Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 254, 5 September 1918 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. THURSDAY, SEPT. 5, 1918.

GERMAN-OWNED FLEET IS TAKEN OVER BY U. S.

Ships Bought With German Gold Flew Stars and Stripes for Three Years. NEW YORK, Sept. 5 On the pround of German ownership, the American Transatlantic Company, which, until Its ships were commandeered by the United States Shipping Board in October, 1917. operated in cean trade a fleet of 11 steamships f v)ns the Stars and Stripes, has been 4 taken over by A. Mitchell Palmer, Allen Property Custodian. Richard G. Wagner, formerly of Milwaukee, an American-born citizen, head of the concern, for three years deceived the American Government "with truly Prussian arrogance," as well as British and French Prize Courts, as to the real ownership of the property, aocording to Francis H. Garvan, Investigator for the Custodian, who made public last night a summary of Wagner's activities. The ships were in fact bought with German gold, and the company was organized eight months after the outbreak of hostilities with funds which Ambassador, caused to be transmitted here for Wagner's benefit. Wagner, under the examination of Mr. Garvan, protested the ships were Americanowned until the last, but finally confessed before the weight of evidence that the backing of this venture to keep German commerce on the high seas cams from German shipping interests. Watched by Navy. Suspicion toward the American trans-Atlantic company was entertained by this Government from the time that Wagner sought to have his eleven ships, then flying neutral flags, transformed to American registry. While he succeeded by complying with all the technicalities of the law, it is known that the American Trans-Atlantic company was closely watched. At the time the ships of the company were commandeered by the Shipping board as were other ships flying the American flag, the Navy Department, It is known, refused to deliver to. the commanders of the ships conHdential Instructions and other naval secrets because they were not American citizens. The American Trans-Atlantic company declined to remove the commanders and the Navy Department, it is said, was obliged to place a naval officer aboard each ship from whom tie alien skipper received hla sailing dilections. Wagner's ships were reported at various times to have been supplying German raiders with provisions and to have conveyed German gold from the United States for use In South America, but these charges Wagner indignantly denied, always protesting his Americanism. In citing these reports, Mr. Garvan recalled that Wagner had published a half-page advertisement to anyone who could produce evidence that his ships had been supplying German raiders, and at another time offered $10,000 to anyone who could prove the American Trans-Atlantic company was German owned. Three of Wagner's ships were seized by the Britich and one by the French during 1915, and in the Prize Courts testimony Indicated German backing for thme American Trans-Atlantic company was aired. Preble County Farmers Form Live Stock Asociation EATON, O., Sept. 5. Jesse L. Haston, president of the county fair board Is president of the Pure Bred Live Stock association of Preble county, organization of which has just been completed, following preliminary plans laid some time ago at a picnic gathering of county farmers. The other officers are: Vice president, N. D. Johnson; secretary-treasurer, : J. B. Markey; executive committee, (J. W. Campbell, J. C. Lanthrop, Chales Ulrich and Frank Meyers. The object of the association Is: First, to Increase the breeding of pure bred live stock In the county and to promote the Interests of live stock breeding in general, and, second, to work out plans for more efficient disposition of surplus animals. Membership in the association Is open to all persons in the county who are interested in pure bred live stock. The membership fee is $3 yearly. Cocoanut Oil Fine For Washing Hair If you want to keep your hair in good condition, be careful what you wash It with. Most soaps and prepared shampoos contain too much alkali. This dries the scalp, makes the hair brittle, and is very harmful. Just plain mulstfied cocoanut oil (which is pure and entiiely graceless), is much better than the jr.ost expensive soap or anything rise you can use for shampooing, as t!.ls oan't possibly injure the hair. Simply moisten your hair with watc" and rub it in. One or two teaspccruuls will li.ake an abundance of rich, creamy lather, and cleanses the - -.ri scalp thoroughly. Tic lath-t-r r'nes out eoe!Ily. and removes every particle of dust, dirt, dandruff and (xcssivo oil. The hair Cries quickly and evenly, and it leaves it fine and siluv, bright, fluffy end easy to manago. Y-" can get mulsifiod cocoanut oil at most any drug store. It is very cheap, and a few ounces is enough to la.'t everyone in tho family ior months. Adv.

Automobile Army One of Many Mobilized For Action in France

Sept. 5. (Correspondence of the Associated Press) There are all kinds of armies these war days, and today we saw an army of automobiles drawn up In brigades and regiments, every conceivable kind of motor vehicle for carrying on the many war activities. These were ammunition cars, tank cars for carrying gasoline, steel trucks by the hundred, ambulance cars for the wounded, signal service cars with complete wireless outfit and all the equipment for field signalling, recognizance cars on which 18 men make a , recognizance Into enemy country, battalion after battalion of touring cars for headquarters and other branches of the service and motorcycles for the despatch bearers. It was like half a dozen big automobile expositions rolled into one, and all devoted to the one business of carrying on the war. The commandant led the way through ,Wilson avenue of" the huge plant, and then turned Into Roosevelt avenue. On one side stretched away a half mile square of motor vehicles in such a vast array as to be fairly bewildering, but all lined up in regular formation like soldiers ready to move forward to the front. On the other side stretched away acre after acre of buildings for the innumerable branches of this work, and between them in the open spaces armies of soldiers in over-alls setting up all kinds of motor cars. Everywhere were stacked the masses of "knockdown" parts just arrived Jrom the United States; mountains of wheels and sides, motors, batteries, radiators and block after block of huge crates containing the big chassies of the many types of war cars. As the commandant passed along he summed up the magnitude of the work. Sixty-two complete trucks and cars have been turned out in one day. This Is the record at the start, with a monthly out-put of 1,200 cars and 500 motorcycles, and a much greater production when the organization gets under way. In theory, these are all standard parts which need only to be fitted together, an easy task apparently as most of the preliminary construction is done in the factories in America. But in fact, so say those who do the work, these parts do not fit; they have to be shaped and fitted after arrival. Then there are many factories sending many kinds of parts. Some factories send complete equipment, such as bolts and the heavy

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wooden sills for trucks. But other factories do not send the bolts or sills. Allied Machinery. There Is no time to wait for these missing parts, for war is going on and cars are beirig mobilized like men. What is not here must be made. And from this has grown a huge industry of government waj: production, with big workshops and machinery for making bolts and sills and all the various parts, and for testing and making over dynamos and generators, and even for constructing the trim bodies and frames and thus turning out practic-

; ally an entire car. A long line of ovens was passed in which we saw some of the delicate parts of the mechanism being baked and dried to cure them from the dampness of the sea journey. The sea air plays many tricks on these parts. We saw the field windings of generators covered with sea rust and green mould. All of these have to be baked and. made over. Fiber is considered in America as one of the best nonconductors for automobile construction. But on the sea journey this fiber swells and becomes almost useless. Radiators also suffer much on board ship. In the workshops long lines of "allied machinery" indicated : how the war was bringing the nations together in industrial production. Each lathe and mechanical tool bore this allied mark, with the flags of the allied nations entwined, and the marks of Paris, Turin, Petrograd and the centers of great world production. But below the casting showed the allied machinery came from Waynesboro, Pa., Cincinnati and the other centers of American production. Over section four of the big shops waved a large American flag. "That represents something more than patriotism," said the commandant. "The section that makes the biggest output has the honor of carrying the flag for a week, and if there Is slack time there is a day off as a bonus. "When the big German offensive began there was a tremendous demand for trucks to get our material forward. We called the men together and gave them a little talk on the part they were to play in the crisis. Every man was keen to do his part. The flag was made the prize for turning out the most work. Before that day closed, we had turned out 63 complete trucks. These are the things which are helping to win the war, and they

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show the men behind the lines are doing their share of the fighting." Just now scores of ambulances are being turned out daily." , They' come from America crated in huge boxes, 15 feet long and six teet across, as large as a good-sized room; usually In three parts, wheels, body and chasis. Cranes from huge beams reach down and life the parts into place, the chasis on the wheels, and the body on

the chassis, until soon one of the new , type of ambulances takes form out off the masses of boxes and material. Wfi saw ths0 rrnvlnr trnm thp much ' up to the finished product. But it was not all a matter of flttlrtg together, for there Is much to be supplied here. Workers Proud of Output. The new ambulance does away with the bulky medical cabinet which took much room just back of the driver's seat, ah tne interior is now grven to the wounded. Jf the wounded are able to sit up six can sit abreast. If the cases are on stretchers, the seats fold down and the stretchers slide on grooves, with two wounded lying above and below. Wood is no longer used for the sides of the ambulances, as it was easily shattered by shell Are and a composition Is substituted for wood. All of the old type ambulances with their medical cabinet are being made over on the new model at the rate of a dozen a day. The artillery cars with special equipment of range Andres, telescopes, wireless, etc., and recognizance cars looking like big sightseeing brakes, are also being turned out in large number as these and the signal corps cars are most needed on the fighting front. It Is an endless procession, with one steady straem of cars coming from the shops, and another moving off to th ebattle line. And besides the magnitude of this war work which has suddenly sprung Unto existence, there is the eager spirit of a great industrial community ' . . U L fnlrnn net wti.K niHfa n ltd nart in the war as the men along the front lines. LIBRARIAN GRANTED LEAVE. OXFORD, O., Sept. 5. Prof. Samuel J. Brandenburg, librarian of Miami University has been granted a year's leave of absence, and has gone to Columbus, where he will become special representative of the Ohio branch xpf the Council of National Defense in charge of county organization. His place, during his absence, will be taken by Dr. Charles H. Handschin, professor of German. TWENTY SELECTS LEAVE EATON, O., Sept. 5. Twenty Preble county registrants entrain here Friday I for Camp Sherman. They met the lo cal selection board here Thursday to receive instructions and to prepare for their departure Friday morning at 10:18 over the Pennsylvania. using a You set the clock and it does the rest. No fuss or worry dinner is ready on time. Main St.

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Mr. and ftTrs. Herman Thomas and family of Bethel were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Grover White and family Sunday. ...Mrs. Chas Blose and sons, Williard and Marvin, visited Hr. and Mrs. Bert White and family of Losantville last week.... Mr. and Mrs. Marry McClure of Hollansburg, O., spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. John Roll W. L. Henry, who was stationed at Camp Taylor, has been removed to Camp McClellan, Ala. and put in the officers' training school. He is well and likes it very much Miss Lucile Robertson was the guest of Miss ; Alice Ross Sunday Pen Welsh spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Thomas. .. .Miss Mary Steraple, of Boston, -returned home Sunday after a few days' visit with Mr. and Mrs. Stemple and family Ade Mason spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Mason of Crete Mr. and Mrs. Herman Thomas and family of Bethel and Mr. and Mrs. Grover White and family spent Wednesday night with Mr. and Mrs. Carrie White. . .Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nossett and family was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Wofal of Hollansburg The following women have been appointed lieutenants of the food club and are each expected to urge every woman in the precinct to attend this meeting: Mrs. W. L. Henry, Mrs. Mary Wright, Miss Mariam Woods for Whitewater; Mrs. Inez Wright, Mrs. A. B. Hannah, Mrs. Carrie Radford, Mrs. John Reid, Mrs. Dora White, Mrs. Carrie Fowble, Mrs. Everett Hunt, Mrs. Verling Reid and Mrs. Noah Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Sherly White and son and Mrs. Jennie Addleman spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Newt JBunker near Richmond Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Little and family and Calvin Murphy of Richmond spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Eastman Mr. and Mrs. John Coppock and daughter Mildred were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Richards Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Baty and son Boh of Dayton, Mr. and Mrs. Hershall Brown and family, and Mrs. Anna Mutchner spent Sunday afternoon in Union City, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. William Henry spent Sunday in Connersville Mr. and

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