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Show pliS MS I ML LAUNCHING I Wife of Secretary Sponsors I Latest Destroyer to Take I the Water. Qfl.VCV. M.i.-.f., April 111. -It took no. ! a. person lliun Joaepluin Daniels hlm-H hlm-H arlf to pry off toiay the lid of secrecy WS upon t lie declaration of wa im ' lumped down by the navy department .. tin buHdlng corporation at Us Fore River plipl and Hiitmntnm secrc- tan ol i:..t 1 amc hern on a tour ol Inlpection. A I 1'or.i Klvei plant wan a In inc hing stand, over which one ol the latent typex of destroy. tj lielnu turned out poked her sharp-cut how. At Hi.. screeching of ., siren UibilSumU of workmen came pom-Inn out of ,rhe shops. The I'oro Itlver hand H MtVed and Mr. Daniels gracefully dls. crittriied hr oftlce as sponsor as the latest of Undo Hum's warships look the water. Mr. Daniel appeared tremendously lin-inUHHcd, lin-inUHHcd, for the vanl he knew when he la el vnit.-.i I ..i.l in at work. Today II l Tiie le i. .Ici myer was christened the Hell, lii honor ..I Roar Admiral Henry H. Hell. .. native ol North Carolina, who tiortimandecl a division or the Un I Mules Heel under I'anugut In the civil H "ar. . . .. H Mr. Ilanlels was then conducted to llic "tips hi which lav the keel blocks only. Driilei i:. cul.l.inre ,.i Superintendent J. 3, Nolan, .. veteran slilphullder. Mr. l)an- Ida laid I he keels ol live destroyers al- inoi.l sliiiiiM:iri-MiHl.v, I" the cheering ac- fsmipunlnient of the entire shipbuilding H ici , of the yard. Afler the destroyer had been launched. Ihe shipbuilder called on Mr. Daniels for H it Eiipeech. " I I,- moal gratifying thing about this .un,'' he said, "Is that the bulk of the un- all callings have been ready to H make whatever sacrifices tho authorities H have asked them to make. H "The greatest disappointment of the H I ,ii . i has not huen tho failure of tho I'-tuiat warfaio to starve our allies, al-I al-I tllOuc.li licit was keen dlsappolntnient. I j The greatest disappointment was the lall- 3 liitf down of the well-planned propaganda I ),i fomenl social revolution In America. 'flu- greatesl dlsappointiuenl of all is that I J Uu efforts nf Ids paid spies and etnls-I etnls-I MjHrles, whispering In the ears of any la-I la-I iMiriuc m, in who would listen, arc wor'ao I ill, in wasted. Caibor In America under- I Mtuiids that It Ovtcnda for .its life and I progress and future victories upon ovcr- A coni'iic llerinan autocracy in this war." |