The Carter Express. (Carter, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, August 29, 1919 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CARTER EXPRESS
SS ■.H
REVOKED
When There ie Evidence of Attempting
to Go Beyond the Government'*
Fixed Price
Washington.—Active control of su-
gar prices wns resumed by the govern-
ment through an agreement reached
between the department of Justice and
the food administration that licenses
will be revoked by the latter when It
Is shown dealers have been profiteer-
ing. Judge C. B. Ames, of Oklahoma,
Is In charge.
Sugar should reach the consumer at
approximately 11 cents a pound, It was
------- announced, based on the ownership of
after a highly successful six days’ the entire domestic and Cuban crop by
campaign. Six bandits were brought 1
MEXICAN BANDITS ARE
TAUGHT ANOTHER SE^-
IQUS LESSON
FOUR OEM; SIK PRISIONERS
Without An American Casualty la tht
Nat Result «f Latest Maxican Out-
rage o/i the Stars and
Stripes.
Marfa, Tex.—The American punitive
expedition came back out of Mexico
576,000 SOLDIERS NEEDED
FOR THE UNITED STATES,
SECRETARY SAYS.
FAVORS COMPULSORY TRAINING
Either in the Army or the Navy for
Youth* of Nineteen.—Opposes
Formation of Ssperate
Air Ministry.
back as prisoners and four slain.
Jesus Renteria, (he bandit leader, was
shot and killed by Lieut. R. H. Cooper,
when bandits tired on Cooper’s ma-
chine, according to Lieut. Harold 0.
Peterson, one of the aviators whose
kidnapping caused the trouble. There
were no American casualties. •
The column, making an early start,
crossed the Rio Grande and arrived
at Candelaria on the American side
at nightfall, having marched over
sixty miles in twelve hours.
The six prisoners are leading a sad
life. They are at RiMdosa, the base of
the expedition, and they are chopping
wood and washing dishes,
It developed that small columns had
been sent in on either side of the
large column, with instructions to
watch the road to Chihuahua City.
This precaution was taken alter word
was brought tfiat Renteria had said
he was going to Chihuahua to have a
good time with the money he had re
ceived as ransom for the captured
aviators.
They Went as Far a* They Liked.
El Paso.—The United States mili-
tary expedition which has withdrawn
from Mexico after pursuing Mexican i
bandits, penetrated farther into Mexi- cents less 2 per cent dlsc
can territory than any since the punl- Whole8aIers and Jobbers
tive expedition which was sent across maxlmnm nf 'Wo ~
the border tinder Gen. John J. Per-
shing. March 15, 1916, in pursuit oi
Francisco Villa’s pandits.
The expedition,'which followed the
C. B. Ames
the United States sugar equalization
board, which is selling to reiners at
7.28 cents a pound. Refiners are under
contract with the board to sell at 9
cents less 2 per cent discount for cash.
ind jobbers are allowed a
maximum of 68 cents per 100 pounds
for handling, and retailers are allowed
profit of 1 cent to 1% cents per
pound, making a fair price 11 cents,
except in cases where dealers have
Washington.—Secretary Baker de-
fended before the senate subcommit-
tee on military affairs his recom-
mendation for an army of 576,000 men
by saying that in view or the "dis-
turbed conditions in the world,’’ he
did not wish the responsibility of ask-
I ing for a small force.
Secretary Baker indicated several
times that the bill as presented in-
cluding its provision for compulsory
universal military training for 19-
year-old youths was that of military
experts rather than his own, although
it had hlB approval. He .said that
his own "guess” was that an army
of 576,000 was perhaps somewhat
larger than necessary, but that he did
not wish to take the responsibility of
opposing the opinion of the country’s
greatest military men.
Agrees To Naval Training.
Regarding the provision for main-
tenance of three divisions in the fti-
sular possessions, the secretary ad-
mitted that the force appeared to him
somewhat large and agreed to the
suggestion of Senator Wadsworth of
New York that native troops might
be used to advantage.
The secretary also considered as
worth while a suggestion that a part
of the youth of the country might be
given the opportunity for naval train-
ing, possibly as a substitute for the
training he otherwise would receive
in the army.
Against Air Cabinet
The interrogation of the secretary
offered the opportunity for obtaining
his opinion on The proposed establish-
ment of an air ministry. Senator
New of Indiana presented arguments
NO VOTES GAINED Bf WILSON
BY CONFERRING WTTH SEN-
ATE COMMITTEE
Republicans Still Against the Peace
Conference Plan of the League
of Nations.
Washington-The outstanding ro-
*ult of the conference between Pres-
ident Wilson and the foreign relations
committee on the peace treaty is that
opposition in the senate to the treaty
in its present form Is undimlnished
and unyielding.
According (o statement given by
fuombers of the committee not a sin-
gle vote has changed as a result of
the president's exposition, of the
treaty provisions. On the contrary,
opponents of the league of nations as-
serfbd that the president's explana-
tion of many of the disputed points
was unconvincing and that some of
the Uafemenls made by him will only
tend to solidify the opposition to the
entire league scheme.
It was authoritatively stated that
when the committee begins the actual
work of passing on amemimenis of-
fered to the treaty it will adopt a
large number of the amendments pio-*
arrangeme nts and leave the nations of
the United States out of the treaty
pared by Senator Fall which will take
Purope s lone to eniorce the engage-
mens j gainst Gotinmy.
The republican members of the
committee, among whom are some of
the most uncompromising opponents
of the league of nations in the senate
one and all declared that the presi-
dent’s explanation had failed to sat-
isfy their objections to the covenant
and that ratification of the treaty
without reservations has less chance
now than it had .some time agq,
There is a general belief that the
president will find it necessary to ac-
cept some of the senate reservations
in place of the mild interpretations
which he had suggested,
OKLAHOMA STATE NEWS
SHADOWS OF COMINO KVJCNTS
„ : . fairs
g*pt. 8-8, ARuf Fair.
Sfpt. 8*11, Hugo Fair.
9«<. 7-11, Ada Fair,
gept. 11-18, Paula Vallry Fair,
Sept. 10-12, Uwton Fair.
Sept. 10-12. Thomas Fair,
Sept, 10-18, Duncan Fair.
Sept. 10-18, Hallrtt Fair,
Sept. 10-13, Apache Fair.
Sept, 10-20, Elk City Fair.
S«-pt. lO-n, ei Reno Ea|r,
c *'!' Watonga Fair.
} -13. Stlgler Fair.
§!•*- j,1- 3. Mmllll Fair.
f£nt' in'la X!*homlnK<> Fair,
a, !’ Shawnee Fair.
Guthrie Fair,
5?1- m-lH, Pawnee Fair.
S«Pt. 18-20, Dewey Fair.
Sept. 17-21, Vlnita Fair. >
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Oct. .7-20, Waukomla Fair.
After rescuing five little girl* at a
ffcnlc party, E. T. McNeal was drowned
bear Wellston.
Enid bonds to the amount of $915.
000 approved In a recent election, wer*
placed on the market August 20.
G. L. Box, the first Oklahoma sol-
dier wounded in the great war, has
been mustered out and is expected to
arrive at his home in Altus Boon.
A warehouse near Miami containing
containing $8,000 worth of hay was
struck by lightning and burned to th»
ground.
Combined shock from a high tension
electric wire and a thirty foot fall
caused the death of A. L. Richards, a
lineman, at a hospital in Enid.
The mayor and board of city com-
missioners of Miami voted to purchase
a carload of army hams and bacon to
Eell to the city of Miami and the min-
ing district.
Boll weevil is reported more numer-
ous and active in the southeastern and
south central portions of the state, in
(lie weekly crop report Issued by the
weather bureau.
Villa raid on Columbus, N. M., to | Purchased at an “unreasonable price” I “ew Ul Jmmina Pre8eni«a arguments
which seyenteeD persons were killed I dlie ,0 misunderstanding in the trade. ior separation of l*16 military and
was composed of four thousand men When this is a fact< a reasonable ad-1 aeronautics- but Secretory R«kfir was
vance over the actual cost will be per-
mitted.
who marched more than 200 miles
into the terrilory of the southern re-
public. Se\ eral clashes between
United States Aroops and Villa and
Carranza followers resulted.
With the Villa band dispersed, the
expedition withdrew February 5, 1917,
On seveial other occasions in the
past two years small detachments of
troops here teen sent across the
border in pursuit of marauding bands.
On August 27, 1918, American and
Mexican troops fought two hours at
Nogales, Arizona, following a clash
between custom house guards. An
American officer and one soldier were
killed and 28 others were wounded.
The Mexican losses were 19 killed.
During the attack of Villa forces on
Juarez, Brig. Gen. James Erwin, nu
June 15 last, ordered 356 United
States troops to cross from El Paso,
Texas, to prevent firing from the Mex-
ican side into El Paso. The order
was issued after several persons, in-
cluding soldiers, had been hit by Mex-
ican bullets. After a short engage-
mem in which the Villa troops were
driven from the vicinity of Juarez, the
American troops were withdrawn June
16.
RAILROADERS VOTE STRIKE
Higher Pay and Promotion Are the
Demands.
Detroit.—General chairmen of the
United Brotherhood of Maintenance of
Way Employes and railway shop la-
borers approved a new wage and
working agreement already submitted
aeronautics, but Secretary Baker was
frank in his declaration of opinion
that it would make for inefficiency.
Difficulty would be experienced, Mr.
Baker said, in maintaining the proper
co-ordination under separate heads
and if a more adequate air service is
desired, he suggested, it would be
more practicable to utilize the exist
ing military organizations.
Question of More Money.
The testimony developed that the
United States now has 10,718 air-
planes, of which, however, only 3,328
are service planes. The major part
democrat; ask $5,000,000
Director of Finance Tells of Big Cam.
paign Fund.
New York.—The high cost of every-
thing else has hit politics too, accord-
ing to a statement issued here by for-
mer Representative William D. Jamie-
son oi Iowa, director of finance of the
democratic national committee, in an-
nouncing plans to raise a $5,000,000
was chest for the coming presidential
election.
The greatest democratic convention
fund raised to date, said Mr. Jamieson,
was $2,500,000, contributed by 300,000
members of the party to re-elect Presi-
dent Wilson in 1916. This year, he
said, an intensive campaign will be
pushed to obtain subscriptions aver-
aging $5 from at least $1,000,000 per.
sons.
fn jho riiirnVa 7^7'':,“'“'™“ I present equipment now Is obso-
E2 iSfiSZSZ lef 1 w“ ■‘■f*br r »
ly I. per day pa? Ze “« | l,e“ "e be,to lb“ «
and promotion by
half for overtime
seniority.
The demands, it was claimed, affect
all railroads in the United States,
Canada and Central America and in-
volve about 600,000 workers. Half of
that number are members of the un-
ion.
A referendum now being taken is
returnable August 24. Union officials
declare 88 per cent of the men favor
the proposed schedule and a general
stni-e of all maintenance of way em-
ployes is likely if their demands are
not met.
The secretary said that if the gov-
ernment wished to develop the air
industry either for commerce or for
war purposes, the solution was simple
—merely spend the money to buy
more planes.
SENATE AMENDS TREATY
Restores the
Shantung
China.
Peninsula to
They Made Good.
Washington.-One of the two
American soldiers sentenced to death
for sleeping on outpost duty in France
and subsequently pardoned'by Presi-
dent Wilson, was killed in the great
Aisne offensive in July, 1918, and the
other was twice wounded.
"Leave U. S. Dead Alone."
Washington.—”We should leave our
dead near where they fell” is the ma-
ture judgment expressed by General
Pershing in a cable received by the
war department on the question of
bringing the American dead home
from France.
These Units Will Keep Rhine Watch
Washington.—The nine units which
will constitute the American force in
Germany after September 30, the war
department announced, are: Eighth
regiment of infantry, Seventh machine
*un battalion, Second battalion of the
Sixth field artillery regiment, Thirty,
fifth field signal battalion, First sup-
piy train, First mobile ordnance repair
shop, Company A of the First Engl-
neers. Field Hospital 13f Ambulance
^company 26.
Fifteen Shot in Traction Disorders.
Buffalo, N. Y.—With a pitched bat-
tle between strike breakers and strike
sympathizers of the New York and
Pennsylvania Traction Company at
Olean, N. Y., still raging, fifteen men
have been shot and three have been
beaten so badly as to endanger their
lives. Of the men shot in the fusilade
of buckshot fired by the strike break-
ers in an attempt to drive away the
mob, several may die. Lawrence
Page, a college student, son of Wil-
liam R. Page, president of the trac-
lion company, was beaten so badly
I that he cannot live. v
Washington.—An amendment to the
pgace treaty providing for the res-
toration of Shantung to China instead
of delivering to Japan was adopted
by the foreign relations committee of
the senate. It was the first direct
action by the committee on the
treaty.
To many minds it is believed that
this action spells the defeat of the
entire treaty.. It is not conceivable
that Japan will agree to the amend-
ment if the senate should support
the committee in its decision to give
back Shantung to China. Nor is it
believed that England, France and
Italy, bound by secret treaties to sup
port Japan's claims to Shantung, will
be able to accept the American
amendment.
Therefore, even if the treaty should
be finally ratified after strong reserva
tions on American questions shall
»|ve been adopted, it is highly pos
sible, if not probable, that the other
nations will refuse to accept it;
Vesuvius Is Active.
Naples.—Vesuvius is in eruption,
two new craters on Meunt Somag
issuing forth much Java.
Wilson Firm for Treaty
Washington.—The compromise pro-
posal to have the senate adopt peace
treaty reservations but keep them sep-
arate from the ratification itself, was
put aside Indefinitely after democratic
leaders had declined to assume respon-
sibility for it and republicans of all
shades of opinion had given notice that
they could not accept It.
Among the republicans the develop-
ment was interpreted as meaning the
action never would be sought on the
proposal in its present form, and dem-
ocratic leaders generally said they had
no plans for bringing it to a vote.
Meantime, a White House announce-
ment and an executive decision of the
foreign relations committee brought to
the surface again two other issues of
the treaty fight.
President Wilson, replying to a sug-
gestion that he might put the country
on a peace basis by declaring the war
at an end, announced that he not only
considered himself powerless to take
such a step, but considered a peace de-
cision either by himself or congress
prior to ratification of the treaty
would “put a stain upon our national
honor,” by evading responsibility in
the world peace settlement.
James H. Black, farmer 36 years old,
was shot and Instantly killed by his
father-in-law, Samuel Robinson, ’ near
Moffett, The shooting was the cul-
mination of a family quarrel.
Fire of unknown origen totally de-
stroyed the plant of Black. Sivalls &
Bryson, tank builders, at Healdton.
Approximate estimates place ihe loss
at between $150,000 and $200,000.
Mayor Freeman of Ardmore has
requisitioned the commandant at Jef-
ferson Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri,
for a car of foodstuffs to be sold at
government prices to Ardmore and
Carter county consumers.
Charles C. Smith, an attorney of
Guthrie, was appointed by Governor
Robertson to be a member of the
board of regents for the Colored Agri-
cultural and Normal University at
Langston. He succeeds C. H. Camp-
bell, who resigned.
TWENTY DIE IN EXPLOSION
Rescue Gangs Ar« Busy In Colorado
Mine Horror.
Trinidad, Col.—One man has been
rescued alive, and not more than 20
men, including Fire Boss William
Christopher, are believed to be dead
in the Oakview mine of the Oakdale
Coal Company, near Laveta, which
was wrecked by an explosion.
The explosion took place about one
mile and a half into the workings.
About 40 men were in the mine when
the explosion occurred. Ten men
came out of the mine slope and eight
or ten men came out by way of an
old slope.
Rescue crews are penetrating into
the workings to recover the entombed
men. The rescue work is being
pressed by crews hastily summoned
from camps in the Walsenburg and
Trinidad districts. Officials of the
Oakdale Coal Company say the ex-
plosion was of gas.
British Bomb Kronstadt.
Helsingfors. — British aircraft car-
ried out a fourteen hours bombing
raid #n Kronstadt.
Bank Robbers Take $50,000.
Newton, Kans—Forcing three of-
ficials and a stenographer of the First
National bank of Newton to lie upon
the floor, face downward, three
masked men robbed the bank oi
$20,000 In currency and $20,000 to
Liberty bonds. ,
Former ^Officer Slain as Bandit.
Kansas City.—John Elliot, fornler
policeman and later deputy county
marshal,’ was instantly killed by W.
F. Kane, lookout in a poker game at
the Jefferson hotel.
Mexicans Get $12,600.
Laredo, Tex.—Albert von Hoffman,
of St. Louis, reached here from a visit
to his coffee plantation in the state of
Vera Cruz and reported to federal
authorities he had been robbed of
$12,000 by Mexican federal*
J. W. Twist, farmer, residing thrqe
miles north of Tulsa was gored' to
death by an infuriated Holstein bull.
Twist was attempting to drive the ani-
mal into a barn when it turned upon
him, running him down. One horn
entered the right side and the other
tore a great hole in the left side just
above the heart.
The third charge growing out of the
failure of the Logan County State
bank, at Guthrie, was filed against R.
J. Conaway, when a warrant wag
Bworn out by County Attorney Fred
Greene, charging Conaway with accept-
ing tthe deposit of county funds at the
bank when he, as president, knew the
Institution to be insolvent.
Asking damages in the sum of $2,000
for each child and $3,000 for itself,
Mrs. Monta Mooney has filed suit in
the district court of Miami against the
Underwriters Land Company for the
death of her husband in one of the
company’s mines. She has eleven
children ranging from four months to
twenty-six years. The total amount
asked is $25,000.
V
Due to the dynamiting of creeks
and rivers in that section and killing
of the fish, and also their poisoning,
citizens of McCurtain county have
subscribed a fund for the reward for
arrest and conviction of the parties
doing these deeds, The state is co-
operating and offers $100 reward.
According to the books of the
state treasurer there was $7,044,233,37
on> hand when Mr. Leecraft took office
January 13, 1919. Since that time
there has been deposited $24,118,547
and warrants issued for $15,771,229, \
leaving a balance of $9,115,673, a gain
of more than two millions of dollars
In six months.
Fear that the state would soon be
off a cash basis was dispelled today
by Frank Carter, state auditor, who
said sufficient money had been col-
lected in delinquent taxes, in many
instances due since 1915, that present
Indications are that the treasury de-
partment would continue to have the.
money to meet warrants for the bal-
ance of the year. According to Can
ter, more than $400,000 has been col
lected In delinquent taxes within <
year.
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Cain, George W. The Carter Express. (Carter, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, August 29, 1919, newspaper, August 29, 1919; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc957174/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.