The Black Dispatch (Oklahoma City and Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, September 28, 1917 Page: 3 of 8
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THE B L ACK DISPATCH
EXACT AMOUNT OF LIBERTY
LOAN DEPENDS ON OVER-
SUBSCRIPTION
BUR 4 PER CENT INTEREST
THE SUBS
London.—Thirteen British mer-
chantmen of 1,600 tons and more s,nd
two vessels of less than 1,600 tons
were sunk by mines or submarines
last week.
In the aggregate this is the small-
est number1 of vessels sunk during
any one w^ok since Germany began
her intensified submarine warfare last
February.
Two flshi ig vessels also were sunk
Books Wil Open October 1 and Terms
of Payment Are Same As
First Issue of the
Series.
last week.
The figur
! Month.
| First
!Second
Third
_r , , Fourth .... 65
washington. — Secretary McAdoo I Fifth 64
announced the details of the second Sixth ..... 74
Liberty loan, which will be offe/ed to Seventh ... 65
the public on October 1. The chief Week-
features are:
Amount, $3,000,000,000 or more,
the excess not to exceed one-half
°f the amount of over-subscrip-
tion.
term or bonds: Maturity aa
years; redeemable at the option of
the secretary of the treasury in
ten years.
Denominations of bonds $50.
and multiples of $50.
Interest rate four per cent pay-
able semi-annually on November
15 and May 15.
Terms of payment: Two per-
cent upon application, 18 per cent
November 15, forty per cent, De-
cember 14 and forty per cent Jan-
uary 15. 1918.
The privilege of converting bonds
of this issue into bonds of any suc-
ceeding issue bearing a higher inter-
est rate than four per cent during the
period of the war is extended and
through an arrangement under which
bonds will be printed with only four
coupons instead of fifty (to be ex-
changed at the end of two years for
the bonds containing the full number
of bonds) deliveries will be prompt.
In this manner the issue of interim
certificates will be avoided.
Oklahoma's Share May Be 3 Million.
Oklahoma may be asked to raise
$3,000,000 of the second Liberty loan,
although treasury department figures
expected before the end of the week
may cut down that figure consider-
ably.
In the first loan campaign, Okla-
homa was given opportunity to raise
$2,000,000, but before the campaign
ended the figures were cut 40 per
cent. Then the state far oversub-
scribed its allotment by raising
$2,500,000.
Kor the second campaign the state
has been divided in.tj aisiricilM
The Oklahoma <^ity district leads
hOiitiinfc thirty-three counties, tlnT^
Tulsa district is second with twenty-1
three, and the Muskogee district third;
with thirteen counties.
s follow:
Ire than Less than Fishing
00 tons. 1600 tons. Boats.
62
92
28
40
39
30
49
30
19
13
19
26
10
3
14
6
20
1
2
2
—.
_
200
152
TWO MORE RDIDS ON ENGLAND
ZEPPELINS AND AIRPLANES
DROP BOMBS
Speedy Flier* Take Moderate Toll,
While Zeppelin Damage
la Unknown.
ROUMANIAN KING DECORATES HIS SOLDIERS
Twenty-ninth 8
Thirtieth ..13
Total t.. 560
Grand Total, 912.
WILL SURRENDER BELGIUM
O, Sure, the Kaiser Is Willing To Do
It—If—
London. Germany has agreed to
evacuate Belgium under certuin con-
ditions, it is declared in a German of-
ficial statement. Germany, it is stip-
ulated, must have the light to develop
her economic enterprises freely in
Belgium, especially in Antwerp.
The proposal was made in a sup-
plementary note to the Vatican, re-
plying to the peace Initiative of Pope
Benedict. It was in the form of a
verbal communication made by Kor
eign Secretary Kuehlmann to the pa
pal nuncio at Munich, wherein the
foreign secretary specified the condi-
tions under which Germany ig willing
to conclude peace on the basis of the
evacuation of Belgium.
The verbal note to the papal nuncio
said Germany would contribute a
share of the compensation to be paid
to Belgium for war damage. Belgium
would be required, it is said, to give
a guarantee that any such menace as
that which threatened Germany in
1914 would be in future be excluded.
Belgium must undertake to main-
tain administrative separation of the
Flanders and Walloon districts intro-
duced by Germany, the verbal note
says, because this separation corres-
ponds to the wishes of a majority of
the Belgian people and because Ger-
many desires such separation on ac-
count of racial sympathy.
WRGES ARE SUSTAINED.
i'exas Governor Convicted By Im-
peachment Court.
London,—German airplanes and air-
ships have carried out simultaneous
raids on England. The airplanes in-
vaded the southeastern coast district
of England and reached London while
the airships struck north of London
off the coast of Linconshire and York-
shire.
British aircraft engaged the German
airplanes in a battle for more than an
hour in the southeast district of Lon-
don. ^ in addition to dropping bombs
the Germans used a number of aerial
torpedoes. The airplanes also crossed
the counties of Kent and Essex. The
casualties caused by the airplanes so
far reported are six dead and about
twenty injured. The results of the air-
ship raid have not been announced.
The German planes appeared over
the southeastern district of London
soon after 8 o'clock and the engage-
ment lasted until nearly half past nine.
The raiders were scattered and did
not come in compact formation. Many
8tar shells were used by the defense
guns giving the appearance of spec-
tacular fireworks. The scream of the
torpedoes fired by the Germans was
distinguished easily from the explo-
sions of guns or bombs.
The people of London behavod ex-
tremely well. They followed police in
structions for taking cover and there
was no panic,
1. w. W. HAD GREAT SCHEME
Oklahoma Anarchists Expected to Kill
a Lot of Us.
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nlso wearing a helmet Is Crown Pslnce Charles. . K of houor' At Ule left 0,1 the king and
PRESIDENT LEADS NATIONAL ARMY MEN
Traitor Arrested at Muskogee Had
Telegram From Him.
Austin.—The senate high court of
~ impeachment which has been trying
MORE GOODS ON SEN. GORE' l'Jvernor Junes E. Ferguson for the
Iast 'hree weeks, sustained ten of the
twenty-one charges in the bill re-
turned against him by the house com-
miitee of the whole.
The vote on the first article, that he
used $5,600 of the state funds to set-
tle a personal obligation, was suffi-
cient to convict. A two-thirds vote
was necessary. The ballot was: Ayes,
27; noes, 4.
Tuesday at noon the senate as
Muskogee—Evidence that Senator
T. P. Gore is giving aid and encour-
agement to anti-draft agitators in Ok-
lahoma became public when H C
Capper and V. F. Bryant, Working
Class Union leaders, were brought to
the Federal jail in Muskogee. They
were arrested at Daugherty.
In Capper's coat pocket was found
a telegram from Gore expressing ap-
precMteJV for a telegram supposedly
sent the senator by Capper. To this
was added a quotation from the draft
Enid-Witnesses in federal court
testified that Itube Munson, slate or-
ganizer and Homer Spence, state sec-
retary of the Working Class union, re-
ported that the organization was 36 000
strong in Oklahoma and that It was
affiliated with farmers' and laborers'
Sb!tl0M havin* a membership of
50,000 in Texas. Forty-eight organ-
izations in the nation, including these
in Oklahoma and Texas, were to follow
the lead of the I. w. W. in starting
a revolution, seizing small towns, and
as the revolution grew, attack cities
seize banks, burn bridges and cut tele^
graph wires, witnesses said. Two car
loads of rifles would be readv, wit-
nesses said Spence told members at
meetings and assurance was given
that the revolutionists ha ■ connections
111 Germany and would be well financed
and supplied with Additional guns and
ammunition.
Stores were, to be burned, after be-
ing looted for provisions, according to
the plan said to have been outlined
and railroads were to be seized for
mobilizing the rebellious organization*
which, members were told, would
greatly outnumber the troops left to
protect President Wilson and Governor
William# and defend the Mexican bor
der.
Witnesses testified that Spence de-
clared in one of his talks that the W
C. U. had aB much right to conscript
f*OStl*lti#« On iL .
had to
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"1,"So"™,' *' °' " m""° *""h ™ - ">« ... r..
EARL CARROLL IN UNIFORM
1 uesaay at noon the senate as a " ~ r'Knl 10
high court formally pronounced its I ™c™'ls ®8 thf} government
judgment. Conviction carries with it, soldiers for the army.
<■— ' At Spence's suggestion, one witness
testified, a committee was appointed
by the W. C. U. to "put informers out
vui.l^D Willi 11,
disbarment from holding any public
oce in Texas in the future.
The governor is completely severed
from tho position to which he was
twice elected by the people. Acting
iui "«"i me man ciccmu Uy me people. Acting
law, which stipulates that objectors to Governor William P. Hobby, an editor
army service on religious grounds are of Beaumont, assumes the full power
exempt from the workings of the law. j of office. His tenure will extend to
The telegram which was addressed ! January, 1919.
to Capper and signed by Senator Gore, I Mr. Ferguson said he did not know
reads as follows: what his future plans will be. It Is
"Your telegram received and great- possible be will go to his Bell-Bosque
ly appreciated. Am quoting the fol- ranch for a rest. After that he will
lowing from Section 4 of the draft, return "to his old home in Temple
act: 'Nothing in this act contained where he founded the Temple State
shall be construed to require or com- f hank and formerly conducted his va-
pel any person to serve in any of the 1 rious ranch properties.
forces herein provided or who is | - '
found to be a member of any well or
TEXANS RAISE
GERMANS'ANTE
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ganized religious sect or organization
at present organized and existing and
whose existing creeds and principles
forbid its members to participate in
•war."
The telegram was dated September
| Port Worth— Citizens of Girard,
Capper was the organizer of <he Kent county, have raised a" $10,000
Church of Christ near Daugherty. He f,,nd to be offered as a reward for the
made the Gore telegram, It is said, ! taking, dead or alive, of the German
the basis of his sermon?, urging the ' commander of the Eleventh division,
young men to resist the draft law, It was this commander who recently
telling them that if they would join was reported In Associated Press dis-
his congregation the law could not Patches to have offered a reward of
reach them. j 400 marks, or approximately $100 for
It was when the attendance at his j the first American soldier, dead or
meetings began to assume unreason-; alive, brought behind the German
ably large proportions that Deputy j "nes.
United States Marshal W. R. Hignight Greatest c«
of Ardmore investigated. Capper's p?* ^ e ch A,rman Dead-
arrest followed. I „„ ?', "TCapt Ueorge Guynemer,
Bryant is charged with being • W.! ine° J."1'*?" P°Sted " mi88'
C. U. leader and of encouraging Cap-1 the "■/ aviation
Iper and other ministers to organise I!!!- 8-W'th havinK. 8hot down
resistance against the draft
of the way." Spence named Eli Gray
and Elzie Markel as the informers,
Will Hoover said.
The uprising against the govern-
ment was set for July 27. witnesses de-
clared.
Ocean Freight Rate Is Fixed.
Washington.—A charter rate of
fo.'i ton a month has been decided
01. by '.he Shipping Board as a basq
th« government will pay for requi.
sioned vessels. Within a short time
the board will take over for govern.
|/ meat use every American vessel avail-
able for overseas service. The vessels
\will be requisioned and turned back to
their pwners in most cases for oper-
probably for charter in the
which the government holds
lost necessary for a successful
• of the war.
a mi;-
three German airplanes inside the
German lines.
ARGENTINA MOBILIZE NAVY
Fleet Ordered In Readiness Near Cap-
ital, Preparing For Break.
Buenos Aires.—Mobilization of the
Argentina navy has been ordered at
a rendezvous 37 kilometers from
Buenos Aires. There is also unusual
military activity in the republic. Al-
though this is ostensibly due to the
general strike, a high official says that
the general stafr has Its eyes open to
"other necessities."
The question of a rupture with Ger-
many still is being widely discussed by
members of congress and the public in
general, notwithstanding Germany's
recent notes. Many of the deputies
say they no longer hrfve confidence in
Berlin because whenkhe government
disapproved of von Luxburg's dis-
patches it should have taken action
against the minister and not waited
until after Secretary Lansing's revela
tions to express its disapproval.
The cabinet and deputies do not yet 1
consider the question closed, and there
is widespread disapproval by the news
papers and deputies of the personal
guarantee sent by Dr. Luis B. Molina,
the Argentina minister at Berlin that
Germany would keep its promise.
FIGHTING ON MONTE SAN GABRIELE
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«!„„?i?Ki?l.,tUllUn.^h0t0gra,,h 8howln* ,,u"un "oldlera in a trench on Monte
San Gnbriele repulsing an Austrian attack.
•teeI Price Cut More Than Half.
Washington-Steel prices in the
United States were cut in half when
k their p'
4
Teuton Rist in Argentina.
Buenos Aires.—Serious disorders
occurred in various parts of the cap-
ital as the result of an anti-German
manifestation and strike agitations.
Aa an outcome of the firing on street
ears by strikers or sympathizers, an
inspector was killed and several per
the\n7£ W°UDdef ln <y*P«<hy with prices will obtain un-1 dered h
net* h a" kden,on8,ra<i' "• hnsl- til January 1. 1918. to be revised ti" i 'he bla
Earl Carroll. America's young and
versatile composer of music. Joined the
fighting forces of Uncle Sum and Is
President Wilson approved a scale ' now a member of the Seventy-first regl-
of quotations fixed in a voluntary 1 ">ent of New Tork.
agreement made by producers with th« I
war Industries board. The general Blissful Occupation.
pub ic as well as the American and 1 '.he little had told a little girl
FEW DRY WALLS BUILT NOW
Hard-Wrought Stone Fences Called
Forth the Highest Qualities of
the Mason's Art.
In dry walls I think the old stone
mason takes the greatest pride of all;
for It Is in the dry wall—I mean by
that a wall laid without mortar—thut
the sheer art of the mason comes most
Into play. Anyone ean throw n wall
together If he has mortar to make It
stick, but a dry wall must stand ont
for what It is. built solid from the bot-
tom up, each stone resting securely
upon the one below It. and braced and
nested in by the sheer skill of the ma-
son. The art of the dry wall Is the an-
cient heritage of New England and
speaks not only of the alncerlty and
the conscientiousness of the old Puri-
tan spirit but strikes the higher note
of beauty. Many of the older walls
I know are worth going far to see
nnd built to last a thousand years, t
beautiful art—and one that is passing
away! It Is the dry wull that standi
of itself that the old stone mason lovej
best of all.—American Magazine.
Has a Marvelous Memory.
There Is a hotel clerk In Cleveland
O., who possesses a wonderful memory.
In an article about him In the Atner
lean Magazine a writer says:
"In preparing for a convention a few
weeks ago Ilorrfan made out from ad
vance lists 462 cards, each bearing th<
name and roonj number of one of th<
41
expected guesti
was decided thi t the machinery of th<
hotel organluit
needless wear a
ervatlon cards
the train to 127
from Chicago.
government* .ill ,h.re "C i ,^ L '"" > «<"!> KUnit f.r . ..
Vi 10 tiro?* " "* j reported before, bat which he was un-
M J. H M A A M 3 able to InterpreL
*\r 1 Aa a simple 1'luftratlon of the necea-
Shortly afterward li
the teach
full" h«
would be spared
id tear If the room ree
were distributed ot
men who were comlni
"The 4C2 caribo- v> « A'
wlthoi'' •• Not Y,t
1 It mny be comfortable to work I®
and all fiat, but women will not rua
over to the grocery store before break-
fast wearin? the pantalette house suit.
—Portland Oregonlan.
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Dunjee, Roscoe. The Black Dispatch (Oklahoma City and Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, September 28, 1917, newspaper, September 28, 1917; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc152048/m1/3/?q=led+zeppelin: accessed June 12, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.