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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGOX, MOXDAY, JULY 2, 1M7. PAGE Til HER OCEAN JITNEYS BEING REJECTED SHIPS Cheap, Quickly Built Vessels De signed for U-Boat Emergency, Not Ordered by Shipping Board, Altho Sea-Worthiness is Demonstrated Vessels Ordered Bigger, Slower Built. BY HARRY B. HUNT. (Staff Special.) WASHINGTON, July 2. mint will best serve Uncle Snra's need for boats during the war on ocean jitney that can be built quickly and by the bun dred, or nn ncquatis tourinj car, i?niucli better looking, somewhat seed ier, and perhaps moro durable, but which can be produced only by the dozen and which will take three to six months longer to buildt Deadlock Over Question. That is the question that has mussed up all the plans of the federal shipping board, bus brought President Dcnman of the board and Gen. Coe thals, his construction chief, to log gerheads, and threatens as great in jury to our shipping thru lack of production, as do the German sub marines by actual destruction. So far, the.prefcrence has appeared to be for an ocean-touring car, even if wo have to wait considerably longer for it. The one boat offered that could bo produced on a "quantity-production" basis has been shunted aside in favor for more beautiful models re quiring much more time and expert labor to construct. Jitney's Seaworthy. No question has been raised as to this ocean jitney's seaworthiness, its A cargo capacity or the increased speed with which boats of this type could ' 'HSe built. But chief consideration seems to have been given the matter of appeartnee, and of usefulness five or ten or twenty years from now, and all contracts have been for vossels of a type that, while undoubtedly better boats for normal requirements, may not be completed until Germany's submarines have strangled England and the "emergency" is over. Edward S. Hough of San Francisco has designed n boat directly to meet emergency requirements. As far as t possible her design has been kept to straight lines. Ninety percent of the work in building boats of this type could be done by ordinary carpenters and bridgebuilders, and the timbers could be used almost as they romc from the mills, very little additional shaping being required. Ordinary Itoat Curves. The, ordinary wooden boat, how ever, is all curves. Every timber in her frame and every plank in her sides has to be cut or fitted on the job. E.ert ship carpenters are rc- quired, not for 10 per cent of tin work, but for 00 per cent. C. T. Clayton of the department of labor, who reported on the construc tion features of the Hough design, stated : "Under like conditions of yards, personnel and material supply, I be lieve the Hough model can be con structed in from one-third to one half less time" than other mode-Is of wood ships. "The Hough plan," he says, is well ndupted to the employment of in tensive factory constiuction methods. It is possible to employ n much larger proportion of labor unskilled in ship construction, than in Ihe conventional models." Deliver in Xovcmlier. Contractors have offered to agree to begin delivery of ships built on the Hough model by November. All con tracts let to dale, however, havo been for a conventional model of wood ship, requiring- months longer to 4 build, or for steel ships requiring still more lime. The Hough boat was approved hv the American bureau of shipping for the best rating for insurance. Her seaworthiness and structural cor rectness also was ciHified to by Theodore K. Kcrrsi, consulting archi tect for the United Stales fleet cor poration. Almost iimnrdiutclv after wards, however, Ferris qualified his approval and another design, worked , out by Ferris himself, for n much more handsome boat requiring from two to four months longer to build was recommended. All wood boati contracted for have been for the Fer ris model, on which deliveries cannot begin before next March. Meanwhile submarine sinkings nre ngnin on the increase. MvricK. Barber shops will be open Tuesday Inly 3d. until 10 o'clock p. m. Closed all dny Wednesday, the Fourth. 85 Mr. a4 Mrs. C. F KlmUU cf Rsd dlr.g, C!lforoia, ora i pek cod THIS IS 1 KIND OF Citizen Soldiers to be Made as Com fortable as Possible in Mammoth Cantonment Cities, With Many of the Things That Make Home Sweet Houses Are Built in Orderly Rows. (By Gllson Gardner, Washington Corre spondent) WASHINGTON, July 2. The task of housing halt a million soldiers while in training is now well started. Preliminary contracts have been let and the cantonments, as they are call ed, should be ready by October. A premium Is to be paid for speed of construction. . The army must bo trained and it cannot be trained until it is boused. Therefore, the building ot these cities before the snow flies is more important than the having of a few dollars. Si-:tecn Cities Unlit. Sixteen cities eacb of 40,000 popu lation, are to be constructed in 90 days. This is some job. Each city must have its wooden houses, its streets, sewers, water systems, elec tric lights, railroad yards, water mains, garbage incinerators, amuse ment hall, storage structures and scores of other incidentals to the life of a military city. As much money will be spent in 90 days as the government spent on the Panama canal in a year. The sites have been selected and most of them surveyed and laid off into their future streets, drill grounds, ball fields, freight yards and residence sections. In some Instances the lumber and other materials are on the way. Each cantonment will require about 4000 carloads of material, and it is estimated 150,000 cars will be divert ed from their usual business to take care of the cantonment work. Material Needed. Each of these wooden cities will re quire 26,000,000 feet of lumber, or 1325 carloads, one carload of roofing nails, 812 carloads ot crushed stone for the roads, 28,000 squares of roof ing, 20 Carloads of miscellaneous hardware, 20 carloads of plumbing material, 192 carloads of tanks, heat ers, stoves, ranges, pipes, electrical materials, refrigerators and the like; 30 carloads of ties and other timber; 20 carloads of railroad spikes, rails, fish-plates; 114 carloads of ballast; 10 carloads ot electric light poles, wires, insulators; 12,000 cubic yards of concrete, and 175 carloads of sand. The typical cantonment house is a wooden affair set up on posts about four foet from the ground; the peak ed roof is about 25 feet high, and tho floor of each house is about 255 feet wide and 125 feet long. In most of tho plans the men are to sleep in double-tiered bonks. Each house has its little book case, wooden table and wooden dresser. The window is screened with metal lic screening. What Each City TCecdfl. Each city must have 37,000 sep arate bunks and mattresses, which will require 125 cars to move them. Each city will require 150 carloads of hospital equipment, three, carloads of screens and 20 carloads of con struction tools. Each cantonment will contain about 1000 buildings. Tho kitchen and the mess hall are separate from tho living buildings; each company having its own kitchen and mess. The government already has had some experience in rushing up these mushroom cities for the army. On May 14 the quartermaster's depart ment received orders to have quarters ready on June 15 for 150,000 men This meant the erection ot 17,000.000 worth of new buildings at nine differ ent posts. That work has been com pleted. A typical city of this sort is located at Qunntlco, Virginia, where 8000 ma rines are to mako tholr home. At one end of the cantonment site one sees the virgin forests, next he sees where the forest has been burned and felled; next to this are the scant lings and posts stuck Into the ground which are to be the foundations of houses, and thon come the houses in all stages of construction, with tho completed product at tbd far end of the camp. Three weeks ago this land was as Captain John Smith discovered It Soon it will be a city with paved streets, modern Improvements and a teeming population. LAND SCHEMES AGAIN CAUSE THEIR INDICTMENT PORTLAND. July 2. A gran Jury In the federal court today re turned Indictments against I-rank A1 ley of Itoseburg, Ore., and Cm In P.yiO!i of Seatt'e. Wash., on charge of using Ihe United States maila t.i pro mote land fraud. They are accuser of hiving manipulated a iocattot schome affecting lands ia Ci'.irornl. Twice trevloish- tte were IclltUA but the cases against tcm lallf d lur 101 YOU'LL LIVE Tho cantonment city of the V. 8. marine corps at Qunntlco, Virginia a typo of Uio 1 Oothcrs now being rushed to completion. Above is shown a row of bouses on the fleshly cleared land wltti tho primeval forest in tho background; lielon- is a typical street between the almost finished dwellings whero men selected for service will livo while being trained. ' 10 OF WASHINGTON, July 2. Thruout tile country, from the pulpits of churches of all denominations, the doctrlno of Citizenship Preparedness was again proclaimed yesterday. Re sponding a second time to the appeal of the bureau of naturalization of the U. S. department of labor, tho clorgy of tho United States with remarkable unanimity, delivered citizenship ser mons on the date selected because, of Its close proximity to Independence Day. The gospel of good citizenship was enunciated in cities and hamlets to largo and prosperous congregations and to small and struggling bands of worshipers alike. From tho pulpit came the powerful plea that now, with the nation fighting on the side or righteousness and humanity, Ameri can Ideals and patriotism should be Instilled In tho mind of tho foreign born residents of the country. The second observance of Citizen ship Sunday Indicates the continued co-operation of tho church In the na-tlon-wldo effort of the bureau of nat uralization to have Increased facili ties provided for alien Instruction. Last year, the request of this progres sive governmental agency that a Sun day bo set aside for this patriotic pur pose was universally compiled with and tho suggestion that It become a permanent, annual Institution was cordially endorsed. It was with a realization that the churches could aid materially In forwarding the good citizenship movement and inspiro Im mediate and aggressive action in com munities which had hitherto failed to join this great educational campaign, that the appeal was made. The results show the wisdom of that appeal, for now the public school authorities of approximately 1S00 cities and towns, co-operating with tho bureau of naluralf.utton, aro ex tending night Fihool Instruction to candidates for citizenship and In I hie great work tho churches of the Uni ted States havo been conspicuously active. Ther ! mora ratarrb In tliln WM-ttnn of tha. Pfttiutrj tbari nil (ithr (1U'-wb f.m ti.thr, tnfl until thp taut fiw fira aa au.i (1 li h llimrnhli.. l or a r,'t waiir J.-ara A'- t'rta pri'ii'iiiut-M It a I'tm I (1lNa a'i'1 ,r avtll'M to-a1 rmiHlla. ami hy r..o.laritl frfllliiK l' cure MUD N al tr"-atiu.iit, iindminifi-ti It lii'ura !,!. Mrlrura baa .r'it.ll ( alanh to !, a cii.thuthitial rfu.aa, ami tbrrf'ir tfi-ilrfa riiHttitl..iial treatment. Haifa catarrh f tin-. riianiiruriiirM hy V J. Chfti-7 A r.. T"1-K Oblo, la tit only IV-tiMlln-ilrmil ftiro n t!a Binrkrt, It ! taan Inl'rnall. In l'-'a from 1ft rfrf ro a ! r'mftil It a'ta dlrt-t It fln th bl 'A and mur'-m irf'r f the ajU'in. Thry 'IT'T ortr. bunlrM d,,llir for any raar If fall 10 cure. Sod fvr circular! aod t.llmoolali. iddrcat: P. 1. CTlr.Nr.Y CO., Tolnld. Obi. fv-ld br Prtigrlit. TV. laaa iiaU'a 1 fr cUaOjO, IN IF YOU'RE SELECTED FOR ARMY SERVICE " OF WASHINGTON, July 2. Hcgistrii tion of the country's housewives as members of the food administration was begun todayby state ilcfcnse council and the women's defense com mittee of the national council. Dr. Hay L. Wilbur, head of the admin istration conservation section said it was hoped enrollment would be com pleted within two weeks. Every housewife will be asked to sirn and mail to Hie food adminis tration n pledge to follow the direc tions of the food administration con cerning food economy within the home. fa lg WITH 11 I vV oil y ALL THE YEAR. ROIM) Cooler cooking in summer better and more economical cooking all the year 'round. A good oil stove will cook anything that any wood or coal range will cook, and do it better because of the steady, evenly-distributed heat. All the convenience of gas. Meals in a jiHy, and a cool kitchen in summer. The long blue chimneys prevent all smoke and Smell. In 1, 7. 3 and 4 burner aliea, with or without ovena. Alan cabinet model. Atk your dealer loila?. NEW PERFECTION OIL COqi-STOVE J-OK SALE 11Y KOUXINB, Friday June 20 (T)u laycd.) Joseph W. Origg, the New York detective, who came hero in con nection with the enso of Alfredo Cocchi, the murderer of Ituth Cruger, has been warned Unit he will meet the fnlc of Lieutenant l'etrosino. Lieutenant Joseph l'etrosino was chief of Ihe Italian bureau of the New York detectivo force. He was THE MOTORIST knows lli! convenience nnil lilcnsiin: of liaviiiL' it store where lie can tft't just, what lie wants in the wav of auto mobile accessories whenever lie wants it. We aim to have A- everything to supply large and small needi. C. E. Gates Auto Co. sent to Italy by the New York police department in tli spring of WOO and in March of that year was assassinat- K V ' m You -Are Sure 1 ICED POSTUM n IWTAHTJM1W -v.-j-Tir.-vrr-"" f4 This store will be closed all day Wednesday, July 4th. Will be open Tuesday, evening to accommodate the public. MARSH & BENNETT Wild West Show ASHLAND July 3-4-5 Uiickiii'ff Contests, Maverick Kaccs, Steer Riding, Steer l.iilldnggmK, Cowgirl Races, and many other special events. Wild horses from Eastern Oregon and Nevada. SPECIAL TRAIN FROM GRANTS PASS JULY 4th and 5th. 7:'J0 a. in. Lv. (iranis Pass, Ar. 7:'J0 n. m. Lv. (.rants Pass, Ar. 12::i0 a.m. 8:1.") a. in. Lv. Medl'ord, 11:10 p.m. 9:20 a. in. Ar. Ashland, Lv. 10::?0 p. m. Train stops at, intermediate stations. LOW ROUND TRIP FARES. On sale July 2, 4 tNid .r. liej urn Limit July 0,1017. Ask any Soul hern Pacific agent for information. John M. Scott, ( leu. Passr. Agt., Portland. SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES The Portland Hotel PORTLAND, OREGON Tho Rose City's world-famed hotel, occupying an cntiro block. All outside rooms. Superior dining and grill service. An atmosphere of refinement, with a service of courtesy. European Flan, $1.50 and Up RICHARD W. CHILDS, Manager cd at Palermo, Sicily. The murderers of Petrosiuo wero never brought to justice. of COOLING SATISFACTION with I ILII " popular home drink that t M II provides hot-day comfort of. the l'4 II rio-rit sort-.- ' ; Directions: Poatum made in tho usual way, chilled with ice. and served with sugar, and either a dash of lemon or cream to taste. AT guesu ia ibo city. lack of evidence.
