The Wapanucka Press (Wapanucka, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, July 29, 1921 Page: 1 of 7
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WAPANUCKA PRESS
I
LOST IN YEAR
DEFICIT IS $280,000,000
GERATER THAN WAS
ANTICIPATED
BE A HUGE COST NEXT SEASON
The Books of the Shipping Board are
in a Bad Condition According to
Statement of Lasker After He
Had Made Investigations
Washington—Operations of the
Shipping board's fleet for the fiscal
year just "tended, resulted in a loss of
approximately 1380,000,000. Chairman
Lasker of the board announced. This
deficit was greater by $307,000,000
previous estimates from official
sources and was made following an
examination of all board accounts.
Armed with authority from Presi-
dent Hading to "yank the lid off the
entire shipping siuation.' he summon-
ed newspaper correspondents to his
office. There he threw onto his desk
for the American public the figures
showing that the shipping board des-
pite camouflage showing expenditures
of $99,518,000 actually "went through"
$680,000,000 during the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1921.
Deception is Deliberate
"That's as near as we can get to it
with the deplorable state of the books
which, if kept for the specific pur-
poses of cloaking frauds, could not
have been better," Chairman Lasker
stated. "One thing is certain. There
was an absolute deception of congress
and the people on the expenditures of
the shipping board. That never will
be again."*
The new chairman's denunciation of
the bookkeeping system employed by
the shipping board in the past was
delivered in the presence of Alonzo
Tweedale, comptroller during the past
two years and still in the board's em-
ploy. The chairman, however, gave
him and Admiral W. S. Benson, form-
er chairman and present commission-
er, a clean bill. He charged it all to
the system.
"It is a system that was conceived
in the stress of the war and was con-
tinued in the stress of incompetence,"
Btated Mr. Lasker. "If I am not
right Mr. Tweedale and his assistants
will correst me."
"You are right,' admitted those un-
happy survivors of the pro-Lasker re-
gime.
Here is the schedule of receipts
dragged out of the books of the board
by Chairman Lasker to prove that in
was " gone through."
the present fiscal year $€80,000,000
From operation of ships, $300,000,-
♦00.
From treasury, by' appropriation,
1100,000,000.
Balance in treasury, start of year
$80,000,000.
From sale of'ships, $20*0"JbOCf,000.
"Now total that' up ahd' See'lf it
Isn't $680,000,000." he' _ commented.
"When I sht)we^ these' figures-to the
president he was shqoked 'as congress
and the public will jke.^'lt' iinfy' shows
the} utter collapse of the shipping
board of which ihis. 'administration
has fallen heir.' * It' constitutes tk'<#
most djffiicvilt business proposition
that ever was put up,, to any presi-
dent.'
Then be produced the figures show-
ing how the $680,000,000 was ex-
pended, as follows:
General operation of ships, $409,-
000,000.
Cost of new ships $160,000,000.
Miscellaneous disbursements, $111,-
•00,000.
WALTER F. BROWN
FINAL VOTE WAS 289 FOR
AND 126 AGAINST
THE BILL
OIL AND COTTON ON FREE LIST
The Clause Which Called For an Errv
bargo on Dyes Was Lost, Also
Hides Are Not Dutiable As
Swift Ballot Is Made
Walter F. Brown of Toledo, O., who
Was appointed by President Harding
as his personal representative on the
commission to reorganize the various
bureaus of the government. Mr. Brown
was floor manager for Mr. Harding at
the Republican convention in Chicago
last year.
GREEKS DEFEATJURKISH ARMY
LOSS ON BOTH SIDES WAS
REPORTED ENORMOUS
It Was Announced That The Greeks
Broke th< Record By Marching
300 Kilometers in Ten Days
Touloifm, Asia Minor— Kutaia, Mus
tha Kemal's strategical point in Asia
Minor, was occupied. Terrible fight
ing occurred before the town owing
to the persistence of the Turkish re-
sistence, which lasted seventy-two
hours.
The losses on both sides were enor
mous, but it was a decisive victory
for the Greeks who captured numer-
ous prisoners and an abundance of
artillery.
The fall of Kutia' greatly disturbs
the Kemalists, who now will be un-
able to retain Eski-Shehr, the new
Greek objective. General Papoulas
expresses the belief that the Turks
have lost their principal defensive
line.
The Greeks fought with Spartan
energy in the tierce baydnet attacks.
They advanced 200 kilometers since
the offensive began. The division
commanded by Prince Andrew has
made a marching record of 300 kilo-
meters in ten days.
Greeks Take 30,000
A central news dispatch from Ath-
ens says that the Greeks have occu-
pied Kutaha, capturing 30,000 priso-
ners. The enemy is reported in flight
towards Eskisher.
Washington The republican pro
tective tariff bill, estimated by chair-
man Fordney to raise around $500,-
000.000 in revenue annually, was pas-
sed by the house by vote of 289 to
127—precisely the vote by which a
democratic motion for elimination of
its American valuation provision was
defeated.
Seven republicans voted against
the measure, while the same number
of democrats supported it. Oil, hid-
es. cotton and asphalt stood up a-
gainst a determined fight to tax them
and remained on the free list. The
Longworth dye embargo, first of the
five contested schedules to go before
the house proper for a separate vote,
and backed by most of the republi-
can members of the ways and means
committee was thrown out, 209 to 193.
Fopming and holding a flying wed
ge and aided by republicans not satis-
fied with all the bill's provisions, the
democratic minority made the most
of its chances and won on each. The
ways and means comittee, lost out
on three of the five amendments laid
before the house.
The seven republicans voting a-
gainst the bill were:
j Representative Voigt, Beck, Lamp-
I ert and Nelson of Wisconsin; Gahn
- and Knight of Ohio; Sinclair, North
| Dakota.
j The special rule under which the
bill was considered, provided for sep-
arate votes in five items both in the
committee of the whole house and
then in the house itself.
Roll Call Early
| The first roll call came immediately
on the amendment of Representative
Frear, republican of Wisconsin, to
strike from the chemical schedule the
dye embargo sections. These sec-
tions conferred authority on the tariff
commission to levy embargoes during
the period of three years against such
iyestuffs and other colors as might
be obtained in the 1'nited States in
sufficient quantities fpr domestic need
*nd at reasonable prices.
JANE HERVEUX
COTTON MAKES ADVANCES DISCOUNT CUTS FORECAST
Plants BHoomlng and Fruiting Well
in Oklahoma
OIL SCHEDULE IS SLASHED
The Producers are to Ask Senators
For Revisal
Washington—After adopting an a-
mendment offered by Representative
Carter of Oklahoma reducing the duty
on crude oil from 35 to 25 cents and
on fuel oil from 25 to 20 cents the
house voted 196 to 86 to return oil to
free list.
The vote first came on a substitute
offered by Representative Gensman
of Oklahoma, increasing the duty to
75 and 50 cents respectively on crude
and fuel. The substitute was defeat-
ed by a vote of 183 to 0.
Twenty-four of the seventy-nine
votes against placing oil on the free
list, were cast by democrats three of
whom were Oklahomans and four
Texans.
May Get Free Lands
Washington—The homeless Temoak
Indians in Ruby Valley, Nevada,
'Would be provided with farms under
<a bill by Senator Pittman, democratic
passed by the Senate.
Preparing for Bonus Payments
Lansing. Mich -The first bonus
check to go to Michigan soldiers of
the world war will be sent soon by
the auditor general's department it
was announced.
Watches by Hundreds Stolen
Chicago—The theft from his rooms
in a hotel of several hundred watch-
es in a valise including 200 diamond
studded wrist watches valued in all
at $65,000 was reported to the police
by llarry Preston. New York, Jewelr?
|aalesman.
Washington—Temperature averaged
near T normal in ''the cotton growing
states during the last week and show
ers were general in parts of Texas,
according to the crop bulletin of the
department of agriculture.
Under these conditions tfce report
said, cotton made fair to very good
there was considerable d&m'age by
advance in . all sections, although
excessive rains, in some eastern loca-
lities. '. *
The. plants are blooming and fruiting
well in Tenessee and "Oklahoma and
made very good advance in Georgia
and North Carolina The condition
is fair to very good in nearly all sec-
tions of Texas except central coast
sections. The weather was favorable
for cotton in Arkansas and progress
was good in Louisiana and Mississi-
ppi. Growth was rank but at expense
of fruit, in South Carolina and some
damaging rains occurred.
Refuses to Halt Bargain Sales
Washington—Far be it from Secre-
tary of Commerce, Hoover to take
the joy out of the bargain hunter'::
life. Bargain hunting is one of wo-
man's inalienable rights, he believes
Louis Blumenthal of St. Louis, rep
resenting retail trade associations
came to Washington to have the gov-
ernment prohibit special bargain
sales. "What's the government going
to do about it?" the secretary was
Ssked. "Nothing," was the reply.
Planes Fail to Sink Ship
Norfolk, Va.,—Aircraft failed to
sink or materially damage the former
German battleship, Ostfriestand in
the opening of the final phase of the
Joint army navy bombing tests
Three Soldiers Wounded
Little Rock, Ark., Morgan Smith
was fatally wounded. Robert Martin
probably tatally wounded and James
Green, seriously when a machine gun
which they were transporting in a i
truck at Camp Pike, was aclcdentally
discharged.
Reaction Expected in Business Whe%
Cuts Are Made General
Washington—Reductions in federal
reserve re-discount rates througohut
the country generally were indicated
by high administration offiicals as
Ulfcly to follow soon upon the action
of. the reserve banks of New York,
Boston, Philadelphia and San Fran-
cisco, in bringing their rates down
from 6 percent to a 1-2 percent. Belief
was expressed that, the readjustment-
of the re-discount rates would mean
the reduction to 6 percent on th&se
now 6 1-2 percent and 5 1-2 percent
on. those now 6 percent.
A favorable reaction in the business
situation throughout the country, ad-
ministration officials said, could be
looked for as a result t>f lower levels
as this clear indication of easier
money should stimulate industries
and business to greater activity.
PACIFIC PACTS ESSENTIAL
Australian Premier Believes Confer*
ence Hinges on Settling Issue
London- Premier William M. Hugh-
ee of Australia declared that the suc-
cess of the conference in Washington
on disarmament would depend on a
preliminary agreement on the Pacific
problem by the three vitally interest-
ed nations, the United States, Great
Britain and Japan.
The Australian premier made his
declaration during a speech before
the American Luncheon Club.
"I'Dless an agreement concerning
the pacific is reached," Premier
Hughes said, ' hope of success in tha
disarmament conference is so remote
as to be negligible."
The danger in the Piciflc, he de-
clared lies in the naval rivalry be-
tween Japan and the Cnited Staffs,
in which he asserted, Great Britain,
with her vital interests, must entor
unless an agreement Is reached which
recognizes the American and Aus-
tralian destiny in the Pacific, as well
as Japan's special interests there.
Capt. Jane Herveux, famous French
! Svlatrlx, has been commissioned cap-
tain of the police reserve of New York
! and assigned to the aviation division.
; She is shown here in her new uni-
form.
HUGE SUM OFF U.S. EXPENSES
BUDGET DIRECTORS GIVE
$112,512,628 ESTIMATE
1922 Cost is Reduced, Appropriations
For Running Government Next
Year Ordered Lowered
Washington—An estimated savin?
j of $112,312,626 can be effected in the
appropriation of approximately $4,000-
! 000,000 available for government ex-
i penditures during the current fiscal
| year. President Harding was informed
I by Director of the Budget, Dawes. In-
: eluded in the estimate of possible
I saving General Dawes said was the
i sum of $22,922,113 pertaining to con-
| tinuous appropriations for building
| and construction which would be post-
poned for expenditures in furture
' years.
The estimate of government econ-
; oniy possible during the present fis
cal year was contained in a letter dl
j rected to the president by General
i Dawes who presented the amounts
j by which expenditures could be re-
duced in the various departments >nd
independent establisnments.
Survey of possible economies dur-
ing the year was begun several weeks
j ago by General Dawes using the bud
j get machienry after a meeting at
which department heads and bureau
j chiefs had been directed to reduce ex-
[ penditures and adopt a policy of ec-
onomy and efficiency.
Savings Are Listed
Estimated savings of the more im-
portant departments were listed by
Director Dawes as follows:
State department .... $1,171,982
War risk bureau L_. 16,534,523
War department 15.000,000
Navy Department 10,047,981
Interior Department 19,827.191
Department of agriculture 1,687,802
Postoffice department 35 500
Postal Service 14,920,421
Department of commerce __ 2.063,38-t
Department of labor 10,6fiu
Department of justice 94,300
Completion of the economy estl
mates by the government organization
within three weeks was regarded by
Director Dawes as evidence of in
creased efficiency. Work would be
begun at once by the budget bureau
he added on the budget for the fiscal
year ending June 30th, 1923. using the
new estimate of necessary expendi-
tures as a basis.
THE WEEK'S NEWS
HAPPENINGS GATHERED FROM
ALL SECTIONS OF STATE
50,000,000 BUSHELS YIELD
That Is Estimate of President White-
hurst, Made Recently
It Is Said
Oklahoma City—Oklahoma's 1921
wheat yield will be 50,000,000 bushel3
according to an estimate given out
by J A. Whitehurst, president of the
state board of agriculture. Whitehurs;
doesn't make the estimate as an offi-
cial one to be handed out by the crop
reporting service of the federal gov-
ernment with whicn he is connected,
but he declared 60,000,000 bushels
were a conservative figure.
Texas county will be the banner
county of the state this year with
5,000,000 bushels of the state's wheat
to its credit, according to Whitehurst.
The wheat yield in 1920 was 55,-
000,000 bushels and that of 1919 was
66,000,000 bushels. A 100,000,000
bushel corn crop is predicted by the
president of the state board of agri-
culture. Last year's corn yield was
89.000,000 bushels.
OIL TO SUPPLY WORLD
Technical Problems Studied At Lead,
ership School
Norman, - "The world Is looking to
the United States for its lighter oils
and the United States is looking to
Oklahoma and the other states in the
Mid-Continent fields for this supply"
said C. W. Shannon, director of the
Oklahoma geological survey, in dis-
cussing "Oil Geology of the South-
west" before the Summer School of
Community Leadership being conduct-
ed at the University of Oklahoma by
the American City bureau.
"Book learning alone will not make
leadership and what Oklahoma needs
In her schools are city superintend-
ents who have business executive
ability as well as a degree," R. H.
Wilson, state superintendent of pub-
lic instruction pointed out in his talk
on "The Relation of the Chamber of
Commerce tp the Common School
Crisis."
STATE COTTON CARED FOR
War Corporation Planning to Export
200/XX) Bales from Oklahoma
Washington—The war finance cor-
poration has under consideration pro
posals for cotton export Involving
about 500,000 bales and $20,000,000,
Director Eugene Meyers announced.
The export financing, he said, con-
templates shipemnts of 200,000 bales
from Oklahoma.
Okalhoma's 1920 crop of cotton was
1,300,000 bales, exclusive of linters.
Figured on a basis of the 1920 crop,
the war finance corporation proposal
will care for thirteen per cent of the
1921 crop.
Pawhuska Girl Moonshiner Paroled
Pawhuska—Louis Mulholland, 15
years old who was said to have been
compelled to turn moonshiner and
bootlegger by her father, has been
pardoned to her mother. The father
was placed In the county jail. When
placed on the stand Louis told her
story of tending the mash, operating
the still and how she was forced to
deliver the contraband at her father't
behest.
Reserve Banks Cut Rates
New York—The New York federal
bank's rate on discounts and advices
on all classes of paper were reduced
from 6 percent to 5 1-2 percent. Simi-
lar action was taken at Boston, Phila-
delphia and San Francisco.
Reserve Board is Attacked
Washington— Aresolution request
ing the president to remove the pres-
ent members of the federal reserve
board "because of its unlawful and
ruinous policy" was introduced in the
senate bv Senator Watson, democrat
Meteror Falls In Tennessee
j C'battanoga, A meteor weighing
between 500 and 600 pounds fell near
here. The meteor msde a swishing
! noise that was heard for a distance of
> several blocks. The mlstle buried It
self ic the ground.
FatMr Offers $5,000 for Son
Sharon Pa.- A reward of $5,000 was
offered by Edward V Randolph for
the safe return of his son. Thomas D.
Randolph, business/man here who was
kidnapped and is being held for $50,
900 ransom, according to his father
Hebrews Will Meet to Plan
aKnsas City, Mo.—A conference o,
the Palestine fund or Southwestern
Keren Hayesod, composed of Zionist
leaders in Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and
Oklahoma, will be held according to
an announcement by Rabbi Simon
Glaser of the Cnited States Synago-
iues of Greater Kansas City. In an- j
nouncing the call for the meeting. sbld |
to be the first of the kind in the Uni-
ted States, reference was made to the
purchase of Mount Zion in Jerusalem.
Senate Asks Army Costs
Washington The war department
Is called on for Information regarding
the number or American soldiers now
stationed on be Rhine, the cost of
their maintenance and how much of
their maintenance has been paid by
Germany thus fsr, by s resolution ad
opted by the senate by a vive voce
vote.
Ordered Not to Sell Peek a Boo
'/Aon City, III.-Orders to sell no
| more "Peek aboo" wslsts mosquito
; net stockings or "shadow" skirts were
given to the stores by Wilbur Glenn
Voilva, overseer of Zion, who hn
been conducting a drastic campslgn
against the present styles of women's
dress.
Floating Bar Gets Ueod Trade
New York Assertion that a float
inr bar was being operated off Long
island outside the three mile limit
was made recently. According to re
torts a liquor laden
Owen Moore Marries Lending Woman
New York,—The marriage of Owen
Moore .motion picture actor to Miss
Kathryn Perry, his leading woman in
several pictures, was announced. Mr.
Moore recently was dlvorred by Msyy
Pickford. who later married Douglas
Fairbanks. Mr. and Mrs Moore were
married in Greenwich, Conn.
Wagoner Federal Building Asked.
Wacfoner - Authorizing (he expendi-
ture of $125,000 for the purchase of a
site and the erection of a federal
building at Wagoner, a bill was intro-
duced in the house of representatives
at Washington recently by Miss Alice
Robertson, representative, according
to a wire received here.
Clinton Plans Largest Fair
Clinton.-- Plans are under way for
the Custer county fair to be held In
September or October. The fair com-
mittee Is trying to make the event the
biggest in western Oklahoma. The
$50,000 livestock pavilion completed
by Clinton business men several
weeks ago will be turned into head-
quarters for the committee.
Bright Year Seen for Mine 8ohool.
Miami. A hopeful outlook for the
Miami school of mines this year Is re-
ported by W. O. Cralle, the new presi-
dent, who has been making a canvass
In the Interest of that Institution.
Clinton Gets New Thastsr
Clinton - Excavation was started
for the $75,000 show house to be built
here. The theater will be the most
elaborate building west of Oklahoma
City, according to E. O. Welch. Clin-
ton business man, who la erecting the
structure.
OKEENE GRAIN CROP SOLD
Hyde Enlists One Hundred in Grain
Growers' Movement
Okeene, Oklahoma- Farmers of the
Union Co-operative Exchange at O-
keene and Homestead, signed the first
elevator contracts with the United
States Grain Growers, inc., according
to C. H. Hyde, o£ Alva, director of
the Co-pperative Marketing organiza-
tion.
Incomplete reports indicated that
over one hundred growers had sign-
ed the Individual contract in the vi-
cinity of these two elevators during
the first two days of an active mem-
bership campaign.
Hyde is being assisted in the cam-
paign by seventeen farm solicitors,
anionpj whom are the following:
Walter Y. Duland of Chicago, form-
erly with the federal trade commis-
sion; John Montgomery an Indiana
farmer; Walter J. Jesse of Supply,
president of the state association or
co-operative elevators and George
Wilson formerly of the A. & M. col*
lege at Stillwater.
Frisco Plans New Route
Tulsa—It has become known that
the Frisco has completed arrange-
ments by which it will enter Newton
and Hutchinson, Kan., over the tracks
of the Arkansas Valley Interur&an
railway from Wichita Through
freight service from St. Louis is plan-
ned. At present the Fricso's line
from Wichita to Ellsworth, Kansas
is not a very profitable line.
Lawton Brick Plant to Reopen
Lawton—Brick made in Lawton
soon will be on the market. The Com-
anche County Brick and Tile company
sold at sheriff's sale some time ago
has been resold by the City National
bank to seven Lawton men who now
firing their first kiln of brick.
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State Coffers Fullest Ever
Eight and one-half millon dollars is
the amount held by the state treasury
an amount in excess of any former
holding in the history of the state.
The exact amount on hand in the
coffers of the state is $8 572.076.75.
One month ago $8,373,310.78 vas
the total of funds held by the treasur-
er. Of the funds now held $1,017,532.71
is the amount in various sinking
funds.
"Did you know that the eighth leg-
islature did not appropriate as much
money as the seventh when deficien-
cies are substracted?" This was the
(fuestion asked by Frank Carter, state
auditor, when he discussed the state's
finincial condition.
"The seventh legislature appropria-
ted $18,345,657.64, while the eighth ap-
propriated $20,389,657.23. However.
$3,006,665.05 of the eighth legislatures
appropriations were for emergency
deficlencie8. From the present out-
look, I believe it is safe to say if these
deficiencies had not been created and
there was not authority for their
creation, the state could have been
operated without any sort of tag levy
during the present fiscal year."
Gas Prices Revised For % Stats Towns
Graduation of charges to industrial
gas consumers under the new rates
granted by the state corporation com-
mission were provided for id a sup-
plementary order Issued by the body
for the towns of Arcadia, Chandler,
Coweta, Davenport, Midlothian, Peck-
man and Stroud.
The original order of the commis
sion provided for 25 cents for 1,000
feet of gas to be used for industrial
purposes on condition 500,000 feet
were purchased. Otherwise 55 cents
a 1,000 feet was the rate. The com-
mission decided this rule would work
a hardship with a certain class of
industrial consumers and so fixed a
graduated series of rates which pro-
vide for a rate of 55 cents for the first
100,000 feet, 40 cents for the next 400-
000 feet and 25 cents for all in excess
of 500, 000 feet.
Grain Men Need 200 More Cars
Shortage of wheat cars in Oklaho-
ma now totals 200, and is Increasing
rapidly, according to Campbell Rus-
sell, chairman of the corporation com-
mission, who sent a telegram to
the interstate commerce commission
at Washington. D. C. asking prompt
relief.
The shortage is principally in west-
ern and northwestern Oklahoma,
Russell says. Approximately 500 car-
loads of whea# are being forced on
the market dally and a large percent-
age Is being piled on the ground to
await carriers, he says, but carrlei*
after they have taken one load, have
not returned cars to the state.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas and
the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient
railroads apparently are most In need
of cars In Oklahoma
To Hear Sulphur Phone Case
Campbell Russell, chairman of the
corporation commission, will go to
Sulphur to hear complaints made a
gainst the Sulphur Telephone com-
pany. Rates and service are object-
ed to the petition filed with the
commission which resulted in the sev
ting of a hearing.
Highway Office Force Cut
Due to the decrease in funds for bis
department made by the legislature.
H E. Clark, highway commissioner,
bis released an asslstum caslilej
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