Cleveland County Enterprise (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 24, 1917 Page: 2 of 8
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SEVEN DAYS
OF NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
War News.
In a naval battle in the Adriatic
Sea fourteen British inJne sweepers,
known as drifters, were sunk by an
Austrian cruiser and destroyer fleet.
British, French and Italian cruisers
and destroyers went to the aid of the
drifters and subsequently the British
light cruiser Dartmouth According to
Vienna, the British cruiser was sunk,
but the admiralty says that it reached
port safely.
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The Italian troops were engaged in
fortifying the important position cap-
tured east of Gorlzia and organizing
communication with the rear. The en-
emy attempted, but completely failed,
to hinder the work.
4- 4- 4-
Austrian troops have strongly coun-
ter attacked the Italians in positions
they had gained in carrying out their
offensive movement. The enemy re-
action, however Was failed, the war
office announces. The prisoners taken
by the Italians now number 4,021.
Five additional small caliber guns have
been captured.
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A recent British official statement
says: "Our troops have completed the
capture of Bullecourt, taking some
sixty prisoners. The whole of the vil-
lage, for the possession of which con-
stant fighting has taken place since
Way 3, now is in our hands."
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The Germans have received a heavy
check north of the Scarpe river, where
In massed formation they stormed po-
sitions recently won by the British.
After a terrific bombardment lasting
a considerable time, the German in-
fantry came down the slopes of Green-
land Hill from the direction of I'lou-
vain. The attack was repulsed with
heavy losses.
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British tj-oops in Macedonia have
made an important advanoe on the
Dolran front and captured the village
of Kjapri on the Struma front, it is
announced officially.
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Further details concerning the fight-
ing at Bullecourt show that the Ger-
mans made a deliberate but unsuc-
cessful attempt by a series of strcng
and carefully concerted attacks, pow-
erfully supported by artillery and
trench mortar fire, to drive the Brit-
ish troops out of Bullecourt and the
section of the Hlndenburg line held
by them east of the village.
4* + +
An Austrian official communication
says that after three days' artillery
preparation an Italian attack was be-
gun gainst the Austrian Isonzo army
on a front of more than forty kilome-
ters. The communication says the at-
tacks were repulsed.
4- 4- 4-
Washington.
Colonel Roosevelt will not be per-
mitted to raise his volunteer expedi-
tion to carry the American flag
against the Germans in France. On
signing the War Army bill, President
Wilson issued a statement saying that,
acting under expert advice from both
sides of the water, he would be un-
able to avail himself at the present
stage of the war of the authorization
to organize volunteer divisions.
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President Wilson has ordered that a
division of regular troops commanded
by Major General John J. Pershing be
sent to France at the earliest prac-
ticable date. This is the answer of
Joseph Frank of Waterloo was
killed by a train at Twin Bridge, Just
north of Linden Heights, at noon the
other day. He was on guard duty at
the bridge. Frank, who was 19, gavo
his residence as Kansas City when ha
enlisted at Waterloo.
4-4-4-
The American steamship Hilonian
has been torpedoed and sunk off
Genoa, Italy, with a loss of four mem-
bers of the crew, according to a cable-
gram received in New York by the
owners, the Universal Transportation
Company.
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Two more regiments of infantry,
one regiment of cavalry, a regiment
of artillery, another hospital corps, a
brigade headquarters and various at-
tached units will be raised in Okla-
homa in the near future, according to
the announcement made by Adj. Gen.
Ancel Earp.
4- + +
The government is at present unable
to do anything further to relieve the
situation of Jews in Palestine, Presi-
dent Wilson recently told Judge Aaron
J. Lew of New York, who pictured
the situation there as very serious.
4- 4- 4-
Michael Lasso of Gary, Ind., wa
killed by a knife wound in the hear
when he and two other Austria
made insulting remarks about a
American flag hanging before the
home of Nicholas Uzalich, a natural-
ized Serb
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The New York agency of the Banco
di Napoli, Italy, has subscribed half
million dollars to the Liberty Loan, it
was announced recently. As far as is
known this is the first subscription
to the loan by a foreign institution.
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Southwest.
The largest government contract
ever awarded in Oklahoma, for one
million dollars, has been let to the
0
ARE FIRE SWEPT
PROPERTY LOSS IN SOUTH
METROPOLIS EXPECTED
TO REACH THREE MIL-
LION DOLLARS.
MANY ACRES OF HOMES
ABE DYNAMITED
In Effort To Check Further Spread of
the Flames—Losses Ranged From
Negro Shacks to the Homes
of the Wealthy People
of the City.
Atlanta.—Fire that started in a
storage plant near Decatur and Fort
streets swept north and northeast over
a large part of Atlanta's residence
section, but was brought under con-
trol just before it reached the At-
lanta baseball park.
Aproximately seventy-five blocks
were destroyed. The total loss is es-
timated by some persons at between
$2,000,000 and $3,000,000, but the fig-
ures are neither from official sources
nor based on calculations to give them
weight. Acres of what formerly bore
beautiful homes were laid waste by
dynamite used as a safeguard against
i further devastation.
Virtually Under Martial Law.
The city is virtually nder martial
law administered by hundreds of sol-
Stewart Construction Cprnpany of Ok- j diers who have been training at Fort
lahoma City, according to Superinten-
dent John Frederickson. The govern-
ment work is to be done at Fort Sill.
4- 4* +
Four men were burned terribly and
McPherson or national guardsmen in
; camp here.
! Thousands of homeless persons are
| being fed and housed in the auditor-
ium, armory, the negro Odd Fellows'
property valued at $75,000 destroyed | hall and in hundreds of private homes
by a fire which started in the Santa
Fe railroad yards at Gainesville, Tex.,
when a tank can containing casing
head gasoline exploded.
4- + 4-
Four more soldiers of the Third
Pennsylvania Infantry, on police duty
in the Pittsburgh district, were re-
moved from their camp at Port Perry,
Pa., to hospitals in Pittsburgh suffer-
ing from the effects of poison, while
military authorities and physicians in-
vestigated the death of Lieut. William
F. Corcoran of Philadelphia and the
illness of twelve other guardsmen.
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The Rev. George Washington Moon,
a former minister at Enid, Ok., plead-
ed guilty in district court to a charge
of bigamy and was sentenced to two
years in the state prison.
4- 4- 4-
An unconfirmed report that the
Villa leader, Jose Ynez Salazar, had
been killed In a duel was received in
El 1'a.so by both United States and
Mexican officials, it was said that
Salazar, who has been operating to the
southwest near the border, was killed
by Chico Cano, a Villa leader.
4- 4* 4*
First Lieut. Melchior McE. Eberts,
United States army aviation corps,
was killed by a fall with his airplane
in a flight at Columbus, N. M., recent-
ly. Capt. James L. Dunsworth, who
was in the machine with Lieutenant
Eberts, was injured but will recover,
his physician reported.
4- 4- +
Foreign.
The Argentine government has an
nounced a prohibition on the exporta-
tion of wheat. It was the government's
I STATEHOUSE BREVITIES j
Gas Company Is Assessed,
Despite pleas that the Oklahoma
Gas and Electric Company is doing
| rather a poor business, and that if
"the assessment was raised a dime
over that of last year," it would not
have money enough to operate, the
state board of equalization fixed the
j assessed valuation of the company at
$2,825,000, a raise of $325,000 over
| last year.
j The motion was made by Attorney
! General Freellng and seconded by W.
| L.' Alexander, state treasurer, after
| the board had voted on nearly every
j sum beginning with $2,226,000 on uj>
to $3,000,000. Members who favored
the Freeling motion were Alexander,
Freeling, Governor Williams and
Frank M. Gault.
! Fred Parkinson, state examiner and
inspector, favored putting the valua-
tion up considerably higher. He
j moved once to make It $4,500,00.
j Although Paul Relss, attorney for
the company, gave no such indication
| at the hearing, members of the board
predict that the company will pay tax-
es on this amount only under protest,
and will appeal to the supreme court,
j as it has on the 1915 and 1916 as-
[ Bessments.
| Other assessments fixed by the
j hoard involved three other Byllesbv
j concerns. The Muskogee Gas and
i Electric company was assessed at
$1,280,000; Sapulpa at $120,000, and
Enid at $300,000.
The Minensota Gas and Electric
company operating at Cushing, was
assessed at $75,000.
Common School Diplomas.
A total of 3,485 diplomas of gradu-
ation from the commit schools have
been issued at the office of R. H. Wll
son, state superintendent, up to date.
This does not include fuly half of the
counties, and with the graduates from
the second examination held last
week, it is estimated that the total for
the year will reach 12,000.
So far 305 diplomas from normal
training high schools have been is
sued, bringing the number issued
since the plan of normal training cred
its was begun two years ago, up to
738. It is thought that 800 certifi-
cates will be issued this year. Towns
which have the normal training
courses that have not yet reported
the list of graduates are: Chickasha.
•Cherokee, Elk City, El Reno, Geary.
Guthrie, Holdenville, Lindsay, Nor-
man, Oklahoma City Sulphur, Thom-
as. Tulsa, Tecumseh, Vinita, Phillips
university, Cameron School of Agricul-
ture, Panhandle School of Agricul-
ture, Muldrow and Marlow.
Lyon Defeated.
By virtue of the decision of the su-
preme court, J. L. Lyon, secretary of
state, will begin at once mailing out
accumulated notarial commissions,
the delivery of which has been a con-
tested point between the latter and
Governor Williams.
The court granted the peremptory
writ of mandamus aplied for by At-
torney General Freeling at the direc-
tion of the governor. The opinion
was written by Justice Owen, all mem-
bers of the court concuring.
The opinion closes a controversy
which began shortly after the gover
nor disapproved an appropriation for
some useless employes in the secre-
tary of state's office. Lyon claimed
his force was reduced so greatly that
The most of them saved only what
they could carry as household goods
piled up in the streets in advance of
the flames were devoured in the rush
of the conflagration.
For six hours dynamite was resort-
ed to and it finally won the fight Fire
fighting apparatus sent from other
cities was of some aid.
Only one death has been reported.
Mrs. Bessie Hodges died of shock af-
ter her home burned. Sixty injured
persons were taken to hospitals but
it was reported none was seriously
hurt. Approximately seventy-five
blocks were devastated. The destroy-
ed buildings range all the way from
shacks occupied by negroes to homes
up to $6,000 or $8,000.
Mayor Candler declared that At-
lanta could take care of its homeless
and that while the many offers of
outside help were appreciated, that
It would be unnecessary to take ad-
vantage of them.
The dynamiting began at Boulevard I
Placo at ahout four o'clock but the
fighters soon were driven back two
blocks to Ponce de Leon avenue
where the greatest effort was made.
Aided by the wide avenue and the
slowly dying wind, soldiers, firemen
and private citizens blew up blocks of he could not handle the clerical work
America to France's plea that the j second announcement of an embargo.
Stars and Stripes be carried to the
fighting front without delay
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Final action has been taken by Con-
gress on the War Army bill, the sec-
ond of the major measures of the war ;
The Senate, by a vote of 65 to 8, adopt-
ed the conferenre report already ac-
cepted by the House. Vice President
Marshall and Speaker Clark will sign
the bill and send it to the White House
for President Wilson's approval.
4- 4- 4-
The chief center of the army train
lng camps, by the War Department's
recent decision, will be located in the
new Southeastern Department under
Major General Wood
4. 4- £
The steamship Princess Irene, for-
merly a German mere bant man, was
seriously damaged by the fire which
broke out in the New York navy yard
in Brooklyn the other night, it has
been learned. The fire was the sec-
ond one at the yard within four days.
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Domestic.
Every person who paid an income
tax last year must pay this year one-
third of the 1916 amount, in addition
to new taxes, if (he Senate concurs
In House action taken the other day.
4- 4- 4-
The conference report on the army
bill has been adopted by the House
The first was held in abeyance
through protest of Great Britain.
4- 4. 4,
A number of Japanese warships
have arrived at Marseilles to aid In the
war on German submarines and con-
voy French merchantmen. If the ex-
periment has satisfactory results, it
will be extended.
4. 4. 4.
The Russian Council of Workmen's
and Soldiers' delegates has issued an
appeal to the Socialists of Germany
and Austria to prevent their troops
from being hurled against the West-
ern front in order to crush France.
4. 4. 4.
The Socialist leader, George Lede-
hour, declared in the Reichstag that
it was Impossible for Germany to win
a wai of subjuga'ion and expressed
the conviction that a revolution must
happen in Germane as it had happen-
ed in Russia. "We shall propose a
constitutional committee," he said, "to
take preparatory steps in introducing
a republic in Germany."
4. 4. 4.
The British admiralty recently an-
nounced the arrival of American de-
stroyers I11 British waters. Rear Ad-
miral Sims, I S N.. will command
j all naval forces In European waters.
4- 4- 4-
| Thirty-five enemy aliens are prison-
ers in the St Louis city jafl. Some
without a record vote after Represen- them live in Si Louis, and some in
tatlve Dent had announced the Senate
conferees had agreed to the House
provision increasing the pay of enlist-
ed men Final action must be taken
by the Senate.
4. 4. 4.
American consumers may have to
deny themselves canned beans and
canned soups of all kinds for a time,
under a decision of the war can com-
mittee which cuts off the supply of
cam) '.o packers of those foodit.
other parts of Missouri. The prison-
ers will be held a reasonable time to
gi- e them an opportunity to apply for
parole
4. 4. 4.
Eighteen British merchant vessels
of irorc than 1,600 Ions were sunk dur-
ing the past week, says the official
summary of shipping losses. Five
merchant vessels of less than 1,600
ton were sunk, together with three
fishing vessels.
houses. Once or twice a home on
the north side of the street would
catch fire, but for almost two hours
the sporadic outbreaks were stopped.
Move On Northeast.
Later, however, the flames gained
a foothold across the street, swept on
a block to Vedo Way and moved .on
in a northeasterly direction
Between Edgewood avenue and De-
catur street at the start of the fire,
the flames confined themselves to the
section between Boulevard Place and
Hilllard street At Edgewood they
moved eastward as far as Prospect
Place in spots, wiping out a block now
nnd then. Practically the entire sec-
tion bounded by Ililliara street on the
west, Prospect I'lace on the east,
Edgewood avenue on the south and
North avenue on the north, was laid
waste.
On North avenue. North Jackson
street became the western boundary
anil with a slight change in the wind
the fire moved steadily on in a north- !
easterly direction. It never got nearer
Peaclitree street, the main thorough-
fare of the city, than seven b'ocks, 1
although at times a momentary
charge of wind threatened in that di-
rection.
Other Towns Send Aid.
Fire departments at Chattenooga.
Macon, Augusta. Newman, Ga.. Mari-
etta. Ga., and Griffin, Ga.. were asked
to send aid. Fort McPherson wits
called upon for all the men that could
bo spared; business houses were
I'sked to send trucks to haul extra
hose and any other s'tpp'fes, and
private automobiles were offered by
the score.
New Merchant Submarine.
Philadelphia. - - The Philadelphia
Press publishes a story to the effect
that "America his found the perfect
answer to tre German submarine ter-
ror It is said to be a merchant
submarine standardized at about 7.500
tons or 8 000 tons dead weight, of
such sliced thnt It can. even when
■ubmerged. easily elude any surface
pursuer and Is non sinkable
of the commissions, and that this was
the governor's work.
Fire Loss Decreases.
Results of the cleanup agitation
which C. C. Hammonds, state fire
marshal, has been making for the past
month, seem apparent in the report on
fire losses for April shows the damage
to be approximately $160,000 less than
It was in March.
Only one fire of supposedly incen-
diary origin occurred in April, in-
volving a loss of $15. This is the low-
est figure in damage for fires of in-
Guard Still Needs Men.
Recruiting of the three national
guai;d units yet under war strength
which have not been called into fed-
eral service will be started at once,
according to Adjutant General Earp,
who has received such instructions
from the war department.
There are five units not in federal
service, but Troop B, cavalty, has its
war quota of 105 men and the field
hospital corps is up to its full strength
of 73 men.
The three units, whi:h are to be
recruited up and the number of men
needed are: Troop A, cavalry, Oke-
mah, 28 men; Troop It, cavalry, Paw-
huska, 22 men; ambulance corps.
Tulsa, 71 men. The ambulance corps
at full strength is 150 men.
Under the direction of Cap. W. D.
Murchison, three recruiting parties
will be sent out this week to secure
the required number of men. The
parties will be commanded respec-
tively by Lieut. Arthur Matheny,
Company P; Lieut. Ben Chastaine,
Co. C, and Lieut. Paul Brewer, Co. A.
Each party will be accompanied by a
sergeant, a corporal and a private.
No authorization has been received
by General Earp to recruit the in-
fantry to war strength, as the author-
ization received applied only to the
units not in federal service. It would
require about 900 men to fill up the
infantry.
Banks Responsible For Forgery.
A bank upon which a depositor
draws a check is charged with knowl-
edge of the depositor's signature, and
where the signature is forged or made
without the authority of the person
whose signature It purports to be, it is
wholly inoperative and no ri^ht to en-
force payment can be acquired through
such signature.
This question arose in the supreme
court on the appeal of Louis Maur-
miar from the superior court of Tulsa
county. The court reversed the lower
court's decision. Maurmair had sued
the National Bank of Commerce of
Tulsa for $1,170.30 which he had de-
posited. The bank in replying to the
suit stated that all but $130.30 had
been checked out.
Maurmair showed that the checks
drawn against his account had b^en
forged by someone's tracing his sig-
nature with carbon paper. The su-
perior court.
Loan Receipts Not Security.
Interim receipts showing that banks
have subscribed to the liberty loan will
not be accepted by the state as secur-
ity for deposits of state money.
This was the opinion given W. L.
Alexander, state treasurer, by the at-
torney general. An Oklahoma City
bank which is a depository for state
money has subscribed for $105,000
of the war bonds and has a receipt
signed by the federal reserve bank of
Kansas City, which is transferrable.
The bonds have not been received and
the bank sought to put up the receipts.
The attorney general stated that no
provision has been made in Oklahoma
statutes for the acceptance of such se-
curity. Senate bill 315, passed by the
Sixth legislature, provided for the ac
ceptance of federal farm loan bonds
as security for deposits, but no men-
tion was made of receipts of subscrip-
tion.
Why Guard Doesn't Fill Up.
Adjutant General Earp has returned
from an extended recruiting trip
through the state. He says recruiting
is good, and many new men are being
enlisted every day. Still, he com-
plains, the first regiment is nearly 200
men shy. And this is why:
Almost as fast as the new men are
being sent to For Sill others are being
dismissed—those that have depend-
ents. Therefore, Earp says, there's
little chance to get the regiment re-
cruited up until the family men now in
the regiment are all replaced by new
men. He figures it will still take an-i
other couple of hundred or more 10
bring the regiment up to peace
strength.
Life Sentence Confirmed.
Life sentence given Robert Allen by
the superior court of Oklahoma coun-
CLAUDE RAY, B00KEEPER,
ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF
EMBEZZLEMENT.
cendiary origin ever reported in any . {y un(Jer Judge OIdfieW in 1915i was
one month in the state. j aflirmed by the criminal court of ap
peals Allen was convicted of killing | fj,
P. B. McRcynoIds. a clerk for the De- j,,.r of entries were
Holt Lumber Company, in October. ! r:ied rings, which
The total fire loss for April was
$129,939. Af this, $77,416 was the loss
to buildings and $52,522 loss in con-
tents.
Careless smokers were responsible
(or $7,261 of the total losses; oil, gas
or gasoline explosions for $31,993;
children and matches, $472; lightning,
$1,770; adojining fires, $2,lu5.
An Oil Pipe Line To Oklahoma City.
The first oil pipe line Oklahoma
City has ever had will be extended
from the Ponca City field to the plant
of the Oklahoma Refining Company
here within three months. The re-
finery here was recently taken over
by the Doherty people under the name
of the Empire Refineries, incorpor
ated.
The company will begin at once en-
larging the refinery here from its
present capacity of 2,500 barrels daily
to a 4,000-barrel capacity. The pipe
line, which will he eight inches in
size, will be able to deliver 25,000
barrels of crude each day.
Usury Decision Affirmed.
The supreme court ruled on another
controversy arising out of the collec-
tion of usurious interest. The decision
of the lower court In the case in find-
ing for the plaintiff In the suit to recov-
er was affirmed. The original action
was brought by Kent Strahan and
j Maud Strahan against the Citizens'
| State bank of Fort Gibson. The plain-
tiffs secured judgment for $773.16
HAD BEEN LIVING TOO HIGH
On Preliminary Hearing He Pleadt
Guilty and Is Held Under Five
Thousand Dollars Bond For
Further Action.
Oklahoma City.—Claude Ray, book-
keeper in the sales division of the
state school land department has
been arrested and placed in the Okla-
homa county jail, on a confessed
shortage of $18,000.
Ray, who has been employed by th#
department since shortly after state-
hood, according to his own confes-
sion to the school land commission-
ers, has embezzled a sum of money
which may run as high as $18,000.
Ray was arrested on a charge of
grand larceny in the sum of $1,00^.
The warrant was issued by T. F Don-
nell, justice of the peace. A plea of
guilty was entered at the arraign-
ment and bond was fixed at $5,000.
Ray has been married less than a.
year. He was described by A M.
McKinney, secretary of the school
land department,' as one of the hard-
est workers in the entire department..
His salary was $125 a month
State Protected.
The state is protected fully by
bonding companies, the commission-
! ers said. Immediately after the ar-
] rest was ordered, the surety com-
| panies were notified Ray has given
I three $5,000 bonds to the state
[ The warrant served on Ray by
I Sheriff Johnson was attested to by
j Fred Parkinson, state examiner and
! inspector. Commissioners stated that
the amount of $1,000 was preferred
on this first charge technically V
j hold Ray until a complete check of
j the books can be made.
: The history of the defalcation dates
i back to an indefinite time, which the
first examination by Colin Valentine,
deputy state examiner and inspector,
has not disclosed. Ray had charge
of what was known as the improve-
ment fund.
The suspicions of Mr McKinney,
new secretary of the department,
were aroused because of apparent ex-
travagances of Ray. shortly after Mc-
Kinney took office May 1.
Improvement Funds Involved.
The improvement fund consisted of
money put up by purchasers of school
land for improvements on the land
when it was put up for sale Most of
the money Ray is accused to taking
had reverted to the state because of
lapses in payment on the land.
Where the lessee of state land
about to be sold had no preference
right, he was allowed the appraised
value of the improvements he had
put on This value was paid by the
purchaser of the land Money for
this was sent in to the department
by the sales force and found its way
into Ray's department.
Instead of putting tliis money into
the state depository, as an act of the
1915 legislature required, Ray kept
this improvement account in banks i
this city.
Loaned Money to Employes.
Ray's expenaitures recently have
taken the form of the purchase of a
new house and the building of a gar-
age. evidently in preparation for the
purchase of an automobile. He has
loaned money to his fellow employes,
according to them One employ"
staled that at the time of the arrest
he owed Ray $917.50 Another repaid
last week a loan of $170
That he was keeping a partial check
of the amounts abstracted from the
improvement fund was indicated by
aminntion of his books A num-
inc'osed in pen-
Dn check were
The craft, the Invention of Simon I The supreme court in deciding on the
I.oke, Is capable of submerging In appeal refus rl to examine the record
half a minutes The first one may be
turned out in four months
us to the correetnes
he verdict.
el the amount I11
1915. The killing was the result of a i
drunken braw in an Oklahoma City j
restaurant. The criminal court re- ;
versed the decision of the Seminole
county district court in the case of 1
Tom Thomas, sentenced to life im-
prisonment for the murder of George
Ga'nmill.
Memorial Commission Named.
Three members of the Confederate
Memorial Commission, created by the
Sixth legislature, were appoi ted by j
Governor Williams. Mrs. Jewel Hicks, |
of Durant, was appointed chairman;
and the other two members are It. B.
Coleman, McAlester and J. G. Mc-
Combs, Sallisaw. The commission Is 1
to locate the burial places of the Con- j
federate dead of the state, to learn
the cost of purchasing the burial sites
where not located in public cemeteries,
and to report these facts to the Sev-
enth legislature.
Arrested for Arson.
Charles Berger, formerly manager of
the water department of the Medford,
Okla., Light and Water Company, was
arrested in Medford charged with Ar-
son, according to W. T. McConnell, as-
sistant fire marshal. Ilerger is alleged
to have set fire to a house in which he
was living. McConnell said that the
purpose of the first was to get rid of
records of the water department. Mr.
McConnell stated that it will be charg-
ed that Berger destroyed the records
before a newly elected city council
could check them up.
found to be missing
LOAN SUBSCRIPTIONS SLOW
Being Over-
Bond Issue
Far From
Subscribed.
Washington. — Representatives of
federal reserve banks and treasury of-
ficials in direct charge of floating
the liberty loan are unanimous in the
opinion that a tremendous campaign
must be successfully carried 011 within
the next twenty-seven days if the lib-
erty loan is to meet with the oversub-
scription officials hope for
Predictions that the big issue would
be oversubscribed several hundred
per cent, based on first returns or esti-
mates by banks as to the probable
amount they and their customers
would take, have not materialized.
British Capture Fleet of U Boats.
Portsmouth, N H— In shipping cir-
claes a report was current that the
British had captured a flotilla of Ger-
man submarines bound on a hostile
mission to American shores The seiz-
ure was said to have taken place early
In April, but the place of the capture
or means by which it was done was
not revealed. The report was said to
have come from an officer of a trans-
Atlantlc ship, who was said to have
heard of it from sources in touch with
the Briti l admiralty.
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Fox, J. O. Cleveland County Enterprise (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 24, 1917, newspaper, May 24, 1917; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc108627/m1/2/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.