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MOUNTAIN VIEW TRIBUNE-PROGRESS
HERE and THERE
WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF
PARAGRAPHS
PEACE NOTES.
I Ben F. Allen, member of the Preei
dentlal party and Washington corree
pendent of the Cleveland Plain Dealer
and James R. Patterson, Portland
Ore, driver of the motor car, were
killed and three Injured when a motor
car, containing members of the party
accompanying President Wilson on a
scenic trip over the Columbia High
j way near Portland, Ore., overturned.
According to the Rome correspon-1 + + +
dent of the Exchange Telegraph Com- Seventeen enemy alien prisoners at
pany, an official communication has 1 th« war Pr‘»°n barracks at Fort Doug-
been issued there announcing that *8, near Salt Lake City, escaped re-
General Badoglio had arrived at Flume cently by way of a tunnel constructed
and issued a proclamation urging sol- underneath the wire inclosure of the
dlers who had followed d'Annunzio to
return to their respective regiments.
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The supreme council has agreed to
■end a note,to Germany saying the
peace et nferenee disregards the Ger-
man repre <ontatlons that Gen. von der
Goltz, and the German troops In the
° Baltic states are not under German
control, and bolding "Germany respon-
sible for the speedy withdrawal of
those forces. • °
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Albanian refugees arriving In Paris
from Koritza and the surrdundiug dis-
trict bring reports of the terror In-
spired by the advance of Greek troops
into that territory which formerly was
controlled by the French, who entered
the district In 1916 and gave pledges
that It would b£ considered a part of
Albania. ° •
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Premier Nittl, In a statemept In the
chamber of deputies regarding, the
Flume raid, announced that the com-
mander of the 6th Army Corps had
been ordered to Intercept and disarm
Gabriele D’ArinunzIo’s' troops but that
these troops refused to .obey the Corn-
Bander’s order. 0
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Winston Spencer Churchill, British
secretary of war, denies that there
has been any change in the British
policy to evacuate North Russia.
Evacuation, however, had been re-
tarded, owing to the necessity of bring-
ing away many Russians who are in
danger of their lives, as well as women
•nd children.
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In the Belgium Chamber of Deputies
the finance minister formally an-
nounced the gift by the Belgian relief
committee through Herbert Hoover of
the final assets of the commission
amounting to about 16 million dollars.
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WASHINGTON.
With some cases of Influenza re-
ported by the United States Public
Health Service efforts will be made to
spur Congress Into taking steps that
will prevent a general recurrence of
the disease. Representative Fess,
Ohio, has introduced a bill providing
for government investigations In the
bope of finding a cure for the plague,
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After several futile attempts to ob-
tain the Austrian treaty from Presi-
dent Wilson, Senator Lodge, the Re-
publican leader, laid before the Sen-
ate the copy of the pact presented to
him recently by the Chicago Tribune.
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TTiero Is no shortage of anthracite
or hard coal for domestic purposes and
there Is no such thing ab shortage of
cars for transporting this coal, tha
subcommittee of the Senate committee
on interstate commerce wub surprised
to learn recently.
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Postal officials at Washington have
decided to cut off parcel post sales of
army food to the public on September
26 because the publle response to the
opportunity has been bo poor. Not
more than ten per cent of the sup-
plies have been taken.
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A bill making It a federal offense
to transport stolen motor cars In In-
terstate or foreign commerce has been
introduced by Representative L. K.
Dyer of Missouri, which provides for
a maximum flue of 85,000 and five
years in jail.
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Anti-profiteering" legislation, which
President Wilson told Congress he
must be armed with to batter down
the high .cost of living necessities,
Jias been passed by the Senate. The
bill had previously passed the House
and will become the law us soon as
the chief executive affixes his sig-
nature.
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DOMESTIC.
Police Commissioner Curtis, with
ful knowledge of the proposal of
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor that the striking
policemen return to work, issued an
order that no striking policeman was
to be allowed to return to duty or to
be permitted to loiter about any sta-
tion bouse in Boston.
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Concluding its annual encampment
mt Columbus. O., the Grand Army of
the Republics w’ent on record as op-
posed to the League of Nations as pre-
sented by President Wilson, voted to
maintain its identity so long as a
single post existed, and elected Col.
James D. Ben of Brooklyn comman-
der-in-chief.
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The steady growth of the national
bank system Is shown in a report by
Comptroller of the Currency Williams,
for the first eight months of the year.
Charters were granted 161 banks, with
a capital of $16,476,00'), and approval
given for $37,98S,000 increase in the
capital of 235 banks.
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Four miners were shot and killed
and * fifth was shot and badly
wounded in the Tomboy mine near
Tellurdle, Colo., by to unidentified
masked men. who escaped. Four men
and a woman axe under arrest.
prison. An early check of those miss-
ing indicates that none of„the import-
ant prisoners escaped.
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Herbert Hoover, former director
general of Allied relief, came borne
recently after five years’ service
abroad, during which be distributed
more than 600 steamship cargoes, or
3.219,968 tons of foodstuffs, valued at
at $770,795,000, to starving Europe. 8
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The strike of United States Steel
Corporation employees, set for Sep-
tember 22, will be deferred until after
the industrial conference in Washing-
ton, ^called for October 6 by President
Wilson, it was learned from a reliable
source recently.
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SOUTHWEST.
E: E. Brock, 64 years old/employed
at the Frisco yards at Lawtoh,- Ok1a.,
was killed when the big steel hopper
used" in filling tenders with cdaL fe’,1
on him.. »Brock was in a flat car di
rectly beneath when the dipper, half
full of coal, which had just been hoist-
ed, crashed down.
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A telephone report from Beeville,
sixty miles inland from Corpus Christl,
Texas, Bays 120 bodies have been
found on a reef eight miles from Port-
land, near White Point. Most of the
dead have been recognized as residents
of Corpus Christ).
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Thirteen persons are dead and a
score of others injured in an explosion
of grain dust which wrecked the Mur-
ray Elevator Company’s gigantic
building at North Kansas City an
building at North Kansas City, gave
Kansas City an earthquake scare and
scattered debris and victims over a
radius of 100 yards. The monetary
loss was estimated at approlmately
83,600,000,
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Driving furiously into the Texas
coast, principally in the section south-
west of Galveston, the tropical hurri-
cane that has skirled the United
States gulf coast for nearly a week
apparently has swept inland near the
Mexican border.
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Lula Haford, 10; Mabel Kelly, 14;
Cora Kirkpatrick, 16, were killed;
Charles Haford is dying, and Charles
Haford, Jr., 12, Is seriously Injured,
as a result of a crossing tragedy at
Mulberry, near Fort Smith, Ark., their
uutomobile being struck by a St. Louis,
Iron Mountain A Southern passenger
train.
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FOREIGN.
Austria continue to drift towards
an Internal situation approaching the
choatlc and leading men and tha
newspapers are beginning to voice ap-
prehension as to what may follow un-
less a strong central government can
wold the country Into a more harmon-
ious national whole.
4 4 4
Following closely on a speech de-
livered by Viscount French, lord lieu-
tenant and governor general of Ireland,
at Belfast, the authorittles have pro-
claimed the suppression of the Shin
Fein parliament and Sinn Fein organ-
izations throughout Ireland.
4 4 4
ibe remainder of Admiral Kol-
chak's southern army, in the region
of Aktiubinsk and Orlk, has surren-
to the Bolsheviki, it is claimed in a
dispatch from Moscow.
4 4 4
Grand Duke Michael Alexandro-
vitch. brother of the former Russian
emperor, who made Ills escape from
Perm, where he was imprisoned by
the Bolsheviki, haso reachnd Admiral
Kolchak’s headquarters. He is known
to only a few of Kolchak’s officers,'
and is preparing to act in the role oof
pretender to the Imperial throne.
4 4 4
Admiral Kolchak, in pursuing his of-
fensive against the Bolsheviki, has
broken their front in three places, ac-
cording to official information reach-
ing here recently. The progress of
the All-Russian counter movement, it
is stated, threatened to outflank the
Bolsheviki forces advancing from
Tobolsk. , <i
4 4 4
The Chino-Japanese military con-"
vention signed last year with a view
to co-ordinating the efforts of China
and Japan in Siberia has been under
discussion recently between Tokio
and Peking. The present understand-
ing is that the agreement will be ab-
rogated, but that a secret arrange-
ment in the same sense will be con-
cluded.
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The Dirigible R-33, carrying govern-
ment officials, representatives of air-
craft interests and commercial men.
left Pulham. Eng., recently for a trip
across the continent. It is the inten-
tion to have the airship pass over
Amsterdam and proceed to Paris and
then return to London.
4 4 4
Premiers Lloyd George and Cleinen-
ceau had a satisfactory conference re-
cently on the subject of Syria. A tem-
porary arrangement was reached for
the regulation of the situation and
was approved by tha supreme council.
RECONSTRUCTION IS
OF BIG IMPORTANCE
Time to Spruce Up Car Neglected
During Great War.
Joseph B. Thompson, of Pauls Val-
ley, representative in congress from
the Fifth Oklahoma district, died sud-
lenly on a train at Martinsburg, W.
Va„ while on his way to Oklahoma
City.
Death resulted from heart failure,
luperinduced by Brlght’p disease,
shout an hour after his train bad left
Washington to bring him home for a
short visit through his district.
His son, Lieutenant Joseph B.
Thompson, was with him when the
end came. His wife and other son,
James M. Thompson, were at Wash-
ington.
Health Poor Three Years.
Mr. Thompson had been In declin-
ing health for the past two or three
years, but his condition was not re-
garded serious by his friends. He
had been attending his congressional
duties, and only a few days ago took
part in a spirited debate in the house.
He was coming home to be here on
Wilson day at the slate fair, and to
look after Borne private interests in
the Texas oil field, as well as make a
short tour of his congressional dis-
trict.
His body was sent back to Wash-
ington to be prepared for burial, and
then sent to Pauls Valley for burial.
In Congress Seven Years.
Mr. Thompson was born in Gray-
son county, Texas, near Whitewright,
48 years ago. He was elected as a
congressman at large from Oklahoma
to the Sixty-third congress In 1912
and has represented the Fifth district
—the Oklahoma City district—since
its creation by the Fourth legislature
in 1913.
SIEEL SHE
STATE POLICE IN PENNSYL-
VANIA RIDE INTO CROWD
OF LABORERS
SOME HURT; MANY ARRESTED
Corporation Swears In 4,000 Men As
Deputies To Protect Plants In
Case of Attempted
Violence.
Pittsburg.—Clashes between Penn-
sylvania state police and crowds bent
on holding labor mass meetings in
the Pittsburg district Sunday ushered
in the strike in the iron and steel in-
dustry. The most serious disturb-
ances occurred at North Clairton, 20
miles from Pittsburg. Later in the af-
ternoon, where • the state troopers
charged a crowd of0union men hold-
ing a mass meeting and broke it up.
Rosistgncet, was offered "and it is
charged by union leaders that the
mounted policemen used their clubs
vigorously and injured a number in
the crowd. About a dozen men were
arrested.
Disturbance At McKeesport.
William Z. Foster, secretary of the
national .committee for organizing
iron workers said0that a vigorous pro-
test frould be lodged with the state
government against what, he termed
a “murderous attack upon law abiding
citizens.’’
Some of the blast furnaces of the
Carnegie Steel Company are located
at Clairton.
There was a slight disturbance at
McKeesport, where union organizers
attempted to hold a mass meeting in
defiance of the proclamation of May-
or George Lysle forbidding public
gatherings. More than 2,500 steel
workers and sympathizers were
gathered near the southern limits of
the city when a squad of McKeesport
police dispersed them, driving the
crowd inton Glassport, an adjoining
borough.
When the crowd again began to as-
semble in Glassport the local police
appeared and ordered the meeting dis-
persed. The crowd refused to move
and a detachment of mounted state po-
lice appeared and with drawn clubs
broke up the meeting. No one was
Injured. Two aliens were arrested for
refusing to obey orders to “move on.”
„ He was a graduate of the law de-
partment of the University of Texas,
and came to Oklahoma when a young
man, locating first at Pauls Valley.
He practiced law for a number of
years at Ardmore with his brother,
J, C. Thompson. At Pauls Valley he
practiced law with S. T. Bledsoe and
W. A. Ledbetter, now of Oklahoma
City.
If the vacancy in the Fifth district,
resulting from the death of Congress-
man J. B. Thompson is filled prior to
the regular congressional election
next Bummer the Governor will have
to call a special election in the dis-
trict for this purpose.
If the governor elects, the place
may be left vacant until ‘.he regular
elections, but this course was con-
sidered highly Improbable by demo-
cratic leaders. The appointive power
does not extend to representatives in
congress, and the only way the place
can be filled is by a special election.
Term Expires in 1920.
The Fifth district is overwhelming-
ly democratic, and in view of this it
is not believed the governor will hesi-
tate to call the election.
Mr. Thompson’s term, for which he
was elected last November, does not
expire until a year from the coming
March, and whoever is elected as his
successor in the special election will
serve until that time.
Mr. Thompson is the first member
of the Oklahoma congressional dele-
gation to die while serving in con-
gress and the special election, if call-
ed, will be the first held in the state
for this purpose.
TREArnWIIDEO TO BULGARIA
Col. Arthur Woods, Assistant to Sec-
retary of War, Recommends Em-
ployment of Returning Sol-
diers to Make Repairs.
How about your motor car? OF
course, you let her lose class some-
what during the war. It was unpa-
triotic to use labor or paint on your
car at a time when American Indus-
try was working at top speed to pro-
duce the material necessary for the
winning of the war.
But the war is over. Labor is no
longer scarce. In fact, there are 10,-
000 soldiers being dismissed every day
from the service, and these men will
have rather a difficult time of it until
the Industries of the country can re-
instate them into civilian Jobs. Now
is the time to spruce up that motor
car, to put that necessnry coat of paint
on and to overhaul it generally. You
will be doing a patriotic service to the
country in getting a soldier or two to
do this work for you. Col. Arthur
Woods, assistant to the secretary of
war, recommends the employment of
ex-service men for such reconstruction
work.
There is no more need for emergency
economy. Minor repairs add to the
life of things. Paint adds life to the
body of the car. Spruce up your En-
gine. Renew those worn parts. Your
car will go quicker, will run smoother,
and wear on it will be lighter.
Materials are expensive now—
paints, machine parts, cost more than
they used to a few years ago. But
they will save more than their value
In their service to the car.
Don’t wait for materials to come
down. They won’t. Rather Is the
contrary to be expected. And if you
wait a little too long, you will have to
put on an extra coat of paint, and
more parts will wear out. “Spruce
up” your car now.
FEW AUTODON'TS
Among other “don’ts" far the
unskilled operator of sliding
gears are these:
Don’t fail to know exactly
where the “reverse” position of
the gear shift Is, and don’t fall
scrupulously to avoid this posi-
tion so long as the car is mov-
ing forward.
Don’t try to shift from a
higher gear to a lower gear
without letting the car speed
slacken somewhat before so do-
ing.
Don’t try to change from high
gear to low without letting (he
car nearly stop.
Don’t fail to speed up the car
somewhat before changing from
a lower to a higher gear.
DISPLAYS SKILL AS DRIVER
Ralph Mulford Originally Sprang Into
Fame as Winner of 1910 Road
Racing Championship.
Natural aptitude to understand an
International combustion engine mnde
a star racing driver of Ralph Mulford.
He originally sprang into fame as the-
winner of the 1910 road racing cham-
pionship, and capturing the Vanderbilt
cup race the following year. He was
also runner-up in the first Indianapolis
HELPS PAY FOR GOOD ROADS
In 1918 Nearly 91 Per Cent of Motor-
Vehicle Tax Was Applied to
Highway Improvement.
ARMY IS CUT TO FORCE OF
ONLY 20,000 MEN
Reparation of Half Million and Loss
of Some Territory Imposed
By Allies.
Paris.—Without any ceremony the
Bulgarians were handed the peace
treaty at the French foreign office
and were given 25 days to reply.
T. Theodoroff, Buicarlan and head
of the peace delegation, made an ad-
dress in which he urgd that mitiga-
tion be granted in the peace terras.
The delivery of the treaty took
place in the presence of a single rep-
resentative of each allied country and
10 newspaper correspondents.
Readjustment of frontiers aiming
to promote the peace or the Balkans
and recognition of a new state, form
the leading features or the Bulgarian
treaty which follows the Austrian
treaty in general outline.
The most important territorial
changes provide:
First, tha,t Bulgaria modify her
boundaries in four places in favor of
Serbia and second that western
Thrace be ceded to the allies for fu-
ture disposition. The frontiers with
Roumania and Greece remain practic-
ally unchanged. 0
Other provisions or the treaty are
that Bulgaria reduce ner army to 20,-
000 men, pay a reparation bill of
$450,000,000, rcognize the independ-
ence of Jugo-Slavia and renounce the
treaties of Brest-Litovsx and Buchar-
est.
Disposition of western Thrace was
the question which delayed comple-
tion of the treaty the American dele-
gation opposing the rest of the allies
in their decision to award it to
Greece. Whatever final settlement is
made the Bulgarians it is stated, will
be granted an outlet to the Aegean
Sea.
(Prepared by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.)
The Increase In motorcar registra-
tions and revenues in the United
States during the past dozen years
represents some Interesting compari-
sons. This Is especially true in re-
spect to the use made of the revenues.
In 1906 the total registrations were ap-
proximately 48.000 cars, paying a gross
revenue of about $193,000, or roughly
the same as the returns from the Dis-
trict of Columbia for the year 1918.
Furthermore In 1906 the gross regis-
tration revenues represented less than
three-tenths of 1 per cent of the total
rural road and bridge expenditures for
that year. In 1918 the motor-vehicle
revenues represented approximately
21 per cent of the total road and
bridge expenditures for that year. Fur-
thermore, while in 1906 practically
none of the motor-vehicle revenues
were applied to road construction or
maintenance, In 1918 nearly 91 per
cent of the gross returns, or $46,935,-
691, were devoted to this purpose In
46 states, and of the total amount ap-
plied to road work 77 per cent, or
$36,161,473, was expended more or less
directly under the control or super-
vision of the state highway depart-
ments.
Catches Dirt and Dust.
Tufted or studded upholstery Is a
great catcher of dust and dirt.
n
Ralph Mulford.
500-mlle race, giving Ray Harroun, the
winner, a real flgkt for the money.
Mulford was forced to change a tire
near the finish and probably he would
have won had this not occurred.
As the race driver, Mulford dls^
played most of his skill In the big road
races when that form of automobile
racing was popular In America. As a
speedway driver he has had varying
luck and during the contest for the
American speedway championship ia
1917, which was won by Dario Resta.
with the late John Aiken second, and
Edward Rickenbacker, third. Mulford
failed to get among the leaders.
Many Automobile Owners.
This country has more than six mil
Hop automobile owners, one to ever,
eighteen of the population, and abou
fifteen of these ride in automobiles.
Using Self-Starter.
When using the self-starter be sur
that the spark is retarded, as a bac
kick may wreck the mechanism.
TRAILER IS ESSENTIAL PART OF MOTOR
TRUCK EQUIPMENT ON IMPROVED ROAD!
Motor Truck Can Pull Trailer Where Roads Are Good.
Johnson Returns To Capital Sunday.
Duluth.—Senator Hiram W. John-
son announced that he had abandoned
his proposed trip to the Pacific coast .
to answer President Wilson’s speeches 1
on the league of nations.
President Denounces Police Unions.
Washington.—President Wilson, in
a telegram received by the local ejty !
government, said^that organization of
the police forces of the country for !
the purpose of bringing pressure )
against the public, should "n»t be
countenanced or permitted.”
Now that furiners are buying motor
trucks in large numbers, it is desirable
that these trucks show not only an
economical performance but also that
they pay as big returns on the invest-
ment as is possible to make them. As
one power farmer expressed it not
long ago, the motor truck takes the
last drudgery out of farming. This is
a whole lot to say, but many owners
are finding It true. Not only that—
they are also finding that the truck
makes money by saving money in re-
ducing production and marketing costs.
Advantages of Truck.
One of the big advantages of the
truck Is that It brings the market
many hours, and even days, nearer the
farm; and another factor In this con-
nection which operates to bring farm
and market still closer is the trailer
behind the truck. Where conditions
are favorable to its nse, the trailer
should be considered an essential part
of truck equipment.
Trucks are usually equipped
motors having considerable
power, which Is provided for pull
heavy loads up grades or over l
roads. If hauling to and from the fa
Is over fairly level, Improved roads,
is the case in a great many Instant
Ihe motor truck even when loaded
capacity is capable of hauling a trail
thus being able to handle nearly tw
the normal rated capacity of the tn
without overloading it.
Danger in Practice. '
There is a danger, however, In t
practice of hauling trailers boh
trucks, because some owners nre si
to use them when highway and otl
conditions nre not favorable, q
harm in doing this comes In overlo
Ing the truck motor beyond Hie
pacity at which it will work econi
icnlly and efficiently, which Is pr
ably the worst punishment Hint <
be given a truck.—I'oww Farming.
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