THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSBURG, PA. 1 OF COMPANIES Want No Mining Hold Up, With War's Emergency Demand for Fuel FEAR DRASTIC LEGISLATION Chief Anthracite Operator Follow Lackawanna's Lead and Agra to Make Preparation For Surface Subsidence. Harrlsburg. Thirteen of the largest coal com panies In the anthracite region stand ready to make repairs to highways and homes damaged by mine caves In their workings, to eliminate the desire for legislation, according to an nouncement made at Scranton by the Lackawanna Company. The offer, they say, Is entirely voluntary, and applies where the right of surface support lias been waived by owners of the surface. ' Following, as It does, the hard fight 'that has been waged at Harrlsburg the present year for the enactment of remedial laws dealing with the mine cave situation, which has become very cute In the Scranton portion of the anthracite field, the offer is looked upon as an attempt on the part of the . coal companies to forestall any legis lation which might from their view point be looked upon as drastic. Governor Brumbaugh's statement to members of the Scranton Surface Pro tective Association, which has stirred tip so much agitation on the mine cave question the past year, and which lists fathered the Scarlet bill, now be fore the State Senate, that he would sign the bill If it was passed, Is looked upon at Scranton as the lever which pried loose the offer of the companies. Briefly, the offer says: First, that they will bear all expenses of repair ing and restoring streets or highways that may be damaged by mine caves; the work to be done In co-operation with the municipality in which said street or highway Is located. Second, that In the case of dwellings of the value of 15000 or less, which- may be damaged by mine caves, they will bear the entire cost of repairing and re storing. Third, that where there is danger of surface subsidence to struc tures exceeding $500 in value they will provide artificial support at the expense of the surface owner, or will sell such pillar coal as remains and may be necessary for support, at a rate per ton 25 per cent, in excess of the prevailing royalty rate at the time of purchase. This agreement applies where the right of surface support has been waived, and Is made to meet the situ fctlon that now exists and could be enforced, which would result In seri , ous interference with mining opera tions and a large decrease In output, to the detr'ment of the anthracite com munities and the coal consuming public The announcement is signed by the D., L. t W. Company, Pennsylvania Coal Company, Hillside Coal & Iron Company, Scranton Coal Company, Le high Yalley Coal Company. Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Company, Lehigh Coal ft Navigation Company, Phlladel phia ft Reading Company, Temple Coal Company, Greenrldge Coal Com pany, Kingston Coal Company, Dela ware ft Hudson Company and Hudson Coal Company. Field Mass at Camp. Field Mass by Rt Rev. Monslgnor Peter Masson, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, at 6.30 A. M., opened Sunday at the United 6tates Ambulance Camp on the Allen town fair grounds. It was the first field Mass ever seen In Allentown, and there were several thousand worshippers. The deacon of the Mass was Captain J. Ryan Deveraux, of Washington, D. C, who brought the splendid Washington unit. Captain Deveraux, who is a nephew of the late Archbishop Ryan, had sug gested applying to Archbishop Pren dorgast for a chaplain for the Al lentown Ambulance Camp, when he found that his wishes for field wor ship had been anticipated by the rec tors of Allentown. In the afternoon a song service on the grandstand was led by Rev. Dr. J. A. W. Haas, president of Muhlen terg College. The camD flag was raised with all the panoply that auuertalns to the colors. To fix the pole and tne rope ni tackle the biggest hook and lad der truck in Allentown was brought to the grounds, and the flag was rals A for the first time by Charles C Taylor, hoeeman of Engine Company No. 52, Philadelphia Bureau or Fire, nembor of Unit B. Section 2, in the mn. He climbed more than 100 feet straight in the air, and the cere -rnony was rarely inspiring. To Be Toil Free July 15. Highway Commissioner Black signed Xhe final papers for the purchase of the Lancaster pike from Philadelphia to Paoli, and It will be freed of tolls July 15. The freeing of this road will leave but 12 miles of toll road between Philadelphia and Harrlsburg on the 6 late main highway, the section being between Lancaster and Vlntnge. The price for the section taken over will be $165,000, Montgomery county naV' lng agreed to pay $5,060. while Dela ware and Chester will also contribute The section Is 14 miles long. Uohotds Clinton Judgeship. President Judge George Kunkel, of the Dauphin County Courts, gave It as tils opinion that the recent act of the legislature designating Clinton county as a separate Judicial district Is con stitutional, and dismissed the bill filed iv F. M. Noecker to restrain the Sec retary of the Commonwealth from nerving notice of an election of Judges. The main contention, that Clinton county having less than 40,000 popula tin mild not locally constitute a judicial district, is overruled as hav lng no foundation in law. SJirmiiiiiiimimiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimiiiiiii!: I PENNSYLVANIA I I BRIEFS ?1 1 1 1 J I f 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 f ( M 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 J 1 1 1 1 1 1 J 1 1 E 1 1 II 1 1 lH Among the attractive features at the Masonic Home at Eltzabethtown is a "grandmother's flower garden" 20 feet long, in which thousands of old-fashioned flowers bloom from early spring until late fall. Beginning October 1. LitHz people will be served by mall carriers. Hanover, wtln fewer than 10.000 population, gave $20,000 to the Red Cross. Agents representing New Jersey farmers are touring the anthracite field for help. Three out of every five who regis tered for the draft in Blair county claimed exemption. Twenty-seven red students from the Carlisle Indian School have enlisted to fight for Uncle dun. Accidents In and about the anthra cite mines have Increased 25 per cent, in the first six months of the year. The covernment has called upon State College engineering experts to train another class in army storeneep-lng. , J. H. M. Andrews, Philadelphia, and Frank J. Duffy, Scranton, have been annotated majors in the First Regi ment of Engineers, National Guard. Coal operators of the Hazleton re gion renort the famine In sheet Iron and timber to be growing worso The closing meeting of the canning demonstration at Carlisle drew 1,000 women. Some miscreant stole this years class banner of the Pottstown High School, and it was later found sus pended from a pole, slit into 62 pieces, one for each member of the class. The Schwartz farm of 63 acres, In West Reading, has been sold to Ferdi nand Tbun, a manufacturer, for $42,- 000. The Altoona Committee on Public Sifot v. of which J. Banks Kurtz is chairman, started a strenuous drive in connection with the Philadelphia cam paign to raise 600 recruits for tne Third Regiment. Colonel George E. Kemp, commanding. Llovd BalsbauKh. 23 years old, was drowned In the Susauehanna River, at Goldsboro, while trying to rescue Elsie Ross from drowning. In a three days' campaign, residents of West Chester and nearby raised over $20,000 for the Red Cross by methods Including Saturday night a band concert on the lawn of the court house, euchre in the courthouse corri dors and dancing on the paved street. Cochranvllle boys have formed a Boy Scouts' branch, with Bruce Fraver as scoutmaster. West Chester State Normal School students and teachers contributed $600 to the Red Cross Society. The annual reunion of the big Phil Inn family of Chester county was held in the First Baptist Church at Down- Ingtown. Bryn Mawr Community Centre wui start a series of summer activities under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Rice. Thomas W. Gray, who has been chief of nollce in Downingtown for many years, has resigned and is oper ating his farm near that town. The returns of the Assessors In Chester county show that there are In the county 388.841 acres of tilled land and 46,730 acres of timber land. The Poor Directors of Chester county have awarded D. G. Byerly ft Son, of Glen Moore, the contract to furnish the county home with 40 tons of bran at $31.74 a ton. A dozen Haverford College students have "enlisted" for farm work with H. C. Barker, manager of tne Haver ford College farm, and will room in Founders' Hall, at the college, during the summer. As farm labor Is scarce, Albert Young, arrested for stealing, and Steve and Sepacca Kocclskl. convict ed of assault and battery, have been paroled by Court to work on the county home farm, at Black Rock, this summer. Twenty-one seniors and six post graduates were given diplomas at the one hundred and seventy-fifth com mencement exercises of the Moravian Prep. School in Bethlehem. One hundred and two students were graduated by the Hazleton High School the largest class In Its his toryand Rev. Joseph Schubert, or Philadelphia, was the speaker. The Red Cross tag day In Doyles- town realized $S00. A narade and mass-meeting were held in Media to boost and Inspire the population to donate $6000 to tne Red Cross. The North Wales Board of Educa tion has notified teachers that a 20 per cent, snlary Increase asked can not be granted. Orders have been Issued to all btate police to vigorously enforce automo bile laws, especially against persons who Indulge in speeding on , State main highways. Little Hollidayeburg raised $12,305 for the Red Cross In two hours. Because their wages were cut from $2.50 to $2 a day, 60 men employed by the Tidewater Pipe Line Company at Hussondale, went on strike. . A Jury at Beaver, after long delib eration, acquitted Charlos Leach, a private of the Bighteenth Regiment, charged with the murder of Elizabeth Cook, aged 16, who fell from his canoe and drowned. The staff, teachers and many of fhA 1R2 nmhin children at Bethany Orphans' . Home are busy canning fruit and preserving berries. Hazelton has its second case of Southern negro smallpox. Thousands of dollars' worth of dv- nee was done to crops In Columbia rnnntv hv the worst hailstorm In yean. The name of the Levlston post office, two miles south of Hazelton, im liApn changed to Junedale, to avoid confusion with Lewlstown. Sellnsgrove and countryside folk h,ip nn Imnresslve farewell to the 47 men of the Susquehanna University unit for the American Ambulance Corns, when they entrained for Allen j town for training. ERICA TROOPS LAUD IN FEE Arrive Safely and Are Now in Camp. MOVEMENT UNRIVALED Records Broken By Swift Action. Force, Many Thousands Strong, Fully Equipped For Service. U. 8. AIRCRAFT EXPERTS LAND IN ENGLAND. Washington. Safe arrival at a British port of a party of about 125 aircraft experts sent from this country to .investigate European methods of aircraft designing and manufacture was announced late today by the Aircraft Production Board. Included in the delegation are men representing legal, manufac turing, designing, engineering, military and naval experience and training. Washington. The advance guard of the mighty army the United States Is preparing to send against Germany Is on French soil. In defiance of the German sub marines, thousands of seasoned regu lars and marines, trained fighting men with the tan of long service on the Mexican border, or in Haiti, or Santo Domingo, still on their faces, have been hastened overseas to fight beside the French, the British, the Belgian, the Russian, the Portuguese and the Italian troops on the western front News Thrills Washington. News of the safe arrival of the troops sent a new thrill through Wash ington. No formal announcement came from the War Department. None will come, probably, until MaJ.-Gen. Pershing's official report has been received. Then there may be a statement as to the numbers and composition of the ad vance guard. Press dispatches from France, pre sumably sent forward with the ap proval of General Pershing's staff, show that Major-General Sibert, one of the new major-generals of the army, has been given command of the first force sent abroad,, under General Pershing as commander-in-chief of the expedition. Movement Unrivaled. One thing stands out sharply, de spite the fact that the size of the task that has been accomplished is not fully revealed as yet. . This is that Ameri can enterprise has set a new record for the transportation of troops. Considering the distance to be cov ered and the fact that all preparations bad to be made after the order came from the White House the night of May 18, It is practically certain that never before has a military expedition of this size been assembled, conveyed end landed without mishap in so short time ny any nation, it is a goou augury of future achievements. The only rival in magnitude is the move ment of British troops to South Africa in the Boer War, and that was made over seas that were unhampered by submarines, mines or other obstacles. Net Gain To Allies. The American forces will be a net gain to the Allies. It will throw no single burden of supply or equipment upon them. The troops will be fed, clothed, armed, and equipped by the United States. Around them at the camp on French soil are being stored supplies that will keep them going for months, and more will follow. General Pershing and his staff have been busy for days preparing for the arrival of the men. Despite the enormous difficulties of unprepared ness and submarine dangers that faced them, the plans of the Army General Staff have gone through with blocklike precision. When the order came to prepare im mediately an expeditionary force to go to France, virtually all of the men now across the seas were on the Mexican border. General Pershing himself was at his headquarters In San Antonio. There were no army transports avail able In the Atlantic. The vessels that carried the troops were scattered on their usual routes. Army reserve stores were still depleted from the border mobilization. Regiments were below war strength. FORMER MESSENGER HONORED. THE ROOKIE (Copyright.) GERMAN SPY AT THE VATICAN Tried and Sentenced to Prison for Life. BUT HAD MADE HIS ESCAPE A Burglary In a House Adjoining the German Embassy In Vienna Gave Italian Secret Police the Facta That Exposed Spies. Boston. A special cable to the Christian Science Monitor from its Eu ropean bureau gives the following re markable story of the discovery and conviction of a German spy, who held a responsible position at the Vatican. The report comes from Rome under date of June 24, and is as follows: "The uncovering of further ramifica tions of the OeVman espionage system spread through years of peace to every corner of the globe which might be Included within the orbit of pan-German ambitions, ended here Saturday in the conviction of Monslgnor von Gerlach and his accomplices after a trial occupying 56 sessions of the court Monslgnor von Gerlach, who held a high position at the papacy, be ing private chamberlain to the Pope, was sentenced to perpetual confine ment. Mario Pomarlcl, in some ways the greatest criminal of the gang, was sentenced to be shot Others of the accused were sentenced to penal servi tude for life or to five or three years', ordinary Imprisonment, according to the court's view of the degree of their complicity. Von Gerlach and Pomarlcl are fugitives from Justice. Monslgnor von Gerlach, in fact, on learning of this burglary, immediately fled from Rome and got safely away two hours before the Italian police, acting under the orders of the secret service agents, burnt into the prelate's house. He allowed himself no time to remove a mass of Incriminating docu ments which revealed the ramifications of the German syp system as affecting Italy and In a very few hours after wards over 300 arrests, many of them of highly placed people, bad been ef fected all over Italy. The Italian secret service had long been trying to unravel the meaning of mysterious happenings, including the loss of two Italian battleships, Benedetto Brin and Leonardo da Vlncl. They eventually learned that docu ments which would reveal the infor mation they wanted were in a safe in a private house adjoining the German Embassy in Vienna, but that the safe was so constructed that If opened or broken Into by persons unacquainted with its arrangements a stream of poison gas would pour out upon the safebreakers and alarms would be rung in every police office in Vienna. Hence the release of the notorious bur glars, who agreed for the payment of a sum equal to $10,000, to attempt to break Into the safe. They were smug gled into Vienna, provided with poison gas masks and the latest safe-breaking devices, and successfully accomplished their mission. HOUSE PASSES DRY FOOD BILL Prohibition Section Goes in at Last Minute. NO FOODSTUFFS FOR LIQUOR Measure Would Empower President To Take Over, For War Pur poses, All Liquor Now On Hand. W. M. Jeffers, With Union Pacific 25 Years, Now Vice-President. Omaha, Neb. William M. Jeffers, who started railroading as a messenger boy at North Platte, Neb., 28 years ago, was chosen vice-president of the Union Pacific Railroad. Mr. Jeffers has been, general manager of the Union Pacific for several years. EXPLOSION SHAKES HAVANA. Magazine Blows Up In Fort One Known Dead. Hnvana. An explosion in the maga sins of Cabanas fortress across the bay from Havana shook the entire city. One persoa is known to be dead and many were injured. It is believed a bomb was exploded. DESTROYER SETS RECORDS. Shaw Makes Voyage From Pacific Port In Less Than 15 Days. Washington. The destroyer Shaw has completed a record from the Pa cific Coast port to an Atlantic port, approximately 5,858 miles, in 14 days, 10 hours nnd .20 minutes. The Shaw is a new destroyer whose keel was laid down in February, 1916. Besides malting a record run the vessel alno b'oke all recbrds in passing through the Panama Canal. , SENATE WOULD SAVE DAYLIGHT. Passes Bill Amended To Make It Ef fective Next Year. Washington. The Daylight Saving bill, amended to take effect next year, passed the Senate without discussion or record vote, and was sent to the House. Under the bill all timepieces would be turned forward one hour be ginning the last Sunday in April and continuing that way until the last Sun day in September. Washington. The administration Food Control BUI, giving the President broad authority to control the distribu tion of food, feed and fuel for war pur poses and appropriating $152,500,000 for its enforcement and administra tion, was passed by the House after far-reaching prohibition provisions had been written into 1L The vote was 365 to 6. Representa tives McLemore, Slayden and Young, of Texas, Democrats, and Meeker, Mis souri, and Ward, New York, Republi cans, voting in the negative. The prohibition provisions adopted would prohibit the use of foodstuffs for the manufacture of ( alcoholic beverages and give the President au thority to take over for war purposes all liquor now on hand. They were put Into the measure In committee of the whole, and when the bill came up In the House proper the antl-prohlbl-tlon faction did not demand that they be voted on again.. The bill now goes to the Senate, where It probably will be substituted for a similar measure already under consideration. Leaders hope to get the measure to conference by July 1. Few important changes were made by the House outside the prohibition section. The control powers of the President were limited to articles specially mentioned in the bill instead of giving him blanket authority; vol untary aids in control work were made subject to the penal provision; all per sons in the food administration except those serving without compensation were placed under civil service and the President was required to make annual report on the operation of the bill. It is expected that a fight will be made on the prohibition section of the bill In the Senate. The amendment designed to cut off manufacture of liquors was adopted 132 to 114. It was submitted by Rep resentative Barkley,' of Kentucky, Democrat, and would provide that no food, food material or feed could bo used during the war for the manufac ture of alcohol or alcoholic beverages except for governmental, Industrial, scientific, medicinal or sacramental "purposes. On the amendment authorizing gov ernment use of distilled spirits there was no roll call and only a few scat tered nays were heard on the viva voce vote. Originally proposed by Representative Webb, of North Caro lina, it was accepted by Chairman Lever, of the Agricultural bill, and was adopted on his motion. Debate Wat Warm. There was a hot debate over the prohibition features. Vets and drys accused each other of unfairness and Representatives Meeker, of Missouri, Republican, and Representative Kelly, of Pennsylvania, Democrat, got Into such a row that their friends sur rounded them to prevent a physical encounter and then had the words they exchanged stricken from the record. DIAMONDS IN BIG DEMAND. Market For Precious Stones Not Af fected By Living Cost. New York. Neither the high cost of living nor appeals for economy have apparently affected the importation of precious stones into this country. The value of gem Imports for the 11 months of the fiscal year at the port of New York was officially given as $41,078,-302. SHERIFF DAVIS KILLED. West Virginia Official Fatally Hurt Trying To Arrest Fugitive. Piedmont, W. Va. Sheriff Donald P. Davis, of Mineral county, died at the home of Dr. Z. T. Kalbaugh from Injuries received In an automobile ac cldent. He was. hurt. while endeavor lng to arrest Pete Wolsingoff, of West ernport, Md., who was also in a'n auto mobile. The accident occurred at the interstate bridge, between Tledmont and Westernport ASSUMES 10 "BANTAMS" TO GET CHANCE. Men Of Small Stature May Be Ac cepted For Service. Washington. In reply to a number of requests from men of small stature who wish to form regiments like Britain's famous "Yorkshire Bnntams," the War Department announced that no man will be rejected for service If, In the opinion of the recruiting offi cer, his deficiency In height and weight will not materially Impair his useful ness as a soldier. EX-CONGRESSMAN CORPORAL. Edwin Denby Quick To Win Promotion In Marine Corps. Detroit. Edwin Denby, age 47 years, probably the most distinguished American to enlist In the ranks at the first call to arms, was promoted to the rank of corporal In the United States Marine Corps. Mr., Denby was a member of Congress from 1904 to 1911, former president of the local Board of Commerce, and a prominent attorney of this city. L OF ALL EXPORTS President Wilson Appoints Em bargo Council. CHECK ON COAL AND FUEL Every Class Of . Foreign. Shipments' Will Be Watched 8o As To Pre vent Goods From Reach ing Germany. Washington. Control of American exports, authorised in a clause of the Espionage bill, was assumed by Presi dent Wilson with the appointment of an exports council comprising the Sec retaries of State, Agriculture and Com merce, and the food administrator. An executive order, creating the council directs the Department of Commerce to administer all details of operation. A victorious conclusion of the war can come, said the President, in a statement outlining the country's ex port policy, only by systematic direc tion of American trade. ' ' "The free play of trade will not be arbitrarily Interfered with," he con tinued. , "It will only be intelligently and systematically directed in the light of full Information with regard to the needs and market conditions through out the world and the necessities of our people at home, and our armies and the armies of our associates abroad." To License Shipments. The first proclamation will require the licensing of all coal and fuel ship ments, inpludlng bunkers, and its pur pose Is to give the Government first a firm grasp on shipping. The second will provide a system of licensing for every class of exports to the European neutral countries, and is designed to prevent supplies from reaching Germany. Proclamations to follow will name specific commodities which may not be shipped anywhere without licenses. The first commodities to be designated; will be cereals and other foodstuffs. By degress the list will be extended until virtually every export commodity! Is brought under operation of the act The proclamations covering coal and exports to European neutrals prob ably will be Issued this week. Under an arrangement to be made with the British Government providing for an international shipping control enforced by bunkering and export licensing agreements, the United States and Great Britain will have the trade of the world In their hands to direct In the manner best calculated to assist in winning the war. Will Hold Neutrals To Needs. The neutral export proclamation will be hurried to prevent removal from the United States of large supplies of foodstuffs bought by neutrals and now stored In this country awaiting ship ment The Government is determined to hold neutrals to necessities, and in enforcing export regulations virtually will take up the burden of the British blockade, now to be enforced from the point of origin of supplies. American agents to be sent Into the neutral countries will keep the closest check on re-exporters and will be charged with responsibility for seeing that American supplies stop before reaching the German border. To a large extent they will use British ma chinery built up during the three years the blockade has been In operation. The control will absorb the BrltlBh system of letter of assurance hereto fore required of American shippers be fore their cargoes are permitted to go to European neutrals. Every move under the act will be made under Presidential proclamation Iscued on the advice of the export council which will meet every day to discuss subjects of policy. The three Cabinet members and the food ad ministrator 'probably will name repre sentatives to take care of most of the routine work. These men probably will be Dr. E. E. Pratt, of the Depart ment of Commerce; Lester H.. Wool sey, of the State Department; Assist ant Secretary Vrooman, of the Depart ment of Agriculture, and a represen tative of the food administration. 300 Employes Required. Licensing will be done by the Com merce Department's Bureau of For eign and Domestic Commerce, of which Dr. Pratt is the head. The bureau will be expanded by the addi tion of about 300 employes. To cover the cost of operations Secretary Red field will ask for $150,000 from the President's emergency fund and later will go to Congress for $750,000 to carry the bureau through the year. Collectors of customs, who are under the Treasury Department, will be charged with preventing unlicensed cargoes from leaving the country. U-BOATS SINK TWO NEUTRALS. Norwegian and Swedish Ships De stroyed With Loss Of Life. London. The sinking of the Nor wegian steamship Volette by a Ger man submarine Is reported In a Cen tral News dispatch from Copenhagen. Fifteen of those on board, including five women, were rescued. The others lost their lives. , The Swedish steamship Gothla has been sunk. Four men and two women are missing. U. S. FLEET ON DUTY. Admiral Caperton Arrives In Brazilian Waters With Squadron. Rio Janeiro. Rear-Adralral William B. Caperton, commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet of the United States Navy, and the members of his otaff have been received with honors here. The American officers visited the Minister of Marine under the escort of a Brazil Ian naval battalion. The exercises Included the playing of the national hymns of the two nations. , TO KEEP THEIR SJIEJi Utlnnol fnaiuf lt!i. iiauvnai uuaiu U,1IS Wi LusB identity. WAR DEPARTMENT DEM Troops Drafted Also To Havi h 'Designation In Addition t," Army Number$pani Worked Out ' Washington. The Slate xJ uuarusmen ana me state reglm... the national army, to be recruit' J uer uie selective draft, till I their State Identity In the array ,,,1 ization when they go td France t((. iur uemocracy, according to nouncement of the War Depal The Marylanders, or for thjtm the troopB or any other State r be swaljowed up in the regular i-l numerical designation, as hu J generally feared by the mirJI and State militia officers. Plans for numbering the rtfol in the entire army have been n out and approved by Secretary cri Baker, General Bliss, chief of J and Adjutant-General MeClala. plan provides that the State t XTn.ltt... n i tlonal army troops, shall hateij designation In parenthesis, Kfc will be easy to keep tabs on tltli soldier boys. Under this plnn, the Vir-1 Guardsmen will be given a gtaH the regular army to be follow parenthesis by its State deslaij namely: "Sixty-sixth Infantry i luaiinuu; ui 1 llin.V'lUin (ItiiJ tillery (Battery A, Maryland)." A 1 ..II ,1 ,, Diaiv ucniftliauuil ui (lie nailOlllS will be known the same way, it I "Two Hundred and Fifth ltd (Maryland)" or "Sixty-flfih FM;J lery (Maryland)." Definite Mention Expect While these designation! r: I used in official dispatches, t ( pointed out that It will notbelKl fore the news dispatches froftF-J will tell of the exploits or ml the "Fifth Mairlanders-orTLTl ginlans," just like the British r-j the "Fifth London Lancers." The decision of the War Dera to allow the troops to retail a state designation follows i itrtd test which has been made u I regular army organization niH completely the guardsmen uij state troops recruited m! selective draft "The system contemplate! ifcl designation in parenthesis wti j narlly be omitted in orders, M or correspondence," said ttA General McCIaih In his reran retary Baker, "but would W ized when desired for the ptM local identification and to I traditions and local Dride. M tlonal Guard organization 1 show In parenthesis their l state designations. The nation organisations would ehofs? thesis the state from whith I conization or the bulk tl drawn. No parenthesis ImpM lar army. An ordinal msM at nhhrevlnttnn ImnlT M Guard. A simple state M implies national army. It I It is advisable to localize ornS if practicable. The wW- state designations for nstlJ organizations under theaM"- would be somewhat arbitrary M cases, but, on the whole, ' could be worked out quite and with suitable credit toaB Single Series For BaeliC "In the Interests of slmpWl fore, and to avoid many J much confusion In admlnlsw-j other matters, It Is betlerean sentlal that a single series ha Hand fnr paeh class 01 Off rflvlulnna hrlendes. InW"! ments, engineer regiment (hminht and ill W I uncertainty with respect to M . tmn rnnstltOt'"! combinations, or the mw " organisation. I now ha Imnrapflrahle to organ' that will enable one to 1 stint, tt sis -jj the regimental number " .. . . j i..i.rf.tO" ine aivision anu ,i . Th! "fl regiment Deioiin:-. . hmilH ho nnnrnxlmnted possible In the Initial orMjJJ strict aanerence iu i -be Insisted upon. . the 01 "inis omce i " ,j- v f.,.llnn nf nrOVlsll""1 . , la a mlatnkP. Olir tflM" ization provide for dlviJ this organization and fn J at me very iam ft w endless and needless con the transfer of men fl JJL: resultant shifting sndcfw , ords will be stupei."-- ho mnrfa in fit taCtlCSl I" J " " . .. , i. hellef" on tne wnoie, - c: better to continue w" statutory organizau , plan for removing our manner that wouiu , conditions that may U-BOAT KILLS ElCHj T"virfi '"i Fires On Captaln'i ' J pedolng Witnou steamer Aauan w " C(it OToxtilnir anil sunk D! marine on June i- nn'';n ...htl k.'- fired on the cup eight men. The " the master's boat tto H between 300 nnd 40. ) took the boat's" iters Then tho submarine ,; while tho men were
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