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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-13
"Noung and inexperienced
BARTLESVILLE UNPROTECTED
All save Two Members Of Police
Force Erred: No Funds.
Special to The world

Special to The World
BARTLESVllbE. Jan. 12.-With
the announcement by Charles Allen,
chief of police, that the police force Is
to be reduced to two men because the
department has lost most of its source
of revenue by the recent ruling OF the
supreme court OF the state abolishing
municipal courts. Rartlesville expects
to be overrun with a criminal element
and with no policemen to protect the
public.
The sheriff of the county and his
deputies will take n hand but county
officers have wide territory to
cover, so can give comparatively little
assistance In local matters
Members of the l. W. W many Of
whom are camped north OF here, are
expected Bartlesvllle citizens will
arm themselves, II is reported. as a
protection against holdups
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-13
PRESIDENTS NEXT
MOVE NOT KNOWN
Diplomats Say That It's Up to
Wilson to Say If Peace
Negotiations Proceed.
END OF WAR NOT IN SIGHT
Germans Assert Allied Terms
Impossible; Teutons May
Outline Terms Now.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 12.-The atti-
tude of President Wilson toward the
replies of the warning nations to his
suggestion that an opportunity be
given for comparing peace terms re-
mained undetermined tonight.
Preliminary discussion OF the ques
tioE was begun at today's cabinet
meeting and at conferences between
and between the president and COT h.
NJ. House. who spent the day at the
White House.
Rccont iliation.
Informally, officials expressed the
opinion that the problem facing the
president, is how to reconcile the con
flicting attitudes of the central
powers and the entente allies on the
question OF comparing terms. The
central powers having offered to dis
cUss peace at conference of repre-
sentatives of the belligerents and the
entente powers. tho virtually declining
to agree to "A conference, having given
their broad terms publicly, it was sug-
gested that the president might seek
a new method of having terms cont
pared.
In his original note he said he was
Indifferent as To the means employed
to secure this desired end and II was
thot he now would avoid putting him
self i'm the position of advocating a
particular method In one admins
tration quarter it was suggested that
one or more European neutrals might
urge Germany and her allies to make
public their peace terms and others
thot it possible that voluntary state
ment might be forthcoming from
Berlin after the text Of the entente
reply had been handed to the foreign
office for its information by Ambassa-
dor Gerard
Not Sent To Germans.
SO far, il is understood, the note
las not been transmitted to American
diplomats in the Teutonic countries.
altho it is generally assumed that this
will be the first step actually taken
by the United states. Secretary Lam
sing broke his silence on the subject
today only to say definitely that no
action had yet been taken.
II is generally agreed everywhere
that the nature of the terms of the
entente with the intimations from
German sources that such terms can
not be accepted make an early peace
unlikely. The preliminary view of the
CONTINUED on PAGE EIGHT
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-13
POSTAL EMPLOYE EMBEZZLER
johnson County Official Admits TAX
Ing SI.1OO From Uncle Sam.

Special to The World
Mi'SEOGEE, Okla. Jan. I'D. c.
Blackburn, formerly assistant post
master at Nida, Johnson county,
Okla, changed plea of not guilty to
ore of cultv in the federal court
today to the charge of having embe2-
zled pest office money order funds to
the amount OF S11S5.1S.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-13
Think Z" Firebugs'
Are to Blame

NEW YORK, Jan. l2.-Incendarics
are held responsible for the series of
explosions that Thursday night
wrecked the plants of the Canadian
Car & Foundry Co at kingsand. n. j.
Officials OF the company and police
CONTINUED Oh PAGE -FOUR
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-13
THAW READY TO GO
TO NEW YORK NOW
Not Yet Able to Talk, but Re-
moval Is Discussed; Detec-
tives at Hospital.

PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 12.-Plans
for the removal 10 New York OF Harry
* Thaw, who yesterday attempted to
commit suicide in West Philadelphia
as he was about to be surrendered TO
the New York police on charges of
kidnapping and assaultins Frederick
Gump, jr., of Kansas city, as soon as
he Is able to leave tho hospital were
discussed at conference late today
between counsel for Oliver \. Brewer
and repI Iesentatives of the Thaw inter
ests in this city and Pittsburgh.
After the conference 1t was an
nounced that no efforts to prevent his
removal arc likely to be made. Brower.
who was arrested here under the name
Of O'Byrne. and who Is under indiCt-
ment in connection with the Gump
charges. was today held without bal
to await requisition papers that Will
remove him to New York
Seek Habcas Corpus.
After bail was refused Brewer and
his counsel made application for wit
of habeas corpus and Judge Patterson
in common pleas court fixed Monday
afternoon at o'clock as the time fOr
hearing argument on the app 'ication
Thaws condition was reported to-
night as good" and unless complica-
tions arise his physicians say he will
be able to leave the hospital within
two weeks DR.. Elwood Il. Kirby OF
this city, who was summoned by the
Thaw family to attend him, said the
fear that Thaw had swallowed slow
poison tablets several of which were
found in his pockets, had been allayed.
Thaw Unable TO Talk.
Doctor Kirby said 1t probably would
be As hours before Thaw would be
able to talk or make any statement.
New York detectives went to the
hospital today To talk with Thaw, but
the physicians would not permit him
to be disturbed The patient, who oc-
cupies a private suite OF two rooms
is under the surveillance of six de-
tectives who are working in two-houi
shifts. A fugitive warrant based on
the Gump charges is ready to serve
and every precaution has been taken
to prevent Thaw from doing himself
further harm.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-13

Special to The World.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. l2.-Threc
unmaskcj bandits armed with retolN .
ers late today held up Il. T.. Miles.
president. and .. q. McClurg. cashier
Of the First National bank OF IIarrah.
20 miles east of here. and stole $500,
then locked Niles and McClurg In the
vault and made their escape in an
automobile There is tho, to have been
-four Of the bandits. but only three
participated in the actual robbery, the
fourth being stationed outside the
tank as lookout
Altho posses were quickly formed
at larrah and Chandler and pursuit
OF the bandits started as soon as pos
slbic after the robbery. late tonight
they had not been caught. A pOss"
headed by officers from this city left
tonight to reinforce those already en-
gagged In pursuit. while small parties
OF armed men were reported to be
hurrying to IIarrah from all directions
10 give what aid they could In run
ming down the men who are the first
TO pcrpetrate successful bank hold
ur In oklahoma county.
"Noung and inexperienced.
II Is not thot the bandits arc the
same who have robbed banks all over
Oklahoma during the past few months
There were evidences that they were
young and inexperienced according
TO the llarrah bank officials They
used only revolvors. while those OF the
gang which has been successful al
ways used Winchester rifles.
Officers of all cities in Oklahoma
and adjacent states have been notified
to be or the lookout for the bandits.
who probably will abandon their car
CONTINUED on PAGE -FOUR
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-13
Won BERNSTORFF MALlGNED
German Ambassador Accused of Max
ing "Pcacc-at- Any Price" Talk.

BERLIN, Jan. 12.--(By wireless to
the Associated Press. Via Sayville) )--
The semi-official Nord Deutsche All
gemeine Zeitung publishes an appar-
emily authoritative denial OF the re-
ports said to have been printed in for
eign newspapers that Count Won
Pernstorff, German ambassador to
the United States, had stated that Ger
many was anxious for peace at any
price and was willing to restore and
reimburse Belgium and to pay a war
indemnity.
1T is clear. asserts the newspaper,
that the ambassador never could
have made such a statement, but 1t
has to be proved that neither Count
Won Bernstortf nor any members OF
the German embassy at Washington
ever said any such thing.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-13
3 ROBBERS LOOT
BANK AT HARRAH
Bold Young Bandits Take
$500 in Town 25 Miles.
From Capital.
ESCAPE IN AN AUTOMOBILE
Posses of Officers and Citizens
Scour Country, but Fail TO
Locate Quarry.
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
OKLAHOMA CITY. Jan. fan
abandoned automobile. thot To be that
used by the bandits who robbed the
First National bank at IIar,uh, Okla,
today, was found In the road near
Prague. okla, by posscmcn tonight.
The bandits are thot Ia have fled To
the woods.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-13
ITALIAN CRUISER
SUNK; 675 DEAD
Regina Margherita Hits Mine
and Goes Down; 275 Men,
bers of Crew Saved.

ROME. via Paris, Jan. 12.-lt IL Of
ficiaily announced that the ltaiian
bottIc,hip Regina Marchcrita struck
n mine and sank December II. Six
hundred and scvcnty-fivc men on
board pcrishcd. Two hundred and
seventy were saved.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-13

The battleship Regina Margherita
WAS laid down in 1898 and completed
in May. 1904. She was vessel or
1S.427 tons. 426 feet long and had a
draught of 81 feet. Her usual COM
plement was 730 men. The battleship
carried I 12-inch, s-inch, IL 6-inch
guns. 20 12-pounders. 1-pounders, :
maxims and torpedo tubes.
The Regina Margherita was a Sis
ter ship of the Benedetto Brin when
was badly damaged by an explosion
on hoard in 1915 in which a large
number of her crew, including Rear
Admiral De Cervin, were killed.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-13
Body Then Riddled With
Bullets; Falls to
Brothers Arms.
TOWNSEND LED SQUAD
Only One Officer Denies
Firing; Reeves Called
Into Case.


the office of Chicf of Police Lucas. In
which George Reeves, county attorney.
had questioned all members OF the
raiding squad. one member OF which
killed Hatfield. was closed. Reeves
and the policemen went home. The
county attorney would not LAY at that
time what action he will take In the
case.
Vernon Hatfield. 30. tnxiCab
driver, was shot to death by squad
of pIninclothcs men led by Assistant
Chief of Police u. II. Townsend aud
composed of ". NJ. Shuc. Carl Lewis.
Rnymcy Miller aud Dick Nelson. In
addition To Townsend. near the Mid
land Valley station last night about
iO:3O o'clock. when he refused 10
bring his automobile to II dead stop
nt the command of halt" hurled
out TO him from behind II pile OF
bricks where the police officers had
concealed themselves.
THEY'VE GOT ME"
with his automobile riddlcd with
bullets, and his body torn by the
bullets that had been fired into him
rs he sat at the steering wheel. Hat
field, weakened by the loss OF blood,
dropped To the shoulder OF his H.
year old brother who was In the scat
by his side and said;
"Thcy',c got me, Buddy. Drive 10
the hospital"
II was the last that Vernon said
for hc was dead when he reached
the hospital.
CONFERENCE FOLLOWS.
In the police station. after the niur-
der. the Officers who. without the or
dcrs of the chief of police, had made
the raid, sat in silence about the table
az the head of which stood George
Reeves, county attorney. In II mono-
tone they gave their versions OF the
killing of the lad In the automobile
To reporters they dclarcd there was
nothing To announce for publica-
ton" Developments would show
that they were Justified in firing upon
the lad, they said.
"Thc people must wait Il while IL
learn the true particulars OF the case"
one said.
\ RAID.
According to witnesses the raidlng
squad had arrested earlier in the
night. ono O. u. Morris and Pat Ma
lone who. when searched were found
to have liquor in their possession.
Taking q tip from telephone number
found In the possession of one of the
prisoners the rliding squad descended
upon store near the Intersection OF
Third ana the Midland Valley tracks.
Led by Townsend the "wreckinS
squad began operation and after
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-13
Good Advice

"Where would you advise one 10
look for a job" That is the
question that YOU frequently
hear and the best answer to II
is: where the greatest num-
Der of good employers are offer
ing iobs to be iilled-in the
Want Columns"
Every day The World Ads Of
fer so many big opportunities of
various kinds 10 alert. ambitious
men that they have come 20 be
relied upon by employer and
employe alike as the great clear
ING house OF "Give and Take
Keep your hand on the pulse of
business opportunity hv readin~
and using The World Want Ads
daily.
PHONE 5000
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-13

There are no records that any such
statements as are referred to In the
foregoing have been credited to Count
Won Bernstorff.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-13
THE WEATHER

TULSA. AIN. I2-MaAimum <6
tunofficiaD, minimum 20.
OKLAHOMA FORECAST - Sstur.
day fair and much colder.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-02-01
MUST The COUNTY
JAIL GO?
Try This CateChism.

Is Jail conducted on the basis OF
place of temporary or permanent
detention?
Is it giving either group of men
square deal to shut up those detained
for trial with those under sentence?
Is the detention of q man under
sentence meant to do him good?
What does the Jail contribute to-
wards his rehabilitation?
How many men do you know who
have come out of Jail with more self
respect and a better attitude toward
society than they had when they went
in?
Should not migratory men be cared
for by the state rather than the coun-
ty in which they happen to be halted?
Does it protect society to put man
in Jail?
If he is let out after thirtyday
sentence, what assurance do you have
that he will not repeat the offence?
Do you know that more than so per
cent of Jail sentences are for drunk
enness and vagrancy?
Do you think either habit can be
cured in from so to 80 days?
Do you think that those Of us who
happen to be outside and have to work
ought to support the Jail Inhabitants in
idleness. and look after their fomilies
in addition?
Does any body with sense think that
suitable occupation can continuously
be provided for small groups sentenc-
ed for short terms?
Have you ever considered the over
head expense of county iails?
What is the condition of your own
county Jail?
Are the Jail improvements in your
county meant to eliminate some Of the
horrors of damp floors and ill-smell-
ing cells infested with vermin, or to
build pordhe and hardwood floors
for the sheriff?
Do you think the abnormal and de-
fective ought to be treated in the same
way as fully responsible offenders?
To get at the matter seriously,
don't YOU think that half a dozen state
farms could be made more effective
and economical for the detention OF
sentenced prisoners than our county
iails?
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-02-01
THE PRISON PROBLEM IN
PENNSYLVANIA-WHAT NEXT!

Pennsylvania has some prison prob
lens of her own. The Penal Commits
sion, which reported in 1915, suggest
ed legislative program not yet com
pleted. The purchase Of state forms,
providing for the employment Of pris.
oners, state use of prison products,
and the abolition of the death penalty.
are likely to be storm centers Of legis.
lation.
Almost everybody believes prisoners
ought to work. The proposition to PIT
them at it seems simple enough On
the surface, but all kinds Of trouble
have beset the effort wherever it has
been tried on a large scale. The law
passed in 1915 makes it. perm SIS baa
to employ prisoners under certain re.
strictions, but does not make it obi.
gatory. The result is that the permits.
sion has made no change beyond the
statute books. We want to know now
how to really make prisoners work,
not to write a few more high sounding
laws that do not effect the situation
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-02-01

estlng experiments WIN apparently
fair success. For example, Gilmore's
Industrial Prison, at Guelph, Ontario.
The Comstock Prison, at Great Mead
ows, New York, where hundreds OF
men work without guards in the fields,
quarries and about the stock farms
The Occoquan, Virginia. prison colo
ny, housed in thirty buildings, all
built by prison labor. If our former
ideas concerning prisoners and prison
discipline were true. the men from
these prisons would run away. Prac
ticaly they rarely do.
New Jersey is excited abort charges
that the state prison at Trenton is
run under a system of repression and
brutality which outrages the public
conscience. An article in the New
York Evening Post charges the Tren.
ton prison with being dad in its
structure, bad in its management" and
among the worst in the country"
The people in the Garden State want
to know whether these statements are
true, and the governor apparently
wants to help them. He has a work
ahead of him much greater than the
far-famed labors of Hercules, if he
ends the prison problem for all time.
If he succeeds, he will certainly be
entitled to rank with tabled gods and
heroes
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-02-01
SOME PROBLEMS IN
~ PRISON ADMINISTRATION
One of the Joys of Being Governor

One of the Joys of Being Governor.
The governor of the Empire State
IS out with the assertion that the solid
rock of any system of prison reform
is iron discipline The new governor
Of New Jersey is quoted as saying: al
intend to hear all sides freely and
fairy for | mean to end the prison
problem in this state for all time"
The New York governor would start
with better working hypothesis If
he substituted the word good for iron
as the qualifying adjective. Good pris,
on discipline is fundamental Iron is
a valuable asset in its proper economic
Mace. but we neither eat, drink,
breathe nor wear iron, and it is at
least rational to suppose that certain
othe- elements with more mobility
than iron. may be necessary in recon
structing the lives of transgressors,
We do not know how to get good dis
cipline hnt we are trying some inter.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-02-01
OVERLAPPING INDUSTRY.

Taxes are not alone the burden of the
rich They inevitably descend along
the scale and are generally shared in
some proportion by all. When excess
-sive burdens of taxation emphasize the
competitive disadvantages of any com
munity for any branch or class of bust
ness that community will invariably
suffer a decrease in the industrial de-
velopment and prosperity of all within
its boundaries.
In many sections of the country re-
ports show that industry is often sub
jected to continuous and unreasonable
burdens of taxes in one form or an
other This condition is due in part at
least to mistaken public attitude to-
ward industrial operations or a preju-
diced, ignorant or Indifferent opinion
on the part Of public officers and politi-
clans. The history of industrial COM
munities where such burdens are i'm
posed, however, is the best evidence of
whether such policy pays anybody.
Two manufacturers in similar lines
Of business, one operating plant in
Massachusetts and the other located in
Connecticut, were recently comparing
notes. They discovered that for every
500 In taxes which the Connecticut
plant paws per annum the Massachu-
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-02-01

A Texas legislator recently offered
for enactment bill designed to pre-
vent head-on collisions between rail-
road trains in his State. The main
part of the text said: When two
trains, coming from opposite direc.
tons, approach a crossing, both shall
stop, AMI neither shall cross until the
other has passed"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-02-01

Setts miami was paying $l,OVu, OF Ten
times as much The answer 10 tnls SIT
uation is that Massachusetts mas peen
falling behind in the percentage Vi
growth rs an Industrial state compared
with some of her neighboring eommu'
mites where industry is not so often
aimed at by burdensome. unnecessary
and unreasonable laws.
The following open letter by }. w.
Powell, president of the Fore RIVER
N1assD Shipbuilding Corporation, ad-
dressed to the employees OF that com
many in A recent issue of their family
magazine" The Fore Rirer Log, pre-
sents in a fair way the average bus1-
ness mans view on excessive taXauoh
of Industrial plants:
"What is good for Fore River is good
for Quincy. md what is good for gum
cy is good for Fore River
1.-THE officers and employees OF TINS
company and their families make up
more than quarter Of the population
of the city Their interests are the
same as the interest of Quincy ana OF
the Fore River Shipbuilding Corpora
ton.
This companys business is building
ships. which brings US into competi-
ton with companies building SHIPS III
other States. Anything that Fore River
must do in this community that other
shipbuilding companies do not have to
do in their cities will. in the long run.
hurt us.
TODAY there are more ships to be
built than there are yards to ouliI
iliem When the war is over there VIII
be more shipyarGs than there are
ships to build Then the yard thaI
builds the cheapest will take the con
tracts. and the yard whose costs are
highest will discharge its men.
THE other big shipyards do not pay
big taxes. Some of them pay no taxes
at all. If you own house and rent ii
you add your taxes into the rent. II
you rent house you pay the taxes
when you pay your rent, so the com
pany must add its taxes when 1t sells
ship.
"Such an assessment and such taxes as
have been levied against this company
this year in Quincy. which is as much
as the combined cost of its new hos
pital and club, hurt it and will hurt
YOU. 1t is not fair to increase this com.
pany's assessment 80 per cent and tC
increase its taxes nearly 80 per cent
this year as against year ago.
"You know that a great part of the
company's money spent in improve
ments has been spent to make Fore
River a better place to work. There
are still many departments needing
new buildings, new Mushrooms, new
locker rooms, and many other improve
ments to make this yard the kind of {
yard YOU and WE both want it to be.
We expect to pay fair tax, bu
will not pay an exorbitant one. Thi!
matter is of interest TO YOU Think il
over.
"(Signed j. W. POWELL,
"PreSideHt"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-02-01

FARM FOR RENTS acres of fine
tillable land, with plenty of first
class buildings, pneumatic water
system throughout; concrete stables,
and other conveniences. Within one
mile of macadam road. Interested
parties will be shown over place at
any convenient time. R. S. Clawson,
R. D. l, Lambertville, N. j., or call
Bell Phone 93R3, Hopewell.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-02-01
CONSERVATION TRUTHS.

The man at the bench is the CO.
worker of the man in the Office Let
them get together for the common
good.