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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-03-06

Prussianism and Russianism are
the upper and neither mill stones
that must be broken or they will pull
verize civilization.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-03-06

The Star is asked to add the name
of John A. Manly, Route A, Box 7,
to the list of Marion county's ginners.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-03-06

Wonder if dried-up brain can
produce dry wit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
First Concrete Ship
Slides From WAYS in
Nelu York Waters

The first concrete ship to be
launched in New York slid into the
blue water of Long Island Sound at
North Beach yesterday afternoon.
She is to be a Woodworking barge,
dedicated to the unromantic task Of
carrying oil for the Standard Oil Com
pany, and for that reason no one
thought yesterday to christen her a
pretty name. Mrs. Herman Fougner,
wife of the president of the Fougner
Concrete Shipbuilding Company, broke
bottle of champagne across her bows,
and she splashed into the tide and was
at once towed to the Empire Ship Com
pany's yards without further celebra
ton.
The boat is 100 feet long and 32 feet
wide, with displacement of 800 tons.
1t has been three months in construc
ton, and Mr.. Fougner stated that it
cost less than similar sized barge of
either wood or steel. Six other boats
of the same size are now under way,
and plans are being made for the con-
struction of 3,500-ton boats.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
Problem of Ships Too
Big for Canal Solved
Big Lake Steamers, Cut in
Half, Will Be Turned
on Edge

Transporting steamship 458 feet
long. 50.2 feet wide and with a depth
Of 25 feet through. a canal that is only
I'D feet wide, accommodating a draft
of ID feet and an extreme length of
200 feet, with the cutting of the ship
in only one place, is problem that the
United States Shipping Board believes
it has worked out to bring from the
Great Lakes for war service the steam
ship Charles R. Van Hise.
The Van Hise is one of 100 vessels
which the United States took over on
the Great Lakes when America entered
the war. Ships Of the size of the Van
Hise-a 9,000-ton lightweight carrier
are needed; it was impossible to
widen the locks, and the engineers of
the Shipping Board were instructed to
solve the problem.
They met the problem by planning,
after the ship has been cut in two
amidship, 70 overcome the handicap of
length, to bulkhead up the two halves,
remove masts, tunnels and deck houses,
watertight the deck, place steel pom
toons one side of each halved hull, fill
the other side with water to tip each
half on one edge. This will give to
each half a breadth, measuring from
deck to keel, Of rs feet, allowing suffi-
fent room to tow the section through
the locks.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
Majority of the Committee
Said to Take Gloomy
View Of Situation
Bristol Fiasco to
Cost u. S. Millions
Ryan Puts Silence System
Into Force and Keeps
Programme a Secret
By Theodore M. Knappen

WASHINGTON, July 27.-Owinp to
the discovery of new material the sub
committee of the Senate Military At
fairs Committee, which is Investigate
ing aircraft matters, may defer its re-
port for two or three weeks. 1t is
known that a majority of the commit
tee entertains a rather gloomy view of
even the present status of the aircraft
programme, and what the whole COM
mittee may choose to do with a rather
pessimistic report remains to be seen.
One member of the committee re-
marked to-day that when one had fall
en- to the bottom of 2,000-foot shaft
he couldn't get any further-which was
the Senator's way of admitting that
there may be some improvement in the
situation.
A matter which is receiving much
attention is that of the tardy beginning
of the construction of night bombers
on large scale. So far as known, no
night-bombing machines have been
been completed. Many we'll informed
persons hold that large numbers of the
huge night bombers are the most i'm
portant contribution America can make
to military aircraft.
On account of the slowness and low
flying of the larger machines with their
tons of bombs they can only be used
advantageously at night, hence the
designation of them as night bombers
Trying to Choose Type
The first large contract for the Cap
roni type was not let until May anc
the first Handley-Page was not com.
pleted until July. 1t is assumed that
large contract was let for this type
following the successful demonstration
at the Standard works in Elizabeth
N. j. The delay has been largely due
it is said, to vacillation between the
Italian and British influence on our air
craft designers.
The Italian influence became para
mount in the spring and an order was
placed with the Fisher Body Company
Of Detroit, for 1000 Capronis. Nov
that the Bristol two-seater has beer
abandoned and the great Curtiss plant
at Buffalo is free Of the incubus thai
held it down for months, it has re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
Nahna Slips Into
Waves and Sticks
In Bank of Mud
First Vessel Launched by
Downey Plant Strikes
Water Four Feet Deep
Rests on Oil Pipes
c err m ony Witnessed by
Throng of Notables, Miss Eat
on Serving as Christener

The Nahma, an earnest and literal
minded steel freighter of $500 tons,
whose name was chosen by Mrs. Wood
row Wilson, was launched yesterday
in the yards of the Downey Shipbuild-
my Corporation, at Arlington, Staten
Island, amid cheers, fluttering banners,
foaming champagne and patriotic mu-
sic.
II chrsten thee Nahma-'Over the
TOT. with the best of luck'!" cried Miss
Aubrey Eaton, daughter of Dr. Charles
A. Eaton, head of the national service
section Of the United States Shipping
Board, as she crashed the bottle of
wine against the Nahma's bow.
Goes cover the Top"
With her hawse- holes staring cog
the platform. the vessel tobogganed
down the ways, swished into the wa
ter, drove across 400 yards of seaway
while guiding ropes snapped, and went
clean over the top of mud bank, jam
ming forty feet of her stern firmly
into the mud, which was concealed by
only four feet of water.
With the best of luck they hope to
get the too-obedient freighter out of
her plight at high water this morning
before her weight brushes any of the
six Standard Oil Company pipe lines
that are buried in the mud in which
she rests: Her keel is squarely on one
of the pipes. A shift of wind to the
west would endanger the other five.
1t was 1915 p. m. when the band
struck up "Thc Star-Spangled Banner"
and the vessel started down the ways.
After the excitement was over Miss
Eaton discovered she had cut her hand
on splinter of glass from the cham
payne bottle. She noticed the wound
when she accepted a great cluster Of
La France roses, which one of the en-
ployes handed to her.
An aeroplane lowered over the yard
during the launching ceremony.
Prominent Visitors.
Among the guests were Mr. and Mrs.
Wallace Downey, Dr. and Mrs. Eaton,
Mrs. Luman Wing, A. G. Pessane, pres
ident of the Great Lakes Engineering
Company, and Colonel I. Thord Gray.
The Nahma is 396 feet long, 81 feet
beam and has depth of 30 feet. Her
keep was laid on November "a. She
is the first vessel to be completed at
the Downey plant for the Emergency
Fleet Corporation. Nine others are
to be built.
One of those who spoke after the
launching was Captain Bookwalter
general manager of the Hog Island
Shipbuilding plant, who said that it
would not be long before ships were
leaving the WAYS there at the rate of
one a day. Othe~ speakers were DR..
Eaton, Mr. Downey o. Mr.. Pessane.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
Enlisted Marines to
Get Chance to Flv
Course at Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology To
Be Afforded

WASHINGTON, July 27.-Enlisted
men in the land and sea service of the
Marine Corps are now getting chance
at Marine Corps aviation, the newly
added phase of marine activities. The
aviation section is being rapidly ex-
banded, it was announced to-day, and,
in accordance with the general policy
of the Marine Corps, enlisted men get
the first chance to qualify as aviators.
Accepted candidates are given ten
weeks course at the navy ground
school, Massachusetts Institute Of
Technology, followed by three months
of actual flying training. Ground
school students rank as gunnery SER
geants. and completion of the flying
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
u. s. Has 118 Fully
Equipped Shipyards
And 81 Building

WASHINGTON, July 27.-America's
great chain of ship manufactures is
approaching completion. There are now
1lS fully equipped shipyards in the
United States and forty-four partly
complete, of which twenty-three are
only six less than 25 per cent ready to
begin building tonnage.
Many have been built from the
ground up while the others have been
extended and enlarged to such degree
that many of them amount almost to
new yards.
The building of shrips has been such
fascinating problem to Americans
| that they have been quick to lose
sight of the herculean task of organi
zaton and development which had to
| precede the construction of new YES
sells to beat the submarine. Back of
the weekly outputs of tonnage has been
long stretch of work, some times dis
couraging, always necessary, which
only just now is nearing completion.
Thirty seven steel yards, which the
United States had when the war began,
have grown to seventy-two. The old
yards have been increased from 1862
ways to 1876, and more are being added.
Eighty yards for building wooden
ships now are in operation or nearing
completion. The rest are for building
!
Hog Island, the greatest of all ship
yards, and one of the four government
fabricating yards, is 80 per cent com
plete and will launch it's first ship next
month, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson acting as
sponsor. Bristol and Newark, two
other fabircating yards are almost
complete, while Wilmington, N. c., the
fourth was commenced only in
May and is still in its infancy.
Wherever expansion can be made
efficiently, the Shipping Board Is lend
ing its aid to increase the capacity of
existing yards. Within the month
eighteen new ways have been ordered
added to the country's ship manufac-
tories--as Chairman Hurley prefers
to call them, for America is getting
ready to manufacture" ships instead
of building them.
The Alameda CAL, plant of the Beth
lehem Shipbuilding Corporation has
been authorized to add ten new ways ct
an estimated cost of 100000, 900. The
same company's yard at Sparrow's
Point, Md, is adding three additional
ways at a cost of $3,000,0 900. The New
York Shipbuilding Corporation, at
Camden. N. j., is building FIVE new
ways at cost Of $4,000
The 11s yards which are complete
are distributed sectionally as follows:
Pacific Coast, forty-eight; Atlantnc
Coast, thirty-eight; Great Lakes, six
teen. and Gull Coast saxtAan.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
s.e a large Caproni order. Both
m mlths OF OF night bombers are equipped

Ss sed a large Caproni order. Both
ENDS Of night bombers are eouipned
with Liberty motors. 4"'fpe"
me aoandonment of the Bristol also
marks the beginning Of the manufact
ure OF pursuit planes in thia country
:, On large scale. Hitherto our people
nave either inclined to depreciate the
puTsult planes Importance or they have
heid that 1t was better to leave its
,"anu1acture to our Allies, while we
.oncentrated on the heavier two-seaters
NM, as the S. E. 8, presumably with
the Hispano-Suiza motor. has been or
aered into large production at the Cur
s!ss piant. and the assurance has been
gwen that at last that plant will have
q osnnite pattern to follow instead of
AeeIing changes. No changes will be
made IN the model except those nee
esssry TO adapt It's parts to quantity
t ph,oouction. No effort will be made in
: :ne midst of production to make an
Improvement on the model.
Home Idea of the financial loss in
vowed in abandoning the Bristol NAV
oe gained from the fact that the ahan,
comment has cost 1900 workmen their
tpSosltaons, temporarily at least, and
.nele seems to be an implication that
man many OF them were long retained on
ehe payrolls doing little or nothing in
order to have them ready for the "get
away Ty on the Bristol that never came.
Inc Senate Committee has now
cailed on the Aircraft Production Sec
t ION Tor detailed statement of what
eae hasco cost, all told. 1t will prob
ao1 I!' De around 100000 or $4,000, 900.
:, The new aircraft production regime
mas adopted policy of intensified Sc
crecy which is self protective rather
IMAM IN military in its purposes. John
". Ryan is strong for low visibility.
IL Is, therefore, almost impossible to
learn anything about the new produc-
tlon programme, but there is reason
!or pelieving that instead Of involv-
ing any gradual discarding Of the Lib
erty motor in favor of foreign or new
American models, the original eight
cylinder Liberty will be revived for
use IN certain types of planes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
Michigan Shipyard
Launches 3,50O-Ton
Boat in Id Days


WASHINGTON. July 27.-A new
record in steel shipbuilding was made
yesterday by the Great Lakes Engi-
neering Company at their Ecorse
(Michigan) plant, when a 8,5oo-ton
steel vessel was launched fourteen
days after its keel was laid. This is
declared worlds record in the con-
struction of vessel of this type by
officials of the Shipping Board.
1t also places the Great Lakes dis
records made by the building of the
6,bO0-ton Tuckahoe in thirty-seven
days and the Launching or the 10000
ton defiance in thirty eight days.
A. g. Pessano, in a telegram concern
ing the new ship to Shipping Board
officials here, said:
"The ship is 263 feet long, with a
beam of 43h feet. Its keel was laid
July IL. and no work has been done
on Sundays, thus making fourteen
working days from the laying of the
Keel to the launching of the boat. All
credit for this supreme and remark
able record is to be given Superin-
tendent Charles A. Baislcy and his
men,"
Director General Charles M. Schwab
replied as follows:
your telegram announcing the
launching from your Ecorse plant to-
day OF ship constructed in fourteen
days is indeed welcome news to me on
my arrival home. 1 remember with
much pleasure my visit to this plant
and the kindly and interesting recep-
ton given me by the workmen. I then
remarked that I felt they were equal
to any unusual tasks that might fall
to their lot. and your telegram to-day
convinced me that my judgment OF
them was correct. l heartily congratu-
late you"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28

Brooklyn, New Jersey and Long leland Customer.
Direct to CIMBEIS via Tube. and Suh,~.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
New Hotel Annex for Soldiers

The New York War Camp Community
Service has opened Unit No. 18, at 35
West Twenty fifth Street, the use of
the premises being the contribution of
Mrs. George T. Bliss. of East Sixty
eighth Street. There are 100 beds
available and the unit will be an annex
to the Service Hotel, formerly the
Hotel Darlington, at 40 West Twenty
seventh Street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
New Conservation
Requirements

Deliveries restricted to
one trip a day over a route.
Return privilege limited
TO three days from pur-
chasing date.
Special deliveries re-
stricted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-07-28
Buy! Buy! Buy.
War Savings Stamps

0"VITtSS OCdl1itl
They are such little bits of
paper, but such a powerful
force (and for which every
purchaser soon becomes
gratefully, for they help
win the war. and they
teach you how 20 save
without making you I'M
comfortable.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-09-16
Additional Secret Documents
Made Public by U.s.. Government
Exposing Plans Of Germany

Washington, SEPT. 1.-THE part
payeo by the German Imperial Bank
!" financing the Russian Bolsheviki
movement. the care taken by the
GeffAan military authorities TO pre-
'eh' spread among their own people
VI me socialistic preaching of their
russian tools, and the plans laid for
GERMAN control of Russia economi-
oaiy and financially during and at
'e' 'ne war. feature the disclosures
~ 'he second installment Of the SEN
'a''ohal series OF secret documents
"N'eh the American government is
making public. Copies Of the docu-
s,ehtS given out tonight carry the
nc NUMBERS Of the Reichbank cr the
Ie.nian general staff. and in some
rs'ances rotations by Leninc and
liolzKy, the Bolshevik leaders. now
S-o"h TO have been in the pay of
e'many since long before they
oNer'hrew Russias new democratic
government and virtually turned the
oun,ry over TO the Teutons. There
ere Illuminating explanatory notes
~ Losar Sissons of the Committee
". w fuolic Information. who directed
ne investigation which resulted in
we disclosures.
ohe OF the Reichbank memoranda.
ca'cd last January, announces to the
ao'dmissar of Foreign Affairs, (Le-
"ihe' that so million rubles Of gold
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-09-16
1890 OF PRISONERS TAKEN DOES NOT
INCLUDE BULK THOSE NOW in SALIENT

the pincers some IL miles long rested on
the Moselle at about Pont-A- Mousson
The other. about eight miles long. rest
ed on the heights of the Mouse at Haul
diemont. little to the east of the river
the claws of the pincers was about 80
miles. and the ground to be nipped off
by them would be about 200 square
miles.
It was thus 3iggish sort Of an
operation to be put through in two
days on Il sector that had been as
stubborn to impression as almost any
on the whole front But the opera
ton has been carried out not only
without a hitch Of any kind but
throughout in advance Of the sched-
uled program and in weather condi-
lions that were unfavorable through
out for all arms. and especially for
the tanks and the aircraft.
7 Yet. despite the sodden ground and
binding rain, the infantry has been
supported throughout by the full
| range of its artillery and has Fri
umphed even though tank support
could not be afforded and though the
work of the airplares, magnificent as
1t was, could not approach the eff
fectiveness that might have been at
tanned in fine weather.
The first days fighting saw the
south ern claw of the pincers advance
up to the full limit assigned to it. but
the western had to face more diff
cult ground and more strenuous op-
position. 1t, too, however, reached
its assigned position later in the day
Consider, now how interesting was
the situation. The claws Of the pin
GERS were but four miles apart. They
were pursuing a large force of the
enemy ahead and away from The
end, and at the same time they were
enclosing an unknown but certainly
also a large force Of the enemy in
the 200 square miles that their grip
embraced. When the claws met
then the arms would have a big
force of the enemy on either eide of
them, and they might have to fight
facing both ways.
They took chance, for the enemy
was reported to be escaping between
the claws at the rate of thousand
an hour. when, early Friday morning,
they closed, and trapped SO far I'M
known number of the enemy. A
chance shot at the number Of the
Germans inside the salient when the
operation began would be from 90
900 to 100000. Many Of the roads
were lined with them today and up
to midnight last night. 1890 had al
ready been counted, but in this num-
Der had not been included the bulk of
those believed to be trapped in the
salient.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-09-16
50 AUSTRIA
RMANY'S
CATSPAW''

London, Sept 15.-"Austria again is
Germanys catspaw," was the comment
generally heard III London when the
news of Austria invitation to the Bet
ligerents to confidential non binding dis
cussions at neutral center became
public 1t was not considered surprising
that Austria should make a move to Sc
cure peace, for Vienna. since the early
days of September, has been the scene
of many conferences of the statesmen
of the Central Powers and OF Teuton1c
allied monarchies
Week before last Admiral Won Fintze
the German foreign minister. was there
and besides having long conference
with Baron Burlan. the Austro- Hunga-
ran foreign minister. was received in
audience by Emperor Charles Likewise
King Ferdinand of Bulgaria on his way
back to Sofia had conversat ton lasting
an hour with Emperor Charles. Talaat
Pasha. the Turkish grand vizier, also
has been lowering around Vienna and
Budapest and giving out interviews de-
'tt5 'i4"' 81 "iliildi y victory DE either
side is now impossible. 1t has been
thought the Austrian Emperor intended.
to ask for mediation either b., the King
OF Spain or the Queen of Holland. but
he has gone no farther than to ask for
non-binding discussion. without dis
closing any terms. and incidentally by
sending a note to the Pope TO endeavor
to secure the pontiff's support for the
proposal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-09-16

has been placed to the credit at
Stockholm of the representatives OF
the commisarS to cover the cost or
Red Guards and agitators. Another
Of a few days later tells of a credit
Of five million rublcs for the assist
ant naval commissar in the Far
East. who is entrusted with The task
Of carrying off or destroying the great
American ana Japanese stores OF
war material at Eladivostok-a
scheme that probably was well under
way when the landing OF American
and allied forces at Nladivostok
ended the sway Of the Bolshevik
there.
A resolution accepted by the Ger
man commercial banks under the
auspices of the Reichhank outlines
an elaborate program for control or
Russia by Germany and the n9rring
of America and the allies from the
Russian commercial and industrial
field after the war. What has hap
nened to this scheme is not definite
ly known. but it is suggested that it
NAV be the subject of one Of The Sc
Greet sections Of the Boil
SheNikl treaty.
How I.enine and Trotzky were be-
trayins their socialist friends along
with Russia is disclosed by n sharp
note TO Lenine from the Nachrichten
bureau demanding to know what
stems he would take, to make good
his personal promise that socia.istic
and agitational literature would not
he circulated among German troops
Trotzky wrote on the margin: i
ask to discuss i'll. L."
The concluding document Of the in
stallment is a German warning on
January 90 to Lenine that unknown
ogitators were circulating propagan-
da telling in advance Of the plans OF
the Rolsheviki to openly surrender 10
the Germans as they actually dc
later.