THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG, PA. STATE BANKS SHOW INCREASE Fourteen Institutions, With Capital of $1,815,000, Formed Since Dec. 1. PROSPERITY IS THE REASON There Are 221 Banks of Discount, 318 Trust Companies, 13 Savings Insti tutions and One Saving Fund Under This Jurisdiction. Harrlsburg, Harrlsburg, September 24. Banks and trust companies Incorporated In Pennsylvania since December 1, 1916, to September 15, this year, according to a statement Issued by State Bank lug Commissioner Daniel P. Lafean, tar ted in business with a capital stock of $1,815,000. Fourteen banks lncor porated during this period of less than nine momhs have a capital stock of $1,140,000, and the four new trust com pjnlee that have begun business dur lng the same period have a capital lock of $675,000. At the preecnt time there are 221 banks of discount, 318 trust companies thirteen savings institutions and one unincorporated saving fund under the jurisdiction of the State Banking De partment, making a total of 553 Insti tutions.' Prosperity of the time is the reason for the formation of the numerous new banks and trust companies at the Banking Department. With deposits Crowing larger in the older banking 'Institutions, many communities find there is etlll room for one or more banks. The new bank Incorporated since last December are: Philadelphia Co-operative Banking Association; Sheraden Bank, Pitts burgh; the Sons of Italy State Bank of Philadelphia; State Bank of Beaver Falls; the Citizens' State Bank, Lock Haven; Bank of Erie; Pennsylvania Bank, Philadelphia; the Merchants' Co-operative Banking Association, Easton ; Hungaro - Russian Slavonic State Bank, Johnstown; the Citizens' Bank of Palmerton; the Dormont Bank; Union Deposit Bank, South Fork; Safe Deposit Bank, Tarentum; American Bank of Commerce, Scran ton. Trust .Companies Commercial Trust Company of Harrlsburg; Hoi lidaysburg Trust Company; Miners' Banking Trust Company, Shenandoah; Central Trust and Title Company, Erie. Revise Tobacco Crop Losses. Packers and growers have revised their first estimates of the losses caus ed to tne tobacco growers of Lancas ter County by the big rost of two veeks ago, when many fields were bit ten. The growers place their loss at half a million dollars, while the pack ers scale this down materially by pointing out that most of the frosted crops will be sold to scrap tobacco manufacturers at higher prices than were paid for sound tobacco prior to the boom caused by the war, due to the buying of vast quantities of tobac co by the agents -of foreign govern ments for their soldiers. During tne last week scrap dealers have offered as high as 15 cents a pound for damaged tobacco, without being able to get any, and since the frost the growers have even stiffened prices on their sound tobacco. Berore the freeze most of them asked 25 cents a pound, and since the frost many are asking ae much as 30 cent. As a re sult the buyers have all been called In by their Arms, and no sales were reported during the last week. The prediction has been made that if the packers let the growers alone until after January 1 prices will break to such an extent that the tobacco can be bought at a reasonable figure, one fair to packer and grower. It is a significant fact that for some years past Lancaster County's tobacco crop has been bought on the field while growing, and thla year very lit tle indeed has been bought. The growers year after year have express ed the wish that the dealers would let them alone and not tempt them to sell until after the crop was stripped, and this year, unless the unexpected fcappens, their wish la likely to be (ratified. , Girl Refugee Farm Student. Miss Rose Brlnd, a young Russian Jewess, who was a refugee from Pal estine, came halfway round the world to atudy agriculture at the Pennsylva nia State College. She entered college at the beginning of the first semester with the freshman class. Rather than submit to Turkish rule Miss Brlnd and ber family fled from Jerusalem in December, 1914, and at Joffa were taken aboard the United States gunboat Tennessee. 1 ' To Plan Bigger Crops. ' Members of the State Commission of Agriculture met here to dlscusB propositions for increasing the food Btuffs production In the State. Ar rangements also will be made for add ing to the courses of lectures at farm ers' Institutes and for soil Investiga tions and demonstrations. The Department of Agriculture's bu reau of markets appealed to persons able to supply cabbage In carload lots to communicate with the bureau Imme diately, as many requests for cabbage In large lota have come to the Capitol. Picks Fire Prevention Day. Tuesday, October 9, has been pro claimed v Governor Brumbaugh as 7!Fi:Vrvniion Day" In Tennsyha lila, and the people of th State are tirged on that day to clear up and re movo from premises all nibbinh, trash and waste. The Governor also sug gests that special efforts be made to ree that properties are In good condi tion and that healing apparatus and chimneys be put Into proper shape, while the protection on all buildings of a pv.bllc and seml-publle character be Inspected. Utlllllllll!lllllllllllllllllllilllllli;illl( 1 PENNSYLVANIA I BRIEFS . nilllMllllilllilllimillllllllllllllillimiliir: Pennsylvania State College enroll ment is 2,033 students, 300 short i f laiit year. The Lehigh Valley Ceil Company has refused to deliver fuel to ila.clton employees whoso homes are iltmite l in threo wards, whoso Btrnsitu aro In bad shapo. Alvln Parsons, a former well Known baseball star, was found de.id In Ills bed at Bangor, aged -44. Among teachers of Lancaster Coun ty are 82 who never taught before. A great falling off In church mem bership has been reported to Lacka wanna Presbytery. Great activity now centers about the yard of the Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation nt Bristol, where steam shovels have begun excavations for the slipways, and all wen who apply for work are engaged. Yeagerstown has filed a petition for incorporation. Built at a cost of $10,000, St. Mary's Home For Girls at Cresson ... form ally opened. An inheritance tax of $1,000, paid by Lebanon county, is the largest pay ment on a single estate ever made to the State Treasury. Five Columbia county voters in vot ing for county auditors voted for a man dead almost a year George H. Sharpless, of Catawissa. Permission to recruit in Pennsylva nia has been granted the Fifty Royal Highlanders of Canada and their band by Acting Adjutant General Beans. Another severe frost prevailed throughout the northeastern part of the State, and late corn in the valleys is so badly nipped that it has prac tically withered. A marble tablet has been presented to the Blair County Historical Society by Colonel Henry W. Shoemaker, to be placed on the bridge at Tyrone, to mark the famous Indian Logan spring. Notwithstanding his acquittal of the murder of his wife, Patrick Donahue, of Shenandoah, is still in jail and will so remain until the November court arraigns him for the slaying of Dr. H. F. Kilty. Bristol schools have an enrollment of 1.250 pupils, the largest on record. Fire Chlof Franklin Gllkeson has se cured 26 recrulta for a proposed mili tary company of volunteer firemen at Bristol, but wants 50. Twenty-five Holsteln, Dur'iam and Jersey cows were sold by Edward E. Gabriel at Morgantown at -from $30 to $130 a head, and two springers, weigh ing 2,800 pounds, sold at $155 each. A plant to manufacture chemicals Is being established In the old Bean planning mill at Pawling. ChaKes E. Scott, cashier of the Farmers' National Bank, Bristol, gave new half dollars to the drafted men as they boarded the train for Camp Meade. A testimonial banquet was given at Perkasio to Harry Neamanu, in honor of his five-year-record as Grand Keep er of Exchequer of the Grand Cattle, Golden Eagles, of Pennsylvania. Unable to get help, Irvln H. Myers, of Fountalnville, one of Bucks county's most successful farmers and cattle breeders, sold out. Albert Bilman, aged thirty-seven, a breaker machinist, is dead at llazle ton from injuries sustained when he was struck by a motorcyclist, who left him dying on the public road, but whose number was taken as he fled with his headlight extinguished. Mrs. J. Miles Derr, fifty, her daugh ter, Martha, aged seven, and Miss Jen nie Lenker, forty, of Turbotville, were killed, and Mr. Derr and another daughter, Ada, aged nineteen, fatally hurt when their automobile was struck by a Pennsylvania passenger train at a grade crossing, near Milton. Steel helmets for the American sol diers In France are being manufactur ed at the Berwick plant of the Ameri can Car and Foundry Company. The helmets are tested by placing the steel hat on a 'dummy's" head. Standing ten feet distant, with a. regulation .45 calibre repeating revolver, the helmet is fired upon. Norton, thirteen-year-old son of C. E. Fawber, proprietor of the Lafayette Hotel, Lancaster, was instantly killed and several persons were Injured when Fawber'B automobile skidded and over turned on Chickle Hill, near Colum bia. ( Ex-Sheriff Layton, who conducted more sheriff's sales and foreclosures than any other sheriff In Broadford county, is dead at Towanda. Mrs. Perry Fanning, of Glade, was fatally injured and Mrs. J. Holllster was seriously cut and bruised about tbe face and body when an automobile driven by Jacob Michaels overturned near Starbrick. Mrs. Fanning receiv ed Injuries to her spine and was hurt internally and died at the Emergency Hospital In Warren. Raids on Gettysburg camp soldiers in other towns have resulted in turn ing their trips to Carlisle. Bellefonte Academy has opened with a large enrollment, despite war conditions. Six thousand persons of the Hazle ton region gave a stirring farewell to the first quota of 89 drafted men. Bloomsburg and tierwlck gave their 173 drafted men the greatest send-off either town had ever undertaken. The State VIcksburg Commlssjon started for the Southern battlefield to make arrangements for the care of the Pennsylvania veterans who will gather there In October. Only 31 civil war veterans attend ed the reunion of the 104th Regiment, Doylestown; hut widows and wives of soldiers swelled the attendance to 52 persons. Catawissa hnd the distinction of fur nishing Columbia county's tallest draft recruit, Herbert L. McCarty, who lit fi feet 5 Inches. Sei'ernvilid citizens WvH contribut ed $102 toward the Support of their recently-organle.ed band. Uidnor township, like Its neighbor, Lower Merlon township, had a re markable and record-breaking health report during the past month. Not a rngle rase of contagious or re portable disease could be found A demonstration took place at Ashland In honor of departing con-turlpts. P ED GERMAN PLOT Men Arrested in New York Planned to Cripple Ships. CHEMICALS FROM TEUTONS About One Hundred Aliens Taken, Many Of Whom Had Carbor undum, Used To Destroy Machinery. New York. Plans to wreck ma chtner) In munition making shops. In America at the bidding of German agents in Europe are believed by t he police to have been defeated through the arrest of about 100 Germans and German sympathizers In raids here. Nearly all the men arretted are me chanics. A number are employed in munitions plants and on navy con tracts. In the possession of home were found quantities of carborundum in pulverized form a chemical used to destroy delicate machinery. The men knew one another, had Held vari ous meetings at which police and Navy Department agents were present un known to them, end had bern under eurvellance for many months, accord ing to the police. The suspicion Is held that the car borundum rea'-hed here from German agents In Scandinavian countries. Em phasis was placed on the discovery of this chemical, some of it in the form of lead pencils, In' possession of a Ger man courier in Norway some months ago. This agent admitted, according to police information, that he had been rending carborundum to Germans In countries at war with Germany. Some of the mVn were arrested, It was said, at the headquarters of the Industrial Workers of the' World, but the majority were taken from their homes. In the round-up more than 200 city detectives and patrolmen wire en gaged. Little difficulty was experi enced In finding all of the men on the lists sent out from headquarters f.nd with one exception there was no re sisting by the men wanted. Suitcases filled with papers, bundles of various sizes, boxes, tools, parts of machinery and contrivances having the appearance of explosives, all seized In the raids, were scattered about on the floors of offices at police headquarters. MAY END LONG-TERM CREDITS. Reserve Doard Already I la-. Taken Steps To Stop Six-Month Notes. Washington. Long-term credits in the United States will disappear for the period of the war if the Federal Reserve Board has Its way. Vigorous Rteps toward the abolish ment of six-month notes have r.lready been taken, one being a let'er sent to the 12 Federal Reserve Banks by Gov ernor Harding, head of the reserve system, recommending the substitution of 30-day notes wherever possible ex cept on agricultural paper. Many millions are lent merchants on from three to six months basis, but in the future Federal Reserve Hanks will not discount commercial papers for more than 90 days. INDEMNITY $87,500,000,003. Pan-German League Says Allies Must Pay That Sum. Amsterdam. The Pan-German League has issued a pamphlet telling the German people that the Imperial Government will exact an indemnity of $87,600,000,000 from the Allies "when the war Is won." A copy of the pamphlet, which has Just been received here, says that Ger many will annex the following terri tories: Greater part of Belgium, a big district in Northeastern France, the cities of Calais and Boulogne, the Suez Canal, the Belgian Kongo, the Canary Islands, Tunis, Morocco, the Azores, Madeira, Gibraltar and part of the French and British colonies In Africa. WOMEN PLAN TO SELL BONDS. To Dispose Of One-Third Of New Issue Of Liberty Bonds. Washington. One-third of the sales in the coming Liberty Loan campaign la the task set for the women of the country by the Women's Liberty Loan Committee, which held a two-day ses sion here with more than 100 delegates from all sections in attendance. Mrs. W. G. McAdoo, chairman, presided, and Mrs. Antoinette Funk, of Chicago, announced the great share of the work undertaken amid enthusiastic ap plause. BOXES NEARLY MATCH LESv. Steel Springs Instead Of Matches In Swedish Product Minneapolis. W. J. Kennedy, pro prietor of a cigar store, called the at tention of Federal agents here to a supply of mntches, manufactured . in Sweden and purchased by Kennedy through a local wholesale house, which contained scores of small steel springs. Many boxes held two of the springs and contained only a few matches, Kennedy declared, SPIES REPORTED SHOT. Ambassador Page Quoted As Tailing Of German Agents With Pershing. Durham, N. C Court martial and subsequent pultlng to death of two German spies, one a wireless operator and the other an orderly to a com manding officer, In all probability saved General Pershing's expedition ary force while en route to France, from disaster, according to a letter re ceived by a son of American Ambas sador Walter Ulnes Pago, from his father. Tlie Magic Ilwuy. HAve w urn's HA , ' ' ik- : tfE OFFER A Germans Will Evacuate Belgium on Condition. ALSO DEMANDS GUARANTEES The New German Offer la To Give Up Belgium Provided Germany la Guaranteed the Right To De velop Her Enterprise. London. Germany has agreed to evacuate Belgium on certain condi tions, it is declared In a German offi cial statement, according to a dispatch from Berne. Germany, it is stipulated, must have the right to develop her economic enterprises freely in Belgium, especi ally in Antwerp. The proposul was made in n sup plementary note to the Vatican, re plying to the peace initiative of Pope Benedict. It was in the form of a verbal communication made by For eign Secretary Kuehlr.iann to the papal nuncia at Munich, wherein the Foreign Secretary specified the con ditions under which Germany v.as will ing to conclude peace on the basis of the evacuation of Belgium The ver bal note to the papal nuncio said Ger many would contribute a share of the compensation to be paid to Belgium for war damages. Belgium would be required, It Kald, to give a guarantee that any Mich uienace as that which threatened Germany In 1314 would in future be excluded. Belgium must undertake to maintain administrative separation of the Flanders arid Walloon districts Intro duced by Germany, the verbal note says, because this separation corre sponds to tho wishes of a majority of the Belgian people and because Ger many desires such separation on ac count of racial sympathy. A ter.il-ofllcial courminication In the German press In explanation of the new German proposal says the govern ment lnte:i!lonnlly avoided stating more clearly the conditions thus out lined. These conditions are said to be compatible with the dignity of Bel glum. Germany avoided mentioning the question of tiie throne, because this was a Belgian domestic matter. Ger many, the communication says, will agree to any government In Belgium which accepts the conditions ret forth. The principal question Is how the guarantees enumerated can be formu lated. Any peace worth having cannot be found In a cessation of active hostil ities, followed by a proceps of terri torial bargaining to be embodied in protocols and pacts, and still less in an arrangement imposed either by vic tors or vanquished which sets at de fiance the historic traditions, aspira tions and liberties of the peoples af fected. Ex-Premier Herbert H. Asqillth, who has recently returned from a visit to the western front, made this declara tion In addressing a mass-meeting at Leeds under the auspices of the War Aims Committee. He described the German reply to the papal note as teeming with "nebulous and unctuous generalities," but giving no Indication that Germany will take any practical steps to open the road to real and lasting peace. . Was Germany ready to restore French territory and give Belgium full Independence, without fetters or reser vations? he asked. A definite reply to these questions, he said, would be worth a whole column of "pious plati tudes!" THE COUNTRY AT LARGE Ninety-two members of the British Royal Flying Corps from Toronto who will train In Fort Worth this winter, arrived in Texas. Brown University began its one hun dred and fifty-fourth year with a large ly reduced attendance because of tho war. . ..!., Capt. M. Olfhersky, Russian buyer of autos for war use, was fatally Injured and his wife killed In an auto accident near Spring Valley, N. Y. The directors of the American Ship building Company declared the regu lar dividends of one and three-quarters per cent, on preferred and one and one-half per cent, on common stock. Leonard Rhone, widely known among grangers, died at his homo at Center Hall. Pa. BERLIN AS STRING Knitting Bag CATTLE DISEASE Mrs. S. S. Durand, Stock Breed er, Can Prove Charge KILLED HER $45,000 HERD Dr. Charles Keane, California State Veterinarian, Confident Anthrax Germs Have Been Spread In That State. Chicago. Evidence that German agents spread throughout the United States germs that caused an epidemic of hoof and mouth disease among the live stock is in her possession, accord ing to a statement made by Mrs. Scott 8. Durand, one of the most widely known women farmers and stock breeders in America. Mrs. Durand alleges that the destruc tion of her own $45,000 herd of prize cattle was due to the activity of these German agents. The plotters are still active, Mrs. Durand asserts. A scheme to destroy the wheat crops of the Northern United States by fire has also been hatched, she says. California Sees Plot Sacramento, Cal. Dr. . Charles Keane, State Veterinarian, declares that an epidemic of cnthrax which Is affecting cattle in Yolo county has reached nn alarming stage, and he feels confident the perms are being spread by' agents of enemies of the United States. The anthrax outbreak is character ized by Dr. Keane as the worst in the history of the country. Reports indi cate the spread of the disease to Co lusa county, adjoining. "TANKS" FOR U. S. ARMY. War Department Call For $20,000,000 For Armored Motorcars. Washington. "Sammy" tanks will fight alongside the big British "Teddies" in No Man's Land. That the United States is to con struct a large number of these giant land cruisers developed with an ex planation of an additional $20,000,000 in the armored motorcar appropriation In the Urgent Deficiency bill called up In the Senate. A total of $36,750,000 is asked for motorcars, with authority to contract for $75,000,000 more. In the $8,000,000,000 bill $20,000,000 is. set aside for artillery, $635,000,000 for ships and $45,000,000 for aircraft. TO SUnVEY ARMY FOOD. Surgeon-General Gorgas Organizes Special Division Of Medical Corps. Washington. Surgeon General Gorgas has organized a food division of the Army Medical Corps. Parties of four officers and eight men will make the rounds of all the camps here and abroad and survey food as to its nutritional value. All of the officers commissioned for this service are skilled physiologists and biochemists. MEN BLOWN TO PIECES. Explosion Also Damage Oil Ship and Standard Oil Wharf. Richmond, Cal. Two men were blown to pieces, the Standard Oil tank er J. A. Moffett was badly damaged and a portion of the main wharf of the oil company here was blown in by an ex plosion. ' It was definitely established several hours after the blast that they were blown to pieces. Two others were injured. EX-GOVERNOR PORT RENAMED. Continued A Member Of Federal Trade Commission. Washington. President Wilson signed a renomination of John Frank lin Fort, former Governor of New Jer sey, as a member of the Federal Trade Commission. Governor Fort was ap pointed last February to serve out the unexpired term of George S. Rubles, of New Hampshire. LIFE SAVED BY CORSET STAY. Deflect Bullet Fired By Husband She Had Arrested. Houghton, Mich. The life of Mrs. Frederick Landroche, of Hancock, probably wa saved by a corset stay. Her husband, arraigned in court on a charge of non-support, nsked for per mission to speak to his wife. This bolng granted, Landroche pulled a re volver and fired twice. One shot went wild, the other was deflected by the corset stay. Before Landroche could fire again he was overpowered. TRACED TO GERMANS WILSOiN TO PROBE OH BASE i j Sentence of Man for Throwing Bomb Brings Protest HAS INTERNATIONAL BEARING American Labor Will Send Delegation To Russia Financed By Public Subscription Commis sion To Make Probe. Washington. President Wilson will direct a new and searching Inquiry into all developments surrounding the ar rest, conviction and death sentence of W. J. Mooney, alleged San Francisco bomb-thrower. This investigation follows an Inter national protest of labor organizations that Mooney has been "railroaded." President Wilson is also Informed that Western labor unrest may be laid finally to the Mooney case. The In quiry will take two course: The Department of Justice will make a complete report on the case to the President. The new Western Labor Investigat ing Commission named by the Presi dent recently and headed by Secretary of Labor Wilson will go to the bottom of the Mooney case. Foremost radical leader in the coun try and many of the leading labor au thorities have advised the President that Mooney' plight I being used ex tensively by enemy countries In stir ring up labor and Socialist antagonism to the United 8tates, particularly In Russia, but also In France and Eng land.. Mooney Is a big figure In Russia, hav ing been one of the leaders of the Rus sian freedom movement there. His fol lowing in other cruntrles is such as to make his case one of international im portance, the President has been told. While the President Is working on this problem labor 1b preparing to send a delegation of union men to Russia to dissipate distrust there in America's war purposes. President Wilson will not name these delegations because of the difficulties involved in picking 75 men for the work, but will sanction the commission, to be financed by popular subscription. DROPS "SLUSH FUND" PROBE. Congress Practically Agreed To Let Exposure Rest Washington. There will be no Con gressional probe of the Bernstorff "slush fund for peace" exposed by the State Department. This was assured, following a -conference between Democratic Leader Senator Martin and Senator Overman, chairman of the Lobby Investigating Committee. House leaders already have decided to let the general Investigation drop, concerning itself solely with the advis ability of Inquiring into remarks by Representatives Ileflin and Howard re flecting on the Integrity of some mem bers. TWO RAIDS ON ENGLAND. Bomb Dropped On Lincolnshire, York shire, Kent and Essex. London. Hostile airships appeared off the coasts of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Hostile airplanes attacked the south east coast of England Sunday evening. According to the official announce ment, the raider came In different places In Kent and Essex. A few of them followed the Thames and attack ed London. Bombs were dropped at several points.' The casualties so far reported are six persons killed and about 20 in jured. WEEK'S CASUALTIES 23,035. British Lone Les Than Week Be fore Despite Drive. London Total casualties of British ranks in all the war theatres for the last week are reported officially to have been 23,035. The casualty lists are subdivided as follows: Officer killed or died of wounds, 103; men killed or died or wounds, 4,430; offi cer wounded or missing, 432; men wounded or missing, 18,070. 15 KILLED, 70 INJURED IN RAID. Only One Or Two Machine Able To Penetrate Defense Of London. London. Fifteen killed and 70 in jured was the official list announced of the latest German air raid by Zep pelins and airplanes. Lord French,, commander-lu-chlef of home defense forces, announced that the raiders over London bad been driven off by anti-aircraft gunfire, only one, at the most two, machines having penetrated the defenses. ADJOURNMENT TALK AGAIN. Congressmen Think They'll Get Away By October 12. Washington. Agitation for adjourn ment of Congress was renewed among Senators. Some leaders thought ad journment October 5 possible and nearly all believed Congress may get away by October 12. CONGRESS BOWS TO WILSON. Action On Invitation To Visit Europe I Postponed. Washington. " Postponement or action on invitations to Congress from British and French officials or n con gressional delegation to visit Europe was agreed upon at a Joint meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs committees, fol lowing receipt of word from President Wilson that he deemed dispatch of a congressional commission abroad in opportune at this time. NEW WAR PROGRAM ABOUT TO BE BEGUN Will Be Inaugurated With Pa$. sage of $7,000,000,000 Bill BILLIONS FCR NEWS HIPS Will Give America Commercial Cu& mnnd Of The Seas Army Will Be Raised To A Strength 01 Nearly 2,500,0'. 0 Men. Tl ..... 1. I . A .... . W uouiufciuii. ii9 ovnm ,:3 u;( qH i 17,000,000,000 Deficiency Appropria tion bill is passed in the Senate it J Administration means to in uiura'e 1 1 new war program more far-reachitil In Its scope than even the warrnak ing department of the (iuiemaml dreamed of six months ago. Definite plan have been worked I out for projects of enormous mn; tude. Suggestion of them have bmj given out from time to time, km it, Information submitted to the two tl I proprlatlons committees of Conire-J in support of the new deficiency ei'j mates show that the purpopes of t Government have only been parte discloeed. Here aro some of the more khJ Ing measures which the I nlted Sun proposes to take during the cumti year: 1. Raising, equipping and train:: J an army of 300,000 men, every om J them destined for forelRn service. z. tipenumire oi i,uuvivy tor era nance, Including perhaps 1,000 b tenes oi nem pieces Hmi million! iJ on millions of high explosive Mli. j 3. Expenditure ot nearly a qu:v of a billion for a new fleet of torj k J boat destroyers with which to roctJ enemy submarines. 4. An aggregate fici'fnJIture nearly two billions for a t.m&A fleet which, when compleieil, willp this country commercial toanani 1 the seas. 5. An expenditure of iiiiprmirs! $1,000,000,000 for the mpply, in:l portation and training of tbe rl armies. 6. An ultimate Incpv. e in the n: personnel from 1'iO.Oi'n to 2i-w j more, and a corresponding Increjiil the enlisted force of the inariwj. Thei"e are the bigger prnjecu. 1 j do not take Into account tlie y which ar,e necessary for tlie hj; of such a program. Tiny do no: elude, for Instance, the erection i' string of base and recontiu;tifJ- p!tn!s along the Atliiiitle const: creation of cxbarkatiou rantotcii at certain ports; the urganiuu: a great body or merchant raarlnt men who are to man the ncw-j tho location or an artillery f ground capable of testing Ut a day, and various .-mulli-r U I portant projects of that sort. It may be stated thai, lrlthfc ception 'or the Shipping Hoards; prlation and the Increase of tt army every plan indicated aw; In addition to those now unar' In some instances, this profXI jIC I ''res it:-'. 3 t only an extension of tint or:? -1 ndopted, but In all case?, it cej nlates new activities un tl.e l this Government. U-BOAT MENACE CUKSEll Navy Department Reportt t&' Well Under Control. Washington. I' nl. ss some tt'l break of submarines activity" manv officials are nitWM situation Is fairly well undfr' Encouraging results have Vc talned through convoying " merrhiint craft, tlie lo. lur"' rorlnxnri In 1..SO than line"'! per cent. The employment ofj'j Btirrun, nuc ui"" j tectlon devices also has tin results, and progress l; with the reduction of merchantmen and by pain in mnbA tliem almost InW:W distance through a periscopf- In discussing submarine n Admiral Benson, chief of " , atlons and acting secretary " sence of Secretary Daniel. ' the department's liiTof 1 1 Known more oi tli ... hAAnrA ihan in the ni ' iin amnii'' announcement was made. 1 Experimenting conuuu.- nthnr tovlrB. TllOllinS A- ' still at work on lnvertllWJ he devoted himself si . ' J ,,. r.n u iitiout tlie J any new Implement fr f the U-boat, however, llir -- rate of destruction oi . ,,J . .. nfflclals impresses mum ;j that the submarine held In check pufllcientl w j . . .. .lofeat tain me ummiu UP ¬ ooiM HOLDING ON TO Trea.ury Official. Export To Washington.-Treaeu". rylng out the Wtf ernlng the consn j . . j unnn ' virtually deciueu hlbltlng the I'0"' No gold has oeeu ... ,. to Spain since iu rfi matlon became effecu small shipments n!i''u' steamers. GETS 30 YEAR Sold"' First , erance-r-lma In fri Leavenworth, K", ,!, nnn nv. a ii" . v AtiiPditlonary f"""'' ' the Federal I"''0" J sentence of J K him by a of nmiKlev. convit'" charge, la the fl to be returnei Ing committed cn ''""'''I oi, S If ' ... 1
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