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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1918-08-17
NINE AMERICAN SCWOONERS
SUNK BY HUN U-BOAT
Snbmcrsiblc Comes Up In Midst
OF Fleet or Nantucket Coast

Washington, August 11.--A Ger
mau submarine raided shipping Off
Nantucket this afternoon, according
to reports tonight to the NAVY De.
raTtmcnt. The unlersea craft is re-
ported to have sunk nine fishing
schooners. Survivors are believed to
have been landed. Officials here are
awaiting more details before making
an official announcement.
The loss Of life is unknown. The
official statement from the Navy De-
partmcnt follows:
"The fishing schooner Helen Muir
ley has reached an Atlantic port with
four survivors from the crew of the
fishing schooner Kate Palmer, who
report that a German submarine
came to the surface in the middle
of fishing fleet off the Massachu-
sets coast and sank the Kate Pal
NOR, the Anita May, the Reliance,
the Star Buck, the Progress and
four others, whose names are UNI
known.
"The survivors of the Kate Pal
mor were taken aboard the German
submarine and held prisoner one
hour, and then set adrift in a dory."
Tho Navy Department was with
out information regarding the time
Of the attack. 1t is not known
whether it took place yesterday or
today.
Reports also were received tonight
that the auxiliary fishing schooner
Cleaner had arrived at an Atlantic
port and reported an attack by q
submarine on four other fishing YES
sells off the southerly edge Of Georges
Banks Saturday afternoon. Captain
Edward A. Proctor, Of the Cleaner,
saw one two-masted schooner disap.
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PRESIDENT WILSON PLEASED

Warmly CommcnlS "i'inc Philosophy
OF Democracy" Exhibited In Frank
and Calm Consideration OF War
iSsucs-Scts Inspiring EXAM
plc For All Patriotic
Americans
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PRESIDENTS LETTER ON SPIRIT
OF THE CONFERENCE
The White House,
Washington, July 81. 1918

WASHINGTON, July d. IL c.
"Dear Mr.. Scott:
"Your letter Of June 26th has
been called to my attention, and l
am both interested and pleased with
the report it gives Of tho meeting
held in washington by leaders Of
thought and opinion among the Ne
gro citizens of the country.
"Fhc problems considered by the
conference of special importance to
the people whom they represent, arc
grave and weighty, and the whole
state of feeling throughout the coun-
try will be helped by the frank and
calm consideration given to these
matters.
'In the meantime it is cheering
to see that the fine philosophy of
democracy, which is at this time the
inspiration Of the great effort OF our
country, was felt and expressed by
these conferees as the dominating
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r. H., sieepers Atlanta aRs JeeksoavitSol o,ts
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The Man From Afr1os, With Rem
Bad Luck troubles. Information
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Washington, ID. c., Aug. 7.-Pres-
idCnt Wilson is greatly pleased with
the conference of colored editors and
ether leaders Of thought and opinion
among the colorcd citizens OF the
country, held a short time ago in
this city. The report OF the confer
cncc has boon published far and wide
and tho proceedings have attracted a
larger measure of attention than the
report Of any similar gathering OF
colored men since emancipation.
In Il recent letter, the Chief EXecu-
tive OF the Nation plainly indicates
his deep interest and genuine salts
faction with the meeting and it's sue
ccssSNl outcome, as we'll as with tho
practical results that have accrued
from the frank and unhampered in
tel change Of views rs 20 how the
IL, 100000 Negroes Of the country
might most effectively aid America
to win this righteous war for free
dom and worldwide democracy. The
President feels that the problems
considered by The conference were
grave and weighty." and he is
chcored by tho thought that the while
state Of feeling throughout the conn-
try will be helped by the broad
spirit OF patriotism which dominated
the conferees in their calm, dignilied
and high-purposcd deliberations.
In no uncertain terms, the Presi-
dent warmly commends the colorcu
representatives OF the press for their
timely emphasis Of national unity on
the vital issues involved in the war
and applauds the inspiring example
set by them for all Americans who
have at heart the welfare Of the ma
ton in it's present crisis. The full
text of the Presidents letter to the
Chairman OF the Conference follows:
PRESIDENTS LETTER ON SPIRIT
OF THE CONFERENCE
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CHESAPEAKE & OHIO.

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'Daily ''Exoept Sunday
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-13
Purpose Anti-Jap Scheme
 Was 10 SlUindle Von Papen

did MT. Greene discuss Japanese prop aganda with me. or. as far as I know with anyone else; and that great in- justice was done him by involving him in this manner. He is, so far as know, completely innocent and the unknowing victim of an absurd scheme which was not original with me, but in the prepa- ration of which assisted to the extent of copying and revising what another gave me. well knowing it's absurdity and it's purpose, which was not to launch an intrigue against the Japanese, but which was rather to enable third person to swindle Captain Won Papen out of a sum of money and then laugh at him, doing not one living thing in the scheme proposed"
 A letter from E. c. Richardson of
 inceton university, whose name was
 ntained in the important list" oi
 mes taken from papers of Dr. F. K
 suhr. German propagandist. also was
 serted in the record today. Mir. Rich
 sdson said he had not been pro-G German
 1t that he believed he could prove
 mself to have been ..pro-patria.''
 Messages from Senator-elect Capper oi
 ansas and from Judge George W An irson of Philadelphia, vouching for tho
 yalty of Professor Albert Bushnell liar, Harvard, whose name also was in thu
 important list" also was placed on rec. d, while Senator Weeks of Massachu- stts spoke in the Senate today to re- rd that no one in Massachusetts be- lves Prof. Hart vas ever pro- German.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-13
NelD Inuention Permits 4O
 Simultaneous Wire Messages

circuit, we have enormously inereaseu the capacity of the wires for teie- praghic messages without in any way impairing the quality of telegraph working.
 The nature of these developments IS such that if desired wires may De aseo nartlv for telephone and partly for telegraph. A pair of wires is available either for five simultaneous telephone conversations or for 40 simultaneous messages, or partly for one and partly for the other.
 From the nature of the apparatus and the methods employed the sys- tenn is not practically advantageous on short lines, either telephone or tele- graph. On long lines it's application will be extended immediately. but its must necessarily be grad
 ual on account of the nature of the apparatus required and the rearrange- ment and adaptation of the lines them
 selves and their associated apparatus
 to the new methods or working. II IS not too much to characterize this new
 system as marking an epoch in the de-
 velopment of long distance telephony and telegraphy."
 MT. Vail said that an installation, or the multiplex telephone system boz tween Baltimore ana Pittsburg had been in service for more than montn. l"On Monday of this week. he said, l"accompanied by party of distln- guished government and telephone and telegraph officials. I made an inspec- 1 tion of the system at Baltimore and test of the service provided between Baltimore and Pittsburg. All of the party were delighted with the success-' l ful working of the new system and the evident skill which had been shown tn developing it.f
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-13

Washington. December 12.-Postmas- fer General Burleson today made pup- ,ic a letter from Theodore N. Vail. presi- dAnt of the American Telephon, and Telegraph copany. announcing the m v.ution and development by the teen niraI staff of the Bell system of Vrac- teal system of multiplex telephony ana talarraphy by the use of which 1t IS now possible to increase many foio me message carrying capacity Of 'ons tele- phone and telegraph wires.
 with this new system, said Mir va,rs letter, -four telephones pnversa- r,uns over one pair of wires are sim u,;aneously Carried on, in addition 70 inc telephone conversation provided by the ordinary methods. Thus, over sinnle pair of wires a total of five tele- hone conversations are simultaneous .ly operated, each giving service as good as that provided by the ereuit working in the ordinary way.
 "A number of years ago We st'yeioPso inc phantom circuit arrangement. hy wnich three telephone circuits are iob- lta,ned from two pairs of wires. Now lty our multiplex method We are en- . ah,ed to obtain five telephone circuits lover one pair of wires, that IS, lo sim !ultaneous telephone conversations rom 1 the two pairs of wires which former ilv could be used for only three simui- ltaaeous telephone coaytrsations.
 In telegraphy. as wss. as in teie' phony, sensational results have been al !, ta,ned by the new system. By coinbin. linx two telegraph wires fn.o ! metallis
 -st of the type used for tciephoas
 e md by applying our new an
 s.as ts.S md methods ro this metallii
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-13
REORGANIZATION OF WAR DEPARTMENT
 ID BE OUTLINED
Project Will Not Include Any Proposal of General Military Policy for the
 Country at Present

Washington, December l2. Definite plans for reorganlza- ton of the war department and the general staff, embodying the experience gained during the war, soon will be ready for presentation to Congress. The project will not include, however, any proposal of a general military policy for the country, as that question will
 be held in abeyance until after Ithe peace conference at Paris. General staff officials are giving at
 tention to the preparation of bill Tor {, the permanent reorganization of the stair itself It is understood that strong rec concentrations soon will be laid before i Secretary Baker for the abolishins or I the old bureau system and for the cen | tralizing of both authority and responsi-
 bility for the entire military estapilsn-
 ment in the general staff
 i Instructions TOT the preparation of such plans were issued by General March when the armistice was signed. During
 the war the emergency authority or the Overman bill had proved sufficient 10
 enable General March to erect the stair | machinery as it now stands
 | Secretary Bakers approval of an ef- fort to write into law staff Dill which will perfect and perpetuate the central control General March has created Is aenerally expected as officers recall his Interpretation of clause Of the nationai defense act which might easily nave been I read as subordinating the staff to the statutory bureau of the department MT Baker then elected to construe the law l as leaving the option with him ana uh.
 der that construction maue the eIhei VI staff supreme.
 General March has indicated that the development of new technical arms 1T ithe service during the present war woule necessitate provisions for the co-orui hated control and expansion oI thes' through the general staff organlzauon lit Is expected, therefore, that the Iorth coming bill will clearly define the statu' of such arms as the air service, th' l motor transport corps, the chemicalf war
 fare service and the tank corps In'
 Ichief of each service, probably, Will p'
 i a member of the general starr. sim
 llarly. the present distribution or th functions formerly vested in the quarler , master general. chief of ordnance an' adh1tant general will be confirmed 0n' centralized in the staff
 While the reorganization of the arm
 itself will be deferred until the outcom l of the Paris peace conference IS Knowi ) jmany aspects of this supJec. are perui rn studied by general staff officers Tn : staff already has asserted it's virtuail : unanimous adherence to the universe
 training idea. Should the peace confer
 ance arrive at a decision which woul ' sharply limit military estapnsnmeh,u' { ' tha+ ,,niye sal training machinery woui f he entirely too cumbersome for the si2 i, of the army the United States was : maintain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-13
German Censorship
 Now Only Formality

Berlin, December 12-tBy the Associat- ed Press. 1.-The German censorship of tel
 egrams exists now only as a formality.
 The messages of the Associated Press correspondent are being passed for trans
 mission without having been read by
 the censor, and on one occasion the
 censor's stamp was even handed to the
 correspondent for him to use if the cen-
 sor happened to be absent whsa the cor
 respondent finished the message upon
 which he was working. Copies of the Associated Press messages received in Copenhagen in transit and later avail able for comparison. show no altera- tion even in messages the tenor of which was not pleasing to the government.
 | There is no press censorship whatever, unless the sporadic assaults upon news papers in Hamburg, Cologne and few other places can be considered such. The Berlin. conservative press writes in the same vitrolic style as during the war, 1 The censorship of outgoing letters is confined to seeing that they do not con tain bank notes, or securities, the ex- portation of which is forbidden.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-13
Summary of the News

.1-U. $. navy to he greatest In world President reaches Brest at noon to-
 day.
 Congress speeds TIP consideration
 of road problems. 2-Merchant shot and killed by we'll
 known conductor. 3--Casualty list. 4-EditOrial. 5-Grand jury recOmmends aholttioa of Iicense inspector.
 Day conrumed In hearing Pevear
 case.
 Food preparedness bureau to con
 tlnue work. 6ESociety and Red Cross news. 5-British girl pays tribute to work
 of Alabama men. s-scfentfhc data on infiuensa gfven
 out. O-sprrts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-13

washington, December 12.-Chairmar t)verman of the Senate committee in yestigating beer and German propaganda today made public letter from Edward Lyle Fox asserting that authors of scheme outlined to German agents 1T this country to stir up anti-Japanes' feeling on the Pacific coast had no in tention of the plan being carried out The purpose. Fox said. was rather to en. able a third person to swindle Captain
 Won Papen dormer German militar,
 aftache here) out of sum of money ant
 then laugh at him.
 Fox is one of the newspaper cores K nondeuts alleged to have been sent t
 azerrnany by Teutonic agents in AlaeEie'
 to send back pro-German newt 10
 country. Last week A. Bruce hlHis sk
 of the department of justice pro< ,s fore the investigating committei 4 eeit mtnication written by Fox and s~sse5S inr that anti Japanese feeling te sttsFs m Hiram Moe Greene, e6itor 4 tae Y iustrated Sunday Magazine. wa tNs sT he communication and in ssr jo Chairman Oyerman. Fos sfa
 fss fniustice had been done C.ssAs 9 inS king him in the matter
 ~ herewith state, said Fo1 ie7eA' .tfss inc name of Hiram Mot see not nut in that document wit @ s.,.: snt or knowledge of Mir Ersae Ether wish to stats thAtea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-13
Churches of Christ
 in Favor of League

Atlantic City, N. J.. December PA resolution approving the recommendation of the commission of international jus tice and good will in favor of league of nations was adopted today by the executive committee of the federal council of the Churches of Christ in America. representing 30 denominations. in session here.
 The churches of the country are to take an active part in the Americanization of foreigners. This was decided by the executive committee following the de- livery of message from the government
 by Commissioner of Education Claxton
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-13

thought these vessels should be de- stroyed, returned or distributed among the allies.
 If England gets the lions share of those ships" asked Representative hel- ley of Michigan. republican, do you still think we should build to the point where we would have navy equal to hers?'
 NEED IS GREAT
 Need for the United States navy be- ing equal to the most powerful main tained by any other nation in the work by 1925 is as great now as 1t has ever been," replied the admiral This may not be possible by 1925. if the Ger man ships are distributed in large mum bers to certain powers, but we should do it as speedily as possible" In reply to a question of Represents tive Butler whether the general board lhad aaopted any general policy in re gard to the distribution of the fleets in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, Ad miral Badger said that no policy hal been recommended as yet. An account of the development ant scope of activities of German subma rines was given by Admiral Badger. Ter years ago the submarine was not large than 150 tons, could cruise less thai | 500 miles and was very vulnerable. To day they are 30 times larger and cal make trips of 1000 miles and more iThey have destroyed hundreds of yes sells and have laid mines in sea lane l and in harbors, making constant sweep ling operations necessary. No on knows, the admiral said, how much fcr lther the development will go.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-13
Bolsheuist Reign in U. S., Beginning Today, Proclaimed

bolshevism Unified States
 
 hereto by the Peoples Day Committee
 
 capitate military zatons" Immediately dissolve bIe "procama declares that United States o Amerca emblem of the society of Germa and Austria u,. e radicals He appeared to incened the intended practical
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-13
Foch Sends Officers for
 Polish Investigation

Washington, December 12.-Marshal Foch has sent officers of the allied arm. ies to Poland to investigate the pogroms reported to have taken place there re- gently. Departure of the mission was announced, an official dispatch said to- day, by Minister of Foreign Affairs 'Pichon, who stated that from his infor- nation the disorders had been commit ted by released German and Austrian prisoners of war, returning from Rus sia.
 not under command of officers, wander at will through the country. seeking vil- lages and attacking the population re gardless of race or creed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-13
AMERICAN NAVY
 TOBESECOND TO NONE M WORLD
Admiral Badger Declares Navy should De Equal to That of Any Other Nation by l9zo-Orges
 Appropriations For Purpose

Washnoon December 12Neither the end of hostltles nor for league nations has altered the policy of
 the hoard of the navy regard to making the Amer
 can navy second to the world Rear Admiral Charles
 Badger chairman of the executive committee o the boaro told todav the House affairs committee that the should be equal other nation by 1925 and urged that sufficient appropriations make this possible be made
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-13
Outlines Programme

Madrid, Tuesday, December 10.-t z Romanones the new Spanish pre- [ today addressed the Senate and Chamber of Deputies. outlining the ernment's programme. which incl the adoption of the budget and econs Ereforms. The premier said that dis sion of autonomy for Catalonia Srain's interests in Morocco was ne sary.