The Washington herald., 1918-11-14

hrst on one wing and then on the
other i'm a vertical position and twice
putting the ship almost completely
on its back. Nevertheless he kept
on to the south with the sight of
land obliterated by the storm under
him.
The last list of commissions
issued by the War Department be-
fore such commissions were pro-
hibited includes a number of Wash
inGtOnians. The list is as follows:
Joseph French Page (no street
address given) and Francis T.
Colby, 211S Massachusetts avenue,
majors, United States army.
Felix Hughes. 1921 Massachusetts
avenue. captain, United States
army.
William NJ. Barlow and John
Sloane, both 1880 i street. first
lieutenants. United States army.
Francis II. Meakin, 1888 r street.
and Joseph L. Zimmerman. Cno
street address given), second lieu
tenants. United States army.
AleXader Anderson (no street ad-
dress given). and Ernest p. Wende-
roth, 1857 Meridian place, first lieu
l.
Richard J. Beall. 525 llth street,
AID Axel F. Enquist. Ill l4th street
northeast, captains. Quartermaster
Corps
Morris Leibowitz, 113O 7th street;
George II. Wakefield, CnO street ad-
dress given). and John II. Dunkin.
1873 street, first lieutenants,
Quartermaster Corps.
Edward S. Barton, jr.. 144O Meri-
dian street; Charles S. Gross,
Cherrydale. Va; Philip f. Creamer.
Camp Humphreys. Va; Robert a.
Hickman, Fort Myer, Va, and Ed
ward S. SpiCcr, 1867 Monroe street.
second lieutCnants. Quartermaster
Corps
Arthur R. Dorsey. 39OS Kansas
avenue, second lieutenant. Motor
Transport Corps.
Nathan Coplan. 2SO7 Ontario road
and Henri T1auer. 22I1 Washington
circle, second lieutenants, Signal
Corps
Frank f. Johnson, 14S2 California
street. second Lieutenant. air service
production.
The first returns Of the army's
subscription to the Fourth Liberty
Loan to he made public were an
nOunced Wednesday by Brig. Gen.
Herbert NJ Lord, army liberty loan
officer. These returns show that the
army. exclusive of the American Ex-
peditiOnary Forces, had subscribed
approximately $3O,OOO.OOO of bonds.
up to Monday, October Il. To this
amount there must also be added
eventually the amount subscribed by
the American Expeditionary Forces
in France. Italy and Siberia. Capt
Robert w. Daniel assistant army
liberty loan officer. states that the
total army subscriptions to the
Fourth Liberty Loan will exceed
S45.000.O0O, double the amount the
army subscribed for the Third Lib
erty Loan.
Many interesting incidents in con-
nectiOn with the army subscriptions
have occurred. A telegram received
few days ago from Fort OgIe-
thorpe, Ga. said that numbers Of in
termed German prisoners wished to
invest in Fourth Liberty Loan bonds,
II permission was obtained from the
custodian of alien funds A. Mitch
ell Palmer permitted the interned
prisoners to invest in liberty bonds
" 80 N4AA1A'' ~ III NilNlA pOSStGSlOu.
Arrangement have been made by the
subsistence division of the Quarter
master Corps whereby the laborator-
les Of the Bureau of Chemistry, De-
partment of A Agricultural. throughout
the United States are to be utilized
more fully by the army. Through this
arrangement, the inspection of food
products which requires chemical
analysis will be made to a greater
extent under the direction of the gen
eral supply dcpOts at the source OF
manufacture. Delays OcCa stoned un-
der the former procedure of having
inspection made at the delivery point
will thus be avoided. At times cars
of greatly needed food products have
been held up pending report of ana
lysis. Under the new system. such
products will have been completely
inspected at point of purchase.
The new system will be particularly
effective in handling canned milk.
putting milk upon the same basis of
inspection as canned meat products in
large packing houses. Further ar
rangements have been made where
by, if It develops that any stations
of the Department of Agriculture are
too remotely situated to afford the
proper service, stations will be prompt
ly established by the Bureau of Chem
istry to give the required service.
This arrangement Is another of the
steps which the Quartermaster Corps
is taking to coordinate all govern
ment departments in securing the best
supplies and service for the troops.
To procure an adequate supply of
castor oil for use in connection with
the War Department aviation pro-
gram, numerous contracts were let
last spring for the raising of cas-
tor beans in the Southern States.
at a price of $3.50 per bushel. With
the harvesting of the crop, 1t has
been found that this price does not
the grower. After careful consid-
of the Bureau of Aircraft Produc-
tion. w. c. Potter. acting director
of aircraft production. has establish
ed a price of $3.50 per bushel of forty
six pounds. AS specified in the orig
inal contracts, beans are to be de-
livered hulled and sacked, in car
load lots, (. o. b. the nearest rail-
road station to the land on which
they are grown. Most of the plant
ing of castor beans was done under
subcontracts with the general con-
tractors. The price of $3.50 now es-
tablished is to be paid to the actual
growers of the beans. The remunera-
ton of the general contractors for
their sevices in connection with the