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Show UU Steps Taken tc Keep Down the Grippe Epidemic, WASHINGTON, Sept. 18- Steps! were taken today by the Emergency Fleet corporation to prevent influenza from interfering with ship production. Sanitation engneers in all eastern shipyards were notified by Lieut. Col. Phillip S. Doane, head of the health and sanitation section of the corppra-tion, corppra-tion, to exhaust every means to tfei'p the disease from the yards. Colonel Doane in a statement issued tonight advanced the theory that the disease, which lie characterised as "nothing more or loss than old fashionod 'grippe" was brought to the United j SUites by members of tho crows of German submarines whom, he said, wore reported to have been ashore at ! New York and other place. |