NO. 4159. WEATHER FAIR; WARMER. ' WASHINGTON. D. C.. SATURDAY. MARCH 16. 1918. CENT '--J! RALD Borland Amendment Passes House and Senate; 8 Hours9 Work for Agriculture Dept. Upper Branch Has Still to Vote on Amend ment Covering Remaining Branches of Service but Little Doubt Exists as To Its Passing. Representative Borland's eight-hour amendment scored a dual victory in Congress yesterday when it was accepted in the House by a vote ol 138 to 88 and later, passed the Senate as a rider to the agri cultural appropriation bill by a vote of 29 to 28. Fate of this measure now lies with the Senate. As it passed the Senate yesterday it would only apply to clerks in the Department of Agriculture here. K.r Darefle" of W,r Frienda ot clerki realise they will hs?W?a?e a hard U?ht to convince ^SSTpTSld"5. Houae yesterday and U~Se1^?.,h^"^? ??end" ment attached to the Agricultural ap - ropriation bill was yesterday '"J**" amended to apply only for thei du tion ot the war. The House amend ment In the legislative judicial bill lack, t* aiMatoert. and. it will be up to the **"?* k_ malie the amendment on the Agri JWSJSS Siparj kn?.2?jSs judicial appropriation bill whlcn P px.8 ^u^dicted member., the H? Hat lncreaae was ""SLZfA ?ar, < today make an effort to . amendment to the eight hour amen - srjrsas-?? the eiaht hour day. Senator Sheppard ?m a!T ?.e his efforts to amend the amendment. . There is little doubt .but ^ha* tn passing of the amendment by the ! louse caused a '? the amendment on the part doubtful senators who dldjwt ?1 certain .hat the ?rst r.TO?ble v ote of the House on the eight hou - mendment recorded their true jority sentiment. Overtime ???' *** If attempts to amend the Bor^^ amendment so as to 8 over t!"k" Wagdeef:.ntd?dh,U Relieved that general legislation advocating -arwir sssssf-sr pr-ld'eai of the National Federa tion of Employes' As?.cl?a?n^ -aid last night the association had not ?iven uVhop. that ?hey might u - innately be able to defeat the pur oose of the higher minimum day they were at least, fairly con fident they would be able to win T*rit.5. ?t enjoying wage and half for o?rti?e. Both houses spent the t,art Of the day in discussing ?*? . lerks in the department* hereJind Ihe merits of their wage increaacs and the Borland eight-hour amend m^epreaentative Myer Social let. tried to amend I^B? land amendment so as to make it apply only for the duration of the VLr but he was ruled out on a point of order. Chairman Byrns nointed out that the amendment as stood would die with the legis ?,?ve executive and Judicial ap propriation bill. June 30. 1*11 but ?f Mr Myer's amendment was ad m.tted it might continue much I longer or become null after a short er period. I Hays Clerk SacrHees. I Representative Keating led an at tempt In the House to make the ?Xad amendment further provide ,0' wage and a half for overtime Mr Keating said the House should remember that the ordinary govern , m^nt clerk was sacrificing aa much I L, ?he ordinary member of Congress. L. took isaue with some of Mr. Borland'a statements, declaring Then he called the clerks slacker. he was indicting the President and The heads of every government de rtmsnt He pointed out that the [iavVrnroent. through the civil serv had entered into a moral agree ment with the clerks for a seven /. ind that It would hamper wsr work more *han promote it to raise the minimum day to eight ""Representative Walsh, of Massa husJtta. pictured the clerks here to the House aa "poor pottering Pinoles' who have to drag them ?telves up the balustrades, and de cosmwegp ON PAO? TIV? WARSHIP HITS BOAT; 26 PERSONS MISSING Naval Ve*?el Collides in Mid-Ctian nel with Passenger Craft. l>ondon, March 15*?Twenty-six per sons are missing in consequence ol a collision between a naval vessel and the British steamship Ratbnore. Sur vivors have been landed at Kings town. Ireland, by destroyers. The Rathroore of 1.569 tons gross and owned in Dublin, was bound fro it Holyhead. Walea. across St. George's Channel, for Dublin. There were 6* passengers. The collision occurred in mid-chan nel. The Rath mo re. badly damaged, was towed to Dublin. DRAFT BRIBERS SENTENCED. St Joseph. Ms. March 15?Albert J. August, wealthy colthlng mer chant, was yesterday sentenced bj Federal Judge Arba Van Valken burgh to two years' Imprisonment and to pay a line of tl.SOO for at tia?U*( to bribe members of th< draft board. T salts ^ Clark, arrested on a sim ilar I haiaa was sentenced to eight een pwtaa aad to pay a n?e ol tlM I*. Hack Afaia Coa,00u will be reached soon after the third liberty loan. It is expected that the war savings fund will reach $150,000,000 bo fore the third liberty loan campaign opens. During the campaign it is expected the fund will reach 1300.000.000 or more. RAISE GRANTED ' IN RAIL RATES OF 15 PER CENT I Victory Scored by Eastern Lines First Under New Regime. Eastern railroads won a substan tial victory yesterday afternoon when the Interstate Commerce Commission granted a fifteen per cent increase in class and commodity rates on all roads in that section of the country. The increase was allowed on prac tically all articles on which the roads asked a raise in rates. The decision marks the first rate increase of consequence since the Federal government took over the operation of the roads. The peti-! Jtlon, ,which was known as the'**fif-' rleen |H?r cent case." was filed with the commission before the roads were taken over. Extent of Order. Under the order issued by the com mission, an increase of not more than 15 cents a long ton in anthra cite coal rates is provided; 15 per cent increase on livestock and fresh meat, and a similar increase on grain and srain products. The order covers, beside antrhca cite, the Eastern Live Stock-Fresh Meat case; Eastern Commodity case; commodities between trunk lines and Western points; Eastern Grain case, and petroleum in Central Freight As sociation territory. Commodity rates on bituminous coal, coke and iron ore, which have not increased since June 27, 1917, may be increased 15 per cent where they do not disturb existing rate relationships between established rate groups and differentials. Pe troleum and grain rates are in creased 15 per cent. Joint rates class or commodity, between official classification terri tory on one hand, and southeastern territory, the southwest, and points on or east of the Mississippi, may be increased not exceeding the in crease now allowed. The commission ordered that in establishing rates increased by 15 per cent, the existing groupings and relations may be preserved, even though by doing so, some rates are increased slightly more than 15 per cent. Way Preserve Grouping*. The Commission also ordered that rates from Chicago to New York and Montreal, and from New York to Chicago may be increased 15 per cent Such increases may be scaled, to or from percentage points or groups upon the established groupings and percentages. Established groupings of points of departures and destination under common rates may be preserved even though the rates are increased slight ly more than 15 per cent. Rates via the established all-rail differential lines may be made the same differ entials under the standard all-rail rates as now exist. ALIEN ENEMY ADMITS WRITING TO GERMANY | _ Dr. Hitler Communicated by Means of Invisible Ink. New York. March 15.?Dr. Fred erick Hiller, arrested as a danger ous alien enemy, was today ordered Interned. He will be taken South immediately, together with twenty two others, two of whom are from Buffalo, two from Scranton and six from Baltimore and vicinity. ,I>I" Hiller made the astounding admission today that he had been CO m m u n 1 e a 11 n g with Germany through Switzerland, employing in visible ink. He also admitted that he had plan ned to return to Germany under the alias of John Ferrari. He had what was described by Federal agents as a "phony" Swisa passport upon him when arrested. The paper bore the name John Ferrari. ral PeuayKaala Railroad City L ? , Tlefcet Office. At .the.cioae of buslness Saturday. : . jh Jke Penn?jhrania Rall Tlf*et Office, at the corner 8 streets north JTjy, Tno*ed to tts new loca t -w T?rtc ?venue north , wtir be re fvnmd S.M a*, m. Monday March ntK u?ttt further viXlcZZ While Situation Is Chaotic Soviet Peace Vote Is Not Deemed Representative. JAPAN IN HARMONY Should Nippon Armies Move on Siberia They Will Not Antagonize America. The United States will not abandon ita efforts to help Russia. The re ported vote of the Soviets Congress to ratify the German peace treaty does not end the Russian story. These two facts stood out as the only solid elements last night In an Eastern situation which Is little short of chaos. There is one other element which last night appeared to be rapidly , crystaliztng. It is this: Japan May Aid. Japan may be the agency through ' which the benificent aims of the ^ j United State* in Russia may be exer- . eised. But if Japan's armies advance into | Siberia, it is made plain, they will do so on an entirely different basis from the proposed one to which President I Wilson ten days ago dissented. They will advance, according to re liable information, on the sole ground that t^hey must meet and block the German menace to Russia, as well as to the allied cause in general. Japan, It is hinted In well-advised quarters here, will present to the United States a view of the Siberian problem calcu lated amply to justify President Wil son in approving the movement. England, it is pointed out, in the public uterances of Sir Arthur Bal four and the generally expressed I sentiments of her press and diplo mats. has already in effect guaran teed to the United States that Japan's motives will be disinterest ed. President Wilson, in his dissent from the first Japanese plan, did not raise the question of Japan's relinquishment of the territory she proposes to occupy. So Japan will not include any declaration on that point in her statement in response. But the gen eral acceptance by England, France and Italy of the principle that Japan is not bent on permanent conquest on the Asiatic mainland, is counted on to guarantee to those in America who doubt Japan's mo tives that in the final setlement of peace all of the Entente allies will be firmly aligned against Japanese spoliation* of Russia, even if Japan herself should be inclined to carry out such a project. Conditio** Changed. The other thi4? principal objections or the President to Japanese action were the violation of the sovereignty of a friendly, even an allied nation, and the two facts that neither the importance of the supplies imperiled at Vladivostock and elsewhere, nor the imminence of the German menace would warrant such a step. Conditions have changed on these three points, according to competent diplomatic opinion, in the*e respects: Under the terms of the German peace forced upon Russia at the point of the bayonet, Russia has either lost its sovereignty or has become an ally of Germany. The peace terms so pro vide for German political and com mercial permeation of Russia and are so stringent against even the expres sion of Russian opinion as to warrant this supposition in many minds here last night. The supposition is borne out by the declaration of Trotzky and the evi dence that no matter how formally Russia accepts the peace, it is a peace that can never last. The opinion is even supported by extracts from the German liberal press, recently re CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE. HOG ISLAND SUSPECTS HELD FOR HEARINGS German and Russian Said to Have Predicted Explosion. Chester, fa., March 15.?Stanley Lockavitz, of 1242 Vankook street, and Martin Pushkofki, of 1189 Witman street, both of Camden, N. J., were held without bail for a further hear ing today by Magistrate Barry follow ing their arrest at the Spn Shipbuild ing Company. They are believed to be implicated in the plot to blow up the Hog Island shipyards. Lockavitz is credited with the state ment that "they'll get blowed up yet." made to a number of workmen. He I formerly worked at the Baldwin Loco motive Works and the Hog Island yard and was discharged from both places bcause of suspicious actions. RAILROAD EMPLOYES STRIKE IN AUSTRIA Plants Closed When Men Disobey Order to Return. Copenhagen, March 15.?A new strike Is under way In Austria, It was learn ed here today. Austrian workers on the Northwest ern Railway, the Ferdinand Northern and several other railways have struck, according to the Lokal Anzei ger, of Berlin. The movement is growing. Most of the factories in Florisdorff have clos ed. The military ordered the strikers to return, but they refused. LA FOLLETTE INQUIRY TODAY. The committee which is investi gating the alleged disloyal utter ances of Senator La Follette, at St. Paul, last Autumn will meet to day, and Senator Pomerene, the chairman, said yesterday he expect ed that a conclusion would be reached. Naval Aviator Killed. The death at Key West, Fla., March 13. of Roger Conant Perkins, of Man chester, Vermont, a naval aviation student, killed in a fall, was an ?MUDced by the Navy Department. #uwa DAYLIGHT SAVING TIMl 3HOURS VASTED - lYLJGHT r" I'nY 8HOUR WORKDAY FREE LIGHT HOURS ? ItlGHI These charts show vividly how the daylight saving plan will give j everybody more "free hour#" of daylight. You've heard this: "Well,! there are just so many hours of daylight in a day and you can't change j 'em." But wait?the daylight hours before your work-day itarts are so-called "wasted hours"?you ?leep them away or spend them getting ready to go to work. The daylight saving plan merely "shifts" an hour of daylight to the "free hours" after work, when you can use it. The tables is based on the average June day and the workday from 8 to 5 includes an hour for lunch. Moving the Clock. The clock will be set forward one hour at 2 a. m., March SI, according to the House bill. At the same hour on October 27, the clock will be set back. The present standard time rones will remain in effect. Both changes will take place on Sunday mornings so that the least possible wrench may be given to the industrial fabric of the nation. But even at that on the railroads alone there will be some 1.000 pas senger trains and 5.000 trains run ning on the tracks when the change comes, and 1,698.SIS railroad clocks and watches must be set forward to keep traffic moving and prevent j together. At present In summer accidents. In 1883. however, a sim- j London closes as New York opens, ilar change from local to standard i More time for golf, amateur base time went into effect on 100,000 ball and tennis. miles of railroad without a single mishap. Benefits of Plan. The following benefits will be reaped by the daylight-saving plan: Saving of one to one and a half million tons of coal per year, ac cording to Fuel Administration es timates. Increased food production by sub urban gardeners. Less traffic accidents. Improvement in health of all the people. More fresh air. Women workers will return from work in daylight. Speeding up of freight transpor tation by giving extra hour at docks and terminals. New York and London Stock Ex changes will be open for one ho' :i; Nation Moves Clocks Up One Hour Easter Sunday Daylight Saving Bill Passes House by Big Ma jority as War Measure?Some Opposition from Farming Communities. Clocks all over the oountry will be set ahead one hour, beginning March 31, under the so-called day light-saving bill, pessed yesterday by the House, 252 to 40. Senator Calder, author of the ure In the upp?r braftch iftf Congress, said the House amendments would be agreed to, so that a conference would not be necessary. Provisions of Bill. The bill provides that at 2 o'clock p. m. on the last Sunday In March each year, clocks all over the country which affect any operations of the Federal government, or railroads, i shall be set ahead one hour. At 2 j o'clock p. m., the last Sunday in Oc j tober of each year, they are to be i retarded one hour. j All business relating in any way U.S. MAY TAKE 1 OVER PACKING I PLANTS NEXT Certain to Consider Gov ernment Ownership of This Industry. J Congress will take up the consid eration of permanent government ownership or control of the packing j industry before the present session ends, according to all indications yes- j terday. Information has been receiv ed by members of the Senate to the effect that the Federal Trade Com- j mission is to make recommendations for government ownership of the packing industry. It is understood that these recommendations will be made at the conclusion of the pres ent investigation which the Federal Trade Commission is conducting. Henry Veeder, general counsel for Swift & Co., yesterday filed a pro test with Vice President Marshall, Speaker Clark and other leaders in Congress against the proposed amendment to the search warrant law recently requested by Francis J. Heney, special investigator for the Federal Trade Commission. The pur pose of the amendments, the pro test sets forth, is to legalise such raids as that recently undertaken by Heney at the offices of Mr. Veeder in Chicago. It would make conclu sive, the protest declares, the de cision of a district judge issuing the search warrant, and bars all appeals until the purpose of the seizure has been accomplished. Veeder points out that (he Circuit Court of Appeals, in his^ ease, held void the search warrant under which his office was raided, yet if the dis trict judge's decision had been final, as proposed by the Heney amendment. Veeder would have been despoiled of his papers without redress. He suggests that if some agent of the Comptroller of the Currency were to assert In an illegal affidavit and deposition that the money in the larg est banks in Chicago and New York was used as a means for the commls , sion of various felonies, such as im . proper speculation or attempted brib ery of a bank examiner, a district ' judge, under the proposed amend . | ment, could issue a warrant for the ! seizure of all the money in the bank , vaults, holding that "probable cause" had been found. Thu*, without chance of appeal, a government offi cial and a district Judge could disrupt banking operations of the entire coun i try for months while even the Su ? preme Court of the United States i would stand powerles* to give relief until after trial of the accused bank officers. k < to the Federal government will be conducted on the time set. Further Inducement for Its use by everyone u liven in designating the times In tMe various sones as United fctates Standard F-astern time, TTnlted States Standard Central time, etc. Inasmuch as commercial and labor organizations the country over have petitioned for the bill, Congress ex pects a general agreement with the law everywhere. The five sones are to be fixed by order of the Inter state Commerce Commission. But it Is directed in the bill to have "due regard" for present railroad classi fications. The unofficial understand ing is that no important change is to be made in present arrangements. OONTlNrED OS PAGE FIVE. 50 TRAINMEN | 0FW.,B.&A.LINE GO ON STRIKE :? I Fifty Unorganized Employes Walk Out When Increase Is Denied. Special to The Washington Herald. Baltimore, Md., March 15.?Fifty non-union motormen and brakemen of the Washington, Baltimore and An napolis Railway Company went on strike here today after filing a re quest for an Increase in wages to a flat 40 cents per hour. The walk-out of the men crippled service of the railway between Balti more and Camp Meade, temporarily, though company official declare nor mal service would be resumed before morning. At present the men are paid a graduated scale, receiving 28 cents per hour during their first year of em ployment, 32 the second. 35 the third, and 40 cents per hour the fourth and thereafter. Practically all of the train crews of the road are members of the railway brotherhoods, the motormen of the Brotherhood of locomotive Engineers and the conductors of the Brotherhood of Railway Conductors. An agreement signed between the men and the company last year still has some time to run. and union of ficials declare there will be no strike at least until the agreement has ex pired. A meeting of the nonunion men was held this morning and a de mand for the Increase to 40 cent# per hour made to the company and the walkout followed this evening. Several of the men already have been discharged, company officials said tonight. Local officials of the Washington. Baltimore ? Annapolis Railway, which operates electric trains between Washington and Baltimore and An napolis, declared last night that the strike of employes In Baltimore was not serious and would not interfere with operation of trains into this city in any way. Non-union men. of whom only a few were employed by the company, quit work yesterday, local company officials said, and six of the strikers had been discharged last night. The men who <>uit were employed on trains running between Baltimore and Camp Meade, Md., and none of the train crews running Into Wash ington had Joined the strike, officers said, and service here would be nor mal. SUSPECT SHIP LABOR STIRRED UP PURPOSELY Officials Think Unrest of Carpenters in "South Due ! to Agitation. AGENTS START PROBE Uncle Sam Determined to Discover Cause of La bor's Unrest. Br JOHN L MIR RAY. Deliberate agitation to stir up ahip vard labor in the South ia suspected by Shipping Board officials, it was learned last night. There is a growing dissatisfaction among the Southern ship workers over i the terms of the Shipbuilding Labor Adjustment Board's recent wage de- ( cision for the South Atlantic and Gulf i coasts, which at first was accepted ! without complaint. The metal trades have sent a peti tion to Washington for more money, 75 ? cents an hour for skilled labor and 60 ? cents for helpers, and this demand - now is under consideration, with vir- I tually no likelihood of serious dif- j Acuity, the officials say. The real menace to the wooden ship 1 program, of which the South has the j bulk, is among the woodworkers, whose leader has been in controversy J with the Shipping Board since calling ; a strike several weeks ago, and who 1 intimated there would be shipyard dis- j ruption when the American Fedora- 1 tion of Labor rejected his proposal to I change the general union agreement j with the government. Agents of the Shipping Board have j been sent out. It was learned last 1 night from one of the board officials. I with the express purpose of determin- j ing whether the dangerous agitation i among the Southern woodworkers is I the result of any action by William L. Hutcheson, president of the United ; Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join era. . Owing to the fact that the Shipping [ Board has severed all negotiations. 1 and relations as well, with Mr. Hutch eson. following his ultimatum to with- I bold the much-needed calk era for wooden ships unless his demands j were granted, and that Mr. Hatcheson ! has failed to enlist any word or act j of the President In an appeal to him to Intervene in the closed-shop con- , troversy. It is the opinion of govern ment officials responsible for shipyard labor that he may be about to use the lever of labor disgruntled by agitation to rtvive hia case. This opinion, it was emphasised, takes strength from the fact that other district* have accef?t.*d cordially th# otfeer WMge decisions rendered, and the Southern decision was baaed on the representations of the men affected, granting substantial increases. U. S. WILL MAINTAIN RUMANIAN RELATIONS State Department Believes Peace Forced Upon Small Ally. The United States Is to main tain relations with Rumania, ap- J preciating that peace was forced ? upon the smallest of the allies. The State Department yesterday receiv- ! ed word that Minister Vopika with | the military attaches and their as sistants will remain at Jaasy. Th** j military mission and the Red Cross j are leaving through Russia. Wheth- i er they will Join Ambassador Fran- ' cis, who still remains at Vologda. j go out through Scandinavia or through Siberia was not indicated. Premier Averencz and his cabinet have tendered their resignation to | King Ferdinand and a new minis- 1 try under Minister Merghimalon is i being formed. Russian Prince Taken By Northern Commander Petrograd, March 15.?The former j Russian premier. Prince Lvoff, has been arrested by the commander of ; the Northern front, according* to the ' Russian Telegraph Agency. It was reported from Irkutsk Marc h , 9 that Prince Lvoff had set up a new j Russian government in the Far Fast j and was awaiting the landing Japan ese troops at Vladivostok in order to enter Siberian territory with them. ALLIED COUNCILS FOR SHIPPING IN SESSION Maritime Control Board Discusses Best Use of Tonnage. | London, March 15.?The Allied Mari time Transport Council, formed at \ the recommendation of the American ! mission headed by Colonel Hous?7 for < the purpose of using most effectively j the tonnage of Great Britain, the! | United States, France and Italy, held | | its first meeting here today. Subae- ; quently the following announcement | was made: "The Council will examine the im- i j port programs in relation to the car- j rying power of the available tonnage 1 in order to ascertain the extent of any defici.t and will consider means whereby any deficit may be met, whether by reduction in import pro gram, by acquisition, if practicable, of further tonnage for importing work, or by more economical and co-opera tive use of the tonnage already available." RENEW UKRAINE FIGHTING. Amsterdam, March 15.?Intense fighting has been resumed in the Ukraine, where the ranks of the Max imalist commands are receiving rein forcements from bodies of Caech and Austrian deserters, says a Berlin dis patch to the Rhenische Westfalische Zeitung. The Germans, the dispatch adds, have been frequently engaged In fu rioup battles with bodies of such men. and when they fall into German hands they are ahot. Rest and Be Well at Gme Park Inn. Aaheville, N. C. Finest resort in the world. No invalids, no chil dren under 10.?Adv. * FRENCH ATTACK GAINS FOOTHOLD IN HUN LINES; BERLIN ADMITS REVERSE English Airmen Bring Down 24 German Machines in Severe Fighting on Western Front. HANK GOWDY SHOWS VALOR American Troops Holding Enemy Trenches Which Huns Abandoned Under Raids and Concentrated Artillery Fire. London, March 15.?In the la*t 24 hours, the Germans, according to official Berlin admission, suffered a reverse east of Rheims. where the French in a dashing attack gained a foothold in the German lines. The German war office report charges that "signalling was observed on the Rheims Cathedral." On the British front there was minor raiding activity. There was severe aerial fighting on the Western front Wednesday between large groups of British and German machines and British air men accounted for twenty-four of the enemy. The official statement of aviation adds that five British machines are missing. If "Donald McRae" Was Casualty Which of Three Sammies Would He Be? Three men. each named Don ald McRae, are fighting in. France with the American army. This was one of the reasons why the Senate Military Com lttee unanimously decided yes terday to ask the War Depart ment the reason for suppressing: the addresses of killed, or wounded Sammies. "If one Donald McRae was kill ed, what ang-uish the mere men tion of his name without an ad dress would bringr to the homes of all three men." said Senator New. of Indiana, framer of the resolution of inquiry. The Donald McRaes come from Virginia. Michigan and Nebraska. Latest Casualty List Reported by Pershing The following casualties are reported by the com manding general of the Amer ican Expeditionary Forces: 4 killed in action. 3 died of wounds. 2 died of accident. 5 died of disease. 4 severely wounded. 4 2 wounded slightly 2 wounded Total 62 Killed In \rtioa. Private William Ellinger. Private Marshall H. Jarrett. Private Joseph E. White. Private Joan DePosUi Molles. Died of \\ ?undft. Private Ted A. Butler. Private Carl Larsen. Sergt. Leroy W. Miller. Died of Aeeldeat. Rieut. Richard H. Whitnei Private Edwin C. Todd. Died of Dineane. Private Earnest Ed.waids, pneumonia. Private Edmund G Holmes. meningitis. Corp. Charles M. McCord, meningitis. Private Einar Reinholt Mol ler. meningitis. Private Joseph A. Yerkes. pneumonia. W ounded Severely. Private William G. Carroll. Private Ralph R. Camick. Sergt. Otto C. Lesch. Bugler Howard G. Parker. Wounded. Rieut. Louis W. Ross. Rieut. John W. Apperson Wounded Ml?htl>. First Lieut. William P. Bled soe. Lieut. Granville M. Burrow. Lieut. William C. Dabney. Private Bernie Baldwin. Private Fenley S. Beeler. Private John Beran. Private Perry C. Bradfield. Private Frederick J. Cairns. Private Noah W. Cox. Private Joe J- Crapa. Corp. Lewi? Dagg. Private Frank J. Danko. Private Warthy O. Davis. Private Arlo E. Dibble. Private Jacob O. Dillenberger. Private Clay W. Dukes. Private Olaf Bvenbye. Private Harold R. Gerhart. Private Archie Fahlgren. Private Phillip Goldstein. Sergt. Carl Kahn. Private Henry Kessler. Private Mike Klachko. Corp. Jacob Klein. Private Benjamin F. Me?cer. Private Max Myers. Private Dominick P. Nogri. Private Hjalmar G. Nelson. Private James J. O'Shaugh nessy. Private Angelo Pagotto. Private Joseph F. Potrovic. Corp. Frank Phillips. Private Joseph Richter. Private Theodore Rosa. Private Frank Rsoxnik. Private Henry F. Schwalbach. Private AlTim Smiley. Private Percy J. Turner: Private Harry^ F. Weidman. Corp. Ebner Werner. Private Clare E. West. Private Emery E Wilcox. y Drop Twraty-foar PImtl "Nineteen hostile machines. ' uyi the statement "were shot down and Ave others were driven down out of control. Five of ours are missing. "Seven hundred bombs were dropped on enemy billets, ammunition dump." and railway sidings at Contnu and Denain. Further reports of the raul on Freiburg say the bombs dropped were seen to burst oq^ the railway station and round the power station Just after bombs were released out formation was attacked by a large number of machines, the fight las tin*, until the enemy was forced to with draw. Three of our machines did not return. "Our raiding parties entered the en emy's lines last night west of VII lers-Guislain and brought back a few prisoners," says today's official com munication. "Hostile raids were re pulsed in the nighborhood of Pass cheandele and Poeleappelle. Our and the enemy's artillery showed *om? activity during the night southwest 4and west of Cambral. south of f Armen ; tieres and in the Massigei and Memn road sectors." | With th? American Army In Franc* March li.?Ameri< an troops In the ' Luneville sector ha with his troops during an engagement with the enemy. Lieut. W. Alexander Terrill, of Fort Worth. Tex., another of the honored soldiers, was seriously wounded dur ing a bombardment. Lieut. A. Pailette was decorated foi his action in organizing his men s^ter an enemy attack and leading them m a counter attack which ejected the Germans from a trench they had oc cupied. Thf other men getting the war cross were: Capt. Charles W. Aitkins. of Wuitet set. Iowa, who installed a platoon un der heavy fire - * a demolished terrain, repulsing an enemy counter attack. Lieut. Bernard Van Hof, of Grand ' Rapids. Mich., who though badh wounded In the leg. exhibited coolnes and bravery during an attack. Senrt. James West, who helped organize a detachment which rout ed an enemy patrol, capturing *o?e prisoners. Sergt. Pearl Edwards, of Center ville. Iowa who organised the men after his superior officer had been lost, counter attacking the enemy and entering their positions. Sergt- Warner Hall, who met an enemy party while on patrol duty. CONTINUED OS PA OK FIVE. CONCRETE SHIP "FATE" TO BE TESTED JUNE 1 Shipping Board Hat Four Other* Building. One Larger Still. The United State* Shipping Board, which has four concrete ships bond ing. is eager to see the result* of the first big. seagoing concrete ship, which was launched Thursday and now is hetng fitted with machinery on the Pacific Coast. The test of this first concrete trails ocean carrier and of the practicality of concrete steamships generally will be made about June 1. when it Is expected the hull will have all its equlpaoeat installed. Although this vessel the Fate, oi 7,WO tons displacement. Is the largest concrete ship afloat, the Shipping Board has contracted for a larger one. of 7JS0 tons dead-weight, about I2.0W tons displacement, with the Ban Fran cisco Shipbuilding Company, ef Red wood C*y. CaL