STOyHFW'V . 'it ft v .;'.?-m'. EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PUILADELPHLV, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, WARTOLIERIA U.S. SHIP DESIGNER PAID BY BUILDERS, TOO Senate Committee Gets Corre spondence Showing Ferris Served Private Firms EARNING OF JLIVING NEW ARMY STANDARD .FROMEITALIANO kT lta&rie Italiano Efilcace- Draftees Unable to Carry Rifle Will Be Retained for Other Service lDBtc Bombardnno lc , AWPoslzioni- Nemlche ?' i Y. 1918 ' ' .", 1. jatTIVITA' f .'ivi AEREA ' cf St fi'rflParecchi sc9ntriv tra, Riparti .to. H'lnnlrttiSno wit TfnlinrlT TJo. lJ ' 'KkTr.r. VUtJOJV,.! ' ' '"ttfaino VlttoKosl Mi '. JPablished and Distributed Under Permit No, 341 f 'Authorized by the ac of Octo br 6, 1917, on file at the Post- fflce of Philadelphia, Pa. 't jBy order of thaTPreiidcnt. I A. S. BURLESON, 4 " . Postmaster General. fe: ItOMA, 29 Kcnnalo. Salle nctlzle clunte dalla fronte si 'YIIkva rh nrll Mlntrt Ira rlnurtl in 9$ rlcomltlono ed nWnl duelll til urtl. t ffimrro bi irano vchiivhii buiiv umru ;- nordlche c epeclalmente culla fronto del EbH -KUUVIHU. ir 1T. mtr.llnniU .Tttltttri' tin. nflHfl W& -Ipartl d'lnourslane, tanto ItalHnl T.cruonto auEtrlacl. si e' nuta dalloyallo Ay Il'Am, ad occldente dell-altlnlano dl L.lVAlaeo. slno all'altro corao dtl Hume R&fWave. Si? Suranto I combattimcmi cno hi en- flcarono tra dettl rlp-xrtl. E ttaiuiai rlunclrono sempre vlttcrtoaL I duelll dl nrtlRlleria furono vlolcn. tlaslml dallo poslilont cho nt estfndono tra la allo Frtnxela cd 11 Carlnlo Brcn ta, ove gll ln-vasorl si tnano prcsso I pledl delle montagrn-. Oil avlatorl Italian! cd Ingleul furono attlvlsslml lungo quasi tutta li flout ed Impedlrono ngl nwcrsarl ill poter gtungere sullo poslzlonl octupate dash Italian!. Ecco I! testo del comunlcito ufllctalc pubbllcato, lerl, dal Jllnlsti.ro delta Querra In Itoma Scontrl tra rlpartl dl lncurlonc si ono erlflcatl, ton cslto a nol fao revcle, nclla Vallate detlAstlco prisso la fronte del Trentlno Ii nosirt nrtlgllerli compl' Con uccesso un'ailcre tontro le poslzlonl r.emlche tra la alle Krenzcla ed II Caralo Drcntu Vlvaca attMta aerea si crlfIco' lungo ttitts la fronte. Un telegrainma da Londra annunzla cho quel Jllnlstcro delli Guerra h.i pub bllcato 11 seguonto conunlcatp, In reli aiono delle operazlont compluto dalle In Klesl. operant! ull.i (ronto Itallana. Se cond II testo: In segulto alia mlglloro lslllllu' la nostra artlgllorla ha potuto, re contemente, controbattero u bombar dare con successo. ' I nostro nereonal sono stato at Uvlsslmo In combattlmentl aerol o nel laroro dl rlcognlzlont. Stl mac chine nemlclio o due pallonl frenatl furono abbattutl durante l.i fccorsa ettlmana. II totale degll neroplanl nemlcl dls trutti dal nostrl nMatori 1 ill i line dl noumbre, quando cloo" conilnc ar ono la loro operazlont alia fronto lt.il iana, o' dl trintaieite m a cell In al battuto e duo mste fuorl controllo, Quattro pallonl ircuatl furono Inccn dlatl. Soltanto cinque nostro mat chine andaono pcrdutc. Un dl.pacc.o da Londra annunzla chc In una lntcrlsta concessa al rappic eentante del "Morning Post" IQn Or lando, presldcnto del conslgllo del Mini strt In Italia, u.re.bbe dlcnlarato rhe nelle conferenzo che egll ha auto con 1 capl del goerno lnglesc, gl a' troato in plcno accordo con tutti lo cuso cssenzlall, non soltano per prlncipll ma ' anche ner armonla dl metodl. Durante Baifll corso delle conferenzo fu paruio iS-rlBuardo al puntl dL vista poutict, ,-.oicne' per qucsnoni ui, oirBiesiu uovro J' deciders! nella prosslma conferenza rallj- f i tars degli Alicatl. Rtfeiendosl bgll artlcou 01 aicuni gtor nail ltallanl cho hanno espresso 11 loro JtUnnnnntn t pltriitinln II rt(Pntn ilthtfarSA P dl Ito)d George, l'On. Orlando arebbo detto: "lo posso atslcurarM cne nes sun'ombra'dl mallrKeso 1 o' tra 1 gocrni Ingleso ed ItalUno." ' Lgll ha confess ilq che 1 rocscl ItaU anlavevano dcatato In lul serla appren aonl e che per contldcreole perloUo d! tempo la poslzfone digll ltallanl e' stata estremamento crltlca. II nemlco poteva dlsporre dl consldi.rooil forze In contt. aruenza del rlnforzl che era stato abllo dl portare dalla fronto russa. I. On Or lando texmlno' l'lntervlsta dlchlurando che egll e assolutamente conlntd qno se Kit AUeatl rlmarranno ferml nellq loro determlnazlonl, 11 trlonofo delta loro causa o' asslcurato. 42 States in Shipyard Rcscre WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 tteports to I" the United .Spates employment senlco f at the close tot the first day of tho EAy drive to enroll.3BO.000 hlpard workers tt eaia that.JJtato. directory of the public ;, service reseronow are establlhed in KMOrxy-iwo places nu uiai miuijMg restates hao'qompteted rescno organlza- i- tlong. . c St 1 WMmWm2XT-t-Mm I UfMuWmMwttrt Mmm kK S iZr8S)mMMMMM mKgttmKmKKtKKKtantKmmammmmmamm Tho parcnti of John Milton Nazcl, of C30 Upsal street, Ger mantown, havo received word that he has been injured while driving an ambulance for the American army in France. No details arc known Y'mnp: Nazel before enlisting was a junior at Cornell University. GERMANS TRIED TO GET U. S. NEGROES TO RISE Tuskegee Institute Head Tells at Meeting Here of Plot to Foment Revolt Something of the extent to which Ger man and Austrian propagandists havo gono In thli country In endeavoring to vtlr up opposition to tho United States Government on tho pirt of Its citizens was revealed In the address made by H It Moton, suiccssor to Honker T Vahlnglon .13 head of Tukcgeo Insti tute, at a meeting In th Academy of Muslo for the purpose of raising a $10, 000 annul! guarantee fund for 1'1'Ko Unlcrslt, a negro Lolligc at Nash vllle, Temi . when tho tpe.iker told of efforts made by agents of the Kalier to foment an uprising jgainst tho Gov ernment by American negroes Speaking of tho matter after his ad dress, Doctor Moton told of a v islt made to a negro phslcliu of Nashville by a m in who purpoited to bo a West Indian negro. In tho compo of which the latter attempted to Induce tho ph slcian to assist In a movement to have tho negroes "strike for their rights and fne thcmselvts from sl.ivir" while tho country was nt war with CScrrmnv He stated that tho matter was reported to the Secret Service at Washington, which had all the facts beforo It Among the speakers nt the meeting wero Governor Brumbaugh who pre sided, and who referred to Philadelphia a.p "the mot maligned and tho best city In the United States"; Dr. r. A. McKenzlt, president of riske University: Dr. Thomas Jcsso Jones, of the united States liureau of nducatlon, and Prof. Isaac Fisher, of Tlke University A program of negro songs and readings by vVAHIIINaTON, Jan. 29, Senalo Com merce Committee, In executlvo session, liau been Inquiring Into tho relations of Theodore I' I'errls, who resigned last ucek as chief designer of the Shipping Donrd'H Kmergency Kleet Corporatio 1 with concerns, building woodch ships for tiii Govirnmcnt. Correspondence Introduced disclosed that nfter receiving a report from the legal department of the I'lcct Corpora tion summarizing Forrls's connections, former Hear Admiral Howies, assistant 1 general manager of tho Fleet Corpora tion, ricommended to Chairman Hurley tint l'erris's res'gnatlon he requested. I'errls. when nihil Into conference the next day, resigned Tho correpondenc showed Ferris was receiving commissions from the Cllnchfleld Navigation Company for de signing ships which had been sold to the Government, una was under contract to the Sloan Shipbuilding Company to sell Its output on a 5 per cent commis sion btsls Tho latter firm stalled hulldlng several wooden ships umW sublet contracts from the ClInchfleM company, but the nrds wore tak n 1 r by the shipping Hoard some weeks ago. Tho correspondence nlo showed that plans for n steel ship the Jahnckc Ship building Company, of New Orleans, In tended building under Government con tract nnd for which tho Jnhnckc com pany ngrccd to pav $20,000. wero drawn in Ferris h New York ofllce Adm'ral Howies wrote to C'haliman Hurley that he learned this from a Jnhnckc repre sentative who seemed reluctant to sav how much the designing contract called for r.arlv last spring before the Shipping Uonid was organlzid Terrls entered Into .1 contract with tho Cllnchfleld Naviga tion Company to design wooden shlp for them on 11 basis of 2 per cent of the cost Tho ships wero to be built for $310 000 each and tho cnmmls Ion was to ho paid In eleven Installments These vessels ivero taken over by tho Govern ment Then tho Cllnchfleld company ob tained four Government contracts at $385,000 under the same ntrangement with Ferris GOEBEN'S CHARMED LIFE The lest of phjslcal disability which will dl'tiuallfy a man within tho draft ago from military scrvlco In future will bo whether or not the man Is phslcally ablo to earn his own living If so, he must do his bit, If not on the firing line, nt least In tho Held of "limited mil itary rcrvlie " Such Is the gist of the Instructions which have been given by Major Jack pon. of the medical reservo corps, sta tioned at Camp Meade, to diaft bontd phvslclans who v lit pass on the ques tionnaires of registered men In Phila delphia As a icsult of these Instruc tions many men exempted In tho first draft on account of phjslcal disabilities will bo called to the colors within tho next few weeki It was explained vby Major Jackson that many men who nie not able to shoulder a illlo and take their places In tho trenches arc still nbln to perform services of vnluo In the military estab lishment, and by ulng these men for limited military service" other men needed on the firing lino will bo re leased to tnke their clnnco nt the Huns Men In almost every vocation In llle nro needed In their special line In the nrmj', Major jacKson cxpiaineu, ami 11 Is the policy 01 tno liovernmeni 10 mi II70 everj man's abilities In any way that they may be of service to the country. m A I :m T ij-t- V". 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