., Smith has a plurality OF about
5000 in the civilian vote. and II
Is conceded by the Republicans that he
will get the best OF 1t in the soldier
vote which according TO tabulations
completed yesterday amounts TO 1887.
Gov. Whitman refused to comment
on the decisions last night. AS soon
as have had a chance to study them
shall probably have something to
saw" he remarked The question last
night was as to whether the Governor
would continue his efforts to contest
the election or would send congratu-
lations to the Governor
The sun., 1918-12-11
LIEUT.. BURCHILL
KILLED OCTOBER 5
Harry Mccormick, Former
Giant Ball Player, With Him
When End Came.

Lieut.. Joseph e. Burchill. former
real estate man who won commits
sion at Plattsburg as an expert hand
grenade thrower, was killed in action
on October In the Champagne drive.
He was one OF seven picked officers
sent to France in February.
Harry Mccormick, a former Giant
ball player, was with Burchill when
the latter was killed. Lieut.. Burchi!l
was with the 306th Machine Gun Com
pany, Seventy seventh Division. He
lived with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
John Burchill OF 81 West Ninety
second street, and was in business with
his brother John at 232 West Twenty
first street.
Private Louis Greenbaum. Company
A. 325th Infantry, had been over the
top twice and on both occasions
emerged unscathed. Previous to mis-
induction into the army he had been
clerk at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
He complained that the sector upon
which he was fighting was quiet and
expressed the hope in a letter to his
parents that he would be transferred
to the Marine sector. He was re-
ported killed in action on October rs.
Members of the family of Corporal
Daniel B. Talon. Company D, 80sth
Infantry. at 26l West Hath street,
express the belief that the telegram
from the War Department to his
father, Patrick. that the corporal had
been killed in action on October 8, IN
duced an attack OF heart disease from
which the father died few days later.
A memorial mass was celebrated In
the Church OF ST. Thomas the Apostle
yesterday for the soldier and his
father. Previous to entering the ser
vice Private Talon was secretary to
the postmaster at the substation at
Thirty-fourth street and Third avenue.
Lieut.. Ernest w. Woodruff, son of
Mrs. NJ. Woodruff of 81 Radford street
Yonkers. graduate in civil engineer
ing OF Columbia University. class of
1912. + reported to have been seriously
wounded in action on November ~.
While Mr.. and Mrs. John s. Jones OF
faphank, l.. l.. were reading a letter
from their son, Private Henry J. Jones,
Company b, S05th Machine Gun Bat
TALON, in which he said lie was resting
behind the lines, telegram came from
the War Department with the report
that he had been killed in action on
November
Corporal Thomas Fitzgerald, son Of
John j. Fitzgerald OF ! West 1O4th
street, an attorney, was killed in the
Argonne Forest on November /. He
enlisted in the Forty-seventh Com
pany OF the Fifth Regiment Of Ma
rines.
Sergeant John Bacco. a noted oars
man Of West Hoboken, n. j., was
killed in action on October ~ while
serving with Company u, l25th Infan-
try. He was % years of age and had
been promoted for bravery in action.
His home was at 10 De Mott street,
West Hohoken.
The sun., 1918-12-11
ROOSEVELT YIELDS
BRITISH SEA POWER
America Should Be Second.
Colonel Writes.

The United States should not at
tempt to build navy equal in strength
to that Of Great Britain, according to
Col. Roosevelt in a letter TO George
Haven Putnam. president of the
American Rights League. which was
made public yesterday. The Colonel
characterized the British navy as be-
ing probably the most potent instru-
mentality for peace in the world" He
asserted his belief that the American
navy should be second in strength to
that OF the mother country.
The two nations, so Col. Roosevelt
thinks, could to-day agree on a uni
versa arbitration treaty which would
make war between them impossible
for all time to come.
II nm now prepared to say what
five years ago I would not have said, :"
wrote Col. Roosevelt II think tho
time as come when the United States
and the British Empire can agree ~
a universal arbitration treaty. In
other words, l believe that the time
has come when we should say that
under no circumstances shall there
ever he resort 70 war between the
United States and the British Empire,
that no question can ever arise be
tween them that cannot be settled in
judicial fashion. in some such manner
as questions between States OF our
own union would be settled"
The letter was written by the
Colonel in response to an invitation
from Mr.. Putnam to join the English
Speaking Union. OF which Arthur J..
Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary.
is president. Col. Roosevelt said he
was in sympathy with the general
purposes of the union, but declined
membership because. he explained, he
was deVoting his energies and time to
secure in this country o spirit of
undivided American nationallsnI.'
The sun., 1918-12-11
Room. for Tank Corp. League.

The Brown University Club OF New
York has offered its clubrooms in A
West Forty-fourth street to the Tank
Corps League, which has been organ
lied TO look after the interest OF Tank
Corps men as they return from Eng
land and France and are discharged
from our camps here. In these rooms
the men will find good billiard table.
bath, newspapers and periodicals and
an information bureau. The rooms Will
be open from 0 a. NJ. to IL p. NJ.
daily.
The sun., 1918-12-11
MOONEY CONVENTION PLANNED
10000 Delegates Sought, Repre-
sentinH Entire Country,

A call for national convention to be
held in Chicago on January IA was
issued yesterday by the International
Workers Defense League. which has
set itself to the task OF obtaining a
new trial for Tom Mooney, whose
death sentence recently was committed
to life imprisonment in California.
The sponsors Of the movement are
seeking to get 10000 delegates to the
convention, and want 1000 of them to
represent labor in the Atlantic coast
States. The executive committee Of
the United Hebrew Trades voted yes
terday 70 send delegates to the con-
vention.
The sun., 1918-12-11
Thaw Liberty story Denied.

PHILADELPHIA. Dec. l0.-Dr. Z. +.
Fuller, superintendent OF the Pennsyl-
vania Hospital for the Insane, to night
declared that Harry X. Thaw has no
liberty. except such as is sanctioned
and ordered by the court.
Since Thaw entered this institu-
tion." said DR.. Fuller, "he never has
been outside except when he went to
Pittsburg for Thanksgiving on the or
der of the court"
The sun., 1918-12-11
Truck Breaks bridge Flooring.

Traffic on the northerly roadway of
the Brooklyn Bridge was tied up an
hour yesterday afternoon when a mo-
tor truck owned by the Hudson Mill
and Lumber Company. SIS Hamilton
avenue. Brooklyn, crashed through the
flooring. ploughing up several square
yards of planking. Manhattan bound
traffic was diverted to the Manhattan
Bridge ana trolley car passengers
were given transfers to the elevated
lines. B. r. T, emergency workmen
eventually Strengthened out the tangle.
The sun., 1918-12-11
Tanks suppiant Canal Doat MuIes

PARIS, Dec. Industrial use al
ready has been made of the tank.
Yesterday a tank was used as motive
power on the Marine Canal, hauling a
large convoy OF barges at a speed of
nearly two miles an hour, as com
pared with the speed by animal power
OF less than mile an hour.
The sun., 1918-12-11
Named ss Port Appraiser.

WASHINGTON. Dec. lO.--Mart!n r..
Tanahey OF New York was nominated
to-day by President Wilson to be as
sistant appraiser OF merchandise in
customs collections District TO- with
headquarters at New York city.