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Pl'BI.IAHRD DAILY. XXCUPT JC1DATH AND HOLIDAY
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GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY, (Inc.)
Elmer A. Friend, Editor
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GERMANY AFRAID OF COMPETITION
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THE HAGUE, May 7 — A series of articles on the
"Chemical Industries of the United States” has been ap
pearing in the Chemiker Zeitung. The series closes in the
latest number of the review with an outline of measures
which Germany should take to meet American competi
tion after the war, particularly in the field of dyes and or
ganic chemistry.
NORWAY STARTS TO PRODUCE
CHRISTIANIA, Mav 7— In the effort of the
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Norwegian government to make the country more in
dependent of outside nations, proposals have been accept
ed for the erection of great iron and steel rolling mills
at Narvik, in North Norway. The Government owns
water-power in this district sufficient to develop 180,000
horsepower for the use of the mills.
SOLDIERS NOW HAVE NUMBERS
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WASHINGTON, D. ('. ,May 7 — Every American
soldier at home or abroad now has a number as well as a
name. Blocks of numbers have been assigned to every j
division, to Pershing’s army, and to every little special
detachment.
The work of transferring these numbers from the
records of the company clerks and other field officers and
accountants to the records kept at Washington on every
soldier is another big war job.
Over a million and a half jackets containing enlist
ment papers of soldiers must be given the numbers appli
ed to the men in the field and camp, and a card index of
the men and their numbers must be arranged in alphabet
LAUNCHING MERCHANT VESSELS ON BOTH COASTS
Above 1m the Coyote gliding down tlie ways at the Passaic river shipyards. She Is the first of tlie cargo steuu*
building under the Emergency Fleet corporation’s wooden ship program. Below Is the launching of the Faith
feiT«K eonerata ship In the world, at Redwood City. Cal. She Is 3LH) Xeet king and her gross burden is 7,900 tons.
OBSERVANCE OF
1 SUBS HELP OUT
HUN AIR 'RAIDS!
LON DON, May 7 — How do the
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Germans obtain the a otfurate know
ledge, which they are known to pos-1
sess, of weather condi .taor.s in E tig
land, is often asked h ,erc. The know
ledge is essential for • r,hem in their
air raids, ann capt ared documents
show that their me ,teoro!ogical re
ports are fairly com pJete, despite the
fact that no publica iion of weather
data or forecasts is permitted in En
glish newspapers.
An English met* »rological expert
declares that the an iwlt to the ques
tion is not through . ,jmy system of
spies and land wir *V^s, but that the
data is derived observations
taken by subman Me
The important , -p0mt for the Ger
mans, he says, is , to know tfie weath
er conditions off the northwest coast
of Ireland and h m thinks that a sub
marine working . that place is' de
tailed to tend weather reports to
Germany by i thronprh the wire
less apparat- ^ worhinp around the
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lical order. The system will prevent confusion in records,:
and possibly assist in identifying the dead.
Every man in the army already has an aluminum;
disk which he is supposed to wear about his neck. This
bears on it his name and his company and regiment. These
names are stenciled on the tags by the company ofncer or
clerk. The tags are about the size of a half dollar. Be
sides these tags, the finger print of every soldier is on j
fde in Washington.
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LOST CORONATION MANTLE FOUND
LONDON, May 7— The coronation mantle of the
King of Bohemia, which long ago mysteriously disappear-1
ed, has just been discovered in a little shop owned by an j
old woman who has been guarding and treasuring it de
votedly, says a Central News despatch from Prague.
The re-appearance of the mantle has caused some ex
citement and the superstitious see in it a sign from Hea
ven that in the near future this emblem of ancient sove- j
reignty will once again be required for its original use. |
SCHOOL CHILDREN OF HAWAII
EARN MONEY FOR THRIFT STAMPS
HONOLULU, T. H. May 7 — School chilldren of
Hawaii are earning money for thrift stamps by picking1
castor beans, which have just now reached the ripening
stage. The children sell the beans to Director J. M. West
gate of the Federal Experiment station at five cents a
pound, after which they are prepared for shipment to the
mainland. There are two kinds of castor beans grown
here, the small variety from which medicine is :made and
the large kind which furnishes oil for airplane engines.
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A. E. Adams, president of the First Natioi lal Bank
of Youngstown, 0., has written a magazine article ? against
price fixing on the ground that it interferes with the law
of supply and demand. We forgot just what th»e law of
supply and demand is, but as we recall it, it is tho supply
of money in the people’s possession and the pnofiteers’
demand for it. i ttHfe.
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