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Show The war trade board has granted licenses for raw cotton to Spain In quantity sufficient to load several Spanish vessel. This action provides pro-vides cotton necessary to fill the normal nor-mal requirement of the Spanish mills. . Under the agreement with Spain that nation permits free export to the allies of certain commodities In return re-turn for which the Unfted States permits, per-mits, so far at consistent with its conservation con-servation policies, the export to Spain of necessary supplies of cotton and other commodities to cover genuine Spanish requirements. Congress has authorized $2,034,000,-000, $2,034,000,-000, of which sum $1435.000.000 has been appropriated, for the United States shipping board and Emergency Fleet corporation; on March 1, $353.-247,955.37 $353.-247,955.37 of thta inn had been 'expended. 'ex-pended. The Emergency Fleet corporation cor-poration (had requisitioned March 1, 425 steel Vessels and contracted for 720 steel vessels, making a total of 1,145 steel ships, of an aggregate deadweight dead-weight tonnage 8404,503 tons; It had let contracts for 490 wooden vessels, ves-sels, aggregating approximately 1,715,-000 1,715,-000 dead-weight tons; It had repaired and put In operation 788,000 deadweight dead-weight tonnage seized from Germany and Austria. On March 5 the building build-ing program of the Emergency Fleet corporation was being carried on In 151 plants. 'Among the purchaser of the quartermaster's quar-termaster's department are 61.000,000 pounds of prunes and dried beans; 273.000,000 cans of tomatoes, condensed con-densed milk, and baked beans ; 40,-000,000 40,-000,000 yards of mosquito bar; 75,-000,000 75,-000,000 yards of oltve drab; 20,000.-000 20,000.-000 woolen blankets; 50,000,000 pairs of heavy stockings; 11,000,000 wool coats.' The ordnance program Includes In-cludes the purchase of 23,000.000 hand grenades, 725,000 automatic pistols, 250,000 revolvers, 23,000.000 projectiles for heavy artillery, 427,246.000 pounds of explosives. 240,000 machine guns, and 2,484,000 rifles. A warmergency course to train selected men for machine-sbop occupations, occu-pations, blacksmithlng, sheet-metal working, and pipe fitting has been prepared by the federal board for vocational vo-cational education and wtll be distributed distrib-uted to the schools throughout the country. It Is known as Bulletin No. a The board Is acting with the war department In preparing these courses of study and In dealing with the state authorities In charge of the school work. , Re'cently there has been considerable consider-able discussion through the press and at public meetings In Australia concerning con-cerning the advisability of producing more beef cattle and sowing less acreage to wheat, according to a report re-port to the department of commerce. Several hundred submarine chasers, STANDARD CARS Of OHiMEi VARIETY OF THE VEH.CLES AND PARTS KEPT TO A MINIMUM ., BY CONSTANT EFFORT. MANY BOOKKEEPERS NEEDED Civil Service Examinations for Such Positions to Be Held Weekly Raw Cotton From the United States Goes to Spain. ' (From Committee on fubllc Information.) Washington. Among the standard motor vehicles being provided by the ordnance bureau are the following: The ammunition truck, which has a steel body designed to accommodate accommo-date packing boxes of any type of ammunition mounted on a four-wheel drive truck chassis. The equipment repair truck, making use of the same type of chassis, has bins and drawers for spare parts and material for repairing re-pairing personnel . equipment, rifles and machine guns, leather equipment, equip-ment, etc. The artillery repair truck has a four-wheel drive chassis and a small machine-shop body with equipment consisting of a lathe, drill press, bench grinder, electric drill, welding outfit, air riveting hammer, milling attachment, at-tachment, blacksmith outfit, and other tools. Electric power Is supplied by a gasoline-driven generator. The 24-ton artillery tractor weighs about 5,000 pounds and is capable of making 12 miles an hour under favorable favor-able rood conditions. The five-ton artillery ar-tillery tractor, weighing 9,000 pounds and capable of a speed of six miles an hour, will handle a load of 10.000 pounds. It Is Intended for use with 4.7-Inch gun and 6-Inch howitzer material. mate-rial. A load of 18,000 pounds Is the maximum for the 10-ton artillery i tractor, which will make about 4ft miles an hour on high speed. The 15-ton artillery tractor and the 120-horsepower artillery tractor will be supplied In limited numbers. They are of oe track-laying type similar to those used by the French and British governments and are for heavy loads which are not subdivided for transportation. transpor-tation. 1 Other standard motor equipment constats of the reel and fire-control truck with a four-wheel drive truck chassis and rear wheels replaced by caterpillar trucks; reconnaissance car, a 1-too truck capable of a speed of from SO to 40 miles an hour; the light repulr truck, weighing about 2,400 pounds; the lH-ton trailer for antiaircraft anti-aircraft guns; the 3-Inch field gun trailer, which Is utilized for hauling ammunition as well as the 3-inch gun material. built since the war,, have been delivered deliv-ered to the navy by 31 private concerns con-cerns and six navy yards; many of thexe boats have crossed the Atlantic, some In severe weather. Through a card, catalogue system 109,487 men have been transferred out of army divisions Into technical units to function according to Individual Indi-vidual educational, occupational and military qualifications. There are now four times as many vessels In naval service as a year ago. The estimated pay of officers and men In the navy for the first year of war was $125,000,000. The Norwegian government has appropriated ap-propriated $7,000,000 to assist intensive inten-sive agricultured development Of this amount, $4,500,000 is to maintain low maximum prices for cattle feed snd fertilizer. New Japanese concerns numbering over 100 sre reported ss having entered en-tered business at Shanghai during 1917. The Japanese population Is rap-Idly rap-Idly increasing, now being about 14,-000. 14,-000. During 12 months the army hospitals hospit-als Increased from 7 to 63 In number and from 5,000 to 58.400 beds; 30,000 more beds are being added. More than 70,000 acres of land In this country has been planted with j castor-bean plants to produce oil for aircraft. American troops permanently took over s part of the Bring line as an American sector lu January, 1918. The navy now has In Its possession a stock of supplies sulhcient for average aver-age requirements for oue year. Our 11-Inch guns weigh nearly 95 tons nnd are over 58 feet long, costing cost-ing $118,000. Our 35,000-ton cruUer, cnpnltle of .15 knots, will be the fastest In the world. - Production of lO.ono new automobile automo-bile trucks Is In progrexs for the army. Chinese pennuts nre usunlly hivnd sorted ly women after being sifted. The United States prows more than (S.txm.DOO bushels of pennuts a year. The nnmml pny of the army now exceeds $ IX),fXH),XK). The iimvj- rntlon In lf17 cost $0,438, as e jii lust $0.87084 in 1010. Tanks and other armored land .vehicles .ve-hicles are designed, procured, and maintained by the ordnance bureau. There has been a constant effort to keep the variety of vehicles and parts to a minimum. Only one slae of tire is used on all the heavier trucks and trailers, this size also being used on similar vehicles by the quartermaster corps, signal corps and engineers. Hie snme magneto Is used on all types of ordnance vehicles. All types of ordnance truck bodies are Inter-changeable Inter-changeable on all truck chassis Issued to the artillery. So urgent Is the government's need for bookkeepers that dvil service ex-smlnatlons ex-smlnatlons to fill positions of this character will be held throughout the United 8tates each Tuesday until further fur-ther notice. Women as well as men are eligible. Two ('lasses of examinations are announced. an-nounced. A grammar school education educa-tion or Its equivalent Is required of applicants for each class, with the further stipulation, that those who wish to take the bookkeeper-typewriter examination must have had at least six months' experience In bookkeeping book-keeping and those who would undertake under-take th clerk-bookkeeper examination, examina-tion, one year's experience In clerical work, six months of which must have been In bookkeeping. The vacancies to be filled from the register obtained from these examinations sre In the departmental de-partmental service at Washington and offer entrance salaries of $1,000 a year. These examinations are open not only to all dtlsens of the United States but also to subjects of allied nations who are otherwise qualified for the positions offered. There Is being prepared In the adjutant ad-jutant general's office a new "pay card" which will be kept by the personnel per-sonnel officer and will show the pay status of the man at all times. Should a man be transferred or detached from his Company he will carry his enrd with him. This Is expected to eliminate the many causes for de-Inyed de-Inyed payments of men so transferred, and to do away with many of the annoyances an-noyances that have heretofore existed. ' Piirinir the first year of war the anny pnld $VUX lO.ofX) for horse-drawn vehicles nnd harness; more than $50,-mxi.0ix $50,-mxi.0ix for horses, mules and harness. Kvpendltures for the fiscal year ending end-ing .Tmiip SO. 1019. for fuel nnd forace are estimated at more than $500,000,-000. $500,000,-000. A stnndnrd system of Inspection by which federal food administrators may keep a check on commercial bakers bak-ers Is being worked out by the. de-nnrtment de-nnrtment of aKrlculture snd the food administration. |