OLD WARSHIPS
TO BE TARGETS
JThey Will Give Bluejackets
a Test of Real Marks
manship
Washington. Dec. 10.—American
blue jackets will be given an oppor
tunity to test their marksmanship
on real battleships steaming at full
speed under actual battle conditions.
If plans now being worked out at
the Navy Department materialize.
The Bureau of Ordnance contem
plates taking several obsolete ships
to the target range and using them
for targets moving at full speed.
There would, of course, be no crews
aboard the target ships, which
would be steered by an electrical
"distant control" system, probably
from an aeroplane or another ves
sel.
In this manner, it was pointed out
at the department, the battleships
could be maneuvered under con
ditions approximating those of bat
tle. Smoke screens would be inter
posed between the target and the
fleet to simulate a destroyer smoke
created.
Heretofore no effort has been
made to use moving ships as tar
gets. Some years ago the old Tex
as, renamed the San Marcos, was
towed to Tangier sound in Chesa
peake bay and there riddled with
shells from the 12-inch guns of the
fleet. For several years the wreck
age of the old craft was used as a
target so that incoming generations
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WEDNESDAY EVENING
of tars could test their eyesight j
through the telescopic sights on the i
guns of the fleet.
A number of old battleships, con- '
demned to the scrap heap or sale j
for junk are available for use as j
moving targets under the deptyrt- |
ment's new plan. Among them are j
the lowa, Indiana and Massachu- j
setts.
Two More U. S. Ships
Launched by Japs
Tokio. Dec. 10. —Two ocean-going
steamships, built'for the United States
Shipping Board have been launched
recently in Japanese yards. They
were the Eastern Trade, a 13.000 ton
steamer, and the Eastern Glade, a
steel cargo ship 400 feet long.
A FURLONG
A well-dressed stranger strolled
up to a colored prisoner, who was
taking a long Interval of rest be
tween two heaves of a pick.
"Well, Sam, what crime did you
commit to be put in those overalls
and set under guard?" <
"Ah went on a furlong, sah."
"Went on a furlong? You mean
you went on a furlough."
"No boss, it was a sho" nuff fur
long. Ah went too fur, and Al\
stayed too long."—Houston Post.
"WILL SING CANTATA
New Cumberland, Pa.. Oec. lt>.—
The choir -of Baughman Memorial
Methodist church is arranging to
give a Christmas cantata, entitled
"The Holy City."
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TRIAL OF DETZER IS
EXPECTED TO BRING OUT
NEW ARMY SENSATION
New York, Dec. 10.—Another
court martial involving charges of
brutal treatment accorded members
of the American Expeditionary
Force, at which the evidence is ex
pected to eclipse even the sensa
tions developed at the trial of Lieu
tenant "Hard Boiled" Smith, began j
to-day at Governor's Island.
A special investigation of the j
charges was ordered by Secretary of j
War Baker. More than 100 wit-i
nesses have been brought here from 1
France and virtually all states in the !
Union.
The defendant is Captain Karl W. j
Detzer, a former newspaper man of!
Fort Wayne. Ind., who while at
tached to the 30Sth military police!
company, had charge under the pro- i
vost marshal of all criminal investi
gation in the Le Mans area, the
largest American concentration cen-1
tre in France, through which more |
than 1,000,000 soldiers passed. It
is charged that by various methods'
of "torture." he sought to extort i
confessions from prisoners, in order j
that he might win favor in the eyes
of his superiors by the number of
convictions he obtained.
To Try Sergeant
At the close of Detzcr's court j
martial, it is planned to place on'
trial on similar charges his first j
sergeant. U. S. Madden, of Pitts- 1
burgh._ a nephew of John E. Mad- |
den, Kentucky horseman. Sergeant ;
Frank L. Hoyt, who is alleged to'
have aided and abetted Detzer and
Madden, was said by members of j
the Judge advocate's department to I
Costa Rica May
Now Be Recognized
Washington, Dec. 10.—The State
Department has recommended to
President Wilson that recognition be
accorded the present government of
Costa Rica.
The present government is headed
by President Aguilar of Barquero,
who was designated as president un
, der regular constitutional methods
, after former President Tinoco fled.
! President Aguilar has put back into
' force the old constitution.
TO VACCINATE ALT. TORONTO
Toronto. Dec. 10.—Taking cogni
zance of the refusal of the city coun
cil to accept its medical officers,
recommendation the provincial board
of health has ordered the civic
authorities to issue a proclamation
within 4 8 hours providing for'gen
eral vaccination.
The total number of cases of
smallpox in Toronto since the epi
demic started in the first week of
November is 1.098. No deaths from
the disease, which is a mild type,
have been reported.
SMALLPOX OX LINER
New York, Dec. 10.—On account
of the development of a case of
smallpox on board the French
steamship Britannia of the Havre
line, which arrived yesterday from
Marseilles, 809 of the steerage pas
sengers were vaccinated and re
moved to Hoffman Island for obser
vation.
3 MONTHS OLD
BABYWOECZEMA
On Body. Cried All Night Cuti
cura Soap and Ointment Healed.
• When my baby was three month,
old he had eczema come on different
§ parts of his body. It came
as if the skin had been
rubbad off, and waterwould
ooze oot. Then a scale
would form, and he would
cxy all night.
"I then tried Coticorm
Soap and Ointment, and I used one
cake of Soap and two boxea of Oint
ment whan he was healed." (Signed)
Mrs. Samuel E. Knight, Side St.,
Magnolia, Del., Jan. 8, 1919.
Concurs Soap, Ointment and Tal
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use*. Bathe with Soap, soothe with
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RARRISBURG TELEGRAPH!
be a deserter In France. He has not
yet been arrested.
Methods which Detzer and his
subordinates are aliened to have
employed to wring "•confessions"
from their prisoners resulted, it is
alleged, in sending many men to the
hospital for a period of several
weeks. Officers of the judge ad
j vocate's department admitted that
i many of the men Detzer had to
| handle were "hard characters,"
! often with long criminal records.
\ The methods are said to have in
' eluded orders to stand at attention
for 36 hours, 10 minutes on and Ave
j minutes off: withholding food and
: drink from prisoners until they
i acknowledged their "guilt"; pulling
| prisoners to their feet by the hair,
I striking them in the face and
j threatening them with pistols. It
| also is charged that once Detzer
I compelled Private Marcello Gon
! zalos, of the 110 th machine gun bat
| talion to swallow a lighted cigarette
! which he was smoking against or
' ders.
! In all. Detzer faces 28 speciflca
! tions under charges of assault and
; conduct unbecoming an officer and
, general charges. If convicted on all
j counts. Major William E. Kelly, of
I New York, judge advocate, declared
ihe faced a maximum sentence of
life imprisonment.
The offenses with which Detzer is
charged are alleged to have been
committed over a period of several
months beginning last February.
They were first brought to the at
tention of the inspector general at
Le Mans, who immediately began an
investigation.
TO STIMULATE
ART OF FLYING
British Officer to Come Here
to Ask Aid of the Amer
ican Government
Ix>ndon. Dec. 10.—Major General
Sir F. H. Skyies, British controller
general of civil aviation, hopes to ar
range for complete co-operation be
tween Great Britain and the United
States in all matters relating to fly
ing. This is the purpose of his jour
ney to America, on which he expects
soon to leave.
The American ambassador, John
W. Davis, told General Sykes at a
farewell luncheon to the British con
troller that he thought American co
operation might be taken as assur
ed.
General Sykes said that the inter- I
national air convention, based in the
main on regulations tor air navi- j
i gation in Great Britain, now had re- j
' ceived the assent of all the powers ,
' allied and associated in the war ex- j
cept the United States and Japan. !
"The national tendency in aircraft j
development in Britain," said Gen-1
eral Sykes, "is to allow individual I
enterprise to work out its own sal-j
vation in the main and no scheme j
of government subsidies such as that ;
in France has, so far, been adopted." I
But he pointed out that did not j
mean that the government will |
spend nothing to promote enterprise.
"With a view to stimulating the j
efforts of designers and manufac- j
turers of heavier-than-air craft and !
i to guiding them toward the attain- j
ment of greater security and relia-1
bility," he continued, "an official |
j competition has been instituted j
j which is to be held next year. The j
prizes offered amounted t0£64,000.1
"Prizes will be given first for the !
small type of airplane required for j
business, pleasure and sporting flying j
inn the British Isles; secondly, for I
the large weight-carrying machine l
which experience suggests will be 1
necessary to meet the conditions of j
transcontinental traffic; and thirdly, 1
for a type of Mamphibious flying!
boat which, in view of its power to j
alight on and rise from land or I
j water, cannot fail to find many j
uses."
The Civil Aviation Department of;
the Air Ministry, he states, is an en- j
tirely "new departure," on the part |
of the government. Its purpose is j
j to advise the Aircraft Industry and;
render it all assistance possible, to j
; open international relations, to lay
! down internal and oversea air routes. !
to establish stations for landings and j
departures, to deal with all metor-1
olical matters, and to provide in
formation on that subject as well!
as a host cf others connected with i
aerial navigation.
Her 'Ads' Brought 5,000 j
Lost Church Members
Back to the Fold
1 ■ •••• m sua .
J MISS ELIZABETH MATTHEWS
The novel idea of advertising for j
lost church members was originated |
by Miss Elizabeth Matthews, of Glen
dale, Ohio, when the Episcopal i
Church League for the isolated was
started as a national movement.
She was made secretary when the
; league was established in the South
ern Obio diocese. "Lost—s,ooo
Episcopalians," was the heading of
an advertisement she had published
' in the Columbus newspapers and as
a result more than 5,000 lax church
1 members returned to the fold.
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DECEMBER 10, 1919. '
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