The Supply Republican (Supply, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 15, 1923 Page: 2 of 8
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THE REPUBLICAN. SUPPLY. OKLAHOMA
GERMANS TO PAY
FDR LUSITANIA
The Mixed Claims Commission
Hands Down Four Decis-
ions in Famous Case.
COL BENJAMIN FULLER
TOTAL AMOUNT $22,600,000
Nothing But Actual Damage* Al-
lowed on 278 Claim*—3,190
Were Disallowed by Board.
Washington.—Four decisions de-
termining German liability tor Amerl
can claims resulting from the war
were announced recently by the
mixed clalniB commission.
Wliile upholding broadly the Lusi
lania claims, numbering 278 and
totaling approximately $22,600,000, the
commission dismissed 3,190 claims
totaling about 345 million dollars for
the recovery of insurance premiums
paid by Americans tor protection
against war hazards.
General principles governing the
assessment of the Ameiican claims
were laid down by the commission.
No Punitive Damages.
An important feature of the Lusi-
tania decision was the refusal of the
commission to assess exeraplury or
punitive damages. It held such dam-
ages were penal in their nature, not
compensation, and, therefore, un-
authorized by the treaty of Berlin.
No specific awards in the I.UBltania
cases were made by the commission
its decision merely announcing the
principles to be applied in determin-
ing each claim. In thiB connection,
It held actual damages for mental
anguish and suffering of relations
Americans lost on the Lusitania
would be compensated for, but that
‘sentamental and vague" mental
suffering would not be considered.
In dismissing claims for war risk
premiums paid, the commission held
they were co* a class for which Ger-
many was financially liable.
Denied Insurance Claims.
"In this group of claims,’’ the
*'■ commission said, "tha sole com-
plaint Is that the hazards of war re-
quired the claimants, as a matter of
business prudence, to protect by in-
surance risks that never matured in-
to damage. Under the terms of the
treaty (of Berlin). Germany can-
not be held liable for all losses Inci-
dent to the very dStistence of a state
of war.” . .
Liability against Germany general-
ly, another decision of the commis-
sion declared, must be for direct, not
remote, acts of Its agents or allies.
FRANCE STANDS ALONE NOW
Open Investigation of Germany’* Ca-
pacity to Pay Favored by Italy,
Belgium and England.
RIVAL AVIATORS
IN NEW RECORD
Air Speed Mark Changes Hands
Three Times in One Day
at Mitchel Field, N. Y.
WILLIAMS DEFEATS BROW
Navy Lieutenant Traveled at An
Avaraga Rat* of 266 Mllee an
Hour Over Course.
Col. Benjamin Fuller of the Marine
corpe will probably be made a briga-
dier general and placed In command
of the training station at Quantise,
Va., to auoceed Gen. 8m*dley Butler,
who retired to enter buelneee.
NEW YORK IRISH IN A RIOT
De Valera Sympathizer* Attempt to
Hold Anti-Lloyd George Mass
Meeting In 3treets.
Washington.—State department ad-
rices ’ndlcate that Great Britain,
Italy and Belgium had renched an
accord, favoring a tree tnd full reprr-
ationB inquiry by an expert commit-
tee.
In effect, the position of these three
governments, as understood here, co-
incides with that taken by the United
States and opposes the stand taken
by France for a restricted inquiry
only.
This development, indicating " en-
tirely new alignment of the European
allies over the reparations qurstli •.
appeared to stimulate hope here that
eventually the French, too, would ac-
cept an unrestricted program of In
qulry rather than risk diplomatic iso-
lation. Heretofore, both Belgium an'
Italy have followed the French lead
in most of the questions affecting
reparations.
OFFICER AND PROWLER DEAD
Marshal at Blue Springe, Mo., Slain
by Man He First Had
Wounded Fatally.
New York.—Eight persons were ar-
rested near the Metropolitan opera
bouse, where Lloyd George, war pre-
mier of Great Britain, waa speaking,
when Irish republican sympathizers
attempted to hold a mass meeting on
the street.
Police fought a hand-to-hand battle
with a large group that gathered on
Fortieth street near Broadway.
Muny of the demonstrators carried
signs bearing the picture of Eamonn
de Valera, while others were in-
scribed with phrases uncomplimen-
tary to the British visitor.
Mounted police finally charged the
crowd that Burged about the patrol-
men. Hundreds of persons were
driven back to Sixth avenue, while
here and there a patrolman seized
one of the group and placed him un-
der arrest. Several so caught were
women.
The area about the Metropolitan
opera house was guarded by 250 pa-
trolmen and 150 detectives. Before
Lloyd George arrived the crowds that
pressed about to catch a glimpse of
him were so great a traffic jam re-
sulted. Theatre goers became an-
gered when held up 3everal minutes
by the throng.
Lloyd George missed seeing the
Irish republican sympathizers, as he
drove up to the Metropolitan on Thir-
ty-ninth street Instead of Fortieth
street.
When the sympathizers learned he
had arrived they began belated Jeer-
ing and sang songs of the Irish re-
public. Police Intervened on the
ground no permit had been Issued for
the meeting.
The police thwarted efforts of Irish
republican sympathizers to disturb
Lloyd George after he had retired for
the night by throwing a cordon
around Ills hotel and dispersing a
bend attempting to march through
the street and another band that at-
tempted a demonstration near the
hotel.
Mitchel Field. New York.—Lieut.
Alford J. Williams and Lieut. Harold
J. Brow, navy aviators, fought a
speed duel in the air the other day.
Williams won after both had
smashed world's records.
Williams, formerly a pitcher for the
New York Giants, captured the record
of 259.16 miles an hour set by Brow
Friday over a 3-kilometer course, lost
it again to Brow and recaptured it
just at dusk.
William's unofficial time was an
average of 266.C miles an hour over a
3-kilometer course. Brow, however,
still has traveled faster than any
other man, having done one leg of the
course with the wind at a rate of
274.2 miles an hour.
Near Death Twice.
Williams barely escaped death
twice, once diving at more than 250
miles an hour to within ten feet of
the ground. His second escape came
the last time he flew the course,
when he darted straight through a
squadron of five Martin bombers.
A large crowd watched the com-
rades wage their friendly war. The
two aviators appeared more as col-
lege athletes competing for a new
broad Jump record than men casually
risking life and limb In a mad race
through the air.
Under a fair Indian summer sky,
the two planes of bright marine blue
were wheeled out on the field.
Williams climbed Into his seat and
in a few seconds was in the air.
When he landed, he had captured
Brow’s laurels.
Brow offered congratulations and
then hopped Into his own ship. When
he descended, It was William's turn
to give the congratulations.
Lure la Too Great.
Then he Jumped Into a bigger ship
for an exhibition flight over the
Bronx, his home. But the lure of the
game was too much _ tor him. He
craned his neck out of the cock pit.
looking at the almost cloudless sky,
and then leaped to the ground, tear-
ing off his uniform coat. He climbed
Into his racer again.
Away he went. When he came
down he waa champion again.
WEEKLY MARKET REPORTS
Quotations ef Fries* of Fares Product*
From Various Confers Gathered
by the Federal Bureau.
* . »
: The following report I* tfistitb* I
uted by Ut* liursuu of Market* of t
I the United Stales Department of t
: Agriculture and la compiled from I
: telegraphic reports fruiu ail section* i
: of the country. 1
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Washington, D. C.—For lb# waak end-
ing November 5, 1923:
Live Stock and Meat*.
Chicago hog prices are 10 to 30c lower
than a week ago, closing |7:50 top and
te.70Q7.30 for the bulk. Medium and
good beef steer* steady to 35c lower,
dosing at t7.75Qll.35; butcher cow* end
heifers steady to ldc off at t3.25®10.76;
feeder steers steady to 26c higher at
tl.6uQ7.75.. veal calves steady to 25c
lower at t7.25Q10.5U. Fat lambs 25c to
50c off at tllQ13; feeding iambs 26c
to 40c higher at *11.60® 13.U0; yearlings
steady to 50ce off at tt.25Q10.76 and fat
ewes steady to 50c lower at t3.75Q#.25.
Stocker and feeder shipments from It
Important markets during the week end-
ing October 26 were: Cattle and calves
162,372; hogs, 23,980; sheep, 216,747. In
eastern wholesale fresh meat markets
beef and veal weak to tl lower; lamb
firm to tl higher and pork loins tl to
13 lower. November 6 prices good grade
meats: Beef. tl5Q17.60; veal, *16®18;
lambs. *23® 26; mutton, tl3Q16; light
pork loins, *17®20; heavy loins, *13®16.
Grain.
Wheat market unsettled. FutOres
closed slightly higher than last week,
but tone of market weak. Cash prices
lower because of slow milling and ex-
port demand. Corn futures up about
two cents but cash prices 5 to 10c low-
er. Receipts of new corn Increasing and
moisture heavy. Arrivals generally in
good demand No. 2 hard winter Chi-
cago, $ 1.07® 1.084; Kansas City, $107®
1.20; No. 2 red winter St. Louis, $1,104
1 15 No. 2 yellow corn' Chicago, 9i@
99c; St. louts. !»8c. No. 3 white oats
Chicago, 414®434.
Hay.
The hay market remained generally
firm throughout the week. Good quality
hay was In fair demand In practically
all markets while lower grades move
slowly. Timothy prices $2 lower at Cin-
cinnati as racing season closes. Quoted
November 3rd: No 1 timothy Boston,
*28.50; New York. $29; Pittsburgh.
$26,504; Cincinnati, $23.50; Chicago,
$26.50; Minneapolis, *19.50. No. 1 alfalfa
Minneapolis. *24; Phoenix, Arl*., *19;
Austin, Tex.. *31.60. No. 1 prairie Chi-
cago, *19; Minneapolis, *16.50.
Inactllve demand together wth freer
offerings caused an eusier situation In
the mill feed markets. Wheat feeds
quoted 50c to *1 lower. Jobbers making
concessions from quotations In order to
stimulate buying. Interior demand for
Immediate needs only. Cottonseed meal
stronger and quotations higher as result
of latest cotton crop report.
WOULD CURB COMPTROLLER
Senate Inveetlgatlng Committee 8up.
priced at Lax Procedure in Pay-
ing the Government’e Bill*.
RED CROSS BUDGET LOWER
American Society Will Require $12,-
000,000 Thie Year For Their Work
—Lea* For Foreigner*.
Blue rlncs, Mo.—Fatally wouid-
*d by the town marshal who defende
the door of the Blue Springs tele-
phone office aga'nst him ea. tho
jttaer morning, a prowler wrestc the
revolver from the marshc and killed
Urn.
Both were found dead In front of
the door, which the man sought to
snter. The telephone operator, Mrs.
Elsie Raymond, had telephoned for
the marshal. Alonzo Herteg, when she
heard a noise in the hall a few min-
utes after si e received a report that
there w'as a disorderly man at the
depot.
Letters found In the clothing -f the
man killed by the marshal indicated
he was WU’iam 3. Young, a truck
driver for the Boss Construction Com-
pany, which is building the Snl-a-Bar
road near Blue Springs.
SIMPLE INCOME-TAX BLANK
Washington.—"Form 1040," which
has "stunmed” many an income tax
payer with its six pages of questions,
instructions and what not, is to be
simplified.
Hereafter it will consist of a single
sheet and be used in reporting net in-
come of not more than $5,000, derived
chiefly from salary and wages. Ques-
tions will be on one side of the blank;
instructions on the other.
The 6-page form will continue in
use for taxpayers, any of whose in-
come is derived from business or pro-
fession, sale of property or rents,
even though the total is less than
$5,000 a year, and for those who have
yearly incomes of more than $5,000,
regardless of the source
NEWS NOTES.
—The British auxiliary schooner
Louise F. was captured recently af-
ter a three hour chaBe by federal au-
i thorltles, and 3,900 cases of liquor
valued at $375,000, was seized.. The
capture was etfecteJ within the
i twelve-mile limit.
—Asserting the German govern-
1 ment possessed the power to put
down all attempts of monarchists and
other elements to overthrow the gov
ernment, Chancellor Stresemann re
ceutly issued his first proclamation
as Germany's dictator.
Washington.—The American Red
Cross budget for humanitarian actlvi
ties in 1924 will be 12 million dol-
lars the society announced the other
day. The national and International
program "for advancing the welfare
of peoples and committees" was set
at $5,643,077.81. the remainder being
alloted to the three thousand local
chapters.
Completion of several large foreign
operations permitted a reduction of
more than 4 million dollars from the
last budget, the statement said,
operations in Asia Minor belDg esti-
mated to have cost $2,600,000 and re-
lief work In Russia about $1,840,000.
For the first time in five years the
foreign operations budget Is placed
below 1 million dollars.
For assistance to veterans of the
World War the new budget allots
$2,065,000, an Increase of $120,000
over the current year. The society
estimated, however, that the ex-
penditures for this work by head-
quarters and the local chapters would
average V6 million a month.
STILL HOPE FOR * RATE CUT
American Farnt Bureau Federation to
Carry On Fight Before Interstate
Commerce Commission.
Chicago—Efforts to gain a reduc-
tion in rates on wheat for export
would be pushed before the inter-
state commerce commission, the
American Farm Bureau Federation
announced the other day, despite the
refusal of the railroad executives to
grant a voluntary reduction. Federa-
tion officials declared the situation
of wheat growers west of the Mis
slssippi had not changed materially
since the petition, for a reduction was
filed with the commission six weeks
ago. They pointed out that Canadian
railways could haul wheat much
cheaper from Saskatchewan and Al-
berta to the head of Lake Navigation
than railroads Just across the line.
Washington.—Recommendations for
legislation limiting the authority of
the comptroller general's office in
the settlement of claims against the
government, are forecast as a result
of disclosures before the senate com-
mittee Investigating the veterans'
bureau.
Sharp questioning and comments
ty the senators followed the frank
statement to the committee by W. E
Gordon, an attorney In the comp-
ti oiler’s office, whose salary is $3,000
a year, that he had settled a claim
of $32,000 without consulting his su-
periors or calling for detailed infor-
mation from the veterans’ bureau,
which disallowed the claim.
The bill passed upon was that of
Matthew O'Brien, San Francisco ar
cbitect, who asked the sum for re
writing plans for a projected hospital
at Livermore, Cal., for the original
drafting of which the veterans’ bu-
reau already had paid $6,4000. Frank
T. Hines, director of the bureau, dis-
allowed the claim and filed a coun-
ter one for $5,000 against O’Brien on
the ground that he had been over-
paid for the first drawings.
FROM OVER STATE
J. C. Jonee, living a few miles east
of Duncan, brought In a sweet potato
of the Nancy Hall variety to town that
“Upped the beam” at 8ft pounds.
Elal* Henderson, daughter of Carl
Anderson, feu into the open fire place
at their farm home near Pauls Valley.
She la ao severely burned that there
la little hope for recovery.
According to the latest figures from
the county agent’a office 3,400 acres
of winter feed crops have been plant-
ed In Pushmataha county and more
wheat Is being sown all the time.
Life Insurance claims paid in Okla-
homa City In 1922 totaled $429,250. ac-
cording to figures of life insurance
business throughout the country, com-
pilation of which has Just been com-
pleted.
A sack of mall, supposed to have
been taken during the heavy transfer
work during the flood when mall was
transferred from the Katy to the Mis-
souri Pacific, was found In a cotton
field near Wagoner. *
Jessie E. McCullough, 16-year-old
farmer boy, died in a Miami hospital
from stab wounds he received when
ho Jumped from a low shed and land-
ed on a pitch fork last week. The
youth's home la near Commerce.
The death toll In the flood of the
Washita river at Chlckasha reached
six when three employees of the
Chlckasha Gas and Electric company’s
washed over the dam at the company’s
power house southeast of the city.
A thousand men will be included In
the committees working out plans for
observance of National Father and
Son week In Oklahoma City, Novem-
ber 11 to 13, according to P. L. Har-
rup, city boys’ work secretary of the
Y. M. C. A.
When the National Editorial asso-
ciation convenes in Oklahoma the
week of May 19, the members will
have a complete schedule showing
where each hour of their sojourn In
the state Is to be spent. Thie sched-
ule is nearly complete.
One mile of trees, each dedicated to
some representative citizen of the
state of Oklahoma, will be planted by
the state board of agriculture along
East Twenty-third street highway
starting from the capltol, according to
the president of the board.
POINCARE MAY YET YIELD
France Accents British Proposition
for Conference of Experts, But
Makes Certain Conditions.
Paris.—France accepts with cor-
diality the contemplated collabora-
tion of the United StateB in a con-
ference of experts to study Germany’s
capacity to pay reparations.
France demands, however, that it
should be clearly understood the pro-
posed Inquiry should bear solely on
the ‘‘present’’ capacity of Germany
and that It should respect all the
rights held by the reparations com-
mission under the treaty of Ver-
sailles.
This Is the substance, It is learned,
of the reply which France has made
to the British note of October 31,
asking her to Join Italy. Belgium and
Great Britain in a collective Invita-
tion to the United States to be pre-
sented at the proposed conference.
The reply was handed to the British
embassy the other day. Its text was
not made public.
May Name Brltleh Banker.
London.—Sir Robert Kindersley, di-
rector of the Bank of England, i; be-
ing considered by the British govern-
ment as its representative on the pro-
posed committee of experts to deal
with the reparations question.
Athens.—General Metaxes, leader
of. the recent insurgent uprising in
Greece, has fled to Italy, according
to reliable Information.
Davie, Craig & McWilliams, which
firm was awarded the contract for
paving two miles of road immediately
north of Sapulpa, on the Tulsa road,
has thrown up the contract, according
to the county engineer’s ofTlce. No
reason was assigned for the act.
Announcement was made at Guthrie
that the formal opening of the world’s
greatest Masonic temple, erected at
an approximate cost of $3,000,000, will
take place November 12-15, during the
Scotish Rite reunion when more than
1,000 candidates will be initiated.
Pecans are comnig to market at
Pau's Valley rapidly. In many In-
stances the farmers’ pecan crop will
bring more money this year than any
crop grown on the farm. Often the
pecan crop nets a farmer $500. The
crop this year is especially fine and
the price Is good.
Federal action to bridle the devas-
tating waters of the North Canadian
river came a step nearer realization
with the announcement that S. H. Me-
Crory, chief engineer of the depart-
ment of agriculture, would reach Ok-
lahoma City within a few days for *
survey of river conditions.
The recent flood cost Oklahoma
City, $1,185,000 in actual damage to
the city dam and reservoir. It will
take $1,324,523 to make them safe
from future floods and assure a plenti-
ful water supply, as a contract for
widening the flood gates to relieve the
dam of flood waters, was let before
the flood for $139,523, the difference
between the two months.
R. I. Allen, prominent Bristow physi-
cian is dead as a result of having
been Btruck by an automobile here
In the downtown district. Internal In-
juries. a severely lacerated head,
coupled with the severe shock, proved
fatal three hours after the Injured
man had been removed to a hospltU.
Harry Beu, a carpenter, was the driv-
er of the car which hit Allen.
More than sixty boys In the senior
and Junior hlghschools of Ponca City
have enrolled In the two Boy Scout
classes, a new feature In the publio
schools here. The boys are being In-
structed by Walter Fisher, scout exe-
cutive. and W. Fred Helsler. manual
training teacher, as a part of the ac-
tivity required of students this year.
The classes meet at 1 o’clock each
Tuesday afternoon and remain in ses-
sion forty minutes.
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