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GEORGE CREEL, Chairman * * * COMPLETE Record of U. J. GOVERNMENT Activities

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Explanation of RehabilitationPlans Given to Each DisabledSoldier Upon His Return to U.S.COMPENSATION FOR ALL

Statement by Surgeon Gen-eral Ireland of Army IsPlaced in Hands of All Illand Wounded-Will Re-ceive Warm Welcome, ButIs Soldier Still and ShouldContinue to Act as One.

The War Department makes public thefollowing statement by the Surgeon Gen-eral of the Army, which is being put intothe hands of every returned disabled sol-dier:

I Upon your arrival at the port youwill be sent to a debarkation hospital fora very brief stay. From there you willb sent to the general hospital, base hos-pital, or convalescent center, the nearestto your own home. Of course, whenspecial treatment is required it may benecessary to have you sent to the hospitalwhere there are facilities for this treat-ment. If your condition is such that youdo not need hospital treatment, you willbe sent to a convalescent center in anAimy camp nearest your home until en-tirely recovered and ready for discharge.

Cure of Sick and Wounded.2. In the cure of the sick and wounded

soldier. not only the ordinary measure ofmedicine and surgery will be used, butalso physical measures, such as are em-ployed under physiotherapy; active exer-cises; indoor and outdoor games; mas-sages and curative occupation in the hos-pital wards, curative workshops, and gar-dens. This treatment is for the purposeof correcting, as far as possible, the de-fects and disabilities of the soldiers.

3. The curative workshops are estab-lished to restore the use of injured partsof the body through useful work. Theankle joint, for instance, that has becomestiffened through injury, is made to tunc-tion again by exercise on a foot powermachine such as a band saw, jig saw,printing press, etc. The patient whilegetting the curative exercises, has some-thing to do which keeps his hands andhead busy, takes his mind off his disabil-ity, and may be of educational value tohim in his occupation.

4. The curative workshop activities areunder the charge of the hospital educa-

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CONDITIONS AT BREST OUTLINEDIN REPORT FROM GEN. HARBORD

"Were Very Bad But Are Im-proving Daily," Says Cable-

gram to Secretary Baker.

Press interview with the Secretary ofWar, January 3, 1919:

I have received from Gen. Harbordthe following cable in regard to conditionsat Brest:

" Climatic conditions at Brest due to.d~ily rain are the worst of any port atour disposal in France, but the lack ofdeep water at other ports force certainships to come to Brest, the one port theycan enter. The policy of beginning theevacuation of our troops immediatelyafter the armistice and the order to fillall available shipping forced the evacu-ation of troops through Brest before anyconstruction works suitable to an embar-kation camp could be completed.

" Work on this embarkation camp andon the necessary port facilities to converta small port into a live embarkation porthas been going on steadily for some timenight and day. Conditions were very badand are far from what we plan at thepresent time, but they are improving dailyand the Inspector General, American Ex-peditionary Forces, within the past weekreported that progress was good and con-ditions were satisfactory when the origi-nal conditions and the physical and cli-matic difficulties were considered.

"Work at Brest and St. Nazaire onthese embarkation features have long hadpriority over practically all other workin F rance and this will continue until theembarkation features at both places havereached a satisfactory stage. The em-barkation of troops in large numbers be-gan through these ports at the same timeas the construction of the embarkationand, therefore, the troops passing throughin the early period could not have ad-vantage of what we plan to give troopspassing through these places in future."

All deep-draught vessels, such as thegreat British troop ships, the larger Navyships such as the Leviathan, GeorgeWashington, Mount Vernon, necessarilymust use Ihe port of Brest, but smallerships are calling at Bordeaux and St.Nazaire.

DISCHARGE OF MEN BEGUNFROM COMBATANT RANKS;TOTAL NOW DESIGNATED INTHE U. S. OVER A MILLIONLIST IS ANNOUNCED

BY GENERAL MARCH

Nearly 300,000 AdditionalMen in France Assignedfor Early Convoy-Statusof Emergency Army Offi-cers Desiring Commis-sions in the Regular ArmyAwaiting Congress Action.Casualties Among Amer-ican Troops at Archangel.Questions and Answers.

Statement to the press by Gen. March,January 4, 1919:

The designation of men for releasefrom the Army has reached a point nowwhere we have come to the combatantdivisions, and during the week I haveauthorized orders to be issued to begin thedischarge of men from combatant divi-sions, and to proceed through them gradu-ally. The number of men designated fordischarge in the United States is now1,004,000. The list follows:

Depot brigades, development.Battalions and replacements - 98, 00Industrial furloughs -------------- 18, 000Divisional troops ----------------- 40, 500Corps and Army troops ---------- 48, 000Coast Artillery ----------------- 40, 500Engineers ---------------------- 48, 000Medical Corps ------------------ 10, 000Ordnance ---------------------- 10, 500Quartermaster Corps ------------ 23, 000United States Guards ------------ 26. 000Military aeronautics ------------- 40, 000Spruce production --------------- 30, 000Tank Corps --------------------- 7, 000Chemical warfare service ---------- 7, 500Anthracite coal miners 0, 000Special service units ------------ 11, 500S. A. T. C--------------------- 160, 000C. 0. TI. S --------------------- 31, 500Attached, local draft boards --------- 3, 500Porto Rico troops -------------- 12, 000Hawaiian National Guard - 1, 500Bakery companies --------------- 3, 000Construction and labor companies- 3, 500Aircraft production ------------- 3, 500Overseas casuals ---------------- 10,000Signal Corps ------------------- 6, 000Training center ----------------- 10, 000

Total ------------------ 1, 004, 000

The number of men that have beendesignated for early return to the UnitedStates, in addition to those which have

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THE OFFICIAL U. S. BULLETIN: SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1919.

BILLION AND A HALF PAIDIN SALARIES TO SOLDIERS BYARMY FINANCE DIRECTOR;ANOTHER BILLION TO COMEDISBURSED IN CASH

ALL OVER THE WORLD

How Vast Difficulties En-countered, Especially atBattle Front, Have BeenMet and Overcome, Re-viewed by Chief of FinanceDivision-Pay Cards andPay Books Found Help-ful to Men in Action.System in Cantonmentsand Hospitals.

The following statement is authorizedby the Director of Finance of the Army:

Since April 6, 1917, there has been paidto the officers and enlisted men of theUnited States Army $1,577,331,669.70. Tothis should be added $116,782,994.81 paidin family allowances by the Treasury De-partment, making a total of $1,694,114,-664.51 paid to officers and soldiers and tosoldiers' families up to date. It is esti-mated that it will require $1,257,941,001.52to pay officers and soldiers for the balanceof the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919,and if the Dent bill providing an extramonth's pay for discharged officers andmen becomes a law, there will be added$153,000,000 to the grand total, makingthe sum of $3,105,055,666,03 paid out toofficers, soldiers, and soldiers' familiessince April 6, 1917, without taking intoaccount the amount for family allowanceswhich will be paid to enlisted men's de-pendents between now and June 30, 1919.

Paid in Cash All Over World.This money for the most part has been

paid in cash to individuals, and has beendisbursed In the United States, France,England, Italy, Porto Rico, the CanalZone, Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippine Is-lands, China, Siberia, Archangel, and atthe capital of every country in the worldexcept enemy countries, and we possiblywill soon be paying troops there.

The statement that pay of the Armyhas been disbursed at the capitals of allthese countries is due to the fact thatevery military attache is an acting quar-termaster, and as such pays all UnitedStates Army personnel connected with hisoffice. During the Spanish-AmericanWar troops were paid every two months,while during the present war paymentshave been made monthly to forces scat-tered in a far-flung battle line around theworld.

Paying at Cantonments.In this country the cantonments, with

inexperienced officers and men, made asomewhat trying pay problem that wassoon solved, liowever, and during the past

year the big camps and cantonments havebeen paid in full at an average of the 5thof the month. In several of the canton-ments, some of them containing from40,000 to 60,000 men, payments were com-pleted on the last day of the month inwhich the pay accrued, and in manyothers full settlement has been made onthe 1st day of the succeeding month.

From December 1 to December 21, 1918,500,000 enlisted men were dischargedfrom the Army, and were paid in fullwithout delay. This operation compre-hended such factors as clothing moneydue, longevity pay, foreign-service pay,allotments to the Bureau of War-RiskInsurance, and allotments through theWar Department system, all of whichmust be prorated, travel allowances,charges against the soldier for lost prop-erty, and many other matters requiringconsideration under law and regulations.The final pay roll of- a soldier, becauseof the requirements of law, TreasuryDepartment decisions and regulations, isan intricate financial problem.

Problems Met Overseas.

The payment of troops overseas pre-sented entirely new difficulties, the re-strictions of law and regulations beingfurther complicated by war conditionsthat relegated the matter of pay to therear. It was impossible to pay troopsin action, and the troops were not think-ing of pay. When American troops ar-rived overseas they were hurried to thefront and their baggage containing theirrecords followed them when transporta-tion was available. Then began rapidmovements and consequently frequentseparation at every point. In some casescrganization commanders and their com-mands had records and baggage. In oneor two cases trains proceeding towardthe front were destroyed by aerial bombs,causing the destruction of baggage andrecords of troops.

To meet this condition an attempt wasmade to provide enlisted men with paycards and pay books, so that if woundedor separated from their commands theywould be able to establish their identityand secure their pay. The pay cardswere available in July and the pay bookswere issued in November, but few of thecasuals, wounded and sick, who have here-tofore arrived from overseas, have eitherpay cards or pay books. In some caseswithout doubt the soldier when going intoactual conflict, as is the American sol-dier's custom, stripped himself of every-thing that did not contribute directly tothe task before him, and left his paperswith the rest of the discard.

Records Forgotten in Battle.

Another phase of the situation that af-fected many of the casuals who have ar-rived in this country without records ofany kind was the brigading of Americantroops with Belgian, French, British, andItalian organizations. Many hundreds ofthousands of troops were moved betweendarkness and dawn, as it was vitally nec-essary to have a concentration of men ata given point, and in the teeth of a furi-ous attack records were forgotten. Whena man was wounded he was evacuatedthrough Belgian, British, French, or Ital-ian hospitals, and from there to the sea-board, and from there, as soon as he couldbe moved, to a transport and back home,while his records might be back near thefront line, under control of officers and

BUNKER LICENSES FOR PLEASUREBOATS TO CRUISE BETWEEN UNITEDSTATES, BERMUDA, WEST INDIESNOT PERMITTED TO CARRY CARGO

War Trade Board Makes NewRuling Setting Forth ConditionsUnder Which Permits Will BeGranted-Monthly Report Waived.

The War Trade Board announces, ina new ruling (W. T. B. R. 478), that itis now prepared to issue bunker licensesto pleasure boats, not carrying cargo,valid for a period of three months, tocruise between ports of the United States,Bermuda, and the West Indies.

The licenses will be issued on the regu-lar forms used for trip licenses, with suchchanges in phraseology as may be neces-sary. Bunker Form B-3, Master's Re-port on Voyage, and Bunker Form B-7,Affidavit and Agreement of Master of Ves-sel Governing Disposition of Cargo, willnot be required.

The monthly report of fuel and suppliestaken out of the country and the reportof fuel consumed, heretofore required forall time licenses, will also be waived as ageneral rule, but applicants should placethemselves in a position to furnish thesereports if called upon to do so.

In presenting applications to agents ofthe Bureau of Transportation or collec-tors of customs on the regular applicationform (Bunker Form B-1-a) care shouldbe exercised to outline fully the cruisingradius of the vessel for which bunkerlicense is applied for

men who were marching all night andfighting all day.

In the Argonne Forest one shell killeda noncommissioned officer and wounded30 men belonging to a Field Artillery regi-ment. In the fighting at this point onebattalion of this regiment lost five officersin one day's fighting. - The wounded wereimmediately sent through the various hos-pitals, and many to the port of debarka-tion and on to the United States withoutat any time coming within hailing dis-tance of the records of the regiment,which in this case were well up to thefront In the rapid advance made theregiment was ignorant of what had hap-pened to those who were wounded. Theyknew that they were wounded or had dis-appeared from the line.

Orders to Bring Papers.Orders were issued overseas that no

wounded or sick soldier should be allowedto go aboard a transport for transporta-tion back to the States unless he was pro-vided with all his papers, so that he couldbe paid on his arrival here, and if it wasfound necessary to discharge him that hecould be given his final pay in full, includ-ing his travel allowances. It evidentlywas found impossible to hold these cas-uals for an indefinite time at the port ofembarkation in France when the menthemselves were eager to reach home, andmilitary policy dictated that they shouldbe returned to the United States as soon

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SPECIAL EXPORT LICENSESFOR SHIPMENTS TO CONSULSGIVEN TO CUSTOMS SERVICEBY THE WAR TRADE BOARDINCLUDES ARTICLES

FOR PERSONAL USE

May Be Consigned to AnyDiplomatic Employee ofU. S. Stationed Abroadbut Not to Members ofExpeditionary Forces.Applies Also to ParcelsSent Through Post Office.Import Rules of Coun-try of Destination Re-quired to Be Observed.

The War Trade Board announces, ina new ruling (W. T. B. R. 468), thatspecial export license No. RAC-64 hasbeen issued to the Customs Service andto the Post Office Department authoriz-ing the exportation without individualexport license of shipments of any com-modity when consigned to and for thepersonal use of diplomatic, consular, orother officials, or employees of the UnitedStates stationed abroad.

Shipments to Soldiers.

This license does not, however, au-thorize the exportation of shipments tomembers of the American ExpeditionaryForces or of organizations affiliatedtherewith. Such shipments must continueas heretofore to be made undef specialexport license No. RAC-43 and in accord-ance with the regulations of the WarDepartment. Information concerning li-cense No. RAC-43 may be obtained fromany post office.

Shippers should note that it is unneces-sary to apply to the War Trade Boardfor permission to ship under special ex-port license No. RAC-64 and no specialdocument issued by the War Trade Boardis necessary in connection with such ship-ments. It is only necessary to note onthe package, if the shipment is madethrough the mails, or on the exportdeclaration, if the shipment is made byexpress or freight, the following:

1. Shipped under special export licenseRAC-64.

2. Name and address of shipper.3. The name and address of consignee

(stating his title or the nature of hisoccupation).

4. A statement of contents.Must Observe Import Rules.

Attention Is called to the fact thatspecial export license number RAC-64does not relieve the shipper of the re-sponsibility of complying with the importrestrictions of the country of destina-tion. In order that the importance ofobtaining information concerning such re-strictions may be realized it should be

TYPHUS SPREADING IN RUSSIA,THE STATE DEPARTMENT HEARSAdvices reaching the State Department

state that typhus is spreading in Rus-sia. Two hundred and sixty cases arereported from Ekaterinburg, 700 at Clil-abinsk, and 200 deaths in Tomsk duringDecember. Irkutsk reports 450 cases.The disease is prevalent among the civil-ian as well as military population.

The disease is very prevalent in theBolshevik prison camps, .a lesser numberin the Austro-German camps, and 30among the Czech soldiers at Ekaterin-burg are reported.

A report from Tumen says that MissMcBride, an American Red Cross nurse,died of the disease there last week.

REMOVING INVALID SOLDIERSFROM GROUNDED U. S. TRANSPORT

The War Department on Friday au-thorizes the following statements fromthe office of the Surgeon General:

A message from the port surgeon ofNew York received at 4.45 p. m. statesthat at that time a total of 259 litter and900 ambulatory cases had been removedfrom the transport Northern Pacific,aground off Fire Island. The sea wassmooth, and the medical authorities areconfident that the remaining 575 woundedmen will be removed from the ship to-night.

Surg. Gen. Ireland and Col. W. H.Smith, head of the hospital division ofthe Surgeon General's Office, have beenclosely following the efforts being madeto remove the sick and wounded soldiersfrom the transport Northern Paciftc, nowaground off Fire Island. At 3.00 o'clockthis (Friday) afternoon they were in-formed over the long-distance telephoneby the port surgeon that 47 patients hadbeen landed on Long Island and sent tothe debarkation hospital in the GreenhutBuilding, New York City, and 330 patientswere then coming up the river on a de-stroyer. A total of 1,734 patients wereon board the Northern Pacife.

It was further reported that barring ac-cidents every one of the sick and woundedmen on board the Northern Pacific willbe safely removed and be in hospitalswithin a very short time. The medicaldepartment is using all its resources tosee that the men on the Northern Pacifloreceive the best attention on their tripto New York and after they get there.

noted that at present the customs restric-tions of the United Kingdom forbid theentry into that country of silver, gold,and of more than 1 pound of sugar or 10pounds of tea. The importation of othercommodities is also restricted by theUnited Kingdom, and other countries havesimilar import restrictions.

It is suggested that shippers avail them-selves of the facilities of the Bureau ofForeign and Domestic Commerce of theDepartment of Commerce, Washington,D. C., in order to obtain information con-cerning the customs restrictions of for-eign countries.

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CASH OUTGO FROM TREASURY10 BILLIONS IN 6 MONTHS

TO MEET THE WAR EXPENSESSTATEMENT BY SECRETARY GLASS

Calls Upon Nation's Bankers ToBack Up the Government's CreditBy Liberal Subscriptions to Cur-rent Issues of Treasury Certificates

The following is a copy of a telegramsent today by Secretary Glass to theGovernors of the Federal Reserve Banks:

The actual cash outgo from the Treas-ury during the six months ended Decem-ber 31, excluding transactions in theprincipal of the public debt, was$10,632,000,000. In the month of Decem-ber alone such actual cash outgo was$2,060,000,000. This is the highest figureever reached during the period of thewar.

Bills Now Coming In.America had almost reached the peak

of production of war materials and sup-plies at the moment when the armisticewas signed. Her unstinted effort in menand material undoubtedly had decisiveeffect in bringing the war to an earlyconclusion. The bills are now pouringin which require the Government to paythe price of this great effort. The moneypaid to the Government creditors willfind its way promptly back into the chan-nels of commerce and trade and peacefulenterprise and back into the deposits ofthe banks. The welfare of the people de-pends no less in peace than In war uponthe maintenance of the Government'scredit. We shall not shame ourselves inthe eyes of our brave soldiers as they re-turn from the battlefields of France byfailure to support the credit of the coun-try for which they were willing and readyto die.

Call to Take Treasury Certificates.The war is won; the war bills must

be paid. The welfare and prosperity ofthis fair land of ours can only be pre-served if the war expenditures of theGovernment, now at their maximum, arepromptly and ungrudgingly provided.With entire confidence I call upon thebankers of America to subscribe andoversubscribe the current issue of Treas-ury certificates and future issues whichmust be made biweekly in accordancewith the plan outlined in SecretaryMcAdoo's letter of November 27.

Cruiser to Fire SaluteIn Honor of Joan of Arc

Secretary Daniels to-day announcedthat a cruiser had been detailed to fire asalute from anchorage at the foot ofNinety-third Street, New York, on Janu-ary 6, the five hundred and seventh anni-versary of the birthday of Joan of Are,and assist in whatever other ways thecommittee requested in the celebrationthat is being arranged. Vice AdmiralGleaves, United States Navy, in commandof the cruiser force at Hoboken, N. J.,will arrange details of the naval partici-pation in the ceremony.

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Legal Holidays, Under Order of thePresident of the United States andby Authority of Congress.

Office: No. 8 Jackson Place,Washington, D. C. Tel. Main 5600.

Copies of Tim OFFICIAL U. S. BULLETIN Willbe furnished without charge to every post officein the United States (to be posted daily forthe benefit of the public, under order oi thePostmaster General) ; to legislative and execu-tive officers of the United States Government,and to diplomatic representatives of all foreignGovernments.-EDWARD S. RocHESTER, Editor.

RATES BY MAIL.One year ------------------- $5. 00Six months ------------------. 00One year. postage prepaid to

Dail foreign countries ---------- 8.00Six months, postage prepaid toforeign countries ------ 4.50

Back numbers and e x t r acopies ------------- each- .05

Make all checks, money orders, and draftspayable to THn OrFICIAL U. S. BULranN.

Export of NonconservedCommodities to Siberia

The War Trade Board announces, in anew ruling (W. T. B. R. 470), that exportlicenses will be issued to approved con-signees for the shipment of all noncon-served commodities to Siberia.

It is no longer necessary to consignshipments to that country to the War.Trade Board representative at Vladi-vostok.

Applications should be submitted onForm X, to which should be attachedsuch supplemental information sheets asare required by the rules and regulationsof the War Trade Board for the exporta-tion of certain commodities.

No other Supplemental informationsheets are required and no import licensesneed accompany the application.

Europe Needs All PorkAmerica Can Furnish

The following cable message has beenreceived from Mr. Hoover in London:

" Every pound of pork products we canexport before next July Europe will need,aid as soon as the initial chaos of thesudden economic change from war toarmistice can be overcome there will beoverdemands. For another month wewill be unable to determine what the vol-umii of this task is."

131,500 REGISTERED FOR WORK.

Employment Service Record for WeekEnding December 21.

Federal directors of the United StatesEmployment Service from 41 States re-port that for the week ending December21, 131,500 persons registered for employ-ment as against 132,798 registering on theprevious week. Of the 131,500 registered,122,632 were referred and 90,747 placedin positions.

Of the total registrations, 117,288 weremen, 14,212 women. The number of menplaced during the week is 77.372, women13,375. Transfers are 2,803 men and 225women.

Applications for help wanted in thatweek amounted to 228,284, of which198,119 were men, 30,165 women.

DIAMOND COMMITTEE TO CEASESUPERVISION OVER IMPORTS

The War Trade Board announces in anew ruling (W. T. B. R. 475) that thesupervision heretofore exercised by theWar Trade Board through the Americandiamond committee of New York overthe importation of polished and roughdiamonds, diamond dies, and diamondtools will be discontinued on January 10,1919. The control of these commoditiesby license from the War Trade Boardwill still continue.

The board also announces in a newruling (W. T. B. R. 477) that applicantsfor export licenses will no longer be re-quired to attach to their application Sup-plemental Information Sheet X-2 exceptin the case of applications for the ex-portation of arms, ammunition, or ex-plosives.

Commutation AllowanceFor Noncommissioned

Officers of the ArmyBulletin No. 61.

I. Noncoumissioned officers above thegrade of color sergeant are entitled tocommutation of quarters, as provided inparagraph 1044, Army Regulations(changed by C. A. R., No. 81), from July31, 1918, the date of C. A. R., No. 76,which changed the grades of rank ofofficers and noncommissioned officers inparagraph 9, Army Regulations.

By order of the Secretary of War:PEYTON C. M\ARCI,

General, Chicf of Staff.Official:

P. C. HARRIS.The Adjutant General.

MILWAUKEE FIRMS PENALIZED.

Licenses Revoked and Suspended by theFood Administration.

The Food Administration issues thefollowing:

The Blommer Co., distributers of greencoffee, and the Blommer Ice Cream Co.,both of North Avenue and FifteenthStreet, Milwaukee, Wis., have recentlybeen penalized by orders issued by theFood Administration.

The Blommer Co. showed general dis-regard to the Food Administration rulesand regulations and a lack of coopera-tion.

The Blommer Ice Cream Co. failed toobserve the sugar regulations. After theFood Administration made a request forcurtailing the output of ice cream thecompany made 6,000 more gallons inAugust, 1918, than in the same periodof 1917, thus ignoring the order to re-duce. July and September also showedan increase over the previous year. Thefirm practically admitted that they werenot living up to the Food Administra-tion's Instructions.

An unlimited revocation order was is-sued against the Blommer Co., and 11-censed dealers are further ordered notto deal in licensed commodities with theBlommer Ice Cream Co. until February24.

Contribute to the Red Cross fund.

GENERAL LICENSE TO IMPORTCERTAIN GOODS INTO ENGLAND

Consul General Skinner, at London,reports:

General license, valid until March 1,1919, has been issued to permit the im-portation of any quantity of the followingarticles: All machinery driven by powerand suitable for use in cutting, working,or operating on wood, including sawingmachines of all descriptions, generaljoiners', mortise, tenon, and boring ma-chines; lathes and rounding machines;box and cask making machines, and allmachines accessory thereto; scraping andsandpapering machines; wheelwright ma-chinery; firewood making and bundlingmachinery; wood, wool, fiber, and pulpmachinery; saw sharpening and settingmachines; saw stretchers and brazing ap-paratus; all machines for grinding, plan-ing, or molding Irons; all machine toolsand machinery driven by power and suit-able for use in cutting, stamping, or work-ing metal, including lathes, milling ma-chines, drilling machines, planers, shapers,screw machines, chucking machines, bor-ing machines, slotting machines, grindingmachines, boring and turning mills, powerpresses, punching and shearing machines,-forging machines, cutting-off machines,gear-cutting machines, and centering ma-chines,

Since March, 1918, it has been necessaryfor importers of American goods to pro-cure a " permit to purchase " before enter-ing upon negotiations for goods in theUnited States. The controller of importrestrictions announces that this systemhas now been abandoned. Goods that arestill on the list of prohibited imports, andnot admitted under general license, re-quire this permit before shipment is made.

General Import LicenseOf Canadian Furs

The War Trade Board announces, ina new ruling (W. T. B. R. 481), that ageneral import license, to be known asPBF No. 30, has been issued covering theimportation from Canada of raw furs ofCanadian origin when consigned to Fun-ston Bros. & Co., George B. Herzig Co.(Inc.), Joseph Ullman (Inc.), or to suchother firms as may enter into an appro-priate agreement with the War TradeBoard. This agreement is substantiallythat, in consideration of the issuance ofthe general license, the licensee firm.agrees to report the receipt of shipmentsof furs under such general license whichmay not be of Canadian origin and tohold the same subject to the dispositionof the War Trade Board.

Naval CasualtiesThe Navy Department reports the fol-

lowing casualties:Harold Byron Kolthoff, seaman, United

States Navy, died as the result of capsiz-ing of a boat, while on duty aboard theU. S. S. Windin Gulf, December 28. Fa-ther, Henry B. Kolthoff, 214 North ValleyStreet, Kansas City, Kans.

Garnett Homer Powers, engineman(second class), United States Navy, diedDecember 28 as the result of injury sus-tained while diving in shallow water.Father, G. H. Powers, Blairstown, Mo.

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONGRESS BRIEFLY TOLD

SENATE.Through much of yesterday afternoon

there was further discussion of the peaceterms of President Wilson and some crit-icism of the War Department. The pro-

posals of the President were defended bySenators Lewis, of Illinois, and Thomas,of Colorado, Democrats, while SenatorLodge, minority leader, denied that he orother Republican leaders were attemptingto embarrass the President abroad byrecommending that consideration of aleague of nations and certain other pro-posals should be deferred until after thepeace conference. Senator McCumber,of North Dakota, Republican, gave no-tice that on Monday, to which day theSenate adjourned, he would speak in sup-port of the proposal for a league of na-tions. Senator Sherman, of Illinois, Re-publican, in a brief speech criticised theuse of the cables so extensively for re-ports of what the President is doingwhile it was, he said, impossible forparents of soldiers to obtain any informa-tion by cable concerning their sons onduty overseas.

Among resolutions adopted yesterdaywere the following: By Mr. Spencer, ofMissouri, calling upon the Secretary ofthe Treasury, for information concerningpayment of allotments made by soldiersto dependents. By Mr. King, of Utah,asking the Secretary of War whether hecontemplated a modification of a recentorder prohibiting promotions in the Army.Senator New's resolution for an investiga-tion by the military committee of condi-tions at the American camp at the portof Brest, France, was referred to theMilitary Affairs Committee. SenatorLodge introduced a resolution which wasreferred to the naval committee directingthat committee to investigate the award-ing of contracts for the construction ofthe so-called Eagle boats to the FordMotor Co. and also into the characterand construction of these boats. SenatorKing was unsuccessful in obtaining con-sideration of his resolution asking theSecretary of State what steps, if any,have been taken relative to the settle-ment of claims of Americans against theMexican Government growing out ofdepredations committed in Mexico. Itwent to the Foreign Relations Committee.

President Wilson yesterday sent tothe Senate the nomination of R. L. Wil-liams, of Durant, Okla., to be UnitedStates district judge for the eastern dis-trict of Oklahoma.

With the approval of' SecretaryBaker, Cheirmaan Chamberlain, of theMilitary Committee, introduced a billto make permanent the present rank ofGens. Pershing, March, and Bliss andLieut. Gens. Liggett and Bullard. In aletter to Senator Chamberlain com-mending the legislation, the Secretarysaid: " These officers have performedtremendous tasks involving the great-est responsibility in a manner whichreflects credit upon themselves and uponthe country and entitles them to recog-nition. I believe that the sentiment ofthe country is strongly in favor of suchrecognition." Under the terms of thebill tLe rank to be bestowed would lapsewhen the officer vacates the position orat his death.

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The Military Committee ordered a fa-vorable report on the House bill per-mitting soldiers, sailors, and marines toretain their uniforms and personalequipment after being honorably dis-charged from the service. The commit-tee also disapproved of the bill author-izing the validating of informal con-tracts and giving the War Departmentauthority to adjust such contracts. TheHitchcock bill was substituted and itsreport ordered by a unanimous vote.This bill validates these informal con-tracts, but provides for their adjust-ment through a noninterested commis-sion to be selected.

Director General of Railroads McAdooappeared before the Interstate CommerceCommittee and submitted an argument infavor of the proposal for an extensionfor a period of five years of Governmentcontrol and operation of the railroads.He also submitted a report of what hasbeen accomplished since the roads cameunder Federal and unified direction.

Hearings began yesterday afternoonbefore the Committee on Education andLabor on the Kenyon resolfition underwhich general labor and social conditionsare to be inquired Into with a view tosubmitting legislation to bring abouttheir betterment. President F#muelGompers of the American Federation ofLabor was the first witness.

HOUSE.Before the Colmittee on Military Af-

fairs Secretary Baker indicated that aperlimanent military policy for the UnitedStates would not be formulated untilpeace has been concluded. He suggestedthe creation of a volunteer army of500,000 men to temporarily take the placeof the force organized for the period ofthe war, the establishment of 3 per-manent artillery training camps andmaneuvering grounds, acquisition of the16 National Army cantonments andprobably some of the National Guardcamp sites. He told the committee nodecision has yet been reached on thesubject of universal military training.

Rear Admiral Rodman, who com-manded the American fleet In the NorthSea during the war, was a witness beforethe Naval Committee yesterday, the navalappropriation bill and the proposed 3-year construction program being underdiscussion. Admiral Rodman advocatedthe destruction of the battleships of theGerman Navy that have been surrendered,but said all the other types of warshipsshould be retained. So far as the capitalships are concerned lie explained thattheir armament and the ammunitionused N as of a character entirely differentfrom that used by the allied powers andthat the ships would cost more than theywere worth to rebuild and would be ob-solete anyhow before they could everbe used again in any war.

Before the Interstate Commerce Com-mlittee Chairman Colver, of the FederalTrade Commission, continued his testi-mony on the pending bill for the controlof the pacdng industry. He dealt yester-day particularly with the high cost ofmeats in small comnmunity butcher shops.

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NATIONAL BANK STATEMENTFOR WEEK ENDING JANUARY 3

Applications to the Comptroller of theCurrency during the week ending Friday,January 3, 1919, for authority to organizenational banks and to convert State banksinto national banks; charters issued;charters extended and reextended; in-creases and reductions of capital ap-proved; changes of title approved andnational banks placed in voluntary liqui-dation.

APPLICATIONS FOR CHARTER.F oror iCapital.For organization of national banks:

The First National bank of Nash,Okla ------------- ------- $25, 000

The First National Bank of Re-vere, Mass ----------------- 100, 000

The Equity National Bank ofNampa, Idaho-------------- 50, 000

The Webster County NationalBank of Fort Dodge, Iowa-- 250, 000

For conversion of State banks:The First National Bank of Tut-

te, N. Dak conversion of theFirst State bank of Tuttle 25, 000

Total ----------------- 450, 000

CHARTERS ISSUED.Conversion of State banks:

The First National Bank of Clo-verdale, Cal.: conversion ofthe Bank of Cloverdale - .- 50, 000

The First National Bank of Tus-cumbia, Ala. ; conversion ofthe Colbert County Bank, Tus-cunbia ------------------- 50, 000

The Union National Bank of Se-attle, Wash.; conversion ofUnion Savings & Trust Co. ofSeattle with two brancheswithin limits of city of Se-attle -------------------- 600, 000

Total-------------- 700, 000INcaEASES OF CAPITAL APPROVED.

Amount.The First National Bank of Gastonia,

N. C. capital increased from$150,00 to $250, 000 --------- $100, 000

The Citizens National Bank of Win-terset, Iowa; capital Increasedfrom $50,000 to $200.000-------- 150, 000

The Farmers National Bank of For-ney. Tex.; capital increased from$50,000 to $100.000 ------------- 50, 000

The Silver City National Bank, SilverCity, N. Mex.; capital increasedfrom $50,000 to $100,000--------- 150, 000

Total--------------------- 350, 000CIARTERS EXTENDED.

The National Bank of Commerce of Wichita,Kans.; charter extended until close of busi-ness December 28, 1938.

The First National Bank of Tulsa, Okla.;charter extended until close of business Jan-uary 2, 1939.

The Citizens National Bank of Bedford,Ind.; charter extended until close of businessJanuary 2, f939.

VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATIONS.Clapital.

The National Bank of Jellico. Tenn.;liquidating agent, Z. D. Baird. Jel-lico, Tenn.; succeeded by a Statebank----------------------- $25,000

The Riverside National Bank. River-side, N. J.; liquidating committee,II. J. Dennis, Delanco, N. J., andA. L. Pancoast; succeeded by theRiverside Trust Co ----------- 100, 000

The Fayette National Bank of Con-nersville, Ind.; liquidating agent,Charles Cassel; succeeded by theFayette Bank & Trust Co. of Con-nersville ----------------------- 100, 000

Total ---------- ----------- 225, 000

Representative Gould, of New York,introduced a resolution to create a HOuseCommittee on Aeronautics.

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$689,034,759 Advanced to RailroadsBy the U. S. Railroad AdministrationUp to and Including December 31, 1918

Fiveetor General of Railroads McAdoowissues tle following:

The- total Sum advanced tor December81, 1918, by the United States RailroadAdministration to all railroad and othertransportation properties under Govern-merint control, including loans made torailroad corporations for current needsand payments on account of compensa-tion, advances made for operating require-ments, and the payments made on accountof the new standardized cars and loco-motives aggregate $689,03'1,759.

Draft on Revolving Vund.In making these payments the Director

General drew on the $50W,000,00 revolv-ing fund to the extent of $458,454,810.

The balance of the money thas ad-vanced, amounting to $235,579,949, wasobtained from the surplus operating re-ceipts of certain railroads and from re-ceipts from the express companies.

The total amont deposited with theDirector General up to December 32, 1918,from the surplus receipts of all railroadsand transportation companies under Fed-eral control amounted to, $270,524,961,which included $46,916,416 received fromexpress companies.

Deposits by Railroads.

The only railroad properties which havemade deposits with the Director Generalof sums angregating as much as $1.000,000in excess of the amounts returned to thesedepositing roads and the corporations bythe Director Generll were the following:Atch, Top. & Santa Fe ------- $12, 601, 000Elgin, Joliet & Eastern --------- 7, 000, 000Bessemer & Lake Erie --------- 4, 0041,000Dialuth & Iron Range ---------- 40, 000Rich.. Fdksbg. & Potoma - 1, 540, 000Morgan's Louisana & Texas

R. R _---------------------- 1, 3. 000Pere Marquatt --------------- 1, 144 000Duluth, issabe & Northern 0- 1 40, 000Louisville & Nashville--------- r, 510, 000Atlantic Coast Line ------------ 3, 800, 000Pullman Car Lines------------ 2, S00, 000Atlantic S. S. Lines. -- -- 1, 500, 000Central R R. of New Jersey -- 1, 250, 000Nashville, Chat. & St, Louis --- 1, 004, 000

Advances to Roads.

The amounts advanced by the UnitedStates Railroad Administration to alltransportation systemg, making the aboveaggregate of $680,034,759 up to December31. 1918, are set .forth in the followinglist:Pennsylvanla--------------- $900, 000New York Central--------- -2,1200oNew York, New Haven & art

ford .------------------ 65, 55 004Baltimore & Ohio-------------36,875.004Erie 23, 600,000Chicago, Milwaukee & St, Paul-- 2, 532 000Illinois Central--------------17, 425, 000Southern Pacific z 0Union Pacife--------- vz' 500,000Southern--------------------, 06,650Chicago, BHrlington & Quincy 141,541000Chicago, Rock Island & Pacifle= 4,74,000Chicago & North Western 91.000,000Delaware & Hudson------------8,790,000Missouri Pacific-------------- 400,000Seaboard Air Line------- 8,075,000Chesapeake & Ohio------------,050. 000Boston & Maine -------------- '1,0467,000Great Northern -------------- 000Philadelphia & Reading---------6,090000St. Louis-San Francisco--------6,000Denver & Rio Grands-----------k,041,000.Northern Pacific -------------- 5, 500,000

Norfolk & Western .. _Wabash_ - - ----Missonri, Kansas & TexasMinneapolis, St. Paul & Sault

Ste Maro------ --------Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh-Delaware, eackawanna & WesternWestern Maryland_-------Lehigh Valley -------------Louisille &NasIle......Hocking Valley------------Chicagot. St Paul,. Minneapolts

& Omaha----------..Minneapolis & St. Loui -Maine Central-------- -------Chicago & Alton --------------Chicago, Indianapolis & LoulavilleInternational & Great Northern-St. Louis Sotthwastern1------Chicago Great Western -Grank Trunk-------------Hansgs City Southern -Terminal Railroad Associatfon of

St. Louis ------- ---Colorado. & Southern _-----Central of Georgi-. -----------Chicago & Eastern IllinoiVirginian Railway ------------Central Railroad of New Jersey-Pullman Co,----------------Atlantie Coast Line -Los Angeles & Salt Lake -Denver & Salt Lake ___-Noefolla SouthePrn ------yierida Eatst coast ------------Central Vermont -------------Kudson & Manhattan ---------New Mrk, Chicago & St. Louik_Central New England------Indiana Harbor Belt.- -Texas & Pacific --------------Pere Marquette ---------------Ann Arbor -------------------Toledo & Ohio Central--------Monongahela-----------------Rutland Railroad _- - .-Wheeling & Lake Erfe --------Kansas City, Mexico & Orfent-.Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic.Bangor & Aroostock .........IFort Worth & Denver City.Gulf, Mobile & Northern ----Chicago, Peoria & St. LouisNew York Ontario & Western--Pittsburgh & Shawamut -Lehigh & New England. -Old Dominion Steamship LineChicago Junctiono--------Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe. --Western Pacific --------------Kansas City Terminal -__-Chicago, Terre Haute & South-

eastern -------------------Pittsburgh & West Virginia -Cincinnatt, Indianapolis & West-

ern -----------------Georgia Railroad -------------Detroit, Toledo & IrontonBrooklyn Eastern District Term-Belt Railway of Chicag -Midland Valley--------------Trans-Mississippi Terminal-Missourt, Oklahoma & Gulf -_-San Antonfo & Aransas Pass_ -Port Dodge, Des Moines &

Southern ------------------

$5, 250, 004, 645, 0604,245, 00

159,0000041, 00

60041,0645580005,004000)

3, 8O2,000

2, 000a, 395, 0002, 180, 000

060, 0001025, (000877,215

1,770,0001,6801,6661, 021, 0001,585, 000

1, 545- 0091,485, 0001,450,0001,449,.000':k 00,00&1, 250, 0001, 20 0001,115,0001, 115, 4001, 015. 0001,118,4601, 050, 0001,085, 0001,012, 0001, 001, 775

900, 000'20, 000909, 250855, 000

770, 000750, 000741, 000700, 000700,000659, 000643, 00061W, 000600, 000600, 000575, 00052s.. 500525.000515, 000

40, 000400, 000

38T, 9131375,00035um, 000

8091,000300, 15030N, 000290 000270,000205, 000255, 0001253,000

246, 000

Vicksburg & Shreveport _ $242, 000Amercan Refrigerator Trinspor-

tatfon Co --------------------- 229, 000Chicago & Western Indiana -- 215, 000New York, Susquehanna & West-

ern 200, 000Gulf & Ship Islan-t- 200, 000New Orleans. Texas & Mexico , 176.100Illinois Southern ----------------- 10,000Mfssouri & Northern Akarrsa_ 150, 000Duluth, South Shore & Atlant 150, 004Ocean Steamship Line 150,004Portland Terminal 150, 000Dtrelt & Toleda Shors ine--- 135, 000Cumberland & Pennsylvania_ 12,000ODetroit, Bay City & Western 120, 000New Orleans Great Northern 120' 000Atlantfe Terminal ------------- 115, 000Winston-Salem South Bound 112, 00Western Railway of Alabama - 110,000Mfssissippi Central __- 102, 500Ulster & Delaware -------------- 100, 000Baltimore & Ohbo Chicago Termi-

nal -------------------------- 1041,00Toledo Terinal --------- 1001. 001)26 rosds receiving in each case

less than $100,00a --------- -9-90, 000Advances to inland waterways

andT canals ----------------- 4,361, 486Psymnts oi account of stand-

ardised. engines and cars---- 114, 514, 400Total-------------------- . 89,034,750f

Advances in December.

Of the sums shown in the foregoingtable the amounts advanced to the var-0us SYetems during the month of Decem-ber, 1918, were as follows:N. Y. New Haven & Hartford -- $15, 475 0040N. Y. Central Lines ------------- 12, 85,- 000Pennsylvania R R. Lines- _ 12, 696, 000Baltimore & Ohio ------------- _ 11,800, 0041Eric Railroad ------------------ 1T0 00(1

Union Pacific Lines ------------- 5,500,0041Boston & Maine -------------- 4250,00Chic, Burllngton & Quincy- 4, 100, 000Great Northern ----------------- 4, 000, (000,Southerfn Pactfic Linese____.--4, 000,,0041Chicago & Northwestern ------- A770, 000'Norfolr & Western ----------- 2, 750,000Missouri Pacific 2,. 0004Seahoard, Air Line------------- 2: 46i OOCHocking Valley ------------------ , 302, 0041Minn., St, P. & S. Ste I - 2, 107, 000Delaware & Hurdson -------------- 2001, 041Chicago, Rock I. & Pacific --- o00 a4Philadelphia & Reading --------- 1, 6910,000Louisville & Nashville ---------- 1, 504, 00North' n Pacific ---------------- 1 500, 000Del., La sk. & Western 1 -------- 1,500,000Int. & Great Northern ---------- 1, 470, 000Central It. R. of New Jersey ---- , 250, 000Illinois Central ---------------- 1, 200, 000Denver & Rio. Grande_____ 1, 2010, 000Western Maryland ------------- 1, 155, 000Los Angeles & Salt Lake- 1 175, 000Southern Railway Lines -------- 1,16 0001Grand Tunk . 1.000,000Chesapeake & Ohio - 1,000, 000Chicago Great Western -------- 9-w, oodChicago & East Illinois -------- 9W2, 000Chicago. Mil. & St. Pand- _ 857, 001Maine Ceneral --------------- 8301,000Pere Marquette --------------- 775, 000Toledo & Ohio Central --------- - 7 004Central New England -------- 600, 000Kansas City Southern 525,000Colo. & Southern ---------- 510, 000Gulf, Colo. & Ranta Fe ---------- 500, 000Minneapolis & St. Louis -------- 5041 000Rutland R. R ----------- 475,000Terminal R. R. Assn. of St0 Loui 4 00Chicago & Alton -------------- - 425 000Kansas City Terminal --- 4- - 40,000Atlantic Coast Line ---- 40&,000Chicago, Ind. & Louis - 400, 000Chicago, P, & St. Louis 400,000St. Louis S. Western---------- 400,000Buff., Roch. & Pittsburgh - -- 30, 000Atlan , Birm. & Atlantic - -- 320,000Brooklyn E. Dist. Terminal 300, 000Ccntral Vermont -------------- 301000K. C., Alex. & Orient ----------- 3001 000M1onongahela R. It ------------- 300, 000Wabash R. R ----------------- -304,000Ft Worth & Denver City - 279,000Bangor & Aroostock ------------ 270, 000Missouri, Okla. & Gulf ---------- 25CI, 000Gulf, Mobile & Northern_ _ 200, 000Gulf & Ship Island ----------- 200, 000N. Y.. Susq. & Western ---------- 200,004Ind. Harbor Belt-------------- 200, 000M. K. & . Lines ----------- - 250,000Old Dominion S. S. Lines - 200, 000Virginian Railway -------- ----- 200.000Texas & Paific --------------- 159, 2541N, Y., Chicago & St. Louis ---------- 1,000Missouri & North Arkansas--- 15 0041Ocean Steamship Line --------- 1541 000

(Continued on page T.)

War Department CentralBureau of InformationThe War Department Central Bu-

reaum of Information has- been es-tablished in the Offlee of the Ad-jutant General. 3;nquiries forinformation with reference to theWar Department and its activitieswill receive prompt attention itdirected to this oilice, which. is lo-eated in Room 248, State, War andNavy Building, and may also be re-ferred over the telephone by callingMain 2570, Branehes 43, 44, and 45.

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FUEL REGULATION REVOKEDCONCERNING COAL CONTRACTS

U. S. FUEL ADMINISTRATION,Washingtoli, D. Q,., December 31, 1918.The United States Fuel Administrator,

acting under authority of an Executiveorder of the President of the UnitedStates, dated August 23, 1917, appointingsaid administrator, and of subsequentExecutive orders, and in furtherance ofthe purpose of said orders and of the actof Congress therein referred to and ap-proved August 10, 1917,

Hereby orders and directs that para-graph (1) of the order of said adminis-trator, dated December 24, 1917, entitled" Order of the United States Fuel Admin-istrator regulating the making of con-tracts by operators, producers, and job-bers of coal and coke," as amended byorder dated July 26, 1918, which saidparagraph (1) as amended prohibits themaking, without the approval of theUnited States Fuel Administrator, of anycontract providing for the delivery orsupply of coal or coke for a period ofmore than one year, and provides thatsuch period of one year shall terminatenot later than 18 months from the date ofthe execution of the contract be, and thesame hereby is, canceled and revoked asto all contracts executed after the ef-fective dlate of this order.

This order shall be effective December31, 1918.

H-. A. GARFIELn,United States Fuel Administrator,

By CYmus GARNSEY, Jr.,Assistant U. S. Fuct Administrator.

ADVANCES MADE TO RAILROADS(Continued from page 6.)

Denver & Salt Lake ------------- $127, 812Winston-Salem S. Bound 112 000Norfolk Southern ------------- 110, 000Mississippi Central ------------- 102 500Chicago, St. P., M. & Omaha -- 100 000Detroit & Toledo Shore Line 100, 000Detroit Bay City & Western-...- 100, 000Seventeen railroads receiving

sums amounting in each caseto less than $100,000 -------- 768, 875

Payments on account of stand-ardized locomotives and cars- 26, 799, 274

Total of advances to allrailroads In the monthof December, includingpayments made on ac-count of new rollingstock for various com-panies, as shown above 168, 982, 711

Total amount receivedduring December fromrailroads on account ofsurplus earnings, andincluding $15 781,541from express companies 83, 116, 985

Excess of advances to rail-roads for the monthof December, 1918, overand above amounts re-ceived as above forsame period ---------- 135, 865, 726

All loans to railroad companies by theDirector General have been made at theuniform rate of 6 per cent per annum in-terest.

Repayments by Roads.On December 30 and 31 the following

railroads repaid to the United StatesRailroad Administration the following

BILLION AND A HALF PAID TO SOLDIERS IN SALARIES(Continued from page 2)

as possible. Few soldiers arrive here whohave not been given partial pay beforeleaving France. Immediately on their ar-rival in this country they are given a par-thal payment on the soldier's own state-ment as to the status of his account. Mostsoldiers have insurance premiums due andallotments on the Treasury Departmentthat support family allowances, and Inmaking partial payments without sup-porting papers great risk is necessarilyrun, but the finance officers are makingthese payments all over the country andcheerfully shouldering the financial riskand accountability, so that the men fromover there, who have faced the discom-forts of the trenches and the perils of thefront, shall have some money for theiruse.

System at Walter Reed Hospital.At Walter Reed Hospital, Washington,

D. C., for some months past the casuals,nearly 400 in number, have been paid onrolls certified to by the Director of Fi-nance, the quly supporting papers beingthe affidavits of the soldiers. The financeofficers who pay these casuals correspondto the cashier of a bank. They have nocontrol of the soldier's papers and are notresponsible for their execution and care.The soldier without papers correspondsto the applicant for funds at the cashier'swindow. He has no checkbook, no evi-dence of deposit, and no Identificationpapers. Under these conditions the cash-ier refuses the applicant. The financeofficer, however, does not refuse the sol-dier, but accepts his statement and makeshim an advance on account, and thefinance officer has no protection under thelaw for payments made under these con-ditions.

In the case of soldiers discharged, whoare without papers, a graver situation isconfronted. The final payment marks theactual separation of the men from the'ervice, and for an overpayment there is norecourse. The soldier has due him accruedpay perhaps for several prior months,less partial payments made during thoseprior months. He is entitled to 3j centsper mile to the place of his induction intothe service, he has possibly deposits and

amounts, with interest at 6 per cent,which had been formerly loaned them:Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul

Ry. Co ------------------ $8, 000,000Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific

Ry. Co ---------------------- 6, 000,000Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co 5, 450, 000Southern Railway Co ----------- 2 170, 000St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co_- 1, 710, 000

Total -------------------- 23, 30, 000

Including the amount of these loansthus collected, the total balance remain-ing in the revolving fund, plus the sumtotal of balances remaining on hand withthe Director General from the surplus re-ceipts turned over by certain roads, ag-gregates the total sum of $102,856,762.

The aggregate amount of loans made bythe Director General to railroads andother transportation companies and stilloutstanding is $171,606,073. This is ex-elusive of the amount advanced by theDirector General for the benefit of vari-ous roads on account of standardizedequipment.

interest due him, while from this totalmust be deducted his insurance premium,the pro rata share of his allotment on theTreasury Department to support his fam-ily allowance, the settlement of his allot-ment through the War Department forhis Liberty bond subscription or for otherpurposes, while there are other allow-ances and possibly other charges whichenter into his complicated account.

Risk by Officers.The officer who certifies to the correct-

ness of such an account, trusting to theaccuracy of the soldier's memory and hishonesty, and the finance officer (cashier),who pays many such accounts, face earlybankruptcy. The urgency of the case,however, dictated decisive action and in-structions were issued by the director offinance, with the approval of the Chiefof Staff, to commanding officers of allhospitals to prepare final statementsfrom the unsupported affidavit of the sol-dier, and finance officers are making set-tlement of such final papers all over thecountry. There is no authority of law for

either the partial payments nor thesefinal payments on the statement of the en-listed men, and Congress has been askedby the Secretary of War to sanction thisprocedure by necessary legislation. Manyof the casuals now arriving are providedwith pay books which contain in somecases enough of the soldier's military his-tory to enable payment to be made.Whenever report is received in Washing-ton that casuals have arrived at a hos-pital who have pay due them for anyprior period, a finance officer is immedi-ately ordered there to make a settlementof the account. At each of the ports ofdebarkation in this country finance offi-cers with sufficient force await the ar-rivals of casuals in order to pay themsomething on account. Occasionally thecondition of patients is such that paymentcan not be made, but in the majority ofcases payment is made, and no casual orother enlisted men from, overseas whohas a legitimate claim for pay need gowithout funds.

Officers at Every Port.

Finance officers are available at everyport of debarkation, at every canton-ment, camp, and headquarters and atevery hospital, and the instructions is-sued are explicit and comprehensive,that if a soldier has no papers he is tobe given a partial payment on his ownstatement and final payment on his affi-davit. In some of the earlier cases menwithout papers were given their travelallowances on their discharge, so thatthey might reach their homes, and weregiven Instructions as to how to proceedto secure what balance of pay was duethem. In other cases commanding offi-cers of hospitals have hesitated to cer-tify a soldier's final statement withoutsupporting papers, but it is thoughtthese cases are rare; but in all cases,so far as the record shows, all dis-charged men are given their travel al-lowances which, with the reduction inrailroad fares secured by the War De-partment, insure a comfortable jour-ney to their homes, while in most casesdischarged men receive every pennywhich they claim is due them.

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GENERAL MARCH'S WEEKL Y STA TEMEN T TO PRESS(Continued from page 1.)

already sailed, is 292,000. In addition tothose, the 30th, 37th, and 91st Divisionsand 2d Corps Headquarters, totalingabout 83,000 men, have been put on pri-ority and will be released as shipping be-comes available. This makes a total avail-able for early discharge of 1,379,000 men.

Progress of Demobilization.Reports show that, according to latest

data on hand, up to and including De-cember 28, 1918, the discharge of 592,245men in the United States was accom-plished as follows:

Beauregard --- .-......Beaning --Bowie ------------------Cody-------------------Custer------------------Devens----------------Dix---------------------Dodge------------------Forrest ..............Fremont ----------------Funston ------------------Garden City-------------Gordon-----------------Grant-------------------Greene------------------Greenleaf ----------Hancock --H1oboken, N.Humphreys--------------Jackson.................

Johnston................Iearney-----------------Kendrick----------------Las Casas...............Lee ----------------------Lew is ------------------Logan-------------------MacArthur--------------McClellanMleade------------------Mepigs -------------------Mills-------------------Fort Monroe .Newport News-----------Pike--------------------Svir------------------Shelby------------------Sheridan ----------------Shernian----------------Fort Sill----------------Syracuse----------------Taylor------------------Tiavis ------------------Upton -- --Vancouver Barracks.Wadsworth -------------Wheeler - ----Central DepartmentEastern Department ----Northeastern DepartmentSoutheastern Department_Southern Department ----Western Department--Hawaiian DepartmentGeneral hospitals ---------Recruit depots-----------Arsenals .Miscellaneous............

Up to and Weekincluding endingDec. 2L Dec. 28

4,087 1,23018 36

2,980 1, P422, 549 727, 177 2, 442

13, 331 2, 23314, 879 4, 37314, 945 5, 788

1, 608 5642, 034 ---

1ii,355 3,28214,177 ___11,287 2, .33812 817 6, 738

, 292 8252, 285 6714, 448 808

339 988,190 1,5159,897 1,2493, 937 660

928 1, 23462 9

102 4,42924, 176 1 1153,568 1,1621, 141 9026. 347 5M16, 747 389

11,703 1,5701, 982 1, 805

1466 147

B, 82 46716 198 5,866

5 852 6392,886 4D12 220 157

19,575 2,2911, 079 24

55 -8 006 2,02010, 072 1,47310,051 1,7274,804--

53, 372 81.764 317

76, 160 833538, 801 2, 15514,410 71421,784 16710,866 29613,783 8,966

59 1532 105

9, 348 679887 79170 71

Total ---- .. 518, 967 73, 278

Total up to and including De-cember 28 ----------- 592, 245

Early reports week ending Jan. 4,1919 ------------------------ 38,124

Grand total --------------- -30, 369

The 2d Corps Headquarters is the head-quarters commanded by Maj. Gen. Read,who served with the British army.

The number of men actually releasedin the United States, as reported to us, is630,369. The number of officers who havebeen discharged, up to and including Jan-uary &3. is 40,491.

Casualties in Rassia.There has been some talk during the

week of the condition of our troops atArchangel, and statements have been

made by the War Department that themen up there were especially equippedwith winter clothing and had plenty offood, and that the military situation isentirely in hand. We have a report fromthe military attache with AmbassadorFrancis at Murmansk, giving the totalcasualties in the American ExpeditionaryForce in Russia up to and including No-vember 25. The total deaths from allcauses are as follows:Died of disease contracted in line of duty

339th Infantry ------------------ 64337th Ambulance Corps ------------- 1

Killed in action-Infantry ------------- 9Accidentally killed-Infantry ----------- 2Died of wounds received in action:

Infantry -------------------------- 5Engineers ----------------------- 2

Drowned, bodies notrecovered-Engineers. 3

Total death,,. all causes --------- 8Officers in Regular Army.

The matter comes up in the form of aquestion as to the possibility of using inthe future Army officers who are in theUnited States emergency army. I havepreviously given out a statement that offi-cers when discharged will be offered acommission in the Reserve Corps, or re-tention in the United States emergencyarmy for induction in the Regular Army,and we proposed in the bill for the reor-ganization of the Army, which will besubmitted to Congress within the nextfew days, to include provisions whichwill allow the officers who have madegood in the United States emergencyarmy to be brought into the RegularArmy. We are going to utilize that reser-voir of trained officers to the fullest ex-tent possible. Officers who now indicatethat they want to apply for the RegularArmy are being retained at the campsinstead of being discharged, and Gen.Pershing has been authorized to attachsuch officers to the army of occupationuntil Congress acts upon the propositionof the War Department with reference tothe reorganization of the Army. Thereare at present no vacancies in the Regu-lar Army, but should the Congress give uswhat we are going to ask for, there willbe enough vacancies to take care of allthe officers who have made good, and whowish to continue in the Army as a lifeprofession.

Arrivals in France.There have been some questions pre-

sented to me about the dates of the ar-rival of the various divisions in France.This is given below:

Month of Arrival of First Elements inFrance.

First Division.-June, 1917.Second Division.-August, 1917.Twenty - sixth Division.-September,

1917.Forty - second Division--November,

1917.Forty-first Division.-December, 1917.Thirty - second Division.-February,

1918.Fifth Division.-March, 1918.Third Division.-March, 1918.Seventy-seventh Division.-April, 1918.Eighty-second Division.-May, 1,918.Thirty-fifth Division.-May, 1918.Twenty-eighth Division.-May, 1918.Fourth Division.-May, 1918,Twenty-seventh Dix ision.-May, 1918.

Sixth Division.--May, 1918.Thirty-third Division.-May, 1918.Thirtieth Division.-May, 1918.Eightieth Division.-May, 1918.Seventy-eighth Division.-June, 1918.Eighty-third Division--June, 1918.Eighty-ninth Division-June, 1918.Ninety-second Division-June, 1018.Ninetieth Division-June, 1918.Thirty-seventh Division-June, 1918.Twenty-ninth Division-June, 1918.Seventy-sixth Division-July, 1918.Seventy-ninth Division-July. 1918.Ninety-first Division-July, 1918.Thirty-sixth Division-July, 1918.Eighty-fifth Division-August, 1918.Seventh Division-August, 1918.Eighty-first Division-August, 1918.Eighty-eighth Division-August, 1918.Thirty-ninth Division-August, 1918.Fortieth Division-August, 1918.Eighty-seventh Division - September,

1918.Eighty-fourth Division - September,

1918.Eighty-sixth Division-September, 118.Thirty-fourth Division - September,

1918.Thirty-first Division-October, 1118.Thirty-eighth Division-October, 1918.Eighth Division-October, 1018. -We have had during the last week a

number of comments upon the War RiskInsurance Bureau by men in public lifeand in newspapers, which seem to indi-cate that there is a great deal of con-fusion as to who runs the War Risk Insur-anco Bureau. It belongs to the TreasuryDepartment, and not the War Depart-ment. My personal mail is becomingenormously large from people who areasking me to get their war risk insurance.They do not understand that it is a Treas-ury function and not a War Departmentfunction. I think it would simplify thesituation if this were given newspalerpublicity as well as official publicity.

Gen. March replied to the followingquestions:

Q. Will Gen. March be willing to cos-ment on the following letter, " I am writ-ing on behalf of about 150 anxiousmothers begging for information of ourboys with Batteries B and D, 150th FieldArtillery, 42d (Rainbow) Division. Wehave had no word since before the armis-tice was signed, and as there is a rumorcurrent that they were almost completelywiped out in the last battles, we are al-most beside ourselves with worry. Soif you can find out where they are and alittle of how they are we will be trulygrateful."

A. The commanding general of theRainbow Division, Maj. Gen. Charles T.Menoher, arrived here a few days ago andhas taken over charge of the Air Service.His office has informed us that up to thetime he left, which was a few days pre-ceding, there was no such thing as herereported. The batteries were not xx ipedout.

Q. Will Gen. March comment on thefact (if it was a fact) that casualties inthe American Army were much greaterthan had been estimated?

A. I do not know -whose estimate is re-ferred to. A statement carried in thepapers, alleged to have emanated fromWar Department sources, was to the ef-fect that the casualties would be about

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100,000, which, of course, was perfectlypreposterous, and no responsible militaryman fathered it. The question was notasked of me at that time, but the predic-tion I made to the Secretary of War fol-lowed very closely what turned out to bethe fact. An1 one following the accountsof the heavy fighting would know thatthe casualties would correspond, and thatthe report of 100,000 was entirely withoutwarrant and without judgment.

Q. Will Gen. March comment on thescheme pursued by Gen. Pershing inbreaking up line divisions in order tomake replacements?

A. When I came back from France Ifound that the troops being sent overas replacements were obtained by takingthem from the trained divisions in Amer-ica. There was no replacement systemhere at all. I immediately started largereplacement camps in the United Stateswhere replacements would be trained, al-lowing divisions to go over with theirofficers and men intact, the men beingunder the officers who trained them,which is the only practical system. Atthe time Gen. Pershing utilized two orthree divisions for replacements the coun-try was in the grip of the influenza epi-demic, and we practically cut off all ship-ments of replacements, It happened thatthe replacement camps in the UnitedStates suffered more severely than theordinary camps, and no replacementswere sent from them. This is the reasonwhy Gen- Pershing used line divisions forreplacement purposes.

Q. How many men are there aroundArchangel?

A. A regiment of infantry at warstrength, a battalion of engineers, thenecessary hospital and QuartermasterCorps, and such like, somewhere betweenfive and six thousand men.

TROOPS ABOARD TE ULUTA,The War Department authorizes the

following additional information regard-ing the troops aboard the transport Uluawhich is due in New York January 11:

The Trench Mortar Battery aboard isthe 109th, consisting of 5 officers and 118muen. After debarkation 50 per cent willbe sent to Camp Dodge, 22 per cent toCamp Travis, and 28 per cent to CampCody.

Casual Company No. 322, consisting of2 officers and 149 men, will be distributedas follows: 21 per cent to Camp Hancock,20 per cent to Camp Lee, 38 per cent mis-cellaneous, 12 per cent to Regular Army,!R per cent to Camp Meade.

New York Wholesale FirmsLose Their Food Licenses

The Food Administration Issues thefollowing:

The Madldaloni Olive Co., 496 BroomeStreet, New York City, and RomoloFanara, 464 West Broadway, NewYork City, both w holesalers and jobbersin cottonseed oil, cheese, and canned to-matoes, will be unable to deal in licensedfoodstuffs for an unlimited period, Un-justifiabLv refusing to handle 250 on thepart of the Maddaloni company and 600eases of tomatoes on the part of theFanara company, unfair practices andfailure to perform contracts led to therevocation of these licenses.

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Interpretation of Railroad Wage OrderAs To Station Agents' "Special Service"

The United States Railroad Adminis-tration issues the following:INTERPRETATION No. 6 To GENEEAL ORDER

No. 27.POSITION OF EMPLOYEE.

A station agent on a certain railroadhas been paid a salary of $20 per month,and it is claimed by this employee thatarticle 2, section F, paragraph 12, ofGeneral Order No. 27 does not apply tohis case, in that the service he readers isnot special service, as he is performingall work of an agent and is subject tocall the entire day, performing work as Ittranspires.

POSITION OF THE COMPANY.The company claims that the employee

in question devotes only a portion of histime to the, service of the company in thecapacity of station agent without tele-graph service, and that he is engaged inbusiness in the town In which employed,and that he is not entitled to an increaseIn wages under article_ 2, section F, para-graph 12, of General Order No. 27.

The question for interpretation Is:In view of the fact that the claimant

performs all of the work required at thestation employed and is only paid $20 per

month, is he entitled to an increase underGeneral Order No. 27?

DECISION.

The claimant is performing specialservice, and is excluded from increase inwages by article 2, paragraph 12, sectionF, of General Order No. 27, and para-graph (a), article 4, Supplement 11 ofGeneral Order No. 27, which reads asfollows:

" The provisions of this order will notapply in cases where amounts less than$30 per month are paid to individuals forspecial service, which only takes a per-tion of their time from outside employ-ment or business."

W. G. MoAnoo,Director Geaeral of Railroads.

1919 WAR SAVINIS CERTIFICATES.The Post Office Department authorizes

the following:The initial supply of war-savings cer-

tificates of the 1919 Issue is being sent topostmasters at central-accounting and di-rect-accounting offices as rapidly as re-ceived from the printer. Postmastersshould refrain from telegraphing or writ-ing for their supply.

DISABLED SOLDIERS GIVEN REHABILITATION PLAN(Continued from page 1.)

tional service. This provides for eachpatient according to his needs: (a) Bed-side occupation to divert his mind fromhis sickness or injury, and to give himsomething worth while to do while stillconfined to the bed and ward. (bY Acurative occupation In the ward, shops,or gardens. (c) Opportunities for studyand instruction In bed, in the wards, inthe class rooms, or in shops in subjectsthat will help him. In civil life after hisdischarge. (d) Preliminary work in re-education foi a new occupation if his in-jury is such that he can not return to hisold occupation. (e) Advice in regard tovocational reeducation and occupation fordischarge. ALo in regard to coipensa-tion to which he may be entitled from theWar Risk Insurance Euzeau.

Not Compelled to Accept.5. Whether you take advantage of the

opportunities offered you by the Educa-tional Service depends upon yourself.You are not required to do so. It willnot affect the length of time that youwill remain in the hospital. The oppor-tunities are offered to you to assist yourrecovery In the shortest length of timepossible, so that you may spend the timethat you are in the hospital undergoingtreatment for your own best personaladvantage.

6. All men who have been disabled sothat they can not follow their old occu-pation, or can not follow it successfully,are provided by the Government with anopportunity for reeducation for new ce-cupation after cured and discharged fromthe Army. This reeducation is underthe direction of the Federal Board for

Vocational Education. It may be in a col-lege, technical trade, commercial or agri-cultural school near his home or in anindustrial plant or on a farm. The Gov-ernment pays the entire expense, includ-ing the cost of instruction and living ex-penses. If any man has dependents, theGovernment pays for them the same al-lowanees that it paid while he* was asoldier.

Compensation Provided.7. The Government has provided com-

pensation for all men who unfortunatelyhave become permanently disabled Inwhole or in part. The compensation de-pends upon the nature of the Injury, andis not effected by reeducation course thathe may take advantage of. Full informa-tion in regard to vocational reeducationand compensation will be given you bythe members of the hospital educationalstaff, if you will ask them. Printed bulle-tins, giving information, are available inthe hospitals.

8. The soldier from overseas will re-ceive a warm welcome when he arrives inthe United States. But in accepting thiswelcome and the benefits which the Gov-ernment accords him if disabled, he mustnot forget his obligations to himself, hisrelatives, and his country. He is a soldierstill, and if he has been a good one hewill continue to act like one. He willcbeerfully follow Army regulations as tothe uniform for domestic service, willshow respect to his superior officers, andv ill treat his fellow soldiers as he wouldbe treated, including those who, less for-tunate than be, were unable to play thewar game overseas.

M. W. InRLAxN,Surgeoa General, United States Army,

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Danger of Confusing Compensation withInsurance Payments.

It appears that some discharged men towhom compensation has been granted forinjuries received in line of duty have dis-continued payments of their insurancepremiums. In some Instances they havediscontinued such premium payments ow-ing to a mistaken belief that the sumsthey are receiving monthly from the Gov-ernment were insurance payments, andtherefore that It was unnecessary to makefurther payments of insurance premiums.The discontinuance of payments of in-surance premiums under such circum-stances is peculiarly unfortunate for sev-eral reasons: (1) Because If the insur-ance payments are more than 62 daysoverdue, there can be no reinstatementof the insurance under the regulationsof the Bureau of War-Risk Iusurancewithout the insured procuring a medicalcertificate of insurability signed by tworeputable physicians and satisfactory tothe bureau. The disability for which heis receiving compensation prevents hisprocuring such certificate. (2) Becausesuch disability prevents the procurementof insurance in private companies for thesame reason that it makes it impossiblefor him to procure a certificate of insura-bility in order to have his Government in-surance reinstated. (3) An injured manneeds the protection which Insurancegives to him and to.his family, If he hasa family, more than a sound and healthyman who Is able to do a man's work andwho may expect to live for many years.

Only in those cases where the disabilityfrom which the disabled man is sufferingis total and permanent does the discon-tinuance of insurance payments by thedisabled man who is receiving compensa-tion involve no risk and cause no harm.This is because in cases of total and per-manent disability there is a right to re-cover Government insurance payments aswell as compensation, which right to Gov-ernment insurance payments became vest-ed and made further premium paymentsunnecessary as soon as the disability wasin fact total and permanent. Eventhough the disabled man receiving com-pensation thinks that his injury is totaland permanent, still he should continuehis payment of Insurance premiums untilthe Bureau of War-Risk Insurance hasdecided that his injury is total and per-manent and that, therefore, he is entitledto insurance payments. It is unsafe todiscontinue his insurance payments untilthat question has been settled, becausealthough the bureau might decide that hisinjury was at that time total, still theymight decide that it was not permanentor they might hold that although perma-nent and total at that time yet it mightcease to be total at some subsequent timeby improvement in the man's physicalcondition.

Any man who is receiving what he be-lieves to be insurance payments shouldcarefully verify that the payments he isso receiving are in fact insurance pay-

ments rather than compensation pay-ments, and should not cease making in-surance payments until he has definitelydetermined that the payments he is re-ceiving are Government insurance pay-ments rather than compensation pay-ments.

Application for Compensation or forInsurance Payments.

Form 526 of the Bureau of War-RiskInsurance is used to cover either one ofthe following cases:

(1) Application of discharged officer orenlisted man for compensation, whetherhis disability be total or partial. Suchapplication may be filed either at thetime of discharge or subsequent thereto,but within the five years' limitation fixedin section 309 of the act.

(2) Application of officer or enlistedman, if insured, for insurance paymentson the ground of permanent and totaldisability.

Form 526 is furnished to every disabledofficer and enlisted man and every oflicerand enlisted man claiming disability atthe time of his separation from the serv-iee. At that time, assistance is given himby competent officials in filling out the ap-plication, and complete information as tothe proof required in support of his claimis supplied. Form 526, after it has beenproperly filled out and executed, is thenforwarded 'by the camp personnel adju-tant to the compensation claim section ofthe Bureau of War-Risk Insurance witha copy of the report of the physical exami-nation of the officer or enlisted man,which is given him at the time of his dis-charge, attached thereto. If the officer orenlisted man does not desire to executean application for compensation, the note" Officer (soldier) did not desire to exe-cute Form 526 BWRI " will be written orstamped on the copy of the report of hisphysical examination, which will then beforwarded by the personnel adjutantwithout letter of transmittal directly tothe compensation section of the Bureauof War-Risk Insurance.

Where Form 526 is executed at camp atthe time of the officer's or enlisted man'sdischarge, it may be difficult for him toprocure the proof called for by the in-structions on the first page of the formas to the fact that the applicant has awife and children living, or that he andhis wife have not been divorced, or theages of his children, etc.

Whatever proof it is impossible to sup-ply at that time should be obtained uponthe officer's or man's return to his homeand be forwarded Immediately to the com-pensation-claim section of the Bureau ofWar-Risk Insurance with a statementgiving his full name, Army serial num-ber, if an enlisted man, grade and organi-zation in the service, and date of dis-charge or separation therefrom. The ad-vice and assistance of the camp war-riskjudge advocate should be fully utilized inthe application for compensation.

Where Form 526 was not filled out atthe time of the man's discharge, home-

service sections may render valuableservice in assisting in the preparation ofForm 526 and supporting evidence.Where Form 526 has been filled out al-ready at camp, home-service sections mayrender service in assisting in preparationof the supporting evidence which the dis-charged man may have been unable toprocure at the time of his discharge.

Care in Establishing Proof of Relation-ship and Dependency.

Great care must be exercised to makea complete and absolutely accurate state-ment of the facts relating to dependencycalled for by paragraph 7 of the instrue-tions on page 1 of Form 526. The allega-tions or relationship between the depend-ent parent and the disabled person maybe included or may be shown by a cer-tified copy of a public record of the claim-ant's birth or the church record of hisbaptism.

The affidavit as to dependency shouldbe made by two persons, one of whomshould be one of the dependent parentsfor whom compensation is asked. Theaffidavit might be in the following form:

In re Pvt. William Fletcher Brown,Army serial No. 2114763. C-17463.Co. F. 117 Infantry.

STATE or ILLINOIS,County of Cook, as:

William R. Lee and Mary RogersBrown, being first duly sworn, severallydepose and say, upon information and be-lief in the case of the said William R.Lee and of her own knowledge in thecase of Mary Rogers Brown, that youraffiant, Mary Rogers Brown, is the motherof William Fletcher Brown, the above-named enlisted man, of 4624 Indiana Ave-line, Chicago, Ill.; that Mary RogersBrown Is a widow whose husband, JohnThomas Brown, was the father of WilliamFletcher Brown, and died at Springfield,III., January 20, 1911; that the gross an-nual income of Mary Rogers Brown fromall sources, including previous. contribu-tions of the above-named enlisted man,does not exceed the sum of $812 per yearfrom which taxes and fire insurance mustbe deducted and comes from the followingsources: Value of use and occupation ofhome of Mary Rogers Brown at 146 GrantAvenue, Springfield, Ill., $240; incomefrom a $4,000 mortgage owned by MaryRogers Brown, $200 per year; rent of oneroom in home of Mary Rogers Brown, $72per year; contribution to support of MaryRogers Brown by her son, WilliamFletcher Brown, $300 per year; that allof the property owned by Mary RogersBrown is as follows: Her house and lotlocated at 146 Grant Avenue, Springfield,Ill., of the value of $4,500; a mortgage inthe sum of $4,000 drawing 5 per cent in-terest; and the household furniture in herhouse to the value of $500; that MaryRogers Brown is 61 years old, In frailhealth and under the care of a physician aconsiderable part of each year because of

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RED CROSS HOME SERVICEInformation for Soldiers' and Sailors' Families, Issued by Department of Civilian Relief.

THE OFFICIAL U. S. BULLETIN- SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1D19.

PLANNING FOR THE EFFECTIVECONSERVATION OF NATURAL GASThe annual saving of 26,000,000,000 cu-

bic feet of natural gas, the equivalent ofone-eighth of the entire domestic naturalgas consumption of the United States, canbe effected in a single industry In WestVirginia by State regulation, which willbe proposed to the Legislature of WestVirginia at its coming session beginningJanuary 10 at Charleston, according toan announcement made by the UnitedStates Fuel Administration.

Conservation Movement Under Way.

A movement is under way for WestVirginia to continue the activities fornatural gas conservation which have beenstarted by the United States Fuel Ad-ministration. All the plants in the vicin-Ity of Grantsville, W. Va., which manu-facture carbon black, otherwise knownas lampblack, from natural gas havevoluntarily agreed to close down imme-diately. This agreement, which has justbeen effected, will stop the wasteful con-sumption of 15,000,000 cuble feet perday, which will be made available for im-mediate use this winter for domestic andpublic utility purposes.

The operators of these plants haveagreed to manufacture their producthereafter in either Wyoming or Loulsi-arna from wells too remote from pop-ulous centers to be available for otheruses. The Fuel Administration has alsoeffected arrangements for the manufac-ture from this gas which will be saved5,000 gallons of gasoline daily which hasheretofore gone to waste.

Appeals have been made to the FuelAdministration by representatives of nu-merous communities which obtain theirsupply of natural gas from the WestVirginia fields to curtail the use of natu-ral gas in certain lines of industry. Thedemands for :natural gas throughbut thecountry are greater than the availablesupply. The use of natural gas is aprivelege enjoyed by about 10 per cent ofour population. When present suppliesare exhausted the users of natural gasmust return to the more expensive manu-factured gas.

The Fuel Administration takes the po-sition that Where natural gas is availablefor domestic and industrial purposes itsunrestricted use in the manufacture ofcarbon blkt Is a wasteful practice.

Cause ot Carbon Black."

"Carbon blackI is a term applied to amaterial deposited by the actual contactof a flame upon -a metallic surface. Car-bon black Is now made by the wastefulprocess of incmpledte combustion of natu-ral gas that is, the gas is simply burnedin the open, the flame impinging againsta metal plate, making the deposit knownas carbon 'bilck. From 1j to 1 pounds ofcarbon black are made from eachthousand cubic feet of gas burned. Thebeat contained in the gas is wasted, andonly ar ;small pmertan of the carbon con-tent of the gas Is utilized.

In the State ot Ohio alone there areabout 400,600 consmers of natural gasfrom West Virgiana; Pennsylvania gets43 per cent t the natural gas it usesfrom West Vlinia, which also supplies85 per cent of the natural gas used inIndiana, and all of the natural gas usedin Maryland.

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List of Medical Facilities as IssuedBy Employees' Compensation Commission

The United States Employees' Compen-sation Commission issues the followinglist of medical facilities, covering theStates of West Virginia, Wisconsin, andWyoming, and including certain foreignfacilities:

WEST VIRGINIA.

Charleston Dr. G. A. MacQuen, 1012 Vir-ginla Street; the Kanawha Valley Hospital,1012 Virginia Street

Huntington: New Huntington General los-pital, 1619 Sixth Avenue; Guthrie Hospital;Dr. John IH. Steenbergen, Day and Night BankBuilding.

Martinsburg: King's Ifaughters Hospital.Morgantown: The City Hospital.Parkersburg: The St. Joseph's Hospital,

corner Fifth and Avery Streets.Raven',wood: Dr. II. W. Casto; Dr. Paul Q.

Starkey.Wheeling: Dr. W. W. Reynolds, Proctorville,

Ohio; Dr. A. Herrenkohl, Millwood; theWheeling Hospital, 109 North Main Street.

WISCONSIN.Pau Claire: Dr. John V. It. Lyman, Opera

House, Block; Dr. Chr. Midelfart, 343 GilhertAvenue.

Greta Bay: E. 11. De Both, MA. D., medicaloffier in charge of United States PublicHealth service. Hospital cases will be caredfor at St. Vincent's Hospital.

Janesville: Dr. W. II. McGuire, 407 Jack-man Building; Dr. J. F. Pember, 225 West