Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1918 — ITEMS OF NEWS IN PARAGRAPH [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF NEWS IN PARAGRAPH

Three large vessels loaded with cereals destined for Switzerland and escorted by an American warship have arrived safely at a French Atlantic port, according to the Tagbelatt,,of Berne. . Eighteen months will be required to complete the big United States Steel company’s ordnance plant to >e erected for the government at Neville Island, Pa., according to estimates Saturday. Registration Day for all men who have become 21 since the last selective service registration date has been set for June 5, ProvoM Marshal General Crowder announced Saturday. Railroads under government operation this year will spend $1,000,000,000 for additions, betterments, and equipment, or approximately 3 times as much as in any one of the last three years. The Lucia, widely heralded as “the unsinkable ship” was declared impracticable in a report submitted Saturday afternoon to the navy department by the inspection board appointed by Secretary Daniels. Housing conditions in Lake county are being investigated by the United States government in connection with the immense amount of war work that is being done in that region for the conflict against Germany and Austria. Gov. Goodrich Saturday appointed James M. Campbell, of Kendallville, as a member of the state board of embalmers, to serve until April 22, 1922. Chappell, who is a republican, succeeds J. D. Emmons of Columbus, a democrat. Fifty-six men are known to be dead, 94 injured and in hospitals and 31 employes of the Aetna Chemical company are missing as a result of nine explosions Saturday that wrecked its explosive manufacturing plant at Oakdale, 16 miles from Pittsburg. To remind business; men of engagements a cabinet has peen invented with a pigeon hole for every 15 minutes, a memorandum placed ?n a hole completing an electric circuit that rings a bell and flashes a light when the time for that hole arrives.