Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 9, 1918, Page 5

MONDAY, DECEMBER, 9, 1819 CONTINUED NAVAL EXPANSION URGED UPON NATION BY ADOPTION OF THREE-YEAR BUILDING PROGRAM Would Provide 156 Additional Vessels, Declares Secretary Daniels in An- nnual Report of War Activities [By Associated Press] WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—With a story of brilliant achieve- ments of the American navy in the war, Secretary Daniels couples, in his annual report made public today, an urgent recommendation for continued naval expansion to meet the demands of peace for national and international, work on sea. Thru nearly all of 144 printed pages the secretary tells in brief phrases of the navy’s part! = ee in the fighting of these highly mo- bile weapons with a range of 30 miles, the report says, adding: “Briefly, the American navy has designed, built, and is now manning with bluejackets specially trained for land service, the largest and most high-powered mobile land artillery in the world. So successful have these | guns been that additional orders for many more were requestéd before the armistice.” EQUIPMENT PERFECTED BY AMERICAN INGENUITY | The depth bomb has proven the |most effective means of combatting THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE tleship, the New Mexico. Despite ad- verse criticism. which met the de- termination to employ this mechgn- ism on battle craft, the report says, the New Mexico has not only met! every requirement but has passed many additional tests with the result that “in this unique vessel, the United States navy has a battleship which has no peer in the world’s navies, not only for economic. propulsion and less liability ‘to serious derangement, but her military superiority in greater maneuvering power and increased un- derwater protection.” Credit is given to Admiral Griffin, engineer-in-chief of the navy, for this accomplishment. CONTRACTS FOR YEAR TO PROVIDE BIG FLEET The report shows that four battle- khips one battlo cruiser, two fuel ships, one transport, one gunboat, one ammunition ship, 223 destroyers, 58 submarines, 112 fabricated patrol boats (Eagles) including 12 for the in the war, of the doing of seemingly impossible thru teamwork. He speaks of the mighty accomplishment of transporting two million men to France, without, the loss of an east- bound troop ship thru enemy action, and he devotes a graphic pter to! the Marine Brigade, which'as all; the, world knows blocked the last Prussian advance on Paris, and start- ed the German retreat that ended with the war. This reference to the future con- cludes the report: “The day is not far distant when the world will witness an end of com- petitive building between nations of mighty weapons of war. In the peace treaty there will undoubtedly be in- corporated President Wilson’s pro- posal for a reduction of armament ‘to the lowest point consistent with domestie safety.’ WILL NEED NAVY TO POLICE THE WORLD “Navies -will still be needed as an international police force to compel compliance with the decree of an international tribunal. which will be set up to decide“differences between tions. Naval vessels will have larg peace tasks of survey and discovery} and protection in addition to police juty of an international as well as of a national character. “Inasntuch as the Unfted States is the richest of the great nations and has suffered less in. the war than of the Allied powers ,it will de- lve upon this country to’ make a contribution to the navy to preserve | the peace of the world commensu- rate with its wealth, its commerce, its growing and expanding merchant marine, and its leadership in the council of free people. It is there-+ fore, our duty now, not, indeed, to enter upon any new and ambitious + naval program, but to go forward teadily upon the lines of naval in-} se to which the'country commit- led Ttself-hy the adoption three years ago of the first far-reaching con- iructive naval program in the his- tosy of the republic. I have recommended to this con-| ‘s the adoption of another three- program ‘substantially like the) one authorized in 1915. - But the vic- tory. of the Allies and the United | States should, and will I sincerely | trust, within a few years make it no! longer necessary for any nation un- der whip and spur to burden its tax- peyers to undertake to build, in com- | petitive construction, bigger fighting ships and more of them than any other nation can construct.” . Mr. Daniels shows that the new $600,000,000, three-year building program he has proposed will pro- vide 156 additional naval ships, ten of them dreadnaughts and six battle- sers, and-the others to be in such distribution of approved types as the department may deem best. NAVAL ARM EFFECTIVE AT OUTSET OF Taking up his story of the navy and the war, the secretary declares | the Bervice was “ready from stem to stern” when the United States en- tered the conflict. From the day when the first- three-y program was adopted in 1916, he adds ‘‘con- gress has given everything that could be desired to insure the effectiveness of the naval arm.” Teamwork had been the navy’s slo- | gan for fiye years, and it continued | to be the war motto both at home and abroad. The striking success of the navy is ascribed to this fact by Mr. Danjels, who continues: “Apparently there have been times when a secretary of the navy seemed to find frictiog and lack of coopera-) tion among the officers around him. If that spirit ever existed in the U. S. navy, I can state with confidence and pride that there is now no ves- tige of it, and I firmly believe, from my experience, not only during the last year but during the five years preceding,-it willmever return.” VICE ADMIRAL SIMS TO BE PROMOTED FOR SERVICE The report shows that Vice Ad- miral Sims, who was on his way to! London ,as head of the American naval establishment in the war zones even before war was declared, is soon to be named full admiral. by the president in recognition of his ser- vices, the high character of which the secretary says it is yet too early to give proper place. The sending of Admiral Sims was the first step in a program of Which the secretary The outstanding accomplishment of the navy abroad in this war, out- side of rigorous and valorous service in the danger zone, has been the character and degree of cooperation and practical consolidation for the time being of our services with those services with which we have been as- sociated. The navy, beginning with the arrival of the first ship abroad, has stood out for unity of command, | even tho this in some instances in- volved sacrificing temporarily gome- thing of our identity as an indepen- y | the submarines, the report states, and jit shows that American enterprise easy task. It is believed to be a safe) WS Tesponsible for very largely in- statement that the'degree of accom-| creasing that effectiveness. The early plishment of our service in this re-|50-pound charge bombs were crude spect is without precedent in Allied | and of low destructive force com- warfare.” | pared tothe 800-pound and 600- 626,000 MILES PER . | pound charges now being produced. MONTH ARE COVERED Many Allied ships have been equip- dent service, This has not been an cha: As conerete evidence of what was| Ped with these American improve-| #* fixed by the ace i ’ ments. 8, 1918. Sugar accomplished, the report shows that 2 thai they want, On October 1, there were 338 United Another ordnance development States naval ships abroad with 5,000 that is noted is the perfection of 16- officers and 70,000 enlisted men, or inch rifles for all new battleships. a greater force than the total They will make these vessels, it is strength of the navy when war was. *2id, the heaviest armed craft in the | declared; while the American fight-)W°Tld with a broadside projectile ing craft has teamed an average of | weight of 25,200 pounds against 17,- 626,000 miles per month in the war| 508 pounds for the Pennsylvania, the zone. This did not include the cruis-| bigest and most powerful craft now ers and battleships on ‘escort duty. | ‘7 gommission. 3 Of the first destroyers to go over the) _ The report emphasizes also,in the Porter steamed 64,473 miles, the Tecord of small arms training during Connygham 63,952, and the Davis the year, 40,000,000 rounds having | 63,018 been fired without an accident due The major naval operation of thet @@relessness. Since last July the war so far as the United States, is| D4V¥ has qualified 54,147 marksmen, concerned is given as the convoying Big eo pele and 11,687 ex- ef more than 2,000,000 troops to| P® en. Europe without the loss by enemy ac-1 ALL COMBAT SHIPS tion of a single eastbound transport. CARR LANDING ROnCE, ; This accomplishmént, the report says,| Today,” the report says, “practi- | will stand-as a monument to both the | lly every combatant ship is able army and the navy as*“the greatest to orgenize “y landing force of fe and most difficult troop tfansporting ™#ny Men 4s it can send ashore, with effort which has ever been conducted ¢Y¢TY man a trained rifleman and neross sens. Up to November 1, it ™#"¥ of them trained machine gun- s shown, 924,578 troops had been ?* 3 5 carried to France in Amerigan trans- To Capt. E. P. Jessop, engineering | 0} ports under American convoy with officer, at New, York navy yard, the no losses outward bound and only T¢Port gives credit for having recom- | three vessels sunk on the road home, ™¢nded the revolutionary practice of From November 1 to the date of the| ‘lecttic welding when repair of the report, there had been 289 additional 44™azed German shipping was un- Ww Oa c Ev Italian government, Price list of com v " 92 submarine sers, including 50 for France, 51 mine speepers, and and harbor c: during the ene gunb marines, aft were contracted for ar. 3 destroyers, 29 sub- e sweepers, and four Eagles had been launched. Addi- tions to the navy during the year in- cluded t 36 ,destroy- ers, 28 submarines, 355 submarine chasers, an? 13 mine sweepets. The actual number of 110-foot chasers now in commission, including those delivered to France. 406 Discussin the navy’s accounting system, etary Daniels says $11,- 000,000 w saved during the year by ation of costs in fixed- price contracts and control over the cost-plus agreements. He commends highly the work of Rear Admiral Mc- 1 and head aecou bureau, e opinion “the eived and -is receiving ery dollar expended.” The re FAIR PRICE %. Market on instances of pro: ld be reported to F. yoming. ing, R. ———— COMMODITY ter and exex knve ort also pays tribute to the patriotic cooperation the department ja endi saturday, December 1918, ting held Sanday, in foogs Natrona Coun- sumer uld Pay Low High Low High Price Price Price Price heat Flour, 24-1b bs + 48-1b. Flour, bulk lour, per 10-ib. bs 24-Ib. bag al, 24 Bread, per tmeal or rolled ¢ neal or raed oat granulate: white, navy or p colored, pinto, et toes, white or Irish 10N8, (PRED «= 005.5 csese Isins, seeded, per 11-02. pk isins, seeded, per 15-o0z. pk ndard grad (not lima) Ibe... er Ib. ¥ aporated m 16-02 can rd, rd, pure, in |, Pure, medium, ; pure, It , pure, sma , pure, med = sailings of American troop and spp- dertaken. Careful estimates have ply ships, the average being about oné ship every five hours. MARINES COME IN FOR SHARE OFFICIAL PRAISE Writing with pride of the record of the marine brigade in France, the sec- retdry.shows that with only 8,000 men-of-the corps engaged, the cas- ualties numbered 69 offigers and 1,531 men dead, 78 officers and 2,435 seriously wounded, ile °57 marines are reported officially as captured by the enemy, illustrating the desperate character of the fight-| ing in which the brigade participated and the fact that it was always ad- vancing. “To the Unit@d States Marines,” Mr. Daniels says, “fighting side by side with equally brave and equally courageous men in the American army, to that faithful sea and land force of the navy, fell the honor of ' taking over the lines where the blow of the Prussian would strike the hard- est, the line that was nearest Paris and where, should a breach occur, all would be lost. . “The world knows today that the United States Marines held that line; that they blocked the advance that s rolling on toward Paris at,a rate of and with American heroism; that the marines and soldiers of the American army threw back the crack guard and divisions of Germany, broke their ad- fonolains 2 ee Bet are the ls vance, and then, attacking, drove Take one ‘two nightly for a Kc. | them back in the beginning of a re- treat that was not to end until the , ix or seven miles a day; that they a Hay met the attack in American fashion wi ive oil; you shown that this one innovation saved 12 months in time and $20,000,000 in money, while the ships thus made quickly available carried half a mil- lion soldiers to France. 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There,| store, and called “Pleasant Purga-| is le je \s ie to your satisfaction and at small cost to you ' with bayonet as his only weapon, he’ tive Pellets.” iF would either kill or capture the de- If a bad cold develops, go to bed, fenders of the nest, and then swing-| wrap up, drink freely of hot lemon- ing the gun about in its position, turn | ade and take a hot mustard foot-bath. it against remaining German posi- | Have the bedroom warm but well tions in the forest. " ventilated. Obtain at the nearést drug “In all the history of the Marine store “Anuric Tablets” to flush the| Corps there is no such battle as that| kidneys and control the pains andj} one in Belleau wood. The heroism|aches. Take an “Anuric’’ tablet and doggedness of that battle are un-/ every two hours, together with cop-| paralleled.” ious drinks of lemonade. 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In addition, when relations between capital and labor appeared to have reached critical stages at times during the tush of war work, the trades at the navy yards addressed resolutions to he department ‘so clearly defining their belief that the duty of all loyal lay in securing maximum production, without regard sired with a willingness to leave the! t® Selfish considreation of personal question of profits to the govern- betterment as to have no slight ef- ment, putting their plants and re- fect in bi both sides in con- sources at the government’s dis- troversies going on outside the yards posal.” to a realization of the need of for- Labor has shown its loyal, the report continues, and orkmen at the yards have many times refused ——_____ getting their disputes.” (Continued on Page Seven) Best Prices For Furs The demand for raw furs this season is greater than ever before and we would like the privilegeof figuring with you on your pelts and furs. 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