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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
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lta&rie Italiano Efilcace-
Draftees Unable to Carry Rifle
Will Be Retained for Other
Service
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Permit No, 341
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br 6, 1917, on file at the Post-
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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
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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-
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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.
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Cruiser That Stranded After Sea
Tight Refloated Despite British
UURLl.V, Jan. 20. Tho Turkish
cruiser Sultan Yavvuz Selim (formerly
tho German cruiser Goebcn) lias been
nlloated and entered the Dardanelles.
Tho Goebcn, which has survived so
many mishaps In tho war that she has
earned tho title or 1110 unslnkable
ship." ran ashore uftcr a fight with a
tlrltlsh bqu.idron on January 20. Her
sister shin In adventure, the Brcslau.
ivas sunk In tho engagement, as wero j
also two Hrltlsh monitors. The lirlt-
Isli accounts of tho battle seemed to
Indlcnto that the Goeben went nground
Insldo tho Dardanelles uftcr being
damaged by the British fire Biltlsh
airplanes havo been bombarding tho
stranded cruiser.
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STATEMENT DECEMBER 31, 1917 .
ASSETS
Bonds and Stocks at present
market" vajue $2,630,719.50
Cash in Banks. 244, 1 1 5.25
Fire Premiums in course of
Transmission 1 66, 1 95. 1 3
Marine' Premiums in course
of Transmission 30,522.96
Accrued Interest and all
other Property 42,456.77
Total Assets $3,114,009.61
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock $750,000.00
Reserve for Reinsurance. . . . 978,627.31
Reserve for Unpaid Losses. 444,485.00
Reserve for National and
other Taxes 63,000.00
All other Liabilities 3,072.62
Contingent Fund 1 24,824.68
Surplus 750.000.00
Total Liabilities $3,114,009.61
Surplus to Policyholders $1,624,824.68
Losses Paid Since Organization 7,250,077.90
JOHN 0. PLATT
1st Vice President
JOHN KREMEB
Assistant Secretary
HENRY W. BIDDLE
BAVABD HENRY
J. LEVEEING JONES
OFFICERS
BENJAMIN RUSH
President
GALLOWAY C. MOBBIS
3d Vice President
T. HOUABD WBIGHT
Secretary-Treasurer
DIRECTORS
ARTHUR E. NEWBOLD
JOHN GBTBBEL
C. HARTMAN KUHN
SHELDON CATL1N
2d Vice President
T. LEANING SMITH
Marine Spcretary
BENJAMIN RUSH
CHARLES S. W. PACKARD
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