Show CHANGE NAMES OF GERMAN STEAMERS By Ely Special News Service Servie WASHINGTON Sept 8 Almost Almost all former German vessels now in the American navy have been given new names Secretary Daniels issued an anord ord order r today changing the names of twelve ships as a result of his at attention attention attention at- at having been called last week to the embarrassment the sailors were subjected to by being compelled to wear upon their names such as Kaiser Wilhelm II The newly newly newly new new- ly named ships are to Leviathan Cecilie Cecille to Mount Vernon Kaiser Wilhelm II 11 to Agamemnon Amerika to America Hamburg to Powhatan Grosser Kurfurst to Aeolus Koenig Wilhelm II to Madawaska Neckar to Antigone Antigono Rheine to Susquehanna Princess Irene Irena to Pocahontas Frederick Der Dor Grosse to Huron Barbarossa to Mercury The vessels George Washington President Grant and President Lincoln List Lin coIn coln will not be renamed The names of the tugs Pocahontas Huron and Powhatan are changed to Allegheny Chemung and Cayuga re re- re |