The Lexington Leader (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, September 6, 1918 Page: 2 of 8
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THE LEXINGTON LEADER
TULSA'S NEW CONVENTION HALL
ICONGRESSWOMAN RANKIN BEAT
I IN HER RACE FOR THE U. S..
SENATE
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GET THEIR QUOTA
ALL ASSESSMENTS WILL BE
MADE ON AMOUNT ABLE
TO PURCHASE.
SELL 4TH BONDS ON NEW BASIS
The Card System Was Decided Upon
for Oklahoma at the Meeting
of Executives of New
Campaign
The fourth Liberty loan drive in Ok-
lahoma will be made on the so-called
bard basis, each individual being as-
signed the amount of bonds he Bhould •
purchase according to his financial
ability and taking Into consideration
previous investments in various war
activities.
This important decision, bearing up-
on the conduct of the campaign which
was reached at a conference of heads
of the state organization several lays
ago, was announced yesterday at the
meeting here ot district and county
chairmen of the third, seventh and
eighth Liberty loan districts, and ten-
tative plans for puting the ne\y system
Into effect were discussed.
The card system is not altogether
new in Oklahoma. It was put Into
effect In certain localities during the
third Liberty loan campaign, but as
a statewide proposition It is a pioneer
In Oklahoma war drives. It has been
tried in other states, notably Minne-
sota, and the results obtained there
and elsewhere furnished the chief
recommendation for its adoption here.
As outlined by L. E. Phillips, state
chairman of the Liberty loan cam-
paign, the present plan contemplates
r.sBignment of the individual quotas by
advisory boards to work In close co-
operation with the county campaign
committees.
Quotas To Be Assigned.
The quota for the state will be fixed
at Washington and forwarded *o the
state committee, which will notify the
various counties of the amount they
are expected to buy. It then devolves
upon the county to assign quotas by
school districts, or whatever unit of
division is followed, some countics tak-
ii.g tlie towaship rather than the
school district as the basis ia fixing
quotas.
Once the quota is fixed for each sub- j
division of a county the assignment of
quotas to individuals will be made.
While It has not been announced yet, \
It Is considered certain that the or- j
ganization plan will provide some j
'nethod of appeal for individuals wh'i
may be aggrieved at the quota assign-
ed to them. Minute details of the gen-
eral scheme are yet to be worked out.
U. S. GETS THIRD OF GAS
Government Needs Will Be Supplied;
Motorless Sunday Is
Proposed.
Chicago.—One-third of all the gaso-
line produced in the Mid-contnen: field
in the next three months is to be
turned over to the government for
war purposes, according to an agree-
ment reached at a conference between
government officials and western re-
finers and pobbers.
The meeting was presided over by
R. L. Welch of Kansas City, secretary
of the Western Refiners' association.
He told the members the government
wished to devise some way to deliver
th specified amount of gasoline, th
actual number ot gallons, running into
many millions, being withheld.
"I move that this meeting immedi-
ately wire the administration at Wash-
ington that this or any other quantity
of gasoline wanted from the Mid-con-
tinent, field will be supplied,"
Amid cheers the motion was unani-
mously carried. It means the gov-
ernment will get every gallon it wants
before anyone else is supplied. If
there is plenty left, the public can
have plenty.
The oil men agreed that for the pres-
ent It will be unnecessary to extend
the motorless Sunday rule west of the
Mississippi.
SENATOR OLLIE JAMES DEAD
Distinguished Democrat Had Been III
in Hospital for Months
Baltimore.—Senator OUie M. James,
of Kentucky, died at Johns Hopkins
hospital of an acute affection of the
kidneys. Senator James had been a
patient at the hospital for about three
Senator James.
months. Physicians at first believed
that he had a good chance to regain
his health and an operation was per-
formed. Later his condition became
more serious and transfusion of blood
was made on several occasions.
Among the younger leaders of the
democratic party few have risen to
greater prominence than Ollie M.
James. He has been a member >|f
the house or senate continuously
since 1903. He was six feet four
Inche* high, weighed three hundred
pounds and had an immense head,
entirely bald, which made him a con-
spicuous figure in Washington.
Bolsheviki Flee Before Allies.
London.—On the Ussuri front north
of Vladivostok, the bolsheviki have
retired six miles before a general
advance by all the allied forces.
U. S. TROOPS FIGHT MEXICANS
NOGALES SCENE OF SAN-
GUINARY BATTLE
Effort To Smuggle Mexican Across
Border Results In Many
Deaths.
Nogales, Ariz.—Two Americans are
killed, twenty-nine wounded and more
than 500 American troops were en-
gaged for one and one half houis on
the border here during a skirmish be-
tween American troops and Mexicans.
Capt. J. D. Hungerford was killed
in action.
C.orpl. Barney Lotz was also killed.
Gaston Keddock, customs guard, re-
ceived wounds from which be later
died.
While the casualties on the Mexican
side of the border were not known, it
was estimated that 100 '.ad been
killed by fire from the American side
while at least twice this number, in-
cluding a number of civilians, were
wounded. It was reported that the
mayor of Nogales, Sonora, was killed
but this was not confirmed.
The fighting followed the Illegal
efforts of a Mexican custom official to
smuggle a fellow countryman across
the boundary into the United States.
An American sentry attempted to stop
him. Two Mexicans fired at the sen-
try across the street, striking him in
the fight arm. The fire was returned
by American patrols and after Mexi-
cans had rushed from nearby build-
ings and started shooting across the
line from behind buildings and walls,
the firing became general.
Reinforcements from .an infantry
regiment and a negro cavalry regi-
ment were rushed to the border and
took up combat positions. It was esti-
mated more than 300 American sold-
iers and at least fifty civilians par-
ticipated in the shooting.
FROM 18 TO 45
REGISTER SEPT. 12
PRESIDENT WILSON SETS
ABOVE DATE FOR ALL
ELIGIBLES
13 MILLION MEN TO RESPOND
From 7 A. M. to 9 P. M. Will Be the
Hours of Registration, All Offi-
cials Are Called To Make
Arrangements.
Washington.—Thursday, Syptembei
12, was set by President Wilson as the
date for registration for the army
draft of all men in the United States
between the ages of 18 and 45, inclu-
sive, who have not already registered
or who are not now in the military ot
naval service.
In a proclamation issued Immediate-
ly after he signed the man-power^bill
authorizing extension of the 21-31
year draft ages, the president called
on the younger and older meh to en-
roll on that day with local draft boards
An official estimate by the war de-
partment places the number ot men
who will register ,for military service
on September 12 at approximately
12,778,758. This is An the basis of the
ast census and the figures, in the op-
inion of officers, may be exceeded.
The hours of registration will be
from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. and all state
and local officials are called on to maks
immediate arrangements for mainten-
ance of registration places on that
day .
All Must Register.
All men within the new ages, wheth-
er citizens of the- United States or not
must register, unless they are diplo-
matic or consular representatives of
foreign nations.
In case of illness on the registration
day, arrangements for tardy enrol-
ment may be made with local boards
and men who expect to be absent from
their homes may register by mail, suf-
ficiently in advance that the registra-
tion record reaches the board by Sep-
tember 12. If a man has no permanent
residence he is to register at the place
he is on September 12 and those out
of the country on that day are requir-
ed to enroll within five days after
their return.
At least 13,000,000 men will place
themselves subject to call for war
service under the new registration, It
is estimated, although only those
without dependants, in good health
and otherwise qualified for arduous
duties of soldier life are to be taken
first.
Those men in their eighteenth year
will be placed in a separate group, the
war department has announced, to fee
subject to a special educational pro-
gram, and will no be called until the
supply of other available men in the
new classes is exhausted.
This does not mean that their call-
ing will be long deferred, however, in-
asmuch as it has been announced that
all men in the new registration accept-
ed for general service vnl be under
arms by June 30, 1919. The man-power
bill makes no specific provision for
separate classification of 18-yjar-old
boys and war department plans for
their treatment have been made
Although the work-or-fight clause,
which would have affected striking
workmen, was taken out of the bill be
fore passage, Provost Marshal Gen-
eral Crowder has planned to applv vig-
orously existing regulations relating
to Idle men or those engaged in non-
essential employment to the newly-
registered men.
Attempts to evade registration on
September 12 by men made subject
to the military draft liy the manpower
bill fixing the draft age limits at 18
and 45 will be hopeless. Provost Mar-
shal General Crowder's office assured,
in summarizing the government's ex-
perience with the draft to date. Be-
tween 20,000 and 25,000 men failed to
register in 1917. Measures to catch
delinquents have improved with ex-
perience. Imprisonment and ^trfeit-
ure of exemption rights immediately
develops upon wilful slackers, the
statement says.
HINDENBURG LINE TOTTER-
ING UNDER ASSAULT
BY ALLIES
QUEANT FRONT IS SHATTERED
Foe Losing Thousands ot Prisoners;
| Americans Gain Bethume-Soissons
Road, Cutting Way Through
Acres of Barbed Wire.
j With the French Army in France.—
Huge fires which were seen in the
Soissons, Indicated that the enemy
I was burning his supplies. There is
! said to be nothing else inflamable
I In that region.
Successes completed the conquest
of the Soissons plateau, which will
j compel the Germans to retire to the
| Chemin des Dames, which itself iB
i menaced by the French advance to-
j ward Vauxaillon.
French troops are continuing their
J advance east of Crecy-au-Mont and
J Juvigny and have occupied Leuilly
and Terny-Sorny, northeast of Sols-
I sons, according to the war office an-
nouncement.
With the Americans Army in
j France.—The American troops reached
j the 'Embankments of the Bethune-
[ Sossions roadway by literally cutting
their way through acre after acre
] of barbed wire—the work of two
j great armies. In gaining the road
the Americans passed over great open
J places consisting of an immense net-
work of wire.
Over a front of thirty miles from
the region of Arras to Perome, Field
Marshal Haig's forces have literally
smashed the German front. The
southern portion of the famous Dro-
court-Queant switch line which has
been heralded as the impregnable
bulwark of the German defense in
the north, has given way under the
violence of the British onslaught over
its entire front from the Scrape river
to Queant, a distance of virtually ten
miles, saw the Canadian and British
troops who carried out the maneuver
hard after the defeated enemy some
three miles to the eastward.
Thousands of prisoners have been
taken from the strongly resisting
enemy, who at last accounts was
fighting violently as he gave ground
toward the Canal du Nord.
Hindenburg Line Turned.
By this victory seemingly is ended
the menace of the Hindenburg line
to the south, which the British are
gradually approaching over its entire
front. Already thorougly outflanked
on the north and with the French
well upon its southern base, military
necessity apparently will require that
the Germans relinquish the Hinden-
burg fortifications and re-al dlmmt
front from Flanders to Rheims in
ordered to avert disaster at the hands
of their now swiftly moving antagon-
ists.
Already the road to Douai, Cam-
brail and St. Queintin are thoroughly
Investd by the British and French
armies, while north of Soissons the
French and Americans are in posi-
tions of advantage from which to
carry out turning movements which
will outflank Laon and the Chemin
des Dames and Aisne lines. The
situation of the enemy, vie ed from
the war maps, is the most perilous
he has yet been in.
Flanders Advance Menacing.
Added to the troubles of the Ger-
man high command is the situation
that is fast developing in Flanders,
in the region around Yjres, where
the Germans daily are being forced
out of their positions by the British
and American troops. All over this
sector steady progress is being made
eastward in the blotting out of the
salient that has long existed there.
The Americans, who took Voormezeele
Sunday, now are well into the region
east of the town, having overcome
the strong resistance of the Germans
who endeavored to bar their way.
A few more strides by Haig's men
iiw this region and Armetieres will
be within striking distance. After
Arm'entieres it is but a step to
Lille.
Hard fighting has been in progress
between the British and Germans
around Peronne, where the Austral-
ians successfully withstood violent
attacks and have taken several thous-
and prisoners. Between Peronne and
Bapaume the Germans also have im-
posed strong oppossition to the Brit-
ish, but the St. Pierre Vasst wood,
Le Transloy and Allaines and Haut-
Allaines all have been successfully
carried.
Allied gains north of Soissons, if
they are continued, seemingly cannot
but result in the enemy withdrawing
northward from the VeSle river posi-
tions he holds and reconstructing his
entire front to Rheims.
The British have pierced the Dro-
.court-Queant line In a fierce battle
which will probably prove to be one
of the most important of the war,
Canadian and English troops, at last
reports, had at one point driven in
about five kilometers,
Vladivostok.—Entente allied forces
under Czecho Slovak troops have at-
tacked the bolshevik red guard on the
Ussuri river front and have driven the
enemy back for a distance of fifteen
kJles. Prisoners were taken and
booty was captured by the allied
forces.
Henry Ford Wins on Democratic
Ticket but Loses on the
Republican.
Helena, Mont.—Scattering returns
'rom 36 out of 53 counties showed
j Dr. O. M. Landstrum maintained his
ead over Jeannette Rankin for the
GET 20 YEAR TERM
FEDERAL JUDGE LANDIS AL-
SO ASSESSES FINES OF
$20,000
NO DISTURBANCES FOLLOWS
10-Year Sentences For Thirty-Three,
Other Defendants Given Lighter
Prison Terms for War
Obstruction.
Chicago—William I). Naywood. "un-
crowned king" of the Industrial Work-
ers of the World, and fourteen ot
his chief aides in the conspiracy to
overturn the American war program,
were sentenced to twenty-years in the
federal penitentiary at Leavenworth,
Kans., by Federal Judge, K. M.
Landis.
Ten-year sentences were imposed
upon thirty-three of the organization's;
leaders, five-year sentences on thirty-
three, oneyear sentences and one-day
sentencs in twelve defendants and
Miss Rankin
nomination for United States senator.
The vote stood toight: Landstrum
10,004; Rankins, 8,582.
Governor Stephens Gains Over Rolph.
San Francisco.—Gov. W. D. Stephens,
who lost his apparent lead in the pri-
mary when the discovery\of tabulat-
ing errors late today put Mayor Jarftes
Rolph of San Francisco ahead ~ferthe
governorship, regained first place.
Complete returns from 3,508 of 6,-
303 precincts gave Stephens 105,320
and Rolph 102,386 for the republican
nomination.
The same returns gave Rolph 42.742
and Francis J. Heney 29.1C4 on the
democratic ticket.
Ford Wins and Loses.
Detroit.—Henry Ford, Detroit auto-
mobile manufacturer and choice of
President Wilson for Michigan sena-
torial nomination, was both winner
and loser in the state primaries. Tru-
man H. Newbury of Detroit, former
secretary of the navy, has won the
republican nomination. In the demo-
cratic balloting, however, the Detroit
manufacturer, who was a candidate on
both party tickets, won an easy victory
from his lone opponent, William G.
Helme.
Cole Blease Beaten.
Columbia, S. C.—With 20.000 out of
a probable 125,000 votes cast in South
Carolina primary, Nat B. Dial seemed
to have won the nomination lor the
senate over Cole L. Blease. The first
returns, which come from about one-
fourth of the counties of the state
give Dial 12,548 and Blease 6,855.
U-BOAT CHASER IS SUNK
j Accidently Mistaken For Submarine
and Sunk By Gun Fire.
Washington.—American submarine
chaser, No. 209, operating out of Phila-
■ delphia, was mistaken for a subma-
J fine by a merchant steamer off Fire
j Island, N. Y., and sent to the bottom.
| Seventeen members of her crew, in-
I eluding the commander and the ex-
i ecutive officer, are missing.
j The chaser was manned by naval
j reserves. Eight of the survivors,
some of them wounded, have been
j landed at NeweYork, ana one has been
j landed at Lewes, Del.
| The merchant ship was the Ameri-
j can steamer, Felix Taussig. In the
darkness her naval armed guard mis-
' took the chaser for an enemy subma-
j rine and opened fire, destroying the
j little craft before the mistake was
i discovered.
Win. D. Haywood.
ten-day sentences on two others.
Cases, against Benjamin Schraeger
Chicago writer, and Pittro Nigra,.
Spring Valley, 111, were continued.
Haywood Fined $20,000.
All sentences on the four counts in
the indictment will run concurrently.
Fines ranging from $20,000 on Hay-
wood and his chief aides, down tt*
$5,000 were Imposed.
The'defendants are granted ninety
days in which to file a bill of excep-
tion, and a stay of seven days in
which to petition for bail.
"It is the closing chapter in Ameri-
ca's biggest criminal case," said Frank
K. Nebeker, chief prosecutor.
"We are confident a new trial will
be gran;cd," said George F. Yander-
I voer, chief counsel for the defense.
| Before pronouncing sentence on the
[ defendants, Judge Landis reviewed at
| some length the salient points in the*
j government's case, laying especial
! stress on the I. W. W. preamble de-
claring and denouncing war with other
| nations, the meeting of the executive
board after America had entered the
war to which it was decided to expel
members entering military service,
and later the concerted plan by strikes
and rebellion to block war measures.
Swiss Hotels to Increase Rates
Berne.—At# k general meeting of
Swiss hotel proprietors it was decided
to demand an increase of 20 cents a
day for board of interned persons.
I Japan to Control Big Chinese Mine
| London.—Japan's field of Influence
j in China is growing. Its latest step is
j the reported agreement under which
j the mines near Nanking will be work-
| ed by the Chinese and steel will be
manufactured jointly by the Chinese
and the Japanese, the latter having
provided $10,090,000 to carry on the
work.
Semenoff Crosses Siberian Frontier
Peking.—General Semenoff. the antl-
bolsheviki leader, has crossed the
Siberian frontier and retaken Matsi-
ivski station, west of Manchuli, captur-
ing prisoners. The Japanese troops
ire engaged with the bolsheviki near
Dauri.
DRY LAW PASSES SENATE
To Become Effective July 1, 1919, Is
to Be New Law.
Washington.—National prohibition
moved a considerable step forward to-
| day in congress.
j Without a record vote being taken
i or requested, the senate late today
i adopted the leader's compromise on
"bone dry" prphibition, effective July
I I, 1919, and continuing during the
| war, and until the American troops
| are brought home and demobilized,
j The compromise, an amendment by.
j Senator Sheppard of Texas, prohibi-
j tion leader, to the $11,000,000 emerg-
ency agricultural appropriation bill is
j expected to remain in the measure
j under the harmony agreement of
"wet" and "dry" factions although
! technically su%cct to another vote,
j Passage of the ')ill itself is planned
j tomorrow and the measure will be
returned to the house where it is
j expected by prohibition advocates to>
. accept tho senate proposition,
i Adoption of the compromise legisla-
j tion came after today's debate, spirited
between champions and opponents of
I prohibition, but with many marks of
| lack of interest, Including vacant seats
I both on the floor and in the galleries
because the compromise was regarded
as insuring approval by the senate.
Efforts to change materially the
Sheppard substitute were futile.
Amendments to advance and defer the
effective date and to extend the tii % -
for its operation against beer and wine
were overwhelmingly defeated.
Report Exaggerated?
Paris.—Vladimir Bourtzeaff, the Rus-
lian revolutionist, says he has receiv-
ed a dispatch from Russia that Gen-
eral Korniloff, who often haB been re-
ported dead, is living.
22 of Ship's Crew Are Rescued.
Washington—Twenty-two members
of the naval armed guard of the Ameri-
can steamer Joseph Cudahy, reported ^
missing, when news of the loss of
their ship on August 17, reached the
navy department, have been brought
safely into an Atlantic port by &
British steamer. ^
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