The Oklahoma County News (Jones City, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, November 24, 1916 Page: 4 of 12
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UNITED STATES WILL BUILI
MORE BATTLESHIPS THAN
EVER BEFORE.
ARMOR CONTRACTS AWARDEf
Steel Plate Costs the Same, But Am
munition Has Been Raised
By European
Demand.
Washington.—In accordance with
custom in the diplomatic service, all
American ambassadors and ministers
abroad are expected to resign as a se- I
quel to President Wilson's re-election
and succession to a new term of office. |
Many of them were appointed orig-
inally without special knowledge on
their part of the peculiar requirements j
of the posts. Some had no intention i
of remaining abroad more than one I
term of four years.
Foreign policies will engross a large
part of President Wilson’s attention in |
the immediate future to an extent nev
er contemplated when he first as
sumed office. It la regarded as essen- I
tial that in the development of the
larger plans of the administration in
foreign intercourse the president
should have specially selected atnbas-1
«adors and ministers to meet the do
mantis
each case.
Fortunately the practice which has
become general in the American dip
, r> j tw -i British attack on about five-mile front on both sides of Ancre river
veil rM^^%heCr f7eS1?.em R"0,r I fur nor,h as OotmnerW, capturing villages of Beaumont Herne! and
resignations of ml. f St. Pierre Divion and advancing lines to depth of a mile. Second day s battle
the ambassadors and ministers, win i results in capturing of Beaueourt-aur-Ancre. -.-Berlin reports artillery tire
afford President Wilson the opportu- dispersed British attacks before German positions south of Warleucourt and
nity to carry out plans he has for a | west of Eaucourt L Abbaye. 3.-Berl!n reports French attacked on both sides
very considerable reorganization of of Sailly-Sallllsel. hut Germans continue to hold east end of town,
the diplomatic service.
That a considerable number of the
incumbents will be asked to remain in
office is a certainty, but some do not
wish to remain and some have proved
unequal to the heavy requirements of
their stations. It Is said that in the
course of one of his informal talks to |
newspaper men some time ago Presi
dent Wilson had precisely this situa-
RETAKE MONASTIR
notable victory attained in
THE BALKAN CAMPAIGN.
when Veheram»rl^'- ‘D ““ntl ! UN,TED STATES PROTEST FORCED
wnen he remarked some men grow Btnonw.w.e..
In office and ofher shrivel up” EPORTATION OF THE
| BELGIANS.
German Advance In Transylvania Still
Making Progress.—Bad Weather
Halts Operations In West.
CHINA BORROWS_S5,000,000.00 uw gp NATIONS VIOLATED
Secretary Lansing Sanctions Deal Be-
tween Empire and Bankers.
Washington.—A loan of *5,000,000 in
gold has been made by the Continental
and Commercial National bank of Chi
cago to the Chinese government
through Its minister here. V. K. Wei-
lington Koo. The Chinese legation
announced that the money already had
been placed to the credit of the Chin-
ese government. Secretary Lansing
approving the contract.
The contract was signed by Dr. Koo
and Arthur Reynolds, first vice presi-
dent of the bank. The loan is for
three years and is secured by the
hypothecation of certain taxes. Lega-
tion officials did not go into details
as to the purpose of the loan.
Loans to China, particularly through
New York bankers, not only have
been repeatedly negotiated for during
the past year but have been regarded
as essential to China’s continued free-
dom from revolution. European bank-
ers have been unable to raise funds
for China and American bankers here-
tofore have refused either because of
the rates of Interest in Europe, lack
of security offered by China or the
withdrawal of the American govern-
ment’s support from the original 6
power group.
As Well As Promise to America—Un-
fortunates Forced to Relieve
Men Sent to Firing Lines,
Averred.
London.—After having been for
months without c "ountry, the Serb-
ians are again to establish their cap
ital no native soil. Monastir, in south
ern Serbia, for which the entente
torces have been struggling since thi
advance from their base at Saloniki
began, has been evacuated by the Ger-
man and Bulgarian forces and occu-
Washington—Deportation of Bel-
gian civilians Into Germany for forced
labor has reached such serious pro-
portions that American charge Grew.
>t Berlin, has been directed by the
date department to take the mattei
ip personally with Chancellor von
\\ ashington.—While Secretary Dan
j iels was awarding contracts for armoi
; plate for the four batleships author
j tied at the last session of congress
! and approving plans for an ammuni
j tion ship, the last vessel designed fot
the 1917 building program, the appro
priations sub-committee of the house
naval committee began work on the
191S estimates, the heaviest in Amer-
ican history, to be presented to con
gress this winter.
The navy department’s 1918 figures
contemplate construction of half of the
I ships yet to be bniid in the great three-
>ear program and show total appropri-1
| aiions cf $379,197,701, or more than
$66,000,000 in excess of the record to- J
j tal appropriated last summer.
Contracts fer the armor plate w hich
will go on the Colorado, Maryland,
pnd West Virginia were awarded tc |
the Bethlehem and Carnegie Steel
companies, each receiving half of the
work.
Prices Are the Same.
i A statement analyzing the contracts
says that, despite the unprecedented
European demand for plate, the prices
offered were approximately the same
as those paid three years ago when
the Pennsylvania was being construct-
ed. The figures are:
Armor plate, class A-l, 14,479.2 tons
to each company at $420 a ton to Beth
Iehem and $425.to Carnegie; 820 tons
of A 2 class to each at $485 to Bethle-
hem and $425 to Carnegie and 820 tons
class B at $466 a ton to Bethlehem and
$460 to Carnegie.
The department estimates before
house sub committee call for funds to
begin construction of three battle
ships, one battle cruuser, three scout
cruisers, sixteen destroyers, four fleet
submarines, fourteen coast sub-
marines, one submarine tender and
one destroyer tender.
It is understood the navy general
board urged that the two battle cruis-
ers remaining on the three-year pro-
gram and four of the six battleships
to be placed in the 1918 estimates.
The department decided, however,
I I t n i h.....I i
to x
SC ACS or SHADES IN INCHES.
2 to » j to * 8388
lover 4 Inches.
The average precipitation for Oklahoi
vompaK-d with a
i»la. The rainfall varied greatl
sufficient to break the dro
jnche«. compared with a normal of 2.5!
reatly in dltierent parts of the
ht that prevailed in most weetio:
DreaK ine rtr°ught that prevailed In most
•• <except in the extreme northwestern
raln* averaged less than half an Inch and where win
HIS OF THE
STATE CAPITAL
for the month of October was 2.34
ge of 3.69 in October,
state, but was generally
during the latter part
counties, where the October
nter wheat needs moisture.
IOBQJ1
>9 Inones and an averai
different parts of th
farmers invited to bank
HEARING—SEVENTY-FIVE
ARE SELECTED.
NEWS FROM STATE OFFICES
What the State Officials and Depart-
ments Are Doing—Items of In-
terest About the State
Government.
pied by the French and Serbs.
The French-Serbians having cap J to divide the new construction equally
crest of hills partly sur | between the 1918 and 1919 bills.
tnred the
rounding the valley town, the Ger-
mans found their position untenable
and withdrew, according 10 Berlin, to
a new position north of Monstir. Un-
official advices from Saloniki say (hat
'“oII"'e8’ The <',larfe wme a temporary capital of Serbia will be
ion could I0,?*, t,h SUCh df>PTa immedia,ely established at Monastir
-ion could not but have a most unfor A
unate effect on neutral opinion, par Southeast of Monastir the French
Icalarly upon the United Slates Serbian troops continue to make
which has the welfare of the Belgian I " ,heCer"a rirer "K on <,Sainst
ivilian population very much at
leart.
The instructions grew out of a long
eport from Charge Grew in which
be stated that he had discussed the
dtuatiou informally and unofficially
with Under Secretary of Foreign At
Ammunition Goes Up.
Rear Admiral Strauss, chief of ord-
nance. explaining an item in his esti-
mates of $1,500,000 for fleet ammuni-
tion. said the cost of projectiles and
other ordnance material had increased
that much since congress provided
$12,000,000 for the purpose last year.
Prices of small she’ls, he said, were
gonig down, indicating a decreasing
demand from Europe, but large shells
showed a 20 per cent increase of last
year’s quotations.
At another point, Admiral Strauss
Oklahoma City—
Seventy-nve influential farmers
from all sections of the state will be
asked to appear before the federal
'and bank board at its hearing which
will be held in Oklahoma City. The
men to be called upon for testimony
in regard to conditions in Oklahoma
were selected at a meeting of the local
farm bank committee.
Definite assurance that William G.
McAdoo, secretary of the treasury,
Fine Shipment of Cattle.
Ninety-nine head of fat 3-year-old
steers owned by J. C. Petree of El
Reno and reputed to be among the
best cattle ever received in Oklahoma
City, formed a magnet which drew to
the Oklahoma National stockyards
Governor Williams, Mayor Overholser,
N. H. Lingenfelter, secretary of the
state board of agriculture; John
Field, editor of the Oklahoma Far-
mer; T. P. Martin, Jr., president of
the Oklahoma Stockyards National
bank; J. M. Owen, newly-elected pres-
ident of the Oklahoma State Fair asso-
ciation, and other local notables.
The cattle exemplified all that the
state board of agriculture has advo- "
cated for years—"Drive your feed to
market.” They have been fattening
on alfalfa and com on the Petree-
ranch since last April. Every animal
was in perfect flesh and condition and
stockmen ventured the opinion that
the price buyers would give for them
would approach, or, possibly, exceed
the top mark of $10.25 for the local
yards.
In Clearings,
clearings in
Tulst Second
Although bank clearings in the
United States last week decreased to
'5,307,410,000 as compared with tho
record of $5,912,768,0oo or the previous
will be in Oklahoma City at the time J!?’ 7“", 7° repre9®nta’
of the federal board’s land bank hear- “L“ la
ing here was received by Acting Sec-
retary Vance of the Chamber of Com-
merce.
The following Is a list of the farm-
ars chosen as witnesses by the Okla-
homa City committees:
Keiley. Hooker; Bert F. Whit.
H. N.
Carmen
H. C. Totten, Homestead; L.’
the Teutonic allies, having captured
several other towns in tin* region.
Force Way Through Passes.
On the Transylvania front the Aus- I outlined the department’s scheme" for
tro-German armies at almost ail poims storing in navy yard guns and anfmu-
continue to make progress against the nition with which to equip merchant
. . . Russian and Roumanian forces or to j steamers as naval auxiliaries in time
airs Zimmerman. The latter admitted | hold them back without gains when j of war
hat a definite policy nad been adopt they attack. The latest report from
Hi to enforce the labor of Belgians in Berlin say the Teutonic allies have
■ases where they would not work vol- forced the narrow mountain passes
rntartly, on the ground that so many leading to the Walachian plain of Kou-
•efused to work as to wake the strain mania and on the Danube fiont near
-n public charity Intolerable. ] ,he junction of Hungary. Serb4 and
More than $3,000,000 for the pur
chase of guns and mountings for this
purpose was provided last year, and
this year the department seeks $1,500,
000 for ammunition.
The deparement also has
"aacan
K PMSSSSr. Gfe4*r!ml,h’-
E.
r<. i.
garden:
iAiido. P K Slack Cieo: I) C. Hvbarger
Maxwell; Frank franklin. Vlnita; L B
Mcabcr Thomas; R A. Lyle, Chlekasha
F;, >v B!a:r: D D Thomp-
5°P’» A- K T/ong, Newkirk; H ('
Lcokahaugh, Watonga; R. L. Peeblv R
CalvS’^11-0™ --'U>' S’ H Willbanka:
cities leading in the prosperity lisL
Canton, Ohio, whose clearings last
week amounted to $5,442,000—an In-
crease of 199.1 per cent over the clear-
ings of the corresponding week in 1915
Tulsa, with clearings of $4,789,000
and a percentage of 176.1 was second;
Cleveland, Ohio, with clearings of $65.-
310000 and a percentage of 84.2, was
third and Oklahoma city, with clear-
^h" ! 105,000 and a percentage of
81.6, was fourth.
J. H.
« &y°Kr£
R V .Schooling. Fort Cobb; Will Dilling-
ham. Okmrche} G. W tsu.
more: John Haggerma
ickholts, Ar
May; J.
_ -........w'man, May: J H
Trammell, Cartersville: M. H. Portwood!
Shu ping. Newkirk;
: Arthur Bell,
via. Sam pell;
~ T<
HOUSE RETURNS ARE UNCHANGED
The deportation** are viewed here ' Ronm 1 iL* I 1 imminent ais<
nniv « f a/ ! U have reached the Orsova-j mended installation of
>t only as a violation of international IOmimn ii n .----- . _____
recom-
vot only
aw, but in
anti-air craft
violation of international | Craiova railroad. Bucharest reports a | guns a. naval stations, magazines and
Republicans Appear To Have Small
Plurality,
lot-many s Zs“o AnZZol I
ierard last June which, though relat
ng to the 20,000 French women and
4irls deported from
Had weather is nampering the oper-
Ialiens on the western from in France.
Lille. Roubaix
Washington.—No change in the ap-
parent political alignment of the
Sixty-fifth congress has occurred thus
far as a result of uncompleted can-
vasses of the votes in close districts.
Democratic leaders who had hoped
to gain one m
ind Turcoing. are felt to be appli-
able to the Belgian situation.
The deportations are regarded by
ome officials here as an attempt to
-elease German workers for the firing
ine by replacing them with Belgians.
VILLA MASSACRE AT PARRAL, MEX.
radio stations, the standing estimates
pro\ idfhg $1,000,000 for this purpose.
It wil take more than 100 of the navy’s
3-inch 50-caliber guns for this
pose.
pur
Foreigners In
ported
Mining Town
Kilied.
OZARK CONVENTION 8 G SUCCESS
R. $. Blair: H. J. MR____ ____|
Henry Brow ley, R. 3, Moore; G. ^om
Beaver. R. 3, Lawton: Tom Pirtle. Taylor;
ir Stoalabarger, Bluejacket; W. O.
z1*!’ ^ H Bushman. Weath-
erford; W T Killian. Grove: S. H. \\5iit-
tenbery Taloga; John Oabtree. Gage
\V E Shocklev. North Knid: J. R. Tol-
P- Henry, Tuttle:
bu£: Hrsbyk»:.
r, ia -wd-T-arr! D. T. Mack.
Knld; E J Murphy, Clinton: ,T. T
Howanl. Ijiwton: M 8 Simpson, Law-
Hichoii’ S.„lran3p,?r- a-f":'™' <*«•*«•
lolk
tanooga
iton,
H
n: D
Ed Bledsoe. Fleteh
_ _. -ra: A. M Ran to. Fre
K P MtP'ams. Snhnrn: W M Ltt'hthurn.
-nuiF. Hulen; .L H.’ ETwards. Cr.che:
K A. Jones. Lawton: D. C Welah. Chat-
tier:
Fr,
r. h
tanooi
E P .. ...... . ......... ..
Capron Henr^- Roth. VTere J. K Loiik
Wagoner; J. E. Xebhutt. Cheyenne.
Election Measures Reported Defeated,
It was definitely stated by the state
election board that both election
measures were defeated by the “silent
vote" by from 10,000 to 15,000 votes.
According to the direct yes and no-
vote the affirmative vote is higher
than the negative but the constitution
provides that such propositions must
receive a majority of all votes cast
in the election at which they are sub-
mitted.
Officials of the socialist party who
initialed both propositions, one being
for the adoption of the socialist elec
tion law, the other the' repeal of the
registration law, insist both proposi-
tions carried and are threatening
court proceedings to determine w heth-
er the measures were legally defeated
10,000
Juarez. Max Weber, the German
*“ **" 680
Avlatrlx Breaks American Records botn from Chinese and Mexican refu boosters, delegates poured into Okla
Flight. J gees arriving here from Jimenex that J noma City. For two hours a steady
Villa had ordered all of Ihe foreigners
when announcement was made of com-
plete official returns showing that
Whit P. Martin, progressive, had been
elected over Wade Martin by ninety-
nine votes.
In the Tenth North Carolina dis-
trict where democratic * leaders are
predicting that canvass of the returns
in
Oklahoma City Entertains
Trail Delegates.
Oklahoma Ctiy.—Exceeding all the
advance predictions as to numbers,
which had been made by Ozark Trails
For Single
r»i . .. i —--------— —* »u. j procession of automobiles, estimated , ... ....
Binghamton, N. Y.-Attempting a j in Parral and the Parral district killed variously at 2.500 to 3.000 out-of-town J district the west-
Bankruptcy Since January.
Merchants head the list of bank
rupts and farmers are second, accord-
ing to the docket of J D. Taylor, ref-
eree in bankruptcy. Salesmen make
up the class standing third place in
number of business collapses and rail-
road switchmen are fourth.
Since January 1, 1016. eighty-one
men and women have used the bank-
non-stop flight from Chicago to New , These refugees, he said.
York. Miss Ruth Law. guiding a Cur
iss biplane of the military scout type,
battered all American long distance
had come
Buncombe county will show Repre irlation records for a single flight
sentative J J Britt, republican, has i when she flew from Chicago to Hur
been defeated by Zebulon Weaver,! tell. New York, a distance by railroad
democrat, the result s2111 is in doubt.; 'f about 690 miles, bettering by about
In the Thirtieth Pennsylvania dis-, '00 miles the record made ■
trict the canvass showed M. Clyde j Carlstrom
Kelly, progressive, gaining on William
H Coleman, republican, and the demo-
crats stll have some hope of overturn-
ing the result in the Twenty first Penn-
sylvania district.
by Victor
on November 1.
A delayed start and a
hat cut down her speed and forced
Mer to descend to replenish the gaso-
ine supply were responsible for her
allure to reach New York City.
C. R. I. & P. PLANS ARE OPPOSED
Chicago Stockholder Sees Joker In
Reorganization Scheme.
Chicago.—Charles Q. Dawes, Chi-
cago banker, speaking as a stock-
holder, telegraphed to Seward Pros-,
from Jimenez after talking with their
countrymen who had arrived there
from Parral.
That five, perhaps six, Americans
already have been killed by Villistas
at Parral became known her upon the
arrival of a Chinese refugee, who de
dared virtually all the foreigners in
I the town and its vicinity had been
cross-wind j slaughtered.
The Chinese said those killed in
eluded Americans, Germans. Jews.
French and Arab residents of the min-
ing camp.
ern district of Oklahoma. Fifteen of
them were merchants. During the
same period in 1915, sixty-one persons
were adjudged bankrupt.
The crowds ro I the doc*e‘ fn ™«ree
_________| tailors office, a merchant passing
through the ordeai of bankruptcy usu-
ally has assets valued at sums ranging
from $300 to $3,000. When a salesman
is bankrupt or a railroad switchman
j .v ... i *oes broke there are seldom
and they were st.ll coming The great- Iisted and ,he I)abilit|e9 m ashe,s
est highways convention in Ihe world's | $&00 to J5 000
cars with 500 ipcal machines, paraded j
the principal streets of the city.
The visitors were heartily received j
Thirty thousand people of this city
lammed ihe streets
malned on the streets until after sun
lown, when the last of the p-traders I
had gone by.
It was stated at headquarters that
5.000 delegates registered the first day
Russell Drops His Amendment.
The time in which Senator Campbell
Russell, corporation commissioner
elect, could file his completed petition
for the submission of his plan to vi-
talizo section 12-A of the constitution
exp red without the petition being
filed. Section 12-A was adopted its
191.1 and provides that all senool taxes
collected on public service corporaiiOD
shall be paid Into the common school
mnd of the state and distributed the
same as other school taxes. Senator
Russell stated that he was unable to
get the required number of signatures.
vary from
history will number more than 10,000,
ifficials say, as a conservative esti
mate.
bankrupts
the small
TO CONTEST NEW SENATORS j
Into the
To Many Blacks Imported
North.
Washington-
atbered on wl
Is being
contents on
U-Boat Attack Feared.
New Orleans—W. C. Dufour. vice
president of the Bluefieids Fruit and
Steamship Company left here fot
Washington to petition the slate de
partment to proride protection from
THIRTEEN MISTAKEN FOR DEER
, L ---J "WRI
the new registration lew A xww™
of Rlnglliig, speaker of the last house
Is also mentioned as a candidate.
•er. chairman of the f °T-*r |»ubmartnes for the merchant steamers
committee of the Rock island, that the I and ovef^naL^Chm'on'^w^. I and U*b°n’ recer,lv P“«ha,*a
reorganization pian authorizes . vot
ing trust which could deprive stock-
holders of control of the road. Mr
Dawes said he represented the views
of himself and others bolding 208,000
shares of stock.
V irginia, and of Jamos S. Watson over
■Senator Taggart of Indiana. It ha;
been charged by the democrats tha>
in states where the republicans trl
umphed by small majorities n eg roe;
from the south bad been colonized.
vessels are being brought from Havre
to New Orleans The steamers now
fly the American flag, but it was stated
they will be transferred to Nicaraguan
registry for service in the company
Central American trade.
One Hunter Dies of Heart Disease;
Five Ithers Are Seriously Injured.
Escansba. Mich—Thirteen deaths
since September 1 have been reported
in Michigan, twelve of them due di-
rectly to hunting acidents. and one to
heart disease while hunting. In add!
tion there have been five serious in-
juries. Since the deer season opened,
November 10. there have been six
deaths. These are in addition to the
thirteen specified.
Most of the merchant
owned general stores in
towns.
Here is the classification bv
her and vocation of the bankrupts in I St*'c Audl‘» County-. Records
western Oklahoma for 1916, to date: ,h ' L", ! ,""1 ‘""Rector is
Merchants, 15; farmers. 13: I.ci f..l! !‘ ol**»hoiu» author
Barrett to Continue as Publicity Agent.
The anouncement by C. F. Barrett
lmi ho would continue as director ot
the democratic press bureau leaves
only one avowed candidate at present
fo seeretary of the senate of the forth-
Is Jo,f 7h" °f t'"> *p*lsla,llre- That
‘h Joe Morris the Incumbent The
secretary ia ox officio sncre.ary of
."'T'"" boar<l «'"i ox-offl.
clo slate registrar, having the power
.0i„n‘“:.,nK "" -unty reglstrara undet
men, 7; switchmen. 4,; housewives 3
druggists, 3; oil men. 3; bookkeepers’
2; real estate, 2; clerks, 2; milliners,'
2; and one each of contractor, at a
tionary fireman, plumber, sinner, I sinners of Grady
wholesaler, jewelry, horse and mulo 1 sioners eomra^
!7 law ............. audita of eoumv
rtcords, neemiling i„ -•
• court, in ihtt ease of
; Patch Printing ami Audit
against tile hoard of
‘he supreme
Ihe News-Dts-
Uimpany
county ooutmis-
°"u“ty, The conimis
buyer, cut Hone worker. carpeuToL j to makaTriudR^,7? V
.11 ‘on-ole......... I . . j
grocer, printer retail jewelrymani mV I laln eounTy 'uffidaU U'l*r>>'
etv* Eleven"are ZZTiZZkmZ. I c^mmUaionM,'‘h«
eou. lUt of occupations not given. j contract wa.
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