The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 262, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 12, 1917 Page: 1 of 4
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Comanche County Must Raise $28,000 for the Red Cross
THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION
Vol,. X\ I. No. 'Jti'J
LAWTON, (OKLAHOMA, TLKSDAV KVKMNtJ, .11 Xi: 1J, HUT.
RELINQUISH
BELGIUM
TERRITORY
D.VILV EDITION
ALLIED PRESSURE SQL EEZINC
TECTONIC GKII' WITH IN-
CREASING STRENGTH.
1 WEATHER REPORT j
Forecast For Oklahoma—Ton igh'
fair, cooler; Wednesday fair.
Predicted Speculation
Futures Soon be Barred
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By Unit'd Press.
NEW YORK, Juno 1J The con-
tinurttion of the wild souring of cot-
ton prices, brought the prediction to-
day that speculation •, future- would
soon be barred. With heavy trading the
prices opened up sixty pom:.*, settling
on nc.v high mark. Climbed over two
SLACKERS
BE JAILED
TONIGHT
Court House Catch
Suit for Divorce.
A petition for divorce was filed this
morning, by Mary K. Smith vs. Joseph
E. Smith, the plaintiff alleging non-sup
port.
Committee to Complete
the Soliciting of Funds .. . „ .
for Ozark Trail Meeting Mo™\n? FnSCO to
0 i ii.i~L
EX-GERMAN ARMY OFFICER
IS ARRESTED--KEET CASE
hundred points in the lust two we
Italians Now Fighting
On German Territory Sunday Train |o
Chattanooga to
Be Discontinued
French Pressure at Bane of Badly 11a!-
lerred Hindenk-ri: Line Steadily
Increa-sinc-
The Sunday Rock Island train to
By United Press. Chattanooga will be discontinued ac-
LONDON, June 12. -On every west- cording: to R. F. Prettyman, Rock
e*n fiont tcdaj. Allied pr ssure is Island agent. who received orders t«-
squeeiing the Teutonic grip with in-'day to that elfect. Permission was re-
creasing- strength. Marshall Haig prof, 'cently granted by the corporation com-
biner from the newly won Mesines po- mission for the Rock Island io dis-
fcitions, had forced th- enemy to re- continue the Chattanooga train if they
linquish additional Belgian territory.! so desired.
To the south, the French pressure at -
the base of the badly battered Hinden-j Word was received in the city by ister
berg line is steadily increasing, the Mr. and Mrs. Morris, from their daugh-
eonflict being marlced with intense: t, r, Mrs. Dwight Wilson of Oklahoma
Ei-tilieryinr. i City, announcing the birth of twins.
At a particular!) timely moment a boy and a girl, born Sunday morning
oiernment en Trail of Tho e Who
Failed to Register — Wholesale
Roundup in I nr \Ye*t.
WASHINGTON, I). C.June 12. All
slackers will he jailed by tonight. The
government is on the trail of those who •-*«- — ,.**«. i..v ouuviw.iuu ucc-vru-
failed to register. A wholesale roundup 'n^r to M. Koehler, chairman of the
The committee appointed by the
Busi ;c*>s M a's cluh to solicit funds to
1 tray the expenses of advertising ai-.l „u
taking the laind to Amarillo the last discountijie th
of this month for the Ozark Trail con
vention, will start to work in the morn
ng to complete the solicitation accord
Oklahoma City to
Be Discontinued
Total Registration
One Million Below
Census Estimates
Effective .June 17th,
it r
the Fnsco
>nd train le
k in the morn-
ill be made Loday.
In the far West, the government
sweep will he the greatest. In thoae
states which failed to come nea.* the
•'envus estimates government .teen s
n/e working th.- hardest.
200 Arrested in Detroit.
DETROIT, Mich. , June 12.—Two
hundred men are in the custody of fed-
e-al agents as a result of their failure
to register for selective service. Many The American steamer Petrotit*
were taken into custody when they up- been sunk by a German submarin
peared at the federal building to reg-' cording to a consular report to the j
thinking today was the final day. state department. One boat, with two'
officers and eight men, reached shore, i
Two boats are missing.
committee. Neal .> $000 of tin- $8b0 to ,oa(js permission to discontinue train hall today. The number i -
be raised was subscribed 1 r-'ay night
iit a meeting of the club.
1 wo Boats Missing
From Submarined
American Ship
WASHINGTON, I). C„ Juik
han
• , . * ",,u uuni ouuuuy niurnuig.
Italy IS starting a new offensive, the Mrs. Wilson was formerly Miss Gladys
timely blow coming in Trent ino. Italy Morris
is the one country row fighting on Ger-
man territory.
SHORTAGE OF
SHIPS WILL
DELAY ARMY
British Advancing nt Messiiies.
By United Press.
WITH THE BRITISH AFIELD,
June 12.—In the fac« of very heavy
artillery firing, but compartively little
infantry opposition, the British are
crossing today well east of the posi-
tions recently wot. in the battle of
Meseines ridge. Since that battle the"
Germans have attempted one counter Ships to Carry the Men
ttack. New Army But Not Enough to
Keep Them Supplied.
ONE OF STATE'S OLDEST By United Press.
NEWSPAPER MEN HERE. WASHINGTON. I). (
The shortage of ships
Matt Duhr, one of Oklahoma's old- transports constitutes
WAR AIMS
RESTATED
T0RUSSIA
Lawton to be
Scene Great
Activity
Senate Adopts
Conference Report
On Espionage Bill lhOM'who Ha,e Workl-d 10 Secure
sfcnated Cantonment Deserve
WASHINGTON, I). C., June 12.- Praise.
The senate adopted the conference re-j
port on the Gregory espionage bill. The Thar Lawton will soon be tscene
measure goes to the president for sig-'°^ activity, i.- forecasted by the;
nature.
Government
Agents In-
vestigating
GOVERNMENT AGENT HOT
ON TRAIL OF GERMAN
CONSPIRATORS IMPLI-
CATED IN KEET CASE.
Keet Case Only
Incendiarians at a ^ne
Work On C Avenue Gang Believed to Be in the Em-
ploy of the German Govern-
ment.—Looking For Higher
Ups.
KANSAS CIXV. Mo., June
J1 -• Government agents, in-
vestijriitinjr the Keet kidnup-
' injr ciist', are hot on the trail of
By United Press.
WASHINGTON, I). C\, June 12.
ing hetje at eight o'clc.K in the morn- The total registration of the • lectiv.
ing, and the west bound leaving at system approximates nine nillion, two
5:20 a. m., an order from the corpor- hundred and fifty thousand, according
ation commission granting th. rail- to the revised figures of Provost Mar-
t . -- — one mil-
service whereever it can be dispensed lion below the census estimates,
with, in order to insure, greater saving! Officials realize the estimates fail-
and more efficient service for the gov- ed tc consider the GOO,000 already er,-
ernment during the war. listed in America's fighting forces.
j immigration has practically
for the past three years.
stopped
All i oiucide With New Russia's Ex-
pressions—Allies Ready to Comply
With Every Wish of Russia.
For the second time in two days,
•'re broke out in the 200 block on C
avenue, this time next door to the place
where a serious re occurred yester-j
day. The fire was in a vacant building
at 208 C avenue. When the fire depart-
jment arrived flames were shooting up1 v< sti "it inir
'he wall of a room in the rear of the?
building. A bottle containing coal oil; (
was found on the floor of the room. No * '^niinil conspirators. Tlu'V
damage was done by the fire. An inves- ndlllit one has I wen arrested a
ligation is being made. I former officer in til,. German
I army. Tliev arc now sft kin<r
Ztx yTlt\^TnT^the de; Indians May Buy 1 <''"W, actually charged
.signation of frt. Sill as u cantonment j ... > "Uy - - I with murder. It is thought
camp, and the news that many
Liberty Loan Bonds
LONDON, June 12.—It in now up to
Russia to make known what her de-
sires are and what she intends to do.
England, France and America, < n be-
June 12.— half of the Allies have frankly re-
for military stated their w-ar aims. All of them co-
the biggest incide with Democratic Russia's ex-
France Takes Control (pruvemeilt8 at the Fort ,ir( ond^ wayj
Food In Greece °r have befen contracted for.Many build- D , j n
. , . . , By United Press.
lings are to be constructed there imme- u ^nivrTnv n n i
PARS. June 12. France has taken 'diately for temporary housing of men ti. ' ' *' une
' 1 he senate passed a resolution per
st will brintc
est newspaper men arrived in Lawton problem of America's war chiefs. The1 pressions
today on his way to Medicine Park, dispatch of the bulk of the new army, If Rusia desires the publication of
unere he will spend a month. Mr. Duhr will have to be delayed on account of.au agreements, the revision of treat-
has been writing for newspapers in transports. Ther are sufficient ships ies> it ig authoritively stated that the
lula ho ma ever since 1K90 when -he to carry the men, but not enough to Allies are ready to compluy with new
■ ■untry opened. U-,de. being a men,- carry sufficient food at the same time Russa's wishes and every request The
,.r of eleven terr.t rial and stale leg- for a large number of soldiers. How- KreatesL interest js now manifested as
it atures and ot the constitutional ever, the plan, must be to supply "
convention. 'men sent over.
EVERY PERSON SHOULD
BUY A LIBERTY BOND
' to what Russia may have to reply.
Commissioner Edwards
Appointed Federal
Land Appraiser
John H. Edwards, chairman of th.
board of county commissioners, has
been appointed federal land apprais-
er. If is not known whether Mr. Ed-
wards will accept the
i not.
The popular t-iir.g now is the issue this bank without auy begging, but!
o: Liberty Bonds, beng sold for the from their sense of duty and send in p . p •
Government by the various banks their names and money to the bank' Eeing
throughout the United States. The for Liberty Bonds. : Repaired Today
well to do person, and the person of Every officer < f the City National
small means, members of nearly every .Bank has bought a Liberty Bond and Commissioner of Public Property
class of Lawton and Comanche County many of the members of their families Sanders started a force of men out this
c izer.s have purchased these bonds. have purchased bonds as a matter of j morning to repair the holes in the
Among the larger subscribers, encouraging saving habit and to help'l avement. These repairs have b?ea bad
i hrough the City National Bank of their country at the same tiniv.jly needed for some time but owing to
Lawton, Oklahoma, we find that the Without any solicitation whatever on a lack of funds for t a purpo
Druggists of this town, Charles S. its part, but from a purely patriotic, not be done.
Powell and Edwin Ore- n with Jones sense of duty, every employee of the
B •others, are the atler* and have put City National Bank has done his or ' .ink Wright rt urned
up their gr-Nl ni-.r.«f.ir the use of her bit towards fulfilling tne expecia- from Muskogee where he i
Lncie Sam. The V.oodmen of the tion if the Government in clisposiugi in oil holdings.
World iod'.e.subscri!) 1 for a. bond and of the §2,000,000,000 of Liberty Bonds. —" "
no doubt the other Fraternal orders ot Several of its German customers have
the city will follow its example. purchased these bonds and the 1901ers
Prom the Oil fields of Drumright have come to the front with their1
Lieut. Samuel J. Foster brings this , money, among whom are, .Mrs. Lydia
Bank a subscription check for a bond. R. Bixby, J. I. Ga!wr, H. W. Leinit.
From Hastings, Cache. Elgin, India- ger, F. E. Humphrey, Thomas A.
homa and Fletcher come subscribers to (Continue*. o,i Paire Two.)
that Cartel 's arm
in tlit* higher ups
I he ^Hii/^ is believed to be in
itrol of food administration through who will be stationed there and some to ' Henate pa,Be(1 11 resolution per- * V* r^?ai! C"°V
out Greece, accogtfing to a formal an-'be permanent. m,Vln,r the iecretar>' f'f interior j'^niillPllt and that tile Kret rase
nouncement made today. French troops If is largely due to the efforts ofl-° mone^ belonging to Indians, was olllv a ^ide lin *.
landed at Rome to ke< p order. France1 Congres sman Scot, Ferris and Senator lfn b°1"ds' EleVP11 n"llio" The seaivll lias lie, n transfer-
■ buying all crops for distribution in Gore, the utilities committee of the arh 1 )e nia' e available by this j.(mj ^() |v( itv aludmr
ec\z\o{6Grr ,A";:dh rps'Buf'r„Movr-srtorThomBsf,k-
have been landed to control the Conn- and VN. H. Quinette, th« committee, js
thian canal. that went to San Antonio composed of! \ ' >•
i.M. Koehler, M. S. Simpson. Guy Rob-jBARBER RETl'R\S FROM WII.I. «IVE LIBERTY BOND
erson, Ray keegan and Chas. Crab-, OKLAHOMA ( ITV. TO FIRST ONE CAI LFI)
tiee, backed up by the people of the' 1AI LKI.'-
city, who voted unanimously to stand) W. F. Barber, president of the Citi- The Endeavor society of the Beal
.tih-rPr°P0™t,°"' Zn\Sla'e Bankl bas retur,,wl Heights Presbyterian church purchas-
The Uuh.ies committee is composed Oklahoma Ciiy, where he attended a led a $50 Liberty Bond, to be give,, to
of: (.„>• Robertson chairman; Ray meeting of the executive council of the the first one who is called from the
Keegan, ( harles ( rabtree, M. Koehler, Oklahoma Bankers Association. soUth side.
M. S. Simpson, J. R. Travis, F. f',j ' ' "" !■■■■■ — ,,
-
WEST STRUGGLES
TO THROW OFF
LETHARGY
Humphreys, John Young, A. I). Law-
rence and J. Connor.
CHICAGO, June 12.—The west
struggled today to throw off its leth-
argy, its characterized attitude to war I
the liberty loan. In some reserve dis-
tricts the campaign is proving a suc-
cess. In others failure to arouse en-
appointment or . . , .
inusiasm for subscriptions is admitted.
Chicago is living up to the expecta-
tions of the campaign, of a million dol-
lars an hour. Kansas City is pushing
the campaign hard but is still far
short.*"
Mrs. Stella Adams has arrived from
Kansas City, Mo., for a visit with Mrs.
Edna Bower and friends.
NOTICE TO R. A. MASONS.
♦ The Only Place in City Y ou Can
Get
could
this i
inter*
There will b" a Stated Convocation
❖ of Lawton Chapter No. 14 Tuesday,
♦ June 12, at 8 P. M. for work in the R.
TEFFEN'S ICE CREAM. ♦ A. Degree, after which refreshments
Try It ^ will be served. All Comp are requested
POWELLS—.'128 C 0 to be present.
L. H. JOHNSON. H. P.
A. MADDEN, See. (3-11 2t
, BIG DANCE
fui.sdu) Eveniug. Carney Hall.
Best of order and music.
(>enta 50c Ladies free
LEEDOM .V POKORNV
EAT LAWTONIA
ICE CREAM
It's the best of all, and
made in Lawton.
Lawton Ice Cream Co.
Phone 105 - 320 E Ave.
♦ dancing. ♦
♦ 9
♦ The opening dance at the j.opu- ♦
♦ lar summer resort, Medicine ♦
♦ Park, will be ui suing, +
♦ Jun< iHrh. Music by th< Lotd ♦
♦ om Orchestra. Admission 50c, ♦
♦ 4
SPECIAL PRICES ON
Flour and Sugar
For Next Few Days
Per Hundred
High Patent Flour $6.00
Granulated Sugar $8.25
Walter Fuller
409-411 Third St.
Phone 715
.000,000 FOR THE RED CROSS RJND
Lawton and Comanche County Must Raise $28,000
Mass Meeting Thursday Night : Everybody Invited : Everybody Expected
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