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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-07

TIME news of Americas prosperity
L and the readiness of its women
to reflect successful speculation In
wall street by spending large sums
Of money on fine apparel. decided
the dressmaking houses of Paris to
hold a demiselson exhibition OF new
fashions.
This act has been hailed as "a
striking novelty. but those who are
used to Paris In the month of De-
cember know that new gowns are
created by the dozens at that time
for exploitation in the southern re-
sorts of Europe. such as Biarritz.
Nice and Monte Carlo, Cairo and the
Italian Riviera. After the middle of
January and thru the month OF
March. no one seeks new clothes
ideas in Paris but looks for them
from the terrace OF Shepheard's hotel
in Cairo. In the promenades Of the
Hotel de Paris. In Monte Carlo. on
the sides of the tennis courts at Nice,
near the club at Cannes. on the beach
AT Santa Marghcrita, and at the gay
afternoon teas in Rome.
The thousands of women who fire.
quent these places in order to follow
the sunshine. as do the birds. have
no idea of exhibiting themselves in
clothes they have worn since Sep
tember. What we get in March is
worn in these places in January:
what America exploits in its first
balmy summer weather in May has
already seen the sun in Egypt and
felt the breeze off the upper Med
iterranean. Since the war, however.
there has been little incentive for the
French dressmakers to create new
gowns In any measurable numbers
for the trade. a few In Europe, with
sufficient money to buy new gowns.
would order them for trip to
Monte Carlo. which was given over
to amusing the convalescents, or to
Cairo. to remain by the side of the
invalids who had to be taken to the
hot climate.
France decided that she had
neither the money nor the workers
to create more than her two clothes
exhibitions year. but this Decem-
ber the house of Callot had n reg
ular trade exhibition and our i'm
portcrs sent over some remarkably
good gowns from this house as well
as from several others.
The Lure of the Medieval.
These gowns have arrived in
America. they have been shown to
the trade and to those who are de-
manding clothes for our own Riviera
that reaches from Pinehurst to
Havana and runs up the far coast
from Santa Barbara to San Fran
cisco, including Coronado Beach.
II these gowns have the same sig
nificancc that one attached to them
in other years IL is quite evident that
the lure of the medieval Is strong to
the designers IL is also true that the
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-07
BANANA STALK AS WEAPON
Baltimore Man Arrd>cd of Using
Force to Itai~c Money.

BALTIMORE. Jan. G-"I haven't
the change TO pay the bin but II YOU
viii walt a moment I viii 20 out and
get the funds" Robert Gregory told
"A collector Then Gregory went forth
from hls nome with II green banana
stalk ever his shoulder. according to
witnesses.
Here's your money" he glspcd ?
minutes later. as he burst thru the
door with four 81 bills The money
WAS recovered by Sergeant Dobson.
Policemen Cotlay and shea, who gave
chase TO the man shortly after he had
nit calvin Jones over the head with
the banana stalk ana took 81 away
from him
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-01-07

Show that longer skirts, slen-
der trains and flat drapery
will be the fashion features
of the hour - Callot intro
duces the butterfly as lead
ing motif - Short coats Of
white kid are worn with
pleated skirts of white silk
jersey-The struggle to re-
duce height and price of
walking shoes may serve to
abolish short skirts.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-25
DESTROYER OF THE FRONTIER
Aircraft Promises Such Swift and Easy
Transportation That Peoples Will
Not Be Rooted in Soil.

If you went in the ordinary way
from the Italian city Turin to Eng
land, you would change trains three
times, cross the channel by boat, force
yourself to be patient while locOmo-
tives coaled and took on water, pas
sengers embarked or alighted along
the railway, and customs officers went
through their fussy examinations. A
proper allowance of time, we would
say, would be So hours.
The other day. Captain Lauriat Of
the Italian aviation corps made the
journey by airplane in II hours and
two minutes. For him, there was no
such thing as frontiers, no delays ex-
cept those he himself willed, no Off
cials in seedy uniforms to make a
mess of his baggage unless he elected
to let them.
1t is the idea of internatiOnalists
that We'll have a world state when
everything is so mixed that there il
no strengthening it out by national
command, when borders can be
crossed as one would county lines,
when transportation is so swift and
easy that no peoples can be or will
desire to be rooted in the soil. Well,
should this come about, the world has
the instrument which will compass it.
1t is the flying machine.-TOledO
Blade,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-25
READY TO TAKE OVER MINES
Garfield Awaits Word From Fields
Where Operations Stop Be-
cause of WaIkouts.

Washington.--W While waiting for the
striking coal miners of Indiana, Hi.
nois, Kansas, Ohio and Pennsylvania
to go back to work, DR.. H. A. Garfield
Fuel Administrator, is continuing his
plans for Government operation of the
mines.
If the men go back to work and rely
on the Government to give them a
square deal, DR.. Garfield will not take
charge of the coal production business.
If they do not resume operation of the
mines, he will be ready to take drastic
action, it is declared. If the attorney
general advises that the Fuel Admin
istration can take charge of the mines
during the war emergency, Dr. Garfield
will be prepared to do SO, he has in
Umated
Dr. Garfield will issue rules in few
days designed to keep down the expor-
tation Of coal to Canada. Special per-
mits will be given to shippers who
send coal across the border after they
have described their orders and sup
plies. Canada is to be limited to an
amount not to exceed 10 per cent
above last years supply.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-25
US. BATTLER is TORPEDOEI
One Killed and Five Wounded When
Destroyer Is Attacked in
European Waters.

Washington.-An American destroy
er was torpedoed by a German sub
marine when on duty in European
waters. One man was killed and five
were wounded. Although the vessel
was seriously damaged, she managed
to reach port safely.
The man killed was blown over
board and his body was not recovered.
He was Gunner's Mate Osmond Kelly
Ingram, whose mother, Bette Ingram,
lives at 5O4 Third street, Pratt City,
Alabama.
The wounded, none Of whom was
hurt seriously, are:
Herman Henry Pankratz, gunner's
mate, second class; next of kin, broth
er, Robert William Pankratz, 1873 Lee
avenue, st. Louis. William Edward
Merritt, seaman; next of kin, mother,
Ellen Merritt, 264 East Fifty-fourth
street, New York. Frank William
Kruse, fireman, first class; next of kin,
wife, Margaret Kruse, TIA Indian
avenue, Toledo, o. Patrick Rutledge,
oiler; next of kin, wife, Norma Rut.
ledge, 431 West Thirty-irst street,
New York. William Seimer, fireman.
second class; next Of kin, father, Hen
ry Seimer, Dundas, MINI.
The accident was announced by the
Navy Department, but no details were
given out.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-25
SILVER TAKES A BIG DROP
Swift Collapse Leads to Belief That
Market Was ManipuIated-Car-
rama Lifts Embargo.

Washington.-Six million Mexican
silver pesos have been bought by the
Treasury Department at S8A cents an
ounce for minting into half dollars,
dime and quarters. The Treasury
when faced with the necessity of buy.
ing silver for coinage at steadily in
creasing prices which at their height
brought the value of the metal danger
ously close to the minted value. Now
the price of silver in this country has
dropped precipitately. The swift col
lapse from $1.16 to IS cents per ounce,
a decline of 81 cents within three
weeks, has resulted in an investiga.
tion to determine whether the market
had been manipulated. In return the
Carranza Government is understood to
have lifted it's virtual embargo on the
expectation to this country of silver
and copper, and that these and other
commodities needed here soon will be
crossing the international line freely.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-25
GERMANS VICTORIOUS IN
CLASH WITH RUSSIANS
SIaV Squadron Trapped BY Powerful
Force That Operates in Gulf of
Riga, Dispatches Say.

London.-Twenty Russian warships
are reported to be hopelessly trapped
in the southern half of the narrow
Moon Sound which separates the lit
tie island Of that name from the Rus
sian mainland, some 200 miles north
of where the German and Russian
tlanks face each other above Riga.
A remarkably frank official state
ment from Petrograd tells of the de-
feat of Russian squadron in the Riga
Gulf at the hands of q German fleet
many times its superior. 1t admits the
loss of the old-type battle ship Slava
(13,516 tons) and the complete cap
ture by the Germans of Oesel Island.
Most of the Slavas crew were saved.
All military works on Oesel were de-
st'oyed before the heroic remnant Of
the garrison abandoned it.
News Of the trapping of the 20 Rus
sian warskips came from the Berlin
Admiralty. Ten thousand prisoners
and SO guns were taken on Oesel Is
land, Berlin reported.
German forces have captured Moon
Island, according to the German official
statement. Precisely how strong is
the Russian squadron trapped in Moon
Sound is not known. The Petrograd
statement refers only to two ships of
the line in addition to the ill-fated
Slava. They are the battle ship Grazh
damn and cruiser BaVan
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-25
U. S. Senator Accidentally Shot.

Milwaukee.-United States Senator
Paul o. Husting, Of Wisconsin, died
at farmhouse near Rush Lake, Wis,
of wounds accidentally inflicted by his
brother, Gustave, while hunting ducks.
Senator Husting, a Democrat, recently
returned to his home at MayviIle after
the close of the extra session of Con-
gress, where he was one of the leading
supporters of the Administrators war
program. With his brother he had
gone on hunting expedition to Rush
Lake, and the two were in boat when
the accident occurred.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-25
EFFORT MADE TO HALT LOAN
Underground Work Has Borne Fruit
In Localities From Minnesota
To Texas.

Observation-Disclosures efforts are
being made by pro-German agents in
the United States to defeat the second
liberty loan, according to reports made
to the Treasury Department. The un-
derground work has borne fruit in
scattered localities. from Minnesota to
Texas, where weak attempts have been
made to discourage subscriptions. The
work Of the pro-German agents, Off
cials assert, has been carried on for
more than two weeks. Some of the
workers have had the temerity, reports
to the Treasury indicate, to conduct
their operations in the National Cap
ital. Official recognition of the propa-
ganda against the loan was voiced by
Colonel Herbert M. Lloyd, represent
ing the War Department at the war
risk insurance conference, at which
the details of the new soldiers and
sailors insurance law are being ex-
planned to officers and enlisted men
from the various cantonments.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-25
HOOVER HOT after
Big RETAIL DEALERS
FOOD DIcTAToRs STATEMENT
SHOWS THAT GROWER AND
PACKER HAVE BEEN FAIR.
Beef Has Come Down To 14R Cents,
Wholesale, But Consumer is Pay
ing 81 Cents Pound.

Washington.-It is up to the retailer.
If he does not deliver the nations
food at its several doors at a reason.
able price, means will Oe found to
make him do so. This, summed up, ex-
presses the attitude of Herbert G.
Hoover, Food Administrator, in an
nouncing that. subject to cooperation
of the farmer and the retailer, 'the
corner has been turned in high prices"
Most of the essential commodities
should, one after another, continue to
show reductions between now and the
end of the year," Mr.. Hoover said in a
formal statement. "The Food Admin
istration has no control of either the
grower or his organization, nor of the
great majority of retailers. The dis
tribution chain lying between, that is,
the warehouse, wholesalers, commits
sion men and manufacturers of prime
commodities, has required a great deal
of study and development for it's prop
or regulation and those regulations
are now coming into force"
Mr.. Hoover said he had every hope
that the retailers will cooperate, as
the farmers and other food handlers
are cooperating, in an effort to feed
the nation and the allies at reasonable
prices. Everybody along the line down
to the retailer, he declared, already Is
helping. But the retailer has yet to
toe the mark, because retail prices do
not by any means reflect the whole
sale prices, Mr.. Hoover asserted. Mr..
Hoover described informally some Of
the trying situations through which
the Food Administration had waded in
its effort to see that all parts of the
country are supplied with all kinds Of
foodstuffs. New York City, for in
stance, was on the verge of -four
famine few weeks ago, having only
sc hours supply available when emer-
gency shipments were rushed to the
dealers. Four hundred thousand bar
rels of -four were requis:tiohed to
meet the shortage.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-25
IRREGULARITY IN
BUSINESS TO STOP
WHEN OFFICIAL PRICE scHED-
ULEs HAVE BEEN COMPLETED
EXPECTED TO GET NORMAL.
Government Control o. Shipping Ex-
peetsd to Asslst-Esg Spectators,
Who Have Corned the Market, Pre-
sent Case for Mr.. Hoover.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
New York.-There continues to be
considerable irregularity in business
owing to the numerous readjustments
still under way. but a return to more
normal conditions is looked for when
the official price schedules are com.
pleted. Just at present regular busi-
ness is impossible in the chief metals
because Of Government orders, but in
textiles, especially cotton goods, buy
Ing interest has remained active and
In some cases more business has been
offered than producers thought it wise
to accept. Some houses report an
active demand for spring goods, which
would seem to reflect the belief that
present satisfactory retail trade will be
maintained. Doubtless among the prin-
cipal factors to affect business in the
future which were brought to notice
during the past week were those relat-
ing to shipping and to food prices.
With regard to the first of these the
week saw the assumption of control
by the Government over the great bulk
OF ocean-going tonnage. The announce
ment also was made that the ships
now buildings, which will be ready for
service before the end of the winter,
will aggregate tonnage Of a million,
and that construction would be speed
ed up in every shipyard so as to as.
sure the completion of perhaps G,0OO,-
900 tons within year.
In the case of another food commod.
ity-eggs-the price has been held at
an extortionate figure by ring Of spec
ulators, who started early In the year
TO put the articles in cold storage and
prevented them from coming to mar
ket Although attention was called to
this circumstance months ago 20 &C.
tion was taken to Illustrate it, and now
the spectators are even attempting to
get the aid Of the Government to up
hold them in their eXtortion and save
them from the losses they must sus.
tain unless they obtain outside aid.
They point to the fact that they paid
the farmers high prices for the eggs,
but fail to state that these prices were
the result of their own efforts to cor
ner the market.
This brings up the question as W
what kind of things the Government
should attempt to E.. prices for while
the war continues. The Chamber OF
Commerce of the United States is now
trying to get the opinions of business
men connected with Boards of Trade
and other commercial bodies all over
the country. There are those who wish
fixed prices on not only foodstuffs, but
also raw materials of different indus
tries, just as has been done in the case
of iron and steel. They say this will
tend to stabilize the industries and en-
able manufacturers and others to make
their commitments with some sense Of
security.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-25
USE FOR OLD PACKING BOX
One Woman Found That Il Made an
Altogether Satisfactory Desk for
Her Typewriter.

The important thing about II is the
fact that II she had not had to sell
her conservative mahogany typewriter
desk she never would have discovered
what Satisfactory sort Of typewriter
desk a packing box may be. The
packing box must be, of course, of
convenient size and of some stability.
Then, with the open side toward you,
the typewriter on top and your knees
inside, you may be very comfortably
fixed. 1t is plain to be seen, Of course,
that when you are done writing you
remove your knees from within the
box and put the typewriter In their
place. 1t is the same idea as a type
writer desk In which the machine is
shut when not in use. The thing is in
itself remarkable discovery, and, like
most remarkable discoveries, 1t came
In the nick Of time. A trunk is no
sort Of place for a typewriter at all,
and a chair is not any better. There
are always possibilities in a dining
room table, but one can never feel
that a. dining-room table is all ones
own, and then where would you be
putting the typewriter at meal times
all provided, Of course, that there was
a dining-roOm table and not just a
white enamel sanitary restaurant af-
fair or a dairy-lunch chalr7
At any rate, the important thing
about the discovery was, as has been
said, the fact that 1t was the necessity
Of selling the mahogany desk that
and cleverly arranged hinges exists
made It possible. 1t is only by neces-
sarily having to do without a lot of
things that we can discover the ad-
vantages of a lot of other things-a
vague and ambiguous statement, but a
comforting truth. The typewriter desk
is only an example Of the obvious fact
that the value Of mahogany and glue is
largely in our imagination, or perhaps,
more truthfully, In our lack of imag-
ination. We think we have to have
them, but we only think so because
others think so and because, as far as
furniture and things like that are con-
cerned, we are accustomed to think
what other people think.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-25
AMERICAN TRANSPORT
ANTILLES SENT DOWN
fe7 MEN ARE SAVED VESSEL
DISAPPEARS IN FIVE MIN.
UTEs AFTER BEING HIT.
Under Convoy When Attacked, But
Guardsman Fail to See u-5oat
That Sent Down Transport.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Washington.-Sev American sol.
diers and sailors lost their lives when
a German submarine torpedoed the
army transport Antilles. News of this
first heavy blow struck against Amer,
ica by Germany. reached the Navy De.
partment from Vice Admiral Sims.
The Antilles was torpedoed while re.
turning to this country from France.
She was under convoy at the time, but
neither the torpedo, which sent her to
the bottom, nor the submarine was
sighted
The men had no chance for their
lives. Struck abreast the engine room
bulkhead, the Antilles sunk like a
plummet, going down in five minutes.
There were about 237 men aboard
her. OF these 167 were saved, many
being reported to have been fished
from the waters by vessels of the
convoy. The death list includes three
navy officers, four sailors and sixteen
soldiers. The rest of the victims were
members of the merchant crew. Sec
retary of the Navy Daniels authorized
the following statement:
"The department is in receipt of a
dispatch from Vice Admiral Sims
which states that the steamship An
titles, an army transport, was torpe,
doed October II while returning to
this country from foreign service. The
vessel was under convoy of American
patrol vessels at the time. The tor
pedo which struck the Antilles was
not seen, nor was the submarine which
fred it. The torpedo hit abreast of
the engine room bulkhead and the ship
sank within five minutes One hun
dred and sixty-seven persons ou. of
about 2S7 on board the Antilles were
saved. About 70 men are missing. All
naval officers and officers of the army
who were on the ship were saved, with
the exception Of Walker, Boyle and
O'Rourke. Two second-class seamen
and two wireless operators were
killed"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-25
A Hard Knock.

During the croSs-examinatIOn Of a
young physician in lawsuit the plain
tiff's lawyer made disagreeable re-
marks about the witness youth and
inexperience.
'You claim to be acquainted with
the various symptoms attending con-
cussion of the brain?" asked the law
yer.
II do"
"We will take concrete case,"
continued the lawyer. "If my learned
friend, counsel for the defense, and
myself were to bang our heads to-
gether, would we get cOncussion Of
the BRAIN"
The young physician smiled. 1.-THE
probabilities are" he replied, that
the counsel for the defense would"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-25
TOO MANY EGGS ON ICE
Government and Reduce Losses
BY Feeding EN- to Soldiers.

Chicago, lll.-Caught with a great
surplus of cold storage eggs, on which
they are losing $4O0 car at present
prices, Chicago egg spectators have
appealed to the Government to save
them by making cold storage eggs a
part of the army ration. If their plea
is granted the eggs may endangec the
supremacy Of the army bean in the
soldiers diet. Government reports
show that there are S8S,175 cases, or
26,615,25O dozens, more of eggs in
storage this month than a year ago.
They were bought in April, at an av.
erage priceof 3712 cents a dozen.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-25
White Sent to Coal Field.

Washington,-The United States
Fuel Administration sent John P.
White, President of the Mine Workers
of America, to the Middle Western
coal fields, where thousands of miners
are quitting work and threatening the
nations coal supply. This move came
as clin.x to &c hours discussion of
Government seizure and operation of
the mines. If White, through his pow.
erful union connections, is not able to
get the miners back to work, it is be-
lieved Federal handling of the nations
fuel will follow at once.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-25
Lack of Restraint.

Senator Chamberlain, defending the
food control bill, said in Washington:
How unmeasured the attacks on
this excellent bill have been! Now.
l am like the boy at the movies. l
like measure and restraint
"TwO boys at the movies saw
tragic picture play, and one Of them
was overcome. He took out his hand
kerchief and wept and sobbed.
"'Why, Bill, ye're blubberln'! ! said
the other boy.
"'Well,' sobbed Bill, I like to see
q person show little feelln'.'
"'Feelin'r said the first boy. Feel
ms all right, but We don't need to
wash yer face in it."
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-25
PIotters Are Nabbed In Mexico.

Mexico City, Mexico.-Pahlo Escan.
don, formerly Chief of Staff for Presi.
dent Porfirio Diaz, and at one time
Governor Of the state Of Morelos, Ed.
uardo Iturbide, Governor Of the Fed.
eral district under President Huerta,
and % other well-known Mexicans
were arrested on charge of consp!r.
ing against the Carranza Government.
All those arrested have returned TO
Mexico recently from the United
States or Europe. They will be ex.
PEELED from Mexico for conspiring
against the Government.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-10-25
Will Hold War Relief MsetInn.

New York.-The most important
gathering Of Jews in America since. the
outbreak of the European war takes
place here October 2S, for the continu.
alton of Jewish war relief and for the
completion Of the $1O,0O0,000 fund for
war sufferers, it was announced by
Felix M. Warburg, chairman Of the
Joint Distribution Committee of the
American funds for Jewish war suf.
ferers. More than 1000 of '1he most
prominen. American Jews are expect.
ed attend.