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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
INVOICE OF FOOD
SUPPLY ORDERED
Hoover Will Receive Monthly
Reports on Stocks and
Needs of Nation.
BASIS FOR CONTROL OF FOOD
One Hundred Items Included
in List of Statistics; Sys-
TEN Extensive.

WASHINGTON. Aug. PA nation
wide food survey. authorized under
the first of the food laws recently
enacted by congress. Will be startel i
Immediately by the department of
agriculture.
Plans for the census announced to-
night show that Ii viii cover nearly
one hundred items of food and supplies
on the rarms. in warehouses and in
! stores and even the stocks in the
family pantry. A quick survey will
be taken first of the supplies OF Is of
the principal articles of diet and prob
ably can be completed in three or four
weeks, to be followed by a complete
census after the crops are gathered.
All of the figures will be as OF
August Is.
Reports To BE Made Monthly.
Information gathered by the depart .
ment will be turned over to the food
administration who will base its oper-
atoms largely on the statistics sup
piled. After the survey is finished
monthly reports will be prepared on
the supplies of the principal foods.
Both actual inventories and estimates
will be employed. Estimates of the
| food and feed products on farms will
be made for the whole country by the
! picked co-operators in the field.
Family Needs Studied.
The stocks on hand in small retaii
| shops will be estimated from infornla-
| ton gained from a detailed survey OF
| stocks in Il number of representative
| districts. Stocks in the hands of all
the consumers of the country will he
| estimated similarly from canvasses of
large number of representative fam
| lilies, both in the country and in the
cities. The study of families will DC
concerned even more with the cur
rent consumption per month than
with the actual stock of food supplies
on hand.
| The nearly one hundred items on
| which statistics are to be gathered in
clude grains and seeds: grain food
| products. dried fruits and nuts; vege-
table fats. sugar syrups. stiech. meat
and meat products. food products pre-
served in tin and other containers
dairy and related products, fish and
| feeds.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
FRENCH EXCEED OWN
HOPE AROUND VERDUN
Refuse to Stop With Germans
on Run; American Units
Receive Praise.

GRAND HEADQUARTERS F
THE FRENCH ARMIES IN FRANCE
Aug. 2l.-The Irresistible dash of the
French troops took them beyond any
thing hoped for in Mondays lighting
around Verdun and gave them pos
session of both SUBMITS of lie Nor,
Homme besides other heights and
woods in that vicinity which the Ger
mans considered impregnable. The en-
thusiasm OF the French trops over
their splendid victory was so great
that they demanded, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
fatigue and hardships, that they be
permitted TO advance even further
More than five thousand prisoners
have been officially counted and their
numbers are constantly being aug
mented us the caves and tunnels In
the hillsides are being cleared of those
who took shelter there during the in
fernal bombardment
American ambulances brought in
the first groups of French wounded,
these cars proceeding under fire right
toward the front of the fighting line.
Their work is greatly praised as also
is that OF the American aviators who
participated In the gallant deeds OF
the French escadrilles descending to
low attitudes and pouring their ma
chine gun fire into the enemy.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
ANTIDRAFT MEETING
WILL BE SUPPRESSED
Macon Authorities Take Steps
to Prevent Convention
Called by Watson.

MACON, Ga. Aug. 81 21--Authorities
of the city of Macon. OF Bibb county
and of the federal government are
determined that the state convention
called to meet here Thursday TO pro-
test against conscription shall not be
held. Thomas Watson has called the
convention and says he will be tho
principal speaker. Delegates have
been appointed from many counties.
The city and county has declined tue
use of any Of its public buildings or
parks The city's police force will be
used in suppressing the meeting and
II an effort is made TO hold 1t in uio
county sheriff. James II. Hicks, will
swear in the entire city police force
and deputy sheriffs and disperse the
gathering anywhere in the county, II
was said.
II these officers are unable TO cope
with the situation 1t is understood
that the United states marshal will
ask for some of the troops at Camp
Harris.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22

deed. A chorus girl in the making is some
times pitiful sight That is, II one has a
little sympathy in his heart for those who
seem to be trying but are unable to catch
on TO the proper method to pursue In accom-
plshing the desired result The desideratum
In the case OF chorus girl being TO do
what the other girls do at the same time
the others are doing 1t. TO appear uncon.
cerned and gracefully timber. A new girl
breaking into the realm OF shifting scenes
footlights. temperamental prma donnas and
profane stage carpenters have terrible time.
They may think they are doing fine but the
close observer In the pews reserved for the
paid customers are unable to refrain from
smiling broadly nt the stiff kicks, bows and
mods executed by the beginner. Some, OF
them stay in the chorus all their lives while
others are promoted TO the first line OF at
tack and still other try the drama for a
while and they hike back to the notion
counter, the restaurant or the typewriter.
As to the weather, there ism much to say.
The maximum temperature was 90 degrees f;
the minimum was 10 degrees. The winds.
what few there were, strollcd from out OF the
south. For today we are disposed to predict
fair weather and warmer.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
W. c. u. LEADER IS
FINISHED, HE STATES
In Begging for Reduced Bond
Says Will Go to Farm and
Not Leave Again.
Special TO The World.

Special to The World
M'ALESTER. Aug. 21. - II. G.
PENCE. w. c. u. organizer, declared
TODAY in begging for a reduction on
his bond. that he is thru with the
organization" He promised that II
ne we're allowed to go on reduced
bond that he would retltrn to his
farm near Tate, Okla, III Seminole
county, and never stir off the place
until his hearing before the grand
jury came up.
w. j. Turnbull, assistant United
States attorney, did not make any
promises about the bond.
He declared that the union was
never founded for antidraft agita'
ton or resistance to the government
In any way Spence acknowledged
ttat the trouble In Oklahoma had
just about "broken up the union To-
cally," but said that 1t would not be
hurt outside the state.
Tho government did not move q
wheel today In the prosecution. Re-
viewing of statements took all the
morning and 10 witnesses could be
found when the commissioner was
ready to resume action tooay.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
New York Air Fighter
Missing Since Conflict

PARIS, Aug. 21.-Oliver Chadwick
of New York, a promising member of
the aerial squadron of Capt. George
Guynemer, the famous French air
man, has been missing since Tues
day. 1t is believed he was brought
down in an aerial encounter.
Corp. Harold Willis of Boston. q
member of the Lafayette squadron
whose disappearance not far from
Verdun on Saturday has already been
reported, is believed to be prisoner.
British Parliament Rcrcsscs.
LONDON. Aug. 21.-parliament to-
day took n recess until October 16.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
Enlists in Draft Army

OKLAHOMA CITY. Aug. Ell
What was said to have been the first
enlistment in the new national army,
was recorded by the local army re-
cruiting office today when Grady Cos
sctt of Okmulgee was admitted to the
quartermasters corps of that army.
Gossett was an unsuccessful candidate
for an officers commission at the
Fort Logan II, Roots reserve Off
GERS training camp.
on his return here he applied for
enlistment In the national army.
which was granted.
Classified as such Gossett was for
warded TO the rendezvous ut Fort Lo-
gan, Colo.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
MEMPHIS MAYOR QUITS JOB
Resigns i'm Face of Custer Proceed
ings; Litty Successor.

MEMPHIS. Tenn. Aug. 2l.-Mayor
T. c. Ashcroft. against whom custer
proceedings were pending today re-
signed from office and was succeeded
by Harry Litty, a former railroad man
and prominent as labor leadSr.
William j. HAYES. who recently was ap-
pointed chief of police, also resigned
at todays meeting Of the Memphis
municipal commission.
Custer proceedings were instituted
against Ashcroft and Ennis Douglass,
another member OF the city commits
sion. several weeks ago. Douglass re-
signed two weeks ago. The petition
seeking the removal Of the two Off
cials charged failure to enforce the
prohibition and certain other laws.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
Mining King Dies.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 21-Harry ]. Cant
we'll of st. Louis, former mining king,
died last night at Hot Springs, Ark,
IL was learned here today. He was
one of the first men to make a for
tune in the lead belt of southwestern
Missouri and at one time was head Of
the st. Joseph Lead company. For the
last ten years he has oeen operating
in mines with varying success. Eigh-
teen months ago he obtained options
on lead land near Miami. Okla, and
made half a nlillion dollars.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
LADIES OF THE CHORUS.

Chorus girls, the
young women who ca
sort in the rear singing
Justify. kicking high
and wishing they could
break thru into the
first line trenches. are
not made in u day.
Any musical director,
should you ask him,
will vehemently an.
nounce that they are
n made in a week,
Two weeks, three weeks
or three months. 1t
takes time for u
director to complete n
Job OF making a high
grade chorus girl out
Of a young lady who
has tired OF the notion
counter, the restaurant
or the typewriter.
Quite some time. in.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
Greatest Fire in Years
Threatens West Forest

BUTTE, Mont. Aug. 21.-E. d..
Gardner of the Butte forestry office
in issuing a call today for fire fighters
announced that half a dozen forest
firest in the bitter Root mountains are
threatening conflagrations more seri-
Gus than anything the department has
been called upon to handle since the
disastrous forest fires Of 1910. Be
tween three thousand and four thou
sand men have been employed In the
last two weeks in western Montana TO
fight fires.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
Wilson Goes to Alabama
to Avert Miner Strike

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-Secre-
tary Wilson will go TO Birmingham.
Ala. tonight TO attempt settlement
of the threatened nationwide strike
of coal miners. Some $4,000 men are
involved. The miners were to have
struck yesterday but postponed their
atcion at the secretarys request.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
BRITISH LABOR CONFERENCE
VOTES TO GO TO STOCKHOLM
Turbulent Scene Marks Counting of
the Ballots; Carries by Only
Three Thousand.

LONDON. Aug. 21.-By the narrow
majority of three thousand in vote
representing nearly 100000 workers
today the British labor conference de-
cided to stand by its plan of sending
delegates to the international socialist
conference at Stockholm. The vote
was attended by turbulent scene.
Part of the delegates sang socialist
song and others the patriotic Keep
the Home Fires Burning"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
British Casualties

LONDON. Aug. 21.-British casu;"-
ties reported in the week ending are
1929 officers and men. of this num-
ber 2,S7S soldiers lost their lives. The
detailed figures follow:
Killed and died of wounds:
Officers. 1926: men. 2,5iS. Total,
ASIA.
Wounded and missing:
Officers. SAG; men. 10,524.. Total,
1880.
Total casualties, 1924.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
MISSOURIAMS TO GO TO SILL
Engineers Ordered to Report to Help
Prepare Camp.

NEVADA, Mo-. Aug. 21.-The first
contingent of the national guard Of
Missouri was ordered today to pro-
ceed to Fort Sill. Okla, by Brig. Gen.
Harry c. Clark. to assist in the work
of preparing the concentration camp
for the reception of the state troops.
The continget will be composed of the
first battalion of engineers, whose
home station was Kansas City, and
one company from each of the infan-
try regiments now at the camp here.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
BelUare the Mosquito!

RICHMOND. Va, Aug. 2i.--The
bite OF one mosquito communicating
pernlcious malaria, Is held response
Bile for the quick death of three mem
bers of the Skinner family here. John
A. skinner, ir. died today. His broth
er and mother died yesterday.
All died In violent hiccoughs.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
Child severely scaidcd.

World Capital Bureau,
CLAREMORE, Aug. 21.--Joe An
drrson, jr., 4yuar-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Anderson of this city, re-
ceived serious burns TO his hips, right
elbow, back and right hand Monday
morning when he accidentally fell
into a tub of scalding water placed
there by the servant who was en-
gaged in doing the family washing.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
None of Claimants From Four
Counties Gains Ground by
Appeals.
ECTAL APPEALS.

Whether wholesale affidavits alleg-
ing that the stork Is hoNering over
their households shall permit hun
dreds of husbands to escape mmedi-
ate conscription on grounds of support
for cxpectant mothers and children
yet unborn is the vital problem to be
decided today by the Second district
exemption board OF appeals, which
formally began the first of series OF
deliberations in Tulsa yesterday to de-
eide the military status of approx
mately ten thousand claimants from
22 counties of eastern oklahoma.
The Board.
Here are the men who must make
this momentous decision:
Robert Scivally. chairman. Ard.
more, Okla: II. H. Rogers, secretary,
Tulsa: DR.. Fred S. Clinton. Tulsa; c.
II Kretz. Okmulgee, and John
C'Brien. Lehign.
BY far the largest percentage of
claims entered by the hundreds OF
young husbands are accompanied by
physicians certificates. These docu-
ments filed as supporting affidavits
intimate in most every instance i'm
pending motherhood of the claimants
wives Tulsa county alone has at
least one hundred married candidates
for military service seeking exemption
on this one score.
But from among such would-be
draft evaders hundreds must be Sc
lected for service regardless OF family
ties, members of the board infor-
mally agreed yesterday afternoon.
The matter of segregating the more
delicate and dependent cases from the
class where the husbands support is
not imperative to- family in time OF
Sstsl not IA ann nssttr nan a tod
the board Mothers, fathers-and
even mothers-in-law may be called
upon to assume the task of provid
ing for wives and newborn war
babes. the five members of the APP
peal body firmly believe.
Destiny of Thousands
It was 9:15 o'clock yesterday
morning when Chairman Scivally
sounded the gavel in the appeal board
headquarters second floor of the new
federal building, and thus summoned
his four colleagues to their tedious
task. The quintet, located in the pet
tit Jurors room designed for use OF
the federal courts, opened the first
days deliberation with procedure not
unlike that of the conventional court
jury. And yet perhaps no twelve
men ever assembled to decide the fate
of one life in the balance of Justice
ever got down to business so readily
as did the five in whose hands has
been placed the destiny of 10000
'neighbors" between the ages of 81
and 81 years.
First for consideration came a
group of exemption claims from
Creek county. Nine men believed the
local exemption boards had ruled un-
wisely in accepting them for military
service In view of divers claims for
immunity After hours OF dclibera
ton. mingled with discussion of the
merits OF each case. the board ad-
iourned az noon 70: luncheon after
having unanimously voted to reJec,
all of the first set of appeals.
Many Industrial Claims.
Industrial claims come from more
than score of persons seeking to
evade the draft thru following vo-
cations purporting to be of vital aid
CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
BRITISH BRING DOWN ZEPPELIN
All Members of Crew Lost When
Naval Forces Cut Loose.

LONDON. Aug. 2i.-Brtish light
naval force destroyed Zeppelin air
ship this morning off the Jutland.
Denmark. coast, says an official conf
munication issued this evening,
The communication adds that there
were no survivors from the crew of
the airship.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
Loans to Allies NOW
Near TlUO Billion Mark

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2l.--A loan of
$50, 100000 was made today by the
government to Great Britain. This
brings the total advanced to the allies
up to Sl,966. .4OO.00O
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
General I. w. W. Strike
Set for September l

SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 21.-A gem
eral strike of /. w. W.'s will be at
tempted September !. according to in
formation received by Gov. Ernest
Lister and communicated to members
OF the executive committee of the
West Coast Lumbermen's association
today.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
Uookworm round In Cuardsmcn.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2l.-DiScov-
cry OF hookworm infection in AZ out
of 75 militia recruits recently mohil-
iZcd for war service has caused public
health service authorities to recon-
mend prompt examination of all units
of the national guard and national
army at present organized, especially
those from the warmer portions of the
country
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
SeditiOus Actions VIII
Bring Arrest in st. Louis

ST LOUIS. Aug. 21.-Orders were
issued to the st. Louis police today TO
arrest any persons who publicly crlti-
cised the United States for entering TN
European war or who publicly ques-
tions the constitutionality of the Sc
lective draft.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22

The prices fixed range from 20 10
35 per cent under the maximum price
of SO fixed by government officials
and operators at conference here
more than a month ago.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
COAL PRICES ARE
SET BY PRESIDENT
Governed by Cost of Produc-
ton Established by Federal
Trades Commission.
OKLAHOMA AMONG HIGHEST
Exceeded Only by That of
Washington State; Run of
Mine Quoted $3.O5.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2l.-Bitumin-
Gus coal prices were fixed by Presl-
dent Wilson tonight for every mine In
the United Stat"s. The reNt step III
coal control, n " hite House announce
ment said. will ne to fix the prices TO
he charged by mIddlemen and retail
ers.
Prices were set on cost OF produc-
ton estimates furnished by the ieueral
trade commission after months OF eN-
haustive investigation. The country is
divided into 29 districts and every pro-
ducer in "A district will market his out
nut at the same price.
To Appoint Coal Administrator.
The president is expected to appoint
soon coal administrator VINO Will ne
given entire control of the coal INDUS
trv Rumor tonight named President
II. A. Garfield OF Williams college as
the man. Mr. Garfield now heads a
committee appointed by the president
to fix government price for wheat
The wheat committee probably VIII be
dissolved September l.
The prices announced for run or
mine coal in the large producing dls-
tricts average slightly more than S2.
In n few districts they are below that
figure and in western territory they
are higher. Washington state is high-
est with 1925.
The presidents statement said:
THE following scale of prices is
prescribed for bituminous coal at the
mine in the several coal-producing
districts. 1t is provisional only. II Is
subject to reconsideration when the
whole method of administering the
fuel supplies of the country shall have
been satisfactorily adjusted.
Based on Cost of Production.
"Thc prices Professionally fixed here
are fixed by me under the provisions
of the recent act of congress regard
ing administering the food supply OF
the country which also conferred upon
the executive control of the food sup
ply. They are based upon the actual
cost of production and are deemed 10
be not only fair and Just but liberal
as welL Under them the Industry
should nowhere lack stimulation
The western prices (. o. b. mines
| are as follows:
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-08-22
FIERCE FIGHT RAGING
Continues Hand-tO-Hand in
Trenches; Drenching
Field Again.
BATTLE LINE NOW IN LENS
Drawing Tighter About City
Proper; Attackers Taking
Many Prisoners.

BRITISH FRONT IN FRANCE
AND BELGIUM. Aug. 2l.-The fierc,
battle which began at dawn today oI
the outskirts of the city OF Lens con
tinued thruout the day at close quar-
ters. and late this afternoon there was
no diminution In the intensity of tho
struggle between the attacking Cana
dians and the Germans.
The Canadians this morning Tough
their way forward with bombs and
bayonets and occupied importan1
enemy defenses northwest and south
west of the heart of the city and since
then the Germans have been sending.
wave after wave of infantry in des-
perate counterattacks.
The Canadians have held strongly
and the Germans have suffered very
heavy casualties as they must have
expected from the nature of their
counter thrusts In which no thot H.
given to the cost of life.
Both Launch Attacks.
The striking feature of the battls
| lies in the fact that the Germans also
had massed troops for "a counterattaci
at dawn against the newly acquired
Canadian positions in the northwest
environs of Lens and had actual.
started their advance when they wcr,,
surprised by encountering the onrush-
| ing Canadians In No Mans land. Botii
| offensives had begun at the same
hour. but heavy mist hung over the
ground and the Germans were appar-
emily unaware of the Canadian prep
arations until the Canadians were
upon them with the bayonet.
Brief but bitter fighting occurred In
| No Mans land The German officer.
tried TO rally their men against the
| Canadians, but the enemy infantry
gradually fell back TO the trenches IL
had Just left The Canadians followed
and leaping upon the parapets, hurled
masses of bombs down among the
great numbers of troops which had
been collected for the attack. The
Germans tried TO flee thru the com
municating trenches. but the Canadi-
ans Jumped among them with bayo-
nets and bombs killing many
stu Fighting Ficrccly.
on the southwest the Canadian
were equally successfully after verv
heavy fighting in which the British
artillery was brought into play. TIL"
most strenuous fighting late In ti'
day was proceeding in the center or
the line west of Lens and on little
front near the left OF the northwes
nOSltlbnH nut inc Nivi' iih' N"o
seethng caldron.
The Canadian assault extended
I immediate object by drawing thei
/ lines still closer about the heart o.
the city and their goal unless the Ger
man counter attacks succeed. BY to-
[ DAYS attack the Canadians have
gained possession of many raiiwa
! embankmcnts and colliery siding"
which ahord excellent positions for
| either offensive or defensive opera
/ tions.
The Canadians assault extended
/ from the northwest of the environ
of the city TO positions In the south
| west suburbs and as the Germans
were already advancing To attack the
/ new Canadian defenses the flghtine
quickly assumed the character of one
OF the most sanguinarv contl'"'
which this battle SCARED theater has
seen.