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Show WEEKLY WAR NEWS DIGEST Stories of Activities and Conditions Throughout the j United States and on the Battle Front From Washington D. C. : j The new submarine fighters which are being built at the Ford plant will be known as "Eagles" and will 'constitute the Eagle class of boats. Reports based on figures from the Department of Agriculture show that January 1, 1918, the number of meat animals in the United States was greater by more than 6,000,000 head than it was January 1, 1917. The number ' of inspections for slaughter indicate a decrease in consumption. con-sumption. Review of War Lists Achievements of Army and Navy The following statements are from the Official Review of the First Year of War, made public by the Committee Commit-tee on Public Information: Total estimated expense of the United States Government In the first year of war, without loans to the allies, is $12,067,278,679.07. . During the first year of war the United States Army has increased in actual strength from 9,524 officers and 202,510 enlisted men to 123,-801 123,-801 officers and 1,528,924 enlisted men. Strength of the Navy today 1b nearly 21,000 officers and 330,000 enlisted men; strength a year ago was 4,792 officers and 77,946 enlisted enlist-ed men. The total number of persons per-sons now in the Naval Establishment exceeds 425,000. The first contingent of the expeditionary expe-ditionary forces landed safely at a French port 8 8 days after war was declared. American troops went on the line for their baptism of fire 187 days after war was declared. Nearly 73,000 mechanics and other oth-er civilian employees are working at navy yards and stations. More than 700 privately owned vessels have been purchased or chartered by the Navy. Some 300 woolen mills are working work-ing on army contracts. Over 20,000,000 pairs of shoes have been ordered for the Army. Treasury Department floated $6,616,532,300 subscriptions to Liberty bonds. Loans to a total of $3,882,900,000 had been made to cobelligerent nations na-tions to end of 1917. Total weight of steel thrown by a single broadside from the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania today is 17,508 pounds; maximum maxi-mum broadside of largest ship dur- i claim to the land above d?scribed. ! before Herbert Nichols. U. S. Commissioner, Com-missioner, at Milford. Utah, on the I ISth day of May, 191S. Claimant names as witnesses: ? H. T. Kaminska, Thomas John-pnii. John-pnii. J. w. F. Scott, all of Malone. Utah; Charles D. Alsop, of Milford, 1 Utah. GOULD B. BLAKELY, Register. First publication April 5. 191S. Last publication May 3, 1918. ing Spanish-American War was 5,660 pounds. Two weeks after war was declared contracts had been made covering the requirements of an Army of 1,000,000 men, this material comprising com-prising 8,700,000 items. More than 11,000 manufacturers bid for Navy business. Total deaths in the Army from April 6, 1917, to March 14, from all causes, was reported by the Adjutant Adju-tant General's office to be 1,191. Of this number, 132 were reported as killed in action and 237 died or were lost at sea. The total number wounded In action was 4 04. Thirty-five Thirty-five men have been reported as missing; miss-ing; 28 of them are said to have been captured. Casualties in the Navy and Marine Corps from April 6 to December 31, 1917, Include 5 naval officers and 139 enlisted men, killed or died from wounds. No officers were reported as wounded in action, but 10 enlisted men were so reported. report-ed. Government now operates 260,-000 260,-000 miles of railway, employing 1,000,600 men and representing investment in-vestment of $17,500,000,000. Bonds, certificates of indebtedness, indebted-ness, war-savings certificates, and 1 thrift stamps issued by the Treasury up to March 12 totaled $8,560,802,-052.96. $8,560,802,-052.96. The United States Government had loaned to foreign governments associated in the war on March 12, 1918, $4,436,329,750. To March 12 the War-Risk Insur-j ance Bureau had issued policies for a total of $12,465,116,500 to the armed forces. Allotments and allowances to soy , dlers' and sailors' dependents paid by the Government in February I amounted to $ 19,976,543. 1 The Ordnance Department manufactures manu-factures about 100,000 items. One i type of gun with its carriage has 7,990 parts, exclusive of accessories. ! For training troops in canton-: ments 1,000,000,000 rounds of am-: munition have been bought. The Navy has developed an American Amer-ican mine believed to combine all the good points of various types of mines, and is manufacturing them in quantities. Army medical training schools have been created with capacity of 21.000 officers and men 15.000 enlisted en-listed men and 6.000 officers already trained and graduated. Naval communication service operates op-erates all radio service; 5.000 youths are studying radiotelegraphy at two naval schools. Medical officers numbering 1,675 are members of the Medical Department Depart-ment of the Navy. Navy maintains 12,000 hospital beds and 5,000 are being added. Of 63,203 candidates for officers' commissions at two officers' training train-ing camps 44.57S were successful; a third series is now in progress with IS, 000 attendance. . During the year the latest type of naval 16-inch gun was completed for our new battleships; it throws a projectile weighing 2.100 pounds. When war was declared, 123 naval vessels were building or authorized, and contracts have been placed since that time for 949 vessels. Before the war a total of $1,500,-0i'!' $1,500,-0i'!' had been appropriated for air .'.crvice. Congress !.as iv.de S'ltl,-0 S'ltl,-0 '0,000 available for aircraft production pro-duction in first year of war Over 2 0 large companies are manufacturing man-ufacturing airplanes, 15 are producing pro-ducing engines, and more than 400 are producing spare parts, accessories access-ories and supplies. Naval training camps have a capacity ca-pacity of 102,000 in summer and 94,000 men in winter. In sixteen cantonments 650,000,-000 650,000,-000 feet of lumber were used. Paymaster General of the Navy drew checks for more than $30,000,-000 $30,000,-000 in one day February 23 for ammunitions; total advertised purchases pur-chases for the Navy for 1915 were $19,000,000. rw Employment Service Plans To Supply Farm Workers A special farm-service division is being established in most of-the 100 offices of the United Spates Employment Employ-ment Service as one of the plans for meeting the labor requirements of the farmers. Special field agents are being sent into districts where acute farm-labor shortage exists or where unusually large numbers will be needed. A weekly bulletin will be issued in which opportunities ror farm employment em-ployment and the needs of certain districts will be listed. Posters announcing an-nouncing the location of Federal and state employment offices are being hung in post offices, railway stations sta-tions and other public places. All third and fourth class post offices, of which there are 55,000, are now authorized rarm-labor employment em-ployment offices. During the harvest eeason in certain states temporary offices will be opened in a number of cities for the purpose of furnishing accurate information as to where, harvest hands are needed. Reports are received every two weeks by the Food Administration from the nineteen binder twine establishments es-tablishments of the country. Accords ing to a recent statement there will be an ample supply of twine for the 1918 harvest. England and Italy Reduce Shoe Prices by Standardization There has already been a drop in the prices charged by retailers for footwear in England in view of the government's action in placing on the market standardized shoes made at controlled rates of profit, according accord-ing to a report to the United States Department of Commerce. At a recent exhibition of "wartime" "war-time" boots 39 samples were shown, ranging from heavy boots for carters and laborers to shoes for ordinary street use, and children's shoes. Prices range from $2.06 to $6.38 a pair. The shoes are made entirely uf leather and the retailer's price is stamped on the sole. Italian shoe factories are r.anu-faeturingvstandardized r.anu-faeturingvstandardized shoes, using leather furnished by the government, which controls the system of siles to the public. In England the manufacture of standard cloth for men's suits ha'! made rapid progress, twenty-four patterns being included in the first goods shown. As niw planned, provision pro-vision is made for 750.000 to 1.000.-000 1.000.-000 suits ready for delivery fro-:. June to August. The project may later include production of certain . classes of cloth for women's wear, with a gradually widening range of production under government standard stand-ard ization. Agricultural Dept." Shows Rnn$;e Of War Emergency Work Of the total of nearly $20,000,001' asked for war emergency activitie-by activitie-by the Department of Agriculture it is proposed to use $S, 000. 000 for the purchase and sale of seed to farmer-for farmer-for cash at cost; $6,100,000 for t'-- "cvelopment of the cooperative i""' cultural extension work in cooper tion with the state agricultural colleges; col-leges; $1,269,655 for combating animal ani-mal diseases, stimulating the pro- ':ction of live stock, and encourag- ng the conservation and utilization of meat, poultry, dairy and other animal an-imal products; $911,300 for the prevention, pre-vention, control and eradication of insects and plant diseases, and the conservation and utilization of plant products; $2,36S,95S for extending and enlarging the Market News Service Ser-vice of the Bureau of Markets, preventing pre-venting waste of food in storage. In transit or held for sale, giving advice concerning the market movement or distribution of perishable products, making inspections and certifications regarding the condition of perishable agricultural products, and gathering information in connection with the demand for and the production, supply, sup-ply, distribution, and utilization of food; and $1,080,980 for dealing with the farm labor problem, enlarging enlarg-ing the informational work of the department, printing and distributing distribut-ing emergency leaflets, posters and other publications and extending th" work of the Bureau of Chemistry, the Bureau of Entomology, and the Bureau of Biological Survey. Russiaji Developments Worry-Editor Worry-Editor of German Newspaper Translations of editorial comment in the German press, made public by the Committee on Public Information, Informa-tion, incfude the following from the Berliner Tageblatt: 4 "The teims of the ultimatum to Russia will please even the most unrelenting un-relenting advocates of violence. It would be interesting to hear Hert-ling, Hert-ling, who accepted Wilson's second principle that people are not to be bartered about from sovereign to sovereign, explain just what differences differ-ences exist between the political methods of the past and those of today. to-day. It may be conceded that today the German Reichstag is informed of coming changes, but not until the matter has been settled without it. We all hope this policy will ' bring peace and prosperity, but we can not conceal our anxiety at the birth x ot these new states." |