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IF GEORGE WASHINGTON WERE ALIVE TODAY HE WOULD GIVE THIS MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE: "BOY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS"
THE SHAWNEE DAILY NEWS-HERALD
REGULAR ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT, EXCLUSIVE IN POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY.
VOL. XXIII
SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1918. TWO SECTIONS—TEN PAGES %
NUMBER 26S
WAS SAVINGS STAMP PLEDGE
Ukranian People's Republic Where Battle Rages
ANOTHER WEEK LONGER
The great War Savings Stamp
pledge campaign in the county, late
getting under way, has been going
with genuine dash and enthusiasm
V during the closing days of the week
just closed, and enough returns are
in, though the initial campaign is by
no means completed, to indicate that
old Pottawatomie county is going to
again do herself proud and roll up
an aggregate of Was Savings Stamp
pledge* that will represent her full
quota and more, too.
In the country school districts and
the various towns outside of Shaw-
nee, as in this city, the organization
for the work was not completed until
near the middle of the week, but in
spite of the unpleasant weather a
portion of the time, the district work-
ers made their licks count in splen-
did style. Housing meetings were
held at some of the school houses, and
the result of the good work done was
shown by the considerable number of
persons from outlying districts who
came to Shawnee Saturday and made
purchases of War Savings Stamps for
themselves and their families, some
taking $100worth in a bunch.
In the city the men's teams under
the chairmanship of G. M. Christner,
finished the business district, and re-
ported pledges from 514 persons ag-
gregating about $32,000.
The women's teams, representative
of the different women's organiza-
tions, with Mrs. C. E. Hughes as chair-
man, made their report Saturday af-
ternoon. Many of the pledge cards
were signing in blank until the ladies
signing them could consult their hus-
bands, and the total pledges will
amount to approximately $6,000.
The reports from the schools are
not all in, because of there being no
session in a number of the schools
Friday, but the indications are that
some of the larger schools will reach
near $1,000 each while the smaller
A schools will show from $100 upwards.
The total school pledges, which will
be credited to the ladies' teams in the
respective districts in which the sign-
ers of the pledges reside, will prob-
ably approximate $6,000.
At the Shops.
At the Rock Island shops the boys
have taken to the work with a will.
A report from the repair track, com-
prising perhaps one-fifth of the men
of the shops, showed pledges amount-
ing to $2,055, with a few men yet to
see. The other departments have not
yet reported, but the total Lor the
shops will easily reach $10,000, which
sum will be constantly increased as
the months go by. No report has yet
been received from the Santa Fe
shops.
Late last night after a busy day re-
ceiving reports and instructing work-
ers who came for conferences, Coun-
ty W. S. S. manager Otis B. Weaver
BOYS WHO GO ARE
URGED TO APPLY
FOR INSURANCE
stated at W. S. S. headquarters in the . follow
Sec. Pierson Asks That They
Do Not Wait Until Last
Minute,
SOUTH END BOYS
REPORT AT 4:30
Contingent Will Be in Three
Squads Under Capable
Leaders.
Sec. Harry Hereon of the local
exemption board for Pottawatomie
county, asks the News-Herald to
again urge that all who have not
applied for soldier insurance make
application todaf in order to avoid
the rush tomorrow. It takes but a
few minutes to fill out an application
blank( and the rest is attended tQ
without further trouble to the appli-
cant.
Mr. Pierson also again reminds
those who live in the south end that
they need not report to the board
until 4:30 o'clock this afternoon, or
until the Santa Fe train gets in from
the south.
Pottawatomie county's final quota
of the first draft iB 93 men. To
these 93 will be added, three men
transferred from other Dlaces. The
list of those to go is published be-
low. This list is subject to change
for unavoidable reasons, but in all
probability will remain as pub-
lished.
The Pottawatomie county contin-
gent will be in general charge of
Emmett Sidney Johnson as captain,
with two of the three squads into
which the contingent is to be di-
vided, under Cephas Craig and Frank
J. Wherrv. Jim Haddad will be chief
of the commissary, a very important
duty.
A patriotic program at Convention
Hall Sunday evening is planned for
the boys. There will be band music
and a few addresses.
The tourist sleepers for the Pot-
tawatomie county contingent are al-
ready here on the Santa Fe with full
staff of norters, etc., and the train
will leave Monday morning at 9:20
o'clock.
The list as furnished bv the ex-
emption board Saturday night is as
postoffice last night that he was en
tirely satisfied with the outlook, and
that he Had every reason to believe
tint the outlving distr'cts would show
up fully 75 per cent efficient in num-
ber of pledges, while ho expected at
least 90 per cent of pledges in Shaw-
nee and some of the other towns of
the county.
Another Week to Cleanup.
The county manager received Sat-
urday from W. S. S. headquarters in-
structions to continue the campaign
into this week and as long as neces-
sary to insure that a thorough initial
canvass of the county is made.
The big heartening thing about the
campaign thus far, says Mr. Weaver,
is the'fact that while Shawnee will
show around $50,000 in pledges for
this initial drive, the country districts
will show, judging from the reports
from about 30 to 120 school districts
in the county, an equal amouiit, indi-
cating that it is the farmers who can
be depended upon in thin great cam-
paign to put it over the top.
Wanette Takes $2,000.
Wm. Beatty reported for Wanette
last night that $2,000 worth of War
Savings Stamps had already been
signed up for there and the list will
be largely increased before the close
of this initial campaign.
A Good Kport.
J. D. Guffy of district 28 (Musson
school house) was among the district
chairmen who called at headquarters
Saturday. He reported starting late
in the canvass, but brought $840 worth
worth of pledges, with some little
work yet to do. A rousing meeting
was held Friday night at the Musson
school house. One man in Mr. Guff/s
district made a substantial purchase
of War Savings Stamps for himself
and his wife at the local postoffice.
A Good Method,
James Calvin Bass of the car de-
partment at the Rock Island, called
at W. S. S, headquarters Saturday
morning, bringing with him E.
Lower of the car department, who
purchased for cash $100 worth ot
war savings stamps for himself and
the same for his wife. Mr. Bass
used in his canvass his own stamp
booUq in which were Already put $5
certificates and 25c stamps, plaeul
between two plates of glass so thai
he could the more easily demonstrate
his proposition to the men. In th"
afternoon Mr. Bass and E. A. Jones
reported for the repair tracks at tho
phoos pledges of $2,055 which in
their belief represented $5,000 or
more, as this wa athe amount the
men expect to take at once and doe1
(Continued on page 6.)
Roy M. Lokey.
Emry Upton.
Robert Glen Reid.
Walter Louis Postlewaite.
Tom Fowler.
Herman Schepers.
Frank Henry.
Edward Albert Farnam.
Overton O. Howell.
Elmer Monroe Langham.
Howard I*emberton Strickland.
Rossie B. Holt.
Arch Moore.
Frank P. Grotz.
Earl T. Odle.
Willie Eugene McPheraon.
Lon Powers.
Lawrence M. Maupin.
Leslie French.
Clarence Frederic Conn.
Samuel Wesley Rogers.
James P. Fite.
Hugh A. Atchley.
Frank John Wherry.
Bert. Ben Ellis.
Turner Edgmon.
Arthur King Williams.
Alfred J. Moore.
Willie Sharp.
Gloyd Jett.
Grant Frederic Pickett.
William Edna Ritchie
Horace Clinton Hines.
Bartley Coffey.
Willis Louis Myers.
Geo Sallee.
Albert Wood.
Estell Ward.
Marion Pockrus.
Lee Burnett. #
Wm J. Deatherage.
Walter Greehan Self.
Grover Guy Melton.
Oliver E. Davis.
Joseph M. Aloway.
John F. Murphy.
Oliver M. Barnard.
Jesse A. Willis.
Phad Leon Tucker.
Albert Walker Billett.
Howard Roblson.
Silas Bernard Forston,
James Wade Yerby.
Clarence W. Barnard.
James Charles Melton.
Walter Shreve.
Cephas Craig.
Charlie Monroe Swain.
Clyde Arrington.
Emmett Sidney Johnson.
Isonie Earl Mills.
Wm A. Coots.
Bill Ninemire,
Grover Cleveland Sparkman.
Merrlda Koonce.
'Monroe Thompson.
Jim Haddad.
Will F. Dunavan. ,
(Continued on page G.)
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NEXT DRAFT TO
COME IN APRIL
IS THE BELIEF
Date Officially is Not Set But
Indications Are
Good.
PREPARATIONS FOR
EQUIPPING MEN
Number Still Indefinite—Now
Cantonments May Be . .
Constructed.
By the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. ti.—
While war department officials re-
iterate that no date has definitely
been fixed for calling of the second
draft for the national army, all
available outward indications would
seem to point to sometime during the
month of April or at the latest early
in May.
Such an estimate is based on the
known preparations for equipping
and housing the men. It is no mill
tary secret that equipment and sup-
plies for men of the second draft will
become available soon after April
and careful observers look for the
first increments to be called soon
afterward.
The number of men to be called in
the first increment has not yet been
deteimined because the question of
housing them has not been disposed
of. There will be room for some of
COUNTY COUNCIL
ACCEPTS OFFICES
WITH W.S.S. COMM.
COMPULSORY FOOD
CONSERVATION IS
HELD NECESSARY
Work Will be Directed from I House Agricultural Commit-
Commodious Quarters
in Postoffice.
SPEAKERS' BUREAU
TO BE ORGANIZED
Lawyers to be Drafted to Ad-
dress Meetings at Va-
rious Places.
At its regular meeting Saturday eve-
ning, hold in the W. S. S. office at the
postoffice, the county council of de-
fense unanimously accepted the pro-
posal of county chairman Otis B.
Weaver of the W. S. S. campaign, that
the council accept the use of the
commodious headquarters and his of-
fice organization for the council's
purposes. Since Chairman Weaver
had perfected his county organization
along practically the same lines as
were adopted by the county council—
namely, school district organizations
with the school teachers and school
trustees as officers, the unifying of
the work of the W. S. S. committee
and the county council under one or-
ganization is natural and easy.
Regular meetings of the county
council will be held In the future
every Saturday evening at 7:30 o'clock
in the new offices, except the meeting
March 9th, which all district council
officers will be requested to attend
for instruction in their duties, when
them in camps and cantonments now J the meeting, in order to accomodate
occupied by trooos and it is possible all. w'ill be held in the superior court
that additional cantonments may
have to be provided. It is also pos-
sible that some of the national guarl
camps may be used during the
period.
DEATH TOLL IN
MINE IS 16 MEN
That Number Caught
Bulkhead Giving
Way.
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room
The council last night established
a speakers' bureau, which will druft
the lawyers of the county for speak-
ing engagements at meetings to be
held at various points in tho county!
to be determined later.
A number of important orders of the
council, discussed at the las' meet-
ing, were finally adopted last night,
and were ordered published. These
will be published in Monday's issue
of the News-Herald.
RAILROAD BILL
MOVES RAPIDLY
Ily (he Associated l'ress.
CRYSTAL FALLS, .MICH., Feb. 23. ^ . A , . 1
Revised figures on the loss of life I Debate on Amendment in the
in the Amaza Porta mine accident, House Limited to Five
Thursday showed that 11! men were Minnt*.
killed when a bulkhead gave way nnuics.
permitting water and quicksand toi 1T~.
rush Into the mine from an operation "J Assonuteil ' rt'ss.
..cave.ln.. WASHINGTON, D. C„ Feb. 23.—'The
As more water is threatening to administration railroad bill passed by
pour into the mine it is not known ZTl
, .iii- in . i 'in the housce today, with debate on
when I ho bodies will be recovered. ^^dm«.ts limited to five minute.
Ill Accident. for each speaker
II) (lie Associated l'ress. H U IKAX ( All HTKIHK
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Feb. 23 —|B Associated Press.
Four men were killed In an oxplo HALIFAX. N. 8., Feb. 23.—Motor-
sion in a mine ot t'.ie Citizens' Coal men ttmi conductors employed bv tho
Co. here today. Nothing Is known x0va Scotia Tramway Co., went out
a sto \he origin of the accident. The on s.rike here today. Not a car was
mine was little damaged. I taken out ot the barns this morning.
tee Makes Observations,
Reporting Bill.
TO FIX WHEAT PRICE
AT HIGHER FIGURE
1918 Crop May be Marked up
to $2.50 or Even
$2.75.
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Feb. 1
Compulsory food conservation
necessary in the opinion of the
house agricultural commission whic h
today submitted its report on the bill
giving the president power to regu
late public eating houses and the dis
tribution and manufacture of food
stuffs. The bill does not directly af-
fect householders.
The report recalls that the presi-
dent has no power to enforce econ-
omy in consumption under existing
laws and the success of conserva-
tion plans depends on the voluntary
co-operation of the people.
The appeals have met with grati
fying results, the report says, but
"there is a smal percent of peopl
who either wilfully or through lack
of understanding fall to respond
"The food situation as it affects
us and our allies," the report Bays
"is becoming so critical as to war-
rant the committee in the belief that
the necessity is upon us of adopting
methods of coinpalory conservation
in well-defined directions
In the control of the public eating
houses it is charged "particularly
In high-priced restaurants and
Artillery Bombing Continues
Active on American
Sector.
THREE KILLED AND
FOUR WOUNDED
Mortar Projectile Fell in
Trench With 1* atal
Results.
By Associated Press.
'with the amekican ahmy in
FRANCE, Feb. 22. The artillery
bombing continues on the American
etor northwest of Toul. Our guns
replied to the enemy with three shells
for one. firing accurately on roads and
enemy works.
Shells were dropped on a party of
German repairing wire entanglements.
Some were wounded and the rest scat-
tered.
Early this morning a small enemy
party raided our lines and were driven
>ff by rifle and machine gun fire af-
er which artillery fire drove them
back to their lines.
mortar projectile fell on one of
our trenches today killing three and
wounding four. Rains prevent air
)bservationa and the trenches are
flooded.
Nine IManes Brought Down.
By Associated l'ress.
LONDON, Feb. 23— British aircraft
on the west continue their extensiv
bombing raids and in air fighting
Thursday accounted for nine German
planes, an official statement says.
Prisoners Taken.
By the Associated Tress.
PARIS, Feb. 23. French troops
last night raided the German posi-
tions north of the Ailette river and
In the Champaign the war office an-
nounced today. Prisoners and war
material were brought back by the
French.
ANOTHER SPANISH
VESSEL IS SUNK
U-Boat Accounts For One
More Neutral
Ship.
Bv Associated Press.
MADRID. Feb. 22. — The Spanish
steamer Mar-Casplo has been sunk by
ubmarine while on her way to New
York with a cargo of cork. The crew
was picked up by the Spanish steamer
CUudio Lopez which also was stopped
by the submarine but later was allow-
ed to procede. The captain of the
Claudio had the greatest difficulty to
induce the commander of the subma-
rine to allow him to proceed. The
submarine wanted to sink the liner
because she was carrying a number
of cars for the Spanish Northern Rail-
road which is partly owned by the
French.
The sinking of the Mar-Caspio makes
the third such occurencein less than
four weeks. January 28 a German
submarine sank the Girolda and on
February 13 the Ceferino was de-
stroyed by a U-boat. February 10 the
Italian steamship Duca di Genova was
sunk within Spanish territorial wa-
ters.
HUFF TRYING TO
REPLACE MONEY
Robbed Bank to Reimburse
His Wife for Money
He Spent.
J otels" per capita consumption i8
nearly double normal.
The bill authorizes regulations to
eliminate unnecessary use of essen-
tial foodstuffs in manufacture ot
food products. "It would be possible
to effect a great saving in food pro-
ducts by requiring higher milling or
the mixture of ingredient* in bread
which cannot be so reaollv shipped
abroad."
Though it does not authorize a
rationing system for consumers, ir
tho language of the report it "would
permit the president to limit thi
amount of any given product in any
given district to a particular distri-
butor."
To liaise Wheat Price.
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON. D. C., Feb. 23.~
There were indications today that
the price of the 1917 crop would be
increased bv nre*identlal proclama-
tion.
The price was set at >2 a bushel
but that is considered the minimum
and the president has authority to
increise the nrlce if he considers
that the conditios warrant it.
Though the commission hoaded by
Dr. Garfield the nresilent last Augu. t
fixed $2 a bushel as the price of the
By the Associated Press.
* POTEAU, OK LA., Feb 23.—John
E. Huff who was shot and woundeit
at Wister Thursday while trying to
escape from the Wister bank witn
about $1,500 after locking the cash-
ier and some customers in the vault,
confessed to tho authorities here
that he was trving to recoup the loss-
es his wife's estate had suffered
through his reckless expenditures.
Ills wife, a Choctaw Indian, said
Huff, told him that she would leave
him unless he replaced the money
he had spent.
ONLY \ KI W l-KFT.
Congressman McKeown writes that
owing to a scarcity of seeds this year
he ha* but a few packages left aft
supplying early requests, but will I
glad to distribute these to such
send "him requests. Demand for
seeds in the large cities has been
unprecedented this year because of
the general vacant lot gardening
Hence the shortage.
5 ALLIES TO LEAVE
PETROGRAD SOON
W ill Move if German Ad-
vance Ihreatens the
City.
TO AID RUSSIA
AGAINST GERMANS
Teutons Put off Further Ne-
gotiations With Bol-
sheviki.
By the \ssoclated Press.
It 1. KLIN. Feb. 2:1- In their new
In v anion of Russian territory
the German forces have replied
Walk In Livonia. JMi miles north-
east of Citra, it whs announced
today by the German general
stall', in Volhynia the Teuton
arm) marching from Lutsk 1ms
reached the town of Btibno.
Till. GK1LUAN ADVANCE.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 28. - Austrian
and Ukrainians are nearlng Kiev,
the Ukrainian capital, now held
hy the Bolsheviki, according to
dispatches from Petrograd in the
late editions of the morning
newspapers. It was said that
Polish legionaries aided the
Germans In occupying Minsk.
Petrograd newspapers. It Is
added, report that the Russian
soldiers on the north front
seized 27 trains which are being
used to carry UUMHl soldiers to
I Moscow. The Hermans are tak-
I Ing no prisoners, merely disarm-
( ing tlie Russians and liberating
| tliem.
German airplanes, the corre-
spondent of the Times says, are
distributing proclamations call-
ing on the Russian people to
keep calm and maintain order,
as the Hermans are coming to
suppress anarchy and bring food
as rapidly as possible.
A British military order directs
all englishmen of military age
who have been exempted from
service up to Mils time hold
themselves ready to start for
home at ti hours notice.
By the Associated Press.
PETROGRAD, Friday, Feb. 22.—
The allied embassies will le^ve Pet-
rograd in the event the Gertoan ad-
vance threatens the city. They are
however to aid Russia to fight the
Germans.
Turks Take Offensive.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 23.—The Turkish
army In the Caucasus has begdh an
offensive, a correspondent of the Ex-
change Telegraph Co. wires from the
headquarters of the Russian western
army. The attack was started be-
tore the expiration of the armistice.
The Turks occupied Platana and
paralyzed the evacuation of the Cau-
casian corps which is now grouped
along the coast.
Associated Press Review.
Peace negotiations with the Rus-
sians will not be resumed Immedi-
ately by the Germans, and guerilla
warfare will probably be instituted
by the Bolsheviki to impede the
German advance, which apparently
Is not moving aH swiftly as in the
first part of the week. The Ger-
mans however are apparently mov-
ing ahead on the long line and the
Austrians and Germans are. ap-
proaching Kiev, it is announced of-
ticlally from Berlin that Von Kuehl-
mann, German foreign secretary, has
gone to Bucharest to discuss peace
with a Rumanian emissary and a re-
sumption of negotiations with the
Bolsheviki will have to be post-
poned.
Leon Trotzky, the Bolsheviki for-
eign minister, is reported to have left
Petrograd for Dvinsk to seek an
early conference with the Germans.
The Bolsheviki resistance apparent-
ly depends on whether the Germans
will accept reaidlv the capitulation
of the government. It is apparent
however that the Germans with the
Rumanian negotiations, as an excuse
are going to push their campaign in
the Baltic provinces before answer-
ing Russia.
In the regions north of Dvinsk
and in Finland the Germans have
advanced farther south, where near
Minsk they have reached the line Ot
the Barsina where In 1812 Napoleon
suffered a severe defeat while re-
treating from Moscow.
The Russian commander of the
northern front, reports the Germans
advancing in detachments of 100 to
200 men and not as regimental units.
eral hills in congress propose rais-
ing the price of the 1918 crop, some
as high as $2.7$ a bushel. It was
pointed out today that the obvlout*
advantage of fixing the price at $2.75
would bo the release of quantities
of wheat that high be held In expec-
tation of a higher price and would
influence the planning of a greater
1917 crop now being marketed. Sev- acreage.
NO NEW POSITIONS
MUST BE CREATED
Railroads Also Prohibited
From Increasing Salaries
of Officers.
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON. D. C., Feb. 23.—A
general order restricting the crea-
tion of new official positions by rail-
road and the raising of officers' sal-
aries was issued today by Director
General McAdoo.
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