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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-05

D.. h.H no l|' N'NAAIl
today was threatened with flood, which
we're almost as .c.crc as those which
last spring destroyed million, OF dol-
LAYS q proper'N
Rivers Overflow IN Five States.
Rivers iu tive state -elcuucsscc,
Alabama. Georgia North Carolina and
Nfguia--wcrc o.cgi,ovng their banks
a. tic result OF many day, %, heavy
rou. but with ample warning, given
u al districts. % was not believed
there would be- a heavy toll OF liic
q, was the case last wear when the
district, m South Carolina were
flooded
The Tennessee a. Knoxville and
Chattanooga went ont oi ITS bank, last
gh, ard several hundred persons m
those c''c, ard nearby towns were
dHsca from their horcs Measures
iot relief were quickly, taken and the
l mclcsS cared ior WITH minimum OF
.li,crug The Little Pigeon river Tar
''cr 10 'he east also was ont ard the
cumberland ryer az Nashville wa, al
'.o a, Hood stage with an overflow
I -c,aV ilr tomorrow.
Property Loss Heavy.
Iu \'sh5wa. the ton,a and 7 ALA
,,-,a -I,c-, which form the Nlsbamd
river. with the latter and the tapaba.
Black Warrior and Inmblgbcc had
o,rrilovcd The property loss around
nose rivers viii be heavy according
t. reports bu' much livestock had been
moved 'o high ground and there were
mo- reports o' fatalities
The thauahoochc. Oconec and O,-
mulsec rivers IN south Georgia also
arc al flood stage today while the
Ncu,r aui Roanoke rivers ~ North
,a'ulra were expected 10 20 ou'. The
lJ'avha. which o,cril1wcd last sum
1.rr wiki heavy 'oll oi 'ic and prop
'.'s wen, out last night carving a
rel'road track and highway bridge.
Floods Today IN Virginia.
hc st. James and smaller contrib.
u'jr, streams m Virginia were rising
rapidly with flood, predicted Tor 10.
ist Weather observers hs,ed thrr
rrollctiin, ior flood stage, on the rain.
'all up to ycyerda, and as the rain
continued last nigh, and 'rll wa, iall.
.us high stage, were expected lair
weather wa, predicted for tomorrow
Resides the heavy rain. snow icll III
Vcuern AMI central tennessee yc;,cr.
lat and extreme cold weather wa,
forecast for TODAY and tonight IN that
ga'c southern Aabama. Georgia and
70 rihcrr Florida
On thc coast from jacksonville 10
Virginia O strong northeast gale was
Lowing accompanied b, rain IN many
sections
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-05
COTTON GOVERNED
BY WEATHER vANE
Early Advance Offset After
Reports Of Improvement,

>IW ORLEANS March Good
cable, and .uId weather iu Texas caused
o. r.so ~ I, 90 20 points AROUND tho open
lre o' 'HD cotton market today hui tho
Improvement was met hy heavy offerings
tho result ~ tho failure ~ passage
~ tho armed mentality bin \ htuy
later offerings were gWclicd hy prospcrts
~ better weather over IA" belt At tho
ud of the FIRST nrlf hour ~ business ac-
'l,' months were unchanged 10 two
points up compared with saturdays
close 4
ON tho report circulated stating that
President Wilson had the power TO arm
merchant vessels without seeking per
mission of congress the market advanced
strongly 20 level 33HN points over
Saturdays close Toward noon tho tono
was quiet and prices wcro OF about ~
points from tho top under realizing hy
s,Ilplug longs
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-05
LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL. March i.-Coiton 5 spot.
good business done good middllng II S'd
middlug n I'D, low middling II SD .
sales 600 halet 100 fot speculation aud
export NO receipts futures, very steady
March u 2ed March April sd April
iii,d. July. August il.06d August. Sep
tcmber 10 sod September october 10 i5d (.
Octohar November 10 SOD November
December iC spd December. January
10 tbd. January. February iol3d. F0btu-
~, March 10 I'D March April 10 iS,i
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-05
REAL ESTATE WANTED.
In Answering Al. Please Mention Time~

OWNEHS Two northern tanners viii he
hove In short time 10 bus = tarms
YOURS may suit one of them. write or
500 me at once O y West, 3ls Lee
Nldg
WANT 10 buy rnnW new bungalow
northeast or northwest. have s. 10.
cash 20 pay down. viii buy from oWne'
or agent Address 6i9 East 10th 81
Oklahoma Cus Okla
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-05
OUCH

\ gossip is o'1 NVs Limo
The roghhofs SNOW This ycr. w'N
Ava tho, call her Mr. Time"
Berausc thcy know that Time VIII tell
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-05

FOR SALE Nlccsi ,-room extra mod
en- tunEaloW tu the eta, On 100 block
N'yt 2sth ST. prise - oo', $1,000 cash,
balance SIS 80 per month
ENc-ruou modern urn bungalow, two
rooms oak all hult-m features. with
breakfast MON: 500 block West 2iih'
s. 600 $500 cash balance $3.50 per
mouth
Eve room modern bungalow Iu llno
block North virginia two rooms lu OAK,
balance In white "utmcl. price s. 90
$500 cash balance So per month. which
Includes interest
tiyc-room modern in 200 block Wcst
3Uh ~ tVo rooms oak. AN hullt-iu i'h
turcs. prio" 81 700. $500 cash. balance
il1 ~ uor month
Two f,o-roow modern cottages "u two
lots tu i,Uo hook Nest 2Ith St price
$3.50. $3.50 rnsh. balance 13l,o pei
month, houses now rent for 81 per
month
OKLAHOMA Trust rOMrANl .
SOS. I'D Insurance Ridg Maple ~
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-05

Ei ) From pWNER modern 6-room
northwest .. block Rellc l.i" car. SCI
'urni.hod n desired SOME tr.ms Ma
pl" lI44
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-05

SHIELDS BARGAINS
1901 East 10Th 5,n2O3 special price
Broadway $500
ont building block $4,000
on building
-,-f o ~ Robinson
rou N o on
o. 40
Robinson
"
Oklahoma Addition 5000
81 NJ Rob- John W. Shields WAL 1886
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-05

CITY REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
In Ansp erins Nd. rlen.- Msrtion Time.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-05

HOGS Live pork records continued TO
50 hv The boards at an markets today.
Advances Vcrc Of good Size. averaging
from lam 30C Locally II was 1bG 30c
higher on o $500 head crop that MAIDS
~ the Mouday supply Top jumped to
Sl26 for two loads while tho bulk SOLD
W 'O and up. Butcher pigs soDd around
5000
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-05

room semi -mfdcrn house lots
t0,lNO un paved strcCi y block
from la.mluutr ear rrNtce garage IN
trAr ltAlN feet. has good well
property ,lehf. n bargain $500 cash
takes n Src nN nci at property
1871 iiuv God Blvd
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-05

FOR SALE cash bargain. A-room huu.
raluW pantry closets pur,hes. lawn
'h1dr. fruit good water rcd root
blocks east stOp B., Brl'ou ,rt
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-05

SR0OM house. lots. south front.
paved street ". ScNcntccuth.. 5000
Spura Walnut HaII
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-05

Rank Wal l2lN
SPECIAL bargains IN farm acreage and
,tv property fur sale ur trade lIo'-
,onh tNchnngo l-2 Indiana Bldg "
e?oj or 3js Edmond
BAgGNlN close 90 .uuIlu'. room
modern home. for $500. ,llI Walnut
7Ol2
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-05
Must Be Sod

s.room modern bungalow. SO 1910 East
ninth. I hlock from best ar service
Price S. 80. $500 cash balance oasN
Gardiner & Uocdc kcr. 2le Am Netl
Rank wat l2lS
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-05

GARDNER & B0EDECKER,
~ American National Bank Wal iels
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-03-05
Closing ouotatlorI

Prices - 'ho vnripu- grades " cattle are
appf1NIUatg|" as follows
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-03
|hgneers Found Themselves
n Thick Of Fight and Took
Active Part.
By william phillip simms. united

'1y William Phillip Simms, United
rress Staff Correspondent
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES,
~ y, S-Americans did their bit to
byng's tommies in pushing back
,uund Cambrai Germany's most for
.raoie ~ assault since Verdun.
.ney weren't enlisted to fight.
10y nv We're engineers and doctors.
engineers got caught in the
slstrom ,oma OF struggling lines and
TSos sule We're cut off by the Germans.
(sDe. II good many of them rolled
|sS s,h. .neir sleeves and went into the
suS Io,n. They borrowed rifles and
csi, |,bos,,, like bear-cats, shoulder to
4yaider M with the British.
|Aa,nn Ane American doctors stuck to
ma. ma Jobs of helping the wounded
1%u,.. ne.her these Americans suffered
1n Saleies, had not been established
'fba aaeaaquarters reports UP to today.
|ss r,nole nnole British army, however,
Islss. ringing with praise Of their first
rS.n lighting ability.
- since beginning Byng's thrust.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-03
WRECK OF TROOP TRAIN
WITH 800 ON BOARD

brake beam-when the train crossed
switch"
He said the train was going fifty
five miles an hour when it left the
rails.
Federal, state and railroad Off
cials are cooperating in an investiga-
tion.
The train, which was bearing sol
diers back to Rockford after a two
days fuTlough incidental to the Camp
Grant+Camp Custer football game
here Saturday. left Chicago at S:45.
It had just passed Wayne when the
third car from the engine was de-
rallied, dragging the succeeding cars
with it.
Lieut.. Col. r. c. Moore. in chargo
of the train, directed the removal of
the injured and ordered relief trains
sent at once. Camp was made in an
adjacent corn field and guards were
posted about the wreck The injured
were placed aboard relief train and
detoured to- the base hospital at
Camp Grant.
The names of the more seriously
injured We're given out by Illinois
Central officials as follows:
w. B. Ryan, conductor; Mrs. Ed,
ward Hicks, wife of Private Hicks;
Mrs. Stella Schneider. wife OF Bern
ard S. Schneider. ambulance company
341; Warren Miller. ambulance com,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-03
Twenty three Soldiers Injured
When Eleven of Thirteen
Cars Went Off Track.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
. CHICAGO, Dec. 3.-Twenty-seven
persons were injured, it was an
nounced early, in the wreck Of an
Illinois Central troop train two and
half mile south Of Bartlett, H.,
at 9:45 last night.
They include twenty-three soldiers,
two women and two civilians.
The train was bound from Chicago
to the national army cantonment at
Rockford, H., with more than eight
hundred soldiers aboard. Eleven Of
the thirteen steel cars left the track.
None of the injured was dangerously
hurt.
Several members of the train crew
declared their belief that the train
was wrecked by plotters. Three rails
were completely torn from the track.
They said this could not have hap
pened unless the spikes were DELHI
erately loosened
Albert Cliff, general manager of
the Illinois Central, said today he be-
lieved the wreck resulted from
something dragging - possibly 2
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-03
AMERICANS WERE MIXED UP
IN BATTLES OF CAMBRIA

the army engineers forces have been
building and operating strategic rail-
ways close up to the German lines.
Most of them got their first baptism
of fire in Crown Prince Rupprecht's g
counter surprise blow. They liked 1t
and went into the fighting with en-
thusiasm.
Like many of the British gunners
the American engineers saw the Ger
mans "close up" before they realized
what was happening.
One lanky Tennesseean got day
full of thrills.
Il was standing beside my en-
CINE" he said today, when shrapnel
began raining all around me. l
didn't have any tin helmet so l
grabbed petrol tank. I figured that
was better than nothing.
well sub, those Prussians kept
a-comin. l hustled back and dived
into a shell hole. Pretty soon look
ed up-and the Boches were all
around me. They went to work and
blew UP the railway tracks, but they
left the engine. I sneaked from shell
hole to shell hole until finally found
some tommies. Then grabbed a
rifle"
The Tennesseean didn't tell the
rest of the story, but some of those.
who saw him in action throughout
the day brought 1t back 1oyfully to
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-03
THIRTEEN BILLION
/. FOR WAR EXPENSE
Estimate Submitted to Con-
gress for the Year Ending
June 30, 1919, is
Stupendous.
s37, 100000 FOR EACH DAY
Less Than Appropriations for Fiscal
Year by Five Billions, But
Still Is Great
Figure.
$37, 100000 FOR EACH DAY

United Press Leased Wire 5ervice.]
WASHINGTON. Dec. 8.-War ex-
penses and maintaining and improving
military establishments will aggregate
$13, ,5O4, ,357 ,939 for the year ending
June 30, 1919, according to estimates
submitted to congress by Secretary of
the Treasury McAdoo today.
This is at rate Of practically $s7.-
600, 900 a day.
Recognizing the value Of tanks as
demonstrated by the British, the Unit
ed States proposes to spend 75,550,OO0
in constructing these land dread
noughts and other armored motor cars
and supply trucks.
To enable America to gain suprem-
acy of the air, $1.126.294.260 is asked
to carry out the governments aviation
program. or this $1,032,2S4,26o is to
be spent on the army aviation corps
and $94,000,000 for the navy.
That the war department is looking
forward to open fighting ana tho use
OF cavalry Is indicated BY m approprie-
tion OF $38,o00, 100 that II sought Tor
cavalry horses.
The navy department plans to spend
$126.000,000 additional, completing
torpedo boat destroyers already auth
cTlLSu. 2GOpVOO,VVU lOWdIQ dAmOA anu
armament for vessels previously au-
thorized and $32,397, 900 for compile
ton Of submarines previously author
lied.
Secretary Daniels did not ask for
any warships in addition to those au-
thorized by the last congress.
For the building of cargo ships the
government proposes to spend $685.
S17 soO Thio &u $40 O00 Of)O moro than
was sought for the present year.
The total budget submitted by Nc
Adoo is 284.602,496 less than the ap-
propriations made for the fiscal year,
which ends June 80. next, which to-
tailed $1S,7SS,960, ,437. This sum, how
ever, included seven billion dollars in
loans to the allies.
The war department asks for $10,-
1O2,399,149, or s2,5S4 ,973,276 more than
was appropriated last year. The In
crease is due to expansion of the avia-
ton program, plans for enlarging for
titications and arsenals and greatly
increased payroll.
The navy asks $1.047, ,e14.o27, against
81, ,596, 6,S64,3S2 appropriated for this
year.
The food administration asks S5,000.-
900, double its appropriation for this
year.
The fuel administration asks $2,5O0,-
600 for salaries and expenses.
The council of national defense re-
quests an increase to s970,0O0 over
the 100000 appropriation made for
the current year.
For the relief Of American prisoners
of war in Germany, $4,000 is asked;
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-03
Sixty-fifyh Congress Opened
Today With Many Import
ant Days Ahead
of It.
LAST rHRoUGE SUMMER
Many Vital Issues 10 ho oonssosseds
At Ained at Victory In o.
War for Domoo-
ranU.

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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-03
Hestatemont Of War Aims,
Suggested by America, Post
poned Until Fu-
ture Date.
BUSINESS rs PRESSING
Fighting European Nations Think It 10
Moro Important to Work
on Other
Plans.
[By Lowell Mellett, United Press
STAFF Correspondentl

[By Lowell Mellett, United Press
Staff Correspondent
PARIS, Dec. 3-The\ allies coun-
cils have decided to postpone tenn
porarily the re-statement Of war
aims, suggested by America.
Influences back of the decision
which became known today, after the
first highly successful meeting of the
supreme war council, were not speci-
fed.
1t was believed, however, that for
the immediate present the delegates
to both the inter-allied and the
supreme war council meetings were
decided that a close-knit plan Of war
business should be decided on, leav-
ing to future meetings of the war
council the details of other correlated
subjects.
Ambassador Maklakoff, whom
Kerensky appointed envoy to Paris,
and who sat with the inter-allied
council as Russia's unofficial repre-
sentative, although disavowed by the
Bolsheviki, urged the allied states
men to make such restatement Of
war aims. Colonel House, as previ-
Gus United Press dispatches have re-
ported. has impressed on all leaders
President Wilson's view that joint,
frank and full statement of exactly
what the allies are fighting for, would
be military m easure" of supreme
Importance. House joined with Max
lakoff in this request for such a re-
statement. British representatives,
1t was understood, were passsively
acquiescent.
But the council meetings were held
to be first Of all "war business"
gatherings and the urgent necessity
of the day adjudged to be that of
closer and immediate actual war
direction. Presumably it was for
this reason that the war aims dis
cussion was postponed
The final meeting of allied states
men and war experts still here for
an aftermath session of the inter.
allied council took place at the
French foreign Office this afternoon.
Colonel House presided and made a
very brief speech.
Nearly all the American delegates
have gone or are going today to the
front
The first fruit Of this business like
policy" developed today. The su.
immediate standardization of war in
the air. The varied types of aero.
planes in use by the allies are to be
reduced to certain specified, ap.
proved and tested series of models.
These are to be standardized. Ger
------------------------
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-03
REPORT
AR0USES ANGER
Denmark Is Peeved at Sugges-
tion That Germany Threat
ened Seizure Of Naval
Base.
DECLARED TO BE FALSE
........-....
Investigation Being Made to Learn
Whore the story Got Ito start
and Who Is Re-
sponsIble.
DECLARED TO BE FALSE

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
LONDON, Dec. 8.-The Danish
press and public is incensed at false
reports circulated in the United Statee
that Germany has threatened seizure
OF a naval base on Danish soil, accord
ing to an Exchange Telegraph com
pany despatch today dated Copen
hagen.
"The fantastic report of German
threats against Denmark has made
the American press the laughing stock
OF Copenhagen" the despatch assert
ed. While acknowledging Americas
kindly sentiment, the Danish newspa.
pers point out 1t would be better ii
this sentiment appeared In Danish.
American commercial relations.
THE newspaper Boersen hopes that
the American legation will report the
matter to the Washington authorities
here, ascertain who is responsible for
the fake, and take necessary action
1.-THE United Press received from
the newspaper Boersen today a re.
quest for the name Of the news
agency or newspaper responsible for
publication of the story Of German
threat against Denmark: when and
how it was dated, and all pertinent
particulars"
The Associated Press was credited
with the story in morning newspapers
of November %. The article as print
ed in several New York newspapers
declared that the Associated Press
learns from responsible source"
ETC.. and then related how Germany
had threatened seizure of a base in
Denmark If Norway was "impelled
either by excited public opinion or
pressure from the allies" to grant a
base to England and the United
States. 1t was this threat, the Asso.
ciated Press declared, that led to the
conference OF Scandinavian kings and
premiers at Christiania last week.
On the morning the Associated
Press printed the story. the United
Fress cabled its general European bu.
reau at London this message:
Associated says Germany's threat
seize base Denmark If Norway grants
base allies, cause Christiania confer
ence. Suggest ask Scandinavian pre-
miers for facts"
In reply to this message the United
Press on December 1 received
through its London office a formal au
tnorization from the Danish foreign
office to deny fantastic rumors that
the Christiania conference was caus
ed by an alleged German threat to
seize base in Denmark if Norway
grants base to the allies"
Lord Cecil, British minister of block.
ade, who grants an audience to Ameri
can newspaper men Friday afternoons
each week, on November 80, also
formally denied the story, characteriz.
ing it "as German made"
He said the threat was not respon.
sible for the Christiania conference. ]
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-03
0ern14n Reserves Are Being
Brought up and Sent For
ward in Closed Ranks
Against British.
BATTLE rs TERRIFIC
eayonet to Bayonet Struggles In Teu.
tons Biggest Push Over Open
Country Since Days Of
the Marine.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
LONDON, Dec. 3.-Germany's big
gest push over the open country
since the days of the Marne was still
continuing in fighting of unabated
ferocity around Cambrai today
The British lines are holding. Field
Marshal Haig's report today detailed
repulse of hostile attacks yesterday
evening in the neighborhood Of
Moeuvres in SHARP fighting"
Cavalry is apparently in action on
both sides. The battle has now been
wagfng almost uninterruptedly since
Saturday. The German artillery con-
centration exceeds anything the enc
my has done in the way of gun fire
since Verdun.
London was prepared today for a
heavy death toll, but with the reali-
cation that the German casualties
must be nearly double the British.
The Germans are harking back to
the old days Of the forward sweep
oveo Belgium and sending their
troops, formed closed ranks, into the
charge, with fearful losses to them.
The weight Of the German re-
serves has admittedly forced some
readjustment of the British lines.
1dSIlleTSS-d Tulu VI puiVVIlZeu
stones and bricks-was voluntarily
given the enemy.
1t was untenable in view Of the
fierce German artillery concentration
on it. There were one or two other
spots where the tommies We're forced
to shift their positions som ewhat
The height positions around Bour-
Ion have seen some of the most VIC.
lent fighting of the war-bayonet to
bayonet struggles or else point blank
firing from mass machine guns on
either side. Crown Prince Rupprecht
apparently has great numbers Of
German reserve troops and is not
sparing them in his blows. Some
towns and positions in the Cambria
sector have changed hands half a
dozen times in the rolling, tumbling,
shifting fighting.
In the neighborhood of Bourbon,
Haig reported Successful minor en-
counters" in which London regiments
captured twelve machine guns and q
number Of prisoners.
Elsewhere he reported artillerying.
German Official Report.
BERLIN tvia London) Dec. Cap
ture of 5000 prisoners and 100 guns
since November 80 in the great Ger
man drive out of Cambrai was an
nounced by the war office today.
Between Inohy and Bourbon, the
statement declared. British attack
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-03
Three Hundred Bandits.
Jackie Ia Killed.

United Press Leased Wire Service. ]
CHICAGO, Dec. 3.-Harold w. Min
Ele Of Cedar Falls, Iowa, a jackie at
|ae Great Lakes training station. was
Fead today because he ignored the
Eder against "flipping" trains.
he fell under moving passenger
Ean which he attempted to board
Fear the station late yesterday.
Minkle's home address is 706 West
FIRST street.