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Established in 1891. GREAT DEMAND FOR 4 STUDEKT NURSES ___ ARMY TO REQUIRE 25,000; RED CRO88 CAN MAKE USE OF 12,000 MORE. DISPATCHES FROM COLOMBIA Delnga and Happenings That Mark tha Progress of 8outh Carolina People, Gathered Around the State vapiuil. Columbia. The woman's committee, co-operating with the surgeon general of the United States army, the American Red Cnoes and the nursing committee have launched an intensive campaign to enroll 26.000 nurses by August 11. The United States government look* to the State divisions and the county and local units of the woman's committee to supply these Btudent nurses. This great responsibility and opportunity has been placed in our hands. Will South Carolina do her part? It is estimated that the army alone will require a total of 26.000 graduate nurses by January 1, 1919. Already 13.000 of this number has been withdrawn from civilian practice for service In military and naval hospitals. Hence the Red Cross has 'ust called 12,000 additional. It Is an Imperative military necessity that every grnduate nurse not needed at home should enter military service. Graduate nurses can only he released by recruiting new 3?udcnt nurses. They can only be supplied by Ailing the training schools connected with our hospitals. Fourth of Winter Supply. B. B. Gossett, State fuel admlnV.tra tor, sent the following letter to the fuel committeemen through the State: "Due to heavy shipments of domestic coal to the Great Lakes and army cantonments, the movement of this grade of coal into South Carolina is going to be very light during the months of August and September. "In order that all domestic consumers may be assured of receiving at least a part of their winter's requirements before November 1, you are directed to instruct all dealers not to deliver to any one consumer until further advised more than 25 per cent of his winter requirements. "This order is intended to apply not only to future applications made by consumers, but also covers unfilled orders already on file with the dealers. Forage From Local Farmers. August Kohn. chairman of conservation and production of the food administration for South Carolina, has received a letter from the chief of the forage branch of the war department, quartermaster's division, stating that offers of forage from farmers and dealers having it for sale in the neighborhood of the army camps and cantonments will be gladly received and will be given consideration. "In fact" says the letter, "we are here to buy forage for the government wherever we can do so to the best advantage, all things considered." Grade Crossings Closed. Several matters of Interest to the people of the State were considered at the regular weekly meeting of the railroad commission. The attention of Coast Line officials was called to reports of delayed handling of short Intrastate freight ship. ments. Some of these delays. It is said, have been unusually long and the commission hopes to effect prompt movement of such assignments. Mr. Shealy will make a physical inspection of several railroads In ihe upper part of the State. The policy of eliminating dangerous railroad crossings will continue during the inspection of the several railroad systems In the 8t?te. Over 200 of such crossings have been eliminated within the past year, and others will be condemned and eliminated as soon as county officials can provide for the convenience of the tcavellng public who use the highways. Recruiting Unskilled Labor. The United States employment ser lce began recruiting unskilled labor for all employees engaged In war work who have filed their orders with the State directors of the service. The total demand will be ascertained ail divided. Each State's quota will be announced. In South Carolina, besides the office of the State Director. Horace L. Tllghman, at Columbia, offices of the United States employment service have been opened at Spartanburg. Greenville, Anderson. Florence and Charleston. Patriotic Co-operation Assured. All wholesale and retail grocers In South Carolina have been advised, through a bulletin sent out by the food administration, of the stern necessity for the retailers to supervise the sale of sugar. Those who are greedy and unpatriotic must be prevented from obtaining more than their share. Such persona will be cut off from sugar at the source of supply. Tha dealers are required to see that an equal distribution of sugar is made to their customers. A record of all augar sales must be kept by retailera. f ^ The ' Uh Still Leu Sugar. Further reduction of th>) consumption of sugar Is made necessary by the present critical shortage; and the food administration, in calling upon the home consumers to cut down the use of sugar to even less than the ration which had previously been established, emphasizes the fact that unless the new regulations are voluntarily carried out by the people, the sugar supply will not last Tt is to safeguard against a sugarless ration or a sugar famine that the food administration has cut down the allotment, which ic now three pounds per person per month, to two pounds per person per month. This allotment applies particularly to the month of August. In public eating places, restaurants hotels, boarding houses and diningcars the new allotment will be two pounds for each 90 meals served. Manufacurers of soft drinks and candy are now receiving only 50 per cent of their normal supply, or of their last year's consumption of sugar. The private homes have not been asked by the food administration to make so deep a cut as that. Sugar bowls have disappeared from the tables of many of the hotels, restaurants and cafes, and sugar is carefully measured out to guests and cus' tomers. Under these existing conditions. there can be no unlimited use of sugar, even for a portion of a month, in the homes of those who are endeavoring to conscientiously and patriotically live up to the food administration rules and regulations. Sugar must be used with the greatest care. The situation Is such as to call for the co-operation of every individual and every householder In the State. Only a certain amount of sugar has been alloted to South Carolina for the month of August. The dealers can procure only a certain amount. This allotment must cover all needs. The fnnH u H m Inlutrotlnn haa oorafnllw ....... ... .. U>? Ittioiuill ured that It can not be stretched to cover the needs of the State unless the Individual consumption Is cut down to two pounds per person per month. In naming that amount as the ration, therefore, the food administration states clearly what Is the patriotic duty of every person in South Carolina for the month of August?to live within the limit, and to cut thut down if possible. County Community Boards. The organization committee of the United States employment service met at the Chamber of Commerce and appointed the State advisory board: V. M. Montgomery of Spartanburg and William M. Otis of Columbia, to represent the interests of employers; A. C. Thompson of Charleston and George Narey of Columbia, to represent the interests of labor. Horace Tllghman, State director of the employment service, is ex officio chairman of the board. At the same meeting the decision was made to establish a community labor board in each county of the State, members of which will ba appointed when recommendations are made by the proper officials. Thjs is a departure from the plan as first projected which contemplated the establishment of these boards in a few of the larger towns and cities. It is felt that the needs of the service justify the change and the people at large will approve of the action. me personnel or the organisation committee which met and the interests represented by the members are as follows: Horace L. Tilghman, representing the employment service; A. V. Snell of Charleston, representfng the employees, and John L. Davis, representing the State federation of labor. Some Charters and Commissions. Qarco Realty Company of Charleston has been chartered with a capital stack of 199,000 to conduct a development Business. Officers of the corporation are C. B. Jenkins, president; M. B. Barkley. vice president; John P. Thomas, secretary and treasurer. The Farmers' Ginning Company of Cartereville has been commissioned with a capital stock of $10 000. A. N. Asklns and N. D. McNeill are the petitioners. The Black River Brokerage Company has been commissioned with a capital stock of $20,000. The petitioners are P. R. Alderman, R. J. Alderman and W. B. Hall. Names Additional Boards. Seventeen of the 45 community labor boards which will be established in the State have been completed, leaving 28 to be appinted. At ii-uoi uiir uunru win d? esiaimsrieu in each county and it is the policy of the State office to establish additional agencies in counties where the needs | of the service require the employment of supplementary boards. It has been found that Darlington county, for instance. will require two boards to properly discharge the duties assigned | to the county units. Colored Branch Campaign. The Statewide health campaign to be conducted by the State Council of Defense in the interest of better health among the people of South Carolina will play a large part in the negro health problem In this State. Already the negroes have been at work, and have formed an organization in every , county in the State as a branch to the county councils and have their State headquarters at 1107^ Washington street where Seymour Carroll, field secretary of the State work among | the negroes. Is In charge For FORT BULL FRANK L BAYLIES ; Frank L. Baylies of New Bedford, Mass., who has distinguished himself forces was reported missing reoently. | SORRY PL'GHT OF GERMANS NOTABLE GAINS OF GROUND AND TREMENDOUS LO8SE8 BY ENEMY MARK FIGHTING. Foe Is Fighting Stubbornly But to No Avail; Allies Have Taken More Than 34,000 Prisoners. After a short period of relative calm on the SoisBonH-Rhelms salient the Central and weufern nepHnns r>f tho battle front aguln have been the scenes of mighty struggles. On both sectors the allied forces have achieved notable gains of ground which, observed on the war maps, seemingly place the Cerman armies in front of them in precarious positions. In battles extending from the region immediately south of Soiasons to the northwest of Fere En Tardenois and southwest of the last named town over the upper portion of the left branch of the "V" salient running ton miles eastward from Neslos to Ville En Tardenois and with St. Gemme as its southern base. America, French and | British troops have pushed back the i armies of the German crown prince. Northwest of Fere the entire elbow of the line where It turned eastward along the northe.n bank of the Oureq has been blotted out, making the line a straight one from Fere to Hartennes j and giving the all'es much better ground over which to work in further outflanking SoisBons on the southeast and for pressing on toward Fismes. SECOND BATTLE OF MARNE SEEMS PRACTICALLY AT END New York.?Despite minor fluctuations in the immediate future, such as remains possible after every similar conflict has reached its real term, the second battle of the Marne has \ ended. It was practically over last j Sunday when the Germans began to take root in the hills north of the Ourcq and south of the valley of the Cerise about Soissons and of the Andre west of Rheims. Boehm's army has found at least a temporary halting place on this front, as did Kluck's j a little further to the north after the > retreat from the Marne four years ago. The largest number of divisions which have been reported as fighting I 1 in the defeated army is 71. and there i have been other estimates smaller, but j not materially smaller. Three quar- | j ters of a million men is perhaps a fair appraisal of the fighting strength ; ! of the Germans at the Marne, at least a quarter less than were used in the first battle of the Marne, and comparing with 80 divisions used in the battle of PIcardy in March. Of their forces engaged the Germans have lost between a quarter and a third, from 200,000 to 250,000, upwards of 500 ; guns and a mass of war material, i which has not yet been tubulated, but ; is known to be enormous. ? LARGE BODIES OF GERMANS ARE FLEEING NORTHWARD With the French Army in France.' i ?With the fall of darkness fighting continued bewteen the allies and the Germans on the western side of the 1 Soissons-Itheims salient. Allied observers reported that bodies of Germans were fleeing precipitately northward along the road leading front LauI noy, which lies about midway between Soissccns and Kcrp-Kn.Tonlonnl^ | the first time allied reserves are said | to outnumber those of enemy. FRENCH TAKE GREAT BOOTY FOLLOWING UP HUN RETREAT London.?The booty captured by i , the French in following up the German retreat from the Marne included a large amount of bridging material which the Germans had collected just north of the Marne. It is pointed out that the Intention of the Germans to effect the passage of the river in great strength and drive in th? direction of Paris is 'hus Htilcated. I % T Ml , 8. C., THURSDAY, AUOUS'. HUNS RACING FOB BANKSJF AISNE QERMAN8 FLEEING FOR SAFETY ARE HOTLY PRES8ED ALONG TEN MILE FRONT. TOWN OF FISMES IS TAKEN Former Great German 8upply Baae Between 8oissona and Rheima Taken by Allies. The German retreat continues unabated, with the allies everywhere In hot pursuit. Aparently the situation now has resolved itself into a race for the j northern bank of the Aiene river by | the Germans, who have been evicted ; from strategic positions along the { Vesle river, in the center of the line and directly east of Rheims. which seemingly renders necessary that they ! put the Aisne between themselves and i their pursuers an quickly as possible in order to escape further large losses j of men made prisoners. Just how large this hag of captives is at present cannot be reckon-' ed, but unofficial advices from Paris assert that when the figures are made public they will thrill the allied' world. General Pershing in hiB com-1 munique says the Americans alone have taken 8.400 prisoners and. in addition, 233 guns. After hard fighting the Americans and French have succeeded in taking! from the Germans the important town of Flames, once Germany's great i ammunition and supply depot, midway! on the railway between Soissons and i Rhelms, while to the east at a num-j ber of places along the Vesle river the French have crossed the stream, driving the enemy northeastward. East of Soissons allied trops have negotiated the passage of the Alsne to the northern bank of that stream, where they are in a position to harass the enemy as he endeavors to straigten out his line in conformity with that running northeastward. So fast as has been the retreat of, the Germans in the center that al-| ready some element of their forces i have succeeded In reaching the north-1 ern bank of the Aisne and getting numbers of their big guns across with 1 them. All through the salient towns: are still ablaze behind the retreating j German, and even corn fields have been set afire In order to prevent the ! nllied troops from garnering the ripened crop. With the river at freshet and the Germans unable to ford it, they stood with their backs to it and gave battle for their liveB. A majority of them were killed and the remainder were : made prisoners. One of the most im-' portant manuevers north of the Vesle was the penetration bv the French to the village of LaNeuvillette which re-, leases the German hold on the north-1 ern outskirts of Rheims and seemingly delivers the cathedral city from I the German menace. 8PEEDY ENACTMENT OF DRAFT EXTENSION MEASURE I ????? < Washington.?Legislation to extend the selective service act to all men between the ages of 18 and 4fi. as recommended by the war department, will be introduced in both houses of Congress at the semi-weeklv recess sessions. According to plans of con-' gressional leaders, snending their vacation here, the hill, which w'll be identical as introduced in each house, will be referred to the senate and house military aa*rs committees of which Fenatnr Chamberlain and Representative Dent are the respective chairmen. Thoueh the house does not reassemble until August 19 and the senate on August 24. it is expected that the draft extension bills will be enacted speedily. Chairman Dent, of the house milltnrv affairs commtitee. sa!d he would call his committee together as soon as the house reassembles and hearings are held. GERMAN U-BOAT MAKES FORAY IN NOVA SCOTIAN WATEF.S Halifax, N. R?Three American schooners were sunk by German submarines off Seal Island. Yarmouth county, on the Nova Scotia coast. The crews landed on the Nova Seotian J coast. The commander of the subma- I rine told an American skipper that he had sunk more American schoon- ; crs hailing from Roston and Gloucester recently. He did not give the names of the vessel3. GENERAL PERSHING GIVEN CROSS LEGION OF HONOR Paris.?General J. Pershing commander in chief of the American expeditionary forces in France. was i awarded the grand cross of the Legion of Honor by the French government. Premier Clemenceau sent the following telegram to General Pershing: "I take pleasure in informing you. my dear general, that the government of , the French republic has decided to I eonfer upon you the dignity of the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor." J LL 1 ? . r 8, 1918 ELIAS J. JACOBY BBm Ellas J. Jacoby of Indlanapoiia, for many years associated in law practice with the late Charles W. Fairbanks, former vice president of the United States, and who Is now vice president of the Railroadmen's Building and 8avlngs association, was advanced to the highest office of the Order of the Mystic 8hrlne for North Amerler at the meeting of the Imperial Council, Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at At'antlc City, being mcde imperial potentate. THE ONE GREAT OBJECT PRESENT LULL 18 INDICATION OF FIERCE STRUGGLE?MAY BEGIN AT ANY M' 1ENT. To Kill as Many of the Other Is Prime Object of Opposing Forces. Field Marshal Assassinated. Washington.?An odd calm fell over the Aisne-Marne battle area with only the thunder of the guns to tell of new and more terrible guits of the war storm to come. Paris and Berlin both noted it. The infantry had paused for breath, while the artillery pounded new roads of advance for General Foch's victorious armies. The victory was given new significance by General March, chief of staff. Putting aside the reserve with which he hitherto has commented on the wider aspects of the battle. General March told the newspaper men at his mid-week conference that each army was now bent on the destruction of the other; all lesser strategy objectives had been swept away on both sides. The mission of eachls to destroy the fighting power of the other. It is the ultimate military objective that both are now seeking and there can be no halting short of the goal. "The objective of each army is the other army, each one of them wants to kill as many of the other as possible. The chief of staff had prefaced this ..w ..uiKoiiuiii ui IHC Rroai struggle with a careful outline of the battle positions, showing that since last Saturday another ten miless had beeh cut out of the length of the battle line by allied successes. It is now barely 54 miles around the flattened salient in which the enemy has massed virtually a million men as against 74 miles when the counter-assault was set in motion. From Chateau-Thierry, the Americans have made the maximum advance, covering 14 miles to reach the positions where they rpsted. CONTROL OF TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE LINE8 TAKEN OVER Washington.?Control of telephone and telegraph lines were taken over by the postoffice department and their operation placed under the general supervision of a special committee created for the purpose by Postmaster General Burleson. Mr. Burleson announced that dntil further notice the companies will con- i tlnue operation in the ordinary course through the tegular channels and that all officers and employes will continue1 I.. tha ^ -r a--.- * > * ,.< iw. .limit*- in incur present duties of the same terms of employment. The plan *. however, to eo-ordinate the facilities of the various' companies. BIG LOCOMOTIVE ORDER FOR MILITARY RAILROADS Washington ? Th? war department has ordered RIO locomotives for military railroads in France from the Raidwin Locomotive Works at a total cost of about S2R.000.000. it was announced. About 10.000 freight cars for service In France, costing about Slfc.000.000 will he ordered within a .few days. The locomotives will be of the American mogul consolidation t>pe weighing 270,000 pounds and will cost about 150.000 each. COAL IN BELGIUM IS NOW SCARCEST ARTICLE Havre, France.?Coal, which before j the war was the basis of Belgium's prosperity Is now the scarcest article , In Belgium?for the Belgians. The year's production of coal was 23,000,- j 000 tons and 150,000 men were em-] ployed in the mines, before the Gor-: man Invasion. Now Germany Is tak-l ing all the coal, and the Belgian gov-j eminent Is wondering how the civil-! Ian population will keep warm ne*t . winter. I IMES CRISIS IN ALLIED OFFENSIVE NEAR ALL ALONG FRONT OF 36 MILE8 ALLIED FORCES HAVE STEADILY PRESSED ENEMY. bU'bSUNb HAb BttN KtlAKtN Americans Now Control Almost All Hill and Forest Country In Southern Area. The crisis in the allied offensive on the Soissons-Rheims salient apparently has been reached. French troops have entered the town of Scissons, the western anchor point of what remains of the famous salient, and all along the 36 miles of curving battle lino from Solssons to Thllois, which lies about three miles west of Rheims. French. American and British troops have pushed in the entire enemy front and sent the Ge mans backward everywhere in precipitate retreat. Over the battle front the allies, by quick and forcible methods of onslaught, have deeply indented the German defense line for splendid gains, which seemingly foreshadow the necessity of the eventual retirement of the forces of the German crown'prince to more tenable ground in the north. The plains behind the northwestern portion of the battle front now are entirely dominated by the allied big guns, in the south the French and Americans have negotiated almost all of the hill and forest country and are encroaching precipitately toward the Klsmes railway, while on the east the British and French are almost astride the Rheims-Soissons railway and have their Runs now so placed that the enemy Is sure to be sorely tried as he endeavors to press back and gain a haven of refuge along the Vesle river. Just how far the retreat of the Germans will go cannot at present he forecast, but with the southern line swinging northward in conjunction with that on the east toward the Vesle. and with the French dominating the Aisne eastward from Soissons. it is not improbable that the Germans may be compelled to take refuge north of the Alsne. Numerous towns and hamlets have been captured by the allied troops during the latest fighting and at some points they have advanced from two to three miles. South of Soissons the entire Crise river has been forded by the allied troops, northeast of Fereen-Tardenois the allied line has been pushed well to the east of the region of Grand Rozoy and the town of Saponay has been taken. In the center the Nesles wood is being swept clean of Germans by the French cavalry and American and French troops are pressing the Germans hard north of Sergy and the hamlet of Nesles. runner eastward almost to the antes of Rheims. combined forces of British and French everywhere are aorely harassing the enemy. In this latter region, in addition to Thillois the village of Ville-en-Hardenols is in allied hands and the French now are on the heels of the Germans two and a half miles north of the DormansRheims high road over a front of nearly four miles. Altogether, viewed from the war maps, the situation for the allied troops at present is a most promising one for complete success in ridding the Soissons-Rheims salient entirely of the enemy. 250,000 CHRISTIAN GREEKS ARE DEPORTED BY TURK3 New York.?More than 250.000 Christian Greeks have been deported by the Turks from their homes in the flourishing regions of Turkey bordering on the coast, notably from Samsoun, Aivall. Trebizond and Smyrna, according to a report from the Greek foreign office of the relief committee for Greeks of Asia Minor, given out here. "They have been taxed out of business, their homes and property confiscated and themselves driven into the deserts to die of starvation." DR WILLIS HEADS NAVAL BASE HOSPITAL UNIT Richmond, Va.?Announcement was made of the organization of a naval base hospital unit headed by Dr. A. Murat Willis, of the Johnston-Willis hospital. The unit will he comprised of 60 nurses and 10 doctors who are qnocililiutu vnt.U..? * L - -* . ..I muuun liraill-lieg OI medicine and surgery. Word was received a few days ago announcing the arrival of the Doctor McGuire unit in France. FORMER NORTH CAROLINIAN ARRESTED IN WASHINGTON Washington.?E. L. Travis, of Hall- : fax. N. C., former member of the corporation commission of that state and a leader in North Carolina politics and two other men. E. J. Joseph and Leon Green, were arrested a* a Washington hotel by federal aut>orities charged with conspiring to obtain a contract illegally from the shipping board for a New Jersey coippany. Tho name of the concern was not announced i ^MT ? r JfwtcaK. ril^M ""^Sm / x<w * "**! i ' ? . >*i9kfl ;w ? >jHK / : -^. * ' '.\}M S1.2S Per Ymtnrnnun nrrr?i?r aitiUNii utitnDt ON VESLE n!VEB \i - , AMERICAN AND ALLIED FOndO ABOUT BLOT OUT S0IS80lu|> RH El MS SALIENT. WHAT HAS FOE IN MINII7 ' $5 Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria ia Mock Worried on Diminution of Strength. The Germans now are imposing | strong opposition to the further ad\ vanre of the allied troops along the Vesle river from the east of Solaaons to the region west of Rheims. Meantime, however, the main bodies of the enemy a -my continue to mako | their way toward the Aisne, to Um | north of which stream they hope somewere to reach a haven of safety (rose I the persiBtent onslaught of the American. French, British and Italian troops who in less than three weks hare all but blotted out the Soiasons-Rheimn salient. Notwithstanding the bringing Into play by the onemy of large numbers of machine guns and artillery of heavier caliber and the employment of large numbers of picked troops, ii?r eluding the wel-tried Prussian guard and the Bavarians; and in spite of tho fact that the rains have sent the Vesln out of tKuinds and turned the krwlunds into quagmires, the Americana and the other allied troops have forced? | crossings of the river at a number of new points and on the north side of the stream are engaging the enemy. Just what the Germans have la mind cannot he fortetold. It is known however, that Crown Prince Rap pacht of Bavaria during the early stages of the allied offensive oa tha Siiissoiis Itheims snnlnr nhmV large numbers of his men and sent thorn to the aid of his sorely-tried imperial cousin. the (Jerinaa ceo wn prince, thereby weakening hi* Um while Field Marshal Halg's front vu not materially touched by wlthdraw^als. It is not improbable, therefore, that Ituprecht is worrying somewhat over this diminution in strength and. already has placed barrier* belweesi himself and the forces fronting htm to ward off posible attacks and ia endeavoring to ascertain what chance* he lias to bold other positions which he had intended ultimately to launch a drive toward the channel port*. ONE OF MOST HARROWING DISASTERS RECORDED A British Tort. -The ship torpedoed as she was nearing home from France was struck in the after part of the engine room. Three member* of the stuff were killed here and the dynamos were destroyed, plunging the *e?sei into darkness. Just over the dynamo was the ward ? room, containing more than 100 p? tients. Most of these were killed outright by the explosion. The other*, injured by the explosion, were trapped and perished except for a few eh* jumped overboard and were picked up. A majority of the survlvorx had only slight protectin of their nighl j clothing and suffered severely fmnr ' exposure. All the Americans were sick cases, and the two officer* were suffering with pneumonlu. The Americans have been sent to a hospital. SURTAXES ON INCOMES IBOVE $200,000 RAISED Washington Surtaxes on xTI Inromrs above $200,000 were imrcaMl with a maximum of 75 per cent or all above $5,000,000 hv the house ways and means committee in its consider* tion of the $8,000,000,000 revenue KM Incomes between $200,000 and 1300,00ft will pay f?.r? per cent surtax, instetu! of the 52 per cent heretofore planned; Incomes of $300.0n0 to $500,000, M per cent, instead of 58; $500,000 tx> $1.006, 0000. 05 per cent instead of 83; $1,000,000, to $5,000,000, 70 per rent and alt above $5,000,OoO, 75 per cent Insteal of t!4 per cent as at present. INFLUX OF AMERICAN* DISCOURAGES GERMANS London. The ebbing of the German morale resulting from recent eveatn has been noticeably hastened by the grent influx of American troop* It this particular regard, the German high command is paying the penalty of concealment and misrepresent* tion. The appearance in the battle line of powerful Anierir.au Torres and the striking proof of their splemlMt lighting quality gives the lie direct 10 all German official bom hast ALL-AMERICAN CREWS ARE TO MAN MERCHANT SHIPS * Washington- Manning of the Ames lean merchant marine with 10b per rent American crews is to be htrtadrd in the program of activities r?J iht shipping hoard. Chairman HuTke>? ??nounced. ading that the suor-w rJ j'Jfco huge shipbuilding program eu tsiur?d. New training ships are I* I* placed at New Orleans and Cleielnd. be said, and 36,00b men are expected to be ttnined in the next year. ? " J , '*?"< -tJ flB