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The Yale expositor., 1917-03-01
HIGH PRICES WILL
Be INVESTIGATED
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HAS
PROCEEDINGS UNDER WAY
AGAINST BARONS.
RAILROADS ARE ALSO HIT
Freight Cars of War Material Have
Been Held on Sidinss for More
Than a Year.

Washington-The department of
Justice will start grand jury proceed
ings in several Of the larger cities
of the country against the persons
responsible for the extortionate price
of the necessities of life.
1t is a little early to state where
the first blow will fall. All the evil
dence has not been collected nor all
of the witnesses summoned The at
torney general does not desire to leave
anybody a chance to slip through his
fingers. Let no guilty wretch escape"
is the new motto nailed up by the de-
partment.
To judge from reports, the coal
barons will be first to feel the ash.
The food and clothing robbers also are
to get theirs but not with quite the
speed of the coal men. The cases
have to be worked out with more care,
but there is assurance that marked
Roadway is being made.
The railroads have seen the storm
coming and have entered an emphatic
disclaimer. Yet that will not let them
out. The department of justice will
exonerate only when exoreration is
earned. Hence the attorneys also are
looking into the activities of the COM
mon carriers.
The discovery that freight cars
loaded with war materials have stood
on sidings for more than a year wait
ing for shipS to take their loads across
the Atlantic has attracted the atten-
ton of the attorney general and he
wants to know why this might not
have some effect on the high cost of
living in the United States.
1t is going to be fine campaign and
one highly appreciated in the Ameri-
can home.
The Yale expositor., 1917-03-01
FOOD RIOTS ARE RESUMED
Mob Storms New York Hotel-Speedy
Relief Promised.

New York-A crowd of about 1000
persons, mostly women who had at
tended a mass meeting in Madison
Square to protest against the high
cost of food, stormed the Waldorf
Astoria hotel last Saturday, shouting
they were starving and demanding
to see Gov. Whitman.
Ninety per cent of the mob were
women and children. They beat upon
the doors of the hotel demanding
food.
Policemen seemed to be unable to
handle the mob. They declared they
could have clared the streets in a
quarter of an hour had there been
men to deal with. But the harder
they pushed and the louder they yell
ed, the wilder the women became.
They screamed curses at the police
and prayers for food and help. And
the curses and prayers arose in half a
dozen tongues.
Spurred by such demonstrations and
recurrent disorder, organizations,
backed by wealthy individuals, have
taken steps to eliminate the food
shortage. The proposed action is de-
signed not only to ease the present
situation but provide for the future.
The most definite measure is the
purchase of a large quantity of food
which will be brought here for dis
tribution at the lowest possible price
George w. Perkins, chairman of the
mayors committee on food supply,
announced that a campaign had be-
gun to popularize rice as a substit-
tute for more costly foods. To keep
down the price of rice the committee
has bought 100000 pounds.
The mayors committee has pur.
chased also a carload of smelts on
the Pacific coast, which will be used
to force down prices in the local mar
kets. Funds for these purchases were
guaranteed by members of the COM
mittee, all local men.
The Yale expositor., 1917-03-01
LEGISLATURE may
ADJOURN APRIL |
MOVE UNDER WAY TO BRING SEES
SION TO A CLOSE AT AN
EARLY DATE.
OBJECTION WILL DEVELOP
Most Members Have Some Pet Meas
ure in Committee and Will Want
to See 1t Reported Out.

Lansirg-There is under way in the
legislature a movement to adjourn
business of the session April 1.
This would be the earliest adjourn
ment date of many years, and if the
hackers of the idea have their way
it will bring a sigh of relief from that
considerable section of the states pop
ulation which considers the least leg
islation the best.
There will be some objection. A
fair proportion of the members
have a pet measure or two tucked
away in committee and will insist on
remaining in the neighborhood until
are pretty generally lined up for an
early adjournment date and II it
should develop that April / is too
early, 10 days may be added. The
house leaders have every reason to
believe, they say, that the senate ma
jority will view an early adjournment
with favor.
The big measures before the legis-
lature are the prohibition laws, the
recodification of the insurance laws,
the recodifcation of the election
laws, the budget system bill, the
amendments to the workmen's COM
pensation act, the state trunk line
bill, and the bill giving the game
warden control of the closed seasons
and cutting down heavily the bags
of various kinds of game.
Now that the "wets" have been de-
prived of their very efficient monkey
wrench through the passage by con-
gress of the bone dry" rider to the
postal bill, no further disturbances are
expected over prohibition. Whether
possession of liquor shall be forbidden
is still one of the questions. The Mich
igan Anti-Saloon league suggestion IA
vors making possession of liquor lille
gal, except when it can be shown that
II was secured for medicinal, me-
chanical, scientific or sacramental pur-
poses.
The Yale expositor., 1917-03-01
LEGISLATION HITS JACKSON
Penology Commission Objects to Pro-
posed Laws.

Lansing. penology COM
mission is aroused by three proposed
laws. one now before congress and
the other two pending in the Michigan
legislature.
The two state laws will be killed
II possible, while the Michigan mem
bers OF congress will be asked to
slaughter the federal bill.
The two bills in the state legislature
to which the penology commission OBJ
jects are considered by many mem
bers of the legislature as steps in
much needed prison reform. One pro-
vides for the establishment of an EFF
cheney industrial manager" for the
prisons, while the other has to do
with a state purchasing agent for all
of the institutions, including the
prisons.
The efficiency" manager law,
inasmuch as it provides for a $4,000
Job for somebody, is considered by the
penology experts as absolute folly.
The industries of the prisons, they
aver, are now being conducted in as
good a manner as is possible and
the addition of high salaried man to
oversee the entire business would only
be adding to the overhead expense.
AS to the proposition of a state pur-
chasing agent, the penal institutions
insist that they can get along better
buying in their own way than by
means Of any state purchasing agent.
At Jackson prison 1t is necessary to
buy raw material for no less than II
lines of industry.
The house at Washington has al
ready passed a bill which the men,
bers of the commission insist will af-
feet the sale of Jackson prison binder
Irvine. On the face the bill looks
remarkably innocent. IL recites that
In all cases prison-made goods must
be subject to the laws of the state
into which they may be shipped
If the national measure is passed
by congress Michigan will be COMPEL
ed to abandon many markets in which
II now sells binder Irvine, and II is
said to be doubtful whether a market
for the entire output of the prison
can be found In other words, if the
law passes it will be absolutely neces-
sary for the prison to curtail its man
ufacture OF binder twin.
The Yale expositor., 1917-03-01
U-B0AT KILLS AN AMERICAN
Missionary Is Drowned When French
Troop Ship is Sunk.

Washington-The French steamer
Athos, carrying Senegalese troops and
colonial laborers, was torpedoed in
the Mediterranean sea.
The torpedoing occurred notwith-
standing the fact that the Athos was
escorted by two French torpedo boat
destroyers.
The destroyers, aided by gunboat,
saved 1,450 persons from the steamer.
Consul Wilbur Keblinger, at Malta,
cabled the state department that when
the Athos was torpedoed without
warning by submarine which car
ried no flag, Robert Allen Haden,
a Presbyterian field worker at 500
Chow, China, was drowned
An idea, however, that this might
be the overt act which would precipi-
tate war was cleared away later by
press dispatches telling how the liner
was being used as a troop ship under
convoy of two destroyers.
In Consul Keblinger's report 1t was
stated that Haden could have saved
himself but that he was lost in an
effort to rescue several Chinese, who
were drowning. The address of the
lost American was given as care
of Mission Board, Nashville, Tenn"
The Athos was a steel twin-screw
steamer of 10000 tons gross and was
built in 1914 at Dunkirk, France. She
was sos feet long, 61.7 feet breadth
and 45.1 feet in depth. and owned by
the Messageries Maritimes of Mar
settles.
The Yale expositor., 1917-03-01
HEIR TO $3O,OOO,OOO KILLED
Edwin Gold, Jr., Shoots Self While
Hunting in Georgia.

Brunswick, Ga.-Edwin Gould, Jr,
20 years old, son of Edwin Gould,
president 70 the ST. Louis Southwest
ern railway was accidentally killed
near Jekyl island, the millionaire win
ter resort near here.
Young Gould, with a companion,
was on a coon hunting trip. While
punching at a coon with his gun held
by the muzzle the gun was accidental
ly discharged and Gould was shot.
He died within ten minutes.
Gould and his brother, Frank Miller
Gould, who is few years his junior,
were the only two children of Mr..
and Mrs. Edwin Gould. Had he lived,
he would have fallen heir to the vast
wealth of his father, which is esti-
mated at considerably over $3e,O0O,-
600.
The Yale expositor., 1917-03-01
GERMAN CABLE TO INDIES
Reported That Submarines Have
Worked On Project for Months.

Galveston-A transatlantic cable
from Germany to point in the West
Indies has been building for several
months and is nearing completion, ac-
cording to a report current in shipping
circles.
According to the report the British
authorities have learned that the big
submerchantman Deutschland or other
vessels of its type have been carrying
on the work, assisted by smaller sub
marines.
The Yale expositor., 1917-03-01

Observation-Disclosures of machinery
in the new Solomon-Cowley-Hayes
company saw mill here is nearing
completion, and the mill will soon go
into service 1t will have capacity
of 100000 feet, running night and day.
The company has obtained control of
most OF the Loud timber holdings in
Iosco, Altoona and Oscoda counties
and expects to stock the mill for seven
years. Included in the stumpage con-
trolled by the company, Is approx
mately 100000 feet of virgin hard
wood. principally maple.
The Yale expositor., 1917-03-01

Boards of supervisors in counties
owning fair grounds are authorized in
another bill that has passed the house,
to make appropriations for construct
ing buildings on the grounds.
Albion college students telegraphed
their support to President Wilson in
the war crisis. In the course of a
Washington's birthday mass meeting
they voted TO, request the trustees of
the Methodist college to install a
course in military training.
General breaking up of embargoes
was predicted by railroad men follow
ing the announcement of the lifting
OF the Michigan Central embargo on
goods coming by way of Toledo gate
way Mild weather is the great fac
tor in relieving railroad congestion
railroad officials say.
The Yale expositor., 1917-03-01
HUNGER THREATENS ENGLAND
Lloyd George Warns Nation That U.
War Is Getting Stranelehold.

London-The first official admission
that Germanys submarine war is be-
ginning to strangle England was made
by Premier Lloyd-George in the house
of commons.
Unless the submarine menace is re-
moved, declared the premier, disas-
ter will overtake the allies. He warn
ed that prompt and ruthless measures
must be taken. German submarines
must be hunted from the seas before
the allies can hope for victory, he
said.
The premier made the startling dec
laration that there is not only
shortage of tonnage for ordinary
needs of the nation but for military
necessities as WE'LL This was the
first time that it has been officially
admitted that the German submarine
war is Gripping the British govern
ment.
The stocks of food in Great Brit
ain at this time are lower than they
ever have been before. Mr.. Lloyd
George said. 1t was essential for the
life of the nation, he declared, that
every possible effort be made to in
crease home production.
1.-THE gravest kind of measures are
necessary in this situation" declared
the premier. "The government is
hopeful of dealing effectively with this
matter, but we should be guilty of
the worst kind of folly if we rested
tranquility on the realization of that
have to deal ruthlessly and promptly"
The Yale expositor., 1917-03-01

Marquette-Grourd is frozen here
to depth of between six and seven
feet. A frost depth of four feet is
customary for this city.
Traverse City-The highest price
ever paid for potatoes In northern
Michigan was received Saturday. II
was 1901 to farmers. After this fur
ry. the price jumped back to $2.75.
This may mean six dollar retail po-
tatoes before spring. Last fall the
price here was 95 cents. It jumped
to s1.25 in October, s1.67 in Novem-
be. ~ In January, s2.55 In Februay.
The Yale expositor., 1917-03-01

Port Huron-7Joe Kowoski. IA years
old, and Stanislaus Keshwicz, 10
years old, were rescued from float
ing ice foe in the st. Clair river by
Patrolman Cole. The lads were
hunting with air rifles and had crawled
out on the ice to get near some spar
rows when the. ice gave way and
foated to mid stream. Men on shore
telephoned the police.
The Yale expositor., 1917-03-01
SNOW SLIDE BURIES MINERS
Fifteen Men Reported Killed and An
Equal Number Injured.

Boise, Idaho An avalanche swept
down on the buildings of the North
Star mine, Il Lilies northeast OF
HALEY. Idaho, deToIishing the COM
pressor house, warehouse and bunk
house, smothering and crushing the
sleeping men in the snow and debris.
Fifteen men are reported killed and
an equal number injured.
The Yale expositor., 1917-03-01

Cadillac-Mrs Katie Peterson was
fatally buned when she attempted to
extinguish, fire IN her home at South
Boardman, resulting from the expo
sion of a gasoline stove. With her
clothes in flames, she ran to tho
house of a neighbor for aid
The Yale expositor., 1917-03-01

st. Louis-Citiens will vote on a
$4,000 bond Issue for the installation
of mineral water system here.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-02

WASHINGTON, May Captain
Charles Sweeney of the French foreign
legion has been sent to this country by
France to place himself at the service
OF the American government lie will
instruct American officers in the meth
DDS of fighting as practiced on the
western front.
His service will be OF great value
TO the war department since he not
only is a-graduate OF West Point where
he learned the technical side OF mod
ern warfare, but has studied IN the
trenches and on the field the practical
side OF the war. "thc rough stuff!
which officers OF the American army
have not had an opportunity TO observe
closely
The distinction OF being the only
American to hold the commission for
captain in the French army is his. He
has been decorated with the Legion
OF Honor cross. the Croix de Guerre.
the medal militalre, aud lesser orders.
His most recent experience on the
French front was as commander OF
sixteen tanks"
Captain Sweeney went to France at
the outset of the war and won his way
to his present rank He is the son Of
a former president OF the Federal
Smelling & Refining company
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-02
Governors Will Urge
DRY" United States

WASHINGTON, May Support
for national prohibition during the war
will be asked OF a conference here to-
day between the counsel of national de-
Tense and representatives OF state de
icnse councils by ten governors who
represent their state councils
The ten governors arc members OF an
lntsspattiSan committee which met here
Monday and sent to President Wilson a
memorial urging prohibition both tc
conserve the food supply and to cncour-
age military efficiency
The department OF agriculture, II be.
came known today, has DR.. Alonzo Tay-
lor OF the University of Pennsylvania
studying the liquor question and its re-
lation to the grain supply. His inves.
tigaton has revealed that 100000
bushels OF grain went into the manuiac-
turc of liquor last year
The administration has made no an
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-02
$4,000 Fortune
for Scrub Girl

PORTLAND. Ore, MAY AFTER
working two years and half scrubbing
floors and cleaning windows in a Port
land office building and receiving $40 a
month, Miss Mae McMahan. l8-year-
old granddaughter OF the late T. Il, Nc
Mahan, lumberman of Duluth. is the
heireSS to hall of his estate. valued at
$4,000, and besides will share with her
mother, Mrs Rose Hanson, $4,000 in
cash.
Miss McMahan will come into her
share Of the estate when she becomes
n years old, but the SlSOOO will be
given her and her mother by July /
The girl is now taking care OF her
grandmother, Mrs Mary Packard Of
Belmont, n. who previous to the girls
good fortune had offered to leave her
$1,000 and an annual income OF Sl,ON
a year Il Mae would live with her for
cumpanionShip.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-02
|I1lRIO STILL
FURNISHING Men
FOR COMING war
Five Local Lads Enlist in Day
Recruits Assigned,

n ANADARKO. Okla, May 2-(Spe-
eial )--Anadarko lads are still needing
the call to army duty, Seven left
here yesterday TO take the examination
At Chickasha. Two failed and the other
five enlisted. They go from ChickaSha
10 Fort Logan, Col Bob Ferguson,
Bill Turner, Joe Ruzicka, Bill Havcns
and Eugene Ford were those who
joined. They lett Anadarko this morn
Ing for their training camp. Three
other local, boys accompanied them to
Chickasha where they intend TO try the
examination
\ Several Anadarko boys who left at
the first call, have received assign
ments or have been stationed
Z Sam Hess is now on the |. s :.
Montana Guy Glidewcll, formerly edi-
tor OF the high school publication
"purplc and White" is at the aviation
school al Pensacola, Fla Harris
Woods, formerly i member OF the has
ketball team. is in Norfolk, Va Two
of the boys. Glcc Austin and Ellie Free
man. have been shipped to Honolulu
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-02
Joffre Comnends
New Army Measure

WASHINGTON. MAY 1.-Vice. Pres.
idcn, Marshall has received letter
from Marshall Joiire, declaring the pas
sage of the war army bill furnishes clo-
Quen, proof OF the common will that in.
spires France and the United States
The latter was written IN response to
one hy Mr.. Marshall last Saturday ex.
pressing regret that senators could M,
attend a reception in honor Of the mar
,hal because the senate was trying TO
nut through the army bill
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-02
INSURANCE COMPANY
LIQUIDATION ASKED

PITTSBURGH, May 1.-The Penn
sylvaLia insurante department, through
Commissioner J Denny O'Neill, made
application in common pleas court here
Tor an order to liouida,e the affairs Of
the Pittsburgh Lie and Trust com
pany. one of the largest life insurance
companies in Pennsylvania.
The court took the petition under ad-
visemen, and upon application OF Com.
missioner O'Neill issued restraining
order prohibiting the Pittsburgh com
pany from continuing business until
after Monday. May 7 The company's
affairs have been under investigation
for more than week.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-02
STARVING BOY FALLS
IN FAINT IN COURT

NEW YORK, May 2-"l-I-rm
starving"
As he uttered these words brokenl,
IN the supreme court, youth OF N
lell in a faint,
Justice Lehman FASTENED from the
bcnch to the young man.
On regainlng his senses. the victim
oi hunger said
MY name is Herman Ergcnlinger
I'm out OF work and can't get job
People are suspicious Of my German
name. I'm American born, bu, peopl,
think I'm a German"
lie was supplied with food lustic,
Lehman called up friend and later an,
nounced he had obtained work lot Err
gcniinger.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-02
Pinchot Approves
Roosevelt Plans

ATLANTA, Ga, May 2.--Giiiord
Pinchot was cheercd here when. in ad-
dressing meeting Of the Georgia
Farmers union be urged that Colonel
Roosevelt be allowed to recruit voun-
teer division for the French front.
DR.. A. NJ Soule, president of the
Georgia Agricultural college, stressed
the Importance OF limiting the cotton
acreage
Food stuffS are scarce" he said, "and
even il the south gets good money for
. big cotton crop 1t cannot buy food II
there is no food to he bought"
The meeting Just before adjournment
adopted a resolution opposing the gov
ernment proposal 10 fix maximum
price for foodstuifs.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-02
LAUOATl0h TO KAISER
OMITTED FROM BOOKS

CHICAGO. MAY IA new public
school speller which contains No lauda
ton Of the kaiser will soon be in the
hands of Chicago pupils. according TO
the school boards promise Saturday
The board refused TO have Tie pro.
kaiser pages torn from the present
speller. A delegation wanted them
ripped out, The Objectionable reading
says. The kaiser has that chivalrous
sense Of fair pla, which is the nearest
thing TO religion"
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-02
RAILWAY TRAVEL WILL
BE LESS LUXURIOUS

ST PAUL, May 2,-luSurie, Of
American train travel are due TO be
dropped during the war, in the opinion
ot Edmund Pennington. prcSiden, oi
Minneapolis, s, Paul Il Saul, Ste. Ma.
ric railroad
We have under adyiScmcnt every
means ~ conserving our equipment
Pennington said Diners probably will
he dropped Travellers will be forced
TO carry lunches Buffet and library
cars will go The number Of passenger
trains will he cut to make room for
ireigh, trains which will have IN,
righ, ,-oi.way at all times"
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-02
Broker Mobbed
for Flag Insult

NEW YORK May John X. Mills,
Q broker OF ~ Broad street, was mobbed
by crowd awaiting owl cars at Co
lumbus Circle II was charged in the
west side cour, that he tore down two
flags from the New York American re-
cruiting tents at Columbus Circle and
tramped upon them
Mills appeared before Magistrate
Cornell with. two black eyes and num-
erous cuts and bruises. He was held
in $1,000 bail for examination.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-02
indian TEACHER
TO TRACK MEET
Rainy Mountain Principal and
Scholars to Anadarko,

GOTEBO. Okla, May 2,--(Speciatj
r.. w Bishoff, principal at the Rainy
Mountain Indian school, and 50 OF his
pupils and employees left Tuesday after
noon in special coach over the Rock
Island for Andarko TO attend the Indian
field meet The greatest gathering OF
this kind ever held by the indians is
anticipated
Wheat conditions arc greatly i'm
proved since the rains OF the past month
Fields that appeared almost bare have
assumed a green coat and medium
crop is expected Other crops in th,,
section are in splendid condition.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-02

$500 Striped Taffeta Skirting,
Yard S2.50-Yard wide, in both
light and dark grounds. Black,
white, navy, greer and Copen-
hagen. Color combinations that
are very effective and splendid
for sport wear.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-02
Showing the Newest Spring and Summer
"Wash Goods" Weaues @ ; fS s %' Ss'n r: i.!.: x x a

White Gabsrdines for separate
skirts and suits. We are show
ing "a wide range of qualities,
priced at soc, SOC, soc, SOC and 81
yard.
Hegla Sport Gabardines and
Piquoduroy in the latest and most
attractive color combinations IN
the large sport spots and sport
figures. Very desirable for sep
aratc skirts and Spring suits --
Yard s9c and CSC.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-02

nouncement OF its attitude on war time
prohibition, although some cabinet
members, II is known Are in favor OF
IT, Other members are bothered about
finding sources OF revenue to take the
place OF liquor taxes il a prohibition
measure Is passed