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Show 'President Joins in Social Life Upoo the Ship; Attends At-tends 'Movie Show. WATCHES THE NEWS Confers With French: j and Italian EuYoys on- Peace Matters. ! ON BOARD THE U. S. S. GEORGE WASHINGTON, Friday, Dec. 6. (10 p. m.) (By Wireless to The Associated Associat-ed Press) President Wilson'c third day at sea found him much Improved iri health. His cold is yielding to treatment and his voice is rested and much stronger. Having cleared the work which had accumulated at his desk, the president enjoyed a day of recreation and exercise. exer-cise. His ship ran Into somewhat better bet-ter weather this morning, after a night of heavy weather. This afternoon he j promenaded along the decks and joined a party at the rail watching the Pennsylvania, the flagship of Admiral Ad-miral Mayo's squadron, rise and fall with the heavy swells. The sea was bright with warm sunlight, Mr. Wilson Wil-son engaged in the conversation on; timely topics, swapping stories and1 experiences with those on board. j The party included officers in the lower grades whose stories of experiences exper-iences in the submarine zone are tremendously tre-mendously Interesting. When it was learned that a film starring a famous I comedian was to be shown during the I evening on board the ship, the president presi-dent announced thai he intended to be present, evidently anticipating the entertainment en-tertainment with pleasure-. j WITH AMBASSADOR. I While Mr. Wilson was on deck, hej earnestly conferred with Jules Jus-serand, Jus-serand, the French ambassador to the' United States, and Count di Cellere, the Italian ambassador at Washington, and had a short conversation with Secretary of State Robert Lansing and! Henry White, colleagues of the president presi-dent on the peace commission. No I formal conferences have been held soj far and it seems apparent that plans for the peace negotiations have been well laid out. Mr. Wilson has been solicitous of the comfort of those accompanying him and is personally seeing that all orders are carried out. He reads every wireless message received and peruses the shlp'3 newspaper with much Interest. In-terest. Before leaving the George Washington he intends to inspect the ship from stem to stern and meet the officers and crew. no |