Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-01-07
Scraps and faets.

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charge OF German military affairs,
had ordered the Fifteenth German d.
vision to meet the Poles. There was a
clash in which the Poles wore quite
severely defeated because Of German
superiority in artillery and other
eouipment II not in soldiership. The
Quarrel il over the sovereignty OF the
Polish city Of Posen, claimed by the
Germans and as the matter Is one tnat
can be settled at the peace conference,
the Allied governments are not In very
hearty accord with the Polish opera
tions.
The Ohio State Board Of Medical
Registration and Examination has De.
gun an investigation OF charges OF
profiteering against physicians OF
Cleveland and other cities IN the state,
during the past two months or more
The board is advised that because OF
the scarcity Of physicians, on account
Of war service. the physicians VINO re-
mained at home took advantage OF the
opportunity to charge seVeral times
the usual fees for their services, es-
pecially to new patients, formerly un-
der the caro Of other physicians. Dr.
]. e. Tuckerman, vice president OF the
Cleveland academy OK medicine, ls
quoted as denouncing these men most
bitterly, provided they are guilty, ana
demanding that they be held up 10
public odium.
American shipyards built l,SS2
vessels Of 2.721,2S1 gross tons during
1918. Reports Of the bureau or naVl.
cation of the commerce department
made public today show this totaI Q,
which ali but $4,000 tons represented
seagoing ships, the seagoing tonnage
alone aggregating 1851. .321 gross tons.
The bureaus figures for 1917 con-
struction. show that 1,034,0 900 gross tons
were constructed by American snip
yards. The armistice brought about
decided check in the yards output.
November was the month Of greatest
construction In the history Of American
ship building, III vessels of IS! $50
gross tons Of seae Ding ships pelng
produced. In December only los snlps
were completed and the tonnage
amounted to 2S3,35S.
"A propaganda has been inaugurated
among soldiers and sailors OF NorroiK'
Va, in behalf Of years advance sal
ary to soldiers and sailors on their
discharge from the army. w. B. Sha-
fer, Jr., Of Norfolk, is the originator
of the plan. He argues that the pro.
proposed advance Of a years pay Will
give soldiers and sailors the means OF
taking advantage Of such business OPP
portunities as might turn up IN their
way, or perhaps spend year or TWO
more at school and college, as circun-
stances might require. He claims that
II will be an act Of justice to the enlist
ed man who worked for dollar day
by the side Of the non-enlisted man
who received from $6 to $40 q day.
The argument that such an allow
ance would make many loafers, ne
saws, comes from tightwad taxpayers
who do not stand 5or the fair deal:
He argues that men whose lives and
fortunes were at stake are entitled TO
something at the hands OF the pron-
teers who made millions out OF the
war. Shafer's propaganda Is being
circulated among the soldiers and sail
ors in the shape Of leaflets which the
soldiers are required to send to their
newspapers and the congressman.
Two thousand five hundred soldiers
returning from the battlefelds or Eu-
rope, more than half of them wound
ed, and many OF them unable TO turn
themselves in their hunks. have been
having q distressing time as the result
of the stranding Of the transport the
'.Northern Pacific" in which they
came, off the coast Of Fire Island, near
New York last week. The big steamer
went aground on a sandbar in storm
and efforts to get her off the sandbar
on which she was stuck proved unavail-
ing. The winds and the waves con-
tinued to batter the vessel as she roll
ed heavily, and oil poured on the
troubled waters seeming to AFFORD only
partial relief, 1t was finally decided to
remove the passengers, During Thurs
day 259 soldiers and Red Cross nurses
<ot ochnra hv of SCr4
boats and breeches buoys, and the
transfer was accomplished without ac-
cident except the capsiZing OF two or
three Of the lifeboats; but even at that
no lives were lost. During Saturday
2,204 soldiers were removed mainly by
means Of steam launches, which the
men boarded from ladders thrown
oYer,the bow Of the southern Pa
cific," and by means Of gangways. This
left about 200 helpless wounded still
aboard, including men with broken
limbs that had not yet knitted, and
most Of these were moved on Satur-
day and Sunday by being carefully car
ried down gangways in the arms OF
sailors.
Reductions Of from 25 to 80 per
cent In existing freight rates from At
lantic ports to ports in South Amer
lea, Asia, Japan. Australia and Afri-
ca have been announced by j. H.
Rosseter, director of operations Of the
shipping board, effective for January
and February loadings. Mr.. Rosse-
ter said this reduction in rates had
been authorized in order that the sub
stantial amount Of tonnage under the
shipping board which has been made
available for commercial trades could
serve its greatest possible usefulness
to American exports. South Amer
lean rates per ton are $3.50 to north
Brazil from Para to Pernambuco; $25
to middle Brazil from Mexico to San
tos; $50 to south Brazil from Paragua
to Rio Grande De Sui and s35 from
Pelotas to Porto Allegro; $25 to Mon
tevido and Buenos Aires; $3.50 to-
La Plata and $50 to Rosario, Bahia
Blanca and Port Nadrya, Argentina,
with a special announced rate from
and China are $45; Manila $40: Sim
gapore and Saigon s45; Penang,
Bangkok and Port Swetenham $3.50;
Calcutta and Colambo s45; Bombay,
Bangoon and Madrass $50, and south
east Indies $50. For Brisbane, Sgd
ney and Melbourne, Australia, the
rates are $40, with the same tariff for
New Zealand main ports. The tariff
of South African ports is $50 and to
west African ports S25.
ALI capital ships of the future will
be electrically driven, "insuring their
superiority over vessels of other ma
tion," Secretary Daniels told the house
naval committee on Thursday. The
New Mexico. the first electrically
driven dreadnaught, is the most pow
erful naval vessel of any navy in the
world today. and has put the electric
drive beyond the field and experiment
tation, the committee was told. Built
to develop 26,500 horsepower, the New
Mexico actually did develop $1,000
horsepower, Mr.. Daniels said. Some
of the other advantages claimed
for the electric drive by Secretary
Daniels and Commander Foote. his
aide, are: A 25-per- saving in
fuel: a great saving in fuel space and
engine space; as great power to drive
astern as ahead; economy in installa-
ton and operation; the ability to de-
velop full power H. one propeller as
well as four; greater endurance at
high speed. Commander Foote said
that the experiment had been expect
ed to prove costly, but had proved
economical because it burned 25 per
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