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Vol. 1. WASHINGTON, THTJESDAY, JULY 12, 1917. No. 58. ENTIRE OUTPUT OF STEEL AVAILABLE FOR WAR NEEDS APPLICANTS FOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS URGED TO BE MORE SPECIFIC. Secretary of War Baker to-day author ized the following statement: The War Department experiences difficulty in determining what kind of "At the conference this morning be an appointment is desired by many who are applying for appointment in the tween the committee of the American Army. If each candidate who applies and if every person recommending Iron and Steel Institute and the Secre some one for appointment would be careful to specify exactly what kind of tary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, an appointment is desired, the work of the War Department would be Chairman Denman of the Shipping Board, facilitated. ajid Mr. Bernard M. Baruch, of the Ad There are appointments in the Regular Army, in the Officers' Reserve visory Commission of the Council of Na Corps, in the National Army, and in the National Guard. There are pro tional Defense, further discussion was visional appointments as second lieutenants in the Regular Army, there are had of the prospective demand upon the temporary appointments as first and second lieutenants in the Regular steel industry of the country for supplies Army, and if any person writing to the War Department requesting infor of various steel products for carrying on mation in regard to these appointments would specify exactly which kind the war. The steel men repeated their of an appointment is desired the War Department would be enabled to place assurance that their entire product would the letter in the correct channel at once and action could be had thereon be available for the need, and that they without a search being made as to which kind of an appointment is desired. ■were doing everything possible to stimu late an increased production and speed deliveries. " The price to be paid for the iron and steel products furnished was left to be CHAPLAIN TO BE NAMED FOR EACH NEW REGIMENT. determined after the inquiry by the Fed eral Trade Commission is completed, with Must Accompany Unit to Which Assigned Wherever It May Go — Rank the understanding that the price, when fixed, would insure reasonable profits and Pay, and Allowances Are Those of First Lieutenant Mounted. be made with reference to the expanding needs of this vital and fundamental in The regiments composing the The pay is .$2,000 per annum, and dustry. forces to be sent to Europe will be $100 is allowed for the maintenance ''The representatives of the" Govern accompanied by chaplains belonging of one horse. ment assured the committee of the steel Allowances include quarters, institute that it was the Intention of the to them, and there will also be ap light, and heat, and milage when Government to distribute the war require pointed a chaplain for each of the traveling under orders. ments over the entire iron and steel pro new regiments to be organized for All officers must purchase their ducing capacity of the country." temporary service. uniforms, food, and horses. Steel Men in Attendance. Under existing law. which author Quarters are furnished at mili The heads of a number of the largest ized the appointment of regimental tary posts for the use of officers and steel and iron companies in the country chaplains, such chaplains when ap their families, but in the field there were present, the following attending the pointed are immediately assigned to is no provision for the accommoda conference : regiments and accompany them tion of their families. Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the United wherever they may go. Candidates for appointment as States Steel Corporation. The rank, pay, and allowances of chaplain must pay their own travel .Tames A. Farrell, president of the a chaplain in the Army are those of a ing expenses to and from the place United States Steel Corporation. first lieutenant mounted. of examination. Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. B. G. Grace, president of the Bethle ENLISTMENTS IN THE NAVY. hem Steel Corporation. AMERICAN SHIP KANSAN SUNK; J. A. Burden, president of the Burden 4 OF CREW BELIEVED LOST. Total Gain of 350 Men on July 11 — Iron and Steel Co. Marine Corps Strength. E. A. S. Clarke, president of the Lacka The Department of State is ad The Navy Department authorizes the wanna Steel Co. vised of the sinking of the Amer following : H. G. Dal ton, president of Pickauds, ican ship Kansan. The master and Total enlisted men in the Navy Mather & Co. survivors of the crew and the armed July 10 130,063 A. C. Dinkey, vice president of the Mid- guard have been landed. All of Net gain July 11 350 vaie Steel and Ordnance Co. the armed guard are safe. Total enlisted men in the Navy J. A. Topping, president of the Repub The following members of the July 11 131,013 lic Iron and Steel Co. merchant crew are now considered Enlisted strength of the Marine Corps: James B. Bonner, representing Ameri as lost: First Assistant Engineer J. Enlisted strength (estimated) July 11_ 26, 948 can Iron and Steel Institute. M. Kurphy, American; F. Aguirre, Reserves in service 978 English; A. P. Kua, of Honolulu; National Naval Volunteers 885 Retired men on active duty 15 SWEDISH TRADE PROHIBITION. and C. Hanan, of Singapore. Commissioned and warrant officers 907 The following cablegram has been re The Kansan was owned by the ceived from the American minister at Hawaiian-American Steamship Co. Strength, commissioned and enlisted. 29, 788 Stockholm : and chartered by the France and Information received from the British Canada Steamship Co. of New York. 997 NEW ARMY RECRUITS. minister that Sweden agrees to prohibit Reports to the Adjutant General's office fish exportation of all kinds, and Great show that enlistments for the Regular Britain therefore will give letters of as Army July 11 amounted to 997, making a surance permitting shipment of iwo car Show your patriotism by contributing total of 144,117 accepted enlistments since goes of lubricants to Sweden. to the American Red Cross Fund. April 1. 1917. THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN: THUESDAY, JULY 12, 1917.

LICENSE CONTROL OF EXPORTS ABSENTEE EXEMPTION CLAIMS RED CROSS TO BUILD HOUSES IN EFFECT MIDNIGHT SATURDAY AND EXAMINATIONS. FOR CONVALESCENT SOLDIERS The Provost Marshal General has The Division of Export Licenses, De Issued the following : As part of its program for looking after partment of Commerce, authorizes the The question now most commonly the men In the Army training camps, following : nsked at the Provost Marshal Gen the Red Cross war council has voted to eral's office relates to whether It will President Wilson's export "control proc build houses for convalescent soldiers in lamation becomes effective at 12 o'clock be necessary for an absentee, if the camps at Fort Oglethorpe and Fort drafted, to return to his home for McPherson, near Atlanta, Ga. At Fort midnight Saturday, July 14. Ships which physical examination and for a hear have not received clearance papers from Oglethorpe the Red Cross Is also taking ing on his exemption claim. This over a stone quarry which is to be con an American port prior to that time will point is covered by section 29 of the be held up until export licenses provided verted into a bathing pool large enough exemption regulations : to accommodate 600. for in the proclamation are obtained for " Sec. 29. Local boards may order * every shipment in the entire cargo. the physical examination of any Will Provide Recreation. Exporter Must Hake Application. person called and the hearing on a The buildings for the convalescents will The Division of Licenses has ruled that claim for exemption or discharge be used for men able to leave the hos applications for licenses must be made by transferred to another local board. pitals but still unfit for duty. Here amuse the American principal participating in When the order in which a person is ment and recreation will be provided, not the foreign transaction. The bona fide liable to be called- for military serv only to break the monotony and irksome- exporter must apply for the permit to ice has been determined and the no ness of the recuperation period but to ship. Applications may not be made by tice that he has been called for serv aid in speedy recovery. Large lounging forwarding agents or shipping companies. ice mailed as required by section 15 rooms, writing rooms, and wide porches Applications for licenses to export con hereof if it is shown to the satisfac will be features of these houses which tinued to pour in upon the division to tion of the local board having juris will supplement the recreation rooms day, but, with n smoothly running organi diction of his registration card that maintained by the Y. M. C. A. zation already effected, there is no an because of his permanent removal or Wife of Gen. Wood Aiding. ticipation among officials of the division necessary absence it is impracticable of a swamping that might result in undue for him to be physically examined Mrs. Leonard Wood, wife of Maj. Gen. delay of shipment. by or to file a claim for exemption Wood, commander of the southeastern military district, is stimulating Red Working to Speed Shipments. or discharge and the affidavits in support thereof with such local Cross activities in the camps under Gen. Every effort is being made to facilitate Wood's charge. At her suggestion esti shipments of supplies to the allies, Rep- board an order may be entered di recting his physical examination and mates were prepared for converting the resentatives of M. Tardieu, the French qunrry into the bathing pool. purchasing commissioner, and of Conop the hearing of any claim for ex emption or discharge filed by or in The pool is to be ready for use August Guthrie, British purchasing commis 27, when the second officers' training sioner, have called on the officials of the respect of him to be made and de termined by another local board to camp opens. Col. Herbert Slocum will be division and urged the necessity of expe In charge of its construction. diting cargoes designated for their coun be designated in such order. tries. A lnrge number of applications for "However, no such application may export licenses for shipments which thoy be filed or no such order entered un JAPAN'S GOLD RESERVE. desire to make immediately after the til after the order in which he is li able to be called for military serv proclamation becomes effective were filed Has Increased Since the War Started by by both the British and French agents. ice is determined by the local board having jurisdiction of his registra 150 Per Cent. tion card and until after the notice Consul General George H. Scidmore re COLLEGE BUREAU GIVING AID. that he has been called for service ports the following from Yokohama : has been mailed as required by sec Japan's reserve of gold specie on June Highly Trained Men Being Supplied tion 15 hereof. Various Government Offices. 2, 1917, totaled SGO,000,000 yen ($42&- - "The local board designated in any 280,000), nccording to the returns of the The Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau, such order shall thereupon take and Department of Finance published in the which was organized last February with have jurisdiction to examine him Japan Chronicle, 303,000,000 yen ($150,- general offices in this city, is assisting the physically, and such local board and 894,000) being held at home and 557,- Government materially in the war oper the district board having jurisdic 000.000 yen ($277,380,000) abroad. Com ations by supplying the various Govern tion shall take and have jurisdiction pared with the figures for May 23 last, ment offices with highly trained college to hear and determine claims by or this shows an increase of 56,000,000 yen men who- are specialists in their lines of in respect of such* person as though ($27,888,000) in the portion held at home, work. his registration card were in the but a decrease of 34,000,000 yen ($16,- The bureau is closely connected with possession of such designated board. 932,000) in that abroad, or an aggregate about 200 universities and technical and "However, the local board so desig increase of 22,000,000 yen ($10,956,000). agricultural schools throughout the coun nated and the district board having The considerable increase at home with try. When any Government office reports jurisdiction shall consider at all a marked decrease abroad is a new feat the need of men for any particular line times such person as one who has ure, bespeaking a great influx of gold, of work the bureau furnishes a list of been called for service by the local both on account of exports and the sud college graduates who are especially fitted board having original jurisdiction, den increase in transferring of gold held to fill those positions. In its work it and unless such person is exempted -abroad. endeavors to give thorough support to or discharged, he shall be certified At the end of July, 1914, or just before the civil service, since its success de to the adjutant general of the State, the outbreak of the war, Japan's gold pends upon the requirements for properly Territory, or District, as the case specie amounted to 353,000,000 yen trained men. The bureau is being con may be, in which he registered as ($175,794,000), 133,000,000 yen ($G6,- ducted by men who have given their serv one not exempted or discharged. 204,000) being held at home and 220.- ices voluntarily to the Nation. Thereupon the adjutant general 000,000 yen ($109,500,000) abroad. shall order him to report for mili Over these figures the latest returns WESTERN UNION GIFT TO RED CROSS. tary service at a specified time and show an increase of 170,000,000 yen place to be fixed pursuant to advices The Red Cross war council announces ($84,600,000) In the portion held at home from Tlio Adjutant General of the and of 337,000,000 yen ($167.S26,OO0) in a gift of $250,000 to the American Red Army, and he shall be considered in Cross from the Western Union Telegraph that held abroad, or 507,000,000 yen Co., through its president, Newcomb Carl all respepts as having been certified ($252,480,000) in the total. In other as not exempted or discharged by words, Japan's gold specie has increased ton. Mr. Carlton is a member of the ex the district board having jurisdic ecutive committee of the New York County by 150 per cent since the war started. Chapter of the American Red Cross and tion of the area in which the local has taken a very active part In the work board having possession of his regis tration card is located." Show your patriotism by contributing of the society. to the American Red Cross Fund. THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN: THURSDAY^ JULY 12, 1917. 3 Patriots Can Not Think of Profits in Nation's Time of Need, Nor Grow Rich by Shedding of Blood of Its Soldiers on Distant Battle Fields, President Tells Mining Men and Manufacturers

President Wilson has issued the follow himself to take toll of their heroism that they realize this or Intend it. ing address to the mine operators and in money or seek io grow rich by the The thing has happened naturally manufacturers of the United States: shedding of their blood. He will give enough, because the commercial My Fellow Countrymen : as freely and icith as unstinted self- processes which we are content to see The Government is about to at sacrifice as they. When they are operate in ordinary times have, with tempt to determine the prices at giving their lives will he not give at out sufficient thought, been continued which it will ask you henceforth to least his moneyt into a period where they have no furnish various supplies which are No Driving of Bargains. proper place. necessary for the prosecution of the I hear it insisted that more than a I am not questioning motives. I war and various materials which will just price, more than a price that will am merely stating a fact, and stating be needed In the industries by which sustain our industries, must be paid ; It In order that attention may be the war must be sustained. We shall that it is necessary to pay very liberal fixed upon it. The fact is that those of course try to determine them and unusual profits in order to " stim who have fixed war freight rates justly and to the best advantage of ulate " production ; that nothing but have taken the most effective means the Nation as a whole ; but justice Is pecuniary rewards will do it — re in their power to defeat the armies easier to speak of than to arrive at, wards paid in money, not in the mere engaged against Germany. When and there are some considerations liberation of the world. I take it for they realize this, we may, I take It which I hope we shall all keep stead granted that those who argue thus do for granted, count upon them to re ily in mind while this particular not stop to think what that means. consider the whole matter. It Is high problem of justice is being worked Do they mean that you must be paid, time. Their extra hazards are cov out. I therefore take the liberty of must be bribed, to make your con ered by war-risk insurance. stating very candidly my own view tribution, a contribution that costs Knows What Besponse Will Be. of the situation and of the principles you neither a drop of blood nor a tear, I know, and you know, what re which should guide both the Govern when the whole world is in travail sponse to this great challenge of duty ment and the mine owners and manu and men everywhere depend upon and and of opportunity the Nation will facturers of the country in this diffi call to you to bring them out of bond expect of you ; and I know what re cult matter. age and make the world a fit place to sponse you will make. Those who do Must Fay Just Price. live in again amidst peace and jus- not respond, who do not respond in ticeT Do they mean that you will A just price must, of course, be the spirit of those who have gone to exact a price, drive a bargain, with give their lives for us on bloody paid for everything the Government the men who are enduring the agony buys. By a just price I mean a price fields far away, may safely be left to of this war on the battlefield, in the be dealt with by opinion and the law, which will sustain the industries con trenches, amidst the lurking dangers cerned in a high state of efficiency, for the law must of course command of the sea, or with the bereaved these things. I am dealing with the provide a living for those who con women and the pitiful children before duct them, enable them to pay good matter thus publicly and frankly, not you will come forward to do your because I have any doubt or fear as wages, and make possible the expan duty and give some part of your life, sions of their enterprises which will to the result, but only in order that in easy peaceful fashion, for the in all our thinking and in all our from time to time become necessary things we are fighting for, the things as the stupendous undertakings of dealings with ene another we may this great war develop. We could we have pledged our fortunes, our move in a perfectly clear air of mu not wisely or reasonably do less than lives, our sacred honor to vindicate tual understanding. pay such prices. They are necessary and defend — liberty and justice and And there is something more that for the maintenance and develop fair dealing and the peace of nations t we must add to our thinking. The ment of industry ; and the mainte Of course you will not. It is incon public is now as much part of the nance and development of industry ceivable. Government as are the Army and are necessary for the great task we High Ocean Freight Bates. Navy themselves ; the whole people have in hand. But I trust that we Tour patriotism is of the same self- In all their activities are now mobi shall not surround the matter icith denying stuff as the patriotism of the lized and in service for the accom a mist of sentiment. Facts are our men dead or maimed on the fields of plishment of the Nation's task in this masters now. We ought not to put the France or else It is no patriotism at war ; it is in such circumstances im acceptance of such prices on the all. Let us never speak, then, of possible justly to distinguish between ground of patriotism. Patriotism profits and of patriotism in the same industrial purchases made by the has nothing to do icith profits in a sentence, but face facts and meet Government and industrial purchases case like this. Patriotism and profits them. Let us do sound business, but made bv the managers of individual ought never in the present circum not in the midst of a mist. Many a industries ; and it is jmt as much stances be mentioned together. grievous burden of taxation will be; our duty to sustain the industries of It is perfectly proper to discuss laid on this Nation, in this generation the country, all the industries that profits as a matter of business, with a and in the next, to pay for this war ; contribute to its life, as it is to sus •view to maintaining the integrity of let us see to it that for every dollar tain our forces in the field and on the capital and the efficiency of labor in that is taken from the people's pock sea. these tragical months when the lib ets it shall be possible to obtain a dol What Prices Mean to America. erty of free men everywhere and of lar's worth of the sound stuffs they We must make the prices to the industry itself trembles in the bal need. public -the same as the prices to the ance ; but it would be absurd to dis Let me turn for a moment to the Government. Prices mean the same cuss them as a motive for helping to shipowners of the United States and thing everywhere now. They mean serve and save our country. Patriot the other ocean carriers whose ex the efficiency or the inefficiency of ism leaves profits out of the question. ample they have followed and ask the Nation, whether it is the Govern In these days of our supreme trial, them if they realize what obstacles, ment that pays thorn or not. They when we are sending hundreds of what almost insuperable obstacles, mean victory or defeat. They mean\ thousands of our young men across they have been putting in the icay of that America will win her place once the seas to serve a great cause, no the successful prosecution of this war for all among the foremost free na true man who stays behind to work by the ocean freight rates they have tions of the world, or that she will for them and sustain them by his been exacting. They are doing ev sink to defeat and become a second- labor will ask himself what he is per erything that high freight charges rate power alike in thought and in sonally going to make out of that can do to make the war a failure', to labor. No true patriot will permit make it impossible. I do not say (Continued on page T.) THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN: THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1917, gtyg * (§f&tx at - Itttlgfrt INCREASE IN THE NET REVENUE OF 178 RAILROADS IN Published Every "Week Day, Except Legal Holidays, by the Committee U. S. DURING MAY SHOWN BY I. C. C. ADVANCE FIGURES on Public Information. The Interstate Commerce Commission has compiled the following advance Offices ■Washington, No. 10 Jackson D. O. Place, figures from the reports of operating revenues and expenses of 178 railroads for the month of May : Copies of the Official Bulletin will be fur- Dished without charge to newspapers, all post offices in the United States, Government offi cials, and agencies of a public character item. May, 1917. May, 1916. equipped for the dissemination of official news of the United States Government. — B. 8. Rochester, Editor. 327,514.05 227,109.97

SUBSCRIPTION BATES BI MAIL : Dollars. Dollars. 337, 860, 250 294,517.994 Dally \SIi months 3. 00 233,147,879 193,348,746 104,721,377 101,169,24* EXECUTIVE ORDER. 1,485 1,297 I hereby create a Committee on Pub 1,025 861 lic Information, to be composed of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of 460 446 War, the Secretary of the Navy, and a civilian who shall be charged with the executive direction of the committee. As civilian chairman of the commit tee I appoint Mr. George Creel. HEALTH SURVEYS HEAR CAMPS. SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAYS. The Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the Secretary of the Navy Public Health Service Experts Taking Estimates of Receipts and Expenditures are authorized each to detail an officer Steps to Protect U. S. Fighting Force*. for Year Ended March 31, 1918. or officers to the work of the committee. Extensive surveys have been made in The estimates of the expenditures of WOODBOW WILSON. regard to the health conditions in the dis the main services of the South African April 14, 1917. tricts immediately surrounding the train railways during the year ended March ing camps at Little Rock, Ark. ; Mem 81, 1918, are given at $50,815,000 and the THE NEXT LIBERTY LOAN. phis, Tenn. ; Petersburg, Va. ; Quantico, revenues at $66,927,000. The expendi Va. ; and Louisville, Ky. At Columbia, tures of the subsidiary services are esti It recently was explained before the S. C., operations nre still in full swing mated at $2,431,000 and the revenues at and plans have been made for similar $2,361,000. New York State Bankers' Association work around all other camps. that England's first war loan of one bil The nature of the work to be accom RATES OF EXCHANGE IN TEHERAN. lion and three-quarters was subscribed to plished varies at each camp, but generally Vice Consul Ralph H. Bailer reports the by 100,000 subscribers. To her last great includes such measures as water supply, following from Teheran, Persia: drainage, extermination of flies and mos The following were the buying and victory loan of $5,000,000,000 in 1917 quitoes, and the general health of the there were 8,000,000 subscribers. What, selling rates of exchange between Teheran neighborhood. In every ease the work is and London, New York, and Paris on it was asked, was it that caused this tre done in cooperation with the State and local health boards, and outside of each May 1, 1917: London— buying, 28.50 mendous increase in national Interest, krans per f 1 ; selling. 29.50 krans. New camp will 1m? placed a sanitary unit with York — buying, 5.90 krans per $1 ; selling, this wonderful financial support from ev medical specialists. ery part of the nation in the prosecution 6.30 krans. Paris — buying, 1.08 krans per The Public Health Service Is in need franc; selling, 1.13 krans. These are the of additional men and funds for the of the war? It was thrift, the habit of quotations given for sight drafts. saving and investing; a habit formed by carrying on of this work and is depending for this help on the passage of a bill now WAR LOAN DATA FOR PRESS. a whole people working with one definite pending in the House of Representatives. end In view. Notice to Editors Tells How Much They America's first war loan was much FRENCH BAR AUTO IMPORTS. Aided Treasury Department. larger than England's first loan and was The following cablegram has been re W. F. Keohan, acting director Liberty ceived from the American consul general subscribed to by a great many more peo Loan Publicity Bureau, Treasury Depart ple. America's next issue of liberty-loan at Paris : ment, has issued the following to the edi Decision of minister of armament and bonds, which later will be offered for sale, tors of the country : war material, upon advice of interminis- To the Editor. : The success of the first It is believed will be subscribed for by a terial committee on woods, metals, and issue of liberty loan bonds was due in greater number than subscribed to Eng war material, published July 1, provides large measure to the splendid work of the land's last loan. Thrift and American that no further import permits for lorries (trucks) and automobiles will be granted, patriotic newspapers of America. The campaign of education which you and patriotism will accomplish this result — except to manufacturers producing proof that vehicles were shipped directly to your fellow editors carried on was wide thrift because the people have been awak spread, and it has met with a great re France and Algeria before publication of ened to its necessity and patriotism be sponse. More than four million Ameri decision. cause it has been aroused in a higher cans, some of them readers of your paper, measure by the fact that our soldiers soon subscribed to liberty bonds as a result. FRENCH AFTER BRITISH MARKETS. Naturally, these subscribers, in addition will be fighting on the battle front In Consul H. Abert Johnson, at Dundee, to many who did not participate in the Europe. Scotland, reports that a French consular first issue, are interested in all matters representative in that city advertised in concerning liberty bonds, not alone of the NAVAL ACADEMY IMPROVEMENTS. the leading daily paper, informing com first issue but of the further issue, to be The Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy mercial houses and agents who wish to announced later by Secretary McAdoo. Department, has opened proposals for replace, as soon as circumstances will Consequently in answer to many re building the extension to Bancroft Hall permit, Austro-German productions with quests, this bureau will continue to send and addition to Sherwood Hall at the French productions, that they may apply weekly press matter to the newspapers Naval Academy, Annapolis. These im to his consunlte. This is cited as an indi of the country so that you, the subscrib provements will cost about $2,500,000, and cation that French manufacturers are ers to liberty bonds, and those desiring will largely increase the accommodations making timely efforts to capture as large to take part in the coming issue will be of the academy. a share as possible of the British markets. thoroughly informed. THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN: THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1917.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES BRIEFLY TOLD

SENATE. district No. 11 ; Justus S. Wardell, of San est flying machines from the United After laboring with the prohibition sec Francisco, to be collector of internal rev States to Europe/ and back without carry tion of the food bill the Agricultural Com enue for the first California district ing fuel of any kind. The Patents Com mittee finally reached the decision that Complaint having been made that the mittee has reported favorably on a bill the unanimous-consent agreement under price asked for ground at Cape May, providing for a test to be made. If it is which the Senate voted on that subject N. J., for the proposed naval aviation proved satisfactory to a board of five did not justify it In attempting to make base is exorbitant, Senators Phelan, scientists, the discoverer is to be accorded any change in the substitute measure now Broussard, and Poindexter, representing full Government protection of his secret. under consideration. This section with the Naval Committee, have gone to Cape Congress was asked by Secretary Dan the Srnoot amendment providing for the May on an investigating trip to look the iels to enact a law under which officers commandeering of distilled liquors at cost property over. and enlisted men of the Navy and naval plus 10 per cent will be kept in the bill. Senator Weeks, of Massachusetts, has crews on armed merchantmen would be If the Senate agrees to this the subject announced his intention of offering as an reimbursed for property losses sustained will go to conference, where an attempt amendment to the food bill his plan for by them at sea either in fighting or in will be made to iron out the differences In the creation of a joint congressional com shipwreck. a satisfactory manner. Sentiment in the mittee on the conduct of the war. Representative Kahn, of California, committee developed in favor of the gen said he was preparing a resolution in eral plan of the Gore substitute, which HOUSE. tended to disclose the reasons for the ad would restrict the scope of the bill in its Without the formality of a roll call, the vanced cost in uniforms and equipment of essential features solely to food, feed, and House yesterday passed the trading-with- Army officers. He said the present cost fuel. Whether it will be submitted as the-enemy bill. It must still be acted of equipment of officers is so high that coining from the committee was not de upon by the Senate. Broad powers are much of the initial pay of the new officers termined. Chairman (lore may offer it conferred upon the President to punish will be absorbed in obtaining their outfit. on his own account and inform the Senate commercial intercourse with Germany His resolution of inquiry will be ad that it has the unofficial sanction of the or her allies, in order to cut down, so far dressed to the Secretary of War. committee. The committee informally ap as Is consistent with treaty obligations, A favorable report has been made by proved amendments extending Federal the commercial benefits that may accrue the Irrigation Committee on the bill licensing provisions to fuel, limiting abso to Germany from the business transacted whereby occupants of Government recla lute Government control to wheat and in the Uuited States. The bill provides mation projects can get the benefit of the fuel. The committee continued its con for the use in the United States of Ger farm-loan law. The measure has been sideration of the subject this morning. man-owned patents. Necessity for this in indorsed by Secretary of the Interior The Democratic steering committee also connection with certain medicines was Lane. met this morning to discuss the situation. emphasized in the course of the debate. Representative Dyer, of St. Louis, Mo., These leaders are anxious to see to it that This feature of the bill was urged by the announced yesterday that he purposed re the measure Is put into such shape that Public Health Service, the Commissioner questing the Postmaster General to issue it can command the votes of a majority of Patents, and by many of the medical an executive order changing the name of of the Senate, and to do that they are profession. the post office at East St. Louis, 111., where bending their energies toward removing The Military Committee decided to re the recent race riots occurred. Mr. Dyer some of the features against which ob open the hearings on the administration said the residents of St. Louis, Mo., are jections have been aimed in debate. Dis bill to create a great air fleet in order to suffering from the prevailing belief that cussion continued throughout all of yes hear Secretary Baker to-day on questions the two cities are one. terday and to-day on the original bill, of administration policy in connection Jerry South, Clerk of the House, has which is still before the Senate as the un with aviation. Every member of the com recovered the original journal of the finished business. After n hard fight and mittee favors the proposed legislation, Twenty-fourth Congress, bearing the long over the protests of Republicans an but it is the desire of the committee and hand report of the procedings of the amendment was accepted permitting ap of the department to safeguard all mili House during the Jackson administration. pointment of food administration em tary secrets in the language of the pro It was brought to the Capitol by a junk ployees without regard to the civil service posed measure. Secretary Baker will be man, who endeavored to sell it. Clerk rules and regulations. The Senate also consulted regarding the language that South took possession of it as being Gov retained the House provision providing should be employed in framing the legis ernment property that must have been that persons employed in the administra lation. Representative Kitchin, majority stolen some time in the past. The junk tion of the food law shall not be exempt leader, announced on the floor yesterday man claimed it had been given to him by a from military service. that the nviation bill would be reported woman, who told him it had been handed During the debate on the food bill to-morrow and expressed the belief that down in her family for many years. Senator Penrose charged that abuses it could be passed Saturday. Secretary McAdoo has sent to the House have been committed by the Federal au The Committee on Rivers and Harbors the draft of a bill to extend to the Virgin thorities giving military commissions to has tentatively agreed to join the Senate Islands, formerly the Danish West Indies, persons performing purely civilian duties. committee In a trip of inspection of south the United States customs laws and apply The Pennsylvania Senator asserted that ern waterway projects to be made in No the net revenue collected for the benefit this had led to political favoritism. He vember. Local interests in various south of the island" government. announced his purpose of introducing a ern points have urged this visit upon the The Military Committee tabled the bill resolution at the proper time calling upon two congressional committees. The plan to repatriate Americans now fighting with the Secretary of War for n list of civil is for the joint committee to leave Wash the allies in Europe and another bill to ians who have been given military rank ington early in November and assemble in repatriate Americans who have fled to although not performing any military New Orleans for two days' inspection of Canada and other countries to escape con duty whatever. Chairman Chamberlain, the Head of Passes of the Mississippi. scription. of the Military Committee, said he would After that they would go to Texas, visit The House was not in session to-day. aid in bringing such a resolution before ing Orange. Beaumont, Port Arthur, It will meet to-morrow. the Seriate " if the military authority was Houston, Freeport, Waco, Corpus Christi, being abused." and through the inland waterways to Gal MEXICO PROHIBITS EXPORTS. Among the nominations sent to the veston. Then the party would go to Mo The American Embassy at Mexico City Senate were the following: W. E. Thomas, bile, Key West, and Miami, arriving at has sent the following cablegram : of Valdosta, Ga., to be United States dis the latter port on November 27, at the By presidential decree just published trict judge for the southern district of opening of the annual convention of the the exportation after July 1 of Spanish Georgia ; Maxwell Blake, of Missouri, to Atlantic Deep Waterways Association. peas, beans, lonlils. bran, sugar, cattle, be consul general at Tangier, Morocco; Garabed Giragessian, of Boston, is to and horses is prohibited without express William H. Berry, William M. Croll, and be given an opportunity by Congress to permission of the Department of Haci Charles R. Kurtzer, all of Philadelphia, have a test made of a mysterious source enda, and the exportation of corn, rice, to be respectively collector of customs, of power by which he claims to be able to kidney beans, wheat, and flour is abso naval officer, and surveyor of customs for generate power that would take the larg lutely prohibited. ,t«f w.'^a jnagju1 wa.7

6 •THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN: THUKSDAY«> JULY 12, 1917,

SECOND LIEUTENANTS FROM CIVIL LIFE ARE APPOINTED AND ASSIGNED TO REGIMENTS IN VARIOUS ARMS OF THE SERVICE The appointment of the following- Oscar Blount Ralls, jr., Sixteenth Field Second Lieut. Henry Alfred Schwarz, named second lieutenants from civil life, Artillery. Company H, Fourth Infantry, Maryland with rank from June 5, 1917, and their John Herman Larkin, Fourteenth National Guard, Fourth Infantry. assignment to regiments or other organi Field Artillery. Corpl. Edward George Herllhy, Fifth zations are announced : Douglas Rubison Coleman, Third Field Recruit Company, General Service, In Artillery. fantry, Thirty-eighth Infantry. Engineers. George Peterson Winton, Eighteenth Arnold John Funk, Seventeenth Infan Second Lieut. Lenox Riley Lohr, Coast Field Artillery. try. Artillery Corps; Truman Minor Gurry, Robert Nelson Getty, jr., Eleventh George Marvin Ferris, Sixth Infantry. jr., Frank Melvin S. Johnson, Simes Field Artillery. Edwin Lockwood MacLean, Thirty- Thurston Hoyt, Clarence Malcolm Fuller, George Jackson Downing, Twenty-first ninth Infantry. Harry Allen Skerry, John Francis Mc- Field Artillery. Norman Minus, Forty-third Infantry. Sweeney, Giovanni Battista La Guardia, Ohristiancy Pickett, Thirteenth Field Ernest Newman Stanton, Fifty-ninth Fred Craig Albert, Don Russell Cather, Artillery. Infantry. Sylvester Emery Nortner, John Riley Rush Hawkins Rogers, Twentieth Thomas Gerald O'Malley, Fiftieth In Donaldson, and Julian George Guiteras. Field Artillery. fantry. v Cavalry. John Cooper Adams, Nineteenth Field Newell Rodney Fiske, Seventh Infan Artillery. try. James Booth Lockwood, Sixteenth Arthur Carroll Waters, Seventeenth Philip Braham Harrigan. Twenty-sec Cavalry. Field Artillery. ond Infantry. First Lieut. Lionel Leopold Meyer, Ernest Terrlll Barco, Second Field Ar John Downing Hill, Forty-third In First Infantry, Louisiana National Guard, tillery. fantry. Fourteenth Cavalry. First Lieut. Lester Amlel Daughorty, Frank Wiltshire Gano, Fifty-eighth In Frederick Harold Leroy Ryder, Tenth Coast Artillery Corps, California Na Cavalry. tional ^uard. Fourteenth Field Artillery. fantry. Wallace William Crawford, Third Sergt. Walter Gordon Witt, Medical John Iieonard Pierce, Forty-ninth In Cavalry. Department, Tenth Field Artillery. fantry. Theodore Besson Apgar, Eleventh Cav Joseph Earle Takken, Twelfth Field Donald Kent Mason, Forty-seventh In alry. Artillery. fantry. Jefferson Bartow Osborn, Fifth Cav Raymond Jerome Watrous, Twenty- Lowell Warde Rooks, Fifty-firs't Infan alry. first Field Artillery. try. Mortimer Heth Christian, Seventeenth Jerome Jackson Waters, jr., Fifteenth Claude Jacques Hayden, Eleventh In Cavalry. Field Artillery. fantry. Marcus Roger Monsarratt, Fourth Thomas Grafton Hanson, jr., Nine Samuel Davles Bedinger, Forty-eighth Cavalry. teenth Field Artillery. Infantry. Fabius Busbee Shlpp, Twelfth Cavalry. Bertram Neumann Rock, Twentieth Alpheus Evans Willson Harrison, Ninth James Jay Cecil, Thirteenth Cavalry. Field Artillery. Infantry- James Madison Shelton, Tenth Cav Alexander Shepherd Quintard, Eighth Malcolm Vaughn Fortier, Forty-second alry. Field Artillery. Infantry. Albert Russell Kuschke, Twenty-first Outram Willett Sherman, Fifty-fifth Cavalry. Coast Artillery. Infantry. George Albert Moore, Seventh Cavalry, Henry Fred Grimm, jr., Henry Lln- Ivan Neal Wadron, Nineteenth Infan George William Gay, Second Cavalry. scrt, Donald Langley Dutton, Leland try. Forsyth Bacon, Fifteenth Cavalry. Adrian Miller, Arthur Nolan Harrigan, John Joseph Atkinson, Thirty-seventh Ralph Leslie Joyner, Sixteenth Cav Percy Clayton Hamilton, Robert Alex Infantry. alry. ander Laird, Porter Prescott Lowry, Edward Christopher Allworth, Sixtieth Roscoe Stewart Parker, Tenth Cavalry. Stuart W. Griffin, Joseph William Hazell, Infantry. Heywood Shallus Dodd, Second Cav John Briggs Day. Roland Winfred Wittman, Forty-first alry. Infantry. Kent Craig Lambert, Twenty-second Infantry. Julian Rockwood Orton, Twenty-second Cavalry. Second Lieut. Richard Wilmer Cook- Infantry. Private George Edward Huthsteiner, sey, Philippine Scouts, Thirteenth Infan Reginald Nichols Hamilton, Thirty -fifth Headquarters Company, Second Field try. Infantry. Artillery, Ninth Cavalry. Homer Smith Youngs, Sixteenth Infan John Walter Nicholson, Twenty-sixth Richard Bennett Lloyd, Eighteenth try. Infantry. Cavalry. Edwin Wolsey Grimmer, Thirty-fifth Thomas Allan Young, Eighteenth In Maurice Morgan, Twenty-first Cavalry. Infantry. fantry. Gilbert Edwin Bixby, First Cavalry. William Harold Clark, Fifty-fourth In Charles Haines Lee, Forty-seventh In Eugene Burnet, Eighth Cavalry. fantry. fantry. Second Lieut. Charles Frederick Frank Eugene Haskell. Third Infan ■ Ray Bradford Conner, Thirty-sixth In Houghton, Second Company, Coast Artil try. fantry. lery Corps, Maine National Guard, Sec Lloyd Davidson Brown, Twenty-sixth James Stanley Moore, jr., Sixty-fourth ond Cavalry. Infantry- Infantry. Roy Carter Hilton, Sixty-first Infan Franklin Hayes Woody, Fifty-ninth In Field Artillery. try. fantry. Second Lieut. Henry Joseph Macpeake, Raymond Edward O'Neill, Fifty-sixth Herbert Louis Landolt, Forty-first In Philippine Scouts, Second Field Artillery. Infantry. fantry. Frank Warren Lykes, Thirteenth Field Pvt. Justin Stanley Hemenway, United Samuel Walter Sowerbutts, Sixth In Artillery. States Marine Corps, Thirty-seventh In fantry. Capt. Richard Terrell Guthrie, Ne fantry. Will Van Sycle Parks, Twenty -eighth braska National Guard, Seventieth Field William Almond Shely, Twenty-first Infantry. Artillery. Infantry. Charles Bernard Kelly, Fifty-sixth In Ittai Albert Luke, Tenth Field Artil Corwin Crittenden Smith, Eighteenth fantry. lery. Infantry. Malcolm McGregor Maner, Twenty-first Roger Griswold, Fifteenth Field Artil John Eliot McKenney, Sixtieth Infan Infantry. lery. , try. John Lloyd McKee, Seventh Infantry. Henry Lockwood, jr., Eighth Field Ar John Urban Ayotte, Thirty-sixth In Glenn Luman Allen, Thirty-fourth" in tillery. fantry. fantry. Alan Lockhart Campbell, Twelfth Field Charles Heyward Barnwell, jr., Charles Rouse Jones, Twentieth In Artillery. Twenty-third Infantry. fantry. THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN: THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1917.

NAMES ASSIGNED TO CANTONMENTS IN EASTERN TWELVE GENERALS ASSIGNED DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY BY ITS COMMANDER TO VARIOUS ARMY COMMANDS

Names have been assigned cantonments Fiftli National Army Division, Camp The following assignments of general in the Eastern Department of the Army Virginia, Va. (Petersburg, Va.). officers of the United States Army are Mail, telegrams, express, and freight orderej : as follows : for the cantonments should be addressed Maj. Gen. Charles G. Morton to the com Second National Army Division, Camp by the camp designation, except tliat mand of troops at Syracuse, N. Y. Long Island (Yaphank, L. I., N. Y.). freight for Camp Long Island is still to Maj. Gen. John F. Morrison to the com Third National Army Division, Camp be billed Yaphank, L. I. mand of troops at Chickamauga Park, Ga. Wrightstown, N. J., (Wrightstown, N. J.). Naming the cantonments has been en Brig. Gen. John W. Ruckman to the Fourth National Army Division, Camp trusted to the several departmental com command of the South Atlantic Coast Ar Admiral, Md. (Annapolis Junction, Md.). manders. tillery District, Charleston, S. C. Brig. Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite to the command of the Panama Coast Artillery Willard Stewart Paul, Sixty-third In mandant of the Army Service Schools, District, Ancon, Canal Zone. fantry. Fort Leavenworth, Kans., for duty. Brig. Gen. Joseph T. Diokman to the Morltz Augustus Rust Loth, Forty-ninth Each of the officers named within the command of troops at Fort Ethan Allen, Infantry. continental limits of the United States, Vt. Robert Henry Chance, Twenty-fourth except those at a citizens' training camp, Brig. Gen. Augustus P. Blocksom to re Infantry. assigned to the Coast Artillery Corps will port to the commanding general, Southern Claude Wallace Shelton, Thirty-eighth report in person not later than July 15, Department, Fort Sam Houston, Tex., for Infantry. 1917, to the commandant of the Coast Ar assignment. Harry Grant Hodgkins, jr., Fifty-fifth tillery School, Fort Monroe, Va., for duty. Brig. Gen. Henry T. Allen to the com Infantry. Each of the officers named stationed in mand of troops at Fort Riley, Kans. Samuel Rufus Ward, Eleventh Infantry. the Philippine Department and the Ha Brig. Gen. Chase W. Kennedy to the Vincent Paul Rousseau, Thirty-ninth waiian Department will report In person command of troops at Gettysburg, Pa. Infantry. to his department commander for duty. . Brig. Gen. Edwin F. Glenn to the com March Hugo Houser, Fifty-seventh In Each of the officers named assigned to mand of troops at Fort Benjamin Har fantry. the Cavalry, Field Artillery, and Infan rison, Ind. Lamont Davis, Twenty-third Infantry. try, and now at a training camp, will pro Brig. Gen. Henry C. Hodges, jr., to the James Brown Golden, Fourth Infantry. ceed to join the organization to which as command of troops at the Presidio of San Edwin Blair Banister, Thirtieth In signed upon the close of the training Francisco, Cal. fantry. camp. Brig. Gen. William H. Sage to the com Willfred Roweil Higglns, Forty-fourth Each of the officers assigned to the mand of troops at Fort Snelling, Minn. Infantry. Corps of Engineers within the continental Brig. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis to report Eldon Paul King, Sixty-second Infantry. limits of the United States, witli the ex to the commanding general, Southern De First Lieut. Frederick Stone Matthews, ceptions of Lieuts. Lohr and Johnson, will partment, Fort Sam Houston, Tex., for Company A, Fourth Infantry, Maryland report in person not later than July 15, assignment. National Guard, Fortieth Infantry. 1917, to the commandant of the Army Each of the officers named will join the Arthur Pleasant Sibold, Fifty-first In Service Schools, Fort Leavenworth, command to which he Is assigned. fantry. Kans., for duty. Francis Maynard Lasselgne, Ninth In Lieuts. Lohr and "Johnson will proceed fantry. to join the regiments to which assigned. Patriots Cannot Think of Profits, Walter Hellmers, Twelfth Infantry. Lieut. Hoyt will report to the command President Tells Mining Men Jesse Plez Green, Third Infantry. ing" general, Hawaiian Department, for Howard Winthrop Turner, Forty-fifth assignment to duty with the portion of (Continued from page 3.) Infantry. the Third Regiment of Engineers sta William Audley Taber, Sixty-first In tioned in that department. action. This is a day of her reckon fantry. ing, and every man among us must Philip Barbour Peyton, jr., Fiftieth In personally face that reckoning along fantry. with her. Henry Garner Sebastian, Tenth In COPIES OF EXEMPTION RULES The case needs no arguing. I as fantry. SUPPLIED LOCAL BOARDS. sume that I am only expressing your Wesley Crowell Brigham, Forty-second own thoughts — what must be in the Infantry. The Provost Marshal General au mind of every true man when he William Major Goldston, Fifty-eighth thorizes the following: faces the tragedy and the solemn Infantry. " Copies of exemption regulations glory of the present tear for the Cyrus Higginson Searcy, Fourteenth In have been supplied to each local ex emancipation of mankind. I summon fantry. emption board in the United States. you to a great duty, a great privi Sergt. Theodore Kelly, Motor Truck " Information as to the exemption lege, a shining dignity, and distinc Company 15, Quartermaster Corps, Twen requirements will be given by these tion. I shall expect every man who ty-first Infantry. boards. Copies of the exemption is not a slacker to be at my side Leon Edward Norris, Forty-sixth In regulations may be obtained from throughout this great enterprise. In fantry. the Superintendent of Documents at it no man can win honor who thinks David McAllister Hunter, Fifty-fourth 10 cents a copy." of himself. Infantry. J. Harold Fleischhauer, Seventeenth In fantry. SEND FLAG TO PERSHING. Tasso Wadsworth Swartz, Fifty-third ACTIVE DUTY FOR LIEUT. COL. GREEN. Recently the National Society of the Infantry. By direction of the President, Lieut. Colonial Dames of America requested Edward William McCaskey, jr., Forty- Col. Frank Green, United States Army, from the Secretary of War permission to sixth Infantry. retired, is placed on active military duty present a flag to the first American troops Luis Felipe Clanchini, Victor Emanuel under the provisions of the next to the sent abroad to serve In the present war. Domenech, Antonio Andres Vasquez, and last proviso of section 24, act of Congress The request was granted, and on the 27th Juan Eugenio Guzman, Porto Rico Regi approved June 3, 1910. He will report of June the Quartermaster General sent ment. by telegraph to the Chief Signal Officer the flag direct to Gen. Pershing. The Each of the officers named within the of the Army for assignment to duty as idea is that the emblem furnished by this continental limits of the United States, property officer, Signal Corps, general historic patriotic society shall be carried except those now at a citizens' training supply division, Fort Mason, Cal., reliev into battle by the vanguard of the " Sam camp, assigned to the Cavalry, Field Ar ing First Lieut. Donald B. Sanger, In mies." The presentation was made on tillery, and Infantry will report in person fantry, Detached Officers' List, of that behalf of the society by its president, Mrs. not later than July 15, 1917, to the com duty. Joseph R. Lamar. THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN: THURSDAY, ifULY 12, 1917.

H. M. Herkheimer, Balboa Amusement Picture Co. LEADERS OF "MOVIE" INDUSTRY CONFER WITH J. H. Hallberg, United Theater Equip ment Co. OFFICIALS ON WAR PROGRAM FOR FILM WORLD Slegried F. Hartman, Legal and Legis lative Committee. Gabriel Hess, Goidwyn Pictures Cor Chairman Brady Announces Completion of Plan for Great Organi poration. Thomas H. Ince, Los Angeles, Cal. zation by States to Bring into Close Cooperation Every Factor of Walter W. Irwin, Vitagraph, V. L. S. E. Arthur James, Associated Motion Pic the Industry. National Committee Designated. ture Advertisers. Aaron Jones, Jones. Linick & Schaefer, Chicago. The Committee on Public Information at the Metropolitan Club, and the after C. Francis Jenkins, president Society has issued the following : noon was taken up with conferences with Motion-Picture Engineers. Musters of the motion-picture industry Raymond, -Fosdick, in charge of the re*" William A. Johnston, Motion-Picture ol the country who form the war co reation plans for the great cantonments, News. operation committee, of which William Secretary McAdoo, and the Council of A. H. Kessel, New York Motion-Picture A. Brady is chairman, by appointment of National Defense, the day winding up the President spent a busy day in Wash with an exhibition of a new Metro wafc Corporation. ington yesterday conferring with vari film, '■ The Slacker," at the Arlington George Kleine, K. E. S. E. Geoffrey Konta, L. J. Selznick's Enter ous officials of the Government on their Hotel. plans for making the motion-picture film Chairman Brady announced that the prises. a great agent for the education of the committee had completed the outline of a Jesse L. Lasky, Jesse L. Lasky Feature world as to the aims and purposes of plan for a great organization, by States, Play Co. Carl Laemmle, Universal Film Manu America in the world war. which will bring into close cooperation The members of the committee arrived every factor of the great industry. facturing Co. early in the morning and held their first The War Cooperation Committee, un Marcus Loew, Loew's Enterprises. Louis L. Levine, Recent Theater. conference of the clay with George Creel, der the plan worked out by Mr. Creel, chairman of the Committee on Public In will assign to each division of the Gov S. A. Lynch, Triangle Distributing Co. formation, with which organization the ernment a representative whose duty it Tracy Lewis, Morning Telegraph. motion-picture men will work in close will be to discover needs and devise the E. J. Ludvigh, Legal and Legislative cooperation. Mr. Creel made a brief most effective method by which the mo Committee. speech" of welcome, in which he pointed tion - picture industry can meet those Mitchel H. Marks, Strand Theater. out to the committee that the motion needs. It is a direct contact that will Stanley Mastbaum, The Stanley Co. Walter J. Moore, H. C. Miner Litho picture could carry the message of not only carry the purpose of the United America farther than any printed word, States to all parts of the country, but to graph Co. because, as the President said in his let every corner of the world. Louis B. Mayer, American F. F. Co. ter to Mr. Brady, " it speaks a universal James Cowden Meyers, Legal and leg language." War Cooperation Committee. islative Committee. Mr. Brady replied for the National As The full membership of the War Co Theodore Mitchell, D. W. Griffith Enter sociation of the Motion Picture Industry, operation Committee is as follows: prises. of which he is president. He said that Hiram Abrnms, Paramount Pictures lee A. Ochs, president Motion-Picture motion-picture men are fully alive to the Exhibitors' League of America. Corporation. •P. A. Powers, Universal Film Manu great responsibility and opportunty for Harry E. Aitkeu, Triangle Film Cor service which the war has brought to poration. facturing Co. them and that they could be depended William A. Brady, World Film Cor Henry Pollock, Legal and Legislative on to the limit of their resources. poration. Committee. List of Those Present. • Donald J. Bell, Bell &fHowell Co. Richard A. Rowland, Metro- Pictures J. A. Berst, Pathe Exchange, Inc. Corporation. Mr. Brady was accompanied by these Sam. L. Rothapfel, Rialto Theater. members of the executive committee : William Brandt, Albany Theater. Louis F. Blumenthal, National Theater. Gustavus A. Rogers. legal and Legis Representing producers' branch com lative Committee. mittee, Adolph Zukor, William L. Sher- Harry Bauinan. J. Stuart Blackton, Vitagraph Co. of J. Robert Rubin, attorney Exhibitors' ril, and Arthur S. Friend. League. Representing distributors' branch com America. J. E. Brulatour, Eastman Films. W. R. Rothacker, Rothaeker Film mittee. Richard A. Rowland, W. W. Ir Manufacturing Co. win, and P. A. Powers. Albert H. T. Banzhoff, Legal and Legis lative Committee. Joseph M. Schenck, Norma Talmadge Representing exhibitors' branch com Film Corporation. mittee:. Lee A. Ochs, Louis F. Bhimen- James Beecroft, Exhibitors 'Herald. I. E. Chadwick, Ivan Film Productions. Louis J. Selznick. Louis J. Selznlck En Ihal, and L. L. Levine. terprises. Representing supply and equipment Paul Cromelin, Cosmofotofiim Co. W. H. Clune, Chine's Amusements. William Sievers, Grand Central Theater. branch committee, J. E. Brulatour, Wal William L: Sherrill. Frohman Amuse ter J. Moore, and J. H. Hallberg. Jos. F. Coufal, Novelty Slide Co. Merritt Crawford, Exihibitors Trade ment Corporation. Representing general division, William George K. Spoor, Essanay Film Manu A. Johnston, John Wylie, and Arthur Review. Lynde Denlg, Dramatic Mirror. facturing Co. James. William N. Selig. Selig-Polyscope Co. Others who came were Marcus Loew W. D. Donaldson, Billboard Publish ing Co. A. E. Smith, Vitagraph Co. of America. nnd Frnnk H. Elliott. Walter N. Seligsburg, Triangle Film Following the meeting in Mr. Creel's Joseph W. Engel, Metro Pictures Cor poration. Corporation. office, the committee went to the Red L. F. Talley, 838 South Broadway. Cross Building for a conference with Evan Arthur S. Friend, Famous Players- Lasky Corpo ration. Samuel H. Trigger, president of New Evans, of the Red ( Yoss, on the work that York Exhibitors' league. is to be done by the motion-picture women Samuel M. Fields, Mutual Film Cor poration. Edwin Thanhouser, Thanliouser Film to aid that organization. At 11 o'clock Corporation. they met with Herbert Hoover, food ad John R. Freuler, Mutual Film Cor poration. A. E. Tugwell, 1811 West Twenty-fifth ministrator, at his office in the Depart Street. ment of the Interior building, and held a William Fox, Fox Film Corporation. noon-hour conference with Howard Coffin, Ricord Gradwell, World Film Corpora LTd. Wharton, Wharton (Inc.). of the advisory board of the Council of tion. Williams Wright, Kalem Company. National Defense. Walter E. Greene, Artcraft Pictures Paul H Woodruff, Motography. Corporation. John Wylie, Moving Picture World. Quests of H. P. Davison. Samuel Goldfish, Goidwyn Pictures Nathan Vidaver, chairman of legal and The members of the committee were ( 'orporatiou. legislative committee. guests of Henry P. Davison, chairman of D. W. Griffith, D. W. Griffith Euter- Adolph Zukor, Famous Players-Lasky ">e Red Cross war council, at a luncheon I prises. Corporation.