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JOIN THE RED CROSS
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AUDMORE OKLA.. FRIDAY MORNING JANUARY 3 1910.
VOL. 26.
No. 85.
SIX FAGES TODAY
DAIL
OR!
a
WOUNDED TRQOPS
BEING TAKEN OFF I
STRJHIMEKFI i
!ui
WELL SOLDIERS ARE RE-
MOVED TO OTHER SHIPS
AND FIRE ISLAND
.
Breeches-Buoys Could Not be Used
to Bring Ashore Any ot the
2480 Soldiers on Board
-Twelve
Cruisers and Destrpyers Stand by
to Aid in Rescue.
New York Jan. 2. "The men
aboard the transport Northern
Pacific arc being taken oft both
to ships standing by and to
shore' 'said Geenral McMauus.
i;
'here is no danger that the
onhern Pacific will break up.
J-ire Man
X. Y.. Jan 2. Three
officer.; and one
ed were landed
oiiiier ail wouuu-
jusl before noon
today irom the Iran-port .Northern
Pacific stranded off here. They
came ashore in a coast guard boat.
The landing of additional troops
vas expected to follow.
l-'.iur more lifeboats filled with
Soldiers arrived here from the
Northern Pacific soon after while
lour other boats all belonging to
the transport filled with members
of the crew left the ship for the
nutlving rescue vessels.
INSERT WOGNDED TROOPS .
lu'iimi al before nightfall of the .
rutin: company of 2.4SH home com-'
ing American troops from tin-I
transport Noilhern Pacific strand-
ed off Fire I -land was expected by j
officials who Mated this afternoon i
that irati-fcrral of the men to army 1
and navy craft is proceeding rap-
id! v in a moderating sea.
While the troops are being load-
ed into the lifeboats bobbing along-
side her great bulk the Northern
Pacifies band is playing lively
air.
New York Ian
2. Announce-
wonuded and
llient that both the
well soldiers aboard
.Vuiericau transport
the stranded
Northern P.i-
seific were being traiisUrrcl both
to rescuing vessels and to the
shore in small boats w is made at
12:3H o'clock lodav !v F.rig.-Gcn.
McMantis. of the port of etu
irka-iin-
tion to llohnkcu. Alter
an
SUCi'eS -la!
to drag tl
on which
island car
af.impt hail been mane
e ship fr.im the sandbar
she grounded near l-'ire
lv Wednesday morning.
w itil
.Id
iC I'
ll boar.
The constant pounding of the
Seas bad driven the ship higher out
the beach ibis afternoon swinging
her bow so that she was only 250
vards from the shore.
aves heavier than those which
wedged her t.gh.ly into the sand-
bar vesterday was breaking oxer
the tranMon and the wind still
was blowing unfavorably from the
.s.iilt'lUC-t.
loif as these conditions pre-
v.-o ei . uavv o
;ia:
here
said no
itber to
to other
civilians
aCeilliM could b
j.ut a-hore or to
V ; els the 3.01 Id
made i
l raiisfer
t roups.
and. navy crew
ir.m-pott from
who sailed on the
France on Christ -
juas )iy.
Tweh. crui-'evs
and ot'ier rescue
vigil throughout
Semi -circle a mile
rind
hips
destroyers
maintained
the tng:: m a
outside the bar
their 1
er light flashing inces
santly. t dawn t lie y prepared lor
a da'v of maneuvering about the
Mi-anded vessel. French coast
'u.ird crew- replaced the one
which spent ihe night near the
lireechcs-buox which could not be
i-cd and they are in constant
semaphore communication with the
transport.
x i) -i n oniiiiou x a expressed
that there was lime piosexi
that
the troops cqtild
Jate in the day.
worked so far a
ic removed -uni.i
The vessel had
bore that there
was doubt a
to whether she could
be floated even with the sea laou.
Tweiitv Red Cross nurses with
food and supplies landed on Fire
island todav ready to
care for any
be brought
trooi
n--h.:
V;.
JSspe
who might
- dmir;d Albert Glen vcs- ea.i ly
the follow ing stai..nent :
Vorihern Pacific is ill no im-
mcliaie danger and until there is
a change oi the x ind from the west-
ward no attempt xvill be made to
transfer those on the ship. Such
transfer if it is made today will
probably be to other ships standing
bv as it is safer to transfer them
to' ships Hi an to try to take them
ashore and have to go through the
breakers."
David Lubiti Dies in Rome
Rome. Wednesday. Jan. L
David Lubin of San Francisco
.iounder of the Internationa Insti
r
tute of Agriculture and the Ameri
can representative on its perma-
nent board died here today of
pneumonia.
; ill
FIEs L
lUHIHUL Uh liftHbIN
Kansas City Mo. Jan. 2. didd
ers from Indue I ohit C. Polio-;!;
the federal court I'nited States
arshals to lax look control of the
-luci car- anil property of the Kan-
sas City Railways Company in Kan-
sas City Kan. as an outgrowth nf
tilt- strike of motonnen anil con-
ilticiors in progress since Dee. 11.
Trainmen as well as guards arc be-
ing employed by the federal aulhor-
lilies and assigned to dntv as rapid-
j .y ;i hcy c.m w swn "j. n ;ire
armed.
The order of Judge Pollock tak-
ing control of the street railways
from the city authorities was tak-Mi
on an intervening petition of the
Kansas City Kan. chamber of com-
merce in an injunction suit of the
street railway company against the
strikers asking protection of prop-
erty. In preparation for the court order
a call was sent iut yesterday to all
parts of Kansas for experienced
trainmen and guards and 1?0 ap-
plicants were waiting this morning
to be sworn in. Many of them were
discharged .soldiers. C. O. Jackson
chief deputy I'nited States marshal
said they wouhl be given preference.
One deputy mar-hal wiil ride on
each car in addition to the motonlian
and conductor who also are in fed-
eral service.
I n Kansas City. Mo. there was no
change in the strike situation.
WILLISTON N. D. IS
COLDER THAN ARDMORE
A 'ashmgl on
tiir. N. I). at
Ian. J. Wil-
ts o'clock this
morning was the coldest
place
on the weather map the ther-
mometer standing at 2(i below.
In the upper .Mississippi Val-
ley the plains states and the
Rocky .Mountain and plateau
regions below zero tempera-
tures prevailed.
HOUSE FORCES THE WAR
REVENUE MEASURE TO
CONFERENCE UNDEBATED
Washington. Jan. 2. Congress
got hack to work today after its
holiday rest. It was expected that
most of the senate session would
be devoted to discussion of peace
and oilier subjects while the house
leaders planned to make another
esiort to send the war revenue bill
to conference. House leader :e-
portcd to a special rule today to
force the bid to conference without
holding it up for debate o-l de-
mands for otes on certain ..crate
amendment s.
The rule unanimously reported
bv the rules coimnitte was adapt-
ed w'thout a roll call and with only
a few scattering negative votes.
TRAINS MOVING ALMOST
REGULARLY IN KANSAS
Topeka. Kan.. Jan. 2. Trains
again are moving on the main lines
of Kansas railroads today xviili the
exception of the Union Pacific.
That road reports a number of
trains still snowbound west of F.1-
lis. Kan. Four Santa I'e through
trains nearly -IS hours overdue
reached Topeka from the f-. -his
morning moving on bo
orado and F.I Paso line
:t-
Co!
LITTLE ROCK TO BECOME
FEDERAL RESERVE CITY
Washingntu Jan. 2. The Li tie
Rock. Ark. branch f tin- St. Louis
Federal Reserve Hank recently es-
tablished xx:!l open for business
Monday the federal reserve hoard
announced today. Ot; that date
Little Rock becomes a ro-crve city
.-.ltd all banks maintainnig nictuber-
ship in ihe federal re
must keep re-erves of
system
per cent.
10
FORD MOTOR DECLARES
200 PER CENT DIVIDEND
Detroit Jan. 2. A 2n() per cent
dividend was declared by the direc-
tors of the Ford Motor Company at
the annual meeting Dec. 31 it was
announced this forenoon.
The dixidcud which represents a
disbursement of l4.( KHi.l HH I among
sex en .stockholders is payable. Mil
per cent January 1 ami M0 per cent
February 1.
HERR HOHENZOLLERN
REPORTED VERY ILL
IN HOLLAND RETREAT
Amsterdam Jan. . William Iloh-
enzollern former emperor of Ger-
many is very ill according to ad-
vices from merongen. lie can-
not leave his room it is said and
is suffering from a bail cold. It is
stated that he has ; high fever.
An eminent specialist from Ut-
recht is in constant attendance.
Only the former empress the spec-
ialist and two attendants are per-
mitter to enter his room it is re-
POLISH JHMT IF
10 MARCHING
AGAINST BERLIN
FIFTH GERMAN DIVISION IS j
SAID TO HAVE BEEN OR- ;
DERED AGAINST POLES
POSEH BATTLE CONTINUES
Fighting in German-Polish City is
House-to-House and Boy Scouts
and Young Women Aid Polish
Troops Poland Feels Deserted
by Western Powers.
Copenhagen Jan. 2. A Polish ar-
my of 30000 men is marching on Ber-
lin according to a dispatch received
here quoting rumors received at the
German capital.
littstav Noske member of the
Khcrt cabinet in charge of military
affairs is said to bae ordered the
Fifth German di.isioii to meet the
Poles.
Geneva Jan. 2. The Polish ar-
my which is inarching toward Ber-
lin has as its objectiv "a tearing
raid into Germany" according to a
Polish agency at Lausanne. The in-
fantry is well armed and is stiport-
ed by artillery and cavalry. The in-
fantry already has occupied import-
ant railway centers including Kreuz-
Ibiesen and Pnciiau and has cap-
tured a large amount of railway
stock with little resistance. The Ger-
mans arc re-arming demobilized
soldiers and fighting is expected al-
though some of the demobilized
troops are refusing to serve.
2000
Warsaw
Germans Disarmed
Tuesdav. Dec.
Fighting has continued in the city
of Posen German Poland between
Polish and German troops in the
last few days. The fortress of the
city has been occupied by the Poles
while more than JH.OOO German sol-
diers have been disarmed.
The Sixth German grenadier regi-
ment has refused to surrender and
now is .eiuded in a barracks
within Cue eil . German troops sent
into the city were disarmed on their
arrival at the railway station.
The entire Polish population is
reported to be aiding the Polish
troops. They include boy scouts ami
young women. The lighting is of a
house-to-house nature and there i;
no accurate estimate of the number
killed and w ounded.
Ignacc Jan Paderew ski. the
famous pianist and Polish patriot
who arirved in Po-eii several days
ago is delaying his departure from
Warsaw in order to have a confer-
ence with German delegates from
I'.erlin.
Polish Troops Enter Frankfort
London. Jan. 2. Polish troops
have entered Frankfort o-l the ( )der.
50 miles east of I'.erlin says a Berne
dispatch to the Express which ad-!
that the Poles have occupie
I'.eiithen. in Prussian Silesia. an
I'.romborg. in the province of Posen.
(') miles northeast of the citv of
Posen.
All Poles to Mobilize.
Copenhagen Jan. 2. Events in
Posen are assuming a grave charac-
ter according to advices from Her-
iin. Large parts ot the proxnu
in the hands of the Poles and
arc
Ini
ish troops have crossed the frontier
at Ska'mieryce a town southeast of
Pnen and 02 miles northeast of
Rreslau. German troops there must
il is stated retreat in the face of a
superior lorce of ihe Poles
ll is reported also that the Polish
i .
government at War.axv has ordered!
the mobilization of all Poles.
Poland Feels Deserted
London. Jan. 2. Poland is in de-
spair owing to invasion of bolske-vi.-l
troops and apparent indifference
of western powers to the plight o!
the country according to a Warsaw-
dispatch to the .Mail.
"Telegrams are sent begging in-
tervention by the allies" the dis-
patch states "but no reply comes.
The Poles admit the immensity of
the numerous problems absorbing
the allies' attention but complain
th.it they do nut receive the least
sign of attention or a word of guid-
ance." After dealing with the Lolhrvist
menace to l.eniberg ilna and other
places the
situation is
correspondent says t ne
made worse by internal
disorder in Poland. Factories in an
the industrial towns have been do-
st roved by the Germans. Thousands
of Poles sent to Germany during
the war are returning and there is
no employment for them. They arc
taking the law into their own hands
and terrorizing their former ciu-
ployeds compelling them to give
them money.
Lodz is in the hands of the Red
Guard which has shot some of the
ollicers of the regular troops-. The
government headed by Joseph Pil-
sudski is weak the correspondent
says. He concludes by urging imme-
diate return to General llaller's I'ol-
Uh army from France.
CZECHS AND SERBIANS Ifi
ARMY OF BOLSHEVISTS
IN
CAPTURING PERM GEN-
ERAL GA1DA TAKES
31000 PRISONERS
Vladivostok Monday Dec. 3d.---l-i
capturing Perm in the l t d
Mounta:ns General Caida. at the
bead of C'zecho-Slox ak and Sibcr
tan lorees virtually desirovc.i t:u.
bolsheviki Third army from whic
lie took 31000 prisoners. Getn-r;
Gaida's troops captured an arm .re 1
train from which Nikolai Pei ne
the bolsheviki premier was dir -ct-ing
operations in the region of
Perm. I.cnine himself escaped but
several members of his patty were
taken prisoners.
General Gaida's superiors opposed
his plan of attack against I'enu
and he carried out the operation
at the lisk of removal from hi-
command. In addition to the 31. On:) prison-
ers reported. General Gaida cap-
tured 5.000 railway cars. 1?0 field
guns. 1.000 machine guns 3'i auto-
mobiles an entire wagon transport
several armored trams ar
thousand horses.
His maneuvre was a
surprise to the bol-h
proved by the fact that In
several prominent sovie
-ral
.mi
lei e
viki a
cap! tired
t leaders
at the headquarter
bolsheviki army.
T-. n bolsheviki re
clared to have been
01 I
Third
giinent -
ire
de-
an. 1
w as
the
hi'.l
aniiibilat ed.
the restof
driven aero:
Troops of
the eneiin arin
s the Kama river.
General Sciueuol'l
ant i-b.d
-hexik leader in the (
district have occupied Vetkhni
I'dillsk.
eas-i or 1
Two ll
sobliers
pi isops
through
on the Siberian lailway
.ake Baikal.
iiiiidred thousand Russian
released from German
are expected to pass
Omsk within a foilniebt.
The Riis-
a serious
and lack
lans are destitute ami in
condition from expo-prof
mod.
ELECTRIC DRIVE WILL
MAKE OUR WARSHIPS
SUPERIOR TO OTHERS
Washington
capita! light i'v
will lie superior
an. 2. uu rica s
bip.s ot Ihe future
to those of other
j nation
iccause ol tneir eictr:cal-;
lv driven machinery N-cretarx .
Daniels to the house naval com-
miltee todav in disclosing
k-
able result
it Milled lu
t
new
Inch
l-..ln -I..'
ll .New Mexn-
ped with
the elect tic drive
is to
shins
The
be a feature of all ll
ant horized since l'Ki.
Vow M cxici is t ur'i. i e
niaeh inrx was designed to ib
2').5dd horse power at full -and
to give the ship a speed
knots.
"She ac;na!!v developed
than 31(KiM horse power." Mr.
1 la. i
foul
I iels nid. "and maintained for
i .. . .. i 1-4 k-.-..ts
- t !i i -s when running at a di-i
j ment I.IMKI ton greater than
i ilespoi called for."
The secretary said
tllel iC
I been i
at cruising s;ieed bad
the things sought in
electric drive for the
si:'it:
ird'na:
bine equipment.
"And I am happy to say." bi-
ded "thai this requirement ;
was met. As a matter of fact.
New Mexico will steam l' kiv-
about 25 per cent le-s fuel t
the best turbiiie-drixcn sli; t
preceded her.
LLOYD GEORGE BALFOUR
AND BONAR LAW NAMED
BRITISH PEACE GROUP
London Jan. 2. It is olfn-i.i'h
nounced that the British deieg a;
the inter-allied conference at I
w ill include Premier l.loxd - '.
Foreign Secretary Balfour and
ai-
s I'
An
the
drexv Bonar
.aw. enaticeiior ot
exchequer.
Viscount I lardinge. perm iiiei.t
under-secrctarx for foreign a: an-.
Sir William G. Txrtel. senior eieti
in the foreign office Sir Lotii.
Mallet former British ambassador
to Turkey Sir I'.sme W. Howard.
British minister to Sweden. Sir
Ralph Padget minister to Den-
mark and Sir Eyre Crowe as-
sistant under-secretary of state
tor foreign affairs with their
staffs will accompany the deb gale
to act a'; adviser. Lord Robert l'ec-1
former assistant under sect tare
will go to l-'rance in connection i h
the proposed league of nation-.
It is expected here that the om-
i lerence will begin Jan. 13
1 ilv f he British delegate-
major-
vv ill leax
London Jan. 4 but the premier and
j Chancellor Bonar Law will not go
i until about the middle of next week
' Secretary Baifour already is in
l-'rance.
PRESIDENT REACHES
FRONTIER OF ITALY
Rome. Jan. 2. (10:42 a. in.)
President Wilson and his party ar-
rived this morning at Modauc on
the Franco-Italian frontier.
American Ambassador Thomas
Nelson Page in company with the
military and naval attaches of the
American embassy left bete today
to meet President Wilson at the
Italian froulicr.
0 P
nf lU U Will I
I
j LEWIS CHARGES LODGE AND
j KNOX WITH DECEIVING
THE PUBLIC.
PRESIDENT ABROAD
10 MIKE MP USELESS!.:
Illinoii.au Tells Senate the Repub-
lican Leaders Are Trying to
Thwart Wilson's Purposes by Giv-
ing Europe False Impression that
Senate Opposes His Plans.
Washington Jan. 2. Senator
Lewis democrat of Illinois speak-
ing today in the senate charged re
publican leaders with conspiring for
political honor to discredit Presi-
1 dent W ilson abroad to thwart bis
ipm-pose by giving European nego
tiators the impression that the .sen-
ate oppo-ed bis plans and by deceiv-
ing the Aim rican public. Their ob-
ject be declared is to prohibit the
president from accomplishing any-
thing. "I do not object to Senator Lodge
or Senator Knox qualifying for the
support nf Colonel Roosevelt and
hi following for the nomination for
prc-ident h catching the expression
of opposition of ihe colonel and
then echoing. 'So say we all of us'"
- aid Senator Lewis "but I do object
to the coii'Mrx being deceived as the
design and the president dishonored
by false political pretenses to ac-
coiiipli-b the purpose."
Ihe speech was jn rcplv to recent
'utterances of Senators Lodge ot j
; Mas-achuseits and Knox of Petiu-'
1 x ivani.i both republicans critici-
i in1 certain of the president's 14 prin-
ciples of peace ami urging that con-
sideration of a league of nations
i freedom of the seas and other qucs-
t.ons lie deterieii until alter tt.e
peace conference.
" I'll i' concurring assaults by cer-
tain leader- of the republican side
" .nil everv'hi'ig that Prc-ide'it Wil-
son has attempted in r.uro c' .-.mi
Senator Lewis 'discloses as I
charge a conspiracy to discredit hint
and to defeat any design he enters
i upon iiy giving the r.uropcan nego-
tiators to understand that the seu-
. ate is opposed to the president; that
it obiects io bis measures and that
in is speaking with the power to re-
vise lever. e and repudiate him."
! No Business of Senate.
Senator Lewis declared the sen-
'ate had nothing whatever to do with
I what the president now i doing "in
'presenting the protocol for peace
land ihe adjustment of disposition of
j the armies."
. "I inform the European negotia-
tors and the world." be said "that
there is no law of Xincriea by con-
1 sii-iitinu statute or custom by
which ihe president is under any oh-
I:g:itii.:' to submit what he is now do-
ing to the -brain
h of tl
l-ve body.
"I inform
do all thoe
i-nate
ic legi-
r to
at ix e
any ot her (
or execu-
the lie;
int ere-t e
d iator-
that
as l
resent
undertakings of the president of the
I'nited States are a commander-in-'
chief of the armies; that lie remains'
si eh with full power- of command- :
j er-in-chief until the full treaty or :
'eoni-uct of peace has Lien lina'dv ac-
cepted and peace declared and the
armies vv ithdr.iw n as a re-tilt of that
acceptance."
Drawing a di-tinctiou between
treaties made bv the president
head of the cix'il government and
af'rr the w ar has ended and the
makiii"- of peace bv protocol or
agreements the senator said that
iimbr the latter condition the lire's -
idem serve a- coinm.iiiiler-in-cbief
agreeing upon terms ot peace Mr j
the purpo-e of withdrawing the ar-
mies. .1i in doing n "executes thej
au.hoiity of the law and oi the pen-
pie xe-ted in him as esectilive audi
wholly apart front the
the opposition the di
iiitefereiicc
.approval or
repudiation ol the senate.
Lodge and Knox Inconsistent
Senators Lodge and Knox were
charged with being inconsistent in
their xievvs. The Illinois senator said
postponement of the pioposals for
a league of nations and freedom of
ih
ea w odd mean that the v ar
hid been fought in xaiu and would
bring about a lepi tttiou of the strug
gle.
icb nation w it h
laini
and
u'ui-
eipies at stake a it oei"ves tliein
he cot-.unned "seeing no method ex-
isting through which it can secure
peace and obtain its rights will turn
to the only method left and which
lias just been adopted war.
"In justice to the distinguished
senators they do not mean that
America should enter upon such a
cowardly course. They are only
anxious to secure the abandonment
of the demand for the present that
it might be charged against Wilson
that he failed in securing the only
thing of material worth for which
the nation fought and her children
died. Then as a political cry they
come forth proclaiming that the re-
OIPFERENCES SMALL
London. Jan. 2. Comparing the
speech of Premier Cleiuenceait be-
fore the French chamber of deputies
and President W ilson's address at
Manchester the Times argues there
i no fundamental discrepance be
tween the aims of the two men.
The newspaper savs;
All that M. Cleineneeau says of
difference contract we mav call
it between the positions ot l-'rance
is simple truth. France sees and
feels what a German invasion
means and demands absolute senil-
ity against a recurrence of the
danger she so n:-rowly escaped and
tne sufferings she yet endures.
"Mr. Wilson is equally determined
to deliver her from those exils.
Where M. Clctncneeau appears
most markedly to differ from Mr.
Wison in his confession of r. cer-
tain skeptic;-m as to the adequacy
i i any means except one t si cure
he iust el oms of Franco.
"There is o iueouipatib'.'i'ty be-
tween Mr. W'l'son's ideal and the
ciore pros ii.- "immediate object
which M. Cleineneeau sets before
France. One is the necessary stage-
to the attainment of the other. A
supreme fact is that both admitted-
ly desire the same immediate steps
and both albiet one with confi-
dence and the other with hesitation
look forward to the saute ultimate
gods. It is a promising feature of
the attitudes of the two statesmen
that neither affects to entertain extra-
agant hopes.''
The newspaper regards President
Wilson" views concerning the ma-
chinery of I lie subsequent read-
justment Ihe most valuable and im-
portant of his utterances and con
tends that only bv some such meth
od- a those advocated
son and by continuous
can "the burdens of tin
between America and
discharged and boii.e.
iv Mr. Wil
conferences
partnership
Europe be
i House and Clemenccau Talk
j Paris Jan. 2. 'The principal ob-
i ject Col." L. M. House had in view
in going to see President llson
New Year's morning xxas to tell him
l'u- re. ii i ei . Mf.vr-. 1KV v .la. ... -
the evening before with Premier
i Clemenccau." said a member of the
American delegation to the peace
congress to a representative of the
Petit Journal according to an ar-
ticle in that newspaper this morn-
ing. 'The conference." continued the
mericati "w as on the subject of the
i- ... i i i
various outstanding promem .mo
i also n the subiect of the pwiuier's
speech in the chamber of deput ies in
I which he rela'ed a conversation he
! had had with President Wilson
j Colonel I louse thoroughly went iu-
1 to all the problems which the states-
! men will be ca'b-d upon to solve. He
'also told President iLon about the
; interxiew In- bad had with Mr. A. J.
i Balfour the Briti-h foreign secre-
jtarv a few moment alter leaving
' Premier "U nienecaii. The colonel
' said he had di-ciissed the organiz.i-
lion of ti c peace
.nle'e-H-e
w ill'
the British delegate."
The newspaper quoted the "xiuer-
ican as adding that Secretary Bal-
four and Coloneld House found
theliiselxes in agreement ml Ihe sul.-
ject discussed (presumably covering
that touched upon m Col. Houses
talk with Brenner ( leiiieuceati I and
that their opinion "as well as that oi
all ihe Ameiic.ni representatives. s
identical and that I iigiaun ami .i
! I'nited Stale are in agreement
I "l a word we American dele-
I Rates are convinced a a result of
these cmx cra! ion that nothing in
Premier t leinenceau attitm
can
any
the
the
that
will
; jutif an apprclu n
i marked differences
.ion ol
between
great power
of the entente atu
.. and we believe
1 t line
ate
i tin- divergencies
now exciting
ed oxer."
be easily -month
SUFFRAGISTS KEEPING
"WATCH-FIRE" IN TUB
NEAR WHITE HOUSE
Washington. Jan. 2.- Members of
the National Women's party wear-
ing seamen' Slickers stood in driv-
ing rain on the sidexvalk before the
White House today to keep burning
in a metal waslitub their "watch-
fir." which they say will burn until
the senate acts favorably on the
woman suffrage amendment.
The lire was lighted in the tub
last night after citizens and men in
uniform had extinguished one tart-
ed in a decorative urn in l.atayetlc
square
Half a dozen women ar-
rested (luring tne disturbance ami
released without bond did not ap-
pear in police court.
publican senate to be constituted af-
ter the December session will under-
take the remedying of this wrong
and make the presidential issue upon
the charge of perfidy against our
president and infamy against our
party."
In closing Senator Lewis urged
united supporte for the president
while he is on foreign soil "contest-
ing for the supremacy of the United
States.'
DEPARTMENT
IS CFIITICI1 FOR
CASUALTY ERRORS
SENATOR WEEKS ALSO COM-
PLAINS OF DELAYS II
SOLDIER MAIL
CUES MANY INSTANCES
Says Red Cross Has Raceived 20
Letters a Day From Parents
Notified of Killing of Sons From
Whom They Received Letters
Eearing Later Dates.
Washington Jan. 2. The xvar de-
partment was sharply criticised in
the senate today by Senator Weeks
republican for delays and errors
in compiling casualties among the
expeditionary forces and for failure
to co-operate with the Red Cross
in the matter of forwarding letters
from wounded soldiers to relatives
in this country.
Criticism was directed especially
at the office of the adjutant-general
of the army Senator Weeks
saving that Major-General McCain
the adjutant-general who retired
l.at summer to command a divis-
ion and who xva succeeded by
Major-Gcucral Harris should have
been retained lie could not be-
lieve be said that a change in the
oft ice during the war w as business-
like or desirable.
Senator Weeks declared that the
I war department'
information as to
casualties oiten had been wrong.
"During the week ended Dec. 14"
be stater
an axe rag
'the Red Cross received
of 20 letters a day from
parents who had been advised by
the xvar department that their sous
had been killed on a specific date.
In every one of these cases the
parents. x n te that they had receiv-
ed communications from their
boys subsequent to the date given
by the war department. That seems
almost miraculous that so many
errors could have occurred in
cases of this kind."
It was also worth noting the
Massachusetts senator continued
that in sending reports of casualties
to families the war department
simply -"tated that the individual
had been killed or wounded with-
out further information and so far
as be knew the department had no
furtlk-r information on the sub-
ject. "That work" he added "has
verv properly been taken up by the
Ped Cross and it is testified' that
in Ihe neighborhood of 10000 let-
ters a week have been sent to the
families of those killed or injured
giving the facts relating to the
death or condition of the injured
man."
Describing Red Cross methods.
Senator W eeks said that agency in
August located in French hospitals
200 American soldiers reported
missing v tlK. w;ir department.
HOW MANY EGGS WOULD
A PACK OF CIGARETTES
BUY HERE IN ARDMORE?
With the American Forces on the
Dwina. Dec. 12 (Correspondence of
The Associated Press) A tobacco
famine has become so pronounced
in the territory along the Dwina
and Vaga rivers where Kusso-allied
troops are operating in northern
Russia that the peasants are willing
to exchange almost anything they
have for small quantities of tobacco
and cigarettes.
The correspondent went ashore
from a flat-bottom paddle-wheel
steamer with a packet of ten very
bad cigarettes and secured in ex--cliange
12 eggs a half bushel of po-
tatoes and 10 pound of cheese. Dur
ing the past six mouths the tobacco-
growing country in the south has
been cut off from the north by bat-
tle lines and the supply soon was
exhausted. The peasants have been
smoking tea leaves tree leaves and
dried moss.
Weather Forecast
Ardinorc and all Oklahoma:
Tonight fair continue-! cold;
Friday fair somewhat wanner.
Arkansas; Tonight and Friday
fair continued cold.
East Texas: Tonight generally
fair except cloudy on tiie coast
freezing to coast temperature 10
to 22 in north portion and 21 to
28 in interior of .south portion;
Friday generally fair somewhat
warmer in northwest portion.
West Texas; Tonight fair
slightly warmer in Panhandle;
Friday fair slightly warmer in
north portion.
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