Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1918 — A SHIP A DAY. [ARTICLE]

A SHIP A DAY.

I Washington, May 17..—Wooden ships have 4>een launched at the rate of more than one a day for the past four weeks. The shipping board announced today that just seventeen wooden craft aggregating 60,009 tons burden had been added to the American merchant marine in the first seventeen days of this month.