The Tribune-Progress (Mountain View, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, January 11, 1918 Page: 2 of 8
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MOUNTAIN VIEW TRIBUNE-PROGRESS
TOLD BRIEFLY
THE NEW8 OF 8EVEN
IN
ALL
LANDS
DAYS
War News.
There haw been heavy fighting south
of C&iuhrla. The Germans made
Strong attack on a front of about two
miles, according to Field Marshal
Haig's report from headquarters
They succeeded In gulnlng a foothold
at two points, but luter were ejected
In part by liritlsh counter attacks.
+ + +
The forces under Genoral Allenby In
Palestine have advanced another
three miles along the NabluH road, ac
cording to the official statement, and
after stubborn resistance have occu-
pied Hlreh, the ancient name of which
la Heoroth.
+ + +
The British troops in Palestine have
repulsed a Turkish attack north and
northwest of Jerusalem and made un
advance of about two and one half
miles on a front of nine mlleH along
the Turkish right flank. The Turks
suffered Hovero losses In the repulse
which came nfter the liritlsh pickets
had been driven In.
t + +
A German submarine was sunk by
the fire of guns of an American pas-
senger steamer approuchlng the Brit-
ish coast tho other day, according to
reports of the passengers and gunners
aboard.
+ + ♦
On the northern Italian front there
has been an abatement In the artillory
activity botween the Aslngo plateau
and the Iirentu river, but the inten-
sive duels between the Brenta and
Plave continue. Tho Infantry forces
of the belligerents are virtually In-
active.
+ ♦ ♦
Once again the Germans have en-
deavored to break the French front
on the Verdun sector, but again have
failed. Two assaults delivered north
of the Caurleres Wood resulted in
the defeat of the enemy and the in-
fliction of heavy casualties.
+ + +
Except on the Northern Italian
front, the military operations continue
far below normal. In France, where
snow has fallen along the entire front,
only bombardments and small raiding
operations are taking place.
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West of the Brenta in the Italian
Highlands, the Italians Christmas
Day continued their counter attacks
upon the Austro-German forces, which
previously had succeeded In making
gains on Col Del Uosso and Monte De
Val Bella. Some temporary gains
were made.
♦ ♦ ♦
Washington.
Guatemala City, capital city of the
little Central American republic of
Guatemala, has been laid in ruins by
a series of earthquakes, which began
Christmas day and culminated in vio-
lent shocks which completed the work
of destruction. A cablegram to the
Navy Department said 125,000 people
were in the streets without shelter,
and that many were killed by falling
walls.
+ + +
Estimates based on an army of l1^
million men, are that 37,500 nurses
will be needed in the army nurse
corps. That means an enrollment In-
crease of nearly one thousand per cent
over the present membership of 3,800.
+ + +
Tho conditions surrounding Count
Czernin's proposals for a basis of peace
cause Washington officials to doubt
their sincerity. There is a great dis-
position to feel that the object of the
German plenipotentiaries is simply to
protract the negotiations as long as
possible without any expectation of au
Immediate peace agreement.
4* 4* 4* •
Will lain G. McAdoo, director gen-
eral of railroads, issued his first for-
mal order designed to speed up freight
movement, telegraphing all railroad
presidents and directors instructions
to move tratfic by the most convenient
and direct routes. At the same time
he ordered them to continue operation
of their lines in conformity with the
President's proclamation putting them
under government control.
+ + +
Director McAdoo of the United
States Railroad plans to slice millions
of uselessly spent dollars from the
payrolls of that line. It is part of the
general economy program which he
will eventually put into effect.
+ + +
Domestic.
United States troops crossed the
Rio Grande into Mexico in pursuit of
tiie bandits who raided the Brite
ranch house Christmas morning and
killed Michael Welch, the United
States mail carrier, and two Mexican
passengers in the mail car. The re-
port said one American soldier and
The American Red Cross began the
New Year with a membership of more
than 20,000,000, it was announced la
New York at the close of the nation-
wide enrollment campaign. Every one
of the thirteen national divisions ex-
ceeded the quota set for it by Red
Cross heudquarterB in Washington.
+ + +
Two men were killed and several
Injured recently when the black
powder press house of the Dupont mill
ut Bacchus, eighteen miles south of
Salt Lake City, blow up.
+ t t
Tho discovery of dynamite in a car
of coal hilled from a southern Indiana
mine to the Rockford City hospital
combined with a furnace explosion
tlmt wrecked the bungalow of William
Ogden, resulted in un investigation bv
fodoral officials and precautions taken
to protect Camp Grant from any pos-
sible plot,
+ + +
John Randolph Thornton, 71 years
old, former United Stutes senator from
Louisiana, and a member of the United
.States Board of Ordnunce and Fortifi-
cations, is dead at his home in Alex-
andria, La.
+ + +
A pouch containing $50,000 sent by
the Federal Heservo Bank of Rich-
mond to a hank in Columbia, S. C.,
disappeared in transit recently and is
believed to have been stolen. Detec-
tives are at work In several cities.
+ + +
Tho lynching of two men, one a
preacher, because of alleged pro-Ger-
man activities, was stopped at Audu-
bon, In., only when one of them gave
tho
IS CALLED OFF
HINDENBURG TIRES WATCH-
ING THE BEAR PLAY
THE ASS.
BELGIAN VILLAGERS DRIVEN FROM HOME BY BOMBARDMENT
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS DROPPED
And Slav Ally May Be Forced Back
into the War.—Roumanian King
' Declares His Nation Will
Fight To the End.
London.—An official statement is-
sued at Berlin announces that be-
cause of the Russian request to trans-
fer the peace pour purlours from Breat-
Litovsk to Stockholm the Central
powers temporarily had suspended the
negotiations with Russia.
immediately on adjournment all the
parties entered into caucim sessions
which lasted throughout the day and
until late at night. The Indications
pointed, the correspondent says, to an
endorsement of the government's at-
titude against moving the peace ne-
gotiations from Brest-IItvosk to Stock-
holm by the right, center and pro-
gressive parties, including the paci-
ilats, the democratic wings of the na-
tionals, liberals and clericals, and the
Scheidemann wing of the socialists.
pledgo of loyulty and $1,000 to
Red Cross.
♦ ♦ ♦
Southwest.
While delivering an uddresa on tin
war in the Municipal Auditorium at
Houston, Tex., Colonel Charles Bige-
low, retired manufacturer and widely
known lecturer of New Haven, Comn,
foil to the platform and within five
minutes died. Apoplexy was given as
the cause of his death by physicians.
+ + +
Fear of the draft is believed to have
prompted Charles E. Logan, a farmer
noar Mcl*ain, Ok., to kill his wife and
baby as they slept, set fire to the
house and then cut his own throat.
+ *4* +
On Christina sinornlng W. Nickels
and his wife were found by their chil-
dren lying In their home in Phoenix,
Ariz., fully clothed. Mrs. Nickels was
dead. Nickels lay unconscious until
the next day when he died. It la be-
lieved death was caused by fumes
from a gas furnace.
+ + +
After pursuing the Mexican bandits
who raided the Brite ranch and store
on Christmas morning for a distance
of ten miles Into the mountains of
Mexico, the American cavalry troops
killed eighteen members of the bandit
band, wounded twenty and scattered
the remaining bandits In the moun-
tains south of the liue.
+ + +
Following an agreement between
striking telephone operators and the
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
at Fort Smith, Ark., the young women
have returned to work. The strike
had been in effect since September 19.
+ + +
Foreign.
The Central Powers are ready to
make an immediate general peace
without compulsory annexations and
without contributions. This is their
answer, made on Christmas day at
Brest-Litovsk to the Russian proposals
which they are ready to accept lu
most particulars as the basis of nego-
tiations.
■fr ♦ +
An American diplomatic courier on
his way to Petrograd has been re-
fused admission to Russia on tho
ground that his pass had not been
vised by M. Borovsky, the Bolsheviki
minister at Stockholm. This is the
first time that u regular courier’s
pass has not been honored.
+ ♦ +
One of the forts at Kronstadt, tho
naval base near Petrograd, has been
blown up by an extremely violent ex-
plosion, according to a Petrograd dis-
patch to the Ixindon Times. There
are no details.
♦ ♦ +
Correspondents of Reuters, Limited,
at Pekin. Harbin and Petrograd, re-
port fighting at Irkutsk, East Siberia,
between regular troops and Red
Guards and Cossacks and military ca-
dets. The fighting is of the fiercest
character and jfas lasted nearly a
week.
♦ ♦ ♦
Negotiations for the purchase of a
large part of the Cuban sugar crop,
now being harvested and amounting
to an estimated 8.600,000 tons, for the
use of the United States and its Al-
lies, have been virtually completed.
+ + +
The Bolsheviki government has de-
cided to send special representatives
to nil countries, belligerent as well as
neutral, to further the propaganda of
internationalism. Two million rubles
Ukraine Makes Peace.
An armstlce has been declared in
the Ukraine region, the Rada, the
i Ukrainian legislative body, and the
bolsheviki having agreed to a com-
promise of their differences. The
Rada is said to be ready to decline to
give support to General Kaledines and
his cossacks In return for the with-
drawn! of the bolsheviki troops from
the Ukraine.
I ^
The Petrograd Post says the King
| of Roumania has cabled the entente
allies that the Roumanians are deter-
! mined to continue the war notwith-
standing the desires of the troops on
the Russlan-Roumanian front and that
M. Poincare, the French president, re-
plied, assuring the king of France’s
support.
Belgian villagers leaving their homes In a small hamlet near the front because the enemy has opened a bombard-
ment mid if they slay their lives ure in danger. They may on tlielr return find nothing but a pile of debris. Whea
the residents of the hamlet evucuate they carry with them us much of their valuable belongings as possible.
BOLSHEVIKI TAKEN PRISONER BY FORMER COMRADES
MAY B{R ALL WHITE BREAD
Dr. Brooks Called To Washington for
Conference.
Oklahoma City.—The baking of
white bread or wheat bread In the
United States will be entirely elimin-
ated within the next few weeks, ac-
cording to a statement by Floyd E.
Miller, publicity representative for the
state food administration.
Miller declared that Dr. Stratton D.
BroQks, president of the University of
Oklahoma, and food dictator for Okla-
homa, had received a summons from
Herbert Hoover, national food dictat-
or, to hurry to Washington where the
most Important conference since the
food administration was organized is
to be held this week. Dr. Brooks is
now in Washington. The conference
will last a week and will be attended
by all state food dictators throughout
the United States.
Drastic measures to conserve the
food supplies of the nation are to be
taken during the conference.
Unpatriotic persons are forcing the
sacrifices of war on the patriotic ones, 1
Miller said. He asserted that many j
complaints have been received by Dr.
Brooks telling of conditions as they
exist throughout the state.
"In many small Oklahoma towns
there are but two or three bakeries,”
he said. "One baker Is patriotic and
lives up to the rules as given out by
tho administration. Others, the un-
patriotic ones, instead of obeying the
rules benefit by them and continue to
sell wheat bread on wheatless days.
It is such conditions as these that will
cause such action as an order to pro-
hibit the baking at all times of wheat
bread."
Dr. Brooks will make a detailed re-
port of conditions as they prevail in
Oklahoma.
This photograph shows a batch of bolsheviki soldiers, followers of Lenlne, being marched off to captivity by for-
mer comrades who are supporters of the provisional government and who took them prisoner during the fighting 1»
the streets of Petrograd.
PERRY EXPEDITION SURVIVOR
OUR ALLIES ARE STARVING
England, France and Italy Face Ex-
treme Shortage.
MODEL OF PORTABLE HOSPITAL WARDS
an unknown number of Mexicans had have been appropriated for this pur-
beeu killed in a running fight.
+ + +
The American steamship Tuscarora.
formerly a lake vessel, requisitioned
pose.
+ + +
An earthquake, general throughout
Guatemala, caused a loss of from ten
Washington—The food situation In
the allied countries of Europe is grav-
er than it has been at any time since
the beginning of the war, and is giv-
ing American government officials
deep concern. Official reports picture
extreme food shortages in England,
France and Italy.
The fact that conditions In Germany
and Austria are far worse offers the
only grounds for optimism in viewing
the situation.
In England and France the situa-
tion is declared as critical in a cable-
gram to the food administration from
Yord Rhondda, the British food con-
troller.
This Is William H. Hardy, the only
survivor of the.famous Perry expedi-
tion to Japan In 1853. He attended
the dedication of the Perry monument
In Tokyo recently and is shown In the
sailor’s uniform he wore on that occa-
sion.
by the United States shipping board 1 to forty lives and extensive property
for Atlantic service, with her entire
crew of thirty-five men, is believed to
have been lost at sea north of Cape
Gable. _ •
4* 4* *f* •
Within two weelis virtually every
sugar refinery in the country' will be
In operation, according to George M.
Rolph, head of the sugar division.of
the Food Administration,
of January, he asserted
damage in Guatemala City, the State
Department was advised in a cable
dispatch from the American charge
there. No mention was made as to
damage in the interior.
4* 4* 4*
Under orders received from general
headquarters, divisional commanders
of the American forces in France, is-
By the end sued orders suspending temporarily
50.000 tons Paris leave for all- officers and man.
of sugar will hav» been brought io. | No ewplanattoa was given.
Germans Kill 22 Spy Suspects.
Amsterdam.—Twenty-two persons,
among them four from Antwerp, eight
from Ghent and a Dutch skipper were
executed hv the Germans at Ghent.
December 20, for alleged espionage,
according to the Telegraaf’s corres-
pondent at Flushing. Three other
Hollanders were condemned to three,
four and-ten years' imprisonment, re-
spectively. A large pumber of Bel-
gians also received long terms of im
Mother's Suggestion.
The son of a certain resident of the
city brought an automatic stop for the
talking machine recently, relates the 1
Indiunapolls News. The mother
thought it very foolish to put so much
money In such a contrivance and asked
why It was needed. The sou explained
that If he was In unother part of the
house he would not need to rush into
the room to turn the inucliine off nfter
It had finished pluying the record.
"Many times I have had to run Into the
room to nuswer the telephone wheu It
rings,” she replied, "when I am In an-
other part of the house. Let’s put one
on the telephone, too.”
Curpenter putting the finishing touches to a large model of a new port-
able hospital ward designed by President Henry Fairfield Osborn of th*
American Museum of Natural History for use l>y the Red Cross lu France.
The hospital Is fnshloned in five-feet units that can readily be erected or
removed by unskilled labor. The collapsible parts can be packed In small
space.
CARING FOR LITTLE REFUGEES FROM FRANCE
IF
I
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No Reasonable Reason.
“The last two words of n recent
verse of mine were omitted entirely,"
wailed Tennyson J. Draft, '’spoiling I
both the rhyme nnd sense of the com-
position.”
"I do not see why the prlutwr shoal*!
have gone to thnt trouble;" r<Hwr««d
J. Fuller Gloom. "Wlthdtit bring taas-,
kwtrirerlM-H<f the- Red Cross-, In addition te Its other work, gives much
prison meat and man/ others st.U are pered yovnverses would t. he aHanrtlrm f» the rhJMrvnwfeo came there from*thec«eupled part of tuirth-
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West, H. C. The Tribune-Progress (Mountain View, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, January 11, 1918, newspaper, January 11, 1918; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc914598/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 10, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.